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School of English and Digital Humanities Welcome Event
07 Oct 2019
The School of English and Digital Humanities Welcome Event took place last Thursday, October 3rd.
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The School of English 2019/20 reading series
01 Oct 2019
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.
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Fiction Workshop with Writer in Residence Danny Denton
27 Sep 2019
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.
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Transition Year Programme in the Arts and Humanities
16 Sep 2019
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.
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School of English Research Seminar Series 2019
12 Sep 2019
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
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John Banville to Become Visiting Professor of Creative Writing
23 Aug 2019
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.
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Prof Lee Jenkins to Speak at Wallace Stevens Conference
16 Aug 2019
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.
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New Book From School of English Graduate Dan O'Brien
07 Aug 2019
School of English graduate Dan O'Brien has published a new book with Syracuse University Press.
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Rose Keating named as recipient of the 2019 Eoin Murray Memorial Scholarship in Creative Writing
02 Apr 2019
Rose is a Third Year BA International (English) student
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Dr Maureen O'Connor awarded an IRC New Foundations Creative Connections Grant
01 Apr 2019
Dr O'Connor will be working with Dr Benjamin Gearey of Archaeology
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Launch of Exhibition Ireland and the English Lake Poets by IRC Postdoctoral Fellow
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Dr Brandon C. Yen has collaborated with TCD on this important exhibition in the Long Room of the Old Library at Trinity College Dublin
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Congratulations to Dr Joanna Hofer-Robinson on the publication of 'Sensation Drama, 1860–1880: An Anthology'
04 Jun 2019
A new anthology of late nineteenth-century sensation drama published by Edinburgh University Press
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Joint project seeks to unlock the cultural potential of Irish and Welsh ports
14 Jun 2019
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.
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International Undergraduate Awards and School of English Undergraduate Awards: Submitting your Essay
01 May 2019This 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.
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Zadie Smith and Nick Laird to read in UCC
05 Feb 2015
Monday February 16. 6 PM, Boole 4
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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.
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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.
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Applications are now being sought for the position of Writer in Residence at UCC 2018/2019
07 Mar 2018
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.
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Applications invited for UCC Writer in Residence and Film Artist in Residence
06 Apr 2017
The Closing date for applications is 01 May 2017
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Applications are invited from writers of distinction for the role of Writer in Residence at UCC
11 Mar 2019
Deadline for applications is 03 May 2019
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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.
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School's World-Tree Project Launches its Public Collection Call
22 Apr 2016
UCC ‘world first’ to discover the impact of the Vikings
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Women Writers Remember the Rising
01 Mar 2016
Women and the Rising (1): Creative Zone, Boole Library, March 3, 6.30pm
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Reading from three of Ireland's leading female crime writers
07 Nov 2017
Tuesday, November 14, 7pm in West Wing 6
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Gender and the Rising
09 Mar 2016
Creative Zone, Boole Library, on March 15 @ 6pm
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Celebrated Cork writer and UCC doctoral candidate William Wall the first European to win Drue Heinz Literary Prize
24 Oct 2017
Prestigious prize awarded by the University of Pittsburgh Press for short-story collection The Islands
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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.
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Undergraduate Achievements Recognised at School of English Welcome Event
29 Sep 2017
Certificates awarded for the best undergraduate work in 2016/17
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Vona Groarke: Public Reading
07 Nov 2014
November 13th, 6-8 PM. W5, West Wing, UCC Quad
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School of English Welcome Event
17 Sep 2015
Wednesday 23 September, 5pm, Aula Maxima
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Research Team Investigating Viking Heritage in Munster
30 Apr 2014
Researchers meet with heritage experts and tourism representatives
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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
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New edited collection features essays from three School of English Staff
25 Oct 2017
The Vibrant House: Irish Writing and Domestic Space is published by Four Courts Press
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RTE Radio One ARENA Show dedicated to collection The Vibrant House and featuring the School's Dr Adam Hanna
06 Dec 2017
Thursday 7 December, 7-8 pm, RTE One
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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
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The International Undergraduate Awards is Now Open (updated information)
04 May 2018
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 2nd and 3rd 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.
