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Queen's University of Belfast
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Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | She gave revised versions of this talk, Jane Austen: Novelist of a Changing Society, at the University of Bristol
in November 1976 and at Queen's University of Belfast
, in March 1980. It appeared... |
Textual Production | Beatrice Harraden | BH
is said to have devoted only an hour and a half each day to her writing, allowing it to encroach no further than this on her life. |
Reception | Medbh McGuckian | MMG
began a two-year term as Writer-in-residence at Queen's University
, Belfast; she was the first woman to hold this position. Weekes, Ann Owens. Unveiling Treasures. Attic Press. 206 |
Reception | Iris Murdoch | IM
was early appreciated as an Irish writer. An honorary degree was awarded her by Queen's University, Belfast
, in 1977, followed by others from Trinity College, Dublin
in 1985 and Coleraine University
in 1993... |
Reception | Helen Waddell | HW
's remarkable popularity—as an academic scholar whose name was well-known in non-academic, cultivated households—went hand in hand with some scholarly condemnation. She was said to have been barred from |
Reception | Philip Larkin | PL
declined the poet laureateship, which was offered him after John Betjeman
died (on 19 May 1984), on the grounds that he was no longer a practising poet. His many honorary doctorates included those with... |
politics | May Laffan | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catherine Byron | The family of Catherine Greenfield (later CB
) moved to Belfast when her father was appointed to the Dunville Chair of Physiology at Queen's University
. They lived there until August 1964. Byron, Catherine. Emails about Catherine Byron to Jane Haslett. Byron, Catherine. “The Most Difficult Door”. Women’s Lives into Print, edited by Pauline Polkey, Macmillan, pp. 185-96. 187, 193 Donovan, Katie et al., editors. Ireland’s Women. Kyle Cathie. 514 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Georgiana Craik | A critic, historian, and author, George Lillie Craik
was born at Kennoway in Fife in 1798. His best-known work was A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest... |
Employer | Medbh McGuckian | A year later she began teaching at St Patrick's College
, a Catholic boys' school at Knock, in East Belfast. She then taught at Queen's University
, Belfast. Contemporary Authors. Gale Research. 143 Sherry, Vincent B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 40. Gale Research. 353 Smyth, Ailbhe, editor. Wildish Things: An Anthology of New Irish Women’s Writing. Attic Press. 224 |
Employer | Carol Rumens | She has also held writer-in-residence positions at the Universities of Newcastle
and Durham
(as Northern Arts Literary Fellow, 1988-90), Queen's University, Belfast
(1991-3 and again 1995-8), University College, Cork
(1994), and the Stockholm University
(Spring... |
Employer | Seamus Heaney | SH
began his teaching career as a schoolmaster, then moved on in 1966 to a lectureship in English Literature at Queen's University, Belfast
. He was writing poetry by this time and facilitating the publication... |
Employer | Philip Larkin | He had so far no qualifications for librarianship beyond his degree in English literature, and left to himself he might well have continued to live at home with his parents and work on his novel... |
Education | Medbh McGuckian | Medbh McCaughan (later MMG
) became a student at Queen's University
, in Belfast, where she worked first for a BA in English (1972), and then for an MA in Anglo-lrish literature (1974). Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Sherry, Vincent B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 40. Gale Research. 352 Contemporary Authors. Gale Research. 143 |
Education | Medbh McGuckian | At university, she was taught by Seamus Heaney
, and met other poets including Michael Longley
, Paul Muldoon
, and Ciaran Carson
. Her MA thesis on Irish nineteenth-century writers and Gothic fiction dealt... |
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1845: Queen's College, Belfast, was founded in...
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1845: Queen's College, Belfast, was founded in...
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1845
2 December 1869: Queen's University of Belfast instituted...
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2 December 1869
Queen's University of Belfast instituted examinations for female external candidates.
21 October 1882: Queen's College, Belfast, began admitting...
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21 October 1882
Queen's College, Belfast, began admitting women to honours classes.
1889: Queen's College, Belfast, began admitting...
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1889
Queen's College, Belfast, began admitting women to medical classes in response to requests from the Belfast Ladies' Institute
.
1896: Queen's College, Belfast, became the first...
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1896
Queen's College, Belfast, became the first university college in Ireland to admit women to equal privileges with men.
1 August 1908: The Universities Act, Ireland, established...
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1 August 1908
The Universities Act, Ireland, established two universities and granted women total equality with men in teaching, degrees, staff appointments, and university authorities.
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