School of English PhD Studentship 2017-2018
- 27 Jun 2017
Closing date for receipt of applications: 10th August 2017
Trans-Disciplinary Conversations on Peatlands
- 26 Jun 2017
Saturday 8th July,9:30-6:30, Room 255 in the O’Rahilly Building, UCC
School launches 'Reading the Runes' by Dr Tom Birkett
- 20 Jun 2017
Reading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry (Routledge, 2017) was launched by Prof. Elisabeth Okasha
Mark O‘Halloran appointed as UCC Film Artist in Residence
- 07 Jun 2017
Award winning actor and screenwriter to join us from September
Thomas Morris appointed as UCC's Writer in Residence
- 30 May 2017
Award-winning writer will be joining us for the 2017/18 academic year
School of English to Host TOEBI 2017 Conference and AGM
- 24 May 2017
Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland (TOEBI) will hold its annual conference at UCC on Saturday 21 October
The Munster Literature Centre's Cork City International Writer Fellowships
- 23 May 2017
John Montague International Poetry Fellowship Announced
Dr Heather Laird takes part in ‘A History of the Rebel County’ for Newstalk
- 16 May 2017
Sunday 14 May, Kingsley Hotel – Talking History, Newstalk - Live from Cork
Kathy D’Arcy Wins International Hippocrates Prize
- 15 May 2017
UCC Creative Writing PhD candidate was awarded first prize in the Health Professional Category, for a poem exploring the human heart
Film & Screen Media's Third International Alphaville Conference
- 12 May 2017
Thursday 18 May and Friday 19 May, the O'Rahilly Building, UCC
AWARDS FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ASSIGNMENTS
- 02 May 2017
Calls for submissions to the School of English and International Undergraduate Awards
Congratulations on the Successful Launch of Atlantic Crossings after Frederick Douglass
- 26 Apr 2017
President Patrick O’Shea Launches this Collaborative Collection
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Launch of 'Atlantic Crossings in the Wake of Frederick Douglass'
- 25 Apr 2017
Tuesday 25 April at 5pm, Social Area, School of English, O’Rahilly Building
Monograph by Dr Tom Birkett Published by Routledge
- 11 Apr 2017
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.
Applications invited for UCC Writer in Residence and Film Artist in Residence
- 06 Apr 2017
The Closing date for applications is 01 May 2017
Launch of 'Cornerstone' compiled by UCC Writer in Residence Cónal Creedon
- 10 Apr 2017
25 April at 18:30–20:00, Cork City Library, Grand Parade
Review of 'A History of Modernist Poetry' Ed. Alex Davis & Lee M. Jenkins
- 05 Apr 2017
Extremely positive assessment of this 'fine book' by Ian Brinton
Lorna Goodison becomes Jamaican Poet Laureate
- 22 Mar 2017
Goodison to be invested as the first female Poet Laureate of Jamaica in May
IRC 'New Foundations' Award for the School's Dr Maureen O’Connor
- 15 Mar 2017
‘Peatlands in the 21st Century: Trans-disciplinary Perspectives on Heritage, Sustainability, and “Wise Use” of Resources’
National University of Ireland Awards Scheme for 2017 Announced
- 15 Mar 2017
Full details of the Travelling Studentships and other NUI Awards can be downloaded here
PhD Researchers to Represent the School at Translations Conference
- 13 Mar 2017
Three of the School's postgraduate researchers to present in Vienna this week
Lionel Shriver to read at UCC
- 07 Mar 2017
Tuesday, March 14, 7 pm in the Creative Zone, Boole Library
Second of the four part Poetry Reading Series with poets Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh (Kerry) and Laura Accerboni (Italy)
- 07 Mar 2017
Tuesday 7th March, 6pm, in O'Rahilly Building G27
Vacancy for a Lecturer in Irish Literature in the School of English
- 27 Feb 2017
Closing Date for Applications: 30 Mar 2017
Poetry Reading, Monday 27th February 6pm in West Wing 5
- 22 Feb 2017
Award-winning poets Mary O'Malley and Monika Rinck to open poetry reading series at UCC
William Wall has won the 2017 Drue Heinz Literature Prize for his collection, The Islands
- 02 Feb 2017
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.
