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From: Patrick O'Sullivan [mailto:P.OSullivan[at]Bradford.ac.uk]=20

It seems that - maybe because of the unusual publication route - some
academic library procedures make it difficult to order this book...

McGowan, Brendan. Taking the boat: the Irish in Leeds, 1931-81

Academic libraries can order the book it through Bertram's or Gardener's
book distributors in the UK.=20
=20
http://www.bertrams.com/BertWeb/index.jsp
http://www.gardners.com/gardners/default.aspx
=20
This should satisfy institutions with set procedures. =20

The book was discussed on Pascal Mooney's The Irish Abroad radio =
programme.

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/theirishabroad/

The programme also discussed a number projects of interest, including =
the

The Irish Oral History Archive =96Taisce B=E9aloidis na h=C9ireann
http://www.ioha.co.uk/

P.O'S.

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan [mailto:P.OSullivan[at]bradford.ac.uk]=20
Sent: 01 December 2009 12:14
To: IR-D Jiscmail
Subject: Book Launch, McGowan, Taking the boat: the Irish in Leeds, =
1931-81
- Ballina, Friday December 4

We now have a scholarly book about the Irish in Leeds.

McGowan, Brendan. Taking the boat: the Irish in Leeds, 1931-81. =
Killala,
Co. Mayo: Brendan McGowan, 2009.

I won't go into all the background details. But basically Brendan =
McGowan
took the view that if he did not publish the book himself we would never
have a book about the Irish in Leeds. And he is most probably right...

Now, Brendan has succeeded. A very solid and handsome book, based on =
his
workmanlike and solid MA thesis.

Some members of the Ir-D list will know that I wrote the Foreword for
Brendan's book - I circulated my text for comment. With the resulting
oddity that my Foreword has been cited before it was published.

Brendan McGowan is holding a Book Launch this coming Friday, Friday 4
December at 8pm in Ballina library, County Mayo.

All are welcome.

The Mayo-Leeds links are very strong. There will be a contingent there =
from
Leeds.

If any Ir-D member is within reasonable distance of Ballina do go to the
Library there on Friday, and make yourselves known.

We will be holding a book launch in Yorkshire some time in the New Year.

I will leave all my praise of Brendan McGowan's extraordinary doggedness
until then.

BUYING THE BOOK
The book has appeared on Amazon, but only I think because Amazon =
collects
assigned ISBN numbers. The last I heard Brendan McGowan was negotiating
with Amazon.

The book is selling at 15 pounds/euros paperback, 20 pounds/euros =
hardback.

The book can be bought through Ebay. Go to www.ebay.ie
and insert the book title.

Or Brendan Mcgowan can be contacted at this special email address,
takingtheboat[at]hotmail.com.=20

Once Brendan has got the Mayo launch out of the way he will be able to
concentrate more on distribution and media.

Patrick O'Sullivan

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Forwarded on behalf of Sean Hutton (huttonsean[at]aol.co.uk)
Irish Texts Society/Irish Literary Society:

Noel O=92Connell Memorial Lecture (London)
=20
The 2010 Noel O=92Connell Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Dr. John
Carey, Department of Early and Medieval Irish, University
College Cork.
=20
Among Dr Carey=92s publications is A NewIntroduction to Lebor Gab=E1la =
=C9renn/The
Book of the Taking of Ireland (ITS1993). He is the
editor of Lebor Gab=E1la=C9renn: Textual History and Pseudohistory (ITS =
2009).
=20
The subject of his lecture will be
=93A London Library, an Irish Manuscript, a British Myth? The =
Wanderings of
The Battle of Moytirra.=94
=20
The Battle of Moytirra, set in the chronological framework of Irish
pseudo-history, stands at the centre of Irish mythology and is
the subject of volume 52 of the Irish Texts Society Main Series of
publications.
=20
This lecture is being organised in conjunction with the Irish Literary
Society and will be hosted by the ILS.
=20
It will take place at the Hotel Hesperia, 2 Bridge Place, Victoria, =
London
SW1V1QA
www.hesperia.com/hotels/Hesperia-London-Victoria/#
on Thursday, 29 April 2009, at 7.45 p.m.

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Subject: Book Launch,
Shakespeare and the Irish Writer Newman House Tues 4 May 6pm
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From: Noelle Moran [mailto:Noelle.Moran[at]ucd.ie]=20

UCD PRESS=20

requests the pleasure of your company at a reception=20
to celebrate the publication=20

of=20

Shakespeare and the Irish Writer

edited by=20

Janet Clare and Stephen O=E2=80=99Neill

in Newman House=20
86 St Stephen=E2=80=99s Green, Dublin 2=20

on Tuesday 4 May 2010, 6-8pm=20

where the book will be launched by=20

ALAN STANFORD=20
Second Age Theatre Company=20

UCD PRESS
(01) 477 9813=20
ucdpress[at]ucd.ie

all welcome!

http://www.ucdpress.ie/display.asp?isbn=3D9781906359393&

Shakespeare and the Irish Writer

Author(s):
Janet Clare (editor)
Stephen O'Neill (editor)
Format:
Paperback, 156 x 234mm, 288pp
Publication date:
15 Mar 2010
ISBN-13:
9781906359393
ISBN-10:
1906359393
Author Biography
Janet Clare is Professor of Renaissance Literature at the University of =
Hull; Stephen O'Neill is a Lecturer in English at NUI Maynooth.

