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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

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Subject: CFP Ireland and Scotland CONFERENCE, University of Sunderland,
November 2010
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Call for Papers=20
=A0
'Kilt by kelt shell kithagain with kinagain'=A0: Ireland and Scotland
=A0
An international conference held at the University of Sunderland
=A0
November 12th to 14th =A02010
=A0
Organised by the North East Irish Culture Network
=A0
Following the success of the previous seven international Irish Studies
conferences, the University of Sunderland, in association with NEICN, is
soliciting papers for an interdisciplinary conference, which will run =
from
12th to 14th November 2010.=20
=A0
The conference organisers hope to represent a wide range of approaches =
to
Irish culture from academics and non-academics alike. Performances,
roundtables, collaborative projects, and other non-traditional =
presentations
are encouraged in addition to conference papers. We welcome both =
individual
submissions and proposals for panels. In connection with the conference
theme we welcome submissions for panels and papers based around the =
often
overlapping and interconnected histories and cultures of Ireland and
Scotland. Possible themes include, (but are not limited to)=A0:
=A0
=95 Ireland/Scotland in Theory=A0; Gender and Ireland/Scotland=A0; =
Advertising and
Commodity Culture in Ireland and/or Scotland=A0; immigration and =
emigration=A0;
the Irish/Scottish diasporas=A0; borderlands and border identities.
=A0
Following the interdisciplinary nature of the conference we welcome
proposals from the areas of=A0:
=A0
=95 Literature, Performing Arts, History, Politics, Folklore and =
Mythology,
=A0Anthropology, Sociology, Geography, Tourism, Art and Art History, =
Music,
Dance, Media and Film Studies, Cultural Studies, Celtic Studies and =
Studies
of the Diaspora. North American and other international scholars,
practitioners in the arts, and postgraduate students are all encouraged =
to
submit proposals to the conference organisers.=A0=20
=A0
Each session will include three or four 20-minute presentations each
followed by discussion. A selection of the accepted papers will be
subsequently published in the conference proceedings.
=A0
The University of Sunderland houses the North East Irish Culture =
Network,
established in 2003 to further the study of Irish Literature and Culture
(see www.neicn.com). It has held six previous conferences.=A0 Previous
speakers include Terry Eagleton, Robert Welch, Luke Gibbons, Ailbhe =
Smith,
Kevin Barry, Siobhan Kilfeather, Shaun Richards, Lance Pettitt, Stephen
Regan, Lord David Puttnam, Andrew Carpenter, John Nash and Willy Maley, =
with
readings from Ciaran Carson Medbh McGuckian, Bernard O=92Donoghue and =
Eilis Ni
Dhuibhne.=A0 In 2008, the English department at Durham was the recipient =
of=A0 a
Leverhulme Major Research Grant to sponsor its project =91Consumer =
Culture,
Advertising and Literature in ireland 1848-1921=92 (see =
www.ccalireland.com)
=A0
Keynote Speakers
=A0
Keynote speakers confirmed to date include:
=A0
Professor Willy Maley, University of Glasgow.
=A0
Paper Submission
=A0
Paper proposals should be submitted by 10th July, 2010 by e-mail to=20
alison.younger[at]sunderland.ac.uk and copied to =
colin.younger[at]sunderland.ac.uk

=A0
Slan agus beannacht
www.neicn.com=20
http://www.ccalireland.com/index.html
=A0
Alison O'Malley-Younger [Dr]
Programme Leader: English and Creative Writing
Department of English
University of Sunderland
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I am forwarding to the Irish Diaspora list this message, below, from =
Mar=EDa
Eugenia Cruset.

Evidently this new Chair offers a structure whereby contacts can be
developed and visits made, and maybe ultimately develop into the first
Centre for Irish Studies in Argentina.

Our sincere congratulations to Professor Mar=EDa Eugenia Cruset and Dr.
Carolina Barry on this development...

Patrick O'Sullivan


________________________________________
From: maria eugenia cruset [mailto:ecruset[at]hotmail.com]
Sent: 26 March 2010 15:26
Subject: New Chair of Irish Studies

New Chair of Irish Studies at University of La Plata

On 23 February 2010 the Chancellor Gustavo Adolfo Azpiazu, created the =
Chair
of Irish Culture at National University of La Plata, Argentina. The
objectives of the new Chair are =93to disseminate the Irish and Irish =
Diaspora
culture in Argentina and abroad, and to develop post-graduate =
activities,
research and academic extension with the participation of scholars,
politicians and intellectuals=94.

There have been appointed to the Chair, Professor Mar=EDa Eugenia =
Cruset as
Director and Dr. Carolina Barry as Secretary.

The Chair authorities are looking for contacts with Irish Studies =
scholars
in order to develop the programme.

