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The School of English is delighted to announce that two fully-funded four-year doctoral awards will be available from September 2019 on two Provost’s Project PhD awards: Big Dating - Using Medieval Data to Date Medieval Texts (PI: Dr Mark Faulkner) and Shirley Jackson: Beyond Hill House (PI: Dr Bernice Murphy).

Congratulations to Rohan Swamy, former M.Phil. in Creative Writing student, for contributing an article in the latest Times Study Abroad book, where he speaks about his time in the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre.

This course will survey the literature of fear from the Anglo-Saxons up to the present, exploring how literary works have set out both to frighten their audiences and to reflect on the very nature of fear itself.

A one-hour programme which is part meditation, part performance, as poet Gerald Dawe and singer Eleanor Shanley explore the idea of ‘home’, with prose, poetry and songs from Belfast, Galway and Dublin. What makes a place a home? Is it family? A location that becomes inextricably linked to significant life experiences? Walking streets that become so familiar that you can retrace them in your mind?

2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of IASIL (or IASAIL, the International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature, as it existed in its first incarnation).