Sarah Poyntz

Sarah Poyntz
Born1926 (1926)
New Ross, Ireland
Died (aged 93)
Ballyvaughan, Ireland
EducationUniversity College Dublin (UCD)
OccupationWriter

Sarah Poyntz (1926 – 14 September 2020) was an Irish journalist and author.[1] She is best known for her contributions over 24 years to Country Diary describing The Burren, some of which were subsequently published in book form.[2]

Born in New Ross in 1926, she was educated at Loreto Abbey in County Wexford and University College Dublin (UCD). She initially worked as a teacher in England, and was appointed Head of the English Department at the Perse School for Girls in Cambridge, but took early retirement due to ill health.[2] In 1986 she moved to Ballyvaughan and in 1987 she began writing for Country Diary.[3] In 2006 she wrote a book on the villages of The Burren.[4][5]

Poyntz retired from writing in December 2010, at the age of 84.[3] She died from cancer on 14 September 2020, at the age of 93.[6][7]

  1. ^ "Country Diary: Sarah Poyntz". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 September 2011.
  2. ^ a b Poyntz, Sarah (2000). A Burren Journal. Tír Eolas. ISBN 1-873821-13-1.
  3. ^ a b Deegan, Gordon (28 January 2011). "Columnist who gave her readers glimpse of the Burren calls it a day". The Irish Times. Retrieved 4 September 2011.
  4. ^ Poyntz, Sarah (2006). Burren Villages. Mercier Press. ISBN 978-1-85635-674-9.
  5. ^ "Tales of the Burren, and other places". The Irish Times. 8 August 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2011.
  6. ^ "Sarah Poyntz obituary". The Guardian. 5 October 2020. Archived from the original on 21 June 2023.
  7. ^ "The death has occurred of Sarah Poyntz". rip.ie. 17 September 2020.