Máirín Ní Dhonnachada: Drinking, kingship and lordship in early medieval Ireland: scoping the topic
Philosophy Seminar Series. The format for the afternoon is three twenty minute papers, each followed by ten to fifteen minutes for questions/comments and a brief break for tea/coffee. The running order is John Roe with "Kant's Faith - Reasonable or Merely Rational"; Greg Crowley with "Shades of Truth"; and Johnny O'Rourke with "Wittgenstein's Phenomenology Revisited".... | Read on »
This seminar will be hosted by Nadia Smith who is a current Visiting Fellow who received her PhD in modern Irish history from Boston College. Nadia Smith will be presenting on "Irish Women Historians and Life Writing, 1900-1960," as part of her ongoing research on Irish women historians and academics in the NUI in the... | Read on »
Guest Lecture: Dr Christopher P. Barton, Assistant Professor Department of History, Francis Marion University and Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the School of Geography and Archaeology for 2018. Title: From the Trowel to the Trenches: Archaeology as Social Activism Contemporary economic, environmental, political, and social injustices are modern manifestations of past practices; they are legacies of marginalization. It is... | Read on »
Note Taking & Study Skills February 20th, 5:30-7:00pm, G011 Library Lobby Learn practical study skills that make a real difference Practical note-taking for lectures and study Organise your study and limit distractions Troubled by Procrastination Wednesday Feb 21st , 5:30 – 7:30pm, G010 Library Lobby Identify how procrastination recruits you into ineffective habits Develop tools... | Read on »
Aisling Ní Churraighín (Roinn na Gaeilge) and Eoin Byrne (Centre for Irish Studies), the 2017 recipients of Sparánacht Uí Eithir will be presenting on their research. All welcome. SPARÁNACHT UÍ EITHIR This bursary was established in 1995 in memory of Breandán Ó hEithir, through donations from his friends. The broadcaster, journalist and writer was a former... | Read on »
Liam Alex Heffron No Revolution - Igniting War in North Mayo, 1917-1923.
Thinking Continental: Writing the Planet One Place at a Time Edited by Tom Lynch, Susan Naramore Maher, Drucilla Wall, and O. Alan Weltzien. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017) Following an introduction by Dr Louis de Paor, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway, the volume will be launched by Professor Bríona Nic Dhiarmada, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish... | Read on »
We all use different methodologies to get the work done, but what if we’re missing something we’ve never thought of before? Come to our February session on research methodologies and see if you can find something new to put in your research toolkit. Our panel of speakers will outline research methodologies in the areas of:... | Read on »
