Heather Laird was recently interviewed for a podcast series, “Shifting Borders of Memory”, released as part of Sligo’s 2026 Thread Softly festival. “Shifting Borders of Memory” explores the impact of the squaring of the land, the Famine and the Land War, and their legacies, on the small farmer and small farming culture in rural Ireland. This interview draws on research for her current book project: Land and Literature in Modern Ireland.

https://www.treadsoftly.ie/shifting-borders-of-memory

Congratulations to student editors of Double Space, who have just launched the fifth the journal's fifth volume. The journal, which is edited, designed and overseen by second- and third-year students in the BA English programme, showcases award-winning work by undergraduate students in UCC. Essays published in Double Space have been awarded, or highly recommended for the UCC Undergraduate Award, the Patricia Coughlan Award, the Louise Clancy Memorial Prize and the Eoin Murray Memorial Prize. 

Please find, in the below link, details regarding the Global Undergraduate Awards. All Department of English 2nd and 3rd year students who submit work to the Global Undergraduate Awards are eligible to submit work to the UCC Department of English Undergraduate Awards.  The rules/requirements for the UCC Department of English Undergraduate Awards are the same as those for the Global Undergraduate Awards, with the exception that 2nd and 3rd year entrants will be judged separately; consequently, students cannot submit work from a previous academic year to the UCC Department of English Awards.  There will be one winner for the Department of English Undergraduate Awards in each year and 3 to 4 highly recommended entrants.

The School of English & Digital Humanities, along with the family of Eoin Murray, are delighted to announce that this year’s Eoin Murray Memorial Scholar is Valentine Jones!

Death is the great unifying force for all life — human and non-human. Death shapes our experiences of life as it signals materially and culturally that our existence is finite. In response, human societies have developed complex death, disposal, and mourning rituals over millennia to cope with the temporal reality of death and the corpse it is represented by. However, we are living in a time of flux — environmental degradation, economic precarity, and migrating populations are all upending how we respond to and subsequently ritualise death and the dead body. So-called ‘new’ death technologies such as pyro- and hydro-cremation, body composting, eco burial, and cryopreservation are disrupting traditional concepts of deathly rituals. In the traditional narrative of society’s unilineal development, the role of ritual and history is framed as being antithetical to these new technologies (and vice-versa). This symposium disrupts this notion. Its aim is to locate the emerging rituals that come with new death technologies, as well as consider the unique value that new death technologies can bring to old rituals.

We are delighted to share that English Language and Literature at University College Cork has been ranked 82nd in the world in the newly released 2026 QS World University Rankings by Subject.

This outstanding result places English among UCC’s top-performing subjects globally and reflects the continued excellence of our teaching, research, and international reputation.

The QS World Rankings assess more than 6,000 institutions worldwide, drawing on indicators such as academic reputation, employer recognition, and research impact. To be positioned within the Top 100 globally is a significant accomplishment for our School and confirms the strength and visibility of English at UCC on the world stage.

This year’s ranking also highlights the sustained commitment of our academic and administrative colleagues who contribute to this process annually.

Congratulations to all colleagues in English—this global recognition is a testament to your dedication and excellence.

IWS & 20th/21st Century Colloquium:
Land and Literature

March 27
4:00pm
LC 319 
 

Please join the 20th/21st Century Colloquium and the Irish Worlds Seminar on March 27th at 4PM in LC319, where we will hear talks from Professor Heather Laird (Senior Lecturer in English, University College Cork) and Suvij Sudershan (PhD Candidate, Yale University) on the topic of Land and Irish Literature.

Registration for the Global Undergraduate Awards is now open.  All Department of English 2^nd and 3^rd year students who submit work to the Global Undergraduate Awards are eligible to submit work to the UCC Department of English Undergraduate Awards.  The rules/requirements for the UCC Department of English Undergraduate Awards are the same as those for the Global Undergraduate Awards, with the exception that 2^nd and 3^rd year entrants will be judged separately. There will be one winner for the Department of English Undergraduate Awards in each year and 3 to 4 highly recommended entrants.

Dr Heather Laird has been appointed as one of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies Visiting Scholars for Spring 2026. Her current book project, “Land and literature in Modern Ireland: Decolonising the Field”, is a monograph that explores post-revolutionary Irish writing in the context of land ownership, occupancy and usage. While the book is shaped by decolonial theory, it is also inspired by Heather’s own experience of having been raised on a family farm on the county boundaries of Leitrim and Roscommon.

· Dean Browne announced as 2026 Arts Council Writer in Residence at University College Cork.

· The collaboration between the Arts Council and UCC celebrates diverse artistic voices and practices shaping Ireland’s creative landscape.

Congratulations to the UCC undergraduate English students who received awards for their academic/creative work at the 2025 School of English and Digital Humanities Welcome event. All of the students won or were highly recommended for awards will have their work published in the UCC Undergraduate English journal, Double Space.

Congratulations to Cătălin Luntrașu, a Film and Screen Media student who has just screened a short film based in part on material studied in his English modules.

The literary journal Banshee celebrated its 20th issue in the Staff Common Room, UCC on Thursday 30 October, marking ten years in print.

• Hannah Fitzgerald named Ireland’s top literature essayist.
• Morpheas Hadjigeorgiou receives Highly Commended Award.
• Global Undergraduate Awards celebrate the best undergraduate work worldwide, with entries reviewed by international experts.

Two UCC English graduates have received international recognition at the Global Undergraduate Awards 2025, the world’s leading undergraduate awards programme.

UCC’s English Department hosted a ‘Lunch with the Authors’ creative writing event on 16 July 2025 for students attending the university’s Irish Studies Summer School. The event included readings by Rosa Rogers, Lecturer in Creative Writing at UCC, and Cónal Creedon, Cork-based author and Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing at UCC.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Department of English Undergraduate Awards. 

Cónal Creedon, Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing, read at the event, and Dr Heather Laird, Senior Lecturer, was advisor for the cultural component of the event. The Reception also featured contributions from poets Sarah Clancy and Fionnuala O’Connell, and music by Ricky Lynch. Izz Cafe provided the food.

Congratulations to our colleague Dr Tom Birkett, who has been awarded a €2m European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant to lead research on the legacy of the Vikings.

While the English Department continues to grieve the loss of our colleague and friend Dr Eibhear Walshe, two staff members have written poems in his honour. The poems were read at a gathering to remember Dr Walshe that was held on Wednesday, July 31st.

Congratulations to the below students who won or were highly recommended for the Department of English Undergraduate Awards 2024. Well done on your fantastic work!

Congratulations to the student editors of Double Space, who have just launched the journal's third issue.

 Registration for the Global Undergraduate Awards is now open.  All students who submit work to the Global Undergraduate Awards are eligible to submit work to the UCC Department of English Undergraduate Awards.  The rules/requirements for the UCC Department of English Undergraduate Awards are the same as those for the Global Undergraduate Awards, with the exception that 2^nd and 3^rd year entrants will be judged separately.  There will be one winner for the Department of English Undergraduate Awards in each year and 3 to 4 highly recommended entrants.

Our colleague Dr Miranda Corcoran participated in the opening roundtable discussion on witchcraft and the representation of witches at the inugural Society for the Study of the American Gothic symposium. The symposim took place at the historic Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Massachusetts, and ran from March 21st-23rd.

Dr Heather Laird delivered a guest lecture and participated in a roundtable discussion in the Royal Irish Academy on the alternative legal system established under the First Dáil.

