ATII Bulletin

The ATII Bulletin is an e-zine published by the ATII, bringing you news, articles and lot more from the world of translation and interpreting.

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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