Is a university education still relevant? What are the forces that threaten it? Should academics ever be allowed near Twitter? In Academic Diary (Goldsmiths Press 2016), Les Back has chronicled three decades of his academic career, turning his sharp and often satirical eye to the everyday aspects of life on campus and the larger forces that are reshaping it. In... | Read on »

Dr Trisia Farrelly (Massey University, New Zealand) in collaboration with Dr Frances Fahy and Dr Tom Doyle (NUIG) present The Interdisciplinary Plastic Waste Project Planning interdisciplinary plastic waste research for an international project

Dr Matthew J.O'Brien (Fransiscan University of Steubenville, Ohio) 'Before There Was Trump: Irish-American Right-Wing Populism in the Twentieth Century'

On Tuesday, January 17th, we continue our series of lunchtime brown-bag events to focus on Duanaire, A Treasury of Digital Data for Irish Economic History. Duanaire is the work of Dr Aidan Kane and his team. This innovate project has unearthed a wealth of Irish fiscal history data and made it accessible online in a... | Read on »

Dr Rióna Ní Fhrighil ( Gaeilge, OÉ Gaillimh) 'Representation of Jews in Contemporary Literature in Irish' the talk will be in English and Introduction by Prof Pól Ó Dochartaigh (Registrar and Deputy President, NUIG)

T.K. Whitaker (1916-2017) has been described as ‘the architect of modern Ireland’. But what kind of country did he help to create? This panel discussion will reflect on Whitaker’s life, his influence, and the society that modernisation, Irish-style generated. Organised by History, School of Humanities and the Moore Institute.  

Mr Eoghan Moran (Queen Mary, University of London) 'Storming the Bastille of Financial Feudalism': Centrist Populism in the French and Spanish Republics, 1930 - 36'.

Dearbhla Glynn Dearbhla Glynn is an award-winning artist, documentary filmmaker and teacher, specializing in explorations of conflict and its effect on women and children. Among her films are Gaza: Post Operation Cast Lead (2010) which offered a personal insight into the day-to-day living conditions faced by the Gaza Strip's 1.5 million conflict-stricken inhabitants. Her 2013... | Read on »

Critical Approaches to Children's Literature From Librarianship to Childhood Studies via Liberal Humanism, High Theory, Post-Theory, Metamodernism and Pooh Corner Professor Peter Hunt (Cardiff University) Over the past 50 years, children’s literature has become a vibrant and important part of university-level studies worldwide. Approaches to it have been as diverse and lively (and problematic) as... | Read on »

Dr Peadar Ó Muirceartaigh (Abersythwyth University and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow) 'Isidorian semiotics and an orthographic crux in Old Irish'