The Moore Institute Podcast

Listen back to the launch of the exhibition Gerald Dawe: Cultural Belongings

The career of the prolific poet, essayist, and memoirist Gerald Dawe has led him from his origins in Belfast to graduate work in Galway and a lecturing post here, and subsequent move to Dublin where he taught at TCD. He is author of ten collections of poetry and numerous books of criticism, life writing and anthologising of Irish writing.

This event features Gerry in conversation with Dr Frank Ferguson (Director of the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, Ulster University).

Speakers:

• Professor Dan Carey (Director of the Moore Institute, University of Galway)
• Professor Pól Ó'Dochartaigh (Registrar and Deputy President, University of Galway)
• Dr. Frank Ferguson (Director of the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Ulster) in conversation with Gerald Dawe.
• Dr. Barry Houlihan (Archivist, University of Galway)

This is the second episode in our “Translation and Territory” series, which explores the importance of translation in relation to geographical spaces – particularly borders, crisis contexts, and conflict areas. This episode is a conversation between Andrea Ciribuco (University of Galway) and Prof. Sharon O’Brien (DCU). It continues our conversation on translation during COVID-19, by looking at how the pandemic forced translators to use different strategies, engage with different media, and interact with policies.

“Translation and territory” is organised by Andrea Ciribuco, Anne O’Connor and Lorna Shaughnessy. It is funded by the University of Galway through the Researcher Development Scheme. Thanks to Blaneth McSharry, Gráinne McGrath, and David Kelly for technical support.

This is the first episode in our “Translation and Territory” series, which explores the importance of translation in relation to geographical spaces – particularly borders, crisis contexts, and conflict areas. Our first episode is a conversation between Andrea Ciribuco (University of Galway) and Prof. Federico M. Federici (University College London), on the importance of language mapping. How does awareness of languages spoken in a territory help institutions and NGOs during a crisis? How can we build instruments to help translators in a crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic?

“Translation and territory” is organised by Andrea Ciribuco, Anne O’Connor and Lorna Shaughnessy. It is funded by the University of Galway through the Researcher Development Scheme. Thanks to Blaneth McSharry, Gráinne McGrath, and David Kelly for technical support.

The conference is part of the Government of Ireland’s Decade of Centenaries programme and is supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. It originated in an initiative from Patrick Nevin and Elaine Martin, and is held under the auspices of the Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class, Moore Institute, University of Galway. The Conference Steering Group acknowledge the participation of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on Roma and Travellers and the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, and the Galway Council of Trade Unions.

About the Conference

Irish Travellers / Mincéirs and the State, 1922-2022

This two-day conference will examine Irish Travellers’ experiences of discrimination since the foundation of the state, paying particular attention to the state’s role in perpetuating disadvantage. It will be a multi-disciplinary and participative conference, with presentations in a variety of formats, and featuring local, national and international perspectives. There will be contributions from Traveller / Mincéir activists and advocates, historians, folklorists, psychologists, sociologists, artists, cultural theorists and others.

Further details: https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/irish-travellers-minceirs-the-state-1922-2022/

Speakers: Wendy Lee, Anne-Marie Ward, Shivaun Quinlivan. Chair: Pat Dolan

About the Conference

Irish Travellers / Mincéirs and the State, 1922-2022

This two-day conference will examine Irish Travellers’ experiences of discrimination since the foundation of the state, paying particular attention to the state’s role in perpetuating disadvantage. It will be a multi-disciplinary and participative conference, with presentations in a variety of formats, and featuring local, national and international perspectives. There will be contributions from Traveller / Mincéir activists and advocates, historians, folklorists, psychologists, sociologists, artists, cultural theorists and others.

Further details: https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/irish-travellers-minceirs-the-state-1922-2022/

Speakers: Bernard Sweeney, Elaine Martin, A.N. Other. Chair: Anca Minescu

About the Conference

Irish Travellers / Mincéirs and the State, 1922-2022

This two-day conference will examine Irish Travellers’ experiences of discrimination since the foundation of the state, paying particular attention to the state’s role in perpetuating disadvantage. It will be a multi-disciplinary and participative conference, with presentations in a variety of formats, and featuring local, national and international perspectives. There will be contributions from Traveller / Mincéir activists and advocates, historians, folklorists, psychologists, sociologists, artists, cultural theorists and others.

Further details: https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/irish-travellers-minceirs-the-state-1922-2022/

Speakers: Nora Corcoran, Rory Hearne, Padraic Kenna, Emily Murtagh. Chaired by Bernard Joyce

About the Conference

Irish Travellers / Mincéirs and the State, 1922-2022

This two-day conference will examine Irish Travellers’ experiences of discrimination since the foundation of the state, paying particular attention to the state’s role in perpetuating disadvantage. It will be a multi-disciplinary and participative conference, with presentations in a variety of formats, and featuring local, national and international perspectives. There will be contributions from Traveller / Mincéir activists and advocates, historians, folklorists, psychologists, sociologists, artists, cultural theorists and others.

Further details: https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/irish-travellers-minceirs-the-state-1922-2022/

Speakers: Martin Collins, Owen Ward, Alen Tahiri  and Oana Taba. 

Chair: Anastasia Crickley

About the Conference

Irish Travellers / Mincéirs and the State, 1922-2022

This two-day conference will examine Irish Travellers’ experiences of discrimination since the foundation of the state, paying particular attention to the state’s role in perpetuating disadvantage. It will be a multi-disciplinary and participative conference, with presentations in a variety of formats, and featuring local, national and international perspectives. There will be contributions from Traveller / Mincéir activists and advocates, historians, folklorists, psychologists, sociologists, artists, cultural theorists and others.

Further details from: https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/irish-travellers-minceirs-the-state-1922-2022/

Participants: Aoife Bhreatnach, Robbie McVeigh, Rosaleen McDonagh, and Oein DeBharduin. 

Chair: Patrick Nevin

About the Conference

Irish Travellers / Mincéirs and the State, 1922-2022

This two-day conference will examine Irish Travellers’ experiences of discrimination since the foundation of the state, paying particular attention to the state’s role in perpetuating disadvantage. It will be a multi-disciplinary and participative conference, with presentations in a variety of formats, and featuring local, national and international perspectives. There will be contributions from Traveller / Mincéir activists and advocates, historians, folklorists, psychologists, sociologists, artists, cultural theorists and others.

Further details: https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/irish-travellers-minceirs-the-state-1922-2022/

Official opening by Mags Casey, introduced by Helen Maher, VP for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion, University of Galway. 

Hallvard Gorseth, Head of Anti-Discrimination Department and Roma and Travellers Team, Council of Europe.

About the Conference

Irish Travellers / Mincéirs and the State, 1922-2022

This two-day conference will examine Irish Travellers’ experiences of discrimination since the foundation of the state, paying particular attention to the state’s role in perpetuating disadvantage. It will be a multi-disciplinary and participative conference, with presentations in a variety of formats, and featuring local, national and international perspectives. There will be contributions from Traveller / Mincéir activists and advocates, historians, folklorists, psychologists, sociologists, artists, cultural theorists and others.

Further details from: https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/irish-travellers-minceirs-the-state-1922-2022/

Brendan’s comparative research explores the struggle of indigenous peoples’ of the Predio Putumayo in Colombia for protection from and justice for the impacts of extractive industry activities during the rubber boom in the early 1900s and today. His research is multidisciplinary intersecting genocide, human rights, anthropology, history, social psychology and digital media studies. It’s a story of genocide, resilience, reconciliation and the role of indigenous peoples’ own laws and cultural practices in their revival as peoples. It is also the story of the Irish humanitarian Roger Casement who travelled to the region in 1910 to investigate the activities of the British Registered Peruvian Amazon Company (PAC), and his continuing significance for the peoples of the region today.

Research is being carried out at the Moore Institute under the supervision of Dr. Sean Crosson of the Huston School of Film and Digital Media. Professor William Schabas at the Irish Centre of Human Rights is providing guidance on human rights, genocide and international criminal law. The project proposal was developed in conjunction with the Bora, Huitoto, Muinane and Ocaina peoples of the Rio Igaraparana in the Predio Putumayo, Amazonas, their local government AZICATCH and the Casa de Conocimiento their secondary school. The project includes a secondment at the Forest Peoples Program and collaboration with International NGO’s Picture People and WITNESS in digital storytelling training. Research also benefits from the support of the Departments of Anthropology at Maynooth University, Universidad de los Andes and Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

Book Launch of The NGO Moment: The Globalisation of Compassion from Biafra to Live Aid (Cambridge University Press, 2021)

by Kevin O’Sullivan (Lecturer in History, NUI Galway).

Guest Speakers

* Michaël Neuman (Director of Studies at Centre de Réflexion sur l'Action et les Savoirs Humanitaires, Médecins sans Frontières)
* Professor Silvia Salvatici (Professor of Contemporary History, University of Florence)
* Professor Andrew Thompson (Professor of Global and Imperial History and a Professorial Fellow of Nuffield College, University of Oxford)
* Dr Sinéad Walsh (Climate Director, Irish Aid, Department of Foreign Affairs)

Organised by the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies.

The Irish Association for Russian, Central and East European Studies presents a virtual roundtable on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.   

Speakers: 

- Dr Tanya Lokot, Ukrainian resistance and mobilisation: national and transnational dynamics and decolonial histories, DCU 

- Maciej Curpyś, Putin's Historical Propaganda and the reality of Ukrainian Nationalism, NUI Galway  

- Dr Róisín Healy, Ireland and Ukraine: Historical Parallels, NUI Galway  

- Dr. Aneta Stępień, The failure of anti-Ukrainian propaganda in Poland, NUI Maynooth  

- Dr Maria Falina, How can they believe it? Thinking behind Putin's propaganda in Russia, DCU  

- Chair of the panel: Dr John Paul Newman, NUI Maynooth

Tanya Farrelly, Irish Arts Council Writer-in-Residence at NUI Galway , chats to writers Roisin Kiberd and Sophie White about their latest non fiction books The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet and Corpsing: My Body & Other Horror Shows. The conversation explores womanhood, grief, mental illness and the impact of living our lives online.

Mike McCormack launches three new short story collections by Arlen House: Nobody Needs to Know by Irish Arts Council NUI Galway Writer-in-Residence Tanya Farrelly; Fugitive by David Butler; and Marching Season by Rosemary Jenkinson. The launch is followed by a panel discussion on the Irish short story.

Much of the discourse surrounding the recent Cop26 meeting in Glasgow has been led by the political and scientific communities and has been focused on progressing international agreements and multilateral policies in order to address the planetary urgency of the climate and biodiversity crises. However, if cultural vitality (in its broadest sense) is recognised as the fourth pillar of sustainability then any policy initiatives in relation to environmental change that fail to take into account the importance of the social-cultural realm will possibly only have very limited success in the future. This webinar seeks to address this important gap in policy and public discourse in relation to the role that the arts (and culture more widely) can play in addressing these environmental and planetary challenges, in Ireland and globally today. In particular, the webinar will foreground the role of arts practitioners and those directly working the area of Arts and Humanities in this discussion and so we are delighted to have a wide range of artists, writers, scholars, practitioners, curators, and those involved in sustainability policy participating in our panel discussion. This event is co-hosted by Future Earth Ireland, based at the Royal Irish Academy, and the Moore Institute for the Humanities and Social Studies at NUI Galway. Guest contributors to the session include: - Deirdre O’Mahony (Artist - Socially-engaged arts practice)  - Siobhán McDonald (Artist - Visual Arts)  - Nessa O’Mahony (Artist – Literature, Editor)  - Alice Kinsella (Artist – Literature, Editor)  - Ríonach Ní Néill (Artist - Contemporary Dance, Curator)  - Helen O’Donoghue (Senior Curator, Head of Engagement and Learning, IMMA, Dublin)  - EL Putnam (Digital Artist and Scholar, School of English and Creative Arts, NUI Galway)  - Charles Joly (Head of Sustainability, London School of Economics, UK)  - Derek Gladwin (Irish Studies; Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver)  - Richard Kearney (Charles B. Seelig Chair of Philosophy, Boston College, USA)  - Conor Newman (Climate Heritage, School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, NUI Galway)  - Dan Carey (Director, Moore Institute, NUI Galway )  - Nessa Cronin (FEI Committee, Associate Director, Moore Institute, NUI Galway)  - Diarmuid Torney (FEI Chair, School of Law and Government, DCU)  - Patrick Lonergan (FEI Committee, School of English and Creative Arts, NUI Galway) Cover Image: Drowned Galway (2020). Photomontages by Joe Lee. Project directed by Ríonach Ní Néill. Commissioned for Galway 2020, European Capital of Culture

Join us for this Galway Archaeological and Historical Society lecture in association with the Moore Institute, NUI Galway, by Dr Sarah-Ann Buckley: Providing for the "physical, mental and spiritual well-being of the children": Childhood in the Irish Free State.  GAHS Winter Lecture Series 2021  Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley is Lecturer in History at the National University of Ireland Galway. Chair of the Irish History Students' Association, co-PI of the Tuam Oral History Project and Senior Research Fellow at the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, she has authored/edited eight books and over fifty other publications.

Tanya Farrelly, Irish Arts Council Writer-in-Residence at NUI Galway, talks to Rob Doyle and Claire-Louise Bennett about their latest works ‘Auto-biblio-graphy’ and ‘Checkout-19’, and why they favour experimental over traditional narrative form in the first edition of the 2021 Irish Arts Council NUI Galway Writer-in-Residence Public Reading Series 2021

Charles T. Griffes (1884–1920), America’s first Impressionistic composer, was deeply inspired by Oscar Wilde’s (1854–1900) poetry. The composer drew out the latent musicality and highlighted colour-based thematic developments in Wilde’s works by interlacing written images with tonal references. And Griffes’ synaesthesia, or colour-hearing, plays a particular role in drawing out yellow/gold tonalities and images in his “Wilde songs.”  

Dr. Zan Cammack is a lecturer in the Department of English and Literature at Utah Valley University. She was the 2017-18 Fulbright Scholar at the School of Irish Studies at Concordia University in Montreal, and is a is a graduate of the MA in Irish Studies programme at NUI Galway. Her book Ireland’s Gramophones: Material Culture, Memory, and Trauma in Irish Modernism was published this fall by Clemson University Press.

Irish Studies’ Seminar Series-Spring 2021 – School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, in association with the Moore Institute, NUI Galway.

On what narrative, mnemonic, and spatial scaffolding is an intergenerational family story built? How, as writers and historians, can we access the family memories that inform these stories, and reconstruct the past, despite the gaps and silences that are present in the narrative? This research-creation dissertation project addresses these questions through the medium of an intergenerational family memoir. The narrative reconstructs my great-grandmother Norah Davin’s journey in 1928 from her home in the village of Shrule, County Mayo, Ireland to Montreal, where she gave birth to my grandmother Rose in a home for unmarried mothers. It then follows several generational strands of my family’s “emplaced” memories in Montreal, focusing—in the tradition of memoirs of working-class family life by Annette Kuhn, Christine Walley, Carolyn Steedman, and Sharon O’Brien—primarily, though not exclusively, on the stories of the women in my family. Here, I reflect upon how, as an adult, I have forged my own relationship with specific regions in the west of Ireland, illustrating that despite the “estranging power of displacement” that many families experience after emigration, connections can be re-configured, and established anew.

Ms Kelly Norah Drukker (Michael Smith Foreign Study Scholar, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway 2021-22 and Humanities Doctoral Candidate, School of Irish Studies,Concordia University, Montreal).

Guest Respondent: Dr Barbara Lorenzkowski (Department of History,Concordia University, Montreal).

Chair: Dr Nessa Cronin, Centre for Irish Studies, School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, NUI Galway.

Additional Details: https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/naming-the-traces-reconstructing-an-irish-canadian-family-narrative-of-emigration-place-making-and-return/

In this special webinar, colleagues living in India and observing the situation closely report on the devastating impact of the crisis during the latest phase of the pandemic. Issues addressed include the public health situation, the loss life, grief and funerals, rural vs. urban India, regional variation, the political response, and education.

• Prof. Kanchana Mahadevan (University of Mumbai)
• Dr Sanjay Nagral (Jaslok Hospital & Research Centre, Mumbai)
• Dr Srinivas Raghavendran (NUI Galway)
• Aveek Sen (journalist in Kolkata)
• Dr Archana Venkatesh (Clemson University)

Chair: Prof. Daniel Carey (NUI Galway)

The session took place on May 19th, 2021. Further details from: https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/covid-19-the-crisis-in-india/

Moore Institute, Centre for Global Women’s Studies, and School of Political Science Sociology webinar with Vijaya Nidadavolu

Min Aung Hlaing, the Commander-in-Chief of the Myanmar military, staged a coup d’etat on February 1st and with it Myanmar’s tentative democratic transition has been brought to a violent halt. A popular multi-centric protest that coalesced in the immediate aftermath continues to-date, taking the military and observers by surprise by its size, unity and innovativeness.

This session will provide an overview of what is happening on the ground in Myanmar and the forces behind the protest movement. Discussion will focus on the prolific protest art movement led by youth, including young women in particular.

The speaker, Vijaya Nidadavolu, is a Gender and Development specialist with years of experience in using popular culture and media for advancing gender and social justice issues. She has lived in Myanmar since 2015, but has recently left as a result of the coup.

Further details: https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/whats-happening-in-myanmar-from-putsch-to-popular-protest/

Irish Studies Seminar Series, in association with the Moore Institute, NUI Galway.

Anna Falkenau (Freyer-Hardiman Scholar, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway), “‘Hotspots’ for Revival Sessions”: Micro and macro flows in the emergence and development of Galway City into an urban centre of Irish traditional music-making.

Join us for our first Spring Seminar in Irish Studies with NUI Galway doctoral scholar Anna Falkenau who will speak on her current research on the relationship between urban spaces and traditional Irish music-making in Galway. We are delighted to have An tOllamh Lillis Ó Laoire (Gaeilge, OÉ Gaillmh) join us as well in the zoom room afterwards, as a respondent to this session, chaired by Dr Nessa Cronin (Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway). For further information please contact: nessa.cronin@nuigalway.ie

About the Speaker

A recipient of a Freyer-Hardiman scholarship from NUI Galway, Anna Falkenau is currently conducting doctoral research at the Centre for Irish Studies on local and global flows in the development of Irish traditional music in Galway City between 1961 and 1981. She previously received her Master of Arts in Music from Wesleyan University, Connecticut, USA (2004) and graduated from University College Cork (BMus, 2002). She is a contributor to the forthcoming book Hardiman and after: Galway Culture and Society, 1820-2020 with a core chapter entitled, “‘It was in the Air’: Irish Traditional Music in Galway, 1960-1979,” edited by John Cunningham and Ciaran McDonagh.

Details: https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/webinar-anna-falkenau-hotspots-for-revival-sessions-irish-studies-seminar-series/ . This session took place on 18th March, 2021