Beginner’s Pluck
When Guinness was 11, she lived with her uncle and grandmother in their rambling farmhouse, rather than board at school. After university, she went to Budapest to work for a professor there, and then to London, where she freelanced for BBC Radio 4.
Guinness then took a PhD at Oxford University, returning to Ireland in 1999, when she and her husband moved back in with her uncle. After his death, she took over the house, and the running of the farm, while working in academia. She edited an anthology, The New Irish Poets.
