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SCHOOL OF ENGLISH UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS RESULTS 2020-2021

Congratulations to the winners of this year's School of English Undergraduate Awards, who are listed below.
The Louise Clancy Memorial Prize
Winner: Robert Lyons
Dissertation Title: “Shades of Meaning: The Didactic Role of Ghosts in English Literature”
The Éamonn Ó Carragáin Prize
Joint Winner
Name: Aoife O’Sullivan
Joint Winner
Name: Shannagh Whelan
The Patricia Coughlan Award
Winner: Robyn Coombes
Essay Title: “The Maternal Burden: An Ecofeminist Consideration of ‘The Last Rabbit’ and ‘The Women Turns Herself into a Fish’”
Highly Recommended: Sarah Byrne
Essay Title: “‘To the Women Hovering’: A Discussion of the Representation of Gender and Biological Sex in Seamus Heaney’s North”
The School Undergraduate Awards (2nd Year)
Winner: Ciara O’Connor
Essay Title: “Bell, Book and Candle as a Queer-Coded Text”
Highly Recommended: Grace Morey
Essay Title: “Psychoanalysis Meets Aesthetics: An Analysis of the Uncanny in The Monk and We Have Always Lived in the Castle”
Highly Recommended: Ellen Lahiff
Essay Title: “How The Black Vampyre and Carmilla Incorporate and Respond to their Respective Cultural Anxieties”
The School Undergraduate Awards (3rd Year)
Joint Winner: Maria Quirke
Essay Title: “‘Spurning at Slavery’: The Influence of Abolitionist Literature on Mary Wollstonecraft’s Rhetoric of Motherhood in Maria; or The Wrongs of Women”
Joint Winner: Cian Egan
Essay Title: “Archaic Motherhood and Primal Fear: How Ridley Scott’s Alien Evokes the Abject”
Highly Recommended: Rachel O’Connor
Essay Title: “The Flower of the Mountain and the Old Maid: Anxieties about Aging in James Joyce’s Ulysses”
Highly Recommended: Joseph Linehan
Essay Title: “The ‘Helenic’ Element: Helen of Sparta and Gendered Myth in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats”
Highly Recommended: Sonja Lauren Murphy
Essay Title: “A Comparison of Genettean and Post-Genettean Narratology, with Reference to Little Constructions by Anna Burns”