Frances Molloy Explained

Frances Molloy
Birth Date:	12 January 1947

Ann Brady (née McGill;^[1] wrote as Frances Molloy)^[2] (12 January 1947 – 28 March 1991), was a novelist and short story writer from Northern Ireland.

Biography

Born in 1947 in Dungiven, Northern Ireland, Ann McGill left school when she was just fifteen. She got a job working in a factory but left to become a nun. On later leaving the convent, she moved to Great Britain where she married Gerard Brady. They had two children. Adopting the pseudonym of "Frances Molloy" in her writing career, her biggest work was No Mate for the Magpie (1985). Although not a direct autobiography, it was based on Molloy's own life and experiences of growing up in Northern Ireland. The story focuses on Ann Elizabeth McClone, and is narrated by her in a Derry dialect. In 1971 Molloy and her husband moved back to Northern Ireland for two years, later settling at Lancaster, Lancashire. She died of a stroke on 28 March 1991.^{[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]}

Over the course of her career, Molloy wrote a play with Ruth Hooley and Nell McCafferty, and contributed short stories to various British magazines.^{[3] [4] [10] [2]}

Bibliography

• No Mate for the Magpie (1985)
• The Last Thing
• An Irish Fairy Tale (1985)
• Women are the Scourge of the Earth (1989)

Notes and References

1. New Hibernia Review, vol. 21, no. 3, Autumn 2017, "No Way Out" of Ireland: Frances Molloy's No Mate for the Magpie and the Picaresque Novel, Jennifer M. Jeffers, p. 66
2. Web site: Molloy . Frances . No mate for the magpie . Troubles Archive . 2019-10-12.
3. Web site: Frances Molloy . Ricorso . 2019-10-12.
4. Web site: Warrenpoint . K-Point Internet Solutions - . Down . County . The Dictionary of Ulster Biography . The Dictionary of Ulster Biography . 2019-10-12.
5. Book: Kelly, A. . Twentieth-Century Irish Literature . Palgrave Macmillan . Readers' guides to essential criticism . 2008 . 978-1-137-08318-0 . 2019-10-12 . 6.
6. Book: O'Connor . S. . Shepard . C.C. . Women, Social and Cultural Change in Twentieth Century Ireland: Dissenting Voices? . Cambridge Scholars Publisher . EBSCO ebook academic collection . 2009 . 978-1-4438-0693-0 . 2019-10-12 . 68.
7. Book: Peter, C.S. . Changing Ireland: Strategies in Contemporary Women's Fiction . Palgrave Macmillan UK . 2000 . 978-0-230-59646-7 . 2019-10-12 . 50.
8. Book: Eagleton . M. . Parker . E. . The History of British Women's Writing, 1970-Present: Volume Ten . Palgrave Macmillan UK . History of British Women's Writing . 2016 . 978-1-137-29481-4 . 2019-10-12 . 201.
9. Book: Deane . S. . Bourke . A. . Carpenter . A. . Williams . J. . The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing . New York University Press . The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing . v. 5 . 2002 . 978-0-8147-9907-9 . 2019-10-12 . 1160.
10. Web site: Norther... . Culture . Frances Molloy . Culture Northern Ireland . 2006-02-01 . 2019-10-12.