Who is Katherine 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.BiographyTynan 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 Gerard Manley Hopkins in 1886....Read Full Biography of Katherine Tynan
Katherine Tynan Poems
- The Doves
The house where I was born,
Where I was young and gay,
Grows old amid its corn,
Amid its scented hay.... - Sheep And Lambs
All in the April evening
April airs were abroad;
The sheep with their little lambs
Passed me by on the road....
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Tullie23: telling the bees by katherine tynanTheriversideucc: learn more about katherine tynan & designer caroline marsh watts in an online display on literature from the noel o’connell & irish literary society collections.
Emmetkane1: "one" recently installed in a corporate building in dublin. which i was commissioned to created a piece from tree that grew in newlands farm in dublin which was the home of the late poet katherine tynan. the title is inspired from a poem she wrote "one" 250cm x 110cm x 6cm
Thepainterflynn: today in 1861 katherine tynan, poet, novelist and journalist, is born in clondalkin, co. dublin
Hughmacabre: “gangs of racists are blocking the junction of bóthar katherine tynan …”. now, that’s a more accurate reflection of what’s actually happening, right?
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