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History at Galway

Let me set the scene. It’s last Saturday afternoon, and I’m rooting through the crates of vinyl at the record fair at Electric Garden on Abbeygate Street in Galway city centre. The boxes are filled with the usual stuff: records from the seventies that someone now wishes they hadn’t gotten rid of, odd copies of Pet Shot Boys and Police LPs that they wish they’d never heard of, and a rare edition of Led Zeppelin IV with a misspelt cover that’s inexplicably worth hundreds as a result. And there, in the Irish section, set among the Microdisney and Fatima Mansions records, I came across this:

Ah, Galway. Always another twist when you least expect it. (I’ll post something here soon about the two individuals I saw a few weeks back, decked out in full mariner regalia and reciting dialogue from Moby Dick down by Spanish Arch. On a Saturday afternoon. In broad…

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Histories of humanitarianism

History at Galway

Really looking forward to hearing Tom Arnold, former CEO of Concern, reflecting on Irish humanitarianism #aidhistory

— NGO Humanitarian (@NS_Humanitarian) June 21, 2013

Last Thursday and Friday (20-21 June) my colleague Matthew Hilton (University of Birmingham) and I held the second of four workshops in our international research network, ‘Non-state Humanitarianism: From Colonialism to Human Rights’, at the Moore Institute here in NUI Galway. Across two days of papers, plenaries and roundtables, participants from Ireland, the UK, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States discussed, debated, critiqued and commented on a variety of issues facing historians of humanitarianism. You can have a look at the programme and descriptions of the papers here.

The aim of the network is simple: to map out the new histories of NGOs, missionary societies, philanthropists and charities that are beginning to be written across Europe and North America. It’s been an exciting process…

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The French Office Survival Guide

You Can Call Me Ashley

5 weeks in and I still feel like I only moved to France a few days ago, (I definitely look it too, never hard to spot the Irish girl even in the biggest of crowds!). Everyday I’m still meeting new people, finding new places and learning new things, what more could you ask for in life?

But it’s not all fun and games, there’s also work to be done! I came here for my market research internship and from 9am ’til 5.30pm, Monday to Friday (give or take on average at least one bank holiday a week) that’s what I do.

I’ve had a few slow starts, made some rookie mistakes and still say “Oui” to everything but these last few weeks I’ve picked up some new vocabulaire and conseils, and can safely say I can add to my list of how to survive in a French working environment!

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Bert and Ernie Celebrating Gay Rights Supreme Court Rulings: New Yorker Cover

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Next week’s cover of the New Yorker Magazine

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Broadway 2013-2014 Season Guide

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(Here is a list just of Broadway Spring 2014 openings)

Updated June 4, 2014

Listed below, chronologically by opening dates, are the shows that opened on Broadway in the 2013-2014 season.  (An x besides the title means it has closed as of June, 2014).

 

Click here for a rundown on Broadway’s 15 longest-running shows and biggest current hits

JULY, 2013

xFOREVER TANGO

• Walter Kerr Theater
• First Preview: July 9, 2013
• Opening: July 14
• Closing: September 15
• Cast: Gilberto Santa Rosa
• “Forever Tango is music, drama, culture, a way of life”
• Twitter: @deforevertango

My review of Forever Tango

Closed

xLET IT BE

• Theatre: St. James Theatre
• First Preview: July 16, 2013
• Opening: July 24, 2013
• Let It Be began as a West End production to celebrate The Beatles’ 50th anniversary. Using projection technology and 3D sound, the show chronicles the Beatles’ rise from Liverpool’s Cavern Club to…

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