In conjunction with the Sinéad Beacom, Manager of the Researcher Development Centre (RDC), the Moore Institute will host a Career Development event for postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers within the College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies. The purpose of the session will be two-fold: (i) to... | Read on »
Dr Maura Cronin (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick) ‘The female of the species is more deadly than the male': Women in anti-tithe protests in 1830s Ireland.
Programme 10.30: Tea/Coffee & pastries. Opening comments by Prof. Pat Dolan (Chair, UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre) 11.00-12.30: Survivor-led Workshop Workshop led by Breeda Murphy (Tuam Home Survivors Network) and Mary Cunningham (Tuam Oral History Project) involving participants from the Network, invited students and staff. Limited places;... | Read on »
Professor Jennifer Todd, one of the foremost scholars of the Northern Ireland conflict and of identity change in Ireland North and South is giving a research seminar in the School of Political Science and Sociology on Thursday 7 February at 2pm. All are welcome. Identity change, identity politics and identity traps: why everyday compromise after... | Read on »
For the Love of the Gods: Kharis and Religious Reciprocity in Euripedes’ Tragedies
Dr James O’Donnell (Zhejiang Intl. Studies Univ. in Hangzhou, China) ‘“Please confirm at once”: confusion, libel and reporting the Revolution in Galway, the case of George Nicholls (1919).
MSI’s monthly forum for new and on-going work in Irish modernist studies cordially invites you to its second session of the new year and semester, taking place on 13th Feb, from 5-7 pm, in the Bridge Room (THB). This seminar will be a first... | Read on »
Abstract: More than 60 years have passed since Ludwig Bieler drew attention to "the sudden appearance in Southern Germany of a group of Irish hagiographical texts" in the second half of the 12th century. Indeed, traces of this lost collection of Lives are found in various manuscripts of Austrian and Bavarian origin. Comparison of the... | Read on »
