Moore Institute

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

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

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

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

Speakers

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

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

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

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

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

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

Drone imagery has played a key role in the twenty-first century in the framing and dissemination of images of the Irish landscape. The internet has provided a broad global dissemination of images that are not just static visualizations, but also include interactive video and three-dimensional images, thereby re-circulating notions of place, identity, and geography. New tools used by television and tourist campaigns include drone photography and video. Both have been used to reinforce the emptied-out “wild” nostalgic landscapes of Ireland through the means of sheer physical distance, rendering any existing modernity framed out of the view. It is a repeated trope of the past, but one now further enhanced and spectacularized by new technology. In the 2007-10 Irish show Single-Handed, set in Connemara in the West of Ireland, the main character’s mother highlights the contrast between the nostalgic vision of past and present Ireland to its historic and contemporary realities: “There’s a tragedy here is what I’m saying. People come here now to look at the view. Don’t think they know what it is they are seeing.” This talk will examine how drone imagery engenders the spectacularization of the landscape, a trope frequently encountered in the envisioning of Ireland.
Dr. Jeannine Kraft is Professor, and Chair of the History of Art & Visual Culture department at Columbus College of Art & Design (Columbus, Ohio). She completed her PhD, Landscape Legacies: The Renegotiation of the Irish West in Contemporary Visual Culture, with the Centre for Irish Studies at the National University of Ireland Galway, now University of Galway, in 2019. She has received CCAD Faculty Development Grants (2016-22) as well as the Griffith Faculty Excellence Award in 2016. She has presented her research nationally and internationally. Her work focuses on the legacy of the representation of Ireland in contemporary Irish visual culture and she is currently teaching a seminar class on landscape in Ireland and how contemporary artists negotiate the inherited legacies of place.
Please note that this seminar will take place on zoom. Join Zoom Meeting at: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/99784781437?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 997 8478 1437
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Photo credit: ãNick Fox / Adobe Stock

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

Chair: Daniel Carey, Director, Moore Institute

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

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

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

Travellers Tomorrow
Expanding the Future
Eileen Flynn
Seanad Éireann

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

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

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

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

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

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

Description

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Following the presentations and discussion, Niall Ó Dochartaigh, University of Galway, will launch Brendan O’Leary’s Making Sense of a United Ireland: Should it Happen? How Might it Happen? (Penguin, 2022), which was completed while he was a Fulbright Fellow in the University of Galway in 2021–22.
Róisín Healy is a historian of modern Europe at the University of Galway, where she is Head of the Discipline of History and a Co-Director of the Centre for the Investigation of Transnational Encounters. She has published widely on the history of Imperial Germany, Irish nationalism and intra-European colonialism, with particular reference to Ireland and Prussian Poland. Among her many publications are The Jesuit Specter in Imperial Germany (Brill, 2003) and Poland in the Irish Nationalist Imagination, 1772–1922 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). She has edited several collections of essays, including Mobility in the Russian, Central and East European Past (Routledge, 2019), with Enrico dal Lago, The Shadow of Colonialism on Europe’s Modern Past (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and, with Gearóid Barry, Family Histories of World War II: Survivors and Descendants (Bloomsbury, 2021).
Niall Ó Dochartaigh, a political scientist at the University of Galway, is the author of Deniable Contact: Back Channel Negotiation in Northern Ireland (Oxford University Press, 2021; paperback, 2023), an analysis of secret negotiations between the British government and Irish republicans during the late twentieth-century ‘Troubles’. Among his many other publications on the politics of that conflict is a seminal study of the outbreak of violence in Derry in the late 1960s and early 1970s, From Civil Rights to Armalites: Derry and the Birth of the Irish Troubles (Cork University Press, 1997; Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). He is co-editor of several collections of essays, including, with Daniel Pisoiu and Lorenzo Bosi, Political Violence in Context (ECPR Press 2015), and, with Katy Hayward and Elizabeth Meehan, of Dynamics of Political Change in Ireland: Making and Breaking a Divided Island (Routledge 2017).
Brendan O’Leary is the author, co-author and editor of thirty books. His research interests include theories of the liberal democratic state, nationalism, national and ethnic conflict regulation, and power-sharing in deeply divided places. The inaugural winner of the Juan Linz Prize of the International Political Science Association for lifetime contributions to the study of federalism, democratization, and multinational states, he is a Member of the US Council on Foreign Relations and he has served as the second Senior Advisor on Power-Sharing in the Mediation Unit of the United Nations. Northern Ireland and Ireland have been key concerns over the course of his career. His most recent books are the landmark A Treatise on Northern Ireland, 3 vols. (Oxford University Press, 2020) and Making Sense of a United Ireland: Should it Happen? How Might it Happen? (Penguin, 2022). O’Leary teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Lauder Professor of Political Sciences.
Richard Wyn Jones is a political scientist at Cardiff University, where he is Director of the Wales Governance Centre and Dean of Public Affairs. He has written extensively, in Welsh and English, on the politics of Wales, devolution in the United Kingdom, and nationalism. His most recent books are The Criminal Justice System in Wales (University of Wales Press, 2022) and Englishness: The Political Force Transforming Britain (Oxford University Press, 2021). He is a regular broadcaster, commentating on Welsh politics across the UK. He has presented two TV series and is a regular columnist for the Welsh language current affairs magazine Barn. In addition, he contributes comment columns to various newspapers including the Western Mail, Irish Times, Guardian and Sunday Times.
This event is facilitated by the Office of the Deputy President and Registrar and the Office of the Vice-President for Research.
Image: ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons

Magic Mists and Recent Irish Poetry
2023-03-09 16:00 - 17:00 | THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
Magic Mists and Recent Irish Poetry
a lecture by Lucy McDiarmid
(Marie Frazee-Baldassarre Professor of English, Montclair State University)
Visiting Research Fellow at Trinity Long Room Hub
In recent Irish poetry, streets disappear, cats and pigs talk, mummies board trains, ferns create a semiotic system, and a dead man reads Anna Karenina. The rich legacy of the Irish cultural imaginary is ubiquitous, but Ceo Draíochta , the magic mist of the eighteenth century, is now only slightly magical. Lucy McDiarmid will discuss this ontological issue in her lecture; she is Marie Frazee-Baldassarre Professor of English at Montclair State University, and the author most recently of At Home in the Revolution: what women said and did in 1916 and Poets and the Peacock Dinner: the literary history of a meal.

'An Chruit agus na Cruitirí sa tseanaimsir in Éirinn: blogh dá scéal'
2023-03-10 12:30 - 13:30 | Seomra an Droichid THB-1001, An Chéad Urlár, Institiúid de Móra, Áras Uí Argadáin, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe agus ar Zoom
Tionólfar an ceathrú léacht sa tsraith seo, ar an Aoine, 10 Márta @ 12:30 i.n. i Seomra an Droichid THB-1001, An Chéad Urlár, Institiúid de Móra, Áras Uí Argadáin, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe agus ar Zoom.
‘An Chruit agus na Cruitirí sa tseanaimsir in Éirinn: blogh dá scéal’
An tOllamh Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha, Roinn na Gaeilge, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe
Is féidir clárú anois ar https://tinyurl.com/mairin-nidhonnchadha

The Irish at the Oscars: a discussion of The Banshees of Inisherin and An Cailín Ciúin
2023-03-10 15:00 - 16:00 | THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
Moore Institute Pop up Event
The Irish at the Oscars: a discussion of The Banshees of Inisherin and An Cailín Ciúin
with Dr Tony Tracy (Huston School of Film & Digital Media, University of Galway)
Seán Breathnach (Léann na Cumarsáide, Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge, University of Galway), award-winning director of Foscadh

Book Launch: A Conceptual History of Psychology The Mind Through Time
2023-03-10 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Book Launch
The Moore Institute, University of Galway
cordially invites you to celebrate the launch of:
A Conceptual History of Psychology
The Mind Through Time
by Brian Hughes
(London: Bloomsbury)

With launch introduction
(via Zoom) by
Prof Krys Kaniasty
Indiana University of Pennsylvania

