This Lab is hybrid with Rosemary Power zooming in from Iona! Those in Galway still be meeting in HRB G010 at 12 noon, Friday 21st April, and lunch and discussion will follow as usual. Rosemary will be speaking on 'Iona Nunnery and Its Norse-Gaelic Context': This seminar paper concerns the foundation of the Augustinian nunnery on... | Read on »

This is an in person event in the Hardiman Building, G010 (on ground floor). No previous or specialist knowledge is needed for this Cafe. All welcome! The event will finish with a free slice of fresh vegetarian pizza! Please bring a device (laptop, tablet) as we will do some joined activities. Emerging technologies such as... | Read on »

RELIGION RE-IMAGINES THE WORLD, 1870-1930 0930-1045: Devotions and beliefs in changing times CHAIR: Breandán MacSuibhne, Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta, Gaillimh. ‘Peripheral Vision: Marian Apparitions in Knock/An Cnoc and Dittrichswalde/Gietzrwald in the 1870s.’ Róisín Healy, Department of History, University of Galway. ‘Martyrs and Miracles: some religious aspects of Peig’s storytelling.’ Síle de Cléir, Scoil na Gaeilge, an... | Read on »

Staff and students are warmly invited to attend the next gathering of the Figuring Ecologies Reading Network (FERN). We meet each month to discuss a literary or creative work on the subject of ecologies. Next Meeting: Thursday 27 April 2023, Bridge Room, Moore Institute, 13.00-14.00 We will discuss BRAIDING SWEETGRASS by Robin Wall Kimmerer (email for... | Read on »

The School of Political Science and Sociology invite you to the final research seminar of the 2022-2023 research seminar series, with Caroline McGregor, Carmel Devaney and Sarah-Anne Buckley.  Seminar Objectives:   To introduce the project and challenges and opportunities in relation to the methodology To Present Selection of Findings To raise critical awareness about terminology, language... | Read on »

Royal Irish Academy International Affairs Annual Conference 2023 Human (in)security in an unsettled world The Academy’s annual International Affairs Conference, kindly supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs. In our unsettled world of intersecting human and environmental crises, an urgent global governance challenge lies in actioning new visions and strategies of security. Two key tasks... | Read on »

Inaugural Nicholas Canny Lecture @ the Moore Institute, University of Galway David Armitage Blankfein Professor of History (Harvard University) Making England Irish? John Locke and the English Atlantic Empire This distinguished lecture series honours the career and contribution of Professor Nicholas Canny, emeritus chair of history and founding Director of the Moore Institute at the University... | Read on »

BALANCING ACTS ISTR 2023 5-6 May, University of Galway Sponsored by the University of Galway and Irish Theatre Institute in association with Dundalk Institute of Technology Balancing Acts Conference Schedule 5-6 May 2023   Schedule Key PINK: PANEL/PG-ECR Workshop GREEN: BREAK/CATERING YELLOW: KEYNOTE   Conference Team Miriam Haughton, Sarah Hoover, Luke Lamont, Ciara L. Murphy,... | Read on »

Paula Harrison (PhD Researcher, Ancient Classics, University of Galway) will be presenting on ‘When a Quarter is Analogous to Three-quarters: Quadrans in the De Divisionibus Temporum Tract of Laon, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS. 422.’   The Hiberno-Latin tract De divisionibus temporum (‘The divisions of time’) was an elementary work for the study of time reckoning (computus) during the early medieval period. This... | Read on »

A Fulbright Ireland project, Yaqui and Béal: Yoeme and Irish in Conversation is a theatrical exploration of commonalities between Native Americans and Native Irish. Part scripted/part devised, this dramatic piece combines family legends and wisdom from Irish and Yoeme elders, with conceived work that includes audience input. This performance is being composed by theatre-makers from... | Read on »