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Arts/Humanities |
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Universities Involved |
University
College Dublin |
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Department(s) |
Women's Education Research and Resource Centre |
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Project Title / Description |
Power
Partnership |
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Business Involvement |
Women's
Support Network, Belfast |
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Universities Involved |
University
College Dublin |
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Department(s) |
Department of the History of Art |
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Project Title / Description |
Development
of Conservation Strategies. |
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Business Involvement |
Dr Brian
Ferran, Curator, Ulster Museum |
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Development Potential |
Yes. It is intended to set up a graduate school of conservation of the arts within Ireland. |
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Universities Involved |
All Universities in Ireland (North & South) |
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Department(s) |
German |
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Project Title / Description |
Annual Modern Languages Symposium of the Royal Irish Academy |
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Contacts |
Miriam
Carolan |
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Universities Involved |
National
University of Ireland, Galway |
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Department(s) |
German |
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Other Universities |
Strathclyde
University |
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Project Title / Description |
Conference on "Representations of the Jews in German Literature since 1945". The conference took place in Coleraine 810 Sept 1999. |
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Contacts |
Professor
Eoin Bourke, |
Dr Paul
O'Doherty |
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Universities Involved |
Trinity
College Dublin |
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Department(s) |
English, History and Irish |
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Other Universities |
Strathclyde
University |
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Project Title / Description |
IrishScottish
Academic Initiative |
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Contacts |
Professor
Edna Longley, Queen's University |
Professor
Andrew Noble, Strathclyde University |
Professor
George Watson, Aberdeen University |
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Dr. Ian
CampbellRoss, Trinity College Dublin |
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Distinctive aims of the initiative are |
1. A
collaborative, interdisciplinary approach, which pools the resources and
expertise available in the relevant departments of the four universities: Trinity
College Dublin; Queen's University Belfast; the University of Aberdeen and
the University of Strathclyde. |
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Development Potential |
If funding were available for a lecturer or research fellow in this department. It would then be possible to develop undergraduate and post graduate activity in the area of Scottish studies. |
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Universities Involved |
Trinity
College Dublin |
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Department(s) |
Centre for language and communication studies |
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Project Title / Description |
The establishment of an L1/L2 databank for Irish. |
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Contacts |
Prof. DG Little, UCD |
Prof. DM
Singleton, TCD |
Dr A
Henry, University of Ulster |
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Aims |
· Establish a databank of Irish acquisition data which could be put to a multiplicity of uses by researchers and educators. · To contribute to good practice in the teaching of Irish through the analysis of acquisition patterns. · To encourage an exchange of information and expertise between minority language educators and researchers in the Republic and North of Ireland. · To contribute to knowledge of and practice of minority language education throughout the EU. The principal output of
the project was the abovementioned database. Resources needed included
portable audio cassette recorders and boundary microphones, a portable video
camera and a laptop computer. |
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Development Potential |
The data we have collected could be exploited further in various ways. There are also points of contact between the project and other projects focusing on Irish which have been completed in Belfast and Dublin in recent times, and so there is plenty of scope for broadening the collaboration. |
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Universities Involved |
National
University of Ireland, Maynooth |
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Department(s) |
Irish (Arts and Humanities) |
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Project Title / Description |
The Rath
Cairn Project |
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Contacts |
Prof.
Donall O'Braoill, QUB |
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Business Involvement |
The Department of Art, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands. |
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Universities Involved |
Trinity
College Dublin |
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Department(s) |
English (Arts and Humanities) |
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Project Title / Description |
Ireland Chair of Poetry |
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Contacts |
Prof. J
Scattergood, TCD |
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Universities Involved |
University
College Cork |
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Department(s) |
Early and Medieval Irish |
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Project Title / Description |
Two separate projects, Locus Project, UCC and Placenames of Northern Ireland Project, QUB, regularly exchange information and ideas. Regular collaboration in effect between the two universities with regard to compilation of bibliography of publications on Irish place names. This collaboration is ongoing and essential to the success of both projects. |
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Contacts |
Professor
Pádraig Ó Riain, UCC |
Dr Kay
Muhr, QUB |
Dr
Nollaig Ó Muráile, QUB |
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Business Involvement |
Toyota Ireland Ltd. is the sponsor of the Locus Project. N.I. Placenames project has its own funding |
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Development Potential |
It is hoped in the future to link up the two central databases that the projects are compiling. |
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Universities Involved |
All University Language Departments in Ireland |
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Department(s) |
Languages and Cultural Studies |
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Project Title / Description |
Research register in modern languages 199498. A register of completed and current research undertaken in EFL and all Modern Languages, at all tertiary institutions in Northern Ireland and in the Republic, from 1994 to 1998. The register was published by the Royal Irish Academy and partly financed by the RIA and partly supported by contributing departments in all universities involved. The register was launched in November 1999 at the annual symposium of the Committee for Modern Languages, Royal Irish Academy. |
