News & Events

20 May 2025
Undergraduate Awards
Registration for the Global Undergraduate Awards is now open. 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. There will be one winner for the Department of English Undergraduate Awards in each year and 3 to 4 highly recommended entrants.
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12 May 2025
MA Creative Writing Class 24/25 Launch Focal Archive
On the 9th of May, UCC MA in Creative Writing students celebrated the launch of their website FocalArchive.com in the Dora Allman Room at UCC.
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08 May 2025
Senior Lecturer Adam Hanna Co-Organises Sophocles Symposium Held on the Peacock Stage of The Abbey Theatre
Adam Hanna (Senior Lecturer in Irish Literature, Department of English), along with colleagues from DCU and Trinity College Dublin, recently co-organised a symposium on the Peacock Stage of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. The day was devoted to representations of the Greek heroine Antigone by Irish artists. This event was the first run by the new Legal Humanities Working Group of the Irish Humanities Alliance.
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Happening On
01/05/2025
01 May 2025
Dr. Stephen Roddy's work at Alternating Current 2025
Dr Stephen Roddy of the Department of Digital Humanities and the Radical Humanities Laboratory will have several musical pieces from his Signal to Noise Loops series featured in the radio program for the 2025 Edition of Dublin Digital Radio's Alternating Current Festival
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