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Introducing web-based maps for research data visualisation - Digital Scholars Workshop Series
2018-03-29 11:30 - 12:30 UTC | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
This hour-long session will introduce some key aspects of visualising your research data using web-based maps. You will have the opportunity to get hands-on and follow along with a demonstration of how to create your own simple web-based map, using an online service.
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About the speaker
David Kelly is Digital Humanities Manager at the Moore Institute. He works on digital projects with researchers from humanities and social sciences, including those involving data visualisation, database development, social annotation, digital edition development and network analysis.
Digital Scholars Workshop Series
The Library, in partnership with the Moore Institute, presents a series of informal workshops to share practice-based expertise, know-how and experience in technologies and methods germane to anyone engaged in Digital Scholarship type activity.

Workshop Content

Slides: Web Maps & Data Visualisation (.pdf)
Sample data for mapping

Information Session on Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships
2018-03-28 11:00 - 12:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
An information session on the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships will be led by Prof. Dan Carey, Director of the Moore Institute, with contributions from Dr. Cassie Smith Christmas, a recent recipient of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie individual fellowship, and her mentor An tOll. Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. Dr. Gary Lupton, Head of International Programmes with NUIG’s Research Office will also be present to offer advice and answer any questions you may have.
Individual Fellowships support the mobility of researchers within and beyond Europe – as well as helping to attract the best foreign researchers to work in the EU. The grant usually covers two years’ salary, a mobility allowance, research costs and overheads for the host institution. Individual researchers submit proposals for funding in liaison with their planned host organisation. Proposals are judged on their research quality, the researcher’s future career prospects, and the support offered by the host organisation. Fellows can also spend part of the fellowship elsewhere in Europe if this would boost impact, and those restarting their career in Europe benefit from special eligibility conditions.
For full details on the scheme please see here.

Archaeology Seminar
2018-03-27 16:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Consultant archaeologist Dr Alan Hawkes MIAI will give the next lecture in Archaeology’s research seminar series.
Title: Burnt Mounds and Prehistoric Cooking: Reappraising the Evidence
The widespread distribution of burnt mounds is striking, suggesting that Ireland was the most prominent user of the pyrolithic water-boiling technology in Bronze Age Europe. However, narratives related to these sites have long revolved around function, to the extent that the basic definition of this monument type has been called into question. This paper will examine the use of these sites based on evidence from some 1,000 excavated examples in Ireland and provides new insights into the use of pyrolithic technology for cooking.

Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies (CAMPS) Research Labs.
2018-03-23 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Rosemary Power: Carvings, sculpture and position on Columban and Benedictine Iona

Nótáí / Notes Music and Ireland
2018-03-23 11:00 - 16:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
A research symposium in Irish music studies.
The symposium Nótáí / Notes Music and Ireland is a preparatory symposium for the upcoming special issue journal publication Nótáí / Notes Music and Ireland ÉIre Ireland, due for publication in January 2019.
Contact: Méabh Ní Fhuartháin – meabh.nifhuarthain@nuigalway.ie

The 4th Annual Medieval Studies Lecture
2018-03-21 19:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Speaker: CHARLES DOHERTY
‘The High-Kingship of Ireland and international parallels’
Distinguished Irish historian Charles Doherty, who is retired from the School of History and Archives in University College Dublin, has published extensively on many aspects of medieval Irish history, including economic history, hagiography, settlement, the impact of the Vikings on early Ireland, and kingship.
Recent work includes Glendalough: City of God (2011), which he co-edited with Linda Doran and Mary Kelly; Music and the stars: mathematics in medieval Ireland (2013), which he co-edited with Mary Kelly, and Kings and warriors in early north-west Europe (2016) which he co-edited with Jan Erik Rekdal. In 2009-13 he served as President of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, and in 2012-13 he was a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Contact: Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha – mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

Modern Studies - 'Works in Progress'
2018-03-21 18:00 - 19:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Researchers will present short papers on their current project, with response given from the audience.
Contact: Gabrielle Fletcher – G.FLETCHER1@nuigalway.ie

Maire Cross (Visiting Fellow)
2018-03-21 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Contact: Máire Cross – m.f.cross@newcastle.ac.uk