Contacts:
Prof. Mar=EDa Eugenia Cruset: ecruset[at]hotmail.com
Dr. Carolina Barry: cbarry[at]fibertel.com.ar


Universidad Nacional de La Plata
http://www.unlp.edu.ar/

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Subject: Research Paper,
"Suspect" communities and the enemy within: Representations of
the Irish and Muslims in the British press
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"Suspect" communities and the enemy within: Representations of the Irish and
Muslims in the British press

Henri C. Nickels,1 Lyn Thomas,1 Mary J. Hickman1 & Sara Silvestri2

Paper presented at the Islam and the Media conference, 7-10 January 2010,
Center for Media, Religion and Culture, School of Journalism and Mass
Communication, University of Colorado, Boulder

1 Institute for the Study of European Transformations, London Metropolitan
University,
166-220 Holloway Road, London, N7 8DB, UK
2 Department of International Politics, City University, London, EC1V 0HB,
UK
Contact: suspectcommunities[at]londonmet.ac.uk

Research Paper available at...

http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/londonmet/fms/MRSite/Research/iset/Sus%20Comms/En
emyWithin.pdf

Suspect Communities and the Enemy Within - Nickels et al - Islam and the
Media Conference 2009

DRAFT ONLY - DO NOT QUOTE WITHOUT PERMISSION

Abstract
The actions of extremists and state reactions to these actions have led to
sections of Irish and Muslim communities in Britain being constructed as
"suspect", with grave consequences for the innocent. For instance, the
implementation of counterterrorist policy has led to repeated violations of
civil liberties, with members of both communities wrongfully arrested,
imprisoned, interned, deported or even killed because of their presumed
religio-ethnic backgrounds. The social construction of these communities as
"suspect" is evidenced in public opinion, policy discourse and not least in
the media.

Although research has shown that media representations of Irish and Muslim
communities are often negative, little comparative research has been carried
out to date investigating media discourse relating to these communities.
This paper addresses this gap by adopting a critical perspective comparing
how both communities are represented in the national and diaspora press in
Britain. A multi-methodological, critical approach is implemented to that
effect, combining descriptive statistical analysis of news coverage
over the last 40 years with textual analysis of word usage in the headlines.
The paper concludes that media discourse echoes, circulates and reinforces
societal discourses depicting the Irish and Muslims as "suspect" and as
threatening British identity, British values and the British state.

NOTE

This paper forms part of a larger Economic and Social Research
Council-funded (RES-062-23-1066) comparative study analyzing representations
of Irish and Muslim communities as "suspect" in media, policy and public
discourses, and analyzing the impact of such representations on minority
communities in multi-ethnic Britain. Parts of this paper have been published
as Working Paper 13: A Comparative Study of the Representations of "Suspect"
Communities in Multi-Ethnic Britain and of their Impact on Irish
Communities and Muslim Communities - Mapping Newspaper Content by the same
authors, available for download here:
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/londonmet/fms/MRSite/Research/iset/WP13%20H%20Nic
kels%203.pdf

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Subject: Article, Ethnicity,
Religion and Peoplehood: Protestants in France and in Ireland +
TOC
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The latest issue of
Ethnopolitics
Formerly Global Review of Ethnopolitics,
Volume 9 Issue 1 2010

Is a special issue
Ethnicity and Religion: Intersections and Comparisons

Edited by Joseph Ruane and Jennifer Todd - of UCC and UCD respectively.

Joseph Ruane acknowledges funding from the Irish Research Council for the
Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) Research Projects Grants for a
project entitled 'Irish Protestants in a European Context'.

Joseph Ruane's own article in this Special Issue maps out this territory,
and links with his on earlier work on Protestants in Ireland.

Four other articles look at Northern Ireland - though you cannot always tell
from the title alone. See Claire Mitchell, Lowe & Muldoon, Jennifer Todd,
Gladys Ganiel. I have pasted information about Joseph Ruane's article
below, plus the full TOC of the issue.

P.O'S.


Ethnicity, Religion and Peoplehood: Protestants in France and in Ireland

Author: Joseph Ruane a

Affiliation: a University College Cork, Ireland

Published in: Ethnopolitics, Volume 9, Issue 1 March 2010 , pages 121 - 135

Subjects: Civil Wars & Ethnic Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Ethnicity;
Nationalism;

Abstract
The concept of peoplehood is widely held to distinguish ethnicity as a field
of inquiry from domains such as religion, territory, language or politics.
Peoplehood is about community, shared cultural attributes, descent and an
identity linked to an historic territory; but forms of peoplehood may be
found in domains other than ethnicity, sometimes in association with it but
not always. This analysis focuses on religious peoplehood, examines it with
reference to the Protestant minorities of France and the Irish Republic, and
draws out the implications for research on ethnicity.

