[1] Primrose McConnell was born Frances Elaine Beckett in 1906 in Foxrock, Dublin.
[1] Samuel Beckett was a cousin, and the two attended Trinity College Dublin at the same time.
The couple lived there for 36 years, where they learned Creole, developing a written phonetic form of the language.
Using the Laubach teaching method, they organised literacy programmes for children and adults and founded the Nouveau Collège Bird.
[1] McConnell enlisted her father to design a new Methodist church in Port-au-Prince, which opened in 1954.