Moore Institute

Drama, Theatre and Performance Speaker Series; Grace Dyas THEATREclub
2016-01-13 00:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Drama Theatre and Performance speaker series: Grace Dyas from THEATREclub.
For more information please contact: miriam.haughton@nuigalway.ie

Book Launch: The Tudor Discovery of Ireland by Christopher Maginn & Steven G. Ellis
2016-01-12 16:15
You are cordially invited to the launch of
The Tudor Discovery of Irelandby Christopher Maginn & Steven G. Ellis
The book will be launched byProfessor Steven Gunn Merton College, University of Oxford.
RSVP Four Courts Press | info@fourcourtspress.ie
To learn more about this book, visit the Four Courts Press website at http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2015/the-tudor-discovery-of-ireland/
The Tudor Discovery of IrelandChristopher Maginn & Steven G. EllisThe rapid acquisition of knowledge about Ireland in Tudor times constituted a discovery of no small importance for the development of the early modern English state. How the Tudors, and the most influential members of the political establishment who served them, came to be acquainted with Ireland – with its history, with its politics and economy, with its peoples and with its geography – and how that acquired knowledge was applied is the subject of this book. It includes in its analysis an edition of a previously unexamined 16th-century manuscript – the Hatfield Compendium – as a means of exploring the phenomenon of knowledge acquisition and its relationship to the determination of Tudor policy. This book shows that before the Tudor conquest of Ireland there was the Tudor discovery of Ireland.
Christopher Maginn is professor of history at Fordham University in New York. Steven G. Ellis is professor of history and head of the School of Humanities at NUI Galway.Hardback. 208 pages. Available NowISBN: 978-1-84682-573-6Retail Price: ‰âÂ50.00http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2015/the-tudor-discovery-of-ireland/

Performance Matters - Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2016-01-12 14:00
Performance Matters
Irish Theatre Discussion Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/
This weeks discussion – Father Comes Home from the Wars Pts. 1, 2 & 3 by Suzan-Lori Parks.
For more information please contact n.barre8@nuigalway.ie
All theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend

Book launch: Bernard Shaw's Irish Outlook, by David Clare.
2015-12-16 18:00 | Conference Room at the Dublin City Archives, Ireland
You are cordially invited to the book launches for Bernard Shaw’s Irish Outlook, by David Clare.
Although Bernard Shaw is often regarded as a writer of English society plays, his formative years in Ireland deeply influenced his work for the stage. His use of Irish, Irish Diasporic, Surrogate Irish, and Stage English characters reveals the degree to which he maintained a strongly Irish perspective throughout his life. Shaw’s Irish characters betray his Irish reverse snobbery; he uses them to suggest that it is better to come from a marginalized background than a privileged one. Some of his English and American characters (including Henry Higgins) derive their strengths – and some of their weaknesses – from their Irish cultural backgrounds, and Shaw occasionally endows non-Irish characters (such as Saint Joan) with Irish qualities and then uses them as crypto-Irish foils in their dealings with English characters. Finally, Shaw uses Stage English characters in his three Irish plays to critique the English for what he sees as their national flaws.
Dr. David Clare is an IRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow based in the Moore Institute at NUI Galway. His work has been published in the Irish Studies Review, the New Hibernia Review, the Irish University Review, Studies: An Irish Quarterly, and Emerging Perspectives.
Bernard Shaw’s Irish Outlook is an important, original, well-written, critically incisive, and long overdue study of Bernard Shaw’s Irishness … It is the first single-authored volume exclusively focused on the subject of Shaw and Irishness. It will be joined by others in time, but it is unlikely to be bettered. – Prof. Anthony Roche, University College Dublin
Clare’s radical analysis – delivered in subtle prose – constitutes a challenge to Shavians and to Hibernophiles to rethink some of their most basic assumptions. A bracing and enjoyable read. – Prof. Declan Kiberd, University of Notre Dame
Clare wonderfully illuminates the degree to which Shaw’s Irish identity remained the great constant in his protean career. – Fintan O’Toole, The Irish Times
We know that Ireland is a presence in some of Shaw’s plays – John Bull’s Other Island, most famously. Clare’s fascinating and important study gives us new ways to think about such works but also sheds new light on many of Shaw’s most famous dramas, including Pygmalion and Saint Joan. As readable as it is insightful, this book will be of wide interest to scholars of Shaw, Irish literature, and theatre studies. – Prof. Patrick Lonergan, NUI Galway
DUBLIN LAUNCH – Wed., 16 December 2015 from 6-8pm in the Conference Room at the Dublin City Archives, Pearse Street Library, Dublin 2. At this event, the book will be launched by Prof. Declan Kiberd of the University of Notre Dame and by Prof. Patrick Lonergan of NUI Galway.

