Margaret is an Irish author and writes prose and poetry. She is widely published in journals and magazines and on-line, in four continents. She is a 2023 nominee for The Best of The Net Award for a second year running.

She is listed in the Contemporary Women Poets in Ireland, at University College Dublin.

Her background is in Human and Social Rights advocacy. She is an activist.

She writes Policy Papers on Inclusion and Diversity.

Her hobby is painting, in watercolour and acrylics. Her work has been exhibited.

Pancakes and Whaling Boats

It stands in its special place, shone and burnished, deep lustred.
Made from a single Maple in Gloucester Bay
Yellow tints meld into brown, slip out again, catch sunlight

Grandmother, with her gramophone and her chair
took the ship home, sailed away from syrupy pancakes
Whaling boats, and foghorns

To the rocky fields above the Lake in County Galway.
She rocked herself in the throne of Aceraceae
Re-enforced the splat, replaced an upright

She rocked and watched the waves upon the lake
In storms and in sunrays when
Fuchsia hedges bloomed, above tinkling brackish streams.