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Galway Club
Second Annual Summer Corrib Cruise | |
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Thursday 8th July, 2010
NUI Galway Alumni Club's second Annual Corrib Cruise took place on Thursday, 8th of July on board the Corrib Princess with graduates from the fifties, right up to one of our newest 2010 alumni and a future 2012 graduate on board. The good ship Princess eventually left port at around 7.30pm for her trip up the Corrib in a heavy drizzle. The company, good food and entertainment, however, more than compensated for the bad weather. Marc Roberts was his usual brilliant self on guitar and Róisín, Brendan, John, Yvonne and Molly the Chef took amazing care of everyone on board. |
Galway Goes to the Dogs | |
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Thursday 29th April, 2010
The NUI Galway Alumni group enjoyed its third outing this year with a very enjoyable Night at The Dogs in Galway Greyhound Stadium on April 29th 2010. Over 70 graduates and friends joined organiser and Alumni Association Board member Sinead Coughlan for a night of dining, flutters and fun. Thanks to Sinead and to all the staff at Galway Greyhound Stadium for their welcome and hospitality on the night. | |
Alumni Enjoy the Best of Irish | |
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Thursday 25th March, 2010.
Alumni were amongst the 500 guests who were treated to a night of Irish music, poetry, song and dance by some of the country’s finest practitioners in their craft. The concert held on campus in the Bailey Allen Hall was organised by students of the Arts in Action programme. The acts assembled by the students reads like a “who’s who?” list of performers of traditional arts: Frankie Gavin (fiddle), Máirtín O'Connor (accordion), Ronan Browne (uillean pipes), Seamie O'Dowd (guitar), Roisin Elsafty (sean-nós singing), Seosamh Ó Neachtain (sean-nós dancing), Mary Mc Partlan (traditional and contemporary singing), Lillis Ó Laoire (sean-nós singing) and Louis De Paor (Irish Poetry). Alumni guests were given an opportunity to mingle with the performers at a pre-event reception held by the Galway Alumni Club in the Corrib Room of the College Bar. Photos from the event |
Michael D Higgins - The Life, Times and Works | |
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Friday 12th February, 2010.
Michael D Higgins TD (BComm 1965, BA 1966) in conversation with fellow alumnus, Harry McGee of The Irish Times (BA 1987, HDip App Comm.1989, LLB 1993) in the Aula Maxima, NUI Galway. Over 130 alumni and friends attended this wide-ranging and entertaining evening. Michael D discussed his childhood in Limerick and Clare, student and lecturing days in UCG, political life, poetry and more! You can listen to a podcast of the evening on the left. |
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€1671 was also raised for COPE Galway on the night. | |
alumni head up river in song
The Corrib Princess was the venue for the 2
nd Galway Alumni gathering on the last day of July, Race Week Friday. Creating a pattern of hosting events on boats - the last was on the LE Aisling - the group laid on a barbeque and songster Marc Roberts as welcome company for the gathered graduates, 75 in all from all disciplines and vintages. The weather held off and the guests were able to enjoy a row-by performed by NUI Galway student and alumni rowers lead by Peter Williams. Peter recently attempted a world-record breaking row across the Atlantic sponsored by the Alumni Association. The attempt failed, through no fault of Peter's, but that's another story!
The rowers joined the assembled crew on board and as the sun set on Lough Corrib the songs started! Hat's off to the Galway Group organisers for another fantastic and thoroughly enjoyable gathering. Galway Group co-founder Mairin Gilvarry promises another event "on dry land!" in the coming months. Watch this space.
Click here for images from the event!
Launch of NUI Galway Alumni Club on board the L.E. Aisling
Friday May 1st: A maximum capacity gathering of 70 graduates and friends of NUI Galway gathered for the launch of the NUI Galway Alumni Club. The launch, which sold out within a day, was hosted by Lieutenant Commander Roberta O'Brien, a science graduate from 2000, and took place aboard her ship, the L.E. Aisling, on Galway Harbour Docks. This was a fitting venue to launch the Galway Club as the L.É. Aisling is twinned with Galway. Lieutenant Commander O'Brien made Irish maritime history by being the first ever female commander of an Irish naval ship. Lieutenant Commander O'Brien told of her experience of life at sea and guests were invited to take in a tour of the ship.
Click here to view photos from this event.
Pictured above are Jo Curley BComm 1957, Lieutenant Commander Roberta O'Brien BSc 2000 and Joe Curley BE 1956.
