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The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature is for an outstanding body of work by an emerging Irish writer under forty years of age. The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature is valued at €10,000. Deadline for submissions 2 June 2020

The shortlist for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2020 has been announced today. This is the second year of the prize, awarded annually for an outstanding debut poetry book collection in the English language. Valued at €10,000, the prize is sponsored by the John Pollard Foundation, and administered by the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin.

Play Book, the latest book by poet Maurice Scully was launched by Dr Lucy Collins (UCD) at an event in the New Common Room in College on Monday 3 February 2020. The launch was hosted by the School of English and was also the first event in a year of celebrations marking the 70th anniversary of Icarus magazine, which Maurice Scully edited when he was a student in College in the 1970s. The launch was attended by the publishers of Play Book -- Simon Cutts and Erica Van Horn of Coracle Books -- as well as staff and students of the School of English, including Meg-Elizabeth Lynch and Florence Heap (Icarus co-editors for 2019-20).

The Trinity Long Room Hub-and the Society of Fellows and Heyman Centre for the Humanities at Columbia awarded the 2020 Fellowship to Prof. Jones, Trinity School of English.

The University of Melbourne have announced that Prof. Chris Morash, Seamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing, has been awarded a MacGeorge Fellowship for 2020. The MacGeorge Fellowships are named for the Australian artist and patron of the arts, Norman Macgeorge, who along with his wife May, endowed a fellowship "with special emphasis on those studying fine arts, literature, history of philosophy".