Moore Institute

CAMPS Lab: MÌÁirÌ_n MacCarron, History, NUIG. 'Bede and Time'.
2014-01-31 12:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Followed by discussion & light lunch
Everyone welcome ‰ÛÓ FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch

History Graduate Research Seminar Series - Mark Scannell, 'Irish Catholic recruitment to the British Army, 1691-1815'.
2014-01-29 16:00

CAMPS Lab: Professor Ian Woods of the University of Leeds - 'Debating the Fall of Rome from the Ancien R̩gime to the creation of Late Antiquity'.
2014-01-24 12:00
This week’s CAMPS Lab will be delivered by Professor Ian Woods of the University of Leeds.
His title is:’Debating the Fall of Rome from the Ancien R̩gime to the creation of Late Antiquity’
Followed by discussion and light lunch

Archaeology Graduate Resesarch Seminar Series - Karen Taylor & Seamus McGinley, Doctoral Students in Geography -The Role of Palaeolimnology in Archaeological Research
2014-01-23 16:00 | The Hardiman Building G011 seminar room, Ireland
The Discipline of Archaeology Invites You to a Seminar by
Karen taylor & Seamus McGinley
Doctoral Students in Geography
The Role of Palaeolimnology in Archaeological Research
Venue: G011, RH side of foyer in the new Arts and Humanities Research Building (beside Hardiman Library)
All Welcome!
Department of Archaeology Research Seminar Series, School of Geography and Archaeology

Pascale Dettwiller from Flinders University, Australia on community engagement in the Katherine Region of the Northern Territories entitled 'Community Engagement: improving student experience within the communities, how can Universities be innovative?'
2013-12-19 12:30
Pascale Dettwiller from Flinders University, Australia
on community engagement in the Katherine Region of the Northern Territories entitled
‰Û÷Community Engagement: improving student experience within the communities, how can Universities be innovative?’
Pascale will offer a 30 minute presentation on her community engagement work in the Katherine region followed by a group discussion and brainstorm. The purpose of this seminar will be to look at other models of community engagement and to grow our work within the Galway community and nationally through higher education in Ireland.
Further information can be obtained from Lorraine McIlrath (lorraine.mcilrath@nuigalway.ieor (091 495234). To reserve a place please email IrÌ_n NÌ_ ChualÌÁin on irin.nichualain@nuigalway.ie
Further information on the CKI website – http://cki.nuigalway.ie/event/559/-flinders-university-engagement-seminar/

Performance Matters - Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2013-12-17 18:00, 2013-12-03 18:00, 2013-11-19 18:00
Performance Matters
Irish Theatre Discussion Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/
For more information please contact lisa.fitzgerald@nuigalway.ie or m.nichualain5@nuigalway.ie
All theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend
For more information please email PerformanceMattersNUIG@gmail.com.

Gender ARC Public Lecture with Senator Katherine Zappone
2013-12-16 16:00
Global Women’s Studies is pleased to host a
Gender ARC Public Lecture with
Senator Katherine Zappone
Moving beyond a politics of shame: marriage equality, gender recognition and the new embrace of humanity
Reception to follow – all welcome
rsvp: Gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie
Senator Katherine Zappone is one of Ireland’s foremost thinkers and legislators on equality issues. She was formerly a Commissioner with the Irish Human Rights Commission (2002-2012) and currently serves on the Oireacthas delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). She is also a member of the Committee on Equality and Non-discrimination of PACE and a member of the Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality. She has published research in national equality frameworks, effective children’s services, equal opportunity in education, theology and spirituality, and human rights. This year her private member’s bill on Gender Recognition spurred the Government into publishing their own proposals on the issue. She was Chief Executive of the National Women’s Council of Ireland, and has taught ethics, practical theology and education in Trinity College Dublin. She holds a PhD from Boston College and an MBA from the Smurfit Business School at UCD. She was recently awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from UCD School of Law. She has co-authored her memoirs with Dr Ann Louise Gilligan, Our Lives Out Loud: In Pursuit of Justice & Equality (Dublin: The O’Brien Press, 2008) which documents their ground-breaking case to have their Canadian marriage recognised in Irish law.
http://www.genderarc.org

CAMPS Lab: Kenneth Coyne, History Department, NUIG - 'The description of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos in Robert The Monk's Historia Iherosolimatana': caricature or reality?
2013-12-13 13:00
Kenneth Coyne, History Department, NUIG
‘The description of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos in Robert The Monk’s Historia Iherosolimatana‘: caricature or reality?

NUI Galway's THREESIS 2013 Final
2013-12-12 19:30
INVITATION
NUI Galway‰۪s THREESIS 2013 FINAL:
The THREESIS competition will see NUI Galway staff and students present their research to the audience and a panel of judges in accessible language a non-expert can understand, in three minutes or less. Each of the 8 finalists will have only three slides and three minutes to communicate their research area and relevancy. Competitors are judged on how well they convey their subject and their ability to communicate to a general audience.
Each of NUI Galway‰۪s five main priority areas will be represented, with topics ranging from the brain structure of people with Bipolar Disorder, to the transport of pollutants in groundwater. Also on the night, the winner of THREESIS 2012, Dr. RonÌÁn Hennessy of the Ryan Institute‰۪s GIS Centre, will give a short talk based on his winning THREESIS 2012 presentation, ‰ÛÏMaking Time for Old Lines‰۝, in which he will discuss his animated timeline map of Irish railways.
The winner of THREESIS 2013 will receive a prize and award, based on the decision of the judges who will include: Eithne Verling, Director of the Galway City Museum; Professor Lokesh Joshi, Vice-President of Research at NUI Galway, and Johnny Holden, Irish Times Journalist and Editor of NUI Galway‰۪s Research Matters publication.
All are welcome and refreshments will be served on the night. The event is free but we would like you to pleasebook by emailing mooreinstitute@nuigalway.ie
List of Presenters

Arias, Mario
‰ÛÏKnowledge Ready to use!‰۝
Informatics, Physical & Computational

Burke, Lorraine; Nic Gabhainn, Saoirse; Young, Honor
‰ÛÏIrish Teenage Sex: Hype or Horror?‰۝
Social Science & Public Policy

