Congratulations to Maggie Tighe who was awarded a first class BA this summer and who came first in Classics in the Global Undergraduate Awards 2022.

https://undergraduateawards.com/winners/global-winners-2022

DUBLIN, IRELAND — Maggie Tighe from University College Cork was honoured at an awards ceremony hosted by The Global Undergraduate Awards in Dublin last Tuesday, 8 November. 

Each year thousands of students from around the world submit their undergraduate research projects to The Global Undergraduate Awards (GUA), the world’s leading pan-discipline, undergraduate research awards programme. More than 600 academics volunteer as judges for the programme, assessing entries for their academic originality and rigor, and must pick the single best entry from each of the 25 categories. The GUA sponsors each of these 25 Global Winners to attend the annual Global Summit in Dublin. 

Tighe was named Global Winner of the Classical Studies & Archaeology category for her work titled “Ovidian New Pastoral: The Transformation of the Pastoral Genre through Music in the Metamorphoses”. With that honour, she presented her research to the 150 academics and other winners in attendance at the Global Summit and received the Thomas Clarkson gold medal at the black-tie Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony on 8 November. 

Latin Summer School 2022

CAI 2022 Poster

Classicsnow.ie

Congratulations to Michael Sheil who has been awarded the NUI Dr. H. H. Stewart Literary Scholarship in Latin 2021

The Department congratulates Dr Crystal Addey for receiving a Teaching Hero award at the recent USI Student Achievement Awards Ireland (SAAI) event.  The Awards are organised by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning in collaboration with the USI and other student unions nationwide.  The Awards scheme provides an opportunity for students across the country to recognise and celebrate outstanding teaching in our higher education institutions.

Dr Crystal Addey, together with Professor Caitríona Ní Dhúill (Department of German) and with other colleagues from across the Humanities disciplines in CACSSS (including Government and Polities, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Archaeology, English and Digital Humanities), have been awarded funding in June 2021 from the CACSSS Interdisciplinary Research Funding Scheme to develop our Environmental Humanities network further in 2021 - 22.  The new name of our network is the 'Eco-Humanities Research Group' which is embedded within the UCC Environmental Research Institute (ERI) and aims to bring the perspectives of the humanities to bear on the multiple interlocking ecological and existential crises of our time.

Please see our webpage here:

https://www.ucc.ie/en/eri/research/eco-humanities-research-group/#d.en.1357586 

Congratulations to Chisato Oda winner of 3rd Prize in the Dr HH Stewart Scholarship Competition for Latin.

Classics Now: a new cultural festival 13-15 November 2020

Curtain up on ClassicsNow, a new cultural festival taking place online, in Dublin and beyond. It invites audiences to explore contemporary artistic interpretation and reimagining of the literature, arts and ideas of Ancient Greece and Rome.  Full programme information will be available from mid-October on www.classicsnow.ie

Shruti Rajgopal at the NUI Awards Ceremony, 26th November 2019, in the Aviva Stadium.

A Lament of Helen from Petosiris' Recycle Bin and the Hellenistic Reception of Euripides

Oscar McHale of the Classics Youth Society Ireland invites academics to discuss such topics as Homer's Odyssey, Alexander the Great, Euripides' Medea, fragmentary Latin and the poetry of Catullus and Ovid

William Mann will perform his one-man show, Aeschylus' Agamemnon, on Thursday 22nd November, in the Granary Theatre at 8pm.

Bursaries 2019

The Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens (IIHSA) invites applications by students from Irish universities for two travel bursaries to Greece. Two bursaries are availabel to the value of €500 each (to cover travel to Athens and accommodation in the Institute's hostel or equivalent) for the duration of a minimum of two weeks research in Greece. *The bursary winners will also be awarded free IIHSA membership for the year, which will entitle them to free access to archaeological sites and museums, and the classics libraries in Athens.

The Dept. of Classics announces the program for the conference "Ammianus Marcellinus: from Soldier to Author."

Department of Classics

The Royal Irish Academy

Lectures in O'Rahilly Building Room 2.02 UCC