Moore Institute

Gender ARC Lunchtime Seminar Series:Dr. Anne Cassidy, Postdoctoral Researcher 'Join-to-Farm' Teagasc/NUI Galway The Agency Paradox: gender(ed) frameworks in Irish Farming Families
2015-02-18 13:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Gender ARC Lunchtime Seminar Series

Dr. Anne Cassidy, Postdoctoral Researcher ‘Join-to-Farm’ Teagasc/NUI Galway
The Agency Paradox: gender(ed) frameworks in Irish Farming Families

All Welcome
For more information please contact gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie

History Graduate Research Seminar Series:Eamonn Gardiner, 'Insane at the Time of Commission': Stress, Trauma and Suicide in Temporary Cadets of the Auxiliary Division, 1920-1930.'
2015-02-18 16:00
History Graduate Research Seminar Series

Eamonn Gardiner,
‘Insane at the Time of Commission’: Stress, Trauma and Suicide
in Temporary Cadets of the Auxiliary Division, 1920-1930.’

for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie

5th Babel Public Lecture Series: Dr Mel Boland: Contact and Conflict Zones: Reading Gesture in the short fiction of Isabel Allende
2015-02-18 18:30 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
5th BABEL PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES
Dr Mel Boland:
Contact and Conflict Zones: Reading Gesture in the short fiction of Isabel Allende
How do we read gesture in literature? This lecture looks at how we read and interpret the description of gestures, using selected short stories from Chilean author Isabel Allende in Spanish and English.
The Babel Lectures is an initiative of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, NUI Galway, which intends to reinforce the connection with Galway through an annual series of lectures especially designed to promote creative exchange and dialogues between academics and the community.
Entrance is free, and everybody is welcome.
For more information please contact suzanne.gilsenan@nuigalway.ie

Dr Joan Allen (Moore Institute Visiting Research Fellow / Newcastle University) - 'Charles Diamond, the Catholic Herald and the Defence of the Realm Act, 1914-1920'
2015-02-19 16:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Lecture under joint auspices of Moore Institute and the Newspaper and Periodical History Forum of Ireland
Dr Joan Allen
(Moore Institute Visiting Research Fellow / Newcastle University)
‰Û÷Charles Diamond, the Catholic Herald and the Defence of the Realm Act, 1914-1920′
For more information please contact john.cunningham@nuigalway.ie

Word-Bridges: Translation in Ireland Symposium
2015-02-20 09:00
Word-Bridges: Translation in Ireland Symposium
This symposium examines translation in Ireland with a particular focus on the years 1700-1900. The event brings together leading scholars to explore cultural exchange in Ireland and to assess how translation was used for informative, creative and transformative purposes. It will look at translation between Irish and English side by side with translation from other languages into English. The symposium will examine translations in a European context to question how these works both provided links with the continent while also reflecting European trends in cultural transfer.
Prof Michael Cronin (DCU) will deliver a keynote entitled ‰Û÷The Empire talks back: Translation tales for the coming times’ (11.30-12.30) and Prof. Ann Thomson (EUI Florence) will deliver the second keynote on ‰Û÷Translators as historical actors in the long Eighteenth Century’ (17.00-18.00).
The conference is open to all NUI Galway staff and students and there is no charge for attending.
At 12.30 the winners of the Schools Translation Competition (French, German, Irish, Italian and Spanish) will be presented with their prizes. A Database of Irish Translators in the Nineteenth Century will also be launched during the conference.
Conference website: http://translationhistory.nuigalway.ie/conference/
Programme

9.00-9.30

Registration and welcome

9.30-11.00 Session 1 (Chair: Feargal ÌÒ B̩arra)

Andrew Carpenter (UCD) Translation and imitation in Restoration Ireland.

