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Irish Studies is an integrated, interdisciplinary programme of learning which seeks to explore key aspects of the Irish experience in its historical and contemporary settings. Since its inception in 2000, the Centre for Irish Studies at NUI Galway has established itself as one of the premier locations worldwide for interdisciplinary research and advanced teaching on the cultural, social and political endeavours of Irish people, on the island of Ireland and beyond.

The distinctive features of our taught and research programmes foreground the University’s longstanding commitment to the cultural traditions of the West of Ireland and the research achievements of academic staff across several disciplines.  Read more

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19.04.13  Dioplóma sa Léann Éireannach

I gcomh-pháirtíocht le Ollscoil na Gaillimhe, tá chúrsa nua, Dioplóma sa Léann Éireannach, á eagrú ag Ionad Cultúrtha, Baile Mhúirne. Cúrsa dhá bhliain a athá i gceist, rang trí uair an chloig uair sa tseachtain ar feadh 24 seachtain ar fad gach bliain. Beidh an chúrsa seo ag díriú isteach ar litríocht na Gaeilge agus ar cheol na hÉireann ó aimsir na hathbheochana ar aghaidh. Tá sé i gceist go mbeadh an chúrsa seo ag tosnú an Fhómhair seo chughainn.

Beidh oíche eolais á eagrú san Ionad Cultúrtha ag 7.30 ar an 1ú Mí Bealtaine agus beidh an Dr. Louis de Paor, Stiúrthóir Léann Eíreannach, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe i láthair chun an cúrsa seo a chur ós bhúr gcomhair agus bhúr gceisteanna a fhreagairt faoi.

Ionad Cultúrtha, Baile Mhúirne, Co Chorcaí.  026.45733

Dioplóma sa Léann Éireannach

15.04.13  Meitheal

The next Meitheal will be held in the Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies at 11:00am on 17th April
The presenter will be Eavan Ó Dochartaigh and her subject is "Faithful Delineations": The Arctic Sketches of William Henry Browne.  Everyone welcome.

15.04.13  Irish Studies Seminars

All seminars will take place at 4.00pm, Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies

Seminar 18th April

'A complementary social ancillary to Roman Catholicism':  Irish language and Gaelic culture in the post-Reformation confessional struggle of the south-eastern dioceses of Ireland.

Speaker:  Dr Áine Hensey

Seminar 30th April

The Journey west:  some thoughts about writing 'British history.

Speaker: Professor Patrick Joyce, Moore Fellow, Moore Institute, Professorial Fellow in History, University of Edinburgh and Emeritus Professor of History, University of Manchester.

Seminar 2nd May

Inculcating a national self-image:  the impact of Celtic mythology in school literature from 1924 and its subsequent permeations across contemporary culture.

Speaker: Dr Pádraic Frehan

05.03.13  Public Interview with Patrick McCabe

The Centre for Irish Studies will host a public interview with Pat McCabe on Wednesday 20th March.  This interview will be conducted by Kevin Barry and will take place in the O'Flaherty Theatre at 8.00pm.  Admission is free and everyone welcome.

22.02.13  Irish Studies Seminar and Book Launch

The next Irish Studies Seminar Never again; the influence of the Irish famine on Punjab's prosperity will take place in the Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies on Thursday 14th March at 4.00pm.  The speaker is local Galway author, Patrick O'Leary.  This seminar will be followed by the book launch of Servants of the empire:  the Irish in Punjab 1881-1921 by Patrick O'Leary at 5.15pm.  Everyone welcome.

06.02.13   Ríonach Ní Néill, Galway Dancer in Residence 

Ríonach Ní Néill, Galway Dancer in Residence affilitated with the Centre for Irish Studies, will be presenting a new dance film "The Area" co-directed with artist Joe Lee, at the Musée des Moulages, Lyon, on 11-13 February, as part of the exhibition and conference Art et Géographie-Esthetiques et Pratiques des Savoirs Spatiaux, a programme co-hosted by ARN Médiagéo and the University of Lyon. 

Ríonach will be also presenting a paper on dance mapping at the conference, which she developed with support from the Ómós Áite seminar group.

The Area is a 26 minute long film, and was developed over three years in collaboration with the Macushla Dance Club for +50s in Dublin. Performing the city as a social & physical landscape shifting through time, it is a multi-layered urban map as experienced and constructed by some of its more marginal agents – older people.

Full details and timetable available on http://artgeographie.sciencesconf.org/conference/artgeographie/pages/programmefinalv_10.pdf
With the generous support of Culture Ireland as part of Ireland's EU Presidency Culture Programe 2013.

04.02.13  Meitheal

The first  Meitheal of this semester will take place on Wednesday 6th February.  The presenter will be Dara Folan and his subject is 'An Connachtach'/'The Connachtman', 1907-1908 and the Irish-Ireland Campaign in the West of Ireland. The seminar will be held in the Seminar Room of the Centre for Irish Studies at 2:00 pm.  Everyone welcome. 

