Nietzsche Symposium at NUI Galway (30th October, 2015,day) long event

Source: Nietzsche Symposium at NUI Galway (30th October, 2015,day) long event

Nietzsche Symposium at NUI Galway (30th October, 2015,day) long event

10.30 – 11.30 Tom Bailey (John Cabot University, Rome) ‘Nietzsche’s Modest Theory of Agency’

11.30 – 12.00 Coffee

12.00 – 1.00 Tsarina Doyle (NUI, Galway) ‘The Will to Power and the Metaphysics of Value’

1.00 – 2.30 LUNCH

2.30 – 3.00 Ruud Thomas Burke (UCC) ‘Type-facts and Nothing but the Facts: Reductionism and Nietzsche’s Philosophy’

3.00 – 3.30 Trine Riel (NUI, Galway) ‘Nietzsche’s askesis: Philosophy as an art of existence’

3.30 – 4.00 COFFEE

4.00 – 4.30 Chris Hansen (NUI, Galway) ‘Nietzsche and Perspective’

4.30 – 5.00 Steven McHugh (NUI, Galway) ‘Nietzsche: Morality in the Pejorative Sense and Human Flourishing’

Contact: Tsarina Doyle, Philosophy, School of Humanities: tsarina.doyle@nuigalway.ie

“The Galway Nietzsche Symposium is a one-day event that brings together academics and advanced graduate students working on Nietzsche from John Cabot University Rome, NUI Galway and University College Cork. It is an open event and formal registration is was not required.”

IASIL CFP PANEL ON LOCAL THEATRE

In early November Dawn Duncan at IASIL posted this im reposting here

sounds interesting 🙂

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PANEL ON LOCAL THEATRE

In their mission statement the two newly appointed directors of the Abbey Theatre have expressed a willingness to turn the National Theatre into a theatre of the whole nation, bringing the Abbey’s work to the local level. As 2016 is the point of change when their tenure will officially begin, it would seem an opportune moment to open the debate on how regional ventures have allowed the development of Irish theatre, a fact too often overlooked by the scholarly focus on the Abbey.

The panel will investigate the work of local theatre companies that have been locally and nationally influential but that do not usually perform in the capital. For instance, Druid took on McDonagh at an early stage in his career and certainly shaped his early work as well as bringing him to public attention; Tinderbox have been actively engaged in developing new writers and in staging their work. Other companies of interest may be (but not restricted to) Corcadorca, Blue Raincoat, Red Kettle, Big Telly, or Prime Cut. The panel will explore the work these companies have produced, and how that work has impacted on the theatrical landscape locally, nationally, or internationally.

Deadline for abstract submission: 31 January 2016.

Please send your abstracts (no longer than 300 words) and a brief biography (50 words including affiliation) to the panel’s convenors: Dr. Anne Etienne (a.etienne@ucc.ie) and Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick (l.fitzpatrick@ulster.ac.uk)

Individual papers should be no more than 20 minutes in duration

Interview with Maria Tivnan – Director of Pleasure Ground – Smock Alley

Source: Interview with Maria Tivnan – Director of Pleasure Ground – Smock Alley

CFP 1:1916: CINEMA AND REVOLUTION

1916, CINEMA AND REVOLUTION

1st Call for Papers

25-27 MAY 2016, HUSTON SCHOOL OF FILM & DIGITAL MEDIA, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY

Keynote Speakers to include: Dr. Denis Condon (Maynooth University) and Professor Charles Barr (Emeritus Professor, University of East Anglia)

1916 marked the establishment of Ireland’s first indigenous film company, The Film Company of Ireland, whose co-founder James Mark Sullivan was arrested after the Rising and charged with complicity. As part of NUI Galway’s programme of events to commemorate the 1916 Rising, the Huston School of Film & Digital Media invites contributions on the theme of ‘1916, Cinema and Revolution’. Events in that year and subsequently have featured in a range of cinematic and televisual productions while there is also a significant international dimension to the relationship between revolutionary history and cinema. Therefore, we invite considerations on aspects of the representation of the Rising, as well as other revolutionary moments in Irish and world history. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

– Filming the Rising;

– The representation of revolution in film and television

– Postcolonial cinema and revolution;

– the Cuban revolution in film

– Representing the Russian Revolution

– Cinema and Vietnam

 

The conference will include screenings of Irish and international films relevant to the conference theme.

