Margaret Mulvihill is an Irish

Ireland

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 writer. She has published three novels and many works of non-fiction.

Life

Margaret Mulvihill was born in Dublin and studied history and politics at University College Dublin

University College Dublin

University College Dublin ) - formally known as University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin is the Republic of Ireland's largest, and Ireland's second largest, university, with over 1,300 faculty and 17,000 students...

. She completed her M.A. in economic and social history at Birkbeck, University of London

Birkbeck, University of London

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.

Her non-fiction work includes a biography of Charlotte Despard

Charlotte Despard

Charlotte Despard was a British-born, later Irish-based suffragist, novelist and Sinn Féin activist....

 (1989), a biography of Benito Mussolini

Benito Mussolini

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism....

 (1990), an account of the French Revolution

French Revolution

The French Revolution , sometimes distinguished as the 'Great French Revolution' , was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France and Europe. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years...

 (1989), and The Treasury of Saints and Martyrs (1999).

Her novels are Natural Selection (1985), Low Overheads (1987), and St Patrick’s Daughter (1994).

She was UEA Writing Fellow at the University of East Anglia

University of East Anglia

The University of East Anglia is a public research university based in Norwich, United Kingdom. It was established in 1963, and is a founder-member of the 1994 Group of research-intensive universities.-History:...

 in 1989. She has contributed to New Writings Two, published by the British Council

British Council

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, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, The Electronic British Library Journal, and the Fish Anthology, 2007.

Non-fiction

• The French Revolution, Franklin Watts, 1989, ISBN 978-0531171677
• Roman Forts, Gloucester Press, 1989, ISBN 978-0749668228
• Charlotte Despard: A Biography, London, 1989. ISBN 978-0044404460
• The Treasury of Saints and Martyrs, Marshall Editions/Viking, 1999. ISBN 978-1840282054

Novels

• Natural Selection, Pandora, 1985. ISBN 978-0863580581
• Low Overheads, Pandora, 1987. ISBN 978-0863581403
• Saint Patrick’s Daughter, Sceptre,1994. ISBN 978-0340597743 (serialised on Women's Hour)