Véronique Montémont (Université de Lorraine) 'Digital Humanities Applied to Literary Studies in France' The Spring 2017 series of Digital Scholarship Seminar continues on Tuesday 21 February with a talk by Véronique Montémont of the Université de Lorraine on digital humanities and literary studies in France. Dr Montémont’s presentation takes a twofold approach, first sketching a... | Read on »

'This 90-minute roundtable discussion is convened by Visiting Fellows at the Moore Institute Prof. Chris Maginn and Dr Gerald Power. It addresses a variety of aspects associated with research into Tudor Ireland, including sources and debates, and new or underexplored topics. The event will be of especial interest to PhD students working in this area,... | Read on »

An Dr Úna Ní Bhroiméil (Mary Immaculate College, UL) 'John Quinn - Irish American patron and powerbroker in turn of the century New York'

Theatre and Translation Dr Alinne Fernandes' talk will reflect on an ongoing practice-based research project, which aims to contribute to the dramaturgical study and dissemination of a number of Irish and Northern Irish women’s plays in Brazil. The project is motivated by the relative lack of study and translation of contemporary female voices in Irish and Northern Irish theatre, such as Patricia Burke... | Read on »

Dr Kieran O'Connor (Archaeology, NUIG) 'Temple House Castle - from Templar castle to New English mansion'

Lizzy Williamson (Folger Shakespeare Library) 'Material Texts and Digital Provenance: Opening a Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama'

Prof. Jean-Paul Pittion, fellow emeritus at TCD and former professor of Renaissance Studies in the Université François Rabelais, Tours, has published widely on the history of the book, Protestant academies in France, Huguenot emigration to Ireland, intellectual history, the history of medicine and medical publishing in the early modern period.    

French rugby is a sport historically practiced in the ‘wrong’ place, for the ‘wrong’ reasons and in the ‘wrong’ way. Its most abiding social function has been as a marker of frequently belligerent local identities, with investment in the game, both moral and material, being almost always parochial in nature. This was reflected for much... | Read on »

Mr Michael Kavanagh 'Protestant Secondary School Education in Co.Galway: Galway Grammar School, 1895 - 1932'