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From: Christine Johnston [mailto:Christine.Johnston[at]librariesni.org.uk]=20

Dear colleagues and friends

CMS Annual Report 2008-2009 =A0

May we draw your attention to our Annual Report for 2008-2009, which can =
now
be viewed at: http://www.qub.ac.uk/cms/

The front cover photograph features those who attended the XVII
Ulster-American Heritage Symposium, which we hosted in June 2008. The =
XVIII
Symposium will take place next summer, 24-27 June 2010, at the Mountain
Heritage Center at Western Carolina University, Cullowhee:
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=3D171101

This year saw a major restructuring of the libraries of the five =
Education
and Library Boards which came together on 1 April as a single Northern
Ireland Library Authority, known as Libraries NI. Thus the CMS Library =
is
now part of Libraries NI and we welcomed Deirdre Nugent and Elizabeth
McAleer as new librarian colleagues.

Congratulations to our most recent group of Irish Migration Studies
graduates, who graduated last Friday, including Lesley Donaldson, =
Catherine
McConnell, Olga McErlean, Rene Martin, Mearns Pollock and Tim Watt, and =
best
wishes for a speedy recovery to John Mooney who has deferred his =
graduation
to next summer.

The Ninth Annual MSSc Reunion Lecture will be given on Saturday 30 =
January
at 11.00 am by Professor Jane Ohlmeyer of Trinity College, Dublin, who,
continuing the Plantation theme, will speak on =91Ireland=92s =
Aristocracy and
British migration to Ireland in the seventeenth century=92:
http://www.qub.ac.uk/cms/about/events.htm
We hope that as many students of the course as possible, past and =
present,
and also friends of the Centre, will be able to attend this event.=20

With thanks for your support during the year and best wishes from all =
here
for the Christmas season and the New Year,

Yours sincerely,

Brian Lambkin
Director


Christine Johnston
Senior Library Asst
Centre for Migration Studies
Ulster American Folk Park
=A0
Tel:=A0 028 8225 6315
Fax:=A0 028 8224 2241
Email:=A0 christine.johnston[at]librariesni.org.uk

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PETER LANG - International Academic Publishers are pleased to announce a =
new
book by

John Strachan / Alison O=92Malley-Younger (eds)

IRELAND
Revolution and Evolution


Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, =
2010. X,
238 pp.
Reimagining Ireland. Vol. 12
Edited by Eamon Maher

ISBN 978-3-03911-881-6 pb.

The essays in this collection all revolve around the notion of change in
Ireland, whether by revolution or by evolution. Developments in the =
shared
histories of Ireland and Great Britain are an important theme throughout =
the
book. The volume begins by examining two remarkable Irishmen on the make =
in
Georgian London: the boxing historian Pierce Egan and the extraordinary
Charles Macklin, eighteenth-century actor, playwright and =
manslaughterer.

The focus then moves to aspects of Hibernian influence and the presence =
of
the Irish Diaspora in Great Britain from the medieval period up to the =
late
nineteenth- and early twentieth-century celebrations of St Patrick=92s =
Day in
Manchester. The book also considers the very different attitudes to the
British Empire evident in the career of the 1916 rebel Sir Roger =
Casement
and the Victorian philologist and colonial servant Whitley Stokes. =
Further
essays look at writings by Scottish Marxists on the state of Ireland in =
the
1920s and the pronouncements on the Troubles by John Lennon and Paul
McCartney.

The book also examines change in the culture of the island of Ireland, =
from
the development of the Irish historical novel in the nineteenth century, =
to
ecology in contemporary Irish women=92s poetry, to the present state of =
the
Roman Catholic Church in Ireland. Contemporary Irish authors examined
include Roddy Doyle, Joseph O=92Connor and Martin McDonagh.


