My Overall Experience
We are now at the end…. just kidding. This will look like it is the final post, but it is not the end of the journey, what a quest this has been, making and managing a blog. How do people … Continue reading
Conference Reflection
Textualities 2026 Hello fellow reader, Today I am blogging about the college conference I participated in and presented. This is my reflections on the days leading up to the conference, the preparations involved, both in class, on my own and … Continue reading
Literature Review
For my MA thesis I have decided to focus on a medieval English text along with a medieval Irish text. The texts that I will be using are, Sir Orfeo, a late 14th century middle-English text and Tochmarc Étaíne, also … Continue reading
Old English and Modern English Literature
Hello fellow readers, Today I am blogging about the second seminar I attended in college, one that I was very excited for as it was presented by a MedRen professor of Old English Dr Francesca Brooks. The seminar was called … Continue reading
Batman: A Modern Medieval ‘Dark Knight’
Hello fellow readers, I’m back with a new idea: reimagining Batman as a modern-day medieval knight, inspired by my studies linking Middle English romance literature to the first live concert I attended for the 1989 Batman film, starring Michael Keaton as Batman … Continue reading
Donnie Darko’s Mind-bending Ambiguity
Hello fellow readers, Today’s blog is on a film I watched recently, and by recent I mean yesterday. I will now tell you of how I came across this film that I consider to be within my top 5 list … Continue reading
The Disneyfication of a Medieval Tale: The precursor to Sleeping Beauty
Hello readers! We’ve all heard of the story of Sleeping Beauty or seen the Disney adaptation of the film, many of us having known of it from childhood. It is considered a tale as old as time, in this context, … Continue reading
Dark Cosmology
Hello! Today’s blog is on Dark Cosmology and it’s state of being in the great and philosophical world of Shakespeare, in contrast to Boethian concepts. The term ‘dark’ in Shakespearean literature refers to the underworld, darkness, night, death and witches … Continue reading
Rainview Blog
Hello fellow reader! Welcome to my blog of reflections and thoughts… My name is Whitney Ramsaran and I am currently doing my masters at UCC in Medieval and Renaissance English Literature. This is a space where I reflect on the … Continue reading