Ethna Carbery
Irish journalist, writer and poet (186x-1902) · Journalists · Lived 1864 to 1902 · aged 37
Ethna Carbery, born Anna Bella Johnston, was an Irish journalist, writer and poet. She is best known for writing the poem and song "Roddy McCorley", and the "Song of Ciabhán"; the latter was set to music by Ivor Gurney.
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About this person
In Belfast in the late 1890s, with Alice Milligan she produced The Shan Van Vocht, a nationalist monthly of literature, history and comment that gained a wide circulation in Ireland and in the Irish diaspora. Her poetry was collected and published after her death under the pen name Ethna Carberry, adopted following her marriage to the poet Seumas MacManus in 1901.
