Margaret Mulvihill (born 8 March 1954) is an Irish writer. She has published four novels and many works of non-fiction.
Life edit
Margaret Mulvihill was born in Dublin and studied history and politics at University College Dublin. She completed her M.A. in economic and social history at Birkbeck, University of London.[citation needed]
Reviewing Mulvihill's first novel, Natural Selection (1985), Eden Ross Lipson wrote in The New York Times: "The plotting may be operetta-awkward, but the prose is often wicked and consistently amusing."[1]
Hilary Bailey reviewed Mulvihill's second novel, Low Overheads (1987), in The Guardian: "Margaret Mulvihill is a natural writer and bounds along comically with verve and energy, side-swiping St Perrier and the blessed Placenta and many other targets as she runs."[2]
Mary Morrissy wrote in The Independent about Mulvihill's third novel, St Patrick's Daughter (1994): "Mulvihill has a deft comic touch and a sure hand with verbal slapstick. The irreverent subtext, littered with the superstitious vocabulary of the catechism – purgatory, baptisms of desire, the children of Fatima - brings alive the world of Irish Catholicism, in all its richness and trumpery, far more effectively than a grim dose of realism."[3]
Her non-fiction work includes a biography of Charlotte Despard (1989), a biography of Benito Mussolini (1990), an account of the French Revolution (1989) and The Treasury of Saints and Martyrs (1999).[citation needed]
She was a UEA Writing Fellow at the University of East Anglia in 1989.[4] She has contributed to New Writings Two, published by the British Council,[5] the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,[6] The Electronic British Library Journal,[7] and the Fish Anthology, 2007.[8]
Works edit
Novels edit
- Natural Selection, Pandora, 1985. ISBN 978-0-86358-058-1
- Low Overheads, Pandora, 1987. ISBN 978-0-86358-140-3
- Saint Patrick’s Daughter, Sceptre,1994. ISBN 978-0-340-59774-3 (serialised on Woman's Hour)
- The Leaving Coat, Kindle Edition, 2013. ISBN 978-1-301378050
Non-fiction edit
- The French Revolution, Franklin Watts, 1989, ISBN 978-0-531-17167-7
- Roman Forts, Gloucester Press, 1989, ISBN 978-0-7496-6822-8
- Charlotte Despard: A Biography, London, 1989. ISBN 978-0-04-440446-0
- The Treasury of Saints and Martyrs, Marshall Editions/Viking, 1999. ISBN 978-1-84028-205-4
References edit
- ^ Ross, Eden (4 May 1986). "In Short: Fiction". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
- ^ Bailey, Hilary; "Birth Rites: Hilary Bailey on new fiction"; The Guardian, 4 September 1987; p. 27
- ^ Morrissy, Mary (10 April 1993). "A bad case of the unrequiteds: 'St Patrick's Daughter'". The Independent. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
- ^ "Creative Writing fellowships". University of East Anglia. 12 January 2009. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
- ^ Motion, Andrew (11 September 1997). "New Writing 2". British Council. Archived from the original on 4 January 2010. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
- ^ "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Charlotte Despard". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 15 September 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37356. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 24 January 2010. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Electronic British library Journal, Authors". British Library. 15 October 2009. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
- ^ "A Paper Heart Is Beating, A Paper Boat Sets Sail". Fish Publishing. 7 April 2007. Archived from the original on 19 August 2010. Retrieved 24 January 2010.