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Sincere congratulations to Dr Sarah Nolan who was made a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques at a moving ceremony in the residence of the French Ambassador on Friday night. Her Excellency Madame Céline Place praised Sarah for her admirable work as President of AFIS, as well as for organising conferences and editing book collections in the area of Franco-Irish studies. In addition, she referred to how Sarah was a member of the team who organised the first doctoral seminar in what was then known as IT Tallaght, where she was the recipient of a PhD Fellowship at the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies – her thesis was supervised jointly by Professor Eugene O’Brien and Dr Eamon Maher.

Sarah’s two children, Andrew and Iris, along with her father Martin, who was Head of Accounting in IT Tallaght, and mother Monica, a former French teacher who imbued a love of the language and literature in Sarah from a young age, were there to share this lovely occasion, along with colleagues and AFIS members from IADT, TU Dublin, and the Doyenne of Franco-Irish Studies, Professor Emerita Grace Neville, whose positive influence was mentioned by the two recipients on the night, Sarah and Dr Paul Ryan from SETU.

 

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