Paranoia in the Americas: American Anxieties in a Transnational Context

18 May

University 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.

Ali Bracken Ziad wins the inaugural Eoin Murray Scholarship.

16 May

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. 

The International Undergraduate Awards is Now Open (updated information)

04 May

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 2^nd and 3^rd 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.

Congratulations to MA creative writing student Breda Joyce.

25 Apr

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.

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

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. 

School of English, UCC PhD Studentship 2018-2019

13 Apr

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

Reading from John Montague International Poetry Fellow, Brian Turner, and UCC Writer-in-Residence, Thomas Morris

03 Apr

Tuesday, April 10, 6.30pm, West Wing 9

"Writing Parents" featuring novelist and memoirist Carlo Gebler and biographer Sally Phipps in conversation with Dr Eibhear Walshe.

14 Mar

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.

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

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. 

Launch of Autonomy, Edited by Kathy D'Arcy

09 Mar

Thursday 19 April 2018, 5:00pm, O'Rahilly Building, School of English Social Area

Dr Adam Hanna recently visited three universities in China

08 Mar

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).

The School's Dr Maureen O'Connor has guest-edited the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies

08 Mar

Dr Maureen O'Connor has guest-edited, with Dr Derek Gladwin, of the University of British Columbia,

Commemoration by Dr Heather Laird Published by Cork University Press

07 Mar

In a recently-published book, Heather Laird from the School of English at University College Cork re-imagines commemoration.

Applications are now being sought for the position of Writer in Residence at UCC 2018/2019

07 Mar

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.

Author and Activist Winnie M. Li to visit UCC 15th March 2018

15 Mar

George Mitchell Scholar returns for a reading and discussion of her book, Dark Chapter

Featuring Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle and Rooney Prize winner E. M. Reapy.

23 Feb

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.

Funding awarded for a three year literary Project,“Inconvenient Truths: Cultural Practices of Silence in Contemporary Irish Fiction”

15 Feb

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).

Douglass Day Transcribe-A-Thon

01 Feb

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/

The second reading in UCC’s 2017/18 School of English series features award-winning Canadian novelist and poet Jane Urquhart.

25 Jan

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.   

Biopolitical Modernism Symposium at UCC

24 Jan

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. 

Fired! reading in Ó Bhéal

18 Jan

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)

School of English Research Seminar Programme (Semester 2)

09 Jan

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.

Article on 'Reinventing Dickens for Christmas' by Dr Joanna Robinson features on RTÉ Brainstorm

18 Dec

The School's Lecturer in Victorian Literature offers a wonderful Christmas-themed long-read

Launch of 'The Elysian: Creative Responses' and Graham Allen's 'Holes Decade 1'

08 Dec

The Granary Theatre, Friday, December 8, at 8pm. (Doors open 7.30pm). 

Monograph published by Dr Declan Taggart, IRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of English

07 Dec

'How Thor Lost His Thunder: The Changing Faces of an Old Norse God' is published by Routledge. 

Celebrating 15 Years of the IRC

07 Dec

Event and Awards Ceremony to mark the IRC's 15th Birthday

RTE Radio One ARENA Show dedicated to collection The Vibrant House and featuring the School's Dr Adam Hanna

06 Dec

Thursday 7 December, 7-8 pm, RTE One

School's Research Project Selected for IRC's Light-Show Celebrating Irish Research

14 Nov

Dr Birkett's question on 'Crowdsourcing the Vikings' one of six to feature in this week-long installation

UCC’s Claire Connolly to give Scottish Literature International Lecture

13 Nov

Thu, December 7, 2017 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM, Scottish Parliament Building, Edinburgh

Reading from three of Ireland's leading female crime writers

07 Nov

Tuesday, November 14, 7pm in West Wing 6

Collection edited by the School's Dr Anne Etienne published by Palgrave

31 Oct

Perspectives on Contemporary Irish Theatre: Populating the Stage explores the development of Irish theatre from the early 1990s to the present day

New edited collection features essays from three School of English Staff

25 Oct

The Vibrant House: Irish Writing and Domestic Space is published by Four Courts Press

Celebrated Cork writer and UCC doctoral candidate William Wall the first European to win Drue Heinz Literary Prize

24 Oct

Prestigious prize awarded by the University of Pittsburgh Press for short-story collection The Islands

Colleague Eibhear Walshe to give a lecture on Wilde and Ireland as part of the 'Irish Tuesdays' at the Sorbonne

