Moore Institute

Modernist Studies Ireland's: Works in Progress
2018-11-20 18:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Modernist Studies Ireland’s monthly forum for new on-going work in Irish modernist studies—Works in Progress—cordially invites you to its third session of this autumnal season, taking place on Tuesday, 20th Nov., from 6-8 pm in The Bridge Room (THB), as per usual with nibbles and wine. This seminar will open to view the much understudied literary modernism of Irish language writers in the twentieth century. We’re honoured to welcome two speakers from NUI Galway’s Centre for Irish studies for the occasion. Hardiman and IRC scholar Eoin Byrne will be speaking about ‘Semantic Succour: The Languages of Irish Modernism’ in the context of the works of Samuel Beckett, Máirtín Ó Cadhain, and Brian Ó Nualláin (Flann O’Brien), illuminating the late-modernist cultural production during Ireland’s postcolonial moment. A multilingual approach to this cultural moment, Eoin’s paper posits, not only strengthens the New Modernist Studies’ ‘vertical expansion’; it also helps in better sketching the blurred borders between modernist and postmodernist aesthetics more generally. Our second speaker is IRC and Hardiman scholar Síobhra Aiken, who recently curated the exhibition Máirtín Ó Direáin: Fathach File/Reluctant Modernist, held in NUI Galway from March-July 2018, and currently on tour. Síobhra’s talk, entitled ‘“Ní file ach filíocht an bhean”: Towards a Gendered Reading of Irish Language Modernist Poetry’, will put the gendered streak of Irish language modernist poetry centre stage. Please join us for what promises to be a most intriguing event, keen to shine a light on many severely neglected dimensions of Irish modernism and its critical apprehension.

Talk on Islam and Comparative Theology “The People of The Book, ahl al-kitāb: A Modern Comparative Theological Exploration” by Richard Kimball (TCD)
2018-11-20 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
This paper examines the use of the Qur’ānic term ahl al-kitāb by several contemporary Muslim and Christian scholars in the context of our increasingly interconnected and pluralist societies. The Arabic term ahl al-kitāb is frequently translated as the People of the Book. The People of the Book are the religious communities that the Qur’ān identifies as following divine revelation in the form of a book. Traditionally these communities are Jews, Christians, Sabians and to a lesser extent Zoroastrians. Sometimes the Qur’ān praises these communities and their sacred texts and other times they are criticised. Therefore, what the Qur’ān has to say about these communities and their texts is highly contextual, requiring nuanced understanding of any verse in question.
For Islamic scholars, the application of the Qur’ānic commentary tradition, known as tafsīr allows for an authoritative link to the past that anchors their contribution in modern discourse. Variations from past interpretations of particular social issues, due to modern social pressures like participation as equal citizens in multi-faith and multi-cultural societies, often follow formal reflection on past scholarship, combined with the introduction of new modern contexts as variables in the decision-making process. The research subsequently demonstrates the resilience of the parameters set within the traditional commentary for Muslim interlocutors. Therefore, this paper posits, greater awareness by Christians of the application of the traditional commentary, can play an important role in the development of improved dialogue and cooperation, whereby each may respect the other as fully Muslim and fully Christian.

Key words: ahl al-kitāb, asbâb an-nuzûl, bid‘ah, fitra, hadīth, People of the Book, ra’y, sahabah, tafsīr, tabi’un, taqlīd.

Creative Coding Meet-up
2018-11-20 15:00 - 16:00, 2018-11-06 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Dublin) | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
This semester we’re going to run a weekly session for those interested in learning “creative coding”. This approach is a good way for those without any coding experience to develop a foundation in programming. The sessions will use online resources (see below) to guide self-directed learning.

Creative coding is a different discipline than programming systems. The goal is to create something expressive instead of something functional. Interaction design, information visualization and generative art are all different types of creative coding – which has become a household term describing artworks articulated as code. (via Awesome Creative Coding )

What can I expect?

This is a peer support group, not an instructor-led workshop / class.
It’s an opportunity to schedule some time each week to develop your coding skills, and to get some help, if you need it.
There are a collection of tutorial videos (bring headphones), online courses and reference material linked to in the “Further Details” section below, for you to work through at your own pace.

If you have no coding experience, and aren’t sure where or how to start, someone will help you.
Come along, meet people who are also learning to code, and get help if you run into any problems. Showing what you’re working on would be great too.
Further details
You can find further details, and learning resources, at: https://github.com/dh-nuigalway/Creative-Coding-Meetup. We are planning on hosting the sessions on Tuesdays from 3pm – 4pm, in the “Bridge Room”, on the first floor of the Hardiman Research Building.
Any questions?: Contact David Kelly (david.d.kelly@nuigalway.ie)

Digital Scholarship Seminar 43: Peter Stokes
2018-11-20 12:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Arts Millennium Psychology Building G067
Digital Scholarship Seminar 43: Peter Stokes
12pm | Tues 20 Nov 2018 | Arts Millennium/Psychology Building G067
Peter Stokes (Paris, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Université PSL)
Modelling texts and manuscripts: some digital approaches to material texts
Palaeographers, codicologists and indeed textual editors have long engaged with technological developments and the challenges that they present, and recent years are no exception to that. Developments in digital imaging, the internet, the availability of powerful computers and new algorithms in machine vision and artificial intelligence: all these are already transforming the way we study and understand books and the texts they contain. Nevertheless, real questions remain here. What does it mean to represent a material object digitally: what do we gain and lose, and when does it matter? Where are the foreseeable limits to what the computer can achieve? Conversely, are we fully taking advantage of all the computer has to offer? Are we driving the technology, or is it leading us? This talk will discuss these issues through consideration of some recent developments in the application of digital and computational methods to historical books and writing, focussing particularly on the recently completed ‘Exon’ project on the Exon Domesday survey of South-West England.

Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies, Research Labs (CAMPS) Research Labs.
2018-11-16 12:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Pádraic Moran: Translating the Greek Bible in the Ninth Century: Evidence of Glossed Irish Manuscripts
Noémi Farkas Biblical Exempla in Sedulius Scottus’ De rectoribus Christianis.

Celtic Sociolinguistics Symposium III
2018-11-16 - 2018-11-17 | Friday: Aras na Gaeilge. Saturday: G010, The Hardiman Research Building
The third biennial Celtic Sociolinguistics Symposium will take place at NUIG in November 16th-17th 2018. As in the previous two Celtic Sociolinguistics symposia, we have attracted a diversity of scholars working in various areas related to linguistic and sociocultural aspects of one (or more) of the six Celtic languages. This year’s theme is ‘Communities in Conversation,’ a theme which seeks to facilitate further collaboration between academics and the many different social actors working towards the maintenance of one (or more) of the Celtic languages within the community. Over the two days, we will have over fifteen paper presentations, four plenaries delivered by Dr. Holly Kennard (Oxford Univeristy), Dr. Noel Ó Murchadha (Trinity College Dublin), Dr Gwennan Higham (Swansea University) and Dr. Stuart Dunmore (University of Edinburgh), and a media panel organised by Dr. John Walsh (NUIG). More information, including the programme, can be found on our website.

CIORCAL SCRÍBHNEOIREACHTA
2018-11-15 18:00, 2018-11-08 13:00, 2018-11-01 18:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
An bhfuil suim agat i scríbhneoireacht na Gaeilge? An bhfuil tú ag iarraidh do shaothar féin a roinnt le daoine, agus aiseolas a fháil, nó d’obair a phlé go neamhfhoirmiúil le daoine eile a bhfuil Gaeilge acu? Nó an bhfuil tú ag iarraidh éisteacht le scríbhneoirí eile ag léamh a saothar amach os ard? Má tá, déan cinnte go dtagann tú chun ár gciorcal scríbhneoireachta, a bheas ar siúl achan Déardaoin ag a 6 i seomra an Droichid in Institúid de Mórdha. Beidh muid ag súil le fáilte a chur roimh achan duine a bhfuil Gaeilge agus fonn scríbhneoireachta acu!

EDEN's Write Club
2018-11-15 17:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Dublin)
Write Club!
EDEN’s Write Club is back for a mid-November writing session! Have you been looking to get that chapter draft, article, or conference paper started? Has your writing has taken a little bit of a back step due to the growing demands of the semester?
Come along and join us in the Bridge Room from 5.00-6.30pm on Thursday 15th November where we will simply WRITE and have (quick 5 minute) chats about what we are working on and exchange writing tips or rants!
This is not a peer-review session where feedback will be offered, but a writing session where we will write as a group to the same clock. EDEN’s Write Club takes its title and inspiration from Dr. Ian Walsh who established Write Club three years ago year as a weekly writing group which is usually held in the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama,Theatre and Performance which was passed onto us by Ciara L. Murphy and Justine Nakase. In this session, we will use the Pomodoro Technique where we will write for 25 minutes, and take a break for 5 minutes (x3).
Come and give it a try! Just bring yourself and your laptop!

The Rory Kavanagh Bursary Presentation
2018-11-15 17:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Rory Kavanagh Bursary Presentation
Final Year Italian student and recipient of the Rory Kavanagh Bursary, Éilis Gillespie, will make a presentation about her experience during the Erasmus Year Abroad in Italy. The Registrar and Deputy President will introduce the evening.

Gender Arc Seminar: Headscarves at Work: The Court of Justice of the EU, the US and the Idea of Neutrality
2018-11-15 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Gender Arc Seminar: Headscarves at Work: The Court of Justice of the EU, the US and the Idea of Neutrality
By Dr Ioanna Tourkochoriti
Thursday 15 November, 1-2pm
The Hardiman Research Building, R1001 (the Bridge Room)

Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class (ICHLC) AGM
2018-11-14 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
The Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class (ICHLC) will hold its AGM on Wednesday 14 November, 1-2pm in room GO11. ALl welcome. For details contact john.cunningham@nuigalway.ie or sarahanne.buckley@nuigalway.ie.

Creative Coding Meet-up
2018-11-13 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building

Moore Institute Open Meeting for members of the CASSCS
2018-11-13 14:00 - 15:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
We would like to invite you to an Open Meeting next Tuesday, November 13 @ 2pm in Room G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room. The meeting is an occasion for the Institute to update staff on the Institute’s activities to-date and its plans for the future while also giving staff the opportunity to ask questions and provide feedback on the services that we provide.
The meeting will be led by Dan Carey (Director) and will include contributions from our Associate Directors, Nessa Cronin (Irish Studies), John Morrissey (Geography), and Pádraic Moran (Classics).
We look forward to seeing you there.

Printing in the Irish Language, 1571-1871 by Prof. Richard Sharpe, Oxford University
2018-11-12 16:30 - 18:00 (Europe/Dublin) | The River Room, AS203, Arts/Science Building
The History Department presents:
Printing in the Irish Language, 1571-1871
Prof. Richard Sharpe, Oxford University
AS203: The River Room (Old Moore Seminar Room)

Prof. Richard Sharpe of Oxford University and Mícheál Hoyne of the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies have recently unveiled their bibliography of books printed in Irish between 1571 and 1871. The Clóliosta numbers more than 800 items. What type of books were printed in Irish? Who printed them and who read them? What kind of typefaces were used, and even more interestingly, what orthography was used? In this absorbing talk, Prof. Sharpe will consider these questions and others, providing fascinating insights into Irish social and political history.

Current Implications for Arendt's Concept of Banality of Evil by Michael Hardiman
2018-11-12 15:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Cartoons in World War I: Irish and Franco-Belgian Encounters
2018-11-10 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Cartoons in World War I: Irish and Franco-Belgian Encounters
Keynote speakers: Professor Grace Neville (University College Cork), a leading specialist in Franco-Irish relations, and prize-winning Belgian graphic novelist, Jean-Claude Servais.
All welcome
The First World War was a devastating conflict, but how did artists at the time use cartoons to tell the story? In association with the 2018 Galway Cartoon Festival, this Moore Institute conference will explore the impact of cartoons in Ireland and Europe during the war, with a particular focus on the rich tradition of Franco-Belgian graphic art. The event is coordinated by the discipline of French at NUI Galway, in collaboration with the French Honorary Consul to Galway and Connacht, Catherine Gagneux. The event is also supported by the Belgian Embassy and Wallonie-Bruxelles International (WBI), the agency responsible for the international relations of the French-speaking communities of Belgium.

Ann Matthews on suffragist, novelist and republican activist Charlotte Despard (1844-1939). - Modern Irishwomen Lecture Series
2018-11-10 14:30 - 15:30 UTC | Education Room, Galway City Museum
Ann Matthews on suffragist, novelist and republican activist Charlotte Despard (1844-1939).

Italian (NUI Galway) and Tulca Festival of Visual Art present Transformative Memories: Curatorial Practices in the Third Millennium
2018-11-09 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Dublin) | O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, NUI Galway
A Roundtable event with Valentina Zucchi (Mus.e Florence), Linda Shevlin (Curator, Tulca Festival of Visual Art, Galway), Mary McCarthy (Crawford Gallery, Cork), Paolo Bartoloni (Italian, NUIG)
Friday November 9, 6-8pm, O’Donoghue Theatre, National University of Ireland Galway
The current world is inextricably linked to a past that not only forms identity, tradition and individual or collective tastes, but also shapes the urban landscape as it evolves through transformative interactions with time and history. Memory plays a crucial role in shaping and re-shaping identity and urban development, evermore present in our lives, as both menacing and redeeming. In the twin realms of culture and heritage; memory represents a field of energies that can be activated to reflect the dominant narrative: borders are redrawn, past alliances erased, place transformed. Memory, with subtle reframing, can collapse or powerfully reprise a narrative.
Disrupting the mechanisms of memory, offering counter points, examining the risks and limits of nostalgia should be key concerns for our civic conversations.
Professor Bartoloni, Head of Italian, explains the idea behind the event: “Innovative curatorial practices are reinventing the ways we look at and inhabit the visual, understood both as a form of creative practice and an experience of the world. Our intention is to provide a forum in which curators, artists and academics can share ideas as well as tell their stories, and what it means to promote art in the third millennium.”
This round-table event features cultural producers from Ireland and Italy, two nations whose cultural heritage is at once comforting and normative. This forum will discuss how innovative curatorial and artistic practices can help us see our present as shaped by the past, calling the potent role of nostalgia as benign celebration into question.
https://transformativememories.eventzilla.net/web/event?eventid=2138710305
In the spirit of openness regarding cultural processes that so many Galway spokespersons have called for of late, audiences are invited to shape the discussion by submitting questions to the panel at: transformativememories@gmail.com

Launch of 'Yeats Collection Exhibition'
2018-11-09 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Special Collections, James Hardiman Library
New NUI Galway exhibition features art from controversial Yeats sale

NUI Galway is delighted to announce the launch of its Yeats Collection Exhibition. Following controversial sales in the UK and Ireland of material from ‘Ireland’s greatest literary and artistic family’ – as described by London auctioneers Sotheby’s – the university is proud to confirm that its recent acqusitions ensure many valuable artefacts are to remain in Ireland. Now newly on display at NUI Galway’s James Hardiman Library, the art and culture on show enhances the university’s existing special collections in the visual arts, and in English and Irish literature and theatre, showcasing its vibrant holdings of Irish cultural life.

Most of all the exhibition highlights the art and culture of the west. It draws attention to the work of women in renewing Ireland’s culture, and the early years of Ireland’s theatrical renaissance. In an exquisite drawing by Jack B. Yeats, the Roscommon poet and Irish-language playwright Douglas Hyde is shown acting with characteristic gusto and moustachios – a companion sketch depicts the Irish National Theatre’s greatest comic actor William G. Fay shouting at actors mid-rehearsal. Fourteen original drawings of human and animal island life by Elizabeth Rivers reveal the sensitivity of an artist who spent more time on the Aran islands than all the Yeatses and Synges combined. Shown alongside original woodcuts and fine art books, these drawings, unusually, were made as illustrations for the very last Cuala Press book Stranger in Aran. Cuala Industries, founded by sisters Elizabeth and Lily Yeats as a feminist artistic collective, had by then become the foremost design workshop in Ireland. Its contributions to embroidery and printing are honoured by a unique handpainted banner used for publicity in art fairs. Further rarely-seen items highlight the contributions to the west of Lady Augusta Gregory and her son Robert Gregory, whose untimely death one hundred years ago in the First World War is remembered as part of forthcoming Armistice Day commemorations.

The Yeats family collection is the most important to come out of Ireland this century. It featureds an entirely unique trove of material relating to the poet and Nobel Prize-winner W.B. Yeats, his brother Jack B. Yeats, their father the artist John Butler Yeats, and their sisters Susan (Lily) and Elizabeth (Lolly) Yeats. More than a family collection, it describes the making of modern Ireland by telling the story of the collaborations of the Irish Revival. Its open sale was therefore controversial. A group of academics, writers, artists, and concerned citizens, including the poets Paul Muldoon, Vona Groarke, Michael Longley, Nick Laird, and Marie Heaney, widow of Seamus Heaney, led by NUI Galway’s Dr Adrian Paterson and Trinity College’s Dr Tom Walker wrote an open letter to then Minister of Culture Heritage and the Gaeltacht Heather Humphries (also published in the Irish Times), calling on her to save the collection for the nation. The sale and the controversy attracted worldwide interest, with questions asked in the Oireachtas, and feature articles published in the New York Times, the Irish Times, and other outlets. While it is clear that some items were saved, the sale still went ahead with all items available to the highest bidder.

The rescue of such important items for the nation and future generations in the west by NUI Galway is thus cause for celebration. To mark the acquisitions and to highlight existing artwork the new Yeats Collection Exhibition runs until Christmas. The exhibition is launched at 5pm on Friday 9th November at the James Hardiman Library’s Special Collections Reading Room, and all are cordially invited to attend.
Contact the exhibition curators Adrian Paterson adrian.paterson@nuigalway.ie and Barry Houlihan barry.houlihan@nuigalway.ie
NOTES ON SELECTED EXHIBITION ITEMS

Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957). Drawings of Douglas Hyde and W.G. Fay (c. 1903)
Born in Roscommon, the rich literary and cultural achievements of Douglas Hyde resulted in him becoming Ireland’s first President in 1938. As well as founding the Gaelic League and producing poetic translations of genius, Hyde was a scholar and playwright in the Irish language, and a fine actor. He is depicted in character in one of his own plays, wide-eyed and mid-speech in a vibrant sketch by Ireland’s greatest artist Jack B. Yeats. William G. Fay was the finest comic actor in the early Abbey Theatre, and is shown by the same artist in rehearsal mode with the company exhorting them to one more effort. ‘Now are ye ready’ says Jack Yeats’s caption: ‘Then let us go again’. These fine works of art record the renaissance of Irish theatre, complement the university’s holdings from Jack B. Yeats’s 1900 Galway sketchbook.

Elizabeth Corbett Yeats (1868-1940). Banner for Cuala Industries (c.1920)
In such an astonishing artistic family the Yeats sisters are often overlooked. However they were fine artists in their own right. Lily Yeats (like her mother christened Susan Mary) trained in needlework with May Morris (daughter of William Morris) and set up a pioneering all-female embroidery workshop in Dublin; with her team of assistants on the other side of the curtain Elizabeth Corbett Yeats (known to the family as Lolly) established a printing press, the Cuala Press, with her brother W.B. Yeats as literary editor, both workshops also featuring frequent input from their brother the artist Jack B. Yeats. Cuala Industries shows the overwhelming cultural importance of the Yeats family, and is proudly represented by a banner naming the sisters and both integral parts of the organization. The banner is the only known survival of its kind, handpainted on textiles, and was probably intended for marketing the collective at artistic fairs in Ireland, England, and America. Its presence at NUI Galway highlights existing strengths in literature and publishing and underscores cultural achievements of women working for the new nation.

Robert Gregory (1881-1918). Drawings of figures and landscapes (c.1912-4)
Robert Gregory’s death in a fighter plane robbed the nation of one of its finest artistic talents, described by W.B. Yeats as ‘a great painter born […] to Galway rock and thorn’. Never-before seen original drawings highlight on this centenary his visionary eye and his close connection to the west’s landscape of myth and stone.

Elizabeth Rivers (1903-1964).14 original ink and pencil drawings for Stranger in Aran (1946). Under Elizabeth Corbett Yeats the pioneering Cuala Press become the foremost art printers in Ireland. A full collection of its unique hand-painted broadsides at the university features art by Jack B. Yeats, Harry Kernoff, Maurice McGonigal and lyrics from W.B. Yeats, F.R. Higgins and Dorothy Wellesley. Yet its valuable printed books, each produced entirely by hand, are its finest achievement, and NUI Galway’s collection features poets from George Russell (A.E.) to Louis MacNeice, and writers from Lady Augusta Gregory to Lord Dunsany. Very few however feature illustrations: one that does, providing a unique record of island life, is Stranger in Aran, by Elizabeth Rivers, the very last book to be published by the Cuala Press in 1946. The newly-purchased original drawings from the artist, born in London but increasingly drawn to the west of Ireland, represent depictions of Galway hookers, fishermen, birds, scenery, and other characteristic details from island life. With jotted notes to the printer they also make a significant contribution to our understanding of Cuala’s pioneering printing process and the book history of Ireland. –ENDS–

APAC Study Day 2018: Digitisation and Born Digital Collections for Performing arts: Where are we now and what’s the next big thing?
2018-11-09 09:30 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
APAC’s 2018 Study Day is open for bookings.
The Study Day will take place on Friday 9 November in Galway. The Study Day is free for APAC members and €20 for non-members.
Additional talks and visits have been organised for Thursday 8 November in Dublin. This day is open to APAC members only. If you are not currently an APAC member, you can join us here.
APAC members are strongly encouraged to apply for travel grants to attend the Study Day. Travel grants can cover transport and one night of accommodation. The deadline for applying for a travel grant is Wednesday 10 October at 5pm. Find out how to apply.
See Eventbrite event

Newspaper and Periodical History Forum of Ireland Conference
2018-11-09 - 2018-11-10 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

It’s behaviour, stupid! A decade of lessons in health behaviour change research by Professor Molly Byrne, Professor of Health Psychology
2018-11-08 17:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
It’s behaviour, stupid! A decade of lessons in health behaviour change research
Professor Molly Byrne, Professor of Health Psychology

In this lecture, Professor Byrne will track how her behavioural intervention research has evolved, changed and (hopefully!) improved over the last decade. She will present some of the behaviour change intervention studies she has conducted, highlighting novel approaches, methodologies and tools which have improved the quality and impact of her research. She will reflect on the key lessons she has learnt along this research journey, as well as outline some ideas about current opportunities and challenges relevant to researchers in the area of health behaviour change.

IRC Postdoctoral Information Session
2018-11-05 12:30 - 13:30 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Information Event
The Moore Institute is pleased to present an information session on the IRC Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme which has a closing date of November 29, 2018 @ 4pm. We would encourage all potential mentors and applicants to attend, where possible. Full information on the scheme is available here. The session will be chaired by Prof. Dan Carey, Director of the Moore Institute.
Reading Service
The Moore Institute will also provide a reading service for applicants, the conditions of which are as follows:

Notice of project title to be sent to mooreinstitute@nuigalway.ie by November 7.
Near final draft of application, fully copy edited and with full input from the mentor to be submitted to mooreinstitute@nuigalway.ie by November 14.

We will endeavour to have all reviewed applications returned to applicants by Friday, November 23, 2018.

Threesis
2018-11-05 - 2018-11-14 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
NUI Galway’s Threesis competition is currently underway. Threesis challenges research students and postdoctoral researchers to communicate their research clearly and concisely.
80 people have signed up, training sessions have taken place, and registration has now closed. Over the coming weeks six heats will take place and our University community and the wider public are invited to be part of the audience.
All heats will take place in the Hardiman Research Library meeting room G010 over the coming weeks. Please feel free to come along and show your support for the participants!

Heat 1: 11.30am, Monday 5 November
Heat 2: 2pm, Monday 5 November
Heat 3: 2.45pm, Wednesday 7 November
Heat 4: 12pm, Monday 12 November
Heat 5: 1.45pm, Monday 12 November
Heat 6: 2.30pm, Wednesday 14 November

12 finalists will be selected from the heats to go through to the grand finale on 29 November.
Good luck to all participants!
For more information on the competition, which was initiated at NUI Galway in 2012, visit www.nuigalway.ie/threesis

Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies, Research Labs (CAMPS) Research Labs.
2018-11-02 12:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland

The Business End of Climate Research by Gordon Bromley
2018-11-01 18:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Irish Studies Seminar Series: Woolfs in Ireland: The Lure of Language and Place by Anne Byrne
2018-11-01 16:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, Distillery Road
Dr Anne Byrne (Sociology & Politics, NUI Galway) will deliver her seminar, “Woolfs in Ireland: The Lure of Language and Place”, based on her ongoing research investigating the links between Virginia and Leonard Woolf and twentieth-century Ireland. For further details on the seminar and Dr Byrne’s work in this area please see below.
The seminar will take place at 4pm, Thursday 1 November, at the Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, Distillery Road.
Beidh an-fáilte roimh chách, and do arrive early as seating is limited!
Woolfs in Ireland: The Lure of Language and Place
The Woolfs record of their 10-day tour of Ireland in April-May 1934 neglects to mention meetings with indigenous Irish, or so it seems. From a close reading of letters and diaries, the Woolfs, particularly Virginia, experienced an unanticipated immersion in indigenous Irish culture, albeit a mediated one. The Woolfs met with Apostle, Celtic scholar and classicist George Derwent Thomson in Galway, an English intellectual with intimate knowledge of the Irish language and life on the Blasket Islands.
In Dublin, Virginia observed the cast and crew of The Man of Aran (1934), a documentary of the Aran Islands filmed by the Canadian, Robert Flaherty. Woolf’s fascination with the Irish language and the Aran Islands are the subjects of this article. I argue that experiences of immersion in Irish culture, despite herself, led to the realization that Ireland was no country for Woolf, and not only because of Irish loquacity or ‘the talk’. Virginia was animated and overwhelmed by Irish language and indigenous culture as re-represented by J.M. Synge, Thomson and the Aran Islanders. Consequently, she understood the magnitude of her separation from Ireland as artist and writer.
The distance and barrier created by an oral culture, a vernacular language, an historical and contemporary non-Anglophone literary tradition, continuing conflicts over belonging and representations of Irishness by cultural nationalists, could not be crossed without prodigious investment of time and effort and with little or no guarantee of success. Ireland, in the midst of its own history, could not offer refuge for the Woolfs, personally, professionally or politically.
Byrne, Anne and Gosling, Paul. 2018. Remnants of Mr and Mrs Woolfs Tour of Ireland, 1934 in Virginia Woolf Bulletin, 59: 24-32.
Byrne, Anne. 2018. Roger Fry and the Art of the Book, Celebrating the Centenary of  the Hogarth Press 1917-2017 Virginia Woolf Miscellany, Issue 92, Winter/Spring 2018, 25-29.
Byrne, A. 2018. Autobiography, Chocolate Creams and Letterpress Printing in Virginia Woolf Bulletin, 57 (1): 24-31.
Byrne, Anne. 2016. The Galway Art Gallery Collection and Roger Fry’s The Pond (1921) in Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 68, 181-216.
http://www.nuigalway.ie/our-research/people/political-science-and-sociology/annebyrne/
