| Mary Beckett | |
| Birth Date: | 1926 |
| Birth Place: | Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Death Place: | Dublin, Ireland[1] |
| Occupation: | Author |
| Nationality: | Irish |
| Alma Mater: | St. Mary's Teacher Training College |
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| Notableworks: | Give Them Stones A Belfast Woman A Literary Woman |
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| Children: | 5 |
| Awards: | 1987 The Sunday Tribute Arts Award for Literature |
Mary Beckett (1926–2013)[2] was an Irish author.
She was born in Belfast.[3] She attended St. Dominic's High School and then proceeded to St. Mary's Teacher Training College. She married and moved to Dublin where she worked as a teacher. She had five children.
In the 1950s, she wrote radio plays for BBC Northern Ireland and had several short stories published.[4]
It was not until she was in her fifties that she began publish again. Her first was a collection of her earlier short stories entitled A Belfast Woman (1980).[5] [6] This was followed by A Literary Woman (1990). She also wrote a novel entitled Give them Stones (1987), and several children's books including Orla was Six, Orla at School, A Family Tree, and Hannah, or the Pink Balloons.