Ethna Carbery
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Ethna Carbery was the pseudonym of Anna MacManus, née Johnston, (December 3, 1866 – April 21, 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)
