The School of Political Science and Sociology Research Seminar: Uncivil War: the British Army and the Troubles, 1966-1975
2023-11-29 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Aras Moyola 331, University of Galway
The School of Political Science and Sociology invites you to a research seminar with
Dr. Huw Bennett
(Cardiff University, supported by Power, Conflict and Ideologies Cluster)
Uncivil War: the British Army and the Troubles, 1966-1975
When Operation Banner was launched in 1969 civil war threatened to break out in Northern Ireland and spread over the Irish Sea. Uncivil War reveals the full story of how the British army acted to save Great Britain from disaster during the most violent phase of the Troubles but, in so doing, condemned the people of Northern Ireland to protracted, grinding conflict. Huw Bennett shows how the army’s ambivalent response to loyalist violence undermined the prospects for peace and heightened Catholic distrust in the state. British strategy consistently underestimated community defence as a reason for people joining or supporting the IRA whilst senior commanders allowed the army to turn in on itself, hardening soldiers to the suffering of ordinary people. By 1975 militarystrategists considered the conflict unresolvable: the army could not convince Catholics or Protestants that it was there to protect them and settled instead for an unending war.
HUW BENNETT
Huw Bennett is a Reader in International Relations at the School of Law and Politics of the Cardiff University. He specializes in strategic studies, the history of war, and intelligence studies, and works on both historical and contemporary issues concerning the use of military power. His research focuses on the experiences of the British Army since 1945, in the contexts of British politics, the Cold War, the end of empire, and the War on Terror.
All Welcome!

Book Launch: GALWAY: MAKING A CAPITAL OF CULTURE
2023-11-30 18:30 - 19:30 | Signify Health, Alcantara Building, Bonham Quay, Galway, H91 AX8R
Orpen Press is pleased to invite you to the launch of
GALWAY: MAKING A CAPITAL OF CULTURE
BY
Patrick Collins
The book will be launched by Patricia Forde, Laureate na nÓg
With a welcome by
President of University of Galway
Professor Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh
RSVP
info@orpenpress.com
WWW.ORPENPRESS.COM

Transnational Access Fellowship Programme (TNA) call for fellowship applications
2023-12-04
Transnational Access Fellowship Programme (TNA) is now opening its fifth round of calls for fellowship applications (closes 4 Dec).
The University of Galway is one of five possible hosts of fellows accepting fellows into the TNA programme.
The CLS INFRA Fellowship Programme provides access to a wide range of data, tools and knowledge. Scholars from literary studies or with an interest in Computational Literary Studies methods are invited to apply for a fellowship grant in one of our infrastructure providers. Successful applicants will not only obtain free-of-charge physical access to the infrastructure, but in the context of the overall project they will become part of the larger CLS community. By responding to one of our calls, applicants may have the opportunity to:

Interact with experts;
Receive advice on ongoing projects;
Learn how to use the ecosystem of data, tools and standards;
Assemble new literary corpora;
Profit from hands-on training and support.
Fellowships grants will cover housing and subsistence costs as well as travel to and from the host institution. The CLS INFRA Fellowships are funded by the European Union under the rules of transnational access.

Calls for fellowship grants are launched twice a year for a total of six calls. Scholars from the European Union and beyond are eligible to apply. CLS INFRA fellowship grants will typically cover travel and subsistence costs. Successful applicants are expected to join the chosen infrastructure for a period of 4 to 12 weeks. However, shorter residencies will be also taken into consideration.
DARIAH ERIC is leading the Transnational Access Fellowship Programme (TNA) and is responsible for the management and oversight of the TNA selection process.
More on the CLS INFRA project: clsinfra.io
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101004984.
Visit clsinfrattna.sciencescall.org to apply.
For examples of other TNA Fellowships, visit the TNA Archive: clsinfra.io/opportunities/tnafellowships/tna-archive
Applications will close at 24.00 4 December.
Contact: Marco Raciti
Email: marco.raciti@dariah.eu

CAMPS Lab: Traditional Child Funerary Rites in Ireland
2023-12-08 12:00 - 14:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
CAMPS Labs
Centre for Antique, Medieval, and Pre-Modern Studies
2023-2024
8 December
Pádraig Ó Héalaí
Traditional Child Funerary Rites in Ireland
19 January
Padráic Moran, Mary Sweeney, and Chiara Corongiu
The Glossam Project
9 February
Kim LoPrete
The Cultivation of Holy Men in the Long 1070s by Thibaud III, Count of Blois,
Chartres, Meaux, and Troyes
8 March
Colleen Curran & Christian Schweizer
Project Reports: BretPal and DICUIL
TBC
Jacopo Bisagni & Andrew Ó Donnghaile
17 May (TBC)
Mike Bintley, Ciaran Arthur, and Frances McCormack
Old English Pedagogy Roundtable

16 Days of Activism with Global Women's Studies
2023-12-08 14:00 - 16:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
The global campaign for the 16 Days of Activism to End Gender-Based Violence runs from the 25th of November until the 10th of December.
To mark the 2023 campaign, and the theme of Unite! Activism to End Violence against Women and Girls, the Centre for Global Women’s Studies is engaging in the following ways:
1. A panel discussion will be held on the 8th of December, 2-4pm, THB-G010, Hardiman Research Building, followed by a reception. Speakers include Robyn Gannon (Aoibhneas Domestic Abuse Support), Kaata Minah (Purposeful, Sierra Leone), Lennita Ruggi (PhD Candidate with a focus on Feminist Activism for Gender Equality at University of Galway) and Lorraine Hayman (PhD Candidate with a focus on Cybersexual Violence).
Discussants:
Sarahjane Grennan, Psychological Support Service Team Manager at Galway Rape Crisis Centre
Prof. Niamh Reilly, School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway

2. The 2023 Volume of Dearcadh: Graduate Journal of Gender, Globalisation and Rights will be formally launched at the event of the 8th December

3. An X campaign to raise awareness about activism on Gender-Based Violence will be running throughout the 16 Days. To get notifications follow us @CGWSuniofgalway
We encourage you all to take part in the 16 Days Campaign with the Centre for Global Women’s Studies.

