Kathleen Goodfellow

Kathleen Goodfellow (20 August 1891 - 20 May 1980) was an Irish writer, poet and translator who was involved with the Irish nationalist cause. While a member of Cumann na mBan, she met artist Estella Solomons with whom she would have a lifelong friendship. She was a patron of the arts and of The Dublin Magazine, a literary journal owned by her friend Seumas O'Sullivan, to which she contributed articles, poems and book reviews. Solomons was an artist whose studio later became a safe house for republicans escaping the Black and Tans during the War of Independence.

Career Three Tales of the Times (1921), Michael Scot (aka Kathleen Goodfellow). From the Yeats Archive of the National Gallery of Ireland. Goodfellow wrote a book Three Tales of the Times in 1921 about life under the Black and Tans, using the pseudonym Michael Scot. She used the pseudonym for her "patriotic writings". She was known to her friends as either Goodfellow or Michael.

The Dublin Magazine The Dublin Magazine was founded and edited by the poet Seumas O'Sullivan (James Starkey) in 1923. Goodfellow published her poetry, translations, book reviews and articles in it, as well as being involved in its editing and administration. Estella Solomons' nephew Michael has described Goodfellow as "an exceptional person" without whom the Dublin Magazine could not have survived.

When Solomons and O'Sullivan were looking to move from their house in Rathfarham because of a damp problem, Goodfellow offered them the house beside her own on Morehampton Road for a nominal rent.

Goodfellow bequeathed the portraits Solomons had painted of her to the Model and Niland Collection in Sligo and the National Gallery of Ireland.