Winifred Carney was an active feminist and a significant figure of the 1916 Rising. Born in County Down, she became James Connolly’s personal secretary after he was appointed Belfast organizer of the ITGWU. She arrived in the GPO on Easter Monday with a typewriter and a Webley revolver, and held the rank of adjutant throughout the week of... | Read on »

You are cordially invited to a celebration event for  Mr. Conor Newman (School of Geography & Archaeology) marking the conclusion of his role as chair of the Heritage Council 2008-2016 Speakers: Dr Kieran O’Conor and Prof. John Waddell Conor has been instrumental in major policy initiatives put forward by the Council, including the publication of... | Read on »

Dr James O'Donnell (NUIG) 'Political economy and professional networks in the nineteenth and twentieth-century British and Irish press.'

RSVP Required: kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie Dr Niamh Whitfield, a well-published independent scholar (http://independent.academia.edu/NiamhWhitfield), is a leading expert on early Irish metalwork in a European context.  After completing a BA Hons in Archaeology & French at UCD, where she studied with the esteemed Dr Françoise Henry, inter alia, Niamh moved to London, where she raised a family and... | Read on »

This event is hosted by the School of Political Science & Sociology's Power, Conflict and Ideology Research Cluster. Medieval Ireland was physically divided by a palisade separating an English-ruled enclave stretching from Dublin to Dundalk, from a Gaelic-speaking area whose inhabitants were considered uncivilised, 'beyond the pale'. In this paper we put this notion of... | Read on »

RSVP Required: kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie Dr Niamh Whitfield, a well-published independent scholar (http://independent.academia.edu/NiamhWhitfield), is a leading expert on early Irish metalwork in a European context.  After completing a BA Hons in Archaeology & French at UCD, where she studied with the esteemed Dr Françoise Henry, inter alia, Niamh moved to London, where she raised a family and... | Read on »

19th C Trade Periodicals poster  

As part of The Month of La Francophonie in Ireland, French writer, politician and researcher Azouz Begag will tour the Universities in Ireland : Cork, Limerick or Galway. Seize the occasion to meet him and (re)discover his books and movies! Azouz Begag was born in 1957 in Lyon. He is a French writer, politician and... | Read on »

    This talk examines the relationship between the Film Company of Ireland and Dublin cinemas in the period 1916-1920. Formed in 1916 and releasing its first films in that same year the Film Company of Ireland is the first important film production company in Ireland.  Established by James Mark Sullivan and Henry Fitzgibbon, this... | Read on »

An iBook by Dr. Robin Raine (Marien Scientist, School of Natural Sciences, NUI Galway) All welcome! Refreshments will be served.