Catherine Dunne
Encyclopedia
Catherine Dunne is an Irish
author
. She was born in Dublin and studied English
and Spanish
at Trinity College, Dublin
, before becoming a teacher.
Dunne is the author of the novels In the Beginning (Jonathan Cape, 1997), A Name for Himself (Jonathan Cape, 1998), The Walled Garden (Pan, 2000), Another Kind of Life (Picador, 2003), Something Like Love (Macmillan, 2006), At a Time Like This (Macmillan, 2007), and the non-fiction book An Unconsidered People: The Irish in Sixties London (New Island, 2003).
Irish people
The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...
author
Author
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. She was born in Dublin and studied English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
and Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
at Trinity College, Dublin
Trinity College, Dublin
Trinity College, Dublin , formally known as the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, was founded in 1592 by letters patent from Queen Elizabeth I as the "mother of a university", Extracts from Letters Patent of Elizabeth I, 1592: "...we...found and...
, before becoming a teacher.
Dunne is the author of the novels In the Beginning (Jonathan Cape, 1997), A Name for Himself (Jonathan Cape, 1998), The Walled Garden (Pan, 2000), Another Kind of Life (Picador, 2003), Something Like Love (Macmillan, 2006), At a Time Like This (Macmillan, 2007), and the non-fiction book An Unconsidered People: The Irish in Sixties London (New Island, 2003).