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Mary Purcell

Date of Birth: 1 January 1970

Mary Purcell was born in Mooncoin, County Waterford in 1906. Her parents were teachers in Carrigeen National School and from an early age she took classes in step dancing, the violin, the piano, and painting. She trained as a teacher at Carysfort Teacher Training College in Blackrock, County Dublin between 1926 and 1928. Teaching posts followed in Dunmore School in Kilkenny and in Dublin. Her first book was a crime novel written 1946. Her other work includes: The Pilgrim Came Late (Clonmore, 1948), The Halo on the Sword: St. Joan of Arc (Newman, 1952), Don Francisco: the story of St. Francis Xavier (Newman, 1954), and Matt Talbot and His Times (Newman, 1955). Mary Purcell died in 1991.

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