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ITIA Bulletins
ITIA Bulletin 2023/1
- Members’ Corner: Panos Kiliorides
- The first ITIA Bulletin 2003
- ITIA Match Making
- Latest interpreting tender results
- ITIA and ISO
- Sports Journalism and MT
ITIA Bulletin 2022/4
- International Translation Day 2022
- New Director at TCLCT
- Interpreting matters
- CPD reports
ITIA Bulletin 2022/3
- Members’ Corner: Penelope Eades Alvarez
- Call to AV translators
- Red T – Looking out for interpreters
- Unprofessional professionals
ITIA Bulletin 2022/2
- Members’ Corner: Sébastien Rolland
- ITIA Representation – AVTE AGM / CEATL AGM / XXII FIT World Congress
- Hanging on a thread – Remote interpreting in legal settings
- Literary links – Recognition of literary translators
ITIA Bulletin 2022/1
- Members’ Corner: Vera Smith
- Court interpreting: A solicitor’s view
- ITIA checks recordings of legal interpreting
- Remote Simultaneous Interpreting (RSI)
ITIA Bulletin 2022/4
- Members’ Corner: Penelope Eades Alvarez
- Call to AV translators
- Red T – Looking out for interpreters
- Unprofessional professionals
ITIA Bulletin 2022/3
- Members’ Corner: Penelope Eades Alvarez
- Call to AV translators
- Red T – Looking out for interpreters
- Unprofessional professionals
ITIA Bulletin 2022/2
- Members’ Corner: Sébastien Rolland
- ITIA Representation – AVTE AGM / CEATL AGM / XXII FIT World Congress
- Hanging on a thread – Remote interpreting in legal settings
- Literary links – Recognition of literary translators
ITIA Bulletin 2022/1
- Members’ Corner: Vera Smith
- Court interpreting: A solicitor’s view
- ITIA checks recordings of legal interpreting
- Remote Simultaneous Interpreting (RSI)
ITIA Bulletin 2021/4
- Members’ Corner: Annette Schiller
- Embattled linguists: An interview with Maya Hess
- ITIA’s new home: A new chapter
- FIT Europe – 4 years at the helm
ITIA Bulletin 2021/3
- Corporate Social responsibility
- Lost for words
- Lore from our literary colleagues in Germany
- Leasuithe Ceadaithe do Bhille na dTeangacha Oifigiúla 2003
ITIA Bulletin 2021/2
- Members’ Corner: Chris Hopley
- Interpreting Matters
- Translation Competitions
- Needs of Children in Direct Provision
ITIA Bulletin 2021/1
- A translator’s Brexit lament
- A 21st century career beckons
- New Register of Irish Sign Language Interpreters
- Interpreting in Fair City
- Translators associations Swedish style
Corporate Social responsibility
ITIA Bulletin 2020/4
- Member’s corner: Lichao Li
- Interpreting in International Protection
- Translators and MT – Writing an elegy for a doomed profession?
- Managing expectations in relation to eTranslation
- ITIA Translation Competition 2020
- English language test for interpreters – not fit for purpose
ITIA Bulletin 2020/3
- Conference interpreters in Ireland: Current status and future developments
- EU research into working conditions of translators
- New Request for Tender for Interpreting Services
- ITIA’s latest membership benefit – mentoring
ITIA Bulletin 2020/2
- ITIA’s response to Covid-19
- ITIA Covid-19 Pandemic Survey
- ‘Oops!’ moments and how to avoid them
- FIT Europe response to Covid-19
ITIA Bulletin 2020/1
- Community interpreting in Ireland: An update
- Member’s corner: Azucena Bermudez
- Austria’s court interpreters go on strike
- BDÜ conference
2019/4
- A translation shared – a translation halved?
