Moore Institute

History Graduate Research Seminar Series 2011-12: Evictions on the Glinsk-Creggs estate of Allan Pollok - Pauline Scott
2012-02-22 16:00 (Europe/Dublin)
22 Feb. Pauline Scott
Evictions on the Glinsk-Creggs estate of Allan Pollok

From Manuscript to Music: SiobhÌÁn Armstrong
2012-02-20 16:00
Centre for Antique Medieval & Pre-Modern Studies
Seminar:
From Manuscript to Music: Unearthing Historical Gaelic Music from Manuscripts & Early Printed Source
SiobhÌÁn Armstrong: Historical harpist and founder of The Historical Harp Society of Ireland.
Discovering Gold: Medieval to 18th century harp music from the Old Gaelic World
Monday, March 5th at 1pm, Tickets ‰âÂ10/‰âÂ7
Chapel of the Poor Clares, Nun’s Island

History Graduate Research Seminar Series 2011-12:Apostles of Agricultural Reform: The Ballinasloe Agricultural Improvement Society in Transnational Perspective - Cathal Smith
2012-02-15 16:00
15 Feb. Cathal Smith
Apostles of Agricultural Reform: The Ballinasloe Agricultural Improvement Society in Transnational Perspective

ECHO Humanities Research Seminar - ECHO goes Eco
2012-02-10 16:00
ECHO goes ECO
Join us as we consider the philosophical & political questions that matter about life, the universe, and everything.
Lucy Bingham McAndrew
‰Û÷What “good” is life?
Ecophilosophy and the search for an inter-specific ethic’
Mark Ryan
‰Û÷A Philosophical Examination of Public Opinion
and Environmental Risk’
All welcome, fermented fruit from the vine will be served.
ECHO brings together researchers of all disciplines to discuss their work in a friendly and rigorous environment.Contact: adrianpaterson@yahoo.com or see our website:
http://echoforum.wordpress.com/

Creativity, cultural industries and regional development - Dominic Power
2012-02-09 13:00
As part of the Moore Institute Visiting Fellowship Scheme
Dominic Power
(Professor in Economic Geography, Centre for research on Innovation and Industrial Dynamics, Uppsala University , Sweden)
Will give a talk entitled
Creativity, cultural industries and regional development.
Moore Institute, Thursday 9 February 2012, 13.00 – 14.15
ALL WELCOME
Dominic Power is a leading international expert in the area of creative and culture-based industries, innovation and public policy, and regional industrial competitiveness. He has published over 60 articles, books, and reports on these topics and has lectured at major scientific and policy conferences around the world.
Dominic’s research agenda focuses on the geographical foundations of business competencies and competitiveness and on the economic geography of contemporary economic change. Principally a series of interlinked projects on the cultural industries form the main focus of his research work.
Dominic has worked as a creative strategy consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and many other creative businesses. www.creativebusiness.org
Dominic has worked as a policy advisor to various European governments and regional authorities: including Swedish Innovation Authority, the Nordic Council of Ministers, Innovation Norway, Icelandic Government, the Nordic Innovation Center, the European Commission DG Enterprise and Industry.

History Graduate Research Seminar Series 2011-12: Treasure from the Bog: The Faddan More Psalter - John Gillis
2012-02-08 16:00
8 Feb. John Gillis (TCD)
Treasure from the Bog: The Faddan More Psalter

Life after the PhD: a series of conversations with visiting scholars
2012-02-06 16:00
Life after the PhD: a series of conversations with visiting scholars Monday 6 February 2012 4.00-5.30pm in the Moore Institute Seminar Room James M. Smith, Boston College This is the first in a new series of talks for PhD students in the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities. They will take the form of informal discussions with visiting scholars to the College about ‰Û÷life after the PhD’, with each visiting speaker sharing insights into the challenges and opportunities for career development beyond the PhD. In the first session we are pleased to welcome James M. Smith, currently a visiting scholar in the Moore Institute, from the English Department, Boston College. Jim will talk about how his training as a graduate student prepared him for a career in academia. He will address various aspects of professional development for doctoral candidates, e.g., choosing a dissertation topic, conferencing, publishing, the job search, life as a junior faculty member, growing your career, etc. This will be an informal presentation leading hopefully to conversation and a question and answer session. All are welcome and there will be light refreshments provided. Please rsvp to Kate Thornhill: kate.thornhill@nuigalway.ie

History Graduate Research Seminar Series 2011-12: Gaelic Possessions: The cultural significance of Deeds No: XIV & XV, c.1360 -1425, from James Hardiman's Ancient Irish Deeds and Writing relating to Landed Property in Thomond - Lorna Moloney
2012-02-01 16:00
1 Feb.Lorna Moloney
Gaelic Possessions: The cultural significance of Deeds No: XIV & XV,c.1360 -1425, from James Hardiman‰۪s Ancient Irish Deeds and Writing relating to Landed Property in Thomond

The Peerage in the Historiography of Tudor Ireland - Gerald Power
2012-01-25 16:00
25 Jan. Gerald Power
The Peerage in the Historiography of Tudor Ireland
History Graduate Research Seminar Series
Followed by the launch of Dr. Power’s book:
A European Frontier Elite: The Nobility of the English Pale in Tudor Ireland, 1496-1566, The Formation of Europe, vol. 4, (Hannover, 2012)

History Graduate Research Seminar Series 2011-12: 'Found in a 'dying' condition': Nurse-children in Ireland, 1872-1952 - Sara-Anne Buckley
2012-01-18 16:00
18 Jan. Sara-Anne Buckley
‰Û÷Found in a “dying” condition’: Nurse-children in Ireland, 1872-1952

Moore Institute Workshop 2011-12:Eco-poetry now! Reading, writing and understanding poetry in an age of environmental crises
2012-01-13 09:00
Eco-poetry Now!
Reading,Writing and Understanding Poetry in an Age of Environmental Crises.
Workshop, hosted by the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Gender Arc, UL Alliance
Friday, 13th of January, Moore Institute, NUI Galway
9.00 ‰ÛÒ 9.35 GearÌ_id Denvir (NUIG): Guth Ì_n talamh anÌ_os – A Voice from the Land:The Ecopoetics of Gaeltacht Oral Poetry.
9.40 ‰ÛÒ 10.15 Margaret Mills- Harper (UL) Inside/Outside: Space in Contemporary Poetry by Irish Women
10.20 ‰ÛÒ 10.55 Adrian Paterson (NUIG): Yeats’ Trees
Coffee break
11.15 – 11.50 Sanghita Sen (Presidency College Calcutta): Nature as Divine ‰ÛÒ India, the Upanishads, Tagore‰۪s poetry
11.55 ‰ÛÒ 12.30 Helen Phelan (UL) Herrad of Landsberg’sHortus Deliciarum/ Garden of Delights and Somatic Epistemology.
Lunch Break
14.00 ‰ÛÒ 14.35Christian Schmitt-Kilb (University of Rostock): Ecopoetic Prose: Paul Farley’s and Michael Symmons Roberts’ Edgelands (2011)
14.40 – 15.15 Roman Bartosch (University of Cologne) ‘The Reverie will Do’ ‰ÛÒ Critical World Making, Poetry and Ethics
Graduate Panel:
15.20 ‰ÛÒ 16.00Hanne Hasenkamp: Floods, Arks and Climate Change in Contemporary Fiction
16.05 ‰ÛÒ 16.25 Sabine Lenore MÌ_ller: The fallacy of the fallacy – Exploring the Ontological Claims of Ruskin’s’Pathetic Fallacy’ and Modern Eco-poetry’s Counterclaims
Coffee break
16.45 ‰ÛÒ 17.45 Poetry Workshop with Fred Johnston (Western Writers’ Center, (Ionad
ScrÌ_bhneoiri ChaitlÌ_n Maude)
20.00 SeanÌ_s, Folk and Poetry Event in Kai Restaurant, Sea Road
(please email tina-karen.pusse@nuigalway.ie for details)

Dr. Eamon Maher: 'Tracing the Imprint of Catholicism on the 20th Century Irish Novel'
2011-12-07 13:00
Dr. Eamon Maher (Institute of Technology Tallaght), ‘Tracing the Imprint of Catholicism on the 20th Century Irish Novel’, Moore Institute Seminar Room, Wednesday 7th December, 1pm

'Converting Monks into Friars': Creating Public Scholars in the Digital Age
2011-12-06 12:45
Moore Institute Lecture
Dr Kate Laity (Fulbright Visiting Fellow in Digital Humanities)
‰Û÷Converting Monks into Friars: Creating Public Scholars in the Digital Age‰۪
1pm, Tuesday 6th December, Moore Institute seminar room
All welcome
Coffee and sandwiches provided from 12.45pm

Moore Institute Workshop 2011-12:Writing on the Edges of Empire: MA Graduate Workshop
2011-11-30 09:00
Description of Workshop
An MA Research Methods workshop will take place in the Moore Institute on Wednesday 30th November with students from the NUIG MA in Culture and Colonialism and the UL MA in English. The workshop will strengthen the ties between NUIG and the University of Limerick, both at graduate and research level, since it is also in connection with the Gender ARC, as well as the associated research cluster “InterSects: Women and Nation 1880-1920” The workshop will consist of panels in which speakers from NUIG, UL and UCD reflect on their research, highlighting research processes as much as content; a discussion of IRCHSS funding and Ph.D. possibilities to which current Ph.D. candidates will contribute; and a group workshop for the MA students. The aim of the workshop is to deepen graduate students’ understanding of the nature and possibilities of academic research and to help students formulate ideas for their dissertations. An important aspect of the workshop will be the particular challenges which archival, textual and contextual research present to researchers working on marginalised, non-conventional and/or geographically distant source material, as well as the challenges posed by interdisciplinary research models. Participants will include Professor Margaret Harper (UL); Dr Tina O’Toole (UL), Dr Anne Mulhall (UCD), Professor Sean Ryder (NUIG), Dr Muireann O’Cinneide (NUIG) and Professor Tadhg Foley (NUIG, Emeritus).

MA Graduate Workshop
2011-11-30 00:00
Mastering Research on the Edge: MA Research Methods Workshop
An MA Research Methods workshop will take place in the Moore Institute on Wednesday 30th November with students from the NUIG MA in Culture and Colonialism and the UL MA in English. The workshop will strengthen the ties between NUIG and the University of Limerick, both at graduate and research level, since it is also in connection with the Gender ARC, as well as the associated research cluster “InterSects: Women and Nation 1880-1920” The workshop will consist of panels in which speakers from NUIG, UL and UCD reflect on their research, highlighting research processes as much as content; a discussion of IRCHSS funding and Ph.D. possibilities to which current Ph.D. candidates will contribute; and a group workshop for the MA students. The aim of the workshop is to deepen graduate students’ understanding of the nature and possibilities of academic research and to help students formulate ideas for their dissertations. An important aspect of the workshop will be the particular challenges which archival, textual and contextual research present to researchers working on marginalised, non-conventional and/or geographically distant source material, as well as the challenges posed by interdisciplinary research models. Participants will include Professor Margaret Harper (UL); Dr Tina O’Toole (UL), Dr Anne Mulhall (UCD), Professor Sean Ryder (NUIG), Dr Muireann O’Cinneide (NUIG) and Professor Tadhg Foley (NUIG, Emeritus).

Professor Timothy White: 'Lessons from the Northern Irish Peace Process'
2011-11-28 17:00
Professor Timothy White (Xavier University), ‰Û÷Lessons from the Northern Irish Peace Process‰۪, Moore institute Seminar Room, Monday 28th November, 5pm

An Edition of the Collectio Canonum Hibernensis
2011-11-28 15:00
RESEARCH WORKSHOP PRESENTATION BY DR ROY FLECHNER
‰ÛÏAN EDITION OF THE COLLECTIO CANONUM HIBERNENSIS‰۝
Moore Institute Seminar Room, 3 p.m., Monday 28th November
Reception to follow
Michael Clarke/DÌÁibhÌ_ ÌÒ CrÌ_inÌ_n
For further information on Roy Flechner and his forthcoming edition of the Hibernensis see
http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/flechner.htm

History Graduate Seminar Series
2011-11-23 16:00
From Dust to Dust: Death and Burial at Clonmacnoise, ad 800-1200

The Rory Kavanagh Bursary
2011-11-17 17:00
THE RORY KAVANAGH BURSARY
The Bursary has been made possible by a generous donation from the family of the late Rory Kavanagh (1971-1996), a 1993 B.A. graduate of National University of Ireland, Galway. Rory spent the 1991-1992 academic year in Italy at the University of Bologna under the ERASMUS Student Mobility Programme. This Bursary is awarded annually to allow a student of Italian spend a year at a university in Italy. It is awarded to a fulltime undergraduate student of Italian who passes the second year examinations in Arts or Commerce.

