Katharine Tynan

Katharine Tynan, was born at Whitehall dairy farm, Clondalkin, County Dublin. She was one of 12 children of Andrew Cullen Tynan and Elizabeth Reilly Tynan. She attended the Dominican Convent of St Catherine of Siena, Drogheda for 6 years [to age 14] and considered a religious novitiate.  Tynan besides poetry also wrote more than 100 novels, 12 collections of short stories, 3 plays, and anthologies, as well as innumerable articles on social questions such as poor children and women’s working conditions. Anyone unfamiliar with her might well recognize "The Wind that Shakes the Barley". A well known song encompassing her poem as lyrics.




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Ballads and lyrics [by Katharine Tynan] (1891)
















Cuckoo songs [by Katharine Tynan] (1894)
















An isle in the water [by Katharine Tynan] (1895)
















Miracle plays [our Lord's coming and childhood] [by Katharine Tynan] (1895)
















Pansies, a book of poems [by Katharine Tynan] (1895)
















A lover's breast-knot [by Katharine Tynan] (1896)
















The wind in the trees [a book of country verse] [by Katharine Tynan] (1898)

Oh, what a plague is love [by Katharine Tynan] (1900)
















The luck of the Fairfaxes [by Katharine Tynan] (1900)
















That sweet enemy [by Katharine Tynan] (1901)

Three fair maids, or, The Burkes of Derrymore [by Katharine Tynan] (1901)
















The handsome brandons [by Katharine Tynan] (1901)
















A Girl Of Galway [by Katharine Tynan] [1902]

Innocencies a book of verse by Katharine Tynan [by Katharine Tynan] (1905)

Dick Pentreath [by Katharine Tynan] (1906)
















A Little book of xxiv carols [by Katharine Tynan] [1907]

Twenty One Poems [by Katharine Tynan] [1907]
















Father Mathew [by Katharine Tynan] (1908)
















The story of Cecilia [by Katharine Tynan] (1911)
















The wild harp [by Katharine Tynan] (1913)


 












The flower of peace [a collection of the devotional poetry of Katharine Tynan] [by Katharine Tynan] (1914)
















Countrymen all [by Katharine Tynan] [1915]

Flower Of Youth [Poems In Wartime] [by Katharine Tynan] [1915]
















Herb O'Grace [Poems In Wartime] [by Katharine Tynan] [1918]

Love of brothers [by Katharine Tynan] (1919)
















Evensong [by Katharine Tynan] (1922)

The wandering years [by Katharine Tynan] (1922)