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This slightly a "me too", but I have always been puzzled with the use of th=
e D-word and made some efforts to see how it is used among various migrant =
communities. Little could be obtained at the International Organization of =
Migration; their experts started using diaspora against the UN linguists re=
commendation, and now it is broadly used in their reports (though the IOM h=
as a peculiar status among the family of international organizations).

I'm not so sure about the generalized used of "diaspora", at least in Spani=
sh and French. I have been working, studying and playing music with many Cu=
bans in the US and Europe and I seldom heard the word, and it was usually l=
imited to the academic context. "Los cubanos de Miami" is the most frequent=
formula. Many French-speaking Africans in Europe would be puzzled if they =
are treated as a diaspora (even if it is more accepted among people from th=
e Maghreb). And most people with an Irish family name in Latin America woul=
d be a bit uneasy when pigeonholed together with the Jewish group.

I think the analogy works well when considering how the vast majority of (U=
SA) Americans use the words "America" or "Americans" with an (unconscious o=
f course) annexation mood of the continent's name. Do the Irish (or certain=
Irish) wish to appropriate the privileges of the victim? I see a connectio=
n with Paddy's concept of "oppression discourse".

In the case of the Irish perhaps "hegira" would be more appropriate than "d=
iaspora", but I guess it is to late to impose it...

Edmundo Murray

(btw, why MS Word automatic correct tool suggests diaspora with upper case =
D? Isn't this another indication of the persistency to associate diaspora w=
ith the Jewish Diaspora?)

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Call for Papers for RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2010, Royal Geographical
Society, London,=A0 1-2 September 2010

Travelling faith : exploring the intersections of religion and migration

(Sponsored by the Population Research Group and the Social and Cultural
Geography Research Group)

Organisers: Claire Dwyer (University College London) Betsy Olson =
(University
of Edinburgh)

This session provides an opportunity to explore the diverse =
intersections
between religion and migration. The session responds to both the recent
resurgence of interest in geographies of religion (Yorgason & dell Dora
2009) and to an emerging focus on religion in migration studies, =
including
work by geographers (Olson & Silvey 2006). Within this session we are
interested in the ways in which religious practices and faith identities
travel with migrants and shape their experiences of transnational lives =
or
how new religious engagements may be produced through the migration
experience. We are also interested in how faith travels and the ways in
which religious organisations and institutions are incorporated into or
shape migration trajectories and flows.=20

Papers might include but are not limited to:=20
=95 The influence of migration on faith and/or religious identity;
=95 The role of the religious =91community=92 in the experience of =
migration;
=95 Emerging religious or spiritual practices amongst migrants;
=95 Fluidity and disjuncture in religious practice and identity between
different generations of migrants;
=95 The activities of faith-based organizations in pre-departure, =
departure,
and arrival of migrants;
=95 The role of religion in the material, emotional, cultural or =
spiritual
construction of home-leaving and home-making;
=95 The influence of place on religious ritual and practice, including
para-religious rituals involving food and celebration;
=95 The importance of religion in =91outsider=92 perspectives of =
immigrants;
=95 Histories of migration and the role of religion

Please send an abstract for consideration (250 words maximum) to Claire
Dwyer (cdwyer[at]geog.ucl.ac.uk) and Betsy Olson =
(eolson[at]staffmail.ed.ac.uk) by
6th February 2009.=A0=20

For more details of the conference see: http://www.rgs.org/AC2010

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It is worth noting - just for the record - that, of course, the study of
other diasporas has changed too, over the years...

Before me as I write I have 2 books...

Gruen, Erich S. Diaspora: Jews amidst Greeks and Romans. Cambridge, Mass.
[u.a.]: Harvard Univ. Press, 2004.

The book was widely reviewed - one reviewer wrote... 'This breadth of study
adds persistent illumination to the present book's argument that Diaspora
Jews in the period before 70 CE usually did not sense any conflict between
living in the Diaspora and Jewish identity. The book serves as an important
new installment in Gruen's ongoing effort to dismantle paradigms of ancient
Jewish history derived from exile, antisemitism, and other negative
experiences...'

Gabaccia, Donna R. Italy's many diasporas. Seattle, Wash. [u.a.]: Univ. of
Washington Press, 2000.