Abstracts: If you would like to propose a paper (not exceeding 20 minutes), please submit your title and an abstract of 250 words accompanied by a short biographical sketch to sean.crosson@nuigalway.ie

Deadline for submission of proposals and abstracts: 11th December 2015.

Back by Popular Demand! THE GIGLI CONCERT by Tom Murphy @ The Gate October 2015

Back by Popular Demand!
THE GIGLI CONCERT
by Tom Murphy

TICKETS ON SALE SOON!

Preview Wednesday 28th October
Opening Thursday 29th October

Returning for a VERY Limited run!!!

★★★★★

“Masterful achievement”
The Irish Times

Tom Murphy is highly regarded as one of the greatest living Irish playwrights. This production was the very first time a Tom Murphy play was ever been staged at the Gate Theatre.

The Gigli Concert came to the Gate with rapturous acclaim and due to incredible demand it is back for a very limited run. It is a fiercely satirical and beautifully crafted play about the endurance of the human spirit and our ability to achieve the impossible.  JPW King (played by Declan Conlon) is a ‘Dynamatologist’ caught between the demands of Mona his mistress, Helen (played by Dawn Bradfield), the unattainable love of his life, and an insatiable taste for vodka. For King, the recurring question is how to get through each day. Then a mysterious Irishman (Denis Conway) walks into his office wanting to sing like the great Italian tenor, Beniamino Gigli…

Prepare to be swept away. 

Cast Includes:
Dawn Bradfield
Declan Conlon
Denis Conway

Creatives:
Director – David Grindley
Set & Costume Designer – Jonathan Fensom
Lighting Designer – Sinead McKenna
Sound Designer – Gregory Clarke

Galway’s No Ropes presents fast-paced, satirical three-hander in the second last week of August

No Ropes is a new, Galway based theatre company whose aim is to challenge our understanding of societal boundaries through the production of innovative and little known dramatic works.

This fast-paced, satirical three-hander is written by Italian Nobel laureate Dario Fo and his wife Franca Rame. Written in 1983, the play has a very contemporary resonance and explores the sexual politics of a doomed ‘modern’ marriage.

Cast: Deirdre Bhreatnach, Daniel Cronin, Chris Campbell and guest starring Diarmuid de Faoite of Corp agus Annam

Director Mairéad Folan
Set Design Dara McGee
Costume Designer: Clarissa Finnerty
Light Design Jim Faulkner
Sound Design Conor McBrierty
Music Composer Peter Mannion
Stage Manager Jane Talbot

Please Note: Not suitable for under 18s.

Venue: THT studio space ,Galway

Dates Friday and Saturday 20th and 21st of august

Ticket Prices €10/€8

 

 

Archdiocese of Dublin ordains two new pirests this past week

archbishop Diarmuid Martin ordains two new priests in Archdiocese of Dublin

The Archdiocese of Dublin will have two new priests today as Archbishop Diarmuid Martin ordains Paul Glennon and Chris Derwin to the Diocesan priesthood. The ordinations take place on the Feast Day of St. Kevin, a patron saint of the Archdiocese.

In his homily at today’s ordination Mass, Archbishop Martin told both men “you received your faith at your baptism within that community of believers in Jesus Christ. The community of faith has nurtured you. Never forget that you would never have arrived at this day without the prayers of many. God’s people care for their priests and pray for their priests. You are and always will be indebted to that community of faith and you will exercise new ministry as service within that communion, just as you will receive support from the community in which you minster.”

Archbishop Martin added that being a priest “is not easy”. He said it is possible to become unsettled and anxious; it is possible to become cynical or resigned. However, he told them, “If you remain deeply in the love of Jesus your joy will be complete and your ministry will bring you deep contentment.”

Paul Glennon is originally from Dunmore in County Galway. A son of John and Mary Glennon, his parents, four bothers and four sisters will all join him as he is ordained in St. Mary’s Pro Cathedral. Paul (41) studied mechanical engineering in GMIT Galway, Bolton Street and Paisley in Scotland. Following graduation he worked for three years in Manchester and later in Kilbeggan in Co Westmeath. He was in his 30’s before he began to explore a vocation to the priesthood. He took time out from his career to study in the Emmanuel Community School of Mission in Rome, living in the community and working on parish missions. He entered St. Patrick’s seminary in Maynooth in 2009 and as well as his studies in St. Patrick’s he also spent time in formation in two Dublin parishes.

