Anne Le Marquand Hartigan was a prize-winning poet, playwright and painter. She trained as a painter at Reading University, England. She returned to Co. Louth, Ireland, in 1962 with her husband Tim Hartigan where they farmed and reared their six children. She lived in Dublin until her death in 2023. She published seven collections of poetry:
Unsweet Dreams (Salmon, 2011);
To Keep The Light Burning: Reflections in times of loss (Salmon, 2008);
Nourishment (Salmon, 2005);
Immortal Sins (Salmon, 1993); the award winning long poem with Anne’s drawings,
Now is a Moveable Feast (Salmon, 1991);
Return Single (Beaver Row Press, 1986);
Long Tongue (Beaver Row Press, 1982). Her prose work includes
Clearing The Space: A Why of Writing (Salmon, 1996). Her play
Beds was performed at the Damer Hall in 1982 as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival. Hartigan won the Mobil Prize for Playwriting for her play
The Secret Game in 1995.
In Other Worlds (2003) was commissioned and performed by Ohio University, USA, then performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Jersey Lilies was performed at the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Dublin 1996, where Anne acted with Robert Gordon in this two hander.
La Corbiere was performed at the Project Theatre during the Dublin Theatre Festival 1989, and has since been performed in Beirut 2004 and by Solas Nua Theatre Company in Washington DC July 2006 where it was the pick of the Fringe festival.
