The School hosted its annual  welcome  event in the Staff Common Room this Wednesday evening. Certificates were awarded in recognition of last year’s best undergraduate work, and we also took the opportunity to  welcome new staff, postdoctoral fellows, postgraduate students, our new writer-in-residence Thomas Morris, and the Frank O’Connor International Fellow in the Short Story, Marie-Helene Bertino. Recipients of the awards - Ashley Manning, Darragh McGrath, Alex Hayes, Gemma Kent and Victoria Lester - came with their familes to share a glass of wine, meet staff members, and listen to poet Leanne O'Sullivan giving a short reading.