University of Galway History Seminar: Screening of the film, I’m Here, I’m Home, I’m Happy
2022-11-23 16:00 - 17:30 (Europe/Dublin) | online via Zoom
University of Galway History Seminar:
Screening of the film, I’m Here, I’m Home, I’m Happy,
followed by an interview with its director, Orla Egan (Cork LGBT Archive)

Abstract:
I’m Here, I’m Home, I’m Happy is the new film from the Cork LGBT Archive. The film uses extracts from oral history interviews and items from the Cork LGBT Archive, to explore the lives of some LGBT people in Cork in the 1970s and 1980s. It explores how the Cork LGBT community provided a sense of connection, belonging, mutual support and fun to LGBT people at a time of criminalisation, prejudice and discrimination. The participants talk about the community spaces, parties, pubs, clubs and political activism. “It was fun, Cork in the 1980s was so much fun.”
Registration
This talk will be delivered online, via Zoom. Register here for the link: https://forms.office.com/r/70yHPLYBUA
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.

Book Launch: Writing the History of Slavery
2022-11-23 17:30 - 19:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
You are cordially invited to the launch of
Writing the History of Slavery
(Bloomsbury Academic, 2022)
Edited by David Doddington & Enrico Dal Lago

The book will be launched by Prof. Dan Carey

Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History
2022-11-24 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History
Prof. Mary Burke (University of Connecticut)
The Irish in America racially transformed multiple times: in the slave-holding Caribbean, on America’s frontiers and antebellum plantations, and along the eastern seaboard. This paper considers the cultural history of race and centuries of Irishness in the Americas, looking at the forcibly transported Irish, the eighteenth-century Presbyterian Ulster-Scots, and post-1845 Famine immigrants. History is Gothic in Irish-American narrative because the undead Irish past replays within America’s contexts of race.

Duilleoga an Easpaig i Leabhar Ua Maine
2022-11-25 12:30 - 13:30 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Beidh an léacht deiridh sa tsraith léachtaí um lón, Duilleoga an Easpaig i Leabhar Ua Maine leis An Ollamh Pádraig Ó Macháin, Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh, ar an Aoine, 25 Samhain @ 12:30 i.n. i Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom.
Is féidir clárú anois ar https://tinyurl.com/padraig-omachain

DECARBONIZING RESEARCH METHODS ONLINE WORKSHOP
2022-11-25 14:00 - 15:30 | online via Zoom
DECARBONIZING RESEARCH METHODS ONLINE WORKSHOP
25th of November 2022
2.00pm-3.30pm
Online on ZOOM

REGISTRATION: https://t.co/tZuZX2eE3z
Info: This online event is an interdisciplinary workshop to discuss how best to decarbonize our research methods and to make our work more sustainable as researchers. This online-only workshop will build on the discussions and debates from the in-person and streamed Decarbonizing Research Methods workshop held in the Moore Institute on the 18th November 2022.
This event will also expand our breadth of discussion by including experts and contributors on an all-Ireland basis, as well as participants from national and international institutions. All welcome. Previous attendance at the in-person meeting is not required to participate.
For further information and zoom link, please contact co-organisers Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha or Ashley Cahillane.
L.NICHOISTEALBHA1@nuigalway.ie / a.cahillane1@nuigalway.ie

Sport & Exercise Research Group Virtual Seminar: Psychology and Performance in Sport
2022-11-29 12:00 - 14:00 | Online
Sport & Exercise Research Group Virtual Seminar:
Psychology and Performance in Sport
Prof. Jane Walsh
School of Psychology, University of Galway

Link to Virtual Lecture:
https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/24fe7721c5f5415594bbf6f5df560c27
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/

Pan Pan Theatre Archive Symposium and Digital Exhibition Launch
2022-11-29 14:00 - 18:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Pan Pan Theatre Archive Symposium and Digital Exhibition Launch
Founded in 1993 by Co-Artistic Directors, Gavin Quinn and Aedín Cosgrove, Pan Pan Theatre Company have been at the forefront of theatre and culture in Ireland and internationally for the last thirty years. The Pan Pan Archive, now fully catalogued and available at University of Galway Library Archives, is a leading resource for the study and engagement of the rich history one of Ireland’s most innovative theatre companies.
The Pan Pan Archive and Digital Exhibition will be launched by Willie White, Director, Dublin Theatre Festival. The digital exhibition, Pan Pan Theatre Company: An Archival Journey, curated by Dr. Barry Houlihan and Aafke van Pelt, is accessible online here.

Date: 29th November
Symposium: 2pm-5pm
Archive and Exhibition Launch: 5pm to 6pm
Venue: The Bridge Room, Hardiman Building
Schedule and Details: https://tinyurl.com/3jhsav47
Contact: barry.houlihan@universityofgalway.ie
All welcome to attend.

