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Subject: [Montreal-Irish] Fw: Scholarship news and more ...
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:12:56 -0500

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Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University Belfast - News and Events in 2003


Please see below for information on the following:
Estyn Evans Summer School Scholarship
John Fairleigh Summer School Scholarship
International Summer School
Mary McNeill Scholarship for MA Irish Studies programme
New MA (Irish Studies) programme
Forthcoming seminars


Estyn Evans Summer School Scholarship in Irish Studies, 2003
E. Estyn Evans (1905-1989) was Ireland's first professor of geography
and the first Director of Queen's University's interdisciplinary
Institute of Irish Studies, established in 1965. This scholarship is
founded in his memory.


This scholarship, which covers the cost of tuition and accommodation
(£695 in 2003) will be offered to a well-qualified student wishing to
enrol in the International Summer School in Irish Studies at Queen's
University Belfast, 21 July - 8 August 2003.


Applications will be judged by a panel on the basis of academic merit
and reasons for taking the course. The closing date for applications is
30 May 2003.


John Fairleigh Summer School Scholarship in Irish Studies, 2003
This scholarship honours the continuing work of John Fairleigh in
promoting the inclusion of Irish Studies in the curriculum of Balkan and
Baltic universities. He has published several anthologies of Irish and
Romanian literature in translation. In recognition of his dedication to
the dissemination of Irish and Romanian culture, President Emil
Constantinescu invested him in November 2000 as a Commander of the
Romanian Order of Merit.


The scholarship is available in 2003 to students following courses in
Irish Studies at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania,
Romania. The scholarship will cover the cost of tuition and
accommodation at the Summer School, 21 July - 8 August 2003. The cost of
return economy-class flights to Belfast from Romania will be reimbursed.


Applications will be judged by a panel on the basis of academic merit
and reasons for taking the course. Closing date for applications is 30
May 2003.


International Summer School, 21 July - 8 August 2003
This three-week programme is now in its third year and attracts
students from the US, Canada, Europe and South America.
The programme offers a unique opportunity to examine Irish history,
politics, anthropology, literature, drama, film, archaeology and art.
Teaching is combined with fieldtrips to sites of historic, political,
scientific and cultural interest in Northern Ireland. Aspects of the
conflict are also explored through meetings and dialogue with community
group leaders, local think-tank organisations, politicians and the
Police Service. The closing date is 30 May 2003.


Mary McNeill Scholarship for the MA (Irish Studies) programme
The Institute is offering this scholarship, worth £3,000 to a
US/Canadian citizen enrolling for the MA (Irish Studies) in 2003. The
closing date is 30 May 2003.


MA (Irish Studies) New Programmes for 2003
The Institute has offered a very successful MA in Irish Studies since
1987, providing the opportunity to undertake interdisciplinary study in
the broad field of Irish Studies. This programme is now being expanded
so that students entering this programme in 2003 will be able to choose
their course from several themed areas: Ireland and Politics, Culture,
Tradition and Heritage, Literature and Language, Communities and
Identities, Conflict and Power, Peoples and Place, and Religion and
Ritual. Students choose four taught modules, and undertake a
dissertation of 15,000 words in one of their chosen subjects. For this
degree we call on the expertise, not only of the Institute staff, but
also of the teaching and research staff involved in Irish Studies
throughout the university.


Seminar Programme - Remembering and Commemoration
27 February - 15 May 2003
27 March, Mark Phelan (School of Languages, Literatures and Arts, QUB)
Not so Innocent Landscapes, Representing the "Disappeared": material
absence and historical presence in David Farrell's photography


3 April, Dr Karen Murphy (Facing History and Ourselves, Boston)
Confronting the Past: the Roles of History and History Education in the
Process of Reconciliation


1 May, Dr Yvonne Whelan (Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages, UU)
Geographies of Conflict Commemoration: Interrogating the Cultural
Landscapes of Northern Ireland


Further information and application forms are available on the website
at www.qub.ac.uk/iis or from:

Catherine Boone
Administrator
Institute of Irish Studies
Queen's University Belfast
8 Fitzwilliam Street
Belfast BT9 6AW
Northern Ireland
Tel: (0) 28 9027 3386
E-mail:
www.qub.ac.uk/iis

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