Dublin Club
Éamon Ó Cuív v Pat Rabbitte
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Tues. 19th October, 2010
"THE GOVERNMENT'S ECONOMIC AND BANKING POLICIES ARE WORKING"
PROPOSING
Listen to the debate: Part 1 (1 hr, 19 mins) | Part 2 (13 mins) |
HSE’s CEO address Challenges of Change
Economic Firefight – An Inside View | ||
Next Dublin Alumni Event: Parting Shots - Professor Brendan Drumm, Aviva Stadium, Thurs. June 24th. Details here |
Dublin Alumni Night at the Dogs |
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Thursday, 12th February 2010
Over 90 graduates from 1963 to 2009 attended. MC for the evening was RTE's Seán O’Rourke (BA 1977). His colleague from RTE Sport, Colm Murray (BA 1972), aided and abetted by Michael Fortune and Pat O’Donovan, provided the tipping expertise(?). Over €1000 was also raised on the night for the Concern Haiti Earthquke Appeal with proceeds going directly to Concern’s team on the ground in Haiti. Thanks to Sarah Finucane (BA 1995) who organised the event, and to Seán and Colm who made the evening so entertaining. Thanks also to Rhyna McCarthy (BA 1989) who took the photographs (the good ones!) and to all the staff at Shelbourne Park on the night. |
When Michael D. met Marlon
Alumni and friends packed into the Davenport in October to see local legend, NUI Galway Alumni Award winner and Chairman of the Labour Party, Michael D. Higgins T.D. speak about his life and times with fellow alumnus Harry McGee of the
Irish Times. The event was the first of the new season by the prodigious Dublin Alumni Club.
Pictured left are Eamon Gilmore BA 1976, Michael D Higgins BComm 1965, BA 1966 and Harry McGee BA 1987, HDip in Applied Communications 1989, LLB 1993.
Media Clippings:
http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/michaels-memoirs-draw-a-mass-crowd-1923460.html
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1024/1224257356368.html
http://www.tribune.ie/news/article/2009/oct/18/when-marlon-made-michael-d-an-offer-he-couldnt-ref/
Dublin Alumni Group - A Taste of Dublin
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50 alumni and friends attended A Taste of Dublin organized by the Dublin Alumni group. Graduates were offered greatly discounted VIP tickets which provided access to the Brown Thomas VIP Suite. The occasion marked the end of the season for the Dublin Alumni Club which has gone from strength to strength providing Dublin-based alumni with a wide ranging programme of activities as described below. Visit
www.nuigalway.ie/alumni for information on future Dublin Alumni Club events.
Click here to view photos of the event.
Ó Tuathaigh offers a tour de force in Dublin
A "tour de force" is how Dublin Alumni Chair Sean O'Rourke summed up the lecture given by NUI Galway's Professor Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh in Dublin this May. Ó Tuathaigh, the celebrated academic and GAA enthusiast, was giving the lecture, "The GAA at 125 - The Challenges of Change", as part of a popular series of events held by the Dublin Alumni group.
His talk made the case that the secret of the GAA's success as a social force in Ireland for 125 years lay in "Its adaptability - and its ability to manage change - rather than any deep conservatism inherent in the organization"
Alumni, including former GAA president Joe McDonagh, travelled from Athlone and Galway to attend and to hear the Director General of the GAA, Paraic Duffy, respond to Ó Tuathaigh's commentary. Duffy said he was privileged to have witnessed Ó Tuathaigh's extraordinarily astute insights into the GAA, its history and challenges.
Attendees were also impressed by the candour of Duffy's response. Alumnus Patsy McGarry reported the highlights of the discussion in The Irish Times May 13th: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0513/1224246388742.html
Click here to view photos from the event
Pictured above are former GAA President Joe McDonagh BA 1974, HDip in Ed 1978 and Prof Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh BA 1965, MA 1968
Dublin Alumni Debate Makes Headlines
The latest in the Dublin Alumni Group's events made the next day's papers when debate participant Declan Ganley announced he would not lead an anti-Lisbon Treaty campaign if he did not win a seat in the European election. For the story see:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0409/1224244287394.html
200 alumni and guests attended the controversial debate entitled "Lisbon 2: Rabbitte vs. Ganley" to see NUI Galway alumnus Pat Rabittee of Labour debate with Declan Ganley of Libertas. For pictures of the event see FLICKR.
Acclaimed Consultant Offers Bird's Eye View from Wall Street
March 25th: In the latest of the Dublin Alumni group series of events, Alumni Award winner and Chair of the Galway University Foundation U.S. Board, Declan Kelly presented a bird's eye view from Wall Street of the global financial crisis of the last two years to a group of nearly a hundred prominent alumni business leaders. Declan is Executive Vice President of FTI, the world's leading strategy consultant company which counts many governments, including several in Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East, amongst its impressive client list. The presentation "The Perfect Storm Up Close" was held in the Davenport Hotel, Dublin and was led by RTÉ's Seán O'Rourke, chair of the NUI Galway Dublin Alumni Group.
young tenor wakes the neighbours
The House of Lords, Bank of Ireland, College Green was the very grand venue for the latest offering from the Dublin Alumni group. Led by RTE's Sean O'Rourke (
BA 1977 and Alumni Awardee 2006),
the group this time presented the young graduate tenor David O'Leary to a gathering of 120 Galway graduates on the night of Tuesday March 10th in the centre of Dublin city.
