Anne Le Marquand Hartigan was an Irish poet, playwright, and painter.
She returned to Co. Louth, Ireland, in 1962 with her husband Tim Hartigan where they farmed and reared their six children.
Hartigan's full length tragi-comedy I do like to be beside the seaside is set in an old peoples home.
[10] Hartigan won the Mobil Prize for Playwriting for her play The Secret Game (Chiswick books, 2014)[11] in 1995.
Jersey Lilies [12][13] was performed at the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Dublin 1996, where Hartigan acted and directed with Robert Gordon.