Book Launch: Authors and the World. Literary Authorship in Modern Germany
2022-12-01 17:00 - 18:00 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Book Launch: Authors and the World. Literary Authorship in Modern Germany
by Professor Rebecca Braun
Introduction, Dr Tina Karen Pusse
(School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, University of Galway)
You are cordially invited to celebrate the launch of Prof. Rebecca Braun’s new book Authors and the World (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/authors-and-the-world-9781501391026/). The event will feature an introduction by Dr Tina Karen Pusse (School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, University of Galway) and an open-ended conversation between Prof. Braun and Prof. Caitríona Ní Dhúill (University College Cork) on working with living authors in your research.
Refreshments will be provided.
Registration
To help us with the numbers for catering, please register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-authors-and-the-world-rebecca-braun-tickets-460107312357

Art of the Wake: Presentation and Collaborative Artwork
2022-12-08 13:00 - 16:30 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room & The O’Donoghue Centre
You are cordially invited to an afternoon’s exploration and contribution to of the work of Carol Wade, (Twitter @artofthewake), who has spent the past 14 years illustrating James Joyce’s notoriously elusive Finnegans Wake as she understands it, and who is on her second painting-route through the novel.
Carol will discuss her project of illustrating this rich and engaging novel from 1-2:30 in THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room. This will be followed by a workshop in the Seminar Room of the O’Donoghue Centre from 3-4:30.
James Joyce’s connection to Galway City has long been a matter of record. Indeed, he carried in his pocket a copy of the 17th Century Pictorial Map of Galway that resides in the James Hardiman Library of the University of Galway.
While Ulysses is a book that is very much rooted in Dublin life and Dublin ways, Finnegans Wake is a book of all Ireland, and, specifically, and Ireland that is part of Europe. References to Galway abound in the text, as we pass through Maamtrasna, Barna, Flaggy Bridge, Spanish Place, Tuam, Clifden, Coole Park, Salthill, Letternoosh, Letterpeak, the Claddagh, Prospect Hill, and Slyne Head in the voyage of this work. Any reader who has strolled Galway’s streets will find their own footprints in the book.
The Project
Carol Wade will produce a collaborative artwork, reflecting the Galway of Finnegans Wake into which she will incorporate elements of stories contributed by workshop participants. All staff, students, and members of the public are invited to contribute to stories, anecdotes, and recollections of Galway City and County Life Over the next few months, Carol will incorporate them into the artwork which she will then donate to the Moore Institute of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Galway.
The project will take inspiration from the 17th century pictorial map of Galway housed in the James Hardiman Library at the University of Galway, along with contemporary maps and local historical records.
Suggested Contributions
* Stories about Galway handed down from neighbours or family members, either orally or in written form
* Joyce’s connection to places in Galway, e.g. the Marconi Station in Clifden
* Events that took place and featured in his work. e.g. The Maamtrasna Murders, Ballybrit Races
* People linked to Galway who appear in his works, e.g. Lord Ardilaun of Ashford Castle
* Nora Barnacle’s Galway
The Artist
The imagery in the Wake has inspired Carol to create over 100 paintings and drawings to date; in addition, she has illustrated the whole book page by page. It has been a real joy for her to be able to share these artworks on the website artofthewake.com and on twitter under “Art of the Wake” where almost 5,000 followers actively follow and comment on the work.
Carol is an artist living and working in the heart of Ireland. Since graduating from The National College of Art and Design she has a had passion for exploring how the cultural footprints of our ancestors have evolved in layers from the bog road of Corlea to the cobbles of Moore Street.
For Carol, who grew up in Dublin raised by Dubliners, the language of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake is the language of her childhood. The quick wit, the humour and the characters of the city combined, manifested themselves in her everyday experiences. From the first time she heard the spoken word of Finnegans Wake she had an immediate affinity with the book, recognising the characters as still being alive in Dublin’s older generation. It was this recognition that drove the realisation that this culture was still alive but would soon be gone and she was compelled to embark on the challenge of illustrating this marvellous piece of work through the lens of those still with us. The Art of the Wake is the name Carol’s has given this undertaking.
Joyce has created a wonderful tapestry of historical, social, and cultural references in Finnegans Wake. The Art of the Wake seeks to weave some of these references into illustrations with the same playful wit for which Joyce was renowned.
Carol is a Visiting Fellow at the Moore Institute for the Humanities and Social Studies at the University of Galway.
Registration
Please register for the event here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/art-of-the-wake-presentation-and-collaborative-artwork-tickets-479077382347

Centre for Irish Studies Seminar Series: “Did Punk Save Belfast?”
2022-12-08 16:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, University of Galway
Irish Studies Seminar Series – Semester 1 2022-23
“Did Punk Save Belfast?”
Professor Kevin Dunn, Dept. of International Relations, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, US

Seminar Abstract:
There is a saying, often attributed to Terri Hooley of Good Vibrations record store and label, that punk flourished in Northern Ireland in the 1970s because “we needed it more.” The general claim is that the punk scene that emerged in Northern Ireland, particularly around Belfast, was instrumental for offering youths of that time a way not to just escape from stultifying sectarianism of The Troubles, but also a means by which to push back and exert their own agency.
This talk explores the validity of those claims, while offering a more nuanced and complicated narrative of the Belfast punk scenes. In particular, this talk will move beyond a myopic focus on the 1970s scene employed by most narratives to explore the less well-known but more politically significant Belfast punk scenes of the 1980s and 1990s.

