Mary Beckett

She was born in Belfast.[3] In the 1950s, she wrote radio plays for BBC Northern Ireland and had several short stories published.[4] She worked as a teacher, married and had five children. She was not published again until 1980's A Belfast Woman.[5]

Mary Beckett
Born	1926 Belfast, Northern Ireland
Died	2013 Dublin, Ireland[1]
Occupation	Author
Nationality	Irish
Alma mater	St. Mary's Training College[2]
Notable works	Give Them Stones A Belfast Woman A Literary Woman[2]
Notable awards	1987 The Sunday Tribute Arts Award for Literature
Children	5

Mary Beckett (1926–2013)[2] was an Irish author.

Her non-fiction includes the short story collections A Belfast Woman (1980) and A Literary Woman (1990). She wrote one novel, Give them Stones (1987), and several children's books including Orla was Six, Orla at School, A Family Tree, and Hannah, or the Pink Balloons.

References

1. Casey, Philip. "Beckett, Mary". Irish Writers Online. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
2. Ferguson, Amanda (12 November 2013). "Mary Beckett: Literary world mourning loss of top woman writer". Retrieved 11 October 2014.
3. Alexander G. Gonzalez (ed.). Irish Women Writers: An A-to-Z Guide. Greenwood. pp. 14–17. ISBN 978-0313328831.
4. Matthews, Kelley (Summer 2014). "A Belfast Woman: Shame, Guilt, and Gender in Mary Beckett's Short Stories of the 1950s". New Hibernia Review. University of St. Thomas. 18 (2): 97–109.
5. Pelan, Rebecca (2006). Two Irelands: Literary Feminisms North And South. Syracuse University Press. pp. 55–56. ISBN 978-0815630593.

External links

• 1989 LA Times review of A Belfast Woman