- English
- About the Department
- People
- Study
- Research
- News
- Media Gallery
- School Welcome Event 2016
- Edmund Spenser in Cork - School of English UCC
- Mary Breen: Pride and Prejudice
- MA in Irish Writing and Film
- Ann Coughlan: The Irish Influence on America's Greatest Abolitionist
- MA in Modernities: Romanticism, Modernism, Postmodernism
- MA in American Literature and Film
- MA in English Texts and Contexts: Medieval to Renaissance
- PhD in English
- Prof. Claire Connolly
- Tonio Colona - PhD in the School of English, UCC
- Prof Patricia Coughlan
- Mike Waldron - PhD in the School of English
- Ken Rooney and Heather Laird Book Launch
- School Welcome Event September 2014
- Contemporary American Trauma Narratives Book Launch
- Staged Transgressions in Shakespeare's England
- Seamus Heaney Memorial Event September 2013
- Creative Writing
- Current Students
- Student Achievements
- Research Seminar Series, Autumn 2024
- Digital Humanities
- Creative Writing
News
Friday 19th September is Culture Night on Campus

Join the School of English in the Council Room for 'Ten-Minute Tales'
As part of this year’s Culture Night on Friday 19th September, UCC’s School of English invites you to discover some of the world’s most celebrated writers and texts in a literature extravaganza. Join us from 6-8pm in the beautiful Council Room on the Quad for “Ten-Minute Tales”. The “Tales” will introduce literary works from the age of the Vikings to 20th century Ireland, delve into the lives of poets and playwrights, and discuss authors as diverse as James Joyce, Jonathan Swift, and Edna O’Brien. While “Ten-Minute Tales” focuses largely on famous literary works, they will also introduce audiences to lesser-known authors, such as the Anglo-Irish poet Edmund Spenser who wrote in Cork in the 16th century and the 20th century Jewish-American writer Anzia Yezierska. Showcasing a diverse range of authors and texts in engaging "bite-sized" presentations, “Ten-Minute Tales” has something for everyone and it promises to be an event not to be missed.
Time Speaker Ten-Minute Tale
6.00pm Edel Semple Welcome
6.05-6.15 Barry Monahan The magical secrets of cinema: how film hides what
it’s showing (The Usual Suspects)
6.15-6.25 Laura Pomeroy Mary Devenport O’Neill: Poet and Playwright
6.25-6.35 Tom Birkett The Vikings: Early Rebels in Cork
Break
6.40-6.50 Katie Ahern Anzia Yezierska: Herrings, Heroes, and Hester Street
on the Lower East Side
6.50-7pm Cian O’Mahony Edmund Spenser: A New Englishman in Ireland
7-7.10 Eoin O’Callaghan William Faulkner: Living Literature
Break
7.15-7.25 Michael Waldron Elizabeth Bowen: Verbal Painter from County Cork
7.25-7.35 Cliona O’Gallchoir Jonathan Swift’s Savage Satire
Break
7.40-7.50 Maureen O’Connor Edna O’Brien, No Longer a ‘Smear on Irish
Womanhood’
7.50-8pm Flicka Small Digesting James Joyce