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On the occasion of the recent appointment of Established Professors of English, History and Philosophy, the School of Humanities hosts a public lecture series Professing the Humanities in the City Museum. Déardaoin 24ú sees Prof. Steven Ellis presents a lecture in his field of speciality on Tudor ruled Ireland.

The two semi-finals are on the Friday at 12:00 and 14:00 (Dangan fields) with the final the following day at 14:45 (Páirc an Phiarsaigh). NUIG is in the first FitzGibbon semi-final against the powerhouse of LIT, fronted by Joe Canning from Port Omna. Our university is also hosting the Ryan Cup finals -11:00 DCU v Maynooth, 13:00 Tralee IT v Carlow IT (Dangan) - final 12:45 (Pearse Stadium) and Fergal Maher Cup finals - 11:00 Marino v Napier University, 13:00 IT Tallaght v Dundalk IT (in Athenry) - final (Dangan). leathanach Facebook.

Dr Graham Isaac (from the Celtic Civilizations Department) will present 'The Celtic and Classical Languages in Antiquity and Prehistory' followed by Dr Jacopo Bisagni 'Amrae Coluimb Chille' Problems and Approaches'. Both Lectures will investigate the coming together of Celtic speakers with the Classical languages, primarily Latin, from the earliest periods to the medieval, eulogic poem Amrae Coluimb Chille.

Piping historian Seán Donnelly presents this fascinating look at a part of Irish musical history in this city. Seán hails from Baile Átha Cliath and has been playing and writing on the Irish music for decades. He is a well known expert on the history of the pipes in Ireland and has published much research on them as well as presenting papers at specialist conferences. The talk will take place in the seminar room of the Irish Studies Centre in the Martha Fox House on Distillery Road.

Dr Jim McKeown will speak on Irish mediaeval urban centres and the challenges of their definition in the context of Gaelic society and the later destruction of its records by the invading Vikings, Normans and English. The talk is at 19:00 in the léachtlann Ó Tnúthail (AM150). Post lecture reception: Busker Browns - The Slate Bar.

Dr Brian Ó Conchubhair of Notre Dame, Indiana, presents a paper entitled 'To wipe out the civilized race’: Modernity, An Gúm and the Irish Language in the Free State in the seminar room of the Irish Studies Centre in Martha Fox House Déardaoin 17/12/2009 at 14:00. This is the last Irish Studies Seminar of the Noughties and all are welcome.
Brian Ó Conchubhair is Assistant Professor of Irish Language and Literature at the University of Notre Dame and a fellow of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies. He edited Gearrscéalta Ár Linne (CIC, 2006), WHY IRISH? Irish Language and Literature in Academia (Arlen House, 2008) and was Series Editor for The Fighting Story Series (Mercier Press, 2009). Cló Iar-Chonnachta published his intellectual history of the Irish language revival, Fin de Siècle na Gaeilge: Darwin, An Athbheochan agus Smaointeoireacht na hEorpa in October 2009.

The next meeting of the TCD Postgraduate History Seminar, which will take place on Thursday 10 December at 13:00 in Seminar Room 6009 on the 6th floor of the Arts Block of TCD and all are welcome.
The papers will be as follows:
1) Tom Hodson (TCD), 'Georges Jeanniot (1848 – 1934): Artist and Soldier'
2) Neil Johnston (UCD), 'A design long entertained: the passage of the Bill of Settlement through the Irish Parliament, May 1661 - June 1662'

The History Department at Central European University, Budapest offers fellowships for 1year and 2year MA programs. The programs start in September 2010. Deadline for applications is 25/01/2010. Applications are invited for two MA programs: in one-year (Master of Arts in Central European History), designed for students who have completed at least a four-year Bachelor’s degree; and in two years (Master of Arts in Historical Studies, offered jointly with the Department of Medieval Studies), designed for those who have completed a three-year Bachelor’s degree. There is also a PhD program in Comparative History of Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe). Apply at www.ceu.hu/admissions.

