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North or South? Darron Gibson and the issue of player eligibility
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North or South? Darron Gibson and the issue of player eligibility within
Irish soccer

Authors: David Hassan a; Shane McCullough a; Elizabeth Moreland b
Affiliations: a School of Sports Studies, University of Ulster,
Jordanstown, Northern Ireland
b University College Dublin, Ireland

Published in: Soccer & Society, Volume 10, Issue 6 November 2009 , pages
740 - 753
Subjects: Football; Sport & Society; Sports, Leisure, Travel & Tourism;

Abstract
The issue of player eligibility in Irish soccer is a controversial one. When
given the opportunity, players born in Northern Ireland should represent
that country at senior international level. However, talented footballers
from the Catholic community in Northern Ireland are defecting to the
Republic of Ireland in ever increasing numbers. Motivated by a range of
factors, from socio-political beliefs to sporting pragmatism, these players
benefit from a degree of laxity within FIFA's regulations dealing with
eligibility in the international arena. This issue has been given particular
focus in recent times following the high-profile defection of Manchester
United's Darron Gibson from Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland.
Gibson's decision was especially noteworthy as he failed to meet any of the
criteria deemed necessary to permit such a move. This essay examines the
role of the key actors in this process, which has resulted in Northern
Ireland, a country with a limited pool of suitable personnel at this level,
losing some of its most talented players to its neighbour and one of its
fiercest rivals.

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'AND THEN THERE WAS INDIA'

Imagining India in Ireland in the 1940s

Author: Clair Wills

Published in: Media History, Volume 15, Issue 4 November 2009 , pages 423 -
437
Subject: Media History;

Abstract
This paper analyses the impact of the Second World War and its aftermath on
Irish attitudes towards India. Sustained Irish engagement with Indian
affairs seems to decrease markedly during the 1940s - especially in contrast
to the years of the League Against Imperialism, or the revolutionary years
1916-23. By the middle of the war, and certainly by 1947, analogies between
Irish and Indian political struggles and Commonwealth solutions were a
regular feature of British diplomatic discourse, and of some Indian
political discourse, but have faded from Irish debates. Analysing Irish
parliamentary debates, mainstream newspapers, intellectual journals and
radical republican publications this paper examines the changing nature of
the Irish 'internationalist' perspective during and after the war -
interrogating the impact of the policy of neutrality, wartime censorship and
the growing cold war climate in Irish cultural politics.
Keywords: Ireland; India; Second World War; neutrality; censorship;
internationalism

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WHY ARE IRISH ATTITUDES TO IMMIGRANTS AMONG THE MOST LIBERAL IN
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WHY ARE IRISH ATTITUDES TO IMMIGRANTS AMONG THE MOST LIBERAL IN EUROPE?

Testing structural determinants in a comparative context

Author: Tom Turner a (Show Biography)
Affiliation: a Department of Personnel and Employment Relations, Kemmy
Business School, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

Published in: European Societies
First Published on: 20 October 2009
Subjects: European Studies; Social Theory;

Abstract
There has been a dramatic inflow of immigrants into Ireland in recent years.
Yet recent European Social Surveys indicate that Irish attitudes towards
immigrants are among the most liberal in Europe. We test the association
between a number of economic and cultural measures and attitudes to
immigrants at the aggregate national level. Although Ireland fits the
expected association and in the predicted direction the most notable feature
of our results is the lack of a clear pattern between these measures and
attitudes to immigrants across the European countries in the sample.
Keywords: Irish attitudes; immigrants; structural determinants; European
comparison

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Paying for Peace: Comparing the EU's Role in the Conflicts in
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Paying for Peace: Comparing the EU's Role in the Conflicts in Northern
Ireland and Kosovo

Author: James Hughes a
Affiliation: a London School of Economics, UK

Published in: Ethnopolitics
Subjects: Civil Wars & Ethnic Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Ethnicity;
Nationalism;
Previously published as: Global Review of Ethnopolitics (1471-8804) until
2005

Abstract
The conflicts in Northern Ireland and Kosovo are among the most important
recent conflicts in Europe for the EU's ambition to develop a role and
capacity in conflict management. The EU has frequently presented Northern
Ireland as a 'model' for conflict management, but it is not clear what the
substantive elements of the model are, or whether lessons have been
transferred to other cases such as Kosovo. The EU's role in both conflicts
is analysed, in particular as regards the impact of its immense funding on
peace-building and reconciliation, and how EU capacity in this policy field
has developed over the last decade. The tensions and contradictions in EU
policy are illustrated in both cases. The article concludes that core
features of the model of political accommodation in Northern Ireland are the
nature of the consociational institutions, the virtual absence of
transitional justice, and the policy acceptance of the segregated social
structures. Such lessons are not easily compatible with EU declaratory
policy on conflict management.

