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A very favourable review of Catherine Nash's book in the latest issue of
Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe.

Of Irish Descent: Origin Stories, Genealogy, and the Politics of Belonging.
Catherine Nash.
Author: Whitaker, Robin1
Source: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe, Volume 10,
Number 1, Spring/Summer 2010 , pp. 27-28(2)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

Extracts below...

Of Irish Descent: Origin Stories, Genealogy, and the Politics
of Belonging. Catherine Nash. Syracuse University Press:
Syracuse, NY. 2008. xii + 352 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-
3159-0, ISBN-10: 0-8156-3159-6.

Robin Whitaker
Memorial University of Newfoundland

Let me confess up front a cranky history of dismissing many genealogy-based
identity claims as a violation of the ABCs of anthropology. Of course, my
sentiments echo a quarter century of leftish cultural theory in which
fluidity, mobility and hybridity figure large. Trouble is, this critique
approaches genealogy as "a set of politically problematic perspectives on
place, culture, identity, and belonging rather than as a popular social and
cultural practice" (p.14)-genealogy "in theory" rather than "in practice."
In contrast, Catherine Nash examines actual genealogical activities and the
ideas that animate them for people searching out Irish roots in the Republic
of Ireland, Northern Ireland and the United States...

...Irish ancestry offers an easy ethnic option for some: white privilege
absolved of guilt by historical oppression. For others, it opens a path to
social and political complexity, including awareness of Irish lives excluded
from stock nationalist narratives.

This diversity is well illustrated in Nash's work on genealogical quests by
overseas-mainly US American-Irish descendents. Some people start from the
idea that ancestry and belonging is multiple. Others seek a single origin
point-even if finding an "ancestral home" means disregarding other ancestral
lines. Yet people may have complexity thrust on them, as they discover
unexpected "ethnically hybrid family trees" (p. 58). Some relate a new
sense of cultural fluidity, or common and interconnected humanity, or social
and political histories in which Irish migrants were not simply on the
receiving end of colonialist power. Irish Americans who journey to Ireland
in search of lost relatives may confront differences of culture, class and
opinion about what it means to be Irish or the importance of shared
ancestry. Indeed, some amateur genealogists find greater kinship with other
researchers than with their newly discovered "blood" relatives.

Nash's chapter on Northern Ireland shows genealogy at its most humanistic.
The origin stories of the "two communities" narrow the ground for "ordinary"
family history...

...Nash concludes that genetic studies reinforce restrictive ideas about
what it means to be Irish by focusing on singular elements of "deep
ancestry" at the expense of historical complexity. However, since genetic
science is here to stay, a more useful critique might call on scientists to
publicly challenge any rendering of their work into popular but inaccurate
terms-even if this comes at the expense of media hype. In particular, they
should state unequivocally that whatever their work can reveal it cannot
answer the question of who is or can be Irish.

Nash's impressive empirical research kicks sand in the face of
over-generalization about the politics of genealogy. I occasionally got lost
in the detail, but the writing is clear and the book will be of interest
well beyond Irish studies to scholars working on problems of ethnic and
national
belonging in many disciplines. Nash makes a significant contribution by
documenting how these questions play out across a range of genealogical
practices, always animated by her conviction that "all accounts of descent
must be considered in terms of the political implications of the narrowness
or breadth of [their] different definitions of Irishness" (p. 264-5).

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1901 Census of Ireland goes online
June 03 2010

Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport, Mary Hanafin, today launched =
the website containing the full 1901 Census of Ireland Records at the =
National Archives in Bishop Street, Dublin.

The 1901 Census of Ireland Records contains over 4.5 million individual =
records from the returns made by some 850,000 households on census night =
in 1901 are now available free of charge for everyone across the world =
to access.

The 1901 Census of Ireland details are available at =
www.census.nationalarchives.ie.

The Irish Census returns for the night of Sunday 31 March 1901 provide =
detailed returns from households across 32 counties and are the earliest =
surviving complete government census returns.

...The 1901 Census of Ireland online returns usually cover one page per =
household containing details under the following categories - first =
name, surname, relation to head of family religious profession, =
education, age, sex, Rank/profession or occupation, marriage status, =
where born, whether the individual spoke Irish or English or both and if =
an individual had a disability.

The Department of Tourism, Culture and Sport allocated some =
=E2=82=AC3.78m to the digitisation of 1911 Census of Ireland. =20

Over the past five years the National Archives of Ireland has, through a =
research partnership with Library and Archives Canada managed and =
facilitated digitisation, indexing and contextualisation of the 1901 and =
1911 census records.=20

The first phase of the project, Dublin City and County 1911, was =
launched in December 2007...

