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Ireland on the Screen, Stage and Page

30, 31 August and 01 September 2010

VENUE: Federal University Of Paran=E1 =96 Curitiba =96 BRAZIL
Rua General Carneiro, 460 - Ed. Dom Pedro I - Reitoria

The Federal University of Paran=E1, the Brazilian Association of Irish =
Studies
(ABEI) and the W.B.Yeats Chair of Irish Studies of the University of =
S=E3o
Paulo are organising a Symposium of Irish Studies which, since 2006, has
gathered specialists from various associations such as IASIL, SILAS, =
ACIS,
CAIS, EFACIS, AEDEI, BAIS.

The Fifth Symposium of Irish Studies in South America has the support of =
the
Embassy of Ireland in Brazil. The theme, =93Ireland on the Screen, Stage =
and
Page=94 will include the following topics:

=B7=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Film
=B7 Radio and TV
=B7 Photography =20
=B7=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Theatre and Drama=20
=B7=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Fiction and Poetry=20
=B7=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Translation of Irish authors
=B7=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Literary criticism
=B7=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0History, Politics and Economy=20

The keynote speakers that have confirmed their participation in the
Symposium are:

=B7=A0Lance Pettitt (Metropolitan University, Leeds)
=B7 Angus Mitchell (Limerick University)
=B7 Maureen Murphy (Hofstra University, New York)
=B7 Irish poet Eil=E9an N=ED Chuillean=E1in=20
=B7 Irish film-maker John T. Davies=20
=20
Individual Papers of 20 minutes and panels of three or four participants =
are
invited on the topics above. Proposals are welcomed across disciplines, =
from
scholars of languages and literatures, geography, history, psychology,
sociology, economy, politics and other fields.=A0Send an abstract of 200 =
words
by email to: Dr. Beatriz Kopschitz Bastos abeibrasil[at]yahoo.com.br
Please include a short biodata, full address, institution affiliation, =
day
telephone, fax and email address. Abstracts may be submitted in English,
Portuguese or Spanish and should be sent no later than 15 June 2010.=20

The venue will take place in the city of Curitiba, Paran=E1 State, =
Brazil. If
you wish to attend the symposium without presenting a paper, please =
register
by 10 August 2010.=20
www.freewebs.com/irishstudies
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The latest issue of
Parliamentary History
Volume 29 Issue 1 (February 2010)
Is a
Special Issue: Speakers and the Speakership - Presiding Officers and the
Management of Business from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century: Edited by
Paul Seaward

The article on the Irish Parliament is there for completeness. There is
also an article on the Scottish Parliament: Chancellors, Presidents and
Speakers: Presiding Officers in the Scottish Parliament before the
Restoration by ALAN R. Mac DONALD, and another article, by WILLIAM Mc KAY,
jisc offers UK/USA comparisons.

Coleman A. Dennehy's latest book, as editor, is Restoration Ireland: Always
Settling and Never Settled (Aldershot, 2008).

P.O'S.

Speakers in the 17th-Century Irish Parliament
Author: DENNEHY, COLEMAN A.
Source: Parliamentary History, Volume 29, Number 1, February 2010 , pp.
62-74(13)

Abstract:
In Ireland in the 17th century before the Battle of the Boyne, there were
only five parliaments held. For these parliaments there was a total of 16
different individuals who acted as Speaker or made an attempt to become
Speaker in the Commons or the Lords. This article will attempt to consider
the possible criteria that may have been important in assessing the
suitability of the candidates and also to see how many of those 16 are found
to be suitable according to these conditions. We can be assured that the
vast majority of those appointed and selected were politically reliable and
that other issues such as legal training and legal experience are also
common among most. However, ethnicity, religion (including attitudes to
others' religion), family and marriage contacts, and administrative
experience show that the Speakers did not always share a common background.
To a certain extent, it may be deduced that these differences may be
reflective of the changing political scene in Ireland over the course of
this short 17th century. The performance and attributes of those who failed
to become Speaker can also be useful in a study that attempts to understand
the qualifications deemed desirable in a Speaker in 17th-century Ireland.

Keywords: Ireland; Irish parliament; lord chancellor; Speaker; Wentworth;
Ormond; Davies; Mervin; jacobite; Restoration; Dublin
Document Type: Research article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-0206.2009.00135.x

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Taking the boat: the Irish in Leeds, 1931-81
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I have placed on our web site

www.irishdiaspora.net

the Foreword that I wrote for Brendan McGowan's book, Taking the boat: the
Irish in Leeds, 1931-81.

I have placed the text in the BOOK NOTICES folder. I have decided that
these Forewords are not reviews - they do not belong in the Book Reviews
folder.

These Forewords are always hostages to fortune. You get asked to do them,
you read the book in typescript, you write your piece. And then years
pass... Incident filled years...

I have left in place the date when I wrote the Foreword.

P.O'S.

OPENING PARAGRAPHS

'For those who study the Irish Diaspora, these are interesting times. When,
some decades ago, I first began to survey the historiography of the Irish
Diaspora, I discovered a mixed research record, of varying quality. By
contrast, we now have a substantial amount of good work, within many
academic disciplines. Further, through formal and informal organisations,
and through new resources on the internet, we are much more aware of the
work that exists - which means that we are also aware of gaps in the
research record, and we are aware of research resources and research
opportunities.(1)

There are still gaps in the research record, of course - with some themes
shaped, not by the stories that we had to tell, but by the stories that we
were allowed to tell, or the stories our listeners wanted to hear.
Opportunities are constrained by limited resources, of expertise, time and
money. Scholars of the other diasporas, when they approach us for
information or in the hope of co-operation, are always amazed to learn that
there is so little in the way of an organisational structure to support and
encourage the study of the Irish Diaspora. And, when it comes to listing
research resources, the story is often bleak. Many possible research
resources are simply disappearing...'


-----Original Message-----
We now have a scholarly book about the Irish in Leeds.

