May O'Flaherty | |
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Born | Mary Angela Flaherty 14 May 1904 Youghal, County Cork, Ireland |
Died | 27 March 1991 | (aged 86)
Occupation | Book store proprietor |
May O'Flaherty (born Mary Angela Flaherty, 14 May 1904 – 27 March 1991)[1] was an Irish book store proprietor, known as the owner of Parsons Bookshop at Baggot Street Bridge in Dublin's southside.[1] Through the shop's writer-in-residence schemes, and general environment, she patronised and befriended prominent Irish writers such as Patrick Kavanagh, Brendan Behan, and Seamus Heaney.[1][2][3]