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Noreen Bowden's Report on the event in London can be found now on the Irish
emigrant web site.

First few paragraphs below...

Full text on the web site...

P.O'S.


The Irish in Britain: A Conversation with the Diaspora
Monday, 30 November 2009

Noreen Bowden reports from the "The Irish in Britain: A Conversation with
the Diaspora" conference, organised by UCD's John Hume Institute for Global
Irish Studies.


UCD's John Hume Institute brought its third annual Irish Diaspora Forum to
London this week, bringing together politicians, historians, writers,
business executives and others from the Irish community. UCD president Hugh
Brady joked that the "Irish in Britain" event allowed London to become
"Connemara East" for the day. He called the forum series "a rolling
conversation exploring the nature of the relationship between Ireland and
Irish people and people who identify with Ireland." The first two forums,
which were co-organised by Irish America magazine and The Ireland Funds,
were held in 2007 in New York and in 2008 in Dublin.

The speakers at this year's event, which drew about 100 people, included
academics Mary Daly, Diarmaid Ferriter, Declan Kiberd, Mary Hickman and
Cormac O'Grada; writer Frank McGuinness; Olympian John Treacy; legendary
sports broadcaster Micheal O Muircheartaigh; former Taoiseach Garrett
Fitzgerald, and many more. The panel sessions explored three themes: the
Irish Diaspora as agents of political change, Diaspora as creative impulse,
and cultural branding in the Diaspora. The final session asked the question
"What does the future hold for Ireland and its Diaspora?" It was a day of
lively debate, with contrasting views of the Diaspora and the future role of
emigrants emerging.

One of the highlights was the awarding of the UCD John Hume Medal to former
president Mary Robinson. While the award recognised the work Ms Robinson had
done on raising the profile of the Irish abroad during her presidency in the
1990s, she made it clear that there were many in Ireland who had not
appreciated the importance of the Diaspora at the time. She described the
response in the Oireachtas as she gave her ground-breaking speech,
"Cherishing the Diaspora": "it was going down like a lead balloon... there
was no doubt in my mind that members of the Oireachtas did not want to hear
[about the Diaspora]". She said she left the speech, deeply depressed, but
then "messages started to come in from all over the world," and Ms Robinson
realised her speech had meant a great deal to the Irish abroad. Ted Kennedy
even entered the speech into the US Congressional record. The contrast
between the response of the Irish in Ireland and the global Irish response
"reinforced my sense that we underestimated our Diaspora", she said.

Much has changed since then, and the Irish Diaspora, of course, is enjoying
a high profile in Ireland these days; the recent Farmleigh Conference in
particular has raised questions about what role the Irish Diaspora might
play in Ireland's future and its economic development. But the crisis that
served as the impetus for this new outreach to the Diaspora has also sparked
a renewed uptake in emigration by the young unemployed. It was this dual
reality that was at the heart of one of the differences that emerged in the
day: whether the dominant image of the Irish worldwide was more accurately
portrayed as that of a global professional, entrepreneurial class or that of
a sometimes vulnerable, potentially marginalized, migratory workforce at the
mercy of the global economy.

FULL TEXT AT

http://www.emigrant.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=75352&Itemi
d=168

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Joan,

I certainly do think there is much to do here.

And I think that the Children of the Diaspora is the next big area in which
we should try to move forward. There is a sense in which the Diaspora was
created by children.

Marias Luddy and Jim Smith did think of having as diaspora dimension to
their Special Issue of Eire-Ireland, 44, 1 & 2, 2009.

But in the event, I think, were offered so much material on the child within
Ireland that they decided to go with that more focussed theme.

I made some of my notes available to Maria and Jim, and I have much material
on the ways in which we might connect study of Irish children with studies
of children of other diasporas and studies of migrant children generally. I
do have some Research Notes, dated 2007 - which have circulated a bit, and
which should now be read in conjunction with Maria and Jim's Special Issue,
and other recent work. One claim to fame that these Research Notes have is
that they put the work of Andrew Greeley and Mary Hickman side by side.

I am in contact with colleagues in other countries.

An obvious example of possible development, which is certainly in our minds
now, is the study of what the US research literature calls 'throwaway
children' and empire, and the European research literature (more delicately
minded) calls 'children out of place'...

Paddy

--
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Subject: [IR-D] Children
From: Joan Allen

Dear Paddy
I wonder if there is any mileage in proposing a conference on 'Children of =
the Irish Diaspora'? This would be a vehicle for looking at children's whol=
e experience of migration/exile/memory and while it might address some of t=
he issues raised in your message there is much more to say and understand a=
bout this hidden aspect of Diaspora.

Best wishes
Joan

Dr Joan Allen
Head of History
Armstrong Building
University of Newcastle
NE1 7RU
Tel 0191 222 6701

Vice Chair, Society for the Study of Labour History/Editor, Labour History =
Review
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Dear all,

You might be interested in our recently completed study on migrant
children in Ireland. Our final report is available to download from
http://migration.ucc.ie/children/finalreport.html, and there will be
more published material coming out from the research in the next year.

It is an in-depth study of the social worlds of children who have moved
to Ireland in recent years as part of four migrant groups -
African/Irish, eastern/central European, Latin American and returning
Irish. I conducted the research in the 'returning Irish' group -
involving child-centred research with children and youth who for the
most part were born 'in the diaspora' and moved to Ireland as children
with their returning Irish parents. Needless to say, many interesting
issues around identity and belonging have emerged.

