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Integrated schools offer way forward
Source: Irish Times
Northern Ireland remains a deeply divided society in several major respects, most notably in its educational system Excerpt: In 2002-2003, 94 per cent of Protestant children attended what are in effect Protestant schools, whether they were state-controlled or voluntary, while the equivalent figure for Catholic…
Resource type: News
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More integrated schools needed
Source: Irish Times
Integrated education can help create a new common ground in Northern Ireland politics, writes Professor Bernadette Hayes Excerpt: The goal of integrated schools is to foster an understanding of both traditions; by encouraging children to understand their historical and religious differences, it is claimed that…
Resource type: News
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Atlantic Philanthropies Gives €138m Grant to Tackle Dementia
Source: The Irish Times
By Carl O'Brien Atlantic Philanthropies is to give €138 million – its largest grant to date – to Trinity College Dublin and University of California San Francisco to help tackle the looming dementia epidemic. Almost 50,000 people are living with dementia in Ireland, a number which is projected…
Resource type: News
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Atlantic's Focus on Dementia Goes Global
Source: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
For more than two decades Atlantic has invested in programs to strengthen the quality of our lives, with a major emphasis on addressing needs arising from a worldwide population living longer than ever. Part of that work has included support for initiatives to leverage the…
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Some Reflections on Philanthropy and Government
Gara LaMarche, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies, gives the Keynote Address at the Annual Meeting of the United Neighborhood Houses in New York City. I appreciate the invitation to share some thoughts with the board and staff members of the settlement houses and other…
Resource type: Speech
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Kennedy enjoys the last laugh
Source: The Sunday Business Post
It is Tuesday afternoon and US senator Ted Kennedy is sitting in his shirt sleeves in a grand executive office in Stormont which, no doubt, once belonged to a unionist minister. Thomas Foley, the US ambassador to Ireland, and Paula Dobriansky, George Bush's envoy to…
Resource type: News
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Queen's unveils plans for new Seamus Heaney Centre
Source: RTÉ.ie
[caption id="attachment_83436" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] An artist impression of the Seamus Heaney Centre[/caption] Queen's University Belfast has announced a £4.9 million (€5.7m) new landmark venue for the Seamus Heaney Centre, which will open for staff, students and the public early next year. The reimagined space…
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Supporting Legal Action
Source: Alliance Magazine
Laws provide the skeletal frame of a social order but while laws in theory and by tradition serve the cause of justice, they can easily be, and often are, used to reinforce a repressive regime. Here James A. Goldston and Martin O’Brien reflect on the…
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New 6.7m research centre is an 'Irish first'
Source: Edie (Environmental Data Interactive Exchange)
Original Source Queen's University Belfast is an Atlantic grantee. A £6.7m research centre focusing on climate change has been opened at Queen's University in Belfast. In what the university has called a 'first for Ireland' the CHRONO Centre for Climate, the Environment and Chronology was…
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A fortunate life to give
Source: The Courier Mail (Australia)
By Stefanie Balogh Billionaire American Chuck Feeney, who has bankrolled much of Queensland's scientific and medical research, began his philanthropy in secret, writes Stefanie Balogh in New York FRUGAL to the point of eccentricity, Chuck Feeney travels the world economy class, wears a cheap plastic…
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