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Undergraduate Awards
31 Jan 2019
Submissions for the international Undergraduate Awards are now open.
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Student Success in International Undergraduate Awards
14 Sep 2017
Three School of English students have been highly commended for the Undergraduate Awards
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Dr Maureen O’Connor has received an Irish Research Council Ulysses 2018 Grant
07 Feb 2019
Dr O’Connor will be working with academics in the University of Lille.
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Yes But Are We Enemies: English and Irish Poets Having Words
09 Sep 2014
UCC researchers and students participate in poetry collaboration
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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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Reading from John Montague International Poetry Fellow, Brian Turner, and UCC Writer-in-Residence, Thomas Morris
03 Apr 2018
Tuesday, April 10, 6.30pm, West Wing 9
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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.
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Publication of a major new volume on the translation of medieval literature
18 Sep 2017
Translating Early Medieval Poetry: Transformation, Reception, Interpretation is edited by the School's Dr Tom Birkett and Dr Kirsty March-Lyons
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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
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Launch of 'The Elysian: Creative Responses' and Graham Allen's 'Holes Decade 1'
08 Dec 2017
The Granary Theatre, Friday, December 8, at 8pm. (Doors open 7.30pm).
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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.
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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
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Registration open for TOEBI 2017 at UCC
19 Sep 2017
The Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland Conference will be held on 21 October 2017
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Noted literary critic Sir Christopher Ricks to Lecture at UCC
14 Mar 2016
March 21, Creative Zone, UCC Boole Library, 6pm
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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
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The second reading in UCC’s 2017/18 School of English series features award-winning Canadian novelist and poet Jane Urquhart.
25 Jan 2018
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.
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Review of 'The Pleasures of Queueing' by former MA student
19 Oct 2018
Novel by School of English alumnus Erik Martiny reviewed by another former MA student, Josephine Fenton
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The Melodramatic Imagination Revisited - Lecture
16 Jan 2014
Professor James Chandler, University of Chicago.
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Textualities Conference 2014
20 Mar 2014
School of English MA Students present their work
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School of English Textualities Conference 2015
17 Feb 2015
27 February, North Wing Council Room
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Reading of Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great
18 Feb 2014
Monday 24 February 2-4 PM
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Textualities 2016 Conference in the School of English
04 Mar 2016
Friday 04 March, Western Gateway Building 402, 9:30 - 16:30
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Launch of Anthology of New Writing
27 Nov 2014
Collection features work by graduates of UCC's MA in Creative Writing
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The School's Dr Tom Birkett talks about the Norse gods on Newstalk's 'Talking History'
01 Oct 2018
Radio Programme Dedicated to Norse Mythology and its Legacy
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Awards to doctoral researchers from UCC's Strategic Research Fund
29 Sep 2014
Congratulations to Laura McKenna and Eoin O'Callaghan
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New Anthology of Creative Writing
01 Oct 2014
Surge features work by UCC students and staff on the MA in Creative Writing
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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.
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Awards from UCC Strategic Research Fund
17 Sep 2014
Creative projects and technology research win support
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Public Talk in the Elizabeth Fort: Edmund Spenser on the Munster Plantation
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Elizabeth Fort, Friday 28 August, 7:30-8:30pm
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Public Lecture and Book Launch
30 Apr 2014
The School of English celebrated the launch of Staged Transgressions in Shakespeare's England
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School Events for Shakespeare 400
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Dr Edel Semple and Dr Ger Fitzgibbon both to deliver public lectures
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Fantastic Line-Up for the Cork International Short Story Festival 2017
22 Aug 2017
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
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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'
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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.
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School of English Research Seminar Programme (Semester 1)
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Wednesdays, 3-4pm, O'Rahilly Building 2.12
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School of English PhD Scholarships 2014
08 May 2014
Closing date for applications 1 July 2014
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Heather Laird to be interviewed on Talking History
18 Jun 2019
Heather Laird from the School of English will be speaking on Talking History (Newstalk) on Sunday 23rd 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.
