March 2016 Visiting Fellows

The Moore Institute is delighted to welcome the following Visiting Fellows in March:

  • Prof Maria McGarrity from Long Island University, NY will be with us until March 11th working on her project ‘Irish Literature and the Modern Nation: Encountering the primitive sublime across the Atlantic’ in collaboration with Dr.Muireann O Cinneide. Maria can be contacted on maria.mcgarrity@liu.edu.
  • Prof Outi Paloposki from University of Turku, Finland will be with us until March 19th working on her project ‘Translation and Nationalism: a comparative study of Ireland and Finland’ in collaboration with Dr Anne O’Connor. Outi can be contacted on outi.paloposki@utu.fi.
  • Bernard Adams, Freelance Biographer and Playwright will be with us until March 11th working on his project ‘Writing a Certain Temerity, a biography of Mary O’Malley, founder of the Lyric Players Theatre in Belfast’ in collaboration with Prof Patrick Lonergan. Bernard can be contacted on Bernard.adams@virgin.net.
  • Dr Eileen Gilooly from Columbia University will be with us until March 18th working on her project ‘Establishing a pilot programme of scholarly exchange between the Moore Institute at NUI Galway and the Heyman Centre for the Humanities at Columbia University’ in collaboration with Prof Dan Carey. Eileen can be contacted on eg48@columbia.edu.
  • Prof Laurent Jaffro from Universití© Paris 1 Panthí©on- Sorbonne will be with us until 23rd March working on his project ‘Johnathan Swift, Weak Agents and Economics as Second-Best Ethics’ in collaboration with Prof Dan Carey. Laurent can be contacted on jaffro@univ-paris1.fr.
  • Dr Colin Reid from Northumbria University will be with us until 15th April working on his project ‘The Irish Political Imagination: Political Thought and Ireland Under the Union, 1800 – 1922’ in collaboration with Prof Dan Carey. Colin can be contacted on colin.w.reid@northumbria.ac.uk.
  • Dr. Breandán Mac Suibhne from Centenary College, Hackettstown, New Jersey, USA will be with us until 25th March working on his project ‘At the Famine Pot: A Whispered History of Ireland’s Great Hunger’ in collaboration with Dr. Lillis Ó’Laoire. Breandán can be contacted on bmacsuib@gmail.com .
  • Dr. Lucy Shipley, Independent Scholar will be with us until 19th April working on her project ‘From Italy to the Atlantic: Contextualising Irish and British Collections of Etruscan ceramics’ in collaboration with Dr Eoin O Donoghue. Lucy can be contacted on lshipley805@gmail.com .