Archived News & Events

2021

• The Belfield Literary Review is Open for Submissions
• Anne Enright Elected to Aosdána
• 'The Fell' by Sarah Moss Book Launch
• Call for Applications for 2021 UCD Maeve Binchy Travel Award
• Irish Working-Class Studies Conference
• UCD Writer-in-Residence Niamh Campbell Has Been Awarded Rooney Prize 2021
• Sree Sen announced as latest winner of UCD Maeve Binchy Travel Award

• Violet Gibson, the Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini

• Grieving Time by Rachel Fehily
• "Walls & Windows" directed by UCD graduate Jason Byrne
• John Brannigan Admitted to the Royal Irish Academy
• PhD Scholarship in Cultural Analytics: Irish Cultural History and the Rosamond Jacob Diaries
• Professor Seamus Deane, A Tribute from UCD School of English, Drama and Film
• Covid-19 Spring Trimester Update
• Wellcome Trust funded symposium Researching Representations of Child Sexual Abuse in Contemporary Culture
• Professor Denis Donoghue, A Tribute from UCD School of English, Drama and Film
• Conversations with the Contemporary: A series of discussions about Craft and Context with Niamh Campbell, UCD Writer-in-Residence. 

2020

• Jean Hogan (1984-2020)

• Publication of Summerwater by Sarah Moss

• Margaret Kelleher Admitted to RIA
• Justice in the Plays and Films of Martin McDonagh
• Announcing Two New Publications: The Palgrave Handbook  of Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance and The Theatre and Films of Conor McPherson: Conspicuous Communities
• Brendan Behan in Paris
• WELCOME TO THE AUTUMN TRIMESTER 2021-22 AT UCD SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, DRAMA AND FILM

2019

• Scholars, students, writers, and community partners gathered in Dublin, Ireland for a three-day conference on the theme of TEXT/SOUND/PERFORMANCE: Making in Canadian Space.
• Emilie Pine wins at An Post National Book Awards

2018

• Bodies of Data: Intersecting Medical Humanities and Digital Humanities Conference, 22nd-23rd November
• Sexual Counter-Revolutions: The Case of Russia, Alexander Kondakov, 26th November
• Sinéad Gleeson announced as Arts Council  Writer's Fellowship, 2019
• Voices of War: a commemorative recital of poetry and music marking the centenary of the Armistice of 1918, 9th & 11th November
• Novelising King Lear: Anne Enright in conversation with Preti Taneja, 8th November
• UCD Maeve Binchy Travel Award recipient announced
• John Pollard Fellowship in Creativity, Call for Applictions
• Metaphoric Stammers & Embodies Speakers Conference, 12th October
• Irish Writers Celebrate Edna O'Brien, 17th September
• Understanding New Rape Cultures Conference, 13th-14th September
• Emilie Pine's Notes to Self Launched
• Applications invited from Irish writers for Writer's Fellowship in the School of English, Drama, Film and Creative Writing.
• Laureate for Irish Fiction, Sebastian Barry, coming to UCD
• Writing Lives 1500-1700 Conference, 6-8th September
• Thinking Gender Justice Conference, 22nd to 24th May
• Imagining Home — Margaret Atwood, John Banville,  Anne Enright and Paul Perry in conversation.
• Announcement of Opening of Competition for 2018 UCD Maeve Binchy Travel Award. Click here for details on pdf.
• The School of English, Drama and Film, UCD is pleased to announce the continuation of the Gus Martin Memorial Postgraduate Scholarship in Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama. The scholarship will provide full tuition (international fee) to a graduate of a North American college/university to pursue the UCD MA in Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama, September 2018-August 2019. For further information, download this pdf. Closing date 14 May 2018.
• The School of English, Drama and Film, University College Dublin, is pleased to announce the continuation of the Maria Helena Kopschitz Scholarship to enable a Brazilian student to pursue the MA in Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama, University College Dublin.  The scholarship honours the pioneering contribution to Irish studies in Brazil made by Professor Maria Helena Kopschitz. For further information, please download this pdf. Closing date is 30 April 2018.
• Congratulations to Ryan Murphy, graduate of the School of English, Drama, Film and Creative Writing, who is the 2017 winner of UCD Maeve Binchy Travel Award.
• Congratulations to Anne Griffin, Creative Writing MA graduate for signing her first book deal for her debut novel, All That I Have Been!
• Congratulations to all the UCD 2017 University Teaching and Learning Awardees! Especial congratulations to the School of English Drama and Film awardees: Dr Paul Perry University Award for Teaching Excellence and Dr Fionnuala Dillane, University Award for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning, specifically for Leadership in Education.
• (opens in a new window)Congratulations to Dr. PJ Matthews whose Handbook of the Irish Revival, coedited with Declan Kiberd received the bronze award in the Reference category for this year's Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards.
• (opens in a new window)Announcing the Ireland Chair of Poetry Travel Award to Maureen Boyle
• Read Dr. Niamh Pattwell's new blog, (opens in a new window)"The Wycliffite Bibles in the Library of Trinity College Dublin" posted at Trinity Manuscripts.
• Ireland Chair of Poetry presents a lecture by Ireland Professor of Poetry Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin on 26th April at 7:30pm