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on Thursday 26 November 2009 5.00=E2=80=93 6.30 p.m.
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TOC already distributed. More detail here...


Savings banks, famine and financial contagion: Ireland in the 1840s and
1850s
Author: O Gr=E1da, Cormac .
Source: Irish Economic and Social History, Volume 36, Number 1, December
2009 , pp. 21-36(16)
Publisher: Manchester University Press

Abstract:
An unusually full set of records for the Thurles Savings Bank, =
established
in 1829, permits a case study of the role of such savings banks in
nineteenth-century Ireland. As elsewhere, but to an even greater extent, =
the
bank's deposits came from the relatively well off rather than from the
poorer classes it ostensibly served. This helps to explain why the =
crisis
that affected the bank in 1848 had little directly to do with the Great
Famine, but instead arose from the panic induced by the failure through
fraud of three savings banks in other parts of Ireland. A second crisis =
in
1856 likewise reflected financial contagion, this time arising from the
failure of Sadleir's bank. Overall, however, the weakness of the Irish
savings bank movement was clearly connected to the underlying weakness =
of
the economy.
Keywords: savings; banking; poverty; Famine; Sadleir; fraud

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Daniel Chambers Macreight FRCP, FLS (1799-1856), a little-known, innovative
Irish botanist
E. CHARLES NELSON
Tippitiwitchet Cottage, Hall Road, Outwell, Wisbech PE14 8PE, Norfolk.

Citation Information. Archives of natural history. Volume 36, Page 26-36 DOI
10.3366/E0260954108000594, ISSN 0260-9541, Available Online April 2009 .

Biographical information is provided for Daniel Chambers Macreight. He
worked in Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle's herbarium at Geneva during the
early 1830s, and later in the decade was prominent in medico-botanical
circles in London. Macreight retired in 1840, due to ill-health, and moved
to Jersey in the Channel Islands where he died. In 1837, he published an
innovative Manual of the British flora which covered both native and
cultivated plants. This flora contained two novel features: dichotomous keys
were provided to assist students to identify plants, and the category
subspecies was employed for taxa within the genera Rosa, Rubus and Salix.

Keywords. Rosa, Rubus, Salix, subspecies, dichotomous keys, Candolle

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Subject: RTE Prime Time special on the resumption of emigration
From: "MacEinri, Piaras"
To: "The Irish Diaspora Studies List"

http://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/ (should be accessible from anywhere =
but you may have to search by date if accessed later)

Feel free to disagree with any views expressed!

Piaras


Prime Time
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Presented by Miriam O'Callaghan

Prime Time Special: Emigration
Keelin Shanley reports on the sadness, loneliness and loss that is often the
story of emigration from our shores

Billy Kelleher, Minister of State at the Dept of Enterprise, Prof Diarmaid
Ferriter, UCD School of History and Archives, Piaras Mac Einri, Migration
Studies, Department of Geography, UCC, and Siobhan Lyons, Executive
Director, Irish Immigration Centre, Philadelphia discuss the emigraton of
Irish people...

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Katherine Philips in Ireland
Author: gray, catharine1

Source: English Literary Renaissance, Volume 39, Number 3, Autumn 2009 , =
pp.
557-585(29)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

Abstract:
This essay argues that Philips' translation of Corneille's La Mort de =
Pomp=E9e
emerged as part of a complex, cross-cultural network of allegiance and
competition that centered on the English court but stretched across the
English Channel and Irish Sea. Harping in particular on the play's =
Dublin
production and reception, Philips' Pompey and its commendatory matter
present the Restoration Anglo-Irish elite as displaced but renewed =
exemplars
of continental culture and courtly Englishness. In doing so, they cast =
women
as bearers of court values that bind together cross-kingdom ruling blocs =
in
the aftermath of violent civil war and in the context of a restored,
multi-kingdom monarchy. (C.G.)

