Dr Adam Hanna, Lecturer in Irish Literature in the School of English and Digital Humanities, will be speaking at an event in Seanad Éireann to mark the centenary of the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to W. B. Yeats.
Dr Adam Hanna, Lecturer in Irish Literature in the School of English and Digital Humanities, will be speaking at an event in Seanad Éireann to mark the centenary of the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to W. B. Yeats.
Dr Clíona Ó Gallchoir will deliver a plenary lecture at the University of Pécs, Hungary, as part of an event to celebrate the 300th anniversary in 2024 of the birth of the Frances Sheridan, one of the outstanding Irish women writers of the eighteenth-century.
Read moreCongratulations to Kelly Meany and Aoife O’Sullivan, both of whom were Highly Commended in the Global Undergraduate Awards 2023.
Read moreMassive congratulations to second-year student Elizabeth Angharad Butler, who has just been awarded a Dr HH Stewart Literary Prize in English.
Read moreUCC recently hosted a lively collaborative workshop with leading Irish literature scholars from China. The event was titled "Mapping History: Contemporary Irish and Chinese Literature". The attendees were warmly welcomed by Professor Chris Williams, Head of the CACSSS, and Dr Órla Murphy, Head of the School of English and Digital Humanities. Both spoke of the historic and productive ties between Cork and Shanghai, and between scholars from UCC and China.
Read moreLaura (Laurie) Shelly, a former undergraduate student of English at UCC, has been awarded the Judith E. Wilson MPhil Studentship by Christ’s College, Cambridge and Cambridge’s Faculty of English. This scholarship will fully fund an MPhil in English Studies. The School of English and Digital Humanities congratulates Laurie on this great achievement and wishes her every success in her future endeavours.
Read moreWe are delighted to announce that our colleague Dr Alan Gibbs has co-edited the latest edition of the journal, Studies in American Naturalism (University of Nebraska Press), with Dr Sarah McCreedy, formerly a PhD student in the Department. The special issue, entitled ‘American Literary Naturalism and the Visual’ draws on papers delivered at a symposium in UCC last October, and comprises articles on a number of examples of visual media. These include TV series True Detective, the video game The Last of Us, and Joel Coen’s recent film adaptation of Macbeth.
Read moreCongratulations to the editorial team of Double Space, who have just launched the journal's second issue.
Read moreRegistration for the Global Undergraduate Awards is now open. All students who submit work to the Global Undergraduate Awards are eligible to submit work to the UCC Department of English Undergraduate Awards. The rules/requirements for the UCC Department of English Undergraduate Awards are the same as those for the Global Undergraduate Awards, with the exception that 2nd and 3rd year entrants will be judged separately. There will be one winner for the Department of English Undergraduate Awards in each year and 3 to 4 highly recommended entrants.
Read moreRegistration for the Global Undergraduate Awards is now open. All students who submit work to the Global Undergraduate Awards are eligible to submit work to the UCC Department of English Undergraduate Awards. The rules/requirements for the UCC Department of English Undergraduate Awards are the same as those for the Global Undergraduate Awards, with the exception that 2nd and 3rd year entrants will be judged separately. There will be one winner for the Department of English Undergraduate Awards in each year and 3 to 4 highly recommended entrants.
Read moreThe School of English and Digital Humanities was delighted to host its first in-person welcome event and award ceremony since 2019 on October 18th.
Attendees celebrated research achievements by staff and students.
Awards were presented for exceptional coursework by students in both English and Digital Humanities. Awards were presented by Head of CACSSS Prof Chris Williams
The welcome event also included readings from award-winning student Aoife Osborne and UCC Writer in Residence
Read moreThe Department of English, UCC, is delighted to announce the launch of Double-Space: The Undergraduate Journal of the Department of English, UCC. The issue is comprised of award-winning undergraduate work by Department of English students. It was designed and edited by five second-year BA English students.
Read moreCongratulations to the below students who won or were highly recommended for the Department of English Undergraduate Awards 2022. Well done on your fantastic work!
Read moreThree of the Department’s lecturers were pleased to complete Erasmus+ teaching exchanges this year, after being delayed by the pandemic restrictions. Dr Miranda Corcoran visited the University of Agder in Norway, Dr Adam Hanna visited Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 in France, and Dr Edel Semple visited Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, for a week of teaching, exchange of expertise, and networking. Erasmus+ is a European education programme that promotes exchanges between university students, teaching staff, and administrative staff throughout participating countries.
Read moreChristian Brothers College, Sidney Hill, Cork, held its 111th annual Gold Medal Debating competition in May. The debate adjudicators included our own Dr Edel Semple, along with Aoife O'Driscoll (CBC Head of English), Irene Warren (Director of The Performers Academy), and Donagh O'Callaghan (CBC past pupil).