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Scholarships for Taught MAs
03 Mar 2015
CACSSS Excellence Scholarships available for study in 2015-16
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School of English Research Seminar Programme (Semester 2)
09 Jan 2018
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.
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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
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Congratulations to Dr Sarah Hayden on the publication of her new book on transnational modernist writer Mina Loy, just out with University of New Mexico Press in its flagship ‘Recencies’ series.
28 May 2018
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RTÉ Radio One / Short Form Drama
23 May 2014
Spinstren by Jools Gilson
Sunday 25th May at 8pm
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Featuring Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle and Rooney Prize winner E. M. Reapy.
23 Feb 2018
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.
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Robin Robertson, poet and publisher, to read at UCC
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Thursday April 9, 6pm, Boole Library Learning Zone
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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
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Research Seminar 11 February 2015
20 Jan 2015
Michael Schmidt, ‘Publishing Irish Writing’
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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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School Delighted to Host a Discussion with Irish Film Composer Stephen Rennicks
12 Nov 2015
Tuesday 17 November, 5.15pm, Windle Auditorium
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A Season of Readings
08 Jan 2015
Collaboration between School of English, Munster Literature Centre and UCC Library
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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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Rediscovering the Vikings Conference
03 Oct 2016
BlackstoneLaunchPad, Boole Library, 25-26 November 2016
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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.
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UCC’s 2018/19 School of English reading series kicks off on Tuesday, October 9, with one of Ireland’s leading novelists, John Banville.
30 Sep 2018
October 9, West Wing 6 @ 7pm
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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.
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The final event in this year's School of English Reading Series takes place on Tuesday, April 17, and will feature Pen/Faulkner prize-winning author Joseph O'Neill and poet Leanne O'Sullivan, who is a valued member of UCC's creative writing faculty.
13 Apr 2018
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.
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School of English Reading Series, featuring Liz Quirke, Paul Casey and Elaine Feeney
05 Feb 2019
Monday 11 Feb., 18:30, West Wing 9 (UCC)
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Reading and Reception for UCC Writer in Residence Michael West
23 Nov 2015
Tuesday, December 1, West Wing 5, at 6pm
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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.]
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The next School of English reading will feature novelist Paul Lynch and 2018 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Fellow, Carys Davies.
13 Nov 2018
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Launch of new-look Quarryman literary magazine
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Triskel Arts Centre, Saturday, April 25, 9pm.
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Author and Activist Winnie M. Li to visit UCC 15th March 2018
15 Mar 2018
George Mitchell Scholar returns for a reading and discussion of her book, Dark Chapter
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QS World University Rankings 2012.
The School of English in UCC has recently moved up several places to be ranked among the top 150 Universities for English in the QS World University Rankings 2012.
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Shortlisting for PhD creative writing candidate
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Niamh Prior shortlisted for the Dermot Healy International Poetry Competition
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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
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Poetry Reading and Launch
15 Oct 2014
Tuesday 28 October 2014
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Graham Allen features in the new Poetry Ireland Review no 118 Edited by Vona Groarke, entitled The Rising Generation.
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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.
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School of English PhD Studentship 2017-2018
27 Jun 2017
Closing date for receipt of applications: 10th August 2017
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PhD Studentship/Research Assistant Position in Post-1900/Contemporary American Literature
23 Oct 2015
Closing date: 30th November 2015
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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
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School of English, UCC PhD Studentship 2018-2019
13 Apr 2018
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
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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.
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PhD Researchers conferred with CACSSS Scholarships
20 Nov 2018
Three PhD Researchers in the School of English were awarded Excellence Scholarships
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New PhD Programme
13 May 2014
The School of English welcomes applications for a PhD in Creative Writing.
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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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Trans-Disciplinary Conversations on Peatlands
26 Jun 2017
Saturday 8th July,9:30-6:30, Room 255 in the O’Rahilly Building, UCC
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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
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Research Seminar, 18 February 2015
20 Jan 2015
Donald E. Pease, ‘Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland’
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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’
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Fulbright Award for Professor Emerita Patricia Coughlan
17 Feb 2014
Comparative research project on Irish and Irish-American women’s writing
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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).
