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.'

RSVP Required: kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie Dr Niamh Whitfield, a well-published independent scholar (http://independent.academia.edu/NiamhWhitfield), is a leading expert on early Irish metalwork in a European context.  After completing a BA Hons in Archaeology & French at UCD, where she studied with the esteemed Dr Françoise Henry, inter alia, Niamh moved to London, where she raised a family and... | Read on »

This event is hosted by the School of Political Science & Sociology's Power, Conflict and Ideology Research Cluster. Medieval Ireland was physically divided by a palisade separating an English-ruled enclave stretching from Dublin to Dundalk, from a Gaelic-speaking area whose inhabitants were considered uncivilised, 'beyond the pale'. In this paper we put this notion of... | Read on »

RSVP Required: kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie Dr Niamh Whitfield, a well-published independent scholar (http://independent.academia.edu/NiamhWhitfield), is a leading expert on early Irish metalwork in a European context.  After completing a BA Hons in Archaeology & French at UCD, where she studied with the esteemed Dr Françoise Henry, inter alia, Niamh moved to London, where she raised a family and... | Read on »