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Hi Brigittine,

If you haven't already come across it, for a good secondary source you
should check out Mary Kotsonouris's work on the Dail Courts: "The Winding
Up of the Dail Courts: An Obvious Duty" from 2004 and an earlier work
whose title escapes me at the moment. I bet her reference notes would
yield many more relevant sources, beyond the Dail Courts files at the NAI,
on early Free State jurisprudence.

Best,
Gavin Foster
Assistant Professor
School of Canadian Irish Studies
Concordia University, Montreal




Dear Colleagues,
>
> Does anyone have some good sources on 20th century Irish legal history?
> In particular, I'm interested in the history of Petty Sessions which were
> formalized in 1827 and remained in practice in the early years of the
> Irish Free State. I have some data on Petty Sessions from Co. Clare in
> the 1930s. I don't know what happened after that period. I'd appreciate
> any thoughts, suggestions, or directions you might suggest.
>
> Thanks,
> Brigittine French
>
> Brigittine M. French, PhD
> Assistant Professor of Anthropology
> Grinnell College

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Subject: Final Call for Papers - Conference of the Society for the Study of
Nineteenth Century Ireland, 2010

Dear All,

Find see below the final call for papers for this year's Society for the
Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland conference.

The conference is on the theme of Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
and will take place at University College Cork, 17 and 18 June 2010.

Best wishes,

William Murphy

Society for the Study
Of Nineteenth-Century Ireland


Final Call for Papers

An International Conference on

Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

University College Cork, June 17th and 18th, 2010

The Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of
Nineteenth-Century Ireland will take place at University College Cork in
2010. This conference will address the theme of 'philanthropy', broadly
defined, and examine the manner in which philanthropic endeavour underpinned
State initiatives for the poor and vulnerable, but also provided
opportunities for special interest groups in Ireland. Charitable and
voluntary organisations provided a wide range of services for the
disadvantaged, the sick, and those in need of temporary assistance. But the
poor were not helpless: philanthropic history shows a high level of active
engagement with a range of charities, and evidence that individuals employed
a sophisticated knowledge of charitable ambitions to secure advantages for
themselves. It is hoped that the conference papers will address some of
these complex and wide-ranging factors in nineteenth-century Irish history.

Plenary Speakers:
Prof. Maria Luddy, University of Warwick
Prof. John Wilson Foster, Queen's University Belfast


Themes might include:

. The politics of philanthropy
. Individual charitable initiatives
. Philanthropy and medicine
. Religion and philanthropy
. The uses of charity by the poor
. Gender and philanthropy

Organisers: Dr Larry Geary and Dr Oonagh Walsh, Dept. of History, University
College Cork, Ireland.

The organisers welcome proposals, and suggestions for panels, on additional
themes. Please send your proposals as attachments by March 31st to both
Larry Geary at l.geary[at]ucc.ie, and Oonagh Walsh at o.walsh[at]ucc.ie Please
also note that selected proceedings from this conference will be published.

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Further to Elizabeth Malcolm's message, below...

The Irish Legal History Society is still active, and has a well designed web
site
http://www.ilhs.eu/index.asp

And still seems to have that working relationship with Four Courts Press.

If Brigettine has a specific crux, or contretemps, the Society might know
someone who can help.

The Society's next event is the Spring Discourse, which will take place on
Friday 26 February 2010 at 6 p.m. at The Inn of Court, The Royal Courts of
Justice, Belfast.

The Rt. Hon. the Lord Carswell will present a paper entitled "Founding a
Legal System - the Early Judiciary of Northern Ireland".

Tea and Coffee will be served from 5.30. Admission is free and all are
welcome.

P.O'S.


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Subject: [IR-D] 20th century Irish legal history query--Petty Sessions

Mary Kotsonouris, in her 'Winding Up' book, looked at the commission set up
in 1923
to end the Dail courts, which had operated in opposition to the British
court system
during the War of Independence. Her earlier 1994 book was about those
courts:
'Retreat from Revolution: the Dail Courts, 1920-24'.

As I understand it - and I'm open to correction as I'm not certain - in the
early
1920s Petty Session Courts in Ireland were regulated by the Petty Sessions
(Ireland)
Act 1851, which had replaced the original 1827 act. In 1923/4 there was an
investigation of the whole court system that led to the Courts of Justice
Act, 1924,
which essentially replaced Petty Session Courts with District Courts. But -
just to
complicate matters - I think the 1851 act was not totally repealed and still
regulated courts' operations into the 1930s and beyond.

You probably need to consult a recent or current Irish law textbook on the
history
of the Irish court system that explains these complicated developments. I've
found
Shane Kilcommins et al., 'Crime, Punishment and the Search for Order in
Ireland',
Dublin, 2004, which is heavily footnoted, valuable on crime and punishment
in
20th-century Ireland. Heather Laird's 'Subversive Law in Ireland,
1879-1920',
Dublin, 2005, is thought provoking about the relationship between state and
community law codes. Kotsonouris's 'Winding Up' book is in the legal history
series
published by Four Courts Press, in conjunction with the Irish Legal History
Society.
Most of the monographs in the series are pre-1900, but there are collections
of
articles that may be useful. Also the Irish National Archives has extensive
collections of Petty Sessions and District Court records, so there may be
guides to
those that would help explain how the Irish court system developed at the
local
level in the early years of independence.

Elizabeth

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Following a train of thought...

