Book launch: A Vehicle for Change: Popular Representations of the Automobile in 20th-Century France
2022-10-06 17:30 - 18:30 (Europe/Dublin) | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Tugtar cuireadh duit teacht go dtí Institiúid de Móra áit a seolfaidh an tOllamh Paul Rouse ón gColáiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath mo leabhar.
I am delighted to invite you to the Moore Institute where Professor Paul Rouse from UCD will launch my book.
Déardaoin, 6 Deireadh Fómhair 2022 ag 5.30pm i seomra G011, Áras Taighde Uí Argadáin.
Thursday, 6 October 2022 at 5.30pm in room G011, Hardiman Research Building.
Contact: eamon.ocofaigh@ollscoilnagaillimhe.ie
Registration
If you would like to attend this event, please register via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-a-vehicle-for-change-tickets-415615094937

Ukraine: Empire, War and Migration Symposium at University of Galway / An Úcráin: Impireacht, Cogadh agus Imirce Siompóisiam in Ollscoil na Gaillimhe
2022-10-07 - 2022-10-08 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Ukraine: Empire, War and Migration
Symposium at University of Galway
7-8 Oct. 2022
Centre for Investigation of Transnational Encounters (CITE), Moore Institute
G010, Hardiman Research Building

Fri. 7 Oct.
1:30-3:30 Session 1: Russian Invasion of Ukraine, 2014-2022
Chair: Dan Carey, Director, Moore Institute
Taras Kuzio (National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy) ‘Russian Chauvinism and Imperialism: How Putin’s Obsession with Ukraine Led to the Invasion’

Donnacha Ó Beacháin (DCU) ‘What have we learned from Russia’s war in Ukraine?’

Tetyana Lokot (DCU) ‘Grassroots citizen resistance in Russia’s war on Ukraine: civic networks, digital spaces and participatory warfare’

Maria Falina (DCU) ‘Accountability, responsibility and abuse of history in contemporary Russia’

Brendan Flynn (UG) ‘Plus ça change: Does the Ukraine War unseat Irish foreign policy and Ireland’s ambiguous neutrality?’

3:30-4:00 Tea/Coffee

4:00-5:30 Session 2: Irish-Ukrainian Parallels
Chair: Donnacha Ó Beacháin (DCU)
Irish launch of Ireland and Ukraine: Studies in Comparative Imperial and National History, ed. Stephen Velychenko, Joseph Ruane, and Ludmilla Hrynevych (Stuttgart: ibidem, 2022)
Diarmuid Ó Giolláin (University of Notre Dame) ‘Irish and Ukrainian: history, sociolinguistics and politics’
Liam Kennedy (QUB), ‘Famine as Genocide? Ukraine and Ireland’
Róisín Healy (UG), ‘Nationalism in Ireland and Western Ukraine before World War I’
Andy Bielenberg (UCC) ‘War and revolution in Ireland and Ukraine 1916-1923: some comparisons’
Stephen Howe, Emeritus Professor in the History and Cultures of Colonialism at Bristol University, ‘Putin’s Vision and the Idea of Empire’
Response by Joseph Ruane, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at University College Cork and co-editor of Ireland and Ukraine

Sat. 8 Oct.
9:30-11:15 Session 3: Ireland’s Brain Gain – Forum for Ukrainian Humanities Researchers in Ireland
Chair: Tetyana Lokot (DCU)

‘Morality and Chaos: How a Human Ought to React to Chaotic Phenomena’
Oleksandr Kulyk (Professor of Philosophy, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, currently in Kerry) – to be delivered in English

‘The impact of the Soviet regime’s repressive policy on the psychological state of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church members in Ukraine (1920 – 1930s)’
Olesia Zhytkova (independent scholar, Kyiv, currently in Cork) – to be delivered in English

‘Ukrainian-Japanese relations: the Japanese Consulate in Odesa (1889-1937)’
Svitlana Pavlenko (Deputy Director, Museum of Dnipro City History, currently in Roscommon) – to be delivered in English

‘The Consequences of the Russian Policy of Linguocide in Ukraine’
Halyna Klimchuk (Senior Lecturer in Ukrainian Language, National Pedagogical Academy of Ukraine, Kyiv, currently in Dublin) – to be delivered in Ukrainian

Note: This session has been facilitated by the generous support of the Ukraine Subgroup of University of Galway Management Team.

11:15 Tea/Coffee

11:45-13:00 Session 4: Reflections on Ukrainian Forced Emigration
Chair: Róisín Healy (UG)

Sylvie Mossay (UG) ‘Ukrainian emigration to Belgium after World War II: A personal case study’

Taras Kuzio (National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy) ‘Growing up Ukrainian in Postwar Britain’

Aneta Stepien (MU) ‘Recent Ukrainian immigration to Poland through a gender lens’

Organised by Dr. Róisín Healy, History Department, University of Galway.
Limited spaces available for outside visitors. For more information, please write to roisin.healy@universityofgalway.ie

An Úcráin: Impireacht, Cogadh agus Imirce
Siompóisiam in Ollscoil na Gaillimhe
7-8 Deireadh Fómhair 2022
An tIonad Imscrúdaithe ar Theagmhálacha Trasnáisiúnta (CITE), Institiúid de Móra
G010, Áras Taighde Uí Argadáin

Dé hAoine, an 7 Deireadh Fómhair
1:30-3:30 Seisiún 1: Ionradh na Rúise ar an Úcráin, 2014-2022
Cathaoirleach: Dan Carey, Stiúrthóir, Institiúid de Móra
Taras Kuzio (Acadamh Mohyla, Ollscoil Náisiúnta Chív) ‘Russian Chauvinism and Imperialism: How Putin’s Obsession with Ukraine Led to the Invasion’

Donnacha Ó Beacháin (DCU) ‘What have we learned from Russia’s war in Ukraine?’

Tetyana Lokot (DCU) ‘Grassroots citizen resistance in Russia’s war on Ukraine: civic networks, digital spaces and participatory warfare’

Maria Falina (DCU) ‘Accountability, responsibility and abuse of history in contemporary Russia’

Brendan Flynn (Ollscoil na Gaillimhe) ‘Plus ça change: Does the Ukraine War unseat Irish foreign policy and Ireland’s ambiguous neutrality?’