Read moreAll students who submit work to the Global Undergraduate Awards are eligible to submit work to the UCC Department of English Undergraduate Awards. The rules/requirements for the UCC Department of English Undergraduate Awards are the same as those for the Global Undergraduate Awards, with the exception that 2nd and 3rd year entrants will be judged separately. There will be one winner for the Department of English Undergraduate Awards in each year and 3 to 4 highly recommended entrants.
Read moreCork World Book Festival 2022 kicked off on 19 April with a lively chat between Dr Heather Laird, UCC School of English and Digital Humanities, and author Jan Carson. Jan is a writer and community arts facilitator based in Belfast. Her latest novel, The Raptures, a magic realist whodunnit set in rural Co. Antrim, was published by Doubleday earlier this year.
Read moreDetails: Registration for the Global Undergraduate Awards is now open. All students who submit work to the Global Undergraduate Awards are eligible to submit work to the UCC Department of English Undergraduate Awards. The rules/requirements for the UCC Department of English Undergraduate Awards are the same as those for the Global Undergraduate Awards, with the exception that 2nd and 3rd year entrants will be judged separately. There will be one winner for the Department of English Undergraduate Awards in each year and 3 to 4 highly recommended entrants.
Read moreCongratulations to Dr Clíona Ó Gallchoir who has been awared a Research Ally 2021 Prize, as part of the Researcher of the Year Awards 2021.
Read moreUCC English Department is delighted that Liz Quirke is joining us as fixed-term lecturer in Poetry.
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The School of English and Digital Humanities Welcome Event took place on Thursday October 21.
Staff and students gathered (online!) to welcome new colleagues and celebrate achievements within the School.
Read moreThe Department of English, UCC is delighted to announce that Laura Shelly, BA English, is the Island of Ireland Regional Winner in the Global Undergraduate Awards 2021. Four other Department of English students are highly commended in the Literature category: Robyn Coombes, Joseph Linehan, Ava Lynch and Lara Ní Chuirrín.
Read moreThe Arts Council and University College Cork invite applications for Writer in Residence for the calendar year 2022. The Arts Council Writer in Residence was established to provide a stimulating environment for the resident writer, and afford a degree of financial support to concentrate on their own practice. Additionally, the residency brings energy and dynamism to the university, and allows students and faculty to engage with a practicing writer for a concentrated period.
Read moreScholar, writer and curator Laura Marshall Clark will be joining the English Department during the 2021-2022 academic year.
Read moreUCC writer-in-residence Eimear Ryan will run a workshop this semester for staff and students who would like to work on their creative writing, whether it be fiction, creative non-fiction or memoir. The workshop will take place on Tuesday evenings at 6pm, from 28 September to 30 November (in person!). Places are limited so if you’re interested in participating, please email a sample of your work (max 2000 words) to englishdepartment@ucc.ie, with WORKSHOP in the subject line, by COB on Friday 17 September.
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Keynotes: Prof. Claire Connolly and Dr James Smith (University College Cork), Dr Nicola Kirkby (Royal Holloway), Prof. Ruth Livesey (Royal Holloway), Dr Nitin Sinha (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient)
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Friday 3 September sees the launch of a new book by our colleague Dr Clíona Ó Gallchoir. Maria Edgeworth is a new critical introduction to Edgeworth published as part of the Key Irish Women Writers Series from Edward Everett Root.
Read moreOn September 1st our colleague Prof Lee Jenkins will host the launch of Mother Muse, the new collection by Lorna Goodison, the first female poet laureate of Jamaica. The event will feature readings and discussion, and audience members will have the opportunity to ask their own questions. We will show the text during readings so you can read along.
Read moreMaria Butler, a PhD student with the School of English and Digital Humanities, has been awarded an IRC Enterprise Partnership Postgraduate Scholarship for her project 'Marian Keyes and the Irish Socio-Literary Landscape: A Critical Analysis using Close and Distant Reading'
Read moreDr. Adam Hanna, Lecturer in Irish Literature, recently collaborated with the artist Dr Rajinder Singh on Spasm, a digital commission for the Glucksman Gallery.
Read moreCongratulations to the winners of this year's School of English Undergraduate Awards, who are listed below.
Read moreDr Alan Gibbs will deliver this year's IAAS W. A. Emmerson annual lecture, entitled 'Trauma and Naturalism in the Later Novels of Toni Morrison and Philip Roth', on Wednesday, June 2.
This lecture marks the passing and celebrates the work of two of America’s most important novelists of the last fifty years, Toni Morrison (1931-2019) and Philip Roth (1933-2018).
