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==Biography==
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Price was born in [[County Mayo]] and grew up in [[County Limerick]]. She was from a [[Church of Ireland]] family. Her grandfather was [[Tom Arnold (literary scholar)|Thomas Arnold]] who had been a Professor of English in the Catholic University in Dublin.<ref>{{cite web |title=Arnold, Thomas | publisher=Dictionary of Irish Biography |url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/arnold-thomas-a0227 |website=www.dib.ie |language=en}}</ref> Her great-grandfather was also [[Thomas Arnold]], a headmaster of [[Rugby College]] in Britain. He was known for his reforming of the school. Price attended [[Trinity College, Dublin|Trinity College]] in Dublin where she got a bachelor's degree in English and French in 1927. Price then spent a year studying in [[King's College London]] before moving for another year to the [[University of Lyon]]. She also travelled often.<ref name="Field">{{cite book |last1=Deane |first1=Seamus |last2=Bourke |first2=Angela |last3=Carpenter |first3=Andrew |last4=Williams |first4=Jonathan |title=The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing |date=2002 |publisher=NYU Press |isbn=978-0-8147-9907-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qZ6W1LiIyYYC&dq=%22Katherine+Arnold+Price%22+poet&pg=PA1045 |language=en}}</ref>
Price was born in [[County Mayo]] and grew up in [[County Limerick]]. She was from a [[Church of Ireland]] family. Her grandfather was [[Tom Arnold (literary scholar)|Thomas Arnold]] who had been a professor of English in the Catholic University in Dublin.<ref>{{cite web |title=Arnold, Thomas | publisher=Dictionary of Irish Biography |url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/arnold-thomas-a0227 |website=www.dib.ie |language=en}}</ref> Her great-grandfather was also [[Thomas Arnold]], a headmaster of [[Rugby College]] in Britain. He was known for his reforming of the school. Price attended [[Trinity College, Dublin|Trinity College]] in Dublin where she got a bachelor's degree in English and French in 1927. Price then spent a year studying in [[King's College London]] before moving for another year to the [[University of Lyon]]. She also travelled often.<ref name="Field">{{cite book |last1=Deane |first1=Seamus |last2=Bourke |first2=Angela |last3=Carpenter |first3=Andrew |last4=Williams |first4=Jonathan |title=The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing |date=2002 |publisher=NYU Press |isbn=978-0-8147-9907-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qZ6W1LiIyYYC&dq=%22Katherine+Arnold+Price%22+poet&pg=PA1045 |language=en}}</ref>


Price moved to [[Delgany]] in Ireland, where her grandparents had lived. Her final residence was in Dublin. Price focused on music and archeology. She wrote poetry and prose but was not widely published during her life. Her two books were published late in life. She spent thirty years working on one of her poems, ''Curithir and Liadain'', the retelling of a 9th-century romance.<ref name="Field"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Allen |first1=Nicholas |title=Ireland, Literature, and the Coast: Seatangled |date=5 November 2020 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-259971-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tfkFEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Katherine+Arnold+Price%22+poet&pg=PA109 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Cleary |first1=Joe |title=The Cambridge Companion to Irish Modernism |date=11 August 2014 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-03141-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e4f2AwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Katherine+Arnold+Price%22+poet&pg=PA89 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Fhrighil |first1=Ríóna Ní |title=Review of Opening the Field: Irish Women, Texts and Contexts |journal=Studia Hibernica |date=2006 |issue=34 |pages=254–257 |jstor=40732167 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40732167 |issn=0081-6477}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=O’Connor |first1=Laura |title=The Cambridge Companion to Irish Modernism |date=2014 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-03141-8 |pages=77–94 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-companion-to-irish-modernism/w-b-yeats-and-modernist-poetry/AA9F7C0B4CD6B6E681517C7D04D15818 |chapter=W. B. Yeats and Modernist Poetry}}</ref>
Price moved to [[Delgany]] in Ireland, where her grandparents had lived. Her final residence was in Dublin. Price focused on music and archeology. She wrote poetry and prose but was not widely published during her life. Her two books were published late in life. She spent thirty years working on one of her poems, ''Curithir and Liadain'', the retelling of a 9th-century romance.<ref name="Field"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Allen |first1=Nicholas |title=Ireland, Literature, and the Coast: Seatangled |date=5 November 2020 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-259971-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tfkFEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Katherine+Arnold+Price%22+poet&pg=PA109 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Cleary |first1=Joe |title=The Cambridge Companion to Irish Modernism |date=11 August 2014 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-03141-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e4f2AwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Katherine+Arnold+Price%22+poet&pg=PA89 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Fhrighil |first1=Ríóna Ní |title=Review of Opening the Field: Irish Women, Texts and Contexts |journal=Studia Hibernica |date=2006 |issue=34 |pages=254–257 |jstor=40732167 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40732167 |issn=0081-6477}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=O’Connor |first1=Laura |title=The Cambridge Companion to Irish Modernism |date=2014 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-03141-8 |pages=77–94 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-companion-to-irish-modernism/w-b-yeats-and-modernist-poetry/AA9F7C0B4CD6B6E681517C7D04D15818 |chapter=W. B. Yeats and Modernist Poetry}}</ref>

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Katherine Arnold Price
Born1893
County Mayo
Died1989
Dublin
NationalityIrish
Alma materTrinity College Dublin

Katherine Arnold Price (1893–1989), was an Irish poet and writer.

Biography[edit]

Price was born in County Mayo and grew up in County Limerick. She was from a Church of Ireland family. Her grandfather was Thomas Arnold who had been a professor of English in the Catholic University in Dublin.[1] Her great-grandfather was also Thomas Arnold, a headmaster of Rugby College in Britain. He was known for his reforming of the school. Price attended Trinity College in Dublin where she got a bachelor's degree in English and French in 1927. Price then spent a year studying in King's College London before moving for another year to the University of Lyon. She also travelled often.[2]

Price moved to Delgany in Ireland, where her grandparents had lived. Her final residence was in Dublin. Price focused on music and archeology. She wrote poetry and prose but was not widely published during her life. Her two books were published late in life. She spent thirty years working on one of her poems, Curithir and Liadain, the retelling of a 9th-century romance.[2][3][4][5][6]

Sources[edit]

  1. ^ "Arnold, Thomas". www.dib.ie. Dictionary of Irish Biography.
  2. ^ a b Deane, Seamus; Bourke, Angela; Carpenter, Andrew; Williams, Jonathan (2002). The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-9907-9.
  3. ^ Allen, Nicholas (5 November 2020). Ireland, Literature, and the Coast: Seatangled. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-259971-1.
  4. ^ Cleary, Joe (11 August 2014). The Cambridge Companion to Irish Modernism. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-03141-8.
  5. ^ Fhrighil, Ríóna Ní (2006). "Review of Opening the Field: Irish Women, Texts and Contexts". Studia Hibernica (34): 254–257. ISSN 0081-6477. JSTOR 40732167.
  6. ^ O’Connor, Laura (2014). "W. B. Yeats and Modernist Poetry". The Cambridge Companion to Irish Modernism. Cambridge University Press. pp. 77–94. ISBN 978-1-107-03141-8.