Book Launch: Irish Women’s Prison Writing: Mother Ireland’s Rebels, 2010s
2022-12-08 16:00 - 17:00 | Online
Join us for the launch of a new book from Routledge Press by Red Washburn – Irish Women’s Prison Writing: Mother Ireland’s Rebels, 1960-2010s. This book explores 50 years of Irish women’s prison writing, connecting the work of women leaders and writers in the Six Counties of Ireland during the Troubles. The book documents and analyzes the ongoing Irish freedom struggle from an abolitionist feminist perspective, using personal correspondence, auto/biographical narratives, and poetry of the following key women: Bernadette McAliskey, Eileen Hickey, Mairéad Farrell, Síle Darragh, Ella O’Dwyer, Martina Anderson, Dolours Price, Marian McGlinchey (formerly Marian Price), Áine and Eibhlín Nic Giolla Easpaig (Ann and Eileen Gillespie), Roseleen Walsh, and Margaretta D’Arcy.
Speakers:
Red Washburn is the author of the poetry collections Crestview Tree Woman and Birch Philosopher X as well as the academic monograph Irish Women’s Prison Writing: Mother Ireland’s Rebels, 1960-2010s. Red is Professor of English and Director of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Kingsborough and Affiliate Faculty of Women’s and Gender Studies at the Graduate Center (CUNY).
Margaretta D’Arcy is a playwright and filmmaker. She was in Armagh Jail and her writings are included in this collection of women’s prison writing. She is a member of Aosdana and lives in Galway.
Eugene O’Brien, editor of the Routledge Series in Irish Literature, is Associate Professor, and Head of Department of English Language and Literature, in Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland.
Nata Duvvury, Associate Professor and Head, Discipline of Gender and Women’s Studies, School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway.
Registration
Please register via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/473356009567

Book Launch: Diversifying the Teaching Profession: Dimensions, Dilemmas and Directions for the Future
2022-12-09 11:00 - 14:00 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
You are invited to the launch of
Diversifying the Teaching Profession:
Dimensions, Dilemmas and Directions for the Future

by Drs. Elaine Keane, Manuela Heinz, Rory Mc Daid

Programme
11AM:
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION (PROFESSOR DAN CAREY, DIRECTOR OF THE MOORE INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY)
PANEL DISCUSSION

Dr Vivian Rath (Project Research Officer, Association for Higher Education Access and Disability)
Ms María Florencia Sala Rothen (Independent Researcher and Language Teacher)
Mr Owen Ward (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Programme Manager for Race Equality, University of Galway)
Dr Aileen Marron (Senior Manager in Access Policy, Higher Education Authority)

12.15PM:
‘TEACHERS LIKE US’: CHALLENGING DISCOURSES, REIMAGINING NORMS (PROFESSOR GERRY MACRUAIRC, HEAD, SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY)
EQUALITY, DIVERSITY & INCLUSION IN EDUCATION: INTEGRATING THEORY AND PRACTICE (DR HELEN MAHER, VICE PRESIDENT FOR EQUALITY, DIVERSITY & INCLUSION, UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY)
DIVERSIFYING THE TEACHING PROFESSION: DR ELAINE KEANE, DR MANUELA HEINZ & DR RORY MC DAID
1:30PM:
REFRESHMENTS
Registration
Please register at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/launch-of-book-diversifying-the-teaching-profession-tickets-465601525697

Seminar on Nicholas Canny’s Imagining Ireland’s Pasts: Early Modern Ireland through the Centuries
2023-01-11 16:00 - 18:30 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Seminar on Nicholas Canny’s
Imagining Ireland’s Pasts: Early Modern Ireland through the Centuries
(Oxford University Press)
4pm Wednesday January 11 2023, followed by a launch of the book at 5.30pm
Launch by Prof. Jane Ohlmeyer (TCD)

Panellists:
Prof. Ciaran Brady (TCD)
Dr Marc Caball (UCD)
Prof. Marie-Louise Coolahan (University of Galway)
Dr Bernadette Cunningham (RIA)
Dr Pádraig Lenihan (University of Galway)
Chair: Prof. Enrico Dal Lago (University of Galway)

Registration
If you wish to join this event online, please register at: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zbub8ZBhTOqDJLoLTKWuZg

Event Recording

Irish in Italy: Exhibition Launch
2023-01-12 16:00 - 17:30 | Foyer the Hardiman Research Building, reception afterwards Moore Institute Seminar Room G010
Launch of the Irish in Italy Exhibition
by Prof. Anne O’Connor and Dr Adrian Paterson
Welcome address by Antonio Bibbò, Daniel Carey, and Marco Gioacchini
The concept of Ireland emerges at critical moments in Italy during the first half of the twentieth century, with Irish politics entering national debates and contributing to a better understanding of the specificity of Irish culture and literature in Italy. At the start of the century and until the early 1920s, Irish literature was primarily identified with the Celtic Revival, with few minor exceptions. The “Irishness” of writers such as Stoker, Wilde and Shaw generally passed unnoticed, while Joyce, who spent a substantial part of his life in Trieste, was chiefly seen as a cosmopolitan writer. It was only thanks to a number of passionate scholars, translators, historians, that the Italian public was made more aware of the intricacies of Irish literature and started perceiving it as a separate entity within the system of literatures in English.
The exhibition offers a picture of this complex relationship and of the interactions between the literary landscape and the political system which characterised, and often facilitated, exchanges between the two nations. Irish in Italy displays several important documents such as letters by Pavese, Montale, Yeats, Linati, as well as rare first editions of Irish literary works in Italian.
You can view the online exhibition at: Irish in Italy

