Moore Institute

Panel Discussion: Smoking: Are e-cigarettes part of the problem or part of the solution?
2015-04-22 15:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Smoking: Are e-cigarettes part of the problem or part of the solution?
A panel discussion
According to the WHO, tobacco use kills more than 5 million people per year. It is responsible for 1 in 10 adult deaths. Among the five greatest risk factors for mortality, it is the single most preventable cause of death. Recently, e-cigarettes have been introduced that provide nicotine in vapour form. The question that the panel will discuss is whether e-cigarettes are part of the solution to the problem of smoking-related mortality or not.
The panel will consider
the commercial interests that are served by making e-cigarettes more or less available
Panel members
Professor Peter Killeen is currently a visiting fellow at the Moore Institute in NUI Galway. He is emeritus professor of psychology at Arizona State University, and has also been visiting scholar at the University of Texas, Cambridge University, and the Centre for Advanced Study, Oslo.
Professor David Finn is Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Science Foundation Ireland Principal Investigator, Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Centre for Pain Research and Leader of the Galway Neuroscience Centre at NUI Galway.
Dr Brendan Kennelly is a lecturer in health economics at NUI Galway. He was also a Visiting Professor in the Department of Economics at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania from August 2002 to December 2003 and from January 2010 to August 2011. He has published articles on welfare economics, public choice, the welfare state and health economics.

Public Lecture: Claudia Kinmonth, Moore Institute Visiting Fellow: Revising Irish Country Furniture 1700-1950, Piggins, Noggins & Fowl Indoors
2015-04-22 17:30
Public Lecture
by
Claudia Kinmonth, Moore Institute Visiting Fellow
Revising Irish Country Furniture 1700-1950
Piggins, Noggins & Fowl Indoors
All welcome
For more information please contact kate.thornhill@nuigalway.ie

Medieval Studies Postgraduate Research Day.
2015-04-23 14:00
Medieval Studies Postgraduate Research Day
For more information please contact kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie

Public Lecture: Peter Killeen, Arizona State University and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow: What is Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and where does it come from?
2015-04-23 18:00
What is Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and where does it come from?
The simplest definition of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) consists of a list of the typical symptoms. Professor Killeen provides a more comprehensive definition that informs us of the events that trigger ADHD in both its acute and chronic manifestations; the neurobiology that underlies it; and the evolutionary forces that have kept it in the germ line of our species. These factors are organized in terms of Aristotle’s four kinds of “causes,” or explanations: formal, efficient, material, and final. By providing this more complete picture of the syndrome, we gain a deeper understanding and the potential to identify novel approaches to accommodate and remediate the behavior of people with ADHD.
Professor Peter Killeen is currently a visiting fellow at the Moore Institute in NUI Galway. He is emeritus professor of psychology at Arizona State University, and has also been visiting scholar at the University of Texas, Cambridge University, and the Centre for Advanced Study, Oslo.
Professor Killeen has made landmark contributions to a remarkable number of fields in the behavioral sciences, including the experimental study of learning, decision-making, timing and memory. His major work includes the development of incentive theory, culminating in the mathematical principles of reinforcement (Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 1994), and the behavioral theory of timing (Psychological Review, 1988). He also developed a novel statistical technique (pRep) that was adopted by Psychological Science, one of the foremost journals in psychology. Professor Killeen’s quantitative and conceptual developments have enriched psychology and the world beyond.