Contents:

Michael O=92Neill: Foreword =96=20
Alison O=92Malley-Younger/John Strachan: Introduction =96=20
John Strachan: Pierce Egan, West Briton =96=20
Alison O=92Malley-Younger: =91Oh Horrible! An Irish Man=92: Macklin, =
Friel and the
Politics of Mimicry =96=20
Paul Younger: =93Bryneich - R=ECoghachd Gh=E0idhealach=94: The Gaelic =
Foundations of
the Golden Age of Northumbria =96=20
Mervyn Busteed: =91Plentiful Libations of Whisky, Perfervid Irish =
Oratory and
Some Religious Sentiment=92: Celebrating St Patrick=92s Day in =
Manchester,
1825-1922 =96=20
Elizabeth Boyle: Whitley Stokes=92s =93Immram=94: Evolution, Ireland and =
Empire =96=20
Willy Maley: =91Their Song Is Over=92 (and Other Familiar Refrains): =
Irish
Revolutions, Gyrations and Ululations from Lenin to Lennon =96=20
Patrick Maume: Respectability against Ascendancy: The Banim Brothers and =
the
Invention of the Irish Catholic Middle-Class Novel in the Age of =
O=92Connell =96

Catherine Rees: Theatrical Representations of Easter 1916 and Sir Roger
Casement: Flags, Walls and Cats =96=20
Sylvie Mikowski: Reimagining the Irish Historical Novel in Roddy =
Doyle=92s =93A
Star Called Henry=94 and Joseph O=92Connor=92s =93Star of the Sea=94 =96 =

Lucy Collins: Clearing the Air: Irish Women Poets and Environmental =
Change =96

Eamon Maher: Contemporary Irish Catholicism: Revolution or Evolution?


The Editors:

John Strachan is Professor of English at the University of Sunderland. =
He is
co-director of the North East Irish Culture Network (NEICN) and author =
of
=93Advertising and Satirical Culture in the Romantic Period=94 (2007). =
He has
written and edited another ten books, including =93Essays on Modern =
Irish
Literature=94 (2007).
Alison O=92Malley-Younger is Senior Lecturer in English at the =
University of
Sunderland. She is co-director of the North East Irish Culture Network
(NEICN) and co-edited the collections =93Essays on Modern Irish =
Literature=94
(2007) and =93No Country for Old Men: Fresh Perspectives on Irish =
Literature=94
(2009).

Direct order:
http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?vLang=3DE&vID=3D11881

PETER LANG AG
International Academic Publishers
Moosstrasse 1
P.O. Box 350
CH-2542 Pieterlen
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Tel +41 (0)32 376 17 17
Fax +41 (0)32 376 17 27

e-mail:
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Internet:
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Carysfort Press is now a very significant player in Irish scholarly =
publishing. The web site is worth exploring.

I have suggested to Carysfort Press that the web site could be more =
friendly and useful if it had a Search facility and if it displayed full =
Tables of Contents.

P.O'S.

Irish Theatre International, Volume 1 Number 2

=E2=80=98Celebrating Brian Friel's 80th year, this issue celebrates =
Friel's dramatic canon from his earliest plays to his most recent work =
to date.=E2=80=99

Paul Murphy

In terms of Irish theatre, Brian Friel is perhaps the most =
internationally acclaimed playwright of his generation. It is =
appropriate then that in his 80th year this issue of Irish Theatre =
International focuses specifically on Friel=E2=80=99s dramatic canon. =
The articles in this issue reflect the range and calibre of =
Friel=E2=80=99s work, covering his earliest plays from The Blind Mice =
(1963), through to his magnum opus Translations (1980) and up to his =
most recent work to date The Home Place (2005).

Contributors include: Scott Boltwood, Christopher Murray, =
Anthony Roche, Nicholas Grene, Helena Lojek and Anna McMullen.
=20

