Moore Institute

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

School of Languages, Literature and Culture - School Research Day
2016-05-05 09:00 (Europe/Dublin)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15.15 – Break
15.45: Panel 4: Commemorations

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

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

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

All welcome!

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

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

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

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

Dept of History NUIG present Dr Jenny Hillman (University of Chester, UK and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow) 'Multiple hands and multiple voices: Writing Female Lives in the French Counter-Reformation'.
2016-05-25 16:30 (Europe/Dublin)

Discipline of French present a workshop ' France-Algeria: Memories and Identitites International Workshop'.
2016-05-27 10:30 (Europe/Dublin)
France-Algeria: Memories and Identities International Workshop
Discipline of French, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
NUI, Galway
27 May 2016
Room: AMB 2070 (Arts Millennium Building)

Discipline of Philosophy, School of Humanities, UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre and the School of Sociology and Politics - Book Launch
2016-05-27 16:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Discipline of Philosophy, School of Humanities, UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre and School of Sociology and Politics are hosting a Book Launch
‘ Philosophy and Political Engagement: Reflection in the public sphere’.
Launched by Prof James Edwin Mahon (CUNY – Lehman).
Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building.

Irish Protestant Playwrights Conference
2016-06-01 14:00 (Europe/Dublin)
THE “IRISH PROTESTANT PLAYWRIGHTS” CONFERENCE
1-3 JUNE 2016
Moore Institute, NUI Galway, IRELAND
Featuring:
-Keynote addresses by Prof. SeÌÁn Kennedy (St. Mary’s University, Halifax) and Dr. Emilie Pine (University College Dublin)
-Panel papers and roundtable discussions on the great Irish Protestant playwrights, including (among others) George Farquhar, Oliver Goldsmith, R.B. Sheridan, Elizabeth Griffith, Dion Boucicault, Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw, J.M. Synge, Lady Augusta Gregory, W.B. Yeats, SeÌÁn O’Casey, Denis Johnston, Mary Manning, Samuel Beckett, Stewart Parker, and Christina Reid
-Performances of the plays Grania by Lady Gregory and Purgatory by W.B. Yeats
A remarkable number of Ireland’s great playwrights have hailed from Protestant backgrounds, despite the fact that Catholics have always comprised a much greater proportion of the Irish population. There are, of course, two primary reasons for this. First, since conventional plays were not written in the Irish language until the late nineteenth century, Irish Gaelic Catholics were, for a long time, without a dramatic tradition to plug into (by contrast, Irish Protestants often felt a strong cultural tie to the English dramatic tradition). Second, Irish Protestants had, for centuries, much greater access to formal education and to the theatre worlds of Dublin and London than Catholics did, due to the Penal Laws and other repressive, anti-Catholic measures.
While these factors may explain Protestant dominance in Irish drama prior to Catholic Emancipation and the widespread adoption of the English language in the early-to-mid-nineteenth century, it is a curious fact that, since that time, a significant number of Ireland’s great playwrights have continued to come from the island’s relatively small Protestant communities. What is perhaps even more curious is that critics have often failed to spot the degree to which the works by these playwrights betray the influence of the beliefs and social values/anxieties associated with their Protestant backgrounds. Indeed, in Inventing Ireland (1995), Declan Kiberd rightly points out that, while critics of Irish literature have readily recognised the importance of Roman Catholicism to the work of lapsed Catholics like James Joyce, they have frequently ignored or underestimated the importance of the specifically Protestant preoccupations found in works by “lapsed Protestants” like Bernard Shaw, W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, SeÌÁn O’Casey, and Samuel Beckett.
In the years since Kiberd made that observation, an increasing number of scholars have begun to investigate the ways in which the great Irish Protestant dramatists were shaped by their Protestant upbringings. This conference aims to bring many of these exciting, new scholars together to share and discuss their groundbreaking work. At the conference, their remit will, of course, involve illuminating the Protestant aspects of the classic works they discuss, but they will also demonstrate – by examining a wide variety of writers, including frequently neglected women playwrights – the heterogeneity of Irish Protestantism. (There are, after all, marked cultural and social differences between the various Protestant communities in Ireland; one need only think of the repeatedly rude remarks that Irish Anglicans like Jonathan Swift, Lady Morgan, and Bernard Shaw made about Ulster Scots Presbyterians.) Finally, these scholars will try to understand why Irish Protestants have been so successful at writing plays; is there something about drama and performance that particularly appeals to the Irish Protestant psyche?
To register for this conference – or to obtain more information about it – please write to Dr. David Clare (david.clare@nuigalway.ie) or Dr. Feargal Whelan (feargal.whelan@gmail.com). The conference is free of charge but space is limited, so advance registration is required. For more information, please visit https://protestantplaywrights.wordpress.com.
FINAL PROGRAMME
All events held in Room G010, Moore Institute, Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway (except where indicated).WED., 1 JUNE 2016
2-3.15pm / Registration
3.15pm-3.30pm / Welcome and Opening Remarks
3.30pm-5pm / PANEL ONE: EARLY IRISH DRAMA IChair: Feargal Whelan (UCD)
-James Ward (University of Ulster) – “Remembering Farquhar”-Heather Ladd (University of Lethbridge) – “The Outsider as Cultural Critic: Arthur Murphy’s News From Parnassus“
-David Clare (NUI Galway) – “Reflections on Catholic Ireland in the Plays of Elizabeth Griffith and Maria Edgeworth”5pm-6pm / PLENARY ADDRESS
SeÌÁn Kennedy (St. Mary’s University) – “Beckett and the Specters of Irish Modernism”
6pm-7pm / Wine Reception
7.30pm-8.30pm / PERFORMANCE
Full Production of Lady Gregory’s Grania at the Bank of Ireland Theatre, NUI Galway (Part of the “Waking the Feminists West” Initiative)
Directed by Justine Nakase
Lighting Design by Nelson Barre
Set Design by Chris McCormack
CAST:
GRANIA – Hannah Carleton
FINN – Sam ÌÒ Fearraigh
DIARMUID – Cillian Browne
CHORUS – Sarah Vargo and Grainne O’Reilly
Thurs., 2 JUNE 2016
9am-9.30am / Registration
9.30am-11am / PANEL TWO: EARLY IRISH DRAMA IIChair: Rebecca Barr (NUI Galway)
-David Clare (NUI Galway), Feargal Whelan (University College Dublin), and Des Lally (NUI Galway) – “Oliver Goldsmith’s The Good-Natured Man at the Gate Theatre, Dublin 1974″-Conrad Brunstr̦m (Maynooth University) – “Family Rivals: Thomas, Frances, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan – the co-creation of an eighteenth-century classic”-Deirdre McFeely (Trinity College Dublin) – “Dion Boucicault: a Dublin Huguenot”11am-11.30am / Coffee and Tea Break
11.30am-1pm / PANEL THREE: WILDE AND SHAWChair: David Clare (NUI Galway)
-Graham Price (University of Limerick) – “Wilde and Hegel: Irish Peacock and Protestant Aquinas”-Audrey McNamara (University College Dublin) – “Bernard Shaw: Puritan or The Devil’s Disciple?”-Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel (Massachusetts Maritime Academy) – “Bernard Shaw the Journalist: Saving the Free Press 1914-1916”1pm-2pm / Lunch Break
2pm-3pm / ROUNDTABLE: “Bernard Shaw and His Irish Contemporaries”
Chair: Ian Walsh (NUIG)
Panellists: Audrey McNamara (UCD), Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel (MMA), David Clare (NUIG)
3pm-4.40pm / PANEL FOUR: DIRECTORS OF THE EARLY ABBEYChair: Thomas Conway
-Anna Pilz (University College Cork) – “‰Û÷Dirty James’: Religion and the Politics of Representation in Gregory’s The White Cockade“-Catherine Wilsdon (University College Dublin) – “Synge, Paris, and Progressive Protestantism”-Adrian Paterson (NUI Galway) – “‰Û÷The dry bones of the dead’: Yeats and The Dreaming of the Bones“
-Derek Hand (St. Patrick’s College, Dublin City University) – “The Purgatory of W. B. Yeats”4.40am-5pm / Coffee and Tea Break
5pm-6pm
Rehearsed Reading of W. B. Yeats’s Purgatory
Directed by David Clare
CAST:
OLD MAN – Ian Walsh
BOY – Dylan McCormack
FRI., 3 JUNE 2016
9am-9.30am / Registration
9.30am-11am / PANEL FIVE: “STRAY REVELLERS FROM THE REVIVAL”Chair: Charlotte McIvor (NUI Galway)
-Des Lally (NUI Galway) – “Lord Dunsany: The Wisdom of Bog Watchers” -Ian Walsh (NUI Galway) – “A Vaudeville of Frustration: Jack B. Yeats’s La La Noo“
-SiobhÌÁn Purcell (NUI Galway) – “The Lord hath given and the Lord hath taken away: Disability and Sacrifice in O’Casey’s Plays”11am-11.30am / Coffee and Tea Break
11.30am-1pm / PANEL SIX: EARLY GATE PLAYWRIGHTS
Chair: Des Lally(NUI Galway)-Feargal Whelan (University College Dublin) – “The Boys say ‰Û÷Yes’!: Denis Johnston, The Gate and National Mythmaking in the 1930s”-Ciara Conway (NUI Galway) – “‰Û÷Let’s be Dublin’: The Work of Understudy, Actress and Playwright Mary Manning”-Ruud van den Beuken (Radboud University) – “‰Û÷How can you call it a nation?’: The Ascendancy and the Free State in Christine Longford’s Mr. Jiggins of Jigginstown (1933)”1pm-2pm / Lunch Break
2pm-3pm / ROUNDTABLE: “Samuel Beckett and the ‰Û÷State’ of Ireland (Revisited)”
Chair: Feargal Whelan (UCD)
Panellists: Alan Graham (UCD), Scott Eric Hamilton (UCD), SeÌÁn Kennedy (St. Mary’s), SiobhÌÁn Purcell (NUIG)
3pm-3.20pm / Tea and Coffee Break
3.20pm-5pm / PANEL SEVEN: GODOT AND AFTERChair: ClÌ_odhna Carney (NUI Galway)
-Thomas Conway (NUI Galway) – “‰Û÷I’m a dirty, low church P’: Illuminating the Revisions to Waiting for Godot (1975) by Means of the Beckett/McGreevy Correspondence (1932-35)”
-Barry Houlihan (NUI Galway) – “The Numbers Game: Protestants on Stage at the Abbey and Lyric Theatres in Jack White’s The Last Eleven“-Megan Minogue (Independent Scholar) – “Alternative Ulster: The Musicality of Stewart Parker’s ‰Û÷Working Models of Wholeness'”
-MÌÁria Kurdi (University of P̩cs) – “‰Û÷I really do exist’: the Individual in the Monologue Theatre of Jennifer Johnston”
5pm-6pm / PLENARY ADDRESS
Emilie Pine (University College Dublin) – “Memory Generations: The Work of Remembering in the Plays of Christina Reid”

Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Prof Padraic Kenney (Indiana University, USA) ' Farewell to the Transnational: Global History in Theory and Practice'
2016-06-09 16:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Prof Padraic Kenney (Indiana University, USA) gives a talk entitled ‘ Farewell to the Transnational: Global History in Theory and Practice’.
9th June @4pm Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building.

'The Next Eighteenth - Century Ireland Society/ An Cumann ÌÄåäire San OchtÌÄå¼ C̩ad D̩ag' Annual Conference
2016-06-10 09:00 (Europe/Dublin)
The next Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society / An Cumann Ìäire San Ocht̼ C̩ad D̩ag Annual Conference will be held in National University of Ireland Galway, 10-11 June 2016.
Plenaries will be delivered by Prof. Michael Brown (Aberdeen), Prof. Norma Clark (Kingston), and Dr MeidhbhÌ_n NÌ_ Ì_rdail (UCD).
Harvard University Press will also mark the Irish launches of Michael Brown’s The Irish Enlightenment (2016) and Norma Clarke’s Brothers of the Quill: Oliver Goldsmith in Grub Street (2016)at the conference.
The conference is organised by Dr Rebecca Barr (English, Humanities) and Dr Lesa NÌ_ Mhunghaile (Gaeilge, Scoil na dTeangacha, na LitrÌ_ochtaÌ_ & na gCult̼r). The event is generously supported by the Moore Institute, NUI Galway School of Humanities, and the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures.
Conference programme and registration details can be found at the following link: http://www.ecis.ie/annual-conference/

Prof Alain Dubreucq, Moore Institute Visiting Fellow presents a talk 'The Manuscript Transmission of the Vita Columbani. Prolegomenes to a new edition'.
2016-06-15 12:30 (Europe/Dublin)
Prof Alain Dubreucq, Moore Institute Visiting Fellow presents a talk ‘
“The manuscript transmission of the Vita Columbani. Prolegomenes to a new edition”
Wednesday 15th June @12.30pm.
The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building.

1916 in Global Context: Connections and Comparisons Conference
2016-06-16 09:00 (Europe/Dublin)
1916 IN GLOBAL CONTEXT:
CONNECTIONS AND COMPARISONS
Conference Programme
Thursday 16th June — Friday 17th June 2016
Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway
and
Notre Dame Centre, Kylemore Abbey,
Connemara
Organised by RÌ_isÌ_n Healy, Enrico Dal Lago and GearÌ_id Barry of History, NUI Galway
Thursday 16th June:
G010, Hardiman Building, Moore Institute, NUI Galway
9.00 Registration
9.15 Opening Remarks by Jane Ohlmeyer, Chair of the Irish Research Council, and the conference organisers
9.30-11.20 Panel 1: AFRICA
Chair: RÌ_isÌ_n Healy (NUI Galway)
Jonathan Krause (Oxford University)
The World Set Alight: Rebellion in the French Empire, 1916
Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses (Maynooth University)
Anti-colonial revolts against the Portuguese Republic, 1914-1918
Jonathan Hyslop (Colgate University)
The Boers Were the Beginning of the End? Southern African Connections in the Making and Aftermath of the Easter Rising, c. 1896-1931
Katja Fortenbacher-Nagel (University of Marburg)
“Travelling the Same Painful Road”: Links and References between Ireland and South Africa on their Road to Independence
11.20-11.40 Coffee break
11.40-1.30 Panel 2: AMERICAS
Chair: Enrico Dal Lago (NUI Galway)
David Brundage (University of California Santa Cruz)
The Easter Rising and Anticolonial Nationalism: The View from New York
Cecelia Hartsell (Fordham University)
Reflections on the Great Migration of 1916
Nicola Miller (University College London)
Liberalism Besieged: A Comparison of 1916 in Argentina and Mexico
Charles-Philippe Courtois (College militaire royal de Saint-Jean)
Ireland’s 1916 and Quebec’s Conscription Crisis
1.30-2.15 Lunch at NUI Galway
2.15-3.30 Bus trip to the Notre Dame Centre for Educational Excellence, Kylemore Abbey, Connemara
4.30-6.30 Panel 3: BRITISH EMPIRE AND ASIA
Chair: GearÌ_id Barry (NUI Galway)
Daniel Marc Segesser (University of Bern)
“Rebel Irish and Syndicalists Would Come into Office!”: The Easter Rising, Climatic Conditions, and the 1916 Australian Referendum on Conscription
Sucheta Mahajan (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)
In League with the Irish?: Annie Besant and Home Rule in India
Stephen McQuillan (Trinity College Dublin)
Failed Uprisings and Fraternal Relations: The Indo-Irish Nexus in 1916
Kate O’Malley (Royal Irish Academy)
Ireland, India, and a ‰Û÷Cult Following’ of Easter 1916?
6.30 Bus departs for dinner at Power’s Thatch Bar, Oughterard
9.30 Bus departs Oughterard for Galway
Friday 17th June
G010, Hardiman Building, Moore Institute, NUI Galway
9.10-11.00 Panel 4: MUSLIM WORLD
Chair: Enrico Dal Lago (NUI Galway)
Fatemeh Masjedi (Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin)
Tabriz during colonial Russia (1908-1917)
Michael Provence (University of California San Diego)
The Crisis of Empire and the Ottoman Great War: 1916
Danielle Ross (Utah State University)
National Resistance across Borders: Parallel Depictions of the Easter Rising and the Turkestani Uprising in Russia’s Muslim Newspapers
Erin O’Halloran (University of Oxford)
A Tempest in a British Tea Pot: ‰Û÷The Arab Question’ in Cairo and Delhi
11.00-11.20 Coffee Break
11.20-12.50 Panel 5: EUROPEAN counter-currentS
Chair: RÌ_isÌ_n Healy (NUI Galway)
Geoffrey Bell (independent scholar)
‰Û÷Surely, for the first time England can try and understand?’: the British labour movement and the Easter Rising
Heike Liebau (Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin)
Independence Committees in First World War Germany: common goals, mutual perceptions and collaboration
Padraic Kenney (Indiana University)
National, and thus Revolutionary ? Revolutionary, and thus National? Polish Struggles in Context
12.50-1.30 Lunch
1.30-3.00 Panel 6: PERCEPTIONS AND LEGACIES
Chair: GearÌ_id Barry (NUI Galway)
Andrew Newby (University of Helsinki)
A German Agitation in Ireland: Finnish Perceptions of the 1916 Rising
SeÌÁn Brady (Trinity College Dublin)
An Embarrassing Parody of Garibaldi, a Salutary Lesson, and a Sign of Hope: Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising seen through Italian Eyes
Timothy D. Hoyt (U.S. Naval War College, Newport)
The Easter Rising and the Beginnings of Modern Irregular Warfare
3.00 Closing Remarks
Conference participants and attendees are invited to visit the exhibition, “A University in War and Revolution, 1913-1919: The Galway Experience”, on view in the Hardiman Research Building.
Note: The conference is open to the public, but the organisers would ask those planning to attend to let us know in advance by sending an email to history@nuigalway.ie. There may be a small fee to cover catering costs and the bus journey to Kylemore Abbey.

Dr. Justin Carville (IADT and Moore Institute Visiting Fellow) presents a talk 'Primitive Faces and Ungovernable Eyes: Racial Photography, Anthropology and Counter-Visuality in Ireland.
2016-06-16 11:30 UTC
Dr. Justin Carville
(Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art and Design and Moore Institute)
Primitive Faces and Ungovernable Eyes:
Racial Photography, Anthropology, and Counter-Visuality in Ireland
11.30 Thursday 16 June
‘The Bridge’ Seminar Room 1001
Hardiman Research Building
