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07 July 2025
21  MINS

The Gaeltacht on Screen: A Discussion About Irish Arts, Film, and Television with Darach Ó Tuairisg, EMBA Student

Darach Ó Tuairisg, Student | CEO & Co-Founder at Fíbín Media

Is é Darach Ó Tuairisg Stiúrthóir agus bunaitheoir Fíbín. Is fiontraí den chéad scoth é Darach atá tar éis an comhlacht Fíbín a mhúnlú agus a fhorbairt. Tá Fíbín anois ar cheann de na príomhchomhlachtaí neamhspleácha léiriúcháin in Éirinn. Tá Darach i gcroílár na mean, agus é tumtha i ngach gné de chursaí teilifíse, drámaíochta, dubála agus foilsitheoireachta. Thosaigh sé amach ag aisteoireacht ar an teilifís agus ar an stáitse agus lean sé ar aghaidh chun drámaí a léiriú ar stáitse ar bhonn náisiúnta agus idirnáisiúnta. Darach Ó Tuairisg is CEO and co-founder of Fíbín Media. An accomplished entrepreneur, brand-builder, and trusted children’s creative content advocate, Darach has grown Fíbín into one of Ireland’s leading independent live-action production companies in children’s TV. He has worked at the intersection of television, theatre, dubbing, and publishing. Darach began his career as a stage and screen actor and went on to produce many of the company’s theatre productions, which have been staged both nationally and internationally. Over its 20 years history, he has since produced hundreds of hours of TV content.  Excerpt from: Fíbín Media | Darach Ó Tuairisg

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In Focus
22 May 2025
29  MINS

Media Regulation: Working Towards Online Safety, Cultural Inclusivity, and Independent Voices

Rónán Ó Domhnaill, Media Development Commisioner, Coimisiún na Meán | Alumnus

A journalist at heart: Upholding integrity, protecting Irish-language culture, and promoting inclusivity through media regulation   University of Galway alumnus Rónán Ó Domhnaill has been an unstoppable force in the Irish media landscape from his early days as a journalist with Nuacht, to nine years as An Coimisinéir Teanga, to his current role as Media Development Commissioner at Coimisiún na Meán.  He gave Cois Coiribe an insight into his role in combatting mis/disinformation, the vital importance of independent journalism, and working with the European Commission in the area of online safety. He explains his positive view of how traditional and digital media can work together, and of the strong role regulation can play in protecting truth, restoring trust in media, and promoting cultural inclusivity. Read on for a fascinating journey through the worlds of media, regulation and Irish-language culture. 

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20 May 2024
13  MINS

Overview of Mary Robinson’s Archive

Niamh Ní Charra, Archivist , University of Galway

The 21st of May 2024 marks the 80th birthday of one of Ireland’s most influential, celebrated, and hard-working citizens, former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson. The University of Galway is proud to house her archive, and while work to catalogue it continues, we mark this significant milestone with an overview of the archive’s contents and an update on progress. University of Galway is also a partner of The Mary Robinson Centre in the former President’s home town of Ballina, Co. Mayo, and together we are honouring her life and legacy by engaging scholars of all ages in the major themes of her archive.  

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SDG Champion
18 December 2023
24  MINS

“Ragged Desolation of Men and Things”?

Breandán Mac Suibhne, Laura Kelly, Niall Whelehan

In an essay published in July 2023 in the catalogue for Christina McBride’s Críocha an Chroí / Heartland exhibition in An Gailearaí, Gaoth Dobhair, historians Breandán Mac Suibhne of the University of Galway and Laura Kelly and Niall Whelehan of the University of Stratheclyde respond to her images of the rock-strewn landscape of north-west Donegal.

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SDG Champion
18 December 2023
11  MINS

Críocha an Chroí—An Artist’s Return to the Heartland

Christina McBride

A residency in the University of Galway’s Gaoth Dobhair Centre in 2022–23 allowed Glasgow visual artist Christina McBride to explore the natural and built environment of her mother’s homeplace in nearby Bun an Inbhir in a series of analogue photographs developed using local fauna and peatland materials. McBride’s residency in Donegal and the resulting exhibition, Críocha an Chroí / Heartland—was made possible by a partnership involving the University, Údarás na Gaeltachta, Ealaín na Gaeltachta and the Regional Cultural Centre in Letterkenny. In autumn 2023, a second exhibition, Thall Udaí / Over By, focusing on the people of the place, was mounted in Sean-Scoil Bhun an Inbhir and a third is planned for Glasgow in 2024.

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21 July 2023
11  MINS

Bold Nostalgia: Enda Burke at GIAF

Meadhbh McNutt

Galway International Arts Festival welcomes Enda Burke’s Far Away & Close to Home to Outset Gallery this year in a unique showcase of the Galway artist’s bold visual language. Recently awarded the International BarTur Photo Prize, Burke’s work has been published in various media from The Guardian to Rolling Stone Magazine. Here, University of Galway Editorial Manager, Meadhbh McNutt contextualises this multidisciplinary body of work in a short creative essay.

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AI & Human Creativity
23 December 2021
13  MINS

A Data Love Story

Margaux Smith, Meadhbh McNutt

What does your data shadow look like? How does it intersect with your relationships and everyday life? These are the questions raised by artists Margaux Smith and Meadhbh McNutt in A Data Love Story. Through visualisation and narration, Margaux and Meadhbh tell the story of a romantic relationship through the lens of linguistic data, based on texts shared between Meadhbh and her boyfriend, Eimhin across two fortnight periods.

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17 December 2021
9  MINS

AfterImage: Fusing Art and Science

“We’re all engaged in looking and I think looking is the foundation of both science and art.”

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