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Forwarded on behalf of
John Kennedy [mailto:johnpkennedy[at]btinternet.com]=20
Subject: SILAS/ The Role of Irish Missionaries in Latin America

Dear Paddy,=20
=A0=20
We will be shortly posting the announcement below on our website
www.irlandeses.org
We would be interested in contributions from as=A0many different angles =
as
possible.
=A0=20
Kind Regards,=20
=A0=20
John Kennedy=20

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The Role of Irish Missionaries in Latin America=20
=A0=20
Guest Editor:=20
=A0=20
Desmond Kelleher=20
=A0=20
The editors of Irish Migration Studies in Latin America invite =
submissions
for a special issue (Volume 8, Number 2, November 2010) that will =
explore
the role of Irish missionaries and other Irish-related faith groups in =
Latin
America, from both a historical and contemporary perspective. Articles =
may
focus on any aspect of missionary activity by Irish or Irish descendents =
in
Latin America or Latin Americans in Ireland. Submissions may take the =
form
of a study based on one particular person, the history of missionary =
groups
or analyses of the contributions of these groups to the social and =
religious
fabric of their host societies. Potential contributions may also focus =
on
"bringing the mission back home", that is, the involvement of religious
organisations in social work among Latin American immigrants in Ireland.
Articles in English should be submitted to the Guest Editor by 29 =
October
2010; articles in Spanish, Portuguese, French or German should be =
submitted
by 30 September 2010. IMSLA is an illustrated journal, and so images to
accompany the texts are very welcome. The editors also welcome book, =
film
and website reviews, edited discussions of primary documents, photo =
essays,
and short biographies related to the topic of the special issue.=20
=A0=20
Guest Editor=20
Desmond Kelleher=20
=A0=20
missionaries[at]irlandeses.org
=20
=A0=20

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Subject: TOC IRISH EDUCATIONAL STUDIES VOL 28; NUMBER 3; 2009
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IRISH EDUCATIONAL STUDIES
VOL 28; NUMBER 3; 2009
ISSN 0332-3315

pp. 279-296
Secular, singular and self-expression? Religious freedom in Australian and
New Zealand education.
Varnham, S.; Evers, M.

pp. 297-313
Religious education and the law in Northern Ireland's Controlled Schools.
Armstrong, D.

pp. 315-331
State liability for abuse in primary schools: systemic failure and O'Keeffe
v. Hickey.
O'Mahony, C.

pp. 333-350
A child's right to human dignity: reforming anti-bullying laws in the United
States.
Dayton, J.; Proffitt Dupre, A.

pp. 351-365
In the eye of a divorce storm: examining the modern challenge for Irish
schools educating children of divorced and separated families.
Daly, C.

pp. 231-233
Editorial.
Kilkelly, U.

pp. 235-251
Religious freedom as a function of power relations: dubious claims on
pluralism in the denominational schools debate.
Daly, E.

pp. 253-277
Schools and the law: a patron's introspection.
Colton, P.

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I share this sad news with the Irish Diaspora list.

I first met Marianna O=92Gallagher at a conference in Galway. I =
deliberately
went and sat beside her on the bus, to discuss the problems I was =
meeting in
bringing together a volume on the Famine for The Irish World Wide =
series. I
talked about making the children visible - and Marianna said, I can do =
that.
So, I commissioned the chapter...

The Orphans of Grosse Ile: Canada and the adoption of Irish Famine =
orphans,
1847-48=20
Marianna O'Gallagher

I am preparing a tribute to Marianna for the CAIS newsletter.

Our sympathies are with her friends and family.

Patrick O'Sullivan

________________________________________
From: Jean Talman [mailto:jean.talman[at]utoronto.ca]=20

Marianna O=92Gallagher, our friend and colleague in the Canadian =
Association
of Irish Studies/ L=92Association canadienne d=92=E9tudes irlandaises, =
died last
weekend, after a short illness borne with dignity and marked by an =
abiding
faith.
I know that you will join me and all other members of CAIS/ACEI in
acknowledging the passing of a major figure in the study of the Irish in
Canada, particularly in Qu=E9bec, and in conveying our deep sorrow to
Marianna=92s family and large circle of close friends in Canada and in
Ireland.
At its meeting in Halifax on Friday, 21st May, the CAIS/ACEI Executive =
had
unanimously agreed to establish the annual Marianna O=92Gallagher =
Lecture in
Irish Studies, with the inaugural lecture to be held at the CAIS/ACEI =
Annual
Conference at Concordia University, Montr=E9al, in July 2011. =
Regrettably, we
did not have the opportunity to forward this news to Marianna before her
death.
Irish Studies in Canada and the gatherings of CAIS/ACEI are poorer for
Marianna=92s passing.=20
Ar dheis D=E9 go raibh a hanam uasal.=20
P=E1draig =D3 Siadhail
President
CAIS/ACEI
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***
*********
Arrangements are as follows (thanks to the School of Canadian Irish =
Studies
at Concordia for this information):
O=92GALLAGHER, Marianna, C.M., C.Q.
1929-2010=A0
At the =91=91Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de =
Qu=E9bec
(H=F4pital Laval)=92=92, at the age of 81 years old, passed away =
Marianna
O=92Gallagher, daughter of the late Dermot I. O=92Gallagher and the late =
Norma
K. O=92Neil. She lived in Qu=E9bec City.
The family will receive condolences at:
Funerarium L=E9pine-Cloutier
1025 route de L'=C9glise
Quebec (Quebec)=A0 G1V 3W1

Email:=A0 lc[at]lepinecloutier.com
A memorial register is available for signature at:=A0=A0 =
www.lepinecloutier.com
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**

The editor of the CAIS newsletter, Michael Quigley, has the following
request:
We solicit for the Newsletter recollections, reflections, tributes to
Marianna from our members.=A0 Given that almost all of our distribution =
is by
email, length will be no great concern.=A0 A bibliography of her works =
will
also be included.=A0=A0=A0=20
Please send to michaelquigley[at]sympatico.ca

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Subject: Book Notice, Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre ,
Cosmopolitan Nationalism in the Victorian Empire: ...Alfred Webb
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I have not yet seen a review of Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre's book.

The book will especially interest Ir-D members looking at connections with
India, and at imperial careers.

Some information, and the link to the publisher web site, below.

ON that web site you can download a pdf file of the TOC plus the first
chapter - the first chapter is in effect an outline of the book.

P.O'S.


Cosmopolitan Nationalism in the Victorian Empire
Ireland, India and the Politics of Alfred Webb

Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre

Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series

Palgrave Macmillan

9780230220850

2009

'All our absorbing interest in our own Irish affairs should not blind us to
what is going on in other countries, should not lessen our sympathies
towards men and women in other countries who are striving for free
institutions as we are.' Thus wrote Alfred Webb (1834-1908), Irish Quaker,
nationalist, Member of Parliament, suffragist, and President of the 1894
Indian National Congress. In the first full-length biography of Webb,
Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre describes a vibrant civic and political life in
Nineteenth-century Ireland. She reveals how Irish and Indian nationalists
met in London, the capital of the British Empire, and pursued a
multi-cultural politics of cooperation. Rich in detail and drawing on
extensive original research, this historical biography provides a
fascinating journey into the political, social and cultural worlds of
late-Victorian imperialism, and provides a new assessment of the Irish role
within it.

http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=316314

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From: H-Net Staff
Subject: H-Net Review Publication: 'Surviving 1641'
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 16:16:38 -0400

Joseph Cope. England and the 1641 Irish Rebellion. Studies in Early
Modern Cultural, Political, and Social History Series. Woodbridge
Boydell Press, 2009. xii + 190 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN
978-1-84383-468-7.

