ITIA Bulletin

ITIA Bulletin 2023/3

• Members’ Corner: Trish Van Bolderen
• FIT new regional centre
• Localisation in literary translation
• ITIA rates survey results

ITIA Bulletin 2023/2

• ITIA Representation – CEATL and AVTE AGMs
• All about FIT
• Micro-credentials at UL and DCU
• TCLCT anniversary

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 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

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 – 10^th 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 22^nd 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 – 3^rd 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 20^th 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