University of Galway History Seminar: The Art of Urban Life: Painting Dublin, 1886-1949
2023-01-18 16:00 - 17:30 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
University of Galway History Seminar
Dr Kathryn Milligan
(University College Dublin)
The Art of Urban Life: Painting Dublin, 1886-1949

Abstract
A well-established theme in the history of art, the depiction of the city has persistently adapted its form to reflect the concerns of the time and culture in which it was created. While scholarship on the history of Irish art has emphasised the important role of the rural and seaboard landscape, the representation of the city was an important strand in fine art produced in Ireland through the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. To date, however, the visual representation of the Irish city has be little discussed or considered within the broader field of Irish Studies, despite the proliferation of texts and articles on the city in literature, poetry and drama, and the ever-increasing role of Irish urban history, whether in terms of political, social, or architectural history. Drawing attention to a rich archive of paintings, sketches and prints created by artists in Ireland through the late nineteenth- and early-twentieth centuries, this paper will explore the visual representation of Dublin, demonstrating how depictions of the city were shaped by historical and social change in Ireland.
Biography
Kathryn Milligan is an art historian specialising in nineteenth and twentieth century Irish art. Her current research interests range from a study of exhibition cultures in nineteenth-century Irish cities to urban painting by Irish artists at home and abroad. Since finishing her PhD in 2015, Kathryn has held positions at the National Gallery of Ireland, the UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy, and was the BARS/BAVS Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellow affiliated with the School of Literature and Languages, University of Surrey, 2019-20. She is currently based in the Special Collections Unit at UCD Library. Kathryn’s monograph, Painting Dublin, 1886 – 1949 was first published by Manchester University Press in 2020, and in 2021 received an Honorable Mention in the ACIS Michael J Durkan Prize for Books on Language and Culture.
Registration
This is a hybrid event. The paper will be delivered, in-person, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway and streamed simultaneously on Zoom: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/95641793838.
To attend via Zoom, please register at: https://forms.office.com/e/xPPchPGSGu
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Seminar series.

The School of Political Science and Sociology research seminar ‘External and Internal Learning Processes of IRA Prisoners’
2023-01-19 13:00 - 14:00 | AS203 River Room, Arts Science Building, University of Galway
The School of Political Science and Sociology invite you to a research seminar with:
Dr. Dieter Reinisch
‘External and Internal Learning Processes of IRA Prisoners’
January 19th, 2023
1-2pm
AS203 River Room, Arts Science Building,
University of Galway
All Welcome!

Abstract: Western European prisons have been described as spaces of radicalisation towards political violence and terrorism. Contrary, Provisional IRA in the 1980s and 1990s played a crucial part in supporting the Northern Irish peace process. Moreover, Provisional Irish republican prisoners held in the high-security prisons on both sides of the Irish border had a decisive role in shaping the politics of the political party Sinn Féin and winning support for the emerging peace process. In this paper, I will present a theoretical framework to analyse the learning processes of politically-motivated violent prisoners and how political prisoners can shape political developments outside the prison walls. To do so, I will use the Northern Ireland Troubles as a case study.
The paper presents empirical data and a theoretical framework to analyse politically-motivated violent prisoners’ internal and external learning processes beyond the Northern Irish Troubles. In so doing, I demonstrate how the prisons provided an environment for developing critical thinking and how prisoners used this experience to initiate the debates that eventually led to the acceptance of the peace process in Northern Ireland. Furthermore, I demonstrate how prisoners can shape the politics of political parties aligned with their militant social movements. The paper is based on 34 qualitative, semi-structured interviews with former Irish republican prisoners and archival material in Dublin, Belfast, and Galway.
Bionote: Dieter Reinisch FRHistS FHEA is an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Galway. He recently published “Learning Behind Bars: How IRA Prisoners shaped the Peace Process in Ireland” (University of Toronto Press, 2022) and “Irish Republican Counterpublic: Armed Struggle and the Construction of a Radical Nationalist Community in Northern Ireland, 1969-1998” (with Anne Kane, Routledge, 2023).

Translation and Territory - Seminar series: Intertwined Territories: Translating Maylis Besserie's Irish Trilogy
2023-01-19 17:00 - 18:00 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Translation and Territory – Seminar series
Intertwined Territories: Translating Maylis Besserie’s Irish Trilogy
Prof. Clíona Ní Ríordáin, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris

Clíona Ní Ríordáin is Professor of English at the University Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, where she teaches Irish literature and translation studies and convenes the Master’s programme in Irish Studies.
In this seminar she will discuss her translation of the novels of Maylis Besserie, author of a trilogy of novels which take Irish subjects as their point of departure: the first devoted to the end of Samuel Beckett’s life, the second to the reburial of WB Yeats’s remains, and the third deals with Francis Bacon.

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.

