fund to establish Pearse's school, St. Enda's, and lent Pearse a further £100 in 1911 when the school was struggling financially. Hutton was widowed in 1908, and having moved to Dublin, living at 17 Appian Way. Around this time she decided to convert to Catholicism. She lived in Dublin for the rest of her life, supporting Conradh na Gaeilge and was heavily involved in the city's cultural activities. In 1937 she was the representative of the Royal Dublin Society at the Celtic Congress in Edinburgh. Hutton's largest contribution of Irish scholarship was her 1907 edition of the Táin Bó Cúailnge legend, The Táin: an Irish epic told in English verse, with scholarly appendices of lexical names and terms. This is a re-working of the legend using numerous sources rather than a literal translation, and took 10 years to complete. The work was well received, going on to be re-published in 1924 with Celtic revival style illustrations by John Patrick Campbell as Seaghan MacCathmhaoil. Eoin MacNeill, Douglas Hyde and Louis Claude Purser supported an unsuccessful proposal in 1910 that Hutton be elected to the membership of the Royal Irish Academy. This was the first time that a woman had been nominated. In 1914 she was appointed to the senate of Queen's University Belfast, and in 1933 was awarded an honorary degree of D.Litt. by the National University of Ireland. Death Hutton died at her home at 30 William's Place Upper, Dublin on 29 August 1953. She is buried in Deans Grange Cemetery. The National Library of Ireland holds some of her correspondence. Hutton was one of the women that were the subject of the BBC Two Northern Ireland programme, Mná na nGlinntí (Women of the Glens). Further reading Ó Doibhlin, Diarmaid (1994) Womenfolk of the Glens of Antrim and the Irish Language, Cumann Seanchais Ard Mhacha/Armagh Diocesan Historical Society Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 103–124 References 1862 births 1953 deaths Writers from Manchester Irish translators 20th-century Irish writers 20th-century British women writers Irish language activists