The next Irish Studies Seminar will take place Déardaoin 26 Samhain. 'A religion truly Catholic and Œcumenical': Jeremiah Curtin's Science of Mythology is the title of the paper to be given by Dr John Eastlake, IRCHSS Post-Doctoral Fellow at Roinn an Bhéaloidis and Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge, University College Cork.
John recently completed his PhD in Irish Studies at NUIG and his new project at UCC is entitled: ‘Jeremiah Curtin: Cross-cultural, Collaborative Textual Production of Irish and Native American Mythologies’. Ethnographer, folklorist, and ‘mythologist’, Jeremiah Curtin, made a crucial contribution to Irish Studies at the end of the nineteenth century. This study will evaluate his Irish publications in comparison with his work on Native Americans, which will allow for a contextualised understanding of Curtin and his contributions to the development of Irish Studies.

This academic year the Cumann Staire has three trips planned; one at home and two abroad. Our first trip is to the ancient Irish city of Doire - Derry. The modern incarnation of this settlement on the banks of the river Feabhal, as it enters the great sea loch of the same name, is dated to the early 17th century. The city was based on the site of the monastic city founded by saint Colm Cille in the 6th century with the name Doire referring to the oak woods of the area. A hotbed of political action in the years of the Civil Rights struggle with the Northern Ireland government of the Six Counties the city is also famous for its role as a great clothing manufacturing centre and its fully intact city walls. This trip is with the geography students of the Cumann Tíreolaíochta and the Human Rights Soc on the weekend of 27-29/11/2009 and will be both educational and great craic. Highlights will include a city tour, talks and a meeting with Civil Rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner John Hume. Our second trip is to Mainz in late Eanáir - January 2010 where the Cumann Staire has a strong relationship with the equivalent student organisation of that city's Johannes Gutenberg-Universität. Mainz is on the banks of the mighty Rhine and has many beautiful buildings centred on it massive 1000 year old Romanesque cathedral. The local students always pull out all the stops to make their Cumann Staire visitors feel welcome and know how to throw a good party when the meetings and sight seeing is over! The third trip is to the historic city of Constantinople - Istanbul, the capital of Turkey and the ancient 'second Rome' of the Eastern Roman Empire. There we will meet local history students, see the sights, visit museums and sample the reknowned night life of the Golden Horn. This trip is planned for the second week of Márta - March 2010. On Tuesday 27th of October at 19:00 in Túr 1 -Tower 1 (Slí Dála - concourse) is a vital meeting to give more information on these trips and how to avail of the limited number of places on each of them.

The Cumann Staire continued its strong tradition of donating money raised from the hugely successful Arts Bál to worthy causes with a large donation to Roinn Na Staire (Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh). On 24 July Tonaí Ó Roduibh presented a cheque for 2,000 euro to Professor Dáibhí Ó Cróinín; head of the department of history - Roinn Na Staire. Tonaí, as Rúnaí 2008-09, stood in for the outgoing Reachtaire of the CS Tadhg Ó Broin and was accompanied by Professor Steven Ellis in his role as Uachtarán Onórach (honorary president) of the Cumann Staire. An tOllamh Ó Cróinín expressed the gratitude of the department for the ongoing genorosity of the CS and said that this donation for the purchase of history library books would be of great assistance to all those studying historic studies courses at Galway's university. Tonaí stated "As our motto Eochair Feasa Foghlaim says, the key to knowledge is learning, and with short-sighted cut-backs in investment in Liberal Arts effecting our universities students often find a disappointing selection of publications in their libraries. We believe our department's investment of this donation in new history books for the library is something we can be proud of and again underlines the importance of the Cumann Staire's efficient organisation of the university's largest ball."

The position should be starting in September and will last for one year. The salary will be 35,161 euro and the postholder will be based in Gaillimh (NUI, Galway) but will need to undertake a number of research trips to Rome during the year (the costs of these trips will be paid and therefore will not come from their salary).
The postdoc will be producing an annotated catalogue of documents held in the papal archives which relate to Vincent de Paul for the period 1625-1737, and this will be published in multimedia form when completed. As such, the postholder will need reasonable English, the ability to read documents in Latin from the seventeenth and eighteenth century, and some spoken Italian (about intermediate level). They do not need to be an early modern historian, but a PhD in History or a cognate discipline (classics, a language/literature, sociology, theology, etc) is essential.
Please contact the Cumann Staire for further information.

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Irish Studies Seminar

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Irish Studies Seminar

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2000 euro bronnta ar Roinn Na Staire

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