Registration for the Global Undergraduate Awards is now open.  All students who submit work to the Global Undergraduate Awards are eligible to submit work to the UCC Department of English Undergraduate Awards.  The rules/requirements for the UCC Department of English Undergraduate Awards are the same as those for the Global Undergraduate Awards, with the exception that 2^nd and 3^rd year entrants will be judged separately. There will be one winner for the Department of English Undergraduate Awards in each year and 3 to 4 highly recommended entrants.

Dr Clíona Ó Gallchoir will deliver a plenary lecture at the University of Pécs, Hungary, as part of an event to celebrate the 300^th anniversary in 2024 of the birth of the Frances Sheridan, one of the outstanding Irish women writers of the eighteenth-century.

Congratulations to Kelly Meany and Aoife O’Sullivan, both of whom were Highly Commended in the Global Undergraduate Awards 2023.

Massive congratulations to second-year student Elizabeth Angharad Butler, who has just been awarded a Dr HH Stewart Literary Prize in English.

UCC recently hosted a lively collaborative workshop with leading Irish literature scholars from China. The event was titled "Mapping History: Contemporary Irish and Chinese Literature". The attendees were warmly welcomed by Professor Chris Williams, Head of the CACSSS, and Dr Órla Murphy, Head of the School of English and Digital Humanities. Both spoke of the historic and productive ties between Cork and Shanghai, and between scholars from UCC and China.

Laura (Laurie) Shelly, a former undergraduate student of English at UCC, has been awarded the Judith E. Wilson MPhil Studentship by Christ’s College, Cambridge and Cambridge’s Faculty of English. This scholarship will fully fund an MPhil in English Studies. The School of English and Digital Humanities congratulates Laurie on this great achievement and wishes her every success in her future endeavours.

We are delighted to announce that our colleague Dr Alan Gibbs has co-edited the latest edition of the journal, Studies in American Naturalism (University of Nebraska Press), with Dr Sarah McCreedy, formerly a PhD student in the Department. The special issue, entitled ‘American Literary Naturalism and the Visual’ draws on papers delivered at a symposium in UCC last October, and comprises articles on a number of examples of visual media. These include TV series True Detective, the video game The Last of Us, and Joel Coen’s recent film adaptation of Macbeth.

Congratulations to the editorial team of Double Space, who have just launched the journal's second issue.

Registration for the Global Undergraduate Awards is now open.  All students who submit work to the Global Undergraduate Awards are eligible to submit work to the UCC Department of English Undergraduate Awards.  The rules/requirements for the UCC Department of English Undergraduate Awards are the same as those for the Global Undergraduate Awards, with the exception that 2^nd and 3^rd year entrants will be judged separately.  There will be one winner for the Department of English Undergraduate Awards in each year and 3 to 4 highly recommended entrants.

Registration for the international Undergraduate Awards is now open.  All students who submit essays to the international Undergraduate Awards are eligible to submit essays to the UCC School of English Undergraduate Awards.  The rules/requirements for the UCC School of English Undergraduate Awards are the same as those for the International Undergraduate Awards, with the exception that 2^nd and 3^rd year entrants will be judged separately.  There will be one winner for the School of English Undergraduate Awards in each year and 3 to 4 highly recommended entrants.

Registration for the Global Undergraduate Awards is now open.  All students who submit work to the Global Undergraduate Awards are eligible to submit work to the UCC Department of English Undergraduate Awards.  The rules/requirements for the UCC Department of English Undergraduate Awards are the same as those for the Global Undergraduate Awards, with the exception that 2^nd and 3^rd year entrants will be judged separately. There will be one winner for the Department of English Undergraduate Awards in each year and 3 to 4 highly recommended entrants.

The School of English and Digital Humanities was delighted to host its first in-person welcome event and award ceremony since 2019 on October 18th. 

Attendees celebrated research achievements by staff and students.

Awards were presented for exceptional coursework by students in both English and Digital Humanities. Awards were presented by Head of CACSSS Prof Chris Williams

The welcome event also included readings from award-winning student Aoife Osborne and UCC Writer in Residence

The Department of English, UCC, is delighted to announce the launch of Double-Space: The Undergraduate Journal of the Department of English, UCC. The issue is comprised of award-winning undergraduate work by Department of English students. It was designed and edited by five second-year BA English students.

Congratulations to the below students who won or were highly recommended for the Department of English Undergraduate Awards 2022. Well done on your fantastic work!

Three of the Department’s lecturers were pleased to complete Erasmus+ teaching exchanges this year, after being delayed by the pandemic restrictions. Dr Miranda Corcoran visited the University of Agder in Norway, Dr Adam Hanna visited Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 in France, and Dr Edel Semple visited Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, for a week of teaching, exchange of expertise, and networking. Erasmus+ is a European education programme that promotes exchanges between university students, teaching staff, and administrative staff throughout participating countries.

Christian Brothers College, Sidney Hill, Cork, held its 111th annual Gold Medal Debating competition in May. The debate adjudicators included our own Dr Edel Semple, along with Aoife O'Driscoll (CBC Head of English), Irene Warren (Director of The Performers Academy), and Donagh O'Callaghan (CBC past pupil). 

All students who submit work to the Global Undergraduate Awards are eligible to submit work to the UCC Department of English Undergraduate Awards.  The rules/requirements for the UCC Department of English Undergraduate Awards are the same as those for the Global Undergraduate Awards, with the exception that 2^nd and 3^rd year entrants will be judged separately. There will be one winner for the Department of English Undergraduate Awards in each year and 3 to 4 highly recommended entrants.

Cork World Book Festival 2022 kicked off on 19 April with a lively chat between Dr Heather Laird, UCC School of English and Digital Humanities, and author Jan Carson. Jan is a writer and community arts facilitator based in Belfast. Her latest novel, The Raptures, a magic realist whodunnit set in rural Co. Antrim, was published by Doubleday earlier this year.

Details: Registration for the Global Undergraduate Awards is now open.  All students who submit work to the Global Undergraduate Awards are eligible to submit work to the UCC Department of English Undergraduate Awards.  The rules/requirements for the UCC Department of English Undergraduate Awards are the same as those for the Global Undergraduate Awards, with the exception that 2^nd and 3^rd year entrants will be judged separately. There will be one winner for the Department of English Undergraduate Awards in each year and 3 to 4 highly recommended entrants.

Congratulations to Dr Clíona Ó Gallchoir who has been awared a Research Ally 2021 Prize, as part of the Researcher of the Year Awards 2021.

UCC English Department is delighted that Liz Quirke is joining us as fixed-term lecturer in Poetry. 

Transition Year Programme in the Arts and Humanities

Programme dates: 28 February - 4 March, 2022

Subject to Public Health Guidelines

The School of English and Digital Humanities Welcome Event took place on Thursday October 21. 

Staff and students gathered (online!) to welcome new colleagues and celebrate achievements within the School.

The Department of English, UCC is delighted to announce that Laura Shelly, BA English, is the Island of Ireland Regional Winner in the Global Undergraduate Awards 2021. Four other Department of English students are highly commended in the Literature category: Robyn Coombes, Joseph Linehan, Ava Lynch and Lara Ní Chuirrín.

The Arts Council and University College Cork invite applications for Writer in Residence for the calendar year 2022. The Arts Council Writer in Residence was established to provide a stimulating environment for the resident writer, and afford a degree of financial support to concentrate on their own practice. Additionally, the residency brings energy and dynamism to the university, and allows students and faculty to engage with a practicing writer for a concentrated period.

Scholar, writer and curator Laura Marshall Clark will be joining the English Department during the 2021-2022 academic year.

UCC writer-in-residence Eimear Ryan will run a workshop this semester for staff and students who would like to work on their creative writing, whether it be fiction, creative non-fiction or memoir. The workshop will take place on Tuesday evenings at 6pm, from 28 September to 30 November (in person!). Places are limited so if you’re interested in participating, please email a sample of your work (max 2000 words) to englishdepartment@ucc.ie, with WORKSHOP in the subject line, by COB on Friday 17 September.

