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Subject: Book Notice, David A. Wilson, ed., Irish Nationalism in Canada
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Irish Nationalism in Canada

Edited by David A. Wilson

An exploration of the revolutionary Irish-Canadian underground and
constitutional nationalist efforts to make Canada a model for Irish freedom.

McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History #2.26

Paper (0773536361) 9780773536364
Cloth (0773536353) 9780773536357

According to conventional historical wisdom, Irish nationalism in Canada was
a marginal phenomenon - overshadowed by the more powerful movement in the
United States and eclipsed in Canada by the Orange Order.

The nine contributors in this book argue otherwise - and in doing so make a
major and original contribution to our understanding of the Irish experience
in Canada and the place of Irish-Canadian nationalism within an
international context. Focusing on the period 1820 to 1920, they examine
political, religious, and cultural expressions of Irish-Canadian nationalism
as it responded to Irish events and Canadian politics. They also look at
tensions within the movement between those who argued that Ireland should
share the same freedom that Canada enjoyed within the British Empire and
revolutionary republicans who wanted to liberate both Ireland and Canada
from the yoke of British imperialism.

Irish Nationalism in Canada sheds light on questions such as transference of
old world political traditions into North America, the dynamics of
ethno-religious conflict, and state responses to a revolutionary minority
within an ethno-religious group.

Irish Nationalism in Canada
Edited by David A. Wilson

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments xi
Introduction
DAVID A. WILSON 3

1 Using the Grand Turk for Ireland: Ottoman Images and the Irish Vindicator
SEAN FARRELL 22

2 The Fanatic Heart of the North
PETER M. TONER 34

3 Was Patrick James Whelan a Fenian and Did He Assassinate Thomas D'Arcy
McGee?
DAVID A. WILSON 52

4 Clerical Containment of Diasporic Irish Nationalism: A Canadian Example
from the Parnell Era
ROSALYN TRIGGER 83

5 Between King, Kaiser, and Canada: Irish Catholics in Canada and the Great
War, 1914-1918
MARK G. MCGOWAN 97

6 Canadian Catholic Press Reaction to the Irish Crisis, 1916-1921
FREDERICK J. MCEVOY 121

7 From Terry Finnegan to Terry Fenian: The Truncated Literary Career of
James McCarroll
MICHAEL PETERMAN 140

8 Irish Canadians and the National Question in Canada
GARTH STEVENSON 160

9 Stepping Back and Looking Around
DONALD HARMAN AKENSON 178

Notes 189
Contributors 233
Index 235

SOURCE
http://mqup.mcgill.ca/book.php?bookid=2403

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Subject: CFP Canadian Association for Irish Studies Annual Conference,
Halifax, Nova Scotia, 19-22 May 2010
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Forwarded on behalf of
Jean Talman [mailto:jean.talman[at]utoronto.ca]=20

Subject: Canadian Association for Irish Studies Annual Conference 2010 -
Call for Papers

Ireland and its Discontents

Success and Failure in Modern Ireland

Canadian Association for Irish Studies/ l=92Association canadienne=20
d=92=E9tudes irlandaises

Annual Conference, 2010

Saint Mary=92s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

19-22 May 2010

=93Anyone who is failing at one thing,=94 psychoanalyst Adam Phillips =
has=20
suggested, =93is always succeeding at another.=94 We invite proposals =
for=20
papers interrogating the relationship between success and failure in=20
modern and contemporary Ireland, as reflected in its politics, its=20
economic policies, its literature, and its popular culture. The Celtic=20
Tiger is one obvious recent example of a =91success=92 narrative that =
was=20
intimately linked to a series of failures on the part of Irish society=20
to safeguard its more vulnerable communities. With the recent=20
publication of the =93Ryan Report,=94 to cite another example, it is =
clear=20
that the success of the Catholic Church in exerting its power over=20
Ireland=92s educational and reformatory institutions came at the price =
of=20
a failure to guarantee the safety and welfare of Ireland=92s youth. By =
the=20
same token, it might be argued that Fianna F=E1il=92s longtime political =

success depended on the failure to engage with the =91National =
Question,=92=20
i.e., Partition and Northern Ireland. Success and failure, as manifested =

in language revival policies, in gender-related issues, in the lives of=20
prominent public figures, and the reality and perceptions of the Irish=20
diaspora, including the Irish in Canada, are also topics worthy of=20
consideration.

We welcome papers that address other topics and proposals for special=20
panels.

Please send proposals including contact information (250 words) by=20
e-mail to:

P=E1draig =D3 Siadhail, D=92Arcy McGee Chair of Irish Studies, Saint =
Mary=92s=20
University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3H 3C3=20
(padraig.osiadhail[at]smu.ca) by 15 January 2010.

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What Should We Learn from the Black Studies Experience?
Authors: Fabio Rojas; Donald Shaffer

Published in: Souls, Volume 11, Issue 4 October 2009 , pages 442 - 447

Abstract
The field of Black Studies has changed in profound ways since its inception
in the late 1960s. The field was initiated by students, scholars, and
activists associated with the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. As
time passed, adjusting to the university environment proved to be a daunting
task. Drawing on prior research by the authors and other scholars, this
article summarizes the evolution of Black Studies and what might be learned
from the experience.

Keywords:
academic departments and programs; African American Studies; Africana
Studies; Black Studies; higher education; institutional change; social
movements

Concluding paragraphs
The transformation of Black Studies from political project to
interdisciplinary academic institution offers many lessons. For activists,
Black Studies programs fulfill the social mission envisioned by its
founders. These programs do offer courses relevant to students' personal
experiences. The price for doing so was to mitigate an explicitly political
framing, which permitted the academy to grant Black Studies a continual
presence in the university. For administrators, the evolution of Black
Studies indicates the limits of identity-based educational politics. While
it is true that many programs were created in response to protest, it is
also true that programs could survive if they effectively competed in the
university environment according to its standards. Cross-disciplinary
alliances helped programs address this issue, but in our judgment, they are
a limiting strategy that invites appropriation of topics and resources by
other programs, which might ultimately diminish the field's visibility
within the university.