Donna's Preface begins with some very sad comments - she always wanted to
write books, 'but not books that no one reads...' The American audience for
books on Sicilian migration is 'frustratingly small...' She was persuaded
to write this book by Robin Cohen, for his Global Diasporas series. On the
notion of 'diaspora' Robin Cohen describes her as an informed 'skeptic'. I
think _Italy's many diasporas_ is a very good book, with excellent use of
detail - like, for example, the different ways Italians are seen in the
different host communities. In Germany and English-speaking countries the
Italians are seen as conservative traditionalists, in Latin America they are
seen as 'modernizers'.

On Robin Cohen's series... I find his own book
Cohen, Robin. Global diasporas. London: UCL Press, 1997.
Mostly unhelpful. Almost taxonomy for its own sake.

Paddy O'Sullivan



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This slightly a "me too", but I have always been puzzled with the use of the
D-word and made some efforts to see how it is used among various migrant
communities. Little could be obtained at the International Organization of
Migration; their experts started using diaspora against the UN linguists
recommendation, and now it is broadly used in their reports (though the IOM
has a peculiar status among the family of international organizations).

I'm not so sure about the generalized used of "diaspora", at least in
Spanish and French. I have been working, studying and playing music with
many Cubans in the US and Europe and I seldom heard the word, and it was
usually limited to the academic context. "Los cubanos de Miami" is the most
frequent formula. Many French-speaking Africans in Europe would be puzzled
if they are treated as a diaspora (even if it is more accepted among people
from the Maghreb). And most people with an Irish family name in Latin
America would be a bit uneasy when pigeonholed together with the Jewish
group.

I think the analogy works well when considering how the vast majority of
(USA) Americans use the words "America" or "Americans" with an (unconscious
of course) annexation mood of the continent's name. Do the Irish (or certain
Irish) wish to appropriate the privileges of the victim? I see a connection
with Paddy's concept of "oppression discourse".

In the case of the Irish perhaps "hegira" would be more appropriate than
"diaspora", but I guess it is to late to impose it...

Edmundo Murray

(btw, why MS Word automatic correct tool suggests diaspora with upper case
D? Isn't this another indication of the persistency to associate diaspora
with the Jewish Diaspora?)

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I echo the point that it is a bit late in the day to be defining diaspora
(or Diaspora), but it may be worth pointing out that in Jewish history, the
Diaspora originally meant the forced dispersal of the Palestinian Jews after
the failed rebellion of A.D. 70. Why this Greek term was used I have no idea
and I do not know what word is used in Hebrew/Yiddish/Ladino; nor why this
word has not replaced Diaspora as Shoah seems to be replacing Holocaust -
and 'great hunger' the [Irish] Famine. As for the Irish Diaspora, perhaps we
should use an Irish word - with 'The Scattering' returned to usage in
English.

The original Greek Diaspora was the Greek colonies in Asia Minor, southern
Italy, Sicily, Egypt and the Crimea.

Finally, I think Edmundo might be right when he links to Paddy's victim
theory: whoever heard of the Anglo-Australians or the French Algerians or
the Conquistadores referring to themselves as a Diaspora, let alone exiles .
. ?

David (exiled in Paris) :)

www.oscholars.com

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This may be of interest to the list.



There was a time when Irish Catholics might have been delighted to see the
pope lavishing attention on their bishops. On Feb. 15 and 16, however, when
Ireland's bishops
were at the
Vatican to discuss an ongoing child sex abuse scandal, Catholics back home
were furious. Catholics were already upset about Pope Benedict's refusal to
apologize to the thousands of abuse victims in Ireland or even hint that he
would meet with them, as some had requested. But what really set them off
seems to have been the images of their bishops
kissing the pope's ring.



Full story at:

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/02/26/how_ireland_lost_its_faith?
page=full





William H. Mulligan, Jr.

Professor of History

Graduate Program Coordinator

Murray State University

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After the Flood: Irish America 1945-1960
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The latest issue of=20
The Dublin Review of Books
Issue Number 13 - Spring 2010

http://www.drb.ie/index.aspx

is available on the web site.

This review by=20
George O=E2=80=99Brien
Will interest Ir-D members.