The St. Gall Glosses to Priscian
2011-11-17 10:00
PROFESSOR PIERRE-YVES LAMBERT‰۪S VISIT
Thursday November 17th
10 a.m. ‰ÛÒ 12 p.m.: Postgraduate seminar, ‰Û÷The St Gall Glosses to Priscian‰۪
SiobhÌÁn McKenna Theatre (AM214).
5 p.m.: Lecture, ‰Û÷The Old Breton glosses on Bede in the manuscript Angers 477‰۪
MÌÁirtÌ_n ÌÒ Tnuthail theatre, Arts Millennium Building.
See further
http://www.ephe.sorbonne.fr/details/2032-lambert-pierre-yves-linguistique-et-philologie-celtiques.html
http://www.univ-brest.fr/Recherche/Laboratoire/CRBC/cherch/lambepie.htm.
Jacopo Bisagni/Michael Clarke

History Graduate Seminar Series 2011/12
2011-11-16 16:00
16 Nov. MÌÁire ÌÒ Broin
History & Myth in 19th-Century Germany: the Lost City of Vineta

IMBAS 2011 - Identity: Individual, Society and Realm
2011-11-11 00:00
Identity: Individual, Society and Realm
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11TH
12.00-12:30: registration
1.00-2.30: Panel A
Chair: Prof. MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha
R̼airÌ_ O’SuilleabhÌÁin
University College Cork
Light, fire, sanctity and salvation: Spiritual and patristic echoes in AdomnÌÁn’s Vita Columbae
Sarah Corrigan
NUI, Galway
The Parting of the Waters in Early Lives of Irish Saints
Jessica Fahy
University College Dublin
Brides of Christ: Female religious identity and Italian conventual art
2.30-3.00: tea & coffee break
3.00-4.30: Panel B
Chair: Prof. DÌÁibhi ÌÒ CrÌ_inÌ_n
Chris Doyle
NUI, Galway
‰Û÷Defence of the Realm’ Constantine III: Usurper, Tyrant or Patriot?
Sandra Hartl
University of Bamberg
The Anonymous Crowd in Ammianus Marcellinus
David Burke
University of Durham
Who wrote the Canones Adomnani?
4.30- 5:00: tea and coffee break
5:00-6:00: Panel C
Chair: Dr Amanda Kelly
Daniel Curley
NUI, Galway
Dundonnell and its place in 13th Century Ireland
Sander Westerhout
NUI, Galway
Clonmacnoise graveslabs in 3D: Now what?
6.00-7.00: wine reception
7.00-8.00: Keynote speech by Dr Alan Murray of the University of Leeds: National Identity, Ethnicity and language in the age of the Crusade
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12TH
9.30-11.00: Panel A
Chair: Prof. Michael Clarke
Steffen Magister
Trinity College Dublin
Wipo and the Early Medieval Mirrors of Princes
Lyla Owens
Bemidji State University, Minnesota
The Encomium Emmae Reginae: The establishment of Queenship within Late Anglo Saxon England
Jennifer Farrell
University College Dublin
When the realm is the King: Representations of the rise and fall of the nation in the individual portraits of Arthur and Mordred in the Historia Regnum Britanniae
11.00-11.30: tea & coffee break
11.30-1.00: Panel B
Chair: Dr Jacopo Bisagni
Ben Wright
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
How long did the Cistercians “live by the work of their hands”: Negotiating the Cistercian ideal of manual labour at Cambron abbey 1148-1331
Katie Hager
University of Oxford
The Monk in Cassian and Evagrius: how their interpretations of Creation affect the identity of the monk in the ascetic life
Sarah McCann
NUI Galway
Playing their part: the Irish in Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
1.00-2.15: buffet lunch on campus in An Bialann
2.30-4.00: Panel C
Chair: Dr PÌÁdraic Moran
Julie Damaggio
University of Lyon
Loan words and literate identity: Latin grammarians, Roman poets and the problem of Greek words in ìëÀìâ
Jason O’Rorke
NUI, Galway
Observations on the transmission of Donatus’ terminology in the Late Antique grammatical tradition
Beatrice Da Vela
University College London
In search of the author’s identity: exegetical problems in Donatus’ commentary on Terrence
4.00-4.30: tea & coffee break
4.30-6.00: Panel D
Chair: Dr Kim Lo Prete
Kenneth Coyne
NUI, Galway
Individual and Societal Identity in Robert of Rheim’s ‰Û÷urban speech’ in the historia Iherosolimitana
Edwin Hustwit
Bangor University, Gwynedd
Court poetry and the Men of the North: dynastic identity and the heroic past in 12th century Wales
Caoimhe Whelan
Trinity College Dublin
English Colonial Readers: the Hiberno- Middle English translation of Gerald of Wales’ Expugnatio Hibernica
7.30: Conference Dinner at the House Hotel
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13TH
9.30-11.00: Panel A
Chair: Cliodhna Carney
Robert Spindler
Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck
Gawain and hegemonic masculinity in the Middle Ages
Mary Michelle Poellinger
University of Leeds
The Violence of Translation: Creating a ‰Û÷Scottish Identity’ in Lancelot of the Laik
Laura Brennan
University College Dublin
‰Û÷The heroic model of William Marshal: An examination of the idealisation and reality of knighthood and chivalry in the twelfth-century Angevin Empire’.
11.00-11.30: tea & coffee break
11.30-1.00: Panel B
Chair: Dr Clodagh Downey
Esther Le Mair
NUI, Galway
Watch your morphology! Why the distinction between spoiling once or spoiling repeatedly is important in Old Irish verb formation
Mona Jakob
NUI, Galway
Adam the pure and torturous Lucifer- conceptual patterns in the Saltair na Rann
Eoin ÌÒ Donnchadha
University College Dublin
Sanas Cormaic and Identity within the early Irish poetic profession
1.00-1.30: tea & coffee break & light lunch
1.30-3-00: Panel C
Chair: Prof. GearÌ_id Mac Eoin
Nathan Millin
University College Dublin
Identity and emotions: Constrasting responses to the care of the dead in Medieval Ireland
Laura Aitken
University of Aberdeen
The enemy within: An examination of Medieval Irish and Norse attitudes towards the mentally ill.
Mark Kirwan
University College Dublin Enthusiasts and Rebels: Late 19th and early 20th century attitudes to the Viking Age in the British Isles
End of Conference

