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This is a very successful issue of IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW, which has the
effect of increasing ones respect for Frank McGuinness - his work withstands
and overcomes this intense academic scrutiny.

P.O'S.

IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW
VOL 40; NUMB 1; 2010
ISSN 0021-1427

pp. x-xiv
Celebrating with Frank McGuinness.
Brannigan, J.

pp. 1-17
An Irish Writer and Europe, 1999-2009.
McGuinness, F.

pp. 18-25
An Interview with Frank McGuinness.
Roche, A.

pp. 26-34
Letters from Frank: A Playwright Reflects on his Work.
Lojek, H.H.

pp. 35-45
Eggs De Valera: Reflections on Dolly West's Kitchen and Dancing at Lughnasa.
Mason, P.

pp. 46-58
Coming Out: McGuinness's Dramaturgy and Queer Resistance.
Cregan, D.

pp. 59-68
The Tyranny of Memory: Remembering the Great War in Frank McGuinness's
Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme.
Pine, E.

pp. 69-80
Joyce, Yeats and The Bird Sanctuary.
Murray, C.

pp. 81-91
Advice to the Players (and the Historians): The Metatheatricality of
McGuinness's Mutabilitie.
Dean, J.F.

pp. 92-100
Mutabilitie: In Search of Shakespeare.
Grene, N.

pp. 101-113
Brushing History Against the Grain: The Renaissance Plays of Frank
McGuinness.
Fogarty, A.

pp. 114-125
Frank McGuinness's Dark Masque: Speaking Like Magpies.
Mikami, H.

pp. 126-137
In the Wings: The Poetry of Frank McGuinness.
Harmon, M.

pp. 138-153
Til Death Do Us Part: Communion, Alchemy, and Endings in the Work of Frank
McGuinness.
Jordan, E.

pp. 154-165
The Frank McGuinness Archive, UCD Special Collections.
Flanagan, E.

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Writing without borders

Creative Writing
Summer School
30th August-1st September 2010

WRITING WITHOUT BORDERS, the inaugural Creative Writing Summer School at the
John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies, is a unique opportunity to
work in a focussed way with some of Ireland's leading creative writers,
covering all the main literary genres and exploring themes related to the
notion of Irish writing within a wider, global context.

Open to writers of all levels, Writing Without Borders follows on from the
first artists' residency held at the John Hume Institute for Global Irish
Studies (2008/2009), in which poet Nessa O'Mahony curated a discussion about
what it meant to be an Irish writer in a global context. This course will
continue that discussion, bringing leading Irish writers Hugo Hamilton,
Claire Keegan and Pat Boran together for master classes and readings which
will explore that idea further. There will be daily creative writing
workshops with Nessa O'Mahony, who will also coordinate the programme.


Programme
30 Aug 11:00-13:00 Creative Writing workshop
with Nessa O'Mahony,

15:00-17:00 Master Class with Pat Boran

31 Aug 11:00-13:00 Creative Writing workshop
with Nessa O'Mahony

15:00-17:00 Master Class with Claire Keegan
1 Sept 11:00-13:00 Creative writing workshop
with Nessa O'Mahony

15:00-17:00 Master Class with Hugo Hamilton
18:30 R eading with Pat Boran, Hugo
H amilton and Nessa O'Mahony

VENUE John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies,
U CD, Belfield, Dublin 4.

Fees The delegate fee is Eur250
(this will include all tuition and lunch each day)

Interested?
Contact Nessa O'Mahony
Telephone +353 87 9309670
Email nessa.omahony[at]ucd.ie
John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies,
University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4.
www.ucd.ie/johnhumeinstitute

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There has been much discussion of the Saville Report, over the past =
week, in
the Irish and in British media, and the Saville process has been noted
throughout the world.

The Saville Report will be published later today.

Much of the comment seems to amount to position taking, before the =
detail of
the Saville Report is available.

I give some samples, below. A web search will find many more.

