11^th – 17^th

October 2010

Auditions for Sarah Kane's controversial adaptation of Seneca's 'Phaedra'. All welcome.

Network with Graduate Employers - Come to the Bailey Allen hall from 1-6pm to talk with the BIG4 Accountancy Companies and Graduate Employers.

Come to the Bailey Allen Hall from 1 -3.30pm to the CV Clinic and CV Workshop, also on campus in the Bailey Allen Hall for one day only are the Big4 Accountancy Companies and Graduate Employers

Come to the Bailey Allen Hall from 5-6pm where Ernst and Young a BIG4 Accountancy Company will be on campus to talk to students and provide details on graduate recruitment

Organising events each week such as the Fashion Show, Christmas Day, Dodgeball and weekly volunteering.

Polish Language and Culture Course 1

First meeting of Dramsoc's new Theatre of the Oppressed session. ToTO aims to effect real political and social change through theatre. Drop in and give it a try. No acting experience required.

We will be discussing the society's association with "Engineers Ireland".
we will also be discussing events for the coming year.

Rehearsal!

CompSoc's weekly mashup of gaming, programming, robotics and all things tech-related.

Breathless Irish comedian Delamere flits about the stage like a genial dervish, his quick-fire delivery and razor-sharp mind taking no prisoners. Quickly bu ilding a supreme rapport with his audience, his masterful control allows him to stray a little further than his charming demeanour suggests. Equally hilarious on and off his script, this is a hugely engaging hour.

Tickets are €8 from the Student's Union with your SU Card.

The Political Discussion Society are hosting an audience with Eamon Gilmore, leader of the Labour Party where he will be presenting his stance on the current political climate of the country and sharing his political ambitions. Speech followed by Q&A .

Cumann de Barra will host its weekly meeting at 8pm in Meeting room 1 Aras Na Mac Leinn. Items up for discussion will include the Regional Fainna Fail Conference in Ennis on October 30th as well the election of the remaining positions on the committee.

Screening of the Christopher Nolan film, 'Momento' followed by group discussion.

Refreshments will be provided.

Elaine Feeney will be present in The Crane Bar at 9pm on Monday 11th October for a poetry slam.

Poets wishing to take part in the poetry slam should bring along 2 max. 3 minute poems.

Otherwise entry is 3€ for students!

Screening of the Christopher Nolan film, 'Momento' followed by group discussion.

Refreshments will be provided.

Drop into the Art Room and draw to different genres of music and in different styles for Mental Health Week.

Life Society members will fill out postcards regarding IVF practices and embryo research on Tuesday from half 5 to 7 upstairs in the College Bar. Everyone is invited to come along and fill out a few! We will also draft our first pro-life student publication for the autumn semester with representatives from GMIT and GTI. If you have a submission relating to life issues that you would like to have printed please bring it along with you.

The weekly Poker Soc tournament. Held every Tuesday In the View. Alteration between Freezeout and Rebuy tournaments.

Polish Language and Culture Course 2

Come along to our weekly workshop to learn something new juggling related! Be it poi, diabolo, unicycle or something else, it's always something new and always open to everybody!

Intermediate Hip Hop with Silvia!

For our event this week GiG Soc are screening one of the funniest movies of the past ten years - MEAN GIRLS! Starring Rachel McAdams, Amanda Seyfried and Lindsay Lohan, Mean Girls is a razor sharp teen comedy that has since become known for being one of the most quotable movies of ALL TIME and one that you NEED to see on a big screen!!! Dram Soc are planning a production of this in the new semester, so all potential actors and actresses are encouraged to attend!

As usual with GiG Soc events, everyone who wants to come is welcome, and icebreakers are available to anyone that wants to know someone before going in, just e-mail us at gigsoc@socs.nuigalway.ie!

Come along for our weekly practice to sing, have fun and meet new people! No audition, no experience needed - you just need to enjoy singing!
This week we've space booked at Busker Brownes so anyone stuck for where to go Tuesday evening come along and get to know your fellow members!

