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Doegen Records Web Project Goes Online

The Royal Irish Academy Library in collaboration with the Digital =
Humanities
Observatory is proud to announce the launch of the Doegen Records Web
Project web site
http://dho.ie/doegen/

This digital archive of recordings in Irish-language dialects, made =
during
1928-31, comprises an important collection of stories, songs and other
material. The collection includes 137 Gaelic speakers from 17 counties. =
This
initial edition of the web site provides digitized versions of =
recordings
originally produced on shellac records. These audio files will be
supplemented by transcriptions and translations of the recordings,
information on the people recorded, and other related content as it =
becomes
available, enhancing an already rich resource.

The Doegen Records Web Project offers a unique opportunity for =
linguists,
social historians, anthropological researchers, educators, =
musicologists,
genealogists, local communities, and anyone interested in Ireland's =
cultural
heritage. The materials provide a fascinating and priceless legacy of =
many
now extinct Irish-language dialects. Users can browse and listen to =
these
recordings and appreciate the spoken record of the early twentieth =
century
in rural Ireland.

The web site is located at http://dho.ie/doegen/. It is fully bilingual,
with both English and
Irish language versions. It marks the =
first
publication on the web of a collection of e-resources using the DHO =
digital
repository. Additional projects will be published throughout the coming
year. Also in development is a portal to discover and use humanities
e-resources across collections.

The Doegen Records Web Project is funded by the Higher Education =
Authority
(PRTLI Cycle 4).

For more information on this project contact: Dr Eoghan =D3 Raghallaigh =
at
e.oraghallaigh[at]ria.ie


--- Shawn Day
--- Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA),
--- Regus Pembroke House, 28 - 30 Pembroke Street Upper, Dublin 2 =
IRELAND
--- 53.335373,-6.254219
--- Tel: +353 1 2342441
--- shawn[at]shawnday.com
--- http://dho.ie

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Subject: Call for nominations: 2009 ACIS Dalsimer Prize for a
Distiguished Dissertation
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Subject: Call for nominations: ACIS Dalsimer Prize for a Distiguished
Dissertation

Call for Submissions

The American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) invites submissions for the
ADELE DALSIMER PRIZE FOR A DISTINGUISHED DISSERTATION to be presented at
the annual ACIS meeting, held at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel in
State College, PA in May 2010. Any dissertation dated 2009, on any topic
related to Irish Studies, is eligible to be considered.

The award carries a $500 cash prize.

Please submit a hard copy or PDF file of the dissertation to each of the
prize committee members before February 1, 2010. The winner will be
notified well in advance of the national meeting.

Committee:

Dr Thomas Finan (chair)
Assistant Professor of History
Director, Center for International Studies
St. Louis University
3800 Lindell Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63108
E-mail: finantj[at]slu.edu


Dr Jill Franks
Professor of English
Austin Peay State University
Harned Hall, Room 115
P.O. Box 4487
Clarksville, TN 37044

E-mail: franksj[at]apsu.edu


Dr. Troy Davis
Chair, Department of History
Stephen F. Austin University
1936 North Street
Nacogdoches, TX 75692

E-mail: tdavis[at]sfasu.edu


The prize is named for the late Dr. Adele Dalsimer of Boston College, a
prominent Irish Studies scholar and active member of the ACIS, who died in
2000.

Previous winners are Richard L.Jordan, Louisiana State University; Nicholas
Wolf, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Alison Dean Harvey, UCLA; Douglas
Kanter, Florida Atlantic University; Audrey Scanlan-Teller, University of
Delaware; Sarah McKibben, Cornell University; Cara Delay, Brandeis
University; Robert Doggett, University of Maryland; and Ben Novick, Oxford
University.

The American Conference for Irish Studies is a multidisciplinary scholarly
organization with members in the United States, Ireland, Canada, and other
countries around the world. For more information, see the ACIS web site at
http://www.acisweb.com/index.php

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Subject: PhD-seminar in Irish Studies,
"Fins de si=?utf-8?Q?=C3=A8cles=22=3A_?= developments in Irish
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PhD-seminar in Irish Studies
"Fins de si=C3=A8cles": developments in Irish culture, literature and =
society from the 1890s to the 1990s
Leuven, 6-10 September 2010

This is the first of a series of two-yearly doctoral seminars which the =
Leuven Centre for Irish Studies of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven =
will organise in collaboration with EFACIS and with the Leuven Institute =
for Ireland in Europe.=20

The aim of this seminar is to give PhD students in Irish Studies from =
different European countries the opportunity=20
=E2=80=A2 to present their research
=E2=80=A2 to receive feedback from established scholars and other =
students from a wide variety of backgrounds=20
=E2=80=A2 to improve their methodological skills
=E2=80=A2 to deepen their knowledge of the different aspects of Irish =
culture, history and society
=E2=80=A2 to encourage the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and =
insights within the broad field of Irish Studies.=20

The programme consists of=20
=E2=80=A2 lectures by invited keynote speakers
=E2=80=A2 theoretical-methodological seminars which discuss the state of =
a given field or methodological/theoretical approach on the basis of =
selected texts=20
=E2=80=A2 student papers: presentation of participants' research =
projects followed by discussion
=E2=80=A2 tutorials: individual discussions of participants' research =
with participating scholars

The programme is built around a central theme so as to ensure coherence =
and facilitate the exchange of ideas across the different disciplines. =
The 2010 theme will be the developments in Irish culture, literature and =
society from one fin-de-si=C3=A8cle (the 1890s) to the next (1990s). In =
the course of this =E2=80=98long=E2=80=99 century, Ireland saw =
considerable changes in terms of politics, religion, economics and =
social organisation as well as in the different domains of its culture. =
We therefore invite those students whose doctoral research investigates =
an aspect of these developments to participate in this PhD-seminar. =
Keynote speakers for the 2010 seminar are Dominic Bryan, Wesley =
Hutchinson, Margaret Kelleher, John Kelly, Gerardine Meaney and Tina =
O'Toole.=20

