Aimee Plunkett discusses republican, feminist and trade union activist Helena Molony. Aimee Plunkett works for the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and is a former historical tour guide at the GPO Witness History Visitor Centre. 1918 was a landmark year for women in Ireland and Britain, with legislation beginning the process of their... | Read on »
This semester we're going to run a weekly session for those interested in learning "creative coding". This approach is a good way for those without any coding experience to develop a foundation in programming. The sessions will use online resources (see below) to guide self-directed learning. Creative coding is a different discipline than programming systems.... | Read on »
"Hidden Sins: Miraculous Mind Reading and the Confessional" Barbara Newman, Professor of English, Religious Studies and Classics Northwestern University Shortly after the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 mandated annual confession for all Christians, a new type of miracle began to appear in saints' Lives. Holy women and a few lay brothers--but curiously, not priests--came to... | Read on »
On 19 October the Social Sciences Research Centre (SSRC) is hosting a talk by Bruno Esperante Paramos titled the ‘Agrarian Fascism Innovation Paradigm in Spain between 1939 -1955’. The talk will consider the main agrarian policies of Francoist Spain in war and peace, focusing especially on policies aimed at motorizing agriculture via the introduction of... | Read on »
Pete McNally is a Dublin based Senior Designer/3D Generalist with Microsoft. He has worked in the Irish Game and TV industries for over 15 years, at companies like Emmy award-winning Havok and twice Oscar nominated Brown Bag Films. Pete blogs about his experiments in 3D Art at www.petemcnally.com and his work has been featured on Sketchfab and... | Read on »
This semester we're going to run a weekly session for those interested in learning "creative coding". This approach is a good way for those without any coding experience to develop a foundation in programming. The sessions will use online resources (see below) to guide self-directed learning. Creative coding is a different discipline than programming systems.... | Read on »
Modernist Studies Ireland’s monthly forum for new work in Irish modernist studies—Works in Progress—cordially invites you to its second session of this autumn season, taking place on Tuesday, 23 Oct,... | Read on »
The Power, Conflict and Ideologies Research Cluster (School of Political Science & Sociology), and the Irish Centre for Human Rights, are co-hosting a visit by Dr. Lea David, who is currently Marie Curie fellow (2017-2019) in the School of Sociology, UCD. The focus of this lecture is the way in which collective memory and memorialization... | Read on »
