Francis Carlin

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Francis Carlin was the pseudonym of Francis MacDonald (alternative spelling MacDonnell). He was born in 1881 and worked as a boy on his father's farm in County Tyrone.      The family emigrated to America where Carlin spent the majority of his life. He worked as a floor-walker in a New York City department store, and in1917 he published his first book of poems, "My Ireland". A second book of poems, "A Cairn of Stones", was published in 1920. In 1922 he entered a monastery, which he left in 1940 and returned to Ireland.. He died there in April, 1945.

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