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Friday, February 14, 2014

A Galway Love Story

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If this particular time of year makes one appreciate a good love story all the more, then the story of James Joyce, Nora Barnacle, the deat...
Thursday, February 13, 2014

Stephen Gwynn and University College Galway

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On this day, 13 February 1864, Stephen Lucius Gwynn, writer, politician and soldier was born as Saint Columba’s College, Rathfarnham, Du...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Sigerson Cup - Looking back to 1912

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The colleges competitions of the Sigerson football and FitzGibbon hurling cups are in full swing at the moment it is a timely chance to look...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

"The Plough and the Stars" and its Critics

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On this day, 11th February 1926, rioting greets the Abbey Theatre performance of Sean O'Casey's "The Plough and the Stars"...
Monday, January 27, 2014

CFP: Pushing Form - Innovation and Interconnection in Contemporary European Performance

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European and Western performance discourse historically has often presumed a hegemonic and majority white field of practice despite an inc...

Book of the Month - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (London, 1849).

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The start of the new term brings the return of our Book of the Month from the Special Collections Library here at the Hardiman Building. Ea...
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

New Stages: Theatre Tours to the Prisons

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Earlier this week, as the Abbey Theatre look back in detail on Dublin life in 1913 at the height of the Strike and Lock-Out through the wor...