MA in Drama Guest Speaker SeriesPlaywright and screenwriter Mark O'Rowe (the award-winning scriptwriter of Intermission, Terminus, Made in China, Howie the Rookie, and Perrier's Bounty) will be speaking in the Moore Institute Seminar Room at 5pm on Monday, the 25th of February 2013. ALL ARE WELCOME!

Performance MattersIrish Theatre Discussion Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/ For more information please contact lisa.fitzgerald@nuigalway.ie or m.nichualain5@nuigalway.ie

A weekly seminar on the Middle Irish Tale Airec menman Iraird maic Coisse 'The Stratagem of Irard mac Coisse' led by Prof. MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha (School of Humanities) Every Wednesday at 12.00 noon beginning Wednesday 23 January 2013 in the Moore Institute Seminar Room The 10th-century Connacht poet Irard mac Coisse is titled 'prÌ_m̩ices Ìärenn... | Read on »

Angela Byrne Scientific and cultural researches in the sub-Arctic, 1800‰ÛÒ1830contact: daibhi.ocroinin@nuigalway.ie

GrammaticiTeachers, Scholars and Learned MenA presentation and discussionmoderated by Jason O'RorkeFriday 1 March, 12.00 - 1.00(followed by lunch, 1.00 - 2.00)FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch - Everyone is welcomeContact: jacopo.bisagni@nuigalway.ie

The Irish Research Council and the Moore Institute at NUI Galway present: A rehearsed reading of WHEN THE MOON HAS SET By J.M. Synge On Friday, 1st March 2013 at 3pm At the Town Hall Theatre (Studio Space), Galway After Yeats and Lady Gregory rejected When the Moon Has Set (Synge‰۪s first completed play) in... | Read on »

As part of the Ulysses Project the French Department and the School of Languages Literatures and Cultures will hostTwo seminars in French : 1) Training seminar on how to use the Frantext database, 10 -12 in the Library training room Frantext contains more than 4000 French and Francophone texts (www.frantext.fr) of interest to a wide... | Read on »

'"The Troubles" the BBC and the politics of censorship 1969-1974' Robert Savage is a member of the Boston College Department of History. He has written widely on contemporary Irish history including the origins and evolution of television in the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland. The American Conference for Irish Studies awarded him the 2010 James... | Read on »

Zsuzsanna ZarkaIrish images of the Hungarian Revolution & War of Independence, 1848-49 contact: daibhi.ocroinin@nuigalway.ie

Irish connections in ecclesiastical consecration Dominique Dubreucq will give a lecture on Irish connections with the ritual for church consecration at 4 p.m. Thursday, 7 March, in the Moore Institute Seminar Room. The event is co-sponsored by CAMPS and the Columbanus Life and Legacy project. For more information concact mark.stansbury@nuigalway.ie

THEATRE PROJECTSA weekley meeting to discuss and plan the creation of opportunities for projects within DramSoc for productions as well as workshops and other social eventscontact n.barre8@nuigalway.ie

The British Labour Party & Twentieth-Century Ireland Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway 8- 9 March, 2013 Keynote Address: Dr. Kevin McNamara(former Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland)Other Speakers Include: Joan Allen (Univ. of Newcastle) Peter Collins (St. Mary's, Belfast) Aaron Edwards (Sandhurst Acad.) Ivan Gibbons (St. Mary's, London) Stephen Howe (Univ. of... | Read on »

ECHO is delighted to welcome you to another workshop, this time on writing strategies, aimed at researchers across the arts and humanities, and considering how, when, what, and why to write.

Speaker: Dr. Inga Roemer of the Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal, Germany and on an Erasmus exchange visit to the discipline of Philosophy Title: "Person and Moral Obligation" For more information contact: felix.omurchadah@nuigalway.ie

Visiting speaker and former Fulbright Scholar at NUIG, Prof. Lee Morrissey (Clemson University, USA) will be giving a talk on Tuesday 12 March at 5pm: ‰ÛÏMilton's ‰Û÷Lycidas' and the Challenge of Counter-Reformation Irish Catholicism. Or, Milton the Revisionist" Venue: Moore Institute Seminar Room All WelcomeFor more information contact marielouise.coolahan@nuigalway.ie

Performance MattersIrish Theatre Discussion Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/ We will be discussing Caryl Churchill's The Skriker (1994). For more information please contact lisa.fitzgerald@nuigalway.ie or m.nichualain5@nuigalway.ie

A weekly seminar on the Middle Irish Tale Airec menman Iraird maic Coisse 'The Stratagem of Irard mac Coisse' led by Prof. MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha (School of Humanities) Every Wednesday at 12.00 noon beginning Wednesday 23 January 2013 in the Moore Institute Seminar Room The 10th-century Connacht poet Irard mac Coisse is titled 'prÌ_m̩ices Ìärenn... | Read on »

M̩idhbhÌ_n NÌ_ Ì_rdail Irish-Language Manuscripts & Books in the 18th centurycontact: daibhi.ocroinin@nuigalway.ie

"The Ghosts of the Past: La familia de Pascual Duarte in the Twenty-first Century". Dr Ross Woods from the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.This seminar revisits Camilo Jos̩ Cela‰۪s La familia de Pascual Duarte, the work generally regarded as heralding the rebirth of the Spanish novel upon its publication in 1942. By examining the... | Read on »

Margaret (Ma) Heavey was a member of staff in Classics from 1931 to 1977, Professor in Ancient Classics from 1958 and Dean of Arts 1970-1976. The annual Margaret Heavey Memorial Lecture will take place this year on Thurs 14 March 5pm in the ÌÒ Tn̼thail Theatre (Arts Millennium Building). Dr James Clackson (Cambridge) will give... | Read on »

THEATRE PROJECTSA weekley meeting to discuss and plan the creation of opportunities for projects within DramSoc for productions as well as workshops and other social eventscontact n.barre8@nuigalway.ie

Linguistic variation: Searching for spokenvariation in written textsA guest lecture by Dr James ClacksonReader in Comparative Philology, University of CambridgeFriday 15 March 2013, 12.00‰ÛÒ1.00followed by lunch 1.00‰ÛÒ2.00Moore Institute Seminar RoomFÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch/Everyone welcome!

