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Céad míle fáilte go hIonad an Léinn Éireannaigh, Ollscoil Deisceart Georgia
...ag déanamh staidéar ar an saol Gaelach agus Gael-Mheiriceánach
• MA in History candidate Shay Meredith won second place in the Annual Research Symposium organized on 29 Mar 2012 by the Jack N. Averitt College of Graduate Studies. Using sophisticated maps and graphs, Shay's project focuses on how books in Enlightenment-era Irish libraries connected to contemporary London print culture and broader European trends. Under the umbrella of your Center's Waterford-Ireland program, Shay will conduct research in Ireland over five weeks during summer 2012.
• Multiple Irish narratives feature in history professor Dr. James Woods'
History of the Catholic Church in the American South (University Press of Florida, 2011), hailed as "a masterful survey of research on Catholicism in the South" and "a book we have long needed."
• Your Center thanks Dr. Ron Schuchard, Goodrich C. White Professor of English at Emory University, for his leadership in opening Emory's world-class Irish literature archive to Georgia Southern students minoring in Irish Studies.
• In both 2010 and 2011, your Center's study-in-Ireland program—based over five weeks (Summer Term B) at the Waterford Institute of Technology—received highest student-satisfaction ratings in a multi-country assessment of study-abroad programs.
• Irish Studies faculty members presented research at the British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Conference (Savannah, 17-18 Feb 2012) and the International Conference of ACIS: American Conference for Irish Studies (New Orleans, 14-17 Mar 2012).
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21 Jun - 26 Jul 2012
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7:30 PM, Sa 3 Mar 2012
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Cromwell: Multicultural Showdown
7:00 PM, Tu 3 Apr 2012
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Welcome to the Spring-Summer 2012 Irish Studies matrix at Georgia Southern University: a Carnegie doctoral-research institution and one of Georgia's top universities of choice for HOPE scholars. A "go-to" entity for Irish education, scholarship, culture, and business in the University System of Georgia, the Center for Irish Studies helps the Georgia Southern community and the public explore and enjoy Ireland and Irish America. Located upon a park-like, residential campus in the 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 Scotch-Irish (Ulster-Scots). One of Georgia's pioneering Eu
ropean settlements was Queensborough, near present-day Louisville, populated in the 1760s and 1770s by Ulster Presbyterians, mainly from Cos. Antrim and Down. Of course, after New York City, Savannah boasts the nation's biggest St. Patrick's Day Parade, 188 years young this year! A Georgia Southern archaeology professor is supervising a research dig at Queensborough, famous for its colorful and enterprising official George Galphin, a native of Armagh City. And university professors from anthropology and sociology have published in several academic journals research findings from their on-going study of Irish identity among present-day Savannahians.
Irish-Themed FYE and
Global Citizens Courses
from Film to Economics
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by 5:00 PM, Mo 10 Sep 2012
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Four New Irish History Courses
Rolling Out from Fall '11
to Spring '13
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by 5:00 PM, Mo 30 Apr 2012
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The Irish Studies program is a pace-setter in bringing internationally respected lecturers, artists, and performers—as well as semester-stay scholar-teachers—to South Georgia. In 2008 and 2011, it hosted the Southern Conference of ACIS (the American Conference for Irish Studies), and it regularly provides off-campus programming for such neighbors as the Savannah Irish Festival, the Savannah Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, and the Sun City-Hilton Head Irish Heritage Society (to name but three). A student-centered and whole-person Achievement Ethos is reflected in the Center's First Year Experience courses; Interdisciplinary Minor; top-ranked Study-in-Ireland opportunities; and sponsorship of two student clubs. Like the Center's many course offerings, its student and faculty research projects acknowledge the great sweep of the Irish experience: ancient Gaelic civilization; colonization of the island of Ireland from Strongbow to beyond Cromwell; and the worldwide Irish diaspora. Also of keen interest is contemporary Ireland: a high-tech powerhouse that is distinguishing itself as a "smart" and "green" economy. With its innovation zeitgeist, advanced-skills labor force, and low corporate taxes, Ireland is the preferred EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) HQ for numerous leading-edge American companies, including, but not limited to, Pfizer, Facebook, Merck, Google, and Microsoft. Small wonder that the Ernst and Young Globalization Index deems Ireland second in the world (after Hong Kong and before Singapore)! Taking Irish Studies courses—and, more particularly, committing to the interdisciplinary Minor—is a smart educational investment. Offered every spring, the three-credit Introduction to Irish Culture course is a great way to kick off the fifteen-credit Irish Studies Minor; however, any set of approved courses (whether taught on campus or in Ireland) can be used to earn the qualification. In recent years, graduates with the Minor have gone on to earn advanced degrees in Anglo-Irish literature from the University of Dublin-Trinity College and in International Relations from Dublin City University. Email irish@georgiasouthern.edu to schedule a chat about our success stories and the many opportunities the Minor in Irish Studies opens up!
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