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While the Pope may be on a 'State visit' it doesn't preclude him from
visiting other constituent countries of the State. He is, after all,
going to visit Scotland and address the Scottish Parliament. My
understanding is that the issue of visiting Wales had been raised
directly with the pope (i.e directly to his face rather than via the
Curia) within the Church and he declined to visit Wales. It has also
been suggested that the First Minister wouldn't have issued the
invitation unless he was lead to believe that the Pope would accept.
It should also be pointed out that ecclesiastically in the Catholic
Church's eyes Wales is a totally different church from that in
England, despite the close ties between the Church here in Wales and
the Church in England. They are technically as distinct as the English
and Irish churches.

The whole question of the relationship of the Catholic Church to Wales
may seem a bit arcane for this list but much of the Church here in
Wales is based around Irish diaspora communities and how those
communities are reshaping and reforming their identities is very
interesting. One only has to look around the Welsh Medium schools of
Cardiff to see how many of the 'Irish' community now see themselves
(for example my son is in a Welsh medium school, but then he speaks
Welsh at home, and I recently discovered that his best friend in the
school is also of Irish descent, as are a number of the children in
their class, the mother of one of the children who attends the same
Welsh Speaking Childminder as my son is from Ireland). The question of
providing Welsh Medium Catholic education has been raised by Cardiff
County Council with the Church, which so far has been rather negative
to the idea despite the fact that one of its current secondary schools
is going to have to close due to lack of pupils, and it should be
pointed out that that doesn't mean a lack of children being born but
rather they are now in the ever expanding Welsh medium sector).

It does look as if Archbishop Ward's comments to (Irish community)
Catholic Parents of 'I can't make you Welsh but history will make your
children Welsh' is coming true.

Muiris



On 22 March 2010 13:39, Patrick O'Sullivan wro=
te:
> From: W.F.Clarke[at]bton.ac.uk
> To: "The Irish Diaspora Studies List"
>
> But surely the Vatican, as a foreign 'state', is obliged to treat England
> and Wales as Britain in diplomatic terms?
>
> When Wales gives 'foreign aid' it is given to a district or group not to
> another country.
>
>
> Best
>
>
> Liam Clarke=3D20
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Muiris Mag Ualghairg
> Sent: 20 March 2010 13:57
> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: [IR-D] Pope's pastoral letter
>
> I am working my way through the pastoral letter of the pope and hope
> you won't mind if I make a few comments.
>
> EDIT FOR LENGTH
>
> ...Finally, and on a slightly related topic. There are starting to be
> murmurings here in Wales about the way the Church treats Welsh
> Catholics. The First Minister of the National Assembly for Wales,
> Carwyn Jones, issued an invite to the Pope to come to Wales as part of
> his official visit to Great Britain. The invite has been refused, one
> wonders what advice the First Minister, who is a very smooth political
> operator and generally already knows the answer to anything he asks
> prior to asking for it, will have received from the Catholic Church
> both here in Wales and in the England. I doubt that he would have
> issued the invitation on behalf of the Welsh Assembly Government if he
> hadn't been lead to believe that it would be accepted. One leading
> Catholic 'Harry Pritchard Jones' has already said that this shows that
> the Church is treating Wales and England as one unit, something that
> many in Wales have been complaining about for years. There are also
> complaints that the Church is not willing to provide schools which
> teach through the medium of Welsh (apart from one in Caernarfon)
> despite losing thousands of its potential pupils to Welsh medium
> schools. =A0It should be pointed out that the First Minister's wife is
> an Irish Catholic (from Belfast no less - and I should confess that I
> was at university with the two of them!)
>
> Muiris
>

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Jim
=20
It's not exactly what you are looking for but seems worth mentioning all =
the same. Irish popular writer Maeve Binchy had an early success with a =
television play, Deeply Regretted By about the precise theme that you =
mention. See =
http://www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/fall-2006/deeply-regretted.htm=
l =
for a bit more detail. And yes, there are a lot of anecdotes: I =
don't know about the serious studies and/or hard facts.
=20
Piaras

________________________________

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Subject: [IR-D] bigamy



A question came in that is well outside my knowledge (lots of things =
are...)

