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On Thursday, Sept. 18, Dr. Chris Curtin, professor of sociology and political science at the National University of Ireland at Galway, will deliver a lecture titled “Saving the West of Ireland: A Final Role Call for the Catholic Church?” The lecture will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Room 300 of St. Augustine Center for the Liberal Arts on the University campus. Admission is free and open to the public. This event is sponsored by the Irish Studies Program.

At N.U.I. Galway, Curtin teaches on subjects that include development and change, community development, conflict and cooperation, and Mexican politics and society. At the present time, he is collaborating on a book about state-community organization relationships in Ireland. His other interests include natural resource development, co-operation and disputes, community politics, legal anthropology, and agrarian politics.

Curtin earned both a bachelor’s and master ’s degrees from University College Galway, and his doctorate from the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. Among his published works are Poverty in Rural Ireland: A Political Economy Perspective (Dublin: Oak Tree Press in association with Combat Poverty Agency, 1997), which he co-authored with Trutz Haase and Hilary Tovey; and “Take Your Partners and Face the Music: Community Groups and Area-Based Partnerships in Rural Ireland” (co-author Tony Varley), which appeared in L’Irelande: Identities and Modernité: Centre de Gestion des Revues (Lille, 1997).