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Cuba: With or without Castro
Fidel Castro’s death on 25 November 2016 provoked a predictable storm of polarised and partisan commentary about his leadership of the Cuban Revolution, the longest and most audacious in Latin… | Read on »
Theses on Trump and the 2016 Election
As an American citizen living abroad, I have been reflecting on the course of the election and its outcome. Here are some theses on the process. § However immersed they… | Read on »
Iterating “Personæ” – Creating a Character-Visualisation Tool for Dramatic Texts
Creating digital projects is rarely a straightforward process, and often requires multiple iterations to refine the output. I recently collaborated with Justin Tonra and Lindsay Reid, both from the discipline… | Read on »
Women building peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo – Salomé Ntububa
Mary Robinson Centre, Visiting Scholar Salomé Ntububa gave two public research seminars during her time at NUI Galway in October 2016. Salomé, the Regional Emergency Manager for Central Africa, Christian… | Read on »
Professor Earle Havens at the Moore Institute
Earle Havens, the Nancy H. Hall Curator of Rare Books & Manuscripts, & Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of German & Romance Languages & Literatures, Johns Hopkins University visited the Moore Institute in… | Read on »
Deported 1916 Galway prisoners commemorated in Wales
Dr Conor McNamara, Moore Institute 1916 Scholar in Residence accompanied over fifty relatives of the three hundred or so Galway prisoners deported in the aftermath of the 1916 Rebellion to… | Read on »
True Crime: O.J. Simpson’s America
This post originally appeared on the blog of the Irish Humanities Alliance More than twenty years have passed since O.J. Simpson was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and… | Read on »
Georgetown University’s shameful past and the necessity for decolonising the university
This post originally appeared on the blog of the Irish Humanities Alliance In June 1838, facing unmanageable debts at its college in Georgetown, the Jesuit province of Maryland sold 272 slaves… | Read on »
Living with the Holocaust
This post originally appeared on the blog of the Irish Humanities Alliance Germany is at a crossroads now, faced with significant challenges to its post-Holocaust consensus and stability. The re-publication of… | Read on »
Slavery and its Popular Depictions in the Age of Obama
This post originally appeared on the blog of the Irish Humanities Alliance The year 2015 has a particular significance for the United States, since it commemorates 150 years (the so-called Sesquicentennial)… | Read on »