Reviewed by John Gibney (Independent scholar)
Published on H-Albion (May, 2010)
Commissioned by Brendan Kane

Surviving 1641

The significance of the rebellion that erupted in the north of Ireland in
October 1641 is usually defined in two ways: first, in terms of its
influence on the crisis that led to the so-called Wars of the Three Kingdoms
between 1641 and 1653; and second, in terms of its enduring relevance to
sectarian relations in Ireland. Its most powerful legacy was the creation of
a paradigm of Irish Protestant suffering, often used to justify repressive
measures against an Irish Catholic community collectively assumed to have
committed appalling atrocities in the past, and of being inclined to do so
again in the future.

This perception of 1641 as brutal sectarian genocide, perpetrated by
Catholic natives on Protestant settlers, was largely distilled from the
experiences of the settlers. These had been recorded in the enormous corpus
of "depositions" taken from Protestant survivors in the 1640s and 1650s, and
eventually bequeathed to Trinity College, Dublin (where they are currently
in the process of being published online).[1] The veracity of these accounts
has been hotly contested since they were collected. But most modern scholars
writing on 1641 have, at some point, used the depositions as source
material, most recently in terms of mining them for their insights into the
history of a colonial society. In this regard, Joseph Cope's _England and
the 1641 Irish Rebellion_ is no exception, but the subject of its inquiry is
one that has been surprisingly neglected: the survivors themselves.

Cope's book roughly falls into two sections. The first examines the
experiences of Protestant settlers in 1641-42, as recorded in the
depositions. Surprisingly, these accounts have rarely been examined as
narratives on their own terms, and Cope uses them here to vividly illustrate
both the localized experiences of certain settlers in Ireland and the means
by which they survived the rebellion. The second section deals with the
immediate legacy of their survival, most especially in terms of the impact
made by Irish Protestant refugees in England. It does so by examining the
responses of a variety of clerics, polemicists, politicians, and officials
to the past experiences and current plight of these new arrivals.

Ultimately, the perception of 1641 as "a war of religious extermination"
(according to the blurb on the cover) is the issue at the core of the book.
This interpretation of the rebellion proved potent, as it was disseminated
and believed amid the crisis that eventually led to civil war in England.
The rebellion in Ireland could be interpreted as merely one episode in the
universal struggle between "popery" and the reformed faith; one of the great
strengths of Cope's book is its awareness of this broader, international
perspective. More immediately, the flurry of lurid accounts of alleged Irish
atrocities that flowed from printer and pulpits in England galvanized
opinion there in favor of the refugees who were soon arriving on its western
coast. Cope weaves a richly detailed account of how Irish refugees were
received in England, and the tensions that this caused at both national and
local levels. A key theme of the book is the "discontinuity" between the
depositions that reflected the experience of the survivors and the
propagandist depictions of 1641 that emerged in its aftermath. The bridge
between the two sections is the useful figure of the puritan artisan
Nehemiah Wallington, whose horrified responses to (often exaggerated)
accounts of the Irish rebellion are used to illustrate the process by which
the interpretation of these events began to shape both opinions and, by
extension, actions. For Cope, the most concrete English response to the
rebellion came in January 1642, when parliament passed the Act for a Speedy
Contribution and Loan to provide for the relief of Irish Protestant
refugees. But the money collected through this and other fundraising drives
was often siphoned into military coffers, and many Irish Protestants
remained out in the cold, so to speak. By the summer of 1643 such charity
had been completely discontinued, as the decision was made to concentrate on
funding the parliamentarian war effort in Ireland.

Cope has unearthed a great deal of fascinating material, and his suggestive
research provides an extremely useful avenue by which to examine both the
complexities of the 1641 rebellion itself and the impact it had on the
neighboring island. Yet the title is somewhat misleading. In terms of its
ostensible, purely English subject matter, this book seems unsure of
precisely what it is. Cope is aware of the significance of his subject in
both historiographical and actual terms. But the focus of the text is often
too narrow. For example, the English response to 1641 involved calls for
retribution as much as charity: the 1642 act that Cope devotes so much
attention to is only one element of that response. A full study of the
significance of the 1641 rebellion in England (let alone Britain as a whole)
would have to include not just the subject opened up by Cope, but also a
study of the significance of 1641 within the broad theater of the "Wars of
the Three Kingdoms" (including the Cromwellian invasion of 1649-53). It
would also have to take cognizance of the enduring and iconic significance
of 1641 in the rhetoric of English anti-popery. Indeed, Cope's discussion of
the manner in which 1641 was represented to a prospective audience is the
weakest aspect of the book; and this is, after all, of fundamental
importance to his subject. The manner in which the depositions mutated into
printed accounts of 1641 was a complex process, one shaped by the mental
frameworks through which seventeenth-century polemicists made sense of their
world.[2] And such accounts were the means by which an English audience was
most likely to engage with 1641; Wallington was not the only one to be
affected by the depictions he had read.

There are also cosmetic issues that, try as one might, remain difficult to
ignore. Even aside from its grammatically awkward title, the early sections
of the book are marred by some extremely poor copyediting: for a publisher
to produce a book at this price without meeting such basic standards is
unfair to both author and reader, and is simply not good enough.

But such caveats should not detract from the fact that Cope has written an
extremely useful and suggestive book. It is a substantial addition to the
existing historiography of the "Wars of the Three Kingdoms," and will have
to play a significant part in any future attempt to make sense of the
cataclysm of 1641 and its contested legacy.

Notes

[1]. The pilot Web site for the project can be found at
http://1641.eneclann.ie/ (accessed April 21, 2010).

[2]. This is the subject of Eamon Darcy, "Politics, Pogroms and Print: The
1641 Depositions and Contemporary Print Culture" (PhD diss., Trinity
College, Dublin, 2009).

Citation: John Gibney. Review of Cope, Joseph, _England and the 1641 Irish
Rebellion_. H-Albion, H-Net Reviews. May, 2010. URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=29535

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No
Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

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Title: Poles Living in Ireland and their Quality of Life
Author: Agnieszka NOLKA ; Micha=B3 NOWOSIELSKI

Abstract: The economic growth of Ireland resulted in a significant
number of Poles migrating to Ireland following the EU enlargement in =
2004.
The article explores the quality of life of Poles living in Ireland. =
Using
data from a preliminary survey conducted in 2006, several dimensions of
living conditions are analysed, including interpersonal relations, =
material
security, health and healthcare. The study shows that evaluations of =
almost
all aspects of quality of life improved, apart from components such as
healthcare and the ability to acquire help from social organisations. =
Also
interpersonal relations, contrary to the initial assumption, were =
enhanced
by migration to Ireland.