'A Peculiar Society'? Ireland, 1970s-1990s - April 24th and 25th 2015
2015-04-24 10:30
A Peculiar Society? Ireland, 1970s-1990s
Programme
PROGRAMME
‰Û÷A peculiar society’? Ireland, 1970s-1990s
Moore Institute, Hardiman Research Building,National University of Ireland Galway24-25 April 2015
‰Û÷Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century’ (John McGahern)
24 April 201510.30 – Registration
11.15 – Welcome and Introductory Remarks: A Peculiar Society?
11.30 – Parallel Sessions 11a. Urban VoicesErika Hanna (University of Edinburgh)Discovering ghosts in Dublin’s derelict spaces: the Urban Folklore Project, 1979-80
Elizabeth DeYoung (University of Liverpool)Belfast in the 1970s: deindustrialisation, development, and ‰Û÷the Troubles’
Marina NÌ_ DhubhÌÁin (NUI Galway)Performing oral history: some methodological challenges in staging the real
1b. The International ContextCiarÌÁn O’Driscoll (University College Dublin)Accession into troubled waters: Ireland and the Common Fisheries Policy of the EU
Marie-Violaine Louvet (Toulouse 1, Capitole University)The Ireland-Israel Friendship League: Israel supporters in Irish civil society, 1970s-1990s
Gerald Power (Metropolitan University Prague)Irish newspaper reporting on the Falklands War
13.00 – Lunch
13.45 – Parallel Sessions 22a. Managing Political ChangeJohn Mulqueen (Trinity College Dublin)The rhetoric of class politics and the Cold War: from Sinn F̩in to Workers’ Party
TomÌÁs Finn (NUI Galway)The praxis of power: Patrick Lynch and the Irish state
Elaine Byrne (Global Irish Studies Centre)1970s-1990s: an era of delayed accountability. Why?
2b. Theatréine Phillips (Burren College of Art, NUI Galway)Performance art in Ireland: a history
Barry Houlihan (NUI Galway)Citizens, streets and stages: Irish theatre in the 1970s
Patrick Lonergan (NUI Galway)From Rolo to Anglo: advertising at the Abbey Theatre from the 1970s to the 1990s
15.15 – Break
15.45 – Parallel Sessions 33a. MovementsKevin Ryan (NUI Galway)‰Û÷The revolution is us’: art and politics in Ireland, 1974-1993
Connal Parr (University of Oxford)Filling the void left by politics: the Field Day Theatre movement
Kevin O’Sullivan (NUI Galway)Global citizens? Humanitarianism, belonging, and the Dunnes Stores strike, 1984-87
3b. Northern Ireland: The Political ContextSeÌÁn McKillen (University of Limerick)The rise of constitutional nationalism and the fracturing of the Unionist political orthodoxy, 1970-1998
James Greer (Queen’s University, Belfast)Northern Ireland and the 1975 EEC referendum
Stuart Aveyard (Queen’s University, Belfast)Social policy in Northern Ireland and the Labour government, 1974-79
17.15 – Close of Day 1
20.00 – History Ireland Hedge School: Ireland in the 1970sMechanics Institute, Middle Street, GalwayParticipants: Sarah-Anne Buckley, Brian Hanley, Tom Inglis, Mary KennyChair: Tommy Graham
25 April 201509.00 – Parallel Sessions 44a. New FearsBarry Sheppard (Queen’s University, Belfast)Fearing a social explosion? The Church, the media and ‰Û÷satanic cults’ in Ireland
Cian Anthony Manning (University College Cork)Carnsore Point: the birthplace of environmentalism and popular protest in Ireland
Maeve Casserly (National Library of Ireland)Radharc: a television history
4b. Youth and the TroublesGareth Mulvenna (Queen’s University, Belfast)‰Û÷Our boys of tomorrow’: Tartan gangs and Loyalist paramilitarism in early 1970s Belfast
Angela Stephanie Mazzetti (Queen’s University, Belfast)The long-term impact of ‰Û÷growing-up’ during ‰Û÷the Troubles’ on coping behaviours
Paddy McMenamin (Independent Scholar)Armed struggle and the ‰Û÷beautiful game’, Belfast 1970
10.30 – Break
10.45 – Parallel Sessions 55a. MusicM̩abh NÌ_ FhuarthÌÁin (NUI Galway)‰Û÷Lisdoonvarna’: A model of festivity for a ‰Û÷peculiar society’
Verena Commins (NUI Galway)‰Û÷Blurring and erasure’? De-nationalising Irish traditional music practices, 1970s-1990s
SeÌÁn Shanagher (Ballyfermot College of Further Education)Clubbing, dance music and Ireland in the 1990s
5b. Public HistoryDominic Bryan (Queen’s University, Belfast)Parades and the decline of the civic in 1970s Belfast
Margaret O’Callaghan (Queen’s University, Belfast)Commemoration during conflict: commemorating 1916 in 1976
Gillian McIntosh (Queen’s University, Belfast)When is a jubilee not a jubilee: the creation of Ulster ’71
12.15 – Lunch
13.00 – Parallel Sessions 66a. Gender and SexualityNina Holmes (Kingston University, London)Representations of women in Irish government health pamphlets, 1970s-1980s
Orla Egan (University College Cork)Cork’s LGBT community, 1970s to 1990s
6b. Northern Ireland: The View from the SouthGerard Madden (NUI Galway)Responses in the west of Ireland to civil rights protest in Northern Ireland, 1968-72
Brian Hanley (Independent Scholar)‰Û÷Are we trying to create a new Chile here?’ The Sunday World versus the National Coalition
Stephen Kelly (Liverpool Hope University)A peculiar peacemaker: Charles J. Haughey and the early stages of the peace process, 1986-1992
14.30 – Break
15.00 – Parallel Sessions 77a. MulticulturalismMichael Kennedy (Royal Irish Academy)‰Û÷All the Raj’: how the Indian restaurant went mainstream in 1980s and 1990s Ireland
VukaÁin Nedeljkovic (Dublin Institute of Technology)A peculiar society: asylum seekers in Ireland
7b. Culture and the Early TroublesMartin McCleery (Independent Scholar)The evolution of the early Troubles outside of Belfast and Derry
Jonathan Hannon (NUI Galway)Punk and Northern Ireland in the 1970s
DaithÌ_ ÌÒ CorrÌÁin (St Patrick’s College, Dublin City University)‰Û÷Negotiating the non-negotiable’: the Northern Ireland Troubles and the development of inter-church relations in Ireland
16.30 – RoundtableTom Inglis (University College Dublin)Mary KennyGearÌ_id ÌÒ Tuathaigh (NUI Galway)
17.30 – Close of Conference
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Registration: ‰âÂ20 (‰âÂ10 students & unwaged).
For further details, please contact the conference organisers Sarah-Anne Buckley, TomÌÁs Finn, & Kevin O’Sullivan (Discipline of History, National University of Ireland, Galway).
A pdf version of this programme is available here.

CAMPS lab: Dr Kim LoPrete, History, NUIG - 'War, Monastic Conversion, and the Politics of Ecclesiastical Reform in 1070s' France'
2015-04-24 12:00
Dr Kim LoPrete, History, NUIG‘War, Monastic Conversion, and the Politics of Ecclesiastical Reform in 1070s’ France’
Followed by discussion & light lunch
Everyone welcome – FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch
For more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

The 12th Annual Irish Theatrical Diaspora Conference - April 30th and May 1st
2015-04-30 09:00
NUI Galway Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, the Irish Theatrical Diaspora Project (ITD), and the Gate Theatre present:
The 12th Annual
IRISH THEATRICAL DIASPORA CONFERENCE
Theme: DUBLIN’S GATE THEATRE
30 April and 1 May 2015
The Gate Theatre, Parnell Square, Dublin 1
Since the Gate Theatre was founded by Hilton Edwards and MicheÌÁl Mac LiammÌ_ir in 1928, it has been a vital and essential presence in Dublin theatrical life. The Gate has given us outstanding, landmark productions (including the legendary Juno and the Paycock from 1986, the first Salom̩ in English in 1928, and world premieres of classic plays by Denis Johnston and Brian Friel), brilliant festivals (including the performance of all 19 stage plays by Samuel Beckett in 1991 and four festivals dedicated to the work of Harold Pinter), and daring tours (to China, Egypt, Israel, and beyond); it has also launched the careers of internationally-renowned actors (including Orson Welles, James Mason, and Michael Gambon), and important Gate productions have featured some of Ireland and Britain’s most famous actors (including SiobhÌÁn McKenna, David Kelly, Kenneth Branagh, Ralph Fiennes, CiarÌÁn Hinds, John Hurt, Liam Neeson, Stephen Rea, and – memorably – Sin̩ad, Sorcha, and Niamh Cusack alongside their father, Cyril, in Chekhov’s Three Sisters).
Given the immense importance of the Gate’s contribution to Irish theatrical culture, it has received less critical attention than it deserves. As such, this year’s Irish Theatrical Diaspora Conference will be dedicated to examining the Gate and the theatre practitioners associated with it – not just the celebrated artists mentioned above but also unsung figures such as Lord and Lady Longford, Mary Manning, Mainie Jellett, and Harry Kernoff. The conference will feature a public interview with Michael Colgan (the theatre’s artistic director and the man behind many of its greatest achievements) and performances from actors associated with the Gate (such as Barry McGovern, Bryan Murray, and Michael James Ford); the programme will also include academic panels and plenary sessions which explore the theatre’s past, present and future. Surprisingly, this will be the first academic conference devoted entirely to the Gate.
To register for this conference – or to obtain more information about it – please write to Dr. David Clare (david.clare@nuigalway.ie) or Des Lally (desmlally@gmail.com). The conference is free of charge but space is limited, so advance registration is required.
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
THURS., 30 April 2015
9.00am-9.20am: Registration GATE THEATRE CAFÌä / Tea and Coffee served
9.20am-9.30am: Opening Remarks GATE AUDITORIUM
9.30am-10.30am: PLENARY SESSION – Richard Pine (Durrell School of Corfu) on “Micheal Mac LiammÌ_ir, the Exotic-Erotic, and the Gate Theatre’s place in Irish Theatre Studies” GATE AUDITORIUM
10.30am-11.00am: Tea and Coffee GATE THEATRE CAFÌä AND BAR
11.00-12.30pm: PANEL ONE – MAC LIAMMÌÒIR AND EDWARDS (Chair: Miriam Haughton of NUI Galway) GATE AUDITORIUM
Thomas Madden (NUIM) – “Letting Mac LiammÌ_ir Speak”
Ruud van den Beuken (Radboud University Nijmegen) – “A Future Femme Fatale: Prospective Memory Structures in MicheÌÁl Mac LiammÌ_ir’s Diarmuid and GrÌÁinne“
Des Lally (NUI Galway) – “The Fictionalization of Hilton Edwards and MicheÌÁl Mac LiammÌ_ir in Paul Smith’s Novel Stravaganza!“
12.30pm-1.30pm: Lunch Break
1.30pm-3.00pm: PANEL TWO – BECKETT (Chair: Feargal Whelan of UCD) GATE AUDITORIUM
Trish McTighe (University of Reading) – “‰Û÷Be again, be again’: The Gate’s Beckett Country”
David Clare (NUI Galway) – “The Gate Theatre’s Beckett Festivals: Tensions between the Local and the Global”
Aoife Lynch (UCD) – “Beckett’s Endgame, Entropy, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics”
3.00pm-3.45pm: Rehearsed Reading of The Old Tune, by Samuel Beckett (after Robert Pinget), starring Barry McGovern and Bryan Murray (presented with support from the Irish Research Council) GATE AUDITORIUM
3.45pm-4.00pm: Tea and Coffee GATE THEATRE CAFÌä AND BAR
4.00pm-5.30pm: PANEL THREE – NEGLECTED PLAYWRIGHTS (Chair: Des Lally of NUI Galway) GATE AUDITORIUM
Paige Reynolds (Holy Cross) – “Mary Manning at the Gate”
Feargal Whelan (UCD) – “Lord Longford’s Yahoo: Swift and Anglo-Irish nationalism in the 1930s”
Virginie Girel-Pietka (CECILLE, Universit̩ Lille 3) – “Denis Johnston at the Gate”
6.00pm-7.00pm: PLENARY SESSION – Public Interview with Michael Colgan (conducted by Vincent Woods of RTÌä) THE GATE LAB
FRI., 1 May 2015
9.00am-9.20am: Registration GATE THEATRE CAFÌä / Tea and Coffee served
9.20am-9.30am: Organiser Remarks GATE AUDITORIUM
9.30am-11.00am: PANEL FOUR -WILDE AND SHAW (Chair: David Clare of NUI Galway) GATE AUDITORIUM
Audrey McNamara (UCD) – “The Actress Meets the Bishop at the Gate: SiobhÌÁn McKenna in Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan“
Noreen Doody (St. Patrick’s College, DCU) – “‰Û÷Our only thorough playwright’: Oscar Wilde and the Gate Theatre, Dublin”
Ian R. Walsh (NUI Galway) – “Patrick Mason, the Anglo-Irish Playwright, and the Gate Theatre”
11.00am-11.30am: Tea and Coffee GATE THEATRE CAFÌä AND BAR
11.30am-12.30pm: Rehearsed reading of Bernard Shaw’s O’Flaherty, V.C., starring Michael James Ford (presented with support from the Irish Research Council) GATE AUDITORIUM
12.30pm-2.00pm: Lunch Break
2.00pm – 3.30pm: PANEL FIVE – DESIGN AND STAGING (Chair: Patrick Lonergan of NUI Galway) GATE AUDITORIUM
Elaine Sisson (IADT) – “Experiment and the Free State: The Gate Theatre and European Modernism 1928-1937”
SiobhÌÁn O’Gorman (TCD) – “From the Neo-Elizabethan to the Brechtian? Edwards and MacLiammoir’s Scenography post-1950”
Joe Vanek (Set and Costume Designer) – “Innocence and Beyond: Four Designs for Frank McGuinness Plays at the Gate”
3.30pm-4.00pm: Tea and Coffee GATE THEATRE CAFÌä AND BAR
4.00pm-5.30pm: PANEL SIX – FRIEL (Chair: Thomas Conway of Druid/NUI Galway) GATE AUDITORIUM
Emilie Pine(UCD) – “Angry Young Men: Brian Friel, Tom Murphy, Arnold Wesker”
Anthony Roche (UCD) – “Friel at the Gate: Lovers in Dublin and New York”
Graham Price (UCD) – “Faith Healer, Bracha Ettinger and the Art-Encounter-Event”
6.00pm-7.00pm: PLENARY SESSION – Public interview with Christopher Fitz-Simon (conducted by Nicholas Grene of TCD) THE GATE LAB

Digital Scholarship Seminar: Franck Cinato (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris) Collaborative Digital Editing: Experience from the Liber Glossarum Project
2015-04-30 17:00
Digital Scholarship Seminar:
Franck Cinato (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris)
Collaborative Digital Editing: Experience from the Liber Glossarum Project
Abstract: This presentation will share experience from a large-scale project to produce a new collaborative digital edition of the Liber Glossarum, a vast encyclopaedic dictionary (c. 30,000 entries) compiled in a female monastery in northern France around the end of the eighth century. Despite its status a foundational educational resource throughout the Middle Ages, the text has been neglected by scholars due to the absence to date of any complete edition. The scale of the project requires the involvement of specialists throughout Europe, and the core of the project is a website providing a collaborative platform. http://liber-glossarum.linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr/
Bio: Dr Franck Cinato is a researcher at the CNRS, Paris. He completed a doctorate in 2010 on early medieval glossing at the Ìäcole Pratique des Hautes Ìätudes, Paris. He also has an interest in experimental archaeology, and in 2009 co-published an edition of the earliest European manual on the art of sword-fighting.
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For further informatition, contact: Dr PÌÁdraic Moran (padraic.moran@nuigalway.ie),
or Dr Justitin Tonra (justitin.tonra@nuigalway.ie)
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CAMPS lab: Dr Kieran O'Conor, Archaeology, NUIG - 'New Work on Rindoon Castle, County Roscommon'.
2015-05-01 12:00
Dr Kieran O’Conor, Archaeology, NUIG
‘New Work on Rindoon Castle, County Roscommon’.
Followed by discussion & light lunch
Everyone welcome – FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch
For more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

Gender ARC Public Lecture: Sylvia Walby, Distinguished Professor, UNESCO Chair of Gender Research Department of Sociology, Lancaster University -Preventing gender based violence against women: Can this be mainstreamed?
2015-05-05 18:00
Gender ARC and Global Women’s Studies at NUI Galway are pleased to invite you to a public lecture:

Sylvia Walby, Distinguished Professor, UNESCO Chair of Gender Research
Department of Sociology, Lancaster University
Preventing gender based violence against women: Can this be mainstreamed?

All Welcome
Refreshments will be served – please RSVP to Gillian Browne (gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie) Abstract: Preventing violence against women requires reforms in all social institutions. It cannot be solved by a narrow focus on one domain, such as the criminal justice system. The policy device of ‰Û÷gender mainstreaming’ has potential to reach into all policy domains; but it has not yet been successful. How should the necessary transformations be theorised; how can they be put into practice? What are the strengths and limits of gender mainstreaming? Is estimating the ‰Û÷cost’ of violence against women to economy and society a way forward, reaching parts of policy and political institutions that no feminist action could otherwise reach? This talk explores the dilemmas in the current debates on how best to prevent violence against women and reaches a decisive conclusion. Sylvia Walby is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and UNESCO Chair in Gender Research, Lancaster University, UK. She has been advising on the cost of gender-based violence for the European Institute for Gender Equality and UK Home Office. She is leading an ESRC funded project: ‰Û÷Is domestic violence increasing or decreasing? She is currently working on the measurement of gender-based violence for the Council of Europe to assist the implementation of the Istanbul Convention’s Article 11. Recent books include: Globalization and Inequalities: Complexity and Contested Modernities (Sage 2009) and The Future of Feminism (Polity 2011). Her next book is the jointly authored Stopping Rape: Towards a Comprehensive Policy (forthcoming Policy Press 2015), which draws on work for the European Parliament. This will be followed by Crisis for Polity Press (forthcoming 2015). Her website is: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/sociology/profiles/Sylvia-Walby For questions, please contact Gender ARC Seminar and Public Lecture Series coordinator: Emma BrÌ_nnlund, e.brannlund1@nuigalway.ie

Special Collections Lunchtime Lectures Series -Dr. Micheline Sheehy Skeffington,Early floras and natural history guides -what can we learn?
2015-05-06 13:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Special Collections Lunchtime Seminar Series
Dr. Micheline Sheehy Skeffington
Early floras and natural history guides -what can we learn?
Dr. Micheline Sheehy Skeffington will look at some of the unusual, rare and key natural history books in Special Collections and explain the significance of a selection of these.Some examples will be on display during the talk.
For more information please contact olivia.lardner@nuigalway.ie

School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures Reserach Day
2015-05-07 09:30
School of Languages,Literatures and Cultures Reserach Day
PROGRAMME
9.30 – 10am: Reception with tea and coffee & Welcome from Professor PÌ_l ÌÒ Dochartaigh
10 – 11 am: Panel 1 (Chair: Tina-Karen Pusse)
Barry NEVIN (French): Ida (1935) Revisited: Post-war Trauma and the Looming Threat of Fascism in Jean Renoir’s Front Populaire Output’
Maura STEWART (French): ‰Û÷Le Pen, Sarkozy and the battle over Joan of Arc’
Paolo BARTOLONI (Italian): ‰Û÷Things That Matter: Objects in Italian Life and Culture’
11 – 11.30am: Break
11.30 – 12.30 pm: Panel 2 (Chair: Mel Boland)
Jennifer WOOD (Spanish): ‰Û÷Echoes of Medieval Elegies in the Poetry of the Falklands War’
Deirdre BYRNES (German): ‰Û÷The Recovery of Marginalised Voices: Exploring the Permanent Exhibition at the Berlin-Hohensch̦nhausen Memorial’
12.30 – 2 pm: Lunch break
2.00 – 3.00pm: Panel 3 (Chair: Mark Stansbury)
Chris DIXON (Spanish): ‰Û÷Translating the Wild West’
Marie BLOM (French): ‰Û÷The Translatability of Hiberno-English into French with the works of Roddy Doyle as a case study’.
3.00 – 4.00pm: Open discussion (Chair: Sylvie Lannegrand): Brief presentation by Ivan Kenny (Spanish) on Early Career Researchers followed by more general discussion on research-related matters.
For more information please contact Suzanne.gilsenan@nuigalway.ie

Andrew Laurence-King - Play, Work/Chaos, Ordomedieval Opera? Bringing 13th Century Life to Performance in Ludus Danielis (MS Egerton 2615)
2015-05-11 16:00
Public Lecture
Andrew Laurence-King
Play, Work/Chaos, Ordomedieval Opera? Bringing 13th Century Life to Performance in Ludus Danielis (MS Egerton 2615)
FÌÁilte Roimh ChÌÁch!
For more information please contact kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie

Dr Kevin James is Associate Professor of History at the University of Guelph and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow - 'Take my advice, go to Mongan's Hotel': Sport, Charity, and Tourism in late-Victorian Rural Co. Galway
2015-05-11 19:00
Dr Kevin James, University of Guelph and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow
‘Take my advice, go to Mongan’s Hotel’: Sport, Charity, and Tourism in late-Victorian Rural Co. Galway
A free public lecture entitled ‰Û÷Take my advice, go to Mongan’s Hotel: Sport, Charity, and Tourism in Late-Victorian Connemara’ will be held in Galway city on Monday, 11 May at 7 pm. The lecture will be delivered by Dr Kevin James, Associate Professor of History at the University of Guelph, Ontario, and will take place in the Galway City Library in Augustine St, under the auspices of NUI Galway’s Moore Institute
Mongan’s Hotel in Carna, Co. Galway, was an historic site of pilgrimage for the sporting tourist in the nineteenth century, and served as a social, commercial, and cultural hub of the district. In the 1890s, initiatives aimed at alleviating distress and developing the district’s economy highlighted the important role of the hotel and its proprietor, Martin Mongan. He forged connections between the locality and organisations and markets farther afield – notably in Manchester. The evidence appears in the hotel’s historic visitors’ book.
This public lecture will look at how Mongan’s provided a venue for tourism, a magnet for sports enthusiasts, and a site for charitable activity.
Professor Daniel Carey, Director of the Moore Institute at NUI Galway, said: “Kevin James’s work has opened up new vistas on the history of travel to Co. Galway. Visitors’ books offer an intriguing glimpse into a lost world in the nineteenth century.” Dr Kevin James is author of Tourism, Land and Landscape in Ireland: The Commodification of Culture. In spring 2014, he held a Moore Institute Visiting Research Fellowship to support his research at the James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway.
For more information contact : Dr John Cunningham, Department of History, NUI Galway at john.cunningham@nuigalway.ie or phone 091 493902.

Ian McBride, Kings College London and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow -Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland
2015-05-12 13:00
The recent controversy over the ‰Û÷Boston Project’ tapes has demonstrated that the unfinished business of the Troubles still has the power to disrupt political progress in Northern Ireland; but it also reveals the attempts of disparate republican voices to establish the dominant narrative of ‰Û÷armed struggle’. This talk examines the memoirs of former IRA men (Sean O’Callaghan, Eamon Collins, Gerry Bradley, Brendan Hughes), focusing on varieties of disenchantment with the republican campaign and the anticipated futures that have fuelled republican activism. It will explore the particular political junctures that have shaped these works and the difficulties they present as sources for historians.
About the Speaker
Ian McBride is Professor of Irish and British History at King’s College London. He has written on various aspects of modern Irish history. His forthcoming works include Irish Political Writings 1: TheCambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift (2016) and The Princeton History of Modern Ireland, co-edited with Richard Bourke (2015). Since editing History and Memory in Modern Ireland (Cambridge, 2001) he has been interested in contemporary uses of the past. His current research focuses on debates over truth and reconciliation in Northern Ireland since 1998, and the relationship between political violence, representations of the past and professional historiography.
Organised by the Conflict, Humanitarianism and Security Research Custer
For more information please contact niall.odochartaigh@nuigalway.ie

Sara Brennan of Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh - Can Irish be Sold Outside the Gaeltacht? A Critical Sociolinguistic Investigation of the Contemporary Promotion of Irish in Business
2015-05-14 13:00
Sara Brennan of Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh
Can Irish be Sold Outside the Gaeltacht?
A Critical Sociolinguistic Investigation of the Contemporary Promotion of Irish in Business
This talk will present insights from on-going PhD research on the promotion of Irish as an economic resource for businesses in urban areas located outside the Gaeltacht. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, it will examine the dynamics and consequences of advocating the use of Irish as a valuable business tool in the traditionally Anglophone sphere of urban commerce.
For more information please contact john.walsh@nuigalway.ie

Digital Material Conference - May 21 and 22 2015
2015-05-21 08:30
Digital Material is a conference that considers the intersections of digital and material cultures in the humanities.
Recent years have seen an intensification of interest in both digital and material cultures. This broad trend has been mirrored in the academy by the growing prominence of digital humanities and the renewed focus on materiality and material objects within humanities disciplines. Proposals are invited for an international interdisciplinary conference that addresses this important confluence in our contemporary culture.
Plenary speakers: Jerome McGann (University of Virginia) & Matthew G. Kirschenbaum (University of Maryland).The deadline for submitting proposals to Digital Material has now passed, and registration for the conference has opened.
Queries may be addressed to conference organiser, Justin Tonra.
Acknowledgements
Digital Material is supported by the Moore Institute and the Digital Arts and Humanites PhD Programme (DAH).For their generous assistance, thanks to: Daniel Carey, David Kelly, Julie Murphy, Martha Shaughnessy, Kate Thornhill, June Webb.
Programme
The following is a provisional conference programme, and may be subject to change (updated 7 May 2015).
Click on panel titles to read the abstracts of individual papers. Panels prefaced with an asterisk are proposed panels.
Digital MaterialProvisional Conference Programme
Thursday 21 May 2015
0830-0915: Registration & tea/coffee.
0915-0930: Opening address by Prof. PÌ_l ÌÒ Dochartaigh, Registrar and Deputy President of NUI Galway.
0930-1030: Plenary lecture:Jerome McGann (University of Virginia)“Truth and Method. Scholarship as a Science of Exceptions.”
1030-1100: Tea/coffee.
1100-1230:
Panel 1: Early Modern and Medieval Media
Giles Bergel (University of Oxford)”Affordance and Ideology: Genealogical Diagrams in Manuscript, Print and XML.”
Pip Willcox & David de Roure (University of Oxford)”‰Û÷Friends, should associate Friends’: the Social, the Material, and the Digital in Shakespeare’s First Folio.”
Alison Harper (University of Rochester)”Not Just a Text: Piers Plowman in the Medieval Multi-media Culture.”
Panel 2: Surfaces and Inscriptions
Nicola Rodger (Monash University)”Getting Thingy With It: How the Book Became a Thing.”
Marion Lam̩ (Centre Camille Jullian, Maison M̩diterran̩enne des Sciences de l’Homme / Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, CNR)”Textuality & Inscriptions: Hypothesis About Autopoietic System and Dispositive Analysis.”
Patrick Egan (University College Cork)”Developing ‰Û÷Special’ Collections and New Forms of Narrative.”
1230-1330: Lunch
1330-1500:
*Panel 3: Books/Texts/Documents Between Print, Manuscript and Digital
Brendan Dooley (University College Cork)”Angelica’s Book and the Lure of the Material.”
Nella Porqueddu (Trinity College Dublin)”Digital Materiality and Historical Research.”
Giorgio Guzzetta (University College Cork)”The Literary System Between Materiality and Virtuality.”
Panel 4: Digital Material Writ Large & Small
Roman Bleier (Trinity College Dublin)”Encoding Text and Context in the Manuscript Witnesses of Saint Patrick’s Epistles.”
Jason McElligott (Marsh’s Library)”How John Hewson Signed His Name: Or, How to Spot a Monster in a (Digital) Archive.”
Ronan Crowley (University of Passau)”Between a Micro and a Macrocosm Ineluctably Constructed: Digital Materiality at Scale.”
1530-1600: Tea/coffee
1600-1730:
Panel 5: (Digital) Archive Fever
Ì_na Bhreathnach (Dublin City University)”Crowdsourcing Irish-Language Folklore Material: the D̼chas Project.”
Penny Johnston (University College Cork)”Is Intangible Culture Different? Looking at Ideas of Digital and Immaterial in the Oral History Archive.”
Orla Egan (University College Cork)”Digitising Queer Materials.”
Panel 6: Curating & Using
Benjamin Nicoll (University of Melbourne)”Videogame Fan Sites and the Vernacular Curation of Gaming History.”
Sharon Webb & Natalie Harrower (Digital Repository of Ireland)”Curating Historical Narratives: Online Representations of History and ‰Û÷Inspiring Ireland.'”
Jeffrey P. Emanuel (Harvard University)”Digital Material: Improving Access, Intimacy, and Scholarship With New Collaborative Technologies.”
2000: Conference Dinner
Friday 22 May 2015
0800-0900: Tea/coffee
0900-1030:
Panel 7: Hybrid Literatures
Francesca Benatti (Open University)”Embodying the University of Air: Teaching Digital Literature at The Open University.”
Krista Stinne Greve Rasmussen (University of Copenhagen)”Print or Perish.”
Brianne Bilsky (United States Military Academy)”Books and Bytes: Maus in the Digital Age.”
Panel 8: Encoding Memory
Susan Schreibman (Maynooth University)”Changing the Narrative: The Digital as Un-Remembering.”
Claire Lynch (Brunel University)”Nursing the Anecdotes: Material and Digital Practices in the Archives of Lives.”
Moritz Hiller (Humboldt University Berlin)”Signs O’ the Times: Towards a Philology of Software/Code.”
1030-1100: Tea/coffee
1100-1230:
Panel 9: Seeing & Hearing
West Connolly (Trinity College Dublin)”To Be or Not To Be… Material: Digital Acts of Resistance.”
Karolina Badzmierowska (Trinity College Dublin)”Digital Materiality and Art Historical Research.”
Stephen Roddy (Trinity College Dublin)”Sonification and the Digital Divide.”
Panel 10: Beyond the Book
Simon Rowberry (University of Stirling)”1984 Redux: The Long-term Materiality of the Kindle Infrastructure.”
Patrick Smyth (City University of New York)”Ebooks and the Digital Paratext: Emerging Trends in the Interpretation of Digital Media.”
Sue Hemmens (Marsh’s Library)”‰Û÷Books are [in]finite’: Breaking the Bounds of the Information Space.”
1230-1330: Lunch
1330-1500:
*Panel 11: ‰Û÷Print/Screen’ – Expanding the Digital Library at the James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway
Aisling Keane & Kieran Hoare (NUI Galway)”Partnerships, Metadata and Possibilities: Digital Preservation in the Archives.”
Cillian Joy (NUI Galway)”Digital Preservation Workflows and Integrations.”
Niall McSweeney & Barry Houlihan (NUI Galway)”From the Cloud to the Reading-Room: Digital Archives in Research, Learning and Teaching.”
*Panel 12: A Matter of Substance, Size and Style? Remediating the Archive in the Digital Age
Michael Goodman (Cardiff University)”The Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive.”
Julia Thomas & Nicola Lloyd (Cardiff University)”Lost Visions: Retrieving the Visual Element of Printed Books.”
Anthony Mandal (Cardiff University)”Strange Case of Digital Jekyll and Remediated Hyde: Literary Narrative as Pervasive Media.”
1500-1530: Tea/coffee
1530-1700:
Panel 13: Mechanisms
Abigail De Kosnick (University of California, Berkeley)”The Media Crease: Traces of Repetitious Media Use in Hard and Soft Copies.”
Ren̩e Farrar (United States Military Academy)”Word Processor Art and the Graphical User Interface.”
Vinayak Das Gupta (Trinity College Dublin)”The Material and the Immaterial in an Age of Anxiety”
*Panel 14: Digital Materialities of the Literary Text
Ana Marques da Silva (University of Coimbra)”Performative Materialities of Language and Meaning.”
Diogo Marques (University of Coimbra)”Inter[sur]faces.”
Sandra Bettencourt (University of Coimbra)”Digital and Material Feedbacks in Steve Tomasula’s Printed Novels.”
1715-1815: Plenary lectureMatthew G. Kirschenbaum (University of Maryland)“Green-Screeners: Locating the Literary History of Word Processing.”
1815-1830: Closing remarks
Saturday 23 May 2015
1100: Excursion to Computer and Communications Museum of Ireland. (Excursion will last approximately ninety minutes).

Charles Barr, Moore Institute Visiting Fellow - Filming O'Casey
2015-05-25 14:00
Charles Barr, Moore Institute Visiting Fellow
Filming O’Casey
Venue: Huston School Main Room
Sean O’Casey never had much respect for commercial cinema, even though he worked with two of its greatest directors. Alfred Hitchcock filmed Juno and the Paycock in England in 1929; John Ford filmed The Plough and the Stars in Hollywood in 1937. Both directors had sincere respect for the plays, and for the Abbey Theatre actors whom they took care to use in many key roles, but critics have agreed with O’Casey in disliking the results. This talk, illustrated with documents as well as extracts, examines the reasons for this hostility, while making a revisionist case for the value of both films. Hitchcock’s, as an early-sound record of, especially, Sarah Allgood’s definitive performance as Juno; Ford’s, as a legitimate, and historically fascinating, reworking of O’Casey from his own more romantic perspective on the Easter Rising of 1916. Young Cassidy (1965) provides a footnote: a loose and lively biopic of O’Casey, part-directed by Ford, partly in Dublin, towards the end of Ford’s career and of O’Casey’s life. Charles Barr has taught in the past at the Huston School as an Adjunct Professor, and is back in Galway thanks to a research grant from the Moore Institute. His talk draws on collections held in the library. He has published extensively both on Ford and on Hitchcock; his new book, co-authored for the University of Kentucky Press with the Parisian scholar Alain Kerzoncuf, is Hitchcock, Lost and Found – the Forgotten Films. There are two events at Filmbase in Dublin on the afternoon of 27th May, to discuss Educating Film-makers and to launch Charles Barr’s Hitchcock Lost and Found – The Forgotten Films: ‘Cultivating Film-makers’ Hitchcock Lost and Found
For more information please contact rod.stoneman@nuigalway.ie

Inish Festival - Thursday 28th May to Sunday 31st May
2015-05-28 00:00
Inishbofin festival promises a wealth of poetry, music and ‰Û÷Island Conversations’
An innovative cultural festival, featuring the best in literature, poetry, film and music will take place on the island of Inishbofin from Thursday 28th to Sunday 31st May next. The inaugural Inish Festival – subtitled “Island Conversations”- will see international musicians, writers and artists convene in this special, secluded place for performances, talks, and conversations based around themes of insularity, isolation and the role of the arts in society. The island of Inishbofin itself has inspired a host of writers, including the poets Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Richard Murphy, and its strong musical and cultural traditions make it the ideal venue in which to examine what makes islands such special places, and examine what it is live on, or be culturally inspired by, Ireland’s offshore islands. The programme for the festival will appeal to a wide range of tastes, featuring as it does readings from writers such as Kevin Barry, Bernard O’Donoghue and Moya Cannon, concerts with Declan O’Rourke, The Voice Squad, musicians Renaud Garcia-Fons, Zoe Conway and John McIntyre, and films by Directors Pat Collins, Kieran Concannon and Alec Moore. Leading academics, such as Prof. Lee Morrissey, Prof. Daniel Carey, Dr. Adrian Paterson and Dr. Rebecca Barr will address subjects such as ‰Û÷Literary Islands’ and the concept of ‰Û÷Citizenship, Identity and the Irish Archipelago’. A highlight of the festival will be an examination of the poetry of Richard Murphy, whose ‰Û÷Sailing to an Island’ is the poem most people associate with Inishbofin. Murphy, now eighty-eight, currently lives in Sri Lanka, but a recorded interview with him by festival organiser, filmmaker and Inishbofin native, Peadar King will be a rare opportunity to hear the poet talk about his work, and the inspiration behind it. A full programme for the festival can be found at inishfestival.com. As accommodation on the island is limited, early booking is advisable.
For further information log in to www.inishfestival.com or email inishfestival@gmail.com

Gender ARC Research Workshop: Dr. Ivana Radacic, Ivo Pilar Institute, Croatia & Dr. EilÌ_s Ward, Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway - Methods and methodologies in researching the sex trade: Ireland and Croatia considered
2015-05-28 11:00
Gender ARC is pleased to host a
Research Workshop
with
Dr. Ivana Radacic, Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia & Dr. EilÌ_s Ward, School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway
“Methods and methodologies in researching the sex trade: Ireland and Croatia considered”
Followed by Gender ARC reception and public lecture with Professor Kate Nash , Goldsmiths (details to follow)
This workshop will focus on the many challenges facing anyone researching the sex trade with reference to the experience of Dr. Radacic and Dr. Ward in Croatia and Ireland respectively. It will unpack these challenges, with an emphasis on how we do knowledge production in this contentious area of public policy. We will look at data gathering tools and mechanisms and also the attendant ethical, political and epistemological aspects. It understands research in this area as necessarily creating particular sets of tensions that researchers need to acknowledge. Following opening presentations, the workshop will proceed through an open dialogue.
Biographical Notes:
Dr. EilÌ_s Ward is a member of the Management Committee of ProsPoi, the EU funded Cost Action network on prostitution policies and has been writing and researching in this area for over ten years. She recently completed a joint QUB/NUIG research project on prostitution in Northern Ireland (Huschke et al 2014), funded by the N I Department of Justice and has engaged with the policy process in the Republic of Ireland on proposed changes in its prostitution regime.
Dr. Ivana Radacic is also a member of the ProsPol management Committee and is a Research Associate at the Ivo Pilar institute and part time lecturer in the University of Zagreb. Her background is in human rights, women’s rights and feminism and she has worked as a lawyer at the European Court of Human Rights and has written on women’s righs jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights.
All Welcome
For more information please contact gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie

Professor Kate Nash,Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London - 'Women's rights, distant suffering and neo-imperialism'
2015-05-28 13:30 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Gender ARC and Global Women’s Studies at NUI Galway
Are pleased to invite you to a Reception & Public Lecture “Women’s rights, distant suffering and neo-imperialism” Professor Kate Nash
Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London
Abstract: Earlier this year the film ‰Û÷India’s Daughter’ was banned in India: it is illegal to show it there. It is widely agreed that at least part of the Indian government’s reasoning was that it is a form of imperialism. In responding to the ban, the Israeli born, UK-based director of the film, Leslee Udwin, claimed that, as a global citizen, she had the right to make it, and to criticise Indian society. Justifying imperialism using the rhetoric of human rights has a long and continuing history. At the same time, however, the question of how we should respond to representations of people suffering in other countries cannot be avoided. If neo-imperialism is the state of mind that ‰Û÷They need us to achieve rights; while we didn’t need them’, what can we learn from the film and its reception about women’s rights, distant suffering, and neo-imperialism?
Kate Nash is a leading political sociologist whose work focuses on the nexus of human rights, politics and culture. Professor Nash has been with the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths since 1999 where she teaches on the sociology of human rights; cultural politics; political sociology; feminist theory; citizenship; social movements; and equality and diversity. She earned a degree in Sociology at City University as a mature student, completing in 1990, and then a PhD in the Department of Government at Essex University, finishing in 1995. She is Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy at Goldsmiths, and a Fellow of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University. In 2010, Professor Nash she was Visiting Professor at the New School for Social Research, New York and Vincent Wright Professor at Sciences Po, Paris. Kate Nash is a highly-regarded, pioneering thinker on the sociology and politics of human rights in a context of globalisation. She is author of: The Political Sociology of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, July 2015); Contemporary Political Sociology: globalization, politics, power (Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) and The Cultural Politics of Human Rights: Comparing the US and UK (Cambridge University Press, 2009). See: http://www.gold.ac.uk/sociology/staff/nash/
To RSVP and for more information: Gillian Browne, Global Women’s Studies, gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie

Digital Scholarship Seminar: Brad Pasanek (University of Virginia) and Moore Institute visiting fellow - Poetic Diction: Tokens and Change
2015-06-02 12:00
Digital Scholarship Seminar:
Brad Pasanek (University of Virginia) and Moore Institute visiting fellow
Poetic Diction: Tokens and Change
Digital Scholarship Seminar‘s final visiting speaker event of this series takes place next Tuesday lunchtime and features Dr Brad Pasanek from the Department of English at the University of Virginia. Dr Pasanek is a current Moore Institute Visiting Fellow, and his talk focuses on computing the language of early modern poetry. The presentation will be followed by lunch (kindly provided by the Moore Institute) at 1pm.
Abstract: “Poetic diction” is an early modern term of art, used to mark distinctions between prose and verse. It signals a belief that poets speak and write a special kind of language. But “poetic diction” is also the term selected by William Wordsworth in the preface to Lyrical Ballads to sum up and mark a break with eighteenth-century poetics. “Poetic diction,” complained Wordsworth, is “mechanical” and “artificial,” a “hubbub of words.” Poets should instead write poems, claims Wordsworth, famously, in the “real language of men.” By 1800, it would seem, the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century stock of words and phrases was well worn if not worn out.
Poetic diction, as a topic of scholarly interest, had itself become a worn one by the 1950s; but then computational methods may offer new insights into moribund topics. In particular, when I see critics compile a large “set of phrases” that occur with “wearisome iteration” or provide a short list of stock phraseology (“blushing flowers,” “cool gales,” ” lab’ring oxen,” “curling smokes,” “fleet shades,” and “dusky green”), it is the mechanical, iterative quality of the verse surveyed that most interests me. Computational methods work by iteration; and from the perspective of a computational linguist, the stock of phrases complained of by some literary critics are so many types and tokens, waiting to counted and mapped. In the current moment, in which great quantities of verse-Metaphysical, Neoclassical, Romantic-have been digitized, an opportunity to identify the stock of phrases and visualize their changing frequencies presents itself.
Bio: Brad Pasanek is an Assistant Professor in the English Department of the University of Virginia. His first book, Metaphors of Mind: An Eighteenth-Century Dictionary ships in the coming month from Johns Hopkins University Press. (Act now! Buy two, get one free.) His efforts have been described by one of his colleagues in the digital humanities, as “distant reading by hand,” and his book digests and analyzes over 10,000 of the metaphors collected online at The Mind is a Metaphor.
For further informatition, contact: Dr PÌÁdraic Moran (padraic.moran@nuigalway.ie),
or Dr Justitin Tonra (justitin.tonra@nuigalway.ie)
www.nuigalway.ie/digital-seminar ‰ۢ www.facebook.com/nuigdss

Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Seminar: Maria McGarrity (Long Island University) 'Exhibiting Ireland: Immigrants and Visual Culture in Derek Walcott's Joycean New World Epic' - Jack Fennell (University of Limerick) 'Thrasymachus versus Calib
2015-06-02 16:00
Moore Institute Seminar
Maria McGarrity
(Long Island University and Moore Institute)
‰Û÷Exhibiting Ireland:
Immigrants and Visual Culture in Derek Walcott’s Joycean New World Epic’
Jack Fennell
(University of Limerick and Moore Institute)
‰Û÷Thrasymachus versus Caliban: Monstrosity and the Limits of Expansion’
“Exhibiting Ireland: Immigrants and Visual Culture in Derek Walcott’s Omeros, a Joycean New World Epic”
The John C. Messenger manuscript in the Hardiman library details folklore and ethnography on Montserrat, “the Emerald Isle of the Caribbean,” in the mid twentieth century. Such a vibrant catalog of the Caribbean Irish frames Derek Walcott’s Irish textual exhibit, a highly organized and illustrated collection of Irish characters in his transatlantic epic Omeros: Major Plunkett, Maud Plunkett, and Lawrence. These characters have cultural associations not simply to Ireland but to a specific collection of historical figures that helped shape Dublin museum culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This network of allusion, inspired by the “the keeper of the Kildare street museum” that Joyce mocks in the “Circe” episode of Ulysses becomes reframed and reimagined on St. Lucia in the mid twentieth century. Walcott’s imaginary museum of the book includes several dominant cultural and political figures from Ireland, from radically different social registers and affiliations, and re-locates them to the West Indies. Walcott’s catalogue becomes a Joycean museum.
Maria McGarrity is Professor of English at Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York. She works on island geographies, primitivism, and transnational modernism in Irish and Caribbean literatures. Her two new books are just out this month: Allusions in Omeros: Notes and a Guide to Derek Walcott’s Masterpiece (University of Florida Press, 2015) and a co-edited collection, Caribbean Irish Connections: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (University of the West Indies Press, 2015). Caution: the ink may not yet be dry.

Timothy Madigan, St. John Fisher College and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow - Thomas Duddy and Irish Thought
2015-06-03 16:00
Timothy Madigan, St. John Fisher College and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow
Thomas Duddy and Irish Thought
An examination of the life and writings of the late NUIG philosopher, author of A History of Irish Thought, and his thesis that Irish thought refuses to separate the poetic and the prosaic in the pursuit of truth–something which is exemplified in his own work as a poet, short story writer, and professional philosopher.
For more information please contact tmadigan@sjfc.edu

Dianne Hall, Victoria University, Melbourne and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow - 'Gender, violence and marriage in seventeenth-century Ireland'
2015-06-10 16:00

The Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland's 21st Annual Conference - June 11 and 12
2015-06-11 09:30
The Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s 21st Annual Conference will take place in the Moore Institute at NUI Galway on Thursday 11th and Friday 12th June 2015. The theme of the conference is Literacy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. For programme and further details, see www.ssnciconference2015.wordpress.com or contact the organisers, Dr Rebecca Barr, Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley and Dr Muireann O’Cinneide.
There will also be a wine reception to celebrate the launch of Laura D. Kelley’s The Irish in New Orleans – 6pm Thurs 11th June in G010.
Event sponsored by the Moore Institute and the School of Humanities.

Book launch of Laura D. Kelley's The Irish in New Orleans
2015-06-11 18:00

Dr Elizabeth Patton, John Hopkins University and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow - 'The production, reception and circulation of books by women in the family and affinity of Dorothy Arundell (1560-1613)'
2015-06-12 11:00

Michael Neiberg, United States Army War College and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow -Trans-Atlantic Linkages and America's Road to War, 1914-1917: New Evidence, New Conclusions.
2015-06-18 16:00

Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour & Class Conference - 'From Civil Rights to the Bailout: Social movements, workers agitation and left-wing activism in Ireland, 1968-2010' - 19th and 20th June
2015-06-19 13:00
From Civil Rights to the Bailout: Social movements, workers agitation, and left-wing activism in Ireland, 1968-2010
Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour & Class,
http://fromcivilrightstothebailout.wordpress.com/
Conference Overview
Friday 19 June
13.00-13.45 Registration
13.45 Welcome address
14.00-15.30 Panel 1: The context of Northern Ireland
15.30-15.45 Break
15.45-17.15 Panel 2: Varieties of Protest
19.30 Mechanics’ Institute, Middle Street: ‰Û÷Civil Rights and Union Rights: Veteran Voices from the West of Ireland’
Saturday 20 June
10.00-11.30 Panel 3: Radical Politics
11.30-11.45 Break
11.45-13.15 Panel 4: Challenging legal and cultural constraints
13.15-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Panel 5: Engaging Beyond Ireland
15.30-15.45 Break
15.45-17.45 Panel 6: Preserving History: Oral History and Archives
CLOSE OF CONFERENCE
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Registration: ‰âÂ5
This will help cover the costs which include coffee, tea and biscuits to be provided at all
breaks, and a lunch of sandwiches to be provided on Saturday. If you would like to attend,
but feel you cannot afford the registration fee, please let us know.
In order to provide for catering, we need an estimate of the number of attendees. If you would
like to attend, please contact David Convery at david.convery@nuigalway.ie and please also
make us aware of any special dietary requirements.
This conference is organised with the generous support of the Discipline of History, NUI
Galway, and the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities & Social Sciences.
For more information, please see the conference website at http://fromcivilrightstothebailout.wordpress.com
