Title
Peters, Anne
Description
Bibliographic Dictionary Entry
Date
ca 1919
Creator
O'Toole, Tina
Source
Munster Women Writers Project, University College Cork
Publisher
Women in Irish Society Project, University College Cork
Rights
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Coverage
Munster, Ireland, 1800-2000
Format
Text
Language
en
Type
Text
Subject
Women, Writers, Munster
Contributor
O'Toole, Tina
Birth Date
ca 1919
Birthplace
Youghal, Co Cork
Place of Association
Puckane, Co Tipperary
Biographical Text
Born in Youghal in East Cork and following her marriage in 1939 she went to live in Oklahoma and Texas, USA. During the war, while her husband was in France and Germany, she experienced a twenty-eight crossing of the Atlantic in a convoy to England, and worked in an airplane-manufacturing plant and as a Director of an Allied Forces Centre. In 1946 she and her husband returned to live in New York city where she studied at New York University before moving to Connecticut. In the early 1980s she divided her time between Oxford and Puckane, a village in North Tipperary. Her poetry has appeared in Poets of Today, Poetry Ireland Review, The Irish Press and Manifold Spirit America. [Condon]
Writing Genre
Poetry