Nora Tynan OMahoney
Life 1865-[1904; var. OMahony]; b. Whitehall, Clondalkin, Co. Dublin; sis. of Katherine Tynan, m. John OMahoney, barrister (d.1904); called by Fr. Brown Irish and Catholic; novels include Mrs Desmonds Foster Child (1912); also Unas Enterprise (1907), a chicken story inculcating thrift and poems, The Field of Heaven (1915). IF DIW
References Stephen Brown, Ireland in Fiction: A Guide to Irish Novels, Tales, Romances and Folklore [Pt. I] (Dublin: Maunsel 1919), lists novels for juveniles, Unas Enterprise (1907) [in which girl of good social position maintains her widowed mother, brother and sister by poultry farming, of which much is said]; and Mrs. Desmonds Foster Child (1912) [an Irish farmers wife switches the child of Anglo-Indian parents in her charge for her own, but confesses when the child is due to return to Indian; Irish atmosphere].
Desmond Clarke, Ireland in Fiction: A Guide to Irish Novels, Tales, Romances and Folklore [Pt. 2] (Cork: Royal Carbery 1985), adds The Secret of the Yellow Meadows Farm (Dublin n.d.), a childrens story; a stories for and about good little girls.
Belfast Public Library holds The Fields of Heaven (1915).
Notes What men like: Nora Tynan OMahony [sic] writes on short skirts worn by women in the Irish Independent (2 Aug. 1928) where, following a discussion of womens knees, she warns women not to forget that men like reticence, far more perhaps than they like power and paint - and legs (Louise Ryan, Gender, Identity and the Irish Press 1922-1937: Embodying the Nation Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press 2002, p.56; see Breda Gray [review], Womens Studies International Forum, Sept.-Oct. 2003, pp.500-01 and Diaspora E-list [Bradford], June 2004.) [ top ]
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