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The Hindu
3 days ago
- Business
- The Hindu
Scholarships: June 7, 2025
Trinity Business School Global Excellence Postgraduate Scholarships An initiative of the Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, Ireland. Eligibility: Students holding a non-EU status and have admission in a full-time PG course and are able to pay tuition fees at non-EU rates. Rewards: Up to €5,000 Application: Online Deadline: June 15 MPOWER Women in STEM Scholarship An initiative of MPOWER Financing. Eligibility: Girls who are international studentsenrolled in a full-time STEM degree programme at a partner university in the U.S. or Canada. Rewards: Up to $5,000 (one-time). Application: Online Deadline: July 31 Central Sanskrit University (CSU) Merit Scholarship Offered by the Ministry of Education, Government of India. Eligibility: Opento students pursuing Sanskrit/ Pali/ Prakrit as a main/ optional subject in a recognised university and have passed the previous qualifying exam with minimum 60% and can read and write in the language. Rewards: ₹2,500 monthly Application: Online Deadline: September 30 Courtesy:
NDTV
20-05-2025
- Business
- NDTV
Planning To Study In Ireland? Check Top Universities, Key Points To Consider
Ireland is emerging as a favorite destination for Indian students to study, due to its excellent quality of life, secure surroundings, and robust emphasis on education and self-growth. For Indians who wish to study overseas, Ireland provides an array of globally recognised institutions of learning and industry-oriented courses. Top Universities in Ireland (QS World University Rankings 2025) According to the latest QS Rankings 2025, these are the leading universities in Ireland: Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin University College Dublin University College Cork University of Galway Dublin City University University of Limerick Maynooth University Technological University Dublin These institutions are renowned for their academic excellence, research output, and strong international student support systems. Popular Fields of Study Ireland is especially known for its programs in STEM disciplines, particularly in Big Data and Cybersecurity. Other high-demand areas include Law, Nursing, and Hospitality Management. Students also have access to several scholarship options, such as the Government of Ireland International Education Scholarship, which supports outstanding international students. Important Factors To Consider Before Applying Course Selection Carefully explore available courses to ensure they match your interests and qualifications. Each program may have different eligibility criteria and application deadlines, so thorough research is essential. Visa and Residency Requirements Indian students must apply for a student visa before traveling and obtain a residence permit after arriving in Ireland. It's also worth checking if your university offers support with post-study work visas, which are valuable for gaining international job experience. Language Requirements English is the primary medium of instruction and communication in Ireland. While Irish is also spoken, a strong grasp of English is essential for academic success and daily interactions. Internship Opportunities Look into whether your chosen institution offers internship placements. These can provide hands-on experience, industry connections, and sometimes financial assistance during your studies. Part-Time Work Regulations International students in Ireland are allowed to work part-time. This can help offset living expenses, but it's important to understand the legal limitations on student employment hours. Scholarships and Financial Aid Explore scholarships offered by the universities and the Irish government. These can significantly reduce tuition and living costs and ease the financial pressure of studying abroad. Studying in Ireland offers students a unique blend of academic excellence, cultural richness, and career opportunities. With the right planning and preparation, it can be a rewarding educational journey.