George O=E2=80=99Brien
After the Flood: Irish America 1945-1960, James Silas Rogers and Matthew =
J O=E2=80=99Brien (eds), Irish Academic Press. 223 pp, =C2=A345, ISBN: =
978-01716529873=20

Paris has its Avenue du Pr=C3=A9sident Kennedy, Antwerp its =
Kennedytunnel. There=E2=80=99s an Avenue Kennedy in Istanbul. The =
Piazzale John F. Kennedy in Rome is tucked away in the city=E2=80=99s =
EUR area, an ambitious show project initiated by Mussolini =E2=80=93 not =
all that appropriate perhaps, but still. And of course there=E2=80=99s =
Berlin=E2=80=99s John-F.-Kennedy-Platz. The Hague=E2=80=99s President =
Kennedylaan doesn=E2=80=99t sound like anything to write home about in =
Joseph O=E2=80=99Neill=E2=80=99s Neverland =E2=80=93 =E2=80=9Ca broad =
monotonous thoroughfare where the buildings of the Dutch secret service =
were said to be located=E2=80=9D =E2=80=93 but here=E2=80=99s another =
capital city where the name of the most famous Irish-American is given a =
certain civic place. =20

This has not happened in Dublin. With all due respect to the residents =
living in the various Kennedy-named streets out by Fox and Geese, no =
street downtown has had its name changed to commemorate Kennedy. The =
correspondence lately in The Irish Times about whether or not to rename =
Victoria Quay suggests that it may be premature to expect JFK to be =
given something of his public due. The country at large, of course, has =
honoured the Kennedy name in all sorts of ways. All the same, its =
absence from Dublin=E2=80=99s cityscape does rather stick out, and while =
it would be stretching a point to take the omission as a sign of the =
uncertain relations between Ireland and Irish-America, it=E2=80=99s also =
tempting to think of it as an unconscious expression of that =
uncertainty. For if, as Winston Churchill had it, England and America =
are two countries separated by a common language, one conclusion =
suggested by the essays in James Rogers and Matthew =
O=E2=80=99Brien=E2=80=99s After the Flood is that Ireland and =
Irish-America are two communities separated by a common heritage. =20

The book=E2=80=99s main editorial thrust is to offer a corrective to the =
notion of =E2=80=9Cethnic fade=E2=80=9D. According to that well-attested =
notion, post-World War II America saw the major European ethnic groups =
=E2=80=93 Irish, Italians, Jews: peoples of the flood, as the =
book=E2=80=99s title would have them =E2=80=91 shed their ethnic =
colouration with the help of educational opportunities made available =
through the GI Bill (which financed the education of ex-servicemen), the =
job security offered by corporate America (whereby scrivening became the =
new navvying), the growth of the suburbs (with the single-family home =
becoming the essential embodiment of the American dream) and the =
increasing ability of Joe Lunchbucket to entertain a geographical sense =
of not just the country=E2=80=99s size and differences but also of its =
oneness (thanks to the growth in car ownership and to the growth of the =
interstate road system =E2=80=91 Eisenhower=E2=80=99s imitation of the =
autobahn and his most lasting monument). The result was a massive =
expansion of the middle class and a corresponding surge of upward =
mobility, accompanied by a development of the consumer sector in the =
form of labour-saving domestic appliances and, the cultural achievement =
which seemingly sealed the deal, television...

...Hang on there now, say Rogers and O=E2=80=99Brien. It would no doubt =
be very nice, in some eyes, if the transition took place with the =
relative seamlessness ascribed to it by the adherents of ethnic fade...

...In one way or another, many of the contributions to After the Flood =
have tradition as at least their subtext, or sometimes as a be all and =
end all, as in Charles Shannon=E2=80=99s rather strained account of the =
novels of the understandably forgotten Edward McSorley, whose prose is =
to the imagination what paint drying is to spectator sport. (Oddly =
enough, though, he did mentor, briefly, a young John Cassavetes, a =
fascinating conjunction of immigrant sensibilities and generations, =
though Shannon doesn=E2=80=99t develop that point.) More interesting is =
Margaret Lee=E2=80=99s digest of her research on the far southside =
Chicago suburb of Beverly Hills, an enclave of what the author refers to =
as the expanding Irish-American =E2=80=9Cupper class=E2=80=9D. This =
contribution not only depicts Irish-American communal self-fashioning in =
cultural terms, largely by means of their St Patrick=E2=80=99s Day =
parades and the ersatz paraphernalia by which ethnic pride is =
articulated. (That way of putting it sounds snobbish I know, but I =
don=E2=80=99t think the mediums of ethnic expression could have been =
expected to be anything but ersatz at the time given the likelihood that =
Irish-Americans had very little grounding in their history or heritage. =
Communities invented themselves, which is both an expression of there =
being no alternative and a very American thing to do.) Among these =
paraphernalia are green carnations, though I don=E2=80=99t think it is =
their association with Oscar Wilde that is being invoked, together with =
effigies of a bird called =E2=80=9Cthe Kilaloo, a native species of =
Ireland=E2=80=9D. Quare hawks to one side, this article=E2=80=99s main =
interest is its account of the newly suburbanised=E2=80=99s siege =
mentality where racial integration is concerned. Indeed, so insecure is =
this Irish-American community that =E2=80=9CFaced with the possibility =
of African-American neighbors, Beverly Hills residents were unable to =
unite across ethno-religious divisions in the 1940s and 1950s=E2=80=9D =
=E2=80=93 meaning that =E2=80=9CIrish=E2=80=9D Catholics declined to =
have much to do with =E2=80=9CAmerican=E2=80=9D Protestant neighbours =
sharing their racial outlook.=20

