Anthony Daly hurling by day regular Leadership and Motivational speaker by night

nthony Daly

Anthony DalyHailing from Clarecastle in County Clare, Anthony Daly has arguably been one of the most prominent GAA personalities over the past two decades. In the 1990’s as Captain of the Clare Senior Hurlers, he inspired and led his team to two All-Ireland Hurling and three Munster Titles. For the best part of the nineties, Clare dominated the hurling landscape with Daly’s inspirational leadership style a rallying call for management and team-mates alike. Daly picked up three All-Star awards in three different positions during this period and was known for his ruthless, uncompromising style of play. With his beloved club Clarecastle, Daly won five County and one Munster club title.

Having retired as one of the most successful Captains in Hurling, Daly turned to management of the Clare Senior Hurlers in late 2003, a position he held for three years. In 2005, Clare came within minutes of toppling Cork and reaching the All Ireland Final against Kilkenny. Having managed an ageing Clare side to another Semi-Final in 2006, Daly retired following the defeat to Kilkenny.

After a brief hiatus, Daly returned to club management in 2007 with Kerry club Kilmoyley, leading them to back to back county championships in 2008 and 2009. Daly also began his broadcasting career with RTE and The Sunday Game. Regarded as one of the most charismatic characters in the game, Daly’s opinionated, direct and humorous style was a huge hit with GAA fans but this stage of his career was cut-short when he returned to inter-county management with the Dublin Hurlers in November 2008.

After significant progress in 2009, Daly was dealt a hammer blow in 2010 when Antrim knocked Dublin out at the All Ireland Quarter Final stage. Daly re-grouped and an inspired Dublin squad captured the 2011 National League Title an over-whelming victory against Kilkenny.

Daly is now a regular Leadership and Motivational speaker with corporate clients including Diageo and Vodafone.

http://www.speakersolutions.ie/Anthony_Daly/Default.1342.html

Preview: A Guide to Irish Fiction, 1650-1900

A Guide to Irish Fiction, 1650-1900
Rolf Loeber & Magda Loeber, with Anne M. Burnham

Most Irish fiction published between 1650 and 1900 has fallen into virtual oblivion. Research by the Loebers for their Guide to Irish Fiction has led to the identification of hundreds of unknown or forgotten Irish authors and their works, and provides thousands of summaries of novels and anthologies. Carefully documented, A Guide to Irish Fiction presents details of the publication of Irish fiction in Ireland, England, and North America, as well as several other European countries. Written for literary scholars and students and for anyone interested in Ireland and its literature, this book constitutes an essential tool for historians, librarians, collectors of Irish books, and antiquarian booksellers.
Rolf Loeber and Magda Loeber, University of Pittsburg, have extensively published on Irish history and literature and are known for their pioneering research. Anne M. Burnham is an independent researcher at Pittsburgh.

This book is expensive retailing at €81 on Four Courts Press website

parnell Summer school :

Marking the fiftieth anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s visit to Ireland and his assassination, the 2013 Parnell Summer School will explore the place of Kennedy and Parnell in history and will pay tribute to these two remarkable men in the beautiful setting of the Avondale demesne, Parnell’s ancestral home. Other aspects of the Irish-American connection will also be considered, and the speakers include leading authorities from Ireland and America

HURSDAY, AUGUST 15th
10:00: Lecture
Rolf Loeber & Magda Loeber, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – Irish-American fiction: Memories of hardship and arcadia
Chair: James H. Murphy, Professor of English, DePaul University, Chicago

ahead of Adrian Frazier at 11.30

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Prof Sean Ryder (English,NUI Galway) Chairperson of HERA – Humanities in the European Research Area.

Congratulations to Prof Sean Ryder (Head of English Department NUI Galway)   who has been re-elected as Chairperson of HERA – Humanities in the European Research Area.
This consortium of 21 humanities funding research councils plus the European Science Foundation fund transnational research programmes under a variety of themes.

