RSVP Required: kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie Dr Niamh Whitfield, a well-published independent scholar (http://independent.academia.edu/NiamhWhitfield), is a leading expert on early Irish metalwork in a European context.  After completing a BA Hons in Archaeology & French at UCD, where she studied with the esteemed Dr Françoise Henry, inter alia, Niamh moved to London, where she raised a family and... | Read on »

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As part of The Month of La Francophonie in Ireland, French writer, politician and researcher Azouz Begag will tour the Universities in Ireland : Cork, Limerick or Galway. Seize the occasion to meet him and (re)discover his books and movies! Azouz Begag was born in 1957 in Lyon. He is a French writer, politician and... | Read on »

    This talk examines the relationship between the Film Company of Ireland and Dublin cinemas in the period 1916-1920. Formed in 1916 and releasing its first films in that same year the Film Company of Ireland is the first important film production company in Ireland.  Established by James Mark Sullivan and Henry Fitzgibbon, this... | Read on »

An iBook by Dr. Robin Raine (Marien Scientist, School of Natural Sciences, NUI Galway) All welcome! Refreshments will be served.

Professor O'Brien is Emeritus Professor of Italian at NUI Galway. The presentation will encapsulate the history, geography, culture, places, attractions, food and wine of the island that will be backed up with attractive images.

Ronan Crowley (University of Antwerp) 'Migrate It New: Challenges and Opportunities for Ulysees: A Digital Critical and Synoptic Edition.'

Dr. Kurt C. Schlichting is E. Gerald Corrigan Chair in the Humanities & Social Sciences & Professor of Sociology & Anthropology kurt@fairfield.edu  

Hosted by the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures Eilléan Ní Chuilleanáin was born in Cork City in 1942, educated there and at Oxford before spending her working life as an academic in Trinity College, Dublin. She was a founder member of Cyphers, a literary journal. She has won the Patrick Kavanagh Award, the Irish Times Award for... | Read on »

Richard Seaford is Professor Emeritus of Greek at the University of Exeter. He is an expert on Greek Tragedy and on the Marxist/Structuralist interpretation of early Greek literature and world-view. His publications include Reciprocity and Ritual, Money and the Early Greek Mind, and Cosmology and the Polis. He has also published on the work and... | Read on »