Background:
The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an international civil society led campaign that takes place each year. It commences on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and ends on 10 December, Human Rights Day, indicating that violence against women is the most pervasive breach of human rights worldwide. It was originated by activists at the inaugural Women’s Global Leadership Institute in 1991. It is used as an organizing strategy by individuals and organizations around the world to call for the prevention and elimination of violence against women and girls (VAWG). (UN Women, 2023).

Book Launch of Czerniewicz, L and Cronin, C Eds. (2023) Higher Education for Good
2023-12-11 14:30 - 15:30 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Please join us on December 11th for the Galway launch of the book Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures. This new, open access book is a rich, diverse collection edited by Laura Czerniewicz and Catherine Cronin, and authored by academics and professionals from 17 countries and multiple disciplines, including Su-Ming Khoo (Political Science & Sociology, University of Galway). You can access the book here.
Higher Education for Good offers hopeful new ways of thinking about higher education across a range of contexts, and how to concretise initiatives to deal with local and global challenges. In an unusual and refreshing way, the contributors provide insights about resilience tactics and collective actions across different levels of higher education using an array of styles and formats including essays, poetry, and speculative fiction.
This book launch event at the University of Galway will feature contributions from Catherine Cronin, Su-Ming Khoo, Kate Molloy (Atlantic Technological University) and Duduzile Unathi Ndlovu (University of Galway), as well opportunities for questions and discussion. Refreshments will be available.
Please forward this message to colleagues who also may be interested in attending. We hope to see you!
“This book is an experience, not just something to read. The originality of the book’s contribution lies not only in its engaging formats of images, prose, poetry and more, but in the inspiring and important intellectual contribution made by the chapters individually and collectively.” – Jan McArthur, Head of Educational Research, Lancaster University, UK
“The glimmers of optimism and hope for the future…provided by the authors … may help to change not only universities but the world.” – Caroline Guzmán-Valenzuela, Professor of Higher Education, Universidad de Tarapacá, Chile
“The authors in this stunning new book are not unaware of the power of institutions labouring under the weight of a political economy that reduces academic work to market value. What, then, about the “pockets of freedom” (Raaper, 2019) in universities that can be exploited to do the work of resistance and generate alternatives to teaching, learning, assessment, and the making of curriculum?…This courageous book works with an unspoken proposition, that we cannot wait for the neoliberal university to transform itself.” – Jonathan Jansen, Distinguished Professor of Education, University of Stellenbosch, and President of the Academy of Science of South Africa.
Registration
Please use the Eventbrite link to register for this event: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/galway-book-launch-higher-education-for-good-tickets-759585238897
This event is co-hosted by the Discipline of Sociology, Cillian Joy, Hardy Schwamm and Iain MacLaren in th Library, Open Scholarship Community and CELT, respectively.
This is an open-access publication, which you can access from Open Book Publishers here: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0363

CLASSICS POST-GRADUATE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
2023-12-12 10:00 - 16:00 | THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
CLASSICS POST-GRADUATE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
12TH DECEMBER 2023, THB G011
10.00 – 10.15 Arrival
10.15 – 10.30 Welcome and Opening: Edward Herring
10.30 – 12.00 PANEL I · LIVES AND CHARACTERISATIONS
Chair: Pádraic Moran
Christian Schweizer: ‘Dicuil and DICUIL’
Honor Faughnan: ‘The Language of Wisdom in the Epistulae Senecae
ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam’
Érin McKinney: ‘Brigit for the people? Bilingualism and audience in
Bethu Brigte, the Old Irish Life of St Brigit’
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch Break
13.00 – 14.30 PANEL II · PARATEXTUAL MANUSCRIPT STUDIES
Chair: Jacopo Bisagni
Darcy Ireland: ‘On Sobriety and Drunkenness: Reassessing an Unedited Text
in León, Archivo Capitular MS 22’
Chiara Corongiu: ‘The trigon sign within the Book of Mulling’
Mary Sweeney: ‘‘Dislocated Glosses’ in the Tradition of Priscian’s
Institutiones Grammaticae’
14.30 – 14.45 Coffee Break
14.45 – 15.45 PANEL III · LITERARY INFLUENCE AND ALLUSION
Chair: Grace Attwood
Luke McDermott: ‘Likening Strikes Twice: Intertextuality in a Neo-Assyrian Simile’
Andrew Levie: ‘The supplanting of a Gaelic core with an Ovidian guise: Edmund Spenser’s reappropriation of the Dinnshenchas tradition’
15.45 – 16.00 Closing Remarks: Edward Herrin

Digital humanities outputs in the light of research assessment reform
2023-12-13 13:00 - 14:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & streamed live on Zoom
Digital humanities outputs in the light of research assessment reform
This session includes a presentation and discussion around the recent ALLEA report Recognising Digital Scholarly Outputs in the Humanities, which underscores the transformative impact of digital practices on humanities scholarship. It addresses challenges in digital humanities, focusing on transparency in linking resources to publications, recognising updates as scholarly contributions, reevaluating authorship, fostering digital skills, and adjusting evaluation methods. It also provides recommendations on the assessment of digital outputs like editions, databases, infographics, code, blogs, and podcasts. Each case study includes practical examples and suggested readings.
Dr Maciej Maryl is a visiting CLS INFRA Fellow at University of Galway. He is an assistant professor and founding Director of the Digital Humanities Centre at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He graduated from the University of Warsaw in Polish Philology and Applied Social Sciences and completed doctoral studies at the Graduate School for Social Research (GSSR). He is involved in European research infrastructures for digital humanities as a member of OPERAS Executive Assembly, SSH Open Cluster Governing Board, and co-chair of DARIAH Digital Methods and Practices Observatory WG. His interests include data science applied to cultural data, innovation in scholarly communication and meta-research on digital practices in the humanities.
The session will also be streamed live on Zoom. Please register at this link to attend:
https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_C1z1g-YcSFuYN4PbcVQmhQ

Event recording

Seoladh Leabhair: Ag Cur Chun Fónaimh: Údarás na Gaeltachta ó 1980 i leith
2023-12-14 19:00 - 20:00 | Stiúideo Cuan, an Spidéal
CUIREADH
Seoladh Leabhair
Ba mhór ag Cló Iar-Chonnacht, Údarás na Gaeltachta
agus Ollscoil na Gaillimhe thú a bheith i láthair
nuair a sheolfaidh Alan Esslemont, Ard-Stiúrthóir TG4,
Ag Cur Chun Fónaimh: Údarás na Gaeltachta ó 1980 i leith
in eagar ag Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh agus Breandán Mac Suibhne
Stiúideo Cuan
an Spidéal,
Déardaoin, 14 Nollaig ag 7:00 i.n.

INVITATION
Book Launch
Cló Iar-Chonnacht, Údarás na Gaeltachta, and University of Galway cordially invite you to join us for an event when Alan Esslemont, Director General of TG4, will launch
Ag Cur Chun Fónaimh: Údarás na Gaeltachta ó 1980 i leith
edited by Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh and Breandán Mac Suibhne
in Stiúideo Cuan
an Spidéal
Thursday, 14 December at 7:00 p.m.

The Material for Victory: The Memoirs of Andrew J. Kettle
2023-12-15 16:00 - 17:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
You are warmly invited to the Galway launch of the new, annotated edition of
The Material for Victory: The Memoirs of Andrew J. Kettle
Edited by Niamh Reilly with annotations by Jane O’Brien and Niamh Reilly
With guest speaker
Luke Gibbons, Maynooth University, author of James Joyce and the Irish Revolution, University of Chicago Press, 2023
Introduced by Breandán MacSuibhne
Light refreshments provided
RSVP to materialforvictory@universityofgalway.ie
Luke Gibbons has taught as Professor of Irish Studies at Maynooth University, Ireland, and the University of Notre Dame, USA. Among his recent publications are James Joyce and the Irish Revolution (University of Chicago Press, 2023), and Limits of the Visible: Representing the Irish Great Famine (Quinnipiac University/Cork University Press, 2013).
The Material for Victory is available free to download at: openpress.universityofgalway.ie/materialforvictory/.

University of Galway History Research Seminar: Gendered data in early medieval sources: Reflections from the Gendered Networks and GENCHRON projects
2024-01-10 16:00 - 17:30 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & streamed live on Zoom
Dr Máirín MacCarron (University College Cork)
Gendered data in early medieval sources:
Reflections from the Gendered Networks and GENCHRON projects
Abstract
This paper will introduce and explain the development and analysis of gendered data in two of the presenter’s funded research projects: Women, Conflict and Peace: Gendered Networks in Early Medieval Narratives (funded by the Leverhulme Trust, 2018–2021) and Time for Women? Gender, Chronology and Historiography before AD 900, GENCHRON (Irish Research Council Consolidator Laureate grant, 2022–2026). It will discuss the representation of gender and gender statistics in a selection of sources from late antiquity and the early middle ages – works of history, hagiographies and chronicles – and in modern historiography. This paper will argue that data-driven approaches can allow historians to move past a reductive view of gendered roles and the place of women in medieval society.
Biography
Dr Máirín MacCarron was appointed to the Department of Digital Humanities at UCC in 2019. Prior to this role, she held posts in the Departments of History at the University of Galway and the University of Sheffield. She was awarded the Irish Historical Research Prize 2021 for her book Bede and Time: computus, theology and history in the early medieval world (Routledge: London and New York, 2020). She is Principal Investigator of Time for Women? Gender, Chronology and Historiography before AD 900 (GENCHRON) which runs from 2022–2026, funded by an Irish Research Council Consolidator Laureate Grant. She was Co-Investigator on the research project Women, Conflict and Peace: Gendered Networks in Early Medieval Narratives funded by the Leverhulme Trust and based at the University of Sheffield from 2018–2021; and she was Co-Investigator on the Digital Edgeworth Network funded by the ‘UK-Ireland Collaboration in Digital Humanities Networking Programme’ and jointly based at Cork and Oxford, from 2020–2021.
Registration
To attend via Zoom, please register at: https://forms.office.com/e/FDWKnekvcv
This is a hybrid event. The paper will be delivered in-person, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway (ground floor) and livestreamed simultaneously on Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/98639590634.
Seminars are not recorded.
Full Programme
A full programme for this semester’s seminars is available at: University_of_Galway_History_Seminar_2023-24_Semester_02.
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Seminar series.
Image: an image of a woman feeding hens from the apse mosaic of San Clemente in Rome.

Centre for Creative Technologies masterclass series: Neuroscience of Creativity
2024-01-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Studio 3, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, University of Galway
Creativity is a key skill with increasing relevance for contemporary and future societies. This seminar presents an overview of how the human brain affords us the ability to think creatively. We will: [1] examine the neural basis of the creative process as revealed through neuroimaging methods; [2] explore why people differ in levels of creative ability; and [3] evaluate creativity-enhancing interventions including brain stimulation, pharmacological agents, and behavioural changes. Beyond understanding the production of creative work, we will also consider the recognition of creativity and how it differs to intelligence from a neuroscientific perspective. Finally, we will review experimental evidence from the Cultural Evolution literature that suggests limiting factors to innovation due to how information is transferred intergenerationally and ways we might overcome any such psychological constraints on our creativity capacity.
Speaker Bio: Dr Jane Conway is an SFI-IRC Pathway Fellow and Honorary Research Lecturer in the School of Psychology, University of Galway. She is an experimental psychologist who focuses on higher order cognition in humans, specializing in the role of culture in shaping the mental processes that allow us to represent abstract features of the world. She directs the Scientific Arts Lab, an interdisciplinary group that studies the development of scientific concept literacy through creative practice.
Registration
Please register via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/neuroscience-of-creativity-tickets-795300604517

University of Galway History Research Seminar: ‘below and above and beyond all quarrels’: The Irish Free State in the British tabloids, 1922-1932
2024-01-17 16:00 - 17:30 | In-person, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway (ground floor) and livestreamed simultaneously on Zoom
University of Galway History Research Seminar:
‘below and above and beyond all quarrels’: The Irish Free State in the British tabloids, 1922-1932
Dr Elspeth Payne (Trinity College Dublin)
Abstract
In this talk, I explore how the British popular press engaged with the newly independent Irish Free State. While situating content in its wider political context, I focus on the continued cultural and social entanglement found across the diverse tabloid news content. I consider how notable events like Saint Patrick’s Day, the Dublin Horse Show, and the Eucharistic Congress focused attention and betrayed continued press enthusiasm for all things Irish. I discuss the multifaceted types and tropes appearing daily and the ideas about Anglo-Irish connections underpinning them. Finally, I reflect on how this non-political content can be used to better understand how the tabloids navigate the political changes of the decade.
Biography
Dr Elspeth (Ellie) Payne is the Coordinator of The Democracy Forum and Research Fellow at the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute in Trinity College Dublin. The Democracy Forum brings together Arts and Humanities researchers and media practitioners to interrogate questions relating to democracy, media, and technology. She is the co-creator and co-host of History of the Future podcast series and involved in the Critical ChangeLab, an EU-funded project on democracy education. She is currently writing  working on a monograph on the British tabloids and Ireland after independence. She holds a PhD and MPhil from Trinity College Dublin and a BA from the University of Oxford.
Registration
This is a hybrid event. The paper will be delivered in-person, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway (ground floor) and livestreamed simultaneously on Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/97267209505.
Seminars are not recorded.
To attend via Zoom, please register at: https://forms.office.com/e/4LfJ8JhVCn
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Seminar series.
Image: selection of pages from the British press, 1922.

CAMPS LAB: Global and Local Scholarship on Annotated Manuscripts: an introduction to the GLOSSAM project
2024-01-19 12:00 - 14:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Pádraic Moran, Mary Sweeney, and Chiara Corongiu
Global and Local Scholarship on Annotated Manuscripts: an introduction to the GLOSSAM project
19 January 2024
THB-G010
12-2 pm
Lunch to follow & all welcome!

The School of Political Science and Sociology research seminar: “Moral obligation as a conclusive reason: On Bernard Williams’ critique of the morality system”
2024-01-24 13:00 - 14:00 | MY 331, Aras Moyola, University of Galway
The School of Political Science and Sociology invite you to a research seminar
with Dr Allyn Fives
(Discipline of Politics; Power, Conflict, and Ideologies research cluster)
“Moral obligation as a conclusive reason: On Bernard Williams’ critique of the morality system”
Bernard Williams’ critique of the morality system, as illustrated in his reading of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, is intended to show both that real moral conflicts can arise, and that a moral obligation is merely one reason among others and can be defeated by the thick concepts of a shared ethical life. I want to advance two lines of argument. First, when Williams argues that a moral obligation can be the locus of moral conflict, a further step is required to explain why one should feel regret for not acting on a defeated reason. Second, Williams presupposes that, when a conflict is resolved, the conclusive reason will be a thick concept, but there is no compelling justification for that assumption.
Please also find full paper at: Allyn_Fives_Bernard_Williams_Paper_2024.
All welcome!
Image: ‘At the feet of Athena, Greek warriors draw lots for the armour of Achilles’. Red figure Kylix, ca. 490 BCE. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria. Photo by Eric Lessing / Art Resource, NY.

University of Galway History Research Seminar: Teaching the nation’s past: Irish history in secondary schools, 1924-69
2024-01-24 16:00 - 17:30 | In-person, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway (ground floor) and livestreamed simultaneously on Zoom
University of Galway History Research Seminar:
Teaching the nation’s past: Irish history in secondary schools, 1924-69
Dr Colm Mac Gearailt (University of Galway)
Achoimre/Abstract:
What we teach shows what we value. This talk considers the version(s) of the past set for study, taught in schools, and learned by students in the Irish Free State and beyond. It tracks history as a subject, and specifically Irish history within this, from 1924, when the Department of Education was first founded, until 1969, and the period of ‘modernisation’. As part of this investigation, it examines three key research questions: Firstly, what Irish history was taught, how it was taught, and why? Secondly, what cultural and political ideologies influenced the teaching of Irish history during this period? Finally, how did policy and official rhetoric relate to practice, and the reality of history at school-level. It contends that a narrative of Irish history was promoted in secondary schools which tended to focus on a traditional ‘Great Man’ approach to history with a strong emphasis on high politics, and on religion. This narrative was not as simplistic however as previously assumed. By taking the differing emphases in the major textbooks into account, and appreciating how the Certificate examinations were not solely focussed on promoting a militant version of Irish Catholic history, it challenges the received understanding of Irish history as taught in secondary schools during the period under investigation.
Biography
Dr Colm Mac Gearailt completed his IRC-funded PhD, entitled ‘Teaching the Nation’s Past: Irish History in Secondary Schools, 1924-69’ at Trinity College Dublin in 2019. He has lectured on the History of Education with Marino Institute of Education, Hibernia College, and with TCD. In 2022 he completed a post-doctoral research position with SEALBHÚ, DCU, where he conducted an Early Enactment Review of the Junior Cycle Irish Curriculum Specifications (L1 and L2), on behalf of the NCCA. During his PhD, Mac Gearailt also translated the autobiographies of Earnáin de Blaghad from Irish to English, which were subsequently used towards the late Prof. David Fitzpatrick’s Ernest Blythe: A Double Life (Cork 2018). He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at University of Galway, on the ‘CARTLANN: Gníomhaíochas, teanga agus na meáin’ project; a study of the Conradh na Gaeilge archives, specifically considering language activism, the Irish language, and the media in the twentieth century. The research is funded by The HEA North-South Research Programme 2021, under the Shared Island Initiative. He is a published poet, and has also worked in television.
Registration
This is a hybrid event. The paper will be delivered in-person, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway (ground floor) and livestreamed simultaneously on Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/98107440319.
Seminars are not recorded.
To attend via Zoom, please register at: https://forms.office.com/e/d7Bg2N2gCg
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Seminar series.
Image: detail from the cover of Mark Tierney and Margaret MacCurtain, The birth of modern Ireland (1969).

Fráma Eile roundtable series
2024-01-25 15:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies and Zoom
The Fráma Eile roundtable series, organised by PhD students in the Centre for Irish Studies and Roinn na Gaeilge, explores new approaches to framing established texts (in both English and Irish), material objects, and artwork in the Irish Studies canon.
For our first seminar of 2024, speakers will discuss Pádraic Ó Conaire’s novel Deoraíocht. This event will be bilingual.
All are welcome, and after presentations, the floor will be open to contributions and comments from all in attendance.
To attend virtually via Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/92896159327?pwd=[REDACTED]

Centre for Creative Technologies masterclass series: Researching and publishing on practice-based work using creative tech
2024-01-31 12:00 - 13:30 | Studio 3, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, University of Galway
Masterclass with Dr. Máiréad Ní Chróinín, theatre artist and researcher based at Drama & Theatre Studies, University of Galway.
This talk will be in two parts: the first part will focus on Dr. Ní Chróinín’s current research, which explores the creation of ‘ecological perception’ through performances that utilise creative technologies.
The second part of the talk is aimed at practice-based PhDs, and will explore writing and publishing on practice-based work, based on Dr. Ní Chróinín’s experience as an early-career researcher and artistic practitioner.
Speaker Bio
Dr. Máiréad Ní Chróinín is a theatre artist and researcher. In her individual practice Máiréad has worked with body-centric technologies (sensors, mobile technologies and VR & AR technologies), to create immersive and interactive works that place the audience member at the centre of the experience.  She has presented work in Dublin Fringe Festival, Galway Theatre Festival and Galway Early Music Festival, among others. In 2018 she took part in the SPACE residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, hosted by Performance Corporation, which focused on intersections between VR and AR design and theatre practice.  Most recently, she created a sound-walk commissioned by The Lighthouse Project and Cúirt International Festival of Literature, and co-created ‘Mona’, a work-in-progress sound-walk, with James Riordan, commissioned by Galway Theatre Festival.
Máiréad received her PhD from NUI Galway, focusing on how mobile digital technologies can be used to tap into and transform audience members’ sensory, embodied experiences in ways that engender empathy and critical reflection. Her current research focuses on ways that creative technologies can intersect with the body of the participant to engender ‘ecological perception’ and engagement with climate and ecological issues.
Máiréad is Co-Artistic Director of Galway-based theatre company Moonfish Theatre, which has produced award-winning theatre in partnership with Babroró, GIAF, Dublin Fringe and the Town Hall Theatre, among others. She is Druid Lecturer at the Drama and Theatre Studies Department of University of Galway, where she lectures on ensemble theatre, producing, arts management, and body and performance.
Registration
Please register via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/researching-and-publishing-on-practice-based-work-using-creative-tech-tickets-807616301097

Principles and Practice of Intercultural Dramaturgy - ISTR Webinar
2024-01-31 16:00 - 17:00 | Online, Zoom
Irish Society for Theatre Research Webinar: ‘Principles and Practice of Intercultural Dramaturgy’
Dr Sarah Hoover in conversation with Dr Karen Jean Martinson
Join Dr. Sarah Hoover, She/Her, (University of Galway) and Dr. Karen Jean Martinsen, She/Her, (University of Arizona) in conversation discussing Principles and Practice of Intercultural Dramaturgy.
Speaker Bios:
Dr Sarah Hoover (She/Her) is a dramaturg, lecturer and researcher focusing on immersive and interactive performance and audience-centred dramaturgy. Her specialisms include artistic research methodologies, new material feminisms and multimodal digital humanities approaches. Currently, she is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Galway, working on the EU Horizon2020 project CLS INFRA, a four-year partnership to build shared DH resources of high-quality data, tools and knowledge. Forthcoming publications include Reflective Affective Dramaturgies: larping audiences into theatre, Palgrave Macmillan 2024, and “Theatre and Performance Studies and RPGS” in Role-Playing Games: Transmedia Foundations, Routledge 2024. She is also currently dramaturg to two productions, Yaqui & Béal: Yoeme and Irish in Conversation by Esther Almazán and OtherWorld Post Office by Jenni Nikinmaa. Hoover sits on the Executive Committee of ISTR.
Karen Jean Martinson, PhD, (she/her,/hers) is an Assistant Professor of Dramaturgy in the School of Music, Dance and Theatre in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. Her scholarly and creative work explores the intersection of contemporary USAmerican performance, consumer culture, neoliberalism, and the processes of identification, interrogating issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality. She also writes and talks (constantly) about dramaturgy and dramaturgical thinking. Her manuscript, Make the Dream Real: World-Building Through Performance by El Vez, The Mexican Elvis, is forthcoming with Intellect Press. Martinson has developed her robust dramaturgical approach over the past two decades, and has worked on socially-engaged theatre that considers issues of race and racial oppression, the impacts of gun violence, intergenerational trauma, the Indian Industrial Boarding School System, issues of mobility in underprivileged communities, and now the impending climate crisis. Her scholarship has been featured in such journals as The LMDA Review, Theatre Annual, Theatre Topics, Theatre Journal, Cultural Studies ó Critical Methodologies, and Popular Entertainment Studies. Martinson currently serves as the VP Advocacy for the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA), was Secretary of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), and is active in the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR), the American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS), and the Mid-America Theatre Conference (MATC). She was awarded the Leon Katz Award for Teaching and Mentoring by LMDA in 2023.
Registration at: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/irishsocietyfortheatreresearch/1129310

University of Galway History Research Seminar: Defection and disclosure: The German Jesuits and the problem of apostasy in the sixteenth century
2024-01-31 16:00 - 17:00 | In-person, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway (ground floor) and livestreamed simultaneously on Zoom
University of Galway History Research Seminar
Defection and disclosure:
The German Jesuits and the problem of apostasy in the sixteenth century
Dr Richard Kirwan (University of Limerick)

Biography
Dr Richard Kirwan is a Senior Lecturer in History and an Irish Research Council Laureate. He is the P.I. of ‘Malcontents: Order and Disorder in the Early Modern World of Learning,’ a four-year project funded by an Irish Research Council Consolidator Laureate award. His research interests include the social and cultural history of early modern universities and the world of learning, early modern print culture, and the culture and politics of religious conversion. Dr Kirwan’s publications include the monograph Empowerment and Representation at the University in Early Modern Germany: Helmstedt and Würzburg, 1576-1634 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2009), and the edited volumes Scholarly Self-Fashioning and Community in the Early Modern University (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013), and Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World (Leiden: Brill, 2015). Prior to taking up his position at the University of Limerick, Dr Kirwan held posts at the University of St Andrews, the European University Institute, Florence, Maynooth University, and Trinity College Dublin.
Registration
This is a hybrid event. The paper will be delivered in-person, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway (ground floor) and livestreamed simultaneously on Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/96743869754.
To attend via Zoom, please register at: https://forms.office.com/e/8CMfHatXep
Seminars are not recorded.
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Seminar series.
Image: detail from Antichristus (woodcut) by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553).

“…don’t forget the photos, it’s very important…” A photo exhibition about the Nazi Persecution of Sinti and Roma
2024-01-31 17:15 - 18:00 | O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance, Univeristy of Galway
“…don’t forget the photos, it’s very important…” A photo exhibition about the Nazi Persecution of Sinti and Roma
The launch of a photo exhibition about the Nazi persecution of Sinti and Roma, organised by Dr Gearóid Barry and Dr Niall Ó Ciosáin. The launch will take place on Wednesday, 31 January 2024, at 5.15pm, at the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance, University of Galway, and will feature contributions from Prof. Eve Rosenhaft (University of Liverpool) and Anne-Marie Stokes (University of Galway).
Between the mid-1930s and 1945, hundreds of thousands of Sinti and Roma (‘Gypsies’) fell victim to the genocidal policies of the Nazi regime. The exhibition presents the experiences of nine German Sinti and Roma families under National Socialism and the post-war experiences of the survivors.
The exhibition runs until 14 February 2024.
All are welcome!

Digital Humanities Research Group seminar: "To have the 'million' readers yet": applying OCR & NER to bilingual Irish-English texts in An Gaodhal (1881–1898)
2024-02-06 12:00 - 14:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
Digital Humanities Research Group seminar
Deirdre Ní Chonghaile, Glucksman Ireland House, New York University
Oksana Dereza, Data Science Institute, University of Galway
“To have the ‘million’ readers yet”: applying OCR & NER to bilingual Irish-English texts in An Gaodhal (1881–1898)

Abstract:
Computerized text extraction for the Irish language (Gaeilge) faces a number of challenges, the most significant of which is the machine-readability of cló Gaelach, the typeface most commonly used in hand-written and printed Irish-language material up until the 1960s. To date, only a handful of OCR training models attuned to cló Gaelach, and to pre-standardized spelling, have emerged and none were trained on bilingual texts (Irish-English). Using the text-recognition software Transkribus, a team at New York University and University of Galway have developed two new OCR models: a Gaeilge-only model and a bilingual Gaeilge-English model. The core dataset for this OCR training exercise is the Brooklyn-based bilingual monthly newspaper An Gaodhal (1881-1898), the first serial dedicated to providing content to an Irish-language readership, which was established, edited, and printed by Galwayman Micheál Ó Lócháin (1836-1899). The contents of the newspaper reflect the cultural interests of Irish speakers in New York, Ireland, and the wider diaspora; Irish American life; New York history; and the development of the Irish language during the Celtic Revival period. Using the texts extracted from An Gaodhal, which are being corrected at word level, the team is developing NER (named entity recognition) tools to aid future NLP work in the Irish language. This work-in-progress presentation will share learnings from this on-going project.
Registration
To to attend via Zoom, please register here: https://forms.office.com/e/CvkPkh39sJ

Translation Café: 'Four-Eyes Readers and characters: Translation choices and the creation of characters in three versions of Manolito Gafotas
2024-02-06 13:00 - 14:00 | THB-1003 Small Meeting Room, Floor 1, Moore Institute, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Translation Café: ‘Four-Eyes Readers and characters: Translation choices and the creation of characters in three versions of Manolito Gafotas
by Dr Maria Pilar Alderete Diez
(Spanish, University of Galway and CITN – Children in Translation Network)
In this translation café, we will have a look at three English versions of a Spanish book series marketed for children. We will discuss in small groups what version we prefer and why, in order to get some insights on how translator choices influence our reading of character, voice and the appeal of the story itself. Prepare yourself to let your inner child read and react to what’s on the page and verbalize what you would like to have on the page.
Translation Café is a monthly event run by the Emily Andeson Centre for Translation Research and Practice. It functions as a reading group for colleagues interested in the many facets of the art of translation. The format of the group is designed to allow participants share their interests/research/linguistic investigations with other colleagues in an informal manner.
Colleagues interested in leading future Translation Café meetings this year are invited to email irina.ruppo@universityofgalway.ie.

CAMPS LAB: The Cultivation of Holy Men in the Long 1070s by Thibaud III, Count of Blois, Chartres, Meaux, and Troyes
2024-02-09 12:00 - 14:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Kimberly LoPrete
(History, University of Galway)
The Cultivation of Holy Men in the Long 1070s by Thibaud III, Count of Blois, Chartres, Meaux, and Troyes
9 February 2024
12 noon
THB-G010
Lunch to follow and all welcome!

University of Galway History Research Seminar: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
2024-02-14 16:00 - 17:30 | This is an online only event, streamed via Zoom
University of Galway History Research Seminar
Dr Caroline Dodds Pennock
(University of Sheffield)
Abstract
Despite growing scholarly work to the contrary, the popular image of early modern Europe remains an extraordinarily white, ruffed and cod-pieced Tudor fantasy, where Indigenous, African and Asian people existed only as curiosities from distant lands. But, in reality, tens of thousands of Indigenous people – Maya, Totonac, Tupí, Aztec-Mexica, Inuit, Taíno and others – travelled to Europe from the moment of first encounter, many unwillingly, but some by choice.
From the Brazilian ‘king’ who met Henry VIII to the Aztecs who mocked up human sacrifice at the court of Charles V; from the Inuk baby who was put on show in a London pub to the mestizo children of Spaniards who returned ‘home’ with their fathers; from the Inuit who harpooned ducks on the Avon river to the many servants and enslaved people employed by Europeans of every rank: here are people who were rendered exotic, demeaned, and marginalised, but whose worldviews and cultures had a profound impact on European civilisation.
In this talk, Caroline Dodds Pennock will introduce her new book, On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe, reflecting on some of the earliest Indigenous travellers, and explaining why it is so important to challenge popular perceptions of the early modern period and write an Indigenous-centred history of the Atlantic world.
Speaker Biography
Dr Caroline Dodds Pennock is Senior Lecturer in International History at the University of Sheffield. Her first trade book On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe was published in January 2023 and has been warmly received, being selected as one of the best history books of the year by Smithsonian Magazine, The Economist, BBC History Magazine and others. Caroline is probably best known as the only British Aztec historian, and her first book, Bonds of Blood: Gender, Lifecycle and Sacrifice in Aztec Culture (2008, PB: 2011) won the Royal Historical Society’s Gladstone Prize for 2008. As well as pestering people on twitter @carolinepennock, Caroline also works as a popular history writer, consultant, and ‘talking head’ expert for TV and radio, having appeared on programmes for broadcasters including the BBC, Channel 4, Sky and Netflix.
Registration
This is an online only event, streamed via Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/95635528755.
To attend via Zoom, please register at: https://forms.office.com/e/Ji5c8Q3UQJ
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Seminar series.
All are welcome!

CLS Infra Training School Vienna 2024: ExploreCor: "Using Programmable Corpora in Computational Literary Studies"
2024-02-15 | Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities & Cultural Heritage (ACDH-CH), OeAW Campus Akademie, Bäckerstraße 13, 1010 Vienna
Applications are now open for the third of the CLS INFRA academic Training School events, “ExploreCor: Using Programmable Corpora in Computational Literary Studies”.
It is set to take place in Vienna June 10-12 2024, spanning three intensive days. This program covers some of the most important steps in the research cycle of Computational Literary Studies, focusing on “Programmable Corpora” – dynamic collections of literary texts manipulated programmatically.
Participants will delve into finding, evaluating, and selecting corpora using tools like the CLSCor metadata catalogue and DraCor.
The curriculum features:
* learning how to use Python and Jupyter Notebooks for analysis,
* querying and retrieving data via APIs,
* working with Linked Open Data,
* learning how to conduct Digital Literary Network Analysis,
* an introduction to Docker for research encapsulation (addressing the Reproducibility Crisis)
Attendees gain practical skills to conduct transparent and replicable research, contributing to the advancement of Computational Literary Studies. Participation is free, with lunch and accommodation included.
Applications close 15 February, so apply here now: https://pretix.eu/CLSINFRA-trainingschool2024/application/

For more information on the Training Schools and CLS INFRA, visit https://clsinfra.io/events/training-school/
Questions? Contact Coordinator Anna Dijkstra (anna.dijkstra@huygens.knaw.nl).

Directly after the CLS Infra Training School the 3nd Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies (CCLS2024) will take place from June 13-14, 2024, in Vienna. This is a wonderful opportunity for participants to take part in a conference dedicated to topics in the field of CLS. The CCLS is the annual conference of the Journal of Computational Literary Studies (JCLS), an international, open access, peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to all aspects of computational approaches to Literary Studies. JCLS responds to the increasing differentiation of subfields within the Digital Humanities, an ongoing process in which Computational Literary Studies has already gained considerable maturity and visibility. Please check the Call for Papers as well as the conference website for further information.
Attendance and accommodation at the conference are not included in successful applications to the Training School.

UrbanLab Galway Horizon Europe INSITU project evening reception
2024-02-19 17:00 - 19:00 | O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance, Univeristy of Galway
UrbanLab Galway invites you to an evening reception celebrating the Horizon Europe INSITU project that explores the role of the Creative and Cultural Industries in peripheral areas of Europe. We will also be welcoming our project partners from across Europe as they visit Galway.
Monday 19 February. 5pm – 7 pm.
O’Donoghue Centre, University of Galway
Drinks and canapes included.
Performances by:
David Boland (Going Coastal Festival / The Black Gate)
George Allen Grasso (Uilleann Pipes)
Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha (Irish Language Poetry)

Masterclass: Critical Media Art and the ‘Cloud’
2024-02-21 12:00 - 14:00 | Studio 3, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, University of Galway, University Road, H91 T8WR, Galway
Masterclass: Critical Media Art and the ‘Cloud’
A masterclass run by the Centre for Creative Technologies, with Dr Paul O’Neill of the ADAPT Centre for AI-Driven Technologies in UCD
Join us for the next in the masterclass series run by the Centre for Creative Technologies. This talk will provide an overview of ‘critical’ media artists who engage with issues associated with contemporary algorithmic culture including surveillance, data sovereignty and the environmental impacts of information communication technologies within their practices. These artists are influenced by subfields of media theory including tactical media, critical making and media archaeology.
Following this, Paul will document a series of his ongoing practice-based work which focuses on the relationship between the physical and corporate infrastructures of the internet in Ireland and beyond, including Dublin Infrastructure Tour (2018 – 2023), Greetings from… (2022) and we are all going to make it (in progress). This work draws on the aforementioned subfields of media theory and spans a wide range of creative practices and techniques including countermapping, open source intelligence, remix and culture jamming.
Participants are encouraged to bring a connected device (laptop, smartphone, tablet) as the talk will conclude with a short exercise focusing on mapping networked infrastructure – no technical expertise required.
Speaker Bio
Dr Paul O’ Neill is a postdoctoral researcher at the ADAPT Centre for AI-Driven Technologies in University College Dublin. His practice and research is concerned with the implications of our collective dependency on networked technologies and infrastructures. He has exhibited and presented his work at numerous cultural institutions and events including Science Gallery (Ireland), Ars Electronica (Austria), Inspace (Scotland) and NeMe (Cyprus), and his research has featured in publications from the Institute of Network Cultures and ANNEX – Ireland’s representative at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale.Paul is also the research lead for the Beta Festival of Art & Technology and co-curator of the Dublin Art & Technology Association (DATA).
Registration
Please register via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/masterclass-critical-media-art-and-the-cloud-tickets-830100241167?aff=oddtdtcreator

University of Galway History Seminar: Alms-Collecting and Information Gathering: Spanish Franciscan Commissioners and the Global Expansion of Holy Land Devotion
2024-02-21 16:00 - 17:15 | online event, livestreamed via Zoom in Room THB-G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
University of Galway History Seminar: Alms-Collecting and Information Gathering: Spanish Franciscan Commissioners and the Global Expansion of Holy Land Devotion
Professor Megan Armstrong (McMaster University)
The next University of Galway History Research Seminar of the semester will take place at 4.00pm on Wednesday, 21 February 2024. The speaker will join us online, but colleagues are welcome to join us in Room G010, Hardiman Building, where the talk will be livestreamed, via Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/93981848717
Please note the change of date. This talk has been brought forward from 28 February.
Following the seminar, at 5.15pm, will be the in-person launch of Bríd McGrath’s The Operations of the Irish House of Commons, 1613-1648 (Four Courts Press, 2023). The book will be launched by Professor Nicholas Canny, MRIA, FBA. For those of you joining us online, you can use the same Zoom link as above to access the book launch.
Abstract
This paper explores the commissioners of the holy land, a unique alms-gathering institution affiliated with the Custody of the Holy Land. The Custody, based in Jerusalem, has overseen Catholic pilgrimage to the Holy Land since the fourteenth century. Since that time it has also been under the governance of members of the Observant Franciscan Order. Through their circulation of alms and religious mementoes, commissioners played an active role in promoting Catholic devotion to the Christian holy places between Jerusalem and a global Catholic tradition. My talk explores one dimension that is critical for understanding its role in promoting holy land devotion—and that was its partnership with the Spanish state. The Spanish monarchy was the single most important patron of the Custody by the fifteenth century. From the sixteenth century onwards, commissioners boarded Spanish ships headed for the farthest reaches of its expanding empire, carrying religious mementoes and returning with monies and other forms of religious donations in support of the Holy Land pilgrimage. Correspondence produced by the commissioners reveals a mutually beneficial partnership, one that pivoted upon the dual functions of these Franciscan officials as information gathers as well as alms-collectors. On the one hand, Spanish patronage of the commissioners extended the spiritual geography of the Custody in its efforts to keep the Christian holy places at the centre of Catholic devotion. On the other hand, the Spanish monarchy saw its own political and religious authority enhanced through its material and ideological association with the Custody, a Franciscan institution that by virtue of its traditional mobile character and location within the boundaries of the Ottoman empire extended Habsburg reach more deeply into the eastern Mediterranean.
Speaker Biography
Megan Armstrong is Professor of History at McMaster University. She is a specialist on religion and politics with a special focus upon Early Modern Catholicism and the Holy Land. Her most recent publication is The Holy Land and the Early Modern Reinvention of Catholicism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021). She is presently working on three research projects: Global Pilgrimage to the Holy Land, 1450-1700: Sacred Space and Cultural Interactions (Under contract with Routledge), Easter Processions and Religious Coexistence in Early Modern Jerusalem, 1500—1700, and Collecting for the Holy Land: The Commissioners of the Holy Land in the global expansion of the Early Modern Catholic Church.

Launch of Bríd McGrath’s The Operations of the Irish House of Commons, 1613–48 (Four Courts Press, 2023)
2024-02-21 17:15 - 18:30 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Launch of Bríd McGrath’s The Operations of the Irish House of Commons, 1613–48 (Four Courts Press, 2023)
By Professor Nicholas Canny, MRIA, FBA
Wednesday 21 February at 5.15pm
Hardiman Research Building seminar room G010
This is the first account of the workings Irish House of Commons in the early Stuart period, a time of immense change in early modern Ireland, when the parliament’s structures and operations were established in a manner that would endure until the Act of Union. The book explores the parliament, its personnel and work during the government of lord deputies Arthur Chichester and Thomas Wentworth, and during the period of the Confederation of Kilkenny.
Dr Bríd McGrath, visiting research fellow in the Department of History, Trinity College Dublin, where she formerly taught, is a former visiting fellow in the Moore Institute, University of Galway. She is editor of The Minute Book of the Corporation of Clonmel, 1608–1649 (2006), Acts of the Corporation of Coleraine, 1623–1669 (2017) and, with Aidan Clarke, the Letterbook of George, 16th earl of Kildare (2013) and with Aidan Clarke and David Edwards, A Lord justice’s letter book: The Earl of Cork’s letterbook, 1629-1633 Hardwick Ms 78. (forthcoming). She is the author of many articles and book chapters and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