Join us for the second event of UCC’s School of English reading series which will feature three of Ireland’s most experimental writers.
- 31 Jan 2017
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.
Modern Ireland in 100 artworks
- 18 Jan 2017
The Glucksman, University College Cork
Wednesday, 18th January, @ 6:00pm
FREE ADMISSION
Booking essential: ria.ie/events
UCC School of English Remembers John Montague
- 12 Dec 2016
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.
RTE Poem of the Week: An Elegy for David Bowie, by Graham Allen
- 01 Dec 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.
Reading by Arts Council/UCC Writer in Residence Cónal Creedon
- 28 Nov 2016
Thursday 1st December at 6pm in Kane G19
Reading by Arts Council/UCC Writer in Residence Cónal Creedon.
- 01 Dec 2016
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.]
Chloe Harte, English, won the HH Stewart prize
- 18 Nov 2016
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.
Celebrating Shakespeare 400: Performing Pericles, Prince of Tyre
- 14 Nov 2016
Staged Reading in the Unitarian Church, Prince's St., Cork. 14th November, at 6pm
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Tuesday, November 8, at 6pm
- 08 Nov 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.
Bailey's Prizewinner Lisa McInerney to read at UCC
- 19 Oct 2016
UCC English Society is hosting a reading by Lisa McInerney on Wednesday, October 26, at 7.30pm in West Wing 5.
New Frank O’Connor Documentary – Idir dhá Shruth,
- 19 Oct 2016
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.
Guest lecture by Prof. Goran Stanivukovic (Saint Mary's University, Canada) on “Shakespeare’s First Act: literature, theatre, and the earliest years”
- 18 Oct 2016
Tuesday 18th October, 6pm, in the Council Room, UCC
Culture Night 16th September- Shakespeare talk with the School of English and the Boole Library
- 18 Aug 2016
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.
University College Cork, 22-23 July, 2016
- 21 Jul 2016
(supported by the UCC Strategic Research Fund)
College Lecturer In Creative Writing 12-Month Part-Time Post
- 13 Jul 2016
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
Irish Caribbean Connections: An Interdisciplinary Conference
- 13 Jul 2016
University College Cork, 22-23 July, 2016
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School Involvement in Global Commemorations for Shakespeare 400
- 26 Apr 2016
Dr Edel Semple will be delivering a lecture in Belfast and convening a seminar in Stratford
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Graham Allen features in the new Poetry Ireland Review no 118 Edited by Vona Groarke, entitled The Rising Generation.
- 22 Apr 2016
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 28th April.
British playwright Arnold Wesker died last Tuesday. He was a key figure in 20th century theatre and the British cultural scene in the 1960s.
- 20 Apr 2016
The 3rd year module ‘Contemporary Theatre’ introduced our students to playwright Arnold Wesker’s The Kitchen.
MA in Film and Screen Media Information Session Tuesday 5th April, 5:00pm. Film and Screen Media Auditorium Windle.
- 31 Mar 2016
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.
Congratulations to our colleague Dr. Edel Semple
- 23 Mar 2016
Congratulations to our colleague Dr. Edel Semple, for her Irish Research Council New Foundations award: "Celebrating Shakespeare 400: Performing Pericles, Prince of Tyre"
Rediscovering the Vikings Conference
- 03 Oct 2016
BlackstoneLaunchPad, Boole Library, 25-26 November 2016
Reconsidering the Rising: Lecture by Dr Heather Laird
- 29 Sep 2016
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.
Frank O’Connor Fellow to teach on MA in Creative Writing
- 29 Sep 2016
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.
Maureen O’Connor has been invited to deliver a keynote address at Berhampur University, Odisha, India.
- 29 Sep 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.
Seamus Heaney and the Virgilian Tradition
- 21 Sep 2016
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.
SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, UCC PhD Studentship 2016-2017
- 09 Sep 2016
Closing date for receipt of applications: 13th 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
Cónal Creedon is new writer-in-residence
- 26 Aug 2016
The Cork novelist, playwright and film documentary maker, Cónal Creedon, has been appointed as UCC’s Writer-in-Residence for 2016/17.
Fulbright Scholarships in Irish Writing and Film and Creative Writing
- 21 Jul 2016
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 11th October 2016.
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School Events for Shakespeare 400
- 26 Apr 2016
Dr Edel Semple and Dr Ger Fitzgibbon both to deliver public lectures
School's World-Tree Project Launches its Public Collection Call
- 22 Apr 2016
UCC ‘world first’ to discover the impact of the Vikings
Noted literary critic Sir Christopher Ricks to Lecture at UCC
- 14 Mar 2016
March 21, Creative Zone, UCC Boole Library, 6pm
Student-Organised Symposium 'Inkwell' Hosts its Inaugural Seminar
- 12 Mar 2016
Saturday 12 March, 12-4:30pm, North Wing Council Chambers
Andrew King and Matthew Woodcock, eds., Medieval into Renaissance: Essays for Helen Cooper (D.S. Brewer, 2016).
- 04 Mar 2016
Congratulations to Dr. Andrew King, who is the co-editor of a vibrant collection of essays to be published in May 2016.
Textualities 2016 Conference in the School of English
- 04 Mar 2016
Friday 04 March, Western Gateway Building 402, 9:30 - 16:30
School event to mark the anniversary of the death of Frank O’Connor
- 03 Mar 2016
10:30am-7pm, Thursday 10th March 2016
Women Writers Remember the Rising
- 01 Mar 2016
Women and the Rising (1): Creative Zone, Boole Library, March 3, 6.30pm
Evening with acclaimed film director and playwright, Gerard Stembridge
- 23 Feb 2016
Tuesday 1st March at 18.15h in the Film & Screen Media auditorium in Windle
AWARDS FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ASSIGNMENTS
- 19 Feb 2016
Calls for submissions to the School of English and International Undergraduate Awards
Dr Birkett talking this evening at Cardiff University’s Medieval and Early-Modern Research Initiative
- 11 Feb 2016
Thursday February 11th at 5.15, Room 2.47
Inspired performance of Eva Gore-Booth's 1916 play 'The Death of Fionavar' features on RTÉ's Century Ireland
- 03 Feb 2016
Play staged in Cork City Gaol and produced by the School's Dr Maureen O'Connor becomes part of this important archive
Bright Star, Elegy for David Bowie, by Graham Allen
- 25 Jan 2016
Published in the Bogman's Cannon, 23rd January
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Researcher success in the 2015 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition
- 14 Dec 2015
Dr Donna Alexander awarded a publishing contract as the runner up in the Women's Studies category
Dr Orla Murphy Shortlisted for the National Teaching Expert Awards
- 08 Dec 2015
Our colleague in Digital Humanities will go forward to the next stage of this prestigious teaching and learning award
Call for Papers for 'Irish Caribbean Connections'
- 08 Dec 2015
An interdisciplinary conference to be held at UCC on 22-23rd July 2016
Reading and Reception for UCC Writer in Residence Michael West
- 23 Nov 2015
Tuesday, December 1, West Wing 5, at 6pm
School Delighted to Host a Discussion with Irish Film Composer Stephen Rennicks
- 12 Nov 2015
Tuesday 17 November, 5.15pm, Windle Auditorium
Fixed-Term Lectureship in Old English
- 30 Oct 2015
Fixed Term Part-time (40%) Appointment of 12 Months Duration (IRC New Horizons funded post)
Poet and Editor Maurice Riordan to Read at UCC
- 28 Oct 2015
Thursday, November 5, at 6pm, in West Wing 9.
