Book launch: Deniable Contact by Niall Ó Dochartaigh (Oxford University Press, 2021)
2021-03-26 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Update: Watch a Recording of the Session

Overview
Launched by Prof. Ian McBride (Foster Professor of Irish History, Oxford)
To attend, please register via: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/96749370440?pwd=[REDACTED]
Join us for a conversation between Niall Ó Dochartaigh and Ian McBride to mark the publication of Deniable Contact: Back-Channel Negotiation in Northern Ireland.
Deniable Contact provides the first full-length study of the secret negotiations and back-channels that were used in repeated efforts to end the Northern Ireland conflict. The analysis is founded on a rich store of historical evidence, including the private papers of key Irish republican leaders, recently released papers from national archives in Dublin and London, and the papers of Brendan Duddy, the intermediary who acted as the primary contact between the IRA and the British government on several occasions over a span of two decades, including papers that have not yet been made publicly available. This documentary evidence, combined with original interviews with politicians, mediators, civil servants, and republicans, allows a vivid picture to emerge of the complex maneuvering at this intersection.

Niall Ó Dochartaigh is Personal Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland Galway. He is the author of Deniable Contact: Back-channel Negotiation in Northern Ireland (2021) and Civil Rights to Armalites: Derry and the birth of the Irish Troubles (1997; 2005). He is co-editor of Political Violence in Context (2015) and Dynamics of Political Change in Ireland: Making and Breaking a Divided Island (2017).
Ian McBride
Ian McBride is the Foster Professor of Irish History at Hertford College, University of Oxford. His books include The Siege of Derry in Ulster Protestant Mythology (1997) and Scripture Politics: Ulster Presbyterians and Irish Radicalism in the Late Eighteenth Century (1998), both short-listed for the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Literary Prize; and Eighteenth-Century Ireland: The Isle of Slaves (2009). He is co-editor, with Richard Bourke, of The Princeton History of Modern Ireland (2016).

Webinar: Q&A with Adam Roche
2021-03-30 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
Huston School of Film & Digital Media and the Moore Institute present a Q&A with Adam Roche creator of The Secret History of Hollywood and Attaboy Clarence Podcasts.
Attendance
The session will take place live on Zoom – please register to attend at: https://tinyurl.com/ayv9m888.
Watch the Recording

Centre for Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism (CALM) Seminar Series: Corpus linguistics tools in language acquisition.
2021-04-15 18:00 - 19:00 | Online
Guest Speaker: Prof. Anna Bączkowska, University of Gdansk
Prof. Anna Bączkowska, University of Gdansk, will talk about the CHILDES database, which is a repository of transcripts of conversations held among adults and children.The data illustrate developmental changes occurring in language acquisition in monolingual and bilingual children. Some corpus and NLP tools which allow one to extract material from the database as well as some statistical information available through different software programs will be demonstrated. Examples will be shown and analysed by resorting to the data of bilingual and multilingual children.
Info/register: https://tinyurl.com/v8hcvt97

Event Recording

Conference: Speculative Art And Spatial Justice
2021-04-16 - 2021-04-17 | Online
How can imaginative practices create fairer and safer spaces?
About

The greatest challenges of our time – from climate crisis, global migrations, income inequality to the recent COVID-19 pandemic – can be regarded as spatial issues. The geographies of globalization – the settlements, landscapes, infrastructures, networks, supply chains, markets, and factories which make up our world – are produced unevenly in a fashion which entrenches poverty and exacerbates planetary pollution (Harvey 2000). As a result of geopolitical interventions, a great number of people have been deprived of their rights to both public and private spaces, whereas increased mobility in the developed world has undermined the established concepts of dwelling and spatial rootedness.

Addressing the overlapping issues of social oppression and spatial injustice (Soja 2010) – such as exploitation of natural resources, unsustainable urbanisation, aggressive agriculture – demands a radical transformation of local, national and global spaces. Energy transitions, investments in public infrastructures and services, provisioning of safe and affordable housing, and restoration of green and blue spaces are just some of the changes we need to see. Emergency governmental responses to COVID-19 initiated rapid and radical societal changes that would have previously been unimaginable to many.

Taking the pandemic response as one of the examples of a possible paradigm shift in terms of the kind of political action that can be imagined, this workshop emphasises the vital role of speculative fiction, film and visual art in shaping the physical world. Amid the global pandemic, and at the doorstep of climate breakdown, how can imaginative practices address and rectify spatial injustice?

Speculative literature and art – understood broadly here as a category encompassing science fiction, fantasy, eco-fiction, utopia and dystopia – have long been concerned with imagining space differently. In depicting future or alternative worlds, artists can explore the spatial dynamics of oppression, exploitation and despoliation under today’s global capitalism. Yet, is it possible to go from cultural representation to societal transformation? Can our “reflection upon the virtual guide our understanding of the real (or actual)”, as Henri Lefebvre suggested in his seminal work The Production of Space (1974)? How can we see the spaces of speculative art as potential shapers of healthier and fairer environments? Conversely, how do these artworks deny visions and narratives which erase the spatial abuses of our past, present and future?

Works cited:

Harvey, David, Spaces of Hope, Edinburgh, University Press, 2000.
Lefebvre, Henri, The Production of Space, Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith, Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
Soja, Edward, Seeking Spatial Justice, University of Minnesota Press, 2010.

For more information see: http://sasj2021.com/

The workshop will take place on April 16-17, 2021 via Zoom.
For registration please email us at sasj2021@gmail.com
or apply via registration form.
Registration deadline is April 14, 2021 at 8 PM (GMT).
Registration is free of charge.