Virtual Open Day: MA Medieval and Antiquity
2023-01-24 16:00 - 17:30 | Virtual Information Session
There will be a Virtual Open Day for the new MA Medieval and Antiquity on Tuesday 24 January 2023 from 16:00-17:30.
Programme Directors, Dr Catherine Emerson and Dr Frances McCormack, will introduce potential applicants to the programme and host a live Q&A.
This cross-disciplinary programme, unique in Ireland, provides students with a firm foundation in the study of European—including Irish—cultures, languages and societies from the Classical period to the end of the Middle Ages. The course’s interdisciplinary requirements encourage students to view the past in a multidimensional way while they learn core linguistic and other technical skills necessary for academic research in the Antique and Medieval worlds.
Registration
To register for the event and receive a Zoom Meeting Link, please go to https://tinyurl.com/medantiq

University of Galway History Seminar: ‘For Irish homosexuals the border question has little or no meaning – at least as far as their homosexuality is concerned’: The rise of the Irish Gay Rights Movement, 1973-1974
2023-01-25 16:00 - 17:30 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
University of Galway History Seminar
Dr Patrick McDonagh
(Independent Scholar)
‘For Irish homosexuals the border question has little or no meaning
– at least as far as their homosexuality is concerned’:
The rise of the Irish Gay Rights Movement, 1973-1974

Abstract
In a November 1973 issue of the British based gay newspaper, Gay News, an article appeared with the title ‘Irish Gay Beginnings: Full Report on First Ever Irish Gay Conference’. The conference that the article was referring to had taken place at the New University of Ulster in Coleraine and had been organised by the Sexual Reform Movement. At the end of the conference a resolution was passed which committed those present to work in the future for the establishment of human rights for the sexually oppressed in society and to forge links with groups active in advancing gay rights, both domestically and internationally. Such was the novelty of this statement at the time, that the Irish Independent carried a report three days later in which Dr. Austin Darragh, director of the UCD Psycho-Endocrine Centre, warned the Irish government against legalising homosexuality, warning that to ‘legalise it may be legalising a disease and may stop researchers like us proceeding with our attempts to plum the causes and possible treatment for the condition.’
Despite the significance of this conference very little attention has been given to it in wider Irish LGBT+ history. On the 50th anniversary of this conference, this paper will look back at this significant moment in Irish LGBT+ history and the impact it had at the time. In doing so, this paper will highlight the extent to which the rise of a gay rights movement in Ireland was influenced and supported by British and Scottish based organisations as well as the role student organisations and universities played in creating a space where a focus on the issue of gay rights could take place in the early 1970s in Ireland. Finally, the paper will also demonstrate the extent to which the gay rights movement in Ireland emerged due to the efforts of activists both north and south of the border.
Biography
Dr. Patrick McDonagh is an independent scholar who obtained his PhD in History from the European University Institute, Florence, in 2019. His first book, Gay and Lesbian Activism in the Republic of Ireland 1973-93, was published in 2021 by Bloomsbury Academic and received an honorable mention in the Donald Murphy Prize category for distinguished first book at the 2022 American Conference for Irish Studies. He has published articles in the Journal of the History of Sexuality and the Journal of Irish Economic and Social History. He has also contributed chapters to two academic books: From Sodomy Laws to Same-Sex Marriage: International Perspectives since 1789 [eds. Sean Brady and Mark Seymour] (Bloomsbury, 2019) and Queer Youth Histories [ed. Daniel Marshall] (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). In 2020 he was the guest editor of a special edition of Studi Irlandesi: A Journal of Irish Studies which focused on ‘Minorities in/and Ireland’.
Registration
This talk will be delivered online, via Zoom. Register here for the link: https://forms.office.com/e/umVH2KZLGF
The seminar will also be livestreamed in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building.
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Seminar series.

THE WORLD OF PRINTED PRAYERS CONFERENCE
2023-01-26 12:30 - 2023-01-27 17:45 | Virtual Conference
The World of Printed Prayers Conference Programme
26-27 January 2023

Thursday, 26 January 2023
12:30 – 12:45 Welcome & Introductions
Katherine Tycz (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Galway)
12:45 – 2:35 Session 1: Print & Image I
The Printed Prayerful Timepiece in Seventeenth-Century Northern Europe
Anneke de Bont (PhD Candidate, Cambridge)
The Evolution of the Cannon Missae and its Graphic Value
Jorge Fragua (PhD Candidate, Complutense University of Madrid & University of Antwerp)
How Late Ming Chinese Woodcut Prints Promoted Daoist Catechisms and Legends
Run Gu (Graduate Student, University of Tübingen)
Polychrome Prints for a “Perfect Beauty” The Matrix of a “Colorful” Marian Devotion in Regensburg
Fiammetta Campagnoli (PhD Candidate, Université Paris 1 Panthéon – Sorbonne)
Chair: Sarah Corrigan (Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Galway)
2:45 –3:00 Coffee Break & Chat
3:00 – 4:30 Session 2: Translations & Multilingualism
Bilingual Prayers in Jewish Broadsheets around the World: Between the Political and the Spiritual
Hanna Gentili (Research Fellow, University of Haifa)
Impressions of Piety: Louis of Granada among the Recusants
Sarah Banschbach Valles (Researcher and Co-Director, Dalhousie Manuscripts Project)
Printed Catechisms in Indigenous Languages in New Spain between the 16th and 18th Centuries
Marina Garone Gravier (Researcher, Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Chair: Anne O’Connor (Professor, University of Galway)
4:30 – 5:00 Discussion & Closing Remarks

