Irish Studies' Seminar Series Drone Imagery in Irish Visual Culture: Evoking a Nostalgic Past amidst the Contemporary Future Dr Jeannine Kraft, Columbus College of Art & Design Drone imagery has played a key role in the twenty-first century in the framing and dissemination of images of the Irish landscape. The internet has provided a... | Read on »
REMEMBERING JOHN DOHERTY TRAVELLER TINSMITH AND FIDDLER Chair: Daniel Carey, Director, Moore Institute Travellers in Time Expanding the Past Breandán Mac Suibhne, University of Galway John Doherty’s Music Floating Bows and Moving Clouds Alun Evans Queen’s University of Belfast Alun Evans is an epidemiologist and the former director of the Centre for... | Read on »
"Translation amid Uncertainty: Online Activist Subtitling of Counter-ISIS Stories" Abstract: In our contemporary world, different moments of uncertainty are created out of conflicts, revolutions or crises, eliminating our conventional sense of territory. Though these moments are full of hardships and sufferings, they carry with them off-line and on-line innovative cultural productions that contest oppressive... | Read on »
University of Galway History Seminar Dr Patrick Walsh (Trinity College Dublin) Bogs and Barracks: Stringy Sovereignty and the Eighteenth-Century Irish State Abstract Beginning in a bog in west Cork this paper is about the fragmented processes of colonial state formation in eighteenth-century Ireland. The story I want to tell is told from the fragmented... | Read on »
BOOK LAUNCH White Cottage, White House Irish American Masculinities in Classical Hollywood Cinema By Tony Tracy Speaker: Dr Conn Holohan Description White Cottage, White House examines how Classical Hollywood cinema developed and deployed Irish American masculinities to negotiate, consolidate, and reinforce hegemonic whiteness in midcentury America. Largely confined to discriminatory stereotypes during the silent era, Irish... | Read on »
Dr Elizabeth Redwine, “Actresses and the Archive" Moore Institute and Drama and Theatre Studies The words of actresses and performers change the way we read and discuss theatre history in Global Irish Studies. Dr. Elizabeth Brewer Redwine will examine how Sara Allgood's Memoirs caused her to reassess authorship and performance both at the Abbey Theatre and in American midcentury... | Read on »
Embedding equality, diversity and inclusion in research in CASSCS – Moore Institute seminar You are reminded that a seminar on equality, diversity and inclusion in research will be hosted by the Moore Institute on Friday 3rd March 2023 from 11.00am to 1.00pm in room G011, Hardiman Research Building. This event is aligned with our strategic... | Read on »
Tionólfar an tríú léacht sa tsraith seo, ar an Aoine, 3 Márta @ 12:30 i.n. i Seomra an Droichid THB-1001, An Chéad Urlár, Institiúid de Móra, Áras Uí Argadáin, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe agus ar Zoom. Ó Dhóchas go hÉadóchas: An Cogadh Cathartha in Éirinn, 1922-1923 An Dr Mary Harris, Iar-léachtóir Sinsearach, Roinn na Staire, Ollscoil... | Read on »
COMHRÁ COIS COIRIBE / CORRIB CONVERSATIONS After Windsor Constitutional Futures of these Islands Fáilte / Welcome Daniel Carey Director, Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies University of Galway Cathaoirleach / Chair Róisín Healy Co-Director, Centre for the Investigation of Transnational Encounters University of Galway Brexit and the Death... | Read on »
Magic Mists and Recent Irish Poetry a lecture by Lucy McDiarmid (Marie Frazee-Baldassarre Professor of English, Montclair State University) Visiting Research Fellow at Trinity Long Room Hub In recent Irish poetry, streets disappear, cats and pigs talk, mummies board trains, ferns create a semiotic system, and a dead man reads Anna Karenina. The rich legacy of the... | Read on »