11 Oct

17 October, 17h30 at Maison de la Recherche, 6 rue des Irlandais, Paris

Conal Creedon and Graham Allen Reading for 'Books Are My Bag'

04 Oct

Saturday 7 October, 2:30-4:30pm, Waterstones (Patrick Street, Cork)

Ellen Desmond, who majored in English at UCC, featured as Alumnus of the Week

02 Oct

Ellen graduated in 2016, and has now launched her own publishing venture

Undergraduate Achievements Recognised at School of English Welcome Event

29 Sep

Certificates awarded for the best undergraduate work in 2016/17

The Munster Literature Centre announces Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition

27 Sep

Submissions are now open until November 30, 2017

Jennifer Boylan writes for RTE ahead of speaking at the School of English Research Seminar

26 Sep

Author will talk on the topic of 'Gender and Resistance' on Wednesday 4th October, 3pm, in ORB 2.12

Graduate Masterclass: Environments of Knowledge

21 Sep

School of English Research Seminar Programme (Semester 1)

18 Sep

Wednesdays, 3-4pm, O'Rahilly Building 2.12

Registration open for TOEBI 2017 at UCC

19 Sep

The Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland Conference will be held on 21 October 2017

Publication of a major new volume on the translation of medieval literature

18 Sep

Translating Early Medieval Poetry: Transformation, Reception, Interpretation is edited by the School's Dr Tom Birkett and Dr Kirsty March-Lyons

Student Success in International Undergraduate Awards

14 Sep

Three School of English students have been highly commended for the Undergraduate Awards

Literary Reading organised by the School of English for Culture Night 2017

29 Aug

Friday 22nd September, 5:30 pm in W6, Main Quad UCC

Conal Creedon, UCC Writer-in-Residence 2016-17, has been appointed as Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing in the School of English

14 Jul

Critically acclaimed novelist, playwright and documentary maker will continue his close association with the School

Fantastic Line-Up for the Cork International Short Story Festival 2017

22 Aug

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

School of English PhD Studentship 2017-2018

27 Jun

Closing date for receipt of applications: 10th August 2017

Trans-Disciplinary Conversations on Peatlands

26 Jun

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

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

Award winning actor and screenwriter to join us from September

Thomas Morris appointed as UCC's Writer in Residence

30 May

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

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

John Montague International Poetry Fellowship Announced

Dr Heather Laird takes part in ‘A History of the Rebel County’ for Newstalk

16 May

Sunday 14 May, Kingsley Hotel – Talking History, Newstalk - Live from Cork

Kathy D’Arcy Wins International Hippocrates Prize

15 May

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

Thursday 18 May and Friday 19 May, the O'Rahilly Building, UCC

AWARDS FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ASSIGNMENTS

02 May

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

President Patrick O’Shea Launches this Collaborative Collection

Launch of 'Atlantic Crossings in the Wake of Frederick Douglass'

25 Apr

Tuesday 25 April at 5pm, Social Area, School of English, O’Rahilly Building

Monograph by Dr Tom Birkett Published by Routledge

11 Apr

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.

Launch of 'Cornerstone' compiled by UCC Writer in Residence Cónal Creedon

10 Apr

25 April at 18:30–20:00, Cork City Library, Grand Parade

Applications invited for UCC Writer in Residence and Film Artist in Residence

06 Apr

The Closing date for applications is 01 May 2017

Review of 'A History of Modernist Poetry' Ed. Alex Davis & Lee M. Jenkins

05 Apr

Extremely positive assessment of this 'fine book' by Ian Brinton

IRC 'New Foundations' Award for the School's Dr Maureen O’Connor

15 Mar

‘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

Full details of the Travelling Studentships and other NUI Awards can be downloaded here

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Lorna Goodison becomes Jamaican Poet Laureate

22 Mar

Goodison to be invested as the first female Poet Laureate of Jamaica in May

PhD Researchers to Represent the School at Translations Conference

13 Mar

Three of the School's postgraduate researchers to present in Vienna this week

Lionel Shriver to read at UCC

07 Mar

​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

Tuesday 7th March, 6pm, in O'Rahilly Building G27

Vacancy for a Lecturer in Irish Literature in the School of English

27 Feb

Closing Date for Applications: 30 Mar 2017

Poetry Reading, Monday 27th February 6pm in West Wing 5

22 Feb

William Wall has won the 2017 Drue Heinz Literature Prize for his collection, The Islands

02 Feb

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

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

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

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

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

Thursday 1^st December at 6pm in Kane G19

Reading by Arts Council/UCC Writer in Residence Cónal Creedon.

