“Houses of the Nobility and Gentry”: Big Houses of County Galway  

  Programme  10AM: Welcome 10.10-11.15: Researchers’ Panel Olivia Martin: West of Ireland Landed Estates collections as sources for women’s lives Joe Murphy: The Redington Papers: Insight into a 19th Clarinbridge... | Read on »

Recent work by Denis O’Hearn and Andrej Grubacic proposes that “exilic spaces” are a hopeful model for progressive change and, ultimately, for social revolution. Exilic spaces can be defined as... | Read on »

This paper examines the connections between the revolutionary politics of Theobald Wolfe Tone and his friendships, especially that with Thomas Russell, his best friend and closest political ally. It also... | Read on »

  Postgraduate Medieval Studies invites all incoming and returning MA, PhD, PostDoc students (along with academic staff at all levels) with an interest in the antique, medieval and early modern... | Read on »

                  09:00 – 09:30 Registration / Coffee & Tea 09:30 – 11:00 Panel 1: Aesthetic Manifestations, Expressionisms and Power Structures Power, Subcultures... | Read on »

This lecture by Dr. Seán Crosson will consider the topic of Sport and Film, drawing on the research he has undertaken of the subject internationally (evident in his monograph Sport and Film (2013)) and... | Read on »

                    A talk given by Dr Stefan Aquilina 2019 Galway University Foundation/Dr Ros Dixon Fellow Dr Stefan Aquilina is Director of Research and... | Read on »

By Professor Philip Dine, Head of French, NUI Galway. How does sport shape society? From local origins in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, modern sports were first nationally... | Read on »

                      Prof. Dr. Patricia Plummer (Duisburg-Essen University, Germany) Visiting Research Fellow, Moore Institute NUI Galway Patricia Plummer is Professor of... | Read on »