Katharine Tynan was an Irish-born writer

Writer

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, known mainly for her novel

Novel

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s and poetry. After her marriage in 1898 to the writer and barrister Henry Albert Hinkson (1865–1919) she usually wrote under the name Katharine Tynan Hinkson (or Katharine Tynan-Hinkson or Katharine Hinkson-Tynan). Of their three children, Pamela Hinkson

Pamela Hinkson

Pamela Hinkson was an Anglo-Irish writer, the daughter of Katharine Tynan and barrister Henry Albert Hinkson...

 (1900–1982) was also known as a writer.

Biography

Tynan was born into a large farm

Farm

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ing family in Clondalkin

Clondalkin

-Today:Modern Clondalkin is a busy satellite town of Dublin, with a population of 43,929 in 2006. Retail facilities include Tesco Ireland- and Dunnes Stores-led shopping centres, and Aldi and Lidl stores on the Fonthill Road and New Nangor Road respectively, and the village centre is a base for...

, County Dublin

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, and educated at a convent

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 school in Drogheda

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. Her poems were first published in 1878. She met and became friendly with the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous 20th-century fame established him among the leading Victorian poets...

 in 1886. Tynan went on to play a major part in Dublin literary circles

Celtic Revival

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, until she married and moved to England

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; later she lived at Claremorris

Claremorris

Claremorris , is a town in County Mayo in the west of Ireland, at the junction of the N17 and the N60 national routes. The population of Claremoris in the 2011 Census was 3,979....

, County Mayo

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 when her husband was a magistrate

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 there from 1914 until 1919.

For a while, Tynan was a close associate of William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms...

 (who may have proposed marriage and been rejected, around 1885), and later a correspondent of Francis Ledwidge

Francis Ledwidge

Francis Edward Ledwidge was an Irish war poet from County Meath. Sometimes known as the "poet of the blackbirds", he was killed in action at the Battle of Passchendaele during World War I.-Early life:...

. She is said to have written over 100 novels; there were some unsurprising comments about a lack of self-criticism in her output. Her Collected Poems appeared in 1930; she also wrote five autobiographical volumes.

Tynan died in 1931 in Kensal Green, London.

Publications

• Louise de la Vallière (1885) poems
• Shamrocks (1887)
• Ballads & Lyrics (1891)
• Irish Love-Songs (1892)
• A Cluster of Nuts, Being Sketches Among My Own People (1894)
• Cuckoo Songs (1894)
• Miracle Plays (1895)
• The Land of Mist and Mountain (1895)
• The Way of a Maid (1895)
• Three Fair Maids, or the Burkes of Derrymore (c.1895) later Illustrated by G. Demain Hammond
• An Isle in the Water (1896)
• The Golden Lily (1899)
• The Dear Irish Girl (1899)
• Oh, What a plague is Love! (1900)
• Her Father's Daughter (1900)
• Poems (1901)
• A Daughter Of The Fields (1901)
• A King’s Woman (1902)
• Love of Sisters (1902)
• The Great Captain: A Story of the Days of Sir Walter Raleigh (1902)
• The Handsome Quaker, and other Stories (1902)
• The Adventures of Carlo (1903) illustrated by E. A. Cubitt
• The Luck of the Fairfaxes (1904)
• A Daughter of Kings (1905)
• Innocencies (1905) poems
• For the White Rose (1905)
• A Little Book for Mary Gill's Friends (1905)
• The Story of Bawn (1906)
• The Yellow Domino (1906)
• Book of Memory (1906)
• Dick Pentreath (1906)
• The Cabinet of Irish Literature. (4 volumes) (1906) editor, expansion of work by Charles Read
• The Rhymed Life of St Patrick (1907) Illustrated by Lyndsay Symington
• Twenty-One poems, selected by W. B. Yeats
  William Butler Yeats
  William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms...
  
   (Dun Emer Press
  Dun Emer Press
  The Dun Emer Press was an Irish private press founded in 1902 by Elizabeth Yeats and her brother William Butler Yeats, part of the Celtic Revival. It was named after the legendary Emer and evolved into the Cuala Press.-History:...
  
  , 1907)
• A Little Book of XXIV Carols (1907)
• Father Mathew (1908) biography of Theobald Mathew
  Theobald Mathew
  Theobald Mathew may refer to:*Theobald Mathew , Irish temperance reformer*Theobald Mathew , English Officer of Arms*Theobald Mathew , English prosecutor...
  
  
• Experiences (1908)
• A Union of Hearts (1908)
• The House of the Crickets (1908)
• Ireland (1909)
• A Little Book for John O'Mahony's Friends (1909)
• The Book Of Flowers (1909) with Frances Maitland
• Mary Gray(1909)
• A Girl of Galway
• The Rich Man
• A Red, Red Rose (c.1910)
• Heart O' Gold or the Little Princess
• The Story of Cecelia (1911)
• New Poems (1911)
• Princess Katharine (1911)
• Twenty-five Years: Reminiscences (1913)
• Irish Poems (1913)
• The Wild Harp (1913) poetry anthology, editor, illustrated by C. M. Watts
• A Mesalliance (1913)
• The Daughter of the Manor (1914) illustrated by John Campbell
• A Shameful Inheritance (1914)
• The Flower of Peace (1914) poems
• Mary Beaudesert, V. S. (1915)
• Flower of Youth (1915) poems
• The Curse of Castle Eagle (1915)
• The House of the Foxes (1915) novel
• Joining the colours (1916)
• Lord Edward: A Study in Romance (1916)
• The Middle Years (1916)
• Margery Dawe (1916) illustrated by Frank E. Wiles
• Late Songs (1917)
• Herb O'Grace (1918) poems
• The sad years (1918) tribute to Dora Sigerson
• The Years of the Shadow (1919)
• The Honourable Molly (1919)
• Denys the Dreamer (1920)
• The Handsome Brandons (1921) Illustrated by G. D. Hammond
• The Wandering Years (1922)
• Evensong (1922)
• White Ladies (1922)
• A Mad Marriage (1922) novel
• Memories (1924)
• The Man from Australia (1925)
• The Wild Adventure (1927)
• Twilight Songs (1927)
• The Face in the Picture (1927)
• Haroun of London (1927)
• Pat, the Adventurer (1928)
• Bitha's Wonderful Year (1928)
• The Respectable Lady (1928)
• The River (1929)
• Castle Perilous (1929)
• The Squire’s Sweetheart (1930)
• Denise the Daughter (1930)
• Collected Poems (1930)
• The Admirable Simmons (1930)
• The Forbidden Way (1931)
• Philippa's Lover (1931)
• A Lonely Maid (1931)
• The Story of Our Lord (1932)
• The Other Man (1932)
• An International Marriage (1933)
• Londonderry Air (1935)
• The Briar Bush Maid
• A little radiant girl, illustrated by John Campbell
• A Passionate Pilgrim
• Maxims
• The Poems of Katharine Tynan (1963) edited by Monk Gibbon
• A Girls Song"

External links

• Joining the Colours, a poem by Katharine Tynan on Wikisource.
• http://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2010/04/the-man-who-made-poetry-of-the-test-match/Katharine Tynan's profile of Francis Thompson
  Francis Thompson
  Francis Thompson was an English poet and ascetic. After attending college, he moved to London to become a writer, but in menial work, became addicted to opium, and was a street vagrant for years. A married couple read his poetry and rescued him, publishing his first book, Poems in 1893...
  
  ], in The Fortnightly Review
• Katharine Tynan Hinkson Papers, 1885-1929 at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Special Collections Research Center