The Moore Institute will host a free one-day workshop, Guerrilla Digitisation: An Introduction to Bookscanning, from 11am-4pm on Monday, May 12. Led by Meaghan Connell (PhD student, English Department), this workshop is an introduction to the process of digitising texts using only low-cost materials. Digitised texts can be very useful to the humanities researcher; before... | Read on »
Carl Wennerlind (Barnard College, Columbia University and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow): ‰Û÷The Political Economy of Moral Refinement‰۪ Followed by a launch at 5.15pm by Prof. Wennerlind of: Daniel Carey, ed., Money and Political Economy in the Enlightenment (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2014). Wine will be served.
Book launch by Professor Carl Wennerlind(Barnard College, Columbia University and Moore Institute visiting fellow) of: Daniel Carey, ed., Money and Political Economy in the Enlightenment (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2014). Wine will be served.
'Rebel Girls': Rosie Hackett and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn On this Wednesday (28 May, 8.30), the Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour & Class (ICHLC) presents two short talks in the Town Hall, Galway, under the title 'Rebel Girls': Rosie Hackett and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Speakers are James Curry (Moore Inst.) and Meredith Meagher (Univ.... | Read on »
New Voices Conference 2014Multi-Disciplinary Postgraduate and Early Career Scholars Conference5th to 7th June, 2014After the first New Voices conference in 1999, P.J. Mathews published an edited collection of the speakers'articles, New Voices in Irish Criticism. In the introduction, Mathews notes the text "can be taken as a snapshotof the current state of Irish studies." The... | Read on »
Ringling North Library BequestThe University recently received a very generous bequest of a selection of volumes from the private Library of Henry Ringling North. The attached flyer offers some additional information. Some family members will visit the University on Friday 6 June and, as part of the event to mark this bequest, we will assemble... | Read on »
Small Nations and Colonial Peripheries in World War I: Europe and the Wider World National University of Ireland, Galway Friday 13th-Saturday 14th June 2014 The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum of debate for transnational and comparative approaches to the history of small European nations and Europe‰۪s colonial peripheries in World War... | Read on »
