As national institution and site of memory for France for over a century, the Tour de France is a privileged locus for investigating the interactions between sport and cultural meaning. Literary journalism chronicling the race has a long history of representing the multiple meanings and dimensions of physical performance, particularly of heroic champions, in the Tour. During the late twentieth and... | Read on »

Ba mhór ag Institiúid de Móra tú a bheith i láthair nuair a sheolfaidh an tOllamh Regina Uí Cholltáin, An Coláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath an leabhar One Hundred Years of Irish Language Policy, 1922-2022 leis an Dr John Walsh, Scoil na dTeangacha, na Litríochtaí agus na gCultúr, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe. Beidh an ócáid ar... | Read on »

Irish Travellers / Mincéirs and the State, 1922-2022  This two-day conference will examine Irish Travellers’ experiences of discrimination since the foundation of the state, paying particular attention to the state’s role in perpetuating disadvantage. It will be a multi-disciplinary and participative conference, with presentations in a variety of formats, and featuring local, national and international... | Read on »

Sports events are powerful vehicles for the construction, reproduction and, less frequently, the negotiation or contestation of national identity. The increasingly complex interplay between broadcast, print and new media is central to the ways in which sporting celebrities become emblematic of national identity and objects of collective emotional investment for committed and casual sports fans... | Read on »

Abstract August 2022 marked the 450th anniversary of the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, long regarded as the archetype of religious violence and fanaticism in Europe. In this talk, Prof. Stuart Carroll will reflect on the enduring relationship between religion and violence through history. It is commonplace to argue that religion is the cause of violence... | Read on »

The School of Political Science and Sociology and the Power, Conflict and Ideologies Research Cluster invite you to a research seminar with:   Dr. Thomas Leahy, Cardiff University,  ‘The Intelligence War against the IRA’  In The Hardiman Building, Room G011  Thursday 22nd of September, 2022  1-2pm  All Welcome!    About:  Dr Thomas Leahy is a senior lecturer... | Read on »

This lecture will examine the relationship between sport and film internationally, with a particular focus on the American experience. It will draw on the extensive research undertaken by Dr. Seán Crosson (author of Sport and Film (Routledge, 2013))  on the subject, and will chart the history of sport cinema, analysing the important role the genre has played in the United... | Read on »

Online discussion of how academics, researchers and policymakers can work together effectively to create evidence based public policy. About this event As the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science seeks views on a consultation on the Sourcing of Science Advice for Irish public policymakers and government departments, this online discussion will investigate possible... | Read on »

You are invited to the launch of the edited volume Language, Policy and Territory: A Festschrift for Colin Williams on Thursday 29th September at 5.00 on Zoom. Dr John Walsh (School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures) is a co-editor along with Wilson McLeod, Rob Dunbar and Kathryn Jones. Registration Please register in advance here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FsObDBVVQU2xlbRk7AYK6A Description... | Read on »