National University of Ireland, Cork

ENC received a BA in English and History from University College , Cork.

ENC went on to receive an MA in English literature from University College , Cork. She says that her generation was brought up on poets like Donne and Hopkins .

She has also held writer-in-residence positions at the Universities of Newcastle and Durham (as Northern Arts Literary Fellow, 1988-90), Queen's University, Belfast (1991-3 and again 1995-8), University College, Cork (1994), and the Stockholm University (Spring...

ELV 's father was and mother later became distinguished academics; they met in 1850 through John Ryall , her mother's uncle and the vice-president of Queen's College in Cork, now University College Cork ...

English-born George Boole , ELV 's father, was an influential mathematician. A professor of mathematics and later the Dean of the Science Division of the Faculty of Arts at Queen's College in Cork

ENC 's father, Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin, was born in about 1903 and lived until 1970.

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...

The only copy of the London edition known to survive is at Yale ; both University College , Cork, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have copies of the Dublin edition.