Journal: Journal of Identity and Migration Studies
Issn: 18435610
EIssn:=09
Year: 2009
Volume: 3
Issue: 1
pages/rec.No: 28-46

Key words Polish migrants ; interpersonal relations ; material
security ; healthcare ; Ireland

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Dear Irish Diaspora members,

Please find below the programme for the international conference "Ireland a=
nd Victims: Recognition, Reparation, Reconciliation" to be held at the Univ=
ersity Rennes 2, France, from 9-11 September 2010.

If you would like to attend this event please complete the registration for=
m which can de downloaded here (http://www.univ-rennes2.fr/crbc/actualites/=
colloque-victims-and-ireland-recognition-reparation-reconciliation) and sen=
d it back before 15th June.

Hoping to see you in Rennes in September,

Grainne O'Keeffe-Vigneron
Lesley Lelourec


Ireland and Victims: Recognition, Reparation, Reconciliation?


An international conference to be held at the University of Rennes 2, Britt=
any, France.
9-11 September 2010

Programme :=20

Thursday 9th September

13 :00 Arrivals / Registration

13 :30 Conference opening

14 :00

Panel 1: Public Policy=20

=E2=80=A2 Public bodies and Peace building in Northern Ireland since 1998. =
Challenges, Dilemmas, Limitations: the Case of the Victims=E2=80=99 Policy,=
Joana Etchart, (Paris 3)
=E2=80=A2 Eames Bradley and the Media Politics of the victimhood, Paddy Hoe=
y, (Liverpool Hope, GB)
=E2=80=A2 A Different Kind of Casualty - Complicating the Victims Debate, F=
rancis Stuart Ross, (QUB, NI)

Panel 2: Victims in the Arts=20

=E2=80=A2 Allegory and Mourning: Ireland 1916, Maura Coughlin, (Bryant, RI,=
USA)
=E2=80=A2 Returning to the same places=E2=80=99: Trauma in the work of Will=
ie Doherty, Emma Grey, (Aberdeen, GB)
=E2=80=A2 Willie Doherty : Troublesome portraits / schizoid identities, Val=
=C3=A9rie Morisson, (Grenoble 2)


15.30 Coffee Break

15.45 Keynote speaker: Professor Marianne Elliott, OBE, FBA, Director, Inst=
itute of Irish Studies, Liverpool, Narratives of Victimhood in Irish Histor=
y

16.45=20

Panel 3: Historical victims=20

=E2=80=A2 Revolution, Remembrance, and the State: The Irish Bureau of Milit=
ary History, John Borgonovo, (UCC, Ireland)
=E2=80=A2 Veterans as Victims: the Experiences and Rediscovery of Irish Nat=
ionalists in the British Military in 1914-18, Richard Grayson, (Goldsmith=
=E2=80=99s, London, GB)
=E2=80=A2 Forgotten hero, double victim: Tadhg Barry (1881-1921), Donal O D=
risceoil, (UCC, Ireland)

Panel 4: Healing and Reconciliation=20

=E2=80=A2 Storytelling to Promote Intergenerational Reconciliation and Lear=
ning: Case studies from Ireland, Laurence McKeown ,(Peace III project, Dund=
alk IT, Ireland)
=E2=80=A2 Storytelling and dialogue: a journey towards healing, Jo Dover, (=
Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Foundation for Peace, Warrington, GB)
=E2=80=A2 Assistance to the victims of the conflict in Northern Ireland: ac=
hievements and loopholes, Fabrice Mourlon, (Paris 3)

18:15 End of sessions=20

18:30 Town Hall Reception=20

Evening free

----------------------------------------------------------
Friday 10th September

9:00
Panel 5: Women as victims=20

=E2=80=A2 Women As Victims in the Visual Arts (18th -19th centuries), Clair=
e Dubois, (Lille 3)
=E2=80=A2 Depictions of the victims of the Magdalen Laundries in films and =
documentaries, Martine Gauthier, (St Etienne)
=E2=80=A2 Irish Women during the =E2=80=98Irish Troubles=E2=80=99 Victims o=
r Heroines, Assia Kaced, (Algiers)

Panel 6: Memory=20

=E2=80=A2 We Will Not Allow You to Forget=E2=80=99 - Non Combatants and Mem=
orialisation in Post Conflict Northern Ireland, Kris Brown, (Transitional J=
ustice Institute, University of Ulster, NI)
=E2=80=A2 The desire for justice: discourses of victimhood, psychic reparat=
ion, and the politics of memory in 'post-conflict' Northern Ireland, Graham=
Dawson, (Brighton, GB)
=E2=80=A2 Life Stories & Conflict Narratives in Northern Ireland: Histories=
, Memories, Migrations, Johanne Devlin Trew, (Magee, Ulster, NI)

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00
Panel 7: Trauma in Literature=20

=E2=80=A2 Scenography of Truth and Fiction in The Truth Commissioner by Dav=
id Park, Jeanne-Marie Carton-Charon, (Caen / Orl=C3=A9ans)
=E2=80=A2 =E2=80=98No bones=E2=80=99 on the road to recovery.Anna Burns=E2=
=80=99 socio-psychological study of the Northern Irish predicament,, Ryszar=
d Bartnik, (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
=E2=80=A2 Haunting Memories and Haunted Narratives : Ghost Languages and Fo=
rbidden Tongues in Hugo Hamilton's Autobiographies, St=C3=A9phane Jousni, (=
Rennes 2)

Panel 8: Conflict(ing) narratives of victimhood=20

=E2=80=A2 Loyalists after the Good Friday Agreement: Community Development,=
Conflict Transformation and Discourses of Victimisation, Catheline Benefor=
ti, (QUB, NI)
=E2=80=A2 The future of our past - explorations from the victims=E2=80=99 s=
ector and republican community, Mick Beyers, (CAJ, Committee on the Adminis=
tration of Justice, Belfast, NI)
=E2=80=A2 Contingency, Reconciliation and the Post-Conflict Paradigm in N I=
reland, Adrian Little, (Melbourne, Australia)

Panel 9: Defining events of the Troubles=20

=E2=80=A2 Bloody Sunday, From the Widgery Report to the Saville Inquiry : T=
he Quest for Truth and Justice, Charlotte Barcat, (Paris 3)
=E2=80=A2 Films and =E2=80=9CMemory Places=E2=80=9D: the Acknowledgement of=
the Victims and their Action in the Films Bloody Sunday and Omagh by Paul =
Greengrass, Elodie Gallet, (Poitiers)
=E2=80=A2 The Troubles: Who Started Them? Ireland in the 1960s and 1970s, T=
om Hennessey, (Canterbury Christ Church, GB)



12:30 3-course lunch at the M=C3=A9tronome Restaurant on campus

14:00 Keynote speaker: Patricia MacBride, Victims Commissioner, NICVS, "The=
cure at Troy" - journeys to the far side of revenge

15:00 Coffee Break

15:30
Panel 10: Victims outside of Ireland=20

=E2=80=A2 Medbh McGuckian: Representation of Memory and Trauma, Shane Alcob=
ia Murphy, (Aberdeen, GB)
=E2=80=A2 Mother Ireland=E2=80=99s Victims: Irish Male Emigrants in Postwar=
Britain, Ciara Conneely, (Notre Dame, USA)
=E2=80=A2 Teaching Brian Friel in Palestine:Cross-Cultural Interpretations =
of Victimhood and Resistance, Katherine Hennessey, (Yemen College of Middle=
Eastern Studies in Sana'a, Yemen)

