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Launch of an Archives Search System

Invitation: Launch of an Archives Search system.I'm writing to invite you to a short session on Wednesday related to the university's archives and a new system for searching them which has been developed. The event takes place at 5.15 in Special Collections and will take around 20 minutes - with brief intros and demos. Refreshments... | Read on »

Drama, Theatre and Performance Speaker Series: Jane Daly, Co-Director, Irish Theatre Institute

Jane Daly, Co-Director, Irish Theatre Institute Irish Theatre InstituteIrish Theatre Institute (ITI), (formerly known as Theatre Shop), is a resource organisation that supports and acknowledges the achievements and ambition of Irish theatre artists and companies across all aspects of theatre practice. ITI has pioneered networking, information provision and on-line research tools and has become a... | Read on »

The Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Speaker Series presents: Christina Wilson (University of Connecticut, Fullbright Sholar) – ‘Sam Shepard’s America on the Irish Stage and in the Archive’

As part of a special series "Mining the Theatre Archives @NUIG"On their website, the Abbey Theatre includes Sam Shepard in a roundup of playwrights whose work they have "premiered and nurtured." As the only non-Irish writer on this list, Shepard's appeal to the Abbey (and their appeal to him) is curious. Drawing from materials in... | Read on »

Yeats and the West, Exhibition Closing with Prof Margaret Mills Harper (University of Limerick) ‘Yeats and the problem of Crazy Jane’

Yeats & the WestExhibition ClosingwithProf. Margaret Mills Harper(University of Limerick)‰Û÷Yeats & the problem of Crazy Jane'Refreshments will be servedyeatsandthewest.orgMargaret Mills Harper is Glucksman Professor of Contemporary Writing in English at the University of Limerick.She is the author of The Aristocracy of Art: Joyce and Wolfe (1990), and Wisdom of Two: The Spiritual and Literary Collaboration... | Read on »