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The Doing Writing Series – Reading and Interview with Claire Keegan

The Doing Writing SeriesA new series of readings and open interviews with contemporary authors whichwill focus on various aspects of the doing of writing, from ideas aboutcomposition and artistic practice to working habitsand professional developmentCLAIRE KEEGANClaire Keegan‰۪s first collection of stories, Antarctica(1999), won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Hersecond collection, Walk the Blue Fields... | Read on »

Beckett Reading Group

Beckett Reading Group All readings will be kept short, as this reading group is meant to inspire not increase the work that everyone is doing. We will be concentrating on his radio and television plays for our first meetings. We hope that considering the implications of these works as texts will lead to stimulating discussion.... | Read on »

Imbas 2012: Diversity in the Middle Ages: Political, Social, and Cultural

Imbas 2012: Diversity in the Middle Ages: Political, Social, and CulturalFRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23rd 2:00-4:30 - Registration and Tea 4:30-6:00 - Panel 1: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern: Mythology in Transition Chair: Dr. PÌÁdraic Moran Peter Kelly NUI, Galway Look but Do Not Touch: Trees and Transformation in Ovid and Beyond Sandra Hartl University of Bamberg Diverse... | Read on »

Workshop: Spatiality and Symbolic Expression

Spatiality and Symbolic Expression A workshop on the connections between patterns of place and space and a variety of forms of literary and cultural expression Moore Institute, NUI Galway 26 November 2012 "Place may be the first of all concepts; it may be the oldest of all words." - N. Scott Momaday 9.30 Opening (Prof... | Read on »