Lorna Reynolds

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Lorna Reynolds
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Born
Lorna Reynolds

17 December 1911
Jamaica
Died4 July 2003
Dublin, Ireland
NationalityIrish

Lorna Reynolds (17 December 1911 – 4 July 2003) was an Irish writer, editor, and professor.[1]

Early life and education[]

Reynolds was born in Jamaica in 1911 to staff sergeant Michael Reynolds in the Royal Engineers and his wife Teresa Hickey.[2] She was one of five children. Her father died when she was ten.[3][1][4]

In 1912, her family returned from the Caribbean to live in Birr, County Offaly. After three years they moved to Dublin, Ireland.[1][4]

Reynolds was educated in the Dominican College, Eccles Street. She went on to get her three degrees from University College Dublin. Reynolds studied English and graduated with a BA in 1933, her MA in 1935 and finally her PhD in 1940. She then became a lecturer in UCD where she worked for thirty years.[1][4]

Career[]

In 1966 Reynolds was appointed Professor of Modern English at University College Galway. She worked as an editor as well as her academic work. She was editor of the and co-edited several volumes of Yeats Studies with Robert O’Driscoll of the University of Toronto. Reynolds wrote a biography of Kate O’Brien, her lifelong friend. She also wrote poetry, a contributor to The Bell, Poetry Ireland, Arena, The Lace Curtain and Botteghe Oscure, and short stories. Her recipes were published in 1990.[1][4] She was responsible for organising the J.M.Synge centenary conference in 1971.[4][5] She took a sabbatical to Toronto due to her work with O'Driscoll where she was attached to St. Michael's College.[6][7]

Also an activist Reynolds mobilised a campaign to try to restore the Georgian theatre in Eyrecourt, County Galway,[8] she was a member of the Women's Social and Progressive League in the 1940s as well as involved in the . Reynolds was also very involved in the . She returned to Dublin when she retired in 1978. She died in 2003 and is buried in Clonoghill Cemetery, Birr.[1][4][5]

Bibliography[]

  • Kate O'Brien: A Literary Portrait
  • Tasty Food for Hasty Folk (1990)

Editor[]

  • Robert O'Driscoll; Lorna Reynolds (1975). Yeats and the theatre. Maclean-Hunter Press. ISBN 978-0-7705-1228-6.
  • The Untold Story: The Irish in Canada (1988)
  • Lorna Reynolds, ed. (1945). The Land of Poetry: An Anthology for Irish Schools. The National Press.

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f N. Reilly. "path breaking women 03 17" (PDF). NUI Galway.
  2. ^ "Marriage cert" (PDF).
  3. ^ "Death cert" (PDF).
  4. ^ a b c d e f "A life whose theme was freedom of women". The Irish Times. 26 July 2003.
  5. ^ a b Brian Caraher; Robert Mahony (2007). Ireland and Transatlantic Poetics: Essays in Honor of Denis Donoghue. Associated University Presse. pp. 47–. ISBN 978-0-87413-972-3.
  6. ^ Toronto, University of (10 September 1975). "The Varsity, September 10, 1975". Internet Archive. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
  7. ^ "Bulletin, vol. 29 iss. 12 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive". Internet Archive. 7 November 1975. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
  8. ^ "Restoring Eyrecourt's Historic Theatre". Connacht Tribune. 30 July 1971.

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