01.02.13  Sean-Nós Evening at the Centre 

 

The Centre for Irish Studies was a hive of singing and music making at the reception to mark the appointment of Joe John Mac An Iomaire as Sean-nós Singer in Residence for 2013.  Joe’s family, friends and fellow singers were there in strength, and celebrated in style.  It was house dance transplanted to the Centre, as Mícheál Ó Cuaig (a former recipient of the award himself), ably acted as Fear an Tí with Johnny Mháirtín Learaí, Josie Sheáin Jeaic, Áine Ní Dhroighneáin and Micheál himself among the singers who performed.  The evening began with Dr Louis de Paor recognizing the incalculable value of the Sean-Nós Performer in Residence scheme, a sentiment echoed by Mícheál later in the evening.  The dynamic relationship between the singers and the Centre, which has built up over the past ten years, was evidenced on the night in every musical contribution and indeed in the opening comments of Professor Gearóid Denvir who formally  introduced Joe John as this year’s Sean-nós Singer in Residence.  Joe John regaled the crowd with stories and sang one of his signature big songs ’An Droighneáin Donn’.  Also performing were young musicians and singers from Connemara.  When Mícheál compared the harp playing of Séamus Ó Flatharta to the harpist of the Gaelic aristocracy, it was a fitting tribute to Joe John as our Taoiseach for the night. 

29.01.13   IACI-NUI Galway Fellowship

The deadline for receipt of applications for the IACI-NUI Galway Fellowship has been extended to 1st May, 2013.  Please click on the following link for further details and application form.  http://www.iaci-usa.org/programs.html and http://www.iaci-usa.org/pdf/NUI-G Application Letter.pdf or view Visiting Scholars on our website

21.01.13   New Sean-nós Singer in Residence at Centre for Irish Studies
                  

Joe John ceaptha mar Amhránaí Cónaitheach ag OÉ Gaillimh

Joe John Mac an Iomaire

Listen to Joe John sing a verse of An Droighnéain Donn here on the TG4 production Corn Uí Riada. IT also features previous recipients of the Sean-Nós Singer in Residence, Josie Sheáin Jeaic and  Treasa Ní Mhiolláin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlMpQUZ3eoM

And here is Joe John leading the singing in Caoineadh na dTrí Mhuire, footage from the pattern to Maméan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4pUOpdgTWM

14.01.13  Irish Studies Seminar Series

14.01.13  Martin Reilly Lecture Series

05.12.12  Article by Professor Jim Donnelly published

An article by Professor Jim Donnelly entitled " Big House Burnings in County Cork during the Irish Revolution, 1920-21" will be published in Eire-Ireland 47:3-4 (Fall/Winter 2012), 141-97.  Professor Donnelly began his research for this article at the Centre for Irish Studies when he was appointed the IACI-NUI Galway Fellow in 2009.

20.11.12   ISAANZ Postgraduate Essay Prize awarded to Debora Biancheri

Congratualtions to Debora Biacheri, PhD student at the Centre, who has been awarded the Irish Studies Association of Australia & New Zealand (ISAANZ) Postgraduate Essay Prize. This is an annual prize awarded for the best essay in Irish Studies by a postgraduate student.  Debora's essay will be published in the next issue of the Australasian Journal of Irish Studies.  

06.11.12  The Gathering - Homeward Bound

The RTÉ Series The Gathering - Homeward Bound featured students of the Centre for Irish Studies in conversation with actress Fionnuala Flanagan on Tuesday 6th November.  You can view the programme at http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/10071266/

05.11.12  Postgraduate Scholarships

Postgraduate scholarships for first class students announced.  Read more .

05.11.12  Publication of Essay

Congratulations to Dr Margaret Brehony on her essay Irish Free Labour and the Abolition of Slavery in Cuba, 1835-1844 which has been included in a special edition of the publication Éire - Ireland Journal (Volume 47: 1 & 2 Spring/Summer 2012).

23.10.12  Graduation at the Centre

   
Pictured with Dr Louis de Paor and Dr Méabh Ní Fhuartháin are BA with Irish Studies Graduates 2012:  From left to right, back row:  Ceimin Burke, Alison Keelan, Caroline Grealish, Thomas Collins, James Greaney and David Gallagher.  Front row:  Mary Mahon, Ciara Daly, Luke Callinan, Leah Duffy, Shauna Nash and Sharon Nic Pháidín.

The Centre for Irish Studies was delighted to celebrate the graduation of the first BA with Irish Studies class on Tuesday, 23 October 2012.   Students and their families were welcomed to the Centre for a brief pre-graduation reception at which Dr Louis de Paor, Director of Irish Studies, congratulated them on navigating the journey through four years of study.  He also noted the high standard of degrees received, which was a testament to the BA with Irish Studies programme and the students’ engagement with Irish Studies both inside and outside the classroom at NUI Galway.  As the first BA with Irish Studies class these students are part and parcel of the definition of what Irish Studies means in Galway and we wish them the very best of luck in the coming years.

 
Dr Louis de Paor pictured with Dr Margaret Brehony, 9th PhD Graduate at the Centre

There was cause for double celebration as Margaret Brehony was awarded the degree of PhD for her thesis ’ Irish Migration to Cuba, 1835-1845: Empire, Ethnicity, Slavery and ’Free’ Labour’.  Margaret’s research, supervised by Dr  Kathy Powell, ’examines and critically analyses previously unexplored materials relating to Irish transient labour in Cuba from 1835-1845’. 

Congratulations to all our graduates!

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