Lizzie Twigg Explained

Lizzie Twigg
Penname:Éilis Ní Chraoibhín
Birth Date:1882
Birth Place:Bengal, India
Death Date:3 January 1933 (age 50-51)
Death Place:Limerick, Ireland
Nationality:Irish
Genre:Poetry

Lizzie Twigg (c. 18821933) was an Irish poet and Gaelic revivalist who was famously known for her appearance in Ulysses by James Joyce.[1]

Life and work

Despite being known as a character in Ulysses, Lizzie Twigg was a real person. Born Eliza Ann Twigg in Bengal, India to British soldier, Sergeant Major William Twigg and his wife Frances.[2] [3] He retired to live in Limerick where he worked as a clerk when she was a small child. Twigg was educated in the local Presentation Convent school on Sexton street. She worked in London and Dublin as well as living in Limerick.[4] [5]

Twigg was a protégé of George William Russell and an ardent nationalist.[6] [5] She wrote poems for the dominican published monthly the Irish Rosary[7] and the United Irishman in February 1903.[4] Her volume of poems was called Songs and Poems in 1904.[8] [9] Although quite well known by her penname Éilis Ní Chraoibhín in Arthur Griffith's paper, she was largely forgotten by the time of her death and today it is her appearance in Ulysses for which she is best remembered.[10] [5]

She died after a long illness in Limerick on 3 January 1933.[5] [11]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: RTÉ Radio 1 "Reading Ulysses" . RTÉ . 2011 . Gerry O'Flaherty. 10 November 2016.
  2. Web site: National Archives: Census of Ireland 1911 . Census.nationalarchives.ie . 10 November 2016.
  3. Web site: National Archives: Census of Ireland 1911 . Census.nationalarchives.ie . 10 November 2016.
  4. Bowen . Zack . Note: Lizzie Twigg: Gone but Not Forgotten . James Joyce Quarterly . 1969 . 6 . 4 . 368–370 . 25486791.
  5. Web site: A gifted Poetess passes away in Limerick . Limerick Leader . 14 January 1933 . A.J. O'Halloran . 10 November 2016.
  6. Book: Julián Ríos. Nick Caistor. The House of Ulysses: A Novel. 2010. Dalkey Archive Press. 978-1-56478-597-8. 114–.
  7. https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/visual-art/blazes-boylan-skin-the-goat-and-frederick-sweny-the-real-people-of-ulysses-1.2680001 Blazes Boylan, Skin-the-Goat and Frederick Sweny: the real people of ‘Ulysses’
  8. Web site: Holdings: Songs and poems / . Catalogue National Library of Ireland . 10 November 2016.
  9. Web site: Lizzie Twigg . Ricorso . 10 November 2016.
  10. Web site: An Macaomh. Edited by Padraic Pearse. Published at St. Enda’s School. Inscribed by Thomas MacDonagh by P.H. Pearse & Thomas MacDonagh . 10 November 2016 . 11 November 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161111122849/https://www.rarebooks.ie/shop/books/an-macaomh.-edited-by-padraic-pearse.-published-at-st.-endas-school.-inscri . dead .
  11. Web site: Register of death . 10 November 2016.

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