Ethna Carbery
| Anna Johnston MacManus | |
|---|---|
| Born |
3 December 1866 Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland |
| Died | 21 April 1902 (aged 35) County Donegal, Ireland |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Period | Victorian era |
| Literary movement | Irish Literary Revival |
| Notable works | The Four Winds of Eirinn, In the Celtic Past |
| Spouse | Seumas MacManus (1869–1960) |
Ethna Carbery (born Anna Johnston, 3 December 1866 – 21 April 1902) was an Irish journalist, writer and poet. She is best known for the ballad Roddy McCorley and the Song of Ciabhán; the latter was set to music by Ivor Gurney. Along with Alice Milligan she published two Irish nationalist magazines.
Anna Johnston was born in Ballymena, County Antrim. Her father was Robert Johnston, a timber merchant and prominent Fenian organizer. Her mother came from County Donegal.
From the age of fifteen, when she had her first piece published, she contributed poems and short stories to a number of Irish periodicals, including United Ireland, Young Ireland, the Nation and the Catholic Fireside.
She participated in the nationalist commemorations of the 1798 Rising and with Alice Milligan, Maud Gonne and others toured the country delivering lectures on the United Irishmen. In 1900 she was a founder-member of Inghinidhe na hÉireann, the revolutionary women's organisation led by Maud Gonne. She was elected a vice-president of the association, along with Jenny Wyse Power, Annie Egan and Alice Furlong. She and Milligan wrote and produced plays as part of its cultural activities.
She and Alice Milligan published two nationalist publications, The Northern Patriot and (later) The Shan Van Vocht, which was published from 1896 monthly until 1899. Its contributors included Katherine Tynan, Nora Hopper, Seumas MacManus and Alice Furlong, and it contained some early writings of James Connolly.
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