Katharine Tynan

Born in Dublin in 1859, Katharine Tynan grew into one of the most prolific Irish writers of her time, publishing poetry, fiction, journalism, and memoir. She was educated at the Dominican Convent of St. Catherine, began writing young, and became part of the literary circles that included W. B. Yeats. Several reliable sources note that she later wrote under the name Katharine Tynan Hinkson after her marriage to barrister and writer Henry Albert Hinkson.

Her writing is often described as being shaped by Irish patriotism and Roman Catholic belief, and she is closely linked with the Irish Literary Revival. Alongside poems and novels, she also left autobiographical books that readers still value for their picture of Irish political and literary life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Some reference sources list her birth year as 1861, but major biographical sources including Wikipedia, the Poetry Foundation, Britannica, and the Dictionary of Irish Biography give 1859. She died in 1931.