Registration If you would like to attend this event, please register via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/book-launch-by-bronagh-ann-mcshane-tickets-433510651027 Dr Bronagh Ann McShane is a historian specialising in the history of women, religion and confessionalisation in early modern Ireland and Europe. Her research has been funded by the Irish Research Council, the National University of Ireland and the Royal... | Read on »

Event description This half-day workshop event will bring together researchers and students in an interdisciplinary event that explores the carbon impact of our research methods and undertakings, and whether we can, as researchers and students, work towards decarbonizing our research methods. From our own context in the University of Galway, our Climate Action and Sustainability... | Read on »

CAMPS LAB Damsels, Deluge, and the Dindshenchas: A Look at the Relationship between Women and Water in Select Dindshenchas Texts Anne Williams (Special Collections, Hardiman Library) Ties between women and water can be found in many stories throughout early Irish literature and folklore. Dindshenchas, or ancient place-name lore largely recorded in the Middle Ages, is... | Read on »

Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar (Online) The ‘disneyization’ of football: entertainment multinationals and global dynamics of the most popular sport in the world Dr. Xavier Ginesta, Universitat Central de Catalunya (UVic-UCC) 12pm (GMT) / 1pm (CET)   Virtual Link to join seminar:  https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/7156da250ca144aea3f0078f42ea7a3a Abstract Football has entered a vicious circle: the increase in clubs'... | Read on »

University of Galway History Seminar: Screening of the film, I’m Here, I’m Home, I’m Happy,   followed by an interview with its director, Orla Egan (Cork LGBT Archive)    Abstract:   I’m Here, I’m Home, I’m Happy is the new film from the Cork LGBT Archive. The film uses extracts from oral history interviews and items from the... | Read on »

You are cordially invited to the launch of Writing the History of Slavery  (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022) Edited by David Doddington & Enrico Dal Lago   The book will be launched by Prof. Dan Carey

Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History Prof. Mary Burke (University of Connecticut) The Irish in America racially transformed multiple times: in the slave-holding Caribbean, on America’s frontiers and antebellum plantations, and along the eastern seaboard. This paper considers the cultural history of race and centuries of Irishness in the Americas, looking at the forcibly... | Read on »

Beidh an léacht deiridh sa tsraith léachtaí um lón, Duilleoga an Easpaig i Leabhar Ua Maine leis An Ollamh Pádraig Ó Macháin, Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh, ar an Aoine, 25 Samhain @ 12:30 i.n. i Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom. Is féidir clárú anois ar https://tinyurl.com/padraig-omachain    

DECARBONIZING RESEARCH METHODS ONLINE WORKSHOP 25th of November 2022 2.00pm-3.30pm Online on ZOOM   REGISTRATION: https://t.co/tZuZX2eE3z Info: This online event is an interdisciplinary workshop to discuss how best to decarbonize our research methods and to make our work more sustainable as researchers. This online-only workshop will build on the discussions and debates from the in-person and streamed... | Read on »

Sport & Exercise Research Group Virtual Seminar: Psychology and Performance in Sport Prof. Jane Walsh School of Psychology, University of Galway   Link to Virtual Lecture:  https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/24fe7721c5f5415594bbf6f5df560c27 Abstract In this seminar Prof. Jane Walsh will look at the evidence from Sports Psychology to provide insight into the key characteristics and mental strategies used by top... | Read on »