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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 CorkFriday May 16th 2014Read more -
Paranoia in the Americas: American Anxieties in a Transnational Context
18 May 2018University 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.
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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
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New Approaches to Ossian
02 Sep 2015
4 September 2015
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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
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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.
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Fixed-Term Lectureship in Old English
30 Oct 2015
Fixed Term Part-time (40%) Appointment of 12 Months Duration (IRC New Horizons funded post)
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Old Norse Postdoctoral Position in the School of English
12 Nov 2015
Deadline 23rd November 2015
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Doctoral student awarded Bibliographic Society Grant
10 Dec 2013
Doctoral student Meadhbh O'Halloran has been awarded a grant by the UK Bibliographic Society.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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Congratulations to our lecturer in Old English on the publication of 'Norse Myths'
29 Nov 2018
Retelling of the Norse myths and legends published by Quercus
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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.
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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.
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The Munster Literature Centre's Cork City International Writer Fellowships
23 May 2017
John Montague International Poetry Fellowship Announced
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Writing by degrees
04 Mar 2015
Irish Times article from Creative Writing Lecturer, Mary Morrissy
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Moore Institute Fellowship
05 Oct 2015
Research on Eighteenth-Century Women’s Writing
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'MEAS: Measuring Equality in the Arts Sector' Organisation Established by School Researchers
16 Nov 2018
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.
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UCC Staff and Students visit Maryland
28 Oct 2014
Visit to the birthplace of Frederick Douglass as part of the Transatlantic Studies Graduate Module
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Poet and Biographer Matthew Hollis to Read at UCC
04 Mar 2015
Tuesday, March 10, 6pm in the Learning Zone, UCC Library
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The School's Dr Maureen O'Connor has guest-edited the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies
08 Mar 2018
Dr Maureen O'Connor has guest-edited, with Dr Derek Gladwin, of the University of British Columbia,
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Giving Shape to the Moment: The Art of Mary O'Donnell: Poet, Novelist and Short Story Writer is a new book addressing the work of School of English Creative Writing doctoral candidate, Mary O’Donnell.
08 Jun 2018
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.
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Byron and John Murray: A Poet and his Publisher
05 Feb 2015
New book by NUI Postdoctoral Fellow Mary O'Connell
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Mark O‘Halloran appointed as UCC Film Artist in Residence
07 Jun 2017
Award winning actor and screenwriter to join us from September
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Call for Papers: Maritime Spaces, Shows, and the Nineteenth-Century City
12 Nov 2018
Friday 12 April 2019 | University College Cork
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Celebration of Three Recent Publications
25 Feb 2015
Thursday 12th March @ 5.30pm
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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
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Poetry Reading, Monday 27th February 6pm in West Wing 5
22 Feb 2017
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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.
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Applications for MAs Now Open
06 Feb 2014
Scholarships available for study in 2014-15
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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.
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Lorna Goodison becomes Jamaican Poet Laureate
22 Mar 2017
Goodison to be invested as the first female Poet Laureate of Jamaica in May
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Literature and History - Lecture
04 Feb 2014
Professor Michael Bell
University of Warwick
Tuesday 11th February, 1pm, WGB G05
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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.
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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.
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Lionel Shriver to read at UCC
07 Mar 2017
Tuesday, March 14, 7 pm in the Creative Zone, Boole Library
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Vacancy for a Lecturer in Irish Literature in the School of English
27 Feb 2017
Closing Date for Applications: 30 Mar 2017
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Lecturer in Creative Writing, Leanne O'Sullivan, invited to speak at the First Symposium on Medical Humanities at the University of Oviedo
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Leanne will speak on 'Poetry of Pain and Care'
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The School's Leanne O'Sullivan has been named as one of six poets on this year’s shortlist for the Irish Times Poetry Now award, for her collection 'A Quarter of an Hour'.
04 Feb 2019
Leanne was shortlisted for her 2018 collection 'A Quarter of an Hour'.
