Moore Institute

Gender ARC Seminar “The Political is Personal: Mary Sheehy Kettle and the story of The Ways of War (1917)” by Speaker Prof. Niamh Reilly
2017-12-06 13:00 - 14:00 UTC | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
“The Political is Personal: Mary Sheehy Kettle and the story of The Ways of War (1917)”
Speaker: Prof. Niamh Reilly, School of Political Science and Sociology
Introduction by Dr. Muireann O’Cinneide, English/School of Humanities
Supported by the IRC New Foundations 2017 Decade of Centenaries Scheme
Mary Sheehy (1884-1967) was born into a prominent nationalist family in Ireland, a daughter of David Sheehy, Irish Party MP, and sister of Hanna Sheehy Skeffington. Over her lifetime, she became well-known as a leading women’s movement activist, an advocate for “nationalist veterans” of World War I, and a determined champion of social and economic justice, especially on behalf of women and children. In 1908, Mary Sheehy married Tom Kettle (1880-1916), then viewed by many to be a “rising star”; a young Irish Party MP (1906-1910), gifted journalist, essayist, orator and vocal supporter of women’s rights. Both were part of an emerging, university-educated generation, many Catholic, who expected to play a leading role in the “new Ireland”. As is now well known, events surrounding the 1916 rising radically altered the trajectory of Irish history. The story of how Tom Kettle came to spend the final weeks of his life in 1916 in France, with the Dublin Fusiliers fighting in the Allied War effort, is laden with poignancy and paradoxes. One of his last acts in France was to change his will asking that Mary be his literary executor and to send scribbled notes outlining a book of essays that he hoped would be published, which he wrote on the warfront in 1916 and earlier, as a war correspondent, in Belgium when the country was first invaded in 1914. This paper traces the story of that book, The Ways of War, published 100 years ago, in which Mary S. Kettle is the main protagonist. It is a story of the pair’s enduring political and intellectual partnership and Mary S Kettle’s struggle to establish herself as a post-1916 political actor in her own right and to vindicate Tom Kettle’s reputation after his death. As such it offers a unique window on how the dramatic transformation of the post-1916 political terrain in Ireland, and its new nationalist narrative, was encountered by those whom it eclipsed.

Bronagh McShane 'Visualising the Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Nuns’ Letters'
2017-12-06 12:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
The final event of the Autumn 2017 series of Digital Scholarship Seminar takes place on Wednesday 6 December at 12pm, and features a talk on network analysis of early modern nuns’ correspondence by Bronagh McShane, Postdoctoral Researcher at RECIRC: The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550-1700. The paper discusses network analysis methodology, challenges, and consequences with respect to an archive of letters written during the seventeenth century by and about members of the English Benedictine convent in Brussels. As ever, all are welcome.
12pm | Wednesday 6 December 2017 | Hardiman Building 1001 (The Bridge) | Facebook event page
Bronagh McShane (RECIRC, NUIG) Visualising the Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Nuns’ Letters Preserved in the Archive of the Archdiocese of Mechelen (AAM) in Belgium are hundreds of letters written during the seventeenth century by and about members of the English Benedictine convent in Brussels. This paper discusses the methodology for applying network visualisation tools to data gathered from this archive, some of the challenges involved in doing so, and how the application of digital and visual approaches can open up new ways of understanding the reception and circulation of early modern women’s writing. Bronagh McShane is a historian specialising in the history of women, religion and confessionalisation in early modern Ireland and Europe. She is currently a Post-doctoral Researcher on the project ‘RECIRC: The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550-1700’, led by Prof. Marie-Louise Coolahan at the National University of Ireland Galway, and funded by the European Research Council. Bronagh has published articles on aspects of her research in British Catholic History and Archivium Hibernicum and is contributing to a forthcoming collection on New Directions in Early Modern Irish History (contracted with Routledge). In 2018, she will hold a National University of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities at the Moore Institute, NUI Galway.