2017

• MA in Theatre Practice Open Day: 31st March
• The School of English, Drama and Film is delighted to be ranked at number 45 in the world by QS - this positions us as the leading School in Ireland, and as the 14th in Europe. This is testament to the commitment and dedication of staff in the School to research, creativity and teaching, and welcome recognition of the innovative nature of research undertaken by our academics and its global impact. As Head of School I would like to pay tribute to the talent and hard work of my colleagues and to congratulate them on their success.
• Celebrate Poetry Day Ireland, Thursday, 27th April, 1.00pm
• The School of English, Drama and Film will be holding advisory sessions for current Stage 1 students on Tuesday March 28th in J208. You may attend any session - 12, 12.30, 1, or 1.30 - academics and former students will be on hand to outline what is on offer, to discuss future opportunities and to answer queries and questions. All are most welcome.
• The UCD James Joyce Research Centre, School of English, Drama and Film, in collaboration with the James Joyce Centre presents: Another Irregular Finnegans Wake-End
• Teaching and Learning Awards. 2017
• Notice of Gus Martin Memorial Scholarship (North America) 2017
• Maeve Binchy Travel Award 2017
• Maria Helena Kopschitz Scholarship for MA in Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama

2016

• Calvin Duffy wins second prize, NUI Dr HH Stewart Literary Scholarship and Prize
• Dr Christine Mangan sells publishing rights to debut novel 'Tangerine'
• Untold Stories of the Past 150 Years: CFP
• The Occult in Popular Fiction and Entertainments
• Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme
• Gus Martin Memorial Postgraduate Scholarship 2016-17
• Postgraduate Information Session Tuesday, April 5, 1-2pm J208
• Announcement of New MA in Theatre Practice
• Student Talks National Conference, March 9th UCD - Student Presenters Wanted
• Centenary Readings of James Joyce's 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'
• Maria Helena Kopschitz Scholarship for MA in Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama
• New Module Map for Undergraduates

2015

• Postgraduate Bursaries 2015-16
• Roger McHugh Memorial Doctoral Scholarship (Anglo-Irish Literature)
• Gus Martin Memorial Postgraduate Scholarship
• 2015 Call for the Maria Helena Kopschitz Scholarship
• Announcement of Maeve Binchy Travel Award 2015
• Irish Modernist Women Symposium
• 26th February: Reading by The Ireland Professor of Poetry Paula Meehan
• Anne Enright named as first Laureate for Irish fiction
• Irish Pen Award for Eilís Ní Dhuibhne
• Paul Perry awarded the Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry
• Console-ing Passions Conference 2015

2014

• UCD's Dr Harvey O'Brien in Dublin Review of Books
• Colin Barrett wins Guardian First Fiction Award 2014
• Information on Erasmus for UCD Students
• Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies Issue #13
• Colin Barrett wins Rooney Prize for ‘Young Skins’
• UCD Writing Centre
• MA Scholarships, 2014-2015
• James Joyce Research Colloquium 10-12 April 2014
• MA in Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama Scholarships
• Fionnula Dillane awarded Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize
• Launch of Maria Helena Kopschitz MA Scholarship (Brazil/Ireland)
• Seventh Annual UCD James Joyce Research Colloquium - 10-12 April 2014

2013

• World-Ecology, World-Economy, World-Literature
• Landscapes of Crisis
• Ireland, Slavery, Anti-Slavery, Empire
• Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)
• EU Presidency HSS Conference: Innovation, Reflection and Inclusion
• Professor Margaret Kelleher appointed to chair of Anglo-Irish Literature
• 'Shakespeare's Universality: The Revolutionary Imagination' - Prof. Kiernan Ryan