Living With My CenturyProfessor Eda Sagarra, born in 1933, has been a significant and influential figure in Irish and European academic policy making, contributing to the early development of the Erasmus scheme. Now, aged nearly 88, this memoir gives striking evidence of her self discipline and formidable energy. This substantial memoir by one of the foremost female academics in Ireland starts with Sagarras own perspective on committing her life story to history during the

and made a much-loved recording

gripping rods of steel

Hilliard was radicalised at school by the Irish revolution

shows us Samuel Beckett at the end of his life in 1989

and it has all the panache and particularity of that masterly book

but married life with Frank in the late 1960s seemed bewilderingly joyless

Signed and numbered 1-150

Parnellite sense of Irish nationalism

poverty-stricken and lonely existence

'Johnsey Cunliffe is

Each of the pieces in this volume is both a personal and a geographical journey

with regular holiday visits to the Irish mainland