Yeats summer school s future hangs in balance irishtimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from irishtimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Minister Foley invites applications from schools for new arts in education initiative â BLAST 2021
The Minister for Education Norma Foley TD today invited primary and post-primary schools to apply for a new arts in education initiative, BLAST 2021. BLAST â Bringing Live Arts to Students and Teachers â is a new initiative which will enable up to 400 new arts in education residencies in schools each year.
The aim of this scheme is to give pupils in schools all over the country the opportunity to work with a professional artist on unique projects.
These bespoke classes will be originated and planned between the artist, teacher and the school under the coordination of the ESCI network of 21 full-time education centres.
Lahinch author to host annual famine remembrance event clareherald.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from clareherald.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Carrickboy native welcomes global interest in annual Afri Famine Walk
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Several hundred people worldwide have registered to join human rights group Afri’s annual famine remembrance event.
The annual famine walk usually takes place in the Doolough Valley in County Mayo, but due to Covid restrictions, it will take place online this year in the form of a 90-minute live stream event featuring a stellar line-up of talks, discussion, music and poetry.
The free event runs from 7 pm-8.30 pm on Saturday, May 15 and is organised in association with Trócaire.
The line-up includes renowned author and historian Professor Christine Kinealy, Director of the Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University in the United States. Folk singer Lisa O’Neill and harpist Brídín will perform, and acclaimed poet Paula Meehan will share some of her work.
The honorary conferring was part of the
Glocalisation in Healthcare - Nurses and Midwives thinking globally and acting locally to drive the policy and educational agenda event hosted by DCU.
Delivering the citation for
Annette Kennedy, Dr. Daniela Lehwaldt, DCU School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health, said:
“Annette has always been a leader - from her days as a nurse tutor, to her time as head of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, to her current position as President of the International Council of Nurses, representing around 20 million nurses in 130 countries worldwide.
Her approach to leadership brings to mind the well known Irish expression, Ní neart go cur le chéile”, roughly translated as, “there is no strength without unity”. Indeed, her watchword for her term as ICN President is “Together”. Annette is about bringing people together, and empowering them. As she told nurses in a recent ICN address, “together we can change the worl