Ir-D members might want to know that Janet Sinder's article is currently
freely available at the Law Library Journal web site.

Sinder, Janet. "Irish Legal History: An Overview and Guide to the Sources."
Law Library Journal, 2001, 93(2), pp. 231-260.

http://www.aallnet.org/products/pub_llj_v93n02.asp

It is a bibliographic essay, of course now a little dated, but giving a
quick overview of the issues that rise again and again in the study of Irish
legal history.

Members with access to Jstor will find there a series of bibliography
articles by Paul O'Higgins which appeared in The American Journal of Legal
History in the 1960s.

P.O'S.

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At the risk of developing an entirely spurious connection between being
Irish and grave robbing...

This footnote to the history of the Irish in Chicago will interest a number
of IR-D members...


Thomas J. Craughwell. Stealing Lincoln's Body. Cambridge: Belknap Press of
Harvard University Press, 2008. 288 pp. $14.95 (paper), ISBN
978-0-674-03039-8.

Reviewed by Richard L. Hume (Washington State University)
Published on H-CivWar (November, 2009)
Commissioned by Martin Johnson

Counterfeiters, Grave Robbers, and the Bizarre Plot to Steal President
Lincoln's Body

President Abraham Lincoln signed the Legal Tender Act, authorizing the issue
of some $150,000,000 in treasury notes (the famous greenbacks) on February
25, 1862. His so doing allowed the government to pay its debts, resolved a
banking crisis, and placed an invaluable new circulating medium into the
economy. Unlike the notes issued by the Confederate government, the
circulating medium that Lincoln authorized was required to be accepted at
face value for most debts, public or private. The greenbacks were
consequently a great success: they held their value, they were instrumental
in keeping the North's economy afloat, and they enabled the Union to escape
the runaway inflation that weakened the South so severely...

...A more serious "greenback problem," and one eloquently elaborated on by
Thomas J. Craughwell's lively prose in Stealing Lincoln's Body, was that of
counterfeiting, which the greenbacks very quickly elevated into a major new
growth industry (Craughwell estimates that, by 1864, half of all paper
currency in the North was bogus). Consequently, the Secret Service was
created to combat this problem (William P. Wood was sworn in as its first
director on July 4, 1865), and it did so rather effectively over the long
haul. By 1903, Craughwell suggests that only about one of every one hundred
thousand paper dollars in circulation was counterfeit.

While achieving such a reduction in the circulation of "funny money,"
Superintendent Wood's agents (and those serving under later directors as
well) obviously made numerous arrests. One of these netted a fellow by the
name of Benjamin Boyd, who was apprehended in 1876 and sent to the Illinois
State Prison at Joliet. While most counterfeiters were native-born
Americans, Boyd was connected with a group of Irish American practitioners
of that trade who were centered in Chicago. Now, minus Boyd's considerable
engraving skills, those folks faced increasing difficulties in passing wares
of lesser quality. Thus, the plot was hatched, initially in the Windy City,
to kidnap President Lincoln's body and to demand (from Illinois's governor)
two hundred thousand dollars in ransom money and Boyd's release for its
return.

Space limitations prevent a detailing of all the machinations leading
eventually to the actual body snatching attempt, but Craughwell covers all
of these with flair, while even adding insightful sidebars on Chicago's
Irish American community, on methods of embalming and counterfeiting, and
especially on grave robbing. As the main story develops, though, "the deed"
was finally scheduled for November 7, 1876, the night of the Rutherford B.
Hayes-Samuel J. Tilden presidential contest, a time when streets would be
crowded with celebrants, and strangers would not be noticed, in either
Springfield or at its nearby Oak Ridge Cemetery. On the appointed evening,
three men--coconspirators Terrence Mullen and Jack Hughes along with
informant Lewis Swegles--actually broke the single security padlock at the
Lincoln Monument, entered the vault where Lincoln was entombed, and began
removing the casket. Its weight, however, was enormous. They were making
little progress, and Swelges was consequently sent to get assistance from a
fourth conspirator (not yet present on the scene) who had been assigned the
task of handling the wagon needed to haul Lincoln's body to its planned
hiding place (among the Indiana dunes on the far side of Lake Michigan).
Swegles, instead, went directly to the monument's Memorial Hall (which was
heated on this cold November night) and alerted authorities (some six men
total) hiding there that the grave robbery was actually in progress. In the
ensuing rush to make their arrests, one of these six, Pinkerton detective
George Hay, accidentally fired his weapon, alerting Mullen and Hughes who
escaped and eluded authorities until arrested several days later back in
Chicago. Charged with larceny and conspiracy (at the time more serious
offences in Illinois than grave robbing), Mullen and Hughes were tried in
late May of 1877. Found guilty, they were sentenced to one year in the
Illinois State Prison at Joliet...

FULL TEXT AT

http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=25727

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FROM
Murray, Edmundo [Edmundo.Murray[at]wto.org]

Chieftains write musical history with 'San Patricio'

The Irish band, with guests including Ry Cooder, Linda Ronstadt, Los =
Tigres
del Norte and more, tells the story of Irish soldiers who fought for =
Mexico
in the Mexican-American War.
February 13, 2010|By Randy Lewis

History, it's often been observed, is written by victors, which might
explain why an especially compelling chapter of the Mexican-American War
remains so infrequently told, at least in the U.S.

