Special Screening: Meetings with Ivor (2016). Mon. Feb 13th Eye Cinema, 7:15 pm. Followed by Q+A with Director Alan Gilsenan hosted by Dr. Tony Tracy (Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway). Meetings with Ivor is an 81-minute documentary on the life and work of ground-breaking psychiatrist Ivor Browne. Browne has been a central figure in Irish mental... | Read on »
Francesca Benatti (Open University) 'A Question of Style? Stylometry, Authorship and the Edinburgh Review'
Dr Joseph Clarke (TCD) 'A War Against God'?: Religion and Violence during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars'.
As part of the Arts, Humanities and Innovation - Connecting with Industry series, Mark Campbell, CEO of Pocket Anatomy will talk about his experience building a start-up business that has education at its core. This series of talks is aimed at researchers from the Arts & Humanities, and will be of particular interest to PhD students considering options for... | Read on »
Dr Cathy Swift (University of Limerick) 'St Nicholas of Ireland - patron saint of sailors and single women'.
'Frontiers, states and identity in early modern Ireland and beyond' Essays in honour of Steven G. Ellis Christopher Maginn & Gerald Power, editors launch by Prof Ciaran Brady (Dept of History, Trinity College Dublin) RSVP (acceptance only) Four Courts Press | info@fourcourtspress.ie To learn more about this book, visit the Four Courts Press website at http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2016/frontiers-states-and-identity-in-early-modern-ireland-and-beyond/... | Read on »
Véronique Montémont (Université de Lorraine) 'Digital Humanities Applied to Literary Studies in France' The Spring 2017 series of Digital Scholarship Seminar continues on Tuesday 21 February with a talk by Véronique Montémont of the Université de Lorraine on digital humanities and literary studies in France. Dr Montémont’s presentation takes a twofold approach, first sketching a... | Read on »
'This 90-minute roundtable discussion is convened by Visiting Fellows at the Moore Institute Prof. Chris Maginn and Dr Gerald Power. It addresses a variety of aspects associated with research into Tudor Ireland, including sources and debates, and new or underexplored topics. The event will be of especial interest to PhD students working in this area,... | Read on »
An Dr Úna Ní Bhroiméil (Mary Immaculate College, UL) 'John Quinn - Irish American patron and powerbroker in turn of the century New York'
Theatre and Translation Dr Alinne Fernandes' talk will reflect on an ongoing practice-based research project, which aims to contribute to the dramaturgical study and dissemination of a number of Irish and Northern Irish women’s plays in Brazil. The project is motivated by the relative lack of study and translation of contemporary female voices in Irish and Northern Irish theatre, such as Patricia Burke... | Read on »
