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Open meeting
to establish level of interest in and enthusiasm for project, November
2001, funded by President, NUI Maynooth (IR£500) and President, St.
Patrick’s College Maynooth (IR£500); follow-up mission history day
November 2002.
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Government
of Ireland postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Charles Flynn, 2002-2004, oral history
project with returned missionaries; archive to be housed in Maynooth (see
oral history page).
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‘Resources
for mission history, a start-up project’, May- August 2003, funded by the
Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (see project
update)
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Government
of Ireland doctoral fellowship to Miriam Moffitt MA to work on records
of Irish Church Missions (commencing September 2003).
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Conference
on mission history 8 November 2003, to be hosted at Maynooth; November
2004 conference to be hosted by Union Theological College, Belfast.
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? A series
of presentations to the Association of Church Archivists of Ireland re
the ongoing development of this project.
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Meetings
with Caroline Brick (research assistant) and Rosemary Seton (Director),
of the Mundus project (School of Oriental and African Studies, London,
http://www.rslp.ac.uk/Projects/research/41.htm); with a view to collaboration;
both coming as guest speakers at Maynooth conference November 2003.
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Research
visit to Henry Martyn Centre, Cambridge, http://www.martynmission.cam.ac.uk/
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Presentation
to Yale-Edinburgh Group for the Study of Mission History at Yale by Dr.
Prunty, July 2003
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Established
collaboration between Maynooth
and Union Theological College,
Belfast; committed to the following irrespective of funding, and also plans
for joint funding applications:
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Continued
collaboration re archives, especially with regard to serial publications,
with surplus sets (e.g. periodicals resulting from the Maynooth project)
to be donated by agreement; also Charles Flynn advising UTC re managing
oral records.
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The Irish
Church Missions has generously offered to donate surplus sets of its publications
to both mission history centres.
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A common
course in mission history for final year undergraduates / taught postgraduates
offered in Maynooth (J. Prunty) and Belfast (L. Kirkpatrick), piloted Spring
2004, with core themes, common reading list and set of primary documents
with joint visit to Belfast (student papers and fieldtrip) and Maynooth
(student papers and National Bible Society seminar).
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Joint
postgraduate Easter research week, working in mission archives in London,
for April 2004.
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