Tues 6th March, 2-4 PM Visiting Seminar (rsvp required), Dr Niamh Whitfield: 'Early Irish Metalwork' Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building. contact/rsvp: kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie   Wed 7th March, 9-11 AM Visiting Seminar (rsvp required), Dr Niamh Whitfield: 'The Book of Durrow & the 'Northumbrian Problem''  Archaeology Reading Room/Library in Archaeology Department contact/rsvp: kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie Contact: Dr... | Read on »

The next postgraduate seminar will be given by Frank J. Hall who is a Galway doctoral research scholar in Archaeology.  Title: The fortified houses and stronghouses of Connacht, c.1580-1650: gentry houses or the continuation of the castle tradition into post-medieval Ireland? Contact Maggie Ronaynce -  maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie      

Duplicates & doppelgängers: Generating digital solutions to cataloguing, accessibility and network-analysis challenges A NUI Postdoctoral Fellow in Irish/Celtic Studies affiliated with Roinn na Gaeilge and based in the Moore Institute, Deirdre Ní Chonghaile aims to generate discussion of some of her digital humanities research challenges with the Digital Scholarship Seminar. She will highlight three archival... | Read on »

Graduate Research Seminars in History 2017-18 Andrew Ó Donghaíle Contracting Peace in Early Medieval Ireland Contact: Gearóid Barry - gearoid.barry@nuigalway.ie

7th March School of Education Research Seminar Series “Exploring Sexuality and Gender Identity in the Irish Education System” Speaker: Dr. Aoife Neary, School of Education, University of Limerick 5pm: Wednesday, 7 March 2018 Venue: AM214 Siobhán McKenna Theatre, Arts Millennium Building, NUI Galway.  Biography: Dr Aoife Neary joined UL School of Education 2014. She currently... | Read on »

Dean of College, Professor Cathal O'Donoghue will speak on the subject of “Recognising Diversity and Complexity in Policy Formation”. Professor O'Donoghue has been from 2016, the Dean of Arts and Social Sciences at NUI Galway and Professor of Public and Social Policy. Prior to this he was since 2005, Head of Teagasc’s (Irelands Agriculture and... | Read on »

Christine Neer: Love is a Battlefield? An Informal Exploration of Gendered Spaces in Medieval Irish Tochmarca ('Wooing Tales'). Contact: Catherine Emerson - catherine.emerson@nuigalway.ie

Let’s Give the Mantle of Harlequin a Brush: Current Research on the Dublin Gate Theatre Dr Ruud van den Beuken, who is working at the Moore Institute as a visiting research fellow, will discuss current research on the Dublin Gate Theatre, including the establishment of a Gate Theatre Research Network (co-founded by the Dutch Research... | Read on »

The Modern Reception of Horace The talk will discuss the treatment of Horace in Nazi-occupied Crete and during World War I; Pound, Eliot, Housman on Horace; Nietzsche on Horace's style; Horace's tags, esp. carpe diem; Irish connections, in Yeats, Joyce, MacNeice, Longley, Boland; Dowson's splendidly awful poem; and Hopkin's translations. All welcome. Contact: Padraic Moran-... | Read on »