Moore Institute

A weekly seminar on the Middle Irish Tale Airec menman Iraird maic Coisse
2013-02-27 12:00, 2013-03-13 12:00, 2013-03-20 12:00 (Europe/Dublin)
A weekly seminar on the Middle Irish Tale
Airec menman Iraird maic Coisse
‘The Stratagem of Irard mac Coisse’
led by Prof. MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha (School of Humanities)
Every Wednesday at 12.00 noon
beginning Wednesday 23 January 2013
in the Moore Institute Seminar Room
The 10th-century Connacht poet Irard mac Coisse is titled ‘prÌ_m̩ices Ìärenn ‘Ireland’s foremost poet’ in his annalistic obituary (‰ÛÊ990). Among his patrons were such leading Irish figures as the king of Tara, Domnall (‰ÛÊ980) ̼a N̩ill, and his queen, Der FÌÁil (‰ÛÊ1010). Poems he wrote in their honour are among his extant works. The most important text attributed to him is the long allegorical tale Airec menman Iraird Coisse. Many scholars have commented on its great significance for understanding Gaelic literary tradition.
In Week 1 and 2, a literary context for this work will be outlined. Thereafter, transcripts of the manuscript witnesses will be compared with the aim of making a critical edition.
For further information, please contact MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha
(mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie / 087-7502095 )
FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch
SeimineÌÁr seachtaini̼il (trÌ_ Bh̩arla) ar an Sc̩al MeÌÁn-Ghaeilge
Airec menman Iraird maic Coisse
(‘Strait̩is Ioraird Mhic Coise’)
faoi sti̼ir an Oll. MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha (Scoil na nDaonnachtaÌ_)
Gach C̩adaoin ag 12.00 nÌ_n

*THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED * History Graduate Research Seminar Series - Angela Byrne - Scientific and cultural researches in the sub-Arctic, 1800-1830
2013-02-27 16:00
Angela Byrne
Scientific and cultural researches in the sub-Arctic, 1800‰ÛÒ1830
contact: daibhi.ocroinin@nuigalway.ie

Grammatici - Teachers, Scholars and Learned Men -A presentation and discussion moderated by Jason O'Rorke
2013-03-01 12:00
Grammatici
Teachers, Scholars and Learned Men
A presentation and discussion
moderated by Jason O’Rorke
Friday 1 March, 12.00 – 1.00
(followed by lunch, 1.00 – 2.00)FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch – Everyone is welcome
Contact: jacopo.bisagni@nuigalway.ie

A rehearsed reading of WHEN THE MOON HAS SET By J.M. Synge
2013-03-01 15:00 | Town Hall Theatre, Ireland
The Irish Research Council and the Moore Institute at NUI Galway present:
A rehearsed reading of
WHEN THE MOON HAS SET
By J.M. Synge
On
Friday, 1st March 2013 at 3pm
At the Town Hall Theatre (Studio Space), Galway
After Yeats and Lady Gregory rejected When the Moon Has Set (Synge‰۪s first completed play) in the autumn of 1901, he kept returning to it throughout his writing life, eventually producing several versions of varying lengths. The one being presented here is a new two-act version compiled by Dr. David Clare (NUI Galway) from the various drafts left behind by Synge (and now stored in the Trinity College Dublin archives). Don‰۪t miss a chance to see a live reading of a play that has never been publicly staged, featuring professional actors familiar from Ireland‰۪s major theatres and from popular productions that have toured across the country!
CAST: Paul Gibson, Rebecca Grimes, Emily Jeffers, Nicholas Johnson,
Elliot Moriarty, and Karina Power
DIRECTED by David Clare