Research on Black Studies' institutional development and its student
population suggests that there not be an exclusive focus on promises of
liberation and autonomy as they were understood at the field's inception.
Instead, Black Studies proponents might be better served if they developed
more strategies to expand the field's identity and organizational autonomy.
One strategy is to cultivate graduate education. Already, there are at least
eight universities whose Black Studies programs offer doctoral degrees. If
these programs are successful, then Black Studies programs will no longer
feel the need to hire faculty members that spread their attention among
different programs. Another strategy might be to work closely with
university advisors and help them communicate with potential students. A
third strategy might be found in the recent attempt to reframe the field as
the investigation of the African Diaspora. This might help the field draw
more attention, especially from African or Caribbean specialists, or
students who believe that Black Studies is limited to the study of the
African Diaspora in America. Such strategies might decrease the dependence
on shared faculty and expand their appeal to a broader segment of the
undergraduate population.

Black Studies survived and flourished because students and scholars fought
for these programs and the field's interdisciplinary formulation was a
crucial tactic in this struggle. However, every organizational form has its
limits. The interdisciplinary organization of Black Studies has resulted in
faculty dispersed among many programs and Black Studies courses that are
disconnected from the university's internal networks. The challenge for the
next generation of scholars is to address these issues while maintaining
Black Studies' unique academic mission and its distinct intellectual
character.

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan [mailto:P.OSullivan[at]bradford.ac.uk]

It is that time of year when we note - and celebrate - the anniversary of
the starting of the Irish Diaspora list.

After a few test messages my first formal message to the IR-D list referred
to the planetary alignment of December 1997 - then visible from our front
door and the front attic window...

We now have over 12 years of Irish Diaspora list discussion stored in our
database, codename DIRDA, in the Special Access area of
www.irishdiaspora.net
and backed up in various places...

The day to day management of the Irish Diaspora list is handled by the
Listserv software, at Jiscmail...
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/

IR-D list members can manage the detail of their membership through the
Jiscmail web page, or through email instructions.

Note that Jiscmail now automatically creates its own Irish Diaspora list
archive, accessible to members - so recent IR-D messages are stored there,
as well as in DIRDA at irishdiaspora.net. I tend to use the DIRDA database
when I need a long overview of discussion about a theme or topic.

Do note that, with the set-ups at www.irishdiaspora.net and at Jiscmail,
volunteers from any part of the world can be involved in the running of the
Irish Diaspora list and our web site.

On that note I want to thank Bill Mulligan and Liam Greenslade for help
during the past year.

Paddy O'Sullivan

--
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: CFP, Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies,
After the Homecoming: Images of Diaspora and Images of Home in
Irish and Scottish Culture
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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

The AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of =
Aberdeen

is editing a special issue of the peer=96reviewed biannual Journal of =
Irish
and Scottish Studies to be published in Spring 2011 on the topic:=20


After the Homecoming:
Images of Diaspora and Images of Home in Irish and Scottish Culture

From the lighting of the candle in =C1ras an Uachtar=E1in to the =
Scottish
Homecoming of 2009 the Irish and Scottish diasporas have been the =
subject of
public controversy. Crucially these debates have revolved around a =
series of
contested images: the representation of ethnic identity, the =
idealisation of
citizenship within national-state politics and the projection of small
nations on a global stage. This special issue of the Journal of Irish =
and
Scottish Studies invites contributors to consider the politicisation of
Irish and Scottish migrant communities through the prism of political,
literary, historical and artistic evidence. How, and to what ends, have
Irish and Scottish migrants and their descendants been mobilised? What
impact has their activism had on the political life of their host =
countries,
and on developments in Ireland and Scotland? How have migrant =
communities
represented themselves publicly, privately, or within civil society? In =
what
ways have those sharing a common country of origin come to relate
differently to their homeland as a result of settling in different
locations? How have the political perspectives of Irish and Scots =
settling
in the same location differed from one another? Might there be more than =
one
Irish or Scottish diaspora as a consequence? Might a pan-Celtic diaspora
exist?=20

Contributors are encouraged to consider how culture is instrumentalised =
in
the pursuit of political purposes. To what extent do the images of home
generated by Irish and Scots communities abroad constitute either new
vantage points enriching understanding, or cloudy misperceptions which
obfuscate and confuse? Do the countries of origin misunderstand or =
misuse
the diasporic communities in their appropriation of them? What are the
cultural disjunctures between migrant communities and those that remain =
at
home, particularly in relation to the arrival of new migrant communities =
in
Ireland and Scotland?=20

It is intended that the special issue will consider =91diaspora=92 in an
interdisciplinary and comparative fashion, drawing insights from =
literature
and music, art and architecture, intimate diaries and public debates. We
welcome contributions from the fields of history, literature, geography, =
art
history and related disciplines, and will focus on Irish and Scottish
experience of diaspora at home and abroad from the seventeenth to the
twenty-first century.=20


Proposals for papers (100-200 words) should be sent by 31 January 2010 =
to
Dr. Michael Brown (m.brown[at]abdn.ac.uk). The decision to commission the =
paper
will be reached by 22 January 2010. The draft article of 5,000-8,000 =
words
should reach the editors by 21 May 2010. The peer-reviewing process will =
be
completed by 30 July 2010 with the issue appearing as the Spring issue =
of
2011.

Further details about the journal can be found at:
www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/issjournal.shtml
.
For further details about the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish
Studies, which is host to the Arts and Humanities Research Council =
Centre
for Irish and Scottish Studies, please visit: =
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/

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Subject: Article,
Contexts of exit in the migration of Russian speakers from the
Baltic countries to Ireland
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Contexts of exit in the migration of Russian speakers from the Baltic
countries to Ireland

Sofya Aptekar
Princeton University, USA, saptekar[at]princeton.edu

Recently, Ireland has become a major destination for migrants from Estonia,
Latvia and Lithuania. Many of these migrants are members of Russian-speaking
minorities leaving a context of restrictive citizenship and language laws
and varying degrees of ethnic tension. This article draws on interviews
collected in Ireland to examine the role played by the contexts of exit in
decisions to migrate among Russian-speaking minorities from the Baltics. The
results suggest that Russian speakers from Estonia migrate because of their
experiences as minorities, while those from Latvia and Lithuania migrate to
escape low wages and irregular employment. This is so despite equally
restrictive language and citizenship laws in Estonia and Latvia. I argue
that the effect of state policy as a push factor for minority emigration is
mediated by other contextual aspects, such as levels of contact, timbre of
ethnic relations, and the degree of intersection between economic
stratification and ethnicity.

