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UCC English BA graduates recognised at Global Undergraduate Awards

- Hannah Fitzgerald named Ireland’s top literature essayist.
- Morpheas Hadjigeorgiou receives Highly Commended Award.
- Global Undergraduate Awards celebrate the best undergraduate work worldwide, with entries reviewed by international experts.
Two UCC English graduates have received international recognition at the Global Undergraduate Awards 2025, the world’s leading undergraduate awards programme.
Hannah Fitzgerald, now enrolled in the MA English: Modernities at UCC, has been named the Global Undergraduate Awards prize-winner for best literature essay in Ireland. Her winning essay, ‘On Ethics and Aesthetics: The Poetic Justice of Kimberly Campanello’s MOTHERBABYHOME’, was submitted as part of Dr Adam Hanna’s third-year seminar module, Irish Poetry Since Yeats.
Morpheas Hadjigeorgiou, also a graduate of the BA in English, received a Highly Commended Award for his essay ‘Silent Voices’, adapted from his BA dissertation under the supervision of Dr Heather Laird.
Read more on the CACSSS website