Panel 11: State and paramilitary violence=20

=E2=80=A2 Coercion and victimisation: Punishment beatings in Northern Irela=
nd, Agn=C3=A8s Maillot, (DCU, Ireland)
=E2=80=A2 Collusion and dealing with the past in Northern Ireland, Jane Win=
ter, (BIRW British Irish Rights Watch, UK)
=E2=80=A2 Former Republican Prisoners in Northern Ireland, from Reintegrati=
on to Social Politics, Yann Bevant, (Rennes 2)


Panel 12: Victims=E2=80=99 experiences=20

=E2=80=A2 Who are the Victims? Victimhood Experiences in Northern Ireland, =
Neil Ferguson, (Liverpool Hope; GB)
=E2=80=A2 Screening of 30-minute documentary, =E2=80=9CUnheard Voices=E2=80=
=9D by Cahal McLaughlin, (Coleraine, Ulster), followed by Q and A session

17:00 End of sessions

19:45 Conference Dinner (venue to be confirmed)

---------------------------------------------------------------------------=
---------------


Saturday 11th September

9:00
Panel 13 : Shared or divided spaces in conflict transformation=20

=E2=80=A2 The contribution of community arts activity to the reconciliation=
process, H=C3=A9l=C3=A8ne Alfaro, (Paris 12)
=E2=80=A2 Victimes r=C3=A9publicaines et loyalistes sur les murals d=E2=80=
=99Irlande du Nord, Jean Guiffan (Nantes)
=E2=80=A2 Re-imaginations of Belfast: A Space to Belong, Michaela Markova, =
(TCD, Ireland)
=E2=80=A2 The Ulster Museum history galleries and post-conflict community e=
ngagement, Trevor Parkhill, (Ulster Museum, NI)

Panel 14: Abuse and industrial schools=20

=E2=80=A2 =E2=80=9CA School For Bad Boys=E2=80=9D: The Representation of th=
e Industrial School System in Patrick McCabe=E2=80=99s The Butcher Boy, Vic=
toria Connor, (Aberdeen, GB)
=E2=80=A2 Victims or Survivors? Towards an Understanding of Abuse in the Li=
ght of the Ryan and Murphy Reports, Eamon Maher, (IT Tallaght, Ireland)
=E2=80=A2 =E2=80=9CThe Silent State : Irish Industrial School Memoirs=E2=80=
=9D, Nicole Miller Knight, (Notre Dame, USA)
=E2=80=A2 The Industrial schools in the Republic of Ireland : from idealist=
ic salvation to institutional ill-treatment, D=C3=A9borah Vandewoude, (Lill=
e 3)

Panel 15: Storytelling and the healing process=20

=E2=80=A2 Storytelling Workshop, Jo Dover, (Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Founda=
tion for Peace, Warrington, GB)

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Keynote speaker: Rita Duffy, artist, Bearing witness to a time and pl=
ace

12:30 Buffet lunch
14:00 End of conference

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the
publication of=20
the Irish Journal of Sociology=20
with=A0Manchester University Press
=A0
IJS websites:=20
www.sociology.ie

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The President of UCC, Dr. Michael Murphy will launch the new MUP =
editions
Vols. 17/1 and 17/2
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Date/time: Tuesday 8th June, 2010, 5pm
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www.sociology.ie=A0
Director, Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century (ISS21)
www.ucc.ie/en/iss21
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Forwarded on behalf of Ruben Moi.

Dear Colleagues
Welcome to 'The Island and the Arts', the 7th Biennial International
Conference of the Nordic Irish Studies Network (NISN),Troms=F8, Norway, =
2-3
December 2010.

Please visit the conference website, read the call for papers below, or
contact Ruben.Moi[at]uit.no=20

http://uit.no/humfak/islandarts/=20


Patrick Kavanagh once claimed that Ireland could host an army of a =
thousand
poets at any time. Perhaps that is a small number compared to the =
island=B9s
rich heritage of traditional and popular music. Yet poetry, pop, and =
folk
are not its only creative outlets. Irish theatre contributes to cultural
discussions at home and abroad, while in the visual arts it boasts a =
range
of powerful painters and an ever-increasing production of films.=20

Furthermore, new media, generic transgressions, translations, and border
aesthetics enhance creativity. The island=B9s nature, its monastic =
tradition,
contested histories, language diversity, social shifts, diasporic =
dynamics,
and tax legislation =AD all these likely and unlikely sources of =
artistic
endeavour keep the cornucopia flowing. Today, as throughout history, the
island holds a remarkable position in the creative arts and questions
concerning aesthetics and its relations to metaphysical speculation, =
ethic
significance, historical conditioning, social becoming, and identitarian
processes are both more vital and more compelling than ever. The 2010 =
NISN
conference focuses on the arts of the island and on the conditions and
critical discourses with which they interact. The organisers invite
proposals for both individual 20-minute papers and planned panels on a =
wide
variety of topics connected to the theme. The call for papers opens on 1
January, with a deadline for the submission of abstracts of 300 words on =
15
June 2010. The conference is hosted by the University of Troms=F8 in
cooperation with Border Poetics Research Group, Culture Ireland, =
Norwegian
Research Council and the Irish Embassy.

Confirmed keynote speakers:
Poets Ciaran Carson and Paul Muldoon
Visual artist Rita Anne Duffy
Professor Michael Parker.

Please send abstracts to: Ruben.Moi[at]uit.no=20

Please register at the website: http://uit.no/humfak/islandarts/=20

Papers may address, but are by no means restricted to, the following =
topics:

* relations between the arts
* ekphrastic poetry and prose
* the future of the arts
* arts and language
* arts and politics
* arts and ethics
* arts and history
* arts and psychology
* arts and the environment
* arts and memory
* critical discussions of the works of individual artists (e.g. writers,
painters, playwrights, musicians, directors)


******
Ruben Moi
Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry
School of English
Queen's University Belfast
2 University Square
Belfast BT7 1NN
TEL: 077 49 78 56 31
(+ 44 77 49 78 56 31 outside UK)


Ruben Moi
Department of Culture and Literature
Faculty of Humanities, Social Science and Pedagogy
House 4/3
University of Troms=F8
9037 Troms=F8
Norway
Phone: +47 77 64 65 88
Ruben.Moi[at]hum.uit.no=20


Private:
Ruben Moi
Styrmannsveien 35
9037 Troms=F8
Norway
Phone: +47 77 63 26 56
Mobile: +47 47 85 91 97

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Sons of Ulster. Masculinities in the Contemporary Northern Irish
Novel
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PETER LANG - International Academic Publishers are pleased to announce a =
new
book by

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

Caroline Magennis

SONS OF ULSTER
Masculinities in the Contemporary Northern Irish Novel


Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, =
2010.
XII, 180 pp.
Reimagining Ireland. Vol. 26
Edited by Eamon Maher

ISBN 978-3-0343-0110-7 pb.
sFr. 52.00 / EUR* 35.60 / EUR** 36.60 / EUR 33.30 / =A3 30.00 / US-$ =
51.95
* includes VAT - only valid for Germany / ** includes VAT - only valid =
for
Austria / EUR does not include VAT


Both masculinity and the Northern Irish conflict have been the subjects =
of a
great deal of recent scholarship, yet there is a dearth of material on
Northern Irish masculinity. Northern Ireland has a remarkable literary
output relative to its population, but the focus of critical attention =
has
been on poetry rather than the fine novels that have been written in and
about Ulster. This book goes some way towards remedying the deficiency =
in
critical attention to the Northern Irish novel and the lack of gendered
approaches to Northern Irish literature and society.

