Moore Institute

Information Session: IRC Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme
2017-10-24 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
This information session will be chaired by Prof. Dan Carey, Director of the Moore Institute with contributions from Dr. Marina Ansaldo of the Research Office, NUI Galway.
Details of the scheme can be found here.

Graduate Research Seminars in History - Mel Farrell
2017-10-18 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
18 Oct. Mel Farrell (UCD)
From Cumann na nGaedheal to Fine Gael: ‘Civil War politics’ and the foundation of the United Ireland Party in September 1933.

'Arts in Action' Special Archives Event featuring Stella McCusker
2017-10-18 13:00 - 14:00 | Bank of Ireland Theatre, NUI Galway
‘Arts in Action’ and the James Hardiman Library, present a special lunchtime event from the archives of the Lyric Theatre, Belfast. Acclaimed television and film actor Stella McCusker will read a selection of stories and poems from Threshold literary journal, published by the Lyric Theatre, Belfast. Edited by the likes of Mary O’Malley, John Montague, Brian Friel and Seamus Heaney, Threshold was first published in 1957 and was an important literary journal for over three decades. The event will also feature music with Special Guest: Uilleann Piper, Padraig Keane.
October 18th, Bank of Ireland Theatre, NUI Galway, 1 – 2pm.

Special Event: Methodologies for Research in the Humanities
2017-10-17 12:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Special Event – Methodologies for Research in the Humanities
12 Noon, 17 October, Bridge Seminar Room

This event features descriptions of different methodologies for approaching research across the humanities, with plenty of time of open discussion and questions.
All are welcome, particularly anyone applying for IRC postgraduate funding (the application process requires a statement on methodologies).

CAMPS Lab
2017-10-13 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Friday 13th October: Maria Hallinan: Social Status in Early Medieval Ireland and the Senchas Már Status Tract: The Evidence Thus Far
Light Lunch Served

EDEN: Making the machine work for you: plain text and software for an efficient writing workflow
2017-10-12 17:00 - 18:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Making the machine work for you: plain text and software for an efficient writing workflow
Thursday 12 October 5pm-6:30pm
Room 1001 ‘The Bridge’, Hardiman Research Building
We use computers all the time for writing, but are we getting the best out of these machines? This EDEN session seeks to demystify the “black box” and show how we can use software to make our writing workflow as painless as possible, so that we can spend less time thinking about fonts and margins, finding lost notes, and recovering files, and more time thinking about our actual work.
Join us as we hear from Dr Aidan Kane (Economics) on LaTeX, Edward Kearns (English) on MS Word in comparison, Sarah Hoover (Drama) on Zotero and other referencing software, and Emer McHugh (Drama) on backing up your work on Dropbox, Google Drive, and other platforms.
As usual, all are welcome to continue the conversation in McGinn’s afterwards!

'The Traveller Woman in Ireland as a Literary Device and as a Whole Human' A talk by Melania Terrazas
2017-10-12 13:00 - 15:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
The Traveller Woman in Ireland as a Literary Device and as a Whole Human
The talk features a work-in-progress session on the figure of the Irish traveller woman by Melania Terrazas of the University of La Rioja, Spain. Dr Terrazas discusses the traveller woman as a literary device and as a whole human in the work of various contemporary Irish fe/male short story writers, playwrights, novelists, poets and filmmakers who either present the figure in their productions and/or are committed to the Traveller Women Movement in Ireland today.
The idea for this talk developed out of the XVI International Conference of the Spanish Association for Irish Studies (AEDEI), “Fe/male Challenges in Irish Studies from the 19th to the 21st Centuries”, organized by Dr Terrazas on 25–27 May 2017 (www.unirioja.es/aedei2017) as part of the research activity developed by the IDENTIT-ART team (Gender and identity in literary and audiovisual English texts), also directed by Dr Terrazas. This conference was the culmination of a three-year competitive research project.

Melania Terrazas is Senior Lecturer in English Studies and International Mobility Programs Coordinator at the University of La Rioja (Spain). She is on the Executive Board of AEDEI (The Spanish Association for Irish Studies) and a founding member of the Centre for Irish Studies BANNA/BOND (EFACIS). She is currently a visiting scholar at Huston School of Film Studies and Digital Media (NUI Galway) and conducting research at the Moore Institute, where she is co-editing a collection on satire theory and practice, and editing a special journal issue on gender issues in contemporary Irish literature and a volume on trauma and identity issues in contemporary Irish culture. Financial support was received from the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport through the “Salvador de Madariaga” mobility programme (code PRX17/00339), and the University of La Rioja through project number APPI17/06.