First Paragraph

Praising Katherine Philips' 1663 English translation of Pierre =
Corneille's
French tragedy, La Mort de Pomp=E9e, the Earl of Orrery argues that if
Corneille could read Philips' version, "he like us would call, / The =
Copy
greater then th' Original."1 Orrery's compliment is not just a testimony =
to
Philips' skill as a translator, but hints at the political and cultural =
work
her play performs in its context. For Orrery was a powerful member of =
the
Anglo-Irish elite and although Philips was born and spent most of her =
life
in England and Wales, she wrote much of her translation during a visit =
to
Dublin, where it was also first performed and published. Both the themes =
of
the translation and its commendatory poems emphasize her work's =
generation
in a complex context of cross-cultural allegiance and competition, one =
that
situates Philips and her Dublin patrons in a broad and elevated network =
of
artistic production. Carried out while a group of court wits worked to
translate the same play in London, Philips' version participated in a =
vogue
for French heroic drama emerging at the Restoration court of Charles =
II=97but
from a distance. In its displaced setting, Philips' revisions to the =
French
original present the Restoration Anglo-Irish, who referred to themselves =
as
the "English of Ireland," as copies who are greater than their =
originals:
Englishmen whose location in Ireland signals not their "degeneration" =
into
foreign Catholic ways, nor even their hybridity, but their status as
displaced but renewed exemplars of Continental culture and courtly
Englishness.2 In doing so, it casts women as bearers of court values =
that
bind together cross-kingdom ruling blocs in the aftermath of violent =
civil
war and in the context of a restored, multi-kingdom monarchy.

Ireland was crucial to the development of Philips' career...

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This article has turned up in our alerts because of its use of Colonel
Thursday's opinions of the Irish. It is an interesting, well argued article
- though it reads like a chapter from, maybe, a forthcoming book - which
plays USA labour history against cinematic representations of the USA. The
author, Graham Cassano, lists amongst his sources 2 articles he has written
about John Ford.


Race-Making and the Garrison State

Graham Cassano
Oakland University, Michigan, USA, cassano[at]oakland.edu

This essay explores the implications of Paul Massing's findings that CIO
union members were slightly more resistant to authoritarianism than AFL
affiliated unionists. I begin by sketching the contours of the different
forms of union consciousness produced by the AFL's craft unionism and the
CIO's industrial unionism. Then, paying special attention to the 'ethnic'
constituency of CIO unions, I argue that the CIO offered a particularly
egalitarian vision of union democracy, at least until the onset of World War
II. In the second half of the essay, I examine cinematic representations of
race and the manner in which those representations corresponded to a
changing racial consciousness among American workers. I end with a
discussion of the contours of Cold War unionism, the decline of union
democracy as a result of the wartime 'no-strike' pledge and Taft-Hartley,
and the manner in which the American union movement displaced exploitation
onto a racialized 'Third World' work force.

Key Words: cinema . CIO . race . union consciousness . whiteness


Critical Sociology, Vol. 35, No. 5, 649-656 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0896920509337612

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As a point of interest, I introduced in 1991 Katherine ('the Matchless
Orinda') Philips's Irish connections in a first-ever assessment of Philips's
strategic uses of literary and political ties (mostly via highly-placed men)
in London, Cardigan, and Dublin, the dynamic cross-cultural hub of her
career evolution; see my ground-breaking essay: "A Feminist Link in the Old
Boys' Network: The Cosseting of Katherine Philips", in Curtain Calls:
British and American Women and the Theatre, 1660-1820, eds. Schofield &
Macheski (Ohio UP, 1991), pp 71-104, 4 images. I am delighted to see further
work on this subject, with now a dedicated focus on Philips and Dublin. One
of Philips's many promoters, the masked poet or poetess, "Philo-Philippa",
was evidently Irish, as hinted in 'Philo's encomium, "To the Excellent
Orinda", published as one of several commendatory verses prefixed to the
posthumous folio, Poems by the Most Deservedly Admired Mrs. Katherine
Philips, The Matchless Orinda, ed. Sir Charles Cotterell (London:
Herringman, 1667; with engraved frontis by Wm Faithorne of Philips depicted
iconically, on a plinth and in Greco-Roman costume & hairstyle, as 'Orinda',
London's 'Sappho'; see link, below). My collection includes a copy of this
rare & lovely volume, purchased from Waterfield Rare Books, Oxford, late
1980s. With pleasure and interest, I'll soon be accessing Catharine Gray's
essay on this important subject. My compliments to her for continuing this
line of research in Philips studies.

