by Mary McNeill (Author)
Revised new paperback edition of the classic biography of Belfast abolitionist and social reformer, Mary Ann McCracken. Reissued to mark 250th anniversary of her birth. Long overshadowed by her United Irishman brother, Henry Joy, but her story is more relevant than ever.
Author Biography
Mary Alice McNeill (1897-1984) was born in Belfast and educated in Oxford and Dublin. Returning to Belfast in the mid-1920s, she became a member of the Arellian Association, which established a nursery school for the city's poor children in 1928 - nearly 100 years after Mary Ann McCracken established a nursery school in the Poor House. McNeill dedicated her life to voluntary projects and served on the Board of the Belfast Charitable Society from 1945 to 1964. She published her first historical biography, The Life and Times of Mary Ann McCracken, in 1960.