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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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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 23^rd 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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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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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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International Undergraduate Awards and School of English Undergraduate Awards: Submitting your Essay

01 May 2019

This 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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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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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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Launch of Exhibition Ireland and the English Lake Poets by IRC Postdoctoral Fellow

29 Mar 2019

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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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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CORK INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL 2019

13 Mar 2019

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Undergraduate Awards

31 Jan 2019

Submissions for the international Undergraduate Awards are now open.
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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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Heather Laird to take part in Q+A at Cork Opera House

24 Jan 2019

Event will follow a special preview screening of RTE and UCC’s documentary The Irish Revolution.
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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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Marking the Publication of 'A History of Modern Irish Women’s Literature'

28 Jan 2019

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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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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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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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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Lecturer in Creative Writing, Leanne O'Sullivan, invited to speak at the First Symposium on Medical Humanities at the University of Oviedo

27 Nov 2018

Leanne will speak on 'Poetry of Pain and Care'
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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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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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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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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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'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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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

The reading takes place on Tuesday, November 20, Creative Zone, Boole Library, UCC, at 6.30pm. Admission is free and all are welcome.
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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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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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School of English, UCC, Celebrates 200 Years of Frankenstein

18 Oct 2018

Frankenreads will take place at UCC between 30 October and 02 November
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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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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 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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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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A Feast of Fiction for Culture Night

17 Sep 2018

Friday 21 September, West Wing 5, 5pm
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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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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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Monograph published by the School's Joanna Hofer-Robinson

21 Aug 2018

Dickens 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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'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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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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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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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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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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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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Paranoia in the Americas: American Anxieties in a Transnational Context

18 May 2018

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.
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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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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 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.
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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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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, 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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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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"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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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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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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Dr Adam Hanna recently visited three universities in China

08 Mar 2018

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Celebrating 15 Years of the IRC

07 Dec 2017

Event and Awards Ceremony to mark the IRC's 15th Birthday
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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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Launch of Perspectives on Contemporary Irish Theatre: Populating the Stage

31 Oct 2017

Thursday 30 November 2017, 5.30 pm, O’Rahilly Building, School of English Social Area
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Graduate Masterclass: Environments of Knowledge

21 Sep 2017

29 September 2017, River Room, Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork
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School of English Research Seminar Programme (Semester 1)

18 Sep 2017

Wednesdays, 3-4pm, O'Rahilly Building 2.12
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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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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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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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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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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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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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School of English PhD Studentship 2017-2018

27 Jun 2017

Closing date for receipt of applications: 10th August 2017
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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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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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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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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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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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The Munster Literature Centre's Cork City International Writer Fellowships

23 May 2017

John Montague International Poetry Fellowship Announced
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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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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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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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AWARDS FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ASSIGNMENTS

02 May 2017

Calls for submissions to the School of English and International Undergraduate Awards
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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 'Atlantic Crossings in the Wake of Frederick Douglass'

25 Apr 2017

Tuesday 25 April at 5pm, Social Area, School of English, O’Rahilly Building
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Lionel Shriver to read at UCC

07 Mar 2017

Tuesday, March 14, 7 pm in the Creative Zone, Boole Library
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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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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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Poetry Reading, Monday 27th February 6pm in West Wing 5

22 Feb 2017

Award-winning poets Mary O'Malley and Monika Rinck to open poetry reading series at UCC
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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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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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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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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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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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Reading by Arts Council/UCC Writer in Residence Cónal Creedon

28 Nov 2016

Thursday 1^st December at 6pm in Kane G19
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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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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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Celebrating Shakespeare 400: Performing Pericles, Prince of Tyre

14 Nov 2016

Staged Reading in the Unitarian Church, Prince's St., Cork. 14th November, at 6pm
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Tuesday, November 8, at 6pm

08 Nov 2016

In the first of our 2016/2017 School of English reading series we welcome two major names in Irish literature - the Ireland Professor of Poetry, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, and the 2015 Irish Pen Award-winning writer, Eilís Ní Dhuibhne, who will read together at the Creative Zone, Boole Library, Tuesday, November 8, at 6pm.
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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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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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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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Rediscovering the Vikings Conference

03 Oct 2016

BlackstoneLaunchPad, Boole Library, 25-26 November 2016
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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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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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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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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, UCC PhD Studentship 2016-2017

09 Sep 2016

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

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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 11^th October 2016.
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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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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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University College Cork, 22-23 July, 2016

21 Jul 2016

(supported by the UCC Strategic Research Fund)

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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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Irish Caribbean Connections: An Interdisciplinary Conference

13 Jul 2016

University College Cork, 22-23 July, 2016
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School Involvement in Global Commemorations for Shakespeare 400

26 Apr 2016

Dr Edel Semple will be delivering a lecture in Belfast and convening a seminar in Stratford
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School Events for Shakespeare 400

26 Apr 2016

Dr Edel Semple and Dr Ger Fitzgibbon both to deliver public lectures
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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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Graham Allen features in the new Poetry Ireland Review no 118 Edited by Vona Groarke, entitled The Rising Generation.

22 Apr 2016

Graham Allen features in the new Poetry Ireland Review no 118 Edited by Vona Groarke, entitled The Rising Generation. This special issue of Ireland’s foremost poetry journal brings together thirty-six new Irish poets, defining “new” as someone who has had a first collection book or pamphlet published within the last five years. Each featured poet was asked to submit two original poems and to complete a questionnaire created by the editor. One of Graham’s two poems, ‘Sydney Park, Spring 2015’ has also been selected as one of Poetry Ireland’s featured poems for Poetry Day on 28^th April.
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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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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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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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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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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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Gender and the Rising

09 Mar 2016

Creative Zone, Boole Library, on March 15 @ 6pm
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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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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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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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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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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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AWARDS FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ASSIGNMENTS

19 Feb 2016

Calls for submissions to the School of English and International Undergraduate Awards
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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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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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Bright Star, Elegy for David Bowie, by Graham Allen

25 Jan 2016

Published in the Bogman's Cannon, 23rd January
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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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Researcher success in the 2015 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition

14 Dec 2015

Dr Donna Alexander awarded a publishing contract as the runner up in the Women's Studies category
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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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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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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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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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Old Norse Postdoctoral Position in the School of English

12 Nov 2015

Deadline 23rd November 2015
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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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Poet and Editor Maurice Riordan to Read at UCC

28 Oct 2015

Thursday, November 5, at 6pm, in West Wing 9.
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School to Mark 1916 Rising with a Series of Commemoration Events

28 Oct 2015

Gaol reading on November 2 will be the first of several events relating to the Rising
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PhD Studentship/Research Assistant Position in Post-1900/Contemporary American Literature

23 Oct 2015

Closing date: 30^th November 2015
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Staged reading of the 1916 play, The Death of Fionavar, by Eva Gore-Booth

22 Oct 2015

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

05 Oct 2015

Research on Eighteenth-Century Women’s Writing
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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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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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School of English Welcome Event

17 Sep 2015

Wednesday 23 September, 5pm, Aula Maxima
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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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Cinematheque Francaise devoting a day to the work of film maker Gael Lepingle

10 Sep 2015

The three releases have all been translated into English by our own Dr Anne Etienne
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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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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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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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New Approaches to Ossian

02 Sep 2015

4 September 2015
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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 7^th September
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Shortlisting for PhD creative writing candidate

20 Aug 2015

Niamh Prior shortlisted for the Dermot Healy International Poetry Competition
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Public Talk in the Elizabeth Fort: Edmund Spenser on the Munster Plantation

18 Aug 2015

Elizabeth Fort, Friday 28 August, 7:30-8:30pm
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Early Modern Military Identity: A One-Day Symposium in the School of English

21 Aug 2015

Friday August 28th, ORB G27 UCC, 2-6pm

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

14 Aug 2015

Congratulations to the School's Ciarán Kavanagh, who is to be awarded the 2015 WTM Riches Essay Prize
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Gerard Stembridge appointed as Film Artist in Residence at UCC

12 Aug 2015

University College Cork and the Arts Council are delighted to announce the appointment of Gerard Stembridge as Film Artist in Residence (Screenwriter) for 2015-16.
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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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Write up of 'The American Lawrence' in Review of English Studies

21 Jul 2015

Review praises Prof. Lee Jenkins's "important and timely contribution" to Lawrence studies
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West appointed as UCC’s Writer-in-Residence

13 Jul 2015

Award-winning dramatist Michael West has been appointed as UCC’s Writer-in-Residence for 2015/16.
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Graham Allen’s Poetry Collection Praised for Emphasising the Value of Reading

29 Jun 2015

Review of Graham Allen’s The One That Got Away in Tailwinds
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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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Eibhear Walshe to co-present lecture on Kate O’Brien at the Spanish Embassy

22 Jun 2015

Thursday 25^th June, at the Spanish Embassy, Buenos Aires
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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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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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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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PhD Researcher awarded European Commission scholarship to attend CENDARI Summer School

08 Jun 2015

Patricia O Connor will take part in a five-day programme on 'Researching Medieval Culture in a Digital Environment' in Prague
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100 Artworks: Celebrating Elizabeth Bowen

08 Jun 2015

Dr Eibhear Walshe's co-written essay on Elizabeth Bowen features in 'The Irish Times'
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Panel Discussion on Writing Historical Fiction

03 Jun 2015

Friday 12 June
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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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Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society Annual Conference

21 May 2015

12-14 June 2015
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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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World-leading humanities scholar, Professor Jerome McGann, to lecture at UCC

12 May 2015

‘Truth and Method: Humanities Scholarship as a Science of Exceptions’, Learning Zone, UCC Library, 6pm, 22nd May

