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We have been following this research programme, over the years.

Increasingly these final events, showcases and presentations are being built
into budgets and plans. They are always interesting, and not only for the
reasons the organisers intended. Often you see the politics of research
laid bare - for example, which academic discipline has dominated which
research programme. And you get a sniff of future directions.

And, of course, a glass of acid and warm white wine...

I will be attending this event in London, at the Tate Britain, on February
10. Do note that Tate Britain is, as it were, Tate Classic, Millbank
London SW1P 4RG - not one of the newer or more newsworthy London Tates.

P.O'S.

________________________________________

Reminder: It's not too late to register for the event below - see contact
details at foot of email.

Diasporas Migration & Identities
FINAL SHOWCASE EVENT


TATE BRITAIN - Clore Entrance
10 FEBRUARY 2010 - 10.00 am till 6.45 pm


As the Diasporas Migration and Identities programme draws to a close, hear
more about its findings and achievements with presentations before lunch by
the Director, Professor Kim Knott,and some of the programme's research
investigators.

In the afternoon the focus will be on the collaboration between stakeholders
and academics,and the wider impact of the research, ending with a round
table on the role of diasporas research in future UK policy: What will be
the key diasporas and migration policy issues over the next ten years, and
what contribution can academic research make to tackling these?

Over lunch there will be time to talk to researchers, and an opportunity to
view the exhibition and hear music associated with the programme. The day
will draw to a close with a wine reception.

Speakers include
Rick Rylance, Chief Executive, Arts and Humanities Research Council
Nigel Llewellyn, Head of Research, Tate Britain
Margarette Lincoln, Director of Research and Planning, National Maritime
Museum
Keith Best, Chief Executive, Immigration Advisory Service
Francois Matarasso, Arts policy and development consultant
Rob Berkeley, Director, Runnymede Trust
Victoria Walsh, Head of Adult Programmes, Tate Britain
David Feldman, Chair of the Programme Steering Committee
And members of the Programme

For more information or to register for the Event,
contact Katie Roche:
k.a.roche[at]leeds.ac.uk

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Delaying Truth Recovery for Missing Persons in the Republic of
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The truth recovery processes and search for missing persons in Northern
Ireland is part of the background thinking of a new article by Iosif Kovras
and Neophytos G. Loizides, of QUB.

In an increasingly common practice the article is currently available on
personal web sites, before it appears in one of the usual journals. Links
below...

A number of Ir-D members will find their comparative meditation and
references very interesting.

P.O'S.

Delaying Truth Recovery for Missing Persons in the Republic of Cyprus
Iosif Kovras, Queen's University - Belfast
Neophytos G. Loizides, Queen's University - Belfast

Article comments
Please contact the journal for final version.

Abstract
The fate of missing persons is a central issue in post-conflict societies
facing truth recovery and human rights dilemmas. Despite widespread public
sympathy towards relatives, societies emerging from conflict often defer the
recovery of missing for decades. More paradoxically, in post-1974 Cyprus,
the official authorities delayed unilateral exhumations of victims buried
within cemeteries in their own jurisdiction. Analysis of official post-1974
discourse reveals a Greek-Cypriot consensus to emphasise the issue as one of
Turkish aggression, thus downplaying in-group responsibilities and the
legacy of intra-communal violence. We compare the experience of Cyprus with
other post-conflict societies such as Spain, Northern Ireland, and
Mozambique and explore the linkages between institutions and beliefs about
transitional justice. We argue that elite consensus initiates and
facilitates the transition to democracy but often leads to the
institutionalization of groups opposing truth recovery even for in-group
members.

Suggested Citation
Iosif Kovras and Neophytos G. Loizides. "Delaying Truth Recovery for Missing
Persons in the Republic of Cyprus" Nations and Nationalism (2010).
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/neophytos_loizides/14Delaying Truth
Recovery for Missing Persons in the Republic of Cyprus
I Kovras, N Loizides - Iosif Kovras, 2011 - works.bepress.com

http://works.bepress.com/neophytos_loizides/14/

http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1005&context=iosif_kovr
as

SEE ALSO

Unearthing the Truth: The Politics of Exhumations in Cyprus and Spain

Author: Iosif Kovras (Show Biography)
Published in: History and Anthropology, Volume 19, Issue 4 December 2008 ,
pages 371 - 390

Abstract
Contrary to the experience of other countries with memories of clandestine
violence and "missing persons", where the mobilisation of the (civil)
society towards "truth recovery" was immediate and pivotal, the societies of
Cyprus and Spain remained silent for a remarkably long period of time. This
article aspires to explain the reasons why both Cypriot communities and the
Spanish society did not manage, until recently, to comprehensively
address-not to mention resolve-the problem of "missing persons". The recent
emergence of the "politics of exhumations" in these two countries, which
highlight issues related to truth recovery and collective memory, renders
the attempt to respond to the question of why these processes are taking
place only today even more stimulating.

Keywords: Truth Recovery; Exhumations; Historical Memory; Cyprus; Spain;
Contentious Politics

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Bodies in and out of place... the contemporary Irish in Australia
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Population, Space and Place
Early View (Articles online in advance of print)
Published Online: 30 Aug 2009
Copyright C 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Research Article
Bodies in and out of place: embodied transnationalism among invisible
immigrants - the contemporary Irish in Australia
Patricia M. O'Connor *
Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, Melbourne,
Victoria, Australia

email: Patricia M. O'Connor (ocp[at]unimelb.edu.au)
*Correspondence to Patricia M. O'Connor, Centre for Eye Research Australia,
University of Melbourne, Locked Bag 8, East Melbourne, Victoria 8002,
Australia

