Everyone is welcome to attend the Inaugural Lecture by An tOllamh Rióna Ní Fhrighil, Personal Professor in Modern Irish this Thursday, Oct. 23 @ 5 pm in the O'Donoghue Theatre. What is the role of poetry in times of war or in the face of systemic violence? This lecture will be in Irish.

Congratulations to Dr Ciaran Arthur, who has been awarded funding from @researchireland.ie's Pathway Programme to re-examine interpretations of obscure texts in British and Irish communities during the medieval period. For more on his project, Connect 4, see www.universityofgalway.ie/classics/res...

Jacopo Bisagni's new article on the Sun’s night journey and its cosmic battle with a tide-making sea monster (sometimes called Leviathan) has just been published in JML. This narrative is found in De cursu solis in nocte, a text which Jacopo discovered in the ninth-century manuscript Laon MS 422.

Congratulations to Professor Anne O'Connor who has been newly elected as a member of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA). Anne O’Connor is Established Professor in the University of Galway School of Languages Literatures and Cultures. www.universityofgalway.ie/about-us/new...

Huge congrats to our three professors elected as members The Royal Irish Academy for their exceptional contribution to sciences, humanities and social sciences. 🏅 The University of Galway new members of the RIA are: Kieran Conboy, Anne O'Connor and Abhay Pandit.

We are proud to continue to be ranked in the 2025 QS World University Rankings for Modern Languages (251-300)!