Prof. Jean-Paul Pittion, fellow emeritus at TCD and former professor of Renaissance Studies in the Université François Rabelais, Tours, has published widely on the history of the book, Protestant academies in France, Huguenot emigration to Ireland, intellectual history, the history of medicine and medical publishing in the early modern period.    

French rugby is a sport historically practiced in the ‘wrong’ place, for the ‘wrong’ reasons and in the ‘wrong’ way. Its most abiding social function has been as a marker of frequently belligerent local identities, with investment in the game, both moral and material, being almost always parochial in nature. This was reflected for much... | Read on »

Mr Michael Kavanagh 'Protestant Secondary School Education in Co.Galway: Galway Grammar School, 1895 - 1932'

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In October 2015, Dr. Ian Campbell was awarded a Starting Grant of €1.3 million by the European Research Council to pursue the research project ‘War and the Supernatural in Early Modern Europe’ over four-and-a-half years. He will lead a research team of two research fellows and one graduate student to examine the relationship between debates inside... | Read on »

Dr Jessica Cooke (Independent Scholar) 'Saint Meldan, Saint Fursa, Saint Cuanna: Saints of Lough Corrib'.

In October 2015, Ian was awarded a Starting Grant of €1.3 million by the European Research Council to pursue the research project ‘War and the Supernatural in Early Modern Europe’ over four-and-a-half years. He will lead a research team of two research fellows and one graduate student to examine the relationship between debates inside the early... | Read on »

              Participants Dr. Rebecca Barr (English) Dr. Brendan Flynn (Political Science & Sociology) Dr. Laurence Marley (History) Dr. Kate Quinn (Spanish) Dr. Niall Ó Dochartaigh (Political Science & Sociology) Dr. Kerry Sinanan (Moore Institute Visiting Fellow)

Winifred Carney was an active feminist and a significant figure of the 1916 Rising. Born in County Down, she became James Connolly’s personal secretary after he was appointed Belfast organizer of the ITGWU. She arrived in the GPO on Easter Monday with a typewriter and a Webley revolver, and held the rank of adjutant throughout the week of... | Read on »

You are cordially invited to a celebration event for  Mr. Conor Newman (School of Geography & Archaeology) marking the conclusion of his role as chair of the Heritage Council 2008-2016 Speakers: Dr Kieran O’Conor and Prof. John Waddell Conor has been instrumental in major policy initiatives put forward by the Council, including the publication of... | Read on »

Dr James O'Donnell (NUIG) 'Political economy and professional networks in the nineteenth and twentieth-century British and Irish press.'

RSVP Required: kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie Dr Niamh Whitfield, a well-published independent scholar (http://independent.academia.edu/NiamhWhitfield), is a leading expert on early Irish metalwork in a European context.  After completing a BA Hons in Archaeology & French at UCD, where she studied with the esteemed Dr Françoise Henry, inter alia, Niamh moved to London, where she raised a family and... | Read on »

This event is hosted by the School of Political Science & Sociology's Power, Conflict and Ideology Research Cluster. Medieval Ireland was physically divided by a palisade separating an English-ruled enclave stretching from Dublin to Dundalk, from a Gaelic-speaking area whose inhabitants were considered uncivilised, 'beyond the pale'. In this paper we put this notion of... | Read on »

RSVP Required: kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie Dr Niamh Whitfield, a well-published independent scholar (http://independent.academia.edu/NiamhWhitfield), is a leading expert on early Irish metalwork in a European context.  After completing a BA Hons in Archaeology & French at UCD, where she studied with the esteemed Dr Françoise Henry, inter alia, Niamh moved to London, where she raised a family and... | Read on »

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As part of The Month of La Francophonie in Ireland, French writer, politician and researcher Azouz Begag will tour the Universities in Ireland : Cork, Limerick or Galway. Seize the occasion to meet him and (re)discover his books and movies! Azouz Begag was born in 1957 in Lyon. He is a French writer, politician and... | Read on »

    This talk examines the relationship between the Film Company of Ireland and Dublin cinemas in the period 1916-1920. Formed in 1916 and releasing its first films in that same year the Film Company of Ireland is the first important film production company in Ireland.  Established by James Mark Sullivan and Henry Fitzgibbon, this... | Read on »

An iBook by Dr. Robin Raine (Marien Scientist, School of Natural Sciences, NUI Galway) All welcome! Refreshments will be served.

Professor O'Brien is Emeritus Professor of Italian at NUI Galway. The presentation will encapsulate the history, geography, culture, places, attractions, food and wine of the island that will be backed up with attractive images.

Ronan Crowley (University of Antwerp) 'Migrate It New: Challenges and Opportunities for Ulysees: A Digital Critical and Synoptic Edition.'

Dr. Kurt C. Schlichting is E. Gerald Corrigan Chair in the Humanities & Social Sciences & Professor of Sociology & Anthropology kurt@fairfield.edu  

The relationship between human beings and the notion of place is changing constantly; we are always in "natural" transition. Therefore observing, mapping, experiencing and analising the limits between the tangible and intangible while addressing socio-environmental (contemporary) concerns become relevant. This project has been an experimental form of work - like moving-while-doing - as an attempt... | Read on »

Chair: Prof. Patrick Lonergan, O'Donoghue Centre of DTP Text: Walter Benjamin, 'The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility: Second Version'.

Dr Annemarie Brosnan (Mary Immaculate College, UL) 'The education of freed slaves in the American South'

PLEASE JOIN US FOR: “The Place of the Arts in Irish Education Revisiting the Benson Report 40 years on” Jane O’Hanlon (Poetry Ireland) 5.00-6.00 pm, March 16, 2017 GO11, James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway

Kylie Thomas is the author of the book Impossible Mourning: HIV/AIDS and Visuality after Apartheid and co-editor of the collection, Photography In and Out of Africa: Iterations with Difference. In early 2017 she will hold a European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Fellowship and will be based at the Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies... | Read on »

Book launch of Scott A. Davidson: Petitionary Prayer A Philosophical Investigation (Oxford University Press, 2017)   Scott Davidson, Professor of Philosophy at Morehead State University, Kentucky, USA, is a former Visiting Research Fellow at the Moore Institute where he completed this book. The Book will be launched by Prof. Felix Ó Murchadha, Head of School of Humanities.   All... | Read on »

Dr Gerard Moran (NUIG & Independent scholar) 'Sending out Ireland's Permanent Deadweight During the Great Famine: The Case of the Cork Workhouse Paupers sent to New Brunswick in 1850'

  Moderator: Mary Regan (columnist, Sunday Business Post) Participants: Prof Alan Ahearne (Director of the Whitaker Institute, NUI Galway, and former special adviser to the Minister for Finance) Prof Daniel Carey (Director of the Moore Institute, NUI Galway) Dr Kathleen Cavanaugh (Lecturer, Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway) Larry Donnelly (Lecturer, School of Law,... | Read on »

4-6pm: “The legacy of the Italian Renaissance” with Finola O’Kane Crimmins (UCD), Paolo Bartoloni (NUIG) and Daniel Carey (NUIG); McKenna Lecture Theatre, Arts Millennium Building. 7-10pm: Italian Art and its icons: The past in the present” with Valentina Zucchi (MUS.E) and Michaele Cutaya (Writer and Editor, Galway); 126 Artist-Run Gallery, St. Bridget’s Place.

Interactive technology for cultural heritage has long been a subject of study for Human-Computer Interaction. Findings from a number of studies suggest that, however, technology can sometime distance visitors from heritage holdings rather than enabling people to establish deeper connections to what they see. Furthermore, the introduction of innovative interactive installations in museum is often... | Read on »

Prof. Erin Goss (Clemson University) ‘Listening for William Blake’s Daughters of Albion: Echo, Complicity, Complaint’ and Dr. Kerry Sinanan (Moore Institute Visiting Fellow) ‘An Irish Slave Dealer in Africa: Nicholas Owen’s Manuscript Journal’

Anne Karhio: ‘Slight Return’: Paul Muldoon’s Poetics of Place (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2016)   Launched by Professor Sean Ryder, English, School of Humanities 5-6 pm Wine served All welcome!  

Prof. David Woolner is Roosevelt Institute/ Mary Ball Professor of US History, UCD  

Introduced by Prof. Pól Ó Dochartaigh   Light lunch served!   Prof. Donovan is founder of St. Thomas’s Irish Studies Program and editor of The Nashwaak Review, a literary, arts, historical and cultural magazine. He has published a biography of R. J. MacSween, The Forgotten World (2007), three volumes of poetry and two novels. He... | Read on »

John Carney was born in Dublin and was educated at De La Salle College Churchtown and at Synge Street CBS. He was bassist for Irish rock band The Frames between 1991 and 1993 and also directed some of their music videos. In addition to shooting music videos, Carney also wrote and directed two award-winning short... | Read on »

Dr Frances McCormack (English, NUIG) 'From Weeping Trees to Heated Hearts: Towards an Understanding of Compunction in Old English poetry'.