This is an in-person event held in is room 306 in Aras Moyola, NUI Galway. About this event This presentation will outline a book currently being developed about civic parties in deeply divided societies, focusing on the case of Northern Ireland after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. The book explores the place of civic parties... | Read on »

Hermit Songs (1953) by Samuel Barber  Watershed (2020) by Ailís Ní Ríain  Watershed is a new song cycle for voice and piano inspired by the natural bodies of water and land in Ireland’s midwest region and along the Atlantic coast.  With music by renowned Irish composer Ailís Ní Ríain and text by Ballina-Killaloe resident, poet Jessica Brown, it is... | Read on »

Professor Matthew Smith (University of Strathclyde) Peace of Mind: Social Psychiatry, Universal Basic Income and Preventing Mental Illness in the USA Abstract Following the Second World War, a new, interdisciplinary and preventive approach to psychiatry gained influence in the US.  Social psychiatry involved teams of social scientists and psychiatrists which explored the environmental causes of... | Read on »