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 .

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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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An Foras Feasa - Burns Fellowship at Boston College

The An Foras Feasa/Boston College fellowship is a summer research fellowship open to members of An Foras Feasa, funded by PRTLI Cycle 4, and made available through the support of the Centre of Irish Programs, Boston College.

The Fellowship was held during Summer 2009 by Dr. Conrad Brunström, lecturer with the School of English, Media and Theatre Studies at NUI Maynooth and member of An Foras Feasa.

Conrad Brunström is currently writing a study of Irish and Canadian theories of nationhood from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. He is interested in transatlantic rhetorical strategies, borrowed and re-fashioned figures of speech, and above all in oratory as a literary form. This summer he was a visiting research fellow (Summer Burns Fellow) at Boston College, where he was attempting to recover an early nineteenth century Irish American context for key decisions made by Thomas d'Arcy McGee, who worked on the Boston Pilot while still only a teenager in the early 1840s.

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