Moore Institute

Seminar on Nicholas Canny’s Imagining Ireland’s Pasts: Early Modern Ireland through the Centuries
2023-01-11 16:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Dublin) | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Seminar on Nicholas Canny’s
Imagining Ireland’s Pasts: Early Modern Ireland through the Centuries
(Oxford University Press)
4pm Wednesday January 11 2023, followed by a launch of the book at 5.30pm
Launch by Prof. Jane Ohlmeyer (TCD)

Panellists:
Prof. Ciaran Brady (TCD)
Dr Marc Caball (UCD)
Prof. Marie-Louise Coolahan (University of Galway)
Dr Bernadette Cunningham (RIA)
Dr Pádraig Lenihan (University of Galway)
Chair: Prof. Enrico Dal Lago (University of Galway)

Registration
If you wish to join this event online, please register at: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zbub8ZBhTOqDJLoLTKWuZg

Event Recording

Book Launch: Diversifying the Teaching Profession: Dimensions, Dilemmas and Directions for the Future
2022-12-09 11:00 - 14:00 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
You are invited to the launch of
Diversifying the Teaching Profession:
Dimensions, Dilemmas and Directions for the Future

by Drs. Elaine Keane, Manuela Heinz, Rory Mc Daid

Programme
11AM:
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION (PROFESSOR DAN CAREY, DIRECTOR OF THE MOORE INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY)
PANEL DISCUSSION

Dr Vivian Rath (Project Research Officer, Association for Higher Education Access and Disability)
Ms María Florencia Sala Rothen (Independent Researcher and Language Teacher)
Mr Owen Ward (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Programme Manager for Race Equality, University of Galway)
Dr Aileen Marron (Senior Manager in Access Policy, Higher Education Authority)

12.15PM:
‘TEACHERS LIKE US’: CHALLENGING DISCOURSES, REIMAGINING NORMS (PROFESSOR GERRY MACRUAIRC, HEAD, SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY)
EQUALITY, DIVERSITY & INCLUSION IN EDUCATION: INTEGRATING THEORY AND PRACTICE (DR HELEN MAHER, VICE PRESIDENT FOR EQUALITY, DIVERSITY & INCLUSION, UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY)
DIVERSIFYING THE TEACHING PROFESSION: DR ELAINE KEANE, DR MANUELA HEINZ & DR RORY MC DAID
1:30PM:
REFRESHMENTS
Registration
Please register at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/launch-of-book-diversifying-the-teaching-profession-tickets-465601525697

Book Launch: Irish Women’s Prison Writing: Mother Ireland’s Rebels, 2010s
2022-12-08 16:00 - 17:00 | Online
Join us for the launch of a new book from Routledge Press by Red Washburn – Irish Women’s Prison Writing: Mother Ireland’s Rebels, 1960-2010s. This book explores 50 years of Irish women’s prison writing, connecting the work of women leaders and writers in the Six Counties of Ireland during the Troubles. The book documents and analyzes the ongoing Irish freedom struggle from an abolitionist feminist perspective, using personal correspondence, auto/biographical narratives, and poetry of the following key women: Bernadette McAliskey, Eileen Hickey, Mairéad Farrell, Síle Darragh, Ella O’Dwyer, Martina Anderson, Dolours Price, Marian McGlinchey (formerly Marian Price), Áine and Eibhlín Nic Giolla Easpaig (Ann and Eileen Gillespie), Roseleen Walsh, and Margaretta D’Arcy.
Speakers:
Red Washburn is the author of the poetry collections Crestview Tree Woman and Birch Philosopher X as well as the academic monograph Irish Women’s Prison Writing: Mother Ireland’s Rebels, 1960-2010s. Red is Professor of English and Director of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Kingsborough and Affiliate Faculty of Women’s and Gender Studies at the Graduate Center (CUNY).
Margaretta D’Arcy is a playwright and filmmaker. She was in Armagh Jail and her writings are included in this collection of women’s prison writing. She is a member of Aosdana and lives in Galway.
Eugene O’Brien, editor of the Routledge Series in Irish Literature, is Associate Professor, and Head of Department of English Language and Literature, in Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland.
Nata Duvvury, Associate Professor and Head, Discipline of Gender and Women’s Studies, School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway.
Registration
Please register via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/473356009567

Centre for Irish Studies Seminar Series: “Did Punk Save Belfast?”
2022-12-08 16:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, University of Galway
Irish Studies Seminar Series – Semester 1 2022-23
“Did Punk Save Belfast?”
Professor Kevin Dunn, Dept. of International Relations, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, US

Seminar Abstract:
There is a saying, often attributed to Terri Hooley of Good Vibrations record store and label, that punk flourished in Northern Ireland in the 1970s because “we needed it more.” The general claim is that the punk scene that emerged in Northern Ireland, particularly around Belfast, was instrumental for offering youths of that time a way not to just escape from stultifying sectarianism of The Troubles, but also a means by which to push back and exert their own agency.
This talk explores the validity of those claims, while offering a more nuanced and complicated narrative of the Belfast punk scenes. In particular, this talk will move beyond a myopic focus on the 1970s scene employed by most narratives to explore the less well-known but more politically significant Belfast punk scenes of the 1980s and 1990s.

