Callan’s Kicks is back on RTÉ

Oliver is pleased to announce the return of his weekly satirical take on the week on RTÉ Radio One this Autumn.

Callan’s Kicks is back every Friday at 6.30pm from September 27th right through to Christmas. Featuring new characters Marty Morrissey, Joe Brolly, Mary Wilson, Kathryn Thomas and Damien Dempsey alongside old favourites.

The new series will take listeners through the big events this Autumn from the Seanad referendums, the October Budget, party conferences to the fallout from Trapattoni’s World Cup campaign.

Tune into RTÉ Radio One each Friday and catch-up on the RTÉ Radio Player here: Podcasts

Social conflict, war, and revolution in Co. Galway, 1913-23’ 14 lectures; 10 minutes each; all free

GALWAY CITY MUSEUM
in association with
History Dept, NUI Galway

CULTURE NIGHT, Fri., 20 September 2012, 6 pm – 8.20 pm

Social conflict, war, and revolution in Co. Galway, 1913-23’

14 lectures; 10 minutes each; all free

6.00: Seosamh Ó Cuaig, Pearse and Lord Dudley in Ros Muc

6.10: Bernadette O’Connell, Policing a “wild, fierce and most original town”: The RIC in Galway, 1913-1922

6.20: Willie Henry, Recruiting in Galway

6.30: Jackie Uí Chionna, ‘Máirtín Mór’ McDonogh in the years of upheaval

6.45: Rosaleen O’Neill, Professor Valentine Steinberger: “Another martyr for old Ireland”?

6.55: Mary Clancy, Working Life Stories

7.05 John Cunningham, Tom Glynn’s war

7.15 Cormac Ó Comhraí, “A Hotbed of Sinn Féinism”: University College Galway during the Revolution

7.25: Marie Boran & Loretto O’Donoghue, Galway Cumann na mBan women: evidence from Bureau of Military History

7.40: Gerard Madden, Jack Keogh of Ballinasloe

7.50: Damien Quinn, Mutiny for a Bounty: The Connaught Rangers in India 1920

8.00: Conor McNamara, Black & Tans: the terror in Galway town

8.10: Sarah-Anne Buckley, From Ballyconree orphanage to Parramatta

Curated & introduced by Dr John Cunningham, History Dept, NUI Galway

 

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Good citizens that we are, let us help in planning your itinerary by making a couple of history-related suggestions to include in your evening’s travels. On campus, Archives and Special Collections is hosting a talk by Felicity Hayes-McCoy on ‘Staging Ireland: Irish culture at home and abroad – from An Tóstal to the Gathering’. In tandem, the Archives will be organising a special showcase of digitised material from the archive of Felicity’s father (and former Chair of History at UCG), Professor Gerard Anthony Hayes-McCoy. Doors open at 17.30 in the new Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Research Building (adjacent to the library). The lecture is free, but…

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Law Firms’ Day tomorrow (NUIG)

Mr. Lughaidh Kerin, and the Career Development Centre at NUIG, have organised an excellent programme of events for the Careers in Law Week 2013. Details of these events have been circulated already.   Donncha O’Connell  is writing to encourage you to attend as many of these events as you can. It is vitally important that you avail of every opportunity to enable you to compete in what is now an extremely competitive environment for law graduates in Ireland and abroad. The Careers in Law Week is an invaluable opportunity for you to begin to understand the environment in which you will be competing.

Law Firms’ Day tomorrow
Venue: The View

12:00 – 1:45pm: Arthur Cox Mock Group Interviews (lunch provided by Arthur Cox)

Venue: Section B, Bailey Allen Hall

2:00pm: Welcome and Introduction by John Hannon and Donncha O’Connell

2:10pm: Mason Hayes & Curran: How to succeed at FE1s

2:30pm: William Fry: How to succeed at interview

2:50pm: RDJ Glynn: A day in the life of a trainee

3:10pm: Holmes O’Malley Sexton: Which Post Grad/LLM?

3:30pm: A&L Goodbody: How to stand out in your application

3:50pm: Matheson: Career progression in a corporate law firm

4:10pm: Arthur Cox: Preparing to qualify: How to get the most out of your time as a trainee

Venue: Section C, Bailey Allen Hall

4:30pm – 5:30pm: Law Firms Fair and Reception (Sponsored by RDJ Glynn)

Stop the Press: Three Free Concerts in Galway in one Day ft. The Cabin Collective t

Stop Press: Three Free Concerts in Galway in one Day ft. The Cabin Collective this Saturday 14 September, starting at the Crane Bar at 6pm, moving on to the Roisin Dubh at 9pm and finishing up in Monroe’s Live at 11.30 pm. And all three shows are Totally Free–everybody is on the Guest List. Please share the West End Cabin Crawl.

 

O.k I know ive gotten this late so hence ive marked the latter two 

 

Thanks to the legendenry ollie Jennings( Sawdoctors) for letting know 🙂

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The Escape Artist

Will Burton (David Tennant) is a talented junior barrister of peerless intellect and winning charm who specializes in spiriting people out of tight legal corners.

 

He is in high demand as he has never lost a case.

 

But when his talents acquit the notorious prime suspect in an horrific murder trial, that brilliance comes back to bite him with unexpected and chilling results, not to mention a shocking twist in the tale.

 

Starring: David Tennant, Toby Kebbell, Sophie Okonedo and Ashley Jensen