Italian  studies awards

Barricelli Book Prize: Anne O’Connor

The Barricelli Book Prize, awarded by the International Conference on Romanticism for the best book on Romanticism published in 2010, has been awarded to European Romanticism. A Reader (general editor Stephen Prickett) and Italian editor Anne O’Connor. Dr. O’Connor was responsible for the Italian scholarly introduction to the volume and for the selection and translation of the Italian texts in the anthology. The Jean-Pierre Barricelli prize is given for the book judged to be the year's most distinguished contribution to Romanticism studies. Nominations are made by publishers and an international committee of scholars makes the decision.

Congratulations to NUI Galway student Florry O’Driscoll who won first prize in Italian in the prestigious Henry Hutchinson Stewart Scholarships. The awards are run annually and are based on the results of the First Arts Examinations in Italian in the NUI Universities. For more information see http://www.nui.ie/awards/undergraduates.asp.  

Italian Studies at NUI Galway wins European Language Award for an unprecedented third consecutive year.

For the third year running, Italian at NUI Galway has won the European Award for Languages (also known as the European Language Label) which recognises creativity and innovation in improving the quality of language learning and teaching.  The Award, which is coordinated by the European Commission, is an annual award given to projects where participants have found creative ways to improve the quality of language teaching, motivate students, and make the best of available resources. In 2007 the award was given to Dr. Anne O’Connor for her project ’Service Learning in Italian’, a course under which final year university students teach introductory classes in Italian in local primary schools. In 2008 Dr. Laura Incalcaterra McLoughlin and Dott. Francesca Magnoni received the award for the project L’Italia in Diretta, an interactive website designed and managed by final year students of the Bachelor of Commerce International (Italian) degree for the use of secondary school pupils. The project aims to promote awareness of Italian culture, society and language through transmission of information from student to student.  In 2009, Dr. Laura Incalcaterra McLoughlin and Dott. Jennifer Lertola were awarded the European Language Label for their course Learning Italian through creation of subtitles, which exploits the innovative opportunities afforded by digital technology for the development of cultural awareness and translation skills. The latter project is part of a research programme sponsored by the IRCHSS, Irish research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences. 

The unprecedented success of the Italian Studies at NUIG  in repeatedly winning this European Award shows the commitment of staff to new and innovative ways of teaching and learning languages. The prestigious achievement is unique amongst university language departments in Ireland.

In September, 2008 L’Italia in Diretta project was given the European Award for Languages - the Language Label . The award was presented to Dr. Laura  McLoughlin and Dott. Francesca Magnoni by Simon Coveney, T.D. at a special celebration in Dublin to mark the European Day of Languages on 26 September.  This project is aimed at secondary school students and features an interactive website, http://www.newitalianliving.com/ .   The website was created by students undertaking the Bachelor of Commerce International (Italian) Degree.  Please click on our News link for more information.  

In September 2007 the course in Service Learning in Italian (IT309) was given the European Award for Languages - the Language Label at a ceremony in the Department of Education, Marlborough Street, Dublin.  This initiative includes collaboration between staff and students of the Italian Department at NUI Galway with staff and students of a number of primary schools in Galway city and county.  Over 100 primary school students are currently studying Italian with this programme. Please click on our News link to see more information. 

STUDENT PRIZES

The following prizes are awarded annually to undergraduate students in Italian. 

THE ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE PRIZE

Each year the Italian Cultural Institute prize is awarded to the student who achieves the highest marks in the second year examination. 

THE RORY KAVANAGH BURSARY

The Bursary has been made possible by a generous donation from the family of the late Rory Kavanagh (1971-1996), a 1993 B.A. graduate of National University of Ireland, Galway, who spent the 1991-1992 academic year in Italy, at the University of Bologna under the ERASMUS Student Mobility Programme. The Bursary, is awarded annually to allow a student of Italian spend the year at a university in Italy. It is awarded to a fulltime undergraduate student of Italian who passes the second year examinations in Arts or Commerce. 

THE SALVATORE SFERRA MEMORIAL PRIZE

Dott. Antonio Castelli, formerly a member of the Department of Romance Languages (1963-1966), originally endowed this prize in memory of his uncle, Salvatore Sferra (Naples).  The purpose of the prize is to encourage competence in Italian and is awarded each year to that student who, in the judgment of the staff of the Italian Studies, is deemed to have made the most significant progress between second year and final year and who also makes a notable contribution to the Italian Society.


Awards for 2013

The Rory Kavanagh Bursary:              Aishling Prendergast

Awards for 2012

The Rory Kavanagh Bursary:              Cionna Evans

The Salvatore Sferra Prize:                 Rebecca Finnegan

Italian Cultural Institute Prize:             Joanna Marciniak

Awards for 2011

The Rory Kavanagh Bursary:              Marion Carey

The Salvatore Sferra Prize:                 Louise Kennedy

Italian Cultural Institute Prize:             Sarah Shwaiki

Awards for 2010

The Rory Kavanagh Bursary:                Adam Murphy

The Salvatore Sferra Prize:                   Conor David Nolan 

Italian Cultural Institute Prize:                Caoilfhionn Sile De Bhaldraithe 

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