Art of the Wake: Presentation and Collaborative Artwork
2022-12-08 13:00 - 16:30 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room & The O’Donoghue Centre
You are cordially invited to an afternoon’s exploration and contribution to of the work of Carol Wade, (Twitter @artofthewake), who has spent the past 14 years illustrating James Joyce’s notoriously elusive Finnegans Wake as she understands it, and who is on her second painting-route through the novel.
Carol will discuss her project of illustrating this rich and engaging novel from 1-2:30 in THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room. This will be followed by a workshop in the Seminar Room of the O’Donoghue Centre from 3-4:30.
James Joyce’s connection to Galway City has long been a matter of record. Indeed, he carried in his pocket a copy of the 17th Century Pictorial Map of Galway that resides in the James Hardiman Library of the University of Galway.
While Ulysses is a book that is very much rooted in Dublin life and Dublin ways, Finnegans Wake is a book of all Ireland, and, specifically, and Ireland that is part of Europe. References to Galway abound in the text, as we pass through Maamtrasna, Barna, Flaggy Bridge, Spanish Place, Tuam, Clifden, Coole Park, Salthill, Letternoosh, Letterpeak, the Claddagh, Prospect Hill, and Slyne Head in the voyage of this work. Any reader who has strolled Galway’s streets will find their own footprints in the book.
The Project
Carol Wade will produce a collaborative artwork, reflecting the Galway of Finnegans Wake into which she will incorporate elements of stories contributed by workshop participants. All staff, students, and members of the public are invited to contribute to stories, anecdotes, and recollections of Galway City and County Life Over the next few months, Carol will incorporate them into the artwork which she will then donate to the Moore Institute of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Galway.
The project will take inspiration from the 17th century pictorial map of Galway housed in the James Hardiman Library at the University of Galway, along with contemporary maps and local historical records.
Suggested Contributions
* Stories about Galway handed down from neighbours or family members, either orally or in written form
* Joyce’s connection to places in Galway, e.g. the Marconi Station in Clifden
* Events that took place and featured in his work. e.g. The Maamtrasna Murders, Ballybrit Races
* People linked to Galway who appear in his works, e.g. Lord Ardilaun of Ashford Castle
* Nora Barnacle’s Galway
The Artist
The imagery in the Wake has inspired Carol to create over 100 paintings and drawings to date; in addition, she has illustrated the whole book page by page. It has been a real joy for her to be able to share these artworks on the website artofthewake.com and on twitter under “Art of the Wake” where almost 5,000 followers actively follow and comment on the work.
Carol is an artist living and working in the heart of Ireland. Since graduating from The National College of Art and Design she has a had passion for exploring how the cultural footprints of our ancestors have evolved in layers from the bog road of Corlea to the cobbles of Moore Street.
For Carol, who grew up in Dublin raised by Dubliners, the language of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake is the language of her childhood. The quick wit, the humour and the characters of the city combined, manifested themselves in her everyday experiences. From the first time she heard the spoken word of Finnegans Wake she had an immediate affinity with the book, recognising the characters as still being alive in Dublin’s older generation. It was this recognition that drove the realisation that this culture was still alive but would soon be gone and she was compelled to embark on the challenge of illustrating this marvellous piece of work through the lens of those still with us. The Art of the Wake is the name Carol’s has given this undertaking.
Joyce has created a wonderful tapestry of historical, social, and cultural references in Finnegans Wake. The Art of the Wake seeks to weave some of these references into illustrations with the same playful wit for which Joyce was renowned.
Carol is a Visiting Fellow at the Moore Institute for the Humanities and Social Studies at the University of Galway.
Registration
Please register for the event here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/art-of-the-wake-presentation-and-collaborative-artwork-tickets-479077382347

Book Launch: Authors and the World. Literary Authorship in Modern Germany
2022-12-01 17:00 - 18:00 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Book Launch: Authors and the World. Literary Authorship in Modern Germany
by Professor Rebecca Braun
Introduction, Dr Tina Karen Pusse
(School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, University of Galway)
You are cordially invited to celebrate the launch of Prof. Rebecca Braun’s new book Authors and the World (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/authors-and-the-world-9781501391026/). The event will feature an introduction by Dr Tina Karen Pusse (School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, University of Galway) and an open-ended conversation between Prof. Braun and Prof. Caitríona Ní Dhúill (University College Cork) on working with living authors in your research.
Refreshments will be provided.
Registration
To help us with the numbers for catering, please register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-authors-and-the-world-rebecca-braun-tickets-460107312357

Pan Pan Theatre Archive Symposium and Digital Exhibition Launch
2022-11-29 14:00 - 18:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Pan Pan Theatre Archive Symposium and Digital Exhibition Launch
Founded in 1993 by Co-Artistic Directors, Gavin Quinn and Aedín Cosgrove, Pan Pan Theatre Company have been at the forefront of theatre and culture in Ireland and internationally for the last thirty years. The Pan Pan Archive, now fully catalogued and available at University of Galway Library Archives, is a leading resource for the study and engagement of the rich history one of Ireland’s most innovative theatre companies.
The Pan Pan Archive and Digital Exhibition will be launched by Willie White, Director, Dublin Theatre Festival. The digital exhibition, Pan Pan Theatre Company: An Archival Journey, curated by Dr. Barry Houlihan and Aafke van Pelt, is accessible online here.

