Katharine Tynan

Katharine Tynan, was born at Whitehall dairy farm, Clondalkin, County Dublin. She was one of 12 children of Andrew Cullen Tynan and Elizabeth Reilly Tynan. She attended the Dominican Convent of St Catherine of Siena, Drogheda for 6 years [to age 14] and considered a religious novitiate. She first met W. B. Yeats  in 1885 and formed a lifelong friendship,and Yeats himself selected the poems for this particular anthology. Tynan besides poetry also wrote more than 100 novels, 12 collections of short stories, 3 plays, and anthologies, as well as innumerable articles on social questions such as poor children and women’s working conditions. Anyone unfamiliar with her might well recognize "The Wind that Shakes the Barley". A well known song encompassing her poem as lyrics.

Ballads and lyrics [by Katharine Tynan] (1891)
















Cuckoo songs [by Katharine Tynan] (1894)
















Pansies, a book of poems [by Katharine Tynan] (1895)
















The wind in the trees [a book of country verse] [by Katharine Tynan] (1898)

Innocencies a book of verse by Katharine Tynan [by Katharine Tynan] (1905)
















A Little book of xxiv carols [by Katharine Tynan] [1907]

Twenty One Poems [by Katharine Tynan] [1907]
















The wild harp [by Katharine Tynan] (1913)


 












The flower of peace [a collection of the devotional poetry of Katharine Tynan] [by Katharine Tynan] (1914)

Flower Of Youth [Poems In Wartime] [by Katharine Tynan] [1915]
















Herb O'Grace [Poems In Wartime] [by Katharine Tynan] [1918]