‘Dessie: Glor na Bo Finne’, a new documentary produced by Broadcast Production’s Frank Delaney has been selected by broadcaster TG4 as their Christmas day documentary special.

Leon Litvack, Principal Editor of the Charles Dickens Letters Project, spotted two forgeries being offered at auction by Fonsie Mealy’s in Kilkenny.

Today’s edition of the Times (24 October 22) features a piece on a new Dickens letter, just published by Leon Litvack on the Dickens Letters Project website.

Prof. Mark Thornton Burnett (English/AEL), with Dr Taarini Mookherjee (Columbia University), has been awarded a British Academy Newton International Fellowship. The value of the award is £119,250.

JOINT WINNERS: Yilin Cao, Fangzhou Yang, Ya Li for their Documentary 'The Gift Tree'

Still Shielding, an QUB MA in Film production, has been selected for the 'Disappear Here Film Festival', Ballyliffin, Donegal 23-25, September 2022

Dr Michael Brown was in Washington DC (June 2022), where his film ‘Brick Mule’ won the Best Documentary Award at the Nepal America International Film Festival. Brick Mule was screened in the main theatre in the prime slot at the closing ceremony.

Final year French & Portuguese student, Ana Torres, is the winner of the prestigious Camões Institute 2022 Award for Best Final Year Student of Portuguese in the UK!

The Sunday Telegraph of 26 June carried a report of a new Dickens letter, found and published by Leon Litvack, Principal Editor of the Dickens Letters Project, that enhances what we know about the author’s abhorrence of the slave trade.

Based on the theme ‘Languages: The Key That Opens Doors’, Prof Isabel Torres, Prof Maeve McCusker and Dr Marcas MacCoinnigh were delighted to welcome so many to the first Forum for Modern Language Teachers on Friday 17 June.

Dr Gail McConnell, poet and Senior Lecturer in English at Queen’s University Belfast, has been announced as the winner of the 2022 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize for her debut book The Sun is Open. 

Professor Janice Carruthers has been made a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French Ambassador to the UK, Her Excellency Mme Catherine Colonna, at a special ceremony at Queen’s University Belfast.

Congratulation to Sophie Cooper, who has been awarded a Charlemont Grant by the Royal Irish Academy for the project 'Histories of Emotion in the Built Environment' (HEBE).

Four projects in the School have received funding for their collaborative research projects between academics and institutions in Ireland and in Northern Ireland under the first funding call from the North-South Research Programme.

The project, ‘Shakespeare and the Irish Actor’, brings experienced researcher Dr Emer McHugh (NUI Galway) to work with Mark for two years, starting next academic year, and is for Euros 220,000.

AEL International students were treated to the sights and sounds of an Alternative Ulster when they came along to a special screening of Good Vibrations in the Harty Room on Wednesday 23 February.