Archive for January 2013

The Irish Studies program at St. John Fisher College’s Annual Conference will take place on Friday, February 22nd, 2013. This year’s conference title is “Frederick Douglass and Ireland: The Irish Influence on America’s Greatest Abolitionist and its Continuing Relevance.” All are welcome to attend the free conference. The full schedule is as follows: Welcome/Refreshments: 8:30-8:55…

A Fulbright Award is one of the most important experiences that will happen in your academic career. Dr. Shannon Chance, a current US Fulbright Scholar at the Dublin Institute of Technology, gives some advice on how to share this experience with the world. Shannon is spending her Fulbright year at DIT and has written a…

Current FLTA, Nóirín Ní Laighin, Cheers on the Irish at Notre Dame Nóirín Ní Laighin is a current Foreign Language Teaching Assistant at the University of Notre Dame. She was lucky enough to be there for their undefeated (regular) season and has shared some of her photos from the games. Nóirín attended four football games…

The Fulbright Commission of Ireland jointly hosted an orientation event in Belfast for newly arrived Fulbrighters with the US-UK Fulbright Commission. The official purpose of the visit was to announce the UK Commission’s new Fulbright Award with the Northern Ireland Assembly and Queen’s University Belfast, but a range of other programming took place as well.…

The Fulbright Specialist Awards Have Returned The Fulbright Specialist Awards are designed to enable Irish colleges, research centers, and educational and cultural institutions to invite US academics / professionals to assist with any aspect of development, such as new courses, research programs, or administrative structures, for example. The Fulbright Commission of Ireland is seeking expressions…

The annual EducationUSA Undergraduate Seminar will take place on Saturday, February 16th, 2013. Every year EducationUSA hosts an Undergraduate Seminar for students who are considering going to college in the US. This year’s event will take place on February 16th in Dublin City Centre. It is free to attend the seminar, but you must register…

The Irish Seminar has been running each summer since 1999 by the Irish Studies program at the Keough Naughton Notre Dame Centre in O’Connell House on Merrion Square. It is aimed at post-graduate students and faculty in Irish Studies, drawn from all over the world. The theme of this year’s Irish Seminar is Contemporary Irish…

Over the past few months the Fulbright / EducationUSA team has been reaching out to American colleges and universities with a presence in Ireland. Yesterday, Joanne Davidson and Courtney Cokely had the pleasure in touring the new Arcadia University building in Temple Bar. The new premises have been fully refurbished and include a seminar room…

The Ireland United States Alumni Association (IUSA) is an alumni initiative that is sponsored by US Department of State for Irish alumni, alumni who are resident in Ireland, and other interested alumni to network and give back. The IUSA’s Annual Conference and Congress will take place on Saturday, January 26th, 2013 at the Four Seasons…

Fulbrighter Eina McHugh is giving a lecture at Westminster College on January 23rd, 2013. Eina McHugh has been the Director of The Ark, A Cultural Centre for Children in Dublin, Ireland, since 2005. In 1998 she directed the Second World Summit on Television for Children in London. Her love of children’s cultural work began in…