Digital humanities outputs in the light of research assessment reform This session includes a presentation and discussion around the recent ALLEA report Recognising Digital Scholarly Outputs in the Humanities, which underscores the transformative impact of digital practices on humanities scholarship. It addresses challenges in digital humanities, focusing on transparency in linking resources to publications, recognising updates... | Read on »

CUIREADH Seoladh Leabhair Ba mhór ag Cló Iar-Chonnacht, Údarás na Gaeltachta agus Ollscoil na Gaillimhe thú a bheith i láthair nuair a sheolfaidh Alan Esslemont, Ard-Stiúrthóir TG4, Ag Cur Chun Fónaimh: Údarás na Gaeltachta ó 1980 i leith in eagar ag Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh agus Breandán Mac Suibhne  Stiúideo Cuan an Spidéal, Déardaoin, 14 Nollaig ag... | Read on »

You are warmly invited to the Galway launch of the new, annotated edition of The Material for Victory: The Memoirs of Andrew J. Kettle  Edited by Niamh Reilly with annotations by Jane O'Brien and Niamh Reilly With guest speaker Luke Gibbons, Maynooth University, author of James Joyce and the Irish Revolution, University of Chicago Press,... | Read on »

Dr Máirín MacCarron (University College Cork)  Gendered data in early medieval sources:  Reflections from the Gendered Networks and GENCHRON projects Abstract This paper will introduce and explain the development and analysis of gendered data in two of the presenter’s funded research projects: Women, Conflict and Peace: Gendered Networks in Early Medieval Narratives (funded by the... | Read on »

Creativity is a key skill with increasing relevance for contemporary and future societies. This seminar presents an overview of how the human brain affords us the ability to think creatively. We will: examine the neural basis of the creative process as revealed through neuroimaging methods; explore why people differ in levels of creative ability; and... | Read on »

University of Galway History Research Seminar: ‘below and above and beyond all quarrels’: The Irish Free State in the British tabloids, 1922-1932  Dr Elspeth Payne (Trinity College Dublin)  Abstract In this talk, I explore how the British popular press engaged with the newly independent Irish Free State. While situating content in its wider political context, I... | Read on »

Pádraic Moran, Mary Sweeney, and Chiara Corongiu Global and Local Scholarship on Annotated Manuscripts: an introduction to the GLOSSAM project 19 January 2024 THB-G010 12-2 pm Lunch to follow & all welcome!

The School of Political Science and Sociology invite you to a research seminar with Dr Allyn Fives (Discipline of Politics; Power, Conflict, and Ideologies research cluster)  “Moral obligation as a conclusive reason: On Bernard Williams’ critique of the morality system”  Bernard Williams’ critique of the morality system, as illustrated in his reading of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon,... | Read on »

University of Galway History Research Seminar: Teaching the nation’s past: Irish history in secondary schools, 1924-69 Dr Colm Mac Gearailt (University of Galway)  Achoimre/Abstract: What we teach shows what we value. This talk considers the version(s) of the past set for study, taught in schools, and learned by students in the Irish Free State and... | Read on »

The Fráma Eile roundtable series, organised by PhD students in the Centre for Irish Studies and Roinn na Gaeilge, explores new approaches to framing established texts (in both English and Irish), material objects, and artwork in the Irish Studies canon. For our first seminar of 2024, speakers will discuss Pádraic Ó Conaire’s novel Deoraíocht.  This event will be bilingual.... | Read on »