Co Kildare novelist dies

The Irish novelist, poet and playwright Leland Bardwell has passed away after a long life in letters.

Born in India to Irish parents in 1922, she was brought to Ireland at the age of two and grew up in Leixlip, County Kildare. Bardwell was educated at Alexandra School in Dublin and later at the University of London.

She lived all over the world, before settling back in Ireland in the 1960s, living in Dublin and later in Cloonagh in north Sligo.

Among her works of poetry are The Mad Cyclist, which was published in 1970, and 1984’s The Fly and the Bed Bug. She also published four novels, including her debut,Girl on a Bicycle in 1977, and There We Have Been in 1989.