Moore Institute

'Cuba under RaÌÄå¼l: is the Revolution 'over'?' - Professor Antoni Kapcia,University of Nottingham.
2012-05-28 18:00 (Europe/Dublin)
‰ÛÏCuba under Ra̼l: is the Revolution ‰Û÷over‰۪?‰۝
By Antoni Kapcia, Professor in Latin American Studies at the University of Nottingham, U.K.
Professor Kapcia is a distinguished expert in modern and contemporary Cuban history and politics. He has published extensively in the field, including Cuba: Island of Dreams (2000), Cuba in Revolution: a History since the Fifties (2008). His forthcoming book examines literary culture in Cuba since 1959.

MÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi Symposium
2012-05-23 09:00
MÌ_or̼ilt an pharÌ_iste: comhdhÌÁil lae ar fhilÌ_ocht MhÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi, OÌä Gaillimh
Beidh comhdhÌÁil lae ar shaothar MhÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi ÌÁ reachtÌÁil ag Ionad an L̩inn Ìäireannaigh, Ollscoil na hÌäireann, Gaillimh, D̩ C̩adaoin 23 Bealtaine 2012. TÌÁ MÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi ar dhuine de mhÌ_rfhilÌ_ na hÌäireann sa bhfichi̼ haois agus chuir an ch̩ad leabhar filÌ_ochta a d’fhoilsigh sÌ_ Margadh na Saoire i 1956 cor nua i litrÌ_ocht na Gaeilge leis an l̩iri̼ a thug s̩ ar ghn̩ithe de shaol is de thaithÌ_ phrÌ_obhÌÁideach na mnÌÁ. TrÌ_ocha bliain sara dtÌÁinig gl̼in nua banfhilÌ_ chun cinn sa Bh̩arla agus sa Ghaeilge, Eavan Boland agus Nuala NÌ_ Dhomhnaill ina measc, bhÌ_ guth ÌÁ thabhairt ag MÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi do ghn̩ithe de shaol collaÌ_ na mnÌÁ a bhÌ_ faoi thost roimhe sin den gcuid is mÌ_ sa litrÌ_ocht agus sa tsaol.
‰Û÷C̩ go n-aithnÌ_onn filÌ_ agus l̩irmheastÌ_irÌ_ tÌÁbhacht agus tionchar a cuid filÌ_ochta,’ a deir Louis de Paor, Sti̼rthÌ_ir Ionad an L̩inn Ìäireannaigh, ‰Û÷is dÌ_igh liom gurb ̩ seo an ch̩ad chomhdhÌÁil atÌÁ tiomnaith ar fad dÌÁ cuid saothair a scagadh. Beidh cuid de na l̩irmheastÌ_irÌ_ is fearr sa Ghaeilge i lÌÁthair chun anailÌ_s a dh̩anamh ar a saothar is tÌÁimid ag s̼il le dÌ_ospoireacht bhrÌ_omhar.’‰Û÷There is truth to experience here, a forthrightness about passion and transgression that is thrilling and exemplary,’ a d̼irt Seamus Heaney nuair a foilsÌ_odh dÌ_rbheathaisn̩is MhÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi’s The Same Age as the State, sa bhliain 2003. Sheol Fiach Mac Conghail, Sti̼rthÌ_ir Amharclann na Mainistreach, eagrÌÁn dhÌÁtheangach dÌÁ cuid dÌÁnta An ParÌ_iste MÌ_or̼ilteach/The Miraculous Parish ag Ì_cÌÁid mhÌ_r i gCaisleÌÁn Bhaile ́tha Cliath i mÌ_ na Samhna 2011.
I measc na gcainteoirÌ_ a bheidh ag labhairt ag an gcomhdhÌÁil in OÌä Gaillimh, tÌÁ Mich̩al Mac Craith, Margaret Mac Curtain, MÌÁire NÌ_ AnnrachÌÁin, MÌÁirÌ_n Nic Eoin, CaoimhÌ_n Mac Giolla L̩ith, RÌ_Ì_na NÌ_ Fhrighil, Eil̩an NÌ_ ChuilleanÌÁin agus Patricia Coughlan, agus beidh a gcuid cainte ÌÁ thaifeadadh ag RTÌä le craoladh amach sa bhliain.TÌÁ cead isteach go dtÌ_ an chomhdhÌÁil saor in aisce agus fÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch.
The Miracle of the Parish: MÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi symposium at NUI GalwayOn Wednesday 23 May, the Centre for Irish Studies at NUI Galway will host a symposium on the work of MÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi, one of the most significant Irish poets of the twentieth century, and the most important living poet in Irish. With MÌÁirtÌ_n ÌÒ DireÌÁin and SeÌÁn ÌÒ RÌ_ordÌÁin, she revolutionised the practice of poetry in Irish in the 1940s and 50s and paved the way for a new generation of women poets who emerged in Irish and in English in the 1970s and 80s. A generation before Nuala NÌ_ Dhomhnaill and Eavan Boland, and in more difficult circumstances, MÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi gave voice to the intimate and subversive aspects of women’s experience in poems that challenged the moral orthodoxies of the time.
‰Û÷Although her work and influence is acknowledged by poets and critics alike,’ according to Louis de Paor, Director of the Centre for Irish Studies, ‰Û÷this is the first such event dedicated entirely to her work and includes contributions from some of the finest scholars and critics of poetry in Irish. Given her connection with the University where she was appointed Honorary Professor of Irish Studies in 2004, and her uncle Monsignor PÌÁdraig de Br̼n, served with such distinction as president, we are delighted to recognise her unique contribution to Irish writing.’
MÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi’s autobiography The Same Age as the State, published in 2003, was described by Seamus Heaney as ‰Û÷thrilling and exemplary’ and a bilingual selection of her poems An ParÌ_iste MÌ_or̼ilteach/The Miraculous Parish was launched by Fiach Mac Conghail, Director of the Abbey Theatre, at a gala event in Dublin Castle in November 2011.Invited speakers to the NUI Galway symposium include Mich̩al Mac Craith, Margaret Mac Curtain, MÌÁire NÌ_ AnnrachÌÁin, MÌÁirÌ_n Nic Eoin, CaoimhÌ_n Mac Giolla L̩ith, RÌ_Ì_na NÌ_ Fhrighil, Eil̩an NÌ_ ChuilleanÌÁin and Patricia Coughlan, and the proceedings will be recorded by RTÌä radio for broadcast later in the year.Admission to all sessions is free and everyone is welcome to attend.Sa Seomra SeimineÌÁir in Institi̼id de MÌ_rdha, OÌä, Gaillimh a reachtÌÁlfar na seisi̼in ar fad.MÌ_or̼ilt an pharÌ_iste: comhdhÌÁil lae ar fhilÌ_ocht MhÌÁire Mhac an tSaoiD̩ C̩adaoin 23 Bealtaine 2012Ionad an L̩inn Ìäireannaigh, Ollscoil na hÌäireann, Gaillimh
9.00-10.15rn ‰Û÷The same age as the state ach nÌ_ mÌ_r an fhilÌ_ocht chomh maith’, An tOllamh MicheÌÁl Mac Crait (ColÌÁiste San Isidore)
‰Û÷MÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi: idir dhÌÁ fheimineachas’, An tOllamh Margaret Mac Curtain (UCD)
10.15-11.30rn ‘”V̩nus toute enti̬re, ÌÊ sa proie attach̩e . . .”: an grÌÁ agus an tsaoirse i bhfilÌ_ocht MhÌÁire Mhac a’ tSaoi’, An tOllamh MÌÁire NÌ_ AnnrachÌÁin (UCD)
‰Û÷An guth mÌÁthartha i bhfilÌ_ocht MhÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi’, An tOllamh MÌÁirÌ_n Nic Eoin (ColÌÁiste PhÌÁdraig, Droim Conrach)
11.30-11.45 Caif̩
11.45-1.00in ‰Û÷”Ceann Bliana” agus Eile’, An Dr CaoimhÌ_n Mac Giolla L̩ith (UCD)
‘CÌ_iri̼ na cuimhne i saothar MhÌÁire Mhac a’ tSaoi’, An Dr RÌ_Ì_na NÌ_ Fhrighil (ColÌÁiste PhÌÁdraig, Droim Conrach)
1.00-2.00in LÌ_n
2.00 -3.15in An tOllamh Eil̩an NÌ_ ChuilleanÌÁin (TCD)
‰Û÷”Aibigh, a mhian, i ndiamhaireacht na gile”: na mianta collaÌ_ i saothar Mhaire Mhac an tSaoi’, An tOllamh Patricia Coughlan (UCC)
3.30-4.30in Clabhs̼r

