{\b Dora Mary Sigerson (Mrs Shorter)}.

{\b Date of Birth}.: 16 August 1866

{\b Date of Death}.: 6 January 1918

{\b Works}.

Verses  (1893), The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems  (1898), Ballads and 
Poems  (1899), The Father Confessor, Stories of Danger and Death  (1900), The 
Woman Who Went to Hell, and Other Ballads and Lyrics  (1902), The Collected 
Poems of Dora Sigerson Shorter  (1907), The Troubadour and Other Poems  
(1910), Love of Ireland, Poems and Ballads  (1916), Sad Years and Other Poems  
(1918).  

{\b Featured Works}.

'Irish', 'The Hours of Illness', 'Progress: 1914-1918', 'They Did Not See Thy 
Face', 'The Enemies', 'The Watcher in the Woods', 'The Wind'.

{\b General Comment}.

Dora Sigerson Shorter was born in Dublin, the eldest daughter of George 
Sigerson (historian and translator) and Hester Varian (author of A Ruined 
Place, 1899). She wrote during the Irish Literary Revival and her poetry is 
strongly influenced by its themes and general characteristics. She is 
generally considered to be one of the better women writers of her time. She 
married the English critic Clement Shorter in 1895, and moved to London where 
she lived for the rest of her life, although she was never happy there. The 
Irish scholar, poet, translator, founder of the Gaelic League and first 
President of the Republic of Ireland, Douglas Hyde praised her when he wrote: 
'Her very absence from Ireland has made her - a phenomenon which we may often 
witness - more Irish than if she had never left it'. Her best work includes 'A 
Ballad of Marjorie', 'The Wind on the Hills' and 'The Banshee' which are 
notable for their atmospheric themes and stylistic excellence.