Professor Glen Dudbridge, a retired professor from Oxford University, will be giving a talk about 3rd century China, just after the period of the three kingdoms era when China was unified. The talk will be very imformative to people interested in Chinese History and also for people who enjoy reading and learning about ancient Rome. It will be a good chance for any Classicists to see what was going on in another major Empire at the time Rome's power was starting to dwindle.

Hope to see you there

Why not come along to Ogra Shinn Fein Socs weekly meeting.

At our meeting we will be discussing many topics that relate to the students in the College and the Politics of our Country.

So why not come along to the weekly meeting for a bit of banter and some good aul craic and see if our position appeals to you.

All Students are most welcome!

"Why is a raven like a writing desk?"
It's Mental Health Week, which means it's time for the Mad Hatter's Tea Party, courtesy of Comedy Soc & Nom Soc!

Entry is FREE! There will be cupcakes and tea and prizes for the best mad hat!

Bringing together some of the best new faces in Irish Comedy for a fast paced blast of top rate comedy. Ireland has an abundance of new talent and we felt it was time for the Galway faithfull to cast their eye over the best of the new crop. Galway’s favourite Kiwi and Mad Hatter Danny Dowling will be dishing out prizes for the best hat so get creative and wear a hat. Making the trip west for the Tea Party is Damian Clarke (on Skype), David O'Gorman, Gerry McBride, Damon Blake and Chris Kent – Winner 2009 Bulmers Comedy Award & So You Think your Funny 2010 Finalist.

On Tuesday 12th of October at 7pm, the English Society of NUI Galway will be formally opened by Professor Hubert McDermott, who will be giving a talk in the Darcy Thompson on James Joyce's The Dead, and its connections to Galway.

Art socs art class this week is Portraiture, come and learn how to draw faces!

Tuesday night in Lit&Deb is Workshop Night. Workshop 3 is an introduction to Mace-style debating, concentrating on simpler ideas like structure, points of information, rebuttal, positional requirements etc. Followed by a "pro-am" debate where fresher debaters are teamed up with more experienced speakers.

Then, time to hit the town once more...

Ma ta speis agaibh a bheith ar an gcoiste i mbliana bigi ag an gcruinniu anocht chun baill an choiste a thoghadh agus pleananna a dheanamh don bhliain. Fion, bia agus neart spraoi geallta. Beidh se go maith!!:)

Come and join Polish Soc! Polish snacks provided as usual...all welcome

Meet and Greet so that we can all get to know each other!

Meeting about the Anime and Manga Trip to Eirtakon (DCU's Anime and Manga convention)

Come to the college bar for a table quiz to promote Mental Health Week!
Themed rounds - general knowledge, music, sport etc. etc.
€5 in - €20 per table
Top prize €100!!
Plenty of other prizes!!
Free food!!

Come to the college bar for a table quiz to promote Mental Health Week!
Themed rounds - general knowledge, music, sport etc. etc.
€5 in - €20 per table
Top prize €100!!
Plenty of other prizes!!
Free food!!

In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster. The pursuit will call into question what makes a human and what is the Puppetmaster in a world where the distinction between human and machine is increasingly blurry.

Fundraiser for our orphanage in Nepal
(100% of proceeds will go directly to the orphanage in Tallamarang-Nepal)

This Wednesday from 2.30 -4 pm in association with the NUIG Careers Development Center an Applications Clinic is being held for all students applying to the Big 4 Accountancy Firms, Its an opportunity to drop in and have your application reviewed.

Drop into the Art Room and draw to different genres of music and in different styles for Mental Health Week.

We are looking for a new Vice Auditor this year. Any who might be interested is advised to check their emails for further information.
Training seminar for Criminal Law
All FLAC Clinic Volunteers are requested to attend

weekly gaming RPG's Board games,Card games and more!

Beginners Hip Hop with Maria!

Breakdancing with Stan!

Dramsocs weekly Improv night comprising of sketches, theatre games and scriptwork. Followed by Open Mic in the Cellar (when a performance is on the same night as Staged & Confused it will run from 7-8pm).

Branch meeting to discuss National Conference, motions for National Conference and other upcoming events. Followed by the College Bar! Hope to see you there!

Hi there

The Irish Studies society would like to invite its members to an evening enjoying some of the best comedy to come out of Ireland. This Wednesday 13th we will watching some episodes of 'The Savage Eye' & 'Father Ted' before watching a classic stand-up performance by Tommy Tiernan on dvd. Food & drink will be provided so come along. If you are attending please email us to let us know. Hope to see you all there.

So you wanna get your hands on €101?
The first Gaisce fundraising event of the year.
A table quiz like no other, challenges, awesome prizes, and free FREE food.

€5/person €20 per table of 4
Free "refreshment" for each team member.

Night out Bowling!! STRIKE!

Drop into the Art Room and draw to different genres of music and in different styles for Mental Health Week.

"Putting the squeeze on porous materials"

Dr. Stephen Moggach
University of Edinburgh

Dillon lecture theatre, 4pm :
Free tea/coffee and biscuits afterwards in the chemistry tea room!!

Come along to our Thursday practice session to try out our society equipment, you're welcome to practice, much around or sit down and chat, everything provided and everyone welcome!

Title: Energy & Economics; A scientific perspective in the era of Peak Oil
Speaker: James Glynn, ASPO-Ireland (Association for the Study of Peak Oil)
Abstract:
2008 is the year most people remember as being the year of the Beijing Olympics, collapse of subprime mortgages, housing bubbles, Lehman brothers collapse, financial meltdown and the genesis of financial crises that we are living through today. 2008 was also the year of maximum Oil price at $147/barrel and global energy production to-date. This talk will explore the interaction of Energy supply, Energy Return on Energy Invested, GDP growth and economic stability.
The talk will be quite numerate and will aim to ignite discussion on the question: In the era of Peak Oil are our fundamental economic assumptions still valid?

Paul Quigley was born in Manchester and received his BA in American Studies from Lancaster University before crossing the Atlantic to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he acquired an MA and Ph.D. in History. He was appointed Lecturer in American History at the University of Edinburgh in 2007. Quigley spent academic year 2009-10 in the United States on a Leverhulme Research Fellowship, researching at archives in Washington, North Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky. Quigley’s main research interests are in the American Civil War and its era, ca. 1846-1877. Other broad interests include nationalism, regionalism, the South, and placing U.S. history within international contexts. His first book, Shifting Grounds: Nationalism and the American South, 1848-1865, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2011. He is now working on a short, primary documents-based book entitled The Fourth of July and the Transformation of American Nationalism, 1846-1877, as well as a larger study of the American Civil War and the world.

This House Believes the Beautiful Game has Lost its Soul

Speakers: Jonathan Wilson (The Guardian), Phillipe Auclair (France Football)

This Thursday, the 14th of October, the Literary and Debating Society of NUI, Galway will be holding its football debate on the motion that ‘This House Believes the Beautiful Game has Lost its Soul’. Speaking on the motion will be Jonathan Wilson, respected journalist for the Guardian and Sports Illustrated and author of Inverting the Pyramid: A History of Football Tactics, and Phillipe Auclair, France Football’s England Correspondent and author of Cantona: The Rebel Who Would be King. The debate will analyse the direction of the most popular game in the world and whether money, power and deceit have taken the game away from its roots and its fans.

Football, the Beautiful game, is watched around the world and links people from all over the globe in their love of the game and their teams, both national and club. However, as money has flowed into the game accusations of the unfair play have emerged both on and off the pitch at every level of the game.

Respected clubs in some of the biggest leagues have been brought to the brink of extinction in recent years, other have been saddled with the unsustainable millstone of debt and other have been reduced to the playthings of billionaires.

Players now engage in gamesmanship such as diving, rough play and other forms of cheating to get ahead in the game and managers now go in and out of clubs with frightening speed. Even at the highest levels of FIFA itself, accusations of bribery and other corruption have been rife.

Set against the backdrop of the movement away from the true fans in the stands to the armchair fan, with increasing ticket prices and ever changing television orientated timetables for the bigger leagues, and the current debt and attendance problems of Ireland’s own domestic league, the Literary and Debating Society asks ‘Has the Beautiful Game Lost its Soul?’

BlazBlue is a traditional 2D fighter where two characters participate in a duel on a two dimensional plane. A round is called a "rebel" and one match can consist of one to five "rebels". To win a round, one player must either incapacitate the other by inflicting damage through various attacks to reduce health or by having more remaining health after the clock runs out if the rules of the match has one.

