Conference Organising Session Wednesday November 1st, 1-2pm in the Bridge Room - Lunchtime Seminar We will be joined by Ciara L. Murphy (O'Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance), Evan Bourke (English), and Dr Anne Karhio (English). They will be talking us through their experiences of organising conferences at NUI Galway, including how to craft a CFP,... | Read on »
The participants in this workshop are scholars working on various topics related to digital media and Irish popular and public cultures, based in Ireland and France. The purpose of the workshop is to share material and ideas, to discuss individual projects, and to make plans for collaboration in the future. The morning sessions are for... | Read on »
‘Ansbacher Bankers Present . . .’ or ‘Theatre and Privatisation in 1980s Ireland.’ **A lecture** Lionel Pilkington 1980s Ireland is dominated by a range of political and legislative measures whose overall effects severely curtail the claims of labour in relation to capital, restrict, and substantially retract, the state’s responsibilities towards social protection, and halt altogether... | Read on »
Friday 3rd November: Marianne Ailes: Tolerating the Religious Other in Crusading Literature (Title TBC) Light Lunch Served
NUI Galway in conjunction with the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) will host a public lecture by Fintan O’Toole entitled ‘Bernard Shaw and the Uses of Celebrity’ to mark the publication of Judging Shaw on Tuesday, 7 November at 6.30pm. The event will take place in the Aula Maxima at the University and will be followed by a... | Read on »
The O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies present: The Millionairess by George Bernard Shaw Directed by: Aisling Smith With: Lucy Pollock, Stephen Burke, Rebecca Spelman Barry McNamara, Sean Gandolfini, Narain Viswanathan, Patrick O'Malley, Patrice Mc Conway, and Sabrina Kelleher Playing at The O’Donoghue Theatre, NUI Galway, at 8pm nightly Wednesday 7th – Saturday 11th... | Read on »
8 Nov. Lorraine Grimes (NUIG) "I will do anything...rather than keep it or return to my own country": The emigration of Irish unmarried mothers to Liverpool and Birmingham, 1926-48.
For postgraduate research students and academic staff with questions or ideas about: Using digital technologies to support research Communicating and promoting their work Accessing funding to enable their work. Meet with staff from the Moore Institute, Whitaker Institute, NUI Galway Library and the Research Office. No appointment is necessary. Thursday September 28th from 12pm -... | Read on »
Invitation The Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway, cordially invites you to a public interview and reception to mark the appointment of film director John Carney as Adjunct Professor in Film Thursday, November 9th at 5.30pm, Huston Main. RSVP before November 6th: hustonfilmschool@nuigalway.ie About John Carney John Carney was born in Dublin... | Read on »
Italian School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures The Moore Institute Presents; Stefano Jossa, Royal Holloway Orlando Furioso, cinema and the challenge of fiction Since C. S. Lewis famously compared Tolkien’s imagination to Ariosto’s on the blurb of the first edition of The Fellowship of the Ring (1954), the linking between Orlando Furioso, Tolkien’s trilogy, and... | Read on »
