Moore Institute

University of Galway History Seminar: The Art of Urban Life: Painting Dublin, 1886-1949
2023-01-18 16:00 - 17:30 (Europe/Dublin) | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
University of Galway History Seminar
Dr Kathryn Milligan
(University College Dublin)
The Art of Urban Life: Painting Dublin, 1886-1949

Abstract
A well-established theme in the history of art, the depiction of the city has persistently adapted its form to reflect the concerns of the time and culture in which it was created. While scholarship on the history of Irish art has emphasised the important role of the rural and seaboard landscape, the representation of the city was an important strand in fine art produced in Ireland through the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. To date, however, the visual representation of the Irish city has be little discussed or considered within the broader field of Irish Studies, despite the proliferation of texts and articles on the city in literature, poetry and drama, and the ever-increasing role of Irish urban history, whether in terms of political, social, or architectural history. Drawing attention to a rich archive of paintings, sketches and prints created by artists in Ireland through the late nineteenth- and early-twentieth centuries, this paper will explore the visual representation of Dublin, demonstrating how depictions of the city were shaped by historical and social change in Ireland.
Biography
Kathryn Milligan is an art historian specialising in nineteenth and twentieth century Irish art. Her current research interests range from a study of exhibition cultures in nineteenth-century Irish cities to urban painting by Irish artists at home and abroad. Since finishing her PhD in 2015, Kathryn has held positions at the National Gallery of Ireland, the UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy, and was the BARS/BAVS Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellow affiliated with the School of Literature and Languages, University of Surrey, 2019-20. She is currently based in the Special Collections Unit at UCD Library. Kathryn’s monograph, Painting Dublin, 1886 – 1949 was first published by Manchester University Press in 2020, and in 2021 received an Honorable Mention in the ACIS Michael J Durkan Prize for Books on Language and Culture.
Registration
This is a hybrid event. The paper will be delivered, in-person, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway and streamed simultaneously on Zoom: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/95641793838.
To attend via Zoom, please register at: https://forms.office.com/e/xPPchPGSGu
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Seminar series.

The School of Political Science and Sociology research seminar ‘External and Internal Learning Processes of IRA Prisoners’
2023-01-19 13:00 - 14:00 | AS203 River Room, Arts Science Building, University of Galway
The School of Political Science and Sociology invite you to a research seminar with:
Dr. Dieter Reinisch
‘External and Internal Learning Processes of IRA Prisoners’
January 19th, 2023
1-2pm
AS203 River Room, Arts Science Building,
University of Galway
All Welcome!

Abstract: Western European prisons have been described as spaces of radicalisation towards political violence and terrorism. Contrary, Provisional IRA in the 1980s and 1990s played a crucial part in supporting the Northern Irish peace process. Moreover, Provisional Irish republican prisoners held in the high-security prisons on both sides of the Irish border had a decisive role in shaping the politics of the political party Sinn Féin and winning support for the emerging peace process. In this paper, I will present a theoretical framework to analyse the learning processes of politically-motivated violent prisoners and how political prisoners can shape political developments outside the prison walls. To do so, I will use the Northern Ireland Troubles as a case study.
The paper presents empirical data and a theoretical framework to analyse politically-motivated violent prisoners’ internal and external learning processes beyond the Northern Irish Troubles. In so doing, I demonstrate how the prisons provided an environment for developing critical thinking and how prisoners used this experience to initiate the debates that eventually led to the acceptance of the peace process in Northern Ireland. Furthermore, I demonstrate how prisoners can shape the politics of political parties aligned with their militant social movements. The paper is based on 34 qualitative, semi-structured interviews with former Irish republican prisoners and archival material in Dublin, Belfast, and Galway.
Bionote: Dieter Reinisch FRHistS FHEA is an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Galway. He recently published “Learning Behind Bars: How IRA Prisoners shaped the Peace Process in Ireland” (University of Toronto Press, 2022) and “Irish Republican Counterpublic: Armed Struggle and the Construction of a Radical Nationalist Community in Northern Ireland, 1969-1998” (with Anne Kane, Routledge, 2023).

Translation and Territory - Seminar series: Intertwined Territories: Translating Maylis Besserie's Irish Trilogy
2023-01-19 17:00 - 18:00 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Translation and Territory – Seminar series
Intertwined Territories: Translating Maylis Besserie’s Irish Trilogy
Prof. Clíona Ní Ríordáin, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris

Clíona Ní Ríordáin is Professor of English at the University Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, where she teaches Irish literature and translation studies and convenes the Master’s programme in Irish Studies.
In this seminar she will discuss her translation of the novels of Maylis Besserie, author of a trilogy of novels which take Irish subjects as their point of departure: the first devoted to the end of Samuel Beckett’s life, the second to the reburial of WB Yeats’s remains, and the third deals with Francis Bacon.

This seminar is part of the TRANSLATION AND THE TERRITORY SEMINAR SERIES, AUTUMN 2022. Events organized by the Emily Anderson Centre for Translation Research and Practice funded by the University of Galway’s Researcher Development Scheme.

Virtual Open Day: MA Medieval and Antiquity
2023-01-24 16:00 - 17:30 | Virtual Information Session
There will be a Virtual Open Day for the new MA Medieval and Antiquity on Tuesday 24 January 2023 from 16:00-17:30.
Programme Directors, Dr Catherine Emerson and Dr Frances McCormack, will introduce potential applicants to the programme and host a live Q&A.
This cross-disciplinary programme, unique in Ireland, provides students with a firm foundation in the study of European—including Irish—cultures, languages and societies from the Classical period to the end of the Middle Ages. The course’s interdisciplinary requirements encourage students to view the past in a multidimensional way while they learn core linguistic and other technical skills necessary for academic research in the Antique and Medieval worlds.
Registration
To register for the event and receive a Zoom Meeting Link, please go to https://tinyurl.com/medantiq

University of Galway History Seminar: ‘For Irish homosexuals the border question has little or no meaning – at least as far as their homosexuality is concerned’: The rise of the Irish Gay Rights Movement, 1973-1974
2023-01-25 16:00 - 17:30 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
University of Galway History Seminar
Dr Patrick McDonagh
(Independent Scholar)
‘For Irish homosexuals the border question has little or no meaning
– at least as far as their homosexuality is concerned’:
The rise of the Irish Gay Rights Movement, 1973-1974