Curry, James
‰ÛÏThe visual imagery of the Irish labour press, 1911-14‰۝
Humanities in Context

Kenny, Joanne
‰ÛÏDo mental skills in psychosis deteriorate over time?‰۝
Biomedical Science & Engineering

Maloney, Maureen
‰ÛÏAccessing the impact of occupational pension scheme structure and communication on individual pension adequacy‰۝
Social Science & Public Policy

McBriarty, Eunan
‰ÛÏAnybody can be a Scientist!‰۝
Biomedical Science & Engineering

O ‰Û÷ Donoghue, Stefani ‰ÛÏInvestigating brain structure in individuals with bi-polar disorder ‰۝
Biomedical Science & Engineering

Vero, Sara
‰ÛÏCalculating time-lag of applied nutrients to groundwater on a site-specific basis‰۝
Environmental, Marine & Energy

Digital Scholarship Seminar - Lillis ÌÒ Laoire & MicheÌÁl Mac Lochlainn - 'A discussion on the Joe Heaney Archive' - Mark Stansbury 'What's digital about digital humanities?'
2013-12-12 12:00
Digital Scholarship Seminar
The third and final event of the Autumn/Winter series of DSS is a lunchtime seminar featuring presentations from scholars in Classics and Gaeilge:
Mark Stansbury (Classics). ‘What‰۪s digital about digital humanities?’
Lillis ÌÒ Laoire (Gaeilge). ‰Û÷The Joe Heaney Collection: Building the Digital Archive.‰۪
Chair: Sean Ryder (English)
The seminar will be followed by discussion and lunch, provided by the Moore Institute, at 1pm.
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www.nuigalway.ie/digital-seminar
Join the DSS mailing list

CAMPS Lab: Rosemary Power, Independent Scholar, Adjunct of CAMPS, NUI Galway - 'A Norse view of Brian BÌ_rÌÄå¼'
2013-12-06 12:00
Rosemary Power, Independent Scholar, Adjunct of CAMPS, NUI Galway
‰Û÷A Norse view of Brian BÌ_r̼‰۪

Finnegans Wake reading group
2013-12-05 13:00, 2013-11-21 13:00
If you like gossiping, poetry, languages, puns, puzzles, jokes, double entendres or even avant-garde tomes, you might like Finnegans Wake. Despite its scurrilous critical reputation, James Joyce’s final workis not as difficult as it would first appear and,when read as part of a group, can be a hugely rewarding experience. It is our hope to read the text episodically, playing close attention to the rhythm and musicality of the piece; we aim to stress the looseness of the text without resort to lucidity.
No prior experience of Joyce is necessary and the meetings will be very informal so everyone is very welcome.
Consider joining our Facebook group to keep abreast of news, dates and any strange Joycean ephemera that we find. ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/359211964211176/ )
For more information please contact siobhanmpurcell@gmail.com

