String Quartet Workshop

An Foras Feasa

in association with

Department of Music and Creative Media,

Dundalk Institute of Technology

will present a String Quartet Workshop with the ConTempo Quartet on Wednesday 21^st April 2010 at 2pm in the New Black Box Theatre, DkIT.

· Undergraduate student composers are invited to submit a short work for string quartet (max. 5 mins).

· Four works will be selected for workshop performance.

· Deadline for receipt of submission is Tuesday 23^rd March 2010.

· Successful entrants will be notified by Friday 26^th March 2010 and must provide performing materials by Monday 12^th April.

· Submissions will be accepted by post to the following address:

Dr Ian Wilson,

An Foras Feasa Postdoctoral Research Fellow,

Department of Music and Creative Media,

Dundalk Institute of Technology,

Dundalk,

Co. Louth

· or by email as a PDF or Sibelius file to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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An Foras Feasa Digitisation Workshop

"Digitisation in a Day"

Wednesday 3rd February

John G. Keating, Aja Teehan, Damien Gallagher

Description

This one day workshop, available to HSIS members and organised in conjunction with the HSIS annual conference, will provide an opportunity for participants to become involved in the digitisation of a 20th century guestbook and work with a team experienced in digital humanities and design methodologies, theories and practice.

Prospective participants should apply to An Foras Feasa by Monday 1st February with a brief overview of why they are interested in attending the workshop. This overview should detail institutional affiliation and role, their own area of research, experience to date, and what they hope to gain from attending. Any queries regarding the workshop or the attendance should be directed by email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

This workshop is provided as part of AFF’s education and outreach program; there will be no charge for attending the workshop. Participants will be provided with refreshments and lunch, and will need to bring a laptop computer.

Annual HSIS Conference 4th and 5th February

Announcing the Annual HSIS Conference hosted by An Foras Feasa on Thursday 4th and Friday 5th February. All events will take place in Renehan Hall, South Campus, NUI Maynooth.

Registration will open at 9.30am on Thursday 4th February.

Please contact An Foras Feasa at 708 6173 for further details or alternatively email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

History Man

For Martin Maguire, finding research topics is not the problem - it's finding time to do them all.

With the Christmas holidays beckoning, many of us will be looking forward to the time off. Not so Dr Martin Maguire, who sees the break as an opportunity to forge ahead with some research projects he's working on. The lecturer in humanities has developed a broad range of research interests in the past number of years and rather than get engrossed in one area prefers to keep "a lot of pots on the boil". His research interests include: contemporary Irish history with a particular emphasis on the State and State-building; the Irish protestant experience; labour history; post-war Europe; the history of anarchist, socialist and communist thought; cultural history and the history of everyday life.

Martin Maguire lectures with the Department of Business and Humanities at DKIT and is a member of An Foras Feasa.

Maguire works on his own a lot of the time but he sees himself as less and less the "monk scratching away in the corner" and increasingly being involved with large-scale research projects with other academics. One of these, funded by An Foras Feasa - the Institute for Research in Irish Historical & Cultural Traditions - involves compiling a database of the senior civil servants of the Irish state between 1922 and 1972.

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