History Graduate Seminar Series 2011/12
2011-11-09 16:00
The Gallipoli Campaign in the Mainstream Irish Media:
Coverage, Reaction, Comment

Professor Shaun Richards 'Space and Place in Irish Drama'
2011-11-08 16:30
Professor Shaun Richards (Moore institute Visiting Fellow): ‰Û÷Space and Place in Irish Drama‰۪ workshop

History Graduate Seminar Series 2011/12
2011-11-02 16:00
2 Nov.Jackie UÌ_ Chionnaith
The G.I. Bill and American Medical Students at University College Galway
1946-1966

History Graduate Seminar Series 2011/12
2011-10-26 16:00
26 October 2011
Lili ZÌÁch
Diplomatic Links between Ireland & the Successor States
of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1919-1945

History Graduate Seminar Series 2011/12
2011-10-19 16:00
19 Oct.
Hayley Humphrey
Representations of the Virgin Mary on Irish High Crosses

Lecture: Beckett & God by John Calder
2011-10-17 16:00
John Calder published 23 Nobel Prize winners for Literature including Samuel Beckett. The Godot Company which he founded has toured Ireland with Waiting for Godot (2006), Endgame (2009), Beckett x3 (2010) which were acclaimed both by critics and by audiences.
Calder was Beckett’s principal English-language publisher during his lifetime, who was also a close friend, and has written one of the most enlightening books about him.
Samuel Beckett is probably the best-known, and most admired internationally, Irish author of the twentieth century, but much of his work is too little understood or considered not accessible to a wide general public. This should not to be so. Beckett’s work has universal appeal, and, although intended to help give an accurate picture of life as we know it and the realities of human destiny, it is also vastly entertaining, often very comic, and above all enlightening in what it tells us about how to make life better for others and more interesting for ourselves.
John Calder’s lecture will explain how this “God-haunted man” as he has been described, used his religious knowledge to help us understand the realities and the absurdities of our lives, make great literature out of it, always with great originality, humour and wisdom.
Every lecture will finish with a question and answer session.’

History Graduate Seminar Series 2011/12
2011-10-12 16:00
Paddy McMenamin
Long Kesh 1972-76: Politicisation of a Generation of Working-Class Youth
in Northern Ireland
Moore Institute Seminar Room,
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
4pm

Beckett Reading Group
2011-10-10 18:00
Call for people interested in a Beckett Reading Group
First Meeting: Monday October 10th from 6-7 in the Moore Institute Seminar Room.
We are looking for people interested in participating in a reading group centered around Beckett texts-both primary and secondary. Each week a participant will lead an informal discussion of a short work or excerpt of his or her choosing. We are hoping this will be a chance for discussion and shared perspective that will create some momentum at the beginning of each work week. The readings will be kept short, and we will be sure the meetings are kept to 1 hour. If you are interested or have questions or suggestions please contact David Delaney dpjdel@hotmail.com and Kristin Jones kristinannjones@yahoo.com.
