REGISTER ON EVENBRITE Event Information DESCRIPTION PLEASE NOTE Visitor Information: There is limited paid parking on the grounds of NUI Galway. On-street parking is available nearby. Pay & Display and permit holder parking available at the Park & Ride facility, North Campus, NUI Galway located just off the main Galway-Oughterard-Clifden Road. The President of... | Read on »

NUI Galway Commemorates the Bicentenary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein                                   The 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s groundbreaking novel, Frankenstein, will be celebrated this Hallowe’en with a series of free events at NUI Galway and in Galway... | Read on »

EDEN  – Roundtable on Precarious Employment.  Casual Labour – Precarious Employment – Short Term/ Zero Hour Contracts.  Terms which have become increasingly commonplace in the decade following the 2008 economic crash.  As funding for institutes of higher education is once again under threat – and the ever-darkening cloud of Brexit – what is the impact of... | Read on »

Dr. Deirdre Fennell, and the title is ‘The Reluctant Deputy:  Sir William Fitzwilliam, treasurer and governor of Tudor Ireland’.

Gender Arc Research Seminar Series Autumn 2018  Women's Precarious Labour in Post-Socialism: Textile Production in South-East Europe  By Dr Chiara Bonfiglioli Chiara Bonfiglioli is a Lecturer in Gender & Women's Studies at University College Cork. She received her MA and PhD in Gender Studies from Utrecht University. Between 2012 and 2017 she held post-doctoral fellowships... | Read on »

On Tuesday, 30 October, 8 pm, at the Galway Mechanics Institute, Middle Street, Daniel Kowalsky will speak on ‘Stalin and the Spanish Civil War, Eighty Years On’ The event is co-organised by the Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class (Moore Institute, NUI Galway) and the Galway Council of Trade Unions. Free, all welcome.... | Read on »

 The Research Office is hosting an information session for applicants to the IRC Postdoctoral Scheme. The presentation will include guidelines on the submission process, tips on how to craft a strong application, and a Q/A session.      

                                        NUI Galway’s Moore Institute and Galway University Foundation will host a climate-themed exhibition, Art on the Edge, in the Hardiman Research Building during the month of November. Featuring original artwork by NUI Galway physical geographer,... | Read on »

Dr Anne Byrne (Sociology & Politics, NUI Galway) will deliver her seminar, “Woolfs in Ireland: The Lure of Language and Place”, based on her ongoing research investigating the links between Virginia and Leonard Woolf and twentieth-century Ireland. For further details on the seminar and Dr Byrne’s work in this area please see below. The seminar... | Read on »