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Memories of Catholic Girlhood=2C Mary McCarthy

The Gift (a novella) or A Drinking Life (more New York than Irish American)=
by Pete Hamill

Good luck.
> Date: Thu=2C 24 Sep 2009 18:51:02 -0400
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> Subject: Re: [IR-D] requesting possible titles for a reading list
> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
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> Jim--
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> You might include James Mullin's The Story of a Toiler=92s Life. Written =
by a Fenian and later Irish National Leaguer=2C it spans 1846 to 1920. Patr=
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> Sounds like a great class.
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> Nick
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> > Folks=2C
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> >=20
> > If you don't want to post to the full list=2C feel free to send me=20
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> > Thanks in advance for your help - a reminder again to thank Paddy=20
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Me too!
I would imagine that if such a site existed our late colleague Daniel=20
Cassidy would have found it. All I can suggest is having a look through=20
the Index pages (297-203) of /How the Irish Invented Slang (/2007) for=20
the dictionaries Cassidy used. His book is flawed, but it has, at least,=20
provided a starting point for anyone wishing to pursue this=20
under-researched topic.

Michael Gillespie wrote:
> Dear Friends,
>
> I have been looking for a website that would gloss late 19th century an=
d early 20th century Irish slang. There are abundant sites for current sl=
ang, but I can find nothing that goes back more than a few decades. I wou=
ld be grateful if any of you could point me toward one with an earlier fo=
cus.
>
> Michael
>
> Michael Patrick Gillespie
> Professor of English
> Florida International University
> =20

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Le gach dea ghu=ED

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*Dr Dymphna Lonergan*

*Department of English, Creative Writing and Australian Studies*

* *

Topic Convener Professional English; Professional English for Teachers;=20
Professional English for Medical Scientists (ENGL1001/A; ENGL1012;=20
ENGL1013);

Professional Writing (ENGL2007/ PROF2101); Professional Writing for=20
Teams (PROF8000); The Story of Australian English (ENGL7214)

=20

Director of Studies English, Creative Writing and Australian Studies;=20
Professional Studies Minor

=20

Research interests: Irish settlement in South Australia; Irish language=20
in Australia; Placenames Australia (Irish project)

Publication: /Sounds Irish: The Irish language in Australia=20
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Me too!
I would imagine that if such a site existed our late colleague Daniel
Cassidy would have found it. All I can suggest is having a look through
the Index pages (297-203) of How the Irish Invented Slang (2007)
for the dictionaries Cassidy used. His book is flawed, but it has, at
least, provided a starting point for anyone wishing to pursue this
under-researched topic.

Michael Gillespie wrote:

Dear Friends,

I have been looking for a website that would gloss late 19th century and early 20th century Irish slang. There are abundant sites for current slang, but I can find nothing that goes back more than a few decades. I would be grateful if any of you could point me toward one with an earlier focus.

Michael

Michael Patrick Gillespie
Professor of English
Florida International University



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Le gach dea ghuí
 
 
 
Dr Dymphna Lonergan
Department of
English, Creative Writing and Australian Studies
 
Topic Convener Professional English; Professional
English
for Teachers; Professional English for Medical Scientists (ENGL1001/A;
ENGL1012; ENGL1013);
Professional Writing (ENGL2007/ PROF2101);
Professional
Writing for Teams (PROF8000); The Story of
Australian
English (ENGL7214)
 
Director of Studies English, Creative Writing and
Australian
Studies; Professional Studies Minor
 
Research interests: Irish settlement in South Australia; Irish language in Australia;
Placenames Australia
(Irish project)
Publication: Sounds
Irish: The Irish language in Australia
http://www.lythrumpress.com.au
 
 
 
 





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MIME-Version: 1.0 {decoded}Dear Paddy, Muris, and Dymphna,

Thanks so much for your very helpful suggestions. Let me echo Jim Rogers in saying what treasure this list is. I cannot think of a handier resource for Irish issues. It will embarrass Paddy, but I must single him out for the gift he has given us all, but also thank you all for your generosity.

Michael

Michael Patrick Gillespie
Professor of English
Florida International University

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From: "Murray, Edmundo"
To: "'The Irish Diaspora Studies List'"
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:07:07 +0200
Subject: RE: [IR-D] 'A Lady's Child' by Enid Starkie

Dear Jim,

These are some entries from the Irish in Latin America bibliography (http:/=
/www.irlandeses.org/bibliography.htm). If you or your students are interest=
ed on any of them I can send photocopies or help to locate library copies.

Edmundo

Flecknoe, Richard. A relation of ten years travells in Europe, Asia, Affriq=
ue and America (London, 1654), 2nd. ed. 1657. The author, who was an Irish =
catholic priest, poet and adventurer, travelled from Lisbon to Brazil in 16=
48 and spent eight months from January to August 1649 in Pernambuco and Rio=
de Janeiro. This is regarded as the first book written by an English speak=
ing traveller to Brazil (thanks to Peter O'Neill for this reference).

Padre Joao is a Kerryman (1977), a documentary film produced by Radharc Fil=
ms and aired by RT=C9 on 28 October 1977. Duration: 26.38. 'Father Sean Mye=
rs, a Redemptorist missionary is at once priest, dentist, mechanic and guid=
e to the 27,000 people living in a remote corner of the Brazilian interior.=
Although he is affectionately known as "Padre Joao" by his people, there a=
re many that think his approach is outmoded' (from Radharc website, cited 3=
0 July 2007).

