O'Neill, Moira (pseudonym of (Agnes) Nesta Skrine, neé Agnes Higginson)(1865-1955), poet; born in Cushendun, Co. Antrim. Following Elf-Errant (1893), she wrote a series of extremely popular poems in Hiberno-English, collected as Songs of the Glens of Antrim (1901).
Moira O'Neill
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Moira O'Neill was the pseudonym of Agnes Shakespeare Higginson (1864 - 1955), a popular Irish-Canadian poet who wrote ballads and other verse inspired by County Antrim, where she lived at Cushendun.
She also used the name Nesta. She published Songs of the Glens of Antrim (1900) and More Songs of the Glens of Antrim (1921).
Mary Nesta Skrine
Her daughter, Mary Nesta Skrine (1904-1996), was a writer, known as Molly Keane and "M. J. Farrell".
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