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This article will amuse - or depress - many Ir-D members...

Cross out Pirates, insert Irish...

I will write to Robert C. Ritchie expressing my appreciation...

P.O'S.


Rethinking History
The Journal of Theory and Practice
Volume 13 Issue 3 2009
ISSN: 1470-1154 (electronic) 1364-2529 (paper)

Subject: History: Theory, Method & Historiography;
Publisher: Routledge


Living with pirates

Author: Robert C. Ritchie a
Affiliation: a The Huntington, San Marino, California, USA
DOI: 10.1080/13642520903091183
Publication Frequency: 4 issues per year
Published in: Rethinking History, Volume 13, Issue 3 September 2009 , pages
411 - 418
Subject: History: Theory, Method & Historiography;

Abstract
This article relates the experiences of the author as an advisor to
television documentaries and to movies. After the publication of his book on
pirates, he has been asked to advise a number of times. These experiences
have introduced him to the practical difficulties of advising - the ego of
directors and producers, the obscene budgets, and the problems of not being
present at film shoots. Over time, he has become cynical about the process
of advising the media, especially when dealing with a popular subject such
as piracy, where myths have a strong hold on popular imagination.

Keywords: pirates; William Kidd; advisor; documentaries; movies; talking
head

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Here we are enjoying a last gasp of summer, a warm September becoming
autumnal in the evenings.

I now go on holiday for one week.

Our boat is currently moving up the Macclesfield Canal towards Marple...
http://www.macclesfieldcanal.org.uk/

Alison and I will then take the boat down through the centre of Manchester.

And on to our home mooring on the summit level of the Leeds & Liverpool
Canal.

Liam Greenslade will act as Moderator of the Irish Diaspora list until my
return.

My thanks to Liam and to Bill Mulligan, who looked after things earlier in
our summer.

Paddy O'Sullivan

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Can anyone offer tips and advice re: both primary and secondary sources on
the network of ships that brought Irish emigrants to the United States and
Canada in the mid-nineteenth-century? I am, at this point, casting a wide
net and interested in where the papers of the companies, their crews, and
the ships might be found (on all sides of the Atlantic). The emigrants
themselves are obviously going to be critically important too but I have
soem good starting points in mind re: their letters.

Any advice from the list's collective wisdom would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Cian McMahon

Department of History
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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Hi Cian=2C

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One important source of informations can be found on the Bibliotheque et Ar=
chives nationales du Quebec website.

=20

They have digitalized loads of newspapers and notably some English-Quebecke=
r newspapers such as The Quebec Mercury (1805-1903) and The Quebec Chronicl=
e (1847-1924). Good stuff to find there. See also the numerous French-Quebe=
cker papers which also give numerous accounts of ships arriving to Grosse-I=
sle in the 19th century.

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http://www.banq.qc.ca/portal/dt/collections/collection_numerique/archives/a=
rchives.jsp?categorie=3D6

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Kind regards=2C


Simon Jolivet

sjolivet[at]uottawa.ca

Chercheur postdoctoral
Universit=E9 d'Ottawa
613-562-5800 poste 2753
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> Date: Tue=2C 15 Sep 2009 13:51:12 -0400
> From: cianm[at]ANDREW.CMU.EDU
> Subject: [IR-D] Query re: C19th Irish Emigrant Ships
> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>=20
> Can anyone offer tips and advice re: both primary and secondary sources o=
n
> the network of ships that brought Irish emigrants to the United States an=
d
> Canada in the mid-nineteenth-century? I am=2C at this point=2C casting a =
wide
> net and interested in where the papers of the companies=2C their crews=2C=
and
> the ships might be found (on all sides of the Atlantic). The emigrants
> themselves are obviously going to be critically important too but I have
> soem good starting points in mind re: their letters.
>=20
> Any advice from the list's collective wisdom would be greatly appreciated=
.
>=20
> Thanks!
>=20
> Cian McMahon
>=20
> Department of History
> Carnegie Mellon University
> Pittsburgh=2C PA 15213

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Hi Cian=2C
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They have digitalized loads of newspapers and notably some English-Quebecke=
r newspapers such as =3BThe Quebec Mercury (1805-1903) and=
The Quebec =3BChronicle (1847-1924). Good stuff to find there.&nb=
sp=3BSee also the numerous French-Quebecker papers which also give numerous=
accounts of ships arriving to Grosse-Isle in the 19th century.
 =3B
http://www.banq.qc.ca/portal/dt/colle=
ctions/collection_numerique/archives/archives.jsp?categorie=3D6
 =3B
Kind regards=2C
Simon Jolivet
sjolivet[at]uottawa.ca
Chercheur postdoctoralUniversit=E9 d'Ottawa613-562-5800 poste 2753 =3B
 =3B
 =3B
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The National Archives=2C Bishop Street=2C Dublin 8 has material on ships an=
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Best of luck=2C