Date: 29th November
Symposium: 2pm-5pm
Archive and Exhibition Launch: 5pm to 6pm
Venue: The Bridge Room, Hardiman Building
Schedule and Details: https://tinyurl.com/3jhsav47
Contact: barry.houlihan@universityofgalway.ie
All welcome to attend.

Sport & Exercise Research Group Virtual Seminar: Psychology and Performance in Sport
2022-11-29 12:00 - 14:00 | Online
Sport & Exercise Research Group Virtual Seminar:
Psychology and Performance in Sport
Prof. Jane Walsh
School of Psychology, University of Galway

Link to Virtual Lecture:
https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/24fe7721c5f5415594bbf6f5df560c27
Abstract
In this seminar Prof. Jane Walsh will look at the evidence from Sports Psychology to provide insight into the key characteristics and mental strategies used by top performers in sport. Jane will draw on recent sporting examples to illustrate how characteristics such as mental toughness and emotional stability are key factors in success and provide examples of how strategies such as goal setting and control of effort have to been used by athletes to break world records. Prof. Walsh will provide an answer the question on everyone’s mind….’Can we learn these strategies for peak performance?’ You will have to turn up to find out these answers and more about the key to success in sport (and life!).
Biography
Prof. Jane Walsh is a lecturer in Health Psychology in University of Galway. Her research is underpinned by the theme ‘Health Behaviour for Healthy Ageing’. She is the Director of the mHealth Research Group and recently secured grants in excess of €8 million euro in EU funding to conduct research on how novel technologies can be harnessed to deliver personalised evidence-based interventions to promote healthy ageing. Jane is the Co-Leader of the Health and Wellbeing Cluster in the Whitaker Institute, a member of the Irish Cancer Society Research Advisory Board and an Associate Editor of the Journal Psychology and Health.
Jane has given several keynotes both nationally and internationally on related topics including: The Physical and Psychological Benefits of Exercise and Mindset and Peak Performance in Sport. Jane is a keen triathlete and has won medals in track and field, cross country running, open water swim races and triathlons.
For further information on the Sport & Exercise Research Group, please visit: https://mooreinstitute.ie/research-group/sport-identity-representation/

DECARBONIZING RESEARCH METHODS ONLINE WORKSHOP
2022-11-25 14:00 - 15:30 | online via Zoom
DECARBONIZING RESEARCH METHODS ONLINE WORKSHOP
25th of November 2022
2.00pm-3.30pm
Online on ZOOM

REGISTRATION: https://t.co/tZuZX2eE3z
Info: This online event is an interdisciplinary workshop to discuss how best to decarbonize our research methods and to make our work more sustainable as researchers. This online-only workshop will build on the discussions and debates from the in-person and streamed Decarbonizing Research Methods workshop held in the Moore Institute on the 18th November 2022.
This event will also expand our breadth of discussion by including experts and contributors on an all-Ireland basis, as well as participants from national and international institutions. All welcome. Previous attendance at the in-person meeting is not required to participate.
For further information and zoom link, please contact co-organisers Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha or Ashley Cahillane.
L.NICHOISTEALBHA1@nuigalway.ie / a.cahillane1@nuigalway.ie

Duilleoga an Easpaig i Leabhar Ua Maine
2022-11-25 12:30 - 13:30 | Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom
Beidh an léacht deiridh sa tsraith léachtaí um lón, Duilleoga an Easpaig i Leabhar Ua Maine leis An Ollamh Pádraig Ó Macháin, Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh, ar an Aoine, 25 Samhain @ 12:30 i.n. i Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom.
Is féidir clárú anois ar https://tinyurl.com/padraig-omachain

Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History
2022-11-24 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History
Prof. Mary Burke (University of Connecticut)
The Irish in America racially transformed multiple times: in the slave-holding Caribbean, on America’s frontiers and antebellum plantations, and along the eastern seaboard. This paper considers the cultural history of race and centuries of Irishness in the Americas, looking at the forcibly transported Irish, the eighteenth-century Presbyterian Ulster-Scots, and post-1845 Famine immigrants. History is Gothic in Irish-American narrative because the undead Irish past replays within America’s contexts of race.

Book Launch: Writing the History of Slavery
2022-11-23 17:30 - 19:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
You are cordially invited to the launch of
Writing the History of Slavery
(Bloomsbury Academic, 2022)
Edited by David Doddington & Enrico Dal Lago

The book will be launched by Prof. Dan Carey

University of Galway History Seminar: Screening of the film, I’m Here, I’m Home, I’m Happy
2022-11-23 16:00 - 17:30 | online via Zoom
University of Galway History Seminar:
Screening of the film, I’m Here, I’m Home, I’m Happy,
followed by an interview with its director, Orla Egan (Cork LGBT Archive)

Abstract:
I’m Here, I’m Home, I’m Happy is the new film from the Cork LGBT Archive. The film uses extracts from oral history interviews and items from the Cork LGBT Archive, to explore the lives of some LGBT people in Cork in the 1970s and 1980s. It explores how the Cork LGBT community provided a sense of connection, belonging, mutual support and fun to LGBT people at a time of criminalisation, prejudice and discrimination. The participants talk about the community spaces, parties, pubs, clubs and political activism. “It was fun, Cork in the 1980s was so much fun.”
Registration
This talk will be delivered online, via Zoom. Register here for the link: https://forms.office.com/r/70yHPLYBUA
The seminar will also be livestreamed in Room 1001, Hardiman Research Building (Bridge Seminar Room).
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Research Seminar series.

Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar (Online): The ‘disneyization’ of football: entertainment multinationals and global dynamics of the most popular sport in the world
2022-11-22 12:00 - 14:00 | Online
Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar (Online)
The ‘disneyization’ of football: entertainment multinationals and global dynamics of the most popular sport in the world
Dr. Xavier Ginesta, Universitat Central de Catalunya (UVic-UCC)
12pm (GMT) / 1pm (CET)

Virtual Link to join seminar:
https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/7156da250ca144aea3f0078f42ea7a3a
Abstract
Football has entered a vicious circle: the increase in clubs’ revenues is directly proportional to the increase in players’ salaries (Hold, Tomlinson & Young, 2011; Cleland, 2015). The need to increase revenues has forced football clubs to look for new markets and new audiences. This is taking place in a context of globalisation of sport and the digital revolution. Currently, the corporate media that clubs created during the first decade of the century, taking advantage of the Internet (Ginesta, 2020), have been overtaken by two factors: the fan’s perception that corporate media lived off “political correctness” and the emergence of OTTs that have opened up a world of possibilities for sports organisations to reach new, younger audiences with new entertainment content for on-demand consumption.
Many studies have focused on the management of corporate media in football, and even on the potential of social networks. But, research in Communication and Sport has to go one step further: we should analyze the transformation of clubs into “content factories”, into audiovisual production studios, with multiple formats, clients and strategic objectives. In Italy, Inter Milan has been a pioneer and, in Spain, Barça Studios represents a substantial change in the way the club relates to its audiences and has link the club into the new digital revolution, exemplified by the emergence of NFT. Based on a typological sample of interviewees – using a semi-structured questionnaire – linked to elite football in the Big Five leagues (Germany, Spain, England, France and Italy), this presentation conceptualises football clubs as new entertainment multinationals. They are important actors for the development of the audiovisual industry in the Western countries and they become maximum representatives of a trend that speaks to us of the disneyzation of elite sport (O’Brien, Holden & Ginesta, 2020).
Bio
Xavier Ginesta is Senior Lecturer at the University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia. He also collaborates with the Olympic Studies Centre at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain. His main research interests are Sport Management, Communication and Politics and Sport Place Branding. His research has been published in several international journals, such as Communication & Sport, Soccer & Society or the American Behavioural Scientist. He has published the book untitled Les multinacionals de l’entreteniment. Futbol, diplomàcia, identitat i tecnologia [Entertainment Multinationals. Football, diplomacy, identity and technology] (Editorial UOC, 2020) and he is the co-editor of the volume Sport, Globalisation and Identity. New Perspectives on Regions and Nations (Routledge, 2020). He is a member of the TRACTE research group at UVic-UCC [Audiovisual Translation, Communication and Territory] and is member of the Sports Management Advisory Board at Widener University (Chester, PA).

CAMPS Lab: Damsels, Deluge, and the Dindshenchas: A Look at the Relationship between Women and Water in Select Dindshenchas Texts
2022-11-18 12:00 - 14:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
CAMPS LAB
Damsels, Deluge, and the Dindshenchas: A Look at the Relationship between Women and Water in Select Dindshenchas Texts
Anne Williams (Special Collections, Hardiman Library)
Ties between women and water can be found in many stories throughout early Irish literature and folklore. Dindshenchas, or ancient place-name lore largely recorded in the Middle Ages, is some of the richest sources of these tales. In this presentation, I will explore the relationship between women and water in the dindshenchas of the rivers Shannon and Boyne, and what the meaning of that relationship could be. From baptism and religious conversion of pagan women to inundation and mutilation for sacred knowledge, this presentation will explore a broad range of themes situating the dindshenchas of the Shannon and Boyne rivers in their intellectual and literary context.
Centre for Antique, Medieval & Pre-Modern Studies (CAMPS) website: https://www.universityofgalway.ie/camps/
If you wish to register for CAMPS mailing list, please send a blank email to: camps-galway+subscribe@googlegroups.com

