GALWAY BOOK LAUNCH AND SAMPLE EXHIBITION Celebrating the paperback edition of Flor MacCarthy's bestselling The Presidents' Letters Guest Speaker: Teresa Mannion, Senior News Journalist, RTÉ Music: Niamh Ní Charra A small exhibition of material from the Mary Robinson archive in the University of Galway, not yet available to the public, curated by archivist Niamh Ní Charra, will be... | Read on »

The Creative Futures Research Group in collaboration with the TULCA Festival of Visual Arts invites you to participate in a Creative Futures Seminar. Drawing together academics and artists, this seminar explores how creative practitioners and thinkers can work together to prepare for future challenges, imagine future possibilities, and reflect on future forms of art-making, thinking,... | Read on »

The Digital Humanities (DH) Research Group at the Moore Institute would like to invite anyone working on a DH-related project, or planning such projects, or who just have an interest in learning more about DH, to a meeting on Thursday 17 November 2–3pm in the Bridge Room (THB-1001, first floor of the Hardiman Research Building). The purpose... | Read on »

Registration If you would like to attend this event, please register via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/book-launch-by-bronagh-ann-mcshane-tickets-433510651027 Dr Bronagh Ann McShane is a historian specialising in the history of women, religion and confessionalisation in early modern Ireland and Europe. Her research has been funded by the Irish Research Council, the National University of Ireland and the Royal... | Read on »

Event description This half-day workshop event will bring together researchers and students in an interdisciplinary event that explores the carbon impact of our research methods and undertakings, and whether we can, as researchers and students, work towards decarbonizing our research methods. From our own context in the University of Galway, our Climate Action and Sustainability... | Read on »

CAMPS LAB Damsels, Deluge, and the Dindshenchas: A Look at the Relationship between Women and Water in Select Dindshenchas Texts Anne Williams (Special Collections, Hardiman Library) Ties between women and water can be found in many stories throughout early Irish literature and folklore. Dindshenchas, or ancient place-name lore largely recorded in the Middle Ages, is... | Read on »

Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar (Online) The ‘disneyization’ of football: entertainment multinationals and global dynamics of the most popular sport in the world Dr. Xavier Ginesta, Universitat Central de Catalunya (UVic-UCC) 12pm (GMT) / 1pm (CET)   Virtual Link to join seminar:  https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/7156da250ca144aea3f0078f42ea7a3a Abstract Football has entered a vicious circle: the increase in clubs'... | Read on »

University of Galway History Seminar: Screening of the film, I’m Here, I’m Home, I’m Happy,   followed by an interview with its director, Orla Egan (Cork LGBT Archive)    Abstract:   I’m Here, I’m Home, I’m Happy is the new film from the Cork LGBT Archive. The film uses extracts from oral history interviews and items from the... | Read on »

You are cordially invited to the launch of Writing the History of Slavery  (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022) Edited by David Doddington & Enrico Dal Lago   The book will be launched by Prof. Dan Carey

Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History Prof. Mary Burke (University of Connecticut) The Irish in America racially transformed multiple times: in the slave-holding Caribbean, on America’s frontiers and antebellum plantations, and along the eastern seaboard. This paper considers the cultural history of race and centuries of Irishness in the Americas, looking at the forcibly... | Read on »