See here for full information on the scheme http://research.ie/funding/goipg/?f=postgraduate The session will be facilitated by Prof. Dan Carey, Director of the Moore Institute. The Moore Institute will provide a reading service for those who wish to avail of it, the timeline is as follows: Deadline for receipt of near final draft applications (fully copy edited) ... | Read on »

27 September          John McCafferty, UCD. Nosebleeds, Tears and Italianated Hearts: Thinking about the History of Emotions on the Seventeenth-Century Irish Mission  To be followed at 5pm by launch of Alison Forrestal’s Vincent de Paul, the Lazarist Mission, and French Catholic Reform (Oxford University Press, 2017) by our guest speaker.}

Thursday 28 September at 5:00 PM in The Bridge, Room 1001 HRB! The theme of the evening will be academic networking, with a workshop on crafting your ‘elevator pitch’ and a chance to put them in practice by introducing yourself to your fellow NUIG PhD peers. Pints and chats to follow at McGinn's—all are welcome!

September 29, 2017-  Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway DEVELOPED UNDER THE IRC "NEW FOUNDATIONS" SCHEME IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE IMMIGRANT COUNCIL OF IRELAND   9.00   Welcome 9.30 - Migration, Language and New Media (Chair: Andrea Ciribuco) - Mary Gilmartin (NUI Maynooth): “Narratives of Belonging” - Lisa McEntee-Atalianis (Birkbeck): “Tracing the Migrant Voice in... | Read on »

Seminar and Book Launch Prof. Kerby A. Miller  (University of Missouri) Best to Forget?  Conflict, Memory, and Memoir-Writing by Irish Emigrants to the United States, c1870-c1950                                                                                          Kerby A. Miller is Curators’ Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Missouri. His book Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America (1985) was... | Read on »

The Yeats Family Sale: NUI Galway, the Irish State, and the Auction Wednesday 4 October 12noon The Bridge Seminar Room (Hardiman Research Building 1001) Participants: Adrian Paterson Adrian Frazier Anne Byrne Barry Houlihan Marie Boran The major sale of items associated with W.B. Yeats, Jack B. Yeats, and their family in 224 lots went ahead... | Read on »

“Worlding Women's Work: The Migrant Female Domestic Worker in May-Lan Tan's ‘Date Night’ (2014)” by Dr Kate Houlden (Anglia Ruskin University)   Date: Wednesday, 4th October 2017 Time: 1:00–2:00pm Venue: The Bridge Seminar Room, Hardiman Building   ALL WELCOME!

4 Oct. Daragh Gannon (National Museum of Ireland/ Maynooth University) Irish Home Rulers in Britain and the Irish Revolution.*

Huston Guest Session: Award-winning Music documentary Cinematographer Frank Shortt Thursday October 5th 2.30pm, Huston Main Frank Shortt has worked in the film industry for almost twenty years, specialising in the music documentary genre and contributing as a cinematographer to award-winning productions including for leading international rock acts Iron Maiden, Motörhead and Rush. Originally from Norway,... | Read on »

“Martin Luther: Man and Movement” by Dr.Alison Forrestal - History, School of Humanities  Seminar Room, G010, The Hardiman Building at 12:00pm-1:30pm   Martin Luther:  Man and Movement 500 years ago, Martin Luther’s incendiary ideas about faith shook Europe, releasing a politically charged religious movement that could not be contained, and which altered the course of... | Read on »

RTÉ Brainstorm is a new online platform for academics and researchers to publish a broad range of articles.  NUI Galway, along with several other universities in Ireland, are supporting the initiative to increase the profile of our academic and research output. You will find more information below and also details about information sessions which are... | Read on »

The Traveller Woman in Ireland as a Literary Device and as a Whole Human The talk features a work-in-progress session on the figure of the Irish traveller woman by Melania Terrazas of the University of La Rioja, Spain. Dr Terrazas discusses the traveller woman as a literary device and as a whole human in the... | Read on »

Friday 13th October: Maria Hallinan: Social Status in Early Medieval Ireland and the Senchas Már Status Tract: The Evidence Thus Far Light Lunch Served

