The NUI, Galway Finnegans Wake reading group is starting up again this September.Our first meeting will be 1-2pm in the Moore Institute Seminar Room, Thursday 26th September. If you like gossiping, poetry, languages, puns, puzzles, jokes, double entendres or even avant-garde tomes, you might like Finnegans Wake. Despite its scurrilous critical reputation, James Joyce's final... | Read on »
Seeing the world: Travel, text, image Authors of travel narratives attempting to convey in words their discoveries and observations increasingly turned to images to support their text. In this they were encouraged by publishers and the public, developing in time a dedicated art industry and new book forms. This conference focuses attention on the various... | Read on »
Early Modern Travel: Theory and Practice In the early modern period the development of inquiries, questionnaires, and directions for travel proliferated in an attempt to make travel a useful and productive activity. This conference explores the widespread effort to provide instruction, as well as the travel practices that emerged in response to and in tension... | Read on »
Carla Lessing 'The Civil English and the Wild Irish'. Tudor and Stewart concepts of civility
Elva Johnston, School of History and Archives, UCD ‰Û÷Literacy and conversion in early medieval Ireland: a reassessment‰۪
In conjunction with the Moore Institute, the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, and the MA in Culture and Colonialism, ECHO: the humanities research forum presents two compelling talks:THE IRISH IN SCOTLAND FRED FREEMAN on Robert Tannahill Robert Tannahill of Paisley (1774-1810) was a weaver, poet, and songwriter of over 100 songs of a quality... | Read on »
CULTURE AND COLONIALISM FRED FREEMAN on Hamish Henderson Hamish Henderson (1919-2002), poet and songwriter, was one of the outstanding cultural and political figures of the twentieth century. He accepted the surrender of Italy during World War II, won the Somerset Maugham prize for his war elegies (which bear comparison with Wilfred Owen or Siegfried Sassoon),... | Read on »
Digital Scholarship Seminar and INSIGHT @ NUIGalway present: Digital Humanities and Journalism Seminar. 12-2pm, Wednesday 9 October, Moore Institute Seminar Room. The first event of the Autumn/Winter series of DSS is a lunchtime seminar to showcase the work of INSIGHT @ NUIGalway(formerly DERI NUIGalway) INSIGHT in Digital Humanities and Journalism, and to provide a vision... | Read on »
Padraic Kenney (Indiana) 'The Prison has become a Political Battlefield'. How World War I transformed political imprisonment in Europe
If you like gossiping, poetry, languages, puns, puzzles, jokes, double entendres or even avant-garde tomes, you might like Finnegans Wake. Despite its scurrilous critical reputation, James Joyce's final workis not as difficult as it would first appear and,when read as part of a group, can be a hugely rewarding experience. It is our hope to... | Read on »
