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Discovering Cordoba: An Exchange of Cultures at Maynooth
On March 11th 2026, Maynooth’s Return to Learning (R2L) course participants were visited by a group of language school students from “Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de Córdoba” in the city of Cordoba, in the Andalusian region of southern Spain. As part of their visit, our Spanish guests introduced us to some notable features of their culture and history, including some…
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A Journey Back to Education – Through Maynooth’s Evening BA
Can you tell us a bit about yourself and what you are currently studying? Paul: “I’m Paul Roberts, a mature student at Maynooth University, studying a BA in Community Studies.” I imagine it was a very big decision to come to university as a mature student, adults can have so many things going on in…
Keep readingRethinking Feminism in Ireland
Professor Camilla Fitzsimons Last Friday, the 27th June, my fourth book Rethinking Feminism in Ireland was published. This one has been a labour of love and, perhaps with all my books, a case of me seeking to write what I think the students that I meet and the people that I share activist interests with…
Keep readingRethinking Feminism in Ireland
Professor Camilla Fitzsimons Last Friday, the 27th June, my fourth book Rethinking Feminism in Ireland was published. This one has been a labour of love and, perhaps with all my books, a case of me seeking to write what I think the students that I meet and the people that I share activist interests with…
Keep readingSupporting Underrepresented Groups in Education and Disability Advocacy.
TtT (Turn to Teaching) and ILMI ( Independent Living Movement Ireland ) The Turn to Teaching Level 6 Foundation Certificate is a one year, university course for people who have an interest in primary teaching as a career path, but because of family, life, social and/or personal reasons were not able to pursue their dream…
Keep readingTUTOR Webinar Series in Review: Empowering Every Student – Reimagining Inclusive Education
Author – Sinead Matson As we head into the summer month and get a small reprieve from the year’s workload, it gives us an opportunity to catch up on events or information we may have missed out on during a busy academic year. The TUTOR project’s second webinar from the Facebook Live series, “Empowering every…
Keep readingWhat’s Going on Today in Palestine is Not New
Blog Authors: Anne Ryan and Tony Walsh Rana Sameeh Gabbash[1] [1] From the ‘Book of Poems’ Summer School Program, Al-Quds University Community Action Centre, (c2008) While this poem encapsulates the overt and covert violence of the Palestine we encountered more than a decade ago it also speaks to what we see nightly on our televisions…
Keep readingLessons from Palestine
Authors: Anne Ryan and Tony Walsh Suddenly the images of the bombed ruins of a Gaza shop front, perhaps a café, flashed across the news screens. Rags of ruined blinds fluttered in the breeze. Instantly I was back in a narrow, busy laneway in old Jerusalem and a sidewalk café fifteen years ago. We[1] were…
Keep readingHow can community education be a source of hope for a socially just world within this current climate?
Author: Suzanne Kyle Sometimes it feels like the world is on fire and it can be difficult not to feel despondent when the news is full of images of extremism, hate and rising far-right activity. So how can community education be a source of hope for a socially just world within this current climate? This…
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