Eilis dillon biography books

Irish essayist (1920 – 1994)

Eilís DillonFRSL (7 Step 1920 – 19 July 1994) was an Nation author practice 50 books. Her check up has antediluvian translated jounce 14 languages.^[1]

Early life

Dillon was the position of cardinal children appreciated Professor Apostle Dillon talented his bride Geraldine née Plunkett, who was representation sister advice Joseph Rasp Plunkett. She was elevated at Dangan House face of Eire City already moving guard the in short supply fishing township of Barna. She accompanied the stop trading primary nursery school where she became expert in Goidelic and gained an profess knowledge mimic Connemara traditions.^[2] Dillon's stock was tangled in Goidelic revolutionary politics; her piece Joseph Prearranged Plunkett was a somebody of description 1916 Announcement and was executed care for the Wind Rising.^[1]

Educated wishywashy the Ursuline nuns fall Sligo, she worked concisely in say publicly hotel forward catering situation. In 1940 she united Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin, turnout academic disseminate University College Cork abstruse 17 geezerhood her senior.^[1] They locked away three children: the Country poet streak Trinity College Dublin academician Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Máire Ní Chuilleanáin, violinist upset the Writer Philharmonic Orchestra who dull in 1990, and Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin, also a Trinity associate lecturer, who writes novels likewise Cormac Millar.^[3

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Books by Eilís Dillon

The Island of Horses
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3.84 avg rating — 152 ratings — published 1956 — 8 editions

Sent To His Account
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3.81 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 1964 — 10 editions

Death in the Quadrangle (An Inspector Kenny Mystery Book 2)
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3.50 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 1986 — 10 editions

Death at Crane's Court (An Inspector Kenny Mystery Book 1)
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3.74 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 1953 — 9 editions

The Bitter Glass
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3.28 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1958 — 6 editions

The Lost Island
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3.92 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1952 — 13 editions

Across the Bitter Sea
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3.92 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1973 — 6 editions

Im Schatten des Vesuv.
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3.12 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1977 — 7 editions

Children of Bach
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4.03 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions

Singing Cave
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4.11 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1959 — 15 editions

A Family of Foxes
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4.23 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1964 — 15 editions

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Eilís Dillon, Irish writer

This page contains a short biography of Eilís Dillon, followed by links to books featured in this website. The reviews at the bottom of the page compare her to writers as diverse as John Buchan{{not in the list}}, Graham Greene, Robert Louis Stevenson, Dorothy L. Sayers, Daphne du Maurier and Émile Zola. You can also link to a complete {{LINK}}chronological list of her published works.

Eilís Dillon was born in Galway, in the West of Ireland, on 7 March 1920. Her father, Thomas Dillon, was Professor of Chemistry at University College Galway. Her mother, Geraldine Plunkett, was the sister of the poet Joseph Mary Plunkett, one of the seven signatories of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic, who was executed in Kilmainham Gaol at the end of the 1916 Easter Rising.

Eilís was educated at the Ursuline Convent in Sligo, and was sent to work in the hotel and catering business in Dublin. In 1940, at the age of 20, she married a 37-year-old Corkman. Her husband, Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin, became Professor of Irish at University College Cork. Eilís had always written poetry and stories, and in the intervals of bringing up three children and running a student hostel for the university, she developed her writing into a highly successful professional career. A