SOURCE
http://www.insideireland.ie/index.cfm/section/news/ext/census001/category=
/1091

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FQS (Forum: Qualitative Social Research) is an open access, freely
available, peer-reviewed multilingual online journal for qualitative
research. It was established in 1999.

The latest issue of the journal FQS - with a Special Section on the =
theme of
'Visualising migration and social division' - has now been published. It =
is
available at:

FQS 11(2) "Visualising Migration and Social Division: Insights From =
Social
Sciences and the Visual Arts"
http://qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/view/34

The Introductory article is by Chris Gilligan and Susan Ball. The issue
will interest a number of Ir-D members, with its exploration of
visualisation, including works of art.

P.O'S.


Articles:

Ball, Susan (France) & Gilligan, Chris (UK). Introduction: Visualising
Migration and Social Division: Insights From Social Sciences and the =
Visual
Arts

Friend, Melanie (UK). Representing Immigration Detainees: The=20
Juxtaposition of Image and Sound in "Border Country"

Aston, Judith (UK). Spatial Montage and Multimedia Ethnography: Using=20
Computers to Visualise Aspects of Migration and Social Division Among a=20
Displaced Community

Brusl=E9, Tristan (France). Living In and Out of the Host Society. =
Aspects=20
of Nepalese Migrants' Experience of Division in Qatar

Ball, Susan & Petsimeris, Petros (France). Mapping Urban Social =
Divisions

den Besten, Olga (France). Visualising Social Divisions in Berlin:=20
Children's After-School Activities in Two Contrasted City Neighbourhoods

Doerr, Nicole (USA). Politicizing Precarity, Producing Visual Dialogues=20
on Migration: Transnational Public Spaces in Social Movements

Gilligan, Chris & Marley, Carol (UK). Migration and Divisions: Thoughts=20
on (Anti-) Narrativity in Visual Representations of Mobile People

Carvalheiro, Jos=E9 Ricardo (Portugal). Is the Discourse of Hybridity a=20
Celebration of Mixing, or a Reformulation of Racial Division? A=20
Multimodal Analysis of the Portuguese Magazine Afro

Wolbert, Barbara (USA). "Studio of Realism": On the Need for Art in=20
Exhibitions on Migration History

*********************************

Chris Gilligan
Senior Lecturer
Politics and Sociology Division
School of Social Sciences=20
University of the West of Scotland (UWS)
Paisley & Hamilton Campuses


http://www.ethnopolitics.org
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/reno


http://chrisgilligan.blogspot.com
http://westscotland.academia.edu/ChrisGilligan


=20

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Dear Paddy,
Breandan O Buachalla's obituary from today's Irish Times.
Yours,
Brian