The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature: Writing the Unspeakable
2021-04-29 16:00 - 17:00
Irish Studies’ Seminar Series-Spring 2021 – School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, in association with the Moore Institute, NUI Galway.
Distinguished Professor in English and Disability Studies Joseph Valente, PhD, and the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of English at the University of Houston Margot Gayle Backus, PhD, will speak on their newly published book The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature: Writing the Unspeakable. The authors examine modern cultural responses to child sex abuse in Ireland. Beginning with James Joyce, they offer historically contextualized and psychoanalytically informed readings of scandal narratives by nine notable modern Irish authors who actively, pointedly, and persistently question Ireland’s responsibilities regarding its children. Through close, critical readings, a more nuanced and troubling account emerges of how Ireland’s postcolonial heritage has served to enable such abuse.
With a Foreword by Fintan O’Toole, The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature refines the debates on why so many Irish children were lost by offering insight into the lived experience of both the children and those who failed them.
Speakers

Professor Margot Backus (University of Houston)
Professor Joseph Valente (University at Buffalo, SUNY)

Chair: Dr Nessa Cronin, Centre for Irish Studies, School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, NUI Galway.
Registration
Please register for this Zoom webinar at: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IViKcWogTpeu3Gnon1QNZA. The session will also be streamed live on the Moore Institute’s Facebook page.
Event Recording

May Day webinar: Revolution? Ireland from below, c.1919-1923
2021-04-29 20:00 - 21:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
This webinar, hosted by the Irish Centre for Histories of Labour and Class and the Moore Institute, looks at Ireland from below in the Revolutionary period. During the Irish struggle for independence, and underpinning that struggle, a number of grassroots social movements – including general strikes, land seizures, and the munitions boycott by transport workers – developed. In recent commemorative events, this aspect of the history of the period has frequently been overlooked. The panel will discuss various social struggles of 1919-1923, considering the objectives of those involved, their notions of justice and equity, and their connections with political and military organisations.
Panellists

Dr Anne Boran
Francis Devine
Dr Terry Dunne
Ms Moira Leyden
Dr Peter Rigney

MODERATOR:
Dr John Cunningham, Director – ICHLC
Followed by the launch of Peter Rigney’s How Railwaymen and Dockers Defied an Empire: The Irish Munitions Embargo of 1920, launched by Tish Gibbons.
Registration
To attend, please register via: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VfbdNcjSSD6fx9B9UIhplA. The session will also be streamed live on the Moore Institute’s Facebook page.
Event Recording

What’s happening in Myanmar? From Putsch to popular protest
2021-05-06 14:00 - 15:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Moore Institute, Centre for Global Women’s Studies, and School of Political Science Sociology webinar with Vijaya Nidadavolu
Min Aung Hlaing, the Commander-in-Chief of the Myanmar military, staged a coup d’etat on February 1st and with it Myanmar’s tentative democratic transition has been brought to a violent halt. A popular multi-centric protest that coalesced in the immediate aftermath continues to-date, taking the military and observers by surprise by its size, unity and innovativeness.
This session will provide an overview of what is happening on the ground in Myanmar and the forces behind the protest movement. Discussion will focus on the prolific protest art movement led by youth, including young women in particular.
The speaker, Vijaya Nidadavolu, is a Gender and Development specialist with years of experience in using popular culture and media for advancing gender and social justice issues. She has lived in Myanmar since 2015, but has recently left as a result of the coup.
Registration
To attend please register via: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xr1aKMFeTF6nIoLIhb3nIQ. The session will also be live-streamed on the Moore Institute’s YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvQR8_0nWZ8
Event Recording

"He [She] got this Air out of the Night”: Environments of Irish Music
2021-05-06 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Irish Studies’ Seminar Series-Spring 2021 – School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, in association with the Moore Institute, NUI Galway.
This seminar showcases three recently graduated PhD researchers in Irish Studies, Dr Malachy Egan, Dr Michael Lydon, Dr Rory McCabe, all of whom have music culture and music-making as their central research area. In this seminar, these researchers will investigate environments of Irish music, exploring the use of noise to signal specific spaces in popular music; space and place and space in the work and approach of Seán Ó Riada; and environment and ethnography on Clare Island.
Speakers

Dr Malachy Egan
Dr Michael Lydon
Dr Rory McCabe. (PhD in Irish Studies, NUI Galway 2020-21)

Guest Respondent: Dr Ann-Marie Hanlon, Department of Creative Arts, Media and Music, Dundalk Institute of Technology.
Chair: Dr Méabh Ní Fhuartháin, Centre for Irish Studies, School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, NUI Galway.
Registration
Please register for this Zoom webinar at: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KHjNR_vkSyKPrU0xpaOtdQ. The session will also be streamed live on the Moore Institute’s Facebook page.
Event Recording

CAMPS: 'The Crown's Ecclesiastical Creditors: Loans from the English Church to Edward II and Edward III, 1307-1377'
2021-05-07 12:00 - 13:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
CAMPS Research Labs provide a forum for staff and graduate students from all disciplines involved to come together in order to present work-in-progress and debate research issues. CAMPS Labs to date have taken a two-hour format, typically initiated with a presentation of specific research themes, questions and challenges, leading into informal and often very wide-ranging discussions.
Join us for this week’s CAMPS Lab on Friday 7th May at 12 noon.
Robin McCallum will be speaking to us on ‘The Crown’s Ecclesiastical Creditors: Loans from the English Church to Edward II and Edward III, 1307-1377’.
To join this Zoom Event, please click the following link
https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/93525513053?pwd=[REDACTED]

CAMPS: Epic Similes in In Cath Catharda, the Middle Irish version of Lucan's epic of the Roman Civil War
2021-05-14 14:00 - 15:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
CAMPS Research Labs provide a forum for staff and graduate students from all disciplines involved to come together in order to present work-in-progress and debate research issues. CAMPS Labs to date have taken a two-hour format, typically initiated with a presentation of specific research themes, questions and challenges, leading into informal and often very wide-ranging discussions.
Maio NAGASHIMA will be presenting on Friday, 14th May, on Epic Similes in In Cath Catharda, the Middle Irish version of Lucan’s epic of the Roman Civil War.
Note the later-than-usual time of 2 pm, as the speaker will be joining us from Japan.
Maio is a PhD research student at the University of Tokyo and an affiliate of the Classical Influences and Irish Culture project at the University of Aarhus, Denmark (https://clic.au.dk/people/research-affiliates/).
To join this Zoom event, please click the following link
https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/94462800978?pwd=[REDACTED]

Covid-19: The Crisis in India
2021-05-19 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
In this special webinar, colleagues living in India and observing the situation closely will report on the devastating impact of the crisis during the latest phase of the pandemic. Issues addressed will include the public health situation, the loss life, grief and funerals, rural vs. urban India, regional variation, the political response, and education.
Panellists

Prof. Kanchana Mahadevan (University of Mumbai)
Dr Sanjay Nagral (Jaslok Hospital & Research Centre, Mumbai)
Dr Srinivas Raghavendran (NUI Galway)
Aveek Sen (journalist in Kolkata)
Dr Archana Venkatesh (Clemson University)

Chair: Prof. Daniel Carey (NUI Galway)

Session Recordings
Video Recording

Audio Recording

Registration
To attend, please register via: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_omWY4L5cR0C9ts6DdGz9fg. The session will also be broadcast live on the Moore Institute’s Facebook page via https://www.facebook.com/events/899704087547026/

Webinar: Diversity in Publishing
2021-05-21 17:30 - 19:30 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Hosted by Dr Lindsay Reid and postgraduate students from the MA in Literature in Publishing, this webinar will feature Sarah Bannan (Head of Literature, The Arts Council of Ireland), Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan (arts manager, writer, and performer), and Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe (author, editor, and founder of P[l]ay It Forward Fellowships) speaking on the topic of diversity in publishing.
This event has been generously funded by the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Project Fund at NUI Galway. All are welcome!
Registration
To attend this session on Zoom, please register at: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yLnoF9sJQxmW0QT1zQvuZw. The session will be live-streamed on the Moore Institute’s Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/mooreinstitute/live.