- Lawsuit for possession of Danish author’s diary
-
Rediscovering Ulysses in Irish
2019/3
- Benefits of volunteering
- Solidarity on Line
- ITIA rates survey
- FIT Europe workshop in Athens
2019/2
- An Coiste Téarmaíochta world class terminological database
- Translating between “small” languages – a personal experience
- Members Corner
2019/1
- Members Corner
- Microsoft AI-powered translation tool to be used in House of the Oireachtais
- Obituaries
2018/5
- The story behind the Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation
- The Association of Catalan Language Writers
- Obituaries
2018/4
- Transcreation Workshop with Nina Sattler-Hovdar
- Nuance-ticklers and word nerds: Celebrating the art of translation
2018/3
- 1986-2016: How it all began – a brief history of NZSTI by Patrick King
- CEATL AGM Copenhagen May 2018
- ASETRAD XV Congress in Zaragoza
- Status and recognition of legal interpreters and translators (LIT) today
2018/2
- Treaty Times Thirty Project
- CPD Ireland: Transcreation
2018/1
- Target languages
- Interview with Bernadette Ferguson
- ITIA 2018 Kick start
2017/5
- Members’ Corner – Ken Waide
- From deaf language brokering to French deaf professional translation
- New: Snippets
2017/4
- Members’ Corner – Maire Nic Mhaolain
- What kind of translator are you? Economic value of book translation
- Disruption and diversification – XXI FIT Congress
2017/3
- Members’ Corner – Rachel McNicholl
- Çevbir – Literature Translators’ Society Turkey
- CEATL AGM Report
2017/2
- Members’ Corner – Adam Brożyński
- Hungary Literary Translators’ Association
- An Agency’s View – Nova Language Solutions Ltd.
- EULITA 2017 – General Assembly and pre-conference events
2017/1
- Members’ Corner – Andrée Loredon
- CEATL – The Skull Thing
- An Agency’s View – DCU Language Services
2016/5
- Members’ Corner – Akagi Koyabashi
- ARTLIT, Romanian Association of Literary Translators
- Central Procurement Agency tender for Interpreters
2016/4
- Members’ Corner – Isabelle Vallet Dunne
- Macedonian Translators Association
- Eagrán Nua den Chaighdeán Oifigiúil – Máire Nic Mhaoláin
2016/3
- Members’ Corner – Irene Meneguzzi
- Report on CEATL AGM Sign Language Interpreter shortage in Donegal
- ITIA survey results
2016/2
- Members’ Corner – Sarah Jane Aberásturi
- Report on EULITA General Assembly
- History, memory and translation in Hispanic Literature
- Argentinean rights bill for literary translators
2016/1
- Members’ Corner – Barbara Fisher
- Review by Georgina Heydon of ‘Police Investigative Interviews and Interpreters’ by Mulayin et al.
- The Client Perspective on the ideal interpreter by Judy Jenner
2015/5
- Members’ Corner – Lydia Grabowska
- Report on FIT Europe Annual Meeting
- Human Rights and Interpreting: the Irish legal system (Royal Irish Academy)
2015/4
- Members’ corner – Fanny Gendrau-Kelly
- Report on CEATL AGM Irish Council for Civil Liberties Human Rights Film Awards
- Iconic Translation Machines
- Report on Working Group on Asylum Protection Process
2015/3
- Members’ Corner- Patricia Hawkins de Medina
- Courts Service pays over €1m for interpreters Translation Service brings legal action against Garda Commissioner
2015/2
- Albanian literature in translation
- Recent developments in Spanish-Irish poetry translation
- Report on EULITA general assembly
- A career as an EU translator
2015/1
- The battle of the translators: man v machine
- Patient lost in translation
- Translators for Journalists
- Laghdú ar sheirbhísí ateangaireachta cúirte
- FLAC Report review
- Corkman who translated ‘Mein Kampf’
September 2014
- Report on FIT Statutory Congress
- Garda Síochána request for tender for interpreting services
- Translation right or wrong
- Irish-Chinese literature translation prize
- European network to promote linguistic diversity
July 2017
- Standards must be enforced (Australia)
- Apps for interpreters
- Second-class interpreting – Erika Gonzalez
- The best-loved Canadian tale in Japan – Peter Dufree
- Open letter to Dean Burnett, Amazon Crossing
- RTÉ to begin audio description of ‘East Enders’
- Review by John Kearns of ‘Kafka Translated’ by Michelle Woods Irish translation of ‘Dracula’
May 2014
- Ontario association welcomes court interpreter testing as a good start
