National University of Ireland

Thomas Arnold's half-pay covered only the family's departure expenses, and when they arrived in England the couple were destitute. Thanks to John Henry Newman , Arnold soon obtained a position at the Catholic University

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 ...

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

She included in it letters sent to her containing stories of wartime experiences. University College, Dublin , holds an edited typescript of the journal.

KT 's papers are held at the Southern Illinois University Library ; her letters from W. B. Yeats are at the Huntington Library ; and other papers are held at the University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Library

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...