French Seminars -1)Training seminar on how to use the Frantext database and 2)ÌâåÇ Journaux personnels : visages du conflit ÌâåÈ
2013-03-01 17:00
As part of the Ulysses Project the French Department and the School of Languages Literatures and Cultures will host
Two seminars in French :
1) Training seminar on how to use the Frantext database, 10 -12 in the Library training room
Frantext contains more than 4000 French and Francophone texts (www.frantext.fr) of interest to a wide range of researchers (literature, sociology, politics, etc.)
V̩ronique Mont̩mont (Universit̩ de Nancy, ATILF / CNRS) who manages the database, will show how researchers can use it
If you wish to attend please contact sylvie.lannegrand@nuigalway.ie (places limited)
2) Seminar in the Moore Institute at 5 pm
åÇ Journaux personnels : visages du conflit åÈ
V̩ronique Mont̩mont (Universit̩ de Nancy, ATILF / CNRS), Catherine Viollet (ITEM-CNRS ENS), Marion Krauthaker (University of Sunderland) and Sylvie Lannegrand
The diaries analysed are those of H̩l̬ne Berr and Micheline Bood (who both wrote during the Occupation of France), George Sand, and Yves Navarre
For more information contact: sylvie.lannegrand@nuigalway.ie

Robert Savage, Boston College: '"The Troubles" the BBC and the politics of censorship 1969-1974'
2013-03-06 13:00 | The Huston School of Film, Ireland
‘”The Troubles” the BBC and the politics of censorship 1969-1974’
Robert Savage is a member of the Boston College Department of History. He has written widely on contemporary Irish history including the origins and evolution of television in the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland. The American Conference for Irish Studies awarded him the 2010 James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize for Best Book in History and Social Sciences for his most recent book A loss on innocence? Television and Irish Society 1960-1972. He is currently a Fellow at the More Institute. His research has been supported by grants and visiting fellowships from the Long Room Hub at Trinity College, Dublin, the University of Edinburgh, the Leverhulme Trust of Great Britain and the Centre for Irish Studies at NUIG. He served as a director of the Irish Studies program at Boston College from 1995-2010.
Throughout ‰Û÷the Troubles‰۪ government-imposed censorship, accompanying self-censorship practiced by anxious broadcasters, raised critical questions about the freedom of the press and threats to basic civil rights. Throughout the conflict both British and Irish governments resolved to influence if not control how the media presented years of political turmoil and unrest. However, the omnipresence of television compromised their efforts to present an uncomplicated picture ‰ÛÓ i.e. of the forces of law and order struggling to defeat savage terrorists bent on a campaign of murder and mayhem. This paper will address the efforts of British governments to shape reporting of the conflict in the early years of unrest in Northern Ireland.

History Graduate Seminar Series: Zsuzsanna Zarka - Irish images of the Hungarian Revolution & War of Independence, 1848-49
2013-03-06 16:00
Zsuzsanna Zarka
Irish images of the Hungarian Revolution & War of Independence, 1848-49
contact: daibhi.ocroinin@nuigalway.ie

Dominique Dubreucq - Irish connections in ecclesiastical consecration
2013-03-07 16:00
Irish connections in ecclesiastical consecration
Dominique Dubreucq will give a lecture on Irish connections with the ritual for church consecration at 4 p.m. Thursday, 7 March, in the Moore Institute Seminar Room. The event is co-sponsored by CAMPS and the Columbanus Life and Legacy project.
For more information concact mark.stansbury@nuigalway.ie

Theatre Projects
2013-03-07 18:00, 2013-03-14 18:00
THEATRE PROJECTS
A weekley meeting to discuss and plan the creation of opportunities for projects within DramSoc
for productions as well as workshops and other social events
contact n.barre8@nuigalway.ie

