| Collection Description | Leland Bardwell (née Hone) (25 February 1922 - 28 June 2016) poet, playwright, author was born in India to
Irish parents. When she was two years old her family returned to Ireland to live in Leixlip House, Co. Kildare.
She was educated in Alexandra School, Dublin and later in London University. Her poetry collections are The
Mad Cyclist (Dublin, 1970), The Fly and the Bedbug (Dublin, 1984), Dostoevsky's Grave New and Selected
Poems (Dublin, 1991), The White Beach New and Selected Poems 1960-1988 (Clare, 1998) and The Noise of
Masonry Settling (Dublin, 2006). Her plays are Thursday, Open Ended Prescription, The Edith Piaf Story, and
Jocasta. Her novels are Girl on a Bicycle (Dublin, 1977), That London Winter (Co-Op Books, 1981), The House
(Kerry, 1984), There We Have Been (Dublin, 1989), Mother to a Stranger (Belfast, 2002). Her memoir is entitled
A Restless Life (Dublin, 2008). Leland Bardwell was a member of Aosdána. She was a founding member of the
literary journal Cyphers and she founded the literary festival Scríobh at the Model Arts and Niland Gallery that
ran from 1993- 2006. [Trinity College Dublin] |
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