Margaret.
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> Subject: [IR-D] Query re: C19th Irish Emigrant Ships
> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
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> the network of ships that brought Irish emigrants to the United States an=
d
> Canada in the mid-nineteenth-century? I am=2C at this point=2C casting a =
wide
> net and interested in where the papers of the companies=2C their crews=2C=
and
> the ships might be found (on all sides of the Atlantic). The emigrants
> themselves are obviously going to be critically important too but I have
> soem good starting points in mind re: their letters.
>=20
> Any advice from the list's collective wisdom would be greatly appreciated=
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Cian,

You are welcome to access our Irish Emigration Database on-line.

Simply email a request to my colleague Christine Johnston and she will=
forward username and password:

Christine.Johnston[at]librariesni.org.uk

Brian Lambkin

Centre for Migration Studies

Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh

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Can anyone offer tips and advice re: both primary and secondary sources on
the network of ships that brought Irish emigrants to the United States and
Canada in the mid-nineteenth-century? I am, at this point, casting a wide
net and interested in where the papers of the companies, their crews, and
the ships might be found (on all sides of the Atlantic). The emigrants
themselves are obviously going to be critically important too but I have
soem good starting points in mind re: their letters.

Any advice from the list's collective wisdom would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Cian McMahon

Department of History
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213



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Dear Cian, the context of your research would be partial unless you include=
shipping companies sailing the South Atlantic seaway (typically, Liverpool=
and Southampton to Brazil and R=EDo de la Plata), South-North American pas=
sage considering Irish migrating from North to South America in the 1810s-1=
880s and from South to North America 1880s-1920s, and (at a lesser extent) =
Irish workers and merchants in the Pacific seaways (eg. to and from Califor=
nia, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Chile). Some research has been conducted on ship=
s and companies, and it is available at the SILAS website www.irlandeses.or=
g ("The Journey").

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Can anyone offer tips and advice re: both primary and secondary sources on
the network of ships that brought Irish emigrants to the United States and
Canada in the mid-nineteenth-century? I am, at this point, casting a wide
net and interested in where the papers of the companies, their crews, and
the ships might be found (on all sides of the Atlantic). The emigrants
themselves are obviously going to be critically important too but I have
soem good starting points in mind re: their letters.

Any advice from the list's collective wisdom would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Cian McMahon

Department of History
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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List members may be interested to learn that Patrick and Alison
are enjoyng their

holiday on their canal boat.I spent a very enjoyable day with
them last Monday.

We travelled down the Rochdale canal fron the Piccadily village
to Castlefield. I was

very impressed by Patrick's display of physical energy on a trip
that involved 7 locks.

They are travelling back from Manchester to Barnoldswick and as
I understand it, Patrick will be back

in harness next Monday.

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I used the British Parliamentary Papers, especially the =
"Colonies-Canada" series. You will find the annual reports of the chief =
emigration agent posted in Quebec City (ports of departure, names of =
ships and captains, number of passengers, etc.). Very useful for an =
overview of the main source regions in Ireland for the migration to =
North America via the Saint Lawrence.
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Robert Grace
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Can anyone offer tips and advice re: both primary and secondary sources =
on
the network of ships that brought Irish emigrants to the United States =
and
Canada in the mid-nineteenth-century? I am, at this point, casting a =
wide
net and interested in where the papers of the companies, their crews, =
and
the ships might be found (on all sides of the Atlantic). The emigrants
themselves are obviously going to be critically important too but I have
soem good starting points in mind re: their letters.

Any advice from the list's collective wisdom would be greatly =
appreciated.

Thanks!

Cian McMahon

Department of History
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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Please use the email address and phone number below to contact us:
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=A0
Next week at Glucksman Ireland House NYU:
=A0
=A0
=93Emotion, Migration, Masculinity: The Poetry of Bernard =
O=92Donoghue=94 with
Prof. Patricia Coughlan
=A0
Wednesday, September 23rd at 7pm
at Glucksman Ireland House NYU
=A0
Men=92s emotional lives in rural Ireland and among the 1950s diaspora =
are
central to the prize-winning work of O=92Donoghue, a migrant poet =
writing
between the two worlds of rural culture and urban modernity. Professor
Patricia Coughlan, School of English at University College Cork, =
explores
how his powerful poetry questions and reinterprets traditional Irish
identities.
=A0
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early
modern period of the late 16th century to Irish modernism of the =
mid-20th
century and to contemporary poetry.=20
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to
read from his work on Thursday, November 19th.
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at the University of Notre Dame.=20
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Screening and discussion of Butte, America
=A0
Friday, September 25th at 7pm
at Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street between Broadway and =
University
Place