McGowan, Brendan. Taking the boat: the Irish in Leeds, 1931-81. Killala,
Co. Mayo: Brendan McGowan, 2009.

BUYING THE BOOK
The book has appeared on Amazon, but only I think because Amazon collects
assigned ISBN numbers. The last I heard Brendan McGowan was negotiating
with Amazon.

The book is selling at 15 pounds/euros paperback, 20 pounds/euros hardback.

The book can be bought through Ebay. Go to www.ebay.ie
and insert the book title.

Or Brendan Mcgowan can be contacted at this special email address,
takingtheboat[at]hotmail.com.

Once Brendan has got the Mayo launch out of the way he will be able to
concentrate more on distribution and media.

Patrick 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: O'Sullivan, Forword to Davis,
Bath as Spa and Bath as Slum: The Social History of a Victorian
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I have also placed on our web site

www.irishdiaspora.net

in the BOOK NOTICES folder the Foreword that I wrote for=20

Bath as Spa and Bath as Slum: The Social History of a Victorian City
Davis, Graham

http://www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=3D7929&pc=3D9

Also in that Folder, as 'Exhibits' are the flyers that accompany the =
book -
including a money-off offer.

I have left in place the date when I wrote the Foreword.

P.O'S.

OPENING PARAGRAPHS

'There are no slums in Utopia. Whether it is the Utopia envisioned - or
satirised - by Thomas More, or the real landscapes designed by L=FAcio =
Costa,
or by Walt Disney, there seems to be no place for slums in our =
idealised,
imagined communities. You must wonder, sometimes, if there is any place =
for
real working people, and for change, in these planners' utopias. I =
readily
admit that my own way of looking at cities was changed - for the better, =
I
think - by my reading of the work of Jane Jacobs. I offer this here as
evidence that books can change minds, and ways of thinking. And I think =
that
this new book by Graham Davis will change minds, and perceptions, in his
beloved city of Bath.=20

I come to the work of Graham Davis through our shared interest in the =
study
of the Irish Diaspora, especially that great movement of the people of
Ireland to the neighbouring island, Britain, in the nineteenth century. =
One
of the odd things about being a migrant, an emigrant or an immigrant, is
that, as you travel the world, and as you cross divides, borders, =
boundaries
and seas you must cross also the boundaries of discourses, and take an,
often strange, allotted place within a previously existing way of =
thinking
and seeing. The Irish in nineteenth century Britain entered what came to =
be
called 'the Condition of England' question, the series of publications =
and
debates about the great changes which enveloped the English landscape =
after
the end of the Napoleonic wars - particularly, of course, =
industrialisation
and the rise of great cities. And, in those great cities, their =
slums...'=20

-----Original Message-----

Many Ir-D members will be interested in this new book by Graham Davis.

Graham's earlier works includes

Davis, Graham. The Irish in Britain, 1815-1914. Dublin: Gill and =
Macmillan,
1991.

And

Davis, Graham J. Land! Irish pioneers in Mexican and revolutionary =
Texas.
College Station, Tex: Texas A & M University Press, 2002.

This new book deals with his other interest, the study of his beloved =
city
of Bath. But the book places itself within that whole discourse of the
nineteenth century city, specially 'the slum' - and of course there is a
chapter on the Irish in Bath.

Bath as Spa and Bath as Slum: The Social History of a Victorian City
Davis, Graham

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Subject: Article,
The Night the Good Ship Went Down: Three Fateful Dinners Aboard
the Titantic
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From: "Patrick O'Sullivan"

This article has turned up in our alerts but I have not been able to =
finagle
access to it.

I would deduce that it is of interest to people who want a very complete
Titanic list and/or people interested in food ways.

P.O'S.

JOURNAL: Gastronomica
Fall 2009, Vol. 9, No. 4, Pages 32=9642 , DOI 10.1525/gfc.2009.9.4.32
Posted online on December 1, 2009.
(doi:10.1525/gfc.2009.9.4.32)

The Night the Good Ship Went Down: Three Fateful Dinners Aboard the =
Titanic
andrea broomfield=9D

andrea broomfield is an associate professor of English at Johnson County
Community College in Overland Park, Kansas. She is author of Food and
Cooking in Victorian England: A History, is coeditor of Victorian Prose =
by
Women: An Anthology, and has written numerous articles and book chapters =
on
culinary history and Victorian women.

Abstract
=93The Night the Good Ship Went Down=94 examines three final meals =
served aboard
White Star's Titanic in order to reveal a complicated story about
Anglo-American relations and consumerism on the eve of World War I. This
article challenges the theory that the ship was a neat microcosm of life =
on
land, complete with insurmountable class barriers. Rather than =
replicating a
strict hierarchical social structure, White Star's newest ship was =
designed
to encourage a degree of social fluidity and upward mobility =
unprecedented
for its time. The Titanic was in part American financier J. Pierpont
Morgan's attempt to keep White Star competitive enough to crush its =
rival,
the British-owned Cunard. Food and dining call attention to this =
alternative
narrative of the Titanic's cultural and economic importance.

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Email Patrick O'Sullivan

We have a number of new Ir-D members. And we have had the usual
intermittent problems with some email addresses - so that some Ir-D members
might have missed some messages.

I thought that I should remind members about the Irish Diaspora list
archives - and how to access them.

The list was founded in November 1997, and the first real messages were sent
out in December 1997.

Our archives are currently stored in 2 places (not counting my own back-ups,
and other back-ups elsewhere)...

1.
We now have over 12 years of Irish Diaspora list reference and discussion
stored in our own private archive, a searchable and browsable database at

http://www.irishdiaspora.net/

That is a web forwarding address, pointing to a web site hosted for us by
Dr. Stephen Sobol and The Institute of Communications Studies, University of
Leeds.

The database receives and stores an email every day that the Ir-D list is
active. This email contains all the Ir-D messages of that day.

To access that archive, go to the irishdiaspora.net web address.