MEM
_____


Maureen E. Mulvihill, PhD
Scholar & Writer, Princeton Research Forum, NJ.
http://marauder.millersville.edu/~resound/ephelia/
See 'List of Images' for Faithorne's frontis of Philips.


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Forwarded on behalf of ACIS...

*****This is an automated message from the American Conference for Irish
Studies*****

Thank you to those who have already submitted proposals for panels and
individual papers. Dr Turner reports that proposals have been steadily
arriving, from a wide range of disciplines.

The deadline for conference paper proposals is November 24. Here is the
CFP:

The 2010 national meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies will
be held on 5 - 8 May 2010 at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel in
State College, PA. There will be an opening reception on Wednesday evening,
May 5th, and concurrent panels will begin on Thursday morning, May 6th. The
announced theme is intended to encourage a broad range of paper topics.
Papers are welcome on any Irish Studies topic, including traditional
concerns of the discipline and evolving areas of interest in the visual,
literary, and interdisciplinary areas. We welcome proposals for individual
papers, which, if accepted, will be placed within a relevant panel.
Proposals for panels are especially welcome, and panels have been proposed
on Reassessing Diasporic Studies within Irish Studies and Reassessing Irish
Historiography. Additional papers are welcome on such topics as evolving
literary and visual arts movements, the culture and literature of Northern
Ireland, and other related topics. Plenary speakers confirmed to date are
Dean John Harrington (Fordham University) and Dr. James Smith (Boston
College). Moya Cannon will be reading from her poetry at a special session.
U.S carriers offer frequent flights to State College, PA. Further details
will be posted as they become available. A conference website is also under
development. Due Date for Conference Paper Proposals: Tuesday, 24 November
2009. Please send your 250 word (or less) abstract to Dr. Tramble T. Turner
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The Liberal Peace at Home and Abroad: Northern Ireland and
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British Journal of Politics & International Relations
Volume 11 Issue 4, Pages 690 - 708

The Liberal Peace at Home and Abroad: Northern Ireland and Liberal
Internationalism
Roger Mac Ginty 1
1 School of International Relations, University of St Andrews, UK
KEYWORDS
liberal peace . peacemaking . Northern Ireland

ABSTRACT
Northern Ireland, we are told, holds positive lessons for other societies
emerging from violent conflict. As Britain is one of the leading proponents
of liberal internationalism, this article considers whether the liberal
internationalism pushed with so much enthusiasm abroad through British
foreign policy has been applied with diligence at home-in the Northern
Ireland peace process. The findings suggest that Northern Ireland is by no
means a poster child for liberal internationalism. Instead, British
government handling of the Northern Ireland peace process shows serious
deviations from the liberal internationalist canon. This article argues that
liberal peace-lite has been tolerated and facilitated at home, while a
stricter variant is often expected in overseas contexts.

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Irish Nationalist Opinion and the British Empire in the 1850s and
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Matthew Kelly
Irish Nationalist Opinion and the British Empire in the 1850s and 1860s
Past and Present, August 2009; 204: 127 - 154.=20

First Paragraph
Ireland's historical position within the British Empire has become a
contentious issue for historians, literary critics and commentators. The
debate has generated heated scholarly exchanges, exposing the =
fault-lines
that run through Irish studies. At one end of the spectrum of opinion, =
Terry
Eagleton has argued that =91there are ... two kinds of invisibility: one =
which
arises from absence, and the other from over-obtrusive presence=92.1 =
This
over-obtrusive presence, for Eagleton, is the colonial relationship =
between
Britain, the colonial power, and Ireland, the colony, a relationship =
which
makes it appropriate to consider Ireland's experiences as similar to
non-European colonies. Eagleton implies that so obviously did Ireland
comprise a colonized society of this sort that to argue otherwise must
reflect a wider agenda. Seamus Deane is less elliptical, relating the
dispute directly to the ideologies and mentalit=E9s underpinning the way =
Irish
history is written. =91The rhetoric of [historical] revisionism=92, he =
asserts,
=91obviously derives from the rhetoric of colonialism and =
imperialism=92.2
Whether this is symptomatic of historians=92 unreflexiveness, of their
incapacity to develop a consciousness of the discourses within which =
they
write, or whether their innate conservatism renders them collaborators =
with
colonialism, is not entirely clear.

