Moore Institute

Dominique Dubreucq - Irish connections in ecclesiastical consecration
2013-03-07 16:00 (Europe/Dublin)
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

Theatre Projects
2013-03-07 18:00, 2013-03-14 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

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.

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.

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

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

Performance Matters - Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2013-03-12 18:00, 2013-03-26 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

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

History Graduate Seminar Series: M̩idhbhÌ_n NÌ_ ÌÄå_rdail - Irish-Language Manuscripts & Books in the 18th century
2013-03-13 16:00
M̩idhbhÌ_n NÌ_ Ì_rdail
Irish-Language Manuscripts & Books in the 18th century
contact: daibhi.ocroinin@nuigalway.ie

"The Ghosts of the Past: La familia de Pascual Duarte in the Twenty-first Century" by Dr Ross Woods (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
2013-03-13 18:00
“The Ghosts of the Past: La familia de Pascual Duarte in the Twenty-first Century”.
Dr Ross Woods from the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
This seminar revisits Camilo Jos̩ Cela‰۪s La familia de Pascual Duarte, the work generally regarded as heralding the rebirth of the Spanish novel upon its publication in 1942. By examining the historical perspective from which criticism of the novel has emerged, Dr Woods offers a reassessment of the text in light of recent scholarship on representations of the past in Spanish literature. In doing so, he argues that Cela‰۪s disengagement with history in the narrative creates a distancing effect which enables readers to critically engage with the past. Ultimately, this talk aims to pose the following question: how should we be reading this novel in the twenty-first century?
For more information contact mel.boland@nuigalway.ie

Margaret Heavey Memorial Lecture 2013
2013-03-14 17:00
Margaret (Ma) Heavey was a member of staff in Classics from 1931 to 1977, Professor in Ancient Classics from 1958 and Dean of Arts 1970-1976.
The annual Margaret Heavey Memorial Lecture will take place this year on Thurs 14 March 5pm in the ÌÒ Tn̼thail Theatre (Arts Millennium Building).
Dr James Clackson (Cambridge) will give a talk entitled “How many languages were spoken in the ancient world?”. All welcome.
see www.nuigalway.ie/classics/heavey

CAMPS research lab: Dr James Clackson - Linguistic variation: Searching for spoken variation in written texts
2013-03-15 12:00
Linguistic variation: Searching for spokenvariation in written texts
A guest lecture by Dr James Clackson
Reader in Comparative Philology, University of Cambridge
Friday 15 March 2013, 12.00‰ÛÒ1.00
followed by lunch 1.00‰ÛÒ2.00
Moore Institute Seminar Room
FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch/Everyone welcome!

ECHO Seminar. Dramatic Licenses: with David Clare & Siobhan O'Gorman
2013-03-15 16:00
ECHO Seminar.
Dramatic Licenses:
with David Clare & Siobhan O’Gorman

Disability Support Service - iPad Training
2013-03-19 11:00, 2013-03-21 11:00
iPad Training
Specifically to using the following applications; Email, Notability, iAnnotate, Blackboard, and Skydrive/dropbox
This training is open to all current iPad users and those considering purchasing one. Please bring your iPad with you to this training if you own one.
For more information, please contact:
Denise Keaveney Disability Support Service Assistive Technology Office James Hardiman Library 091 49 2744

Book Launch by Dr Kevin O'Sullivan: Ireland, Africa and the end of empire: small state identity in the Cold War, 1955-75
2013-03-19 18:00
Book Launch
Ireland, Africa and the end of empire: small state identity in the Cold War, 1955-75
(Manchester UP)
The book will be launched by RÌ_isÌ_n Healy (Head of History at NUIG) and Peadar King, a documentary filmmaker who produces the RTÌä television series, What in the World?, and has just published a book of the same name, subtitled Political travels in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
For more information contact kevin.k.osullivan@nuigalway.ie

History Graduate Seminar Series: Daniel Knegt - 'Quelle Europe?' French Intellectuals between Liberalism, Internationalism and Fascism, 1930-1950
2013-03-20 16:00
Daniel Knegt
‘Quelle Europe?’ French Intellectuals between Liberalism, Internationalism and Fascism, 1930-1950
Contact: daibhi.ocroinin@nuigalway.ie

Digital Scholarship Seminar
2013-03-21 12:00
Digital Scholarship Seminar
Announcing the inaugural series of a new research seminar for researchers working in any branch of the arts and humanities who are engaged in the creation and/or exploitation of digital resources in the course of their research.
12-1pm, Thursday 21 March 2013
Marina Ansaldo (Moore Institute)Reading East: From concept to live online resource
Meaghan Connell (English, School of Humanities)The Corpus of Hiberno-English Literary Dialect: preliminary results and analysis
12-1pm, Thursday 18 April 2013
Adrian Grant (Moore Institute)Historians and new technologies
Alison McNamara (School of Education)An examination of gesture-based devices in the mathematics post-primary classroom in Ireland
12-1pm, Tuesday 14 May 2013
Deirdre NÌ_ Chonghaile (Moore Institute)AmhrÌÁin ́rann – Aran Songs: Collaborating to create a digital-friendly music resource
Patricia Prieto Blanco (Huston School)Digital materiality and the constitution of spaces of familial interaction through photography
Each DSS event will take place in the Moore Institute Seminar Room. Presentations will be followed by informal discussion (1-2pm) over a light lunch (TBC).
Contact:
PÌÁdraic Moran (Classics, School of LLC) | padraic.moran@nuigalway.ieJustin Tonra (English, School of Humanities) | justin.tonra@nuigalway.ie
www.facebook.com/nuigdss