3:30-4:00 Tae/Caife

4:00-5:30 Seisiún 2: Cosúlachtaí idir Éire agus an Úcráin
Cathaoirleach: Donnacha Ó Beacháin (DCU)
Ireland and Ukraine: Studies in Comparative Imperial and National History, eagí. Stephen Velychenko, Joseph Ruane, agus Ludmilla Hrynevych (Stuttgart: ibidem, 2022) á sheoladh in Éirinn
Diarmuid Ó Giolláin (Ollscoil Notre Dame) ‘Irish and Ukrainian: history, sociolinguistics and politics’
Liam Kennedy (Ollscoil na Banríona), ‘Famine as Genocide? Ukraine and Ireland’
Róisín Healy (Ollscoil na Gaillimhe), ‘Nationalism in Ireland and Western Ukraine before World War I’
Andy Bielenberg (Coláiste na hOllscoile, Corcaigh) ‘War and revolution in Ireland and Ukraine 1916-1923: some comparisons’
Stephen Howe, Ollamh Emeritus le Stair agus Cultúir an Choilíneachais in Ollscoil Bhriostó, ‘Putin’s Vision and the Idea of Empire’
Freagra ó Joseph Ruane, Ollamh Emeritus le Socheolaíocht i gColáiste na hOllscoile, Corcaigh agus comheagarthóir ar Ireland and Ukraine

Dé Sathairn, an 8 Deireadh Fómhair
9:30-11:15 Seisiún 3: Daoine Oilte ag teacht go hÉirinn – Fóram do Thaighdeoirí Daonnachtaí na hÚcráine in Éirinn
Cathaoirleach: Tetyana Lokot (DCU)

‘Morality and Chaos: How a Human Ought to React to Chaotic Phenomena’
Oleksandr Kulyk (Ollamh le Fealsúnacht, Ollscoil Náisiúnta Oles Honchar Dnipro, i gCiarraí faoi láthair) – le tabhairt i mBéarla

‘The impact of the Soviet regime’s repressive policy on the psychological state of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church members in Ukraine (1920 – 1930s)’
Olesia Zhytkova (scoláire neamhspleách, Cív, i gCorcaigh faoi láthair) – le tabhairt i mBéarla

‘Ukrainian-Japanese relations: the Japanese Consulate in Odesa (1889-1937)’
Svitlana Pavlenko (Leas-Stiúrthóir, Músaem Staire Chathair Dnipro, i Ros Comáin faoi láthair) – le tabhairt i mBéarla

‘The Consequences of the Russian Policy of Linguocide in Ukraine’
Halyna Klimchuk (Léachtóir Sinsearach le hÚcráinis, Acadamh Oideolaíochta Náisiúnta na hÚcráine, Cív, i mBaile Átha Cliath faoi láthair) – le tabhairt in Úcráinis

Tabhair faoi deara: Tá an seisiún seo á chur ar fáil le tacaíocht fhlaithiúil ó Fhoghrúpa na hÚcráine ar Fhoireann Bainistíochta Ollscoil na Gaillimhe.

11:15 Tae/Caife

11:45-13:00 Seisiún 4: Machnamh ar Eisimirce Éigeantach na hÚcráine
Cathaoirleach: Róisín Healy (Ollscoil na Gaillimhe)

Sylvie Mossay (Ollscoil na Gaillimhe) ‘Ukrainian emigration to Belgium after World War II: A personal case study’

Taras Kuzio (Acadamh Mohyla, Ollscoil Náisiúnta Chív) ‘Growing up Ukrainian in Postwar Britain’

Aneta Stepien (MU) ‘Recent Ukrainian immigration to Poland through a gender lens’

Arna eagrú ag an Dr Róisín Healy, Roinn na Staire, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe.
Spásanna teoranta ar fáil do chuairteoirí seachtracha. Má tá suim agat teacht, scríobh chuig roisin.healy@universityofgalway.ie

Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar: When Fanaticism turns Toxic: Sentiment Analysis of Social Media Commentary on Amateur Sport in Ireland
2022-10-11 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
When Fanaticism turns Toxic: Sentiment Analysis of Social Media Commentary on Amateur Sport in Ireland
Dr. Michael Lang, Associate Professor in Business Information Systems, University of Galway

Abstract
Sports organisations perform an invaluable function in Irish society, promoting positive physical and mental health and helping young persons develop important life skills and attitudes, the benefits of which extend far beyond the field of play. For the greater part, these organisations depend on unpaid volunteers and amateur athletes who freely give of their time for such reasons as loyalty to their local communities, enthusiasm for sport, interest in youth development, desire to give something back, and social enjoyment. Unfortunately, this spirit of volunteerism is coming under threat from the dark side of social media. Leading figures within the GAA, LGFA, FAI, IRFU, Basketball Ireland and other sporting organisations have strongly come out against the worrying trend of growing abuse of players, managers and officials on social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. This paper uses a sample of GAA-related tweets and posts drawn from the period 2012 to 2022. Using data analytics techniques, the nature and incidence of negative comments are analysed. The paper concludes by briefly discussing actions that can be taken to address this growing scourge, including internal disciplinary actions by sporting organisations, responsible journalistic practices, and recourse to existing and emerging national and international legislation.
Biography
Michael Lang is an Associate Professor in Business Information Systems within the School of Business & Economics at University of Galway. His principal research interests are Information Systems Education, Data Analytics and Cybersecurity. He is currently the Information Technology Officer of Mayo GAA.

Book Launch: THE PATH TO MASS EVIL Hannah Arendt and Totalitarianism Today
2022-10-11 17:00 - 18:00 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
You are invited to the Launch of Michael Hardiman’s
The Path to Mass Evil: Hannah Arendt and Totalitarianism Today (Routledge, 2022)

Guest Speaker: Prof. Felix Ó Murchadha, University of Galway

University of Galway History Seminar: A Century of Irish Agriculture: A Policy Driven Sector
2022-10-12 16:00 - 17:30 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Professor Cathal O’Donoghue
(University of Galway)
A Century of Irish Agriculture:
A Policy Driven Sector

Abstract
In this paper we have assembled a time-series of agricultural statistics over the past century to describe many of the important trends of what has been an important sector in Ireland over the course of the past century. The paper explores trends in land use trade-offs between tillage and pasture and describes growth in animals numbers, the substitution between different types of animals. Over the century the Irish agricultural sector has moved from a sector with a high subsistence dimension with up to 40% of output consumed on farms to a modern international exporting sector, much less reliant on the traditional trading partner the UK. The paper tracks mechanisation of the sector and the huge reduction in labour and significant restructuring over the century. We emphasise the importance of public policy, not just in relation to price and income supports, but also importantly in relation to trade and production restrictions. The century perspective highlights some recurring trends where export restrictions have seen resilience and recovery after they are eased.
If you have any questions about the seminar, please contact Dr Kevin O’Sullivan kevin.k.osullivan@universityofgalway.ie.

