Hester Sigerson Piatt
{{short description|Irish writer}}
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Hester Sigerson Piatt (13 June 1870 – 16 June 1939), was an Irish poet and republican journalist.{{sfn | Irish Genealogy}}
Life
Piatt was born Anna Hester Sigerson, known to family as Hetty, in Dublin to Hester Varian and George Sigerson. Her father was a doctor, poet and senator, her mother was also a writer as was her sister Dora Sigerson Shorter. In about 1900 Piatt married the American Vice and Deputy Consul in Ireland, Arthur Donn Piatt. They had two children, Eibhlín Piatt Humphreys and Donn Sigerson Piatt. Her husband died in Ireland in 1914 aged 47. Piatt stayed in Ireland living in her father's house. She was a member of Cumann na mBan and covered topics like the Charles Kickham Memoir in her writings.{{sfn | Ricorso}}{{sfn | Cambridge University Press}}{{sfn | Atkinson | 2016 | p=604}}{{sfn | Kestenbaum | 1996}}{{sfn | Encyclopedia.com | 2018}}
Piatt worked on the Weekly Freeman, taking over as "Uncle Remus" from Rose Kavanagh, a job which earned her a pound a week. She also wrote for the Lyceum, Irish Fireside and The Weekly Register as well as contributing to other American and English journals. Her poetry was published in Yeats's Irish anthology and Padraic Colum’s anthology of Irish verse.{{sfn | ainm.ie | 2017}}{{sfn | The Irish Times | 2013}}{{sfn | Piatt | 1928}}{{sfn |Phelan| 2013}}
Bibliography
- A ruined race; or, The last MacManus of Drumroosk, 1889.
- Anne Devlin: an outline of her story, 1917.
- In a poet's garden, 1920.
- The passing years: a book of verses, 1935.
- The golden quest, and other stories, 1940.
References
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Sources
- {{cite web | title=Hester Sigerson | website=Ricorso | url=http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/s/Sigerson_H2/life.htm | ref={{sfnref | Ricorso}} | access-date=2018-11-15}}
- {{cite web | title=Dictionary of Irish Biography | website=Cambridge University Press | url=http://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do?articleId=a8072 | ref={{sfnref | Cambridge University Press}} | access-date=2018-11-15}}
- {{cite web | title=PIATT, Donn Sigerson (1905–1970) | website=ainm.ie | date=2017-11-08 | url=https://www.ainm.ie/Bio.aspx?ID=172 | language=Irish | ref={{sfnref | ainm.ie | 2017}} | access-date=2018-11-15}}
- {{cite book | last=Atkinson | first=D. | title=The Selected Letters of Katharine Tynan: Poet and Novelist | publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing | year=2016 | isbn=978-1-4438-9301-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aTn5DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA604| access-date=2018-11-15}}
- {{cite news | title=Poetry, and the Gaelic Athletic Association | newspaper=The Irish Times | date=2013-03-21 | url=https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/poetry-and-the-gaelic-athletic-association-1.695141 | ref={{sfnref | The Irish Times | 2013}} | access-date=2018-11-15}}
- {{cite web | last=Kestenbaum | first=Lawrence | title=The Political Graveyard: Piatt family of North Bend, Ohio | website=The Political Graveyard | date=1996-07-01 | url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/families/19766.html | access-date=2018-11-15 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- {{citation | title=Sigerson, Hester (d. 1898) | website=Encyclopedia.com | date=2018-11-14 | url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/sigerson-hester-d-1898 | ref={{sfnref | Encyclopedia.com | 2018}} | access-date=2018-11-15}}
- {{cite journal | last=Piatt | first=Hester Sigerson | title=Reining in the Rogue Royal of Arabia | date=1928-08-08 }}
- {{cite thesis| last=Phelan|first= Mark | type=PhD thesis| title=Irish responses to Fascist Italy, 1919-1932 | date=2013-05-08 | hdl=10379/3401|publisher=NUI Galway}}
- {{cite web |title=Irish Genealogy | website=Irish Genealogy | url=https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1870/03336/2222998.pdf | ref={{sfnref | Irish Genealogy}} | access-date=2018-11-15}}
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Category:19th-century Irish poets
Category:20th-century Irish poets
Category:Cumann na mBan members
Category:20th-century Irish women writers