From the cover: A Conceptual History of Psychology charts the development of Psychology from its foundations in ancient philosophy to becoming the world’s most popular science in the present day. Emphasising Psychology’s diverse global heritage, the book explains how, across centuries, human beings came to use reason, empiricism, and science to explore each other’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. The book skilfully interweaves conceptual and historical issues to illustrate the contemporary relevance of history to the discipline. It shows how changing historical and cultural contexts have shaped the way in which modern Psychology conceptualises individuals, brains, personality, gender, cognition, consciousness, health, childhood, and relationships.
‘In this tour-de-force, Brian Hughes provides a comprehensive history of psychology… a must-read for anyone interested in gaining a broader perspective on psychology and broader ideas about human nature’ ― Hans Pols, University of Sydney, Australia.
‘Hughes has set the bar for a textbook on conceptual, historical and philosophical issues in psychology. It stands apart’ ― Gareth Hall, Aberystwyth University, UK.
‘Finally, we have a comprehensive and detail-oriented introduction to the history of psychology which brings in a range of non-Western perspectives to challenge all the given tenets from 20th century Western psychology’ ― Sven Hroar Klempe, Norwegian University of Technology and Science, Norway.
‘Brian Hughes’ clear and engaging writing style, and use of examples from popular culture, literature and modern politics make this an entertaining and insightful text’ ― Michael Smith, Northumbria University, UK.
Refreshments will be served.

Figuring Ecologies Reading Network (FERN) – The Poetry of Derek Mahon and Moya Cannon
2023-03-15 13:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Staff and students are warmly invited to attend the next gathering of the Figuring Ecologies Reading Network (FERN). We meet each month to discuss a literary or creative work on the subject of ecologies.
Next Meeting: Wednesday 15 March 2023, Bridge Room, Moore Institute, 13.00-14.00
We will discuss The Poetry of Derek Mahon and Moya Cannon (email for readings).
All welcome!
For further information please contact:

Ashley Cahillane (School of English and Creative Arts) A.CAHILLANE1@nuigalway.ie
Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha (School of Languages, Literature and Cultures) L.NICHOISTEALBHA1@nuigalway.ie
Nessa Cronin (School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies) nessa.cronin@universityofgalway.ie
Patrick Lonergan (School of English and Creative Arts) patrick.lonergan@universityofgalway.ie
Tina-Karen Pusse (School of Languages, Literature and Cultures) tina-karen.pusse@universityofgalway.ie

University of Galway History Seminar: Irish Architects in Africa: Tropicalism in the Built Environment and its Legacy
2023-03-15 16:00 - 17:30 | Room AMB-G065, Arts Millennium Building (Psychology), University of Galway
Dr Lisa Godson
(National College of Art and Design, Dublin)
Irish Architects in Africa:
Tropicalism in the Built Environment and its Legacy

Abstract
This paper focuses on the phenomenon of Irish architects who produced work that was built in different African countries including Kenya, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Nigeria from c.1948-78. It draws in particular on oral histories, archival research, film, architectural drawings and architectural and missionary publications. A key consideration is how totalising discourses of tropicalism, modernism and Catholicism and specific working practices and material conditions produced buildings and narratives that privileged a heroic narrative of the missionary project as well as certain attitudes to the agency of those who constructed hundreds of churches, seminaries, hospitals and schools. It will also briefly address the legacy of ‘tropical modern’ architecture, an approach to building in particular regions, particularly as formulated in the early 1950s, and still espoused by particular agents such as the World Bank. Also under consideration is how Irish historiography, including Irish architectural history, approaches questions of religion and modernity.
Biography
Lisa Godson is programme leader for the MA in Design History and Material Culture at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. Her co-edited publications include Uniform: Clothing and Discipline in the Modern World (2019); Modern Religious Architecture in Germany, Ireland and Beyond (2019); Making 1916: Visual and Material Culture of the Easter Rising (2015). Her monograph How the Crowd Felt: Public Ritual, Memory and Space in the Irish Free State is forthcoming. She has undertaken a number of collaborations with artists including Still Films for Build Something Modern, based on her research into modern architecture in West Africa.
Registration
This is a hybrid event, organised in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Religion, Moore Institute.
To attend via Zoom, please register at: https://forms.office.com/e/L9QJGv8nqF.
The talk will be streamed simultaneously on Zoom: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/j/95381823181

The School of Political Science and Sociology research seminar: 'Researching the Public Life of Alice Cashel (1878-1958): Themes, Sources and Questions'
2023-03-16 13:00 - 14:00 | CA110, Cairns Building, University of Galway
The School of Political Science and Sociology invite you to a research seminar with:
Mary Clancy (Global Women’s Studies Research Cluster)
‘Researching the Public Life of Alice Cashel (1878-1958): Themes, Sources and Questions’

