This seminar is part of the 'Career Development Seminar Series' organized by The Moore Institute and the Researcher Development Center.  See Career Dev Series CASSCS V1 for the full list of seminars. The aim of this Presentation Skills course is to provide learners with the vocal skills needed to deliver compelling and influential presentations. The course will... | Read on »

The Irish and the Problem of Imported Labor in the United States

  Digitizing Revolutionary Violence against Irish Environments     Abstract: The Irish Revolution demonstrates the importance of initiative, ingenuity, and familiarity with various landscapes and peoples as intangible necessities of guerrilla warfare. County-based studies of the Irish Revolution often confine these features to administrative and political boundaries, which fail to convey the truly organic complexity... | Read on »

Gavan Duffy (NUI Galway) “It went through the country like fire through dry grass.”: The impact of the 1918 influenza epidemic on Samoan/New Zealand relations in a national and international context.  

Talk by Jelena Đureinović  Moore Visiting Fellow 2019   This explores the Irish public reception of the establishment of state socialism in Yugoslavia and post-war trials that ensued, placing it in the wider context of anti-communism in Ireland and its religious dimension. The biggest concern in the Irish public regarding communism in Eastern Europe was the... | Read on »

Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence in Contemporary Irish Fiction’-Dr Teresa Caneda, University of Vigo, Spain.     A chairde, You are invited to attend our forthcoming seminar as part of the Irish Studies’ Seminar Series, Semester 2, 2018-19. We are delighted to welcome Dr Teresa Caneda from the University of Vigo, Spain to NUI Galway... | Read on »

  The Discipline of French and the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, in association with the Embassy of the Kingdom of Morocco is pleased to announce a special film screening at NUI Galway as part of this global celebration of the French language. Synopsis Aïda raconte l’histoire d’une juive marocaine, Aïda Cohen, professeur de... | Read on »

12.30 – 14.00: Seminar by Moore Institute Visiting Fellow – Dr. Mirko Daniel Garasic                        Why should we regulate the use of cognitive enhancers?: “Let me tell you why I should tell you that I took Ritalin before this talk” Abstract: It is now well documented... | Read on »

Open Scholarship heralds radical changes for research of all kinds. These include the mainstreaming of innovative cross-disciplinary data-reuse, an emphasis on transparency and reproducibility, concerns for preservation and long-term usability of data and the rise of new forms of scholarly communication including data publication and the normalisation of open access publishing.  In anticipation of these... | Read on »

FROM THE PEN OF COMMANDANT PAT QUINLAN, as told by his son, Commandant Leo Quinlan The Battle of Jadotville is the largest military action carried out by the Irish Army against a Foreign Army since the founding of the State. 155 Irish soldiers fought 3500 adversaries and survived.

  Presentation By Moore Visiting Fellow Dr Audrey Robitaillié This talk analyses changeling narratives in Irish folklore, both in English and in Irish, and focuses particularly on the theme of liminality in the Irish changeling tradition. To do so, it centres on folk narratives about humans taken away to the Otherworld by fairies, who leave behind... | Read on »

RTÉ Brainstorm Media Workshop with Editor, Jim Carroll If you're looking to find a wider audience for your research and expertise, this is for you. RTÉ Brainstorm has already proven to be a big success for NUI Galway academics and researchers. Since the project went live in September 2017, over 160 pieces by NUI Galway academics and researchers have been published on the... | Read on »

                      ASEAN, disaster discourses and the construction of ‘risk’ Prof. Lorraine Elliott ANU, Canberra, Australia Abstract This paper presents some (early) work in progress that examines how disaster discourses in Southeast Asia constitute a particular version of human (in)security and the human ‘insecure’ through the... | Read on »

At this symposium the Secretary General of Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade, Niall Burgess and John Concannon, Director General, Global Ireland will discuss Brexit and the Government’s strategy for Global Ireland - Ireland’s Global Footprint to 2025: Doubling Ireland’s Impact. Organised in association with Moore and Whitaker Institutes, this symposium offers a unique... | Read on »

We are delighted that Dr Catherine Anne Field from the Health Promotion Research Centre at NUI Galway will deliver the final lunch-time seminar of the series. Palliative day care services provide individual, patient centred and holistic care acting on domains including but not restricted to medical models of care. Day-care is traditionally an under researched... | Read on »

Introduced by Professor Philip Dine All welcome     This book provides new insights into the evolution of the global sporting spectacle over the last thirty years through an analysis of star athletes, emblematic organisations and key locations in French sport, highlighting how sport has influenced (and been implicated in) debates over nationhood, immigration, commemorative... | Read on »

By Moore Visiting Fellow David McOmish This talk will discuss the life and literary works of Adam King, an academic, writer, late-sixteenth century agent of the counter-reformation, and early-seventeenth century Stuart Loyalist. A committed follower of Mary, Queen of Scots in Scotland and the catholic cause across Europe, King returned to Scotland in the late... | Read on »

by Dr. Menelaos Gkartzios, Newcastle University, and Dr. Julie Crawshaw, Northumbria University, UK, Moore Visiting Fellows. Menelaos Gkartzios and Julie Crawshaw present their interdisciplinary collaboration across artistic research, planning and rural studies. We draw on a collaborative art residence programme between Newcastle University and Berwick Visual Arts, an arts organisation in the North East of... | Read on »

Professor Frank Shovlin of the Institute for Irish Studies, Liverpool ‘The Letters of John McGahern: 1970’

This panel discusses the relationship between gender, memory and national identity in cultural texts focusing on Franco-Algerian relations. The three speakers will situate specific literary texts and films within the broader contexts of French colonialism and decolonisation with a view to reflecting on the legacy of France’s colonial empire and on how cultural discourses surrounding... | Read on »

Potluck Eastern European and Slavic Poetry Reading Circle Facilitated by Emily Tock, MLIS, MALP, Government of Ireland Post-graduate Scholar PhD student in the Discipline of English As this is a potluck format, attendees are encouraged to bring their own favourite Eastern European and Slavic verse to share in this informal roundtable. For more info, contact... | Read on »

By Claudia Kinmonth Moore Institute Visiting Fellow

                                                            All Welcome