KEYWORDS
Irish . homesickness . distance . transnational . invisible immigrants

ABSTRACT
Migration involves the physical movement of bodies in and out of place. In a
world characterised by increased ease of travel and major advances in
telecommunications, some have argued that, in the international arena, this
movement now occurs in the context of a borderless world. This paper
contests this view by emphasising the embodied nature of this movement. The
experiences of 203 contemporary Irish immigrants in Australia provide
evidence of the embodied underpinnings of transnational practices.
Separation from extended family in one place and the anchoring effect of
family formation in another place are shown to be key affective drivers for
maintaining transnational social spaces. Likewise, other embodied attributes
such as whiteness and accent play important roles not only in terms of
citizenship and belonging, but also in providing further motivation for
maintaining transnational social spaces. Findings from this study of an
invisible immigrant group highlight gaps in the transnationalism literature
with regard to the effects of distance, whiteness, and the embodied nature
of citizenship. Copyright C 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Received: 11 September 2007; Revised: 30 January 2009; Accepted: 5 February
2009

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The ELLUG web site at the University of Grenoble is becoming a useful
resource.

The whole site is interesting. But I would call attention to the =
journal,
=C9tudes =E9cossaises, which - as I understand it - becomes freely =
available on
the web after a certain amount of time. Articles are usually in French =
or
English. I give an example from the 2005 edition, below...

P.O'S.

http://etudesecossaises.revues.org/index56.html


R=E9f=E9rence =E9lectronique
Ian Brown, =AB In exile from ourselves? =BB, =C9tudes =E9cossaises, 10 | =
2005, [En
ligne], mis en ligne le 31 mars 2005. URL :
http://etudesecossaises.revues.org/index155.html. Consult=E9 le 06 =
janvier
2010.

CONCLUSION
'Scottish culture in any case is not just for Scotland. The market =
offered
by diaspora Scots, for example, sustained the careers of earlier icons =
like
Frame and, especially, Lauder. Yet, while Scottish culture is mother =
culture
for the diaspora, the diaspora preserves its own versions of that =
Scottish
culture that it holds in high regard, however they are perceived at =
home. In
Wagram, North Carolina, for example, on the morning of Saturday, 6 =
September
2002, the author was witness to the following ceremonial events. The =
sound
of bagpipes was to be heard as police stopped the traffic on that small
town=92s main street. Along came a kilted pipe band playing Scotland the =
Brave
and on the main crossroads of the town the procession halted. A group of
young people toward the front of the procession in Highland dress =
Highland
danced on that crossing. The procession then proceeded with fire engines =
and
other civic vehicles representing the whole local community. The band
members and dancers clearly included a majority of Hispanic Americans =
and
Lumbee Indians =96 probable descendants of Native =
Americans=92intermarrying with
Walter Raleigh=92s abandoned Roanoke Island settlers. This was their =
culture
as much as anyone=92s. Their version of Scottishness had become =
appropriated
and appropriate to their needs and their diaspora Scottish cultural =
identity
=96 even to the extent that it included those who had adopted a diaspora =
Scots
identity in the Scottish dominated areas of North Carolina. It is =
possible
for home Scots to regard such activity and the many Highland Games of =
North
America and Australia as sentimental and old-fashioned. Yet, they =
clearly
celebrate something that is the Scottish diaspora=92s =96 and another =
strand of
Scottishness. Indeed it is hard to argue that what was seen at Wagram =
=96 or
in the more famous manifestations of Tartan Day, established as recently =
as
1998 =96 is in fact old-fashioned. However based on historic forms, it =
is a
public re-fashioning of another aspect of Scottish identity. It is as =
much a
part of the world culture that is Scottish as the work of the most
cutting-edge home-based modern artists and critics. One thing that a =
study
of the history of popular theatre, of the music hall and Harry Lauder,
teaches us is that there are those, often self-appointed and even =
seeming
unco guid, who would narrow the definition of Scottish culture by the =
use of
their own manufactured shibboleths. Another thing such a study teaches =
is
that Scottish culture is a large, dynamic and international mansion with
many houses filled by many varieties of =AB authenticity =BB and =AB =
truth =BB to
such an extent that these terms may serve little valuable function.'

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Second Call for Papers: LOCATING THE HIDDEN DIASPORA:THE ENGLISH IN
THE ANGLO-PHONE WORLD

After 1600, English emigration became one of Europe's most
significant population movements. Yet compared to what has been
written about the migration of Scots and Irish from the same
islands, relatively little energy has been expended on the
numerically more significant English flows. Whilst the Scottish,
Irish, German, Italian, Jewish and Black Diasporas are well known
and much studied, there is virtual silence on the English.

Why, then, is there no English Diaspora? Why has little been said
about the English other than to map their main emigration flows?
Did the English simply disappear into the host population? Or were
they so fundamental, and foundational, to the Anglo-phone,
Protestant cultures of the evolving British World that they could
not be distinguished in the way Catholic Irish or continental
Europeans were?

This conference will explore these and other fundamental issues
about the nature and character of English identity during the
creation of the cultures of the British World. Papers may examine:

> - Patterns of English Emigration
> - The formation of English communities
> - Protestantism and Englishness
> - The relationship between Englishness and colonial values
> - The relationship between English and non-English cultures in
> North America
> - Colonial Identity and Imperial Identity
> - Canadian and American Loyalisms
> - English Sports in North America
> - English Culture and Pastimes
> - Englishness, Ethnicity and Civic Identity

Those wishing to offer a paper should send a title, a 200 word
abstract and a brief CV by 26 February 2010 to:
az.englishdiaspora[at]northumbria.ac.uk

The conference will be held at Northumbria University, Newcastle
upon Tyne, 8 July to 10 July 2010.

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Forwarded on behalf of
Declan Foley [mailto:declanfoley[at]ireland.com]

Declan Foley
Seminar Secretary

--
Cast a cold eye
On life,on death,
Horseman, pass by!

