Who is Ethna Carbery

Ethna Carbery, born Anna Bella Johnston, (3 December 1864 – 2 April 1902) was an Irish journalist, writer and poet. She is best known for the ballad Roddy McCorley and the Song of Ciabhán; the latter was set to music by Ivor Gurney. 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.

Life

She was born Anna Bella Johnston on 3 December 1864 in the townland of Kirkinriola, Ballymena, County Antrim, the daughter of Robert Johnston, a timber merchant and a ...
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Ethna Carbery Poems

  • The Shadow House Of Lugh
    Dream-fair, besides dream waters, it stands alone:
    A winged thought of Lugh made its corner stone:
    A desire of his heart raised its walls on high,
    And set its crystal windows to flaunt the sky....
  • The Love-talker
    I met the Love-Talker one eve in the glen,
    He was handsomer than any of our handsome young men,
    His eyes were blacker than the sloe, his voice sweeter far
    Than the crooning of old Kevin's pipes beyond in Coolnagar....
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Love 2 Head 2 Shadow 2 I Love You 2 World 2 Wind 2 Alone 2 Heart 2 Face 2 Fire 2


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Fir_bolg: niamh (1906) by seaghán mac cathmhaoil illustration from 'songs from the four winds of eirinn', an anthology of songs written by ethna carbery, music set by charlotte milligan fox
_jenherron: i’m running some irish ghost story writing workshops over halloween, both locally and online. this is the online class if anyone is interested. we’ll be looking at ethna carbery’s ‘the wee grey woman’ for inspiration.
Anchartlann: "...can steer her thither before the winds that are now astir, though they should grow and blow with a hurricane’s strength."
Thespookywomen: listen to "the wee grey woman by ethna carbery" by the spooky women podcast. ⚓
Clofiann: illustrations of the leaders of the united irishmen taken from the shan van vocht journal, published from 1896 to 1899 in belfast by the poets alice milligan and ethna carbery.
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