The British Labour Party & Twentieth-Century Ireland
2013-03-08 09:30
The British Labour Party
& Twentieth-Century Ireland
Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway
8- 9 March, 2013
Keynote Address: Dr. Kevin McNamara(former Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland)Other Speakers Include: Joan Allen (Univ. of Newcastle) Peter Collins (St. Mary’s, Belfast) Aaron Edwards (Sandhurst Acad.) Ivan Gibbons (St. Mary’s, London) Stephen Howe (Univ. of Bristol) MÌÁirtÌ_n ÌÒ CathÌÁin (UCLan) Emmet O’Connor (Univ. of Ulster) Niall ÌÒ Dochartaigh (NUI Galway) Henry Patterson (Univ. of Ulster)Bob Purdie (Aberdeen University)For further information, contact: Dr. Laurence Marley, History Dept., NUI, GalwayEmail: laurence.marley@nuigalway.ie Tel: (091) 493791
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Friday, 8 March, 2013
9.30 – 9.45: Opening Remarks
9.45 ‰ÛÒ 11.00:Session 1British Labour, Ireland and the Union – Chair: Dr. Mary Harris
Emmet O‰۪Connor (Magee College, University of Ulster)
‰Û÷British Labour, Belfast Labour, and the Third Home Rule Crisis‰۪
Ivan Gibbons (St. Mary‰۪s University College, London)
‰Û÷A Parliamentary Victory: The British Labour Party and Irish Republican Deportees, 1923‰۪
11.00 ‰ÛÒ 11.30: Coffee
11.30 ‰ÛÒ 1300: Session 2: Regional Perspectives – Chair: Dr. Adrian Grant
Joan Allen (University of Newcastle)
‰Û÷Transitional Allegiances and the Role of the Irish Catholic Press in Britain in the early Twentieth-Century‰۪
John Cunningham (National University of Ireland, Galway)
‰Û÷‰ÛÏA Great Believer in the Internationale‰۝: British Labour and Galway , c. 1911-36‰۪
MÌÁirtÌ_n ÌÒ CathÌÁin (University of Central Lancashire)
‰Û÷The Derry and Londonderry Labour parties, 1942-62‰۪
13.00 ‰ÛÒ 14.30:Lunch
14.30 ‰ÛÒ 16.00: Session 3Partition and the Politics of Labour – Chair: Dr. Sarah-Anne Buckley
Peter Collins (St. Mary‰۪s University College, Belfast)
‰Û÷British Labour and Developments in the Immediate Post-War Years‰۪
Bob Purdie (University of Aberdeen)
‰Û÷‰ÛÏWhere the Tories Rule‰۝: Geoffrey Bing MP and Partition, 1945-55‰۪
Aaron Edwards (Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst)
‰Û÷The British Labour Party and the Tragedy of Northern Ireland Labour‰۪
18.30 ‰ÛÒ 19.45:Keynote Address, Harbour Hotel, Galway:
Dr. Kevin McNamara (former Labour Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland)
Chair: Professor GearÌ_id ÌÒ Tuathaigh
Saturday, 9 March, 2013
9.30 ‰ÛÒ 11.00:Session 4British Labour, Ireland and the Wider World – Chair: Dr. Lionel Pilkington
David Shaw (University of Liverpool)
‰Û÷The Labour Party and the Irish in the New Elizabethan Age‰۪
Melinda Sutton (University of Newcastle)
‰Û÷The British Labour Party and Anglo-Irish Relations in the 1980s‰۪
Stephen Howe (University of Bristol)
‰Û÷Some Intellectual Origins of the Labour Left‰۪s Thoughts about Ireland, c. 1979-1997‰۪.
11.00 ‰ÛÒ 11.30: Coffee
11.30 ‰ÛÒ 13.00: Session 5The Northern Ireland Conflit – Chair: Dr. Laurence Marley
Niall ÌÒ Dochartaigh (National University of Ireland, Galway)
‰Û÷Withdrawal on the Table? Labour Party Policy on Northern Ireland, 1974-79‰۪.
Stuart C. Aveyard (Queen‰۪s University Belfast)
‰Û÷The Labour Government and Security Policy in Northern Ireland, 1974-79‰۪
Henry Patterson (Jordanstown, University of Ulster)
‰Û÷New Labour and the Peace Process‰۪
13.00 ‰ÛÒ 13.20: Commentary: GearÌ_id ÌÒ Tuathaigh
13.20: Closing remarks
Conference supported by the following: Moore Institute, the College of Arts and School of Humanities, History Department, Centre for Irish Studies, Community Knowledge Initiative, NUI Galway; Department of Foreign Affairs Reconciliation Fund and by the Irish Labour History Society.