W B Yeats 1865-1939

Web Page http://johnbutleryeatsseminar.com/

The Fourth John Butler Yeats Seminar, Dublin, Ireland September 10-12, 2010

John Butler Yeats RHA 1839 - 1922

The Fourth John Butler Yeats Seminar

will be held at The Swift Theatre

Trinity College Dublin

September 10-12, 2010

The Seminar will discuss the work of the Yeats family and their
contemporaries over three days. There will also be a privately curated visit
to the Yeats Museum at The National Gallery of Ireland

There will be a Seminar Dinner on Saturday evening at the
National Gallery of Ireland
with a guest speaker

The Swift Theatre has a capacity of 100 people.
We are offering ten scholarships to students.
This means the attendance is limited to 90 people.
If we receive more than 90 applications we will seek a larger space.

LECTURERS FOR THE FOURTH JBY SEMINAR 2010

Hilary Pyle
John Yeats and The Other Susan: Susan Mitchell
John Purser
John, Jack and Sarah Purser,

Roisin Kennedy

Lucy McDiarmid

Nicholas Allen

Cathy Fagan

Eileen Egan Mack
Jeanne Robert Foster

Nicola Gordon Bowe
I made my son a coat covered with embroideries out of old mythologies
from W.B. Yeats, /A Coat.

Alison Ni Dhorchaide

Doug Saum
Body Swayed to Music: The Musicality of W. B. Yeats

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Dear Paddy,

I will be writing a piece on Donal Donnelly for the annual Irish film secti=
on in Estudios Irlandeses, and I would be very glad to hear from any list m=
embers who have suggestions on what the essay should include. Thanks for yo=
ur help.

Michael

Michael Patrick Gillespie
Professor of English
Florida International University
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Subject: [IR-D] Obituary, Donal Donnelly

Tributes to actor Donal Donnelly are appearing on both sides of the
Atlantic. Extracts and links to the Guardian obituary below. A web search
will find more.

A good honest, distinctive actor, who over a long career was involved in
very significant Irish moments on screen and stage. He was, for example,
chosen by Bondarchuk to make visible Irish involvement in the Battle of
Waterloo - a movie which, contradicting the Guardian, was not 'disastrous',
though what you see on the screen did suffer from a pennypinching producer.

I guess the best movie he was involved in was John Huston's The Dead, a
movie which made me long back at all of Huston's oeuvre with a new eye and =
a
new respect.

Donal Donnelly's links with Irish theatre were long and important - he
worked with Anew McMaster, Miche=E1l MacLiamm=F3ir, and of course Friel.

And he was born in Bradford, Yorkshire...

P.O'S.


Donal Donnelly obituary
A talented Irish actor on stage and in films for Ford and Huston
Michael Coveney
guardian.co.uk,

'For an actor who worked with two of the greatest movie directors of the
last century and appeared in the world premieres of plays by Brian Friel,
Ireland's leading contemporary dramatist, Donal Donnelly, who has died afte=
r
a long illness, aged 78, was curiously unrecognised. Like so many prominent
Irish actors in the diasporas of Hollywood, British television, the West En=
d
and Broadway =96 all areas he conquered =96 Donnelly was a great talent and=
a
private citizen, happily married for many years, and always seemed youthful=
.

There was something mischievous, something larkish, about him, too. He
twinkled. And he had a big nose. He had long lived in New York, although he
died in Chicago, and had started out in Dublin, although born in England...=
'

FULL TEXT AT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2010/jan/07/donal-donnelly-obituary=

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Tributes to actor Donal Donnelly are appearing on both sides of the
Atlantic. Extracts and links to the Guardian obituary below. A web =
search
will find more.

A good honest, distinctive actor, who over a long career was involved in
very significant Irish moments on screen and stage. He was, for =
example,
chosen by Bondarchuk to make visible Irish involvement in the Battle of
Waterloo - a movie which, contradicting the Guardian, was not =
'disastrous',
though what you see on the screen did suffer from a pennypinching =
producer.

I guess the best movie he was involved in was John Huston's The Dead, a
movie which made me long back at all of Huston's oeuvre with a new eye =
and a
new respect.

Donal Donnelly's links with Irish theatre were long and important - he
worked with Anew McMaster, Miche=E1l MacLiamm=F3ir, and of course Friel.

And he was born in Bradford, Yorkshire...

P.O'S.


Donal Donnelly obituary
A talented Irish actor on stage and in films for Ford and Huston
Michael Coveney
guardian.co.uk,=09

'For an actor who worked with two of the greatest movie directors of the
last century and appeared in the world premieres of plays by Brian =
Friel,
Ireland's leading contemporary dramatist, Donal Donnelly, who has died =
after
a long illness, aged 78, was curiously unrecognised. Like so many =
prominent
Irish actors in the diasporas of Hollywood, British television, the West =
End
and Broadway =96 all areas he conquered =96 Donnelly was a great talent =
and a
private citizen, happily married for many years, and always seemed =
youthful.

There was something mischievous, something larkish, about him, too. He
twinkled. And he had a big nose. He had long lived in New York, although =
he
died in Chicago, and had started out in Dublin, although born in =
England...'

FULL TEXT AT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2010/jan/07/donal-donnelly-obituary

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Subject: Article, IRELAND, COLONIAL SCIENCE,
AND THE GEOGRAPHICAL CONSTRUCTION OF BRITISH RULE IN INDIA,
c. 1820-1870
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The Historical Journal (2009), 52:963-987 Cambridge University Press
Copyright =A9 Cambridge University Press 2009

IRELAND, COLONIAL SCIENCE, AND THE GEOGRAPHICAL CONSTRUCTION OF BRITISH =
RULE
IN INDIA, c. 1820=961870*

BARRY CROSBIEa1 c1
a1 National University of Ireland, Galway

ABSTRACT

This article examines the role that Ireland and Irish people played in =
the
geographical construction of British colonial rule in India during the
nineteenth century. It argues that as an important sub-imperial centre,
Ireland not only supplied the empire with key personnel, but also =
functioned
as an important reference point for scientific practice, new =
legislation,
and systems of government. Occupying integral roles within the =
information
systems of the colonial state, Irish people provided much of the
intellectual capital around which British rule in India was constructed.
These individuals were part of nineteenth-century Irish professional
personnel networks that viewed the empire as a legitimate sphere for =
work
and as an arena in which they could prosper. Through involvement and
deployment of expertise in areas such as surveying and geological =
research
in India, Irishmen and Irish institutions were able to act decisively in =
the
development of colonial knowledge. The relationships mapped in this =
article
centre the Irish within the imperial web of connections and global =
exchange
of ideas, technologies, and practices during the long nineteenth =
century,
thereby making a contribution towards uncovering Ireland's =
multi-directional
involvement in the British empire and reassessing the challenges that =
this
presents to existing British, Irish, and imperial historiography.

Correspondence:

c1 National University of Ireland, Galway barrycrosbie[at]hotmail.com

Footnotes

* This article is based on research supported by a Government of Ireland
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship provided by the Irish Research Council =
for
Humanities and Social Sciences. The author is grateful to Professor C. =
A.
Bayly, Professor Gear=F3id =D3 Tuathaigh, and Dr Simon J. Potter for =
their
helpful comments on earlier drafts of this article.

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Linguistic science and nationalist revolution: Expert knowledge
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This article by BRIGITTINE FRENCH has now been assigned a place in the paper
version of the journal
Language in Society , Volume 38 , Issue 05 , Nov 2009 , pp 607-625


Language in Society (2009), 38:607-625 Cambridge University Press
Copyright C Cambridge University Press 2009

Linguistic science and nationalist revolution: Expert knowledge and the
making of sameness in pre-independence Ireland

BRIGITTINE M. FRENCHa1
a1 Department of Anthropology, Grinnell College, 1118 Park Street, Grinnell,
IA 50112, frenchb[at]grinnell.edu
Article author query
french bm
ABSTRACT

This article examines the linguistic ideological work entailed in the
analyses of Irish by the "revolutionary scholar" and cofounder of the Gaelic
League, Eoin MacNeill. It does so to discern one central way in which the
essentialized link between the Irish language and a unified Irish people
became an efficacious political construction during the armed struggle for
independence in the early 20th century. It shows how MacNeill used
authoritative linguistic science to engender nationalist sentiment around
Irish through semiotic processes even as he challenged a dominant conception
of language prevalent in European nationalist movements and social thought.
The essay argues that MacNeill wrote against the unilateral valorization of
codified linguistic homogeneity and embraced the heterogeneous variation of
spoken discourse even as he sought to consolidate Irish national identity
through sameness claims. This critical examination suggests that scholars of
nationalism reconsider the taken-for-granted homogenizing efforts of
nationalist endeavors that are ubiquitously presumed to negatively sanction
linguistic variation. (Nationalism, linguistic ideology, Ireland, semiotics,
heterogeneity, Eoin MacNeill, Gaelic League, Europe, scientific knowledge)

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Registration of the Religion of Children under the Irish Poor
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The Journal of Ecclesiastical History (2010), 61:107-124 Cambridge
University Press
Copyright C Cambridge University Press 2010

Registration of the Religion of Children under the Irish Poor Law, 1838-1870

MEL COUSINSa1

a1 43 Dufferin Avenue, Dublin 8, Ireland; e-mail: mcousi11[at]caledonian.ac.uk
Article author query
cousins m

Abstract

There were obvious tensions inherent in the fact that in nineteenth-century
Ireland, while the majority of the population was Catholic, the state
religion was Protestant. This had numerous effects on Irish political and
social history, including the administration of the poor law. This article
looks at one of the religious issues involved in the operation of the poor
law: the registration of children (of unknown religion) on admission to the
workhouse. The Irish attorney-general had ruled that they should be
registered as Protestant. However, local boards of guardians often objected
strongly to this. This article outlines and analyses the struggles which
took place between the different interests involved.

Footnotes

This is an extended version of a paper given at the conference on 'Empires
of Religion' held at University College, Dublin, on 21 June 2006. I would
like to thank Professor John Stewart of Oxford Brookes University for his
very helpful comments on an earlier draft.

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From: Ruth Barton
Reply-To: ruth.barton[at]tcd.ie
To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
Subject: Re: [IR-D] Obituary, Donal Donnelly

Dear Paddy

Best movie - Korea.

Happy New Year,

Best

Ruth

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113573/




Quoting Patrick O'Sullivan :

> Tributes to actor Donal Donnelly are appearing on both sides of the
> Atlantic. Extracts and links to the Guardian obituary below. A web se=
arch
> will find more.
>
> A good honest, distinctive actor, who over a long career was involved i=
n
> very significant Irish moments on screen and stage


Department of Film Studies
School of Drama, Film and Music
Samuel Beckett Centre
Trinity College Dublin
Dublin 2

Tel: 353-1-8962961
http://www.tcd.ie/Drama/film.php


Moderator's Note:
See
Irish national cinema By Ruth Barton
P 139

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>
From: "Maureen E Mulvihill"
To: "The Irish Diaspora Studies List"
Cc: "Michael P. Gillespie, FIU" ,
"Maureen E Mulvihill"

In reply to Michael Gillespie's call for suggestions, esp regarding Donal
Donnelly's background in the Irish theatre (the years which launched him):

Michael might approach the McCreadys for some useful information or
anecdotes. Sam and Joan McCready have been admirably active in Irish theatre

circles for many years. They are founding members of the Belfast Lyric
Theatre (1950s), and Sam has been both writer & director of several of his
own (successful) productions, most notably his "Coole Lady" on Lady Gregory;

he also has directed selected plays by WB Yeats, etc. I shall send Michael a

current email address for Sam, who's only just returned from bookings in
Asia and predictably busy on some exciting new projects.

