Holocaust Narratives
So without consciously intending to, I’ve read several books about the holocaust recently. I read Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and MAUS by Art Spiegelmann. All turned out to be great books and all turned out to be about the holocaust but they told their stories in very different ways. […]
Survival without internet
So I’ve moved back to college and due to an ongoing battle with a certain internet provider, who shall remain nameless for the sake of my sanity, I have not had internet access in weeks. So apologies for not putting up any posts (not that anyone reads this but it’s nice to be nice), and luckily […]
So I helped at a conference recently…
So I was a SPUR (summer programme for undergraduate researchers) intern with the English department this summer. I was helping Dr. Íde Corley organise a conference on Multiple Modernities of Same-Sex Sexuality in Nigeria. Don’t ask. As this conference was sponsored by the European Science Foundation we had to follow their rules and bureacracy which meant […]
Diary of an English student
Well here is my blog. Welcome, come in, wipe your feet and grab a beer. I’m going into final year of my BA in the National University of Ireland Maynooth. That means a big-ass dissertation/creative writing project, a lot of essays and severe curtailing of my xbox time. My minor subject is Greek and Roman […]