Moore Institute

Camps a talk by Amy Livingstone
2019-03-29 12:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Powerful, Shrewd and Pious: Countess Emengarde of Brittany c.1070-1147

English Research Day
2019-03-29 09:30 - 14:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

The Sacred Well: Irish Myth, Play-writing and Process by Adam Wyeth
2019-03-28 17:00 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
With a reading from APARTMENT BLOCK, with actress Paula McGlinchey
In this talk, Adam Wyeth will discuss some of the areas surrounding his writing process as a playwright, which have been inspired from his poetry and studying Irish myth. While his plays do not overtly deal in mythology, Wyeth will reveal how core aspects of Irish myth and Celtic art – seen as an alternative form to the classic – feed into the themes and the shapes of his plays. Arguing for a mythic imagination – which is separate from the fantasy genre in fiction – Wyeth seeks to bring back myth to its true sense, as metaphor. ‘The dungeons,’ he writes, ‘are in homes and the dragons in our hearts.’ Wyeth seeks to create a drama, which like mythology, is not aimed at proving anything but rather at modifying something, at subtly shifting the sense of ourselves, or the world, that we hold. In this sense, his plays do not aim for simplistic clarity or ‘realism’, but rather for the expression and ‘holding’ of ambiguity, mystery and ambivalence. Wyeth will end his talk with a reading from an extract of his play APARTMENT BLOCK with actress, Paula McGlinchey. The play is currently in production for its world premiere Off-Broadway, New York.
Bio
Adam Wyeth lives in Dublin where he is currently an Associate Artist of the Civic Theatre. He is the author of two critically acclaimed poetry collections with Salmon Poetry, Silent Music (2011), which was Highly Commended for the Forward Poetry Prize, and The Art of Dying (2016), an Irish Times Book of the Year. In 2013, Salmon published his essays, The Hidden World of Poetry: Unravelling Celtic Mythology in Contemporary Irish Poetry, which contains poems from Ireland’s leading poets followed by sharp essays that unpack each poem and explore its Celtic mythological references.Wyeth’s plays have been produced in Ireland, Germany and New York. His first play Hang Up, produced by Broken Crow (2013), has been staged at many festivals, including the electric Picnic, the Home Festival, Cork, and the Galway Theatre festival. In 2014, it was adapted into a film and premiered at Cork’s International Film Festival. The play was also staged in 2015 in Berlin as part of ‘An evening of Adam Wyeth’ at Theater forum Kreuzberg. Wyeth’s second play,Lifedeath, was showcased at the Triskel Arts Centre minifestival of new work in December 2013 and was named by the Irish Examiner as the play of the festival. It was presented at University College Cork’s Theatre Festival, 2014, and staged at engage Arts Festival, Bandon, 2014. His play Apartment Block was presented in New York at the Bank Street Theatre Off-Off-Broadway in 2017. A major new Off- Broadway production is currently in development for its world premiere. Wyeth runs online creative writing workshops and editing programmes at adamwyeth.com and Fishpublishing.com.

