The first Limerick Conference in Irish-German Studies gets underway atthe start of September in the University. It is exactly forty yearssince Nobel Literature Prize-winner Heinrich Böll’s Irisches Tagebuchwas first published. Böll, who died in 1985, would have been eightythis year and to mark both occasions the conference puts Böll centrestage. The programme is interdisciplinary in … Read more
The next International Thomas More Conference will take place in St Patrick’s College, Maynooth on 9-16 August 1998 on the theme Thomas More in his Time: Renaissance Humanism and Renaissance Law. More was both humanist and lawyer. Papers then may deal with a wide range of humanist topics, while in the domain of law a … Read more
What was once a soldiers’ chapel in Beggars Bush Barracks, Haddington Road, Dublin 4, is now home to the National Print Museum. The former garrison chapel, built in the mid 1860s, houses artefacts from all sectors of the printing industry. Visitors are first introduced to the ‘father of printing’, Johann Gutenberg, creator of metal type … Read more