Centre for Irish Studies Doctoral Research Symposium
2013-12-04 11:00
Centre for Irish StudiesDoctoral Research Symposium
Programme
11.00am – 12.30pm Panel 1’Ritual Tears’: Some aspects of the phenomena of tears in ritual and religious funerary practices, with particular reference to narratives from the National Folklore Archives on Erris, Co MayoRita O’DonoghueA methodological approach to literary translation from a minority to a majority languageFionnuala NÌ_ RÌÁinneIdeology and polemic in the journalism of MÌÁirtÌ_n ÌÒ CadhainDÌ_nal ÌÒ BraonÌÁin
12.30pm Lunch
1.30 – 3.00pm Panel 2Some reflections on the development and legacy of Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy (1973-2012)Verena Commins“Acht do bhrÌ_gh go bhfuaras scrÌ_obhtha i sein-leabhraibh iad”: Why medieval Ireland was of such interest for nineteenth-century Irish antiquariansCiaran McDonoghIrish railway networks: Mobility, capitalism, and imperial networks in nineteenth century IrelandThomas Fisher
3.00 – 4.00pm Panel 3The meaning of place for the second generation Irish from BritainSara Hannafin“Whose truth is it?”: Developing a theoretical framework for the study of arctic representation in the nineteenth centuryEavan NÌ_ DochartaighInto the West: The legacy of ‰Û÷the West’ in the visualisation of IrelandJeannine Kraft
ABSTRACTS
Rita O’Donoghue‘Ritual Tears’: some aspects of the phenomena of tears in ritual and religious funerary practices, with particular reference to narratives from the National Folklore Archives on Erris, Co MayoThis presentation explores the phenomenon of weeping, whether as private and public, spontaneous and orchestrated aspects of funerary ritual and custom. It examines the functions of weeping in the expression and management of grief and loss, as well as the widerphenomena of ‰Û÷holy tears’ within ritual and religious practices. Finally, it considers the implications of these phenomena from a gendered standpoint.
Fionnuala NÌ_ RÌÁinneA methodological approach to literary translation from a minority to a majority languageThe aim of this paper is to give an overview of the methodological approaches adopted in an effort to formulate a balanced approach to a multi-genre, period-specific, descriptive research project in the field of translation studies. Questions relating to the production and the process of translation will be discussed including the deciphering of strategies employed by various translators, categorisation of literary translators, and the plurality of perspective with particular reference to the author/translator/reader triangle.
DÌ_nall ÌÒ BraonÌÁinIdeology and polemic in the journalism of MÌÁirtÌ_n ÌÒ CadhainMÌÁirtÌ_n ÌÒ Cadhain (1906-1970) was an acknowledged master of 20th century Irish fiction during his lifetime. He was also an accomplished controversialist and a prolific contributor to a variety of newspapers, journals and magazines on issues relating to Irish identity and the Irish language especially. This short paper will discuss the journalistic output of MÌÁirtÌ_n ÌÒ Cadhain and assess a sample range of texts to demonstrate a feature of ÌÒ Cadhain’s writing which has received limited critical attention to date.
Verena ComminsSome reflections on the development and legacy of Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy (1973-2012)This paper reflects on the dynamics that inform the development and contribute to the on-going legacy of Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy. It gives insights into the transformation of Miltown Malbay, the site of the School in West Clare, into a highly-charged symbolic space in which the transmission, commemoration and performance of Irish traditional music are re-traditionalised at the School, annually. Defining the socio-cultural moment in which the School appeared as a central element to its future articulation, this paper asserts that the School’s animation, which has deliberately eschewed the rigours of the market-place, has prevented the agency of commerce from developing a gate-keeping role, as has occurred in other comparable festival scenarios. It draws on this and other factors which contribute to the construction of an authenticating discourse that permeates the School, facilitating the development of cultural authority. This discourse is built on the master-apprentice dyad which underpins processes of transmission, the annual repetition of ritual commemoration and the performance of place. The production of symbolic space in which the objectification of tradition develops enables the School itself to confer authority onto wider aspects of the Irish music tradition.
Ciaran McDonogh“Acht do bhrÌ_gh go bhfuaras scrÌ_obhtha i sein-leabhraibh iad”: Why medieval Ireland was of such interest for nineteenth-century Irish antiquariansThroughout the history of Irish antiquarian research, the predominant subject of interest to those engaging with studies was medieval Ireland, especially the pre-Conquest period. This paper explores why this period was of such interest for scholars and what it symbolised for them. Amongst the many reasons was that medieval Ireland was far enough in the past and different enough from the present day that it could be interpreted as an ideal Ireland, where the wrongs of nineteenth-century Ireland could be made right and where those who were marginalised through their religion, by benefit of their linguistic skills and hereditary learning, held the upper hand in translating and interpreting this era. It also symbolisedequality and, in bringing together various people in scholarship of this period, removed the sectarian nature of nineteenth-century Irish society. Essentially, medieval Ireland was whatever the scholar wanted it to be and, thus, it fulfilled the role of being the perfect place and time and that is the reason of why it was of such interest.
Thomas FisherIrish railway networks: Mobility, capitalism, and imperial networks in 19th century IrelandThis paper will address some of the key issues that took place in the first half of the nineteenth century with regard to the role that the British government had in the planning and financing of Irish railways during their early stages of railway expansion. This will be done within the wider scope of discussing Ireland’s position within the Union between Britain and Ireland. The Act of Union in 1800 had politically unified Britain and Ireland, though their social and economic standing within the partnership were far from equal. The resulting status of Ireland at this time offers an intriguing perspective in which to assess the establishment of railways in Ireland. Railways were developed in the 1820s as a product, and response to, the Industrial Revolution and then were quickly utilized as a tool for economic improvement and expansion wherever they went. This also extended to social and political improvements to varying degrees depending on the amount of government intervention. This paper will address how the railways were utilized in Ireland in light of the status that was given to Ireland within the nineteenth century, and as a result, to what degree this influenced the lasting impact that they had upon Irish soil.
Sara Hannafin
The meaning of place for the second generation Irish from BritainThis paper is based on ongoing research with a small number of the second generation Irish who grew up in Britain and have migrated to Ireland as adults. Through in-depth interviews and written communication many have described a powerful sense of place in this, their parental home country. The aim of this paper is therefore to explore from where a sense of place evolves for these second generation return migrants and illustrate how it has shaped their lives and sense of selves. For most of us, most of the time, place is unthought of and taken for granted. The act of migration promotes a new level of consciousness about place and therefore migrant stories can be a useful way of exploring the people-place dynamic. There is a growing recognition of the transnational lives lived by migrants and their families (see Levitt and Waters, 2006) however, despite their mobility, the participants of this research also hold an enduring belief in the power of place through the importance of their connection to the parental homeland and the value they put on a sense of rootedness and continuity.
Eavan NÌ_ Dochartaigh
Whose truth is it?”: developing a theoretical framework for the study of arctic representation in the nineteenth century”The question is not ‰Û÷which is true?’ but ‰Û÷whose truth is it?'”(Short, 2005, xxii). The Ph.D. project explores the art and associated travel writing of the Franklin Search Expeditions (1847-59) as a coherent unit of cultural history. The project is intrinsically spatial, seeking to connect original sketches, watercolours, and journal entries to their initial places of creation in the Arctic. Interdisciplinarity is central to the study, which draws on critical theory including post-colonialism, post-structuralism, semiotics, and aesthetics as well as theories of space and place, gender, and reception theory.In this presentation, I will focus on theories of space and place and their particular application to interpretations of the nineteenth-century Arctic. Do images and texts, created by travellers to the Arctic, reflect a negative Classicist view where nature is a dark force harking back to European folktales? Or can we see the positive influence of the Romantic view, which sees the Arctic as a spiritual space? At what point do arctic spaces become familiar places to the travellers? Could the Arctic or the ship become a type of home, a refuge, for some? And to what extent did re-presentations (second- and third-hand images) fuel the wilderness myth of the Arctic and the idea of North as a gendered masculine zone?
Jeannine KraftInto the West: The legacy of ‰Û÷the West’ in the visualisation of IrelandThe visualisation of the Irish landscape in both fine arts and tourist imagery has historically been rooted in the notion of ‰Û÷the West’. The Free State government, in its efforts to define an anti-British construct, embraced and promulgated an idyllic vision of rural Ireland situated in the West. From the Republic’s emergence as an independent state, there were strong political motivations for creating a cultural identity rooted in this historical pre-colonial landscape. The legacy of this construct endures, impacting contemporary cultural production in both the fine and popular visual arts. The landscape of the West has been framed through the lens of the visual arts as embodying and disseminating an ‰Û÷authentic’ cultural construct that, despite the remove of time from its codification, persists within the post-nationalist globalized context of contemporary Ireland and continues to condition the experience of the landscape both internally and externally. Through the lens of landscape imagery, this paper will interrogate how ‰Û÷the West’ has been defined geographically, politically, culturally, linguistically and visually, and the problematic nature of defining this real and imaginary geography of place as artists in both the fine and popular arts continue to mediate the cultural inheritance of the mythic and enduring notion of the West of Ireland.

