Eleanor Hull

Born in Manchester in 1860 to a family with County Down roots, Eleanor Hull became a writer, journalist, and scholar of Old Irish. She studied at Alexandra College in Dublin and later worked with important Celtic scholars including Kuno Meyer and Standish Hayes O'Grady.

Hull played a major part in making early Irish literature accessible to general readers. She was a co-founder of the Irish Texts Society in 1899 and served for many years as its honorary secretary, helping support the publication of early manuscripts. She also wrote books on Irish history, myth, and heroic legend, and published under the Irish form of her name, Eibhlín Ní Choill.

Remembered for combining careful research with a clear, readable style, she helped introduce generations of readers to the stories and traditions of medieval Ireland. She died in 1935.