Timothy Madigan, St. John Fisher College and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Thomas Duddy and Irish ThoughtAn examination of the life and writings of the late NUIG philosopher, author of A History of Irish Thought, and his thesis that Irish thought refuses to separate the poetic and the prosaic in the pursuit of truth--something which is... | Read on »
The Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland's 21st Annual Conference will take place in the Moore Institute at NUI Galway on Thursday 11th and Friday 12th June 2015. The theme of the conference is Literacy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. For programme and further details, see www.ssnciconference2015.wordpress.com or contact the organisers, Dr Rebecca Barr, Dr Sarah-Anne... | Read on »
From Civil Rights to the Bailout: Social movements, workers agitation, and left-wing activism in Ireland, 1968-2010Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour & Class,http://fromcivilrightstothebailout.wordpress.com/ Conference Overview Friday 19 June 13.00-13.45 Registration 13.45 Welcome address 14.00-15.30 Panel 1: The context of Northern Ireland 15.30-15.45 Break 15.45-17.15 Panel 2: Varieties of Protest 19.30 Mechanics' Institute, Middle Street:... | Read on »
Derek Gladwin, University of British Columbia and Moore Institute Visiting Research Fellow'North Atlantic Poetry and Multimedia: Environmentalism, Space and Websites' This talk discusses the relationship between two interdisciplinary environmental and spatial approaches to literature, known as ecocriticism and geocriticism, through two interactive websites that focus on the poetry of Eavan Boland and Marlene Creates. In... | Read on »
Persons, documents, models: organising and structuring information for the Web People and documents are of enduring interest. Documents may be generated by individuals, collective groups, and administrations, on any number of topics. We are particularly interested in the relationships between people and documents. The most important relationships are creation (authors, illustrators, translators, ...), usage (e.g.... | Read on »