ISBN 2009-0870

Cost =E2=82=AC10.00

http://www.carysfortpress.com/

http://www.carysfortpress.com/products/54.htm

=20

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Irish Society for Theatre Research=20
Annual Conference
Trinity College, Dublin=20
23-24 April 2010=20
=A0
=A0
Historiography Working Group:=20
2010 Call for Papers:=20
=A0
In the past decade or so the diachronic and synchronic axes of Irish =
theatre
history have been extended beyond the advent of the Abbey Theatre and =
its
attendant narrative of national theatre as alternative histories,
geographies and genealogies of performance have been explored by theatre
scholars. These developments have evolved alongside broader disciplinary
debates in the field of theatre and performance studies as new =
methodologies
and approaches for exploring the theatrical past, espoused in several
seminal studies, have profoundly challenged the way in which theatre
history/historiography is conducted and conceptualised (Bratton=92s New
Readings in Theatre History [2003]; Zarilli et al=92s Theatre Histories: =
An
Introduction [2006]; Postlewait=92s Cambridge Introduction to Theatre
Historiography [2009]; Theatre Survey=92s special edition on theatre
history/historiography [2004]).
=A0
These disciplinary debates and developments, and their epistemological
implications for the ways in which archives, evidence, interpretation,
theory and documentation are understood and analysed in relation to =
Irish
theatre contexts are the subject of this year=92s Historiography Working =
Group
meeting (23-24 April 2010). This year=92s meeting aims to both
appraise/evaluate current research practices, and to identify/apply new
theoretical orientations to the historiography of Irish theatre and
performance. =20
=A0
Papers investigating current research practices or problems in Irish =
theatre
history, or proposing new critical paradigms are invited. These may be
illustrated through examples of individuals, performance events, =
theatrical
contexts, documents, institutions, archives, audiences, social =
conditions
etc.=20
=A0
Potential topics and themes include, but are not limited to:=20
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Pre-20th century theatre and performance =
history;
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Folk performance traditions (wrenboys, rhymers, =
strawboys,
seannachies etc) and theatre history;
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 The historiography of popular theatre (music =
hall, circus,
pantomime, melodrama, musical theatre etc.);
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 The historiography of non-institutional theatre =
(fit-up companies,
mummers, amateur theatre);=20
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Political, cultural, ritual performances =
(pageants, parades,
protests, patterns, wakes etc) and Irish theatre history/historiography;
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 The body in performance (=91embodied =
repertoire=92; =91performative
history=92, the historiography of dance, actor training etc.);=20
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Theatre criticism and theatre =
history/historiography; =20
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 The ethics of theatre historiography;
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Performance studies and theatre historiography;
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Class/gender/geography and theatre =
history/historiography;=20
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 New paradigms for Irish theatre historiography =
(geographies of
performance; practice-by-research; feminist historiography; queer
historiography etc.);=20
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Irish theatre historiography in its
colonial/nationalist/postcolonial contexts;
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Theatre history/historiography in an age of =
digital culture and
performance.
=A0
Proposal Submissions:=20
=A0
Proposals should outline the theoretical framework as well as a =
description
of how that approach is employed to investigate a particular case study,
trend or topic. Abstracts (no more than 500 words) and a brief (150 =
words)
biography including name, affiliation, and email address should be =
directed
to working group conveners Mark Phelan (m.phelan[at]qub.ac.uk) and Lionel
Pilkington (lionel.pilkington[at]nuigalway.ie) by Friday 5 February 2010.
=A0
All selected participants must commit to submitting final conference =
drafts
of their papers by Monday 12 April 2010. Articles longer than =
conventional
conference papers are welcome (up to a maximum of 7000 words). =
Participants
will be expected to read all colleagues=92 drafts before the working =
group
session meets and all participants must become members of ISTR.=20
=A0
A selection of papers will be included in New Directions in Irish =
Theatre
History: Essays in the Historiography of Performance -- a collection of
essays that will be co-edited by the conveners for publication in 2011. =

=A0
ISTR Historiography Working Group
The Historiography Working Group aims to generate critical debate over =
the
conceptual and theoretical bases on which Irish theatre history has =
been, or
might be, constructed. Its function is twofold: to foment discussion =
about
the methodological, philosophical and epistemological approaches to the
history of theatre and performance (the meta-language of our =
discipline);
and to facilitate greater dialogue between scholars through the =
discussion
of works-in-progress and published outputs.
Historiographical questions, problems or practices discussed by =
participants
may be illustrated through specific case examples and there are no
restrictions on the historical period or place of performance, although =
all
papers must relate (to some aspect) of Irish theatre/performance in its
national or international contexts.
All papers are circulated among participants and read in advance of the
annual ISTR conference. Each paper is briefly summarized rather than
presented by their author, before being discussed in detail by the rest =
of
the working group. Any ISTR member can submit a proposal or participate =
in
our panel discussions. It must be emphasised that we will welcome papers =
in
all stages of development including early drafts and works-in-progress =
as
the provision of feedback is a crucial dynamic to the working group. =
Indeed,
it is our hope and expectation that participants will continue to engage
with one another and to exchange material for future development long =
after
our session draws to a close.
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Expecting the Impossible? Abolitionist Appeals to the Irish in
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This article moves through a lot of detail to, in the last paragraphs,
question 'whiteness' arguments - the Irish in USA rallied around the
Democratic party and the Catholic Church, and supported their views on
slavery.

P.O'S.