Dr Niamh Thornton, University of Ulster, Coleraine - Macho, Macho Men (and Women): MarÌ_a F̩lix and Emilio 'el indio' FernÌÁndez in Mexican Films of the Revolution
2013-03-21 14:00
Macho, Macho Men (and Women): MarÌ_a F̩lix and Emilio ‰Û÷el indio‰۪ FernÌÁndez in Mexican Films of the Revolution
Dr Niamh Thornton, University of Ulster, Coleraine
Mexican film has repeatedly returned to the bellicose period of the Revolution (1910-20) as a source of inspiration for both plot and setting. The archetypal image of the Mexican macho can be found in the display, performances and wardrobe employed in these films, which appears, at first glance to be rigid and reactionary. Yet, they reveal an ever-increasing anxiety about men and women‰۪s roles that are worked through in a complex interplay between star text and the films‰۪ narrative, visual and audio cues, and, consequently frequently challenge convention.
Emilio ‰Û÷el indio‰۪ FernÌÁndez directed and acted in some of these films of the Revolution, whilst Maria F̩lix often had a starring role. Their films are of varying quality and have received mixed critical reception.Some, such as, Flor Silvestre (Emilio ‰Û÷el indio‰۪ FernÌÁndez, 1943) and Enamorada (Emilio ‰Û÷el indio‰۪ FernÌÁndez, 1946) are among the most celebrated films of the so-called Golden Age (1930-50).Others have been critically denigrated, such as La Cucuracha (Ismael RodrÌ_guez, 1958), Juana Gallo (Miguel ZacarÌ_as, 1960), and La Bandida (Roberto RodrÌ_guez, 1962).However, all of these engage with ideas about gender that are complicated by the often controversial personal lives of both FernÌÁndez and F̩lix, their performances on screen and the evolving nature of the public discourse about gender roles. In these films, masculinity and femininity has defined rules, which are often referred to in the plot and dialogue, yet these are transgressed and problematized repeatedly.
In order to illustrate this evolution and explore the density of the issues alluded to, this presentation will consider two contrasting films Enamorada and La Cucuracha, and consider how the attempts to allegorise gender roles is often countered by narrative, audio-visual techniques, performances and the star texts of both of these actors.

" The Sound So Melting": Ireland's Medieval Harp and Its Music
2013-03-21 17:00
‰ÛÏThe Sound So Melting…‰۝:
Ireland‰۪s Medieval Harp and Its Music:
A Seminar/concert event given by historical harpist Siobhan Armstrong in celebration of the first European Day of Early Music.
In co-operation with Galway Early Music and The Historical Harp Society of Ireland and under the umbrella of the European Early Music Network REMA.
This event will be live-streamed on U-Sophia.com as part of a European-wide day of Early Music.
For more information contact: maura.ocroinin@nuigalway.ie

Geopolitics & Justice Research Cluster 50th Anniversary Symposium
2013-03-22 09:15
Geopolitics & Justice Research Cluster 50th Anniversary Symposium
22 March, 9.15 am ‰ÛÒ 4.30 pm
Moore Institute, NUIGalway
To mark the 50th anniversary of Geography at NUI Galway, the Geopolitics and Justice Research Cluster will host a symposium on Friday, March 22nd, in the Moore Institute. The Geopolitics and Justice cluster unites interests that seek to critically interrogate practices of interventionism, development and securitization in our contemporary world along with their consequent contested forms of governmentality and justice. A common research concern lies in theorising and insisting upon more humane, nuanced and critical human geographies, and in considering urgent issues of economic, environmental and social justice.
The symposium will include overviews of current cluster research which spans key global issues respectinggeopolitics and security, structural injustices and poverty, humanitarianism and human rights, environmental and social justice, and hunger and food security. The cluster‰۪s broader public academic concerns of civic engagement, field-based learning, and public geographies and representation will also feature. To this end, the day sets out to combine academic speakers from Geography, History and Politics with development practitioners from Irish Aid, Christian Aid and NUI Galway‰۪s Community Knowledge Initiative, who will all address shared concerns of interventionism, development and justice.
Student presentations from Geography‰۪s MA in Environment, Society and Development on the theme of ‰Û÷transformative geopolitics and justice‰۪ will also form a key element of the proceedings, and signals the importance of a vibrant graduate research community integrally feeding into the enterprise and ongoing development of our research cluster. Finally, we are delighted to have as plenary speaker from the School of Geography and the Centre for the Study of Global Security and Development at Queen Mary, University of London, Dr Simon Reid-Henry.
For more information please see http://www.nuigalway.ie/geography/research/gj.html

