Call for people interested in a Beckett Reading GroupFirst Meeting: Monday October 10th from 6-7 in the Moore Institute Seminar Room.We are looking for people interested in participating in a reading group centered around Beckett texts-both primary and secondary. Each week a participant will lead an informal discussion of a short work or excerpt of... | Read on »

Paddy McMenaminLong Kesh 1972-76: Politicisation of a Generation of Working-Class Youth in Northern IrelandMoore Institute Seminar Room, Wednesday, October 12, 20114pm

John Calder published 23 Nobel Prize winners for Literature including Samuel Beckett. The Godot Company which he founded has toured Ireland with Waiting for Godot (2006), Endgame (2009), Beckett x3 (2010) which were acclaimed both by critics and by audiences.Calder was Beckett's principal English-language publisher during his lifetime, who was also a close friend, and... | Read on »

19 Oct.Hayley HumphreyRepresentations of the Virgin Mary on Irish High Crosses

26 October 2011Lili ZÌÁch Diplomatic Links between Ireland & the Successor States of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1919-1945

2 Nov.Jackie UÌ_ Chionnaith The G.I. Bill and American Medical Students at University College Galway 1946-1966

Professor Shaun Richards (Moore institute Visiting Fellow): ‰Û÷Space and Place in Irish Drama‰۪ workshop

The Gallipoli Campaign in the Mainstream Irish Media: Coverage, Reaction, Comment

Identity: Individual, Society and RealmFRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11TH12.00-12:30: registration1.00-2.30: Panel AChair: Prof. MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ DhonnchadhaR̼airÌ_ O'SuilleabhÌÁinUniversity College CorkLight, fire, sanctity and salvation: Spiritual and patristic echoes in AdomnÌÁn's Vita ColumbaeSarah CorriganNUI, GalwayThe Parting of the Waters in Early Lives of Irish SaintsJessica FahyUniversity College DublinBrides of Christ: Female religious identity and Italian conventual art2.30-3.00: tea &... | Read on »

16 Nov. MÌÁire ÌÒ Broin History & Myth in 19th-Century Germany: the Lost City of Vineta