I have included at the end Joshua Rozenberg's comments on the legal
background. =20

P.O'S.

'De Gaulle would have hated the Saville inquiry
The French leader glossed over his nation=92s shortcomings. But =
sometimes cold
examination of the truth is needed

Charles de Gaulle would have been baffled and outraged by the Saville
inquiry. Not by its findings, but that any country would go to such =
lengths
to explore a painful and complicated chapter from the past.

This week a handful of surviving members of the French Resistance will =
come
to London to commemorate the 70th anniversary of de Gaulle=92s famous =
radio
address from London, in which he told the French people: =93The flame of
French Resistance must not and will not be extinguished.=94...

...De Gaulle and Lord Saville of Newdigate represent diametrically =
opposed
attitudes to history: one sought to soften and simplify the past, the =
other
has worked to expose the truth, however ugly.

The Saville inquiry into the fatal shooting of 13 protesters by British
troops in Londonderry on =93Bloody Sunday=94 in January 1972, has been
stupefyingly expensive (=A3191 million) and painfully protracted (12 =
years).
It is scandalous that a single senior counsel was paid =A34.5 million, =
almost
half the original estimated budget. The final report weighs in at a
staggering 45lb and 5,000 pages, making it the most unpickupable =
publication
of the year.

But there can be no doubting the nobility of the inquiry=92s purpose, =
the
thoroughness of Lord Saville=92s methods and his determination to dig as
deeply as possible.'

SOURCE

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/ben_macintyre/article=
715
0077.ece

The Bloody Sunday inquiry: was it worth it?
Lord Saville will tomorrow publish his report on the Bloody Sunday
shootings. Paul Bew asks if its findings can do any good, 38 years after =
the
event.

SOURCE

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/northernireland/7825835/The-Bloody=
-Su
nday-inquiry-was-it-worth-it.html

This Bloody Sunday verdict is a milestone in Northern Ireland's path to
peace

Roy Foster

Bloody Sunday changed everything. Past evasions and shoddiness make the
Saville inquiry's verdict essential to reconciliation
=20
The Guardian

'I feel like that guy in Don DeLillo's Libra," remarked a historian =
friend
when faced with the deliberations of the Saville inquiry, which reports
today. He was thinking of the character who is fated to sift through =
every
piece of evidence and testimony about the Kennedy assassination, =
resulting
in the collapse of all meaning through information overload. The =
parallel is
a good one: both investigations concern violent events which at a stroke
changed everything. But the difference is that in the 38 years since 30
January 1972, the conspiracy theories about Bloody Sunday in Derry, =
unlike
those revolving around the grassy knoll at Dallas, seem more plausible =
than
ever.

This has much to do with the evasions, condescension and shoddiness of =
the
1972 Widgery report, whose attempt to defuse the aftermath of the =
killings
damaged the credibility of the British government in Ireland as much as =
the
actions of the Paras did. Its sketchy and contradictory approach to
evidence, and the heavily biased way it presented the victims, have =
since
been forensically demonstrated; the idea of a cover-up at the time was
amplified by the suppression of the Sunday Times Insight team's report. =
The
immediate circumstances of reconciliation politics in 1998, and Blair's
inclination towards touchy-feely gestures, may have precipitated the
decision to mount a large-scale inquiry, but the blatant inadequacies of
Widgery meant it had to happen some time...

SOURCE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jun/15/saville-inquiry-marks=
-mi
lestone-to-peace


Lord Saville's Bloody Sunday report is a failure of the judicial process
The second inquiry into the events in Derry on 30 January, 1972, is
over-long and grossly over-due

Joshua Rozenberg
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 3 June 2010=20

...Never again will we see a judicial inquiry that has lasted so long or
cost so much. Nor can we expect any truly independent judicial inquiries =
in
future. Five years ago, parliament passed legislation that gives a
government minister power to change a judicial inquiry's terms of =
reference.
If it acts outside those terms, the minister may sack the judge or cut =
off
his funding. The Inquiries Act 2005 also allows ministers to ban =
publication
of evidence and restrict media attendance at the inquiry to save money. =
If
all else fails, the minister may bring the inquiry to a premature end.

Other killings in Northern Ireland provided the impetus for the 2005
legislation. But it is hard to escape the conclusion that ministers =
thought
the Bloody Sunday inquiry was running out of control. Any judge asked to
conduct an inquiry in future =96 such as the one William Hague has =
promised
into torture allegations =96 should study the reaction to Saville's =
report
this month before deciding whether to give up the day job...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2010/jun/03/lord-saville-bloody-sunday-inqu=
iry

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Call for papers:
=A0
SEMINAR:
Shakespeare=92s Ireland, Ireland=92s Shakespeare=20
=A0
World Shakespeare Congress, 17th - 22nd 2011, Prague
=A0
Rui Carvalho Homem (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
Clare Wallace (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic)
=A0
Abstract:
This seminar will explore the mutual consequence suggested by the =
chiasmus
in its title. It responds to a growing critical interest in textual
relations involving =91Elizabeth=92s other isle=92 (Highley 1997) and =
the work of
Shakespeare and other Early Modern authors. It aims to extend this =
recent
interest by welcoming papers both on representations of Ireland and the
Irish in Elizabethan and Jacobean texts, and on the afterlife that the
writing of Shakespeare and his contemporaries has encountered in =
Ireland.

Critical designs that bear on Shakespeare=92s Ireland and Ireland=92s
Shakespeare have often invoked the discourses that are proper to =
comparative
literature, studies of intertextuality, canon-formation, and
postcoloniality. The resulting insights emphasise the tensions between a
centre of power and a territory whose closeness has enhanced rather than
hindered its validity as a defining other. The seminar will therefore
welcome papers that highlight how productive Shakespeare=92s work (the =
=91centre
of the canon=92 =96 Bloom 1994) can prove for the study of historical =
dynamics
that have shaped the cultural and political traditions of Britain and
Ireland. Further, the analogies provided by postcolonial and subaltern
studies allow for the dynamics that characterise Shakespeare and Ireland =
to
be brought to bear upon relations involving other cultures.
=A0
Potential participants should send a proposal of 500 words before 30th
September to:
=A0
Prof Rui Carvalho Homem: rchomem[at]netcabo.pt
Dr Clare Wallace: wallace[at]ff.cuni.cz
=A0
You may also register directly by contacting
Dr Nick Walton
ISA[at]shakespeare.org.uk
=A0
International Shakespeare Association:
http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/content/view/442/446

=A0

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Irish Educational Studies: Volume 29 Issue 2 is now available online at
informaworld (http://www.informaworld.com).

This new issue contains the following articles:

Editorials

Editorial, Pages 103 - 106
Authors: Paul Conway; Dympna Devine; Emer Smyth; Aisling Leavy

Original Articles

Which are the 'best' feeder schools in Ireland? Analysing school performance
using student third level destination data, Pages 107 - 130
Authors: Vani K. Borooah; Donal Dineen; Nicola Lynch

Students' experiences of aggressive behaviour and bully/victim problems in
Irish schools, Pages 131 - 152
Author: Stephen James Minton

Too cool for school? Musicians as partners in education, Pages 153 - 166
Author: Ailbhe Kenny

Professional identity in early childhood care and education: perspectives of
pre-school and infant teachers, Pages 167 - 187
Author: Mary Moloney

The silent politics of educational disadvantage and the National
Anti-poverty Strategy, Pages 189 - 199
Author: Roland Tormey

Book reviews

BOOK REVIEWS, Pages 201 - 206
Authors: Sarah C. E. Riley; Karl Kitching

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Ethnic minority populations and child psychiatry services: An
Irish study
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Note that this article has not yet been assigned a place in the paper
version of the journal.

This article will interest a number of Ir-D members, I think. In a
comparative context I find it quite disturbing. There are the usual
mentions of 'ethnic sensitivity', but no acknowledgement at all of the huge
literature outside Ireland on the ways in which people from specific
communities - especially black boys and men - come to the attention of
psychiatric services.

P.O'S.


Children and Youth Services Review
Copyright C 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved

Ethnic minority populations and child psychiatry services: An Irish study

In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 24 April 2010

Norbert Skokauskas, Maria Dunne, Alan Gallogly, Ciaran Clark


Abstract
Background
Ethnically, Ireland has diversified greatly over the last twelve years
changing from a country of emigration to one of immigration. Blanchardstown,
a western suburb of Dublin, is one of the most ethnically diverse areas,
with the youngest population in Ireland.
Aims and methods

This study aimed to examine any differences in referrals, clinical diagnoses
and administrative outcomes of immigrants and Irish children referred to
Blanchardstown Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) over the
period of one calendar year.
Results

Blanchardstown CAMHS received 202 referrals in 2007. There were 132 (65.5%)
Irish and 65 (32.2%) immigrant children referred to the service. Nigerians
accounted for more than a half of all immigrant children. Family doctors
referred the majority of Irish children (58.4%; 77); non-Irish children were
referred mainly by teachers (51%; 33) (p 0.05); more
immigrant children, however, dropped out following an initial appointment
(16.1% vs. 2.4% p < 0.05). More non-Irish than Irish children were diagnosed
with Axis-1 diagnosis (66.7% vs. 53.4%; p < 0.05). The two most common
Axis-1 diagnoses among both non-Irish and Irish children were Attention
Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Pervasive developmental disorders.
Conclusions

Immigrant children accounted for a substantial minority of children referred
to Blanchardstown CAMHS. The psychiatric problems of immigrant children most
often came to light through schools. More non-Irish children compare with
Irish had an Axis-1 disorder.

Article Outline
1. Introduction
2. Aims
3. Methods
4. Results
5. Discussion
6. Conclusions
References

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Yes, and it will be 100+ years before our grandchildren learn the truth abo=
ut the Dublin/Monaghan bombings of 1974 or the Dublin bomb of 1972.
Kerby


On 6/16/10 2:33 AM, "Patrick O'Sullivan" wrote=
:

From: Carmel McCaffrey
Subject: Re: [IR-D] De Gaulle would have hated the Saville inquiry

Why am I not surprised at the posturing and back slapping of the
British media on this issue? De Gaulle would have hated the inquiry? Heck,
the British avoided a real inquiry until they were pushed into it in the
1990s. The British authorities delayed the granting of justice for 38
years but now the Times is gloating at the imminent release of the
results? And the victims were "protesters"? How about unarmed,
peaceful civil rights marchers, that is more accurate. And the reality
is that the victims' families had to go through hell and hight water to
demand that justice be done.

The Irish media have also something to say - and it is frequently less
"complimentary" than the back slapping going on in the London Times and
the Guardian. Here an article in the Irish Times by Eamonn McCann, a
Derry based journalist.

Carmel

Quote:

/A number of things made the events in Derry different. This wasn't an
atrocity perpetrated on one community by people purporting to represent
the other. It could not be fitted into the preferred narrative of
official British thinking. The killers had been uniformed to represent
the state. The affront was compounded by the fact that the state at the
highest level had then proclaimed that the killings were neither wrong
nor illegal./

/In every other comparable atrocity, the victims were acknowledged as
having been wrongly done to death and the perpetrators damned as
wrongdoers. But the Bloody Sunday families were told, in effect, that
while they might personally, reasonably, lament the loss of a loved one,
they had no wider ground for grievance or legitimate expectation of the
killers being brought to account./

/All the dead were thus diminished. Liam Wray, brother of Jim Wray, 22,
shot in the back at point-blank range as he lay wounded in Glenfada
Park, commented: "It said that my brother was less than fully human."/