The chapter in question is about the San Patricios, a company of Irish
immigrants pressed into service by the U.S. Army. Ideologically opposed =
to
the fight, they switched sides, choosing to stand alongside the Mexican
military rather than the forces of their newly adopted homeland. When =
the
conflict ended, the members of the battalion were executed for their
desertion. Their deeds were largely forgotten, except among the people =
of
the Churubusco region outside Mexico City who maintain a memorial to the =
San
Patricios.

Now, Ireland's celebrated ambassadors of borderless world music, the
Chieftains, are seeking to change that with an ambitious new album, "San
Patricio," which tells the story of the troops through music.

"About 25 years ago, Trinity College [in Dublin] gave me an honorary
doctorate, and they asked me to do a project about the Civil War, =
because so
much music of the Civil War came from Irish songs," Paddy Moloney, the
group's puckish 71-year-old leader and spokesman, said recently from
Florida, where he typically spends winters to be near his children and
grandchildren.

During his research, Moloney said, "I came across this story and it
fascinated me, twice as much because there had been a similar case in
Ireland, in County Galway, and that didn't go down too well either."

For =93San Patricio,=94 the Chieftains, much as they have for the last =
three
decades, reached out to a variety of guests, starting with Ry Cooder. =
The
American roots musician not only plays and sings on the album, due March =
9,
but also co-produced it with Moloney after introducing him to many of =
the
Latino performers who signed on to participate.

They include Lila Downs, Los Tigres del Norte, Spanish piper Carlos =
Nu=F1ez,
Los Folkloristas, the Bay Area-based Los Cenzontles, the 90-year-old =
cancion
ranchera singer Chavela Vargas, as well as Latin-music-attuned American
musicians Linda Ronstadt and Los Lobos' David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas.

Some of those guests will join the Irish band on its tour highlighting =
the
"San Patricio" music, which gets underway next week in Northern =
California.
It reaches the Southland for stops Feb. 21 at the Cerritos Center for =
the
Performing Arts and the following night at Santa Barbara's Granada =
Theater,
then wraps on March 17 with a St. Patrick's Day performance in New York
City.

SOURCE
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/feb/13/entertainment/la-et-san-patricio1=
3-2
010feb13

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From; patrick maume
I wonder if the "similar case in Ireland, in County Galway" is a garbled
reference to the famous 1920 Connaught Rangers mutiny in India?
Not a good comparison if so, since my understanding is that the mutineers
showed no particularly sense of identification with the Indians (though many
Irish nationalists of the period did identify with the Indian nationalist
cause).
Best wishes,
Patrick

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:

> FROM
> Murray, Edmundo [Edmundo.Murray[at]wto.org]
>
> Chieftains write musical history with 'San Patricio'
>
> The Irish band, with guests including Ry Cooder, Linda Ronstadt, Los Tigr=
es
> del Norte and more, tells the story of Irish soldiers who fought for Mexi=
co
> in the Mexican-American War.
> February 13, 2010|By Randy Lewis
>
> History, it's often been observed, is written by victors, which might
> explain why an especially compelling chapter of the Mexican-American War
> remains so infrequently told, at least in the U.S.
>
> The chapter in question is about the San Patricios, a company of Irish
> immigrants pressed into service by the U.S. Army. Ideologically opposed t=

....
>
> During his research, Moloney said, "I came across this story and it
> fascinated me, twice as much because there had been a similar case in
> Ireland, in County Galway, and that didn't go down too well either."
>

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Mary Kotsonouris, in her 'Winding Up' book, looked at the commission set up in 1923
to end the Dail courts, which had operated in opposition to the British court system
during the War of Independence. Her earlier 1994 book was about those courts:
'Retreat from Revolution: the Dail Courts, 1920-24'.

As I understand it - and I'm open to correction as I'm not certain - in the early
1920s Petty Session Courts in Ireland were regulated by the Petty Sessions (Ireland)
Act 1851, which had replaced the original 1827 act. In 1923/4 there was an
investigation of the whole court system that led to the Courts of Justice Act, 1924,
which essentially replaced Petty Session Courts with District Courts. But - just to
complicate matters - I think the 1851 act was not totally repealed and still
regulated courts' operations into the 1930s and beyond.

You probably need to consult a recent or current Irish law textbook on the history
of the Irish court system that explains these complicated developments. I've found
Shane Kilcommins et al., 'Crime, Punishment and the Search for Order in Ireland',
Dublin, 2004, which is heavily footnoted, valuable on crime and punishment in
20th-century Ireland. Heather Laird's 'Subversive Law in Ireland, 1879-1920',
Dublin, 2005, is thought provoking about the relationship between state and
community law codes. Kotsonouris's 'Winding Up' book is in the legal history series
published by Four Courts Press, in conjunction with the Irish Legal History Society.
Most of the monographs in the series are pre-1900, but there are collections of
articles that may be useful. Also the Irish National Archives has extensive
collections of Petty Sessions and District Court records, so there may be guides to
those that would help explain how the Irish court system developed at the local
level in the early years of independence.

Elizabeth
-------------------------------------

Hi Brigittine,

If you haven't already come across it, for a good secondary source you
should check out Mary Kotsonouris's work on the Dail Courts: "The Winding
Up of the Dail Courts: An Obvious Duty" from 2004 and an earlier work
whose title escapes me at the moment. I bet her reference notes would
yield many more relevant sources, beyond the Dail Courts files at the NAI,
on early Free State jurisprudence.

