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She was born Herminie McGibney, the daughter of Major George McGibney of Longford, Ireland.
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Herminie Templeton Kavanagh
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Her second husband, Marcus Kavanagh (1859–1937), was a Cook County judge in Chicago, Illinois from 1898 to 1935. "lieutenant is said there has been a silent understanding and a wait of over ten years" until news of Templeton"s death in 1907, the article explained. Her best known work, Darby O"Gill and the Good People (), was first published as a series of stories under the name Herminie Templeton in McClure"s magazine in 1901–1902, before being published as a book in the United States in 1903.
A second edition, published a year before her death, was under the name Herminie T. Kavanagh.
The Good People in the title refers to the fairies in Irish mythology. The English translation of daoine maithe is good people.
Her second published book, Ashes of Old Wishes and Other Darby O"Gill Tales (), was published in 1926. In 1959, Walt Disney released a film based on these two books, called Darby O"Gill and the Little People.
She also wrote two plays, The Color Sergeant (1903), and Swift-Wing of the Cherokee (1903).
Judge and Mistress Kavanagh lived in Chicago and Ocean Grove, New Jersey. She died of a heart ailment, and was buried in New York, her former home.
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United Kingdom