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Show "EVA" OF THE NATION DEAD. A Brisbane (Australia) telegram announces an-nounces the death of Mrs. O'Doherty, who was known as "Eva" of the Na- tion. "Eva" was one of that band of Young Ireland poets who contributed to the Nation, and had as her contemporaries con-temporaries Thomas Davis. Lady Wilde (Speranza), and Sir Charles Ga-van Ga-van Duffy, who was editor. She was engaged to be married to Kevin Izod O'Doherty, and when he was sentenced sen-tenced to penal servitude he wrote, offering of-fering to free her. but she would not be released, and undertook to wait until his sentence was completed, when the young poetess and her lover were united in a very happy marriage. Kevin Izod O'Doherty died many years before his wife, who, In recent years had fallen almost out of recollection. recol-lection. Indeed, many people were under the Impression that she was dead, until a year or "O ago, when an appeal was made in her behalf, and a public fund subscribed to enable her to spend the evening of her days In comfort. Her poetry was simple and impassioned, impas-sioned, and possessed the sterling merit of sincerity. |