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Fellowships 2012, Old Library and Historical Archives of the Irish College, Paris

2011-11-23T07:00:00-05:00

The Irish College Paris (www.centreculturelirlandais.com) offers two Fellowship bursaries to encourage research on its Old Library and Historical Archives collections. The purpose of the Fellowships is to establish the intellectual and academic value of the holdings.

The Old Library contains 8000 volumes (from the 15th to the 19th century). Once the library of the Irish College when it was a seminary, the collection contains works of theology, history, philosophy…
More than 19 000 items are held in the Historical Archives, covering a period extending from the 14th to the 20th century. The main themes are daily life at the Irish College and the buildings which were owned by the Irish Community, the grant foundations, the religious community…
For more details about the collections’ content and access to the online catalogues: www.centreculturelirlandais.com/presentation_eng

The areas of research are open, depending on the candidate’s interests, and could focus on a historical subject, a period of time, an author, the manuscripts or printed items, the provenance of part of the collections, the bindings…

We are looking for an output which would add to our knowledge of the library or archives and to the information which we can put into the public domain.

Priority will be given to research subjects examining a corpus of references instead of one reference in particular.

In 2010 and 2011, Fellows pursued the following research:
-Frédéric Manzini: Robert Boyle chez les philosophes en France et en Europe au XVIIème siècle : diffusion et influence
-Cormac Begadon: Belief and Devotion in a 19th century Irish Seminary: the evidence from the Irish College Paris Collections
-Justin Dolan Stover: Student life, curriculum, and college administration: the Irish College, Paris, under le bureau gratuit, 1870-1918
-Nienke Tjoelker: Irish Neo-Latin style and identity
-Linda Kiernan: Gentlemen Scholars: Minding manners and polite society at the Irish College, Paris
-Brid McGrath: Representative assemblies in Ireland and France in the early modern period
-Rebecca Schwarz: John Toland’s Irish Philo-Semitism: A New Window on Christian-Jewish Relations
-Emmanuelle Chapron: Bibliothèques décomposées : les livres des collèges d’Ancien Régime dans le fonds ancien du Centre Culturel Irlandais

Conditions:
The result should be a report in English or in French (approx. 20 000 words + appendix, bibliography…)
Duration: 1 month between April and November 2012
Grant: €1000 per month; accommodation at the Irish College and travel (from Ireland) will be covered.
Deadline for receipt of applications (in English or French): 20th January 2012

Please send:
-CV
-Summary of your proposed research subject (500-1000 words) + your preferred dates
-Bibliography of the items you plan to consult
-Any additional relevant documentation

To: Carole Jacquet, Head of Libraries and Archives
cjacquet@centreculturelirlandais.com
or
Centre Culturel Irlandais
5 rue des Irlandais
75005 Paris, France

For any queries: 00 33 (0)1 58 52 10 33 or cjacquet@centreculturelirlandais.com

Donald R Keough visits Dunbrody National Centre for Emigration History

2011-09-16T10:00:00-04:00

Irish America Hall of Fame inductee, Donald R. Keough, who is the former
Chairman and Chief Operating Officer of The Coca-Cola Company and current
Chairman of the Board of Allen & Company Incorporated, made a surprise visit
today to the Dunbrody National Centre for Emigration History, to unveil a
plaque dedicated to his great grandfather Micheal Keough, a native of New
Ross. Co Wexford.

‘It is with great pleasure that we welcome Donald Keough to our visitor
centre today as we dedicate the departure area of our exhibition to memory
and vision of Donald’s great grandfather Micheal Keough. We wish to warmly
acknowledge Donald’s contribution to our emigration project and thank him
for his ongoing kindness and support,’ said Sean Reidy, Chief Executive of
the Dunbrody National Centre for Emigration History.

This new state of the art visitor centre was officially opened in July 2011
by Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Dr Leo Varadkar TD and
Entertainer, Michael Flatley.

The centre has been constructed in a brand new, 1,500 square metre space in a
custom built visitors centre, located on the Quayside of the river Barrow in
New Ross and next to the hugely popular Dunbrody Famine Ship. This new world
class interactive immigration experience has been cleverly integrated with
the Dunbrody Famine Ship.

Source: www.irishcentral.com

Seventeen graduates receive national fellowships and scholarships

2011-05-24T13:17:00-04:00

The University of Notre Dame recently announced that 17 members of the class of 2011 received scholarships or fellowships. Included in that announcements were two Dublin Programme Alumnae who have been recognised with nationally competitive fellowships to pursue graduate studies in their chosen area. Kristen Drahos, a 2009 ND grad in Philosophy and Theology and Fall 2007 Dublin participant, received a Lilly Graduate Fellowship to continue her studies. Kristen is receiving her Masters of Theological Studies from Notre Dame and will continue to a Ph.D. in Theology. Claire Brown, a 2011 ND grad in anthropology and Spring 2010 Dublin participant, received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. She will continue her studies by pursuing a Masters in Anthropology.