01 Dec

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

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

Staged Reading in the Unitarian Church, Prince's St., Cork. 14th November, at 6pm

Tuesday, November 8, at 6pm

08 Nov

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

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

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

Tuesday 18th October, 6pm, in the Council Room, UCC

Rediscovering the Vikings Conference

03 Oct

BlackstoneLaunchPad, Boole Library, 25-26 November 2016

Reconsidering the Rising: Lecture by Dr Heather Laird

29 Sep

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.

Maureen O’Connor has been invited to deliver a keynote address at Berhampur University, Odisha, India.

29 Sep

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.

Frank O’Connor Fellow to teach on MA in Creative Writing

29 Sep

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.

Seamus Heaney and the Virgilian Tradition

21 Sep

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

Closing date for receipt of applications:  13^th 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

Fulbright Scholarships in Irish Writing and Film and Creative Writing

21 Jul

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 11^th October 2016.

Cónal Creedon is new writer-in-residence

26 Aug

The Cork novelist, playwright and film documentary maker, Cónal Creedon, has been appointed as UCC’s Writer-in-Residence for 2016/17. 

Culture Night 16th September- Shakespeare talk with the School of English and the Boole Library

18 Aug

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

(supported by the UCC Strategic Research Fund)

College Lecturer In Creative Writing 12-Month Part-Time Post

13 Jul

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

University College Cork, 22-23 July, 2016

School Involvement in Global Commemorations for Shakespeare 400

26 Apr

Dr Edel Semple will be delivering a lecture in Belfast and convening a seminar in Stratford

School Events for Shakespeare 400

26 Apr

Dr Edel Semple and Dr Ger Fitzgibbon both to deliver public lectures

School's World-Tree Project Launches its Public Collection Call

22 Apr

UCC ‘world first’ to discover the impact of the Vikings

Graham Allen features in the new Poetry Ireland Review no 118 Edited by Vona Groarke, entitled The Rising Generation.

22 Apr

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 28^th 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

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

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

Congratulations to our colleague Dr. Edel Semple, for her Irish Research Council New Foundations award: "Celebrating Shakespeare 400: Performing Pericles, Prince of Tyre"

Noted literary critic Sir Christopher Ricks to Lecture at UCC

14 Mar

March 21, Creative Zone, UCC Boole Library, 6pm

Student-Organised Symposium 'Inkwell' Hosts its Inaugural Seminar

12 Mar

Saturday 12 March, 12-4:30pm, North Wing Council Chambers

Gender and the Rising

09 Mar

Creative Zone, Boole Library, on March 15 @ 6pm

Andrew King and Matthew Woodcock, eds., Medieval into Renaissance: Essays for Helen Cooper (D.S. Brewer, 2016).

04 Mar

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

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

10:30am-7pm, Thursday 10th March 2016

Women Writers Remember the Rising

01 Mar

Women and the Rising (1): Creative Zone, Boole Library, March 3, 6.30pm 

Evening with acclaimed film director and playwright, Gerard Stembridge

23 Feb

Tuesday 1st March at 18.15h in the Film & Screen Media auditorium in Windle

AWARDS FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ASSIGNMENTS

19 Feb

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

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

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

Published in the Bogman's Cannon, 23rd January 

Eimear McBride to read at UCC

22 Jan

Thursday, January 28, 6pm, Room G15 , Boole Library

Researcher success in the 2015 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition

14 Dec

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

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

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

Tuesday, December 1, West Wing 5, at 6pm

School Delighted to Host a Discussion with Irish Film Composer Stephen Rennicks

12 Nov

Tuesday 17 November, 5.15pm, Windle Auditorium

Old Norse Postdoctoral Position in the School of English

12 Nov

Deadline 23rd November 2015

Fixed-Term Lectureship in Old English

30 Oct

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

Thursday, November 5, at 6pm, in West Wing 9.

School to Mark 1916 Rising with a Series of Commemoration Events

28 Oct

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

Closing date: 30^th November 2015

Staged reading of the 1916 play, The Death of Fionavar, by Eva Gore-Booth

22 Oct

Monday, 2 November, 6-8pm at the Cork City Gaol

Double Success in the IRC 'New Horizons' Scheme

15 Oct

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

Researchers awarded funding in the IRC Postgraduate and Postdoctoral schemes

Moore Institute Fellowship

05 Oct

Research on Eighteenth-Century Women’s Writing

Irish novelist Eoin McNamee will open the School's Autumn Reading Series

28 Sep

Thursday October 8, 6pm, Boole Library Learning Zone

Food Writing Flexi-Option course - October 2015

18 Sep

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.

