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51: 627: 639: 152:. Thus began a close friendship and professional relationship that would last until her death. She contributed essays, reviews, drama notes and poems, many pseudonymously. Her poems first appeared in the holiday feature of the 229:, again under George Russell. In the last two and a half years of her life, she wrote over two hundred pieces for this publication. She died 4 March 1926 age 60 from cancer. She was buried in 124: 120:, and they quickly became friends. In 1897 she began teaching in Sligo, but it was an unhappy time for her as her fiancé George Douglas Crooke died and she was diagnosed with tuberculosis. 438: 345: 317: 179:
as "a delicious comic ballad, which she sang herself, in a pleasant throaty voice, at many gatherings in Dublin drawing-rooms and studios." She became acquainted with
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In 2016, a monument was erected in Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim to commemorate the 150th anniversary of her birth, and the 90th anniversary of her death.
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The illness was to remain with her all of her life. After her return to Dublin she worked as a journalist and became assistant editor of the
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Catherine Theresa Cullen. Her father was manager of the Provincial Bank there. He died when she was six years old and she was sent to
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and her family, and she attended a private school on Morehampton Road run by Harriett Abbott. Mitchell later attended
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A ballad which she wrote in 1905, "The Ballad of Shawe-Taylor and Hugh Lane", dealing with a controversy involving
31: 202:. Her mother dictated her memoirs to her, which were later published. She published her first book of poems, 590: 216:, entitled "Ode to the British Empire". This book was re-issued in an enlarged edition in 1913, followed by 192: 695: 475: 398:
Geoghegan, Patrick M. (2009). "Mitchell, Susan Langstaff". In McGuire, James; Quinn, James (eds.).
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In 1899, she travelled to London for treatment of a hearing problem associated with
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to have her sons educated there. In Dublin, Mitchell lived next door to the artist
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to live with aunts on Dublin's Wellington Road, while her mother, Kate moved to
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each year, entitled "A Celtic Christmas." Some of her lyrics were contained in
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Aids to the immortality of certain persons in Ireland charitably administered
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and others. She also contributed verse for several cards produced by the
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She lived with her sister Jane, an actress, and mother in
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Aids to the Immortality of Certain Persons in Ireland
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between 1909 and 1946, some of which are held at the
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Mitchell" 456: 24: 363: 267:The living chalice and other poems 25: 722: 619: 386: 335: 316:O'Hanlon, Oliver (4 April 2016). 246: 637: 625: 605: 580:by Richard M Kain (1972), p. 47 571: 546: 530:A Dictionary of Irish Biography 468:Gonzalez, Alexander G. (2006). 32:Susan Mitchell (disambiguation) 711:People from Carrick-on-Shannon 492: 431: 406: 309: 298: 13: 1: 554:"National Library of Ireland" 439:"National Gallery of Ireland" 415:Dictionary of Irish Biography 400:Dictionary of Irish Biography 291: 285:Secret springs of Dublin song 413:Geoghan, Patrick M. (2009). 72: 7: 691:Writers from County Leitrim 558:National Library of Ireland 193:National Library of Ireland 10: 727: 701:19th-century Irish writers 476:Greenwood Publishing Group 55:by Jack Butler Yeats, 1899 29: 499:Kain, Richard M. 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Susan L. Mitchell
Susan Mitchell (disambiguation)

Irish
Carrick-on-Shannon
County Leitrim
Dublin
Sligo
Sarah Purser
Trinity College Dublin
Birr
Home Rule
William Butler Yeats

tuberculosis
John B. Yeats
Irish Homestead
George Russell
Padraic Colum
Alice Milligan
Hugh Lane
Thomas Bodkin
William Butler Yeats
George Moore
Cuala Press
National Library of Ireland
Rathgar
Rudyard Kipling
Recessional
Irish Statesman

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