Ethnicity and Religion: Redefining the Research Agenda
Joseph Ruane ;Jennifer Todd
Pages 1 - 8

The Situational Importance of Ethnicity and Religion in Ghana
Arnim Langer
Pages 9 - 29

Legible Pluralism: The Politics of Ethnic and Religious Identification in
Malaysia
Graham K. Brown
Pages 31 - 52

The Push and Pull between Religion and Ethnicity: The Case of Loyalists in
Northern Ireland
Claire Mitchell
Pages 53 - 69

Religious and Ethnonational Identification and Political Violence
Robert D. Lowe ;Orla T. Muldoon
Pages 71 - 83

Symbolic Complexity and Political Division: The Changing Role of Religion in
Northern Ireland
Jennifer Todd
Pages 85 - 102

Ethnoreligious Change in Northern Ireland and Zimbabwe: A Comparative Study
of How Religious Havens Can Have Ethnic Significance
Gladys Ganiel
Pages 103 - 120

Ethnicity, Religion and Peoplehood: Protestants in France and in Ireland
Joseph Ruane
Pages 121 - 135

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Multiple Belongings: Diaspora and Transnational Homes, London,
Friday 21 May 2010
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Forwarded on behalf of
Krisztina Lackoi [mailto:klackoi[at]geffrye-museum.org.uk]=20

Subject: Multiple Belongings: Diaspora and Transnational Homes =
Conference
(Friday 21 May 2010)

Dear Patrick,

I would be grateful if you circulate details of our upcoming Multiple
Belongings: Diaspora and Transnational Homes Conference to your networks =
on
the Irish Diaspora list and colleagues at the Irish Diaspora Research =
Unit.
The Conference will take place on Friday 21 May at the British Library
Conference Centre in London and I very much hope to see you there.=20

Many thanks and all the very best,
Krisztina

*
The Histories of Home Subject Specialist Network=92s Second Annual =
Conference,
Multiple Belongings: Diaspora and Transnational Homes (21 May 2010, =
British
Library) is an exciting opportunity to explore the meanings associated =
with
the material culture of transnational homes from the late =
eighteenth-century
to the present, with a particular emphasis on contemporary homes. Papers
will focus on material aspects of setting up home in another country, =
such
as room layouts, furnishings and other possessions and how these are
adapted, integrated or negotiated between host nation and place of =
origin.
Wider meanings of home will be explored through concepts of belonging =
and
questions around what and where home is, where and when people =93feel =
at
home=94.
=A0
The conference programme reflects both the interdisciplinary nature of =
the
SSN and the international scope of the theme with a wide range of
backgrounds and methodologies represented including religious studies,
geography, cultural and architectural history, material culture, =
ethnology
and museology.

Speakers include
Hester Dibbits Researcher, Meertens Institute, Amsterdam
Fostering nature - patterns in decorative practices among migrant =
families

Victoria Gardner Lecturer, Regent=92s College, London
Home, advertisements and identities in the early nineteenth-century =
British
world

Madeleine Hatfield (n=E9e Dobson) PhD Cadidate, Royal Holloway, =
University of
London
Moving =91home=92?: Home and homemaking amongst transnational return =
migrant
households

Candace Hoffman-Hussain PhD Candidate, Lancaster University
Object-based narratives of =91homeland=92 for British Muslim men in =
interfaith
marriages

Joanna Long PhD Cadidate, Queen Mary, University of London
Fifty plants, one rug and no walls: Palestinians making a home in =
England

Simon MacDonald PhD Cadidate, University of Cambridge
British and Irish expatriate households in late eighteenth-century Paris

=D6zlem Savas Lecturer, Bilkent University, Ankara
Displaced furniture and shifting belongings: reconstitution of Turkish =
home
in Vienna

Nina Vollenbr=F6ker Lecturer, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
Rootedness in mobility - identity, space and spatial relationships in =
the
nineteenth-century American West

Thomas Michael Walle Curator, Norsk Folkemuseum, Oslo
Living, documenting, and exhibiting: Transnational homes in Norway and
Pakistan

Tessa Wild Curator, Thames & Solent Region, National Trust
'A fresh breeze from a distant land blew through his pen': Khadambi
Asalache's creation of a home of his own

Linda Young Senior Lecturer, Deakin University, Melbourne
The cultural baggage of home

Delegate fees are =A370/=A345 (full-time students), including a light =
lunch and
refreshments.

Programme details and a booking form can be downloaded via
http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/find_a_network/subject_specialists/Hist=
ori
es_of_the_Home
For further information please contact SSN Co-ordinator Krisztina Lackoi =
on
klackoi[at]geffrye-museum.org.uk


Krisztina Lackoi
SSN Co-ordinator
Geffrye Museum
Kingsland Road, London E2 8EA
0207 749 6009

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voluntary Review Editor for its very successful and widely-read quarterly =
electronic journal Irish Migration Studies in Latin America (IMSLA). The jo=
urnal contributes greatly to the aims of the Society in promoting and disse=
minating research on Ireland and Latin America, with a high readership and =
very positive feedback. We regularly receive books, articles and films to r=
eview in IMSLA. Reviews are short essays with a maximum of 3,000 words. The=
main focus should be a critical analysis of the book, film or other review=
ed work.