Best,
Gavin Foster
Assistant Professor
School of Canadian Irish Studies
Concordia University, Montreal

----------------------------------------------

Dear Colleagues,
>
> Does anyone have some good sources on 20th century Irish legal history?
> In particular, I'm interested in the history of Petty Sessions which were
> formalized in 1827 and remained in practice in the early years of the
> Irish Free State. I have some data on Petty Sessions from Co. Clare in
> the 1930s. I don't know what happened after that period. I'd appreciate
> any thoughts, suggestions, or directions you might suggest.
>
> Thanks,
> Brigittine French
>
> Brigittine M. French, PhD
> Assistant Professor of Anthropology
> Grinnell College


__________________________________________________
Professor Elizabeth Malcolm

Gerry Higgins Chair of Irish Studies
School of Historical Studies ~ University of Melbourne ~ Victoria, 3010, AUSTRALIA
Phone: +61-3-83443924 ~ Email: e.malcolm[at]unimelb.edu.au

President
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Patrick, yes the San Patricios more or less identified with the Mexicans bu=
t I doubt they were "ideologically opposed to the fight [of the U.S. agains=
t Mexico]" as the article reads. And certainly they were not fighting for M=
exico for religious reasons. Land grants and promotions were promised as pa=
rt of the deal and that was the most important reason for crossing to the o=
ther side.

This seems to me just another marketing undertaking within a well-planned s=
trategy. It is the 10th or 11th musical hommage to the San Patricios (not t=
he best one for I can see in an Atlanta concert included in YouTube). Indee=
d it is the first complete album dedicated to this subject, with an impress=
ive roll of artists (Chavela Vargas, Lila Downs and others). The Chieftains=
traditional target of Irish-USAmericans has been extended to the Spanish-s=
peaking segment, as Ry Cooder mentions in "San Patricio - Behind the Scenes=
" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dd6KnV7J1NBk). I would add that they are=
also appealling to the guilt felt by so many (US)Americans for the shamefu=
ll immigration policy in their country (indeed some views of the border are=
included in the video).

Edmundo

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From; patrick maume
I wonder if the "similar case in Ireland, in County Galway" is a garbled
reference to the famous 1920 Connaught Rangers mutiny in India?
Not a good comparison if so, since my understanding is that the mutineers
showed no particularly sense of identification with the Indians (though man=
y
Irish nationalists of the period did identify with the Indian nationalist
cause).
Best wishes,
Patrick

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> FROM
> Murray, Edmundo [Edmundo.Murray[at]wto.org]
>
> Chieftains write musical history with 'San Patricio'
>
> The Irish band, with guests including Ry Cooder, Linda Ronstadt, Los Tigr=
=3D
es
> del Norte and more, tells the story of Irish soldiers who fought for Mexi=
=3D
co
> in the Mexican-American War.
> February 13, 2010|By Randy Lewis
>
> History, it's often been observed, is written by victors, which might
> explain why an especially compelling chapter of the Mexican-American War
> remains so infrequently told, at least in the U.S.
>
> The chapter in question is about the San Patricios, a company of Irish
> immigrants pressed into service by the U.S. Army. Ideologically opposed t=
=3D

....
>
> During his research, Moloney said, "I came across this story and it
> fascinated me, twice as much because there had been a similar case in
> Ireland, in County Galway, and that didn't go down too well either."
>

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There was a very significant anniversary last month - The Southern =
Cross,
the newspaper of the Irish community in Argentina, celebrated its 135th
anniversary. The Southern Cross is most probably the oldest Irish =
newspaper
in the world, outside Ireland - continuously published since January 16
1875.

Our sincere congratulations to Guillermo MacLoughlin Br=E9ard, editor =
number
14 in the long history of The Southern Cross, and to his colleagues.

I have pasted in, below, a translation of the Editorial that appeared in =
the
January issue of The Southern Cross.

Patrick O'Sullivan

www.thesoutherncross.com.ar


Editorial published in =93The Southern Cross=94 =96 January 2010

135 YEARS

With legit=EDmate pride we celebrate our 135 years of existence as the
oldest Irish newspaper in the world published outside of Ireland. Not =
even
our founder, Dean Patricio Dillon, way back on 16th January 1875, when =
The
Southern Cross hit the streets, nor many of his successors, imagined we
would surpass the XXI Century border to arrive at this celebration.

During a more than centennial lifetime, our newspaper has known good
and bad times, but all along it has managed to maintain unchanged its
essential mission as a communicator of all events related to the local
Irish-Argentine community, as well as of major developments occurring in
Ireland and in Argentina.

Moreover, The Southern Cross is the dean of catholic publications in
this country as well as of community newspapers in Argentina. Both
distinction are an honour and strengthens our commitment to continue the
strenuous task of spreading Christian ideals as well as the most noble
republican convictions and unconditional defense of freedom of =
expression.

Throughout the years we have learned to adapt to technical changes,
incorporating modern composition and printing technologies, as a result =
of
which our newspaper is widely recognized by its quality and contents, =
thanks
to the hard work of a valuable team.

This significant anniversary finds us in the middle of a
journalistic renewal process, with the inclusion of new contributors and
additional subjects, though unfortunately facing financial difficulties =
that
obstruct our daily task. However, with new ideas, with the support of =
loyal
subscribers and generous advertisers, together with the performance of
highly professional staff added to the eager dedication of all members =
of
the board of Editorial Irlandesa S.A. we are confident in our ability to
stay afloat and reach a safe harbour following the guidelines outlined =
in
our editorial =93New Directions=94 (May 2009).

