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Mary Devenport O'Neill (3 August 1879 – 1967) was an Irish poet and dramatist and a friend and colleague of W. B. Yeats, George Russell, and Austin Clarke.
A Galway convent girl alone in 1890s Dublin, Mary Devenport O’Neill went on to establish herself as a writer and one of the literati of the Irish Free State.
Biography. Early Twentieth-Century author at her desk. In 1898, when Mary Devenport was nineteen and took her place in the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art, her father was marked as deceased in the college records. He had been a Royal Irish Constabulary sub-constable in Loughrea, County Galway, where Mary was born in 1879.
Poems. “A Mood’s Extremity”. “An Old Waterford Woman”. “A Strong Wind”.
Mary Devenport O'Neill, poet and playwright, was initially a student of art. Born in Galway and educated in Dublin at the Dominican Convent in Eccles Street and at the Metropolitan School of Art, she was a talented painter, but later turned to literature as her sole artistic focus.
Dead in the Wars and in Revolutions. by Mary Devenport O'Neill. It is cold without flesh, without bones, To cover the soul. No blood or nerves to take the shock, but woes. Beat on the unprotected soul. We are naked shades within our span of life, A gap in living fabric, A blot, a flaw, Cold, cold without flesh, without bones;
This thesis explores Mary Devenport O’Neill’s (1879-1967) writing in its contemporary aesthetic contexts and considers its role in the culture of the Free State in the 1930s and 1940s. There has hitherto been no extensive examination of Devenport’scomplete work.
