Who is Alice Furlong

Alice Furlong (26 November 1866 – 1946) was an Irish writer, poet and political activist who also worked on Irish publications with Douglas Hyde (later President of Ireland).LifeShe was born at Old Bawn, near Tallaght, County Dublin, the daughter of John Furlong, a sporting journalist. She trained as a nurse in Dr Steevens' Hospital. In the 1890s her father was injured in a race-course accident and ended up in her ward, where he died shortly afterwards, and her mother died two months later. Her first literary contributions were to the Irish Monthly at age 16.In 1899, Furlong published Roses and Rue, favourably reviewed by Stopford Brooke and others, and in 1907 Tales of Fairy Folk and Queens and Heroes. Her verse appeared in several anthologies. She contributed to several journals, inclu...
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Alice Furlong Poems

• The Warnings
  I was milking in the meadow when I heard the Banshee Keening:
  Little birds were in the nest, lambs were on the lea,
  Upon the brow o' the Fairy-hill a round gold moon was leaning-
  She parted from the esker as the Banshee keened for me....
• The Betrayal
  When you were weary, roaming the wide world, over,
  I gave my fickle heart to a new lover.
  Now they tell me that you are lying dead:
  O mountains fall on me and hide my head!...

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Comments about Alice Furlong

• Falseroxy: alice: i know i'm high, but the name "furlong" is part of the word "everlong"
• Furlong_sue: 5 of 5 stars to charming billy by alice mcdermott
• Furlong_sue: on page 129 of 294 of charming billy, by alice mcdermott
• Furlong_sue: on page 35 of 294 of charming billy, by alice mcdermott
• Michaeljwhelan1: lovely 2day 2 help honour one of tallaght's great female poets - alice furlong - of bawn villa (d.1946) & to mark her final resting place after so long in st maelruains. well done to all involved.

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