Moore Institute

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

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

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

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

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

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

Retired Staff Association Lecture Series
2019-02-12 12:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

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

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

Modernist Studies Ireland’s Works in Progress event on ‘“A Space Between”: Dissociation, Disability, and Creativity in Modernism’
2019-02-13 17:00 - 19:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
MSI’s monthly forum for new and on-going work in Irish modernist studies cordially invites you to its second session of the new year and semester, taking place on 13th Feb, from 5-7 pm, in the Bridge Room (THB). This seminar will be a first in many ways, as it is the most creative session to date. It is our great privilege that our wonderful speaker, Colette Nic Aodha (NUI Galway), will not only share her academic but also her creative work with us. Colette’s work takes inspiration from modernist David Jones in relation to liminality and disability, and her presentation will explore Jones’s modernism by way of performing her own poetry—in crucial aspects a response to and development of Jones’s. This will be combined with a visual art display. And, as always, there will be wine, cheese, and nibbles to keep us sustained on more than art and modernism! For more information on the event, our speaker, and MSI more generally, please see our website at https://modstudiesireland.wordpress.com/ or get in touch at modstudiesireland@gmail.com.

Coffee Morning in aid of Special Olympics Connaught
2019-02-14 10:00 - 12:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Irish saints' Lives in Central European manuscripts: hagiography and monastic networks in the high-medieval period
2019-02-14 14:00 - 15:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Abstract:
More than 60 years have passed since Ludwig Bieler drew attention to “the sudden appearance in Southern Germany of a group of Irish hagiographical texts” in the second half of the 12th century. Indeed,
traces of this lost collection of Lives are found in various manuscripts of Austrian and Bavarian origin. Comparison of the surviving codices and some new discoveries now allow a tentative reconstruction of the original content and structure of the collection, and shine light on the process of manuscript transmission. A study of the manuscript tradition of one of the texts, the Life of St Rónán of Dromiskin, lays bare the central role of the Irish Benedictine monasteries (Schottenklöster) of Germany and Austria in the circulation of Irish hagiographical material. A new appraisal of the content of the Vita sancti Ronani also helps to reveal a previously unknown chapter in the ecclesiastical history of 12th-century Ireland.
Speaker:
Diarmuid Ó Riain is currently a visiting research fellow at the Moore Institute. He has been a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Vienna since 2013, where he works within the “Visions of Community” special research programme. His sub-project concerns medieval hagiographical collections, with a particular focus on the compilation and transmission of the late-12th-century Magnum Legendarium Austriacum. Diarmuid’s doctoral research at University College Dublin related to the history of the Irish Benedictine monasteries or Schottenklöster in medieval Germany and Austria.
https://viscom.ac.at/home/

Fascisms and the Arts
2019-02-14 18:00 - 19:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Professor Giuliana Pieri (Royal Holloway) will speak about Fascisms and the Arts.

Camps Talk by : Rosemary Power
2019-02-15 12:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
The Dates and the Placing of the Iona Ruins and Monuments

Graduate Research Seminars in History, 2019
2019-02-20 16:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Prof Chris Maginn (Fordham University)
After the Armada: Thanksgiving in Ireland, 1589.

Thomas Kilroy's Memoir - Over The Backyard Wall
2019-02-20 17:15 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Professor Adrian Frazier will launch the book and Tom will read from the piece.
Copies of the book will be available.

Irish Studies’ Seminar Series, Semester 2, 2018-19.
2019-02-21 16:00 | Centre for Irish Studies
Fenianos, Freedmen and ‘French half-breeds’: A Borderlands Approach to American Fenianism, 1865-70”
Patrick Mahony, PhD Scholar Drew University, Irish Studies Visiting Scholar, NUI Galway 2018-19
Seminar Room Centre for Irish Studies
4pm, Thursday 21 February 2019

Image 1: The Battle of Ridgeway – Charge of General O’Neill’s Fenians upon the Canadian troops, causing their rout.
The Sage, Sons & Co. Lithographer (1869) – Library and Archives Canada

