National University of Ireland

KOB entered University College, Dublin , on a county council scholarship to read French and English (though some relations favoured a safe job instead).

KOB took her BA degree in French and English from University College, Dublin ; she did not immediately take steps to choose a job.

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...

Meanwhile she studied abroad as well. She was awarded a summer scholarship for the University for Foreigners at Perugia, then studied at the University of Rome, 1952-3, and in Venice on an Italian...

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...