Irish poet and novelist whose works are dominated by the combined influences of Catholicism and Irish patriotism.

Like the poet William Butler Yeats, she developed a deep and abiding interest in Celtic mythology. Her Collected Poems were published in 1930. A prodigious writer, she produced five autobiographical volumes: Twenty-five Years (1913), The Middle Years (1917), The Years of the Shadow (1919), The Wandering Years (1922), and Memories (1924). She also wrote more than 100 romantic novels, the best-known of which is The House in the Forest (1928).