UCD School of English, Drama and Film Prizes
Alan Bliss Prize
This book prize is named in memory of Alan J. Bliss, Professor of Old and Middle English at the University from 1974 to 1985, and is funded from the royalties of Professor Bliss's edition of Finn and Hengest by J.R.R. Tolkien (sometime Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Merton Professor of English Language at the University of Oxford), published by Allen and Unwin in 1982.
'The prize is to be awarded annually to the student who records the highest mark in core Old and Middle English modules in Stage Two, Level Two.'
Anglo-Irish Bank Scholarship
A scholarship of €3,810 per annum, tenable in the first instance for two years and subject to annual review, is offered to a graduate of a master's programme in Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama taken at this University. The graduate will be a person who wishes to proceed to a doctoral programme in the Department of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama or one who has already embarked on that programme.
The scholarship will be offered at intervals to be determined by the Anglo-Irish Bank. Candidates for the award should submit a thesis proposal, or else sample chapters from a thesis already begun, to the Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama by the deadline date designated for each award. Applicants may be asked to report for an interview with a panel of assessors on the topic.
There are no application forms. A letter of application should be sent, with the submitted materials, to the Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama, Room J203, John Henry Newman Building, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4. Ordinarily, in the year of an award, a notice advertising its availability for competition will be posted in the English Department and the deadline date indicated.
Mary Colum Award
This award, which is intended for a female student, has been established as a result of a bequest made by the late Padraic Colum, the Irish poet, in memory of his wife, Mary Colum. The award, of the annual value of approximately €3,048, is tenable for one year by a woman graduate of University College Dublin for the purpose of undertaking postgraduate studies in English.
The winner of the award shall be selected each year from among the female candidates accepted by the School of English to undertake postgraduate studies leading to the MA, MLitt or PhD Degree. The following criteria shall be used by the Professor of English in the selection:
(a) The performance of the eligible candidates at the BA Degree Examination in the subject English. Candidates who have taken the MA Qualifying Examination are also eligible for consideration, provided they are graduates of the University. The level of honours required shall be at least Second Class Honours, Grade I standard in English.
(b) Research topics shall also be considered, and eligible candidates whose research topics are deemed to have a comparative literature component shall be given preference.
In assessing the sum to be awarded to the candidates, the following possible other awards will be taken into consideration first:
(i) Higher Education Grants or similar grants or scholarships;
(ii) University Scholarships and Prizes, and tutorial payments.
Brother Galvin Medal
This medal is awarded to the past student of the O'Connell schools who obtains the highest marks in English (20 credits) at Stage 1 of the BA. It commemorates the Golden Jubilee of Rev. Brother J.S. Galvin in the Order of the Irish Christian Brothers. Candidates must signify their intention of competing for the medal to the Registrar of the University before 1 February.
Charlotte Kelleher Memorial Award
This book prize, donated by the family and classmates of Charlotte Kelleher (MA: 1933), may be awarded annually to the candidate placed highest in the examinations for the MA Degree in Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama, with an award of not less than Second Class Honours.
T. Augustine Martin Memorial Award
This prize is named in memory of T. Augustine Martin, Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at UCD from 1979 to 1995. It was raised by Bright Boy Productions at an event held in Newman House in May 1997 to which a large team of people generously contributed their energies and talents. To this sum was added a substantial amount anonymously contributed by a friend and former student of Professor Martin.
It may be awarded annually to the candidate placed highest in the examinations for the MA Degree in Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama, with an award of not less than Second Class Honours.