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Contacts |
Prof. S
Riviere |
Dr
Joachim Fischer |
Dr Kate
Quinn, Dept of Spanish |
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Ms
Victoria Kelly |
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Universities Involved |
National
University of Ireland, Maynooth |
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Department(s) |
French |
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Project Title / Description |
Conference: 'Religion, identity, toleration: commemorating the Edict of Nantes'. National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 35 September 1998. The conference was held with the objective of bringing together specialists of French history and of the French protestant tradition. It was one of many conferences held throughout the world in 1998, to consider the implications of the Edict of Nantes. There were participants from Northern Ireland (Prof. Gargett, and Dr J McKee, UU), from other Irish Universities, from the UK, and from a variety of Universities in France and Switzerland. The project was funded by NUIM, the French Embassy, the British Cultural Services and the Swiss embassy. The proceedings were published in the year 2000 by Fourcourts Press. It was always the aim to produce a volume of essays on the evolution of French Protestantism and issues of religion and toleration arising out of the Edict. |
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Contacts |
Professor
Graham Gargett |
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Development Potential |
There is certainly potential for bringing specialists together on a stated theme, to produce a volume of studies in English, where none existed before. |
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Universities Involved |
National
University of Ireland, Maynooth |
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Department(s) |
French |
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Project Title / Description |
Round table on the current state of research on the Huguenots in Ireland (17/May/99). The Round Table brought together local and professional scholars with a view to a pooling of knowledge and research to date. It formed part of a weekend of activities funded by the participants, and the French Huguenot Fund. On Saturday, two carved memorial stones were unveiled in the Huguenot Cemetery (Merrion Row); On Sunday the first nonconformist service of worship in French for over 100 years in Dublin was held in the Unitarian Church on Stephen's Green. Another discussion was held on Monday, in Maynooth. There were delegates from England, the US and Northern Ireland, as well as delegates from NUIM, and other learned bodies (RCB, Marsh's Library, National Gallery of Ireland). A summary of the proceedings will be published in the Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland. |
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Contacts |
Dr Jane
McKee |
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Development Potential |
It is intended to seek to bring together scholars and local researchers working in this area of Irish Heritage at three yearly intervals. |
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Universities Involved |
University of Ulster University College Cork University College Dublin National University of Ireland, Galway National University of Ireland, Maynooth Dublin City University Trinity College Dublin Queen’s University
Belfast |
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Department(s) |
Arts/Humanities |
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Project Title / Description |
History of the Irish Book A History of the Irish Book,
commissioned by Oxford University Press, will involve 120 contributors globally;
and an editorial team of 12, for 5 volumes. These 12 are drawn from all the
leading research departments of History, Celtic, and Literature on the island
and internationally. Funding from British Academy and the Arts and Humanities
Research Board, as well as UU and QUB. Two research officers appointed by
each of the Northern Universities. |
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Contacts |
Prof. Donnchadh O’Corrain, UCC Tel + 353 21 4545291 ocorrain@ucc.ie |
Dr Alan Titley, St Patrick’s, Drumcondra, (DCU) Tel + 353 1 884 2200, + 353 1 837 6191 Alan.Titley@spd.ie |
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Prof. Dermot Keogh, UCC Tel + 353 21 4276971 d.keogh@ucc.ie |
Prof. Brian Walker, QUB Tel 04890 245133 Fax 04890 439238 |
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Prof. Seamus Mac Mathuna, UU Tel 04870 324557 Fax 04870 324963 |
Prof. Terence Brown, TCD Tel + 353 1 677 2941 |
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Business
Involvement |
Oxford University Press Sophie Goldsworthy Tel 00 44 1865 556767 |
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Development Potential |
There is tremendous scope
for further development in Irish book history, a huge field which the
5-volume project will only serve to open up. There are opportunities for
collaboration with academics, librarians and publishers. |
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Universities Involved |
Trinity College Dublin Queen’s University
Belfast |
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Department(s) |
School of Clinical
Speech and Language Studies (TCD) |
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Project Title / Description |
The International Corpus of English (Ireland
Component), also known simply as ICE (Ireland). The purpose of this research network is to compile
and analyse a corpus of standard English taken from both sides of the
political border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. This
project is done in association with the International Corpus of English (ICE)
project, which has provided a standard protocol for the collection of data
indicative of national or regional standard English. Following the
compilation of a relevant corpus, taken from spoken and written sources, the
project is designed to test hypotheses as to whether it is more accurate to
model standard English in Ireland in terms of a single national standard
unifying both sides of the border in a way that is distinguishable from other
national or regional standards, or in terms of two separate standard English
whose social and territorial distribution is determined by the political
border. The project has its origins in
collaboration undertaken in 1990; contacts were made informally through
shared professional interests. Funding (£600) was received in June, 1999 from
the Royal Irish Academy/ British Council Research Networks Scheme in order to
bring the project to a suitable conclusion. Data has been collected,
transcriptions have been made, and the process of in-depth analysis is due to
begin shortly. The ICE project was completed in December 2000. The finished
product is a machine-readable and an evaluation of the original motivating
hypothesis. |
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Contacts |
Dr John Kirk, QUB Tel 04890 273815 Fax 01232 314615 J.M.Kirk@QUB.AC.UK |
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Development Potential |
There
would certainly be scope for further analysis of existing date, for
elaborating the database into other media (some ICE corpora, for example,
exist in CD-ROM form), and for the instigation of new projects which would
develop from the base established by ICE (Ireland). |
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