Event Recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ObDzx0Ny6M

Naming the Traces: (Re)Constructing an Irish-Canadian Family Narrative of Emigration, Place-Making, and Return
2021-05-26 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Irish Studies’ Seminar Series-Spring 2021 – School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, in association with the Moore Institute, NUI Galway.
On what narrative, mnemonic, and spatial scaffolding is an intergenerational family story built? How, as writers and historians, can we access the family memories that inform these stories, and reconstruct the past, despite the gaps and silences that are present in the narrative? This research-creation dissertation project addresses these questions through the medium of an intergenerational family memoir. The narrative reconstructs my great-grandmother Norah Davin’s journey in 1928 from her home in the village of Shrule, County Mayo, Ireland to Montreal, where she gave birth to my grandmother Rose in a home for unmarried mothers. It then follows several generational strands of my family’s “emplaced” memories in Montreal, focusing—in the tradition of memoirs of working-class family life by Annette Kuhn, Christine Walley, Carolyn Steedman, and Sharon O’Brien—primarily, though not exclusively, on the stories of the women in my family. Here, I reflect upon how, as an adult, I have forged my own relationship with specific regions in the west of Ireland, illustrating that despite the “estranging power of displacement” that many families experience after emigration, connections can be re-configured, and established anew.
Speaker
Ms Kelly Norah Drukker (Michael Smith Foreign Study Scholar, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway 2021-22 and Humanities Doctoral Candidate, School of Irish Studies,Concordia University, Montreal).
Guest Respondent: Dr Barbara Lorenzkowski (Department of History,Concordia University, Montreal).
Chair: Dr Nessa Cronin, Centre for Irish Studies, School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, NUI Galway.
Registration
Please register for this Zoom webinar at: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EOwbgP9iTVemSng6oNT-gQ. The session will also be streamed live on the Moore Institute’s Facebook page.

Session Recordings
Video Recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiPcpcMu2RU
Audio Recording
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J. M. Synge and Performance Traditions
2021-05-26 17:30 - 18:30 | Online
Panel discussion and launch of Hélène Lecossois’s Performance, Modernity and the Plays of J. M. Synge (Cambridge, 2020).
Panellists

Alice Maher (Artist)
Adrian Paterson (NUI Galway)
Shaun Richards (Staffordshire University)

Registration
To attend, please register via: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XxVRKRs7S7O6w5R7jgyGUQ

Session Recordings
Video Recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HyPNQ7R6ok
Audio Recording

W.J.T. Mitchell: Present Tense 2020 – On the Iconology of Time
2021-06-09 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
In an anachronistic gathering of images of time from ancient and modern sources, the lecture attempts to replace the ontology of time with an iconology that may provide some useful tools for keeping our bearings in the midst of our epoch.
Respondents

Jeannine Kraft (Columbus College of Art and Design, Ohio, USA),
Nessa Cronin (Irish Studies, NUI Galway)

Registration
Register for this Zoom Webinar via https://tinyurl.com/uha5fd. The session will also be broadcast live on the Moore Institute’s Facebook Page.
About the Series
Convenor: Paolo Bartoloni (Italian, NUI Galway)
Organising Committee: Paolo Bartoloni, Dan Carey, Nessa Cronin, Adrian Paterson, El Putnam, Elizabeth Tilley
Funding provided by: NUI Galway to celebrate Galway’s designation as European Capital of Culture; College of Arts Research Support Scheme.

Event Recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WFCen3FmbE&t=6s

W.J.T. Mitchell: Art, Community, and Resistance
2021-06-10 16:00 - 17:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
This lecture will survey the role of activist artistic practices in a number of different sites, including demonstrations, murals, exhibitions, archives, and educational facilities.
» Scat/Rap Counterpoint
Respondents

Timothy Stott (Trinity College Dublin),
El Putnam (Huston School of Film and Digital Media, NUI Galway)

Registration
Register for this Zoom Webinar via https://tinyurl.com/3zr7jfhk. The session will also be broadcast live on the Moore Institute’s Facebook Page.
About the Series
Convenor: Paolo Bartoloni (Italian, NUI Galway)
Organising Committee: Paolo Bartoloni, Dan Carey, Nessa Cronin, Adrian Paterson, El Putnam, Elizabeth Tilley
Funding provided by: NUI Galway to celebrate Galway’s designation as European Capital of Culture; College of Arts Research Support Scheme.

Event Recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWrzrDKFjd4&t=229s

CAMPS: 8th International Conference on the Science of Computus in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 17-19 June 2021
2021-06-17 - 2021-06-19 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
8th International Conference on the Science of Computus in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Galway 17-19 June 2021
Since 2006, the Moore Institute of the National University of Ireland in Galway has hosted, under the direction of Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, a biannual conference on the science of computus in the Middle Ages. Computus – the mathematics required to calculate the date of Easter, and related topics – straddles the fields of mathematics and astronomy, biblical interpretation and cosmology, empirical astronomical observation, and the perennial quest to understand the concepts of time and time-Reckoning.
The core period covered by the Galway Conference stretches from the beginnings of Easter calculations in the third century to the introduction of Arabic and Greek science in the Latin West in the 12th century, but papers on the reckoning of time and its cultural context in the later Middle Ages have also always been welcome. Each conference has had a special theme (e.g., the formation of computus in Late Antiquity; the rise of prognostications in the early Middle Ages; the revolution of computus in the 11th and 12th centuries; computus in the Carolingian Age; computus and the vernacular; etc.).
The upcoming conference will start on 17 June with a special panel addressing the following fundamental conceptual question:
What is early medieval Latin science?
We are very happy to confirm that the following scholars have accepted to present in this panel: Faith Wallis (Montreal), John J. Contreni (Purdue), Philipp Nothaft (Dublin), James T. Palmer (St. Andrews).
18 June and 19 June will be devoted to thematic sessions covering topics of computistical interest from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period. The conference will end on 19 June with a show-case of three websites recently developed as part of the following three projects:
IFCE – The Irish Foundation of Carolingian Europe: the case of calendrical science (funded by the Irish Research Council Laureate Programme)
IRCABRITT – Ireland and Carolingian Brittany: Texts and Transmission (funded by the Irish Research Council Laureate Programme)
Innovating Knowledge – Isidore’s Etymologiae in the Carolingian Period (funded by the Nederlandse Wetenschapelijke Organisatie)
Registration:
This conference will be held digitally through Zoom. A link will be sent to all registered participants a day in advance, for each conference day. Please register here:
https://forms.gle/1CCaed7K1UhCsv5g8
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us at: computusgalway@gmail.com
Programme:
THURSDAY, 17 JUNE:
Session 1: ‘What is early medieval Latin science?’
15:00-15:25: James T. Palmer (St. Andrews)
15:25-15:50: Philipp Nothaft (Dublin)
16:00-16:25: Faith Wallis (Montreal)
16:25-16:50: John J. Contreni (Purdue)
16:50-18:00: Open discussion
18:30: Virtual Pub
FRIDAY, 18 JUNE:
Session 2: Eschatology
9:30-9:55: Tobit Loevenich (Dublin) – Usque ad mediam noctem: an eschatological passage in the Computus Einsidlensis
9:55-10:20: Elisa Ramazzina (Belfast) – Monsters at the end of time
10:20-10:45: Discussion
Session 3: The Carolingian Age
11:15-11:40: Christian Schweizer (Dublin) – Computus, quadrivium, and poetry in Dicuil’s Liber de astronomia
11:40-12:05: Mariken Teeuwen (Amsterdam) – Carolingian readers of Martianus and Boethius: How did they gloss the Ars arithmetica?
12:05-12:30: Discussion
Session 4: 9th and 10th – century Breton connections
14:00-14:25: Paula Harrison (Galway) – Seeing through a manuscript, darkly: illumination through computistical networks as witnessed in Laon Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 422
14:25-14:50: Jacopo Bisagni (Galway) / Immo Warntjes (Dublin) – Abbo of Fleury’s Breton lunar calendar
14:50-15:15: Discussion
Session 5: Later developments
15:45-16:10: Fathi Jarray (Tunis) – The distribution of water with timekeeping in the Islamic oasis: a shared knowledge from the Antiquity to the Modern epoch
16:10-16:35: Leofranc Holford-Strevens (Oxford) – Thomas Lydiat’s proposal for a new calendar
16:35-17:00: Discussion
18:00-19:00: Presentation of latest publications in the field
This session includes a discussion with editors of series that are interested in, or have a track record of, publishing monographs on matters computistical. We hope that this will give a sense of potential publication venues, especially to colleagues at the beginning of their careers.
19:00: Virtual Pub
SATURDAY, 19 JUNE:
Session 6: Late Antiquity
14:00-14:25: Sr. Maria Theotokos Adams, SSVM (Washington, DC) – Computus and exegesis in Eusebius of Caesarea
14:25-14:50: Daniel Mc Carthy (Dublin) – Sulpicius Severus’ construction of his 84-year paschal table
14:50-15:15: Discussion
Session 7: Websites / Databases
15:45-16:45: Presentation of the following websites:
Database of pre-AD 900 computistical manuscripts / texts / objects – Judith ter Horst (Dublin)
A descriptive handlist of Breton manuscripts, c. AD 780–1100 – Jacopo Bisagni (Galway)
Database of early medieval manuscripts of Isidore’s Etymologiae – Evina Steinová (Amsterdam)
16:45-17:15: Discussion

Imagining inclusivity: The role of language in an increasingly diverse Ireland
2021-07-01 10:00 - 13:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
This workshop is designed to facilitate dialogue between academics, policymakers, practitioners, and NGOs in imagining a more inclusive Ireland, and the role that language plays in how we envisage this inclusivity. The event stems from the project ‘Languages, Families, and Society’ (LaFS) at NUI Galway, which uses an ethnographic approach to understand more about the everyday lived experiences families who speak Irish as a home language; Polish as a home language; and Kurdish as a home language, and how these experiences intersect with language policy and support (or lack thereof) at the wider level.
The workshop will consist of five 10-minute presentations, followed by 5 minutes for questions. We will then break out into groups and take part in a targeted discussions about key issues before coming back together as a whole group. Our collective thoughts and recommendations will form the basis of a document to be published on the project’s website. Even if you do not wish to participate in the group discussions, we warmly invite you to attend this workshop.
Presenters
Dr. Cassie Smith-Christmas (Roinn na Gaeilge, NUI Galway) is the research fellow with LaFS. This project builds on her extensive research within the area of ‘Family Language Policy’ which encompasses work with in the Corca Dhuibhne Gaeltacht and the Hebrides of Scotland.
Professor Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin (Roinn na Gaeilge, NUI Galway) is the mentor with LaFS. He is a pioneer of ‘Family Language Policy’ in an Irish language context and has conducted research in Gaeltacht communities, across Ireland and in other minoritised language settings in Europe, as well as advising state and community language planning agencies.
Annie Asgard (Claddagh National School, Galway) is an EAL teacher and Chairperson of English Language Support Teachers’ Association of Ireland (ELSTA). Annie has extensive experience working with EAL learners of different backgrounds in different contexts, ranging from primary schools to refugee camps.
Dr. Lorraine Connaughton-Crean (Institute of Education, Dublin City University) helped design the NCAA Primary Curriculum for Languages (2019). She recently completed her PhD thesis (2020) which explored the linguistic experiences of Polish-speaking families in Ireland.
Dr. Carmen Kealy (UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway) is part of the research team Crisis Coping: Living and Learning through COVID-19 which is a HRB and IRC funded study (collaboration between UCFRC and the School of Education). With a strong research interest in parenting and migration, she completed her PhD thesis (2019) on the experience of Polish parents in Galway.
Registration
Event is free but please register by June 29, 2021: https://forms.office.com/r/QWG4Y66k02.

“This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 794800”.

Learning from Covid-19: How Science Can Help Build Global Resilience Against Future Pandemics (hosted by the British Embassy Dublin in partnership with the Royal Irish Academy)
2021-07-05 16:00 - 17:15 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
British Embassy Glencairn Conversations, in partnership with the Royal Irish Academy.

Ambassador Paul Johnston and RIA President Mary Canning invite you to hear UK and Irish perspectives on applying the lessons from Covid 19 to strengthen our preparedness for future pandemics on 5 July 2021.
G7 leaders, meeting in Cornwall, committed to strengthening our collective defences against future pandemics – including investing in innovation with the aim of making safe and effective vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics available within 100 days of an international public health emergency being declared.
UK and Irish scientists have been at the centre of our national and global responses to Covid-19. This webinar will explore their experience to date, and the role the UK, Irish and global scientific community can play in preventing, detecting and responding to future pandemics.
Professor Adrian Hill will give opening reflections on his work developing vaccines against Covid-19, ebola and malaria, followed by a panel discussion and questions from the virtual audience.
Speakers and panellists:

Professor Adrian Hill – Director of the Jenner Institute, University of Oxford
Professor Mary Horgan, President of the Royal College of Physicians Ireland and consultant of Infectious Diseases
Professor Mark Ferguson, Director General of Science Foundation Ireland and Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government of Ireland.
Dr Chris Lewis, Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser, Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Government
Moderated by Daniel Carey, MRI A Director Moore Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, NUI Galway

Registration:
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Reimagining Humanitarianism in an Age of Global Solidarity: Interrogating Power Structures in Aid and Multilateral Institutions
2021-07-08 12:00 - 17:30 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
What does it mean to embody a lived approach to global solidarity and equal partnership in humanitarian action and advocacy? This workshop, organised by Dóchas and the School of History & Philosophy at NUI Galway, brings together leading voices from the worlds of professional humanitarianism, diplomacy, activism and academia in conversation on three key areas: human rights, multilateralism and the climate crisis. The workshop is funded by the Irish Research Council (New Foundations grant).
Confirmed speakers include:

Hugo Slim (University of Oxford)
Sonja Hyland (Political Director, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade)
Bulelani Mfaco (MASI – Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland)
Tara Rao (Our Ground Works)
Nishanie Jayamaha (Programme Co-ordinator, Climate and Environment Change and Civil Society Space, International Council of Voluntary Agencies)
Su-Ming Khoo (NUI Galway)
Christopher O’Connell (Dublin City University)
Margot Tudor (University of Exeter)

Register here:
https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUkceitpzsvHdFGTGeAUlcx77zUfVi4Iwmb
Further information:
For further details on the workshop, please go to: https://www.dochas.ie/whats-new/dochas-nuig-global-solidarity-workshop/.
Contact:
Maria Cullen – School of History and Philosophy, NUI Galway – m.cullen10@nuigalway.ie
Vikki Walshe – Project Manager, Dóchas – vikki@dochas.ie

This workshop is funded by the Irish Research Council (New Foundations Grant) and co-organised by Dóchas and the School of History and Philosophy, NUI Galway.

Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar Series: "Sport and Film: An American Dream?"
2021-09-07 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Sport and Film: An American Dream?
Dr. Seán Crosson (Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway)
In the first lecture of this year’s Sport & Exercise Research Group seminar series, Dr. Seán Crosson will chart the history of sport cinema internationally and examine the important role the genre has played in the United States in popularising and affirming a key ideology in American life, the American Dream.
Dr. Seán Crosson is Senior Lecturer in Film in the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, Leader of the Sport & Exercise Research Group within the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, and Co-Director of the MA Sports Journalism and Communication programme. His main research interest is the representation of sport in film, the subject of his monographs, Sport and Film (Routledge, 2013) and Gaelic Games on Film: From silent films to Hollywood hurling, horror and the emergence of Irish cinema (Cork University Press, 2019).

Society for Folk Life Studies Annual Conference
2021-09-10 - 2021-09-12 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
The Society for Folk Life Studies
Online
Annual Conference
Galway, Republic of Ireland
10-12 September 2021
**Music, dance, song, story and related artefacts**
**Vernacular buildings and interiors**

The conference will be accessed by Zoom
and hosted by The Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway
(Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies | NUI Galway | Ireland)

PROGRAMME
(Please note: Most lectures will be recorded)

FRIDAY, 10 September

09.30 Assemble online and technical briefing
09.45-09.50 Dr Dafydd Roberts (President, Society for Folk Life Studies)

Welcome to the 2021 annual conference

09.50-10.00 Lillis Ó Laoire: Welcome to The Moore Institute and NUI, Galway

10.00-10.45 Lecture 1: John Cunningham

Preserving livestock from “hogs, dogs, bogs and thieves”: The traditions and tribulations of herdsmen in nineteenth-century Connacht.
According to one agriculturalist in the 1890s, herdsmen in counties Galway and Roscommon were ‘distinct from any employed in any of the English districts, being neither shepherds nor bailiffs and yet a compound of both’. Working for landlords and large graziers, they were responsible workers, liable for damage to their employers’ stock, whether caused by ‘hogs, dogs, bogs, or thieves’, in their own phrase. The lecture will discuss the herdsmen’s attachment to their archaic working conditions, their craft identity, and the efforts of their herds’ associations through which they defended their position against both employers and tenants’ movements during the land war.

10.45-11.15 Offline coffee break

11.15-12.00 Lecture 2: Niall Ó Ciosáin

Book subscribers and readers in the Celtic languages in the 18th and 19th centuries.
In the second half of the 18th century, there was an expansion in the reading public of most European languages. The Celtic languages were no exception to this trend, and there was a significant increase in the production of printed texts in Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Irish and Breton. While the production end of these texts has been explored to an extent, very little is known about their readers. Who bought and read books and pamphlets in the Celtic languages? This paper begins to explore this question by way of the lists of subscribers that were occasionally appended to song books and poetic miscellanies, particularly in Welsh and Scottish Gaelic. The lists contain anything between a few dozen and many hundreds of names, often with addresses and occupations included (more so than subscription lists in English). These are analysed in terms of geography and social status to give a picture of the different reading communities in the various languages.

12.00-14.00 Offline lunch break

14.00-14.45 Lecture 3: Ailbhe Nic Giolla Chomhaill

“Sin an áit a raibh an lúcháir/ That was the place of joy:” Craft, creativity and context in the tales of a Co. Donegal female storyteller.
Ireland’s National Folklore Collection (NFC) is home to a large collection of folktales and traditional oral material narrated by Sorcha Chonaill Mhic Grianna (1875-1964), a storyteller from the Gaeltacht townland of Ranafast, Co. Donegal, in the 1930s. The large quantity of folktales in this collection is representative of the richness of women’s oral narrative tradition in Co. Donegal in the first half of the 20th century; it also reflects the remarkable skill of this storyteller, whose vast folklore repertoire also included songs, prayers, Fenian lays, and detailed accounts of historic events and local customs. This paper seeks to bridge the doorway between the archival folktale and the social meanings and understandings held within by analysing Sorcha Chonaill’s telling of international wonder tale ATU 707 The Three Golden Children. Before turning my attention to the folktale itself, I will contextualise the storyteller’s repertoire within the broader context of women’s traditional storytelling in Ireland, followed by the micro-level context of the storyteller’s socialisation in the rural Irish community of Ranafast in the latter half of the 19th century.