As this section of the journal is becoming increasingly successful, we woul=
d like to appoint an IMSLA Review Editor to:
1. identify works to review,
2. manage receipt of the works,
3. identify potential reviewers,
4. forward the works on to the reviewers,
5. receive the reviews, and
6. request an Author's Reply from the creators of the works to accompany th=
e review.
This role will be interesting and stimulating, and will contribute to enhan=
cing knowledge about links between Ireland and Latin America. As IMSLA and =
SILAS are voluntary endeavours, like that of the other SILAS staff, your co=
ntribution will not be remunerated financially.

Please send an email with a short description of your qualifications and ex=
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Claire Healy, President, SILAS, Lisbon, Portugal
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Come, come, Bill. This is far too sane, and simply not enough. Where are
the competing stories about word origins, mutually contradictory and always
delivered with complete conviction? Where is the little sneering anti-Irish
slur?

http://golf.about.com/cs/historyofgolf/a/hist_mulligan.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulligan_(games)

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2029/whats-the-origin-of-the-golf-t
erm-mulligan

Thank you Wikipedia and his good friend, Citation Needed.

Paddy

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Of Bill Mulligan
Sent: 29 March 2010 13:10
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Subject: Re: [IR-D] No more mulligans for debt-struck Anglo Irish Bank

For those who do not know --in golf it is a chance to retake the first shot


William H. Mulligan, Jr.
Professor of History
Graduate Program Coordinator
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA
office phone 1-270-809-6571
dept phone 1-270-809-2231
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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.

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I suppose my surname (Archdeacon) would cause problems. My father was
Cork-born and Catholic. To me and others that I've met, however, the name
sounds English or perhaps Anglo-Irish. If it came out of the Catholic
tradition, that would seem to imply the existence of bastardy along the way,
a finding that would give comfort to and generate nods of recognition among
the less charitable of my acquaintances. Alternatively, it might have come
out of the Protestant tradition in the case of a colonizer "going native."
Curious about its origins, I took a few moments in a library -- once upon a
time, long long ago -- to glance at a book about Irish names. That source,
whose specifics I have forgotten, said the name Archdeacon was associated
with the MacGillacudys. (A quick look a Google moments ago to verify the
spelling of MacGillacudy turned up "Archdekin, Richard, Rev., or
MacGillacudy, a famous Jesuit, and controversial writer, was born in
Kilkenny, 1619"). My source also said that the name was associated with
MacOda, which would be anglicized as Cody. I mentioned the finding to my
father, who then told me that the locals informally called his father "Tom
Cody," which I found rather eerie at the time. I admit that my name is
unusual, but I imagine that there are many more names that would have
equally obscure or convoluted origins.

Tom

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I have not seen any reply to this query, and at the risk of repeating
discussion taking place elsewhere...

There is some really interesting interdisciplinary work developing in the
study of names - especially family names. I am a little bit cautious about
some of it.

Two useful articles...

Longley, Paul A., Webber, Richard and Lloyd, Daryl. "The Quantitative
Analysis of Family Names: Historic Migration and the Present Day
Neighborhood Structure of Middlesbrough, United Kingdom." Annals of the
Association of American Geographers, 2007 2007, 97(1), pp. 31 - 48.

Mateos, Pablo. "A review of name-based ethnicity classification methods and
their potential in population studies." Population, Space and Place, 2007,
13(4), pp. 243-263.

This is from Mateos' conclusion...

'However, this review has also revealed a series
of limitations that remain mostly unsolved,
which hinder the wider adoption of name-based
classifications. The comparative approach taken
here has enabled grouping of these common
issues, and proposes a few improvements to
overcome them. These issues are: spatiotemporal
differences in the frequency distribution
of names; the selective process of migration;
family autocorrelation; differences in the strength
of association between a name and an ethnic
group; name spelling errors and name normalisation
issues; different transcriptions or transliteration
of a name into a different alphabet or
pronunciation; names usually only reflecting
patrilineal heritage; different histories of name
adoption; naming conventions and surname
change; and that they currently only classify a
few ethnic groups.

Paul Longley and Pablo Mateos are now colleagues the U of Leicester
www.spatial-literacy.org


In the Scottish context - looking at the 'signals' people read from names -
I would look at the work of Paddy Walls and Rory Williams. EG

Walls, Patricia and Williams, Rory. "Sectarianism at work: Accounts of
employment discrimination against Irish Catholics in Scotland." Ethnic and
Racial Studies, 2003, 26(4), pp. 632.

Walls, Patricia and Williams, Rory. "Accounting for Irish Catholic ill
health in Scotland: a qualitative exploration of some links between
'religion', class and health." Sociology of Health and Illness, 2004, 26(5),
pp. 527 - 556.

