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From: Edward Hagan Subject: Re: Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Please add my name also. -------------------- Ed Hagan Connecticut State University Distinguished Professor of Writing Western Connecticut State University hagane[at]wcsu.edu 203 837-9045 To Vietnam in Vain: Memoir of an Irish-American Intelligence Advisor, 1969-= 70 is now available at: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786499672/ref=3D= s9_simh_gw_g14_i1_r?ie=3DUTF8&fpl=3Dfresh&pf_rd_m=3DATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s= =3Ddesktop-1&pf_rd_r=3D1PDQ6WJ3SJGR34EP84TG&pf_rd_t=3D36701&pf_rd_p=3D20794= 75242&pf_rd_i=3Ddesktop ________________________________________ From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Da= vid A. Wilson [david.wilson[at]UTORONTO.CA] Sent: Monday, July 18, 2016 11:29 AM To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [IR-D] Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham Please add my name to any letter or petition. Best, David On 2016-07-18 5:24 AM, Tony Murray wrote: > Dear friends and colleagues, > > You may be aware that the MA Irish Studies programme and the Centre for > Irish Studies at St. Mary's University in Twickenham are currently under > threat of closure. > > Find below my letter of support for colleagues at St. Mary's which will > appear shortly in the Irish Post. Also copied below are similar letters > from Prof. Roy Foster and from Prof. Mary Hickman & Prof. Shaun Richards. > > Please circulate to raise awareness of this matter amongst the wider Iris= h > Studies community. > > Thank you. > > > Regards, > > Tony > > > > Dr. Tony Murray > > Director, Irish Studies Centre > > Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities > > London Metropolitan University > > Tower Building, > > Holloway Rd > > London N7 8DB > > > > Tel: 020 7133 2593 > > *https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=3Dhttp%3a%2f%2fwww.lo= ndonmet.ac.uk%2ffaculties%2ffaculty-of-social-sciences-and-humanities%2fpeo= ple%2fsurnames-k-to-m%2ftony-murray%2f&data=3D01%7c01%7cHaganE%40WCSU.EDU%7= ca6039a420dae4cb1d73908d3af20ca42%7ce1622dbc94ba48ad87bba7f28074ee3d%7c0&sd= ata=3Dusa6rd2EtadfLtrefKznvfnAuchwogU4BVmmdKXJIPk%3d > * > > londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre > > > > > > > 15 July 2016 > > > > > > I am writing to express my dismay at the stated intention by the senior > management at St. Mary=92s University to terminate both the Centre for Ir= ish > Studies and its degree programme in the subject. > > > > The work of our colleagues at St. Mary=92s University has long complement= ed > our activities here in the Irish Studies Centre at London Metropolitan > University. The proposed closure of the only remaining degree programme i= n > Irish Studies in the south of England along with the distinguished resear= ch > work of the CIS, especially in recent years under the visionary > directorship of Prof. Lance Pettitt, is extremely concerning. It would be= a > severe blow to Prof. Pettitt and his team, but it would also diminish all > of us who have worked to build and support the profile of Irish Studies > over the last thirty to forty years. > > > > It is especially regrettable that a move like this seems possible now whe= n > people in Britain require the unique knowledge, expertise and perspective > that Irish Studies can bring to a rapidly changing European and global > environment, not least in regard to the potential consequences of Brexit > for Anglo-Irish relations. > > > > The loss of Irish Studies at St. Mary=92s would be a deeply disturbing > development and I sincerely hope that the university reconsiders it > position. > > > > Yours sincerely, > > > > > > Dr. Tony Murray > > Director, Irish Studies Centre > > London Metropolitan University > > > > londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre > > > > > > > > 21 June 2016 > > I find it both shocking and stupefying that the management at St Mary=92s= has > apparently decided to put an end to the long-lived and distinguished > tradition of Irish studies there, by suspending the successful MA in Iris= h > Studies and effectively withdrawing support from the Centre of Irish > Studies. The university has maintained a distinguished record in the fiel= d > for decades, boosted in recent years by the appointment of Lance Pettit a= s > Director, the longstanding input of Ivan Gibbons, and the imaginative > recruitment of pioneering scholars such as Professor Mary Hickman to > professorial research fellowships. I have visited the Centre, lectured > there, and attended stimulating and high-octane symposia organised by its > staff. It also has a distinguished record of producing students and winni= ng > grant-aided support, notably from the Irish Government, as well as > encouraging research in new growth-areas such as film studies and diaspor= ic > patterns. With Oxford and Liverpool, St Mary=92s is one of the higher > education institutions that has kept up a consistent strength in Irish > studies, a subject of great interest for students at undergraduate and > postgraduate level- especially those based in London. The study of Irish > society and culture, and the country=92s ancient and complex relationship > with Britain, has been increasingly relevant through the past decades, an= d > never more so than at the present moment. For the university to wilfully > cut off this area of strength and potential seems extraordinarily > counter-productive, at a time when demand is high and other institutions = of > higher education (including my own) are putting resources firmly into thi= s > subject as an intellectual growth area. It is also a cavalier and unjust > way to treat distinguished and hardworking academics. They, and the > subject, deserve better. > > Yours sincerely > > > R.F. Foster > > Carroll Professor of Irish History > > Hertford College, Oxford > > > > > > The end of the Centre for Irish Studies (CIS) at St Mary=92s? > > Following a decision made by senior management the MA Irish Studies at St > Mary=92s University will not be recruiting a new cohort of students for > September 2016. The University has further decided not to include the > Centre for Irish Studies in its plans for strategic development for > 2016/17, deciding to back Bioethics (CBET), Human Slavery and the Benedic= t > Centre for Religion and society amongst others. The contracts of the four > Research Fellows have all come to the end of their term this year and the= y > have been made redundant. The contract of the Director of the Centre ends > in July and it too will not be renewed. Ivan Gibbons is retiring after > seven years service at the end of August. > > CIS has been in existence since 1991 when the BA Irish Studies degree > began. The University has long had links with Ireland since its inception > in 1850. While the current MA students will be =93taught out=94, London w= ill > not have a university-backed centre for research and postgraduate teachin= g > in Irish Studies for the first time in a generation, despite the capital > being home to the largest Irish community in Britain. > > It is deeply ironic that this decision has been taken in 2016 after all t= he > renewal of relations between Britain and Ireland so far this century, > including reciprocal Head of State visits. The cultural and social analys= is > and understanding that is provided by =91Irish Studies=92 is needed now m= ore > than ever as the relations between the UK and Ireland are tested, and the > political nature of these islands is being recast internally and within > Europe. > > The University decision has been taken despite the CIS distinguishing > itself in many ways in the past five years. For the record, it is the onl= y > such centre at St Mary=92s to have been part of an AHRC research network > grant (2015-17 Irish modernisms); CIS staff won British Academy grants (o= ne > grant being the largest single amount in the School of Arts and Humanitie= s > in 2014-16, on the Irish diaspora ); as a small, new unit of assessment > (U36) in the 2014 REF submission it achieved highly and out performed oth= er > more established units in areas of its submission (60% 4* and 3* weighted > overall); MA graduates have gone on to PhD study and we had two PhD > completions and two current part time students have recently successfully > completed MPhil/PhD transfers within the past 6months; a succession of > Culture Ireland grants, delivered a vibrant programme of pubic engagement > and impact projects that took Irish Studies to Luton and Leeds, and from > Brazil and to the Bronx; it ran and developed an increasingly popular set > of community language programmes (with 38 students in 2015/16), funded by > the Irish Government, recognized annually at the Embassy and most recentl= y > (May 2016) CIS successfully applied for 3 year, funded programme from the > Irish government=92s An Roinn Arts, Culture and Gaeltacht to develop the > Irish language worth =80104,000. > > CIS worked in partnership with the Irish Cultural Centre (ICC) in > Hammersmith, the APPG in Parliament on an annual lecture series, with the > Irish Literary Society likewise and undertook research and publications > with the Irish Film Institute in Dublin and the theatre company Cia > Ludens/University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Other colleagues gave invited > lectures in India in November 2015. In September 2015, CIS hosted the > British Association of Irish Studies annual conference, in January 2016 i= t > worked with the ICC to host a conference on Trauma and the Troubles, and = in > > January the University also had the vision to appoint Prof McAleese as a > Visiting Professorship with significant Irish input, teaching and public > engagement. > > All this is now being jettisoned. > > Prof. Mary J. Hickman > Prof. Shaun Richards > Former Professorial Research Fellows St Mary=92s University, Twickenham > > 4 July 2016 > -- David A. Wilson, F.R.Hist.S., FRSC General Editor Dictionary of Canadian Biography 130 St George St 14th floor University of Toronto M5S 3H1= | |
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13282 | 18 July 2016 13:05 |
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:05:51 -0500
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From: Susan Hickey Subject: Re: Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Message-ID: Add my name too. Susan Hickey (Returning to Loyola Chicago to finish my doctorate in Irish history in Fall= 2016) Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 18, 2016, at 11:40 AM, Michael Cannady wrote: >=20 > Please add my name to any letters or petitions as well. >=20 > Thanks, >=20 > Mike >=20 > Sent from my iPhone >=20 >> On Jul 18, 2016, at 12:01 PM, Sean Farrell wrote: >>=20 >> Please add my name as well. Thanks and all best, >>=20 >> Sean >>=20 >> -----Original Message----- >> From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Beh= alf Of David A. Wilson >> Sent: Monday, July 18, 2016 10:29 AM >> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK >> Subject: Re: [IR-D] Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham >>=20 >> Please add my name to any letter or petition. Best, David >>=20 >>=20 >>> On 2016-07-18 5:24 AM, Tony Murray wrote: >>> Dear friends and colleagues, >>>=20 >>> You may be aware that the MA Irish Studies programme and the Centre=20 >>> for Irish Studies at St. Mary's University in Twickenham are currently=20= >>> under threat of closure. >>>=20 >>> Find below my letter of support for colleagues at St. Mary's which=20 >>> will appear shortly in the Irish Post. Also copied below are similar=20 >>> letters from Prof. Roy Foster and from Prof. Mary Hickman & Prof. Shaun R= ichards. >>>=20 >>> Please circulate to raise awareness of this matter amongst the wider=20 >>> Irish Studies community. >>>=20 >>> Thank you. >>>=20 >>>=20 >>> Regards, >>>=20 >>> Tony >>>=20 >>>=20 >>>=20 >>> Dr. Tony Murray >>>=20 >>> Director, Irish Studies Centre >>>=20 >>> Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities >>>=20 >>> London Metropolitan University >>>=20 >>> Tower Building, >>>=20 >>> Holloway Rd >>>=20 >>> London N7 8DB >>>=20 >>>=20 >>>=20 >>> Tel: 020 7133 2593 >>>=20 >>> *http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/faculties/faculty-of-social-sciences-and-h >>> umanities/people/surnames-k-to-m/tony-murray/ >>> >> umanities/people/surnames-k-to-m/tony-murray/>* >>>=20 >>> londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre >>>=20 >>>=20 >>>=20 >>>=20 >>>=20 >>>=20 >>> 15 July 2016 >>>=20 >>>=20 >>>=20 >>>=20 >>>=20 >>> I am writing to express my dismay at the stated intention by the=20 >>> senior management at St. Mary=E2=80=99s University to terminate both the= =20 >>> Centre for Irish Studies and its degree programme in the subject. >>>=20 >>>=20 >>>=20 >>> The work of our colleagues at St. Mary=E2=80=99s University has long=20 >>> complemented our activities here in the Irish Studies Centre at London=20= >>> Metropolitan University. The proposed closure of the only remaining=20 >>> degree programme in Irish Studies in the south of England along with=20 >>> the distinguished research work of the CIS, especially in recent years=20= >>> under the visionary directorship of Prof. Lance Pettitt, is extremely=20= >>> concerning. It would be a severe blow to Prof. Pettitt and his team,=20 >>> but it would also diminish all of us who have worked to build and=20 >>> support the profile of Irish Studies over the last thirty to forty years= . >>>=20 >>>=20 >>>=20 >>> It is especially regrettable that a move like this seems possible now=20= >>> when people in Britain require the unique knowledge, expertise and=20 >>> perspective that Irish Studies can bring to a rapidly changing=20 >>> European and global environment, not least in regard to the potential=20= >>> consequences of Brexit for Anglo-Irish relations. >>>=20 >>>=20 >>>=20 >>> The loss of Irish Studies at St. Mary=E2=80=99s would be a deeply distur= bing=20 >>> development and I sincerely hope that the university reconsiders it=20 >>> position. >>>=20 >>>=20 >>>=20 >>> Yours sincerely, >>>=20 >>>=20 >>>=20 >>>=20 >>>=20 >>> Dr. Tony Murray >>>=20 >>> Director, Irish Studies Centre >>>=20 >>> London Metropolitan University >>>=20 >>>=20 >>>=20 >>> londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre >>>=20 >>>=20 >>>=20 >>>=20 >>>=20 >>>=20 >>>=20 >>> 21 June 2016 >>>=20 >>> I find it both shocking and stupefying that the management at St=20 >>> Mary=E2=80=99s has apparently decided to put an end to the long-lived an= d=20 >>> distinguished tradition of Irish studies there, by suspending the=20 >>> successful MA in Irish Studies and effectively withdrawing support=20 >>> from the Centre of Irish Studies. The university has maintained a=20 >>> distinguished record in the field for decades, boosted in recent years=20= >>> by the appointment of Lance Pettit as Director, the longstanding input=20= >>> of Ivan Gibbons, and the imaginative recruitment of pioneering=20 >>> scholars such as Professor Mary Hickman to professorial research=20 >>> fellowships. I have visited the Centre, lectured there, and attended=20 >>> stimulating and high-octane symposia organised by its staff. It also=20 >>> has a distinguished record of producing students and winning=20 >>> grant-aided support, notably from the Irish Government, as well as=20 >>> encouraging research in new growth-areas such as film studies and=20 >>> diasporic patterns. With Oxford and Liverpool, St Mary=E2=80=99s is one o= f the=20 >>> higher education institutions that has kept up a consistent strength=20 >>> in Irish studies, a subject of great interest for students at=20 >>> undergraduate and postgraduate level- especially those based in=20 >>> London. The study of Irish society and culture, and the country=E2=80=99= s=20 >>> ancient and complex relationship with Britain, has been increasingly=20 >>> relevant through the past decades, and never more so than at the=20 >>> present moment. For the university to wilfully cut off this area of=20 >>> strength and potential seems extraordinarily counter-productive, at a=20= >>> time when demand is high and other institutions of higher education=20 >>> (including my own) are putting resources firmly into this subject as=20 >>> an intellectual growth area. It is also a cavalier and unjust way to tre= at distinguished and hardworking academics. They, and the subject, deserve b= etter. >>>=20 >>> Yours sincerely >>>=20 >>>=20 >>> R.F. Foster >>>=20 >>> Carroll Professor of Irish History >>>=20 >>> Hertford College, Oxford >>>=20 >>>=20 >>>=20 >>>=20 >>>=20 >>> The end of the Centre for Irish Studies (CIS) at St Mary=E2=80=99s? >>>=20 >>> Following a decision made by senior management the MA Irish Studies at=20= >>> St Mary=E2=80=99s University will not be recruiting a new cohort of stud= ents=20 >>> for September 2016. The University has further decided not to include=20= >>> the Centre for Irish Studies in its plans for strategic development=20 >>> for 2016/17, deciding to back Bioethics (CBET), Human Slavery and the=20= >>> Benedict Centre for Religion and society amongst others. The contracts=20= >>> of the four Research Fellows have all come to the end of their term=20 >>> this year and they have been made redundant. The contract of the=20 >>> Director of the Centre ends in July and it too will not be renewed.=20 >>> Ivan Gibbons is retiring after seven years service at the end of August.= >>>=20 >>> CIS has been in existence since 1991 when the BA Irish Studies degree=20= >>> began. The University has long had links with Ireland since its=20 >>> inception in 1850. While the current MA students will be =E2=80=9Ctaught= out=E2=80=9D,=20 >>> London will not have a university-backed centre for research and=20 >>> postgraduate teaching in Irish Studies for the first time in a=20 >>> generation, despite the capital being home to the largest Irish communit= y in Britain. >>>=20 >>> It is deeply ironic that this decision has been taken in 2016 after=20 >>> all the renewal of relations between Britain and Ireland so far this=20 >>> century, including reciprocal Head of State visits. The cultural and=20 >>> social analysis and understanding that is provided by =E2=80=98Irish Stu= dies=E2=80=99=20 >>> is needed now more than ever as the relations between the UK and=20 >>> Ireland are tested, and the political nature of these islands is being=20= >>> recast internally and within Europe. >>>=20 >>> The University decision has been taken despite the CIS distinguishing=20= >>> itself in many ways in the past five years. For the record, it is the=20= >>> only such centre at St Mary=E2=80=99s to have been part of an AHRC resea= rch=20 >>> network grant (2015-17 Irish modernisms); CIS staff won British=20 >>> Academy grants (one grant being the largest single amount in the=20 >>> School of Arts and Humanities in 2014-16, on the Irish diaspora ); as=20= >>> a small, new unit of assessment >>> (U36) in the 2014 REF submission it achieved highly and out performed=20= >>> other more established units in areas of its submission (60% 4* and 3*=20= >>> weighted overall); MA graduates have gone on to PhD study and we had=20 >>> two PhD completions and two current part time students have recently=20 >>> successfully completed MPhil/PhD transfers within the past 6months; a=20= >>> succession of Culture Ireland grants, delivered a vibrant programme of=20= >>> pubic engagement and impact projects that took Irish Studies to Luton=20= >>> and Leeds, and from Brazil and to the Bronx; it ran and developed an=20 >>> increasingly popular set of community language programmes (with 38=20 >>> students in 2015/16), funded by the Irish Government, recognized=20 >>> annually at the Embassy and most recently (May 2016) CIS successfully=20= >>> applied for 3 year, funded programme from the Irish government=E2=80=99s= An=20 >>> Roinn Arts, Culture and Gaeltacht to develop the Irish language worth =E2= =82=AC104,000. >>>=20 >>> CIS worked in partnership with the Irish Cultural Centre (ICC) in=20 >>> Hammersmith, the APPG in Parliament on an annual lecture series, with=20= >>> the Irish Literary Society likewise and undertook research and=20 >>> publications with the Irish Film Institute in Dublin and the theatre=20 >>> company Cia Ludens/University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Other colleagues=20= >>> gave invited lectures in India in November 2015. In September 2015,=20 >>> CIS hosted the British Association of Irish Studies annual conference,=20= >>> in January 2016 it worked with the ICC to host a conference on Trauma=20= >>> and the Troubles, and in >>>=20 >>> January the University also had the vision to appoint Prof McAleese as=20= >>> a Visiting Professorship with significant Irish input, teaching and=20 >>> public engagement. >>>=20 >>> All this is now being jettisoned. >>>=20 >>> Prof. Mary J. Hickman >>> Prof. Shaun Richards >>> Former Professorial Research Fellows St Mary=E2=80=99s University, Twick= enham >>>=20 >>> 4 July 2016 >>=20 >> -- >> David A. Wilson, F.R.Hist.S., FRSC >> General Editor >> Dictionary of Canadian Biography >> 130 St George St 14th floor >> University of Toronto >> M5S 3H1 | |
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13283 | 18 July 2016 13:32 |
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:32:42 -0400
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From: "Costello-Sullivan, Kathleen" Subject: Re: Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: And mine--sending best wishes. kpcs > > > On 2016-07-18 5:24 AM, Tony Murray wrote: > > Dear friends and colleagues, > > > > You may be aware that the MA Irish Studies programme and the Centre > > for Irish Studies at St. Mary's University in Twickenham are currently > > under threat of closure. > > > > Find below my letter of support for colleagues at St. Mary's which > > will appear shortly in the Irish Post. Also copied below are similar > > letters from Prof. Roy Foster and from Prof. Mary Hickman & Prof. Shaun > Richards. > > > > Please circulate to raise awareness of this matter amongst the wider > > Irish Studies community. > > > > Thank you. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Tony > > > > > > > > Dr. Tony Murray > > > > Director, Irish Studies Centre > > > > Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities > > > > London Metropolitan University > > > > Tower Building, > > > > Holloway Rd > > > > London N7 8DB > > > > > > > > Tel: 020 7133 2593 > > > > *http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/faculties/faculty-of-social-sciences-and-h > > umanities/people/surnames-k-to-m/tony-murray/ > > > umanities/people/surnames-k-to-m/tony-murray/>* > > > > londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 15 July 2016 > > > > > > > > > > > > I am writing to express my dismay at the stated intention by the > > senior management at St. Mary=E2=80=99s University to terminate both th= e > > Centre for Irish Studies and its degree programme in the subject. > > > > > > > > The work of our colleagues at St. Mary=E2=80=99s University has long > > complemented our activities here in the Irish Studies Centre at London > > Metropolitan University. The proposed closure of the only remaining > > degree programme in Irish Studies in the south of England along with > > the distinguished research work of the CIS, especially in recent years > > under the visionary directorship of Prof. Lance Pettitt, is extremely > > concerning. It would be a severe blow to Prof. Pettitt and his team, > > but it would also diminish all of us who have worked to build and > > support the profile of Irish Studies over the last thirty to forty year= s. > > > > > > > > It is especially regrettable that a move like this seems possible now > > when people in Britain require the unique knowledge, expertise and > > perspective that Irish Studies can bring to a rapidly changing > > European and global environment, not least in regard to the potential > > consequences of Brexit for Anglo-Irish relations. > > > > > > > > The loss of Irish Studies at St. Mary=E2=80=99s would be a deeply distu= rbing > > development and I sincerely hope that the university reconsiders it > > position. > > > > > > > > Yours sincerely, > > > > > > > > > > > > Dr. Tony Murray > > > > Director, Irish Studies Centre > > > > London Metropolitan University > > > > > > > > londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 21 June 2016 > > > > I find it both shocking and stupefying that the management at St > > Mary=E2=80=99s has apparently decided to put an end to the long-lived a= nd > > distinguished tradition of Irish studies there, by suspending the > > successful MA in Irish Studies and effectively withdrawing support > > from the Centre of Irish Studies. The university has maintained a > > distinguished record in the field for decades, boosted in recent years > > by the appointment of Lance Pettit as Director, the longstanding input > > of Ivan Gibbons, and the imaginative recruitment of pioneering > > scholars such as Professor Mary Hickman to professorial research > > fellowships. I have visited the Centre, lectured there, and attended > > stimulating and high-octane symposia organised by its staff. It also > > has a distinguished record of producing students and winning > > grant-aided support, notably from the Irish Government, as well as > > encouraging research in new growth-areas such as film studies and > > diasporic patterns. With Oxford and Liverpool, St Mary=E2=80=99s is one= of the > > higher education institutions that has kept up a consistent strength > > in Irish studies, a subject of great interest for students at > > undergraduate and postgraduate level- especially those based in > > London. The study of Irish society and culture, and the country=E2=80= =99s > > ancient and complex relationship with Britain, has been increasingly > > relevant through the past decades, and never more so than at the > > present moment. For the university to wilfully cut off this area of > > strength and potential seems extraordinarily counter-productive, at a > > time when demand is high and other institutions of higher education > > (including my own) are putting resources firmly into this subject as > > an intellectual growth area. It is also a cavalier and unjust way to > treat distinguished and hardworking academics. They, and the subject, > deserve better. > > > > Yours sincerely > > > > > > R.F. Foster > > > > Carroll Professor of Irish