Constructions of Irishness and the transmogrification of an historically =
grounded conception of tradition they entail reach beyond communal =
boundaries, as many of the contributions point out...=20

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From: Patrick Maume
I seem to remember that Kerby Miller had another suggested focus for the
"exile" theme - emigrant Catholic clerics who as celibates could form no new
family ties and were therefore more as they aged to dwell on memories of
parents and childhood. the religious symbolism of life on earth as exile
from our true home in Heaven where all our sufferings will be over (as in
the SALVE REGINA which ends "after this our exile show unto us the blessed
fruit of thy womb, Jesus" and which is alleged to have been written by a
fourteenth-century German who had more reason than most to see life in this
way; he was sent to a monastery as a small child because he was born
crippled and his parents could not afford to look after him).
Best wishes,
Patrick

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Ruth-Ann Harris wrote:

> Adding to Tom's comments on the concept of exile, for my research I
created
> a database of themes in the letters I've collected, including Kerby's.
> The word and concept of exile was one of the themes. What I discovered
is
> that the term appeared most frequently in letters written by older men,
men
> who had been in the country for a long time and used it in reminiscence.
> This led me to conclude that these were individuals who had not achieved
> what they'd hoped for in emigrating. There is, however, another
term
> used by the Ulster Irish which could be a proxy for the concept of exile.
> That term is 'thinking long.' Ruth-Ann Harris
>
>
>
> Thomas J. Archdeacon wrote:
>
>> Although Kerby Miller found a number of Irish referring to being exiled
in
>> the late nineteenth century, my guess is that concept died among
>> subsequent
>> generations.

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I am off soon to speak at the Yorkshire launch of Brendan McGowan's book...

I will be staying in the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Leeds.

The Irish of Leeds are mostly from Mayo, and Mayo folk are very sociable.

It is possible that Tommy McLoughlin will be persuaded to sing 'Boys of the
County Mayo', which was the Irish anthem in Leeds in the 1950s & 1960s. And
if you like a text with internal contradictions.

Paddy O'Sullivan


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Subject: [IR-D] Book Launch in Leeds, March 6: McGowan, Taking the Boat -
The Irish in Leeds, 1931-81

The Yorkshire launch of

TAKING THE BOAT: THE IRISH IN LEEDS, 1931-81
BY BRENDAN McGOWAN

Will take place on Saturday March 6, 2010, in the Leeds Irish Centre, as
part of the Leeds Irish History Month

http://www.irishhistorymonth.com/

TAKING THE BOAT: THE IRISH IN LEEDS, 1931-81
BY BRENDAN McGOWAN

Guest speakers will include Tommy McLoughlin, Leeds Irish Centre
and Patrick O'Sullivan, University of Bradford
Davitt Lounge, Leeds Irish Centre

Followed by
TRADITIONAL MUSIC DANCE & SONG FROM LEEDS CCE
Featuring special guests Niall Keegan, Mark Maguire, Dylan Bible & Amanda
Fardy
The Games Room, Leeds Irish Centre
0113 248 0887

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Many Leeds Irish from Galway also Patrick - we are very sociable also!
Beannachtai=20
Micheal=20

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Subject: Re: [IR-D] Book Launch in Leeds, March 6: McGowan, Taking the
Boat - The Irish in Leeds, 1931-81

I am off soon to speak at the Yorkshire launch of Brendan McGowan's
book...

I will be staying in the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Leeds.

The Irish of Leeds are mostly from Mayo, and Mayo folk are very
sociable.

It is possible that Tommy McLoughlin will be persuaded to sing 'Boys of
the
County Mayo', which was the Irish anthem in Leeds in the 1950s & 1960s.
And
if you like a text with internal contradictions.

