Katharine Tynan (1859–1931), novelist, poet, and journalist, was born in Dublin. Tynan’s first collection, Louise de la Vallière and Other Poems (1885), quickly sold through its first edition. She was an established figure of Dublin’s literary community, and hosted artistic salons at her family manor, Whitehall House, in Clondalkin, Dublin. Tynan’s poetry was an early inspiration for WB Yeats, and her work was foundational to the inception of the Irish Literary Revival. Tynan wrote prolifically: she published over one hundred novels, 12 collections of poetry, and 12 short story collections during her lifetime, as well as reminiscences, innumerable works of journalism, and criticism. She died in 1931 in London.
