SYNGE SONG TIM COLLINS Inspired By Place: Traditional Music Composition in East Galway DEIRDRE N̍ CHONGAILE ‰Û÷Listening to this rude and beautiful poetry‰۪: John Millington Synge as song collector in the Aran Islands 4pm Thursday 14th November Applied Optics Seminar Room All welcome ECHO brings together researchers of all disciplines to discuss research questions in... | Read on »

Global women's Studies and Gender ARC are pleased to invite you to a lunchtime seminar: 'Reproductive health and rights: Ireland and India, historical and contemporary struggles' With guest speakers Dorothea Melvin - pioneer in the Irish movement for access to contraception and the establishment of the Galway Family Planning Association in the 1970s and Lakshmi... | Read on »

THREESIS: Open Your Mind...and Get to the Point!! Join us as NUI Galway researchers use their 3 minutes to Get to the Point and Open Your Mind! James Curry (Moore Institute & History) and EilÌ_s NÌ_ Dh̼ill (Gaeilge) will participate in this week‰۪s heat. Next week‰۪s heat on November 26th will feature presentations from EilÌ_s... | Read on »

Performance MattersIrish Theatre Discussion Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/ For more information please contact lisa.fitzgerald@nuigalway.ie or m.nichualain5@nuigalway.ie All theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend For more information please email PerformanceMattersNUIG@gmail.com.

Digital Scholarship Seminar, November 2013. 12-2pm, Wednesday 20 November, Moore Institute Seminar Room. The second event of the Autumn/Winter series of DSS is a lunchtime seminar featuring presentations from researchers in English and Huston School (abstracts below): Ciara Griffin (English). ‰Û÷The Author is Glitched: Media-Specificity and the Non-Western Writer.‰۪ Hilary Dully (Huston School). ‰Û÷Digital Issues... | Read on »

Laura O'Brien The Bishop on the Barricades: French commemorations of the death of Archbishop Denis Affre, 1848-1871

Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour & Class Moore Institute, NUI Galway Inaugural conference Arts Humanities and Social Science Reserach Building (new extension) 21-22 November 2013 Round One: THURSDAY 21 NOVEMBER, 9.00 ‰ÛÒ 10.30 Panel 1: Irish working life and politics: (i) Primitive rebels Gary Hussey (NUI Galway), ‰Û÷Agrarian secret societies and a moral... | Read on »

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 workis not as difficult as it would first appear and,when read as part of a group, can be a hugely rewarding experience. It is our hope to... | Read on »