Abstract:
This talk examines the fractured public life of Alice Cashel, a woman known for her political roles in early twentieth century Ireland. She remains a somewhat marginalised figure, despite the prominence of her effort during the revolutionary years (e.g. c. 1914-c.1922). The absence of private papers is an obvious constraint though it is possible to construct a version of her life-story using the generous range of public records associated with her, from civil registration and census returns to travel and prison records. Records available through the Military Archives e.g. military pension application and Witness Statement provide valuable personal and political detail, as well as insight into the nature of conflict between personal remembering and public notice. In constructing an extended version of Alice Cashel’s life-story, therefore, the talk analyses the possibilities of the limited archive, as well as the intricate task of contextualising the political reputation of a woman revolutionary figure.
Mary Clancy, School of Political Science and Sociology, has written on gender, social class and citizenship, post-revolutionary Ireland and life-story research. She has contributed to university exhibitions of women graduates and public history documentaries. Publications include ‘Women of the West: campaigning for the vote in early twentieth century Galway, c.1911-c.1915’ in L. Ryan and M. Ward (eds.), Irish Women and the Vote (2018).
All Welcome!

Getting to Good Friday: Literature and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland
2023-03-20 16:00 - 17:00 | THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
Marilynn Richtarik
(Georgia State University)
“Getting to Good Friday: Literature and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland”

Biography:
Dr. Richtarik teaches courses on 20th-century British, Irish, and world literature and modern drama. She was educated at Harvard (where she earned an undergraduate honors degree in American History and Literature) and at Oxford University, which she attended as a Rhodes Scholar. Her research interests center on Northern Irish literature and theatre, where politics and artistic production are intimately related. Her research has been supported by the Rhodes Trust, the Killam Trust, the American Philosophical Society, the National Humanities Center, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Hambidge Center, and the US-UK Fulbright Commission.

On Collaboration, Mediation and Performance Practices
2023-03-21 16:00 - 17:00 | THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
“On Collaboration, Mediation and Performance Practices”
Dr. Esther Armstrong
Programme Director for Performance Design and Technologies
Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts London

Digital Innovation & Creativity in Arts and Humanities Research
2023-03-22 13:30 - 15:00 | THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
Digital Innovation & Creativity in Arts and Humanities Research
Sessions
Lightning Talks: Current Directions in Digital Innovation & Creativity in AHSS Research
Panel Discussion: “The future of digital innovation & creative technologies in AHSS research at University of Galway”

1:30 Words of welcome Prof. Dan Carey
1:40
Lightning Presentations: 3 mins/3 slides
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Presentation 1
Prof. Marie Louise Coolahan;
Funding: ERC Consolidator Project;
RECIRC: The Reception and Circulation of Early modern Women’s Writing, 15501700 is a research project about the impact of women writers and tehir works in the sixteenth and seventeeth centuries.
Link: https://recirc.universityofgalway.ie
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Presentation 2
Dr. Mairéad Ní Chroinín
Funding: Arts Council of Ireland
Designing mechanics to encourage practices of ‘ecological perception’ through digital performance.
Through a Theatre Artist in Residence grant from the Arts Council of Ireland, in partnership with Nuns Island Theatre and the Moore Institute, I am exploring how interactive, immersive performances created with digital technologies can change our understanding of how we are connected with the environment around us. This builds on the argument developed by Laura Sewall (ecopyschologist) that we must ‘practice’ different ways of paying attention to our bodies and the world around us in order to connect with the ways in which we are a part of, rather than separate from, the ecosystem in which we live. Sewall argues that fostering this new ‘ecological perception’ is crucial to changing the negative human behaviours that have contributed to the environmental and climate crises.
In this project I am exploring the ways in which digital technologies such as sensor technologies, responsive audio, and mixed and virtual reality allows us to create performance mechanics that encourage the audience member to physically ‘practice’ these new forms of ‘ecological perception’.