Horizon 2020 Marie Curie Day
2013-12-02 10:00
Horizon 2020 Marie Curie Day
Programme of Events:
–Part I: Excellent Science – the Marie Curie option (10.00- 12.00pm)
An overview & update of the Marie Curie Scheme presented by Dr Jennifer Brennan NCP.
Also campus case studies of an ITN, or the IEF Scheme and the IAPP as shared by our colleagues
Register here: http://bit.ly/17gMKLW
–Part II: ITN Workshop (12.00 ‰ÛÒ 1.00pm)
Register here: http://bit.ly/1bJl8R8
–Part III: IEF Workshop & Co Facilitator (1.45 ‰ÛÒ 3.00pm)
Register here: http://bit.ly/1b3zpKa
–Part IV: other 1-2-1’s sessions (3.00 ‰ÛÒ 5.00pm)
Register here: http://bit.ly/IcrnSc
For further information contact clodagh.barry@nuigalway.ie

IMBAS Conference November 29th to December 1st - ' Destruction and Renewal ̢åÛå_and back again?'
2013-11-29 14:00
IMBAS 2013
The theme for the 2013 conference is ‘ Destruction and Renewal ‰Û_and back again?‰۪, and it will run from the 29th November to 1st December at the Moore Institute, NUI Galway.
The committee is delighted to announce that this year’s keynote speaker will be Professor Fredric Cheyette of Amherst College, Massachusetts. Professor Cheyette is one of the world’s foremost scholars of Medieval European culture, more specifically on the region of Occitania, what is now Southern France. However, his more recent research has focused on the topic of climate and climate change during the medieval period. Aspects of this research will addressed in his keynote address, the title of which will be ‘From the Ancient to the Medieval Countryside: Old Answers/ New Questions’.
The deadline for the Call for Papers has now passed and the committee would like to very much thank all who have sent in their abstracts. Delegates for the conference have been selected and the conference schedule will be available to view here. Please visit and join our Facebook group too: Imbas Facebook

CAMPS Lab: John Whitman, Cornell/National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Toyko - 'Kundoku: What is it, and did anything like it exist in the medieval West?'
2013-11-29 13:00
John Whitman, Cornell/National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Toyko
‰Û÷Kundoku: What is it, and did anything like it exist in the medieval West?‰۪

The Ryan Institute & Moore Institute present an exploratory seminar - The Cultural and Physical Landscape
2013-11-29 12:00
Join us for an hour to network with colleagues and explore potential opportunities for collaboration on research projects, outreach initiatives, workshops,seminars, summer schools and conferences.
Refreshments served at 12 noon

ECHO Seminar: Love and Happiness with Felix ÌÒ Murchadha and Stephen Cadwell
2013-11-28 17:00
You are cordially invited to the final ECHO seminar of the semester, a Christmas circus cracker.
We have two fine speakers, fine wine, and fine themes to gladden the heart and deepen the soul.
The Reverend Al Green put it on record: ‘happiness is when you’re really feeling good about somebody’. No doubt he had something particular in mind.
What he thought about circuses is not recorded. Still, simply by attending, participating, and partaking, our understanding of all these noble, philosophical, fine things: philosophy, education, emotion, aesthetics, love, beauty, and happiness – the very pith and marrow of life – will surely be immeasurably deepened.
ECHO presents a seminar:
LOVE & HAPPINESS
FELIX ÌÒ MURCHADHA
Beauty, Love and Emotion
STEPHEN CADWELL
Measuring Happiness: Eudemonia and Youth Circus
5pm Thursday 28th November
Moore Institute Seminar Room
All welcome. Wine served
ECHO brings together researchers of all disciplines across the arts and humanities to discuss vital research questions in a collegiate environment.
Contact adrian.paterson@nuigalway.ie or see our website http://echoforum.wordpress.com

History Graduate Research Seminar Series - Joe Regan - Defending Antebellum US Slavery: the impact of Bishop John England & other Irish clerics
2013-11-27 16:00
Joe Regan
Defending Antebellum US Slavery: the impact of Bishop John England & other Irish Clerics

Threesis Heats: Open your mind
2013-11-26 13:00
THREESIS: Open Your Mind…and Get to the Point!!
Join us as NUI Galway researchers use their 3 minutes to Get to the Point and Open Your Mind!
EilÌ_s Flanagan (Education), Fionn ÌÒ Sealbhaigh (Gaeilge) and Paul Flynn (Education). will participate in this week’s heat.
Come along and support your colleagues!
A light lunch will be served after the presentations.

Irish Renaissance Seminar
2013-11-23 13:30
Irish Renaissance Seminar
Schedule
1.30̢åÛå3.00
Dr Anders Ingram (NUI, Galway): ‰Û÷Discourse and Digital Methods: EEBO, Corpus Research and the ‰ÛÏTurk‰۝ in Early Modern England‰۪
Dr Kathleen Miller (TCD): ‰Û÷Katherine Austen‰۪s Reckoning with Plague in Book M‰۪
Dr Lindsay Reid (NUI, Galway): ‰Û÷Vernacular Ovids and the Cross̢åÛåDressed Narcissus of Shakespeare‰۪s Twelfth Night‰۪
3.00̢åÛå3.45
Tea/Coffee
3.45̢åÛå5.00Dr Tom Roebuck (University of East Anglia): ‰Û÷Writing Medieval History in Seventeenth̢åÛåCentury Britain‰۪
DirectionsEnter the Arts/Science Building and walk the length of the concourse to the Bank of Ireland. Turn right at the bank, continue over the footbridge; the seminar room is at the end of that corridor.
For further information contact Daniel Carey (daniel.carey@nuigalway.ie) and Marie̢åÛåLouise Coolahan (marielouise.coolahan@nuigalway.ie).
The IRS thanks the Society for Renaissance Studies for its support.