Every character has a weak, medium and strong attack. Also every character has a "unique" technique, called a Drive attack, which is different for each character. Those attacks are also known as "A", "B", "C" and "D". Various combos can be performed by every character through careful input of regular and drive attacks. A combo consists of two or more consecutive attacks that hit an opponent without them retaliating. As combos become longer, each attack will do less damage than normal to give the opponent a chance to retaliate. Grabs can be incorporated into combos also by pressing the "B" and "C" buttons at the same time. Occasionally, some attacks (e.g. Jin's Hirensou) will use portions of the player's heat gauge at the bottom of the screen. The heat gauge is filled by either dealing or receiving damage. When at a certain percentage, special moves called "distortion drives" can be performed. When a distortion drive is successfully performed and connects with the opponent, it deals massive damage and is visually flashier than normal attacks.

Along with attacks every character has two types of block. One is the regular block that can be broken with a "guard crush". That can be achieved by pushing the "guard libra" gauge all the way to the opponent's side through repeated attacks. If the opponent keeps blocking, then their guard can be broken, leaving them open for attack. The second type of block is a barrier block, which is initiated by blocking while holding the "A" and "B" buttons at the same time. A barrier block cannot be broken like a normal guard, but there is a limit on how long one can be held, which is indicated by the barrier gauge. If the barrier gauge empties, then the player will receive 150% damage until it regenerates to half-full.

A perfect opportunity to practise your German or English in a friendly atmosphere. Everyone welcome!

Dramsoc are going on their Annual Aran Islands Trip. Bring a tent and a sleeping bag and come along for the craic!

Tickets will be sold to 4th year Science students today. All other ticket sales will take place next monday (18th October).

Student ID required

€60 for a full ticket (400 available)
€25 for an after party ticket (400 available)

Pizza and Refreshments for €10 in College Bar every Friday!
Live music, games and other activities taking place.

In this weeks seminar, Dr James Cruickshank will speak about
"Aspects of Geometry"
Refreshments and general mathematical discussion to follow, all welcome.

Over The Edge presents its second annual fiction slam with Featured Reader, Kevin Barry, at Café 8 @ The Museum, Spanish Arch, Galway on Friday, October 15th, 8pm.

All participating writers should bring two pieces of their own fiction, as there are two rounds. The time limit in both rounds is five minutes.

No entrance fee, all are welcome!

Dramsoc are going on their Annual Aran Islands Trip. Bring a tent and a sleeping bag and come along for the craic!

The tour will take along Galway Bay, your first stop is at the fishing
village of Kinvara to see Dunguaire Castle & into The Burren- home to
75% of Ireland's native flora & location of numerous ancient monuments
many of which we visit including the Gleninsheen Wedge Tomb, the 5,800
year old Poulnabrone Dolmen and Ballyalban Fairy Fort- home of little
men with green hats and orange beards!

Stopping also at Kilfenora to see the famous Celtic Crosses (Irish
High Crosses), we make our way to the 200-metre high, 8kms long Cliffs
of Moher.

Enjoy stunning views over the Atlantic Ocean and the Aran Islands and
take your time to soak up the natural beauty of the Cliffs of Moher.
(2 hour stop- FREE admission to Cliffs!)

We go home via the Coast Road with views of Connemara & Galway in the
distance passing by such famous landmarks as Doolin and the Leprechaun
Head.

Life Society will travel to Tralee to assist with a pro-life street information session on 16 October. We will distribute information about pro-life issues and collect signatures against embryonic stem cell research. We will inform the public about the benefits of ethical adult stem cell reseach which has provided numerous cures and does not require the destruction of a human being. The government has promised to bring forward legislation on stem cell research and it is important that this legislation not allow lethal experimentation on life at its earliest stages.

Dramsoc are going on their Annual Aran Islands Trip. Bring a tent and a sleeping bag and come along for the craic!

Why not join us in enjoying some of the finest talent Galway has to offer.No Banjo are from Galway's and play blues, soul, rootsters music. Free event with limited refreshments.