About Elleesa

Since my return to education...

I took a 32 year gap break, and in the time between leaving school and starting university, I was fortunate to have two children and a range of interesting work. I started my undergraduate degree in Creative Writing at age 51.

Creative Writing BA Hons 1st Class 2018

The creative work examined the legacy of adoption, identity and revenge in a work of magical realism.

Masters by Research 2021

Homecoming – an Irish ghost story: reflections on the Irish gothic tradition

Supernaturalism and Colonial Structure in 19th Century Ireland (An examination of Irish history through the binary oral folklore and written Gothic tradition.)

https://researchportal.beds.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/homecoming-an-irish-ghost-story-reflections-on-the-irish-gothic-t-3/

PhD- Creative Writing & History 2024

How ambiguous loss and postmemory affects the intergenerational memory of the lost men of the SS Isolda.

PhD examining post memory and ambiguous loss connected to the sinking of The Irish Lights tender SS Isolda (1940). The creative work was a series of interlinked short stories using information from interviews with both victim and survivor families, and archival documents to commemorate the crew and their widows. The critical thesis explored why the use of magical realism, metafiction and inclusion of archive documents mined the emotional history of one tragic event with lasting consequences.

https://researchportal.beds.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/how-ambiguous-loss-and-postmemory-affects-the-intergenerational-m-3/

Elleesa

About Elleesa

Since my return to education...

Creative Writing BA Hons 1st Class 2018

Masters by Research 2021

PhD- Creative Writing & History 2024

Winner - Irish Post Listowel Writers' Week Competition 2018

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