ECHO: Writing Workshop
2013-03-11 16:00
ECHO is delighted to welcome you to another workshop, this time on writing strategies, aimed at researchers across the arts and humanities, and considering how, when, what, and why to write.

Dr. Inga Roemer of the Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal, Germany: "Person and Moral Obligation"
2013-03-12 15:00
Speaker: Dr. Inga Roemer of the Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal, Germany
and on an Erasmus exchange visit to the discipline of Philosophy
Title: “Person and Moral Obligation”
For more information contact: felix.omurchadah@nuigalway.ie

Prof. Lee Morrissey (Clemson University, USA) - 'Milton's 'Lycidas' and the Challenge of Counter-Reformation Irish Catholicism. Or, Milton the Revisionist"
2013-03-12 17:00
Visiting speaker and former Fulbright Scholar at NUIG,
Prof. Lee Morrissey (Clemson University, USA)
will be giving a talk on Tuesday 12 March at 5pm:
‰ÛÏMilton‘s ‰Û÷Lycidas’ and the Challenge of Counter-Reformation Irish Catholicism. Or, Milton the Revisionist“
Venue: Moore Institute Seminar Room
All Welcome
For more information contact marielouise.coolahan@nuigalway.ie

Performance Matters - Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2013-03-12 18:00
Performance Matters
Irish Theatre Discussion Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/
We will be discussing Caryl Churchill’s The Skriker (1994).
For more information please contact lisa.fitzgerald@nuigalway.ie or m.nichualain5@nuigalway.ie

History Graduate Seminar Series: M̩idhbhÌ_n NÌ_ ÌÄå_rdail - Irish-Language Manuscripts & Books in the 18th century
2013-03-13 16:00
M̩idhbhÌ_n NÌ_ Ì_rdail
Irish-Language Manuscripts & Books in the 18th century
contact: daibhi.ocroinin@nuigalway.ie

"The Ghosts of the Past: La familia de Pascual Duarte in the Twenty-first Century" by Dr Ross Woods (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
2013-03-13 18:00
“The Ghosts of the Past: La familia de Pascual Duarte in the Twenty-first Century”.
Dr Ross Woods from the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
This seminar revisits Camilo Jos̩ Cela‰۪s La familia de Pascual Duarte, the work generally regarded as heralding the rebirth of the Spanish novel upon its publication in 1942. By examining the historical perspective from which criticism of the novel has emerged, Dr Woods offers a reassessment of the text in light of recent scholarship on representations of the past in Spanish literature. In doing so, he argues that Cela‰۪s disengagement with history in the narrative creates a distancing effect which enables readers to critically engage with the past. Ultimately, this talk aims to pose the following question: how should we be reading this novel in the twenty-first century?
For more information contact mel.boland@nuigalway.ie

Margaret Heavey Memorial Lecture 2013
2013-03-14 17:00
Margaret (Ma) Heavey was a member of staff in Classics from 1931 to 1977, Professor in Ancient Classics from 1958 and Dean of Arts 1970-1976.
The annual Margaret Heavey Memorial Lecture will take place this year on Thurs 14 March 5pm in the ÌÒ Tn̼thail Theatre (Arts Millennium Building).
Dr James Clackson (Cambridge) will give a talk entitled “How many languages were spoken in the ancient world?”. All welcome.
see www.nuigalway.ie/classics/heavey

CAMPS research lab: Dr James Clackson - Linguistic variation: Searching for spoken variation in written texts
2013-03-15 12:00
Linguistic variation: Searching for spokenvariation in written texts
A guest lecture by Dr James Clackson
Reader in Comparative Philology, University of Cambridge
Friday 15 March 2013, 12.00‰ÛÒ1.00
followed by lunch 1.00‰ÛÒ2.00
Moore Institute Seminar Room
FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch/Everyone welcome!

