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Information Session for upcoming IRC Postgraduate Scholarships

Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

The Moore Institute will host an information session on the upcoming IRC Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme on Tuesday, October 2 at 12 noon in Room G010  Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building. The session will be facilitated by Prof. Dan Carey, Director of the Moore Institute. In addition to the information session, the Moore Institute will offer... | Read on »

Creative Coding Meet-up

The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway

This semester we're going to run a weekly session for those interested in learning "creative coding". This approach is a good way for those without any coding experience to develop a foundation in programming. The sessions will use online resources (see below) to guide self-directed learning. Creative coding is a different discipline than programming systems.... | Read on »

New Professors’ Inaugural Lecture Series: An t-Ollamh Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin

Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

An dúchas, an anaithnideacht agus an seachadadh teanga  /  Nativeness, anonymity and language transmission An t-Ollamh Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin, Ollamh Bunaithe le Nua-Ghaeilge   Ina léacht, pléifidh an t-Ollamh Ó hIfearnáin trí choincheap atá go mór chun tosaigh i ndíospóireachtaí shochtheangeolaíocht na mionteangacha agus déanfaidh critic orthu i bhfianaise obair allamuigh i gcomhthéacs na Gaeilge.... | Read on »

Breaking the Boundaries of Italian Arts. Introducing Italy’s videoartists by Clodagh Brook, Trinity College Dublin

The Hardiman Building G011 seminar room

Clodagh Brook, Trinity College Dublin Breaking the Boundaries of Italian Arts.  Introducing Italy’s videoartists   This paper explores what motivated Italian writers and artists to shatter the borders and radically question the identity of their artforms in late 20th-century Italy. My case study here introduces some Italian videoartists, situating their questioning of artforms in a... | Read on »

ILLUSTRATED TALK: Helena Molony (1883-1967) – Modern Irishwomen Lecture Series

Education Room, Galway City Museum

Aimee Plunkett discusses republican, feminist and trade union activist Helena Molony. Aimee Plunkett works for the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and is a former historical tour guide at the GPO Witness History Visitor Centre. 1918 was a landmark year for women in Ireland and Britain, with legislation beginning the process of their... | Read on »

Creative Coding Meet-up

The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway

This semester we're going to run a weekly session for those interested in learning "creative coding". This approach is a good way for those without any coding experience to develop a foundation in programming. The sessions will use online resources (see below) to guide self-directed learning. Creative coding is a different discipline than programming systems.... | Read on »

NUI Galway’s 5th Annual Medieval Studies Lecture: “Hidden Sins: Miraculous Mind Reading and the Confessional”

O hEocha Theatre (Arts Millennium Building 250)

"Hidden Sins: Miraculous Mind Reading and the Confessional"  Barbara Newman, Professor of English, Religious Studies and Classics Northwestern University   Shortly after the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 mandated annual confession for all Christians, a new type of miracle began to appear in saints' Lives. Holy women and a few lay brothers--but curiously, not priests--came to... | Read on »