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New critical perspectives on Deirdre Madden

Congratulations to Deirdre Madden on the publishing of "New Critical Essays" Edited by Anne Fogarty and Marisol Morales-Ladron. Published by Manchester University Press. This pioneering set of essays explores the key motifs and themes in the works of the Irish novelist, Deirdre Madden, about the Northern Irish Troubles and their aftermath and changing social values in contemporary Ireland.

2022 August 10
A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century: Language and Literature between Old and Middle English

Congratulations to Dr Mark Faulkner on the publishing of "A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century: Language and Literature between Old and Middle English"! Dr. Faulkner says: "My New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century: Language and Literature between Old and Middle English, is an attempt to provide a new account of what happened to English in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest to replace the narrative of its immediate repression that these scholars have so firmly discredited...."

2022 August 10
Book launch of The Literary Papers of the Reverend Jermyn Pratt by Dr Ema Vyroubalová and Dr James Robert Wood

Congratulations to Dr Ema Vyroubalová on the launch of The Literary Papers of the Reverend Jermyn Pratt (1723-1791), a volume of Pratt’s literary work, much of which was previously available only in manuscript, co-edited with Dr James Robert Wood (University of East Anglia).

2022 July 13
Book Launch of "All Down Darkness Wide" by Dr. Sean Hewitt

Warm congratulations to Dr. Sean Hewitt on the launch of his memoir "All Down the Darkness Wide" on the 14th of July 2022. "A luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming of age, and a fearless exploration of queer identity and trauma." Click to pre-order now.

2022 June 28
Call for submissions for The John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2023

The John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize is for an outstanding debut poetry book collection by a poet, in the English language. The John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize is valued at €10,000 and will be adjudicated by a panel of judges nominated by the John Pollard Foundation, and the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. The deadline for submissions is October 18th 2022. Please Click here to view application details

2022 June 22
Digitisation of one of the world’s finest medieval manuscripts, the Book of St Albans

One of the most finely illustrated medieval manuscripts, Matthew Paris’s Book of St Albans, has been digitised by the Library of Trinity College Dublin for the first time. The 13th century masterpiece features 54 individual works of medieval art and has fascinated readers across the centuries, from royalty to renaissance scholars. Created by the renowned scribe, the Benedictine monk Matthew Paris of St Albans Abbey in England, the manuscript chronicles the life of St Alban, the first Christian martyr in England. It also outlines the construction of St Albans cathedral. The Book of St Albans has been fully digitised ahead of the feast day of St Alban, Wednesday, 22nd June. Contributors are: Director of the M.Phil in Medieval Studies, Dr Mark Faulkner, Librarian and College Archivist, Helen Shenton and Manuscripts Curator, Estelle Gittins.

2022 June 21
International Gothic Association Conference 2022

The 16th International Gothic Association Conference adopts the conference theme ‘Gothic Interruptions’ in order to encourage an interrogation of the ways in which Gothic and horror can frame such contemporary (and historical) events as moments that are also loaded with possibility.

2022 June 20
Cormac McCarthy International Conference, June 14-17, 2022

A four-day international conference organised by the School of English, The Cormac McCarthy Society, and the Irish Association for American Studies. Registration is essential in advance of the conference, and can be arranged by emailing: smttrson@tcd.ie

2022 June 13
JAMES JOYCE: ULYSSES 1922–2022 XXVIII INTERNATIONAL JAMES JOYCE SYMPOSIUM

On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the publication of Ulysses, Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin will host the 28th International James Joyce Symposium, and invite Joyceans to return once again to the city he situated so durably and resoundingly on the literary map. Hosted by Sam Slote (TCD), Tom Walker (TCD), Luca Crispi (UCD), Anne Fogarty (UCD) Academic Committee: Valérie Bénéjam (Université de Nantes), Tim Conley (Brock University), the symposium takes plave between the 13th and 18th of June. The keynote academic speakers are Katherine O'Callaghan and Anne Marie D’Arcy. The invited writers are Mark O'Connell and Eimear McBride.

2022 June 13
Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings organized by Ema Vyroubalová and Míša Králová

Reading of short plays written by contemporary Ukrainian playwrights took place in the Beckett Theatre on June 1st. The event was organized by Ema Vyroubalová and final-year-student Míša Králová together with DU Players Ide Simpson, Shauna Lynch, and Lauren Kelly, and Ukrainian guest Elina Herasymchuk from Chernihiv. All four plays that were read have been written since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and reflect on what the country has been enduring since the beginning of this war. The organizers and actors chose to dedicate the event to Ukraine's defenders. The reading was part of the Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings initiative launched in early March, which seeks to provide Ukrainian writers with a platform for sharing their work, for theatres and artists outside of Ukraine to express their solidarity with Ukraine's people, and fundraise for Ukrainian organizations.

2022 June 10
Online Symposium, Reading Rooms: Fostering Constructive and Inclusive Dialogue between Communities

This online symposium is part of an inter-disciplinary research project (Trinity College Dublin and Verbal) that investigates and advances the potential of shared reading groups to stimulate purposeful cross-community dialogue among Northern Ireland interface communities. Dr Pádraic Whyte and Dr Liz Nixon are Co–Principal Investigator on the Reading Rooms and bring their expertise in literary analysis and reader-response theories as well as qualitative research to this project. The symposium is organized by Dr. Whyte and Dr. Nixon with support from the Trinity Long Room Hub and funding from the Irish Research Council and the Department of the Taoiseach’s Shared Island Initiative. Oein DeBhairduin will be the Keynote speaker.

2022 June 9
Ulysses in 80 Days: Read Ireland’s greatest book this summer

Ulysses in 80 Days is a book club launched by a group of determined readers who plan to read Ulysses in 80 days in summer 2022, and who are inviting anyone interested to join them.

2022 June 1
Inaugural Lecture of Professor Darryl Jones

Darryl Jones delivered a public lecture exploring the background to the writing of Arthur Conan Doyle’s highly successful Hound of the Baskervilles last week. The event marked the occasion of his appointment as Professor of Modern British Literature and Culture at the School of English. A Trinity tradition, an inaugural lecture represents the official recognition of an academic’s promotion to Professor.

2022 June 1
Book Launch – The Written World: Essays and Reviews by Kevin Power

Join Lilliput Press for the launch of The Written World: Essays and Reviews, the highly-anticipated first non-fiction title from acclaimed novelist, critic and essayist, Kevin Power. The Launch will take place at Book Upstairs 17 D Olier Street Dublin 2 on Thursday the 19th of May at 18:00. Carlo Gébler will be the guest speaker on the evening.

2022 April 28
Gail McConnell wins Pollard International Poetry Prize

Gail McConnell has been announced as the winner of the 2022 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize for her debut book The Sun is Open. This is the fourth year of the prize, which is awarded annually for an outstanding debut collection of poetry 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.

2022 April 13
QS World University Rankings 25th for English Language and Literature 2022

The School of English are absolutely delighted with the news that Trinity has been ranked 25th in the world in the QS subject rankings 2022 for English Language and Literature. An improvement from last year's already impressive achievement of 28th. It is a fantastic achievement for the School, a demonstration of the stellar reputation our School has internationally, and a testament to the hard work of all colleagues and our students.

2022 April 7
Poetry Ireland announces guest editor appointments for Poetry Ireland Review and Trumpet

The School of English is delighted to see Professor Gerald Dawe as a guest editor for the Poetry Ireland Review and Trumpet. The three guest editors Colm Keegan, Gerald Dawe, and Nessa O’Mahony each take up editorship of an upcoming issue of the highly regarded poetry journal. Colm Keegan Gerald Dawe, and Nessa O’Mahony are now reviewing submissions for Poetry Ireland Review issues 136, 137 and 138 respectively. Gerald Dawe says, “I'm thrilled to be editing an edition of Poetry Ireland Review and look forward immensely to reading the submissions and working with the team at Poetry Ireland HQ to produce a first-rate issue of this prestigious journal.”

2022 March 30
Director Eve Patten awarded Shared Island funding for project on Ireland’s cultural borderscape

The IRBORDCUL project led by Professor Eve Patten, Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub is among the sixty-two projects in Ireland and in Northern Ireland that have been awarded funding from the North-South Research Programme.Announced by the Taoiseach Micheál Martin T.D. and Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris T.D. on the 2 March 2022. ‘Ireland’s Border Culture: Literature, Arts, and Policy’, is a two-year collaboration between Professor Eve Patten, TCD, and Dr Garrett Carr of the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University, Belfast. Funded under Strand 1 of the programme, It will bring literary and visual resources from Irish border culture and identity to life in order to illuminate Ireland’s ‘cultural borderscape.’

2022 March 14
H.O. White Memorial Lecture, 2022, by Prof Phillip Lopate

The School of English is delighted to announce: The 2022 H.O. White Memorial Lecture will be given by Prof Phillip Lopate (Columbia University) on Wednesday the 30th of March 2022 at 6 pm. Title: 'On Championing the Essay In All Its Variety'. The H.O. White Memorial Lecture was founded in 1964 from funds provided by subscription to commemorate Herbert Martyn Oliver White, Professor of English Literature, Trinity College Dublin, 1939-60. Prof Lopate will be welcomed to Trinity by the Vice Provost, Prof Orla Shiels, and to the School of English by Prof Jarlath Killeen. Prof Lopate’s lecture will be introduced by Prof Philip Coleman.

2022 March 14
28th International James Joyce Symposium

The School of English, in cooperation with UCD’s School of English and Drama, will be organising and hosting the 28th International James Joyce Symposium on 12–18 June 2022 to mark the centennial of the publication of Ulysses.

2022 March 11
Poetry of the ‘Troubles’ revisited by Ireland Professor of Poetry

The School of English and the Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust are delighted to present Poetry of the ‘Troubles’ Revisited, a lecture by Frank Ormsby, Ireland Professor of Poetry. The Ireland Chair of Poetry was established by the Arts Council/ An Chomhairle Ealaíon, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Trinity College Dublin, Queen’s University Belfast and University College Dublin to celebrate the exceptional contribution of Irish poets to the world of literature. Professor Ormsby is the eighth Ireland Professor of Poetry, taking up the position from its previous holder, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin in 2019.

2022 March 11
Book Launch for Three School of English Academic Staff

Congratulations to Prof. Nicholas Grene, Prof. Chris Morash and Dr Sean Hewitt on the launch of their books. The book launch event was hosted by TCD Provost Dr. Linda Doyle. Books launched are: Farming in Modern Irish Literature by Prof. Nicholas Grene, Yeats on Theatre by Prof. Chris Morash, and J.M. Synge Nature, Politics, Modernism by Dr. Sean Hewitt

2022 March 10
Shortlist for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize announced

The shortlist for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2022 has been announced by the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre. This is the fourth year of the prize, awarded annually for an outstanding debut collection of poetry in the English language. The shortlisted publications are: The Wild Fox of Yemen (Picador) by Threa Almontaser; The Sun Is Open (Penned in the Margins) by Gail McConnell; Auguries of a Minor God (Faber) by Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe; Bird of Winter (Liverpool University Press) by Alice Hiller; Rotten Days in Late Summer (Penguin) by Ralf Webb; and Life Without Air (Granta) by Daisy Lafarge.

