University Of Galway - SEMCA

23/10/2025

The Head of the School and Established Professor of Music and Performing Arts, Tríona Ní Shíocháin, is making a presentation at the upcoming seminar: Media Studies, November 6th, in Maynooth University.
All are welcome.

21/10/2025

The Irish of Brittany concert is taking place next Thursday, 30th October at 1pm at the O’ Donoghue Centre.
The show blends ancient and contemporary Irish and Breton repertoires to reflect a forgotten chapter of both their shared histories. This music creation is in support of the Honory Consuls of France in Ireland and the Brittany Region 🇫🇷🇮🇪

24/09/2025

Tom O’Connell, a PhD English student, is releasing his debut novel, Lichtenberg. Tom is in his first year of a practice-based PhD, focusing on Dystopian Literature.

Lichtenberg will be launching in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop on the 14th of November.

Please read the article linked below on RTÉ’s culture online platform about their ‘Speculative Fiction Ireland’ association.

https://www.rte.ie/culture/2025/0908/1532393-future-tense-new-irish-publisher-showcases-speculative-fiction/

We wish Tom the very best of luck with the launch 👏👏👏

24/09/2025

Three students from the School of English, Media and Creative Arts, University of Galway have been awarded the inaugural Lady Gregory – Yeats Student Award, which supports them to attend the Lady Gregory – Yeats Autumn Gathering in Woodville, Coole Park and Thoor Ballylee from 26-28 September.

Pictured are Tríona Ní Shíocháin, Head of the School of English, Media, and Creative Arts and Established Professor of Music and Performing Arts; Treasa Ní Argáin, MA Drama and Theatre Studies; Nicole O’Byrne, PhD student in Drama and Theatre Studies; and Anneli Watson, MA Drama and Theatre Studies.

15/09/2025

The 31st Lady Gregory - Yeats Autumn Gathering has announced the Inaugural ‘Lady Gregory Awards’.

Students from the School of English, Media and Creative Arts will be honoured at the Lady Gregory gathering. Five prestigious awards will be presented to outstanding students. 👏👏

Lady Gregory - Yeats Autumn Gathering will take place at Cooke Park & Thor Ballylee from September 26 to 28, 2025.

Read the full Galway Advertiser article on page 56 here: https://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=Galway%20Advertiser&pubid=a2fc81f2-0ccf-4dbf-aca1-00bedf4bde35

15/09/2025

University of Galway is leading three new major EU-funded projects to improve medical devices, brain treatments, and inclusive medical trials.

The awards were made by the European’s Commission’s Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions-Doctoral network programme (MSCA DN), as part of Horizon Europe 2020.

A project titled DECADOCS - Decadent Travellers and the Reception of Classical Antiquity - is in partnership with Goldsmiths, University of London and the Cúirt International Festival of Literature. DECADOCS is the first doctoral network dedicated to the study of decadence, the disruptive societal phenomenon traditionally associated with accelerated decline and decay.

Involving Dr Muireann O’Cinneide, a researcher in English, Media and Creative Arts, this part of the network will explore late nineteenth-century travel and mobility as producing radical explorations of counter-cultural sexualities and complex imperial identities.

Read the full Galway Advertiser article on page 8 here: https://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&pubid=a2fc81f2-0ccf-4dbf-aca1-00bedf4bde35

01/09/2025

📺 TG4 is to screen a ground-breaking mini-series exploring Gaelic games on film since the beginning of the 20th century.

Iománaíocht Hollywood: Cluichí Gaelacha ar Scannán / Hollywood Hurling: Gaelic Games on Film is a two-part programme offering a unique insight into how Ireland, Irish people and our national sports have been depicted in cinema, including in productions from major Hollywood studios and directors such as seminal Oscar-winning Irish-American director John Ford.

An LMDÓC Production for TG4 funded by Coimisiún na Meán, the series is based on the acclaimed book Gaelic Games on Film: From silent films to Hollywood hurling, horror and the emergence of Irish cinema (Cork University Press, 2019) by University of Galway academic Seán Crosson, who also wrote and is associate producer of the series.

The programme also traces the central role of Gaelic games in the emergence of an indigenous Irish film culture in the second half of the 20th century.

Episode 1 from the series is to be broadcast this Thursday, September 4th at 9.30pm (with repeats on Sept 5th and 7th).
Episode 2 will be broadcast on Thursday, September 11th at 9.30pm (with repeats on the 12th and 14th).

For more information: https://www.tg4.ie/ga/eolas/preas/nuacht-raitis/2025-2/iomanaiocht-hollywood-mionsraith-nua-faoi-chluichi-gaelacha-ar-an-scailean-mor/

Congratulations to Dr Seán Crosson, Mac Dara Ó Curraidhín and all those involved 👏🎉🎉

01/09/2025

🎬 Féile John Ford Brings Hollywood Legend Home to Connemara

Celebrating the Irish roots of one of cinema’s greatest filmmakers!

This September, the Connemara coastal village of An Spidéal will pay tribute to one of Hollywood’s most influential directors with a major cultural event.

The festival is spearheaded by Tony Tracy Head of the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, University of Galway; film producer Redmond Morris, filmmaker Pat Comer, and Steve O’Cúláin, Former CEO of Údarás na Gaeltachta with strong involvement from local individuals and businesses as well as support from Fáilte Ireland and Údarás na Gaeltachta.

Féile John Ford, taking place from Friday 5 to Sunday 7 September 2025, celebrates the life, work, and Connemara roots of John Ford, the record holding six-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker behind classics such as The Quiet Man, The Grapes of Wrath, The Searchers, and Stagecoach.

Though revered worldwide as a cinematic master, John Ford’s deep connections to the West of Ireland remain surprisingly underappreciated.

Féile John Ford Programme Highlights will include:

Film Screenings taking place in Scoil Éinne throughout the weekend include: The Quiet Man, (Friday 05.09.25 at 7pm) The Rising of the Moon, (Saturday 06.09.25 at 7.30pm The Shamrock Handicap (silent with live score), (Sunday 07.09.25 at 3pm)The Searchers (Sunday 08.09.25 at 6pm).

Exhibition taking place in Stiúideo Cuan, (Saturday 06.09.25 10am – 5pm) with rare unseen photographs, heritage displays, and original artifacts from Ford’s Irish films.

Talks & Conversations: (Saturday 06.09.25) Ford’s roots in An Spidéal, Irish emigration to Maine, and the influence of Irish culture in his work both in Irish and English.

Education Programme: (Saturday 06.09.25) Storytelling Workshops in Irish for school children to inspire future filmmakers.

For the full programme and to book tickets: www.Feilejohnford.com or
Email: [email protected]

11/06/2025

👏 Congratulations to Dr Amanda Feery on her new album!

NEST is a sibling piece to a vocal quintet composed by Dr Amanda Feery as part of Eimear Walshe’s 2024 Venice Art Biennale installation, Romantic Ireland. Composed for vocal quintet, organ, and electronics, NEST is a Mass for the Tenant. It is not a Mass in the traditional sense, but I see the piece as a vigil for the tenants of the past and the present. The piece is a critical response to the theme of home in Éamon de Valera's 1943 radio address, 'On Language and the Irish Nation'. With a libretto by Eimear Walshe, the line, 'they come to make a ruin', repeats throughout the piece like a congregational response.

https://soundcloud.com/amandafeery/nest-clip

12/05/2025

09/05/2025

New artwork by Kat Austen premiering at Galway International Arts Festival 14 - 27 July 2025. Really looking forward to this! 🎉👏

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Presented in Galway

https://www.giaf.ie/festival/event/kat-austen

Not Breaking. This Wave Drowns Hate is an interactive artwork by artist Kat Austen that responds to the crisis of marine microplastic pollution and diminishing ocean health by creating inspirations for a more symbiotic relationship between humans and the marine environment.