Life
1919-1948; b. Belfast; became superintendent of kitchens (chief catering
officer) at TCD; works incl. That Men May Eat (1939), a novel;
and We Saints and Scholars (1943), stories and sketches; a plaque
to her was destroyed during the fire in TCD Dining Hall in the 1980s.
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References
Desmond Clarke, Ireland in Fiction [Pt II] (Cork: Royal
Carbery 1985), lists novels, That Men May Eat (Belfast: Quota 1939),
292pp. [Ginnett Ayetoun, b. Antrim, loves Ulster Volunteer, who goes to
the bad in the war; she becomes superintendent in Dublin club; poss. autobiographical]; We Saints and Scholars (London: Heath Cranton 1943), 136pp. [twelve
stories and sketches set in time of war, from liberal loyalist standpoint;
incl. ‘Irish Stew’; ‘The Home Guard’; ‘The College
Neophyte’; ‘Kitchener’ [a terrier pup]; ‘Christmas
Eve’ [Butler fills stockings for the servants]; ‘The Excursion
Train’ [to Belfast]; ‘A Hunting We Will Go’ [love surmounts
class barriers].
Hyland Catalogue (1995) That Men May Eat (Belfast 1939)
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