Katharine Tynan
Who is Katharine Tynan
Katharine Tynan (23 January 1859 – 2 April 1931) was an Irish writer, known mainly for her novels and poetry. After her marriage in 1893 to the Trinity College scholar, writer and barrister Henry Albert Hinkson (1865–1919) she usually wrote under the name Katharine Tynan Hinkson, or variations thereof. Tynan's younger sister Nora O'Mahony (née Tynan, 1866–1954) was also a poet and one of her three children, Pamela Hinkson (1900–1982), was also known as a writer. The Katharine Tynan Road in Belgard, Tallaght is named after her.
Biography
Tynan was born into a small farming family in County Dublin and educated at the Dominican St. Catherine's, a convent school in Drogheda. Her poetry was first published in 1875. She met and became friendly with the poet Ger...
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Katharine Tynan Poems
- Recompense: (for Lord Kilhacken)
That which I saved I lost
And that I lost I found,
And you are mine, oh tender little ghost,
Whose grave is holy ground.
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- A Birth-night Song
The Child is rocked on Mary's knee,
Cold in the stall this bitter night,
And 'Lullalay-loo,' soft singeth she,
'My little Boy and Heaven's Delight!'
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- Lament
To the Immortal Tenth (Irish) Division
Suvla, name of bitterness,
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- A Song Of Going
I would not like to live to be very old,
To be stripped cold and bare
Of all my leafage that was green and gold
In the delicious air.
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- The Heart Of A Boy
To Mrs. Guy Wyndham
The heart of a boy is full of light,
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- Msjlibrary: happy st. patrick's day...this month's "from the stacks" features "the rhymed life of st. patrick" by katharine tynan,
- Laplcentral: slow spring-katharine tynan
o year, grow slowly. exquisite, holy,
the days go on
with almonds showing the pink stars blowing
and birds in the dawn.
grow slowly, year, like a child that is dear,
or a lamb that is mild,
by little steps, and by little skips,
like a lamb or a child.
- Michaldemers: the rhymed life of st. patrick : tynan, katharine, 1861-1931 : free download, borrow, and streaming : internet archive
- Alastairggunn: annie hall thomas (1838-1919), ada trevanion (1829-1882), katharine tynan (1859-1931), margaret vane (1838-1916), marie van vorst (1867-1936), clara venn, margaret verne (1837-1864), alice mary vince, elizabeth stuart phelps ward (1844-1911), carolyn wells (1862-1942)...
- Celizmurray: twenty one poems by katharine tynan: selected by w.b. yeats:
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