Patricia Byrne is a writer who lives in Limerick, Ireland.
Her narrative nonfiction book The Veiled Woman of Achill is published by the The Collins Press, Ireland. It tells the story of an atrocity on Achill Island in the west of Ireland in 1894. An English landowner, Agnes MacDonnell, was brutally attacked and her home – the Valley House – burnt. Agnes survived but was so disfigured that she wore a veil in public for the rest of her life.
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