Liam Mac Math̼na, (UCD) Bilingual Scholarship in Dublin, 1700-1750: The Role of Translation in Tadhg ÌÒ Neachtain’s Oeuvre

Joachim Fischer (UL): 18th and 19th century translations in Ireland: The German dimension

11.00-11.30

Coffee

11.30-12.30 Keynote

Michael Cronin (DCU): entitled ‰Û÷The Empire talks back: Translation tales for the coming times’ (Chair Paolo Bartoloni)

12.30-13.00

Launch of Irish Translators in the Nineteenth Century Database and presentation of Schools Translations Competition Winners (Anne O’Connor)

13.00-14.00

Lunch

14.00 – 15.30 Session 2 (Chair Lesa NÌ_ Mhunghaile)

Michele Milan (NUI Galway) ‰Û÷”The West’s Awake”: Translating from Connaught and for the Nation – Eva, Thomasine and John Blake Dillon’

Mary Phelan (DCU) Court Interpreters for Foreign Languages 1810-1900

Sabine StrÌ_mper-Krobb (UCD)‰Û÷Abuse’ and ‰Û÷mutilations’ – George Egerton and the first English translation of Knut Hamsun’s Sult

15.30-16.00

Coffee

16.00 – 17.00 Session 3 (Chair Mel Boland)

Ciaran McDonough (NUI Galway): ‰Û÷Death and Renewal’: Translating Old Irish Texts in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Cormac Leonard (TCD) and Teresa Lynch (TCD): “Interpreters and Deaf People in Irish Courts, 1815 – 1924‰Û_.

17.00-18.00 Keynote

Ann Thomson (EUI, Florence) “Translators as historical actors in the long Eighteenth Century” (Chair Jane Conroy)

18.00 Book launch

Sabine Egger (ed.), Cultural/Literary Translators – Selected Irish-German Biographies (Irish-German Studies 9). Trier: WVT, 2014
(Book Launch by Prof. PÌ_l ÌÒ Dochartaigh, Registrar and Deputy President, NUI Galway)

Note: There is no registration fee for the Symposium. The Symposium is funded by the Irish Research Council.
Conference Conveners and Contacts: Dr. Anne O’Connor anne.oconnor@nuigalway.ie and Dr. Lesa NÌ_ Mhunghaile lesa.nimhunghaile@oegaillaimh.ie

CAMPS lab: Francisco Rozano, Medieval Studies, NUIG - 'Saga hwÌÄå_t ic hatte: The Many Names and Mysteries of the Exeter Book of Old English Poetry'
2015-02-20 12:00
Francisco Rozano, Medieval Studies, NUIG
‘Saga hwÌ_t ic hatte: The Many Names and Mysteries of the Exeter Book of Old English Poetry’
Followed by discussion & light lunch
Everyone welcome – FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch
For more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

Performance Matters - Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2015-02-20 12:00, 2015-03-06 12:00
Performance Matters
Irish Theatre Discussion Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/
For more information please contact lisa.fitzgerald@nuigalway.ie or m.nichualain5@nuigalway.ie
All theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend

Inishowen singers on tour
2015-02-24 14:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Inishowen singers on tour
http://inishowensinging.ie/
For more information please contact lillis.olaoire@nuigalway.ie

Archaeology research seminar series: Peter Casby, Galway doctoral scholarship student in Archaeology at NUI Galway will speak on Living Trees in Created Environments of Gaelic Ireland (c.700AD - 1600AD)
2015-02-24 16:00
Archaeology research seminar series:

Peter Casby, Galway doctoral scholarship student in Archaeology at NUI Galway
Living Trees in Created Environments of Gaelic Ireland (c.700AD – 1600AD).
All welcome!

