Dorothy Macardle
(1889-1958) - historian, playwright, journalist, and novelist - was born in Dundalk, Co. Louth. She was educated at Alexandra College in Dublin
where she later lectured in English literature. She is best remembered
for her seminal treatise on Ireland’s struggle for independence, The Irish Republic (1937), but also wrote novels of the uncanny, including Uneasy Freehold/The Uninvited (1941), Fantastic Summer/The Unforeseen (1946), and Dark Enchantment (1953). She died in Drogheda and is buried in St. Fintan's Cemetery, Sutton.
