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On your bike: how the bicycle influenced literature and art
The bicycle represented more than just another way to get around for many writers and artists
Date: Friday, 08 February 2019
New Professor of English
We are delighted to announce the Professor Lauren Arrington will be joining the Department of English in June 2019.
Date: Friday, 11 January 2019
English Undergraduate Student Project | Contemporary Irish Writing Online Depository
Maynooth University: Contemporary Irish Writing An Online depository for cutting-edge literary theory from Maynooth University. A project by third-year undergraduates, specialising in new Irish writing.
Date: Thursday, 13 December 2018
Department of English PhD student receives Postgraduate Award 2018
Congratulations to Matthew Fogarty, PhD student in the English Department who was nominated for and has won a Postgraduate Award 2018. Matt was nominated for his work on the MU Postgraduate Feedback Council and for establishing and convening the Doctoral Researchers Writing Group.
Date: Thursday, 25 October 2018
Department of English PhD Graduation
Thomas Connolly conferred with his PhD.
Date: Tuesday, 11 September 2018
Department of English Staff Publication | "Quoting Shakespeare in Digital Cultures" in Shakespeare and Quotation
New publication by our staff member Dr Stephen O'Neill, "Quoting Shakespeare in Digital Cultures", in Shakespeare and Quotation, edited by Julie Maxwell and Kate Rumbold (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Date: Thursday, 17 May 2018
Department of English Staff Publication | Shakespearean presences in W.B. Yeats's Purgatory
Department of English lecturer, Dr Stanley Van der Ziel's essay on Shakespearean presences in W.B. Yeats's Purgatory has just been published in the new issue of the Yeats Annual.
Date: Wednesday, 21 March 2018
State-of-the Art Preservation Facility IFI Irish Film Archive @ Maynooth University Opens
Tá bród ar Institiúid Scannán na hÉireann (IFI) agus ar Ollscoil Mhá Nuad a fhógairt go bhfuil Cartlann Scannán na hÉireann, IFI @ Ollscoil Mhá Nuad oscailte.
Date: Friday, 09 March 2018
‘The beginning of the story’: Department of English PhD graduate Bridget English’s new book features in The Irish Times
Bridget English, a recent PhD graduate from the Department of English, has just published a book based on her doctoral research in the Department. In The Irish Times Culture section Bridget has written about her research and the insights which attitudes towards death and dying give us on culture, communal beliefs, and the limits of human life.
Date: Monday, 05 February 2018
Department of English Staff Publication | “In fair [Europe], where we lay our scene” Romeo and Juliet
Announcing “In fair [Europe], where we lay our scene” Romeo and Juliet, Europe and Digital Cultures
Date: Thursday, 01 February 2018