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The School of English celebrated the publication of "Irish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion", edited by Jarlath Killeen (TCD) and Christina Morin (UL) and "Imagining the Irish Child: Discourses of Childhood in Irish Anglican Writing of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries" by Jarlath Killeen (TCD) in the Long Room Hub, on the 24th November.

This lecture drew attention to the prominence of animals in eighteenth-century writing. It was particularly interested in how writers across the eighteenth century developed innovative literary forms to represent non-human creatures, and to explore related moral and epistemological issues.

We are delighted to announce that a postgraduate conference on the representation of trauma and violence in the humanities will be organised by Elena Valli and Ginevra Bianchini, two PhD researchers from the School of English in Trinity College Dublin, on the 9th February 2024 in person and online at the Trinity Long Room Hub. We welcome abstracts of 300 words and a short bio of about 100 words to pgengconference2024@gmail.com from postgraduate and early career researchers working on any subject area of the humanities and social sciences by Monday 11th December. The organisers can be reached at the above email address with any questions.

This prize is named in memory of a graduate of the School, Paul Newham (1965-2012), and is awarded annually to a mature student for outstanding performance in Moderatorship.

Congratulations to Valeriia Shmyrova (Junior Fresh in English Studies) on winning New Voices: The An Post Writing Prize. The new writing competition was introduced as part of An Post’s extended sponsorship of the Irish Book Awards until 2025. Irish based Ukrainian writers aged 16+ were invited to compose a new and original short story, essay, or poem, in either English or Ukrainian, describing their experiences of flight and exile in no more than 1,000 words.