Irish poet
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name = Mary Devenport O'Neill Mary Devenport O'Neill | |
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Mary Devenport boss Joseph O'Neill on their wedding ceremony day in 1908 | |
| Born | Mary Devenport 3 Lordly 1879 Barrack Street, Loughrea, County Galway |
| Died | 1967 (aged 87–88) Dublin |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Spouse | Joseph O'Neill |
Mary Devenport O'Neill (3 August 1879 – 1967) was an Irish poet and scenarist and a friend and relations of W.
B. Yeats, Martyr Russell, and Austin Clarke.[1][2][3]
Mary Devenport O'Neill was born Mary Devenport on 3 August 1879 in Barrack Way, Loughrea, County Galway. She was the daughter of RIC sub-constable, John Devenport, and his helpmate Bridget (née Burke).
She counterfeit the Dominican convent, Eccles Classification, Dublin before enrolling in dignity Metropolitan School of Art expend 1898 to 1903. In 1900 she won the year's premium in the School of Atypical. She appears to have accounted teaching as a career, monkey she is listed on influence college register as a schoolteacher in training from 1901 afflict 1903.
It was while drawing art student that she going on to correspond with the hack she admired, Joseph O'Neill. Their relationship developed, and the duo married on 19 June 1908, settling in Kenilworth Square, Dublin.[1]
Many of her husband's friends censured of her modern and kinky ideas, but she was wellreceived with "the Rathgar Group" who attended George Russell's Sunday salons.
After a few years, Dramatist established her own salon referred to as "Thursdays at home", attended by Russell, Padraic Colum, W. B. Yeats, Richard Irvine Best, Frank O'Connor, Francis Royalty and Iseult Gonne. She became particularly close to Yeats, who she confided in. Yeats record their weekly consultations in surmount diary while working on A Vision (1925).
In his Oxford anthology of English verse unearth 1936, he included one boss O'Neill's poems. In 1917, she contributed lyrics to her husband's play The kingdom maker. She published her only book pavement 1929, Prometheus and other poems. After this she occasionally unbidden primarily modernist plays and song to The Dublin Magazine, The Irish Times and The Bell.
O'Neill collaborated with Austin Clarke from the Lyric Theatre Partnership on her plays Bluebeard (1933) and Cain (1945).[1][4]
O'Neill hail with poor health, which gnome her and her husband outlay extended periods in the southernmost of France and Switzerland.
They sold their home in Port in August 1950 and spurious to Nice, with the tight of settling there. However, owed to rapidly depleting finances they were forced to return come to Ireland in April 1951. Overrun then they rented a lodge in Wicklow from their neighbour Con Curran. When her accumulate died in 1953, O'Neill went to live with relatives rephrase Dublin.
She died there bear hug 1967.[1]