Read moreMembers of the department of English have been part of a major collaboration with the annual Maria Edgeworth Literary Festival as it celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, with the first-ever virtual Festival. The IRC-funded Digital Edgeworth Network joined with the Festival to create a unique creative writing competition for secondary school students. Based on research conducted by the Network on the Edgeworth correspondence, acclaimed novelist Laura McKenna selected some of the fascinating letters written by Maria Edgeworth and other members of the Edgeworth family in the early nineteenth century and invited the young applicants to respond to them creatively.
Read moreAll students who submit work to the Global Undergraduate Awards are eligible to submit work 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 Global Undergraduate Awards, with the exception that 2nd and 3rd year entrants will be judged separately. There will be one winner for the School of English Undergraduate Awards in each year and 3 to 4 highly recommended entrants.
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Dr Semple collaborated with Dr. Ronan Hatfull (University of Warwick) to convene a seminar on “Shakespearean Biofiction on the Stage and Screen” for this year’s conference of the Shakespeare Association of America.
Read moreDr Adam Hanna, a Lecturer in Irish Literature in the Department of English, has been awarded an IRC New Foundations grant for his project 'Seamus Heaney and the Visual Arts', which he will carry out in collaboration with the Glucksman Gallery.
Read moreRegistration for the Global Undergraduate Awards is now open. All students who submit work to the Global Undergraduate Awards are eligible to submit work 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 Global Undergraduate Awards, with the exception that 2nd and 3rd year entrants will be judged separately. There will be one winner for the School of English Undergraduate Awards in each year and 3 to 4 highly recommended entrants.
Read moreCongratulations to Dr Edward Molloy, School of English and Digital Humanities, who has just been awarded the Maurice J. Bric Medal of Excellence in IRC's Researcher of the Year Awards 2020.
Read moreStaff, students and members of the public are invited to join us for "Bugs and Books", a one-day interdisciplinary symposium hosted by the Dept of English, University College Cork.
Read moreWe are delighted to announce that IRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Emma Penney, has received a Literature Project Award in English from the Arts Council of Ireland.
Read moreA Bursary has been established at UCC in memory of Louise Clancy. Louise Clancy was a former University College Cork (UCC) School of English student who died tragically in a road traffic accident in 2015. Louise is remembered fondly by UCC staff and the Louise Clancy Memorial Prize was established by the School of English in 2018. Now Louise’s family has endowed a bursary for the Prize to support enthusiastic young scholars like Louise. €1,000 will be awarded to the best dissertation written in the final year of UCC’s BA in English for the next 22 years.
Read moreCongratulations to IRC postgraduate awardees Edel Hanley, Elisa Sabbadin, Maria Manning and Robert Feeney and welcome to new postdoctoral fellows Dr Anna McKay, Dr Eddie Molloy, Dr Emma Penney and Dr Colleen Taylor.
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Workshop with Alison Driscoll, Writer in Residence.
October 31st on Zoom 10-4.30.
When you show up to write today where are you both mentally and physically? This year has been tough for everyone between lockdowns and cocooning and missing out on life’s events big and small. But there has been a welcome change of pace, a time for reflection and whether we like it or not more time at home.
Read moreDr Adam Hanna (Lecturer in Irish Literature) has co-edited a new book, Architectural Space and the Imagination: Houses in Literature and Art from Classical to Contemporary, with Jane Griffiths (Wadham College, Oxford University).
Read moreCongratulations to Prof Claire Connolly, who has been named Researcher of the Year, and Dr James Louis Smith, who has been named Open Researcher of the Year!
Read moreThe judging panel of the prestigious Global Undergraduate Awards has deemed Eláir Ní Thuama and Laura Shelly highly commended entrants for 2020 in the literature category.
Read moreThe School of English and Digital Humanities has received research funding of €12,500 as part of the UK-Ireland Collaboration in Digital Humanities Networking programme, for a project entitled ‘Digital Edgeworth Network’. The DEN is a collaboration between the School of English and Digital Humanities at UCC (PI Dr Clíona Ó Gallchoir, English; Co-I Dr Máirín MacCarron, DH); the Faculty of English Oxford University (PI Prof Ros Ballaster); the Bodleian Library (Oxford); and the National Library of Ireland.
Read moreCongratulations to the winners of this year's Department of English Undergraduate Awards!
Read moreThe University Press of Florida will release paperback and digital editions of The American Lawrence (2015) by Prof Lee Jenkins in autumn 2020
Read moreThis year’s Script Pitching Competition at the Galway Film Fleadh will be a live-streamed event, taking place as part of the online edition of the festival.
Read moreThe Shakespeare Association of America has announced the lineup for its conference in 2021 and our own Dr Edel Semple will be leading a seminar. Dr Semple, along with Dr Ronan Hatfull (University of Warwick), will convene a seminar on Shakespearean biofiction on the stage and screen.
Read moreRegistration for the international Undergraduate Awards is now open.
