O’KENNEDY, Father Richard. P.P. of Fedamore, Co. Limerick.
⸺ COTTAGE LIFE IN IRELAND.
“Father O’Kennedy was born in 1850, was educated in Limerick and in Maynooth. Has been for a long time contributor to various Irish and American magazines, notably the Irish Monthly. He knows his people intimately, and knows how to interest us in the simple pains and pleasures of the poor.... His style is charming. He has an eye for the simplicities of life.”—(Irish Lit.). His stories and sketches are known and appreciated in the U.S. even more than at home in Ireland.
O’LEARY, C.
⸺ THE IRISH WIDOW’S SON; or, The Pikemen of ’98. (Boston). 1869.
Wrote also The Last Rosary (Boston), 1869.
O’MAHONY, Nora Tynan. A sister of Katharine Tynan, q.v. Dau. of the late Andrew C. Tynan, of Whitehall, Clondalkin, Co. Dublin. Married John O’Mahony (d. 1904), a brilliant Irish barrister. She has written much for Irish and American periodicals and has just published a vol. of poems which has been highly praised. Her work is simple, gentle, with many touches of beauty. The atmosphere is always Irish and Catholic.
⸺ UNA’S ENTERPRISE. Pp. 241. (Gill). Neat binding. 1907.
Struggles of a young girl of good social position to maintain her widowed mother and little brother and sister. She eventually does this by means of poultry farming, of which much is said. There is little distinctively Irish in the story. The style is graceful and pleasing.
⸺ MRS. DESMOND’S FOSTER CHILD. (Browne & Nolan). 1s. 6d. 1912.