Galway Centenary Conversations - a series of free public history events organised by the Moore Institute in conjunction with the Galway County Council takes places in the Station House Theatre, Clifden on Wednesday 28 June, at 8pm.  Topics to be examined this week include the aftermath of the 1916 Rebellion; the conscription crisis of 1918 and... | Read on »

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The final event in the War & Revolution: Galway Centenary Conversations, public history lecture series takes place in Clarin College, Athenry on Wednesday 19 July at 8 pm. Conor McNamara and Martin O'Donoghue of the Moore Institute will be among a panel of speakers discussing the geography of revolution in County Galway, 1917-21. Event is... | Read on »

 A mini-conference accompanying the exhibition  Path Breaking Women of NUI Galway: 1912-1922 and Beyond All welcome, places limited. To RSVP and for more information contact: lydia.kelly@nuigalway.ie   Programme 11.00am: Registration – Tea & Co­ffee 11.30am: Chair – Dr. Sarah-Anne Buckley Speaker: Dr. Nadia Claire Smith, 'Mary Donovan O’Sullivan and Síle Ni Cinnéide: Path-breaking women historians’ 12.30-1.00pm:... | Read on »

***Registration for this year’s conference will close on 15 August*** Click here to register Click here to download the conference programme The 7th Annual Tudor & Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference will be held at the Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, on 18-19 August 2017.  This year’s programme features plenary addresses by Professor Patricia Palmer... | Read on »

COST Action IS1303 (CHIPME) Final Conference, September 4-6 2017 (Aula Maxima, Quadrangle, NUI Galway) COST Action IS1303 (CHIPME) is a high capacity network formed to monitor, and offer guidance for, developments and emerging initiatives in genetic testing, research and healthcare throughout Europe. With members from 26 COST countries, this community of researchers and stakeholders brings... | Read on »

BOOK LAUNCH Please join us at the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, NUI Galway for the launch of 'Re-Place - Irish Theatre Environments' by Lisa FitzGerald (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017) The book will be launched by Prof Patrick Lonergan on Thursday 7 September at 16.00 in Studio 1.  All are welcome!     BOOK... | Read on »

  Speakers: Dr. Margaret Brehony (NUIG) The challenges of writing the Irish into Latin American History   Prof. Nuala Finnegan (UCC) Framing Irishness: Reflections on the Irish in Latin America Exhibition   Prof. Bill Richardson (NUIG) Borges and Ireland     3:00pm Wednesday 13th September Bridge Seminar Room Hardiman Research Building

In Conversation with Bob Quinn ‘Huston Main’, Huston School of Film & Digital Media, Thursday September 14th, 2:30pm James Thurber wrote of himself: 'Easy to rouse, he is hard to quiet and people usually just go away.' The same might be said of Bob Quinn. Under the title 'Cinegael', and for nearly four decades, in... | Read on »