Chris Derwin is from Milltown and Rathmines in Dublin. Aged 32, he will be the youngest priest in the Archdiocese of Dublin. A son of Rita and Christopher, he has three brothers and one sister. From a young age and for many years Chris was a carer for his grandmother and three uncles and still cares for one elderly uncle today. He studied in Dundrum College in Dublin and Leeson Street Institute of Education. He then embarked on a career as a barman, taking an apprenticeship in the trade. He worked in several well-known Dublin pubs including Graces in Rathmines, Tramco and Madigans. During this time he also volunteered in local youth projects. He said he had drifted from his faith in his early teens but returned to his local parish after the age of 16. However, he struggled with his vocation and says he immigrated to Manchester to work for a two year period in a bid to ignore the calling, this in fact had the opposite effect and he ended up joining St. Patrick’s ceremony in Maynooth in 2008.

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bookish quote from Judge Sonia Sotomayor in 2009

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I also want to thank Senators Schumer and Gillibrand for that
kind introduction. In recent weeks, I have had the privilege and pleasure of meeting
eighty-nine gracious Senators, including all the members of this Committee. I thank you
for the time you have spent with me. Our meetings have given me an illuminating tour of
the fifty states and invaluable insights into the American people.
There are countless family members, friends, mentors, colleagues, and clerks who have
done so much over the years to make this day possible. I am deeply appreciative for their
love and support. I want to make one special note of thanks to my mom. I am here
today because of her aspirations and sacrifices for both my brother Juan and me. Mom, I
love that we are sharing this together. I am very grateful to the President and humbled to
be here today as a nominee to the United States Supreme Court.
The progression of my life has been uniquely American. My parents left Puerto Rico
during World War II. I grew up in modest circumstances in a Bronx housing project.
My father, a factory worker with a third grade education, passed away when I was nine
years old.
On her own, my mother raised my brother and me. She taught us that the key to success
in America is a good education. And she set the example, studying alongside my brother
and me at our kitchen table so that she could become a registered nurse. We worked
hard.
I poured myself into my studies at Cardinal Spellman High School, earning scholarships
to Princeton University and then Yale Law School, while my brother went to medical
school. Our achievements are due to the values that we learned as children, and they
have continued to guide my life’s endeavors. I try to pass on this legacy by serving as a
mentor and friend to my many godchildren and students of all backgrounds.
Over the past three decades, I have seen our judicial system from a number of different
perspectives – as a big-city prosecutor, a corporate litigator, a trial judge and an appellate
judge. My first job after law school was….
… as an assistant District Attorney in New York. There, I saw children exploited and
abused. I felt the suffering of victims’ families torn apart by a loved one’s needless
death.

And I learned the tough job law enforcement has protecting the public safety. In my next
legal job, I focused on commercial, instead of criminal, matters. I litigated issues on
behalf of national and international businesses and advised them on matters ranging from
contracts to trademarks.
My career as an advocate ended — and my career as a judge began — when I was
appointed by President George H.W. Bush to the United States District Court for the
Southern District of New York. As a trial judge, I decided over four hundred and fifty
cases, and presided over dozens of trials, with perhaps my best known case involving the
Major League Baseball strike in 1995.
After six extraordinary years on the district court, I was appointed by President William
Jefferson Clinton to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. On that
Court, I have enjoyed the benefit of sharing ideas and perspectives with wonderful
colleagues as we have worked together to resolve the issues before us. I have now served
as an appellate judge for over a decade, deciding a wide range of Constitutional,
statutory, and other legal questions.
Throughout my seventeen years on the bench, I have witnessed the human consequences
of my decisions. Those decisions have been made not to serve the interests of any one
litigant, but always to serve the larger interest of impartial justice.
In the past month, many Senators have asked me about my judicial philosophy. It is
simple: fidelity to the law. The task of a judge is not to make the law – it is to apply the
law. And it is clear, I believe, that my record in two courts reflects my rigorous
commitment to interpreting the Constitution according to its terms; interpreting statutes
according to their terms and Congress’s intent; and hewing faithfully to precedents
established by the Supreme Court and my Circuit Court. In each case I have heard, I
have applied the law to the facts at hand.
The process of judging is enhanced when the arguments and concerns of the parties to the
litigation are understood and acknowledged. That is why I generally structure my
opinions by setting out what the law requires and then by explaining why a contrary
position, sympathetic or not, is accepted or rejected. That is how I seek to strengthen
both the rule of law and faith in the impartiality of our justice system. My personal and
professional experiences help me listen and understand, with the law always commanding
the result in every case.

