Ethna Carbery

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Ethna Carbery was the pseudonym of Anna MacManus, née Johnston, (1866 – 1902), an Irish writer and poet. She is known for some songs, Roddy McCorley (also though the title of a traditional ballad), and Song of Ciabhan, set to music by Ivor Gurney.

She was born in Ballymena, County Antrim. She married in 1901 the ex-teacher, poet and folklorist Séamus MacManus (1869-1960).

She founded with Alice Milligan two nationalist publications The Northern Patriot, and then The Shan Van Vocht in 1896, which appeared monthly until 1899.

[edit] Works

• The Four Winds of Eirinn (1902) poems
• The Passionate Hearts (1903) poems
• In the Celtic Past (1904) stories
• We Sang for Ireland: Poems of Ethna Carbery, Seumas MacManus, Alice Milligan (1950)

[edit] External links

• A page with a wealth of information about Ethna Carbery, including her picture (The HyperTexts)

[edit] See also

• List of Northern Irish writers