French rugby is a sport historically practiced in the ‘wrong’ place, for the ‘wrong’ reasons and in the ‘wrong’ way. Its most abiding social function has been as a marker of frequently belligerent local identities, with investment in the game, both moral and material, being almost always parochial in nature. This was reflected for much... | Read on »

Mr Michael Kavanagh 'Protestant Secondary School Education in Co.Galway: Galway Grammar School, 1895 - 1932'

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In October 2015, Dr. Ian Campbell was awarded a Starting Grant of €1.3 million by the European Research Council to pursue the research project ‘War and the Supernatural in Early Modern Europe’ over four-and-a-half years. He will lead a research team of two research fellows and one graduate student to examine the relationship between debates inside... | Read on »

Dr Jessica Cooke (Independent Scholar) 'Saint Meldan, Saint Fursa, Saint Cuanna: Saints of Lough Corrib'.

In October 2015, Ian was awarded a Starting Grant of €1.3 million by the European Research Council to pursue the research project ‘War and the Supernatural in Early Modern Europe’ over four-and-a-half years. He will lead a research team of two research fellows and one graduate student to examine the relationship between debates inside the early... | Read on »

              Participants Dr. Rebecca Barr (English) Dr. Brendan Flynn (Political Science & Sociology) Dr. Laurence Marley (History) Dr. Kate Quinn (Spanish) Dr. Niall Ó Dochartaigh (Political Science & Sociology) Dr. Kerry Sinanan (Moore Institute Visiting Fellow)

Winifred Carney was an active feminist and a significant figure of the 1916 Rising. Born in County Down, she became James Connolly’s personal secretary after he was appointed Belfast organizer of the ITGWU. She arrived in the GPO on Easter Monday with a typewriter and a Webley revolver, and held the rank of adjutant throughout the week of... | Read on »

You are cordially invited to a celebration event for  Mr. Conor Newman (School of Geography & Archaeology) marking the conclusion of his role as chair of the Heritage Council 2008-2016 Speakers: Dr Kieran O’Conor and Prof. John Waddell Conor has been instrumental in major policy initiatives put forward by the Council, including the publication of... | Read on »

Dr James O'Donnell (NUIG) 'Political economy and professional networks in the nineteenth and twentieth-century British and Irish press.'