Moore Institute

'Yeats and Modernism 1' by Terry Eagleton, Adjunct Professor of Cultural Theory in the Moore Institute
2011-03-01 14:00 (Europe/Dublin)

'The Atlantic World 1450-1830', RIA Presidential Discourse by Professor Nicholas Canny
2011-02-28 18:00
The Atlantic World 1450-1830
RIA Presidential Discourse by Professor Nicholas Canny
6pm 28th February 2011, Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2.
Free booking at www.ria.ie

Aoife Connolly & Sheila Walsh on French African Identities
2011-02-24 17:00
ECHO Humanities Research Forum: Aoife Connolly (NUIG): ‰Û÷Women as keepers of Algerian and pied-noir identity’ & Sheila Walsh (NUIG): ‰Û÷At the crossroads of culture and identity: Thomas Ismayl Urbain and nineteenth-century North Africa’
Thursday 24th February @ 5pm >> Moore

Cultural Frontiers in 16th-c. Ireland & Transylvania
2011-02-23 16:00
Teodora Pascal
Cultural Frontiers in 16th-c. Ireland & Transylvania

Ghost Dances & Ring Shouts: Music & the Christianisation of the Lakota & Gullah in the 19th century
2011-02-16 16:00
RÌ_nÌÁn de Bhaldraithe
Ghost Dances & Ring Shouts: Music & the Christianisation of the Lakota & Gullah in the 19th century

TCC Seminar Series: Prof. Krishan Kumar, University of Virginia - 'Why Empire? Some Thoughts on the Relations between Nation-States and Empires'
2011-02-15 16:00
TCC Seminar Series: Prof. Krishan Kumar, University of Virginia – ‘Why Empire? Some Thoughts on the Relations between Nation-States and Empires’

'Where Is She?' Researching the History of Female Entrepreneurs
2011-02-09 16:00
Therese Moylan
‰Û÷Where Is She?’ Researching the History of Female Entrepreneurs
in mid-20th-c. Ireland

TCC Seminar Series: Prof. Phil Swanson, Sheffield University - 'Time, Place and the Uses of Cuba in Crime Fiction'
2011-02-01 16:00
TCC Seminar Series: Prof. Phil Swanson, Sheffield University – ‘Time, Place and the Uses of Cuba in Crime Fiction’

TCC Seminar Serires: Prof. MÌÁire NÌ_ AnnrachÌÁin, UCD - 'Why love is not enough: reading contemporary poetry in Irish'
2011-01-25 16:00
TCC Seminar Serires: Prof. MÌÁire NÌ_ AnnrachÌÁin, UCD – ‘Why love is not enough: reading contemporary poetry in Irish’

TCC Seminar Series: Dr. Dominic Bryan, Queen's University Belfast - 'Share space in a new Northern Ireland: Research & Policy'
2011-01-18 16:00
TCC Seminar Series – Dr. Dominic Bryan – Queen’s University Belfast

The Culture of Postmodernism 2
2010-12-08 16:00
This seminar will be given by Terry Eagleton, Adjunct Professor of Cultural Theory in the Moore Institute.

PUBLIC LECTURE 'Aesthetics and Politics: Broken Images'
2010-12-07 14:30
This Public Lecture will be given by Terry Eagleton, Adjunct Pofessor of Cultural Theory in the Moore Institute.
Prof. Eagleton will also give a seminar on ‘The Culture of Postmodernism 2’ on Wednesday, December 8 at 4pm.
All events will take place in the Moore Institute seminar room.

The Culture of Postmodernism 1
2010-12-06 13:00
‘The Culture of Postmodernism 1’ will be given by Terry Eagleton, Adjunct Professor of Cultural Theory in the Moore Institute. ‘The Culture of Postmodernism 2’ will take place on Wednesday, December 8 at 4pm.
Prof. Eagleton will also give a Public Lecture entitled ‘Aesthetics and Politics: Broken Images’ on Tuesday, December 7, 2010 at 2:30pm.
All events will take place in the Moore Institute seminar room.

Religion, Gender, and Empire Politics in the French Space during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries
2010-12-03 14:15
Professor Dominique Deslandres (University of Montreal)
Dominique Deslandres is Professeur Titulaire of History at the University of Montreal. She has published two monographs on French Catholic mission and settlement in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Canada, and has a particular interest in the socio-religious history of the Jesuits and the Oratorians. She is now working on the ‘cultures of memory’ in settler societies, and has a particular interest in issues relating to conversion, race and blood in eighteenth-century Canada and France.

CAMPS present Medieval and Early Modern Economic History
2010-12-02 15:00
CAMPS [The Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies of the Moore Institute] presents a Masterclass on ‘Late Medieval and Early Modern Economic History, with Special Reference to Bruges’ on Thurs. 2nd Dec., 3.00-5.00 p.m. in the Applied Optics Seminar Room (AO208), by Prof. James M. Murray, Director of the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University and author of ‘Bruges, Cradle of Capitalism, 1280-1390’ (Cambridge, 2005).

