Dr. Campbell Jones, University of Leicester'What kind of person is the market?'We are today surrounded with talk about the market, about what it is doing and its consequences for us. More strangely, it is often said that the market itself can speak, that it can say things to us, it can ‰Û÷respond' to our actions,... | Read on »

‰Û÷Ireland and Biafra'atThe Moore Institute Seminar Room (AC203), NUI Galway.Thursday 30th September"Download full poster"11.00am Coffee11.30am Welcome and Introduction: Ireland and BiafraDr Fiona Bateman, Moore Institute, NUI Galway12.30pm Lunch2.00pm Prelude to the WarProf Godfrey Uzoigwe, Mississippi State University3.15pm Coffee3.30pm Panel Session: Spreading the message about Biafra - missionaries and the media.Including Mr Ciaran Carty, Mr Michael... | Read on »

Dr Brian Jackson, University College Dublin'A text in context: Henry Fitzsimon's ‰Û÷Revelation' and Varieties of Uniformity within Counter-Reformation Catholicism'

HISTORY GRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINARS 2010/11Terry Dunne'Class Conflict in the Leinster Colliery District, 1826-34'

Scientific instructions for travellersInternational conference8-9 October 2010Moore Institute Seminar Room (203)The development of inquiries, questionnaires, and directions for scientific travellers proliferated in the early modern period, ranging from the chorographers surveying particular places in Europe, to the Royal Society's queries for destinations around the world. The growth in this practice in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries... | Read on »

Professor Lee Morrissey, Fulbright Fellow in English'The Constitution of Literature: Toward a New History of English Literary Criticism'

HISTORY GRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINARS 2010/11Doireann Dennehy'1031 And All That: A Year to Remember in Clonmacnois'

Dr Matthew Campbell (University of Sheffield)'"Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves": Hopkins, Yeats, Parnell and the Unravelling of Empire'

HISTORY GRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINARS 2010/11John Burke'The Challenge of Political Organisation in Athlone, 1901-22'

Prof. Lorna Hardwick,'Translating Greek and Roman texts today: transmission, transgression and transformation'

HISTORY GRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINARS 2010/11Paul McNamara'Stalinist Dictatorship in Poland, 1946-53: The Case of Pomerania'