- New EU directive on interpreting and translation in criminal proceedings
- New agreement on fees and royalties for literary translators in Germany
- The backstabbing translator by Konstantinos Stardelis
- Report on 5th International Conference on Public Service Translation and Interpreting
- Review of ‘The Irish District Court’ by Caroline O’Nolan
March 2014
- Google admits ‘garbage in, garbage out’ translation problem
- Irish speaker fails in bid to have bilingual jury for assault case
- Child’s death led to major reform, says ambulance chief
- Translating Mercè Rodoreda (TCD Centre for Literary Translation
December 2013
- Commission warns on new legal translation law
- Mandela sign language interpreter ‘faced murder charge
- Results of independent survey of public service interpreters & further news on the MoJ contract
- Anything can happen
- Book Review: Game Localization: Translation for the Global Digital Entertainment Industry. Minako O’Hagan and Carmen Mangiron
- Antonia Lloyd-Jones – A Public Interview
October 2013
- Word for Word: Losing out on access to translations
- Irish Novelist Catherine Dunne wins Boccacio International Prize
- MEMOIR: Séamus Heaney R.I.P
- Ergonomic Issues at the Professional Translation Workplace
- Liam Ó Rinn
- Potty Mouths and Prurience
August 2013
- Interpreter jailed for helping learner drivers cheat on their theory test
- Cost of Court Interpreters in Ireland Down 57% Since 2008
- Lost in translation
- When being lost in translation kills
- Téarmaíocht don Aontas Eorpach
June 2013
- NHS use dial-up translator company who earned £12 million last year from UK operations
- Exaro: Capita contract for court interpreters veers towards ‘collapse’
- Interpreter’s ‘low pay’ halts a trial
- CEATL Report 2013
- Maternal Deaths Enquiry
- Language linked to deaths at childbirth
- Book review: Overture to the Opera: Italian Pastoral Drama in the Renaissance – Poliziano’s Orfeo and Tasso’s Aminta with Facing English Verse Translation
April 2013
- The Courts Service Interpreting Tender
- A translators life: Chasing black cats in a black room in pursuit of the art of losses
- Interpreters Accomplishments Fail to Translate Into Visas
- Conference report: First APCI International Conference
- 5 Red flags the Freelance Translator Cannot Ignore
- Book review: Scientific and Technical Translation Explained: A Nuts and Bolts Guide for Beginners by Jody Byrne
February 2013
- Courtroom savings hard to interpret
- Internet for business
- The vicarious trauma for the professional interpreter
- New English-Irish dictionary on line – Foclóir Nua Béarla- Gaeilge
- Australians raise the bar for interpreters and translators
- Book review: Handbook of Translation Studies Vol. 1, ed. Yves Gambier and Luc van Doorslaer
December 2012
- UK PAC Press Notice re MoJ Interpreting services
- Interpreting politicians: The work of parliamentary polyglots – Esther Webber
- Copenhagen police admit using Google translation in terror investigation was mistake – Christian Wenande
- Conference Report on Lucentino Symposium – Miren Maialen Samper
- The cultural dimension in games localisation – Silvia Ferrero
November 2012
- £5m spent on translation and interpreting in Northern Ireland health services – Evening Herald
- Boss of Applied Language Solutions blames interpreters for failures – Manchester Evening News
- Italian interpreting cutbacks: skimping or saving? – Mary Fons I Fleming
- Report on TRAFUT Workshop, Antwerp – Miren Maialen Samper
- The challenge of making translations visible – David Vaughan
- Things I wish I knew as an interpreter – Ewandro Magalhães
- Microsoft demos instant English-Chinese translation – BBC News
August 2012
- Who holds judiciary to account when they get it wrong? – Shaun Connolly
- CEATL report 2012 –Máire Nic Mhaoláin
- IATIS conference report – Miren Maialen Samper
- Athbhreithniú ar Chaighdeán Oifigiúil na Gaeilge
- Welsh language activist jailed over refusal to pay English-only fine – Steven Impey
July 2012 (link to follow)
- 384 European arrest warrant appeals made to Ireland – Carol Coulter
- “Soft machine” and “Snuff” translators and publishers on trial in Turkey – Rana Ençol