Paddy O'Sullivan


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Subject: [IR-D] Book Launch in Leeds, March 6: McGowan, Taking the Boat
-
The Irish in Leeds, 1931-81

The Yorkshire launch of

TAKING THE BOAT: THE IRISH IN LEEDS, 1931-81
BY BRENDAN McGOWAN

Will take place on Saturday March 6, 2010, in the Leeds Irish Centre, as
part of the Leeds Irish History Month

http://www.irishhistorymonth.com/

TAKING THE BOAT: THE IRISH IN LEEDS, 1931-81
BY BRENDAN McGOWAN

Guest speakers will include Tommy McLoughlin, Leeds Irish Centre
and Patrick O'Sullivan, University of Bradford
Davitt Lounge, Leeds Irish Centre

Followed by
TRADITIONAL MUSIC DANCE & SONG FROM LEEDS CCE
Featuring special guests Niall Keegan, Mark Maguire, Dylan Bible &
Amanda
Fardy
The Games Room, Leeds Irish Centre
0113 248 0887

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Explaining Peace and Politics in Northern Ireland, LSE
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The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) is happy
to announce as part of its seminar series on managing ethno-national
conflict, the following lecture:

Explaining Peace and Politics in Northern Ireland

By: Dr. Brendan O'Duffy

Wednesday March 10, 6:15pm
Room G1, LSE (across from the Peacock Theatre)

This lecture is free and open to the public. It compares and evaluates
competing explanations of the peace and political processes in Northern
Ireland. The presentation locates the Northern Ireland conflict as a sub-set
of the wider and deeper British-Irish conflict, the understanding of which
is improved by an 'ethno-symbolist' interpretation of conflicting
nationalisms. Implications of the Northern Irish case are then developed for
the comparative theory and practice of ethno-national conflict regulation.

Dr. Brendan O'Duffy is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Queen Mary, University
of London. His current research compares peace processes in Cyprus, Northern
Ireland and Sri Lanka which will be published in 2011 as a monograph with
the working title Divided Islands: Conflict Regulation in Cyprus, Northern
Ireland and Sri Lanka.

Please direct any questions to:

ASEN: The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism
London School of Economics
Houghton Street,

London, WC2A 2AE
United Kingdom
T: +44 (0)20 7955 6801
F: +44 (0)20 7955 6218
E: asen[at]lse.ac.uk

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This may be of interest to the list.


St. Patrick's Day in Ireland


By Mike Cronin


Mr. Cronin is co-author (with Daryl Adair) of
The Wearing of the Green: A History of St.
Patrick's Day (Routledge, 2002).

Across the world on Sunday, people will celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Whether
quietly with their family, at a Church service, or boisterously in a pub,
millions will join in marking the anniversary of Ireland's patron saint. St.
Patrick's Day is without question the biggest celebration of a national day
across the globe. In the big American cities, in Moscow's Red Square, in
Montserrat (the only place besides Ireland to declare 17th March a full
public holiday) and even in Nigeria, people bedecked in green will be
proclaiming themselves Irish for the day. Because of its global nature, St.
Patrick's Day has traditionally been celebrated with more fanfare abroad
than in Ireland.

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Queen Mary University, 15th May 2010
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Note, especially, Bronwen Walter's paper, below...

P.O'S.



LONDON THE PROMISED LAND REVISITED

A CONFERENCE IN CELEBRATION OF 15 YEARS OF

THE CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF MIGRATION AND ITS DIVERSITY

To be held on 15th May 2010 -From 9.30 am =96 4 pm

At Queen Mary University of London

CHAIR: ANNE KERSHEN (FOUNDER OF THE CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF MIGRATION)

SPEAKERS:
Caroline Bowden (QMUL) - English Nuns and London in the 17th century;
exile or establishment?
John Eade (Roehampton) - Keeping up with multicultural diversity in the
global city; the implications for research and policy making.
Nicholas Evans (Hull) =96 Protecting Fortress Britain? Maritime =
solutions
to alien immigration - past and present.
Cathy McIlwaine (QMUL) - Legal Latins: negotiating migrant irregularity
among Latin American migrants in London.
Parvathi Raman (UCL) =96 Tales from the Boundary =96 cricket and =
national
identity in the South Asian Diaspora.
Bronwen Walter (Anglia Ruskin) =96 Irish/Jewish diasporic intersections =
in
the East End: paradoxes and shared locations.
John Wood (OU) =96 Crime, the Courts and Ethnicity in 18th and early =
19th
century London: Blacks as victims and offenders.

