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To celebrate the appointment of Eoin McNamee as Director of the Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing, the School of English hosted a reading and reception in the Trinity Long Room Hub on Monday 27th October.

School of English lecturers Eve Patten and Tom Walker have joined Professor Frank Shovlin of the Institute of Irish Studies at Liverpool University as founding editors of a new academic monograph series, Liverpool Studies in Irish Literature.

The 2019 Hubert Butler Essay Prize, on the topic, 'Where does a citizen of the world belong?', has been awarded to Andrew Hammond, King’s College Cambridge. You can read the winning essay at the link above, along with an introduction by Professor Nicholas Grene, who was one of the judges.

The School of English with Poetry Ireland hosted a reading by American poet Henri Cole at Poetry Ireland on Tuesday 22 October 2019.

Trinity graduate and writer Mark has been awarded €10,000 as this year's winner for his debut book To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death.