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School of English and Digital Humanities Welcome Event
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.
We celebrated new publications from Dr Maureen O'Connor, Dr Clíona Ó Gallchoir, Dr Máirín MacCarron, Dr Eibhear Walshe, Dr Anne Etienne, Dr Adam Hanna, Prof Claire Connolly and Dr James O Sullivan.
The School also celebrated two major research achievements:
Prof Claire Connolly was awarded UCC Researcher of the Year 2020 and Dr James Lewis Smith won UCC Open Researcher of the Year 2020.
The event also saw the presentation of School Undergraduate Awards to students who produced exceptional essays last year.
We also had a reading from Maeve Joy Taggart, winner of this year's Eoin Murray Memorial Scholarship https://eoinmurray.org/index.html
A full list of the awards conferred can be found below
UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS RESULTS 2020-2021
The Patricia Coughlan Award
Winner
Name: Robyn Coombes
Student Number: 120225471
Essay Title: “The Maternal Burden: An Ecofeminist Consideration of ‘The Last Rabbit’ and ‘The Women Turns Herself into a Fish’”
Module/Lecturer: EN3007 The Natural World in Irish Women’s Writing/Maureen O’Connor
Highly Recommended
Name: Sarah Byrne
Student Number: 119469242
Essay Title: “‘To the Women Hovering’: A Discussion of the Representation of Gender and Biological Sex in Seamus Heaney’sNorth”
Module/Lecturer: EN2006 “Northern Irish Literature and the Troubles”/Adam Hanna
The School Undergraduate Awards (2nd Year)
Winner
Name: Ciara O’Connor
Student Number: 119465766
Essay Title: “Bell, Book and Candle as a Queer-Coded Text”
Module/Lecturer: EN2006 “All of Them Witches”: Witchcraft in the American Popular Imagination/Miranda Corcoran
Highly Recommended
Name: Grace Morey
Student Number: 119717211
Essay Title: “Psychoanalysis Meets Aesthetics: An Analysis of the Uncanny in The Monk and We Have Always Lived in the Castle”
Module/Lecturer: EN2006 “An Introduction to Gothic Literature”/Anne Mahler
Highly Recommended
Name: Ellen Lahiff
Student Number: 119439234
Essay Title: “How The Black Vampyre and Carmilla Incorporate and Respond to their Respective Cultural Anxieties”
Module/Lecturer: EN2006 “An Introduction to Gothic Literature”/Anne Mahler
The School Undergraduate Awards (3rd Year)
Joint Winner:
Name: Maria Quirke
Student Number: 118359853
Essay Title: “‘Spurning at Slavery’: The Influence of Abolitionist Literature on Mary Wollstonecraft’s Rhetoric of Motherhood in Maria; or The Wrongs of Women”
Module/Lecturer: EN3072 Romantic Literature/Clíona Ó Gallchoir
Joint Winner:
Name: Cian Egan
Student Number: 118392916
Essay Title: “Archaic Motherhood and Primal Fear: How Ridley Scott’s Alien Evokes the Abject”
Module/Lecturer: EN3007 American Science Fiction/Miranda Corcoran
Highly Recommended
Name: Rachel O’Connor
Student Number: 117434072
Essay Title: “The Flower of the Mountain and the Old Maid: Anxieties about Aging in James Joyce’s Ulysses”
Module/Lecturer: EN3007 Reading Ulysses/Heather Laird
Highly Recommended
Name: Joseph Linehan
Student Number: 118357963
Essay Title: “The ‘Helenic’ Element: Helen of Sparta and Gendered Myth in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats”
Module/Lecturer: EN3007 The Writings of W.B. Yeats/Alex Davis
Highly Recommended
Name: Sonja Lauren Murphy
Student Number: 118369661
Essay Title: “A Comparison of Genettean and Post-Genettean Narratology, with Reference to Little Constructions by Anna Burns”
Module/Lecturer: EN3007 Experimental Fiction/Alan Gibbs
The Louise Clancy Memorial Prize
Winner
Name: Robert Lyons
Student Number: 118748505
Dissertation Title: “Shades of Meaning: The Didactic Role of Ghosts in English 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.
Joint Winner
Name: Aoife O’Sullivan
Student Number: 119397246
Grade: 91%
Joint Winner
Name: Shannagh Whelan
Student Number: 119427094
Grade: 91%