Basically, I think, prejudice seems to short circuit the problems listed by
Mateos.

Then there is the developing work of Don MacRaild and colleagues. EG

Smith, Malcolm and MacRaild, Donald M. "The Origins of the Irish in
Northern England: An Isonymic Analysis of Data from the 1881 Census." 2009,
27(2), pp. 152.

ABSTRACT
In the mid nineteenth century, the Irish became the largest immigrant group
in Britain. Despite impressions of homogeneity delivered by the dominant
historiographies, these migrants were in reality complex and changing groups
whose variegated nature has been underplayed by historians. One of the
reasons why the Irish tend to be lumped together as an undifferentiated mass
is the lack of systematic analyses of the particular regional and provincial
provenance of those who made homes in England, Wales and Scotland.
Historians speculate about origins; but few have interrogated the census to
provide robust assertions about where in Ireland particular migrants came
from. As such, complexity and subtlety are absent. The failure of the census
systematically to capture specific birthplace data offers one explanation of
why this is so. The sheer difficulty of abstracting data on birthplace to
arrive at meaningful quantitative perspectives provides another. This essay
uses a technique from biological anthropology called Random Isonymy which
enables us to substitute surname data for birthplace data in order to
establish the major interregional interconnections between the two islands
which are evinced in Irish migration pathways. We show that the close
association between name and place in Irish culture enables robust
conclusions about the provenance of migrants to be derived from surname data
drawn from the digitised 1881 census. Our work suggests that names may
underpin cultural transfer, and thus could help explain why particular types
of Irish culture emerged in one town or region but not in another. For now,
this essay's discussion is restricted to an explication upon the robustness
of the method.

Paddy O'Sullivan

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From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Joe Bradley
Sent: 23 March 2010 11:11
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [IR-D] Irish Surnames

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
person's Catholic faith/background via their 'Irish' surname?


Joe

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

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From; Patrick Maume
The name test is a measure of probability rather than certainty. In recent
years there have been Ulster Unionist MPs called Maginnis, McCartney, and
Kilfedder (i.e. Mac Giolla Pheadar) and nationalists called Hume and Adams.
I do not mention Willie McCrea the singing Free presbyterian minister as
he may be a McRae of Scottish Highland descent.
Anglicisations of gaelic names also complicate matters. There is an
interesting memoir by a War of Independence Liverpool IRA man called John
Pinkman who explains that his ancestors were Maguires from Cavan/Fermanagh,
but a land agent who was compiling estate records decides to produce literal
translations of names, so that Maguire (="of a ruddy countenance") became
Pinkman and Gormley (Gorm=Blue) became Blueman.
Best wishes,
Patrick
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:

> I have not seen any reply to this query, and at the risk of repeating
> discussion taking place elsewhere...
>
> There is some really interesting interdisciplinary work developing in the
> study of names - especially family names. I am a little bit cautious
about
> some of it.
>

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FROM The Journal of Folklore Research, a publication of the Department of
Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University,

SOURCE
http://www.indiana.edu/~jofr/review.php?id=856



The Irishness of Irish Music (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)

By John O'Flynn. 2009. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing. 256 pages. ISBN:
978-0-7546-5714-9 (hard cover).

Reviewed by David A. McDonald, Indiana University

[Review length: 912 words . Review posted on March 30, 2010]

So what makes it Irish? Or rather, what is particularly Irish about Irish
music? In eight well-organized, neatly subdivided chapters, John O'Flynn
draws together a diverse set of analytical tools with which to answer some
of these basic questions. A timely contribution to the fields of
ethnomusicology, musicology, folklore, Irish and European studies, The
Irishness of Irish Music offers the reader unique insight into the relations
between production and consumption practices and larger socio-cultural
discourses of authenticity and national identity formation in the Irish
Republic.

O'Flynn's important study succeeds among a burgeoning field of
ethnomusicological monographs on Irish music. Within the last two years
major works from Helen O'Shea (2008), Fintan Vallely (2008), and Sean
Williams (2010) (to name but a few) have considerably expanded the breadth
and depth of Irish music studies. Coupled with the recent establishment of a
special interest group in Irish music sponsored by the Society for
Ethnomusicology, it seems that the scholarly study of Irish music
(particularly in North America) has firmly taken root in the academy. In
this regard, O'Flynn offers an important contribution to this literature,
precisely in his detailed analysis of consumption practices and performance
reception among Irish audiences.