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Archaeology Book Launch 'Islands in a Global Context'
2017-12-05 16:00 - 17:30 | Room 202, Archaeology Department, NUI Galway

The Civic University Symposium
2017-12-02 10:00 - 16:00 | MY243 Lecture Theatre, Aras Moyola, NUI Galway
YOU ARE WARMLY INVITED TO
The Civic University Symposium: Reimagining the University for Public Purpose
The inaugural event of the Critical Higher Education Studies (CHES) research group, supported by CELT and the School of Political Science and Sociology Public and Civic Engagement Programme, with keynote speech from Prof Vanessa Andreotti and contributions from Prof Ronaldo Munck and Dr Karen Pashby.
Date: Saturday 2nd December
Time: 10am-4pm
Venue: MY243 Lecture Theatre, Aras Moyola, NUI Galway
All welcome but places are limited.
To RSVP and for more information please see
https://civic_university_symposium.eventbrite.ie

What is the purpose of higher education? Is higher education a public good – and if so, how do we understand the claim that this requires a private cost, and therefore a private gain? Is the knowledge produced by higher education a public good – and if so, how do we understand this in relation to the tendency to lock this knowledge behind paywalls demanded by private publishing companies, and the exclusion of the Global South? Does higher education contribute to building a democratic citizenry – and if so, how does this relate to the increase in performative demands on teaching and research? What are the ethical responsibilities of higher education in the Global North in relation to the majority of the world?

This symposium marks the first public event organised by the Critical Higher Education Studies (CHES) research group, and aims to initiate a generative conversation about the transformations of higher education, and its role in creative re-imaginations of the university, its spaces, mission, activities and purposes, with equality, inclusion and rights as fundamental commitments.

Speakers
Prof Vanessa Andreotti is a professor at the Department for Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia and holds a Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change. She was a post-doctoral fellow at NUI Galway from 2006 to 2008. Her research traces systemic and historical patterns of reproduction of global inequalities and examines how these patterns relate to political and affective economies of knowledge production. She has extensive experience working with governments, NGOs, professional associations and local communities in areas of education related to global justice, community engagement, internationalization and indigenous knowledge systems. Many of her publications are available at: https://ubc.academia.edu/VanessadeOliveiraAndreotti.

Prof Ronaldo Munck is Head of Civic Engagement at DCU and a Visiting Professor of International Development at the University of Liverpool and St. Mary’s University, Nova Scotia. He has authored or edited more than 30 books on various topics related to globalisation, international development and social movements as well as over 100 academic journal articles. He is the founding chair of the Development Studies Association of Ireland and of Campus Engage, the national platform for civic engagement in Ireland. He serves on the editorial boards of a number of international journals and has led a range of research consortiums around social engagement/innovation themes. For further details see: http://www.dcu.ie/community/people/ronaldo-munck.shtml

Dr Karen Pashby is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University in the Department of Childhood, Youth and Education Studies and the Education and Social Research Institute. Drawing on her experience as a secondary school teacher and teacher educator, her research considers the critical intersections of multicultural and global education, internationalisation of curricula and pedagogy, and the complexities of including youth voice in discussions of global citizenship. For more information see: http://www2.mmu.ac.uk/cyes/staff/profile/index.php?id=2637

Moore Institute - Update meeting for staff of CASSCS
2017-12-01 11:00 - 12:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Prof. Daniel Carey, Director of the Moore Institute, will provide an update on MI activities todate and priorities for the future. The meeting will provide an opportunity for staff to have an input into the scheduling of these and other priorities, going forward.
Contact: Martha Shaughnessy – martha.shaughnessy@nuigalway.ie

Imbas Conference 'Misinterpretation and Misunderstanding of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages'
2017-12-01 - 2017-12-03 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Imbas Conference ‘Misinterpretation and Misunderstanding of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages’
December 1st-3rd, G010, Moore Institute, NUI Galway

Imbas is an annual interdisciplinary postgraduate conference focused on Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. This year’s Keynote will be delivered by Prof. Dorothy Kim, assistant Professor of English at Vassar College, New York.
https://www.nuigalway.ie/imbas/

Collections as Data - Hackathon / Collaborative Workshop
2017-11-29 10:00 - 2017-11-30 17:00
Join us for a 2-day Collaborative Workshop / Hackathon / Exploration of creativity using humanities research data.

Do you use research strategies like text or data mining, social network analysis, machine learning, or geocoding in your research?
Do you have subject expertise in cataloguing records, digital humanities, or working with digital collections found in libraries, archives, or cultural heritage institutions?
Can you apply your design skills or artistic talents to visualise complex datasets, help researchers gain new insights, or engage with non-specialist audiences?
Are you curious about any of these things?