The friends and family of the late Eoin Murray have established a fund to support the development of creative writing within UCC. Eoin was a poet and a musician, who valued creativity, authenticity and connection with nature and humanity, and he lived his life according to those values. With this scholarship, in association with the School of English, UCC, we hope to keep his spirit alive and to support others like him in their creative endeavours.

Keynotes: Prof. Claire Connolly and Dr James Smith (University College Cork), Dr Nicola Kirkby (Royal Holloway), Prof. Ruth Livesey (Royal Holloway), Dr Nitin Sinha (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient)

Friday 3 September sees the launch of a new book by our colleague Dr Clíona Ó Gallchoir. Maria Edgeworth is a new critical introduction to Edgeworth published as part of the Key Irish Women Writers Series from Edward Everett Root.

On September 1st our colleague Prof Lee Jenkins will host the launch of Mother Muse, the new collection by Lorna Goodison, the first female poet laureate of Jamaica. The event will feature readings and discussion, and audience members will have the opportunity to ask their own questions. We will show the text during readings so you can read along. 

Maria Butler, a PhD student with the School of English and Digital Humanities, has been awarded an IRC Enterprise Partnership Postgraduate Scholarship for her project 'Marian Keyes and the Irish Socio-Literary Landscape: A Critical Analysis using Close and Distant Reading'

Dr. Adam Hanna, Lecturer in Irish Literature, recently collaborated with the artist Dr Rajinder Singh on Spasm, a digital commission for the Glucksman Gallery.

Congratulations to the winners of this year's School of English Undergraduate Awards, who are listed below.

Dr Alan Gibbs will deliver this year's IAAS W. A. Emmerson annual lecture, entitled 'Trauma and Naturalism in the Later Novels of Toni Morrison and Philip Roth', on Wednesday, June 2.

This lecture marks the passing and celebrates the work of two of America’s most important novelists of the last fifty years, Toni Morrison (1931-2019) and Philip Roth (1933-2018).

Members of the department of English have been part of a major collaboration with the annual Maria Edgeworth Literary Festival as it celebrates its 25^th anniversary this year, with the first-ever virtual Festival. The IRC-funded Digital Edgeworth Network joined with the Festival to create a unique creative writing competition for secondary school students. Based on research conducted by the Network on the Edgeworth correspondence, acclaimed novelist Laura McKenna selected some of the fascinating letters written by Maria Edgeworth and other members of the Edgeworth family in the early nineteenth century and invited the young applicants to respond to them creatively.

All students who submit work to the Global Undergraduate Awards are eligible to submit work to the UCC School of English Undergraduate Awards.  The rules/requirements for the UCC School of English Undergraduate Awards are the same as those for the Global Undergraduate Awards, with the exception that 2^nd and 3^rd year entrants will be judged separately.  There will be one winner for the School of English Undergraduate Awards in each year and 3 to 4 highly recommended entrants.

Dr Semple collaborated with Dr. Ronan Hatfull (University of Warwick) to convene a seminar on “Shakespearean Biofiction on the Stage and Screen” for this year’s conference of the Shakespeare Association of America.

Dr Adam Hanna, a Lecturer in Irish Literature in the Department of English, has been awarded an IRC New Foundations grant for his project 'Seamus Heaney and the Visual Arts', which he will carry out in collaboration with the Glucksman Gallery.

Registration for the Global Undergraduate Awards is now open.  All students who submit work to the Global Undergraduate Awards are eligible to submit work to the UCC School of English Undergraduate Awards.  The rules/requirements for the UCC School of English Undergraduate Awards are the same as those for the Global Undergraduate Awards, with the exception that 2^nd and 3^rd year entrants will be judged separately. There will be one winner for the School of English Undergraduate Awards in each year and 3 to 4 highly recommended entrants.

Wednesdays, 3-4 pm

Semester 2

Congratulations to Dr Edward Molloy, School of English and Digital Humanities, who has just been awarded the Maurice J. Bric Medal of Excellence in IRC's Researcher of the Year Awards 2020.

Staff, students and members of the public are invited to join us for "Bugs and Books", a one-day interdisciplinary symposium hosted by the Dept of English, University College Cork. 

We are delighted to announce that IRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Emma Penney, has received a Literature Project Award in English from the Arts Council of Ireland. 

A Bursary has been established at UCC in memory of Louise Clancy. Louise Clancy was a former University College Cork (UCC) School of English student who died tragically in a road traffic accident in 2015. Louise is remembered fondly by UCC staff and the Louise Clancy Memorial Prize was established by the School of English in 2018. Now Louise’s family has endowed a bursary for the Prize to support enthusiastic young scholars like Louise. €1,000 will be awarded to the best dissertation written in the final year of UCC’s BA in English for the next 22 years.

Congratulations to IRC postgraduate awardees Edel Hanley, Elisa Sabbadin, Maria Manning and Robert Feeney and welcome to new postdoctoral fellows Dr Anna McKay, Dr Eddie Molloy, Dr Emma Penney and Dr Colleen Taylor.

Creative Space

Workshop with Alison Driscoll, Writer in Residence.

 October 31^st on Zoom 10-4.30.

When you show up to write today where are you both mentally and physically? This year has been tough for everyone between lockdowns and cocooning and missing out on life’s events big and small. But there has been a welcome change of pace, a time for reflection and whether we like it or not more time at home.

Dr Adam Hanna (Lecturer in Irish Literature) has co-edited a new book, Architectural Space and the Imagination: Houses in Literature and Art from Classical to Contemporary, with Jane Griffiths (Wadham College, Oxford University).

Congratulations to Prof Claire Connolly, who has been named Researcher of the Year, and Dr James Louis Smith, who has been named Open Researcher of the Year!

The judging panel of the prestigious Global Undergraduate Awards has deemed Eláir Ní Thuama and Laura Shelly highly commended entrants for 2020 in the literature category. 

The School of English and Digital Humanities has received research funding of €12,500 as part of the UK-Ireland Collaboration in Digital Humanities Networking programme, for a project entitled ‘Digital Edgeworth Network’. The DEN is a collaboration between the School of English and Digital Humanities at UCC (PI Dr Clíona Ó Gallchoir, English; Co-I Dr Máirín MacCarron, DH); the Faculty of English Oxford University (PI Prof Ros Ballaster); the Bodleian Library (Oxford); and the National Library of Ireland. 

Congratulations to the winners of this year's Department of English Undergraduate Awards!

The University Press of Florida will release paperback and digital editions of The American Lawrence (2015) by Prof Lee Jenkins in autumn 2020

This year’s Script Pitching Competition at the Galway Film Fleadh will be a live-streamed event, taking place as part of the online edition of the festival.

The Shakespeare Association of America has announced the lineup for its conference in 2021 and our own Dr Edel Semple will be leading a seminar. Dr Semple, along with Dr Ronan Hatfull (University of Warwick), will convene a seminar on Shakespearean biofiction on the stage and screen.

Registration for the international Undergraduate Awards is now open. 

Congratulations to Peggy McCarthy who has just won the Fish Poetry Prize 2020! Peggy is currently completing her MA in Creative Writing at UCC, and out of almost 2000 entrants we're not surprised that her wonderful poem, 'Father', was chosen.

Lecturer Miranda Corcoran has published a collection of essays on the gothic fiction of Ray Bradbury. The collection features essays from scholars around the world and was co-edited by Dr Steve Gronert Ellerhoff.