The New England Quarterly
December 2009, Vol. 82, No. 4, Pages 667-710
Posted Online November 4, 2009.

(doi:10.1162/tneq.2009.82.4.667)
C 2009 by The New England Quarterly

Expecting the Impossible? Abolitionist Appeals to the Irish in Antebellum
America
John F. Quinn

John F. Quinn, Professor of History at Salve Regina University in Newport,
Rhode Island, is the author of Father Mathew's Crusade: Temperance in
Nineteenth-Century Ireland and Irish America.

When examining the divide that existed between Irish immigrants and
abolitionists in the antebellum era, some historians have blamed the
abolitionists, accusing them of harboring anti-Catholic views. In reality,
William Lloyd Garrison and most antislavery stalwarts were well disposed
toward Irish Catholics and made several attempts to reach out to them in the
1830s and '40s...

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Subject: Call for papers: Women's History Association of Ireland

=91She said she was in the family way=92: pregnancy and infancy=20
in the Irish past=20

Queen=92s University Belfast, 16-17 April 2010=20

The 2010 conference of the Women=92s History Association of Ireland will =
focus
on the theme of pregnancy and infancy. We would welcome papers that =
discuss
issues relating to the conception and care of babies and toddlers in the
Irish past. This includes topics such as:=20

. Pregnancy=20
. Contraception=20
. Childbirth=20
. Wet-nursing=20
. Parenting of infant children and the role of infants in families=20
. Attitudes of church and state to legitimate and/or illegitimate births =

. Adoption of infants=20
. Abortion=20
. Public institutions (including hospitals and workhouses) that cared =
for
pregnant women and infants=20
. Philanthropic organisations that focused on the care of pregnant women =
and
infants=20
. Child desertion and abandonment=20
. Infanticide=20

Abstracts (200-300 words) for 20 minute papers, together with proposed =
title
and contact details,=20
should be submitted to Elaine Farrell on or before 29 January 2010:
efarrell03[at]qub.ac.uk=20

Conference organisers: Professor Mary O=92Dowd and Elaine Farrell=20


=A0

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Contemporary Women's Writing Advance Access published online on July 31,
2009=20
Contemporary Women's Writing, doi:10.1093/cww/vpp007=20

"None of us will always be here": Whiteness, Loss, and Alice McDermott's =
At
Weddings and Wakes

Sin=E9ad Moynihan
University of Nottingham, UK sinead.moynihan[at]nottingham.ac.uk

"None of us will always be here," Aunt May said.

Their mother stood and leaned out the window to feel the white sheets on =
the
line. "You don't have to tell me," she said. "These are long dry." =
(Weddings
26)

In Alice McDermott's National Book Award-winning Charming Billy (1998),
Dennis Lynch travels to a Veterans Affairs clinic in the early 1980s to
identify the body of his dead cousin and best friend, the eponymous =
Billy.
Seeing his face bloated from years of alcohol abuse and his once pale =
skin
darkened to brown, Dennis is momentarily relieved of the fact that Billy =
is
dead and mistakes his cousin for "a colored man" (6). Dennis's blunder =
is
revealing: Billy cannot be dead, because Billy is white and this dead =
man is
black. What reassures Dennis, if only fleetingly, is his assumption of
Billy's racial difference from the...

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From emigrant to immigrant society - transition and change in the
Republic of Ireland
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For a number of reasons - like Google Books and other ebook systems -
Chapters of Irish and Irish Diaspora interest within wide-ranging,
multi-author books are becoming more visible to our alerts.

Example below...

I'll distribute information about these when I think that a number of Ir-D
members will want this news.

Treasa (sic - and how she protects that name from auto-correct and
busybodies I do not know) Galvin's chapter is a useful summary of the
Republic of Ireland's changing attitudes to its new arrivals.

P.O'S.

Chapter 14.
From emigrant to immigrant society-transition and change in the Republic of
Ireland
Treasa Galvin

In

Immigration Worldwide
Policies, Practices, and Trends
Edited by Uma A. Segal, Doreen Elliott and Nazneen S. Mayadas

ISBN13: 9780195388138
ISBN10: 0195388135
Hardback, 496 pages
Oxford UP
December 2009

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Another useful chapter, looking at the features of Irish society that =
become
visible through their work to counsellors and psychologists...

P.O'S.

