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NUI Galway ranks among the top 1% of Universities in the world. Our prestigious history spans almost two centuries. Our spectacular location boasts the unique landscape and culture of the west of Ireland. Our global network connects us to partners around the world. Our researchers are shaping the future. Our students are shaping their own.

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21 January 2020

NUI Galway to Host a CAO Information Evening in Athlone

NUI Galway will host a CAO information evening for students, parents, guardians and guidance counsellors in the Radisson Hotel in Athlone, Co. Westmeath, on Thursday, 30 January, from 7-9pm. The evening will begin with short talks about NUI Galway and the undergraduate courses it offers. Afterwards, current students and NUI Galway staff will be on hand to answer any individual questions in relation to courses and practical issues like accommodation, fees and scholarships, and the wide range of support services available to our students. The ever-increasing popularity of NUI Galway is in-part due to its innovative programmes developed in response to the changing needs of the employment market. NUI Galway is launching four new degrees for 2020 entry responding to the needs and the demands of the job market - Law and Taxation; Law, Criminology and Criminal Justice; BSc Genetics and Genomics; and a BSc Geography and Geosystems. Information on these new degrees will be available at the information evening. There will be a representative from across the University’s five colleges available to answer questions about the programmes on offer, entry requirements, and placement and employment opportunities. Members of the Accommodation Office will be on hand to answer any queries about on-campus or off-campus options, including the new Goldcrest on-campus development, which brings the total of on-campus beds to 1,193. Sarah Geraghty, Student Recruitment and Outreach Manager at NUI Galway, said: “Students choose NUI Galway as they want to study with the best academic and research minds in their field. They want to study in our new state-of-the-art facilities, such as the new Human Biology Building for medicine students and in Ireland’s largest engineering school, the Alice Perry Engineering Building. The location of our campus in the heart of Galway city appeals to students who want to live in a vibrant and creative city and who want to find a new home away from home. We look forward to meeting Leaving Cert students and their parents to explore if NUI Galway is the right fit for their third level studies.” For more information contact Caroline, Duggan School Liaison Officer on caroline.duggan@nuigalway.ie or 087-2391219. -Ends-

21 January 2020

NUI Galway’s Postgraduate Open Day to Showcase Scholarship and Funding Opportunities for 2020

NUI Galway will host the Spring Postgraduate Open Day on Tuesday, 4 February, from 12-3pm in the Bailey Allen Hall, Áras na Mac Léinn. The Open Day will showcase all of NUI Galway’s full-time and part-time postgraduate programmes, including taught and research masters, as well as doctoral research options. The Open Day will have a strong focus on how to make postgraduate studies affordable and the multiple funding and scholarship opportunities that future students should explore when considering investing in their education and career. There will be a number of talks including a panel discussion on career pathways post-graduation, grant opportunities, postgraduate funding and the application process. The panel will be joined by Hugh Hamrock, Bank Manager, Bank of Ireland, NUI Galway branch, who will advise on banking services to support postgraduate studies. The talks will also include a presentation on the Hardiman PhD Scholarship scheme and a Personal Statement Workshop by the Career Development Centre. All EU postgraduate students presenting a first class honours in their undergraduate degree are eligible for a €1,500 scholarship towards their taught Masters at NUI Galway. Current postgraduate student, Sinead Shaughnessy, is a recipient of one of NUI Galway’s Excellence Scholarships. According to Sinead: “The postgraduate scholarship allowed me to further my studies and enhance my future career prospects. It incentivised me to work hard throughout my undergraduate degree to achieve First Class Honours. I am currently studying a MSc in Human Resource Management which will give me a distinct edge in the industry when applying for jobs.” Valerie Leahy, Postgraduate Recruitment Officer at NUI Galway, said: “We especially encourage visitors considering a return to university studies to attend our Postgraduate Open Day. Almost half of those applying to our postgrad courses are not recent graduates, they are returning to study or upskill for their current job. Support is offered to those who have been out of the education system for some time and our research shows that students from industry or the home returning to education flourish academically.” NUI Galway have launched a range of new postgraduate programmes in 2019 and 2020, including MA Global Media and Communication, MA Rural Futures Planning and Innovation, MA Sports Journalism and Communication, MSc Applied Multilingualism, MSc Computer Science – Artificial Intelligence, and MA Creative Arts: Producing and Curation. Information on all new programmes, along with NUI Galway’s 170 other postgraduate programmes will be available at the exhibition in the Bailey Allen Hall. To view NUI Galway’s new and unique postgraduate programmes and to book a place at the Open Day visit http://www.nuigalway.ie/postgraduate-open-day/ or visit on the day. -Ends-

