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History Graduate Research Seminar
Mr Michael Kavanagh 'Protestant Secondary School Education in Co.Galway: Galway Grammar School, 1895 - 1932'
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Find out more »ERC Information Event: Applying for an ERC Starter Grant – by Dr. Ian Campbell, QUB
In October 2015, Dr. Ian Campbell was awarded a Starting Grant of €1.3 million by the European Research Council to pursue the research project ‘War and the Supernatural in Early Modern Europe’ over four-and-a-half years. He will lead a research team of two research fellows and one graduate student to examine the relationship between debates inside the early modern European universities on the proper limits of the natural and supernatural and the character of religious warfare in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe. …
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Dr Jessica Cooke (Independent Scholar) 'Saint Meldan, Saint Fursa, Saint Cuanna: Saints of Lough Corrib'.
Find out more »Visiting Speaker: Dr. Ian Campbell, QUB ‘Magna Carta, Limited Monarchy, and the Ancient Constitution in Early Modern Ireland’
In October 2015, Ian was awarded a Starting Grant of €1.3 million by the European Research Council to pursue the research project ‘War and the Supernatural in Early Modern Europe’ over four-and-a-half years. He will lead a research team of two research fellows and one graduate student to examine the relationship between debates inside the early modern European universities on the proper limits of the natural and supernatural and the character of religious warfare in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe. His project…
Find out more »Roundtable Discussion: The Northern Ireland Assembly Election: Where to from here?
Participants Dr. Rebecca Barr (English) Dr. Brendan Flynn (Political Science & Sociology) Dr. Laurence Marley (History) Dr. Kate Quinn (Spanish) Dr. Niall Ó Dochartaigh (Political Science & Sociology) Dr. Kerry Sinanan (Moore Institute Visiting Fellow)
Find out more »History and the Politics of Memory: Winifred Carney, 1887-1943-2017 by Helga Woggan, MI Visiting Fellow
Winifred Carney was an active feminist and a significant figure of the 1916 Rising. Born in County Down, she became James Connolly’s personal secretary after he was appointed Belfast organizer of the ITGWU. She arrived in the GPO on Easter Monday with a typewriter and a Webley revolver, and held the rank of adjutant throughout the week of the Rising. On her release from prison, she returned to active politics in Belfast, standing for Sinn Féin in the 1918 general election, and subsequently…
Find out more »Celebration Event for Conor Newman (School of Geography & Archaeology)
You are cordially invited to a celebration event for Mr. Conor Newman (School of Geography & Archaeology) marking the conclusion of his role as chair of the Heritage Council 2008-2016 Speakers: Dr Kieran O’Conor and Prof. John Waddell Conor has been instrumental in major policy initiatives put forward by the Council, including the publication of the National Landscape Strategy, the Heritage Officer Network, and the €1 million increase in the Heritage Sector’s capital allocation for 2017. Tuesday 7 March 4pm…
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Dr James O'Donnell (NUIG) 'Political economy and professional networks in the nineteenth and twentieth-century British and Irish press.'
Find out more »Visiting Seminar: Dr. Niamh Whitfield ‘Early Irish Metalwork’
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…
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