Teaching history in a divided society: the tyranny of myth
Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research BuildingBy Dr. William P. Kelly (University of Ulster) As part of NUI Galway History Research Seminar Series Semester 1, 2019-20
Loading view.
The Travels of St Colman ‘the Pilgrim
Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research BuildingGuest Lecture by distinguished scholar Ian Fisher, FSA (London), FSAScot: St Colmán, the 7th-century Irishman who founded a church on Inishbofin and another at Mayo, is best-known from the account... | Read on »
The Catholic Church and the Northern Ireland Troubles
Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research BuildingBook launch By Maggie Scull The Catholic Church and the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1968-98 (Oxford University Press, 2019) provides an indispensable study of the role played by the Catholic Church... | Read on »
Film Screening and Q&A with historian and co-producer Bríona Nic Dhiarmada
CA 107 Aras Cairnes, NUI Galway'Mairéad Farrell — An Unfinished Conversation' is a documentary from Loopline Film which investigates the life and death of Mairéad Farrell. In 1988, the SAS shot dead Farrell and two... | Read on »
‘Virtuosity, Mediocrity and Creative Education’ by Dr. Ian Munday (NUI Galway)
Tom Duddy Seminar Room Philosophy Department Morrisroe House, Distillery RoadAbout the Speaker Dr. Ian Munday is Senior Lecturer in Educational Philosophy in the School of Education at NUI Galway. Ian’s research activities testify to an engagement with philosophical issues... | Read on »
Nikola Tesla: The Rise and Fall of a Technological Hero
Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research BuildingBy Prof. Bernie Carlson (University of Virginia) As part of NUI Galway History Research Seminar Series Semester 1, 2019-20. The final session of the History Research Seminar this semester, next Wednesday,... | Read on »
‘The Clonbrock Photographic Collection and Lady Clonbrock (1839-1928): Contemporary Contexts and Public Activism’ by Úna Kavanagh
Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, Distillery RoadThe Centre for Irish Studies invites you to attend the final seminar of our Irish Studies’ Seminar Series by Úna Kavanagh, PhD Scholar at the Centre for Irish Studies, will... | Read on »
‘From Ethics to Ontology to the Anthropocene’ by Dr. Nora Ward
Tom Duddy Seminar Room Philosophy Department Morrisroe House, Distillery RoadDr. Nora Ward (NUI, Galway) will present a paper. 'From Ethics to Ontology to the Anthropocene', as part of the seminar series of the Values and Identities research group on... | Read on »
‘The Irish Leviathan and Late Norse Paganism’ by Prof. Mikael Males, University of Oslo
The River Room, AS203, Arts/Science BuildingMikael Males is Associate Professor at the Dept of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Oslo, and PI of the project Myths about Language in the Middle... | Read on »
‘Prosimetrical sagas in Irish and Norse: the background of the form’ by Prof. Mikael Males, University of Oslo
The River Room, AS203, Arts/Science BuildingMikael Males is Associate Professor at the Dept of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Oslo, and PI of the project Myths about Language in the Middle Ages.... | Read on »