ECHO Seminar. Dramatic Licenses: with David Clare & Siobhan O'Gorman

iPad TrainingSpecifically to using the following applications; Email, Notability, iAnnotate, Blackboard, and Skydrive/dropbox This training is open to all current iPad users and those considering purchasing one. Please bring your iPad with you to this training if you own one.For more information, please contact:Denise Keaveney Disability Support Service Assistive Technology Office James Hardiman Library 091... | Read on »

Book Launch Ireland, Africa and the end of empire: small state identity in the Cold War, 1955-75 (Manchester UP)The book will be launched by RÌ_isÌ_n Healy (Head of History at NUIG) and Peadar King, a documentary filmmaker who produces the RTÌä television series, What in the World?, and has just published a book of the... | Read on »

A weekly seminar on the Middle Irish Tale Airec menman Iraird maic Coisse 'The Stratagem of Irard mac Coisse' led by Prof. MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha (School of Humanities) Every Wednesday at 12.00 noon beginning Wednesday 23 January 2013 in the Moore Institute Seminar Room The 10th-century Connacht poet Irard mac Coisse is titled 'prÌ_m̩ices Ìärenn... | Read on »

Daniel Knegt 'Quelle Europe?' French Intellectuals between Liberalism, Internationalism and Fascism, 1930-1950Contact: daibhi.ocroinin@nuigalway.ie

iPad TrainingSpecifically to using the following applications; Email, Notability, iAnnotate, Blackboard, and Skydrive/dropbox This training is open to all current iPad users and those considering purchasing one. Please bring your iPad with you to this training if you own one.For more information, please contact:Denise Keaveney Disability Support Service Assistive Technology Office James Hardiman Library 091... | Read on »

Digital Scholarship Seminar Announcing the inaugural series of a new research seminar for researchers working in any branch of the arts and humanities who are engaged in the creation and/or exploitation of digital resources in the course of their research. 12-1pm, Thursday 21 March 2013 Marina Ansaldo (Moore Institute)Reading East: From concept to live online... | Read on »

Macho, Macho Men (and Women): MarÌ_a F̩lix and Emilio ‰Û÷el indio‰۪ FernÌÁndez in Mexican Films of the Revolution Dr Niamh Thornton, University of Ulster, Coleraine Mexican film has repeatedly returned to the bellicose period of the Revolution (1910-20) as a source of inspiration for both plot and setting. The archetypal image of the Mexican macho... | Read on »

Geopolitics & Justice Research Cluster 50th Anniversary Symposium 22 March, 9.15 am ‰ÛÒ 4.30 pm Moore Institute, NUIGalway To mark the 50th anniversary of Geography at NUI Galway, the Geopolitics and Justice Research Cluster will host a symposium on Friday, March 22nd, in the Moore Institute. The Geopolitics and Justice cluster unites interests that seek... | Read on »

Dr. Lorraine Kelly, Spanish, SLLC, NUI Galway ‰Û÷Narcoliterature: gender, violence and impunity‰۪ Time/Date: 1.00pm, Friday 22 March, 2013 Venue: Moore Institute, NUI Galway Sponsored by the Gender, Discourse and Identities cluster Gender ARC, Moore Institute

Professor Patrick Joyce, Professor of History, University of Manchester and Professorial Fellow in History, University of Edinburgh Spring 2013: Moore Fellow, Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway. Professorial Fellow in History, University of Edinburgh and Emeritus Professor of History, University of Manchester, www.patrickjoyce.info email:patrick.joyce@manchester.ac.uk

FOUR COURTS PRESS ‰ۢ BOOK LAUNCH You are cordially invited to the launch of Chaucer‰۪s Poetry Words, authority and ethicsClÌ_odhna Carney & Frances McCormack editors 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday 26 March 2013 in the Moore seminar room, NUI Galway, Galway This book will be launched by MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha, Professor of Old and Middle Irish... | Read on »

Performance MattersIrish Theatre Discussion Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/ We will be discussing Caryl Churchill's The Skriker (1994). For more information please contact lisa.fitzgerald@nuigalway.ie or m.nichualain5@nuigalway.ie

A weekly seminar on the Middle Irish Tale Airec menman Iraird maic Coisse 'The Stratagem of Irard mac Coisse' led by Prof. MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha (School of Humanities) Every Wednesday at 12.00 noon beginning Wednesday 23 January 2013 in the Moore Institute Seminar Room The 10th-century Connacht poet Irard mac Coisse is titled 'prÌ_m̩ices Ìärenn... | Read on »

Conor Morrissey Advanced Protestant Nationalists in Ireland, c. 1900-1923Contact: daibhi.ocroinin@nuigalway.ie