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Launch of 'Atlantic Crossings in the Wake of Frederick Douglass'
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Tuesday 25 April at 5pm, Social Area, School of English, O’Rahilly Building
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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 'Translating Early Medieval Poetry: Transformation, Reception, Interpretation'
26 Jun 2018
Collection to be launched at the 32nd Irish Conference of Medievalists at UCC
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Call for Papers for 'Law and Literature: The Irish Case'
06 Dec 2018
One-day symposium organised by the School's Dr Adam Hanna and Prof Eugene McNulty (DCU)
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News and Events
School of English and Digital Humanities Welcome Event
The School of English and Digital Humanities Welcome Event took place last Thursday, October 3rd.
The School of English 2019/20 reading series
Fiction Workshop with Writer in Residence Danny Denton
Transition Year Programme in the Arts and Humanities
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The Knitting Map: Art, community and controversy 2005 - 2015
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Glucksman Gallery, Cork, 2 April - 5 July 2015
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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
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New Radio 4 Creative Documentary
24 Mar 2014
Jools Gilson's Chrysanthemum to air April 8th.
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Author Kevin Barry to visit UCC
03 Oct 2014
16th October, 6-8pm. Room W5, West Wing, UCC
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Launch of Autonomy, Edited by Kathy D'Arcy
09 Mar 2018
Thursday 19 April 2018, 5:00pm, O'Rahilly Building, School of English Social Area
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BA in English Student wins Sports Journalism Prize
08 Oct 2018
Jordan Norris named Vodafone X Irish University Sports Journalist Of The Year 2018
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Performing Shakespeare: Show and Post-Show Discussion
10 Oct 2014
James DeVita appearing at the Everyman 13th and 14th October
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World-leading humanities scholar, Professor Jerome McGann, to lecture at UCC
12 May 2015
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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.
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Article on 'Reinventing Dickens for Christmas' by Dr Joanna Robinson features on RTÉ Brainstorm
18 Dec 2017
The School's Lecturer in Victorian Literature offers a wonderful Christmas-themed long-read
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Irish Caribbean Connections: An Interdisciplinary Conference
13 Jul 2016
University College Cork, 22-23 July, 2016
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University College Cork, 22-23 July, 2016
21 Jul 2016
(supported by the UCC Strategic Research Fund)
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Talks on Irish Writers and Italy at UCC
31 Jan 2019
All lectures are in the Creative Zone at UCC Library
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Professor Lauren Arrington to talk on W.B. Yeats as part of the 'Irish in Italy' Exhibition, in an event co-organised by staff in the Department of Italian and the School of English
11 Mar 2019
6pm on Monday 11 March in the UCC Library Creative Zone
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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.
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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.
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IRC Success for Researchers in the School of English
05 Oct 2015
Researchers awarded funding in the IRC Postgraduate and Postdoctoral schemes
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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
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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.
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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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School's Research Project Selected for IRC's Light-Show Celebrating Irish Research
14 Nov 2017
Dr Birkett's question on 'Crowdsourcing the Vikings' one of six to feature in this week-long installation
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Celebrating 15 Years of the IRC
07 Dec 2017
Event and Awards Ceremony to mark the IRC's 15th Birthday
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Irish Assocation for American Studies Lecture
24 Feb 2014
Friday 14 March 5 PM
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Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowships
03 Apr 2014
Fellowships awarded to Dr Katie Garner and Dr Eibhear Walshe
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Panel Discussion on Writing Historical Fiction
03 Jun 2015
Friday 12 June
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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)
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Student-Organised Symposium 'Inkwell' Hosts its Inaugural Seminar
12 Mar 2016
Saturday 12 March, 12-4:30pm, North Wing Council Chambers
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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
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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
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Commemoration by Dr Heather Laird Published by Cork University Press
07 Mar 2018
In a recently-published book, Heather Laird from the School of English at University College Cork re-imagines commemoration.
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Heather Laird to take part in Q+A at Cork Opera House
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Event will follow a special preview screening of RTE and UCC’s documentary The Irish Revolution.
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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.