Can the list point me toward any studies of studies of spousal =
abandonment in Ireland-the husband/father walking away and never =
returning (think Frank McCourt's dad).

More specifically, the questioner wanted to know if there was anything =
written about bigamy among immigrants, with the abandoning husband =
remarrying in the new country?

I'm interested in published work only, whether historical, sociological, =
or even in memoirs-- and not in anecdote. Sorry, just don't want to =
hear about your no-good great uncle Eddie--my great uncle was just as =
bad or worse....

Jim Rogers

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When I was doing research, in the US military pension records, on individua=
l Irishmen (whose letters I intended to publish) who served in the US Civil=
War, I found that several (out of a small sample) had more than one live =
spouse apply for their husband's war-widow's benefits. But those were inst=
ances of bigamy within the US-one marriage in Philadelphia, the second one =
in California, for instance.
KM


On 3/22/10 5:17 PM, "Rogers, James S." wrote:

A question came in that is well outside my knowledge (lots of things are...=
)

Can the list point me toward any studies of studies of spousal abandonmen=
t in Ireland-the husband/father walking away and never returning (think Fr=
ank McCourt's dad).

More specifically, the questioner wanted to know if there was anything writ=
ten about bigamy among immigrants, with the abandoning husband remarrying i=
n the new country?

I'm interested in published work only, whether historical, sociological, or=
even in memoirs-- and not in anecdote. Sorry, just don't want to hear abo=
ut your no-good great uncle Eddie--my great uncle was just as bad or worse.=
...

Jim Rogers

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I believe that the Abraham Cahan's newspaper, the Forverts (Jewish Daily
Forward) had a column about missing husbands. You, however, probably won't
find too many Irish in that publication. Ruth-Ann Harris's electronic
records and publications about "Missing Friends" might also yield some
indirect evidence. Ruth might be a good person to contact.

Tom

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Thank you Patrick for your learned correction on Pelagius - old men forget=
!
John

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan P=2EOSullivan[at]BRADFORD=2EAC=2EUK
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:11:32 -0000
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL=2EAC=2EUK
Subject: [IR-D] Pelagius


Subject: Pelagius
From: Patrick Maume
To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List


From; Patrick Maume
Actually, I believe it was St=2E Jerome who said Pelagius was filled wit=
h
wind by Scotch porridge, not the other way round=2E
Best wishes,
Patrick

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'While the most trustworthy witnesses, such as Augustine, Orosius, Prosper=
,
and Marius Mercator, are quite explicit in assigning Britain as his native=

country, as is apparent from his cognomen of Brito or Britannicus, Jerome
(Praef=2E in Jerem=2E, lib=2E I and III) ridicules him as a "Scot" (loc=2E=
cit=2E,
"habet enim progeniem Scoticae gentis de Britannorum vicinia"), who being
"stuffed with Scottish porridge" (Scotorum pultibus proegravatus) suffers
from a weak memory=2E'
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On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 3:22 AM, Elizabeth Malcolm wrote:

> John,
>
> I don=3DE2=3D80=3D99t know a lot about Pelagius and his Scots/Irish oats=
, but D=3D
r Johnson
> in his
> dictionary famously defined oats as: =3DE2=3D80=3D98A grain, which in En=
gland i=3D
s
> generally given
> to horses, but in Scotland supports the people=3DE2=3D80=3D99=2E=2E=2E J=
o=3D
>
> Elizabeth
> --------------------------------------------------
> > Sarah, Did you see Mike Harding's column in the Irish Times on how our=

> > national holiday is truly a gas occasion apropos of boiled cabbage and=

> > bacon which being full of zinc does to the stomach what a lighted matc=
h
> > does to a can of petrol=2E And as for oats - did not the ancient heret=
ic
> > Pelagius say that it filled the Scots (Irish) with a righteous wind! J=
o=3D
hn
> >


