Moore Institute

Drama Theatre and Performance speaker series: Junk Ensemble (Megan and Jessica Kennedy), 'Junk Ensemble and Dance Theatre in Ireland and Beyond'
2015-12-02 14:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Drama Theatre and Performance speaker series:
Junk Ensemble (Megan and Jessica Kennedy), “Junk Ensemble and Dance Theatre in Ireland and Beyond”
junk ensemble was established in 2004 by identical twin sisters Megan Kennedy and Jessica Kennedy with a commitment to creating works of brave and imaginative dance theatre. Previous Artists in Residence at Tate Britain, junk ensemble are winners of Best Production Award, Culture Ireland Touring Award, Excellence and Innovation Award, and listed as a Sunday Times Highlight. Their work continues to tour nationally and internationally. junk’s productions are often created in collaboration with artists from other disciplines to produce a rich mix of visual and performance styles that seeks to challenge the traditional audience performer relationship. This approach has led to productions being created in non-traditional or found spaces as well as more conventional theatre spaces.
Jessica Kennedy is Co-Artistic Director of junk ensemble. Jessica trained in the United States, Dublin and London, completing her degree in Dance and English Literature at Middlesex University, London. She has performed extensively with dance and theatre companies throughout Europe and the UK, including Blast Theory (UK) Retina Dance Company (UK), Tanz Lange (Germany), Firefly Productions (Belgium), Storytelling Unplugged (Romania). In Ireland she collaborates regularly with Brokentalkers (Frequency 783, The Blue Boy, In Real Time, On This One Night) and has performed in productions with The Abbey Theatre, The Ark and The Pavilion Theatre. She created the award winning film Motion Sickness in 2012, which has screened across 30 festivals worldwide. Other film credits include The Wake (Invisible Thread Films/Oonagh Kearney 2013), Turning (Highly Stimulating Productions 2013), Dance Emergency (TG4 2013), Wonder House (JDIFF 2012) and Her Mother’s Daughters (RTÌä 2010). She has lectured for IT Carlow and also performs in the band Everything Shook. She was awarded Best Female Performer for Dublin Fringe Festival 2006. Jessica was Dancer in Residence at RUA RED Arts Centre 2012-13, where she exhibited Walking on white lines. Other choreographic credits include the creation of Songs from a Car Park (Dublin Fringe Festival/RUA RED 2014) and Nixon in China (Wide Open Opera/Bord Gais Theatre 2014).
Megan Kennedy is Co-Artistic Director of junk ensemble. Megan trained at Alvin Ailey Dance Center in New York City and received a B.A. Honours from Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh. Megan has performed with Retina Dance Company (UK), Tanz Lange (Germany), Blast Theory (UK), Firefly Productions (Belgium), Storytelling Unplugged (Romania), and in Ireland with CoisC̩im Dance Theatre (Faun, As You Are), Brokentalkers (The Blue Boy, On This One Night), The Abbey Theatre (Romeo & Juliet), Mouth on Fire (Everlasting Voices), Bedrock Productions (Pale Angel), and productions with The Pavilion Theatre and The Ark. Performance and choreography for film includes The Wake (Invisible Thread 2013), Blind Runner (junk ensemble/Dance Ireland Commission 2013), Wonder House (Dublin Film Festival 2012), Her Mother’s Daughters (Winner Best Actress Capalbio Festival Italy 2011/Dance on Camera NYC/RTE Dance on the Box 2010). Choreography includes Marble & Bread (Dance Limerick), Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades (Edinburgh Festival Theatre), Bram Stoker Festival (IRL), and ex Choral Ensemble (IRL). Megan was Limerick Dance Artist-in-Residence in 2014/15 and is a Fellow of Salzburg Global Seminar.
For more information please contact charlotte.mcivor@nuigalway.ie