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

Language Games: A Seminar on Language and Literature
2015-02-24 16:00, 2015-03-10 16:00
‘Language Games’: An AWC Seminar on Language and Literature.
All welcome.
Texts for discssion will be provided at the meeting.
Contact: irina.ruppo@nuigawlay.ie

History Graduate Research Seminar Series: Florry O' Driscoll 'Confounding the Garibaldian Liars': The Letters of Albert De La Hoyde of the Battalion of St Patrick, 1860
2015-02-25 16:00
History Graduate Research Seminar Series
Florry O’ Driscoll

‘Confounding the Garibaldian Liars’: The Letters of Albert De La Hoyde
of the Battalion of St Patrick, 1860.
for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie

Public Lecture: Paddy Woodworth -'Writing Restoration: A Global Journey to the Cutting Edge of Conservation Science & Practice'
2015-02-26 19:00
Public talk on writing about the environment at NUI Galway
Author and lecturer Paddy Woodworth is to give a guest talk titled ‰Û÷Writing Restoration: A Global Journey to the Cutting Edge of Conservation Science & Practice’ at NUI Galway on 26 February at 7pm.
The talk, part of the “Doing Writing” series organized by the BA and MA programmes in Creative Writing at NUI Galway, will be based on Woodworth’s most recent book, Our Once and Future Planet: Restoring the World in the Climate Change Century, published by Chicago University Press.
Ten years in the making, Our Once and Future Planet focuses on projects across the world that attempt to reverse damage to the environment and restore healthy and biodiverse ecosystems. The book has received international acclaim for its extensive research and key arguments, and also for the accessibility of its style. Science magazine emphasized that Woodworth “skillfully dissects the arguments surrounding the purpose and direction of ecological restoration”, while also especially commending his “effective use of narrative techniques to enhance his presentation. His descriptions of the people he meets are often charming and revealing”.
Formerly a Visiting Fellow on the International Writing Programme at the University of Iowa, and most recently a visiting lecturer at the University of Chicago, Woodworth has published widely on the arts, travel, Basque and Spanish affairs, and national and international environment issues. He regularly writes on these and related areas for the Irish Times.
Woodworth also works as an editor for scientists who wish to reach a wide public readership, and he is a mentor for creative writers at NUI Galway working on projects related to factual narration and other forms of creative non-fiction.
This public talk will take place on 26 February at NUI Galway in the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies (ground floor, room G010) at 7pm. Booking is not required, but seating may be limited.
For more information please contact john.kenny@nuigalway.ie

CAMPS lab: Christine Neer, Old & Middle Irish, NUIG - 'Grieving Lovers and Gendered Mourning in Old and Middle Irish Tochmarca'.
2015-02-27 12:00
Christine Neer, Old & Middle Irish, NUIG‘Grieving Lovers and Gendered Mourning in Old and Middle Irish Tochmarca‘.
Followed by discussion & light lunch
Everyone welcome – FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch
For more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

Digital Scholarship Seminar:Marie Boran (James Hardiman Library) The Irish Landed Estates Database: Signpost or Destination? - Niall MacSweeney & Aisling Keane (James Hardiman Library) Challenges of Applying Metadata to Digital Collections
2015-03-03 12:00
Digital Scholarship Seminar
Marie Boran (James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway)The Irish Landed Estates Database: Signpost or Destination?
Niall MacSweeney & Aisling Keane (James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway)Challenges of Applying Metadata to Digital Collections
Presentatitions during the first hour of each seminar are followed by discussion and exchange over a light lunch in the second.
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

Archaeology research seminar series: Dr Ruth Carden : Ireland's Ancient Red Deer. All welcome!
2015-03-03 16:00
Archaeology research seminar series:

Dr Ruth Carden, consultant animal osteologist in quaternary and holocene european fauna, wildlife ecologist and Research Associate of the National Museum of Ireland, Natural History Division.
Lecture title: Ireland‘s Ancient Red Deer.
All welcome!