Click on Special Access

Then
Username irdmember
Current Password minnesota

And in the RESTRICTED section you will be able to use the Database of the
Irish Diaspora list archive (DIRDA)

There are some little vagaries with the search system. Sometimes unclicking
'Whole words only' makes it behave better, especially with Irish family
names.

And it can be slow - but it is now quite a big archive.

2.
In June 2004 I moved the running of the Irish Diaspora list to Jiscmail -
the UK academic community's listserver. Jiscmail uses the software
LISTSERV, which many members will be familiar with.

So, the archives for recent years, since our move to Jiscmail, are ALSO
automatically stored at Jiscmail

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/

Jiscmail knows you through your email address. You have to log in, in the
usual Listserv fashion, and become an individual Subscriber. The
instructions are there, on the web site.

You then have access to a highly organised, Listserv type, Irish Diaspora
list archive.

I tend to use the archive at
http://www.irishdiaspora.net/
when I want to see how a recurring topic has been discussed over the years.

I would suggest that Ir-D members use the Jiscmail archive to catch up on
recent Ir-D messages.

P.O'S.

--
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 Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/
Irish Diaspora Net
http://www.irishdiaspora.net

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

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Subject: Managing IR-D at Jiscmail, February 2010
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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

A reminder, for those wanting to use the Web interface to manage their IR-D
membership...

Jiscmail knows you by your email address.

Go to...
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/

On the left hand side you click on
Register Password
And go to the Register Password screen.

Follow the instructions there. Put in your email address, the email address
by which you are known to the IR-D list.

Choose your Password.

Your chosen Password is then confirmed by email in the usual way.

When you have registered your Password and received confirmation by email
you go BACK to Jiscmail's web site, and, again on the left hand side, you
click on Subscriber's Corner and get to a new screen. There, using your
email address and your Password, you enter your Subscriber's Corner, and set
up various IR-D list options...

Note that you can suspend your membership for a time - that is, set the
NOMAIL option.

You can decide what Acknowledgements you would like. I would recommend
Number 3...
Receive copy of own postings [NOACK REPRO]

Such changes can also be done by email - see the instructions in the
Jiscmail Welcome email...

P.O'S.

--
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 list Irish Diaspora Studies
http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/
Irish Diaspora Net Archive http://www.irishdiaspora.net

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

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Irish orphan girls
Exhibition

Between 1848 and 1850 several thousand young women, some no more than 14
years old, sailed from Ireland on an ill-fated emigration plan to hiring-out
depots in Sydney, Adelaide, Moreton Bay and Port Phillip. Many were
illiterate. Most spoke English. Few had domestic training. Known as the
'Irish orphans', they had been handpicked by government officials and
removed from county workhouses grown horribly overcrowded as, year after
year, the Irish countryside sank deeper into poverty, misery and disease.

In Sydney they lodged at Hyde Park Barracks, a spacious old convict
establishment at the top of Macquarie Street. Beyond its high walls was a
growing colony eager for workers and wives. Over two years, twenty ships
brought 4,114 Irish orphans to Australia, before the controversial scheme
was abandoned.

This fleeting chapter in Australia's immigration history looms larger than
most: weaving together Ireland's harrowing years of famine, its culture and
countryside in turmoil and families torn apart, with hopes of a future
beyond the seas.

Hyde Park Barracks Museum
Saturday 18 October, 2008 - Sunday 18 September, 2011

SOURCE
http://www.hht.net.au/whats_on/exhibitions/exhibitions/irish_orphan_girls

SEE ALSO
. they were treated with more consideration than they were entitled to and
rather unduly encouraged to remain in the building.

http://www.hht.net.au/discover/highlights/articles/irish_orphan_girls

http://www.hht.net.au/museums/hyde_park_barracks_museum

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Subject: Article,
A Constitution for Israel: The Design of the Leo Kohn Proposal,
1948
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This article turned up in our alerts - I was not able to finagle access to
it. But, given the subject matter, it seemed right to try harder...

Our thanks to Amihai Radzyner, the author of the article, for giving us a
copy of his article, as submitted to the journal, Israel Studies.

It is a very interesting example of a comparative constitutional study. Leo
Kohn had made a special study of the constitutions of countries that had
been part of the British Empire, especially the constitutions of Ireland.
In his draft constitutions he often had the Irish experience in mind, and in
some clauses followed Irish wording. As a note, the Rabbi Herzog who
criticises Kohn's draft constitution is Isaac Herzog, the Chief Rabbi of
Israel, previously the Chief Rabbi of Ireland - who was the father of Chaim
Herzog.

Amihai Radzyner also discusses questions which will interest Ir-D members.
Oaths, for or against? How far should a constitution be a religious
document? - citing the 1937 Irish Constitution's preamble. The position of
an established religion? A document drafted in one language and translated
in another.

The state of Israel is still without a written constitution, despite Dr.
Kohn's efforts. And of course many of the objections to a written
constitution are theological - should there be in existence a document given
greater authority than scripture?

P.O'S.

Israel Studies

A Constitution for Israel: The Design of the Leo Kohn Proposal, 1948

Amihai Radzyner

Spring 2010, Vol. 15, No. 1, Pages 1-24
Posted Online January 26, 2010.


UN General Assembly Resolution 181 declared that the states which will be
established in the Land of Israel should accept a constitution. Dr. Leo Kohn
was chosen to write the constitution proposal for the Jewish State. The
article describes his constitutional project, which was carried out in three
stages between the end of 1947 and October 1948. It identifies the sources
of his influence in his proposals, names the figures that assisted in
writing the proposals, and tries to understand the reasons for the changes
made in the three versions of his proposal. It considers the claim that
essential changes were due to the fundamental debate concerning the nature
of the constitution of the Jewish State: Should it be similar to the
constitutions of modern democratic states, or should it express the Jewish
tradition and protect the special Jewish character of the state?

