Bernadette Lowry's new book "Sounds of Manymirth" is a revelatory study of Percy French’s influence on James Joyce and his final novel "Finnegans Wake."
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Bernadette Lowry was born in Co. Tipperary. She is a graduate of English, History and Economics from University College Dublin. She also holds a Higher Diploma in Education and a Diploma in the History of European Painting from UCD.
During a career break for family purposes from 2001 - 2005 she worked as a freelance curator and catalogue writer with the Oriel Gallery, Dublin.
She edited and contributed to its major Percy French biography, Lead Kindly Light: 150 years of Percy French published in 2002. She has contributed poetry to The Irish Catullus and Cuban Love Songs. She teaches English and lives in Dublin with her family.