Moore Institute

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Derek Gladwin, University of British Columbia and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow - 'North Atlantic Poetry and Multimedia: Environmentalism, Space and Websites'
2015-06-22 16:00
Derek Gladwin, University of British Columbia and Moore Institute Visiting Research Fellow’North Atlantic Poetry and Multimedia: Environmentalism, Space and Websites’
This talk discusses the relationship between two interdisciplinary environmental and spatial approaches to literature, known as ecocriticism and geocriticism, through two interactive websites that focus on the poetry of Eavan Boland and Marlene Creates. In one website, Creates, who is an environmental poet and photographer from Newfoundland, Canada, has created a multimedia experience titled A Virtual Walk of the Boreal Poetry Garden. Across the North Atlantic, another website titled The Poetry Project: Poetry and Art from Ireland employs a similar multimedia format, incorporating short videos of place-based poetry read orally in built and non-built environments. Boland’s poem ‰Û÷In Our Own Country’, which is accompanied by Oliver Comerford’s short film Distance, is the selection from ‰Û÷The Poetry Project’ considered in this talk. What is important about these two projects is that they are meant to be experienced on the web. These online representations of environmental poetry also use elements of interest for ecocritics and geocritics alike, capturing both real and imagined spaces, while also expanding the boundaries among disciplines, genres, and platforms. Ultimately, this talk examines how these two websites demonstrate through poetry, image, and virtual experience the ability to promote environmental awareness through spatial representations of place.
Derek Gladwin is a Social Sciences and Humanities Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia. His work primarily focuses on the environmental humanities in 20th– and 21st-century literary, film, and visual cultures in Ireland, the UK, and the North Atlantic. Gladwin is author of the forthcoming book, Contentious Terrains: Boglands in the Irish Postcolonial Gothic (2016), and co-editor of Eco-Joyce: The Environmental Imagination of James Joyce (2015) and Unfolding Irish Landscapes: Tim Robinson, Culture and Environment (2015). He is currently co-editing an issue on ‰Û÷Irish Environmental Criticism’ for the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, and will serve as an Environmental Humanities Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh in the autumn of 2015.

Dr. Peter Webster, The British Library and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow -Prospects & pitfalls in using web archives for research
2015-06-23 15:00

Dr Jodi Schneider, INRIA Sophia Antipolis - M̩diterran̩e, France and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow -Persons, documents, models: organising and structuring information for the Web
2015-06-23 16:00
Persons, documents, models: organising and structuring information for the Web
People and documents are of enduring interest. Documents may be generated by individuals, collective groups, and administrations, on any number of topics. We are particularly interested in the relationships between people and documents. The most important relationships are creation (authors, illustrators, translators, …), usage (e.g. association copies), and topic-of (e.g. people may be the subjects of biographies).
In this lecture, we will talk about several approaches for modeling, or representing, people and documents. We pay particular attention to computer-based approaches to organization, and to organizing information for websites. We will talk briefly about TEI and XML, and the focus on my area of research expertise: modeling “linked data”, a widely adopted approach for interlinking data. Adopted by the UK and US governments and search engines such as Google and Yahoo!, linked data has also been widely used in the digital humanities and by libraries, archives, and museums. It consists in naming objects of interest (be they authors, documents, or whatnot) and using standard data formats to enable interlinking.

DhÌÁ leagan D̩ag: An Sean-nÌ_s san aonÌÄå¼ haois is fiche - 24 agus 25 Meitheamh
2015-06-24 09:00
DhÌÁ leagan D̩ag:
An Sean-nÌ_s san aon̼ haois is fiche
ClÌÁr na ComhdhÌÁla
D̩ C̩adaoin 24 Meitheamh

