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‘Democratic Theory: Beyond the Pale’ By Dr Mark Devenney and Dr Clare Woodford
This event is hosted by the School of Political Science & Sociology's Power, Conflict and Ideology Research Cluster. Medieval Ireland was physically divided by a palisade separating an English-ruled enclave stretching from Dublin to Dundalk, from a Gaelic-speaking area whose inhabitants were considered uncivilised, 'beyond the pale'. In this paper we put this notion of the ‘pale’ to work to rethink the paradoxes of democratic theory, and in so doing to rethink democratic politics. Democratic theorists struggle with the apparent…
Find out more »Visiting Sminar: Dr. Niamh Whitfield ‘The Book of Durrow & the ‘Northumbrian Problem”
RSVP Required: kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie Dr Niamh Whitfield, a well-published independent scholar (http://independent.academia.edu/NiamhWhitfield), is a leading expert on early Irish metalwork in a European context. After completing a BA Hons in Archaeology & French at UCD, where she studied with the esteemed Dr Françoise Henry, inter alia, Niamh moved to London, where she raised a family and completed an MA & PhD in Medieval Archaeology & the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art/UCL. She has taught at TCD and…
Find out more »Nineteenth Century Trade Periodicals: Transnational Perspectives A Symposium Featuring IRC Research Partners
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Find out more »Visit of writer Azouz Begag in Ireland
As part of The Month of La Francophonie in Ireland, French writer, politician and researcher Azouz Begag will tour the Universities in Ireland : Cork, Limerick or Galway. Seize the occasion to meet him and (re)discover his books and movies! Azouz Begag was born in 1957 in Lyon. He is a French writer, politician and researcher in economics and sociology at the CNRS. He was the delegate minister for equal opportunities of France in the government of French Prime Minister…
Find out more »The Abbey Theatre, Dublin Cinemas and the Film Company of Ireland, 1916-1920 by Dr. Veronica Johnson, Moore Institute Visiting Fellow
This talk examines the relationship between the Film Company of Ireland and Dublin cinemas in the period 1916-1920. Formed in 1916 and releasing its first films in that same year the Film Company of Ireland is the first important film production company in Ireland. Established by James Mark Sullivan and Henry Fitzgibbon, this production company released its first feature film O’Neil of the Glen in August 1916 to a warm popular and critical response. A great part of…
Find out more »iBook Launch: Harmful Algal Blooms
An iBook by Dr. Robin Raine (Marien Scientist, School of Natural Sciences, NUI Galway) All welcome! Refreshments will be served.
Find out more »Talk by Prof Catherine O’Brien ‘Travel in Sicily: 101 reasons to visit Sicily’.
Professor O'Brien is Emeritus Professor of Italian at NUI Galway. The presentation will encapsulate the history, geography, culture, places, attractions, food and wine of the island that will be backed up with attractive images.
Find out more »Digital Scholarship Seminar Series – Spring 2017
Ronan Crowley (University of Antwerp) 'Migrate It New: Challenges and Opportunities for Ulysees: A Digital Critical and Synoptic Edition.'
Find out more »Manhattan’s Irish Waterfront Neighborhoods: From the Famine to the Movie Classic “On the Waterfront” by Dr. Kurt Schlichting, Fairfield University
Dr. Kurt C. Schlichting is E. Gerald Corrigan Chair in the Humanities & Social Sciences & Professor of Sociology & Anthropology kurt@fairfield.edu
Find out more »“Translation in the context of the commemorations of 1916 and the Great War” by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Ireland Professor of Poetry
Hosted by the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures Eilléan Ní Chuilleanáin was born in Cork City in 1942, educated there and at Oxford before spending her working life as an academic in Trinity College, Dublin. She was a founder member of Cyphers, a literary journal. She has won the Patrick Kavanagh Award, the Irish Times Award for Poetry, the O’Shaughnessy Award of the Irish-American Cultural Institute which called her “among the very best poets of her generation”, and the International Griffin Poetry Prize. Her…
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