IVRLA Events 2009

17th November 2009
Digitising humanities and social sciences: promises, paradoxes and problems
Speaker: Professor Sally Wyatt, Digital Cultures in Development, University of Maastricht


Time and Location: 5pm in room H204, second floor, UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland,(building number 43, grid ref F9 on the UCD Campus Map), Belfield, Dublin 4.
RSVP: hii@ucd.ie or 01-7164690


20th November 2009
International Crosscurrents in 20th Century Irish Poetry
Speakers: Lucy Collins (UCD - Chair),
Peter Denman (NUIM): “Theme, Version and Form: Ciaran Carson’s Translations”, Eileán Ní Chuilleanáin (TCD): “A Hare-brained Idea? Researching Poetry Translation into Irish”, Vincent Woods (RTE): “Travel Notes: Pearse Hutchinson and European Identities”


Time and Location: 3pm in room H204, second floor, UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland, (building number 43, grid ref F9 on the UCD Campus Map), Belfield, Dublin 4
RSVP: borbala.farago@ucd.ie

5th December 2009
Irish Children’s Literature and Culture Symposium
Speakers: Mary Shine Thompson, Valerie Coghlan, Celia Keenan, Éilis Ní Dhuibhne, Patricia Kennon, Ciara Ní Bhroin, Susan Cahill, and Oisín McGann.

Time and Location: 10am-4pm in Room H204, second floor, UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland (building number 43, grid ref F9 on the UCD Campus Map), Belfield, Dublin 4
RSVP: susan.cahill@ucd.ie

November 2009

The IVRLA has entered a very exciting, yet uncertain, period in its project life-cycle. The core collections are almost complete. New research collections are being generated. And much brain-power is being harvested for the last leg of the project.

Final completion date of IVRLA 1.0: 31st December 2009

Potentially this month we'll be launching up to 6 new core collections. Stay tuned.

We're developing an exciting new research area with 15 show-case research projects and we'll have more information about these new projects on the information website shortly.

There will be a series of IVRLA events over the coming weeks. More details to follow.

And the IVRLA will be changing its look before the end of the year - exciting times ahead.

Check out the repository for new collections - UCD Ephemera Collection, Papers of Michael Collins, and Folklore Photograph Collection have all been added since the last post.

And a very warm, albeit belated, welcome to Dr Dervila Layden (Research Coordinator), Katie Moten (Digitisation Assistant) and Joe Lakes (IT Support) who have recently joined the team.

Busy times ahead...

Long overdue update!

The IVRLA has been incredibly busy since the last update, with many staff changes and some new collections online. A lot of exciting developments have been going on behind the scenes and we hope to share some of that with you over the coming months.

New collections online:

• Schools' Manuscript Collection - Carna & Ballinasloe, Co. Galway (National Folklore Collection)
  
• John O'Donovan/William Reeves Coorespondence (Special Collections, UCD Library)
  
• Boehm/Casement Papers (UCD Archives)
  
• Papers of James Meenan - UCD Move to Belfield (UCD Archives)
  

Check out these new collections in the repository

Staff changes
We'd like to wish a fond farewell to Adele Cocchiglia (cataloguer), Christoph Schmidt-Supprian (cataloguer) and Ranju Upadhyay (IT) who left us in 2008. And we'd like to extend a warm well to Alan Leary (IT), Antoinette Doran (cataloguer) and Robert McEvoy (cataloguer) who have joined us over the past year.

Launch
We will be launching the UCD Ephemera Collection from Special Collections, UCD Library, on Friday 7th August 2009. Stay tuned for this beautiful new collection.