Heritage Society GMIT

Heritage Society GMIT Heritage Society GMIT is based in Galway City, Ireland. The society's members are students of the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology.

It is the official society for students of the Heritage Studies course in GMIT. The goal of the society is to promote knowledge and awareness of Irish, European, and World Heritage to the students of GMIT, as well as the wider population. We aim to achieve this through symposiums, field trips, and other events. History, Geography, Archaeology, Environment, Folklore, Literature, Art, Tourism, Genea

logy, Museum Studies, Traditional Irish Music, Entrepreneurship, Urban & Rural Field Studies, Languages, Independent Research, Computing, these are all elements of the Heritage Studies course in GMIT, elements which are promoted within the Heritage Society. Traditionally, heritage was concerned with the preservation of ancient monuments and buildings of architectural merit. Nowadays, it also involves the use of the past in the present - in commemorations, museum exhibitions, tourist attractions etc. Heritage includes almost anything that one generation hands down to the next, or anything from the past that people identify with. Heritage Studies in GMIT the areas of study include:

Built, Cultural, Natural & Digital Heritage
History (Local, National & International)
Geography (Human & Physical)
Archaeology
Tourism
Genealogy
Museum Studies
Field Studies
Folklore
Literature
Planning
Computing & GIS
Communications
Research Methods
Event Management
Entrepreneurship
Languages

Students learn through a combination of lectures, tutorials, active learning, class discussions, film viewings, practical learning in computer and language labs, and online learning. There is a strong emphasis on off-site teaching, with field trips to heritage sites, museums and interpretative centres.

03/04/2018

Today's your last day to submit for AYIA 2018!!!

DEADLINE: TONIGHT @ 23:59!

We have a great line up so far, with excellent representation from NUIG & UCD, but we would love to see a few more submissions from other universities! Remember you can submit a poster or a presentation (20 min or 10 min, you choose!).

Don't miss out on what's going to be an excellent conference and don't miss out on prizes for Best Paper & Best Poster, courtesy of the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland.

We are also publishing the AYIA 2018 Conference Proceedings alongside the Scottish Student Archaeology Society 2018 Conference Proceedings. Don't pass up the opportunity to disseminate your student research on an international scale!

18/03/2018

Gmit Heritage Society is proud to present : Heritage Day!!!!
This will be held in the Union Square from 12-2 on Wednesday the 21 March.

We will have tea and biscuits, a few heritage related stands and a sign up table. Come out and say hello and chat to the fierce friendly people at the tables.
There will be a special guest appearance form Breda Finn.

24/10/2017

Not a massive turnout to our AGM today, but we now have a democratically elected committee, thanks to Antoinette Canavan for invigilating the election process.

The Committee for 2017/2018 is
Chairperson: Shane Grady
Secretary: Leanne Dillon
Treasurer: Sean Delaney
P.R.O: Brendan McHugh

Cheers to a great year ahead

24/10/2017

REMINDER!!!
agm meeting at 4.30 today in room 1041 to elect the committee

22/10/2017

Heritage Society AGM
Agenda:
1. Election of Committee
2. Discussion of new Constitution
3. Programme of events for this semester .
4. A.O.B

19/10/2017

Hi everyone,

The Heritage Society AGM will be held on Tuesday 24/10/17 at 4:30 in room 1041 (video conference room). As there was no AGM last year and in order to register the society with the students union this year, a temporary committee was formed to complete this.
The current temporary members of the committee are as follows:
Chairperson: Shane Grady
Secretary: Leanne Dillon
Treasurer: Sean Delaney
Public Relations Officer: Brendan McHugh

The members of this committee will be putting themselves forward for election, and a vote will be taken on the day for
each of the positions, by show of hands or secret ballot. If you would like to run for any of the positions it is open to all members of the society.
An agenda will released on the our page before Tuesday as well as the new constitution.
Hope to see you all there

Shane Grady
Heritage officer
GMITSU Executive 2017/2018

21/09/2017

Hi everyone, welcome back to a new year in gmit. All positions on the heritage society board are available for the academic year if anyone is interested in taking up a role. Pervious members have stepped down due to extra work load. Being on the committee is excellent for the C.V guys. If you are interested in a position and want further information please message this page. These are the following positions available.
Chairperson
Treasurer
Secretary
Public relations officer
And two other members
Thanks :)

04/04/2017

Just a reminder everyone that Eddie Lenihan is coming to gmit today to give a talk on folklore @5 in room 997 :) hope to see you all there. Free admission too.

The Heritage Society is delighted to confirm a guest lecture from the legendary folklorist and story-teller Eddie Leniha...
30/03/2017

The Heritage Society is delighted to confirm a guest lecture from the legendary folklorist and story-teller Eddie Lenihan in GMIT this coming Tuesday, April 4th. The main theme of Eddie's lecture will be Irish Fairies among other folklore topics.
The lecture is open to everyone and all students and staff of GMIT are welcome to attend.
Tuesday April 4th,
5.00pm,
Room 0997.
We hope to see a full house for Eddie! Would be great to see a few familiar faces. 🙂

08/03/2017

Good morning everyone. We have two announcements to make today. Firstly we will be holding a re election meeting for our PRO role today between 2 and 3. Come along if you are interested in the role or just want to see what's going on.
Secondly, there is a talk in NUIG tomorrow, March 9th at 8 o'clock in the Bank of Ireland theatre. Dr Mags Mannion will be giving the talk as part of the Muscailt festival and the subject of the talk will be medieval glass beads. Hope you all can make it :)

02/12/2016

Hi Ladies and Gents, so here is the full details of our Heritage Studies/Heritage Society Christmas party, it will be held in The Skeff bar in Eyre square on Thursday 8th December We have a reserved area in the bar and there will be finger food served, The Skeff is a late bar, it's open until 2 am. I hope to see you all there !!!!!!!!! for directions or any other details feel free to message me.

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