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Margaret Mulvihill (born 8 March 1954) is an Irish writer. She has published four novels and many works of non-fiction.

Life

Margaret Mulvihill was born in Dublin and studied history and politics at University College Dublin. She completed her M.A. in economic and social history at Birkbeck, University of London.^{[citation needed]}

Reviewing Mulvihill's first novel, Natural Selection (1985), Eden Ross Lipson wrote in The New York Times: "The plotting may be operetta-awkward, but the prose is often wicked and consistently amusing."[1]

Hilary Bailey reviewed Mulvihill's second novel, Low Overheads (1987), in The Guardian: "Margaret Mulvihill is a natural writer and bounds along comically with verve and energy, side-swiping St Perrier and the blessed Placenta and many other targets as she runs."[2]

Mary Morrissy wrote in The Independent about Mulvihill's third novel, St Patrick's Daughter (1994): "Mulvihill has a deft comic touch and a sure hand with verbal slapstick. The irreverent subtext, littered with the superstitious vocabulary of the catechism – purgatory, baptisms of desire, the children of Fatima - brings alive the world of Irish Catholicism, in all its richness and trumpery, far more effectively than a grim dose of realism."[3]

Her non-fiction work includes a biography of Charlotte Despard (1989), a biography of Benito Mussolini (1990), an account of the French Revolution (1989) and The Treasury of Saints and Martyrs (1999).^{[citation needed]}

She was UEA Writing Fellow at the University of East Anglia in 1989.[4] She has contributed to New Writings Two, published by the British Council,[5] the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,[6] The Electronic British Library Journal,[7] and the Fish Anthology, 2007.[8]

Works

Novels

• Natural Selection, Pandora, 1985. ISBN 978-0-86358-058-1
• Low Overheads, Pandora, 1987. ISBN 978-0-86358-140-3
• Saint Patrick’s Daughter, Sceptre,1994. ISBN 978-0-340-59774-3 (serialised on Woman's Hour)
• The Leaving Coat, Kindle Edition, 2013. ISBN 978-1-301378050

Non-fiction

• The French Revolution, Franklin Watts, 1989, ISBN 978-0-531-17167-7
• Roman Forts, Gloucester Press, 1989, ISBN 978-0-7496-6822-8
• Charlotte Despard: A Biography, London, 1989. ISBN 978-0-04-440446-0
• The Treasury of Saints and Martyrs, Marshall Editions/Viking, 1999. ISBN 978-1-84028-205-4

References

External links

• Margaret Mulvihill blog

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