"Office Hours" Drop-in Service
2017-10-12 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.

RTÉ Brainstorm Information Sessions- Featuring Jim Carroll
2017-10-12 10:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
RTÉ Brainstorm is a new online platform for academics and researchers to publish a broad range of articles. NUI Galway, along with several other universities in Ireland, are supporting the initiative to increase the profile of our academic and research output. You will find more information below and also details about information sessions which are taking place across campus on Thursday 12 October.
Brainstorm RTÉ’s website receives 51 million monthly page impressions, with 6.5 million monthly unique visitors. RTÉ Brainstorm will offer our NUI Galway research community the opportunity to contribute to public debate, engage in the news and current affairs of the moment and communicate new thinking. It will allow RTÉ to provide longer form content and analysis to its online readers/users.
The platform will combine opinion, analysis and features. Content will be edited by RTÉ and sit alongside its online journalism and content. As it develops, the intent is for RTÉ Brainstorm to provide readers with informed views and perspectives on a vast range of topics. It’s an unique partnership between RTÉ and Irish third level institutions, namely University College Cork, NUI Galway, University of Limerick, DCU, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ulster University and Maynooth University.
RTÉ Brainstorm is where the academic and research community will contribute to public debate, reflect on what’s happening in the world around us and communicate fresh thinking on a broad range of issues.Combining opinion, analysis and features and edited by RTÉ and sitting alongside our online journalism and content, RTÉ Brainstorm will provide readers with informed views and perspectives on a vast range of topics.

If you’re a member of an academic or research institution in Ireland or elsewhere and wish to contribute to Brainstorm, please complete the form on the link below to be added to our list of potential contributors.
https://www.rte.ie/eile/brainstorm/2017/0725/892829-contribute-to-brainstorm/

“Martin Luther: Man and Movement” A talk by Dr. Alison Forrestal
2017-10-10 12:00 - 13:30 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
“Martin Luther: Man and Movement”
by Dr.Alison Forrestal – History, School of Humanities
Seminar Room, G010, The Hardiman Building at 12:00pm-1:30pm

Martin Luther: Man and Movement
500 years ago, Martin Luther’s incendiary ideas about faith shook Europe, releasing a politically charged religious movement that could not be contained, and which altered the course of history. In this lecture, Alison Forrestal will introduce this fascinating and controversial figure, examine the ideas that turned him into a hero for some and a villain for others, and place his revolutionary protest in the context of the early sixteenth century. Luther was a man of his time, so why did he become a man for all times?

Huston Guest Session: Award-winning Music documentary Cinematographer Frank Shortt
2017-10-05 14:30 | ‘Huston Main’, Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway, Ireland
Huston Guest Session: Award-winning Music documentary Cinematographer Frank Shortt
Thursday October 5th 2.30pm, Huston Main

Frank Shortt has worked in the film industry for almost twenty years, specialising in the music documentary genre and contributing as a cinematographer to award-winning productions including for leading international rock acts Iron Maiden, Motörhead and Rush. Originally from Norway, he completed a bachelor degree in Film & Video production in 2001 at Surrey Institute of Art & Design (now part of UCA UK), working as a camera trainee and extra on the Oscar-winning feature film Gladiator (Ridley Scott) during his time there and specialising in camera and lighting.
In 2003 Frank returned to Norway and collaborated with fellow filmmaker Martin Hawkes; together they set up SAFT Film, a production company producing local, national and Scandinavian productions and industrial videos. In 2004, Frank (as cinematographer) and SAFT collaborated with the Canadian production company Banger Films to shoot the acclaimed documentary Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey (2005). This led to a series of major music documentary productions for some of the biggest rock banks in the world, including Motörhead: The World Is Ours (2011), Rush: Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland (2011) and Iron Maiden: Flight 666 (2009). Frank rose to Head of Camera Department/Cinematographer for Bangers Films, producing high end documentaries and films for clients such as Warner Bros, Universal, Netflix, as well as Bangers’ own productions. Among Bangers’ major achievements was a Grammy nomination for Best long form music video in 2011 (for RUSH: Beyond the Lighted Stage (2010)) and winning the Juno awards for music DVD of the year in 2011 (RUSH: Beyond the Lighted Stage) and 2010 (Iron Maiden: Flight 666). During his visit to Huston, Frank will discuss the process of producing music videos and screen extracts from the work he has done to date.

Graduate Research Seminars in History - Daragh Gannon
2017-10-04 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
4 Oct. Daragh Gannon (National Museum of Ireland/ Maynooth University)
Irish Home Rulers in Britain and the Irish Revolution.*

“Worlding Women's Work: The Migrant Female Domestic Worker in May-Lan Tan's ‘Date Night’ (2014)" by Dr Kate Houlden
2017-10-04 13:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
“Worlding Women’s Work: The Migrant Female Domestic Worker in May-Lan Tan’s ‘Date Night’ (2014)”
by Dr Kate Houlden (Anglia Ruskin University)

Date: Wednesday, 4th October 2017
Time: 1:00–2:00pm
Venue: The Bridge Seminar Room, Hardiman Building

ALL WELCOME!

The Yeats Family Sale: NUI Galway, the Irish State, and the Auction
2017-10-04 12:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
The Yeats Family Sale: NUI Galway, the Irish State, and the Auction
Wednesday 4 October 12noon
The Bridge Seminar Room (Hardiman Research Building 1001)
Participants:
Adrian Paterson
Adrian Frazier
Anne Byrne
Barry Houlihan
Marie Boran
The major sale of items associated with W.B. Yeats, Jack B. Yeats, and their family in 224 lots went ahead last Wednesday at Sotheby’s auctioneers in London, selling for a total of £2 million. Adrian Paterson led a campaign to retain the items for the state with a coordinated letter in the Irish Times. Questions were asked in the Dáil and the campaign received coverage around the world.* Nevertheless NUI Galway was successful in securing several items of real importance to the west of Ireland. This pop-up event discusses the fall-out from the controversial sale, the role of the state and its major national institutions, and what NUI Galway managed to secure.
*See for example New York Times 28 Sept:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/arts/yeats-auction-sothebys.html
Irish Times 28 Sept: https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/fine-art-antiques/wb-yeats-s-love-letters-fail-to-sell-in-london-auction-1.3235647

Seminar and Book Launch
2017-10-03 16:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Seminar and Book Launch
Prof. Kerby A. Miller (University of Missouri)
Best to Forget? Conflict, Memory, and Memoir-Writing by Irish Emigrants to the United States, c1870-c1950
Kerby A. Miller is Curators’ Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Missouri. His book Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America (1985) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His other books include Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan (2003), and Ireland and Irish America: Culture, Class, and Transatlantic Migration (2008), and Catholics and Protestants in Eighteenth-Century Ireland: The Irish Religious Censuses of the 1760s (forthcoming).

Followed by the launch of Breandán Mac Suibhne’s
The End of Anger: The Post-Famine Adjustment in Rural Ireland (Oxford University Press, 2017).

MY STORY MY WORDS - A symposium on language, migration and culture in Ireland
2017-09-29 09:00 - 18:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
September 29, 2017- Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway
DEVELOPED UNDER THE IRC “NEW FOUNDATIONS” SCHEME
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE IMMIGRANT COUNCIL OF IRELAND