Literature and Translations
2018-03-21 15:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Stéphanie Noirard, Université de Poitiers : Un Enterrement dans l’il(e) : Breton poet Paol Keineg faces the challenge of translating Hugh MacDiarmid
Translating Hugh MacDiarmid means having to handle his political stance on the independence and the renewal of Scottish literature, as well as his poetic and linguistic experiments. While the initiative allows Paol Keineg to get back in touch with his youth and his first discovery of In Memoriam James Joyce in the 1970s, it also contributes to a new phase in his own poetic quest. The American Book Review describes Paol Keineg’s poetry as: “a work that moves from the specific to the universal, a work that would reclaim lost ground, both politically and poetically”, terms that could be attributed to MacDiarmid as well.
The aim of the seminar is to show the two authors worked on similar themes in terms of politics, identity and poetry in order to question the definition of the author-translator. It will analyse whether Paol Keineg, as both poet and translator, only means to transmit a text or whether he uses his translation to develop his own ideas and/or experiment with the language. The figure of the translator will thus be defined as a new mask for or avatar of the author, an ideal mode allowing the author to disappear from his text and a new process of linguistic subversion.
Stéphanie Noirard is a lecturer at the University of Poitiers where she teaches English literature and translation. Her research focuses on Scottish contemporary poetry and she has published articles on the subject as well as on Irish and Breton poetry in various journals, including Etudes Anglaises, Scottish Literary Studies or Civilisations. She has also contributed chapters to Mountains Figured and Disfigured in the English-Speaking World (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), Brittany/Ireland: What Relations? (Centre de Recherche Bretonne et Celtique, 2015), Taking Liberties: Scottish Literature and Expressions of Freedom (Scottish Literature International, 2016) and Brittany-Scotland: contacts, transfers and dissonances (CRBC-HTCI, Brest 2017). War Poetry, minority languages and cultures, rhythm and voice are among her main interests. She organized a one day international conference on “War in Poetry” in 2016 and is currently translating From the Line, an anthology of Scottish War Poetry and organizing a venue on the transmission of minority languages.

The Archaeology Society - Dr. William Roulston
2018-03-21 13:00 - 14:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Archaeology Society will be hosting our final lecture of the year this coming Wednesday the 21st of March in room G010 in the Hardiman building. Our speaker will be Dr. William Roulston of the Ulster Historical Foundation and is titled ‘The Scots and Plantation Ulster’. He will be discussing an overview of the Scottish contribution to the Ulster Plantation. A background to the Scottish engagement with Ulster and a review of the documentary materials for studying the settlement of Scots in Ulster will be provided. The talk will also consider the archaeological evidence for the Scots in early seventeenth-century Ulster, focusing on castles/fortified houses, churches and memorials of the dead.

Introduction to Regular Expressions - Digital Scholars Workshop Series
2018-03-21 12:00 - 13:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Regular expressions are a powerful tool to help you search, clean, transform, or otherwise mutate and repurpose data – from large text corpora, gene sequence datafiles, to bulk econometric data, to scanned, historical printed documents and everything in-between. Traditionally found in specialised editors and programming languages, regular expressions now appear in many user-tools including word-processing applications and spreadsheets.
This session aims to provide sufficient knowledge and tools to set you on the road to acquiring a valuable new skill and handle many data formatting and transformation problems with greatly improved productivity. Anyone who works or plans to work extensively with data – programmers and non-programmers alike, might find this session useful.
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About the speaker
Peter Corrigan heads up the Library’s Digital Publishing Team.
Digital Scholars Workshop Series
The Library, in partnership with the Moore Institute, presents a series of informal workshops to share practice-based expertise, know-how and experience in technologies and methods germane to anyone engaged in Digital Scholarship type activity.