Description
There is a long history in Ireland of performing, studying and =
responding to Shakespeare's plays. Transposed to an Irish context, =
Shakespeare has continued to be a source of creative engagement and =
discussion for Irish writers. This new collection of essays explores the =
dynamic responses to Shakespeare by Irish writers, in both English and =
in Irish, since the early twentieth century. Written by leading Irish =
and international scholars in the fields of Shakespeare and Irish =
studies "Shakespeare and the Irish Writer" addresses the engagement with =
Shakespeare and his plays in the works of Yeats, Wilde, Joyce, Bowen, =
Shaw, Beckett and McGuinness as well as Irish language writers. It =
surveys Shakespeare's reception in Ireland and suggests new ways of =
interpreting his work and his cultural associations in and from Ireland. =
Indeed, the collection reveals how the category 'Shakespeare and the =
Irish Writer' discloses a level of cultural continuity across the =
contours of the history of Ireland and Britain. What emerges is an =
interaction with Shakespeare's plays that, whether emulative or parodic, =
iconoclastic or subtly allusive, or a combination of these, is complex =
and creative. These essays provide new insight into Shakespeare's =
reception in Ireland, illustrating how his plays have initiated a =
dialogue in Irish writing, and continue to do so. They show how Irish =
responses to his work constitute a legitimate form of criticism, =
enlarging understanding of Shakespeare in a broader than national =
context. "Shakespeare and the Irish Writer" will appeal to scholars of =
modern Irish writing and to Shakespeare scholars, particularly those =
interested in the appropriation of the many plays and their cultural =
afterlife.

Contents
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Free suggests that the aberrant behaviour amongst emigrant males to which he refers may be attributed in part to 'the homosocial world of men's professional football' which constitutes '...a liminal but discontent imaginary space in which adolescent masculinity can be indefinitely extended.'

I suspect that if he applied his methodology to the Irish in the British construction industry he would reach very similar conclusions!

A phrase current amongst Irish female emigrants in the UK in the second half of the last century, many of whom had married construction workers, was 'Two went to the altar; but only one got married!'.

Ultan Cowley

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan [mailto:P.OSullivan[at]bradford.ac.uk]=20

I thought that our members and our archives might like to see the full =
TOC
of Shakespeare and the Irish Writer.

The TOC can be found on the web site by clicking on Contents. Took me =
ages
to work that out.

P.O'S.

Author(s):
Janet Clare (editor)
Stephen O'Neill (editor)
Format:
Paperback, 156 x 234mm, 288pp
Publication date:
15 Mar 2010
ISBN-13:
9781906359393
ISBN-10:
1906359393

http://www.ucdpress.ie/display.asp?isbn=3D9781906359393&
=A0
Note on Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgements
Note on Procedures


Introduction
- The Reception of Shakespeare in Ireland, Janet Clare and Stephen =
O'Neill

ONE
- Shakespeare and the Politics of the Irish Revival, Philip Edwards


TWO
- The 'Wild' and the 'Useful'
- Shakespeare, Dowden and Some Yeatsian Antinomies, Brian Cosgrove

THREE
- 'Bhios ag Stratford ar an abhainn'
- Shakespeare, Douglas Hyde, 1916, Andrew Murphy

FOUR
- Shakespeare as Gaeilge, Tadhg O Dushlaine

FIVE
- 'Hamlet Among the Celts'
- Shakespeare, Joyce and Irish Ireland, Matthew Creasy

SIX
- Shakespeare and Company
- Hamlet in Kildare Street, Declan Kiberd

SEVEN
- George Bernard Shaw and the Politics of Bardolatry, Cary Di Pietro

EIGHT
- William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde and the Art of Appeal, Noreen Doody

NINE
- 'Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak'
- Wilde, Shakespeare, and the Question of Influence, Richard Meek

TEN
- 'Like Shakespeare,' she added...' or isn't it'
- Shakespearean echoes in Elizabeth Bowen's Portrait of Ireland, Heather
Ingman

ELEVEN
- 'Nothing Will Come of Nothing'
- Zero-Sum Games in Shakespeare's King Lear and Beckett's Endgame, David
Wheatley

TWELVE
- Playing Together
- Shakespeare and the Drama of Frank McGuinness, Helen Lojek

Index
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Information about

Archbishop Patrick John Ryan His Life and Times: Ireland - St. Louis -
Philadelphia 1831-1911
By Patrick Ryan

Paperback (6x9) 9781438998220 =A3 8.30=09
Dust Jacket Hardcover (6x9) 9781438998237 =A3 12.90