O'Flynn's introductory chapter outlines an interpretive framework for
understanding Irish music based on a review of the relevant literature.
While such an in-depth literature review is rare in contemporary
ethnomusicology, it does provide the uninitiated reader with a solid
foundation for engaging O'Flynn's later discussions of music consumption and
aesthetics. In chapter 2 O'Flynn presents a brief history of Irish music,
tracing its development from the folk-inspired "ballad boom" of the 1960s to
the World Beat productions of the early 2000s. Following this, O'Flynn
provides some of his most important insights in chapter 3, offering a
detailed statistical analysis of Irish musical production, distribution, and
consumption practices. In chapter 4 O'Flynn attempts an ethnographic
examination of three archetypal sites (and genres) of Irish music
performance: classical, traditional, and popular. Here O'Flynn mediates his
earlier statistical analysis with qualitative interview data grounded in
everyday musical practices and beliefs. The various themes and issues that
arise in this segment of the book serve as a springboard for further
introspection in the remainder of the book. In chapter 5 O'Flynn critically
interrogates the influence of traditional musics in the national imaginary,
following this with an exploration of alternative conceptions of national
identity in chapter 6. In the final two chapters of the book O'Flynn folds
his quantitative and qualitative data together into a larger discussion of
Irish authenticity, first by looking specifically into the analysis of
musical sound and meaning, and later examining the dialectical relationships
at the heart of Irish identity.

O'Flynn nestles his discussion of Irish national identity within a field of
inquiry that wavers between essentialist and anti-essentialist tendencies.
Too often the field of Irish cultural studies has been dominated by the
analytical tendency to see Irish identity as a given, stable, and coherent
mode of consciousness. Recent academic scholarship has begun to critically
engage these essentialist tropes, arguing for a more fluid understanding of
Irish identity as a social construction. While O'Flynn recognizes the
importance of anti-essentialist approaches, he reminds the reader that this
framework is not necessarily replicated in the everyday practices and
interpretations of his interlocutors. Instead, O'Flynn attempts to juxtapose
established theories of Irishness with the everyday assumptions and beliefs
of those who produce and consume Irish music. To do this he seeks out the
opinions of producers and consumers alike, and interprets these diverse
"perspectives in relation to the range of cultural practices and products
from which they arise" (18). This approach successfully balances everyday
assertions of Irishness within larger discourses of authenticity in Irish
music and performance.

Since O'Flynn takes on such an important and timely project, there are
several aspects of his theoretical and methodological approach that might
require further explanation. While we are warned against essentializing
Irish identity around celebratory tropes, O'Flynn sees little problem in
deploying rigid (essentialist) genre formations (classical, traditional, and
popular) to advance his argument. These unproblematized categories of
musical practice prove to be blunt instruments for understanding the
heterogeneous, processual, and contingent aspects of music performance and
identity formation in Ireland. Rather, in examining parallel discourses of
authenticity and national identity formation these very concepts might have
been a more appropriate site for analysis.

Likewise, it is curious that in a book on Irish identity, O'Flynn
circumscribes his analysis so narrowly to indigenous Irish citizens of the
Republic, avoiding the entanglements of Northern Ireland or the millions who
claim Irish ancestry in diaspora. In his attempt to examine musical
practices through which Irish identity is articulated, O'Flynn strategically
restricts the discussion to those whom he defines unproblematically as
"Irish." It would seem that a discussion of Irish identity among those for
whom such a marker is not presumed, but rather must be continually asserted
in dialogic relations with a non-Irish "other," would have led to a more
nuanced understanding of the myriad ways in which Irishness is constituted,
performed, and consumed.

Despite these minor qualifications, throughout his analysis O'Flynn
demonstrates a command of the relevant literature on Irish music, greatly
expanding our understanding of often under-acknowledged aspects of musical
practice in Ireland.

WORKS CITED

O'Shea, Helen. The Making of Irish Traditional Music. Cork: Cork University
Press, 2008.

Vallely, Fintan. Traditional Music and Identity in Northern Ireland. Cork:
Cork University Press, 2008.

Williams, Sean. Focus: Irish Traditional Music. New York: Routledge Press,
2010.

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Colleagues may be interested in the following series of four lectures
taking place at Hammersmith Irish Cultural Centre, London, this Spring.

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Entitled "Irish Achievers in British History" the series examines the
careers of three politicians and one artist who although born in Ireland
achieved most prominence in their chosen careers in Britain.

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Wed April 28 Artist Bernard Canavan on Daniel Maclise society artist
best known for his monumental works in the Houses of Parliament at
Westminster.

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Wed May 12 Former Labour MP and MEP Stan Newens on Feargus O'Connor ,
Chartist and early socialist.

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Wed May 26 Davitt historian John Dunleavy on Michael Davitt, Fenian
agitator turned Liberal politician.

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Wed June 9 Film-maker Adrian Bracken on his relative Brendan Bracken,
Conservative MP and minister in Churchill's wartime coalition
government.