Key Words: Estonia . international migration . Ireland . Latvia . Lithuania
. minorities


Ethnicities, Vol. 9, No. 4, 507-526 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1468796809345433

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Subject: CFP Le Quebec et l'Irlande sous observation,
Universit=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E9_de_Montr=E9al=2C_?= May 2010
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Forwarded on behalf of
Simon Jolivet


Subject: Conference, Montreal, May 2010 --- Le Quebec et l'Irlande
sous observation : le comportement des petites nations en situation de =
crise

FYI. Here's pasted below a call for papers for a conference to be held =
in
Montreal in May 2010.
Thanks!

Dr. Simon Jolivet=20
Chercheur postdoctoral, University of Ottawa

ps: please note that the presentations must be delivered in French since
this conference will be part of the 78th Annual Convention of =
l'Association
Francophone pour le Savoir (ACFAS).
__________________________


APPEL DE
COMMUNICATIONS

Colloque

Le Qu=E9bec et l'Irlande sous observation: le comportement des petites =
nations
en situation de crise

Dans le cadre du congr=E8s du 78=E8me congr=E8s de l=92ACFAS=20
Universit=E9 de Montr=E9al
Entre le 10 et 14 mai 2010 (la date exacte est =E0 confirmer)

Comit=E9 organisateur
Linda Cardinal =AD=96 Simon Jolivet =96 Isabelle Matte

=20

Comment les nations qu=E9b=E9coises et irlandaises r=E9agissent-elles =
aux
crises? Comment la situation particuli=E8re du Qu=E9bec qui =E9volue =
dans le cadre
f=E9d=E9ratif canadien et celle de l'Irlande comptant sur un =C9tat =
souverain mais
qui est =E9galement membre de l'Union europ=E9enne et int=E9gr=E9e au =
monde
britannique influencent-elles leurs r=E9actions? La crise =E9conomique,
annon=E7ant le retour aux d=E9ficits, au ch=F4mage =E9lev=E9 (et dans le =
cas
irlandais, la fin du Celtic Tiger), pose-t-elle des defies particuliers =
=E0
ces petites nations? Les scandales sexuels qui ont =E9branl=E9 le
clerg=E9 catholique sont-ils per=E7us diff=E9remment dans ces deux =
=C9tats? Que dire
du statut des langues fran=E7aise et ga=E9lique irlandais? Depuis le =
Gaelic
Revival irlandais des ann=E9es 1890 jusqu'au temps de la Loi 101 au =
Qu=E9bec, la
question de la langue a =E9t=E9 grandement d=E9battue dans ces deux =
r=E9gions du
monde. Ainsi, comment ces nations ont-elles imagin=E9 la langue, la =
culture et
l=92identit=E9 par rapport =E0 celles de leurs voisins majoritaires?

Les crises contemporaines ou historiques (imagin=E9es ou r=E9elles) =
reli=E9es
=E0 l'immigration, =E0 l'assimilation, =E0 la religion, =E0 la =
politique, au
colonialisme, =E0 la langue, aux rapports hommes/femmes, =E0 =
l'avortement, =E0
l'homosexualit=E9, =E0 l'=E9conomie seront =E0 l'=E9tude au cours de ce =
colloque. Il
s'agira de mieux comprendre le comportement du Qu=E9bec et de l'Irlande =
(ou de
l'actuelle Irlande du Nord) face =E0 des situations d=E9stabilisantes. =
En outre,
que peuvent nous faire d=E9couvrir les attitudes similaires ou =
singuli=E8res
r=E9v=E9l=E9es par ces deux mod=E8les nationaux? Peut-on mieux =
comprendre le pass=E9
et le present du Qu=E9bec et de l'Irlande en examinant leurs actions =
d=E9cid=E9es
en temps de crise?

Le colloque Le Qu=E9bec et l'Irlande sous observation : le comportement =
des
petites nations en situation de crise s=92adresse aux chercheurs de =
toutes les
disciplines, y compris les =E9tudiant(e)s des cycles sup=E9rieurs, =
travaillant
sur l=92Irlande, le Qu=E9bec ou les rapports entre l=92Irlande et le =
Qu=E9bec.

Modalit=E9s de proposition d=92une communication

Pr=E9sentation

La proposition devra =EAtre pr=E9sent=E9e comme suit :

1. Coordonn=E9es exactes (nom, pr=E9nom, fonction, institution,
adresse =E9lectronique) de chaque pr=E9sentateur ou pr=E9sentatrice;

2. R=E9sum=E9 de 400 mots environ, pr=E9sentant la proposition
comme suit :
=B7 Titre
=B7 Exposition succincte du sujet et de la
probl=E9matique

Soumission des pr=E9sentations :

Veuillez soumettre votre proposition par voie =E9lectronique =E0 =
l=92adresse
suivante :

isamatte70[at]yahoo.fr=20

Date limite de soumission des propositions : 31 janvier 2010

Chaque proposition de communication fera l=92objet d=92une =E9valuation =
par le
comit=E9 organisateur. Les auteurs et auteures des propositions retenues
seront inform=E9(e)s par voie =E9lectronique avant le lundi 15 f=E9vrier =
2010.


=20

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: TOC Irish Review, Issues 40-41, December 2009
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The Irish Review Issues 40-41=20
=20
General Editors: Michael Cronin, Colin Graham and Clare =
O=E2=80=99Halloran
=20
=20
Guest Editor: Aaron Kelly
=20
Contemporary Northern Irish Culture
=20
Introduction: The Troubles with the Peace Process: Contemporary Northern =
Irish Culture
=20
AARON KELLY
=20
Ballygawley, Ballylynn, Belfast: Writing about modernity and settlement =
in Northern Ireland
=20
RICHARD KIRKLAND
=20
Troubling Bodies: Suffering, Resistance and Hope in Colum =
McCann=E2=80=99s =E2=80=98Troubles=E2=80=99 Short Fiction
=20
E=C3=93IN FLANNERY
=20
Terrorists and Freedom Fighters in Northern Irish Fiction
=20
LAURA PELASCHIAR
=20
Strange Little Girls?: Medbh McGuckian=E2=80=99s Poetics of Exemplarity=20
=20
SHANE ALCOBIA-MURPHY
=20
Space Shuttle/ Pass Odyssey: Creative Mobility, Gender, Class and =
=E2=80=98Donegall Pass=E2=80=99
=20
SUZANNA CHAN
=20
Gargarin=E2=80=99s Point of View: Memory and Space in Recent Northern =
Irish Art
=20
COLIN GRAHAM
=20
Northern Ireland Inc.: Branding a Region at the 2007 Smithsonian =
Folklife Festival=20
=20
SARAH BROUILLETTE
=20
DRAMA
=20
Partition=E2=80=99s fantastical progress: Gerald MacNamara=E2=80=99s No =
Surrender! and the Performance of Northern Irish Satire
=20
EUGENE MCNULTY
=20
EDUCATION AND CITIZENSHIP
=20
Adapting the School System to the Globalization of Ireland=E2=80=99s =
Population =E2=80=93 an Irish Solution to an Irish Problem?
=20
KARIN FISCHER
=20
The Erosion of Citizenship in the Irish Republic: The Case of Healthcare =
Reform
=20
FERGUS O=E2=80=99FERRALL
=20
FARAHY ADDRESS
=20
=E2=80=98My name is Alan Charles Cameron=E2=80=A6=E2=80=99
=20
IAN D=E2=80=99ALTON
=20
REVIEW ARTICLE
=20
What Was It About?
=20
IAN MCBRIDE
=20
REVIEWS=20