Friday, 27 January 2023
12:30 – 2:20 Session 3: Prescriptive Guides & Devotion
Printed Jewish Manuals for the Sick and the Dying in the Early Modern Period
Avriel Bar-Levav (Associate Professor of Judaic Studies, Open University of Israel)
The Compendium Maleficarum’s “divine remedies” against Witchcraft: Prayers, Prints, a Problem of Audiences and Disappearing Chapters
Olivia Garro (PhD Student, University of Coventry)
Affective Devotion and the Power of Prayer in Sixteenth-Century Italian Miracle Collections
Joshua Rushton (PhD Candidate, University of Leeds)
Tridentine Piety and the Marketplace: Printed Catholic Prayers in 17th-century Poland
Magdalena Komorowska (Assistant Professor, Jagiellonian University in Kraków)
Chair: Bronagh Ann McShane (Lecturer, University of Limerick)
2:20 – 2:30 Coffee Break & Setup

2:30 – 4:00 Keynote Address (HRB G010)
Printed Piety: Some Problems about Talking to God in Early Modern Ireland
Professor John McCafferty (University College Dublin)
Chair: Alison Forrestal (Professor, University of Galway)

The World of Printed Prayers Conference is delighted to announce that the conference’s keynote address will be in a hybrid format with a live lecture by Professor John McCafferty (UCD) taking place in Room G010 of the Hardiman Research Building at the University of Galway on 27 January 2023.
Room: HRB G010
Presenter: Professor John McCafferty (University College Dublin)
Paper Title: Printed Piety: Some Problems about Talking to God in Early Modern Ireland
Abstract:
From its very inception in Ireland, print became caught up with questions of religious and political authority on the island. This paper will reflect on the three languages used for prayer – Irish, English and Latin – and their manifestation in the print culture of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Bio:
John McCafferty is a Professor of History at University College Dublin. His research and writings are concerned with religious change in late medieval and early modern Ireland. He is Chair of the Irish Manuscripts Commission and Director of the Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute at UCD.

4:00 – 4:15 Break
4:15 – 5:30 Session 4: Print & Image II
Image and Popular Piety: the Woodcuts Collection of Agustín Laborda
Juan Gomis (Professor, Catholic University of Valencia)
Printed Prayers and Images in Pilgrimage Practice: An Analysis of the Book for Pilgrims to Old Boleslav (Central Bohemia)
Veronika Poláková (PhD Candidate, National Autonomous University of Mexico)
“Siguese vna oracion muy devota al crucifixo”: Prayer in La passion del eterno principe (Burgos, 1493?)
Isidro J. Rivera (Associate Professor, The University of Kansas)
Chair: Erin McCarthy (Senior Research Fellow, University of Galway)
5:30 – 5:45 Concluding Remarks

The Conference Programme including Abstracts and Speakers’ Bios is available HERE.

Registration
The World of Printed Prayers Conference Registration (January 26th – 27th, 2023)

Information:

Thursday, 26 January 2023 — 12:30 – 5:00 PM (GMT)

Friday, 27 January 2023– 12:30 – 5:45 PM (GMT)

Zoom Links for each day will be sent to all attendees a week before the conference commences.
Contact us at printedprayersproject@gmail.com with any questions.

Centre for Irish Studies Seminar Series: ‘Weighing the Evidence: manuscript versus local history & folklore sources for the topographic aspects of Táin Bó Cúailnge’
2023-01-26 16:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, 4 Distillery Road, University of Galway & online via Zoom
Irish Studies Seminar Series, Semester 2, 2022-23
‘Weighing the Evidence: manuscript versus local history & folklore sources for the topographic aspects of Táin Bó Cúailnge’
Guest Speaker: Paul Gosling, Atlantic Technological University
Guest Respondent: Professor Louis de Paor, Centre for Irish Studies, School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, University of Galway

The famous early medieval story, Táin Bó Cúailnge (cattle-raid of Cooley) is replete with placenames, many of them invoked to identify and explain locations where Queen Medb’s forces camped, fought or simply passed through on their quest to capture the Brown Bull of Cooley. In studying same, scholars have relied almost exclusively on the text versions of the story as preserved in twelfth century manuscripts such as Book of the Dun Cow and the Book of Leinster. However, local history and folkloric sources also contain a significant amount of information relating to the movement of Queen Medb, Cúchulainn and the Ulster forces.
This illustrated seminar will review the folk and local history evidence and asses its value as a source for the topographic aspects of the Táin.
Biography:
Paul Gosling is an archaeologist and a member of the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland. He lectured on built heritage in the Department of Heritage and Tourism at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (now Atlantic Technological University) from 1997 to 2019. His research interests are focused on archaeological survey and his published work includes surveys of the field monuments of Co. Galway, and Clare Island in Co. Mayo, as well as topographic analyses of several medieval towns including Dundalk (1991), Tuam (1995, 2013) and Mullingar (2022). He is currently researching the placename and route aspects of the great medieval epic, Táin Bó Cúailnge (the cattle raid of Cooley). His recent publications on same include ‘The Route of Táin Bó Cúailnge Revisited’ in Emania 22 (2014), and a suite of Archaeology Ireland Heritage Guides entitled ‘The Route of Táin Bó Cúailnge’: Co. Louth (2015), Cos Roscommon and Longford (2016) and Cos Westmeath and Meath (2019).
Picture: Line-drawing, ‘Maev’s second meeting with Fergus’ by Seaghán Mac Cathmhaoil (Joseph Campbell). From the 2nd edition of Mary Hutton’s The Táin: An Irish Epic Told in English Verse (Talbot Press, 1924).