Nevin, Kathleen, You'll Never Go Back (Maynooth: The Cardinal Press, 1999).=
Original edition by Bruce Humphries (Boston, 1946). The experience and hom=
esickness of an Irish girl from Co. Longford (the author's mother) in 19th =
C Argentina. Work and love in urban and rural life of the pampas, with a gr=
adually changing ethic (and ethnic) vision of both natives and fellow immig=
rants. 230 pages.

Murray, Edmundo, Becoming 'irland=E9s': Private Narratives of the Irish Emi=
gration to Argentina, 1844-1912 (Buenos Aires: Literature of Latin America,=
2006). Includes the memoirs of Edward Robbins and Tom Garrahan.

Ussher, Santiago M, Father Fahy: a Biography of Anthony Dominic Fahy, O.P.,=
Irish Missionary in Argentina 1805-1871 (Buenos Aires, 1951). A chronology=
of Fr. Fahy's life has been written based on Ussher's book.

Article:
Kelleher, Desmond, 'From Westmeath to Peru Full Circle: Memoirs of a Westme=
ath Missionary in Sicuani, Cuzco' in Irish Migration Studies in Latin Ameri=
ca, 4:4 (October 2006), pp.109-205. [http://www.irlandeses.org/0610kelleher=
1.htm]

________________________________
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:22:55 -0500
From: JROGERS[at]STTHOMAS.EDU
Subject: [IR-D] requesting possible titles for a reading list
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK


Folks,



This autumn, I am teaching an interdisciplinary course for our Catholic Stu=
dies grad students on "The Irish Catholic Experience at Home and Abroad"-ba=
sically, 1800 and after.



The final paper assignment will be for them to select an autobiography or m=
emoir, either Irish, Irish-American, or elsewhere in the diaspora, and to=
discuss how it reflects (or departs from) the larger themes of the course.=
I want to give them a list of titles to choose from by next week. I have =
some ideas of course-the usual suspects--but I turn to the wisdom of the li=
st for other suggestions. I am particularly interested in eliciting suggest=
ions for books dated before 1950.



If you don't want to post to the full list, feel free to send me an e-mail =
at jrogers[at]stthomas.edu



Thanks in advance for your help - a reminder again to thank Paddy and his c=
ohorts for sustaining this list, which really is wonderful resource



Jim Rogers

University of St Thomas (Minnesota)



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Dear Jim,
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=
These are some entries from the Irish in Latin America bibliography (http://www.irlandeses.org/=
bibliography.htm). If you or your
students are interested on any of them I can send photocopies or help to l=
ocate library copies.
=
 
=
Edmundo

 
Flecknoe, Richard. A relation of ten years travells in Europe, Asia=
, Affrique and America (London, 1654), 2nd. ed. 1657. The author, who w=
as an Irish catholic priest, poet and adventurer, travelled from Lisbon to =
Brazil in 1648 and spent eight months
from January to August 1649 in Pernambuco and Rio de Janeiro. This is rega=
rded as the first book written by an English speaking traveller to Brazil (=
thanks to Peter O'Neill for this reference).
 
Pad=
re Joao is a Kerryman (1977), a documentary film produced by Radharc F=
ilms and aired by RT=C9 on 28 October 1977. Duration: 26.38. 'Father Sean M=
yers, a Redemptorist missionary is at
once priest, dentist, mechanic and guide to the 27,000 people living in a =
remote corner of the Brazilian interior. Although he is affectionately know=
n as "Padre Joao" by his people, there are many that think his ap=
proach is outmoded' (from Radharc website,
cited 30 July 2007).
 
Nevin, Kathleen, You'll Never Go Back (Maynooth: The Cardinal P=
ress, 1999). Original edition by Bruce Humphries (Boston, 1946). The e=
xperience and homesickness of an Irish girl from Co. Longford (the author's=
mother) in 19th C Argentina. Work and
love in urban and rural life of the pampas, with a gradually changing ethi=
c (and ethnic) vision of both
natives and fellow immigrants. 230 pages.
 
Murray, Edmundo,
Becoming 'irland=E9s': Private Narratives of the Irish Emigration to Argentina, 184=
4-1912 (Buenos=
Aires: Literature of Latin America, 2006).
Includes the memoirs of Edward Robbins and Tom Garrahan.
 
Ussher, Santiago M, =

Father Fahy: a Biography of Anthony Dominic Fahy, O.P., Irish Missionary=
in Argentina 1805-1871 (Buenos Aires, 1951). A chronolog=
y of Fr. Fahy's life has been written based on Ussher's book.

 
Article:

Kelleher, Desmond, 'From Westmeath to Peru Full Circle: =
Memoirs of a Westmeath Missionary in Sicuani, Cuzco' in
Irish Migration Studies in Latin America, 4:4 (October 2006), pp.109=
-205. [http://www.irlandeses.org/0610kelleher1.htm]




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From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of
Ciar=E1n & Margaret =D3 h=D3gartaigh
Sent: 24 September 2009 20:28
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] 'A Lady's Child' by Enid Starkie


Hi Jim,
How about Enid Starkie's A Lady's Child, she was the daughter of W=
illiam Starkie a much-hated commissioner of education in Ireland in the ear=
ly twentieth century.  Hence her background was catholic, upper middle=
class, she also went to a Protestant
School, Alexandra College, and then Oxford, where she became a Professor o=
f French.  It is beautifully wirtten and was published, much to the ch=
agrin of her relatives, in 1940 by Faber and Faber.
Happy reading,
Margaret.
 

Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:22:55 -0500
From: JROGERS[at]STTHOMAS.EDU
Subject: [IR-D] requesting possible titles for a reading list
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Folks,
 
This autumn, I am teaching an interdisciplinary c=
ourse for our Catholic Studies grad students on “The Irish Catholic E=
xperience at Home and Abroad”—basically, 1800 and after.
 
The final paper assignment will be for them to se=
lect an autobiography or memoir, either Irish,   Irish-American, =
or elsewhere in the diaspora, and to discuss how it reflects (or departs fr=
om) the larger themes of the course. I want
to give them a list of titles to choose from by next week.  I have so=
me ideas of course—the usual suspects--but I turn to the wisdom of th=
e list for other suggestions. I am particularly interested in eliciting sug=
gestions for books dated before 1950.

 
If you don’t want to post to the full list,=
feel free to send me an e-mail at
jrogers[at]stthomas.edu 
 
Thanks in advance for your help – a reminde=
r again to thank Paddy and his cohorts for sustaining this list, which real=
ly is wonderful resource
 
Jim Rogers
University of St Thomas (Minnesota)

 

 



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Amen to Michael Gillespie's hosanna.

Tom

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Michael,

I think I would ask: What research question is being explored here? =
For
example, the slang in James Joyce has been pretty comprehensively taken =
to
bits by the Joyce scholars.

But Michael knows that - see James Joyce and the Fabrication of an Irish
Identity By Michael Patrick Gillespie

There does not seem to be a web site like the one Michael wishes for. I
would not expect to see one - such a web site would involve real work =
and
most of the Irish slang web sites I have seen are simply Google Adsense
traps.

Like Dympna I would suggest looking at Danny Cassidy's references. I =
loved
the man this side of idolatry. Everything I came across I sent to Danny =
-
which is what you do. You help friends even when you think they are =
wrong.
But Danny was interested really only in the US end of things, and not so
much in slang in Ireland.

The bits of Danny Cassidy's work on slang I found most convincing was =
the
study of O'Neill. There is certainly something going on - and it is =
right
not to trust dictionaries. But too much of it was like the Dad in My =
Big
Fat Greek Wedding.

Some recent discoveries I never sent to Danny...

Antonio Lillo, of the University of Alicante, has done a lot of work on
slang in English - he is especially interested in rhyming slang. In one
article he explores the Irish material.=20

Article details

Exploring rhyming slang in Ireland
Antonio Lillo, University of Alicante
There are several varieties of English where rhyming slang is or has =
been a
productive source of new words. However, its incidence in some Englishes
still remains, by and large, terra incognita for slang lexicographers =
and
linguists alike. Based on a number of written sources and oral =
transcripts,
this article surveys the origins and development of rhyming slang in
Ireland, its most outstanding characteristics and its productivity
throughout the 20th century down to the present. In order to illustrate =
the
significance and creative potential of this category of word-formation =
in
Irish English, the final part of the article offers a glossary of Irish
rhyming slang, including many terms which are not recorded in the =
standard
slang dictionaries.
DOI: 10.1075/eww.25.2.06lil
In: English World-Wide 25:2. 2004. 167 pp. (pp. 273=96285)

O'Sullivan, Donal. "Dublin Slang Songs, with Music." Dublin Historical
Record, Sep., 1938 1(3), pp. 75 - 93.

Donal O'Sullivan promises a glossary of the slang words in the 'next' =
issue
of DHR. But I have not been able to find this glossary.

Paddy O'Sullivan



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Me too!=20
I would imagine that if such a site existed our late colleague Daniel
Cassidy would have found it. All I can suggest is having a look through =
the
Index pages (297-203) of How the Irish Invented Slang (2007) for the
dictionaries Cassidy used. His book is flawed, but it has, at least,
provided a starting point for anyone wishing to pursue this =
under-researched
topic.

Michael Gillespie wrote:=20
Dear Friends,

I have been looking for a website that would gloss late 19th century and
early 20th century Irish slang. There are abundant sites for current =
slang,
but I can find nothing that goes back more than a few decades. I would =
be
grateful if any of you could point me toward one with an earlier focus.

Michael

Michael Patrick Gillespie
Professor of English
Florida International University
=20

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The debates rumble on...

1.
July 30, 2007

The Achievement of Daniel Cassidy

Irish in America: a Language Lost and Found

By PETER QUINN

In 1799, troops with Napoleon's army in Egypt unearthed an ancient tablet
inscribed with a tribute to the Pharaoh in demotic script as well as Greek
and hieroglyphs. As a result of this discovery outside the town of Rashid
(Rosetta), the Egyptologist and linguist Jean-Francois Champollion was
eventually able to reveal the meanings of a once-indecipherable language.
What had been lost was found, and historians and scholars gained a new
understanding of the past. Working with a pen (or more likely, a computer)
rather than a spade, and serving both as digger and decoder, Daniel Cassidy
presents us with revelations that are, for etymologists in general and Irish
Americans in particular, every bit as momentous as those Champollion
extracted from the Rosetta stone.

Full text at

http://counterpunch.org/quinn07302007.html

2.
Complete Blarney - Lexicographer Grant Barrett has posted an excellent
explication of the flaws and lack of intellectual rigor displayed in Daniel
Cassidy's How The Irish Invented Slang, which purports to find secret Irish
origins for common American vernacular.

Back in October, I reviewed the book for PopMatters and, like Barrett, was
disappointed and alarmed by the casual, off-the-cuff manner in which Cassidy
made his assertions.

