Recent work by Denis O’Hearn and Andrej Grubacic proposes that “exilic spaces” are a hopeful model for progressive change and, ultimately, for social revolution. Exilic spaces can be defined as those areas of social and economic life in which people attempt to escape from capitalist relations and processes, whether territorially or by attempting to build... | Read on »

This paper examines the connections between the revolutionary politics of Theobald Wolfe Tone and his friendships, especially that with Thomas Russell, his best friend and closest political ally. It also discusses the centrality of ideas of masculinity to Tone's politics. In doing so, it seeks to locate Tone and the United Irishmen not just within... | Read on »

  Postgraduate Medieval Studies invites all incoming and returning MA, PhD, PostDoc students (along with academic staff at all levels) with an interest in the antique, medieval and early modern worlds to it's annual Welcome Reception,all welcome, regardless of programme or discipline.

                  09:00 – 09:30 Registration / Coffee & Tea 09:30 – 11:00 Panel 1: Aesthetic Manifestations, Expressionisms and Power Structures Power, Subcultures and Queer Stages in Twentieth-Century Italy and Ireland Zsuzsanna Balázs, PhD Candidate (Drama and Theatre Studies), NUI Galway Pondering Progressive Punk Poetry Jonathan Hannon, PhD Candidate... | Read on »

This lecture by Dr. Seán Crosson will consider the topic of Sport and Film, drawing on the research he has undertaken of the subject internationally (evident in his monograph Sport and Film (2013)) and in the Irish context (where he will draw in particular on the work he did towards his recent book Gaelic Games on Film: From silent films to... | Read on »

                    A talk given by Dr Stefan Aquilina 2019 Galway University Foundation/Dr Ros Dixon Fellow Dr Stefan Aquilina is Director of Research and Internationalisation of the School of Performing Arts and Theatre Studies Senior Lecturer at the University of Malta. His research focuses on modern theatre, especially Stanislavsky... | Read on »

By Professor Philip Dine, Head of French, NUI Galway. How does sport shape society? From local origins in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, modern sports were first nationally and then internationally regulated, enabling novel personal interactions and unprecedented cultural exchanges. This sporting internationalization was to culminate in such global mega-events as the Olympic... | Read on »

                      Prof. Dr. Patricia Plummer (Duisburg-Essen University, Germany) Visiting Research Fellow, Moore Institute NUI Galway Patricia Plummer is Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies at Duisburg-Essen University, Germany. Her publications, research and teaching cover an interdisciplinary range of topics, from c18 Orientalism, Victorian literature and... | Read on »

                "We Have The Litany And All To Say": religion and everyday life in Irish novels of the 1940s' By Dr. Caitriona Clear (NUI Galway) '

  This panel discussion will bring together Irish Research Council-funded experts to share their findings on homelessness and how the current housing crisis in Ireland intersects with other forms of exclusion and inequality. Topics may include: direct provision and refugees; racial, gender, and class inequalities in social-housing provision; experiences of statelessness amongst the homeless and... | Read on »

  A product of the early twentieth century’s ‘sport-media-industry complex’, cycling’s Tour de France has engendered novel forms and styles of newspaper coverage and has attracted the interest of a variety of writers.A prominent right-wing novelist in the early fifties, Antoine Blondin (1921-1991) was a guest follower for French sports daily L’Équipe on four stages... | Read on »

The Moore Institute will host an information session on the IRC Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme on Wednesday, September 25 @ 1:00pm in Room G010  Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building. The session will be facilitated by Prof. Dan Carey, Director of the Moore Institute. In addition to the information session, the Moore Institute will offer a reading... | Read on »

              By Milena Cosentino (University of Limerick) As part of NUI Galway History Research Seminar Series Semester 1, 2019-20  

                    Не надо людям с людьми на земле бороться. People on this earth don’t have to fight with  each other. Marina Tsvetaeva: from ‘I know the truth’ (1915) Facilitated by Emily Tock, MLIS, MALP, Government of Ireland Post-graduate Scholar PhD student in the Discipline of English... | Read on »

        NUI Galway will host an Irish Research Council Funded Creative Connections Initiative, examining questions of European identity through a focus on the themes of sport and digital media. The workshop will draw on a range of disciplines in the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences (AHSS) and STEM areas from NUI Galway, Trinity... | Read on »

****This Event venue has been changed to Coole Park****   Introduced by Barry Houlihan, as part of the Lady Gregory-Yeats Autumn Gathering. Programme details and schedule is here: https://autumngathering.com/about/

The Annual De Burgo Lecture will be given by distinguished historian Professor Nicholas Canny Fáilte roimh chách - All welcome, admission free Nicholas Canny, FBA, has been a publishing scholar on the history of Ireland, particularly during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and on Atlantic History ever since his first learned article appeared in 1970.... | Read on »

                  By Professor John Newell Professor John Newell is Head of Statistics in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Applied Mathematics, NUI Galway.  His primary areas of research in Biostatistics are in the theory and application of statistical methods in clinical trials of health service and population... | Read on »

The College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, in conjunction with the Moore Institute, will be hosting a series or support and information workshops for staff in the coming semester. The first workshop (on Wednesday October 2nd at 1pm) will consider the topic of citation metrics and its role in identifying suitable publication outlets.... | Read on »

              By Daniel Cassidy and Dr. Aidan Kane (NUI Galway) As part of NUI Galway History Research Seminar Series Semester 1, 2019-20    

  **postponed until further notice ** By Thomas Strong A remarkable shift has occured in how we talk about witchcraft and sorcery.  Whereas these topics have long occasioned critical reflection on belief and reason, or cultural difference and human universals, the new discourse describes witchcraft as a “human rights” problem and focuses on harms associated with... | Read on »