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Mary Devenport O'Neill (3 August 1879 – 1967) was an Irish poet and dramatist and a friend and colleague of W. B. Yeats, George Russell, and Austin Clarke.
Poems. “A Mood’s Extremity”. “An Old Waterford Woman”.
Biography. Early Twentieth-Century author at her desk. In 1898, when Mary Devenport was nineteen and took her place in the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art, her father was marked as deceased in the college records. He had been a Royal Irish Constabulary sub-constable in Loughrea, County Galway, where Mary was born in 1879.
A Galway convent girl alone in 1890s Dublin, Mary Devenport O’Neill went on to establish herself as a writer and one of the literati of the Irish Free State. During the 1920s she would often take afternoon tea with W.B. Yeats, and many of her evenings were spent swooning in near-asphyxiation from the fumes of Æ’s pipe.
Mary Devenport O’Neill was the first Irish author to publish a volume of modernist poetry besides W.B. Yeats. It was entitled Prometheus and Other Poems and published by Jonathan Cape in 1929.
Mary Devenport O'Neill, poet and playwright, was initially a student of art. Born in Galway and educated in Dublin at the Dominican Convent in Eccles Street and at the Metropolitan School of Art, she was a talented painter, but later turned to literature as her sole artistic focus.
Devenport’s “Dream Poems” respond to expectations created by a male-centred literary canon which often designated the work of a female poet as second-rate. “The Crooked Slice of Bread” plays out Devenport’s anxieties about perceived deficiencies in her own fulfilment of assigned gender roles.