Students can apply by submitting a CV and a description of their =
research project to the organisers before the 10th of December 2009. The =
number of participants is limited to 25.=20
The registration fee for this seminar is 200=E2=82=AC. This sum includes =
participation in the seminars and lectures, accommodation in twin rooms =
in the beautifully refurbished Irish college in Leuven, registration as =
K.U.Leuven visiting scholar with access to library and computer =
facilities, and insurance. Participants have to be a member of EFACIS. =
PhD students with limited funding can submit a motivated application =
for a reduction of the registration fee.=20
For applications and further information, please contact Elke D'hoker =
(elke.dhoker[at]arts.kuleuven.be).

http://www.irishstudies.be/ =
http://www.louvaininstitute.com/http://www.efacis.org/

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Subject: AFC Lecture: Irish and Jewish Influences on the Music of Vaudeville
and Tin Pan Alley
From: "Jo Rasi, AFC Programs & Events"
Date: November 19, 2009 2:47:29 PM EST

The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress presents a lecture
in the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture Series

December 1, 2009, 12:00 Noon - 1:00 p.m., Whittall Pavilion, Thomas
Jefferson Building

If It Wasn't for the Irish and the Jews: Irish and Jewish Influences on the
Music of Vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley

presented by Mick Moloney, Global Distinguished Professor of Music, New York
University

Mick Moloney's illustrated talk on Jewish and Irish collaborations in
vaudeville and early Tin Pan Alley explores a fascinating, though largely
forgotten, era in American popular culture. In vaudeville's heyday between
1880 and 1920, Irish/Jewish collaborations on stage were commonplace. They
were attended by all sorts of interesting identity ambiguities. For example,
the famous Norah Bayes, who had a huge hit with the Ziegfeld Follies with
"Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly," was actually Norah Goldberg; she changed her
name partly to appeal to the huge Irish-American urban audience. One of her
five husbands was Jack Norworth, who wrote "Shine on Harvest Moon" with
Norah, and also the huge hit "Take Me Out to the Ball Game." He also wrote
many Irish songs. William Jerome and Jean Schwartz were one of the most
famous songwriting duos in early Tin Pan Alley. They wrote "My Irish Molly
O" which ended up being a number one hit in Ireland in the 1980s, and they
also wrote "If It Wasn't for the Irish and the Jews," which was recorded by
the legendary Billy Murray in 1912 and became a nationwide hit. Jerome was
actually William Flannery from County Tipperary, but changed his name when
he saw the songwriting business switching from Irish to Jewish. Dubin,
O'Brien and Cormack wrote "'Twas Only an Irishman's Dream," one of the big
favorites of early 20th century American tenors. The term Tin Pan Alley was
actually invented by a Jewish songwriter named Monroe Rosenfeld, who wrote
several Irish songs including "I'll Paralyze the Man who Says McGinty," a
parody of the 1890s hit song "Down Went McGinty," written by Irish American
songwriter Joseph Flynn. And, of course, there was George M Cohan. He was
Irish-American, but many people thought he was Jewish because of his name.
His story culminated in an absolutely amazing American success story which
saw the 'Keohane' family move from destitute famine immigrants to center
stage glory and riches on the Great White Way.

Mick Moloney's presentation, rich with biographical details and period and
contemporary recordings, is a charming story of decades of good natured
inter-ethnic flux, competition and cooperation which left a lasting imprint
on the history of American popular music.

For more information, visit www.loc.gov/folklife (link to the lecture will
be active shortly) or call the American Folklife Center at 202-707-5510.

Mick Moloney is an internationally renowned performer and scholar in the
field of Irish traditional music. He has recorded and produced over forty
albums of traditional music, and acted as advisor for scores of festivals
and concerts all over America. Mick also served as the artistic director for
several major arts tours including The Green Fields of America, an
NCTA-sponsored ensemble of Irish musicians, singers and dancers which toured
across the United States.
Mick is the author of Far From the Shamrock Shore: The story of Irish
American History Through Song, released by Crown Publications in February of
2002 with an accompanying CD on Shanachie Records. He has hosted three
nationally syndicated series of folk music on American Public Television;
was a consultant, performer and interviewee on the Irish Television special
Bringing It All Back Home; a participant, consultant and music arranger of
the PBS documentary film Out of Ireland; and a performer on the PBS special
The Irish in America: Long Journey Home. In 1999, he was awarded a National
Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts - the highest
official honor a traditional artist can receive in the United States.

Mick holds a Ph.D. in folklore and folklife from the University of
Pennsylvania. He has taught ethnomusicology, folklore and Irish studies
courses at the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown, and Villanova
Universities, and currently teaches at New York University in the Irish
Studies program.

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From: "Paul Brendan O'Leary [ppo]"
To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:45:55 +0000
Subject: RE: [IR-D] Is the history of Wales really as boring as it seems?
Thread-Topic: [IR-D] Is the history of Wales really as boring as it seems?

The series Liam refers to was innovative in a number of ways. Apart from th=
e fundamentally opposed on-screen interpretations of Welsh history provided=
by the two presenters, the TV company (HTV) organised viewers' groups all =
over the country to debate the series and brought them together in a confer=
ence at the end to interrogate the producers and presenters. They also prod=
uced five themed source packs of historical documents, which I still have. =
One of these - on women's history - was a direct response to the criticism =
of the series that the experience of women had been marginalised. Gwyn A. W=
illiams, one of the presenters and a Marxist academic, produced a book of h=
is interpretation that was very influential at the time: When Was Wales? A =
History of the Welsh (1985). The experience showed how TV history could eng=
age people in a creative way. The dominant trend today seems to chime with =
the idea of history as a commodity to be consumed in a more or less passive=
way.

Paul




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f Of Liam Greenslade Academic
Sent: 21 November 2009 13:55
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [IR-D] Is the history of Wales really as boring as it seems?

This thread reminded me of a fascinating Channel 4 TV series from the=20
1980s (?) called The Dragon Has 2 Tongues in which Glyn Williams and=20
Wynford Vaughn Thomas debated Welsh history while striding about the=20
mountains and valleys. Their views were pretty much diametrically=20
opposed on most topics. For someone with little or no knowledge of Welsh=20
history it was an eye-opener and you can get a sense of it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ds4JsqC221eI

The dialogic approach taken was far superior to the monologic approach=20
taken by contemporary TV pop-history

Best

Liam

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Paddy, IR-D members may be interested to know that New York University's
Archives of Irish America has the Mick Moloney Collection of Irish-American
Music and Popular Culture. The finding aids for two series of this very
large collection can be found online at:

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/aia_moloney.2.html

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/aia_moloney.4.html

They are best viewed using a browser other than Internet Explorer.