9.00 ClÌÁr̼
9.15 Oscailt Oifigi̼il An Dr. Jeannine Woods, Ceann GnÌ_omhach na Gaeilge, OÌä Gaillimh
Pain̩al 1
9.30-11.00 Cathaoirleach: Jeannine Woods
Lillis ÌÒ Laoire OÌä Gaillimh
CÌÁ bhfuil an Sean-nÌ_s? An Miotas, An R̩altacht agus an SpÌÁs Idir Eatarthu
SÌ_le Denvir, ColÌÁiste PhÌÁdraig, Ollscoil Chathair ́tha Cliath
FÌ_or nÌ_ Fiar? Ceist na BarÌÁnt̼lachta in AmhrÌÁnÌ_ocht Dh̼chasach na Gaeilge
RÌ_isÌ_n Nic Dhonncha, ColÌÁiste Mhuire gan SmÌÁl
An tAmhrÌÁnaÌ_, An Pobal agus LÌÁithri̼ na F̩ini̼lachta
Sos
Pain̩al 2
11.30-1.00 Cathaoirleach: Aingeal NÌ_ ChualÌÁin
TrÌ_ona NÌ_ ShÌ_ochÌÁin Ollscoil Luimnigh
Eisp̩ireas, BrÌ_ agus Machnamh: an Smaointeoireacht agus an AmhrÌÁnaÌ_ocht
PÌÁdraig ÌÒ Cearbhaill Brainse na Logainmneacha
An bhfuil ̩inne inÌÁr dteannta ag triall ar an tobar?
OdÌ_ NÌ_ Ch̩illeachair Acadamh na hOllscolaÌ_ochta Gaeilge, OÌä Gaillimh
RTÌä RaidiÌ_ na Gaeltachta: SlÌÁnaitheoir an tSean-nÌ_is?
1.00 – 2.00 LÌ_n
Pain̩al 3
2.00-3.00 Cathaoirleach: RÌ_isÌ_n Nic Dhonncha
MicheÌÁl ÌÒ GionnÌÁin NeamhspleÌÁch
Fanann an braon sna clÌÁir: An duine, an ÌÁit agus na hamhrÌÁin sa lÌÁ inniu
Virginia Blankenhorn, Ollscoil Dh̼n Ìäideann
ÌÒ Chalifornia go Conamara ar lorg an tSean-nÌ_is
3.00-3.30 Sos
Pain̩al 4
3.30-4.30 Cathaoirleach: Ailbhe NÌ_ Ghearbhuigh
Ìäadaoin NÌ_ Mhuircheartaigh, ColÌÁiste PhÌÁdraig
ContrÌÁrthachtaÌ_ agus CoimhlintÌ_ ag na Feiseanna Luatha. Sc̩al na nAmhrÌÁn
Seosamh Mac Donnchadha, ColÌÁiste na nDÌÁn, Ollscoil na hÌäireann, Gaillimh.
An sean-nÌ_s: BÌÁite sa traidisi̼n nÌ_ BÌÁite ag an traidisi̼n?
7.00 Dinn̩ar na ComhdhÌÁla ÌÒstÌÁn Harbour, BÌ_thar na nDuganna, Gaillimh.
9.30 Ceol 7 AmhrÌÁnaÌ_ocht sa Chrane.
AÌ_onna speisialta: AmhrÌÁnaithe ÌÒga an Ghaelacadaimh
D̩ardaoin 25 Meitheamh
Pain̩al 5
9.15-11.15 Cathaoirleach: Lillis ÌÒ Laoire
Rob Dunbar, Ollthaigh DhÌ_n Ìöideann
Dualchas Seann-NÌ_s na GÌÊidhlig agus an Tasglann
Seumas Watson, An Clachan, Ceap Breatainn, Alba Nuadh
Ag Ìäirigh air ÌÕran an Albainn Nuaidh: Suas e!
Tiber Falzett, Ionad an EÌ_lais Eileanaich, Oilthigh Eilean a’ Phrionnsa Iomhair
SÌ_il air Seinn, Seanchas agus Meatafor am measg an t-Sluaigh
Griogair Labhruidh, Ollscoil na hÌäireann, Gaillimh.
Traidisean Seinn Ath-Chruthaichte nan GÌÊidheal Albannach
Sos
Pain̩al 6
11.45-1.15 Cathaoirleach: An Dr. Clodagh Downey, Roinn na Gaeilge
Liam ÌÒ Maoildhia Sti̼rthÌ_ir an Oireachtais
An AmhrÌÁnaÌ_ocht agus an Sean-nÌ_s ag an Oireachtas
Antaine ÌÒ FarachÌÁin Institi̼id TeicneolaÌ_ochta Bhaile ́tha Cliath
Ag lorg ÌÁite don amhrÌÁnaÌ_ocht dh̼chasach
MÌÁire Breathnach ColÌÁiste PhÌÁdraig Droim Conrach
Iomramh Aonair i dtreo an tSean-nÌ_is: Sc̩alta Ì_ fhoghlaimeoirÌ_
LÌ_n
Pain̩al 7
2.30-4.30 ModhnÌ_ir: Louis de Paor
S̼il Siar, S̼il ar Aghaidh: Pl̩ Oscailte faoin amhrÌÁnaÌ_ocht
Josie SheÌÁin Jeaic Mac Donnchadha, MÌÁire PhÌ_otair NÌ_ DhroighneÌÁin, S. NÌ_ Bheaglaoich
4.30 Clabhs̼r