It is certainly an area in which there is great potential and I like the
idea of a conference on 'children of diaspora'...

Caitriona Ni Laoire,
UCC.


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Subject: Re: [IR-D] Children

Joan,

I certainly do think there is much to do here.

And I think that the Children of the Diaspora is the next big area in
which
we should try to move forward. There is a sense in which the Diaspora
was
created by children.

Marias Luddy and Jim Smith did think of having as diaspora dimension to
their Special Issue of Eire-Ireland, 44, 1 & 2, 2009.

But in the event, I think, were offered so much material on the child
within
Ireland that they decided to go with that more focussed theme.

I made some of my notes available to Maria and Jim, and I have much
material
on the ways in which we might connect study of Irish children with
studies
of children of other diasporas and studies of migrant children
generally. I
do have some Research Notes, dated 2007 - which have circulated a bit,
and
which should now be read in conjunction with Maria and Jim's Special
Issue,
and other recent work. One claim to fame that these Research Notes have
is
that they put the work of Andrew Greeley and Mary Hickman side by side.

I am in contact with colleagues in other countries.

An obvious example of possible development, which is certainly in our
minds
now, is the study of what the US research literature calls 'throwaway
children' and empire, and the European research literature (more
delicately
minded) calls 'children out of place'...

Paddy

--
Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

Email Patrick O'Sullivan Email Patrick
O'Sullivan Personal Fax 0044 (0) 709 236
9050

Irish Diaspora Net http://www.irishdiaspora.net Irish Diaspora list
IR-D[at]Jiscmail.ac.uk

Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Social Sciences and Humanities University of Bradford
Bradford
BD7 1DP Yorkshire England



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Subject: [IR-D] Children
From: Joan Allen

Dear Paddy
I wonder if there is any mileage in proposing a conference on 'Children
of =3D
the Irish Diaspora'? This would be a vehicle for looking at children's
whol=3D
e experience of migration/exile/memory and while it might address some
of t=3D
he issues raised in your message there is much more to say and
understand a=3D
bout this hidden aspect of Diaspora.

Best wishes
Joan

Dr Joan Allen
Head of History
Armstrong Building
University of Newcastle
NE1 7RU
Tel 0191 222 6701

Vice Chair, Society for the Study of Labour History/Editor, Labour
History =3D
Review
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The Irish health disadvantage in England: contribution of structure and
identity components of Irish ethnicity

Author: Marie Clucas a
Affiliation: a Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, Coventry,
UK

Published in: Ethnicity & Health, Volume 14, Issue 6 December 2009 , pages
553 - 573
First Published on: 22 July 2009
Subjects: Ethnicity; General Medicine; Race & Ethnic Studies;

Abstract
Background. Irish people living in Britain face a significant health
disadvantage when compared to the white British host population.

Objectives. Using recent survey data, determine whether there is an 'Irish
health disadvantage' independent of socio-economic factors and explore
whether there is an Irish ethnic identity effect which operates on health.

Design. Data from the Census 2001 Individual Licensed SARs was analysed
using binary logistic regression to study the relationship between the
self-reported Irish ethnicity measure (which is presumed to reflect
self-identification with Irish culture and community), considering country
of birth subgroups, and the self-reported health measures of general health
and limiting long-term illness. The analysis was adjusted for key
demographic and socio-economic factors.

Results. When compared to the white British reference population, the
self-reported 'white Irish' population overall, the Irish born in Northern
Ireland, and UK-born Irish, show a significantly increased risk of both
self-reported poor general health and limiting long-term illness. The
increased risk of poor health of the Irish born in the Republic of Ireland
is greatly diminished after the socio-economic adjustments, and only
statistically significant in the case of general health. Finally, the Irish
born in Northern Ireland who self-report as Irish are significantly more
likely than those who self-report as British to report poor general health,
which may suggest an Irish ethnic identity effect.

Conclusions. The findings demonstrate a persistent ethnic health
disadvantage for first generation and UK-born Irish people living in England
with respect to self-reported general health and limiting long-term illness,
which cannot be fully explained by demographic and key socio-economic
factors. Aspects of ethnicity related to both structure and identity may
affect Irish self-reported health.

Keywords: Irish; England; self-reported health; limiting long-term illness;
general health; ethnicity; identity; socio-economic status

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=?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3_Cios=E1in=2C'114_?= commissions and 60
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I don't know how many times I've used that line in lectures! Definitely =
an
article I'll read.

