New Professors’ Inaugural Lecture Series at NUI Galway Continues: Public Lecture by Professor Gerry Mac Ruairc: “Caution: Children at School, Perspectives on Learning, Leaders and Learners, Imperatives for Inclusive Schools.”  Professor Gerry Mac Ruairc, the Established Professor of Education and Head of the School of Education. The lecture is designed to be of interest to... | Read on »

An event celebrating the success of Dr Jacopo Bisagni and Dr Rióna Ní Fhrighil who have both been awarded major research grants by the Irish Research Council under the Laureate Scheme.  Please come along to congratulate them and to find out more about their projects.  

                                          Public history and the awareness of shared pasts is becoming ever more prevalent. Recent and ongoing commemorations have brought history and its reassessment into public daily discourse. Current politics and society are being shaped... | Read on »

David Kilgannon 'I didn't cause the problem, but by hell I was going to finish it':

  This paper will explore those representations of gender in Pirandello in which his female characters function as objects of representation, while their male counterparts attain subject positions; here I am particularly interested in Pirandello’s configuration of the maternal abject as well as of the paternal. It then moves to those areas where Pirandello challenges... | Read on »

A chairde, Back by popular demand! We are pleased to announce the Spring 2018 EDEN Peer Review workshop. This is an excellent chance to get feedback on works in progress in any form and at any stage of development. Whether it is a chapter draft, a journal article or a conference paper take the opportunity... | Read on »

Dara Downey (Visiting Fellow) from the School of English in Trinity College Dublin. Title: The Lady’s Maid’s Burden: Ethnicity, Race, and Servant Status in the Late Nineteenth-Century Ghost Story This paper examines a range of uncanny tales by late-nineteenth-century American writers, in which domestic servants and slaves feature to a greater or lesser extent. For the... | Read on »

The Irish Centre for Histories of Labour and Class welcomes Jimmy Yan (Univ. of Melbourne) to give a talk entitled, ‘Wobblies and Fenians: The Australian connections of the Larkin family, 1916-19, and the Irish revolution’. All welcome. Picture shows Peter Larkin, brother of ‘Big Jim’, one of so-called ‘Sydney Twelve’ imprisoned for anti-war activism in 1916.

Charles Doyle: The Presocratics and Christian Heretics in the works of Irenaeus and Tertullian  

          This annual event, organised by the Association for French and Francophone Studies in Ireland (ADEFFI), provides a supportive scholarly forum for postgraduates in the areas of French and Francophone Studies to present both work in progress and new research and allows participants to meet peers and established researchers in French and Francophone Studies... | Read on »