NUI Galway, through the Moore Institute and the NUI Galway Library, has developed expertise in the creation of digital archives and research-led collections. The Insight Centre for Data Analytics are world-leaders in the interpretation and analysis of data.
With digital archives and data collections drawn from humanities research as your foundation, you will collaborate in small groups of researchers and practitioners over two days to explore and create. You will walk away with a community of support, and an idea of the possibilities of using collections as data.
The plan
Over this free two-day hands-on hackathon-style event, you will explore what people from diverse backgrounds can create when they work together.
You will work in groups of 3 people. Each group will consist of a humanities researcher, a developer / engineer, and an artist / designer. Over the course of the two days, you will work on a collection of your choice to produce an output that draws on the team’s range of interests, ideas and skills.
We will provide mentors to help you along the way, facilities to work in (including an on-site MakerSpace, if required), and food and drinks to keep you going. For those coming from outside Galway, we will have a limited number of bursaries available to cover travel within Ireland and accommodation.
Sample Collections
Some examples of datasets produced by researchers at NUI Galway that you could work with include:

Duanaire – a collection of datasets related to Irish economic history. One example is Customs15, which is made up of quantitative trade data spanning over 100 years, with data on locations and types of goods, along with high-resolution digitised images of the original source manuscripts.
Earlier Latin Manuscripts – A collection of data and high-resolution images of Latin manuscripts published before the year 800.
Landed Estates – Data, including location and images, on landed estates and historic houses in Ireland (c.1700 – 1914).
Tim Robinson Archive – An index describing 567 town-lands in Aran and Connemara. This draws together information on the language of local place-names, folktales, and historical, geological, archaeological and botanical information from each town-land.

You are welcome to suggest external collections to work on, either as part of a stand-alone project, or with a view to integrating it with a collection developed by researchers at NUI Galway. We will also provide a list of suggested collections closer to the event.
Interested?
Notice: All places at the workshop have been allocated. If you would like to join a waiting list, please add your details to the Expression of Interest form. (Updated, 24/10/17).
We have a limited number of places available for this event; applications will be reviewed in order to ensure a balance in the skills and interests of participants. If you are interested in applying to participate, please complete the Expression of Interest form, and we will be in touch.
Attendees will need to be available to participate on both days of the event, on November 29th and 30th.
Once we finalise sponsorship arrangements, we will be in a position to confirm the number and value of available travel bursaries.
If you have any questions, please contact David Kelly (david.d.kelly@nuigalway.ie) at the Moore Institute, NUI Galway.
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Using SciVal to enhance the presentation of your research metrics and overall Research profile
2017-11-29 10:00 - 11:00 | AM107, Ground Floor, Arts Millennium Building
The Seminar will be given by Matt Walker of Elsevier and will cover the functionality of SciVal and how to use it to promote your research profile and better present your research metrics in your CV and grant applications. SciVal offers quick, easy access to the research performance of 7,500 research institutions and 220 nations worldwide. A ready-to-use solution with unparalleled power and flexibility, SciVal enables you to visualize research performance, benchmark relative to peers, develop collaborative partnerships and identify emerging areas of research. Topics covered will include how researchers can utilise SciVal to:

Tell the story of your research output,
Identify opportunities to enhance your research performance
Enhance presentation of your research output
Support your funding applications,
General overview on SciVal’s functionality including helping identify potential co-collaborators, topics of momentum to inform strategic planning.

Agresso Information Session for Students, Postdoctoral Fellows & Budget Holders
2017-11-27 11:00 - 12:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Staff from the Accounting Office will give an information session on the new requirements for purchasing and claiming expenses.

EDEN: Write Club
2017-11-23 17:00 - 18:30 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
EDEN: Early Doctorate Exchange Network
Thursday, 23 November, 2017
5:00-6:30 PM, Room 1001

Introducing…

The first rule of Write Club is everyone writes at Write Club.
The second rule of Write Club is everyone writes at Write Club.
The third rule of Write Club…
Dr Ian Walsh established Write Club two years ago as a weekly writing group. Usually held in the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance on Thursday and Friday mornings, EDEN is bringing Write Club to YOU at this month’s EDEN evening session.
As summarised by Dr Walsh:
‘As many of us need to write on a regular basis and often do not do so except in manic episodes that are detrimental to our health and relationships I have decided to run Write Club.
This is not a writing group where we will offer criticism on each others work etc. It is simply a commitment to write for a time each week in a room with other people writing.’

Write Club employs the Pomodoro Technique (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT70iCaG0Gs) where you write for 25 minutes, take a break for 5 minutes, write for another 25 minutes and then take a break and write for another 25 minutes.
This will be a working session and a chance for you to try out Write Club as a productivity tool, so come prepared to write! Afterwards, we will adjourn for drinks, eats and chats at McGinn’s in Woodquay.

Please forward this onto anyone who might be interested in joining us next week and/or signing up to our mailing list too!

We hope to see you there, and remember—the first rule of Write Club is…

EDEN: Early Doctoral Exchange Network
Steering Committee 2017/2018: Evan Bourke (English), Ed Kearns (English/Digital Arts and Humanities), Ciara L. Murphy (Drama), Emer McHugh (Drama), Justine Nakase (Drama), John Singleton (English)

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"Office Hours" Drop-in Service
2017-11-23 12:00 - 13:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
For postgraduate research students and academic staff with questions or ideas about:

Using digital technologies to support research
Communicating and promoting their work
Accessing funding to enable their work.

Meet with staff from the Moore Institute, Whitaker Institute, NUI Galway Library and the Research Office. No appointment is necessary.
From 12pm – 1pm in The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building.

Graduate Research Seminars in History - Ian Kenneally
2017-11-22 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
22 Nov Ian Kenneally (NUIG)
Editing the first draft of history – the challenge of producing Ireland’s Revolution Papers, 2016-17.

Explore your Archive- Library Event
2017-11-22 11:30 - 13:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
James Hardiman Library invites you to
Explore your Archive
Wednesday 22nd November 11:30-13:00
(Bridge Room), Hardiman Research Building
Four of NUIG Library Archivists will give a 10-minute talk (see below) and you will have an opportunity to view exhibits and ask questions.
Tea/Coffee will be served from 11:30
Please book here

Muintir na Tíre Periodical literature – Fiona Kearney
Sir Peter Freyer – Kieran Hoare
The Rynne Family Archive: Ireland Through Generations – Barry Houlihan
Michael Maurice O’Shaughnessy: Engineering the Promised Land – Aisling Keane
For more details on this event- click here

CAMPS Lab
2017-11-17 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Friday 17th November: Siobhán Armstrong: Irish Wire Strung harp (Title TBC)
Light Lunch Served

Gender Arc International Guest Lecture "Jessica Lynn's Transgender Journey"
2017-11-16 14:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Gender Arc at NUI Galway is pleased to host an International Guest Lecture
“Jessica Lynn’s Transgender Journey”
Time/Date: 2pm Thurs 16 November, 2017
Venue: The Bridge (Room 1001), The Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway
All welcome!
Description:
Professional speaker and transgender advocate Jessica Lynn is renowned for her dynamic and refreshingly honest speaking style. She is consistently in demand internationally and travels to colleges, universities, and other speaking engagements to educate and inform attendees on the transgender experience. Ms. Lynn is a loving parent, dedicated to her children and family. She is fighting to see her youngest son again after a Texas court removed her parental rights from her then 12-year old boy, due to her gender transition. She is an activist, educator, and parent who is actively engaged with her community. Participants of her speaking engagements often attest to making a personal connection and can experience a full range of emotions. Her trademark question and answer session is unique in that no subject is off-limits. The takeaway is a clear and candid understanding of issues that are not readily available on the Internet or in books.

Additional background:
Jessica Lynn is an advocate for transgender education, Kinsey Institute Global Ambassador, and the president of Your True Gender, a 501(c) (3) organization dedicated to informing the public on transgender issues. Jessica is a post-op, transgender woman from Los Angeles, California who has lectured at many colleges and universities orienting students and faculty to issues of gender inequality and the transgender community. Her lectures cover her transition, her sex change, and assorted issues both legal and ethical involving gender identity, as seen through her perspective as an intersectional advocate. At the heart of her lectures is the loss of her son. Jessica is the only parent in U.S. history —a biological parent with a previously active, supportive role in her child’s life – to be removed from their child’s birth certificate. An inquiry by the US Department of Justice found that the court’s ruling was discriminatory against her due to her transition. International speaker and outspoken advocate Jessica Lynn is renowned around the globe for her dynamic, refreshingly honest speaking style and ongoing tour series.
Organiser: Dr. Vesna Malesevic. For more information, contact: Vesna.malesevic@nuigalway.ie

EDEN: Autumn Peer Review Workshop
2017-11-16 13:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
It’s that time of year again! We are pleased to announce the Autumn 2017 EDEN Peer Review workshop, to be held on Thursday, November 16th, 1300, in the Bridge room.
This is an excellent chance to get feedback on works in progress in any form and at any stage of development. Whether it is a chapter draft, a journal article or a conference paper take the opportunity to run your writing by a warm and supportive audience of your peers!
The deadline for writing submissions will be Monday 6th November, so you have plenty of time to work on a piece for submission. We are also happy to accept expressions of interest for those that may not have writing but would still like to participate by acting as peer reviewers.
For details on how to submit, please see the attached guidelines. And, as ever, if you have any questions don’t hesitate to contact eden.nuigalway@gmail.com.
EDEN Peer Review CFP Autumn 2017

Public Lecture by Dr. Sandra Collins on 'Memory Keeping in the Digital Age'
2017-11-15 13:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Wednesday, 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM Nov 15th 2017
The James Hardiman Library are hosting a public lecture by
Dr. Sandra Collins, Director of the National Library of Ireland:
Title: Memory Keeping in the Digital Age
Date: Wednesday 15 November 2017
Time: 1300 (lunch will be available from 1230)
Venue: Room G011, Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway
Register for the event here
Sandra will talk about the digital collecting programme of the National Library of Ireland, and how these digital memories can be shared and added to. She will also address a major challenge for libraries across the world – collecting born digital materials.

Galway City's Sustainability Stories
2017-11-15 10:00 - 13:30 | O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, NUI Galway, Ireland
On 15 November, NUI Galway will launch its Sustainability Strategy 2017-2020, which sets out a vision of establishing a leading green, smart and healthy campus.
The strategy is the culmination of a long process of consultation with staff, students, and the wider community.
To mark the occasion and to recognise the important community aspect of this initiative we are holding a special event called ‘Galway City’s Sustainability Stories’.
Galway City was awarded the title European Green Leaf 2017 this year, so we will feature short presentations from organisations involved in sustainability throughout Galway City, in different ways and at different scales.
The event will culminate with an optional lunchtime walk along the new Biodiversity Campus Trail.
This is a free, public event, but due to space restrictions, registration is required.

For more information and to register for this event, please click on the link below.
eventbrite.com/galway-citys-sustainability-stories-tickets

'Orlando Furioso, cinema and the challenge of fiction' A Talk by Dr Stefano Jossa
2017-11-13 11:00 - 13:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Italian School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures
The Moore Institute Presents;
Stefano Jossa, Royal Holloway
Orlando Furioso, cinema and the challenge of fiction

Since C. S. Lewis famously compared Tolkien’s imagination to Ariosto’s on the blurb of the first edition of The Fellowship of the Ring (1954), the linking between Orlando Furioso, Tolkien’s trilogy, and cinema can easily be established and would prove a fruitful one. This paper will explore Orlando Furioso’s presence in film productions from the 1980s with the aim to investigate further the suitability of Ariosto’s masterpiece to contemporary fiction-making processes.
Stefano Jossa is Reader in Italian Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has authored books on Ariosto (La fantasia e la memoria. Intertestualità ariostesche, Liguori 1996; Ariosto, il Mulino 2009), the Italian Renaissance (Rappresentazione e scrittura. La crisi delle forme poetiche rinascimentali (1540-1560), Vivarium 1996; La fondazione di un genere. Il poema eroico tra Ariosto e Tasso, Carocci 2001) and Italian national identity expressed through literarture (L’Italia letteraria, il Mulino, 2006; Un paese senza eroi. L’Italia da Jacopo Ortis a Montalbano, Laterza, 2013). In 2017 he hold the De Sanctis Chair at the Polytechnic (ETH) of Zurich (Switzerland) and was Visiting Professor at the Università degli Studi di Parma (Italy).

Public interview and reception to mark the appointment of film director John Carney as Adjunct Professor in Film
2017-11-09 17:30 | ‘Huston Main’, Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway, Ireland
Invitation
The Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway, cordially invites you to a public interview and reception to mark the appointment of film director John Carney as Adjunct Professor in Film
Thursday, November 9th at 5.30pm, Huston Main.
RSVP before November 6th: hustonfilmschool@nuigalway.ie

About John Carney
John Carney was born in Dublin and was educated at De La Salle College Churchtown and at Synge Street CBS. He was bassist for Irish rock band The Frames between 1991 and 1993 and also directed some of their music videos. In addition to shooting music videos, Carney also wrote and directed two award-winning short films (Shining Star and Hotel) before making his first feature. With fellow film-maker Tom Hall, Carney wrote and directed November Afternoon, his first feature film, in 1996. Despite a limited release, it was acclaimed as the “Film of the Year” by the Irish Times. John wrote, directed and scored his next project, the hour-long TV film Just In Time, starring Frances Barber and Gerard McSorley. The Irish Times voted it Best TV Film of 1998.
Carney’s next film was the edgy drama Park, which premiered at the Dublin Film Festival. Two years later, in 2001, he co-wrote and directed On the Edge. The film starred Cillian Murphy and Stephen Rea and was released through Universal Studios. He was awarded the Silver Hitchcock Award for On the Edge at the 2001 Dinard Festival of British Cinema.
Carney returned to TV writing and directing during the same year. He co-wrote and co-directed (with his brother Kieran Carney and Tom Hall) the hugely successful RTÉ TV series Bachelors Walk. The independently produced TV series proved the most successful in Irish television history. The series ran for three seasons. In 2006, Carney directed the feature movie Once. First screened at the Galway Film Fleadh, Once had its official world release at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2007 and won the World Cinema Audience Award in the category Dramatic. A low-budget affair shot for only $160,000, Once was hugely successful, grossing $7 million worldwide in its first 3 months of release. Legendary film-maker Steven Spielberg is quoted as saying, “Once gave me enough inspiration to last the rest of the year.”
As writer and director of Once, Carney won the Most Promising Newcomer award in the Evening Standard British Film Awards 2007 and the film went on to win an Academy Award for Best Original Song. It has since been adapted as one of the most successful theatrical musicals of recent years, including award winning runs on Broadway and the West End. Subsequent films directed by Carney have enjoyed considerable critical and commercial success. Begin Again (2013) grossed over $63 million worldwide (it is the most-watched independent film of all time in South Korea) and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for “Lost Stars”. His most recent film, the Irish set coming of age musical Sing Street (2016), was nominated for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy at the 74th Golden Globes in January 2017.

"Office Hours" Drop-in Service
2017-11-09 12:00 - 13:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
For postgraduate research students and academic staff with questions or ideas about:

Using digital technologies to support research
Communicating and promoting their work
Accessing funding to enable their work.

Meet with staff from the Moore Institute, Whitaker Institute, NUI Galway Library and the Research Office. No appointment is necessary.
Thursday September 28th from 12pm – 1pm in The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building.

Graduate Research Seminars in History - Lorraine Grimes
2017-11-08 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
8 Nov. Lorraine Grimes (NUIG)
“I will do anything…rather than keep it or return to my own country”: The emigration of Irish unmarried mothers to Liverpool and Birmingham, 1926-48.

'The Millionairess' by George Bernard Shaw
2017-11-07 20:00 - 2017-11-11 20:00 | The O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance at NUI Galway, Ireland
The O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies present:
The Millionairess by George Bernard Shaw
Directed by: Aisling Smith
With: Lucy Pollock, Stephen Burke, Rebecca Spelman Barry McNamara, Sean Gandolfini, Narain Viswanathan, Patrick O’Malley, Patrice Mc Conway, and Sabrina Kelleher
Playing at The O’Donoghue Theatre, NUI Galway, at 8pm nightly Wednesday 7th – Saturday 11th Nov, 2017. Tickets: €12/Concession €7, available at socsbox NUIG campus, and at the door

Shaw’s 1936 comedy, The Millionairess, is fast paced and absolutely absurd.
Epifania’s life is falling apart. Yes, she’s still the richest woman in England; but her rotten husband is trying to divorce her for a lowly woman who enjoys taking care of him. On top of that her fancy man is trying to marry her. The only thing she’s really good at is making money, but money doesn’t heal a lonely heart. Will she find a man that can pass her test? Will he want to?
Aisling Smith is a PhD student in the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance, NUI Galway. This intermedia production of Shaw’s classic play is produced as part of her PhD thesis; which focuses on re-imagining the plays of George Bernard Shaw for contemporary audiences through practice as research.

'Bernard Shaw and the users of celebrity' Public Lecture by Fintan O'Toole
2017-11-07 18:30 | Aula Maxima, Quadrangle Building, NUI Galway
NUI Galway in conjunction with the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) will host a public lecture by Fintan O’Toole entitled ‘Bernard Shaw and the Uses of Celebrity’ to mark the publication of Judging Shaw on Tuesday, 7 November at 6.30pm. The event will take place in the Aula Maxima at the University and will be followed by a panel discussion on “Making Judging Shaw” moderated by Professor Patrick Lonergan, NUI Galway with Ruth Hegarty, RIA, Barry Houlihan, James Hardiman Library and Fintan O’Toole.
Judging Shaw is the fourth book in the Royal Irish Academy’s award-winning ‘Judging’ series and looks at the legacy of George Bernard Shaw (GBS), Nobel prize-winner for literature and internationally renowned playwright, intellectual and commentator.
Also being unveiled is a new exhibition to coincide with the publication of Judging Shaw. Co-curated by Barry Houlihan of NUI Galway, Ruth Hegarty and Jeff Wilson of the Royal Irish Academy and Fintan O’Toole, the exhibition brings a wealth of archival images and stories from Shaw’s remarkable public and private life, drawing on many experiences such as time spent in the West of Ireland at Coole Park, the home of Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory, Shaw’s political and socialist writing, his theatre as staged in London, Dublin and also in Belfast after his death. The legacy of Shaw is considered in the ‘afterlife of GBS’, how his work was staged in contemporary times and how his life was commemorated. Before he died, Shaw noted those around him were ‘going Shaw-mad!’ The exhibition will be open to the public at the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, NUI Galway.
The book, written by Orwell-prize-winning journalist Fintan O’Toole, traces the growth of ‘GBS’, the first great global brand, and discovers how Shaw created this most modern of concepts. Judging Shaw brings together a new insights on the making and invention of GBS, the complex relationships Shaw had with both England and Ireland, through times of revolution and after; reconsiders the ‘dark side of GBS’ as well as his death, commemoration and legacies. The illustrated volume features over one hundred digitised archival documents, sourced from institutions around the world, including NUI Galway’s digital theatre collections at the Hardiman Library, many published for the first time and which visualise the great achievements and also wide range of networks Shaw lived and worked in.
George Bernard Shaw has left a vast legacy of theatrical, fictional, polemical, critical and philosophical writing. The first person to win both a Nobel Prize and an Academy Award, Shaw bridges the Victorian era and the contemporary culture of celebrity. The GBS brand came to be recognised globally as referring to an Irish provocateur with a red beard and startling opinions. He was a master of self-invention, a nobody who captured the zeitgeist and one of the first private individuals to understand fully how to generate—and how to use—global fame.
Speaking in advance of the public lecture, Professor Patrick Lonergan, said: “We are delighted to welcome Fintan O’Toole and the Royal Irish Academy to NUI Galway to explore and celebrate the life and work of George Bernard Shaw. This university is deeply committed to preserving our nation’s theatrical heritage through our work in archives, allowing us to offer courses that give our students a unique behind-the-scenes perspective on Irish theatre. We also are strongly committed to promoting awareness of that heritage through talks, publications, and other activities. This beautifully produced book and the fascinating exhibition that accompanies it will bring huge pleasure to readers and theatre-makers around the world, ensuring that Shaw’s legacies – as a dramatist and a political thinker – will have an impact for generations to come.”
Fintan O’Toole said: “Shaw had an ambivalent relationship with Ireland, but Ireland had a very ambivalent relationship with Shaw. He is by far the most influential, famous Irish person who has ever lived. There is no other Irish person that had the global reach that Shaw had. He is a vast terrain. It is a pleasure to see the book translated into an entirely different medium in the exhibition and one of the things that you see in it is that as well as being a great thinker, a great political activist, great dramatist, as well as that he was one of the world’s great posers.”
Admission is free but places are limited so please register go to www.conference.ie

CAMPS Lab
2017-11-03 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Friday 3rd November: Marianne Ailes: Tolerating the Religious Other in Crusading Literature (Title TBC)
Light Lunch Served

‘Theatre and Privatisation in 1980s Ireland’ A Lecture by Lionel Pilkington
2017-11-02 15:00 - 16:00 | Seminar Room GO11, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
‘Ansbacher Bankers Present . . .’ or ‘Theatre and Privatisation in 1980s Ireland.’
**A lecture**
Lionel Pilkington

1980s Ireland is dominated by a range of political and legislative measures whose overall effects severely curtail the claims of labour in relation to capital, restrict, and substantially retract, the state’s responsibilities towards social protection, and halt altogether the state’s incipient and tentative moves (in the mid to late 1970s) towards limited income redistribution ‘downwards.’ Instead, from about 1981 onwards, government policies are marked by an urgent, all-encompassing campaign of privatisation with tax exemption incentives to promote private investment as the starring features of the state’s annual finance acts. Encouraging entrepreneurialism by lowering taxation on profits and undermining collective structures through privatisation forms the groundwork for Ireland’s so-called ‘Celtic Tiger’ economy in the mid 1990s, for the austerity agenda that follows on from the banking bail-out crisis of 2008, and, more generally, for most contemporary understandings of what political economy can make possible. Today, Ireland has become exemplary for global capitalism insofar as its state form demonstrates the apparent ease with which the market can operate as ‘an alternative technology of rule’ (Timothy Mitchell, Carbon Democracy, 11).
This lecture explores how and why–in Ireland in the 1980s–dominant ideas of theatre, theatrical acting and theatre institutions play a central role in achieving Ireland’s seismic and important shift to wholesale privatisation. The lecture also asks: what happens to theatre itself in such a context, and how (if at all) is it possible to think of theatrical performance as outlining an alternative?
Thursday, 2nd November, 15:00-16:00
Moore Institute, NUI Galway. Hardiman Building, Room GO11

Workshop: Digital media and popular culture in Ireland - November 2 & 3
2017-11-02 14:00 - 16:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
The participants in this workshop are scholars working on various topics related to digital media and Irish popular and public cultures, based in Ireland and France. The purpose of the workshop is to share material and ideas, to discuss individual projects, and to make plans for collaboration in the future. The morning sessions are for current research group members only, however anyone working on a related research topic is welcome to participate in the conversation during the afternoon meetings, 2:00pm–4.30pm on 2 & 3 November.
If you are interested in joining us and sharing ideas on your own research, please contact anne.karhio@nuigalway.ie.

Time and place: Moore Institute seminar room G010, 2–4.30pm, 2–3 November 2017.

EDEN: Conference Organising Session
2017-11-01 13:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Conference Organising Session
Wednesday November 1st, 1-2pm in the Bridge Room – Lunchtime Seminar

We will be joined by Ciara L. Murphy (O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance), Evan Bourke (English), and Dr Anne Karhio (English). They will be talking us through their experiences of organising conferences at NUI Galway, including how to craft a CFP, the different ways to structure an event, how to choose and be a good chair, and how to create a balanced programme.

Archaeology Seminar 'Arboreal Trends and Patterns in Medieval Settlement Enclosures'
2017-10-31 16:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Postgraduate seminar in Archaeology – All welcome!

Speaker: Peter Casby, PhD student in Archaeology and IRC scholarship holder
Title: Arboreal Trends and Patterns in Medieval Settlement Enclosures
Date and Time: Tuesday 31st October at 4pm
Venue: GO1O

Screening of the silent film, Nosferatu, with a score performed live by Con Tempo Quartet
2017-10-26 19:30 | ‘Huston Main’, Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway, Ireland
Galway Music Residency in association with the Huston School of Film & Digital Media present a screening of the silent film, Nosferatu, with a score performed live by Con Tempo Quartet

Thursday October 26, 7.30pm, Huston Main
If you’re looking for something a little different this Halloween, the Galway Music Residency has just the thing! This unique event, in association with NUI Galway, is sure to give you that spooky feeling.
This classic 1922 silent film was the first onscreen interpretation of the story of Dracula and, though banned at the time for copyright infringements, it has gone down in cinematic history as one of the greatest horror films ever made.

While this great classic is being screened next Thursday,26th October, the Galway ConTempo Quartet will perform a very special live score composed in the 1990s to provide a fresh sound-scape for such a timeless piece of film. It was composed by French specialist Baudime Jam in 2002 for the Prima Vista Quartet which has performed it in numerous times internationally. The score has since become part of the repertoire of a number of other renowned string quartets including the Debussy Quartet.
Tickets for this unique event cost €10/€5 and can be purchased at Nosferatu Live or on the door.
