This website was created by Dr. David Clare as part of his recently-concluded, IRC-funded postdoctoral research project, “The Hibernicising of the Anglo-Irish Playwright”. That project was based in the Moore Institute at the National University of Ireland, Galway. www.ClassicIrishPlays.com provides scholars, theatre practitioners, and the general public with invaluable biographical information related to the... | Read on »

We would be delighted if you could attend the launch of an exhibition in the James Hardiman Library on Irish-Jewish Literature.  The exhibition results from an AHRC-funded collaboration between NUI Galway and Ulster University.  It will be launched by Mr Stanley Price, author of Somewhere to Hang My Hat: An Irish Jewish Journey and James Joyce... | Read on »

Four Courts Press cordially invites you to the launch of He was Galway Máirtín Mór McDonogh, 1860–1934  Jackie Uí Chionna at 6 p.m. on Thursday 8 December 2016 in Room G010, The Moore Institute Seminar Room, The Hardiman Building, NUI Galway, Galway Prof. Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh will officially launch the book. Refreshments will be provided.... | Read on »

Is a university education still relevant? What are the forces that threaten it? Should academics ever be allowed near Twitter? In Academic Diary (Goldsmiths Press 2016), Les Back has chronicled three decades of his academic career, turning his sharp and often satirical eye to the everyday aspects of life on campus and the larger forces that are reshaping it. In... | Read on »

Dr Trisia Farrelly (Massey University, New Zealand) in collaboration with Dr Frances Fahy and Dr Tom Doyle (NUIG) present The Interdisciplinary Plastic Waste Project Planning interdisciplinary plastic waste research for an international project

Dr Matthew J.O'Brien (Fransiscan University of Steubenville, Ohio) 'Before There Was Trump: Irish-American Right-Wing Populism in the Twentieth Century'

On Tuesday, January 17th, we continue our series of lunchtime brown-bag events to focus on Duanaire, A Treasury of Digital Data for Irish Economic History. Duanaire is the work of Dr Aidan Kane and his team. This innovate project has unearthed a wealth of Irish fiscal history data and made it accessible online in a... | Read on »

Dr Rióna Ní Fhrighil ( Gaeilge, OÉ Gaillimh) 'Representation of Jews in Contemporary Literature in Irish' the talk will be in English and Introduction by Prof Pól Ó Dochartaigh (Registrar and Deputy President, NUIG)

T.K. Whitaker (1916-2017) has been described as ‘the architect of modern Ireland’. But what kind of country did he help to create? This panel discussion will reflect on Whitaker’s life, his influence, and the society that modernisation, Irish-style generated. Organised by History, School of Humanities and the Moore Institute.  

Mr Eoghan Moran (Queen Mary, University of London) 'Storming the Bastille of Financial Feudalism': Centrist Populism in the French and Spanish Republics, 1930 - 36'.