Dr Clodagh Downey (Gaeilge, OÉ Gaillimh) 'Poetic positioning in medieval Irish poetry: the case of dindshenchas ('the lore of prominent places')'

Maria Engberg (Malmo University) Augmented and Mixed Reality Design for Contested and Challenging Histories

Mr David Kilgannon (NUIG) 'A most lamentable series of practices': Accommodating the Intellectually Disabled in Ireland, 1950 - 67'.

  Paul Webster Paul Webster is an award winning director from Navan, Co. Meath. He is a graduate of the MA in Production and Direction at the Huston School of Film & Digital Media (NUIG). Paul was the winner of the Físín Pitching Award at the Dingle International Film Festival 2012 from which his film 'Stuama' received its funding. Paul directed the drama which won Best Irish Film at The Cork Underground Film Festival 2013. Paul went on to work in…

Dr Sarah Corrigan (Classics, NUIG) 'Through the spirit of anger': the exegesis of the Red Sea crossing and its emulation in early Irish hagiography'

Special Screening: Meetings with Ivor (2016). Mon. Feb 13th Eye Cinema, 7:15 pm. Followed by Q+A with Director Alan Gilsenan hosted by Dr. Tony Tracy (Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway). Meetings with Ivor is an 81-minute documentary on the life and work of ground-breaking psychiatrist Ivor Browne. Browne has been a central figure in Irish mental health debates for many decades and his pioneering and often controversial work on behalf of the many who cannot speak for themselves is well-known.  …

Francesca Benatti (Open University) 'A Question of Style? Stylometry, Authorship and the Edinburgh Review'

Dr Joseph Clarke (TCD) 'A War Against God'?: Religion and Violence during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars'.