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Reflections on the American Superbowl, 2020

Once the US sport of football consolidated its position as the national game (supplanting baseball), it assigned itself a distinctive role in the concluding game of the year – the… | Read on »
Media Ecology: Ireland, America, and RTÉ

In August, 2010, I moved to Ireland, to teach and research at NUI Galway as a Fulbright Scholar, for a period 2-weeks shy of a year. For many reasons too numerous… | Read on »
Adventures in Zero G: Knowledge Exchange in Early Medieval Digital Humanities

My current understanding of digital humanities is that it is something like the International Space Station (ISS): ISS constitutes an entirely new environment in which research takes place, and I think the… | Read on »
Boris Johnson, Winston Churchill and the United States of Europe

This article originally appeared on RTÉ Brainstorm Opinion: it’s instructive to look at the various speeches and articles by Johnson’s hero Churchill on Britain’s place in Europe Much has been… | Read on »
Future Landcapes: Participant Experiences – Attracta Brennan

Future Landscapes was an intensive four-week, full-time workshop created in a collaboration between the Moore Institute and Galway 2020, and run by the School of Machines, Making and Make-Believe. This is… | Read on »
Future Landscapes: Participant Experiences – Patrick Collins

Future Landscapes was an intensive four-week, full-time workshop created in a collaboration between the Moore Institute and Galway 2020, and run by the School of Machines, Making and Make-Believe. This is… | Read on »
Discovering Mass Paths

Image: Mass Paths Series, Caitríona Dunnett. http://www.caitrionadunnett.com Irish Studies’ Visiting Scholar Dr Hilary Bishop from Liverpool John Moores University, who undertook a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Moore… | Read on »
Future Landscapes – Participant Updates: Conn Holohan

Future Landscapes is an intensive four-week, full-time workshop created in conjunction with the School of Machines, Making and Make-Believe and Galway 2020. This is the second in a series of posts by participants… | Read on »
Future Landscapes – Participant Updates: Jim King

Future Landscapes is an intensive four-week, full-time workshop created in conjunction with the School of Machines, Making and Make-Believe and Galway 2020. This is the first in a series of posts by participants… | Read on »
Brexit and the Future of British-Irish Relations: Conference Sessions

Brexit & the Future of British-Irish Relations was a two-day conference during which leaders in academia, public life, and business gathered together to discuss the implications of Brexit on the… | Read on »