Sons of Ulster explores the representation of masculinity within a =
number of
Northern Irish novels written since the mid-1990s, focusing on works by =
Eoin
McNamee, Glenn Patterson and Robert McLiam Wilson. One of the key aims =
of
the book is to disrupt notions of a hegemonic Northern Irish masculinity
based on violent conflict and hyper-masculine sectarian rhetoric. The =
author
uses the three sections of the text to represent the three key facets of
Northern Irish masculinity: bodies, performances and subjectivity bound =
up
with violence.


Contents:

The Grotesque Feminine in the Northern Irish Imagination - The Problem =
of
Gender and Vision in Northern Ireland - The Body Abject in "Ripley =
Bogle" -
The Hermeneutics of the Tortured Body in "Resurrection Man" - Self
Reflexivity and Performativity in "Eureka Street" and "Ripley Bogle" -
Postmodern 'Hard Men' in the Novels of Jason Johnson and Eoin McNamee -
Homophobia and the Homoerotic in Northern Irish Fiction - Patriarchy,
Masculinity and Fatherhood - Problematising Male Violence in the =
Northern
Irish Novel - Military Violence in Northern Ireland - Masculinity and
Victimhood - The Battle for Hegemonic Masculinity in Transitional =
Northern
Ireland - Appendices: Interviews on Masculinity with Robert McLiam =
Wilson,
Glenn Patterson and Eoin McNamee.


The Author:

Caroline Magennis is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Irish =
Studies
International Research Initiative at Queen's University Belfast. She has
published articles and essays on gender and Irish literature, modern =
Irish
literature, the contemporary novel and Northern Irish literature and
culture.


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Subject: Seminar, London, Making a London-Irish 'Home' with The Pogues,
Monday 7 June 2010
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Dear Colleagues

Irish in Britain Seminar Series 2010 concludes on Monday 7 June 2010
with a talk on:

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

This paper explores the work of The Pogues as an expressly London-Irish
intervention in British (and Irish) popular music culture. Drawing on
original interviews with the band members, including Shane MacGowan,
Cait O'Riordan and Philip Chevron (as well as extensive archival
research of print and audio-visual media), it explores the band's oeuvre
as an expression of second-generation Irish life in 1980s Britain.

The paper also reflects on The Pogues' reception in mid-1980s Ireland,
where the band became the focus of caustic attacks by both musicians and
journalists, many of whom saw The Pogues as suspect interlopers making
unwelcome incursions into Irish culture. The paper suggests that the
band's work often served as a negotiation of
'dwelling-in-displacement', locating The Pogues' project on the
threshold of an Irish-English interface, a hybrid in-between space that
might be seen as both a wellspring and a burden.

Sean Campbell is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Media
at Anglia Ruskin in Cambridge. His research interests are in the areas
of popular culture, Irish studies and migration/ethnicity. His
publications include 'Beautiful Day, a history of Irish rock'
(co-written with Gerry Smyth), and a forthcoming book of essays on The
Smiths for Manchester University Press. His next book will be
'Combat Rock: Popular Music and the 'Troubles', an exploration of
popular musical interventions on the Northern Ireland conflict. He
recently completed an AHRC-funded monograph on second-generation Irish
musicians, which includes original interviews with the book's key
figures, including Shane MacGowan, Cait O'Riordan, Kevin Rowland and
Johnny Marr. His paper tonight is drawn from this work.

We look forward to seeing you there. Please feel free to pass on to
anyone interested.

6.30-8pm in the Old Staff Cafe, London Metropolitan University
Tower Building, 166-220 Holloway Road, London N7 8DB

ALL WELCOME

--

Institute for the Study of European Transformations (ISET)
London Metropolitan University
166-220 Holloway Road
London N7 8DB
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7133 2913
www.londonmet.ac.uk/iset

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Subject: Innisfree Housing Association, The First 25 Years
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The Innisfree Housing Association, London,

Has issued a little booklet

Innisfree Housing Association, The First 25 Years

Web site and links to a pdf file of the booklet, pasted in below.

It is right to offer deserved congratulations to Clare Winstanley, Chief
Executive, and her associates.

The booklet is made up of brief personal reflections from a cross section of
the people involved - anyone who has worked in housing will think that maybe
the most important person is the Plumber in Residence, Mick Maloney.

Ir-D members will find interesting the timeline 'Innisfree Milestones' pp
18-20. It brings home the constantly changing landscape of regulation and
funding that organisations like Innisfree must negotiate. And note the
prominence given in that timeline to the CRE Report,
Hickman, Mary J. and Walter, Bronwen. Discrimination and the Irish community
in Britain. London: Commission for Racial Equality, 1997.

P.O'S.

http://www.innisfree.org.uk/

http://www.innisfree.org.uk/pub_00_index.php

http://www.innisfree.org.uk/documents/25th_anniversary_booklet_May_2010.pdf

From Clare Winstanley's Introduction

'This book tells the stories of a handful of people associated with
Innisfree over the last 25 years and what Innisfree means to them. They
represent the many, many others who contributed in their own way to the
magic. There have been all the board members who have given their time
voluntarily, former staff members who remain part of the 'family', tenants
who have moved elsewhere but still keep in touch, and all the friends and
partners who have supported us.'

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Subject: Call for Assistance, Advisors,
Waterford Historical Museum and Cultural Center, Waterford, NY USA
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This request comes from Margaret Lynch-Brennan, who tells me that she will
be serving on this 'virtual' advisor committee. Interesting way of doing
things.

Margaret Lynch-Brennan tells me that 'the Waterford Historical Museum and
Cultural Center has already done a fine job investigating the Italian and
Franco-American experiences in Waterford, and is now beginning an
examination of the Irish immigrant experience in Waterford (the descendants
of Italian, French and Irish immigrants comprise 75 percent of Waterford's
population today).'

More information on

http://www.waterfordmuseum.com/index.htm

Call for Assistance

The Waterford Historical Museum and Cultural Center in Waterford, NY seeks
experts in Irish immigration history to serve on an advisory committee for
the development of its upcoming program on the Irish immigrant experience in
Waterford.

Waterford, NY is located where the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers merge, and where

both the Erie and Champlain Canals begin, in close proximity to the cities
of Troy, Cohoes and Albany, NY. Service on this committee would be
informal - mainly through e-mail correspondence-and unpaid. If you are
interested in serving, please send an e-mail indicating your interest, along

with a copy of your CV/resume, to Brad Utter, Director of the Museum at
whmcc[at]nycap.rr.com

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Our attention has been directed towards this item - which will interest =
a
number of Ir-D members. Or maybe all, as an indicating a strand in the
representation of Northern Ireland...

-------Original Message-------
=A0
The final reading in the Onassis Programme's series of readings of plays =
by
emerging writers' responding to classical plays, takes place tomorrow in
Oxford, with a fabulous cast. All are welcome, and for drinks =
afterwards;
please email onassis[at]classics.ox.ac.uk to reserve a place.=20

Thursday 3rd=A0June, 2.30pm, Lecture Theatre, Classics Faculty, 66 St =
Giles,
Oxford OX1 4JF

The Onassis Programme presents a rehearsed reading of

Ismene

By Stacey Gregg

A version of=A0Antigone, written in response to the McCartney case, and =
a
tradition of Greek Tragedy appropriated by Irish writers.

This blackly comic and irreverent take on=A0Antigone=A0portrays a=A0Post =
Agreement
Northern Ireland facing=A0=A0issues of poverty, poor men=92s health, =
suicide and
the residual structures of gang rule, to name a few.

Wickedly funny, challenging and original, this is an unmissable play. =
Stacey
Gregg is currently a member of the BBC=92s prestigious Writers=92 =
Academy and
has completed attachments at RADA and the Bush.

Laura dos Santos and Eoin McCarthy lead the cast, with Aisling Bea, =
Tricia
Kelly, Paul Mallon, Martin Brody, Charles de Bromhead, Ciaron O=92 Dowd =
and
Maggie Robson. Rising star, Mike Longhurst, directs (winner of the 2007
Jerwood Award for=A0Dirty Butterfly=A0at the Young Vic and director of =
the award
winning=A0Stovepipe=A0(National Theatre/ Bush)
=A0

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Goodbye Yeats and O'Neill: Farce in Contemporary Irish and
Irish-American Narratives
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Goodbye Yeats and O=E2=80=99Neill
Farce in Contemporary Irish and Irish-American Narratives

Edward A. Hagan

Amsterdam/New York, NY 2010. VI, 329 pp. (Costerus NS 183)
ISBN: 978-90-420-2993-4 Paper =E2=82=AC68,-/US$88,-
ISBN: 978-90-420-2994-1 E-Book =E2=82=AC68,-/US$88,-

With 30% discount until July 15th, 2010, =E2=82=AC48,-/US$62,-
Online info: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=3DCOS+183


Goodbye Yeats and O=E2=80=99Neill is a reading of one or two books =
recently written by the following major authors: Roddy Doyle, Colm =
T=C3=B3ib=C3=ADn, John McGahern, William Trevor, Seamus Deane, Nuala =
O=E2=80=99Faolain, Patrick McCabe, Colum McCann, Nick Laird, Gerry =
Adams, Claire Boylan, Frank McCourt, Tim O=E2=80=99Brien, Michael =
Patrick MacDonald, Alice McDermott, Edward J. Delaney, Beth Lordan, =
William Kennedy, Thomas Kelly, and Mary Gordon. The study argues that =
farce has been a major mode of recent Irish and Irish-American fiction =
and memoir =E2=80=94 a primary indicator of the state of both Irish and =
Irish-American cultures in the early twenty-first century.=20
=20
Edward A. Hagan is Professor of Writing at Western Connecticut State =
University. He is the author of High Nonsensical Words: A Study of the =
Works of Standish James O=E2=80=99Grady (Whitston, 1986). In addition to =
numerous journal articles, he has edited and introduced three volumes in =
the University College Dublin Classics of Irish History Series =E2=80=94 =
To the Leaders of Our Working People by Standish James O=E2=80=99Grady =
(2002), Sun and Wind by Standish James O=E2=80=99Grady (2004), and The =
Green Republic by W.R. MacDermott (2004).

Contents=20
Acknowledgements=20
Introduction. The Donkeys and the Narrowbacks: Contemporary Circus =
Animals

Part One: Memoirs =E2=80=93 Defining Where We Are Now=20
1. Defining the Object for Struggle: Epistemology in the Age of =
Autobiography =E2=80=93 Frank McCourt, Angela=E2=80=99s Ashes and Seamus =
Deane, Reading in the Dark
2. Belfast and South Boston: Cut off from Serious Consideration =
=E2=80=93 Gerry Adams, Before the Dawn and Michael Patrick MacDonald, =
All Souls
3. The Void of Irish Identity: Nuala O=E2=80=99Faolain, Are You Somebody

Part Two: The Writers Strike Back: Using Irony to Subvert the =
Fascination of Cultural Studies=20
4. Tim O=E2=80=99Brien=E2=80=99s Ironic Aesthetic: Faith and the Nature =
of a =E2=80=9CTrue=E2=80=9D Story (co-authored with John Briggs)
5. The Delusion of Cultural Studies: Colm T=C3=B3ib=C3=ADn, The =
Blackwater Lightship
=20
Part Three: Serious and Not-So-Serious Farce in Contemporary Irish =
Fiction=20
6. Picaresque Farce: Nick Laird, Utterly Monkey
7. Icons for the New Age: The Transvestite in Patrick McCabe=E2=80=99s =
Breakfast on Pluto and the Ballet Dancer in Colum McCann=E2=80=99s =
Dancer
8. Home Isn=E2=80=98t There Any More: William Trevor=E2=80=99s The Story =
of Lucy Gault and John McGahern=E2=80=99s By the Lake
9. Transforming Nostalgia for the Victorian: Clare Boylan=E2=80=99s =
Charlotte Bront=C3=AB Novel, Emma Brown
10. The Irish Western Epic: Roddy Doyle Remakes John Ford =E2=80=93 The =
Last Roundup

Part Four: Farce in Contemporary Irish-American Fiction: Symptom of the =
Triviality of American Society=20
11. The American Wake: Alice McDermott, Child of My Heart=20
12. Being Irish and Being Nothing: The Abyss of Identity in Alice =
McDermott=E2=80=99s Charming Billy and Edward J. Delaney=E2=80=99s =
Fiction
13. The Headache and the Aspirin: Sex as Disease and Cure in Sherman =
Alexie=E2=80=99s The Toughest Indian in the World, Colum =
McCann=E2=80=99s This Side of Brightness, and Other Contemporary Stories
14. Low Seriousness in Beth Lordan=E2=80=99s But Come Ye Back
15. The Decay of Lying? On Life Support in William Kennedy=E2=80=99s =
Roscoe and Thomas Kelly=E2=80=99s The Rackets
16. Visiting the American Sixties on Ireland: Mary Gordon=E2=80=99s =
Pearl=20
17. The Necessity and Futility of Romance: Thomas Kelly=E2=80=99s Empire =
Rising

Part Five: An Historian=E2=80=99s Need to Define the Irish Story=20
18. What Is the Irish Story? R.F. Foster=E2=80=99s The Irish Story

Postscript: The Function of Farce at the Present Time
Appendix: The Pattern of Reading in the Dark
Bibliography

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Subject: PhD fellowships, Moore Institute Galway, Texts, Contexts, Cultures
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Two doctoral scholarships are available within the Moore Institute for =
Research in the Humanities, National University of Ireland, Galway. =
Applications are invited from candidates in subjects related to the =
literary and cultural history of nineteenth and twentieth century =
Ireland in comparative and/ or theoretical context. Areas of interest =
might include, but are not limited to, modernism, literary networks, =
visual cultures, empire, and/ or the postcolonial in relation to the =
work of Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett.

The successful candidates will work under the supervision of Professor =
Nicholas Allen and will participate in the Texts, Contexts, Cultures =
graduate research program in association with the Moore Institute, the =
Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, and the Graduate School, the =
College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, University College =
Cork. Applicants should have an excellent record of academic =
achievement.

The Moore Institute is an international research hub in the humanities =
based in the National University of Ireland, Galway. The University =
holds major archives in twentieth literature including the papers of =
John McGahern, Thomas Kilroy, the Druid and Lyric Theatres. Recognition =
of the Moore Institute=E2=80=99s work includes funding from the Andrew =
Mellon Foundation, the EU Framework programme, the Irish Research =
Council in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Programme for =
Research in Third Level Institutions. For more information on our =
research and upcoming events see www.nuigalway.ie/mooreinstitute


Each Scholarship provides =E2=82=AC15,000 per year (exclusive of fees) =
over a maximum period of 4 years. Scholarships will begin in September =
2010.

The closing date for applications is 5pm, Monday 5th July 2010.

For more information please contact Professor Nicholas Allen =
nicholas.allen[at]nuigalway.ie


For details of how to apply please contact mooreinstitute[at]nuigalway.ie

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The "U.S. Catholic Bishops and Immigration" website was created in
collaboration between the Department of Migration and Refugee Services of
the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the American Catholic
History Research Center and University Archives at The Catholic University
of America.

Dr. Maria Mazzenga, Education Archivist at the ACHRC/UA, supervises,
manages, and maintains the American Catholic History Classroom websites. She
collaborated on the development and resarch for the content of the "U.S.
Bishops and Immigraion" website. Any questions or comments on the website,
please contact Dr. Mazzenga at Mazzenga[at]cua.edu.

Todd Scribner, the Educational Outreach Coordinator for the Department of
Migration and Refugee Services at the United States Conference of Catholic
Bishops, collaborated in selecting and researching the content of this site.
In addition to his work for the USCCB, he is also pursuing a PhD in
religious studies at Catholic University with a specific focus on twentieth
century American Catholic political thought. Any questions with regard to
USCCB policy and resolutions on immigration, please conact Mr. Scribner at
Tscribner[at]usccb.org.

Joanna Lamb, a PhD candidate in history at CUA and a student archivist for
the American Catholic History Classroom website, designed the website pages,
collated and revised background texts, and wrote the introductions to the
primary documents.

http://libraries.cua.edu/achrcua/immigration/immigration_wel.html

http://libraries.cua.edu/achrcua/immigration/immigration_about.html


ANNOUNCEMENT

American History Classroom: US Catholic Bishops and Immigration

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Migration and Refugee
Services (USCCB/MRS) has partnered with The Catholic University of America
to develop an educational Website that highlights the significant role that
the U.S. Catholic bishops and the institutional Church in the United States
have played on immigration related issues, especially since the early
twentieth century.

For more than eighty years the Catholic Church in the United States, through
the successive variations of what today is the USCCB, has provided a strong,
institutional presence in support of immigrants and in favor of more just
immigration laws. This Website will facilitate access to primary documents
that help to highlight these efforts and an expansive narrative that will
provide the historical context necessary to understand the importance of
these documents. In addition, there will be a number of other educational
tools that students, faculty and researchers can use.

Todd Scribner
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
202-541-3208
Email: tscribner[at]usccb.org

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From the web site...

settler colonial studies

settler colonial studies is a peer reviewed academic journal, which is
published twice a year. We have established it to respond to what we believe
is a growing demand for reflection and critical scholarship on settler
colonialism as a distinct social and historical formation.

We aim to establish settler colonial studies as a distinct field of
scholarly research. Scholars and students will find and contribute to
historically-oriented research and analyses covering contemporary issues.
However, we also aim to present multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary
research, involving areas like history, law, genocide studies, indigenous,
colonial and postcolonial studies, historical geography, economics,
politics, sociology, international relations, political science, literary
criticism, cultural and gender studies and philosophy.

This journal will be considering original feature articles, review articles,
and proposals for thematic issues...

...settler colonialism is a global and transnational phenomenon, and as much
a thing of the past as a thing of the present. There is no such thing as
neo-settler colonialism or post-settler colonialism because settler
colonialism is a resilient formation that rarely ends. Not all migrants are
settlers: they are founders of political orders who carry with them a
distinct sovereign capacity. And settler colonialism is not colonialism:
settlers want Indigenous people to vanish (but can make use of their labour
before they are made to disappear). Sometimes settler colonial forms operate
within colonial ones, sometimes they subvert them, sometimes they replace
them. But even if colonialism and settler colonialism interpenetrate and
overlap, they remain separate as they co-define each other.

settler colonial studies accepts articles that align with this theme ('What
is Settler Colonialism?'), but will consider articles that do not.

http://ojs.lib.swin.edu.au/index.php/settlercolonialstudies

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

Many Ir-D members will find interesting this latest article by Charles
Orser, which might well be - I don't know - his last report on these
research processes. The article connects with Charles' earlier work on =
the
navvy work camps on the Illinois and Michigan Canal, and the even =
earlier
work on slave sites. The article also explores discourses around rural
Ireland and, of course, the peasant.

This is from the Conclusion...

'Archaeological research has brought to light
tangible information about the kinds of artefacts
used every day by the residents of the three houses.
Particular attention is paid here to ceramics, especially
to sponge-decorated wares. The introduction
of these wares provides interesting insights about
the incorporation of new objects into rural homes.
The analysis also demonstrates variability that
negates the labelling of Irish tenant farmers as
=91peasants=92. Use of the term flattens out the unique
character of each townland and eliminates the
social hierarchies that are known to have operated
in each place...'

P.O'S.

Three 19th-century house sites in rural Ireland=20
Tres yacimientos de habitaci=F3n del siglo XIX en la Irlanda rural=20
Drei Baupl=E4tze des 19. Jahrhunderts im l=E4ndlichen Irland=20
Trois sites de logement du XIXe si=E8cle dans l'Irlande rurale=20
Tre siti abitativi nell'Irlanda rurale del XIX secolo

Author: Orser, Charles E.1
Source: Post-Medieval Archaeology, Volume 44, Number 1, June 2010 , pp.
81-104(24)
Publisher: Maney Publishing

Abstract:
This report describes archaeological research at three house sites in =
rural
Ireland. The anthropologically-based research began in 1994 with the =
goal of
attempting to understand the material conditions of daily life in the
19th-century Irish countryside. The excavation results presented here =
were
obtained from individual households in counties Roscommon, Sligo and
Donegal, at sites dating from the early to mid-19th century. Two of the
sites are known to have been abandoned as a result of forced eviction.
Particular attention is paid to the ceramics found.=20

Spanish
Este art=EDculo describe la investigaci=F3n arqueol=F3gica llevada a =
cabo en tres
yacimientos de habitaci=F3n en la Irlanda rural. La investigaci=F3n =
comenz=F3 en
1994 con el fin de intentar comprender las condiciones materiales de la =
vida
cotidiana en el paisaje rural de la Irlanda del siglo XIX. Los =
resultados de
la excavaci=F3n que aqu=ED se presentan derivan de casas individuales en =
los
condados de Roscommon, Sligo y Donegal, fechadas en la primera mitad del
siglo XIX. Se sabe que dos de los yacimientos fueron abandonados por
desalojo forzado. El art=EDculo se centra especialmente en las =
cer=E1micas
encontradas.=20