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I'm responding to the discussion of bigamy and the Irish. I'm not sure whe=
ther or not this is helpful. There is a larger paradigm in which this disc=
ussion could look. =20

My research is centered in the 18th century British Caribbean where I have =
studies the experience(s) of an Irish family. An recently published articl=
e in the "New Hibernia Review" touched on one member who had a slave mistre=
ss whom he recognized at his death, as well as a wife in Ireland. =20

Another article, published on line (http://www.cavehill.uwi.edu/BNCCde/svg/=
conference/papers/quintanilla.html), examines the relationship of an Irish =
lawyer in the Caribbean. And while he was not "married" it certainly evalu=
ates reasons why Europeans (not just the Irish) tended to be polygamous. =20


-----Original Message-----
From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behal=
f Of Patrick O'Sullivan
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 7:08 AM
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [IR-D] bigamy

There was a lot of it about. There is too much of this sort of thing. And
maybe putting the word 'Irish' into the mix creates one of those false
narratives.

Family historians are always tripping over examples. I am reminded of
Liverpool-born Kim Cattrall, in the BBC series Who do you think you are?
And she became very angry.

If you want an Irish example there is the story of the much married John
Ramage - who painted a portrait of George Washington.

John Ramage: The Wandering Portraitist
Paul Caffrey
Irish Arts Review (2002-), Vol. 19, No. 1 (Summer, 2002), pp. 96-99

It is worth pointing out that there are a number of overlapping research
areas and discourse here. For example...

There is the whole issue of divorce in Ireland, and the complex of issues
there - see for example
Fitzpatrick, David. "DIVORCE AND SEPARATION IN MODERN IRISH HISTORY." Past
and Present 114, no. 1 (1987): 172 - 196.

The literature folk have created a discourse around 'bigamy fiction'. A
good start is
Fahnestock, Jeanne. "Bigamy: The Rise and Fall of a Convention."
Nineteenth-Century Fiction 36, no. 1 (1981): 47 - 71.
And see how she is cited. She begins with Boucicault, Colleen Bawn, and th=
e
twin dangers of bigamy and drowning.

In history
Schwartzberg, Beverly. "'Lots of Them Did That': Desertion, Bigamy, and
Marital Fluidity in Late-Nineteenth-Century America." Journal of Social
History 37, no. 3 (2004): 573-600.
Has a really interesting source - US Civil War pensions. And offers a good
guide to messy realities.

P.O'S.

-----Original Message-----
From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behal=
f
Of Rogers, James S.
Sent: 22 March 2010 23:17
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] bigamy

A question came in that is well outside my knowledge (lots of things are...=
)

Can the list point me toward any studies of studies of spousal abandonmen=
t
in Ireland-the husband/father walking away and never returning (think Fran=
k
McCourt's dad).

More specifically, the questioner wanted to know if there was anything
written about bigamy among immigrants, with the abandoning husband
remarrying in the new country?

I'm interested in published work only, whether historical, sociological, or
even in memoirs-- and not in anecdote. Sorry, just don't want to hear abou=
t
your no-good great uncle Eddie--my great uncle was just as bad or worse....

Jim Rogers

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Paddy

I was wondering if you or anyone on the list could assist?

Would you or anyone be aware of anything written on being able to tell a pe=
rson's Catholic faith/background via their 'Irish' surname?

=20
Joe

--=20
The Sunday Times Scottish University of the Year 2009/2010
The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland,=20
number SC 011159.