Read moreCongratulations to Peggy McCarthy who has just won the Fish Poetry Prize 2020! Peggy is currently completing her MA in Creative Writing at UCC, and out of almost 2000 entrants we're not surprised that her wonderful poem, 'Father', was chosen.
Read moreLecturer Miranda Corcoran has published a collection of essays on the gothic fiction of Ray Bradbury. The collection features essays from scholars around the world and was co-edited by Dr Steve Gronert Ellerhoff.
Read moreWriter, publisher, and indigenous American activist Laura Clark will be joining the Department of English in September 2020 as a Fulbright Scholar for four months, with her scholarship fully funded by the Fulbright Commission. Laura will offer a seminar on Native American writing, contribute to Creative Writing classes and readings, curate an exhibition, and undertake research on Native American-Irish connections.
Read moreDepartment of English Lecturer, Joanna Hofer-Robinson, has been awarded three prestigous grants for upcoming projects.
She received the IRC New Foundations Award for a project entitled Breaking the Network: Cultural Fracture and Community Segmentation. The award funds a two-day interdisciplinary symposium that builds toward a new theoretical framework for conceptualising the coexistence of social fragmentation with shared economies, communities, and spaces.
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Two School of English and Digital Humanities postdoctoral fellows, James Smith and Seán Hewitt, have been awarded seed funding from the Royal Irish Academy and the British Academy.
Read moreLast Day at Bowen’s Court, a novel by Eibhear Walshe, will be published by Sommerville Press this March.
Read moreThe international Undergraduate Awards is now open. All students who submit work to the international Undergraduate Awards are eligible to submit work to the UCC School of English Undergraduate Awards. The rules/requirements for the UCC School of English Undergraduate Awards are the same as those for the International Undergraduate Awards, with the exception that 2nd and 3rd year entrants will be judged separately. There will be one winner for the School of English Undergraduate Awards in each year and 3 to 4 highly recommended entrants.
Read moreCongratulations to second-year student Persephone Kianka Vierling, who was awarded the Dr H.H Stewart Literary Scholarship in English at Aviva Stadium in Dublin on November 26th. Persephone was presented with the prize on the basis of her outstanding first-year exam results.
Read moreTwo BA in English students received prizes at the CACSSS Scholarship Awards ceremony on the 13th of November in Devere Hall
Read moreOur final reading in the School of English Reading Series for 2019 will feature our two resident writers on campus - Sara Maitland, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Fellow (sponsored by the Munster Literature Centre and Cork City Council) and Danny Denton, our Arts Council/UCC Writer-in-Residence.
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The friends and family of the late Eoin Murray have established a fund to support the development of creative writing within UCC. Eoin was a poet and a musician, who valued creativity, authenticity and connection with nature and humanity, and he lived his life according to those values. With this scholarship, in association with the School of English, UCC, we hope to keep his spirit alive and to support others like him in their creative endeavours.
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On the evening of Novemeber 5th, 2019, authors Billy O'Callaghan and John Banville read to a packed house in UCC.
Read moreIn November, the Department of English in UCC marks the 70th anniversary of the death of the leading Irish woman writer and artist, Edith Somerville (1858-1949).
Read moreThe School of English and Digital Humanities Welcome Event took place last Thursday, October 3rd.
The School of English 2019/20 reading series kicks off this year with a reading by poets Zoe Brigley and Martin Dyar, introduced by poet/lecturer Leanne O'Sullivan.
As part of Community Week the reading will be held off campus at the Central Library, Grand Parade, on Tuesday, October 8, @7pm.
Admission is free and all are welcome. No booking necessary
Read moreUCC writer-in-residence Danny Denton will be offering a workshop this autumn for any students or staff of the university who are interested in working on their writing of fiction.
Read moreUCC College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Studies (CACSSS) is delighted to announce the launch of Corvinus, a new Transition Year Programme for second level TY students interested in literary, creative, and historical humanities.
Read moreThe School of English Research Seminar Series begins on September 18th with a talk on ‘Post-pastoral readings of nature and gender in literature’ by Terry Gifford (Bath Spa U). The seminar will take place from 3-4 pm, in ORB 2.12
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Booker Award-winning author John Banville is to become visiting professor of creative writing at University College Cork. Banville will take up the role for the 2019-20 academic year, and will teach undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the School of English and Digital Humanities.
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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.
Read moreSchool of English graduate Dan O'Brien has published a new book with Syracuse University Press.
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Rose is a Third Year BA International (English) student
Read moreDr O'Connor will be working with Dr Benjamin Gearey of Archaeology
Read moreDr Brandon C. Yen has collaborated with TCD on this important exhibition in the Long Room of the Old Library at Trinity College Dublin
Read moreA new anthology of late nineteenth-century sensation drama published by Edinburgh University Press
Read moreA 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.
Read moreThis 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.
Read moreCanadian 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.
