Sara Brennan of Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh Can Irish be Sold Outside the Gaeltacht? A Critical Sociolinguistic Investigation of the Contemporary Promotion of Irish in Business This talk will present insights from on-going PhD research on the promotion of Irish as an economic resource for businesses in urban areas located outside the Gaeltacht. Drawing on... | Read on »

Digital Material is a conference that considers the intersections of digital and material cultures in the humanities.Recent years have seen an intensification of interest in both digital and material cultures. This broad trend has been mirrored in the academy by the growing prominence of digital humanities and the renewed focus on materiality and material objects... | Read on »

Charles Barr, Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Filming O'Casey Venue: Huston School Main Room Sean O'Casey never had much respect for commercial cinema, even though he worked with two of its greatest directors. Alfred Hitchcock filmed Juno and the Paycock in England in 1929; John Ford filmed The Plough and the Stars in Hollywood in 1937.... | Read on »

Inishbofin festival promises a wealth of poetry, music and ‰Û÷Island Conversations' An innovative cultural festival, featuring the best in literature, poetry, film and music will take place on the island of Inishbofin from Thursday 28th to Sunday 31st May next. The inaugural Inish Festival - subtitled "Island Conversations"- will see international musicians, writers and artists... | Read on »

Gender ARC is pleased to host a Research Workshop with Dr. Ivana Radacic, Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia & Dr. EilÌ_s Ward, School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway "Methods and methodologies in researching the sex trade: Ireland and Croatia considered"Followed by Gender ARC reception and public lecture with Professor Kate... | Read on »

Gender ARC and Global Women's Studies at NUI Galway Are pleased to invite you to a Reception & Public Lecture "Women's rights, distant suffering and neo-imperialism" Professor Kate Nash Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London Abstract: Earlier this year the film ‰Û÷India's Daughter' was banned in India: it is illegal to show it there.... | Read on »

Digital Scholarship Seminar:Brad Pasanek (University of Virginia) and Moore Institute visiting fellowPoetic Diction: Tokens and ChangeDigital Scholarship Seminar's final visiting speaker event of this series takes place next Tuesday lunchtime and features Dr Brad Pasanek from the Department of English at the University of Virginia. Dr Pasanek is a current Moore Institute Visiting Fellow, and... | Read on »

Moore Institute Seminar Maria McGarrity (Long Island University and Moore Institute) ‰Û÷Exhibiting Ireland: Immigrants and Visual Culture in Derek Walcott's Joycean New World Epic' Jack Fennell (University of Limerick and Moore Institute) ‰Û÷Thrasymachus versus Caliban: Monstrosity and the Limits of Expansion'"Exhibiting Ireland: Immigrants and Visual Culture in Derek Walcott's Omeros, a Joycean New World Epic"... | Read on »

Timothy Madigan, St. John Fisher College and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Thomas Duddy and Irish ThoughtAn examination of the life and writings of the late NUIG philosopher, author of A History of Irish Thought, and his thesis that Irish thought refuses to separate the poetic and the prosaic in the pursuit of truth--something which is... | Read on »