Can be found at=20

http://thurlesbooks.com/

FROM THE WEB SITE

Archbishop Patrick John Ryan =96 His Life and Times
Ireland =96 St. Louis =96 Philadelphia 1831-1911

When Patrick John Ryan went to St Louis as a deacon in 1852 he was far
better prepared for the life he chose to lead than he could have =
imagined.
In Ireland, where being a Catholic was seen as a badge of exclusion, he =
saw
how the economic and legal powers were wielded by the Protestant =
minority as
a means of suppressing the Catholic majority. He saw at first hand the
concessions achieved through the actions of the Catholic Church under =
the
political leadership of Daniel O'Connell, The Liberator, who became his =
role
model. He benefited from a primary school system that developed along
denominational lines and as a teenager he witnessed the horrors of the =
Great
Famine and the mass emigration which followed. All of these experiences
were to become directly relevant to his life and his endeavours in =
America.
During his time in the United States as priest, bishop and archbishop, =
the
Roman Catholic population quadrupled to more than fourteen million,
primarily because of the influx of European immigrants. In addition to =
the
problems encountered as an administrator and as a shepherd to his flock, =
he
also had to contend with the attendant hostility, prejudice and
discrimination. Through the power of his intellect, his warmth and his =
wit,
he not only succeeded in meeting these challenges but he played a major =
role
in improving church-state and inter-church relations. He took a =
leadership
role in supporting Native Americans and African Americans and earned an
international reputation as a preacher and orator. It is likely that =
even
if he had chosen a different career path, he would still have merited a
biography.

Author =96 Patrick Ryan
Patrick Ryan was born in Thurles, County Tipperary and lives in Dublin. =
He
had a very successful career in banking during which he held a number of
posts at executive level, including that of Chief Executive of a company
providing consulting services to banks in Central and Eastern Europe and =
the
former Soviet Union. Following his retirement in 1999, he studied =
history
and creative writing at University College, Dublin. His grandfather, =
Hugh
Ryan, was a cousin and contemporary of Archbishop Ryan. When he =
researched
the life of the archbishop while compiling his family tree, he felt
compelled to ensure that his story would be told and his achievements
acclaimed through this biography.

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There wasn't a Booker Prize in 1970, because of reorganisation and dates.
So, there is now a prize for a book that might have been considered for a
prize, had there been a prize in that year...

http://www.themanbookerprize.com/news/stories/1317

J G Farrell: Troubles is on the short list. It is a wonderfully written,
disturbingly plotted, novel about Ireland. Is it by now an Irish novel? -
perhaps litcrit folk will tell me. How is it taught?

Anyway... Various friends and contacts have indicated, in the usual way,
that we should support the late Jim Farrell. The final decision is with the
assembled masses. Links and info, below. Closing date for votes, Friday 30
April.

P.O'S.


http://www.themanbookerprize.com/

Your chance to vote

The Lost Man Booker Prize shortlist was announced at a special event at the
Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival on 25 March 2010.

The judges - Rachel Cooke, ITN newsreader, Katie Derham and poet and
novelist, Tobias Hill - chose the shortlist but the winner of The Lost Man
Booker Prize will be decided by the international reading public.

Readers are invited to cast their vote here. The public vote closes at
midday on Friday 30 April. The overall winner will be announced on 19 May
2010.

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

Which title do you think should win the Lost Man Booker Prize?

Nina Bawden: The Birds on the Trees
J G Farrell: Troubles
Shirley Hazzard: The Bay of Noon
Patrick White: The Vivisector
Mary Renault: Fire from Heaven
Muriel Spark: The Driver's Seat

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On a train of thought...

Long time readers of Irish Studies Review will remember that in its early
years the editors were unsure of direction, approach, format... And we all
helped as best we could. One oddity of those early years is one of my own
short stories, The Fiddler's Apprentice, which was later bought by BBC
Radio.

We also placed in the journal a very personal account by literary critic
Bridget O'Toole of her relationship with Jim Farrell - a lovely, delicate
piece of writing by Bridget...

Not a crumb, not a wrinkle: J G Farrell at work
Bridget O'Toole
Irish Studies Review, 1469-9303, Volume 3, Issue 12, 1995, Pages 27 - 30

Ir-D members might like to know that a collection of Bridget O'Toole's own
short stories has been published...

The collection was launched in Donegal by Frank McGuinness...

http://www.derryjournal.com/journal/Frank-McGuinness-launches-Bridget-O39Too
le39s.5561561.jp

'The eight short stories in the Gleneely resident's debut book are
characterised by "a deftness of touch, clever writing and a sharpness of
detail". What stands out above all, though, is "the author's instinctive
grasp that all things pass, differently for each one of us".'

The book is available through Amazon...

At Miss Mulligan's and Other Stories (Paperback)
by Bridget O'Toole (Author)
Paperback: 230 pages
Publisher: The Drumkeen Press; 1st edition (1 Jun 2009)
ISBN-10: 0955355214
ISBN-13: 978-0955355219

Some of Bridget's short stories have appeared in The Honest Ulsterman, The
Sunday Tribune, and the Fingerpost, Faber and Phoenix anthologies.