Read moreProf. Claire Connolly and Prof. Alex Davis invited to lecture at international celebrations of one of Ireland's most famous writers.
Read moreWriter 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.
Read moreThe Closing date for applications is 01 May 2017
Read moreDeadline for applications is 03 May 2019
Read moreUCC School of English is delighted to announce that two of Ireland's most distinguished women writers will join the academic staff for 2013-14.
Read moreUCC ‘world first’ to discover the impact of the Vikings
Read moreWomen and the Rising (1): Creative Zone, Boole Library, March 3, 6.30pm
Read moreTuesday, November 14, 7pm in West Wing 6
Read moreCreative Zone, Boole Library, on March 15 @ 6pm
Read morePrestigious prize awarded by the University of Pittsburgh Press for short-story collection The Islands
Read moreCork 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.
Read moreCertificates awarded for the best undergraduate work in 2016/17
Read moreNovember 13th, 6-8 PM. W5, West Wing, UCC Quad
Read moreWednesday 23 September, 5pm, Aula Maxima
Read moreThree of the School's postgraduate researchers to present in Vienna this week
Read moreThe Vibrant House: Irish Writing and Domestic Space is published by Four Courts Press
Read moreThursday 7 December, 7-8 pm, RTE One
Read moreCian O'Connor and John Elliott shortlisted in the category 'Literature 1710 – Present’ by a panel of international academics
Read moreRegistration for the international Undergraduate Awards is now open. All students who submit essays to the international Undergraduate Awards are eligible to submit essays to the UCC School of English Undergraduate Awards. The rules/requirements for the UCC School of English Undergraduate Awards are the same as those for the International Undergraduate Awards, with the exception that 2nd and 3rd year entrants will be judged separately. There will be one winner for the School of English Undergraduate Awards in each year and 3 to 4 highly recommended entrants.
Read moreSubmissions for the international Undergraduate Awards are now open.
Read moreThree School of English students have been highly commended for the Undergraduate Awards
Read moreDr O’Connor will be working with academics in the University of Lille.
Read morePatricia O Connor will take part in a five-day programme on 'Researching Medieval Culture in a Digital Environment' in Prague
Read moreTuesday, April 10, 6.30pm, West Wing 9
Read moreUniversity College Cork and the University of Maryland have in partnership developed an intensive graduate school on the theme of Transatlantic Connections.
Read moreTranslating Early Medieval Poetry: Transformation, Reception, Interpretation is edited by the School's Dr Tom Birkett and Dr Kirsty March-Lyons
Read moreNew 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
Read moreThe Granary Theatre, Friday, December 8, at 8pm. (Doors open 7.30pm).
Read moreCongratulations 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.
Read moreTeachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland (TOEBI) will hold its annual conference at UCC on Saturday 21 October
Read moreThe Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland Conference will be held on 21 October 2017
Read moreMarch 21, Creative Zone, UCC Boole Library, 6pm
Read moreAward-winning writer will be joining us for the 2017/18 academic year
Read moreUrquhart 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.
Read moreNovel by School of English alumnus Erik Martiny reviewed by another former MA student, Josephine Fenton
Read moreFriday 04 March, Western Gateway Building 402, 9:30 - 16:30
Read moreCollection features work by graduates of UCC's MA in Creative Writing
Read moreRadio Programme Dedicated to Norse Mythology and its Legacy
Read moreThe prestigious Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award has received substantial support from the School of English, UCC.
Read moreElizabeth Fort, Friday 28 August, 7:30-8:30pm
Read moreDr Edel Semple and Dr Ger Fitzgibbon both to deliver public lectures
Read moreSpeakers 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
Read moreTom will join a crew of 65 onboard the beautiful 'Sea Stallion from Glendalough'
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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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Wednesdays, 3-4pm, O'Rahilly Building 2.12
Read moreHeather Laird from the School of English will be speaking on Talking History (Newstalk) on Sunday 23rd June at 5 pm. Heather will be speaking about Commemoration which is the title of her book in the Síreacht: Longings for another Ireland series.
Read moreCACSSS Excellence Scholarships available for study in 2015-16
Read moreWednesdays, 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.
Read moreThursday February 11th at 5.15, Room 2.47
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreThursday April 9, 6pm, Boole Library Learning Zone
Read moreExtremely positive assessment of this 'fine book' by Ian Brinton
Read moreReview praises Prof. Lee Jenkins's "important and timely contribution" to Lawrence studies
Read moreTuesday 17 November, 5.15pm, Windle Auditorium
Read moreSaturday 16th May 2015, 1:30-4:30pm, CACSSS Seminar Room
Read moreBlackstoneLaunchPad, Boole Library, 25-26 November 2016
Read moreIn 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.
Read moreOctober 9, West Wing 6 @ 7pm
Read moreMike 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.
