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Communications Office
Press Release
FIRST FOR NUI MAYNOOTH STUDENT
24th May 2007
Grace O’Sullivan, a Final Year Arts student at NUI Maynooth, has become the first Anthropology student from Ireland to achieve a place on the prestigious Washington – Ireland Program for Service and Leadership. Grace travels to Washington D.C. in June to take up a two month internship at the Association of Catholic Colleges which is based in the US capital.
The Washington – Ireland Program initially began in 1995, as a partnership with the Students’ Union at Queen’s University Belfast. WIP has received support from the Irish Government through its Department of Education and the International Fund for Ireland. WIP takes 30 diverse promising university students from the island of Ireland and brings them to Washington to engage in professional internships and intense team building in order to prepare Northern Ireland’s and Ireland’s next generation of leaders.
In addition to completing the internship, Grace will also commit to doing 30 hours of public service in keeping with the tradition of the Program which requires students to contribute some time to the community.
Grace, from Navan, Co. Meath is a double Honours student of Anthropology and Sociology. As part of her second year Sociology module Grace studied Northern Ireland Society. Covering the period from the birth of the civil rights movement in the late 1960s to the contemporary peace process, Grace had a particular interest in studying the way society and group identities, expressed in sites such as newspaper cartoons, street murals, and political marches, shape and are shaped by evolving historical, cultural and political forces.
Currently Grace is studying for her finals and has hopes to do a Masters in the same field of study.
Grace O'Sullivan
Issued by Communications Office, 01-7086160.