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All lectures start at 7.30pm and are free entry. Further information is
available from www.irishculturalcentre.co.uk

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Thank you

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(member, Board of Directors, Hammersmith Irish Cultural Centre)

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Dr Ivan Gibbons

Programme Director

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School of Communications, Culture and Creative Arts

St. Mary's University College

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Hub and Diaspora: Liverpool and Transnational Labour
Author: Belchem, John1
Source: Labour History Review, Volume 75, Number 1, April 2010 , pp.
20-29(10)
Publisher: Maney Publishing

Abstract:
As the human and commercial entrep=F4t linking the old world and the =
new,
nineteenth-century Liverpool is an important laboratory for historical
investigation of transnational mobility, networks, and developments. The
paper pays particular attention to the increasing number of Irish =
arrivals
who chose to remain in this port of entry, stigmatized at the time (and
since) as a kind of under-class, unable, unwilling, or unsuited to take
advantage of opportunities elsewhere. The Liverpool-Irish are reassessed
here in a number of ways: through transnational and comparative analysis
with Irish and other 'moving Europeans' who continued onwards across the
Atlantic; and by attention to the specific interweaving of ethnic,
confessional, and class interests within the Liverpool-Irish community =
and
the distinctive patterns of labour politics and trade union organization
which emerged. The article concludes that while labour history must =
become
transnational in focus, it must never lose the crucial sense of context =
and
cultural specificity. Liverpool was at the hub of the Irish Diaspora, =
but in
its labour history (as in so much else) it was a place apart.

Keywords: DIASPORA; TRANSNATIONALISM; MOBILITY; LIVERPOOL; IRISH; =
EMPIRE;
IMPERIALISM; MIGRATION
Document Type: Research article
DOI: 10.1179/096156510X12568148663809

Affiliations: 1: Professor of History and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Liverpool, UK

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Patrick, Did not the Statute of Kilkenny in 1366 forbid the use of Gaelic
patronyymics Macs and O's and popularised instead occupational names for
Gaelic Irish like Thatcher! Mason, Carpenter,Smith and names of English
towns like Trim, and to put Castle before English surnames of the
Ascendancy- Castleblayney, Dawson, Caulfield etc=2E in the Jacobean
Plantation era=2E My grandfather also John McGurk used to recite a jingle =
"By
Mac and O you will always know- true Irishmen are they: but if they lack
the O and Mac no Irishmen are they"=2E I don't know where it comes from=3F=
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Best regards=2E John

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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:03:10 +0100
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Subject: [IR-D] Irish Surnames


Subject: Re: [IR-D] Irish Surnames
From: Patrick Maume
To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List


From; Patrick Maume
The name test is a measure of probability rather than certainty=2E In rec=
ent
years there have been Ulster Unionist MPs called Maginnis, McCartney, and
Kilfedder (i=2Ee=2E Mac Giolla Pheadar) and nationalists called Hume and A=
dams=2E
I do not mention Willie McCrea the singing Free presbyterian minister as=

he may be a McRae of Scottish Highland descent=2E
Anglicisations of gaelic names also complicate matters=2E There is an
interesting memoir by a War of Independence Liverpool IRA man called John
Pinkman who explains that his ancestors were Maguires from Cavan/Fermanagh=
,
but a land agent who was compiling estate records decides to produce liter=
al
translations of names, so that Maguire (=3D"of a ruddy countenance") becam=
e
Pinkman and Gormley (Gorm=3DBlue) became Blueman=2E
Best wishes,
Patrick
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:

> I have not seen any reply to this query, and at the risk of repeating
> discussion taking place elsewhere=2E=2E=2E
>
> There is some really interesting interdisciplinary work developing in th=
e
> study of names - especially family names=2E I am a little bit cautious
about
> some of it=2E
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Ethnoreligious Change in Northern Ireland and Zimbabwe: A
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Ethnoreligious Change in Northern Ireland and Zimbabwe: A Comparative Study
of How Religious Havens Can Have Ethnic Significance

Author: Gladys Ganiel a
Affiliation: a Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Published in: Ethnopolitics, Volume 9, Issue 1 March 2010 , pages 103 - 120
Subjects: Civil Wars & Ethnic Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Ethnicity;
Nationalism;

Abstract
This study compares the internal dynamics of religious change in the
'post-evangelical' Ikon community in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and a
charismatic, multiethnic congregation in Harare, Zimbabwe. Although the
theological ideas behind Ikon and the congregation vary widely, the
processes whereby both groups manage change are broadly similar and have
wider theoretical significance. Accordingly, this article analyses how
people use the religious resources of their traditions to construct 'havens'
in which change is facilitated. Havens are conceived of as safe spaces where
people use religious resources to challenge ethnic boundaries and power
structures. They can be seen to function as mechanisms for disrupting
long-entrenched feedback patterns of opposition and conflict.

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The changing distribution of earnings in Ireland, 1937 to 1968
Authors: ATKINSON, ANTHONY B.1; NOLAN, BRIAN1

Source: The Economic History Review, Volume 63, Number 2, May 2010 , pp.
479-499(21)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

Abstract:
Data from the Irish Census of Industrial Production are used to illuminate
changes in the distribution of earnings from 1937 to 1968, an important
period in Irish economic history, relevant to debates about globalization
and inequality. Between the late 1930s and mid-1950s there was a greater
compression of earnings than in the US's `great compression' of the same
period. Sectoral data suggest that this occurred quite generally. The degree
of integration with the British labour market is key, and the impact of
out-migration, wage controls during the Second World War, and industrial
protection all merit in-depth investigation.

Document Type: Research article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2009.00498.x
Affiliations: 1: Nuffield College, University College Dublin

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Historical writing in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Scotland:
the Dunfermline compilation
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Historical writing in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Scotland: the
Dunfermline compilation
Author: Taylor, Alice 1

Source: Historical Research, Volume 83, Number 220, May 2010 , pp.
228-252(25)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

Abstract:
This article examines the first three items in a manuscript housed in the
Royal Library in Madrid but written at the Benedictine abbey of Dunfermline
in Fife, Scotland during the reign of James III (1460-88). It argues that
the three items were originally put together during the reign of Alexander
III (1249-86) and together formed a compilation which should be viewed as
the earliest extant history of the twelfth- and thirteenth-century kings of
Scots. Interestingly, the Dunfermline compilation did not stress the Irish
ancestry of the kings of Scots, as might be assumed, but instead set its
subjects against the backdrop of their Anglo-Saxon descent from the house of
Cerdic. The article then considers the relationship of the Dunfermline
compilation to Turgot's Vita Sancte Margarete and Aelred of Rievaulx's
Genealogia Regum Anglorum and argues that the use of these sources in the
compilation suggest that it was put together for a particular political
purpose, a purpose for which the Anglo-Saxon ancestry of the kings of Scots
had particular relevance.

Document Type: Research article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2281.2009.00496.x
Affiliations: 1: King's College, Cambridge.

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Just published by
McGill-Queens University Press
www.mqup.ca

Irish Nationalism in Canada
Edited by David A. Wilson

An exploration of the revolutionary Irish-Canadian underground and
constitutional nationalist efforts to make Canada a model for Irish freedom.

McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History #2.26

Paper (0773536361) 9780773536364
Cloth (0773536353) 9780773536357

There is an online discount code IRISHW10

Our sincere congratulations to David Wilson and his colleagues. There has
long been a need for such a book.

P.O'S.


Irish Nationalism in Canada, edited by David A. Wilson

According to conventional historical wisdom, Irish nationalism in Canada was
a marginal phenomenon - overshadowed by the more powerful movement in the
United States and eclipsed in Canada by the Orange Order.

The nine contributors in this book argue otherwise - and in doing so make a
major and original contribution to our understanding of the Irish experience
in Canada and the place of Irish-Canadian nationalism within an
international context. Focusing on the period 1820 to 1920, they examine
political, religious, and cultural expressions of Irish-Canadian nationalism
as it responded to Irish events and Canadian politics. They also look at
tensions within the movement between those who argued that Ireland should
share the same freedom that Canada enjoyed within the British Empire and
revolutionary republicans who wanted to liberate both Ireland and Canada
from the yoke of British imperialism.

Irish Nationalism in Canada sheds light on questions such as transference of
old world political traditions into North America, the dynamics of
ethno-religious conflict, and state responses to a revolutionary minority
within an ethno-religious group.

Irish Nationalism in Canada
Edited by David A. Wilson

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction
DAVID A. WILSON 3

1 Using the Grand Turk for Ireland: Ottoman Images and the Irish Vindicator
SEAN FARRELL 22

2 The Fanatic Heart of the North
PETER M. TONER 34

3 Was Patrick James Whelan a Fenian and Did He Assassinate Thomas D'Arcy
McGee?
DAVID A. WILSON 52

4 Clerical Containment of Diasporic Irish Nationalism: A Canadian Example
from the Parnell Era
ROSALYN TRIGGER 83

5 Between King, Kaiser, and Canada: Irish Catholics in Canada and the Great
War, 1914-1918
MARK G. MCGOWAN 97

6 Canadian Catholic Press Reaction to the Irish Crisis, 1916-1921
FREDERICK J. MCEVOY 121

7 From Terry Finnegan to Terry Fenian: The Truncated Literary Career of
James McCarroll
MICHAEL PETERMAN 140

8 Irish Canadians and the National Question in Canada
GARTH STEVENSON 160

9 Stepping Back and Looking Around
DONALD HARMAN AKENSON 178

Notes 189
Contributors 233
Index 235

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The schedule of the 2010 conference of the American Conference for Irish
Studies is now available at the web site

http://www.acisweb.com/index.php

The conference programme - sorry, program - runs to 20 pages, and I will not
paste it in here. Certainly worth looking through, to see the direction of
travel. Good to see that the Irish outside Ireland well studied, and the
diasporic approach clearly evident.

It looks like it is going to be a very good conference. Our best wishes to
the American Conference for Irish Studies. SWALK.

P.O'S.