Background
Mary Arrigan was born on February 15, 1943, in Newbridge, County Kildare, Ireland. Her parents were Brendan Nolan and Marian Maher. She had one brother who went on to become a doctor.
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Mary Arrigan studied at Holy Family Catholic Secondary School for Girls.
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Mary Arrigan studied at the National College of Art and Design.
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Mary Arrigan studied at University College.
Mary Arrigan is a member of the Irish Writers Union.
Mary Arrigan is a member of the Children's Books Ireland.
Mary Arrigan was born on February 15, 1943, in Newbridge, County Kildare, Ireland. Her parents were Brendan Nolan and Marian Maher. She had one brother who went on to become a doctor.
Mary Arrigan initially attended Holy Family Catholic Secondary School for Girls. Then she went to study at the National College of Art and Design, and University College, Dublin.
Having graduated from college, Mary Arrigan taught art at the secondary level for twenty years. After writing short stories for magazines and radio, Mary now broadcasts humorous stories on RTE radio 1. She left teaching to write children's books fulltime in 1994.
Quotations: "My father was a health inspector. As such he was obliged to remove and bum library books from houses struck down with tuberculosis, polio, and other contagious diseases, to prevent the spread of the same. But my father, a scholarly book lover and sometimes creative writer himself could never bring himself to destroy books. So my brother Gabriel and I had the choice of all these disease-ridden books. Mighty. There’s nothing like the threat of a throat-gurgling death to make a book more exciting and fire the imagination. My brother became more interested in the diseases rather than the books and went on to become a doctor. Me? My imagination is still on fire, and I still think fondly of those wet raincoats as I write for the child who never quite leaves that special part of our minds.”
Mary Arrigan married Emmet Arrigan on August 17, 1968. They have three children: Emmett, Conor, Caoimhe.