Marion

Marion R. Casey
Glucksman Ireland House
Archives of Irish America, Bobst Library
New York University

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:32 AM, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:

> Subject: AFC Lecture: Irish and Jewish Influences on the Music of
> Vaudeville
> and Tin Pan Alley
> From: "Jo Rasi, AFC Programs & Events"
> Date: November 19, 2009 2:47:29 PM EST
>
> The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress presents a lecture
> in the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture Series
>
> December 1, 2009, 12:00 Noon - 1:00 p.m., Whittall Pavilion, Thomas
> Jefferson Building
>
> If It Wasn't for the Irish and the Jews: Irish and Jewish Influences on the
> Music of Vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley
>
> presented by Mick Moloney, Global Distinguished Professor of Music, New
> York
> University
>
> Mick Moloney's illustrated talk on Jewish and Irish collaborations in
> vaudeville and early Tin Pan Alley explores a fascinating, though largely
> forgotten, era in American popular culture. In vaudeville's heyday between
> 1880 and 1920, Irish/Jewish collaborations on stage were commonplace. They
> were attended by all sorts of interesting identity ambiguities. For
> example,
> the famous Norah Bayes, who had a huge hit with the Ziegfeld Follies with
> "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly," was actually Norah Goldberg; she changed her
> name partly to appeal to the huge Irish-American urban audience. One of her
> five husbands was Jack Norworth, who wrote "Shine on Harvest Moon" with
> Norah, and also the huge hit "Take Me Out to the Ball Game." He also wrote
> many Irish songs. William Jerome and Jean Schwartz were one of the most
> famous songwriting duos in early Tin Pan Alley. They wrote "My Irish Molly
> O" which ended up being a number one hit in Ireland in the 1980s, and they
> also wrote "If It Wasn't for the Irish and the Jews," which was recorded by
> the legendary Billy Murray in 1912 and became a nationwide hit. Jerome was
> actually William Flannery from County Tipperary, but changed his name when
> he saw the songwriting business switching from Irish to Jewish. Dubin,
> O'Brien and Cormack wrote "'Twas Only an Irishman's Dream," one of the big
> favorites of early 20th century American tenors. The term Tin Pan Alley was
> actually invented by a Jewish songwriter named Monroe Rosenfeld, who wrote
> several Irish songs including "I'll Paralyze the Man who Says McGinty," a
> parody of the 1890s hit song "Down Went McGinty," written by Irish American
> songwriter Joseph Flynn. And, of course, there was George M Cohan. He was
> Irish-American, but many people thought he was Jewish because of his name.
> His story culminated in an absolutely amazing American success story which
> saw the 'Keohane' family move from destitute famine immigrants to center
> stage glory and riches on the Great White Way.
>
> Mick Moloney's presentation, rich with biographical details and period and
> contemporary recordings, is a charming story of decades of good natured
> inter-ethnic flux, competition and cooperation which left a lasting imprint
> on the history of American popular music.
>
> For more information, visit www.loc.gov/folklife (link to the lecture will
> be active shortly) or call the American Folklife Center at 202-707-5510.
>
> Mick Moloney is an internationally renowned performer and scholar in the
> field of Irish traditional music. He has recorded and produced over forty
> albums of traditional music, and acted as advisor for scores of festivals
> and concerts all over America. Mick also served as the artistic director
> for
> several major arts tours including The Green Fields of America, an
> NCTA-sponsored ensemble of Irish musicians, singers and dancers which
> toured
> across the United States.
> Mick is the author of Far From the Shamrock Shore: The story of Irish
> American History Through Song, released by Crown Publications in February
> of
> 2002 with an accompanying CD on Shanachie Records. He has hosted three
> nationally syndicated series of folk music on American Public Television;
> was a consultant, performer and interviewee on the Irish Television special
> Bringing It All Back Home; a participant, consultant and music arranger of
> the PBS documentary film Out of Ireland; and a performer on the PBS special
> The Irish in America: Long Journey Home. In 1999, he was awarded a National
> Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts - the highest
> official honor a traditional artist can receive in the United States.
>
> Mick holds a Ph.D. in folklore and folklife from the University of
> Pennsylvania. He has taught ethnomusicology, folklore and Irish studies
> courses at the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown, and Villanova
> Universities, and currently teaches at New York University in the Irish
> Studies program.
>

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Paddy, IR-D members may be interested to know that=A0New York Universi=
ty's Archives of Irish America has the Mick Moloney Collection of Irish=
-American Music and Popular Culture.=A0 The finding aids for two series of =
this very large collection can be found online at:

