Moore Institute

Staging Trauma: Bodies in Shadow
2019-02-25 17:30 (Europe/Dublin) | O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, NUI Galway
Staging Trauma: Bodies in Shadow
Dr Miriam Haughton, Drama and Theatre Studies, NUI Galway
Nominated for the TaPRA Early Career Research Prize
Introduced by Louise Lowe (ANU Productions) and Dr Cathy Leeney (UCD)
Book Launch: Monday, 25 February 2019, 5.30pm, Foyer, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance
Supported by the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, the Moore Institute, Drama and Theatre Studies at NUI Galway, the Irish Society for Theatre Research, and the Feminist Storytelling Network
Reviews
‘nuanced, pertinent and timely’ Times Higher Education
‘a timely and significant book…Haughton skillfully weaves together scholarly sources, theatrical criticism, and personal reflection to draw the reader into an exploration of the complexities and ethics of staging traumatic experience’ New Theatre Quarterly
‘Haughton offers insight into the dislocated state of exile and its relation to trauma… a valuable provocation for students and scholars in theatre and performance’ Studies in Theatre and Performance

On Producing: Industry, Infrastructure and Cultures of Change
2019-02-25 | O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, NUI galway
This event investigates the role of the producer and the processes of production with a particular emphasis on how change can be facilitated to occur. The primary analysis is directed at producing for theatre and performance, but takes account of the intersections and relationships with the wider creative arts industry. This event is intended to examine producing from multiple perspectives and areas of expertise, including the history of producing, networks and training, hosting and touring, festivals and events, budgets and financial planning, the impact of identity politics at policy and decision-making level, and the development of storytelling content.
SCHEDULE
Morning Workshop 11am – 1pm: A Producer’s Toolkit
Workshop Facilitators: Dr Mairead Ni Chronin, Moonfish Theatre
Jane Daly, Irish Theatre Institute
1:00 -2:00 Break
2-3.30pm: On Producing Working Group 1
Chair: Dr Miriam Haughton
Lucy Kerbel, Director, Tonic Theatre UK
Una NicEoin, Executive Producer, Prime Cut Productions
Anne Clarke, Producer, Landmark Productions
3.30-3.45: Break
3.45 – 5.15: On Producing Working Group 2
Chair: Roisin Stack
Jen Coppinger, Head of Producing, Abbey Theatre
Louise Lowe, Co-Artistic Director, ANU Productions
Craig Flaherty, Cultural Producer, Galway 2020
5.30: Wine Reception and Book launch
Staging Trauma: Bodies in Shadow (Palgrave, 2018) by Miriam Haughton
Introduced by Prof Niamh Reilly (NUI Galway)
For more information on the event email miriam.haughton@nuigalway.ie’

Modernist Studies Ireland’s Works in Progress guest lecture by Dr Tamara Radak on ‘“To Infinity…and Beyond?”: ‘Endgames’ in the Novels of James Joyce and Flann O’Brien’
2019-02-21 17:00 - 19:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
It is our great pleasure to welcome Dr Tamara Radak (University of Vienna), who is currently a Visiting Fellow at NUI Galway’s Moore Institute. Tamara’s lecture is aligned with her doctoral research on the (non)sense of an ending – and, judging from the sparkling poster, we’re in for a galactic treat! The lecture takes as its point of departure a staple of critical literature on modernism: that modernist novels lack closure as a rule. Tamara’s book project, “No Sense of an Ending? Modernist Aporias of Closure”, complicates this idea, arguing that modernist novels do not display a lack of closure so much as an irresolvable yet productive tension, or aporia, between openness and closedness. When taking a closer look at representative examples (in this lecture, the works of James Joyce and Flann O’Brien), the often-neglected complex interplay between closure and what Barbara Herrnstein Smith terms “anti-closure” in modernist novels becomes apparent. Drawing on recent work in new modernist studies by Rebecca Walkowitz and Douglas Mao, Sean Latham and Gayle Rogers and others, the lecture investigates how thinking through modernist “aporias of closure” – a phrase coined by J. Hillis Miller in a more general context – can help us to critically re-investigate modernism as a concept. There will be wine, cheese, and nibbles to keep us sustained on more than art and modernism! For more information on the event, our speaker, and MSI more generally, please see our website at https://modstudiesireland.wordpress.com/ or get in touch at modstudiesireland@gmail.com.

Irish Studies’ Seminar Series, Semester 2, 2018-19.
2019-02-21 16:00 | Centre for Irish Studies
Fenianos, Freedmen and ‘French half-breeds’: A Borderlands Approach to American Fenianism, 1865-70”
Patrick Mahony, PhD Scholar Drew University, Irish Studies Visiting Scholar, NUI Galway 2018-19
Seminar Room Centre for Irish Studies
4pm, Thursday 21 February 2019

Image 1: The Battle of Ridgeway – Charge of General O’Neill’s Fenians upon the Canadian troops, causing their rout.
The Sage, Sons & Co. Lithographer (1869) – Library and Archives Canada

A chairde,
You are invited to attend our third seminar of the Irish Studies’ Seminar Series, Semester 2, 2018-19.
We are delighted to welcome back one of our former MA in Irish Studies’ students this semester. Fáilte ar ais chugainn a Phádraig! Mr Patrick Mahony (Drew University) will deliver his paper, ‘Fenianos, Freedmen and ‘French half-breeds’: A Borderlands Approach to American Fenianism, 1865-70’, based on his ongoing doctoral research on Irish-American history. For further details, please see below.
Patrick is a Caspersen Doctoral Fellow at Drew University. His research focuses primarily on the interactions between Irish-American radicals, indigenous peoples, and other ethno-political groups in the U.S. Borderlands and the Caribbean during the mid-nineteenth century. His book, From A Land Beyond the Wave: Connecticut’s Irish Rebels, 1798-1916 (2017), won the Connecticut League of History Organizations’ Publication Prize (2018).
The seminar will take place at 4pm, Thursday 21 February, at the Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, Distillery Road.
Beidh fáilte roimh chách!

Thomas Kilroy's Memoir - Over The Backyard Wall
2019-02-20 17:15 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Professor Adrian Frazier will launch the book and Tom will read from the piece.
Copies of the book will be available.

Graduate Research Seminars in History, 2019
2019-02-20 16:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Prof Chris Maginn (Fordham University)
After the Armada: Thanksgiving in Ireland, 1589.

Camps Talk by : Rosemary Power
2019-02-15 12:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
The Dates and the Placing of the Iona Ruins and Monuments

Fascisms and the Arts
2019-02-14 18:00 - 19:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Professor Giuliana Pieri (Royal Holloway) will speak about Fascisms and the Arts.

Irish saints' Lives in Central European manuscripts: hagiography and monastic networks in the high-medieval period
2019-02-14 14:00 - 15:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Abstract:
More than 60 years have passed since Ludwig Bieler drew attention to “the sudden appearance in Southern Germany of a group of Irish hagiographical texts” in the second half of the 12th century. Indeed,
traces of this lost collection of Lives are found in various manuscripts of Austrian and Bavarian origin. Comparison of the surviving codices and some new discoveries now allow a tentative reconstruction of the original content and structure of the collection, and shine light on the process of manuscript transmission. A study of the manuscript tradition of one of the texts, the Life of St Rónán of Dromiskin, lays bare the central role of the Irish Benedictine monasteries (Schottenklöster) of Germany and Austria in the circulation of Irish hagiographical material. A new appraisal of the content of the Vita sancti Ronani also helps to reveal a previously unknown chapter in the ecclesiastical history of 12th-century Ireland.
Speaker:
Diarmuid Ó Riain is currently a visiting research fellow at the Moore Institute. He has been a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Vienna since 2013, where he works within the “Visions of Community” special research programme. His sub-project concerns medieval hagiographical collections, with a particular focus on the compilation and transmission of the late-12th-century Magnum Legendarium Austriacum. Diarmuid’s doctoral research at University College Dublin related to the history of the Irish Benedictine monasteries or Schottenklöster in medieval Germany and Austria.
https://viscom.ac.at/home/

Coffee Morning in aid of Special Olympics Connaught
2019-02-14 10:00 - 12:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Modernist Studies Ireland’s Works in Progress event on ‘“A Space Between”: Dissociation, Disability, and Creativity in Modernism’
2019-02-13 17:00 - 19:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
MSI’s monthly forum for new and on-going work in Irish modernist studies cordially invites you to its second session of the new year and semester, taking place on 13th Feb, from 5-7 pm, in the Bridge Room (THB). This seminar will be a first in many ways, as it is the most creative session to date. It is our great privilege that our wonderful speaker, Colette Nic Aodha (NUI Galway), will not only share her academic but also her creative work with us. Colette’s work takes inspiration from modernist David Jones in relation to liminality and disability, and her presentation will explore Jones’s modernism by way of performing her own poetry—in crucial aspects a response to and development of Jones’s. This will be combined with a visual art display. And, as always, there will be wine, cheese, and nibbles to keep us sustained on more than art and modernism! For more information on the event, our speaker, and MSI more generally, please see our website at https://modstudiesireland.wordpress.com/ or get in touch at modstudiesireland@gmail.com.

Graduate Research Seminars in History, 2019
2019-02-13 16:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Dr James O’Donnell (Zhejiang Intl. Studies Univ. in Hangzhou, China)

‘“Please confirm at once”: confusion, libel and reporting the Revolution in Galway, the case of George Nicholls (1919).

Retired Staff Association Lecture Series
2019-02-12 12:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Camps Talk by Aoife Maher
2019-02-08 12:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
For the Love of the Gods: Kharis and Religious Reciprocity in Euripedes’ Tragedies

Prof Jennifer Todd on post-conflict identity politics in Ireland
2019-02-07 14:00 | Room 333, 2nd Floor, Áras Moyola
Professor Jennifer Todd, one of the foremost scholars of the Northern Ireland conflict and of identity change in Ireland North and South is giving a research seminar in the School of Political Science and Sociology on Thursday 7 February at 2pm. All are welcome.
Identity change, identity politics and identity traps: why everyday compromise after conflict is so often reversed. Research from the two Irelands.
Abstract: This paper sketches a dynamic empirical analysis of micro-identity change and its (potential) macro-impact in politics and social life. It outlines some of the concepts, measures and conclusions from my recently published qualitative research on both parts of Ireland (with a control study in France). Its focus on individual identity innovation – set against analysis of social boundaries and cultural grammars – allows comparative empirical analysis of incipient processes of identity change in very different social settings. Its typology of identity change, oriented to project, content and argumentation, shows the obstacles specific to each type of change and the existence of social traps, where individuals’ resources and opportunities lead them to types of change almost certain to fail. This allows more nuanced comparative research than do the dominant political science approaches to identity. Its conclusions go against contemporary wisdom. Identity change is pervasive, even more so in conflict-ridden situations than in consensual ones. It takes a limited number of forms, working from given national and religious bases rather than rejecting them. And it meets predictable social traps. The paper shows how this leads to a distinctive approach to explaining political reversals in Northern Ireland from flags to Brexit and a distinctive policy orientation. Neither pluralist nor cosmopolitan ideologies grasp the process: rather than ‘new narratives’ there is need for new constitutional signposts beyond identity politics.

Jennifer Todd, Identity Change After Conflict: Ethnicity, Boundaries and Belonging in the Two Irelands. Springer/Palgrave Macmillan 2018 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-98503-9

Identity Change after Conflict | SpringerLink
link.springer.com
This book explores everyday identity change and its role in transforming ethnic, national and religious divisions. It uses very extensive interviews in post-conflict Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in the early 21 st century to compare the extent and the micro-level cultural logics of identity change. It widens comparisons to the Gard in France, and uses multiple methods to …

Bio
Jennifer Todd is a full professor at University College Dublin (until 2018 in School of Politics and International Relations), Member of the Royal Irish Academy, Fellow of the Geary Institute, UCD, current Fellow of the Political Science Association of Ireland, and (2016) Fernand Braudel Fellow at SPS, European University Institute, research director (previously director) Institute for British-Irish Studies, UCD. She writes on the structural and institutional conditions of (ethnic) conflict and the processes of institutional change that can lead to settlement, with particular expertise on Northern Ireland, and on issues of identity, ethnicity and identity change. On conflict and settlement, she is co-author with J. Ruane of Dynamics of Conflict in Northern Ireland (Cambridge, 1996), co-author with J. Coakley of ‘From Sunningdale to St Andrews‘ (Oxford, forthcoming 2019), and numerous articles in West European Politics, Political Studies, Parliamentary Affairs, Irish Political Studies. and numerous edited books and book chapters. On identity and ethnicity, she has recently published Identity Change after Conflict (Springer-Palgrave 2018), a co-edited journal issue with B. Rumelili on Paradoxes of Identity Change (2018) and numerous articles and edited volumes, in Politics, Theory and Society, Archives Européennes de Sociologie, Nations and Nationalism, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Participation and Conflict, etc. With J. Coakley she produced an archive of interviews on Breaking Patterns of Conflict in Northern Ireland, recently opened to researchers in the John Whyte Archive, Archives, UCD. She is presently writing (with J. Ruane) a sequel to Dynamics of Conflict, and undertaking new qualitative research in ‘Brexiting’ Northern Ireland.

Archiving Personal Histories: The Tuam Mother and Baby Home
2019-02-07 10:30 | The Cube, Áras Na Mac Léinn, NUIG
Programme
10.30: Tea/Coffee & pastries. Opening comments by Prof. Pat Dolan (Chair, UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre)
11.00-12.30: Survivor-led Workshop
Workshop led by Breeda Murphy (Tuam Home Survivors Network) and Mary Cunningham (Tuam Oral History Project) involving participants from the Network, invited students and staff. Limited places; to book, contact: Tuamoralhistoryproject@gmail.com for queries)
12.45-13.45 – Lunch
Seminar – All Welcome
14.15: Welcome address from the Dean of Arts, Professor Cathal O’Donoghue. Introduction by John Cox, James Hardiman Library.
Panel 1: 14.30-15.45
Panel Discussion: Advocacy and Historical Justice

for more information and to register click here
: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/archiving-personal-histories-the-tuam-mother-and-baby-home-tickets-55155396275

Graduate Research Seminars in History, 2019
2019-02-06 16:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Maura Cronin (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick)
‘The female of the species is more deadly than the male’: Women in anti-tithe protests in 1830s Ireland.

Seminar on Career Development for Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Researchers
2019-02-05 11:00 - 12:30 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
In conjunction with the Sinéad Beacom, Manager of the Researcher Development Centre (RDC), the Moore Institute will host a Career Development event for postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers within the College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies.
The purpose of the session will be two-fold: (i) to identify what particular training needs are of interest to postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers with a view to putting some training initiatives in place this semester and (ii) for researchers to have an input into the plans of the RDC as it evolves.
Researcher Development Centre
The Researcher Development Centre (RDC) is a new initiative, supported by the Offices of the VP for Research and Innovation and the Dean of Graduate Studies, for the specific purpose of providing support and continuing professional development opportunities for researchers at NUI Galway.
The RDC mission is to create and foster a culture of continuing professional development (CPD) for researchers; to enable researchers to identify and achieve a range of skills suited to their personal career pathway; to signpost opportunities for researchers both within and beyond academia and to measure the impact of such training/CPD.
The RDC fully supports the EU MISSION ‘to facilitate the development of R1 (postgrad) and R2 (postdoc) researchers to become fully aware of their possible career trajectories and the existing range of career development opportunities open to them, thereby enabling them to make training and occupational choices and to take personal responsibility for the management of their own career’.
The RDC aims to ensure that all researchers will have an Individual Development Plan, mentoring support, a full selection of training and professional development opportunities, career support and to showcase a wide range of career profiles from both academia and beyond academia

The #MeToo Moment
2019-02-04 13:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Talk By Nike Stam
2019-02-01 12:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Copying Code-Switching: The Problems of Bilingual Texts in Translation

Seminar on Career Development for Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Researchers - PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5.
2019-02-01 12:00 - 13:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Past, Present, Future How best can we live our histories and our futures?
2019-01-31 17:00 - 19:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Passé, Présent, Futur
Comment mieux vivre nos histoires et nos avenirs ?

Past, Present, Future
How best can we live our histories and our futures?

La Nuit des Idées or The Night of Ideas is an annual event coordinated by the Institut Français which takes place this year on Thursday 31st January. Its goal is to celebrate the exchange of ideas between countries, cultures, topics and generations. Speakers from diverse backgrounds will gather in a wide range of cultural or knowledge centres to discuss the theme across five continents, from Dakar to Los Angeles, not to mention Brussels, Buenos Aires, Kathmandu, Marseille, Paris… and Galway! As part of this global event, the Discipline of French at NUI Galway, in collaboration with the French Embassy in Ireland and the Moore Institute, will host an evening of talks and short film screenings to which all are warmly invited. This event will examine ways in which memories of the past can productively inform the present, and on how our current experiences may be enhanced by artistic, scientific and civic engagement with a variety of imagined futures.
Keynote speaker: Professor Grace Neville (University College Cork)
Postgraduate student presentations
Lucas Cantinelli (French, NUIG)
Eilish Kavanagh (Heritage Research Group, GMIT),
Maša Uzelac (French, NUIG).
Short Film Screenings
Le Voyage dans la lune (Georges Méliès, 1902)
La Race (Michaël Le Meur, 2015)
All welcome
For further information, please contact: philip.dine@nuigalway.ie

Modernist Studies Ireland Works in Progress
2019-01-31 17:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
BIOS
Iva Yates is a doctoral candidate at the University of Limerick. Her interdisciplinary PhD project is titled The Golden Comb: A Novel and Critical Analysis. She holds a BA in English from Boston College and a MA in English Literary Studies from the University of York.
Dana Garvin is a PhD candidate at the University of Limerick. Her current research focuses on the visually symbolic intricacies contained within the Yeatses Automatic Script and the mostly unpublished drawings and illustrations imbedded throughout the entirety of the extant pages. She is working towards a complete indexing and system of categorisation for this visually striking material as well as a dissection of the material within the framework of visual rhetorical analysis.
ABSTRACTS
“Female Nations: Cathleen Ní Houlihan and The passion according to Antígona Pérez’s Triadic Structures and Blood Sacrifice”
In 1968, Puerto Rican playwright Luis Rafael Sánchez brought to the stage La pasión según Antígona Pérez (The passion according to Antígona Pérez). The play’s title character, Antígona Pérez, is based on Sophocles’s Antigone and represents Puerto Rico as a nation struggling to be part of Latin America yet trapped in the vise of the United States.
On the other hand, in W. B. Yeats’s play Cathleen Ní Houlihan, the Poor Old Woman represents an Ireland that hopes to break free from British rule yet has been unable to do so. However, at the promise of a rebellion, she transforms from an old woman into a young one; the symbol of a new beginning.
These two plays, written at different times in the twentieth century, both use women to depict the island nations that have been subjected to colonial rule by different empires; the Spanish and then American in the case of Puerto Rico, and the British in the case of Ireland. In both instances, a blood sacrifice is required to achieve freedom but how this is achieved and the result of said sacrifice differs.
This paper examines both plays from a transnational/ postcolonial perspective, and looks into how Ireland’s and Puerto Rico’s parallel histories converge, how the plays use triadic structures for the required blood sacrifice, how they differ in outlook, and how this is portrayed in the texts through the intersection of gender and nationalism.
“Dissecting Mysteries & Exploring Sequences in the Automatic Script”
This presentation examines the visual aspects of George and W. B. Yeats’s automatic script. The automatic script served as the foundational material that would eventually become Yeats’s A Vision. While this research does exist in a state of evolutionary progression, this presentation gives an overview of the script and will highlight some of the key visual elements, drawings, and illustrations that exist throughout the extant pages. The discussion will primarily focus on the overarching patterns within some of the more prominent illustrations and the underlying meanings behind those images. Throughout the presentation, a strong emphasis will be given to George Yeats’s role in the creation of this material and her contribution as not only interpreter but also as artist. This discussion will provide the primary areas of categorisation for the whole of the automatic script illustrations and will highlight the main purposes of said drawings. Additionally, the presentation will include information on some of the unique visual trademarks of some of the key communicators as well as highlight some portions of previously undiscussed, hidden symbolic material that permeates the entirety of the script.

Irish Studies Seminar Series - Semester 2, 2018-19
2019-01-31 16:00 | Centre for Irish Studies
Down with the Paris Farmer!’
Frank MacDermot and Class Politics in 1930s Roscommon

Dr Tony Varley, (Political Science & Sociology, NUI Galway)
Centre for Irish Studies – 4pm, 31 January 2019

A chairde,
You are invited to attend our first seminar of the Irish Studies Seminar Series for Semester 2, 2018-19.
Dr Tony Varley (Political Science & Sociology, NUI Galway) will deliver his seminar, ‘Down with the Paris Farmer!’ Frank MacDermot and Class Politics in 1930s Roscommon’, based on his ongoing research investigating the history of Frank MacDermot (1886-1975) with a particular focus on Ireland in the 1930s. For further details, please see below.
The seminar will take place at 4pm, Thursday 31 January, at the Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, Distillery Road.
Beidh fáilte roimh chách!
Le gach dea-ghuí,
Nessa
Dr Nessa Cronin, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway.
“Frank MacDermot (1886-1975) tends to be remembered today as a maverick in Irish politics: a founder of Fine Gael who quit the party in late 1935; an independent-minded parliamentarian who stood alone in criticising de Valera’s 1937 constitution for its potential to antagonise northern unionists and embed partition further; and someone whose political career ended abruptly in 1942 upon resigning from Seanad Éireann where he had sat since 1938 as one of the Taoiseach’s eleven nominees. The focus of my talk will be on the circumstances in which MacDermot was first elected in Roscommon in 1932, and the manner he held his seat a year later in the snap election of 1933. Another topic to be discussed is the appraisal of MacDermot’s record by some of those leading some new movements of Irish and Roscommon farmers later on in the 1930s.”
Dr Tony Varley, (Political Science & Sociology, NUI Galway)

Planning & Building Digital Projects - Digital Scholars' Workshop Series
2019-01-31 12:00 - 13:00 | The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research Building, Ireland
Update: The slides from this session are now available for download.

This session will give an introduction to planning a digital research project, and is aimed at those considering the creation of a digital project, either small or large, as part of their research or learning.
Using an existing database project as an example, we will look at the various stages in project design & development, along with tools you can use to support them.
Areas to be covered include ways to:

identify your project requirements,
work with your data,
approach planning the look and feel of the project’s interface,
think about your technology choices, and
evaluate your decisions by testing with users.

We will look at a number of tools that have proved useful over the course of my work on a wide variety of digital projects.
The session will be delivered by David Kelly, Digital Humanities Manager at the Moore Institute.
Registration
Please register to attend using Eventbrite.
About the Workshop Series
Developing skills with digital technologies can be a challenge for researchers interested in digital and open scholarship.
To help, the Library, in partnership with the Moore Institute, presents a series of informal workshops to share practice-based expertise, know-how, and experience in technologies and methods, that will enhance your experience of newer forms of scholarship.
Events in this semester’s series include:

Planning & Building Digital Projects – David Kelly, G010, 12-1pm Thursday, 31st January
Introduction to Research Data Management and related supports at NUI Galway – Trish Finnan, G010, 12-1pm Wednesday 27th February
Creating Digital Exhibitions with Omeka – Cillian Joy, G011, 12-1pm Thursday 28th March
Archives in the digital age – balancing evolving expectations against the realities of resource allocation and legislation – Aisling Keane, G010, 12-1pm Tuesday, 30th April.

Graduate Research Seminars in History, 2019:
2019-01-30 16:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Mícheál Ó Fathartaigh (Teagasc/Social Sciences Res. Centre, NUIG)
A Quieter Revolution: How Demonstrations Transformed Early Twentieth-Century Rural Ireland after the Land War.

EDEN Event: Léann an Bhéaloidis: Rethinking Folklore and Oral Traditions
2019-01-24 17:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
NUIG has a vibrant and dynamic community of folklore scholars and scholars that utilize folklore sources in their various research disciplines, and indeed, often in bilingual or multilingual environments. This brief, informal evening session aims to bring together researchers who are already working with folklore sources, those who may be considering utilising folklore sources and perspectives in their research, and of course anyone who would like to hear more about the fascinating scholarship taking place on oral traditions here on campus. Our three panellists will speak for ten minutes each on their research, followed by an opportunity for questions and discussion:

Pádraig Ó Mathúna, Drew University & Ionad an Léinn Éireannaigh, OÉG: ‘‘Bhiodh na cruinnighthe agus drill aca san oídhche’: A Fenian history from below
Siobhan Morrissey, English Department, NUIG: “Exploring the links between folklore, children’s literature, and nationalism”
Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha, Irish Research Council Laureate Scholar, Roinn na Gaeilge & Institiúid de Mórdha, OÉG ‘Fairy Changelings: Understanding Domestic Abuse, Infanticide, and Disability’

As usual, drinks and chats to follow in McGinn’s afterwards – all are welcome!
Fáilte roimh chách!

Book Launch
2019-01-24 16:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
You are invited to attend the launch by Professor Emeritus
of Modern Irish (UCC) Alan Titley of the book:

An Chuid Eile Díom Féin: Aistí
le Máirtín Ó Direáin
(Cló Iar-Chonnacht)
Síobhra Aiken (ed)
Fáilte roimh chách!

Graduate Research Seminars in History, 2019:
2019-01-23 16:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Keith Seán Harrington (Maynooth University)
Language Politics and Territorial Separatism: the origins of the Transnistrian conflict 1989-1990.

Academic Publishing’s Uncertain Future: how will it impact NUI Galway?
2019-01-21 12:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Library is hosting a seminar titled Academic Publishing’s Uncertain Future: how will it impact NUI Galway? on Monday 21 January at 1200, with details and link to registration (essential) as below:
A number of significant developments have impacted the whole environment of academic publishing, generating lots of debate and sometimes controversy in their wake. This seminar will offer an opportunity to catch up on developments such as:

challenges across Europe in particular to the current commercial publishing system, including robust engagement with the highly profitable publishing company, Elsevier, and cancellation of expensive subscriptions
policy directives aimed at universal open access to funded research publications, notably Plan S, to which Science Foundation Ireland is a signatory
concerns regarding the equitable assessment of research as more institutions sign the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment
a general push towards Open Science, emphasising research sharing, transparency and reproducibility

The first half of the seminar will consist of short presentations by an expert panel, representing a range of perspectives. The second half will be an open forum, enabling full audience participation with the panel to discuss issues of concern.
Panel members are:
Professor Daniel Carey, Director, Moore Institute
John Cox, University Librarian (chair)
Monica Crump, Head of Collections, James Hardiman Library
Professor Lokesh Joshi, Vice-President for Research
Dr Niall Madden, Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Applied Mathematics
Dr Elaine Toomey, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Psychology
NB: Registration is essential if you wish to attend – please register at https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/academic-publishings-uncertain-future-how-will-it-impact-nui-galway-tickets-54750078960