Abstract
In a November 1973 issue of the British based gay newspaper, Gay News, an article appeared with the title ‘Irish Gay Beginnings: Full Report on First Ever Irish Gay Conference’. The conference that the article was referring to had taken place at the New University of Ulster in Coleraine and had been organised by the Sexual Reform Movement. At the end of the conference a resolution was passed which committed those present to work in the future for the establishment of human rights for the sexually oppressed in society and to forge links with groups active in advancing gay rights, both domestically and internationally. Such was the novelty of this statement at the time, that the Irish Independent carried a report three days later in which Dr. Austin Darragh, director of the UCD Psycho-Endocrine Centre, warned the Irish government against legalising homosexuality, warning that to ‘legalise it may be legalising a disease and may stop researchers like us proceeding with our attempts to plum the causes and possible treatment for the condition.’
Despite the significance of this conference very little attention has been given to it in wider Irish LGBT+ history. On the 50th anniversary of this conference, this paper will look back at this significant moment in Irish LGBT+ history and the impact it had at the time. In doing so, this paper will highlight the extent to which the rise of a gay rights movement in Ireland was influenced and supported by British and Scottish based organisations as well as the role student organisations and universities played in creating a space where a focus on the issue of gay rights could take place in the early 1970s in Ireland. Finally, the paper will also demonstrate the extent to which the gay rights movement in Ireland emerged due to the efforts of activists both north and south of the border.
Biography
Dr. Patrick McDonagh is an independent scholar who obtained his PhD in History from the European University Institute, Florence, in 2019. His first book, Gay and Lesbian Activism in the Republic of Ireland 1973-93, was published in 2021 by Bloomsbury Academic and received an honorable mention in the Donald Murphy Prize category for distinguished first book at the 2022 American Conference for Irish Studies. He has published articles in the Journal of the History of Sexuality and the Journal of Irish Economic and Social History. He has also contributed chapters to two academic books: From Sodomy Laws to Same-Sex Marriage: International Perspectives since 1789 [eds. Sean Brady and Mark Seymour] (Bloomsbury, 2019) and Queer Youth Histories [ed. Daniel Marshall] (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). In 2020 he was the guest editor of a special edition of Studi Irlandesi: A Journal of Irish Studies which focused on ‘Minorities in/and Ireland’.
Registration
This talk will be delivered online, via Zoom. Register here for the link: https://forms.office.com/e/umVH2KZLGF
The seminar will also be livestreamed in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building.
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Seminar series.

THE WORLD OF PRINTED PRAYERS CONFERENCE
2023-01-26 12:30 - 2023-01-27 17:45 | Virtual Conference
The World of Printed Prayers Conference Programme
26-27 January 2023

Thursday, 26 January 2023
12:30 – 12:45 Welcome & Introductions
Katherine Tycz (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Galway)
12:45 – 2:35 Session 1: Print & Image I
The Printed Prayerful Timepiece in Seventeenth-Century Northern Europe
Anneke de Bont (PhD Candidate, Cambridge)
The Evolution of the Cannon Missae and its Graphic Value
Jorge Fragua (PhD Candidate, Complutense University of Madrid & University of Antwerp)
How Late Ming Chinese Woodcut Prints Promoted Daoist Catechisms and Legends
Run Gu (Graduate Student, University of Tübingen)
Polychrome Prints for a “Perfect Beauty” The Matrix of a “Colorful” Marian Devotion in Regensburg
Fiammetta Campagnoli (PhD Candidate, Université Paris 1 Panthéon – Sorbonne)
Chair: Sarah Corrigan (Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Galway)
2:45 –3:00 Coffee Break & Chat
3:00 – 4:30 Session 2: Translations & Multilingualism
Bilingual Prayers in Jewish Broadsheets around the World: Between the Political and the Spiritual
Hanna Gentili (Research Fellow, University of Haifa)
Impressions of Piety: Louis of Granada among the Recusants
Sarah Banschbach Valles (Researcher and Co-Director, Dalhousie Manuscripts Project)
Printed Catechisms in Indigenous Languages in New Spain between the 16th and 18th Centuries
Marina Garone Gravier (Researcher, Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Chair: Anne O’Connor (Professor, University of Galway)
4:30 – 5:00 Discussion & Closing Remarks

Friday, 27 January 2023
12:30 – 2:20 Session 3: Prescriptive Guides & Devotion
Printed Jewish Manuals for the Sick and the Dying in the Early Modern Period
Avriel Bar-Levav (Associate Professor of Judaic Studies, Open University of Israel)
The Compendium Maleficarum’s “divine remedies” against Witchcraft: Prayers, Prints, a Problem of Audiences and Disappearing Chapters
Olivia Garro (PhD Student, University of Coventry)
Affective Devotion and the Power of Prayer in Sixteenth-Century Italian Miracle Collections
Joshua Rushton (PhD Candidate, University of Leeds)
Tridentine Piety and the Marketplace: Printed Catholic Prayers in 17th-century Poland
Magdalena Komorowska (Assistant Professor, Jagiellonian University in Kraków)
Chair: Bronagh Ann McShane (Lecturer, University of Limerick)
2:20 – 2:30 Coffee Break & Setup

2:30 – 4:00 Keynote Address (HRB G010)
Printed Piety: Some Problems about Talking to God in Early Modern Ireland
Professor John McCafferty (University College Dublin)
Chair: Alison Forrestal (Professor, University of Galway)

The World of Printed Prayers Conference is delighted to announce that the conference’s keynote address will be in a hybrid format with a live lecture by Professor John McCafferty (UCD) taking place in Room G010 of the Hardiman Research Building at the University of Galway on 27 January 2023.
Room: HRB G010
Presenter: Professor John McCafferty (University College Dublin)
Paper Title: Printed Piety: Some Problems about Talking to God in Early Modern Ireland
Abstract:
From its very inception in Ireland, print became caught up with questions of religious and political authority on the island. This paper will reflect on the three languages used for prayer – Irish, English and Latin – and their manifestation in the print culture of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Bio:
John McCafferty is a Professor of History at University College Dublin. His research and writings are concerned with religious change in late medieval and early modern Ireland. He is Chair of the Irish Manuscripts Commission and Director of the Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute at UCD.

4:00 – 4:15 Break
4:15 – 5:30 Session 4: Print & Image II
Image and Popular Piety: the Woodcuts Collection of Agustín Laborda
Juan Gomis (Professor, Catholic University of Valencia)
Printed Prayers and Images in Pilgrimage Practice: An Analysis of the Book for Pilgrims to Old Boleslav (Central Bohemia)
Veronika Poláková (PhD Candidate, National Autonomous University of Mexico)
“Siguese vna oracion muy devota al crucifixo”: Prayer in La passion del eterno principe (Burgos, 1493?)
Isidro J. Rivera (Associate Professor, The University of Kansas)
Chair: Erin McCarthy (Senior Research Fellow, University of Galway)
5:30 – 5:45 Concluding Remarks

The Conference Programme including Abstracts and Speakers’ Bios is available HERE.

