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New book by Prof Emer Nolan reviewed The Irish Times.
New book by Prof Emer Nolan, Five Irish Women: the second republic, 1960-2016, reviewed recently by Catriona Crowe in The Irish Times.
Date: Wednesday, 08 January 2020
Department of English's Dr Catherine Gander and Dr Rita Sakr delivering talks at collaborative symposium
Dr Catherine Gander and Dr Rita Sakr will be delivering talks at the 'Contemporary Literature: Politics and Aesthetics in Crisis' symposium at Queen’s University Belfast
Date: Wednesday, 11 December 2019
Award-winning Turkish writer Ece Temelkuran delivers the Dean’s Lecture
Award-winning Turkish writer and political thinker, Ece Temelkuran delivered the Dean’s Lecture as part of Research Week at Maynooth University.
Date: Wednesday, 23 October 2019
Department of English Staff Publication
Our MA co-ordinator Dr Rita Sakr’s archive-based research study on “Imagining Mid-Nineteenth-Century Beirut as a ‘City of the World’: Public Intellectuals, Photography, Cartography, and Historical Literature” has just been published in the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies.
Date: Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Shakespeare’s King Lear is a Brexit play, argues Dr Stephen O’Neill
Shakespeare’s King Lear is a Brexit play, argues Stephen O’Neill, in a new article that explores a range of discourses and media, from theatre productions and journalism to social media.
Date: Friday, 27 September 2019
Department of English's Dr Rita Sakr in discussion on BBC World Service
Dr Rita Sakr, MA co-ordinator in the Department of English, was the main guest on the 2-hour BBC World Service Weekend show on Sunday 15 September.
Date: Sunday, 15 September 2019
Funded PhD Studentship on the IRC’s MACMORRIS Project
Funded PhD Studentship on the Irish Research Council’s MACMORRIS Project.
Date: Friday, 23 August 2019
Call for Applications: Department of English Doctoral Scholarship
Maynooth University Department of English Doctoral Scholarship.
Date: Monday, 08 July 2019
Consultation Day 2019
Academic staff will be available for consultation on Wednesday 3 July from 10am to 12:30pm and 2pm to 4pm.
Date: Wednesday, 03 July 2019