Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-28
UNIVERSITY IS TO
HAVE IRISH STUDY
Fellowship Foundation to Be Estab-
lished at Champaign Through
Patronage of Chicago Club.
PRESIDENT JAMES TO ASSIST
Joseph T. Lloyd of Dublin Chosen to
Direct the Work-Will Cooperate
With Foreign Scholars.

The establishment OF an Irish Eel
lowship Foundation" at the University
of Illinois Is now assured. This re-
suit has been accompanied by the Irish
Fellowship club of Chicago, directed
by lis president, Judge John P. Nc
Goorty, in cooperation with President
Edmund J. James Of the university
and Professor Gertrude SChoepperle,
of the faculty, whose specially is Irish
studies.
Several weeks ago President James
and Professor Schoepperle addressed
the Irish Fellowship club at its week
~ luncheon. They then outlined the
plans they had for making the Uni
versity OF Illinois the center for re-
search work in the field OF Irish schol-
arship. at least on the American CONT
nent. Their proposals were received
enthusiastically and resolution was
adopted pledging the Irish Fellowship
club 10 give all possible aid to the IN
dertaking
Judge McGoorty at once went to
work on the organization of commit
tee to confer with President James
and Professor Schoepperle as to the
practical steps necessary to translate
words into deeds. After several con-
ferences it has been decided TO make
beginning by establishing an Irish
Fellowship Foundation This is eX-
pected to grow to the dimensions of
an Irish academy.
Professor Schoepperle voices the
plans OF herself and President James
thus: 1T is proposed to establish an
Academy of Irish Research at the Uni
versity of Illinois with the purpose OF
editing and translating Irish manu-
scripts contributing to better know
ledge OF the Irish past. 1t is hoped
that funds may be offered by Irish
Americans and Irish societies OF the
United States to increase the present
collection of Irish books, manuscripts
and antiquities and to establish num-
Der of research fellowships.
at is the purpose of the University
of Illinois TO cooperate with foreign
scholars, such as Professor kuno Mey-
e-, and with the universities and other
learned bodies in Ireland engaged in
the study of Irish. with a view to pub
fishing a definite history OF Ireland
and Irish literature, including the folk
lore still alive among the Irish people,
Awarding Fell0wships.
1.-The plan is to award half of the fell
lowships TO students appointed by the
professors of Irish in these latter in
stitutions They must already be
equipped with pathological and histor
zeal training and must, if possible. b
4 native speakers of Irish. 1t shall b.
j their duty to carry on research in tn
University of Illinois and to give in
struction to American students VIII
wish to take up the work.
THE other half of the fellowship
shall be awarded to American student
who shall carry on reasearch worl
either here, under the direction of th'
Irish Fellows and the staff of the uni
versity, or in Ireland if residence Their
promises to be more profitable fol
their research. The investigations O.
the Fellows will be published in {
special series of monographs in The
Pathological Studies of the university.
"A scientific study of the industrial
and economic problems Of modern Ire
land and of Irish immigration, espec
tally to the United States. will be car
ried in collaboration with the depart
ment of history of the University o
Illinois. A further project is the pub
lcation of a uniform series of trans
lations of the most important works o
Irish literature and history, in an in
expensive and accessible form.
FINALLY. if means permit. we may b.
able to publish a magazine presenting
the best of contemporary Irish life il
a popular and dignified form, illum
mating present social and industrial
conditions in Ireland, and dealing will
Irish art, literature and science"
Such is the ambitious scheme Il
which practical effect is about to b'
given. The Fellowship club commit
tee headed by President McGoorty has
instructed Professor Schoepperle tt
engage the services of JOSEPH
7. Lloyd, of Dublin, as the heaC
of the Irish Fellowship Foundation.