Ch 20. "Our Aspirations are our Possibilities": Growth and Features of
Counselling Psychology in Ireland Eleanor O'Leary, Eoin O'Shea

In

International Handbook of Cross-Cultural Counseling
Cultural Assumptions and Practices Worldwide

Lawrence H. Gerstein Ball State University
P. Paul Heppner University of Missouri, Columbia
Stefan=EDa =C6gisd=F3ttir Ball State University
Seung-Ming Alvin Leung The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Kathryn L. Norsworthy Rollins College

July 2009 576 pages SAGE Publications,=20

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Subject: CFP Transnational Ireland,
Australasian Irish Studies Conference 1 July - 4 July 2010,
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST
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Australasian Irish Studies Conference 2010
17th AUSTRALASIAN IRISH STUDIES CONFERENCE

QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST

Thursday 1 July - Sunday 4 July 2010

Transnational Ireland: migration, conflict, representations

Papers are invited on any topic relating to Ireland and the Irish abroad,
but topics relating to the Irish experience in Australia and New Zealand,
influences and experiences of Australians / New Zealanders in Ireland, Irish
and Australasian sports, and comparative experiences of emigration and
conflict will be especially welcome. The conference will be
interdisciplinary, with contributions anticipated from such areas as:
history, migration studies, sociology, politics, literature, the arts,
gender, geography, anthropology and economics. Paper proposals (including
abstracts) should be submitted by 29 January 2010.

Venue: Institute of Irish Studies & Elmwood Learning and Teaching Centre,
Queen's University Belfast

For further information & enquiries please contact: ais2010[at]qub.ac.uk

SOURCE
http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/NewsandEvents/Events/Austra
lasianIrishStudiesConference2010/

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Dear Paddy,

I know a number of folks on the list have been following recent
development related to the Justice for Magdalenes (JFM) campaign I
have been involved in over recent months. There were some significant
developments this past week after a meeting with the Department of
Justice and a presentation before an ad hoc committee of Dail
Eireann. I attach the links below.

Many thanks,

jim

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/1216/1224260763807.html

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/1218/1224260898338.html



http://www.examiner.ie/ireland/okeeffe-under-pressure-to-withdraw-statement-107903.html

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/group-to-get-redress-for-magdalene-laundry-victims-108044.html



http://www.rte.ie/news/oireachtasreport/ [begins about 2:45 into the
program]

********************
James Smith
Associate Professor
English Department and Irish Studies Program
Boston College
smithbt[at]bc.edu

http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/english/faculty/facalpha/smith.html

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Dictionary of Irish Biography 9 Volume Set
From the Earliest Times to the Year 2002
Edited by James McGuire
University College Dublin
James Quinn
Royal Irish Academy
9 Hardback books (ISBN-13: 9780521633314)
Published November 2009

Published in collaboration with the Royal Irish Academy, the Dictionary of
Irish Biography is the most comprehensive and authoritative biographical
reference work available both in print and online for Ireland. From James
Ussher to James Joyce, St Patrick to Patrick Pearse, St Brigit to Maud Gonne
MacBride, Maria Edgeworth to Elizabeth Bowen, Edward Carson to Bobby Sands,
this indispensable resource outlines the careers at home and overseas of
prominent men and women born in Ireland, north and south, and the noteworthy
Irish careers of those born outside Ireland. Distinctive features of the
Dictionary include the particular attention paid to outstanding women who
have previously been overlooked and its broad coverage of the modern period.

. 9 volumes, over 9,000 entries, covering 9,700 lives, ranging from the
earliest times to 2002
. Biographical subjects include: artists, scientists, lawyers, actors,
musicians, writers, politicians, criminals, and saints
. Compiled by 700 expert advisors and contributors
. Articles range from 200 to 15,000 words, from fascinating short summaries
to detailed assessments.

SOURCE
http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521633314

Dictionary of Irish Biography

Who are in the Dictionary of Irish Biography (9 vols and online, 2009)?
In 9,014 entries, covering 9,700 lives, the first edition of the Dictionary
of Irish Biography from the earliest times to the year 2002 outlines the
careers at home and overseas of prominent men and women born in Ireland,
north and south, and the noteworthy Irish careers of those born outside
Ireland. Biographical range in length from 200 words to 14,000. The
chronological scope of the Dictionary of Irish Biography extends from the
earliest times to 2002. The living are not included.

