Hanna Greally - Writer.
Johanna Catherine Greally was born in Pearse Street, Athlone in 1925 and educated at Our Lady's Bower in the town. She spent two years training at Guy's Hospital in London before returning home. She was just over 19 years old when she was admitted to St. Loman's Hospital, Mullingar "for a rest". She spent the next twenty years of her life there "mentally well but unclaimed".

After regaining her freedom in 1962 she worked for a while in England before returning to Ireland in the early nineteen seventies. She came to live in her cottage "Sunny Acre" in Coolteigue, Co. Roscommon and spent the remainder of her life there. She contributed poetry on a regular basis to "The Roscommon Champion" and is still, even today, fondly remembered by her neighbours. Though she was well known for her poetry and her many jottings, "Birds Nest Soup" is the only book printed during her lifetime. An unpublished manuscript was finally brought to print by Attic Press in 2009. It's title is "Flown the Nest".

 

"Birds Nest Soup" by Hanna Greally.

Allen Figgis, Dublin, 1971.

Article from "The Westmeath Independent" (above) of 8 November 2008 regarding the reprinting of "Birds Nest Soup" (right) by Cork University Press.

 

Invitation (right) to book launch at Roscommon County Library on 26 November 2008.

 

 

 

 

 

"Flown the Nest" from an unpublished manuscript by Hanna Greally. With a Foreword by Dr. Eilís Ward. First Published by Attic Press. (2009).

  "The Westmeath Independent" 31 October 2009.

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