Mary Francis Cusack

1829–1899

Margaret Anna Cusack, Mary F. Clare

Introduction

Biography

Cusack was the daugh­ter of Sam­uel Cu­sack, a Dub­lin phy­si­cian, and Sar­ah Ston­ey.

After leav­ing the Ca­tho­lic church, she lec­tured ex­ten­sive­ly on Pro­test­ant­ism.

Works

• Hymns for Child­ren by a Re­ligious of the Ho­ly Or­der of the Poor Clares (Lon­don: 1862)
• The Pa­tri­ot’s His­to­ry of Ire­land, 1869
• Life of Da­ni­el O’Con­nell, the Li­ber­at­or (New York & Mont­re­al, Ca­na­da: 1872)
• Cloister Songs and Hymns for Child­ren (Lon­don & Dub­lin: 1881)
• The Pre­sent Case of Ire­land Plain­ly Stat­ed (New York: P. J. Ken­ne­dy, 1881)
• Tim Car­ty’s Tri­al; or, Whist­ling at Land­lords, 1886
• The Nun of Ken­mare: An Au­to­bio­gra­phy, 1889
• The Sto­ry of My Life
• The Black Pope: A His­to­ry of the Je­su­its (Lon­don: 1896?)