=A0
http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/aia_moloney.2.html
=A0
http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/aia_moloney.4.html
=A0
They are best viewed using a browser other than Internet Explorer.
=A0
Marion
=A0
Marion R. Casey
Glucksman Ireland House
Archives of Irish America, Bobst Library
New York University
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:32 AM, Patrick O'S=
ullivan <P.OSullivan[at]bradford.ac.uk> wrote:
Subject: AFC Lecture: Irish and =
Jewish Influences on the Music of Vaudevilleand Tin Pan AlleyFrom: =
"Jo Rasi, AFC Programs & Events" <AFCprograms[at]jonahq.com>
Date: November 19, 2009 2:47:29 PM ESTThe American Folklife Center =
at the Library of Congress presents a lecturein the Benjamin Botkin Fol=
klife Lecture SeriesDecember 1, 2009, 12:00 Noon - 1:00 p.m., Whitt=
all Pavilion, Thomas
Jefferson BuildingIf It Wasn't for the Irish and the Jews: Iris=
h and Jewish Influences on theMusic of Vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley=
presented by Mick Moloney, Global Distinguished Professor of Music, New=
York
UniversityMick Moloney's illustrated talk on Jewish and Irish c=
ollaborations invaudeville and early Tin Pan Alley explores a fascinati=
ng, though largelyforgotten, era in American popular culture. =A0In vau=
deville's heyday between
1880 and 1920, Irish/Jewish collaborations on stage were commonplace. Theywere attended by all sorts of interesting identity ambiguities. For exam=
ple,the famous Norah Bayes, who had a huge hit with the Ziegfeld Follie=
s with
"Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly," was actually Norah Goldberg; she c=
hanged hername partly to appeal to the huge Irish-American urban audien=
ce. One of herfive husbands was Jack Norworth, who wrote "Shine on=
Harvest Moon" with
Norah, and also the huge hit "Take Me Out to the Ball Game." He a=
lso wrotemany Irish songs. William Jerome and Jean Schwartz were one of=
the mostfamous songwriting duos in early Tin Pan Alley. They wrote &qu=
ot;My Irish Molly
O" which ended up being a number one hit in Ireland in the 1980s, and =
theyalso wrote "If It Wasn't for the Irish and the Jews,"=
which was recorded bythe legendary Billy Murray in 1912 and became a n=
ationwide hit. Jerome was
actually William Flannery from County Tipperary, but changed his name whenhe saw the songwriting business switching from Irish to Jewish. Dubin,O'Brien and Cormack wrote "'Twas Only an Irishman's Drea=
m," one of the big
favorites of early 20th century American tenors. The term Tin Pan Alley was=
actually invented by a Jewish songwriter named Monroe Rosenfeld, who wr=
oteseveral Irish songs including "I'll Paralyze the Man who Sa=
ys McGinty," a
parody of the 1890s hit song "Down Went McGinty," written by Iris=
h Americansongwriter Joseph Flynn. =A0And, of course, there was George =
M Cohan. =A0He wasIrish-American, but many people thought he was Jewish=
because of his name.
His story culminated in an absolutely amazing American success story whichsaw the 'Keohane' family move from destitute famine immigrants t=
o centerstage glory and riches on the Great White Way.Mick Molo=
ney's presentation, rich with biographical details and period and
contemporary recordings, is a charming story of decades of good natured=
inter-ethnic flux, competition and cooperation which left a lasting imprint=
on the history of American popular music.For more information, =
visit www.loc.gov=
/folklife (link to the lecture will
be active shortly) or call the American Folklife Center at 202-707-5510.Mick Moloney is an internationally renowned performer and scholar in t=
hefield of Irish traditional music. =A0He has recorded and produced ove=
r forty
albums of traditional music, and acted as advisor for scores of festivalsand concerts all over America. Mick also served as the artistic director =
forseveral major arts tours including The Green Fields of America, an
NCTA-sponsored ensemble of Irish musicians, singers and dancers which toure=
dacross the United States.Mick is the author of Far From the Shamro=
ck Shore: The story of IrishAmerican History Through Song, released by =
Crown Publications in February of
2002 with an accompanying CD on Shanachie Records. =A0He has hosted threenationally syndicated series of folk music on American Public Television;=
was a consultant, performer and interviewee on the Irish Television spe=
cial
Bringing It All Back Home; a participant, consultant and music arranger ofthe PBS documentary film Out of Ireland; and a performer on the PBS spec=
ialThe Irish in America: Long Journey Home. In 1999, he was awarded a N=
ational
Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts - the highestofficial honor a traditional artist can receive in the United States.Mick holds a Ph.D. in folklore and folklife from the University of
Pennsylvania. He has taught ethnomusicology, folklore and Irish studies=
courses at the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown, and VillanovaUni=
versities, and currently teaches at New York University in the Irish
Studies program.

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national identity and social meaning: The example of Northern
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The latest issue of National Identities is now available - and as usual full
of interest. For example, an exploration of being Danish, and an
exploration of being Australian - one working through historiography the
other through theatre.

Two items of immediate interest will be distributed in the usual way...

P.O'S.


Religion, truth, national identity and social meaning: The example of
Northern Ireland

Author: James Dingley a
Affiliation: a University of Kurdistan, Hawler, Iraq

Published in: National Identities, Volume 11, Issue 4 December 2009 , pages
367 - 383
Subjects: Ethnic Identity; Historical Sociology; Nationalism; Social &
Cultural History; Social Geography;

Abstract
This article argues that national identity is closely bound up with
religion, which in turn is closely bound up with ideas of truth. Different
religions will form and transmit different ideas of truth, both moral and
cognitive, and transmit them and socialise their members in to holding them.
From this a socially exclusive group is formed, which becomes one basis for
a nation. This nation becomes morally and cognitively exclusive of
non-religious members since they will hold different truths and so cannot be
trusted, they cannot be 'loyal and true'. Ireland and Northern Ireland
provide a classic example of this, where Catholic and Protestant were the
mediums for transmitting Romantic or Enlightenment versions of the truth and
so provided a basis for opposed ideas of nation.

Keywords: religion; national identity; science; Northern Ireland

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Subject: Article,
Post-agreement societies and inter-ethnic competition:
Londonderry/Pretoria
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Post-agreement societies and inter-ethnic competition: A comparative study
of the Protestant community of Londonderry and the white population of
Pretoria

Author: Neil Southern a
Affiliation: a School of Education and Social Science, University of
Central Lancashire, Preston, UK

Published in: National Identities, Volume 11, Issue 4 December 2009 , pages
397 - 415
Subjects: Ethnic Identity; Historical Sociology; Nationalism; Social &
Cultural History; Social Geography;

Abstract
Northern Ireland and South Africa are societies in a process of transition.
The Good Friday Agreement of 1998 and the multi-racial elections in 1994
signified new eras in each country. Although successful in addressing the
problem of political violence, how effective have these settlements been at
the level of improving inter-ethnic relations and promoting the kind of
shared identity that can begin to transcend the twin problems of
sectarianism and racism? This article conducts a comparative examination of
two urban minority groups viz the Protestant community of Londonderry and
the white population of Pretoria. It uses the concept of 'alienation' as a
way of exploring concerns that have been voiced by these groups who feel
themselves to be culturally under threat. Notwithstanding these settlements,
the article highlights the continued importance of ethno-symbolism for
different groups and draws our attention to the nature of inter-ethnic
competition in the post-agreement period. In addition to pointing to the
durability of ethnic identity, it focuses on an issue that has the capacity
to ignite inter-ethnic and inter-racial dispute. Whilst the issue keeps the
ethnic fracture visible in Northern Ireland, it frustrates attempts at
nation-building in South Africa.

Keywords: Northern Ireland; South Africa; ethnic identity; Unionism;
Protestantism; ethno-symbolism

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First of all, apologies for the unneeded complexity around the message about
the ACIS Dalsimer Prize... I did things in the wrong order. Paddy, don't
try to do anything before the second cup of tea...

