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 »
About the Speaker Dr. Ian Munday is Senior Lecturer in Educational Philosophy in the School of Education at NUI Galway. Ian’s research activities testify to an engagement with philosophical issues in education, particularly those concerned with teaching and learning. His publications have tended to focus on various approaches to performatives and performativities and demonstrate the... | Read on »
By Prof. Bernie Carlson (University of Virginia) As part of NUI Galway History Research Seminar Series Semester 1, 2019-20. The final session of the History Research Seminar this semester, next Wednesday, 13 November, features Prof. Bernie Carlson from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Carlson is a historian of technology based in the Faculty of Engineering,... | Read on »
The Centre for Irish Studies invites you to attend the final seminar of our Irish Studies’ Seminar Series by Úna Kavanagh, PhD Scholar at the Centre for Irish Studies, will speak on her current research, ‘The Clonbrock Photographic Collection and Lady Clonbrock (1839-1928): Contemporary Contexts and Public Activism’. The seminar will take place at 4pm,... | Read on »
Dr. Nora Ward (NUI, Galway) will present a paper. 'From Ethics to Ontology to the Anthropocene', as part of the seminar series of the Values and Identities research group on Monday 18th November. About the speaker Nora Ward is a lecturer in the philosophy department. She received her BA and MA from NUIG, and completed... | Read on »
Mikael Males is Associate Professor at the Dept of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Oslo, and PI of the project Myths about Language in the Middle Ages. Publications include Etymology and Wordplay in Medieval Literature (ed.) (Turnhout: Brepols, 2019) The Poetic Genesis of Old Icelandic Literature (Berlin: De Gruyter, in press... | Read on »
Mikael Males is Associate Professor at the Dept of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Oslo, and PI of the project Myths about Language in the Middle Ages. Publications include Etymology and Wordplay in Medieval Literature (ed.) (Turnhout: Brepols, 2019) The Poetic Genesis of Old Icelandic Literature (Berlin: De Gruyter, in press for... | Read on »
The Rory Kavanagh Bursary Presentation is an event showcasing the Erasmus experience in Italy by students of Italian at NUIG, the opportunity to celebrate the memory of Rory Kavanagh and his passion for Italian life, language and culture, and the generosity of Mary and Des Kavanagh, whose endowment to the University has made it possible... | Read on »
