Eda Sagarra, MRIA (née O'Shiel; born 1933)Contemporary Authors, vol. 68 (1977), p. 512. is an Irish Germanist, historian writer and retired academic.
Career She was professor of German at Trinity College Dublin from 1975 to 1998;"Visions of Europe in Irish Cultural Debate: An Online Conversation with Richard Kearney", Trinity College Dublin. Retrieved 20 June 2025. she was also pro-chancellor from 1999 to 2008"Former Pro-Chancellors", Trinity College Dublin. Retrieved 20 June 2025. and remains emeritus professor of German on the faculty.
Sagarra was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 1986 (she was its secretary from 1993 to 1998),"Professor Eda Sagarra", Royal Irish Academy. Retrieved 20 June 2025. and a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1998."Eda Sagarra", Austrian Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 20 June 2025. She was awarded the Goethe Medal in 1990."Goethe-Medaille – Die Preisträgerinnen und Preisträger 1955–2024" (Goethe-Institut, 2024).
Publications Eda Sagarra, Tradition and Revolution in Germany: German Literature and Society, 1830–1890 (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971). Eda Sagarra, A Social History of Germany 1648–1914 (London: Methuen, 1977; 2nd ed., London, 2003). Jörg Thunecke and Eda Sagarra (eds), Formen Realistischer Erzählkunst. Festschrift für Charlotte Jolles (Nottingham: Sherwood, 1979). Eda Sagarra, An Introduction to Nineteenth Century Germany (Harlow: Longman, 1980). Gilbert Carr and Eda Sagarra (eds), Irish Studies in Modern Austrian Literature: Proceedings of the First Irish Symposium in Austrian Studies, Dublin, 19–20 February 1982 (Dublin: Trinity College Dublin, 1983). Gilbert Carr and Eda Sagarra (eds), Fin de Siècle Vienna: Second Irish Symposium in Austrian Studies Held at Trinity College, Dublin, 28 February–2 March 1985 (Dublin: Trinity College, 1985). Alan Matthews and Eda Sagarra (eds), Austria and Ireland: Economic Performance in Two Small Open Economies: 3rd Trinity Symposium on Austrian Studies (Dublin: Trinity College, 1988). Eda Sagarra (ed.), Deutsche Literatur in Sozialgeschichtlicher Perspektive: Ein Dubliner Symposium (Dublin: Trinity College Dublin, 1989). Jürgen Barkhoff and Eda Sagarra (eds), Anthropologie und Literatur um 1800, Publications of the Institute of Germanic Studies, vol. 54 (München: iudicium verlag, 1992). Eda Sagarra and Peter Skrine, A Companion to German Literature: From 1500 to the Present (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999). Paul Leifer and Eda Sagarra (eds), Austrian Literature in Ireland: Austro-Irish Links through the Centuries (Vienna: Diplomatische Akademie, 2002). Eda Sagarra, Germany in the Nineteenth Century: History and Literature (New York: Peter Lang, 2002). Eda Sagarra, Kevin O'Shiel: Tyrone Nationalist and Irish State Builder (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2013). Eda Sagarra, Envoy Extraordinary: Professor Smiddy of Cork (Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, 2018). Eda Sagarra, Fontane unter Anderem: Essays zur Sozialgeschichte der Deutschen Literatur im 19. Jahrhundert (Würzburg: Könighausen & Neumann, 2021). Fiona Murray and Eda Sagarra (eds), The Men and Women of the Anglo-Irish Treaty Negotiations 1921 (Dublin: Laurelmount Press, 2021)
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