Now... We are finding we are having to make an increasing number of
interventions...

Two obvious problems...

1.
Unneeded complexity...

We try to keep the coding of Ir-D list messages as simple as possible - and
prefer to distribute and store only Plain Text email messages. Think of the
isolated Ir-D member at the end of an old modem, or with only a small amount
of email storage.

Email messages in HTML carry with themselves lots of background code, which
is really just clutter. We have no way of knowing how this code will
interact or display in different software systems or in archives. There
seem to be new problems with Windows 7 - I suspect that Windows 7 comes
supplied with complex HTML email templates which people are using without
thinking.

Please try to send only Plain Text emails to the Ir-D list. Our policy
generally is to step in and strip out HTML coding. Though sometimes we
might miss a bit.

Those Ir-D members who enjoy sending mimsy HTML emails - well, tough.

2.
The long tail...

Replies to Replies to Replies create a message which is unnecessarily long
and clumsy. Without quelling passion, perhaps people could have a think,
and look down the screen, and tidy up messages before sending them to Ir-D.

But, again, our policy is to step in and tidy up before sending the message
on to Ir-D.

In both cases we have to create a new Ir-D message, which will at first look
as if it comes from the current Ir-D moderator. But we retain the original
sender's name and email address in the first line of the new email.

P.O'S.

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If I may note it, how intriguing that the scholar writing on NI identity is
working for the University of Kurdistan! Presumably not actually Kurdish, but
it still seems a striking reversal of the familiar academic perspective.

Peter Hart

Quoting Patrick O'Sullivan :

> The latest issue of National Identities is now available - and as usual full
> of interest. For example, an exploration of being Danish, and an
> exploration of being Australian - one working through historiography the
> other through theatre.
>
> Two items of immediate interest will be distributed in the usual way...
>
> P.O'S.
>
>
> Religion, truth, national identity and social meaning: The example of
> Northern Ireland
>
> Author: James Dingley a
> Affiliation: a University of Kurdistan, Hawler, Iraq
>
> Published in: National Identities, Volume 11, Issue 4 December 2009 , pages
> 367 - 383
> Subjects: Ethnic Identity; Historical Sociology; Nationalism; Social &
> Cultural History; Social Geography;
>
> Abstract
> This article argues that national identity is closely bound up with
> religion, which in turn is closely bound up with ideas of truth. Different
> religions will form and transmit different ideas of truth, both moral and
> cognitive, and transmit them and socialise their members in to holding them.
> From this a socially exclusive group is formed, which becomes one basis for
> a nation. This nation becomes morally and cognitively exclusive of
> non-religious members since they will hold different truths and so cannot be
> trusted, they cannot be 'loyal and true'. Ireland and Northern Ireland
> provide a classic example of this, where Catholic and Protestant were the
> mediums for transmitting Romantic or Enlightenment versions of the truth and
> so provided a basis for opposed ideas of nation.
>
> Keywords: religion; national identity; science; Northern Ireland
>

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'A dense mass of petty accountability': Accounting in the service
of cultural imperialism during the Irish Famine, 1846-1847
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Another accounting history item has turned up in our alerts. Note that this
article has not yet been assigned a place in the paper version of the
journal.

P.O'S.

Accounting, Organizations and Society
Article in Press, Corrected Proof

'A dense mass of petty accountability': Accounting in the service of
cultural imperialism during the Irish Famine, 1846-1847

Philip O'Regan, a,

aDepartment of Accounting and Finance, Kemmy Business School, University of
Limerick, Ireland

Available online 11 November 2009.

Abstract

One response of the imperial government in London to the Irish Famine
(1845-1849) was to initiate a scheme of public works underpinned by relief
payments based on task work. This policy was informed by a determination to
improve the 'moral habits' of the native Irish in relation to work. To
support the data collection and control systems necessary to operate this
intervention, the imperial government recruited a large number of
accountants charged with introducing a vast accounting apparatus to Ireland.
The institutionalisation of accounting that this facilitated laid the basis
for interventions by the imperial power intended to 'civilise' the native
Gaelic population as well as recalcitrant Anglo-Irish landlords. This
intervention is considered within the context of concepts of governmentality
and cultural imperialism.

Article Outline

Introduction
Accounting and cultural imperialism during a period of crisis
'[T]he heart of a colossal organisation': accounting systems and task work
Discussion
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References

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The Musical Traditions of Northern Ireland and its Diaspora
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David Cooper
The Musical Traditions of Northern Ireland and its Diaspora
Community and Conflict

Imprint: Ashgate
Illustrations: Includes 8 figures, 15 tables and 21 music examples
Published: July 2009
Format: 234 x 156 mm
Extent: 202 pages
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 978-0-7546-6230-3
Price : =A355.00 =BB Online: =A349.50
BL Reference: 781.6'2'009416
LoC Control No: 2009008715
=20
David Cooper, University of Leeds, UK
Series : Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series

For at least two centuries, and arguably much longer, Ireland has =
exerted an
important influence on the development of the traditional, popular and =
art
musics of other regions, and in particular those of Britain and the =
United
States. During the past decade or so, the traditional musics of the
so-called Celtic regions have become a focus of international interest. =
The
phenomenal success of shows such as Riverdance (which appeared in 1995,
spawned from a 1994 Eurovision Song Contest interval act) brought Irish
music and dance to a global audience and played a part in the further
commoditization of Irish culture, including traditional music. However,
there has been, until now, relatively little serious musicological study =
of
the traditional music of Northern Ireland.=20

Northern Ireland remains a divided community in which traditional =
culture,
in all its manifestations, is widely understood as a marker of religious
affiliation and ethnic identity. Since the outbreak of the most recent
'troubles' around 1968, the borders between the communities have often =
been
marked by music. For example, many in the Catholic, nationalist =
community,
regard the music of Orange flute bands and Lambeg drums as a source of
intimidation. Equally, many in the Protestant community have distanced
themselves from Irish music as coming from a different ethnic tradition, =
and
some have rejected tunes, styles and even instruments because of their
association with the Catholic community and the Irish Republic. Of =
course,
during the same period many other Protestants and Catholics have =
continued
to perform in an apolitical context and often together, what in earlier
times would simply have been regarded as folk or country music. With the
increasing espousal of a discrete Ulster Scots tradition since the =
signing
of the Belfast (or 'Good Friday') Agreement in 1998, the characteristics =
of
the traditional music performed in Northern Ireland, and the place of
Protestant musicians within popular Irish culture, clearly require a =
more
thoroughgoing analysis. David Cooper's book provides such analysis, as =
well
as ethnographic and ethnomusicological studies of a group of traditional
musicians from County Antrim. In particular, this book offers a
consideration of the cultural dynamics of Northern Ireland with respect =
to
traditional music.

