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Congratulations to the winners of this year's Department of English Undergraduate Awards
Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Department of English Undergraduate Awards.
UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS RESULTS 2024-2025
The Patricia Coughlan Award
Winner
Name: Bláithín Smiddy
Essay Title: “Patriarch Conditions of Absolute Reality: Reclaiming The Haunting”
Lecturer: Miranda Corcoran
Highly Recommended
Name: Evelina Bosaite
Essay Title: “Feminist Critique of Fairy Tales”
Lecturer: Clíona Ó Gallchoir
Department of English Undergraduate Awards (2nd Year)
Winner
Name: Isobel Sheahon
Essay Title: “Critical Posthumanism, the Human Condition, and the Issue of Consent in Octavia E. Butler’s Dawn”
Lecturer: Sarah Bezan
Highly Recommended
Name: Bláithín Smiddy
Essay Title: “Problems of Disease: Laying Down the Law in ‘The (Mis)Adventure of the Dying Detective’”
Lecturer: Ioannis Kaprosioutis
Highly Recommended
Name: Vilma Autio
Essay Title: “‘God Defend me from such a shame!’: Exploring the Incompatibility of Chivalric Ideals and the Honour Code in Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur”
Lecturer: Ken Rooney
Department of English Undergraduate Awards (3rd Year)
Winner
Name: Hannah Fitzgerald
Essay Title: “On Ethics and Aesthetics: The Poetic Justice of Kimberly Campanello’s ‘MOTHERBABYHOME’”
Lecturer: Adam Hanna
Highly Recommended
Name: Erin Moore
Essay Title: “Locating Gender: How Setting and Community Impact Gender Expression in Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues and Torrey Peters’ Detransition, Baby”
Lecturer: Liz Quirke
The Louise Clancy Memorial Prize
Winner
Name: Lara O’Sullivan
Dissertation Title: “The Beautiful and the Damned: Exploring Elitism and Moral Decay in The Secret History and American Psycho”
Highly Recommended
Name: Milo V. Stone
Dissertation Title: “Death of the Palindrome”
Supervisor: Liz Quirke
Highly Recommended
Name: Morpheas Hadjigeorgiou
Dissertation Title: “Silent Voices”
Supervisor: Heather Laird
The Éamonn Ó Carragáin Prize
This prize for outstanding undergraduate work in Old English is awarded to the student (Joint or Single Honours, or Major, or BAEN) with the highest grade in EN2012 Old English Language.
Winner: Evelina Bosaite