Ethna Carbery (1866 - 1902)

Ethna Carbery (born Anna Johnston, 3 December 1866 – 21 April 1902) was an Irish journalist, writer and poet. She is best known for the ballad Roddy McCorley and the Song of Ciabhán; the latter was set to music by Ivor Gurney. Along with Alice Milligan she published two Irish nationalist magazines.