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School of English and Digital Humanities Welcome Event
The School of English and Digital Humanities Welcome Event took place on Thursday October 21.
Staff and students gathered (online!) to welcome new colleagues and celebrate achievements within the School.
We celebrated new publications from Dr Maureen O'Connor, Dr Cl铆ona 脫 Gallchoir, Dr M谩ir铆n MacCarron, Dr Eibhear Walshe, Dr Anne Etienne, Dr Adam Hanna, Prof Claire Connolly and Dr James O Sullivan.
The School also celebrated two major research achievements:
Prof Claire Connolly was awarded UCC Researcher of the Year 2020 and Dr James Lewis Smith won UCC Open Researcher of the Year 2020.
The event also saw the presentation of School Undergraduate Awards to students who produced exceptional essays last year.![]()
We also had a reading from Maeve Joy Taggart, winner of this year's Eoin Murray Memorial Scholarship

A full list of the awards conferred can be found below
UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS RESULTS 2020-2021
The Patricia Coughlan Award
Winner
Name: Robyn Coombes
Student Number: 120225471
Essay Title: 鈥淭he Maternal Burden: An Ecofeminist Consideration of 鈥楾he Last Rabbit鈥 and 鈥楾he Women Turns Herself into a Fish鈥欌&苍产蝉辫;
Module/Lecturer: EN3007 The Natural World in Irish Women鈥檚 Writing/Maureen O鈥機onnor
Highly Recommended
Name: Sarah Byrne
Student Number: 119469242
Essay Title: 鈥溾楾o the Women Hovering鈥: A Discussion of the Representation of Gender and Biological Sex in Seamus Heaney鈥檚North鈥&苍产蝉辫;
Module/Lecturer: EN2006 鈥淣orthern Irish Literature and the Troubles鈥/Adam Hanna
The School Undergraduate Awards (2nd Year)
Winner
Name: Ciara O鈥機onnor
Student Number: 119465766
Essay Title: 鈥Bell, Book and Candle as a Queer-Coded Text鈥&苍产蝉辫;
Module/Lecturer: EN2006 鈥淎ll of Them Witches鈥: Witchcraft in the American Popular Imagination/Miranda Corcoran
Highly Recommended
Name: Grace Morey
Student Number: 119717211
Essay Title: 鈥淧sychoanalysis Meets Aesthetics: An Analysis of the Uncanny in The Monk and We Have Always Lived in the Castle鈥&苍产蝉辫;
Module/Lecturer: EN2006 鈥淎n Introduction to Gothic Literature鈥/Anne Mahler
Highly Recommended
Name: Ellen Lahiff
Student Number: 119439234
Essay Title: 鈥淗ow The Black Vampyre and Carmilla Incorporate and Respond to their Respective Cultural Anxieties鈥&苍产蝉辫;
Module/Lecturer: EN2006 鈥淎n Introduction to Gothic Literature鈥/Anne Mahler
The School Undergraduate Awards (3rd Year)
Joint Winner:
Name: Maria Quirke
Student Number: 118359853
Essay Title: 鈥溾楽purning at Slavery鈥: The Influence of Abolitionist Literature on Mary Wollstonecraft鈥檚 Rhetoric of Motherhood in Maria; or The Wrongs of Women鈥&苍产蝉辫;
Module/Lecturer: EN3072 Romantic Literature/Cl铆ona 脫 Gallchoir
Joint Winner:
Name: Cian Egan
Student Number: 118392916
Essay Title: 鈥淎rchaic Motherhood and Primal Fear: How Ridley Scott鈥檚 Alien Evokes the Abject鈥&苍产蝉辫;
Module/Lecturer: EN3007 American Science Fiction/Miranda Corcoran
Highly Recommended
Name: Rachel O鈥機onnor
Student Number: 117434072
Essay Title: 鈥淭he Flower of the Mountain and the Old Maid: Anxieties about Aging in James Joyce鈥檚 Ulysses鈥&苍产蝉辫;
Module/Lecturer: EN3007 Reading Ulysses/Heather Laird
Highly Recommended
Name: Joseph Linehan
Student Number: 118357963
Essay Title: 鈥淭he 鈥楬elenic鈥 Element: Helen of Sparta and Gendered Myth in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats鈥&苍产蝉辫;
Module/Lecturer: EN3007 The Writings of W.B. Yeats/Alex Davis
Highly Recommended
Name: Sonja Lauren Murphy
Student Number: 118369661
Essay Title: 鈥淎 Comparison of Genettean and Post-Genettean Narratology, with Reference to Little Constructions by Anna Burns鈥&苍产蝉辫;
Module/Lecturer: EN3007 Experimental Fiction/Alan Gibbs
The Louise Clancy Memorial Prize
Winner
Name: Robert Lyons
Student Number: 118748505
Dissertation Title: 鈥淪hades of Meaning: The Didactic Role of Ghosts in English Literature鈥&苍产蝉辫;
The 脡amonn 脫 Carrag谩in Prize
This prize for outstanding undergraduate work in Old English is awarded to the student (Joint or Single Honours, or Major, or BAEN) with the highest grade in EN2012 Old English Language.
Joint Winner
Name: Aoife O鈥橲ullivan
Student Number: 119397246
Grade: 91%
Joint Winner
Name: Shannagh Whelan
Student Number: 119427094
Grade: 91%
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