- Research changes Danish legal system – Tine Bagger Christiansen
- The realities and benefits of translation as a full-time job – an introduction
- 10 ways to prepare – Monterey Institute of International Studies
- Interpreter request is refused by court because man has ‘been in UK long enough’ – Plymouth Herald
April 2012
- Courts last in translation, thanks to outsourcing giant in England and Wales – Frances Gibb
- Court translation service in crisis after cost-cutting deal – Channel 4
- Gavin Wheeldon of Applied Language Solutions hits back – Yakub Qureshi
- Interpreting error leads to £25,000 retrial costs – Ruth Green
- Robyn Dean workshop – report by Miren Maialen Samper
February 2012
- Bad “Hindi Translation” leads to mistrial in Brampton sex assault case – Toronto Stat
- Abu Dhabi Federal National Council passes law on translators – Samir Salama
- Swedish jobs agency slammed over ‘cheap’ interpreters – Rebecca Martin
- MoJ interpreting hub a ‘false economy’ – Catherine Baksi
- Judge Paul Carney: use of interpreters to be curbed due to budgets – breakingnews.ie
December 2011
- Australian trial aborted after juror criticises Indonesian interpreter – Geesche Jacobsen
- Translation vexation: non-English speakers in Ireland and affidavit evidence – David Boughton
- Longford Judge hits out at interpreters’ service
- IPCITI conference report – Miren Maialen Samper
- Interpreter/detective provides startling evidence in Ontario
- Freelancing for DCU Language Services Ltd – Aisling Nolan
October 2011
- How £11,000 a day is lost in translation over foreign NHS patients in Scotland – Sam Walker
- Does justice lose something in translation? – David Bellos
- Courts Service interpreting tender process – Mary Phelan
- Bad interpreters a ‘threat’ to rule of law in Sweden – thelocal.se
- Utah’s language law for driver’s licence test creates roadblock for refugees – Salt Lake Tribune
- Translation derails sex assault trial – Joseph Brean
August 2011
- Translations available on request – degrees in Latin and certificates of naturalization in Irish – Mary Phelan
- ‘Promotoras’ bridge doctor-patient barrier in hospitals in LA – Denise Dador
- Language app helps US troops in Afghanistan – Kristen McCrae
- Paramedics advised parents to give boy 7Up, inquest told – Georgina O’Halloran
June 2011
- Koreans and Scots celebrate legacy of Bible translator – Christiantoday.com
- Ottawa court interpreters looking to unionize – The Lawyers Weekly
- Schoolgirl is youngest Parliament interpreter – Ben Lee
- Council of Irish Sign Language Interpreters established – Cormac Leonard
- Mortality data delivers surprising results – Irish Times
- EU Patent Office and Google seal pact on translation
- Interpreters play vital role in US court system – Karen Madden
- Interpreter completes three years in Afghanistan – Adrienne Brammer
- Conference report – 10th FIT Forum on Ethics and Good Practices – Miren Maialen Samper
April 2011
- Over 300 interpreters ready to help quake-affected foreigners – Kyodo News
- Lancashire police interpreter contract is scrapped – Sam Chadderton
- Conference report on AVIDICUS symposium on remote interpreting – Miren Maialen Samper
- Huang Youyi: China has stories to tell the world – Ren Zhongxi
- Lost in translation: courtroom video-link interpreting – Catherine Burton
February 2011
- Interpreter’s actions raise suspect rights question – Chase Purdy
- Translation as Literary Ambassador – Larry Rother
- Courts Service goes to tender again – Mary Phelan
- Medical interpreters are a patient’s right – Francesca Lunzer Kritz, LA Times
- Deaf man can sit on jury, says judge – Eithne Donnellan
December 2010
- Lack of interpreters a threat to Swedish asylum process – thelocal.se
- European Commission wants more universities to offer courses for translators
- Conference Report – Mediterranean Translators and Editors Meeting – Ann Marie Bohan
- Conference Report – Sixth International Conference in Translation and Interpreting (IPCITI) Manchester – Miren Maialen Samper
October 2010
- Loughborough, Leicestershire immigration centre criticised for lack of interpreters – BBC News
- NHS ‘failing those who don’t speak English’ – BBC News
- Business “sans frontiers”! – Languages for European SMEs
