Editing Emily Anderson (section)

==Early life==
Anderson was born in [[Galway]], [[Ireland]], the daughter of physicist [[Alexander Anderson (physicist)|Alexander Anderson]], a Presbyterian from [[Coleraine]], and his wife Emily Gertrude Binns. Alexander Anderson became president of [[Queens College Galway]] (QCG) in 1899.<ref name="healy">{{Cite web |title=The Lives of Emily Anderson: Galway professor, music historian, and British intelligence officer |url=https://mooreinstitute.ie/2017/03/20/lives-emily-anderson-galway-professor-music-historian-british-intelligence-officer/ |access-date=15 May 2023 |website=www.mooreinstitute.ie|date=20 March 2017 }}</ref>

She was educated privately and won the Browne Scholarship in both 1909 and 1910 at QCG, where she received a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in 1911.<ref name="UíChionna-biog" /><ref name="healy" /> She displayed a strong interest in the [[suffragette]] movement in Galway. After further study at universities in [[Berlin]] and [[Marburg]], she taught for two years at [[Queen's College (Barbados)|Queen's College, Barbados]].<ref name="healy" /> She then returned in 1917 to Galway where she was appointed the first [[Professor]] of [[German language|German]] at [[NUI Galway|University College Galway]].<ref name="UíChionna-biog" /><ref name="Ferris" /><ref name="gnews">{{Cite web |date=14 February 2017 |title=Ceremony to Mark Naming of Emily Anderson Concert Hall at NUI Galway |url=https://www.nuigalway.ie/about-us/news-and-events/news-archive/2017/february2017/ceremony-to-mark-naming-of-emily-anderson-concert-hall-at-nui-galway.html |access-date=22 March 2017 |website=NUI Galway News}}</ref>