What Are Futures Techniques and How Can You Work With Them?
2022-10-14 11:00 - 13:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
The Creative Futures Research Group invites you to attend a futures techniques workshop with futurist Andrew Curry.
This practical workshop includes an introduction to futures thinking and how it differs from/complements other types of thinking.
After an introduction to futures models, participants will have the opportunity to explore and apply these, working in small groups.
There will be time for reflection and questions at the end of the session.
Andrew Curry has worked as a futurist for twenty years, leading a wide range of projects across the commercial sector, the public sector, and the non-profit sector. He joined SOIF in 2019 from the Futures Practice of Kantar Consulting, where he was until 2018 managing editor of the company’s Future Perspectives thought leadership series, and co-hosted its podcast, The Future of Consumption.
He has worked with clients across the private, public and non-profit sectors. He was also lead author of the Henley Centre’s 2001 report for the Cabinet Office, “Understanding Best Practice in Strategic Futures.” He has published widely on futures subjects, including – with Anthony Hodgson – the first academic paper on the Three Horizons method. Andrew is a member of the Advisory Board of Lancaster University’s Institute of Social Futures and served for five years as Vice Chair of the Association of Professional Futurists.
Registration
Please register for this event here: https://forms.office.com/r/4SeJx61M0z
Contact:
If you have any questions about this event, please contact Dr Orla Lehane orla.lehane@universityofgalway.ie or Dr Maria Roca Lizarazu maria.rocalizarazu@universityofgalway.ie

Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar: Exercise Physiology in evaluation of fitness and exercise prescription
2022-10-18 12:00 - 14:00 | Online, via Zoom
Exercise Physiology in evaluation of fitness and exercise prescription
Dr. Ananya Gupta, Discipline of Physiology, School of Medicine
Please note that the seminar will be delivered online, via Zoom instead. Please join at: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/91318855652

In this seminar Dr. Ananya Gupta will talk about the benefits of physical activity (PA), the evidence supporting PA and the recommended guidelines for PA in a healthy adult. In addition she will also discuss the importance of exercise physiology and how it can be applied in exercise testing in the evaluation of health, fitness and performance. We will also briefly discuss the basic principles underlying exercise prescription in healthy clients as well as in a clinical setting.
Dr. Ananya Gupta is a lecturer in the Discipline of Physiology. She is the Director of the MSc program in Exercise Physiology and Application in Therapy. She is also the founder and director of the Exercise Physiology Core Facility (EPCF) located in the Human Biology Building which is an integral part of the Discipline of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Galway. The Facility is committed to a tripartite mission in which to advance the knowledge and practice of exercise physiology through supporting and advancing exercise physiology reesearch, providing professional training and mentorship to the next generation of exercise physiologists and to increase awareness about the importance of physical activity and physical fitness in lifelong health amongst the general population.

For further information on the Sport & Exercise Research Group, please visit: https://mooreinstitute.ie/research-group/sport-identity-representation/

Navigating Archival Research - Skills, Tools, and Methods
2022-10-18 14:00 - 15:00 | Library Training Room PC Suite, University of Galway
There are over 400 archive collections in the Library, dating from the 14th century to the present day. Archives of writers, academics, activists, film-makers, musicians, organisations, local landed estates and families.
This session will introduce users to conducting archival research, how to find, search, request, and use manuscript and digital archive collections offered by the Library, how to navigate copyright/citation of archival material, what supports are offered from the Archives team, and how to build your research question and argument.
This a good opportunity to learn about the records of the unique landscape of Connemara and the Aran Islands through the maps and records of cartographer Tim Robinson and archaeologist, Etienne Rynne and discover local family history through landed estate records from the 18th century!
Registration
Registration is required. Please register at: https://universityofgalway.libcal.com/event/3942411#

Date: Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Time:14:00 – 15:00
Time Zone: UK, Ireland, Lisbon Time (change)
Location: Library Training Room PC Suite (Map )
Campus: Galway

University of Galway History Seminar: Ecologies of Typhoid and Geographies of Knowledge in 19th Century Ireland
2022-10-19 16:00 - 17:30 | Online, via Zoom
Dr Emily Webster
(Durham University)
Ecologies of Typhoid and Geographies of Knowledge in 19th Century Ireland

Abstract
In 1880, Charles Cameron, Medical Officer of Health for the City of Dublin, was nearly laughed out of a meeting of the British Medical Association for a paper he read entitled “Typhoid from Oysters.” Despite Cameron’s assertion that he had “no doubt whatever that oysters were very frequently the means of communicating enteric fever,” using his home city of Dublin as a case study, the connection between the two would not be widely accepted by the British medical community until nearly twenty-five years – and several shellfish-borne typhoid outbreaks – later. Cameron’s observation of this trend decades before it was widely accepted in British medical circles was not, I argue, simply a stroke of particular epidemiological genius, but an observation grounded in the unique ecology of typhoid fever in Dublin. Drawing on a combination of public health records, geospatial data, and popular media, this paper will explore parallel epidemics of typhoid fever in Dublin and Belfast at the end of the nineteenth century that, through epidemiological investigation, were traced at least in part to local shellfish populations. It will argue that these epidemics were the result of a confluence of unique factors, including ecological characteristics like topography, rainfall, and river basin ecology; and social and urban environmental characteristics such as housing placement, water systems, sewage systems, class, industry, and local dietary practices. Through this confluence of features, Salmonella enterica typhi found a niche in these major Irish cities.
Registration
This talk will be delivered online, via Zoom. Please register here for the link: https://forms.office.com/r/AqUWfutAzq
The seminar will also be livestreamed in Room 1001, Hardiman Research Building (Bridge Seminar Room).

ITALIANGRAM: Docenti e content creator si incontrano. Webinar per la promozione della lingua e della cultura italiana nell'era dei social
2022-10-19 18:00 - 19:00 | Online, via Zoom
ITALIANGRAM
Docenti e content creator si incontrano:
Webinar per la promozione della lingua e della cultura italiana nell’era dei social
In collaborazione con l’Istituto Italiano di cultura di Dublino
This webinar (in Italian) is organised in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Dublin, as part of the 2022 Settimana della lingua italiana nel mondo (Week of the Italian Language in the World). It is a roundtable bringing together Irish-based teachers of Italian, and social media content creators, to discuss how social media like Instagram or TikTok can be used to promote Italian culture and language.
Registration
To attend this webinar, please register online at: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fnOrg0pjRZ-qrNWmdoSi0g

The School of Political Science and Sociology Research Seminar: ‘BioEconomy and Society’
2022-10-20 13:00 - 14:00 | Cairnes Building, CA110, University of Galway
The School of Political Science and Sociology invite you to a research seminar with:
Dr. phil. Alexander I. Stingl, Mag. Art.
‘BioEconomy and Society’
Cairnes Building, CA110
Thursday 20th of October, 2022
1-2pm
All Welcome!

Bio-Economy Works in Ecosystem Services, Biotechnology, and Global Political Economy: Elaborating a new field for the social sciences and situating my research program.
About:
The Bio-Economy is a recent and extremely powerful policy agenda, which is, however, existing mostly outside of the public consciousness. Originating in the discourse on “ecosystems” but being concretized institutionally and “coined” by European Union bureaucrats, this discursive formation and transnational policy network has problematic historic roots in a regime of exploitation while it affects the current transformation of the Global Political Economy as a whole. Respectively, I continually make the case for understanding the Bio-Economy as an emerging field that deserves more attention in the social sciences. In a 45-minute tour de force, I will sketch the stakes of the Bioeconomy in terms of its effects on ecosystem services, agro- and biotechnology, and the Global Political Economy, while marking important connections to its epistemic origins that it shares with the genealogy of the social sciences. I will, thereby and in conclusion, provide an introduction and overview to my currently ongoing and future research program.

Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar: Football and Cinema under Francoism - Comparing Visual Motifs to Unveil Historical Symptoms
2022-10-25 12:00 - 14:00 | Virtual Lecture via Blackboard Collaborate
Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar
Football and Cinema under Francoism – Comparing Visual Motifs to Unveil Historical Symptoms
(Dr Manuel Garin – Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

Virtual Lecture via Blackboard Collaborate: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/4e5604442fcb44b68f5d5630040e8755
When it comes to the relation of archival materials with historical and political epistemes, the uses of sport, and specifically football, during the Francoist Regime in Spain stands as a key (but still under-researched) topic. Connecting with previous imageries of the silent era, like Bergfilme or Hollywood sport biopics, football movies became a genre of its own during the dictatorship, once labeled by historian J. A. Durán as nationalfootballism (a reappropriation of the historical term nacionalcatolicismo). This audiovisual corpus comprises dozens of fiction films where the biggest football stars of the time, such as Zamora, Kubala or Di Stefano, performed as actors, and vice versa, where the biggest actors of the time (like Fernando Fernán Goméz) performed as footballers or fans. More importantly, these movies created a strong intermedial relationship with other visual works produced during the dictatorship: hundreds of hours of sport-centered footage within the archive of NO-DO (the official newsreels), and thousands of photographs in sport newspapers, film journals, and popular magazines. Not to mention the aural components of radio broadcasting -and soundscapes- in and out of the films.
This talk delves into that critical juncture between football and moving images, which shaped and still shapes the core of Spanish identity/ies (with political, class, and gender trouble), by studying such intermedial links in three complementary ways: as an atlas of politicized bodies (sportsmen but also women and minorities), an archive of visual motifs (gestures, situations, narratives) and a network of places and influences (production companies, football clubs, cities, Francoist institutions, repressed regions or nationalities, etc.). Framed within a new research project funded by the Spanish MICINN, the talk will share its main findings and methodology with our colleagues from NUI Galway, to foster debate within the Research in Sport seminar.
Manuel Garin is Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. He has been visiting scholar at different institutions like the Tokyo University of The Arts, the University of Southern California and Columbia University, where he developed the comparative media projects “Gameplaygag: Between Silent Film and New Media” and “A Hundred Busters: Keaton Across The Arts”, financed by public grants. Author of the book El gag visual (Cátedra, 2014), his research on cinema, art history and new media has been published in scientific journals such as Feminist Media Studies, The Sixties, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Communication & Society, EJHR, L’Atalante, EPI, CJCS or Comparative Cinema, and in books from Oxford University Press, MIT Press, Routledge, Amsterdam University Press, Palgrave, De Gruyter, ABC-Clio, Mimesis, Intermedio, Cátedra or Edicions 62. As a cultural critic, he has written for magazines such as La Maleta de Portbou, Contrapicado or Cultura/s – La Vanguardia. Currently, he is the PI of the research project “Football and Visual Culture under Francoism”, financed by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (PID2020-116277GA-I00) and focused on the relations between sport, class, gender, and national identities in Spanish cinema and audiovisual media.

University of Galway History Seminar: Blood Ties: An Intimate History of Early Twentieth Century American Political Violence
2022-10-26 16:00 - 17:30 | Online, via Zoom
Professor Kevin Boyle
(Northwestern University)
Blood Ties: An Intimate History of Early Twentieth Century American Political Violence

Biography
Kevin Boyle is the William Smith Mason Professor of American History at Northwestern University. He is the author, most recently, of The Shattering: America in the 1960s (W. W. Norton & Co., 2021), a history of that period’s conflicts over race, sex, and war. His previous book, Arc of Justice, won the National Book Award for non-fiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is also the author of The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1948-1968 and co-author of Muddy Boots and Ragged Aprons. His essays and reviews have appeared in The Washington Post, the New York Times, the Baltimore Sun, the Chicago Tribune, the Detroit Free Press, and other newspapers and magazines.
Registration
This talk will be delivered online, via Zoom. Register here for the link: https://forms.office.com/r/QAxBFe9XFX
The seminar will also be livestreamed in Room 1001, Hardiman Research Building (Bridge Seminar Room).
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Research Seminar series.
For further details, contact Dr Kevin O’Sullivan kevin.k.osullivan@universityofgalway.ie
Image: Jasper Johns, ‘Flags 1’ (1973); Museum of Modern Art, New York

Galway Book Launch – Fierce Love: The Life of Mary O'Malley
2022-10-26 17:00 - 18:00 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Lilliput Press cordially invites you to join us in celebrating the legacy of Mary O’Malley, and the launching of Bernard Adams’ new biography on her life and work.
With special contributions from Professor Lionel Pilkington, Professor Daniel Carey and Conor O’Malley. Archive exhibition from the O’Malley/Lyric Theatre Archive, curated by Dr. Barry Houlihan.
Copies of Fierce Love will be on sale during the event with thanks to Charlie Byrne’s.
Registration
Please register for this event via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/galway-book-launch-fierce-love-the-life-of-mary-omalley-tickets-429097009707

ABOUT THE BOOK
Cork-born theatre pioneer (1918–2006), Mary O’Malley, was the founder and director of Belfast’s Lyric Players Theatre from 1951–81.
In 1947 Mary married Armagh-born doctor Pearse O’Malley and thereafter moved to Northern Ireland. She was elected to Belfast Corporation in May 1952, as an Irish Labour Party councillor for the Smithfield ward and in 1959 she founded Threshold literary magazine.
She started Belfast’s Lyric Players Theatre in the former stables at the back of her Malone Road home. A self-taught and tireless director, she contested cultural populism and indifference in the north during the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s to pioneer the new theatre. As their repertoire grew, O’Malley felt it necessary to provide a permanent theatre for the company, and in 1961 the Lyric Players Theatre became a non-profit association, a base from where her protégés from Liam Neeson, Ciarán Hinds and others bestrode stage and screen in the last half of the twentieth and beyond.
Fierce Love chronicles a resourceful and controversial individual, who swam against the tide of populism and sectarianism to establish an independent academy for actors and artists in a tireless quest for imaginative freedom and excellence. Mary O’Malley’s life was complex, and her legacy enduring.
‘A titan of Northern Ireland’s theatrical scene … I consumed this beautiful book with a few giggles and tears of memories recalled.’ Liam Neeson
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bernard Adams, a Dubliner with Ulster roots, went to school at Portora in Enniskillen and read English at Trinity College, Dublin. He became a journalist, writing early notices of Mary O’Malley’s plays for the Belfast Telegraph in Belfast before working as a BBC television producer in London. He is author of Denis Johnston: A Life (Lilliput, 2002).

Centre for Irish Studies Seminar Series: ‘The Law of the Mother and the Sibling World: Leeanne Quinn’s Queer Ecologies’
2022-10-27 16:00 - 17:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Centre for Irish Studies Seminar Series
‘The Law of the Mother and the Sibling World: Leeanne Quinn’s Queer Ecologies’
Professor Moynagh Sullivan

Moynagh Sullivan is a Professor of English at MU, and the Faculty of Arts, Celtic Studies and Philosophy Associate Dean for Equality, Diversity Inclusion and Interculturalism. A visiting scholar at The Centre for Irish Studies at NUIG in 2022, she has previously been a visiting Professor at the centre for Irish Studies at Boston College, MA, and the Fulbright Fellow in Irish Studies at UC Berkeley, CA. Moynagh’s pioneering intersectional work in Irish Studies has examined patriarchal, racist and classist structures in canons and canon-making, and has introduced previously neglected or understudied women writers to the field, such as Blanaid Salkeld and Carla Lanyon Lanyon. Moynagh’s extensive publications in these areas includes close studies of contemporary poets such as Eavan Boland, Meadbh McGuckian, Rita Ann Higgins and Leeanne Quinn. She is currently working on a monograph on Maternal Imaginaries in contemporary Irish culture.
Paper: ‘The Law of the Mother and the Sibling World: Leeanne Quinn’s Queer Ecologies’
Paper Photograph (credit https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/i-was-thinking-about-how-we-say-things-in-poetry-how-we-depart-from-our-sources-1.4369661)
Paper Abstract:
This paper examines how the work of poet Leeanne Quinn attends to the interdependence of all life, ‘every last cord between us’ (Leeanne Quinn, ‘Acoma’, Before You, Dublin: Dedalus Press, 2012), on this planet and beyond. Born in Drogheda in 1978, Quinn is an award winning and critically acclaimed Munich-based poet. The molecular and cellular granularity of Quinn’s vision, ‘wrapped in particles of winter/light’ (Quinn, Before You, 2012) ) is perceptually entwined with the existential threat of climate emergency, and in this paper, I consider how the interconnectivity of body, planet, and art is expressed in Quinn’s acclaimed first volume Before You (2012), through the holding metaphor of the ‘sibling world’, an emotional ecosystem painstakingly painted in the sister poems, ‘Imprints’ and ‘Mosquitoes’. I explore her writing through psychoanalytical and eco-critical perspectives to advance feminist literary, cultural research that highlights the damaging dominance of the father-son model of inheritance and influence in Irish cultural critique.

Translation and Territory - Seminar series: Development, language maps and the problem of translation
2022-10-27 17:00 - 18:00 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Translation and Territory – Seminar series
Development, language maps and the problem of translation
Prof. Federico M. Federici, UCL
How can accurate data about language proficiency and use help development organisations?

This seminar is part of the TRANSLATION AND THE TERRITORY SEMINAR SERIES, AUTUMN 2022. Events organized by the Emily Anderson Centre for Translation Research and Practice funded by the University of Galway’s Researcher Development Scheme.

Open Access Publishing - the Why & How
2022-10-28 11:00 - 12:00 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Open Scholarship Café – Part of Open Access Week 2022
In recent years, the rapidly evolving world of scholarly communication has been subjected to several divisive issues, but none as hotly debated as the transition to Open Access publishing. It seems to be a good idea but also a bit daunting and you might have heard about large fees in order to publish Open Access? And how is this useful for you as a researcher and author? If these are the questions you are asking yourself then this Open Scholarship Café (in-person) is for you!
Open Access is an academic publishing model which makes research freely available to read, avoiding subscriptions or paywalls. Open Access comes in many flavours and this session will focus on the Library’s recent Open Access agreements (also called transformative agreements) with a number of publishers that allow you as the author to publish Open Access without cost to you.
No previous knowledge or publishing experience is needed for this session! The University of Galway Open Scholarship Librarian Hardy Schwamm will introduce the rationale and process of these Open Access agreements, and the context in which these agreements have been developed. We will also look briefly at Green Open Access and how you can publish your research using our institutional repository ARAN.
At the end of this session you will:

Understand the need for Open Access publishing
Know how to benefit from the Open Access agreements that are available to you
Be familiar with the options that Green Open Access provides

This In-Person Open Scholarship Café is part of the international Open Access Week which provides the chance to connect the global momentum toward the open sharing of knowledge.
Open Scholarship Cafés are organised by the Library of the University of Galway in partnership with the Open Scholarship Community Galway.
Image used by Chaosheng Zhang.

Related LibGuide: Open Access Publishing by Trish Finnan
Registration
Registration is required. Please register at: https://universityofgalway.libcal.com/event/3926072

CAMPS LABS: Plague, Prayer, and Print in Sixteenth-century Italy
2022-10-28 12:00 - 14:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Plague, Prayer, and Print in Sixteenth-century Italy
Katherine Tycz (Discipline of Italian)
Plague was a constant fear for early modern Italians. When plague broke out in Italy, people turned to a variety of devotional tools and practices for protection from disease and spiritual solace. In this presentation, I will explore the production of printed devotional texts and images that were circulated to help devotees through these difficult times. Ranging from beautiful engravings to cheap devotional pamphlets and flyers, the threat of plague created prophylactic merchandise that would appeal to a range of consumers. Occasionally sanctioned by the Church, but often produced outside of the bounds of ecclesiastical oversight, printed plague protection ranged from the orthodox to the unorthodox and all the blurry areas in between.
Centre for Antique, Medieval & Pre-Modern Studies (CAMPS) website: https://www.universityofgalway.ie/camps/

Teangacha Trilsithe - Braided Languages - Langues Tressées
2022-11-03 18:00 - 19:00 | Charlie Byrne’s bookshop, Galway City
TEANGACHA TRILSITHE / BRAIDED LANGUAGES / LANGUES TRESSÉES
A trilingual poetry reading (English, Irish, and French) of the work of three poets / translators, Kelly Norah Drukker (a poet and scholar from Montréal, Canada and also visiting scholar in the Centre for Irish Studies, University of Galway); Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha (poet and PhD scholar from Roinn na Gaeilge and the Centre for Irish Studies); and Gabrielle Machnik-Kekesi (scholar from Montréal, Canada, completing a PhD at the Centre for Irish Studies).
The event will consist of a trilingual reading of both Kelly and Laoighseach’s work, with Kelly’s work (English, and translated into French by Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné) translated into Irish and read aloud by Laoighseach, and Laoighseach’s work (Irish, and self-translated into English) translated into French by Canadian scholar, Gabrielle Machnik-Kekesi, and read aloud at the event by Kelly.
Kelly is an accomplished poet, with her debut collection, Small Fires (McGill-Queen’s University Press) winning the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry, and the Concordia University First Book Prize. The collection was also a finalist for the Grand Prix du livre de Montréal (2016). Petits feux, a French-language translation by Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, was published by Le lézard amoureux in 2018.
Laoighseach has been published in a variety of literary journals, including Poetry Ireland Review and Comhar. She recently won first place in the Fiach Dubh poetry competition and in the Ballybunion Arts Festival Irish Language poetry competition. Her first collection, Solas Geimhridh, is forthcoming.
Gabrielle has a BA (History) and MA (Individualized Program, Modern Irish History and Gender Studies) from Concordia University and a MISt (Archival Studies) from McGill University. She is a Hardiman Research Scholar at the University of Galway (2021-2025), completing a PhD at the Centre for Irish Studies.
We wish to use this event to show how poetry and literature can cross boundaries, languages, and cultural contexts, as well as highlighting the important role of collaboration and camaraderie in the writing and translation of literature.
The event is free, and all are welcome – from within the university and without!

Book Launch: Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages: Personal and Public Art and Literature of the Franklin Search Expeditions
2022-11-04 17:00 - 18:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Book Launch
Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages:
Personal and Public Art and Literature of the Franklin Search Expeditions
by
Dr Eavan O’Dochartaigh
Speaker: Professor Heidi Hansson, Umeå University, Sweden

Registration:
Please register via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-of-visual-culture-and-arctic-voyages-by-eavan-odochartaigh-tickets-445310885847
Dr Eavan O’Dochartaigh is an SFI-IRC Pathway Programme Awardee at University of Galway (2022-2026) and a former Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at Umeå University, Sweden (2019-2021). Her book Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages was published by Cambridge University Press (2022). It investigates the nature of the on-board visual culture of the nineteenth-century Arctic, presenting a compelling challenge to the ‘man-versus-nature’ trope that still reverberates in polar imaginaries today. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
If you are interested in joining us for an informal dinner at John Keogh’s Gastropub following the launch, please send me an email for details: eavan.odochartaigh@universityofgalway.ie

Reimagining a World for Tomorrow and an Onto-Epistemological Ethics of Remembering
2022-11-07 16:00 - 18:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
The Discipline of Philosophy is delighted to welcome back one of its PhD graduates
Dr. Roisín Lally of Gonzaga University
speaking on:
Reimagining a World for Tomorrow and an Onto-Epistemological Ethics of Remembering

Abstract
Time is behind our reality structuring. Physicist/philosopher Karen Barad urges us to think about time differently. In Meeting the Universe Halfway, she offers us the theoretical tools such that we can return to earlier times and reimagine life differently. To do this requires an ontological shift in perspective which we get with Gilbert Simondon in On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects. Based on the logic of transduction, ontogenesis claims that all states of being including time, space, and matter exist in excess in each potential being. Similarly, Karen Barad’s entangled intra-relations emerges as spacetimematterings. There are no subjects as such, only intra-actions between agents. Agential beings are always already entangled in material practices. Entangled beings make it impossible to differentiate absolutely between human and nonhuman, organic and inorganic, subject and object, nature and culture, fact and value, epistemology and ontology. This paper will excavate Barad’s theory of diffraction in light of Gilbert Simondon’s ontogenesis to offer an onto-epistemological ethics that re-configures how we imagine deep time, both past and future, and take responsibility for the world we have created, and will create in the future.
Rόisín Lally teaches philosophy at Gonzaga University. Drawing on the traditions of phenomenology and metaphysics, she works at the intersection of the philosophy of technology, feminism, and sustainability. She is the author of numerous articles and chapters. She is currently writing a monograph entitled Being, Time, and Technology and co-editing a book with Daniel Bradley entitled Irish Phenomenology.

Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar: Strength in Numbers: Data and Science in Soccer
2022-11-08 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar
Strength in Numbers: Data and Science in Soccer
(Professor John Newell, Sonraí Health Data Science Research Cluster)

Professor John Newell is Professor of Biostatistics in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Galway, an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand and former Head of the Biostatistics Unit of the HRB Clinical Research Facility University of Galway. He is a member of the University of Galway’s Sonraí Health Data Science Research Cluster. Through his role as funded Principal Investigator in the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, his team of researchers help sports scientists in elite sporting organisations make sense of their data in order to improve training response, accelerate recovery and optimise performance. In this talk he will discuss and showcase recent advances in statistical approaches applied to elite sports with a particular emphasis on soccer.

Book Launch/Seoladh Leabhair: Dhá Leagan Déag: Léargais Nua ar an Sean-nós
2022-11-08 17:00 - 18:00 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Book Launch/Seoladh Leabhair
Guest speaker/Aoichainteoir: Máirín Nic Con Iomaire
Dhá Leagan Déag: Léargais Nua ar an Sean-nós
In Eagar ag/Edited by: Philip Fogarty, Tiber Falzett, Lillis Ó Laoire
Cur i láthair/Introductory Remarks: Dr Pádraic Moran
Cló Iar-Chonnacht €20
Newly published by Cló Iar-Chonnacht, this book is an international collection of 15 essays by leading scholars about Gaelic song. The majority of papers deal with Ireland while three deal Scotland and Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. Written in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, the papers make a unique and original contribution to Gaelic Song Studies. As might be expected, there is much discussion about concepts of authenticity and the ways in which the Gaelic Revival has moulded and shaped the song tradition from inception to the present day. There are also essays on representations of song in literature and a number of explorations of personal engagement with the tradition and the need for a more innovative approach to Gaelic song to ensure its future vitality. No other collection brings such a variety of perspectives to bear on the topic.
Bailiúchán idirnáisiúnta de chúig aiste dhéag é seo a bhfuil aistí ann le scoláirí aitheanta faoi amhránaíocht na Gaeilge ó Chló Iar-Chonnacht. Pléann formhór na bpáipéar le hÉirinn ach is faoi Alba agus faoi Cheap Breatainn, in Alba Nuadh, Ceanada atá trí cinn acu. Tá na haistí scríofa i nGaeilge agus i nGaeilge na hAlban, agus tugann siad léargas nuálach ar léann na nAmhrán sa Ghaeilge. Mar a bheifí ag súil, pléitear le ceist na barántúlachta agus na slite iná mhúnlaigh an Athbheochan traidisiún na nAmhrán ón tús go dtí an lá inniu. Tá aistí sa leabhar chomh maith a bhaineann le léiriú an tsean-nóis sa litríocht. Cíorann cuid de na páipéir teagmhálacha pearsanta leis an traidisiún agus tá impí ann ar nuáil níos mó i leith na nAmhrán Gaeilge lena mbrí a chinntiú amach anseo. Níl aon leabhar eile ann a chuimsíonn oiread sin tuairimí difriúla faoin ábhar.
Refreshments served
Sóláistí ar fáil

University of Galway History Seminar: An Introduction to the Digital Repository of Ireland for Researchers: From using collections to thinking about digital preservation
2022-11-09 16:00 - 17:30 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
University of Galway History Seminar:
An Introduction to the Digital Repository of Ireland for Researchers: From using collections to thinking about digital preservation
Dr Lisa Marie Griffith (Digital Repository of Ireland)

Abstract
This talk will provide an overview of collections held in the Digital Repository of Ireland that might be of interest to historical researchers and will look at how you can use some of the repository’s technical features to assist with your research. It will also ask ‘what is humanities research data’ and finally it will explore why researchers at every stage need to consider digital preservation principles when creating their own research data.
Biography
Lisa Griffith is the membership manager at the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI). She came to DRI from roles in higher education and cultural heritage, at Dublin City University (DCU) and the National Print Museum. She has a PhD in History and is a coordinator of the Dublin History Research Network. Lisa has a keen interest in book culture that has prompted her to deliver a series of podcasts, workshops, and walking tours as part of national events such as Culture Night and the Dublin Literature Festival. Lisa has also authored and edited four books on various aspects of Dublin history, including her most recent book Dublin: Then and Now (Pavilion Books, 2018), which traces changes in key cityscapes by pairing stunning archival images of Ireland’s capital with contemporary photographs. She sits on the Dublin City Culture Company Advisory Group. Lisa is a SCRUMstudy Agile Master Certified project manager and holds a certificate in Training and Continuing Education from Maynooth University.
She previously worked for five years as programme manager at DRI, as a senior administrator in the Institute of Education, DCU and as a project manager for the Research Support Office also in DCU. She was coordinator of the Culture and Heritage Studies Programme at the National Print Museum where she taught modules on Heritage, Local History, Folklore, and Ethnography and Communications.
Registration
This is a hybrid event. The paper will be delivered, in-person, in Room 1001, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway (Bridge Seminar Room) and streamed simultaneously on Zoom: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/91283727218.
To attend via Zoom, please register at: https://forms.office.com/r/yjfBFFGYD4.
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Research Seminar series.
Image: detail from Digital Repository of Ireland, Digital Archiving in Ireland (2012)

The School of Political Science and Sociology Research Seminar: ‘Exploring testimonial sensibilities and credibility judgments with regards to the Magdalen Laundries and the Mother and Baby Homes’
2022-11-10 13:00 - 14:00 | Cairnes Building, CA110, University of Galway
The School of Political Science and Sociology invite you to a research seminar with:
Prof. Audrey Rousseau
‘Exploring testimonial sensibilities and credibility judgments with regards to the Magdalen Laundries and the Mother and Baby Homes’
Supported by Global Women’s Studies
For decades, women and children, survivors of institutional and state violence, have kept silent with regards of what was considered immoral whether giving birth out of wedlock, being so-called “illegitimate”, or solely not adjusting to gendered societal norms. In 1990s, but more audibly from 2000s, witnesses have bravely started to tell their story publicly, offering a vivid analysis of how oppression have affected their lives but also, in many cases, the lives of their descendants. Today, their claims for recognition and reparation are taken up in the media and the political realms, including the Ryan report, the McAleese report, the Mother and Baby Homes report. Of course, those committees or inquiries are to be acknowledged, but they also need to be questioned notably in how they treated survivors accounts, and the way they often missed opportunities in challenging official historical accounts on violence. Firstly, drawing on observations from my PhD thesis, which aimed at reflecting on the capacity “as a giver of knowledge” involved in the act of remembering in the struggle for recognition of the Irish Magdalen Laundries, 1993-2014, I wish to discuss the defamatory discursive ethos (based on suspicion and blame) that has long stood in the way of women’s experiential narration. Secondly, I will explore the bases of a new comparative discourse analysis challenging the differential logic at work between the Magdalen Laundries and Mother and Baby Homes in the Republic of Ireland (1993-2022). In doing so, I hope to investigate how prejudice based on gender, class, and age, may still be at work in depicting and distributing a capital of sympathy and veracity judgment while listening sensitively to survivors, activists, and their descendants.
About:
Audrey Rousseau is an Associate professor in sociology at the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), Canada. She specializes in the study of contemporary memorial processes, including the politics of recognition and redress of historical injustices in relation to colonial and gender-based violence experienced by Indigenous peoples in Canada, as well as the confinement and forced labour of thousands of women in religious institutions in Ireland (18-20th centuries). Aside from two book chapters (University Press of Florida and Manchester University Press), she has mostly published in French-speaking journals such as Études Irlandaises, Études Féministes, and Criminocorpus

Translation and Territory – Seminar series: Frank Wynne in Conversation
2022-11-10 16:00 - 17:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Translation and Territory – Seminar series
Frank Wynne in Conversation
Translator, Writer, International Booker Prize Chair,
Recipient Dublin Literary Award 2022

This seminar is part of the TRANSLATION AND THE TERRITORY SEMINAR SERIES, AUTUMN 2022. Events organized by the Emily Anderson Centre for Translation Research and Practice funded by the University of Galway’s Researcher Development Scheme.

Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar: Psychology and Performance in Sport
2022-11-15 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar
Psychology and Performance in Sport
Prof. Jane Walsh, School of Psychology, University of Galway
Abstract
In this seminar Prof. Jane Walsh will look at the evidence from Sports Psychology to provide insight into the key characteristics and mental strategies used by top performers in sport. Jane will draw on recent sporting examples to illustrate how characteristics such as mental toughness and emotional stability are key factors in success and provide examples of how strategies such as goal setting and control of effort have to been used by athletes to break world records. Prof. Walsh will provide an answer the question on everyone’s mind….’Can we learn these strategies for peak performance?’ You will have to turn up to find out these answers and more about the key to success in sport (and life!).
Biography
Prof. Jane Walsh is a lecturer in Health Psychology in University of Galway. Her research is underpinned by the theme ‘Health Behaviour for Healthy Ageing’. She is the Director of the mHealth Research Group and recently secured grants in excess of €8 million euro in EU funding to conduct research on how novel technologies can be harnessed to deliver personalised evidence-based interventions to promote healthy ageing. Jane is the Co-Leader of the Health and Wellbeing Cluster in the Whitaker Institute, a member of the Irish Cancer Society Research Advisory Board and an Associate Editor of the Journal Psychology and Health.
Jane has given several keynotes both nationally and internationally on related topics including: The Physical and Psychological Benefits of Exercise and Mindset and Peak Performance in Sport. Jane is a keen triathlete and has won medals in track and field, cross country running, open water swim races and triathlons.
For further information on the Sport & Exercise Research Group, please visit: https://mooreinstitute.ie/research-group/sport-identity-representation/

Translation and Territory - Seminar series: The transboundary nature of crisis translation
2022-11-16 13:00 - 14:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Translation and Territory – Seminar series
The transboundary nature of crisis translation
Prof. Sharon O’Brien, DCU
Going across linguistic, cultural, technological, and political boundaries to provide translation in times of crisis.

This seminar is part of the TRANSLATION AND THE TERRITORY SEMINAR SERIES, AUTUMN 2022. Events organized by the Emily Anderson Centre for Translation Research and Practice funded by the University of Galway’s Researcher Development Scheme.

University of Galway History Research Seminar: ‘Clothing – whether home-made or bought?’: Non-elite clothing acquisition along the western seaboard of Ireland in the late nineteenth century
2022-11-16 16:00 - 17:30 | Online, via Zoom
University of Galway History Research Seminar
‘Clothing – whether home-made or bought?’: Non-elite clothing acquisition along the western seaboard of Ireland in the late nineteenth century
Dr Eliza McKee
(UK National Archives)

Abstract
The consumption of clothing among the lower classes in Ireland has been overlooked in existing historiography. This paper will shed light on the routine clothing consumption practices of the poorer classes along the western seaboard of Ireland. The paper draws on evidence from the Congested Districts Board baseline reports dating from the 1890s. The Congested Districts Board was established to find long-term solutions to rural poverty in the west of Ireland. Eighty-four congested districts were identified, and reports were compiled by inspectors to ascertain the socio-economic condition of the people in the districts and to inform improvement measures. The reports provide an insight into the clothing practices of the lower classes and the acquisition methods they used to obtain dress in the late nineteenth century. One question on the reports asked whether clothing was generally home-made or bought by residents, and other questions explored local industries. The answers reveal information on textile production and material knowledge. The paper will explore what the reports reveal on the county-by-county differences in clothing practice and the commercial and non-commercial acquisition methods utilised, as well as the internal county differences that existed between highland and lowland, rural and urban areas, coastal and inland, mainland or island areas of the counties. It will also explore how the lower classes used clothing supply networks, what the reports reveal about ideas of fashion, the sartorial aspirations of the poorer classes, and the differences that emerge according to age, gender and between everyday clothing and Sunday best dress.
Registration
This talk will be delivered online, via Zoom. Register here for the link: https://forms.office.com/r/cCTk5rr0V7
The seminar will also be livestreamed in Room 1001, Hardiman Research Building (Bridge Seminar Room).
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Research Seminar series.
Image: A child spinning and reeling wool, Donegal Highlands, c. 1890-1900. Robert John Welch (U.M., BELUM.Y.W.04.99.3)

Galway Book Launch: The Presidents' Letters. An Unexpected History of Ireland
2022-11-16 17:00 - 18:00 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
GALWAY BOOK LAUNCH AND SAMPLE EXHIBITION
Celebrating the paperback edition of Flor MacCarthy’s bestselling The Presidents’ Letters

Guest Speaker: Teresa Mannion, Senior News Journalist, RTÉ
Music: Niamh Ní Charra
A small exhibition of material from the Mary Robinson archive in the University of Galway, not yet available to the public, curated by archivist Niamh Ní Charra, will be on display for this special event.
Queries to: info@newisland.ie
REGISTRATION
Please register via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-presidents-letter-paperback-edition-launch-galway-nov-16th-tickets-461718050117