P.O'S.

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The debate on public access to data which was generated using Federal
funds is a hot topic from time to time here in the US also.

What I didn't see in these articles though, was if a degreed academic in
a relevant discipline couldn't have also gotten access to this material
through a similar type of request? I mean how many times have we seen
an article and only had vague summaries of the data presented?

Best, Mark Hall
BLM

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I have to give a talk to a non-academic audience about the Irish diaspora, =
focusing on the US but also worldwide. It's the kind of thing where PowerP=
oint might actually be helpful - can the list suggests web sources for, say=
, maps or tables showing where the Irish went, concentrations by state - t=
hat sort of thing... nothing too refined, just the big picture made visible=
...

Thanks in advance

Jim Rogers

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The pains-taking collecting and collating of the tree-ring data has been one
of the triumphs of archaeology in Ireland, with wonderful consequences for
progress in that field. Any any field.

And now?

P.O'S.


Climate sceptic wins landmark data victory 'for price of a stamp'
Belfast ecologist forced to hand over tree-ring data describes order from
information commission as a 'staggering injustice'

Fred Pearce
The Guardian, Tuesday 20 April 2010

The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, must hand over 40
years' worth of data on 7,000 years of Irish tree rings. Photograph: Ron
Sachs / Rex Features/Rex Features

An arch-critic of climate scientists has won a major victory in his campaign
to win access to British university data that could reveal details of
Europe's past climate.

In a landmark ruling, the UK Information Commissioner's Office has ruled
that Queen's University Belfast must hand over data obtained during 40 years
of research into 7,000 years of Irish tree rings to a City banker and
part-time climate analyst, Doug Keenan.

This week, the Belfast ecologist who collected most of the data, Professor
Mike Baillie, described the ruling as "a staggering injustice ... We are the
ones who trudged miles over bogs and fields carrying chain saws. We prepared
the samples and - using quite a lot of expertise and judgment - we measured
the ring patterns. Each ring pattern therefore has strong claims to be our
copyright. Now, for the price of a stamp, Keenan feels he is entitled to be
given all this data."

FULL TEXT AT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/apr/20/climate-sceptic-wins-data-
victory


UK university ordered to give data to climate sceptic

18:01 20 April 2010 by Fred Pearce
For similar stories, visit the Climate Change Topic Guide
The climate data wars have taken a new turn. A leading British university
has been told it must release data on tree rings dating back more than 7000
years to an amateur climate analyst and climate sceptic.

The ruling, which could have important repercussions for environmental
research in the UK, comes from the government's deputy information
commissioner Graham Smith. In January he caused consternation at the height
of the "climategate" affair by criticising the way that the University of
East Anglia in Norwich, UK, handled sceptics' requests for data from its
Climatic Research Unit.

Now, following a three-year dispute between banker and climate sceptic Doug
Keenan and Queens University Belfast, Smith has told the university to hand
over to Keenan the results of its 40-year investigation of Irish oak-tree
growth rings.

The ruling sends a strong signal that scientists at public institutions such
as universities cannot claim their data is their or their university's
private property.

FULL TEXT
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18801-uk-university-ordered-to-give-da
ta-to-climate-sceptic.html

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You do not need elaborate searches of web and other media to know that
discussion of the Catholic Church and the child abuse crisis continues
throughout the world.

Some of it involves the usual lazy journalism picking up agency or other
newspaper items. Evidence of this is, perhaps, the widespread use of the
word 'tsunami' to categorise the wave of scandals hitting the Catholic
Church.

In this some matters of detail get lost, or errors are made. One that I
have noticed is a tendency to confuse or collate the two main Irish reports:

Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse. Report (The Ryan Report). Dublin:
The Stationery Office, 2009.

Commission of Investigation. Report into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin,
July 2009 (The Murphy Report), 2009.

Very often, it looks to me, as if the job of compiling a chronological
background is given to some young intern. I suppose it does not help that
the Reports are associated with two very common Irish family names.

I have still not found any web resource tracking this material in an
acceptable way. The Wikipedia entry has odd limitations. I have pasted in,
below, links to two items that I have found of interest.

What is being lost - and I do not know whether this is a good thing or a bad
thing - is the specificity of the Irish experience.

P.O'S.


The Catholic church has been under a lot of media scrutiny over its response
to recent allegations of child abuse. Journalist Melanie McDonagh, who heads
the Catholic Writers Guild, reviews the coverage and Jack Valero, from Opus
Dei and founder of Catholic Voices, explains why he wants more Catholics to
have media training ahead of this year's Papal visit.

