Book Launch: Charles Macklin and the Theatres of London Edited by Ian Newman, Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame and David O’Shaughnessy, Professor in the School of English and Creative Arts at NUI Galway. Organised by the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, and the Keough-Naughton Institute... | Read on »
Professor David O’Shaughnessy (NUI Galway) Theatronomics: The Business of Theatre, 1737-1809 Abstract Eighteenth-century literary studies now acknowledges the centrality of the theatre to Georgian cultural and political life. However, scholars have virtually ignored its remarkable and voluminous financial archive. Account-books, ledgers, and ephemeral manuscript folios contain rich data on ticket sales, audience members, revenues, actor salaries, repayments... | Read on »
FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES IN COMPUTATIONAL LITERARY STUDIES Information session Are you someone who works in or is interested in Computational Literary Studies? Do you have collaborators who work in Computational Literary Studies whom you would like to invite to NUI Galway? The CLS INFRA project is offering a range of paid Transnational Access Fellowships to visit... | Read on »
Aodh Ó Coileáin, Acadamh, will conduct a public interview with Martin Doyle, Books Editor, The Irish Times, on his career in journalism, in Ireland and Britain, on Thursday next 24 March, at 4.00 pm in the Ó Tnuthail Theatre, Arts Millennium Building, AMB 1023. Before joining The Irish Times in 2007, Martin Doyle worked for various newspapers... | Read on »
COLLABORATIVE WORKSHOP: Learned and vernacular interactions in the medieval North and West. The session includes a lecture by Dr Mikael Males "Irish words in Old Norse: true loans or stylistic markers?" Organised by Norse Philology at the University of Oslo and Ancient Classics & CAMPS at NUI Galway. All welcome – further information michael.clarke@nuigalway.ie
The Irish Centre for Human Rights is pleased to invite you to the following talk: ‘The Israeli Occupation of Palestine: Is International Law Closer to Power than to Justice?’ by Professor Michael Lynk Professor Michael Lynk is the current United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinians territories occupied since... | Read on »
NUI Galway Library and The Moore Institute: Sources and Voices: Archives, Writing, and the Irish Diaspora A free online webinar - 28 March 2022 2.30pm - 5.15pm (NOTE: All times are GMT) This webinar draws together academics, archivists, and researchers across a number of disciplines, including History, English, Irish Language, and related disciplines, with a... | Read on »
Dr Peter Crooks (Trinity College Dublin) Antiquaries, Archivists and the Origins of an Historical Profession in Ireland: Perspectives from the Beyond 2022 Project Speaker Biography Dr Peter Crooks is Founding Director of Beyond 2022: Ireland’s Virtual Record Treasury, an all-island and international collaboration to create a virtual reality reconstruction of the Public Record Office of Ireland,... | Read on »
This is an in-person event held in the Hardiman Research Building's Bridge Seminar Room, THB-1001 (1st floor). About this event Humanitarian expressions of solidarity during the Cold War: a comparison of how the volatile security situation in Honduras conditioned the engagements of Oxfam and Médecins Sans Frontières with the principle of neutrality in the Salvadoran... | Read on »
"An Uneven Score: Gender Balance Investigation for Publicly Funded Composer Opportunities on the Island of Ireland (2004-2019)" by Laura Watson (Dept. of Music, Maynooth University) and Michael Lydon (Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway) Laura and Michael will speak on “An Uneven Score: Gender Balance Investigation for Publicly Funded Composer Opportunities on the Island of... | Read on »
