“Houses of the Nobility and Gentry”: Big Houses of County Galway  

  Programme  10AM: Welcome 10.10-11.15: Researchers’ Panel Olivia Martin: West of Ireland Landed Estates collections as sources for women’s lives Joe Murphy: The Redington Papers: Insight into a 19th Clarinbridge estate Ann O’Riordan: Hearnesbrook House & Estate, Killimor 11.15-11.45 Coffee/Tea 11.45-12.30 Landed Estates resources in practice Geraldine Curtin: Family History in estate archives:  the Wilson-Lynch... | Read on »

Recent work by Denis O’Hearn and Andrej Grubacic proposes that “exilic spaces” are a hopeful model for progressive change and, ultimately, for social revolution. Exilic spaces can be defined as those areas of social and economic life in which people attempt to escape from capitalist relations and processes, whether territorially or by attempting to build... | Read on »

This paper examines the connections between the revolutionary politics of Theobald Wolfe Tone and his friendships, especially that with Thomas Russell, his best friend and closest political ally. It also discusses the centrality of ideas of masculinity to Tone's politics. In doing so, it seeks to locate Tone and the United Irishmen not just within... | Read on »

  Postgraduate Medieval Studies invites all incoming and returning MA, PhD, PostDoc students (along with academic staff at all levels) with an interest in the antique, medieval and early modern worlds to it's annual Welcome Reception,all welcome, regardless of programme or discipline.

                  09:00 – 09:30 Registration / Coffee & Tea 09:30 – 11:00 Panel 1: Aesthetic Manifestations, Expressionisms and Power Structures Power, Subcultures and Queer Stages in Twentieth-Century Italy and Ireland Zsuzsanna Balázs, PhD Candidate (Drama and Theatre Studies), NUI Galway Pondering Progressive Punk Poetry Jonathan Hannon, PhD Candidate... | Read on »

This lecture by Dr. Seán Crosson will consider the topic of Sport and Film, drawing on the research he has undertaken of the subject internationally (evident in his monograph Sport and Film (2013)) and in the Irish context (where he will draw in particular on the work he did towards his recent book Gaelic Games on Film: From silent films to... | Read on »

                    A talk given by Dr Stefan Aquilina 2019 Galway University Foundation/Dr Ros Dixon Fellow Dr Stefan Aquilina is Director of Research and Internationalisation of the School of Performing Arts and Theatre Studies Senior Lecturer at the University of Malta. His research focuses on modern theatre, especially Stanislavsky... | Read on »

By Professor Philip Dine, Head of French, NUI Galway. How does sport shape society? From local origins in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, modern sports were first nationally and then internationally regulated, enabling novel personal interactions and unprecedented cultural exchanges. This sporting internationalization was to culminate in such global mega-events as the Olympic... | Read on »

                      Prof. Dr. Patricia Plummer (Duisburg-Essen University, Germany) Visiting Research Fellow, Moore Institute NUI Galway Patricia Plummer is Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies at Duisburg-Essen University, Germany. Her publications, research and teaching cover an interdisciplinary range of topics, from c18 Orientalism, Victorian literature and... | Read on »