[1] Iryna Kalynets was born in a Christian family of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, who was exiled at the time of the USSR.

Her mother was Hanna Dmytrivna Stasiv (née Petyk) from a peasant family in the Malnivska Volya village, Mosty district.

[3] In 1964, she worked as a methodologist at the regional House of Folk Creativity and as a teacher, librarian, and lecturer of Ukrainian language and literature at the Lviv Polytechnic National University.

In the fall of the same year, together with her husband, Ihor Kalynets, she sent a petition to the Prosecutor's Office of the Ukrainian SSR requesting to be allowed to be present at the trial of V. Moroz.

[1] Kalynets also carried out school system reform emphasizing the Ukrainian language and culture and contributed to the legalization of UGCC temples despite USSR prosecution.

Kalynets’ portrayal of the Ukrainian nation takes root from the past history and the present events; she assesses the gains and losses of Ukraine’s continuous fight for independence.

The latter included her detective novel, “The Murder of a Thousand Years Ago” (separate edition – Lviv, 2002),  based on Kyiv Rus’ history studies.