Regular expressions are a powerful tool to help you search, clean, transform, or otherwise mutate and repurpose data - from large text corpora, gene sequence datafiles, to bulk econometric data, to scanned, historical printed documents and everything in-between. Traditionally found in specialised editors and programming languages, regular expressions now appear in many user-tools including word-processing... | Read on »

The Archaeology Society will be hosting our final lecture of the year this coming Wednesday the 21st of March in room G010 in the Hardiman building. Our speaker will be Dr. William Roulston of the Ulster Historical Foundation and is titled 'The Scots and Plantation Ulster'. He will be discussing an overview of the Scottish... | Read on »

Dr Stéphanie Noirard, Université de Poitiers : Un Enterrement dans l’il(e) : Breton poet Paol Keineg faces the challenge of translating Hugh MacDiarmid Translating Hugh MacDiarmid means having to handle his political stance on the independence and the renewal of Scottish literature, as well as his poetic and linguistic experiments. While the initiative allows Paol Keineg to... | Read on »

Contact: Máire Cross - m.f.cross@newcastle.ac.uk

Researchers will present short papers on their current project, with response given from the audience. Contact: Gabrielle Fletcher - G.FLETCHER1@nuigalway.ie

Speaker: CHARLES DOHERTY 'The High-Kingship of Ireland and international parallels' Distinguished Irish historian Charles Doherty, who is retired from the School of History and Archives in University College Dublin, has published extensively on many aspects of medieval Irish history, including economic history, hagiography, settlement, the impact of the Vikings on early Ireland, and kingship. Recent work... | Read on »

A research symposium in Irish music studies. The symposium Nótáí / Notes Music and Ireland is a preparatory symposium for the upcoming special issue journal publication Nótáí / Notes Music and Ireland ÉIre Ireland, due for publication in January 2019. Contact: Méabh Ní Fhuartháin - meabh.nifhuarthain@nuigalway.ie

Rosemary Power: Carvings, sculpture and position on Columban and Benedictine Iona  

Consultant archaeologist Dr Alan Hawkes MIAI will give the next lecture in Archaeology's research seminar series. Title: Burnt Mounds and Prehistoric Cooking: Reappraising the Evidence The widespread distribution of burnt mounds is striking, suggesting that Ireland was the most prominent user of the pyrolithic water-boiling technology in Bronze Age Europe. However, narratives related to these sites have long... | Read on »

An information session on the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships will be led by Prof. Dan Carey, Director of the Moore Institute, with contributions from Dr. Cassie Smith Christmas, a recent recipient of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie individual fellowship, and her mentor An tOll. Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.  Dr. Gary Lupton, Head of... | Read on »