You are cordially invited to the launch ofThe British Labour Party & Twentieth-Century Ireland:The Cause of Ireland, The Cause of labourEdited by Laurence Marley The book will be launched by Dr Martin Mansergh,former Minister of State and Vice-Chair of the Irish Government Expert Group on the Decade of Centenaries

Speaker: Professor John Scattergood (Trinity College, Dublin) Title: 'An Irish Franciscan's Pocketbook: British Library MS Harley 913 and Colonial Ireland in the Early Fourteenth Century' Location: Hardiman Research Building, Room 1001 ('The Bridge') Date: Thursday, 19 May, at 3.00pm

9.30: Welcome and introduction Panel 1: Internatoinalising the Rising ? Patrick Lonergan, "Easter 1916 and Internationalising Irish Theatre' ? Charlotte McIvor, "Rehearsing Revolution as a prelude to 1916: Yeats, Tagore and Peruse and the Staging of Transactional Nationalist Masculinities" ? David Clare: "Anthropological Gays: Casement, Pearse, and 1916"11.00: Keynote Lecture 1 Paige Reynolds (Holy Cross),... | Read on »

One-day WorkshopSeminar Room GO10Hardiman Research Building, NUI GalwayAll welcome!Free event emailalice.colombo@nuigalway.ie to register11.00 - 11.15Coffee11.15 - 11.30Introduction11.30 - 12.10HansJÌ_rgen LÌ_sebrink (UniversitÌ_t des Saarlandes) 'Patriotic relics and carnavalesque visions -Political transformations of traditional popular culturein the public sphere of the French Revolution'12.10 - 12.50Antonio Serrano DurÌÁ (Universidad CatÌ_lica de Valencia) 'Spanish Popular Literature in theeighteenth century.... | Read on »

Seminar on Poetry and PhilosophyProf William Desmond (KU Leuven and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow)'Poetic porosity and Astonished Prayer: On the Poetics of Sean O'Riordan'Prof Felix ÌÒ Murhcadha (NUIG)' Gerald Manley Hopkins: Nature and Emotion'.Seminar Room GO11, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building.

France-Algeria: Memories and Identities International WorkshopDiscipline of French, School of Languages, Literatures and CulturesNUI, Galway27 May 2016Room: AMB 2070 (Arts Millennium Building)

Discipline of Philosophy, School of Humanities, UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre and School of Sociology and Politics are hosting a Book Launch' Philosophy and Political Engagement: Reflection in the public sphere'.Launched by Prof James Edwin Mahon (CUNY - Lehman).Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building.

THE "IRISH PROTESTANT PLAYWRIGHTS" CONFERENCE1-3 JUNE 2016Moore Institute, NUI Galway, IRELANDFeaturing:-Keynote addresses by Prof. SeÌÁn Kennedy (St. Mary's University, Halifax) and Dr. Emilie Pine (University College Dublin)-Panel papers and roundtable discussions on the great Irish Protestant playwrights, including (among others) George Farquhar, Oliver Goldsmith, R.B. Sheridan, Elizabeth Griffith, Dion Boucicault, Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw, J.M.... | Read on »