Writer, publisher, and indigenous American activist Laura Clark will be joining the Department of English in September 2020 as a Fulbright Scholar for four months, with her scholarship fully funded by the Fulbright Commission. Laura will offer a seminar on Native American writing, contribute to Creative Writing classes and readings, curate an exhibition, and undertake research on Native American-Irish connections.

Department of English Lecturer, Joanna Hofer-Robinson, has been awarded three prestigous grants for upcoming projects.

She received the IRC New Foundations Award for a project entitled Breaking the Network: Cultural Fracture and Community Segmentation. The award funds a two-day interdisciplinary symposium that builds toward a new theoretical framework for conceptualising the coexistence of social fragmentation with shared economies, communities, and spaces.

Two School of English and Digital Humanities postdoctoral fellows, James Smith and Seán Hewitt, have been awarded seed funding from the Royal Irish Academy and the British Academy.

Last Day at Bowen’s Court, a novel by Eibhear Walshe, will be published by Sommerville Press this March.

The international Undergraduate Awards is now open.  All students who submit work to the international Undergraduate Awards are eligible to submit work to the UCC School of English Undergraduate Awards.  The rules/requirements for the UCC School of English Undergraduate Awards are the same as those for the International Undergraduate Awards, with the exception that 2^nd and 3^rd year entrants will be judged separately.  There will be one winner for the School of English Undergraduate Awards in each year and 3 to 4 highly recommended entrants.

Congratulations to second-year student Persephone Kianka Vierling, who was awarded the Dr H.H Stewart Literary Scholarship in English at Aviva Stadium in Dublin on November 26th. Persephone was presented with the prize on the basis of her outstanding first-year exam results. 

Two BA in English students received prizes at the CACSSS Scholarship Awards ceremony on the 13th of November in Devere Hall

Our final reading in the School of English Reading Series for 2019 will feature our two resident writers on campus - Sara Maitland, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Fellow (sponsored by the Munster Literature Centre and Cork City Council) and Danny Denton, our Arts Council/UCC Writer-in-Residence.

On the evening of Novemeber 5th, 2019, authors Billy O'Callaghan and John Banville read to a packed house in UCC. 

In November, the Department of English in UCC marks the 70th anniversary of the death of the leading Irish woman writer and artist,  Edith Somerville (1858-1949). 

The School of English and Digital Humanities Welcome Event took place last Thursday, October 3rd.

The School of English 2019/20 reading series kicks off this year with a reading by poets Zoe Brigley and Martin Dyar, introduced by poet/lecturer Leanne O'Sullivan. 

As part of Community Week the reading will be held off campus at the Central Library, Grand Parade, on Tuesday, October 8, @7pm.

Admission is free and all are welcome.  No booking necessary

UCC writer-in-residence Danny Denton will be offering a workshop this autumn for any students or staff of the university who are interested in working on their writing of fiction.

UCC College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Studies (CACSSS) is delighted to announce the launch of Corvinus, a new Transition Year Programme for second level TY students interested in literary, creative, and historical humanities.

The School of English Research Seminar Series begins on September 18th with a talk on ‘Post-pastoral readings of nature and gender in literature’ by Terry Gifford (Bath Spa U). The seminar will take place from 3-4 pm, in ORB 2.12

Booker Award-winning author John Banville is to become visiting professor of creative writing at University College Cork. Banville will take up the role for the 2019-20 academic year, and will teach undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the School of English and Digital Humanities.

Head of School and College Lecturer Lee Jenkins will be presenting a paper at the upcoming Wallace Stevens Society conference at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. 

School of English graduate Dan O'Brien has published a new book with Syracuse University Press.

Rose is a Third Year BA International (English) student

Dr O'Connor will be working with Dr Benjamin Gearey of Archaeology

Dr Brandon C. Yen has collaborated with TCD on this important exhibition in the Long Room of the Old Library at Trinity College Dublin

A new anthology of late nineteenth-century sensation drama published by Edinburgh University Press

A major joint Irish and Welsh project (2019-2024) will seek to unlock the cultural potential of the Irish ports of Dublin and Rosslare, and the Welsh ports of Holyhead, Fishguard and Pembroke Dock. Lead by Prof Claire Connolly, the research will explore the cultures, traditions and histories of these ports, so that their cultural heritages can become a driver of economic growth.

The four year project – ‘Ports, Pasts and Present: Cultural Crossings between Ireland and Wales’ - is a joint initiative with University College Cork (UCC) and Wexford County Council in Ireland, and in Wales with Aberystwyth University and the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. The project is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund through the Ireland Wales Cooperation programme.

This is a reminder to students who have received a 1H mark for an essay to submit their essay for consideration in the International Undergraduate Awards and the School of English Undergraduate Awards.

Monday February 16. 6 PM, Boole 4

Canadian author Zsuzsi Gartner, the inaugural Frank O’Connor International Short Story Fellow for the City of Cork, will be teaching on the MA in Creative Writing this semester.  The fellowship is sponsored by the Munster Literature Centre.

Prof. Claire Connolly and Prof. Alex Davis invited to lecture at international celebrations of one of Ireland's most famous writers.

Writer in Residence, University College Cork

1 September 2018 – 31 August 2019

Applications are invited from writers of distinction for the above role, jointly funded by the Arts Council and University College Cork.

The Closing date for applications is 01 May 2017

Deadline for applications is 03 May 2019

UCC School of English is delighted to announce that two of Ireland's most distinguished women writers will join the academic staff for 2013-14.

UCC ‘world first’ to discover the impact of the Vikings

Women and the Rising (1): Creative Zone, Boole Library, March 3, 6.30pm 

Tuesday, November 14, 7pm in West Wing 6

Creative Zone, Boole Library, on March 15 @ 6pm

Prestigious prize awarded by the University of Pittsburgh Press for short-story collection The Islands

Cork novelist, poet and short fiction writer William Wall has won the 2017 Drue Heinz Literature Prize for his collection, The Islands. A UCC graduate, William is currently enrolled as a PhD candidate in Creative Writing in the School of English.

Certificates awarded for the best undergraduate work in 2016/17

November 13th, 6-8 PM. W5, West Wing, UCC Quad

Wednesday 23 September, 5pm, Aula Maxima

Researchers meet with heritage experts and tourism representatives

Three of the School's postgraduate researchers to present in Vienna this week

The Vibrant House: Irish Writing and Domestic Space is published by Four Courts Press

Thursday 7 December, 7-8 pm, RTE One

Cian O'Connor and John Elliott shortlisted in the category 'Literature 1710 – Present’ by a panel of international academics

Submissions for the international Undergraduate Awards are now open.   

Three School of English students have been highly commended for the Undergraduate Awards

Dr O’Connor will be working with academics in the University of Lille.  

UCC researchers and students participate in poetry collaboration

Patricia O Connor will take part in a five-day programme on 'Researching Medieval Culture in a Digital Environment' in Prague

Tuesday, April 10, 6.30pm, West Wing 9

University College Cork and the University of Maryland have in partnership developed an intensive graduate school on the theme of Transatlantic Connections.

Translating Early Medieval Poetry: Transformation, Reception, Interpretation is edited by the School's Dr Tom Birkett and Dr Kirsty March-Lyons

New arts project set up by Creative Writing MA students in the School of English asks what part creativity plays in Ireland, and seeks participation and submissions from UCC students

The Granary Theatre, Friday, December 8, at 8pm. (Doors open 7.30pm). 

Congratulations to our colleague Dr Tom Birkett, whose monograph Reading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry was published this week in Routledge's Ashgate imprint.

Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland (TOEBI) will hold its annual conference at UCC on Saturday 21 October

The Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland Conference will be held on 21 October 2017

March 21, Creative Zone, UCC Boole Library, 6pm

Award-winning writer will be joining us for the 2017/18 academic year

Urquhart is the author of seven novels, four books of poetry, a volume of short fiction and a historical biography.  She is the winner of the Canadian Governor General Award and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger.   

Novel by School of English alumnus Erik Martiny reviewed by another former MA student, Josephine Fenton

Professor James Chandler, University of Chicago.

School of English MA Students present their work

27 February, North Wing Council Room

Monday 24 February 2-4 PM

Friday 04 March, Western Gateway Building 402, 9:30 - 16:30

Collection features work by graduates of UCC's MA in Creative Writing

Radio Programme Dedicated to Norse Mythology and its Legacy

Congratulations to Laura McKenna and Eoin O'Callaghan

Surge features work by UCC students and staff on the MA in Creative Writing

The prestigious Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award has received substantial support from the School of English, UCC.

Creative projects and technology research win support

Elizabeth Fort, Friday 28 August, 7:30-8:30pm

The School of English celebrated the launch of Staged Transgressions in Shakespeare's England

Dr Edel Semple and Dr Ger Fitzgibbon both to deliver public lectures

Speakers include School of English Creative Writing graduate Madeleine d’Arcy and recipient of the 2017 Frank O’Connor International Fellowship in the Short Story, Marie-Helene Bertino

Tom will join a crew of 65 onboard the beautiful 'Sea Stallion from Glendalough'

A day exploring Seamus Heaney’s indebtedness to the Virgilian tradition, on the occasion of the launch of his translation of Book VI of Virgil’s Aeneid (Faber, 2016). Featuring lectures by Professor Alex Davis and Bernard O’Donoghue, Adjunct Professor in the School of English, UCC.  

Wednesdays, 3-4pm, O'Rahilly Building 2.12

Closing date for applications 1 July 2014

Heather Laird from the School of English will be speaking on Talking History (Newstalk) on Sunday 23^rd June at 5 pm. Heather will be speaking about Commemoration which is the title of her book in the Síreacht:  Longings for another Ireland series.

CACSSS Excellence Scholarships available for study in 2015-16

Wednesdays, 3-4pm, O'Rahilly Building 2.12

All are welcome along to the School of English Research Seminar, which takes place during term time on Wednesdays, 3-4pm in ORB 2.12.

Thursday February 11th at 5.15, Room 2.47

Spinstren by Jools Gilson

Sunday 25th May at 8pm

The next event in the School of English reading series will feature Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle and E.M Reapy, who won last year's Rooney Prize, for her debut novel, Red Dirt.

Thursday April 9, 6pm, Boole Library Learning Zone

Extremely positive assessment of this 'fine book' by Ian Brinton

Michael Schmidt, ‘Publishing Irish Writing’

Review praises Prof. Lee Jenkins's "important and timely contribution" to Lawrence studies

Tuesday 17 November, 5.15pm, Windle Auditorium

Collaboration between School of English, Munster Literature Centre and UCC Library

Saturday 16th May 2015, 1:30-4:30pm, CACSSS Seminar Room

BlackstoneLaunchPad, Boole Library, 25-26 November 2016

In the first of our 2016/2017 School of English reading series we welcome two major names in Irish  literature - the Ireland Professor of Poetry, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, and the 2015 Irish Pen Award-winning writer, Eilís Ní Dhuibhne, who will read together at the Creative Zone, Boole Library, Tuesday, November 8, at 6pm.

October 9, West Wing 6 @ 7pm

Mike McCormack, whose novel Solar Bones won the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize, Claire-Louise Bennett, author of the acclaimed Pond, and poet Conor O’Callaghan, whose debut novel, Nothing on Earth, was nominated by Irish Times literary critic Eileen Battersby as a book of the year, will read together at UCC next week.

Joseph O'Neill is a Cork-born, New York-based novelist and memoirist, the author of four novels, including Netherland, one of the seminal post-9/11 narratives. His most recent novel, The Dog, is set in the high-flying world of Dubai and he has a collection of short stories forthcoming.

Leanne O'Sullivan is a Cork poet, author of four collections.  Her most recent, A Quarter of an Hour, which was published in February, charts the recovery process of her husband from a coma. 

Monday 11 Feb., 18:30, West Wing 9 (UCC)

Tuesday, December 1, West Wing 5, at 6pm

Cork novelist, playwright and documentary maker Cónal Creedon will give a reading from his work on Thursday 1st December at 6pm in Kane G19. 

Cónal will be joined by his friends John Spillane [Meteor Award Winning singer/songwriter] and Gerry Miller [Story teller extraordinaire - selected by Discover Ireland to spear head their 2007 international advertising campaign for Cork. A man who stretches the truth to the limits of plausibility - known affectionately as Gerry the Liar.]

Triskel Arts Centre, Saturday, April 25, 9pm. 

George Mitchell Scholar returns for a reading and discussion of her book, Dark Chapter

Niamh Prior shortlisted for the Dermot Healy International Poetry Competition

Tuesday 7th March, 6pm, in O'Rahilly Building G27

Tuesday 28 October 2014

Graham Allen features in the new Poetry Ireland Review no 118 Edited by Vona Groarke, entitled The Rising Generation. This special issue of Ireland’s foremost poetry journal brings together thirty-six new Irish poets, defining “new” as  someone who has had a first collection book or pamphlet published within the last five years. Each featured poet was asked to submit two original poems and to complete a questionnaire created by the editor. One of Graham’s two poems, ‘Sydney Park, Spring 2015’ has also been selected as one of Poetry Ireland’s featured poems for Poetry Day on 28^th April.  

Closing date for receipt of applications: 10th August 2017

Closing date: 30^th November 2015

Closing date for receipt of applications:  13^th September 2016

Information about the School

Before you apply, please consult the website at http://www.ucc.ie/en/english for information about the School and the range of research specializations represented by School staff. Informal enquiries may be made to Prof. Alex Davis, Head of School: a.davis@ucc.ie or  Dr Ken Rooney k.rooney@ucc.ie

Closing date for receipt of applications:  10th August 2018

Information about the School

Before you apply, please consult the website at http://www.ucc.ie/en/english for information about the School and the range of research specializations represented by School staff. Informal enquiries may be made to Prof. Lee Jenkins, Head of School: l.jenkins@ucc.ie or Dr Ken Rooney k.rooney@ucc.ie

PhD studentships 2013-14                       

Applications are invited for fixed-term studentships from suitably qualified candidates who wish to undertake a PhD in the School of English, starting October 2013, and also from PhD Track/PhD students currently registered with the School of English. 

New entrants should already have applied for PhD study through PAC.

Three PhD Researchers in the School of English were awarded Excellence Scholarships

The School of English welcomes applications for a PhD in Creative Writing.

Staged Reading in the Unitarian Church, Prince's St., Cork. 14th November, at 6pm

Saturday 8th July,9:30-6:30, Room 255 in the O’Rahilly Building, UCC

Trip funded as part of the 'Colour and Space in Cultural Heritage' research project

Donald E. Pease, ‘Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland’

‘Peatlands in the 21st Century: Trans-disciplinary Perspectives on Heritage, Sustainability, and “Wise Use” of Resources’

Comparative research project on Irish and Irish-American women’s writing

University College Cork

24 November 2018

From the earliest moments of its existence, the optimistic dream of America has been underpinned by a much darker sense of anxiety and paranoia. Whether embodied in early colonial fears of nefarious witches corrupting pious Puritan settlements, Cold-War fantasies of “reds under the bed,” or porous borders unable to keep the Other out, American culture and politics has often been defined by fears of the enemy, the Other, the invisible saboteur.

