Galway Bay FM
22 May 2021
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Galway Bay FM Newsroom – The Government has announced a new joint project with researchers at NUIG on language, terminology and representation in Mother and Baby Homes.
Minister Roderic O’Gorman says the aim is to highlight the “stigmatising and labelling” language that has been used in the past.
The new joint project will examine language, terminology and representation of those directly affected by the Mother and Baby Homes and related institutions.
Launching the project, Minister O’Gorman noted there is a particular challenge in Ireland in finding ways to adequately address the failings of the past.
Galway Bay FM
1 May 2021
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Galway Bay FM Newsroom – Drama and Theatre Studies students at NUI Galway have come together to compile a series of scenes drawn from the testimonies of survivors of the Tuam Mother and Baby Homes that will be broadcast from 2pm today for the duration of the month.
The project, called Nochtaithe or unveiled was made with the support of the Tuam Home Alliance and is part of the Tuam Oral History project, and NUI Galway would like to acknowledge their generosity and courage in sharing their life stories
Nochtaithe was devised, performed and produced by the students, led by Dr Miriam Haughton who collaborated with Dr El Putnam as well as participating in workshops led by ANU Productions to develop skills for working with testimonies and archives in performance.
Rehearsal during lockdown and the creative potential it brings
Updated / Friday, 30 Apr 2021
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Colm Mac Con Iomaire plays the violin while students Leanne Anderson and Sarah Dooley perform to Emer s Dream inside the Quadrangle Building at NUI Galway. Photo: Aengus McMahon.
ehearsal during lockdown is not only possible, it s full of creative potential.
If the only point of rehearsal was to practice lines and gestures, then actors would have embraced video-calling in their pajamas long ago. Yet all who rehearse during Covid-19 agree that physicality and presence are vital to the creative spark of theatre.
While confronting the challenges and opportunities of rehearsing under Covid-19, myself and my peers in Drama and Theatre Studies at NUI Galway created a performance in response to the testimonies of the Tuam Oral History Project. I led two rehearsals: one over the digital space and one physically distanced.