Dr. Lorraine Kelly, Spanish, SLLC, NUI Galway: 'Narcoliterature: gender, violence and impunity'
2013-03-22 13:00
Dr. Lorraine Kelly, Spanish, SLLC, NUI Galway
‰Û÷Narcoliterature: gender, violence and impunity‰۪
Time/Date: 1.00pm, Friday 22 March, 2013
Venue: Moore Institute, NUI Galway
Sponsored by the Gender, Discourse and Identities cluster Gender ARC, Moore Institute

Professor Patrick Joyce - "What is the state? Rethinking state history".
2013-03-26 15:00
Professor Patrick Joyce, Professor of History, University of Manchester and Professorial Fellow in History, University of Edinburgh
Spring 2013: Moore Fellow, Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Professorial Fellow in History, University of Edinburgh and
Emeritus Professor of History, University of Manchester,
www.patrickjoyce.info
email:patrick.joyce@manchester.ac.uk

Chaucer's Poetry Words, authority and ethics - ClÌ_odhna Carney & Frances McCormack EDITORS
2013-03-26 17:30
FOUR COURTS PRESS ‰ۢ BOOK LAUNCH
You are cordially invited to the launch of
Chaucer‰۪s Poetry
Words, authority and ethicsClÌ_odhna Carney & Frances McCormack
editors
5.30 p.m. on Tuesday 26 March 2013 in the Moore seminar room, NUI Galway, Galway This book will be launched by MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha, Professor of Old and Middle Irish at NUI Galway.
To learn more about this book, see:
http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/product.php?intProductID=1066

History Graduate Seminar Series: Conor Morrissey - Advanced Protestant Nationalists in Ireland, c. 1900-1923
2013-03-27 16:00
Conor Morrissey
Advanced Protestant Nationalists in Ireland, c. 1900-1923
Contact: daibhi.ocroinin@nuigalway.ie

Community Knowledge Initiative (CKI) Workshop - Doing community-based research: Professor Budd Hall & Professor Darlene Clover
2013-04-11 10:00
Workshop – Doing Community-based Research
Professor Budd Hall & Professor Darlene Clover
Event Details
This day-long workshop will be co-facilitated by Professors Darlene Clover and Budd Hall and will look at the practical issues involved in establishing and sustaining community-university research partnerships. This event should be of interest to university staff and students and those involved in community and voluntary organisations.
Professor Budd Hall is Co-Chair of the UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education and Professor of Community Development in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria and Secretary of the Global Alliance on Community-Engaged Research, Budd was the founding Director of the University of Victoria Office of Community-based Research and Senior Fellow, Centre for Global Studies. Former Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria, Budd Hall has served as the Chair of the Adult Education Department at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education or the University of Toronto from 1995-2001 and as the Secretary-General of the International Council for Adult Education from 1979-1991. Budd has worked in Nigeria, Tanzania, Venezuela, Brazil, Chile, Germany, Thailand, Yemen, Uganda, England, and the United States. He has done both theoretical and practical work for almost 40 years in various aspects of community-based adult education and learning and participatory research. He has served as President, Chair or Vice-President of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education, International Council for Adult Education, Canadian Network for Democratic Learning, the Canadian Commission for UNESCO and the Coady International Institute Advisory Board. He is a member of the International Adult Education Hall of Fame and was selected for the 2005 Canadian Bureau of International Education Innovation in International Education Award. He is the husband of Dr. Darlene Clover, father of Dana and Shawn Hall, Grandfather of Quincy Pugh Hall and Ashton Edward Hall. He is also a poet.
Darlene E. Clover is Professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Victoria, Canada. Before coming to the university in the early 2000s, she coordinated a global programme on environmental adult education for the International Council for Adult Education (ICAE). Her areas of teaching in the university include community, cultural and ecological leadership, adult, feminist and arts-based education and participatory and arts-based research methods. Darlene has spent many years exploring and promoting the activist work of community-based educator-artists. Her current studies (and activist work) focus on the Human Library project in Victoria and Ottawa and other critical adult education work in libraries, galleries and museums in Canada and the United Kingdom. Her most recent books include The arts and social justice: Recrafting adult education and community cultural leadership (NIACE, 2007) and Lifelong learning, the arts and community cultural development and the contemporary university: International Perspectives (In Press, Manchester University Press).
For further information please contact Ann Lyons.
To book a place please email Mary Bernard on or before Tuesday 9th April
The Community Knowledge Initiative (CKI) fosters community university partnerships that aim to promote the principles and practices of civic engagement and democracy.
Information also available on the CKI website