We are delighted to announce that Dr Orla Murphy has been awarded one of the inaugural Fulbright Tech Impact Awards

4 September 2015

Our colleague in Digital Humanities will go forward to the next stage of this prestigious teaching and learning award

The School's Dr Orla Murphy will be presenting at Penn State, Monday 20th April, 2pm in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library.

Fixed Term Part-time (40%) Appointment of 12 Months Duration (IRC New Horizons funded post)

Deadline 23rd November 2015

Doctoral student Meadhbh O'Halloran has been awarded a grant by the UK Bibliographic Society.

UCC's Dr Mary O'Connell and Dr Colin Lahive are the recipients of this year's NUI Postdoctoral Fellowships

NUI hosted its annual Awards Ceremony in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham on Wednesday 9th November where Dr Maurice Manning, Chancellor of the University, presented awards to NUI students and graduates.

Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholar and School of English PhD student Niamh O'Mahony has recently returned to Cork, following a year studying in the US, funded by the Fulbright Commission. Niamh spent the third year of her PhD (2012-2013) on a Fulbright Scholarship at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. 

Full details of the Travelling Studentships and other NUI Awards can be downloaded here

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Retelling of the Norse myths and legends published by Quercus

‌New Binary Press, a publishing house founded by School of English PhD candidate, James O’Sullivan, has announced the publication of two born-digital poems by Nick Montfort and Stephanie Strickland.

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A new television documentary has been made on writer Frank O'Connor, in which Dr. Hilary Lennon (School of English, UCC) was the O'Connor consultant, and was also one of the main contributors. In this new examination of O'Connor, poet and writer Liam Ó Muirthile tells the forgotten story of Frank O’Connor.

John Montague International Poetry Fellowship Announced

Irish Times article from Creative Writing Lecturer, Mary Morrissy

Research on Eighteenth-Century Women’s Writing

Dr Kenneth Keating and Dr Ailbhe McDaid, IRC Postdoctoral Fellows in the School of English, have established the organisation MEAS: Measuring Equality in the Arts Sector: Literature in Ireland.

Visit to the birthplace of Frederick Douglass as part of the Transatlantic Studies Graduate Module

Tuesday, March 10, 6pm in the Learning Zone, UCC Library

Dr Maureen O'Connor has guest-edited, with Dr Derek Gladwin, of the University of British Columbia,

It was launched at the University of Santiago de Compostella  where a seminar was held to mark the publication. Edited by Maria Elena Jaime de Pablo and including contributions from Eibhear Walshe and Anne Fogarty amongst others,  this is the first book to provide a critical assessment of the work of the Irish author Mary O'Donnell.

New book by NUI Postdoctoral Fellow Mary O'Connell

Award winning actor and screenwriter to join us from September

Friday 12 April 2019 | University College Cork

Thursday 12^th March @ 5.30pm

Madeleine D’Arcy awarded the £1,000 Readers’ Choice award in this year’s Edge Hill Short Story Prize

Students on the first MA in Creative Writing in the School of English met today.

Scholarships available for study in 2014-15

This exciting new MA in Film and Screen Media combines theory and practice, with an emphasis on encouraging your academic skills and creativity (in filmmaking; film/media journalism; cultural administration). You will avail of specialised tuition in the areas of film and screen media and digital filmmaking, and may also opt to take up placements in festivals, including the Cork Film Festival, offered throughout the programme year.

Goodison to be invested as the first female Poet Laureate of Jamaica in May

Professor Michael Bell

University of Warwick

Tuesday 11^th February, 1pm, WGB G05

Dr Liam Lanigan recently spent a period as Short Term Visiting Fellow at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies in Notre Dame.

UCC English Society is hosting a reading by Lisa McInerney on Wednesday, October 26, at 7.30pm in West Wing 5.

​Tuesday, ​ March 14, 7 pm in the Creative Zone, Boole Library

Closing Date for Applications: 30 Mar 2017

Leanne will speak on 'Poetry of Pain and Care'

Leanne was shortlisted for her 2018 collection 'A Quarter of an Hour'.

Tuesday 25 April at 5pm, Social Area, School of English, O’Rahilly Building

President Patrick O’Shea Launches this Collaborative Collection

Collection to be launched at the 32nd Irish Conference of Medievalists at UCC

One-day symposium organised by the School's Dr Adam Hanna and Prof Eugene McNulty (DCU) 

Glucksman Gallery, Cork, 2 April - 5 July 2015

Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Thurs 14 May, 10.30am – 6.30pm

Jools Gilson's Chrysanthemum to air April 8th.

16th October, 6-8pm. Room W5, West Wing, UCC

Thursday 19 April 2018, 5:00pm, O'Rahilly Building, School of English Social Area

Jordan Norris named Vodafone X Irish University Sports Journalist Of The Year 2018

James DeVita appearing at the Everyman 13th and 14th October

The School of English was saddened to hear that our former colleague, the renowned poet John Montague, passed away on 10 December, aged 87, at his home in Nice.

The School's Lecturer in Victorian Literature offers a wonderful Christmas-themed long-read

University College Cork, 22-23 July, 2016

(supported by the UCC Strategic Research Fund)

All lectures are in the Creative Zone at UCC Library

6pm on Monday 11 March in the UCC Library Creative Zone

Professor Claire Connolly and Dr Tom Birkett have both won awards under the Irish Research Council's New Foundations scheme.

Professor Claire Connolly and Dr Maureen O'Connor have both won awards under the Irish Research Council's 'New Foundations' Scheme.

Researchers awarded funding in the IRC Postgraduate and Postdoctoral schemes

Dr Tom Birkett and Professor Claire Connolly awarded funding in the Starter Grant and Interdisciplinary Strands

The Irish Research Council has opened the 2014 call for the Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme (including associated strategic partner scholarships) and the Enterprise Partnership Scholarship Scheme. In addition, the 2014 call for the Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme is now open.

Introductory Lectures will be held in the week of Monday 7^th September

Dr Birkett's question on 'Crowdsourcing the Vikings' one of six to feature in this week-long installation

Event and Awards Ceremony to mark the IRC's 15th Birthday

Friday 14 March 5 PM

Fellowships awarded to Dr Katie Garner and Dr Eibhear Walshe

Friday 12 June

Wed 16th September, 6 p.m (CACSSS Seminar Room, O’Rahilly Building, UCC)

Saturday 12 March, 12-4:30pm, North Wing Council Chambers

UCC Creative Writing PhD candidate was awarded first prize in the Health Professional Category, for a poem exploring the human heart

Sunday 14 May, Kingsley Hotel – Talking History, Newstalk - Live from Cork

In a recently-published book, Heather Laird from the School of English at University College Cork re-imagines commemoration.

Event will follow a special preview screening of RTE and UCC’s documentary The Irish Revolution. 

The School of English, UCC and the UCC English Literature Society invite you to remember Seamus Heaney in the company of distinguished poets and artists.

Professor Graham Allen is the First Visiting Fellow in newly established Centre for Romantic and Victorian Studies at the University of Bristol

Collaboration between the School of English and the Munster Literature Centre

Writing for Radio: Two days of events and workshops 

Review of Graham Allen’s The One That Got Away in Tailwinds

Submissions are now open until November 30, 2017

Scholarships available for students from Brazil and India

Dr Edel Semple will be delivering a lecture in Belfast and convening a seminar in Stratford

Tuesday 18th October, 6pm, in the Council Room, UCC

The Glucksman, University College Cork

Wednesday, 18th January, @ 6:00pm

FREE ADMISSION

Booking essential: ria.ie/events

 Alan Gibbs’s Contemporary American Trauma Narratives published June 2014.

