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DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS RESULTS 2021-2022

Congratulations to the below students who won or were highly recommended for the Department of English Undergraduate Awards 2022. Well done on your fantastic work!
The Patricia Coughlan Award
Winner
Name: Ellen O’Sullivan
Essay Title: “The Female Perspective in the Poetry of Rhoda Coghill and Mary Morton”
Module/Lecturer: EN3006: Irish Poetry Since Yeats/Adam Hanna
Highly Recommended
Name: Nicole Carroll
Essay Title: “How Does Doireann Ní Ghriofa’s Poetry Address Missing People and Empty Spaces”
Module/Lecturer: EN3075: Contemporary Irish Writing/Adam Hanna
Highly Recommended
Name: Grace Morey
Essay Title: “Nature Versus Nurture: Arthur Huntington and Debased Masculinity in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”
Module/Lecturer: EN3073 Victorian Literature/Mary O’Connell
Highly Recommended
Name: Anna O’Callaghan
Essay Title: “The Structure of The Canterbury Tales [Undermines] the Notion of Literature as a Vehicle for some Fixed Truth”
Module/Lecturer: EN2011: The Canterbury Tales and Related Texts/Ken Rooney
The School Undergraduate Awards (2nd Year)
Winner
Name: Leah Mulcahy
Essay Title: “Why We Watch Ourselves Watching: Brechtian Verfremdunkseffekt in Northern Star and The Freedom on the City”
Module/Lecturer: EN2007: Northern Irish Literature and the Troubles/Adam Hanna
Highly Recommended
Name: Áine Feeney
Essay Title: “The Use of Documentary Poetics in the Works of Muriel Rukeyser and Gwendolyn Brooks”
Module/Lecturer: EN2006: Poetics and Politics in American Women’s Poetry/Maria Manning
Highly Recommended
Name: Mia Power
Essay Title: “‘I Believe She Dreamed Too Much’: Joanne Kyger’s Depiction of Mythical Female Experience”
Module/Lecturer: EN2007: Writing on the Edge: Beat Writers’ Revolutionary Poetics/Elisa Sabbadin
Highly Recommended
Name: Ciara O’Brien
Essay Title: “An Analysis of Jennifer Johnston’s Shadows on Our Skin, with a Specific Focus on the Representation of Women”
Module/Lecturer: EN2007: Northern Irish Literature and the Troubles/Adam Hanna
The School Undergraduate Awards (3rd Year)
Winner:
Name: Hannah Keniry
Essay Title: “Almost Human: Monstrosity and the Abjectification of Physical Difference in the Beowulf Manuscript”
Module/Lecturer: EN3015: Of Monsters and Men/Tom Birkett
Highly Recommended
Name: Aoife Osborne
Essay Title: “Female Characters and their Choices from a Post-Revolutionary Perspective in Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda”
Module/Lecturer: EN3007: British and Irish Women’s Writing in the Romantic Period/Clíona Ó Gallchoir
The Louise Clancy Memorial Prize
Winner
Name: Angela Stratos
Dissertation Title: “Linguistic and Ethnic Identity in African-American, Irish, and Mexican-American Literature”
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
Name: Liam Christopher McDonagh