Who is Katharine Tynan Hinkson

Katharine Tynan (23 January 1859 – 2 April 1931) was an Irish writer, known mainly for her novels and poetry. After her marriage in 1893 to the Trinity College scholar, writer and barrister Henry Albert Hinkson (1865–1919) she usually wrote under the name Katharine Tynan Hinkson, or variations thereof. Tynan's younger sister Nora O'Mahony (née Tynan, 1866–1954) was also a poet and one of her three children, Pamela Hinkson (1900–1982), was also known as a writer. The Katharine Tynan Road in Belgard, Tallaght is named after her.

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Tynan was born into a small farming family in County Dublin and educated at the Dominican St. Catherine's, a convent school in Drogheda. Her poetry was first published in 1875. She met and became friendly with the poet Ger...
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Katharine Tynan Hinkson Poems

  • Sheep And Lambs
    All in the April morning,
    April airs were abroad;
    The sheep with their little lambs
    Pass'd me by on the road....
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April 1 God 1 Green 1 April Fools 1 Evening 1 Blue 1 Human 1 Sweet 1 Sheep 1 Weak 1


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Platospupil: very good in the grass to lie and see the network 'gainst the sky, a living lace of blue and green, and boughs that let the gold between. –katharine tynan hinkson (1861–1931)
Mbharrington501: very good in the grass to lie and see the network 'gainst the sky, a living lace of blue and green, and boughs that let the gold between. –katharine tynan hinkson (1861–1931)
Reescb: sheep and lambs katharine tynan hinkson up in the blue, blue mountains dewy pastures are sweet: rest for the little bodies, rest for the little feet.
Thepainterflynn: today in 1900 pamela hinkson, daughter of katharine tynan is born in london, she's best known for her novel "the ladies road" which sold over 100,000 copies in the penguin edition
Habbymomma: very good in the grass to lie and see the network 'gainst the sky, a living lace of blue and green, and boughs that let the gold between. –katharine tynan hinkson (1861–1931)
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