ECHO Seminar. Dramatic Licenses: with David Clare & Siobhan O'Gorman
2013-03-15 16:00
ECHO Seminar.
Dramatic Licenses:
with David Clare & Siobhan O’Gorman

Disability Support Service - iPad Training
2013-03-19 11:00, 2013-03-21 11:00
iPad Training
Specifically to using the following applications; Email, Notability, iAnnotate, Blackboard, and Skydrive/dropbox
This training is open to all current iPad users and those considering purchasing one. Please bring your iPad with you to this training if you own one.
For more information, please contact:
Denise Keaveney Disability Support Service Assistive Technology Office James Hardiman Library 091 49 2744

Book Launch by Dr Kevin O'Sullivan: Ireland, Africa and the end of empire: small state identity in the Cold War, 1955-75
2013-03-19 18:00
Book Launch
Ireland, Africa and the end of empire: small state identity in the Cold War, 1955-75
(Manchester UP)
The book will be launched by RÌ_isÌ_n Healy (Head of History at NUIG) and Peadar King, a documentary filmmaker who produces the RTÌä television series, What in the World?, and has just published a book of the same name, subtitled Political travels in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
For more information contact kevin.k.osullivan@nuigalway.ie

History Graduate Seminar Series: Daniel Knegt - 'Quelle Europe?' French Intellectuals between Liberalism, Internationalism and Fascism, 1930-1950
2013-03-20 16:00
Daniel Knegt
‘Quelle Europe?’ French Intellectuals between Liberalism, Internationalism and Fascism, 1930-1950
Contact: daibhi.ocroinin@nuigalway.ie

Digital Scholarship Seminar
2013-03-21 12:00
Digital Scholarship Seminar
Announcing the inaugural series of a new research seminar for researchers working in any branch of the arts and humanities who are engaged in the creation and/or exploitation of digital resources in the course of their research.
12-1pm, Thursday 21 March 2013
Marina Ansaldo (Moore Institute)Reading East: From concept to live online resource
Meaghan Connell (English, School of Humanities)The Corpus of Hiberno-English Literary Dialect: preliminary results and analysis
12-1pm, Thursday 18 April 2013
Adrian Grant (Moore Institute)Historians and new technologies
Alison McNamara (School of Education)An examination of gesture-based devices in the mathematics post-primary classroom in Ireland
12-1pm, Tuesday 14 May 2013
Deirdre NÌ_ Chonghaile (Moore Institute)AmhrÌÁin ́rann – Aran Songs: Collaborating to create a digital-friendly music resource
Patricia Prieto Blanco (Huston School)Digital materiality and the constitution of spaces of familial interaction through photography
Each DSS event will take place in the Moore Institute Seminar Room. Presentations will be followed by informal discussion (1-2pm) over a light lunch (TBC).
Contact:
PÌÁdraic Moran (Classics, School of LLC) | padraic.moran@nuigalway.ieJustin Tonra (English, School of Humanities) | justin.tonra@nuigalway.ie
www.facebook.com/nuigdss

