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MU celebrates first ever GAA history module
Maynooth University (MU) is marking the launch of a new module for undergraduate history students examining the foundations of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) and its role in wider Irish society.
Wednesday, 01 May 2024
President Higgins honours two MU scientists with SFI President of Ireland Future Research Leaders Award
President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins, has honoured two Maynooth University scientists, Assistant Prof Joanne Masterson and Assistant Prof Eóin McNamee, at a special ceremony in Áras an Uachtaráin, Dublin.
Tuesday, 03 March 2020
Dr Aisling McMahon gives invited ‘Health law and Ethics’ seminar at Queens University Belfast.
Dr Aisling McMahon gives invited ‘Health law and Ethics’ seminar at Queens University Belfast.
Monday, 02 March 2020
President Higgins attends Maynooth University Climate Change Conference
A Just Transition’ conference examines how we tackle climate issues in a fair and equitable way
Friday, 28 February 2020
Funding Opportunity for Networking
The Irish Research Council (IRC) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) have now launched a networking call aimed at fostering the development of long-term relationships between social science researchers in the UK and Republic of Ireland. The deadline for application is May 20th, 2020, however there will be an internal deadline for all project wishing to receive a review of the Irish budget component of their application.
Thursday, 27 February 2020
Summer Workshop: The Archives of the Religious Orders: a New Perspective on Global Catholicism, Rome, 22th -26th June 2020
The Sangalli Institute for the religious history and cultures of Florence is pleased to announce its first workshop on the central archives of the religious orders. This workshop will focus on the archives of some important religious orders and on their materials, providing especially, but non only, to young scholars in Humanities a new perspective on global Catholicism from the early-modern period until the contemporary age. The workshop will offer a multi-disciplinary approach to the role played by the religious orders and their impact from an historical, ethno-anthropological and art historical point of view, and on a global scale.
Thursday, 27 February 2020
Congratulations to Malcolm Noonan T.D.
Congratulations to Malcolm Noonan T.D., member of the Green Party and participant on the MA in International Development at Maynooth University, who was recently elected to represent Carlow/Kilkenny in the 33rd Dáil.
Wednesday, 26 February 2020
Dr Francesca Placanica presents on Cathy Berberian and the Stripsody Project at Instituto Italiano di Cultura
Francesca Placanica and Eleonora Lima (TCD) will discuss how comics, music, and visual arts came together in Stripsody, an extraordinary collaboration centering the larger-than-life talent of composer and performer Cathy Berberian.
Tuesday, 25 February 2020
Geography: Musicking a PhD
Aoife Kavanagh following her sucessful defence of her theis
Tuesday, 25 February 2020
RJS4C Ireland organises series of events on the visit of Dutch restorative justice expert
Restorative Justice: Strategies for Change (RJS4C) Ireland core team (Dr. Ian Marder, Ursula Fernée, Dr. Kieran O’Dwyer & Tim Chapman) organised a series of workshops and public lectures in Dublin and Maynooth.
Tuesday, 25 February 2020
William Desmond publishes The Voiding of Being
William Desmond: The Voiding of Being. The Doing and Undoing of Metaphysics in Modernity (Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2019)
Tuesday, 25 February 2020