Peter Hart

Quoting Patrick O'Sullivan :

> A bad tempered exploration of one of my own bugbears - recycled quotes =
or
> statistics with never a true source.
>=20
> P.O'S.
>=20
> Niall =D3 Cios=E1in. '114 commissions and 60 committees': phantom
> figures from a surveillance state.=09
>=20
> Abstract
> It has been suggested by historians and other critics that following th=
e Act
> of Union in 1801, Ireland was the object of unusually intense interest =
on
> the part of the London parliament and the British public. This assumpti=
on is
> often supported by the observation that 114 parliamentary commissions w=
ere
> established to investigate Ireland between 1800 and 1833. This figure i=
s, in
> fact, entirely false, the real amount being closer to fourteen. Here th=
e
> history of this implausible statistic is traced from 1834, when it
> originated, through to 2008. Some reasons why such an improbable figure=
was
> accepted and repeated are suggested, and the preconceptions among histo=
rians
> about nineteenth-century government and Anglo-Irish relations that are
> implied by that acceptance are explored.
>=20
> PROCEEDINGS- ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SECTION C ARCHAEOLOGY CELTIC STUDIES
> HISTORY LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE VOL 109; 2009 ISSN 0035-8991
> pp. 367-386
> `114 commissions and 60 committees': phantom figures from a surveillanc=
e
> state.
> Niall =D3 Cios=E1in
>=20

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Vacancies at COMPAS, 3 December 2009

COMPAS is now recruiting for two new posts, details of which can be =
found at
http://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/news/latest/article/date/2009/12/vacancies-at-=
com
pas.=20
Please note that the closing date for applications is 6th January 2010.

1. Full-time Senior Statistician/Quantitative Data Expert, Grade 9:=20
Salary =A342,351 to =A349,096 (with a discretionary range to =A353,650).

The Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University =
of
Oxford is seeking to appoint a Senior Researcher with advanced expertise =
in
the statistical analysis of quantitative data on or relevant to =
migration
and migrants in the UK and/or the EU, and with significant experience of
public engagement on policy issues, for a period of three years.

This is a full-time 36 month, fixed-term post commencing in February =
2010,
or as soon as possible thereafter.

2. Full-time Quantitative Data Analyst, Grade 8: Salary Salary =A336,532 =
to
=A343,622 (with a discretionary range to =A347,666)

The Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University =
of
Oxford is seeking to appoint a Social Science Researcher with expertise =
in
the statistical analysis of quantitative data on or related to migration =
and
migrants in the UK and/or the EU, and with experience of public =
engagement
on policy issues, for a period of three years.

This is a full-time 36 month, fixed-term post commencing in February =
2010,
or as soon as possible thereafter.

--
Dr. Iain Walker
ESRC Research Fellow
COMPAS
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58, Banbury Road
Oxford OX2 6QS
United Kingdom

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Below, the TOC of the latest issue of these Proceedings.

The databases have the usual problems with Irish family names - note, =
for
example, how Niall =D3 Cios=E1in's name appears.

His article is a humdinger.

But there are a number of articles of interest to Ir-D members. =
Polydore
Virgil, Thomas Moore reabsorbed into fold, Charles Darwin...

You should be able to download pdf files of all these articles from the =
RIA
web site.

http://www.ria.ie/publications/journals/ProcCI/index.html

The RIA seem to be cramming more design into the journal, and you might =
need
a more up to date pdf reader - the latest version of Adobe Acrobat =
works.

P.O'S.

PROCEEDINGS- ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SECTION C ARCHAEOLOGY CELTIC STUDIES
HISTORY LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE
VOL 109; 2009
ISSN 0035-8991

pp. 1-36
A late Mesolithic scatter from Corralanna, Co. Westmeath, and its place =
in
the Mesolithic landscape of the Irish Midlands.
Warren, G.; Little, A.; Stanley, M.

pp. 37-104
Five Irish psalter texts.
McNamara, M.

pp. 105-164
The excavation of an Early Christian rath with later medieval occupation =
at
Drumadoon, Co. Antrim.
McSparron, C.; Williams, B.

pp. 165-194
A question of timing: Walter de Lacy's seisin of Meath 1189-94.
Veach, C.T.

pp. 195-238
Humanism's priorities and empire's prerogatives: Polydore Vergil's
description of Ireland.
Haywood, E.

pp. 239-366
`My body to be buried in my owne monument': the social and religious =
context
of Co. Kilkenny funeral monuments, 1600-1700.
Cockerham, P.

pp. 367-386
`114 commissions and 60 committees': phantom figures from a surveillance
state.
Ciosain, N.O.

pp. 387-408
Moore's centenary: music and politics in Dublin, 1879.
McHale, M.

pp. 409-420
In Retrospect: Charles Darwin and his Dublin critics: Samuel Haughton =
and
William Henry Harvey.
Bowler, P.

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A bad tempered exploration of one of my own bugbears - recycled quotes =
or
statistics with never a true source.

P.O'S.

Niall =D3 Cios=E1in. '114 commissions and 60 committees': phantom
figures from a surveillance state.=09

Abstract
It has been suggested by historians and other critics that following the =
Act
of Union in 1801, Ireland was the object of unusually intense interest =
on
the part of the London parliament and the British public. This =
assumption is
often supported by the observation that 114 parliamentary commissions =
were
established to investigate Ireland between 1800 and 1833. This figure =
is, in
fact, entirely false, the real amount being closer to fourteen. Here the
history of this implausible statistic is traced from 1834, when it
originated, through to 2008. Some reasons why such an improbable figure =
was
accepted and repeated are suggested, and the preconceptions among =
historians
about nineteenth-century government and Anglo-Irish relations that are
implied by that acceptance are explored.

PROCEEDINGS- ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SECTION C ARCHAEOLOGY CELTIC STUDIES
HISTORY LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE VOL 109; 2009 ISSN 0035-8991
pp. 367-386
`114 commissions and 60 committees': phantom figures from a surveillance
state.
Niall =D3 Cios=E1in

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I think this is where I came in....