2022 February 25
Kemble Lecture: Prof. Chris Jones, University of St Andrews

The School of English is delighted to welcome Prof. Chris Jones to deliver the postponed 2021 Kemble Lecture. Prof. Jones is one of the foremost scholars of the modern reception of Old English. The lecture will take place on Thursday, the 24th of February at 5pm in the Long Room Hub. The title of the lecture is 'Each His Own Lord: Anglo-Saxons, neo-Old English, the New English Nationalism and Brexit'. Attendees are asked to register using Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/kemble-lecture-prof-chris-jones-university-of-st-andrews-tickets-260263163127

2022 February 4
Professor Chris Morash interviews on RTE Arena about the Dublin Literary Award 2022 after Longlist announcement

Professor Chris Morash spoke on chairing the Judging Panel for the Dublin Literary wards 2022 and reviewed the recently announced 2022 longlist at his interview with RTE Radio 1. Four novels from Ireland are among the 79 books nominated by libraries around the world for the 2022 DUBLIN Literary Award, which is sponsored by Dublin City Council. Now in its 27th year, this award is the world’s most valuable annual prize for a single work of fiction published in English, worth €100,000 to the winner. The shortlist will be unveiled on 22nd March 2022 and the winner will be announced by Lord Mayor of Dublin, Alison Gilliland, on 19th May 2022, as part of the opening day of International Literature Festival Dublin, which is also funded by Dublin City Council.

2022 February 1
The Brendan Kennelly Memorial Celebration

The Provost, Dr. Linda Doyle and The School of English, Trinity College Dublin, will be hosting an evening of memories and readings in celebration of the life and work of Professor Brendan Kennelly in the Examination Hall, Front Square, on the 3rd of February, 2022, at 5.15pm. This memorial will be livestreamed on the Trinity College Dublin home Page. The Link will be made available to watch the livestream of the memorial below the What's On section of the Trinity College Dublin homepage.

2022 January 27
Hilary Fannin has been appointed as Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin.

The School of English welsomes Hilary Fannin as our new Writer Fellow. Hilary Fannin is an award-winning novelist, memoirist, playwright and newspaper columnist. Her novel, THE WEIGHT OF LOVE (Doubleday, 2020), won the John McGahern Award for best Irish fiction debut. She was also shortlisted as Newcomer of the Year in the Bord Gáis Irish Energy Book Awards for her memoir, HOPSCOTCH (Doubleday, 2015). As a playwright, her work has been performed in Ireland, Europe and North America. She was writer in association at the Abbey Theatre in its centenary year, 2004. Her radio plays have been broadcast on RTÉ and BBC.

2022 January 26
Pádraic Whyte: one of 11 awardees of the New Foundations awards made by the Irish Research Council

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.

2022 January 17
Return to campus staff information

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.

2022 January 6
Trinity Public Evening Lecture Series: Stories of the End Apocalypse and Literature

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?

2021 December 20
The Rooney Prize for Literature 2022

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.

2021 December 15
Neurohumanities PhD Research, Irish Times: Opening new frontiers through deep collaboration between science and humanities

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.

2021 December 13
Congratulations to Ronan O'Hanlon (English Studies) who is the recipient of the third Paul Richard Turner Newham prize.

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.

2021 November 16
Derek Mahon: A Celebration

This commemorative symposium will examine and celebrate Mahon's extraordinary body of writing on 19-20 November 2021 at Trinity College Dublin. Bringing together leading poets and scholars from across the island of Ireland and beyond, it will feature keynote lectures from Lucy Collins, Hugh Haughton and Edna Longley, readings from Harry Clifton, Leontia Flynn, Michael Longley and Paula Meehan, and contributions from John Banville, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Gerald Dawe, among many others.

2021 November 16
Congratulations to Professor Andrew Murphy, on his inaugural lecture 'Shakespeare from the Periphery' held on 02 November.

The event was held to mark Professor Murphy’s appointment as Professor of English Literature (1867) at the School of English.

2021 November 3
It is with great sadness that the School marks the death of renowned poet and academic Brendan Kennelly in Listowel, in his native Co. Kerry, yesterday, aged 85.

As a writer, Brendan was creative, prolific, and accessible. While best known as a poet, he also wrote novels, plays, worked as an editor, anthologist, critic, and contributed enormously to Irish public life in his contributions to newspapers and television. He is best known for his 30 collections of poetry, and especially for his provocative Cromwell (1983), The Book of Judas (1991) and Poetry My Arse (1995), which were bestsellers as well as being critically acclaimed.

2021 October 18
Congratulations to Dr Melanie Otto, on the publication of her article 'Abdulrazak Gurnah: what you need to know about the Nobel prize-winning author' in The Conversation.

Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the 2021 Nobel prize for literature. The Tanzanian novelist, who is based in the UK, was awarded the prize for his 'uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents'. Read more here:

2021 October 11
Warmest congratulations to Martina Devlin, who has successfully completed the School's first PhD in Literary Practice.

Martina's thesis was examined by Colm Tóibín and Kevin Power, and was awarded without correction. The work comprises a novel and a critical component, co-supervised by Carlo Gébler and Paul Delaney. Martina's novel, Edith: A Novel, will be published by Lilliput in February 2022.

2021 October 6
Niamh Campbell awarded 2021 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature

The Rooney Prize, awarded annually since 1976, is one of the most distinguished Irish literary awards. The Prize, which celebrates an outstanding body of work by an emerging Irish writer under 40 years of age, is adjudicated by a panel of judges and administered by the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre for Creative Writing in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin.

2021 October 5
Trinity Public Evening Lecture Series: English Literature

An introduction to major authors of poetry, drama and prose, chosen from among those prescribed for the Leaving Certificate 2022. Book tickets through Eventbrite link:…

2021 September 21
TCD/Arts Council Writer’s Fellowship

Applications are invited from Irish writers of established reputation for the TCD/Arts Council Writer’s Fellowship which is funded by the School of English and by a grant-in-aid from the Arts Council. The Fellowship will be tenable at Trinity College Dublin, for the period January-May 2022.

2021 September 21
Many congratulations to Dr Carlo Gébler, on the release of his new book, I, Antigone.

With this astonishing version of Oedipus' famous demise, Dr Gébler dismantles the polarisation and absolutism of our time. The book ultimately meditates on the illusion of free will, and the warning that context is everything, I, ANTIGONE will be a major contribution to the reclaimed classics.

2021 September 8
The Fitzroy Pyle Postgraduate Entry Bursary 2021 has been awarded to Elena Valli, who will be working under the supervision of Professor Stephen Matterson.

Professor William Fitzroy Pyle (1907-89) was a central figure in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin, and a scholar of Renaissance English Literature, with a particular interest in Shakespeare and Milton. The Fitzroy Pyle Postgraduate Bursary is supported by his family and was established in his honour and covers fees and a stipend for a research student for up to 3 years.

2021 September 3
Call for submissions for The John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2022

The John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize is awarded for an outstanding debut poetry book collection by a poet, in the English language. The deadline for submissions is 18 October 2021. To view application details please click here:

2021 August 17
Dr Kevin Power writes a powerful article for the Irish Times

I’m all about the finer feelings. I’m all about the doubts and fears.

2021 July 12
Hilary Fannin wins John McGahern Book Prize for debut Irish fiction

Many congratulations to Hilary Fannin, a graduate of the Trinity M.Phil. in Creative Writing course who has won the John McGahern Book Prize for debut Irish fiction.

2021 June 30
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin awarded the €10,000 Pigott Poetry Prize

Many congratulations to Prof Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Trinity School of English, who won the €10,000 Pigott Poetry Prize for her Collected Poems, chosen by Maura Dooley and Mark Waldron.

2021 June 2
Book Interview

Dr Kevin Power contrasts privilege and wealth with the realities of writing full-time on the release of his new book, White City. Kevin teaches in the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre in the School of English. Available to buy now in all good bookshops

2021 May 29
Congratulations Caoilinn Hughes, who has won the £10,000 Encore award for The Wild Laughter

Caoilinn is the Trinity School of English Writer Fellow. Caoilinn teaches the M.Phil. in Creative Writing students.

2021 May 20
Congratulations to PhD student Bowen Wang who has been awarded a travel grant by the European Association for American Studies to do archival research in the United States in 2021-22.

Bowen is doing a PhD in the School on the figure of the modernist painter-poet under the supervision of Prof Philip Coleman. His work focusses on e.e. cummings, Djuna Barnes and Mina Loy, and it is funded by the China Scholarship Council.

2021 May 19
Seamus Heaney Memorial Lecture

Join Dr Rosie Lavan, Trinity School of English, for a Seamus Heaney Memorial Lecture, on 13 May 7pm. All welcome.

2021 May 13
Diane Louie wins 2021 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize

Diane Louie has been announced as the winner of the 2021 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize for her first book of poems Fractal Shores. Awarded annually to the author of an outstanding first poetry book collection in the English language and 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, Trinity College Dublin.

2021 April 21
Book Release

Congratulations to Dr Kevin Power, on the release of his new book, White City. Kevin teaches in the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre in the School of English. Available to buy now in all good bookshops

2021 April 15
The Real World of Arthur Conan Doyle

This is an online event hosted on the British Library platform on Sunday, 11 April 2021. Chaired by BBC broadcaster Dr Matthew Sweet, panellists include Shrabani Basu and Dr Clare Clarke, School of English. This fascinating panel event explores the overlooked world of Arthur Conan Doyle – from prejudice and racism to child poverty and upper-class drug addiction.

2021 April 11
Public Fiction Masterclass by Caoilinn Hughes

The School of English at Trinity College Dublin is offering a free fiction masterclass with its current Arts Council of Ireland Writer Fellow, Caoilinn Hughes. Caoilinn Hughes’ latest novel, The Wild Laughter (2020) was shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards' Novel of the Year and the RTÉ Radio 1 Listener's Choice Award, and was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. To view application details please click here:

2021 April 9
The Peter Irons School of English Taught Postgraduate Studentships 2021/22

The School of English is delighted to announce the launch of the Peter Irons Taught Postgraduate Studentships for the academic year 2021-22. The studentships will contribute towards M.Phil. tuition fees (EU or Non-EU) for any School of English taught postgraduate programme. They are generously funded in memory of Peter Irons. Two studentships will be awarded for the 2021/22 academic year: one for an EU student, and one for a non-EU student. For further information, please open this PDF link:

2021 March 18
Catherine Talbot in conversation with Dr Carlo Gébler

Catherine will discuss her debut novel 'A Good Father' in conversation with Dr Carlo Gébler on Wednesday, 10 March 2021 at 5.00 p.m.

