Congratulations to all students who were shortlisted for their prose and poetry pieces for the 2021 Student Literary Awards.

Poetry Short List:

Ann Marie Dunne: ‘Saoirse’, ‘Barrow Boating’, ‘On Seeing the ‘Weeping Woman’ (after Picasso)’

Brenda Whelan: ‘Old Walt Whitman’, ‘This Room in Walden’, ‘The Messenger’

Bryan Curley: ‘Art Room’, ‘The Field’

Emma Louise O’Brien Flaherty: ‘Cluain na Sli’, ‘The Flora and Fauna’

Rebecca Gallagher: ‘Driving’

Kevin Kenny: ‘The Grandfather Clock’

Robert Ruane: ‘Marley’, ‘Rosenalis, a Reminiscence’

Saoirse Behan: ‘The Automat Girl (after Edward Hopper)’, ‘The Gift’

Angela Kirwan:  ‘Dad’, ‘Dancing to Van Morrison’, ‘Things I know or thought I did’

Eoin Byrne: ‘Mobile Home’.

Jean Brennan: ‘Notes of a Father’

Jeffrey McCarthy: ‘A Gravity Free Moment’

Karmel Knipprath: ‘Circe’

Marion O’Toole: ‘Me and John Wayne’, ‘Saint Francis of Assissi’, ‘In Bocca al Lupo’

Patryk Hadrys: ‘Działka’

Prose Short List:

Adam Crawford: ‘The Tower’

Grace Gough: ‘Split’; and Chloe Sweeney: ‘The Life Lesson’

Karmel Knipprath: ‘Pandemic’