Eleanor Hull

Eleanor Henrietta Hull (1860-1935) was born in England, of a County Down family. She was educated at Alexandra College, Dublin and was a student of Irish Studies. She was a journalist and scholar of Old Irish and in 1899 was co-founder of the Irish Texts Society for the publication of early manuscripts. She was honorary secretary for nearly thirty years.

Selected works

Her published works include:

• The Cuchulain Saga in Irish Literature (1898)
• Pagan Ireland (Dublin, 1923)
• Early Christian Ireland
• A Text Book of Irish Literature (2 volumes) (1906)
• The Poem-Book of the Gael (London, 1912)
• The Northmen in Britain (New York, 1913)
• Folklore of the British Isles
• A History of Ireland and her People (2 volumes) (1926)

She wrote the English versification (known as the hymn "Be Thou My Vision" ) for the Irish hymn "Bí Thusa 'mo Shúile" in 1912.

She was president of the Irish Literary Society.

She died in Wimbledon, England in 1935.

References

• Dictionary of Ulster Biography
• Library of Congress Catalog

External links

• Pagan Ireland (1923), available from the Internet Archive.
• The Northmen in Britain (1913), available from the Internet Archive.
• The Poem-Book of the Gael (1912), available from the Internet Archive.
• A Text Book of Irish Literature, vol 1 (1906), available from the Internet Archive.
• A Text Book of Irish Literature, vol 2 (1906), available from the Internet Archive.
• The Cuchulain Saga in Irish Literature (1898), available from the Internet Archive.
• A History of Ireland and her People at Project Gutenberg Australia