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Dr Daria Moskvitina from Zaporizhzhia State Medical University in Ukraine visited Trinity between October 7-11.During her visit, Dr. Moskvitina gave two public lectures, one on the history of Shakespeare stage productions in Ukraine for the School of English's Staff-Graduate Seminar and one on translations of Shakespeare into Ukrainian for the Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation. She also taught two guest classes for Dr. Vyroubalova's Global Shakespeare module and audited a number of other lectures and seminars. The visit was funded jointly by an award from the Visting Professorships and Fellowships Benefactions Fund received by Dr. Vyroubalova, by the School of English, and by the Senior Tutor's Office
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Congratulations to Dr Paul Delaney and Deirdre Madden on the publication of 'David Marcus: Editing Ireland'.This new volume explores the work and the legacy of the legendary Irish editor, David Marcus. The book is published by The Stinging Fly Press, and the photo features Deirdre and Paul, together with Declan Meade (publisher and editor of Stinging Fly).
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TCD School of English Evening Lectures Series 2024This 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
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Congratulations to Prof Nicholas Grene on the launch of his new book 'Irish Theatre in the Twenty-First Century'.'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.
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Congratulations to third-year School of English PhD student Rian Boyle, Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholar, on winning the best linguistics paper prize at the 34th Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature held at the University of Granada between 18 and 20 September.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’.
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