Moira O'Neill

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Moira O'Neill was the pseudonym of Agnes Shakespeare Higginson (1864 - 1955), a popular Irish-Canadian poet who wrote ballads and other verse inspired by County Antrim, where she lived at Cushendun. She used the name Nesta; her married name was Skrine. She published collections Songs of the Glens of Antrim (1900), More Songs of the Glens of Antrim (1921).

Her daughter Mary Nesta Skrine (1904-1996) was a writer, known as Molly Keane and M. J. Farrell.

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• Agnes Higginson Skrine, from "Adventurous Albertans".