Eleanor Hull

Hull, Eleanor (1860-1935), Gaelic scholar and translator. Born in Manchester, she was educated at Alexandra College, Dublin, and was encouraged in Irish studies by Standish Hayes O'Grady. In 1898 she issued an account of the Cú Chulainn saga and with others established the year after the Irish Texts Society, aiming to publish the manuscript materials and records of Irish literature and folklore. Her other publications include Pagan Ireland (1904), Early Christian Ireland (1904), A Textbook of Irish Literature (2 vols., 1906), and The Poem Book of the Gael (1912). Among her verse translations of Irish poetry is ‘Be Thou My Vision, O Lord of My Heart’, which appears in the Canterbury Hymn Book.