This is the website of sisters, Mary and Valerie Behan. We share this website because we wrote a book together in 2015, Abbey Girls, a memoir about our childhood in Ireland. 

We grew up in Ireland. Mary has a BSc and PhD from University College Dublin. She moved to the United States in the mid-1970s and spent her career as a Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Val has a BSc from University College Dublin and a PhD from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She spent most of her career as a Research Scientist with Agriculture Canada in Ottawa. We are both retired, and divide our time between North America and Ireland.

Mary published her first novel, A Measured Thread in 2020 and a collection of short stories, Kernels in 2021. Val has just published a scientific book on Oribatid Mites (2023). 

Click on BOOKS if you wish to purchase any of our books.

Click on CONTACT if you want to get in touch. We love to hear from you! 



 

---