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NUI Galway launches new course for social workers and practitioners in children and family services

NUI Galway’s discipline of social work at the School of Political Science and Sociology is offering a new postgraduate certificate in continuing professional development for social work, for qualified social workers at various stages of their social work career.

Extinction Rebellion march will highlight climate change

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Extinction Rebellion, a mock funeral for the "death of our earth as we know it" will take place this weekend through the streets of Galway city and Salthill to highlight the issue of climate change.

Presentation of The Battle of Jadotville in Bridge St

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A unique event is to take place in Castlebar on February 23 next when a presentation is made on the Battle of Jadotville from the “Pen of Commandant Pat Quinlan” (Officer Commanding the Irish Troops at Jadotville in the Congo in 1961), as told by his son, Commandant Leo Quinlan.

Rohingya Action Ireland welcomes city council move on Aung San Suu Kyi Freedom

The Rohingya community in Ireland has welcomed the gesture of Galway City Council stripping Aung San Suu Kyi of Freedom of City bestowed in 2005, and the resolution calling to endorse the UN Fact-Finding Mission report to refer the Myanmar Military to the International Criminal Court for the genocide against Rohingya.

Schindler's List screening to mark Holocaust Memorial Day

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HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL Day will be marked in Galway with a screening of Steven Spielberg's powerful 1993 film, Schindler's List, starring Liam Neeson as the German industrialist who saved the lives of 1,200 Jews during WWII.

Dinner and a show at Ballynahinch Castle Hotel with two nights of tale-telling theatre

Early 2019 at Ballynahinch Castle Hotel sees the remarkable lives of Richard “Humanity Dick” Martin and Lady Augusta Gregory brought to life in two nights of excellent theatre on January 27 and February 3 in the gorgeous surroundings of this Connemara hotel.

Holocaust memorial lecture by human rights professor

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Professor William A. Schabas, Emeritus Professor at NUI Galway’s Irish Centre for Human Right will deliver a Holocaust Memorial Lecture on the role that ideas of racial superiority played in the Holocaust. The lecture, entitled “Genocide, the Holocaust, and the Lie of Racial Superiority”, will take place on Wednesday, January 23 at 7pm in the Lecture Theatre, Ryan Institute Annexe, NUI Galway

'Humanity Dick' and Lady Gregory at Ballynahinch Castle

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RICHARD 'HUMANITY Dick' Martin, the pistol packing MP for Galway, and founder of Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and Lady Gregory, a leading light of Ireland's literary revival, are the subject of two plays at Ballynahinch Castle Hotel.

A Christmas card from Salthill, 1920

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As the War of Independence hotted up, the British authorities sent the Black and Tans and the Auxiliaries to Ireland to support the RIC. D Company of the Auxiliaries was stationed at Lenaboy Castle and at The Retreat in Rockbarton.

Ryan O'Shaughnessy at Garbo's Castlebar

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Eurovision's Ryan O'Shaughnessy will play at Garbo's in Castlebar on tomorrow, Saturday November 24.

 

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