By Claudia Kinmonth Moore Institute Visiting Fellow

                                                            All Welcome

  A public meeting about the Galway City Irish Language Plan will be held on Tuesday May 7th at 7.30pm in rooms G010 & G011, Hardiman Research Building, National University of Ireland, Galway. The meeting aims to provide another chance to people in Galway to give their opinions about the Irish Language Plan being prepared... | Read on »

11.00: Introductory Remarks: Professor Felix Ó Murchadha, Head of the School of Humanities 11.05: Panel One: Precarious Work, Progression and Equality Chair: Prof Lionel Pilkington Speakers: Maggie Ronayne (SIPTU), Karen Walsh, Ciara Murphy (PhD representative), Dr Felicity Maxwell (Moore Institute), Eibhlín Seoighthe (SU)  11.55: Tea/Coffee 12.05: Panel Two: Gender, Disability and Minority Groups Chair: Dr Andrew... | Read on »

    Tom Walker, Trinity College Dublin W.B. Yeats, Scholastic Aestheticism, and Cultural Authority in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland Chris Collins, University of Nottingham ‘The man went queer in his head’: Synge and the cultural politics of mental health, 1871-1909 Refreshments will be served! Join us for exiting talks by two current Moore Institute Visiting Fellows. Part of... | Read on »

Introduced by Professor Philip Dine All welcome This study provides the first major monograph examination of filmic representations of Gaelic games, charting these representations from the earliest years of the twentieth century, including silent films such as Knocknagow (1918) to more recent productions Michael Collins (1996) and The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006). Among... | Read on »

  Dr. Geraldine Canny, NCP Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, and Dr. Emmett Marron, succesful MSCA Fellow, will give advice and tips for applicants submtting to the upcoming MSCA Individual Fellowship call closing on the 11th of September 2019. The presentations will start at 9:30am, followed by a Q&A, with the session finishing at 11:00am. This opportunity is not... | Read on »

                  In this talk award-winning poet and practice-led researcher J. R. Carpenter will present her research on an Island of Demons which appeared on maps off Newfoundland in the early 1500s. This research informs her current research at the Moore Institute on the islands of St Brendan... | Read on »

The Gender ARC (Gender, Discourse and Identity) at the Moore Institute presents DR KELLY SULTZBACH, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, LA CROSSE US Fulbright Scholar through the Fulbright Inter-country Program               This talk considers how the experience of a muddy, apocalyptic war and the metroland octopus of suburban development influenced the... | Read on »

   Iain Biggs, Flight/Paths: (Her bones…) 2018. Cultural Climates is a two-part lecture and public forum which explores how research and policy in relation to climate change can be engaged with across the cultural and arts sectors in Ireland today. In particular, it explores how culture and the arts are key to addressing issues associated... | Read on »

To be launched by Prof. Dáibhí Ó Cróinín. All welcome. (Refreshments will be served.)               De Origine Scoticae Linguae (O’Mulconry’s Glossary): An early Irish linguistic tract, edited with a related glossary, Irsan, Corpus Christianorum, Lexica Latina Medii Aevi 7 (Turnhout, Brepols: 2019) A new edition of the earliest etymological... | Read on »

  Unlike most cultural upheavals, Brexit is not the result of accidental tragedy or spontaneous economic turmoil. Rather, Brexit was contrived by politicians, was voted for by citizens, and is now being implemented by bureaucrats. Brexit did not ‘just happen’; it exists because people decided to make it exist. It is therefore hugely influenced by... | Read on »

                      Modernist Studies Ireland   National University of Ireland Galway Plenary Speaker: Dr Ben Levitas, Goldsmiths University of London Opening address: Prof Daniel Carey  The inaugural conference of Modernist Studies Ireland, ‘Modernist Legacies and Futures’ seeks to bring together Irish and international scholars to initiate an... | Read on »

      The Imbas committee is holding an open research day ahead of the tenth Imbas conference later this year. Imbas is an interdisciplinary postgraduate conference in Medieval Studies at NUI Galway.  This event will showcase ongoing research in disciplines related to Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. All welcome

            Colonialism, Development, and the Cooperative Movement in Ireland and India Dr Mo Moulton (Lecturer in the History of Race & Empire, University of Birmingham)   Manhood, Transcontinental Networks, and the Baha’i Faith Movement in Cameroon Dr Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué (Assistant Professor of African History, Baylor University)   This seminar is... | Read on »

Hosted by The NUI Galway MA in Culture and Colonialism and the Moore Institute and Discussion lead by James Mcdermott Senior Member of the U.S. house of representatives. Jim McDermott is a Senior Member of the U.S. House of Representatives with over 40 years of public service in the federal and state government. As a Democratic Member... | Read on »

A panel discussion and response by Prof. Margaret Kelleher Speakers: Conor Hanley, Niall Ó Ciosáin, Ciarán Ó Cofaigh, Anne O’Connor, John Walsh & Mary Harris (chair)

            by Prof. Scott Kirsch University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill  Abstract While for centuries technology referred to a systematic study of the ‘practical arts’ – typically in the form of a book or technical manual – the term’s usage has expanded so dramatically that today we think nothing of the... | Read on »

This talk will be given by Moore Visiting Fellow Dr Dieter Reinisch (University of Vienna/Webster University) as part of the ’Violence, Space and the Archives’ conference. Full conference programme and further details available at https://ghussey3.wixsite.com/violencespacearchive   Image: Harvey/McCaughey/Smith Cumann Sinn Féin minute book, Portlaoise Prison, July 1982-January 1983         

A talk by Moore Visiting Fellow Jaime Goodrich Abstract:  This talk will offer an introduction to the rare books owned by the Galway Poor Clares, who recently reacquired several dozen volumes lent to the Franciscan House of Studies in Killiney during the 1970s.  In addition to providing an overview of the current collection’s scope and... | Read on »

This talk will be given by Moore Visiting Fellow Dr Sanjin  Uležić (Centre on Social Movement Studies (Cosmos), Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence),as part of the ’Violence, Space and the Archives’ conference. Full conference programme and further details available at  https://ghussey3.wixsite.com/violencespacearchive

                    10.00 am Screening Odd Man Out (1947) will take place in The Houston school of Film and Digital Media NUIG 1.00–2.30 pm Chair Niall Ó Dochartaigh, National University of Ireland, Galway Romancing ‘the Organisation’ Odd Man Out and Contemporary Discourses on the IRA John Ó Néill, Treason Felony... | Read on »

  Dr Federica Scicolone (King’s College London) Moore Visiting Fellow 2019 This talk will consider a widespread motif in archaic Greek poetry, the so-called ‘contest of wisdom’ between wise men, usually bards or poets (e.g. Calchas and Mopsus in fr. 278 M-W; the Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi), in relation to the Hellenistic and later practice... | Read on »

Talk By Dr Jyoti Atwal Moore Visiting Fellow 2019                 Atwal suggests that India and Ireland were both trying to identify symbols to create a national ideal in late nineteenth century. Theatre and music provided a fertile ground for this purpose. Through the Dublin life of James Cousins,... | Read on »

Abstract Humiliation is a definitive but, within the discipline of philosophy, under-theorized harm of sexual violence against women. This talk draws upon the late work of Michel Foucault in order to provide an account of sexual humiliation resulting from sexual violence, as well as to posit ways in which sexual violence and sexual humiliation might be effectively... | Read on »

  This talk will be given by Moore Visiting Fellow Dr Agnès Lafont (University Paul Valery – Montpellier 3, France) Abstract: William Barksted in Myrrha, The Mother of Adonis: Or, Lustes Prodigie (1607) uses  the classical story of Myrrha (Ovid, Metamorphoses 10) in similar and divergent ways to create an erotic epyllion. This early modern adaptation of the Ovidian story offers a case point of... | Read on »

        Talk by Helen Sonner Moore visiting  Fellow 2019 William Petty is well known for conducting the Down Survey and for his contributions to the development of statistics, demographics, and economics. However, his methods in the Down Survey can also be seen to have anticipated many of the methodologies used today in... | Read on »