The weakness of his research and in his methodology is apparent to anyone
with two eyes and a minute to crack open the book. That's what makes this
surprisingly positive profile in The New York Times so frustrating. A
minimal amount of effort would have revealed to the writer than Cassidy's
arguments are without merit, at best the result of sloppiness, at worst a
con job.

Tags: How The Irish Invented Slang, Lexicography, Book Review

Text and further comment
http://www.michaelpatrickbrady.com/blog/complete-blarney-daniel-cassidys-how
-the-irish-invented-slang/

3.
How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads
by Daniel Cassidy
AK Press
Paperback, 303 pages, $18.95
By Michael Patrick Brady

Words are always more than just a definition in a dictionary. Words are
currency. They enfranchise those who possess them with the means to
articulate and describe. They spread uncontrollably, penetrating cultural
boundaries and undermining the status quo. They're fraught with power and
potency well beyond the denotations and throughout history, those who have
controlled words have had the power to shape the world around them, and to
confer, seize, or retain the social status.

Though Irish-Americans are a large and established ethnic bloc in the United
States with a firm cultural and political presence in regional strongholds
like Boston, Chicago, and New York City, their ancestors had to suffer
through decades of marginalization and persecution to make it so. The
millions of immigrant Irish, some of the first huddling masses to truly make
a dent in the United States, left no evidence of an impact on the language,
at least, on paper. Though they may not have persuaded any dictionary
editors to say so, it's absurd to believe that such a colorful and
persistent group of people, who were so instrumental in the rise of the
country, failed to pass on some of the Irish tongue. Of course they did.
It's just that they weren't part of polite society; instead, their words
were spoken in dark corners and out-of-the-way slums in the land of
opportunity.

How the Irish Invented Slang: A Secret Language of the Crossroads aims to
reconcile the long exile of the Irish peoples from their rightful credit as
significant contributors to the New World lexicon.

Full text at
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/how-the-irish-invented-slang-by-daniel-c
assidy

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The intersectionality of nationalism and multiculturalism in the
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The intersectionality of nationalism and multiculturalism in the Irish
curriculum: teaching against racism?

Author: Audrey Bryan a
Affiliation: a School of Education, University College Dublin, Dublin,
Ireland

Published in: Race Ethnicity and Education, Volume 12, Issue 3 September
2009 , pages 297 - 317

Subjects: Multicultural Education; Sociology of Education;

Abstract
This research explores the interrelationship between the production of
national identity and multiculturalism in Irish schools and society. Working
from the perspective that ideas about 'race' and nation are inextricably
linked, I examine how contemporary nationalistic identity projects and
processes map onto the current policy drive towards multicultural (or
intercultural) education in Ireland. Informed by the intellectual oeuvre of
Pierre Bourdieu, my analysis investigates state-level discourses as they are
articulated in recent anti-racist policy documents and in the national
curriculum, and how these broader discourses are interpreted at the local
school level. Combining discourse analytic, observational and in-depth
interviewing techniques, I examine how state and school-based intercultural
policies and practices construct difference along racial-ethnic and national
lines, and consider the implications of these policies and practices for
sustaining and contesting racism. The purpose of the research is to promote
a deeper understanding of the ways in which racial inequality is reproduced
through policies and practices which are purported to have egalitarian and
anti-racist aims. Implications of the study are discussed in terms of the
state's increasing reliance on intercultural education as a policy panacea
to the intensification of racism in Irish society.

Keywords: intercultural education; national identity; curriculum; racism;
educational policy; symbolic violence

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I wonder if the Irish language element in non-standard Hiberno English
might also fall into this category? If it does, then L=E1 published long
lists of Irish vocabulary used in Dublin at the turn of the 1900s, it
gave their forms and meanings as they were recorded and the original
Irish language forms and meaning - which at times were fairly
different. They also listed the research that they had lifted the
material from, and If I remember correctly they weren't allowed to
publish some of it in the electronic edition available at
www.nuacht.com due to copyright reasons although the print edition was
allowed to have it. The lists and details of the research were quite
extensive and was published over quite a few days.

I'm afraid that L=E1 is no more, however its back copies, containing
much of the material are at www.nuacht.com and I would hazard a guess
that Belfast Media (owners of L=E1 and lots of other publications!)
might be able to help you find the particular editions in which it was
printed, or perhaps someone else on this list might remember the
series as well, and perhaps even have kept them and so have the dates
for you to search the archive.

Muiris


2009/9/22 Michael Gillespie :
> Dear Friends,
>
> I have been looking for a website that would gloss late 19th century and =
early 20th century Irish slang. There are abundant sites for current slang,=
but I can find nothing that goes back more than a few decades. I would be =
grateful if any of you could point me toward one with an earlier focus.
>
> Michael
>
> Michael Patrick Gillespie
> Professor of English
> Florida International University
>

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Ireland is very visible in the international media at the moment - the =
looming re-run of the Lisbon referendum, the news that the report on =
Bloody Sunday is to be further delayed, the clever Guinness campaign...

A number of IR-D members have drawn attention to worldwide =
manifestations of the latest figures on population from the Central =
Statistics Office Ireland. Thank you.

Some coverage has been short on detail. Below an item from the =
Independent, and a web search will find many more.

P.O'S.


Emigration hits new high as foreign workers leave

By BRENDAN KEENAN
Wednesday September 23 2009
FOREIGN workers have been losing their jobs in droves and leaving the =
country -- resulting in the first net emigration since 1996.

Figures from the Central Statistics Office show that a quarter of all =
the jobs held by foreign workers disappeared in the 12 months to last =
April. Most of these belonged to workers from eastern Europe.

