Moore Institute

A weekly seminar on the Middle Irish Tale Airec menman Iraird maic Coisse
2013-03-13 12:00, 2013-02-27 12:00, 2013-02-20 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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Theatre Projects
2013-03-07 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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

*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

Performance Matters Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2013-02-26 18:00
Performance Matters
Irish Theatre Discussion Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/
For more information please contact lisa.fitzgerald@nuigalway.ie or m.nichualain5@nuigalway.ie

MA in Drama Guest Speaker Series: Playwright and screenwriter Mark O'Rowe (the award-winning scriptwriter of Intermission, Terminus, Made in China, Howie the Rookie, and Perrier's Bounty)
2013-02-25 17:00
MA in Drama Guest Speaker Series
Playwright and screenwriter Mark O’Rowe
(the award-winning scriptwriter of Intermission, Terminus, Made in China, Howie the Rookie, and Perrier’s Bounty)
will be speaking in the Moore Institute Seminar Room at 5pm on Monday, the 25th of February 2013.
ALL ARE WELCOME!

Gender ARC Research Seminar Series - Dr. Etakerina Yahyaoui - Cultural Practices and Egalitarian Discourses: What role for Human Rights?
2013-02-22 13:00
Gender ARC Research Seminar Series Spring 2013
Dr. Ekaterina Yahyaoui
Cultural Practices and Egalitarian Discourses:
What Role for Human Rights?
Time/Date: 1.00pm, Friday 22 February, 2013
Venue: Moore Institute, NUI Galway
Sponsored by the Gender, Discourse and Identities cluster Gender ARC, Moore Institute
Dr. Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko is currently a Lecturer at the Irish Centre for Human Rights (ICHR), School of Law, NUI Galway, where she teaches human rights, public international law and women’s rights. She is also an associate researcher at the Hans and Tamara Oppenheimer Chair in International Law at McGill University, Montreal, Canada (see http://oppenheimer.mcgill.ca/Ekaterina-Yahyaoui-Krivenko).
Previously, Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko taught public international law, women’s rights, international refugee and migration law, and human rights and Islam at the Faculty of Law, University of Montreal. She was also a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for International Studies and Research and the Canada Chair in International Migration Law of the University of Montreal. Before joining CERIUM she worked, among other things, as a legal advisor for a project at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko is a member of the Quebec Bar and holds a B.A. from Geneva University (Switzerland), an LL.M. from the University Albert-Ludwigs (Freiburg i. Br., Germany), a D.E.S. in international relations and a Ph.D. in international law from the Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva).
ALL WELCOME!
For more information:
gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie

Theatre Projects - Discussion Group
2013-02-21 18:00

Professor Scott Davison, Morehead state university - "Shared Responsibility and the Problem of Evil."
2013-02-21 16:00
Professor Scott A. Davison, Professor of Philosophy, Morehead State University
Professor Scott A. Davison is a visiting fellow to the Moore Institute from February 1st to April 30th 2013
Further information available at http://people.morehead-st.edu/fs/s.daviso

Guest Lecture by Dr. Cillian O'Hogan (University of Waterloo), 'The Medieval Irish translation of Lucan's De Bello Civili'
2013-02-21 14:00
The Medieval Irish translationof Lucan‰۪s De Bello Civili
A guest lecture byDr. Cillian O‰۪Hogan(University of Waterloo)
FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch ‰ÛÒ Everyone is welcome

Text Help Training
2013-02-21 12:00
Text Help Training
Edit and Proofread Academic Writing using Text help Software
For more Information contact: martha.higgins@nuigalway.ie

History Graduate Research Seminar Series - MÌÁirÌ_n McCarron - THe making of a 21st-century Saint
2013-02-20 16:00
MÌÁirÌ_n McCarron
The Making of a 21st-century Saint
contact: daibhi.ocroinin@nuigalway.ie

'The Value of Archives for Doctoral Research'
2013-02-20 14:00
Information meeting for potential doctoral students in the Humanities and Social Sciences
‰Û÷The Value of Archives for Doctoral Research’
A series of short presentations by academics and archivists on archive collections pertaining to the following areas:
åá History
åá Gaeilge
åá English
åá Irish Studies
åá Film and Digital Media
åá Sociology and Political Science
All students thinking of doctoral research are strongly advised to attend. All welcome
An Archives Group initiative.

Book Launch -Phenomenologies of Art and Vision by Prof Paul Crowther
2013-02-19 16:00
Phenomenologies of Art & Vision – a post analytic Turn
An original study of the intrinsic significance of art that draws on ideas, thinkers and approaches from phenomenology and analytic aesthetics.

