Dara Downey (Visiting Fellow) from the School of English in Trinity College Dublin. Title: The Lady’s Maid’s Burden: Ethnicity, Race, and Servant Status in the Late Nineteenth-Century Ghost Story This paper examines a range of uncanny tales by late-nineteenth-century American writers, in which domestic servants and slaves feature to a greater or lesser extent. For the... | Read on »

The Irish Centre for Histories of Labour and Class welcomes Jimmy Yan (Univ. of Melbourne) to give a talk entitled, ‘Wobblies and Fenians: The Australian connections of the Larkin family, 1916-19, and the Irish revolution’. All welcome. Picture shows Peter Larkin, brother of ‘Big Jim’, one of so-called ‘Sydney Twelve’ imprisoned for anti-war activism in 1916.

Charles Doyle: The Presocratics and Christian Heretics in the works of Irenaeus and Tertullian  

          This annual event, organised by the Association for French and Francophone Studies in Ireland (ADEFFI), provides a supportive scholarly forum for postgraduates in the areas of French and Francophone Studies to present both work in progress and new research and allows participants to meet peers and established researchers in French and Francophone Studies... | Read on »

"Digital poets/artists/scholars Jason Nelson and Alinta Krauth are presenting a series of workshops for NUI staff, students, and graduates aimed at inspiring you to use interactive digital interfaces to turn your scholarly papers and/or creative writing into interactive outcomes, aimed at publication in interactive journals. Interactive visual interpretation can allow readers a greater insight into... | Read on »

This seminar will examine the connection between academic writing and innovation from a variety of perspectives, including the use of the Project Based Learning (PBL) and other innovative methodologies, the switch from assessing to improving student writing, the role of writing centres in academia, the ideology of writing spaces, and new ways to support librarians... | Read on »

Innovation is seen as a key ingredient for success in academia, but we often taken good academic writing for granted as a crucial skill in this process. We know from the work of Peter Elbow that writing is a creative and imaginative process, irrespective of the subject. Janet Giltrow has argued that ‘style is meaningful’... | Read on »

This paper will examine the contrasting connections that exist between people and landscape in the Bendimahi Delta and the Boora peatlands outside Kilcormac, Co. Offaly, where the development of a sculpture park has been instrumental in not just creating a successful tourist attraction (over 120,000 visitors in 2017) but in re-imagining and reinforcing community values... | Read on »