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NUI Galway’s James Hardiman Library will host renowned photographer Tarquin Blake’s Abandoned Mansions of Ireland exhibition until Friday, June 24.

In honour of the retirement of Professor Nicholas Canny of NUI Galway, Reshaping Ireland, 1550-1700: Colonization and its Consequences is being launched in the Moore Institute in NUI Galway on Wednesday June 1 at 5.00pm.

The era of ‘the island of saints and scholars’ is no myth, but a dynamic period of Irish history, aspects of which will be discussed and analysed by leading scholars at an event in NUI, Galway.

What were Irish farmhouses like in the 19th century? Did they differ in different parts of the country? How did people decorate them? What do they tell us of life in those days?

Ireland was the intellectual powerhouse of the Mediaeval era, excelling not only in the field of art and philosophy but also in mathematics - a fact which will be examined at a conference in NUI, Galway this weekend.

Dirty jokes, ribaldry, irreverence, bad behaviour, wine, women, and song were all in a day’s work for a mediaeval bard and the stories he would write and tell.

NUI Galway has confirmed that Professor Terry Eagleton, a staunch defender of Marxist theory and one of the best known living literary critics, has been appointed Adjunct Professor of Cultural Theory in the university.

For a country that is often highly conservative, Ireland has produced many important and influential socialist activists, thinkers, and politicians, and many of them have come from Galway.

Geraldine Kennedy, editor of The Irish Times, will deliver a public lecture to the Moore Institute in NUI, Galway on Thursday November 26 at 6.10pm.

Terry Eagleton, one of the world’s leading intellectuals, literary critics, and cultural theorists, will deliver a public lecture in NUI, Galway next week.