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= Mary Beckett =

Later life and death
Mary Beckett in her later life produced most of her works, this occurred after her long twenty-two-year hiatus in which she married her husband Peter Gaffey, whom she met in Inishmore Co. Galway and in 1956 and moved to Dublin, and had five children in seven years. Her hiatus occurred because of the move to Dublin and her putting priority on her children rather than her work.

Her career returned in 1979 when she was 53, it returned with the release of “A Belfast Women” in The Irish Press on March 10th. In the following year, she published eleven short stories with Poolbeg Press. In 1987 she released her first full novel “Give them stones”. In this novel, she further expands on the premise set in her previous story “a Belfast Woman”. Her final publications were a collection of short stories and some children’s books, the collection of short stories was under the title “A Literary woman” and the children’s books included “Hannah or Pink Balloons”, which won the Bisto merit award 1995. She also released an illustrated book titled "A Family Tree", which was illustrated by Carol Betera and published by Poolbeg Press in 1992. Beckett’s work touches on many topical social problems during the time of the troubles and expresses so of her beliefs through her characters. For example, she describes herself as a feminist however through her childhood she perceived that women were “in charge”. "“Beckett died on 10 November 2013 in Tallaght Hospital and was buried in Mount Venus Cemetery, Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin”."Mary Beckett died at the age of 87(1926-2013). Mary's works are cherished to this day with her collection of short stories, a novel, and her children's books still being read and analysed to this day.