This lecture discusses economics as a compromise ethics suitable to the weakness of human nature, engaging with Gulliver's Travels and other texts by Swift.

Galway2020 will give a presentation on their "Virtual Capital of Culture" project. The aim of the presentation is to give some background to the project, and to encourage researchers to submit proposals for projects that use a set of emerging technologies to explore Galway2020's European themes of Language, Landscape and Migration. More About the Project... | Read on »

"The Boys of St. Columb's - the story of how an emancipatory education act led to the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s in Northern Ireland".Filmmaker, Lecturer and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Maurice Fitzpatrick introduces a screening of his BBC documentary film, The Boys of St Columb's, about a new generation of leaders who reshaped... | Read on »

Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Dr Guy Cuthbertson (Liverpool Hope University) will be giving a talk entitled ' Its's a long way to Tipperary: Ireland, Edward Thomas and World War One' on Thursday 7th April at 3pm in Seminar Room GO10 in the HRB.Dr Cuthbertson is the author of an acclaimed biography of war poet Wilfred... | Read on »

Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Dr Colin Reid, Northumbria University presents: 'Constitutional Resistance as Legal Defence: Irish Lawyers and the 1848 Rebellion'.

CAMPS Lab, Dr Jessica Cooke, Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies, NUIG 'The Annaghdown Doorway and King Ruaidhri Ua Conchobhair:Tuarastal and Patronage in Twelfth Century Connacht'

Early Modern Research SeminarDr Sajed Chowdhury: The Metaphysics of ‰Û÷Making' in the Verse Miscellany of Constance Aston Fowler (c.1635-1638)Dr Felicity Maxwell: Calling for collaboration: Women and public service in Dorothy Moore's transnational Protestant correspondence

The Moore Institute and the Discipline of Philosophy are pleased invite you to the following research seminar:"Idea, Multiplicity, Reflection,Merleau-Ponty's Radical Concepts"by Prof. Dorothea OlkowskiUniversity of Colorado Abstract: Merleau-Ponty has argued that for experience - as opposed to sensation which is private, or intellect which is a shared idea - there is an expectation if not... | Read on »

Drama, Theatre and Performance Speaker Series: Dr Ian Walsh, Lecturer at the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, NUI Galway