Special Event - Methodologies for Research in the Humanities 12 Noon, 17 October, Bridge Seminar Room   This event features descriptions of different methodologies for approaching research across the humanities, with plenty of time of open discussion and questions. All are welcome, particularly anyone applying for IRC postgraduate funding (the application process requires a statement... | Read on »

'Arts in Action' and the James Hardiman Library, present a special lunchtime event from the archives of the Lyric Theatre, Belfast. Acclaimed television and film actor Stella McCusker will read a selection of stories and poems from Threshold literary journal, published by the Lyric Theatre, Belfast. Edited by the likes of Mary O'Malley, John Montague,... | Read on »

18 Oct. Mel Farrell (UCD) From Cumann na nGaedheal to Fine Gael: ‘Civil War politics’ and the foundation of the United Ireland Party in September 1933.

This information session will be chaired by Prof. Dan Carey, Director of the Moore Institute with contributions from Dr. Marina Ansaldo of the Research Office, NUI Galway. Details of the scheme can be found here.  

 President Trump and the impact of the working class voter: Implications for US Policy. Wednesday, October 25th, 2017  from 3:00pm-4:00pm in the Siobhan McKenna Theatre, Arts Millennium Building   Paul Sracic is a professor and the chair of the Department of Politics and International Relations at Youngstown State University in Ohio who specializes in US politics,... | Read on »

25 Oct  Wayne te Brake (Purchase College, SUNY), Making Religious Peace in Early Modern Europe: An Irish Perspective.

The Long War CENTCOM, Grand Strategy, and Global Security by John Morrissey Nowhere has the U.S. military established more bases, lost more troops, or spent more money in the last thirty years than in the Middle East and Central Asia. These regions fall under the purview of United States Central Command (CENTCOM); not coincidentally, they... | Read on »

As part of the Moore Institute Visiting Fellowship Seminar Series, we are delighted to invite you to attend the following event based on the Tim Robinson Archive at NUI Galway Thursday 26 October:   10.00-10.15:  ‘Mapping the Future: Unfolding the Archive’, Dr Nessa Cronin, Centre for Irish Studies and Academic Director, Tim Robinson Archive, NUI... | Read on »

Huston Guest session: Kevin Toolis: "The Wonders of the Irish Wake and other Adventures in the Screen Trade."  Thursday October 26, 2.30pm, Huston Main. The award-winning filmmaker and writer Kevin Toolis will speak in the Huston School of Film & Digital Media on Thursday, 26 October 2017 at 2.30pm. The event is organised by Aonad Léann... | Read on »

Postgraduate seminar in Archaeology - All welcome!   Speaker: Peter Casby, PhD student in Archaeology and IRC scholarship holder Title: Arboreal Trends and Patterns in Medieval Settlement Enclosures Date and Time: Tuesday 31st October at 4pm Venue: GO1O  

Conference Organising Session Wednesday November 1st, 1-2pm in the Bridge Room -  Lunchtime Seminar   We will be joined by Ciara L. Murphy (O'Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance), Evan Bourke (English), and Dr Anne Karhio (English). They will be talking us through their experiences of organising conferences at NUI Galway, including how to craft a CFP,... | Read on »

The participants in this workshop are scholars working on various topics related to digital media and Irish popular and public cultures, based in Ireland and France.  The purpose of the workshop is to share material and ideas, to discuss individual projects, and to make plans for collaboration in the future. The morning sessions are for... | Read on »

‘Ansbacher Bankers Present . . .’ or  ‘Theatre and Privatisation in 1980s Ireland.’ **A lecture** Lionel Pilkington 1980s Ireland is dominated by a range of political and legislative measures whose overall effects severely curtail the claims of labour in relation to capital, restrict, and substantially retract, the state’s responsibilities towards social protection, and halt altogether... | Read on »

Friday 3rd November: Marianne Ailes: Tolerating the Religious Other in Crusading Literature (Title TBC) Light Lunch Served