Registration:
Advance:=A320 (=A330 on the day): Concessions =96 students and senior
citizens: =A315 advance (=A320 on the day)

To register and for further details contact:
Events Office, CB100
Department of Corporate Affairs
Queen Mary, University of London
Tel: 020 7882 5148
fax: 020 7882 3706
email:
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Subject: RE: [IR-D] Migration in Irish History
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Dear Paddy,

Thanks for your clarification and the discussion it has stimulated on the=
List.
It seems to us that the term 'diaspora' is now well established as the=
'normal' term for describing the people(s) of Ireland abroad. A sign of=
this is 'The Northern Ireland Diaspora Forum', which was held in Belfast=
last month, 25 February. Is this the first time that the term 'Northern=
Ireland Diaspora' has been referred to as such? Rather worryingly, one of=
the keynote speakers at the Forum explained that 'diaspora' is derived=
from the Greek meaning 'gathering' [sic]! =0D

More problematic, we think, is the need for a term that describes=
satisfactorily both 'homeland' and 'diaspora' as a whole. You referred to=
'The Irish World Wide'. President McAleese refers to the 'global Irish=
family'. In Migration in Irish History, 1607-2007 we say that 'the idea of=
the nation and its diaspora being, like the church, a 'family of families'=
has unrivalled explanatory power for the understanding of Irish migration'=
(p. 283). However, is 'family' necessarily the best term to describe the=
entity that is comprised of both homeland and diaspora? If not, what is?=0D

Brian and Paddy F.

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A very interesting book review...

Our thanks to Paddy F.

Reading Don Akenson's review, and re-reading the book, I am reminded that I
owe Paddy Fitzgerald and Brian Lambkin (and perhaps the world) an
explanation.

Why do I NOT use the word 'diaspora' throughout the 6 volumes of The Irish
World Wide.

Especially since Fitzgerald & Lambkin, p. 276, spot places where I ALMOST
use the word, 'diaspora', but do not.

So, why not?

The answer is funk, pure and simple...

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The central, chronological section of Migration in Irish History
1607-2007 consists of nine chapters that deal with a half-century each.
The exception is the decade of the Great Famine (1845-55) which is given
its own chapter. Each of these chapters follows the same pattern of
three sections which deal in turn with immigration, internal migration
and emigration. The aim of the three-way sub-division of each chapter in
this way is to aid exploration of the dynamic or tension between these
different aspects of migration over the long perspective of four hundred
years. Accordingly, the substantial inward migration to Ireland during
the last 15 years to which Claire refers is addressed in the first
section of the chapter on 'Irish Migration, 1950-2007'. No doubt there
is a whole book at least in the phenomenal immigration of the last 15
years. As Helen Kelly said in her review of the book, reflecting on the
changing balance between its end year of 2007 and 2009, 'if a week is a
long time in politics, then two years is a long time in migration
history'.

Patrick Fitzgerald and Brian Lambkin

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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 08:07:33 -0800 (PST)
From: Claire Healy
Subject: Re: [IR-D] Migration in Irish History
To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List

In relation to this topic, I have always wanted to know why, in a book
enti=3D
tled Migration in Irish History 1607-2007, there is no chapter dedicated
to=3D
the substantial inward migration of both Europeans and non-Europeans to
Ir=3D
eland during the last 15 years that the book
covers.=3D0A=3D0AThanks,=3D0A=3D0AClai=3D
re Healy.

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There has been extensive coverage of the 1641 Project - see earlier Ir-D
messages. Some coverage has been coherent and sensible...

Below extracts and link to The Guardian item.

A web search will find many more.

P.O'S.

Witness statements from Irish rebellion and massacres of 1641 go online
'Ultimate' cold case analysis may heal ancient quarrels and offer genealogy
and linguistics treasure trove

Owen Bowcott

The 31 handwritten volumes of embittered 17th-century testimony have been
alternately hailed as the world's first war crimes investigation or damned
as a prototype dodgy dossier packed with black political propaganda.

Witness statements taken after the Irish rebellion and massacres of 1641 -
that provided Oliver Cromwell with justification for his infamous slaughter
of the defeated garrisons at Drogheda and Wexford - are being put online and
will for the first time be cross-checked, where possible, for accuracy and
exaggeration.

In what has been dubbed as the ultimate in cold case reviews, historians,
linguists, software specialists and the public are being invited to trawl
through newly transcribed versions of the original documents held in Trinity
College, Dublin...

...The multi-disciplinary project has been funded by both Irish and British
research councils. Students of the Holocaust and more recent genocides -
such as Rwanda and the Balkans - as well as groups supporting peace and
reconciliation in Northern Ireland have been among early users of the
resources. It is hoped to have all the documents available online by the end
of this year...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/07/irish-rebellion-archive-online

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Subject: Article,
Large-scale mortality shocks and the Great Irish Famine 1845-1852
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Economic Modelling
Article in Press, Corrected Proof=20
doi:10.1016/j.econmod.2010.01.016 | How to Cite or Link Using DOI
Copyright =A9 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.


