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 .
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
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.
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Employer Seamus Heaney
From 1982 SH held an academic position at Harvard , where he taught for just one semester of the year. Two years into this arrangement Harvard appointed him Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. From...
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Welch, Robert, and Bruce Stewart, editors. The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature. Clarendon.
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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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