This celebration belongs to all of us. We renew our commitment with
the entire community and pray to the Almighty and to Saint Patrick for =
their
continued guidance in this noble task. Let it be!

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Two additional pages including information about The Southern Cross.

A short bio of Patrick Dillon:
http://www.irlandeses.org/dilab_dillonpj.htm

Laura Izarra's post-doctoral thesis at University of Sao Paulo (abstract an=
d toc):
http://www.irlandeses.org/litizarra.htm

Edmundo

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There was a very significant anniversary last month - The Southern Cross,
the newspaper of the Irish community in Argentina, celebrated its 135th
anniversary. The Southern Cross is most probably the oldest Irish newspape=
r
in the world, outside Ireland - continuously published since January 16
1875.

Our sincere congratulations to Guillermo MacLoughlin Br=E9ard, editor numbe=
r
14 in the long history of The Southern Cross, and to his colleagues.

I have pasted in, below, a translation of the Editorial that appeared in th=
e
January issue of The Southern Cross.

Patrick O'Sullivan

www.thesoutherncross.com.ar


Editorial published in "The Southern Cross" - January 2010

135 YEARS

With legit=EDmate pride we celebrate our 135 years of existence as =
the
oldest Irish newspaper in the world published outside of Ireland. Not even
our founder, Dean Patricio Dillon, way back on 16th January 1875, when The
Southern Cross hit the streets, nor many of his successors, imagined we
would surpass the XXI Century border to arrive at this celebration.

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Subject: Article,
President Barack Obama: Family history and modern America
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Two recent short articles by Brian Walker have come to our attention.

The articles are in journals that are, for one reason or another, difficult
to track. So, I am pleased they have been brought to our attention.

I will report on them, as separate emails, in the usual way...

Walker, Brian Mercer. "President Barack Obama: Family history and modern
America." Familia: Ulster Genealogical Review, 2009, 25.

The article covers similar ground to Brian's earlier Irish Times piece, 11
Nov 2008 'Why Obama's Offaly roots help shatter Irish-American myths' - see
earlier Ir-D discussion. (The piece is in our Ir-D archives.) That is, it
uses the Obama family history to question some received wisdoms and perhaps
generate a more inclusive vision of the Irish Diaspora. It also reports on
some of the fine detail of the genealogical and archive search.

P.O'S.

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Walker, Brian. "The Scotch-Irish in America: Numbers, Distribution, and
Identity." Journal of Scotch-Irish Studies, 2009, 3(1),.

This article by Brian Walker was clearly written for the specific readership
of the Journal of Scotch-Irish Studies, but a number of Ir-D members will
find it useful. Not least because they will see themselves quoted therein.
The article explores the uses people have made of the 'ethnicity' question
in the US Census, to develop more fluid and inclusive definitions.

P.O'S.

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

=A0
Organisers:=20
Dr. Kathryn Laing, Mary Immaculate College Limerick & Dr. Tina =
O=92Toole,
University of Limerick
=A0
=A0=20
DRAFT PROGRAMME
=A0
=A0
Fri 16th April=20
=A0
1.00=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Registration: =
Summerville, Mary Immaculate College
Limerick
=A0
2.00=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Panel 1=20
Conor Montague. Anatole le Braz and the Irish Revival.
Clare Gill. Taking out the Trash: Belfast=92s Free Public Library and =
the fin
de si=E8cle Doctrine of Improvement.
Aoife Leahy. Fin de si=E8cle Dialogue in George Moore=92s =93Mildred =
Lawson=94.
=A0
3.30=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Break
=A0
4.00=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Panel 2=20
Yvonne Ivory. Beyond Salom=E9: Oscar Wilde=92s Afterlife in Modernist =
German
Opera.
Maeve Tynan. The Gaelic Gothic: Degeneracy and Diffusion in Bram =
Stoker=92s
Dracula and Wilde=92s The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Eibhear Walshe. Queering Oscar: Versions of Wilde in Modern Ireland.
Ed Madden. Tabhair Dom do L=E1mh? Austin Clarke=92s Washroom Encounter.
=A0
6.00=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Plenary: Prof. =
Lyn Pykett
=A0
Sat 17th April
=A0
9.00=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Registration: =
Summerville, Mary Immaculate College
Limerick
=A0
9.30=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Panel 3
Maureen O=92Connor. Inhuman Voices Wake Us: Animals and the Mythical =
Method in
Irish New Woman Writing.
Susan Cahill. Landscapes of Girlhood: The Girls' Fiction of L.T. Meade =
and
Rosa Mulholland=20
Beth Rodgers =93She Talks Ireland=94: Irishness, Authorship and the Wild =
Irish
Girls of L.T. Meade.
Kathryn Laing & Faith Binckes. The Inconsistencies and Surprises of
Sympathy: Hannah Lynch, Gender, Genre and Politics at the fin de =
si=E8cle.
=A0
11.30=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Break
=A0
12.00=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Panel 4
Heidi Hansson. Emily Lawless and fin de si=E8cle Literature as a =
Temporal
Category.
Tina O=92Toole. Cross-Lines: Egerton, Moore, Joyce.
Elke D=92hoker. Somerville & Ross and the Modern Irish Short =
Story.
=A0
1.30=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Lunch
=A0
2.30=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Plenary: Prof. =
Adrian Frazier=20
=A0
3.30=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Break
=A0
4.00=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Panel 5
Alex Davis. Learning to be Brutal: Synge, Linguistics, Decadence.
Bruce Stewart. =93The Curve of An Emotion=94: fin de si=E8cle =
Metaphysics in
Wilde, Yeats and Joyce.=20
Hedwig Schwall. Towards a New Definition of the =91New Woman=92? =
Rereading
Yeats=92s Ideas of the Individual on the Basis of Contemporary =
Psychoanalysis.
=A0
5.30=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Plenary: Prof. =
Joseph Bristow
6.30=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 fin
=A0
8.30=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Conference =
Dinner [optional]
=A0
=A0