9.00 Welcome
9.30 – Migration, Language and New Media (Chair: Andrea Ciribuco)
– Mary Gilmartin (NUI Maynooth): “Narratives of Belonging”
– Lisa McEntee-Atalianis (Birkbeck): “Tracing the Migrant Voice in Traditional & New
Media”
– Unn Røyneland (Oslo): “Virtually Norwegian: Negotiating Language and Identity
Online”
11.00 – Break
11.15 – Opening spaces for migrant cultures: translation, creative writing,
visual arts (Chair: Anne O’Connor)
– Stefan Nowotny (Goldsmiths): “Tales and Silences: Revisiting the Task of
Translation”
– Marta Golubowska, visual artist: “The second language in visual arts: means to
convey the meanings”
– Ozgecan Kesici-Ayoubi, poet / scholar / translator: Title TBC
12.30 – Lunch
1.30 – Migrating theatre and film (Chair: Charlotte Mc Ivor)
– OT Platform (Bernie O’Reilly, Maud Hendricks, Rula Abu Affar): “OTP, an open
platform in Dublin”
– Kasia Lech (Canterbury Christ Church University / Polish Theatre Ireland): “They
came here and stole our jobs and then they took our language: Polish-Irish-English
hybrid and its theatrical potential”
– Jijo Sebastian, film director: Title TBC
2.30 – Migrating Poetry (Chair: Michaela Schrage-Frueh)
– Anne Mulhall (UCD): Title TBC
– Christodoulos Makris, poet: “Travelling Light: Shedding Poetry’s
National Baggage”
– Nita Mishra, poet /scholar: “’Tom’s Exotic Princess’”
– Nithy Kasa, poet: Title TBC
– Fiona Bolger, poet: presenting “All the Worlds Between”
4.15 – The Immigrant Council of Ireland (presented by Tereza
Buszckowska)
4.45 – Break
5.00 – Ó Briain Memorial Lecture
Patrick Stevenson (Southampton): “Moving Stories: Writing Berlin Lives”
6.00 Reception

Architecture at the Edge (AATE) | 'Placemaking' Symposium and Workshops
2017-09-29 00:00 - 2017-10-01 00:00 | NUI Galway / Various locations in Galway
Celebrating the Power of Architecture to Transform Lives

Architecture at the Edge (AATE) is a weekend celebration of exceptional architecture in the West of Ireland. Featuring a series of talks, tours, workshops and exhibitions, the festival invites people of all ages to explore the built environment of their city and county.
Showcasing some of the West of Ireland’s most outstanding architectural features, this weekend-long festival offers an exciting opportunity to explore some of the hidden architectural gems of Galway and Mayo. Join a team of expert guides as they take you on a tour of homes, buildings and spaces that are typically off limits. Architecture at the Edge will encourage a lively debate on standards of urban design, planning and sustainability through public engagement in a variety of events.
For the full programme and list of events, please check out the website link below.
https://www.architectureattheedge.com/

EDEN - ‘Academic Networking and the Elevator Pitch’
2017-09-28 17:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Thursday 28 September at 5:00 PM in The Bridge, Room 1001 HRB!
The theme of the evening will be academic networking, with a workshop on crafting your ‘elevator pitch’ and a chance to put them in practice by introducing yourself to your fellow NUIG PhD peers.
Pints and chats to follow at McGinn’s—all are welcome!

"Office Hours" Drop-in Service
2017-09-28 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 - John McCafferty followed by launch of Alison Forrestal’s Vincent de Paul
2017-09-27 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
27 September John McCafferty, UCD.
Nosebleeds, Tears and Italianated Hearts: Thinking about the History of Emotions on the Seventeenth-Century Irish Mission
To be followed at 5pm by launch of Alison Forrestal’s Vincent de Paul, the Lazarist Mission, and French Catholic Reform (Oxford University Press, 2017) by our guest speaker.}

Information Event: IRC Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme
2017-09-26 12:00 - 13:00 | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
See here for full information on the scheme http://research.ie/funding/goipg/?f=postgraduate
The session will be facilitated by Prof. Dan Carey, Director of the Moore Institute.
The Moore Institute will provide a reading service for those who wish to avail of it, the timeline is as follows:
Deadline for receipt of near final draft applications (fully copy edited) – 4 October 2017
Applications to be returned to applicant – 18 October 2017
This will give the applicants two weeks to incorporate the feedback into their applications.

Culture Night
2017-09-22 18:00 - 20:30 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
This year’s culture night takes place on the 22 September. Culture night is an annual all-island public event that celebrates culture, creativity and the arts. The James Hardiman Library is holding an evening of talks and an exhibition to celebrate culture. The focus of the talks is on community development with the focus on materials from the Muintir na Tíre collection as well as volumes from the 19th century printed collections.
The James Hardiman Library’s collections hold a rich source of material on local and community studies. In the archives we have collections from The Abbey Theatre, The Gate Theatre, Professor Kevin Boyle, Brendan Duddy, Ritchie-Pickow, Éamon de Buitléar, Tim Robinson and Druid Theatre company to name but a few. The James Hardiman Library has recently acquired the archive of Muintir na Tíre, a national voluntary organisation dedicated to promoting the process of community development. A series of blogs have been written about the work to date of making the collection accessible for researchers.
The Muintir na Tíre talk will look at Rural Ireland and Landmark two publications of Muintir na Tíre and discuss how they promoted community development before and after the United Nations definition in 1958. These will also be on display in the exhibition. Community development in Galway and the West of Ireland will be discussed as well during the talk. Much earlier attempts at community development in Galway will be addressed in the talk on James Hardiman and his involvement with organisations such as the Royal Galway Institution.
Venue: Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
Talks:
18.30: “Muintir na Tíre Periodical literature”. Speaker: Fiona Kearney, Archivist
19.30: “James Hardiman, historian of Galway” Speaker: Marie Boran, Special Collections Librarian
We hope you can come along and join us for the evening