The One that Got Away nominated for the Shine/Strong Award

University College Cork and the Arts Council are delighted to announce the appointment of Gerard Stembridge as Film Artist in Residence (Screenwriter) for 2015-16.

The three releases have all been translated into English by our own Dr Anne Etienne

Tuesday 1st March at 18.15h in the Film & Screen Media auditorium in Windle

Daisy Pemble awarded the accolade for her work with societies and LGBT rights

MA programmes in Creative Writing and Irish Writing and Film granted Fullbright awards

Two Masters programmes in the School of English have been granted dedicated Fulbright awards for the 2017/18 academic year. 

The Application Period for 2017-2018 Awards is now open with a deadline of 11^th October 2016.

In Saturday’s Poetry Programme (7:30 pm on Saturday 3 December on RTÉ Radio 1), Graham joins presenter Rick O’Shea from RTÉ’s Cork studio to talk about this wide-ranging and thought-provoking second collection.

Frankenreads will take place at UCC between 30 October and 02 November

Artist's Bursary awarded to Dr Eibhear Walshe

Somerville Press and the School of English UCC invite you to a book launch to celebrate the publication of The Diary of Mary Travers by Eibhear Walshe

Spring edition of West Cork Fit-Up Festival opens

10:30am-7pm, Thursday 10th March 2016

Thursday 18 May and Friday 19 May, the O'Rahilly Building, UCC

Engendering Ireland: New Reflections on Modern History and Literature

Monday, 2 November, 6-8pm at the Cork City Gaol

The School marks the start of a new academic year with book launches, undergraduate awards, and readings

 Applications invited for creative writing scholarship in memory of the late Eoin Murray

Dr Éibhear Walshe will be delivering a lecture at the University of Ottawa this evening

The Diary of Mary Travers, written by our own Dr Eibhear Walshe, is one of five novels shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 2015.

The Becker Wives, by Mary Lavin

Thursday, January 28, 6pm, Room G15 , Boole Library

Ellen graduated in 2016, and has now launched her own publishing venture

17 October, 17h30 at Maison de la Recherche, 6 rue des Irlandais, Paris

Dr Éibhear Walshe reading at St Mary's University

Thursday 18 June, 18:30-20:30 at the Aula Magna de la Escuela de Lenguas Modernas

Dr Eibhear Walshe's co-written essay on Elizabeth Bowen features in 'The Irish Times'

Saturday, 13 June, 5pm, National Library of Argentina in Buenos Aires

 Thursday 25^th June, at the Spanish Embassy, Buenos Aires

Eibhear's latest novel was launched in the School of English by Professor Lee Jenkins

Irish Academic Press invite you to an evening to celebrate the launch of A Different Story: The Writings of Colm Tóibín by Dr Éibhear Walshe.

Luke Clancy interviews three conference delegates for his show, ‘Culture File’.

Friday 22nd May, The Department of English at Saint Louis University (Madrid Campus)

Congratulations to our colleague Dr. Edel Semple, for her Irish Research Council New Foundations award: "Celebrating Shakespeare 400: Performing Pericles, Prince of Tyre"

School of English’s Eibhear Walshe is part of an international team, headed by  Teresa Caneda-Cabrera  of  the Universidade de Vigo in Spain that has just been awarded funding for a three year literary Project,“Inconvenient Truths: Cultural Practices of Silence in Contemporary Irish Fiction” . This project is funded by the Spanish Agency for Research (AEI) and  the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

Edited collection on normality in early modern drama published by Palgrave

Dr Tom Birkett is joining the crew of The Sea Stallion - the same replica Viking ship that made the crossing from Dublin to Denmark in 2007 - as it sails again this summer, from its home at the Roskilde Viking Ship Museum to the Danish capital. Along the way the 50-strong crew will take part in a variety of heritage events, and experience the conditions faced by the Vikings around 1000 years ago. 

The School of English has collaborated with Dr Mel Mercier of the School of Music and Theatre and other partners in UCC on a successful application for funding from the UCC strategic research fund.

The School's Dr Anne Etienne receives one of two DUETS Awards

Dr Donna Alexander awarded a publishing contract as the runner up in the Women's Studies category

Dr Heather Laird to deliver a lecture in the UCC series of public lectures, Reconsidering the Rising. The topic of Dr Laird’s lecture is '"Remembering" Past Futures: Commemoration and the Roads Untaken'.  The lecture will take place at 6pm on Wednesday, 26th October in the Ground Floor Lecture Theatre of the old Geography Building of UCC.

The DARIAH Ireland team in UCC are celebrating Frederick Douglass' 200th Birthday with a Transcribe-a-thon of the Freedmen's Bureau Papers! Although Douglass was born into bondage, and never knew his birth date, he chose to celebrate every year on February 14. We will commemorate his birthday by creating Black history together. Over 30 institutions across 4 countries will participate in this event simultaneously! The Transcribe-A-Thon is co-ordinated by the Colored Conventions Project, the Smithsonian Transcription Center and the National Museum of African American History and Culture. All you need to do is sign up for a free account with the Smithsonian Archive Transcription Centre, bring a laptop/tablet and join us on the day! Sign up for an account here: https://transcription.si.edu/

Dr Laura Lovejoy is an Irish Research Council postdoctoral fellow in the School of English at University College Cork and graduate of UCD. As a Fulbright-NUI Scholar to the Department of English, New York University, she will research early twentieth-century literary representations of commercial sex, investigating how fictional representations　of commercial sex intersect and diverge across geographical and cultural borders.

The School of English warmly invites you to a reading by David Constantine, whose Tea at the Midland and Other Stories, published by Manchester independent Comma Press, has won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story award, this year co-sponsored by UCC School of English. The reading will take place on Monday 23 September, 1-2 P.M in the Film Studies Auditorium, Windle Building, UCC.

Digital Arts and Humanities MA students will hold a series of talks tomorrow (Tuesday 21st April) relating to the use of digital tools and methodologies.

Published in the Bogman's Cannon, 23rd January 

Play staged in Cork City Gaol and produced by the School's Dr Maureen O'Connor becomes part of this important archive

The 3rd year module ‘Contemporary Theatre’ introduced our students to playwright Arnold Wesker’s The Kitchen. 

'How Thor Lost His Thunder: The Changing Faces of an Old Norse God' is published by Routledge. 

Dickens and Demolition: Literary Afterlives and Mid-Nineteenth Century Urban Development published by Edinburgh University Press in the prestigious Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture series

Hailed as the ‘soul of his age’, Shakespeare is also recognised as an author ‘for all time’. Each generation remakes Shakespeare, appropriating and reinventing him, in their own image. With the School of English Shakespeare Writing Competition, First Year students of the School now have the opportunity to rewrite one of Shakespeare’s famous speeches for their generation.

Dan O’Brien to take up scholarship in September 2014.

Join the School of English in the Council Room for 'Ten-Minute Tales'

Friday 18 September, 6-8pm, Council Room on the Quad, University College Cork

For this year's Culture Night on Friday 16th September, UCC’s School of English and the Boole Library Special Collections invites you to discover the texts that inspired William Shakespeare’s greatest works. 

The Cork novelist, playwright and film documentary maker, Cónal Creedon, has been appointed as UCC’s Writer-in-Residence for 2016/17. 

Friday 22nd September, 5:30 pm in W6, Main Quad UCC

Friday 21 September, West Wing 5, 5pm 

Two awards received from the College of Arts Creative Practice Fund

A UCC flexi-option graduate course in creative non-fiction, taught in collaboration with two internationally renowned food businesses: Ballymaloe Cookery School and Café Paradiso Vegetarian Restaurant.

