by Dr. Menelaos Gkartzios, Newcastle University, and Dr. Julie Crawshaw, Northumbria University, UK, Moore Visiting Fellows. Menelaos Gkartzios and Julie Crawshaw present their interdisciplinary collaboration across artistic research, planning and rural studies. We draw on a collaborative art residence programme between Newcastle University and Berwick Visual Arts, an arts organisation in the North East of... | Read on »

Professor Frank Shovlin of the Institute for Irish Studies, Liverpool ‘The Letters of John McGahern: 1970’

This panel discusses the relationship between gender, memory and national identity in cultural texts focusing on Franco-Algerian relations. The three speakers will situate specific literary texts and films within the broader contexts of French colonialism and decolonisation with a view to reflecting on the legacy of France’s colonial empire and on how cultural discourses surrounding... | Read on »

Potluck Eastern European and Slavic Poetry Reading Circle Facilitated by Emily Tock, MLIS, MALP, Government of Ireland Post-graduate Scholar PhD student in the Discipline of English As this is a potluck format, attendees are encouraged to bring their own favourite Eastern European and Slavic verse to share in this informal roundtable. For more info, contact... | Read on »

By Claudia Kinmonth Moore Institute Visiting Fellow

                                                            All Welcome

  A public meeting about the Galway City Irish Language Plan will be held on Tuesday May 7th at 7.30pm in rooms G010 & G011, Hardiman Research Building, National University of Ireland, Galway. The meeting aims to provide another chance to people in Galway to give their opinions about the Irish Language Plan being prepared... | Read on »