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 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 ...