Weekend Conference:‰Û÷Remembering NoÌÇl Browne, 1915-97: Reflections on Radicalism, Welfare & Social Change in Modern Ireland'Featuring Robert Ballagh, Joe Higgins TD and others. Marking the centenary of the birth of Irish socialist politician and health reformer Noel Browne in Galway 13 - 14 November 2015.The programme of events is...Friday 13 November - 19:30Galway Mechanics Institute, Nun's... | Read on »

The Galway launch of the Letters of 1916 2 - 6pm Nursing and Midwifery PC suite of the James Hardiman Library. Here you can meet the team and learn to transcribe a letter. The Letters 1916 team will also be on hand to digitise any letters that you bring along. We are especially interested in... | Read on »

Performance MattersIrish Theatre Discussion Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/For more information please contact n.barre8@nuigalway.ieAll theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend

Archaeology research seminar series:Thor McVeigh - doctoral candidate in Archaeology All welcome!for more information please contact maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie

We are pleased to welcome ROSALEEN McDONAGH to NUI Galway as a Global Women's Studies Visiting ScholarRosaleen McDonagh is a writer and playwright, a well-known feminist in the Irish Traveller community, and a tireless advocate for human rights. A regular contributor to the Irish Times, Rosaleen currently holds a PhD fellowship at the University of... | Read on »

Drama Theatre and Performance speaker series:Emilie Pine (University College, Dublin)"Top Tips for Docu-Verbatim Memory Plays: The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later" Dr Emilie Pine lectures in modern drama in the School of English, Drama and Film at UCD. Emilie has published widely in the fields of memory studies, Irish studies and... | Read on »

History Graduate Research Seminar SeriesMatthew McGinty, ‰Û÷God Hath Supplied Us': Niall Garbh and the English in the Nine Years War. FÌÁilte roimh gach duinefor more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie

Book LaunchAnchoredby Lorna Shaughnessy Anchored is Lorna Shaughnessy's third collection of poems with Salmon Poetry. ‰Û÷Full and various, Anchored establishes Lorna Shaughnessy's range and power. From meditation on the landscape of the West of Ireland to the exploration of memories, personal or communal, treasured or pathological, to myths of sacrifice and betrayal, the various topographies... | Read on »

EDEN (English and Drama Exchange Network),a student-led research exchange network forEnglish and Drama postgraduate studentsFor more information please contact Justine Nakase at j.nakase1@nuigalway.ie

Lunchtime Seminar Series:The Ryan Commission: between justice and re-traumatisation, than and nowby Rosaleen McDonagh, leading feminist within the Traveller community The Irish Centre for Human Rights, in cooperation with Global Women's Studies, is pleased to welcome Rosaleen McDonagh, a doctoral scholar at Northumbria University, reading for a PhD titled "An Exploration of the Relevance of... | Read on »