2021 March 9
CAO data released today shows that first preference applications to Trinity programmes for 2021 have jumped by 38%!

We are looking forward to our new students joining us in September #CAO #LeavingCert #ThinkTrinity Find out more here:

2021 March 9
Beckett Brunch 2021

The Beckett Brunch is coming back on 24th April 2021 on Zoom. The event will broadcast for the first time from Dublin. Join us from your home with tea, coffee, and croissant! The programme, adapted from the postponed 2020 edition, will be released in the coming weeks. The event is entirely free, but registration is mandatory.

2021 February 26
MA in Opera Making and Writing

This Masters programme allows composers and writers to focus on how new opera is created, developed and performed. Part of an exciting partnership between Guildhall School and the Royal Opera House, the programme centres around the creation of a 25-minute chamber opera which is fully staged in Milton Court Studio Theatre.

2021 February 24
Warmest congratulations to Catherine Talbot on the launch of her debut novel 'A Good Father’.

Catherine was a student on the M.Phil. in Creative Writing in the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre in 2017. The virtual launch will take place on Thursday, 25th February at 7.30 p.m. The event link is available upon request: lfarrell@penuginrandomhouse.ie. @PenguinIEBooks @easons @DubrayBooks #AGoodFather

2021 February 22
Fitzroy Pyle Postgraduate Entry Bursary 2021

The School of English is delighted to announce a new PhD entry Bursary, now open to applicants intending to begin their studies in September 2021. Please note that the March 31st deadline for applying for the 2021 Bursary has now passed: applications are closed. Professor William Fitzroy Pyle (1907-89) was a central figure in the Department of English at Trinity College Dublin, and a scholar of Renaissance English Literature, with a particular interest in Shakespeare and Milton.

2021 February 18
Eimear Ryan announced as 2021 Writer-in-Residence in UCC

Many congratulations to Eimear Ryan, a graduate of the MPhil in Creative Writing, who has been announced as the 2021 Writer-in-Residence in UCC. Eimear's debut novel, Holding Her Breath, will be published by Penguin Sandycove in June 2021.

2021 February 15
Encounters in Greek and Irish Literature: Creativity, Translations and Critical Perspectives

Please join editor Paschalis Nikolaou of the Ionian University, Corfu, and Deirdre Madden of Trinity College Dublin for a discussion about Nikolaou's recent book, Encounters in Greek and Irish Literature, which explores interactions between these two linguistic and cultural traditions, as well as the role that translation has played as an integral part of the dialogue.

2021 February 4
PhD student Rebecca Long awarded Yale-TCD Alumni Bursary for Research in Children’s Literature 2016/17

Congratulations to Rebecca Long who has been awarded this year’s Yale-TCD Alumni Bursary for Research in Children’s Literature.

2016 September 5
Well-versed Van Morrison to headline Aspects Festival - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

Music superstar Van Morrison is to headline this year’s Aspects Festival in Bangor.

2016 August 15
Gerald Dawe - Thurs 22 Sept - Aspects Festival - Irish Literature Festival 2015

Don’t miss the opportunity to hear new and selected work from Gerald Dawe in the atmospheric surroundings of Clandeboye Estate.

2016 August 15
Prof Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Gerald Dawe - Celebrate the work of poet Dorothy Molloy

Ballina Arts Centre will host a literary event of national importance on Thursday, 4th August to celebrate the work of Ballina-born Faber poet Dorothy Molloy.

2016 July 27
M.Phil in Creative Writing graduate secures IRC scholarship

We are delighted to announce that Ms Antonia Hart has been awarded a Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship by the Irish Research Council to complete her research into Irish Women in Business, 1850-1922.

2016 July 11
Government of Ireland International Scholarships Awards 2016.

We are delighted to announce that Ms Dasom Yang, a Master in Philosophy in Creative Writing student, has been awarded a Government of International Education Scholarships Award.

2016 July 7
Prof Gerald Dawe featured on 'Arena' Special, RTE Radio.

Gerald Dawe with Eimear O'Connor discuss the literary and artistic aftermath of The Battle of the Somme, in which thousands of Irishmen from across Ireland perished in one of the bloodiest days in the history of WW1. 2016 July 1st.

2016 July 7
Public Creative Writing Workshop at TCD

The School of English at Trinity College Dublin is offering a free creative writing workshop with its current Arts Council of Ireland Writer Fellow, Gavin Corbett.

2016 June 16
Prof Chris Morash - Announced as new Vice-Provost

Professor Chris Morash has been appointed as Vice-Provost and Chief Academic Officer.

2016 June 15
Putting the “Wild” Back in the Oscar Wilde Centre

With the appointment of enigmatic novelist Ian Sansom as Director, the centre looks set to tackle new areas of literary criticism and writing.

2016 June 14
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin - New Ireland Professor of Poetry

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin has been awarded the prestigious position of the Ireland Professor of Poetry 2016.

2016 May 27
Jane Clarke - Shortlisted for Ondaatje prize

Ondaatje prize shortlist spans globe from Ireland to Sri Lanka

2016 May 18
Dr. Ema Vyroubalová - Attended Shakespeare Conference

On April 22-24 Dr. Ema Vyroubalová with her PhD students Shauna O'Brien and Kaitlyn Culliton attended Shakespeare: The Next 400 Years conference at Kronborg Castle in Helsingør, Denmark (the home of the historical Prince Hamlet).

2016 May 13
Death of a Naturalist - Seamus Heaney in Print, 1966-2016

Exhibition now open in the Long Room (and free to Trinity students and staff)

2016 May 6
Marginal Irish Modernisms Research Network

Marginal Irish Modernisms Research Network Public Study Morning: ‘Visualising the Irish City in the Modernist Age’

2016 May 4
Brendan Kennelly - RTE programme celebrating his 80th birthday

RTE Poetry programme @PoetryProgRTE celebrating Brendan Kennelly's 80th birthday

2016 April 30
M.Phil. in Irish Writing students are to present papers at the “Samuel Beckett and World Literature Conference”

Our best wishes to the six students from the M.Phil. in Irish Writing who are presenting papers at the “Samuel Beckett and World Literature Conference,”

2016 April 27
Dr. Tom Walker - Awarded ACIS 2016 book prize

Dr. Tom Walker is awarded the American Conference for Irish Studies 2016 book prize for books published in 2015.

2016 April 15
Keith Payne - Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary recipient

The School of English wishes to congratulate Keith Payne a former undergraduate who has just been named as the recipient of the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary recipient.

2016 March 23
Dr Paul Delaney - Discusses his research into Irish writer Seán O’Faoláin

Prof Paul Delaney discusses his research into Irish writer Seán O’Faoláin

2016 March 23
Dr Julie Bates - Awarded a Royal Irish Academy Charlemont travel grant

Dr Julie Bates has been awarded a Royal Irish Academy Charlemont travel grant for a week-long research trip to New York in March 2016.

2016 March 21
Roy Mcfadden Library - Oscar Wilde Centre

The Roy McFadden Library, Oscar Wilde Centre was opened on Thursday, 28th January 2016 by the Honorable Sir Donnell Deeny

2016 March 18
Yale-TCD Alumni Bursary - Research in Childrens Literature, 2016

The School of English is now accepting applications for the Yale-TCD Alumni Bursary for Research in Children's Literature, 2016.

2016 March 14
Many congratulations to Dr. Philip Coleman and Dr. Eve Cobain, one of our recently graduated PhD students, on the publication of this ground-breaking collection on American poet Robert Lowell who sported a DLitt from this institution.

There are seventeen essays which explore how poets such as Heaney, Boland, MacNeice, and Yeats engaged with Lowell in their work as well as framing Lowell’s work in Irish-American contexts. Contributors to the volume include Paul Muldoon and Gerald Dawe. The collection concludes with the introduction that Heaney gave a reading by Lowell in Kilkenny 1975 and an afterword by Marie Heaney.
Join us to celebrate the launch of the book, motes, at 6pm on 19 April in the Trinity Long Room Hub. All are warmly welcome.

This past term, a Sophister group in the School of English has written a book in response to the collections of the National Museum of Ireland and the objects that recur in modern and contemporary Irish writing.
Former Graduate, Martin Malone launches new short story collection.

Congratulations to Martin Malone, a graduate of the TCD M.Phil. in Creative Writing Course 2009. Doire Press proudly announces the publication of 'THIS CRUEL STATION' the forthcoming short story collection by Martin Malone.
School of English visit to Fudan University, China

Dr. Philip Coleman visited Fudan University in Shanghai, China, on behalf of the School of English from the 13th to the 20th of May 2017.
Dr. Deirdre Madden recently visited Lisbon for the annual Irish Embassy lecture

Dr. Madden gave a reading at the University of Lisbon and she also gave a creative writing workshop and is seen here with the students.
Gerald Dawe read his poem 'Plinth' during the Remapping Trinity symposium

Gerald Dawe read his poem 'Plinth' during the Remapping Trinity symposium organised by Julie Bates and Rosie Lavan, School of English, TCD, podcast here.
Former Graduate, Rachael Hegarty launches new book 'Flight Paths Over Finglas'

Congratulations to Rachael Hegarty, a graduate of the TCD M.Phil in Creative Writing Course 2000. Rachael invites you to the launch at the Robert Emmet Theatre, Arts Block, Trinity College Dublin, on the 26th May, at 7pm.
National Museum Student launch of the book, motes, at 2pm on 13 May in Collins Barracks.

This past term, a group of students from the School of English wrote a book in response to the collections of the National Museum of Ireland and the objects that recur in modern and contemporary Irish writing. Join us to celebrate the launch of this book, motes, at 2pm on 13 May in Collins Barracks. Copies of the illustrated book will be available and all are warmly welcome.
Former Graduate, Caroline Preston launches new book 'This Tumult'on Wednesday, 10th May

Congratulations to Caroline Preston, a graduate of the TCD M.Phil in Creative Writing Course 2013. Caroline invites you to the launch at the Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson St, Dublin 2, on Wednesday 10th May, at 6.30pm.
Reading with Colette Bryce and Don Paterson, and the launch of Colette Bryce’s Selected Poems

The talk and book launch is at 8pm on Thursday 27 April in the Poetry Ireland, 11 Parnell Square East, Dublin 1. All are warmly welcome to this free event, booking advised.
Remapping Trinity: A literary treasure map of Trinity College Dublin • The Irish Times

Remapping Trinity: A literary atlas offers a chance to explore the university.
Celebrating National Poetry Month: The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets Written by: Gerald Dawe

Celebrate National Poetry Month with Cambridge University Press! In this blog post editor and poet Gerry Dawe discusses his forthcoming book The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets.
Announcement of new Fellow and Scholars - School of English

The School is delighted at the news of Bernice Murphy becoming one of ten new fellows in College, and at three of our SF students, Janice Lynne Deitner (English Studies) Anna Mulligan (English Studies) and Rory O Sullivan (TSM) achieving Scholarship.
Remapping Trinity: A Literary Atlas of the University

A Literary Atlas of the University will explore ideas of place and space through exploring Trinity College itself, and the buildings, objects, and stories which have shaped its past and present identities. Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 April 2017 in Trinity Long Room Hub, TCD
Former Graduate, Martin Malone launches new short story collection.

