Elizabeth Shane

{{short description|Irish poet}}

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| birth_name = Gertrude Elizabeth Heron Hine

| birth_date = 5 February 1877

| birth_place = Belfast, Ireland

| death_date = 19 March 1951 (age 74)

| death_place = Annalong, County Down, Northern Ireland

| occupation =violinist, poet

|language = English, Mid-Ulster English

| period = 1921–45

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Gertrude Elizabeth Heron Shane (née Hine; 5 February 1877 – 19 March 1951){{Cite web | url=http://www.hidden-gems.eu/belfast%20-%20shaneelizabeth.pdf | title=ELIZABETH SHANE (Gertrude Elizabeth Heron Hind) (1877 - 1951): Poet, Musician and Dramatist | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160326192513/http://www.hidden-gems.eu/belfast%20-%20shaneelizabeth.pdf | archive-date=2016-03-26}} was an Irish poet, playwright and violinist{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qZ6W1LiIyYYC&q=Elizabeth+Shane&pg=PA1045|title=The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing|first=Angela|last=Bourke|date=13 November 2017|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=9780814799079|via=Google Books}} born in Belfast and who lived much of her life in County Donegal.{{Cite web |url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~donegal/mydonegalbooks.htm |title=My Wee Donegal Library |access-date=2013-09-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130719191933/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~donegal/mydonegalbooks.htm |archive-date=2013-07-19 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web| url=http://digitalcommons.colby.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3351&context=cq | title=Irish Women Poets 1929-1959 Some Foremothers |author=Susan Schreibman | date=December 2001 | website=digitalcommons.colby.edu | access-date=14 January 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150928085544/http://digitalcommons.colby.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3351&context=cq | archive-date=28 September 2015 | url-status=dead}}

Among her best-known works is "Wee Hughie", a poem about a boy's first day at school.{{Cite web |url=http://www.moneydarraghps.org/Recitations/weehughie.htm |title=Wee Hughie |access-date=2013-09-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116051239/http://www.moneydarraghps.org/Recitations/weehughie.htm |archive-date=2013-01-16 |url-status=dead }}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-7MgCwAAQBAJ&q=%22Gertrude+Elizabeth+hine%22&pg=PA266|title=Poetry by Women in Ireland: A Critical Anthology 1870-1970|first=Lucy|last=Collins|date=8 June 2012|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9781846317231|via=Google Books}}