SOUND FILE AT
BBC Radio 4
1:30 pm
The Media Show
Wed, 31 Mar 2010
Vatican on child abuse
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rmxb6


How the Boston Globe exposed the abuse scandal that rocked the Catholic
church
The tenacity of Boston Globe journalists in uncovering the scandal of
widespread sexual abuse by priests led to the current crisis in the Catholic
church. And there's more to come, as Jon Henley reports
Jon Henley

FINAL PARAGRAPHS...
With first-hand experience of the lengths to which the church is prepared to
go to keep its secrets, none of the Boston Globe reporters say they are
particularly surprised at the turn events have taken, nor at the situation
in which the church finds itself in today. "I'm about the least surprised
person I know," says Robinson. "All that surprises me is that it took this
long for the extensive abuse that occurred in, for example, continental
Europe to come out. And I've been astonished at how tone deaf the Vatican
has been in a PR sense."

There is far more yet to come, the reporters believe. All three note that
the countries in which cases of Catholic clerical abuse have emerged have
been relatively secular states: America, Canada, Australia, Germany, the
Netherlands, even Ireland. "It will eventually have to come out in Spain,
Italy, Latin America, too," says Robinson. "But for the time being, the
church in countries like that is far more protected by the state."
Certainly, adds Paulson, "in countries where there is more deference to
clergy and the church, victims are less likely to come forward."

So can the Catholic church survive this crisis, reform, and recover its
moral credibility? "It's capable of it," says Rezendes. "It remains to be
seen if it has the will."

Paulson agrees. "The Catholic church is an enormous institution," he says.
"Certainly some bishops, and many members, understand the enormity of what
has happened. But there are still plenty who believe this is all an
anti-Catholic conspiracy, that the church is being persecuted. The damage is
real, but the church is not of one mind as to whether it is best to
apologise and reform, or resist and fight. That argument has not yet been
decided."

FULL TEXT AT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/21/boston-globe-abuse-scandal-catho
lic

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Subject: Article, Zuelow,
Lessons from the Emerald Isle: Tourism and Identity in Ireland
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There is a short opinion piece by by Eric Zuelow on the
Center for Global Humanities
University of New England
Web site

http://www.une.edu/cgh/opinion/tourismandidentity.cfm

Lessons from the Emerald Isle: Tourism and Identity in Ireland
by Eric G.E. Zuelow
March 7, 2010

Eric G.E. Zuelow is Assistant Professor of History at the University of New
England. He is the author of Making Ireland Irish: Tourism and National
Identity since the Irish Civil War (Syracuse University Press, 2009)

Extracts from that book are available on Google Books.

See also
http://faculty.une.edu/cas/ezuelow/Pages/MakingIrelandIrish.html

Reviews of the book are appearing.

See...

The American Historical Review, 115:293-294, February 2010
C 2010 American Historical Association. All rights reserved.

Europe: Early Modern and Modern
Eric G E. Zuelow. Making Ireland Irish: Tourism and National Identity since
the Irish Civil War. (Irish Studies.) Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University
Press. 2009. Pp. xxxiv, 344. $39.95.
Joost Augusteijn
Leiden University

'...An associated problem is that tourism policy was mostly an elite
concern. National identity is, as Zuelow argues, created by ordinary people,
but this book does not tell the story of ordinary people...'

'...One can only conclude that the scarcity of debate about the content of
Irishness and the prominence of economic concerns makes it difficult to draw
conclusions about national identity from tourism policy. The book is
therefore somewhat descriptive and does not really touch on the debate on
Irishness that was engaged in elsewhere. There is nevertheless much to
recommend Zuelow's study. It is well researched and written, and provides an
excellent insight into how Irish tourism policy was developed and who
engineered it. It also shows how Irish politics worked in practice and what
elements were emphasized in public debate. The central intention to bring
the development of Irish national identity to the fore was, however,
probably an overambitious task.'

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Making the Irish European: Gaelic Honor Politics and Its
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Renaissance Quarterly, 61:1139=961166, Winter 2008
=A9 COPYRIGHT 2008 The Renaissance Society of America
Studies
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Making the Irish European: Gaelic Honor Politics and Its Continental
Contexts*
Brendan Kane=20

This article looks at Irish attempts to fashion Gaelic elites as members =
of
a European-wide aristocracy. Historiographical consensus holds that a =
modern
Ireland, defined by a confessionalized sense of national consciousness,
emerged from the ashes of the Gaelic political system's collapse ca. =
1607.
Central to that process was the exile experience of Irish nobles in
Counter-Reformation Europe. This article reads two Irish texts =97 Tadhg =
=D3
Cian=E1in's Imeacht na nIarla=ED and Lughaidh =D3 Cl=E9irigh's Beatha =
Aodha Ruaidh
U=ED Dhomhnaill =97 to argue that inclusion in a pan-European nobility =
was not
antithetical to traditional Gaelic cultural norms. In doing so, it =
attempts
to soften the contrast between medieval and modern Ireland, to study the
relation between provincial elites and central authority in this period =
of
European state formation, and to explore the interplay between new
international identities and traditional local authority.=20

