Dr Joe Regan (NUIG) 'Patrick Finney of Loughrea, Boston bounty broker in Ireland during the American Civil War'

Valediction: The Conditions of the University by Prof Rod Stoneman with an introduction by Prof Timothy Emlyn Jones Valediction: the Conditions of the University Boy bitten by a Lizard, about 1594-5, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Oil on Canvas, 66 x 49.5 cm. An undergraduate in university in England during the 1970s, returning to tertiary education... | Read on »

Dr Ian Leask (DCU) will give a talk ' Only Natural: John Toland (1670 - 1722) and the Jewish Question.'

Leon Butler Leon Butler has worked across a broad range of positions in the media industry as a visual narrative designer, filmmaker, and educator. He graduated from Huston’s MA in Digital Media in 2009 and his final project animated film, Ghosts Before Dawn (2009), won the Gold Medal at the National Digital Media Awards. Since... | Read on »

Featuring papers by Dr David Clare (UL), Martin Keaveney and John Singleton (English PhD Candidates, NUIG)  

Dr Rosemary Power (Moore Institute Visiting Fellow) 'At the ends of Christendom: Medieval Greenland in written sources'

The DCI aims to bring together NUI Galway staff and students with interests or expertise in digital research and pedagogy in order to share knowledge and experience, develop new projects, and explore connections with creative, cultural and industrial partners in the fields of digital arts, humanities, social and information sciences. The launch will be an... | Read on »

Sport and Exercise Research Group, Moore Institute, NUI Galway Monthly Research Seminar (First Wednesday of each month) 'A New Ireland Rises'?  Sport and the Remembering of 1916, Dr Sean Crosson (Huston School of Film and Digital Media, NUI Galway).

Dr Darina McCarthy (Maynooth University) 'Heinrich Bewerunge (1862 - 1923): German cleric, music professor and liturgical reform in Ireland'

Henry Glassie (Professor of Folklore, Indiana University) ‘The Southern Mountain Music of Ola Belle Reed’ 1–2pm Thursday February 2nd The Cube, Bailey Allen Hall Henry Glassie will give the Third Annual Jean Ritchie Memorial Lecture on the Southern Mountain Music of Ola Belle Reed (1916-2002), the American folk singer, songwriter and banjo player whose work... | Read on »