It’s behaviour, stupid! A decade of lessons in health behaviour change research Professor Molly Byrne, Professor of Health Psychology   In this lecture, Professor Byrne will track how her behavioural intervention research has evolved, changed and (hopefully!) improved over the last decade. She will present some of the behaviour change intervention studies she has conducted,... | Read on »

APAC’s 2018 Study Day is open for bookings. The Study Day will take place on Friday 9 November in Galway. The Study Day is free for APAC members and €20 for non-members. Additional talks and visits have been organised for Thursday 8 November in Dublin. This day is open to APAC members only. If you... | Read on »

New NUI Galway exhibition features art from controversial Yeats sale   NUI Galway is delighted to announce the launch of its Yeats Collection Exhibition. Following controversial sales in the UK and Ireland of material from ‘Ireland’s greatest literary and artistic family’ – as described by London auctioneers Sotheby’s – the university is proud to confirm... | Read on »

A Roundtable event with Valentina Zucchi (Mus.e Florence), Linda Shevlin (Curator, Tulca Festival of Visual Art, Galway), Mary McCarthy (Crawford Gallery, Cork), Paolo Bartoloni (Italian, NUIG) Friday November 9, 6-8pm, O’Donoghue Theatre, National University of Ireland Galway The current world is inextricably linked to a past that not only forms identity, tradition and individual or... | Read on »

Ann Matthews on suffragist, novelist and republican activist Charlotte Despard (1844-1939).

Cartoons in World War I: Irish and Franco-Belgian Encounters Keynote speakers: Professor Grace Neville (University College Cork), a leading specialist in Franco-Irish relations, and prize-winning Belgian graphic novelist, Jean-Claude Servais. All welcome The First World War was a devastating conflict, but how did artists at the time use cartoons to tell the story? In association... | Read on »

The History Department presents: Printing in the Irish Language, 1571-1871 Prof. Richard Sharpe, Oxford University AS203: The River Room (Old Moore Seminar Room)   Prof. Richard Sharpe of Oxford University and Mícheál Hoyne of the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies have recently unveiled their bibliography of books printed in Irish between 1571 and 1871.  The... | Read on »

We would like to invite you to an Open Meeting next Tuesday, November 13 @ 2pm in Room G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room.  The meeting is an occasion for the Institute to update staff on the Institute’s activities to-date and its plans for the future while also giving staff the opportunity to ask questions and... | Read on »