CAMPS Lab
2017-09-22 12:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Friday 22nd September: Literary Windows: Imitative Series and Clusters from Classical to Early Modern Literature. A round table discussion featuring Michael Clarke, Yiannis Doukas, Peter Kelly, and Lindsay Ann Reid
Light Lunch served

'Animation in Ireland'- With Heather Grace Mills
2017-09-21 14:30 | Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway, Ireland
‘Animation in Ireland’- With Heather Grace Mills

Thursday Sep 21, 2.30pm, Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway

Heather Grace Mills is an Animation Producer and Line Producer working for Telegael in Connemara, in the West of Ireland. A graduate of both GMIT (BA Film & TV Production) and NUIG (MA Film Studies: Theory and Practice), Heather has worked in Animation Production for more than a decade across a range of animation formats including traditional 2D animation, 3D-CGI, stop-motion puppet animation, and sand animation, for both series and feature films. Heather is currently producing, for Telegael, the first stop-motion feature film ever to be made in Ireland, “Captain Morten & The Spider Queen”, a coproduction with Estonia (Nukufilm) and Belgium (Grid Animation) featuring an all-star Irish cast including Brendan Gleeson, Pauline McGlynn, Ciarán Hinds, Tommy Tiernan and Jason Byrne. Heather’s presentation will include clips and behind-the-scenes footage of “Captain Morten” and other projects in development, and the talk will also provide an overview of animation production, touching upon funding, training, international coproduction and distribution.

Öcalan’s Book: “Capitalism: 'The Age of Unmasked Gods and Naked Kings' Manifesto for a Democratic Civilization by Havin Guneser
2017-09-21 13:30 - 14:30 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
ÖCALAN’S BOOK: “CAPITALISM THE AGE OF UNMASKED GODS AND NAKED KINGS. MANIFESTO FOR A DEMOCRATIC CIVILIZATION”
Presentation by Havin Guneser
Journalist and Activist

Thursday 21st of September 2017, 1:30-2:30 pm
The Bridge Room 1001, First Floor Hardiman Research Building (main library), NUIG
Sponsored by the Irish Centre for Human Rights

This presentation will focus upon the Kurdish struggle, the PKK (Kurdistan’s Workers Party) and Abdullah Öcalan, who is the founding political leader of the PKK. Öcalan has been imprisoned since 1999 on Imrali Island, and from prison he has published several books on the Kurdish struggle. As an example, Öcalan’s thought has been the platform upon which the democratic confederalism in Rojava (West Kurdistan/Syrian Kurdistan) has been built.
In this presentation, Havin Guneser, will speak on Öcalan’s most recent book “Capitalism: The Age of Unmasked Gods and Naked Kings”, which is the second book in a new five-volume work called Manifesto for a Democratic Civilization. Together, they present a synthesis of Öcalan’s political thinking. This volume completes his journey through the history of civilizations, preparing the ground for the upcoming volume entitled “The Sociology of Freedom”.
Havin Guneser is an engineer, journalist and a women‘s rights activist. She is one of the spokespersons of the International Initiative “Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan – Peace in Kurdistan” and the translator on Abdullah Öcalan’s books.

All welcome!

