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 »
"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 »
