Teresa Deevy Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Teresa Deevy Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Teresa Deevy (21 January 1894 â€" 19 January 1963) was a deaf Irish

dramatist, known for her works for theatre, she was also a short story

writer, and writer for radio.Teresa Deevy was born on January 21, 1894

in Waterford, Ireland. She was the youngest of 13 siblings, all girls.

Her mother was Mary Feehan Deevy and her father was Edward Deevy who

died when she was two years old.[1]Deevy attended the Ursuline Convent

in Waterford and in 1913, aged 19, she enrolled in University College

Dublin, to become a teacher. However, that same year, Deevy became

deaf through Ménière's disease and had to relocate to University

College Cork so she could receive treatment in the Cork Ear, Eye, and

Throat Hospital, while also being closer to the family home. In 1914

she went to London to learn lip-reading and returned to Ireland in

1919.[2] She started writing plays and contributing articles and

stories to the press around 1919.[3]She returned to Ireland in 1919,

during the Irish War of Independence and this heavily influenced her

writing and ideology as she was heavily involved in the nationalistic

cause. she heavily admired Constance Markievicz, she joined the Cumann

na mBan, an Irish women's Republican group and auxiliary to the Irish

Volunteer. Her Republican, and even proto-feminist views can be

clearly seen in plays such as Katie Roche and The King of Spain's

Daughter. [4]
Teresa Deevy Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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