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Presentation 3
Dr. Pat Collins
Measuring Place Resonance

UrbanLab Galway brings together a range of views, expertise and methods to investigate and prototype solutions to contemporary urban issues. Building partnerships between communities and organisations in order to promote participatory approaches to the sustainable transformation of place.
Current projects, funded by Horizon Europe (INSITU: Place-based innovation of cultural and creative industries in no-urban areas), funded by SFI (Platform Urbanism: Knowing the city), both make use of technology to help us better understand the role of culture and creativity in making places.
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Presentation 4
Dr. Conn Holohan
Funding: IRC (2019, 2022), SFI Discover (2023)
Immersive Empathy
Using Immersive Technologies to communicate the experience of homelessness – the objective of the project is to explore Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (VR/AR) immersive experiences in collaboration with clients from the Galway Simon Community to look at how we can capture and convey aspects of the experience of homelessness
Link: https://iempathy.universityofgalway.ie

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Presentation 5
Dr. Jacopo Bisagni – presented by Dr. Sarah Corrigan, postdoctoral researcher on the project.
Funding: IRC Laureate
IRCABRITT Ireland and Carolingian Brittany: Texts and Transmission. The project explores the intellectual exchanges between Ireland, Brittany and Francia during the Carolingian age (c. AD 750–1000).
Link: https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie
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Presentation 6
Dr. Justin Tonra
Funding: European Assoc for Digital Humanities
Eververse was a yearlong project which synthesised perspectives from the humanities and sciences to develop critical and creative explorations of poetry and poetic identity in the digital age. Deploying tools and methods from poetic theory, data processing and analysis, and Natural Language Generation (NLG), Eververse used data from a quantified self device to automatically generate and publish poetry which correlated with the poet’s varying physical states.
Link: https://eververse.nuigalway.ie
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Presentation 7
Marie Boran – Archivist, James Hardiman Library
Funding: IRC and Heritage Council
Irish Landed Estates project is running since 2005. It aims to create a signpost for those wishing to know more about landed estates in Ireland, c.1700-c.1914. It includes a short description of the estate with details of the families who owned it and any Big Houses. A principal element are the references to the location of archival and printed sources which provide more information on the estate.
Data for 11 counties in Connacht and Munster is currently available while work is nearing completion on three Ulster counties, Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan. The database, including an interactive map, is available at https://landedestates.ie/.
Link: https://landedestates.ie

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Presentation 8
Dr. Seán Crosson
Funding: CASSCS Strategic Research Development Scheme
Sport and European Cinema: This web resource has developed from ongoing research by Dr. Seán Crosson of the depiction of sport in film and is dedicated to capturing the extraordinary story of how sport has featured across the history of European cinema – and the fascinating insights relevant productions give us today into the development of specific sports, national cultures and European society more broadly. On this platform visitors will find an extensive database of primarily European fiction films featuring sport dating back to the first fiction production from 1910, Rogues of the Turf (UK), and includes relevant links to further databases (both international and national), information and (in some cases) streaming possibilities. The database will also allow visitors to explore data visualisations of some of the information gathered there, including with regard to time of release, country, associated genre and production company. In addition to the database, the platform also hosts case studies based on the research materials gathered, a list of relevant project publications, a bibliography of relevant texts on the subject of sport in the cinema, and a blog (that we welcome new entries to). Learning resources are currently being developed as part of a related EC funded project ‘Film Corner’.
Link: https://sportandfilm.eu
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Presentation 9
An tOll Rióna Ní Fhrighil presented by Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha, Research Assistant on the project.
Funding: IRC Laureate
Republic of Conscience: Human Rights and Modern Irish Poetry (RoC) is an IRC-funded research project that examines how Irish poets respond to international human rights violations and crises in their poetry. RoC proposes a multilingual understanding of ‘Irish poetry’ and includes poems composed in Irish or in English as well as poems translated into Irish or English in the 20th and 21st century.
A significant output is an open-access, searchable database with details of relevant poems collected to date.
Link: https://roc.nuigalway.ie (In Progress)

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2:15 Panel Discussion
“The future of digital innovation & creative technologies in Arts and Humanities research
at University of Galway”
Chair: Dr. Paul Dodd, Vice President for Engagement
Panellists:

Dr. Pádraic Moran – Current IRC Laureate PI of project Global and Local Scholarship on Annotated Manuscripts (GLOSSAM), Co-ordinator of the Digital Humanities Research Group within the Moore Institute/CASSCS.
Dr. Erin McCarthy – Current IRC Laureate PI of “STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse, 1558–1660” and incoming ERC Coordinator PI of ‘Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse, 1475–1700 (STEMMA)’.
Dr. Conn Holohan, Director of the Centre for Creative Technologies and PI of the IRC funded Immersive Empathy Project.
Prof. Rebecca Braun – Executive Dean, CASSCS
David Kelly – Digital Humanities Manager, Moore Institute

2:50

Networking – Tea/Coffee

Exhibition Launch Gerald Dawe: Cultural Belongings
2023-03-22 17:30 - 18:30 | THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
Join us for the launch of the exhibition Gerald Dawe: Cultural Belongings.
The career of the prolific poet, essayist, and memoirist Gerald Dawe has led him from his origins in Belfast to graduate work in Galway and a lecturing post here, and subsequent move to Dublin where he taught at TCD. He is author of ten collections of poetry and numerous books of criticism, life writing and anthologising of Irish writing.
This event features Gerry in conversation with Dr Frank Ferguson (Director of the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, Ulster University).

The audio recording of the Exhibition Launch Gerald Dawe: Cultural Belongings event is available on the Moore Institute Podcast Channel

Speakers include:
Professor Dan Carey (Director of the Moore Institute, University of Galway)
Professor Pól Ó’Dochartaigh (Registrar and Deputy President, University of Galway)
Dr. Frank Ferguson (Director of the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Ulster) in conversation with Gerald Dawe
Dr. Barry Houlihan (Archivist, University of Galway)

Public Speak Outs
2023-03-22 19:30 - 2023-03-23 19:30 | Druid Theatre, Galway City & Lady Gregory Hotel, Gort
The UrbanLab is hosting two public Speak Outs later this month that invite citizens to give short presentations on local development issues. The Speak Outs ask how we can make Galway and the wider region a better place.
The Galway City Speak Out is on Wednesday, 22 March at 7.30 pm at the Druid Theatre. The Eventbrite page is here.
The Gort Speak Out is on Thursday 23 March at 7.30 pm at the Lady Gregory Hotel, Gort. The Eventbrite page for the event is here.

Fráma Eile: An tOileánach / The Islander by Tomás Ó Criomhthain
2023-03-23 11:30 - 13:30 | Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, University of Galway
Fráma Eile: An tOileánach / The Islander by Tomás Ó Criomhthain

Description:
The Fráma Eile roundtable series, organized by PhD students in the Centre for Irish Studies and Roinn na Gaeilge, explores new approaches to framing established texts (in both English and Irish), material objects, and artwork in the Irish Studies canon.
The first roundtable discusses An tOileánach / the Islander by Tomás Ó Criomhthain, the famous Blasket Island autobiography. Three speakers will highlight aspects of the text which have escaped critical attention to date, as well as suggest new reading methods and consider how An tOileánach has been framed in the academy to date.
This event will be bilingual.
All are welcome, and after presentations, the floor will be open to contributions and comments from all in attendance.

Palynology and land-use in Preseli: Investigating the origin of the Stonehenge bluestones
2023-03-23 13:00 - 13:50 | Education Room, Galway City Museum
The School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies Spring Lunchtime Lecture Series 2023
Thursday, 2 March Dr Kevin Lynch
Can sand dunes survive climate change?
Thursday, 9 March Conor Newman
The bull with the sun on its forehead
Thursday, 16 March Dr Kieran O’Conor
Recent research at Moygara Castle, Co. Sligo
Thursday, 23 March Dr Daisy Spencer
Palynology and land-use in Preseli: Investigating the origin of the Stonehenge bluestones
Thursday, 30 March John Brady
Locating Athenry in ‘Castlerampart’: Mary Lavin’s literary townscapes

The School of Political Science and Sociology research seminar: ‘Spoiled for choice: The effects of negative political messaging in multiparty systems with multimember electoral districts’
2023-03-23 13:00 - 14:00 | AS203 (Arts/Science Building, River Room), University of Galway
The School of Political Science and Sociology invite you to a research seminar with:
Michele Crepaz (Queen’s University Belfast)
Supported by the Power, Conflict and Ideologies Research Cluster
‘Spoiled for choice: The effects of negative political messaging in multiparty systems with multimember electoral districts’
Abstract:
Classical electoral behaviour theories associate the use of negative campaigning with two-party plurality systems. Nevertheless, negative campaigning has become a widely used electoral strategy also outside of these contexts, despite scant scholarly evidence of its benefits for political parties and candidates who employ it. Our research question is simple – is negative campaign messaging effective in multiparty systems with multimember districts? Or does it create a ‘boomerang effect’ in this context, for which the producer of the message faces a backlash? Multiparty systems with multimember districts should, according to the literature, be least-likely scenarios, where the effects of negative campaigning are most complex if not unpredictable. If found to be effective, this could be evidence that the strategy of attacking political opponents is less context dependent than previously assumed. This paper uses the newly available archive of Facebook political ads to inform a survey experiment design that tests the effects of negative political messages on voters. We employ this survey in Ireland, which uses the single transferable vote system, as a suitable least-likely case. Our results suggest some preliminary evidence in support of the efficacy of negative campaigning in these contexts which invalidate previously held assumptions. We also probe the causal mechanisms that underlie the effects of negative messages in this context.
Paper Authors:
Alan Duggan (University of Nottingham)
Michele Crepaz (Queen’s University Belfast)
Liam Kneafsey (Trinity College Dublin)
All Welcome!

Breaking Ground: Diversity and Inclusivity in Ireland’s Literary and Publishing Communities
2023-03-23 13:00 - 16:00 | THB-G011 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway & online via Zoom
Breaking Ground: Diversity and Inclusivity in Ireland’s Literary and Publishing Communities
To mark Nelson Mandela Anti-Racism Week at the University of Galway, this event addresses the following question: how can we develop more inclusive literary and publishing industries that reflect Ireland’s rich and diverse culture? In the first part of the event (1:00-2:00 pm), authors from Breaking Ground Ireland (Ashwin Chacko, Charlotte Rea-Patel, Mary Watson) will deliver readings from their creative work. Launched in 2022, Breaking Ground Ireland, is a groundbreaking publication that profiles emerging and established writers and illustrators from ethnic minority backgrounds, including those from Irish Traveller backgrounds. Refreshments will be served during a social interval (2:00-2:30 pm). In the second part of the event (2:30-4:00 pm), speakers (Sharmilla Beezmohun of Speaking Volumes and Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan of Skein Press) will address different aspects of inclusion and diversity in the literary and publishing industries in Ireland, referring to their personal experiences of advocacy and activism in this area. Both will examine the current state of the field and make recommendations on best practices for building inclusivity in those environments. The event will conclude with a roundtable discussion featuring all invited speakers. This event is co-organised and moderated by Dr Justin Tonra and Dr Lindsay Reid of the School of English and Creative Arts.
Further information and registration at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/breaking-ground-diversity-inclusivity-in-literature-publishing-tickets-526493485187

A conversation with Claudia Durastanti
2023-03-23 17:00 - 18:00 | AMB-G065, Psychology Building, University of Galway (hybrid event)
Description: Francesco Chianese (Cardiff University) and Michela Sereni (University of Galway) in conversation with Italian author Claudia Durastanti. Durastanti is the author of four novels, including the 2019 La Straniera, which was shortlisted for the Premio Strega and was translated into English as Strangers I Know by Elizabeth Harris (2022). Durastanti is a translator herself, working from English to Italian: she translated the latest Italian edition of The Great Gatsby and has also translated works by Donna Haraway, Joshua Cohen, and Ocean Vuong.
The talk will be delivered in English.
Webinar registration: https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jhLHqatQROWuK9CD6-VcAw

Margaret Heavey Memorial Lecture
2023-03-23 18:00 - 19:00 | Joseph Larmor Theatre (Concourse)
Margaret Heavey Memorial Lecture
by Dr Eoghan Moloney, Maynooth University:
‘Old New Kings: Alexander the Great and the Presentation of Power’

Abstract: This talk will look at the literary presentation of the Macedonian kings in early history, aiming to reconsider how the rule of the Argead kings was presented and understood by contemporaries. At the heart of this investigation is the inevitable contrast of Philip II and Alexander III, emphasizing the limits of many stock comparisons and highlighting, instead, the subtlety of the approach of the ancient Macedonians.
Speaker: Dr Eoghan Moloney is Lecturer in Ancient History in the Department of Ancient Classics, returning to Maynooth having formerly been senior lecturer in Classical Studies at the University of Winchester (2015–2022) as well as lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Adelaide (2006–2012). Eoghan took both BA & MA in Maynooth and then then moved to Darwin College, Cambridge, where he completed his PhD on the cultural history of the ancient Macedonians in the Faculty of Classics. That remains a key topic of interest, with a new History of Macedonia in preparation for publication by Bloomsbury. But Eoghan has also published on the reception of Classics in Ireland and on the topic of peace in antiquity (Peace and Reconciliation in the Classical World (Routledge 2017, with Michael Williams).
Reception to follow. All welcome!