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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
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DUETS Great Book of Ireland award
24 Mar 2014
Collaboration between the School of English and the Munster Literature Centre
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Award-Winning Writer Hattie Naylor to visit UCC
17 Feb 2015
Writing for Radio: Two days of events and workshops
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Graham Allen’s Poetry Collection Praised for Emphasising the Value of Reading
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Review of Graham Allen’s The One That Got Away in Tailwinds
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The Munster Literature Centre announces Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition
27 Sep 2017
Submissions are now open until November 30, 2017
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Government of Ireland International MA Scholarships
07 Apr 2014
Scholarships available for students from Brazil and India
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School Involvement in Global Commemorations for Shakespeare 400
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Dr Edel Semple will be delivering a lecture in Belfast and convening a seminar in Stratford
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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
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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
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Graduate Masterclass: Environments of Knowledge
21 Sep 2017
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Contemporary American Trauma Narratives
28 Jul 2014
Alan Gibbs’s Contemporary American Trauma Narratives published June 2014.
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Poetry Award Nomination for Prof Graham Allen
04 Feb 2015
The One that Got Away nominated for the Shine/Strong Award
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Gerard Stembridge appointed as Film Artist in Residence at UCC
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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.
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Cinematheque Francaise devoting a day to the work of film maker Gael Lepingle
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The three releases have all been translated into English by our own Dr Anne Etienne
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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
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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
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Fulbright awards for School of English
29 Apr 2015
MA programmes in Creative Writing and Irish Writing and Film granted Fullbright awards
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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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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.
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School of English, UCC, Celebrates 200 Years of Frankenstein
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Frankenreads will take place at UCC between 30 October and 02 November
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Cork City Council bursary for novel on Handel
07 May 2014
Artist's Bursary awarded to Dr Eibhear Walshe
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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
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Theatre Festival
05 Mar 2015
Spring edition of West Cork Fit-Up Festival opens
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School event to mark the anniversary of the death of Frank O’Connor
03 Mar 2016
10:30am-7pm, Thursday 10th March 2016
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Film & Screen Media's Third International Alphaville Conference
12 May 2017
Thursday 18 May and Friday 19 May, the O'Rahilly Building, UCC
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Early Modern Military Identity: A One-Day Symposium in the School of English
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PhD Researcher’s Work Included in New Volume of Essays
02 Sep 2015
Engendering Ireland: New Reflections on Modern History and Literature
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Staged reading of the 1916 play, The Death of Fionavar, by Eva Gore-Booth
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Monday, 2 November, 6-8pm at the Cork City Gaol
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English and Digital Humanities Welcome Event 2018
05 Oct 2018
The School marks the start of a new academic year with book launches, undergraduate awards, and readings
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The Eoin Murray Memorial Scholarship
06 Nov 2018
Applications invited for creative writing scholarship in memory of the late Eoin Murray
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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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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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Eibhear Walshe and Fintan O’Toole write about Mary Lavin in the Irish Times
15 Jun 2015
The Becker Wives, by Mary Lavin
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Eimear McBride to read at UCC
22 Jan 2016
Thursday, January 28, 6pm, Room G15 , Boole Library
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Ellen Desmond, who majored in English at UCC, featured as Alumnus of the Week
02 Oct 2017
Ellen graduated in 2016, and has now launched her own publishing venture
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Colleague Eibhear Walshe to give a lecture on Wilde and Ireland as part of the 'Irish Tuesdays' at the Sorbonne
11 Oct 2017
17 October, 17h30 at Maison de la Recherche, 6 rue des Irlandais, Paris
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A Celebration of Irish Literature
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Dr Éibhear Walshe reading at St Mary's University
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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
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100 Artworks: Celebrating Elizabeth Bowen
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Dr Eibhear Walshe's co-written essay on Elizabeth Bowen features in 'The Irish Times'
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Dr Eibhear Walshe to talk at Bloomsday in Buenos Aires
10 Jun 2015
Saturday, 13 June, 5pm, National Library of Argentina in Buenos Aires
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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
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Congratulations to Dr Eibhear Walshe, on the launch of 'The Trumpet Shall Sound'
27 Feb 2019
Eibhear's latest novel was launched in the School of English by Professor Lee Jenkins
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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.