Congratulations to Martin Malone, a graduate of the TCD M.Phil. in Creative Writing Course 2009. Martin invites you to the launch at the Carlow Library, on the 21st June, at 7pm.
Seamus Deane the poet: coming to terms with the past - The Irish Times • Gerald Dawe

Gerald Dawe reflects upon the uncollected and undercelebrated poetry of a Derry writer best known for his memoir Reading in the Dark.
M.Phil. in Creative Writing Field Trip

Creative Writing students from the Oscar Wilde Centre, together with Deirdre Madden, on a recent field trip in the Merrion Square area.
Former Graduate, Lisa Harding launches new book 'Harvesting'on Wednesday, April 12th

Congratulations to Lisa Harding, a graduate of the TCD M.Phil in Creative Writing Course 2013. ‘Harvesting is shocking – and shockingly good. It is thought-provoking, anger-provoking, guilt-provoking, and – most importantly – it is a brilliantly written novel.’ – Roddy Doyle
School of English Newsletter

The first annual School of English Alumni Newsletter including a welcome from the Head of School, interviews, graduate profiles, upcoming events and more.
"William Trevor: A Huge Alas" - Podcast of the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre Public Lecture

“William Trevor, a Huge Alas” Lecture by Dr Ian Samson, Director of the Oscar Wilde Centre podcast here.
BLAST class visits the National Gallery of Ireland

Students from Dr Philip Coleman's BLAST Sophister Option visited the National Gallery of Ireland recently where they were given a guided tour of relevant materials by Dr Kathryn Milligan.
Public Poetry Masterclass by Colette Bryce

Submissions are invited for places for the Public Poetry Masterclass on Saturday 3rd June, 10am-3pm.
Public Poetry Reading by Colette Bryce

Colette Bryce, School of English Writer Fellow will be giving a public reading from her latest poetry collection The Whole and Rain-domed Universe at Trinity College Dublin, 29th March 2017, 7pm.
Words Ireland Writers Series at TCD

Words Ireland Writers Series is hosting a nationwide meeting for creative writers at TCD on Thursday 2nd March 2017, at 6:30pm
"William Trevor: A Huge Alas" - Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre Public Lecture

The Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing and the School of English, Trinity College Dublin present a Public Lecture by Dr Ian Sansom on Thursday 23rd March 2017, at 6pm.
Lowell and Ireland Symposium

A Centenary Symposium. Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin 3–5 March 2017
Literary Arts Programme - Hilary Term 2017

The Literary Arts Officer, Dr Philip Coleman, is happy to announce an exciting programme of Literary Arts events organised by the School of English for Hilary Term 2017. Further events may be added in due course.
Bloomsday lecture by Dr. Julie Bates

Join Dr. Julie Bates for a talk on museums and literature on Saturday, 17th June 2017 at 2pm in the National Museum of Decorative Arts and History
Former Graduate, James Sumner releases new book

Congratulations to James Sumner, a graduate of the TCD M.Phil. in Creative Writing Course 2005 for his new book The Excursionist. The Excursionist was chosen by the Sunday Mail's Great Outdoor Summer Reads. It’s both a cracking holiday read and stocking filler.
Former graduate, Elaine Cosgrove's work selected for 'The Best New British and Irish Poets 2017' Anthology

Congratulations to Elaine Cosgrove, a graduate of the TCD M.Phil. in Creative Writing Course 2013 whose work was selected for 'The Best New British and Irish Poets 2017' Anthology published by Eyewear in the U.K.
From Decadence to Despair, Rupert Everett on Wilde

'From Decadence to Despair' Actor Rupert Everett on Oscar Wilde exhibition in Library of Trinity, Youtube video.
Public reading by Danielle McLaughlin

Next month Danielle McLaughlin, Visiting Writer Fellow in the Oscar Wilde Centre, will give a public reading at an event hosted by the School of English to celebrate her residency this term.
‘In fifty years or so’

On the fiftieth anniversary of Patrick Kavanagh's death, 30th November 2017, a celebration of his work will take place in the Swift Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College, at 7 p.m.
School of English celebrates Stewart Parker

On 23 November the School will host a special event to celebrate the work of the Belfast writer Stewart Parker.
'Gothic Nature: New Directions in Ecohorror and the Ecogothic’ Conference

The conference will take place in the Long Room Hub on November 17 and 18, 2017.
Dr Philip Coleman awarded an Elmer L. Andersen Research Scholarship

Dr Coleman has been awarded an Elmer L. Andersen Research Scholarship by the University of Minnesota in support of his work on the poet John Berryman. Dr Coleman will visit the University of Minnesota in 2018 to work with Berryman's manuscripts as part of his research on the poet's literary correspondence, which he is currently editing with Calista McRae for Harvard University Press.
Gerald Dawe at the Singapore Writers Festival

Poet and emeritus professor Gerald Dawe will be reading and contributing to panel discussions at the Singapore Writers Festival this month. This international, multi-lingual literary festival has been running since 1986, and it brings together writers, academics and thinkers from all over the world.
Richard Murphy at 90

In the Irish Times, Gerald Dawe pays tribute to the poet Richard Murphy, following celebrations to mark his ninetieth birthday and his major contribution to modern Irish poetry. Read the full article here:
Literary Arts in Michaelmas Term

The School of English is delighted to announce a varied programme of literary events this term, reflecting the diversity of literary activities among colleagues and students.
Prof Calista McRae (New Jersey Institute of Technology) to visit College in November

She will be giving a talk "Lyric (and Letters) as Comedy" on her current research in the Neill Theatre of the Trinity Long Room Hub on Thursday, 9th of November 2017 at 3pm.
A Bram Stoker Halloween with David J. Skal on Tuesday, 31st October, 7pm, the Thomas Davis Theatre (room 2043, Arts Building)

Renowned horror scholar and film historian David J. Skal, author of the acclaimed new Bram Stoker biography Something in the Blood, returns to Trinity College.
Poet and Rooney Prize winner Gerard Fanning dies - The Irish Times

The poet and civil servant wrote ‘some of the finest poems of his generation’.
From Decadence to Despair, David Norris on Wilde

'From Decadence to Despair' Senator David Norris on Oscar Wilde exhibition in Library of Trinity, Youtube video.
Gerald Dawe reads his poem 'In Memory of James Joyce'

Gerald Dawe reads his poem in honour of James Joyce at the Flat Lake Festival 2008, podcast here.
Launch of first major Irish exhibition on Oscar Wilde

'From Decadence to Despair' exhibition maps out playwright's meteoric rise to fame and dramatic fall from grace.
Launch of Children's Literature Collections: Approaches to Research

Keith O'Sullivan (DCU) and Pádraic Whyte (TCD) launched their edited volume, Children's Literature Collections: Approaches to Research in DCU on September 28.
Two fellows emeriti participated in a celebration of Irish poetry in Perugia September 27-29.

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin spoke as a translator, and Ian Campbell Ross presented the poetry of Jonathan Swift on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of Swift's birth.
A Portobello Evening with Harry Clifton

An evening of poetry and history with a focus on Dublin's Portobello neighbourhood, Wednesday 4th October, 7pm
An Irish literary summer school ... in Singapore - The Irish Times

Deirdre Madden recently participated in the IASIL International conference 'Ireland's Writers in the 21st Century' which took place in Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
Samuel Beckett’s miscellaneous rubbish by Dr. Julie Bates

Looking at the raw materials Beckett used to fashion his imaginary worlds helps to map his creative ambition and evolving practice
Richard Murphy Poetry Evening

Poetry Ireland, in association with Cork University Press, Clutag Press and Books Upstairs, present a celebration of Richard Murphy's poetry, to mark his 90th birthday. With guest contributors Gerald Dawe and John Banville, 21st September 2017.
Writer's Fellowship

Applications are invited for The Trinity College Writer’s Fellowship, a Joint Initiative of Trinity’s School Of English and the Arts Council of Ireland.
Francis Ledwidge Poetry and the First World War 1917-2017 Centenary Seminar

In collaboration with Professor Gerald Dawe, TCD, a one-day centenary seminar will take place at Slane Castle, County Meath, 14th October 2017.
Congratulations to Nora Moroney, Irish Research Council postgraduate supervised by Professor Eve Patten

Nora has been awarded the 2017 Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship in Nineteenth-Century Media.
Top poets including Prof Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Gerald Dawe gather to discuss international appointment

Leading poets from across the island of Ireland were called together to discuss the appointment of an International Visiting Poetry Fellow, as part of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland’s and Queen’s University Belfast’s joint ten-year Seamus Heaney Legacy project.
When the War is Over – to be broadcast on Friday 23 June 2017 at 7 pm on RTÉ lyric fm

Gerald Dawe to contribute to the programme which tells the story of the life and poetry of Francis Ledwidge, from his childhood in Slane, County Meath, to his death in Flanders.
An Irish outsider in Brexitland

Poet Gerald Dawe, visiting Scholar at Pembroke College, Cambridge, looks at Brexit debate with George Orwell in mind.
Dr. Julie Bates - Receives Irish Research Council New Foundations Award

Dr. Julie Bates has been awarded an Irish Research Council New Foundations fellowship for a research trip to New York in the reading week of Hilary term 2017.
MPhil student presents new Joyce adaptation

John Dinneen, who is currently following the MPhil in Irish Writing in the Oscar Wilde Centre, has written a new stage adaptation of James Joyce’s short story ‘A Painful Case’, from Dubliners.
The School of English is excited to announce the launch of a new MPhil in Modern and Contemporary Literary Studies.

As course director, Prof. Darryl Jones suggests: ‘If you have a serious curiosity about modern and contemporary literature – whether you’re interested in the Victorian novel, Modernist poetry, contemporary fiction, the history of the book and publishing, national or international literature, or popular literature and culture – this is the Master’s degree for you.’
Poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa awarded the 2016 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature

Bi-bilingual poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa, has been awarded €10,000 as this year’s winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, intended for emerging Irish writers.
The stats are in: over 30,000 users of the National Collection of Children’s Books website!

Congratulations to the National Collection of Children’s Books (NCCB) team members on the success of their major two-year project, funded by the Irish Research Council.
Naoise Dolan named Global Winner in the English category of the Undergraduate Awards

Congratulations to Naoise Dolan who was named Global Winner in the English category for her Dickens Sophister essay “Too Many for the Jury”: Pip’s Multitudinous Narration.
Launch of Seamus Heaney and Society by Dr Rosie Lavan

On Wednesday, 2 September 2020 at the Trinity Long Room Hub online event, Fields of Vision: Seamus Heaney and Society, the launch of Seamus Heaney and Society by Dr Rosie Lavan was celebrated. Published in 2020 by Oxford University Press, this important new study discusses how the poet was shaped by his work as a teacher, lecturer, critic, and public figure.
Congratulations to Dr. Philip Coleman on the launch of The Selected Letters of John Berryman co-edited with Calista McRae (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

The editors have selected over 600 letters, written to almost 200 people from Berryman's literary sphere. Correspondence with Ezra Pound, Robert Lowell, Delmore Schwartz, Adrienne Rich, Saul Bellow, and other writers demonstrates Berryman’s sustained involvement in the development of literary culture in the postwar United States.
Many congratulations to Dr. Clare Clarke who has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Research Society of Victorian Periodicals.