Registration
The World of Printed Prayers Conference Registration (January 26th – 27th, 2023)

Information:

Thursday, 26 January 2023 — 12:30 – 5:00 PM (GMT)

Friday, 27 January 2023– 12:30 – 5:45 PM (GMT)

Zoom Links for each day will be sent to all attendees a week before the conference commences.
Contact us at printedprayersproject@gmail.com with any questions.

Centre for Irish Studies Seminar Series: ‘Weighing the Evidence: manuscript versus local history & folklore sources for the topographic aspects of Táin Bó Cúailnge’
2023-01-26 16:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, 4 Distillery Road, University of Galway & online via Zoom
Irish Studies Seminar Series, Semester 2, 2022-23
‘Weighing the Evidence: manuscript versus local history & folklore sources for the topographic aspects of Táin Bó Cúailnge’
Guest Speaker: Paul Gosling, Atlantic Technological University
Guest Respondent: Professor Louis de Paor, Centre for Irish Studies, School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, University of Galway

The famous early medieval story, Táin Bó Cúailnge (cattle-raid of Cooley) is replete with placenames, many of them invoked to identify and explain locations where Queen Medb’s forces camped, fought or simply passed through on their quest to capture the Brown Bull of Cooley. In studying same, scholars have relied almost exclusively on the text versions of the story as preserved in twelfth century manuscripts such as Book of the Dun Cow and the Book of Leinster. However, local history and folkloric sources also contain a significant amount of information relating to the movement of Queen Medb, Cúchulainn and the Ulster forces.
This illustrated seminar will review the folk and local history evidence and asses its value as a source for the topographic aspects of the Táin.
Biography:
Paul Gosling is an archaeologist and a member of the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland. He lectured on built heritage in the Department of Heritage and Tourism at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (now Atlantic Technological University) from 1997 to 2019. His research interests are focused on archaeological survey and his published work includes surveys of the field monuments of Co. Galway, and Clare Island in Co. Mayo, as well as topographic analyses of several medieval towns including Dundalk (1991), Tuam (1995, 2013) and Mullingar (2022). He is currently researching the placename and route aspects of the great medieval epic, Táin Bó Cúailnge (the cattle raid of Cooley). His recent publications on same include ‘The Route of Táin Bó Cúailnge Revisited’ in Emania 22 (2014), and a suite of Archaeology Ireland Heritage Guides entitled ‘The Route of Táin Bó Cúailnge’: Co. Louth (2015), Cos Roscommon and Longford (2016) and Cos Westmeath and Meath (2019).
Picture: Line-drawing, ‘Maev’s second meeting with Fergus’ by Seaghán Mac Cathmhaoil (Joseph Campbell). From the 2nd edition of Mary Hutton’s The Táin: An Irish Epic Told in English Verse (Talbot Press, 1924).

CAMPS Lab: "The Faerie Queene as a Palimpsest? Edmund Spenser's Redrafting of Ireland's Mythical Landscape"
2023-01-27 12:00 - 13:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
First CAMPS Lab of 2023
Andrew Levie (English & Classics) on
“The Faerie Queene as a Palimpsest? Edmund Spenser’s Redrafting of Ireland’s Mythical Landscape”

Lunch and chats to follow, and all welcome!
For the full semester 2 programme: https://www.universityofgalway.ie/camps/labs/

Religion and Contemporary Ireland
2023-01-31 16:00 - 18:00 | Online
Centre for the Study of Religion, University of Galway
in conjunction with the Moore Institute, University of Galway
Presents
Religion and Contemporary Ireland:
a Discussion with
Dr. Roja Faezeli (Trinity College Dublin)
Dr. Vesna Malesevic (University of Galway)
Mr. Derek Scally (Irish Times)

Registration
On Line: Religion and Contemporary Ireland
The Contributors will be Dr. Roja Fazaeli, Associate Professor Islamic Civilisation, Near & Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College Dublin, speaking on “Islam and Contemporary Ireland”; Dr. Vesna Malesevic, Lecturer in the School of Politics and Sociology, University of Galway speaking on ‘“New Religions” in Ireland today’ and Mr. Derek Scally (Irish Times), speaking on ‘”End of the road?” Roman Catholicism in Contemporary Ireland”.
Inquiries: please contact Felix Ó Murchadha (felix.omurchadha@universityofgalway.ie)

University of Galway History Seminar: Rebuilding a Ruptured Tradition: Catholic Architecture in Ireland, 1780-1829
2023-02-01 16:00 - 17:30 | THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
University of Galway History Seminar
Dr Niamh NicGhabhann
(University of Limerick)
Rebuilding a Ruptured Tradition: Catholic Architecture in Ireland, 1780-1829

Abstract
By the end of the nineteenth century, Catholic churches and cathedrals in Ireland typically occupied commanding positions across urban and rural landscapes. With their towering spires and glittering interiors, they were powerful monuments to ideas of triumph over past adversity and pointed to an expansive, confident future for the Irish Catholic community. While these church and cathedral buildings evoked ideas of medieval grandeur, and expressed links to a venerable Catholic architectural tradition, they were the culmination of a century of architectural experimentation. This talk examines the first chapter of this period of growth and development, charting the varied approaches taken by different architects, patrons, and communities between 1780 and 1829. It will consider the impact of specific political, spatial, and economic circumstances on the way that chapel and church buildings were developed, highlighting the extraordinary diversity of this period of experimentation. In many ways, the buildings produced across the country, whether new builds, renovations of smaller existing structure, or reworkings of medieval sites, reflect the attempts to forge a Catholic architectural identity in the context of a ruptured tradition.
Biography
Dr Niamh NicGhabhann lectures in history at the University of Limerick. Her research focuses on Irish cultural history, with a particular emphasis on art, architecture, and antiquarian cultures. Medieval Ecclesiastical Buildings in Ireland, 1789-1915: Building on the Past was published in 2015 by Four Courts Press, and her current book project examines Catholic architecture in Ireland from the late 18th to the early 20th century.
Registration
This is a hybrid event. The paper will be delivered, in-person, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway and streamed simultaneously on Zoom: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/96357887284.
To attend via Zoom, please register at: https://forms.office.com/e/XXefJyvXCt
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Seminar series.

Pobal cósta imeallach i ndeisceart Chonamara ag tús an naoú haois déag
2023-02-03 12:30 - 13:30 | Droichid THB-1001, An Chéad Urlár, Institiúid de Móra, Áras Uí Argadáin, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe agus ar Zoom
Tionólfar an dara léacht sa tsraith seo, ar an Aoine, 3 Feabhra @ 12:30 i.n. i Seomra an Droichid THB-1001, An Chéad Urlár, Institiúid de Móra, Áras Uí Argadáin, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe agus ar Zoom.
Pobal cósta imeallach i ndeisceart Chonamara ag tús an naoú haois déag
An Dr Áine Ní Chonghaile
Is féidir clárú anois ar https://tinyurl.com/aine-ni-chonghaile
Tuilleadh eolais: eamon.ocofaigh@ollscoilnagaillimhe.ie

Open Scholarship Forum
2023-02-07 12:00 - 13:30 | online & livestream in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Reshaping the Academic Self
How Open Scholarship Impacts My Research
Open Scholarship is considered a new paradigm to make research outputs and educational material accessible, accountable, and effective. It will alter our approach to academic life in many ways.
This Open Scholarship Forum will bring together institutional leaders, researchers at all stages of their careers, and the Library to look at how Open Scholarship impacts the research we conduct at our university and if we are ready to embrace the opportunities and challenges that Open Scholarship provides.
The panel discussion will be moderated by John Cox, University Librarian.
Lunch to be provided after the event.
Agenda

Jim Livesey, Open Scholarship at the University of Galway
Louise Hannon, Open Science – What Research Funders Require
Ciara Egan, How Open Scholarship improves my research
Siobhán Gaughan, Research Data Management in our lab: Expectations and reality
Dan Carey, The NORF Action Plan: Implications for the Humanities
Hardy Schwamm, Open Access publishing agreements – success and challenges
Panel Discussion and Q&A
Lunch

Further details at: https://library.universityofgalway.ie/osf/#
Registration
To attend, please register at: https://universityofgalway.libcal.com/event/3990051/

University of Galway History Seminar: Irish Language Policy, 1922-2022: The Role of Broadcasting in Language Revitalisation
2023-02-08 16:00 - 17:30 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, HRB, University of Galway
University of Galway History Seminar
Dr John Walsh
(University of Galway)
Irish Language Policy, 1922-2022: The Role of Broadcasting in Language Revitalisation

Abstract
In this seminar, I will focus on the development of Irish language policy since the foundation of the state in 1922. Although a key part of government policy over the past century, the Irish language was barely discussed during the Decade of Centenaries programme or in public or academic discourse around the commemorations. I will begin by outlining concepts of language policy and language planning as understood in other minority language settings and apply them to the Irish context. I will then summarise salient aspects of policy as related to speakers of Irish, the Gaeltacht, education, legislation and broadcasting. The main part of the seminar will consist of a case-study of broadcasting as a central plank of Irish language policy, with a particular focus on community media. I will conclude by critically reviewing Irish language policy since independence and identify key themes for the next century.
Biography
Dr John Walsh is an Associate Professor of Irish in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. His latest monograph One Hundred Years of Irish Language Policy, 1922-2022 was published last year by Peter Lang. John’s research interests span the sociolinguistics of Irish, language policy, minority language media and language revitalisation. He is also currently serving as Vice-Dean (Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and People) in the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies.
Registration
This is a hybrid event. The paper will be delivered, in-person, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway and streamed simultaneously on Zoom: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/96087362381 .
To attend via Zoom, please register at: https://forms.office.com/e/DqEVWr7E4r
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Seminar series.

Political Science and Sociology Research Festival 2023
2023-02-09 09:00 - 16:45 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
The School of Political Science and Sociology is pleased to invite you to the Research Festival 2023
What?
This day-long event is a celebration of the research being undertaken by staff and students in the School of Political Science and Sociology. With 50+ contributors, sessions will include World Cafes, Roundtables, Panels, Video Shorts, Threesis, Debates, Posters and more that engage with a wide range of issues and topics in the Social Sciences. You are invited to attend all or any of the sessions and participate in this unique event.
To learn more about the event and access the schedule go to: rb.gy/3ab4o9 or scan the QR code:

Registration
Please register at EventBrite here for the purposes of catering.
All welcome!

CAMPS LAB: 'More than Marginal: Knowledge and Learning in Ancient Greek Scholia'
2023-02-10 12:00 - 14:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, HRB, University of Galway
CAMPS Lab
‘More than Marginal: Knowledge and Learning in Ancient Greek Scholia’
Lisa Doyle ( Classics, TCD)

Abstract:
Ancient Greek scholia (commentary notes found in the margins of Medieval manuscripts) have traditionally been overlooked by modern scholars, yet they contain a wealth of knowledge relating to mythology, local histories, geography, and the reception of authors within antiquity. Often, the language and coherent format of the scholia bear resemblances to the commentaries from which they derive. In this talk, Lisa Doyle will be exploring scholarly debates concerning geographical knowledge (such as Odyseuss’ homeward route from Troy), drawing on examples from the scholia on the Greek epic poems by Homer and the 3rd century BCE epic Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes.
This is a hybrid event. The paper will be delivered, in-person, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway and streamed simultaneously on Zoom.
To receive a Zoom link for this event, please contact:
Dr Grace Attwood g.attwood1@universityofgalway.ie or
Dr Sarah Corrigan sarah.corrigan@universityofgalway.ie

Figuring Ecologies Reading Network (FERN) – INVITATION TO INAUGURAL GATHERING
2023-02-15 13:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Staff and students are warmly invited to attend the first gathering of the Figuring Ecologies Reading Network (FERN). We will meet each month to discuss a literary or creative work on the subject of ecologies. Suggestions for future meetings will be welcome!
First Meeting: Wednesday 15 February 2023, Bridge Room, Moore Institute, 13.00-14.00
We will discuss The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E Butler (copies available in the campus bookstore).
All welcome!
For further information please contact:

Ashley Cahillane (School of English and Creative Arts)

A.CAHILLANE1@nuigalway.ie

Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha (School of Languages, Literature and Cultures) L.NICHOISTEALBHA1@nuigalway.ie
Nessa Cronin (School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies) nessa.cronin@universityofgalway.ie
Patrick Lonergan (School of English and Creative Arts) patrick.lonergan@universityofgalway.ie
Tina-Karen Pusse (School of Languages, Literature and Cultures) tina-karen.pusse@universityofgalway.ie

COMING OUT / LEANING IN Cahir O’Doherty
2023-02-16 16:00 - 17:30 | THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
COMING OUT / LEANING IN
Cahir O’Doherty
Arts Editor and Senior Columnist, Irish Voice and Irish Central (New York)
MOORE INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL STUDIES
4.00 pm, Thursday, 16 February 2023
G010 Hardiman Building
New York journalist and critic Cahir O’Doherty, who grew up in County Donegal in the 1970s and 1980s, reflects on how being part of an in-group (Irish) and an out-group (LGBTQ) in journalism can provide a useful insider/outsider perspective on both Ireland and Irish America and on the social and political issues that define them.
Supported and facilitated by Léann na Cumarsáide, the Discipline of Media, and the Office of the Vice-President for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.