Contents: Introduction; The geographical, historical and social =
construction
of Northern Ireland; Song sources, traditions and ideologies; =
Performance
practices in Northern Ireland; The process of collection, transcription =
and
transmission; Music of the Northern Irish diaspora in America; =
Bibliography;
Index.

About the Author: David Cooper, Professor of Music and Technology in the
School of Music and Dean of the Faculty of Performance, Visual Arts and
Communications, University of Leeds.

This title is also available as an eBook, ISBN 978-0-7546-9383-3

Professor David Cooper's profile page on the University of Leeds Website
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/staff/dgc/

Extracts from this title are available to view:

Full contents list

Introduction

Index

SOURCE
http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754662303

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Journal of Social History
Volume 43, Number 1, Fall 2009

E-ISSN: 1527-1897 Print ISSN: 0022-4529

DOI: 10.1353/jsh.0.0214
Reviewed by
Kevin Kenny
Boston College

Ireland's New Worlds: Immigrants, Politics, and Society in the United States
and Australia, 1815-1922. By Malcolm Campbell (Madison: University of
Wisconsin Press, 2008. xiii plus 249 pp. Cloth $65. Paper $29.95).

EXTRACTS
More than seven million men, women, and children left Ireland for overseas
destinations in the century between the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815
and the formation of the Irish Free State in 1922. The great majority
settled in North America, especially the United States, with a significant
minority going to Australia and New Zealand. Malcolm Campbell's book is the
first to attempt a comparison of Irish-America, the most intensively studied
of the Irish overseas communities, with Irish-Australia, the subject of much
innovative scholarship in recent decades. His purpose is to challenge the
widely held assumption that a transplanted pre-migration culture determined
Irish behavior abroad. Instead, he persuasively argues that immigrant
adaptation to the particular social, economic, and political realities in
the host countries was the key determinant.

This book poses a timely challenge for historians of the Irish overseas,
especially in the United States. Campbell questions what he sees as an
entrenched tradition among Americanists, stretching from Oscar Handlin
through Kerby Miller, which attributes the various pathologies of the Irish
abroad to pre-migration legacies, whether the impact of the potato famine or
a cultural predisposition to see emigration as exile rather than
opportunity. In laying down this challenge, Campbell surely goes too far in
the opposite direction, all but excluding pre-migration culture from
consideration, but his central point about adaptation to nationally specific
circumstances offers a strong and flexible explanation for the variations in
Irishness abroad...

...The two best chapters in the book compare, respectively, the lives of
rural Irish settlers in Minnesota and New South Wales and the lives of the
Irish in California and Eastern Australia. These chapters exemplify in
concrete, tangible detail the merits of the comparative approach developed
at macro level in the opening chapters. Campbell chose Minnesota in part to
demonstrate, contrary to most recent historiography, that some Irish
Americans settled on the land and prospered as farmers. Using
tightly-focused trans-regional comparative analysis, Campbell shows how the
Irish communities in Minnesota and New South Wales emerged out of common
experiences of chain migration, rural settlement, and relative prosperity
compared to Irish communities in the Northeast. The Irish in California and
eastern Australia, likewise, generally did much better than their
counterparts in the American Northeast, which Campbell attributes to their
early arrival, the fluid and dynamic character of the host societies, a high
degree of religious toleration, and the presence of Chinese immigrants.
Continuous exchanges of people, information, and goods between California,
Australia, and New Zealand allow Campbell to posit a Pacific Irish culture
in which transnational interaction as well as cross-regional comparisons can
be studied...

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'The stranger within my Gate': Irish emigrant narratives of
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'The stranger within my Gate': Irish emigrant narratives of exile, tradition
and modernity in post-war Britain

Sarah O'Brien

Department of History Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick

This essay discusses the use of oral narrative in interpreting the Irish
migrant experience in post-war Britain and reveals the extent to which oral
methodology challenges established norms about the Irish Diaspora. Informing
the essay is an oral history project carried out with Irish migrants in
Birmingham between 2005 and 2008 and extracts from these interviews
illustrate, amongst other factors, migrants' struggle to balance the demands
of the 'homeland' with the opportunities of modernity, and their
contestation of an exile identity. Essentially, this paper demonstrates how
textual analysis of oral narrative illuminates the process of identity
reconfiguration that occurred in Irish enclaves and determines the
significance of gender, class, religion and nationalism in informing the
migrant experience.

Keywords: Birmingham Bombings, Catholicism, Identity reconfiguration in
post-war Britain, Irish migration

In: Kurkowska-Budzan, Marta and Krzysztof Zamorski (eds.), Oral History:
The challenges of dialogue. 2009. xviii, 224 pp. (pp. 129-144)
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

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From: Patrick Maume
The point about Irish success in California being linked to the presence of
Chinese immigrants seems a little odd, given the prominence of the Irish in
anti-Chinese campaigns - unless the implication is that the Chinese filled
the role of racial-religious pariahs which might otherwise have been
assigned to the Irish...
Best wishes,
Patrick

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:

> The following book review has turned up in our alerts...
>
> Journal of Social History
> Volume 43, Number 1, Fall 2009
>
> E-ISSN: 1527-1897 Print ISSN: 0022-4529
>
> DOI: 10.1353/jsh.0.0214
> Reviewed by
> Kevin Kenny
> Boston College
>
> Ireland's New Worlds: Immigrants, Politics, and Society in the United
> States
> and Australia, 1815-1922. By Malcolm Campbell (Madison: University of
> Wisconsin Press, 2008. xiii plus 249 pp. Cloth $65. Paper $29.95).
>
> EXTRACTS
> More than seven million men, women, and children left Ireland for overseas
> destinations in the century between the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815
> and the formation of the Irish Free State in 1922. The great majority
> settled in North America, especially the United States, with a significant
> minority going to Australia and New Zealand. Malcolm Campbell's book is the
> first to attempt a comparison of Irish-America, the most intensively
> studied
> of the Irish overseas communities, with Irish-Australia, the subject of
> much
> innovative scholarship in recent decades. His purpose is to challenge the
> widely held assumption that a transplanted pre-migration culture determined
> Irish behavior abroad. Instead, he persuasively argues that immigrant
> adaptation to the particular social, economic, and political realities in
> the host countries was the key determinant.
>
> This book poses a timely challenge for historians of the Irish overseas,
> especially in the United States. Campbell questions what he sees as an
> entrenched tradition among Americanists, stretching from Oscar Handlin
> through Kerby Miller, which attributes the various pathologies of the Irish
> abroad to pre-migration legacies, whether the impact of the potato famine
> or
> a cultural predisposition to see emigration as exile rather than
> opportunity. In laying down this challenge, Campbell surely goes too far in
> the opposite direction, all but excluding pre-migration culture from
> consideration, but his central point about adaptation to nationally
> specific
> circumstances offers a strong and flexible explanation for the variations
> in
> Irishness abroad...
>
> ...The two best chapters in the book compare, respectively, the lives of
> rural Irish settlers in Minnesota and New South Wales and the lives of the
> Irish in California and Eastern Australia. These chapters exemplify in
> concrete, tangible detail the merits of the comparative approach developed
> at macro level in the opening chapters. Campbell chose Minnesota in part to
> demonstrate, contrary to most recent historiography, that some Irish
> Americans settled on the land and prospered as farmers. Using
> tightly-focused trans-regional comparative analysis, Campbell shows how the
> Irish communities in Minnesota and New South Wales emerged out of common
> experiences of chain migration, rural settlement, and relative prosperity
> compared to Irish communities in the Northeast. The Irish in California and
> eastern Australia, likewise, generally did much better than their
> counterparts in the American Northeast, which Campbell attributes to their
> early arrival, the fluid and dynamic character of the host societies, a
> high
> degree of religious toleration, and the presence of Chinese immigrants.
> Continuous exchanges of people, information, and goods between California,
> Australia, and New Zealand allow Campbell to posit a Pacific Irish culture
> in which transnational interaction as well as cross-regional comparisons
> can
> be studied...
>

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Irish Studies Review: Volume 17 Issue 4 is now available online at
informaworld (http://www.informaworld.com).

This new issue contains the following articles:

Articles

The reader as writer, the author as con artist: Nuala O'Faolain and the
criminal narratives of Chicago May, Pages 405 - 421
Author: Jane Elizabeth Dougherty

Walls of history: the use of mythomoteurs in Northern Ireland murals, =
Pages
423 - 465
Authors: Martin Forker; Jonathan McCormick

Reproductive cancer: female autonomy and border crossing in medical
discourse and fiction, Pages 467 - 483
Author: Miriam O'Kane Mara

The politics of rebirth in Colm T=F3ib=EDn's =91Three Friends=92 and =
=91A Long
Winter=92, Pages 485 - 498
Author: Robinson Murphy

Pismires and Protestants: the =91lingering dissolution=92 of Samuel =
Beckett's
All That Fall, Pages 499 - 511
Author: Brynhildur Boyce

Review Article

Neither home nor away: place and displacement in Bernard O'Donoghue's
poetry, Pages 513 - 518
Author: Michael Parker

Reviews

History

Literature, Drama And Film

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Subject: Article,
"No Irish Need Apply"? Veto Players and Legislative Productivity
in the Republic of Ireland, 1949-2000
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"No Irish Need Apply"? Veto Players and Legislative Productivity in the
Republic of Ireland, 1949-2000

Richard S. Conley
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA, rconley[at]polisci.ufl.edu

Marija A. Bekafigo

University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, USA

This analysis fills an important lacuna in comparative legislative =
studies
by testing the veto players theory against a newly constructed data set =
of
significant domestic policy legislation passed in the Republic of =
Ireland
between 1949 and 2000. Distinguishing between single-party majority,
coalition, and minority governments, the analysis places into sharp =
relief
the ways in which the unique context of Irish political parties and
institutional dynamics conflict with the basic tenets of the veto =
players
framework. The results underscore the contextual constraints on
applicability of the theory.

Key Words: Ireland =95 D=E1il =95 veto players =95 coalitions =95 Fianna =
F=E1il =95 Fine
Gael

This version was published on January 1, 2010

Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 43, No. 1, 91-118 (2010)
DOI: 10.1177/0010414009341726

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Subject: NEWS FROM The Royal Historical Society Bibliography
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The last I heard was that - with the looming velvet divorce - the Irish
History Online committee was 'pursuing plans' to maintain IHO as a free web
resource.

Regular users of Irish History Online will know that the aim of listing the
research on the Irish outside Ireland has gone very well - and of course we
have all been helping there. IHO is now a much more useful resource.

Regular users of the Royal Historical Society Bibliography are advised to
get what they need through the free trial - see below... And then?

P.O'S.

NEWS FROM THE Royal Historical Society Bibliography

*A message from the Academic Editor about free trials of the new
Bibliography of British and Irish History*

You will doubtless be aware of the impending withdrawal of the free service
provided by the RHS Bibliography of British History, and its rebranding as
the _Bibliography of British and Irish History_ (BBIH), the result of a
partnership between the Royal Historical Society, the Institute of
Historical Research, and Brepols Publishers. The switch over will occur on 1
January 2010.

We are delighted to announce that individual free trials of BBIH are
available from now until 31 December. Please go to
http://apps.brepolis.net/LTool/Entrance.aspx?w=19&h=pwd and use the
following login and password :

Your login: BBIH05

Your password: BBIH05

Institutional trials by IP address range are also available; please contact
brepolis[at]brepols.net for more information.

We entered into the partnership with Brepols, after considerable
deliberation, with the aim of securing the long term future of the
Bibliography, as well as significantly enhancing the quality of the
resource. Brepols was chosen by the RHS and IHR because of its long-standing
expertise in producing high-quality databases. Since 1991, in parallel with
its traditional activities as an academic publisher in the field of
Humanities, Brepols has been developing databases in partnership with
leading academic centres. A principal example is the International Medieval
Bibliography (IMB), produced in collaboration with the University of Leeds.

Among the enhancements offered by the new BBIH are significantly faster
searching, an auto-complete function, an auto-record count per search field,
and extended export possibilities. A detailed brochure describing BBIH can
be downloaded from
http://www.brepols.net/publishers/pdf/Brepolis_BBIH_EN.pdf . You can also
view the slides from my PowerPoint presentation at the recent North American
Conference on British Studies by going to http://tinyurl.com/y95yn9s :
although there is no commentary, you should be able to follow the sequence
of operations designed to illustrate various forms of searching,
interoperability, and export.

You may wish to take up the issue of subscription with your librarians, who
should contact brepolis[at]brepols.net for
information on pricing (institutional subscriptions in the US are based on
the Carnegie classification of institutions, those in the UK on JISC
banding. Individual subscriptions are also available.) It's possible that
the RHS Bibliography (as a free resource) has not been very visible to
librarians, so you may need to engage in some local lobbying. It's worth
pointing out to librarians that they should register their resolvers with
Brepols, to ensure access to full text where locally available: this will
enable you to benefit fully from the enhanced functionality.

I sincerely apologise for cross-postings: you may have received this message
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The Irish Sweep: A History of the Irish Hospitals Sweepstake
1930-87, UCD Press Wed 2 Dec Dublin
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UCD PRESS=20
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to celebrate the publication=20
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http://www.ucdpress.ie/display.asp?isbn=3D9781906359416&

The Irish Sweep
A History of the Irish Hospitals Sweepstake, 1930-87


Author(s):
Marie Coleman (author)
Format:
Paperback, 156 x 234mm, 288pp
Publication date:
01 Dec 2009
ISBN-13:
9781906359416
ISBN-10:
1906359415
Author Biography
Dr Marie Coleman is a lecturer in Irish history in the School of History =
and Anthropology at the Queen's University of Belfast.

Description
The Irish hospitals sweepstake, initially established to provide money =
for cash-strapped voluntary hospitals in Dublin, provided funding for =
Irish hospitals for over fifty years. Apart from its role in bringing =
millions of pounds of foreign currency into Ireland to build new =
hospitals and provide employment, it also contributed to the development =
of Irish advertising and broadcasting, horse-racing, the growth of Irish =
business and commercial sponsorship of sport. But that was not the whole =
story. Marie Coleman also digs deep into the murkier side of the Irish =
Sweep. She successfully reveals scandals, skulduggery and gangsterism, =
which all played their part in the sweepstakes, exposing the blind eyes =
that were turned to its shortcomings and exploring the extent to which =
these failings ultimately damaged the Irish health services by =
postponing necessary reforms. Using original archive material, "The =
Irish Sweep" successfully draws together these disparate aspects of the =
sweepstake - its social and economic importance in independent Ireland, =
its contribution to the development of Irish health services, and its =
illicit operation outside Ireland - to construct the first detailed and =
comprehensive history of an iconic institution.

Contents
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The Irish Post, London

A return to values and pride is the Irish ideal

BY ROBERT MULHERN

IRELAND'S future at home and abroad was addressed by some of the nation's
best-known political, social and sporting figures in London this week.

'The Irish in Britain - a conversation with the Diaspora' was organised by
the University College Dublin (UCD) John Hume Institute and addressed by
former Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald, Mary Robinson, Michael O'Muircheartaigh
and John Treacy - the chief executive of the Irish Sports Council - among
others.

The purpose of the event was to try to find ways to engage, connect and
develop the relationship between Ireland and Britain, while embracing the
much larger global Irish community.

High on the agenda was the current economic situation existing in both
countries that has led to a steady increase in immigration into Britain.

Former Irish president Mary Robinson said: "I felt during the '80s we
neglected the Irish emigrants. We still underestimate the extraordinary
potential of that connection - the Diaspora can help us greatly in
re-imagining Ireland, we have to re-establish our credentials in an economic
sense. We need to be proud of the country and restore our values. It needs
to be about an idealism not only in Ireland, but with Irish emigrants
abroad."

And former Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald also told the forum: "Emigration is a
very emotional subject, the immediate future may not be bright, but both
societies will benefit greatly, from future movements in both directions,
which is a lot more comfortable for everybody now and that's a great
development."

Meanwhile Irish Ambassador to London Bobby McDonagh pointed out how the
relationship between the two countries was of great importance.

He said: "Britain is very comfortable with a growing Irish influence and
today's themes are of great interest and importance to the personal
connections between Britain and Ireland - it's a timely conversation."

The coming together further expanded on the Global Economic Forum, which met
in Farmleigh House in September and examined Ireland's relationship and the
roles of its community abroad.

A group of over 100 guests, including prominent business men and women,
academics, historians and social commentators engaged the forum on the links
of the Diaspora and the unique experience of being Irish outside the island
of Ireland.

Historian and university lecturer Diarmaid Ferriter said: "There's a media
debate going on in Ireland now, which is starting to ask what the longterm
consequences of emigration are. Ireland only started to debate this five or
six years ago."

He added: "It's about dealing with the issues and perceptions that exist,
about leaving Ireland, about the difficulties faced by people who return and
the ambivalence experienced by second-generation Irish people when they come
back to Ireland."

The Global Forum, which took place at The Royal Society in south-west London
on Monday, was broken into four sessions and addressed cultural ties and
binding connections like the GAA.

The Forum also debated deep rooted issues such as identity and modern wants
such as the need for Irish television in Britain.

One of the speakers, Mary Daly - Principal of the UCD College of Art and
Celtic studies - said: "The Irish in Britain is a story that needs to be
retold. The challenge now is to understand the Irish overseas, to
communicate change at home and to represent the interests of the Irish
abroad and in Britain and foster a dialogue."

It is estimated that there are 700,000 first-born Irish living in Britain, a
figure that jumps to 2million when the second-generation Irish are included.

Mary Robinson was awarded the inaugural John Hume medal in recognition of
her work in highlighting the potential of the Irish Diaspora.

This latest event by the UCD John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies is
part three of a conversation with the Irish Diaspora.

In 2007 over 1,000 people gathered in New York and participated in an
entertaining debate, while last year the discussion was brought to Dublin.

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