=20

December 2009
ISBN 978-1-85918-432-5, =E2=82=AC16.00, =C2=A311, Paperback, 240 x =
165mm, 204pp, ISSN 0790 =E2=80=93 7850
=20
More details at:=20
http://www.corkuniversitypress.com/The_Irish_Review_Issues_40_41/311/

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Subject: Institute of Irish Studies,
Liverpool: International Postgraduate Studentships
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International Postgraduate Studentships

The Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool is pleased =
to
announce the creation of a number of fees-only
studentships for prospective PhD students from any country outside the =
EU.
These are worth =A325,200 - =A328,200 over 3 years. These
can be in any area of Irish Studies, where there is existing expertise =
in
the Institute - though currently the area of Irish
Literature is over-subscribed. Candidates wishing to work in the =
following
areas will be particularly welcome:
? Gaelic ecclesiastical history
? The Vikings in Ireland
? Irish theatre/drama
? W.B.Yeats
? Irish women=92s history (particularly 19th - early 20th century)
? Contemporary Northern Irish history/politics

Scholarships may be taken up at any time during 2010 commencing 1st =
February
2010

Applications (to include a C.V., a one page outline of the topic to be
researched and names of two academic referees) to be
addressed to:
Dr Diane Urquhart
The Institute of Irish Studies
University of Liverpool
1, Abercromby Square
Liverpool
L69 7WY
England
Or email Urquhart[at]liverpool.ac.uk=20

Please note: Applicants also need to follow procedures to apply to =
graduate
study at the University of Liverpool website or email
Urquhart[at]liverpool.ac.uk see the following for details
http://www.liv.ac.uk/study/postrgraudate/research opportunities/irish
studies research.htm

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Subject: Limerick Symposium: Ireland,
Modernism and the fin de siecle April 2010
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Little present for the fin de siecle folks...

I think this is the fourth Ireland and the Fin item in as many weeks...

P.O'S.

Symposium:
Ireland, Modernism & the fin de si=E8cle
University of Limerick & Mary Immaculate College Limerick=20
=A0
16th & 17th April 2010
Plenary Speakers:
Prof. Lyn Pykett, University of Aberystwyth
Prof. Adrian Frazier, NUI Galway
Prof. Joseph Bristow, UCLA
=A0
In the past fifteen years a lively and growing dynamic has emerged in =
Irish
scholarship which has broadened critical discourse beyond previous =
somewhat
static literary-historical categories, deploying postcolonial, feminist =
and
queer approaches to Irish literature and culture. This troubling of the
canon enables us to find new ways of reading canonical work, and to =
address
forms and writers hitherto neglected. This symposium on Ireland, =
Modernism
and the fin de si=E8cle aims to explore one such area, by interrogating =
the
connections and potential incompatibilities between formal and textual
experimentation in the work of Irish writers at the fin de si=E8cle, and =
the
subsequent emergence and transnational reach of literary modernism.
=A0
Programme and further information about the symposium may be found at:
www.ul.ie/findesiecle
=A0
Organisers:=20
Dr. Kathryn Laing, Mary Immaculate College Limerick & Dr. Tina =
O=92Toole,
University of Limerick
=A0
Dr. Tina O=92Toole
Lecturer in English
School of Languages, Literature, Culture & Communication
University of Limerick
Ireland
Tel: +353-(0)61-234269
http://www.ul.ie/llcc/tina-otoole/

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Paddy

This may be of interest to some on the list. Post as you deem appropriate.

I will be over in England and Ireland, specifically London and Dublin, with
a study abroad group Dec 27- Jan 8. My course deals with Irish history
1880-1923. I'll be in London Dec 27 through January 2-- traveling to Dublin
Jan 3 and returning to the US on Jan 8. I have some time commitments to the
course, obviously, but if any list member would like to get together for
lunch or dinner or a coffee or a drink I would very much like that and
should be able to arrange it. I can be contacted off list at:
billmulligan[at]murray-ky.net

Holiday greetings to all on IR-D

Bill Mulligan

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The latest issue of

Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Volume 15, Issue 3 & 4 July 2009

Is a Special Issue

Comparing Ethnic Conflicts: Common Patterns, Shared Challenges

Abstracts of John Coakley's Introduction, plus Jennifer Todd'sd Article on
Northern Ireland, pasted in blow.

P.O'S.


Comparing Ethnic Conflicts: Common Patterns, Shared Challenges
Author: John Coakley a
Affiliation: a University College Dublin,
Published in: Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Volume 15, Issue 3 & 4 July
2009 , pages 261 - 279

Abstract
Notwithstanding predictions over the past century and a half that minorities
defined in ethnic, linguistic, or cultural terms would gradually reconcile
themselves to coexistence in states dominated by metropolitan cultures,
difficulties arising from the mobilization of minority communities continue
to be pronounced at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This article
provides an overview of the extent of ethnic division in modern states,
describes characteristic patterns of ethnic mobilization and focuses on a
smaller set of illustrative cases that reveal many of these patterns. In
this, it defines the context for a set of case studies that follow: Belgium,
Spain, Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, Lebanon, South
Africa, and Sri Lanka.


Northern Ireland: From Multiphased Conflict to Multilevelled Settlement
Author: Jennifer Todd a
Affiliation: a University College Dublin,
Published in: Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Volume 15, Issue 3 & 4 July
2009 , pages 336 - 354

Abstract
The origins of the Northern Ireland conflict fall into three temporally
distinct phases, each of which creates a particular sociostructural context
that defines a set of protagonists with conflicting interests, more or less
defined aims, and a given temporality of conflict. Each is superimposed on
the previous phases, further defining and intensifying conflict. This
multilevelled structure explains the difficulties of negotiating and of
implementing an agreed settlement and allows assessment of the successes and
failures of the 1998 settlement.

