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Encyclopaedia Britannica brought to book over Irish history blunder

It was once billed the "Patriarch of the Library" but Encyclopaedia
Britannica has proven to have a less than orthodox view of the Irish Civil
War.

A concise version of the reference work first published seven years ago says
the 1922 conflict was between Catholics in the south and Protestants in the
north.

As any Irish schoolchild, or indeed anyone who has seen the film Michael
Collins knows, it was in fact a conflict fought by those in favour of the
1921 Anglo-Irish treaty and those opposed.

The war was fought among Catholic nationalists in the south. Northern
Protestants had no involvement.

The glaring blunder was carried on a hand-held device first sold six or
seven years ago but was only spotted this week.

Ian Grant, managing editor of Encyclopaedia Britannica, said the mistake was
"rare" and may have been caused by an editor attempting to condense complex
history.

He added that they may have confused the Irish Civil War with the troubles
in Northern Ireland.

Full text at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8497391.stm

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James McConnel
John Redmond and Irish Catholic Loyalism
The English Historical Review
English Historical Review 2010 CXXV: 83-111

CONCLUDING PARAGRAPHS
'...Like the majority of Irish nationalists, Redmond strongly opposed the
Boer war (which his uncle doubtless supported),238 but his family's
tradition of military service along with romantic notions of the Irishman at
war meant he could not condemn those of his countrymen who took the king's
shilling.239 Indeed, according to Stephen Gwynn, Redmond greatly enjoyed the
company of military men:240
He seldom spoke of the distinguished men he met, but again and again I
remember hearing him mention with pleasure some talk over a dinner-table
with this or that famous soldier-Sir John French (as he then was), for
instance. It was happiness for him to find himself on friendly terms with
the service to which so many sentiments bound him. The Curragh incident was
to him more than a grave political event; it pained him beyond measure that
this opposition should be headed by a representative of one of the Irish
families most famous for their military record. In the debates which dealt
with all this matter he said no word, and he kept our party silent-a wise
course, and one to which every instinct prompted him.

Ultimately, these instincts manifested themselves in Redmond's belief that
Irish unity could be advanced by Nationalists fighting alongside their
Unionist fellow countrymen 'wherever the firing line extends'. Thus if
Redmond's stance in September 1914 was the outcome of careful political
calculation rather than simple atavism, there is no doubting that it drew
strongly upon a long-established family tradition of catholic loyalism. Any
assessment of his contemporary relevance must recognise this fact.'

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Strange but true

On holidays fairly recently in Italy I was asked by a young American
student, on discovering I was Irish:

Don't you have lots of trouble in the East of Ireland?=20

Well, I replied, not quite



Liam Clarke

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Subject: [IR-D] Encyclopaedia Britannica brought to book over Irish
history blunder

Encyclopaedia Britannica brought to book over Irish history blunder

It was once billed the "Patriarch of the Library" but Encyclopaedia
Britannica has proven to have a less than orthodox view of the Irish
Civil
War.

A concise version of the reference work first published seven years ago
says
the 1922 conflict was between Catholics in the south and Protestants in
the
north.

As any Irish schoolchild, or indeed anyone who has seen the film Michael
Collins knows, it was in fact a conflict fought by those in favour of
the
1921 Anglo-Irish treaty and those opposed.

The war was fought among Catholic nationalists in the south. Northern
Protestants had no involvement.

The glaring blunder was carried on a hand-held device first sold six or
seven years ago but was only spotted this week.

Ian Grant, managing editor of Encyclopaedia Britannica, said the mistake
was
"rare" and may have been caused by an editor attempting to condense
complex
history.

He added that they may have confused the Irish Civil War with the
troubles
in Northern Ireland.

Full text at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8497391.stm

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I have not seen anywhere a review of the latest Comaroff volume - but their
themes are of interest to Irish Diaspora Studies, and have been discussed
here... The commodification of culture, the commodification of ethnic
identity...

The publisher's web site says 'Not for sale in Africa', most probably for
the usual publisher region reasons - but it looks incongruous.

The Comaroffs were on Laurie Tatlor's BBC radio programme earlier in the
week, talking about their work.