21 January 2020

Comhalta Acadúil OÉ Gaillimh, Louis de Paor, chun léacht tionscnaimh a thabhairt mar Ollamh

Tá sraith léachtaí ar siúil ag Coláiste na nDán, na nEolaíochtaí Sóisialta agus an Léinn Cheiltigh in Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh. Díríonn an tsraith seo ar Ollúna nua-cheaptha an Choláiste agus leanfar di le léacht ón Ollamh Pearsanta leis an Léann Éireannach, an tOllamh Louis de Paor, Déardaoin, an 30 Eanáir ag 5pm, in Institiúid de Móra, OÉ Gaillimh (GO10). Ina chuid cainte dar teideal ‘Níos Gaelaí ná an Ghaeilge. Flann O’Brien: More Irish than Irish?’, roinnfidh an tOllamh de Paor torthaí a chuid taighde ceannródaíoch faoi shaothar Flann O’Brien, ag díriú go háirithe ar an ngné Ghaeilge i saothar O’Brien. Ceapadh an tOllamh de Paor ina Stiúrthóir ar Ionad an Léinn Éireannaigh in OÉ Gaillimh sa bhliain 2000 agus i measc a shaothair foilsithe áirítear monagraf ar shaothar Mháirtín Uí Chadhain, Faoin mblaoisc bheag sin: an aigneolaíocht i scéalta Mháirtín Uí Chadhain (1991), díolaim filíochta i nGaeilge ón bhfichiú haois, Coiscéim na haoise seo (1991), a cuireadh in eagar in éineacht le Seán Ó Tuama, eagrán dátheangach de rogha dánta de chuid Máire Mhac an tSaoi, An paróiste míorúilteach/The miraculous parish (2011) mar aon le heagrán criticiúil de rogha dánta Liam S Gógan, Míorúilt an chleite chaoin (2012). Bhain sé duais Jefferson Smurfit in Ollscoil St Louis-Missouri sa bhliain 2002 agus fuair sé bonn Charles Fanning ó Ollscoil Southern Illinois in Carbondale sa bhliain 2009. Bhí sé ina Chomhalta Fulbright ar Cuairt in New York University agus UC Berkeley in 2013-14 agus ina Scoláire Burns in Boston College in 2016. I measc a chuid foilseacháin is deireanaí tá Leabhar na hAthghabhála/Poems of Repossession: Twentieth-century Poetry in Irish (2016), agus Ag Caint leis an Simné?: Dúshlán an Traidisiúin agus Nualitríocht na Gaeilge (2018). Bhí an méid a leanas le rá ag an Dr Seán Crosson, Leas-Déan Taighde i gColáiste na nDán, na nEolaíochtaí Sóisialta & an Léinn Cheiltigh: “Tá an-áthas orainn leanúint leis an tsraith léachtaí seo a thugann deis iontach don Ollscoil an pobal i gcoitinne a chur ar an eolas faoin taighde agus faoin gcleachtas nuálaíoch den scoth atá ar bun sa choláiste. Is é seo an naoú cainteoir sa tsraith a chuimsíonn go dtí seo réimsí a bhaineann le beartas sóisialta, oideachas, smaoineamh polaitíochta, teiripí ar líne, seachadadh teanga, traidisiúin na n-amhrán tíre i nGaeilge, taighde stairiúil, agus síceolaíocht iompraíochta. Is mór an onóir dúinn anois an tOllamh de Paor a bheith páirteach sa tsraith agus de bharr a chuid taighde, foilseacháin, agus cleachtais, tá tuiscint níos doimhne ag léitheoirí, lucht éisteachta in Éirinn agus go hidirnáisiúnta ar ábharthacht agus tábhacht leanúnach litríocht na Gaeilge sa lá atá inniu ann” -Críoch-

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