A chairde,
You are invited to attend our third seminar of the Irish Studies’ Seminar Series, Semester 2, 2018-19.
We are delighted to welcome back one of our former MA in Irish Studies’ students this semester. Fáilte ar ais chugainn a Phádraig! Mr Patrick Mahony (Drew University) will deliver his paper, ‘Fenianos, Freedmen and ‘French half-breeds’: A Borderlands Approach to American Fenianism, 1865-70’, based on his ongoing doctoral research on Irish-American history. For further details, please see below.
Patrick is a Caspersen Doctoral Fellow at Drew University. His research focuses primarily on the interactions between Irish-American radicals, indigenous peoples, and other ethno-political groups in the U.S. Borderlands and the Caribbean during the mid-nineteenth century. His book, From A Land Beyond the Wave: Connecticut’s Irish Rebels, 1798-1916 (2017), won the Connecticut League of History Organizations’ Publication Prize (2018).
The seminar will take place at 4pm, Thursday 21 February, at the Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, Distillery Road.
Beidh fáilte roimh chách!

Modernist Studies Ireland’s Works in Progress guest lecture by Dr Tamara Radak on ‘“To Infinity…and Beyond?”: ‘Endgames’ in the Novels of James Joyce and Flann O’Brien’
2019-02-21 17:00 - 19:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
It is our great pleasure to welcome Dr Tamara Radak (University of Vienna), who is currently a Visiting Fellow at NUI Galway’s Moore Institute. Tamara’s lecture is aligned with her doctoral research on the (non)sense of an ending – and, judging from the sparkling poster, we’re in for a galactic treat! The lecture takes as its point of departure a staple of critical literature on modernism: that modernist novels lack closure as a rule. Tamara’s book project, “No Sense of an Ending? Modernist Aporias of Closure”, complicates this idea, arguing that modernist novels do not display a lack of closure so much as an irresolvable yet productive tension, or aporia, between openness and closedness. When taking a closer look at representative examples (in this lecture, the works of James Joyce and Flann O’Brien), the often-neglected complex interplay between closure and what Barbara Herrnstein Smith terms “anti-closure” in modernist novels becomes apparent. Drawing on recent work in new modernist studies by Rebecca Walkowitz and Douglas Mao, Sean Latham and Gayle Rogers and others, the lecture investigates how thinking through modernist “aporias of closure” – a phrase coined by J. Hillis Miller in a more general context – can help us to critically re-investigate modernism as a concept. There will be wine, cheese, and nibbles to keep us sustained on more than art and modernism! For more information on the event, our speaker, and MSI more generally, please see our website at https://modstudiesireland.wordpress.com/ or get in touch at modstudiesireland@gmail.com.

On Producing: Industry, Infrastructure and Cultures of Change
2019-02-25 | O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, NUI galway
This event investigates the role of the producer and the processes of production with a particular emphasis on how change can be facilitated to occur. The primary analysis is directed at producing for theatre and performance, but takes account of the intersections and relationships with the wider creative arts industry. This event is intended to examine producing from multiple perspectives and areas of expertise, including the history of producing, networks and training, hosting and touring, festivals and events, budgets and financial planning, the impact of identity politics at policy and decision-making level, and the development of storytelling content.
SCHEDULE
Morning Workshop 11am – 1pm: A Producer’s Toolkit
Workshop Facilitators: Dr Mairead Ni Chronin, Moonfish Theatre
Jane Daly, Irish Theatre Institute
1:00 -2:00 Break
2-3.30pm: On Producing Working Group 1
Chair: Dr Miriam Haughton
Lucy Kerbel, Director, Tonic Theatre UK
Una NicEoin, Executive Producer, Prime Cut Productions
Anne Clarke, Producer, Landmark Productions
3.30-3.45: Break
3.45 – 5.15: On Producing Working Group 2
Chair: Roisin Stack
Jen Coppinger, Head of Producing, Abbey Theatre
Louise Lowe, Co-Artistic Director, ANU Productions
Craig Flaherty, Cultural Producer, Galway 2020
5.30: Wine Reception and Book launch
Staging Trauma: Bodies in Shadow (Palgrave, 2018) by Miriam Haughton
Introduced by Prof Niamh Reilly (NUI Galway)
For more information on the event email miriam.haughton@nuigalway.ie’

