Irish novelist and poet, born at Lyons, co. Kildare, on the 17th of June 1845. She was the daughter of the 3rd Baron Cloncurry and wrote a number of novels and verses dealing with Irish life. Of her novels Hurrish (1886), With Essex in Ireland (1890) and Grania (1902) are the most important, and of her verses With the Wild Geese (1902) is the best-known volume. She was given an honorary degree at Dublin University in 1905. She died at Gomshall, Surrey, on the 19th of October 1913. See also “Fontenoy. 1745” and “Dirge of the Munster Forest, 1581.”
