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Novelist and Dramatist Lucy Caldwell Awarded Rooney Prize 2011 The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for 2011 was awarded to Lucy Caldwell, in recognition of her achievement and outstanding promise as a novelist and dramatist. The announcement was made by the Provost of Trinity College Dublin, Dr Patrick Prendergast at a reception in the Residence of the Ambassador of the United States of America to Ireland last night (October 25th 2011). Lucy Caldwell was born in Belfast in 1981. She read English at Queens’ College Cambridge and took her MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College, London. She has published two novels: Where They Were Missed (2006) and The Meeting Point (2011). Her plays have been performed at the Royal Court Theatre and by the BBC. Provost, Dr Patrick Prendergast, Lucy Caldwell, Patricia Rooney and Dr Daniel M. Rooney Previous winners of the Rooney Prize include Bernard Farrell, Neil Jordan, Frank McGuinness, Deirdre Madden and Anne Enright. The selection committee this year comprised: Dr Terence Brown, Chair of the selection committee, critic and author (Fellow Emeritus, TCD); Gerald Dawe poet, critic and editor (Director, The Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing, TCD); Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, poet, critic and editor (Associate Professor School of English, TCD); Dr Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, novelist and dramatist; Carlo Gébler, novelist and dramatist; Dr Riana O’Dwyer critic and editor (Department of English, National University of Ireland at Galway) Commenting on the significance of Lucy’s work Dr Brown said she addresses difficult personal issues in complex cultural settings with a rare combination of sensitivity and acute intelligence. The Rooney Prize is administered by Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing, School of English, Trinity College Dublin. About the Rooney Prize: The Rooney Prize is awarded through the generosity of Dr Daniel M. Rooney of the Pittsburgh Steelers in the USA and his wife, Patricia. Dr Rooney is Ambassador of the United States of America to Ireland. The Prize was established in 1975 and is awarded annually to a published Irish writer under forty whose work the selection committee considers shows outstanding promise. Back to press release listing.
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Inniu d’fhógair Propast Choláiste na Tríonóide, Baile Átha Cliath, an Dr Patrick Prendergast, Ollúnacht Seamus Heaney i Scríbhneoireacht na hÉireann, atá ainmnithe in ómós duine de mhór-fhilí na hÉireann a bhuaigh duais Nobel. “Ócáid mhór don scríbhneoireacht in Éirinn agus thar lear is ea an ócáid seo. Tá Coláiste na Tríonóide, Baile Átha Cliath ag cur le scoth-thraidisiún litríochta an Choláiste leis an ollúnacht nua seo,” a deir an Propast ag an ócáid fógartha. Bhí ríméad ar an bhfile, a bhfuil ceangal aige le fada le Coláiste na Tríonóide agus atá ina Chomhalta Oinigh ó 1998, faoin ollúnacht nua agus a bheidh gan amhras anois ar cheann de na ceapacháin is mó cáil i saol acadúil na hÉireann. An file Seamus Heaney agus an Propast, Dr Patrick Prendergast agus Ollúnacht Seamus Heaney i Scríbhneoireacht na hÉireann á fhógairt “Is mór an onóir é gur cheap Coláiste na Tríonóide m’ainmse a chur leis an Ollúnacht nua i Scríbhneoireacht na hÉireann. Is mó ná sin arís é ó tharla an meas mór atá agam ar an obair a dhéantar i Scoil an Bhéarla i gColáiste na Tríonóide agus an cairdeas atá agam thar na blianta le scríbhneoirí agus scoláirí a chuir go mór le léann scríbhneoireacht na hÉireann agus lena cleachtadh. Táim fíorbhuíoch do na bronntóirí ar léir suim ar leith a bheith acu i bhfilíocht” a deir Seamus Heaney. Roinnt de mhór-dheontóirí Choláiste na Tríonóide a cheap an post nua lena n-áirítear an Dr Mark Pigott, KBE, agus an Dr Martin Naughton, Cathaoirleach Glen Dimplex. “Táimid buíoch don tacaíocht a thugann siad agus an fhís straitéiseach a bhí acu a thug orthu an ceapachán seo a fhorbairt,” a deir an Dr Prendergast . “Tá Coláiste na Tríonóide faoi chomaoin ag a lucht maoinithe ar fad a bhíonn fíor ghnaíúil agus atá ag tacú le cáil Choláiste na Tríonóide ar cheann d’institiúidí oideachais ceannródaíocha ar fud an domhain a chur chun cinn.” Chuir Ceann Scoil an Bhéarla i gColáiste na Tríonóide, an tOllamh Cúnta Eve Patten, fáilte roimh an Ollúnacht nua agus deir: “Bhí ról ceannródaíoch riamh ag an Scoil le léann liteartha na hÉireann a fhorbairt agus daingneoidh Ollúnacht Seamus Heaney i Scríbhneoireacht na hÉireann a cáil sa réimse sin. Beidh buntáiste mór leis an bpost i dtaobh mhúineadh agus taighde ag leibhéal fochéime agus iarchéime agus is mór an spreagadh é do Dhámh na nEalaíon, na nDaonnachtaí agus na nEolaíochtaí Sóisialta tríd is tríd." Is i Scoil an Bhéarla, atá ar cheann de na scoileanna Béarla is sine ar an domhan, a bunaíodh an chéad Ollúnacht i Litríocht an Bhéarla in 1867. D’fhreastail go leor de mhórscríbhneoirí na hÉireann leis na céadta bliain ar Choláiste na Tríonóide – ina measc Jonathan Swift, Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Burke, Bram Stoker, J.M. Synge, Samuel Beckett, Oscar Wilde, William Trevor, Sebastian Barry, Deirdre Madden agus Anne Enright.