{"id":5322,"date":"2023-06-06T13:12:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T13:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kildare.ie\/ehistory\/?p=5322"},"modified":"2024-06-17T13:54:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T12:54:23","slug":"maura-laverty-playwright-author-and-broadcaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/maura-laverty-playwright-author-and-broadcaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of Maura Laverty (Leinster Leader 30 July 1966)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Leinster Leader<\/em><\/strong><strong> 30 July 1966<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Maura Laverty<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Playwright, author and broadcaster, Maura Laverty, was found dead at her home in Rathfarnham, Dublin, on Wednesday, by her sister, Mrs. Margaret Kavanagh. She was 59. It was thought she had a heart attack.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Laverty has willed her body to the Royal College of Surgeons. She was one of the first women to broadcast from Radio Eireann and in recent years was widely known for the Telefis Eireann series \u201cTolka Row.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Born in Rathangan, she went to Spain as a governess when she was 17, and she also reported for a time on a newspaper in Madrid. Returning to Ireland in the mid-twenties, she was married and settled down to a successful career of journalism and broadcasting. Four of her novels: \u201cNever No More\u201d, \u201cAlone We Embark\u201d, \u201cNo More Than Human\u201d and Lift Up Your Gates\u201d were published and at the time of her death she was engaged in writing another. \u201cLift Up Your Gates\u201d, which she wrote in 1947, afterwards became a stage success.<\/p>\n<p>She wrote a trilogy of plays: \u201cLiffey Lane\u201d, \u201cA Tree in the Crescent\u201d and \u201cTolka Row\u201d the best known of the three, its 100th episode having been televised on Telefis Eireann in May. Preparations were being made for its new series in autumn.<\/p>\n<p>In a cookery field she was an expert and her cookery book \u201cKind Cooking\u201d published in 1947, with illustrations by Louis Le Brocquey, was chosen as the Irish non-fiction book of the month in America. \u201cFull And Plenty\u201d was another of her very popular cookery books.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Laverty was in charge of women\u2019s and children\u2019s programmes on Radio Eireann for some time and she compered the E.S.B. programme for 11 years. A number of her children\u2019s books were translated into several European languages. She also wrote extensively for some of the mass-circulation magazines in America.<\/p>\n<p>She is survived by her husband, Seamus, a journalist in the \u201cBelfast Newsletter\u201d, two daughters, Maeve, who is married with four children in Philadelphia; Margaret Finbarr (Barry) married in London, and one son, Jimmy who is 17; three brothers, Thomas O\u2019Kelly, Everton House, Rathfarnham; Colbert, New Jersey, and Walter, Athlone, and two sisters, Mrs. Margaret Kavanagh, Dublin, and Rev. Mother M. Conleth, a Brigidine nun in Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leinster Leader 30 July 1966 Maura Laverty Playwright, author and broadcaster, Maura Laverty, was found dead at her home in Rathfarnham, Dublin, on Wednesday, by her sister, Mrs. Margaret Kavanagh. She was 59. It was thought she had a heart attack. Mrs. Laverty has willed her body to the Royal College of Surgeons. 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