Honour the novelist

KEVIN 0’BYRNE’S letter (Irish Examiner, August 10) on the lack of recognition in her birthplace of Cork-born Ethel Lilian Voynich, novelist and daughter of George Boole and Mary Everest, is to be welcomed.

Honour the novelist
Sat, 13 Aug, 2005 - 01:00

She was born in I864 and died in New York in 1960. As a plaque graces the house in Grenville Place (near the Mercy Hospital) where George Boole lived, perhaps a similar commemorative plaque can be dedicated to her memory.

Deirdre Ní Chuanacháin

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