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Pádraic Whyte been awarded funding of €20,000 under the Strand 8: New Foundations programme, awarded by the Irish Research Council in partnership with the Shared Island unit, Department of Taoiseach. This is one of only 11 awards under the scheme that is funded by the Department of the Taoiseach. This funding has been awarded for the project, Reading Rooms: Fostering constructive and inclusive dialogue between communities. This inter-disciplinary project will investigate and advance the potential of shared reading groups to promote higher levels of empathy between communities by stimulating purposeful cross-community dialogue among Northern Ireland interface communities. Trinity College Dublin will partner with Verbal, a voluntary organisation with nearly 30 years’ experience working to improve cross-community relations in Northern Ireland.

The information outlines the planning for a resumption of non-teaching activities after the COVID-19 shutdown of the University and considering national and local guidelines. The planning and risk assessment provide for a safe resumption of work on campus by all members of the School.

This course, delivered by Trinity School of English staff, will ask: How have culture, history, and politics shaped the stories that we tell about the end of the world? How have we thought about the apocalypse (which means, of course, “revelation”, as well as termination)? How will we think about it in the future? Might the end of the world, in 2021, at last really be nigh? This lecture series will engage with the many forms that the end of the world has taken in literature, and ask: why do we love to tell Stories of the End?

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. The prize has been awarded annually since 1976, through the generosity of the late Dr Daniel Rooney, and of his wife Patricia.The Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre is deeply honoured that Dr Peter Rooney, their nephew, is the new benefactor of the Rooney Prize, continuing the Rooney family’s long association with Irish Literature and support for ‘the longest-established literary prize’. Since 1976 the prize has achieved renown as one of the most distinguished of Irish literary awards.

One of our PhD candidates, Amelia McConville discusses her unique and fascinating Neurohumanities research. Supervised by Prof. Philip Coleman and Prof. Mani Ramaswam, Amelia’s Irish Research Council-funded project specifically looks at what neuroscience can tell us about readers’ encounters with visual works by experimental poets like Susan Howe, bpNichol and Derek Beaulieu. Amelia is one of a growing number of scholars using cognitive theory to consider the reception of literary texts.