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...

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

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

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.