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Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin has been elected Saoi by the members of Aosdána. Eiléan now becomes the 21st Saoi in the history of Aosdána.The honour of Saoi is bestowed for singular and sustained distinction in the arts. In a ceremony on Thursday, President Michael D Higgins will confer the gold Torc, marking her election to the position of Saoi of Aosdána. Eiléan will be presented with the symbol of the office, a gold Torc, later in the year. The other Saoithe are Roger Doyle, Seóirse Bodley, George Morrison, Edna O’Brien, Camille Souter and Imogen Stuart.

The remarkable career of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin will be celebrated twice this week, ahead of her upcoming 80th birthday later this month. In a ceremony on Thursday, President Michael D Higgins will confer the gold Torc, marking her election to the position of Saoi of Aosdána. On Saturday, the 19th of November a symposium at Trinity College Dublin will explore her work.

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.

Children’s Books Ireland and the School of English (Trinity College Dublin) have today announced the recipient of the 2022 Inclusivity Partnership award. The partnership enables researchers to work closely with experts in the area of children’s books to investigate key issues in contemporary publishing for young readers. The recipient, Erin Laidlaw, was a student from the M.Phil programme in Children’s Literature at Trinity College Dublin. Under the supervision of Dr Pádraic Whyte, she led an investigation into the representation of refugees in contemporary picturebooks selected from Children’s Books Ireland’s Together with Refugees: Reading Guide (2022)

In Tribute: The Teresa Deevy Story, which aired on RTE 1 at on November 10 (and available after on the RTÉ Player), performance artist Amanda Coogan recovers the life and work of one of Ireland’s forgotten playwrights, Teresa Deevy. Along the way, she stages a lost work – Possession – and talks to various people about Deevy, including Prof. Chris Morash of the School of English.