By  Dr. Jennifer Keating (UCD) as part of NUI Galway History Research Seminar Series  Semester 1, 2019-20 Recently appointed to a post at University College Dublin, Jennifer Keating is a historian of imperial Russia specialising in environmental history. She is currently completing a book manuscript that examines the role of environmental change in colonial policy, practice... | Read on »

  Professor  Dan Carey will launch this new volume of essays edited by Dr. Róisín Healy of the History Department. A reception will follow. This edited collection reveals the enormous diversity of journeys taken into, out of and around modern Russia and central and eastern Europe by means of twelve case studies. These range from... | Read on »

By Brian Arkins (retired Professor, Classics, NUI Galway.) Abstract: This paper analyses the reception of Hopkins by Eliot, Yeats, Stevens, Pound and Joyce.

By Professor Paolo Bartoloni (Established Professor of Italian Studies) Abstract  How is art measured today, and is it possible to speak of contemporary art as “great”? At the turn of the millennium many believed that art was simply commercially driven or its opposite, ephemeral. Postmodernism has often been blamed for the demise of “greatness” in art... | Read on »

By Barbara Katz Rothman, Professor of Sociology, CUNY in association with Gender Arc at NUI Galway Barbara Katz Rothman, PhD, is Professor of Sociology, Public Health, Disability Studies and Women’s Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she also runs the Food Studies concentration. This talk focuses on her book, A... | Read on »

As part of its Academic Research Support Services initiative, the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, in association with the Moore Institute, is hosting a series of research support and information seminars for staff this semester. The second workshop in this series will consider the topic of Preparing Major Funding Applications. The session... | Read on »

  By Dr. William P. Kelly (University of Ulster) As part of NUI Galway History Research Seminar Series  Semester 1, 2019-20    

Guest Lecture by distinguished scholar Ian Fisher, FSA (London), FSAScot: St Colmán, the 7th-century Irishman who founded a church on Inishbofin and another at Mayo, is best-known from the account of him in Bede's History of the English Church.  While living in Northumbria, Colmán became embroiled in the Easter Controversy, after which he retreated to... | Read on »

Book launch By Maggie Scull The Catholic Church and the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1968-98 (Oxford University Press, 2019) provides an indispensable study of the role played by the Catholic Church during one of the most tumultuous periods of British and Irish history - the Northern Ireland Troubles - showing evidence which offers a radical new... | Read on »

'Mairéad Farrell — An Unfinished Conversation' is a documentary from Loopline Film which investigates the life and death of Mairéad Farrell. In 1988, the SAS shot dead Farrell and two other unarmed members of the IRA in Gibraltar. Due to her youth, her gender, and her stature within the IRA, Farrell was quickly subsumed into... | Read on »