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Subject: TOC Immigrants & Minorities, Volume 27 Issue 2 & 3 2009,
Irish Identities in Victorian Britain
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From The Introduction
Irish Identities in Victorian Britain
Authors: Roger Swift Sheridan Gilley
Introduction

'The question of identity lies at the heart of modern Irish history, and for
most Irish people in the Victorian period and beyond, this issue was
resolved in one of two ways, as religious and political allegiances
reinforced each other. On the one hand, to be a Roman Catholic was to be an
Irish nationalist, and a rebel or Home Ruler; on the other, to be a
Protestant was to be a supporter of British rule in Ireland and of the
British Empire. In the same way, the great majority of Britons as
Protestants took the Irish Unionist view of Ireland. In practice, however,
for significant minorities, these combinations might be exchanged, or simply
varied in many and subtle ways, especially among the Irish in Britain, as a
consequence of the domestic pressures operating upon them and their own
influence upon the wider population. To take but one example, recent studies
have suggested that in Wales, the influence of Liberalism and a sense of
Welshness moved public perceptions of the Irish question away from one of
simple identification with Irish Protestants in 1860 towards a stronger
sympathy with Irish nationalism by 1914, as another 'Celtic' nationality
with its own legitimate demands.

The outcome was a complexity about the self-identity of the Irish in Britain
and about the manner in which their host communities regarded them, which
differed from place to place and from one generation to another. This forms
the central theme of this collection of essays, penned by established
scholars, which seeks to complement the trilogy previously co-edited by
ourselves, namely The Irish in the Victorian City (London: Croom Helm,
1985), The Irish in Britain, 1815-1939 (London: Pinter Publishers, 1989) and
The Irish in Victorian Britain: The Local Dimension (Dublin: Four Courts
Press, 1999)...'


TOC
Immigrants & Minorities, Volume 27 Issue 2 & 3 2009
Irish Identities in Victorian Britain

ISSN: 1744-0521 (electronic) 0261-9288 (paper)
Subjects: History of Race & Ethnicity; Migration & Diaspora; Social &
Cultural History;
Publisher: Routledge

Irish Identities in Victorian Britain
Roger Swift; Sheridan Gilley
Pages 129 - 133

Identifying the Irish in Victorian Britain: Recent Trends in
Historiography
Roger Swift
Pages 134 - 151

The Origins of the Irish in Northern England: An Isonymic Analysis
of Data from the 1881 Census
Malcolm Smith; Donald M. MacRaild
Pages 152 - 177

Resistance and Respectability: Dilemmas of Irish Migrant Politics in
Victorian Britain
Mervyn Busteed
Pages 178 - 193

The Making of an Irishman: John Ferguson (1836-1906) and the
Politics of Identity in Victorian Glasgow
Elaine McFarland

William O'Brien, MP: The Metropolitan and International Dimensions
of Irish Nationalism
Philip Bull
Pages 212 - 225

English Catholic Attitudes to Irish Catholics
Sheridan Gilley
Pages 226 - 247

Irish Episcopalians in the Scottish Episcopal Diocese of Glasgow and
Galloway during the Nineteenth Century
Ian Meredith
Pages 248 - 278

Strangers on the Inside: Irish Women Servants in England, 1881
Bronwen Walter
Pages 279 - 299

'A Source of Sad Annoyance': The Irish and Crime in South Wales,
1841-81
Veronica Summers
Pages 300 - 316

A Conundrum of Irish Diasporic Identity: Mutative Ethnicity
Alan O'Day
Pages 317 - 339

Notes on Contributors
Pages 340 - 341

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Further to the Immigrants & Minorities TOC...

Note that this historiographic article by Roger swift is flagged as
FREE ACCESS
On the Informaworld web site.

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g915678880

Abstract and 2 paragraphs pasted in below.

P.O'S.


Identifying the Irish in Victorian Britain: Recent Trends in Historiography
Author: Roger Swift a Affiliation: a University of Chester, Chester, UK

DOI: 10.1080/02619280903128079
Publication Frequency: 3 issues per year
Published in: Immigrants & Minorities, Volume 27, Issue 2 & 3 July 2009 ,
pages 134 - 151

Abstract
By reference to over 50 published works (including monographs, contributions
to edited collections and journal articles) and several unpublished theses,
this essay explores the ways in which the recent historiography of the
experiences of Irish migrants in Victorian Britain has revised substantially
earlier, monochrome studies of the Irish, which presented them as the
outcasts of Victorian society. Whilst acknowledging that this research forms
but a small part of the vast body of recent scholarship on the Irish
Diaspora of the same period, it shows that recent studies have not only
addressed some of the long-standing omissions in the historiography of the
subject but have also charted new territories for exploration by emphasising
the significance of the themes of change, continuity, resistance and
accommodation in the creation of a rich yet diverse migrant culture within
which a variety of Irish identities coexisted and sometimes competed.

Introduction
Several years ago, in a contribution to a collection of essays edited by
Donald MacRaild, I reviewed the historiography of the Irish in
nineteenth-century Britain during the previous decade,1 noting that the
1990s had witnessed not only a substantial increase in the pace and scale of
research and an extension of the parameters of scholarly study, but also the
deployment of more sophisticated approaches and methodologies. In
particular, it was evident that in their examination of the experiences of
Irish migrants, historians were placing greater emphasis on the interrelated
issues of identity, diversity and accommodation, with the result that, as
the reductionism of some earlier studies had been challenged,2 the
historical debate had become more refined and complex. There was, for
example, a greater awareness among historians that Irish migration and
settlement was 'a multigenerational phenomenon'; hence the experiences and
perceptions of the Irish-born and their descendants, as well as their
relationships with the host society in Britain and beyond, varied in both
time and place.