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From; Patrick Maume
One of the minor themes of Thomas Kenneally's THE GREAT SHAME is his
discovery that an ancestor of his who was transported to Australia before
the famine and married out there had left an earlier wife and family in
Ireland.
Best wishes,
Patrick

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:44 PM, MacEinri, Piaras wrote:

> Jim
>
> It's not exactly what you are looking for but seems worth mentioning all
> the same. Irish popular writer Maeve Binchy had an early success with a
> television play, Deeply Regretted By about the precise theme that you
> mention. See
> http://www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/fall-2006/deeply-regretted.html http://www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/fall-2006/deeply-regretted.html>
> for a bit more detail. And yes, there are a lot of anecdotes: I don't know
> about the serious studies and/or hard facts.
>
> Piaras
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List on behalf of Rogers, James S.
> Sent: Mon 22/03/2010 23:17
> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: [IR-D] bigamy
>
>
>
> A question came in that is well outside my knowledge (lots of things
> are...)
>
> Can the list point me toward any studies of studies of spousal
> abandonment in Ireland-the husband/father walking away and never returning
> (think Frank McCourt's dad).
>
> More specifically, the questioner wanted to know if there was anything
> written about bigamy among immigrants, with the abandoning husband
> remarrying in the new country?
>
> I'm interested in published work only, whether historical, sociological, or
> even in memoirs-- and not in anecdote. Sorry, just don't want to hear about
> your no-good great uncle Eddie--my great uncle was just as bad or worse....
>
> Jim Rogers
>

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There was a lot of it about. There is too much of this sort of thing. And
maybe putting the word 'Irish' into the mix creates one of those false
narratives.

Family historians are always tripping over examples. I am reminded of
Liverpool-born Kim Cattrall, in the BBC series Who do you think you are?
And she became very angry.

If you want an Irish example there is the story of the much married John
Ramage - who painted a portrait of George Washington.

John Ramage: The Wandering Portraitist
Paul Caffrey
Irish Arts Review (2002-), Vol. 19, No. 1 (Summer, 2002), pp. 96-99

It is worth pointing out that there are a number of overlapping research
areas and discourse here. For example...

There is the whole issue of divorce in Ireland, and the complex of issues
there - see for example
Fitzpatrick, David. "DIVORCE AND SEPARATION IN MODERN IRISH HISTORY." Past
and Present 114, no. 1 (1987): 172 - 196.

The literature folk have created a discourse around 'bigamy fiction'. A
good start is
Fahnestock, Jeanne. "Bigamy: The Rise and Fall of a Convention."
Nineteenth-Century Fiction 36, no. 1 (1981): 47 - 71.
And see how she is cited. She begins with Boucicault, Colleen Bawn, and the
twin dangers of bigamy and drowning.

In history
Schwartzberg, Beverly. "'Lots of Them Did That': Desertion, Bigamy, and
Marital Fluidity in Late-Nineteenth-Century America." Journal of Social
History 37, no. 3 (2004): 573-600.
Has a really interesting source - US Civil War pensions. And offers a good
guide to messy realities.

P.O'S.

-----Original Message-----
From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Rogers, James S.
Sent: 22 March 2010 23:17
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] bigamy

A question came in that is well outside my knowledge (lots of things are...)

Can the list point me toward any studies of studies of spousal abandonment
in Ireland-the husband/father walking away and never returning (think Frank
McCourt's dad).

More specifically, the questioner wanted to know if there was anything
written about bigamy among immigrants, with the abandoning husband
remarrying in the new country?

I'm interested in published work only, whether historical, sociological, or
even in memoirs-- and not in anecdote. Sorry, just don't want to hear about
your no-good great uncle Eddie--my great uncle was just as bad or worse....

Jim Rogers

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Subject: PhD Bursary, TCD,
Irish fisheries of the medieval and early modern period
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Forwarded on behalf of
From: Mark Hennessy [mhnnessy[at]tcd.ie]


Dear All,

Professor Poul Holm (Academic Director, Trinity Long Room Hub and Professor
of Marine Environmental History) and Dr. Mark Hennessy (Department of
Geography, School of Natural Science, Trinity College Dublin) are the PIs
for a research project on Irish fisheries in medieval and early modern
Ireland.

We are advertising for a Ph.D. bursary to carry out the research outlined
below.

The bursary is 16,000 Euro per anum for four years plus start-up costs and
research support.

For details and link to online application please go to
http://www.tcd.ie/Graduate_Studies/InnovationBursaries/#Arts

I would be grateful if you draw this to the attention of suitable
applicants.

Many thanks, Mark Hennessy



Project Title: Irish fisheries of the medieval and early modern period:
scale and causes of decline

This study will be based on two lines of inquiry and inform at least two
disciplinary interests, history and geography. A study of the decline of the
Irish fishing industry may provide a striking historical illustration of
economic path-dependency. Likewise it will inform geographical understanding
of population settlement around the Irish coast. It will provide a backdrop
to our understanding of marine resources today. The disaster of the hunger
years from 1846 showed that the Irish economy was unsustainably based on
agricultural produce, mainly the potato. At the same time observers were
fully aware of the potential of the sea to provide an additional food source
and the fishing industry had been well-developed in the medieval and
early-modern period. What locked Ireland into a disastrous economic neglect
of the sea? Was this unique to Ireland or was the under-development of the
sea fisheries part of a wider European pattern?

--
Mark Hennessy MA Ph.D.
Lecturer in Geography
Trinity College,
Dublin 2.

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Tell About the Global South: Bushranger Nomadology and Minor
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The Global South
Volume 3, Number 2, Fall 2009

Jeffrey Stayton
Tell About the Global South: Bushranger Nomadology and Minor Literature in
the Irish-Australian Boom
The Global South - Volume 3, Number 2, Fall 2009, pp. 83-98

Indiana University Press

Abstract:

My essay reads contemporary Irish-Australian literature as an intriguing
contact zone where global South discourses of the Pacific Rim meet those of
the U.S. South. Having evoked in their novels what had until recent decades
been considered Australia's national shame, the continent's convict history,
Peter Carey and Richard Flanagan not only re-imagine Australia and
Tasmania's past but also reframe their presents. Each novel attempts to
subvert the official record of the British Empire from the standpoint of its
Irish Others-Carey with his "true history" of the bushranger Ned Kelly and
Flanagan with his "book of fish" from the painter-convict William Gould.
True History of the Kelly Gang and Gould's Book of Fish confront the history
of the oppressor with legends of the oppressed through fragmented,
non-linear narratives whose organizing principles are repetition, saga, and
run-on sentences, all of which underscore the urgency in telling the largely
lost record of the Irish account of their experience in the colony's
foundation.

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This article has turned up, freely available, on The Free Library web site

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Leary+kin:+Australian+larrikins+and+the+blackf
ace+minstrel+dandy.-a0197666890

It is also available on Project Muse for those who have access.

P.O'S.


Bellanta, Melissa

Leary Kin: Australian Larrikins and the Blackface Minstrel Dandy

Journal of Social History - Volume 42, Number 3, Spring 2009, pp. 677-695

George Mason University Press

Abstract:

This article explores the relationship between minstrelsy and rough
Anglo-Celtic youths, or larrikins, in late nineteenth-century Australia. It
shows that in the 1880s, larrikins were drawn to blackface minstrel
characters, especially dandy characters, who carried themselves with a
deliberately burlesque panache. There were definite similarities here
between Australian larrikins and the poor Irish-American workers discussed
by historians of minstrelsy in 1830-40s New York. Like these American
workers, larrikins used minstrelsy to identify with a symbolically black
masculinity at the same time as they attempted to assert superiority over
non-white peoples. Nonetheless, the racial and social conditions in
late-colonial Australia were not the same as those in New York earlier in
the century. Much of this article is thus an attempt to think through the
particularities of larrikins' relationship to minstrelsy.

Above all, I suggest, the economic boom taking place in eastern Australia is
necessary to explain the emergence of larrikinism in the 1870s and 1880s. It
is also necessary to explain larrikins' attraction to minstrel dandies.
Larrikins were involved in a combative relationship with boom culture,
especially the ebullient working-class liberalism then flourishing in
eastern Australia. Minstrel dandiers allowed larrikins to express something
of this combative relationship, influencing their dress and behaviour. As
symbols of a flamboyantly rough masculinity, they also represented a modern
'take' on bushranger and Newgate anti-heroes in Anglo-Australian popular
culture.

