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10 Jun 2025
Department of English Staff Contribute to the Cork Council of Trade Unions/SIPTU Reception for US Senator Bernie Sanders and Dr Jane O’Meara Sanders at Connolly Hall, Cork City
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.
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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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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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19 Feb 2025
Cónal Creedon to receive 2025 Ireland Funds Monaco - Princess Grace Library Bursary Award
Cónal Creedon a novelist, playwright, documentary filmmaker and collaborative artist will be appointed resident writer attached to the PRINCESS GRACE LIBRARY MONACO 2025.
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