School of English Welcome Event

17 Sep

Wednesday 23 September, 5pm, Aula Maxima

School of English Hosts ‘Ten-Minute Tales’ for Culture Night

02 Sep

Friday 18 September, 6-8pm, Council Room on the Quad, University College Cork

Cinematheque Francaise devoting a day to the work of film maker Gael Lepingle

10 Sep

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

Wed 16th September, 6 p.m (CACSSS Seminar Room, O’Rahilly Building, UCC)

School of English Students Shortlisted for Prestigious Undergraduate Awards

08 Sep

Cian O'Connor and John Elliott shortlisted in the category 'Literature 1710 – Present’ by a panel of international academics

PhD Researcher’s Work Included in New Volume of Essays

02 Sep

Engendering Ireland: New Reflections on Modern History and Literature

New Approaches to Ossian

02 Sep

4 September 2015

The School Looks Forward to Welcoming New and Returning Students Next Week!

01 Sep

Introductory Lectures will be held in the week of Monday 7^th September

Shortlisting for PhD creative writing candidate

20 Aug

Niamh Prior shortlisted for the Dermot Healy International Poetry Competition

Public Talk in the Elizabeth Fort: Edmund Spenser on the Munster Plantation

18 Aug

Elizabeth Fort, Friday 28 August, 7:30-8:30pm

Early Modern Military Identity: A One-Day Symposium in the School of English

21 Aug

MA Student Wins Irish Association for American Studies (IAAS) Essay Prize

14 Aug

Congratulations to the School's Ciarán Kavanagh, who is to be awarded the 2015 WTM Riches Essay Prize

Gerard Stembridge appointed as Film Artist in Residence at UCC

12 Aug

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

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

Review praises Prof. Lee Jenkins's "important and timely contribution" to Lawrence studies

Graham Allen’s Poetry Collection Praised for Emphasising the Value of Reading

29 Jun

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

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

 Thursday 25^th June, at the Spanish Embassy, Buenos Aires

Eibhear Walshe and Fintan O’Toole write about Mary Lavin in the Irish Times

15 Jun

The Becker Wives, by Mary Lavin

Dr Eibhear Walshe to talk at Bloomsday in Buenos Aires

10 Jun

Saturday, 13 June, 5pm, National Library of Argentina in Buenos Aires

Dr Eibhear Walshe to present at University of San Salvador in Buenos Aires

08 Jun

Thursday 18 June, 18:30-20:30 at the Aula Magna de la Escuela de Lenguas Modernas

PhD Researcher awarded European Commission scholarship to attend CENDARI Summer School

08 Jun

Patricia O Connor will take part in a five-day programme on 'Researching Medieval Culture in a Digital Environment' in Prague

100 Artworks: Celebrating Elizabeth Bowen

08 Jun

Dr Eibhear Walshe's co-written essay on Elizabeth Bowen features in 'The Irish Times'

Panel Discussion on Writing Historical Fiction

03 Jun

Friday 12 June

School of English Participation in Yeats 150

29 May

Prof. Claire Connolly and Prof. Alex Davis invited to lecture at international celebrations of one of Ireland's most famous writers.

Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society Annual Conference

21 May

12-14 June 2015

Dr Edel Semple to deliver plenary lecture at Saint Louis University

13 May

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

Irish Renaissance Seminar hosted by the School of English

07 May

Saturday 16th May 2015, 1:30-4:30pm, CACSSS Seminar Room

The Knitting Map Symposium: Art, community and controversy 2005 – 2015.

30 Apr

Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Thurs 14 May, 10.30am – 6.30pm

DUETS Award for Project in the School of English

28 Apr

The School's Dr Anne Etienne receives one of two DUETS Awards

Fulbright awards for School of English

29 Apr

MA programmes in Creative Writing and Irish Writing and Film granted Fullbright awards

Dr Alan Gibbs wins Peggy O’Brien Book Prize

27 Apr

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

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.

Launch of new-look Quarryman literary magazine

15 Apr

Triskel Arts Centre, Saturday, April 25, 9pm. 

The Knitting Map: Art, community and controversy 2005 - 2015

02 Apr

Glucksman Gallery, Cork, 2 April - 5 July 2015

Dr Orla Murphy to present on institutional capacity building for Digital Humanities

14 Apr

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

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.

Robin Robertson, poet and publisher, to read at UCC

01 Apr

Thursday April 9, 6pm, Boole Library Learning Zone

Celebration of Three Recent Publications

25 Feb

Thursday 12^th March @ 5.30pm

School of English Student named 'Fresher of the Year'

25 Mar

Daisy Pemble awarded the accolade for her work with societies and LGBT rights

Trading Words 2015

24 Mar

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

IRC success for two projects in the School of English

12 Mar

Professor Claire Connolly and Dr Maureen O'Connor have both won awards under the Irish Research Council's 'New Foundations' Scheme.

Oscar the Irish Rebel

23 Mar

Dr Éibhear Walshe will be delivering a lecture at the University of Ottawa this evening

A Celebration of Irish Literature

18 Mar

Dr Éibhear Walshe reading at St Mary's University

Screening of Carmel Winters' Snap and Q&A

02 Mar

March 19th @5pm

New Play by Film Artist in Residence, Carmel Winters

18 Feb

Witness to play at Project Arts Theatre, Dublin and Everyman Theatre in Cork

Theatre Festival

05 Mar

Spring edition of West Cork Fit-Up Festival opens

Poet and Biographer Matthew Hollis to Read at UCC

04 Mar

Tuesday, March 10, 6pm in the Learning Zone, UCC Library

Writing by degrees

04 Mar

Irish Times article from Creative Writing Lecturer, Mary Morrissy

Scholarships for Taught MAs

03 Mar

CACSSS Excellence Scholarships available for study in 2015-16

Guest Lecture on Joyce's Dubliners

25 Feb

16 March 2015, 2 pm

School of English Textualities Conference 2015

17 Feb

27 February, North Wing Council Room

Award-Winning Writer Hattie Naylor to visit UCC

17 Feb

Writing for Radio: Two days of events and workshops 

Arts Council of Ireland Project Award 2014

02 Feb

Interdisciplinary Collaboration with Environmental Research Institute

Byron and John Murray: A Poet and his Publisher

05 Feb

New book by NUI Postdoctoral Fellow Mary O'Connell

Zadie Smith and Nick Laird to read in UCC

05 Feb

Monday February 16. 6 PM, Boole 4

Poetry Award Nomination for Prof Graham Allen

04 Feb

The One that Got Away nominated for the Shine/Strong Award

Research Seminar, 18 February 2015

20 Jan

Donald E. Pease, ‘Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland’

Research Seminar 11 February 2015

20 Jan

Michael Schmidt, ‘Publishing Irish Writing’

A Season of Readings

08 Jan

Collaboration between School of English, Munster Literature Centre and UCC Library

Launch of Anthology of New Writing

27 Nov

Collection features work by graduates of UCC's MA in Creative Writing

NUI Postdoctoral Fellowship Success

18 Nov

UCC's Dr Mary O'Connell and Dr Colin Lahive are the recipients of this year's NUI Postdoctoral Fellowships

Public Reading by Billy Ramsell

18 Nov

4th December, 6 PM, Boole 1.

Vona Groarke: Public Reading

07 Nov

November 13th, 6-8 PM. W5, West Wing, UCC Quad

UCC Staff and Students visit Maryland

28 Oct

Visit to the birthplace of Frederick Douglass as part of the Transatlantic Studies Graduate Module

Poetry Reading and Launch

15 Oct

Tuesday 28 October 2014

Performing Shakespeare: Show and Post-Show Discussion

10 Oct

James DeVita appearing at the Everyman 13th and 14th October

Author Kevin Barry to visit UCC

03 Oct

16th October, 6-8pm. Room W5, West Wing, UCC

New Anthology of Creative Writing

01 Oct

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

Congratulations to Laura McKenna and Eoin O'Callaghan

Awards from UCC Strategic Research Fund

17 Sep

Creative projects and technology research win support

Friday 19th September is Culture Night on Campus

09 Sep

Join the School of English in the Council Room for 'Ten-Minute Tales'

School of English wins awards for Creative Practice projects

24 Jul

Two awards received from the College of Arts Creative Practice Fund

Carmel Winters appointed Film Artist in Residence at UCC

11 Sep

Role jointly funded by UCC and the Arts Council

Yes But Are We Enemies: English and Irish Poets Having Words

09 Sep

UCC researchers and students participate in poetry collaboration

Film Conference

20 Aug

Deviate! The Second International Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media Conference will take place at UCC on 4–6 September 2014.

Lauch of New Novel

16 Jun

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

New Issue of Alphaville now online.

28 Jul

The theme of the issue is "Corporeal Cinema."

