September 29, 2017-  Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway DEVELOPED UNDER THE IRC "NEW FOUNDATIONS" SCHEME IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE IMMIGRANT COUNCIL OF IRELAND   9.00   Welcome 9.30 - Migration, Language and New Media (Chair: Andrea Ciribuco) - Mary Gilmartin (NUI Maynooth): “Narratives of Belonging” - Lisa McEntee-Atalianis (Birkbeck): “Tracing the Migrant Voice in... | Read on »

Seminar and Book Launch Prof. Kerby A. Miller  (University of Missouri) Best to Forget?  Conflict, Memory, and Memoir-Writing by Irish Emigrants to the United States, c1870-c1950                                                                                          Kerby A. Miller is Curators’ Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Missouri. His book Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America (1985) was... | Read on »

The Yeats Family Sale: NUI Galway, the Irish State, and the Auction Wednesday 4 October 12noon The Bridge Seminar Room (Hardiman Research Building 1001) Participants: Adrian Paterson Adrian Frazier Anne Byrne Barry Houlihan Marie Boran The major sale of items associated with W.B. Yeats, Jack B. Yeats, and their family in 224 lots went ahead... | Read on »

“Worlding Women's Work: The Migrant Female Domestic Worker in May-Lan Tan's ‘Date Night’ (2014)” by Dr Kate Houlden (Anglia Ruskin University)   Date: Wednesday, 4th October 2017 Time: 1:00–2:00pm Venue: The Bridge Seminar Room, Hardiman Building   ALL WELCOME!

4 Oct. Daragh Gannon (National Museum of Ireland/ Maynooth University) Irish Home Rulers in Britain and the Irish Revolution.*

Huston Guest Session: Award-winning Music documentary Cinematographer Frank Shortt Thursday October 5th 2.30pm, Huston Main Frank Shortt has worked in the film industry for almost twenty years, specialising in the music documentary genre and contributing as a cinematographer to award-winning productions including for leading international rock acts Iron Maiden, Motörhead and Rush. Originally from Norway,... | Read on »

“Martin Luther: Man and Movement” by Dr.Alison Forrestal - History, School of Humanities  Seminar Room, G010, The Hardiman Building at 12:00pm-1:30pm   Martin Luther:  Man and Movement 500 years ago, Martin Luther’s incendiary ideas about faith shook Europe, releasing a politically charged religious movement that could not be contained, and which altered the course of... | Read on »

RTÉ Brainstorm is a new online platform for academics and researchers to publish a broad range of articles.  NUI Galway, along with several other universities in Ireland, are supporting the initiative to increase the profile of our academic and research output. You will find more information below and also details about information sessions which are... | Read on »

The Traveller Woman in Ireland as a Literary Device and as a Whole Human The talk features a work-in-progress session on the figure of the Irish traveller woman by Melania Terrazas of the University of La Rioja, Spain. Dr Terrazas discusses the traveller woman as a literary device and as a whole human in the... | Read on »