History > > > > Hertford College, Oxford > > > > > > > > > > > > The end of the Centre for Irish Studies (CIS) at St Mary=E2=80=99s? > > > > Following a decision made by senior management the MA Irish Studies at > > St Mary=E2=80=99s University will not be recruiting a new cohort of stu= dents > > for September 2016. The University has further decided not to include > > the Centre for Irish Studies in its plans for strategic development > > for 2016/17, deciding to back Bioethics (CBET), Human Slavery and the > > Benedict Centre for Religion and society amongst others. The contracts > > of the four Research Fellows have all come to the end of their term > > this year and they have been made redundant. The contract of the > > Director of the Centre ends in July and it too will not be renewed. > > Ivan Gibbons is retiring after seven years service at the end of August= . > > > > CIS has been in existence since 1991 when the BA Irish Studies degree > > began. The University has long had links with Ireland since its > > inception in 1850. While the current MA students will be =E2=80=9Ctaugh= t out=E2=80=9D, > > London will not have a university-backed centre for research and > > postgraduate teaching in Irish Studies for the first time in a > > generation, despite the capital being home to the largest Irish > community in Britain. > > > > It is deeply ironic that this decision has been taken in 2016 after > > all the renewal of relations between Britain and Ireland so far this > > century, including reciprocal Head of State visits. The cultural and > > social analysis and understanding that is provided by =E2=80=98Irish St= udies=E2=80=99 > > is needed now more than ever as the relations between the UK and > > Ireland are tested, and the political nature of these islands is being > > recast internally and within Europe. > > > > The University decision has been taken despite the CIS distinguishing > > itself in many ways in the past five years. For the record, it is the > > only such centre at St Mary=E2=80=99s to have been part of an AHRC rese= arch > > network grant (2015-17 Irish modernisms); CIS staff won British > > Academy grants (one grant being the largest single amount in the > > School of Arts and Humanities in 2014-16, on the Irish diaspora ); as > > a small, new unit of assessment > > (U36) in the 2014 REF submission it achieved highly and out performed > > other more established units in areas of its submission (60% 4* and 3* > > weighted overall); MA graduates have gone on to PhD study and we had > > two PhD completions and two current part time students have recently > > successfully completed MPhil/PhD transfers within the past 6months; a > > succession of Culture Ireland grants, delivered a vibrant programme of > > pubic engagement and impact projects that took Irish Studies to Luton > > and Leeds, and from Brazil and to the Bronx; it ran and developed an > > increasingly popular set of community language programmes (with 38 > > students in 2015/16), funded by the Irish Government, recognized > > annually at the Embassy and most recently (May 2016) CIS successfully > > applied for 3 year, funded programme from the Irish government=E2=80=99= s An > > Roinn Arts, Culture and Gaeltacht to develop the Irish language worth > =E2=82=AC104,000. > > > > CIS worked in partnership with the Irish Cultural Centre (ICC) in > > Hammersmith, the APPG in Parliament on an annual lecture series, with > > the Irish Literary Society likewise and undertook research and > > publications with the Irish Film Institute in Dublin and the theatre > > company Cia Ludens/University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Other colleagues > > gave invited lectures in India in November 2015. In September 2015, > > CIS hosted the British Association of Irish Studies annual conference, > > in January 2016 it worked with the ICC to host a conference on Trauma > > and the Troubles, and in > > > > January the University also had the vision to appoint Prof McAleese as > > a Visiting Professorship with significant Irish input, teaching and > > public engagement. > > > > All this is now being jettisoned. > > > > Prof. Mary J. Hickman > > Prof. Shaun Richards > > Former Professorial Research Fellows St Mary=E2=80=99s University, Twic= kenham > > > > 4 July 2016 > > > > -- > David A. Wilson, F.R.Hist.S., FRSC > General Editor > Dictionary of Canadian Biography > 130 St George St 14th floor > University of Toronto > M5S 3H1 > --=20 Kate Costello-Sullivan, Ph.D. Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Modern Irish Literature, English Dept Le Moyne College 1419 Salt Springs Road Syracuse NY 13214 315 445 4310 sullivkp[at]lemoyne.edu | |
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13284 | 18 July 2016 13:38 |
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:38:24 -0700
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From: Cian McMahon Subject: Re: Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: Please add my name to the petition too. Thanks, Cian T. McMahon Department of History University of Nevada, Las Vegas USA Cian T. McMahon, PhD Assistant Professor Department of History & Honors College University of Nevada, Las Vegas cian.mcmahon[at]unlv.edu www.ctmcmahon.com http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/12616.html On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 7:33 AM, William Jenkins wrote: > Dear Tony > > I=E2=80=99d like to echo what others have written, in terms of adding my = name to a > letter/petition on behalf of the Centre, or sending a letter directly. > > All the best, > > William > > ------------------------- > Dr. William Jenkins > Associate Professor, Geography > Member, Graduate Programs in Geography and History > York University > 4700 Keele St. > Toronto, Ontario > Canada M3J 1P3 > > [at]WmMJenkins > > Latest book: Between Raid and Rebellion: the Irish in Buffalo and Toronto > 1867-1916 > http://www.mqup.ca/between-raid-and-rebellion-products-9780773540958.php > > > On Jul 18, 2016, at 10:14 AM, Miller, Kerby A. > wrote: > > > > Dear Tony, > > > > As others have also requested, feel free to add my name to any letter o= r > petition on behalf of the Centre for Irish Studies at St. Mary=E2=80=99s > University. Or, if you inform me to whom I should write, I will send a > letter directly. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Kerby Miller > > Curators=E2=80=99 Professor Emeritus of History > > University of Missouri > > > > On 7/18/16, 4:24 AM, "The Irish Diaspora Studies List on behalf of Tony > Murray" wrote= : > > > >> Dear friends and colleagues, > >> > >> You may be aware that the MA Irish Studies programme and the Centre fo= r > >> Irish Studies at St. Mary's University in Twickenham are currently und= er > >> threat of closure. > >> > >> Find below my letter of support for colleagues at St. Mary's which wil= l > >> appear shortly in the Irish Post. Also copied below are similar letter= s > >> from Prof. Roy Foster and from Prof. Mary Hickman & Prof. Shaun > Richards. > >> > >> Please circulate to raise awareness of this matter amongst the wider > Irish > >> Studies community. > >> > >> Thank you. > >> > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> Tony > >> > >> > >> > >> Dr. Tony Murray > >> > >> Director, Irish Studies Centre > >> > >> Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities > >> > >> London Metropolitan University > >> > >> Tower Building, > >> > >> Holloway Rd > >> > >> London N7 8DB > >> > >> > >> > >> Tel: 020 7133 2593 > >> > >> * > http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/faculties/faculty-of-social-sciences-and-human= ities/people/surnames-k-to-m/tony-murray/ > >> http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/faculties/faculty-of-social-sciences-and-human= ities/people/surnames-k-to-m/tony-murray/ > >* > >> > >> londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> 15 July 2016 > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> I am writing to express my dismay at the stated intention by the senio= r > >> management at St. Mary=E2=80=99s University to terminate both the Cent= re for > Irish > >> Studies and its degree programme in the subject. > >> > >> > >> > >> The work of our colleagues at St. Mary=E2=80=99s University has long > complemented > >> our activities here in the Irish Studies Centre at London Metropolitan > >> University. The proposed closure of the only remaining degree programm= e > in > >> Irish Studies in the south of England along with the distinguished > research > >> work of the CIS, especially in recent years under the visionary > >> directorship of Prof. Lance Pettitt, is extremely concerning. It would > be a > >> severe blow to Prof. Pettitt and his team, but it would also diminish > all > >> of us who have worked to build and support the profile of Irish Studie= s > >> over the last thirty to forty years. > >> > >> > >> > >> It is especially regrettable that a move like this seems possible now > when > >> people in Britain require the unique knowledge, expertise and > perspective > >> that Irish Studies can bring to a rapidly changing European and global > >> environment, not least in regard to the potential consequences of Brex= it > >> for Anglo-Irish relations. > >> > >> > >> > >> The loss of Irish Studies at St. Mary=E2=80=99s would be a deeply dist= urbing > >> development and I sincerely hope that the university reconsiders it > >> position. > >> > >> > >> > >> Yours sincerely, > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> Dr. Tony Murray > >> > >> Director, Irish Studies Centre > >> > >> London Metropolitan University > >> > >> > >> > >> londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> 21 June 2016 > >> > >> I find it both shocking and stupefying that the management at St Mary= =E2=80=99s > has > >> apparently decided to put an end to the long-lived and distinguished > >> tradition of Irish studies there, by suspending the successful MA in > Irish > >> Studies and effectively withdrawing support from the Centre of Irish > >> Studies. The university has maintained a distinguished record in the > field > >> for decades, boosted in recent years by the appointment of Lance Petti= t > as > >> Director, the longstanding input of Ivan Gibbons, and the imaginative > >> recruitment of pioneering scholars such as Professor Mary Hickman to > >> professorial research fellowships. I have visited the Centre, lectured > >> there, and attended stimulating and high-octane symposia organised by > its > >> staff. It also has a distinguished record of producing students and > winning > >> grant-aided support, notably from the Irish Government, as well as > >> encouraging research in new growth-areas such as film studies and > diasporic > >> patterns. With Oxford and Liverpool, St Mary=E2=80=99s is one of the h= igher > >> education institutions that has kept up a consistent strength in Irish > >> studies, a subject of great interest for students at undergraduate and > >> postgraduate level- especially those based in London. The study of Iri= sh > >> society and culture, and the country=E2=80=99s ancient and complex rel= ationship > >> with Britain, has been increasingly relevant through the past decades, > and > >> never more so than at the present moment. For the university to wilful= ly > >> cut off this area of strength and potential seems extraordinarily > >> counter-productive, at a time when demand is high and other > institutions of > >> higher education (including my own) are putting resources firmly into > this > >> subject as an intellectual growth area. It is also a cavalier and unju= st > >> way to treat distinguished and hardworking academics. They, and the > >> subject, deserve better. > >> > >> Yours sincerely > >> > >> > >> R.F. Foster > >> > >> Carroll Professor of Irish History > >> > >> Hertford College, Oxford > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> The end of the Centre for Irish Studies (CIS) at St Mary=E2=80=99s? > >> > >> Following a decision made by senior management the MA Irish Studies at > St > >> Mary=E2=80=99s University will not be recruiting a new cohort of stude= nts for > >> September 2016. The University has further decided not to include the > >> Centre for Irish Studies in its plans for strategic development for > >> 2016/17, deciding to back Bioethics (CBET), Human Slavery and the > Benedict > >> Centre for Religion and society amongst others. The contracts of the > four > >> Research Fellows have all come to the end of their term this year and > they > >> have been made redundant. The contract of the Director of the Centre > ends > >> in July and it too will not be renewed. Ivan Gibbons is retiring after > >> seven years service at the end of August. > >> > >> CIS has been in existence since 1991 when the BA Irish Studies degree > >> began. The University has long had links with Ireland since its > inception > >> in 1850. While the current MA students will be =E2=80=9Ctaught out=E2= =80=9D, London will > >> not have a university-backed centre for research and postgraduate > teaching > >> in Irish Studies for the first time in a generation, despite the capit= al > >> being home to the largest Irish community in Britain. > >> > >> It is deeply ironic that this decision has been taken in 2016 after al= l > the > >> renewal of relations between Britain and Ireland so far this century, > >> including reciprocal Head of State visits. The cultural and social > analysis > >> and understanding that is provided by =E2=80=98Irish Studies=E2=80=99 = is needed now more > >> than ever as the relations between the UK and Ireland are tested, and > the > >> political nature of these islands is being recast internally and withi= n > >> Europe. > >> > >> The University decision has been taken despite the CIS distinguishing > >> itself in many ways in the past five years. For the record, it is the > only > >> such centre at St Mary=E2=80=99s to have been part of an AHRC research= network > >> grant (2015-17 Irish modernisms); CIS staff won British Academy grants > (one > >> grant being the largest single amount in the School of Arts and > Humanities > >> in 2014-16, on the Irish diaspora ); as a small, new unit of assessmen= t > >> (U36) in the 2014 REF submission it achieved highly and out performed > other > >> more established units in areas of its submission (60% 4* and 3* > weighted > >> overall); MA graduates have gone on to PhD study and we had two PhD > >> completions and two current part time students have recently > successfully > >> completed MPhil/PhD transfers within the past 6months; a succession of > >> Culture Ireland grants, delivered a vibrant programme of pubic > engagement > >> and impact projects that took Irish Studies to Luton and Leeds, and fr= om > >> Brazil and to the Bronx; it ran and developed an increasingly popular > set > >> of community language programmes (with 38 students in 2015/16), funded > by > >> the Irish Government, recognized annually at the Embassy and most > recently > >> (May 2016) CIS successfully applied for 3 year, funded programme from > the > >> Irish government=E2=80=99s An Roinn Arts, Culture and Gaeltacht to dev= elop the > >> Irish language worth =E2=82=AC104,000. > >> > >> CIS worked in partnership with the Irish Cultural Centre (ICC) in > >> Hammersmith, the APPG in Parliament on an annual lecture series, with > the > >> Irish Literary Society likewise and undertook research and publication= s > >> with the Irish Film Institute in Dublin and the theatre company Cia > >> Ludens/University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Other colleagues gave invite= d > >> lectures in India in November 2015. In September 2015, CIS hosted the > >> British Association of Irish Studies annual conference, in January 201= 6 > it > >> worked with the ICC to host a conference on Trauma and the Troubles, > and in > >> > >> January the University also had the vision to appoint Prof McAleese as= a > >> Visiting Professorship with significant Irish input, teaching and publ= ic > >> engagement. > >> > >> All this is now being jettisoned. > >> > >> Prof. Mary J. Hickman > >> Prof. Shaun Richards > >> Former Professorial Research Fellows St Mary=E2=80=99s University, Twi= ckenham > >> > >> 4 July 2016 > >> > >> -- > >> London Metropolitan University is a limited company registered in > England > >> and Wales with registered number 974438 and VAT registered number GB 4= 47 > >> 2190 51. Our registered office is at 166-220 Holloway Road, London N7 > 8DB. > >> London Metropolitan University is an exempt charity under the Charitie= s > Act > >> 2011. Its registration number with HMRC is X6880. > > > > > | |
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13285 | 18 July 2016 13:40 |
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:40:51 -0400
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From: Michael Cannady Subject: Re: Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Message-ID: Please add my name to any letters or petitions as well. Thanks, Mike Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 18, 2016, at 12:01 PM, Sean Farrell wrote: >=20 > Please add my name as well. Thanks and all best, >=20 > Sean >=20 > -----Original Message----- > From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Beha= lf Of David A. Wilson > Sent: Monday, July 18, 2016 10:29 AM > To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: Re: [IR-D] Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham >=20 > Please add my name to any letter or petition. Best, David >=20 >=20 >> On 2016-07-18 5:24 AM, Tony Murray wrote: >> Dear friends and colleagues, >>=20 >> You may be aware that the MA Irish Studies programme and the Centre=20 >> for Irish Studies at St. Mary's University in Twickenham are currently=20= >> under threat of closure. >>=20 >> Find below my letter of support for colleagues at St. Mary's which=20 >> will appear shortly in the Irish Post. Also copied below are similar=20 >> letters from Prof. Roy Foster and from Prof. Mary Hickman & Prof. Shaun R= ichards. >>=20 >> Please circulate to raise awareness of this matter amongst the wider=20 >> Irish Studies community. >>=20 >> Thank you. >>=20 >>=20 >> Regards, >>=20 >> Tony >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> Dr. Tony Murray >>=20 >> Director, Irish Studies Centre >>=20 >> Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities >>=20 >> London Metropolitan University >>=20 >> Tower Building, >>=20 >> Holloway Rd >>=20 >> London N7 8DB >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> Tel: 020 7133 2593 >>=20 >> *http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/faculties/faculty-of-social-sciences-and-h >> umanities/people/surnames-k-to-m/tony-murray/ >> > umanities/people/surnames-k-to-m/tony-murray/>* >>=20 >> londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> 15 July 2016 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> I am writing to express my dismay at the stated intention by the=20 >> senior management at St. Mary=E2=80=99s University to terminate both the=20= >> Centre for Irish Studies and its degree programme in the subject. >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> The work of our colleagues at St. Mary=E2=80=99s University has long=20 >> complemented our activities here in the Irish Studies Centre at London=20= >> Metropolitan University. The proposed closure of the only remaining=20 >> degree programme in Irish Studies in the south of England along with=20 >> the distinguished research work of the CIS, especially in recent years=20= >> under the visionary directorship of Prof. Lance Pettitt, is extremely=20 >> concerning. It would be a severe blow to Prof. Pettitt and his team,=20 >> but it would also diminish all of us who have worked to build and=20 >> support the profile of Irish Studies over the last thirty to forty years.= >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> It is especially regrettable that a move like this seems possible now=20 >> when people in Britain require the unique knowledge, expertise and=20 >> perspective that Irish Studies can bring to a rapidly changing=20 >> European and global environment, not least in regard to the potential=20 >> consequences of Brexit for Anglo-Irish relations. >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> The loss of Irish Studies at St. Mary=E2=80=99s would be a deeply disturb= ing=20 >> development and I sincerely hope that the university reconsiders it=20 >> position. >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> Yours sincerely, >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> Dr. Tony Murray >>=20 >> Director, Irish Studies Centre >>=20 >> London Metropolitan University >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> 21 June 2016 >>=20 >> I find it both shocking and stupefying that the management at St=20 >> Mary=E2=80=99s has apparently decided to put an end to the long-lived and= =20 >> distinguished tradition of Irish studies there, by suspending the=20 >> successful MA in Irish Studies and effectively withdrawing support=20 >> from the Centre of Irish Studies. The university has maintained a=20 >> distinguished record in the field for decades, boosted in recent years=20= >> by the appointment of Lance Pettit as Director, the longstanding input=20= >> of Ivan Gibbons, and the imaginative recruitment of pioneering=20 >> scholars such as Professor Mary Hickman to professorial research=20 >> fellowships. I have visited the Centre, lectured there, and attended=20 >> stimulating and high-octane symposia organised by its staff. It also=20 >> has a distinguished record of producing students and winning=20 >> grant-aided support, notably from the Irish Government, as well as=20 >> encouraging research in new growth-areas such as film studies and=20 >> diasporic patterns. With Oxford and Liverpool, St Mary=E2=80=99s is one o= f the=20 >> higher education institutions that has kept up a consistent strength=20 >> in Irish studies, a subject of great interest for students at=20 >> undergraduate and postgraduate level- especially those based in=20 >> London. The study of Irish society and culture, and the country=E2=80=99s= =20 >> ancient and complex relationship with Britain, has been increasingly=20 >> relevant through the past decades, and never more so than at the=20 >> present moment. For the university to wilfully cut off this area of=20 >> strength and potential seems extraordinarily counter-productive, at a=20 >> time when demand is high and other institutions of higher education=20 >> (including my own) are putting resources firmly into this subject as=20 >> an intellectual growth area. It is also a cavalier and unjust way to trea= t distinguished and hardworking academics. They, and the subject, deserve be= tter. >>=20 >> Yours sincerely >>=20 >>=20 >> R.F. Foster >>=20 >> Carroll Professor of Irish History >>=20 >> Hertford College, Oxford >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> The end of the Centre for Irish Studies (CIS) at St Mary=E2=80=99s? >>=20 >> Following a decision made by senior management the MA Irish Studies at=20= >> St Mary=E2=80=99s University will not be recruiting a new cohort of stude= nts=20 >> for September 2016. The University has further decided not to include=20 >> the Centre for Irish Studies in its plans for strategic development=20 >> for 2016/17, deciding to back Bioethics (CBET), Human Slavery and the=20 >> Benedict Centre for Religion and society amongst others. The contracts=20= >> of the four Research Fellows have all come to the end of their term=20 >> this year and they have been made redundant. The contract of the=20 >> Director of the Centre ends in July and it too will not be renewed.=20 >> Ivan Gibbons is retiring after seven years service at the end of August. >>=20 >> CIS has been in existence since 1991 when the BA Irish Studies degree=20 >> began. The University has long had links with Ireland since its=20 >> inception in 1850. While the current MA students will be =E2=80=9Ctaught o= ut=E2=80=9D,=20 >> London will not have a university-backed centre for research and=20 >> postgraduate teaching in Irish Studies for the first time in a=20 >> generation, despite the capital being home to the largest Irish community= in Britain. >>=20 >> It is deeply ironic that this decision has been taken in 2016 after=20 >> all the renewal of relations between Britain and Ireland so far this=20 >> century, including reciprocal Head of State visits. The cultural and=20 >> social analysis and understanding that is provided by =E2=80=98Irish Stud= ies=E2=80=99=20 >> is needed now more than ever as the relations between the UK and=20 >> Ireland are tested, and the political nature of these islands is being=20= >> recast internally and within Europe. >>=20 >> The University decision has been taken despite the CIS distinguishing=20 >> itself in many ways in the past five years. For the record, it is the=20 >> only such centre at St Mary=E2=80=99s to have been part of an AHRC resear= ch=20 >> network grant (2015-17 Irish modernisms); CIS staff won British=20 >> Academy grants (one grant being the largest single amount in the=20 >> School of Arts and Humanities in 2014-16, on the Irish diaspora ); as=20 >> a small, new unit of assessment >> (U36) in the 2014 REF submission it achieved highly and out performed=20 >> other more established units in areas of its submission (60% 4* and 3*=20= >> weighted overall); MA graduates have gone on to PhD study and we had=20 >> two PhD completions and two current part time students have recently=20 >> successfully completed MPhil/PhD transfers within the past 6months; a=20 >> succession of Culture Ireland grants, delivered a vibrant programme of=20= >> pubic engagement and impact projects that took Irish Studies to Luton=20 >> and Leeds, and from Brazil and to the Bronx; it ran and developed an=20 >> increasingly popular set of community language programmes (with 38=20 >> students in 2015/16), funded by the Irish Government, recognized=20 >> annually at the Embassy and most recently (May 2016) CIS successfully=20 >> applied for 3 year, funded programme from the Irish government=E2=80=99s A= n=20 >> Roinn Arts, Culture and Gaeltacht to develop the Irish language worth =E2= =82=AC104,000. >>=20 >> CIS worked in partnership with the Irish Cultural Centre (ICC) in=20 >> Hammersmith, the APPG in Parliament on an annual lecture series, with=20 >> the Irish Literary Society likewise and undertook research and=20 >> publications with the Irish Film Institute in Dublin and the theatre=20 >> company Cia Ludens/University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Other colleagues=20= >> gave invited lectures in India in November 2015. In September 2015,=20 >> CIS hosted the British Association of Irish Studies annual conference,=20= >> in January 2016 it worked with the ICC to host a conference on Trauma=20 >> and the Troubles, and in >>=20 >> January the University also had the vision to appoint Prof McAleese as=20= >> a Visiting Professorship with significant Irish input, teaching and=20 >> public engagement. >>=20 >> All this is now being jettisoned. >>=20 >> Prof. Mary J. Hickman >> Prof. Shaun Richards >> Former Professorial Research Fellows St Mary=E2=80=99s University, Twicke= nham >>=20 >> 4 July 2016 >=20 > -- > David A. Wilson, F.R.Hist.S., FRSC > General Editor > Dictionary of Canadian Biography > 130 St George St 14th floor > University of Toronto > M5S 3H1 | |
