The daughter of Timothy Murray from Carrick on Shannon, she was a scholarship student at the local Marist Convent[1] and noted musician.
[3] Prior to the publication of "The Wind Upon the Heath" (July 1918) to favourable critical reaction[4] her poetry appeared in the Irish and Sunday Independent during the revolutionary period.
[6] Murray's teaching of history was the subject of a complaint from local Unionist landlord Bertram Hugh Barton (1858–1927) in 1916.
[7] Late in 1917 these allegations reappeared in the form of a complaint about "seditious teaching" filed to the National School commissioners in the name of Mrs Bourke, who said that her child had been discriminated against because he was the son of a British soldier.
[8] A sworn enquiry organised by Commissioners was postponed, pending a prosecution for sedition by the Dublin Castle administration in Ireland.