Staging Trauma: Bodies in Shadow
2019-02-25 17:30 | O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, NUI Galway
Staging Trauma: Bodies in Shadow
Dr Miriam Haughton, Drama and Theatre Studies, NUI Galway
Nominated for the TaPRA Early Career Research Prize
Introduced by Louise Lowe (ANU Productions) and Dr Cathy Leeney (UCD)
Book Launch: Monday, 25 February 2019, 5.30pm, Foyer, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance
Supported by the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, the Moore Institute, Drama and Theatre Studies at NUI Galway, the Irish Society for Theatre Research, and the Feminist Storytelling Network
Reviews
‘nuanced, pertinent and timely’ Times Higher Education
‘a timely and significant book…Haughton skillfully weaves together scholarly sources, theatrical criticism, and personal reflection to draw the reader into an exploration of the complexities and ethics of staging traumatic experience’ New Theatre Quarterly
‘Haughton offers insight into the dislocated state of exile and its relation to trauma… a valuable provocation for students and scholars in theatre and performance’ Studies in Theatre and Performance

Policing Reform
2019-02-26 12:00 - 13:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
A Discussion with Members and Staff
of the Commission on the Future of Policing In Ireland
Prof. Donncha O’Connell
Helen Ryan
Sinéad Ryan

Book Launch
2019-02-26 17:00 - 19:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Essays by an Irish Rebel-Revolution,Politics and Culture
Translations from Irish of Liam Ó Briains Essays 1934-1968
by Eoin Ó Dochartaigh
Launched by Prof Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh(History), with Dr. John Cunningham (History) and Aodh Ó Coileáin (NUIG/ Taibhdhearc)

Introduction to Research Data Management - Digital Scholars' Workshops
2019-02-27 12:00 - 13:00 | The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
Introduction to Research Data Management and related supports at NUI Galway – Trish Finnan, G010, 12-1pm Wednesday 27th February
Research data management is an integral part of the research process. Increasingly research data management plans and open access to research data is required by funders. The advantages cited include the potential for verification and re-use of research data, continuity of research as staff/researchers change, data sharing and collaboration, research visibility, impact and citation.
This session will highlight related institutional, national and EU policy, typical research data management activities, the FAIR principles, and supports at NUI Galway.
Registration
Please register to attend using Eventbrite.

About the Workshop Series
Developing skills with digital technologies can be a challenge for researchers interested in digital and open scholarship.
To help, the Library, in partnership with the Moore Institute, presents a series of informal workshops to share practice-based expertise, know-how, and experience in technologies and methods, that will enhance your experience of newer forms of scholarship.
Events in this semester’s series include:

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

Graduate Research Seminars in History, 2019
2019-02-27 16:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Prof. Glenda Gilmore (Yale / Mary Ball Washington Visiting Prof, UCD)
The Nazis and Dixie: European Fascism and Southern Racism Compared.
(Followed by book-launch for Drs C. Smith & J. Regan)

Agrarian Reform and Resistance in Age of Globalisation The Euro-American World and Beyond, 1780-1914
2019-02-27 17:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
You are cordially invited to the launch of
Agrarian Reform and Resistance in Age of Globalisation
The Euro-American World and Beyond, 1780-1914
(Routledge, 2019)
Edited by Joe Regan and Cathal Smith
The book will be launched by Prof. Glenda Gilmore

Brexit and the Future of British-Irish Relations
2019-02-28 - 2019-03-01 | The O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance at NUI Galway, Ireland
Update: Audio recordings of the conference sessions are now available

The Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame, the Moore Institute at NUI Galway, and the Mitchell Institute at Queen’s University Belfast present Brexit & the Future of British-Irish Relations.
SCHEDULE
Thursday 28 February
Location: O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance, NUI Galway.
9:30 – 10:00am Registration
10:00 – 11:30am PANEL I: The European Project
Professor Mary Daly (UCD)
Professor Kevin O’Rourke (Oxford)
Professor Dan Carey (NUIG)
11:30 – 12:00pm Coffee Break
12:00 – 1.30pm PANEL 2: Politics & Populism
Dr Steve Aiken (UUP MLA)
Tony Connelly (RTE)
Brendan Flynn (NUIG)
Dr Niall Ó Dochartaigh (NUIG)
1.30 – 3.30pm Lunch
Location: O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance, NUI Galway.
3.30 – 5pm PANEL 3: British-Irish Trade
Professor Alan Ahearne (NUIG)
Professor Kate Kenny (NUIG)
Owen Brennan (Devenish Nutrition)
John McGrane (British Irish Chamber of Commerce)
6pm Q&A with Vice President of the European Parliament Mairéad McGuinness
Location: O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance, NUI Galway.
Friday 1 March
Location: O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance, NUI Galway.
9.30 – 10:00am Coffee
10:00 – 11:30am PANEL 4: Northern Ireland, the border, & the Good Friday Agreement
Professor Ben Tonra (UCD)
Dr Katy Hayward (QUB)
Carlo Trojan (Former Secretary-General EU Commission)
Professor Mary Murphy (UCC)
Professor David Phinnemore (QUB)
11:30 – 12pm Coffee Break
12:00 – 1.30pm PANEL 5: The Future of British-Irish Relations
Professor Jennifer Todd (UCD)
Representative from the British Embassy
Dr Etain Tannam (TCD)
Angela Knight (CBE) (UK Office of Tax Simplification)