Liam

Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:
> The Irish health disadvantage in England: contribution of structure and
> identity components of Irish ethnicity
>
> Author: Marie Clucas a
> Affiliation: a Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, Coventry,
> UK
>
> Published in: Ethnicity & Health, Volume 14, Issue 6 December 2009 , pages
> 553 - 573
> First Published on: 22 July 2009
> Subjects: Ethnicity; General Medicine; Race & Ethnic Studies;
>
> Abstract
> Background. Irish people living in Britain face a significant health
> disadvantage when compared to the white British host population.
>
> Objectives. Using recent survey data, determine whether there is an 'Irish
> health disadvantage' independent of socio-economic factors and explore
> whether there is an Irish ethnic identity effect which operates on health.
>
> Design. Data from the Census 2001 Individual Licensed SARs was analysed
> using binary logistic regression to study the relationship between the
> self-reported Irish ethnicity measure (which is presumed to reflect
> self-identification with Irish culture and community), considering country
> of birth subgroups, and the self-reported health measures of general health
> and limiting long-term illness. The analysis was adjusted for key
> demographic and socio-economic factors.
>
> Results. When compared to the white British reference population, the
> self-reported 'white Irish' population overall, the Irish born in Northern
> Ireland, and UK-born Irish, show a significantly increased risk of both
> self-reported poor general health and limiting long-term illness. The
> increased risk of poor health of the Irish born in the Republic of Ireland
> is greatly diminished after the socio-economic adjustments, and only
> statistically significant in the case of general health. Finally, the Irish
> born in Northern Ireland who self-report as Irish are significantly more
> likely than those who self-report as British to report poor general health,
> which may suggest an Irish ethnic identity effect.
>
> Conclusions. The findings demonstrate a persistent ethnic health
> disadvantage for first generation and UK-born Irish people living in England
> with respect to self-reported general health and limiting long-term illness,
> which cannot be fully explained by demographic and key socio-economic
> factors. Aspects of ethnicity related to both structure and identity may
> affect Irish self-reported health.
>
> Keywords: Irish; England; self-reported health; limiting long-term illness;
> general health; ethnicity; identity; socio-economic status
>
>

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Dissident Dramaturgies
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toured extensively, and have been translated and adapted for new (and =
varied) performance contexts. This book examines the recurrent and =
varied dramaturgical practices of contemporary playwrights from 1980 to =
the present. Six very specific and dominant constructions that shape the =
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chapters that focus on the relationships between history, memory and =
metatheatre, how the notion of innocence is contested, the various =
deployments of a range of myths by contemporary playwrights, the =
consequences of perverting pastoral consciousness, and the implications =
and repercussions of storytelling on a tradition of writing.

Dr Eamonn Jordan is Lecturer in Drama Studies at University College =
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Paddy,

This issue has been much in the news in Australia recently, as the Australian Prime
Minister issued a public apology about 3 weeks ago, on 16 November, to those here
called the 'Forgotten Australians': the tens of thousands of children shipped from
Britain and Ireland, and some from Malta, to different parts of Australia during the
20th century. At the time they were labelled 'orphans', although most weren't, and
they ended up in a variety of different religious institutions, where many were
abused and exploited as forced labour.

The British held an inquiry as long ago as 1998, but only in the wake of the
Australian apology has Gordon Brown promised an apology early next year. The
Australian Senate held an inquiry and published a report, titled 'Lost Innocents',
in 2001 - the report is available online. There are also several books on the
subject, such as:

Alan Gill 'Orphans of Empire: the Shocking Story of Child Migration to Australia'
(Sydney, 1998)
David Hill, 'The Forgotten Children: Fairbridge Farm School and its Betrayal of
Britain's Child Migrants to Australia' (Sydney, 2007).

Gill, who is a journalist and therefore tends to sensationalise, nevertheless, I
think is right when he says that while the transportation of convicts from Britain
and Ireland to Australia ended, officially, in the 1860s, the transportation of
large numbers of children to Australia continued for another century, up to the
1970s.

Earlier this year, the journal I co-edit, the 'Australasian Journal of Irish
Studies', published an article about one of these child migration schemes, which
lasted from 1912 into the 1970s.

But some here are also very aware of 19th-century child migration schemes, like the
so-called 'Famine orphans': a little over 4,000 Irish girls shipped from workhouses
to Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide in 1848-50. (My great great grandmother was one of
these.) And of course Dr Barnado, an Irishman, began shipping boys to Australia in
the 1880s, and his organisation continued to do so for nearly 80 years. The
Christian Brothers also had a hand from early on in child migrant schemes - they
were certainly involved from the 1930s, and I suspect earlier.

To go back even further - I recollect reading that large numbers of Irish children
were kidnapped and shipped as indentured servants to the American colonies and the
West Indies during the 18th century.

There is a group of Australian historians, mainly in Sydney and Hobart,
investigating forced migration, including that of children. Some of their work
appears in:

E. Christopher, C. Pybus and M. Rediker (eds), 'Many Middle Passages: Forced
Migration and the Making of the Modern World' (Berkeley, 2007).

So there certainly is a very big story here about forced children migration from
Ireland that, as far as I'm aware, really hasn't been told in its entirety yet.

