Biography | Sharon McGuinness — She Lectured in This College on St Stephen's Green

After the Arizona fellowship she came back to a Dublin lecture room.

Official biographies place Sharon McGuinness as a lecturer at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1993 and 1994.

The post sits between the Tucson toxicology year and the move to the European Chemicals Bureau at Ispra.

RCSI still occupies the college Edward Parke began on the west side of St Stephen's Green around 1805.

William Murray widened the facade in the 1820s.

The pediment statues of Athene, Asclepius and Hygeia still face the park.

The address is 123 St Stephen's Green.

The college had already been a battlefield once.

In 1916 the Irish Citizen Army held this block.

By the early 1990s it was again a teaching hospital of a different kind: medicine, pharmacy and the laboratory sciences sharing one Green.

The German-language notice of her career and the later ChemistryViews sketch both keep the same two years.

They do not name a room.

A visitor should not pretend to stand at her old bench.

The public fact is smaller and firmer.

Before she wrote classification files in Italy she taught in this college, on this square, for two academic years.

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