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

Moore Institute Special Lecture: 'The Analogy Between Finland and Ireland is Almost Perfect.' Nationalism & Separatism on Opposite Sides of Europe, c. 1886-1922 Dr Andrew Newby, Senior Research Fellow at the Department of World Cultures, University
2015-03-03 16:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Moore Institute Special Lecture
“The Analogy Between Finland and Ireland is Almost Perfect.”
Nationalism & Separatism on Opposite Sides of Europe, c. 1886-1922
Dr Andrew Newby, Senior Research Fellow at the Department of World Cultures, University of Helsinki.
For more information please contact john.cunningham@nuigalway.ie

History Graduate Research Seminar Series: Kevin O'Sullivan, Fight Poverty or Feed The World? NGOs in Britain and Ireland and the search for global justice 1968-85
2015-03-04 16:00
History Graduate Research Seminar Series

Kevin O’Sullivan,
Fight Poverty or Feed The World? NGOs in Britain and Ireland and the search for global justice 1968-85.
for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie

Book launch of Thomas Fitzpatrick and the Lepracaun Cartoon Monthly 1905-1915 by James Curry and CiarÌÁn Wallace
2015-03-05 17:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
NUI Galway launch of
Thomas Fitzpatrick and the Lepracaun Cartoon Monthly 1905-1915
by James Curry and CiarÌÁn Wallace
Followed by wine reception.
Book Launch! New book examines the life of Irish political cartoonist Thomas Fitzpatrick and the popular Lepracaun Cartoon Monthly publication he founded in 1905
Thomas Fitzpatrick was the grandfather of renowned Irish artist Jim Fitzpatrick
All welcome to attend!

Professor Elizabeth Fitzpatrick: Finn mac Cumaill's Places: Linking Human Settlement with Landscapes of Enriched Natural Resources
2015-03-05 18:00
Professor Elizabeth Fitzpatrick
(School of Geography and Archaeology NUI Galway )
Finn mac Cumaill’s Places: Linking Human Settlement with Landscapes of Enriched Natural Resources
Finn mac Cumaill (Finn McCool) and his fÌ_an or warrior band are central figures in the literature and oral tradition of Gaelic-speaking peoples of Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man. Finn variously means white, bright, lustrous, fair, enlightened and self-revealed. Tales of Finn have enduring appeal. Prof. Elizabeth FitzPatrick’s project with Dr Ronan Hennessy and Dr Paul Naessens, of NUI Galway, An Atlas of Finn mac Cumaill’s Places, proposes that place-names associated with Finn are not just folk indices of the Finn-Cycle of tales but indicate areas of enriched natural resources and physical boundaries in the landscape.
The project has discovered that Finn’s places have distinctive archaeologies, topographies and wildlife ecologies situated in geological transition zones characterised by unconformities, contacts and faults. As landforms, they are epitomised by bareness and are mostly hills, variously called Seefin (‰Û÷Finn’s seat’), Knockfinn (‰Û÷Finn’s Hill’) and Formoyle (‰Û÷very bare place’), but they are also caves, such as Fingal’s Cave on the Isle of Arran, and causeways like the World Heritage Giant’s Causeway on the Co. Antrim coastline. In the past, Finn‰Û÷s places were important boundary points of territories, hunting grounds for red deer and wild pig, and characterised by mineral enrichment.
Finn’s places on the edge of Western Europe may be the most enduring survival of a wider landscape expression of the Celtic place-name vindo-s and its associated phenomena of boundary zones and areas of enriched natural resources. Notably, it is found in Celtic settlements across Europe that became major Roman frontier forts.

Centre for Global Women's Studies, NUI Galway, Public Lecture: Professor Cris M. Sullivan
2015-03-09 16:00
The Centre for Global Women’s Studies
is delighted to invite you to a public lecture to mark
International Women’s Day 2015:
A Collaborative, Community-based Study to Define and Measure:
Empowering Practice and “Empowered” Outcomes
Cris M. Sullivan, Ph.D.
Professor, Ecological/Community Psychology
Director, Research Consortium on Gender-based Violence
Michigan State University
Date/Time: Monday 9 March, 4pm
Venue: THB1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway
Refreshments will be served
The goal of empowerment-based programs is to help clients increase their personal, interpersonal, and political power. This talk describes a collaborative partnership with a domestic violence shelter program interested in evaluating how well they were integrating the empowerment model into day-to-day service provision and whether their approach to empowerment-based service delivery was contributing to the intended “empowered outcomes” for the women with whom they work. I will describe how we jointly defined empowerment within this setting, how the empowerment-based practices and intended empowered outcomes were measured, and how the study findings impacted the work of the advocates.
For more information see:
http://www.nuigalway.ie/womens_studies/
http://www.internationalwomensday.com
or email Gillian Browne, gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie

Archaeology research seminar series: Daisy Spencer, IRC doctoral scholar in Archaeology and Geography at NUI Galway: People, Land-Use and Time. Linking multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental evidence to the Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeological record of the B
2015-03-10 16:00
Archaeology research seminar series:

Daisy Spencer, IRC doctoral scholar in Archaeology and Geography at NUI Galway.
People, Land-Use and Time.
Linking multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental evidence to the Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeological record of the Burren and central Clare, western Ireland.
All welcome!

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

Bernard Adams, Moore Institute visiting fellow -'Mary O'Malley and the early Lyric Players' Theatre, Belfast'?
2015-03-10 17:00
Bernard Adams
Moore Institute Visiting Fellow
‰Û÷Mary O’Malley and the early Lyric Players’ Theatre, Belfast’?
For more information please contact lionel.pilkington@nuigalway.ie

History Graduate Research Seminar Series: Brian Schoen Statecraft and Secession: The Problem of American Nationhood in an Era of Global Crisis 1860-1.
2015-03-11 16:00
History Graduate Research Seminar Series
Brian Schoen

Statecraft and Secession: The Problem of American Nationhood
in an Era of Global Crisis 1860-1.

for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie

5th Babel Public Lecture Series: Dr Michele Milan: Translation, Gender and Conflict: Women Translating Conflict in Nineteenth Century Ireland
2015-03-11 18:30 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
5th BABEL PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES

Dr Michele Milan:
Translation, Gender and Conflict: Women Translating Conflict in Nineteenth Century Ireland

Predicated upon the idea of using translation history to raise the visibility of past women’s writings, this presentation will draw attention to the ways in which a number of women translators dealt with situations of conflict in nineteenth-century Ireland. We will be looking at their choice of texts for translation at times preceding or following intense conflict, and how the translated text helped them express a voice in a predominantly male world of publishing.
The Babel Lectures is an initiative of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, NUI Galway, which intends to reinforce the connection with Galway through an annual series of lectures especially designed to promote creative exchange and dialogues between academics and the community.
Entrance is free, and everybody is welcome.
For more information please contact suzanne.gilsenan@nuigalway.ie

Dr John Gibney, Editor, 'Decade of Centenaries' and Moore Institute visiting fellow -'What if the guns had landed? Another version of Casement's Easter Rising'.
2015-03-12 16:00
Dr John Gibney
Editor, ‘Decade of Centenaries’
and Moore Institute visiting fellow
‘What if the guns had landed? Another version of Casement’s Easter Rising’.
All Welcome
For more information please contact mary.harris@nuigalway.ie

CAMPS lab: DÌ_nal ÌÒ CathÌÁin, Nua-Ghaeilge, OÌÄåä, Gaillimh -'The Desmond Geraldines in the 14th Century: Poets and Patrons'
2015-03-13 12:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
DÌ_nal ÌÒ CathÌÁin, Nua-Ghaeilge, OÌä, Gaillimh‘The Desmond Geraldines in the 14th Century: Poets and Patrons’
Followed by discussion & light lunch
Everyone welcome – FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch
For more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

Gender ARC Lunchtime Seminar Series:Dr. Heike Felzmann, Philosophy, NUI Galway (Title TBC)
2015-03-18 13:00
Gender ARC Lunchtime Seminar Series

Dr. Heike Felzmann, Philosophy, NUI Galway
(Title TBC)

All Welcome
For more information please contact gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie

History Graduate Research Seminar Series: Gregory Hanlon Military History and the Behavioural Sciences
2015-03-18 16:00
History Graduate Research Seminar Series

Gregory Hanlon
Military History and the Behavioural Sciences
for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie
