Mary Eva Kelly

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Mary Eva Kelly was an Irish poet and writer who was widely known as Eva of the Nation (1826–1910).^[1]

Born in Headford, County Galway, Ireland, Kelly was educated privately with other members of her family. Her first poems were translations, including one of Alphonse de Lamartine's Dying Christian. She became famous for her contributions to The Nation, the first being The Banshee. Initially using her own name, she adopted the non-de-plume Eva starting with her Lament for Davis. She also contributed prose, essays and ballads.

In 1848, she met Kevin Izod O'Doherty who was in prison for his radical politics. 1855 she married Kevin Izod O'Doherty in Kingstown^[2] and they emigrated to Brisbane, Australia but returned to Ireland the following year. O'Doherty was elected M.P. for Meath. After a time in London they moved back to Brisbane where O'Doherty was elected a member of both houses of parliament in Queensland. She died in Brisbane on 23 May 1910.

Bibliography

Poems by Eva of the Nation (Mary Eva Kelly), San Francisco, Thomas, 1877.
Poems by Eva of the Nation (Mary Eva Kelly), edited by Séamas MacManus, with a biographical sketch by Justin McCarthy, Dublin, 1090.

Christine Kinealy, 'Repeal and Revolution. 1848 in Ireland' (Manchester UP, 2009)

Footnotes

↑ Boylan, Henry, ed. "Eva of the Nation" entry in A Dictionary of Irish Biography, 2nd ed. St. Martin's Press, New York, 1988, p. 107-108.
↑ Boylan, p. 108.

External links

http://www.from-ireland.net/mary-eva-kelly-young-irelander/

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Name	Kelly, Mary Eva
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Short description	Irish writer
Date of birth	1826
Place of birth
Date of death	1910
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