Prizes
Dompierre-Chaufepié Prize:
This prize was founded in 1912 by a gift from Gerard Alston Exham, Fellow 1895-1920, in memory of Eugénie de Dompierre de Chaufepié, of The Hague. It is awarded annually on the results of the Senior Freshman examination. A candidate must have attended two terms of honor lectures in French previous to the examination and must be approved by the Professor. Value: €90.
Owen Sheehy Skeffington Memorial Awards:
This fund was established in 1973 from funds contributed in memory of Dr Owen Sheehy Skeffington. The annual away takes the form in alternate years of a maintenance grant (2013)and a travelling scholarship (2014) of approximately €2,000. The maintenance grant will be awarded to a Senior Freshman or Junior Sophister student of French in Trinity College, criteria for the award being a combination of academic promise and financial need.
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Lisa Sexton Memorial Award
This fund was established in 2005 in memory of Lisa Sexton by her family and friends to provide financial assistance and recognition of academic achievement for course work assessment essays in the Junior Sophister French options to a student who intends to continue to Senior Sophister moderatorship part II in French. The fund is to be administered by the Trinity Benefaction Fund in conjunction with the Head of the French Department. The award amount is to be €250 annually and is to be granted during Michaelmas term of the student’s Senior Sophister year.
Barbara Wright Prize
This prize was founded in 2006 by a gift from Barbara Wright, her colleagues and friends, to mark her retirement after forty years of service. It is awarded annually to the Senior Sophister who obtains the highest result, and not less than a First, in French Literature, in Part II of the Moderatorship examination in French. Should there be no suitably qualified candidate, the Prize, in the year in question, will accrue to the capital endowment of the award.
Value, €175.
French Government Bronze Medal
These medals are awarded to the best candidates in French in each of the degree programmes at the final year examinations in the Department of French