=A0
Dr. Tina O=92Toole
Lecturer in English
School of Languages, Literature, Culture & Communication
University of Limerick
Ireland
Tel: +353-(0)61-234269
http://www.ul.ie/llcc/tina-otoole/

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Subject: Book Notice, Christopher Shannon,
Bowery to Broadway: The American Irish in Classic Hollywood Cinema
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Christopher Shannon=20
Bowery to Broadway: The American Irish in Classic Hollywood Cinema=20

Before Johnny Depp and Public Enemies, there was The Public Enemy. James
Cagney=92s 1931 portrayal of the Irish American gangster, Tommy Powers, =
set
the standard for the Hollywood gangster and helped to launch a golden =
age of
Irish American cinema. In the years that followed several of the era=92s
greatest stars, such as Spencer Tracy, Bing Crosby, Pat O=92Brien, and =
Ginger
Rogers, assumed Irish American roles=97as boxers, entertainers, priests, =
and
working girls=97delighting audiences and at the same time providing a =
fresh
perspective of the Irish American experience in America=92s cities.

With Bowery to Broadway, Christopher Shannon guides readers through a =
number
of classic films from the 1930s and =9240s and investigates why films
featuring Irish American characters were so popular among American =
audiences
during a period when the Irish were still stereotyped and scorned for =
their
religion. Shannon cites films such as Angels with Dirty Faces, Gentleman
Jim, Kitty Foyle, Going My Way, and Yankee Doodle Dandy, arguing that =
the
Irish American characters in the films were presented as inhabitants of =
an
urban village=97simultaneously traditional and modern and valuing =
communal
solidarity over individual advancement. As a result, these =
characters=97even
those involved in criminal activity=97resonated deeply with the =
countless
Americans in search of the communal values that were rapidly being lost =
to
the social dislocation of the Depression and the increasing =
nationalization
of life under the New Deal.
=20
'Bowery to Broadway=A0makes a major contribution to the study of
Irish-American ethnicity. The Irish whom we meet in this immensely =
readable
book can no longer be read as stereotypes.=A0=A0This is an essential =
book on the
Irish in popular culture.'
James Silas Rogers, editor,=A0New Hibernia Review=A0/ president, =
American=A0=A0=A0 =A0 =A0
Conference for Irish Studies

'A bold challenge to existing writings on Irish-American =
ethnicity,=A0Bowery
to Broadway=A0is a detailed, clearly-written and thoughtfully argued =
study
that is sure to become the standard work on Irish-American =
representation in
the Classic Hollywood period.'
Ruth Barton, Trinity College Dublin / author of=A0Acting Irish
in=A0Hollywood:=A0=A0From Fitzgerald to Farrell

Contact your local bookstore to order a copy today.=A0

Christopher Shannon=A0is Associate Professor of History at Christendom =
College
in Front Royal, Virginia.=A0=A0Cultural and educational organizations =
interested
in having Professor Shannon speak to their group may contact him
at=A0cshannon[at]christendom.edu.=A0

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?isbn=3D9781589662001=

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MUSIC * SPIRITUALITY * DANCE * LOCAL HISTORIES=20

This year, the Crossroads Irish-American Festival features both =
traditional
and cutting-edge musical acts and explores the ancient roots and modern
influences of Irish-American spirituality. We continue our commitment to
revealing the hidden histories of the Irish in San Francisco and welcome
talented Irish step dancers from a local school and from Riverdance. The
Crossroads Irish-American Festival has something for everyone!=20

For more information and a complete schedule:
www.irishamericancrossroads.org

A quick glance at what is coming up in March.=20
=95 March 2nd =96 The Legendary Tommy Sands in concert. Renowned
singer-songwriter and peace activist from Northern Ireland [at] The Plough =
&
Stars, San Francisco. 8pm.

=95 March 6th =96 Irish-American Spiritualities. This 'roundtable =
conversation'
at the SF Public Library will explore the multifaceted nature of
spirituality in the Irish-American experience and its links to ancient
roots. 1pm-4pm.

=95 March 6th =96 The Children's Hour of Music and Dance at the SF =
Public
Library's Fisher Children's Center with fiddler, Colm =D3 Riain and =
dance by
the Murphy Irish Dancers. 11am-12noon.

=95 March 7th - Irish-American Spiritualities: A Workshop will allow
participants to reflect upon and write about their experiences and =
beliefs
related to spirituality to expand their understanding of what an Irish
spiritual inheritance contains. At the UICC, St. Francis Room, 2700 45th
Avenue, SF. 2-5pm.

=95 March 11th =96 Getting the Job Done: Irish San Franciscans and a =
Lifetime of
Civil Service. This night we continue to explore histories of the local
Irish-American community through this storied event. At the UICC, St.
Francis Room, 2700 45th Avenue, SF. 7-9pm.

=95 March 13th =96 Doug Martin Avatar Ensemble in Concert. Performing at =
the St.
Patrick's Day Parade Festival, this band will perform a blend of music -
traditional Irish tunes, American Swing, as well as their fiery =
signature
music, gypsy jazz - from their most recent CD entitled, Giniker. 1pm.

=95 March 14th =96 Irish Dance in America: Workshop & Discussion with
award-winning Irish dancer and choreographer, Nicholas Yenson, from
Riverdance, leading an introductory Irish step dance workshop with a
discussion about its history in America. St. Anne's Church of the =
Sunset,
San Francisco. 2-4pm.=20

Be sure to RSVP by going to our Facebook Events page. For advance tix =
for
the Tommy Sands concert call 415/810-3774 or go to the The Plough & =
Stars
Pub, 116 Clement Street, SF. www.irishamericancrossroads.org

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From: Carmel McCaffrey
To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
Subject: Turn off the lights, Brian, the people are leaving - The Irish
Times

Further to Piaras' point on Irish emigration here is an article in
today's Irish Times.
Carmel

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2010/0219/1224264790533.html?via
=mr

The Irish Times - Friday, February 19, 2010
Turn off the lights, Brian, the people are leaving

I left Ireland this week. Here's why . . . writes PAUL BRADFIELD

FLIGHT 608. This is the flight that took me from my native soil on
Wednesday. Amsterdam. Then The Hague, and an internship that I hope will
lead to employment soon after.

I went not for the want of pleasure or enjoyment, nor to seek a "gap" year
full of congenial experiences. The very term "gap" year implies that there
is a distinct point in the future upon which the "gap" will be filled,
whereupon one returns home to fulfil the innately human desire of carving
out a career for oneself, or to simply settle into an agreeable existence in
the place of one's birth. Provided of course, you are able to return. Like
many young Irish men and women who have gone before and will go after me, I
go because I must.

FULL TEXT AT
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2010/0219/1224264790533.html?via
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An analysis by Davy Stockbrokers gathered a lot of news attention today.

Most of it uncritical, and oddly slanted...

Search the web.

By contrast I have pasted in, below, Noreen Bowden's analysis.

P.O'S.

http://www.globalirish.ie/2010/emigration-wont-hurt-human-capital-says-davy-
stockbrokers/

Emigration won't hurt human capital, says Davy Stockbrokers
By Noreen Bowden | February 19, 2010

An analysis from Davy Stockbrokers has gotten a lot of news attention today.
The research report into the Irish economy says that we wasted the boom, and
issues a damning verdict on how Ireland misallocated its investment from
2000 to 2008, resulting in poor infrastructure with inadequate roads, rail,
schools, hospitals and telecoms.

One area where the report is suprisingly reassuring, however, is in the
analysis of emigration.

'This analysis of our capital stock has one glaring omission: human capital.
Looking to the medium term, this is Ireland's greatest strength. The economy
has the highest number of graduates in the 25-34 population in the EU-27,
with the exception of Cyprus. That proportion (and its average quality) may
depreciate somewhat if recovery does not take hold and emigration
accelerates. But so far the outflow through emigration has been hyped while
ignoring the mix.

'First, net inward migration has turned negative mainly because immigration
(people coming to Ireland) has collapsed rather than due to a surge in
emigration (people leaving).

'Second, a high proportion of those who have left are low-skilled and worked
in construction where employment has more than halved. Construction, by its
very nature, is a highly labour-intensive and low-productivity industry.
Workers tend to be mobile, and emigration from this sector will not
particularly dilute the quality of human capital in Ireland.

'Moreover, the nascent recovery of the international-traded sectors will
keep many of our graduates at home. Longer-term, investment in education
must remain the salient priority.'

I would dispute the assertion that there has been no surge in emigration.
The emigration figures from Ireland were up 43% between 2008 and 2009, and
up 145% between 2004 and 2009. The new phenomenon, of course, is that the
majority of emigrants were going to the newer countries of the EU, and were
thus presumably immigrants returning home. This is obviously not the same
thing as suggesting there has been no upsurge in emigration.

The characterisation of the current emigrant outflow being comprised mostly
of construction workers and therefore not "diluting the quality of human
capital" rests uneasily with me. First, I'm not aware of recent studies that
break down emigration by occupational sector (please let me know if you know
of any), so I'm presuming this is based on anecdotal evidence. There
appears to be plenty of anecdotal evidence asserting, however, that it is
not just manual labourers but also third-level graduates who are leaving.
(In today's Irish Times alone, for example, two graduates tell their
emigration tales.)

It's also at odds with the Tanaiste's recent comments that emigration today
is comprised of those Irish young people who are emigrating "to gain
experience" and "want to enjoy themselves' and are leaving "with degrees,
PhDs. They are people who have a greater acumen academically and they have
found work in other parts of the world."

So on the one hand, we are reassured that we need not trouble ourselves with
the upsurge in emigration because (a) it's really not happening and (b) it's
not going to lower the quality of our labour force, and on the other hand,
we need not trouble ourselves with the upsurge in emigration because these
are highly educated people "who want to enjoy themselves".