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School to Mark 1916 Rising with a Series of Commemoration Events
- 28 Oct 2015
Gaol reading on November 2 will be the first of several events relating to the Rising
PhD Studentship/Research Assistant Position in Post-1900/Contemporary American Literature
- 23 Oct 2015
Closing date: 30th November 2015
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Staged reading of the 1916 play, The Death of Fionavar, by Eva Gore-Booth
- 22 Oct 2015
Monday, 2 November, 6-8pm at the Cork City Gaol
Double Success in the IRC 'New Horizons' Scheme
- 15 Oct 2015
Dr Tom Birkett and Professor Claire Connolly awarded funding in the Starter Grant and Interdisciplinary Strands
IRC Success for Researchers in the School of English
- 05 Oct 2015
Researchers awarded funding in the IRC Postgraduate and Postdoctoral schemes
Irish novelist Eoin McNamee will open the School's Autumn Reading Series
- 28 Sep 2015
Thursday October 8, 6pm, Boole Library Learning Zone
Food Writing Flexi-Option course - October 2015
- 18 Sep 2015
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.
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Cinematheque Francaise devoting a day to the work of film maker Gael Lepingle
- 10 Sep 2015
The three releases have all been translated into English by our own Dr Anne Etienne
Iain Galbraith to talk on ‘Figures of Translation in the Poetry of John Burnside’
- 10 Sep 2015
Wed 16th September, 6 p.m (CACSSS Seminar Room, O’Rahilly Building, UCC)
School of English Students Shortlisted for Prestigious Undergraduate Awards
- 08 Sep 2015
Cian O'Connor and John Elliott shortlisted in the category 'Literature 1710 – Present’ by a panel of international academics
School of English Hosts ‘Ten-Minute Tales’ for Culture Night
- 02 Sep 2015
Friday 18 September, 6-8pm, Council Room on the Quad, University College Cork
PhD Researcher’s Work Included in New Volume of Essays
- 02 Sep 2015
Engendering Ireland: New Reflections on Modern History and Literature
The School Looks Forward to Welcoming New and Returning Students Next Week!
- 01 Sep 2015
Introductory Lectures will be held in the week of Monday 7th September
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Early Modern Military Identity: A One-Day Symposium in the School of English
- 21 Aug 2015
Friday August 28th, ORB G27 UCC, 2-6pm
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Shortlisting for PhD creative writing candidate
- 20 Aug 2015
Niamh Prior shortlisted for the Dermot Healy International Poetry Competition
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Public Talk in the Elizabeth Fort: Edmund Spenser on the Munster Plantation
- 18 Aug 2015
Elizabeth Fort, Friday 28 August, 7:30-8:30pm
MA Student Wins Irish Association for American Studies (IAAS) Essay Prize
- 14 Aug 2015
Congratulations to the School's Ciarán Kavanagh, who is to be awarded the 2015 WTM Riches Essay Prize
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Gerard Stembridge appointed as Film Artist in Residence at UCC
- 12 Aug 2015
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.
Graduate of UCC’s inaugural MA in Creative Writing class wins prestigious award
- 21 Jul 2015
Madeleine D’Arcy awarded the £1,000 Readers’ Choice award in this year’s Edge Hill Short Story Prize
Write up of 'The American Lawrence' in Review of English Studies
- 21 Jul 2015
Review praises Prof. Lee Jenkins's "important and timely contribution" to Lawrence studies
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West appointed as UCC’s Writer-in-Residence
- 13 Jul 2015
Award-winning dramatist Michael West has been appointed as UCC’s Writer-in-Residence for 2015/16.
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Graham Allen’s Poetry Collection Praised for Emphasising the Value of Reading
- 29 Jun 2015
Review of Graham Allen’s The One That Got Away in Tailwinds
Dr Tom Birkett to join the Viking Ship 'Havhingsten' on its Northern Expedition
- 28 Jun 2015
Tom will join a crew of 65 onboard the beautiful 'Sea Stallion from Glendalough'
Eibhear Walshe to co-present lecture on Kate O’Brien at the Spanish Embassy
- 22 Jun 2015
Thursday 25th June, at the Spanish Embassy, Buenos Aires
Eibhear Walshe and Fintan O’Toole write about Mary Lavin in the Irish Times
- 15 Jun 2015
The Becker Wives, by Mary Lavin
Dr Eibhear Walshe to talk at Bloomsday in Buenos Aires
- 10 Jun 2015
Saturday, 13 June, 5pm, National Library of Argentina in Buenos Aires
PhD Researcher awarded European Commission scholarship to attend CENDARI Summer School
- 08 Jun 2015
Patricia O Connor will take part in a five-day programme on 'Researching Medieval Culture in a Digital Environment' in Prague
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100 Artworks: Celebrating Elizabeth Bowen
- 08 Jun 2015
Dr Eibhear Walshe's co-written essay on Elizabeth Bowen features in 'The Irish Times'
Dr Eibhear Walshe to present at University of San Salvador in Buenos Aires
- 08 Jun 2015
Thursday 18 June, 18:30-20:30 at the Aula Magna de la Escuela de Lenguas Modernas
School of English Participation in Yeats 150
- 29 May 2015
Prof. Claire Connolly and Prof. Alex Davis invited to lecture at international celebrations of one of Ireland's most famous writers.
Dr Edel Semple to deliver plenary lecture at Saint Louis University
- 13 May 2015
Friday 22nd May, The Department of English at Saint Louis University (Madrid Campus)
World-leading humanities scholar, Professor Jerome McGann, to lecture at UCC
- 12 May 2015
‘Truth and Method: Humanities Scholarship as a Science of Exceptions’, Learning Zone, UCC Library, 6pm, 22nd May
Irish Renaissance Seminar hosted by the School of English
- 07 May 2015
Saturday 16th May 2015, 1:30-4:30pm, CACSSS Seminar Room
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The Knitting Map Symposium: Art, community and controversy 2005 – 2015.
- 30 Apr 2015
Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Thurs 14 May, 10.30am – 6.30pm
Fulbright awards for School of English
- 29 Apr 2015
MA programmes in Creative Writing and Irish Writing and Film granted Fullbright awards
DUETS Award for Project in the School of English
- 28 Apr 2015
The School's Dr Anne Etienne receives one of two DUETS Awards
Dr Alan Gibbs wins Peggy O’Brien Book Prize
- 27 Apr 2015
Alan Gibbs of the School of English was presented with the prize in Dublin this weekend, for his book, Contemporary American Trauma Narratives.
Digitalis Day at UCC
- 20 Apr 2015
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.
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Launch of new-look Quarryman literary magazine
- 15 Apr 2015
Triskel Arts Centre, Saturday, April 25, 9pm.
Dr Orla Murphy to present on institutional capacity building for Digital Humanities
- 14 Apr 2015
The School's Dr Orla Murphy will be presenting at Penn State, Monday 20th April, 2pm in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library.
Dr Eibhear Walshe's novel shortlisted for prestigious literary prize
- 13 Apr 2015
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.
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Robin Robertson, poet and publisher, to read at UCC
- 01 Apr 2015
Thursday April 9, 6pm, Boole Library Learning Zone
The Knitting Map: Art, community and controversy 2005 - 2015
- 02 Apr 2015
Glucksman Gallery, Cork, 2 April - 5 July 2015
School of English Student named 'Fresher of the Year'
- 25 Mar 2015
Daisy Pemble awarded the accolade for her work with societies and LGBT rights
Trading Words 2015
- 24 Mar 2015
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
Oscar the Irish Rebel
- 23 Mar 2015
Dr Éibhear Walshe will be delivering a lecture at the University of Ottawa this evening
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IRC success for two projects in the School of English
- 12 Mar 2015
Professor Claire Connolly and Dr Maureen O'Connor have both won awards under the Irish Research Council's 'New Foundations' Scheme.
Poet and Biographer Matthew Hollis to Read at UCC
- 04 Mar 2015
Tuesday, March 10, 6pm in the Learning Zone, UCC Library
Scholarships for Taught MAs
- 03 Mar 2015
CACSSS Excellence Scholarships available for study in 2015-16
New Play by Film Artist in Residence, Carmel Winters
- 18 Feb 2015
Witness to play at Project Arts Theatre, Dublin and Everyman Theatre in Cork
Award-Winning Writer Hattie Naylor to visit UCC
- 17 Feb 2015
Writing for Radio: Two days of events and workshops
Byron and John Murray: A Poet and his Publisher
- 05 Feb 2015
New book by NUI Postdoctoral Fellow Mary O'Connell
Poetry Award Nomination for Prof Graham Allen
- 04 Feb 2015
The One that Got Away nominated for the Shine/Strong Award
Arts Council of Ireland Project Award 2014
- 02 Feb 2015
Interdisciplinary Collaboration with Environmental Research Institute
A Season of Readings
- 08 Jan 2015
Collaboration between School of English, Munster Literature Centre and UCC Library
Launch of Anthology of New Writing
- 27 Nov 2014
Collection features work by graduates of UCC's MA in Creative Writing
NUI Postdoctoral Fellowship Success
- 18 Nov 2014
UCC's Dr Mary O'Connell and Dr Colin Lahive are the recipients of this year's NUI Postdoctoral Fellowships
UCC Staff and Students visit Maryland
- 28 Oct 2014
Visit to the birthplace of Frederick Douglass as part of the Transatlantic Studies Graduate Module
Performing Shakespeare: Show and Post-Show Discussion
- 10 Oct 2014
James DeVita appearing at the Everyman 13th and 14th October
New Anthology of Creative Writing
- 01 Oct 2014
Surge features work by UCC students and staff on the MA in Creative Writing
Awards to doctoral researchers from UCC's Strategic Research Fund
- 29 Sep 2014
Congratulations to Laura McKenna and Eoin O'Callaghan
Awards from UCC Strategic Research Fund
- 17 Sep 2014
Creative projects and technology research win support
Carmel Winters appointed Film Artist in Residence at UCC
- 11 Sep 2014
Role jointly funded by UCC and the Arts Council
Friday 19th September is Culture Night on Campus
- 09 Sep 2014
Join the School of English in the Council Room for 'Ten-Minute Tales'
Yes But Are We Enemies: English and Irish Poets Having Words
- 09 Sep 2014
UCC researchers and students participate in poetry collaboration
Film Conference
- 20 Aug 2014
Deviate! The Second International Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media Conference will take place at UCC on 4–6 September 2014.
School of English wins awards for Creative Practice projects
- 24 Jul 2014
Two awards received from the College of Arts Creative Practice Fund
Contemporary American Trauma Narratives
- 28 Jul 2014
Alan Gibbs’s Contemporary American Trauma Narratives published June 2014.
Ecocriticism Conference Featured on Lyric FM
- 17 Jul 2014
Luke Clancy interviews three conference delegates for his show, ‘Culture File’.
Doctoral student in Digitial Humanities wins EU funding for research trip
- 23 Jun 2014
Trip funded as part of the 'Colour and Space in Cultural Heritage' research project
Lauch of New Novel
- 16 Jun 2014
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
Dr Orla Murphy awarded one of the inaugural Fulbright Tech Impact Awards
- 22 May 2014
We are delighted to announce that Dr Orla Murphy has been awarded one of the inaugural Fulbright Tech Impact Awards
READING BY PATRICK MCGUINNESS
- 13 May 2014
Announcing a reading by distinguished poet, novelist, and memoirist Patrick McGuinness, who will be in UCC on Wednesday 28th May at 6pm (Room G27, O’Rahilly Building).
Success for School of English PhD student
- 20 May 2014
Dan O’Brien to take up scholarship in September 2014.
Gender, Sexuality and Culture
- 13 May 2014
A symposium, followed by a reception, in honour of Professor Patricia Coughlan,
to mark the occasion of her retirement from University College Cork
Friday May 16th 2014
New PhD Programme
- 13 May 2014
The School of English welcomes applications for a PhD in Creative Writing.
Cork City Council bursary for novel on Handel
- 07 May 2014
Artist's Bursary awarded to Dr Eibhear Walshe
Research Team Investigating Viking Heritage in Munster
- 30 Apr 2014
Researchers meet with heritage experts and tourism representatives
Public Lecture and Book Launch
- 30 Apr 2014
The School of English celebrated the launch of Staged Transgressions in Shakespeare's England
Government of Ireland International MA Scholarships
- 07 Apr 2014
Scholarships available for students from Brazil and India
Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowships
- 03 Apr 2014
Fellowships awarded to Dr Katie Garner and Dr Eibhear Walshe
Fulbright Fellow in Creative Writing
- 27 Mar 2014
Professor Brendan Mathews to visit the School of English for the autumn semester.