Incidentally, the recent DVD re-release (Nov., 2009), from Lionsgate, of the

John Huston film adaptation of Joyce's "The Dead", happily restores 10
minutes of the film, including its masterfully-orchestrated dinner scene
with its hot political exchange, showcasing Donnelly. Scroll down to 'The
Case' and 'The Verdict' at:
http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/thedeadtake2.php

All best for the upcoming article, Michael ~

MEM
http://www.yeatssociety.org/

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Dear Colin,

Thanks very much. The piece you wrote is extremely helpful, and it was gene=
rous of you to send it along. I am sure that Donal Donnelly's family was co=
mforted by it.

Michael

Michael Patrick Gillespie
Professor of English
Florida International University

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f Of Colin Murphy
Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 6:52 AM
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Subject: Re: [IR-D] Obituary, Donal Donnelly

Michael,

I've written an obituary for today's Irish Independent, available here:
http://www.independent.ie/obituaries/weve-lost-something-very-special-20062=
50.html

Donal's brother, Michael, a former councillor in Dublin, was very =20
helpful.

Regards

Colin Murphy

www.colinmurphy.info


On 8 Jan 2010, at 16:54, Michael Gillespie wrote:

> Dear Paddy,
>
> I will be writing a piece on Donal Donnelly for the annual Irish =20
> film section in Estudios Irlandeses, and I would be very glad to =20
> hear from any list members who have suggestions on what the essay =20
> should include. Thanks for your help.
>
> Michael
>
> Michael Patrick Gillespie
> Professor of English
> Florida International University
> ________________________________________
> From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On =20
> Behalf Of Patrick O'Sullivan [P.OSullivan[at]BRADFORD.AC.UK]
> Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 9:06 AM
> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: [IR-D] Obituary, Donal Donnelly
>
> Tributes to actor Donal Donnelly are appearing on both sides of the
> Atlantic. Extracts and links to the Guardian obituary below. A web =20
> search
> will find more.
>
> A good honest, distinctive actor, who over a long career was =20
> involved in
> very significant Irish moments on screen and stage. He was, for =20
> example,
> chosen by Bondarchuk to make visible Irish involvement in the Battle =20
> of
> Waterloo - a movie which, contradicting the Guardian, was not =20
> 'disastrous',
> though what you see on the screen did suffer from a pennypinching =20
> producer.
>
> I guess the best movie he was involved in was John Huston's The =20
> Dead, a
> movie which made me long back at all of Huston's oeuvre with a new =20
> eye and a
> new respect.
>
> Donal Donnelly's links with Irish theatre were long and important - he
> worked with Anew McMaster, Miche=E1l MacLiamm=F3ir, and of course Friel.
>
> And he was born in Bradford, Yorkshire...
>
> P.O'S.
>
>
> Donal Donnelly obituary
> A talented Irish actor on stage and in films for Ford and Huston
> Michael Coveney
> guardian.co.uk,
>
> 'For an actor who worked with two of the greatest movie directors of =20
> the
> last century and appeared in the world premieres of plays by Brian =20
> Friel,
> Ireland's leading contemporary dramatist, Donal Donnelly, who has =20
> died after
> a long illness, aged 78, was curiously unrecognised. Like so many =20
> prominent
> Irish actors in the diasporas of Hollywood, British television, the =20
> West End
> and Broadway - all areas he conquered - Donnelly was a great talent =20
> and a
> private citizen, happily married for many years, and always seemed =20
> youthful.
>
> There was something mischievous, something larkish, about him, too. He
> twinkled. And he had a big nose. He had long lived in New York, =20
> although he
> died in Chicago, and had started out in Dublin, although born in =20
> England...'
>
> FULL TEXT AT
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2010/jan/07/donal-donnelly-obituary

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In today's Irish Times.


Irish in Britain leave building site for boardroom - report

MARK HENNESSY London Editor

Sat, Jan 09, 2010

THE IRISH in Britain have moved en masse from the building site to the boar=
droom, a new study has found.

The analysis of the UK=E2=80=99s Companies House records shows the Irish ar=
e now the most numerous of any foreigners in Britain=E2=80=99s boardrooms.

In all, there are 22,511 registrations for Irish people listed as members o=
f boards of directors on companies in England, Scotland and Wales =E2=80=93=
ahead of the number from India, Australia and the United States.

The number rises to 44,352 when the 21,841 who actively declare themselves =
as Irish in Northern Ireland is included, according to research commissione=
d by Eulogy PR, the largest Irish-owned public relations company in the UK.

The figures, in the words of Giles O=E2=80=99Neill, Enterprise Ireland=E2=
=80=99s director in Britain, confirmed the deep business links between the =
Republic and the UK: =E2=80=9C[It] should give us confidence that we can co=
ntinue to trade successfully together through these challenging times.=E2=
=80=9D

Compared to the Irish figures, India has 15,852 registrations listed; Austr=
alia 12,228, while the US has 10,360 of its citizens sitting on British boa=
rds and resident there, while Nigeria has 10,001, and Italians are in sixth=
place with 9,773.

Predictably, London and the south-east is the most heavily represented in t=
he Irish figures, with 6,775 and 8,098 UK registered directors of Irish nat=
ionality respectively.

The northwest of England, Devon and Cornwall and the west midlands =E2=80=
=93 particularly around Birmingham, traditional centres for Irish emigrants=
in the past =E2=80=93 are the areas that come next for high Irish represen=
tation on boards.

Equally, the traditional emigration patterns are reflected by the low numbe=
r of Irish directors registered in the northeast of England, in Newcastle a=
nd other such cities. Just 297 are listed for this region.

The figure for all of Wales, however, is strikingly low, with just 370 regi=
strations.

The figures show more than 40 per cent of the total are women.

The best-represented age group for Irish directors in the UK is 41-45, thou=
gh the five-year bands on either side are not far behind, according to the =
figures.

Ireland leads in every category except directors under the age of 30, where=
India comes top, said Eulogy PR chief executive Adrian Brady.

=E2=80=9CHowever, over 25 per cent of Irish company directors are under the=
age of 40, which demonstrates the young Irish entrepreneurial spirit is st=
ill alive and thriving,=E2=80=9D he added.

The large presence of Irish directors, and those of other nationalities, il=
lustrates the international nature of business in the UK, said Iain Lovatt =
of Blue Sheep consultants who was involved in the survey. =E2=80=9CThis res=
earch sheds significant insight into the importance of international compan=
y directors and the role they play in UK economy as a whole.

=E2=80=9CAs the world pulls itself out of a difficult recessionary period, =
it is clear from these findings that the UK cannot see itself as an island.=
=E2=80=9D

=C2=A9 2010 The Irish Times

Grainne O'Keeffe-Vigneron
Universit=C3=A9 Rennes 2

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Michael,

I've written an obituary for today's Irish Independent, available here:
=
http://www.independent.ie/obituaries/weve-lost-something-very-special-2006=
250.html

Donal's brother, Michael, a former councillor in Dublin, was very =20
helpful.

Regards

Colin Murphy

www.colinmurphy.info


On 8 Jan 2010, at 16:54, Michael Gillespie wrote:

> Dear Paddy,
>
> I will be writing a piece on Donal Donnelly for the annual Irish =20
> film section in Estudios Irlandeses, and I would be very glad to =20
> hear from any list members who have suggestions on what the essay =20
> should include. Thanks for your help.
>
> Michael
>
> Michael Patrick Gillespie
> Professor of English
> Florida International University
> ________________________________________
> From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On =20
> Behalf Of Patrick O'Sullivan [P.OSullivan[at]BRADFORD.AC.UK]
> Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 9:06 AM
> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: [IR-D] Obituary, Donal Donnelly
>
> Tributes to actor Donal Donnelly are appearing on both sides of the
> Atlantic. Extracts and links to the Guardian obituary below. A web =20=

> search
> will find more.
>
> A good honest, distinctive actor, who over a long career was =20
> involved in
> very significant Irish moments on screen and stage. He was, for =20
> example,
> chosen by Bondarchuk to make visible Irish involvement in the Battle =20=

> of
> Waterloo - a movie which, contradicting the Guardian, was not =20
> 'disastrous',
> though what you see on the screen did suffer from a pennypinching =20
> producer.
>
> I guess the best movie he was involved in was John Huston's The =20
> Dead, a
> movie which made me long back at all of Huston's oeuvre with a new =20
> eye and a
> new respect.
>
> Donal Donnelly's links with Irish theatre were long and important - he
> worked with Anew McMaster, Miche=E1l MacLiamm=F3ir, and of course =
Friel.
>
> And he was born in Bradford, Yorkshire...
>
> P.O'S.
>
>
> Donal Donnelly obituary
> A talented Irish actor on stage and in films for Ford and Huston
> Michael Coveney
> guardian.co.uk,
>
> 'For an actor who worked with two of the greatest movie directors of =20=

> the
> last century and appeared in the world premieres of plays by Brian =20
> Friel,
> Ireland's leading contemporary dramatist, Donal Donnelly, who has =20
> died after
> a long illness, aged 78, was curiously unrecognised. Like so many =20
> prominent
> Irish actors in the diasporas of Hollywood, British television, the =20=

> West End
> and Broadway =96 all areas he conquered =96 Donnelly was a great =
talent =20
> and a
> private citizen, happily married for many years, and always seemed =20
> youthful.
>
> There was something mischievous, something larkish, about him, too. He
> twinkled. And he had a big nose. He had long lived in New York, =20
> although he
> died in Chicago, and had started out in Dublin, although born in =20
> England...'
>
> FULL TEXT AT
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2010/jan/07/donal-donnelly-obituary

