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The School of English at Trinity College Dublin is delighted to announce that it will be hosting Niamh Campbell and Nathan O’Donnell as the inaugural Beckett Creative Fellows this coming academic year, 2022-23. As Beckett Creative Fellows Niamh Campbell and Nathan O’Donnell will produce original creative works that draw on traces and threads of Beckett’s ideas discovered in the archive. The Beckett Creative Fellowships at Trinity are coordinated by the School of English in partnership with The Library of Trinity College Dublin, Trinity Long Room Hub, and Trinity Centre for Beckett Studies. This project is a collaboration with the Beckett Creative Fellowships organised by the Samuel Beckett Research Centre at the University of Reading

Dr Mark Faulkner and Declan O’Sullivan with the Adapt Centre have secured Irish Research Council funding for the Searobend project, under the COALESCE programme. The two-year research project based at the School of English and SFI ADAPT Centre will use techniques from computer science to link fifteen major resources for the study of English texts from the High Middle Ages (c. 1000-1300). This will shed fresh light on how many of these precious manuscripts and texts survive from this period and what proportion are available digitally. This will considerably enhance the utility of these resources for scholars and will facilitate the next generation of research on this formative period of literary, linguistic and cultural history.

This course, delivered by Trinity School of English staff, will provide an introduction to major authors of poetry, drama and prose through close examination of selected texts, chosen from among those prescribed for the Leaving Certificate. The course will be of special interest to teachers and pupils preparing for the examination but the lectures will be directed towards a more general audience as well. Please click to book tickets on Eventbrite

Congratulations to Deirdre Madden on the publishing of "New Critical Essays" Edited by Anne Fogarty and Marisol Morales-Ladron. Published by Manchester University Press. This pioneering set of essays explores the key motifs and themes in the works of the Irish novelist, Deirdre Madden, about the Northern Irish Troubles and their aftermath and changing social values in contemporary Ireland.

Congratulations to Dr Mark Faulkner on the publishing of "A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century: Language and Literature between Old and Middle English"! Dr. Faulkner says: "My New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century: Language and Literature between Old and Middle English, is an attempt to provide a new account of what happened to English in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest to replace the narrative of its immediate repression that these scholars have so firmly discredited...."