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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 book tickets online using this link to Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/tcd-school-of-english-evening-lectures-michaelmas-term-2024-tickets-1007368294687

'Irish Theatre in the Twenty-First Century' is the first in-depth study of the subject. It analyses the ways in which theatre in Ireland has developed since the 1990s when emerging playwrights Martin McDonagh, Conor McPherson, and Enda Walsh turned against the tradition of lyrical eloquence with a harsh and broken dramatic language.

Rian’s paper was entitled ‘A Thought too Far: a corpus approach to ‘bad knowledge’ in Old English’. Rian is supervised by Dr Mark Faulkner, and working on her PhD thesis, ‘A Data-Driven Approach to the Regulation of Social Norms in Old English Texts’.

The English Association was founded in 1906 by a small group of English teachers and scholars, including F.S. Boas, A.C. Bradley and Sir Israel Gollancz. It took a leading part in the movement to develop English studies in schools, while encouraging advanced studies in further education. Past Presidents of the Association have included John Galsworthy, Harley Granville-Barker, Sir Kenneth Clark and George Steiner.

According to psychological research on acting, the histrionic personality consists of a compulsive tendency to play-act, exaggerate emotions, succumb to illusions, to seek attention through speech, body language, and costume, to be seductive and impulsive. An original intervention in the critical history of Shakespeare’s most famous play, Histrionic Hamlet argues that the Danish Prince is a stage representation of just such a personality—a born actor and a drama queen rather than a politician—incongruously thrown in the middle of ruthless high-stakes power struggle requiring pragmatic rather than theatrical skills.