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Carmel O 'Reilly

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Carmel O’Reilly is a final-year PhD candidate in English and Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast, specialising in Irish characters in historical fiction set during the Tudor period. Her research involves writing a novel set during the Tudor period and literary analysis of narrative techniques in comparable historical fiction, both English and Irish. Carmel is a member of The Historical Novel Society (UK) and recently attended their inaugural conference in Ireland at Maynooth University (August 2026). She currently holds an M.A. in French and a B.A. (Hons) in French and English from University College Dublin. Carmel’s teaching involves Intermediate level French at TU Dublin, together with Intermediate and Advanced level English. Among research publications, Carmel has also contributed to Tiny Masterclasses in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre in association with Fighting Words Northern Ireland.

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