Sean Ryder received his PhD from University College Dublin. He teaches film studies, American poetry, critical and cultural theory, and Irish writing. His research interests include 19thC Irish culture and politics (with a particular interest in the works of Thomas Moore, James Clarence Mangan, and cultural nationalism), and the theory and practice of textual editing. He is currently project leader for TEXTE (Transfer of Expertise in Technologies of Editing), a research and training programme in textual editing with new technologies funded by EU 6th Framework Programme, and is also project leader for the Thomas Moore Hypermedia Archive, a hypermedia archive and critical edition of the works of Thomas Moore, funded by Irish Research Council for Humanities and the Social Sciences. He a former director of the multi-disciplinary MA in Culture & Colonialism. He has published on various aspects of 19thC Irish nationalism and culture, and on Irish cinema.

http://www.heranet.info/

Click to access Research-Matters-Issue-5.pdf

History(NUG) goes interactive!

History has recently created a new social media presence. After discussions with Zara Sheerin of the Press and Information Office, NUI Galway History decided to set up a Facebook page, a twitter feed and a blog. It is hoped that they will help publicise the activities and interests of staff and students both within NUI Galway and to an external audience.

National University of Ireland, Galway (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The blog, edited by Kevin O’Sullivan ( Head of B.A. (Single Honours) History ) and Niall Ó Ciosáin,( Head of 1st year Joint-honours B.A) features posts by members of staff and associates on themes of historical interest. The initial entries included musings on the relationship of the Corrib to the city of Galway, an old vinyl recording of De Valera, a Festschrift from 1913, as well as notices of book launches and conferences. Check it out at the link below!r Their Full-time administrator, Helena Condon, has created a very colourful Facebook page. While it will not replace Blackboard as the primary tool of communication with students, it will help make current and former students aware of what is happening in History. We already have over 200 likes! Helena is also responsible for the twitter feed, which directs traffic to both the blog and the Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/NUIGalwayHistory

Tweets by historyatgalway

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Dr Sean Crosson – Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna

Dr. Seán Crosson of the Huston School of Film & Digital Media was recently appointed Visiting Professor (in “Irish Cultural Studies”) at the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Vienna for the Winter Term, 2013-2014. Dr. Crosson will be contributing to courses on Irish Cultural Studies during his time at the University of Vienna with particular emphasis on the media, society and culture in Ireland past and present.

Dr. Seán Crosson is Programme Director of the MA in Film Studies and the MA in Screenwriting in the Huston School of Film & Digital Media. He has published widely on film, focusing in particular in recent years on the representation of sport in film, and on Irish literature.

Contributions to several major collections in recent years
Over the past four years, Dr. Crosson has researched and uncovered important depictions of sport in film, in particular of Gaelic games, and his work has been the subject of articles in The Irish Times, an RTÉ news report and TV documentaries (including the TG4 series “GAA125 Bliain”). His research in this area has also resulted in contributions to several major collections in recent years, including the award-winning volume The Gaelic Athletic Association 1884-2009 and Screening Irish-America: Representing Irish-America in Film and Television
Top selling sport-themed DVD in Ireland
Most recently Dr. Crosson did the research towards, and provided the liner notes for, the DVD release, GAA Gold – All Ireland Hurling Championship Finals 1948-1959, which made available rarely seen footage of hurling all-Irelands in these years and was one of the top selling sport-themed DVDs in Ireland in 2010. He is co-editor of four collections published over the past three years including (with Dr. Philip Dine) Sport, Representation and Evolving Identities in Europe (Peter Lang, 2010); (with Dr. Rod Stoneman) The Quiet Man…and Beyond: Reflections on a Classic Film, John Ford, and Ireland (Liffey Press, 2009); (with Dr. Nessa Cronin & Dr. John Eastlake) Anáil an Bhéil Bheo: Orality and Modern Irish Culture (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009); and (with Anne Karhio and Charles I. Armstrong) Crisis and Contemporary Poetry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). He is also author of the monograph ’The Given Note’ Traditional Music and Modern Irish Poetry (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008) which was one of the first book-length studies on the relationship of Irish poetry with traditional music. Dr. Crosson’s research has also been featured at leading international cultural events including Milwaukee Irish Fest in 2009 and at the Kilkenny Arts Festival in 2010. He is currently working on a monograph examining the representation of sport in film to be published by Routledge in 2012 and has also recently co-edited with Dr. Philip Dine from the Discipline of French a special issue, on sport and the media in Ireland, for the prestigious international journal, Media History, which will be published in April this year.