THE INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON JOHN MCGAHERN

2011-05-16T10:35:00-04:00

The International Summer School on John McGahern combines the annual International Seminar on John McGahern (July 21 – 23) with a subsequent week (July 24 – 30) of intensive classes and workshops on McGahern’s work and related areas in creative writing. All events and classes will be held in County Leitrim, in the heart of John McGahern country.

Students will attend all lectures and sessions during the Seminar and will have been allocated related projects in advance. There will be two class/workshop sessions per day during the Summer School week: 10.00 a.m. to 12.00 noon, and 2.00 p.m. to 4.00 p.m. The academic faculty will include Professor Denis Sampson, author of Outstaring Nature’s Eye: The Fiction of John McGahern; Dr Stanley van der Ziel, editor of McGahern’s Love of the World: Essays; and Dr Frank Shovlin of the Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool. Guest writers, including Kevin Barry, Martin Dyar, Mike McCormack and Belinda McKeon will discuss the creative as well as critical implications of McGahern’s legacy. Historian Liam Kelly will give a feature talk on the local dimensions of McGahern’s thought and work. Any required reading will be indicated in advance by the Programme Director – multiple copies of all McGahern’s books will also be available for consultation in the Summer School library. There will also be an opportunity to experience local social and cultural events.

International Scholarships

National University of Ireland Galway has announced that a number of tuition scholarships have been provided to support international students wishing to attend the International Seminar and Summer School on John McGahern in County Leitrim during 21-30 July, 2011.
The scholarships are designed for students at senior and graduate levels and researchers who are interested in the writings of John McGahern, his life and times in 20th-century Ireland, and related aspects of creative writing. Tuition Scholarships will be valued at €400 ($550) each.
Interested students may apply directly to the Summer School Office. Applications should be accompanied by a submission of approximately 500 words giving the basis for scholarship application.

All Summer School and Scholarship information available from:

Ms. Fiona Dwyer,
Summer School Office, NUI Galway.
Tel: +353 91 495 442
Email: fiona.dwyer@nuigalway.ie

Enrolment form

An Tine Beo Award 2011

2011-05-11T12:05:00-04:00

Each Semester the Keough Naughton Centre staff collectively choose the person that we believe best embodies the spirit of our programme. We call the award ‘An Tine Beo’: ‘Tine Beo’ means the living fire and the concept is based on an aphorism of the poet William Butler Yeats: ‘Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire’. The staff is faced with the difficult challenge of selecting one student from the entire group, choosing from a field of the brightest and the best that Notre Dame has to offer.

We confer this Award spring 2011 on a person who has consistently made contributions to the programme with her many talents. Her relaxed and even-tempered personality, her unstinting willingness to help others and her good humour contributed strongly to the formation of the Dublin student community this semester. A talented musician, she enhanced every social and liturgical occasion from the Celtic Twilight concert to the peak of Croagh Patrick to the closing Mass. She also gave back to Ireland through Community Based Learning, serving children in the North inner city. While maintaining a clear focus on her academic pursuits, she has constantly shared her many gifts, enthusiastically immersing herself in every programme activity and opportunity. She is also thoughtful about her place in the world, reflected in her double minors in Science, Technology and Values, and Catholic Social Teaching. An Tine Beo award for Spring 2011 goes to Adriana Taylor.

Notre Dame student wins the cup

2011-02-28T07:37:00-05:00

Mike Rodio, a Notre Dame JYA student studying at Trinity College Dublin (2010/11) has been studying at the Royal Irish Academy of Music under Anthony Byrne for the past year. As part of his time at RIAM, Mike entered into a concerto competition this past week at the academy, performing Gershwin’s Concerto No. 1 in F.

Performing alongside his tutor and in front of a very large and supportive contingent of his Notre Dame classmates, Mike delivered a vibrant musically and technically accomplished performance, and succeeded in winning the Piano Plus Cup. Many previous winners have gone on to stellar careers. This is a wonderful accomplishment, and we at the ND Dublin Centre are glad that he had the opportunity to succeed in his studies here. He puts in many hours of hard work both at RIAM and on the O’Connell House piano, he is very committed to his music, and we feel that he is really benefitting from his time here.