14.45-15.15 Offline tea break

15.15-16.00 Lecture 4: Róisín Nic Dhonnchadha

Conamara Man: An English Language Gaeltacht Autobiography.
How can a self-authored personal narrative help to delineate the factors through which folk identities are formed? In this paper, I discuss the curious instance of an English language Gaeltacht autobiography, namely, Conamara Man (1969) by Séamus Mac an Iomaire [Séamus Ridge]. An islander and a fisherman from the Carna area of County Galway, Mac an Iomaire (1891-1967) gained renown for his classic publication, Cladaigh Chonamara [The Shores of Connemara], an encyclopaedic account of shore life and the maritime traditions of south Connemara. Reminiscent of autoethnography, Conamara Man reflects an innate affiliation of person with place and invites us to examine how aspects of folk identity are cultivated by the idea of topophilia. Recognising Mac an Iomaire’s intimate involvement with the sea, I also address in this presentation the relationship between vocation and identity in the context of folk narratives.

16.00 Offline tea break

18.00-19.00 Online pre-prandial drinks (an informal gathering with one’s own drinks)

19.00 Offline supper

SATURDAY, 11 September

09.45 Assemble online and technical briefing

10..00-10.45 Lecture 5: Claudia Kinmonth

Post publication discoveries; readers’ responses to Irish country furniture and furnishings 1700-2000.
Often after publishing a book, new, associated material comes out of the woodwork. Completing a book during the 2020 pandemic, and then publishing it and receiving responses from readers, during lockdown in Ireland, revealed a mass of objects that I was unable to go and scrutinise first-hand. Normally I cannot to give opinions on art or furniture without checking it first-hand, to ensure everything is genuine. Some professionally faked Irish furniture cannot necessarily be recognised from photographs. But lockdown forced me into a situation where I had no choice, I couldn’t enter peoples’ houses, or examine the subtleties of the undersides of chairs, or the backs and surface details of paintings in the normal way.
Taking to Twitter and Instagram to augment publicity in the absence of a launch, produced a mass of poorly photographed images, sometimes of fascinating objects. Correspondence with strangers about how best to photograph a chair produced some amusing results. The range of items that emerged was exciting, especially of rare things which previously had only emerged from museum collections, such as the slightly magical ‘God in a bottle’, the first of which was produced by our local grocer, who had one belonging to her grandmother. Slightly better known were ‘falling tables’, but fresh examples with good stories about their makers arose from Counties Fermanagh, and Wicklow. Súgán chairs were a familiar design, but the first fork-legged one appeared one day on my screen via Instagram. Publishing a 1940s photograph of celebrated author Peig Sayers in her kitchen, gave rise to ceramics identifiable from her dresser, and other surviving items of her furniture, being discovered. Likewise, glass fishing floats arranged as dresser decoration turned out to be recycled to augment gateposts, and intriguing in their own right. Broken glass and pottery were part of external cottage decoration, so photography was easier. This paper takes the opportunity to showcase a scattered range of such ‘new’ historic material, and some new avenues of research, for the first time.

10.45-11.30 Offline coffee break

11.30-12.15 Lecture 6: Verena Commins

Monuments and commemoration: Realising an Irish traditional music heritage through visual culture.
As public symbols, monuments are part of a wider cultural landscape that reflect both perspectives on the past and their contemporary interpretation. This paper tracks the relatively recent (post-1974) monumentalisation of the oral tradition of Irish traditional music practice through the prism of commemoration: the raising of public monuments and statues to Irish traditional artists in civic spaces throughout Ireland. The materiality and physical presence of monuments in public squares and crossroads represents the tradition as visual culture in environments far distant from the intimate context of fireside or public house. In doing so, it extends their associated meanings beyond a listening and performing community of practice of Irish traditional music, providing new access routes to what is a predominately sound and sounded culture. Furthermore, it locates this development in local, national and global contexts, using specific examples to highlight the commemoration and iconisation of selected musicians and places, as well as examining the broader aspects and implications of monument emplacement as both built objects and works of art in their own right.

12.15-14.00 Offline lunch break

14.00-14.45 Lecture 7: Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire

References to food and drink in Traditional Gaelic Song.
Over twenty years ago, I heard Gerry O’Reilly sing ‘The Irish Jubilee’ in Hughes’ Pub as part of the annual Sean-nós Cois Life festival. There were so many food references in this comical song, I knew I would have to learn it. I had been long aware of the food and beverage content of songs within the Gaelic tradition ranging from ‘An Faoitín’ to ‘Ólaim Punch’ not to mention the rich food descriptions in the pre-famine songs of Antaine Ó Raiftearaí (1784-1835). The catalyst for my exploration of food in the Irish song tradition, however, was a statement by Hasia Diner in her book Hungering for America: Italian, Irish and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration (Harvard University Press, 2002) where she argued that only the Irish—unlike the Italians and Jews who are also subjects of her book—did not have a richly developed food culture, and that ‘unlike other peoples, Irish writers of memoirs, poems, stories, political tracts and songs rarely included the details of food in describing daily life’. I instinctively knew this to be false and set about to gather the evidence within the song and poetry to correct this statement.

14.45-15.15 Offline tea break

15.15-16.30 Online excursion: Virtual tour of Galway City Museum, followed by a live Q & A.
Led by Damien Donnellan (Galway City Museum)

16.30-19.30 Offline supper break

19.30 Informal, post-prandial ‘show & tell’, or ‘sing & tell’.
Conference delegates and speakers are invited to gather online to briefly share information about an interesting artefact or publication, sing a song or tell a story.

SUNDAY, 12 September

09.45 Assemble online and technical briefing

10.00-10.45 Presidential Address: Dafydd Roberts:

Power to the People.
This talk has been inspired by the success of the Ynni Ogwen scheme – a collaborative, community-led project in the Ogwen Valley area of Gwynedd, north-west Wales, to capture power from the flow of the river, and use this to generate hydro electricity. A community share offer raised half a million pounds, all of the funding required to build and install the scheme. Its turbine house sits on land owned by the Penrhyn Slate Quarry, and is within screaming distance of the fastest zip wires in Europe! The 500,000KWH generated annually brings with it a range of benefits, including supplying power at reduced prices. It’s also very clear that the scheme has been a catalyst for a still-evolving range of other community-based projects, and that it’s raised confidence in local ability to take on and deliver these.