The Guardian
10-04-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Eden's Shore by Oisín Fagan review – hilarious, beautiful and very violent
In that dimple of European history between the French Revolution and the coronation of Queen Victoria, there lived a not inconsiderable number of men – usually young, dumb, and full of opium – whose foremost ambition was to set sail for the Americas, and there, in their own parcels of conveniently cheap and plentiful wilderness, found utopian communes where society could be forged anew in accordance with the principles of enlightenment. It certainly didn't hurt that these endeavours would enable – even necessitate – quite a lot of shagging. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his mates, Roberts Southey and Lovell, laid plans, between blasts of nitrous oxide and versification, for the foundation of a commune on the banks of Pennsylvania's Susquehanna River, chosen for its 'excessive beauty and its security from hostile Indians'. Lack of funds quickly became an issue, and soon our intrepid Romantics had compromised on location, proposing to found their 'Pantisocracy' in rural Wales instead of the New World. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the plan never came off. Angel Kelly, the hapless protagonist – or perhaps initiator would be a better word – of Oisín Fagan's second novel, Eden's Shore, is one of these Coleridgian dreamers. At the opening, we meet him as a young and feckless law student at the University of Dublin, hanging around Parliament Street with his 'broad-brimmed hat, a cravat and a small book of Montesquieu under his arm, from which he partook of no more than five sentences a day'. Secretly, he believes he will 'one day prove to be a great man'. An inheritance from a beloved aunt allows him to further augment his epicurean lifestyle, but when the pleasures of whoring, drinking and tobacco begin to pall, he resolves to spend the last of his wealth on an expedition to Brazil, with the intention of founding 'the harmonious society' of which he and his friends 'had so often and so manfully spoken': 'a colony that is free from the sins of the old world – a place free from tyranny, discrimination, illegality, religion, persecution, taxation'. His friends' mirthful reaction to Angel's grandly stated intent precipitates a feeling of disgust, 'gliding through his throat like an internal bruise', and incites him into realisation of his quixotic plans. He takes a ship from Dublin to Liverpool and from there secures passage aboard the Atlas, bound for Santana, Brazil. Due to a week-long bender with a dockside sex worker, he neglects to make thorough inquiries into the ship's business. Emerging from his cabin some time later, after a viscerally described bout of sea sickness, Angel discovers that the Atlas had, during a stopover in Nouadhibou, North Africa, taken on a human cargo. Our slipshod young revolutionary has now become an unintentional witness to – and, arguably, participant in – the barbarities of the Atlantic slave trade's Middle Passage. The Coleridge comparison is apt beyond the biographical, because the episode that follows as the Atlas is beset by rebellion and mutiny reads like a sort of roided-up Rime of the Ancient Mariner. When Angel and his newfound ally Flores, a Muslim scholar who boarded the ship with the intention of buying his mother's freedom at the far end of the passage, finally reach Brazil, thoroughly battered and bloodied, they find themselves at the centre of a conflict between imperial interests that threatens to swallow them more totally than any ocean. Angel Kelly's story ends up functioning almost as a prologue to Eden's Shore. This sprawling epic of the late 18th-century Americas examines questions of complicity, violence, the limits of philosophy, and what place love could have – what redemption it might begin to offer – in a world governed by the extractive logics of colonialism. If that sounds like an enormous drag, I assure you, this novel is unexpectedly hilarious and very beautiful. As well as deftly controlling and differentiating a vividly realised ensemble of dreamers, drinkers and mercurial freebooters, Fagan achieves a sultry, skirling prose that captures with equal precision both the beauty of the tropics and the spiritual and physical mutilations practised in their shade-bound midst. A 'dreamish' light lingers in bearded jungle trees; a bloated tick rests in a navel 'like a dolmen on a white plain'; the shoulders of a weeping man vacillate 'rapidly, like the amputated stumps of wings'. One of the things I appreciated most about this novel was Fagan's attentiveness to the polyglot confusion of Latin colonial life in a place where African freedmen, Chinese street hustlers and French Freemasons all muscle against each other to stake out ideological and literal territory, the complexity of communication in their many native tongues yielding moments of high comedy and intense pathos (often simultaneously). There is the Spanish cook on a slave ship, whose drunken declarations of guilt over the horrors in which he is made complicit are the more haunting for their linguistic derangement. There is the young Parisian revolutionary whose exuberant and ultimately futile idealism bursts the seams of his threadbare English: 'I want to share my learn with all the paysans of the world … we love the revolution so much, the equality, the liberty, the universal thing …' It perhaps ought to be said that, despite its many pulchritudes, Eden's Shore is a strikingly violent novel (as was Fagan's debut set in medieval Ireland, Nobber). I would argue that it needs to be, but some readers might blanch over the lingering, half-page descriptions of infected wounds and severed ocular nerves. To me, Eden's Shore often felt like a sort of maritime Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy's portentous masterpiece of the American west – and it will no doubt divide readers along similar lines. But I'd be hard pressed to think of higher praise. Sign up to Inside Saturday The only way to get a look behind the scenes of the Saturday magazine. Sign up to get the inside story from our top writers as well as all the must-read articles and columns, delivered to your inbox every weekend. after newsletter promotion AK Blakemore's novel The Glutton is published by Granta. Eden's Shore by Oisín Fagan is published by John Murray (£16.99).