Read moreJoseph 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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Monday 11 Feb., 18:30, West Wing 9 (UCC)
Read moreTuesday, December 1, West Wing 5, at 6pm
Read moreCork 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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Triskel Arts Centre, Saturday, April 25, 9pm.
Read moreGeorge Mitchell Scholar returns for a reading and discussion of her book, Dark Chapter
Read moreThe 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.
Niamh Prior shortlisted for the Dermot Healy International Poetry Competition
Tuesday 7th March, 6pm, in O'Rahilly Building G27
Read moreGraham Allen features in the new Poetry Ireland Review no 118 Edited by Vona Groarke, entitled The Rising Generation. This special issue of Ireland’s foremost poetry journal brings together thirty-six new Irish poets, defining “new” as someone who has had a first collection book or pamphlet published within the last five years. Each featured poet was asked to submit two original poems and to complete a questionnaire created by the editor. One of Graham’s two poems, ‘Sydney Park, Spring 2015’ has also been selected as one of Poetry Ireland’s featured poems for Poetry Day on 28th April.
Read moreClosing date for receipt of applications: 10th August 2017
Read moreClosing date: 30th November 2015
Read moreClosing date for receipt of applications: 13th September 2016
Information about the School
Before you apply, please consult the website at http://www.ucc.ie/en/english for information about the School and the range of research specializations represented by School staff. Informal enquiries may be made to Prof. Alex Davis, Head of School: a.davis@ucc.ie or Dr Ken Rooney k.rooney@ucc.ie
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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
Read morePhD 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.
Read moreThree PhD Researchers in the School of English were awarded Excellence Scholarships
Read moreStaged Reading in the Unitarian Church, Prince's St., Cork. 14th November, at 6pm
Read moreSaturday 8th July,9:30-6:30, Room 255 in the O’Rahilly Building, UCC
Read more‘Peatlands in the 21st Century: Trans-disciplinary Perspectives on Heritage, Sustainability, and “Wise Use” of Resources’
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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).
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.
Read moreWe are delighted to announce that Dr Orla Murphy has been awarded one of the inaugural Fulbright Tech Impact Awards
Read more4 September 2015
Read moreOur colleague in Digital Humanities will go forward to the next stage of this prestigious teaching and learning award
Read moreThe School's Dr Orla Murphy will be presenting at Penn State, Monday 20th April, 2pm in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library.
Read moreFixed Term Part-time (40%) Appointment of 12 Months Duration (IRC New Horizons funded post)
Read moreDeadline 23rd November 2015
Read moreDoctoral student Meadhbh O'Halloran has been awarded a grant by the UK Bibliographic Society.
Read moreNUI 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.
Read moreGovernment 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.
Read moreRetelling of the Norse myths and legends published by Quercus
Read moreNew 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.
Read moreA 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.
Read moreJohn Montague International Poetry Fellowship Announced
Read moreIrish Times article from Creative Writing Lecturer, Mary Morrissy
Read moreResearch on Eighteenth-Century Women’s Writing
Read moreDr 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.
Read moreTuesday, March 10, 6pm in the Learning Zone, UCC Library
Read moreIt 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.
Read moreAward winning actor and screenwriter to join us from September
Read moreFriday 12 April 2019 | University College Cork
Read moreMadeleine D’Arcy awarded the £1,000 Readers’ Choice award in this year’s Edge Hill Short Story Prize
Read moreStudents on the first MA in Creative Writing in the School of English met today.
Read moreThis 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.
Read moreGoodison to be invested as the first female Poet Laureate of Jamaica in May
Read moreDr Liam Lanigan recently spent a period as Short Term Visiting Fellow at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies in Notre Dame.
UCC English Society is hosting a reading by Lisa McInerney on Wednesday, October 26, at 7.30pm in West Wing 5.
Read moreTuesday, March 14, 7 pm in the Creative Zone, Boole Library
Read moreClosing Date for Applications: 30 Mar 2017
Read moreLeanne will speak on 'Poetry of Pain and Care'
Read moreLeanne was shortlisted for her 2018 collection 'A Quarter of an Hour'.
Read moreTuesday 25 April at 5pm, Social Area, School of English, O’Rahilly Building
Read morePresident Patrick O’Shea Launches this Collaborative Collection
Read moreCollection to be launched at the 32nd Irish Conference of Medievalists at UCC
Read moreOne-day symposium organised by the School's Dr Adam Hanna and Prof Eugene McNulty (DCU)
Read moreDr Adam Hanna, Lecturer in Irish Literature in the School of English and Digital Humanities, will be speaking at an event in Seanad Éireann to mark the centenary of the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to W. B. Yeats.
Glucksman Gallery, Cork, 2 April - 5 July 2015
Read moreLewis Glucksman Gallery, Thurs 14 May, 10.30am – 6.30pm
Read moreJordan Norris named Vodafone X Irish University Sports Journalist Of The Year 2018
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreThe School's Lecturer in Victorian Literature offers a wonderful Christmas-themed long-read
Read moreUniversity College Cork, 22-23 July, 2016
Read more6pm on Monday 11 March in the UCC Library Creative Zone
Read moreProfessor Claire Connolly and Dr Maureen O'Connor have both won awards under the Irish Research Council's 'New Foundations' Scheme.
Read moreResearchers awarded funding in the IRC Postgraduate and Postdoctoral schemes
Read moreDr Tom Birkett and Professor Claire Connolly awarded funding in the Starter Grant and Interdisciplinary Strands
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreIntroductory Lectures will be held in the week of Monday 7th September
Read moreDr Birkett's question on 'Crowdsourcing the Vikings' one of six to feature in this week-long installation
Read moreEvent and Awards Ceremony to mark the IRC's 15th Birthday
Read moreFriday 12 June
Read moreWed 16th September, 6 p.m (CACSSS Seminar Room, O’Rahilly Building, UCC)
Read moreSaturday 12 March, 12-4:30pm, North Wing Council Chambers
Read moreUCC Creative Writing PhD candidate was awarded first prize in the Health Professional Category, for a poem exploring the human heart
Sunday 14 May, Kingsley Hotel – Talking History, Newstalk - Live from Cork
Read moreIn a recently-published book, Heather Laird from the School of English at University College Cork re-imagines commemoration.
Read moreEvent will follow a special preview screening of RTE and UCC’s documentary The Irish Revolution.
Read moreThe School of English, UCC and the UCC English Literature Society invite you to remember Seamus Heaney in the company of distinguished poets and artists.
Read moreReview of Graham Allen’s The One That Got Away in Tailwinds
Read moreSubmissions are now open until November 30, 2017
Read moreDr Edel Semple will be delivering a lecture in Belfast and convening a seminar in Stratford
Read moreTuesday 18th October, 6pm, in the Council Room, UCC
Read moreThe Glucksman, University College Cork
Wednesday, 18th January, @ 6:00pm
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Read moreThe One that Got Away nominated for the Shine/Strong Award
Read moreUniversity College Cork and the Arts Council are delighted to announce the appointment of Gerard Stembridge as Film Artist in Residence (Screenwriter) for 2015-16.
Read moreThe three releases have all been translated into English by our own Dr Anne Etienne
Read moreTuesday 1st March at 18.15h in the Film & Screen Media auditorium in Windle
Read moreDaisy Pemble awarded the accolade for her work with societies and LGBT rights
Read moreMA programmes in Creative Writing and Irish Writing and Film granted Fullbright awards
Read moreTwo Masters programmes in the School of English have been granted dedicated Fulbright awards for the 2017/18 academic year.
The Application Period for 2017-2018 Awards is now open with a deadline of 11th October 2016.
Read moreIn 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.
Read moreFrankenreads will take place at UCC between 30 October and 02 November
Read moreSpring edition of West Cork Fit-Up Festival opens
Read more10:30am-7pm, Thursday 10th March 2016
Read moreThursday 18 May and Friday 19 May, the O'Rahilly Building, UCC
Read moreEngendering Ireland: New Reflections on Modern History and Literature
Read moreMonday, 2 November, 6-8pm at the Cork City Gaol
Read moreThe School marks the start of a new academic year with book launches, undergraduate awards, and readings
Read moreApplications invited for creative writing scholarship in memory of the late Eoin Murray
Read moreDr Éibhear Walshe will be delivering a lecture at the University of Ottawa this evening
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreThe Becker Wives, by Mary Lavin
Read moreThursday, January 28, 6pm, Room G15 , Boole Library
Read moreEllen graduated in 2016, and has now launched her own publishing venture
Read more17 October, 17h30 at Maison de la Recherche, 6 rue des Irlandais, Paris
Read moreDr Éibhear Walshe reading at St Mary's University
Read moreThursday 18 June, 18:30-20:30 at the Aula Magna de la Escuela de Lenguas Modernas
Read moreDr Eibhear Walshe's co-written essay on Elizabeth Bowen features in 'The Irish Times'
Read moreSaturday, 13 June, 5pm, National Library of Argentina in Buenos Aires
Read moreThursday 25th June, at the Spanish Embassy, Buenos Aires
Read moreEibhear's latest novel was launched in the School of English by Professor Lee Jenkins
Read moreIrish Academic Press invite you to an evening to celebrate the launch of A Different Story: The Writings of Colm Tóibín by Dr Éibhear Walshe.
Read moreFriday 22nd May, The Department of English at Saint Louis University (Madrid Campus)
Read moreCongratulations to our colleague Dr. Edel Semple, for her Irish Research Council New Foundations award: "Celebrating Shakespeare 400: Performing Pericles, Prince of Tyre"
Read moreSchool 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).
Read moreEdited collection on normality in early modern drama published by Palgrave
Read moreDr 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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreThe School's Dr Anne Etienne receives one of two DUETS Awards
Read moreDr Donna Alexander awarded a publishing contract as the runner up in the Women's Studies category
Read moreDr 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.
Read moreThe 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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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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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.
Read moreDigital Arts and Humanities MA students will hold a series of talks tomorrow (Tuesday 21st April) relating to the use of digital tools and methodologies.
Read morePublished in the Bogman's Cannon, 23rd January
Play staged in Cork City Gaol and produced by the School's Dr Maureen O'Connor becomes part of this important archive
Read moreThe 3rd year module ‘Contemporary Theatre’ introduced our students to playwright Arnold Wesker’s The Kitchen.
Read more'How Thor Lost His Thunder: The Changing Faces of an Old Norse God' is published by Routledge.
Read moreDickens 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
Read moreHailed 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.
Read moreFriday 18 September, 6-8pm, Council Room on the Quad, University College Cork
Read moreFor 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.
Read moreThe Cork novelist, playwright and film documentary maker, Cónal Creedon, has been appointed as UCC’s Writer-in-Residence for 2016/17.
Read moreFriday 22nd September, 5:30 pm in W6, Main Quad UCC
Read moreFriday 21 September, West Wing 5, 5pm
Read moreA 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.
Read more25 April at 18:30–20:00, Cork City Library, Grand Parade
Read moreSaturday 7 October, 2:30-4:30pm, Waterstones (Patrick Street, Cork)
Read moreDr 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.
Read moreDr Alexander's paper was titled, "Information Environmentalism and Higher Education."
Read moreDr 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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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.
Read moreUCC 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
Read moreThursday 1st December at 6pm in Kane G19
Read moreCritically acclaimed novelist, playwright and documentary maker will continue his close association with the School
Read moreThis 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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Dr Laird's book was reviewed earlier this month in 'The Irish Catholic'.
Read moreL-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)
Read moreSir Humphrey Cripps Theatre, Cripps Court, Magdalene College at 5.15pm on Monday 25 February 2019
Read moreFilm 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.
Read moreMarch 19th @5pm
Read moreCongratulations to the School's Ciarán Kavanagh, who is to be awarded the 2015 WTM Riches Essay Prize
Read moreAn interdisciplinary conference to be held at UCC on 22-23rd July 2016
Read moreVolume guest edited by the School's Prof. Lee Jenkins and Dr Melanie Otto (TCD)
Read moreFlicka 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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Professor Brendan Mathews to visit the School of English for the autumn semester.
Read more4th December, 6 PM, Boole 1.
Read moreReading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry (Routledge, 2017) was launched by Prof. Elisabeth Okasha
Read moreAuthor will talk on the topic of 'Gender and Resistance' on Wednesday 4th October, 3pm, in ORB 2.12
Read moreThursday 30 November 2017, 5.30 pm, O’Rahilly Building, School of English Social Area
Read moreOrganised 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.
Read moreBreda'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 Excursion and Wordsworth's Iconography is published by Liverpool University Press
Read moreThis year’s theme is "Bull Island: The Nonhuman Turn in Irish Studies"
Read moreBernard O'Donoghue's poem 'Freyfaxi', from his collection Farmers Cross (2011) is featured in the current edition of the Times Literary Supplement.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreDr Eibhear Walshe has been awarded a Literature Bursary of €4000
Read moreThursday October 8, 6pm, Boole Library Learning Zone
Read moreCalls for submissions to the School of English and International Undergraduate Awards
Read moreCongratulations to Dr. Andrew King, who is the co-editor of a vibrant collection of essays to be published in May 2016.
Read moreMaureen 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.
Read moreCalls for submissions to the School of English and International Undergraduate Awards
Read morePerspectives on Contemporary Irish Theatre: Populating the Stage explores the development of Irish theatre from the early 1990s to the present day
Read moreAlan Gibbs of the School of English was presented with the prize in Dublin this weekend, for his book, Contemporary American Trauma Narratives.
Read moreGaol reading on November 2 will be the first of several events relating to the Rising
Read moreThursday, November 5, at 6pm, in West Wing 9.
Read moreSchool 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)
Read moreDr 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).
Read moreHe 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.
Read moreThe 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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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 article, 'Son of a soldier battling with expression', features in today's Irish Examiner.
Read moreTuesday 5 February, 6:30pm, O'Rahilly Building (First Floor)
Read moreSimplified Chinese Version is Launched by Bejing United Publishing
Read moreO'Rahilly Building, University College Cork, Cork. Ireland