*Earlier versions of parts of this essay were read at the Renaissance =
and
Early Modern Colloquium, Princeton University (29 November 2001); the =
Irish
Studies Seminar, Columbia University (4 April 2003); the Keough =
Institute
for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame (12 November 2004); and the
Flight of the Earls conference, Letterkenny Institute of Technology (19
August 2007). I wish to thank the attendees at those talks for their
comments and criticisms. Individual thanks are due Peter Lake, =
M=EDche=E1l Mac
Craith, Breand=E1n =D3 Buachalla, Eamonn =D3 Ciardha, Br=EDan =D3 =
Conchubhair, Clare
Carroll, and the anonymous readers for Renaissance Quarterly, all of =
whom
were extremely generous in their efforts to sharpen both this article =
and my
thinking on early modern Ireland. Finally, I wish to express my =
gratitude to
the University of Notre Dam's Keough Institute and to Princeton =
University's
Center for Human Values for providing material and intellectual support,
without which this article could not have been written.

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Jim,

Are you familiar with this NY Times map?

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/10/us/20090310-immigration-explorer.html

All the best.

Brian


On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Rogers, James S. wrote:

> I have to give a talk to a non-academic audience about the Irish diaspora,
> focusing on the US but also worldwide. It's the kind of thing where
> PowerPoint might actually be helpful - can the list suggests web sources
> for, say, maps or tables showing where the Irish went, concentrations by
> state - that sort of thing... nothing too refined, just the big picture made
> visible...
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> Thanks in advance
>
> Jim Rogers
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Subject: REV: Maume on Donnelly, Captain Rock: The Irish Agrarian Rebellion
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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:58:26 -0400

James S. Donnelly Jr. Captain Rock: The Irish Agrarian Rebellion of
1821-1824. Madison University of Wisconsin Press, 2009. xiv + 508
pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-299-23314-3.

Reviewed by Patrick E. Maume (Queens University Belfast)
Published on H-Albion (April, 2010)
Commissioned by Nicholas M. Wolf

An Irish Apocalypse? The Rockite Movement and the Sources of Agrarian
Violence in Pre-Famine Ireland

In 1821, an agrarian insurgent movement called Rockism spread across Munster
from an epicenter in western County Limerick, where it began as violent
resistance to Alexander Hoskins, the grasping new agent of the Courtenay
estates around Newcastlewest. This movement, the subject of James S.
Donnelly Jr.'s study, was called, after its supposed leader, Captain Rock;
devised for one Paddy Dillane, distinguished by stone-throwing exploits in
an attack on a party of road-building laborers employed by Hoskins, the name
rapidly acquired mythic overtones and was invoked by a multitude of local
gang leaders and threatening letter writers. Across large areas of the
province, state and gentry authority collapsed. Most dramatically, at the
beginning of 1822, the situation in North Cork resembled the 1798 uprising,
with mail-coaches stopped and a violent confrontation between soldiers and a
crowd of tithe resisters commemorated by Maire Bhuidhe Ni Laoghaire in her
celebrated poem "Cath Ceim an Fhiaidh."

This local mini-rebellion collapsed when mass attacks on North Cork towns
were repelled with heavy loss of life, but lower-level Rockite violence
(still involving remarkably extensive defiance of law and government) spread
across Munster and adjoining areas of Leinster, driven by emissaries who
realized strength lay in numbers. In summer 1821, the evangelical writer
Charlotte Elizabeth Phelan (best known by her later married name Tonna)
visited Reverend Hans Hamilton, rector of Knocktopher, at his residence,
Vicarsfield, ten miles outside Kilkenny City.[1] As Tonna and her friends
toured the countryside, small parties of Rockites were entering Kilkenny
along the mountains of the Tipperary borderland; Hamilton received
threatening letters (a favorite Rockite means of intimidation and a major
source for their political consciousness). Returning to Vicarsfield some
time later, Tonna found a state of siege. Every night Catholic servants were
sent to an outbuilding (one of the most alarming aspects of Rockism for the
elite was the extent to which employees were prepared to join conspiracies
against them), while the family and their Protestant attendants armed
themselves and listened to shots fired by passing Rockites. Rockite shows of
strength were not mere nighttime affairs. "I was shown from the window of
the drawing-room, at noon-day, a body of Rockites, to the number of forty,
well mounted, leisurely walking their horses within less than a quarter of a
mile from the house, for the purpose of intimidation."[2] (Rockites often
"borrowed" horses from farmers.)

Rockism slackened in late 1822 but resumed in 1823 and continued well into
1824, finally dying away into scattered outbreaks of banditry; it had been
the most formidable challenge the governing apparatus faced since 1798.
Widespread Rockite displays of savage public violence, such as mutilation of
victims' bodies or gang rape of soldiers' wives and potential crown
witnesses, showed the collapse of gentry power and the weakness of the
state. Sending in large numbers of troops, the state mounted its own theater
of repression, aiming to defeat Rockite terror by displaying greater terror
and showing that Rockite activists (including the original Captain Rock,
Paddy Dillane) could be turned as witnesses against confederates. At least
one hundred people were hanged and six hundred transported, many under
emergency legislation allowing summary trials for such noncapital offences
as breach of curfew. What caused this outbreak?

Tonna, like many conservatives and evangelicals, blamed a centrally directed
Catholic conspiracy, noting that Rockism was linked to the popularization of
extracts from a commentary on the Apocalypse of St. John by the English
Catholic cleric Charles Walmsley (alias Pastorini) who suggested
Protestantism would disappear in 1825. In 1824, as Tonna read Thomas
Moore's_ Memoirs of Captain Rock _(1824),_ _which attributed the
disturbances to misgovernment, the privileges of the Church of Ireland, and
failure to grant Catholic emancipation, she decided Moore was part of the
conspiracy.

Catholic spokesmen, and the large body of Protestant opinion with misgivings
about the principle of Protestant ascendancy and the tithe system--such as
the Whigs who were Moore's patrons and formed much of his
readership--strongly disputed this interpretation. They pointed to class
divisions among Catholics, with priests denouncing Rockism while Rockites
targeted Catholic middlemen and land grabbers, such as John Marum (brother
of the Catholic bishop of Ossory) who was murdered in March 1824 despite
surrounding himself with hired toughs. (Marum's killers feared he would
displace an old-established family of Protestant middlemen, notoriously more
lenient toward undertenants than he was likely to be.) Furthermore, liberals
pointed out, Rockite sectarianism reflected concrete grievances, such as the
tithe system whereby agricultural produce was taxed to support Church of
Ireland clergy. Rockites resisted rents and tithes set under high wartime
prices and unrevised after incomes had fallen, and a state machinery,
associated with Protestant privilege and violent repression, which had just
made eviction and tithe collection much easier to accomplish and which
seemed complicit in a recent and provocative campaign of evangelical
proselytism (of which Tonna was a vehement supporter). As Donnelly shows,
the basis on which tithes were levied was heavily skewed in favor of grazing
and against tillage, and fell heavily on the poorest cultivators; he notes
that the area of the Rockite insurgency was closely correlated with the area
where potatoes, the food of the poorest, were eligible for tithe. Less
convincingly, Catholic and liberal apologists maintained that popular belief
in Pastorini had been greatly exaggerated, and claimed that where it existed
it had been induced by agents provocateurs.

Modern academic literature similarly tends to play down Rockite
millennialism and to present the movement as simply economic. Donnelly,
however, offers a finely modulated interpretation which argues that Rockism
blended economic and political concerns with millennialism. Rockism
resembled millennial cults in colonized societies that have experienced
repeated reverses; these often combine hope for impending deliverance by
supernatural beings with belief that the faithful must take the initiative
themselves.

Current academic literature on Irish agrarian movements also emphasizes the
role of class divisions within what outsiders and apologists often saw as an
undifferentiated peasant community. Other major upheavals in pre-Famine
Ireland are indeed best interpreted as class conflict between better-off
farmers and cottiers and laborers (notably the Shanavest-Caravat conflict of
1806-11, classically analyzed by Paul Roberts).[3] Donnelly, however, shows
that the extent and intensity of the Rockite movement reflected its ability
to mobilize cross-class support in resisting landlord rationalization and
state repression after the postwar decline in agricultural prices and the
harvest shortages of 1819 (the more extensive near-famine of 1822 produced
temporary cessation of Rockite activity, as activists focused on survival).
A significant number of large farmers and their sons participated in Rockite
violence, though most Rockites came from poorer backgrounds; many better-off
farmers gave passive support from a mixture of fear and sympathy, offering
financial contributions or refusing to cooperate with state authorities. (On
the Courtenay estate, Protestant middlemen targeted by the Hoskins regime
encouraged resistance, though elsewhere middlemen faced Rockite attack from
below as well as landlord rationalization from above.)

At the same time, class divisions did not disappear, and Rockism's demise
was accomplished in part by reopening them. Along with repression,
legislation that reduced the burden of tithe by spreading it more equitably
not only removed numerous activists but also intensified plebeian Rockite
demands on farmers for financial support (including legal expenses). A
significant indication of reestablished state authority was the resultant
willingness of significant numbers of Munster farmers to assist repression
of post-Rockite banditry in 1824.

As for politics, Donnelly also shows that there were significant links
between Rockism and the better-organized, more politicized Ribbon movement
found in urban centers; town "Liberties" (built-up areas just outside town
boundaries) supplied many Rockite recruits, and Rockite notices (generally
composed of wandering schoolmasters, whose role, with that of other
itinerants, is sensitively analyzed) combined sectarianism with echoes of
United Irish rhetoric and even referred to contemporary uprisings in Greece
and Spain. This was not highly sophisticated politicization, but it was
political nonetheless.

Donnelly has studied Rockism over many years; whereas previous scholars
tended to rely on printed sources, he combines exemplary command of the
secondary literature with in-depth surveys of contemporary newspapers
(notably the Whig-liberal _Dublin Evening Post_ and _Leinster Journal_; it
might have been useful to include a Tory paper) with extensive work on the
State of the Country Papers in the National Archives (Dublin) and other
archival material. This produces a survey of Rockism that takes full account
of its social and ideological complexities, which does not scant dissection
of both state and popular violence, and provides a terrifying picture of the
poverty, violence, and desperation of 1820s Ireland. This was a crowded
countryside--a recurring motif was murder in broad daylight witnessed by
many passers-by, who said nothing--a violent province, with the state very
far from exercising a monopoly of force; a hungry land, with several layers
of subletting between head landlord and poorest cottier tenant and a
significant amount of intimidation and violence directed against "strangers"
from a few miles away, seen by locals as illegitimate competitors for food
and employment available locally, pitifully scarce in relation to the
numbers competing for it.

Donnelly's account is structured thematically rather than chronologically,
with chapters on ideology and organization, millennialism, Rockite social
composition and leadership, tithes and rents, patterns of Rockite violence,
and government repression. This polyvalent approach probably illuminates the
decentralized movement more than a linear narrative, but involves repetition
(the murder of the former head of the County Limerick police, Major Richard
Going, is discussed in similar terms on pages 49-50 and 141-142) and
fragmentation (the discussion of Rockites' systematic incendiarism might be
linked more closely to the analysis of threatening messages in chapter 3).
Nevertheless, Donnelly's overview of a phenomenon previously studied in
detail is a contribution of lasting value to the "history from below" of
pre-Famine Ireland.

What was the long-term legacy of Rockism? It was not wholly defeated; it
could not prevent eviction altogether, but fear of peasant resistance helped
defer the large-scale clearances eventually witnessed in the Famine years,
when potential resisters were helpless. By displaying the weaknesses of
landlord and state authority, Rockism provided incentives for the state to
offer concessions, which in turn encouraged agitators to become aware of
their potential strength. Donnelly suggests that much of the energy behind
Rockism was channeled into the O'Connell movement from the mid-1820s, with
the Liberator seen as messianic deliverer as well as political agitator.[4]
O'Connell characteristically had the best of both worlds during the Rockite
campaign, taking Rockite money to defend prisoners charged in connection
with the campaign, while using the court proceedings to denounce Rockism.
The extension of tithe to pastoral and dairy farmers helped to ease the
pressure on other tithe payers, but it also increased support for abolishing
tithe altogether as better-off farmers were made to share the burden. In the
early 1830s, O'Connellites participated in a renewed anti-tithe agitation in
which organized nonpayment of tithes was backed up by popular violence,
reducing many Protestant clerics to a state of siege and forcing concessions
by displaying the impotence of the authorities to enforce tithe collections.
In terms of extent, violence, and cross-class support, Donnelly suggests,
the "tithe war" significantly resembled Rockism, which, unlike previous
agitations, had been directed against tithes in principle rather than the
details of their implementation; and like the earlier agitation, critics of
the present state of affairs could point to class divisions as proof that
the tithe resistance had nothing to do with agrarian violence. In a speech
to parliament on May 31, 1832, O'Connell urged this view by noting that the
house of the prominent tithe resister Pat Lalor--father of the agrarian
reformer James Fintan Lalor--had been attacked by Whiteboys aggrieved at his
eviction of small tenants.[5]

On the other side of the political divide, ultraconservatives like Tonna
gloomily contemplated the passage of Catholic emancipation and the renewed
violence of the Tithe War. Learning with dismay that Irish Catholics saw the
Catholic Relief Act as belated fulfillment of Pastorini's prophecies, she
feared Walmsley had indeed been prophetically inspired--albeit by the
Devil--and decided that the time of the Apocalypse, the final days of popish
persecution and the triumph of Antichrist, were at hand. Neither loyalists
nor Rockites in pre-Famine Ireland held a monopoly on millennialism, any
more than a monopoly of violence.

Notes

[1]. Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, _Irish Recollections_ (Dublin: University
College Dublin Press, 2004). This is an abridged edition of her _Personal
Recollections_ published in 1841_._

[2]. Ibid., 43.

[3]. Paul E. W. Roberts, "Caravats and Shanavests: Whiteboyism and Faction
Fighting in East Munster, 1802-11," in _Irish Peasants: Violence and
Political Unrest, 1780-1914_, ed. Samuel Clark and James S. Donnelly Jr.
(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983), 64-101.

[4]. Rionach Ui Ogain, _Immortal Dan: Daniel O'Connell in Irish Folklore_
(Dublin: Geography Publications, 1995).

[5]. Daniel O'Connell, _The Speeches and Public Letters of the Liberator_,
ed. M. F. Cusack, 2 vols. (Dublin: McGlashan and Gill, 1875), 1:205.

Citation: Patrick E. Maume. Review of Donnelly Jr, James S., _Captain Rock:
The Irish Agrarian Rebellion of 1821-1824_. H-Albion, H-Net Reviews. April,
2010. URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=26451

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The Boys of St Columb's: From the 1947 Education Act to the 1968 Civil =
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