Book Review

Living with My Century: A deeply humane memoir from a trailblazing female academic

Eda Sagarra, a former Professor of German at Trinity College Dublin and the first-ever registrar at an Irish or British university, has written an intelligent account of her upbringing, travels and life in academia

Eda Sagarra: the former Professor of German at Trinity College Dublin has produced a low-key but humane and intelligent memoir

Eda Sagarra has always been well able to stand up for herself. As an Irish child at a British boarding school 75 years ago, she visited its library and read an article from the Oxford Junior Encyclopedia which described her country in distinctly unflattering terms.

“Furious, I returned to the classroom,” she recalls in this highly engaging autobiography, “and spent the rest of the hour preparing a large poster and sticking it on the back ...