This autumn past, Chairman Michael Kenneally kindly released Ron Marken from his well-worn secretarial harness and roped Carol Tattersall in with the rest of the IASIL Executive to drag the Association sleigh through northern climes. Henceforth, therefore, communications with the IASIL Secretary-Treasurer (Canada) should be addressed to her at 970 Oxford St. W., London, Ontario, Canada N6H IV4; or e-mail <mtattersal@aol.com>. [Please note that this email has been cited erroneously cited as 'mtattersall' in the hard copy of the Newsletter.]
Carol was born a McCullough of Belfast town and can claim two giants among her grandparents-a coppersmith and a painter at the shipyard where the ill-fated Titanic was built and launched. Before meeting the Tattersall in her life she graduated in English from Queen's University and went on to Stranmillis Teacher Training College. Afterwards she moved to England and thence to Germany, where her two children were born. Following a further move to Canada in the year of the Montreal Olympics, she took a Master's Degree at Windsor and then completed a Ph.D. on Oscar Wilde at Toronto University. While staying faithful to Wilde, she is keenly interested in contemporary Irish women's poetry and has published on several other poets and playwrights besides. Apart from her literary attainments, she is an obvious 'natural' for IASIL since she likes travelling to exotic places such as Budapest and Limerick. She now teaches part-time at the universities of Windsor and Western Ontario.