Gerry WattsJames Larkin and the Secret Service agents Sinbad and Estero.

You are invited to the launch ofThesis TalkThesis Talk is a bilingual blog created by College of Arts, Social Science & Celtic Studies PhD students under EXPLORE 2013.The aim of the blog is to create and participate in an online postgraduate research community.Theisis Talk/TrÌÁcht ar ThrÌÁchtais - Deis chainte dÌ_ibh si̼d atÌÁ i mbun thaighde... | Read on »

Performance MattersIrish Theatre Discussion Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/ For more information please contact lisa.fitzgerald@nuigalway.ie or m.nichualain5@nuigalway.ie All theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend For more information please email PerformanceMattersNUIG@gmail.com.

Lesa NÌ_ Mhunghaile The representation of the Pre-Colonial Gaelic past in Karl Gottlob KÌ_ttner's Briefe Ì_ber Irland (1785)

If you like gossiping, poetry, languages, puns, puzzles, jokes, double entendres or even avant-garde tomes, you might like Finnegans Wake. Despite its scurrilous critical reputation, James Joyce's final workis not as difficult as it would first appear and,when read as part of a group, can be a hugely rewarding experience. It is our hope to... | Read on »

Peter Kelly, Classics Department, NUIG 'Suspending suicide: trees and transformation in Ovid's Metamorphoses'

Michael O'Dowd The Speculum Matricis Hybernicum (1670), Ireland's first book on midwifery published in English

SYNGE SONG TIM COLLINS Inspired By Place: Traditional Music Composition in East Galway DEIRDRE N̍ CHONGAILE ‰Û÷Listening to this rude and beautiful poetry‰۪: John Millington Synge as song collector in the Aran Islands 4pm Thursday 14th November Applied Optics Seminar Room All welcome ECHO brings together researchers of all disciplines to discuss research questions in... | Read on »

Global women's Studies and Gender ARC are pleased to invite you to a lunchtime seminar: 'Reproductive health and rights: Ireland and India, historical and contemporary struggles' With guest speakers Dorothea Melvin - pioneer in the Irish movement for access to contraception and the establishment of the Galway Family Planning Association in the 1970s and Lakshmi... | Read on »

THREESIS: Open Your Mind...and Get to the Point!! Join us as NUI Galway researchers use their 3 minutes to Get to the Point and Open Your Mind! James Curry (Moore Institute & History) and EilÌ_s NÌ_ Dh̼ill (Gaeilge) will participate in this week‰۪s heat. Next week‰۪s heat on November 26th will feature presentations from EilÌ_s... | Read on »

Performance MattersIrish Theatre Discussion Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/ For more information please contact lisa.fitzgerald@nuigalway.ie or m.nichualain5@nuigalway.ie All theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend For more information please email PerformanceMattersNUIG@gmail.com.

Digital Scholarship Seminar, November 2013. 12-2pm, Wednesday 20 November, Moore Institute Seminar Room. The second event of the Autumn/Winter series of DSS is a lunchtime seminar featuring presentations from researchers in English and Huston School (abstracts below): Ciara Griffin (English). ‰Û÷The Author is Glitched: Media-Specificity and the Non-Western Writer.‰۪ Hilary Dully (Huston School). ‰Û÷Digital Issues... | Read on »

Laura O'Brien The Bishop on the Barricades: French commemorations of the death of Archbishop Denis Affre, 1848-1871

Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour & Class Moore Institute, NUI Galway Inaugural conference Arts Humanities and Social Science Reserach Building (new extension) 21-22 November 2013 Round One: THURSDAY 21 NOVEMBER, 9.00 ‰ÛÒ 10.30 Panel 1: Irish working life and politics: (i) Primitive rebels Gary Hussey (NUI Galway), ‰Û÷Agrarian secret societies and a moral... | Read on »

If you like gossiping, poetry, languages, puns, puzzles, jokes, double entendres or even avant-garde tomes, you might like Finnegans Wake. Despite its scurrilous critical reputation, James Joyce's final workis not as difficult as it would first appear and,when read as part of a group, can be a hugely rewarding experience. It is our hope to... | Read on »

ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF IRELANDFriday 22nd November 2-3.30 session 1 18th century economic Salim Rashid (Illinois), 18c Ireland and the birth of development economics Aidan Kane (NUIG), A database of 18th-century Irish public finances Patrick Walsh (UCD), Who paid what? Taxation and the financial impact of the state in... | Read on »

Irish Renaissance SeminarSchedule1.30̢åÛå3.00Dr Anders Ingram (NUI, Galway): ‰Û÷Discourse and Digital Methods: EEBO, Corpus Research and the ‰ÛÏTurk‰۝ in Early Modern England‰۪Dr Kathleen Miller (TCD): ‰Û÷Katherine Austen‰۪s Reckoning with Plague in Book M‰۪Dr Lindsay Reid (NUI, Galway): ‰Û÷Vernacular Ovids and the Cross̢åÛåDressed Narcissus of Shakespeare‰۪s Twelfth Night‰۪3.00̢åÛå3.45Tea/Coffee3.45̢åÛå5.00Dr Tom Roebuck (University of East Anglia): ‰Û÷Writing Medieval History... | Read on »

THREESIS: Open Your Mind...and Get to the Point!!Join us as NUI Galway researchers use their 3 minutes to Get to the Point and Open Your Mind!EilÌ_s Flanagan (Education), Fionn ÌÒ Sealbhaigh (Gaeilge) and Paul Flynn (Education). will participate in this week's heat.Come along and support your colleagues!A light lunch will be served after the presentations.

Joe Regan Defending Antebellum US Slavery: the impact of Bishop John England & other Irish Clerics

You are cordially invited to the final ECHO seminar of the semester, a Christmas circus cracker. We have two fine speakers, fine wine, and fine themes to gladden the heart and deepen the soul. The Reverend Al Green put it on record: 'happiness is when you're really feeling good about somebody'. No doubt he had... | Read on »

Join us for an hour to network with colleagues and explore potential opportunities for collaboration on research projects, outreach initiatives, workshops,seminars, summer schools and conferences.Refreshments served at 12 noon

John Whitman, Cornell/National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Toyko ‰Û÷Kundoku: What is it, and did anything like it exist in the medieval West?‰۪

IMBAS 2013 The theme for the 2013 conference is ' Destruction and Renewal ‰Û_and back again?‰۪, and it will run from the 29th November to 1st December at the Moore Institute, NUI Galway.The committee is delighted to announce that this year's keynote speaker will be Professor Fredric Cheyette of Amherst College, Massachusetts. Professor Cheyette is... | Read on »