Art as Activism?Educ-actors: from context to text. Rethinking education on peace, conflict transformation, social justice and global citizenship through the lens of the arts
2019-03-28 16:00 - 18:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
A seminar/workshop with Daniel Fernandez, Visiting Research Fellow, Moore Institute.
Education is at the centre of the ethical, socio-political and environmental crisis we are currently experiencing. As expressed by UNESCO in its Program of Action for the Creation of a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence, the hope of emerging from this global crisis lies in imparting values, attitudes and behaviours through education that reflect and inspire sharing through social interaction and fostering the distinctive faculties of the human species: commitment, reflection, imagination, creativity and facilitating intercultural communication. UNESCO’s vision would seem to be a world at peace. Yet the meaning of peace is often assumed to be settled by those who advance the cause of peace, even if this entails appropriating the narratives of the oppressed, and even though – as argued by Oliver Richmond and J. P. Lederach – many attempts at conflict resolution have ended in co-optation, i.e. attempts to forcibly abolish disharmony in situations where people are raising legitimate issues about social justice, reconciliation, identity, gender, culture, or development among others.
In my practice I approach peace as an agonistic process, and have been developing a methodology based on the exploration of how people effect change through the imbrication of art, protest, dialogue and activism in Mexico (performance and peace education through dance), Egypt (street art in Tahrir Square during the Arab Spring), Catalonia (site-specific art installation), and Colombia (indigenous, gender-based, audiovisual sovereignty). In this seminar/workshop I will screen my short documentary entitled “EDUC-ACTORS: FROM CONTEXT TO TEXT”, filmed in Tahir Square, Egypt with participants of the Arab Spring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKgzZxH841I&t=39s. I also discuss how the learning derived from this fieldwork has been incorporated into a pedagogical programme piloted at the Autonomous University of Madrid and the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and I present feedback from academic and students who participated in the pilot phase of the project.
Daniel Fernández is a Rotary Peace Fellow and holds an MA in Peace and Conflict Resolution from the International University Tokyo, Japan. He also holds a post-graduate Diploma in Integrative Coaching processes. Daniel’s work is at the cutting edge of socially-engaged art, and the concerns at the heart of his practice traverse the arts, humanities and social sciences. He has worked extensively in conflict zones including Palestine, Columbia and the Western Sahara. His work focuses primarily on the importance of Memory and Intercultural Dialogue in diverse locations including Spain, Mexico, Japan, Bolivia, Colombia and Egypt. He is interested in learning from non-western perspectives in dealing with the past and envisioning present and future global coexistence based in processes of decolonization of knowledge and cultural paradigms. He is a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University, USA. He is currently developing the educational project “Educ-actors: from context to text. Rethinking the education on peace, conflict transformation, social justice and global citizenship through the lens of the Arts”, with the Fundación Cultura de Paz under the mentorship of its president, Dr. Federico Mayor Zaragoza, former General Director of UNESCO. The educational project has been funded by the Catalan Department of Foreign Action and Institutional Relations through its Catalan Agency for Cooperation and Development.

Irish Studies’ Seminar Series - Semester 2, 2018-19
2019-03-28 16:00 | Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, Distillery Road
Artwork by Desdemona McCannon
Dr Pippa Marland (Moore Institute Visiting Fellow), “‘The world-hungry art of words’: form and content in Tim Robinson’s Stones of Aran”,

A chairde,
You are invited to attend our forthcoming seminar as part of the Irish Studies’ Seminar Series, Semester 2, 2018-19. We are delighted to welcome Dr Pippa Marland from the University of Leeds as an Irish Studies’ Scholar through the Moore Institute Visiting Fellowship Scheme this year. Dr Marland will deliver her seminar entitled, “‘The world-hungry art of words’: form and content in Tim Robinson’s Stones of Aran”, at 4pm on Thursday 28 March, Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies.
This seminar will explores the content and form of Robinson’s Aran writings – looking at what it might mean for the literature of place to be both ‘world-hungry’ and artful – and will draw on research in the James Hardiman Library’s Tim Robinson archive. In particular it will explore the ways in which Robinson orders and condenses material from his extensive Aran notebooks and diaries into the final complex, challenging form of the Aran books.
Beidh fáilte roimh chách!
Le gach dea-ghuí,
Nessa

Dr Nessa Cronin, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway.
‘The world-hungry art of words’: form and content in Tim Robinson’s Stones of Aran
Small islands, as Robert Macfarlane points out, foster ‘dreams of total knowledge’. This is precisely the effect that Árainn has on the writer Tim Robinson, who, in the Stones of Aran diptych, does indeed set out to describe the island in its totality. It is a demanding task – one that moves the erstwhile visual artist and cartographer into the realm of ‘the world-hungry art of words’.
This is a telling phrase, not least in its deployment of the word ‘art’. Non-fiction, place-based writing is often assumed to forgo artfulness in favour of mimetic representation. The ecocritic Dana Phillips, reacting against the focus of first wave American ecocriticism on this particular genre, argues that it is ‘one of literature’s more pedestrian, least artful aspects’, with the implication that the critic’s time would be better spent on more sophisticated literary forms. Robinson is undoubtedly pedestrian, in the very literal sense that his knowledge of the island is gained, as he states in an interview, through walking the ‘network of tender little fields and bleak rocky shores of Aran’ until ‘I could have printed off a map of them by rolling on a sheet of paper’. However, his writing is also artful: highly-wrought and formally complex, as the tension between his dream of total knowledge and the ways in which the island constantly exceeds that knowledge plays out through the text.
This seminar will focus on the content and form of Robinson’s Aran writings – looking at what it might mean for the literature of place to be both ‘world-hungry’ and artful – and will draw on research in the James Hardiman Library’s Tim Robinson archive. In particular it will explore the ways in which Robinson orders and condenses material from his extensive Aran notebooks and diaries into the final complex, challenging form of the Aran books.