Professor Paul Crowther, Book Launch - 'The Phenomenology of Art, exploding Deleuze, illuminating Style.'
2012-05-21 15:00
Professor Paul Crowther will be launching his new book ‘The Phenomenology of Art, exploding Deleuze, illuminating Style.’

Armed Conflict in Comparative Perspective
2012-05-18 09:00
Armed Conflict in Comparative Perspective
Time / Date / Venue: 9.00am – 5.00pm, Friday 18 May, Aula Maxima, National University of Ireland, Galway.
A conference of the Centre for the Study of Nationalism and Organised Violence featuring:

Prof. Kristine H̦glund (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Prof. Stathis Kalyvas (Yale University, USA)
Prof. Eric Kaufmann (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Prof. Tom Lodge (University of Limerick, Ireland)
Prof. SiniÁa MaleÁeviÌãåà (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Dr Niall ÌÒ Dochartaigh (National University of Ireland Galway)
Prof. Brendan O’Leary (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Prof. Martin Shaw (Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals/University of Sussex, UK)

This multidisciplinary conference brings together leading scholars working on aspects of armed conflict from a range of disciplinary perspectives. It addresses key issues of concern to sociologists, political scientists and historians studying inter-state wars, civil wars, armed conflicts, urban violence and insurgencies.
This conference is supported by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Moore Institute and the Institute for Business, Social Sciences and Public Policy, NUI Galway.
All are welcome. For more information and to register to attend, please contact stacey.scriver@nuigalway.ie

Talking Peace: A seminar on communication, contact and dialogue aimed at reducing or ending violence in Northern Ireland
2012-05-16 10:00
A seminar on communication, contact and dialogue aimed at reducing or ending violence in Northern Ireland that bringstogether key actors with direct experience of mediation and decision-making in the Irish peace process, including Sir Kenneth; Larry and Shauna Duddy; Dr. Maurice Hayes; Jim Gibney; Dr. Harold Good; Rev. Chris Hudson Bloomfield and Dr. Martin Mansergh. Prof. Brendan O’Leary (University of Pennsylvania) will act as respondent.
The symposium in the afternoon brings participants in the witness seminar together with leading academics working on the politics of conflict and peace in Northern Ireland, including Prof. James McAuley (University of Huddersfield); Dr. Niall(NUI Galway); Dr. Graham Spencer (University of Portsmouth); Dr. Katy Hayward (Queen’s O Dochartaigh University Belfast); Prof. Jonathan Tonge (University of Liverpool); Prof. Robert White (Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis).
To register for attendance please contact; stacey.scriver@nuigalway.ie.
The seminar is part of the Creativity at the Edge series, hosted by the Moore Institute at NUI Galway. It is supported by the Irish Research
Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Moore Institute and the School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway.
Organisers: Dr. Niall O Dochartaigh (NUI Galway), Prof. Ian McBride (King’s College London), and Prof Sean Ryder (NUI Galway).
Hosted by the Centre for the Study of Nationalism and Organised Violence.

Wood Architecture in the Early Middle Ages
2012-05-02 14:30
Wood architecture in the Early Middle Ages: A northern building technique
Prof. Eleonora Destefanis & Dr. Gabriele Ardizio
UniversitÌÊ degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale
Wednesday 2nd May, 2.30pm
Venue: The Moore Institute

