Teresa Brayton

A Christmas Blessing A Christmas Fancy A Christmas Song A Druid Speaks A Little Boy A Nature Story In Bethlehem Jerry Connor's Forge Mary's Lullaby Roll Back the Stone Rosary Time in Ireland The Green and the White and the Gold The Old Bog Road

Teresa Brayton

Teresa Coca Brayton was born Teresa Boylan in Kilbrook, Kilcock, Co. Kildare in 1868      At a young age she contributed poems to "The Nation" as TB. In 1895 she emigrated to America, first in Boston, then New York where she met and married Richard Brayton. It was under that last name that she became known as a poetess, contributing to newspapers and periodicals. She was acquainted with the leaders of the 1916 rebellion, and actively promoted "the Cause" with her pen.      She is best known for "The Old Bog Road" which appeared in her book, Songs of the Dawn.      She returned to Ireland  permanently in 1932, settling first in Dublin, and then returning to the place of her birth in 1940. There she died in 1943.

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