Text Help Training
2013-02-19 12:00
Text Help Training
Edit and Proofread Academic Writing Usint Text Help Sortware
Text Help (or READ Write Gold) is specialist software to support reading, writing and learning. The university has a site licence for Text Help and it is available in most of our PC suites to all students.
For more information contact martha.higgins@nuigalway.ie

SEMINAR: 'Israel, the United States and the American Jewish relationship to Israel' -Speaker: Daniel Sokatch, CEO of the New Israel Fund
2013-02-15 14:00
Israel, the United States and the American Jewish relationship to Israel
Daniel Sokatch (CEO of the New Israel Fund)
Daniel Sokatch is the Chief Executive Officer of the New Israel Fund (NIF), the leading organization committed to equality and democracy for all Israelis (www.nif.org). The NIF funds and supports social change organisations in Israel, opposes inequality, injustice and extremism and often takes the initiative in setting the public agenda. Before joining NIF, Sokatch served as the Executive Director of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco. Prior to his tenure at Federation, he served as the founding Executive Director of the Los Angeles based Progressive Jewish Alliance. In recognition of his leadership, Sokatch has been named to the Forward newspaper’s “Forward 50,” an annual list of the fifty leading Jewish decision-makers and opinion-shapers in the US, in 2002, 2005 and 2008 and 2010. Daniel has an MA from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, a JD from Boston College Law School, and a BA from Brandeis University.His talk will address the current political situation in Israel in the wake of an election which is expected to produce a significant move to the right and the current situation in Washington, DC regarding Israel and Palestine.It will examine the current state of the American Jewish relationship to Israel and the role that this plays in relations between the United States and Israel and in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Sponsored by the School of Political Science and Sociology and the Whitaker Institute For further information contact niall.odochartaigh@nuigalway.ie

CAMPS lab: Chris Doyle, 'The Seeming Futility of Church Sanctuary in Late Antiquity, ca. 395-423'
2013-02-15 12:00
CAMPS LAB
Chris Doyle
‘The Seeming Futility of Church Sanctuary in Late Antiquity, ca. 395-423’

Information Session: Irish Research Council postgraduate scholarships
2013-02-14 18:00
Information Session
Irish Research Council (IRC) Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme.
Please note that this scheme is now open to students from all countries. Prof. SeÌÁn Ryder, member of the Council and Acting Director of the Moore Institute, will attend both sessions. IRC Postgraduate Scheme This scheme (which was announced recently – see www.research.ie ) is a principal source of doctoral funding currently available to students in the Arts, Social Sciences, Humanities and associated disciplines. If you currently hold a Hardiman Scholarship or Galway Postdoctoral Scholarship, you must apply to the IRC scheme (see the Terms and Conditions for further information). There will be a further information session on the IRC scheme at a later stage this semester.

For more information contact martha.shaughnessy@nuigalway.ie
Seisi̼n eolais faoi Chomhairle Taighde Ìäireann:
DÌÁta: D̩ardaoin 14 Feabhra, 1800-1900 Ionad: Seomra SeimineÌÁir, Institi̼id de MÌ_ra (SlÌ_ DÌÁla) Beidh an tOll. SeÌÁn Ryder, ball den Chomhairle Taighde agus Sti̼rthÌ_ir GnÌ_omhach Institi̼id de MÌ_ra, i lÌÁthair ag an dÌÁ sheisi̼n. Sc̩im Iarch̩ime Chomhairle Taighde Ìäireann FÌ_graÌ_odh an sc̩im seo le d̩anaÌ_ (www.research.ie ). Is Ì_ an sc̩im seo an phrÌ_omhfhoinse maoinithe atÌÁ ar fÌÁil do mhic l̩inn docht̼ireachta sna DÌÁna, sna hEolaÌ_ochtaÌ_ SÌ_isialta, sna DaonnachtaÌ_ agus i ndisciplÌ_nÌ_ gaolmhara eile. MÌÁ tÌÁ ScolÌÁireacht Hardiman nÌ_ ScolÌÁireacht Iarch̩ime na Gaillimhe agat cheana, tÌÁ s̩ riachtanach go gcuirfeÌÁ isteach ar sc̩im na Comhairle (l̩igh na T̩armaÌ_ agus CoinnÌ_ollacha chun breis eolais a fhÌÁil). ReÌÁchtÌÁlfar seisi̼n eolais eile faoi sc̩im na Comhairle nÌ_os d̩anaÌ_ an seimeastar seo.
