May O'Flaherty

May O'Flaherty
Born
Mary Angela Flaherty

(1904-05-14)14 May 1904
Youghal, County Cork, Ireland
Died27 March 1991(1991-03-27) (aged 86)
Dalkey, Dublin, Ireland
OccupationBook store proprietor

May O'Flaherty (born Mary Angela Flaherty, 14 May 1904 – 27 March 1991) was an Irish book store proprietor, known as the owner of Parsons Bookshop at Baggot Street Bridge in Dublin's southside. Through the shop's writer-in-residence schemes, and general environment, she patronised and befriended prominent Irish writers such as Patrick Kavanagh, Brendan Behan, and Seamus Heaney.

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