Large-scale mortality shocks and the Great Irish Famine 1845=961852

Declan Curran a, , and Maria Fr=F6ling b,=20

a National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis, National =
University
of Ireland, Maynooth, Maynooth, Ireland
b Department of Construction Sciences, Lund University, P. O. Box 118,
SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
Accepted 25 January 2010. Available online 5 March 2010.=20

Abstract
This paper considers the consequences of a large scale mortality shock
arising from a famine or epidemic for long run economic and demographic
development. The Great Irish Famine of 1845=961852 is taken as a =
case-study
and is incorporated as an exogenous mortality shock into the type of
long-run unified growth theory pioneered by Galor and Weil (1999, 2000), =
and
modelled by Lagerl=F6f (2003a,b) among others. Through calibration, the =
impact
of such a mortality shock occurring on the cusp of a country's =
transition
from a Malthusian to a Modern Growth regime is then depicted.
Keywords: Long-run growth; Unified growth theory; Mortality; Ireland

JEL classification codes: J11; N33; O10; O15

Article Outline

1. Introduction
2. Irish economic climate before and after the Great Famine
2.1. The Great Irish Famine
2.2. A closer look at pre=96and post=96famine economic and demographic =
trends
3. The basic model
4. Results of the modelling exercise
4.1. Choice of parameter values
4.2. Simulation results
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Appendix A
References

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The Potato in Irish Cuisine and Culture

Authors: Mirtn Mac Con Iomaire a; Pdraic g Gallagher a
Affiliation: a Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland

Published in: Journal of Culinary Science & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 2 &
3 April 2009 , pages 152 - 167

Abstract
This article will discuss the introduction of the potato from its South
American origin into Irish cuisine and culture. The authors will outline the
stages of development from introduction to acceptance as a winter vegetable,
to widespread acceptance, moving on to overdependence and leading to
subsequent famine. The article will discuss the varieties of potatoes used,
the methods of production at different levels of society, and a number of
quintessentially Irish potato dishes including boxty, champ, and colcannon,
which will be compared with similar potato dishes in other cultures. Also,
this article will combine secondary sources with primary sources including
oral histories and data from the Irish Folklore Commission.

Keywords: Potato; Ireland; famine; Irish cuisine; boxty; champ; colcannon

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Edinburgh University Press

Race in Modern Irish Literature and Culture
Author: John Brannigan
Publication Date: Jun 2009
Dimensions: 234 x 156 mm
Extent: 256 pages
Illustrations: 16

For decades Ireland presented itself as the land of hospitality, until the
1990s, when the 'Celtic Tiger' exposed its racist underbelly. In Race in
Modern Irish Literature and Culture, John Brannigan argues that race and
racism have longer histories in the Irish state, histories which have often
been exposed and critiqued by Irish writers and artists. He revisits the
role of racial ideologies in the foundation and development of the state,
offering original historical insights, and inspired new readings of literary
and cultural works ranging from Ulysses to The Commitments.

Key Features
Provides new research on the social history of racial ideologies and racist
expressions in the Irish state since 1922

Offers new readings of Irish cultural productions and literary texts (by
James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett, Liam O'Flaherty, Kate O'Brien, Edna
O'Brien, Brendan Behan, James Plunkett, Paul Durcan, Austin Clarke, Aidan
Higgins, Denis Johnston, and others) emphasising how they engage with the
histories of Irish racism and raciology

Demonstrates how a new understanding of the constitutive role of race and
racism in modern Irish culture might necessitate a revision of the dominant
precepts and trends in contemporary Irish studies

Addresses the significance of the social and cultural history of race and
racism in twentieth-century Ireland for the post-'Celtic Tiger' era

http://www.euppublishing.com/book/978-0-7486-3883-3

This book is distributed in North America by Columbia University Press

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Hi Claire

I may be accused of having a vested interest here, as I wrote the short
foreward to this book. But I think that in a survey covering more than
400 years it was always going to be difficult to cover everything in
sufficient detail. Moreover, we lack as yet a sufficient degree of
critical and chronological distance to place recent immigration into
Ireland, even if it does mark a paradigm shift as the first period of
major sustained in-migration since the Plantations, within its broader
historical context. Necessarily, therefore, the section on the most
recent period (which does identity all the key issues) amounts to a kind
of unfinished business. We do not know how it will all turn out - indeed
no-one could have guessed at the time of writing of this book that we
were on the cusp of another reversal of fortunes, at least in this
jurisdiction, and a return to net out-migration, albeit on a scale as
yet difficult to predict. And the bibliography on the most recent as
well as early periods is comprehensive and up to date.