Annual Conference of the Economic And Social History Society Of Ireland, Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd November
2013-11-22 14:00
ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF IRELAND
Friday 22nd November
2-3.30 session 1
18th century economic
Salim Rashid (Illinois), 18c Ireland and the birth of development economics
Aidan Kane (NUIG), A database of 18th-century Irish public finances
Patrick Walsh (UCD), Who paid what? Taxation and the financial impact of the state in Ireland, 1690-1782
Industry and Industrial Policy
Frank Barry [with MÌ_cheÌÁl ÌÒ Fathartaigh and Eoin O’Malley] (TCD), 1960s Ireland and the evolution of the Industrial Development Authority over its second decade
Ciaran Casey (Oxford), The Role of the International Institutions in Irish Policymaking in the years before the crash
Sean Rickard (UL), Fishing and technology transfer: Ireland and the Shetlands in the 18th century
4-5.30/5.45 session 2
20th Century: Finance
Eoin Drea (UCC), John Busteed and the battle to shape Irish monetary and banking policy 1924-43
Stefan Gerlach, Rebecca Stuart (Central Bank of Ireland), Money, interest rates and prices in Ireland, 1933-2012
Paul Ferguson (Sensible Money), An electronic penny for your thoughts: how the rise of digital money has affected Ireland‰۪s recent past
Ronan Lyons (Oxford) [with Richard Grossman (Wesleyan and Harvard), Kevin O’Rourke (Oxford), Madalina Ursu (LSE)], A monthly stock exchange index, 1864-1930
Poverty, migration and the city
Alan Noonan (UCC), Immigration has killed the country: the Chamberlain letters of the 1880s
Sara Goek (UCC), ‰ÛÏThe whole world is out there‰۝: remembering emigration in oral histories
Richard McMahon (Edinburgh), Violence, migration and the city: the Irish experience in 19th-century Britain and North America
Carole Holohan (UCD), A ‰Û÷rediscovery‰۪ of poverty: Dublin in the 1960s
6.00 Connell lecture ‰ÛÒ Prof. Cormac ÌÒ GrÌÁda, ‰Û÷Reflections on Famine‰۪
8/8.30 Conference dinner, Meyrick Hotel
Saturday ‰ÛÒ Arts Millennium Building
9.15-11 session 3
The Famine
Eoin Flaherty (NUIM), Socio-ecological resilience, the rundale system and the Great Irish Famine
Andrew Newby (Univ. of Helsinki), Famine in Ireland and Finland, c. 1845-1868: transnational, comparative and long-term perspectives
Charles Read (Cambridge), ‰Û÷Laissez-faire‰۪, the Irish Famine and British financial crisis
Ciaran Reilly (NUIM), Culpability and the Great Irish Famine
Poverty and the churches
Olwen Purdue (QUB), Negociating the options: poverty, philanthropy and the female poor of late Victorian Belfast
Sean Smith, ‰ÛÏGallic gifts‰۝: charitable networks and the Irish College, Paris, 1870-1945
Ciaran McCabe (NUIM), Perceptions and experiences of child street beggars in Ireland, c. 1800 ‰ÛÒ c. 1850
Sean Farrell (N. Illinois Univ.), Beautiful vision: Christ Church and Anglican children in early Victorian Belfast
Land and elites
Peter Hession (TCD), Demographic and social transformation in the remaking of the Cork landed elite, 1880-1914
David Stead (UCD), The farm records of Rev Ralph Sadlier, Castleknock, 1857-61
Eoin McLaughlin (Edinburgh) [with Nathan Foley-Fisher (US Federal Reserve)], Capitalising on the Irish ‰Û÷Land Question‰۪: Irish Land Bonds, 1891-1938
11.30-1 session 4
Round table on ‰Û÷Writing the Famine‰۪
Enda Delaney (Author of The Curse of Reason: The Great Irish Famine)
Ciaran O Murchadha (Author of The Great Irish Famine: Ireland‰۪s Agony 1845-52)
Peter Gray (Author of The Irish Famine and Famine Land and Politics)
Chair: Cormac ÌÒ GrÌÁda (Author of The Great Irish Famine)
18th century
Alan Smyth (TCD), Destruction, flight and recovery: the impact of the Williamite-Jacobite war on the Ormond estate
Robert Whan (QUB), Presbyterians and interrelations in Ulster, 1680-1730
Eoin Kinsella (UCD), The abduction of Jenico Preston, 12thViscount Gormanston, in 1786
20th Century: Early Free State legislation
Michael Dwyer (UCC), ‰ÛÏAn injustice to the Free State: response and reaction to the Local Government Act 1925
Liam O‰۪Callaghan (Liverpool Hope), Betting and bookmakers in independent Ireland, 1922-31
David Toms (UCC), ‰ÛÏBacking It Both Ways‰۝: Gambling and the Introduction of the Betting Act (1926) in Ireland
1-2 lunch (venue to be confirmed)
2-3.30 session 5
19thc landlords and tenants
Brian Casey (Independent), ‰Û÷The revolt of the tenantry on the Clancarty estate, 1886‰ÛÒ91‰۪
Shane Faherty (UCC) ‰Û÷A Case of Divided Loyalties: Canon Ulick Bourke‰۪s 1882 Plea for the Evicted Tenants of Mayo‰۪
Kevin Mc Kenna (Independent), The gift and the decline of the deferential dialectic on an Irish landed estate, 1830-1908
Literacy & education
Chris Colvin (QUB) [with Matthias Blum (Munich), Laura McAtakney (UCD), Eoin McLaughlin (Edinburgh)] ‰Û÷Can women count?‰۪ Gender and numeracy in nineteenth-century Ireland
Pamela Emerson (UU), ‰Û÷The tree of diabolical knowledge‰۪: the rise of commercial circulating libraries in Ulster in the nineteenth century
Declan O‰۪Keefe (UCD), ‰ÛÏTime, energy and brass‰۝: why Studies did not fail
Life and death in the 20th century
David Doyle (UCD), English Executioners and Irish Executions: an untold story of hired help
Laura Kelly (UCD), ‰ÛÏAn awfully ignorant mob‰۝ medical student life and culture in Ireland, 1900-1950
James McCafferty (NUIM), A New Kind of Death: The Niemba Massacre and Irish military funerary ceremonial
4-6.00 session 6
Popular Politics
Kerron O Luain (QUB), Ribbonism in 1850s Ulster: a spent force?
David Reid (TCD), ‰Û÷The Terry Alts seem to consider the possession of land their peculiar property‰۪: the Terry Alt Campaign of 1831.
Darragh Curran (NUIM), ‰ÛÏI believe we are very poor‰۝: the use of Orange Order funding in 1830s Ireland
19th and 20th century business
David Convery (Melbourne), A sociology of Irish shareholders in the 1890s
Kevin Costello (UCD), Shopkeepers, drapers and publicans and the law of bankruptcy in Victorian Ireland
John King, Leo Crilly: the sad story of the first Irishman to run a British airline
Conor Curran (St. Patrick‰۪s), Locating the Irish emigrant professional footballer within the history of the Irish emigrant in Britain, 1945-2010
Religion and nationalism
Daragh Gannon (NUIM), Losing their religion? Revolutionary religiosity and the Irish in Great Britain, 1916-22
C. J. Woods (NUIM), Pilgrimages to Tone‰۪s grave at Bodenstown, 1873-1923: time, place, popularity
Richard McElligott (UCD), Quenching the prairie fire: the collapse of the GAA in 1890s Ireland
Matthew Potter (Limerick city archives), The political role of Mount St Lawrences cemetery in Limerick, 1867-2013
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Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour & Class, Moore Institute, NUI Galway Inaugural conference
2013-11-21 09:00
Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour & Class
Moore Institute, NUI Galway
Inaugural conference
Arts Humanities and Social Science Reserach Building (new extension)
21-22 November 2013
Round One: THURSDAY 21 NOVEMBER, 9.00 ‰ÛÒ 10.30
Panel 1: Irish working life and politics: (i) Primitive rebels
Gary Hussey (NUI Galway), ‰Û÷Agrarian secret societies and a moral economy: the case of the Threshers‰۪
Maura Cronin (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick) ‰Û÷Sawyers and vitriol-throwing in 1830s Cork‰۪
John Cunningham (NUI Galway), ‰Û÷The working class revolt of September 1846‰۪
Panel 2: Migrants and transnational labour ‰ÛÒ Session supported by the MA in Culture and Colonialism, NUI Galway
Kathy Powell (NUI Galway), ‰Û÷Mobile labour and violence‰۪
Eilis Ward (NUI Galway), ‰Û÷Migrants or Victims? Debating Prostitution Law Reform in Ireland‰۪
Margaret Brehony (NUI Galway), ‰Û÷Free Labour and Whitening the Nation: Irish Migrants in Colonial Cuba‰۪
Panel 3: Workers‰۪ art
James Curry (NUI Galway), ‰Û÷‰ÛÏAn inspiration to all who gaze upon it?‰۝ The James Larkin monument on Dublin‰۪s O‰۪Connell Street‰۪
Katy Milligan (TCD), ‰Û÷‰ÛÏArtist of the workers‰۝: poverty and politics in the art of Harry Kernoff‰۪
Jean Walker (NUI Maynooth), ‰Û÷‰ÛÏPlain and fancy workers‰۝: women knitters and identity in Ireland‰۪s nineteenth and twentieth century‰۪
Round Two, THURSDAY 21 NOVEMBER, 10.50 ‰ÛÒ 12.20:
Panel 1: Irish working life and politics: (ii) c. 1850-1900
Laurence Marley, (NUI Galway), ‘Georgeite radicals in late nineteenth-century Belfast’
John McGrath (MIC), ‰Û÷Organised labour in 19th century Limerick: violence and the struggle for legitimacy‰۪
Brian Casey (Clonfert archivist), ‰Û÷Matt Harris and the cause of labourers during the Land War‰۪
Panel 2: Causes and Campaigns in the Roaring Twenties
Niall Whelehan (University of Edinburgh),‰Û÷Sacco and Vanzetti and Ireland‰۪
Mark Phelan (NUI Galway), ‰Û÷‰ÛÏStrike breaking, union breaking, intolerance and bigotry‰۝: Irish labour and Italian Fascism in the 1920s‰۪