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, familiarly known as RSVP, is an interdisciplinary and international association of scholars dedicated to the exploration of the richly diverse world of the 19th-century press, both its magazines and its newspapers. Members of RSVP are involved in the study of British literature, and the history and culture of Britain and its empire, as well as in the emerging fields of book history and media history.
Call for Applications: Arts Council-TCD Irish Writer Fellow 2021

Applications are invited from Irish writers of established reputation for the TCD/Arts Council Writer’s Fellowship which is funded by the School of English and by a grant-in-aid from the Arts Council. The Fellowship will be tenable at Trinity College Dublin, for the period January-May 2020.
Poetry and History in the 1850s: Ann Hawkshaw and John Mitchell Kemble

The Kemble Lecture 2020 will take place online on Friday, 4th December and will be delivered by Prof. Clare Lees (University of London). The event is sponsored by the School of English and hosted in partnership with Trinity Long Room Hub.
Congratulations to Marina Puljko (English Studies) who is the recipient of the second Paul Richard Turner Newham prize.

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.
Dr. Seán Hewitt's debut collection of poetry, Tongues of Fire (Cape, 2020), has been shortlisted for

The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. The judges, who include Sebastian Faulks, Kit de Waal, Tessa Hadley, and Houman Barekat, have selected five books this year, and the winner will be announced at a ceremony in December.
Poet Stephen Sexton awarded the 2020 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature

Irish poet, Stephen Sexton, has been awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature 2020, for his first collection of works, Oils and If All the World and Love Were Young.
50 great Irish novels of the 21st century in the Sunday Times

Congratulations to Eoin McNamee, Director of the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre, Dr Kevin Power, Assistant Professor, Dr Caoilinn Hughes, newly appointed Arts Council/TCD Irish Writer Fellow and Claire Keegan, 2021 Briena Staunton Visiting Research Fellow, who were included in the 50 great Irish novels of the 21st century list in the Sunday Times.
Congratulations to Dr Amanda Piesse who received the 2016 Children’s Books Ireland Award for an outstanding contribution to children’s books in Ireland.

Dr Piesse was presented with the award at the 26th annual Children’s Books Ireland (CBI) conference held in Dublin at the weekend.
The School of English is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Caoilinn Hughes as the 2020-21 Arts Council/TCD Irish Writer Fellow.

Caoilinn will be in residence in Trinity in HT 2021 and will be teaching the MPhil students in the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre.
Congratulations to David O’Shaughnessy on his ERC Consolidator award of €2m to do research on the finances of eighteenth-century theatre

’THEATRONOMICS: The business of theatre, 1732-1809’ is a 5-year project that will use econometric analysis to offer a new perspective on theatrical culture of eighteenth-century London. David will lead a postdoctoral team of theatre historians and cultural economists will analyse voluminous manuscript archives of financial data that are held at the Folger Library in Washington D.C. and the British Library in London.
School of English launches new MPhil in Modern and Contemporary Literary Studies

The School of English has launched a new MPhil in Modern and Contemporary Literary Studies, which can be studied full time for 1 year or part time for 2 years. Modern and contemporary literary culture is excitingly diverse and complex. This taught master’s programme grows out of and embraces this rich multiplicity. Core modules give a thorough grounding in over two hundred years of anglophone literary and critical history.
Congratulations to Dr. Sinéad Moriarty on the publication of Antarctica in British Children’s Literature

For over a century British authors have been writing about the Antarctic for child readers, yet this body of literature has never been explored in detail. Antarctica in British Children’s Literature examines this field for the first time, identifying the dominant genres and recurrent themes and tropes while interrogating how this landscape has been constructed as a wilderness within British literature for children.
Congratulations to Dr. Björn Quiring on the publication of Formations of the Formless: Chaos from the Ancient World to Early Modernity, co-edited with Andreas Höfele, Christoph Levin and Reinhard Müller.

The volume's eleven essays explore the transformations of Chaos across a variety of cultures, discourses and texts, from Hesiod's Theogony and the Bible to Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton and Hobbes.
Congratulations to PhD student Tarek Bassil who was awarded the 1252 PG Research Studentship Award

Tarek is studying under the supervision of Dr Melanie Otto.
Public Evening Lecture Series 2021. Murder as a Fine Art: True Crime in Literature

Murder and Other Fine Arts: True Crime and Literature. From Anne Boleyn to John Banville, Truman Capote to Flann OBrien, this series explores the relationship between actual crime and its literary representation. 10 weekly lectures beginning 9 Feb.
Congratulations to Dr. Björn Quiring on the publication of his latest monograph Trials of Nature: The Infinite Law Court of Milton's Paradise Lost has just been published by Routledge.

Focusing on John Milton’s Paradise Lost, this book investigates the metaphorical identification of nature with a court of law – an old and persistent trope, haunted by ancient aporias, at the intersection of jurisprudence, philosophy and literature. Weighing in at a very impressive 394 pages, the study draws on Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Hans Blumenberg, Gilles Deleuze, William Empson and Alfred North Whitehead, to demonstrate that the conflicts in Milton’s epic revolve around the tension between a universal legal procedure inherent in nature and the positive legal decrees of the deity. And there’s a bit about an apple theft as well.
Mrs Patricia Rooney, Co-Founder of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature sadly passes away

It is with great sadness that we mark the death of Mrs Patricia Rooney. Mrs Patricia Rooney was the inspiration behind the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Along with her late husband Dan she fostered and supported one of the oldest literary awards in Ireland, unique in its time as a private donation.
School of English has highest ranked university programme in the Humanities in Ireland in the 2021 QS World University Subject Rankings

Congratulations to all in the School of English which continues to be the highest ranked university programme in the Humanities in Ireland in the 2021 QS World University Subject Rankings. In fact, the School has moved up the rankings, and is now ranked 25th in the world for departments of English literature and language. The Head of School, Dr. Jarlath Killeen, comments that: ‘That this move up in the rankings comes while we are still living and working through the pandemic is a tribute to the dedication of all members of the School and to all students in our programmes. This is really an extraordinary achievement.”

1970 January 1
Public Reading by Caoilinn Hughes

Join us for this special online event to celebrate Caoilinn Hughes’ School of English Fellowship, in which Caoilinn will read from her latest novel The Wild Laughter, and discuss her writing and career with Dr Kevin Power on Thursday, 22 April at 7.00 p.m. Please register in advance: https://tcd-ie.zoom.us.

1970 January 1
Caoilinn Hughes Interview

Caoilinn candidly answers questions about her spending, writing, and jobs. Caoilinn is the Trinity School of English Writer Fellow. Caoilinn teaches the M.Phil. in Creative Writing students.

1970 January 1
W.B. Yeats: Art Writing and Righting Art Symposium - Saturday, 8 October 2016

This one-day symposium will consider approaches to researching the work of W.B. Yeats and his various associates in relation to visual culture and its textual mediation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
PhD student, Kate Smyth has been awarded a James M Flaherty Scholarship from the Ireland Canada University Foundation to visit Canada in 2017.

Kate is currently working on a PhD with Dr Philip Coleman on Canadian short fiction.
Bob Dylan: The Reluctant Nobel

Gerald Dawe, Vona Groarke, Declan Kiberd, John McAuliffe and Paul Muldoon in conversation with Dave Fanning discuss Bob Dylan and the Nobel Prize for Literature. RTE Radio 1
Congratulations to Catherine Howard - Distress Signals book short-listed

Congratulations to Catherine Howard, JS English Studies. Catherine’s Distress Signals has been short-listed in the Crime Fiction category of the Irish Book Awards.
Eavan Boland: Inside History - read an extract

RTE is delighted to present an extract from Eavan Boland: Inside History, a new volume of essays and poems in response to the work of the internationally-renowned Irish poet, published by Arlen House.
Another high tree felled: Irish poets salute John Montague - Irish Times

Gerald Dawe's and Eiléan Ní Chuileanáin's contribution to the series of tributes to the late poet John Montague, edited by Martin Doyle, Assistant Literary Editor, The Irish Times.
Former graduate, Sara Baume's 'irresistible' debut novel wins Geoffrey Faber Memorial prize

Congratulations to Sara Baume, a graduate of the TCD M.Phil. in Creative Writing Course 2010, on winning the award for her first novel.
Yale-TCD Alumni Bursary - Research in Children's Literature, 2017/18

The School of English is now accepting applications for the Yale-TCD Alumni Bursary for Research in Children's Literature, 2017. Approximately €3,500 will be made available to facilitate travel to work on the Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection of American Children's Literature at Yale University in 2017/18.
Public Evening Lecture Series: Animals in Literature

The School of English is delighted to present the Evening Lecture Series: Animals in Literature. In this series members of the School of English will deliver a programme of talks discussing some of the most influential works of literature which feature animals.
Poetry reading by Sean Borodale - Visiting Writer Fellow in the Oscar Wilde Centre

The School of English was pleased to present a poetry reading by Sean Borodale, Visiting Writer Fellow in the Oscar Wilde Centre, on Wednesday, 7 December at 7pm in the Uí Chadhain Theatre in the Arts Building.
Archive Fever or, How Not to Write a Novel: An Illustrated Guide by Trinity Long Room Hub

The second event in The Constellations Series this Thursday, 1 December at 18:30, in the Trinity Long Room Hub. Ian Sansom, Director of the Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing, will open by reading some of his current work.
Henri Cole - On a rare visit to Ireland

The School of English, together with Poetry Ireland, hosted a reading by American poet Henri Cole on Wednesday, 30th November.
Wild Laughter at Smock Alley theatre

Rosie Lavan, lecturer in the School of English at TCD, and Eleanor Lybeck, lecturer in English at the University of Oxford, presented a special performance event at Smock Alley theatre on 18 November. Wild Laughter, a unique one-woman show about the lives of a clown.
Beyond the Centre: Writers in their own Words - Essay by Ian Sansom

To mark the 25th anniversary of the Irish Writers Centre, Beyond the Centre: Writers in their own Words is a landmark anthology of essays by some of Ireland’s foremost contemporary writers including Ian Sansom
Dear Geoffrey Chaucer..., Letters to Writers, The Essay - BBC Radio 3 • Ian Sansom

Ian Sansom writes an imaginary letter to Chaucer and interrogates him about his art.
LRB • Ian Sansom • Everything You Know: Hoods

The 21st-century version of Aristotle’s Poetics – and for that matter of Cicero’s On the Orator, Robert McKee’s Story, Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces, the entire works of Syd Field, and just about every other book ever written that pretends to reveal the ways . . .
History Through the Lens of Literature - Featuring poet Gerald Dawe

An evening of readings organised by the Church of Ireland Diocese of Cork Cloyne and Ross marking The Centenary of 1916 and featuring poet Gerald Dawe.
A dazzling collection of original essays by 15 bestselling international authors.

Specially commissioned, edited and introduced by the writer and critic Henry Hitchings, these fearless, ardent, inquiring essays by award-winning international writers celebrate one of our most essential institutions: the bookshop.
The first Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre - Launched

Co-edited by Seamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing Chris Morash and Emeritus Professor of English Nicholas Grene
House of fiction, a new poem by Gerald Dawe - irishtimes.com

‘…delayed daylight shining on the Muglins’ (Aidan Higgins 1927-2015) Along Haigh Terrace a drizzle of wind and rain rattles the loose windows upstairs.
Banging on – The times Literary supplement.

Imagining a world in which a reviewer could honestly appraise Alan Bennett - Ian Sansom.
First short story published by Dr. Alice Jorgensen

Congratulations to Dr. Alice Jorgensen on the publication of her first short story, ‘Like a Brother’, in the Honest Ulsterman.
'Writing Art in Ireland' - Online exhibition launched

The online version of the Long Room exhibition 'Writing Art in Ireland', curated by Dr Tom Walker, has been launched.
Reflections on the Bouhéreau Diary Project

Dr Amy Prendergast shares her experiences of working on the project to publish the intriguing diary (1689-1719) of the first Keeper of Marsh’s Library.
Samuel Beckett’s letters reveal a fiercely private workoholic - The Spectator.

The fourth and final volume of Beckett’s letter – 1966-1989 - Ian Sansom.
‘Writing Art in Ireland’ — A new exhibition opens in the Long Room

A new exhibition has opened in the Old Library, Trinity College Dublin. ‘Writing Art in Ireland, c.1890–1930’ prepared by Dr Tom Walker, with assistance from Jack Quin.
My Favourite Lines from Shakespeare

A presentation of quotations from Shakespeare's works chosen by members of the School of English
Conclave by Robert Harris review – a triumphant Vatican showdown - The Guardian.

The pope is dead and cardinals are gathering to elect his successor in this portrait of power, corruption and deceit
BALANCING ACTS: Gerald Dawe in conversation with Eleanor Doorley - The Lonely Crowd.

ED: To begin with, I would like to expand on some themes that popped up in your 1992 essay ‘Rights of Passage’ (The World as Province: Selected Prose, 2009) regarding the act of balancing teaching …
Ian Sansom and the Little People - BBC Radio 4.

Leprechauns, sprites, imps and elves - Ian Sansom is searching for the diminutive other.
Songs and Words for a Home for All

Friends of the School of English are invited to support 2017's Songs and Words for a Home for All pop-up festival on Tuesday, December 12th.
Students visit Marsh's Library

The students from Ema Vyroubalová's sophister option Early Modern Women Writers visited Marsh's Library in December.
Enormous congratulations are due to Dr. Clare Clarke on the publication this week of her second monograph British Detective Fiction 1891-1901 The Successors to Sherlock Holmes (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).

Clare’s book opens up the world of detective fiction that emerged after Conan Doyle brutally killed off Holmes and it stimulates our understanding of how the genre of detective fiction developed at this critical fin de siècle period.
Congratulations to School staff on their forthcoming book launch

Congratulations to Dr Ben Keatinge, Professor Gerry Dawe, Dr Eve Cobain, and Dr Tom Walker on their contributions to the publication of the book 'Making Integral: Critical Essays on Richard Murphy' (Cork University Press). The book will be launched at the forthcoming launch IASIL conference on 24th July
Launch of The Poetics of Print digital exhibition

School of English researcher Dr Conor Linnie, working with Professor Eve Patten and the staff of Trinity College Library Manuscript and Archives, has curated a digital exhibition on twentieth-century small presses and Irish poetry, with some wonderful illustrations selected from collections in the Oscar Wilde Centre and Trinity Library manuscripts and archives.
Eoin McNamee in Conversation with Kevin Power

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.
Trinity School of English and Liverpool Studies in Irish Literature

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.
Hubert Butler Essay Prize

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.
Reading by American poet Henri Cole at Poetry Ireland

The School of English with Poetry Ireland hosted a reading by American poet Henri Cole at Poetry Ireland on Tuesday 22 October 2019.
Author Mark O’Connell awarded the 2019 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature

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.
Arts Council-TCD Irish Writer Fellow 2020

Congratulations to Claire Keegan who was announced as the incoming Irish Writer Fellow. Claire will be teaching the M.Phil. students in the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre in 2020.
Pyle Postgraduate Bursary, 2019

Congratulations to Martina Devlin who was announced as the 2019 recipient of the Pyle Postgraduate Bursary in Trinity on the 17th September.
Congratulations to Catherine Costello (TSM English and Classics) who is the recipient of the inaugural Paul Richard Turner Newham prize.

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.
IRSCL Edited Book Award, 2019

Congratulations to Dr Pádraic Whyte (School of English, TCD) and Dr Keith O’Sullivan (DCU) editors of Children's Literature Collections: Approaches to Research (Palgrave, 2017) which won the International Research Society for Children's Literature Edited Book Award, 2019.
Congratulations to Isobel Thompson, a graduate of English Studies, who has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship

Isobel will attend Columbia Journalism School this autumn as part of the MA programme.
Rare book Donation to Trinity Library by Alan Baer former Graduate

The School of English would like to thank former graduate Alan Baer and his wife Lynne Solomon for their generous donation of a rare book, Foirades-Fizzles, a collaboration between Jasper Johns and Samuel Beckett. Alan was a student on the M.Phil. in Irish Writing in the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre in 1986
Provost’s PhD Project Awards 2020

The School of English is delighted to announce a fully-funded four-year doctoral award which will be available from September 2020 or March 2021 on the Provost’s Project PhD award: “Situating Sherlock: mapping space and place in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes”. (PI: Dr Clare Clarke).
Save Reading Gaol Petition

Reading Gaol is an important national heritage site, where Oscar Wilde was imprisoned and Henry I is believed to be buried nearby. A petition is available to see it preserved and enhanced to become an arts hub and to celebrate Reading's heritage
The Hubert Butler Essay Prize, 2019

The School of English is pleased to announce its association with the annual Hubert Butler Essay Prize, established in honour of Hubert Butler, one of Ireland’s most distinguished intellectuals and essayists.
The Critical Ground. IASIL Conference 2019

The 2019 Conference of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, will take place 22 to 26 July 2019 in Trinity College Dublin. Registration is now open for this major international conference on Irish literatures. Click here for more information.
Warmest congratulations to Séan Ó Tuathaigh on the publication of his novel 'Outlanders' (Mercier Press)

Séan was a student on the M.Phil. in Creative Writing in the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre in 2015. Please come along and join him at the book launch in the Gutter Bookshop, Cow's Lane, Temple Bar, Dublin at 6.30pm on Tuesday 18th June.
The John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2020

The John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize is for an outstanding debut poetry book collection by a poet, in the English language. Deadline for submissions September 30 2019
Sad that Game of Thrones is over but we are very proud of David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, screenwriters of Game of Thrones

Sad that Game of Thrones is over but we are very proud of David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, screenwriters of Game of Thrones, graduates of the 1996 Anglo-Irish Literature course in the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre, School of English
Bram Stoker and the Haunting of Marsh's library Exhibition

Dracula fans may be interested in a fascinating exhibition on what Bram Stoker read on his many visits to Marsh’s Library in Dublin. The exhibition is curated by the library’s Director (and occasional lecturer in the School of English) Dr Jason McElligott, and runs until 5th November 2019.
Congratulations to Carlo Gebler on his new version of Aesop's Fables

Warmest congratulations to Carlo, whose new version of Aesop's Fables has just been published by New Island Books, with illustrations by Gavin Weston. Carlo teaches in the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre and the School of English
Congratulations to Catherine Talbot on her book deal with Penguin Ireland

Warmest congratulations to Catherine Talbot who signed a book deal with Penguin Ireland for her debut novel 'A Good Father' which will be published in May 2020. Catherine was a student on the M.Phil. in Creative Writing in the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre in 2017.
Congratulations to PhD student Siobhán Callaghan - Awarded Yale-TCD Alumni Bursary for Research in Children’s Literature 2019/20

The bursary is designed to encourage and facilitate collaborative research on the children’s book collections in TCD and Yale, and is jointly funded by the School of English (TCD) and the Beinecke Library (Yale).
Congratulations to Rachel Hegarty on the launch of her new poetry collection May Day 1974 published by Salmon Poetry

Rachel is a graduate of the M.Phil. in Creative Writing course in the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre. Please come along and join her at the book launch in the the Joly Theatre, Hamiltion Building, Trinity College Dublin at 6pm on Friday 17th May.
Public Poetry Masterclass by Mary O'Malley

Mary O'Malley, School of English Writer Fellow will be giving a Public Poetry Masterclass in Trinity College Dublin, 8th June 2019, 10am-3pm. Submissions are invited for places.
Public Evening Lecture Series 2020: Becoming Nature: Animals, Places and People in Literature

This 10 week lecture series explores the shifting relationships between animals, places and people through a range of compelling texts from the 16th to the 20th centuries, from rural Leitrim to the canyon country of southern Utah.
Congratulations to Prof. Chris Morash who has been awarded a MacGeorge Fellowship for 2020

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".
Poet Hannah Sullivan wins inaugural John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize

Hannah Sullivan was awarded the €10,000 prize for her outstanding debut collection, Three Poems
Poet Isabel Galleymore wins 2020 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize

Isabel Galleymore has today been announced as the winner of the 2020 John Pollard International Poetry Prize for her debut book Significant Other, in which she takes a sustained look at the ‘eight million differently constructed hearts’ of species currently said to inhabit Earth.
In the spirit of border-crossing, the Beckett Brunch team is delighted to invite you, wherever you are, to watch a recorded conversation on Beckett, COVID-19, and “border(s)” with Trish McTighe (Queen’s University Belfast), Jonathan Heron (University of Warwick) and Feargal Whelan (Trinity College Dublin), chaired by Nicholas Johnson (Trinity College Dublin).

The video was recorded on 21st April 2020: Beckett Brunch. An extensive and explanatory introduction has been added under the video to give more context. This content is presented by the Trinity Centre for Beckett Studies, in partnership with Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute, the Department of French, Drama Department - Trinity College Dublin, and The School of English, Trinity College Dublin. Academic partners include Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, the Université Bretagne Loire, and the Laboratoire Héritages and Constructions dans le Texte and l'Image. Additional support is provided by Ambassade de France en Irlande and Alliance Française de Dublin.
Briena Staunton Fellowship Announced

Trinity College Dublin and Pembroke College Cambridge are delighted to announce that Claire Keegan is the 2021 Briena Staunton Visiting Fellow. The fellowship has been generously endowed by Clinical Professor in Radiology James Meaney in memory of his aunt, Briena Staunton. Following an agreement between the two Colleges, a leading international writer, nominated alternately by Trinity and Pembroke, will spend a month writing and supporting students in Dublin or Cambridge. This year Trinity nominated Claire Keegan an international award-winning short story writer, who will spend March 2021 in Cambridge.
The John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2021

The John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize is for an outstanding debut poetry book collection by a poet, in the English language. Deadline for submissions October 16 2020
Congratulations to Dr Jack Quin who has been awarded a British Academy postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Birmingham

Jack is an Irish Research Council postdoctoral fellow in the School of English researching the relationship between poetry and sculpture in the work of W.B. Yeats and other Irish writers of the early twentieth century. His IRC project is mentored by Dr Tom Walker. Jack’s prestigious British Academy fellowship at Birmingham will begin in October and will involve a wider investigation of poet and sculptor networks in Britain and Ireland from the Victorian period to the modernist period.
The School of English congratulates Dr. Rosie Lavan on the publication of her monograph, Seamus Heaney and Society by Oxford University Press. This is a much anticipated publication, and an important intervention in the scholarship of one of Ireland's greatest writers:

Throughout his career in poetry, Seamus Heaney maintained roles in education and was a visible presence in the print and broadcast media. Seamus Heaney and Society examines the ways in which his work as a poet was shaped by his work as a teacher, lecturer, critic, and public figure.
The Hubert Butler Essay Prize is intended to encourage the art of essay-writing with a European dimension and to expand interest in Butler's work.

The prize is designed to reflect Butler’s interest in the common ground between the European nation states that emerged after the First World War; his concern with the position of religious and ethnic minorities; his life and writings as an encapsulation of the mantra ‘Think globally, act locally’; the importance of the individual conscience; and his work with refugees. The title for this year’s essay is “Communal solidarity and individual freedom: antagonists or allies?” and the application form can be found here. The closing date for submissions is 4th September 2020.
The School would like to congratulate Dr. James Little on the publication of Samuel Beckett in Confinement: The Politics of Closed Space by Bloomsbury.

The book draws on Dr. Little's research for his PhD, completed in Trinity under the supervision of Prof. Nicholas Grene and Prof. Chris Morash.
Cambridge University Press Irish Literature in Transition (2020) Launch on 21 May

This online symposium celebrates the launch of the Cambridge University Press six-volume essay series Irish Literature in Transition (2020), a new and dynamic account of Ireland’s literary history over 300 years. The event is a collaboration between the Trinity Long Room Hub and the British Association for Irish Studies 2020 online conference.
Read Dr Rosie Lavan’s tribute to the sadly missed Eavan Boland here.

Eavan Boland, who died this week, made domestic life an essential topic for modern poetry and turned herself into a role model for future generations, writes Rosie Lavan.
Congratulations to Professor Eve Patten who has been announced as the new director of Trinity Long Room Hub

The Trinity Long Room Hub has announced its new Director as Professor Eve Patten, School of English, Trinity College Dublin. Professor Patten will succeed Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, whose term will end in June.
Congratulations to Dr Nora Moroney who has been awarded an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Scheme Postdoctoral Fellowship, to be held at Trinity in conjunction with Marsh’s Library.

Nora is working on a cultural history of book collecting in twentieth-century Ireland in relation to the Benjamin Iveagh Library at Farmleigh. The project will be mentored by Professor Eve Patten, who also supervised Nora’s doctoral research on Irish writers and the late-Victorian periodical press. Nora, who completed her undergraduate degree in the School of English, has previously published widely on Irish women writers abroad, nineteenth-century journalism and the twentieth-century Belfast press.
Prof Andrew Murphy elected to Fellowship

The School congratulates Prof. Andrew Murphy on his election to Fellowship this Trinity Monday.
Congratulations to Prof. Darryl Jones who has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship to Columbia University

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.
School of English Scholars 2020

Congratulations to the following students of English who have been named Scholars today: Linde Vergeylen (English Studies), Grace Banks (TSM English Literature and Philosophy), Anthony Bradley (TSM English Literature and Modern Irish), Roísín Ryan (TSM English Literature and History).
Laidlaw Scholarships 2020

The School congratulates the recipients of the Laidlaw Scholarships for 2020, Shane Coleman Macken, Ceola Daly and Mia Sherry. The Laidlaw Undergraduate Research and Leadership Scholarship programme aims to develop a new generation of leaders who are skilled researchers, embrace data-based decision making, and believe it is a moral imperative to lead with integrity.
Congratulations to PhD student Adrian Howlett who was awarded the 1252 PG Research Studentship Award

Adrian's research, which is supervised by Dr Sam Slote, is on "The Hibernian Metropolis."
Congratulations to PhD student Dearbhaile Houston who was awarded the 2020 Pyle Postgraduate Bursary.

Dearbhaile's research, which is supervised by Dr Philip Coleman, is on “Hauntologies of Domestic Space in Contemporary Women’s Fiction, 1980-2015”.
Congratulations to Dr. David O' Shaughnessy, who has received the Dean of Research Award for Research Excellence.

As well as being a world-leader in eighteenth-century studies, David has devoted himself to energising the research activities of his College community.
Listen back to Head of School Dr Jarlath Killeen discuss the life of Christ in literature and film with Sean Rocks on RTE’s Arena programme (6 April).

This eclectic survey goes from George Eliot to Superman and passes through Narnia on the way. Here is the link to listen back: https://www.rte.ie/radio/radioplayer/html5/#/radio1/21746238
Listen back to Dr Brendan O’Connell discuss the impact of plagues and pandemics with Dr Jacob Ericksen, Dr Ida Milne, and Professor Luke O’Neill.

Brendan’s contribution to the Long Room Hub’s ‘Behind the Headlines: Plagues and Pandemics’ special online symposium offers a fantastic insight into parallels between medieval and modern responses to mass contagion, especially as captured in literature. You can listen to the symposium here: https://soundcloud.com/tlrhub/plagues-and-pandemics-behind-the-headlines
Exploring Irish Childhoods: An Irish Writer in her Time

A conference on the writing of Eilís Dillon organised by Prof Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and The School of English took place on 6th and 7th March.
English is the highest ranked university programme in Ireland

Congratulations to all in the School of English which is the highest ranked university programme in Ireland in the latest QS World University Subject Rankings. The international quality of the School’s research places it 28th in the world and 9th in Europe for departments of English language and literature. The Head of School, Dr. Jarlath Killeen comments that: ‘This tremendous achievement is down to the hard work of all staff and students in the School, and is the more remarkable given the enormous financial pressures the sector is under. The School’s high ranking demonstrates the stellar international reputation of our colleagues, our students and our courses. Well done to everyone!'
The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature 2020

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
Shortlist for the 2020 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize Announced

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.
LAUNCH OF NEW BOOK BY SCHOOL OF ENGLISH ALUMNUS, MAURICE SCULLY / ICARUS at 70

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 theme of this year's Trinity Week is SILENCE.

The School of English has collaborated with the Library on an exhibition in the Long Room that uses Beckett’s archival materials as a starting point to explore this theme.
Congratulations to James Butler, former graduate, on the publication of his novel

Warmest congratulations to James Butler on the publication of his novel 'Dangerous Games' (Little Island Books.) James was a student on the M.Phil. in Creative Writing in the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre in 2015. For more info on the book and its author click here
Anne Enright to read at Trinity

On 18 January the School of English will welcome Anne Enright to give a public reading from her work.
Series of guests posts authored by students of Dr Julie Bates, Assistant Professor in Irish Writing

We have now reached the sixth and final in our series of guest blog posts.
Exhibition: The House of Oscar Wilde (as imagined by Arthur Cravan)

Friday, 31 August – Thursday, 6 September 2018. This project —comprising an installation with objects and a live performance—, is a collective effort coordinated by an anonymous artist that looks to materialise the space Cravan imagined.
Creative Non-Fiction Writing Workshop with John Grogan

The School of English is delighted to offer a free creative non-fiction writing workshop with John Grogan. Submissions are invited for places for Saturday 29th September
Swift350 Essay Prize

Congratulations to Paul Gleeson, recent graduate, who has been awarded the Swift350 Essay Prize. Part of the celebrations to mark the 350th anniversary of Jonathan Swift's birth in 2017, the essay prize recognises an outstanding piece of assessed work dedicated to Swift, submitted in 2017-2018.
Everyone Sang: For the Centenary of the Armistic

The Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's presents an evening of poetry and music for the centenary of the Armistice. Poets: Gerald Dawe, Stephen Sexton, and Jean Bleakney. Musicians: folk singer, Susan Davey, and Geoff Hatt.
The John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2019

The John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize is for an outstanding debut poetry book collection by a poet, in the English language.
Pyle Postgraduate Bursary

Congratulations to Kabir Chattopadhyay who is the first recipient of the Pyle Postgraduate Bursary.
Bernard O’Donoghue at Trinity

In April the School of English welcomed Bernard O’Donoghue during his term as a visiting research fellow in the Trinity Long Room Hub.
Edward Millington Stephens prize winner

Many congratulations to Orlaith Darling, a Senior Sophister student in the School of English, and winner of this year’s Edward Millington Stephens prize.
Energy: An evening of music and poetry

The Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation, the Music Composition Centre and the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing are hosting an evening of music and poetry on Tuesday 10 April.
Many voices fill Regent House for The Long Gaze Back

On Thursday 5 April the School of English welcomed more than 100 guests for ‘Enduring Fictions: Celebrating The Long Gaze Back’, an event for the Dublin: One City One Book 2018 season.
Ambassador to launch new books about Irish poetry and Greece

The School of English will welcome Her Excellency Katia Georgiou, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Greece to Ireland at an event on Wednesday 28 March to launch two new books exploring the relationship between Ireland and Greece through poetry.
Trinity Public Creative Writing Workshop with Selina Guinness

The School of English at Trinity College Dublin is offering a free creative writing workshop with its current Arts Council of Ireland Writer Fellow, Selina Guinness. Submissions are invited for workshop places on Saturday the 12th and 19th May from 10am to 1pm.
Publication of The Letters of Oliver Goldsmith

Dr David O’Shaughnessy, along with his co-editor Professor Michael Griffin, were invited to call on President Michael D. Higgins to mark the publication of The Letters of Oliver Goldsmith (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Gerald Dawe joins celebration of Francis Ledwidge at Linen Hall Library, Belfast

EVENT World Book Day: A Celebration of Francis Ledwidge - LINEN HALL LIBRARY BELFAST Rescheduled to Wednesday 21st March 208 at 2pm - £5. Join us for a celebration of the work and legacy of Irish War Poet and soldier Francis Ledwidge, with poets Gerald Dawe and Wilson Burgess.
Who reads poetry? asks Ireland’s Professor of Poetry Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

In the annual Ireland Chair of Poetry lecture, delivered at Trinity on 14 March, Professor Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin explored the relationship between poets and their readers.
Great news… Trinity Classics and English are now both ranked 28th in QS @universityrankings subject rankings #QSWUR

Trinity College Dublin has reinforced its reputation as Ireland’s leading university with a strong performance in the newly-published QS Subject Rankings 2018.
Series of guests posts authored by students of Dr Julie Bates, Assistant Professor in Irish Writing

We are delighted that the Manuscripts Library in Trinity was so impressed by our students' reflections on the experience of engaging with Beckett's papers and drafts that their personal essays are being published on the library's blog!
A reading by Selina Guinness

The School of English presents a reading by Selina Guinness, to celebrate her residency as Irish Writer Fellow in the Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing. The reading will take place on Thursday 22 March in the Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, and it will be followed by a reception, to which all are most welcome.
Pollard Collection of children’s books now fully available for online searching!

The Department of Early Printed Books and Special Collections (EPB) is delighted to announce that cataloguing of the Pollard Collection of children’s books has been completed.
Ireland Chair of Poetry lecture, 14 March

Professor Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin will deliver her annual lecture as Ireland Chair of Poetry at Trinity on 14 March 2018. Professor Ní Chuilleanáin, a Fellow of the College and former member of the School of English, was appointed to the Chair in 2016, and is currently poet-in-residence at Trinity.
Trinity- Royal Holloway Wilde/Joyce Seminar

On 10th February the Oscar Wilde Centre was pleased to host twelve students from Royal Holloway, University of London, together with visiting Professors Anne Varty and Finn Fordham, for a special research seminar on connections between Wilde and Joyce. They were joined by School of English Joyce expert Professor Sam Slote.
Literary Arts in Hilary Term

The School of English is delighted to announce a varied programme of literary events this term, reflecting the diversity of literary activities among colleagues and students.
Conference - Cultural and literary challenges of cosmopolitanism

Literature that looks across national borders and the tensions between an international outlook and patriotism were among topics explored at a conference focusing on the cultural, literary and educational challenges of cosmopolitanism in Trinity College Dublin in on Thursday, February 1, 2018. The event was organised by the School of English and the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, in collaboration with the College of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Home Thoughts - podcast from the broadcast on Sunday 28th January 2018, at 6pm, on RTÉ lyric fm

A one-hour programme which is part meditation, part performance, as poet Gerald Dawe and singer Eleanor Shanley explore the idea of ‘home’, with prose, poetry and songs from Belfast, Galway and Dublin. What makes a place a home? Is it family? A location that becomes inextricably linked to significant life experiences? Walking streets that become so familiar that you can retrace them in your mind?
Trinity Public Evening Lecture Series: Cities in Literature

In this series of lectures, members of the School of English will give talks on the varied roles major cities including Dublin, London, Los Angeles, Paris, and New York, have played in literary works of different eras and genres.
Public Evening Lecture Series 2018: English Literature

This course 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.
Author Caitriona Lally awarded the 2018 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature

Trinity graduate and writer Catriona has been awarded €10,000 as this year's winner for her first novel, Eggshells.
IASIL 2019: GAIRM AR PHÁIPÉIR | CALL FOR PAPERS

2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of IASIL (or IASAIL, the International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature, as it existed in its first incarnation).
Maria Edgeworth 250 Conference

To mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Maria Edgeworth, the School of English, the Long Room Hub, and the National Library of Ireland will host a conference exploring her life and work, from 7th-8th December 2018. Any queries should be directed to: killeej@tcd.ie.
Trinity Week: The History of Censorship in the Ireland

The School of Law and the School of English present a programme of events investigating the history and impact of censorship in Ireland. All welcome to this free event. Please book tickets.
Public Poetry Reading by Mary O'Malley

Mary O'Malley, School of English Writer Fellow will be giving a public reading from her work at Trinity College Dublin, 10th April 2019, 7pm. All welcome, free admission. Please book tickets through Eventbrite
Acclaimed writer Adam Mars-Jones in residence at Trinity

Last Wednesday, the School of English joined members of the public for an evening in celebration of the residency of Adam Mars-Jones as the inaugural Briena Staunton Visiting Fellow in the Oscar Wilde Centre
Danielle McLaughlin wins $165,000 Windham-Campbell Prize

Congratulations to Danielle McLaughlin, the 2017 Visiting Writer Fellow in the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre, who has won the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize.
Adam Mars-Jones: Reading and Conversation

The School of English presents a reading by Adam Mars-Jones, to celebrate his residency as the inaugural Briena Staunton Visiting Fellow. The reading will take place on 20 March in the Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, and it will be followed by a reception, to which all are most welcome. Please book tickets through Eventbrite Link.
Congratulations to Professor Harry Clifton on the launch of his new poetry collection Herod's Dispensations published by Bloodaxe Books

Harry teaches in the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre in the School of English. Please come along and join him at the book launch in the Hodges Figgis, Dawson Street, Dublin, at 6pm on Tuesday 26th March.
Opera written by Trinity M.Phil. in Creative Writing and Royal Irish Academy of Music students

Students from the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre joined forces with students from the Royal Irish Academy of Music to write an opera, click here for more details and the video.
Provost’s PhD Project Awards

The School of English is delighted to announce that two fully-funded four-year doctoral awards will be available from September 2019 on two Provost’s Project PhD awards: Big Dating - Using Medieval Data to Date Medieval Texts (PI: Dr Mark Faulkner) and Shirley Jackson: Beyond Hill House (PI: Dr Bernice Murphy).
SL and NCR: a new play by Carlo Gébler, plus the return of The Box

March 2019 sees the debut of a new play by Dr Carlo Gébler of the Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing. SL and NCR celebrates the loves, losses and landscape of the Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway, and is based on stories gathered from members of active age groups, historical societies and railway enthusiasts.
Times Study Abroad 2018-19 Fall Edition

Congratulations to Rohan Swamy, former M.Phil. in Creative Writing student, for contributing an article in the latest Times Study Abroad book, where he speaks about his time in the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre.
Public Evening Lecture Series 2019: Fear in Literature

This course will survey the literature of fear from the Anglo-Saxons up to the present, exploring how literary works have set out both to frighten their audiences and to reflect on the very nature of fear itself.
Home Thoughts - podcast from the broadcast on Sunday 30th December 2019, at 6pm, on RTÉ lyric fm

A one-hour programme which is part meditation, part performance, as poet Gerald Dawe and singer Eleanor Shanley explore the idea of ‘home’, with prose, poetry and songs from Belfast, Galway and Dublin. What makes a place a home? Is it family? A location that becomes inextricably linked to significant life experiences? Walking streets that become so familiar that you can retrace them in your mind?
Digital Society Award 2020

Congratulations to Aoife Donnellan, a Senior Sophister student of TSM English Literature and Philosophy, who is one of the winners of the Digital Society Bursary 2020. Aoife received this award based on her Open Collections Capstone Project, a piece of independent research submitted as part of her final year in English Literature. This year’s bursary was aimed at graduating students in Ireland who are exploring the digital society within their practice.
School of English PhD student addresses United States Air Force Academy Conference

Final year PhD candidate William Brady (working with Professor Eve Patten) was recently invited to participate in a conference held at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, where he gave a paper entitled ‘Fraternity of the Dead: Self-Annihilating Airmen in the Literature of 1940s Britain’.
JF TSM English and Sociology student wins entrance scholarship to College

Congratulations to Niamh Kelly, a JF TSM English and Sociology student, who recently won an entrance scholarship to College. Niamh‘s scholarship was awarded in recognition of her exceptional achievements in the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in 2017.
Undergraduate Awards

Nora Doorley, a recent graduate in English Studies, is the Ireland Region (Literature) winner in the Undergraduate Awards 2018. Nora won the award for an essay originally written for Professor Grene’s ‘Irish Theatre since 1964’ sophister option.
Dr Jarlath Killeen presented with a coin commemorating the writing of the Gothic novel, Dracula

Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform Paschal Donohoe TD, presented Dr Jarlath Killeen of the School of English with a coin commemorating the writing of the Gothic novel, Dracula (designed by David Rooney), at a ceremony in Glasnevin Cemetery.
2018-2019 Arts Council/TCD Writer Fellow

The School of English is pleased to announce that the 2018-2019 Arts Council/TCD Writer Fellow is the poet and essayist Mary O’Malley. She will be in residence at Trinity during Hilary Term 2019 and will teach students on the MPhil in Creative Writing, as well as offering a workshop to undergraduate students and members of the public.
Professor Eve Patten gives the 2018 Seamus Heaney Annual Memorial Lecture

Eve Patten was invited to the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, on 26th October, to give this year’s Seamus Heaney Memorial Lecture, which took as its title: ‘Heaney, Auden and Anxiety’.
Frankenreads at Trinity Readathon

On 31 October 2018 from 10.15 am until as-long-as-it-takes (approximately 5.30 pm!), staff, students, and friends of the School of English at Trinity College Dublin will come together to read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein aloud from start to finish.
Inaugural Briena Staunton Visiting Fellow

Trinity College Dublin and Pembroke College Cambridge are delighted to announce the inaugural Briena Staunton Visiting Fellow.
Carlo Gébler on BBC Radio 3

Earlier this month Dr Carlo Gébler of the Oscar Wilde Centre presented a documentary for BBC Radio 3 on the role of arts education in prison, drawing on his extensive experience as a teacher of creative writing in the prison system in Northern Ireland.
Wilfred Owen Centenary' Conference at University of Oxford

Gerald Dawe will be contributing to 'Wilfred Owen Centenary' Conference at University of Oxford. 'By the Waterside' was specially written for the conference blog.
John Grogan: Marley, memoir, and a great two weeks at Trinity

Over the past fortnight we have been delighted to have the American writer John Grogan in residence in the School of English and the Oscar Wilde Centre. John has contributed to the MPhils in Creative Writing and Children’s Literature, and an undergraduate module in Creative Writing.
School of English 2017/2018 Alumni Newsletter

The School of English 2017/2018 Alumni Newsletter included excerpts from interviews with Professor Gerald Dawe and Dr Amanda Piesse to celebrate their academic careers and many years of teaching in Trinity. You can read the full interviews with Dr Piesse and Professor Dawe here:
Congratulations to Martina Devlin on the launch of her new collection of stories, Truth and Dare

Martina is currently undertaking a PhD in Literary Practice in the School of English. Please come along and join her at the book launch in the Irish Writers' Centre at 6.30 pm on the 11th of October.
Deirdre Madden guest speaker at IASIL Japan Conference

Deirdre Madden was a guest speaker at the IASIL Japan conference at Toyo University, Tokyo, on October 13th and 14th, where she gave a reading from her novels. While in Japan she also gave a class at Waseda University, and gave a reading at Gakushuin University.

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