Elizabeth

__________________________________________________
Professor Elizabeth Malcolm

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

President
Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand (ISAANZ)
Website: http://isaanz.org
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To follow up on Piaras's interesting article here is a piece in today's=20
Irish Independent on the same subject.
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/recruitment-agencies-export-thous=
ands-of-skilled-builders-1966146.html

Carmel

Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:
> Our thanks to Piaras Mac =C9inr=ED for letting us see this article.
>
> P.O'S.
>
>
> Emigration is back with a vengeance in Ireland
> We (still) can=92t all live on a small island
> By PIARAS MAC EINRI , Special to IrishCentral.com
>
>
> =20

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Oral History Review
Volume 36, Number 2, Summer/Fall 2009

Diasporic Memories: Community, Individuality, and Creativity-A Life Stories
Perspective
Mary Chamberlain
Oral History Review, Volume 36, Number 2, Summer/Fall 2009, pp. 177-187

Subject Headings:
Collective memory -- Caribbean Area.
Blacks -- Caribbean Area -- History -- Sources.
Slavery -- Caribbean Area -- History -- Sources.

Abstract:
Can we talk of a collective, diasporic memory? I will argue that in the case
of the African-Caribbean community, there are distinctive features-such as
the need to tell and the need to connect-which suggest that this diasporic
memory is framed through identifiable cultural templates, which distinguish
it from the memories of migrants.

Keywords:
Caribbean, diasporic, memory, shame, slavery

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Liam Clancy

Liam Clancy, who died on December 4 aged 74, was the last surviving member
of the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, the first and arguably the most
authentic of the Irish folk groups to make an impact far beyond their
homeland over the last half-century; rated by Bob Dylan "the best ballad
singer I ever heard in my life", he was also a fine guitarist.

Hailed by Gay Byrne as "one of the most famous four Irishmen in the world",
Clancy led the vocals in a group whose members between them recorded 55
albums with sales running into millions. With their repertoire of drinking,
rebel and love songs, they paved the way for - and influenced - The
Dubliners, the Spinners, the Pogues, Bono, Sinead O'Connor and others.
Liam, his brothers Tom and Pat (from Co Tipperary) and Tommy, from Co
Armagh, took audiences by storm. Folk song purists, of whom there are many,
never found fault with their material or its execution; yet even on disc
their enthusiasm bubbled over, not least because such tracks as Whiskey,
You're The Devil and Mick McGuire sounded as if they had been recorded in a
crowded pub late at night - as they quite possibly were.

While Liam Clancy developed his his talents in Ireland, the group made its
greatest impact in the United States. His brothers had emigrated to New York
in the mid-1950s - in part because the authorities had become interested in
their involvement with the IRA - but Liam went as an actor and musician.

FULL TEXT AT
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/music-obituari
es/6744601/Liam-Clancy.html


Liam Clancy's death echoes on Boston's Irish music scene
By Emma Rose Johnson, Globe Correspondent

In pubs all across the Boston area, members of the small, tight-knit
community of Irish folk musicians are mourning the death of one of their
icons.

Liam Clancy, who died Friday of pulmonary fibrosis, was the last surviving
member of the Clancy Brothers folk band. The band's renditions of Irish
rebel songs and ballads epitomized the Irish character and influenced the
current Irish folk scene in Boston.

Larry Reynolds, a fiddler and founder of the Boston Chapter of the Comhaltas
Ceoltoiri Eireann, an organization for Irish musicians, said Clancy's loss
is a huge blow to the art form.

"He performed quite a bit in this area, and he had a great impact," Reynolds
said. "He meant an awful lot to the people here."

During the folk music revival of the 1960s, Clancy and his band performed in
pubs all over New England. In an area filled with Irish immigrants and their
descendants, Clancy's shows were not just opportunities to hear good music
-- they were a way of reconnecting with Irish roots.

"The Irish tend to be very nostalgic," said Reynolds. "He would bring
[Ireland] home to them."

When asked if musicians were planning a tribute to him in the coming weeks,
Reynolds said that Clancy's influence on the Boston Irish music scene is
inescapable.

"No matter what seisiun you're at, you'll hear a song that he made famous,"
he said. "It'll continue in the coming weeks and the coming months,
guaranteed."

SOURCE
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/12/on_bostons_iris.html

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Our thanks to Piaras Mac =C9inr=ED for letting us see this article.

P.O'S.


Emigration is back with a vengeance in Ireland
We (still) can=92t all live on a small island
By PIARAS MAC EINRI , Special to IrishCentral.com

Emigration is back. As a recent episode on RTE's "Prime Time" showed in
moving terms, what is most striking is how familiar it all seems. The =
same
images of sorrowful parents, the same destinations, the same mix of =
fatalism
and determination on the part of young people who probably thought that =
such
events belonged to their parents=92 time,, not theirs.

The conventional wisdom, espoused by many people including the present
writer, was that mass emigration from Ireland was over. We now have =
smaller
families; Ireland is a wealthier country; people are more educated and =
have
better opportunities in a sophisticated modern economy. To cap it all,
recent large-scale immigration cemented the impression of a country =
which
had definitively turned the corner on a past marked by centuries of
involuntary exile. From now on, others would come here. If we left,
henceforth it would only be by personal choice.

What went wrong and how much of it was self-inflicted? One issue stands =
out
immediately: the pernicious effects, in this as in other matters, of the
speculative property bubble. Two EU countries had levels of employment =
in
construction in recent years which were significantly greater than the =
EU
average =96 Spain and Ireland. In both countries, more than a quarter of =
the
entire male workforce was employed in construction =96 an unsustainable =
level.
Today, these two countries have the highest unemployment rates in the =
EU,
even if Ireland=92s rate, at less than 13%, is some way behind Spain=92s =
record
figure of 19%.

The latest CSO migration data brings the picture up to April 2009, when =
the
current crisis had arguably only just begun to bite. On the surface, it =
is
not even all that alarming. The 18,400 Irish people who emigrated in the
previous year were actually balanced by an equal number of returnees. =
There
is nevertheless one striking factor: male emigration, more or less in
balance with female emigration in recent years, jumped sharply. =
Moreover,
there can be little doubt that the trend since then has been an upward =
one.

Such statistics have a human dimension. Last winter I was in the West =
Kerry
Gaeltacht, an area with few sustainable economic opportunities outside =
the
summer services offered to tourists and aspirant Gaeilgeoir=ED. I heard =
of
many young men who had left education early in order to work in the =
booming
construction industry. Now those same young men are leaving, cheated of =
a
future in Ireland, just as people did in the 1980s and the 1950s. This =
time,
in destinations such as Britain, increasing competition with workers =
from
other countries is fostering a =93race to the bottom,=94 making the =
chances of
securing a decent and well-paid job that much more difficult.

In the 1980s, unwise macroeconomic policies combined with a painful
restructuring of the Irish economy to create a downward employment =
spiral at
the very time when the 1960s baby-boomers were entering the labour =
market.
The result, inevitably, was rising unemployment and rising emigration.
Almost half a million people left; much of this involuntary emigration =
was
arguably unnecessary.

This time around, Irish economic recovery is likely to begin later and =
at a
slower pace than that of other countries, including Britain, the US and =
most
of continental Europe. It has been argued that Irish emigration will =
resume
on a smaller scale than before - on the grounds that jobs in other =
countries
are also scarce =96 but the significantly higher unemployment rate in =
Ireland
is nonetheless likely to fuel a growing outward movement as people =
decide to
take their chances anyway. Construction workers will be joined by tens =
of
thousands of young women and men, many of them educated at considerable
public expense. As the size of the Irish public sector is also reduced,
teachers, nurses and other graduates are going elsewhere. A historically
embedded culture of emigration is re-surfacing, creating a whole new =
cycle
of departures. To be sure, many will prosper and some will return. But =
the
human cost of involuntary displacement and undesired exile will =
inevitably
be high for others.

What of the role of official Ireland? In the 1940s, the main worry of =
some
Government officials and politicians was that the demobbed Irish =
returning
from post-war Britain would bring the threat of social unrest and make
demands on an impoverished exchequer. In the 1950s, Alexis Fitzgerald
thought (admittedly in a minority view) that emigration was a good =
thing,
telling the Emigration Commission that =93high emigration... releases =
social
tensions which would otherwise explode and makes possible a stability of
manners and custom which would otherwise be the subject of radical =
change.=94
In the 1980s, Brian Lenihan famously praised the new mobility and said =
that
we could not all expect to live on one island. The present Government =
has
had little to say, to date, about the possible consequences of an =
upsurge in
emigration, but it is doing little or nothing to prevent it. A less
complacent attitude is now called for, both in retaining and upskilling =
as
much of the workforce as humanly possible and in supporting those who =
have
no choice but to leave.

Piaras Mac =C9inr=ED is a lecturer in migration studies in the =
Department of
Geography, University College Cork

SOURCE
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Emigration-is-back-with-a-vengeance-in-I=
rel
and---78637027.html

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Subject: TOC Special Issue, The Henry James Review, Volume 30, Number 3,
Fall 2009Colm T=?iso-8859-1?Q?=F3ib=EDn_?= on Henry James
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The Henry James Review
Volume 30, Number 3, Fall 2009

FROM=20
Introduction
Susan M. Griffin

'This issue collects, for the first time, Colm T=F3ib=EDn's critical =
essays on
Henry James. T=F3ib=EDn's best known engagement with James is probably =
his 2004
novel The Master, which grapples with the style and substance of Henry
James's work and life. I mention T=F3ib=EDn's novel at the start because =
the
great strength of his criticism is that he reads and writes like a =
writer.
In taking up James, T=F3ib=EDn joins poet-critics including Ezra Pound, =
W. H.
Auden, James Baldwin, Richard Howard, and Cynthia Ozick. As this list =
alone
illustrates, reading James as a writer is a various business. What's =
shared
is that these are critics who write from the inside: as fellow artisans =
who
understand the craft of writing and read to discover, precisely and =
fully,
the workings of this particular novel or letter or essay. Such criticism =
is
profoundly interested, and that interest makes for acuity. It is serious
(Why else bother? Writers have their own books to write) but, at its =
best,
never solemn, as these essays happily illustrate. "James, like most
artists," T=F3ib=EDn informs us, "knew what he was doing only some of =
the time"
(BL).

The Master retells a period in Henry James's life. These essays follow =
suit
insofar as, for T=F3ib=EDn, understanding James's work demands attention =
to the
scenes and situations of writing. This concern with biography is the =
very
opposite of the literary criticism that James's stories so often warn
against: reading past or through the artist's work to discover some =
hidden
truth about his life...'

Details of first article pasted in here - full TOC pasted in below. =20

P.O'S.


Henry James In Ireland: A Footnote
Colm T=F3ib=EDn
The Henry James Review, Volume 30, Number 3, Fall 2009, pp. 211-222=20

Subject Headings:
James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Family.
James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Travel -- Ireland.
Irish Americans -- History.

Abstract:
This article explores James's connection and hostility to Ireland by way =
of
family history and the American view of the Irish in the 1840s. The =
James
children's Irish background and American nationality were subsumed into =
a
curious and creative hybrid that produced two geniuses=97Henry and =
William. To
many, the Jameses seemed "distinctly Irish." In the great journey of his
self invention James managed to erase almost completely his Irish
background, making sure it would be a footnote to his much larger and =
more
ambitious concerns.

Table of Contents
=20
Colm T=F3ib=EDn on Henry James
Introduction=20
Susan M. Griffin
pp. 207-210=20

Henry James In Ireland: A Footnote=20
Colm T=F3ib=EDn
pp. 211-222=20

The Haunting of Lamb House=20
Colm T=F3ib=EDn
pp. 223-226=20

A More Elaborate Web: Becoming Henry James=20
Colm T=F3ib=EDn
pp. 227-236=20

Pure Evil: "The Turn of the Screw"=20
Colm T=F3ib=EDn
pp. 237-240=20

The Lessons of the Master=20
Colm T=F3ib=EDn
pp. 241-243=20

Henry James's New York=20
Colm T=F3ib=EDn
pp. 244-259=20

A Death, a Book, an Apartment: The Portrait of a Lady=20
Colm T=F3ib=EDn
pp. 260-265=20

Reflective Biography=20
Colm T=F3ib=EDn
pp. 266-271=20

A Bundle of Letters=20
Colm T=F3ib=EDn
pp. 272-284=20

All a Novelist Needs=20
Colm T=F3ib=EDn
pp. 285-288=20

The Later Jameses=20
Colm T=F3ib=EDn
pp. 289-299=20

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Contemporary Literature
Volume 50, Number 1, Spring 2009

An Interview with Colm T=F3ib=EDn
Joseph Wiesenfarth
Contemporary Literature, Volume 50, Number 1, Spring 2009, pp. 1-27=20
)
Subject Headings:
T=F3ib=EDn, Colm, 1955- -- Interviews.
Authors, Irish -- Interviews.

In lieu of an abstract, here is a preview of the article.

In Ireland,=94 Colm T=F3ib=EDn writes, =93what happens within the family =
remains so
secretive, so painfully locked within each person, that any writer who =
deals
with the dynamics of family life stands apart.=94 Because he deals
relentlessly with such dynamics, T=F3ib=EDn=92s novels and stories, like =
their
author, stand apart.

Born in 1955 in Enniscorthy, Wexford, Ireland, T=F3ib=EDn, at the age of =
eight,
saw his father fall dangerously ill and, at the age of twelve, saw him =
die.
This illness and this death and the events in his family that they
precipitated etched themselves on his imagination and led to his writing
about like disasters: a mother walking out on her husband and their son =
in
The South (1990); a High Court judge having his wife and children
consistently at odds with his legal judgments until she dies and they go
their own way in The Heather Blazing (1992); a young man with a dead =
father
and a constantly complaining mother, who also dies, living abroad and
contracting AIDS in The Story of the Night (1996); a son with AIDS,
similarly fatherless, returning to his grandmother=92s house because, =
like his
sister, he finds his mother impossibly selfish in The Blackwater =
Lightship
(1999); and Mothers and Sons (2006), dramatizing the incompatibility of
parents and children in story after story. Each of his novels has
undoubtedly set T=F3ib=EDn apart, as one literary prize after another =
indicates.
None has been more celebrated than his novel about Henry James, The =
Master
(2004), which is impregnated with troubles in the James family. It was
short-listed for the Booker Prize=97as was The Blackwater Lightship =
before
it=97and received another five awards

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Toronto and Guelph 10-12 June 2010
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And that's a very interesting line up of keynote speakers...

P.O'S.


From: David A. Wilson [mailto:david.wilson[at]utoronto.ca]

Irish and Scottish Encounters with Indigenous Peoples

The expansion of the British and American empires during the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries created the greatest mass migration in human history.
Irish and Scots migrants were major participants in this process. Their
experiences have traditionally been framed in terms of push-pull factors, of
exile, struggle, opportunity, and acculturation. But there is another side
to the story; as the Irish and Scots spread throughout the world, they
interacted extensively with indigenous cultures and peoples. In many areas,
these encounters led to the displacement and destruction of indigenous
peoples, while at other times and places they generated a wider range of
experiences with greater opportunities for mutual cooperation and cultural
exchange. At the same time, the Scots and Irish existed in an ambivalent,
tense and sometimes hostile relationship to England. In what ways did their
own experiences of colonialism affect their attitudes towards indigenous
peoples? To what extent were they agents or critics of imperialism and how
were these interactions reflected in literature, music and the arts? How
did the Irish, Scots and indigenous peoples shape their political, social,
religious, and economic relations with one another? And how were Scots,
Irish and indigenous peoples' understandings of the world transformed as a
result of these encounters?

These are some of the issues that will be addressed in this international
conference to be held in Toronto and Guelph 10-12 June 2010. It is being
jointly organized by the Celtic Studies Program, St. Michael's College,
University of Toronto; the Scottish Studies Program, Guelph University; and
the University of Aberdeen's AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies.

Keynote speakers:

Donald Harman Akenson, Queen's University Canada
Colin Calloway, Dartmouth College
Kevin Kenny, Boston College
Patricia McCormick, University of Alberta
Ann McGrath, Australian National University
Fintan O'Toole, Irish Times
Brad Patterson, Victoria University, New Zealand


Proposals of no more than 300 words should be sent to David A. Wilson
[david.wilson[at]utoronto.ca] by 28 February 2010

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warwick
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Forwarded on behalf of Maria Luddy m.luddy[at]warwick.ac.uk=20

Irish Studies Postgraduate Study Day
=20
Organised by the=A0 British Association for Irish Studies and the =
History
Subject Centre, University of Warwick=20

This event is open to all UK-based postgraduate students working in any =
area
of Irish studies.=A0 The workshop is provided at no cost to =
participants,
lunch will be provided, and travel bursaries of up to =A3100 are =
availabl.e
=20
Date:=A0 Friday 12 March, 2010.=A0=20
Venue:=A0 University of Warwick

Programme
9.30=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Registration
10.15=A0=A0=A0=A0 Welcome: Dr Sarah Richardson, Director, History =
Subject Centre
10.30=A0=A0=A0=A0 Eighteenth-century Ireland: New Histories:=A0 Dr=A0 =
Ian McBride and
Benjamin Bankhurst (KCL)
11.45 Coffee break
12.00=A0=A0=A0=A0 Literature and Irish History:=A0 Professor Clair Wills =
(Queen Mary,
London)
1.00=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Lunch
2.00=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Utilising gender in Irish history:=A0 =
Professor Maria Luddy
(Warwick)=20
3.00=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Coffee
3.15=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Q and A general about students=92 own work
4.30=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Close

Places for this event are limited and will be allocated on a first-come
basis.=A0 To register please go to=20
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/heahistory/events/bais

If you have any queries please contact Professor Maria Luddy=A0
m.luddy[at]warwick.ac.uk=20

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the role of the family - University of Limerick,
28th - 29th May 2010
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New Voices: Inherited Lines=20
New Voices in Irish Criticism Postgraduate Conference 2010
=A0
University of Limerick
28th =96 29th May 2010
=A0
A predominant theme in Irish literature, and indeed in cultural =
discourse
more generally, is the role of the family in Irish society.=A0 From the =
Quirks
in Castle Rackrent via the Mulqueens in The Ante-Room to the Hegarty =
family
in Anne Enright=92s The Gathering, families and family structures have
sustained the interest of most of our literary writers right up to the
contemporary period, transcending all genres. This postgraduate =
conference
seeks to explore literary and cultural representations of the Irish =
family,
and consider the ways in which Irish families have shaped (and been
constructed by) Irish literature and culture in the modern period.
=A0
Plenary Speakers include:=A0=A0=A0 Prof. Patricia Coughlan, University =
College
Cork
Prof. Anne Fogarty, University College Dublin
Dr. Eamonn Hughes, Queen=92s University Belfast
with a public reading by:=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Anne Enright
=A0
Just as Irish society as a whole has undergone sweeping changes, in the
recent past in particular, so have there been significant =
reconfigurations
in Irish families.=A0 Yet, Irish writers continue to write the family,
sometimes depicting it as a traditional space under threat from famine =
and
mass emigration, sometimes highlighting the dangers of the family =
=91cell=92,
and perhaps more recently constructing families as a safe haven from a
bewildering postmodern world.=A0 At the heart of many of these =
constructions
of the Irish family are questions of power and agency, as well as issues =
of
class, gender, ethnicities and sexualities. This conference will provide =
a
forum for questioning whether traditional familial structures are in =
fact
now outdated, and asking whether a new Irish family can be discerned in
recent cultural representations, which is perhaps more reflective of
contemporary Ireland. In addition to redefinitions of the nuclear =
family, we
will also consider aspects of family constructions in Irish nationalist
discourse, e.g. the symbolic use of the family and the interaction and =
the
conflict between private and public roles of the family.
=A0
Topics may include but are by no means limited to:
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Imagining the Irish family within literary =
or cultural discourses
of various kinds (i.e. as well as literary writing, we welcome papers
dealing with film and media, memoir and autobiography, and other kinds =
of
cultural texts)
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Gendered constructions of Irish family =
relationships
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Marginalised families in Irish literature
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Family taboos and dysfunction in cultural =
discourses
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Colonial and post-colonial Irish families in =
literature
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Religion and family in Irish texts
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Cultural constructions of migrant families
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Dissident families / queering the =
traditional family structure
=A0
Conference Organisers:=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Yvonne O=92Keeffe, =
University of Limerick
Claudia Reese, University of Limerick
=A0
Deadline for abstracts:=A0 1st March 2010
Abstracts should be approximately 250-300 words (include affiliation and
student status).
Abstracts and queries to: New Voices 2010, School of Languages, =
Literature
Culture and Communication, University of Limerick.=A0 E-mail:
newvoices2010[at]ul.ie
=A0