Modernist Studies Ireland Works in Progress   To see out this semester’s series of Works in Progress talks, please join us for a fascinating Christmas talk (avec gingerbread & wine) by NUI Galway’s own Frances McCormack. Frances’s paper will shine a light on one of the most critically neglected universals underpinning Joyce’s Finnegans Wake: emotional expression.  ... | Read on »

Peg Birmingham is a world renowned authority on the work of Hannah Arendt, while her interests also range widely in social and political philosophy, as well as feminist theory. She is the author of Deception, Violence and Law Renewing the Political (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017) Hannah Arendt and Human Rights (Indiana University Press, 2006) and co-editor (with Anna Yeatman) of Aporia of Rights: Explorations... | Read on »

You are warmly invited to the launch by Professor Ian Wallace of the volumes German Reunification and the Legacy of GDR Literature and Culture and Perceptions and Perspectives: Exploring Connections between Ireland and the GDR Both volumes were edited by Dr. Deirdre Byrnes (NUI Galway), Dr. Jean E. Conacher (UL) and Dr. Gisela Holfter (UL).... | Read on »

We would like to welcome all current postgraduate students to the final EDEN event of the semester: EDEN's Lightning Presentation Session on Thursday 5th December in the Bridge Room - 1001 HRB. The Lightning Presentations session is a chance for you to showcase your research, practice your presentation skills, and apply the tips and hints... | Read on »

Hosted by the Retired Staff Association Lecture Series.  All welcome.

Using our recently acquired ScanTent, (developed as part of the READ project, for more information, see https://scantent.eu/en/ ), and our trustee SLR cameras, this event will see participants divided into teams. The event will be a race to see which piece of equipment copes better with rapid digitisation, with lighting, clarity, processing speed, and image... | Read on »

Facilitated by Francisco Rozano-Garcia, Frances McCormack and Jenni Scanlan. A light lunch will be provided. All welcome.

This seminar will be given by Dr. Andrew Phemister who is an IRC postdoctoral fellow based in the Moore Institute.  Andrew completed a PhD at the University of Edinburgh and works primarily on nineteenth-century political thought, particularly in Ireland, Britain and the U.S. He has previously written on the Land War and is currently working... | Read on »