Moore Institute

Graduate Research Seminars in History, 2019:
2019-01-30 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Dr Mícheál Ó Fathartaigh (Teagasc/Social Sciences Res. Centre, NUIG)
A Quieter Revolution: How Demonstrations Transformed Early Twentieth-Century Rural Ireland after the Land War.

EDEN Event: Léann an Bhéaloidis: Rethinking Folklore and Oral Traditions
2019-01-24 17:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
NUIG has a vibrant and dynamic community of folklore scholars and scholars that utilize folklore sources in their various research disciplines, and indeed, often in bilingual or multilingual environments. This brief, informal evening session aims to bring together researchers who are already working with folklore sources, those who may be considering utilising folklore sources and perspectives in their research, and of course anyone who would like to hear more about the fascinating scholarship taking place on oral traditions here on campus. Our three panellists will speak for ten minutes each on their research, followed by an opportunity for questions and discussion:

Pádraig Ó Mathúna, Drew University & Ionad an Léinn Éireannaigh, OÉG: ‘‘Bhiodh na cruinnighthe agus drill aca san oídhche’: A Fenian history from below
Siobhan Morrissey, English Department, NUIG: “Exploring the links between folklore, children’s literature, and nationalism”
Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha, Irish Research Council Laureate Scholar, Roinn na Gaeilge & Institiúid de Mórdha, OÉG ‘Fairy Changelings: Understanding Domestic Abuse, Infanticide, and Disability’

As usual, drinks and chats to follow in McGinn’s afterwards – all are welcome!
Fáilte roimh chách!

Book Launch
2019-01-24 16:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
You are invited to attend the launch by Professor Emeritus
of Modern Irish (UCC) Alan Titley of the book:

An Chuid Eile Díom Féin: Aistí
le Máirtín Ó Direáin
(Cló Iar-Chonnacht)
Síobhra Aiken (ed)
Fáilte roimh chách!

Graduate Research Seminars in History, 2019:
2019-01-23 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Keith Seán Harrington (Maynooth University)
Language Politics and Territorial Separatism: the origins of the Transnistrian conflict 1989-1990.

Academic Publishing’s Uncertain Future: how will it impact NUI Galway?
2019-01-21 12:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Library is hosting a seminar titled Academic Publishing’s Uncertain Future: how will it impact NUI Galway? on Monday 21 January at 1200, with details and link to registration (essential) as below:
A number of significant developments have impacted the whole environment of academic publishing, generating lots of debate and sometimes controversy in their wake. This seminar will offer an opportunity to catch up on developments such as:

challenges across Europe in particular to the current commercial publishing system, including robust engagement with the highly profitable publishing company, Elsevier, and cancellation of expensive subscriptions
policy directives aimed at universal open access to funded research publications, notably Plan S, to which Science Foundation Ireland is a signatory
concerns regarding the equitable assessment of research as more institutions sign the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment
a general push towards Open Science, emphasising research sharing, transparency and reproducibility

The first half of the seminar will consist of short presentations by an expert panel, representing a range of perspectives. The second half will be an open forum, enabling full audience participation with the panel to discuss issues of concern.
Panel members are:
Professor Daniel Carey, Director, Moore Institute
John Cox, University Librarian (chair)
Monica Crump, Head of Collections, James Hardiman Library
Professor Lokesh Joshi, Vice-President for Research
Dr Niall Madden, Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Applied Mathematics
Dr Elaine Toomey, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Psychology
NB: Registration is essential if you wish to attend – please register at https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/academic-publishings-uncertain-future-how-will-it-impact-nui-galway-tickets-54750078960

A Wild Mountain Borderland’. The Locus of Gaelic Learned Families in 15th and 16th Century Ireland
2019-01-18 12:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Camps a talk by Professor Liz Fitzpatrick, ‘A Wild Mountain Borderland’. The Locus of Gaelic Learned Families in 15th and 16th Century Ireland.