DUETS Great Book of Ireland award
- 24 Mar 2014
Collaboration between the School of English and the Munster Literature Centre
Visiting Fellow in Centre for Romantic and Victorian Studies in Bristol
- 04 Mar 2014
Professor Graham Allen is the First Visiting Fellow in newly established Centre for Romantic and Victorian Studies at the University of Bristol
IRC Awards for two researchers in the School of English
- 03 Mar 2014
Professor Claire Connolly and Dr Tom Birkett have both won awards under the Irish Research Council's New Foundations scheme.
Dr Heather Laird featured in documentary Living in a Coded Land.
- 18 Feb 2014
Film to be screened in Jameson Dublin International Film Festival Wednesday 19 February
Fulbright Award for Professor Emerita Patricia Coughlan
- 17 Feb 2014
Comparative research project on Irish and Irish-American women’s writing
Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow visits Notre Dame
- 17 Feb 2014
Dr Liam Lanigan recently spent a period as Short Term Visiting Fellow at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies in Notre Dame.
Literature and History - Lecture
- 04 Feb 2014
Professor Michael Bell
University of Warwick
Tuesday 11th February, 1pm, WGB G05
The Melodramatic Imagination Revisited - Lecture
- 16 Jan 2014
Professor James Chandler, University of Chicago.
Thursday 30th January, 3pm
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Transatlantic Connections Seminars
- 13 Jan 2014
University College Cork and the University of Maryland have in partnership developed an intensive graduate school on the theme of Transatlantic Connections.
Irish Research Council Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Awards: Applications for 2014 now open
- 07 Jan 2014
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.
Doctoral student awarded Bibliographic Society Grant
- 10 Dec 2013
Doctoral student Meadhbh O'Halloran has been awarded a grant by the UK Bibliographic Society.
Carl Davis C.B.E Public Lecture
- 29 Nov 2013
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.
Poetry Reading by Bernard O'Donoghue
- 22 Nov 2013
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.
Creative Writing Competition for First Years
- 13 Nov 2013
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.
Launch of a new book on Colm Tóibín
- 30 Sep 2013
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.
Seamus Heaney Memorial Event
- 24 Sep 2013
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.
Reading by David Constantine, Frank O'Connor Prize Winner
- 19 Sep 2013
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.
New start for MA in Creative Writing
- 17 Sep 2013
Students on the first MA in Creative Writing in the School of English met today.
Bernard O'Donoghue's 'Freyfaxi' featured in TLS
- 12 Sep 2013
Bernard O'Donoghue's poem 'Freyfaxi', from his collection Farmers Cross (2011) is featured in the current edition of the Times Literary Supplement.
Writer in Residence and Writer Fellow Announced
- 10 Sep 2013
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.
School of English co-sponsors Cork International Short Story Award
- 27 Aug 2013
The prestigious Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award has received substantial support from the School of English, UCC.
New Digital Poetry Published by New Binary Press
- 25 Aug 2013
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.
DUETS: Knowledge Exchange for Cork's Creative Economy
- 12 Aug 2013
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.
Fulbright Scholar Niamh O'Mahony returns to Cork
- 30 Jul 2013
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.
Dr Tom Birkett is joining the crew of The Sea Stallion
- 29 Jul 2013
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.
Doctoral student leads Bloomsday celebrations in Kenmare
- 18 Jun 2013
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.
New Viking Studies Website 25.04.13
A group of intrepid PhDs - led by early-career researchers and senior academics from across the UK and Ireland - have spent the week of 14-20 April in the Orkney Islands on a programme of heritage training in the field of Old Norse-Viking studies. This AHRC-funded project is culminating in a travelling museum exhibition and a website dedicated to Orkney's colourful Viking past, which will be launched at the Midlands Viking Symposium in Nottingham this weekend. The website is designed by Tom Birkett of the School of English, and includes lots of information on the Viking heritage of the Islands: www.orkneyproject.org
Applications now open for PhD studentships
- 11 Jun 2013
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.