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Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:54:16 -0400
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From: Bryan McGovern Subject: Re: Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: Please add mine as well. =20 regards, bpm ************************************ Bryan P. McGovern, Ph.D. Associate Professor of History Coordinator of History Education Department of History and Philosophy Kennesaw State University 402 Bartow Ave MD #2206 Kennesaw, Georgia 30144 P: 470-578-2296 F: 470-578-9149 ************************************ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Cannady" To: "The Irish Diaspora Studies List" Sent: Monday, July 18, 2016 12:40:51 PM Subject: Re: [IR-D] Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham Please add my name to any letters or petitions as well. Thanks, Mike Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 18, 2016, at 12:01 PM, Sean Farrell wrote: >=20 > Please add my name as well. Thanks and all best, >=20 > Sean >=20 > -----Original Message----- > From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Beh= alf Of David A. Wilson > Sent: Monday, July 18, 2016 10:29 AM > To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: Re: [IR-D] Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham >=20 > Please add my name to any letter or petition. Best, David >=20 >=20 >> On 2016-07-18 5:24 AM, Tony Murray wrote: >> Dear friends and colleagues, >>=20 >> You may be aware that the MA Irish Studies programme and the Centre=20 >> for Irish Studies at St. Mary's University in Twickenham are currently= =20 >> under threat of closure. >>=20 >> Find below my letter of support for colleagues at St. Mary's which=20 >> will appear shortly in the Irish Post. Also copied below are similar=20 >> letters from Prof. Roy Foster and from Prof. Mary Hickman & Prof. Shaun = Richards. >>=20 >> Please circulate to raise awareness of this matter amongst the wider=20 >> Irish Studies community. >>=20 >> Thank you. >>=20 >>=20 >> Regards, >>=20 >> Tony >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> Dr. Tony Murray >>=20 >> Director, Irish Studies Centre >>=20 >> Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities >>=20 >> London Metropolitan University >>=20 >> Tower Building, >>=20 >> Holloway Rd >>=20 >> London N7 8DB >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> Tel: 020 7133 2593 >>=20 >> *http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/faculties/faculty-of-social-sciences-and-h >> umanities/people/surnames-k-to-m/tony-murray/ >> > umanities/people/surnames-k-to-m/tony-murray/>* >>=20 >> londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> 15 July 2016 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> I am writing to express my dismay at the stated intention by the=20 >> senior management at St. Mary=E2=80=99s University to terminate both the= =20 >> Centre for Irish Studies and its degree programme in the subject. >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> The work of our colleagues at St. Mary=E2=80=99s University has long=20 >> complemented our activities here in the Irish Studies Centre at London= =20 >> Metropolitan University. The proposed closure of the only remaining=20 >> degree programme in Irish Studies in the south of England along with=20 >> the distinguished research work of the CIS, especially in recent years= =20 >> under the visionary directorship of Prof. Lance Pettitt, is extremely=20 >> concerning. It would be a severe blow to Prof. Pettitt and his team,=20 >> but it would also diminish all of us who have worked to build and=20 >> support the profile of Irish Studies over the last thirty to forty years= . >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> It is especially regrettable that a move like this seems possible now=20 >> when people in Britain require the unique knowledge, expertise and=20 >> perspective that Irish Studies can bring to a rapidly changing=20 >> European and global environment, not least in regard to the potential=20 >> consequences of Brexit for Anglo-Irish relations. >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> The loss of Irish Studies at St. Mary=E2=80=99s would be a deeply distur= bing=20 >> development and I sincerely hope that the university reconsiders it=20 >> position. >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> Yours sincerely, >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> Dr. Tony Murray >>=20 >> Director, Irish Studies Centre >>=20 >> London Metropolitan University >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> 21 June 2016 >>=20 >> I find it both shocking and stupefying that the management at St=20 >> Mary=E2=80=99s has apparently decided to put an end to the long-lived an= d=20 >> distinguished tradition of Irish studies there, by suspending the=20 >> successful MA in Irish Studies and effectively withdrawing support=20 >> from the Centre of Irish Studies. The university has maintained a=20 >> distinguished record in the field for decades, boosted in recent years= =20 >> by the appointment of Lance Pettit as Director, the longstanding input= =20 >> of Ivan Gibbons, and the imaginative recruitment of pioneering=20 >> scholars such as Professor Mary Hickman to professorial research=20 >> fellowships. I have visited the Centre, lectured there, and attended=20 >> stimulating and high-octane symposia organised by its staff. It also=20 >> has a distinguished record of producing students and winning=20 >> grant-aided support, notably from the Irish Government, as well as=20 >> encouraging research in new growth-areas such as film studies and=20 >> diasporic patterns. With Oxford and Liverpool, St Mary=E2=80=99s is one = of the=20 >> higher education institutions that has kept up a consistent strength=20 >> in Irish studies, a subject of great interest for students at=20 >> undergraduate and postgraduate level- especially those based in=20 >> London. The study of Irish society and culture, and the country=E2=80=99= s=20 >> ancient and complex relationship with Britain, has been increasingly=20 >> relevant through the past decades, and never more so than at the=20 >> present moment. For the university to wilfully cut off this area of=20 >> strength and potential seems extraordinarily counter-productive, at a=20 >> time when demand is high and other institutions of higher education=20 >> (including my own) are putting resources firmly into this subject as=20 >> an intellectual growth area. It is also a cavalier and unjust way to tre= at distinguished and hardworking academics. They, and the subject, deserve = better. >>=20 >> Yours sincerely >>=20 >>=20 >> R.F. Foster >>=20 >> Carroll Professor of Irish History >>=20 >> Hertford College, Oxford >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> The end of the Centre for Irish Studies (CIS) at St Mary=E2=80=99s? >>=20 >> Following a decision made by senior management the MA Irish Studies at= =20 >> St Mary=E2=80=99s University will not be recruiting a new cohort of stud= ents=20 >> for September 2016. The University has further decided not to include=20 >> the Centre for Irish Studies in its plans for strategic development=20 >> for 2016/17, deciding to back Bioethics (CBET), Human Slavery and the=20 >> Benedict Centre for Religion and society amongst others. The contracts= =20 >> of the four Research Fellows have all come to the end of their term=20 >> this year and they have been made redundant. The contract of the=20 >> Director of the Centre ends in July and it too will not be renewed.=20 >> Ivan Gibbons is retiring after seven years service at the end of August. >>=20 >> CIS has been in existence since 1991 when the BA Irish Studies degree=20 >> began. The University has long had links with Ireland since its=20 >> inception in 1850. While the current MA students will be =E2=80=9Ctaught= out=E2=80=9D,=20 >> London will not have a university-backed centre for research and=20 >> postgraduate teaching in Irish Studies for the first time in a=20 >> generation, despite the capital being home to the largest Irish communit= y in Britain. >>=20 >> It is deeply ironic that this decision has been taken in 2016 after=20 >> all the renewal of relations between Britain and Ireland so far this=20 >> century, including reciprocal Head of State visits. The cultural and=20 >> social analysis and understanding that is provided by =E2=80=98Irish Stu= dies=E2=80=99=20 >> is needed now more than ever as the relations between the UK and=20 >> Ireland are tested, and the political nature of these islands is being= =20 >> recast internally and within Europe. >>=20 >> The University decision has been taken despite the CIS distinguishing=20 >> itself in many ways in the past five years. For the record, it is the=20 >> only such centre at St Mary=E2=80=99s to have been part of an AHRC resea= rch=20 >> network grant (2015-17 Irish modernisms); CIS staff won British=20 >> Academy grants (one grant being the largest single amount in the=20 >> School of Arts and Humanities in 2014-16, on the Irish diaspora ); as=20 >> a small, new unit of assessment >> (U36) in the 2014 REF submission it achieved highly and out performed=20 >> other more established units in areas of its submission (60% 4* and 3*= =20 >> weighted overall); MA graduates have gone on to PhD study and we had=20 >> two PhD completions and two current part time students have recently=20 >> successfully completed MPhil/PhD transfers within the past 6months; a=20 >> succession of Culture Ireland grants, delivered a vibrant programme of= =20 >> pubic engagement and impact projects that took Irish Studies to Luton=20 >> and Leeds, and from Brazil and to the Bronx; it ran and developed an=20 >> increasingly popular set of community language programmes (with 38=20 >> students in 2015/16), funded by the Irish Government, recognized=20 >> annually at the Embassy and most recently (May 2016) CIS successfully=20 >> applied for 3 year, funded programme from the Irish government=E2=80=99s= An=20 >> Roinn Arts, Culture and Gaeltacht to develop the Irish language worth = =E2=82=AC104,000. >>=20 >> CIS worked in partnership with the Irish Cultural Centre (ICC) in=20 >> Hammersmith, the APPG in Parliament on an annual lecture series, with=20 >> the Irish Literary Society likewise and undertook research and=20 >> publications with the Irish Film Institute in Dublin and the theatre=20 >> company Cia Ludens/University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Other colleagues= =20 >> gave invited lectures in India in November 2015. In September 2015,=20 >> CIS hosted the British Association of Irish Studies annual conference,= =20 >> in January 2016 it worked with the ICC to host a conference on Trauma=20 >> and the Troubles, and in >>=20 >> January the University also had the vision to appoint Prof McAleese as= =20 >> a Visiting Professorship with significant Irish input, teaching and=20 >> public engagement. >>=20 >> All this is now being jettisoned. >>=20 >> Prof. Mary J. Hickman >> Prof. Shaun Richards >> Former Professorial Research Fellows St Mary=E2=80=99s University, Twick= enham >>=20 >> 4 July 2016 >=20 > -- > David A. Wilson, F.R.Hist.S., FRSC > General Editor > Dictionary of Canadian Biography > 130 St George St 14th floor > University of Toronto > M5S 3H1 | |
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From: Joe Bradley Subject: Re: Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: {decoded}I will pass this around Tony And please add my signature to anything of relevance that supports your case Dr Joseph M Bradley Senior Lecturer University of Stirling Scotland -----Original Message----- From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Tony Murray Sent: 18 July 2016 10:25 To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [IR-D] Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham Dear friends and colleagues, You may be aware that the MA Irish Studies programme and the Centre for Irish Studies at St. Mary's University in Twickenham are currently under threat of closure. Find below my letter of support for colleagues at St. Mary's which will appear shortly in the Irish Post. Also copied below are similar letters from Prof. Roy Foster and from Prof. Mary Hickman & Prof. Shaun Richards. Please circulate to raise awareness of this matter amongst the wider Irish Studies community. Thank you. Regards, Tony Dr. Tony Murray Director, Irish Studies Centre Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities London Metropolitan University Tower Building, Holloway Rd London N7 8DB Tel: 020 7133 2593 *http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/faculties/faculty-of-social-sciences-and-humanities/people/surnames-k-to-m/tony-murray/ * londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre 15 July 2016 I am writing to express my dismay at the stated intention by the senior management at St. Marys University to terminate both the Centre for Irish Studies and its degree programme in the subject. The work of our colleagues at St. Marys University has long complemented our activities here in the Irish Studies Centre at London Metropolitan University. The proposed closure of the only remaining degree programme in Irish Studies in the south of England along with the distinguished research work of the CIS, especially in recent years under the visionary directorship of Prof. Lance Pettitt, is extremely concerning. It would be a severe blow to Prof. Pettitt and his team, but it would also diminish all of us who have worked to build and support the profile of Irish Studies over the last thirty to forty years. It is especially regrettable that a move like this seems possible now when people in Britain require the unique knowledge, expertise and perspective that Irish Studies can bring to a rapidly changing European and global environment, not least in regard to the potential consequences of Brexit for Anglo-Irish relations. The loss of Irish Studies at St. Marys would be a deeply disturbing development and I sincerely hope that the university reconsiders it position. Yours sincerely, Dr. Tony Murray Director, Irish Studies Centre London Metropolitan University londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre 21 June 2016 I find it both shocking and stupefying that the management at St Marys has apparently decided to put an end to the long-lived and distinguished tradition of Irish studies there, by suspending the successful MA in Irish Studies and effectively withdrawing support from the Centre of Irish Studies. The university has maintained a distinguished record in the field for decades, boosted in recent years by the appointment of Lance Pettit as Director, the longstanding input of Ivan Gibbons, and the imaginative recruitment of pioneering scholars such as Professor Mary Hickman to professorial research fellowships. I have visited the Centre, lectured there, and attended stimulating and high-octane symposia organised by its staff. It also has a distinguished record of producing students and winning grant-aided support, notably from the Irish Government, as well as encouraging research in new growth-areas such as film studies and diasporic patterns. With Oxford and Liverpool, St Marys is one of the higher education institutions that has kept up a consistent strength in Irish studies, a subject of great interest for students at undergraduate and postgraduate level- especially those based in London. The study of Irish society and culture, and the countrys ancient and complex relationship with Britain, has been increasingly relevant through the past decades, and never more so than at the present moment. For the university to wilfully cut off this area of strength and potential seems extraordinarily counter-productive, at a time when demand is high and other institutions of higher education (including my own) are putting resources firmly into this subject as an intellectual growth area. It is also a cavalier and unjust way to treat distinguished and hardworking academics. They, and the subject, deserve better. Yours sincerely R.F. Foster Carroll Professor of Irish History Hertford College, Oxford The end of the Centre for Irish Studies (CIS) at St Marys? Following a decision made by senior management the MA Irish Studies at St Marys University will not be recruiting a new cohort of students for September 2016. The University has further decided not to include the Centre for Irish Studies in its plans for strategic development for 2016/17, deciding to back Bioethics (CBET), Human Slavery and the Benedict Centre for Religion and society amongst others. The contracts of the four Research Fellows have all come to the end of their term this year and they have been made redundant. The contract of the Director of the Centre ends in July and it too will not be renewed. Ivan Gibbons is retiring after seven years service at the end of August. CIS has been in existence since 1991 when the BA Irish Studies degree began. The University has long had links with Ireland since its inception in 1850. While the current MA students will be taught out, London will not have a university-backed centre for research and postgraduate teaching in Irish Studies for the first time in a generation, despite the capital being home to the largest Irish community in Britain. It is deeply ironic that this decision has been taken in 2016 after all the renewal of relations between Britain and Ireland so far this century, including reciprocal Head of State visits. The cultural and social analysis and understanding that is provided by Irish Studies is needed now more than ever as the relations between the UK and Ireland are tested, and the political nature of these islands is being recast internally and within Europe. The University decision has been taken despite the CIS distinguishing itself in many ways in the past five years. For the record, it is the only such centre at St Marys to have been part of an AHRC research network grant (2015-17 Irish modernisms); CIS staff won British Academy grants (one grant being the largest single amount in the School of Arts and Humanities in 2014-16, on the Irish diaspora ); as a small, new unit of assessment (U36) in the 2014 REF submission it achieved highly and out performed other more established units in areas of its submission (60% 4* and 3* weighted overall); MA graduates have gone on to PhD study and we had two PhD completions and two current part time students have recently successfully completed MPhil/PhD transfers within the past 6months; a succession of Culture Ireland grants, delivered a vibrant programme of pubic engagement and impact projects that took Irish Studies to Luton and Leeds, and from Brazil and to the Bronx; it ran and developed an increasingly popular set of community language programmes (with 38 students in 2015/16), funded by the Irish Government, recognized annually at the Embassy and most recently (May 2016) CIS successfully applied for 3 year, funded programme from the Irish governments An Roinn Arts, Culture and Gaeltacht to develop the Irish language worth ¬104,000. CIS worked in partnership with the Irish Cultural Centre (ICC) in Hammersmith, the APPG in Parliament on an annual lecture series, with the Irish Literary Society likewise and undertook research and publications with the Irish Film Institute in Dublin and the theatre company Cia Ludens/University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Other colleagues gave invited lectures in India in November 2015. In September 2015, CIS hosted the British Association of Irish Studies annual conference, in January 2016 it worked with the ICC to host a conference on Trauma and the Troubles, and in January the University also had the vision to appoint Prof McAleese as a Visiting Professorship with significant Irish input, teaching and public engagement. All this is now being jettisoned. Prof. Mary J. Hickman Prof. Shaun Richards Former Professorial Research Fellows St Marys University, Twickenham 4 July 2016 -- London Metropolitan University is a limited company registered in England and Wales with registered number 974438 and VAT registered number GB 447 2190 51. Our registered office is at 166-220 Holloway Road, London N7 8DB. London Metropolitan University is an exempt charity under the Charities Act 2011. Its registration number with HMRC is X6880. -- The University achieved an overall 5 stars in the QS World University Rankings 2015 The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159. | |
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From: Jim McAuley Subject: Re: Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: {decoded} Please feel free to also use my name in support in any way you feel helps. Best, Jim Professor Jim McAuley, BSc, PhD, FHEA Professor of Political Sociology and Irish Studies Director, Institute for Research in Citizenship and Applied Human Sciences : 01484 472691 / 07595 090932 : j.w.mcauley[at]hud.ac.uk : www.hud.ac.uk School of Human and Health Sciences University of Huddersfield | Queensgate | Huddersfield | HD1 3DH Latest book: Very British Rebels? The Culture and Politics of Ulster Loyalism (Bloomsbury). See also: 'The Democratic Unionist Party: From Protest to Power ' (Oxford University Press). 'No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world' (Dead Poets Society). On 18/07/2016 13:59, "Joe Bradley" wrote: >I will pass this around Tony >And please add my signature to anything of relevance that supports your >case > >Dr Joseph M Bradley >Senior Lecturer >University of Stirling >Scotland > > >-----Original Message----- >From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On >Behalf Of Tony Murray >Sent: 18 July 2016 10:25 >To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK >Subject: [IR-D] Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham > >Dear friends and colleagues, > >You may be aware that the MA Irish Studies programme and the Centre for >Irish Studies at St. Mary's University in Twickenham are currently under >threat of closure. > >Find below my letter of support for colleagues at St. Mary's which will >appear shortly in the Irish Post. Also copied below are similar letters >from Prof. Roy Foster and from Prof. Mary Hickman & Prof. Shaun Richards. > >Please circulate to raise awareness of this matter amongst the wider >Irish Studies community. > >Thank you. > > >Regards, > >Tony > > > >Dr. Tony Murray > >Director, Irish Studies Centre > >Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities > >London Metropolitan University > >Tower Building, > >Holloway Rd > >London N7 8DB > > > >Tel: 020 7133 2593 > >*http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/faculties/faculty-of-social-sciences-and-human >ities/people/surnames-k-to-m/tony-murray/ >ities/people/surnames-k-to-m/tony-murray/>* > >londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre > > > > > > >15 July 2016 > > > > > >I am writing to express my dismay at the stated intention by the senior >management at St. Marys University to terminate both the Centre for >Irish Studies and its degree programme in the subject. > > > >The work of our colleagues at St. Marys University has long complemented >our activities here in the Irish Studies Centre at London Metropolitan >University. The proposed closure of the only remaining degree programme >in Irish Studies in the south of England along with the distinguished >research work of the CIS, especially in recent years under the visionary >directorship of Prof. Lance Pettitt, is extremely concerning. It would be >a severe blow to Prof. Pettitt and his team, but it would also diminish >all of us who have worked to build and support the profile of Irish >Studies over the last thirty to forty years. > > > >It is especially regrettable that a move like this seems possible now >when people in Britain require the unique knowledge, expertise and >perspective that Irish Studies can bring to a rapidly changing European >and global environment, not least in regard to the potential consequences >of Brexit for Anglo-Irish relations. > > > >The loss of Irish Studies at St. Marys would be a deeply disturbing >development and I sincerely hope that the university reconsiders it >position. > > > >Yours sincerely, > > > > > >Dr. Tony Murray > >Director, Irish Studies Centre > >London Metropolitan University > > > >londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre > > > > > > > >21 June 2016 > >I find it both shocking and stupefying that the management at St Marys >has apparently decided to put an end to the long-lived and distinguished >tradition of Irish studies there, by suspending the successful MA in >Irish Studies and effectively withdrawing support from the Centre of >Irish Studies. The university has maintained a distinguished record in >the field for decades, boosted in recent years by the appointment of >Lance Pettit as Director, the longstanding input of Ivan Gibbons, and the >imaginative recruitment of pioneering scholars such as Professor Mary >Hickman to professorial research fellowships. I have visited the Centre, >lectured there, and attended stimulating and high-octane symposia >organised by its staff. It also has a distinguished record of producing >students and winning grant-aided support, notably from the Irish >Government, as well as encouraging research in new growth-areas such as >film studies and diasporic patterns. With Oxford and Liverpool, St Marys >is one of the higher education institutions that has kept up a consistent >strength in Irish studies, a subject of great interest for students at >undergraduate and postgraduate