Graduate Research Seminars in History, 2018-19
2019-01-16 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Wednesdays 4pm
Dr Kieran Fitzpatrick (NUI Galway Research Fellow, Moore Institute)
The Great War and Great Change?
The professional life of surgeon Peter Johnson Freyer, 1900-1921.
Co-ordinator: Dr Gearóid Barry, History Department (email – gearoid.barry@nuigalway.ie).

Retired Staff Association
2019-01-08 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Christmas Reception
2018-12-18 15:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Staff and Students of the College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies
are invited to a Christmas Drinks Reception at the Moore Institute
on
Tuesday, December 18, 2018 @ 3pm
in the Moore Institute Seminar Room, Room G010
Hardiman Research Building
All welcome!
Please rsvp for catering purposes.

Pop-up lunchtime seminar
2018-12-17 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Transitions, 1918-1919:
Marking the December 1918 General Election and post-war demobilization
Chair Mary Harris, panellists Gearóid Barry, John Cunningham, Philip Dine & Cathérine Gagneux.

Image: Hoffmann, Herbert: Kriegsende, Schlange für Entlassungspapiere, Germany, 1918; source: Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-2007-0007, via Wikimedia Commons.

This panel discussion of the importance of the 1918 General Election in Galway and Ireland will also consider the wider processes of military and social demobilization in the uncertain atmosphere of the Armistice period 1918/19. The first exercise of the parliamentary franchise by women in Britain and Ireland and the rise of new political forces make this a period of transformation just as Europe and its overseas empires transitioned to ‘wars after the War’.
This event also marks the opening of the exhibition,

‘A UNIVERSITY IN WAR AND REVOLUTION, 1913-1919: THE GALWAY EXPERIENCE/OLLSCOIL IN AM COMHRAIC, 1913-1919: COGADH AGUS RÉABHLÓID in the exhibition space of the Hardiman Research Building in December 2018.
ALL WELCOME/FÁILTE ROIMH CHÁCH

CIORCAL SCRÍBHNEOIREACHTA
2018-12-13 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Dublin) | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
An bhfuil suim agat i scríbhneoireacht na Gaeilge? An bhfuil tú ag iarraidh do shaothar féin a roinnt le daoine, agus aiseolas a fháil, nó d’obair a phlé go neamhfhoirmiúil le daoine eile a bhfuil Gaeilge acu? Nó an bhfuil tú ag iarraidh éisteacht le scríbhneoirí eile ag léamh a saothar amach os ard? Má tá, déan cinnte go dtagann tú chun ár gciorcal scríbhneoireachta, a bheas ar siúl achan Déardaoin ag a 6 i seomra an Droichid in Institúid de Mórdha.

Beidh muid ag súil le fáilte a chur roimh achan duine a bhfuil Gaeilge agus fonn scríbhneoireachta acu!

Bellies, Bowels and Entrails: Book Launch
2018-12-13 18:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland

Inaugural Lecture Series
2018-12-13 17:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Professor Enrico Dal Lago
“The Social Origins of Agrarian Violence in Comparative Perspective: The First Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina and the Early Mafia in Sicily, 1865-1875”
A comparative historical project focusing on the events and transformations that occurred in the United States in the period after the American Civil War and in Italy in the period after national unification can help us understand better the deep economic, social, and political changes experienced by the rural areas of the nineteenth-century Euro-American world.
This is especially true with regard to the U.S. South and southern Italy after 1865 and in relation to issues such as the agrarian elites’ ideologies and practices of power and the labour relations that characterized the agrarian countryside of the two regions – one of which was a former slave society, while the other one was a long-term free labour society. My aim in implementing the methodology of comparative history in this project is to research the specific ways in which the agrarian elites in the U.S. South and southern Italy, despite the temporary loss of power they experienced in the aftermath of the American Civil War and of Italian national unification, managed to maintain a tight grip on the agrarian working classes of the two southern regions – i.e., freed African Americans and free southern Italian peasants – preventing them from moving beyond the social status quo. In this lecture, I compare the Reconstruction U.S. South with post-unification southern Italy by investigating specifically the reasons behind the origin and expansion of violent practices of agrarian vigilantism and criminal activity in the cotton-producing regions of upcountry South Carolina and in the citrus-growing regions of coastal western Sicily. In comparable terms, in both the cases of upcountry South Carolina and coastal western Sicily, those violent practices were tightly related to both a regional agrarian past and the specific historical circumstances of the period between 1865 and 1875. Also in comparable terms, those practices led to the creation of two particular traditions of illegal violent activity – the first Ku Klux Klan and the early Mafia – which, although very different in character, served a similar purpose of controlling the agrarian workforce in areas characterized by the production of highly valuable cash-crops.
For more information please see
http://www.nuigalway.ie/colleges-and-schools/arts-social-sciences-and-celtic-studies/lecture-series/#Enrico

'The Boyne and Aughrim Compared' by Dr. Pádraig Lenihan
2018-12-11 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The Retired Staff Association is pleased to present ”The Boyne and Antrim Compared’ by Dr. Pádraig Lenihan.

Modern Irishwomen series
2018-12-08 14:30 (Europe/Dublin) | Education Room, Galway City Museum
The final talk in the Modern Irishwomen series in the museum will be given by a PhD student from NUIG, Jamie Canavan, on Saturday 8th December, 2:30pm.

https://www.galwaycitymuseum.ie/event/illustrated-talk-eva-goore-booth-1870-1926/

Jamie Canavan on Irish poet and dramatist Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926). - Modern Irishwomen Lecture Series
2018-12-08 12:30 - 15:30 UTC | Education Room, Galway City Museum
Jamie Canavan on Irish poet and dramatist Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926), younger sister of Constance Markievicz and a committed suffragist and labour activist.

The European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) is holding its inaugural conference
2018-12-07 - 2018-12-09 | Seminar Room G010, G011 and Room 1001 “The Bridge” in the Hardiman Research Institute and The Arts Millennium Building
The European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) is holding its inaugural conference in the Arts Millennium Building and The Moore Institute at NUI Galway from 7 to 9 December 2018. The general theme of the conference is “Data in Digital Humanities”. Keynote speakers include Elisabeth Burr (University of Leipzig) and Leonid Borodkin (Lomonosov Moscow State University). A roundtable session on the theme of data and digital humanities will be curated by Christof Schöch (University of Trier). Over 130 papers will be presented on issues such as the transformation of data for cultural heritage, use of data analytics in literary studies, natural language processing, data visualisation and modelling, and much more. Local committee chair Sean Ryder says: “We look forward to welcoming European and other international researchers who are working at the cutting edge of digital humanities research and practice. This conference will help us to understand the new roles that data is playing in arts and humanities scholarship and teaching, and its impact in the worlds of cultural heritage and the curation of knowledge.

Further details may be found at the conference website: eadh2018.eadh.org; or by contacting Sean Ryder at eadh.conference.2018@gmail.com

CIORCAL SCRÍBHNEOIREACHTA
2018-12-06 18:00 - 19:00, 2018-11-29 18:00 - 19:00, 2018-11-22 18:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building

Irish Studies’ Seminar Series 2018-19
2018-12-06 16:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, Distillery Road
“Hear The Band which is more powerful than the Atom Bomb!”
Labour, Aesthetics, and Irish Sit Down Dance Orchestras, 1940 – 1960

Professor Rebecca Miller, IACI-NUI Galway Visiting Fellow in Irish Studies, 2018-19. Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway.

Image: Noel Coade (compère) with unknown band and dancers, Dublin, ca. 1955. (Courtesy of the family of Noel Coade).
From the mid-1920s to the 1960s, audiences on both sides of the border flocked to parish and commercial dance halls to dance to big band jazz, popular music, and other styles as played by Irish “sit down” dance bands and orchestras. Well known touring groups such as the Mick Delahunty Orchestra, the Maurice Mulcahy Band, and the Gay McIntyre Band, as well as smaller, semi-professional dance bands such as the Brideside Serenaders (Tallow) and many others performed from sheet music of American big band jazz standards that were arranged and published in London and then imported to Ireland and Northern Ireland. They also played a range of other music, including Dixieland jazz, popular Irish songs, old time waltzes, and the occasional céilí dance.
Focusing primarily on sit down dance band musicians who were active in the post-World War II years, I argue that these musicians functioned, in part, as laborers whose job it was to keep their audiences dancing. As such, they engaged with their audiences’ fascination with American popular music and culture while at the same time, reflected Irish locality and musical aesthetics.
Using ethnographic interviews and archival sources, I also trace how these musicians, increasingly came to see themselves also as entertainers and artists. It was this changing perception that in part informed the emergence of the showband era of the 1960s/1970s and ultimately Ireland’s popular music industry.
Rebecca Miller is Professor of Music at Hampshire College, in Amherst, Massachusetts, and the 2018-2019 IACI-NUI Galway, Visiting Fellow in Irish Studies. Dr. Miller received a MA from Wesleyan University and the PhD in ethnomusicology from Brown University.
The author of Carriacou String Band Serenade: Performing Identity in the Eastern Caribbean (Wesleyan University Press, 2008), Professor Miller has published articles and chapters on traditional and popular music in both Ireland and in the USA. A recipient of Fulbright and Whiting Fellowships, among others, she is currently completing a book on Irish popular music, specifically Irish dance bands/orchestras and showbands.

"Open Science, Ireland and the Digital Repository of Ireland: where are we at and where are we going?"
2018-12-06 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Presentation by Natalie Harrower, Director of Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI)

The NUI Galway Research Data Working Group is delighted to host a presentation by Dr Natalie Harrower, Director of the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI). Natalie’s presentation will describe the work of the DRI in research data management, the report on Turning FAIR Data into Reality of which she is a co-author and recent international and national developments including the Draft National Statement on the Transition to an Open Research Environment issued by the National Open Research Forum.
Booking is essential – please book here

Information and Q&A session with Jim Carroll, Editor of RTÉ Brainstorm
2018-12-05 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
You are invited to attend an information and Q&A session with Jim Carroll, Editor of RTÉ Brainstorm on Wednesday, 5 December from 12pm-1pm in Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building.
Academics and Researchers of all levels are welcome to attend and hear more about how to communicate your work to a wider national audience through RTÉ Brainstorm.
To see NUI Galway article contributions to date, visit: https://www.rte.ie/eile/nui-galway/
For more about RTÉ Brainstorm, visit: https://www.rte.ie/eile/brainstorm/2017/0602/879925-brainstorm-submission/
For further information, contact Gwen O’Sullivan, Press and Information Executive, Press Office, NUI Galway at gwen.osullivan@nuigalway.ie or 091 495695.

Creative Coding Meet-up
2018-12-04 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Dublin) | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
This semester we’re going to run a weekly session for those interested in learning “creative coding”. This approach is a good way for those without any coding experience to develop a foundation in programming. The sessions will use online resources (see below) to guide self-directed learning.

Creative coding is a different discipline than programming systems. The goal is to create something expressive instead of something functional. Interaction design, information visualization and generative art are all different types of creative coding – which has become a household term describing artworks articulated as code. (via Awesome Creative Coding )

What can I expect?

This is a peer support group, not an instructor-led workshop / class.
It’s an opportunity to schedule some time each week to develop your coding skills, and to get some help, if you need it.
There are a collection of tutorial videos (bring headphones), online courses and reference material linked to in the “Further Details” section below, for you to work through at your own pace.

If you have no coding experience, and aren’t sure where or how to start, someone will help you.
Come along, meet people who are also learning to code, and get help if you run into any problems. Showing what you’re working on would be great too.
Further details
You can find further details, and learning resources, at: https://github.com/dh-nuigalway/Creative-Coding-Meetup. We are planning on hosting the sessions on Tuesdays from 3pm – 4pm, in the “Bridge Room”, on the first floor of the Hardiman Research Building.
Any questions?: Contact David Kelly (david.d.kelly@nuigalway.ie)

Republic Of Conscience
2018-11-30 13:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
For catering purposes, please RSVP laoighseach.nichoistealbha@oegaillimh.ie

Colúnaí agus eagarthóir liteartha leis an Irish Times é Fintan O’Toole. I measc na ngradam a bronnadh air tá European Press Prize (Commentator Award), Orwell Prize for Journalism, agus Ireland Journalism Awards Broadsheet Columnist of the Year. Bhronn Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh, dochtúireacht oinigh air sa bhliain 2017. Rinne Faber & Faber a choimisiúnú le beathaisnéis oifigiúil Seamus Heaney, buaiteoir Nobel, a scríobh.
Fintan O’Toole is columnist and literary editor for the Irish Times. Among the accolades he has received to date are the European Press Prize (Commentator Award), the Orwell Prize for Journalism, and Ireland Journalism Awards Broadsheet Columnist of the Year. He was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws by NUI Galway in 2017. He has been commissioned by Faber & Faber to write the official biography of Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney.

Modernist Studies Ireland
2018-11-29 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Research Seminar Organised by Modernist Studies Ireland Works in Progress

Agresso Information Session for PHD Students,
2018-11-29 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
The Moore Institute will be holding an Informative session on a accounts and this will be hosted by Martha Shaughnessy
this is an open session so all are welcome to attend.

History Graduate Research Seminar
2018-11-28 16:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
History Graduate Research Seminar
Michael Loughman, NUIG
Oliver J. Flanagan TD (1920-87), monetary reformer

Geopolitics and Justice Cluster: Human Security Talk
2018-11-22 16:00 (Europe/Dublin) | B.S. Mac Aodha Seminar Room 113, Discipline of Geography, NUI Galway, Ireland
Dorothy Estrada-Tanck (University of Murcia, Spain)
“Human security and international human rights law in the Mediterranean crisis”
Abstract:
The unspeakable tragedy faced by thousands of migrant persons dying at sea trying to reach the European Mediterranean coast from the Middle East and North Africa has resulted in nearly 2,000 registered deaths in 2018. This situation, deriving from the protection gaps and deficient and unjust migration policies of national, EU and international legal systems, compel us to propose novel theoretical frameworks for thought and action. Human security has been advanced as the protection of the vital core of all human lives in ways that enhance human freedoms and human fulfillment, and safeguarding people from critical and pervasive threats and situations. I make the argument that a human security approach adds significant value to the traditional purely legal analysis of human rights. Drawing on UN and European human rights law and jurisprudence, I will explore the concrete ways in which this may play out in practice. I contend that human security and human rights can act together as a blueprint to address the Mediterranean crisis in a more just and efficient manner, and thus address one of the greatest challenges of our time.
About the speaker: Dorothy Estrada-Tanck is Assistant Professor of International Law at the University of Murcia, Spain. She holds a PhD in Law from the European University Institute, an MSc in Political Theory from LSE and a law degree (Mexico City). She enjoys broad academic and professional experience in the United Nations, State bodies and NGOs in Mexico, Italy, the U.S. and Spain, focusing on issues of human rights, gender, and socio-economic justice. She is the author of Human Security and Human Rights under International Law: The Protections Offered to Persons Confronting Structural Vulnerability (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2016).
Contact details: +34 868883259; dorothyestrada@um.es

Dr Michael O’Dowd, NUIG The Speculum Matricis midwifery manual 1670 and my research journey
2018-11-21 16:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
