As part of the Modern Irishwomen lecture series , Dr James Curry on the often-forgotten nurse and republican activist Dora Maguire (1889-1931), remembered in one Dublin newspaper obituary as the ‘Friend of the Poor’. Modern Irishwomen Lecture Series 1918 was... | Read on »

Information: The HBCRG has recently received funding for a project called ‘INTeRACT for Health: Increasing Integrated Knowledge Translation Capacity for Impact’. The aim of the project is to enhance knowledge translation capacity nationally, and to develop capacity and skill to impact on outcomes of importance. A one day workshop on integrated Knowledge Translation and Implementation... | Read on »

George Moore: Transnational and Cosmopolitan Networks on the Page and Canvas  The Ninth International George Moore Conference will take place in NUI Galway from Thursday 14th – Friday 15th June at the Moore Institute: HRB G010. The stimulus of Impressionism and Realism, both in art and literature, on George Moore (1852-1933), led him on a... | Read on »

The NUI Galway mHealth research group (based in the School of Psychology) is hosting an international and interdisciplinary conference on Mobile Health (mHealth) in Galway. The event includes expert keynote speakers, short presentations on innovative research, a round table discussion and poster presentations. This event is for researchers, practitioners, policy makers, industry partners and those... | Read on »

The Digital Repository of Ireland is holding an Introductory Training event on Thursday, June 14, from 10:30am – 3pm in the James Hardiman Library, PC Suite (Nursing & Midwifery). The training is geared towards existing and potential digital collections curators who may be interested in depositing those collections into DRI. The training gives an overview of... | Read on »

Reáchtálfar siompóisiam lae dar teideal '125 Bliain ag Fás? An Athbheochan agus Conradh na Gaeilge' san Aula Maxima (thíos staighre), OÉ Gaillimh, ó 9.30am-4.00pm, Dé hAoine 15 Meitheamh. Is í seo príomhócáid na hollscoile le haghaidh Bhliain na Gaeilge agus is é Uachtarán na hÉireann, Micheál D. Ó hUigínn, a thabharfaidh an príomhaitheasc. Eolas ag:... | Read on »

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The social and political thought of Tom Kettle: Recovering a distinctive Irish Thinker Tom Kettle (1880-1916) is not very well known in Ireland today. Yet, historian Senia Pašeta notes he ‘was associated with almost every major political and cultural development’ during his lifetime. He was a gifted public intellectual, essayist, journalist, nationalist MP (1906-1910) and... | Read on »