level- especially those based in London. >The study of Irish society and culture, and the countrys ancient and >complex relationship with Britain, has been increasingly relevant through >the past decades, and never more so than at the present moment. For the >university to wilfully cut off this area of strength and potential seems >extraordinarily counter-productive, at a time when demand is high and >other institutions of higher education (including my own) are putting >resources firmly into this subject as an intellectual growth area. It is >also a cavalier and unjust way to treat distinguished and hardworking >academics. They, and the subject, deserve better. > >Yours sincerely > > >R.F. Foster > >Carroll Professor of Irish History > >Hertford College, Oxford > > > > > >The end of the Centre for Irish Studies (CIS) at St Marys? > >Following a decision made by senior management the MA Irish Studies at St >Marys University will not be recruiting a new cohort of students for >September 2016. The University has further decided not to include the >Centre for Irish Studies in its plans for strategic development for >2016/17, deciding to back Bioethics (CBET), Human Slavery and the >Benedict Centre for Religion and society amongst others. The contracts of >the four Research Fellows have all come to the end of their term this >year and they have been made redundant. The contract of the Director of >the Centre ends in July and it too will not be renewed. Ivan Gibbons is >retiring after seven years service at the end of August. > >CIS has been in existence since 1991 when the BA Irish Studies degree >began. The University has long had links with Ireland since its inception >in 1850. While the current MA students will be taught out, London will >not have a university-backed centre for research and postgraduate >teaching in Irish Studies for the first time in a generation, despite the >capital being home to the largest Irish community in Britain. > >It is deeply ironic that this decision has been taken in 2016 after all >the renewal of relations between Britain and Ireland so far this century, >including reciprocal Head of State visits. The cultural and social >analysis and understanding that is provided by Irish Studies is needed >now more than ever as the relations between the UK and Ireland are >tested, and the political nature of these islands is being recast >internally and within Europe. > >The University decision has been taken despite the CIS distinguishing >itself in many ways in the past five years. For the record, it is the >only such centre at St Marys to have been part of an AHRC research >network grant (2015-17 Irish modernisms); CIS staff won British Academy >grants (one grant being the largest single amount in the School of Arts >and Humanities in 2014-16, on the Irish diaspora ); as a small, new unit >of assessment >(U36) in the 2014 REF submission it achieved highly and out performed >other more established units in areas of its submission (60% 4* and 3* >weighted overall); MA graduates have gone on to PhD study and we had two >PhD completions and two current part time students have recently >successfully completed MPhil/PhD transfers within the past 6months; a >succession of Culture Ireland grants, delivered a vibrant programme of >pubic engagement and impact projects that took Irish Studies to Luton and >Leeds, and from Brazil and to the Bronx; it ran and developed an >increasingly popular set of community language programmes (with 38 >students in 2015/16), funded by the Irish Government, recognized annually >at the Embassy and most recently (May 2016) CIS successfully applied for >3 year, funded programme from the Irish governments An Roinn Arts, >Culture and Gaeltacht to develop the Irish language worth ¬104,000. > >CIS worked in partnership with the Irish Cultural Centre (ICC) in >Hammersmith, the APPG in Parliament on an annual lecture series, with the >Irish Literary Society likewise and undertook research and publications >with the Irish Film Institute in Dublin and the theatre company Cia >Ludens/University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Other colleagues gave invited >lectures in India in November 2015. In September 2015, CIS hosted the >British Association of Irish Studies annual conference, in January 2016 >it worked with the ICC to host a conference on Trauma and the Troubles, >and in > >January the University also had the vision to appoint Prof McAleese as a >Visiting Professorship with significant Irish input, teaching and public >engagement. > >All this is now being jettisoned. > >Prof. Mary J. Hickman >Prof. Shaun Richards >Former Professorial Research Fellows St Marys University, Twickenham > >4 July 2016 > >-- >London Metropolitan University is a limited company registered in England >and Wales with registered number 974438 and VAT registered number GB 447 >2190 51. Our registered office is at 166-220 Holloway Road, London N7 >8DB. >London Metropolitan University is an exempt charity under the Charities >Act 2011. 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From: Eugene O Brien Subject: Re: Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: ... and mine!=0A=0AAll the best,=0A=0AEugene.=0A=0ADr Eugene O'Brien=0ASe= nior Lecturer=0AHead of Department of English Language and Literature=0AD= irector Mary Immaculate College Institute for Irish Studies=0AMary Immacu= late College=0AUniversity of Limerick=0APhone: 353 61 204989=0AEmail: = =20 Eugene.OBrien[at]mic.ul.ie=0A=0A=0A_____________________________________= ___=0AFrom: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] on beha= lf of Jim McAuley [j.w.mcauley[at]HUD.AC.UK]=0ASent: 18 July 2016 14:53=0ATo= : IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK=0ASubject: Re: [IR-D] Irish Studies at St. Mary's U= niversity Twickenham=0A=0APlease feel free to also use my name in support= =20in any way you feel helps.=0A=0ABest,=0A=0AJim=0A=0A=0AProfessor Jim M= cAuley, BSc, PhD, FHEA=0AProfessor of Political Sociology and Irish Studi= es=0ADirector, Institute for Research in Citizenship and Applied Human Sc= iences=0A=0A: 01484 472691 / 07595 090932=0A: j.w.mcauley[at]hud.ac.uk =0A: www.hud.ac.uk =0ASchool = of Human and Health Sciences=0AUniversity of Huddersfield | Queensgate | = Huddersfield | HD1 3DH=0ALatest book: Very British Rebels? The Culture an= d Politics of Ulster=0ALoyalism (Bloomsbury).=0A=0ASee also: 'The Democra= tic Unionist Party: From Protest to Power ' (Oxford=0AUniversity Press).=0A= =0A=0A=0A=0A=0A 'No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can c= hange the world'=0A(Dead Poets Society).=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A= =0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A= =0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0AOn 18/07/2016 13:59, "Joe Bradley" wrote:=0A=0A>I will pass this around Tony=0A>And p= lease add my signature to anything of relevance that supports your=0A>cas= e=0A>=0A>Dr Joseph M Bradley=0A>Senior Lecturer=0A>University of Stirling= =0A>Scotland=0A>=0A>=0A>-----Original Message-----=0A>From: The Irish Dia= spora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On=0A>Behalf Of Tony Murr= ay=0A>Sent: 18 July 2016 10:25=0A>To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK=0A>Subject: [IR= -D] Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham=0A>=0A>Dear friends= =20and colleagues,=0A>=0A>You may be aware that the MA Irish Studies prog= ramme and the Centre for=0A>Irish Studies at St. Mary's University in Twi= ckenham are currently under=0A>threat of closure.=0A>=0A>Find below my le= tter of support for colleagues at St. Mary's which will=0A>appear shortly= =20in the Irish Post. Also copied below are similar letters=0A>from Prof.= =20Roy Foster and from Prof. Mary Hickman & Prof. Shaun Richards.=0A>=0A>= Please circulate to raise awareness of this matter amongst the wider=0A>I= rish Studies community.=0A>=0A>Thank you.=0A>=0A>=0A>Regards,=0A>=0A>Tony= =0A>=0A>=0A>=0A>Dr. Tony Murray=0A>=0A>Director, Irish Studies Centre=0A>= =0A>Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities=0A>=0A>London Metropolitan = University=0A>=0A>Tower Building,=0A>=0A>Holloway Rd=0A>=0A>London N7 8DB= =0A>=0A>=0A>=0A>Tel: 020 7133 2593=0A>=0A>*http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/fac= ulties/faculty-of-social-sciences-and-human=0A>ities/people/surnames-k-to= -m/tony-murray/=0A>ities/people/surnames-k-to-m/tony-murray/>*=0A>=0A= >londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre=0A>=0A>=0A>=0A>=0A>=0A>=0A>15 July 20= 16=0A>=0A>=0A>=0A>=0A>=0A>I am writing to express my dismay at the stated= =20intention by the senior=0A>management at St. Mary=92s University to te= rminate both the Centre for=0A>Irish Studies and its degree programme in = the subject.=0A>=0A>=0A>=0A>The work of our colleagues at St. Mary=92s Un= iversity has long complemented=0A>our activities here in the Irish Studie= s Centre at London Metropolitan=0A>University. The proposed closure of th= e only remaining degree programme=0A>in Irish Studies in the south of Eng= land along with the distinguished=0A>research work of the CIS, especially= =20in recent years under the visionary=0A>directorship of Prof. Lance Pet= titt, is extremely concerning. It would be=0A>a severe blow to Prof. Pett= itt and his team, but it would also diminish=0A>all of us who have worked= =20to build and support the profile of Irish=0A>Studies over the last thi= rty to forty years.=0A>=0A>=0A>=0A>It is especially regrettable that a mo= ve like this seems possible now=0A>when people in Britain require the uni= que knowledge, expertise and=0A>perspective that Irish Studies can bring = to a rapidly changing European=0A>and global environment, not least in re= gard to the potential consequences=0A>of Brexit for Anglo-Irish relations= .=0A>=0A>=0A>=0A>The loss of Irish Studies at St. Mary=92s would be a dee= ply disturbing=0A>development and I sincerely hope that the university re= considers it=0A>position.=0A>=0A>=0A>=0A>Yours sincerely,=0A>=0A>=0A>=0A>= =0A>=0A>Dr. Tony Murray=0A>=0A>Director, Irish Studies Centre=0A>=0A>Lond= on Metropolitan University=0A>=0A>=0A>=0A>londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescen= tre=0A>=0A>=0A>=0A>=0A>=0A>=0A>=0A>21 June 2016=0A>=0A>I find it both sho= cking and stupefying that the management at St Mary=92s=0A>has apparently= =20decided to put an end to the long-lived and distinguished=0A>tradition= =20of Irish studies there, by suspending the successful MA in=0A>Irish St= udies and effectively withdrawing support from the Centre of=0A>Irish Stu= dies. The university has maintained a distinguished record in=0A>the fiel= d for decades, boosted in recent years by the appointment of=0A>Lance Pet= tit as Director, the longstanding input of Ivan Gibbons, and the=0A>imagi= native recruitment of pioneering scholars such as Professor Mary=0A>Hickm= an to professorial research fellowships. I have visited the Centre,=0A>le= ctured there, and attended stimulating and high-octane symposia=0A>organi= sed by its staff. It also has a distinguished record of producing=0A>stud= ents and winning grant-aided support, notably from the Irish=0A>Governmen= t, as well as encouraging research in new growth-areas such as=0A>film st= udies and diasporic patterns. With Oxford and Liverpool, St Mary=92s=0A>i= s one of the higher education institutions that has kept up a consistent=0A= >strength in Irish studies, a subject of great interest for students at=0A= >undergraduate and postgraduate level- especially those based in London.=0A= >The study of Irish society and culture, and the country=92s ancient and=0A= >complex relationship with Britain, has been increasingly relevant throug= h=0A>the past decades, and never more so than at the present moment. For = the=0A>university to wilfully cut off this area of strength and potential= =20seems=0A>extraordinarily counter-productive, at a time when demand is = high and=0A>other institutions of higher education (including my own) are= =20putting=0A>resources firmly into this subject as an intellectual growt= h area. It is=0A>also a cavalier and unjust way to treat distinguished an= d hardworking=0A>academics. They, and the subject, deserve better.=0A>=0A= >Yours sincerely=0A>=0A>=0A>R.F. Foster=0A>=0A>Carroll Professor of Irish= =20History=0A>=0A>Hertford College, Oxford=0A>=0A>=0A>=0A>=0A>=0A>The end= =20of the Centre for Irish Studies (CIS) at St Mary=92s?=0A>=0A>Following= =20a decision made by senior management the MA Irish Studies at St=0A>Mar= y=92s University will not be recruiting a new cohort of students for=0A>S= eptember 2016. The University has further decided not to include the=0A>C= entre for Irish Studies in its plans for strategic development for=0A>201= 6/17, deciding to back Bioethics (CBET), Human Slavery and the=0A>Benedic= t Centre for Religion and society amongst others. The contracts of=0A>the= =20four Research Fellows have all come to the end of their term this=0A>y= ear and they have been made redundant. The contract of the Director of=0A= >the Centre ends in July and it too will not be renewed. Ivan Gibbons is=0A= >retiring after seven years service at the end of August.=0A>=0A>CIS has = been in existence since 1991 when the BA Irish Studies degree=0A>began. T= he University has long had links with Ireland since its inception=0A>in 1= 850. While the current MA students will be =93taught out=94, London will=0A= >not have a university-backed centre for research and postgraduate=0A>tea= ching in Irish Studies for the first time in a generation, despite the=0A= >capital being home to the largest Irish community in Britain.=0A>=0A>It = is deeply ironic that this decision has been taken in 2016 after all=0A>t= he renewal of relations between Britain and Ireland so far this century,=0A= >including reciprocal Head of State visits. The cultural and social=0A>an= alysis and understanding that is provided by =91Irish Studies=92 is neede= d=0A>now more than ever as the relations between the UK and Ireland are=0A= >tested, and the political nature of these islands is being recast=0A>int= ernally and within Europe.=0A>=0A>The University decision has been taken = despite the CIS distinguishing=0A>itself in many ways in the past five ye= ars. For the record, it is the=0A>only such centre at St Mary=92s to have= =20been part of an AHRC research=0A>network grant (2015-17 Irish modernis= ms); CIS staff won British Academy=0A>grants (one grant being the largest= =20single amount in the School of Arts=0A>and Humanities in 2014-16, on t= he Irish diaspora ); as a small, new unit=0A>of assessment=0A>(U36) in th= e 2014 REF submission it achieved highly and out performed=0A>other more = established units in areas of its submission (60% 4* and 3*=0A>weighted o= verall); MA graduates have gone on to PhD study and we had two=0A>PhD com= pletions and two current part time students have recently=0A>successfully= =20completed MPhil/PhD transfers within the past 6months; a=0A>succession= =20of Culture Ireland grants, delivered a vibrant programme of=0A>pubic e= ngagement and impact projects that took Irish Studies to Luton and=0A>Lee= ds, and from Brazil and to the Bronx; it ran and developed an=0A>increasi= ngly popular set of community language programmes (with 38=0A>students in= =202015/16), funded by the Irish Government, recognized annually=0A>at th= e Embassy and most recently (May 2016) CIS successfully applied for=0A>3 = year, funded programme from the Irish government=92s An Roinn Arts,=0A>Cu= lture and Gaeltacht to develop the Irish language worth =80104,000.=0A>=0A= >CIS worked in partnership with the Irish Cultural Centre (ICC) in=0A>Ham= mersmith, the APPG in Parliament on an annual lecture series, with the=0A= >Irish Literary Society likewise and undertook research and publications=0A= >with the Irish Film Institute in Dublin and the theatre company Cia=0A>L= udens/University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Other colleagues gave invited=0A= >lectures in India in November 2015. In September 2015, CIS hosted the=0A= >British Association of Irish Studies annual conference, in January 2016=0A= >it worked with the ICC to host a conference on Trauma and the Troubles,=0A= >and in=0A>=0A>January the University also had the vision to appoint Prof= =20McAleese as a=0A>Visiting Professorship with significant Irish input, = teaching and public=0A>engagement.=0A>=0A>All this is now being jettisone= d.=0A>=0A>Prof. Mary J. Hickman=0A>Prof. Shaun Richards=0A>Former Profess= orial Research Fellows St Mary=92s University, Twickenham=0A>=0A>4 July 2= 016=0A>=0A>--=0A>London Metropolitan University is a limited company regi= stered in England=0A>and Wales with registered number 974438 and VAT regi= stered number GB 447=0A>2190 51. Our registered office is at 166-220 Holl= oway Road, London N7=0A>8DB.=0A>London Metropolitan University is an exem= pt charity under the Charities=0A>Act 2011. 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Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 14:14:12 +0000
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From: "Miller, Kerby A." Subject: Re: Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: {decoded}Dear Tony, As others have also requested, feel free to add my name to any letter or petition on behalf of the Centre for Irish Studies at St. Marys University. Or, if you inform me to whom I should write, I will send a letter directly. Thanks, Kerby Miller Curators Professor Emeritus of History University of Missouri On 7/18/16, 4:24 AM, "The Irish Diaspora Studies List on behalf of Tony Murray" wrote: >Dear friends and colleagues, > >You may be aware that the MA Irish Studies programme and the Centre for >Irish Studies at St. Mary's University in Twickenham are currently under >threat of closure. > >Find below my letter of support for colleagues at St. Mary's which will >appear shortly in the Irish Post. Also copied below are similar letters >from Prof. Roy Foster and from Prof. Mary Hickman & Prof. Shaun Richards. > >Please circulate to raise awareness of this matter amongst the wider Irish >Studies community. > >Thank you. > > >Regards, > >Tony > > > >Dr. Tony Murray > >Director, Irish Studies Centre > >Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities > >London Metropolitan University > >Tower Building, > >Holloway Rd > >London N7 8DB > > > >Tel: 020 7133 2593 > >*http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/faculties/faculty-of-social-sciences-and-humanities/people/surnames-k-to-m/tony-murray/ >* > >londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre > > > > > > >15 July 2016 > > > > > >I am writing to express my dismay at the stated intention by the senior >management at St. Marys University to terminate both the Centre for Irish >Studies and its degree programme in the subject. > > > >The work of our colleagues at St. Marys University has long complemented >our activities here in the Irish Studies Centre at London Metropolitan >University. The proposed closure of the only remaining degree programme in >Irish Studies in the south of England along with the distinguished research >work of the CIS, especially in recent years under the visionary >directorship of Prof. Lance Pettitt, is extremely concerning. It would be a >severe blow to Prof. Pettitt and his team, but it would also diminish all >of us who have worked to build and support the profile of Irish Studies >over the last thirty to forty years. > > > >It is especially regrettable that a move like this seems possible now when >people in Britain require the unique knowledge, expertise and perspective >that Irish Studies can bring to a rapidly changing European and global >environment, not least in regard to the potential consequences of Brexit >for Anglo-Irish relations. > > > >The loss of Irish Studies at St. Marys would be a deeply disturbing >development and I sincerely hope that the university reconsiders it >position. > > > >Yours sincerely, > > > > > >Dr. Tony Murray > >Director, Irish Studies Centre > >London Metropolitan University > > > >londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre > > > > > > > >21 June 2016 > >I find it both shocking and stupefying that the management at St Marys has >apparently decided to put an end to the long-lived and distinguished >tradition of Irish studies there, by suspending the successful MA in Irish >Studies and effectively withdrawing support from the Centre of Irish >Studies. The university has maintained a distinguished record in the field >for decades, boosted in recent years by the appointment of Lance Pettit as >Director, the longstanding input of Ivan Gibbons, and the imaginative >recruitment of pioneering scholars such as Professor Mary Hickman to >professorial research fellowships. I have visited the Centre, lectured >there, and attended stimulating and high-octane symposia organised by its >staff. It also has a distinguished record of producing students and winning >grant-aided support, notably from the Irish Government, as well as >encouraging research in new growth-areas such as film studies and diasporic >patterns. With Oxford and Liverpool, St Marys is one of the higher >education institutions that has kept up a consistent strength in Irish >studies, a subject of great interest for students at undergraduate and >postgraduate level- especially those based in London. The study of Irish >society and culture, and the countrys ancient and complex relationship >with Britain, has been increasingly relevant through the past decades, and >never more so than at the present moment. For the university to wilfully >cut off this area of strength and potential seems extraordinarily >counter-productive, at a time when demand is high and other institutions of >higher education (including my own) are putting resources firmly into this >subject as an intellectual growth area. It is also a cavalier and unjust >way to treat distinguished and hardworking academics. They, and the >subject, deserve better. > >Yours sincerely > > >R.F. Foster > >Carroll Professor of Irish History > >Hertford College, Oxford > > > > > >The end of the Centre for Irish Studies (CIS) at St Marys? > >Following a decision made by senior management the MA Irish Studies at St >Marys University will not be recruiting a new cohort of students for >September 2016. The University has further decided not to include the >Centre for Irish Studies in its plans for strategic development for >2016/17, deciding to back Bioethics (CBET), Human Slavery and the Benedict >Centre for Religion and society amongst others. The contracts of the four >Research Fellows have all come to the end of their term this year and they >have been made redundant. The contract of the Director of the Centre ends >in July and it too will not be renewed. Ivan Gibbons is retiring after >seven years service at the end of August. > >CIS has been in existence since 1991 when the BA Irish Studies degree >began. The University has long had links with Ireland since its inception >in 1850. While the current MA students will be taught out, London will >not have a university-backed centre for research and postgraduate teaching >in Irish Studies for the first time in a generation, despite the capital >being home to the largest Irish community in Britain. > >It is deeply ironic that this decision has been taken in 2016 after all the >renewal of relations between Britain and Ireland so far this century, >including reciprocal Head of State visits. The cultural and social analysis >and understanding that is provided by Irish Studies is needed now more >than ever as the relations between the UK and Ireland are tested, and the >political nature of these islands is being recast internally and within >Europe. > >The University decision has been taken despite the CIS distinguishing >itself in many ways in the past five years. For the record, it is the only >such centre at St Marys to have been part of an AHRC research network >grant (2015-17 Irish modernisms); CIS staff won British Academy grants (one >grant being the largest single amount in the School of Arts and Humanities >in 2014-16, on the Irish diaspora ); as a small, new unit of assessment >(U36) in the 2014 REF submission it achieved highly and out performed other >more established units in areas of its submission (60% 4* and 3* weighted >overall); MA graduates have gone on to PhD study and we had two PhD >completions and two current part time students have recently successfully >completed MPhil/PhD transfers within the past 6months; a succession of >Culture Ireland grants, delivered a vibrant programme of pubic engagement >and impact projects that took Irish Studies to Luton and Leeds, and from >Brazil and to the Bronx; it ran and developed an increasingly popular set >of community language programmes (with 38 students in 2015/16), funded by >the Irish Government, recognized annually at the Embassy and most recently >(May 2016) CIS successfully applied for 3 year, funded programme from the >Irish governments An Roinn Arts, Culture and Gaeltacht to develop the >Irish language worth ¬104,000. > >CIS worked in partnership with the Irish Cultural Centre (ICC) in >Hammersmith, the APPG in Parliament on an annual lecture series, with the >Irish Literary Society likewise and undertook research and publications >with the Irish Film Institute in Dublin and the theatre company Cia >Ludens/University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Other colleagues gave invited >lectures in India in November 2015. In September 2015, CIS hosted the >British Association of Irish Studies annual conference, in January 2016 it >worked with the ICC to host a conference on Trauma and the Troubles, and in > >January the University also had the vision to appoint Prof McAleese as a >Visiting Professorship with significant Irish input, teaching and public >engagement. > >All this is now being jettisoned. > >Prof. Mary J. Hickman >Prof. Shaun Richards >Former Professorial Research Fellows St Marys University, Twickenham > >4 July 2016 > >-- >London Metropolitan University is a limited company registered in England >and Wales with registered number 974438 and VAT registered number GB 447 >2190 51. Our registered office is at 166-220 Holloway Road, London N7 8DB. >London Metropolitan University is an exempt charity under the Charities Act >2011. Its registration number with HMRC is X6880. | |
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13291 | 18 July 2016 15:28 |
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 14:28:06 -0300