CAMPS Lab: "The Faerie Queene as a Palimpsest? Edmund Spenser's Redrafting of Ireland's Mythical Landscape"
2023-01-27 12:00 - 13:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
First CAMPS Lab of 2023
Andrew Levie (English & Classics) on
“The Faerie Queene as a Palimpsest? Edmund Spenser’s Redrafting of Ireland’s Mythical Landscape”

Lunch and chats to follow, and all welcome!
For the full semester 2 programme: https://www.universityofgalway.ie/camps/labs/

Religion and Contemporary Ireland
2023-01-31 16:00 - 18:00 | Online
Centre for the Study of Religion, University of Galway
in conjunction with the Moore Institute, University of Galway
Presents
Religion and Contemporary Ireland:
a Discussion with
Dr. Roja Faezeli (Trinity College Dublin)
Dr. Vesna Malesevic (University of Galway)
Mr. Derek Scally (Irish Times)

Registration
On Line: Religion and Contemporary Ireland
The Contributors will be Dr. Roja Fazaeli, Associate Professor Islamic Civilisation, Near & Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College Dublin, speaking on “Islam and Contemporary Ireland”; Dr. Vesna Malesevic, Lecturer in the School of Politics and Sociology, University of Galway speaking on ‘“New Religions” in Ireland today’ and Mr. Derek Scally (Irish Times), speaking on ‘”End of the road?” Roman Catholicism in Contemporary Ireland”.
Inquiries: please contact Felix Ó Murchadha (felix.omurchadha@universityofgalway.ie)

University of Galway History Seminar: Rebuilding a Ruptured Tradition: Catholic Architecture in Ireland, 1780-1829
2023-02-01 16:00 - 17:30 | THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
University of Galway History Seminar
Dr Niamh NicGhabhann
(University of Limerick)
Rebuilding a Ruptured Tradition: Catholic Architecture in Ireland, 1780-1829

Abstract
By the end of the nineteenth century, Catholic churches and cathedrals in Ireland typically occupied commanding positions across urban and rural landscapes. With their towering spires and glittering interiors, they were powerful monuments to ideas of triumph over past adversity and pointed to an expansive, confident future for the Irish Catholic community. While these church and cathedral buildings evoked ideas of medieval grandeur, and expressed links to a venerable Catholic architectural tradition, they were the culmination of a century of architectural experimentation. This talk examines the first chapter of this period of growth and development, charting the varied approaches taken by different architects, patrons, and communities between 1780 and 1829. It will consider the impact of specific political, spatial, and economic circumstances on the way that chapel and church buildings were developed, highlighting the extraordinary diversity of this period of experimentation. In many ways, the buildings produced across the country, whether new builds, renovations of smaller existing structure, or reworkings of medieval sites, reflect the attempts to forge a Catholic architectural identity in the context of a ruptured tradition.
Biography
Dr Niamh NicGhabhann lectures in history at the University of Limerick. Her research focuses on Irish cultural history, with a particular emphasis on art, architecture, and antiquarian cultures. Medieval Ecclesiastical Buildings in Ireland, 1789-1915: Building on the Past was published in 2015 by Four Courts Press, and her current book project examines Catholic architecture in Ireland from the late 18th to the early 20th century.
Registration
This is a hybrid event. The paper will be delivered, in-person, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway and streamed simultaneously on Zoom: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/96357887284.
To attend via Zoom, please register at: https://forms.office.com/e/XXefJyvXCt
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Seminar series.

Pobal cósta imeallach i ndeisceart Chonamara ag tús an naoú haois déag
2023-02-03 12:30 - 13:30 | Droichid THB-1001, An Chéad Urlár, Institiúid de Móra, Áras Uí Argadáin, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe agus ar Zoom
Tionólfar an dara léacht sa tsraith seo, ar an Aoine, 3 Feabhra @ 12:30 i.n. i Seomra an Droichid THB-1001, An Chéad Urlár, Institiúid de Móra, Áras Uí Argadáin, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe agus ar Zoom.
Pobal cósta imeallach i ndeisceart Chonamara ag tús an naoú haois déag
An Dr Áine Ní Chonghaile
Is féidir clárú anois ar https://tinyurl.com/aine-ni-chonghaile
Tuilleadh eolais: eamon.ocofaigh@ollscoilnagaillimhe.ie

Open Scholarship Forum
2023-02-07 12:00 - 13:30 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Reshaping the Academic Self
How Open Scholarship Impacts My Research
Open Scholarship is considered a new paradigm to make research outputs and educational material accessible, accountable, and effective. It will alter our approach to academic life in many ways.
This Open Scholarship Forum will bring together institutional leaders, researchers at all stages of their careers, and the Library to look at how Open Scholarship impacts the research we conduct at our university and if we are ready to embrace the opportunities and challenges that Open Scholarship provides.
The panel discussion will be moderated by John Cox, University Librarian.
Lunch to be provided after the event.
Agenda

