Digital Scholarship Seminar: Evan Bourke (NUI Galway) - Female Involvement, Membership, and Centrality: A Social Network Analysis of the Hartlib Circle
2015-11-04 12:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Digital Scholarship Seminar:
Evan Bourke (NUI Galway)
Female Involvement, Membership, and Centrality: A Social Network Analysis of the Hartlib Circle
The Hartlib circle was an intellectual correspondence network that was formed in London in 1641, centred around Samuel Hartlib, John Dury, and Jan Amos Kaminski. This group was mainly active between 1641 and 1661, and included well-known figures such as Robert Boyle, Henry Oldenburg, and Benjamin Worsley. However, the network also had female members, such as Lady Ranelagh, and Dorothy Moore – and these women will be the focus of this talk. Through an extensive analysis of the Hartlib database this talk will introduce these women’s involvement in this network, focusing on their participation in religious and scientific activities. Then, using social network analysis, this talk will interrogate the importance of these women’s involvement, questioning whether they were important to the way information flowed through this network, and whether their position in the network granted them influence over other members.
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Seminars are open to all and conclude with discussion over lunch
For further informatition, contact: Dr PÌÁdraic Moran (padraic.moran@nuigalway.ie),
or Dr Justitin Tonra (justitin.tonra@nuigalway.ie)

Drama Theatre and Performance speaker series: Moonfish Theatre, 'Developing Practices: A Conversation on Creating Star of the Sea and Cultivating A Theatre Company'
2015-11-04 14:00
Drama Theatre and Performance speaker series:
Moonfish Theatre, “Developing Practices: A Conversation on Creating Star of the Sea and Cultivating A Theatre Company”
Moonfish is a Galway-based theatre company creating work in English and Irish that is rooted in the limitless possibilities of the imagination. Moonfish produce theatre for young people and adults. Our work is defined by its energy, imagination and quality. We produce classics, new writing and devised work and with each piece we seek to immerse our audience in a theatrical experience. We have used shadow work, live music, dance and more to create these experiences… they are always different but each is created with a passion for theatre.
For more information please contact charlotte.mcivor@nuigalway.ie

Journalism guest speaker series: Sally Galiana, President AMARC Europe
2015-11-05 14:00
Journalism Guest Speaker Series
Sally Galiana, President AMARC Europe.
AMARC is the international organisation for community radio. Ms. Galiana, of Dublin’s NEAR FM, is currently president, and will be talking about community media and alternative approaches to news production.
For more information please contact Andrew.obaoill@nuigalway.ie

CAMPS Labs: Prof. John Waddell (Archaeology, NUIG) 'Medieval Windows on a Pagan Past'
2015-11-06 12:00
Prof. John Waddell (Archaeology, NUIG)
‘Medieval Windows on a Pagan Past’
Followed by discussion & light lunch
Everyone welcome – FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch
For more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

Book Launch: Engendering Ireland : New Reflections on Modern History and Literature
2015-11-06 17:30
Engendering Ireland
New Reflections on Modern History and Literature
Editor(s):Rebecca Anne Barr, Sarah-Anne Buckley, Laura Kelly
Contributors: Laura Mernie Pomeroy, Katharina Walter, Eleanor O’Leary, Myrtle Hill, Declan O’Keeffe, Marion Krauthaker, Evelyn Glynn, Mary Muldowney, Claire McGing, Charlotte McIvor;
Book Description
Engendering Ireland is a collection of ten essays showcasing the importance of gender in a variety of disciplines. These essays interrogate gender as a concept which encompasses both masculinity and femininity, and which permeates history and literature, culture and society in the modern period. The collection includes historical research which situates Irish women workers within an international economic context; textual analysis which sheds light on the effects of modernity on the home and rising female expectations in the post-war era; the rediscovery of significant Irish women modernists such as Mary Devenport O’Neill; and changing representations of masculinity, race, ethnicity and interculturalism in modern Irish theatre. Each of these ten essays provides a thought-provoking picture of the complex and hitherto unrecognised roles gender has played in Ireland over the last century. While each of these chapters offers a fresh perspective on familiar themes in Irish gender studies, they also illustrate the importance and relevance of gender studies to contemporary debates in Irish society.
For more information please contact sarahanne.buckley@nuigalway.ie