Therese Moylan, ''Where Is She?': Researching the History of Female Entrepreneurs in mid-20th-c. Ireland'
2010-12-01 16:00
HISTORY GRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINARS 2010/11
Therese Moylan
‘‰Û÷Where Is She?’: Researching the History of Female Entrepreneurs in mid-20th-c. Ireland’

The Franciscans, the Holy Land, and the Kings of France in the Age of Early European Imperialism
2010-11-30 19:30
Professor Megan Armstrong (McMaster University)
Megan Armstrong is Associate Professor of History at McMaster University, and the author of The Politics of Piety: Franciscan Preachers during the Wars of Religion, 1560-1600. Her current research interests lie in transregional history, and she is preparing a study of French Franciscan missions in France, the Holy Land and New Spain during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Dr Margaret ÌÒ hÌÒgartaigh (All Hallows, DCU)
2010-11-30 16:00
Dr Margaret ÌÒ hÌÒgartaigh (All Hallows, DCU),
‰Û÷Edward Hay, Historian of 1798′

Marie Guyart of the Incarnation : A Mystic Educating the Women of the New World
2010-11-29 16:30

Renovation and Renewal in the Holy Land: The Franciscan Mission, 1550-1700
2010-11-29 14:15

Caroline Gillan, 'Plant-Collecting: 18th-Century Botany Networks'
2010-11-24 16:00
HISTORY GRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINARS 2010/11
Caroline Gillan
‘Plant-Collecting: 18th-Century Botany Networks’

Dr. John McCourt, 'Anthony Trollope and the problem of Ireland'
2010-11-23 16:00
Dr. John McCourt, UniversitÌÊ Roma Tre
‘Anthony Trollope and the problem of Ireland’

1916 and After
2010-11-20 00:00
1916 and After
Three events to explore the cultures and histories of 1916 in global context of the First World War, the Easter Rising, and after.
Organized by the Moore Institute, NUI, Galway, with support from the University’s Research Support Fund; for details of our projects and people see http://www.nuigalway.ie/mooreinstitute/
Free and open to the public.
To register and for more information contact mooreinstitute@nuigalway.ie
Please note that the schedule is subject to change and addition. Be sure to check each day’s events in advance of attending for confirmation of times.
Saturday 6th November 2010
1916 and After
The Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG)
http://www.nuigalway.ie/mooreinstitute
Find us here http://www.nuigalway.ie/campus_map/
9.30 am
Registration
9.45 am
Welcome and Opening Remarks
10 am-10.30 am
Brian O Conchubhair (University of Notre Dame), Oidhreacht an Eiri Amach: 1916 and the Irish Language
10.30 am – 11.00 am
Mary Daly (University College Dublin), Ypres on the Liffey or Greek tragedy? Assessing the Significance of the 1916 Rising
11.00 am – 11.15 am Coffee
11.15 am – 12.15 am
Archives and 1916 Panel Discussion
Chair: Nicholas Allen (NUI Galway)
Participants:
Catriona Crowe (National Archives of Ireland), New Archival Sources for the Study of 1916
Robert O’Neill (Boston College), The Next Parish: Boston and 1916
Roisin Kennedy (University College Dublin), Tracing 1916: Visual Art and Related Sources
Pierce Boyce (Abu Media), Filming 1916 Now
12.45 pm -1.30 pm Lunch
1.30 pm – 2.00pm
Donal ÌÒ Drisceoil (University College Cork), The Cause of Labour: 1916 and After
2.00 pm – 2.30 pm
Luke Gibbons (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), Modernism, 1916 and Photographic Memory
2.45 pm
A reading of Lizzie Nunnery’s To Have to Shoot Irishmen, a play in development about the murder of Francis Sheehy-Skeffington in ́ras na Mac L̩inn/Student Centre (beside the College Bar) at NUI Galway. Reading with Q&A after will commence 3.15 pm and end 5.00 pm.
Saturday 13th November 2010
Imperial Cultures
The Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin
Find us here http://www.tcd.ie/longroomhub and at Fellows Square on http://www.tcd.ie/Maps/map.php
9.30 am
Registration
9.45 am
Welcome and Opening Remarks
10.00 am -10.40 am
Nicholas Allen (National University of Ireland, Galway), Life in the Imperial City
10.40 am – 11.20 am
Kate O’Malley (Royal Irish Academy), Imperial Reverberations: The 1916 Rising and India
11.20 am -12.00 noon
Angus Mitchell (Independent Scholar), ‘My Dear Accomplice’: Alice Stopford Green, Roger Casement and the Winds of Change
12.00 noon – 2.00 pm
Break for lunch and guided 1916 walking tour with Donal O’Falluin (http://comeheretome.wordpress.com/). Places limited, register on the day. Walking tour will begin 12.30pm from the Long Room Hub
2.00 pm – 3.30 pm
Imperial Cultures and 1916 Panel Discussion
Chair: Tommy Graham (History Ireland)
Participants:
Terence Brown (Trinity College Dublin), The Irish Times and the End of Empire
Eve Patten (Trinity College Dublin), Ireland’s Imperial Family: 1916 in British East Africa
Julia Eichenberg (Trinity College Dublin), Ireland, Poland and the First World War
3.30 pm – 3.45 pm
Coffee
3.45 pm -4.45 pm
Jay Winter (Yale University), The Great War, Veterans and Human Rights, 1916-1948
4.45 pm Close
Saturday 20th November
Radicalism and Sovereignty
Institute of Irish Studies, Queen’s University Belfast
Find us here http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/AboutUs/Wheretofindus/
9.30 am
Registration
9.45 am
Welcome and Opening Remarks
10.00 am – 10.40 am
Fearghal McGarry (Queen’s University Belfast), 1916 and Irish Republicanism
10.40 am – 11.20 am
James McConnel (University of Northumbria), The Land that Time Forgot: Home Rule Ireland and the 1916 Easter Rising
11.20 am – 12 pm
Vincent Sherry (Washington University, St Louis), 1916 and the Wider Modernism
12.00 noon – 2.00 pm Tour of the Ulster Museum and Lunch
2.00 pm – 3.30 pm
Radicalism, Sovereignty and 1916 Panel Discussion
Chair: Fearghal McGarry (Queen’s University Belfast)
Participants:
Roisin ni Ghairbi (St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra), ‰Û÷This Land Shall Live’: Pearse and the revolution of Irish culture
Matthew Kelly (University of Southampton), ‘A clear line of demarcation’: ‰Û÷Irish Freedom’ (1910-14) and the Re-Articulation of the Fenian Ideal
Caoimhe nic Dhaibheid (University of Cambridge), ‰Û÷Attempts have been made to stir up a seditious spirit’: The Irish National Aid Association and the radicalisation of public opinion, 1916-1918
3.30 pm – 3.45 pm Coffee
3.45 pm -4.45 pm Michael Wood (Princeton University), Yeats and the Idea of Rule
4.45 pm Close

