Welcome to the School Of English
Ranked 5th in Europe and 32nd in the World
Welcome to the School of English, Trinity College which is part of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. The School is one of the oldest in Britain or Ireland and in 1867 founded the first ever Chair in English Literature. On this website you will find details of courses for undergraduate, post-graduate, research and visiting students by clicking on the relevant links plus contact details of staff, their research and publications, the Oscar Wilde Centre, School Handbooks and much more information. You can now join us on Facebook .
News & Events
- Literature and Religion: A Symposium in honour of Professor Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. Long Room Hub: May 31st. Click here for more.
- New Metre online archive: please click here for more details.
- The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society/An Cumann Éire San OchtúCéadDéag 2012 Annual Conference will be held in the Long Room Hub, TCD in June 2012. The CFP is now open: click here for further details.
- School of English graduate student John Curran's Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making (2011) has been nominated for the 2012 Edgar non-fiction award. His bestselling Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks (2010) won the prestigious Anthony, Macavity, and Agatha awards, as well as having been shortlisted for the 2011 Edgar.
- The School of English has done exceptionally well in the QS World University Rankings for Arts & Humanities. We have been ranked 32nd in the world and 5th in Europe, and are the only Irish institution to be placed in the top 50 worldwide. Click here for more details.
- The Bram Stoker Centenary Conference will be held in TCD from 4th-6th July 2012. For further details please click here.
- Tolkien: The Forest and the City Conference, TCD September 21-22, 2012. Click here for details. For information contact: Dr. H. Conrad-O'Briain
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