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Katharine Tynan
Pseudonym:Katharine Tynan Hinkson
Birth Date:23 January 1859
Birth Place:Dublin, Ireland
Death Place:Wimbledon, London, England
Occupation:Novelist, poet
Language:English
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Signature:Katharine Tynan Hinkson signature (A ROUND TABLE, 1897).png

Katharine Tynan (23 January 1859 – 2 April 1931)[1] was an Irish writer, known mainly for her novels and poetry. After her marriage in 1893 to the Trinity College scholar, writer and barrister Henry Albert Hinkson (1865–1919) she usually wrote under the name Katharine Tynan Hinkson, or variations thereof. Tynan's younger sister Nora Tynan O'Mahony (née Tynan, 1866–1954) was also a poet and one of her three children, Pamela Hinkson (1900–1982), was also known as a writer. The Katharine Tynan Road in Belgard, Tallaght is named after her.

Biography

Tynan was born into a small farming family in County Dublin and educated at the Dominican St. Catherine's, a convent school in Drogheda. Her poetry was first published in 1875.[1] She met and became friendly with the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins in 1886.[2] Tynan went on to play a major part in Dublin literary circles, until she married and moved to England; later she lived at Claremorris, County Mayo when her husband was a magistrate from 1914 until 1919.[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

From June 1885 when they first met until around the time of her marriage in 1893, Tynan was a close associate of and regular correspondent with William Butler Yeats (who may have proposed marriage and been rejected).[9] Tynan was also later a correspondent of Francis Ledwidge. She is said to have written over 100 novels. Her Collected Poems appeared in 1930; she also wrote five autobiographical volumes.[5] [4]

Tynan contributed to many periodicals and magazines such as the Jesuit published Studies, the Dominican published Irish Rosary, Irish Monthly, Hibernia and Dublin University Review.

Tynan died in Wimbledon, London aged 72.

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Notes and References

  1. Clarke, Frances (2013). "Hinkson (née Tynan), Katharine Tynan", in Dictionary of Irish Biography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
  2. R.B. Martin: Gerard Manley Hopkins. A Very Private Life (London: Harper Collins, 1991), pp. 403–04.
  3. Web site: Holdings: Editor's gossip: on the appointment of H.A.... . Search Home . 2020-02-19.
  4. Web site: Papers of Katharine Tynan and Pamela Hinkson . Archives Hub . 2014-11-06 . 2020-02-19.
  5. Web site: Katharine Tynan (1861-1931) . Ricorso . 1931-04-02 . 2020-02-19.
  6. Web site: Mulhall . Ed . 'The Great Day' - Katharine Tynan & the Mother's War - Century Ireland . RTÉ Ireland's National Television and Radio Broadcaster . 1918-11-11 . 2020-02-19.
  7. Web site: Katharine Tynan . Encyclopedia Britannica . 2020-01-19 . 2020-02-19.
  8. 30079331 . Katharine Tynan Hinkson: A Dublin Writer . O'Neill . Marie . Dublin Historical Record . 1987 . 40 . 3 . 82–93 .
  9. Web site: 2015-06-23 . W. B. Yeats – The Tallaght letters . 2022-03-02 . South Dublin Libraries Local Studies . en.

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