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 »

The Traveller Woman in Ireland as a Literary Device and as a Whole Human The talk features a work-in-progress session on the figure of the Irish traveller woman by Melania Terrazas of the University of La Rioja, Spain. Dr Terrazas discusses the traveller woman as a literary device and as a whole human in the... | Read on »

Making the machine work for you: plain text and software for an efficient writing workflow Thursday 12 October 5pm-6:30pm Room 1001 ‘The Bridge’, Hardiman Research Building We use computers all the time for writing, but are we getting the best out of these machines? This EDEN session seeks to demystify the “black box” and show... | Read on »

Friday 13th October: Maria Hallinan: Social Status in Early Medieval Ireland and the Senchas Már Status Tract: The Evidence Thus Far Light Lunch Served

Special Event - Methodologies for Research in the Humanities 12 Noon, 17 October, Bridge Seminar Room   This event features descriptions of different methodologies for approaching research across the humanities, with plenty of time of open discussion and questions. All are welcome, particularly anyone applying for IRC postgraduate funding (the application process requires a statement... | Read on »

'Arts in Action' and the James Hardiman Library, present a special lunchtime event from the archives of the Lyric Theatre, Belfast. Acclaimed television and film actor Stella McCusker will read a selection of stories and poems from Threshold literary journal, published by the Lyric Theatre, Belfast. Edited by the likes of Mary O'Malley, John Montague,... | Read on »

18 Oct. Mel Farrell (UCD) From Cumann na nGaedheal to Fine Gael: ‘Civil War politics’ and the foundation of the United Ireland Party in September 1933.