This talk will be given by Moore Visiting Fellow Dr Agnès Lafont (University Paul Valery – Montpellier 3, France) Abstract: William Barksted in Myrrha, The Mother of Adonis: Or, Lustes Prodigie (1607) uses  the classical story of Myrrha (Ovid, Metamorphoses 10) in similar and divergent ways to create an erotic epyllion. This early modern adaptation of the Ovidian story offers a case point of... | Read on »

        Talk by Helen Sonner Moore visiting  Fellow 2019 William Petty is well known for conducting the Down Survey and for his contributions to the development of statistics, demographics, and economics. However, his methods in the Down Survey can also be seen to have anticipated many of the methodologies used today in... | Read on »

      The Sophia Network Meeting will take place in Galway at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) on the 1st and 2nd of June, and as a bonus, the NUIG invites delegates to a P4C Symposium on the 31st of May. The SOPHIA Network Meeting this year is being co-hosted by Philosophy, NUI Galway Philosophical Dialogue Project – NUI Galway, Little Rainbow... | Read on »

      The Whitaker Institute for Innovation and Societal Change on Thursday, 6th June will host its fourth annual PhD Forum in the Hardiman Research Building at NUI Galway. The Forum is a one-day event for PhD students, which aims to provide students with a day to interact and network with each other, to... | Read on »

  Dr Charlotte McIvor (Drama and Theatre Studies), Dr. Pádraig Mac Neela, Dr Siobhán O’Higgins &  Kate Dawson (School of Psychology)   Abstract This talk theorises the signature approach of the Active Consent programme team comprised of researchers from Psychology, Health Promotion, and Drama and Theatre Studies in relationship to the current policy and educational... | Read on »

    Talk by Moore Visiting Fellow Bridget English Bio: Dr. Bridget English is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She received her PhD in English from Maynooth University in Ireland, where she also lectured. She is a specialist in modern and contemporary Irish literature and culture, with particular research interests... | Read on »

  We are delighted to host the Third Galway Conference of Irish Studies on the theme of home(s) in Irish Studies and extend a warm welcome to the Moore Institute community! Dr. Sindy Joyce will give our first plenary lecture, 'Mincéirí Cena: Travellers and Mobile Spaces, Home as a Place, Space and Mobility', on Friday... | Read on »

  Talk by Moore Visiting Fellow Caroline Magennis ‘This talk will offer an overview of the depiction of Northern Irish skin in recent short story collections, particularly Bernie McGill’s Sleepwalkers (2013) and Roisin O’Donnell’s Wild Quiet (2016). Drawing on work by Laura Marks, Abbie Garrington, Virginia Woolf, Sara Ahmed and others, this paper seeks to... | Read on »