A public meeting about the Galway City Irish Language Plan will be held on Tuesday May 7th at 7.30pm in rooms G010 & G011, Hardiman Research Building, National University of Ireland, Galway. The meeting aims to provide another chance to people in Galway to give their opinions about the Irish Language Plan being prepared... | Read on »

11.00: Introductory Remarks: Professor Felix Ó Murchadha, Head of the School of Humanities 11.05: Panel One: Precarious Work, Progression and Equality Chair: Prof Lionel Pilkington Speakers: Maggie Ronayne (SIPTU), Karen Walsh, Ciara Murphy (PhD representative), Dr Felicity Maxwell (Moore Institute), Eibhlín Seoighthe (SU)  11.55: Tea/Coffee 12.05: Panel Two: Gender, Disability and Minority Groups Chair: Dr Andrew... | Read on »

    Tom Walker, Trinity College Dublin W.B. Yeats, Scholastic Aestheticism, and Cultural Authority in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland Chris Collins, University of Nottingham ‘The man went queer in his head’: Synge and the cultural politics of mental health, 1871-1909 Refreshments will be served! Join us for exiting talks by two current Moore Institute Visiting Fellows. Part of... | Read on »

Introduced by Professor Philip Dine All welcome This study provides the first major monograph examination of filmic representations of Gaelic games, charting these representations from the earliest years of the twentieth century, including silent films such as Knocknagow (1918) to more recent productions Michael Collins (1996) and The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006). Among... | Read on »

  Dr. Geraldine Canny, NCP Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, and Dr. Emmett Marron, succesful MSCA Fellow, will give advice and tips for applicants submtting to the upcoming MSCA Individual Fellowship call closing on the 11th of September 2019. The presentations will start at 9:30am, followed by a Q&A, with the session finishing at 11:00am. This opportunity is not... | Read on »

                  In this talk award-winning poet and practice-led researcher J. R. Carpenter will present her research on an Island of Demons which appeared on maps off Newfoundland in the early 1500s. This research informs her current research at the Moore Institute on the islands of St Brendan... | Read on »

The Gender ARC (Gender, Discourse and Identity) at the Moore Institute presents DR KELLY SULTZBACH, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, LA CROSSE US Fulbright Scholar through the Fulbright Inter-country Program               This talk considers how the experience of a muddy, apocalyptic war and the metroland octopus of suburban development influenced the... | Read on »

   Iain Biggs, Flight/Paths: (Her bones…) 2018. Cultural Climates is a two-part lecture and public forum which explores how research and policy in relation to climate change can be engaged with across the cultural and arts sectors in Ireland today. In particular, it explores how culture and the arts are key to addressing issues associated... | Read on »

To be launched by Prof. Dáibhí Ó Cróinín. All welcome. (Refreshments will be served.)               De Origine Scoticae Linguae (O’Mulconry’s Glossary): An early Irish linguistic tract, edited with a related glossary, Irsan, Corpus Christianorum, Lexica Latina Medii Aevi 7 (Turnhout, Brepols: 2019) A new edition of the earliest etymological... | Read on »