It was the third University appointment in five months for David, an arts and law graduate of NUI Galway who has trained under tenor Ronan Tynan amongst others. We first saw him perform for former US president Bill Clinton at Galway University Foundation Gala in New York City and more recently he headlined the University Gala Banquet and Alumni Awards. The Dublin event afforded David a more extensive and varied repertoire than the previous occasions and guests were treated to a programme of traditional, musical, classical and contemporary pieces. Well within earshot of fellow university Trinity College Dublin, the audience chorused for a rabble-rousing finale of The West's Awake. On this occasion, no-one seemed to mind waking the neighbours.
Click here to see pictures from the night
New York
NUI Galway New York Gala Dinner
The NUI Galway New York Gala took place in the Metropolitan Club, New York City on Wednesday 18th Novemberfrom 6.30pm. With special performance by 2009 Honoree
Paul Brady
McGahern Archive Toured to US
Dr James J. Browne is pictured in September in the American Irish Historical Society, New York, with former Junior Year Abroad student Tina Jones and her husband, alumnus and Galway University Foundation US Board member, Adrian Jones, at
John McGahern in The New Yorker. The event, sponsored by Galway University Foundation, featured an illustrated talk by Dr John Kenny (pictured below) and an exhibition of the University's archive of the work of John McGahern. The talk and archive also toured to the Boston Public Library and was similarly attended by alumni and friends of the University.
See pictures from these events.;
Alumni Reception at the Metropolitan Club, NYC
On May 6th, the US Alumni Association of NUI Galway and the Galway University Foundation hosted a cocktail reception at the Metropolitan Club in New York City to introduce Galway graduates to President James Browne. The event attracted 60 graduates and friends of NUI Galway and included a brief talk by President Browne about developments and activities at NUI Galway.
Pictured left are Michael Higgins, BComm 1982 and Dr James J Browne.
Rollicking laughter and gasps at "The Cripple" in new york
55 alumni attended the Druid Theatre Company's acclaimed production of The Cripple of Inishmaan in New York City on February 26th. Written by Martin McDonagh, and directed by NUI Galway alumna and Tony Award winner, Garry Hynes, Cripple has received rave reviews and the graduate group were not to be disappointed. £Rollicking laughter - and gasps when that trademark McDonagh darkness reared it's head" commented one guest. Graduates including Ms Hynes met before the show for a drinks reception hosted by the New York Alumni group. After the show guests mingled with the stars of "Cripple", Galway graduate Marie Mullen and Aaron Monaghan.
The New York Alumni group have more events in planning so watch this space and remember to update your details at http://www.nuigalway.ie/
Click here to see pictures from the night.
New England Club
A Day in Boston Harbor
On May 16th, a group of NUI Galway graduates boarded a spectator boat in Boston Harbor to bid Bon Voyage to the Green Dragon, Ireland's entry in the Volvo Ocean Race. The Boston-area graduates were joined on the spectator boat by the Mayors of Galway City and County Galway, NUI Galway graduate, Enda O'Coineen, Chairman of Let's Do it Galway and members of the Galway Chamber of Commerce.
Click here to view pictures of the event.
San Francisco Club
SF Bay Area enjoys Night at the Druid
November 20th, 2009
Members of the San Francisco Bay Area Alumni Association attended the opening of the Druid (Galway) production of The Walworth Farce at the Zellerbach Playhouse in Berkeley on Nov 20th.
Click here to see pictures from the event
San Francisco Alumni Club Launch
In September, President James J Browne attended the launch of a San Francisco Alumni Club in the Irish Consulate, San Francisco, upon requests from alumni in the area. The President and 80 guests were hosted by the Irish Consul General in San Francisco, Gerry Staunton.
Pictured at the launch are the "Mayo mafia", Tom Joyce, Executive Director of Galway University Foundation; JP Walsh, Charles Schwab Inc.; Gerry Staunton, Consul General to San Francisco; Moyra Malone, Stanford Research Institute International; Máire P. Walsh, Next Steps Marketing; Martin Walsh, Howard Wright Construction; John Loftus, NUI Galway Alumni Association Board Chair.
London Club
NUI Galway Film Seminar in London | |
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Thursday 15th October, 2009 The NUI Club London and the Department of Management, King’s College London held a seminar on film on Thursday, 15th October in the Irish Club, in Blackfriars, London.
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Beijing Club
Beijing Club celebrates PRC's 60th Birthday
In September over 20 alumni and friends gathered to celebrate the anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. They attended anexhibiton the history of Beijing's past, present and future (to 2020) to commemorate 60 years since the Communist Party came to power. A massive scale model of the city takes up an entire floor and is best viewed with binoculars from above. The assembled graduates also enjoyed the 3D movies that followed Beijing's development over 3500 years. Please visit
http://nuigalway-china.cn/news.htm to view photos from this event.
Competition:
The Beijing Clubis calling for photos with the theme of 60th anniversary of China from all alumni. The photos will be assessed by the committee and thosejudged best will be rewarded.For more information on the competion and the Beijing Club please contact the Club Secretary, Betty Liao
liaoyedong
tsinghua.org.cn.
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