Contemporary American Trauma Narratives

28 Jul

 Alan Gibbs’s Contemporary American Trauma Narratives published June 2014.

Ecocriticism Conference Featured on Lyric FM

17 Jul

Luke Clancy interviews three conference delegates for his show, ‘Culture File’.

Doctoral student in Digitial Humanities wins EU funding for research trip

23 Jun

Trip funded as part of the 'Colour and Space in Cultural Heritage' research project

RTÉ Radio One / Short Form Drama

23 May

Spinstren by Jools Gilson

Sunday 25th May at 8pm

Dr Orla Murphy awarded one of the inaugural Fulbright Tech Impact Awards

22 May

We are delighted to announce that Dr Orla Murphy has been awarded one of the inaugural Fulbright Tech Impact Awards

New PhD Programme

13 May

The School of English welcomes applications for a PhD in Creative Writing.

Success for School of English PhD student

20 May

Dan O’Brien to take up scholarship in September 2014.

READING BY PATRICK MCGUINNESS

13 May

Gender, Sexuality and Culture

13 May

School of English PhD Scholarships 2014

08 May

Closing date for applications 1 July 2014

Cork City Council bursary for novel on Handel

07 May

Artist's Bursary awarded to Dr Eibhear Walshe

Public Lecture and Book Launch

30 Apr

The School of English celebrated the launch of Staged Transgressions in Shakespeare's England

Research Team Investigating Viking Heritage in Munster

30 Apr

Researchers meet with heritage experts and tourism representatives

Government of Ireland International MA Scholarships

07 Apr

Scholarships available for students from Brazil and India

Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowships

03 Apr

Fellowships awarded to Dr Katie Garner and Dr Eibhear Walshe

Fulbright Fellow in Creative Writing

27 Mar

Professor Brendan Mathews to visit the School of English for the autumn semester.

DUETS Great Book of Ireland award

24 Mar

Collaboration between the School of English and the Munster Literature Centre

New Radio 4 Creative Documentary

24 Mar

Jools Gilson's Chrysanthemum to air April 8th.

Arts Council Bursary

24 Mar

Dr Eibhear Walshe has been awarded a Literature Bursary of €4000

Textualities Conference 2014

20 Mar

School of English MA Students present their work

Visiting Fellow in Centre for Romantic and Victorian Studies in Bristol

04 Mar

Professor Graham Allen is the First Visiting Fellow in newly established Centre for Romantic and Victorian Studies at the University of Bristol

Applications for MAs Now Open

06 Feb

Scholarships available for study in 2014-15

IRC Awards for two researchers in the School of English

03 Mar

Professor Claire Connolly and Dr Tom Birkett have both won awards under the Irish Research Council's New Foundations scheme.

Irish Assocation for American Studies Lecture

24 Feb

Friday 14 March 5 PM

Reading of Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great

18 Feb

Monday 24 February 2-4 PM

Dr Heather Laird featured in documentary Living in a Coded Land.

18 Feb

Film to be screened in Jameson Dublin International Film Festival Wednesday 19 February

Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow visits Notre Dame

17 Feb

Dr Liam Lanigan recently spent a period as Short Term Visiting Fellow at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies in Notre Dame.

Fulbright Award for Professor Emerita Patricia Coughlan

17 Feb

Comparative research project on Irish and Irish-American women’s writing

Literature and History - Lecture

04 Feb

Professor Michael Bell

University of Warwick

Tuesday 11^th February, 1pm, WGB G05

The Melodramatic Imagination Revisited - Lecture

16 Jan

Professor James Chandler, University of Chicago.

Transatlantic Connections Seminars

13 Jan

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

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

Doctoral student Meadhbh O'Halloran has been awarded a grant by the UK Bibliographic Society.

Carl Davis C.B.E Public Lecture

29 Nov

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Writer in Residence and Writer Fellow Announced

10 Sep

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.

New start for MA in Creative Writing

17 Sep

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

Bernard O'Donoghue's poem 'Freyfaxi', from his collection Farmers Cross (2011) is featured in the current edition of the Times Literary Supplement.

School of English co-sponsors Cork International Short Story Award

27 Aug

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

‌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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Fulbright Scholar Niamh O'Mahony returns to Cork

30 Jul

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

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. 

DUETS: Knowledge Exchange for Cork's Creative Economy

12 Aug

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.

Doctoral student leads Bloomsday celebrations in Kenmare

18 Jun

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.

Applications now open for PhD studentships

11 Jun

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.