Alice Milligan

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Alice Milligan (1865-1953) was an Irish nationalist poet and writer, active in the Gaelic League.

Life

Born and raised a Protestant in Gortmore, near Omagh, Milligan's father was the writer Seaton Milligan. She was a figure of the Irish literary revival, and an associate of Douglas Hyde and Roger Casement.

With Ethna Carbery she founded two nationalist publications in the 1890s, The Northern Patriot, and later The Shan Van Vocht, a monthly literary magazine published in Belfast from 1896 to 1899.

Works

• Hero Lays (1908)
• We Sang for Ireland: Poems of Ethna Carbery, Seumas MacManus, Alice Milligan (1950) (1950)
• Poems (1954)
• Harper of the Only God: Selected poems by Alice Milligan (1993), edited by Sheila Turner Johnston

Source

• Alice: A Life of Alice Milligan, Sheila Turner Johnston (1994)

See also

• List of Irish writers

External links

• Omagh District Council page

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