Heroes of the Gaelic World in the Digital Age: The Fionn Folklore Database Dr Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna You are warmly invited to attend an in-person seminar with Dr Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna, 'The Fionn Folklore Database: Irish Myths in the Digital Age' on Thursday 18 May. The seminar will take place in the Seminar... | Read on »

Prof. Roger MacGinty will launch the recently published paperback edition of 'Deniable Contact: Back-Channel Negotiation in Northern Ireland' by Niall Ó Dochartaigh, of the School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway.

Notions Exchange: A transatlantic arts dialogue Erick Boustead (Minnesota) and Emma McKeagney (Dublin) Engage with a group of artists from Ireland and North America/Turtle Island about an exciting exchange they’ve been developing over the last few years. The group includes University of Galway, Irish Studies Masters graduates Emma McKeagney and Erick Boustead, along with Martina... | Read on »

Bealtaine Online Discussion Series 2023 The Bealtaine Discussion Series 2023 is devised and presented in association with Dr. Michaela Schrage-Frueh (School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures) and Dr. Maggie O’Neill (Irish Centre for Social Gerontology) from the University of Galway. Please register via the following Eventbrite links: May 10, 3-4 pm Generational Drama: Intergenerational Relationships,... | Read on »

Description: The Fráma Eile roundtable series, organised by PhD students in the Centre for Irish Studies and Roinn na Gaeilge, explores new approaches to framing established texts (in both English and Irish), material objects, and artwork in the Irish Studies canon. This roundtable discusses Never No More by Maura Laverty. Speakers will highlight aspects of the text which have... | Read on »

Beyond ‘victim’ and ‘perpetrator’ working in the grey zone of the modern academy: the paradoxical ‘problem spaces’ of implicated post-colonial scholars in exile Jo Dillabough, Professor, Sociology & Sociology of Education If self-reflexive critical postcolonial intellectuals view themselves as implicated in machinations of power beyond their control, then arguably such recognition should produce political subjectivities and political actions that seek to operate beyond... | Read on »

Digital Humanities Research Group  Spring Seminar 2023   Wed 31 May 12pm Niamh Reilly (Political Science & Sociology, University of Galway) Memoirs, politics and histories: open-source annotated republishing as method Rana Roshdy (Dublin City University) Advancing terminology through corpus and statistical regression modelling: a multi-methodological analysis of lexical variation in Islamic legal discourse Registration: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wqDd3k9zSAuMB2U8P96IRg... | Read on »

Centre for the Study of Religion in conjunction with the Discipline of Philosophy and the Moore Institute Presents Truth and Contemplation a lecture by Prof. Kevin Hart, University of Virginia This will be a hybrid event. Those who cannot be present but wish to register online can do so here. Kevin Hart is a theologian,... | Read on »

'The Sport in European Cinema Database: From Rogues of the Turf (UK 1910) to Russian Sport Cinema' with Dr. Seán Crosson Wednesday June 7, 6pm (Irish time) / 7pm (CET)   All welcome at: uvic-cat.zoom.us/j/96387596986 Sport cinema has been among the most enduring and popular genres within American cinema; however, limited research has been undertaken as... | Read on »

Open Scholarship Café: E-textbook emergency: OER to the rescue? In-Person / Online Students in Galway and elsewhere are at an ever-sharpening point of an affordability crisis that threatens their education. The fatalistic common-place that ‘students don’t buy their textbooks’ or required readings conceals the fact that among those who ‘don’t’ are those who don’t because they... | Read on »