Moderator: Mary Regan (columnist, Sunday Business Post) Participants: Prof Alan Ahearne (Director of the Whitaker Institute, NUI Galway, and former special adviser to the Minister for Finance) Prof Daniel Carey (Director of the Moore Institute, NUI Galway) Dr Kathleen Cavanaugh (Lecturer, Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway) Larry Donnelly (Lecturer, School of Law,... | Read on »

4-6pm: “The legacy of the Italian Renaissance” with Finola O’Kane Crimmins (UCD), Paolo Bartoloni (NUIG) and Daniel Carey (NUIG); McKenna Lecture Theatre, Arts Millennium Building. 7-10pm: Italian Art and its icons: The past in the present” with Valentina Zucchi (MUS.E) and Michaele Cutaya (Writer and Editor, Galway); 126 Artist-Run Gallery, St. Bridget’s Place.

Interactive technology for cultural heritage has long been a subject of study for Human-Computer Interaction. Findings from a number of studies suggest that, however, technology can sometime distance visitors from heritage holdings rather than enabling people to establish deeper connections to what they see. Furthermore, the introduction of innovative interactive installations in museum is often... | Read on »

Prof. Erin Goss (Clemson University) ‘Listening for William Blake’s Daughters of Albion: Echo, Complicity, Complaint’ and Dr. Kerry Sinanan (Moore Institute Visiting Fellow) ‘An Irish Slave Dealer in Africa: Nicholas Owen’s Manuscript Journal’

Anne Karhio: ‘Slight Return’: Paul Muldoon’s Poetics of Place (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2016)   Launched by Professor Sean Ryder, English, School of Humanities 5-6 pm Wine served All welcome!  

Prof. David Woolner is Roosevelt Institute/ Mary Ball Professor of US History, UCD  

Introduced by Prof. Pól Ó Dochartaigh   Light lunch served!   Prof. Donovan is founder of St. Thomas’s Irish Studies Program and editor of The Nashwaak Review, a literary, arts, historical and cultural magazine. He has published a biography of R. J. MacSween, The Forgotten World (2007), three volumes of poetry and two novels. He... | Read on »

John Carney was born in Dublin and was educated at De La Salle College Churchtown and at Synge Street CBS. He was bassist for Irish rock band The Frames between 1991 and 1993 and also directed some of their music videos. In addition to shooting music videos, Carney also wrote and directed two award-winning short... | Read on »

Dr Frances McCormack (English, NUIG) 'From Weeping Trees to Heated Hearts: Towards an Understanding of Compunction in Old English poetry'.