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Brexit and Ireland’s Global Footprint to 2025: Doubling Ireland’s Impact

Ground Floor, Aula Maxima

At this symposium the Secretary General of Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade, Niall Burgess and John Concannon, Director General, Global Ireland will discuss Brexit and the Government’s strategy for Global Ireland - Ireland’s Global Footprint to 2025: Doubling Ireland’s Impact. Organised in association with Moore and Whitaker Institutes, this symposium offers a unique... | Read on »

“Bridging the care gap: An evaluation of palliative day-care services”.

Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

We are delighted that Dr Catherine Anne Field from the Health Promotion Research Centre at NUI Galway will deliver the final lunch-time seminar of the series. Palliative day care services provide individual, patient centred and holistic care acting on domains including but not restricted to medical models of care. Day-care is traditionally an under researched... | Read on »

Sport and Society in Global France: Nations, Migrations, Corporations-by Cathal Kilcline

Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building

Introduced by Professor Philip Dine All welcome     This book provides new insights into the evolution of the global sporting spectacle over the last thirty years through an analysis of star athletes, emblematic organisations and key locations in French sport, highlighting how sport has influenced (and been implicated in) debates over nationhood, immigration, commemorative... | Read on »

The Counter-Reformation and Stuart Loyalism in the poetry of Adam King

Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

By Moore Visiting Fellow David McOmish This talk will discuss the life and literary works of Adam King, an academic, writer, late-sixteenth century agent of the counter-reformation, and early-seventeenth century Stuart Loyalist. A committed follower of Mary, Queen of Scots in Scotland and the catholic cause across Europe, King returned to Scotland in the late... | Read on »

‘Researching rural housing: with an artist in residence’.

Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

by Dr. Menelaos Gkartzios, Newcastle University, and Dr. Julie Crawshaw, Northumbria University, UK, Moore Visiting Fellows. Menelaos Gkartzios and Julie Crawshaw present their interdisciplinary collaboration across artistic research, planning and rural studies. We draw on a collaborative art residence programme between Newcastle University and Berwick Visual Arts, an arts organisation in the North East of... | Read on »

‘The Letters of John McGahern: 1970’

Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Professor Frank Shovlin of the Institute for Irish Studies, Liverpool ‘The Letters of John McGahern: 1970’

France / Algeria: Gender, Memory, Identity

Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building

This panel discusses the relationship between gender, memory and national identity in cultural texts focusing on Franco-Algerian relations. The three speakers will situate specific literary texts and films within the broader contexts of French colonialism and decolonisation with a view to reflecting on the legacy of France’s colonial empire and on how cultural discourses surrounding... | Read on »

Poetry Reading ‘Не надо людям с людьми на земле бороться. People on this earth don’t have to fight with each other. – Marina Tsvetaeva: from ‘I know the truth’ (1915)

Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building

Potluck Eastern European and Slavic Poetry Reading Circle Facilitated by Emily Tock, MLIS, MALP, Government of Ireland Post-graduate Scholar PhD student in the Discipline of English As this is a potluck format, attendees are encouraged to bring their own favourite Eastern European and Slavic verse to share in this informal roundtable. For more info, contact... | Read on »