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Congratulations to this Year's English Department Award Winners

15 Dec 2025

Congratulations to the UCC undergraduate English students who received awards for their academic/creative work at the 2025 School of English and Digital Humanities Welcome event. All of the students won or were highly recommended for awards will have their work published in the UCC Undergraduate English journal, Double Space.

Congratulations to the following students, who won or were highly recommended for the English Department Undergraduate Awards:

The Patricia Coughlan Award

Winner

Name: Bláithín Smiddy

Essay Title: “Patriarch Conditions of Absolute Reality: Reclaiming The Haunting

Module/Lecturer: Miranda Corcoran

Highly Recommended

Name: Evelina Bosaite

Essay Title: “Feminist Critique of Fairy Tales”

Module/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

Module/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’”

Module/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

Module/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’”

Module/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”

Module/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

Supervisor: Ken Rooney

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 Eoin Murray Memorial Prize

Winner

Name: Ellen Ní Chonchúir

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

 

Dr HH Stewart Literary Prize in English (UCC)

Winner

Gwen Agius

Highly Recommended

Name: Tom Cullen

Highly Recommended

Name: Cillian Lynch

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