National University of Ireland

Apart from the honour represented by her Writer in Residence posts, ML was in 1968 awarded an honorary Doctorate of Literature by University College, Dublin, where she had been a student. From 1971 to...

Commenting one last time on the state of Catholic schools, Laffan calls them highly destructive and immoral. The most dreadful thing of all is that the boys of the Priest's schools, of the Jesuits ...

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...

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...

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...

Both Trinity College, Dublin , and University College, Dublin , hold letters by SB .