IASIL 2010

The 34th annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL) is coming to NUI Maynooth in 2010.

Important information for delegates has been posted on the IASIL 2010 Conference website.

Organised by An Foras Feasa and the School of English, Media and Theatre Studies the theme of the conference is 'Irish Literatures and Culture: New and Old Knowledges'.

Running from Monday 26 July to Friday 30 July 2010, the conference promises to be a wonderful opportunity for debate and discussion in the historic suroundings of Maynooth and we look forward to welcoming international and national delegates.

The conference will commence with a plenary lecture and opening reception on the evening of Monday, 26th July (registration will commence on Monday afternoon). The Department of Foreign Affairs will host a reception in Dublin Castle on Wednesday evening for conference attendees and invited guests. The conference will then close with a final dinner in Barberstown Castle on Friday, 30th July.

Cultural highlights include a poetry evening at Castletown House, Celbridge (for which there will be limited capacity), the launch of the online Bibliography of Irish Literary Criticism, a reading by writer Claire Keegan and a series of screenings organised in collaboration with the Irish Film Archive.

For more information on the IASIL 2010 Conference, including a full programme, please visit the IASIL 2010 Conference website.

IASIL is an international association of students, teachers, scholars, and enthusiasts of Irish literature in English and in Irish. It was founded in 1969 with the chartered aims of promoting the teaching and study of Irish literature throughout the world, facilitating international contact between scholars researching in the field of Irish Literary Studies, and serving as a vehicle for bringing Irish writing to a wider audience. Central to the activities of IASIL are the annual conferences, held in Ireland once every three years and hosted in other years throughout the world. For more information on IASIL please visit the IASIL website.

MA in Digital Humanities

An Foras Feasa announces the launch of MA in Digital Humanities

See www.LearnDigitalHumanities.ie

Course Content

This course is designed for graduates both in the Humanities and in the Computing Sciences, integrating the needs, practices and challenges of humanities research with new methodologies, theories and practices in Information Communications Technologies. This programme will deliver both the necessary skills to undertake professional Digital Humanities work and the knowledge of how this emerging discipline is affected by new theories, methodologies and practices.

Individual modules will introduce learners to the fundamentals of Digital Humanities (DH) and Humanities Computing (HC); to XML technologies and their application to DH problems; to the theory of data modelling and its related software engineering methodologies; to the theories, tools and practices of data visualisation; and to the design and implementation of digital archives and repositories. Later modules will prepare learners to create and manage metadata, to contextualise the creation of digital artefacts and text-encoding within the Humanities and Computing Sciences, and to explore a substantial DH or HC problem in depth, within a supportive environment.

John and Pat Hume Scholarships 2010: An Foras Feasa

An Foras Feasa invites applications for a John and Pat Hume Scholarship at NUI Maynooth, for students wishing to commence a PhD from October 2010. The scholarship is valued at €5000 per annum stipend, plus fees paid.

Applications are welcome from all disciplines in the Faculty of Arts and in Computer Science for a Phd jointly awarded by An Foras Feasa and an academic department. Current research priorities in An Foras Feasa include:

ICT Innovation and Digital Humanities
Multiculturalism and Multilingualism: Textual Analysis and Linguistic Change
Ireland and Europe: History, Literature and the Cultural Politics of Migration
Cultural Heritage and Social Capital in a Global Context.

For informal discussion regarding applications, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Application procedures (including information regarding eligibility) and application forms may be downloaded from the Graduate Studies Scholarships Information Page

Closing date is Friday, 7^th May 2010. Applications must be submitted in both original signed copy, and an email copy. Please email applications to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with "Hume Scholarship Application 2010" in the subject, and clearly indicating that your application is for an AFF scholarship.

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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