Who is Odysseus Anyway? Public talk and activity session for children ages 8–12 (ish)
2023-02-18 10:30 - 11:30 | Galway City Museum
Who is Odysseus Anyway?
Public talk and activity session for children ages 8–12 (ish)
Sat, 18 February 2023, 10:30 – 11:30 am at Galway City Museum

Dr Pádraic Moran, lecturer in Ancient Classics at the University of Galway, will introduce the character of Odysseus, an unconventional hero of Ancient Greek myth. With Pádraic, participants will hear about some of Odysseus’s great adventures and think about what it means to be a hero.
After this, participants will have the chance to write using the same tools used in the ancient world (wax tablets and styluses, papyrus and reed pens). They’ll have a go at writing their name using the Greek alphabet and explore the names of the Ancient Greek gods and goddesses.
Tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/who-is-odysseus-anyway-tickets-490756133807

Ag Tabhairt Odaiséis Abhaile - Bringing Odysseus Home: Teaching Ancient Classics through Irish in the University of Galway. Public talk and poetry reading
2023-02-18 14:00 - 15:00 | Galway City Museum
Ag Tabhairt Odaiséis Abhaile – Bringing Odysseus Home: Teaching Ancient Classics through Irish in the University of Galway
Public talk and poetry reading
Sat, 18 February 2023, 2–3 pm at Galway City Museum

This is a talk by Dr Pádraic Moran (Ancient Classics, University of Galway) on the fascinating endeavours of Classicists at the University of Galway, focusing on the work of figures such as Professor Margaret Heavey (1907–80) and Professor George Thomson (1903–87), in particular their contributions to teaching Ancient Classics, Greek, and Latin through Irish, including the translation of monumental Greek and Roman epics.
The talk will be followed by a trilingual reading of Homer’s Odyssey by Chiara Corongiu, Mary Madec, and Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha.
Hosted by Lillis Ó Laoire.
Tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/ag-tabhairt-odaiseis-abhaile-bringing-odysseus-home-tickets-490774709367

Open Scholarship Café – Open Science and Social Justice
2023-02-21 15:00 - 16:00 | online via Zoom
Open Scholarship Café – Open Science and Social Justice
Open Scholarship / Open Science has many drivers and “schools of thought” about its purpose. This Open Scholarship Café will not look at how to open up the research process, i.e. through the publication of data, methods or publications, but will look at Open Scholarship as a social movement. To look at why and how Open Scholarship interacts with social change, we are glad to have three speakers who will shed light on this topic.
Open Scholarship Cafés are organised by the Library of the University of Galway and the Open Scholarship Community Galway. For this Café we have partnered with MÓR – Maynooth Open Research who will co-host the session.
This Open Scholarship Café will be online on Zoom. You are all very welcome to register! See below details of speakers and their talks.
Agenda

Ciara Egan – Synergies between Open Scholarship and social justice for improving research
Sarahanne Field – Who gets a place at the Open Science table? Problems and suggestions for improvement
Monica Gonzalez-Marquez – What if we designed and practiced Open Science with our great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandchildren in mind?

Speakers

Ciara Egan – Synergies between open scholarship and social justice for improving research.
Summary
Open Scholarship has become a major focus in research and funding policy both nationally and internationally, with a lot of focus on how it may help research integrity and combat reproducibility issues across various fields. Recently there has been a growing interest on the intersection between open scholarship and social justice, in terms of shared values and synergies. This talk will serve as an introduction to the ways in which open scholarship can be used to foster better research environments and dismantle barriers to research, focusing on recent work in the area from the FORRT project and other scholars.
Speaker bio:
Dr Ciara Egan is a lecturer in clinical neuroscience at University of Galway. Prior to her appointment, she completed her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at Bangor University, and following this worked as a research assistant at the University of Oxford studying cerebral asymmetries. Her research interests include cognitive neuroscience (predominantly using EEG, event-related potentials and pupil dilation), and open scholarship. She is a proponent of preregistration and open & reproducible code/experiments, and of embedding these practices (and the theory behind them) into her teaching and supervision at all levels. You can follow Ciara on Twitter.

Sarahanne Field – Who gets a place at the open science table? Problems and suggestions for improvement
Summary:
The science reform movement is promising in a lot of ways and in the past decade, it has been gathering momentum as more people join the effort to improve scientific practice, inference, and dissemination. However, so much emphasis is placed on tools and methodology, which raises the question of what work is being done (or should be done) to improve diversity and inclusion in the movement? Does the science reform movement also seek to change systemic issues of sexism and racism, or are these shortcomings translated into the movement from the traditional scientific community that the movement emerges from without critical engagement from reformers? This talk aims to raise some important points for reform activists to consider, surrounding whose voices are heard in the reform movement, and how parts of the movement can improve practices and perspectives on who is allowed a place at the table, and ultimately, who is heard.
Speaker bio: My research focuses on scientific reform: its community, culture, and practices. My work with CWTS involves determining what constitutes responsible research practice across disciplines and establishing a community of practice revolving around those practices. My research shows that despite its shared enterprise, scientific reform is a heterogenous, diverse body of sub-communities, who each contribute to the enterprise in their own unique way. Alongside this, I am passionate about introducing reflexivity to quantitative science practice, working out how to best select a replication target, and interrogating scientific reform practices and anticipating their downstream consequences. I use mixed, sometimes digital methods to explore the scientific problems I find interesting. I am an Australian native, and live in the Netherlands. I am the mother of two small children and am a distance runner (my race of choice is the half-marathon, though you can’t beat a night-time 10k!).
You can follow Sarahanne on Mastodon

Monica Gonzalez-Marquez – What if we designed and practiced Open Science with our great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandchildren in mind?
Summary: Open Science is a heterogeneous movement (Field, 2022). This is undoubtedly one of its strengths. People work on different aspects of the work that needs to be done, in ways that best make sense for them and their communities. We are fortunate to now see the beginnings of maturity in our movement. With that maturity comes the need to understand how open science is changing scientific practice, as well as a need for a collective vision of where these changes will culminate. My talk will introduce The Heliocentric Model of Open Science as a product of our collective aspirations for a science that serves everyone and as a model of what our documentation infrastructure should look like to achieve those goals.
Speaker bio: I work in Metascience and Open Science. Her projects include developing evidence-based pedagogy to read scientific journal articles, pedagogy to teach research methods in collaborative workshop settings, and most recently collaborative theory-building for Open Science as The Heliocentric Model of (Open) Science. My background is in Cognitive Science with a focus on Cognitive Linguistics, Psycholinguistics and Philosophy of Science. I currently work as Open Science Manager at Forschungszentrum Jülich where my focus is on improving scientific documentation to facilitate use by current and future researchers.
You can follow Monica on Mastodon.
Registration
Registration is required.
Please register at: https://universityofgalway.libcal.com/event/3998130

University of Galway History Seminar: 'If we were men, they’d find other jobs for us’: Continuity announcers and female presenters at R/TÉ 1962-73
2023-02-22 16:00 - 17:30 | THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
University of Galway History Seminar
Dr Morgan Wait
(Independent Scholar)
‘If we were men, they’d find other jobs for us’:
Continuity announcers and female presenters at R/TÉ 1962-73

Abstract
This paper explores the experiences of continuity announcers and female presenters on Radio/Telefís Éireann in the first decade of the Irish station. It argues that women who appeared on screen for the Irish broadcaster were subject to restrictive standards which worked to reinforce a particular gendered ideology at the station which portrayed women as middle class housewives relegated to the domestic sphere. To that end, it focuses on three case studies. It looks first, at Valerie McGovern, the hostess of a women’s programme on the network in the mid-1960s. It then discusses Monica Sheridan, a celebrity chef on the station, and then finally looks at the case of the continuity announcers. Utilising press sources, oral history, and archival material, the paper illuminates the conditions of women who worked at the Irish station and examines their representation on screen.
Biography
Dr Morgan Wait is a television historian who recently completed her PhD at Trinity College Dublin on the subject of women and television in Ireland in the 1960s. She has published an article entitled ‘Writing the History of Women’s Programming at Telifís Éireann: A Case Study of Home for Tea in Alphaville’: Journal of Film and Screen Media. She has also published a number of non-peer reviewed articles in outlets such as RTÉ Brainstorm and Critical Studies in Television online. She holds an M.Phil in Modern Irish History from Trinity and a BA in History from Salisbury University.
Registration
This is a hybrid event. The paper will be delivered, in-person, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway and streamed simultaneously on Zoom: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/99270427210.
To attend via Zoom, please register at: https://forms.office.com/e/9B511BqCBK
Join us for a social gathering with tea, coffee & snacks from 3.30pm. Room G010, Hardiman Research Building.
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Seminar series, in collaboration with the School of Political Science & Sociology Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee.

Irish Studies' Seminar Series: Drone Imagery in Irish Visual Culture: Evoking a Nostalgic Past amidst the Contemporary Future
2023-02-23 16:00 - 17:00 | online via Zoom
Irish Studies’ Seminar Series
Drone Imagery in Irish Visual Culture: Evoking a Nostalgic Past amidst the Contemporary Future
Dr Jeannine Kraft, Columbus College of Art & Design

Drone imagery has played a key role in the twenty-first century in the framing and dissemination of images of the Irish landscape. The internet has provided a broad global dissemination of images that are not just static visualizations, but also include interactive video and three-dimensional images, thereby re-circulating notions of place, identity, and geography. New tools used by television and tourist campaigns include drone photography and video. Both have been used to reinforce the emptied-out “wild” nostalgic landscapes of Ireland through the means of sheer physical distance, rendering any existing modernity framed out of the view. It is a repeated trope of the past, but one now further enhanced and spectacularized by new technology. In the 2007-10 Irish show Single-Handed, set in Connemara in the West of Ireland, the main character’s mother highlights the contrast between the nostalgic vision of past and present Ireland to its historic and contemporary realities: “There’s a tragedy here is what I’m saying. People come here now to look at the view. Don’t think they know what it is they are seeing.” This talk will examine how drone imagery engenders the spectacularization of the landscape, a trope frequently encountered in the envisioning of Ireland.
Dr. Jeannine Kraft is Professor, and Chair of the History of Art & Visual Culture department at Columbus College of Art & Design (Columbus, Ohio). She completed her PhD, Landscape Legacies: The Renegotiation of the Irish West in Contemporary Visual Culture, with the Centre for Irish Studies at the National University of Ireland Galway, now University of Galway, in 2019. She has received CCAD Faculty Development Grants (2016-22) as well as the Griffith Faculty Excellence Award in 2016. She has presented her research nationally and internationally. Her work focuses on the legacy of the representation of Ireland in contemporary Irish visual culture and she is currently teaching a seminar class on landscape in Ireland and how contemporary artists negotiate the inherited legacies of place.
Please note that this seminar will take place on zoom. Join Zoom Meeting at: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/99784781437?pwd=[REDACTED]
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Photo credit: ãNick Fox / Adobe Stock

REMEMBERING JOHN DOHERTY TRAVELLER TINSMITH AND FIDDLER
2023-02-27 16:00 - 18:00 | THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
REMEMBERING JOHN DOHERTY
TRAVELLER TINSMITH AND FIDDLER

Chair: Daniel Carey, Director, Moore Institute

Travellers in Time
Expanding the Past
Breandán Mac Suibhne, University of Galway

John Doherty’s Music
Floating Bows and Moving Clouds
Alun Evans
Queen’s University of Belfast

Alun Evans is an epidemiologist and the former director of the Centre for Public Health at the Queen’s University of Belfast. He was a young medical student in 1967 when he first met John Doherty, a master fiddler who belonged to a well-known Traveller family in County Donegal, and their friendship deepened when he worked as a locum in Glenties in the 1970s. In 1996 Ceirníní Cladaigh released recordings of John’s playing that Alun had made in 1968 and 1974 as a CD, The Floating Bow: Traditional Fiddle Music from Donegal, which includes a fine memoir of his friend.

Travellers Tomorrow
Expanding the Future
Eileen Flynn
Seanad Éireann

This event is supported by Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge and the Access Centre as part of Irish Traveller Ethnicity Week, 2023.