This job loss compared with a drop of 8pc in employment overall. This =
reduction, and a doubling of unemployment to more than 11pc, is the =
steepest decline in the labour market ever recorded.

It was driven by a loss of more than one in three of all building jobs =
-- where employment collapsed by 86,000 -- a 13pc fall in retail and =
wholesale, and a 9pc drop in industrial employment.

Analysts say the worst of the jobless rises may be over, with increasing =
emigration keeping down the total. They expect unemployment to peak at =
around 14pc next year -- better than earlier estimates of 17pc.

"These figures to April do not capture what seems to be faster =
emigration in recent months," said Rossa White, economist at Davy =
Stockbrokers.

Distance

"The pace of job losses is slowing, said Austin Hughes, chief economist =
at KBC Bank. "However, the likelihood is that we remain some significant =
distance from any prospect of a turnaround in employment prospects here =
or abroad."

Almost 14pc of the labour force -- more than 300,000 people -- described =
themselves as unemployed in April. The official figure of 260,000 is =
based on the strict international definition of working less than one =
hour in the previous week.

Employers group IBEC said the figures emphasise the acute need for =
further labour market supports. "We must in the first instance prevent =
job losses to the greatest extent possible. The scale of the =
=E2=82=AC250m package announced over the summer is inadequate," IBEC =
economist Reetta Suonpera said.

CSO estimates say that 18,000 Irish-born people left the country in the =
12 months to April, which is less than the number who departed in 2006. =
But 47,000 foreign-born people emigrated, while the numbers coming into =
the country fell from 84,000 in the previous 12 months to 57,000.

This left net emigration of 7,800 -- the first such outflow in 13 years =
but still small compared with past figures, especially where Irish =
citizens are concerned.

"We don't have a breakdown by nationality of the 70,600 who emigrated in =
1989, but it is safe to say that emigration by Irish nationals is not =
yet running at anywhere near those levels," said Brian Devine, chief =
economist at NCB Stockbrokers.

Over a third of the Irish-born emigrants went to the UK, with a further =
30pc going to Australia. Less than 4,000 went to the USA, and not all of =
them were Irish nationals. A similar number are believed to have gone to =
Canada.

An age breakdown of total emigration showed that 46pc were aged 25-44 =
and 40pc were 15-24.

The fact that only 1,200 children were recorded leaving suggests the =
emigrants were mostly single people.

Stephen McLarnon, who organises exhibitions on job prospects overseas, =
said many young people were trapped in negative equity on their homes =
and could not avail of opportunities abroad.

- BRENDAN KEENAN

SOURCE
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/emigration-hits-new-high-as-forei=
gn-workers-leave-1893477.html

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Don't rely on the Diaspora to rescue us
TOUGH: Irish who emigrated have broken all ties with their homeland

By Terry Prone
Monday September 21 2009

Now, children, a new word for you today. Write it down carefully. I'll say
it clearly for you: DIASPORATION.

Diasporation is what happens in Ireland when we run out of ideas and money,
and call on the people who left Ireland in earlier bad times: The Diaspora.

Diasporation is what happened this weekend in Farmleigh when the Global
Irish Economic Forum debated how best to get the nation out of the hole it
is in.

Auntie

Our property bubble has burst? We're losing jobs? The Budget's likely to cut
the salaries of public service workers?

Tough. But the Global Forum has the solution: talk to our auntie in Chicago
by email. In fact, we'll issue her a financial bond so she can support Irish
enterprise. That'll solve all our problems, won't it? Well, no, actually, it
won't. The Irish diaspora may not be a busted flush, but they're a weird
lot.

A tiny number, like the splendid Loretta Brennan Glucksman of the
Irish-American fund, care deeply about the country they or their ancestors
came from and can always be relied on to support community or arts
initiatives designed to create peace or prosperity in the old country.

The rest of the diaspora is a write-off and always has been. One of the best
histories of the emigrant Irish makes the point that whereas Italians and
other Europeans who, through poverty, had to emigrate to the United States
always planned to get home as soon as they made a few bob, the Irish
concentrated on singing miserable songs filled with homesickness while
staying in Detroit or Dakota or downtown Manhattan...

But hold on, I hear you say, even if they don't come home, they represent a
huge market, don't they? In theory, yes. In practice? Well, it's just
amazing how few of those with Irish blood actually want to spend a holiday
here...

...Nor are they a great market for Irish products. I couldn't begin to list
the number of Irish entrepreneurs who have come to me for training before
they head off on the American media tour plugging the product they just KNOW
is going to make them a million bucks. It never does. Because
Irish-Americans are good at the lip-service of sentimentality: "How CUTE!
Isn't that just DARLING?" but ask them to shell out for more than an Irish
colleen doll with flaming red artificial hair and they go all quiet.

No, the Irish diaspora is not the solution to our current problems. Nor is a
two-day think in of the Establishment in Farmleigh.

The idea that such a gathering would allow the capture of great ideas misses
the point that people with great ideas don't hang on to them on the
off-chance of an invite to Farmleigh. They get on with making those ideas
happen.

Talking

I'm sure the lads enjoyed each other's company, and the Farmleigh fest let
the Intel guy give out to us for not doing enough R&D, although how that
would have prevented the burst of the property bubble is not clear.

But, at the end of the talking, we're left with no immediate solution.

Other than Diasporation.

FULL TEXT AT
http://www.herald.ie/opinion/dont-rely-on-the-diaspora-to-rescue-us-1892124.
html

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Jim,

There are some interesting autobiographies and memoirs by Irish-Australians,
although of course your students may not be able to lay hands on them. However, for
the record, I'd recommend:

* Patrick O'Farrell, 'Vanished Kingdoms' (1990) (family memoir of NZ and OZ by the
leading historian of Irish Australia)
* Thomas Keneally, 'The Great Shame' (1998) (a family history by a leading
Australian novelist)
* Martin Flanagan, 'In Sunshine or in Shadow' (2002) (another family memoir by a
well-known Australian writer)
* Mary Durack, 'Kings in Grass Castles' (1959) (ditto)
* P.J. Kavanagh, 'Finding Connections' (1990) (an English writer of Irish descent
pursues his convict links)

There are several interesting memoirs by priests or ex-priests:

Edmund Campion, 'Rockchoppers' (1982)
Gerard Windsor, 'Heaven Where the Bachelors Sit' (1996) and 'The Mansions of Bedlam'
(2000)

And there are some interesting works by Irish-Australian writers who returned to
Ireland for extended visits:

* Vincent Buckley, 'Memory Ireland' (1985)
* Christopher Koch, 'The Many-Coloured Land' (2002)

Best wishes,

Elizabeth

----------------------------------------
> Folks,
>
> This autumn, I am teaching an interdisciplinary course for our Catholic Studies grad
> students on "The Irish Catholic Experience at Home and Abroad"-basically, 1800 and
> after.
>
> The final paper assignment will be for them to select an autobiography or memoir,
> either Irish, Irish-American, or elsewhere in the diaspora, and to discuss how it
> reflects (or departs from) the larger themes of the course. I want to give them a
> list of titles to choose from by next week. I have some ideas of course-the usual
> suspects--but I turn to the wisdom of the list for other suggestions. I am
> particularly interested in eliciting suggestions for books dated before 1950.
>
> If you don't want to post to the full list, feel free to send me an e-mail at
> jrogers[at]stthomas.edu
>
> Thanks in advance for your help - a reminder again to thank Paddy and his cohorts
> for sustaining this list, which really is wonderful resource
>
> Jim Rogers
> University of St Thomas (Minnesota)
>
>
>


__________________________________________________
Professor Elizabeth Malcolm

Gerry Higgins Chair of Irish Studies
School of Historical Studies ~ University of Melbourne ~ Victoria, 3010, AUSTRALIA
Phone: +61-3-83443924 ~ Email: e.malcolm[at]unimelb.edu.au

President
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Website: http://isaanz.org
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Crossroads: Performance Studies and Irish Culture
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Edited by Sara Brady and Fintan Walsh
Crossroads: Performance Studies and Irish Culture
Palgrave Macmillan 2009
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=3D310602


Description
In the expansive and expanding field of Irish studies, performance has
typically featured as drama, theatre, dance, and music. Recent changes
in Irish society, the arts industry, and modes of critical inquiry
have all prompted the need to think further about the complex and
under-researched area of performance in and of Irish culture. It is
increasingly well recognized that the categories of 'Irish culture'
and 'Irishness' are highly performative, effected through a wide range
of social practices, cultural formations, and discursive utterances,
and in timely need of critical address.

The purpose of this seminal collection of essays is to broach this
task by considering Irish culture through some of the paradigms and
vocabularies offered by performance studies. As the title of the book
makes clear, we return to the evocative metaphor of crossroads by way
of signaling the manifold ways in which Irish culture has been
performed in past, present, and likely futural tenses at local,
national, and international domains. These roads do not respect the
static symmetry indexed by a figural cross; rather the trajectories
mapped here are suggestive, multiplicitous, and mobile. Practices,
epistemologies, temporalities, geographies, and identities splinter in
their wake, clearing the ground for the emergence of nuanced
understandings of performance and cultural politics.

Reviews
'An engrossing, lively, timely, and important collection. The editors
have chosen well - the book enriches our understanding of Ireland
across a broad range of cultural activities. The essays exemplify,
probe, illuminate, and analyze the very rich performative landscape of
Ireland. This book opens up new vistas to scholars of performance
studies and Irish studies - and to anyone else wanting to learn more
about the ebullient action of Irish culture.'
- Richard Schechner, Editor, TDR; University Professor, Performance
Studies, New York University, USA

'This book has the energy and excitement of a newly discovered mine of
research, that of Irish performance studies. Interdisciplinary and
eclectic in scope, the collection analyzes past and contemporary
performances of Irish culture. The lens of performance studies
presents Irish identities and traditions in the making, at once
historically located and continually changing in the light of
contemporary interpretations, conditions and urgencies. This
collection offers striking juxtapositions and theoretical frameworks
which offer new insights into the making of Irish culture - past and
present.'
- Professor Anna McMullen, Queens University Belfast, UK

Contents

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Performance Studies and Irish Culture; F.Walsh with =
S.Brady


PART I: TRADITION, RITUAL AND PLAY
Performing Ireland: A Performative Approach to the Study of Irish
Culture; J.Santino
Performing Tradition; B.Sweeney
Sporting 'Irish' Identities: Performance and the Gaelic Games; S.Brady
'It's beyond Candide it's =A9vejk': Wise Foolery in the Work of Jack
Lynch, Storyteller; M.Wilson
Traditional Irish Music in the 21st Century: Networks, Technology, and
the Negotiation of Authenticity; S.Spencer


PART II: PLACE, LANDSCAPE AND COMMEMORATION
'Tapping Secrecies of Stone': Irish Roads as Performances of Movement,
Measurement, and Memory; J.Morrison
Commemoration and the Performance of Irish Famine Memory; E.M.FitzGerald
Embodying the Past for the Tourist Gaze: Performing History and
Commemorations of Violence at Free Derry Corner; M.Spangler
St Patrick's Purgatory and the Performance of Pilgrimage; D.Cregan


PART III: POLITICAL PERFORMANCES
Word, Voice, Book, and Act: De Valera and the Oath; A.Pulju
Between the Living and the Dead: Performative 'in-betweens' in the
Work of Alastair MacLennan; C.Szab=F3
The Bio-politics of Performing Irish-ness; M.Causey


PART IV: GENDER, FEMINISM, AND QUEER PERFORMANCE
Ghosting Bridgie Cleary: Tom Mac Intyre and Staging this Woman's Death;
C.McIvor
Challenging Patriarchal Imagery: Amanda Coogan's Performance Art; =
G.C.Novati
Homelysexuality and the 'Beauty' Pageant; F.Walsh


PART V: DIASPORA, MIGRATION, GLOBALIZATION
Taking Northern Irish Identity on the Road: The Smithsonian Folklife
Festival of 2007; E.Moore Quinn
Who's Laughing at What?: Currents of Humour in African-Irish Theatre;
E.Weitz
Parading Multicultural Ireland: Identity Politics and National Agendas
in the 2007 St Patrick's Festival; H.Maples
Index

Authors
SARA BRADY is Lecturer in Drama Studies at Trinity College Dublin, =
Ireland.
FINTAN WALSH is a graduate of the Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity
College Dublin, Ireland, where he also teaches.

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Occasions of Sin: Sex and Society in Modern Ireland
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Irish Times
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Lifting the lid on Irish sexuality

SOCIETY: IVANA BACIK reviews Occasions of Sin: Sex and Society in Modern =
Ireland by Diarmaid Ferriter=20
Profile Books, 694 pp. =E2=82=AC30=20
=20

ARE WE A uniquely sexually repressed nation? In this comprehensive work, =
Diarmaid Ferriter suggests our sexual history is =E2=80=9Cas complex and =
multi-layered as in many other countries=E2=80=9D. His own research, =
from an impressive diversity of sources, unravels many of these layers. =
What emerges is the sense that, while there may have been little unique =
about Irish sexuality, the Irish State responded with laws that were =
uniquely submissive to the doctrines of the dominant church.

Covering the period from 1845 to 2005, Ferriter presents a bleak =
portrait of the extent of sexual abuse in 19th-century Ireland, and the =
impact of the Famine on patterns of marriage and reproduction. He gives =
graphic depictions of tenement overcrowding, and provides riveting =
excerpts from court records on sexual abuse cases. Inevitably, the =
emphasis is on abuse. Ferriter does his best to locate sources =
documenting =E2=80=9Cthe joys of sex=E2=80=9D, relying upon contemporary =
literature, novels and plays; but he recognises ruefully that these =
sources are much less extensive.

From independence onwards, the Catholic Church wielded a pernicious =
influence. Its leading ideologue, Archbishop John Charles McQuaid, =
appeared to find sex itself intrinsically sinful, finding =E2=80=9Cany =
public airing of issues to do with the female body and reproduction =
distasteful=E2=80=9D. McQuaid=E2=80=99s biographer John Cooney once said =
that he was =E2=80=9Ctotally obsessed with sex=E2=80=9D, but Ferriter =
suggests that McQuaid was initially more preoccupied with controlling =
discussion of religion, and became obsessed with sex because he realised =
the growing resistance to Catholic doctrine was located in a changing =
sexual morality.

Access to the Dublin Diocesan archive material has yielded truly =
fascinating insights into McQuaid=E2=80=99s obsessions. In 1944, the =
Archbishop expressed to the secretary of the Department of Health his =
disapproval concerning the use of tampons, particularly by =
=E2=80=9Cunmarried persons=E2=80=9D. There are references in his papers =
to =E2=80=9Cpro-birth control slum mothers=E2=80=9D, and his final =
pastoral in 1971 was entitled =E2=80=9CConscience and =
contraception=E2=80=9D.

Despite McQuaid=E2=80=99s influence, Ferriter argues that Ireland was, =
in some ways, no more sexually repressive than, for example, Italy or =
Spain at comparable periods in each country=E2=80=99s history.

Truly unique to Ireland was the extent of the State=E2=80=99s reliance =
on religious orders to provide institutional care to children, and the =
abusive conditions that prevailed in those institutions. Ferriter =
powerfully summarises the conclusions of the Ryan Report, saying that =
=E2=80=9Cthousands of children suffered systematic physical and sexual =
abuse between the 1930s and the 1970s and lived in a climate of fear in =
residential institutions founded by the state and run by religious =
orders=E2=80=9D...

Full text at

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/0926/1224255262902.html?=
via=3Dmr

Ivana Bacik is a Senator, a practising barrister, Reid Professor of =
Criminal Law and Criminology at TCD, and author of Kicking and =
Screaming: Dragging Ireland into the Twenty-First Century , published by =
O=E2=80=99Brien Press

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Many Ir-D members will find useful this extraordinary new Web Resource, the
text of 2 editions of Holinshed's Chronicles...

At a very simple level, we can now find and follow every mention of Ireland
and the Irish in the Chronicles.

An example is given on the web site...

http://www.cems.ox.ac.uk/holinshed/extracts3.shtml

King Diarmait Mac Murchada of Leinster sends for Richard Fitz Gilbert de
Clare, earl of Pembroke ('Strongbow') (from the History of Ireland)

I have pasted in, below, Ian Archer's own email about the project.

There is much interesting material about the Chronicles on the web sites...

http://www.cems.ox.ac.uk/holinshed/

Really worth exploring...

http://www.cems.ox.ac.uk/holinshed/texts.shtml

And I would particularly recommend, in the Working Papers section,
The Holinshed editors: religious attitudes and their consequences, by
Felicity Heal
Which specifically uses the Irish material to explore the attitudes of the
Holinshed editors.

Our congratulations and thanks to Ian Archer, Felicity Heal, Paulina Kewes,

And Henry Summerson...

P.O'S.

-----Original Message-----
Subject: Holinshed's Chronicles
From: Ian Archer
Date: September 17, 2009 8:53:05 PM EDT

Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to announce a new freely available resource for all those
interested in historical writing (and much else besides) in the early
modern period: Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Wales.

An Oxford based team comprising myself (History, Oxford), Dr Felicity
Heal (History, Oxford), Dr Paulina Kewes (English, Oxford), and Dr
Henry Summerson (The Oxford Holinshed Project Research Assistant) has
been working on a parallel text electronic edition of Holinshed's
Chronicles. The Chronicles are best known as the source text for many
of Shakespeare's plays, but they were a gold mine for other dramatists
and poets, and for lawyers, politicians, and general readers. We've
been aware for a long time of the existence of differences between the
two editions of 1577 and 1587, but systematic analysis has proved
elusive because of the sheer volume of the texts. What we offer is a
means of reading the two editions alongside each other, a privilege
hitherto only available to those in particularly well endowed
libraries. Users with access to EEBO will be able to move from our
edition to the EBO hosted facsimiles of the pages.

The edition would have been impossible without the co-operation of
EEBO-TCP who undertook the keying of the 1577 edition (in addition to
the 1587 edition already on their site), as well as granting us
permission to make use of the two texts in our version.

We have also benefited from the assistance of the Research Services
Team at Oxford University Computing Services who developed the TEI
Comparator Tool, enabling comparison between the two texts. We think
that this tool may be of use to other projects. See the link to James
Cummings' blog below.

The resource is freely available, and has been funded by Oxford
University's Fell Fund.

To access the texts go to:

http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/holinshed/

But you can get there from the project website:

http://www.cems.ox.ac.uk/holinshed/

I send you there simply to alert you to the amount of additional
content, including a comprehensive analysis of the sources behind the
Chronicles undertaken by Henry Summerson.

http://www.cems.ox.ac.uk/holinshed/chronicles.shtml

There is also a comprehensive Holinshed bibliography, and a number of
working papers.

To read James Cummings' blog and to find out more about the TEI
Comparator Tool, go to:

http://blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk/jamesc/2009/09/04/tei-comparator/

The parallel text edition is one of several outputs envisaged by the
Oxford Holinshed Project. We have commsioned forty essays which will
be published by OUP as The Oxford Handbook to Holinshed's Chronicles
in 2011. We also hope to receive funding to enhance the electronic
edition with scholarly annotation.

All best wishes,

Ian W. Archer


--
Ian W. Archer, Keble College, Oxford, OX1 3PG

Acting Warden, Keble College

Fellow and Tutor in Modern History

General Editor, Royal Historical Society Bibliography on British History

Literary Director, Royal Historical Society

Website addresses

Personal webpage:
http://www.keble.ox.ac.uk/academics/about/dr-ian-archer

RHS Bibliography:
http://www.rhs.ac.uk/bibl/

Royal Historical Society: http://royalhistoricalsociety.org

The Holinshed Project:
http://www.cems.ox.ac.uk/holinshed/

Keble Past and Present:
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The latest issue of
Ethnic and Racial Studies: Volume 32 Issue 8
Is a
Special Issue: Diasporas, Cultures and Identities

Introduction: Diasporas, Cultures and Identities, Pages 1301 - 1303
Authors: Martin Bulmer; John Solomos

'The study of the role of diasporas in modern societies has proceeded apace
over the past two decades. Although the role of diasporic communities has
been the subject of historical reflection for some time, it is in the
current period that the concept of diaspora has become a core theme in the
social sciences and humanities. Over the past two decades we have seen an
on-going discussion about notions such as diaspora, transnationalism and
cosmopolitanism and their appropriateness as conceptual frames of reference
for analysing the diverse experiences of communities that have become
dispersed across the globe (Werbner, 2004; Brubaker, 2005; Cohen, 2008). We
have reflected key aspects of this body of scholarship in the pages of the
journal over the past two decades, both through publication of key
theoretical papers as well as in the form of rigorous empirical papers...'

Of special interest to Ir-D is...

Attitudes towards Polish immigrants to the Republic of Ireland: an
integrated threat analysis, Pages 1431 - 1448
Authors: Gunnar B. Scheibner; Todd G. Morrison

Abstract
Research has shown that the experience of threat plays a role in attitudes
towards immigrants. Using the integrated threat theory of prejudice, the
present study investigated the putative association between three threat
variables (realistic threat, symbolic threat and intergroup anxiety) and
prejudice and discrimination. Findings from two studies using community and
university samples (N = 112 and 83, respectively) revealed limited support
for integrated threat when applied to assessments of Polish versus Irish job
applicants. Limitations and suggestions for further research are outlined.
Keywords: Prejudice; discrimination; immigrants; integrated threat; Ireland;
attitudes

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