SOURCE
http://www.ria.ie/projects/dib/background.html


Typhoid Mary and other curiosities in Irish biography

The biggest work ever published about the lives of famous Irish men and
women has been launched in Belfast by poet Seamus Heaney.
The nine-volume Dictionary of Irish Biography features more than 9,700
entries and spans 2,000 years of the island's history.
Described by Mr Heaney as "an epoch-making event in the history of Irish
scholarship", it is a joint project between the Royal Irish Academy and
Cambridge University Press.
Alongside Northern Ireland luminaries from Joey Dunlop to CS Lewis, the
historians and writers have profiled some of the more unusual figures from
the past. Here are some abridged versions of just few of them.
Mary Mallon, the original 'Typhoid Mary
James Gamble, the Gamble in Procter and Gamble
Mary Butters, the 'Carnmoney Witch
Patrick Murphy, 'World's Tallest Man'

Full text at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8419022.stm


Typhoid Mary: America's bogeywoman makes new dictionary of Irish biographies
By Margaret Canning
Friday, 18 December 2009

Just what does it take to go down in history?

Some people distinguish themselves in medicine, business and the arts.

Others make their name in less edifying ways.

A new dictionary of Irish biography includes around 2,000 Ulster people,
some of whose stories will make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on
end.

While the massive nine-volume work includes all the usual suspects - CS
Lewis, Harry Ferguson, Edward Carson - there are also some less likely
entrants whose fame has spread beyond these shores for less noble reasons.

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James,
that sounds pretty high. Most of the figures I've seen for Irishmen who fo=
ught for the Confederacy (and this would include Catholics and Protestants)=
place it at around 30k to 60k. Only about 150k Irish fought for the Union=
, so the 200k number would seem to include the Irish in both the Federal an=
d Confederate armies. =20

As for motivation, I think there were a number of reasons. The fact that t=
hey lived in the South and were expected to fight (and would be paid to fig=
ht) for the Confederacy was part of it. But I think there was some idealis=
m involved as well. John Mitchel (granted, a protestant but highly influen=
tial with many Irish in the South) asserted that the South and Ireland had =
a great deal in common. He maintained that both were rural colonies exploit=
ed by industrial and imperial powers. Thus, many Irish in the South identi=
fied with a more romantic, antiquated ideal of society that Southern nation=
alists advocated. Also, the North, especially abolitionists and the Republ=
ican party, often represented evangelical, sectarian, anti-Catholic notions=
that were anathema to many Irish in the South. And, of course, there were=
many Irish in both the North and the South that supported or were morally =
ambiguous about slavery.=20

sl=C3=A1inte,=20
bpm

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I have a student in my Irish in America class who has done some independent=
=3D
research on Irish Catholic soldiers who fought for the south during the Ci=
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Much too high, I'd say. But, ask David Doyle at UCD . =
He knows, trust me.
KM


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This is another article by Brian Conway on remembering Bloody Sunday. I
have pasted in an earlier Ir-D message below this one, to give a context.

P.O'S.

Rethinking Difficult Pasts: Bloody Sunday (1972) as a Case Study

Brian Conway
National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland, Brian.Conway[at]nuim.ie

The sociological literature on collective memory puts forward fragmented and
multivocal commemorations as two dominant ways of responding to difficult
pasts. This article argues that there is room for improvement in these
models by specifying the conditions under which a controversial past can be
remembered initially in a fragmented way and, with greater temporal distance
from the original event, can evolve into a more consensual form of
commemoration in which the past is seized upon as a resource to advance the
politics of reconciliation between two opposing identity groups in an
unsettled society. An evolving political climate, active memory
choreography, and the usability of the past in the present all help account
for this. The empirical evidence to support this theoretical claim comes
from a long-range, historical study of the case of Bloody Sunday (1972).

Key Words: Bloody Sunday . commemoration . controlled consensus . memorials
. memory . Northern Ireland . social movement organizations

Cultural Sociology, Vol. 3, No. 3, 397-413 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1749975509105539

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Subject: Article, Local conditions, global environment and transnational
discourses in memory work: The case of Bloody Sunday (1972)

This is a very well researched and thoughtful piece, moving very confidently
between the very local and the global. The diasporic dimension is evident
in its use of world society theory, and what the author calls the 'global
turn' in remembering...

Amongst those thanked are the journal's anonymous reviewers, and one foot
note thanks them for a specific, very useful elucidation.

P.O'S.

Memory Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2, 187-209 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1750698007088385
C 2008 SAGE Publications

Local conditions, global environment and transnational discourses in memory
work: The case of Bloody Sunday (1972)
Brian Conway

National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Republic of Ireland,
brian.conway[at]nuim.ie

Within the collective memory literature, very few scholars have sought to
examine commemoration through the lens of globalization theory even though
it poses challenges to understandings of time and space that underpin memory
studies. This article examines the local political conditions and global
institutional environment influencing memory discourses. Drawing on the case
of Bloody Sunday (1972), I examine the role of memory choreographers in
constructing universalizing commemorative idioms and the local conditions
and global setting influencing this memory work. I argue that the mid-1990s
was characterized by an increasing emphasis on Bloody Sunday's globally
`chic' qualities that seemed to liquidate its earlier localized meaning, and
that this was achieved through drawing analogies between the Bloody Sunday
experience and other global casualties of injustice and oppression. This
narrative reframing of the event is explained in terms of Irish, British,
European, American and global influences as well as political, economic and
demographic shifts, which came together in the mid-1990s, to create a
propitious environment for a global turn in Bloody Sunday memory.

Key Words: commemoration . Derry . Northern Ireland

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Dear James,

I have done a bit of research on this question while working on my
(nearly-finished) dissertation "Did the Irish 'Become White'?" Ella
Lonn's _Foreigners in the Confederacy_ (1940, reprinted 2001) says that
the Irish were the largest ethnic group to fight for the South (although I
don't believe she makes a distinction between Catholic and Protestant).
In a letter to the Dublin _Nation_ at the height of the conflict, John
Mitchel (who was editing Jefferson Davis' Richmond _Enquirer_) gave an
estimate of 40,000 (Feb 14, 1863). Recently, historian David Gleeson
figures Mitchel's number is far too high BUT that even if one halves
Mitchel's number, "the comparison of this number [20,000] to the Irish
population in the eleven Confederate states as recorded in 1860 shows that
around 70% of able-bodied Irish men fought in the Confederate armed
forces." (see David Gleeson, _The Irish in the South_) The number your
student came up with is undoubtedly an inflated estimate of North and
South. Probably the most useful recent book on the subject (but one
plagued with problems from an academic standpoint) is Kelly J. O'Grady's
_Clear the Confederate Way! The Irish in the Army of Northern Virgina_
(2000).

Motivations to fight for the South revolved around comparing the
North/South to Britain/Ireland: 1) opposition to centralized government
dictating local affairs; 2) comparisons drawn between the campaign to
repeal the Act of Union and to repeal of the union of the United States;
3) Southern secession was, like the fight for Irish freedom, a struggle to
safeguard homes and loved ones from "foreign" invasion." White supremacy
played a role too. One letter to the editor from an Irishman in Macon GA
expressed a desire to preserve slavery and "the aristocracy of white
blood." But there was more to racial identity than just whiteness. John
Mitchel editorialized that the "Confederates now universally repudiate
'Anglo-Saxonism"... and claim kindred with the Celts." The Civil War was
a reenactment of the ageless struggle in Ireland between Celt and Saxon.

Hope this all helps,

Cian McMahon

PhD Candidate
Department of History
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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There were 85k Irish-born in the South in the early 1860s. This means =
the males were around 40-45k. Of those, half would be too young or old =
too fight. Perhaps the total pool of serviceable age men was 20-25k. So, =
did every single fighting-age Irishman go to war for the Confederacy? I =
doubt it. Therefore, even 20k seems high. If we're include second- and =
third-generation Irish folk who identified themselves as Irish, then the =
pool grows. David Gleeson, who is writing a book on the Irish in the =
Confederate Army tells me he does find non-Ireland born Irishmen who =
identify themselves as Irish. They'd be difficult to count as a =
demographic category, but one could speculate that the entire fighting =
age population of the first, second and third generation could climb to =
60k. But I can't ever imagine a figure of 200k. Unless you're using the =
entire population derived from any Irishman or woman dating to the =
Scotch-Irish migrations. But that would surely be a meaningless =
definition of Irish.

