National University of Ireland

ML graduated with her BA from University College , Dublin, where she had enrolled in 1930.

ML took her MA from University College, Dublin, with a thesis on Jane Austen for which she received first class honours.

KOB entered University College, Dublin , on a county council scholarship to read French and English (though some relations favoured a safe job instead).

KOB took her BA degree in French and English from University College, Dublin ; she did not immediately take steps to choose a job.

TD was sent as a boarder to the Ursuline convent in Waterford, where she did very well. From there she entered University College , Dublin, in 1913, with her sights set on training...

JOF received her MA from University College , Dublin, the year following her BA from the same institution.

JOF took the state school-leaving exam plus a university entrance exam which was challenging partly because in Latin it had an oral component which demanded classical Latin pronunciation: the Church Latin she had learned at...

Meanwhile she studied abroad as well. She was awarded a summer scholarship for the University for Foreigners at Perugia, then studied at the University of Rome, 1952-3, and in Venice on an Italian...

GMH was appointed to a junior Chair of Classics at University College , Dublin; the job took him away from the squalid conditions he had sometimes been preaching in but it did nothing to...

George Sigerson , DS 's father, was a doctor specialising in nervous disorders (a new area of research), a poet, and a Gaelic scholar. He lectured on biology at the National University of Ireland ...

One of KOB 's professors at University College encouraged her to write poetry, but both she and her friends knew that the poetry she wrote was no good. She began contributing short stories and...

KOB indicates her seriousness by her choice of title: it is quoted from a sonnet by George Herbert which consists entirely of definitions or periphrases for prayer, of which this is one. The novel...

At home she lectured to the English Society at University College , Dublin, providing, from the point of view of budding writers, an invaluable supplement to the degree course in English Literature. While in...

As well as strongly opposing the convent or the clerical education system, ML took a strong interest in the Irish university problem. When she was writing her novels Catholics were discouraged from attending the long-established...

This book was written during a highly social period of ES 's life, and advertised in February 1799. Most copies having been no doubt read to pieces, this is now a very rare...