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One foot in front of the other: setting the aqua marathon world record in aid of the Kevin Bell TrustIn commemoration of the life of Trinity/Columbia dual BA student Ella Mills, who died in a kayaking accident in the US last year, her father Ralph will attempt to set the world record for running the marathon - in a swimming pool! All funds raised are going to The Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust, which works to alleviate the hardship suffered by families whose loved ones have died abroad in tragic circumstances.
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Dr Ema Vyroubalová participated in the first Ukrainian Shakespeare Festival, which took place between June 17 and 23 at the Ivan Franko National Academic Music and Drama Theatre in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk in the west of Ukraine.The festival featured 11 productions of Shakespeare’s plays, including Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Coriolanus, Macbeth, The Tempest, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by ensembles from Ukraine, Moldova, Italy, and Poland. In the academic portion of the festival’s programme, Dr Vyroubalová presented on panels focused on European translations of Shakespeare and Shakespeare at times of war. The organizers managed to put together the rich programme despite the considerable challenges posed by the ongoing aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.
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'The Edinburgh Companion to W. B. Yeats and the Arts' edited by Prof Charles I. Armstrong, Dr Adrian Paterson, and Associate Professor Tom Walker has been published.The first book to comprehensively address Yeats’s engagements across the arts as both writer and cultural worker. The book includes detailed case studies which capture the complex history of Yeats as an inter-arts thinker and collaborator.
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Congratulations to Dr Bernice M. Murphy who has been awarded the 2024 award for best scholarly monograph on the American Gothic by the Society for the Study of the American Gothic.The book in question was 'The California Gothic in Fiction and Film', which was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2022. More information at the link!
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Wandering Books - 4 Fully Funded PhDs on Early Medieval Manuscripts at Trinity College DublinWandering Books seeks to address the challenge of better localising manuscripts. It brings together a geneticist (Prof. Dan Bradley), a manuscript specialist (Dr Nicole Volmering), an intellectual historian (Dr Immo Warntjes) and a historical linguist (Dr Mark Faulkner) to supervise between them four PhDs taking distinct methodological approaches to the same corpus of manuscripts deriving from early medieval Britain and Ireland: one hunting the animals whose skins made the manuscripts, one tracing the techniques used to assemble the skins into a book and write it, another tracking the texts it contains as they diffused across Europe, and a fourth listening for the languages the manuscript contains.
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