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Dr Breandán Mac Suibhne, a Senior Research Fellow with NUI Galway’s Moore Institute, has won the Royal Irish Academy’s inaugural Michel Déon Prize for non-fiction for his book The End of Outrage: Post-Famine Adjustment in Rural Ireland. The award was announced Monday night, December 3rd, at a ceremony held in Iveagh House, the headquarters of… | Read on »

NUI has just launched an exciting range of new grants to support Early Career Academics to engage in international conference or symposium organisation, participation and networking. These grants are valued from €1-5,000 and seek to support ECAs at both the early and the more advanced stages of international conference/symposium organisation and participation. The grants are open to… | Read on »

Dr Breandán Mac Suibhne, a Fellow with NUI Galway’s Moore Institute Dr Breandán Mac Suibhne, a Fellow with NUI Galway’s Moore Institute, has been shortlisted for the Royal Irish Academy’s inaugural Michel Déon Prize for non-fiction for his book The End of Outrage: Post-Famine Adjustment in Rural Ireland. Six books have been shortlisted from over 240… | Read on »

The Moore Institute Visiting Research Fellowships in association with the College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies, James Hardiman Library & Galway University Foundation, National University of Ireland Galway CLOSING DATE: 2 NOVEMBER 2018 Introduction The Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies at NUI Galway will award a number of… | Read on »

This semester we’re going to run a weekly session for those interested in learning “creative coding”. This approach is a good way for those without any coding experience to develop a foundation in programming. The sessions will use online resources (see below) to guide self-directed learning. Creative coding is a different discipline than programming systems…. | Read on »

Opinion: how does Pope Francis compare to his modern predecessors and has his approach to date been marked by continuity or change?  See full essay published on RTE website: https://www.rte.ie/eile/brainstorm/2018/0821/986547-pope-francis-and-the-modern-church/ Essay by Gearóid Barry – Lecturer in Modern European History at NUI Galway.

New York Festivals Radio Awards 2018 Shortlist for Moore Institute’s NUI Fellow Dr. Deirdre Ní Chonghaile Known as the “Oscars of radio”, the New York Festivals Radio Awards 2018 have shortlisted a programme to which Dr. Deirdre Ní Chonghaile from the Moore Institute contributed some of her research. The Banshee and The Tiger was broadcast 21… | Read on »

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Debapriya Basu, Indian Institute of Technology. Contact Details: debapriya.06@gmail.com The Moore Institute Project Title: The Examinations of Anne Askew Online. Peter Glazer working with another Visiting Fellow Patrick Ball: Contact Information: prg@berkeley.edu The Moore Institute Project Title:  Come Dance with Me in Ireland: A Pilgrimage to Yeats Country. Daniel Watkins, Baylor University, USA. Contact Information: Daniel_Watkins@baylor.edu The Moore Institute Project Title: Berruyer… | Read on »