Last Paragraph
Critical consideration of the imperial dimension of the Anglo-Irish
relationship by historians has been inhibited by its association with
post-colonialism, which has become a badge of belonging in Irish =
studies, a
new way of giving expression to its intense tribalism and something to
concede. This is not sufficient reason for historians to avoid =
confronting
the imperial dimension of the Union, exploring its incompleteness, its
confessionalism, and the ways its methods resembled imperial governing
practice elsewhere. If, as Joe Cleary suggests, a second generation of
scholars, influenced by post-colonialism's wide perspectives but not
confined by its over-theorized generalizations, are indeed being drawn
towards a more empirical approach, the gap between the =
=91revisionists=92 and
the =91post-colonialists=92 is likely to narrow, rendering each of these =
labels
untenable as markers of profound methodological difference.100 Either =
way,
to concede that the British=96Irish relationship had an imperial =
dimension is
not to discard the complexities of the past for the reductionism of
=91overarching paradigms=92 and =91dominant discourses=92; it is no more =
to adhere
to a parody of perfidious Albion than it is to admit the slander that
=91revisionist=92 historians were the agents of British power.101

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'AND THEN THERE WAS INDIA' -- Imagining India in Ireland in the
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There are two aspects of the Powell & Pressburger movie, Black Narcissus,
that I have never seen properly analysed - the first is David Farrar's
extraordinary shorts, and the second is the Anglo-Irish back story.

The back story is in the Rumer Godden novel, and could be added to the list
of ways in which English writers use Irish elements in their novels of
India.

Clair Wills uses the movie to begin a very detailed exploration of the ways
in which Ireland lost interest in India - even Peadar O'Donnell...

P.O'S.


Wills, Clair. "'AND THEN THERE WAS INDIA' -- Imagining India in Ireland in
the 1940s." Media History, 2009, 15(4), pp. 423-437.

This paper analyses the impact of the Second World War and its aftermath on
Irish attitudes towards India. Sustained Irish engagement with Indian
affairs seems to decrease markedly during the 1940s - especially in contrast
to the years of the League Against Imperialism, or the revolutionary years
1916-23. By the middle of the war, and certainly by 1947, analogies between
Irish and Indian political struggles and Commonwealth solutions were a
regular feature of British diplomatic discourse, and of some Indian
political discourse, but have faded from Irish debates. Analysing Irish
parliamentary debates, mainstream newspapers, intellectual journals and
radical republican publications this paper examines the changing nature of
the Irish 'internationalist' perspective during and after the war -
interrogating the impact of the policy of neutrality, wartime censorship and
the growing cold war climate in Irish cultural politics.

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*Dear Paddy,* *May I trouble you to circulate this call for papers by =
means
of your list serve?* *Many thanks,* *Brian* =20

CALL FOR PAPERS

:

*Saints, Sinners, and Scribes in the Celtic World *

**

*2010 National Meeting *

**

*Celtic Studies Association of North America*
*

University of Notre Dame

9-11 April 2010*

**

The Celtic Studies Association of North America (CSANA) embraces all =
aspects
of Celtic Studies and provides an academic and scholarly forum =
unavailable
in any other discipline. The 2010 CSANA Annual Meeting convenes at the
University of Notre Dame to discuss papers related to the conference =
theme:
=91Saints, Sinners and Scribes in the Celtic World.=92 We invite =
proposals from
faculty and graduate students in particular for individual 20 minute =
papers
that address the conference theme or any aspect of the languages,
literature, history, folklore, music, art and archaeology of ancient,
medieval and modern Celtic cultures. Potential presenters should send a
200-250 word abstract suitable for reproduction, plus a brief =
biographical
sketch (one-half page max., not a full CV) before 1 February 2010 to:
csana2010[at]gmail.com

*Keynote speakers*:
Catherine McKenna (Harvard University)
M=E1ir=EDn Nic Eoin (St Patrick's College, Drumcondra)
Edgar Slotkin (University of Cincinnati)
Dan M. Wiley (Southern Illinois University Carbondale)

*2010 Seminar Text*: *The Dream of the Emperor Macsen / Breudwyt Maxen
Wledic*
*Seminar Leader*: Joseph Nagy (UCLA)

*Graduate Award*: Graduate students are encouraged to present at the
conference and the 2010 CSANA Graduate Prize will be awarded to the best
graduate paper presented at the conference (CSANA membership =
required).For
further information on joining CSANA, see
http://www.csub.edu/~cmacquarrie/csana/
*

Schedule and further details: http://www.nd.edu/~irishstu/CSANA.html

Registration fee: $35 (faculty), $20 (graduate students), Optional =
banquet
$40
You may register online at: http://cce.nd.edu/attend.shtml
*

**

*Conference Organizer*: Brian =D3 Conchubhair,
Dept. of Irish Language & Literature, 412 Flanner Hall, University of =
Notre
Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
Tel: 1-574-631-1721, Fax: 574-631-3620

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Subject: Book Notice,
JG Farrell in in His Own Words: Selected Letters and Diaries
Edited by Lavinia Greacen
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JG Farrell in His Own Words: Selected Letters and Diaries Edited by =
Lavinia Greacen

The novelist J.G. Farrell =E2=80=93 known to his friends as Jim =
=E2=80=93 was drowned on August 11, 1979 when he was swept off rocks by =
a sudden storm while fishing in the West of Ireland. He was in his early =
forties. =E2=80=9CHad he not sadly died so young,=E2=80=9D remarked =
Salman Rushdie in 2008, =E2=80=9Cthere is no question that he would =
today be one of the really major novelists of the English language. The =
three novels that he did leave are all in their different way =
extraordinary.=E2=80=9D

October 2009 ISBN 978-185918-428-8, =E2=82=AC39, =C2=A335, $50 Hbk, 234 =
x 156mm, 478pp

Foreword by John Banville


The Siege of Krishnapur, the second of Farrell=E2=80=99s Empire Trilogy, =
won the Booker Prize in 1973, and it was selected as one of only six =
previous winners to compete in the 2008 international =E2=80=98Best of =
Booker=E2=80=99 competition. The strength of American interest in =
Farrell=E2=80=99s books is underlined by the inclusion of all three =
Trilogy novels in the Classics imprint of the New York Review of Books.

Many of these selected letters are written to women whom Jim Farrell =
loved and whom he inadvertently hurt. His ambition to be a great writer =
in an age of minimal author=E2=80=99s earnings ruled out the expense of =
marriage and fatherhood, so self-sufficiency was his answer. Books =
Ireland has astutely portrayed him as =E2=80=98a mystery wrapped in an =
enigma, a man who wanted solitude and yet did not want it, wanted love =
but feared commitment, reached out again and again but, possibly through =
fear of rejection, was always the first to cut the cord.=E2=80=99 But =
Farrell=E2=80=99s kindness, deft humour and gift for friendship reached =
across rejection, which must account for why so many such letters were =
kept.

Funny, teasing, anxious and ambitious, these previously unpublished =
letters to a wide range of friends give the reader a glimpse of this =
private man. Ranging from childhood to the day before his death, =
Farrell=E2=80=99s distinctive letters have the impact of autobiography.


Lavinia Greacen is author of Chink: a Biography (Macmillan, 1990) and =
J.G. Farrell, the Making of a Writer (Bloomsbury, 1999)

More information at www.corkuniversitypress.com
Mike Collins
Publications Director
Cork University Press/Attic Press
Youngline Industrial Estate
Pouladuff Road, Togher
Cork, Ireland
Tel: + 353 (0)21 4902980
Fax: + 353 (0)21 4315329
http://www.corkuniversitypress.com
My blogs: http://www.corkuniversitypress.org

The Cork University Press helps to nurture the distinctiveness of local, =
regional and national cultures and extends the reach of UCC to national =
and international communities making evident the University=E2=80=99s =
commitment to the broad dissemination of knowledge and ideas.

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=20
A small, perhaps pedantic point: was not Farrell swept off rocks and
tragically drowned in West Cork, not the West of Ireland ?=20
=20
David=20


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Subject: [IR-D] Book Notice, JG Farrell in in His Own Words: Selected
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JG Farrell in His Own Words: Selected Letters and Diaries Edited by Lavin=
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Greacen=20
=20
The novelist J.G. Farrell =96 known to his friends as Jim =96 was drowned=
on August 11, 1979 when he was swept off rocks by a sudden storm while f=
ishing in the West of Ireland.=20

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Irish-language paper goes national

By Grainne Cunningham
Monday November 16 2009

FLUENT Irish speakers and those with the cupla focal can now read 'Foinse',
the country's biggest Irish language newspaper, for free with their Irish
Independent every Wednesday.

The newly revitalised 'Foinse' is to be distributed every week from this
Wednesday, ensuring it reaches more than 150,000 people through the Irish
Independent, the largest selling national quality daily in Ireland.

Editor Emer Ni Cheidigh said she was "delighted" that 'Foinse' will, for the
first time, be able to achieve a national readership on a scale well beyond
what it had been able to achieve in the past.

"This is the first time in the history of Irish language newspapers that we
will be able to reach this amount of people. When we finished last June, we
had a circulation of 4,500. Reaching this number of people is huge for us,"
she said.

'Foinse', which is based in the Connemara Gaeltacht, was forced to cease
publication in June after advertising income plummeted 75pc.

The new 'Foinse' has been enhanced to give it a fresh and contemporary view
of Ireland, the Irish language and culture. In its first edition this week,
readers will be able to review fashion tips from 'Paisean Faisean' presenter
Blathnaid Ni Dhonnchadha, a blog from international track-and-field athlete
David Gillick and an insight into the Lions Tour from travel guru Hector O
hEochagain.

Alongside weekly contributions from presenter Daithi O Se, MP O Conaola and
Gemma Ni Chionnaith, people with practically no Irish at all can improve
their word power 'as Gaeilge' with a special section called 'Cupla Focal'.

"There is a fear towards Irish and some people may feel they are not good
enough to buy an Irish language publication. Now that it is more accessible,
people may realise they are more competent than they expected," Ms Ni
Cheidigh said.

School teachers and students can continue to turn to the regular pages aimed
at those sitting their Leaving Certificate.

But the 'Foinse sa Rang' section has been extended to seven pages of
attractively presented learning tools and texts which include articles
intended as a resource for primary school students.

Ms Ni Cheidigh said: "The new 'Foinse' remains a stand-alone publication and
all editorial control continues to remain with the publication and company."

The refreshed 'Foinse' publication will employ five full-time staff and
utilise a network of correspondents, contributors and services.

- Grainne Cunningham

Irish Independent

SOURCE
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/irishlanguage-paper-goes-national-19
44406.html

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Will "Foinse" disseminate the INDEPENDENT's right-wing, arch-revisionist vi=
ewpoint in Irish?


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e:

Irish-language paper goes national

By Grainne Cunningham
Monday November 16 2009

FLUENT Irish speakers and those with the cupla focal can now read 'Foinse',
the country's biggest Irish language newspaper, for free with their Irish
Independent every Wednesday.

The newly revitalised 'Foinse' is to be distributed every week from this
Wednesday, ensuring it reaches more than 150,000 people through the Irish
Independent, the largest selling national quality daily in Ireland.

Editor Emer Ni Cheidigh said she was "delighted" that 'Foinse' will, for th=
e
first time, be able to achieve a national readership on a scale well beyond
what it had been able to achieve in the past.

"This is the first time in the history of Irish language newspapers that we
will be able to reach this amount of people. When we finished last June, we
had a circulation of 4,500. Reaching this number of people is huge for us,"
she said.

'Foinse', which is based in the Connemara Gaeltacht, was forced to cease
publication in June after advertising income plummeted 75pc.

The new 'Foinse' has been enhanced to give it a fresh and contemporary view
of Ireland, the Irish language and culture. In its first edition this week,
readers will be able to review fashion tips from 'Paisean Faisean' presente=
r
Blathnaid Ni Dhonnchadha, a blog from international track-and-field athlete
David Gillick and an insight into the Lions Tour from travel guru Hector O
hEochagain.

Alongside weekly contributions from presenter Daithi O Se, MP O Conaola and
Gemma Ni Chionnaith, people with practically no Irish at all can improve
their word power 'as Gaeilge' with a special section called 'Cupla Focal'.

"There is a fear towards Irish and some people may feel they are not good
enough to buy an Irish language publication. Now that it is more accessible=
,
people may realise they are more competent than they expected," Ms Ni
Cheidigh said.

School teachers and students can continue to turn to the regular pages aime=
d
at those sitting their Leaving Certificate.

But the 'Foinse sa Rang' section has been extended to seven pages of
attractively presented learning tools and texts which include articles
intended as a resource for primary school students.

Ms Ni Cheidigh said: "The new 'Foinse' remains a stand-alone publication an=
d
all editorial control continues to remain with the publication and company.=
"

The refreshed 'Foinse' publication will employ five full-time staff and
utilise a network of correspondents, contributors and services.

- Grainne Cunningham

Irish Independent

SOURCE
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/irishlanguage-paper-goes-national-1=
9
44406.html