Editing Louis MacNeice (section)

===Ireland, 1907–1917===
[[File:Louis Macneice plaque, Carrickfergus - geograph.org.uk - 324837.jpg|thumb|Plaque at site of MacNeice's childhood home in [[Carrickfergus]]]]
Louis MacNeice (known as Freddie until his teens, when he adopted his middle name) was born in [[Belfast]], the youngest son of Rev. [[John MacNeice|John Frederick]] and Elizabeth Margaret ("Lily") MacNeice.<ref Name="PF">[http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/louis-macneice Poetry Foundation profile].</ref> Both were originally from the west of Ireland. MacNeice's father, an [[Anglican clergyman]], would go on to become a bishop in the [[Church of Ireland]] and his mother Elizabeth née Cleshan, from Ballymaconry, [[Connemara]], [[County Galway]], had been a schoolmistress. The family moved to [[Carrickfergus]], [[County Antrim]], soon after MacNeice's birth.<ref Name="PF"/>

When MacNeice was six, his mother was admitted to a Dublin nursing home suffering from severe [[clinical depression]] and he did not see her again. She survived [[uterine cancer]] but died of [[tuberculosis]] in December 1914.<ref Name="PF"/> MacNeice later described the cause of his mother's death as "obscure", and blamed his mother's cancer on his own difficult birth. His brother William, who had [[Down's syndrome]], had been sent to live in an institution in Scotland during his mother's terminal illness. In 1917, his father remarried to Georgina Greer and MacNeice's sister Elizabeth was sent to board at a [[Preparatory school (UK)|preparatory school]] at [[Sherborne]], England. MacNeice joined her at [[Sherborne Preparatory School]] later in the year.<ref Name="PF"/>