Sigerson, Dora (1866–1918)

Irish poet. Her Collected Poems 1907 and New Poems 1912 reflected her interest in the ballad form and in Celtic lore. The Sad Years 1918 and Sixteen Dead Men and Other Ballads of Easter Week 1919 were her response to the Easter Rising of 1916.

She was born in Dublin and settled in London, but at the Irish Easter Rising of 1916 she worked on behalf of the accused rebels.