Digital Scholarship Seminar - "Laugh and be fat: remapping the literary canon with the Digital Miscellanies Index" A talk by Abigail Williams
2017-09-21 13:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
The opening event of the Autumn 2017 series of Digital Scholarship Seminar takes place on Thursday 21 September at 1pm, and features a talk on digital representations of popular early modern poetry collections by Abigail Williams of the University of Oxford. Prof Williams discusses the Digital Miscellanies Index, a Leverhulme-funded online database which can be used to track the changing fortunes of poems, authors and genres in compilations published across the period 1580-1780. As ever, all are welcome.
1pm | Thursday 21 September 2017 | Moore Institute Room G010 | Facebook event page
Abigail Williams (St Peter’s College, University of Oxford)
Laugh and be fat: remapping the literary canon with the Digital Miscellanies Index.
The Digital Miscellanies Index is a Leverhulme-funded online database of popular early modern poetry collections, which can be used to track the changing fortunes of poems, authors and genres in compilations published across the period 1580-1780. As such, it offers a new data-driven reception history for literature of the era. In my talk I will discuss the evolution of the project over a decade, and the kinds of insights it has generated. The scale and range of the evidence collected in the DMI challenges many longstanding assumptions about authorship, anonymity, and reception. But the project has also involved responding to problems and opportunities unimaginable when it began, and I will also use the talk to consider the changing landscape of digital humanities, and the challenges of creating flexible and sustainable resources.

Abigail Williams is Professor of English Literature & Lord White Tutorial Fellow at St Peter’s College, University of Oxford. Her current research on eighteenth century literature includes focuses on ways in which books are creatively misread, and on the history of reading aloud in the home. Her new monograph, The Social Life of Books, is a study on the latter topic.

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EDEN - Teaching Advice Session
2017-09-19 13:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Tuesday September 19th, 1-2pm in the Bridge Room – Teaching Advice Session
Bring your lunch and yourselves to this lunchtime session on teaching advice, hosted by EDEN. We will be joined by Dr. Miriam Haughton (Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance), Professor Lionel Pilkington (School of English), a representative from CELT (Centre of Excellence for Teaching and Learning), and Dr. Sarah Corrigan (Classics). They will be talking us through various aspects of teaching across disciplines and levels. There will be plenty of time for questions and please feel free to spread the word across disciplines. This is a great chance to give your teaching skills a boost at the start of the semester.

“At School with The Man Who Knew Too Much” A Lecture by Murray Pomerance
2017-09-15 14:00 - 16:00 | ‘Huston Main’, Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway, Ireland
“At School with The Man Who Knew Too Much” A Lecture by Murray Pomerance
Sponsored by the Discipline of English and the Huston School of Film & Digital Media
15 September 2017, from 2-4 pm in Huston Main

Murray Pomerance is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson University. He is the author of The Man Who Knew Too Much (BFI, 2016), A King of Infinite Space (Oberon, 2017), Moment of Action: Riddles of Cinematic Performance (Rutgers, 2016), Marnie (BFI, 2014), The Economist (Oberon, 2014), The Eyes Have It: Cinema and the Reality Effect (Rutgers, 2013), Alfred Hitchcock’s America (Polity, 2013), Tomorrow (Oberon, 2012), Michelangelo Red Antonioni Blue: Eight Reflections on Cinema (California, 2011), Edith Valmaine (Oberon, 2010), The Horse Who Drank the Sky: Film Experience Beyond Narrative and Theory (Rutgers 2008), Johnny Depp Starts Here (Rutgers 2005), An Eye for Hitchcock (Rutgers 2004), Savage Time (Oberon 2005), and Magia D’Amore (Sun and Moon, 1999). His book Ici Commence Johnny Depp was published by Éditions Capricci in 2010; and Johnny Depp: Betrachtungen zu einem Schauspieler appeared from Reinhard Weber Verlag in 2006.
He has edited or co-edited numerous volumes, including George Cukor: Hollywood Master (Edinburgh, 2015), The Last Laugh: Strange Humors of Cinema (Wayne State, 2013), Hollywood’s Chosen People: The Jewish Experience in American Cinema (Wayne State, 2012), Shining in Shadows: Movie Stars of the 2000s (Rutgers 2011 (Rutgers 2006), From Hobbits to Hollywood: Essays on Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings (Rodopi 2006), American Cinema of the 1950s: Themes and Variations (Rutgers 2005), Where the Boys Are: Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth (Wayne State 2005).

‘Paddy Trench: Galwegian, activist and artist’: ICHLC seminar
2017-09-14 16:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
‘Paddy Trench: Galwegian, activist and artist’:

ICHLC seminar followed by drinks reception to mark donation of significant archival material.
14 September, 4 pm, The Bridge, Hardiman Building, NUI Galway.
The first seminar of the Irish Centre for the Histories of the Labour and Class (Moore Institute) for the 2017-18 academic year takes place next Thursday, 14 September, at 4 pm in The Bridge (Room 1001), Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway. The subject is Paddy Trench, and the speaker is his nephew, Brian Trench (School of Communications, DCU).

Paddy Trench was born in Galway, the son of Wilbraham Trench, Professor of History, English and Mental Science, at QCG. Though the family moved to Dublin while he was still quite young, Paddy always identified as a Galwegian. A talented artist, a poet, and an engaged journalist, he was a prominent figure in bohemian Dublin in the late 1920s. Socially and politically conscious, he was in Spain in the early stages of the Spanish Civil War but chronic ill-health obliged him to leave. Back in Ireland, he was the driving force behind the first Trotskyist movement in the country, while simultaneously active in the Dublin Labour Party. When he died in a Swiss sanatorium in 1948, he was only 43 years of age.
The seminar is followed immediately by a reception to mark the donation to NUI Galway and the ICHLC of significant archival material relating to socialist and kindred movements in Ireland and Scotland. Tom Sherry’s donation is of his father’s collection of Labour, Anarchist, Communist, and Trotskyist periodicals from the late 1930s and 1940s (to some of which Paddy Trench contributed articles). Brian Trench’s donation relates to the Socialist Workers’ Movement in Ireland in the 1970s. Mary Glynn’s donation relates to the Militant Tendency In Ireland in the 1970s and 1980s.

In Conversation with Bob Quinn
2017-09-14 14:30 | ‘Huston Main’, Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway, Ireland
In Conversation with Bob Quinn
‘Huston Main’, Huston School of Film & Digital Media, Thursday September 14th, 2:30pm

James Thurber wrote of himself: ‘Easy to rouse, he is hard to quiet and people usually just go away.’ The same might be said of Bob Quinn. Under the title ‘Cinegael’, and for nearly four decades, in words and images, Bob Quinn has recorded life in the West of Ireland, especially in the Conamara Gaeltacht. He has been called a ‘talented eccentric’ (by Ken Gray, Irish Times) a ‘maverick’ (by corporate RTE & the late Jim Kemmy), and was a key figure in the emergence of a distinctive Irish film culture from the 1970s onwards. He has filmed and photographed from Tatarstan to Morocco, from India to the United States. His work has been exhibited from Galway to Los Angeles, from Moscow to Missouri. Apart from his film work, he has been published by Quartet Books (London & New York), O’Brien Press, (Dublin), Brandon Press, (Kerry), Lilliput Press (Dublin) and Cló Iar-Chonnacht, (Galway).
The film and video company, Cinegael, which with Seosamh Ó Cuaig and Toni Cristofides he founded in 1973, concentrated on the Gaeltacht of Conamara. Quinn still sees this Irish-speaking area in the West of Ireland as the grain of sand which, in the William Morris sense, contains and illuminates the world. Cinegael’s original intention was to reinforce the identity of this threatened linguistic minority: the group soon realised that in modern times man’s destiny is stated in political terms. Inspired by the the National Film Board of Canada’s Challenge for Change programme and using pioneering closed-circuit TV techniques it recorded local events and controversies. It mediated successfully between local opinion and public bodies. Gradually Cinegael began to engage with the larger polity. It evolved into a maker of one-off film documentaries and dramas – including acclaimed films Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoire (1975) Poitín (1977) The Atlantean Trilogy (1981/1984) and Budawanny (1987) – which were all screened on RTE, as well as on BBC, Channel Four, S4C, SBC etc. and which achieved other international recognition. In 1981 Quinn earned the Spirit of the Festival Award at the Celtic Film Festival. In 1984 he won a Jacob’s TV Award. In 2009 he was awarded the ‘Director’s Choice’ award at the Boston Irish Film Festival (BIFF). In 1988 he was the first film maker to be elected a member of Aosdána, the Irish Parliament of Artists. (In the same year he met Colonel Ghadafi.) In 2001 Quinn was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Irish Film Institute and in 2012 he was awarded the Foras Na Gaeilge SDGI Award for Outstanding Work as a Director in the Irish Language.