Gender Arc
2018-03-21 12:00 | Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street
RIA Ethical, Political, Legal and Philosophical Studies Committee
‘How secular should the state be?’
Cécile Laborde (Oxford)
A lecture and book launch
Cécile Laborde FBA holds the Nuffield Chair in Political Theory at Oxford University. She has published extensively in the areas of republicanism, liberalism and religion, theories of law and the state, and global justice. Her publications include: Pluralist Thought and the State in Britain and France and Critical Republicanism. The Hijab Controversy in Political Philosophy, and, most recently, Liberalism’s Religion (Harvard University Press, 2017), a nuanced discussion of the appropriate status of religion in a liberal state. She argues that dis-aggregating religion into its various dimensions modifies the contrast between religious and non-religious beliefs, practices and identities, and supports a ‘minimal secularism’ that shows more respect for ethical and political pluralism than other approaches entail.
This event is organised by the Academy’s Ethical, Political, Legal and Philosophical Studies Committee, with support from UCD’s School of Politics and International Relations and the UCD Newman Centre.
Free, but registration required: https://www.ria.ie/how-secular-should-state-be
Contact: Gender Arc – genderarc@nuigalway.ie

Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies (CAMPS) Research Labs.
2018-03-16 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Lindsay Ann Reid, ‘The Early Modern Querelle des Femmes and the Judgement of Solomon in Greene’s Vision’.
Contact: Catherine Emerson – catherine.emerson@nuigalway.ie

Gender Arc
2018-03-16
CFPs “Critical Feminist Exits, Re-Routings, and Institutional Betrayals in Academia” A Special Issue of Feminist Formations – Full papers NOW due March 16, 2018
While universities often identify diversity as an important concern and goal, the neo-liberalization of academic contexts has in many ways fostered the entrenchment and rearticulation of hegemonic racial and gendered ideologies and practices. As a result, critical scholars often face institutional environments that are hostile and/or unresponsive to their concerns and perspectives, and broadly speaking, to issues critical to women, LGBITQ people, people of color, and other marginalized groups. For the complete CfP and to submit, please visit: https://feministformations.submittable.com/submit/99634/feminist-formations-special-issue-critical-feminist-exits-re-routings-and-ins
Manuscripts must be submitted by March 16, 2018. Inquiries to the co-editors in advance of submission are welcome: Marta Maria Maldonado marta.maldonado@oregonstate.edu <marta.maldonado@oregonstate.edu>and Katja M. Guenther katja@ucr.edu <katja@ucr.edu
Contact: genderarc@nuigalway.ie

Flower Press (Poetry Collection) Book Launch
2018-03-15 18:00 - 18:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
‘Flower Press’, the debut poetry collection of MA in Writing (2017-18) student, Alice Kinsella, will be launched in the Moore Institute at 6:30pm on Thursday, March 15th.
Published by Onsalught Press, this short collection of poems can be described as an elegiac apostrophe. In three sections—bud, bloom, and blood—it explores the growth of love in childhood, the loss of innocence, and the fallout of that loss. ‘Flower Press’ does not claim to offer answers, but the consolation of the act of remembering.
Contact: Dearbhla Mooney – dearbhla.mooney@nuigalway.ie

Dr. Mick Wilson (University of Gothenburg)
2018-03-15 13:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Contact: Dee Quinn – dee.quinn@nuigalway.ie

Sports and Exercise Research Seminar - Dr Tanguy Philippe (Visiting Fellow)
2018-03-15 13:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
‘Reading’ sport and sports culture: a case study of the codification of wrestling styles during the Celtic and Gaelic revival movements.
Tanguy Philippe is a lecturer in Sport and Education Studies at the University of Western Brittany in Brest (France). He has taught previously at the Universities of Rennes, Evry and Savoie. His current research interests are in the fields of cross-cultural encounters in sport, symbolic and normative relations in combat sports, individual and collective culture in physical education, and the integration of research and teaching. His previous researches focussed on wrestling culture in Brittany and Ireland, in relation to the Celtic revival periods, and sports culture’s long-term diffusion by cultural routes (the Silk Roads and the migrations routes between North-western Europe and North America). His recent publications include the following chapters: ‘Wrestling in 19th to early 20th century Ireland and the ethnic stereotype of the Irish fighter in the USA’ (in Travel in France and Ireland: Tourism, Sport and Culture, Peter Lang, 2017) and ‘From Prize fighting to Pride fighting’ (in Rencontres Bretagne – Ecosse, CRBC, 2017).
Contact: Tanguy Philippe – tphilippe@univ-brest.fr

Working with images - Digital Scholars Workshop Series
2018-03-15 11:30 - 12:30 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
This event will highlight methods and tools for working with images. Applications include Web site content, digital libraries/archives, animations, scholarly publications, and data analysis. Both desktop and command line tools for image editing and processing will be discussed, including Photoshop, Fireworks, Python, and ImageMagick.
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About the speaker
Cillian Joy works in the NUI Galway Library on Digital Technology. As part of the Digital Publishing and Innovation team, Cillian focuses on strategy, development, interoperability, and process. Cillian has a primary degree in Experimental Physics and a Masters in Information Systems and Computer Science.
Digital Scholars Workshop Series
The Library, in partnership with the Moore Institute, presents a series of informal workshops to share practice-based expertise, know-how and experience in technologies and methods germane to anyone engaged in Digital Scholarship type activity.

Digital Scholars Workshop Series
2018-03-15 11:30 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Working With Images:

This event will highlight methods and tools for working with images. Applications include Website content, digital libraries/archives, animations, scholarly publications, and data analysis. Both desktop and command line tools for image editing and processing will be discussed, including Photoshop, Fireworks, Python, and ImageMagick.
About the speaker: Cillian works in the NUI Galway Library on Digital Technology. As part of the Digital Publishing and Innovation team, Cillian focuses on strategy, development, interoperability, and process. Cillian has a primary degree in Experimental Physics and a Masters in Information Systems and Computer Science.
Sponsored by NUI Galway Library and the Moore Institute.
See Eventbrite link: http://bit.ly/2oTRJRu
Contact: Peter Corrigan – peter.corrigan@nuigalway.ie

1916 In Global Context An Anti-Imperial Moment Book Launch
2018-03-14 17:30 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Contact: Gearóid Barry – gearoid.barry@nuigalway.ie

History Seminar - Prof. Vitor Izecksohn
2018-03-14 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Prof. Vitor Izecksohn (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
The US and Brazil in the period of the American Civil War (Final TBC)

Brian Arkins (Professor Emeritus, Classics)
2018-03-14 16:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Modern Reception of Horace
The talk will discuss the treatment of Horace in Nazi-occupied Crete and during World War I; Pound, Eliot, Housman on Horace; Nietzsche on Horace’s style; Horace’s tags, esp. carpe diem; Irish connections, in Yeats, Joyce, MacNeice, Longley, Boland; Dowson’s splendidly awful poem; and Hopkin’s translations.
All welcome.
Contact: Padraic Moran- padraic.moran@nuigalway.ie

Ruud van den Beuken (Visiting Fellow)
2018-03-14 14:00 - 16:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Let’s Give the Mantle of Harlequin a Brush: Current Research on the Dublin Gate Theatre

Dr Ruud van den Beuken, who is working at the Moore Institute as a visiting research fellow, will discuss current research on the Dublin Gate Theatre, including the establishment of a Gate Theatre Research Network (co-founded by the Dutch Research Council, Charles University Prague and NUIG), the digitisation of the Gate’s archives at the James Hardiman Library, and his book project on cultural memory and national identity formation in drama by original Gate playwrights such as Denis Johnston and Mary Manning.
Ruud van den Beuken is a lecturer in the Department of English Language & Culture at Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands). He was awarded the Irish Society for Theatre Research’s (ISTR) New Scholars’ Prize (2015) for his research on postcolonial mythological plays, and in April 2017, he received his PhD (cum laude) for his thesis on cultural memory and national identity formation at the Dublin Gate Theatre. He is the Assistant Director of the NWO-funded Gate Theatre Research Network and the recipient of the 2017 Education Award for best junior lecturer in the Faculty of Arts at Radboud. He is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Moore Institute.
Contact: Dr Ruud van den Beuken – ruud.vandenbeuken@ru.nl

Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies (CAMPS) Research Labs.
2018-03-09 12:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room GO10 GO11 and Room 1001(The Bridge)., Ireland
Christine Neer: Love is a Battlefield? An Informal Exploration of Gendered Spaces in Medieval Irish Tochmarca (‘Wooing Tales’).
Contact: Catherine Emerson – catherine.emerson@nuigalway.ie

College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Celtic Studies New Professors’ Inaugural Lecture series
2018-03-08 17:00 - 19:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Dean of College, Professor Cathal O’Donoghue will speak on the subject of “Recognising Diversity and Complexity in Policy Formation”.
Professor O’Donoghue has been from 2016, the Dean of Arts and Social Sciences at NUI Galway and Professor of Public and Social Policy. Prior to this he was since 2005, Head of Teagasc’s (Irelands Agriculture and Food Development Authority) Rural Economy and Development Programme, one of the 4 research programmes of Teagasc. He was a member of the Fund Council of CGIAR, a $1 billion a year International Agri-Food Research organisation from 2014-2016. From 2012-2014, he was CEO of the Irish Government’s Commission for the Economic Development of Rural Areas 2012-2014, Chairman of the Irish Sport Horse Strategy Committee 2013-2015, President of the International Microsimulation Association 2011-2015 and is on the Executive of the UK Agricultural Economics Society.
In his inaugural lecture, Professor O’Donoghue will draw upon the results of his research career to date to describe the methodologies he has developed and conclusions he has drawn for policy analysis and design and to reach out to new collaborators in inter-disciplinary research. His research aims to understand how policy impacts across the population, incorporating the breadth of diversity that exists in different population groups. His field of research is in the area of Micro-Simulation Modelling, where for 25 years , he has developed tools to simulate the impact of public policy on Micro distributions (individuals, Families, Farms). Fundamentally these are tools to understand complexity. Policy formation involves understanding complexity via complexity of policy, complexity of population structure and complexity of behavioural response. In addition, other dimensions that can be considered include spatial and temporal complexity. In this lecture, Professor O’Donoghue will discuss how the development of these tools have been used to consider policy questions such as anti-poverty, environmental, labour market, education, agricultural and rural policy. His work is currently focusing on the interaction between land-use change and demographic both in a contemporary setting and in understanding historical land use drivers of demographic changes.
Contact: Dr. Seán Crosson – Sean.Crosson@nuigalway.ie

Gender Arc - International Women's Day and International Women's History Month.
2018-03-07 17:00 - 2018-03-09 17:00 | NUI Galway / Various locations in Galway
7th March
School of Education Research Seminar Series
“Exploring Sexuality and Gender Identity in the Irish Education System”
Speaker: Dr. Aoife Neary, School of Education, University of Limerick
5pm: Wednesday, 7 March 2018
Venue: AM214 Siobhán McKenna Theatre, Arts Millennium Building, NUI Galway.
Biography: Dr Aoife Neary joined UL School of Education 2014. She currently has a funded research partnership with the Transgender Equality Network of Ireland. Drawing on feminist, queer and affect theory, her work explores the politics of gender and sexuality as they are lived, constructed and configured in schools and society. Her recent book entitled LGBT-Q Teachers, Civil Partnership and Same-sex Marriage: The Ambivalences of Legitimacy is published with Routledge. RSVP by 5 March 2018 to caroline.casey@nuigalway.ie, 091 495985

8th March
University Women’s Network – International Women’s Day Lecture – 2018
“Excellence in higher education through gender equality: a personal and professional reflection”
Keynote Address: Máire Geoghegan-Quinn
Date/time: Thursday 8 March/12.30-14.00
Venue: Siobhan McKenna Theatre, Art Millennium Building
During her parliamentary career from 1975 to 1997, Dr. Geoghegan-Quinn became Ireland’s first female cabinet minister since the foundation of the State when she was appointed Minister for the Gaeltacht in 1979. She also served as Minister for Justice, Minister for Tourism, Transport and Communications, Minister for European Affairs, and Minister of State in the Department of Education. As EU Commissioner, she pioneered the development and delivery of Horizon 2020, the world’s largest public research funding programme.Most recently, she chaired the HEA Expert Group who conducted the extensive National Review of Gender Equality in Irish Higher Education Institutions.
9th March
The Irish Centre for Human Rights in association with Gender Arc at NUI Galway
“Abortion Law Reform”
Date time: Friday, March 9th 2018/ 11.00am-2.00pm
Venue: Aula Maxima, NUI Galway
As the mooted date for a referendum on Article 40.3.3 of the Constitution draws closer, this event draws together a number of prominent human rights advocates and academics to consider the challenges and possibilities of abortion law in a post-Eighth Amendment Ireland.
Speakers:
Professor Carol Sanger, Barbara Aronstein Black Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and author of About Abortion: Terminating Pregnancy in the 21st Century
Les Allamby, Chief Commissioner Northern Irish Human Rights Commission
Dr Eilionóir Flynn, Director of the Centre for Disability Law and Policy , NUI Galway
Dr Claire Murray, School of Law, University College Cork
Professor Siobhán Mullally, Director, Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway.
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/about-abortion-the-law-and-politics-of-reform-tickets-43025789294
9th March
The Centre for Global Women’s Studies, School of Political Science and Sociology
Invites you to the 10th Anniversary Celebration of the MA in Gender, Globalisation and Rights, coinciding with International Women’s Day and the 100th anniversary for women’s suffrage in Ireland.
Speakers will include former and current students and staff and will feature a student-produced documentary on the ways in which the MA has helped our students to ‘press for progress’ on gender equality issues.
Date/time: Friday March 9th, 3.00-5.00pm, with a reception (including birthday cake!) to follow
Venue: AM243 lecture theatre, Aras Moyola
All are welcome but please RSVP for catering purposes to m.geoghehan7@nuigalway.ie
Main Contact: genderarc@nuigalway.ie

Graduate Research Seminars in History 2017-18
2018-03-07 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Graduate Research Seminars in History 2017-18
Andrew Ó Donghaíle
Contracting Peace in Early Medieval Ireland
Contact: Gearóid Barry – gearoid.barry@nuigalway.ie

Máirtín Ó Direáin: Fathach File/Reluctant Modernist exhibition
2018-03-07 15:00 - 16:30 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland

Digital Scholarship Seminar 38: Deirdre Ní Chonghaile
2018-03-07 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Duplicates & doppelgängers: Generating digital solutions to cataloguing, accessibility and network-analysis challenges
A NUI Postdoctoral Fellow in Irish/Celtic Studies affiliated with Roinn na Gaeilge and based in the Moore Institute, Deirdre Ní Chonghaile aims to generate discussion of some of her digital humanities research challenges with the Digital Scholarship Seminar. She will highlight three archival collections and three challenges: cataloguing the Irish recordings of Sidney Robertson Cowell (1955-57), dispersed and duplicated across two institutions; designing an open-access digital archive o…f the wax cylinder recordings of Prof. Tomás Ó Máille (1909-1938); and generating a research strategy for the digital re-imagining of the Rev. Murphy collection of song manuscripts and annotated print journal An Gaodhal (1884-1920s), which represents an unprecedented contribution to the network-mapping of sean-nós song practice in pre-literate, print and transatlantic contexts. Together, these challenges present a rare opportunity to investigate how digital functionalities can facilitate our efforts to trace and demonstrate the relationships between oral, literary and performance practices of Irish traditional music.
Dr Deirdre Ní Chonghaile (BA Oxon, MA Oxon, PhD) is NUI Fellow in Irish/Celtic Studies at the Moore Institute in NUI Galway. Previously, she was NEH Keough Fellow at the University of Notre Dame, Alan Lomax Fellow in the Library of Congress, and Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at NUI Galway, where she also worked more recently with the Digital Cultures Initiative. She is currently preparing a book on music-collecting in Ireland and researching a recently uncovered collection of sean-nós song manuscripts created in Pennsylvania, the Rev. Daniel J. Murphy Collection, which constitutes the largest extant manuscript collection of Irish song ever to have been created by independent collectors.
Contact Padraic Moran on padraic.moran@nuigalway.ie

Archaeology Seminar
2018-03-06 16:00 - 17:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The next postgraduate seminar will be given by Frank J. Hall who is a Galway doctoral research scholar in Archaeology.
Title: The fortified houses and stronghouses of Connacht, c.1580-1650: gentry houses or the continuation of the castle tradition into post-medieval Ireland?
Contact Maggie Ronaynce – maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie