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Subject: SEMINAR The Construction of 'Suspect' Communities in Britain
1974-2007: comparing the impact on Irish and Muslim communities -
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SEMINAR: 5 March 2010
The Construction of 'Suspect' Communities in Britain 1974-2007:
comparing the impact on Irish and Muslim communities

FIRST RESEARCH FINDINGS
This seminar will report on the first comparative research project examining
the impact of counter-terrorism on Irish communities and
Muslim communities in Britain. This ESRC-funded collaborative research
involves academics based at London Metropolitan University and City
University, London, with a long track-record of researching immigration,
social cohesion, Islam, and the media.

The study investigated transformations over time in the perception,
construction and representation of religio-ethnic groupings as 'suspect'
in relation to terror threats in Britain from 1970s to the present day. The
project examined the similarities and differences in the impact of
these representations of 'suspectness' and of counter-terrorism measures on
Irish communities and Muslim communities. The research methods
included analysis of the national and diaspora press, of legislation and
parliamentary debates, and speeches and statements of British
politicians and the police. The experiences and interpretations of members
and representatives of Irish communities and Muslim communities
in Birmingham and London were also collected using key informant interviews
and discussion groups.

SEMINAR PROGRAMME:
10.30 Arrival, registration, tea and coffee
11.00 Welcome and introduction
11.15 Overview of the Project & First Findings
Prof. Mary Hickman (project director, ISET)
Chair: tbc.
12.30 Lunch
13.30 'Suspect' Communities and the British Press
Dr Lyn Thomas and Dr Henri Nickels (ISET)
Chair: tbc.
14.40 Comfort Break
14.50 Security and Counter-terrorism: Policies and Policy Actors
Dr Sara Silvestri (City University, London)
Chair: tbc
16.00 Close

To be held at the Institute for the Study of European Transformations,
London Metropolitan University

NOTE: Registration is free but places are limited and allocated on a first
come basis
To register please email: suspectcommunities[at]londonmet.ac.uk

For further details about the research and the seminar please follow link
below:
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/research-units/iset/projects/esrc-suspect-communi
ties.cfm

ESRC RES-062-23-1066

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Madeleine Kingston
Project Administrator
A comparative study of the representations of 'suspect communities'
in multi-ethnic Britain and of their impact on Muslim and Irish communities
An ESRC Funded Project

Institute for the Study of European Transformations (ISET)
London Metropolitan University
166-220 Holloway Road
London N7 8DB

Telephone: +44 (0)20 7133 2927
------------------------------------------------

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Subject: Article,
ATROCITIES AT SEA AND THE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS OF WAR BY THE
PARLIAMENTARY NAVY IN IRELAND, 1641-1649
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The Historical Journal (2010), 53:21-37 Cambridge University Press
Copyright =A9 Cambridge University Press 2010
doi:10.1017/S0018246X09990501

Research Article

ATROCITIES AT SEA AND THE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS OF WAR BY THE =
PARLIAMENTARY
NAVY IN IRELAND, 1641=961649*

ELAINE MURPHY a1 c1
a1 Trinity College, Dublin

ABSTRACT

In 1643, Robert Rich, the second earl of Warwick, the parliamentary lord
high admiral, issued directions for naval officers in the Irish squadron =
to
execute any soldiers seized whilst crossing from Ireland to join =
royalist
armies in England and Wales. An ordinance was duly promulgated by =
parliament
in October 1644 which authorized the killing of Irishmen captured at sea =
or
in England. Thereafter, although a number of captains implemented this
policy and put to death mariners, soldiers, and passengers detained on
vessels going to and from confederate and royalist ports in Ireland, the
killing of maritime captives never became the norm in the war at sea. =
This
article provides a detailed analysis of the atrocities that occurred and =
the
treatment of prisoners taken in the seas around Ireland during the war =
of
the three kingdoms. In particular, this article examines the effect =
exerted
by the threat of retaliatory executions of English seamen held in towns =
such
as Wexford and Waterford on forcing parliament and its naval commanders =
to
moderate their actions.

Correspondence:

c1 Department of History, Arts Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2, =
Ireland
emurph19[at]tcd.ie

Footnotes

* I would like to acknowledge funding I received for this research as an
Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences Government =
of
Ireland Postgraduate Scholar. I am grateful to Juliana Adelman, David
Finnegan, Annaleigh Margey, Jane Ohlmeyer, Miche=E1l =D3 Siochr=FA, and =
Patrick
Walsh for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this article.

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Irish Visions
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=A0
DISORIENTALISM
Asian Subversions, Irish Visions
Ciaran Murray
=A0
INTRODUCTION =A0Why is Dublin Castle like a temple garden?=A0 Why is
Whistler=92s Irish lover like a woodblock print?=A0 Why is Hemingway=92s =
Irish
warrior like a Noh play?=A0 The answers involve the arts of Europe over =
two
and a half centuries: the Romantic sublime is defined by Burke; Wilde is =
the
supreme exemplar of Aestheticism; and at the centre of Modernism stands
Yeats.
=A0
I. AESTHETICS=A0 1. Kyoto=92s Temples to Tara=92s Halls. =A0English =
Romanticism,
stimulated by the Japanese garden, is adapted for Ireland by Henry and
Charlotte Brooke.=A0=20
2. Lady Morgan & the Moonlight Menace.=A0 Owenson inverts Burke=92s
aesthetic, locating the beautiful in England, the sublime in Ireland.=A0 =

3. Oscar Cancels a Country.=A0 Wilde repudiates Romanticism for
Aestheticism, influenced by Whistler=92s valuation of the Japanese =
woodblock
print.
=A0
II. ARCHETYPES=A0 4. Japan as Celtic Otherworld.=A0 Hearn sees Japan =
in
Aesthetic terms -- and also Irish, in musings echoed by Joyce in =91The
Dead=92.=A0=20
5. Byzantium and the Mandala.=A0 Yeats, following Morris, locates =
Jung=92s
archetype of the centre in the city which unites east and west, north =
and
south.=A0=20
6. Shimmering.=A0 Developing it further in the alchemical imagery =
common
to east and west.=20
=A0
III. APOPHASIS =A07. Buddha in the Buried City.=A0 Yeats=92 =
valuation of
Buddhism in =91The Statues=92 conditioned by Spengler.=A0=20
8. Some Versions of Nothing.=A0 The unutterable of the apophatic =
tradition
linked to the meaningful void of Indian zero, Sino-Japanese painting and =
the
Zen garden, and echoed by the eloquent silences and tension-filled =
spaces of
Modernism in Yeats, Joyce and others.
9. M=E9taphysique Nocturne.=A0 Apophasis in Eriugena traced through
Byzantium and Alexandria to India.
=A0
=91Intellectually rigorous and intellectually exciting=92 -- Robert =
Morton,
editor, Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan.
=91Outstanding scholarship, sensibility and enthusiasm=92 -- =
Ken=92ichi
Matsumura, translator, The Voyage of Bran to the Land of the Living.
=91How beautifully sculpted are the sentences that float on the sea =
of
references and background=92 -- David Burleigh, editor, Helen =
Waddell=92s
Writings from Japan.
=91A stimulating work which bravely =93goes it alone=94 as far as =
trends and
cliques go.=A0 A rich feast indeed=92 -- Nicholas Meihuizen, author, =
Yeats and
the Drama of Sacred Space.
=91Very clearly a labour of love, as well as a meticulous and =
invigorating
work of scholarship=85surprising turns and swift insights on every
page=85opening up new vistas of thought and inheritance=92 -- Robert =
Welch,
editor, The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature.
=91A marvellous work=92 -- Charles De Wolf, translator, Akutagawa =
Mandarins.
=91Unique command of western and eastern culture=85stunning=92 -- =
Christopher
Murray, author, Yeats & the Noh.=20
=91Magical book=92 -- Cleo McNelly Kearns, author, T. S. Eliot and =
Indic
Traditions.
=A0
The Asiatic Society of Japan
Orders inside Japan: www.asjapan.org; outside: www.sharawadgi.net
=A0
=A0

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January 11, 2010

The English Historical Review 2010 CXXV(512):1-34; doi:10.1093/ehr/cep407
What's this?

C The Author [2010]. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights
reserved.

Representation and Dissent: 'Parliamentarianism' and the Structure of
Politics in Colonial Ireland, c.1370-1420*

Peter Crooks
Trinity College, Dublin

Correspondence: Correspondence: Dr Peter Crooks, Department of History,
Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland, pcrooks[at]tcd.ie

In the process of state formation, representative institutions often serve
as a primary arena in which authority is 'negotiated' between princes and
subjects-or, in the case of colonial legislatures, between the agents of
metropolitan governments and settler elites. The medieval Irish parliament
falls into the latter category. It was an assembly of English colonists in
Ireland presided over by a chief governor, who held the place of the king of
England. The present essay investigates the process of 'negotiation' in the
Irish parliament between c.1370 and 1420. It shows how parliament served
both as a source of legitimation for unpopular chief governors and,
conversely, as a forum for expressing the grievances of the settler
community. The essay explores the complex structure of colonial politics by
locating parliament within a matrix of institutions linking Ireland to
England; and, in the final section, the discussion moves into the world of
political ideas. The underlying issue that it seeks to address is how
'parliamentarianism' helped to shape the political identity of the colony.
Expressions of dissent in parliament drew heavily upon English political
traditions. To that extent Irish parliamentary disputes reinforced the
Englishness of the colony's political culture; but, in a paradox familiar
from later colonial situations, the rhetoric of English liberty was
frequently turned against the crown's own representatives. Thus it is argued
that the conflicts played out in the medieval Irish parliament acted as a
catalyst in the crystallization of a distinctively colonial identity among
the English of Ireland.

* I would like to thank Professor Robin Frame for his helpful comments on an
earlier draft of this paper. Part of the research was undertaken in
association with the Irish Chancery Project (Trinity College, Dublin),
funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

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

I have pasted in, below, the opening and concluding paragraphs.

P.O'S.

Wealth concentration in the European periphery: Ireland, 1858-2001
John D. Turner
+ Author Affiliations

Queen's University Management School, Queen's University of Belfast,
Belfast, BT7 1NN; e-mail: j.turner[at]qub.ac.uk

Abstract

Using annual will indexes, a series of wealth concentration is constructed
for the north of Ireland on a decennial basis for the period 1858 to 2001.
Wealth was highly concentrated at the beginning of the sample period, but
inequality falls towards the end of the nineteenth century and continues to
fall until the 1970s. However, there does not appear to be a Kuznets-type
process at work. Instead, using data on socio-occupational status, it is
suggested that the fall in wealth concentration appears to be associated
with the demise of the titled classes. Interestingly, similar to the
findings of other studies, wealth has become more concentrated since the
1970s.

Oxford Economic Papers
Oxf. Econ. Pap. (2010)
doi: 10.1093/oep/gpp041
First published online:
January 18, 2010

1. Introduction

This article presents and analyses new data on wealth concentration and
inequality in the north of Ireland from 1858 to 2001.1 The general
fascination with wealth concentration appears to arise from the perception
that modern English-speaking economies are becoming less equal. Academic
studies on income inequality appear to confirm that income in such economies
has become less equal since the 1970s (Piketty and Saez, 2003, 2006). A more
fundamental reason for constructing such a series is to improve our
understanding of the determinants of wealth concentration in the long-run.

Northern Ireland makes an interesting case study for several reasons.2
Firstly, Northern Ireland as a region and then country within the UK has
similar laws to the rest of the UK. It also has experienced similar economic
changes, with industrialization in the nineteenth century and severe
deindustrialization in the inter-war years, followed by mass unemployment in
the 1970s and 80s. In the above senses, it could be considered as the UK in
microcosm. Secondly, the inequality series for the entire sample period
comes from one data source (annual will indexes for Ireland and Northern
Ireland), unlike many other series which are patched together from various
sources. Thirdly, the annual will indexes as well as reporting the value of
an estate also give occupational details for each decedent (i.e. deceased
person), which enables one to analyse the sources of wealth concentration as
well as the beneficiaries of decreasing inequality. Fourthly, Northern
Ireland has had a history of conflict and violence since the late 1960s,
making it a good case study of the impact of political conflict upon wealth
inequalities in society.

Kuznets (1955) hypothesized that inequality followed an inverted U-curve in
capitalist economies, rising in the initial phases of
development/industrialization, and subsequently falling in the latter stages
as workers gradually enter the more productive sectors of the economy. ...

...

7. Conclusion

This paper reports a series of wealth concentration for the north of
Ireland, covering the 1858-2001 period. The first finding is that there is
no evidence of a Kuznets-type rise in wealth concentration in Northern
Ireland during the period of industrialization. The second finding is that
the decline in wealth concentration begins in the 1890s and continues until
1981, with the main fall in wealth concentration occurring between 1901 and
1941. The fall in wealth concentration between 1891 and 1922 is principally
due to the decreased wealth of the titled classes. From 1922 until 1941, the
continued fall in inequality is due both to a fall in the wealth of the top
brackets, especially merchants and industrialists, and the increasing wealth
of those outside the top percentile of the distribution, particularly
farmers and the middle classes.

Finally, similar to other wealth concentration studies, the Northern Irish
estimates suggest that wealth concentration begins to rise after 1981. This
reverse in wealth inequality poses something of a puzzle for the Acemoglu
and Robinson (2006) popularization-of-democracy story as to why inequality
fell in the twentieth century. Consequently, the causes of this reverse
requires further research.

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Late registration for the Irish Masculinities Conference at Queen's
University
Belfast has been extended to 19th February:

http://admin.qol.qub.ac.uk/ecommerce/irishmasculinities/index.php=20



Irish Masculinities

Friday 26th February
11-1: Registration (Institute First Floor Foyer)
1.30-2.45: Larmour Lecture Theatre
Introduction and welcome from the Irish Studies International Research
Initiative.
Plenary: Prof. J.W. Foster (Larmour Lecture Theatre)
Introduced by Dr Eamonn Hughes (QUB)
3.15-5.15:
Seminar Room 1: Northern Irish Masculinities
Chair: Christina Morin (QUB)
Caroline Magennis (QUB): Northern Ireland=92s Casanova: Subversive =
erotics,
masculinity and =91Brit=92-pop.
Kate Antosik Parsons (UCD): Masculinity in Crisis: The Construction of =
Irish
Masculinities in the Work of Willie Doherty.
Mark Phelan (QUB): Queer Up North: Roger Casement, F.J. Bigger and the
Ulster Revival.
Niall Rea (QUB): He is Handsome, He is Pretty, the Drag Queens of =
Belfast
City: Fracturing the Ethnosectarian Discourse through the Performance of
Gender Disidentification in Northern Ireland.
Seminar Room 2: Challenging Normative Masculinity
Chair: Tam Sanger (QUB)
Cliona Barnes (UL): =91I get women crossing the road to avoid me=92: =
Young
masculinities, media representation and public fears.
Gavin Deady (NUIM): 'Masculinity=92 as a 'citizenship continuum'; =
Patient
anxiety
and treatment avoidance as a gender, sexuality, and identity =
(protectionist)
marker.
Kevin Davison (NUIG): Bridging Understanding and Reaching Out: Digital
Storytelling with Marginalised Young Men in Rural Ireland.
Patricia Neville (UL): =91You=92ve got male=92: the representations of =
advice
seeking
Irish men in Quentin Fontrell=92s www.worldweary.com.
5.45-7.00: Plenary: Prof. Pat Coughlan (PFC212)
=91Taking real things for shadows=92: Contemporary Irish Literature and
Masculine
Affects.
Introduced by Dr Tina O=92Toole (UL)
7.00: Wine reception and buffet at the Institute of Irish Studies

Saturday 27th February
9.30-11.00: Panel (3 papers, Institute Seminar Room)
Seminar Room 1: Performing Irish Masculinity
Chair: Anna McMullan (QUB)
Sean Kennedy (St Mary=92s, Halifax): Beckett, impropriety and the =
performance
of ascendancy.
Brian Singleton (TCD): Hegemonies and Masculinities in Contemporary =
Irish
Theatre: Abjection and Renegotiation.
Kathryn White (UU): =91Who may tell the tale of the old man?=92: Samuel =
Beckett,
Men and Memory.
Seminar Room 2: Post-Conflict Masculinity
Chair: Dominic Bryan (QUB)
Steffi Lehner (UCD): Reconciled Masculinities: The Gender Politics &
Performances of Post-Conflict Cultural Productions.
Ken Harland and Sam McCready (UU): Struggling to be a Man? Masculine
Complexity in Early Adolescence.
Gordon Ramsey (QUB): Protestant boys: Enacting and challenging working-
class masculinities in Ulster loyalist marching bands.
11.30-1.00: Panel (3 papers, Institute Seminar Room)
Seminar Room 1: Queer Masculinities
Chair: Padraic Whyte (QUB)
Tina O=92Toole (UL): This Charming Boy: Female Masculinities in Irish =
Fiction.
Ed Madden (South Carolina): Gently, Not Gay: Proximity, Marginality,
Intimacy,
Masculinity.
Anne Mulhall (UCD): =93Where the fuck is my mammy?=94 The Maternal and =
the
Queer in McCabe=92s and Jordan=92s Breakfast on Pluto(s).
Seminar Room 2: Destabilising Masculinities
Chair: Raymond Mullen (QUB)
Julia Whittredge (UCC): =93I jerk out what comes next=94: =
Representations of
Masculinity and Masculine Poetic Voice in the Poetry of Denis Devlin.
Deirdre Duffy (DIT): The Negotiation and Consumption of Mediated
Masculinities in the Artistry of the Male Self.
Louise Sheridan (Northampton): Second-generation outsiders: Irish
masculinity
and the father-son relationship in John Walsh=92s The Falling Angels.
1.00-2.00: Sandwich Lunch in Institute of Irish Studies
2.00-3.30: Panel (3 papers, Institute Seminar Room)
Seminar Room 1: Visualising Masculinity
Chair: Eamonn Hughes (QUB)
Casey A. Jarrin (Macalester College): Visual Encounters with the Irish
Prison
Body: Empathy, Embodiment, and Revisions of the Masculine in Wilde=92s =
Ballad
(1898) and McQueen=92s Hunger (2008).
Fintan Walsh (TCD): Odd Couples: Screening Queer Relationality.
Debbie Ging (DCU): Boys on Film: Irish Cinema=92s Challenge to Myths of =
Irish
Manhood since the 1970s.
Seminar Room 2: Masculinity in Irish Fiction
Chair: Caroline Magennis (QUB)
Val Nolan (NUIG): =91When I came to notice it...=92: Masculinity and =
Fantasy in
Neil Jordan=92s novella The Dream of a Beast.
Maeve Davey (UU): =91You=92re dying for me=92: Representations of =
Masculinity in
Contemporary Northern Irish Popular Women=92s Fiction.
Martyn J. Colebrook (Hull): =93Caravan on the Borderland=94: Patrick =
McCabe=92s
Call Me the Breeze.
4.00-5.30: Panel (3 papers, Institute Seminar Room)
Seminar Room 1: Historicising Irish Masculinity
Chair: Caoimhe Nic Dh=E1ibh=E9id
Dale Montgomery (QUB). 'We'll take care of the Corner Boys': Blueshirt
Masculine Identity, 1932-1936.
Denis Flannery (Leeds): Ernie O'Malley, Shakespeare's Sonnets and The =
Book
as Closet Object.
Michael G. Cronin (NUIM): The Ghost of Roger Casement: Sex, Truth and
Power.
Seminar Room 2: Masculinity in Irish Drama.
Chair: Paul Murphy (QUB)
Emma O=92Kane (QUB): Bachelor Farmers, Lonely on the Land: Sex and =
violence
in Martin McDonagh=92s The Lonesome West and Sebastian Barry=92s Boss =
Grady=92s
Boys.
Conor Plunkett (QUB): Dublin Theatre=92s First Truly Modernist Play?
Homosexuality and Masculinity in a Modern Nation - Mary Manning=92s =
Youth=92s
The Season-?
Cormac O=92Brien (UCD): Tragedy Interrupted: The Afterlife of the =
Postmodern
Anti-Hero in Conor McPherson=92s The Seafarer.
6.00-7.30: Plenary: Prof. Gerardine Meaney (PFC212)
'The Undercover Irishman: Race, Masculinity and Popular Culture'
Introduced by Dr Anne Mulhall (UCD).
Conference closing remarks.
8.00: Conference dinner: Deane=92s at Queen=92s

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SEAMUS HEANEY'S EARLY WORK: Poetic Responsibility and The Troubles
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The following book has been brought to our attention. The accompanying =
note
stresses that this is a new study of Heaney by a Maltese scholar, with
fascinating insights and comparisons Malta-Ireland and notions of elite
panic,=A0political and physical force as rural=A0threat.

P.O'S.

www.academicapress.com
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SEAMUS HEANEY'S EARLY WORK: Poetic Responsibility and The Troubles=20

Daniel Xerri

Lecturer,D/English Language and Literature,University of Malta, author =
of
TED HUGHES' ART OF HEALING (Bethesda,2009)=20

This monograph discusses a critical element in the early poetry of =
Seamus
Heaney: the question of poetic duty and responsibility with specific
reference to the poetry he published before moving from Ulster to the
relative safety of the Irish Republic. The work seeks to demonstrate how =
the
first four poetry collections by Heaney exhibit a progression in how the
poet, after coming to grips with his artistic vocation, finally =
discovers
the means by which to address the terrible events that afflicted =
Northern
Ireland at the time.

The very first poem in Death of a Naturalist informs us that Heaney is =
fully
committed to the use of the pen to 'dig'into all that constitutes his
country. Besides other things, this is a declaration by someone willing =
to
do something about the problems of his community. However, the aim of =
this
study is to show how difficult and, at times, burdensome the artistic =
call
has been for Heaney. The first collections give a picture of a budding =
poet
developing a style of his own, as well as creating in his mind the
conception of the poet's figure as some sort of diviner, shaman, tapping =
the
unknown and retrieving wisdom for his people. We come to see how the =
image
of darkness is used as a symbol of the Jungian collective =
unconsciousness to
which the poet has special means of access. Death of a Naturalist and =
Door
into the Dark lay the foundations for the poet's engagement with =
'external
reality' in Heaney's future collections. Wintering Out focuses primarily =
on
the question of the Irish Language and investigates the problems =
elicited by
the poet's use of the English language as a poetic medium. In North, =
Heaney
grapples with the dilemma of how best to respond to Northern Ireland's
political and religious climate, the dilemma of whether one should use =
the
'symbolic' or 'explicit' mode of poetry-writing.

=93Xerri does a remarkable job detailing the poems in the first four
collections of Heaney as well as considering his critical writing and =
the
relationship between poet and his vocation. Heaney does make the issue =
of
the poet's responsibility an issue in his early work and he does, as he
must, seek a way to break free of too deep a concern with the savage
pettiness, brutality and division that has consumed too many in its hard
dark violent spiral=94 Ray Hanna,North American Literary Review
Irish Research Series,No.59

Market: Seamus Heaney, Modern Irish Poetry, Poetry ,Irish Studies, =
Ulster,
Poetics, Critical Studies/ Poetry of Ireland, Irish Poets
Release Date: 06/2010
Copyright: 2010

ISBN/Price: Cloth: 978-1-933146-91-1/ 1933146-91-5; $69.95
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The School of History and Anthropology has scholarships to offer for the
following international summer programmes:

"Ties that Bind: Linking Irish and American History"

This programme is being launched in 2010 and will set the American and Irish
past into their shared context, demonstrating the ties that bind the two
peoples.