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2009: Poems that Matter, 1950-2000
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Tables of Content for the Irish University Review come to us through a
roundabout route, and I do not have the latest TOC to hand.

The journal is trying to make itself more visible. There is a web site...

http://www.irishuniversityreview.ie/index.html

But not that much is on the web site. Earlier issues are available through
JSTOR, and the web site says that some individual essays are available
through the pay per read service HighBeam. (In fact quite a lot is
available through the free service, FindArticles. So, have a look there
first...)

Anyway...

The latest issue of Irish University Review is a very interesting and brave
one, by guest editor Peter Denman...

If you see its TOC, it might require some explanation. The starting point
is Dana Gioia's essay 'Can poetry matter?'. Peter Denman asked 22 litcrit
folk to pick a recentish Irish poem, and show how and why it matters. So,
put your money where your mouth is... Most of the contributors are based in
Ireland, and many are themselves poets - so that there is a certain amount
of taking in each other's washing. But cumulatively the volume engages
seriously with that key issue in reading new work - recognising something
good, that matters.

There is a sort of Irish Diaspora Studies dimension, in that - first of all
- there is so little in the way of an Irish Diaspora Studies dimension. But
see also the contribution of Christina Hunt Mahony (who now, I think, lives
and works in Ireland), on Paul Durcan, 'Going Home to Mayo'. Her final
sentence is: 'Sometimes I get a telephone call or letter from my father in
the States updating me with new of the family in Mayo, where neither of us
has ever lived.'

The question naturally arises, What would happen if someone repeated Peter
Denman's exercise, getting people outside Ireland to comment on the poetry
of Ireland? Or maybe, getting the Irish Diaspora to look at its own poetry?


Recently, at a meeting in Leeds, I praised the work of the Leeds Irish poet,
John Barry. I was the only person in the room who had ever heard of him.

P.O'S.

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This is the Bloomsbury Auction web site

The Irish Sale: Pictures, Silver, Books & Manuscripts
Sale held on
Tuesday 23rd March 2010
Auction Results

http://ny.bloomsburyauctions.com/auction/NY042/20/1


1916 Irish Rising flag fails to sell at New York auction

The tricolour failed to reach its reserve price of $500,000
An Irish tricolour believed to have flown from the General Post Office =
in
Dublin during the 1916 Rising has failed to make its reserve price at
auction.
The flag was up for sale at Bloomsbury Auctions, New York. It was =
expected
to fetch up to $700,000, but did not make the reserve price of $500,000.
A spokeswoman for the auctions said there had been no bids in the room.
She could not confirm if there had been any telephone bids for the flag.
It was part of an auction of Irish items including pictures, =
manuscripts,
silver and books.
The auction house said the flag was accompanied by a note from Dr George =
St
George, (who owned the flag until 1922) reading 'Captured by British =
Troops
at GPO Dublin, April 1916 and given to Dr George St George by an old War
veteran, Sergt Davis'.
It added: "Any contemporary pennants, favours or armbands with the =
tricolour
design are extraordinarily scarce with only a few surviving examples of =
any
held in museum collections.
"The fact that this flag is the only recorded full sized tricolour of =
the
1916 Rising in existence, and therefore of the utmost rarity and =
importance,
and further, documented that it was captured from the headquarters of =
the
short-lived Irish Republic founded by P=E1draig Pearse and his comrades, =
makes
it a unique icon of immeasurable significance in the history of the =
Irish
Revolution."
Hundreds of items connected to the 1916 Rising have sold for large sums =
of
money in recent years.
In April 2007, a rare copy of the 1916 Proclamation made 240,000 euro at
auction in Dublin.
The 1916 Rising saw Irish rebels attempt to seize Dublin from British
forces.
British troops put down the rebellion and many of its ringleaders were
captured and executed.

SOURCE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8583799.stm

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Subject: A French take on Irish emigration
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France 24 international television report on the return of Irish
emigration


http://www.france24.com/en/20100324-yourn-Irish-find-the-grass-is-greene
r-outside-the-emerald-isle

Piaras

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: JG Farrell makes the Lost Man Booker short list
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Forwarded on behalf of
From: Mike.Collins[at]ucc.ie [mailto:Mike.Collins[at]ucc.ie]
Sent: 26 March 2010 15:45
To: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: JG Farrell makes the Lost Man Booker short list

Dear Patrick

This week the Irish Embassy in London invited Cork University Press to
launch
JG Farrell in His Own Words Selected Letters and Diaries. The event was a
great success. The launch was timely as yesterday JG Farrell made the Lost
Man Booker Prize shortlist with his novel Troubles. Troubles which tells the

comic yet melancholic tale of an English Major, Brendan Archer, who in 1919
goes to County Wicklow in Ireland to meet the woman whom he believes he may
be engaged to marry. From the viewpoint of the crumbling Majestic Hotel at
Kilnalough he watches Ireland's fight for independence from Britain.

The Lost Man Booker is a one-off prize to honour the books which missed out
on the opportunity to win the Booker Prize in 1970. In 1971, just two years
after it began, the Booker Prize ceased to be awarded retrospectively and
became - as it is today - a prize for the best novel of the year of
publication. As a result a wealth of fiction published for much of 1970 fell

through the net.

The novelist J.G. Farrell - known to his friends as Jim - was drowned on
August 11, 1979 when he was swept off rocks by a sudden storm while fishing
in West Cork. He was in his early forties. "Had he not sadly died so
young," remarked Salman Rushdie in 2008, "there is no question that he would

today be one of the really major novelists of the English language. The
three
novels that he did leave are all in their different way extraordinary."


There is now public vote , which closes on 23 April 2010, to choose the
winner. The overall winner will be announced on 19 May 2010.
If you feel that Irish author JG Farrell deserves to win then please vote by

using the link below. Please circulate this email to all of your relevant
contacts.

http://www.themanbookerprize.com/news/vote

Regards


Mike

Mike Collins
Publications Director

Cork University Press, Youngline Industrial Estate, Pouladuff
Road, Cork, Ireland
Tel: 00 353 (0) 21 490 2980 Fax: 00 353 (0) 21 431 5329
Email: mike.collins[at]ucc.ie web: www.corkuniversitypress.com

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From: Anthony Murray
Subject: Irish in Britain Seminar Series 2010
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Paddy,

List members may be interested in the forthcoming seminar series at Londo=
n
Met (details below).

Best wishes, Tony


Dr. Tony Murray
Irish Studies Centre
London Metropolitan University
Tower Building
Holloway Rd
London N7 8DB


Email: t.murray[at]londonmet.ac.uk
www.londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre


Irish in Britain Seminar Series 2010
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An Irish New Zealander in Post-War Oxford

17 May, Ethel Corduff, Royal College of Nursing
Irish Nurses in London in the Post-War Years

24 May, Dr. R=F3is=EDn Ryan-Flood, University of Essex
Sexuality, Citizenship and Migration: The Irish Diaspora in London

7 June, Dr. Sean Campbell, Anglia Ruskin University
Dwellers on the Threshold: Making a London-Irish 'Home' with The Pogues


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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Article, Ties that bind: governmentality, the state,
and asylum in contemporary Ireland
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Cite as:
Conlon D, 2010, "Ties that bind: governmentality, the state, and asylum in
contemporary Ireland" Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 28(1) 95
- 111


Ties that bind: governmentality, the state, and asylum in contemporary
Ireland
Deirdre Conlon

Abstract. Coinciding with the so-called 'Celtic Tiger' boom of the 1990s,
Ireland experienced a momentous shift in long-standing patterns of
migration, with significant in-migration and an unprecedented change in
population dynamics. Asylum seekers form a small and noteworthy group within
the population in association with several recent legislative changes. In
2003 a previously granted guarantee of residency rights for so-called
'non-national' migrant parents whose children were born in Ireland was
withdrawn; subsequently, in 2004 voters endorsed a referendum doing away
with the Irish Constitution's provision for birthright citizenship. With
this, many asylum seekers and their children who were born in Ireland were
excluded from the possibility of establishing intimate ties within society
and to the state. This social context forms the backdrop for examining the
intersections between governmentality and the intimate ties between
populations and nation-state. Drawing on recent attention to Foucault's
lectures on Security, Territory, Population, three specifics themes are
elaborated; these are: (i) government as a continuum of overlapping
apparatuses; (ii) intersections between sovereign territory and population;
and (iii) the question of the state in Foucault's work. These themes are
elucidated with reference to housing policies, living conditions, and
newsprint discourses that prevailed upon women asylum seekers in particular
prior to Ireland's 2004 citizenship referendum. The associated unraveling
and rearrangement of governmental practices and rejigging of the Irish State
highlights some of the ways intimacy and population are tangled together as
populations are produced.

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Article, Social capital in community, family,
and work lives of Brazilian migrant parents in Ireland
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The 'small town in the west of Ireland' is Gort.

This article has not yet been assigned a place in the paper version of the
journal.


Social capital in community, family, and work lives of Brazilian migrant
parents in Ireland

Author: Brian McGrath a
Affiliation: a School of Political Science & Sociology, National
University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

Published in: Community, Work & Family
First Published on: 02 December 2009
Subjects: Family Policy; Social Work; Welfare; Work;

Abstract
The paper examines a recent phenomenon of Brazilian migration to Ireland
using social capital as a framework of analysis. The analysis specifically
makes use of Portes and Sensenbrenner's typology of social capital sources
(1993; Portes, 1998): bounded solidarity, value introjection, reciprocity,
and enforceable trust. The paper examines the processes and dynamics
inhering within these sources of social capital to account for the
differential experiences of family, work, and community life in Ireland. The
absence or presence of social capital sources, it is argued, is important in
the experience of settlement and adaptation, especially in exacerbating or
countering the disadvantages facing migrants. The evidence used is based on
recent research from qualitative interviews with Brazilian parents in a
small town in the west of Ireland, and residing in Ireland for several
years.

Keywords: social capital; Brazilian migrants; solidarity; reciprocity;
trust; support

Palabras claves: capital social; inmigrantes brasileos; solidaridad;
reciprocidad; confianza; apoyo

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Subject: Re: No more mulligans for debt-struck Anglo Irish Bank
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-----Original Message-----
From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Patrick O'Sullivan
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 3:41 AM
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] No more mulligans for debt-struck Anglo Irish Bank

The headline writer clearly knows what a 'mulligan' is, and seems to think
that the rest of the world knows.

But the word is not used in the actual text.

P.O'S.


THE ASSOCIATED PRESS March 26, 2010

No more mulligans for debt-struck Anglo Irish Bank

By SHAWN POGATCHNIK
DUBLIN

...Anglo's new state-appointed management has found the bank spent euro1.38
million ($1.86 million) from 2006 to 2008 on golf outings and head-to-toe
gifts for the fairway.

The bills include hiring private jets to ferry American clients for annual
golf tours of prized courses in southwest Clare and Kerry; euro103,000 for
annual golf outings for employees, euro123,000 for golf raincoats,
euro66,000 for sports bags, euro38,000 for golf shirts, euro16,500 for
iPods, euro24,000 for golf bags, euro218,000 for umbrellas and euro208,000
for 125,000 Anglo-branded golf balls.

Most of the money was spent before 2008, when Ireland's
construction-dependent economy went into a tailspin amid the global credit
crunch -- followed by allgations of massive fraud inside Anglo.

The bank's former directors are currently being investigated for hiding more
than euro100 million in personal loans from shareholders; falsely reporting
nearly euro8 billion in fake cash deposits by transferring money rapidly
back and forth with another Dublin bank; and loaning euro451 million to 10
top customers on condition they used the funds to buy Anglo's now-worthless
shares...

FULL TEXT AT

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9EMER680.htm