Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Trinity College, University of Dublin
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Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Leadbeater | ML
's father, Richard Shakleton
or Shackleton, from a family which had settled in Ireland from Yorkshire, was a schoolmaster at Ballitore School
. Unusually for a Quaker, he had been educated at Trinity College |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ellen Mary Clerke | EMC
's father, John William Clerke
, was a bank manager, land-owner, classical scholar, and amateur astronomer who had graduated from Trinity College
. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ellen Mary Clerke | EMC
's brother, Aubrey St John Clerke
, graduated from Trinity College
and practised as a barrister in London. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Employer | Samuel Beckett | He then taught for a term at Campbell College
in Belfast (a well-known grammar school) before taking up an English-teaching position at the Ecole Normale Supérieure
in Paris. He later also taught at Trinity College, Dublin |
Employer | Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin | While working on her B. Litt at Oxford, ENC
began teaching Renaissance literature at Trinity College
, Dublin, where she later served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts. She remained one of a... |
Employer | Eavan Boland | EB
lectured at Trinity College
, Dublin beginning this job at the age of twenty-three as one of the youngest lecturers ever there. Weekes, Ann Owens. Unveiling Treasures. Attic Press. 40 |
Employer | Seamus Heaney | |
Education | Thomas Moore | In January 1795 TM
became one of the first Irish Catholic students allowed to study at Trinity College, Dublin
, but he remained ineligible for scholarships. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 96 |
Education | Samuel Beckett | SB
attended various schools, where he not only began writing but was also an excellent games-player, in cricket, rugby, tennis, swimming, and boxing. He went to Trinity College
, Dublin, in 1923 and took his... |
Education | Anne Enright | AE
enrolled for a BA in English and Philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin
. Bracken, Claire, and Susan Cahill, editors. “Introduction”. Anne Enright, Irish Academic Press, pp. 1-12. 1 |
Education | E. Owens Blackburne | EOB
attended Trinity College
, Dublin, taking the first medal and a certificate in the exam for women. Hays, Frances. Women of the Day. Chatto and Windus. 19 |
Education | Oliver Goldsmith | After various local schools he attended Trinity College, Dublin
, as a sizar: a poor student who financed his course by acting as a servant to other students. He was often in trouble with the... |
Education | Eavan Boland | EB
worked for her BA in English at Trinity College
, Dublin, graduating with First Class Honours. Sherry, Vincent B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 40. Gale Research. 37 Welch, Robert, and Bruce Stewart, editors. The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature. Clarendon. 52 |
Education | Kate O'Brien | KOB
entered University College, Dublin
, on a county council scholarship to read French and English (though some relations favoured a safe job instead). Most reference works, oddly, have 1915. The prelims of the Virago |
Education | Jennifer Johnston | JJ
studied English at Trinity College, Dublin
. She had trouble getting in, and once she was there she became disillusioned with what was on offer—just sitting in a class of an enormous size, listening... |
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