- Conference Report – Birmingham Critical Link conference on public sector interpreting – Mirean Maialen Samper
August 2010 (link to follow)
- Two anthologies of poetry in translation – Máire Nic Mhaoláin
- Conference Report: Author –Translator conference in the European Literary tradition – Pawel Zosik
- Thank you, but no thank you! – Michael J McCann
- Demand for translating services slump amid public sector cuts in UK – Katie Allen
- EU recruitment
June 2010
- Dublin Rape Crisis Centre interpreter training – Miren Maialen Samper
- See one, do one: a handy grasp of Hindi – Rishika Sinha
- Unilingual Supreme Court of Canada judges just don’t get it – Sébastien Grammond
- What is in a name? – Kevin Lin
- Will Lady Justice ever be multilingual? – Nataly Kelly
- Siobhán Parkinson, Ireland’s first Laureate na nÓg – Enda Wyley
- Dáil questions about achievements of Foras na Gaeilge 11 May 2010
May 2010
- New online Italian MA in specialist translation – Michael McCann
- Why literary translators deserve some credit – Tim Parks
- Interpreters in California challenge process that certifies skill – Dana Littlefield
March 2010
- The lives of others – Madrid police translators – Carla Guimares
- Spanish judges protest at lack of qualified translators in court cases – F. Javier Barroso
- Hundreds of Hungarian driving licences issued to illiterate Romanians – Krisztina Zimányi
- Statistics-based machine translation gaining ground – Irish Times
- European Commission proposes minimum Translation and Interpreting standards for suspects – Irish Times
- Pádraic MacKernan 1940-2010 – John Kearns
February 2010
- Arts Council refuses Irish Writers Centre funding for a second year – John Kearns
- New translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s classic text – Toril Moi
- Just what do you take me for? – Jody Byrne
- The art of relationship-building with direct clients – Judy Jenner
- Northern Ireland Judges request Basque Arturo Arteaga warrant clarity – BBC News
January 2010
- Translating for the European Union- Pat Upton
- Aspects of Legal Interpreting and Translation conference report – Miren Maialen Samper
- Cost-effective legal recourse (Small Claims Court) now possible for freelancers – Elizabeth Hayes
- Dáil questions on cost of Irish translation
- EU language industry set to ride out the crisis
- Literary translation prizes awarded in 2009
November 2009
- Conference Report – Translating and Interpreting beyond East and West – Miren Maialen Samper
- ATA conference stresses importance of specialising
- Labour TD asks questions in Dáil about translation of new legislation
- Minister Ó Cuív defends Irish translations
- Chinese translation dispute: “Aobama” or “Oubama”? – Mary Ma
October 2009
- Health Service Executive emergency multilingual aid
- R&D into automated translation
- Gaddafi’s UN interpreter hits a wall
- UNESCO celebrates the Harry Potter effect
- The cost of competing in the Polish market – Henry Grodsk
- Concern over shortage of European Commission interpreters, especially for French
August 2009
- Welsh makes it to Brussels
- Dáil question re certification system for interpreters
- Criminals to gain right to Translation and Interpreting services
- Ever more language issues in Irish healthcare
- Oxford University Press announces new Kafka translations
- Gmail integrates automatic translation technology
- UK councils’ translation costs in the headlines again
- Court interpreter alleges racial discrimination
March 2009
- Interpreters in Ireland must be employees – Mary Phelan
- Translating pain into action: a study of gender-based violence in Ireland – Mary Phelan
- European Commission concerned about lack of up and coming translators/interpreters
- Minister’s questions in the Dáil on training for interpreters – Mary Phelan
- Legal documents still not available in Irish – Mark Tighe
- Scottish police accused of rights abuse over interpretation
- Cornish translation by Nicholas Willliams of Alice in Wonderland
- Polish driving licence causes embarrassment – Ruadhán Mac Cormaic
January 2009
- Arts Council to cut Irish Writers Centre funding – Annette Schiller
- Interpreting News – Garda tender process – Mary Phelan
- Saving money on translators and interpreters – Susan Purcell
