phd students currently registered at the ncfis

Sarah Balen is working on a thesis entitled "A City Rooted Out of Time." It deals with poets as diverse as Charles Baudelaire, T.S. Eliot, Fernando Pessoa and Peter Sirr. More details on Sarah's research are available at the following link:

A City Rooted Out of Time

Jeanne Lakatos' research concentrates on the work of Sydney Owenson and is entitled: "Revolutionary Rhetoric: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Literature of Sydney Owenson Morgan." Click on the following for a more in-depth description of her work.

Revolutionary Rhetoric: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Literature of Sydney Owenson Morgan.

Jeanne Le Besconte is a "co-tutelle" who is being jointly supervised by Professor Anne Goarzin (Université de Rennes 2) and Dr. Eamon Maher (IT Tallaght). She is working on the following theme: "Langage, violence et claustrophobie : Le théâtre d'Enda Walsh en perspective."

Brian Murphy, a lecturer in IT Tallaght, is exploring the following theme: "The Role of Place, Story and Identity in Modern Perceptions of French Wine." Brian was also responsible for organising the first gastronomic research day at the NCFIS in April 2011.

The Role of Place, Story and Identity in Modern Perceptions of French Wine
 

First Phd from the ncfis

Peter D.T. Guy was awarded a Doctorate in Philosophy in November 2009 for his thesis ‘As Mirrors are Lonely’: A Lacanian Reading of Three Irish Novelists.

2nd PhD from the NCFIS

In November 2010 Jean-Christophe Penet was awarded a PhD for his thesis entitled ‘Goodbye to the Power and the Glory? From Modernity to Ultramodernity – A Socio-Historical Analysis of Secularisation as the restructuration of Catholic Beliefs and Practices in France and Ireland’.

The thesis was co-supervised by Eugene O’Brien and Eamon Maher. The two external examiners were Professor Michael Cronin (DCU) and Professor Tom Inglis (UCD). Jean-Christophe is the second PhD to come out of the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies.

First International Franco-Irish Postgraduate Conference

The first National Centre of Franco Irish Studies International Postgraduate Conference entitled Encounters / La rencontre was held at ITT Dublin on 5-6 October 2007. To read the conference program click here Conference Programme 2007 .

Dr. Eamon Maher, Professor Catherine Maignant
(Université de Lille3), Christophe Lerouge (French
Embassy) and Jean-Christophe Penet