10.45-11.15 Offline coffee break

11.15-12.30 Annual General Meeting of the Society for Folk Life Studies.

12.30-13.45 Offline lunch break

13.45-15.05 Shorter Papers:

13.45-14.05 Nikita Koptev

Self-collection of folklore by Irish schoolchildren: strategies and outcomes.
The Schools’ Scheme of 1937/8, initiated by the Irish Folklore Commission, was an almost unprecedented experiment. Not only did it contribute to one of the biggest collections of folklore in Europe, but it also arguably boosted the cultural development of children and created a catalyst for the intergenerational transmission of tales. Children from 26 counties collected folk materials on 55 topics indicated in the booklet Irish Folklore and Tradition (1937). While the majority of the texts in the Schools’ Collection of the National Folklore Collection of Ireland were collected from adults, some, arguably, were produced by the children themselves. The fact that the texts in the Schools’ Collection were created in the school context as part of the Composition lessons predetermined several crucial features. Moreover, the way the collection process was organised by the Folklore Commission influenced the outcome as well. This paper will examine prominent features of the texts, strategies employed by children and influential factors that could have changed the outcome of the Schools’ Scheme of 1937/8.

14.05-14.25 Eugene Costello

Upland pastoralism as social practice: commons, gendered labour and landscape.
This paper will outline the social structures and practices associated with traditional livestock herding in upland areas of north-west Europe. It deals particularly with transhumance or ‘booleying’ in the west of Ireland in the period, 1600-1900, but includes comparisons with Scotland, Iceland and Sweden. The main focus will be on the organisation and recognition of grazing rights, the different roles of men and women in herding and, above all, how these social aspects tied back into the physical environment. The paper will also include a short discussion on the medieval origins of the social role of pastoralism.

14.25-14.45 Muireann Ní Cheannabháin

Go n-éirí do chodladh leat/May your sleep be restful: Revealing secrets and repelling threats in Gaelic lullabies.
A clear aim of the lullaby is to put a child to sleep. Less overtly, however, lullabies convey a wide range of themes and emotions that contrast sharply with their soothing melodies. Lullabies belong to genres of song associated with women and family life, -a domestic sphere that gives us clues as to why so few of them are found in Irish folklore collections. This paper will discuss the opportunities that lullabies gave women to express themselves, as well as fulfilling their duty to protect the infant and repel threats, especially the threat of fairy interference. Examining the songs sung by women gives a distinctive insight into the position of women in society, showing, as well, their participation in life’s rituals; from birth to death, and all that lay between them.

14.45-15.05 Ciaran McDonough

“I have lately been annoyed by so many blockheads, I do not know whom to treat civilly”: The Ordnance Survey of Ireland’s folklore informants.
As well as collecting information pertaining to Ireland’s toponomy during the Ordnance Survey of Ireland, the Topographical Department, consisting of some of the finest Irish scholars of the day, were also instructed to make the most of such a large endeavour and to collect folkloric material in addition to names for and remains on the physical landscape. In addition to the official name books and Memoirs, collected by the surveyors (who often were unable to speak Irish fluently, if at all), the Ordnance Survey Letters were written by members of the Topographical Department as they filled in the gaps left by the surveyors. This paper looks at the informants for this folkloric material as it is presented in the Ordnance Survey Letters. Focusing largely on the province of Connacht, I will examine who the informants were and present their contributions, investigating how the situation of Irish in their townlands may have influenced the type of material presented.

15.10-15.15 Concluding remarks

15.15 Online tea, cakes (bring your own!) and farewells

End of conference

REGISTRATION
If you wish to attend this year’s conference, please contact the Conference Secretary (Steph Mastoris steph.mastoris@museumwales.ac.uk) by Friday 3 September.
The cost of attending the whole conference is:

SFLS member: £25
Non-member: £45
Full time student: £12

On receipt of your conference fee you will be sent the codes for joining each part of the conference online.

Please send a cheque, or notification of bank transfer to:
Steph Mastoris
National Waterfront Museum,
Oystermouth Road, Maritime Quarter, Swansea SA1 3RD
(steph.mastoris@museumwales.ac.uk)

Please pay either
by cheque payable to The Society for Folk Life Studies
or
by BACS transfer to the Society’s bank account:
Sort code: 40-35-18 Account number: 11226363
International Bank Account Number: [REDACTED]
Branch Identifier Code: HBUKGB4108N
(Please identify the transfer as ‘Conference 2021 + [your surname]’)
NOTE: The Conference fee does not apply to the Moore Institute students who can join the event for free (please contact Professor Lillis Ó Laoire at lillis.olaoire@oegaillimh.ie for further information).

9/11 – Twenty Years On
2021-09-10 13:00 - 13:45 | Moore Institute Seminar Room G010
9/11 – Twenty Years On
Panel discussion – In-Person! – with
Prof. John Morrissey
Geography, NUI Galway
&
Prof. Brendan O’Leary
Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, Fulbright Visiting Fellow, NUI Galway
1.00-1.45pm Friday 10 September
Moore Institute Seminar Room G010
Please join us for a conversation about the impact of the 9/11 attack on the US and around the world on the 20th anniversary of the events.

Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar Series: "Sport and Identity: from local pastimes to global games"
2021-09-14 12:00 - 14:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Sport and Identity: from local pastimes to global games
Professor Philip Dine, Discipline of French, NUI Galway.
[ONLINE LECTURE: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/af1fce62e92d4befb6fe95fe8732d90a ]
How does sport shape society? From local origins in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, modern sports were first nationally and then internationally regulated, enabling novel personal interactions and unprecedented cultural exchanges. This sporting internationalization was to culminate in such global mega-events as the Olympic Games and the football World Cup. These most intensely mediatized spectacles today attract television audiences in their billions, as the apex of modern sport’s complex network of tangible and intangible exchanges. Mobilizing enormous resources based on strategic alliances between national sports industries, international governing bodies and transnational media corporations, they are amongst the modern world’s most powerful producers of locally and globally resonant meanings. In terms of its availability, sport has now achieved near-saturation coverage, certainly within the developed world. Yet, paradoxically, sport’s traditional emphasis on the local has, if anything, been reinforced by the challenges of globalization. This seminar seeks to explore sport’s social significance by offering a case study of France, focusing on the contribution of organized games to the historical construction and continuing reconfiguration of a variety of local, national and, increasingly, transnational identities.
Philip Dine is Personal Professor in the Discipline of French at the National University of Ireland Galway. He has published widely on representations of the French empire, particularly decolonization, in fields ranging from children’s literature to professional sport. Further projects have targeted sport and identity-construction in France and the Francophone world.

