Ciaran McDonough, 'Antiquarianism as a Gentleman's Hobby, 1800-1867'

Friday 13 September 2013 9.00-9.30 Registration and Welcome (Moore Seminar Room) 9.30-11.00 Panel 1 Panel 1 (a) Transnational estate histories? Chair: Dr. Enrico Dal Lago(Moore Seminar Room) What can Irish plantations in the French, British and Danish Caribbean tell us about landed estates in Ireland? (Dr. Orla Power, TCD) Second Slavery, Second Landlordism, and Modernity:... | Read on »

MÌÁirÌ_n Mac Carron The Venerable Bede and the origins of AD-Dating

CKI Seminar - Community Mapping: Creating Common Ground Locally and Globally Maeve Lydon, University of Victoria, Canada Date: Thursday 19th September 2013 Time: 12.30 ‰ÛÒ 2.30pm (Tea/Coffee available from 12.15pm) Venue: Moore Institute Seminar Room, NUI Galway The seminar is free but it is necessary to book your place on or before Tuesday 17th September,... | Read on »

Performance MattersIrish Theatre Discussion Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/ We will be discussing David Harrower's Blackbird which coincidentally is being performing by Mephisto theatre company for the Galway theatre festival (4th,5th Oct.) http://www.mephistotheatre.com/blackbird-by-david-harrower/ For more information please contact lisa.fitzgerald@nuigalway.ie or m.nichualain5@nuigalway.ie All theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend If you need a copy of the script... | Read on »

25 Sept.CiarÌÁn Wallace (TCD) Drawing on minor sources: satirical cartoons in 'The Leprecaun Cartoon Monthly', 1905-1915

The NUI, Galway Finnegans Wake reading group is starting up again this September.Our first meeting will be 1-2pm in the Moore Institute Seminar Room, Thursday 26th September. If you like gossiping, poetry, languages, puns, puzzles, jokes, double entendres or even avant-garde tomes, you might like Finnegans Wake. Despite its scurrilous critical reputation, James Joyce's final... | Read on »

Seeing the world: Travel, text, image Authors of travel narratives attempting to convey in words their discoveries and observations increasingly turned to images to support their text. In this they were encouraged by publishers and the public, developing in time a dedicated art industry and new book forms. This conference focuses attention on the various... | Read on »

Early Modern Travel: Theory and Practice In the early modern period the development of inquiries, questionnaires, and directions for travel proliferated in an attempt to make travel a useful and productive activity. This conference explores the widespread effort to provide instruction, as well as the travel practices that emerged in response to and in tension... | Read on »

Carla Lessing 'The Civil English and the Wild Irish'. Tudor and Stewart concepts of civility