P.O'S.

John L. and Jean Comaroff
Ethnicity, Inc.
236 pages, 15 color plates 6 x 9 C 2009
Series: Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
Cloth $52.00
ISBN: 9780226114712 Published July 2009
Paper $19.00
ISBN: 9780226114729 Published July 2009
E-book from $5.00 to $19.00 (about e-books)
ISBN: 9780226114736
Not for sale in Africa

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=6
206909

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qcjwn#synopsis

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Geimhreadh/Winter 2009
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A number of articles of interest to Ir-D. Patrick Maume on Dunsany is a
helpful guide, to the life and the work. (Dunsany always writes well, =
but
there is always a feeling that he is pulling his punches.) Mark =
Quintanilla
opens up new thinking about the Irish in the Caribbean. Michael =
Nicholsen
looks again at music in Chicago. Plus some very useful book reviews.

P.O'S.

New Hibernia Review
Volume 13, Number 4, Geimhreadh/Winter 2009

E-ISSN: 1534-5815 Print ISSN: 1092-3977
Table of Contents

N=F3ta=ED na nEagarth=F3ir=ED: Editors' Notes
pp. 5-8
=20
What Narcissus Sees
Kerry Hardie
pp. 9-13

Dreams of Empire, Empire of Dreams: Lord Dunsany Plays the Game
Patrick Maume
pp. 14-33
=20
Fil=EDocht Nua: New Poetry
Eil=E9an N=ED Chuillean=E1in
pp. 34-39

Homeward Bound: Trauma, Homesickness, and Rough Beasts in O'Brien's In =
the
Forest and McCabe's Winterwood
Shirley Peterson
pp. 40-58

"From a Dear and Worthy Land": Michael Keane and the Irish in the
Eighteenth-Century Irish West Indies
Mark S. Quintanilla
pp. 59-76
=20
Space and the Trace: Thomas Kinsella's Postcolonial Placelore
Julia C. Obert
pp. 77-93

James Joyce and the Politics of Food
Miriam O'Kane Mara
pp. 94-110

Identity, Nationalism, and Irish Traditional Music in Chicago, =
1867=961900
Michael D. Nicholsen
pp. 111-126
=20
Hockey and Habitus: Sport and National Identity in Northern Ireland
Katie Liston
Elizabeth Moreland
pp. 127-140
=20
Irish Tourism: 1880=961980 (review)
William H. A. Williams
pp. 141-144
=20
Competitive Irish Dance: Art, Sport, Duty (review)
Jill Franks
pp. 144-146
=20
Improving Ireland? Projectors, Prophets and Profiteers, 1641=961786 =
(review)
Scott Breuninger
pp. 146-147
=20
A Restless Life (review)
Jennifer Keating-Miller
pp. 148-149
=20
British and Irish Home Arts and Industries 1880=961914: Marketing Craft,
Making Fashion (review)
Frank A. Biletz
pp. 149-151

The Dandy in Irish and American Southern Fiction: Aristocratic Drag
Sarah Nestor
pp. 151-153

Social Change and Everyday Life in Ireland 1850=961922 (review)
Margaret Preston
pp. 153-155
=20
Lawrence O=92Shaughnessy Award for Poetry: Mary O=92Malley
pp. 156-158
=20

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From The Times Literary Supplement
February 3, 2010

Who was who in Ireland?
Saints to singers, politicians to painters: a work set to transform the
world of Irish scholarship
Roy Foster

The definition of Irishness is notoriously contested, which is perhaps =
the
reason why the Irish have had to wait so long for a dictionary of =
national
biography. Individual and rather scrappy volumes have long circulated,
notably by Alfred Henry Webb (1878), John S. Crone (1928) and Henry =
Boylan
(1979); but otherwise, prosopographical guides tended to be organized by
genre or subject, such as Padraic O=92Farrell=92s useful Who=92s Who in =
the Irish
War of Independence 1916=961922 (1980), later extended into Who=92s Who =
in the
Irish War of Independence and Civil War 1916=961923, Walter =
Strickland=92s
venerable but invaluable Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), or Brian
Cleeve=92s three-volume Dictionary of Irish Writers (1967=9671: updated, =
with
Anne Brady, as A Biographical Dictionary of Irish Writers in 1985). The
standard of biographical entry became a good deal more demanding with =
the
appearance of Oxford University Press=92s large-scale Companions to =
Irish
literature and to Irish history, edited respectively in 1996 and 1998 by
Robert Welch and Sean Connolly, but the people whose lives were covered =
were
necessarily selective. Now, at last, we have a large-scale multi-volume
Dictionary, available online (dib.cambridge.org) or in nine thumping
volumes. It is packed with detailed entries, all of them signed, and
accompanied by guides to sources; the trawl is laudably ambitious, and =
the
editorial labour Herculean. This project has come in triumphantly on =
time;
and many of the entries incorporate very recent scholarship, though some =
do
show signs of having been composed some time ago. Previous
compendium-projects in Irish academe have not always proceeded smoothly,
with histories of running badly behind schedule and producing work that =
is
inconsistent in approach or outdated by the time it is printed; the
Dictionary of Irish Biography has vindicated the format. It is safe to =
say
that it will transform the world of Irish scholarship.

The obvious comparison is with the Oxford Dictionary of National =
Biography,
published five years ago, and this Cambridge project can stand the test.
Though the online version does not have the ODNB=92s lavish visual =
material
and the range is necessarily far narrower, the authoritativeness, =
balance
and eye for a telling detail are of the same order. The new Dictionary =
of
Irish Biography is also similarly user-friendly. Online searching is =
both
flexible and sophisticated; besides text-search, subjects can be tracked =
by
date (or place) of birth and death, floruit dates, gender, religion,
profession or career. The ODNB, of course, includes many entries on =
Irish
subjects, up to independence and slightly beyond; in fact, the new DIB =
opens
with the same person as Leslie Stephen=92s old DNB, a =
seventeenth-century Dean
of Killaloe with the hard-to-trump surname Abbadie. (It ends with the
balladeer Michael Moran, aka =93Zozimus=94.)...

... a remembered phrase from rural Ireland comes to mind. After a long =
visit
spent discussing friends, relatives and family interconnections, it was
sometimes remarked =93We had a great evening, tracing=94. Many such =
evenings can
be promised to those fortunate enough to have access to this wonderful
series.

James McGuire and James Quinn, editors=20
DICTIONARY OF IRISH BIOGRAPHY=20
Nine volumes.=20
Royal Irish Academy/ Cambridge University Press. =A3775 (US $995).
978 0 521 63331 4

Roy Foster is Professor of Irish History at Hertford College, Oxford. =
His
books include Modern Ireland 1600=961972, 1988, and Luck and the Irish: =
A
brief history of change 1970=962000, 2007.

FULL TEXT AT

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls=
/ar
ticle7013481.ece

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The benefits of holidaying for children experiencing social
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The benefits of holidaying for children experiencing social exclusion:
recent Irish evidence

Authors: Bernadette Quinn a; Jane Stacey b
Affiliations: a Department of Tourism, Dublin Institute of Technology,
Dublin 1, Ireland
b Tourism Research Centre, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland
DOI: 10.1080/02614360903046631

Published in: Leisure Studies, Volume 29, Issue 1 January 2010 , pages 29 -
52
Subjects: Leisure Studies; Social Geography;

Abstract
There is a general assumption in contemporary society that holidaying is
beneficial in many ways. Yet, even in affluent societies, access to
holidaying opportunities continues to be constrained by a variety of factors
relating to inter alia income, gender, health and race. This is problematic
because it means that sizeable minorities within advanced societies are
being denied the benefits that researchers have attributed to the practice
of holidaying. Recently, there has been a renewed interest in problematising
the exclusionist nature of holidaying with researchers arguing that a lack
of holiday opportunities may compound social deprivation, reinforce social
problems and heighten social exclusion. A number of knowledge gaps have been
identified including the extent to which holidaying benefits children and
youth and those experiencing social exclusion. This paper aims to redress
this knowledge deficit by reporting the findings of a study that examined
the benefits of holidaying accruing to a group of children, and their
families, experiencing social exclusion in Dublin. Using a variety of
qualitative methods, the study found that access to holidaying opportunities
contributed to quality of life and enhanced well-being for the children
studied. The benefits of the holiday extended beyond the time period of the
holiday itself, and also extended beyond the children themselves into the
wider family unit. A number of avenues for further research are identified.

Keywords: tourism; inequality; holidaying; children; social exclusion;
Ireland

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Global Irish Network meet in London
Thursday, 4 February 2010 20:21

Business, cultural and sporting figures from the Irish community across
Britain gathered in London to discuss ways of helping the Irish economy.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Miche=E1l Martin, who chaired the =
discussion,
said the group would provide advice and opportunities for an export-led
recovery.

He said the establishment of the Global Irish Network honoured the
Government's commitment, made at Farmleigh last September, to listen to =
and
work with those who, though mainly resident abroad, continued to have a
strong interest and stake in Ireland and its progress.

Advertisement
Last year 280 members of Ireland's business, cultural and sporting =
diaspora
came together in Dublin at the Government's invitation.

Today's London meeting marked the establishment of the Global Irish =
Network.

One member of the group Barry Maloney, founder of the venture capital =
firm
Balderton Capital, said that some members of the group had a lot of
experience in the financial services area and a lot of thoughts about
putting Ireland's banking system on the road to recovery.

Mr Martin announced his intention to organise a series of similar Global
Irish Network meetings in other parts of the world.

He said one of its main objectives would be to act as an additional =
resource
for the Government and State agencies in promoting Ireland's economic,
cultural and tourism messages in key markets.

SOURCE
http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0204/economy.html

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Book Review
Of
The Idea of English Ethnicity

By
Author: Ben Rogaly
a Affiliation: a University of Sussex,

Published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Volume 36, Issue 2
February 2010 , pages 373 - 374

Robert Young, The Idea of English Ethnicity
Oxford: Blackwell, 2007, 291 pp., 17.99 pb. (ISBN 9781405101295) 55.00 hb.
(ISBN 9781405101288)

Contemporary popular discourses on 'race', ethnicity and immigration in the
UK often confuse the terms of the debate. The focus on immigration has
ignored emigration by white British nationals. In this mould-breaking book,
aimed at general and academic readers, Robert Young shows how the idea of
English ethnicity was constructed and then transformed in the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries. The text is peppered with links to contemporary
debates.

Through Young's analysis of nineteenth-century writings we see the emergence
of Saxonist ideas of a pure English 'race', the birth of a 'Celtic'
challenge and, towards the end of the century, a globalisation of
Englishness in the idea of the Anglo-Saxon. Migration is omnipresent,
whether immigration from continental Europe before and after the Norman
Conquest in the eleventh century or from Ireland, Eastern Europe and Russia
in the nineteenth; or emigration to Britain's colonies and the United
States...

...This second 'refashioning' of the idea of English ethnicity towards a
more relaxed approach to the multiple migratory origins of the English
pointed to the uniting factors of language and culture. Importantly, to be
English did not necessarily mean living in England. 'The Saxon became . the
Anglo-Saxon . "English ethnicity" embraced . the English diaspora . The
English were . recast as a transnational brotherhood united by race and
language. They became a globalized race' (pp. 179-80).

Englishness now stretched across Canada, the United States, Australia and
New Zealand-all founded as settler colonies-while 'Celt' and 'Saxon' lost
their significance. Moreover, steam transport and telegraphic communications
enabled 'the English diaspora to remain united, while also facilitating a
whole new era of land seizure for colonial settlements' (p. 208).

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Reluctant Diasporas of Northern Ireland: Migrant Narratives of
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Note that this article has not yet been assigned a place in paper version of
the journal.

Reluctant Diasporas of Northern Ireland: Migrant Narratives of Home,
Conflict, Difference
Author: Johanne Devlin Trew - Johanne Devlin Trew is Research Associate at
the University of Ulstera Affiliation: a University of Ulster,

Published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
First Published on: 17 December 2009
Subjects: Migration & Diaspora; Race & Ethnic Studies;

Abstract
This article discusses diaspora with specific regard to Northern Ireland as
a contested homeland, now vaunted as a post-conflict zone. Taking a
practice-led approach, I examine evidence of diasporic consciousness and
transnational practices through life-narrative interviews with migrants from
Northern Ireland during two studies on contemporary migration (2004-08). I
conclude that developing a sense of belonging to the Irish diaspora may be
problematic for Catholics, Protestants and others originating within the
contested space of Northern Ireland. I suggest that studying local and
family diasporas in the Irish context, with a focus on individual agency,
may ultimately be more useful in understanding migration and its impact on
processes of identity formation.

Keywords: Northern Ireland; Migration; Life-Narratives; Diaspora; Home

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May I ask if anyone can tell me the authors of the DIB entries on Sir
William Wilde, Lady Wilde, Oscar Wilde, George Wyndham, Sir Antony Patrick
MacDonnell and ( a long shot ) Lord Cadogan ? I can't gain access to the DIB
on-line, and cannot afford the printed version.

Roy Foster's splendid review is in the TLS for 5th February.

Many thanks.

David Rose

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From The Sunday Times
February 7, 2010
Last gaze of JG Farrell as ocean took him
The acclaimed author's last act was to save the life of a passer-by caught
in a violent storm on wild Irish coastland

Richard Woods

IN the moments before he died, JG Farrell, the prizewinning novelist, locked
eyes with Pauline Foley, a walker who had come upon him by chance. They were
only feet apart, caught in a violent storm on wild Irish coastland - a scene
that has haunted Foley for more than 30 years.

"He didn't look frightened," said Foley, speaking about the tragedy for the
first time this weekend. "He was looking at me all the time. Just looking. I
can see him as clearly as if it happened today."

At the time of Farrell's death in a remote part of Co Cork in August 1979,
people talked of MI5 plots, the Provisional IRA and suicide. They could not
understand how the most promising British novelist of his day, aged just 44,
had come to such a sudden, terrible end.

Farrell won the Booker prize in 1973. But his talent was recognised again
last week when Troubles, his novel about Northern Ireland, was posthumously
nominated for the "Lost Booker" - an award for works published in 1970. A
change in the prize conditions meant that books from that year were never
eligible to win. He is on a longlist that includes Nina Bawden, Joe Orton,
Muriel Spark, Iris Murdoch, Ruth Rendell and Melvyn Bragg.

Farrell's mystique may grow after the testimony of Foley, the only adult to
witness his death. She reveals how the author may have sacrificed his life
to save hers. Foley was moved to speak out after reading a book review in
The Sunday Times recently in which the writer Robert Harris mentioned
Farrell's drowning. She knew it was not the full story...

...Greacan believes that when Farrell hit the sea he was paralysed by shock
and hypothermia which can cause the body to shut down within minutes.

Foley, who had once helped to save a man from drowning in Spain, remains
puzzled that Farrell did not wave at her or cry out. She dismissed suicide,
but added: "I think that when he heard the child scream he thought I would
come down into the water. He seemed to know that if I had gone in that
water, neither of us would have got out."

Did Farrell choose not to save himself in order to protect Foley and her
children? "That could well be," said Foley. "He could have thought that. I
think he stoically knew he was going to drown. I think he was a brave man."

Full Text at

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-
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Belfast Telegraph

Monday, 8 February 2010
Chinese university to teach Irish

A Chinese university is to receive almost 22,000 euro in Government funding
to teach students Irish

Beijing's Foreign Studies University is the first third-level college in the
country to request funding for the language, as its policy is to teach all
tongues of the EU.

The money is to be spread over three years and college chiefs will hold
talks with NUI Maynooth over the curriculum and course content.

Eamon O'Cuiv, Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs Minister, said the
language course showed the opportunities for Irish speakers across the
globe.

"Ireland and China already have extensive links, and it is my hope that our
new relationship with Beijing Foreign Studies University will further cement
the ties between the two countries," Mr O'Cuiv said.

"The demand for funding from this scheme from universities worldwide, and
now as far away as China, is a clear indicator not only of the interest
within the academic community in Irish as one of the world's oldest
vernacular languages, but also as proof of the opportunities for Irish
speakers globally.

"The Irish language is a valuable export."

Irish became an official EU language in January 2007.

The Irish Language Fund for Third Level Institutions Overseas was set up by
Mr O'Cuiv in 2006 to help Irish courses in universities across the world.

More than 30 colleges have applied for funding including from the United
States, Canada, Australia and Europe.

SOURCE
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breaking-news/uk-ireland/chinese-universit
y-to-teach-irish-14672752.html

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Protestant interests? The 1641 rebellion and state formation in
early modern Ireland
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Historical Research
Early View (Articles online in advance of print)
Published Online: 12 Jan 2010
C 2010 Institute of Historical Research

Protestant interests? The 1641 rebellion and state formation in early modern
Ireland*
John Gibney 1
1 Dublin

ABSTRACT
This article examines the role played by the recollection of the Irish
rebellion of 1641 (or more properly the perception of the often exaggerated
accounts of atrocities committed by the rebels) in formulating fundamental
legislative elements of the late seventeenth-century Irish state. Repressive
and punitive measures against Irish Catholics, intended in part to forestall
further rebellions, were justified and rationalized by the fear of a
potential recurrence of the attacks on Protestants. Thus, the representation
of 1641 played an integral part in the Restoration settlement in Ireland,
and arguably underpinned the 'penal laws' of a later era.

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Alcohol Misuse and its Consequences - An Overview and a European
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European Review (2010), 18:47-56 Cambridge University Press
Copyright C Academia Europaea 2010
doi:10.1017/S1062798709990123
Focus: Health in Europe

Alcohol Misuse and its Consequences - An Overview and a European Perspective

Ian T. Gilmore a1
a1 Link 5Z, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Prescot Street, Liverpool
L78XP, UK. E-mail: igilmore[at]liv.ac.uk
Article author query
gilmore it

Abstract

Alcohol is an important part of European culture and Europe currently has
the world's heaviest alcohol consumption. There is some evidence for
harmonisation of drinking habits across Europe, particularly in the total
per capita consumption, types of beverage and frequency of teenage
drunkenness. As part of this pattern, increasing consumption and deleterious
health effects have been particularly noticeable in the United Kingdom and
Ireland, and deaths from cirrhosis in these countries now exceed EU
averages. This is a difficult area for Governments where the tension between
regulation and personal choice is conspicuous and widely debated. In the UK,
regulation has been weak but there are signs that the appetite for tackling
the twin drivers of price and availability may be increasing.

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It seems right to remind members of the 1641 Depositions Project...

http://1641.eneclann.ie/


The Research Resource
The three-year project aims to transcribe and digitise the Depositions
comprising 3,400 depositions, examinations and associated materials, located
in the Library of Trinity College Dublin, in which Protestant men and women
of all classes told of their experiences following the outbreak of the
rebellion by the Catholic Irish in October, 1641. Collected by
government-appointed commissioners, the witness testimony runs to
approximately 19,000 pages, and constitutes the chief evidence for the
sharply contested allegation that the rebellion began with a general
massacre of protestant settlers. As a result, this material has been central
to a protracted and bitter historical dispute. Propagandists, politicians
and historians have all exploited the depositions at different times, and
the controversy surrounding them has never been satisfactorily resolved. In
fact, the 1641 'massacres', like King William's victory at the Boyne (1690),
and the battle of the Somme (1916), have played a key role in creating and
sustaining a collective Protestant/British identity in the province of
Ulster.

This body of material, unparalleled elsewhere in early modern Europe,
provides a unique source of information for the causes and events
surrounding the 1641 rebellion and for the social, economic, cultural,
religious, and political history of seventeenth-century Ireland, England and
Scotland. In addition, the depositions vividly document various colonial and
'civilizing' processes, including the spread of Protestantism in one of the
remotest regions of the Stuart kingdoms and the introduction of lowland
agricultural and commercial practices, together with the native response to
these developments. However, they are both difficult to access and to read,
which has severely restricted their research potential. This project,
transcribing the depositions and making them available online, will greatly
facilitate their use by a wide audience, build on established links between
TCD and the University of Aberdeen, and develop the strategic aims of both
institutions.

http://www.tcd.ie/history/1641/

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Having looked at the 1641 Depositions material on the TCD website, I =
would
strongly recommend it to anyone interested in the circumstances in =
Ulster
(which is what is online so far). The team have done a marvellous job in
transcribing the material and making it very easy to access.
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Tony Morgan

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It seems right to remind members of the 1641 Depositions Project...

http://1641.eneclann.ie/


The Research Resource
The three-year project aims to transcribe and digitise the Depositions
comprising 3,400 depositions, examinations and associated materials, =
located
in the Library of Trinity College Dublin, in which Protestant men and =
women
of all classes told of their experiences following the outbreak of the
rebellion by the Catholic Irish in October, 1641. Collected by
government-appointed commissioners, the witness testimony runs to
approximately 19,000 pages, and constitutes the chief evidence for the
sharply contested allegation that the rebellion began with a general
massacre of protestant settlers. As a result, this material has been =
central
to a protracted and bitter historical dispute. Propagandists, =
politicians
and historians have all exploited the depositions at different times, =
and
the controversy surrounding them has never been satisfactorily resolved. =
In
fact, the 1641 'massacres', like King William's victory at the Boyne =
(1690),
and the battle of the Somme (1916), have played a key role in creating =
and
sustaining a collective Protestant/British identity in the province of
Ulster.

This body of material, unparalleled elsewhere in early modern Europe,
provides a unique source of information for the causes and events
surrounding the 1641 rebellion and for the social, economic, cultural,
religious, and political history of seventeenth-century Ireland, England =
and
Scotland. In addition, the depositions vividly document various colonial =
and
'civilizing' processes, including the spread of Protestantism in one of =
the
remotest regions of the Stuart kingdoms and the introduction of lowland
agricultural and commercial practices, together with the native response =
to
these developments. However, they are both difficult to access and to =
read,
which has severely restricted their research potential. This project,
transcribing the depositions and making them available online, will =
greatly
facilitate their use by a wide audience, build on established links =
between
TCD and the University of Aberdeen, and develop the strategic aims of =
both
institutions.

http://www.tcd.ie/history/1641/

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Remote from where, exactly ?

David Rose (late of West Cork)


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At the time of Farrell's death in a remote part of Co Cork in August 1979,

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William Wilde by J.B. Lyons

Jane Wilde by Owen Dudley Edwards

Oscar Wilde by Owen Dudley Edwards

George Wyndham by Patrick Maume

Anthony Patrick MacDonnell by Jim Shanahan

Lord Cadogan by James Quinn

The marvellous J.B. Lyons died in 2007.
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> Date: Tue=2C 9 Feb 2010 18:17:40 +0100
> From: musardant[at]GMAIL.COM
> Subject: [IR-D] DIB
> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
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> May I ask if anyone can tell me the authors of the DIB entries on Sir
> William Wilde=2C Lady Wilde=2C Oscar Wilde=2C George Wyndham=2C Sir Anton=
y Patrick
> MacDonnell and ( a long shot ) Lord Cadogan ? I can't gain access to the =
DIB
> on-line=2C and cannot afford the printed version.
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> Roy Foster's splendid review is in the TLS for 5th February.=20
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> Many thanks.=20
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> David Rose
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From: Patrick Maume
I did Wyndham and MacDonnell; James Quinn did Cadogan; the late j.B. Lyons
did Sir William Wilde, and Owen Dudley Edwards did Speranza and Oscar Wilde.
Best wishes,
Patrick

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 5:17 PM, D C Rose wrote:

> May I ask if anyone can tell me the authors of the DIB entries on Sir
> William Wilde, Lady Wilde, Oscar Wilde, George Wyndham, Sir Antony Patrick
> MacDonnell and ( a long shot ) Lord Cadogan ? I can't gain access to the
> DIB
> on-line, and cannot afford the printed version.
>
> Roy Foster's splendid review is in the TLS for 5th February.
>
> Many thanks.
>
> David Rose
>