best

Piaras

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Thread-Topic: [IR-D] Migration in Irish History 3
From: "Brian Lambkin"
To: "The Irish Diaspora Studies List"


The central, chronological section of Migration in Irish History
1607-2007 consists of nine chapters that deal with a half-century each.
The exception is the decade of the Great Famine (1845-55) which is given
its own chapter. Each of these chapters follows the same pattern of
three sections which deal in turn with immigration, internal migration
and emigration. The aim of the three-way sub-division of each chapter in
this way is to aid exploration of the dynamic or tension between these
different aspects of migration over the long perspective of four hundred
years. Accordingly, the substantial inward migration to Ireland during
the last 15 years to which Claire refers is addressed in the first
section of the chapter on 'Irish Migration, 1950-2007'. No doubt there
is a whole book at least in the phenomenal immigration of the last 15
years. As Helen Kelly said in her review of the book, reflecting on the
changing balance between its end year of 2007 and 2009, 'if a week is a
long time in politics, then two years is a long time in migration
history'.

Patrick Fitzgerald and Brian Lambkin

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Subject: [IR-D] Migration in Irish History 3

Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 08:07:33 -0800 (PST)
From: Claire Healy
Subject: Re: [IR-D] Migration in Irish History
To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List

In relation to this topic, I have always wanted to know why, in a book
enti=3D3D
tled Migration in Irish History 1607-2007, there is no chapter dedicated
to=3D3D
the substantial inward migration of both Europeans and non-Europeans to
Ir=3D3D
eland during the last 15 years that the book
covers.=3D3D0A=3D3D0AThanks,=3D3D0A=3D3D0AClai=3D3D
re Healy.

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Subject: Article,
What Did You Just Call Me? European and American Ratings of the
Valence of Ethnophaulisms
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This article has to be read very carefully in order to work out if there =
is
anything worth holding on to here. Its lists of 'ethnic slurs',
'Ethnophaulism', seem to rely on Allen, 1983, The Language of Ethnic
Conflict - and seem now rather quaint. Jury out...

P.O'S.

What Did You Just Call Me? European and American Ratings of the Valence =
of
Ethnophaulisms

Diana R. Rice
Geneva College, Beaver Falls, PA, USA, drrice[at]geneva.edu

Dominic Abrams

University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, UK

Constantina Badea

Universit=E9 Lille-3, Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France

Gerd Bohner

Universit=E4t Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

Andrea Carnaghi

Universit=E0 de Padova, Padova, Italy

Lyudmila I. Dementi

Omsk State University, Omsk, Russia

Kevin Durkin

University of Strathclyde, Glasgow Scotland

Bea Ehmann

Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

Gordon Hodson

Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario Canada

Dogan Kokdemir

Baskent University, Ankara,Turkey

Jaume Masip

Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

Aidan Moran

University College, Dublin, Ireland

Margit E. Oswald

Universit=E4t Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Jaap W. Ouwerkerk

VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Rolf Reber

University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Jonathan Schroeder

University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

Katerina Tasiopoulou

University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, UK

Jerzy Trzebinski

Warsaw School of Social Psychology, Warsaw, Poland

Previous work has examined the relative valence (positivity or =
negativity)
of ethnophaulisms (ethnic slurs) targeting European immigrants to the =
United
States. However, this relied on contemporary judgments made by American
researchers. The present study examined valence judgments made by =
citizens
from the countries examined in previous work. Citizens of 17 European
nations who were fluent in English rated ethnophaulisms targeting their =
own
group as well as ethnophaulisms targeting immigrants from England. =
American
students rated ethnophaulisms for all 17 European nations, providing a
comparison from members of the host society. Ratings made by the =
European
judges were (a) consistent with those made by the American students and =
(b)
internally consistent for raters=92 own country and for the common =
target
group of the English. Following discussion of relevant methodological
issues, the authors examine the theoretical significance of their =
results.

Key Words: Europeans =95 ethnophaulisms =95 ethnic slurs =95 valence =95 =
complexity

This version was published on March 1, 2010

Journal of Language and Social Psychology, Vol. 29, No. 1, 117-131 =
(2010)
DOI: 10.1177/0261927X09351696