Narrated by 2009 Golden Globe-winner Gabriel Byrne, Butte, America =
recounts
the sometimes glorious, often sorrowful, story of the most lucrative
hard-rock mining town in American history. It is a tale of working class
people and working class culture =96 the miners, their families, the =
community
they created amidst danger and hardship =96 a culture that was created =
largely
by the Irish and which to this day bears a strong Irish cast.=20
Scriptwriter and co-producer Edwin Dobb and producer and director Pamela
Roberts will discuss the making of the documentary. =A0Presented in
association with the Irish Arts Center.
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at Glucksman Ireland House NYU
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well as
a fine singer and a bassist fondly remembered by a generation of New =
Yorkers
who danced to the music of his Majestic Showband. Mattie=92s daughter, =
Deirdre
Connolly, sang and played the flute for several years with the acclaimed
Cherish the Ladies Ensemble and released her own solo recording. This
concert will celebrate the release of Mattie and Deirdre=92s CD of
father-and-daughter duets, The Kylemore Pass.
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1916=92 =94
=A0
=95 Thursday, October 1st at 7pm at Glucksman Ireland House NYU:=20
Screening and discussion of The Forgotten Maggies
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=95 Friday, October 2nd at 9pm at Glucksman Ireland House NYU:=20
The Blarney Star Concert Series: M=E1irt=EDn de Cog=E1in and Jimmy =
Crowley
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Steven Gunn on Rory Rapple _Martial Power and Elizabethan
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Rory Rapple. Martial Power and Elizabethan Political Culture:
Military Men in England and Ireland, 1558-1594. Port Hope Cambridge
University Press, 2009. 350 pp. $108.00 (cloth), ISBN
978-0-521-84353-9.

Reviewed by Steven Gunn (Merton College, Oxford University)
Published on H-Albion (September, 2009)
Commissioned by Brian S. Weiser

Soldiers and Government in Elizabethan Ireland

Making sense of Tudor Ireland has never been easy. Mutually
contradictory reform proposals and myriad political and military
miscalculations show how hard it was for contemporaries. More
recently rival historiographies have offered contrasting keys to the
course of events. Were the Gaelic and Old English inhabitants of
Ireland drawing together in their Irishness against rule from London
and its New English agents? Was the composite Tudor state trying to
standardize and tighten its means of rule across geographically
varied territories and seeking collaborators from different
communities on different terms in so doing; perhaps failing only when
religious loyalties began to cut too firmly across political
allegiances? Were the New English, imitators of the empire-building
Romans and Spanish conquistadors, seeking to impose an anglophone
Protestant civility on the barbarian Gaels and the fellow-travelling
Old English?

Lately it has become almost as difficult to understand Elizabethan
political culture. If the old story of constitutional rivalry between
crown and parliament no longer holds good, was the prevalent tone one
of monarchical republicanism, the monarch's powers limited by the
Ciceronian assumptions absorbed by her councillors from their
Renaissance education? Or perhaps it was the queen's gender that
structured the anxieties and conflicts of court and council; or
struggles between those keen to advance and those keen to retard
further Reformation. In which case, did either the assertion of an
asexual princely sovereignty, necessary to waive doubts over the
queen's power to command, or the claim to a powerful royal supremacy
over the church, necessary to crush Presbyterian agitation, bolster a
more untrammelled vision of royal authority? Or were older models, of
a crown sustained by the loyalty of a hereditary nobility of service,
or by its exercise of powers and prerogatives recognized by the
common law, still of more fundamental importance than any of these
novelties?

Rory Rapple enters both these debates through a group of men whose
careers spanned the history of Elizabethan Ireland, England, and
indeed Europe, English captains serving in Ireland. He argues
convincingly that their characteristic attitudes and modes of
operation have been neglected not only as part of the history of
Irish government, but also as part of the history of English
political mentalities. Those who spent the 1540s and 1550s on the
battlefields of France and Scotland emerged from the mid-Tudor years
with different lessons from those who spent them in the lecture halls
of Cambridge and the council chambers of Edward's godly governors.
Where civilian humanists mocked chivalry, prized a pious self-
discipline far from the soldierly norm, and saw war as the task for
citizens defending the common weal, not swordsmen aspiring to
personal glory, soldiers felt that they and the values they prized
were neglected.

Defeats had led to shameful treaties, diplomatic compromises at best,
in 1550, 1559, 1560 and 1564. More than twenty years of peace ensued
thereafter. The queen did not reward fighting men as her father had
done, and younger sons of the gentry who had chosen to make their way
as captains rather than in trade or the law faced downward social
mobility. Their literary spokesmen, Thomas Churchyard, Geoffrey
Gates, Humphrey Gilbert, Barnaby Rich, and George Whetstones, voiced
their frustration and called for a state-sponsored revival in the
military profession. Fighting for foreign rulers kept body and soul
together, but heightened the sense that a Henry II of France or even
a Philip II of Spain knew how to reward a hero when an Elizabeth did
not, and could place captains under suspicion when they returned to
English service. In extreme cases--Thomas Stukeley, Sir William
Stanley--those frustrated might indeed defect spectacularly to
England's political and religious foes.

Only Ireland offered opportunities. They increased with the spread of
English fortifications and plantation schemes from the 1540s and
became more lucrative with the drive to fund garrisons by composition
in the 1570s. Captains aspired to lordship, seeking lands around the
fortresses in their charge, but they were also given delegated royal
authority, as seneschals, presidents, or governors, in a way unusual
in the Tudor realms. In its exercise they revealed both their
personal ambition, the quarrelsome quest for pre-eminence of the
aspiring knight, and their attitude to the queen's power. Tasked, as
they saw it, with extreme measures to crush local obstruction to the
establishment of a workable English-style judicial, political, and
social system, they deployed an imperial might to defend with
exemplary force what they called "the dignity of the state." It could
be brought to bear, in what they judged to be cases of necessity, to
cut through the constitutional niceties favored by the Old English
establishment and the harmful tyrannies exercised by the Gaelic lords
over the queen's poor Irish subjects. Such power was, as Humphrey
Gilbert put it, a "sweet poison" to those who exercised it, drawing
them into self-aggrandizing and, in his case, grotesquely violent
confrontations with local rivals. Provided captains were secure in
support at court, they could even ignore the attempts of lord
deputies to restrain them. In Sir Richard Bingham's presidency of
Connacht, independence of action and brutality of method reached such
a peak that local Gaelic leaders were driven to the radical stance
they would adopt in the Nine Years War.

The book is fluently written and persuasive and Rapple's research is
impressively deep. Unfortunately he threatens to forfeit the reader's
confidence with minor errors. The battle of Bannockburn and siege of
Metz are misdated (pp. 25, 88); Sir Edward Poynings, Hubert Languet
and Philibert, prince of Orange are given the wrong Christian names
(pp. 53, 138, 213); and the apocryphal marquis of Southampton is
dispatched on embassy to France in 1551 in place of the genuine
marquis of Northampton (p. 97).

Rapple succeeds in linking his analysis to other themes of interest.
In the realm of political ideas, he shows that Gilbert expressed a
high view of royal power in the English parliament as well as in
Ireland, and that Bingham was held up as an exemplar in the
deployment of necessary violence as dictated by reason of state in
Richard Beacon's Machiavellian _Solon his Folie_ (1594). In the Irish
context, he is able to show that few of his captains were rigorous
reformed Protestants and that they associated freely with Irishmen of
Gaelic extraction and happily used their military and political
services. Yet he perhaps misses opportunities to connect his work to
other relevant contexts. He dissents from David Trim's
characterization of the Elizabethan military community as a hotbed of
godly enthusiasm for intervention in continental religious warfare,
but he never confronts Trim's calculations that more Englishmen were
fighting in the Netherlands and France, even before 1585, than in
Ireland. The Champernownes, Morgans, Veres, and other godly captains
who loom large in Trim's work are absent from Rapple's and perhaps it
is predictable that the English military had its more and less godly
ends, just as the contemporary French and Netherlandish military
establishments were sufficiently polarized in religion to man two
sides in civil wars.[1]

Rapple also fails to link his ideas on the frustrations of chivalry
in Elizabethan England with those of Richard McCoy (focused more on
the higher nobility), his ideas on the political attitudes of
military men faced with constitutionalist obstruction with those of
Mervyn James (considering Essex's followers in the 1590s), or his
ideas on chivalry, troop-raising and military careerism under Henry
VIII with those of David Grummitt, Luke MacMahon, and others.[2] He
seeks parallels for the captains' ambitions to make themselves lords,
not in the hackneyed conquistadors, but in those who grabbed monastic
lands under Henry; but might not closer parallels be the Plantagenet
and Lancastrian captains who carved out their fortunes in France,
like Sir Robert Knolles or Sir John Fastolf? Lastly, and perhaps most
intriguingly, he fails to ask what Englishmen who served under a duke
of Guise or a duke of Alba learnt about the relations between
princes, subjects, and soldiers in and out of wartime. Ireland, after
all, was not the only place in sixteenth-century Europe where armies
charged with enforcing obedience, led by ambitious captains and
manned by trigger-happy plunderers, met sullen resistance from
peasants and townsmen and constitutional carping from local elites;
not the only place where noblemen whose local judicial pre-eminence
was under threat from centralizing jurisdictions dispatched life and
limb under martial law. What lessons might a Nicholas Malby or a
Richard Bingham have brought home from their travels to point the way
in serving their queen and advancing themselves among her less than
obedient subjects?

Notes

[1]. David Trim, "Fighting 'Jacob's Warres': The Employment of
English and Welsh Mercenaries in the European Wars of Religion:
France and the Netherlands, 1562-1610" (PhD diss., London University,
2002), and "Calvinist Internationalism and the English Officer Corps,
1562-1642," _History Compass_ 4, no. 6 (2006): 1024-48.

[2]. Richard McCoy, _The Rites of Knighthood: The Literature and
Politics of Elizabethan Chivalry _(Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1989); Mervyn James, "At a Crossroads of the Political
Culture: the Essex Revolt, 1601," in _Society, Politics and Culture:
Studies in Early Modern England_ (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1986), 416-65; David Grummitt, "The Court, War and Noble Power
in England, c.1475-1558," in _The Court as a Stage: England and the
Low Countries in the Later Middle Ages_, ed. Steven Gunn and Antheun
Janse (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2006), 145-55; Luke MacMahon,
"Chivalry, Military Professionalism and the Early Tudor Army in
Renaissance Europe," in _The Chivalric Ethos and the Development of
Military Professionalism_, ed. David Trim (Leiden: Brill, 2003),
183-212.

Citation: Steven Gunn. Review of Rory Rapple, _Martial Power and
Elizabethan Political Culture: Military Men in England and Ireland,
1558-1594_. H-Albion, H-Net Reviews. September, 2009.
URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=24710

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States
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n Rock Hill, South Carolina, on March 4-7, 2010. Ireland's geographical, li=
terary, historical, and artistic boundaries, like the Celtic Knot itself, a=
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Call for Papers: =91New Approaches to Irish Migration=92, a Special =
Issue of
=C9ire/Ireland:Journal of Irish Studies, Spring/Summer 2012. Guest =
editors:
Piaras Mac =C9inr=ED & Tina O=92Toole.=20
=A0
The past three decades have seen a significant change in Ireland=92s =
status as
a place marked by substantial emigration to one characterized by far =
more
fluid patterns of movement in and out of the country. This change, in
addition to significant reconfigurations of the links between Ireland =
and
its Diaspora in recent times, has effected a paradigm shift in the
construction and reception of Irish migration and identity. This is not =
to
suggest that other, more =91traditional=92, discourses and patterns of =
migration
have vanished. Nonetheless, the terms we are now familiar with in =
discussing
21st-century migration, such as hybridity, third space, contact zones, =
are
possibly best summed-up by Iain Chambers=92 use of the term =
=91migrancy=92:
suggestive of fluidity rather than fixity and multiplicity rather than
notions of authenticity. That said, there can be no postmodern disavowal =
of
the realities of power and agency; the opportunities and choices open to
individuals are strongly conditioned by economic and social =
circumstances.
=A0
Against these backgrounds, the guest editors of a Spring/Summer 2012 =
special
issue, =93New Approaches to Irish Migration=94, welcome submissions from
scholars and critics in the various social sciences, history, =
literature,
cultural studies, film studies and visual culture; contributions =
developing
interdisciplinary perspectives are especially welcome. The issue will =
aim to
show how recent scholarship in a range of fields addresses these =
changing
facts, interpretations, and discourses of Irish migration and identity,
whether in Ireland or transnationally.=20
=A0
Proposals are invited on relevant topics including, but not limited to, =
the
following: =20
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Imagining the Irish diaspora within =
political, social,
historical, literary or cultural discourses
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Homeland/diaspora relations in writings of =
various kinds (e.g.
letters, memoirs, autobiography, and other kinds of texts)
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Concepts of migration, diaspora and the =
transnational in
political/social science discourses and literary/cultural texts and the
links between them
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Gendered writings of the Irish diaspora
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Colonial diasporas
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Missionary and development-related diasporas
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Transnational and =93expatriate=94 migrants: =
the Irish in
international organizations; Irish sojourner migrants.
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Constructions of and challenges to homeland =
hegemonies in writings
emerging from the Diaspora
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Encounters in third space: Irish =
diaspora/other diasporas and
diaspora/hostland relations
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Diasporic identity and alterity: social, =
sexual, political and
other dissident migrants
=A0
Deadline for abstracts to be submitted: 1 February 2010.
Deadline for final essay submissions: 1 February 2011. =A0
Abstracts should be sent to: Tina O=92Toole, School of Language, =
Literature,
Culture and Communication, University of Limerick, Ireland
(tina.otoole[at]ul.ie);=20
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Cork,
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Ireland and its Discontents=20
Success and Failure in Modern Ireland
Canadian Association for Irish Studies/ l=92Association canadienne =
d=92=E9tudes
irlandaises
Annual Conference, 2010
Saint Mary=92s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
19-22 May 2010
=A0
=93Anyone who is failing at one thing,=94 psychoanalyst Adam Phillips =
has
suggested, =93is always succeeding at another.=94 We invite proposals =
for papers
interrogating the relationship between success and failure in modern and
contemporary Ireland, as reflected in its politics, its economic =
policies,
its literature, and its popular culture. The Celtic Tiger is one obvious
recent example of a =91success=92 narrative that was intimately linked =
to a
series of failures on the part of Irish society to safeguard its more
vulnerable communities. With the recent publication of the =93Ryan =
Report,=94 to
cite another example, it is clear that the success of the Catholic =
Church in
exerting its power over Ireland=92s educational and reformatory =
institutions
came at the price of a failure to guarantee the safety and welfare of
Ireland=92s youth. By the same token, it might be argued that Fianna =
F=E1il=92s
longtime political success depended on the failure to engage with the
=91National Question,=92 i.e., Partition and Northern Ireland. Success =
and
failure, as manifested in language revival policies, in gender-related
issues, in the lives of prominent public figures, and the reality and
perceptions of the Irish diaspora, including the Irish in Canada, are =
also
topics worthy of consideration.

We welcome papers that address other topics and proposals for special
panels.

Please send proposals including contact information (250 words) by =
e-mail
to:
P=E1draig =D3 Siadhail, D=92Arcy McGee Chair of Irish Studies, Saint =
Mary=92s
University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3H 3C3 =
(padraig.osiadhail[at]smu.ca)
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Dr Indianna D. Minto-Coy
Research Fellow
CIGI & University of Waterloo

Has brought the following to our attention...

Diasporas and Development: An Assessment of the Irish Experience for the
Caribbean
Indianna Minto
Caribbean Paper #7
FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 2009

Dialogue on diasporas and their role in the development of the home country
has grown in the last twenty years and Caribbean states have begun to
identify ways they can engage their nationals residing abroad in this
process. Those in the region looking to harness the power of the diaspora
have turned their attention to the example of Ireland, a country with a
large diaspora that has contributed significantly to its national
advancement. By highlighting the lessons of the Irish experience, this paper
argues that while the Caribbean's diaspora has the desire to contribute and
does help through remittances, there remain a number of challenges to this
participation including perceptions of security and stability, establishing
the conditions necessary for attracting investment and a lack of confidence
in government institutions in the region.

The paper is available at:

http://www.cigionline.org/publications/2009/4/diasporas-and-development-
assessment-irish-experience-caribbean

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Noreen Bowden's report on The Global Irish Economic Forum is at
http://www.emigrant.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=74069&Itemi
d=369


High profile members of the Diaspora asked for advice
Monday, 21 September 2009
By Noreen Bowden

The Irish government opened a new chapter in its relationship with the
Diaspora this weekend, as it gathered 180 leading figures from the worlds of
business, philanthropy, and culture and asked them for help in solving the
current economic crisis. The Global Irish Economic Forum, hosted by
Taoiseach Brian Cowen and Minister for Foreign Affairs Michael Martin, took
place on Friday and Saturday at Farmleigh House in the Phoenix Park. It
consisted of a series of keynote speeches and panel discussions aimed at
coming up with concrete solutions for economic growth. Among the proposals
that emerged were a website for the diaspora, a university of performing
arts, and enhanced educational travel programmes for young people.

Minister Martin said that he believed the event had achieved what it had set
out to do, "identifying a range of ideas to help address the economic
challenges that confront us; and taking an important step toward
establishing a new, more dynamic relationship between Ireland and its
diaspora." He announced his intention "to take forward the proposal for a
new global Irish network made up of those in attendance and other highly
influential members of our global community".

The forum, organised by the Department of Foreign Affairs, was the idea of
economist David McWilliams, whose last book had focused on his belief that
the talents of the Irish abroad could be harnessed to play a key role in
Ireland's future. McWilliams said that he planned for the conference to
produce five coherent proposals to the government for economic development.
While most of those assembled were successful businessmen (only about 20
women were among those invited), it was culture that, somewhat surprisingly,
emerged as Ireland's proposed economic weapon.

Full text at
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Workshop Report

Exploring Diaspora Strategies

http://www.nuim.ie/nirsa/diaspora/

Exploring Diaspora Strategies
=20
Jan 26th-28th 2009, NUI Maynooth
=20
A diaspora strategy is an explicit policy initiative or series of policy
initiatives enacted by a state, or its peoples, aimed at developing
relationships with their diaspora and affinity diaspora populations. It =
is
best thought of as an overarching framework for providing a level of
coherence to the range of diaspora policies devised and implemented by a
variety of agencies.
=20
The Exploring Diaspora Strategies workshop brought together key policy
makers and implementers from Ireland, Australia, Chile, India, Jamaica,
Lithuania, New Zealand and Scotland, plus the World Bank, to share their
experiences and to consider what constitutes best practice with respect =
to
the development and rollout of diaspora strategies. In particular it
focused on the different approaches countries have taken to issues such =
as
oversees supports, philanthropy, returnee policy, and business networks
vis-=E0-vis their diaspora populations.
=20
The workshop was a highly successful event allowing each country to =
share
their experiences and learn from each other. It is anticipated that it =
will
be the first in a series of similar events.
=20
=20
Papers presented at the workshop included:
=20
Mark Boyle/Rob Kitchin, NUI Maynooth: "Fostering Dialogue Between =
Diaspora
Strategies"
=20
Yevgeny Kuznetsov, World Bank: "How Can Talent Abroad Help Build
Institutions at Home Lessons from Various Generations of Diaspora
Initiatives"
=20
Alan Gamlen, Oxford University: "Diaspora Engagement: what, how, why?"
=20
Ray Bassett, Irish Abroad Unit: "Irish Abroad Unit"
=20
Kingsley Aikens, Ireland Funds: "The Global Irish making a Difference
Together"=20
=20
Stephen Hughes, Enterprise Ireland: "Enterprise Ireland and Networks"
=20
Aine O=92Neill, NUI Maynooth: "Diaspora Knowledge Networks"
=20
Vida Bagdonaviciene, Lithuania: "Lithuanian Diaspora Policy Overview"=20
=20
Lincoln Downer, Jamaica: =93Jamaican Diaspora Policy=94
=20
Lev Freinkman, World Bank: "Role of the Diasporas in Transition =
Economies:
Lessons from Armenia"=20
=20
Tim Oberg, Advance, Australia: "Advance Australia"=20
=20
Molly Pollack, ChileGlobal; Marcelo Vesquez, Fundaci=F3n Chile, Chile: =
"Talent
Network for Innovation"
=20
Gurucharan Gollerkeri, Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs, India: =
"Engaging
the Diaspora for Development"
=20
Anna Groot, KEA, New Zealand: "New Zealand Global Talent Community"
=20
Irene Johnstone, GlobalScot, Scotland: "GlobalScot: Advice, Access,
Aspiration"
=20
=20
An initial draft of a proposed Diaspora Strategy for Ireland, and the
catalyst for this event, can be located at
http://www.nuim.ie/nirsa/research/documents/WP37_BoyleandKitchin.pdf
=20
Reports resulting from the Workshop (all authored by Delphine Ancien, =
Mark
Boyle and Rob Kitchin)
=20
Exploring Diaspora Strategies: An International Comparison
=20
Exploring Diaspora Strategies: Lessons for Ireland
=20
The NIRSA Diaspora Strategy Wheel and Ten Principles of Good Practice
=20
The Scottish Diaspora and Diaspora Strategy: Insights and Lessons from
Ireland
=20
=20
Newspaper coverage of the event can be found at:
=20
New strategy can enrich relations with diaspora. Irish Times, 27th Jan,
2009
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0127/1232923366914.html
=20
Diaspora could be answer to economic crisis. Irish Post. 11th Feb 2009
http://www.irishpost.co.uk/tabId/279/itemId/668/Diaspora-could-be-answer-=
to-
economic-crisis.aspx

Contact rob.kitchin[at]nuim.ie
=20

Workshop Report, Exploring Diaspora Strategies is at...

http://www.nuim.ie/nirsa/diaspora/PDFs/Exploring%20Diaspora%20Strategies%=
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nternational%20Comparison.pdf


http://www.nuim.ie/nirsa/
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Sat Sep 19, 2009 2

By Carmel Crimmins

DUBLIN, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Ireland's literary and musical heritage can be
used to open business doors around the world and help seal deals in the face
of economic crisis, corporate heavyweights told an international forum on
Saturday.

"The fact that we have such a strong culture as a country really gives us
one of the big advantages of any nation in the world," telecoms billionaire
Denis O'Brien told the final session of a two-day economic conference in
Dublin.

"We are famous for our writers, our artists, our poets and we are not famous
for much else," said the chairman of Digicel, adding that his cell phone
group had got a licence to operate in Samoa because the country's prime
minister had been educated by an Irish religious order.

The role of culture in generating economic goodwill overseas was a major
theme among participants at a Davos-style conference organised by the Irish
government to create ideas for pulling the country out of the western
world's worst recession.

Dublin wants to use its influential diaspora to promote economic growth and
the delegates comprised around 180 movers and shakers of Irish descent from
the worlds of business, academia and the arts.

"Your work this week will be taken forward and action will be taken,"
Foreign Minister Micheal Martin told participants, who included Craig
Barrett, the former chairman of Intel (INTC.O), and anti-poverty campaigner
Bob Geldof.

But Dublin is under pressure to squeeze spending to tackle a ballooning
budget deficit and Martin admitted that Dublin was constrained in its
ability to increase expenditure on education and research and development,
as recommended by participants.

"We are going through a crisis at the moment which does require ... a very
significant (cut to) budget," Martin said. "They are the over-arching
priorities that government has at the moment and we have to try and work
within that."

CULTURAL SUCCESSES REMAIN

About 70 million people worldwide claim Irish descent and the Irish diaspora
in the United States played an influential role in helping to end a
decades-long sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland in 1998.

Now the government wants to harness this community, much as Israel and India
have done with their diasporas, to its economic advantage.

Martin said the government would look at creating an online portal for a
virtual community of people of Irish descent to stay in touch, as well as
more educational exchanges and diaspora-linked tourism.

In the plush surroundings of Farmleigh, a Georgian estate in Dublin once
owned by the Guinness brewing clan, participants brainstormed on Ireland's
image, brand and business potential.

The country has been transformed from the "Celtic Tiger" economy to the euro
zone's weakest link via a local property crash and global financial crisis.
A slew of scandals surrounding its banks has also hammered its reputation as
a venue for international finance. [ID:NLH729143]

"So many institutions have failed the Irish people. It seems that the church
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failed the Irish people," said film-maker Neil Jordan, whose screen work
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Working at Fun

Conceptualizing Leisurework

Deborah Rapuano
Gettysburg College, USA, drapuano[at]gettysburg.edu

Today, in Irish music pub sessions that are structured to attract tourists,
the majority of musicians are engaging in what is for them a leisure
activity. However, complicating their leisure activity is the fact that pub
sessions are increasingly commercialized, as the profit motive becomes
primary for pub owners. As more and more commercialized sessions aim to
attract tourists, many musicians must participate in the new economic
session structure. This makes problematic the leisure activities of
musicians who believe they are playing music for fun, when they are in
effect working to increase the profit of pub owners. The study looks at a
form of leisure that takes on certain characteristics of work. Six years of
fieldwork in nine Irish pub sites in Ireland and Chicago, and 50 in-depth
interviews with pub session musicians, highlights the complexity of trying
to construct conceptual boundaries around fluid human activities. This
research takes into consideration the meanings that participants give to
their activities as it explores the ways in which Irish traditional music
pub sessions function as both leisure and work at the same time.

Key Words: commercialization . Irish . leisure . musicians . rationalization
. work


Current Sociology, Vol. 57, No. 5, 617-636 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0011392109337648

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nature and embodied passion
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Angling in modernity: a tour through society, nature and embodied passion

Author: Tom Mordue a
Affiliation: a Teesside Business School, University of Teesside,
Middlesbrough, Tees Valley, UK

Published in: Current Issues in Tourism, Volume 12, Issue 5 & 6 September
2009 , pages 529 - 552
Subjects: Research Methods & Techniques in Tourism; Tourism; Tourism &
Leisure Planning; Tourism Development; Tourism Impacts; Tourism Industry;
Tourism Planning; Tourism Policy;

Abstract
This article investigates an under-researched area in the tourism and
leisure literatures, recreational freshwater fishing, which has become a
significant cultural activity and a tourism industry in its own right.
Within the last 30 years many destinations across the globe have developed
fishing packages/products designed for the enthusiast able to afford the
trip. Similarly, a new generation of tour operators has emerged in the West
to offer a world of choice that was hardly imaginable a few decades ago. The
article maps important developments in the modern history of fishing from a
social constructionist viewpoint, examining how fishing, and by extension
fishing tourism, enlists and promotes certain performative codes of practice
and being, and how certain gazes on nature, destinations, fishing
technologies, skills and quarry are produced and reproduced in very
particular ideological ways. The article also considers the embodied nature
and the materiality of fishing and fishing tourism and advances conceptual
directions on how fishing leisure and tourism combine to produce an
identifiable actor-network that is made up of sub-networks. Here, the
analysis focuses on how the community of fish, anglers, technology,
destinations and travel are held together to create a material-semiotic set
of spatial practices and performances that are contested, impassioned and
networked in relational space-time. The overall aim of the article is to
offer a contextual and theoretical account of this important area of tourism
and leisure and point to fruitful avenues for future research.

Keywords: fishing; tourism; social construction; embodied; actor-network
theory; passion