Dr Niamh Thornton, University of Ulster, Coleraine - Macho, Macho Men (and Women): MarÌ_a F̩lix and Emilio 'el indio' FernÌÁndez in Mexican Films of the Revolution
2013-03-21 14:00
Macho, Macho Men (and Women): MarÌ_a F̩lix and Emilio ‰Û÷el indio‰۪ FernÌÁndez in Mexican Films of the Revolution
Dr Niamh Thornton, University of Ulster, Coleraine
Mexican film has repeatedly returned to the bellicose period of the Revolution (1910-20) as a source of inspiration for both plot and setting. The archetypal image of the Mexican macho can be found in the display, performances and wardrobe employed in these films, which appears, at first glance to be rigid and reactionary. Yet, they reveal an ever-increasing anxiety about men and women‰۪s roles that are worked through in a complex interplay between star text and the films‰۪ narrative, visual and audio cues, and, consequently frequently challenge convention.
Emilio ‰Û÷el indio‰۪ FernÌÁndez directed and acted in some of these films of the Revolution, whilst Maria F̩lix often had a starring role. Their films are of varying quality and have received mixed critical reception.Some, such as, Flor Silvestre (Emilio ‰Û÷el indio‰۪ FernÌÁndez, 1943) and Enamorada (Emilio ‰Û÷el indio‰۪ FernÌÁndez, 1946) are among the most celebrated films of the so-called Golden Age (1930-50).Others have been critically denigrated, such as La Cucuracha (Ismael RodrÌ_guez, 1958), Juana Gallo (Miguel ZacarÌ_as, 1960), and La Bandida (Roberto RodrÌ_guez, 1962).However, all of these engage with ideas about gender that are complicated by the often controversial personal lives of both FernÌÁndez and F̩lix, their performances on screen and the evolving nature of the public discourse about gender roles. In these films, masculinity and femininity has defined rules, which are often referred to in the plot and dialogue, yet these are transgressed and problematized repeatedly.
In order to illustrate this evolution and explore the density of the issues alluded to, this presentation will consider two contrasting films Enamorada and La Cucuracha, and consider how the attempts to allegorise gender roles is often countered by narrative, audio-visual techniques, performances and the star texts of both of these actors.

" The Sound So Melting": Ireland's Medieval Harp and Its Music
2013-03-21 17:00
‰ÛÏThe Sound So Melting…‰۝:
Ireland‰۪s Medieval Harp and Its Music:
A Seminar/concert event given by historical harpist Siobhan Armstrong in celebration of the first European Day of Early Music.
In co-operation with Galway Early Music and The Historical Harp Society of Ireland and under the umbrella of the European Early Music Network REMA.
This event will be live-streamed on U-Sophia.com as part of a European-wide day of Early Music.
For more information contact: maura.ocroinin@nuigalway.ie

Geopolitics & Justice Research Cluster 50th Anniversary Symposium
2013-03-22 09:15
Geopolitics & Justice Research Cluster 50th Anniversary Symposium
22 March, 9.15 am ‰ÛÒ 4.30 pm
Moore Institute, NUIGalway
To mark the 50th anniversary of Geography at NUI Galway, the Geopolitics and Justice Research Cluster will host a symposium on Friday, March 22nd, in the Moore Institute. The Geopolitics and Justice cluster unites interests that seek to critically interrogate practices of interventionism, development and securitization in our contemporary world along with their consequent contested forms of governmentality and justice. A common research concern lies in theorising and insisting upon more humane, nuanced and critical human geographies, and in considering urgent issues of economic, environmental and social justice.
The symposium will include overviews of current cluster research which spans key global issues respectinggeopolitics and security, structural injustices and poverty, humanitarianism and human rights, environmental and social justice, and hunger and food security. The cluster‰۪s broader public academic concerns of civic engagement, field-based learning, and public geographies and representation will also feature. To this end, the day sets out to combine academic speakers from Geography, History and Politics with development practitioners from Irish Aid, Christian Aid and NUI Galway‰۪s Community Knowledge Initiative, who will all address shared concerns of interventionism, development and justice.
Student presentations from Geography‰۪s MA in Environment, Society and Development on the theme of ‰Û÷transformative geopolitics and justice‰۪ will also form a key element of the proceedings, and signals the importance of a vibrant graduate research community integrally feeding into the enterprise and ongoing development of our research cluster. Finally, we are delighted to have as plenary speaker from the School of Geography and the Centre for the Study of Global Security and Development at Queen Mary, University of London, Dr Simon Reid-Henry.
For more information please see http://www.nuigalway.ie/geography/research/gj.html
