How to Blend In When Studying Abroad In Galway, Ireland – Tip No. 4, Get to class on time (or not!)
Posted: June 27, 2013 in Uncategorized
One of the things many visiting international students notice when they first study abroad in Ireland is that they show up at the scheduled time for a class, only to have to wait 10 minutes or so for it to begin.
Lectures are usually timetabled to last an hour, however it is generally understood that teaching begins at about 10 minutes after the hour.
The main reason is because students may have lectures in different buildings throughout the campus, and therefore may need the time to get from one to another.
Of course, some lecturers may begin on the hour, so it’s probably best to gauge each one individually over the first few weeks. However, if you do find yourself running late, there’s usually no problem getting in a few minutes after the hour, even if this would be not allowed at your home university.
***Update, August 2013 From the…
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There are 6 main mobile phone service providers in Ireland. The relevant websites are listed below. Please refer to the websites for information on special offers, price plans and free web text service.
http://www.vodafone.ie
http://www.O2.ie
http://www.meteor.ie
http://www.3ireland.ie
http://www.tescomobile.ie
http://www.emobile.ie
These service providers offer the option of “pay as you go” phones or an account option (i.e. contract with monthly bill).
The “pay as you go” option is ideal for international students, as there are no contracts and you can top up with credit as and when required. Credit can be purchased online, at ATM machines, in shops or in dispensing machines.
There are several shops in Galway which sell mobile phones including The Carphone Warehouse (branches in the Galway Shopping Centre, Headford Rd and the Eyre Square Shopping Centre), the Vodafone Store, Eyre Square, 3Store, Shop St, O2 Store, Shop St., Meteor Shop, William St. It is a good idea…
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Blog supplemental :Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 eBook Available for Download for leaving certs of 2014 and 15
Posted: June 11, 2013 in HIstory, Irish HistoryTags: Anglo-Irish Treaty, Digital Humanities Observatory, E-book, eBook, Leaving Certificate, Royal Irish Academy
This is a follow up blog plost to my tweet of last friday :
“Because the prescribed topic in LC Staire for 2014 & 15 is Sovereignty And Partition. History teachers http://ow.ly/lOqd1 free book :)”
The Documents in Irish Foreign Policy, a project of the Royal Irish Academy, is proud to announce that its first eBook on the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 is now available for free download.
research.dho.ie/1921treaty.epub
research.dho.ie/1921treaty.mobi
research.dho.ie/1921treaty.pdf
One of the prescribed topics for the documents-based study in the Leaving Certificate 2014 and 2015 is ‘The Pursuit of Sovereignty and the Impact of Partition, 1919-1949.’ Included in the three case studies for this topic is ‘The Treaty negotiations, October – December 1921’ and as such, the chapter on the Treaty negotiations in Volume I of the Documents of Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) series (www.difp.ie) will be immensely beneficial to history teachers. With this in mind, DIFP decided to embark on a new venture and put the material from this chapter into an eBook for teachers and students.
The Anglo-Irish Treaty eBook makes accessing documents relating to the Treaty as straightforward as possible. This selection of documents contains crucial correspondence between the main political figures involved in the negotiations and shows the problems and stresses of negotiating an international agreement. The documents are structured chronologically and provide a gripping and accessible account of a key moment in modern Irish history.
The National Archives’ online exhibition on the Anglo-Irish Treaty, can be found athttp://treaty.nationalarchives.ie/
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The disarmament of hatred – France and Germany between the two world wars
Posted: June 10, 2013 in Uncategorized
In case you missed it, you can listen back here to our very own Gearóid Barry being interviewed by Patrick Geoghegan of Newstalk on the station’s Talking History show on 19 May 2013. The piece begins about 15 minutes in.
Gearóid is pictured above with John Horne, professor of Modern European History at Trinity College Dublin, who performed the launch of his new book The Disarmament of Hatred: Marc Sangnier, French Catholicism and the Legacy of the First World War, 1914-45 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) at the Moore Institute last autumn. Professor Horne, formerly Gearóid’s doctoral supervisor, spoke of his pleasure in returning to visit NUI Galway and said of the book that it illuminated a remarkable Franco-German peace movement instigated in 1921 by war veteran and French Catholic politician Marc Sangnier. Barry’s transnational study examines the European resonance of Sangnier’s Peace Congresses in the interwar period. Advocating the ‘disarmament of hatred’…
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2013 is the centenary of some important events in Irish history. It is also the centenary of some very obscure ones. 1913 saw the publication of one of the earliest books of essays honouring an Irish academic. ‘A great Irish scholar’, the Irish Times called him in its review of the book, and ‘one of the most seminal minds now in mortal existence’.
Such books are common nowadays, and many professors and lecturers are presented with one when they retire, written by their colleagues, students and friends. A hundred years ago, it was a new practice and was imitating universities in Germany, hence its usual name, ‘festschrift’. In the later nineteenth century, German universities were the most advanced in the world, and a lot of the features of modern academic life were developed there, such as the PhD thesis and the research seminar. These then spread to the rest of…
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For anyone who is in the Dublin area this week, I will be launching my new book, Ireland, Africa and the End of Empire: Small State Identity in the Cold War, 1955-75 (Manchester University Press), on Wednesday 12 June in Hodges Figgis Bookstore, Dawson Street, Dublin 2, at 18.30. All are welcome to come along – there will be plenty of refreshments to go around! You can download the invite in pdf format here, or click the image below to enlarge.
– Kevin O’Sullivan
This Weekend I’ll Mostly Be Listening to…Rollerskate Skinny, Shoulder Voices
Posted: June 8, 2013 in Uncategorized
Here’s an Irish group from the early to mid-1990s, Rollerskate Skinny, famous, or infamous, for having for a time a Shields (yes, brother of one K. Shields) as part of the line up. But to reduce them to that fact alone would be to do a serious disservice to a group that locked neatly into a musical discourse which seemed of a piece with musical developments much further afield than this island – and a fair bit more experimental than most of their contemporaries in Ireland or outside it.
I recall reading, I think in Melody Maker, a scathing review of one of their albums – I’m guessing the first – which suggested that they were mere Boo Radley copyists. I kind of see how one could see them sharing – to a very limited extent – a similar approach in some areas, but the thrust of the two groups…
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The View from The DJ booth 