Translation amid Uncertainty: Online Activist Subtitling of Counter-ISIS Stories
2023-03-01 13:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
“Translation amid Uncertainty: Online Activist Subtitling of Counter-ISIS Stories”

Abstract:
In our contemporary world, different moments of uncertainty are created out of conflicts, revolutions or crises, eliminating our conventional sense of territory. Though these moments are full of hardships and sufferings, they carry with them off-line and on-line innovative cultural productions that contest oppressive and conventional voices. Activist translation/subtitling takes part in re-telling these marginal experiences and knowledge across the globe in pursue of solidarity. The post-Arab Spring period has witnessed that kind of cultural activity where translation/subtitling was key in expressing alternative voices. A case of such is activist subtitling of counter-jihadist discourse to fight the current of global jihadism that re-emerged in a new face: the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in 2014. Two Youtube channels (Daya alTaseh and The Bigh daddy Show) produced videos mocking ISIS in Arabic subtitled in English. The subtitling of both video productions is scrutinized to explore how it retells their distinct counter-ISIS stories.

University of Galway History Seminar: Bogs and Barracks: Stringy Sovereignty and the Eighteenth-Century Irish State
2023-03-01 16:00 - 17:30 | THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
University of Galway History Seminar
Dr Patrick Walsh
(Trinity College Dublin)
Bogs and Barracks:
Stringy Sovereignty and the Eighteenth-Century Irish State

Abstract
Beginning in a bog in west Cork this paper is about the fragmented processes of colonial state formation in eighteenth-century Ireland. The story I want to tell is told from the fragmented edges of the state rather than from the centre, from isolated peninsulas on Ireland’s Atlantic edge, from boggy mountainsides in upland regions and from villages and communities often bypassed in stories of modernisation and centralisation. It deliberately decentres the state to explore the impact of the institutions of the fiscal-military state in Ireland at its outer limits. In doing so I am motivated by a desire to shift away from a temptation to replicate a metropolitan English historiographical model onto different Irish circumstances. Instead, this paper while cognisant of the development of the fiscal and especially military apparatuses of the Irish colonial state takes its inspiration from David Gange’s brilliantly suggestive Fragmented Atlantic Edge to think about how we might write about state formation from the outside in. Secondly it draws on legal historian Lauren Benton’s concept of ‘stringy sovereignty’ with its emphasis on the elasticity of state power in more remote and upland regions and the consequent need to pay attention to the ways that this shaped colonial and state practice to consider anew the ways in which the eighteenth-century state operated in Ireland.
Biography
Dr Patrick Walsh is assistant professor of eighteenth-century history at Trinity College Dublin, where he is also co-PI of the Trinity’s Colonial Legacies project. His previous books include The Making of the Irish Protestant Ascendancy: The Life of William Conolly (2010) and the South Sea Bubble and Ireland, Money, Banking and Investment, 1691-1721 (2014) as well as edited collections on the British and Irish Fiscal States (2016) and Irish Taxation, Politics and Protest, 1662-2016 (2019).
Registration
This is a hybrid event, organised in collaboration with the Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies (CAMPS). The paper will be delivered, in-person, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway and streamed simultaneously on Zoom: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/91402861252.
To attend via Zoom, please register at: https://forms.office.com/e/k4w5Jn9pUC.
This talk will also be preceded by a social event – join us from 3.30pm for tea, coffee, snacks, and a mid-semester chat. A big thank you to CAMPS for their support.
This talk is part of the University of Galway History Seminar series, in collaboration with the Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies.

BOOK LAUNCH: White Cottage, White House Irish American Masculinities in Classical Hollywood Cinema
2023-03-02 17:00 - 18:00 | THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
BOOK LAUNCH
White Cottage, White House Irish American Masculinities in Classical Hollywood Cinema
By Tony Tracy
Speaker: Dr Conn Holohan

Description

White Cottage, White House examines how Classical Hollywood cinema developed and deployed Irish American masculinities to negotiate, consolidate, and reinforce hegemonic whiteness in midcentury America. Largely confined to discriminatory stereotypes during the silent era, Irish American male characters emerge as a favored identity with the introduction of sound, positioned in a variety of roles as mediators between the marginal and mainstream. The book argues that such characters function to express hegemonic whiteness as ethnicity, a socio-racial framing that kept immigrant origins and normative American values in productive tension. It traces key Irish American male types—the gangster, the priest, the cop, the sports hero, and the returning immigrant—who navigated these tensions in maintenance of an ethnic whiteness that was nonetheless “at home” in America, transforming from James Cagney’s “public enemy” to John Wayne’s “quiet man” in the process. Whether as figures of Depression-era social disruption, avatars of presidential patriarchy and national manhood, or allegories of postwar white flight and the nuclear family, Irish American masculinities occupied a distinctive and unrivaled visibility and role in popular American film.

Tony Tracy is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, University of Galway. His previous books include Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture: Tiger’s Tales (coedited with Conn Holohan) and Historical Dictionary of Irish Cinema (coedited with Roddy Flynn).
Registration
Please register at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/541243974297
It would be great to see you!

Actresses and the Archive
2023-03-03 11:00 - 12:30 | THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
Dr Elizabeth Redwine, “Actresses and the Archive”
Moore Institute and Drama and Theatre Studies
The words of actresses and performers change the way we read and discuss theatre history in Global Irish Studies. Dr. Elizabeth Brewer Redwine will examine how Sara Allgood’s Memoirs caused her to reassess authorship and performance both at the Abbey Theatre and in American midcentury film.
Elizabeth Brewer Redwine, Ph.D., is a lecturer in the English Department and Coordinator of the Core I class Journey of Transformation. In the past two years, Redwine has published two books, Tagore and Yeats: A Postcolonial Re-envisioning, edited with Amrita Ghosh, Ph.D., in 2022, and a monograph, Gender, Performance, and Authorship at the Abbey Theatre with Oxford University Press in 2021. She edits the online journal, Critical Inquiries into Irish Studies, with Martha Carpentier, Ph.D.. She is under contract with Oxford University to publish Irish Abbey Theatre and film actress Sara Allgood’s Memoirs. Her areas of expertise are Global Anglophone literatures, Irish and Twentieth Century British Literature, Performance Studies, and Gender Studies.

