Oscar Wilde Centre

Coordinates: 53°20′40″N 6°15′30″W / 53.34444°N 6.25833°W / 53.34444; -6.25833
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The Oscar Wilde Centre is an academic research and teaching unit in

MPhil in Irish writing, and another in creative writing – the first programme of its kind in Ireland. The centre was founded by the poets Brendan Kennelly and Gerald Dawe, who serves as the director. Richard Ford, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer, joined the staff in 2008 as an adjunct professor
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Since 2007 the centre also administers the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, an annual prize for an Irish writer under 40.[1]

References

  1. ^ "The Rooney Prize for Literature - Writers - Oscar Wilde Centre : Trinity College Dublin". Archived from the original on 17 November 2009.

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