Maria Cullen is in the second year of a PhD under the supervision of Dr. Kevin O'Sullivan. She has been awarded a Galway Doctoral Scholarship and an NUI Travelling Studentship. Her thesis compares French and British NGOs and their work in authoritan regimes in the Global South from decolonisation to the end of the Cold... | Read on »

Pictured above: The cast of The Kinds of Sex You Might Have In College Join panelists Dr. Charlotte McIvor, Marianne Ní Chinnéide, Sorcha Keane, and Rachel Parry in conversation about how the performing arts can impact social change. For more information and to reserve a space, please click here.

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The strategy, prepared by the Irish Humanities Alliance, is based on  extensive consultation with academics and researchers at all levels in the country, north and south. Prof. Pól Ó Dochartaigh (registrar and deputy president) will launch the strategy.   The chair, vice-chair and director of the IHA will be attending. Please join us to celebrate the... | Read on »

                    This book launch and reception, marking the completion of 6 books within Classics during 2018/19, will include an address by Prof. John Carey (UCC). The books are: J., Amrae Coluimb Chille: a Critical Edition (Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2019) Clarke, M., Achilles Beside... | Read on »

Dr. Angela Byrne is Research Associate at Ulster University. She specializes in the histories of migration, travel and exploration, and women’s history. She is author of Geographies of the Romantic North: Science, Antiquarianism, and Travel, 1790–1830 (Palgrave, 2013) and A Scientific, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour: John (Fiott) Lee in Ireland, England and Wales, 1806–07 (Hakluyt Society, 2018).... | Read on »

This book tells the story of University College Galway from 1930 to 1980, through the reminiscences of dozens of people who were there. Interviews were conducted with everyone from College Presidents to grounds staff, from students who began their college lives in the 1930s to the post-free-education student activists of the 1970s. It is a portrait... | Read on »

This symposium is organised by network members Dr. Stanislava Antonijevic and Dr. Cassie Smith-Christmas. The day will feature a number of talks related to multilingualism in Ireland, with a special focus on children’s multilingual development and language use in the school and the home. This will be followed by the launch of the Centre for... | Read on »

We are delighted to invite you to the launch of the Centre for Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism (CALM), a new research cluster based in the Moore Institute. CALM will provide a platform for interdisciplinary research in the areas of applied linguistics and multilingualism and will increase awareness of issues related to language learning, language processing... | Read on »

Oliver Milne, PhD candidate in Philosophy, NUI, Galway, will present a paper, 'Freedom as a Discourse Concept and its Implications for Free Societies', as part of the Values and Identities seminar series. ALL WELCOME Abstract: Freedom as a Discourse Concept and its Implications for Free Societies In this talk, I make the case that the... | Read on »

by Dr. Áine Ní Léime, Irish Centre for Social Gerentology, NUI Galway. All welcome.

This seminar will be given by José Brownrigg-Gleeson.  José is an IRC Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at the Moore Institute and History Dept. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Salamanca (Spain) and previously worked at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies (USA) and at the University... | Read on »

You are cordially invited to the launch of a new book by Jim Gosling, Raymond Queneau's Dubliners: Bewildered by Excess of Love. The book is a study of two comic-erotic novels by Queneau set in Ireland, drawing on Joycean influences. Jim is emeritus professor of biochemistry and former Director of Quality at NUI Galway. Prof.... | Read on »

Martin O’Donoghue is Lecturer in Irish and British History at the University of Northumbria. He graduated with a PhD in History from NUI Galway in 2016 funded by scholarships from the Irish Research Council and the College of Arts. He subsequently held positions at the National Library of Ireland and the University of Limerick. Martin’s... | Read on »

The following panelists will discuss the outcome of this transformative vote. Panelists: Dr. Eoin Daly (School of Law) Prof. Kate Kenny (School of Business) Prof. Niall Ó Dochartaigh (School of Political Science & Sociology)

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This workshop will explore the ideas of online and digital identity from a scholarly perspective. Participants will learn how tools such as blogging, twitter and a ‘domain of one’s own’ can allow them to professionally connect, share and network online. We will discuss the challenges of developing an ‘authentic online voice’, and explore the benefits... | Read on »

A seminar by Moore Institute Visiting Fellow, Prof Dominique Clément, University of Alberta The State Funding for Social Movements research team brings together scholars from universities across Canada in history, political science and sociology. Our team has developed an innovative new database (database.statefunding.ca) and digital archive that lists grants from governments in Canada to non-governmental organizations... | Read on »

This seminar will be given by Patrick J. Mahoney, a Fulbright Scholar at the Moore Institute and History Department and a PhD candidate at Drew University (New Jersey). His book ‘From a Land Beyond the Wave’: Connecticut’s Irish Rebels 1798-1916 won the Connecticut League of History Organizations’ Publication Prize (2018). He is currently translating and editing a... | Read on »

In this paper, Prof. Enrico Dal Lago, NUI Galway will focus on the life and achievements of Raimondo Di Sangro, Prince of San Severo (1710-1771). A high profile member of the court nobility in the eighteenth-century Kingdom of Naples, San Severo was a polymath, with interests that spanned the entire spectrum of human knowledge, from... | Read on »

Ashling McEvaddy, IRC funded PhD candidate in Philosophy, will present a paper, 'Retrospection and Revaluation in Nietzsche: Overcoming our Evolution in the Pursuit of Freedom' as part of the Values and Identities seminar series on Monday 24th February Time: 3 pm Venue: Tom Duddy seminar room, Philosophy Building, Morrisroe House, 19 Distillery Road ALL WELCOME Abstract: For... | Read on »

Why and when was Joyce’s Ulysses first deemed controversial and how did Joyce respond? This paper, based on Dr Hutton’s OUP monograph, looks at the circumstances in which Joyce’s work was first serialised in the US, and the nature of the post-serial revisions which Joyce made to the text. Dr Clare Hutton is Senior Lecturer... | Read on »

NUI Galway hosts a lunchtime seminar on sports journalism at 1pm on Tuesday 25 February in G010, Moore Institute/Hardiman Research Building to announce the launch of the new MA Sports Journalism and Communication programme from September 2020. Panel to feature:Keith Duggan (Chief Sports Writer, The Irish Times) Máire Treasa Ní Dhubhghaill (Presenter, Rugbaí Beo , TG4) Mike Finnerty... | Read on »

Neil is the third year of the Medieval Studies PhD programme and is working with Prof. Dáibhí Ó'Cróinín. The recipient of an IRC Postgraduate Scholarship, Neil is writing a thesis entitled “Built to Last: The Construction and the Benefits of Uí Néill Dynastic Identity in Early Medieval Ireland”.

Bede and Time is published in the Routledge series Studies in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland and provides the first integrated analysis of Bede’s thought on time. This approach allows for a greater understanding of Bede’s writings on time, and illuminates the place of time and chronology in his other works, including his creation of... | Read on »

This seminar is based upon Prof Haugaard's forthcoming book The Four Dimensions of Power: Empower, Domination and Democracy (MUP – July 2020), which explores the nature and workings of social and political power, through four dimensions,  throwing into relief different aspects of power related phenomena. The analysis constitutes a new framework that builds upon contemporary theoretical perspectives... | Read on »