Decarbonising Research Methods Workshop
2022-11-18 09:00 - 14:00 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Event description
This half-day workshop event will bring together researchers and students in an interdisciplinary event that explores the carbon impact of our research methods and undertakings, and whether we can, as researchers and students, work towards decarbonizing our research methods.
From our own context in the University of Galway, our Climate Action and Sustainability Strategy (2021-2025) states that the university aims ‘to embed carbon management into all University operations and processes with a view to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 in line with global efforts to limit warming to 1.5˚C’. The urgency of this goal is underscored by the latest IPCC report which warns that the world has just three years before warming exceeds this 1.5˚C threshold.
As a central part of university operations and processes, research itself should also aim towards net-zero emissions. But how can this be done? During this workshop, researchers will have the opportunity to discuss the carbon management of their own research methodologies and advance ideas about how the research and studies undertaken in our institutes can be decarbonized. There will be options for streaming and online attendance for this event.
This workshop is co-hosted by the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, and the Irish Humanities Alliance.
Light refreshments will be provided on the day.
In order to provide further opportunity for discussion and outreach, a fully online workshop on decarbonizing research will take place at 2pm, 25th of November 2022, on Zoom. This event will provide an online platform to those who cannot attend in person and will also allow dialogue across Irish universities and further afield, as well as developing the conversations started during the in-person event. You do not have to attend both events but would be very welcome to do so.
Please note that places are limited for the in-person workshop, due to the capacity of the room. With this in mind, and in order to provide accurate numbers for catering, we kindly ask you to register for the in-person event using the form below. While you do not have to formally register for the Zoom workshop, you can also indicate your interest for this event on this form.
Registration form
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdsf5sEbl8DIellktzQJt5lfhZJe7HYjPZB11WFZaXjvWT_-w/viewform?usp=sf_link

Further information
Please contact l.nichoistealbha1@nuigalway.ie or a.cahillane1@nuigalway.ie for further information.
Ashley Cahillane
School of English and Creative Arts
Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha
Roinn na Gaeilge agus Roinn an Léinn Éireannaigh

Book Launch: Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1530-1700 Suppression, Migration and Reintegration
2022-11-17 17:00 - 18:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Registration
If you would like to attend this event, please register via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/book-launch-by-bronagh-ann-mcshane-tickets-433510651027
Dr Bronagh Ann McShane is a historian specialising in the history of women, religion and confessionalisation in early modern Ireland and Europe. Her research has been funded by the Irish Research Council, the National University of Ireland and the Royal Irish Academy. She has published widely in international peer-reviewed journals including, British Catholic History, Archivium Hibernicum and the Journal of Historical Network Research. She is co-editor (with Dr Frances Nolan) of the forthcoming special issue of Irish Historical Studies, ‘A new agenda for women’s and gender history in Ireland’ (Cambridge University Press, Nov. 2022). Her monograph, Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1530-1700: Suppression, Migration and Reintegration (published with Boydell and Brewer in October 2022), is the first comprehensive study of the lives and experiences of Irish women religious in the early modern period. She currently lectures at the Department of History, University of Limerick.
Follow Bronagh Ann McShane on Twitter: @BA_McShane
Contact: bronagh.mcshane@universityofgalway.ie

Invitation to participate in discussions/activities relating to Digital Humanities Research
2022-11-17 14:00 - 15:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
The Digital Humanities (DH) Research Group at the Moore Institute would like to invite anyone working on a DH-related project, or planning such projects, or who just have an interest in learning more about DH, to a meeting on Thursday 17 November 2–3pm in the Bridge Room (THB-1001, first floor of the Hardiman Research Building).
The purpose of the meeting is to welcome new faces and to organise activities to support the community during this academic year.
Agenda:
1) Welcome new people and projects
2) Starting a new DH seminar series
3) Identifying training needs
4) Identifying other needs in the community
5) AOB
We encourage anyone interested in joining the group to sign up to our new mailing list: send a blank e-mail to dh-galway+subscribe@googlegroups.com. (When you receive a response, send a blank reply to confirm your subscription.)
Enquiries to Pádraic Moran: padraic.moran@universityofgalway.ie
Pádraic Moran (SLLC) & Justin Tonra (SECA)

Creative Futures Seminar in association with TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
2022-11-17 10:30 - 14:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
The Creative Futures Research Group in collaboration with the TULCA Festival of Visual Arts invites you to participate in a Creative Futures Seminar.
Drawing together academics and artists, this seminar explores how creative practitioners and thinkers can work together to prepare for future challenges, imagine future possibilities, and reflect on future forms of art-making, thinking, and living. The session draws together scholars from the University of Galway and Queen’s University Belfast, who will engage in discussion of three readings (details below). The seminar will be followed by a public event at 16.00 as part of the TULCA Festival of Visual Art, which will include a special improvised performance from the -ence collaborative project.
We will be discussing the following readings as part of the seminar:

Braun, Rebecca, ‘Literary Futures. How Fiction can Help Policy-Makers’, in: Routledge Handbook of Social Futures, ed. Carlos López Galviz and Emily Spiers (Routledge, 2021), pp. 189-197.
Grosz, Elizabeth, ‘Thinking the New: Of Futures Yet Unthought’, Symplokē6, no. 1/2 (1998): 38–55.
Grosz, Elizabeth, ‘Feminist Futures?’ Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature21, no. 1 (2002): 13–20.

Registration
We invite you to participate in the seminar by signing up via the link provided below. Spaces are limited and will be assigned on a first come first served basis. Registration is essential: https://forms.office.com/r/L13gQKytyU
We will be circulating more details in due course. In the meantime, if you have any questions please contact patrick.lonergan@universityofgalway.ie.

Galway Book Launch: The Presidents' Letters. An Unexpected History of Ireland
2022-11-16 17:00 - 18:00 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
GALWAY BOOK LAUNCH AND SAMPLE EXHIBITION
Celebrating the paperback edition of Flor MacCarthy’s bestselling The Presidents’ Letters

Guest Speaker: Teresa Mannion, Senior News Journalist, RTÉ
Music: Niamh Ní Charra
A small exhibition of material from the Mary Robinson archive in the University of Galway, not yet available to the public, curated by archivist Niamh Ní Charra, will be on display for this special event.
Queries to: info@newisland.ie
REGISTRATION
Please register via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-presidents-letter-paperback-edition-launch-galway-nov-16th-tickets-461718050117

University of Galway History Research Seminar: ‘Clothing – whether home-made or bought?’: Non-elite clothing acquisition along the western seaboard of Ireland in the late nineteenth century
2022-11-16 16:00 - 17:30 | Online, via Zoom
University of Galway History Research Seminar
‘Clothing – whether home-made or bought?’: Non-elite clothing acquisition along the western seaboard of Ireland in the late nineteenth century
Dr Eliza McKee
(UK National Archives)

Abstract
The consumption of clothing among the lower classes in Ireland has been overlooked in existing historiography. This paper will shed light on the routine clothing consumption practices of the poorer classes along the western seaboard of Ireland. The paper draws on evidence from the Congested Districts Board baseline reports dating from the 1890s. The Congested Districts Board was established to find long-term solutions to rural poverty in the west of Ireland. Eighty-four congested districts were identified, and reports were compiled by inspectors to ascertain the socio-economic condition of the people in the districts and to inform improvement measures. The reports provide an insight into the clothing practices of the lower classes and the acquisition methods they used to obtain dress in the late nineteenth century. One question on the reports asked whether clothing was generally home-made or bought by residents, and other questions explored local industries. The answers reveal information on textile production and material knowledge. The paper will explore what the reports reveal on the county-by-county differences in clothing practice and the commercial and non-commercial acquisition methods utilised, as well as the internal county differences that existed between highland and lowland, rural and urban areas, coastal and inland, mainland or island areas of the counties. It will also explore how the lower classes used clothing supply networks, what the reports reveal about ideas of fashion, the sartorial aspirations of the poorer classes, and the differences that emerge according to age, gender and between everyday clothing and Sunday best dress.
Registration
This talk will be delivered online, via Zoom. Register here for the link: https://forms.office.com/r/cCTk5rr0V7
The seminar will also be livestreamed in Room 1001, Hardiman Research Building (Bridge Seminar Room).
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Research Seminar series.
Image: A child spinning and reeling wool, Donegal Highlands, c. 1890-1900. Robert John Welch (U.M., BELUM.Y.W.04.99.3)

Translation and Territory - Seminar series: The transboundary nature of crisis translation
2022-11-16 13:00 - 14:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Translation and Territory – Seminar series
The transboundary nature of crisis translation
Prof. Sharon O’Brien, DCU
Going across linguistic, cultural, technological, and political boundaries to provide translation in times of crisis.

This seminar is part of the TRANSLATION AND THE TERRITORY SEMINAR SERIES, AUTUMN 2022. Events organized by the Emily Anderson Centre for Translation Research and Practice funded by the University of Galway’s Researcher Development Scheme.

Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar: Psychology and Performance in Sport
2022-11-15 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar
Psychology and Performance in Sport
Prof. Jane Walsh, School of Psychology, University of Galway
Abstract
In this seminar Prof. Jane Walsh will look at the evidence from Sports Psychology to provide insight into the key characteristics and mental strategies used by top performers in sport. Jane will draw on recent sporting examples to illustrate how characteristics such as mental toughness and emotional stability are key factors in success and provide examples of how strategies such as goal setting and control of effort have to been used by athletes to break world records. Prof. Walsh will provide an answer the question on everyone’s mind….’Can we learn these strategies for peak performance?’ You will have to turn up to find out these answers and more about the key to success in sport (and life!).
Biography
Prof. Jane Walsh is a lecturer in Health Psychology in University of Galway. Her research is underpinned by the theme ‘Health Behaviour for Healthy Ageing’. She is the Director of the mHealth Research Group and recently secured grants in excess of €8 million euro in EU funding to conduct research on how novel technologies can be harnessed to deliver personalised evidence-based interventions to promote healthy ageing. Jane is the Co-Leader of the Health and Wellbeing Cluster in the Whitaker Institute, a member of the Irish Cancer Society Research Advisory Board and an Associate Editor of the Journal Psychology and Health.
Jane has given several keynotes both nationally and internationally on related topics including: The Physical and Psychological Benefits of Exercise and Mindset and Peak Performance in Sport. Jane is a keen triathlete and has won medals in track and field, cross country running, open water swim races and triathlons.
For further information on the Sport & Exercise Research Group, please visit: https://mooreinstitute.ie/research-group/sport-identity-representation/

Translation and Territory – Seminar series: Frank Wynne in Conversation
2022-11-10 16:00 - 17:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Translation and Territory – Seminar series
Frank Wynne in Conversation
Translator, Writer, International Booker Prize Chair,
Recipient Dublin Literary Award 2022

This seminar is part of the TRANSLATION AND THE TERRITORY SEMINAR SERIES, AUTUMN 2022. Events organized by the Emily Anderson Centre for Translation Research and Practice funded by the University of Galway’s Researcher Development Scheme.

The School of Political Science and Sociology Research Seminar: ‘Exploring testimonial sensibilities and credibility judgments with regards to the Magdalen Laundries and the Mother and Baby Homes’
2022-11-10 13:00 - 14:00 | Cairnes Building, CA110, University of Galway
The School of Political Science and Sociology invite you to a research seminar with:
Prof. Audrey Rousseau
‘Exploring testimonial sensibilities and credibility judgments with regards to the Magdalen Laundries and the Mother and Baby Homes’
Supported by Global Women’s Studies
For decades, women and children, survivors of institutional and state violence, have kept silent with regards of what was considered immoral whether giving birth out of wedlock, being so-called “illegitimate”, or solely not adjusting to gendered societal norms. In 1990s, but more audibly from 2000s, witnesses have bravely started to tell their story publicly, offering a vivid analysis of how oppression have affected their lives but also, in many cases, the lives of their descendants. Today, their claims for recognition and reparation are taken up in the media and the political realms, including the Ryan report, the McAleese report, the Mother and Baby Homes report. Of course, those committees or inquiries are to be acknowledged, but they also need to be questioned notably in how they treated survivors accounts, and the way they often missed opportunities in challenging official historical accounts on violence. Firstly, drawing on observations from my PhD thesis, which aimed at reflecting on the capacity “as a giver of knowledge” involved in the act of remembering in the struggle for recognition of the Irish Magdalen Laundries, 1993-2014, I wish to discuss the defamatory discursive ethos (based on suspicion and blame) that has long stood in the way of women’s experiential narration. Secondly, I will explore the bases of a new comparative discourse analysis challenging the differential logic at work between the Magdalen Laundries and Mother and Baby Homes in the Republic of Ireland (1993-2022). In doing so, I hope to investigate how prejudice based on gender, class, and age, may still be at work in depicting and distributing a capital of sympathy and veracity judgment while listening sensitively to survivors, activists, and their descendants.
About:
Audrey Rousseau is an Associate professor in sociology at the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), Canada. She specializes in the study of contemporary memorial processes, including the politics of recognition and redress of historical injustices in relation to colonial and gender-based violence experienced by Indigenous peoples in Canada, as well as the confinement and forced labour of thousands of women in religious institutions in Ireland (18-20th centuries). Aside from two book chapters (University Press of Florida and Manchester University Press), she has mostly published in French-speaking journals such as Études Irlandaises, Études Féministes, and Criminocorpus

University of Galway History Seminar: An Introduction to the Digital Repository of Ireland for Researchers: From using collections to thinking about digital preservation
2022-11-09 16:00 - 17:30 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
University of Galway History Seminar:
An Introduction to the Digital Repository of Ireland for Researchers: From using collections to thinking about digital preservation
Dr Lisa Marie Griffith (Digital Repository of Ireland)

Abstract
This talk will provide an overview of collections held in the Digital Repository of Ireland that might be of interest to historical researchers and will look at how you can use some of the repository’s technical features to assist with your research. It will also ask ‘what is humanities research data’ and finally it will explore why researchers at every stage need to consider digital preservation principles when creating their own research data.
Biography
Lisa Griffith is the membership manager at the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI). She came to DRI from roles in higher education and cultural heritage, at Dublin City University (DCU) and the National Print Museum. She has a PhD in History and is a coordinator of the Dublin History Research Network. Lisa has a keen interest in book culture that has prompted her to deliver a series of podcasts, workshops, and walking tours as part of national events such as Culture Night and the Dublin Literature Festival. Lisa has also authored and edited four books on various aspects of Dublin history, including her most recent book Dublin: Then and Now (Pavilion Books, 2018), which traces changes in key cityscapes by pairing stunning archival images of Ireland’s capital with contemporary photographs. She sits on the Dublin City Culture Company Advisory Group. Lisa is a SCRUMstudy Agile Master Certified project manager and holds a certificate in Training and Continuing Education from Maynooth University.
She previously worked for five years as programme manager at DRI, as a senior administrator in the Institute of Education, DCU and as a project manager for the Research Support Office also in DCU. She was coordinator of the Culture and Heritage Studies Programme at the National Print Museum where she taught modules on Heritage, Local History, Folklore, and Ethnography and Communications.
Registration
This is a hybrid event. The paper will be delivered, in-person, in Room 1001, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway (Bridge Seminar Room) and streamed simultaneously on Zoom: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/91283727218.
To attend via Zoom, please register at: https://forms.office.com/r/yjfBFFGYD4.
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Research Seminar series.
Image: detail from Digital Repository of Ireland, Digital Archiving in Ireland (2012)

Book Launch/Seoladh Leabhair: Dhá Leagan Déag: Léargais Nua ar an Sean-nós
2022-11-08 17:00 - 18:00 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Book Launch/Seoladh Leabhair
Guest speaker/Aoichainteoir: Máirín Nic Con Iomaire
Dhá Leagan Déag: Léargais Nua ar an Sean-nós
In Eagar ag/Edited by: Philip Fogarty, Tiber Falzett, Lillis Ó Laoire
Cur i láthair/Introductory Remarks: Dr Pádraic Moran
Cló Iar-Chonnacht €20
Newly published by Cló Iar-Chonnacht, this book is an international collection of 15 essays by leading scholars about Gaelic song. The majority of papers deal with Ireland while three deal Scotland and Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. Written in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, the papers make a unique and original contribution to Gaelic Song Studies. As might be expected, there is much discussion about concepts of authenticity and the ways in which the Gaelic Revival has moulded and shaped the song tradition from inception to the present day. There are also essays on representations of song in literature and a number of explorations of personal engagement with the tradition and the need for a more innovative approach to Gaelic song to ensure its future vitality. No other collection brings such a variety of perspectives to bear on the topic.
Bailiúchán idirnáisiúnta de chúig aiste dhéag é seo a bhfuil aistí ann le scoláirí aitheanta faoi amhránaíocht na Gaeilge ó Chló Iar-Chonnacht. Pléann formhór na bpáipéar le hÉirinn ach is faoi Alba agus faoi Cheap Breatainn, in Alba Nuadh, Ceanada atá trí cinn acu. Tá na haistí scríofa i nGaeilge agus i nGaeilge na hAlban, agus tugann siad léargas nuálach ar léann na nAmhrán sa Ghaeilge. Mar a bheifí ag súil, pléitear le ceist na barántúlachta agus na slite iná mhúnlaigh an Athbheochan traidisiún na nAmhrán ón tús go dtí an lá inniu. Tá aistí sa leabhar chomh maith a bhaineann le léiriú an tsean-nóis sa litríocht. Cíorann cuid de na páipéir teagmhálacha pearsanta leis an traidisiún agus tá impí ann ar nuáil níos mó i leith na nAmhrán Gaeilge lena mbrí a chinntiú amach anseo. Níl aon leabhar eile ann a chuimsíonn oiread sin tuairimí difriúla faoin ábhar.
Refreshments served
Sóláistí ar fáil

Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar: Strength in Numbers: Data and Science in Soccer
2022-11-08 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Sport & Exercise Research Group Seminar
Strength in Numbers: Data and Science in Soccer
(Professor John Newell, Sonraí Health Data Science Research Cluster)

Professor John Newell is Professor of Biostatistics in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Galway, an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand and former Head of the Biostatistics Unit of the HRB Clinical Research Facility University of Galway. He is a member of the University of Galway’s Sonraí Health Data Science Research Cluster. Through his role as funded Principal Investigator in the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, his team of researchers help sports scientists in elite sporting organisations make sense of their data in order to improve training response, accelerate recovery and optimise performance. In this talk he will discuss and showcase recent advances in statistical approaches applied to elite sports with a particular emphasis on soccer.

Reimagining a World for Tomorrow and an Onto-Epistemological Ethics of Remembering
2022-11-07 16:00 - 18:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
The Discipline of Philosophy is delighted to welcome back one of its PhD graduates
Dr. Roisín Lally of Gonzaga University
speaking on:
Reimagining a World for Tomorrow and an Onto-Epistemological Ethics of Remembering

Abstract
Time is behind our reality structuring. Physicist/philosopher Karen Barad urges us to think about time differently. In Meeting the Universe Halfway, she offers us the theoretical tools such that we can return to earlier times and reimagine life differently. To do this requires an ontological shift in perspective which we get with Gilbert Simondon in On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects. Based on the logic of transduction, ontogenesis claims that all states of being including time, space, and matter exist in excess in each potential being. Similarly, Karen Barad’s entangled intra-relations emerges as spacetimematterings. There are no subjects as such, only intra-actions between agents. Agential beings are always already entangled in material practices. Entangled beings make it impossible to differentiate absolutely between human and nonhuman, organic and inorganic, subject and object, nature and culture, fact and value, epistemology and ontology. This paper will excavate Barad’s theory of diffraction in light of Gilbert Simondon’s ontogenesis to offer an onto-epistemological ethics that re-configures how we imagine deep time, both past and future, and take responsibility for the world we have created, and will create in the future.
Rόisín Lally teaches philosophy at Gonzaga University. Drawing on the traditions of phenomenology and metaphysics, she works at the intersection of the philosophy of technology, feminism, and sustainability. She is the author of numerous articles and chapters. She is currently writing a monograph entitled Being, Time, and Technology and co-editing a book with Daniel Bradley entitled Irish Phenomenology.

Book Launch: Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages: Personal and Public Art and Literature of the Franklin Search Expeditions
2022-11-04 17:00 - 18:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Book Launch
Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages:
Personal and Public Art and Literature of the Franklin Search Expeditions
by
Dr Eavan O’Dochartaigh
Speaker: Professor Heidi Hansson, Umeå University, Sweden

Registration:
Please register via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-of-visual-culture-and-arctic-voyages-by-eavan-odochartaigh-tickets-445310885847
Dr Eavan O’Dochartaigh is an SFI-IRC Pathway Programme Awardee at University of Galway (2022-2026) and a former Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at Umeå University, Sweden (2019-2021). Her book Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages was published by Cambridge University Press (2022). It investigates the nature of the on-board visual culture of the nineteenth-century Arctic, presenting a compelling challenge to the ‘man-versus-nature’ trope that still reverberates in polar imaginaries today. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
If you are interested in joining us for an informal dinner at John Keogh’s Gastropub following the launch, please send me an email for details: eavan.odochartaigh@universityofgalway.ie