Research for Public Policy: Discussion Paper Launch
2021-09-15 14:30 - 15:30 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Research for Public Policy: Discussion Paper Launch
Launch of the RIA and IRC Research For Public Policy discussion paper by Minister Simon Harris.

About this event

The Royal Irish Academy and Irish Research Council collaborated in early 2021 to host three webinars to discuss how research could be better connected to public policy. An outline roadmap has now been written to lead progress in this area and the paper will be launched at this event by Minister Simon Harris.
Further speakers will be Professor David Phipps of York University, Vancouver, Professor Jane Ohlmeyer of TCD and IRC, Professor Daniel Carey of NUIG and RIA Secretary for Polite Literature and Antiquities and Mary Doyle, Visiting Fellow in Public Policy at the Long Room Hub in Trinity College and previously Deputy Secretary General in the Department of Education and Skills
Booking is free but essential. Webinar links will be circulated to attendees before the session commences.
About the Series:
Research for Public Policy
The Research for Public Policy seminar series is a joint initiative of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) and the Irish Research Council (IRC). We aim to ignite important conversations about why evidence-based policy matters and how to harness the diverse expertise of Ireland’s researchers for the common good. We are committed to strengthening and sustaining relationships between researchers, policymakers, and research funders beyond the series, so that together we can build and implement a highly effective national framework for integrating relevant and cutting-edge research into policy development across Government. The time is now. We hope you will join us.
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Registration
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History Research Seminar Series: "Ireland's Helping Hand to Europe, 1945-1950: Combatting Hunger from Normandy to Tirana"
2021-09-15 16:00 - 17:30 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Registration
Register online, via Zoom at https://forms.office.com/r/6TY1NK9PtU. All are welcome.

Pádraic Ó Conaire and the Irish Revolution of 1916 to 1921
2021-09-20 20:00 - 21:00 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Join us for this lecture by Brendan McGowan of Galway City Museum as part of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society series. The event is a collaboration with the Museum, Galway City Council and the Moore Institute, NUI Galway.
Born in Galway, raised in Connemara, educated at Rockwell and Blackrock, Paddy Conroy – as Pádraic Ó Conaire (1882-1928) was then known – emerged as the most exciting and widely-read Irish-language writer of his generation while working as a civil servant in London. He returned to Ireland in late 1915, starting a new chapter in his life. Ó Conaire obsessive, Brendan McGowan of Galway City Museum, will give an overview of Ó Conaire’s life and literary career prior to his return from London, before turning his attention to his activities from the time of the Easter Rising to the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
Registration
To attend this online webinar, please register via:
https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9dhAcgpSRpOniX9rLsK2pg

POSTPONED - Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar Series: "Lance Armstrong and suiveur reporting in Libération, 1999–2013: A Case Study in Sports Journalism"
2021-09-21 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Dear Colleagues,
Unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances this week’s Research in Sport lecture by Ruadhán Cooke – Lance Armstrong and suiveur reporting in Libération, 1999–2013: A Case Stu​dy in Sports Journalism – has had to be postponed. We hope to reschedule this lecture for a later date, to be confirmed.
Our next lecture will be on Sep. 28th (12pm in The Bridge) when Dr. Eoin Whelan (J.E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics, NUI Galway) will address the topic of ‘How are advances in digital technologies impacting sports and exercise?’ – further details to follow later this week.
Lance Armstrong and suiveur reporting in Libération, 1999–2013: A Case Study in Sports Journalism
Ruadhán Cooke, Discipline of French, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, NUI Galway.
As national institution and site of memory for France for over a century, the Tour de France is a privileged locus for investigating the interactions between sport and cultural meaning. Literary journalism chronicling the race has a long history of representing the multiple meanings and dimensions of physical performance, particularly of heroic champions, in the Tour. During the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries the Tour itself and French culture more widely were destabilised by the ambiguous hero Lance Armstrong, and, in a context of guarded reporting on the facts of doping, literary journalism was able to give a creative account of complex sporting performances. This lecture examines the journalism of Jean-Louis Le Touzet in Libération as an example of suiveur reporting in the tradition of Antoine Blondin, and shows how the freedom of literary journalism allows Le Touzet to accurately reflect academic perspectives on Armstrong, politics, culture and sport.
Ruadhán Cooke teaches French in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Research interests include the overlaps between sport and literature, sports journalism and the cultural impact of sport.

SECA Seminar Series 2021/22: Methodology from Latin America: Reflections on the Qualitative Process
2021-09-23 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
Dr. Bona will present some reflections on Research Methodology applied to Humanities, mainly Communication, in Latin America. Bringing a perspective from “the South”, the talk will approach the role of the researcher in data gathering and analysis and the importance of self-knowledge; the challenges of researching in a field that is in constant movement and change (the society right now); the concept of “Transmethodology” and some tactics developed from two research groups in Brazil focusing on qualitative investigations: the “research of the research”, the “prior field trip”, and the “field journal”.
Registration
Click on this link on the day to gain access to this talk:
https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/95199666761?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 951 9966 6761
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Please mute your microphone on entering the meeting.
We look forward to seeing you there.

CAMPS: A Tale of Two Witnesses: Contextual Evidence for the Exegetical Compilation in Orléans 182 and Reims 395
2021-09-24 12:00 - 14:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room
Dr. Sarah Corrigan will be appearing in Hardiman G010 next Friday (24th September) at noon and anyone who is on campus is very welcome. But, there’s more… for those of you who are not on campus, we will also be setting up a zoom session, so you can join us from the comfort of wherever you are, and participate in our very first hybrid session. It’ll be like the old days, but hopefully with the best of recent times thrown in.
Sarah Corrigan, PhD, Irish Research Council Laureate Project Fellow, IrCaBriTT Ireland and Carolingian Brittany: Texts and Transmission, Discipline of Classics, National University of Ireland, Galway
Online Registration
To join via Zoom, please click here https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/93875158385?pwd=[REDACTED] or email sarah.corrigan@nuigalway.ie
Find Out More:
Centre for Antique, Medieval & Pre-Modern Studies (CAMPS) http://www.nuigalway.ie/camps/
