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20 Nov 2025
Scottish writer an exciting appointment for Otago Fellowship
Scottish writer Donald S Murray says he is thrilled and honoured to be awarded a fellowship in Dunedin next year.
06 Nov 2025
Re-established Research Centre funding welcome in ‘grim’ environment
Research centres are celebrating securing money from the recent Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka University of Otago Research Centre...
26 Aug 2025
Book on the rise of Pacific literature shortlisted for Literary Encyclopedia Prize
A book co-authored by Professor Maebh Long, Otago’s Eamon Cleary Chair in Irish Studies, has been shortlisted for a Lite...
27 Jun 2025
Professor Liam McIlvanney is interviewed on: The Good Father
Professor Liam McIlvanney is interviewed by Mike White from the Sunday Star Times on: The Good Father.
17 Jun 2025
Irish writer Nicole Flattery awarded Otago Residency
Visiting Irish writer Nicole Flattery will be well placed for her love of cold ocean plunges when she stays in Whaka Oho...
09 Jun 2025
CISS PhD student interview about research on modernism and pregnancy
CISS PhD student Pascale Grard is the recipient of the University of Otago City of Literature PhD Scholarship 2025. She...
12 May 2025
A gathering of clans at Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies
A gathering of Dunedin’s Scottish community was held in the Reading Room of Mātai Airana, Mātai Kotirana - Centre for Ir...
25 Oct 2024
Kathleen Jamie – Scottish poet interview
Kathleen Jamie, Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies Writers Fellow is interviewed on RNZ.
25 Sep 2024
Otago appoints Eamon Cleary Chair in Irish Studies
Céad míle fáilte, nau mai haere mai, a warm welcome to Dr Maebh Long, who has been appointed the Eamon Cleary Chair in I...
02 Jul 2024
Scotland’s Makar takes up Otago Fellowship
One of the most distinguished Scottish writers of the past four decades and current Makar – National Poet for Scotland,...
09 Feb 2022
Liam McIlvanney interviewed on the The Heretic
The Chair of Scottish Studies, Professor Liam McIlvanney, was interviewed on the publication of The Heretic
23 Dec 2021
Book on speeches by Irish women a best seller
The balanced, alternative view of history found in Eamon Cleary Chair of Irish Studies Professor Sonja Tiernan’s new boo...
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