"Irish Studies International Summer School"
This very popular interdiscplinary programme, offered by the Institute of
Irish Studies, examines Irish history, politics, culture, social
anthropology, literature and music.

More information at:
www.qub.ac.uk/history

www.qub.ac.uk/irishstudies


Catherine Boone
Postgraduate Administration and Marketing
School of History and Anthropology
Queen's University Belfast
Belfast BT7 1NN

Tel: +44 (0) 28 9097 3325
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Some 'Alsatian' Etymologies From Eighteenth-Century London
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This is the sort of thing I would have parcelled up and sent off to Danny
Cassidy in San Francisco...

It is an exploration of some slang words found in a joke letter written by
Swift to his alter ego, Bickerstaff. The article finds possible Irish
sources for words like bamboozle, bully and banter - and postulates Irish
criminals in the London sanctuary area known as 'Alsatia'. (There is a
Thomas Shadwell play, The Squire of Alsatia, about this sanctuary.)

Difficult to say how convincing all this is. William Sayers - if you search
- does a lot of this kind of thing. His starting point is often - as it was
with Danny Cassidy - very unsatisfactory entries in the Oxford English
Dictionary. Sayers wonders - to put it no more strongly - if Swift might
have been aware of the cant terms' possible Irish origins.

P.O'S.

Some 'Alsatian' Etymologies From Eighteenth-Century London
Sayers Notes and Queries.2010; 0: gjp279v1-gjp279

Notes and Queries Advance Access published online on January 25, 2010

C The Author (2010). Published by Oxford University Press. All rights
reserved. For Permissions, please email:
journals.permissions[at]oxfordjournals.org

Some 'Alsatian' Etymologies From Eighteenth-Century London
William Sayers

Cornell University

IN a September 1710 number of The Tatler Jonathan Swift takes aim at vogue
words judged 'evils in the world of letters', an unfortunate lexis that
contributes to the 'continual corruption of our English tongue'.1 Just how
seriously this may have been meant is open to question, since the very
exercise of proscription authorizes the writer to display his mastery over
this vocabulary. Swift's squib takes the form of an imaginary letter,
embedded in a larger sham letter addressed to Isaac Bickerstaff Esq., the
columnist's pseudonym. An edited excerpt from the former will give the
flavour of the piece, where the density of occurrence of offending words is
a stylistic objective (italicized forms are the author's own):

Tis said the French king will bamboozle us agen, which causes many
speculations. The Jacks, and others of that kidney, are very uppish . . . I
believe you thot I bantered you in my last like a country put . .

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Suicide and employment status during Ireland's Celtic Tiger
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The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access published online on
January 27, 2010=20
The European Journal of Public Health, doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckp236=20

=A9 The Author 2010. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of =
the
European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.=20

Suicide and employment status during Ireland=92s Celtic Tiger economy

Paul Corcoran1,2 and Ella Arensman1
1 National Suicide Research Foundation, 1 Perrott Avenue, College Road,
Cork, Ireland
2 Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Oviedo, =
Centro
de Investigaci=F3n Biom=E9dica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Julian
Claveria 6, 33006 Oviedo, Spain

Correspondence: Paul Corcoran, National Suicide Research Foundation, 1
Perrott Avenue, College Road, Cork, Ireland, tel: +353 21 4277499, fax: =
+353
21 4277545, e-mail: dpaulcorcoran[at]gmail.com

Received April 22, 2009 , accepted December 21, 2009


Background: Studies have identified employment as a protective factor
against suicide. We examined employment status and risk of suicide in
Ireland during the 11-year period 1996=962006, a period of economic boom
commonly known as the Celtic Tiger. Methods: Data relating to the 5270
suicides and 789 deaths of undetermined intent registered as occurring =
in
Ireland in 1996=962006 and relevant population data were obtained from =
the
Irish Central Statistics Office and analysed using Poisson regression.
Results: Unemployment fell from 12% in 1996 to 4% in 2000, a level at =
which
it remained until 2006. Male and female rates of suicide and =
undetermined
death were stable during 1996=962006 though suicide among unemployed men
increased. Relative to employment, unemployment was associated with a
2=963-fold increased risk of male suicide and undetermined death but =
generally
a 4=966-fold increased risk in women. Unemployment was associated with =
greater
increased risk of suicide and undetermined death when its level was low
(2001=9606) than in the period of decreasing unemployment (1996=962000).
Unemployment was a stronger risk factor in men aged 35=9654 years and =
with
increasing age in women. Retired persons aged >55 years had a similar =
risk
to their employed counterparts. Being a homemaker was associated with
increased risk in women aged >35 years. Conclusion: The current Irish
context of rapidly increasing unemployment suggests that rates may rise
again as in previous recessions. Appropriate social policy responses are
required to mitigate the potential impact of unemployment on suicides.

Keywords: economic recession, employment status, suicide, undetermined
death, unemployment

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Please post and circulate the call for submissions given here below:

Call for Submissions

Garm Lu publishes a diverse collection of academic and artistic material
pertaining to all aspects of the Celtic world on a semi-annual basis. The
journal is published by the University of Toronto Celtic Society, an
undergraduate student organisation affiliated with the Celtic Studies
program at St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto. Garm Lu also
receives support from the Canadian Celtic Arts Association. The journal has
been publishing for over twenty-five years and in the past has carried
original material by such notables as Sorley MacLean, Seamus Heaney and Ann
Dooley.

The editors welcome previously unpublished material in English or any Celtic
language pertaining to the Celtic speaking peoples, their descendants or any
aspect of the Celtic world. Academic essays, interviews, poetry, short
stories, reminiscences, photography and artwork are all welcome. Please
send your submissions as email attachments to the Managing Editors at
garmlu.uoft[at]gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is February 26th, 2010
for the Spring 2010 issue.

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