The Irish Times - Saturday, June 5, 2010
*Authority and author on early modern Irish
**Breand=E1n =D3 Buachalla:* BREAND=C1N =D3 Buachalla, who has died aged 74=
, was
professor of modern Irish language and literature at University College
Dublin. Previously he had been professor in the School of Celtic Studies,
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, and latterly held the Thomas J and
Kathleen O=92Donnell chair of Irish language and literature at the Universi=
ty
of Notre Dame, Indiana. A leading authority on the literature and ideology
of early modern Ireland, he was the author of numerous books and articles o=
n
the impact of the Counter-Reformation on Irish political thought, early
modern Irish historiography, linguistics, Gaelic poetry and the cult of the
Stuarts in Irish literature. *Aisling Gh=E9ar: na Stiobhartaigh agus an tAo=
s
L=E9inn* (1996) is his magnum opus. =D3 Buachalla=92s achievement was appla=
uded by
*The Irish Times* : =93A monumental undertaking, the book is an amazing fea=
t
of scholarship, but is also highly diverting and has much for the lay reade=
r
as well as the professional historian.=94 An early book *, I mB=E9al Feirst=
e
Cois Cuain* (1968), examines the history of the Irish language in Belfast,
particularly the strong revival movement there at the turn of the 19th
century. Born in Co Cork, Breand=E1n =D3 Buachalla was the fourth child of
Joseph and Bridget Buckley (n=E9e de Courcy). He attended St Nessan=92s CBS=
and
later studied at University College Cork, where he secured a BA in Celtic
studies. He subsequently obtained an MA from the University of Munich. Afte=
r
three years as an assistant lecturer at Queen=92s University Belfast, in 19=
62
he became a lecturer in Irish at UCD. He was appointed professor of Irish i=
n
1978 and retired in 1995. In recent years, he founded the first modern Iris=
h
language department to be established outside Ireland, at Notre Dame.
Described as =93determined, ambitious and fiercely disciplined=94, he was a
committed Irish language revivalist. He led by example, speaking the best o=
f
Munster Irish. As president of Comhdh=E1il N=E1isi=FAnta na Gaeilge in 1969=
, he
said that the revival movement was neither right nor left of centre but
would have to remain all things to all men =96 a microcosm of the whole
community. =93Indeed, this is the only basis on which it can serve the
community and on which it can appeal to the people as a whole for their
unqualified support.=94 He was an unqualified supporter of the campaign to
keep D=FAn Chaoin national school in the Kerry Gaeltacht open after its for=
mal
closure by the Department of Education in 1970. A regular visitor to Corca
Dhuibhne, he had a close affinity with the area. The closure was the =93res=
ult
of 50 years of neglect, hypocrisy and inaction=94, he said, pupil numbers
having fallen from 100 in 1921 to only 21 in 1970. He resigned from
Comhairle na Gaeilge because of his dissatisfaction with its reaction to th=
e
closure. Parents and supporters ensured that the school continued to
function and, in 1973, it was formally reopened by the Fine Gael minister
for education, Dick Burke. =D3 Buachalla, an authority on Aog=E1n =D3 Ratha=
ille,
also was attracted to the Ulster poets, including Peadar =D3 Doirnin, the
=93bard of Louth=94, and Cathal Bu=ED Mac Giolla Ghunna. He had a keen inte=
rest in
Ulster=92s history. At the Merriman winter school in 1973, he said the Ulst=
er
Protestants had been led down a cultural wilderness by the slogan =93Ulster=
is
British=94. The wonder was, he added, that so many Ulster Protestants
recognised where their cultural allegiance was. In 1977, he said, if there
never had been a Plantation there would still be a Scottish element in
Ulster. For centuries before it, Scots had come across, people with the sam=
e
language and the same religion. Gaelic Ulster accepted Scotland as an
extension of itself. The Scots who came in the 17th century were different;
they had accepted the Reformation. Turning his attention to issues of the
day, he said at a meeting in Dublin in 1980 that the =93barbaric tearing
asunder=94 of Wood Quay was indicative of a certain attitude and mentality =
in
Irish public life which, if unchecked, would make this island the archetypa=
l
mid-Atlantic =93banana republic=94. That episode highlighted one of the gre=
atest
challenges facing the Irish people: to evolve again for their own day, in
their own terms, a new vision of Irish life; to evolve a cultural consensus=
,
a corpus of ideals, values, of hopes to which all could give allegiance.
Other publications include *Cl=E1r L=E1mhscr=EDbh=EDn=ED Gaeilge sa Leabhar=
lann
Phoibl=ED i mB=E9al Feirste (1962), Nua-Dhuanaire 1* , with Tom=E1s =D3 Con=
cheannain
and P=E1draig de Br=FAn (1972), and *An Caoine agus an Chaointeoireacht* (1=
998).
He contributed to journals such as *Zeitschrift fur Celtische Phiologie,
Lochlann, =C9riu* and *Celtica* as well as periodicals including *Comhar* a=
nd
*Feasta* . Most recently, he was engaged in editing a new Field Day series
on the works of 18th-century poets. He received the Butler Irish American
Foundation Literary Award in 1968 and, in 1969, he was awarded an American
Council of Learning Fellowship. A member of the Royal Irish Academy, he hel=
d
the Parnell Fellowship at Cambridge University as well as visiting
professorships at New York University and Boston College. He relaxed by
listening to music, by reading and by fishing. He was married in 1960 to
Aingeal N=ED Ch=E1inte who, with their daughters Br=EDd=F3g and Cl=EDona an=
d son
Traolach, survives him.
------------------------------

Breand=E1n =D3 Buachalla: born January 15th, 1936; died May 20th, 2010.

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No sign language if you want to get him talking... discourses of
d/deafness in the Republic of Ireland
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This article covers a number of issues that have interested Ir-D members in
the past.

I had better start by explaining d/Deaf. The author describes 'the need for
a socio-cultural perspective on Deafness, breaking away from the traditional
medical view of hearing impairment. This rise of the socio-cultural model of
Deafness, sometimes known as 'Big-D Deaf' is signified by the capitalisation
of the word Deaf, indicating membership to a cultural and linguistic
minority group, as opposed to lowercase deaf which signifies an audiological
deficiency.' And adds a footnote, 'Throughout this paper, Deaf and deaf
will represent socio-cultural and audiological interpretations of d/Deafness
respectively. When one interpretation cannot be clearly identified, the term
d/Deaf will be used.' Which, it seems, is common practice. And which, it
has to be said, pains the reading brain.

The author concludes, at the end of the article, 'The persistence of a
medical model which provides biased and inaccurate information to parents,
therefore, could be damaging for many more years to come in terms of
identity formation, parent-child relationships, and for the successful
uptake of the Deaf Community's call for a socio-cultural model of Deafness.'