Obviously, this is a complex issue. We've heard very little of 'brain drain'
with this upsurge of emigration, because the model of "brain circulation"
has largely displaced the concept of permanent loss in migration thinking.
We know from the boom that networks of well-educated Irish people can be an
asset for our economy, no matter where they live, and many of them may
eventually return if there is a return to substantial growth.

In terms of economic costs, emigration's toll may not be all that harsh.
Obviously, in the short term, emigration is a tried-and-true safety valve;
sending off surplus labour will save social welfare money, and relieving the
pressure on the unemployment rate will certainly make our economic
performance look better on paper. And each unemployed person who leaves is
one fewer potentially angry voter when it comes to election time.
But involuntary emigration carries very high potential human costs, and any
analysis that does not take those into account is not looking at the full
picture. Davy might call it "hype", but the concern over rising emigration
rates reflects Ireland's long experience with a phenomenon many of us
thought was gone forever.

See the report on the Davy Stockbrokers website
http://www.davy.ie/content/pubarticles/economy20100219.pdf

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There has been some reporting of the conference
Putting Irish Unity on the agenda.

Saturday 20 February
TUC Congress House,
Great Russell Street,
London, WC1B 3LS
9.30am-5pm

Details of the conference can be found at...

http://www.londonirishunityconference.org/index.html

A web search will find newspaper coverage...

I was especially note Mary Hickman's comments in The Guardian. Extract and
link, below...

P.O'S.


Irish unity goes well beyond borders
With a large diaspora and a growing immigrant population at home, the
question of who 'belongs' is a crucial one

Mary Hickman
guardian.co.uk

If Irish unity is to be put back on the agenda then it requires a debate
that does not rely on old shibboleths but one that focuses on what a united
Ireland would look like and offer different people. It requires a revised
vision of Ireland for the 21st century. Obviously that vision will have to
include a plan for the political arrangements that could bring people
together and an economic strategy that might best suit an all-island
economy, but it should also include a convincing concept of belonging that
is inclusive and allows for multiple and contingent identities.

In these fluid times characterised by global migrations, many of them
circular, new ways of perceiving "who belongs" are required. These new
perceptions of belonging should encompass both recent emigrants and the
wider diaspora and new residents as having a stake in Ireland and its
well-being.

Currently about 3.1 million Irish passport holders live outside Ireland. Of
these about 800,000 were born in Ireland, with well over half of them living
in the UK. Article 2 of the Irish constitution was amended after a
referendum in 1998 following the Good Friday agreement. It provided that
every person born in the island of Ireland is part of the Irish nation and
that the Irish nation cherishes its special affinity with people of Irish
ancestry living abroad who share its cultural identity and heritage. A
person who is born outside Ireland is automatically an Irish citizen by
descent if one of that person's parents is an Irish citizen who was born in
Ireland. A decade later, however, there remains deep ambiguity about
relations with the Irish diaspora.

Full text at...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/19/ireland-unity-diaspora-v
ote

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Dear Paddy,

Clearly An tUasal Chan has absorbed the implications of "Language and
Occupational Status: Linguistic Elitism in the Irish Labour Market," as
published in the recent volume of the Economic and Social Review.

While the translation bears the marks of Google translator, one wonders if
this may be the first tangible result of the decision to fund Irish-languag=
e
instruction in Asia, as evident in the recent grant awarded to Beijing's
Foreign Studies University.

A far cry indeed from the good old days when computers just didn't
understand Irish...

Breen






On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:

> Hackers are now attacking Irish computers As Gaeilge
>
> Cyber criminals are launching even more targeted attacks at Irish compute=
r
> users. Native Irish-language speakers are being spammed As Gaeilge and ar=
e
> no longer just random spam recipients.
>
> According to electronic security firm ESET Ireland, Irish speakers
> apparently seem to deserve the attention of cyber criminals on the
> increased
> level, which prompts them to construct scamming emails, even in Gaelic
> language, in the hope they will convince potential victims that the email
> is
> directed at them and genuine.
>
> Here is an example of such a scam email:
>
> Subject: GN=D3 TOGRA
> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 04:32:59 +0100
> From: Mr Patrick K. W. Chan
>
> Aire
> T=E1 m=E9 an tUasal Patrick KW Chan an Sti=FArth=F3ir Feidhmi=FAch=E1in a=
gus
> Pr=EDomh-Oifigeach airgeadais Hang Seng Bank Ltd, Hong Cong.
> T=E1 m=E9 togra gn=F3 brab=FAsa=ED leasa choitinn a roinnt le leat;
> Baineann s=E9 leis an aistri=FA suim mh=F3r airgid.
> Fuair m=E9 do tagairt i mo cuardach a dh=E9anamh ar dhuine a oireann mo
> chaidreamh gn=F3 molta.
> M=E1 t=E1 suim agat i obair liom teagmh=E1il a dh=E9anamh liom mo tr=ED r=
-phost
> pr=EDobh=E1ideach le haghaidh tuilleadh sonra=ED
> Dearbh=F3far do fhreagra t=FAisce chun an litir seo a mh=F3r.
> An tUasal Patrick Chan
>
> =93Needless to say, the business proposal mentioned is bogus, intended to
> extract money from victims and anyone receiving such spam should disregar=
d
> and delete it and not try to contact the perpetrator,=94 warned Urban
> Schrott,
> communications manager with ESET Ireland.
>
> By John Kennedy
>
> SOURCE
>
> http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15342/cio/hackers-are-now-att=
ack
> ing-irish-computers-as-gaeilge
>