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Conference announcement: Ireland in 19th century English and
Irish novel, Friday 12 March,
Universit=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E0_?= Roma Tre
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A 2-day conference entitled =93Ireland in the nineteenth century English =
and
Irish novel=94 will be held on 12-13 March at the Dipartimento di =
Letterature
Comparate, Universit=E0 Roma Tre and at the Pontificio Universit=E0 =
Irlandese,
Roma.
=A0
Further information is available from John McCourt: jmccourt[at]uniroma3.it
=A0
Speakers include:
John Wilson Foster (Queen=92s University Belfast)
Carla De Petris (Universit=E0 Roma Tre)
Claire Connolly (Cardiff University)
Donatella Abate Badin (Universit=E0 di Torino)
Margaret Kelleher (N.U.I. Maynooth)
Francesca Scarpata (Universit=E0 di Trieste)
Richard Brown (University of Leeds)
John McCourt (Universit=E0 Roma Tre)
Patrick Lonergan (N.U.I. Galway)
Melissa Fegan (University of Chester)
Maria Paola Guarducci (Universit=E0 Roma Tre)
Elisabetta d=92Erme (Independent Scholar, Trieste)
Bernard O=92Donoghue (University of Oxford
=A0
=A0
Academic Programme
=A0
Friday 12 March Sala Ambrogio,
Universit=E0 Roma Tre
=A0
9.30 Official Welcome
Guido Fabiani (Rector, Universit=E0 Roma Tre)
Monsignor Liam Bergin, Rector, Pontifical Irish College, Rome
Francesca Cant=F9 (Dean, Faculty of Arts)
Otello Lottini (Head, Department of Comparative Literature)
His Excellency, Mr. Pat Hennessy, Irish Ambassador to Italy
John McCourt (Department of Comparative Literature, Conference convenor)
=A0
10.00 John Wilson Foster (Queen=92s University Belfast) Victorian =
Irelands:
Fictions and Facts
11.00: Carla De Petris (Universit=E0 Roma Tre) Women, Servants and West
Indians in=A0 Edgeworth's Belinda
11.30 Claire Connolly (Cardiff University)'Laid out': Dead-alive states =
in
the nineteenth-century Irish novel
14.00 Donatella Abate Badin (Universit=E0 di Torino) From Sydney =
Owenson=92s=A0
'The Wild Irish Girl'=A0 to Lady Morgan=92s 'Italy': Cultural =
Nationalism and
Self-Determination
14.30 Margaret Kelleher (N.U.I. Maynooth)
"Have you Irish?" Sydney Owenson and Bilingual Practice
15.30 Francesca Scarpata (Universit=E0 di Trieste)
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
16.00 Richard Brown (University of Leeds)
Excitement and Anticipation in Hungerford's Molly Bawn
=A0
=A0
=A0
Saturday 13 March
Pontifical Irish College, Rome
9.45 Official Welcome to the Irish College
10.00 John McCourt (Universit=E0 Roma Tre)
=93Your sowl will howl in hell=94: Anthony Trollope and the Irish =
Catholic
Church
11.00 Patrick Lonergan (N.U.I. Galway)
Trollope, Irish Nationalism, and the Map of the European Novel
12.15 Melissa Fegan (University of Chester)
The Irish Prophecy Man: Folklore and Famine in the Novels of William
Carleton
14.30 Maria Paola Guarducci (Universit=E0 Roma Tre) Identity, Otherness =
and
the Empire in W.M. Thackeray's The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon
15.00 Elisabetta d=92Erme (Independent Scholar, Trieste)The Dodd Family
Abroad: Charles Lever's Europe
15.30 Bernard O=92Donoghue (University of Oxford) The Prehistory of the =
Irish
Short Story
16.15 Closing Remarks

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Subject: CFP: MLA/ACIS panels. Los Angeles, January 2011
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CALL FOR PAPERS

2011 MLA Convention, Los Angeles
Modern Language Association (MLA) / ACIS (American Conference for Irish
Studies)

The American Conference for Irish Studies will host two panels at the
January 2011 MLA convention in Los Angeles. Please send 200-word abstracts
to Karen Steele (k.steele[at]tcu.edu) by March 15, 2010. All panelists must be
registered MLA members by April 1, 2010 to be included on the Los Angeles
conference program; all panelists must also be registered ACIS members.

POLITICS OF LANGUAGE: Papers should explore the social, cultural, or
political implications of Celtic languages and literatures, especially as
they relate to Irish national or postcolonial identity, from the 17th
century to the present. Papers might include discussions of translation,
Celticism, historical breaks and continuities, minority discourse, and more.


IRISHNESS AND CELEBRITY
Papers should explore how Irish identity informs the performance,
dissemination, celebration, or limitations of celebrity, whether as small
and big screen actors or directors, public intellectuals, writers, political
activists, or rock stars. Papers might explore travel writing, stage
Irishness, colonial celebrity, self-promotion, self-narration, glamour, the
narcissism of stardom, notoriety, or more.

ARCHIVES OF IRISH STUDIES IN THE 21 CENTURY
Papers should explore practical and theoretical challenges in researching,
teaching, collecting, and/or documenting Irish culture. Papers might explore
the difficulties and provisional solutions in tracking social or political
phenomenon, such as scandal or an author's posthumous lives; theorize about
the influence of new media or databases in teaching and research; or
consider the cultural politics of collecting and the creative uses of
memorabilia. Papers addressing the use of the Clark Archives, which include
materials relating to 17th and 18th century Ireland, are especially welcome.

SEND 200-WORD PROPOSALS BY MARCH 15, 2010. PRESENTATIONS MAY NOT EXCEED 20
MINUTES.

Questions? Please contact Karen Steele, ACIS Representative
k.steele[at]tcu.edu

Department of English
TCU
Fort Worth, TX 76129

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Subject: Book Notice, Gold,
Silver and Green: The Irish Olympic Journey 1896-1924
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Forwarded on behalf of
Mike.Collins[at]ucc.ie=20

Mike Collins
Publications Director
Cork University Press

Gold, Silver and Green: The Irish Olympic Journey 1896-1924

Dear Patrick

Gold, Silver and Green: The Irish Olympic Journey, 1896-1924 will be =
published on January 14th.

The standard of athletics sports in Ireland in the latter half of the =
nineteenth century was phenomenal. A huge proportion of the great =
athletes in this period came from a small pocket of rich countryside =
know as the Golden Vale. North Cork, west Tipperary and much of County =
Limerick may well have produced more world records, more international =
and Olympic champions than any other rural are in modern times- Gold, =
Silver and Green: The Irish Olympic Journey, 1896-1924 (ISBN 978 =
185918458 5, Hbk, 428 pp, 234 x 156mm, =E2=82=AC39/=C2=A335).

The first modern Olympic champion, James Connolly, might well have =
represented the USA but both his parents came from the Aran Islands. The =
first brothers to win Olympic athletic medals were Irish; the first time =
gold, silver and bronze medals in an athletic event were won by men from =
the same country involved three Irishmen from neighbouring counties; the =
first athlete to win five Olympic titles was Mayoman Martin Sheridan. It =
is amazing to think that seven of the first eight Olympic =
hammer-throwing titles were won by men born in the Golden Vale, or =
within a hammer-throw of it.

Gold, Silver and Green is a book about sport but also about the politics =
of sport. Dealing with the first quarter century or so of the modern =
Olympic Games, the book examines how Irish participants fought not only =
sporting battles but often significant political ones too, given the =
fact that Ireland did not have independent nation status. The famous =
efforts of decathlon champion Tom Kiely to represent 'Tipperary and =
Ireland' in 1904, and of world long-jump record holder Peter O'Connor to =
climb a flagpole armed with an Irish flag are given ample coverage in =
the work. The GAA's attitude to the Olympic Games is also explored.


Kevin McCarthy is a Senior Inspector with Department of Education and =
Science

Further details at:
http://www.corkuniversitypress.com/Gold,_Silver_and_Green:_The_Irish_Olym=
pic_Journey_1896_1924_/304/



Regards

Mike

Mike Collins
Publications Director
Cork University Press

From the web site...

The book focuses on the Irish and Irish diasporal involvement in the =
Olympic Games. It discusses in detail the sporting involvement but, even =
more so, the political and national battles which accompanied the Irish =
Olympic journey prior to independence. It challenges our traditional =
perceptions of sporting nationalism and places the Irish story in a =
quite unique international context, showing how decisions made in =
London, Lausanne and New York had a profound impact on the Irish =
sporting, and national, destiny.

This book is the product of six years of research across Ireland, =
London, New York and Switzerland. It seeks to shed light on the =
half-known story of Irish involvement in the Olympic Games prior to =
independence. The research has unearthed a huge amount of information, =
most of it previously unpublished. Few people will have known that =
hurling and Gaelic football formed part of an Olympic Games, or that =
Ireland competed as a separate nation in events like bicycle polo and =
hockey long before independence.

The author traces the story of Irish and Irish American Olympic =
involvement from its accidental beginnings in 1896 through to the very =
significant political issues which dominated Irish sports, and our =
Olympic aspirations in the early 20th century. He has traced the role =
played by the Olympic Games in the evolution of a national identity in =
Ireland, and in the emergence of Irish America as a major sporting and =
political force in the USA. Political figures from Arthur Griffith, =
Roger Casement and John Devoy are all entwined in the Irish Olympic =
story.

The work highlights the divisions and complexities within Irish sport, =
as well as the significant influence of the British Olympic Association =
as a barrier to Irish recognition at the Games. It charts the political =
intrigue behind the scenes in London and Lausanne as Ireland sought =
Olympic recognition after the 1921 Treaty. Most of all, this work =
highlights the magnificent achievements of the sportsmen, and one woman, =
who originated in the main from rural Ireland and won substantial =
Olympic success in throwing and jumping events, the Marathon, tennis, =
and other events.
=20

Hardback: 1 February 2010
Printed Pages: 300
Size: 234 x 156mm
ISBN: 9781859184585

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Subject: The Irish Theatrical Diaspora Conference 2010: Ireland's Drama in
Britain's Cities, 15-16 April, Manchester
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The Irish Theatrical Diaspora Conference 2010
=A0
Ireland=92s Drama in British Cities,
Manchester Metropolitan University, April 15-16, 2010.

The 2010 Irish Theatrical Diaspora Conference will consider the history =
and
context of performing Irish plays and characters on British stages, as =
well
as the more general performance of Irish diasporic identity in an urban
British context. Some of the areas that the conference will address are: =
the
role of festivals in performing Irish identity, the role of British =
theatres
in performing Irish plays, the significance of geographical variations, =
and
the impact of globalisation on the position of Irish theatre in Britain
=A0
Keynote speakers:=20
Mary Hickman, Professor of Irish Studies and Sociology, London =
Metropolitan
University

Patrick Mason, Director, Adjunct Professor, University College Dublin, =
and
Visiting Professor, Liverpool Hope University

Confirmed speakers:
Claire Connolly
Mike Cronin
Karen Fricker
Nicholas Grene
Patrick Lonergan
Holly Maples
Victor Merriman
Aoife Monks
Jim Moran
Catherine Rees
Shaun Richards


This conference will examine performances of Irish identity in the urban
centres of Britain since the beginning of the 19th century. The idea of
performance is intended to include events staged in the theatres and on =
the
streets, for example parades, musical performances and political
demonstrations.=20

By discussing such performances and their reception by various =
audiences,
speakers and delegates will examine the ways that 'Irishness' has =
changed in
meaning and association in Britain, pressurised by contexts such as
colonialism and nationalism, modernisation and economic change in =
Ireland,
the Troubles and the Peace Process, and many others.

In particular, the conference is concerned to examine the changing =
status of
Irish, and Irish descended, people in Britain. Since 1995, the diaspora =
has
arguably become more recognised in Ireland, after President Mary =
Robinson
urged the Irish nation to the =91moral act=92 of remembering and =
commemorating
their sacrifices. In Britain, the Irish arguably became more visible =
after
recognition of their =91ethnic minority=92 status in the 2001 UK census; =
and,
more recently, interest in Britain=92s oldest and largest ethnic =
minority has
been renewed amidst a more general concern with immigration and the ways =
in
which the case of the Irish in Britain might be seen to foreshadow and
intersect with the experience of many other immigrant groups. =20

Delegates will be able to reflect on questions including:=20
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 What different versions of Irishness have =
been suggested by
theatrical and other performances in Britain, and how have these been
received and understood by their audiences? =20
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 In what ways have Irish cultural festivals =
affected perceptions?=20
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 How have notions of second-generation =
Irishness changed?
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 What significance do performances of =
Irishness abroad have for the
Irish nation =91at home=92?=20
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Have visible assertions and performances of =
Irish identity
impacted on ideas of Britishness? =20
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 How have the Irish enacted and interacted =
with ideas of nation and
identity in a British context, and how has this been affected by changes =
in
Ireland and key events in Irish-British relations?=20
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 To what extent are the Irish in Britain an =
=91acceptable=92 ethnic
minority?
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 To what extent are the Irish in Britain =
=91post-nationalist=92 now?=20