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Dr Frances McCormack appointed director of the Graham Greene International Festival 2014

Dr Frances McCormack appointed director of the Graham Greene International Festival 2014
The Graham Greene International Festival is an annual four-day event of conference papers, informal talks, question and answer sessions, films, dramatised readings, music, creative writing workshops and social events. It is organised by the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust, and takes place in the writer’s home town of Berkhamsted, on dates as close as possible to the anniversary of his birth. Its purpose is to promote interest in and study of the works of Graham Greene.

Dr Frances McCormack became a trustee of the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust last October and will deliver a paper at this years’ Festival.

 

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Gerard Quinn

Gerard Quinn is the Director of the Centre for Disability Law and Policy at the NUI Galway School of Law. Called to the Irish Bar in 1983, he holds a masters (LL.M.) and doctorate in law (S.J.D.) from Harvard Law School.

His specialization is international and comparative disability law and policy.

He is a member of the Irish Human Rights Commission and helps co-ordinate the work of National Human Rights Institutions worldwide on disability issues. He led the delegation of Rehabilitation International (RI) during the UN Working Group that elaborated the basis for the new Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

He has worked in the European Commission (as a civil servant), and held a number of posts such as Director of Research for the Irish Government’s Law Reform Commission and Vice President of the European Committee of Social Rights (Council of Europe). He sits on various advisory boards dealing with disability law and policy issues such as the Commonwealth Secretariat, SOROS-OSI (Washington, DC), Disability Rights Fund (Boston, MA), European Foundation Centre Consortium on Disability(Brussels), European Coalition for Community Living (London), Interights (London).

In January 2012 President Michael D. Higgins appointed Professor Quinn to the Republic of Ireland’s Council of State.

Teaching Interests
Disability law & policy
Comparative disability law
Judicial activism

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2011/2012 The focus of this course is on international, regional and national law reform of legal capacity laws. Key issues include supported decision making and the assessment of legal capacity.: Legal Capacity Law and Policy
2011/2012 : Foundational Theoretical Framework in Disability Law and Policy
2011/2012 An overview of various regional approaches to disability law and policy as a way of transposing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and as a way of stimulating region-wide reform. : Regional Disability Law and Policy

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Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh

Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh is Professor Emeritus in History and former Dean of Arts and Vice-President of the National University of Ireland, Galway. A former member of the Senate of the NUI and of the Irish-US Fulbright Commission, and a former Cathaoirleach of Údarás na Gaeltachta, Professor Ó Tuathaigh has published widely – in Irish and English – on many aspects of modern Irish history.

Teaching

HI263 Government policy and economic development since 1922
HI323 Europe since 1914
HI362 Party & Power in nineteenth and early twentieth century British politics

One unit of the First Year History course

RESEARCH INTERESTS

19th-and 20th-c. Irish and British history; 20th-c. and contemporary European history; modern imperialism; the history of ideas

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Do you have a passion for the Arts? Are you a theatre lover? Do you like meeting new people? Would you like to learn the in’s and out’s of Festival Management? Maybe you have some free time and would like to meet like-minded people. If so, we at Scripts would LOVE to have you join our scripts-family! Whether you have some time to offer in the run up to the event or would like to get involved in the event itself, we can find a role that will match your availibility, interest and abilities.
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We also welcome theatre and writing students, or students of marketing & event management to come onboard and get some hands-on experience.
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To get involved, email us as scriptsireland@gmail.com outlining your availibility and telling us a little about yourself. It promises to be a fun-filled week, and we value greatly the contribution of all members of our team. As a token of appreciation, volunteers will recieve tickets to a festival event as well as festival staff discounts on all workshops and events. Look forward to hearing from you and close with some wise words….

” The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in service to others”.

—Mahatma Gandhi

Bath Novel Award

http://bathnovelaward.co.uk/ New international novel contest with £1000 1st prize. C/d 28 Feb ’14 Shortlist Judge: Juliet Mushens, Literary Agent at The Agency Group. 5000 words + synopsis