Dr Pippa Marland University of Leeds P.J.Marland@leeds.ac.uk
Dr Pippa Marland is a Research Fellow in the School of English at the University of Leeds, working on the AHRC-funded ‘Land Lines: Modern British Nature Writing’ project. She received her PhD from the University of Worcester in 2016, where she was also a lecturer, with a thesis on ‘The Island Imagination’ – a study of the representation of ‘islandness’ in contemporary non-fiction. A significant section of the thesis was devoted to Tim Robinson’s Aran writings – Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage and Stones of Aran: Labyrinth – and, indeed, Robinson’s concept of the ‘good step’, a motif that runs through both volumes of the Aran diptych, lies at the heart of the research. She is in the process of preparing a book based on her PhD entitled Ecocriticism and the Island: Readings from the British-Irish Archipelago, due to be published in the Rowman and Littlefield series ‘Rethinking the Island’ series in early 2020. She is also working on a co-edited collection for Routledge – Walking, Landscape, and Environment , forthcoming in 2019. She has published widely on ecocriticism, new nature writing, ecopoetry, and archipelagic perspectives, and was recipient of both the EASLCE and the ASLE-UK and Ireland awards for Best Postgraduate Essay in Ecocriticism, for articles on W.G. Sebald and Kathleen Jamie, respectively. During 2019 she will be taking up a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, also at the University of Leeds, studying the representation of farming in modern British nature writing.
While at the Moore Institute as a Visiting Fellow, Dr Marland will be carrying out research on the Tim Robsinon archive in the James Hardiman Library, looking in particular at the way in which Robinson condenses and orders material from his extensive Aran notebooks and diaries into the final, complex and challenging form of the Aran diptych. She will be presenting her findings at a guest seminar for the Irish Studies Spring series at NUI Galway.

'Academia and public history'
2019-03-28 15:00 | Aras Moyola MY125
Talk has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for a later date

Career Development Series – CASSCS-IDP and skills needs analysis workshop
2019-03-28 14:00 - 16:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
IDP and skills needs analysis workshop by Sinead Beacom (RDC)
More Information to follow

Creating Digital Exhibitions with Omeka - Digital Scholars' Workshops
2019-03-28 12:00 - 13:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Creating Digital Exhibitions with Omeka – Cillian Joy, G011, 12-1pm Thursday 28th March
This workshop will introduce and show how to use Omeka to create digital exhibitions. Omeka is designed to be a user-friendly platform for creating online exhibitions. NUI Galway students and staff can use an institutional version of Omeka to create online digital exhibitions highlighting their research or as a companion to a physical exhibition.
Registration
Please register to attend using Eventbrite.

About the Workshop Series
Developing skills with digital technologies can be a challenge for researchers interested in digital and open scholarship.
To help, the Library, in partnership with the Moore Institute, presents a series of informal workshops to share practice-based expertise, know-how, and experience in technologies and methods, that will enhance your experience of newer forms of scholarship.
Events in this semester’s series include:

Planning & Building Digital Projects – David Kelly, G010, 12-1pm Thursday, 31st January
Introduction to Research Data Management and related supports at NUI Galway – Trish Finnan, G010, 12-1pm Wednesday 27th February
Creating Digital Exhibitions with Omeka – Cillian Joy, G011, 12-1pm Thursday 28th March
Archives in the digital age – balancing evolving expectations against the realities of resource allocation and legislation – Aisling Keane, G010, 12-1pm Tuesday, 30th April.

Book Launch
2019-03-27 16:30 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building

Graduate Research Seminars in History, 2019
2019-03-27 16:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Hugh Rowland (An tAcadamh, NUI Galway)
Language debates in Ireland in the 1960s: the Language Freedom Movement reconsidered.

Europe, Italy and Brexit: A Short Story
2019-03-27 15:00 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
Italian
School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures
The Moore Institute
H. E. Mr Paolo Serpi, Ambassador of Italy to Ireland

Dr. Brendan Twomey Moore Institute Visiting Fellow
2019-03-26 13:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Financial Management
in a World without Banks!
The Case of Jonathan Swift
A seminar on inter-personal lending and borrowing in early eighteenth-century Ireland.

French Crime Fiction-Irish Crime Scenes
2019-03-25 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

CAMPS Talk By Alexander O'Hara
2019-03-22 12:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
The Politics of Piety: Ritual Communities and Social Cohesion in Merovingian Gaul, 450-750

Graduate Research Seminars in History, 2019
2019-03-20 16:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Jim Reid (NUI Galway)
Munster as a frontier of the Roman Empire in the 5th-6th centuries.

Visualising Maritime Cityscapes: The Representation of Harbours in the Graeco-Roman World
2019-03-20 14:00 | Hardiman Research Building Room G011, Ireland
Dr Federico Ugolini – Visiting Research Fellow
‘Visualising maritime cityscapes’ explains how and why Greek and Romans represented so frequently the sea and the marine infrastructures within their artworks. This paper argues that the available textual and iconographic evidence supports the argument that these representations have a symbolic, rather than literal, meaning and message. It is also noted that the traditional view, that all these media represent the reality of the contemporary cityscapes, is shown to be often unrealistic.

'Hammer and Cycle: Communism's Cycling Counter Culture in Interwar France'
2019-03-20 13:00 - 15:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Martin Hurcombe is Professor of French Studies at the University of Bristol, UK, and a specialist of early twentieth-century French political culture, history and literature. His PhD examined the French combat novel of the First World War, arguing that the experience of combat led to a fundamental shift in the way that a generation of French intellectuals experienced time and space and, consequently, the world around them, exploring the political ramifications of these experiences. It was published in 2004 as Novelists in Conflict: Ideology and the Absurd in the French Combat Novel of the Great War. His second book, France and the Spanish Civil War: Cultural Representations of the War next Door, 1936-1945 (2011), studied the extent to which the war beyond the Pyrenees served a utopian function for both the radical left and right in France, offering forms of social reorganisation and new models with which to oppose the French Third Republic. His interest in utopia as critical tool for examining the present and imagining the future is also evident in his most recent book, co-authored with Matryn Cornick and Angela Kershaw: French Political Travel Writing in the Inter-War Years: Radical Departures. He has also published extensively on twentieth-century French crime fiction and, most recently, on the memory of Nazi collaboration in three French, Norwegian, and Swedish crime novels. With Simon Kemp, he is the co-editor of the only study of the award-winning French crime writer Sébastien Japrisot (Sébastien Japrisot: The Art of Crime, 2009). He is also one of the founding editors of the Journal of War and Culture Studies.

His current project represents something of a departure from his interest in war and culture, however, whilst still combining his fascination with the political, historical, and textual. This new project explores the history of cycling literature in France. The relationship between a range of textual practices and cycling in France is a long and complex one. Moreover, writing about sport, and especially cycling, is a serious business for the French. This project traces the relationship between road cycling, the national and regional press, key authors and journalists (such as Pierre Chany and Antoine Blondin), and the impact of new media on the way that cycling is narrated. It explores ideas of national, regional and political identities as well as issues of class, gender and race. Professor Hurcombe is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Moore Institute.

"Classical/Neoclassical/Classic/Tradition/Reception" A lecture by Prof. Brian Arkins
2019-03-14 15:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The term ‘Classical’ connotes so many things as to be useless. ‘Neoclassical’ is valid for a particular era. ‘Classic’ (minus the suffix -al) may denote various items. ‘Tradition’ and like terms are too passive. Prof. Arkins will discuss these terms.

Transnational Time: Reading Post War Representations of the Italian Presence in East Africa
2019-03-13 17:00 - 18:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Italian School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures Talk
by
Charles Burdett, University of Durham

Working from recent theoretical writing on time and the concept of the spectral, the paper begins by questioning how we can talk about transnational temporalities. The paper then looks at some of the ways in which the Italian colonial and post-colonial presence in Eritrea and Ethiopia, with all its complexities and haunting legacies, has been represented in fiction by Gabriella Ghermandi, Erminia Dell’Oro and Nicky Di Paolo.

Charles Burdett
is a Professor of Italian at the University of Durham. The principal areas of his research are: Italian culture under Fascism; the representation of colonialism; travel writing; theories of inter-cultural contact. An important part of his work concerns the theoretical frame through which we consider transnational contact and the implications for the disciplinary field of Modern Languages of the study of cultural translation in all its forms. He is one of the investigators in the large grant, ‘Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Mobility, Identity and Translation in Modern Italian Cultures’ that is a beacon project for the AHRC’s ‘Translating Cultures’ theme. He is the author of Journeys through Fascism: Italian Travel Writing between the Wars (paperback 2010). His most recent book is Italy, Islam and Islamic World: Representations and Reflections from 9/11 to the Arab Uprisings (2016). He is currently working on a monographic study, The Representation of the Italian Empire and its Afterlife: Utopia, Time, and Memory.

Graduate Research Seminars in History, 2019
2019-03-13 16:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Cristina Bon (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan).
‘The President Matters’: John Janney and the Virginia Secession Convention
(February-April 1861).

Falling star narratives in Hollywood and British film industries, 1950-2019-By Flavia Soubiran
2019-03-13 14:00 - 15:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Key in the history of cinema, the ageing star is a figure of media obsolescence that carries the memory of a bygone era of filmmaking, awakening in the viewer nostalgia and anxiety, which the film industry continues to capitalize on. Building on her doctoral findings, Flavia’s research aims to analyze the strategies specific to the media of film in cultivating, subverting or reinscribing traditional tropes associated with contemporary ageing female stardom. This lecture will address the performativity of ageing in Hollywood and British film productions, raising issues about gendered socio-cultural constructions (Morganroth Gullette, 2004, 2011) and the masquerade of ageing (Woodward, 2006) in contemporary western society. All through classical Hollywood to the end of the Golden Age, movie stars (Bette Davis, Judy Garland, Rosalind Russell) displayed old age as an artistic act, an award-winning performance and a grandiose masquerade. The star’s ageing process is insistently narrated and staged as a grotesque, spectacular show. This characteristic treatment is questioned in a classical Hollywood reflexive sub-genre: the melodrama of the falling star. American and European directors are now reviving the falling star melodramatic themes in a contemporary context. To illustrate this rising melodramatic trend, this lecture will focus on the following performances by American and British ageing stars: Robin Wright in The Congress (2013), Julianne Moore in Maps to the Stars (2014), Juliette Binoche in Clouds of Sils Maria (2014), Meryl Streep in Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), Annette Bening in Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool (2017), Kate Winslet in Wonder Wheel (2017) and Renée Zellweger in Judy (2019).
You are invited next Wednesday at 2 pm for a 30 min talk and short screening. There will be a period for discussion over tea and cookies !

Heritage Ireland 2030,Research and Heritage Workshop NUIG
2019-03-13 12:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
12:45 Welcome (preceded by light lunch from 12:00)

Cathal O’Donoghue, Dean, College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Celtic Studies
Daniel Carey, Director, Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies

13:00 Panel discussion 1: Public participation, well-being and shared stewardship

Gesche Kindermann & Caitriona Carlin: Natural heritages, community, and human health
Maggie Ronayne: Working with communities and their cultural heritages
Claire Nolan: Landscape and well-being
Catherine Morris: Human Rights and Feminism: archive, memory, practice

14:10 coffee break
14:40 Panel discussion 2: Public participation, education, dissemination and access

Sharon Flynn: Open Research and Wikimedia
Rióna Ní Fhrighil: Linguistic landscapes and literary heritage
Geraldine Robbins: Public participation in Irish public sector contexts
Su-ming Khoo: Participation, rights-based approaches, potential conflicts & resolutions

15:20 Panel discussion 3: Heritage resilience

Kevin Lynch: Climate change and heritage resilience
Dorothy Ní Uigín: Language planning
Kieran Walsh: Aging and place

‘Little Things Matter: Nanoscience, Electronics and the Brain’ by Dr. Jessamyn Fairfield
2019-03-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Book launch: The Mouth of the Earth by Manuel Rivas, translated by Lorna Shaughnessy
2019-03-11 13:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Launch of New Translation Research Group: Crosswinds: Irish and Galician Poetry and Translation https://mooreinstitute.ie/research-group/crosswinds-irish-and-galician-poetry-and-translation/
Both will be launched by Prof Louis de Paor.

EDEN BLOG LAUNCH!
2019-03-08 13:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Come along at lunchtime this Friday to the launch of the revamped bilingual Trácht ar Thráchtais/ Thesis Talk blog for PhD and Post Doc researchers. We are delighted to welcome traditional musicians Dr. Cassie-Smith Christmas, Dr Deirdre Ní Chonghaile, John Singleton and Aisling Ní Churraighín. Bring your lunch or your instrument and enjoy the tunes and chats!
Tá áthas mór orainn Trácht ar Thráchtais/ Thesis Talk, blag dátheangach do thaighdeoirí dochtúireachta agus iardhochtúireachta a sheoladh ag am lóin Dé hAoine, 8ú Márta. Beidh seisiún ceoil againn leis an Dr. Cassie-Smith Christmas, an Dr. Deirdre Ní Chonghaile, John Singleton agus Aisling Ní Churraighín. Tóg leat do lón nó do ghléas agus baint sult as an cheol agus as an chuideachta!
Fáilte roimh chách!

Camps a Talk by Sean Murphy
2019-03-08 12:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Occidentalism in the West

Personal Development Planning(1)
2019-03-07 14:00 - 16:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
This workshop is designed to help researchers plan career strategies that will allow them to take charge of their career. It will provide insight into how you can translate your existing skills to various career pathways and identify any gaps in your skill set.
NB: Bring laptop/Ipad if possible.
To register for event please see: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/individual-development-planning-researchers-tickets-57803939138

Managing your Research Profile, Open Access Publishing, ARAN, and Data Management
2019-03-07 11:00 - 13:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
The session will be broken down into the following,
Open Access publishing and ARAN (30 minutes presentation) – Trish
Managing your Research Profile (30 minutes presentation) – Rosie
Introduction to Research Data Management (30 minutes presentation) – Trish
Questions (15 minutes)

Graduate Research Seminars in History, 2019
2019-03-06 16:00 - 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Jane O’Brien (NUI Galway)
‘Important or exceptional occurrences’ – An analysis of Managers’ Diaries and other correspondence from the Irish Industrial School system : 1868 – 1920.

Brexit and the Future of British-Irish Relations
2019-02-28 - 2019-03-01 | The O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance at NUI Galway, Ireland
Update: Audio recordings of the conference sessions are now available

The Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame, the Moore Institute at NUI Galway, and the Mitchell Institute at Queen’s University Belfast present Brexit & the Future of British-Irish Relations.
SCHEDULE
Thursday 28 February
Location: O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance, NUI Galway.
9:30 – 10:00am Registration
10:00 – 11:30am PANEL I: The European Project
Professor Mary Daly (UCD)
Professor Kevin O’Rourke (Oxford)
Professor Dan Carey (NUIG)
11:30 – 12:00pm Coffee Break
12:00 – 1.30pm PANEL 2: Politics & Populism
Dr Steve Aiken (UUP MLA)
Tony Connelly (RTE)
Brendan Flynn (NUIG)
Dr Niall Ó Dochartaigh (NUIG)
1.30 – 3.30pm Lunch
Location: O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance, NUI Galway.
3.30 – 5pm PANEL 3: British-Irish Trade
Professor Alan Ahearne (NUIG)
Professor Kate Kenny (NUIG)
Owen Brennan (Devenish Nutrition)
John McGrane (British Irish Chamber of Commerce)
6pm Q&A with Vice President of the European Parliament Mairéad McGuinness
Location: O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance, NUI Galway.
Friday 1 March
Location: O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance, NUI Galway.
9.30 – 10:00am Coffee
10:00 – 11:30am PANEL 4: Northern Ireland, the border, & the Good Friday Agreement
Professor Ben Tonra (UCD)
Dr Katy Hayward (QUB)
Carlo Trojan (Former Secretary-General EU Commission)
Professor Mary Murphy (UCC)
Professor David Phinnemore (QUB)
11:30 – 12pm Coffee Break
12:00 – 1.30pm PANEL 5: The Future of British-Irish Relations
Professor Jennifer Todd (UCD)
Representative from the British Embassy
Dr Etain Tannam (TCD)
Angela Knight (CBE) (UK Office of Tax Simplification)

To Register please click the following https://www.eventbrite.com/e/brexit-the-future-of-british-irish-relations-tickets-56103113924