Smart Consent Workshop with Elaine Byrnes
2015-12-01 18:00
Smart Consent Workshop with Elaine Byrnes.
Smart Consent is a workshop where students can explore what consent means in a fun environment, led by facilitator, Elaine Byrnes, from the School of Psychology. Smart Consent was developed following research conducted with NUI Galway students on the topic on Consent and Sexual Services.
The objectives of this Smart Consent Workshop are to:
Have a LOT of fun exploring Smart Consent in a safe, peer-supported environment!
Please note, you will not be asked about your own sexual history or experiences. Fictional scenarios will be presented and you will be invited to engage in activities to raise awareness of what consent means for you.
Over 1,500 students have taken part in our surveys and focus groups so far. We use findings on their sexual attitudes and behaviours to help you explore the grey area that is sexual consent.
for more information please contact missmarymcgill@gmail.com

Archaeology research seminar series: Peter Casby - doctoral candidate in Archaeology
2015-12-01 16:00
Archaeology research seminar series:

Peter Casby – doctoral candidate in Archaeology
All welcome!

for more information please contact maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie

'Women's rights and child welfare in Ireland, 1922-2014' - Sarah-Anne Buckley (NUIG)
2015-12-01 16:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class Seminar Series
Theme: ‘Women’s rights and child welfare in Ireland, 1922-2014’
Sarah-Anne Buckley (NUIG)
For more information please contact jamesthomasodonnell@gmail.com

Human Rights Lunchtime Seminar Series: Human Trafficking and the Criminalization of Buying Sex: Understanding Vulnerability to Trafficking in Europe and Abroad
2015-11-27 13:00
Lunchtime Seminar Series:
Human Trafficking and the Criminalization of Buying Sex: Understanding Vulnerability to Trafficking in Europe and Abroadby
Prof. Davina Durgana, Associate Professor at SIT Graduate Institute in Washington, DC and Senior Technical Advisor at Seraphim GLOBAL
Dr. Davina Durgana is a human trafficking expert who has won national and local awards for her work spanning the past eight years in bridging the gaps between academics and practitioners in the anti-trafficking field. She is particularly known for her work applying analytical models to understanding vulnerability, risk, and prevalence on the issue of human trafficking domestically and internationally. She is Associate Professor for SIT Graduate Institute in Washington, D.C. and Senior Technical Advisor for Human Trafficking at SeraphimGLOBAL, where she directs the SeraphimGLOBAL Research Collaborative that supports the coordination of unconventional actors to produce innovative research in the anti-human trafficking field. She received her Masters degrees in Paris, France while studying human trafficking at the Sorbonne and the American University of Paris, and her Bachelor’s degree at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. After creating the first human trafficking risk assessment and prevalence estimation model for minors in the United States, Dr. Durgana applies the same theoretical and statistical modeling insights to the issues of human trafficking in European sexual tourism and industries in this lecture. She deconstructs vulnerability to human trafficking by appealing to the UN human security theoretical framework.
She also provides context on how to best inform potential interventions for human trafficking prevention in Ireland and abroad from multiple perspectives. Survivor Advocates, Academics, Community Members, and others will find this lecture to be a unique perspective into the state of human trafficking in Europe and abroad, with an engaging open discussion on the many potential ways to combat this issue moving forward.
All are welcome!
For more information please contact T.ANANTHAVINAYAGAN1@nuigalway.ie

Camps Labs: Prof. Elizabeth Fitzpatrick (Archaeology, NUIG) 'The Speckled Place: Boundaries and Natural Resources in Medieval Gaelic Ireland'
2015-11-27 12:00
Prof. Elizabeth Fitzpatrick (Archaeology, NUIG)
‘The Speckled Place: Boundaries and Natural Resources in Medieval Gaelic Ireland’
Followed by discussion & light lunch
Everyone welcome – FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch
For more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

Western Worlds a day @ Yeats & the West
2015-11-27 10:45
Western Worlds
a day @Yeats & the West
William Butler Yeats, poet, playwright, politician, and Nobel prize-winner for literature, always looked west. The Yeats & the West exhibition at NUI Galway, with rare books, art, music, drama, and film, discovers what the west meant to him, and what this means for us. Part of the Yeats & the West programme, the day event Western Worlds tells the story of the western cultural revolution that shaped modern Ireland. Featuring talks on W.B.Yeats’s poems, plays, artistic collaborations and love affairs, and featuring his co-conspirators Jack B.Yeats, J.M. Synge, Padraic Pearse and Eva Gore- Booth, it includes dramatized poetry readings and an exclusive interview with the artist John Behan about his current exhibitions of Yeatsian sculptures and drawings. Western Worlds tells a story of going west to find those places, real and imaginative, that change our sense of where and who we are.
http://yeatsandthewest.org
Programme
10.45am Welcome & Kisses
Adrian Frazier Yeats & Maud Gonne: The Meaning of Their Kisses
12pm Poems
Brian Arkins W.B.Yeats & G.M. Hopkins
Deirdre NÌ_ Chonghaile ‰Û÷Listening to this rude and beautiful poetry’: J.M. Synge as song collector in the Aran Islands
1pm Lunch
2pm Plays
Barry Houlihan ‰Û÷Suffering Spirits and Remorseful Dead’: Remembrance and Re-enactments in the plays of W.B. Yeats
Ian Walsh The Painted Play: Jack B. Yeats and the Postdramatic Theatre
3pm Revivals
Mary Harris Realism, Idealism and the Gaelic Revival
Maureen O’Connor Some Vague Utopia: Eva Gore-Booth’s The Death of Fionavar (1916)
4pm Coffee
4.30 Arts
Adrian Paterson with Barry Houlihan (curators of Yeats & the West) Yeats among the Arts: exhibition highlights tour
from 5pm in Special Collections
5.30pm Poems
David Clare & Deirdre Clare dramatic readings
6.15 Reception
6.30pm Bulls
John Behan The Bull of Sheriff Street in conversation
For more information please contact adrian.paterson@nuigalway.ie

History Graduate Research Seminar Series: Cormac O ComhraÌ_ - ProtastÌÄå¼naigh na Gaillimhe agus an R̩abhlÌ_id 1913-23
2015-11-25 16:00
History Graduate Research Seminar Series
Cormac O ComhraÌ_
Protast̼naigh na Gaillimhe agus an R̩abhlÌ_id 1913-23
FÌÁilte roimh gach duine
for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie

Drama Theatre and Performance speaker series: Lian Bell (Set Designer and Arts Manager) 'Design + Management- Making Work'
2015-11-25 14:00
Drama Theatre and Performance speaker series:
Lian Bell (Set Designer and Arts Manager)
“Design + Management- Making Work”
Since completing an MA in Scenography at Central St. Martin’s College of Art and Design, Bell has freelanced in Dublin both as an arts manager and designer for performance, working with some of the most significant organisations, artists and makers in Irish performing arts. As a designer, she has worked contemporary dance and theatre artists including The Corn Exchange, Moonfish Theatre, junk ensemble, Brokentalkers and Rebecca Walter of Catapult Dance. Many of these performances were site specific – spaces included a busy city junction, abandoned buildings, and the tower of St. Anne’s Church in Cork city. She was Programme Manager of Dublin Fringe Festival for the 2009-2011 festivals, where she worked closely with many independent and emerging Irish artists and companies to develop their practice. From 2009-2012 she facilitated the residential programme MAKE for Irish and international contemporary theatre makers, and she she manage Pan Pan’s International Mentorship programme. Large-scale events she has coordinated include Ireland’s participation at the Prague Quadrennial 2007, the world’s largest exhibition of Scenography and Theatre Design (for Irish Theatre Institute), and IETM Dublin, an international networking event for over 530 performing arts professionals which took place in April 2013 (for Project Arts Centre).
For more information please contact charlotte.mcivor@nuigalway.ie

Shakespeare's The winter's Tale 24th to 26th November
2015-11-24 20:00 | Mick Lally Theatre, Druid, Ireland
Please join us for a performance of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale as adapted and performed by NUI Galway’s 3rd Year Drama, Theatre and Performance students.
It runs in the Mick Lally Theatre, Druid’s performance space, for three nights: Tuesday, 24 November – Thursday, 26 November. The starting time is 8pm and it will run for a little under an hour. Admission is free and tickets can be had either by emailing thomas.conway@nuigalway.ie – or on the door.
The performance has been in preparation over the semester. Explorations of the play in its original performance context and of the specific performance challenges represented by Shakespeare’s dramatic language have complemented a creative encounter with the play on the students’ own terms. The resulting production is realised by the students, either as directors, designers or performers, with dramaturgical and logistical support from Thomas Conway and Emer McHugh.
Moving between the closed, repressive, courtly world of Sicilia and the open, carefree, pastoral world of Bohemia, and spanning 16 years, The Winter’s Tale looks at families in action. It observes four fathers, two mothers, three sons and a daughter play out dramas all too recognisable – fathers seeking to exercise authority but succeeding only to tear at the very fabric of what keeps their families together. Two story lines unfold among heads of state in a Sicilian court and peasants in the Bohemian countryside, respectively, only to dovetail in the discovery of a newborn child.
The Winter’s Tale is a play in which Shakespeare seemingly asks of his audience, sons and daughters in the world at large, forgiveness for erring fathers. Here Shakespeare lays at our feet some very bitter fruit, as well as wild flowers of the most vibrant, colourful and delicate kind. He gives us scenes of pathos and comedy, and one of the clearest demonstrations of the power of love. It falls to us to decide on whether the mistaken fathers of the world can ever be forgiven.
Those scenes set in Sicilia are directed by RÌ_isÌ_n nic AodhgÌÁin and Mark Leahy. Those set in Bohemia are directed by Naomi Cantwell and Sarah Slevin. The designers are Hannah Kindregan and Elaine Mullarkey. The play has been adapted by the students (Mark Leahy getting a special mention in this regard) in consultation with Thomas Conway and Emer McHugh.
The cast (in order of appearance) is as follows:
Sicilia
GrÌÁinne White as Leontes
Hannah Carleton as Hermione
CaitrÌ_ona O’Donnell as Mamillius and Time
Rose Magner as Antigonus
RÌ_isÌ_n nÌ_ Ch̩ileachair as Polixenes
Aisling Fitzsimons as Camillo
Ella Heatley-Mulhall as Paulina
Bohemia
Kevin Murphy as Autolycus
Jennifer Lynam as Clown
Shifra Tobin as Florizel
Caoimhe Lally as Perdita
Mark Dooley as Shephard
Elaine Mullarkey and Hannah Kindregan make guest appearances at the feast.
We’d very much welcome to see you on one of the evenings of the performance.
For more information please contact: Thomas Conway, Druid Director-in-Residence at NUI Galway thomas.conway@nuigalway.ie

Gender ARC Research Seminar Series 2015: Psychiatry, mental illness and gender Edmund O'Toole, PhD Candidate, Discipline of Philosophy at the National University of Ireland - Galway
2015-11-24 16:00
Gender ARC Research Seminar Series,Autumn 2015
Gender ARC and Global Women’s Studies at NUI Galway arepleased to invite you to the following research seminar:…………………………..
Psychiatry, mental illness and gender
Edmund O’Toole, PhD Candidate, Discipline of Philosophy at the National
University of Ireland – Galway
For more information please contact gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie

Performance Matters - Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2015-11-23 18:00
Performance Matters
Irish Theatre Discussion Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/
This weeks discussion – God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza.
For more information please contact n.barre8@nuigalway.ie
All theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend

Lunchtime Seminar Series: The Ryan Commission: between justice and re-traumatisation, than and now - by Rosaleen McDonagh, leading feminist within the Traveller community
2015-11-20 13:00
Lunchtime Seminar Series:
The Ryan Commission: between justice and re-traumatisation, than and nowby Rosaleen McDonagh, leading feminist within the Traveller community
The Irish Centre for Human Rights, in cooperation with Global Women’s Studies, is pleased to welcome Rosaleen McDonagh, a doctoral scholar at Northumbria University, reading for a PhD titled “An Exploration of the Relevance of the Affirmative Model in Relation to Traveller Identity.” She teaches “Gender and Race, Feminism from the Inside” on the M.Phil Racial and Ethnic Studies at Trinity College Dublin. As a child, Rosaleen attended a residential “special education” school for Travellers until the age of 18. She subsequently earned a BA degree in Theology at Trinity College Dublin, followed by an M.Phil in Ethnic and Racial Studies. Rosaleen worked in Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre for ten years, managing the Violence against Women programme. She has been involved in many initiatives on Traveller women’s issues and is regarded as a leading feminist within the Traveller community.
Her talk will focus on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (CICA), known as the Ryan Commission that was established in 1999 to investigate all forms of child abuse in Irish institutions for children. The majority of the abuse allegations investigated related to residential “Reformatory and Industrial Schools” operated by religious orders affiliated with the Catholic Church under the supervision of the Irish State. Commencing work in 1999, the Commission published its public report (the Ryan report) in 2009. Rosaleen McDonagh will critically discuss her experience as a witness in the Ryan Commission investigation process. Noting the deficiencies of the legalistic investigation process and procedures employed by the Commission, she will highlight shortcomings of the process and failures to fully recognise and respect her as an agent and subject of human rights, because of her identity as a girl/woman marked by “disability” and by membership of the Traveller community. Further, as the most recent HIQA reports demonstrate, protecting, respecting and fulfilling the human rights of people with disabilities remains an unfinished agenda in Ireland on the eve of its centenary year.
All are welcome!
For more information please contact t.ananthavinayagan1@nuigalway.ie

A Victorian bestseller: David Roberts The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea,Egypt & Nubia - Library Ireland Week Talk by Marie Boran, Special Collections Librarian
2015-11-20 13:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
A Victorian bestseller: David Roberts The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea,Egypt & Nubia.
Library Ireland Week Talk by Marie Boran, Special Collections Librarian
Date: Friday 20 November, 13.00-14.00
Venue: Hardiman Research Building G011
All Welcome

EDEN (English and Drama Exchange Network), a student-led research exchange network for English and Drama postgraduate students
2015-11-19 17:00, 2015-11-12 17:00
EDEN (English and Drama Exchange Network),
a student-led research exchange network for
English and Drama postgraduate students
For more information please contact Justine Nakase at j.nakase1@nuigalway.ie

Book Launch: Anchored by Lorna Shaughnessy, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures NUI, Galway
2015-11-18 18:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Book Launch
Anchored
by Lorna Shaughnessy
Anchored is Lorna Shaughnessy’s third collection of poems with Salmon Poetry.
‰Û÷Full and various, Anchored establishes Lorna Shaughnessy’s range and power. From meditation on the landscape of the West of Ireland to the exploration of memories, personal or communal, treasured or pathological, to myths of sacrifice and betrayal, the various topographies are intimately connected by an authentic voice and feeling. The language is precise, on occasion subdued or suddenly adventurous: starlings rise ‰Û÷in a calligrapher’s upward stroke’, while the capacity of words to convey their own opposites makes a defiant cacophony in ‰Û÷Iphigenia unwritten’. This is a book with shadowy depths and bright enlargements of our many worlds.’ Eil̩an NÌ_ ChuilleanÌÁin
‰Û÷At times beguilingly personal and story-driven, at times warmly and meditatively elusive, the poems in Anchored reflect Lorna Shaughnessy’s discovery of a deepened artistic resource. This beautiful book resonates with the sense of a commitment to wholeness by a writer whose gifts include the ability to unite the roles of teller and singer, and the courage, whatever the subject, to marshal the reader towards the heart of poetry.’ Martin Dyar
The book will be launched by Adrian Frazier.

History Graduate Research Seminar Series: Matthew McGinty, 'God Hath Supplied Us': Niall Garbh and the English in the Nine Years War.
2015-11-18 16:00
History Graduate Research Seminar Series
Matthew McGinty,
‰Û÷God Hath Supplied Us’: Niall Garbh and the English in the Nine Years War.
FÌÁilte roimh gach duine
for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie

Drama Theatre and Performance speaker series: Emilie Pine (University College, Dublin) 'Top Tips for Docu-Verbatim Memory Plays: The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later'
2015-11-18 14:00
Drama Theatre and Performance speaker series:Emilie Pine (University College, Dublin)“Top Tips for Docu-Verbatim Memory Plays: The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later“
Dr Emilie Pine lectures in modern drama in the School of English, Drama and Film at UCD. Emilie has published widely in the fields of memory studies, Irish studies and contemporary drama, and is the author of The Politics of Irish Memory: Performing Remembrance in Contemporary Irish Culture (Palgrave), Assistant Editor of the Irish University Review, and founding Director of the Irish Memory Studies Network. Emilie is currently writing a book on memory as a commodity in the performance marketplace
For more information please contact charlotte.mcivor@nuigalway.ie

Rosaleen McDonagh - Global Women's Studies Visiting Scholar - November 18th to 20th
2015-11-18 00:00
We are pleased to welcome ROSALEEN McDONAGH to NUI Galway as a Global Women’s Studies Visiting Scholar
Rosaleen McDonagh is a writer and playwright, a well-known feminist in the Irish Traveller community, and a tireless advocate for human rights. A regular contributor to the Irish Times, Rosaleen currently holds a PhD fellowship at the University of Northumbria.
You are warmly invited to participate in a series of interactive dialogues with Rosaleen Mc Donagh:
WEDNESDAY NOV 18
Feminism and the struggle to realise Traveller women’s human rights: Reflections on policy responses to “violence against women”
Time: 11.00-12.30 pm
Venue: Institute for Life Course and Society, Room G008
Co-sponsored by the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre
THURSDAY NOV 19
Gender and embodiment
Time: 2.00-3.30 pm
Venue: Institute for Life Course and Society, Room G008
Co-sponsored by: the Centre for Disability Law and Policy and LLM in International and Comparative Disability Law and Policy
FRIDAY NOV 20
The Ryan Commission: between justice and re-traumatisation, then and now
Time: 1.00- 2.00 pm
Venue: Irish Centre for Human Rights
Co-sponsored by: the Irish Centre for Human Rights
Rosaleen’s visit is hosted by the Centre for Global Women’s Studies and co-sponsored by the Irish Centre for Human Rights, the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre and the Centre for Disability Law and Policy at NUI Galway. To RSVP for any of the above events, or for more information, please email Gillian Browne, Centre for Global Women’s Studies, gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie. For further details and full programme of activities see: http://www.nuigalway.ie/womens_studies/

Archaeology research seminar series: Thor McVeigh - doctoral candidate in Archaeology
2015-11-17 16:00
Archaeology research seminar series:

Thor McVeigh – doctoral candidate in Archaeology
All welcome!

for more information please contact maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie

Performance Matters - Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2015-11-16 18:00
Performance Matters
Irish Theatre Discussion Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/
For more information please contact n.barre8@nuigalway.ie
All theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend

The Galway Launch of the Letters of 1916
2015-11-16 14:00
The Galway launch of the Letters of 1916
2 – 6pm Nursing and Midwifery PC suite of the James Hardiman Library. Here you can meet the team and learn to transcribe a letter. The Letters 1916 team will also be on hand to digitise any letters that you bring along. We are especially interested in letters written between 1 November 1915 and 31 October 1916, and any accompanying photographs of the correspondents.
7-8pm we are delighted to introduce a host of speakers for the launch including:
Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley, Dr Conor MacNamara and Therese McIntyre, and Professor Susan Schreibman.
The talks will take place in the Hardiman Research Building, room G010. Talks include Letters as oral history, Reading family life during 1916: precarious childhood, parenthood and revolution and ‘They lick their chains”: 1916 and the dream of a new Ireland.’
For more information please contact letters1916@gmail.com

Weekend Conference: 'Remembering NoÌÄåÇl Browne, 1915-97: Reflections on Radicalism, Welfare & Social Change in Modern Ireland' Featuring Robert Ballagh, Joe Higgins TD and others.
2015-11-13 19:30
Weekend Conference:
‰Û÷Remembering NoÌÇl Browne, 1915-97: Reflections on Radicalism, Welfare & Social Change in Modern Ireland’
Featuring Robert Ballagh, Joe Higgins TD and others.
Marking the centenary of the birth of Irish socialist politician and health reformer Noel Browne in Galway 13 – 14 November 2015.
The programme of events is…
Friday 13 November – 19:30
Galway Mechanics Institute, Nun’s Island
An evening of discussion on the life and work of Noel Browne, speakers include;
Robert Ballagh (Artist)
Joe Higgins TD (Socialist Party)
Glyn Carraher (Browne’s grandson)
Donncha ÌÒ hEallaithe (Founding member of Socialist Labour Party)
Readings from Sarah Clancy (Winner of 2015 Irish People’s Poetry Prize)
Chair: Tish Gibbons
Saturday 14 November
A day of talks on social history, social issues and welfare provision.
Moore Institute, NUI Galway
9.00 – 9.30: Registration
9:30 – 9:45: Welcome
9.45 – 11.15: Panel 1 – The Catholic Church and the Social Sphere
Shane Faherty – ‰Û÷The Catholic Church and the Creation of Denominational Education.’
Gerard Madden (NUIG) – ‰Û÷Catholic anti-communism, the Cold War, and peace and nuclear disarmament campaigns in Ireland 1945-1968.’
Deirdre Foley (UCD) – ‰Û÷Contraception and Conscience: Family Planning in Ireland and at the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street (1963-1978).’
11.15 – 11.30: Break
11.30 – 13.00: Panel 2 – Theory and Practice
Nat O’Connor (UU) – ‰Û÷Increasing People’s Net Economic Benefit versus Tax Cuts.’
Caitriona Nic Philbin (TCD) – ‰Û÷The concurrent validity of the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales in child, adolescent and family psychiatry (HoNOSCA) and the possible application of this instrument in the forensic child, adolescent and family settings.’
Aggelos Panayiotopoulos (UL) and Michael O’Flynn (UCD) – ‰Û÷Scholar-Activism: Creating Spaces for Education and Action.’
13:00 – 13.45: Lunch
13.45 – 15.15: Panel 3 – Forgotten Voices
Paul Horan (TCD) – ‰Û÷The Role of Women as Nurses, First Aiders & Dispatchers in the 1916 Rising.’
Liam Cullinane (UCC) – ‰Û÷Health, Safety and Masculinity in Twentieth Century Ireland: Insights from an Oral History Project.’
Sara Goek (UCC) – ‰Û÷Describing Poverty in Mid-Twentieth Century Rural Ireland: Personal Narratives and Collective Memory.’
15.15 – 15.30: Break
15.30- 17.00: Panel 4 – The Health and Welfare of Mothers and Children
SarahAnne Buckley (NUIG) – ‰Û÷Reflecting on child welfare in Ireland during Noel Browne’s lifetime, 1915-1997.’
Angela Flynn (UCC) – ‰Û÷Discourses of Inequality: Ireland’s Health System.’
Carmel Hannan (UL) – ‰Û÷Changing times but still the same story: The health and wellbeing of Lone Mothers in Ireland.’
17.00 – 17.15 Break
17.15 – 18.45: Panel 5 – Ireland and the International Left
David Convery (NUIG) – ‰Û÷John Wheatley: Irish-born Minister of Health in Britain’s First Labour Government.’
Morris Brodie (QUB) – ‰Û÷Scattered internationalists: Irish anarchism in the interwar world.’
Liam O’Discin (UCD) – ‰Û÷Catholics, Communists and Steelworkers, 1936-1948.’
For more information please contact john.cunningham@nuigalway.ie

CAMPS Labs: Prof. MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha (Old & Middle Irish & Celtic Studies, NUIG) 'Uproarious laughter in medieval Cork, but who wrote Aislinge Meic Con Glinne?'
2015-11-13 12:00
Prof. MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha (Old & Middle Irish & Celtic Studies, NUIG)
‘Uproarious laughter in medieval Cork, but who wrote Aislinge Meic Con Glinne?’
Followed by discussion & light lunch
Everyone welcome – FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch
For more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

Book Launch: Martin McCleery, Operation Demetrius and Its Aftermath: A New History of the Use of Internment Without Trial in Northern Ireland 1971-75
2015-11-12 17:00
Book Launch
Martin McCleery,
Operation Demetrius and Its Aftermath: A New History of the Use of Internment Without Trial in Northern Ireland 1971-75 (Manchester University Press, 2015).
Launched by Dr. Niall ÌÒ DochartaighSchool of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway
All are welcome!

Dr Martin McCleery (Queen's University Belfast and Moore Institute) - Assessing the Micro-Dynamics of Political Violence: The Murders of Two British Army Corporals in Belfast, 19 March 1988
2015-11-12 16:00
Dr Martin McCleery
(Queen’s University Belfast and Moore Institute)
Assessing the Micro-Dynamics of Political Violence:
The Murders of Two British Army Corporals in Belfast, 19 March 1988
Thursday 12 November
4pm
Moore Institute Seminar Room
(G010 Hardiman Research Building)
Followed by the launch of:
Martin McCleery, Operation Demetrius and Its Aftermath: A New History of the Use of Internment Without Trial in Northern Ireland 1971-75 (Manchester University Press, 2015).
Launched by Dr. Niall ÌÒ Dochartaigh
School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway
All are welcome!

Early Modern Research Seminar: Laura Branch and Mark Empey
2015-11-12 12:30
Early Modern Research Seminar
Dr. Laura Branch,
‰Û÷Christian Communities: The Culture of England’s Chartered Companies in the Sixteenth Century’
Dr. Mark Empey,
‰Û÷”These Books are excellent in their several kinds and well-chosen”: Book Ownership and the Reception of Women’s Texts, c. 1680-98′

History Graduate Research Seminar Series: Regina Donlon, Crisis of Identity: the varying experiences of the James Hack Tuke emigrants in Minnesota and Pennsylvania 1880-1930
2015-11-11 16:00
History Graduate Research Seminar Series
Regina Donlon,
Crisis of Identity: the varying experiences of the James Hack Tuke emigrants in Minnesota and Pennsylvania 1880-1930
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for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie

Gender ARC Research Seminar Series 2015: The Experience of Imprisonment for Incarcerated Mothers and their Children in Ireland Sinead O'Malley, PhD Candidate, UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre at the National University of Ireland - Galway
2015-11-11 16:00
Gender ARC Research Seminar Series,Autumn 2015
Gender ARC and Global Women’s Studies at NUI Galway arepleased to invite you to the following research seminar:…………………………..
The Experience of Imprisonment for Incarcerated Mothers and their Childrenin Ireland
Sinead O’Malley, PhD Candidate, UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre atthe National University of Ireland – Galway
For more information please contact gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie
