Molly Keane

Molly Keane was a bestselling literary fiction author from Ireland that was born in Ryston Cottage, Newbridge. She was the daughter of Moira O’Neill the poet, and a father who was fanatical about hunting and horses.She spent much of her childhood in Ballyranking House in Bunclody and unlike her siblings, decided not to go to boarding school in England. As such, she was schooled by governesses and her mother as her father was too detached to ever do anything with her.