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Speech of the Honourable Noël A. Kinsella, Speaker of the Senate of Canada

Speech of the Honourable Noël A. Kinsella, Speaker of the Senate of Canada

Speaker Kinsella presenting scholarship award to Natasa Paterson In our 2011 awards ceremony we were honoured to have as our guest speaker The Honourable Noël A. Kinsella, Speaker of the Senate of Canada. Due to the threat of rain (which thankfully didn’t materialise), thinking of the assembled guests, the Speaker tabled his speech. Accordingly, below,  Read more »

Urgent – University of California, Berkeley require Irish Language Instructor

URGENT – The Celtic Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley seeks an instructor of modern Irish language for the 2011-12 academic year.  Instructor will teach one modern Irish class per semester (a 33% position). Fall semester 2011 runs August 18 through December 16; Spring semester 2012 runs January 10 – May 11. Interested  Read more »

Simon Jolivet (Dobbin ’08), publishes book

Simon Jolivet (Dobbin ’08), publishes book

  Simon Jolivet, a 2008 Dobbin Scholar, has recently published Le vert et le bleu: identité québécoise et identité irlandaise au tournant du XXe siècle. The first book published in Canada and in French that deals with the impact of the Irish political revolution in Québec has been called “pioneering” and “creatively and courageously challenging”  Read more »

Ireland Canada Business Association – Annual Golf Classic (Dublin)

Ireland Canada Business Association – Annual Golf Classic (Dublin)

  On Thursday 23rd June , the Ireland Canada Business Association will host the  Annual Golf Classic in Royal Dublin Golf Club. Building on the success of previous years , this event  has grown in attendance and provides a great day of golf followed by dinner in the club house. Tee off times will be  Read more »

Re-advertisement: Irish Language Visiting Professor

The Ireland Canada University Foundation has extended the date for receipt of applications from interested candidates for the post of Visiting Professor in Irish Language studies tenable at St Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia for the academic year 2011-2012. Consideration will also be given to candidates who wish to limit their visit to one semester  Read more »

Research workshop – New perspectives on the nation/ performance

On the 20th and 21st of April, the Craig Dobbin Chair of Canadian Studies will present a research workshop, at Newman House St.Stephen’s Green, University College Dublin. The time of the workshop is; The Mirror Crack’d? 
New perspectives on the nation/ performance relationship 
in Ireland and Québec Keynote Presenters are Patrick Lonergan, NUI Galway and  Read more »

CBC Documentary: Famine and Shipwreck, An Irish Odyssey

CBC Documentary: Famine and Shipwreck, An Irish Odyssey

    A Film by Brian McKenna Produced by Natalie Dubois and Arnie Gelbart World Broadcast Premiere CBC TV– Doc Zone Thursday March 17, 2011 9:00 PM ET/PT Repeats: Friday March 18, 2011 at 10 pm (ET/PT) on CBC News Network On March 17, Canadians celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with parades, whiskey and songs. But  Read more »

Cúntóireachtaí do Theagasc na Gaeilge – Deadline extension

The deadline for email applications has been extended, to 5pm Friday 4th March. Shortlisted applicants will be requested to attend an interview in Dublin on Monday 4th or Tuesday 5th of April. For further details on applying, click here

Alistair MacLeod and Jane Urquhart – public readings in Dublin

Alistair MacLeod and Jane Urquhart – public readings in Dublin

Canadian Embassy, Dublin The UCD Centre for Canadian Studies, The Craig Dobbin Chair of Canadian Studies and The Embassy of Canada to Ireland are pleased to announce that Alistair MacLeod, OC, and Jane Urquhart, OC, will be reading from their work at the Canadian Embassy in Dublin (located at 7-8 Wilton Terrace, Dublin 2) The  Read more »

ICUF Senior Visiting Professor gives public lecture in St. Thomas University, Fredericton

Lecture: “National Identity and the Pagan Past: An Irish Poet’s Perspective c. AD 1000″ Dr Peadar Mac Gabhann (Peter Smith) will discuss the reconstruction of the pre-Christian Irish past by the medieval Irish scholar-poets. He will also consider the ways in which those scholar-poets reconciled their pagan past with their Christian present. His specific focus  Read more »