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Re: Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham | |
Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: LAURA IZARRA Subject: Re: Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: Dear friends, please add my name to the letters as well=20 Many thanks!=20 Laura Izarra=20 University of S=C3=A3o Paulo, Brazil=20 ----- Mensagem original ----- > De: "Michael Cannady" > Para: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Enviadas: Segunda-feira, 18 de Julho de 2016 13:40:51 > Assunto: Re: [IR-D] Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham > Please add my name to any letters or petitions as well. > Thanks, > Mike > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 18, 2016, at 12:01 PM, Sean Farrell > > wrote: > > > > Please add my name as well. Thanks and all best, > > > > Sean > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] > > On Behalf Of David A. Wilson > > Sent: Monday, July 18, 2016 10:29 AM > > To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK > > Subject: Re: [IR-D] Irish Studies at St. Mary's University > > Twickenham > > > > Please add my name to any letter or petition. Best, David > > > > > >> On 2016-07-18 5:24 AM, Tony Murray wrote: > >> Dear friends and colleagues, > >> > >> You may be aware that the MA Irish Studies programme and the > >> Centre > >> for Irish Studies at St. Mary's University in Twickenham are > >> currently > >> under threat of closure. > >> > >> Find below my letter of support for colleagues at St. Mary's which > >> will appear shortly in the Irish Post. Also copied below are > >> similar > >> letters from Prof. Roy Foster and from Prof. Mary Hickman & Prof. > >> Shaun Richards. > >> > >> Please circulate to raise awareness of this matter amongst the > >> wider > >> Irish Studies community. > >> > >> Thank you. > >> > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> Tony > >> > >> > >> > >> Dr. Tony Murray > >> > >> Director, Irish Studies Centre > >> > >> Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities > >> > >> London Metropolitan University > >> > >> Tower Building, > >> > >> Holloway Rd > >> > >> London N7 8DB > >> > >> > >> > >> Tel: 020 7133 2593 > >> > >> *http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/faculties/faculty-of-social-sciences-and-h > >> umanities/people/surnames-k-to-m/tony-murray/ > >> >> umanities/people/surnames-k-to-m/tony-murray/>* > >> > >> londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> 15 July 2016 > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> I am writing to express my dismay at the stated intention by the > >> senior management at St. Mary=E2=80=99s University to terminate both t= he > >> Centre for Irish Studies and its degree programme in the subject. > >> > >> > >> > >> The work of our colleagues at St. Mary=E2=80=99s University has long > >> complemented our activities here in the Irish Studies Centre at > >> London > >> Metropolitan University. The proposed closure of the only > >> remaining > >> degree programme in Irish Studies in the south of England along > >> with > >> the distinguished research work of the CIS, especially in recent > >> years > >> under the visionary directorship of Prof. Lance Pettitt, is > >> extremely > >> concerning. It would be a severe blow to Prof. Pettitt and his > >> team, > >> but it would also diminish all of us who have worked to build and > >> support the profile of Irish Studies over the last thirty to forty > >> years. > >> > >> > >> > >> It is especially regrettable that a move like this seems possible > >> now > >> when people in Britain require the unique knowledge, expertise and > >> perspective that Irish Studies can bring to a rapidly changing > >> European and global environment, not least in regard to the > >> potential > >> consequences of Brexit for Anglo-Irish relations. > >> > >> > >> > >> The loss of Irish Studies at St. Mary=E2=80=99s would be a deeply > >> disturbing > >> development and I sincerely hope that the university reconsiders > >> it > >> position. > >> > >> > >> > >> Yours sincerely, > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> Dr. Tony Murray > >> > >> Director, Irish Studies Centre > >> > >> London Metropolitan University > >> > >> > >> > >> londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> 21 June 2016 > >> > >> I find it both shocking and stupefying that the management at St > >> Mary=E2=80=99s has apparently decided to put an end to the long-lived = and > >> distinguished tradition of Irish studies there, by suspending the > >> successful MA in Irish Studies and effectively withdrawing support > >> from the Centre of Irish Studies. The university has maintained a > >> distinguished record in the field for decades, boosted in recent > >> years > >> by the appointment of Lance Pettit as Director, the longstanding > >> input > >> of Ivan Gibbons, and the imaginative recruitment of pioneering > >> scholars such as Professor Mary Hickman to professorial research > >> fellowships. I have visited the Centre, lectured there, and > >> attended > >> stimulating and high-octane symposia organised by its staff. It > >> also > >> has a distinguished record of producing students and winning > >> grant-aided support, notably from the Irish Government, as well as > >> encouraging research in new growth-areas such as film studies and > >> diasporic patterns. With Oxford and Liverpool, St Mary=E2=80=99s is on= e of > >> the > >> higher education institutions that has kept up a consistent > >> strength > >> in Irish studies, a subject of great interest for students at > >> undergraduate and postgraduate level- especially those based in > >> London. The study of Irish society and culture, and the country=E2=80= =99s > >> ancient and complex relationship with Britain, has been > >> increasingly > >> relevant through the past decades, and never more so than at the > >> present moment. For the university to wilfully cut off this area > >> of > >> strength and potential seems extraordinarily counter-productive, > >> at a > >> time when demand is high and other institutions of higher > >> education > >> (including my own) are putting resources firmly into this subject > >> as > >> an intellectual growth area. It is also a cavalier and unjust way > >> to treat distinguished and hardworking academics. They, and the > >> subject, deserve better. > >> > >> Yours sincerely > >> > >> > >> R.F. Foster > >> > >> Carroll Professor of Irish History > >> > >> Hertford College, Oxford > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> The end of the Centre for Irish Studies (CIS) at St Mary=E2=80=99s? > >> > >> Following a decision made by senior management the MA Irish > >> Studies at > >> St Mary=E2=80=99s University will not be recruiting a new cohort of > >> students > >> for September 2016. The University has further decided not to > >> include > >> the Centre for Irish Studies in its plans for strategic > >> development > >> for 2016/17, deciding to back Bioethics (CBET), Human Slavery and > >> the > >> Benedict Centre for Religion and society amongst others. The > >> contracts > >> of the four Research Fellows have all come to the end of their > >> term > >> this year and they have been made redundant. The contract of the > >> Director of the Centre ends in July and it too will not be > >> renewed. > >> Ivan Gibbons is retiring after seven years service at the end of > >> August. > >> > >> CIS has been in existence since 1991 when the BA Irish Studies > >> degree > >> began. The University has long had links with Ireland since its > >> inception in 1850. While the current MA students will be =E2=80=9Ctaug= ht > >> out=E2=80=9D, > >> London will not have a university-backed centre for research and > >> postgraduate teaching in Irish Studies for the first time in a > >> generation, despite the capital being home to the largest Irish > >> community in Britain. > >> > >> It is deeply ironic that this decision has been taken in 2016 > >> after > >> all the renewal of relations between Britain and Ireland so far > >> this > >> century, including reciprocal Head of State visits. The cultural > >> and > >> social analysis and understanding that is provided by =E2=80=98Irish > >> Studies=E2=80=99 > >> is needed now more than ever as the relations between the UK and > >> Ireland are tested, and the political nature of these islands is > >> being > >> recast internally and within Europe. > >> > >> The University decision has been taken despite the CIS > >> distinguishing > >> itself in many ways in the past five years. For the record, it is > >> the > >> only such centre at St Mary=E2=80=99s to have been part of an AHRC > >> research > >> network grant (2015-17 Irish modernisms); CIS staff won British > >> Academy grants (one grant being the largest single amount in the > >> School of Arts and Humanities in 2014-16, on the Irish diaspora ); > >> as > >> a small, new unit of assessment > >> (U36) in the 2014 REF submission it achieved highly and out > >> performed > >> other more established units in areas of its submission (60% 4* > >> and 3* > >> weighted overall); MA graduates have gone on to PhD study and we > >> had > >> two PhD completions and two current part time students have > >> recently > >> successfully completed MPhil/PhD transfers within the past > >> 6months; a > >> succession of Culture Ireland grants, delivered a vibrant > >> programme of > >> pubic engagement and impact projects that took Irish Studies to > >> Luton > >> and Leeds, and from Brazil and to the Bronx; it ran and developed > >> an > >> increasingly popular set of community language programmes (with 38 > >> students in 2015/16), funded by the Irish Government, recognized > >> annually at the Embassy and most recently (May 2016) CIS > >> successfully > >> applied for 3 year, funded programme from the Irish government=E2=80= =99s > >> An > >> Roinn Arts, Culture and Gaeltacht to develop the Irish language > >> worth =E2=82=AC104,000. > >> > >> CIS worked in partnership with the Irish Cultural Centre (ICC) in > >> Hammersmith, the APPG in Parliament on an annual lecture series, > >> with > >> the Irish Literary Society likewise and undertook research and > >> publications with the Irish Film Institute in Dublin and the > >> theatre > >> company Cia Ludens/University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Other > >> colleagues > >> gave invited lectures in India in November 2015. In September > >> 2015, > >> CIS hosted the British Association of Irish Studies annual > >> conference, > >> in January 2016 it worked with the ICC to host a conference on > >> Trauma > >> and the Troubles, and in > >> > >> January the University also had the vision to appoint Prof > >> McAleese as > >> a Visiting Professorship with significant Irish input, teaching > >> and > >> public engagement. > >> > >> All this is now being jettisoned. > >> > >> Prof. Mary J. Hickman > >> Prof. Shaun Richards > >> Former Professorial Research Fellows St Mary=E2=80=99s University, > >> Twickenham > >> > >> 4 July 2016 > > > > -- > > David A. Wilson, F.R.Hist.S., FRSC > > General Editor > > Dictionary of Canadian Biography > > 130 St George St 14th floor > > University of Toronto > > M5S 3H1 | |
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From: "Belchem, John" Subject: Re: Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: And add my name too. John Belchem=20 Professor John Belchem Emeritus Professor of History University of Liverpool Email: j.c.belchem[at]liv.ac.uk Chair, Society for the Study of Labour History Out now, Before the Windrush: Race relations in 20th century Liverpool ________________________________________ From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] on behalf of Wi= lliam Jenkins [wjenkins[at]YORKU.CA] Sent: 18 July 2016 15:33 To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [IR-D] Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham Dear Tony I=92d like to echo what others have written, in terms of adding my name to = a letter/petition on behalf of the Centre, or sending a letter directly. All the best, William ------------------------- Dr. William Jenkins Associate Professor, Geography Member, Graduate Programs in Geography and History York University 4700 Keele St. Toronto, Ontario Canada M3J 1P3 [at]WmMJenkins Latest book: Between Raid and Rebellion: the Irish in Buffalo and Toronto 1= 867-1916 http://www.mqup.ca/between-raid-and-rebellion-products-9780773540958.php > On Jul 18, 2016, at 10:14 AM, Miller, Kerby A. wro= te: > > Dear Tony, > > As others have also requested, feel free to add my name to any letter or = petition on behalf of the Centre for Irish Studies at St. Mary=92s Universi= ty. Or, if you inform me to whom I should write, I will send a letter dire= ctly. > > Thanks, > > Kerby Miller > Curators=92 Professor Emeritus of History > University of Missouri > > On 7/18/16, 4:24 AM, "The Irish Diaspora Studies List on behalf of Tony M= urray" wrote: > >> Dear friends and colleagues, >> >> You may be aware that the MA Irish Studies programme and the Centre for >> Irish Studies at St. Mary's University in Twickenham are currently under >> threat of closure. >> >> Find below my letter of support for colleagues at St. Mary's which will >> appear shortly in the Irish Post. Also copied below are similar letters >> from Prof. Roy Foster and from Prof. Mary Hickman & Prof. Shaun Richards= . >> >> Please circulate to raise awareness of this matter amongst the wider Iri= sh >> Studies community. >> >> Thank you. >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Tony >> >> >> >> Dr. Tony Murray >> >> Director, Irish Studies Centre >> >> Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities >> >> London Metropolitan University >> >> Tower Building, >> >> Holloway Rd >> >> London N7 8DB >> >> >> >> Tel: 020 7133 2593 >> >> *http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/faculties/faculty-of-social-sciences-and-hum= anities/people/surnames-k-to-m/tony-murray/ >> * >> >> londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre >> >> >> >> >> >> >> 15 July 2016 >> >> >> >> >> >> I am writing to express my dismay at the stated intention by the senior >> management at St. Mary=92s University to terminate both the Centre for I= rish >> Studies and its degree programme in the subject. >> >> >> >> The work of our colleagues at St. Mary=92s University has long complemen= ted >> our activities here in the Irish Studies Centre at London Metropolitan >> University. The proposed closure of the only remaining degree programme = in >> Irish Studies in the south of England along with the distinguished resea= rch >> work of the CIS, especially in recent years under the visionary >> directorship of Prof. Lance Pettitt, is extremely concerning. It would b= e a >> severe blow to Prof. Pettitt and his team, but it would also diminish al= l >> of us who have worked to build and support the profile of Irish Studies >> over the last thirty to forty years. >> >> >> >> It is especially regrettable that a move like this seems possible now wh= en >> people in Britain require the unique knowledge, expertise and perspectiv= e >> that Irish Studies can bring to a rapidly changing European and global >> environment, not least in regard to the potential consequences of Brexit >> for Anglo-Irish relations. >> >> >> >> The loss of Irish Studies at St. Mary=92s would be a deeply disturbing >> development and I sincerely hope that the university reconsiders it >> position. >> >> >> >> Yours sincerely, >> >> >> >> >> >> Dr. Tony Murray >> >> Director, Irish Studies Centre >> >> London Metropolitan University >> >> >> >> londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> 21 June 2016 >> >> I find it both shocking and stupefying that the management at St Mary=92= s has >> apparently decided to put an end to the long-lived and distinguished >> tradition of Irish studies there, by suspending the successful MA in Iri= sh >> Studies and effectively withdrawing support from the Centre of Irish >> Studies. The university has maintained a distinguished record in the fie= ld >> for decades, boosted in recent years by the appointment of Lance Pettit = as >> Director, the longstanding input of Ivan Gibbons, and the imaginative >> recruitment of pioneering scholars such as Professor Mary Hickman to >> professorial research fellowships. I have visited the Centre, lectured >> there, and attended stimulating and high-octane symposia organised by it= s >> staff. It also has a distinguished record of producing students and winn= ing >> grant-aided support, notably from the Irish Government, as well as >> encouraging research in new growth-areas such as film studies and diaspo= ric >> patterns. With Oxford and Liverpool, St Mary=92s is one of the higher >> education institutions that has kept up a consistent strength in Irish >> studies, a subject of great interest for students at undergraduate and >> postgraduate level- especially those based in London. The study of Irish >> society and culture, and the country=92s ancient and complex relationshi= p >> with Britain, has been increasingly relevant through the past decades, a= nd >> never more so than at the present moment. For the university to wilfully >> cut off this area of strength and potential seems extraordinarily >> counter-productive, at a time when demand is high and other institutions= of >> higher education (including my own) are putting resources firmly into th= is >> subject as an intellectual growth area. It is also a cavalier and unjust >> way to treat distinguished and hardworking academics. They, and the >> subject, deserve better. >> >> Yours sincerely >> >> >> R.F. Foster >> >> Carroll Professor of Irish History >> >> Hertford College, Oxford >> >> >> >> >> >> The end of the Centre for Irish Studies (CIS) at St Mary=92s? >> >> Following a decision made by senior management the MA Irish Studies at S= t >> Mary=92s University will not be recruiting a new cohort of students for >> September 2016. The University has further decided not to include the >> Centre for Irish Studies in its plans for strategic development for >> 2016/17, deciding to back Bioethics (CBET), Human Slavery and the Benedi= ct >> Centre for Religion and society amongst others. The contracts of the fou= r >> Research Fellows have all come to the end of their term this year and th= ey >> have been made redundant. The contract of the Director of the Centre end= s >> in July and it too will not be renewed. Ivan Gibbons is retiring after >> seven years service at the end of August. >> >> CIS has been in existence since 1991 when the BA Irish Studies degree >> began. The University has long had links with Ireland since its inceptio= n >> in 1850. While the current MA students will be =93taught out=94, London = will >> not have a university-backed centre for research and postgraduate teachi= ng >> in Irish Studies for the first time in a generation, despite the capital >> being home to the largest Irish community in Britain. >> >> It is deeply ironic that this decision has been taken in 2016 after all = the >> renewal of relations between Britain and Ireland so far this century, >> including reciprocal Head of State visits. The cultural and social analy= sis >> and understanding that is provided by =91Irish Studies=92 is needed now = more >> than ever as the relations between the UK and Ireland are tested, and th= e >> political nature of these islands is being recast internally and within >> Europe. >> >> The University decision has been taken despite the CIS distinguishing >> itself in many ways in the past five years. For the record, it is the on= ly >> such centre at St Mary=92s to have been part of an AHRC research network >> grant (2015-17 Irish modernisms); CIS staff won British Academy grants (= one >> grant being the largest single amount in the School of Arts and Humaniti= es >> in 2014-16, on the Irish diaspora ); as a small, new unit of assessment >> (U36) in the 2014 REF submission it achieved highly and out performed ot= her >> more established units in areas of its submission (60% 4* and 3* weighte= d >> overall); MA graduates have gone on to PhD study and we had two PhD >> completions and two current part time students have recently successfull= y >> completed MPhil/PhD transfers within the past 6months; a succession of >> Culture Ireland grants, delivered a vibrant programme of pubic engagemen= t >> and impact projects that took Irish Studies to Luton and Leeds, and from >> Brazil and to the Bronx; it ran and developed an increasingly popular se= t >> of community language programmes (with 38 students in 2015/16), funded b= y >> the Irish Government, recognized annually at the Embassy and most recent= ly >> (May 2016) CIS successfully applied for 3 year, funded programme from th= e >> Irish government=92s An Roinn Arts, Culture and Gaeltacht to develop the >> Irish language worth =80104,000. >> >> CIS worked in partnership with the Irish Cultural Centre (ICC) in >> Hammersmith, the APPG in Parliament on an annual lecture series, with th= e >> Irish Literary Society likewise and undertook research and publications >> with the Irish Film Institute in Dublin and the theatre company Cia >> Ludens/University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Other colleagues gave invited >> lectures in India in November 2015. In September 2015, CIS hosted the >> British Association of Irish Studies annual conference, in January 2016 = it >> worked with the ICC to host a conference on Trauma and the Troubles, and= in >> >> January the University also had the vision to appoint Prof McAleese as a >> Visiting Professorship with significant Irish input, teaching and public >> engagement. >> >> All this is now being jettisoned. >> >> Prof. Mary J. Hickman >> Prof. Shaun Richards >> Former Professorial Research Fellows St Mary=92s University, Twickenham >> >> 4 July 2016 >> >> -- >> London Metropolitan University is a limited company registered in Englan= d >> and Wales with registered number 974438 and VAT registered number GB 447 >> 2190 51. Our registered office is at 166-220 Holloway Road, London N7 8D= B. >> London Metropolitan University is an exempt charity under the Charities = Act >> 2011. Its registration number with HMRC is X6880. > >= | |
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From: Mark McGowan Subject: Re: Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: {decoded}You may also add my name to the list. Mark -----Original Message----- From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Belchem, John Sent: Monday, July 18, 2016 10:38 AM To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [IR-D] Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham And add my name too. John Belchem Professor John Belchem Emeritus Professor of History University of Liverpool Email: j.c.belchem[at]liv.ac.uk Chair, Society for the Study of Labour History Out now, Before the Windrush: Race relations in 20th century Liverpool ________________________________________ From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] on behalf of William Jenkins [wjenkins[at]YORKU.CA] Sent: 18 July 2016 15:33 To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [IR-D] Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham Dear Tony Id like to echo what others have written, in terms of adding my name to a letter/petition on behalf of the Centre, or sending a letter directly. All the best, William ------------------------- Dr. William Jenkins Associate Professor, Geography Member, Graduate Programs in Geography and History York University 4700 Keele St. Toronto, Ontario Canada M3J 1P3 [at]WmMJenkins Latest book: Between Raid and Rebellion: the Irish in Buffalo and Toronto 1867-1916 http://www.mqup.ca/between-raid-and-rebellion-products-9780773540958.php > On Jul 18, 2016, at 10:14 AM, Miller, Kerby A. wrote: > > Dear Tony, > > As others have also requested, feel free to add my name to any letter or petition on behalf of the Centre for Irish Studies at St. Marys University. Or, if you inform me to whom I should write, I will send a letter directly. > > Thanks, > > Kerby Miller > Curators Professor Emeritus of History University of Missouri > > On 7/18/16, 4:24 AM, "The Irish Diaspora Studies List on behalf of Tony Murray" wrote: > >> Dear friends and colleagues, >> >> You may be aware that the MA Irish Studies programme and the Centre >> for Irish Studies at St. Mary's University in Twickenham are >> currently under threat of closure. >> >> Find below my letter of support for colleagues at St. Mary's which >> will appear shortly in the Irish Post. Also copied below are similar >> letters from Prof. Roy Foster and from Prof. Mary Hickman & Prof. Shaun Richards. >> >> Please circulate to raise awareness of this matter amongst the wider >> Irish Studies community. >> >> Thank you. >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Tony >> >> >> >> Dr. Tony Murray >> >> Director, Irish Studies Centre >> >> Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities >> >> London Metropolitan University >> >> Tower Building, >> >> Holloway Rd >> >> London N7 8DB >> >> >> >> Tel: 020 7133 2593 >> >> *http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/faculties/faculty-of-social-sciences-and- >> humanities/people/surnames-k-to-m/tony-murray/ >> > humanities/people/surnames-k-to-m/tony-murray/>* >> >> londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre >> >> >> >> >> >> >> 15 July 2016 >> >> >> >> >> >> I am writing to express my dismay at the stated intention by the >> senior management at St. Marys University to terminate both the >> Centre for Irish Studies and its degree programme in the subject. >> >> >> >> The work of our colleagues at St. Marys University has long >> complemented our activities here in the Irish Studies Centre at >> London Metropolitan University. The proposed closure of the only >> remaining degree programme in Irish Studies in the south of England >> along with the distinguished research work of the CIS, especially in >> recent years under the visionary directorship of Prof. Lance Pettitt, >> is extremely concerning. It would be a severe blow to Prof. Pettitt >> and his team, but it would also diminish all of us who have worked to >> build and support the profile of Irish Studies over the last thirty to forty years. >> >> >> >> It is especially regrettable that a move like this seems possible now >> when people in Britain require the unique knowledge, expertise and >> perspective that Irish Studies can bring to a rapidly changing >> European and global environment, not least in regard to the potential >> consequences of Brexit for Anglo-Irish relations. >> >> >> >> The loss of Irish Studies at St. Marys would be a deeply disturbing >> development and I sincerely hope that the university reconsiders it >> position. >> >> >> >> Yours sincerely, >> >> >> >> >> >> Dr. Tony Murray >> >> Director, Irish Studies Centre >> >> London Metropolitan University >> >> >> >> londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> 21 June 2016 >> >> I find it both shocking and stupefying that the management at St >> Marys has apparently decided to put an end to the long-lived and >> distinguished tradition of Irish studies there, by suspending the >> successful MA in Irish Studies and effectively withdrawing support >> from the Centre of Irish Studies. The university has maintained a >> distinguished record in the field for decades, boosted in recent >> years by the appointment of Lance Pettit as Director, the >> longstanding input of Ivan Gibbons, and the imaginative recruitment >> of pioneering scholars such as Professor Mary Hickman to professorial >> research fellowships. I have visited the Centre, lectured there, and >> attended stimulating and high-octane symposia organised by its staff. >> It also has a distinguished record of producing students and winning >> grant-aided support, notably from the Irish Government, as well as >> encouraging research in new growth-areas such as film studies and >> diasporic patterns. With Oxford and Liverpool, St Marys is one of >> the higher education institutions that has kept up a consistent >> strength in Irish studies, a subject of great interest for students >> at undergraduate and postgraduate level- especially those based in >> London. The study of Irish society and culture, and the countrys >> ancient and complex relationship with Britain, has been increasingly >> relevant through the past decades, and never more so than at the >> present moment. For the university to wilfully cut off this area of >> strength and potential seems extraordinarily counter-productive, at a >> time when demand is high and other institutions of higher education >> (including my own) are putting resources firmly into this subject as >> an intellectual growth area. It is also a cavalier and unjust way to treat distinguished and hardworking academics. They, and the subject, deserve better. >> >> Yours sincerely >> >> >> R.F. Foster >> >> Carroll Professor of Irish History >> >> Hertford College, Oxford >> >> >> >> >> >> The end of the Centre for Irish Studies (CIS) at St Marys? >> >> Following a decision made by senior management the MA Irish Studies >> at St Marys University will not be recruiting a new cohort of >> students for September 2016. The University has further decided not >> to include the Centre for Irish Studies in its plans for strategic >> development for 2016/17, deciding to back Bioethics (CBET), Human >> Slavery and the Benedict Centre for Religion and society amongst >> others. The contracts of the four Research Fellows have all come to >> the end of their term this year and they have been made redundant. >> The contract of the Director of the Centre ends in July and it too >> will not be renewed. Ivan Gibbons is retiring after seven years service at the end of August. >> >> CIS has been in existence since 1991 when the BA Irish Studies degree >> began. The University has long had links with Ireland since its >> inception in 1850. While the current MA students will be taught >> out, London will not have a university-backed centre for research >> and postgraduate teaching in Irish Studies for the first time in a >> generation, despite the capital being home to the largest Irish community in Britain. >> >> It is deeply ironic that this decision has been taken in 2016 after >> all the renewal of relations between Britain and Ireland so far this >> century, including reciprocal Head of State visits. The cultural and >> social analysis and understanding that is provided by Irish Studies >> is needed now more than ever as the relations between the UK and >> Ireland are tested, and the political nature of these islands is >> being recast internally and within Europe. >> >> The University decision has been taken despite the CIS distinguishing >> itself in many ways in the past five years. For the record, it is the >> only such centre at St Marys to have been part of an AHRC research >> network grant (2015-17 Irish modernisms); CIS staff won British >> Academy grants (one grant being the largest single amount in the >> School of Arts and Humanities in 2014-16, on the Irish diaspora ); as >> a small, new unit of assessment >> (U36) in the 2014 REF submission it achieved highly and out performed >> other more established units in areas of its submission (60% 4* and >> 3* weighted overall); MA graduates have gone on to PhD study and we >> had two PhD completions and two current part time students have >> recently successfully completed MPhil/PhD transfers within the past >> 6months; a succession of Culture Ireland grants, delivered a vibrant >> programme of pubic engagement and impact projects that took Irish >> Studies to Luton and Leeds, and from Brazil and to the Bronx; it ran >> and developed an increasingly popular set of community language >> programmes (with 38 students in 2015/16), funded by the Irish >> Government, recognized annually at the Embassy and most recently (May >> 2016) CIS successfully applied for 3 year, funded programme from the >> Irish governments An Roinn Arts, Culture and Gaeltacht to develop the Irish language worth ¬104,000. >> >> CIS worked in partnership with the Irish Cultural Centre (ICC) in >> Hammersmith, the APPG in Parliament on an annual lecture series, with >> the Irish Literary Society likewise and undertook research and >> publications with the Irish Film Institute in Dublin and the theatre >> company Cia Ludens/University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Other >> colleagues gave invited lectures in India in November 2015. In >> September 2015, CIS hosted the British Association of Irish Studies >> annual conference, in January 2016 it worked with the ICC to host a >> conference on Trauma and the Troubles, and in >> >> January the University also had the vision to appoint Prof McAleese >> as a Visiting Professorship with significant Irish input, teaching >> and public engagement. >> >> All this is now being jettisoned. >> >> Prof. Mary J. Hickman >> Prof. Shaun Richards >> Former Professorial Research Fellows St Marys University, Twickenham >> >> 4 July 2016 >> >> -- >> London Metropolitan University is a limited company registered in >> England and Wales with registered number 974438 and VAT registered >> number GB 447 >> 2190 51. Our registered office is at 166-220 Holloway Road, London N7 8DB. >> London Metropolitan University is an exempt charity under the >> Charities Act 2011. Its registration number with HMRC is X6880. > > | |
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From: Anthony Mcnicholas Subject: Re: Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: {decoded}And mine On 18/07/2016, 15:38, "The Irish Diaspora Studies List on behalf of Belchem, John" wrote: >And add my name too. > >John Belchem > >Professor John Belchem >Emeritus Professor of History >University of Liverpool > >Email: j.c.belchem[at]liv.ac.uk > > >Chair, Society for the Study of Labour History >Out now, Before the Windrush: Race relations in 20th century Liverpool > >________________________________________ >From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] on behalf of William Jenkins [wjenkins[at]YORKU.CA] >Sent: 18 July 2016 15:33 >To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK >Subject: Re: [IR-D] Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham > >Dear Tony > >Id like to echo what others have written, in terms of adding my name to a letter/petition on behalf of the Centre, or sending a letter directly. > >All the best, > >William > >------------------------- >Dr. William Jenkins >Associate Professor, Geography >Member, Graduate Programs in Geography and History >York University >4700 Keele St. >Toronto, Ontario >Canada M3J 1P3 > > [at]WmMJenkins > >Latest book: Between Raid and Rebellion: the Irish in Buffalo and Toronto 1867-1916 >http://www.mqup.ca/between-raid-and-rebellion-products-9780773540958.php > >> On Jul 18, 2016, at 10:14 AM, Miller, Kerby A. wrote: >> >> Dear Tony, >> >> As others have also requested, feel free to add my name to any letter or petition on behalf of the Centre for Irish Studies at St. Marys University. Or, if you inform me to whom I should write, I will send a letter directly. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Kerby Miller >> Curators Professor Emeritus of History >> University of Missouri >> >> On 7/18/16, 4:24 AM, "The Irish Diaspora Studies List on behalf of Tony Murray" wrote: >> >>> Dear friends and colleagues, >>> >>> You may be aware that the MA Irish Studies programme and the Centre for >>> Irish Studies at St. Mary's University in Twickenham are currently under >>> threat of closure. >>> >>> Find below my letter of support for colleagues at St. Mary's which will >>> appear shortly in the Irish Post. Also copied below are similar letters >>> from Prof. Roy Foster and from Prof. Mary Hickman & Prof. Shaun Richards. >>> >>> Please circulate to raise awareness of this matter amongst the wider Irish >>> Studies community. >>> >>> Thank you. >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Tony >>> >>> >>> >>> Dr. Tony Murray >>> >>> Director, Irish Studies Centre >>> >>> Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities >>> >>> London Metropolitan University >>> >>> Tower Building, >>> >>> Holloway Rd >>> >>> London N7 8DB >>> >>> >>> >>> Tel: 020 7133 2593 >>> >>> *http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/faculties/faculty-of-social-sciences-and-humanities/people/surnames-k-to-m/tony-murray/ >>> * >>> >>> londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> 15 July 2016 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> I am writing to express my dismay at the stated intention by the senior >>> management at St. Marys University to terminate both the Centre for Irish >>> Studies and its degree programme in the subject. >>> >>> >>> >>> The work of our colleagues at St. Marys University has long complemented >>> our activities here in the Irish Studies Centre at London Metropolitan >>> University. The proposed closure of the only remaining degree programme in >>> Irish Studies in the south of England along with the distinguished research >>> work of the CIS, especially in recent years under the visionary >>> directorship of Prof. Lance Pettitt, is extremely concerning. It would be a >>> severe blow to Prof. Pettitt and his team, but it would also diminish all >>> of us who have worked to build and support the profile of Irish Studies >>> over the last thirty to forty years. >>> >>> >>> >>> It is especially regrettable that a move like this seems possible now when >>> people in Britain require the unique knowledge, expertise and perspective >>> that Irish Studies can bring to a rapidly changing European and global >>> environment, not least in regard to the potential consequences of Brexit >>> for Anglo-Irish relations. >>> >>> >>> >>> The loss of Irish Studies at St. Marys would be a deeply disturbing >>> development and I sincerely hope that the university reconsiders it >>> position. >>> >>> >>> >>> Yours sincerely, >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Dr. Tony Murray >>> >>> Director, Irish Studies Centre >>> >>> London Metropolitan University >>> >>> >>> >>> londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> 21 June 2016 >>> >>> I find it both shocking and stupefying that the management at St Marys has >>> apparently decided to put an end to the long-lived and distinguished >>> tradition of Irish studies there, by suspending the successful MA in Irish >>> Studies and effectively withdrawing support from the Centre of Irish >>> Studies. The university has maintained a distinguished record in the field >>> for decades, boosted in recent years by the appointment of Lance Pettit as >>> Director, the longstanding input of Ivan Gibbons, and the imaginative >>> recruitment of pioneering scholars such as Professor Mary Hickman to >>> professorial research fellowships. I have visited the Centre, lectured >>> there, and attended stimulating and high-octane symposia organised by its >>> staff. It also has a distinguished record of producing students and winning >>> grant-aided support, notably from the Irish Government, as well as >>> encouraging research in new growth-areas such as film studies and diasporic >>> patterns. With Oxford and Liverpool, St Marys is one of the higher >>> education institutions that has kept up a consistent strength in Irish >>> studies, a subject of great interest for students at undergraduate and >>> postgraduate level- especially those based in London. The study of Irish >>> society and culture, and the countrys ancient and complex relationship >>> with Britain, has been increasingly relevant through the past decades, and >>> never more so than at the present moment. For the university to wilfully >>> cut off this area of strength and potential seems extraordinarily >>> counter-productive, at a time when demand is high and other institutions of >>> higher education (including my own) are putting resources firmly into this >>> subject as an intellectual growth area. It is also a cavalier and unjust >>> way to treat distinguished and hardworking academics. They, and the >>> subject, deserve better. >>> >>> Yours sincerely >>> >>> >>> R.F. Foster >>> >>> Carroll Professor of Irish History >>> >>> Hertford College, Oxford >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> The end of the Centre for Irish Studies (CIS) at St Marys? >>> >>> Following a decision made by senior management the MA Irish Studies at St >>> Marys University will not be recruiting a new cohort of students for >>> September 2016. The University has further decided not to include the >>> Centre for Irish Studies in its plans for strategic development for >>> 2016/17, deciding to back Bioethics (CBET), Human Slavery and the Benedict >>> Centre for Religion and society amongst others. The contracts of the four >>> Research Fellows have all come to the end of their term this year and they >>> have been made redundant. The contract of the Director of the Centre ends >>> in July and it too will not be renewed. Ivan Gibbons is retiring after >>> seven years service at the end of August. >>> >>> CIS has been in existence since 1991 when the BA Irish Studies degree >>> began. The University has long had links with Ireland since its inception >>> in 1850. While the current MA students will be taught out, London will >>> not have a university-backed centre for research and postgraduate teaching >>> in Irish Studies for the first time in a generation, despite the capital >>> being home to the largest Irish community in Britain. >>> >>> It is deeply ironic that this decision has been taken in 2016 after all the >>> renewal of relations between Britain and Ireland so far this century, >>> including reciprocal Head of State visits. The cultural and social analysis >>> and understanding that is provided by Irish Studies is needed now more >>> than ever as the relations between the UK and Ireland are tested, and the >>> political nature of these islands is being recast internally and within >>> Europe. >>> >>> The University decision has been taken despite the CIS distinguishing >>> itself in many ways in the past five years. For the record, it is the only >>> such centre at St Marys to have been part of an AHRC research network >>> grant (2015-17 Irish modernisms); CIS staff won British Academy grants (one >>> grant being the largest single amount in the School of Arts and Humanities >>> in 2014-16, on the Irish diaspora ); as a small, new unit of assessment >>> (U36) in the 2014 REF submission it achieved highly and out performed other >>> more established units in areas of its submission (60% 4* and 3* weighted >>> overall); MA graduates have gone on to PhD study and we had two PhD >>> completions and two current part time students have recently successfully >>> completed MPhil/PhD transfers within the past 6months; a succession of >>> Culture Ireland grants, delivered a vibrant programme of pubic engagement >>> and impact projects that took Irish Studies to Luton and Leeds, and from >>> Brazil and to the Bronx; it ran and developed an increasingly popular set >>> of community language programmes (with 38 students in 2015/16), funded by >>> the Irish Government, recognized annually at the Embassy and most recently >>> (May 2016) CIS successfully applied for 3 year, funded programme from the >>> Irish governments An Roinn Arts, Culture and Gaeltacht to develop the >>> Irish language worth ¬104,000. >>> >>> CIS worked in partnership with the Irish Cultural Centre (ICC) in >>> Hammersmith, the APPG in Parliament on an annual lecture series, with the >>> Irish Literary Society likewise and undertook research and publications >>> with the Irish Film Institute in Dublin and the theatre company Cia >>> Ludens/University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Other colleagues gave invited >>> lectures in India in November 2015. In September 2015, CIS hosted the >>> British Association of Irish Studies annual conference, in January 2016 it >>> worked with the ICC to host a conference on Trauma and the Troubles, and in >>> >>> January the University also had the vision to appoint Prof McAleese as a >>> Visiting Professorship with significant Irish input, teaching and public >>> engagement. >>> >>> All this is now being jettisoned. >>> >>> Prof. Mary J. Hickman >>> Prof. Shaun Richards >>> Former Professorial Research Fellows St Marys University, Twickenham >>> >>> 4 July 2016 >>> >>> -- >>> London Metropolitan University is a limited company registered in England >>> and Wales with registered number 974438 and VAT registered number GB 447 >>> 2190 51. Our registered office is at 166-220 Holloway Road, London N7 8DB. >>> London Metropolitan University is an exempt charity under the Charities Act >>> 2011. 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From: Jennifer May Redmond Subject: Re: Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: Tony, Please do add my name in support of your letter also Best wishes Jennifer --=20 Dr. Jennifer Redmond Lecturer in Twentieth Century Irish History Department of History NUI Maynooth Email: j ennifer.redmond[at]nuim.ie Twitter: [at]RedmondJennifer On 18 July 2016 at 14:53, Jim McAuley wrote: > > Please feel free to also use my name in support in any way you feel helps= . > > Best, > > Jim > > > Professor Jim McAuley, BSc, PhD, FHEA > Professor of Political Sociology and Irish Studies > Director, Institute for Research in Citizenship and Applied Human Science= s > > : 01484 472691 / 07595 090932 > : j.w.mcauley[at]hud.ac.uk > : www.hud.ac.uk > School of Human and Health Sciences > University of Huddersfield | Queensgate | Huddersfield | HD1 3DH > Latest book: Very British Rebels? The Culture and Politics of Ulster > Loyalism (Bloomsbury). > > See also: 'The Democratic Unionist Party: From Protest to Power ' (Oxford > University Press). > > > > > > 'No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world= ' > (Dead Poets Society). > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 18/07/2016 13:59, "Joe Bradley" wrote: > > >I will pass this around Tony > >And please add my signature to anything of relevance that supports your > >case > > > >Dr Joseph M Bradley > >Senior Lecturer > >University of Stirling > >Scotland > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On > >Behalf Of Tony Murray > >Sent: 18 July 2016 10:25 > >To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK > >Subject: [IR-D] Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham > > > >Dear friends and colleagues, > > > >You may be aware that the MA Irish Studies programme and the Centre for > >Irish Studies at St. Mary's University in Twickenham are currently under > >threat of closure. > > > >Find below my letter of support for colleagues at St. Mary's which will > >appear shortly in the Irish Post. Also copied below are similar letters > >from Prof. Roy Foster and from Prof. Mary Hickman & Prof. Shaun Richards= . > > > >Please circulate to raise awareness of this matter amongst the wider > >Irish Studies community. > > > >Thank you. > > > > > >Regards, > > > >Tony > > > > > > > >Dr. Tony Murray > > > >Director, Irish Studies Centre > > > >Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities > > > >London Metropolitan University > > > >Tower Building, > > > >Holloway Rd > > > >London N7 8DB > > > > > > > >Tel: 020 7133 2593 > > > >* > http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/faculties/faculty-of-social-sciences-and-human > >ities/people/surnames-k-to-m/tony-murray/ > > http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/faculties/faculty-of-social-sciences-and-human > >ities/people/surnames-k-to-m/tony-murray/>* > > > >londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre > > > > > > > > > > > > > >15 July 2016 > > > > > > > > > > > >I am writing to express my dismay at the stated intention by the senior > >management at St. Mary=E2=80=99s University to terminate both the Centre= for > >Irish Studies and its degree programme in the subject. > > > > > > > >The work of our colleagues at St. Mary=E2=80=99s University has long com= plemented > >our activities here in the Irish Studies Centre at London Metropolitan > >University. The proposed closure of the only remaining degree programme > >in Irish Studies in the south of England along with the distinguished > >research work of the CIS, especially in recent years under the visionary > >directorship of Prof. Lance Pettitt, is extremely concerning. It would b= e > >a severe blow to Prof. Pettitt and his team, but it would also diminish > >all of us who have worked to build and support the profile of Irish > >Studies over the last thirty to forty years. > > > > > > > >It is especially regrettable that a move like this seems possible now > >when people in Britain require the unique knowledge, expertise and > >perspective that Irish Studies can bring to a rapidly changing European > >and global environment, not least in regard to the potential consequence= s > >of Brexit for Anglo-Irish relations. > > > > > > > >The loss of Irish Studies at St. Mary=E2=80=99s would be a deeply distur= bing > >development and I sincerely hope that the university reconsiders it > >position. > > > > > > > >Yours sincerely, > > > > > > > > > > > >Dr. Tony Murray > > > >Director, Irish Studies Centre > > > >London Metropolitan University > > > > > > > >londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >21 June 2016 > > > >I find it both shocking and stupefying that the management at St Mary=E2= =80=99s > >has apparently decided to put an end to the long-lived and distinguished > >tradition of Irish studies there, by suspending the successful MA in > >Irish Studies and effectively withdrawing support from the Centre of > >Irish Studies. The university has maintained a distinguished record in > >the field for decades, boosted in recent years by the appointment of > >Lance Pettit as Director, the longstanding input of Ivan Gibbons, and th= e > >imaginative recruitment of pioneering scholars such as Professor Mary > >Hickman to professorial research fellowships. I have visited the Centre, > >lectured there, and attended stimulating and high-octane symposia > >organised by its staff. It also has a distinguished record of producing > >students and winning grant-aided support, notably from the Irish > >Government, as well as encouraging research in new growth-areas such as > >film studies and diasporic patterns. With Oxford and Liverpool, St Mary= =E2=80=99s > >is one of the higher education institutions that has kept up a consisten= t > >strength in Irish studies, a subject of great interest for students at > >undergraduate and postgraduate level- especially those based in London. > >The study of Irish society and culture, and the country=E2=80=99s ancien= t and > >complex relationship with Britain, has been increasingly relevant throug= h > >the past decades, and never more so than at the present moment. For the > >university to wilfully cut off this area of strength and potential seems > >extraordinarily counter-productive, at a time when demand is high and > >other institutions of higher education (including my own) are putting > >resources firmly into this subject as an intellectual growth area. It is > >also a cavalier and unjust way to treat distinguished and hardworking > >academics. They, and the subject, deserve better. > > > >Yours sincerely > > > > > >R.F. Foster > > > >Carroll Professor of Irish History > > > >Hertford College, Oxford > > > > > > > > > > > >The end of the Centre for Irish Studies (CIS) at St Mary=E2=80=99s? > > > >Following a decision made by senior management the MA Irish Studies at S= t > >Mary=E2=80=99s University will not be recruiting a new cohort of student= s for > >September 2016. The University has further decided not to include the > >Centre for Irish Studies in its plans for strategic development for > >2016/17, deciding to back Bioethics (CBET), Human Slavery and the > >Benedict Centre for Religion and society amongst others. The contracts o= f > >the four Research Fellows have all come to the end of their term this > >year and they have been made redundant. The contract of the Director of > >the Centre ends in July and it too will not be renewed. Ivan Gibbons is > >retiring after seven years service at the end of August. > > > >CIS has been in existence since 1991 when the BA Irish Studies degree > >began. The University has long had links with Ireland since its inceptio= n > >in 1850. While the current MA students will be =E2=80=9Ctaught out=E2=80= =9D, London will > >not have a university-backed centre for research and postgraduate > >teaching in Irish Studies for the first time in a generation, despite th= e > >capital being home to the largest Irish community in Britain. > > > >It is deeply ironic that this decision has been taken in 2016 after all > >the renewal of relations between Britain and Ireland so far this century= , > >including reciprocal Head of State visits. The cultural and social > >analysis and understanding that is provided by =E2=80=98Irish Studies=E2= =80=99 is needed > >now more than ever as the relations between the UK and Ireland are > >tested, and the political nature of these islands is being recast > >internally and within Europe. > > > >The University decision has been taken despite the CIS distinguishing > >itself in many ways in the past five years. For the record, it is the > >only such centre at St Mary=E2=80=99s to have been part of an AHRC resea= rch > >network grant (2015-17 Irish modernisms); CIS staff won British Academy > >grants (one grant being the largest single amount in the School of Arts > >and Humanities in 2014-16, on the Irish diaspora ); as a small, new unit > >of assessment > >(U36) in the 2014 REF submission it achieved highly and out performed > >other more established units in areas of its submission (60% 4* and 3* > >weighted overall); MA graduates have gone on to PhD study and we had two > >PhD completions and two current part time students have recently > >successfully completed MPhil/PhD transfers within the past 6months; a > >succession of Culture Ireland grants, delivered a vibrant programme of > >pubic engagement and impact projects that took Irish Studies to Luton an= d > >Leeds, and from Brazil and to the Bronx; it ran and developed an > >increasingly popular set of community language programmes (with 38 > >students in 2015/16), funded by the Irish Government, recognized annuall= y > >at the Embassy and most recently (May 2016) CIS successfully applied for > >3 year, funded programme from the Irish government=E2=80=99s An Roinn Ar= ts, > >Culture and Gaeltacht to develop the Irish language worth =E2=82=AC104,0= 00. > > > >CIS worked in partnership with the Irish Cultural Centre (ICC) in > >Hammersmith, the APPG in Parliament on an annual lecture series, with th= e > >Irish Literary Society likewise and undertook research and publications > >with the Irish Film Institute in Dublin and the theatre company Cia > >Ludens/University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Other colleagues gave invited > >lectures in India in November 2015. In September 2015, CIS hosted the > >British Association of Irish Studies annual conference, in January 2016 > >it worked with the ICC to host a conference on Trauma and the Troubles, > >and in > > > >January the University also had the vision to appoint Prof McAleese as a > >Visiting Professorship with significant Irish input, teaching and public > >engagement. > > > >All this is now being jettisoned. > > > >Prof. Mary J. Hickman > >Prof. Shaun Richards > >Former Professorial Research Fellows St Mary=E2=80=99s University, Twick= enham > > > >4 July 2016 > > > >-- > >London Metropolitan University is a limited company registered in Englan= d > >and Wales with registered number 974438 and VAT registered number GB 447 > >2190 51. Our registered office is at 166-220 Holloway Road, London N7 > >8DB. > >London Metropolitan University is an exempt charity under the Charities > >Act 2011. 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13296 | 18 July 2016 17:01 |
