This paper examines the connections between the revolutionary politics of Theobald Wolfe Tone and his friendships, especially that with Thomas Russell, his best friend and closest political ally. It also discusses the centrality of ideas of masculinity to Tone's politics. In doing so, it seeks to locate Tone and the United Irishmen not just within... | Read on »

  Postgraduate Medieval Studies invites all incoming and returning MA, PhD, PostDoc students (along with academic staff at all levels) with an interest in the antique, medieval and early modern worlds to it's annual Welcome Reception,all welcome, regardless of programme or discipline.

                  09:00 – 09:30 Registration / Coffee & Tea 09:30 – 11:00 Panel 1: Aesthetic Manifestations, Expressionisms and Power Structures Power, Subcultures and Queer Stages in Twentieth-Century Italy and Ireland Zsuzsanna Balázs, PhD Candidate (Drama and Theatre Studies), NUI Galway Pondering Progressive Punk Poetry Jonathan Hannon, PhD Candidate... | Read on »

This lecture by Dr. Seán Crosson will consider the topic of Sport and Film, drawing on the research he has undertaken of the subject internationally (evident in his monograph Sport and Film (2013)) and in the Irish context (where he will draw in particular on the work he did towards his recent book Gaelic Games on Film: From silent films to... | Read on »

                    A talk given by Dr Stefan Aquilina 2019 Galway University Foundation/Dr Ros Dixon Fellow Dr Stefan Aquilina is Director of Research and Internationalisation of the School of Performing Arts and Theatre Studies Senior Lecturer at the University of Malta. His research focuses on modern theatre, especially Stanislavsky... | Read on »

By Professor Philip Dine, Head of French, NUI Galway. How does sport shape society? From local origins in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, modern sports were first nationally and then internationally regulated, enabling novel personal interactions and unprecedented cultural exchanges. This sporting internationalization was to culminate in such global mega-events as the Olympic... | Read on »

                      Prof. Dr. Patricia Plummer (Duisburg-Essen University, Germany) Visiting Research Fellow, Moore Institute NUI Galway Patricia Plummer is Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies at Duisburg-Essen University, Germany. Her publications, research and teaching cover an interdisciplinary range of topics, from c18 Orientalism, Victorian literature and... | Read on »

                "We Have The Litany And All To Say": religion and everyday life in Irish novels of the 1940s' By Dr. Caitriona Clear (NUI Galway) '

  This panel discussion will bring together Irish Research Council-funded experts to share their findings on homelessness and how the current housing crisis in Ireland intersects with other forms of exclusion and inequality. Topics may include: direct provision and refugees; racial, gender, and class inequalities in social-housing provision; experiences of statelessness amongst the homeless and... | Read on »