Human Rights Lunchtime Seminar Series: LGBTI rights in Uganda - the state of human rights defenders in peril by Sandra Namutebi, human rights defender from Uganda
2015-11-09 13:00
Lunchtime Seminar Series:
LGBTI rights in Uganda – the state of human rights defenders in perilby Sandra Namutebi, human rights defender from Uganda
The Irish Centre for Human Rights, in cooperation with Front Line Defenders, is pleased to welcome Sandra Namutebi, a human rights defender for the LGBTI community in Uganda.
In February 2014, Ugandan President Museveni signed a law outlawing homosexual acts which was then annulled in August 2014 due to a technical issue. Although this law no longer stands, it reflects the widespread prejudice against the LGBTI community in Uganda; it is within this climate that Sandra works. The organisation she works with, the National LGBTI Security Committee, is a safety and protection body in Uganda that deals with emergencies of sexual minorities. They provide a hotline service for LGBTI community members and track and monitor abuses motivated by prejudice against the community. The political and social climate for human rights defenders, particularly for those working for LGBTI rights, is dangerous, with hostility from both the government and society. Although fearful of the dangers and prejudices she faces daily, Sandra continues her work and recognizes its importance in this increasingly difficult environment.
Sandra’s talk will touch upon a short history of Ugandan politics and society, the general situation for human rights defenders in Uganda and the situation for LGBTI rights defenders in Uganda. Finally, she will talk about her personal story, as how governmental and societal issues affect her life and work.
All are welcome!
For more information please contact t.ananthavinayagan1@nuigalway.ie

Performance Matters - Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2015-11-09 18:00, 2015-11-16 18:00
Performance Matters
Irish Theatre Discussion Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/
For more information please contact n.barre8@nuigalway.ie
All theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend

Dr BrÌ_d McGrath - Managing the Windsor of Ireland: Galway's Town Council From 1603-1653
2015-11-09 20:00
Dr BrÌ_d McGrath
Managing the Windsor of Ireland: Galway’s Town Council From 1603-1653
Monday, 9 November at 8pm
Harbour Hotel, Dock Road, Galway
Dr. McGrath’s talk explores one of Galway’s most outstanding treasures, the ‰Û÷Liber A’ manuscript, preserved in the James Hardiman Library at NUI Galway
The lecture, sponsored by the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, is based on Dr. McGrath’s research as a Moore Institute Visiting Fellow.
In this public talk, Dr. McGrath will describe the membership of Galway’s town council and the people who controlled and managed the city in the first half of the 17th century. She will also discuss recently discovered letters from the famous Galway lawyer, Patrick Darcy now held in the Huntington Library, California.
According to Dr. McGrath, “Galway’s ‰Û÷Liber A’ is a truly unique manuscript and one of the town’s most precious treasures. While working on it, I was able to discover how Galway was managed by its wealthy, cultivated merchant elite in this period and the key role played by Galway men in Irish political life, in parliament and the Confederation of Kilkenny.”
‰Û÷Liber A’ is available online and features beautiful pen and ink drawings at: http://archives.library.nuigalway.ie/LiberA/html/LiberA.html

Digital Scholarship Seminar:Gerardine Meaney (University College Dublin) - A Comparative Social Network Analysis of Irish and English Fiction, 1800-1922
2015-11-10 12:00
Digital Scholarship Seminar:

Gerardine Meaney (University College Dublin)
A Comparative Social Network Analysis of Irish and English Fiction, 1800-1922

The Nation, Genre and Gender: A Comparative Social Network Analysis of Irish and English Fiction, 1800-1922 project is currently creating an electronic corpus of approximately 100 Irish and English novels from the period 1800-1922. It will use this corpus to identify key representative and influential texts for social network analysis, generate visualisations of networks and their development, apply intersectional (gender, class, ethnicity) analysis to network components, and engage in intensive critical analysis. The objective of the project is to compare gender, genre and the nationality of the author (or setting) in shaping social networks in fiction. Do the social networks mapped out by cumulative interactions between characters in Irish and English fiction differ from one another? Do the social networks represented in fiction differ substantially on the basis of genre or gender? How does this change across the time period? The historical range offers the opportunity for a longitudinal, transhistorical analysis which can identify consistencies and changes. The aim of the project is not to substitute a quantitative, computational approach for a critical and interpretative one, but to explore ways in which these two approaches can be reconciled. This combination of digital and critical methodologies also offers a realistic and judicious way to reconcile the demands of a radically extended canon of fiction, with its diversity of voices, genres and perspectives, and intense textual engagement. This paper will outline initial findings using Pride and Prejudice and Phineas Finn as examples.
Gerardine Meaney is Professor of Cultural Theory, Director of the UCD Humanities Institute and PI of Nation, Gender, Genre. Recent publications include Reading the Irish Woman: Cultural Encounter and Exchange, 1714-1960, with Bernadette Whelan and Mary O’Dowd (2013), Gender, Ireland and Cultural Change (2010) and an iPad app of James Joyce’s short story ‘The Dead’ (2014).
Seminars are open to all and conclude with discussion over lunch
For further informatition, contact: Dr PÌÁdraic Moran (padraic.moran@nuigalway.ie),
or Dr Justitin Tonra (justitin.tonra@nuigalway.ie)
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Archaeology research seminar series: Daisy Spencer - doctoral candidate in Archaeology and Geography
2015-11-10 16:00
Archaeology research seminar series:

