🔴 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project Update Some good news came today with the results of the radiocarbon dating of skeleton no 13 (SK13). 1/

We’re delighted by this initiative and stand ready to deliver modules to both B.Ed. and PME students at Mary Immaculate College from September as part of our pilot programme to prepare future primary teachers to integrate Modern Foreign Languages into the school curriculum!

Dr. Mairead Ni Bhriain delivered a series of workshops on the CeoLingua CLIL resource - teaching French though Music - to primary school students visiting the Mary Immaculate College, Ireland campus this week. 1/3

French in the world 🌍 / French in Ireland 🇮🇪

You are looking at the only surviving publicly accessible copy of the original first edition (1848) of the biography of Daniel O’Connell written by Joséphine-Marie de Gaulle (Charles de Gaulle’s grand-mother) and it is kept in the National Library of Ireland in Dublin! 1/2

𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐥 𝐎’𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐝𝐞 𝐆𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐈𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 1/8

Delighted to take part in the Languages Connect #ThinkLanguages week yesterday in a celebration of linguistic diversity and language learning at Mary Immaculate College, Ireland. We welcomed almost 100 TY students from 3 post-primary schools who engaged in a number of language workshops. 1/2

Dr Mairéad Ní Bhriain was delighted to share findings from the CeoLingua research project at the Literacy Association of Ireland(LAI) annual conference with her co-authors Dr Francis Ward (DCU) and Dr Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain (UL). 1/3

It was a pleasure to attend Prof. Dermot Nestor’s inaugural lecture as President of Mary Immaculate College, Ireland today. 1/2

This month’s film club at 101 on O’Connell Street on Thursday 6 November 👇

Sincere congratulations to Mary Immaculate College BA graduate Rachel Plunkett (pictured here with Dr Mairead Ni Bhriain) who was awarded the French Embassy Prize offered every year to the student who achieved the best results in spoken French in the course of their degree with us! 👏 🥇 🇫🇷

Such a treat! It was full house yesterday evening at MIC Limerick for the “Irish of Brittany” show by amazing Breton artists Veronique Bourjot, Brewen Favrau, Soazig Hamelin and Kevin Le Pennec, preceded by a fascinating introductory talk on Irish migration to Brittany by Dr Éamon Ó Ciosáin. 1/1

Members of the Defence Forces have joined a search for the remains of Patrick Sarsfield in Belgium, as a campaign to try repatriate the Irish war hero back to Ireland enters its final phase.

Book your free tickets for THIS WEDNESDAY’s unique show at Mary Immaculate College, Ireland (Limerick campus). See full details and booking link below 👇👇👇

SAVE THE DATE for an UNMISSABLE event coming to Mary Immaculate College! Join us at 5pm in room T1.16 on Wed. 29/10 at MIC Limerick for an amazing event combining a short talk & a fantastic musical journey revisiting the Irish presence & influence over Brittany in the 17th & 18th centuries. 1/4

The Sarsfield Homecoming Project to be presented at the European Parliament in Brussels next week! 👇

The Sarsfield Homecoming Project being talked about in Le Figaro (the longest running French daily newspaper)! 👇

Just published 👇 “Spectacles du crime féminin en Europe” edited by Ariane Ferry, Judith le Blanc & Gwénaëlle Le Gras for PURH and containing our Head of Department Dr Loïc Guyon’s contribution on representations of Charlotte Corday on the French theatrical stage in the 19th century.

The Sarsfield Homecoming Project making great progress! @sarsfieldhome.bsky.social

A first look back at our Very Jacobite Evening at the LPYMA yesterday! More images to follow…

THIS IS TODAY (Saturday 5 July) and it looks like the weather will stay dry so come and join us for a wonderful afternoon!

Fifth portrait in the #SarsfieldHomecoming Project’s team members series with Maarten Larmuseau and Noah Gaens, both from the University of Leuven (KU Leuven). 1/7

Come and join the Wild Geese Festival at the LPYMA hall to witness history with the handover ceremony of a very rare illuminated manuscript roll by Limerick man and Jacobite James Terry (1660-1725). 1/4

🎶 Celebrate the Fête de la Musique in Limerick on Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 June! 🎶 Celebrating music in all its forms and the start of Summer, La Fête de la Musique (World Music Day) was first launched in France 43 years ago and is now celebrated around the world every year on June 21st… 1/3

Tomorrow (Friday 13 June) in Limerick!

Full programme of the 2025 Limerick Wild Geese Festival: www.limerick.ie/discover/wha...

That’s it! The programme of the 2025 edition of our festival is out after being presented yesterday at a special launch event No. 1 Pery Square Hotel & Spa. Find out more and book your tickets to our exciting events by clicking on the below link before it’s too late! www.limerick.ie/discover/liv...

Great start to the “Resistance Cultures Festival - Algeria 🇩🇿/ Ireland 🇮🇪” at Mary Immaculate College, an event organised by Dr Mairead Ni Bhriain (French Studies, MIC) and Prof. Martin Evans (History, University of Sussex) this morning.

REMINDER - This Friday at @micireland.bsky.social! 👇

We were delighted to meet with Prof. Véronique Lagae (Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France) who is visiting @micireland.bsky.social this week as part of an Erasmus+ mobility agreement recently signed between our 2 institutions. Many thanks to our International Office for organising her visit.

An event celebrating the power of music and performance as cultural resistance—with a specific focus on the parallels between Ireland and Algeria—will take place at MIC on Friday 30 May. Read more about it here: www.mic.ul.ie/news/2025/pe...

Fourth portrait in the #SarsfieldHomecoming Project’s team members series with our forensic anthropologist Dr Caroline Laforest. 1/

Art class for children this Saturday at Alliance Française Limerick. A great way to develop your kids’ creativity! 👇

Reminder - Art class for adults this Friday at Alliance Française Limerick 👇

🌍✨ Happy International Day of Francophonie! Today, we celebrate the French language and culture in Ireland, an observer country of the OIF since 2018 French is one of the most studied languages in Irish schools, with over 600,000 French speakers in the country 🇮🇪

🔴 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project Update RADIOCARBON DATING RESULTS AND A CRUCIAL MEETING (Part 2) Now on to the good news: the aim of our quick trip to Huy was to attend a decisive meeting with local stakeholders (the Huy City Council and AWaP, the Walloon Heritage Agency)… 1/

🔴 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project Update RADIOCARBON DATING RESULTS AND A CRUCIAL MEETING (Part 1) Just back from an express trip to Huy with some good and some not-so-good news… 🧵 1/

Dr Mairead Ni Bhriain and her colleagues Dr Francis Ward (DCU) & Dr Orfhlaith Ni Bhriain (UL) presented their research on the use of creative linguistic strategies for embodied learning in teaching dance at the 20th annual conference of the International Council for Traditions of Music & Dance today

Starting here a series of portraits of the #SarsfieldHomecoming Project team members with Stéphanie Ratz, in charge of urbanism and heritage in the administration of the Huy City Council, who has been instrumental since 2021 in sending me historical documents and providing us access to the site… 1/3

ICTS Symposium ‘Contested (Hi)Stories in Media and Creative Arts’ on 18 March will explore the role of media and arts in challenging narratives on conflict & migration. International panel & sound art performance & screening of documentary Intercepted (2024) by Oksana Karpovych shorturl.at/r91L8

Prof. Stephanie Schwerter (Université Polytechnique des Hauts de France) gave a very enjoyable lecture on the challenges of translation to staff & students from our department today. Prof. Schwerter is visiting MIC as part of a teaching mobility agreement signed last year between our 2 institutions.

Many thanks to St Michael’s National School, Limerick for inviting me to introduce their 5th & 6th class pupils to the #SarsfieldHomecoming Project. 1 hour of stimulating exchanges with the children! Fantastic to see so much enthusiasm for history among young people! Support us 👇 gofund.me/636e9bf5

This is (finally!) coming and we are ready to offer future primary school teacher with the training they need. Watch this space in the coming months for some exciting news in relation to that! www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

In case you missed yesterday’s great TV report by @harrymanningrte.bsky.social on RTÉ’s Six One News 👇 youtu.be/0m6gl_JSDoE

So the exciting news is finally out! Listen back to today’s Morning Ireland report by @harrymanning.bsk.social here www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... Or click on the below link to read his excellent article: www.rte.ie/news/munster... Many thanks Harry for your fantastic coverage of our project’s news! 🙏🏻