[2] The family home at 3 Clare Street was a gathering-place for artists and writers where Dora met important figures of the emerging Irish literary revival.

[3] She was a major figure of the Irish Literary Revival, publishing many collections of poetry from 1893.

Her friends included Katharine Tynan, Rose Kavanagh and Alice Furlong, writers and poets.

[4] In 1895 she married Clement King Shorter, an English journalist and literary critic.

[5] Her friend Katharine Tynan wrote in a biographical sketch that she supposedly ‘died of a broken heart’ after the 1916 executions.