In a way the article explores recurring features of Irish culture, but from
an unusual angle - in this case various hegemonies and changing attitudes to
deaf education. Irish Sign Language is recognised as a minority language in
Northern Ireland, but not in the Republic (Note 2). 'Proficiency in the
Irish language (Gaeilge) is required to become a qualified teacher at
primary school level. However, d/Deaf people are exempt from learning Irish
while at school, subsequently disqualifying them from enrolling in many
teacher training programmes later on.'

This article has not yet been assigned a place in the paper version of the
journal, and so does not yet have page numbers.

P.O'S.



Special Issue Paper
No sign language if you want to get him talking: power,
transgression/resistance, and discourses of d/deafness in the Republic of
Ireland

Elizabeth S. Mathews *

National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Maynooth, Ireland
email: Elizabeth S. Mathews (esmathews[at]yahoo.ie)
*Correspondence to Elizabeth S. Mathews, National University of Ireland,
Maynooth, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland

KEYWORDS
d/Deaf . power . resistance . inclusion . disability

ABSTRACT
This paper will discuss how, in spite of calls from the Deaf Community for a
socio-cultural model of Deafness to be implemented, a hegemonic medical
discourse of deafness is still evident in the health and education systems
serving d/Deaf children in the Republic of Ireland. This hegemony is
persisting through the social authority of medicine, the exclusion of Deaf
professionals from the medical and educational arenas, and the vulnerability
of hearing parents as they encounter professional medical services. By
examining the evolution of the medical and social models of d/Deafness,
focusing in particular on the non-use and use of Sign Language as signifiers
of the medical and social models respectively, this paper situates the
current state of deaf education in Ireland in the context of complex
historical processes and relative concepts of power. While there are
examples of transgression/resistance to the system, it will be argued that
the temporal and spatial limitations on these acts obstruct them from
challenging the system overall. This has been further compounded by the
changing spatial nature of this resistance, as more and more d/Deaf children
make their way through mainstream education. Copyright C 2010 John Wiley &
Sons, Ltd.

Population, Space and Place
See Also:
International Journal of Population Geography
Early View (Articles online in advance of print)
Published Online: 11 Feb 2010

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Congratulations are due to the people who produced this. It is a =
professional
and user-friendly work which will help many.
=20
Tony Morgan

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1901 Census of Ireland goes online
June 03 2010

Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport, Mary Hanafin, today launched =
the
website containing the full 1901 Census of Ireland Records at the =
National
Archives in Bishop Street, Dublin.

The 1901 Census of Ireland Records contains over 4.5 million individual
records from the returns made by some 850,000 households on census night =
in
1901 are now available free of charge for everyone across the world to
access.

The 1901 Census of Ireland details are available at
www.census.nationalarchives.ie.

The Irish Census returns for the night of Sunday 31 March 1901 provide
detailed returns from households across 32 counties and are the earliest
surviving complete government census returns.

...The 1901 Census of Ireland online returns usually cover one page per
household containing details under the following categories - first =
name,
surname, relation to head of family religious profession, education, =
age,
sex, Rank/profession or occupation, marriage status, where born, whether =
the
individual spoke Irish or English or both and if an individual had a
disability.

The Department of Tourism, Culture and Sport allocated some EUR3.78m to =
the
digitisation of 1911 Census of Ireland.=20

Over the past five years the National Archives of Ireland has, through a
research partnership with Library and Archives Canada managed and =
facilitated
digitisation, indexing and contextualisation of the 1901 and 1911 census
records.

The first phase of the project, Dublin City and County 1911, was =
launched in
December 2007...

SOURCE
http://www.insideireland.ie/index.cfm/section/news/ext/census001/category=
/109
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Subject: Remittances
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I stumbled across this graphic recently which I thought might be of
interest to the list.

http://www.migrationinformation.org/datahub/remittances.cfm

What is interesting is that other data (e.g.
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPROSPECTS/Resources/334934-1181678518183/Ireland.pdf)
shows that the value of remittances into Ireland more than doubled in
the last decade despite the fall in outward migration and the relative
economic growth experienced until very recently.

The biggest growth appears to be in 'employee compensation' which is
the payment made to employees who work in countries where they aren't
usually resident (i.e. non-resident employees of foreign companies
presumably), while the traditional migrant remittances tailed off year
by year since the start of the present century. Both of these might be
explained in terms of the economic growth Ireland experienced in the
past decade.

I wonder how much more significance migrant remittances will become in
the light of recent economic events.

Liam

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Subject: Book review, Rogers & O'Brien, After the Flood: Irish America,
1945-1960
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This brief, but helpful, review has appeared in the latest JAS.

