Ethna Carbery

Ethna Carbery (born Anna Johnston, 3 December 1866 – 21 April 1902) was an Irish journalist, writer and poet. She is best known for the ballad Roddy McCorley. From the age of fifteen, when she had her first piece published, she contributed poems and short stories to a number of Irish periodicals, including United Ireland, Young Ireland, the Nation and the Catholic Fireside. In 1901 she married poet and folklorist Séamus MacManus (1869–1960) and moved with him to Revlin House in County Donegal. It was then that she began writing under the pen name of Ethna Carbery because once she took the last name of MacManus she didn't want to be confused with her husband (also a writer). She died in Revlin House of gastritis the following year, aged 35. Her husband, who was three years her junior, outlived her by 58 years.[1] Although MacManus and Johnston were only married for one year her impact on his life ran deep.

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The four winds of Eirinn (1902)
















The passionate hearts [by Ethna Carbery] (1903)

In the Celtic past [by Ethna Carbery] (1904)