Staff and Students of the College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies are invited to a Christmas Drinks Reception at the Moore Institute on Tuesday, December 18, 2018 @ 3pm in the Moore Institute Seminar Room, Room G010 Hardiman Research Building All welcome! Please rsvp for catering purposes.    

Wednesdays 4pm Dr Kieran Fitzpatrick (NUI Galway Research Fellow, Moore Institute) The Great War and Great Change? The professional life of surgeon Peter Johnson Freyer, 1900-1921. Co-ordinator: Dr Gearóid Barry, History Department (email - gearoid.barry@nuigalway.ie).

Camps a talk by Professor Liz Fitzpatrick, ‘A Wild Mountain Borderland’. The Locus of Gaelic Learned Families in 15th and 16th Century Ireland.

The Library is hosting a seminar titled Academic Publishing’s Uncertain Future: how will it impact NUI Galway? on Monday 21 January at 1200, with details and link to registration (essential) as below: A number of significant developments have impacted the whole environment of academic publishing, generating lots of debate and sometimes controversy in their wake.... | Read on »

Keith Seán Harrington (Maynooth University) Language Politics and Territorial Separatism: the origins of the Transnistrian conflict 1989-1990.

You are invited to attend the launch by Professor Emeritus of Modern Irish (UCC) Alan Titley of the book: An Chuid Eile Díom Féin: Aistí le Máirtín Ó Direáin (Cló Iar-Chonnacht) Síobhra Aiken (ed) Fáilte roimh chách!

NUIG has a vibrant and dynamic community of folklore scholars and scholars that utilize folklore sources in their various research disciplines, and indeed, often in bilingual or multilingual environments. This brief, informal evening session aims to bring together researchers who are already working with folklore sources, those who may be considering utilising folklore sources and... | Read on »

Dr Mícheál Ó Fathartaigh (Teagasc/Social Sciences Res. Centre, NUIG) A Quieter Revolution: How Demonstrations Transformed Early Twentieth-Century Rural Ireland after the Land War.