Journal of American Studies (2010), 44:443-444 Cambridge University =
Press
Copyright =A9 Cambridge University Press 2010
doi:10.1017/S0021875810000678

Reviews
James Silas Rogers and Matthew J. O'Brien (eds.), After the Flood: Irish
America, 1945=961960 (Dublin: Irish Academic, 2009, =A319.95). Pp. 223. =
isbn 0
7165 2988 2.

SIN=C9AD MOYNIHAN a1
a1 University of Nottingham


In their short introduction to After the Flood, the editors note that =
Irish
American historiography has traditionally focussed on the nineteenth
century, particularly the years of the Great Famine (1). In line with =
more
recent studies, which challenge this narrow chronological scope, Rogers =
and
O'Brien make a claim for the years 1945 to 1960 as =93a distinct =
historical
and cultural moment=94 in Irish America, arguing that Irish American =
ethnicity
is of =93pivotal significance=94 in these years (4). Indeed, 1945 to =
1960 might
be =93the most important single period for twentieth-century =
Irish-American
ethnicity=94 (5). They and other contributors (notably Margaret Lee) are =
keen
to discredit the thesis of =93ethnic fade=94 which proposes a =
=93straight-line
course of assimilation that would reduce ethnicity to a romanticized
affectation=94 (2). Rogers and O'Brien need not be so emphatic in their
claims, which are, in any case, very difficult to prove. This is a
thoroughly original project, spanning history, politics and cultural =
studies
(literature, film, sport, music), that justifies its existence in its =
very
title. While the historical ground has been covered quite =
comprehensively by
Linda Dowling Almeida in Irish Immigrants in New York City, 1945=961995
(2001), it is true that very little analysis of Irish American culture =
in
these years exists and, moreover, that Almeida's New York focus =
necessarily
ignores the regional expanse of Irish migration to, and Irish American
influence in, the US during this period.

One of the most illuminating and convincing contexts discussed by =
several
contributors is that of the legacy of World War II and the ensuing Cold =
War.
In O'Brien's essay, he argues that the mainstream American preoccupation
with the Red Scare in the immediate postwar years presented the Ancient
Order of the Hibernians, whose membership and influence had declined in =
the
1930s and early 1940s, with an opportunity to reinvent itself in =
opposition
to the =93Anti-Christ=94 of communism and, thus, to promote Irish =
Catholicism's
compatibility with American patriotism. Stephanie Rains discusses the
sensational story of Colorado housewife Virginia Tighe, who =
=93apparently
recalled, under hypnosis, a previous life in nineteenth-century =
Ireland=94 as
Bridey Murphy (132). At a moment during which there were fears of =
communist
brainwashing, hypnosis was a controversial pursuit. Meanwhile, Edward
Hagan's essay on The Quiet Man (1952), undoubtedly the most exhaustively
discussed Irish American cultural phenomenon of the 1950s, draws upon =
its
appearance in the aftermath of World War II as a previously unconsidered
context for the film. Hagan reads Se=E1n Thornton's search for =93peace =
and
quiet=94 in the light of =93that constellation of postwar psychological
hangovers that since the 1970s have come to be grouped under the =
diagnosis
of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)=94 (102).

Almost inevitably with an edited collection, the quality of the essays =
is
not consistently robust. Nonetheless, After the Flood fills an important =
gap
(post-Depression; pre-JFK) in scholarship of Irish America, and, indeed, =
the
contributors do not ignore the historiography of this scholarship =
itself.
Fittingly, Charles Fanning concludes the collection by noting the =
foundation
of the American Committee for Irish Studies (now the American Conference =
for
Irish Studies) in 1960.

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A Parliamentary Victory: The British Labour Party and Irish
Republican Deportees, 1923
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Ivan Gibbons' continuing project about the early Labour Party and Irish
issues...

See also...

Gibbons, Ivan. "The Irish Policy of the First Labour Government." Labour
History Review, 2007, 72pp. 169-184(16).

This new article appears in the latest issue of Parliamentary History.


A Parliamentary Victory: The British Labour Party and Irish Republican
Deportees, 1923

IVAN GIBBONS 1

1 St Mary's University College, London

KEYWORDS
the Labour Party . Irish Free State . Ramsay MacDonald . deportees . civil
liberties . 'Red Clydesiders' . Indemnity Bill . Patrick Hastings .
republican . parliamentary

ABSTRACT
After the 1918 general election the Labour Party became the official
opposition party at Westminster. In response to the growing Irish republican
campaign to establish an independent Irish state the Labour Party had to
re-assess its relationship with Irish nationalism. The Labour Party was now
acutely conscious that it was on the verge of forming a government and was
concerned to be seen by the British electorate as a responsible, moderate
and patriotic government-in-waiting. Although it had traditionally supported
Irish demands for home rule and was vehemently opposed to the partition of
Ireland, the Labour Party became increasingly wary of any closer
relationship with extreme Irish nationalism which it believed would only
damage its rapidly improving electoral prospects. Therefore the Labour Party
supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 even though it underpinned the
partition of Ireland and sought to distance itself from any association with
Irish republicanism as the new Irish Free State drifted into civil war. In
early 1923 the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) alighted upon the new issue
of the arrest and deportation without trial, to the Irish Free State, of
Irish republicans living in Britain who were obviously British citizens. The
attraction of this campaign for the Labour Party was that it enabled the
party to portray itself as the defender of Irish people living in Britain
without having to take sides in the Irish civil war. In addition the Labour
Party was able to present itself as the protector of civil liberties in
Britain against the excesses of an overweening and authoritarian
Conservative government. One of the main reasons the issue was progressed so
energetically on the floor of the House by the new PLP was because it now
contained many Independent Labour Party (ILP) 'Red Clydesiders' who
themselves had been interned without trial during the First World War.

Through brilliant and astute use of parliamentary tactics Bonar Law's
Conservative government was forced into an embarrassing climb-down which
required the cobbling together of an Indemnity Bill which gave tory
ministers retrospective legal protection for having exceeded their
authority. By any standard, it was a major achievement by a novice
opposition party. It enhanced the party's reputation and its growing
sophistication in the use of parliamentary tactics benefited it electorally
at the next election which led to the first Labour government.

Parliamentary History
Volume 29 Issue 2, Pages 192 - 207
Published Online: 11 May 2010
C The Parliamentary History Yearbook Trust 2010

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Transnational Feminism and Norm Diffusion in Peace Processes: The
Cases of Burundi and Northern Ireland
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Transnational Feminism and Norm Diffusion in Peace Processes: The Cases of
Burundi and Northern Ireland

Author: Miriam J. Anderson

Published in: Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Volume 4, Issue 1
March 2010 , pages 1 - 21

Abstract
This essay offers an explanation for how and why women's rights are included
in contemporary peace agreements. I identify six causal mechanisms by which
women secured participation and women's rights in the peace processes of
Burundi (1998-2000) and Northern Ireland (1996-98). First, violent conflict
and peace talks produce the conditions of 'grievance' and 'optimism'
necessary for social movement mobilization. Second, women use 'procedural
grafting' to demand inclusion in peace processes. Third, they use 'strategic
essentialism' to overcome the ethno-political divisions of the conflict.
Fourth, women call upon relevant practices used in peace processes of the
Global South. Fifth, high-level actors may influence peace processes to
further international objectives. Sixth, women's involvement with
transnational feminist networks facilitates the reproduction of
international human rights language.
Keywords: Burundi; negotiations; norm diffusion; Northern Ireland; peace
processes; transnational feminist networks

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Citizenship Attribution in a New Country of Immigration: Ireland
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Citizenship Attribution in a New Country of Immigration: Ireland

Author: Iseult Honohan a
Affiliation: a School of Politics and International Relations, University
College, Dublin

Published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Volume 36, Issue 5
May 2010 , pages 811 - 827

Abstract
This article examines how the change in Ireland's demographic condition from
a country of emigration to one of large-scale immigration has affected
citizenship attribution. The article outlines the origin of Irish
citizenship laws, with particular reference to the pure ius soli system
applied to those born on the island of Ireland until 2005. While significant
changes in citizenship attribution have emerged in response to increasing
immigration, the specific character of these changes has been shaped also by
other forces, including the issue of Northern Ireland, the relationship of
the Republic of Ireland to the UK, and the development and expansion of the
European Union. These have influenced recent notable changes in the
attribution of citizenship at birth and on the basis of marriage, and
proposed changes in requirements for naturalisation. The article examines
whether and to what extent these changes represent a convergence towards a
European norm and whether they signify a changing conception of citizenship
in Ireland.

Keywords: Citizenship; Nationality; Ius Soli; Ireland; Immigration

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Dancing in the Diaspora: Cultural Long-Distance Nationalism and
the Staging of Chineseness
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A number of IR-d members, especially the dance theorists, will find this
article of interest.

The article turned up in our alerts, but my usual routes would not give =
me
access to it. I then discovered that the article is freely available on =
the
University of California's new eScholarship web site
http://escholarship.org/about_new.html

eScholarship provides a suite of open access, scholarly publishing =
services
to the University of California and delivers a dynamic research platform =
to
scholars worldwide. And certainly looks worth exploring...

Permalink:
http://escholarship.org/uc/item/50k6k78p
for the Dancing in the Diaspora article.

The article makes use of 'Irish' theorising, including...

Rachel G. Fleming, =93Resisting Cultural Standardization:
Comhaltas Ceolt=F3ir=ED =C9ireann and the Revitalization of Traditional =
Music in
Ireland,=94 Journal of
Folklore Research 41, no. 2/3 (2004): 246

Natasha Casey, =93Riverdance: The Importance of Being Irish American,=94 =
New
Hibernia Review 6, no. 4 (2002): 19.

P.O'S.


Title: Dancing in the Diaspora: Cultural Long-Distance Nationalism and =
the
Staging of Chineseness by San Francisco=92s Chinese Folk Dance =
Association
Author: Wong, Sau-ling C.
Published: Journal of Transnational American Studies (1940-0764) 2:1,
2010

Abstract:
This essay analyzes the history of a San Francisco Bay Area cultural
institution over a period of more than four decades, and, applying to it =
the
concept of "cultural long-distance nationalism," it attempts to tease =
apart
the complexity of cultural practice in diaspora. The organization in
question is the Chinese Folk Dance Association (CFDA), founded in 1959, =
a
pro-People=92s Republic of China (PRC) troupe of amateur dancers and =
musicians
playing Chinese instruments. As someone who was peripherally involved =
with
the group in the mid-1970s and early 1980s and was a friend or =
acquaintance
of a few members of the group, I became curious about the changes in its
activities, its performance programs, its roles in the Bay Area =
community,
and its self-perceived relationship to the homeland over time. I have
examined the CFDA=92s performance programs, photographs, and press =
coverage
since the 1970s (earlier archival material was not available to me), as =
well
as interviewed three of its key figures and spoken on several occasions =
with
one of the three, the long-time executive director of the group and a =
friend
from graduate school. What I have found is that the changes undergone by =
the
group reveal the multiplicity of factors that go into the staging of
Chineseness in diaspora and the challenges inherent in such a process. =
The
challenges are especially acute given how rapidly the nation-state to =
which
a specific cultural presentation is tied=97the People=92s Republic of =
China
(PRC)=97has itself been undergoing rapid and radical transformations.

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Writing Irish Art History - 20 November 2010, Dublin, Ireland

The aim of this student-led research day is to highlight current scholarship
on the historiography of Irish art, architecture and material culture.
Keynote presentations will be given by Professor Tom Dunne, U.C.C., and Dr.
Roisin Kennedy, U.C.D. The event is hosted and supported by TRIARC, the
Irish Art Research Centre, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland

We welcome proposals from researchers working in a broad range of areas,
including painting, sculpture, architecture, material culture, design, film,
literature, cultural geography and print cultures.

Proposals of c.250 words (for 15 minute papers) to
writingirisharthistory[at]gmail.com
or to Caroline McGee and Niamh NicGhabhann, TRIARC - Trinity Irish Art
Research Centre, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Provost's
House Stables, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2.

http://writingirisharthistory.blogspot.com

Email: writingirisharthistory[at]gmail.com

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Subject: O'Donnell Fellowship 2011, application extension to 19 July 2010
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Dear all,

The application period for the 2011 O'Donnell Fellowship in Irish Studies
has been extended, applications welcome until **Monday 19 July 2010**

The fellowship is offered by the Academic Centre at Newman and St Mary's
Colleges, University of Melbourne.

If you have interested colleagues and students and could bring this to their
attention that would be much appreciated.

Details at:
http://www.academiccentre.stmarys.newman.unimelb.edu.au/?page_id=237

Best wishes,

Angela

Angela Gehrig
Director, Academic Centre
St Mary's College and Newman College
University of Melbourne
Telephone: 9342 1614 or 9349 9511
http://www.academiccentre.stmarys.newman.unimelb.edu.au/

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Subject: Corrected URL for The American Catholic History Classroom
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When I tried to follow the link it did not work, I contacted as site and
received the following:



. It looks as though the link to the website shouldn't have the www. before
the address. It should just read as follows:



http://libraries.cua.edu/achrcua/packets.html



Thanks to Todd Scribner for a prompt reply.



Bill Mulligan

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Being 'at home' in the nation: Hospitality and sovereignty in
talk about immigration
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Being 'at home' in the nation: Hospitality and sovereignty in talk about
immigration

Avril Bell
Massey University, New Zealand, s.a.bell[at]massey.ac.nz

The discourse of hospitality is widely used as a way of making sense of the
relationships between 'natives' and 'newcomers' established by immigration.
While at first glance this seems a generous and benign system of meaning to
apply to relations of immigration, the reality is more complex than this
initial view suggests. Relations of hospitality are power relations in which
the sovereignty of the host and their possession of the national 'homeland'
are asserted over new arrivals. These relationships are complicated further
in the case of settler societies, such as New Zealand, where the role of
host has been usurped by the settler community. Drawing on the analysis of
interview data with young white New Zealanders, in this article I highlight
the power relations of hospitality and draw attention to both the value and
limitations of this discourse in making sense of relations of immigration in
the longer term.

Key Words: Derrida . discourse analysis . home . hospitality . host
community . immigration . nation . settler society . sovereignty

Ethnicities, Vol. 10, No. 2, 236-256 (2010)
DOI: 10.1177/1468796810361653

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March 1914
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Historical Research
Early View (Articles online in advance of print)
Published Online: 28 May 2010
C 2010 Institute of Historical Research

The army, the press and the 'Curragh incident', March 1914
M. L. Connelly 1
1 University of Kent
ABSTRACT
This article explores the connection between the army, the press and the
Unionist party during the so-called 'Curragh incident' of March 1914 in
which certain army officers expressed their unwillingness to impose Home
Rule on Ireland. Although there is much scholarship on this aspect of Irish
history, there has been no study of the crucial role played by the press and
the army's attempts to use it for political purposes. This article centres
upon a thorough examination of a broad range of newspapers and other
supporting material in order to provide a fresh perspective on the crisis.

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Subject: TOC JOURNAL OF IRISH ARCHAEOLOGY VOL 18; 2009
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JOURNAL OF IRISH ARCHAEOLOGY
VOL 18; 2009
ISSN 0268-537X

pp. 1-16
An early Neolithic house at Barnagore, Co. Cork.
Danaher, E.

pp. 17-62
Mediterranean and Frankish pottery imports in early medieval Ireland.
Doyle, I.W.

pp. 63-76
The height of fashion: raised raths in the landscape of north-west Ulster.
Kerr, T.R.

pp. 77-94
Viking Age gold and silver from Irish crannogs and other watery places.
Graham-Campbell, J.; Sheehan, J.

pp. 95-114
St Nicholas's parish church, Galway: structural and architectural evidence
for the high medieval period.
McKeon, J.

pp. 115-128
Native industry from newcomer artisans? Evidence for a post-medieval pottery
in the Liberties, Dublin.
Frazer, W.O.

pp. 129-139
Politics and the definition of National Monuments: the `Big House problem'.
Carew, M.

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Subject: TOC IRISH POLITICAL STUDIES VOL 25; NUMBER 1; 2010
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IRISH POLITICAL STUDIES
VOL 25; NUMBER 1; 2010
ISSN 0790-7184

pp. 67-94
'Modernising Conservatism': The Northern Ireland Young Unionist Movement in
the 1960s.
Mulholland, M.

pp. 95-106
'Rewarding the Wealthy' versus 'Looking After the Poor': Affective
Perception of 'Right' and 'Left' by Candidates in the 2007 Irish General
Elections.
Sudulich, M. L.; Wall, M.

pp. 107-122
Irish Associations and Lobbying on EU Legislation: Resources, Access Points,
and Strategies.
Dur, A.; Mateo, G.

pp. 123-129
The United States, Northern Ireland and the 'War on Terror': A Reply to
Christopher P. Cunningham.
Clancy, M. A.

pp. 131-133
Northern Ireland and the 'War on Terror': A Reply to Mary Alice Clancy.
Cunningham, C.

pp. 135-154
Book Reviews.
Bean, K.; Gildart, K.; Lynn, B.; Buchanan, S.; Patterson, H.; Mulvenna, G.;
O'Kane, E.; Dixon, P.; Norton, C.

pp. 1-21
Political Language as a Flexible Friend: Irish Parliamentary Debate on the
Iraq War.
O'Regan, M.

pp. 23-45
Debating Rights in the New Northern Ireland.
Whitaker, R.

pp. 47-65
Prostitution and the Irish State: From Prohibitionism to a Globalised Sex
Trade.
Ward, E.

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March 1914
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Even the language in the abstract of this article is suspect regarding
the "Curragh incident"- "in which certain army officers expressed their
unwillingness to impose Home Rule on Ireland" - so that's what
happened? Talk about revisionist history...

Carmel

On 6/8/2010 1:02 PM, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:
> Historical Research
> Early View (Articles online in advance of print)
> Published Online: 28 May 2010
> C 2010 Institute of Historical Research
>
> The army, the press and the 'Curragh incident', March 1914
> M. L. Connelly 1
> 1 University of Kent
> ABSTRACT
> This article explores the connection between the army, the press and the
> Unionist party during the so-called 'Curragh incident' of March 1914 in
> _*which certain army officers expressed their unwillingness to impose Home
> Rule on Ireland.*_ Although there is much scholarship on this aspect of Irish
> history, there has been no study of the crucial role played by the press and
> the army's attempts to use it for political purposes. This article centres
> upon a thorough examination of a broad range of newspapers and other
> supporting material in order to provide a fresh perspective on the crisis.
>
> .
>
>