Workshop: 'Networks and Identities in the Catholic Reformation'
2012-04-27 09:00
Globalisation, Empire, and Culture
Part of the Texts, Contexts, Cultures research programme.
Supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
27th April, 2012
Moore Institute Seminar Room
Workshop: ‰Û÷Networks and Identities in the Catholic Reformation’
Programme
9-10am
Alison Forrestal, National University of Ireland, Galway
‰Û÷Exploiting Sources of Patronage in the French Catholic Reformation: Vincent de Paul on the Royal Council of Ecclesiastical Affairs, 1643-52′
10-11am
Elizabeth Tingle, University of Plymouth
‰Û÷Indulgences after Luther: The Fall and Rise of Pardons in Counter-Reformation France’
11-11.15am
Coffee
11.15-12.15pm
Paul Shore, Brandon University
‰Û÷The Muslim Body in the Baroque Jesuit Imagination’
12.15-1.15pm
Tadhg O’hAnnrachÌÁin, University College Dublin
‰Û÷Cardinal P̩ter PÌÁzmÌÁny and the Guide to the Divine Truth’
1.15-2pm
Lunch
2-3pm
Barbara Diefendorf, Boston University
‰Û÷How the Spanish Carmelites Became French: Teresian Identity and the Competition between Paris and Pontoise’
3-4pm
Eric Nelson, Missouri State University
‰Û÷Remembering the Martyrdom of Saint Francis of Paola: History, Collective Memory and Minim Identity in the Seventeenth Century’
4-4.15pm
Coffee
4.15-5pm
Silvia Mostaccio, Universit̩ Catholique de Louvain
‰Û÷Between Obedience and Conscience: A Cultural Challenge for the Society of Jesus during Acquaviva’s Generalate’
5-6.15pm
Responses from commentators, Simon Ditchfield, University of York, and PÌÁdraig Lenihan, NUIG
Roundtable discussion

Over the Irish Sea Symposium - 26th and 27th April, 2012, UCD
2012-04-26 00:00
A Symposium of the Atlantic Archipelagos Research Project
Over the Irish Sea
April 26th-27th 2012, University College Dublin
Keynote SpeakersProfessor Margaret Cohen (Stanford University)author of The Novel and the Sea (2010)Sponsored by the Moore Institute, NUI Galway
Professor Claire Connolly (Cardiff University)author of A Cultural History of the Irish Novel, 1790-1829 (2011)
‰Û÷Over the Irish Sea’ is a symposium organised to sharenew research about literary conceptions of, and crossings of,the Irish Sea in the modern period in Irish, English, Welsh, andScottish literatures.
The symposium will reflect on contemporaryarchipelagic and maritime methodologies in literary and cultural studies, and examine howsuch methodologies might re-orient and re-shape studies of the literatures of the British and Irish Isles.Further details of the symposium can be found at www.overtheirishsea.org Places at the symposium are limited, so please contact the organiser to register your interest in attending (email: john.brannigan@ucd.ie) as soon as possible. Registration is required for attendance.The ‰Û÷Over the Irish Sea’ symposium is supported by UCD College of Arts and Celtic Studies, UCD School of English, Drama and Film, UCD John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies, NUI Galway Moore Institute, and the University of Exeter. It is part of the Atlantic Archipelagos Research Project (AARP).

GearÌ_id ÌÒ Tuathaigh - 'Public History and the professional historian: an Irish perspective.'
2012-04-25 13:00
The Moore Institute is pleased to promote the following C̼irt event:
A highlight of the C̼irt International Festival of Literature this week will be the lecture on this coming Wednesday, April 25 at 1 pm, in the Aula Maxima, by GearÌ_id ÌÒ Tuathaigh, entitled, ‘Public History and the professional historian: an Irish perspective.’
Prof. ÌÒ Tuathaigh will discuss the likely demands on, and expectations of, historians in the course of the ‰Û÷decade of centenaries,’ which is now beginning. His lecture will be of especial interest to anyone researching any aspect of the Irish revolution, but it will also be of general interest.
ADM. ‰âÂ8 (‰âÂ6 concession): BOOKING, 091-569777

Gender and Academic Work
2012-04-24 13:00
Gender and Academic Work
24th April 2012Venue: NUI Galway Moore Institute Seminar Room1-5pmThe experiences of women in academic work have long been a source of debate.Research over the previous thirty years has shown us that, for example, aspects of workplace culture in higher education organizations effectively constrain women’s career advancement. Issues including homophily and related difficulties in findinghelpful mentors and role models, along with unintended exclusion from informal social groups. These act to hamper women’s participation in important networks. Moreover, commentators have argued that academia itself is founded on inherentlypatriarchical systems and structures, and that these emerge in the gendering of the division of labour in relation to teaching, research and administrative roles, along with working practices that present obstacles to fulfilling familial responsibilities and caring roles. In contrast to this, for others, universities remain ‰Û÷gender blind’, with career advancement and participation ostensibly open to all. In this seminar we are fortunate to bring together scholars from Ireland and the UK who will present recent empirical findings and new theoretical insights in this area.
All are welcome. Please contact Kate Kenny kate.kenny@nuigalway.ie to reserve a place.
The seminar is organized by NUI Galway’s Work Society and Governance cluster, and the Public Policies and Gender cluster (Gender ARC).
Schedule
1.00 WelcomeMarianna Fotaki, Reader in health policy and organisation studies.Manchester Business School, University of Manchester.Of women, gender and inequality in academe: Bringing feminism back to dispel yet another wicked issue
2.00 Tea and Coffee
2.30Kelly Coate, Lecturer in teaching and learning in Higher Education and Vice Dean (Graduate Studies) in the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, NUI Galway.Indicators of esteem: Gender and prestige in academic work
3.30 Pat O’Connor, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Limerick.Organisational Culture in University Senior Management: A Cross National Perspective
4.30 Discussion and reflection: Anne Byrne, Lecturer at School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway.
5.00 Close
Please join us for an informal dinner after the workshop
PAPER ABSTRACTS:Of women, gender and inequality in academe: Bringing feminism back to dispel yet another wicked issueMarianna FotakiWomen’s underrepresentation in senior ranks across academic disciplines is welldocumented. Yet, the majority of analyses of women’s discrimination in academiacontinue to focus on the institutionally-oriented approaches, and the importance ofstructural barriers of patriarchy. This leaves the issue of subjectivity untheorised andimpedes our understanding of gendered academic institutions at work. The aim of thisarticle is to apply psychosocial approaches enabling us to think differently about thesocially situated subject. First, I draw on conceptions of women’s ‰Û÷otherness’ viaIrigaray and Kristeva, and then turn to Butler’s (1997) idea of subject-ion, which issustained and reproduced as an instrument of the subject becomingness and theprecondition for her agency. Second, I apply the critique of post-feminism byMcRobbie (2009), with an intention to rehabilitate the demands of feminism aspertinent to dispelling the logic of inequality and subordination of women inacademia as yet another ‰Û÷wicked issue’. The findings of a study looking into theexperiences of women in management and business schools in England are thendiscussed in light of the proposed theory.
Indicators of esteem: Gender and prestige in academic workKelly CoateThis paper draws on recent work on the prestige economy in relation to academicmotivation by developing a gendered notion of prestige. Blackmore and Kandiko(2011) have proposed a framework for interpreting aspects of academic work whichmotivate academics to achieve success. Aside from financial gain, they propose thatacademics are motivated by the work itself and factors related to prestige. Given thatwomen are less well represented at senior levels in academia, there is a question as towhether there are gendered aspects to these motivational factors. Far from suggestingthat women are less motivated than men, I will use a feminist materialist analysis toargue that women, for a number of socio-cultural reasons, find it harder to enter theprestige economy in order to gain the indicators of esteem that they can trade forfurther advancement to their careers. Data from a recent survey of academics atNUIG on career progression will be used to illustrate how the prestige economyoperates to the advantages of those who have access to the masculine, homosocialculture within this context.
Organisational Culture in University Senior Management: A Cross National PerspectivePat O’ConnorOrganisational culture is typically presented as meritocratic in universities. In thatcontext the under-representation of women in university senior management can beseen as reflecting that absence of merit. It will be suggested that such a conclusionignores the gendering of definitions of merit in academia and the importance of socialcapital in accessing such positions. Using data collected in a cross national study, anddrawing on Sinclair’s (1998) analytical model, the paper will present a typologyinvolving denial; identification of women as ‘the problem’; incremental adjustmentand commitment to a new culture. It will be suggested that, using this model, it ispossible to position the eight countries in the cross national study (i.e. Australia; NewZealand; Portugal; UK; Turkey; South Africa; Sweden and Ireland). The paper willconclude by suggesting that the organisational culture of Irish universities at seniormanagement level is not unrelated to the disinterest of the state in this issue. Thewider implications of the study for the perpetuation of gender as a social structure(Reisman, 2004), with a particular focus on Ireland will be briefly discussed.
The event is supported by the Institute for Business, Social Sciences and Public Policy at NUIGalway, and

Dr. Marianna Fotaki - TCC Seminar Series - University of Manchester - Of women, gender and inequality in academe: Bringing feminism back to dispel yet another wicked issue
2012-04-24 13:00
Marianna Fotaki, Reader in health policy and organisation studies.Manchester Business School, University of Manchester.Of women, gender and inequality in academe: Bringing feminism back todispel yet another wicked issue

Professor Claire Culleton - Kent State University - 'Life after the PhD: a series of conversations with visiting scholars'
2012-04-23 16:00
Life after the PhD: a series of conversations with visiting scholars We are pleased to announce the second event of the ‰Û÷Life after the PhD‰۪ seminar series. Claire Culleton, a visiting Moore Institute Fellow, is a Professor of English at Kent State University. She has written three books: Names and Naming in Joyce; Working-Class Culture, Women, and Britain, 1914-1921; and Joyce and the G-Men: J. Edgar Hoover‰۪s Manipulation of Modernism. She is General Editor of an Irish Studies book series at Palgrave Macmillan USA and will talk with doctoral students about her experience as an editor reading book proposals, prospectuses, and manuscripts. She will discuss strategies for turning one‰۪s dissertation into a book, identifying prospective presses, ‰ÛÏshopping‰۝ the book around to publishing houses, and marketing and promoting one‰۪s scholarship. You might call this An Insider‰۪s Guide to getting an editor‰۪s attention. All welcome. Please rsvp to Kate Thornhill (kate.thornhill@nuigalway.ie)

Beyond the Island: Transnational Approaches to History
2012-04-21 09:00
Beyond the Island: Transnational Approaches to History
The Moore Institute Seminar Room
April 20th to 21st, 2011
This interdisciplinary conference brings together scholars of History, Political Science, Law and English to discuss the merits and limitations of transnational and global studies. In recent years, scholars have increasingly recognized the limitations of the nation-state as a framework of analyses and as a result transnational and global approaches have moved to the top of research agendas across many countries. At the same time, explorations in this area have been largely overlooked in Irish universities. This conference will debate the merits of transnational vistas for understanding the important themes of diaspora, nationalism, political violence, and human rights in the Irish past and present, and will compare how transnational approaches move beyond or differ from established fields such as the Atlantic world, imperial studies, world history, comparative studies, and so on. The conference papers cover a broad geographical scope and stretch across a long chronology, from late-medieval to contemporary history. Guest speakers will include, among others, Kevin Kenny (Boston College), Kiran Patel (Maastricht), Timothy Meagher (CUA, Washington), Carl Levy (Goldsmiths, London) and Irene Bueno (Leiden).

Beyond the Island: Transnational Approaches to History
2012-04-20 09:00
Beyond the Island: Transnational Approaches to History
The Moore Institute Seminar Room
April 20th and 21st 2012
This interdisciplinary conference brings together scholars of History, Political Science, Law and English to discuss the merits and limitations of transnational and global studies. In recent years, scholars have increasingly recognized the limitations of the nation-state as a framework of analyses and as a result transnational and global approaches have moved to the top of research agendas across many countries. At the same time, explorations in this area have been largely overlooked in Irish universities. This conference will debate the merits of transnational vistas for understanding the important themes of diaspora, nationalism, political violence, and human rights in the Irish past and present, and will compare how transnational approaches move beyond or differ from established fields such as the Atlantic world, imperial studies, world history, comparative studies, and so on. The conference papers cover a broad geographical scope and stretch across a long chronology, from late-medieval to contemporary history. Guest speakers will include, among others, Kevin Kenny (Boston College), Kiran Patel (Maastricht), Timothy Meagher (CUA, Washington), Carl Levy (Goldsmiths, London) and Irene Bueno (Leiden). Further details contact: niall.whelehan@nuigalway.ie
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Workshop: 'Beyond the Island: Transnational approaches to research in the humanities'
2012-04-20 09:00
April 20th and 21st 2012
Description of Workshop
This interdisciplinary conference brings together scholars of History, Political Science, Law and English to discuss the merits and limitations of transnational and global studies. In recent years, scholars have increasingly recognized the limitations of the nation-state as a framework of analyses and as a result transnational and global approaches have moved to the top of research agendas across many countries. At the same time, explorations in this area have been largely overlooked in Irish universities. This conference will debate the merits of transnational vistas for understanding the important themes of diaspora, nationalism, political violence, and human rights in the Irish past and present, and will compare how transnational approaches move beyond or differ from established fields such as the Atlantic world, imperial studies, world history, comparative studies, and so on. The conference papers cover a broad geographical scope and stretch across a long chronology, from late-medieval to contemporary history. Guest speakers will include, among others, Kevin Kenny (Boston College), Kiran Patel (Maastricht), Timothy Meagher (CUA, Washington), Carl Levy (Goldsmiths, London) and Irene Bueno (Leiden).
Beyond the Island: Transnational Approaches to History
An int e r d i s c i p l ina r y c on f e r en c e 20- 2 1 Ap r i l 2 0 1 2
C o n t a c t : n i a l l . w h e l e h a n @ n u i g alwa y . i e
DAY ONE FRIDAY 20 APRIL
9.30 Welcome
9.45-10.00 Opening Remarks
10.00-11.00 ‰Û÷Diaspora: An Introduction‰۪ Kevin Kenny (History, Boston College)
11.00-11.30 COFFEE
11.30-13.00 Panel 1 Challenging transnational chronologies
‰Û÷Shaping ideas about the Eastern lands: the Avignon Papacy in transnational perspective‰۪
Irene Bueno (History, Leiden University)
‰Û÷Massacres and Moderation in the Atlantic World‰۪
Eamon Darcy (History, Trinity College Dublin)
‰Û÷State Power and the Inculcation of Religious change: the cases of Stuart Ireland and Habsburg Hungary considered‰۪
Tadhg O hAnnrachain (History, University College Dublin)
13.00-14.00 LUNCH
14.00-16.15 Panel 2 Transnational communities: diasporas from above and below
‰Û÷Irish America without Ireland? Irish Americans and Ireland in the Twentieth Century‰۪
Timothy Meagher (History, Catholic University of America, Washington)
‰Û÷Irish Convicts in Van Diemen’s Land‰۪
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart (History, University of Tasmania)
‰Û÷Irish merchants and ‰ÛÏthe cloak of neutrality‰۝ – trans-imperial commercial exchange at St. Croix, Danish West Indies during the Seven Years‰۪ War (1756-63)‰۪
Orla Power (History, National University of Ireland, Galway)
‰Û÷Between Poland and Ireland: Exploring the integration of Polish migrants in Dublin and their ties to the origin country‰۪
Antje Roeder (Sociology, Trinity College Dublin)
16.15‰ÛÒ16.30 COFFEE
16.30-18.00 Panel 3 Transnational lives and political activism
‰Û÷The Transnational Turn in the Study of Anarchism (1860s to 1940s)‰۪
Carl Levy (Politics, Goldsmiths, University of London)
‰Û÷Thomas IsmaÌÀl Urbain: cr̩ole, ‰ÛÏhomme de couleur‰۝ and a key figure behind Emperor Napol̩on III‰۪s Algerian Arab Kingdom‰۪
Sheila Walsh (French, National University of Ireland, Galway)
‰Û÷Conflict and collecting: Ulster, Ceylon and the imperial career of Sir James Emerson Tennent‰۪
Jonathan Wright (History, Trinity College Dublin)
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DAY TWO SATURDAY 21 APRIL
9.30-11.30 Panel 4 Europe and Ireland
‰Û÷Irish ̩migr̩s in France and their influence in Ireland during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries‰۪
Marian Lyons (History, National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
‰Û÷Count Cavour‰۪s 1844 Essay on Ireland: Agrarian Reform and Liberal Politics through Anglo-Italian Eyes‰۪
Enrico Dal Lago (History, National University of Ireland, Galway)
‰Û÷A Call to Action in Ireland? The January Uprising of 1863 in Congress Poland‰۪
RÌ_isÌ_n Healy (History, National University of Ireland, Galway)
‰Û÷Fionnuala in France: the transnational education of Irish girls in the nineteenth century‰۪
Ciaran O‰۪Neill (History, Trinity College Dublin)
11.30-12.00 COFFEE
12.00-13.30 Panel 6 Transnational advocacy: solidarities in the wider world
Of rice and men: Writing the history of non-governmental aid in the post-war era‰۪
Kevin O‰۪Sullivan (History, University College Dublin/University of Birmingham)
‰Û÷Irish diplomacy and the development of international human rights law: the politics and principles of advocating against torture‰۪
Michelle Farrell (Law, National University of Ireland, Galway)
‰Û÷Assessing the influence of NGOs on asylum policies in Europe‰۪
Irial Glynn (History, University College Dublin)
13.30-14.30 LUNCH
14.30-16.00 Panel 7 Transnational frameworks for national matters
‰Û÷How America discovered Sweden: New Deal History in a Global Perspective‰۪
Kiran Patel (History, Maastricht University)
‰Û÷The Mirage of Global Civility: Nationalism and Violence in Late Modernity‰۪
SiniÁa MaleÁeviÌãåà (Sociology, University College Dublin)
Concluding Remarks
Timothy Meagher

Professor Roberto GonzÌÁlez EchevarrÌ_a - Yale University - 'El Aleph: a kaleidoscope of Borges's fiction'
2012-04-19 16:00

Hakluyt Workshop 13th/14th April
2012-04-13 09:00
Hakluyt Workshop NUI Galway
For editors of volumes 1-4 of the critical edition of Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations (1598-1600), 14 vols, under contract to Oxford University Press. General editors: Daniel Carey and Claire Jowitt
Supported by the Research Support Fund, NUI Galway
Venue: Moore Institute seminar room
Friday 13 April 2012
9.15 Welcome and Style Guide matters
9.45-11 Prof. Sebastian Sobecki (Groningen), editor volumes 1 and 2
11-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.45 Dr. Felicity Stout (Nottingham Trent University), editor volume 4
12.45-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.15 Prof. Anna AgnarsdÌ_ttir (University of Iceland), editor volume 4
3.15-3.30 Coffee break
3.30-4.45 Dr. Angela Byrne (University of Toronto, editor volume 2
4.45-5.30 Prof. Michael Brennan (Leeds University), editor volume 4
Saturday 14 April 2012
9.15-10.30 Dr. Ladan Niayesh (University of Paris VII), editor volume 3
10.45-12.00 Prof. Ralph Cleminson (University of Portsmouth, editor volume 3)
12-12.15. Wrap up: milestones and way forward
Organised by:
Prof. Daniel Carey (Moore Institute and School of Humanities, NUI Galway)
Additional Delegates:
Dr. Anders Ingram (postdoctoral fellow on the Hakluyt project, NUI Galway)
Prof. Will Ryan (Hakluyt edition editorial board and Hakluyt Society)

TCC Seminar Series - Professor Paul Carter - Deaking University Melbourne - Turbulent Zones: the poetics of sustaining places in unsustainable times
2012-04-12 16:00

Dr. Caoimhe Nic DhÌÁibh̩id -University of Cambridge - '"They bear names honoured forever in Ireland": The children of the Rising' - TCC Seminar Series
2012-04-03 16:00

New Approaches to Drama Studies
2012-03-30 15:00
To mark the end of the semester, the MA in Drama and Theatre Studies and BA Connect in Theatre and Performance programmes are hosting a special event entitled
NEW APPROACHES TO DRAMA STUDIES
SPEAKERS:
Professor Nicholas Grene (Trinity College Dublin)
Professor Steve Wilmer (Trinity College Dublin)
Dr Hugh Denard (King’s College London)
ROOM AM110, Arts Millennium Building, Friday 30 March 2012.
15.00 – 16.30
ALL WELCOME
Professor Grene will give a paper entitled ‰Û÷Against Eloquence: Irish Drama at Century’s End’. The paper will focus on the work of Martin McDonagh, Conor McPherson and Enda Walsh.
Professor Wilmer will give a paper called “National Theatres in a Changing World”.
Dr Denard will be discussing digital technology and theatre studies, including his recent Digital Reconstruction of the Abbey Theatre http://blog.oldabbeytheatre.net/posts/project
This event is supported by the IRCHSS ‰Û÷New Ideas’ scheme

Moore Institute Workshop 2011-12, The Speckled Ground: Hybridity in Irish and Galician Cultural Production
2012-03-30 09:00
Proposed Dates (tentative): March 30-31st 2012
Description of Workshop
According to the Romans, the most western point of land in North Western Spain represented Finisterre (Fisterra), the end of the known world. The region of Galicia shares many cultural and historical features with Ireland. In March 2012, academics, translators, poets and musicians from NUI, Galway and the Amergin Centre for Irish Studies, will come together to celebrate our shared cultural experiences and investigate the diversity of cultural production in Galicia and Ireland.
PROGRAMME OF EVENTS
FRIDAY, 30th MARCH, 2012 Venue: The Moore Institute Seminar Room9 : 3 0 am ‰ÛÒ 1 0 : 0 0 am STUDENT REGISTRATION
9 : 3 0 am ‰ÛÒ 1 0 : 0 0 am INSTITUTIONAL OFFICIAL OPENING with President Dr. James J. Browne
10:00 am – 11:00 am CULTURE AND POLITICS Chair: Mel BolandMedia cultural production in Ireland and Galicia. Language Policy and Acceptance in Television. – Rub̩n Jarazo ́lvarez.Irish political and literary influence on Galicia. – Jos̩ Manuel Est̩vez- SaÌÁ.Hybridity and multimedia curricula design for language learners. ‰ÛÒ Pablo Cancelo LÌ_pez.
11:00 am ‰ÛÒ 12:00 am PLENARYIdir DhÌÁ ThÌ_r: An Toise TrasnÌÁisi̼nta i bhFicsean Comhaimseartha na Gaeilge/ The Transnational Dimension in Contemporary Irish-language Fiction. – MÌÁirÌ_n Nic Eoin.Chair: Lillis ÌÒ Laoire
12.00 am ‰ÛÒ 12:30 am COFFEE BREAK
12:30 am ‰ÛÒ 13:30 pm TRADITIONAL CLOTHING Chair: Mary Cawley‰ÛÏStitches in Time‰۝. Exhibition and Commentary on Traditional Clothing in Inis OÌ_rr. – Active Senior Women‰۪s Group.Redeeming Traditional Dress in Irish and Galician Literature. ‰ÛÒ NoemÌ_ Pereira Ares and Sara Legazpi FernÌÁndez13:30 pm ‰ÛÒ 14:30 pm LUNCH
14:30 pm – 15:30 pm TRANSLATING AND WRITING Chair: Lorna ShaughnessyThe life of the shape-shifter: what is lost and found when moving between languages. – Celia de Fr̩ine.‰ÛÏTen ar de forasteira‰۝. Villar Ponte‰۪s Galician Translation of W.B. Yeats‰۪ Cathleen Ni Houlihan ‰ÛÒ Elisa Serra Porteiro.Ag d̩anamh aistri̼chÌÁn ar Martin McDonagh / Translating Martin McDonagh. – MicheÌÁl ÌÒ Conghaile.
15:30 pm ‰ÛÒ 16:00 pm COFFEE BREAK
16:00 pm ‰ÛÒ 17:00 pm LITERARY PRODUCTION Chair: Rub̩n JarazoGalician-language crime fiction: An overview. ‰ÛÒ David Clark.The Irish cultural industry in Celtic Tiger and post- Celtic Tiger novels. ‰ÛÒ Margarita Est̩vez SaÌÁ.Galician and Irish landscapes: Constructing cultural identity in Galician poetry and Irish drama. ‰ÛÒ Jos̩ Miguel Alonso GirÌÁldez.17:00 pm ‰ÛÒ 18:00 pm MUSIC AND FILM Chair: Louis de PaorCuimhne Bob Quinn: Caoineadh Nua-AoisÌ_/Bob Quinn Remembering the past: a modernist lament. – Muiris ÌÒ Meara.Continuity and Change in Irish Traditional Music: Cultural Transmission at the Willie Clancy Summer School. ‰ÛÒ Verena Commins.Music festivals in the Celtic World: The ‰Û÷Festival de Ortigueira‰۪ as a case study of cultural production. ‰ÛÒ Marco V̩lez Barreiro.
19:00 pm ‰ÛÒ 20:00 pm CHARLIE BYRNES BOOKSHOP BOOK LAUNCH and TRI-LINGUAL POETRY READINGAntonio Ra̼l de Toro Santos (ed.) ‰Û÷Breogan‰۪s Lighthouse‰۪: An Anthology of Galician Literature (London: Francis Boutle Publishers, 2010. pp. 654).Mary O‰۪Donnell, and Manuela Palacios (eds.) To the Winds Our Sails: Irish Writers Translate Galician Poetry. (Salmon Poetry, 2010, pp. 170).Manuel Rivas. The Disappearance of Snow. Trans. Lorna Shaughnessy. (Shearsman Books, 2012)
RECEPTION
SATURDAY, 31st MARCH, 201210:00 am ‰ÛÒ 12:00 am MOORE INSTITUTEFROM CARRAROE TO A CORUÌÔA: ‰ÛÏDÌÁ mbÌ_nnse thall sa SpÌÁinn / Were I beyond in Spain‰۝ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION ON TRANSLATING SONGS
12:00 am ‰ÛÒ 13:00 pm LUNCH
CARRAROE LIBRARY – BUS TO CARRAROE16:00 pm CONCERT.Performance of Irish and Galician Songs translated by S̩amus ÌÒ CoileÌÁin and MarcoV̩lez, performed by Lillis ÌÒ Laoire and Marco V̩lez, with an Introduction to GalicianMusic.

English Graduate Research Day
2012-03-29 09:45
EnglishGRADUATE RESEARCH DAY
9.45am-11.00 chair: Dr Rebecca Barr
Rosemary Gallagher
‰Û÷All this happened, more or less’: the auto-biographicality of humour in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle and Sirens of Titan
Rebecca Downes
Rehabilitating the Real: J.M. Coetzee’s Aesthetics of Finitude
CiarÌÁn Dowd
‰Û÷Not chaos itself lay outside of that matrix’: Deterministic Chaos in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy.
11.00 COFFEE
11.30-12.45pm chair: Dr Riana O’Dwyer
Mair̩ad NÌ_ ChualÌÁin
S̩tanta’s journey from its rural birthplace to the urban capital
Mair̩ad NÌ_ ChroinÌ_n
Questions of Time in Mobile Digital Theatre
Lisa Fitzgerald
Archiving the West: Druid Theatre’s Role in Performing our Cultural Identity
1.00-1.50 chair: Dr John Kenny
Meaghan Connell
‰Û÷As for your Irish luchorpÌÁn’: Hiberno-English, literary dialect, and corpus linguistics
SiobhÌÁn Purcell
A disability to achieve abstraction: The Feeble and the Able in The Fables of Finnegans Wake
1:50 Lunch
2.30-3.45 chair: Dr ClÌ_odhna Carney
Paul Rooney
Banking Fraud in Serial Numbers: Commodification, the Marketplace, and Arthur Griffiths’ Fast and Loose (1885)
Conor Montague
A Class Apart: Moore, Joyce and the Baptism of Dedalus.
Chant̩ Mouton Kinyon
Literature, Nationhood, and Authenticity: Postcoloniality in the Irish and Harlem Renaissances

3.45 COFFEE

4.15-5.30 chair: Professor Joan Dean
Neassa Doherty
Portraits of the Stage Irishman: two visual representations of Teague by the Dublin Group (c. 1740-1775)
Ayla Zachary
‰Û÷A Stranger In Your Native Land’: Irish-Americans in American Irish Melodrama
Ciara O’Dowd
Archives and Truths: Researching Irish Theatre History of the 1930s

History Graduate Research Seminar Series 2011-12: 'The Misery Index': Irish vs. Polish Peasants in the Nineteenth Century - RÌ_isin Healy
2012-03-28 16:00
28 March RÌ_isÌ_n Healy
‰Û÷The Misery Index’: Irish vs. Polish Peasants in the Nineteenth Century

TCC Seminar Series - Dr. Shahidha Bari, Queen Mary University of London: Objects, Interiors and Authority: Rethinking the Arabian Nights in English
2012-03-27 16:00
TCC Seminar Series
Dr. Shahidha Bari , Lecturer in Romanticism at Queen Mary University of London
Objects, Interiors and Authority: Rethinking the Arabian Nights in English
Venue: The Moore Institute
March 27th at 16:00

Dealing with the (un)familiar: Italians' uncanny perceptions of otherness, in Italy and abroad - Dr Francesco Ricatti, University of the Sunshine Coast
2012-03-26 16:00
Francesco Ricatti
Cassamarca Senior Lecturer, University of the Sunshine Coast
Dealing with the (un)familiar: Italians’ uncanny perceptions of otherness, in Italy and abroad
It has often been argued, in academic studies as well as in media and public discourse, that Italian hostility towards immigrants is largely due to a sort of amnesia about Italy’s past as a country of emigration. In other words the scarce sensitivity towards the needs and rights of contemporary immigrants and refugees to Italy, and the scarce appreciation for their contributions to Italian society and economy, would relate to Italians’ inability or unwillingness to remember that they had been migrants themselves. This interpretation mirrors a similar understanding of Italian supposed amnesia about its colonial past. Against this prevailing interpretation of the relationship between emigration and immigration in Italy, this paper will argue that memories of Italian emigration have not been forgotten and that Italian hostility towards immigrants is to be related to a much more complex attempt by Italians to cope with manifestations of otherness, both in Italy and abroad. Employing the psychoanalytical frame of the uncanny -drawing inspiration from the Freudian suggestions about the unheimliche, and later interpretations by philosophers such as Martin Heidegger, Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva and Slavoj ÌÉå_iÌÉå_ek- I will argue that at least since Italian unification there has been a consistent and peculiar Italian way of reacting to the void between the imaginary unity of the nation and its actual fragmentation (due to both its geopolitical history and to mass migration). My argument is that otherness and fragmentation are constituent elements of any Italian identity, and that instead of being enjoyed, celebrated and nurtured they have been too often repressed. As a result of this repression, new and recurring manifestations of difference are threatening for Italians not simply because they challenge the (imaginary) unity of their nation and their local community, but above all because they mirror the alterity, the otherness that already exists within the nation (and within the community, the family and the individual). It is here that the concept of the uncanny becomes particularly pertinent, expressing the emotional reaction in front of something or someone that is stranger and other and yet at the same time familiar, precisely because of his/her otherness.
Francesco Ricatti is Cassamarca Senior Lecturer at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. He coordinates the Italian language program and teaches migration history. He is the author of Embodying Migrants: Italians in Postwar Australia (Bern, Peter Lang, 2011). He has published various book chapters on migration and on football, as well as articles in academic journals, including Australian Journal of Politics and History, History Australia, Annali d’Italianistica and (forthcoming in 2012) Women’s History Review and Modern Italy. He is the co-editor with Penny Morris and Mark Seymour of a recently published volume on Politica ed emozioni nella storia d’Italia dal 1848 a oggi (Rome, Viella, 2012), and a forthcoming special issue of the journal Modern Italy on Emotions in Italy.

Gender and Irish Society in the 19th and 20th century
2012-03-23 00:00
Gender and Irish society in the 19th and 20th century:
New perspectives and new ideas
Two-day conference – 23rd and 24th of March, 2012
Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences
National University of Ireland, Galway
Funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS)
This two-day conference, funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences ‰Û÷New Ideas‰۪ Scheme, will examine the theme of gender in Irish society in the 19th and 20th centuries. The conference will take place at the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies at the National University of Ireland Galway and bring togetheracademics, early career researchers and postgraduates working in the fields of history, gender studies, children studies, English literature, sociology, film studies and related areas.
Conference programme: Friday 23rd of March
9.00-9.30: Registration
9.30-11.00: Panel 1: Gender and Irish literature I
Chair: Dr Marion Krauthaker-Ringa, NUIG
o Declan O’Keeffe – The young writer’s saint – Women writers in the Irish Monthly.
o Laura Pomeroy – ‘Untroubled by Leaves’: constructions of nature in Mary Devenport O’Neill’s poetry
o Rebecca Anne Barr – The kind of boy I liked: gender, boyhood and masculinity in the work of Forrest Reid
11.00-11.30: Tea/coffee break
11.30-1.00: Panel 2: Gender and religion
Chair: Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley, NUIG
o Evelyn Glynn – Magdalene Matters
o Sean Brady – Sectarianism, religion and masculinity: Northern Ireland after 1921
o Yafa Shanneik – Irish women converting to Islam in the late 20th century
1.00-2.00: Lunch
2.00-3.30: Panel 3: Gender and Irish culture
Chair: Dr Tomas Finn, NUIG
o Eleanor O’Leary – Women, desire and modernity in 1950s Ireland
o Finola Doyle-O’Neill – The role and representation of women on Irish television in the 1960s
o Claire McGing – Gender and candidate success in Irish general elections
3.30-3.45: Tea/coffee
3.45-5.15: Panel 4: Gender and work
Chair: Dr John Borgonovo, UCC
o Mary Hawkins – No fire in their room? General nurses and local government, 1922-42
o Mary Muldowney – Costlier than the male? The gendered nature of pension provision for women railway workers in 1930s Ireland
o Kevin G Davison and Amy McDonald – The Irish male teacher and role models for boys: contradictions of desire and panic
5.15-6.00: Keynote address by Dr. Myrtle Hill, QUB
8.00: Conference dinner at the Harbour Hotel
Conference programme: Saturday 24th of March
9.30-11.00: Panel 5: Women’s movements
Chair: Dr Caitriona Clear, NUIG
o Gillian McLelland – Margaret Byers and Women’s Work for Women
o John Borgonovo – Gender, nationalism and the Cumann na mBan in Cork, 1914-22
o James Curry – ‰Û÷All workers, all women, divided by our own near-sightedness’: an examination of the gender ideology of the Irish Women Workers’ Union, 1911-1915
11.00-11.30: Tea/coffee break
11.30-1.30: Panel 6: Gender and parenting
Chair: Dr Kevin Davison, NUIG
o Emma O’Toole – Promoting health, strength and beauty to their offspring – Women’s role in the management and nurture of their infants in early nineteenth century Ireland’
o Sarah-Anne Buckley – Gendering blame? An examination of gender in cases involving offences against children in Ireland, 1900-1950
o Mary Murphy – From male bread winner to mother-worker: Gender and Irish social security
o Aidan Cooney – Irish fathers parenting experiences with their disabled child, an exploratory study
1.30-2.30: Lunch
2.30-4.00: Panel 7: Gender and Irish literature II
Chair: Dr Rebecca Anne Barr, NUIG
o Katharina Walter – Pomegranates and other temptations: the myth of Ceres and Proserpine in contemporary Irish women’s poetry
o Nguyen Nhat Tuan – In Search of Contemporary Irish man: representations of masculinity in Irish chick lit and its Vietnamese translation
o Marion Krauthaker-Ringa – Love the sinner, hate the saint! Tortured feminine psyche in Edna O’Brien’s 2011 Short Stories
4.00-4.15: Closing remarks: Dr Laura Kelly, NUIG

Dr James Smith (Boston College) -'A Book's Afterlife: The Ryan Report, and State Interaction with the Magdalene Laundries'
2012-03-22 18:00
The Department of History, NUI, Galway, and the Moore Institute invite you to a talk by
Dr James Smith (Boston College)
Titled “A Book’s Afterlife: The Ryan Report, and State Interaction with the Magdalene Laundries“
Thursday 22, March at 18.00 in AC201
James M. Smith is an Associate Professor in the English Department and Irish Studies Program at Boston College. He has published articles in Signs, The Journal of the History of Sexuality, Ìäire-Ireland, and ELH. His book, Ireland’s Magdalen Laundries and the Nation’s Architecture of Containment (Notre Dame 2007: Manchester 2008) was awarded the 2007 Donald Murphy prize for distinguished first book from the American Conference for Irish Studies. He serves on the Advisory Committee of Justice for Magdalenes (JFM), where he co-wrote the groups’ submission to the Irish Human Rights Commission. His submission, “Justice for Magdalenes: A Narrative of State Interaction,” is currently being considered by Ireland’s Minister for Justice and the Irish Government’s Inter-Departmental Committee on the Magdalene Laundries. He also co-edited a special double issue of Eire-Ireland addressing Irish Childhood (44: 1&2 [2009]) and edited Two Irish National Tales: Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent and Sydney Owenson’s The Wild Irish Girl (Boston, 2005).
ALL WELCOME

Dr Roisin McLaughlin, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies 'Early Irish Satire'
2012-03-22 17:00

History Graduate Research Seminar Series 2011-12: When Saints Die: Corporate Identity and Myth-making after Vincent de Paul: The Congregation of the Mission as a case study - Sean Smith
2012-03-21 16:00
21 March Sean Smith
When Saints Die: Corporate Identity and Myth-making after Vincent de Paul: The Congregation of the Mission as a case study

Keith Busby will be a Moore Institute visiting fellow in March and will give a lecture at 6pm on 'The French of Medieval Ireland and the Ireland of the French' - Prof. Keith Busby
2012-03-15 18:00
Keith Busby will be a Moore Institute visiting fellow in March and will give a lecture at 6pm on Thursday 15th March. The topic of his lecture will be ‰ÛÏThe French of Medieval Ireland and the Ireland of the French‰۝