Don MacRaild


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At the risk of being redundant, the student's estimate for Irish Catholics
fighting for the South is high--grossly so. This reminds me of the debate
over Black Confederates--another instance where numbers quickly get
inflated. The accepted estimate is that about 80 percent of eligible men in
the South fought for the South vs. about 50 percent in the North. I doubt
there were 250,000 Irish Catholic men of military age in the Confederacy;
even including Protestants it is hard to see there being enough people
there. Estimates for "Irish" fighting for the South that I have seen are
well under 100,000, most are around 50,000, and most of them would have been
Protestants. So the number of Irish Catholics was probably in the 20,000
range at most.

Motivation is always tricky--see McPherson's work on why soldiers fought. It
is a very mixed bag. I have never seen--not that it did not happen--anything
comparable to Corcoran and Meagher's dual track appeal to Northern Irishmen
to fight to gain acceptance as Americans and prepare for an attack on the
British in Ireland in the South. Acceptance seems to have been less of an
issue in the South. John Mitchel did support the Southern cause and lose
two sons, but how much that really mattered (except to the sons) is
debatable.

Bill Mulligan

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From: Patrick Maume
In terms of soldiers' motivation, an interesting example is found in
Lawrence Kohl (ed.) IRISH GREEN AND UNION BLUE; THE CIVIL WAR LETTERS OF
PETER WELSH, COLOUR SERGEANT, 28TH MASSACHUSETTS
Welsh was a tailor who enlisted after getting into a fight while drunk,
and his letters make it clear that he despised blacks, abolitionists,
Abraham Lincoln, abolitionists (whom he describes as 'nigar worshipping
fanatics') and Confederates equally; yet when he is replying to a letter
from relatives, which has not survived but clearly urged him to get out of
te army if he could, he says that Union victory is vital because nowehere
else is there such political and religious freedom as he has experieced in
America, and if the USA were to break up this would strengthen the forces
of tyranny in general, and Britain in particular. (I have seen other
references to Irish Union supporters who developed similar conspiracy
theories about the South as British stooges, consciously or unconsciously
tools of an Old World conspiracy to weaken the Great Republic; similar
theories were deployed against nativists in the later nineteenth century.)
A possible Confederate case study would be Fr. John B. Bannon (William
Barnaby Faherty EXILE IN ERIN: A CONFEDERATE CHAPLAIN'S STORY, THE LIFE
OF FR. JOHN B. BANNON) an Irish-born priest who sided with the
pro-Confederate forces in Missouri at the outbreak of the civil war and
after their defeat went south and was a military chaplain before becoming a
Confederate envoy to Ireland and Rome. The bio of him I have read does not
go too deeply into his motivation, but in his campaign against recruiting
for the Union army in Ireland he certainly used the argument that the North
was to the south as Britain to Ireland. After the war, deciding Missouri
would be too hot to hold him, he joined the Dublin Jesuit community and
remained in Ireland until his death.
UCD Press is publishing a memoir by the Fenian and Home Rule MP JFX
O'Brien next year. O'Brien was living in Louisiana at the start of the war
and joined the Confederate army (the 8th Louisiana Tigers, recruited from
the "Irish Channel" district of New Orleans, were probably the nearest the
Confederacy had to a specifically Irish regiment); I do not know if the
memoir has much on his motives for so doing, but it may be worth looking out
for.
Best wishes,
Patrick
Hope this is some use,
Best wishes,
Patrick
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Bill Mulligan
wrote:

> At the risk of being redundant, the student's estimate for Irish Catholics
> fighting for the South is high--grossly so. This reminds me of the debate
> over Black Confederates--another instance where numbers quickly get
> inflated. The accepted estimate is that about 80 percent of eligible men in
> the South fought for the South vs. about 50 percent in the North. I doubt
> there were 250,000 Irish Catholic men of military age in the Confederacy;
> even including Protestants it is hard to see there being enough people
> there. Estimates for "Irish" fighting for the South that I have seen are
> well under 100,000, most are around 50,000, and most of them would have
> been
> Protestants. So the number of Irish Catholics was probably in the 20,000
> range at most.
>
> Motivation is always tricky--see McPherson's work on why soldiers fought.
> It
> is a very mixed bag. I have never seen--not that it did not
> happen--anything
> comparable to Corcoran and Meagher's dual track appeal to Northern Irishmen
> to fight to gain acceptance as Americans and prepare for an attack on the
> British in Ireland in the South. Acceptance seems to have been less of an
> issue in the South. John Mitchel did support the Southern cause and lose
> two sons, but how much that really mattered (except to the sons) is
> debatable.
>
> Bill Mulligan
>