25 April at 18:30–20:00, Cork City Library, Grand Parade

Saturday 7 October, 2:30-4:30pm, Waterstones (Patrick Street, Cork)

Dr Clíona Ó Gallchoir of the School of English will be spending a semester at Concordia University in Montreal as the Peter O’Brien Visiting Fellow in Canadian Irish Studies.

Dr Alexander's paper was titled, "Information Environmentalism and Higher Education."

Dr O’Connor will be delivering a talk, “Girl Talk: Controversy and The Country Girls”  at the Ballyroan Library in Rathfarnham on 11 April, and participating in a panel discussion on the topic of “Writing Women, Society, and Sex in Ireland” at the National Library on 13 April.  

Ireland’s biggest annual poetry festival kicks off next week, featuring workshops, award presentations, discussions, book launches and readings by over forty poets from America, Asia, Europe, Britain and Ireland.

Film to be screened in Jameson Dublin International Film Festival Wednesday 19 February

UCC wishes to appoint a distinguished writer to the role of College Lecturer in Creative Writing (Fiction/Poetry) (.5 CL).  Reporting to the Head of School, the College Lecturer will contribute to the School’s undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, with particular responsibility for teaching and supervision on the MA in Creative writing.

http://www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacancies/academic/full-details-660315-en.html

Thursday 1^st December at 6pm in Kane G19

Critically acclaimed novelist, playwright and documentary maker will continue his close association with the School

This year's K-Fest in Killorglin included an event devoted to the role of women in Irish literature, past and present. 'Dis-Miss' was held Saturday 2 June and featured contributions from Dr Ó Gallchoir, Dr Fiona Brennan and poets Annemarie Ní Churreáin, Niamh Beirne and Lena Chan. 

Dr Laird's book was reviewed earlier this month in 'The Irish Catholic'. 

L-R: Heather Ingman, Máirín Nic Eoin, Clíona Ó Gallchoir, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Deirdre Madden, Aileen Douglas, Margaret Kelleher, Eve Patten (Photo credit: The Long Room Hub)

Sir Humphrey Cripps Theatre, Cripps Court, Magdalene College at 5.15pm on Monday 25 February 2019

Film and Screen Media at University College Cork, in association with the School of English, UCC, the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, UCC and the Cork Screen Commission, is pleased to announce a public lecture by acclaimed composer, Carl Davis C.B.E.

Role jointly funded by UCC and the Arts Council

Witness to play at Project Arts Theatre, Dublin and Everyman Theatre in Cork

March 19th @5pm

12-14 June 2015

Congratulations to the School's Ciarán Kavanagh, who is to be awarded the 2015 WTM Riches Essay Prize

An interdisciplinary conference to be held at UCC on 22-23rd July 2016

Thu, December 7, 2017 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM, Scottish Parliament Building, Edinburgh

Volume guest edited by the School's Prof. Lee Jenkins and Dr Melanie Otto (TCD)

Flicka Small, a second-year doctoral student in the School of English, led Bloomsday celebrations at the Bookstop Vegetarian Cafe in Kenmare on 16th June, where she read excerpts from James Joyce’s novel Ulysses.

Professor Brendan Mathews to visit the School of English for the autumn semester.

4th December, 6 PM, Boole 1.

Reading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry (Routledge, 2017) was launched by Prof. Elisabeth Okasha

Author will talk on the topic of 'Gender and Resistance' on Wednesday 4th October, 3pm, in ORB 2.12

Thursday 30 November 2017, 5.30 pm, O’Rahilly Building, School of English Social Area

Organised by Dr Laura Lovejoy (IRC Postdoctoral Fellow at UCC) and Dr Alison Garden (IRC Postdoctoral Fellow at UCD), this one-day symposium will be held at University College Cork on Friday 27th April 2018. 

Breda's poem, "Free Fall" was selected as the winner of a creative writing contest in association with Likenesses: Portraits of Literary and Cultural Genius, an exhibition by American photographer and academic Judith Aronson. Her photographs were on touring display in the Boole Library earlier this semester.

The Excursion and Wordsworth's Iconography is published by Liverpool University Press

This year’s theme is "Bull Island: The Nonhuman Turn in Irish Studies"

Bernard O'Donoghue's poem 'Freyfaxi', from his collection Farmers Cross (2011) is featured in the current edition of the Times Literary Supplement.

The School of English and the UCC English Literature Society invite you to a reading by Internationally acclaimed poet and UCC Adjunct Professor Bernard O'Donoghue.

Dr Eibhear Walshe has been awarded a Literature Bursary of €4000

The theme of the issue is "Corporeal Cinema."

Interdisciplinary Collaboration with Environmental Research Institute

16 March 2015, 2 pm

Thursday October 8, 6pm, Boole Library Learning Zone

Calls for submissions to the School of English and International Undergraduate Awards

Congratulations to Dr. Andrew King, who is the co-editor of a vibrant collection of essays to be published in May 2016.

Maureen O’Connor has been invited to deliver a keynote address at the ‘Re-Thinking Environment: Literature, Ethics, and Praxis”, at Berhampur University, Odisha, India, December 2016.

Calls for submissions to the School of English and International Undergraduate Awards

Perspectives on Contemporary Irish Theatre: Populating the Stage explores the development of Irish theatre from the early 1990s to the present day

Deviate! The Second International Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media Conference will take place at UCC on 4–6 September 2014.

Alan Gibbs of the School of English was presented with the prize in Dublin this weekend, for his book, Contemporary American Trauma Narratives.

Gaol reading on November 2 will be the first of several events relating to the Rising

Thursday, November 5, at 6pm, in West Wing 9.

School of English PhD candidate Kathy D’Arcy is hosting a Fired! reading in Ó Bhéal on Monday Jan 22nd with poets Chris Murray (founder of the Poethead blog), Raina Leon, Nicola Moffat. Fired! aims to fight gender imbalance in Irish poetry and involves readings, discussion and a pledge to withdraw from literary events where good faith attempts at gender balance have not been made (awomanpoetspledge.com)

Dr Adam Hanna recently visited three universities in China to forge new academic links and raise the profile the UCC School of English in the region. He spoke about the poetry of Seamus Heaney at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and gave a presentation about UCC’s summer schools at its partner university, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (pictured).

He was hosted by the School of Irish Studies at Concordia. 

His lecture was entitled 'Writing in the Margins: Irish Poetry and Space'. In it, he explored the paradoxical centrality of outlying, provisional structures to Irish writing during the last half-century. 

The event takes place on Tuesday, March 20 @ 6.30pm in the Creative Zone, Boole Library, UCC .  Admission is free and all are welcome.  

“Writing Parents” is the fourth event in UCC’s School of English Reading series and will feature novelist and memoirist Carlo Gebler and biographer Sally Phipps in conversation with Dr Eibhear Walshe on the theme of literary off-spring.

Eoin Murray was a poet, a musician and a student of University College Cork who passed away suddenly due to underlying heart conditions on the 14th of August, 2015 at the age of 23. His family established the scholarship in association with the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences of University College Cork in honour of his life, and to support others like him in their creative endeavours. 

The article, 'Son of a soldier battling with expression', features in today's Irish Examiner.

Tuesday 5 February, 6:30pm, O'Rahilly Building (First Floor)

Simplified Chinese Version is Launched by Bejing United Publishing

All Department of English 2^nd and 3^rd year students who submit work to the Global Undergraduate Awards are eligible to submit work to the UCC Department of English Undergraduate Awards.  

Cónal Creedon a novelist, playwright, documentary filmmaker and collaborative artist will be appointed resident writer attached to the PRINCESS GRACE LIBRARY MONACO 2025.