- Murder case postponed in Galway for interpreter no-show – Martina Nee
- Second EU translation contest winners announced
- MEP discusses progress of Irish as official language
- New blog for medical translation
- New interpreting software for UK hospitals
November 2008
- Iraqi interpreters banned from wearing masks
- Garda complains about lack of interpreting standards in Ireland
- Court case breaks down in Scotland over unqualified interpreter
- Obituary: Jin Di
- Irish Times interview with Word Perfect
October 2008
- Garda tender for Translation and Interpreting Services
- Interpreter removed from Irish court over affidavit conflict
- Career questions – interview with Máire Nic Mhaoláin
- Question on language for 2011 census – Mary Phelan
- Report on 22nd ITIA Annual General Meeting
- New research into language learning abilities
- Obituaries – Henry Fischbach and Taheher Saffarzadeh
September 2008
- Prix de la traduction littéraire winner Philip Mosley
- Translation problem in Russia-Georgia peace plan
- Death of ITIA honorary member Seán MacMathghamhna
- The idiom: yesterday’s news – Paul Allen
- Open Letter – Publishing house dedicated to literature in translation
- MT company sees bright future
- Murder case based on faulty Turkish-English translation
- European Commission threatens Irish State with legal action over Lionbridge contract – Jamie Smyth
August 2008
- Quran translator passes away
- Report on FIT World Congress, Shanghai – Elizabeth Hayes
- Interview with João Esteves-Ferreira, president of FIT Europe
- A Medical Interpreter’s Guide to Telephone Interpreting by Nataly Kelly
- New UK freelance qualified interpreter pay rates
- Asylum and language analysis in Ireland
- Conference Report – XIII Euralex International Congress
June 2008
- Equality Tribunal case: 58 named complainants vs Goode Concrete Ltd (translation of contracts of employment)
- Dublin Rape Crisis Centre Interpreting in Situations of Sexual Violence and Other Trauma
- Translation at centre of South Korean beef debacle – Mary Phelan
- Status Quaestionis – the provision of legal interpreting and translation in the EU – Mary Phelan
- Career questions – Nicola Ryan, VistaTec
- British translator Margaret Jull Costa wins two prestigious awards
May 2008
- Two spheres of T/I at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games
- Telephone Interpreting seminar by Nataly Kelly – Mary Phelan
- New technology means leap forward for sign language interpreting services
- From boom to bust – freelancing in a recession – Elizabeth Hayes
- Realities and aspirations (medical interpreting in Ireland)
- Conference Report – 3rd International Conference on Public Service Translation and Interpreting Alcalá de Henares – Karolina Jarmolowska and Miren Maialen Samper
April 2008
- New audiorecording system in Irish courts
- ITIA submission to Oireachtas Committee
- Galway District Court judge refuses payment to unsatisfactory interpreter
- Sign language interpreters risk ergonomic injury
- Career questions: Interview with Angelika Meitz
- Facebook attempts collaborative translation – Elizabeth Hayes
- Irish language department in the European Commission – Donal Carey
- Renowned translator Robert Fagles dies
- Conference Report – community interpreting – Miren Maialen Samper
March 2008
- Health Service Executive National Intercultural Health Strategy 2007-12
- Career questions – Donal Carey, senior translator at Directorate General for Translation
- Time management for Freelancers (part II) – Elizabeth Hayes
- Some thoughts on the Garda tender process for T&I – Mary Phelan
- Conference Report – Translation in Second Language Teaching and Learning – John Kearns
February 2008
- Lionbridge Technologies fires union representative in Poland
- Cowboys and Indians – Ulrike Fuehrer
- South Korea launches Translators and Interpreters Association
- Time management for freelancers – Elizabeth Hayes
January 2008
- Michael Cronin awarded honorary membership of ITIA – John Kearns
- Health Service Executive intercultural strategy calls for nationwide interpreting service
- Language software development gets boost from European Commission
- Court Interpreting – who should pay?