Professor Kevin Barry (NUI Galway): 'The throats of birds: W.B. Yeats and the act of dying'
2015-12-15 17:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Moore Institute Seminar
Prof. Kevin Barry (NUI Galway)
‰Û÷The throats of birds: W.B. Yeats and the act of dying’
Organised in conjunction with the ‰Û÷Yeats & the West Exhibition’
W.B. Yeats was determined to die with style, as if his reputation depended on it. From the many available genres, he chose one of the most difficult to sustain: death in infamy. This talk analyzes Yeats’s deliberate curation of his own death in infamy, and the public’s triumph over this recalcitrance.
For more information please contact daniel.carey@nuigalway.ie

Archaeology research seminar series: Doctoral student in archaeology Lynda McCormack followed by the Christmas reception from 5.30pm in the library of the Department of Archaeology
2015-12-15 16:00
Archaeology research seminar series:

doctoral student in archaeology
Lynda McCormack
followed by the Christmas reception from
5.30pm in the library of the Department of Archaeology.
All welcome!

for more information please contact maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie

CAMPS Labs: Dr Catherine Emerson (French, NUIG) - 'La Legende des Flamens (1522) - A Renaissance Book in the Library at Trinity College Dublin'
2015-12-11 12:00
CAMPS LABS:
Dr Catherine Emerson (French, NUIG)
‘La Legende des Flamens (1522) – A Renaissance Book in the Library at
Trinity College Dublin’
Followed by discussion & light lunch
Everyone welcome – FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch
For more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

Prof. Peter Kolchin (University of Delaware): 'Emancipation in the 1860s: Russia and the U.S. South'
2015-12-09 16:00
Prof. Peter Kolchin (University of Delaware),
will give a talk on:
“Emancipation in the 1860s: Russia and the U.S. South”
The talk is an initiative of CITE (Centre for the Investigation of Transnational Encounters), NUI Galway.
For more information please contact enrico.dallago@nuigalway.ie

Book Launch: Victorian Writers and the Stage: The Plays of Dickens, Browning, Collins and Tennyson Richard Pearson (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
2015-12-08 17:15 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Book Launch
Victorian Writers and the Stage: The Plays of Dickens, Browning, Collins and Tennyson
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
byRichard Pearson
With launch introduction
byProfessor Nicholas Daly (UCD),who will give a paper on “Swashbuckling in Ruritania: Late-Victorian Adventure Fiction”
(Refreshments will be served)
For more information please contact richard.pearson@nuigalway.ie

Archaeology research seminar series: MLItt candidate in Archaeology Colette Allen
2015-12-08 16:00
Archaeology research seminar series:
MLItt candidate in Archaeology
Colette Allen

All welcome!

for more information please contact maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie

CAMPS Labs: Dr Kim LoPrete (History, NUIG)-'Bertrada of Montfort's Dower(s): Finding History in Charters'
2015-12-04 12:00
Dr Kim LoPrete (History, NUIG)
‘Bertrada of Montfort’s Dower(s): Finding History in Charters’
Followed by discussion & light lunch
Everyone welcome – FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch
For more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

Gender in Equality Conference
2015-12-04 09:30
GENDER InEQUALITY
Conference, Friday, 4th December 2015
Venue: Hardiman Research Building
(GO 10), keynotes (AM 250)

TIME

9.30-10.00

Welcome & Opening Address

Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, NUIG

10.00-10.30

Campaigning against Discrimination at NUI Galway

Maggie Ronayne
SIPTU equality committee, NUIG
Micheline Sheehy Skeffington,

10.30-11.00

The Age of Anxiety – Postgraduate Experiences

Mary McGill, Feminist Society, NUIG

11.00-11.30

The value of women’s networks: NUI Galway and the University Women’s Network

Aoife Cooke, Pat Morgan, Rachel Hilliard,Lorraine McIlrath, Shivaun Quinlivan

11:30-12:00

Panel Discussion

Chair: Tina-Karen Pusse

12.00-1.00

LUNCH

1.00-2.00

Keynote 1 (AM250)
Gender Inequality in Universities: The Problem is women?

Pat O’Connor, University of Limerick

2.00-2.15

Short COMFORT BREAK

2.15-3.00

Casualisation and Gender
“Not one of the family”: Women and Precarity in Irish Academia

Theresa O’ Keefe, Aline Courtois, Jennifer Woods, Third Level Workplace Watch

3.00-3.30

Perspectives of
Non-Academic Staff –

Laura O’Connor, NUIG

3.30-4.00

COFFEE BREAK

(SIPTU & IFUT representatives will be available for chats)

4.00-5.00

Keynote 2 (AM250)
Researching Women in Higher Education: the Personal and the Political

Kelly Coate,
Kings College London

5.00-6.00

Open Plenary Session

Chair: Jennifer Woods

For more information please contact gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie

Digital Scholarship Seminar: Hugh Houghton (University of Birmingham) - Editing the Greek and Latin New Testament in the Digital Age
2015-12-03 12:00
Digital Scholarship Seminar:

Hugh Houghton (University of Birmingham)
Editing the Greek and Latin New Testament in the Digital Age
Hugh Houghton, University of Birmingham
Editing the Greek and Latin New Testament in a Digital Age
Computer technology has transformed the editing of the New Testament. For the first time ever, it is possible to take into account all surviving manuscripts, as well as the indirect evidence of early translations and quotations. In addition, more and more of the evidence is becoming available online, which has stimulated a revival of interest in a field previously restricted to a handful of specialists. In this illustrated presentation, Hugh Houghton will introduce recent work including the new “Editio Critica Maior” of the Greek New Testament, the collaborative text-editing interface used by a range of international partners, and electronic resources such as the digital Codex Sinaiticus. There will also be a chance to discuss the impact of this new methodology on textual scholarship and the reception of the Bible.
Hugh Houghton is Reader in New Testament Textual Scholarship at the University of Birmingham and Deputy Director of the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing. A classicist by training, he has spent over a decade working on the texual tradition of the New Testament. He is currently principal investigator of a five-year European-funded project on Pauline commentaries and led the Anglo-German “Workspace for Collaborative Editing” initiative. A committee member of the International Greek New Testament Project and a corresponding editor of the Vetus Latina Institute, he has advised or worked on digital editions of texts ranging from Magna Carta to the Qur’an. His publications include monographs on Augustine’s biblical text and the Latin New Testament, critical editions of biblical texts and manuscripts, and several edited volumes. See further http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/HAGHoughton
Seminars are open to all and conclude with discussion over lunch
For further informatition, contact: Dr PÌÁdraic Moran (padraic.moran@nuigalway.ie),
or Dr Justitin Tonra (justitin.tonra@nuigalway.ie)
www.nuigalway.ie/digital-seminar ‰ۢ www.facebook.com/nuigdss

Exclusive Screening of DeargdhÌÄå¼il: Anatomy of passion (poems of MÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi)
2015-12-02 19:30
Exclusive Screening of Deargdh̼il:
Anatomy of passion (poems of MÌÁire Mhac an tSaoi)
Institute for Life Course and Society
Admission free and everyone welcome
For more information please contact irishstudies@nuigalway.ie

Book launch: Bernard Shaw's Irish Outlook, by David Clare.
2015-12-02 17:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
You are cordially invited to the book launches for Bernard Shaw’s Irish Outlook, by David Clare.
Although Bernard Shaw is often regarded as a writer of English society plays, his formative years in Ireland deeply influenced his work for the stage. His use of Irish, Irish Diasporic, Surrogate Irish, and Stage English characters reveals the degree to which he maintained a strongly Irish perspective throughout his life. Shaw’s Irish characters betray his Irish reverse snobbery; he uses them to suggest that it is better to come from a marginalized background than a privileged one. Some of his English and American characters (including Henry Higgins) derive their strengths – and some of their weaknesses – from their Irish cultural backgrounds, and Shaw occasionally endows non-Irish characters (such as Saint Joan) with Irish qualities and then uses them as crypto-Irish foils in their dealings with English characters. Finally, Shaw uses Stage English characters in his three Irish plays to critique the English for what he sees as their national flaws.
Dr. David Clare is an IRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow based in the Moore Institute at NUI Galway. His work has been published in the Irish Studies Review, the New Hibernia Review, the Irish University Review, Studies: An Irish Quarterly, and Emerging Perspectives.
Bernard Shaw’s Irish Outlook is an important, original, well-written, critically incisive, and long overdue study of Bernard Shaw’s Irishness … It is the first single-authored volume exclusively focused on the subject of Shaw and Irishness. It will be joined by others in time, but it is unlikely to be bettered. – Prof. Anthony Roche, University College Dublin
Clare’s radical analysis – delivered in subtle prose – constitutes a challenge to Shavians and to Hibernophiles to rethink some of their most basic assumptions. A bracing and enjoyable read. – Prof. Declan Kiberd, University of Notre Dame
Clare wonderfully illuminates the degree to which Shaw’s Irish identity remained the great constant in his protean career. – Fintan O’Toole, The Irish Times
We know that Ireland is a presence in some of Shaw’s plays – John Bull’s Other Island, most famously. Clare’s fascinating and important study gives us new ways to think about such works but also sheds new light on many of Shaw’s most famous dramas, including Pygmalion and Saint Joan. As readable as it is insightful, this book will be of wide interest to scholars of Shaw, Irish literature, and theatre studies. – Prof. Patrick Lonergan, NUI Galway
GALWAY LAUNCH – Wed., 2 December 2015 from 5-7pm in the Moore Institute (located inside the Hardiman Research Building) at NUI Galway. At this event, the book will be launched by Fintan O’Toole of The Irish Times and by Prof. Patrick Lonergan of NUI Galway. DUBLIN LAUNCH – Wed., 16 December 2015 from 6-8pm in the Conference Room at the Dublin City Archives, Pearse Street Library, Dublin 2. At this event, the book will be launched by Prof. Declan Kiberd of the University of Notre Dame and by Prof. Patrick Lonergan of NUI Galway.

Gender ARC Research Seminar Series 2015:The Subject of Choice and the Story of Single Motherhood Dr Yianna Liatsos, Department of English in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Limerick
2015-12-02 16:00
Gender ARC Research Seminar Series,Autumn 2015
Gender ARC and Global Women’s Studies at NUI Galway arepleased to invite you to the following research seminar:…………………………..
The Subject of Choice and the Story of Single Motherhood
Dr Yianna Liatsos, Department of English in the School of Culture and
Communication at the University of Limerick
For more information please contact gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie

Drama Theatre and Performance speaker series: Junk Ensemble (Megan and Jessica Kennedy), 'Junk Ensemble and Dance Theatre in Ireland and Beyond'
2015-12-02 14:00
Drama Theatre and Performance speaker series:
Junk Ensemble (Megan and Jessica Kennedy), “Junk Ensemble and Dance Theatre in Ireland and Beyond”
junk ensemble was established in 2004 by identical twin sisters Megan Kennedy and Jessica Kennedy with a commitment to creating works of brave and imaginative dance theatre. Previous Artists in Residence at Tate Britain, junk ensemble are winners of Best Production Award, Culture Ireland Touring Award, Excellence and Innovation Award, and listed as a Sunday Times Highlight. Their work continues to tour nationally and internationally. junk’s productions are often created in collaboration with artists from other disciplines to produce a rich mix of visual and performance styles that seeks to challenge the traditional audience performer relationship. This approach has led to productions being created in non-traditional or found spaces as well as more conventional theatre spaces.
Jessica Kennedy is Co-Artistic Director of junk ensemble. Jessica trained in the United States, Dublin and London, completing her degree in Dance and English Literature at Middlesex University, London. She has performed extensively with dance and theatre companies throughout Europe and the UK, including Blast Theory (UK) Retina Dance Company (UK), Tanz Lange (Germany), Firefly Productions (Belgium), Storytelling Unplugged (Romania). In Ireland she collaborates regularly with Brokentalkers (Frequency 783, The Blue Boy, In Real Time, On This One Night) and has performed in productions with The Abbey Theatre, The Ark and The Pavilion Theatre. She created the award winning film Motion Sickness in 2012, which has screened across 30 festivals worldwide. Other film credits include The Wake (Invisible Thread Films/Oonagh Kearney 2013), Turning (Highly Stimulating Productions 2013), Dance Emergency (TG4 2013), Wonder House (JDIFF 2012) and Her Mother’s Daughters (RTÌä 2010). She has lectured for IT Carlow and also performs in the band Everything Shook. She was awarded Best Female Performer for Dublin Fringe Festival 2006. Jessica was Dancer in Residence at RUA RED Arts Centre 2012-13, where she exhibited Walking on white lines. Other choreographic credits include the creation of Songs from a Car Park (Dublin Fringe Festival/RUA RED 2014) and Nixon in China (Wide Open Opera/Bord Gais Theatre 2014).
Megan Kennedy is Co-Artistic Director of junk ensemble. Megan trained at Alvin Ailey Dance Center in New York City and received a B.A. Honours from Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh. Megan has performed with Retina Dance Company (UK), Tanz Lange (Germany), Blast Theory (UK), Firefly Productions (Belgium), Storytelling Unplugged (Romania), and in Ireland with CoisC̩im Dance Theatre (Faun, As You Are), Brokentalkers (The Blue Boy, On This One Night), The Abbey Theatre (Romeo & Juliet), Mouth on Fire (Everlasting Voices), Bedrock Productions (Pale Angel), and productions with The Pavilion Theatre and The Ark. Performance and choreography for film includes The Wake (Invisible Thread 2013), Blind Runner (junk ensemble/Dance Ireland Commission 2013), Wonder House (Dublin Film Festival 2012), Her Mother’s Daughters (Winner Best Actress Capalbio Festival Italy 2011/Dance on Camera NYC/RTE Dance on the Box 2010). Choreography includes Marble & Bread (Dance Limerick), Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades (Edinburgh Festival Theatre), Bram Stoker Festival (IRL), and ex Choral Ensemble (IRL). Megan was Limerick Dance Artist-in-Residence in 2014/15 and is a Fellow of Salzburg Global Seminar.
For more information please contact charlotte.mcivor@nuigalway.ie

Smart Consent Workshop with Elaine Byrnes
2015-12-01 18:00
Smart Consent Workshop with Elaine Byrnes.
Smart Consent is a workshop where students can explore what consent means in a fun environment, led by facilitator, Elaine Byrnes, from the School of Psychology. Smart Consent was developed following research conducted with NUI Galway students on the topic on Consent and Sexual Services.
The objectives of this Smart Consent Workshop are to:
Have a LOT of fun exploring Smart Consent in a safe, peer-supported environment!
Please note, you will not be asked about your own sexual history or experiences. Fictional scenarios will be presented and you will be invited to engage in activities to raise awareness of what consent means for you.
Over 1,500 students have taken part in our surveys and focus groups so far. We use findings on their sexual attitudes and behaviours to help you explore the grey area that is sexual consent.
for more information please contact missmarymcgill@gmail.com

Archaeology research seminar series: Peter Casby - doctoral candidate in Archaeology
2015-12-01 16:00
Archaeology research seminar series:

Peter Casby – doctoral candidate in Archaeology
All welcome!

for more information please contact maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie

'Women's rights and child welfare in Ireland, 1922-2014' - Sarah-Anne Buckley (NUIG)
2015-12-01 16:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class Seminar Series
Theme: ‘Women’s rights and child welfare in Ireland, 1922-2014’
Sarah-Anne Buckley (NUIG)
For more information please contact jamesthomasodonnell@gmail.com

Human Rights Lunchtime Seminar Series: Human Trafficking and the Criminalization of Buying Sex: Understanding Vulnerability to Trafficking in Europe and Abroad
2015-11-27 13:00
Lunchtime Seminar Series:
Human Trafficking and the Criminalization of Buying Sex: Understanding Vulnerability to Trafficking in Europe and Abroadby
Prof. Davina Durgana, Associate Professor at SIT Graduate Institute in Washington, DC and Senior Technical Advisor at Seraphim GLOBAL
Dr. Davina Durgana is a human trafficking expert who has won national and local awards for her work spanning the past eight years in bridging the gaps between academics and practitioners in the anti-trafficking field. She is particularly known for her work applying analytical models to understanding vulnerability, risk, and prevalence on the issue of human trafficking domestically and internationally. She is Associate Professor for SIT Graduate Institute in Washington, D.C. and Senior Technical Advisor for Human Trafficking at SeraphimGLOBAL, where she directs the SeraphimGLOBAL Research Collaborative that supports the coordination of unconventional actors to produce innovative research in the anti-human trafficking field. She received her Masters degrees in Paris, France while studying human trafficking at the Sorbonne and the American University of Paris, and her Bachelor’s degree at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. After creating the first human trafficking risk assessment and prevalence estimation model for minors in the United States, Dr. Durgana applies the same theoretical and statistical modeling insights to the issues of human trafficking in European sexual tourism and industries in this lecture. She deconstructs vulnerability to human trafficking by appealing to the UN human security theoretical framework.
She also provides context on how to best inform potential interventions for human trafficking prevention in Ireland and abroad from multiple perspectives. Survivor Advocates, Academics, Community Members, and others will find this lecture to be a unique perspective into the state of human trafficking in Europe and abroad, with an engaging open discussion on the many potential ways to combat this issue moving forward.
All are welcome!
For more information please contact T.ANANTHAVINAYAGAN1@nuigalway.ie

Camps Labs: Prof. Elizabeth Fitzpatrick (Archaeology, NUIG) 'The Speckled Place: Boundaries and Natural Resources in Medieval Gaelic Ireland'
2015-11-27 12:00
Prof. Elizabeth Fitzpatrick (Archaeology, NUIG)
‘The Speckled Place: Boundaries and Natural Resources in Medieval Gaelic Ireland’
Followed by discussion & light lunch
Everyone welcome – FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch
For more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

Western Worlds a day @ Yeats & the West
2015-11-27 10:45
Western Worlds
a day @Yeats & the West
William Butler Yeats, poet, playwright, politician, and Nobel prize-winner for literature, always looked west. The Yeats & the West exhibition at NUI Galway, with rare books, art, music, drama, and film, discovers what the west meant to him, and what this means for us. Part of the Yeats & the West programme, the day event Western Worlds tells the story of the western cultural revolution that shaped modern Ireland. Featuring talks on W.B.Yeats’s poems, plays, artistic collaborations and love affairs, and featuring his co-conspirators Jack B.Yeats, J.M. Synge, Padraic Pearse and Eva Gore- Booth, it includes dramatized poetry readings and an exclusive interview with the artist John Behan about his current exhibitions of Yeatsian sculptures and drawings. Western Worlds tells a story of going west to find those places, real and imaginative, that change our sense of where and who we are.
http://yeatsandthewest.org
Programme
10.45am Welcome & Kisses
Adrian Frazier Yeats & Maud Gonne: The Meaning of Their Kisses
12pm Poems
Brian Arkins W.B.Yeats & G.M. Hopkins
Deirdre NÌ_ Chonghaile ‰Û÷Listening to this rude and beautiful poetry’: J.M. Synge as song collector in the Aran Islands
1pm Lunch
2pm Plays
Barry Houlihan ‰Û÷Suffering Spirits and Remorseful Dead’: Remembrance and Re-enactments in the plays of W.B. Yeats
Ian Walsh The Painted Play: Jack B. Yeats and the Postdramatic Theatre
3pm Revivals
Mary Harris Realism, Idealism and the Gaelic Revival
Maureen O’Connor Some Vague Utopia: Eva Gore-Booth’s The Death of Fionavar (1916)
4pm Coffee
4.30 Arts
Adrian Paterson with Barry Houlihan (curators of Yeats & the West) Yeats among the Arts: exhibition highlights tour
from 5pm in Special Collections
5.30pm Poems
David Clare & Deirdre Clare dramatic readings
6.15 Reception
6.30pm Bulls
John Behan The Bull of Sheriff Street in conversation
For more information please contact adrian.paterson@nuigalway.ie

History Graduate Research Seminar Series: Cormac O ComhraÌ_ - ProtastÌÄå¼naigh na Gaillimhe agus an R̩abhlÌ_id 1913-23
2015-11-25 16:00
History Graduate Research Seminar Series
Cormac O ComhraÌ_
Protast̼naigh na Gaillimhe agus an R̩abhlÌ_id 1913-23
FÌÁilte roimh gach duine
for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie

Drama Theatre and Performance speaker series: Lian Bell (Set Designer and Arts Manager) 'Design + Management- Making Work'
2015-11-25 14:00
Drama Theatre and Performance speaker series:
Lian Bell (Set Designer and Arts Manager)
“Design + Management- Making Work”
Since completing an MA in Scenography at Central St. Martin’s College of Art and Design, Bell has freelanced in Dublin both as an arts manager and designer for performance, working with some of the most significant organisations, artists and makers in Irish performing arts. As a designer, she has worked contemporary dance and theatre artists including The Corn Exchange, Moonfish Theatre, junk ensemble, Brokentalkers and Rebecca Walter of Catapult Dance. Many of these performances were site specific – spaces included a busy city junction, abandoned buildings, and the tower of St. Anne’s Church in Cork city. She was Programme Manager of Dublin Fringe Festival for the 2009-2011 festivals, where she worked closely with many independent and emerging Irish artists and companies to develop their practice. From 2009-2012 she facilitated the residential programme MAKE for Irish and international contemporary theatre makers, and she she manage Pan Pan’s International Mentorship programme. Large-scale events she has coordinated include Ireland’s participation at the Prague Quadrennial 2007, the world’s largest exhibition of Scenography and Theatre Design (for Irish Theatre Institute), and IETM Dublin, an international networking event for over 530 performing arts professionals which took place in April 2013 (for Project Arts Centre).
For more information please contact charlotte.mcivor@nuigalway.ie

Shakespeare's The winter's Tale 24th to 26th November
2015-11-24 20:00 | Mick Lally Theatre, Druid, Ireland
Please join us for a performance of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale as adapted and performed by NUI Galway’s 3rd Year Drama, Theatre and Performance students.
It runs in the Mick Lally Theatre, Druid’s performance space, for three nights: Tuesday, 24 November – Thursday, 26 November. The starting time is 8pm and it will run for a little under an hour. Admission is free and tickets can be had either by emailing thomas.conway@nuigalway.ie – or on the door.
The performance has been in preparation over the semester. Explorations of the play in its original performance context and of the specific performance challenges represented by Shakespeare’s dramatic language have complemented a creative encounter with the play on the students’ own terms. The resulting production is realised by the students, either as directors, designers or performers, with dramaturgical and logistical support from Thomas Conway and Emer McHugh.
Moving between the closed, repressive, courtly world of Sicilia and the open, carefree, pastoral world of Bohemia, and spanning 16 years, The Winter’s Tale looks at families in action. It observes four fathers, two mothers, three sons and a daughter play out dramas all too recognisable – fathers seeking to exercise authority but succeeding only to tear at the very fabric of what keeps their families together. Two story lines unfold among heads of state in a Sicilian court and peasants in the Bohemian countryside, respectively, only to dovetail in the discovery of a newborn child.
The Winter’s Tale is a play in which Shakespeare seemingly asks of his audience, sons and daughters in the world at large, forgiveness for erring fathers. Here Shakespeare lays at our feet some very bitter fruit, as well as wild flowers of the most vibrant, colourful and delicate kind. He gives us scenes of pathos and comedy, and one of the clearest demonstrations of the power of love. It falls to us to decide on whether the mistaken fathers of the world can ever be forgiven.
Those scenes set in Sicilia are directed by RÌ_isÌ_n nic AodhgÌÁin and Mark Leahy. Those set in Bohemia are directed by Naomi Cantwell and Sarah Slevin. The designers are Hannah Kindregan and Elaine Mullarkey. The play has been adapted by the students (Mark Leahy getting a special mention in this regard) in consultation with Thomas Conway and Emer McHugh.
The cast (in order of appearance) is as follows:
Sicilia
GrÌÁinne White as Leontes
Hannah Carleton as Hermione
CaitrÌ_ona O’Donnell as Mamillius and Time
Rose Magner as Antigonus
RÌ_isÌ_n nÌ_ Ch̩ileachair as Polixenes
Aisling Fitzsimons as Camillo
Ella Heatley-Mulhall as Paulina
Bohemia
Kevin Murphy as Autolycus
Jennifer Lynam as Clown
Shifra Tobin as Florizel
Caoimhe Lally as Perdita
Mark Dooley as Shephard
Elaine Mullarkey and Hannah Kindregan make guest appearances at the feast.
We’d very much welcome to see you on one of the evenings of the performance.
For more information please contact: Thomas Conway, Druid Director-in-Residence at NUI Galway thomas.conway@nuigalway.ie

Gender ARC Research Seminar Series 2015: Psychiatry, mental illness and gender Edmund O'Toole, PhD Candidate, Discipline of Philosophy at the National University of Ireland - Galway
2015-11-24 16:00
Gender ARC Research Seminar Series,Autumn 2015
Gender ARC and Global Women’s Studies at NUI Galway arepleased to invite you to the following research seminar:…………………………..
Psychiatry, mental illness and gender
Edmund O’Toole, PhD Candidate, Discipline of Philosophy at the National
University of Ireland – Galway
For more information please contact gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie

Performance Matters - Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2015-11-23 18:00
Performance Matters
Irish Theatre Discussion Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/
This weeks discussion – God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza.
For more information please contact n.barre8@nuigalway.ie
All theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend

A Victorian bestseller: David Roberts The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea,Egypt & Nubia - Library Ireland Week Talk by Marie Boran, Special Collections Librarian
2015-11-20 13:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
A Victorian bestseller: David Roberts The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea,Egypt & Nubia.
Library Ireland Week Talk by Marie Boran, Special Collections Librarian
Date: Friday 20 November, 13.00-14.00
Venue: Hardiman Research Building G011
All Welcome

Lunchtime Seminar Series: The Ryan Commission: between justice and re-traumatisation, than and now - by Rosaleen McDonagh, leading feminist within the Traveller community
2015-11-20 13:00
Lunchtime Seminar Series:
The Ryan Commission: between justice and re-traumatisation, than and nowby Rosaleen McDonagh, leading feminist within the Traveller community
The Irish Centre for Human Rights, in cooperation with Global Women’s Studies, is pleased to welcome Rosaleen McDonagh, a doctoral scholar at Northumbria University, reading for a PhD titled “An Exploration of the Relevance of the Affirmative Model in Relation to Traveller Identity.” She teaches “Gender and Race, Feminism from the Inside” on the M.Phil Racial and Ethnic Studies at Trinity College Dublin. As a child, Rosaleen attended a residential “special education” school for Travellers until the age of 18. She subsequently earned a BA degree in Theology at Trinity College Dublin, followed by an M.Phil in Ethnic and Racial Studies. Rosaleen worked in Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre for ten years, managing the Violence against Women programme. She has been involved in many initiatives on Traveller women’s issues and is regarded as a leading feminist within the Traveller community.
Her talk will focus on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (CICA), known as the Ryan Commission that was established in 1999 to investigate all forms of child abuse in Irish institutions for children. The majority of the abuse allegations investigated related to residential “Reformatory and Industrial Schools” operated by religious orders affiliated with the Catholic Church under the supervision of the Irish State. Commencing work in 1999, the Commission published its public report (the Ryan report) in 2009. Rosaleen McDonagh will critically discuss her experience as a witness in the Ryan Commission investigation process. Noting the deficiencies of the legalistic investigation process and procedures employed by the Commission, she will highlight shortcomings of the process and failures to fully recognise and respect her as an agent and subject of human rights, because of her identity as a girl/woman marked by “disability” and by membership of the Traveller community. Further, as the most recent HIQA reports demonstrate, protecting, respecting and fulfilling the human rights of people with disabilities remains an unfinished agenda in Ireland on the eve of its centenary year.
All are welcome!
For more information please contact t.ananthavinayagan1@nuigalway.ie