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Ecocriticism Conference Featured on Lyric FM
17 Jul 2014
Luke Clancy interviews three conference delegates for his show, ‘Culture File’.
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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)
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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"
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Funding awarded for a three year literary Project,“Inconvenient Truths: Cultural Practices of Silence in Contemporary Irish Fiction”
15 Feb 2018
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).
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Congratulations to Dr Edel Semple on the publication of 'Staged Normality in Shakespeare's England'
30 Jan 2019
Edited collection on normality in early modern drama published by Palgrave
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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.
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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.
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DUETS Award for Project in the School of English
28 Apr 2015
The School's Dr Anne Etienne receives one of two DUETS Awards
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Researcher success in the 2015 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition
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Dr Donna Alexander awarded a publishing contract as the runner up in the Women's Studies category
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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.
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Douglass Day Transcribe-A-Thon
01 Feb 2018
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/
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Congratulations to Dr Laura Lovejoy on being awarded one of the inaugural Fulbright-NUI awards
14 Jun 2018
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.
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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.
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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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Bright Star, Elegy for David Bowie, by Graham Allen
25 Jan 2016
Published in the Bogman's Cannon, 23rd January
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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
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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.
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Monograph published by Dr Declan Taggart, IRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of English
07 Dec 2017
'How Thor Lost His Thunder: The Changing Faces of an Old Norse God' is published by Routledge.
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Monograph published by the School's Joanna Hofer-Robinson
21 Aug 2018Dickens 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
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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.
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Success for School of English PhD student
20 May 2014
Dan O’Brien to take up scholarship in September 2014.
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Friday 19th September is Culture Night on Campus
09 Sep 2014
Join the School of English in the Council Room for 'Ten-Minute Tales'
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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
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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.
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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.
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Literary Reading organised by the School of English for Culture Night 2017
29 Aug 2017
Friday 22nd September, 5:30 pm in W6, Main Quad UCC
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A Feast of Fiction for Culture Night
17 Sep 2018
Friday 21 September, West Wing 5, 5pm
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School of English wins awards for Creative Practice projects
24 Jul 2014
Two awards received from the College of Arts Creative Practice Fund
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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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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
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Conal Creedon and Graham Allen Reading for 'Books Are My Bag'
04 Oct 2017
Saturday 7 October, 2:30-4:30pm, Waterstones (Patrick Street, Cork)
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Dr Clíona Ó Gallchoir is the 2018 O’Brien Visiting Fellow at Concordia University
23 Aug 2018
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.
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Postdoctoral researcher, Dr Donna Alexander, invited to speak at the Global Undergraduate Summit
20 Nov 2018
Dr Alexander's paper was titled, "Information Environmentalism and Higher Education."
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Dr Maureen O'Connor contributing to this year’s Dublin One City One Book programme
27 Feb 2019
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.
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CORK INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL 2019
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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.
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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
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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
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Reading by Arts Council/UCC Writer in Residence Cónal Creedon
28 Nov 2016
Thursday 1st December at 6pm in Kane G19
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Conal Creedon, UCC Writer-in-Residence 2016-17, has been appointed as Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing in the School of English
14 Jul 2017
Critically acclaimed novelist, playwright and documentary maker will continue his close association with the School
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Dr Clíona Ó Gallchoir took part in K-Fest in Killorglin, 2 June 2018
14 Jun 2018
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.
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'Commemoration' by the School's Dr Heather Laird receives rave review
21 Aug 2018
Dr Laird's book was reviewed earlier this month in 'The Irish Catholic'.
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Marking the Publication of 'A History of Modern Irish Women’s Literature'
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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)
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Prof. Claire Connolly to deliver the Charles Stewart Parnell lecture 2019
05 Feb 2019
Sir Humphrey Cripps Theatre, Cripps Court, Magdalene College at 5.15pm on Monday 25 February 2019
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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.