- Paying for court interpreters falls to defendants in Indiana
- Index Translationum – a bibliography of translations
November 2007
- TV ad leaves Polish audience perplexed
- Online MT causes embarrassment
- Review of 500 seanfhocal/Proverbs/refranes/przyslów – John Kearns
- DCU get funding for automatic translation project
- Kalima project to bring world literature to Arabic speakers
- Revival needed for translated works
- The first Duais Uí Dhoibhlin awards ceremony
- Turkey promises to amend infamous Article 301
- Government ministers reminded to use the Irish language
October 2007
- Irish Examiner reports on district court judge dismissing incompetent interpreters
- Donegal Democrat reports on lack of court interpreters
- Court interpreters in the news (for the wrong reasons) – Mary Phelan
- About our invisibility cloak
- Report on ITIA AGM 2007 – Michael Friel and John Kearns
- Personal Injury Assessment Board moves on translation costs
- No interpreter provided for Chinese domestic abuse victim in Toronto
- Arabic translation takes £2,000 award
- Los Angeles court interpreters return to work – without pay raises
September 2007
- Immigrant’s death prompts calls for development of medical interpreting services in Ireland – Elizabeth Hayes
- Court interpreters take to the street in California
- Translating diplomacy
- Report on International Translation Day
August 2007
- Interpreting Services cost Courts Service €2m – Elizabeth Hayes
- English well talking – Alda Gómez
- From our lips to your ears project
- Graduate Certificate in Community Interpreting at Dublin City University
- Teen translators infringe Harry Potter copyright…again
- Legislation on sworn translation – Polish example
- Iraqi interpreters continue to fall
- Oxford dictionaries to go online
June 2007
- Out Stealing Horses wins 2007 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
- ITIA community interpreting sub committee meeting – Mary Phelan
- Homage to Gregory Rabassa – Alda Gómez
- Interpreting Central and Eastern Europe through local_minds
- Another translation project on the shelves
April 2007 (link to follow)
- Racist sofa may end in compensation settlement
- SDL to takeover Tridion
- Situation worsens in Afghanistan
- What next for interpreter certification programems in the US? Part 1 – Nataly Kelly
March 2007 (link to follow)
- All for IATE and IATE for all
- NUPIT draws up charter for standards in public service interpreting in UK
- Bad Glück in Berlin declaration translation
- Lionbridge pushing role of translation in lucrative clinical trials market
- New translation prompts debate on Islamic verse
- First Foras na Gaeilge translators receive official seal of accreditation
- Deal to release Italian journalist criticised
February 2007 (link to follow)
- Freelance translation and quality – Raffaele La Gala
- International Translation Day 2007
- Video messages via mobile for sign language users
- New UK report on multicultural learning emphasises learning of English
- Call for end to censorship in Iran
- Another medical interpreting product comes on the market
- T/I services for Irish government
- Microsoft releases Vista
January 2007 (link to follow)
- Robot interpreter at John Hopkins Hospital, Maryland
- New electronic Braille translator wins Red Dot Award
- Army interpreter denies spying
- Pirated DVDs produce comedies of errors
- Summary of CARe: medical communication with asylum seekers and refugees in Galway
November 2006 (link to follow)
- Twisted Anglicisms – Raffaele La Gala
- Interpreting and Translating within the Police Service Northern Ireland – Mary Phelan
- iMeasc wins TG4 award
- Vietnam honours its “most prolific and fastest translator”
- Digital audio recording and the Courts Service – Mary Phelan
October 2006 (link to follow)
- News4linguists blog
- Turnover of €1m for Word Perfect
- San Francisco Interpreting service means business
- Recent Royal Irish Academy report focuses on interpreting
- New website combines controlled language and MT technology
September 2006
- ITIA celebrates 20 years – round table of ITIA chairpersons and an evening with Pat McCabe and Hans Christian Oeser
- Court Interpreting: pestering, perversity and a touch of perjury – Leo Hickey
- Report form XII Euralex international congress 2006 – Máire Nic Mhaoláin