Since President Obama announced my nomination in May, I have received letters from
people all over this country. Many tell a unique story of hope in spite of struggles. Each
letter has deeply touched me. Each reflects a belief in the dream that led my parents to
come to New York all those years ago. It is our Constitution that makes that Dream
possible, and I now seek the honor of upholding the Constitution as a Justice on the
Supreme Court.

Garry Hynes of Druid Theatre Company ( Artistic Director)

 

Garry Hynes founded Druid in 1975 with Marie Mullen and Mick Lally and has worked as its Artistic Director from 1975 to 1991, and from 1995 to date. From 1991 to 1994 she was Artistic Director of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.

Born in Ballaghadereen, Co Roscommon in 1953 Garry moved to Galway with her family in 1965. In 1971, she started an Arts Degree (History & English) in University College, Galway, now NUI Galway. Upon leaving college in 1975, Garry founded Druid Theatre with Marie Mullen and Mick Lally.

Garry has also worked with The Abbey and Gate Theatres (Ireland) and internationally with The Royal Shakespeare Company and The Royal Court (UK), and with Second Stage, Signature Theater and Manhattan Theater Club in New York; and with The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.

Productions

Druid: Productions include: DruidMurphy – Plays by Tom Murphy (Ireland, England & USA tour), The Silver Tassie (New York, Irish & UK tour), The Gigli Concert (Galway Arts Festival and Irish Tour), The Cripple of Inishmaan (US, Irish & UK Tour, and Atlantic Theater, New York); Long Day’s Journey into Night (Galway and Dublin Theatre Festival); Leaves (Galway and Royal Court Theatre, London); Empress of India (Galway and Dublin Theatre Festival); The Year of the Hiker (Galway, Dublin and National Tour); DruidSynge (Galway Arts Festival, Dublin, Edinburgh International Festival and Inis Meáin 2005; Minneapolis and Lincoln Center Festival New York 2006); Sharon’s Grave, Sive, On Raftery’s Hill, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Leenane Trilogy (Royal Court co-productions); Lovers’ Meeting; Conversations on a Homecoming; Bailegangaire; The Shaughraun; The Wood of the Whispering.

Other Theatre (Ireland): Productions include: Afterplay, The Weir, Crestfall (Gate Theatre, Dublin); King of the Castle, The Plough and the Stars, The Power of Darkness, Famine, A Whistle in the Dark, Portia Coughlan (The Abbey Theatre).

Other Theatre (International): Equivocation (Manhattan Theater Club); Juno (Encores New York City Center); Translations (McCarter/Manhattan Theater Club, New York); Mr Peters’ Connections (Signature Theatre, New York); Crimes of the Heart (Second Stage, New York); My Brilliant Divorce (West End); 16 Wounded (Broadway); A Streetcar Named Desire (Kennedy Center, Washington);

Awards

Garry Hynes is the recipient of a number of awards including:

1988    Honorary Doctorate from the National Council for Education Awards
1997    Honorary Doctorate from the National University of Ireland, Galway
1998    Tony Award for Direction of The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh
2002    Irish Times ESB Irish Theatre Award for Best Direction for Sive by J.B. Keane
2004    Honorary Doctorate (DLitt) from Trinity College Dublin
2005    Irish Times ESB Irish Theatre Special Tribute Award for her contribution to Irish Theatre
2006    Freedom of Galway City
2009    Joe A.Callaway Award (New York) for Outstanding Directing for The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh. Link.
2011    Honorary Doctorate of Literature (DLitt) from University College Dublin. Link.
2012    Best Director Award for DruidMurphy at the UK Theatre Awards. Link.