Yet it was also evident that a considerable body of research was required
before the definitive history of the Irish in Britain during the period
could be written, and I identified a number of gaps in the historiography of
the subject. These included the need for further work on patterns of Irish
settlement and demography; social and cultural experiences; the experiences
of Irish women, the Irish middle class and Irish Protestants; the
contributions of the Irish within the labour movement; and Irish nationalist
activity, particularly in regard to Fenianism. I also suggested that the
time was perhaps ripe for the production of definitive histories of the
Irish migrant experience in specific British cities, most notably Liverpool,
London and Glasgow. Nevertheless, my essential conclusion was an optimistic
one, for it seemed to me that the pioneering works of Patrick O'Sullivan,
Donald Akenson and others, with their emphasis on the themes of time and
place, of similarity and difference, of change and continuity, and of
connections, in Irish migration studies, clearly offered new opportunities
to historians of the Irish in Britain, most notably in regard to comparative
studies, whereby the Irish migrant experience might be examined more fully
in the wider context of the experiences of other migrant groups during the
same period and in terms of the interaction between the Irish and other
minorities.

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Subject: Book Notice, James S. Donnelly,
Captain Rock: The Irish Agrarian Rebellion of 1821-1824
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Captain Rock
The Irish Agrarian Rebellion of 1821=971824=20
James S. Donnelly, Jr.

History of Ireland and the Irish Diaspora James S. Donnelly, Jr., and =
Thomas
Archdeacon, Series Editors

"Donnelly's knowledge of Irish rural society is both broad and deep, and
this is by far the most thorough and insightful study of this tragic,
complex, and very important episode in pre-famine Irish =
history."=97Kerby
Miller, author of Emigrants and Exiles

Named for its mythical leader "Captain Rock," avenger of agrarian =
wrongs,
the Rockite movement of 1821=9724 in Ireland was notorious for its
extraordinary violence. In Captain Rock, James S. Donnelly, Jr., offers =
both
a fine-grained analysis of the conflict and a broad exploration of Irish
rural society after the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.=20

Originating in west Limerick, the Rockite movement spread quickly under =
the
impact of a prolonged depression. Before long the insurgency embraced =
many
of the better-off farmers. The intensity of the Rockites' grievances, =
the
frequency of their resort to sensational violence, and their appeal on =
such
key issues as rents and tithes presented a nightmarish challenge to =
Dublin
Castle=97prompting in turn a major reorganization of the police, a =
purging of
the local magistracy, the introduction of large military reinforcements, =
and
a determined campaign of judicial repression. A great upsurge in
sectarianism and millenarianism, Donnelly shows, added fuel to the
conflagration. Inspired by prophecies of doom for the Anglo-Irish
Protestants who ruled the country, the overwhelmingly Catholic Rockites
strove to hasten the demise of the landed elite they viewed as =
oppressors.=20

Drawing on a wealth of sources=97including reports from policemen, =
military
officers, magistrates, and landowners as well as from newspapers, =
pamphlets,
parliamentary inquiries, depositions, rebel proclamations, and =
threatening
missives sent by Rockites to their enemies=97Captain Rock offers a =
detailed
anatomy of a dangerous, widespread insurgency whose distinctive =
political
contours will force historians to expand their notions of how agrarian
militancy influenced Irish nationalism in the years before the Great =
Famine
of 1845=9751.

James S. Donnelly, Jr., is professor of history at the University of
Wisconsin=97Madison. Coeditor of the journal =C9ire-Ireland, he is =
author of The
Great Irish Potato Famine, The Land and the People of Nineteenth-Century
Cork (awarded the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical
Association), and Landlord and Tenant in Nineteenth-Century Ireland.

Copublished with Collins Press. Customers in the Republic of Ireland, =
the
United Kingdom, and Europe should order from Collins Press
(www.collinspress.ie).=20

For more information regarding publicity and reviews contact our =
publicity
manager, Chris Caldwell, phone: (608) 263-0734, email:
publicity[at]uwpress.wisc.edu

Paperback: 512 pages
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press; 1 edition (12 Nov 2009)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0299233146
ISBN-13: 978-0299233143

SOURCE
http://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/4613.htm

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Subject: Bill Mulligan in London, Saturday, January 2, 2010
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The plan, at the moment, is that there be an Irish Diaspora list gathering
to meet Bill Mulligan (of Kentucky), in London, on the evening of Saturday,
January 2, 2010.

I will travel down to London on the Saturday morning.

Bill's hotel is in Marylebone. It would make sense to meet somewhere in
that area. The Marylebone area used to be full of good pubs - I don't know
if that is still the case.

Perhaps we could appoint a Pub Discovery Committee, to locate the ideal
hostelry? Our last little Ir-D meeting in London went very well, but there
was a lot of traipsing. I don't want to do any traipsing. Settle, relax,
enjoy. Get things right first time.

And then let Bill Mulligan go on to Dublin.

Paddy O'Sullivan


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Sent: 13 December 2009 00:52
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Subject: [IR-D] In London and Dublin

Paddy

This may be of interest to some on the list. Post as you deem appropriate.

I will be over in England and Ireland, specifically London and Dublin, with
a study abroad group Dec 27- Jan 8. My course deals with Irish history
1880-1923. I'll be in London Dec 27 through January 2-- traveling to Dublin
Jan 3 and returning to the US on Jan 8. I have some time commitments to the
course, obviously, but if any list member would like to get together for
lunch or dinner or a coffee or a drink I would very much like that and
should be able to arrange it. I can be contacted off list at:
billmulligan[at]murray-ky.net

Holiday greetings to all on IR-D

Bill Mulligan

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Subject: Father Christmas 'buried in Ireland'
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Not a story about financial crises...

And, on that basis, thought might cheer.

P.O'S.

Father Christmas 'buried in Ireland'
The remains of St Nicholas, the man who inspired Father Christmas, are
buried at Jerpoint Abbey in County Kilkenny, Ireland, historians believe.

Experts claim that the philanthropist St Nicholas of Myra is entombed at the
12th century abbey after his body was moved there 800 years ago.
The saint, revered for his extraordinary generosity, lived during the 4th
century and was Bishop of Lycia in what is now Turkey.
Due to his habit for leaving anonymous gifts for the poor, he was declared a
saint soon after his death in 346, and inspired the legend of Father
Christmas.
The bishop was buried in the cathedral church in Myra, which became a
pilgrimage site, but Irish historians claim the early crusaders brought his
remains back to Jerpoint Abbey.
Philip Lynch, an historian and chairman of Callan Heritage Society in Co
Kilkenny, said: "It is an amazing story and yet very few people in Ireland
know about St Nicholas's connection with this country.
"Every year now we get visitors to the site, but still not that many...

...It has previously been held that St Nicholas's remains were taken to Bari
in southern Italy in the 11th century after his grave was looted by Italian
sailors.
However, Mr Lynch claims there is evidence to suggest that a French family
who settled in Ireland shortly after 1169 were responsible for moving his
remains.
He believes that the crusading family, called the de Frainets, exhumed the
tomb after they were routed by their enemies, and brought the content to
southern Italy, which was then Norman lands.
When they were subsequently forced out of Italy by the Genoese, the remains
were entrusted to relatives in Nice, who moved them to family lands in
Kilkenny for safe keeping.
Nicholas de Frainet built a dedicated Cistercian Abbey at Jerpoint where St
Nicholas's remains were then interred in 1200.
"St Nicholas Church is still standing and there is a slab on the ground
which marks St Nicholas's grave," said Mr Lynch.

SOURCE

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/christmas/6808138/Father-Christmas-buried-
in-Ireland.html

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Note that this article has not yet been assigned a place in the paper
version of the journal.

The name of John Elliot Cairnes is mis-spelled in this abstract - a fairly
obvious typo, but one which has consequences for the databases. I have
drawn the error to the attention of the journal.

Gregory C. G. Moore offers an interesting diaspora study, following further
the long term consequences of the Whately Chair throughout the British
Empire. And perhaps there should be more studies of vindictiveness in
diaspora studies.

Part of the charm of this article is watching an outsider thread delicately
through the mazes created by generations of Irish family historians.

P.O'S.



The Anglo-Irish context for William Edward Hearn's economic beliefs and the
ultimate failure of his Plutology *

Author: Gregory C. G. Moore

Published in: The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought
First Published on: 02 October 2009

Abstract
William Edward Hearn is generally regarded as Australia's first economist of
international note and his Plutology ([1863]1864) is invariably deemed to be
Australia's first economics text. In this paper I argue that it is more
appropriate to describe Hearn as an Anglo-Irish economist and, to this end,
provide the Anglo-Irish context for the economic doctrines that he expressed
in Plutology and elsewhere. I also argue that the failure of Plutology in
the market place was, in part, due to a campaign waged against Hearn in
London by John Elliot Carines, who was an undergraduate contemporary of
Hearn's at Trinity College, Dublin.

* A version of this paper was presented at the Australian Economists
Conference, which was held in 2005 at the University of Melbourne. Some of
the biographical findings from this paper were used for a short entry on
Hearn for The Biographical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand
Economists (2007). It was first submitted to a refereed journal (The
European Journal of the History Economic Thought) in December 2008.

Keywords: William Edward Hearn; Irish Political Economy
view references (96)

1. Introduction

William Edward Hearn was the first Australian economist of international
note. His major publication in the discipline of economics, Plutology (Hearn
1863), was praised by most of the leading economists of the late-Victorian
period, including William Stanley Jevons, Alfred Marshall and Francis Ysidro
Edgeworth. Hearn's economic ideas (and to a lesser extent his life) have
subsequently been the subject of more books, monographs and essays than
those of any other Australian economist.1 The scholarship contained in these
publications is, to say the least, breathtaking. Unfortunately, however,
nearly all of the authors of these publications have been pre-occupied with
that part of Hearn's career that transpired after he had migrated from
Ireland to Australia in 1854/55. Indeed, with the exception of the papers
published by T. Boylan and F. Foley (1989, 1990) and a slim, but scholarly,
piece by the late B. Gordon (1967)devoted to one of Hearn's early pamphlets,
Hearn's early years in Ireland have not been examined at any length. The way
in which Hearn's early Irish experiences shaped his economic views has
consequently been either overlooked or downplayed. Some historians
admittedly have argued that Hearn arrived in Australia fully formed as an
intellectual and, further, that the Australian environment had little
influence on his economic ideas (Copland 1935; La Nauze 1949), but curiously
they fail to analyse the way in which this earlier, pre-Australian,
environment shaped his world-view.

In this paper I build upon the research undertaken by Boylan and Foley
(1989, 1990) to present Hearn as an Irish scholar, and more importantly an
Anglo-Irish scholar, who formed his world-view within the strong cultural
institutions of the Protestant Ascendancy and during a time of acute
economic and social dislocation in Ireland. I do not discount the plausible
hypothesis that Hearn's subsequent Australian experiences influenced his
economic writings - and, if anything, I provide evidence that this was the
case. Instead, I argue that these Australian experiences were secondary to
his Irish experiences; that his economic writings cannot be comprehended
outside the context of pre-Famine and Famine Ireland; and that Hearn was
effectively an Anglo-Irish economist who happened to live a little over
one-half of his life in Australia. I also argue that Hearn's Plutology
([1863] 1864), which is generally regarded as Australia's first economic
text, was rejected in the academic marketplace, at least in part, because of
an aggressive campaign waged against Hearn in London by one of his
undergraduate contemporaries, namely John Elliot Cairnes. In other words,
Hearn's Anglo-Irish past had a material effect on his career even once he
had travelled halfway round the world to Australia. The narrative of the
paper takes the traditional chronological form: the Anglo-Irish context of
Hearn's economic beliefs is delineated in Sections 2-5 by tracing the
subject's career trajectory in Ireland before he migrated to Australia (or,
more specifically, the city of Melbourne in the Colony of Victoria); and
then, in Sections 6-8, an account is given of the publication of Plutology
in Melbourne in 1863 and Cairnes' subsequent campaign against this text (and
Hearn!) in London in 1864.

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Subject: Book Notice,
The Black and Green Atlantic: Cross-Currents of the African and
Irish Diasporas
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The Black and Green Atlantic: Cross-Currents of the African and Irish
Diasporas. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2009.

Edited by: Peter D. O'Neill and David Lloyd
=20
This title will be released on December 8, 2009

For centuries, African and Irish people have traversed the Atlantic, as
slaves, servants, migrants and exiles, as political organizers and =
cultural
workers.

Their experiences intersected, their cultures influenced one another. =
They
have competed over work and assimilation. Always they have been defined =
in
relation to one another.

This multi-disciplinary volume of essays explores the connections that =
have
Defined the 'Black and Green Atlantic' in culture, politics, race, and
labour. It explores the relation between two historically oppressed =
peoples
- the dispossessed and colonized Irish, forced into emigration and often
indenture, and Africans captured and enslaved - whose experiences of
racialization and citizenship differed utterly. The Irish became
white while both slaves and free blacks were denied full citizenship and
even humanity. But there were also invaluable moments of solidarity and
cultural connection between them. Such moments make this volume a =
history of
future possibilities as well as one of past antagonisms.

Contents:
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction; Peter D. O'Neill & David Lloyd

PART 1: RACE, THE STATE AND THE GREEN ATLANTIC
Black Irish, Irish Whiteness and Atlantic State Formation; David Lloyd, =
U of
Southern California.
Fenian Fever: Circum Atlantic Insurgency and the Modern State; Amy E.
Martin,
Mt. Holyoke C.
Green Presbyterians, Black Irish and Some Literary Consequences; Nini
Rodgers, Queens U Belfast.

PART 2: PERFORMING RACE
Ventriloquizing Blackness: Eugene O'Neill and Irish-American Racial
Performance;
Cedric J. Robinson, U of California, Santa Barbara.
White Skin, Green Face: House of Pain and the Modern Minstrel Show; Mark
Quigley, U of Oregon.
Samuel Beckett and the Black Atlantic; Jonathan Tadashi Naito, Reed C.

PART 3: RACE AND GENDER
How Irish Maids are Made: Domestic Servants, Atlantic Culture, and =
Modernist
Aesthetics; Marjorie Howes, Boston C.
Laundering Gender: Chinese Men and Irish Women in Late =
Nineteenth-Century
San
Francisco; Peter D. O'Neill, U of Southern California.
Freeing the Colonized Tongue: Representations of Linguistic Colonization =
in
Marlene
Norbese Philip's and Eavan Boland's Poetry; Stacy J. Lettman, U of =
Southern
California.

PART 4: ATLANTIC CROSSINGS
Transatlantic Fugue: Self and Solidarity in the Black and Green =
Atlantics;
M.Malouf, George Mason U.
Beyond the Pale: Green and Black and Cork; Lee M. Jenkins, UC Cork.
'To redeem our colonial character': Slavery and Civilization in R. R.
Madden's A
Twelvemonth's Residence in the West Indies; Fionnghuala Sweeney, U of
Liverpool.

PART 5: CROSSCURRENTS
Martyrs for Contending Causes: David Walker, John Mitchel and the Limits =
of
Liberation; Anthony R. Hale, Mills C.
Declaring Differently: The Transatlantic Black Political Imagination and
Mid-Twentieth
Century Internationalisms; Anne W. Gulick, U of South Carolina.
Embodied Perception and Utopian Movements: Connections Across the =
Atlantic;
D.O'Hearn, Binghamton U, SUNY.

Works Cited
Index

http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?is=3D9780230228184

Get a 33% discount at:

http://www.amazon.com/Black-Green-Atlantic-Cross-Currents-Diasporas/dp/02=
302
28186

PETER D. O'NEILL is completing his doctorate in English at the =
University of
Southern California, USA. His dissertation is entitled The Racial State =
and
The Transatlantic Irish. His work has appeared in journals such as =
Foilsi=FA,
The Internationalist Review of Irish Culture, and the Journal of =
American
Studies.

DAVID LLOYD is Professor of English at the University of Southern
California, USA. His books include Ireland After History (1999) and =
Irish
Times: Temporalities of Irish Modernity (2008). He has co-published =
several
other books, including Culture and the State, co-authored with Paul =
Thomas
(1997) and The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (1997), with
Lisa Lowe.

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Subject: CFP Dance Research Forum Ireland's 3rd International Conference
June, 2010, Cork
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Forwarded on behalf of
Dr Catherine Foley
Email: catherine.e.foley[at]ul.ie
www.irishworldacademy.ie
www.danceresearchforumireland.org

Dance Research Forum Ireland's 3rd International Conference

Capturing Composition: Improvisation in Dance Research and Practice

Thursday 24th - Sunday 27th June, 2010

Hosted by

The Firkin Crane, Cork


First Call for Proposals
December 2009

Dance Research Forum Ireland (DRFI) invites proposals for its 3rd
International Conference: Capturing Composition: Improvisation in Dance
Research and Practice. The conference, in keeping with the aims and
objectives of DRFI, provides a platform for both dance academics and dance
artists in Ireland and abroad. Included in its programme are academic-based
paper presentations, practice-based research presentations, lecture
demonstrations, dance workshops, a student poster exhibition, and dance
performance contributions. Please visit DRFI's website at:
www.danceresearchforumireland.org

The conference explores improvisation in dance research and practice. What
is improvisation and how relevant is it to dance research and practice? Is
improvisation a subjective experience; a creative tool; a mode of
performance - or all or none of the above? How is improvisation transmitted?
What methodologies or techniques are used or are being developed; and how is
improvisation documented? What or who are the primary and secondary sources?


Broadly defined as 'spontaneous composition', improvisation has always been
an integral part of dance practice. The aim of this conference is to
identify and document how and where improvisation has been, and is being,
used in dance practice; and its relevance and importance in dance research
and dance practice as research.

Abstracts of presentations addressing the above or any other topic relevant
to the theme of the conference should be forwarded electronically in Rich
Text Format to Ms. Carmel McKenna, Secretary DRFI, at carmel.mckenna[at]lit.ie
or mckennadance[at]gmail.com.

Deadline for Submission of Proposals is Friday, 4th January, 2010.

Guidelines for Proposals

Proposals include any one of six presentation formats listed below. Only
one presentation per applicant is permissible. It is essential that
proposals address the theme of the conference and present new insights in
the attempt at advancing dance research knowledge and practice. Please
submit your proposal form, including your one-page abstract (approximately
250-300 words) of your presentation, detailing your presentation format and
outlining your proposed research topic and argument together with a short
bibliography and/or videography, and forward it electronically to the
Secretary of DRFI, Ms. Carmel McKenna at carmel.mckenna[at]lit.ie or
mckennadance[at]gmail.com. It is more convenient for the programme committee if
the proposals are forwarded electronically both within the body of the email
and in an enclosed attachment using Rich Text Format.


Programme Committee:
Dr Catherine Foley, Chair of Programme Committee, The Irish World Academy of
Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
Ms. Sheila Creevey, Institute of Technology, Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland.
Dr. Victoria O'Brien, Dublin Youth Dance Company, Dublin.
Mr. Paul McCarthy, General Manager, The Firkin Crane, Cork.

Conference Location: The Firkin Crane, Cork.

Organising Committee:
Paul McCarthy, General Manager and Chair of the Organising Committee, The
Firkin Crane, Shandon, Cork.
Michelle Whelan, Project Co-ordinator, The Firkin Crane, Cork


Presentation Formats:

1. Academic-based and/or Practice-based research presentations

2. Panels

3. Lecture Demonstrations

4. Dance Workshops

5. Student Posters

6. Dance Performance Contributions