Mary Beckett | |
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Born | 1926 Belfast, Northern Ireland |
Died | 2013 Dublin, Ireland [1] |
Occupation | Author |
Nationality | Irish |
Alma mater | St. Mary's Teacher Training College [2] |
Notable works | Give Them Stones A Belfast Woman A Literary Woman [2] |
Notable awards | 1987 The Sunday Tribute Arts Award for Literature |
Children | 5 |
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.
Mary Beckett | |
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Born | 1926 Belfast, Northern Ireland |
Died | 2013 Dublin, Ireland [1] |
Occupation | Author |
Nationality | Irish |
Alma mater | St. Mary's Teacher Training College [2] |
Notable works | Give Them Stones A Belfast Woman A Literary Woman [2] |
Notable awards | 1987 The Sunday Tribute Arts Award for Literature |
Children | 5 |
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.