Jim Livesey, Open Scholarship at the University of Galway
Louise Hannon, Open Science – What Research Funders Require
Ciara Egan, How Open Scholarship improves my research
Siobhán Gaughan, Research Data Management in our lab: Expectations and reality
Dan Carey, The NORF Action Plan: Implications for the Humanities
Hardy Schwamm, Open Access publishing agreements – success and challenges
Panel Discussion and Q&A
Lunch

Further details at: https://library.universityofgalway.ie/osf/#
Registration
To attend, please register at: https://universityofgalway.libcal.com/event/3990051/

University of Galway History Seminar: Irish Language Policy, 1922-2022: The Role of Broadcasting in Language Revitalisation
2023-02-08 16:00 - 17:30 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, HRB, University of Galway
University of Galway History Seminar
Dr John Walsh
(University of Galway)
Irish Language Policy, 1922-2022: The Role of Broadcasting in Language Revitalisation

Abstract
In this seminar, I will focus on the development of Irish language policy since the foundation of the state in 1922. Although a key part of government policy over the past century, the Irish language was barely discussed during the Decade of Centenaries programme or in public or academic discourse around the commemorations. I will begin by outlining concepts of language policy and language planning as understood in other minority language settings and apply them to the Irish context. I will then summarise salient aspects of policy as related to speakers of Irish, the Gaeltacht, education, legislation and broadcasting. The main part of the seminar will consist of a case-study of broadcasting as a central plank of Irish language policy, with a particular focus on community media. I will conclude by critically reviewing Irish language policy since independence and identify key themes for the next century.
Biography
Dr John Walsh is an Associate Professor of Irish in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. His latest monograph One Hundred Years of Irish Language Policy, 1922-2022 was published last year by Peter Lang. John’s research interests span the sociolinguistics of Irish, language policy, minority language media and language revitalisation. He is also currently serving as Vice-Dean (Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and People) in the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies.
Registration
This is a hybrid event. The paper will be delivered, in-person, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway and streamed simultaneously on Zoom: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/96087362381 .
To attend via Zoom, please register at: https://forms.office.com/e/DqEVWr7E4r
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Seminar series.

Political Science and Sociology Research Festival 2023
2023-02-09 09:00 - 16:45 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
The School of Political Science and Sociology is pleased to invite you to the Research Festival 2023
What?
This day-long event is a celebration of the research being undertaken by staff and students in the School of Political Science and Sociology. With 50+ contributors, sessions will include World Cafes, Roundtables, Panels, Video Shorts, Threesis, Debates, Posters and more that engage with a wide range of issues and topics in the Social Sciences. You are invited to attend all or any of the sessions and participate in this unique event.
To learn more about the event and access the schedule go to: rb.gy/3ab4o9 or scan the QR code:

Registration
Please register at EventBrite here for the purposes of catering.
All welcome!

CAMPS LAB: 'More than Marginal: Knowledge and Learning in Ancient Greek Scholia'
2023-02-10 12:00 - 14:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, HRB, University of Galway
CAMPS Lab
‘More than Marginal: Knowledge and Learning in Ancient Greek Scholia’
Lisa Doyle ( Classics, TCD)

Abstract:
Ancient Greek scholia (commentary notes found in the margins of Medieval manuscripts) have traditionally been overlooked by modern scholars, yet they contain a wealth of knowledge relating to mythology, local histories, geography, and the reception of authors within antiquity. Often, the language and coherent format of the scholia bear resemblances to the commentaries from which they derive. In this talk, Lisa Doyle will be exploring scholarly debates concerning geographical knowledge (such as Odyseuss’ homeward route from Troy), drawing on examples from the scholia on the Greek epic poems by Homer and the 3rd century BCE epic Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes.
This is a hybrid event. The paper will be delivered, in-person, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway and streamed simultaneously on Zoom.
To receive a Zoom link for this event, please contact:
Dr Grace Attwood g.attwood1@universityofgalway.ie or
Dr Sarah Corrigan sarah.corrigan@universityofgalway.ie

Figuring Ecologies Reading Network (FERN) – INVITATION TO INAUGURAL GATHERING
2023-02-15 13:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Staff and students are warmly invited to attend the first gathering of the Figuring Ecologies Reading Network (FERN). We will meet each month to discuss a literary or creative work on the subject of ecologies. Suggestions for future meetings will be welcome!
First Meeting: Wednesday 15 February 2023, Bridge Room, Moore Institute, 13.00-14.00
We will discuss The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E Butler (copies available in the campus bookstore).
All welcome!
For further information please contact:

Ashley Cahillane (School of English and Creative Arts)

A.CAHILLANE1@nuigalway.ie

Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha (School of Languages, Literature and Cultures) L.NICHOISTEALBHA1@nuigalway.ie
Nessa Cronin (School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies) nessa.cronin@universityofgalway.ie
Patrick Lonergan (School of English and Creative Arts) patrick.lonergan@universityofgalway.ie
Tina-Karen Pusse (School of Languages, Literature and Cultures) tina-karen.pusse@universityofgalway.ie
