Magic Mists and Recent Irish Poetry a lecture by Lucy McDiarmid (Marie Frazee-Baldassarre Professor of English, Montclair State University) Visiting Research Fellow at Trinity Long Room Hub In recent Irish poetry, streets disappear, cats and pigs talk, mummies board trains, ferns create a semiotic system, and a dead man reads Anna Karenina. The rich legacy of the... | Read on »

Tionólfar an ceathrú léacht sa tsraith seo, ar an Aoine, 10 Márta @ 12:30 i.n. i Seomra an Droichid THB-1001, An Chéad Urlár, Institiúid de Móra, Áras Uí Argadáin, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe agus ar Zoom. 'An Chruit agus na Cruitirí sa tseanaimsir in Éirinn: blogh dá scéal'   An tOllamh Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha, Roinn na Gaeilge, Ollscoil na... | Read on »

Moore Institute Pop up Event  The Irish at the Oscars: a discussion of The Banshees of Inisherin and An Cailín Ciúin with Dr Tony Tracy (Huston School of Film & Digital Media, University of Galway) Seán Breathnach (Léann na Cumarsáide, Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge, University of Galway), award-winning director of Foscadh

Book Launch   The Moore Institute, University of Galway cordially invites you to celebrate the launch of: A Conceptual History of Psychology The Mind Through Time by Brian Hughes  (London: Bloomsbury)   With launch introduction (via Zoom) by Prof Krys Kaniasty Indiana University of Pennsylvania   From the cover: A Conceptual History of Psychology charts the... | Read on »

Staff and students are warmly invited to attend the next gathering of the Figuring Ecologies Reading Network (FERN). We meet each month to discuss a literary or creative work on the subject of ecologies. Next Meeting: Wednesday 15 March 2023, Bridge Room, Moore Institute, 13.00-14.00 We will discuss The Poetry of Derek Mahon and Moya... | Read on »

Dr Lisa Godson  (National College of Art and Design, Dublin) Irish Architects in Africa: Tropicalism in the Built Environment and its Legacy    Abstract This paper focuses on the phenomenon of Irish architects who produced work that was built in different African countries including Kenya, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Nigeria from c.1948-78. It draws in... | Read on »

The School of Political Science and Sociology invite you to a research seminar with:  Mary Clancy (Global Women’s Studies Research Cluster) 'Researching the Public Life of Alice Cashel (1878-1958): Themes, Sources and Questions'   Abstract: This talk examines the fractured public life of Alice Cashel, a woman known for her political roles in early twentieth... | Read on »

Marilynn Richtarik (Georgia State University) “Getting to Good Friday: Literature and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland”   Biography: Dr. Richtarik teaches courses on 20th-century British, Irish, and world literature and modern drama. She was educated at Harvard (where she earned an undergraduate honors degree in American History and Literature) and at Oxford University, which she... | Read on »

"On Collaboration, Mediation and Performance Practices" Dr. Esther Armstrong Programme Director for Performance Design and Technologies Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts London

Digital Innovation & Creativity in Arts and Humanities Research Sessions Lightning Talks: Current Directions in Digital Innovation & Creativity in AHSS Research Panel Discussion: "The future of digital innovation & creative technologies in AHSS research at University of Galway"   1:30        Words of welcome             Prof. Dan Carey 1:40 Lightning... | Read on »