Exploring Diverse Irish Identities through a Student-Focused Culture of Engagement
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Congratulations to Irish Studies student Megan Lyles on being accepted into the Masters in Anglo-Irish Literature at Trinity College, University of Dublin, which many consider the most prestigious program of its type in the world. Megan enters Trinity (founded in 1592) in Fall 2008. |
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| Monday 30 June and Tuesday 1 July 2008 | Shows at 7:00 PM and 9:00 PM • Irish Folk-Music Nights: A town-and-gown tradition for a dozen years. Popular singer-player Harry O'Donoghue (host of GPB's weekly Green Island Radio Show) performs at the French Quarter Café in Statesboro's Gaslight District. Cover: $2:00. Reservations: (912) 489-3233. | |
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Your Center: Host of the 2008 Southern Regional Conference of the American Conference for Irish Studies
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| During Summer 2009, over 70 Georgia Southern music students perform in Galway and Dublin. MORE • Professors Barbara Hendry and Bill Smith publish multiple articles on Irish identity in present-day Savannah. MORE • Center kicks off fund- and friend-raising for the Dr. Frederick K. and Donna S. Sanders Irish Studies Lectureship (Account 0777). MORE | ||
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16 May 2008 is the US release date for Prince Caspian, the second Disney movie derived from the seven-book Narnia series by Irish author Clive Staples ("Jack") Lewis. Born in Belfast in 1898, Lewis became a member of the English faculty at Oxford University and a well-known writer on Christian spirituality. When constructing Narnia, Lewis gained inspiration from William Butler Yeats's efforts to revive ancient Irish folklore. Lewis remarked,
"I have...discovered an author exactly after my own heart...W.B. Yeats. He writes plays and poems of rare spirit and beauty about our old Irish mythology." |
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Welcome to the Irish Studies matrix at Georgia Southern University, the Carnegie doctoral-research institution that's one of Georgia's top universities of choice for HOPE scholars. The "go-to" entity for Irish education, scholarship, business, science, and culture in the University System of Georgia, the Center helps the University community and the public explore and enjoy both Ireland and Irish America. Located upon a park-like, residential campus in the beautiful town of Statesboro, fifty miles northwest of Savannah, the Center's at the heart of a region that boasts exceptionally rich and diverse Irish patrimonies, both native Irish and Ulster-Scots. Our work acknowledges the great sweep of Irish experience: ancient Gaelic civilization; colonization from Strongbow to beyond Cromwell; and the worldwide Irish diaspora. Also of concern is contemporary Ireland: a high-tech powerhouse; earth's "most global" economy. The Center is a pace-setter in bringing top-quality artists, performers, lecturers, and semester-stay scholar-teachers to South Georgia. Our student-centered ethos is reflected in our Interdisciplinary Minor, our Study-in-Ireland programs, and our sponsorship of two student clubs. |
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 "To be Irish is to be at home in America" (Bertie Ahearn) |
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National Public Radio (USA) • Fresh Air with Terry Gross (12 May 2008) • Double Irish Show. Gross interviews
Dublin-born Padraig O'Malley, the veteran peace negotiator who's facilitating dialogue between opposing Iraqi factions. In addition, she re-plays a 2001 conversation with the Irish memoirist Nuala O'Faolain. The author of Are You Somebody? and Almost There died from lung cancer on 9 May 2008. Listen here. |
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BBC Radio 4 (Britain) • In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg (17 April 2008) • Bragg moderates a discussion among three experts on William Butler Yeats's complicated, lifelong involvement with Irish politics. Hear from Roy Foster (Hertford College, Oxford University),
Fran Brearton (Queen's University, Belfast), and Warwick Gould (School of Advanced Study, University of London). Listen here. |
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C-SPAN (USA) • 30 April 2008: Shortly before stepping down as Ireland's Taoiseach (Prime Minister), Bertie Ahearn addresses a joint session of the United States Congress. Among other things, he emphasizes the role of the Ulster Scots (or Scots Irish) in building America and declares that the Northern Irish conflict is "over for good." Watch and listen here. |
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 "Today almost 40% of Georgians and 1 million Atlantans claim Irish heritage" (Sonny Perdue) |
| Sonny Perdue, Governor of Georgia, reflects on both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, his first ports-of-call on a summer 2007 enterprise tour of Europe: "I'm struck by similarities between Georgia and Ireland. Specifically, we share a parallel transition from a primarily agrarian economy to a high-tech hub for manufacturing and life-science industries....Ireland educates more scientists and engineers per capita than any other country in the world....Lieutenant Governor Cagle and I [found in Ireland] good ideas we can take back to Georgia for the development of our own key business industries." | |
At over $73 billion, US investment in Ireland is nearly five times greater than US investment in China. • Citing how the country blends an ancient culture with modern affluence, the Economist Intelligence Unit's Quality of Life Index for 111 countries declared Ireland its 2005 winner. • In 2002, 2003, and 2004, the A.T. Kearney-Foreign Policy Globalization Index placed Ireland topmost. This respected authority measures economic, social, political, and technological integration in 62 countries representing 85% of the world's population and over 95% percent of world economic output. • Currently, Atlanta-based Coca-Cola is completing a $78 million manufacturing-and-bottling facility at Knockmore Hill in Lisburn, Northern Ireland. Coke's CEO, E. Neville Isdell, is a native of Downpatrick, Northern Ireland. • In excess of 1,050 overseas companies have chosen Ireland as their Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) base, including thirteen of the world's "big fifteen" pharmaceutical firms and seven of its "big ten" information technology firms. |
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