Prof Terhi Rantanen, LSE, title tbc
2010-11-18 16:00
Prof Terhi Rantanen, LSE, title tbc
18th November 2010 @ 16:00

Claire Lyons, 'Sylvester O'Halloran's Histories: Publication & Audience'
2010-11-17 16:00
HISTORY GRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINARS 2010/11
Claire Lyons
‘Sylvester O’Halloran‘s Histories: Publication & Audience’

Professor Patrick O'Donovan, 'The Time of Vigny'
2010-11-16 16:00
Professor Patrick O’Donovan, University College Cork
‰Û÷The Time of Vigny’

Imbas 2010 Conference
2010-11-12 13:00
Imbas 2010 Conference
Imbas 2010 will be taking place in the Moore Institute Seminar Room the weekend of November 12-14th, beginning at lunch time on Friday. It is an interdisciplinary postgraduate medieval conference, run by NUI Galway postgraduates for postgraduates. This year’s theme is Representations: image, word, artefact, and the conference has attracted speakers from many different universities in the UK, the USA, Italy, Hungary and Ireland. Our keynote speaker will be Professor Michelle P. Brown, of the School of Advanced Studies at the University of London.
Our website is http://medieval.starlight.ie/cms/view/63, and we can be contacted at imbasnuig@gmail.com.

Meabh Ni Fhuarthain, 'Articulating a Vision of Revival: Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann, 1951-1972'
2010-11-10 16:00
HISTORY GRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINARS 2010/11
M̩abh NÌ_ FhuarthÌÁin
‘Articulating a Vision of Revival: Comhaltas CeoltÌ_irÌ_ Ìäireann, 1951-1972’

Prof. John Horgan, 'Journalism, Regulation and Law'
2010-11-09 16:00
Prof. John Horgan, Press Ombudsman
‘Journalism, Regulation and Law’
Biographical Details Professor John Horgan:
Born Tralee, Co. Kerry, 26 October 1940. Education: St Gerard’s, Bray, Co Wicklow; Glenstal Abbey, Murroe, Co. Limerick; University College, Dublin; University College, Cork (BA 1962, PhD 1997); The Law Society, Dublin. Employment: Evening Press (1962), Catholic Herald (1962-63), Irish Times (1963-1976). Editor, Education Times (1973-76). Member, Seanad Eireann, 1969-77; DÌÁil Eireann, 1977-81; European Parliament 1982-83. Dublin City University, 1983-2006. Member of: Interim Radio Commission (1985-87), Commission on the Newspaper Industry (1995-96), Forum on Broadcasting (2002). Fellow, Center for International Relations, Harvard University (1987-88). Jean Monnet Research Professor, European University Institute, Florence (2002). Appointed Press Ombudsman by the Press Council of Ireland (2007).
Research Interests:
Journalism, Media, Media History, Media Ethics, Political Economy of Media; 20th Century Irish History and Biography.

Lorna Moloney, 'The Gaelic Lordships in Thomond, c. 1400-c.1500'
2010-11-03 16:00
HISTORY GRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINARS 2010/11
Lorna Moloney
‘The Gaelic Lordships in Thomond, c. 1400-c.1500’
