Nora Tynan O'Mahony

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Nora Tynan O'Mahony
Born
Nora Tynan

(1866-02-15)15 February 1866
Clondalkin, United Kingdom
Died13 December 1954(1954-12-13) (aged 88)
Dublin, Ireland
NationalityIrish
Occupation(s)Poet, novelist
RelativesKatharine Tynan (sister)

Nora O'Mahony (born Nora Tynan) (born 15 February 1866 in Clondalkin, died 13 December 1954 in Dublin) was an Irish poet and novelist. Her sister was Katharine Tynan.

Life and work

Nora Tynan was born as one of twelve children of Andrew Cullen Tynan and Elizabeth Tynan (née Reilly). Like her older sister Katharine, she was educated at the Dominican convent of St. Catherine of Siena in Drogheda.[1] From an early age, she showed artistic inclinations, especially the ability to paint flowers. Flowers were also a favourite subject of her youthful poems, and floral motifs are prominent in her later works.

On 29 April 1895, Nora married John O'Mahony from Cork, a journalist with the Irish Independent since 1891. The couple lived first near Whitehall in Dublin, then in Drumcondra. After her husband's death on 28 November 1904,[2] the family moved to Tallaght.

Possibly Nora O'Mahony's first published work was the short story The Magpie, which appeared in the

Pall Mall Gazette. The first prose works appeared in Social Review; her article "Neglect of Irish writers" appeared in the The Catholic World (April 1908). She was also editor of the Freeman's Journal
.

The marriage of Nora and John O'Mahony had three sons including Gerard "Cully" Tynan O'Mahony, the managing editor of The Irish Times and father of comedian Dave Allen.[3][4]

Nora O'Mahony died in Dublin on 13 December 1954.

Works

  • Tynan O'Mahony, Nora (1915). The Fields of Heaven. E. MacDonald.
    OCLC 752927332
    .
  • Tynan O'Mahony, Nora (1907). Una's enterprise. George Gill and Sons.
    OCLC 53844413
    .
  • Tynan O'Mahony, Nora (1912). Mrs Desmond's foster-child. Browne and Nolan.
    OCLC 40050247
    .
  • Tynan O'Mahony, Nora. The secret of the Yellow Meadows Farm. Browne and Nolan.
    OCLC 811008730
    .

References

  1. DIB.ie
    .
  2. Gale CS101248893
    .
  3. ^ Dixon, Stephen (12 March 2005). "Dave Allen: Irreverent comedian whose reflective monologues provoked outrage and delight". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
  4. ^ Patrick Comerford (13 August 2016). "Remembering old houses on the banks of the Dodder and some 'Irish Times' journalists". Retrieved 15 December 2023.

External links

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