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2002/2003
IASIL NEWSLETTER |
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Here’s
hoping you are all well and weathering the academic year well and,
apart from those basking in the southern hemisphere, managing to cope
with the winter’s harsh trials. Those
who attended the conference in Sao Paulo in July will have very happy
memories to support them over the year. Munira Mutran and Laura Izarra
certainly pulled out all the stops and gave us the time of our lives
as well as a first-rate conference. To them both and their many capable
and willing assistants, as well as to the University of Sao Paulo,
I send our appreciation and gratitude for work well done and for hospitality
unstintingly supplied. Certainly, nua gach bi agus sean gach di. It
is obvious that IASIL is as good as its enegetic members, and I’d
like to urge you all to be as active on behalf of the Association
as you possibly can, wherever you are, spreading the word about the
website and encouraging those who are interested to become members
of IASIL themselves. Our membership is holding up well. But renewals
fall due in January so please look to your purses and send your dues
to the treasurer, which you can now do by credit card. Contact Patricia.Lynch@ul.ie
for details. Quite
soon our returning officer Jackie Hurtley will be sending you information
on the new elections which must take place every three years. I would
ask all members to vote. We have a great Association, which took years
to build up, and its success depends on the active participation of
all its members. The election of the officers and of the executive
committee is in your hands. As
you doubtless will know, next year’s conference takes place in Debrecen,
Hungary, where our hosts will be Donald Morse and Csilla Bertha, members
of the executive for many years. It should be another outstanding
conference and a venue now, on the cusp of Hungary’s entry into the
EU, of even more social and cultural interest than it has been in
the past. I would urge you to attend, for IASIL needs your support.
When there, do plan to attend the AGM and keep up your interest in
the business affairs of the Association. For
those of you reading this message on our website who may be discovering
IASIL for the first time, let me extend a special welcome to you.
If you have an interest in Irish literature and/or history you have
come to the right place. Founded in 1970, IASIL is probably the foremost
association of students of Irish literatures, in Gaelic as well as
in English, in the world. I would hope you will go further and take
out membership, which is ridiculously inexpensive and admits you to
two copies yearly of Irish University
Review, the essential journal of Irish studies, one of which contains
the indispensable annual bibliography bulletin, as well as to a wide
circle of colleagues. The key word in IASIL is failte. |
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