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To mark Heritage Week 2016 – running from August 20th to 28th – they will be
Máirín Ryan (nee Cregan) was born in 1891 in Killorglin, Co Kerry. As a young teacher in Dublin, she was involved in the preparations for Easter Week 1916 and, as a member of Cumann na mBan, took part in the War of Independence. In 1919 she married Dr James Ryan, chief medical officer in the GPO during Easter Week, later a founder member of Fianna Fail, a TD for forty-seven years and a minister in several governments. The Ryans moved with their family to
Under her maiden name, Máirín Cregan was the author of children’s books, plays, radio scripts and newspaper articles. The two books to be presented by the Society are Old John (1936), a collection of children’s tales, and Rathina (1944) a story of family life in a house clearly based on Kindlestown House.
Cregan & Ryan
he groovy Rosemary Raughter from the Greystones Archaeological & Historical Society has been in touch.
gifting two classic books from the late Greystones author, Máirín Cregan, to the Local Studies Collection of Wicklow County Library.
Kindlestown House in Greystones during the 1920s, and lived there for the rest of their lives. Dr Ryan died in 1970 and Máirín Ryan in 1975. They are buried together in Redford Cemetery.