- A call for international solidarity for freedom of expression from a Turkish literary translators’ organisation
August 2006
- Online MT causes bladder problems
- The reform and re-reform of German orthography
- Simplified spelling for English
- 20th anniversary celebrations of the ITIA
July 2006
- Letter to Irish Times re Lionbridge, preferred bidder for interpreting in Courts Service
- A first for DCU – Graduate Certificate in Community Interpreting – Mary Phelan
- Translating World Favourites – Máire Nic Mhaoláin
- Michael Henry Heim on ‘Whys and Hows of Retranslating the Classics’ – Miriam Lee
- FIT literary translation committee report – Miriam Lee
June 2006
- Skype launches telephone interpreting service
- Recruitment of court interpreters is put in the dock – Breda Heffernan
- World Cup snippets
- Lack of medical interpreters in Ireland reaches crisis
May 2006
- US declares English the ‘National Language’
- New MT tool due on the market
- The new English
- ITIA 20th anniversary celebrations
April 2006
- English language nears the one million-word milestone
- Former FBI translator awarded
- On Translation by Jin Di and Eugene Nida – John Kearns
- The Institute of Linguists and its elevation to chartered body status – Paul Cannon
- FLOSS OpenOffice (continued) – Tony Pratschke
March 2006
- English language nears the one million-word milestone
- Former FBI translator awarded
- On Translation by Jin Di and Eugene Nida – John Kearns
- The Institute of Linguists and its elevation to chartered body status – Paul Cannon
- FLOSS OpenOffice (continued) – Tony Pratschke
February 2006
- Translator still held by US forces in Iraq
- Mistranslation lands CNN in hot water
- Google enters Chinese market on condition of censorship
- Did you use FLOSS today? – Tony Pratschke
- Seimineár Eolais faoi Chóras Crediuaithe d’Aistritheoirí Gaeilge (Foras na Gaeilge)
- Culture Ireland and Ireland Literature Exchange – a match made in heaven? – John Kearns
January 2006
- Translator still held by US forces in Iraq
- Mistranslation lands CNN in hot water
- Google enters Chinese market on condition of censorship
- Did you use FLOSS today? – Tony Pratschke
- Seimineár Eolais faoi Chóras Crediuaithe d’Aistritheoirí Gaeilge (Foras na Gaeilge)
- Culture Ireland and Ireland Literature Exchange – a match made in heaven? – John Kearns
November 2005
- To revive or not to revive
- Paul Celan fellowships for translators 2006
- Community Interpreting News – Mary Phelan
- Report on International Translation Day
- Report on 2005 AGM – Elizabeth Hayes
- Assassinations of Iraqi translators and interpreters – Michael Friel
September 2005
- Profitability guide for interpreters – Luis R Cerna
August 2005
- Ireland in Tampere
- A translator’s CV – a translator’s best friend – part 2 – Michael McCann
- Royal Charter for Linguists
- The IATIS Bulletin
- Harry Potter and the hobby translators – Elizabeth Hayes
July 2005
- Microsoft launches Windows as Gaeilge
- ADÜ Nord (Germany) survey of freelance earnings
- On Irish becomes an EU working language – Crispin Wellby
- A translator’s CV – a translator’s best friend – Michael McCann
- David Bellos wins Man Booker International Translator’s Prize
- Publishing Companies stand accused
June 2005
- Irish becomes an EU working language – John Kearns
- CEN draft standard on translation services – Miriam Lee
- WinLexic 2005
- The Courts Service Interpreting Tender – Mary Phelan
- Distance translator training at University of Vic, Spain
May 2005 (link to follow)
- Man Booker International Prize for Translators
- A word on clo(a)king
- Interpreters and the courts – Mary Phelan
- A (Chartered) Institute of Linguists
April 2005
- Jin Di becomes honorary member of ITIA – John Kearns
- Conference report: second international postgraduate translation studies conference – John Kearns
March 2005
- Software: ManualMaker
- New Voices in Translation Studies
- Translation Studies Abstracts/ Bibliography of Translation Studies
- Inttranews
February 2005
- Jin Di in Ireland – the Chinese translator of Ulysses
- Conference on Interpreting and translating at court and for public authorities – Liese Katschinka
January 2005
- Traductio ad absurdum – Henry Grodsk
- A brief reply to Henry Grodsk – John Kearns
- European award for languages in Ireland – the language label
- FIT news – progress on projects
- Babelport
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