Embedding equality, diversity and inclusion in research in CASSCS – Moore Institute seminar
2023-03-03 11:00 - 13:00 | THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Embedding equality, diversity and inclusion in research in CASSCS – Moore Institute seminar
You are reminded that a seminar on equality, diversity and inclusion in research will be hosted by the Moore Institute on Friday 3rd March 2023 from 11.00am to 1.00pm in room G011, Hardiman Research Building. This event is aligned with our strategic aim to ‘encourage staff to explore EDI angles in research and develop specific EDI-related projects’.
Colleagues who are developing EDI-related themes or using EDI principles to guide their research will present their work at the seminar. Vice-President for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Dr Helen Maher, will also be present. All members of the College are welcome to attend.
Dr John Walsh, Vice-Dean (Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and People)

An comhionannas, an éagsúlacht agus an cuimsiú a chur chun cinn sa taighde – seimineár de chuid Instititúid de Móra
Meabhraítear duit go mbeidh seimineár faoin gcomhionannas, an éagsúlacht agus an cuimsiú i dtaighde á eagrú ag Institiúid de Móra Dé hAoine 3 Márta 2023 ó 11.00am go 1.00pm i seomra G011, Áras Taighde Uí Argadáin. Tá an ócáid seo ag teacht lenár n-aidhm straitéiseach ‘an fhoireann a spreagadh chun dearcthaí EDI a iniúchadh i dtaighde agus tionscadail shonracha a bhaineann le EDI a fhorbairt’.
Na comhghleacaithe atá ag forbairt na dtéamaí sin ina dtaighde nó a bhfuil prionsabail EDI in úsáid acu, cuirfidh siad a gcuid oibre i láthair. Beidh an Leas-Uachtarán um Chomhionannas, Éagsúlacht agus Cuimsiú, an Dr Helen Maher, i láthair chomh maith. Tá fáilte roimh fhoireann uile an Choláiste.
Dr John Walsh, Leas-Déan (Comhionannas, Éagsúlacht, Cuimsiú agus Daoine)

Ó Dhóchas go hÉadóchas: An Cogadh Cathartha in Éirinn, 1922-1923
2023-03-03 12:30 - 13:30 | Seomra an Droichid THB-1001, An Chéad Urlár, Institiúid de Móra, Áras Uí Argadáin, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe agus ar Zoom
Tionólfar an tríú léacht sa tsraith seo, ar an Aoine, 3 Márta @ 12:30 i.n. i Seomra an Droichid THB-1001, An Chéad Urlár, Institiúid de Móra, Áras Uí Argadáin, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe agus ar Zoom.
Ó Dhóchas go hÉadóchas: An Cogadh Cathartha in Éirinn, 1922-1923
An Dr Mary Harris, Iar-léachtóir Sinsearach, Roinn na Staire, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe
Is féidir clárú anois ar: https://tinyurl.com/mary-harris

After Windsor Constitutional Futures of these Islands
2023-03-06 16:00 - 19:00 | THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
COMHRÁ COIS COIRIBE / CORRIB CONVERSATIONS
After Windsor
Constitutional Futures of these Islands

Fáilte / Welcome
Daniel Carey
Director, Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies
University of Galway

Cathaoirleach / Chair
Róisín Healy
Co-Director, Centre for the Investigation of Transnational Encounters
University of Galway

Brexit and the Death of Devolution?
Richard Wyn Jones
Director, Wales Governance Centre and Dean of Public Affairs
Cardiff University

Strategy and Irish Reunification
Brendan O’Leary
Lauder Professor of Political Science
University of Pennsylvania

Following the presentations and discussion, Niall Ó Dochartaigh, University of Galway, will launch Brendan O’Leary’s Making Sense of a United Ireland: Should it Happen? How Might it Happen? (Penguin, 2022), which was completed while he was a Fulbright Fellow in the University of Galway in 2021–22.
Róisín Healy is a historian of modern Europe at the University of Galway, where she is Head of the Discipline of History and a Co-Director of the Centre for the Investigation of Transnational Encounters. She has published widely on the history of Imperial Germany, Irish nationalism and intra-European colonialism, with particular reference to Ireland and Prussian Poland. Among her many publications are The Jesuit Specter in Imperial Germany (Brill, 2003) and Poland in the Irish Nationalist Imagination, 1772–1922 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). She has edited several collections of essays, including Mobility in the Russian, Central and East European Past (Routledge, 2019), with Enrico dal Lago, The Shadow of Colonialism on Europe’s Modern Past (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and, with Gearóid Barry, Family Histories of World War II: Survivors and Descendants (Bloomsbury, 2021).
Niall Ó Dochartaigh, a political scientist at the University of Galway, is the author of Deniable Contact: Back Channel Negotiation in Northern Ireland (Oxford University Press, 2021; paperback, 2023), an analysis of secret negotiations between the British government and Irish republicans during the late twentieth-century ‘Troubles’. Among his many other publications on the politics of that conflict is a seminal study of the outbreak of violence in Derry in the late 1960s and early 1970s, From Civil Rights to Armalites: Derry and the Birth of the Irish Troubles (Cork University Press, 1997; Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). He is co-editor of several collections of essays, including, with Daniel Pisoiu and Lorenzo Bosi, Political Violence in Context (ECPR Press 2015), and, with Katy Hayward and Elizabeth Meehan, of Dynamics of Political Change in Ireland: Making and Breaking a Divided Island (Routledge 2017).
Brendan O’Leary is the author, co-author and editor of thirty books. His research interests include theories of the liberal democratic state, nationalism, national and ethnic conflict regulation, and power-sharing in deeply divided places. The inaugural winner of the Juan Linz Prize of the International Political Science Association for lifetime contributions to the study of federalism, democratization, and multinational states, he is a Member of the US Council on Foreign Relations and he has served as the second Senior Advisor on Power-Sharing in the Mediation Unit of the United Nations. Northern Ireland and Ireland have been key concerns over the course of his career. His most recent books are the landmark A Treatise on Northern Ireland, 3 vols. (Oxford University Press, 2020) and Making Sense of a United Ireland: Should it Happen? How Might it Happen? (Penguin, 2022). O’Leary teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Lauder Professor of Political Sciences.
Richard Wyn Jones is a political scientist at Cardiff University, where he is Director of the Wales Governance Centre and Dean of Public Affairs. He has written extensively, in Welsh and English, on the politics of Wales, devolution in the United Kingdom, and nationalism. His most recent books are The Criminal Justice System in Wales (University of Wales Press, 2022) and Englishness: The Political Force Transforming Britain (Oxford University Press, 2021). He is a regular broadcaster, commentating on Welsh politics across the UK. He has presented two TV series and is a regular columnist for the Welsh language current affairs magazine Barn. In addition, he contributes comment columns to various newspapers including the Western Mail, Irish Times, Guardian and Sunday Times.
This event is facilitated by the Office of the Deputy President and Registrar and the Office of the Vice-President for Research.
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