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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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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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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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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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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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Digitalis Day at UCC

20 Apr 2015

Digital Arts and Humanities MA students will hold a series of talks tomorrow (Tuesday 21st April) relating to the use of digital tools and methodologies.
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Launch of new-look Quarryman literary magazine

15 Apr 2015

Triskel Arts Centre, Saturday, April 25, 9pm.
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The Knitting Map: Art, community and controversy 2005 - 2015

02 Apr 2015

Glucksman Gallery, Cork, 2 April - 5 July 2015
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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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Dr Eibhear Walshe's novel shortlisted for prestigious literary prize

13 Apr 2015

The Diary of Mary Travers, written by our own Dr Eibhear Walshe, is one of five novels shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 2015.
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Robin Robertson, poet and publisher, to read at UCC

01 Apr 2015

Thursday April 9, 6pm, Boole Library Learning Zone
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Celebration of Three Recent Publications

25 Feb 2015

Thursday 12^th March @ 5.30pm
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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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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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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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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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A Celebration of Irish Literature

18 Mar 2015

Dr Éibhear Walshe reading at St Mary's University
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Screening of Carmel Winters' Snap and Q&A

02 Mar 2015

March 19th @5pm
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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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Theatre Festival

05 Mar 2015

Spring edition of West Cork Fit-Up Festival opens
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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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Writing by degrees

04 Mar 2015

Irish Times article from Creative Writing Lecturer, Mary Morrissy
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Scholarships for Taught MAs

03 Mar 2015

CACSSS Excellence Scholarships available for study in 2015-16
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Guest Lecture on Joyce's Dubliners

25 Feb 2015

16 March 2015, 2 pm
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School of English Textualities Conference 2015

17 Feb 2015

27 February, North Wing Council Room
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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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Arts Council of Ireland Project Award 2014

02 Feb 2015

Interdisciplinary Collaboration with Environmental Research Institute
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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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Zadie Smith and Nick Laird to read in UCC

05 Feb 2015

Monday February 16. 6 PM, Boole 4
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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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Research Seminar, 18 February 2015

20 Jan 2015

Donald E. Pease, ‘Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland’
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Research Seminar 11 February 2015

20 Jan 2015

Michael Schmidt, ‘Publishing Irish Writing’
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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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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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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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Public Reading by Billy Ramsell

18 Nov 2014

4th December, 6 PM, Boole 1.
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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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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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Poetry Reading and Launch

15 Oct 2014

Tuesday 28 October 2014
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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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Author Kevin Barry to visit UCC

03 Oct 2014

16th October, 6-8pm. Room W5, West Wing, UCC
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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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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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Awards from UCC Strategic Research Fund

17 Sep 2014

Creative projects and technology research win support

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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 wins awards for Creative Practice projects

24 Jul 2014

Two awards received from the College of Arts Creative Practice Fund
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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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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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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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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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New Issue of Alphaville now online.

28 Jul 2014

The theme of the issue is "Corporeal Cinema."
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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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Ecocriticism Conference Featured on Lyric FM

17 Jul 2014

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

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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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RTÉ Radio One / Short Form Drama

23 May 2014

Spinstren by Jools Gilson

Sunday 25th May at 8pm
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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 PhD Programme

13 May 2014

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

Friday May 16^th 2014
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School of English PhD Scholarships 2014

08 May 2014

Closing date for applications 1 July 2014
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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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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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Research Team Investigating Viking Heritage in Munster

30 Apr 2014

Researchers meet with heritage experts and tourism representatives
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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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Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowships

03 Apr 2014

Fellowships awarded to Dr Katie Garner and Dr Eibhear Walshe
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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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DUETS Great Book of Ireland award

24 Mar 2014

Collaboration between the School of English and the Munster Literature Centre
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New Radio 4 Creative Documentary

24 Mar 2014

Jools Gilson's Chrysanthemum to air April 8th.
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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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Textualities Conference 2014

20 Mar 2014

School of English MA Students present their work
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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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Applications for MAs Now Open

06 Feb 2014

Scholarships available for study in 2014-15
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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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Irish Assocation for American Studies Lecture

24 Feb 2014

Friday 14 March 5 PM
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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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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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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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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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Literature and History - Lecture

04 Feb 2014

Professor Michael Bell

University of Warwick

Tuesday 11^th February, 1pm, WGB G05

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The Melodramatic Imagination Revisited - Lecture

16 Jan 2014

Professor James Chandler, University of Chicago.

Thursday 30th January, 3pm

Kane G.02

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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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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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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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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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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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News and Events

Prof Lee Jenkins to Speak at Wallace Stevens Conference

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.

New Book From School of English Graduate Dan O'Brien

Heather Laird to be interviewed on Talking History

Joint project seeks to unlock the cultural potential of Irish and Welsh ports

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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