Staff and students are warmly invited to attend the first gathering of the Figuring Ecologies Reading Network (FERN). We will meet each month to discuss a literary or creative work on the subject of ecologies. Suggestions for future meetings will be welcome! First Meeting: Wednesday 15 February 2023, Bridge Room, Moore Institute, 13.00-14.00 We will discuss The... | Read on »

COMING OUT / LEANING IN Cahir O’Doherty Arts Editor and Senior Columnist, Irish Voice and Irish Central (New York) MOORE INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL STUDIES 4.00 pm, Thursday, 16 February 2023 G010 Hardiman Building New York journalist and critic Cahir O’Doherty, who grew up in County Donegal in the 1970s and 1980s, reflects... | Read on »

Who is Odysseus Anyway? Public talk and activity session for children ages 8–12 (ish) Sat, 18 February 2023, 10:30 – 11:30 am at Galway City Museum   Dr Pádraic Moran, lecturer in Ancient Classics at the University of Galway, will introduce the character of Odysseus, an unconventional hero of Ancient Greek myth. With Pádraic, participants... | Read on »

Ag Tabhairt Odaiséis Abhaile - Bringing Odysseus Home: Teaching Ancient Classics through Irish in the University of Galway Public talk and poetry reading Sat, 18 February 2023, 2–3 pm at Galway City Museum   This is a talk by Dr Pádraic Moran (Ancient Classics, University of Galway) on the fascinating endeavours of Classicists at the... | Read on »

Open Scholarship Café – Open Science and Social Justice Open Scholarship / Open Science has many drivers and “schools of thought” about its purpose. This Open Scholarship Café will not look at how to open up the research process, i.e. through the publication of data, methods or publications, but will look at Open Scholarship as a social... | Read on »

University of Galway History Seminar Dr Morgan Wait (Independent Scholar) 'If we were men, they’d find other jobs for us’: Continuity announcers and female presenters at R/TÉ 1962-73   Abstract This paper explores the experiences of continuity announcers and female presenters on Radio/Telefís Éireann in the first decade of the Irish station. It argues that... | Read on »

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 »

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 »