Description of Workshop The main aim of the workshop is to examine questions of art, archives and public memories as represented and relevant in west of Ireland contexts. Participants will include academics, students, artists, local researchers and producers of radio and film. Workshop participants will work with existing materials in relation to women, gender and... | Read on »

CIARA GRIFFIN (NUI Galway) ‰Û÷Poignancies of Nourishment: The Gastropoetics of Sara Suleri‰۪s Meatless Days‰۪ ELLEN McWILLIAMS Visiting Fellow, Moore Institute (Bath Spa University) ‰Û÷Women, Exile, and Censorship in John McGahern‰۪s The Leavetaking‰۪ NOTE DATE: 4pm Friday 9th March 2012 Applied Optics Seminar Room All welcome. Wine served.ECHO brings together researchers of all disciplines to discuss... | Read on »

‰Û÷Labour historiography and the ‰ÛÏdecade of centenaries‰۝‰۪ is the topic a seminar presentation by Emmet O‰۪Connor at the Moore Institute on Tuesday, 13 March at 4 pm Dr O‰۪Connor‰۪s seminar is part of this semester‰۪s Texts, Cultures and Contexts seminar series at the Moore The seminar will be followed at 5.15 pm by the launch... | Read on »

14 March Sarah McCann Aldfrith: a marginalised king in Bede's HistoriaEcclesiastica?

Early Modern Europe and India: Politics, Philosophy, and Representation Newman House, UCD & Chester Beatty Library, 15-16 March 2012 Thursday : Newman House, 85-86 St Stephen‰۪s Green 10.45 Welcome and opening remarks 11.00 Sanjay Subrahmanyam (UCLA) ‰Û÷Orientalism, Realpolitik, and the Foundation of the Compagnie des Indes‰۪ 11.45 Joan-Pau Rubi̩s (London School of Economics) ‰Û÷Libertine readings... | Read on »

Keith Busby will be a Moore Institute visiting fellow in March and will give a lecture at 6pm on Thursday 15th March. The topic of his lecture will be ‰ÛÏThe French of Medieval Ireland and the Ireland of the French‰۝

21 March Sean Smith When Saints Die: Corporate Identity and Myth-making after Vincent de Paul: The Congregation of the Mission as a case study

The Department of History, NUI, Galway, and the Moore Institute invite you to a talk by Dr James Smith (Boston College) Titled "A Book's Afterlife: The Ryan Report, and State Interaction with the Magdalene Laundries" Thursday 22, March at 18.00 in AC201 James M. Smith is an Associate Professor in the English Department and Irish... | Read on »