Focussing on the martial services and petitions of Patrick Plunkett, Baron of Dunsany, during the Nine Years’ War, this paper will explore how members of Ireland’s Old English Pale community drew on military traditions and personal service as the chief means of articulating political allegiances, grievances, and their rights as crown subjects. It will address... | Read on »

As part of the Path Breaking Women Exhibition, you are warmly invited to “Remembering Margaret Heavey”. With keynote presentation by Dr Pádraic Moran, lecturer in Classics NUI Galway, followed by a roundtable discussion on the many contributions of Margaret Heavey as a classics scholar, educationalist and long-time member of the NUI Galway community. All welcome!

Galway Centenary Conversations - a series of free public history events organised by the Moore Institute in conjunction with the Galway County Council takes places in the Station House Theatre, Clifden on Wednesday 28 June, at 8pm.  Topics to be examined this week include the aftermath of the 1916 Rebellion; the conscription crisis of 1918 and... | Read on »

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The final event in the War & Revolution: Galway Centenary Conversations, public history lecture series takes place in Clarin College, Athenry on Wednesday 19 July at 8 pm. Conor McNamara and Martin O'Donoghue of the Moore Institute will be among a panel of speakers discussing the geography of revolution in County Galway, 1917-21. Event is... | Read on »

 A mini-conference accompanying the exhibition  Path Breaking Women of NUI Galway: 1912-1922 and Beyond All welcome, places limited. To RSVP and for more information contact: lydia.kelly@nuigalway.ie   Programme 11.00am: Registration – Tea & Co­ffee 11.30am: Chair – Dr. Sarah-Anne Buckley Speaker: Dr. Nadia Claire Smith, 'Mary Donovan O’Sullivan and Síle Ni Cinnéide: Path-breaking women historians’ 12.30-1.00pm:... | Read on »