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 16:01:54 +0000
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From: Sean Farrell Subject: Re: Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: {decoded}Please add my name as well. Thanks and all best, Sean -----Original Message----- From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of David A. Wilson Sent: Monday, July 18, 2016 10:29 AM To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [IR-D] Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham Please add my name to any letter or petition. Best, David On 2016-07-18 5:24 AM, Tony Murray wrote: > Dear friends and colleagues, > > You may be aware that the MA Irish Studies programme and the Centre > for Irish Studies at St. Mary's University in Twickenham are currently > under threat of closure. > > Find below my letter of support for colleagues at St. Mary's which > will appear shortly in the Irish Post. Also copied below are similar > letters from Prof. Roy Foster and from Prof. Mary Hickman & Prof. Shaun Richards. > > Please circulate to raise awareness of this matter amongst the wider > Irish Studies community. > > Thank you. > > > Regards, > > Tony > > > > Dr. Tony Murray > > Director, Irish Studies Centre > > Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities > > London Metropolitan University > > Tower Building, > > Holloway Rd > > London N7 8DB > > > > Tel: 020 7133 2593 > > *http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/faculties/faculty-of-social-sciences-and-h > umanities/people/surnames-k-to-m/tony-murray/ > umanities/people/surnames-k-to-m/tony-murray/>* > > londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre > > > > > > > 15 July 2016 > > > > > > I am writing to express my dismay at the stated intention by the > senior management at St. Marys University to terminate both the > Centre for Irish Studies and its degree programme in the subject. > > > > The work of our colleagues at St. Marys University has long > complemented our activities here in the Irish Studies Centre at London > Metropolitan University. The proposed closure of the only remaining > degree programme in Irish Studies in the south of England along with > the distinguished research work of the CIS, especially in recent years > under the visionary directorship of Prof. Lance Pettitt, is extremely > concerning. It would be a severe blow to Prof. Pettitt and his team, > but it would also diminish all of us who have worked to build and > support the profile of Irish Studies over the last thirty to forty years. > > > > It is especially regrettable that a move like this seems possible now > when people in Britain require the unique knowledge, expertise and > perspective that Irish Studies can bring to a rapidly changing > European and global environment, not least in regard to the potential > consequences of Brexit for Anglo-Irish relations. > > > > The loss of Irish Studies at St. Marys would be a deeply disturbing > development and I sincerely hope that the university reconsiders it > position. > > > > Yours sincerely, > > > > > > Dr. Tony Murray > > Director, Irish Studies Centre > > London Metropolitan University > > > > londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre > > > > > > > > 21 June 2016 > > I find it both shocking and stupefying that the management at St > Marys has apparently decided to put an end to the long-lived and > distinguished tradition of Irish studies there, by suspending the > successful MA in Irish Studies and effectively withdrawing support > from the Centre of Irish Studies. The university has maintained a > distinguished record in the field for decades, boosted in recent years > by the appointment of Lance Pettit as Director, the longstanding input > of Ivan Gibbons, and the imaginative recruitment of pioneering > scholars such as Professor Mary Hickman to professorial research > fellowships. I have visited the Centre, lectured there, and attended > stimulating and high-octane symposia organised by its staff. It also > has a distinguished record of producing students and winning > grant-aided support, notably from the Irish Government, as well as > encouraging research in new growth-areas such as film studies and > diasporic patterns. With Oxford and Liverpool, St Marys is one of the > higher education institutions that has kept up a consistent strength > in Irish studies, a subject of great interest for students at > undergraduate and postgraduate level- especially those based in > London. The study of Irish society and culture, and the countrys > ancient and complex relationship with Britain, has been increasingly > relevant through the past decades, and never more so than at the > present moment. For the university to wilfully cut off this area of > strength and potential seems extraordinarily counter-productive, at a > time when demand is high and other institutions of higher education > (including my own) are putting resources firmly into this subject as > an intellectual growth area. It is also a cavalier and unjust way to treat distinguished and hardworking academics. They, and the subject, deserve better. > > Yours sincerely > > > R.F. Foster > > Carroll Professor of Irish History > > Hertford College, Oxford > > > > > > The end of the Centre for Irish Studies (CIS) at St Marys? > > Following a decision made by senior management the MA Irish Studies at > St Marys University will not be recruiting a new cohort of students > for September 2016. The University has further decided not to include > the Centre for Irish Studies in its plans for strategic development > for 2016/17, deciding to back Bioethics (CBET), Human Slavery and the > Benedict Centre for Religion and society amongst others. The contracts > of the four Research Fellows have all come to the end of their term > this year and they have been made redundant. The contract of the > Director of the Centre ends in July and it too will not be renewed. > Ivan Gibbons is retiring after seven years service at the end of August. > > CIS has been in existence since 1991 when the BA Irish Studies degree > began. The University has long had links with Ireland since its > inception in 1850. While the current MA students will be taught out, > London will not have a university-backed centre for research and > postgraduate teaching in Irish Studies for the first time in a > generation, despite the capital being home to the largest Irish community in Britain. > > It is deeply ironic that this decision has been taken in 2016 after > all the renewal of relations between Britain and Ireland so far this > century, including reciprocal Head of State visits. The cultural and > social analysis and understanding that is provided by Irish Studies > is needed now more than ever as the relations between the UK and > Ireland are tested, and the political nature of these islands is being > recast internally and within Europe. > > The University decision has been taken despite the CIS distinguishing > itself in many ways in the past five years. For the record, it is the > only such centre at St Marys to have been part of an AHRC research > network grant (2015-17 Irish modernisms); CIS staff won British > Academy grants (one grant being the largest single amount in the > School of Arts and Humanities in 2014-16, on the Irish diaspora ); as > a small, new unit of assessment > (U36) in the 2014 REF submission it achieved highly and out performed > other more established units in areas of its submission (60% 4* and 3* > weighted overall); MA graduates have gone on to PhD study and we had > two PhD completions and two current part time students have recently > successfully completed MPhil/PhD transfers within the past 6months; a > succession of Culture Ireland grants, delivered a vibrant programme of > pubic engagement and impact projects that took Irish Studies to Luton > and Leeds, and from Brazil and to the Bronx; it ran and developed an > increasingly popular set of community language programmes (with 38 > students in 2015/16), funded by the Irish Government, recognized > annually at the Embassy and most recently (May 2016) CIS successfully > applied for 3 year, funded programme from the Irish governments An > Roinn Arts, Culture and Gaeltacht to develop the Irish language worth ¬104,000. > > CIS worked in partnership with the Irish Cultural Centre (ICC) in > Hammersmith, the APPG in Parliament on an annual lecture series, with > the Irish Literary Society likewise and undertook research and > publications with the Irish Film Institute in Dublin and the theatre > company Cia Ludens/University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Other colleagues > gave invited lectures in India in November 2015. In September 2015, > CIS hosted the British Association of Irish Studies annual conference, > in January 2016 it worked with the ICC to host a conference on Trauma > and the Troubles, and in > > January the University also had the vision to appoint Prof McAleese as > a Visiting Professorship with significant Irish input, teaching and > public engagement. > > All this is now being jettisoned. > > Prof. Mary J. Hickman > Prof. Shaun Richards > Former Professorial Research Fellows St Marys University, Twickenham > > 4 July 2016 > -- David A. Wilson, F.R.Hist.S., FRSC General Editor Dictionary of Canadian Biography 130 St George St 14th floor University of Toronto M5S 3H1 | |
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Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 16:14:06 +0000
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From: Joan Allen Subject: Re: Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: Mine too. You have my full support. Joan Allen, Newcastle University Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. -------- Original message -------- From: "David A. Wilson" Date: 18/07/2016 16:33 (GMT+00:00) To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [IR-D] Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham Please add my name to any letter or petition. Best, David On 2016-07-18 5:24 AM, Tony Murray wrote: > Dear friends and colleagues, > > You may be aware that the MA Irish Studies programme and the Centre for > Irish Studies at St. Mary's University in Twickenham are currently under > threat of closure. > > Find below my letter of support for colleagues at St. Mary's which will > appear shortly in the Irish Post. Also copied below are similar letters > from Prof. Roy Foster and from Prof. Mary Hickman & Prof. Shaun Richards. > > Please circulate to raise awareness of this matter amongst the wider Iris= h > Studies community. > > Thank you. > > > Regards, > > Tony > > > > Dr. Tony Murray > > Director, Irish Studies Centre > > Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities > > London Metropolitan University > > Tower Building, > > Holloway Rd > > London N7 8DB > > > > Tel: 020 7133 2593 > > *http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/faculties/faculty-of-social-sciences-and-huma= nities/people/surnames-k-to-m/tony-murray/ > * > > londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre > > > > > > > 15 July 2016 > > > > > > I am writing to express my dismay at the stated intention by the senior > management at St. Mary=92s University to terminate both the Centre for Ir= ish > Studies and its degree programme in the subject. > > > > The work of our colleagues at St. Mary=92s University has long complement= ed > our activities here in the Irish Studies Centre at London Metropolitan > University. The proposed closure of the only remaining degree programme i= n > Irish Studies in the south of England along with the distinguished resear= ch > work of the CIS, especially in recent years under the visionary > directorship of Prof. Lance Pettitt, is extremely concerning. It would be= a > severe blow to Prof. Pettitt and his team, but it would also diminish all > of us who have worked to build and support the profile of Irish Studies > over the last thirty to forty years. > > > > It is especially regrettable that a move like this seems possible now whe= n > people in Britain require the unique knowledge, expertise and perspective > that Irish Studies can bring to a rapidly changing European and global > environment, not least in regard to the potential consequences of Brexit > for Anglo-Irish relations. > > > > The loss of Irish Studies at St. Mary=92s would be a deeply disturbing > development and I sincerely hope that the university reconsiders it > position. > > > > Yours sincerely, > > > > > > Dr. Tony Murray > > Director, Irish Studies Centre > > London Metropolitan University > > > > londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre > > > > > > > > 21 June 2016 > > I find it both shocking and stupefying that the management at St Mary=92s= has > apparently decided to put an end to the long-lived and distinguished > tradition of Irish studies there, by suspending the successful MA in Iris= h > Studies and effectively withdrawing support from the Centre of Irish > Studies. The university has maintained a distinguished record in the fiel= d > for decades, boosted in recent years by the appointment of Lance Pettit a= s > Director, the longstanding input of Ivan Gibbons, and the imaginative > recruitment of pioneering scholars such as Professor Mary Hickman to > professorial research fellowships. I have visited the Centre, lectured > there, and attended stimulating and high-octane symposia organised by its > staff. It also has a distinguished record of producing students and winni= ng > grant-aided support, notably from the Irish Government, as well as > encouraging research in new growth-areas such as film studies and diaspor= ic > patterns. With Oxford and Liverpool, St Mary=92s is one of the higher > education institutions that has kept up a consistent strength in Irish > studies, a subject of great interest for students at undergraduate and > postgraduate level- especially those based in London. The study of Irish > society and culture, and the country=92s ancient and complex relationship > with Britain, has been increasingly relevant through the past decades, an= d > never more so than at the present moment. For the university to wilfully > cut off this area of strength and potential seems extraordinarily > counter-productive, at a time when demand is high and other institutions = of > higher education (including my own) are putting resources firmly into thi= s > subject as an intellectual growth area. It is also a cavalier and unjust > way to treat distinguished and hardworking academics. They, and the > subject, deserve better. > > Yours sincerely > > > R.F. Foster > > Carroll Professor of Irish History > > Hertford College, Oxford > > > > > > The end of the Centre for Irish Studies (CIS) at St Mary=92s? > > Following a decision made by senior management the MA Irish Studies at St > Mary=92s University will not be recruiting a new cohort of students for > September 2016. The University has further decided not to include the > Centre for Irish Studies in its plans for strategic development for > 2016/17, deciding to back Bioethics (CBET), Human Slavery and the Benedic= t > Centre for Religion and society amongst others. The contracts of the four > Research Fellows have all come to the end of their term this year and the= y > have been made redundant. The contract of the Director of the Centre ends > in July and it too will not be renewed. Ivan Gibbons is retiring after > seven years service at the end of August. > > CIS has been in existence since 1991 when the BA Irish Studies degree > began. The University has long had links with Ireland since its inception > in 1850. While the current MA students will be =93taught out=94, London w= ill > not have a university-backed centre for research and postgraduate teachin= g > in Irish Studies for the first time in a generation, despite the capital > being home to the largest Irish community in Britain. > > It is deeply ironic that this decision has been taken in 2016 after all t= he > renewal of relations between Britain and Ireland so far this century, > including reciprocal Head of State visits. The cultural and social analys= is > and understanding that is provided by =91Irish Studies=92 is needed now m= ore > than ever as the relations between the UK and Ireland are tested, and the > political nature of these islands is being recast internally and within > Europe. > > The University decision has been taken despite the CIS distinguishing > itself in many ways in the past five years. For the record, it is the onl= y > such centre at St Mary=92s to have been part of an AHRC research network > grant (2015-17 Irish modernisms); CIS staff won British Academy grants (o= ne > grant being the largest single amount in the School of Arts and Humanitie= s > in 2014-16, on the Irish diaspora ); as a small, new unit of assessment > (U36) in the 2014 REF submission it achieved highly and out performed oth= er > more established units in areas of its submission (60% 4* and 3* weighted > overall); MA graduates have gone on to PhD study and we had two PhD > completions and two current part time students have recently successfully > completed MPhil/PhD transfers within the past 6months; a succession of > Culture Ireland grants, delivered a vibrant programme of pubic engagement > and impact projects that took Irish Studies to Luton and Leeds, and from > Brazil and to the Bronx; it ran and developed an increasingly popular set > of community language programmes (with 38 students in 2015/16), funded by > the Irish Government, recognized annually at the Embassy and most recentl= y > (May 2016) CIS successfully applied for 3 year, funded programme from the > Irish government=92s An Roinn Arts, Culture and Gaeltacht to develop the > Irish language worth =80104,000. > > CIS worked in partnership with the Irish Cultural Centre (ICC) in > Hammersmith, the APPG in Parliament on an annual lecture series, with the > Irish Literary Society likewise and undertook research and publications > with the Irish Film Institute in Dublin and the theatre company Cia > Ludens/University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Other colleagues gave invited > lectures in India in November 2015. In September 2015, CIS hosted the > British Association of Irish Studies annual conference, in January 2016 i= t > worked with the ICC to host a conference on Trauma and the Troubles, and = in > > January the University also had the vision to appoint Prof McAleese as a > Visiting Professorship with significant Irish input, teaching and public > engagement. > > All this is now being jettisoned. > > Prof. Mary J. Hickman > Prof. Shaun Richards > Former Professorial Research Fellows St Mary=92s University, Twickenham > > 4 July 2016 > -- David A. Wilson, F.R.Hist.S., FRSC General Editor Dictionary of Canadian Biography 130 St George St 14th floor University of Toronto M5S 3H1 | |
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From: Maria McGarrity Subject: Re: Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: {decoded}Add my name as well. All good wishes, Maria Maria McGarrity, Ph.D. Professor of English Long Island University One University Plaza Brooklyn, NY 11201 USA (p) 718-488-1050 (f)718-246-6302 maria.mcgarrity[at]liu.edu Allusions in Omeros http://upf.com/book.asp?id=MCGAR001 Caribbean Irish Connections http://www.uwipress.com/content/caribbean-irish-connections https://www.facebook.com/CaribbeanIrishConnections On 7/18/16, 12:32 PM, "The Irish Diaspora Studies List on behalf of Costello-Sullivan, Kathleen" wrote: >And mine--sending best wishes. > >kpcs > > >> >> >> On 2016-07-18 5:24 AM, Tony Murray wrote: >> > Dear friends and colleagues, >> > >> > You may be aware that the MA Irish Studies programme and the Centre >> > for Irish Studies at St. Mary's University in Twickenham are currently >> > under threat of closure. >> > >> > Find below my letter of support for colleagues at St. Mary's which >> > will appear shortly in the Irish Post. Also copied below are similar >> > letters from Prof. Roy Foster and from Prof. Mary Hickman & Prof. >>Shaun >> Richards. >> > >> > Please circulate to raise awareness of this matter amongst the wider >> > Irish Studies community. >> > >> > Thank you. >> > >> > >> > Regards, >> > >> > Tony >> > >> > >> > >> > Dr. Tony Murray >> > >> > Director, Irish Studies Centre >> > >> > Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities >> > >> > London Metropolitan University >> > >> > Tower Building, >> > >> > Holloway Rd >> > >> > London N7 8DB >> > >> > >> > >> > Tel: 020 7133 2593 >> > >> > *http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/faculties/faculty-of-social-sciences-and-h >> > umanities/people/surnames-k-to-m/tony-murray/ >> > > > umanities/people/surnames-k-to-m/tony-murray/>* >> > >> > londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > 15 July 2016 >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > I am writing to express my dismay at the stated intention by the >> > senior management at St. Marys University to terminate both the >> > Centre for Irish Studies and its degree programme in the subject. >> > >> > >> > >> > The work of our colleagues at St. Marys University has long >> > complemented our activities here in the Irish Studies Centre at London >> > Metropolitan University. The proposed closure of the only remaining >> > degree programme in Irish Studies in the south of England along with >> > the distinguished research work of the CIS, especially in recent years >> > under the visionary directorship of Prof. Lance Pettitt, is extremely >> > concerning. It would be a severe blow to Prof. Pettitt and his team, >> > but it would also diminish all of us who have worked to build and >> > support the profile of Irish Studies over the last thirty to forty >>years. >> > >> > >> > >> > It is especially regrettable that a move like this seems possible now >> > when people in Britain require the unique knowledge, expertise and >> > perspective that Irish Studies can bring to a rapidly changing >> > European and global environment, not least in regard to the potential >> > consequences of Brexit for Anglo-Irish relations. >> > >> > >> > >> > The loss of Irish Studies at St. Marys would be a deeply disturbing >> > development and I sincerely hope that the university reconsiders it >> > position. >> > >> > >> > >> > Yours sincerely, >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > Dr. Tony Murray >> > >> > Director, Irish Studies Centre >> > >> > London Metropolitan University >> > >> > >> > >> > londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > 21 June 2016 >> > >> > I find it both shocking and stupefying that the management at St >> > Marys has apparently decided to put an end to the long-lived and >> > distinguished tradition of Irish studies there, by suspending the >> > successful MA in Irish Studies and effectively withdrawing support >> > from the Centre of Irish Studies. The university has maintained a >> > distinguished record in the field for decades, boosted in recent years >> > by the appointment of Lance Pettit as Director, the longstanding input >> > of Ivan Gibbons, and the imaginative recruitment of pioneering >> > scholars such as Professor Mary Hickman to professorial research >> > fellowships. I have visited the Centre, lectured there, and attended >> > stimulating and high-octane symposia organised by its staff. It also >> > has a distinguished record of producing students and winning >> > grant-aided support, notably from the Irish Government, as well as >> > encouraging research in new growth-areas such as film studies and >> > diasporic patterns. With Oxford and Liverpool, St Marys is one of the >> > higher education institutions that has kept up a consistent strength >> > in Irish studies, a subject of great interest for students at >> > undergraduate and postgraduate level- especially those based in >> > London. The study of Irish society and culture, and the countrys >> > ancient and complex relationship with Britain, has been increasingly >> > relevant through the past decades, and never more so than at the >> > present moment. For the university to wilfully cut off this area of >> > strength and potential seems extraordinarily counter-productive, at a >> > time when demand is high and other institutions of higher education >> > (including my own) are putting resources firmly into this subject as >> > an intellectual growth area. It is also a cavalier and unjust way to >> treat distinguished and hardworking academics. They, and the subject, >> deserve better. >> > >> > Yours sincerely >> > >> > >> > R.F. Foster >> > >> > Carroll Professor of Irish History >> > >> > Hertford College, Oxford >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > The end of the Centre for Irish Studies (CIS) at St Marys? >> > >> > Following a decision made by senior management the MA Irish Studies at >> > St Marys University will not be recruiting a new cohort of students >> > for September 2016. The University has further decided not to include >> > the Centre for Irish Studies in its plans for strategic development >> > for 2016/17, deciding to back Bioethics (CBET), Human Slavery and the >> > Benedict Centre for Religion and society amongst others. The contracts >> > of the four Research Fellows have all come to the end of their term >> > this year and they have been made redundant. The contract of the >> > Director of the Centre ends in July and it too will not be renewed. >> > Ivan Gibbons is retiring after seven years service at the end of >>August. >> > >> > CIS has been in existence since 1991 when the BA Irish Studies degree >> > began. The University has long had links with Ireland since its >> > inception in 1850. While the current MA students will be taught out, >> > London will not have a university-backed centre for research and >> > postgraduate teaching in Irish Studies for the first time in a >> > generation, despite the capital being home to the largest Irish >> community in Britain. >> > >> > It is deeply ironic that this decision has been taken in 2016 after >> > all the renewal of relations between Britain and Ireland so far this >> > century, including reciprocal Head of State visits. The cultural and >> > social analysis and understanding that is provided by Irish Studies >> > is needed now more than ever as the relations between the UK and >> > Ireland are tested, and the political nature of these islands is being >> > recast internally and within Europe. >> > >> > The University decision has been taken despite the CIS distinguishing >> > itself in many ways in the past five years. For the record, it is the >> > only such centre at St Marys to have been part of an AHRC research >> > network grant (2015-17 Irish modernisms); CIS staff won British >> > Academy grants (one grant being the largest single amount in the >> > School of Arts and Humanities in 2014-16, on the Irish diaspora ); as >> > a small, new unit of assessment >> > (U36) in the 2014 REF submission it achieved highly and out performed >> > other more established units in areas of its submission (60% 4* and 3* >> > weighted overall); MA graduates have gone on to PhD study and we had >> > two PhD completions and two current part time students have recently >> > successfully completed MPhil/PhD transfers within the past 6months; a >> > succession of Culture Ireland grants, delivered a vibrant programme of >> > pubic engagement and impact projects that took Irish Studies to Luton >> > and Leeds, and from Brazil and to the Bronx; it ran and developed an >> > increasingly popular set of community language programmes (with 38 >> > students in 2015/16), funded by the Irish Government, recognized >> > annually at the Embassy and most recently (May 2016) CIS successfully >> > applied for 3 year, funded programme from the Irish governments An >> > Roinn Arts, Culture and Gaeltacht to develop the Irish language worth >> ¬104,000. >> > >> > CIS worked in partnership with the Irish Cultural Centre (ICC) in >> > Hammersmith, the APPG in Parliament on an annual lecture series, with >> > the Irish Literary Society likewise and undertook research and >> > publications with the Irish Film Institute in Dublin and the theatre >> > company Cia Ludens/University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Other colleagues >> > gave invited lectures in India in November 2015. In September 2015, >> > CIS hosted the British Association of Irish Studies annual conference, >> > in January 2016 it worked with the ICC to host a conference on Trauma >> > and the Troubles, and in >> > >> > January the University also had the vision to appoint Prof McAleese as >> > a Visiting Professorship with significant Irish input, teaching and >> > public engagement. >> > >> > All this is now being jettisoned. >> > >> > Prof. Mary J. Hickman >> > Prof. Shaun Richards >> > Former Professorial Research Fellows St Marys University, Twickenham >> > >> > 4 July 2016 >> > >> >> -- >> David A. Wilson, F.R.Hist.S., FRSC >> General Editor >> Dictionary of Canadian Biography >> 130 St George St 14th floor >> University of Toronto >> M5S 3H1 >> > > > >-- >Kate Costello-Sullivan, Ph.D. >Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences >Professor of Modern Irish Literature, English Dept >Le Moyne College >1419 Salt Springs Road >Syracuse NY 13214 >315 445 4310 >sullivkp[at]lemoyne.edu | |
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13299 | 18 July 2016 19:13 |
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 18:13:36 +0000
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From: Steven Mccabe Subject: Re: Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Please add my name in support of the campaign against closure of the MA Iri= sh Studies programme and the Centre for Irish Studies at St. Mary's Univers= ity in Twickenham .=0A= =0A= With best wishes,=0A= =0A= Dr. Steven McCabe,=0A= Associate Professor, Birmingham City University=0A= ________________________________________=0A= From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] on behalf of To= ny Murray [t.murray[at]LONDONMET.AC.UK]=0A= Sent: 18 July 2016 10:24=0A= To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK=0A= Subject: [IR-D] Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham=0A= =0A= Dear friends and colleagues,=0A= =0A= You may be aware that the MA Irish Studies programme and the Centre for=0A= Irish Studies at St. Mary's University in Twickenham are currently under=0A= threat of closure.=0A= =0A= Find below my letter of support for colleagues at St. Mary's which will=0A= appear shortly in the Irish Post. Also copied below are similar letters=0A= from Prof. Roy Foster and from Prof. Mary Hickman & Prof. Shaun Richards.= =0A= =0A= Please circulate to raise awareness of this matter amongst the wider Irish= =0A= Studies community.=0A= =0A= Thank you.=0A= =0A= =0A= Regards,=0A= =0A= Tony=0A= =0A= =0A= =0A= Dr. Tony Murray=0A= =0A= Director, Irish Studies Centre=0A= =0A= Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities=0A= =0A= London Metropolitan University=0A= =0A= Tower Building,=0A= =0A= Holloway Rd=0A= =0A= London N7 8DB=0A= =0A= =0A= =0A= Tel: 020 7133 2593=0A= =0A= *http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/faculties/faculty-of-social-sciences-and-humani= ties/people/surnames-k-to-m/tony-murray/=0A= *=0A= =0A= londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre=0A= =0A= =0A= =0A= =0A= =0A= =0A= 15 July 2016=0A= =0A= =0A= =0A= =0A= =0A= I am writing to express my dismay at the stated intention by the senior=0A= management at St. Mary=92s University to terminate both the Centre for Iris= h=0A= Studies and its degree programme in the subject.=0A= =0A= =0A= =0A= The work of our colleagues at St. Mary=92s University has long complemented= =0A= our activities here in the Irish Studies Centre at London Metropolitan=0A= University. The proposed closure of the only remaining degree programme in= =0A= Irish Studies in the south of England along with the distinguished research= =0A= work of the CIS, especially in recent years under the visionary=0A= directorship of Prof. Lance Pettitt, is extremely concerning. It would be a= =0A= severe blow to Prof. Pettitt and his team, but it would also diminish all= =0A= of us who have worked to build and support the profile of Irish Studies=0A= over the last thirty to forty years.=0A= =0A= =0A= =0A= It is especially regrettable that a move like this seems possible now when= =0A= people in Britain require the unique knowledge, expertise and perspective= =0A= that Irish Studies can bring to a rapidly changing European and global=0A= environment, not least in regard to the potential consequences of Brexit=0A= for Anglo-Irish relations.=0A= =0A= =0A= =0A= The loss of Irish Studies at St. Mary=92s would be a deeply disturbing=0A= development and I sincerely hope that the university reconsiders it=0A= position.=0A= =0A= =0A= =0A= Yours sincerely,=0A= =0A= =0A= =0A= =0A= =0A= Dr. Tony Murray=0A= =0A= Director, Irish Studies Centre=0A= =0A= London Metropolitan University=0A= =0A= =0A= =0A= londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre=0A= =0A= =0A= =0A= =0A= =0A= =0A= =0A= 21 June 2016=0A= =0A= I find it both shocking and stupefying that the management at St Mary=92s h= as=0A= apparently decided to put an end to the long-lived and distinguished=0A= tradition of Irish studies there, by suspending the successful MA in Irish= =0A= Studies and effectively withdrawing support from the Centre of Irish=0A= Studies. The university has maintained a distinguished record in the field= =0A= for decades, boosted in recent years by the appointment of Lance Pettit as= =0A= Director, the longstanding input of Ivan Gibbons, and the imaginative=0A= recruitment of pioneering scholars such as Professor Mary Hickman to=0A= professorial research fellowships. I have visited the Centre, lectured=0A= there, and attended stimulating and high-octane symposia organised by its= =0A= staff. It also has a distinguished record of producing students and winning= =0A= grant-aided support, notably from the Irish Government, as well as=0A= encouraging research in new growth-areas such as film studies and diasporic= =0A= patterns. With Oxford and Liverpool, St Mary=92s is one of the higher=0A= education institutions that has kept up a consistent strength in Irish=0A= studies, a subject of great interest for students at undergraduate and=0A= postgraduate level- especially those based in London. The study of Irish=0A= society and culture, and the country=92s ancient and complex relationship= =0A= with Britain, has been increasingly relevant through the past decades, and= =0A= never more so than at the present moment. For the university to wilfully=0A= cut off this area of strength and potential seems extraordinarily=0A= counter-productive, at a time when demand is high and other institutions of= =0A= higher education (including my own) are putting resources firmly into this= =0A= subject as an intellectual growth area. It is also a cavalier and unjust=0A= way to treat distinguished and hardworking academics. They, and the=0A= subject, deserve better.=0A= =0A= Yours sincerely=0A= =0A= =0A= R.F. Foster=0A= =0A= Carroll Professor of Irish History=0A= =0A= Hertford College, Oxford=0A= =0A= =0A= =0A= =0A= =0A= The end of the Centre for Irish Studies (CIS) at St Mary=92s?=0A= =0A= Following a decision made by senior management the MA Irish Studies at St= =0A= Mary=92s University will not be recruiting a new cohort of students for=0A= September 2016. The University has further decided not to include the=0A= Centre for Irish Studies in its plans for strategic development for=0A= 2016/17, deciding to back Bioethics (CBET), Human Slavery and the Benedict= =0A= Centre for Religion and society amongst others. The contracts of the four= =0A= Research Fellows have all come to the end of their term this year and they= =0A= have been made redundant. The contract of the Director of the Centre ends= =0A= in July and it too will not be renewed. Ivan Gibbons is retiring after=0A= seven years service at the end of August.=0A= =0A= CIS has been in existence since 1991 when the BA Irish Studies degree=0A= began. The University has long had links with Ireland since its inception= =0A= in 1850. While the current MA students will be =93taught out=94, London wil= l=0A= not have a university-backed centre for research and postgraduate teaching= =0A= in Irish Studies for the first time in a generation, despite the capital=0A= being home to the largest Irish community in Britain.=0A= =0A= It is deeply ironic that this decision has been taken in 2016 after all the= =0A= renewal of relations between Britain and Ireland so far this century,=0A= including reciprocal Head of State visits. The cultural and social analysis= =0A= and understanding that is provided by =91Irish Studies=92 is needed now mor= e=0A= than ever as the relations between the UK and Ireland are tested, and the= =0A= political nature of these islands is being recast internally and within=0A= Europe.=0A= =0A= The University decision has been taken despite the CIS distinguishing=0A= itself in many ways in the past five years. For the record, it is the only= =0A= such centre at St Mary=92s to have been part of an AHRC research network=0A= grant (2015-17 Irish modernisms); CIS staff won British Academy grants (one= =0A= grant being the largest single amount in the School of Arts and Humanities= =0A= in 2014-16, on the Irish diaspora ); as a small, new unit of assessment=0A= (U36) in the 2014 REF submission it achieved highly and out performed other= =0A= more established units in areas of its submission (60% 4* and 3* weighted= =0A= overall); MA graduates have gone on to PhD study and we had two PhD=0A= completions and two current part time students have recently successfully= =0A= completed MPhil/PhD transfers within the past 6months; a succession of=0A= Culture Ireland grants, delivered a vibrant programme of pubic engagement= =0A= and impact projects that took Irish Studies to Luton and Leeds, and from=0A= Brazil and to the Bronx; it ran and developed an increasingly popular set= =0A= of community language programmes (with 38 students in 2015/16), funded by= =0A= the Irish Government, recognized annually at the Embassy and most recently= =0A= (May 2016) CIS successfully applied for 3 year, funded programme from the= =0A= Irish government=92s An Roinn Arts, Culture and Gaeltacht to develop the=0A= Irish language worth =80104,000.=0A= =0A= CIS worked in partnership with the Irish Cultural Centre (ICC) in=0A= Hammersmith, the APPG in Parliament on an annual lecture series, with the= =0A= Irish Literary Society likewise and undertook research and publications=0A= with the Irish Film Institute in Dublin and the theatre company Cia=0A= Ludens/University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Other colleagues gave invited=0A= lectures in India in November 2015. In September 2015, CIS hosted the=0A= British Association of Irish Studies annual conference, in January 2016 it= =0A= worked with the ICC to host a conference on Trauma and the Troubles, and in= =0A= =0A= January the University also had the vision to appoint Prof McAleese as a=0A= Visiting Professorship with significant Irish input, teaching and public=0A= engagement.=0A= =0A= All this is now being jettisoned.=0A= =0A= Prof. Mary J. Hickman=0A= Prof. Shaun Richards=0A= Former Professorial Research Fellows St Mary=92s University, Twickenham=0A= =0A= 4 July 2016=0A= =0A= --=0A= London Metropolitan University is a limited company registered in England= =0A= and Wales with registered number 974438 and VAT registered number GB 447=0A= 2190 51. Our registered office is at 166-220 Holloway Road, London N7 8DB.= =0A= London Metropolitan University is an exempt charity under the Charities Act= =0A= 2011. Its registration number with HMRC is X6880.=0A= | |
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13300 | 18 July 2016 19:15 |
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 18:15:45 GMT
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Re: Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham | |
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From: Carmen Borbely Subject: Re: Irish Studies at St. Mary's University Twickenham In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: Please add my name, Carmen Borbely Associate Professor English Dept. Babes-Bolyai University Cluj, Romania On 18/7/2016, "Matthew Barlow" wrote: >Add my name, too, please, Tony. >Matthew Barlow >Assistant Professor, >Department of History >University of North Alabama > >> On Jul 18, 2016, at 4:24 AM, Tony Murray wrote: >> >> Dear friends and colleagues, >> >> You may be aware that the MA Irish Studies programme and the Centre for >> Irish Studies at St. Mary's University in Twickenham are currently under >> threat of closure. >> >> Find below my letter of support for colleagues at St. Mary's which will >> appear shortly in the Irish Post. Also copied below are similar letters >> from Prof. Roy Foster and from Prof. Mary Hickman & Prof. Shaun Richards. >> >> Please circulate to raise awareness of this matter amongst the wider Irish >> Studies community. >> >> Thank you. >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Tony >> >> >> >> Dr. Tony Murray >> >> Director, Irish Studies Centre >> >> Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities >> >> London Metropolitan University >> >> Tower Building, >> >> Holloway Rd >> >> London N7 8DB >> >> >> >> Tel: 020 7133 2593 >> >> *http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/faculties/faculty-of-social-sciences-and-human= ities/people/surnames-k-to-m/tony-murray/ >> * >> >> londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre >> >> >> >> >> >> >> 15 July 2016 >> >> >> >> >> >> I am writing to express my dismay at the stated intention by the senior >> management at St. Mary=E2=80=99s University to terminate both the Centre f= or Irish >> Studies and its degree programme in the subject. >> >> >> >> The work of our colleagues at St. Mary=E2=80=99s University has long compl= emented >> our activities here in the Irish Studies Centre at London Metropolitan >> University. The proposed closure of the only remaining degree programme in >> Irish Studies in the south of England along with the distinguished researc= h >> work of the CIS, especially in recent years under the visionary >> directorship of Prof. Lance Pettitt, is extremely concerning. It would be = a >> severe blow to Prof. Pettitt and his team, but it would also diminish all >> of us who have worked to build and support the profile of Irish Studies >> over the last thirty to forty years. >> >> >> >> It is especially regrettable that a move like this seems possible now when >> people in Britain require the unique knowledge, expertise and perspective >> that Irish Studies can bring to a rapidly changing European and global >> environment, not least in regard to the potential consequences of Brexit >> for Anglo-Irish relations. >> >> >> >> The loss of Irish Studies at St. Mary=E2=80=99s would be a deeply disturbi= ng >> development and I sincerely hope that the university reconsiders it >> position. >> >> >> >> Yours sincerely, >> >> >> >> >> >> Dr. Tony Murray >> >> Director, Irish Studies Centre >> >> London Metropolitan University >> >> >> >> londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> 21 June 2016 >> >> I find it both shocking and stupefying that the management at St Mary=E2= =80=99s has >> apparently decided to put an end to the long-lived and distinguished >> tradition of Irish studies there, by suspending the successful MA in Irish >> Studies and effectively withdrawing support from the Centre of Irish >> Studies. The university has maintained a distinguished record in the field >> for decades, boosted in recent years by the appointment of Lance Pettit as >> Director, the longstanding input of Ivan Gibbons, and the imaginative >> recruitment of pioneering scholars such as Professor Mary Hickman to >> professorial research fellowships. I have visited the Centre, lectured >> there, and attended stimulating and high-octane symposia organised by its >> staff. It also has a distinguished record of producing students and winnin= g >> grant-aided support, notably from the Irish Government, as well as >> encouraging research in new growth-areas such as film studies and diaspori= c >> patterns. With Oxford and Liverpool, St Mary=E2=80=99s is one of the highe= r >> education institutions that has kept up a consistent strength in Irish >> studies, a subject of great interest for students at undergraduate and >> postgraduate level- especially those based in London. The study of Irish >> society and culture, and the country=E2=80=99s ancient and complex relatio= nship >> with Britain, has been increasingly relevant through the past decades, and >> never more so than at the present moment. For the university to wilfully >> cut off this area of strength and potential seems extraordinarily >> counter-productive, at a time when demand is high and other institutions o= f >> higher education (including my own) are putting resources firmly into this >> subject as an intellectual growth area. It is also a cavalier and unjust >> way to treat distinguished and hardworking academics. They, and the >> subject, deserve better. >> >> Yours sincerely >> >> >> R.F. Foster >> >> Carroll Professor of Irish History >> >> Hertford College, Oxford >> >> >> >> >> >> The end of the Centre for Irish Studies (CIS) at St Mary=E2=80=99s? >> >> Following a decision made by senior management the MA Irish Studies at St >> Mary=E2=80=99s University will not be recruiting a new cohort of students = for >> September 2016. The University has further decided not to include the >> Centre for Irish Studies in its plans for strategic development for >> 2016/17, deciding to back Bioethics (CBET), Human Slavery and the Benedict >> Centre for Religion and society amongst others. The contracts of the four >> Research Fellows have all come to the end of their term this year and they >> have been made redundant. The contract of the Director of the Centre ends >> in July and it too will not be renewed. Ivan Gibbons is retiring after >> seven years service at the end of August. >> >> CIS has been in existence since 1991 when the BA Irish Studies degree >> began. The University has long had links with Ireland since its inception >> in 1850. While the current MA students will be =E2=80=9Ctaught out=E2=80= =9D, London will >> not have a university-backed centre for research and postgraduate teaching >> in Irish Studies for the first time in a generation, despite the capital >> being home to the largest Irish community in Britain. >> >> It is deeply ironic that this decision has been taken in 2016 after all th= e >> renewal of relations between Britain and Ireland so far this century, >> including reciprocal Head of State visits. The cultural and social analysi= s >> and understanding that is provided by =E2=80=98Irish Studies=E2=80=99 is n= eeded now more >> than ever as the relations between the UK and Ireland are tested, and the >> political nature of these islands is being recast internally and within >> Europe. >> >> The University decision has been taken despite the CIS distinguishing >> itself in many ways in the past five years. For the record, it is the only >> such centre at St Mary=E2=80=99s to have been part of an AHRC research net= work >> grant (2015-17 Irish modernisms); CIS staff won British Academy grants (on= e >> grant being the largest single amount in the School of Arts and Humanities >> in 2014-16, on the Irish diaspora ); as a small, new unit of assessment >> (U36) in the 2014 REF submission it achieved highly and out performed othe= r >> more established units in areas of its submission (60% 4* and 3* weighted >> overall); MA graduates have gone on to PhD study and we had two PhD >> completions and two current part time students have recently successfully >> completed MPhil/PhD transfers within the past 6months; a succession of >> Culture Ireland grants, delivered a vibrant programme of pubic engagement >> and impact projects that took Irish Studies to Luton and Leeds, and from >> Brazil and to the Bronx; it ran and developed an increasingly popular set >> of community language programmes (with 38 students in 2015/16), funded by >> the Irish Government, recognized annually at the Embassy and most recently >> (May 2016) CIS successfully applied for 3 year, funded programme from the >> Irish government=E2=80=99s An Roinn Arts, Culture and Gaeltacht to develop= the >> Irish language worth =E2=82=AC104,000. >> >> CIS worked in partnership with the Irish Cultural Centre (ICC) in >> Hammersmith, the APPG in Parliament on an annual lecture series, with the >> Irish Literary Society likewise and undertook research and publications >> with the Irish Film Institute in Dublin and the theatre company Cia >> Ludens/University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Other colleagues gave invited >> lectures in India in November 2015. In September 2015, CIS hosted the >> British Association of Irish Studies annual conference, in January 2016 it >> worked with the ICC to host a conference on Trauma and the Troubles, and i= n >> >> January the University also had the vision to appoint Prof McAleese as a >> Visiting Professorship with significant Irish input, teaching and public >> engagement. >> >> All this is now being jettisoned. >> >> Prof. Mary J. Hickman >> Prof. Shaun Richards >> Former Professorial Research Fellows St Mary=E2=80=99s University, Twicken= ham >> >> 4 July 2016 >> >> -- >> London Metropolitan University is a limited company registered in England >> and Wales with registered number 974438 and VAT registered number GB 447 >> 2190 51. Our registered office is at 166-220 Holloway Road, London N7 8DB. >> London Metropolitan University is an exempt charity under the Charities Ac= t >> 2011. 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