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 »

                "We Have The Litany And All To Say": religion and everyday life in Irish novels of the 1940s' By Dr. Caitriona Clear (NUI Galway) '

  This panel discussion will bring together Irish Research Council-funded experts to share their findings on homelessness and how the current housing crisis in Ireland intersects with other forms of exclusion and inequality. Topics may include: direct provision and refugees; racial, gender, and class inequalities in social-housing provision; experiences of statelessness amongst the homeless and... | Read on »

  A product of the early twentieth century’s ‘sport-media-industry complex’, cycling’s Tour de France has engendered novel forms and styles of newspaper coverage and has attracted the interest of a variety of writers.A prominent right-wing novelist in the early fifties, Antoine Blondin (1921-1991) was a guest follower for French sports daily L’Équipe on four stages... | Read on »

The Moore Institute will host an information session on the IRC Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme on Wednesday, September 25 @ 1:00pm 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 a reading... | Read on »

              By Milena Cosentino (University of Limerick) As part of NUI Galway History Research Seminar Series Semester 1, 2019-20  

                    Не надо людям с людьми на земле бороться. People on this earth don’t have to fight with  each other. Marina Tsvetaeva: from ‘I know the truth’ (1915) Facilitated by Emily Tock, MLIS, MALP, Government of Ireland Post-graduate Scholar PhD student in the Discipline of English... | Read on »