Dr. Angela Byrne is Research Associate at Ulster University. She specializes in the histories of migration, travel and exploration, and women’s history. She is author of Geographies of the Romantic North: Science, Antiquarianism, and Travel, 1790–1830 (Palgrave, 2013) and A Scientific, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour: John (Fiott) Lee in Ireland, England and Wales, 1806–07 (Hakluyt Society, 2018).... | Read on »

This book tells the story of University College Galway from 1930 to 1980, through the reminiscences of dozens of people who were there. Interviews were conducted with everyone from College Presidents to grounds staff, from students who began their college lives in the 1930s to the post-free-education student activists of the 1970s. It is a portrait... | Read on »

This symposium is organised by network members Dr. Stanislava Antonijevic and Dr. Cassie Smith-Christmas. The day will feature a number of talks related to multilingualism in Ireland, with a special focus on children’s multilingual development and language use in the school and the home. This will be followed by the launch of the Centre for... | Read on »

We are delighted to invite you to the launch of the Centre for Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism (CALM), a new research cluster based in the Moore Institute. CALM will provide a platform for interdisciplinary research in the areas of applied linguistics and multilingualism and will increase awareness of issues related to language learning, language processing... | Read on »

Oliver Milne, PhD candidate in Philosophy, NUI, Galway, will present a paper, 'Freedom as a Discourse Concept and its Implications for Free Societies', as part of the Values and Identities seminar series. ALL WELCOME Abstract: Freedom as a Discourse Concept and its Implications for Free Societies In this talk, I make the case that the... | Read on »

by Dr. Áine Ní Léime, Irish Centre for Social Gerentology, NUI Galway. All welcome.

This seminar will be given by José Brownrigg-Gleeson.  José is an IRC Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at the Moore Institute and History Dept. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Salamanca (Spain) and previously worked at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies (USA) and at the University... | Read on »

You are cordially invited to the launch of a new book by Jim Gosling, Raymond Queneau's Dubliners: Bewildered by Excess of Love. The book is a study of two comic-erotic novels by Queneau set in Ireland, drawing on Joycean influences. Jim is emeritus professor of biochemistry and former Director of Quality at NUI Galway. Prof.... | Read on »

Martin O’Donoghue is Lecturer in Irish and British History at the University of Northumbria. He graduated with a PhD in History from NUI Galway in 2016 funded by scholarships from the Irish Research Council and the College of Arts. He subsequently held positions at the National Library of Ireland and the University of Limerick. Martin’s... | Read on »

The following panelists will discuss the outcome of this transformative vote. Panelists: Dr. Eoin Daly (School of Law) Prof. Kate Kenny (School of Business) Prof. Niall Ó Dochartaigh (School of Political Science & Sociology)