Celebrating the Power of Architecture to Transform Lives Architecture at the Edge (AATE) is a weekend celebration of exceptional architecture in the West of Ireland. Featuring a series of talks, tours, workshops and exhibitions, the festival invites people of all ages to explore the built environment of their city and county. Showcasing some of the... | Read on »
September 29, 2017- Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway DEVELOPED UNDER THE IRC "NEW FOUNDATIONS" SCHEME IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE IMMIGRANT COUNCIL OF IRELAND 9.00 Welcome 9.30 - Migration, Language and New Media (Chair: Andrea Ciribuco) - Mary Gilmartin (NUI Maynooth): “Narratives of Belonging” - Lisa McEntee-Atalianis (Birkbeck): “Tracing the Migrant Voice in... | Read on »
Seminar and Book Launch Prof. Kerby A. Miller (University of Missouri) Best to Forget? Conflict, Memory, and Memoir-Writing by Irish Emigrants to the United States, c1870-c1950 Kerby A. Miller is Curators’ Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Missouri. His book Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America (1985) was... | Read on »
The Yeats Family Sale: NUI Galway, the Irish State, and the Auction Wednesday 4 October 12noon The Bridge Seminar Room (Hardiman Research Building 1001) Participants: Adrian Paterson Adrian Frazier Anne Byrne Barry Houlihan Marie Boran The major sale of items associated with W.B. Yeats, Jack B. Yeats, and their family in 224 lots went ahead... | Read on »
“Worlding Women's Work: The Migrant Female Domestic Worker in May-Lan Tan's ‘Date Night’ (2014)” by Dr Kate Houlden (Anglia Ruskin University) Date: Wednesday, 4th October 2017 Time: 1:00–2:00pm Venue: The Bridge Seminar Room, Hardiman Building ALL WELCOME!
4 Oct. Daragh Gannon (National Museum of Ireland/ Maynooth University) Irish Home Rulers in Britain and the Irish Revolution.*
Huston Guest Session: Award-winning Music documentary Cinematographer Frank Shortt Thursday October 5th 2.30pm, Huston Main Frank Shortt has worked in the film industry for almost twenty years, specialising in the music documentary genre and contributing as a cinematographer to award-winning productions including for leading international rock acts Iron Maiden, Motörhead and Rush. Originally from Norway,... | Read on »
“Martin Luther: Man and Movement” by Dr.Alison Forrestal - History, School of Humanities Seminar Room, G010, The Hardiman Building at 12:00pm-1:30pm Martin Luther: Man and Movement 500 years ago, Martin Luther’s incendiary ideas about faith shook Europe, releasing a politically charged religious movement that could not be contained, and which altered the course of... | Read on »
RTÉ Brainstorm is a new online platform for academics and researchers to publish a broad range of articles. NUI Galway, along with several other universities in Ireland, are supporting the initiative to increase the profile of our academic and research output. You will find more information below and also details about information sessions which are... | Read on »
For postgraduate research students and academic staff with questions or ideas about: Using digital technologies to support research Communicating and promoting their work Accessing funding to enable their work. Meet with staff from the Moore Institute, Whitaker Institute, NUI Galway Library and the Research Office. No appointment is necessary. From 12pm - 1pm in The... | Read on »
