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Biography. Early Twentieth-Century author at her desk. In 1898, when Mary Devenport was nineteen and took her place in the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art, her father was marked as deceased in the college records. He had been a Royal Irish Constabulary sub-constable in Loughrea, County Galway, where Mary was born in 1879.
Poems. “A Mood’s Extremity”. “An Old Waterford Woman”.
Mary Devenport O'Neill, poet and playwright, was initially a student of art. Born in Galway and educated in Dublin at the Dominican Convent in Eccles Street and at the Metropolitan School of Art, she was a talented painter, but later turned to literature as her sole artistic focus.
She is researching and analysing the poetry and verse-plays of Irish modernist poet, Mary Devenport O’Neill (1879-1967) using Irish and international feminist literary history and criticism, to illuminate the role played by a neglected but important woman writer in the culture and politics of the Irish Free State.
I examine Devenport as a woman writer and consider how her writing may be seen as a precursor for some later Irish women’s work. This case study of Devenport’s writing also draws on contemporary feminist discussion and methodological approaches to previously neglected women’s writing.
Dead in the Wars and in Revolutions. by Mary Devenport O'Neill. It is cold without flesh, without bones, To cover the soul. No blood or nerves to take the shock, but woes. Beat on the unprotected soul. We are naked shades within our span of life, A gap in living fabric, A blot, a flaw, Cold, cold without flesh, without bones;
