She will not receive the attention that was showered on Yeats or Heaney at their passing, but she deserves as much and more. She crashed the canon.
Like so many Irish writers, she had to leave Ireland to write, to find an audience. But as this NYT obituary reminds us, she spoke of and for an audience of women and mothers -- "outsiders" in an outsider country -- when few others did.
Like so many Irish writers, she had to leave Ireland to write, to find an audience. But as this NYT obituary reminds us, she spoke of and for an audience of women and mothers -- "outsiders" in an outsider country -- when few others did.
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