Daisy Spencer – doctoral candidate in Archaeology and Geography,
All welcome!

for more information please contact maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie

Drama Theatre and Performance speaker series: Jeannine Woods (National University of Ireland, Galway)
2015-11-11 14:00
Drama Theatre and Performance speaker series:
Jeannine Woods (National University of Ireland, Galway) “A right queer carry-on: traditional wake games, drag performance and trans-formations of gender identities in Irish popular culture”
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Dr. Jeannine Woods graduated from NUI Maynooth with a joint first-class honours degree in Modern Irish and Cultural Anthropology. She was awarded a first-class MA in Culture and Colonialism by NUI Galway, where she subsequently completed a doctorate on colonialism, postcolonialism and Irish and Indian cinema under the supervision of Prof. Sean Ryder. She has been teaching and lecturing in NUI Galway since 2005. Jeannine has been awarded scholarships and fellowships by the Linguistic Institute of Ireland, by NUI Galway and by the Irish Research Council. She is the author of Visions of Empire and other Imaginings: Cinema, Ireland and India 1910-1962 (Peter Lang, 2011) which was shortlisted for an ESSE award for cultural studies in English in 2012. She has written articles and presented conference papers on cinema and on various aspects of gender and sexuality in Irish and international popular culture.
For more information please contact charlotte.mcivor@nuigalway.ie

Gender ARC Research Seminar Series 2015: The Experience of Imprisonment for Incarcerated Mothers and their Children in Ireland Sinead O'Malley, PhD Candidate, UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre at the National University of Ireland - Galway
2015-11-11 16:00
Gender ARC Research Seminar Series,Autumn 2015
Gender ARC and Global Women’s Studies at NUI Galway arepleased to invite you to the following research seminar:…………………………..
The Experience of Imprisonment for Incarcerated Mothers and their Childrenin Ireland
Sinead O’Malley, PhD Candidate, UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre atthe National University of Ireland – Galway
For more information please contact gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie

History Graduate Research Seminar Series: Regina Donlon, Crisis of Identity: the varying experiences of the James Hack Tuke emigrants in Minnesota and Pennsylvania 1880-1930
2015-11-11 16:00
History Graduate Research Seminar Series
Regina Donlon,
Crisis of Identity: the varying experiences of the James Hack Tuke emigrants in Minnesota and Pennsylvania 1880-1930
FÌÁilte roimh gach duine
for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie

Early Modern Research Seminar: Laura Branch and Mark Empey
2015-11-12 12:30
Early Modern Research Seminar
Dr. Laura Branch,
‰Û÷Christian Communities: The Culture of England’s Chartered Companies in the Sixteenth Century’
Dr. Mark Empey,
‰Û÷”These Books are excellent in their several kinds and well-chosen”: Book Ownership and the Reception of Women’s Texts, c. 1680-98′

Dr Martin McCleery (Queen's University Belfast and Moore Institute) - Assessing the Micro-Dynamics of Political Violence: The Murders of Two British Army Corporals in Belfast, 19 March 1988
2015-11-12 16:00
Dr Martin McCleery
(Queen’s University Belfast and Moore Institute)
Assessing the Micro-Dynamics of Political Violence:
The Murders of Two British Army Corporals in Belfast, 19 March 1988
Thursday 12 November
4pm
Moore Institute Seminar Room
(G010 Hardiman Research Building)
Followed by the launch of:
Martin McCleery, Operation Demetrius and Its Aftermath: A New History of the Use of Internment Without Trial in Northern Ireland 1971-75 (Manchester University Press, 2015).
Launched by Dr. Niall ÌÒ Dochartaigh
School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway
All are welcome!

EDEN (English and Drama Exchange Network), a student-led research exchange network for English and Drama postgraduate students
2015-11-12 17:00, 2015-11-19 17:00
EDEN (English and Drama Exchange Network),
a student-led research exchange network for
English and Drama postgraduate students
For more information please contact Justine Nakase at j.nakase1@nuigalway.ie

Book Launch: Martin McCleery, Operation Demetrius and Its Aftermath: A New History of the Use of Internment Without Trial in Northern Ireland 1971-75
2015-11-12 17:00
Book Launch
Martin McCleery,
Operation Demetrius and Its Aftermath: A New History of the Use of Internment Without Trial in Northern Ireland 1971-75 (Manchester University Press, 2015).
Launched by Dr. Niall ÌÒ DochartaighSchool of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway
All are welcome!

CAMPS Labs: Prof. MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha (Old & Middle Irish & Celtic Studies, NUIG) 'Uproarious laughter in medieval Cork, but who wrote Aislinge Meic Con Glinne?'
2015-11-13 12:00
Prof. MÌÁirÌ_n NÌ_ Dhonnchadha (Old & Middle Irish & Celtic Studies, NUIG)
‘Uproarious laughter in medieval Cork, but who wrote Aislinge Meic Con Glinne?’
Followed by discussion & light lunch
Everyone welcome – FÌÁilte roimh chÌÁch
For more information please contact mairin.nidhonnchadha@nuigalway.ie

Weekend Conference: 'Remembering NoÌÄåÇl Browne, 1915-97: Reflections on Radicalism, Welfare & Social Change in Modern Ireland' Featuring Robert Ballagh, Joe Higgins TD and others.
2015-11-13 19:30
Weekend Conference:
‰Û÷Remembering NoÌÇl Browne, 1915-97: Reflections on Radicalism, Welfare & Social Change in Modern Ireland’
Featuring Robert Ballagh, Joe Higgins TD and others.
Marking the centenary of the birth of Irish socialist politician and health reformer Noel Browne in Galway 13 – 14 November 2015.
The programme of events is…
Friday 13 November – 19:30
Galway Mechanics Institute, Nun’s Island
An evening of discussion on the life and work of Noel Browne, speakers include;
Robert Ballagh (Artist)
Joe Higgins TD (Socialist Party)
Glyn Carraher (Browne’s grandson)
Donncha ÌÒ hEallaithe (Founding member of Socialist Labour Party)
Readings from Sarah Clancy (Winner of 2015 Irish People’s Poetry Prize)
Chair: Tish Gibbons
Saturday 14 November
A day of talks on social history, social issues and welfare provision.
Moore Institute, NUI Galway
9.00 – 9.30: Registration
9:30 – 9:45: Welcome
9.45 – 11.15: Panel 1 – The Catholic Church and the Social Sphere
Shane Faherty – ‰Û÷The Catholic Church and the Creation of Denominational Education.’
Gerard Madden (NUIG) – ‰Û÷Catholic anti-communism, the Cold War, and peace and nuclear disarmament campaigns in Ireland 1945-1968.’
Deirdre Foley (UCD) – ‰Û÷Contraception and Conscience: Family Planning in Ireland and at the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street (1963-1978).’
11.15 – 11.30: Break
11.30 – 13.00: Panel 2 – Theory and Practice
Nat O’Connor (UU) – ‰Û÷Increasing People’s Net Economic Benefit versus Tax Cuts.’
Caitriona Nic Philbin (TCD) – ‰Û÷The concurrent validity of the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales in child, adolescent and family psychiatry (HoNOSCA) and the possible application of this instrument in the forensic child, adolescent and family settings.’
Aggelos Panayiotopoulos (UL) and Michael O’Flynn (UCD) – ‰Û÷Scholar-Activism: Creating Spaces for Education and Action.’
13:00 – 13.45: Lunch
13.45 – 15.15: Panel 3 – Forgotten Voices
Paul Horan (TCD) – ‰Û÷The Role of Women as Nurses, First Aiders & Dispatchers in the 1916 Rising.’
Liam Cullinane (UCC) – ‰Û÷Health, Safety and Masculinity in Twentieth Century Ireland: Insights from an Oral History Project.’
Sara Goek (UCC) – ‰Û÷Describing Poverty in Mid-Twentieth Century Rural Ireland: Personal Narratives and Collective Memory.’
15.15 – 15.30: Break
15.30- 17.00: Panel 4 – The Health and Welfare of Mothers and Children
SarahAnne Buckley (NUIG) – ‰Û÷Reflecting on child welfare in Ireland during Noel Browne’s lifetime, 1915-1997.’
Angela Flynn (UCC) – ‰Û÷Discourses of Inequality: Ireland’s Health System.’
Carmel Hannan (UL) – ‰Û÷Changing times but still the same story: The health and wellbeing of Lone Mothers in Ireland.’
17.00 – 17.15 Break
17.15 – 18.45: Panel 5 – Ireland and the International Left
David Convery (NUIG) – ‰Û÷John Wheatley: Irish-born Minister of Health in Britain’s First Labour Government.’
Morris Brodie (QUB) – ‰Û÷Scattered internationalists: Irish anarchism in the interwar world.’
Liam O’Discin (UCD) – ‰Û÷Catholics, Communists and Steelworkers, 1936-1948.’
For more information please contact john.cunningham@nuigalway.ie

The Galway Launch of the Letters of 1916
2015-11-16 14:00
The Galway launch of the Letters of 1916
2 – 6pm Nursing and Midwifery PC suite of the James Hardiman Library. Here you can meet the team and learn to transcribe a letter. The Letters 1916 team will also be on hand to digitise any letters that you bring along. We are especially interested in letters written between 1 November 1915 and 31 October 1916, and any accompanying photographs of the correspondents.
7-8pm we are delighted to introduce a host of speakers for the launch including:
Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley, Dr Conor MacNamara and Therese McIntyre, and Professor Susan Schreibman.
The talks will take place in the Hardiman Research Building, room G010. Talks include Letters as oral history, Reading family life during 1916: precarious childhood, parenthood and revolution and ‘They lick their chains”: 1916 and the dream of a new Ireland.’
For more information please contact letters1916@gmail.com

Archaeology research seminar series: Thor McVeigh - doctoral candidate in Archaeology
2015-11-17 16:00
Archaeology research seminar series:

Thor McVeigh – doctoral candidate in Archaeology
All welcome!

for more information please contact maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie

Rosaleen McDonagh - Global Women's Studies Visiting Scholar - November 18th to 20th
2015-11-18 00:00
We are pleased to welcome ROSALEEN McDONAGH to NUI Galway as a Global Women’s Studies Visiting Scholar
Rosaleen McDonagh is a writer and playwright, a well-known feminist in the Irish Traveller community, and a tireless advocate for human rights. A regular contributor to the Irish Times, Rosaleen currently holds a PhD fellowship at the University of Northumbria.
You are warmly invited to participate in a series of interactive dialogues with Rosaleen Mc Donagh:
WEDNESDAY NOV 18
Feminism and the struggle to realise Traveller women’s human rights: Reflections on policy responses to “violence against women”
Time: 11.00-12.30 pm
Venue: Institute for Life Course and Society, Room G008
Co-sponsored by the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre
THURSDAY NOV 19
Gender and embodiment
Time: 2.00-3.30 pm
Venue: Institute for Life Course and Society, Room G008
Co-sponsored by: the Centre for Disability Law and Policy and LLM in International and Comparative Disability Law and Policy
FRIDAY NOV 20
The Ryan Commission: between justice and re-traumatisation, then and now
Time: 1.00- 2.00 pm
Venue: Irish Centre for Human Rights
Co-sponsored by: the Irish Centre for Human Rights
Rosaleen’s visit is hosted by the Centre for Global Women’s Studies and co-sponsored by the Irish Centre for Human Rights, the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre and the Centre for Disability Law and Policy at NUI Galway. To RSVP for any of the above events, or for more information, please email Gillian Browne, Centre for Global Women’s Studies, gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie. For further details and full programme of activities see: http://www.nuigalway.ie/womens_studies/

Drama Theatre and Performance speaker series: Emilie Pine (University College, Dublin) 'Top Tips for Docu-Verbatim Memory Plays: The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later'
2015-11-18 14:00
Drama Theatre and Performance speaker series:Emilie Pine (University College, Dublin)“Top Tips for Docu-Verbatim Memory Plays: The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later“
Dr Emilie Pine lectures in modern drama in the School of English, Drama and Film at UCD. Emilie has published widely in the fields of memory studies, Irish studies and contemporary drama, and is the author of The Politics of Irish Memory: Performing Remembrance in Contemporary Irish Culture (Palgrave), Assistant Editor of the Irish University Review, and founding Director of the Irish Memory Studies Network. Emilie is currently writing a book on memory as a commodity in the performance marketplace
For more information please contact charlotte.mcivor@nuigalway.ie

History Graduate Research Seminar Series: Matthew McGinty, 'God Hath Supplied Us': Niall Garbh and the English in the Nine Years War.
2015-11-18 16:00
History Graduate Research Seminar Series
Matthew McGinty,
‰Û÷God Hath Supplied Us’: Niall Garbh and the English in the Nine Years War.
FÌÁilte roimh gach duine
for more information please contact caitriona.clear@nuigalway.ie

Book Launch: Anchored by Lorna Shaughnessy, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures NUI, Galway
2015-11-18 18:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
Book Launch
Anchored
by Lorna Shaughnessy
Anchored is Lorna Shaughnessy’s third collection of poems with Salmon Poetry.
‰Û÷Full and various, Anchored establishes Lorna Shaughnessy’s range and power. From meditation on the landscape of the West of Ireland to the exploration of memories, personal or communal, treasured or pathological, to myths of sacrifice and betrayal, the various topographies are intimately connected by an authentic voice and feeling. The language is precise, on occasion subdued or suddenly adventurous: starlings rise ‰Û÷in a calligrapher’s upward stroke’, while the capacity of words to convey their own opposites makes a defiant cacophony in ‰Û÷Iphigenia unwritten’. This is a book with shadowy depths and bright enlargements of our many worlds.’ Eil̩an NÌ_ ChuilleanÌÁin
‰Û÷At times beguilingly personal and story-driven, at times warmly and meditatively elusive, the poems in Anchored reflect Lorna Shaughnessy’s discovery of a deepened artistic resource. This beautiful book resonates with the sense of a commitment to wholeness by a writer whose gifts include the ability to unite the roles of teller and singer, and the courage, whatever the subject, to marshal the reader towards the heart of poetry.’ Martin Dyar
The book will be launched by Adrian Frazier.

A Victorian bestseller: David Roberts The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea,Egypt & Nubia - Library Ireland Week Talk by Marie Boran, Special Collections Librarian
2015-11-20 13:00 | Seminar Room G011 the Hardiman Reserach Building, Ireland
A Victorian bestseller: David Roberts The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea,Egypt & Nubia.
Library Ireland Week Talk by Marie Boran, Special Collections Librarian
Date: Friday 20 November, 13.00-14.00
Venue: Hardiman Research Building G011
All Welcome

Lunchtime Seminar Series: The Ryan Commission: between justice and re-traumatisation, than and now - by Rosaleen McDonagh, leading feminist within the Traveller community
2015-11-20 13:00
Lunchtime Seminar Series:
The Ryan Commission: between justice and re-traumatisation, than and nowby Rosaleen McDonagh, leading feminist within the Traveller community
The Irish Centre for Human Rights, in cooperation with Global Women’s Studies, is pleased to welcome Rosaleen McDonagh, a doctoral scholar at Northumbria University, reading for a PhD titled “An Exploration of the Relevance of the Affirmative Model in Relation to Traveller Identity.” She teaches “Gender and Race, Feminism from the Inside” on the M.Phil Racial and Ethnic Studies at Trinity College Dublin. As a child, Rosaleen attended a residential “special education” school for Travellers until the age of 18. She subsequently earned a BA degree in Theology at Trinity College Dublin, followed by an M.Phil in Ethnic and Racial Studies. Rosaleen worked in Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre for ten years, managing the Violence against Women programme. She has been involved in many initiatives on Traveller women’s issues and is regarded as a leading feminist within the Traveller community.
Her talk will focus on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (CICA), known as the Ryan Commission that was established in 1999 to investigate all forms of child abuse in Irish institutions for children. The majority of the abuse allegations investigated related to residential “Reformatory and Industrial Schools” operated by religious orders affiliated with the Catholic Church under the supervision of the Irish State. Commencing work in 1999, the Commission published its public report (the Ryan report) in 2009. Rosaleen McDonagh will critically discuss her experience as a witness in the Ryan Commission investigation process. Noting the deficiencies of the legalistic investigation process and procedures employed by the Commission, she will highlight shortcomings of the process and failures to fully recognise and respect her as an agent and subject of human rights, because of her identity as a girl/woman marked by “disability” and by membership of the Traveller community. Further, as the most recent HIQA reports demonstrate, protecting, respecting and fulfilling the human rights of people with disabilities remains an unfinished agenda in Ireland on the eve of its centenary year.
All are welcome!
For more information please contact t.ananthavinayagan1@nuigalway.ie

Performance Matters - Irish Theatre Discussion Group
2015-11-23 18:00
Performance Matters
Irish Theatre Discussion Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/
This weeks discussion – God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza.
For more information please contact n.barre8@nuigalway.ie
All theatre practitioners, theorists and students are welcome to attend