Gerard Watts (NUI Galway), ‰Û÷The battle for Liberty Hall, 1923-24‰۪
Panel 3: Mobility and the intelligentsia
TomÌÁs Finn (NUI Galway), ‰Û÷The influence of intellectuals in Ireland, 1940-80‰۪
Mary Marmion (UCD), ‰Û÷From the land of bulrush and bog to the garden party at the Palace: The role of women in the emerging middle class, 1850-1970‰۪
James O‰۪Donnell (NUI Galway), ‰Û÷A Class of News: an all-Ireland managerial class in Irish newspapers c.1912-1939‰۪
Round Three: THURSDAY 21 NOVEMBER, 1.30 ‰ÛÒ 3.00
Panel 1: Irish working life and politics: (iii) 1900-1950
Donal O’Drisceoil (UCC), ‰Û÷Sex & socialism: the class politics of immorality in early 20th century Ireland‰۪ Niamh Puirs̩il , ‘The Labourers’ Party: class & politics in early 20th century’ Adrian Grant (Univ. Ulster), ‘Radicals: the Irish working class, republicanism and the radical left, c.1900-1939’
Panel 2: Youth, class, and culture
Donal Fallon (UCD), ‰Û÷‰ÛÏQuick witted urchins‰۝: Dublin‰۪s newsboys, 1900-25‰۪
Jonathon Hannon (NUI Galway), ‰Û÷Class, culture and John Cooper Clarke’
Julie McGrath (MIC), ‰Û÷Sir Edward De Vere and William O‰۪Brien‰۪
Paddy McMenamin, (NUI Galway), ‰Û÷What would James Connolly have made of it all’? Youth & class in late 1960s Belfast,
Panel 3: Class houses
Thomas Murray (UCD), ‰Û÷Ireland‰۪s rebel cities: the untold history of an island‰۪s Housing Action Committees‰۪
Michael Dwyer (UCC), ‰Û÷Abandoned by God and the Corporation: The anti-slum campaign in Cork city, 1913-1930‰۪
Padraic Kenna (NUI Galway), Historical overview of the development of the Irish housing system
Round Four: THURSDAY 21 NOVEMBER, 3.15 ‰ÛÒ 4.40
Panel 1: Biographies
Gerard Madden (NUI Galway), ‰Û÷Bishop Browne of Galway and anti-communism, 1937-1976‰۪
John Kehoe (TCD), ‘Garda Memoirs: autobiographical writing and occupational identity’
Maeve Casserly (TCD), ‰Û÷Rosie Hackett: bridging the divide‰۪
Gerri O‰۪Neill (Mater Dei), ‰Û÷The Deportation of James Gralton ‰ÛÒ de Valera and the 1933 Red Scare‰۪
Panel 2: Religion and class politics
Dan Finn (New Left Review), ‰Û÷Irish Republicans and the Protestant working class, 1968-1998‰۪
Tony Varley (NUI Galway), ‘Bobby Burke, Christian Socialism and class politics in post-independence Ireland
Matthew Collins (Univ. Ulster), ‰Û÷‰ÛÏScourge of the bigot and Tory‰۝: The life and times of Jack Beattie‰۪
Panel 3: 1913 and all that
Leo Keohane ((NUI Galway), ‰Û÷‰ÛÏLabour in Irish History‰۝: a text in support of a Sorel type Syndicalism?‰۪
Leah Hunnewell (TCD), ‰Û÷Irish working class struggle & postmillennial rhetoric 1911-16: a transatlantic perspective‰۪
Meredith Meagher (Univ. of Notre Dame), ‰Û÷Ireland & American Labour: an international perspective on Lockout‰۪
John O‰۪Donovan (UCC) Canon Sheehan and Connolly: Labour, Nationality and Religion in Ireland 1910 ‰ÛÒ 1913
Round Five: THURSDAY 21 NOVEMBER, 4.45 ‰ÛÒ 6.00
Panel 1: CaipitlÌ_ as OileÌÁn an Chrapaigh; cumannach as ́rainn – Session in association with the Liam & Tom O‰۪Flaherty Society
Seosamh ÌÒ Cuaig (Independent film maker) ‰Û÷Tom O‰۪Flaherty‰۪
Jackie UÌ_ Chionna (NUI Galway), ‰Û÷MÌÁirtÌ_n MÌ_r McDonogh‰۪
Panel 2: Labour and archives
Kieran Hoare, NUI Galway
CatrÌ_ona Crowe, National Archives of Ireland
Francis Devine, Irish Labour History Society
Panel 3: Class, conflict and amelioration in early nineteenth Ireland
Dominic Haugh (NUI Galway), ‰Û÷The origins and legacy of the Ralahine commune, 1831-1833‰۪
Terry Dunne (NUI Maynooth), ‰Û÷Class in pre-famine Ireland‰۪
Alan Noonan, ‰Û÷‰ÛÏNot the slightest appearance of an outbreak‰۝: labour conflict in the mining regions of Ireland‰۪
Round Six: THURSDAY 21 NOVEMBER, 8.00 ‰ÛÒ 9.30
Mechanics Institute, The Saothar symposium:
‰Û÷Forty years on: where next for the history of the Irish working class.‰۪
Established in 1973, the Irish Labour History Society has published its annual journal Saothar since 1975. This discussion will feature the following speakers who will assess where to for the history of the Irish working class ‰ÛÒ Mary Jones, Michael Pierse, Francis Devine, Sarah-Anne Buckley and David Convery.
Caitriona Crowe will occupy the chair
Mechanics Institute: book launch of David Convery (ed.) Locked out: a century of Irish working class life
Round Seven: FRIDAY 22 NOVEMBER, 9.00 ‰ÛÒ 10.30
Panel 1: In dock, pew and street
Gerard Farrell (TCD), ‰Û÷Class divisions amongst the ‰ÛÏmere Irish‰۝ of colonial Ulster‰۪
Hilary Taylor (Yale University), ‰Û÷Rethinking lower-class ‰ÛÏinarticulacy‰۝ in 18th-century Britain: some evidence from the Old Bailey‰۪
SeÌÁn Farrell (Northern Illinois Univ.), ‰Û÷Beautiful Vision: Christ Church & Anglican children in early Victorian Britain‰۪
Panel 2: The rights of labour
Cathal Smith (NUI Galway), ‰Û÷Irish Landlordism, American slavery and ‰Û÷‰۝rural subjection‰۝‰۪
Timothy Keane (NUI Galway), ‰Û÷Revisiting Chartism in Ireland‰۪
TBC
Panel 3: Sport, labour and class
Daryl Leeworthy (University of Huddersfield), ‰Û÷Class, labour migration and the making of commercial ice hockey in inter-war Britain and Ireland‰۪
David Toms (UCC) and Alex Jackson, ‰Û÷The miner and the darling of the gods: football, work and migration in inter-war Britain and Ireland‰۪
Brian Ward (NUI Galway), ‰Û÷Galway press attitudes towards the working classes in 1912‰۪
Round Eight: FRIDAY 22 NOVEMBER, 10.50 ‰ÛÒ 12.10
Panel 1: Class and politics in Ireland in 1790s Ireland
Niall Gillespie (TCD), ‰Û÷The class dynamics of radical literary political culture,1791-98‰۪
Timothy Murtagh (TCD), ‰Û÷Dublin‰۪s journeymen – Hibernia‰۪s sans culottes?‰۪
UltÌÁn Gillen (Teeside University), ‰Û÷Class and United Irish ideology‰۪
Panel 2: Collective bargains
Alan Power (TCD), ‰Û÷Irish Trade Unionism, centralised bargaining and social justice, 1961-79‰۪
Martin Maguire (Dundalk IT), ‰Û÷Confronting state power: civil service trade unions in independent Ireland, 1922-38‰۪
Peter Murray (NUI Maynooth), ‰Û÷Adult education and labour movement division in Ireland, 1940s to 1960s‰۪
Audrey Cahill, ‰Û÷Child poverty, intergenerational transmission of advantage and basic capital‰۪
Panel 3: Oral History, letters and work
Mary Muldowney (TCD), ‰Û÷‰ÛÏTrusting to their honours for justice‰۝: insights into class relations in the Irish railway industry after the introduction of the state old age pension in January 1909‰۪
Liam Cullinane (UCC), ‰Û÷Fordism and Ford workers in Ireland, 1917-1932‰۪
Ida Milne (Oral History Network), ‰Û÷Working in a newspaper industry: the gendering of internal elites‰۪
Round Nine: FRIDAY 22 NOVEMBER, 12.15. ‰ÛÒ 1.30
Panel 1: Stage left
Aoife Monks (Birkbeck College, University of London) ‘Virtuosity, technique, craft and the immaterials of Performance.’
Charlotte McIvor (NUI Galway) ‰Û÷‰۝Take Me Down to Monto, Monto, Monto‰۝: disrupting narratives of economic crisis as states of exception through the experimental Irish community theatre.‰۪
Mark Phelan (Queen‰۪s) ‰Û÷Performing class, culture and conflict in Belfast‰ÛÓclass politics and labour relations in forgotten figures from the Irish dramatic canon.‰۪
Lionel Pilkington (NUI Galway) ‰Û÷1985: Irish theatre and the new spirit of capitalism.‰۪
Panel 2: Sustaining and forming children
Emma O‰۪Toole (NCAD), ‰Û÷‰ÛÏAnxious to provide a good nurse‰۝: employing the Irish wet nurse in upper class households in eighteenth-century Ireland‰۪
Geraldine Curtin (NUI Galway), ‰Û÷Instilling the habit of labour: children, work and the early Irish reformatories‰۪
Ian Miller (University of Ulster), ‰Û÷Undernourished infants and ‰ÛÏschool-day starvation‰۝: politics, class and childhood feeding, c.1900-1918‰۪
Sin̩ad Mercier (NUI Galway), ‰Û÷The Irish Magdalene Laundry: establishing state and social responsibility in the ‰ÛÏdisciplinary society‰۝‰۪
Panel 3: Class politics and the Irish revolution ‰ÛÒ session supported by the MA in Irish Studies, NUIG
Andy Bielenberg (UCC) Protestant emigration during the War of Independence and Civil War‰۪
John Borgonovo, (UCC) ‰Û÷Republican civil administration and taxation in the ‰ÛÏMunster Republic‰۝, July-August 1922‰۪
Dara Folan (NUI Galway), ‘The Gaelic League and the labour movement: unlikely bedfellows?’
Panel 4: Perspectives on class and resistance
Michael Pierse (Queen‰۪s), ‰Û÷Emigration, counter-culture and writing the Irish working class‰۪
Paula Geraghty (Trade Union TV), ‘The dialectics of resistance: digital media offering new possibilities for interpretation?
Paul Garrett (NUI Galway), ‰Û÷Destabilizing classifications: thinking with Ranciere about class and history‰۪
7.30 pm Mechanics Institute: Preliminaryworkshop for conference participants interested in developing an oral history project on 20th century Galway industries.
FRIDAY 22 NOVEMBER: The tenth and final round
Mechanics Institute, ‰Û÷Class, conflict and culture: the songs‰۪,

History Graduate Research Seminar Series - Laura O'Brien - The Bishop on the Barricades: French commemorations of the death of Archbishop Denis Affre, 1848-1871
2013-11-20 16:00
Laura O’Brien
The Bishop on the Barricades: French commemorations of the death of
Archbishop Denis Affre, 1848-1871

Digital Scholarship Seminar
2013-11-20 12:00
Digital Scholarship Seminar, November 2013.
12-2pm, Wednesday 20 November, Moore Institute Seminar Room.
The second event of the Autumn/Winter series of DSS is a lunchtime seminar featuring presentations from researchers in English and Huston School (abstracts below):
Ciara Griffin (English). ‰Û÷The Author is Glitched: Media-Specificity and the Non-Western Writer.‰۪
Hilary Dully (Huston School). ‰Û÷Digital Issues in Practice-based Research.‰۪
The seminar will be followed by discussion and lunch, provided by the Moore Institute, at 1pm.
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Ciara Griffin (English). ‰Û÷The Author is Glitched: Media-Specificity and the Non-Western Writer.‰۪
Scholarly interest in the materiality of the book has accelerated alongside the proliferation of the digital-born text. The paradigmatic book at the centre of much media-specific literary analysis is often that particular object emergent from the development of print in Europe and the Occident. In this paper I examine ‰Û÷flawed‰۪ or ‰Û÷imperfect‰۪ editions (UK/India) of Bapsi Sidhwa‰۪s text Ice-Candy Man (1988) to discuss the ways that theorisations of the ‰Û÷glitch‰۪ can allow us to unpack the specific hegemonies implicit to what we mean by the ‰Û÷materiality of the book‰۪. I explore the ways in which the hidden machinery of texts has been revealed through philosophical explorations of otherness as well as those newly emerging discourses of media-specific analysis focusing on the body of the text. I argue that an integration of such subject and object-oriented approaches, through the lens of the glitch, offers new tools for theorising the non-Western or marginal author-function.
Hilary Dully (Huston School). ‰Û÷Digital Issues in Practice-based Research.‰۪
The digital revolution of the past decade has altered filmmaking and artistic practice in many interesting and profound ways.In the history of film the auteur has been accorded a degree of reverence, occupying top position in the traditional, hierarchical crewing system for the production of films, formally a collaborative process, involving the specialised creative skills of crewmembers in the film production line. Digital technology, in particular the development of desktop post-production software, has altered and disrupted the traditional filmmaking practice.What are the possibilities and pitfalls for ‰Û÷the new digital auteur,‰۪ working alone, filming on an iphone, editing on a laptop, and publishing on Youtube?And, how do these questions and issues relate to digital arts research and practice in third level institutions? This presentation will also consider the possibilities and implications of ‰Û÷fair use‰۪ and copyright law in digital arts practice and scholarship.

Threesis: Open your mind
2013-11-19 13:00
THREESIS: Open Your Mind…and Get to the Point!!
Join us as NUI Galway researchers use their 3 minutes to Get to the Point and Open Your Mind!
James Curry (Moore Institute & History) and EilÌ_s NÌ_ Dh̼ill (Gaeilge) will participate in this week‰۪s heat.
Next week‰۪s heat on November 26th will feature presentations from EilÌ_s Flanagan (Education), Fionn ÌÒ Sealbhaigh (Gaeilge) and Paul Flynn (Education).
Come along and support your colleagues!
A light lunch will be served after the presentations.

Gender ARC lunchtime seminar series - 'Reproductive health and rights: Ireland and India, historical and contemporary struggles'
2013-11-18 13:00
Global women’s Studies and Gender ARC are pleased to invite you to a lunchtime seminar:
‘Reproductive health and rights: Ireland and India, historical and contemporary struggles’
With guest speakers
Dorothea Melvin – pioneer in the Irish movement for access to contraception and the establishment of the Galway Family Planning Association in the 1970s
and
Lakshmi Lingam – Professor, School of Social Sciences and Deputy Director of Tata Institute of Social Sciences at Hyderabad, who recently completed a National Review of Maternity Protection Policies and Programmes, commissioned by the International Labour Organisation.
Light snacks and refreshments will be served
All Welcome!
RSVP (for catering numbers) to: gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie
