Moore Institute

Seminar on Poetry and Philosophy - Prof William Desmond (KU Leuven, Moore Institute Visiting Fellow) and Prof Felix ÌÒ Murchadha (NUIG)
2016-05-25 14:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Seminar on Poetry and Philosophy
Prof William Desmond (KU Leuven and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow)
‘Poetic porosity and Astonished Prayer: On the Poetics of Sean O’Riordan’
Prof Felix ÌÒ Murhcadha (NUIG)
‘ Gerald Manley Hopkins: Nature and Emotion’.
Seminar Room GO11, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building.

Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance participatory theatre Play/Test ' New Voices in Art. Who would you become if you became suddenly famous?'
2016-05-24 18:00

One day Workshop 'Popular Publishing in Europe ( 18th/19th Centuries)'
2016-05-23 11:00
One-day Workshop
Seminar Room GO10
Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway

All welcome!

Free event email
alice.colombo@nuigalway.ie to register

11.00 – 11.15
Coffee
11.15 – 11.30
Introduction
11.30 – 12.10
HansJÌ_rgen LÌ_sebrink (UniversitÌ_t des Saarlandes) ‘Patriotic relics and carnavalesque visions –
Political transformations of traditional popular culture
in the public sphere of the French Revolution’
12.10 – 12.50
Antonio Serrano DurÌÁ (Universidad CatÌ_lica de Valencia) ‘Spanish Popular Literature in the
eighteenth century. Production and distribution’
12.50 -14.00
Lunch and networking
14.00 – 14.40
Jeroen Salman (Universiteit Utrecht)’The transnational and intermedial features of a Dutch
mass medium. Demonic narratives in catch penny prints(18th -19thcentury)’
14.40 – 15.20
Niall ÌÒ CiosÌÁin (NUI Galway)
‘InterCeltic print connections, 17901900’
15.20 – 15.40
Coffee
15.40 – 16.20
Alice Colombo (NUI Galway) ‘Translation and the transnationalisation of popular publishing in nineteenthcentury Italy’
16.20 – 17.00
Round table and conclusions

Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance: Conference - '1916 in Irish Theatre/1916 as Irish Theatre.
2016-05-20 09:00
9.30: Welcome and introduction
Panel 1: Internatoinalising the Rising

? Patrick Lonergan, “Easter 1916 and Internationalising Irish Theatre’
? Charlotte McIvor, “Rehearsing Revolution as a prelude to 1916: Yeats, Tagore and Peruse and the Staging of Transactional Nationalist Masculinities”
? David Clare: “Anthropological Gays: Casement, Pearse, and 1916”

11.00: Keynote Lecture 1 Paige Reynolds (Holy Cross), “The “Rising” of the American Avant-Garde: The Gate, 1916, and Experimental Theater in Boston”
12.00: Coffee
12.15: Panel 2 The Rising on the Irish Stage

? Ryan K Evans, “An Evolution of the Production History of The Plough and the Stars”
? Christopher McCormack, “”Scenographies of Augusta Gregory’s Plays, Before and After 1916”.

13.15 – Break for Lunch
14.00: Panel 3:
Pearse and Irish Theatre

? Eugene McNulty, “‰Û÷Exceptional Bodies: Pearse’s drama and the search for the Law beyond the law’
? Marianne Kennedy, “Pearse as guerrilla, site-specific performance artist. A master of reception.”
? Barry Houllhan, “Decisions at Easter: Pearse Takes the Stage”

15.15 – Break
15.45: Panel 4: Commemorations

? Ian Walsh, “The Performance of 1916 at the Abbey Theatre in 1966: Walter Macken’s Recall the Years‘
? Maeve Casserly, “‰Û÷Commemoration as Staged Memory: A comparative analysis of commemoration in Ireland marking the 1991, 2006and 2016 anniversaries of the Easter Rising and the Battle of the Somme”
? Akiko Satake, “”The Easter Risingfrom a Wider Perspective: Cries of Casement as his Bones are Brought to Dublin and The Non-Stop Connolly ShowPart 6″

17.00: Keynote Lecture (2) James Moran (Nottingham):”Child’s Play: Looking again at 1916 Onstage”
18:00: Conference Conclusion

Talk hosted by CAMPS and the English Dept NUIG ' An Irish Franciscan's Pocketbook: British Library MS Harley 913 and Colonial Ireland in the Early Fourteenth Century'
2016-05-19 15:00
Speaker: Professor John Scattergood (Trinity College, Dublin)
Title: ‘An Irish Franciscan’s Pocketbook: British Library MS Harley 913 and Colonial Ireland in
the Early Fourteenth Century’
Location: Hardiman Research Building, Room 1001 (‘The Bridge’)
Date: Thursday, 19 May, at 3.00pm

Book Launch: 'The British Labour Party & Twentieth Century Ireland: The Cause of Ireland, The Cause of labour'.
2016-05-17 16:00
You are cordially invited to the launch of
The British Labour Party & Twentieth-Century Ireland:
The Cause of Ireland, The Cause of labour
Edited by Laurence Marley
The book will be launched by Dr Martin Mansergh,
former Minister of State and Vice-Chair of the Irish Government Expert Group on the Decade of Centenaries

Gender ARC and Global Women's Studies at NUIG Research Seminar
2016-05-11 16:00
Gender ARC and Global Women’s Studies at NUI Galway are pleased to invite you to the following research seminar:

Irish Women Screenwriters cast in the shadows – Knocknagow (1918) and Guests of the Nation (1935)
Dr DÌ_Ì_g O’Connell
, Film & Media Studies at the D̼n Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology
Date: Wednesday 11 May 2016
Time: 4.00-5.00 pm
Venue: The Hardiman Research Building, R1001
With Introduction by Dr Miriam Haughton, Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance at NUI Galway
.For questions, please contact Gender ARC Seminar and Public Lecture Series Coordinator: Amie Lajoie, a.lajoie1@nuigalway.ie
Abstract
: This paper explores how Irish women screenwriters are often written out of the historical record, and cast in the shadows of male directors and novelists. In the case of Knocknagow (Ireland 1918) and Guests of the Nation (Ireland 1935), two significant films in the early history of Irish cinema, very little is known about the screenwriters – Mrs. NF Patton (Knocknagow) and Mary Manning (Guests of the Nation). These films could be considered landmark films in early Irish cinema history at the level of narrative theme, historical significance and audience appeal. Both films were written by women but very little historical references are found for either writer. Examining the archive material of both these films, this study traces through the reviews of these films, the place awarded to the screenwriter in the documented history. Is this just a case of the screenwriter being cast to the periphery or is there further marginalisation happening at the level of gender? Drawing on theories around social capital, this paper explores what the barriers are to recognition and record. Is the status of the male author privileged over that of the screenwriter, or is there a gender bias at work, relegating women screenwriters to the margins, on two levels, as screenwriters and as women?
Dr DÌ_Ì_g O’Connell
lectures in Film & Media Studies at the Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. She is the author of New Irish Storytellers: Narrative Strategies in Film (Intellect, 2010) and Documentary in a Changing State (Cork University press, 2012). She has written extensively on Irish Cinema, Television Drama and Screenwriting. She has also been a member of a Writers’ Team for Irish television drama.

Gender ARC and Centre for Global Women's Studies - Book Launch and Public Lecture 'What we preserve from the past and what we ignore: some new perspectives on women in Ireland in the 1950's and 60's' presented by Dr Caitriona Clear (Senior Lecturer in His
2016-05-05 17:00
Is mÌ_r ag Gender ARC agus ag Ionad L̩ann Domhanda na mBan in OÌä Gaillimh
cuireadh a thabhairt duit freastal ar Sheoladh Leabhair agus ar L̩acht PhoiblÌ_:
What we preserve from the past and what we ignore: some new
perspectives on women in Ireland in the 1950s and 60s
́ chur i lÌÁthair ag an Dr Caitriona Clear, L̩achtÌ_ir Sinsearach le Stair in OÌä Gaillimh chun ceili̼radh a dh̩anamh ar sheoladh a leabhair nua:
Women’s Voices in Ireland: women’s magazines in the 1950s and 60s
Le r̩amhrÌÁ Ì_n bhfile agus drÌÁmadÌ_ir Mary Coll
DÌÁta: D̩ardaoin, 5 Bealtaine 2016
Am: 5.00pm – 6.30pm
Ionad: ́ras Taighde UÌ_ ArgadÌÁin, Seomra SeimineÌÁir G011

Gender ARC and the Centre for Global Women’s Studies at NUI Galway
are pleased to invite you to the following Book Launch and Public Lecture:
What we preserve from the past and what we ignore: some new
perspectives on women in Ireland in the 1950s and 60s
Presented by Dr Caitriona Clear, Senior Lecturer in History at NUI Galway to mark the launch of her upcoming book:
Women’s Voices in Ireland: women’s magazines in the 1950s and 60s
With an introduction by poet and playwright Mary Coll
Date: Thursday 5 May 2016
Time: 5.00pm – 6.30pm
Venue: The Hardiman Research Building, G011 Seminar Room
Light refreshments – all welcome

Caitriona Clear is a Senior Lecturer in modern Irish and European history at NUI, Galway. Women’s Voices in Ireland: women’s magazines in the 1950s and 60s, (Bloomsbury 2016) is her fourth book, following Social Change and Everyday Life in Ireland 1850-1922 (Manchester University Press 2007), Women of the House: women’s household work in Ireland 1926-1961 (Irish Academic Press 2000) and Nuns in Nineteenth-century Ireland (Gill & Macmillan 1987). She has also published research on homelessness in post-Famine Ireland, Irish women during the First World War, twentieth-century Irish women writers, and clothes and fashion in Ireland. She is a contributor to the forthcoming Cambridge History of Ireland edited by Thomas Bartlett.
Mary Coll is a Limerick poet, playwright and broadcaster. Publications include All Things Considered (Salmon 2002) numerous contributions to RTE Radio One and RTE Lyric FM. She has had stage productions of Excess Baggage (2007) and Anything But Love (2010) at The Belltable Arts Centre, radio plays commissioned by RTE Drama On One, lyrics for the Choral Work ‰Û÷Spirestone’ and two art song cycles in association with the composer Fiona Linnane, a new play Diamond Rocks: Sunset, commissioned by The Lime Tree Theatre, Limerick (2014) and a second collection of poems entitled Silver due for publication in 2016.
For questions about this event, please contact NUI Galway’s Gender ARC Convenor and Co-Director of the Centre for Global Women’s Studies: Dr Niamh Reilly, niamh.reilly@nuigalway.ie

School of Languages, Literature and Culture - School Research Day
2016-05-05 09:00

CAMPS Lab - Eugene Costello, Archaeology, NUI Galway 'Ar cuairt bhuailltechuis: the medieval origins of transhumance or ''booleying'' in Ireland'.
2016-04-22 12:00
CAMPS Lab – Eugene Costello, Archaeology, NUI Galway ‘Ar cuairt bhuailltechuis: the medieval origins of transhumance or ”booleying” in Ireland’

Drama, Theatre and Performance Speaker Series: Dr Ian Walsh, Lecturer at the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, NUI Galway
2016-04-20 14:00

ICHLC Seminar Series - 'Aspects of anti-communism in 20th Century Ireland' with Diane Kirby (UU), Gerard Madden (NUIG) and John Mulqueen (TCD)
2016-04-14 16:00

Moore Institute/ Discipline of Philosophy - Research Seminar 'Idea, Multiplicity, Reflection, Merleau - Ponty's Radical Concepts' by Prof Dorothea Olkowski (University of Colorado)
2016-04-12 16:00
The Moore Institute and the Discipline of Philosophy are pleased invite you to the following research seminar:
“Idea, Multiplicity, Reflection,
Merleau-Ponty’s Radical Concepts”
by
Prof. Dorothea Olkowski
University of Colorado
Abstract: Merleau-Ponty has argued that for experience – as opposed to sensation which is private, or intellect which is a shared idea – there is an expectation if not a demand, that we are somehow seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, or smelling something as opposed to sensing or thinking it. Nevertheless, in comparing our perceptions with those of others, there is often nothing but contradiction, so that the point of thinking seems to be to erase those contradictions: But what if even thought is full of contradictions? For Merleau-Ponty, we have no better evidence for this than the four antinomies that Kant places before us both as a warning and in order to untangle their contradictions. For, in spite of the contradictions inherent in the absolute or pure use of the intuitions of space and time and the concepts of substance, mechanical causality, and necessary being, these particular contradictions are still “the very condition of consciousness, ” so that without reflection, not merely perception but life itself “would probably dissipate itself in ignorance of itself or in chaos.” This claim serves as a warning regarding our assumptions about phenomenology, for when we announce our faith in “the primacy of perception” we may not know what we are actually claiming. This paper asks what it means to say that scientific knowledge and physico-mathematical relations make sense only insofar as we understand that intellectual knowledge and abstract ideas have the same structures and horizons as our perceptual experience?
Dorothea Olkowski is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs and Director of the Cognitive Studies Minor. She specializes in feminist theory, phenomenology and contemporary French philosophy. Her publications include Time in Feminist Phenomenology (with Christina SchÌ_es and Helen Fielding, Indiana UP, 2012), Postmodern Philosophy and the Scientific Turn(Indiana UP 2011), Feminist Interpretations of Merleau-Ponty (with Gail Weiss, Penn State University Press, 2006), The Universal (In the Realm of the Sensible) (Edinburgh University Press, 2007), Resistance, Flight, Creation, Feminist Enactments of French Philosophy (Cornell, 2000) and Gilles Deleuze and the Ruin of Representation (University of California Press, 1999).
For questions, please contact felix.omurchadha@nuigalway.ie

Early Modern Research Seminar - Dr Sajed Chowdhury and Dr Felicity Maxwell
2016-04-12 16:00
Early Modern Research Seminar
Dr Sajed Chowdhury: The Metaphysics of ‰Û÷Making’ in the Verse Miscellany of Constance Aston Fowler (c.1635-1638)
Dr Felicity Maxwell: Calling for collaboration: Women and public service in Dorothy Moore’s transnational Protestant correspondence

CAMPS Lab, Dr Jessica Cooke, Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies, NUIG 'The Annaghdown Doorway and King Ruaidhri Ua Conchobhair:Tuarastal and Patronage in Twelfth Century Connacht'
2016-04-08 12:00
CAMPS Lab, Dr Jessica Cooke, Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies, NUIG ‘The Annaghdown Doorway and King Ruaidhri Ua Conchobhair:Tuarastal and Patronage in Twelfth Century Connacht’

Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Dr Colin Reid, Northumbria University presents: 'Constitutional Resistance as Legal Defence: Irish Lawyers and the 1848 Rebellion'.
2016-04-08 11:00
Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Dr Colin Reid, Northumbria University presents: ‘Constitutional Resistance as Legal Defence: Irish Lawyers and the 1848 Rebellion’.

Moore Institute Visiting Fellow, Dr Guy Cuthbertson ' It's a long way to Tipperary: Ireland, Edward Thomas and World War One'
2016-04-07 15:00
Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Dr Guy Cuthbertson (Liverpool Hope University) will be giving a talk entitled ‘ Its’s a long way to Tipperary: Ireland, Edward Thomas and World War One’ on Thursday 7th April at 3pm in Seminar Room GO10 in the HRB.
Dr Cuthbertson is the author of an acclaimed biography of war poet Wilfred Owen, published by Yale University Press in 2014. His project at the Moore Institute focussses on Edward Thomas’s connection with the West of Ireland and the Celtic Revival. The talk is open to members of the public as well as members of the University.

Moore Institute Visiting Fellow, Maurice Fitzpatrick introduces a screening of his BBC documentary film ' The Boys of St Columb's'.
2016-04-07 14:30
“The Boys of St. Columb’s – the story of how an emancipatory education act led to the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s in Northern Ireland”.
Filmmaker, Lecturer and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Maurice Fitzpatrick introduces a screening of his BBC documentary film, The Boys of St Columb’s, about a new generation of leaders who reshaped the social and political future of Northern Ireland, including Nobel Prize winning writer Seamus Heaney and John Hume. He is currently in production on a documentary feature film, In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America. The screening is followed by a question and answer session.
Introduced by Dr Niall O Dochartaigh, School of Political Science and Sociology
Speaker bio
Maurice Fitzpatrick is an Irish and Japanese-educated film-maker, writer and lecturer. He wrote and produced the BBC documentary film The Boys of St Columb’s, which is about how educational reform in Northern Ireland helped break the vicious cycle of sectarian violence by raising a new generation of leaders who would go on to reshape the social and political future of Northern Ireland – the film tells the story through prominent Irish leaders including Nobel Prize winning writer Seamus Heaney and John Hume, who won the Nobel Prize for his role in the Northern Ireland peace process.
Maurice has just finished another documentary film as writer and director for the BBC about Brian Friel’s play ‘Translations’ which focuses on the role of (mis)communication and language in a clash between two different cultures. He has published articles on Kurosawa’s cinematic interpretation of Shakespeare, on modern novels, on travel, and a book ‰Û÷The Boys of St Columb’s’. He is currently a lecturer at the University of Cologne. Before that, he lived in Tokyo from 2004-2011 where he lectured at Keio University, Japan’s oldest university. He has also been a guest lecturer at various universities in North America and Europe.
He is currently in production on a documentary feature film, In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America. The film chronicles the support of John Hume’s approach to politics in Northern Ireland in co-ordination with senior political figures in US and Irish Foreign Affairs. A taste of what the film will become, including a recent interview with President Bill Clinton, is viewable here:
https://vimeo.com/149822873

Galway 2020, presentation ' Virtual Capital of Culture'
2016-03-22 10:00
Galway2020 will give a presentation on their “Virtual Capital of Culture” project. The aim of the presentation is to give some background to the project, and to encourage researchers to submit proposals for projects that use a set of emerging technologies to explore Galway2020’s European themes of Language, Landscape and Migration.
More About the Project
Galway2020 recently introduced one of Galway’s most ambitious projects as part of the bid to become the European Capital of Culture – ‰Û÷Window of the World’. This project initially entitled the ‰Û÷Virtual Capital of Culture‘ is based around the use of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Holography and 3D projection mapping to:

̢åÑå Explore the application of these emerging technologies and mediums to immerse people in entirely new artistic experiences, tell stories in completely new ways and look at the world from new perspectives.
̢åÑå Revolutionise the way people remotely experience culture in virtual environments and open up our programme of events to 500m citizens across Europe.

They are interested in projects inspired by Galway2020’s European themes of Language, Landscape and Migration, and are particularly interested in exploring these European themes through both the local Galway context and the lens of wider European experience.
With the overlap between these themes and the research interests of many researchers associated with the Moore Institute, there is a fantastic opportunity to partner with external technology providers and producers to create interesting work as part of the proposed 2020 programme.
Further details from: David Kelly – david.d.kelly@nuigalway.ie

Prof Laurent Jaffro (Moore Institute Visitng Fellow) delivering a lecture on'Jonathon Swift, Weak Agents, and Economics as Second-Best Ethics'
2016-03-21 16:00
This lecture discusses economics as a compromise ethics suitable to the weakness of human nature, engaging with Gulliver’s Travels and other texts by Swift.

Drama, Theatre and Performance Speaker Series :Lynne Parker, Artistic Director, Rough Magic Theatre
2016-03-16 14:00

CAMPS Lab - Dr Jacopo Bisagni, Classics Dept, NUI Galway - 'The newly discovered Irish compustica in the Vatican manuscript Reg.lat.123'
2016-03-11 12:00
CAMPS Lab – Dr Jacopo Bisagni, Classics Dept, NUI Galway – ‘The newly discovered Irish compustica in the Vatican manuscript Reg.lat.123’

Drama, Theatre and Performance - Crisis, Migration and Performance Symposium
2016-03-11 08:30
‰Û÷Crisis, Migration and Performance’Symposium
11-12 March 2016
For more information or to register,
contact crimigper@gmail.com or
charlotte.mcivor@nuigalway.ie.
For a full schedule, visit
http://micipnuigalway.weebly.com/crisismigration-and-performance-symposiumschedule.html
Sponsored by Drama and Theatre Studies and the Moore Institute.
Keynotes:
Emma Cox (Royal Holloway, London)
‰Û÷Processional Aesthetics: Performing Irregular Transit in Europe’
Alison Jeffers (University of Manchester)
‰Û÷Civil listening and hospitable stages: the role of participation in refugee theatre practices’
This symposium explores how theatre and performance practices from the professional to community level
make visible the relationship between experiences of migration and routes of global inequality in Europe and
beyond from both historical and contemporary perspectives.

MA Medieval Studies and CAMPS present Dr Niamh Whitfield - Seminar - 'The Book of Durrow and the 'Northumbrian Problem''.
2016-03-10 09:00
Dr Niamh Whitfield is making her annual visit to NUI Galway (sponsored by MA Medieval Studies and CAMPS).
‘The Book of Durrow and the’Northumbrian Problem”
Thursday 10th March 9am – 11am in Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building.
Places are available but must be booked in advance with Dr.Kimberly LoPrete, History. kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie

Archaeological Society and CAMPS - Public Lecture with Dr Niamh Whitfield ''More like the work of fairies than that of human beings'': Filigree from Ireland and Scotland in the early Middle Ages''
2016-03-08 19:00
Dr Niamh Whitfield – Public Lecture
‘More like the work of fairies than that of human beings”: Filigree from Ireland and Scotland in the early Middle Ages”.

MA Medieval Studies and CAMPS present Dr Niamh Whitfield -Seminar 'Early Irish Metalwork'.
2016-03-08 15:00
Dr Niamh Whitfield is making her annual visit to NUI Galway (sponsored by MA Medieval Studies and CAMPS).
‘Early Irish Metalwork’
Tuesday 8th March 3pm – 5pm in Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building.
Places are available but must be booked in advance with Dr.Kimberly LoPrete, History. kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie

Digital Scholarship Seminar Series/Early Modern Research Seminar - Anders Ingram' The Business of Books: Quantifying the Career of George Bishop, Stationer (c.1538 - 1611)'
2016-03-08 12:00
The third event of this series of Digital Scholarship Seminar is co-hosted with the Early Modern Research Seminar, and takes place on Tuesday 8 March at 12pm in Hardiman Building Room 1001. Anders Ingram, who recently completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Moore Institute, will present a paper that brings computational and quantitative methods to bear on the study of book history. The paper focuses on the printing career of George Bishop, a leading figure in the sixteenth-century London book trade. Lunch will be provided and, as ever, all are welcome.
12-2pm // Tuesday 8 March // Room 1001 (First Floor) Hardiman Research Building // Facebook event page
Anders Ingram
The Business of Books: Quantifying the Career of George Bishop, Stationer (c.1538-1611).
George Bishop was a leading figure in the turn of the sixteenth century London book trade. Bishop served as master of the Stationers Company an exceptional five times. He was defacto Royal Printer, alongside his partner Ralph Newberry, as Christopher Barker’s deputy, in the years 1588-1600. Over the course of his career he maintained lengthy relationships with major figures in the European book trade such as the Antwerp printer Christophe Plantin and the Cologne booksellers the Birckmans. Perhaps most importantly he published editions of Chaucer, Fox, Camden, Hakluyt, Holinshed, Stow, and numerous other prominent and important authors.
This paper draws upon a database I have built of the publication details and physical characteristics of Bishops 583 extant imprints, alongside archival evidence, to reconstruct the career of this prominent bookseller/publisher, his partnerships, and his evolving business practices and network. I will also address some of the methodological issues which arise studying early publishers such as Bishop whose accounts books do not survive.

CAMPS Lab, Prof. Barry Lewis, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies 'Saints Genealogies in Medieval Wales: A Comparison with the Irish Corpus'
2016-03-04 12:00
CAMPS Lab, Prof. Barry Lewis, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies ‘Saints Genealogies in Medieval Wales: A Comparison with the Irish Corpus’

2016 Margaret Heavey Memorial Lecture 'The Enigmatic Aspects of Hisperica Famina' by Prof Andy Orchard (Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo Saxon, Pembroke College, Oxford)
2016-03-03 17:00 | Charles McMunn Theatre (Arts/Science Concourse) NUI Galway, Ireland
‘The Enigmatic Aspects
of the Hisperica Famina‘
Prof. Andy Orchard
(Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon,
Pembroke College, Oxford)
The collection of mysterious seventh-century Latin poems known as Hisperica Famina have puzzled-and outraged-readers for decades. They were reviled by the scholar and patriot EÌ_in MacNeill, who memorably called them the ‰Û÷luxuriant culture-fungus of decay’, but they were admired by Umberto Eco, who likened them to a Medieval version of Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake. Above all, however, they have remained a mystery. Were they truly written in Ireland? Or Britain? Or even Brittany? What is the origin of their obscure, labyrinthine and inventive language? Are they serious or an elaborate literary joke?
Prof. Andy Orchard from Oxford University will address some of the questions that still surround this fascinating and perplexing group of poems in his 2016 Margaret Heavey Memorial Lecture, “The Enigmatic Aspects of the Hisperica Famina“. Prof. Orchard is an eminent Medievalist and Anglo-Saxonist who, among his numerous publications, also produced an important re-assessment of the texts in question (‰Û÷The Hisperica Famina as Literature’, in The Journal of Medieval Latin 10 (2000), pp. 1-45).
Prof. Orchard’s lecture will take place at 5 p.m. Thursday, 3 March, in the Charles McMunn Theatre (Arts/Science Concourse), NUI Galway, as part of the Margaret Heavey Memorial Lectures series. These lectures are annual events hosted by the Discipline of Classics in NUI, Galway to commemorate the life and work of Margaret Heavey (1908-1980), Lecturer and then Professor of Classics at UCG between 1931 and 1977, as well as Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1970 to 1976.
The lecture is kindly sponsored by the NUIG College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, the Discipline of English, and the Classics Society.

ICHLC Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class, Seminar
2016-03-03 16:00
Speaker – Michael Foley (DIT) ‘Journalism the last refuge for the middle class boy: the professionalisation of journalism in 19th Century Ireland’. Chaired by Prof Tadhg Foley (NUIG)
