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Alice Furlong (26 November 1866 – 1946) was an Irish writer, poet and political activist who also worked on Irish publications with Douglas Hyde (later President of Ireland). ==Life== She was born at Old Bawn, near Tallaght, County Dublin, the daughter of John Furlong, a sporting journalist. She trained as a nurse in Dr Steevens' Hospital. In the 1890s her father was injured in a race-course accident and ended up in her ward, where he died shortly afterwards, and her mother died two months later.〔Matthew Russell, Poets I have Known: VIII: Alice Furlong, The Irish Monthly, Vol. 36, No. 421 (July 1908), pp. 389-398〕 Her first literary contributions were to the ''Irish Monthly'' at age 16.〔(Ricorso )〕 In 1899 she published ''Roses and Rue'', favourably reviewed by Stopford Brooke and others, and in 1907 ''Tales of Fairy Folk'' and ''Queens and Heroes''. Her verse appeared in several anthologies.〔 She contributed to several journals, including the ''Irish Monthly'', the ''Weekly Freeman'', ''Chambers's Journal'' and the nationalist ''Shan Van Vocht'', run by Alice Milligan and Anna Johnston (Ethna Carbery).〔Karen Margaret Steele, ''Women, press, and politics during the Irish revival''. Syracuse University Press, 2007. p. 30〕 After 1916 she started studying Irish, and in the 1920s published poems in Irish and translated from Irish, and added the Irish Press to the journals she contributed to. In 1900 she was a founder-member of Inghinidhe na hÉireann, the revolutionary women's organisation led by Maud Gonne. She was elected a vice-president of the association, along with Jenny Wyse Power, Annie Egan and Anna Johnston.〔Coxhead: Daughters of Erin, Five Women of the Irish Renaissance. p. 44〕 Two of her sisters, Katherine and Mary, also wrote poetry, but died young, while another sister, Margaret, married the songwriter P. J. McCall. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alice Furlong」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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