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Birth Name: Mary Josephine Lavin
Born: 10 June 1912 Died: 25 March 1996
Country of origin: 
United States
Relationship Status: Married
Partner: William Walsh and later Michael Scott
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Mary Josephine Lavin was a noted Irish short story writer and novelist. She is regarded as a pioneering female author in the traditionally male-dominated world of Irish letters. Her subject matter often dealt explicitly with feminist issues and concerns at a time when the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church and its abuses (e.g. the Magdalene Laundries) impinged extensively on Irish society.
Mary Lavin was born in East Walpole, Massachusetts in 1912, the only child of Tom and Nora Lavin, an immigrant Irish couple. She had Irish nationality, having returned to Ireland with her parents to settle in Dublin.
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