By Professor Huhana Smith, Massey University, New Zealand as part of Irish Studies’ Seminar Series You are invited to attend the second seminar of our Irish Studies’ Seminar Series, which is run in association with Carbon Cultures hosted by the Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway this month. This seminar will take place at 4pm, Tuesday... | Read on »

By Dr. Pádraig Lenihan (NUI Galway) As  part of NUI Galway History Research Seminar Series Semester 1, 2019-20 Dr. Pádraig Lenihan of the History Department will give a lecture on the experience of writing his most recent book, Fluxes, Fevers and Fighting Men: War and Disease in Ancien Regime Europe, 1648-1789. An expert in military and... | Read on »

This symposium will address current research, practice and developments in the field of digital theatre historiography, archival curation, and memory and performance studies. The digital interface between the archive of past performance and the present is enabling new encounters between presence and absence, as well as navigating and contesting the recognised documented repertoire. The digital... | Read on »

By Professor  Markus Wörner Abstract The paper begins with a common-sense approach to the notion of wisdom, drawing on results of Positive Psychology. Wisdom is to be understood as a mode of being in the world based on sapiential competence informed by a general attitude of openness to (practical and theoretical) truth rather than on specialized... | Read on »

  By Barry Houlihan The book will be launched by Catriona Crowe, historian and archivist and former Director of Special Projects at the National Archives of Ireland. The event will take place here at the Hardiman Building - Moore Institute Seminar Room (G010) 5.30pm. Please feel free to join us for a glass of wine... | Read on »

The Moore Institute will host an information session on the IRC Postdoctoral Scheme, the closing date for which is on November 27, 2019. The session will be chaired by Prof. Daniel Carey, Director of the Moore Institute.  Full details on the scheme can be found here.     Reading Service The Moore Institute will also provide... | Read on »

    By Dr Jane Walsh Seminar topic: Psychology and Performance in Sport: The Key Characteristics and Strategies used by Elite Athletes. In this seminar Dr. Jane Walsh will look at the evidence from Sports Psychology to provide insight into the key characteristics and mental strategies used by top performers in sport. Jane will draw on recent... | Read on »

Slava Raškaj (1877-1906) Waterlily (1899)   Facilitated by Emily Tock, MLIS, MALP, Government of Ireland Post-graduate Scholar PhD student in the Discipline of English As this is a potluck format, attendees are encouraged to bring their own favourite Eastern European and Slavic verse to share in this informal roundtable.