death_date birth_place awards nationality birth_date spouse genre image article_title education name alma_mater
25 march 1996 walpole , massachusetts james tait black memorial prize irish 10 june 1912 william walsh ; michael scott short story ; novels mary lavin.jpg mary lavin
 loreto college mary lavin university college dublin
mary lavin

mary josephine lavin -lrb- 10 june 1912 -- 25 march 1996 -rrb- was a noted irish short story writer and novelist .
she is regarded as a pioneering female author in the traditionally male-dominated world of irish letters .
her subject matter often dealt explicitly with feminist issues and concerns at a time when the primacy of the roman catholic church and its abuses -lrb- e.g. the magdalene laundries -rrb- impinged extensively on irish society .
