14 Facts About Margaret Barrington

Margaret Barrington was an Irish writer and journalist.

Margaret Barrington was born in Malin, County Donegal on 10 May 1896.

Margaret Barrington's parents were Richard Barrington, RIC sergeant, and Charlotte Barrington, one of their three daughters.

Margaret Barrington spent much of her childhood living with her maternal grandfather due to her mother's poor health.

Margaret Barrington later moved to Dungannon, County Tyrone with her parents.

Margaret Barrington attended the Royal School, Dungannon, then Alexandra College, Dublin, and then in Normandy.

Margaret Barrington went on to enter Trinity College Dublin, graduating with a BA in modern literature with a gold medal in 1918.

Once Margaret Barrington divorced Curtis, she married O'Flaherty in London in March 1926.

O'Flaherty actively encouraged her to write during this time, but for the eight years they were married Margaret Barrington wrote very little.

Margaret Barrington blamed this lack of writing on the "difficulties" of married life.

Margaret Barrington was a supporter of the British Labour Party, taking on the women's column of the left-wing paper Tribune in November 1938.

Margaret Barrington lived in Castletownsend from 1947 to 1953, then settled in Kinsale.

The later years of Margaret Barrington's life were lived in relative obscurity.

Margaret Barrington died in a Kinsale nursing home on 8 March 1982, and is buried locally.