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Carmel Winters appointed Film Artist in Residence at UCC
11 Sep 2014
Role jointly funded by UCC and the Arts Council
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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
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Screening of Carmel Winters' Snap and Q&A
02 Mar 2015
March 19th @5pm
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Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society Annual Conference
21 May 2015
12-14 June 2015
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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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Call for Papers for 'Irish Caribbean Connections'
08 Dec 2015
An interdisciplinary conference to be held at UCC on 22-23rd July 2016
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UCC’s Claire Connolly to give Scottish Literature International Lecture
13 Nov 2017
Thu, December 7, 2017 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM, Scottish Parliament Building, Edinburgh
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Special issue of 'Caribbean Quarterly'
19 Dec 2018
Volume guest edited by the School's Prof. Lee Jenkins and Dr Melanie Otto (TCD)
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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.
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Fulbright Fellow in Creative Writing
27 Mar 2014
Professor Brendan Mathews to visit the School of English for the autumn semester.
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Public Reading by Billy Ramsell
18 Nov 2014
4th December, 6 PM, Boole 1.
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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
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Jennifer Boylan writes for RTE ahead of speaking at the School of English Research Seminar
26 Sep 2017
Author will talk on the topic of 'Gender and Resistance' on Wednesday 4th October, 3pm, in ORB 2.12
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Launch of Perspectives on Contemporary Irish Theatre: Populating the Stage
30 Nov 2017
Thursday 30 November 2017, 5.30 pm, O’Rahilly Building, School of English Social Area
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Biopolitical Modernism Symposium at UCC
24 Jan 2018
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.
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Congratulations to MA creative writing student Breda Joyce.
25 Apr 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.
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Monograph Published by IRC Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Brandon C. Yen
20 Nov 2018
The Excursion and Wordsworth's Iconography is published by Liverpool University Press
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Dr Maureen O'Connor named as a guest lecturer at this year’s Vienna Irish Studies Summer School
20 Mar 2019
This year’s theme is "Bull Island: The Nonhuman Turn in Irish Studies"
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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.
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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.
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Arts Council Bursary
24 Mar 2014
Dr Eibhear Walshe has been awarded a Literature Bursary of €4000
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New Issue of Alphaville now online.
28 Jul 2014
The theme of the issue is "Corporeal Cinema."
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Arts Council of Ireland Project Award 2014
02 Feb 2015
Interdisciplinary Collaboration with Environmental Research Institute
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Guest Lecture on Joyce's Dubliners
25 Feb 2015
16 March 2015, 2 pm
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Irish novelist Eoin McNamee will open the School's Autumn Reading Series
28 Sep 2015
Thursday October 8, 6pm, Boole Library Learning Zone
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AWARDS FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ASSIGNMENTS
19 Feb 2016
Calls for submissions to the School of English and International Undergraduate Awards
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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.
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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.
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AWARDS FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ASSIGNMENTS
02 May 2017
Calls for submissions to the School of English and International Undergraduate Awards
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Collection edited by the School's Dr Anne Etienne published by Palgrave
31 Oct 2017
Perspectives on Contemporary Irish Theatre: Populating the Stage explores the development of Irish theatre from the early 1990s to the present day
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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.
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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.
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School to Mark 1916 Rising with a Series of Commemoration Events
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Gaol reading on November 2 will be the first of several events relating to the Rising
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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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Fired! reading in Ó Bhéal
18 Jan 2018
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)
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Dr Adam Hanna recently visited three universities in China
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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).
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Dr Adam Hanna gave the keynote lecture at 'Irish Spaces: The Second North American Graduate Conference in Irish Studies' at Concordia University, Montréal, on 3 March
14 Mar 2018
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.
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"Writing Parents" featuring novelist and memoirist Carlo Gebler and biographer Sally Phipps in conversation with Dr Eibhear Walshe.
14 Mar 2018
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.
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Ali Bracken Ziad wins the inaugural Eoin Murray Scholarship.
16 May 2018
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.
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Article on the poetry of BA in English graduand Ali Bracken Ziad
22 Aug 2018
The article, 'Son of a soldier battling with expression', features in today's Irish Examiner.
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A Journey Called Home. UCC launch of book showcasing writing from multicultural Cork.
31 Jan 2019
Tuesday 5 February, 6:30pm, O'Rahilly Building (First Floor)
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