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Irish Language Awards Launched
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| Irish Language Awardees 2010-2011 |
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Foreign
Language Teaching Assistantship (FLTA) Awards
- Open to postgraduate students/recently qualified teachers
- Worth approximately €20,000 each
Fulbright
Irish Language Scholar Awards
- Open
to Irish language academics and professionals
- Worth
up to €50,000 plus insurance, J-1 visa and programming
DEADLINE FOR APPLICANTS - MIDDAY, 3RD DECEMBER
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Making Sense of the American Midterm Elections
Dr. Elizabeth A. Oldmixon - US Fulbrighter based in UCC
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| Dr. Elizabeth A. Oldmixon |
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The morning
after the election I received an email from an American expat political
scientist with the subject line, ‘Madness’.
It was a concerned missive on the 2010 midterm elections and assorted
American pathologies – expats are like that.
Like my colleague, I had the experience of watching the election from
afar and through a different lens than usual.
Whether I was getting a hair cut, or taking a taxi, or out to dinner, someone
would hear my accent and ask in a flummoxed tone about the elections generally
and the Tea Party movement specifically.
It will be some time before political scientists can speak with authority
about this election. My own sense,
however, is that while America is a centre right country, these elections do
not send anything like a clear ideological signal. Instead, they reflect the Republican Party’s
ability to field a stronger set of candidates than the Democratic Party, as
well as a rather catholic disaffection with political leadership.
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My Fulbright Experience as an Irish Teaching Assistant
Appeared in Foinse - 20.10.10
by Séan Ó Curraighín
Táim i mo chúntóir teanga in Ollscoil Naomh
Tomás in Saint Paul Minnesota, ar dhá chúrsa Gaeilge, cúrsa cultúir agus cúrsa
labhartha na Gaeilge. Táimid tar éis Cumann Gaelach a bhunú san Ollscoil.
Bhí mé ag tabhairt faoi mo bhliain
dheireanach sa chéim Gaeilge agus Iriseoireacht in DCU nuair a chuir mé isteach
ar Fulbright. Is é an deis is fearr dá bhfuair mé riamh é. Seo ó dhuine nár
leag a chos in eitleán gur fhág mé Éire i mí Lúnasa seo caite. Cuirtear
deiseanna taistil ar fáil mar chuid den obair. Níor cheap mé riamh go n-ólfainn
pionta in Philadelphia le cúigear ó chúig ilchríoch na cruinne agus muid ag plé
liathróid láimhe Thierry Henry!
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14.4% Increase in the Number of Irish Students studying at United States Colleges and Universities
Dublin, November
15, 2010-- According to Open
Doors 2010, the annual report on international academic mobility
published by the Institute of International Education (IIE) with support from
the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department
of State, the number of Irish students enrolled in U.S. institutions of higher
education in 2009/10 increased from 1,059 to 1,212 a 14.4% increase compared to
the previous year.
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