ClÌÁr̼: Saor in Aisce. TÌÁille Dinn̩ir: ‰âÂ30 TeagmhÌÁil: Lillis ÌÒ Laoire ag sean.nos2015@gmail.com

Carrie Griffin, Bristol University and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow -Ink Recipes in Domestic Culture: Women and Textual Production, 1500-1700
2015-06-24 16:00

Workshop - 'Researching the Irish Parliamentary Party in the Decade of Centenaries'
2015-09-04 00:00
As part of NUI Galway’s commemorative programme, Friday 4 September 2015 will see a one day workshop on
Researching the Irish Parliamentary Party in the Decade of Centenaries.
This workshop will feature speakers outlining their own particular research focus and its aims as well as commenting on perceived opportunities and/or challenges when researching the Irish Party in the build up to the centenary of the 1916 Rising. Diverse aspects of the Irish Party and its following throughout the country will be discussed while the interaction of the party with the events of 1916 and afterwards will also be considered. Speakers are invited to offer their own observations on the Decade of Centenaries. Each presentation will be followed by questions and discussion.
Confirmed Speakers: Elaine Callinan, Mary Harris, Tony King, Pat McCarthy, Conor McNamara, Martin O’Donoghue, John O’Donovan, CiarÌÁn Wallace.
Friday 4 September 2015, Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway. All Welcome.
For further information on participating and/or attending the workshop contact Martin O’Donoghue. Email: t.odonoghue2@nuigalway.ie
Programme
‰Û÷Researching the Irish Parliamentary Party in the Decade of Centenaries’
10.15 – Welcome
10.30 – 12.00
The IPP and the revolution
Elaine Callinan (Carlow College/Trinity College Dublin)
Dr Mary Harris (NUI Galway)
Dr Conor McNamara (NUI Galway)
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12.00 – 1.00 – Lunch
1.00 – 2.30
How did the Irish Party function?
Dr CiarÌÁn Wallace (Trinity College Dublin)
Dr Pat McCarthy (Author: Waterford: The Irish Revolution)
Martin O’Donoghue (NUI Galway)
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2.30- 3.00 Coffee
3.00- 4.30
Dissonance within the Home Rule movement:
Tony King (NUI Galway)
John O’Donovan (University College Cork)
4.30 – 5.00 – Final Discussion
All Welcome.

Prof. William Maker Philosophy, Clemson University Darkness Made (In)visible: The Dialectic of Race in Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust
2015-09-09 17:00
Prof. William Maker
Philosophy, Clemson University
Darkness Made (In)visible:
The Dialectic of Race
in Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust
Wednesday 9 September
5pm
Hardiman Research Building seminar room G011
For more information please contact daniel.carey@nuigalway.ie

Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour & Class (ICHLC) Seminar Series
2015-09-10 16:00
The Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour & Class (ICHLC) is pleased to announce its inaugural seminar series.
The first seminar will see
David Convery,
Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the ICHLC, speak on
‘Writing and Theorising the Irish Working Class’.
All are welcome to attend.
For more information please contact david.convery@nuigalway.ie

Gender ARC research seminar:May-Len Skilbrei, University of Oslo, Norway 'The Sex Purchase Ban in Sweden and Norway: evaluating law-in-action'
2015-09-11 11:00
Gender ARC is pleased to invite you to a research seminar May-Len Skilbrei, University of Oslo, Norway“The Sex Purchase Ban in Sweden and Norway: evaluating law-in-action”
This seminar launches the first all-Ireland network for researchers critically engaged in the area of commercial sex and its attendant politics. A further one-day series of workshops will be held in University of Limerick on November 27th 2015. All are welcome to attend. For further details and to reserve a place, contact annmarie.joyce@ul.ie
Abstract: Much is said about the unilateral sex purchase ban in Sweden and Norway – called the Swedish or Nordic model – in debates on prostitution policies elsewhere. Claims about the laws made in these debates make it necessary to critically assess the evidence of their effects, and to understand how they operate in a larger context where social welfare provisions and other sets of legal and administrative instruments also apply.
In her talk, Skilbrei goes beyond the ideological arguments and pragmatic reasoning behind the Sex Purchase Act in both countries, to explore how the Acts are argued for and put to work today. She argues that the explicit intentions behind the acts are counteracted by how their implementation works in practice and that they have been repurposed to meet new goals. Both of these aspects of prostitution law-in-action need to be considered in debates over whether or not to ‘export’ similar Acts to new contexts.
Professor May-Len Skilbrei is based in theDepartment of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo. She researches prostitution and prostitution policies, and labour and migration. In the last decade, her research has dealt mainly with human trafficking and prostitution policies in the Nordic countries. She published a book on prostitution policies in the Nordic countries with Charlotta Holmstr̦m (Ashgate 2013). Prof. Skilbrei is Vice Chair of the European network of prostitution scholars, COST Action “Comparing European Prostitution Policies: Understanding Scales and Cultures of Governance (ProsPol)”, and is as co-editor of the Routledge book series Interdisciplinary Studies in Sex for Sale.
Followed by Gender ARC reception and network members meeting (1.00-3.00pm)

Gender ARC:'Lily and Lolly: Yeats and his Sisters' Written and performed by Sinead Murphy and Darina Gallagher
2015-09-11 15:30
Gender ARC is pleased to invite you to:
“Lily and Lolly: Yeats and his Sisters”
Written and performed by Sinead Murphy and Darina Gallagher
Reception and Performance: Friday 11 September 2015 – 3.30-5.00pm – All Welcome!!
Venue: Room G006, Institute for Lifecourse and Society, NUI Galway
Lily and Lolly is a new work of theatre that looks at the life of poet W.B. Yeats through the eyes of his sisters Lily and Lolly Yeats. Set in their Dublin printing company Cuala Press, it explores the poetry and plays they publish for their brother Willie. Through storytelling, poetry and song, Lily and Lolly opens up the relationships within the Yeats family, with their brother the artist Jack B.Yeats and their father, the portrait artist John B. Yeats. Lilly and Lolly and their all-female printing company, find themselves at the forefront of the Irish Literary Revival surrounded by the characters so important in the life of W.B.Yeats including Maud Gonne, Lady Gregory, James Joyce, AE, Sean O’Casey and John Millington Synge.
Since 2010, Sinead Murphy and Darina Gallagher (the Shannon Colleens), have been creating award-winning music-theatre productions relating to the life and works of James Joyce. In 2014, they created Here Comes Everybody : Songs from Finnegans Wake by James Joyce for Dublin City Public Libraries as part of the Bealtaine Festival to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the publication of Finnegans Wake. They have performed their shows, Songs of Joyce and Caf̩ Chantant to critical acclaim, touring nationally and internationally including Moscow, New York, Prague, Vienna, Trieste, Glasgow and Coruna.
Gender ARC supports excellence and collaboration in gender research across NUI Galway and University of Limerick.
New members and affiliates are always welcome – for more information see: www.genderarc.org
For questions regarding Gender ARC ‰Û÷Lily and Lolly’ performance and to RSVP for catering purposes, please contact Gillian Browne, gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie

Prof. Alan Stewart (Columbia University / Centre for Editing Lives and Letters) Writing a life in early modern England: the case of Richard Stonley
2015-09-15 17:00
Prof. Alan Stewart (Columbia University / Centre for Editing Lives and Letters)Writing a life in early modern England: the case of Richard Stonley
Moore Institute “BRIDGE” seminar Room
(Hardiman Research Building 1001)
NUI Galway
5pm Tuesday 15 September

Book Launch: The Age of Lincoln and Cavour: Comparative Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century American and Italian Nation-Building By Enrico Dal Lago
2015-09-16 17:30 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
You are cordially invited to the launch of
The Age of Lincoln and Cavour:Comparative Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century American and Italian Nation-Building
By Enrico Dal Lago
The book will be launched by
Prof. Daniel Carey
For more information please contact enrico.dallago@nuigalway.ie

The launch of the second English edition of Giacomo Leopardi's Zibaldone with Prof. Franco D'Intino and Prof. Michael Caesar
2015-09-17 16:00
Lo Zibaldone, Leopardi and Translation
Organized by: Italian Institute of Culture and NUI Galway
The launch of the second English edition of Giacomo Leopardi’s Zibaldone with Prof. Franco D’Intino and Prof. Michael Caesar.
Published in the USA and UK – after seven years of work – the first complete translation in English of the Zibaldone, the personal notebook written by Giacomo Leopardi between 1817 and 1832. A team of English and American professional translators collaborated to the project lead by Franco D’Intino (University of Rome “La Sapienza”) and Michael Caesar (University of Birmingham), under the auspices of the Centro Nazionale di Studi Leopardiani. The work is not only a translation, but an actual English “edition” featuring critical and philological apparatuses, notes, indexes and an extensive introduction.
This essential book will change our understanding of the origins of modern culture. It is an extraordinary, epochal publication.
Although all things great and beautiful and alive have been extinguished from the world, our inclination toward them remains. Though we may be denied these things, nothing has or ever could stop us from wanting them. Young people have not lost that longing which drives them to seek a life for themselves and to scorn nothingness and monotony. (Zib. 195-196)
Giacomo Leopardi was the greatest Italian poet of the nineteenth century and was recognized by readers, from Nietzsche to Beckett, as one of the towering literary figures in Italian history. To many, he is the finest Italian poet after Dante. He was also a prodigious scholar of classical literature and philosophy, and a voracious reader in numerous ancient and modern languages. For most of his writing career, he kept an immense notebook, known as the Zibaldone, or ‘hodgepodge,’ as Harold Bloom has called it, in which he put down his original, wide-ranging, radically modern responses to his reading. Published at the turn of the twentieth century, it has been recognized as one of the foundational books of modern culture, and its 4,500-plus pages have never been fully translated into English until now.
Franco D’Intino is Professor of Modern Italian Literature at the University of Rome “La Sapienza,” where he graduated in Italian literature and where he also completed his doctoral research on Leopardi in the context of European Romanticism. His main areas of research are theory and history of the genre “autobiography” and the work of Giacomo Leopardi. He is Director of the Leopardi Centre, based in the Italian Department at the University of Birmingham, and Director of the Laboratorio Leopardi, based in the School for Advanced Studies (SSSAS) at “La Sapienza.”
Michael Caesar is Emeritus Serena Professor of Italian at the University of Birmingham (UK). He has published widely on poetic improvisation and performance and its interaction with orality and literacy in 18th-19th century Italy, on literary theory (Gaetano Della Volpe, Eco and Joyce, the neo-avantgarde, Franco Moretti), and on key modern Italian authors, among them Elsa Morante, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italo Calvino, and Gianni Celati. His most recent essay on Leopardi, ‘Voice, Speaking, Silence in Leopardi’s Verse’, is forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism (Oxford University Press).
For more information please contact anne.oconnor@nuigalway.ie

EDEN (English and Drama Exchange Network), a student-led research exchange network for English and Drama postgraduate students
2015-09-17 16:30
EDEN (English and Drama Exchange Network),
a student-led research exchange network for
English and Drama postgraduate students
For more information please contact Justine Nakase at j.nakase1@nuigalway.ie

A Musical Evening of the Poems of Oscar Wilde set to music by Susanne Thea and Malinovsky
2015-09-17 19:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
A Musical Evening of the Poems of Oscar Wilde set to music by Susanne Thea and Malinovsky
For more information please contact monica.crump@nuigalway.ie

Arts in Action Launch
2015-09-21 16:30 | James Hardiman Library, Ireland
Official launch of the 2015/16 Arts in Action Programme in association with the James Hardiman Library.
The programme will be launched by Mr Cathal Goan.
We look forward to seeing you all.

Performance Matters - Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2015-09-21 18:00
Performance Matters
Irish Theatre Discussion Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/
This week we will be discussing
Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa
For more information please contact n.barre8@nuigalway.ie
All theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend

German Reading Group
2015-09-23 11:00
German Reading Group
Room 1003
Every wednesday 11-1
For more information please contact lucy.m.elvis@gmail.com
