Jamie Canavan on Irish poet and dramatist Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926). - Modern Irishwomen Lecture Series
2018-12-08 12:30 - 15:30 UTC | Education Room, Galway City Museum
Jamie Canavan on Irish poet and dramatist Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926), younger sister of Constance Markievicz and a committed suffragist and labour activist.

Modern Irishwomen series
2018-12-08 14:30 (Europe/Dublin) | Education Room, Galway City Museum
The final talk in the Modern Irishwomen series in the museum will be given by a PhD student from NUIG, Jamie Canavan, on Saturday 8th December, 2:30pm.

https://www.galwaycitymuseum.ie/event/illustrated-talk-eva-goore-booth-1870-1926/

'The Boyne and Aughrim Compared' by Dr. Pádraig Lenihan
2018-12-11 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Retired Staff Association is pleased to present ”The Boyne and Antrim Compared’ by Dr. Pádraig Lenihan.

Inaugural Lecture Series
2018-12-13 17:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Professor Enrico Dal Lago
“The Social Origins of Agrarian Violence in Comparative Perspective: The First Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina and the Early Mafia in Sicily, 1865-1875”
A comparative historical project focusing on the events and transformations that occurred in the United States in the period after the American Civil War and in Italy in the period after national unification can help us understand better the deep economic, social, and political changes experienced by the rural areas of the nineteenth-century Euro-American world.
This is especially true with regard to the U.S. South and southern Italy after 1865 and in relation to issues such as the agrarian elites’ ideologies and practices of power and the labour relations that characterized the agrarian countryside of the two regions – one of which was a former slave society, while the other one was a long-term free labour society. My aim in implementing the methodology of comparative history in this project is to research the specific ways in which the agrarian elites in the U.S. South and southern Italy, despite the temporary loss of power they experienced in the aftermath of the American Civil War and of Italian national unification, managed to maintain a tight grip on the agrarian working classes of the two southern regions – i.e., freed African Americans and free southern Italian peasants – preventing them from moving beyond the social status quo. In this lecture, I compare the Reconstruction U.S. South with post-unification southern Italy by investigating specifically the reasons behind the origin and expansion of violent practices of agrarian vigilantism and criminal activity in the cotton-producing regions of upcountry South Carolina and in the citrus-growing regions of coastal western Sicily. In comparable terms, in both the cases of upcountry South Carolina and coastal western Sicily, those violent practices were tightly related to both a regional agrarian past and the specific historical circumstances of the period between 1865 and 1875. Also in comparable terms, those practices led to the creation of two particular traditions of illegal violent activity – the first Ku Klux Klan and the early Mafia – which, although very different in character, served a similar purpose of controlling the agrarian workforce in areas characterized by the production of highly valuable cash-crops.
For more information please see
http://www.nuigalway.ie/colleges-and-schools/arts-social-sciences-and-celtic-studies/lecture-series/#Enrico

Bellies, Bowels and Entrails: Book Launch
2018-12-13 18:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland

CIORCAL SCRÍBHNEOIREACHTA
2018-12-13 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Dublin) | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
An bhfuil suim agat i scríbhneoireacht na Gaeilge? An bhfuil tú ag iarraidh do shaothar féin a roinnt le daoine, agus aiseolas a fháil, nó d’obair a phlé go neamhfhoirmiúil le daoine eile a bhfuil Gaeilge acu? Nó an bhfuil tú ag iarraidh éisteacht le scríbhneoirí eile ag léamh a saothar amach os ard? Má tá, déan cinnte go dtagann tú chun ár gciorcal scríbhneoireachta, a bheas ar siúl achan Déardaoin ag a 6 i seomra an Droichid in Institúid de Mórdha.

Beidh muid ag súil le fáilte a chur roimh achan duine a bhfuil Gaeilge agus fonn scríbhneoireachta acu!

Pop-up lunchtime seminar
2018-12-17 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Transitions, 1918-1919:
Marking the December 1918 General Election and post-war demobilization
Chair Mary Harris, panellists Gearóid Barry, John Cunningham, Philip Dine & Cathérine Gagneux.

Image: Hoffmann, Herbert: Kriegsende, Schlange für Entlassungspapiere, Germany, 1918; source: Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-2007-0007, via Wikimedia Commons.

This panel discussion of the importance of the 1918 General Election in Galway and Ireland will also consider the wider processes of military and social demobilization in the uncertain atmosphere of the Armistice period 1918/19. The first exercise of the parliamentary franchise by women in Britain and Ireland and the rise of new political forces make this a period of transformation just as Europe and its overseas empires transitioned to ‘wars after the War’.
This event also marks the opening of the exhibition,

‘A UNIVERSITY IN WAR AND REVOLUTION, 1913-1919: THE GALWAY EXPERIENCE/OLLSCOIL IN AM COMHRAIC, 1913-1919: COGADH AGUS RÉABHLÓID in the exhibition space of the Hardiman Research Building in December 2018.
ALL WELCOME/FÁILTE ROIMH CHÁCH

Christmas Reception
2018-12-18 15:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Staff and Students of the College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies
are invited to a Christmas Drinks Reception at the Moore Institute
on
Tuesday, December 18, 2018 @ 3pm
in the Moore Institute Seminar Room, Room G010
Hardiman Research Building
All welcome!
Please rsvp for catering purposes.

Retired Staff Association
2019-01-08 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Graduate Research Seminars in History, 2018-19
2019-01-16 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Wednesdays 4pm
Dr Kieran Fitzpatrick (NUI Galway Research Fellow, Moore Institute)
The Great War and Great Change?
The professional life of surgeon Peter Johnson Freyer, 1900-1921.
Co-ordinator: Dr Gearóid Barry, History Department (email – gearoid.barry@nuigalway.ie).

A Wild Mountain Borderland’. The Locus of Gaelic Learned Families in 15th and 16th Century Ireland
2019-01-18 12:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Camps a talk by Professor Liz Fitzpatrick, ‘A Wild Mountain Borderland’. The Locus of Gaelic Learned Families in 15th and 16th Century Ireland.

Academic Publishing’s Uncertain Future: how will it impact NUI Galway?
2019-01-21 12:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Library is hosting a seminar titled Academic Publishing’s Uncertain Future: how will it impact NUI Galway? on Monday 21 January at 1200, with details and link to registration (essential) as below:
A number of significant developments have impacted the whole environment of academic publishing, generating lots of debate and sometimes controversy in their wake. This seminar will offer an opportunity to catch up on developments such as:

challenges across Europe in particular to the current commercial publishing system, including robust engagement with the highly profitable publishing company, Elsevier, and cancellation of expensive subscriptions
policy directives aimed at universal open access to funded research publications, notably Plan S, to which Science Foundation Ireland is a signatory
concerns regarding the equitable assessment of research as more institutions sign the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment
a general push towards Open Science, emphasising research sharing, transparency and reproducibility

The first half of the seminar will consist of short presentations by an expert panel, representing a range of perspectives. The second half will be an open forum, enabling full audience participation with the panel to discuss issues of concern.
Panel members are:
Professor Daniel Carey, Director, Moore Institute
John Cox, University Librarian (chair)
Monica Crump, Head of Collections, James Hardiman Library
Professor Lokesh Joshi, Vice-President for Research
Dr Niall Madden, Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Applied Mathematics
Dr Elaine Toomey, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Psychology
NB: Registration is essential if you wish to attend – please register at https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/academic-publishings-uncertain-future-how-will-it-impact-nui-galway-tickets-54750078960

Graduate Research Seminars in History, 2019:
2019-01-23 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Keith Seán Harrington (Maynooth University)
Language Politics and Territorial Separatism: the origins of the Transnistrian conflict 1989-1990.

Book Launch
2019-01-24 16:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
You are invited to attend the launch by Professor Emeritus
of Modern Irish (UCC) Alan Titley of the book:

An Chuid Eile Díom Féin: Aistí
le Máirtín Ó Direáin
(Cló Iar-Chonnacht)
Síobhra Aiken (ed)
Fáilte roimh chách!

EDEN Event: Léann an Bhéaloidis: Rethinking Folklore and Oral Traditions
2019-01-24 17:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
NUIG has a vibrant and dynamic community of folklore scholars and scholars that utilize folklore sources in their various research disciplines, and indeed, often in bilingual or multilingual environments. This brief, informal evening session aims to bring together researchers who are already working with folklore sources, those who may be considering utilising folklore sources and perspectives in their research, and of course anyone who would like to hear more about the fascinating scholarship taking place on oral traditions here on campus. Our three panellists will speak for ten minutes each on their research, followed by an opportunity for questions and discussion:

Pádraig Ó Mathúna, Drew University & Ionad an Léinn Éireannaigh, OÉG: ‘‘Bhiodh na cruinnighthe agus drill aca san oídhche’: A Fenian history from below
Siobhan Morrissey, English Department, NUIG: “Exploring the links between folklore, children’s literature, and nationalism”
Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha, Irish Research Council Laureate Scholar, Roinn na Gaeilge & Institiúid de Mórdha, OÉG ‘Fairy Changelings: Understanding Domestic Abuse, Infanticide, and Disability’

As usual, drinks and chats to follow in McGinn’s afterwards – all are welcome!
Fáilte roimh chách!

Graduate Research Seminars in History, 2019:
2019-01-30 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Mícheál Ó Fathartaigh (Teagasc/Social Sciences Res. Centre, NUIG)
A Quieter Revolution: How Demonstrations Transformed Early Twentieth-Century Rural Ireland after the Land War.

Planning & Building Digital Projects - Digital Scholars' Workshop Series
2019-01-31 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Dublin) | The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
Update: The slides from this session are now available for download.

This session will give an introduction to planning a digital research project, and is aimed at those considering the creation of a digital project, either small or large, as part of their research or learning.
Using an existing database project as an example, we will look at the various stages in project design & development, along with tools you can use to support them.
Areas to be covered include ways to:

identify your project requirements,
work with your data,
approach planning the look and feel of the project’s interface,
think about your technology choices, and
evaluate your decisions by testing with users.

We will look at a number of tools that have proved useful over the course of my work on a wide variety of digital projects.
The session will be delivered by David Kelly, Digital Humanities Manager at the Moore Institute.
Registration
Please register to attend using Eventbrite.
About the Workshop Series
Developing skills with digital technologies can be a challenge for researchers interested in digital and open scholarship.
To help, the Library, in partnership with the Moore Institute, presents a series of informal workshops to share practice-based expertise, know-how, and experience in technologies and methods, that will enhance your experience of newer forms of scholarship.
Events in this semester’s series include:

Planning & Building Digital Projects – David Kelly, G010, 12-1pm Thursday, 31st January
Introduction to Research Data Management and related supports at NUI Galway – Trish Finnan, G010, 12-1pm Wednesday 27th February
Creating Digital Exhibitions with Omeka – Cillian Joy, G011, 12-1pm Thursday 28th March
Archives in the digital age – balancing evolving expectations against the realities of resource allocation and legislation – Aisling Keane, G010, 12-1pm Tuesday, 30th April.

Irish Studies Seminar Series - Semester 2, 2018-19
2019-01-31 16:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Centre for Irish Studies
Down with the Paris Farmer!’
Frank MacDermot and Class Politics in 1930s Roscommon

Dr Tony Varley, (Political Science & Sociology, NUI Galway)
Centre for Irish Studies – 4pm, 31 January 2019

A chairde,
You are invited to attend our first seminar of the Irish Studies Seminar Series for Semester 2, 2018-19.
Dr Tony Varley (Political Science & Sociology, NUI Galway) will deliver his seminar, ‘Down with the Paris Farmer!’ Frank MacDermot and Class Politics in 1930s Roscommon’, based on his ongoing research investigating the history of Frank MacDermot (1886-1975) with a particular focus on Ireland in the 1930s. For further details, please see below.
The seminar will take place at 4pm, Thursday 31 January, at the Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, Distillery Road.
Beidh fáilte roimh chách!
Le gach dea-ghuí,
Nessa
Dr Nessa Cronin, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway.
“Frank MacDermot (1886-1975) tends to be remembered today as a maverick in Irish politics: a founder of Fine Gael who quit the party in late 1935; an independent-minded parliamentarian who stood alone in criticising de Valera’s 1937 constitution for its potential to antagonise northern unionists and embed partition further; and someone whose political career ended abruptly in 1942 upon resigning from Seanad Éireann where he had sat since 1938 as one of the Taoiseach’s eleven nominees. The focus of my talk will be on the circumstances in which MacDermot was first elected in Roscommon in 1932, and the manner he held his seat a year later in the snap election of 1933. Another topic to be discussed is the appraisal of MacDermot’s record by some of those leading some new movements of Irish and Roscommon farmers later on in the 1930s.”
Dr Tony Varley, (Political Science & Sociology, NUI Galway)

Modernist Studies Ireland Works in Progress
2019-01-31 17:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
BIOS
Iva Yates is a doctoral candidate at the University of Limerick. Her interdisciplinary PhD project is titled The Golden Comb: A Novel and Critical Analysis. She holds a BA in English from Boston College and a MA in English Literary Studies from the University of York.
Dana Garvin is a PhD candidate at the University of Limerick. Her current research focuses on the visually symbolic intricacies contained within the Yeatses Automatic Script and the mostly unpublished drawings and illustrations imbedded throughout the entirety of the extant pages. She is working towards a complete indexing and system of categorisation for this visually striking material as well as a dissection of the material within the framework of visual rhetorical analysis.
ABSTRACTS
“Female Nations: Cathleen Ní Houlihan and The passion according to Antígona Pérez’s Triadic Structures and Blood Sacrifice”
In 1968, Puerto Rican playwright Luis Rafael Sánchez brought to the stage La pasión según Antígona Pérez (The passion according to Antígona Pérez). The play’s title character, Antígona Pérez, is based on Sophocles’s Antigone and represents Puerto Rico as a nation struggling to be part of Latin America yet trapped in the vise of the United States.
On the other hand, in W. B. Yeats’s play Cathleen Ní Houlihan, the Poor Old Woman represents an Ireland that hopes to break free from British rule yet has been unable to do so. However, at the promise of a rebellion, she transforms from an old woman into a young one; the symbol of a new beginning.
These two plays, written at different times in the twentieth century, both use women to depict the island nations that have been subjected to colonial rule by different empires; the Spanish and then American in the case of Puerto Rico, and the British in the case of Ireland. In both instances, a blood sacrifice is required to achieve freedom but how this is achieved and the result of said sacrifice differs.
This paper examines both plays from a transnational/ postcolonial perspective, and looks into how Ireland’s and Puerto Rico’s parallel histories converge, how the plays use triadic structures for the required blood sacrifice, how they differ in outlook, and how this is portrayed in the texts through the intersection of gender and nationalism.
“Dissecting Mysteries & Exploring Sequences in the Automatic Script”
This presentation examines the visual aspects of George and W. B. Yeats’s automatic script. The automatic script served as the foundational material that would eventually become Yeats’s A Vision. While this research does exist in a state of evolutionary progression, this presentation gives an overview of the script and will highlight some of the key visual elements, drawings, and illustrations that exist throughout the extant pages. The discussion will primarily focus on the overarching patterns within some of the more prominent illustrations and the underlying meanings behind those images. Throughout the presentation, a strong emphasis will be given to George Yeats’s role in the creation of this material and her contribution as not only interpreter but also as artist. This discussion will provide the primary areas of categorisation for the whole of the automatic script illustrations and will highlight the main purposes of said drawings. Additionally, the presentation will include information on some of the unique visual trademarks of some of the key communicators as well as highlight some portions of previously undiscussed, hidden symbolic material that permeates the entirety of the script.

Past, Present, Future How best can we live our histories and our futures?
2019-01-31 17:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Passé, Présent, Futur
Comment mieux vivre nos histoires et nos avenirs ?

Past, Present, Future
How best can we live our histories and our futures?

La Nuit des Idées or The Night of Ideas is an annual event coordinated by the Institut Français which takes place this year on Thursday 31st January. Its goal is to celebrate the exchange of ideas between countries, cultures, topics and generations. Speakers from diverse backgrounds will gather in a wide range of cultural or knowledge centres to discuss the theme across five continents, from Dakar to Los Angeles, not to mention Brussels, Buenos Aires, Kathmandu, Marseille, Paris… and Galway! As part of this global event, the Discipline of French at NUI Galway, in collaboration with the French Embassy in Ireland and the Moore Institute, will host an evening of talks and short film screenings to which all are warmly invited. This event will examine ways in which memories of the past can productively inform the present, and on how our current experiences may be enhanced by artistic, scientific and civic engagement with a variety of imagined futures.
Keynote speaker: Professor Grace Neville (University College Cork)
Postgraduate student presentations
Lucas Cantinelli (French, NUIG)
Eilish Kavanagh (Heritage Research Group, GMIT),
Maša Uzelac (French, NUIG).
Short Film Screenings
Le Voyage dans la lune (Georges Méliès, 1902)
La Race (Michaël Le Meur, 2015)
All welcome
For further information, please contact: philip.dine@nuigalway.ie

Seminar on Career Development for Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Researchers - PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5.
2019-02-01 12:00 - 13:30 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
In conjunction with the Sinéad Beacom, Manager of the Researcher Development Centre (RDC), the Moore Institute will host a Career Development event for postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers within the College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies.
The purpose of the session will be two-fold: (i) to identify what particular training needs are of interest to postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers with a view to putting some training initiatives in place this semester and (ii) for researchers to have an input into the plans of the RDC as it evolves.
Researcher Development Centre
The Researcher Development Centre (RDC) is a new initiative, supported by the Offices of the VP for Research and Innovation and the Dean of Graduate Studies, for the specific purpose of providing support and continuing professional development opportunities for researchers at NUI Galway.
The RDC mission is to create and foster a culture of continuing professional development (CPD) for researchers; to enable researchers to identify and achieve a range of skills suited to their personal career pathway; to signpost opportunities for researchers both within and beyond academia and to measure the impact of such training/CPD.
The RDC fully supports the EU MISSION ‘to facilitate the development of R1 (postgrad) and R2 (postdoc) researchers to become fully aware of their possible career trajectories and the existing range of career development opportunities open to them, thereby enabling them to make training and occupational choices and to take personal responsibility for the management of their own career’.
The RDC aims to ensure that all researchers will have an Individual Development Plan, mentoring support, a full selection of training and professional development opportunities, career support and to showcase a wide range of career profiles from both academia and beyond academia

Talk By Nike Stam
2019-02-01 12:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Copying Code-Switching: The Problems of Bilingual Texts in Translation

The #MeToo Moment
2019-02-04 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Seminar on Career Development for Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Researchers
2019-02-05 11:00 - 12:30 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building

Graduate Research Seminars in History, 2019
2019-02-06 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Maura Cronin (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick)
‘The female of the species is more deadly than the male’: Women in anti-tithe protests in 1830s Ireland.

Archiving Personal Histories: The Tuam Mother and Baby Home
2019-02-07 10:30 (Europe/Dublin) | The Cube, Áras Na Mac Léinn, NUIG
Programme
10.30: Tea/Coffee & pastries. Opening comments by Prof. Pat Dolan (Chair, UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre)
11.00-12.30: Survivor-led Workshop
Workshop led by Breeda Murphy (Tuam Home Survivors Network) and Mary Cunningham (Tuam Oral History Project) involving participants from the Network, invited students and staff. Limited places; to book, contact: Tuamoralhistoryproject@gmail.com for queries)
12.45-13.45 – Lunch
Seminar – All Welcome
14.15: Welcome address from the Dean of Arts, Professor Cathal O’Donoghue. Introduction by John Cox, James Hardiman Library.
Panel 1: 14.30-15.45
Panel Discussion: Advocacy and Historical Justice

for more information and to register click here
: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/archiving-personal-histories-the-tuam-mother-and-baby-home-tickets-55155396275

Prof Jennifer Todd on post-conflict identity politics in Ireland
2019-02-07 14:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 333, 2nd Floor, Áras Moyola
Professor Jennifer Todd, one of the foremost scholars of the Northern Ireland conflict and of identity change in Ireland North and South is giving a research seminar in the School of Political Science and Sociology on Thursday 7 February at 2pm. All are welcome.
Identity change, identity politics and identity traps: why everyday compromise after conflict is so often reversed. Research from the two Irelands.
Abstract: This paper sketches a dynamic empirical analysis of micro-identity change and its (potential) macro-impact in politics and social life. It outlines some of the concepts, measures and conclusions from my recently published qualitative research on both parts of Ireland (with a control study in France). Its focus on individual identity innovation – set against analysis of social boundaries and cultural grammars – allows comparative empirical analysis of incipient processes of identity change in very different social settings. Its typology of identity change, oriented to project, content and argumentation, shows the obstacles specific to each type of change and the existence of social traps, where individuals’ resources and opportunities lead them to types of change almost certain to fail. This allows more nuanced comparative research than do the dominant political science approaches to identity. Its conclusions go against contemporary wisdom. Identity change is pervasive, even more so in conflict-ridden situations than in consensual ones. It takes a limited number of forms, working from given national and religious bases rather than rejecting them. And it meets predictable social traps. The paper shows how this leads to a distinctive approach to explaining political reversals in Northern Ireland from flags to Brexit and a distinctive policy orientation. Neither pluralist nor cosmopolitan ideologies grasp the process: rather than ‘new narratives’ there is need for new constitutional signposts beyond identity politics.

Jennifer Todd, Identity Change After Conflict: Ethnicity, Boundaries and Belonging in the Two Irelands. Springer/Palgrave Macmillan 2018 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-98503-9

Identity Change after Conflict | SpringerLink
link.springer.com
This book explores everyday identity change and its role in transforming ethnic, national and religious divisions. It uses very extensive interviews in post-conflict Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in the early 21 st century to compare the extent and the micro-level cultural logics of identity change. It widens comparisons to the Gard in France, and uses multiple methods to …

Bio
Jennifer Todd is a full professor at University College Dublin (until 2018 in School of Politics and International Relations), Member of the Royal Irish Academy, Fellow of the Geary Institute, UCD, current Fellow of the Political Science Association of Ireland, and (2016) Fernand Braudel Fellow at SPS, European University Institute, research director (previously director) Institute for British-Irish Studies, UCD. She writes on the structural and institutional conditions of (ethnic) conflict and the processes of institutional change that can lead to settlement, with particular expertise on Northern Ireland, and on issues of identity, ethnicity and identity change. On conflict and settlement, she is co-author with J. Ruane of Dynamics of Conflict in Northern Ireland (Cambridge, 1996), co-author with J. Coakley of ‘From Sunningdale to St Andrews‘ (Oxford, forthcoming 2019), and numerous articles in West European Politics, Political Studies, Parliamentary Affairs, Irish Political Studies. and numerous edited books and book chapters. On identity and ethnicity, she has recently published Identity Change after Conflict (Springer-Palgrave 2018), a co-edited journal issue with B. Rumelili on Paradoxes of Identity Change (2018) and numerous articles and edited volumes, in Politics, Theory and Society, Archives Européennes de Sociologie, Nations and Nationalism, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Participation and Conflict, etc. With J. Coakley she produced an archive of interviews on Breaking Patterns of Conflict in Northern Ireland, recently opened to researchers in the John Whyte Archive, Archives, UCD. She is presently writing (with J. Ruane) a sequel to Dynamics of Conflict, and undertaking new qualitative research in ‘Brexiting’ Northern Ireland.

Camps Talk by Aoife Maher
2019-02-08 12:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
For the Love of the Gods: Kharis and Religious Reciprocity in Euripedes’ Tragedies

Retired Staff Association Lecture Series
2019-02-12 12:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Graduate Research Seminars in History, 2019
2019-02-13 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Dr James O’Donnell (Zhejiang Intl. Studies Univ. in Hangzhou, China)

‘“Please confirm at once”: confusion, libel and reporting the Revolution in Galway, the case of George Nicholls (1919).