To Register please click the following https://www.eventbrite.com/e/brexit-the-future-of-british-irish-relations-tickets-56103113924

Graduate Research Seminars in History, 2019
2019-03-06 16:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Jane O’Brien (NUI Galway)
‘Important or exceptional occurrences’ – An analysis of Managers’ Diaries and other correspondence from the Irish Industrial School system : 1868 – 1920.

Managing your Research Profile, Open Access Publishing, ARAN, and Data Management
2019-03-07 11:00 - 13:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
The session will be broken down into the following,
Open Access publishing and ARAN (30 minutes presentation) – Trish
Managing your Research Profile (30 minutes presentation) – Rosie
Introduction to Research Data Management (30 minutes presentation) – Trish
Questions (15 minutes)

Personal Development Planning(1)
2019-03-07 14:00 - 16:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
This workshop is designed to help researchers plan career strategies that will allow them to take charge of their career. It will provide insight into how you can translate your existing skills to various career pathways and identify any gaps in your skill set.
NB: Bring laptop/Ipad if possible.
To register for event please see: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/individual-development-planning-researchers-tickets-57803939138

Camps a Talk by Sean Murphy
2019-03-08 12:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Occidentalism in the West

EDEN BLOG LAUNCH!
2019-03-08 13:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Come along at lunchtime this Friday to the launch of the revamped bilingual Trácht ar Thráchtais/ Thesis Talk blog for PhD and Post Doc researchers. We are delighted to welcome traditional musicians Dr. Cassie-Smith Christmas, Dr Deirdre Ní Chonghaile, John Singleton and Aisling Ní Churraighín. Bring your lunch or your instrument and enjoy the tunes and chats!
Tá áthas mór orainn Trácht ar Thráchtais/ Thesis Talk, blag dátheangach do thaighdeoirí dochtúireachta agus iardhochtúireachta a sheoladh ag am lóin Dé hAoine, 8ú Márta. Beidh seisiún ceoil againn leis an Dr. Cassie-Smith Christmas, an Dr. Deirdre Ní Chonghaile, John Singleton agus Aisling Ní Churraighín. Tóg leat do lón nó do ghléas agus baint sult as an cheol agus as an chuideachta!
Fáilte roimh chách!

Book launch: The Mouth of the Earth by Manuel Rivas, translated by Lorna Shaughnessy
2019-03-11 13:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Launch of New Translation Research Group: Crosswinds: Irish and Galician Poetry and Translation https://mooreinstitute.ie/research-group/crosswinds-irish-and-galician-poetry-and-translation/
Both will be launched by Prof Louis de Paor.

‘Little Things Matter: Nanoscience, Electronics and the Brain’ by Dr. Jessamyn Fairfield
2019-03-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Heritage Ireland 2030,Research and Heritage Workshop NUIG
2019-03-13 12:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
12:45 Welcome (preceded by light lunch from 12:00)

Cathal O’Donoghue, Dean, College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Celtic Studies
Daniel Carey, Director, Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies

13:00 Panel discussion 1: Public participation, well-being and shared stewardship

Gesche Kindermann & Caitriona Carlin: Natural heritages, community, and human health
Maggie Ronayne: Working with communities and their cultural heritages
Claire Nolan: Landscape and well-being
Catherine Morris: Human Rights and Feminism: archive, memory, practice

14:10 coffee break
14:40 Panel discussion 2: Public participation, education, dissemination and access

Sharon Flynn: Open Research and Wikimedia
Rióna Ní Fhrighil: Linguistic landscapes and literary heritage
Geraldine Robbins: Public participation in Irish public sector contexts
Su-ming Khoo: Participation, rights-based approaches, potential conflicts & resolutions

15:20 Panel discussion 3: Heritage resilience

Kevin Lynch: Climate change and heritage resilience
Dorothy Ní Uigín: Language planning
Kieran Walsh: Aging and place