German
Dieser Bericht beschreibt die arch=E4ologischen Arbeiten auf drei =
Baupl=E4tzen
im l=E4ndlichen Irland. Die Untersuchung begann 1994 mit dem =
anthropologischen
Ziel, die materiellen Bedingungen des t=E4glichen Lebens auf dem Lande =
im 19.
Jahrhundert zu verstehen. Die Ausgrabungsergebnisse, die hier =
vorgestellt
werden, stammen aus individuellen Haushalten in den Landkreisen =
Roscommon,
Sligo und Donegal, und zwar auf Grundsr=FCcken aus dem fr=FChen bis =
mittleren
19. Jahrhunderts. Wir wissen, da=DF zwei der Grundst=FCcke auf Grund
gerichtlicher Ausweisung ger=E4umt wurden. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit gilt =
den
Keramikfunden.=20

French
Ce rapport d=E9crit la recherche arch=E9ologique de trois sites de =
logement dans
l'Irlande rurale. La recherche a commenc=E9 en 1994 avec l'objectif
anthropologique de tenter de comprendre les conditions mat=E9rielles de =
la vie
quotidienne dans la campagne irlandaise du XIXe si=E8cle. Les =
r=E9sultats des
fouilles pr=E9sent=E9s ici ont =E9t=E9 obtenus =E0 partir des maisons =
individuelles
des comt=E9s de Roscommon, Sligo et Donegal, sur des sites datant de la
premi=E8re moiti=E9 du XIXe si=E8cle. Deux des sites sont connus pour =
avoir =E9t=E9
abandonn=E9s suite =E0 une expulsion forc=E9e. Une attention =
particuli=E8re est
port=E9e =E0 la c=E9ramique mise au jour.=20

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Article,
Smoking and health in London's East End in the first half of the
19th century
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This article has turned up in our alerts, along side Charles Orser's =
article
in the latest issue of Post-Medieval Archaeology.

The article's title and Abstract do not do justice to its significance.

The article reports on the skeletal remains of 705 people from the =
cemetery
of St Mary and St Michael (open 1843-54) in Whitechapel, London. The
article focuses on the evidence of tobacco smoking shown in these =
remains.

But this was a Catholic cemetery, in an Irish area of London. 'The =
cemetery
of the Catholic Mission of St Mary and St Michael, Whitechapel, London, =
was
open in the middle of the 19th century for a period of just eleven =
years.
Epigraphic data suggests that many of the excavated individuals may have
been of Irish extraction, with some migrating to escape the Great Irish
Famine. The cemetery sample is unusual as it dates from a relatively =
short
period of time and appears to have served a specific cultural group.'

So, the article has to place itself within that much wider discussion, =
about
the Famine refugees and the Irish in London. And of course it discusses =
the
Dudheen.

P.O'S.

Smoking and health in London's East End in the first half of the 19th
century=20

Authors: Walker, Don1; Henderson, Michael1
Source: Post-Medieval Archaeology, Volume 44, Number 1, June 2010 , pp.
209-222(14)
Publisher: Maney Publishing

Abstract:
The harmful effects of smoking are now proven, but to what extent can
tobacco use be identified in 19th-century skeletal remains? The full
osteological analysis of 705 individuals from the cemetery of St Mary =
and St
Michael (open 1843-54) in Whitechapel, London, revealed a high =
prevalence of
pipe smoking amongst the male population. In addition to a lower life
expectancy, the smokers were found to have increased levels of skeletal
evidence for lung disease when compared to the remainder of the sample. =
This
has implications for the health, social structure and cohesion of this =
Irish
migrant population.=20

Spanish
Aunque los efectos nocivos del tabaco est=E1n de sobra demostrados en la
actualidad, se desconoce si su presencia puede ser detectada en los =
restos
humanos del siglo XIX. El an=E1lisis osteol=F3gico de 705 individuos del
cementerio de Santa Mar=EDa y San Miguel en Whitechapel, Londres =
(abierto en
1843-1854) ha revelado un gran n=FAmero de fumadores de pipa entre la
poblaci=F3n masculina. Los fumadores, adem=E1s de tener una esperanza de =
vida
m=E1s corta, mostraban clara evidencia de enfermedades de pulm=F3n en
comparaci=F3n con el resto de los individuos analizados. Esto tiene =
grandes
implicaciones para la salud, estructura social y cohesi=F3n de la =
poblaci=F3n
irlandesa migradora.=20

German
Die sch=E4dlichen Wirkungen des Rauchens sind nun bewiesen, jedoch in =
welchem
Ausma=DF kann man Tabakgenu=DF in Skeletten des 19. Jahrhunderts =
identifizieren?
Eine volle Knochenanalyse von 705 Personen aus dem Friedhof St Mary and =
St
Michael in Whitechapel, London (benutzt f=FCr Bestattungen von 1843-54) =
zeigt
eine hohe Verbreitung des Pfeifenrauchens unter der m=E4nnlichen =
Bev=F6lkerung.
Zus=E4tzlich zur geringeren Lebenserwartung zeigten die Skelette der =
Raucher
verglichen mit den =FCbrigen Skeletten erh=F6hte Nachweise von
Lungenkrankheiten. Dieses hatte Auswirkungen auf die Gesundheit,
Sozialstruktur und Zusammenhalt der irischen Wanderbev=F6lkerung.=20

French
Les effets nocifs du tabac sont d=E9sormais prouv=E9s, mais jusqu'=E0 =
quel point
son utilisation peut =EAtre identifi=E9e dans les restes des squelettes =
du XIXe
si=E8cle? L'analyse ost=E9ologique compl=E8te de 705 individus du =
cimeti=E8re de St
Mary and St Michael =E0 Whitechapel, Londres (ouvert de 1843 =E0 1854), =
a r=E9v=E9l=E9
une grande pr=E9pond=E9rance de fumeurs de pipe parmi la population =
male. En
plus d'une esp=E9rance de vie plus faible, on a trouv=E9 dans les =
indices du
squelette une augmentation de maladie des poumons chez les fumeurs en
comparant ceux-ci avec les restes de l'=E9chantillonnage. Ceci a des
implications sur la sant=E9, la structure sociale et la coh=E9sion de =
cette
population immigrante d'irlandais.=20

Italian
Gli effetti nocivi del fumo sono oggi dimostrati, ma in che misura pu=F2
essere individuato l'uso del tabacco nei resti scheletrici del XIX =
secolo?
L'analisi osteologica completa di 705 individui dei cimiteri di St Mary =
e St
Michael, aperti fra il 1843 e il 1854 a Whitechapel, Londra, ha rivelato =
la
netta prevalenza di fumatori di pipa fra la popolazione maschile. =
Risulta
che i fumatori, non solo avevano un'aspettativa di vita pi=F9 breve, ma =
anche
maggiori segni di malattie polmonari a livello scheletrico se messi a
confronto con il resto del campione. Ci=F2 ha delle ripercussioni sulla
salute, la struttura sociale e la coesione della popolazione irlandese
emigrante.
Document Type: Research article
DOI: 10.1179/174581310X12662382629373
Affiliations: 1: Museum of London Archaeology, Mortimer Wheeler House, =
46
Eagle Wharf Road, London N1 7ED, UK