Life
1823-1893 [err. Sarah; née Gaynor], b. 13 Oct. [var. July], Athlone;
m. George Atkinson, MD, proprietor of Freeman’s Journal, 1848;
author of Essays (1895), which includes biog. pieces on Eugene
O’Curry, J. H. Foley, John Hogan [sculptors], but also Irish Wool
and Woollens, &c.; d. 8 July; her life of Mary Aikenhead admired by
Lecky; an appreciation appeared in Irish Monthly, XII-XXIII. DIW
JMC DIL WJM
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Works
Life of Mary Aikenhead (Dublin: Gill 1875) [var. 1879], and Do.,
rev. edn. (1882); Essays (Dublin: Gill 1895), 534pp., with memoir
by Rosa Mulholland [includes pieces on Eugene O’Curry; J. H. Foley, John
Hogan; Irish Wool and Woollens, &c; St Brigid; Geraldines; The Rapt
Culdee; Commonplace Saints; Friends at Court; The Lady Devorgilla; Dermod
of the Foreigners; Old Houses Restored].
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