Congratulations to our colleague Dr Mairéad Ní Bhriain who successfully applied for research funding in response to the first call issued by the Teaching Council under its Research Support Framework. The project, developed in partnership with Dr Padraig Ó’Duibhir (Deputy Dean, Institute of Education, DCU), Dr Francis Ward (Assistant Professor in Music Education, DCU), Dr Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain (Lecturer in Music and Dance, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, UL) and Ms Maeve Moynihan (Gaelscoil an Raithín, Limerick), focuses on the use of music in Action-Orientated language learning. At least two primary schools, one in Dublin and one in Limerick, will take part in the experimentation of that innovative language learning method. Having completed the evaluation process, the Teaching Council Review Panel decided to allocate €2,400 to Mairéad and her research partners in support of the initial stages of their project. Research funding will be presented at an awards ceremony that is to take place on Wednesday 10 January in Dublin. More details will be published after the awards ceremony.

Dr Loïc Guyon hosted a special event of the Association des Membres de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques en Irlande (AMOPA Irlande) at Trinity College Dublin on Saturday 25 November which included the official launch of AMOPA Irlande’s 2018 competition for secondary-school students of French and a public talk by Ms Marie Anne Isler Béguin, Honorary Vice-President of the European Parliament and current President of the Institut européen d’écologie. The event was dedicated to the theme of the protection of the environment and to the ‘Make our Planet Great Again’ initiative launched in June 2017 by the French President Emmanuel Macron. For more information, please visit www.amopa-irlande.org

ENCORE BRAVO !!!! to our current MA student and Teaching Assitant Sarah Clancy who was presented with two more awards at a special ceremony held on the MIC campus on Tuesday: the Award for Academic Excellence in French Studies and the Award for Academic Excellence in Psychology. Well done again!!!

THE IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL comes to Limerick this week! Thanks to a partnership with the LimeTree Theatre and the Belltable, a number of films from the Irish Film Institute's yearly French film festival will be screened in Limerick from Thursday. Check out the programme here: https://www.limetreetheatre.ie/show-category/ififff/

Dr Loïc Guyon was invited to give a paper at an international conference dedicated to the year 1829 in France held at the University of Rouen Normandie on Thursday 9 and Friday 10 November. His paper was entitled: "Le Canon d'alarme : Scènes de la vie littéraire de 1829".

CONGRATULATIONS to graduate Sarah Clancy who was awarded the French Embassy Prize as well as the BA in Liberal Arts College Medal at the recent conferring ceremony held at MIC on Thursday 26 October. Sarah is currently doing a MA by Research in French Studies with us and has joined our teaching team as a Departmental Assistant. Stay tuned as she will be receiving two other awards soon!

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar speaks French too! :-) Click on the link below to watch the video: http://www.francetvinfo.fr/live/message/59e/f41/0bd/3f8/5d8/ec1/000/06c.html

Please note that in order to make up for your lost civilisation lecture last Monday, due to storm Ophelia, your Friday 10am grammar lecture tomorrow will be exceptionally replaced by a civilisation lecture on the French Revolution. See you all tomorrow in T116! LG

JOB AND TRAINEESHIP OPPORTUNITIES http://www.europeanmovement.ie/jobs-traineeships-12-october-2017/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a38OXNmzzjg&t=24s

JOB OPPORTUNITY https://ie.ambafrance.org/Richmond-Barracks-cherche-des-guides-francophones