/Bloody Sunday was different, too, in that it was to prove a significant
plot point in the narrative of the Northern Troubles. Communal heartache
in the wake of mass killings has tended generally to dissipate over
time, the happiness of those left behind likely shattered forever but
public life not discernibly changed./

/In contrast, Bloody Sunday catapulted working-class Catholic
communities across the North outside all notions of constitutionality,
removing from the Stormont parliament whatever legitimacy it had
retained among Catholics. The parliament, which had governed the North
since partition, was abolished eight weeks after Bloody Sunday, three
weeks before publication of Widgery's findings. No other major change
has stemmed so directly from a single incident./


Full article:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2010/0612/1224272334779.html


On 6/15/2010 3:18 AM, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:
> There has been much discussion of the Saville Report, over the past week,
in
> the Irish and in British media, and the Saville process has been noted
> throughout the world.
>
> The Saville Report will be published later today.
>
> Much of the comment seems to amount to position taking, before the detail
of
> the Saville Report is available.
>
> I give some samples, below. A web search will find many more.
>
> I have included at the end Joshua Rozenberg's comments on the legal
> background.
>
> P.O'S.
>
> 'De Gaulle would have hated the Saville inquiry
> The French leader glossed over his nation's shortcomings. But sometimes
cold
> examination of the truth is needed
>
> Charles de Gaulle would have been baffled and outraged by the Saville
> inquiry. Not by its findings, but that any country would go to such
lengths
> to explore a painful and complicated chapter from the past.
>
>
>

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From: Carmel McCaffrey
Subject: Re: [IR-D] De Gaulle would have hated the Saville inquiry

Why am I not surprised at the posturing and back slapping of the
British media on this issue? De Gaulle would have hated the inquiry? Heck,
the British avoided a real inquiry until they were pushed into it in the
1990s. The British authorities delayed the granting of justice for 38
years but now the Times is gloating at the imminent release of the
results? And the victims were "protesters"? How about unarmed,
peaceful civil rights marchers, that is more accurate. And the reality
is that the victims' families had to go through hell and hight water to
demand that justice be done.

The Irish media have also something to say - and it is frequently less
"complimentary" than the back slapping going on in the London Times and
the Guardian. Here an article in the Irish Times by Eamonn McCann, a
Derry based journalist.

Carmel

Quote:

/A number of things made the events in Derry different. This wasn't an
atrocity perpetrated on one community by people purporting to represent
the other. It could not be fitted into the preferred narrative of
official British thinking. The killers had been uniformed to represent
the state. The affront was compounded by the fact that the state at the
highest level had then proclaimed that the killings were neither wrong
nor illegal./

/In every other comparable atrocity, the victims were acknowledged as
having been wrongly done to death and the perpetrators damned as
wrongdoers. But the Bloody Sunday families were told, in effect, that
while they might personally, reasonably, lament the loss of a loved one,
they had no wider ground for grievance or legitimate expectation of the
killers being brought to account./

/All the dead were thus diminished. Liam Wray, brother of Jim Wray, 22,
shot in the back at point-blank range as he lay wounded in Glenfada
Park, commented: "It said that my brother was less than fully human."/

/Bloody Sunday was different, too, in that it was to prove a significant
plot point in the narrative of the Northern Troubles. Communal heartache
in the wake of mass killings has tended generally to dissipate over
time, the happiness of those left behind likely shattered forever but
public life not discernibly changed./

/In contrast, Bloody Sunday catapulted working-class Catholic
communities across the North outside all notions of constitutionality,
removing from the Stormont parliament whatever legitimacy it had
retained among Catholics. The parliament, which had governed the North
since partition, was abolished eight weeks after Bloody Sunday, three
weeks before publication of Widgery's findings. No other major change
has stemmed so directly from a single incident./


Full article:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2010/0612/1224272334779.html


On 6/15/2010 3:18 AM, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:
> There has been much discussion of the Saville Report, over the past week,
in
> the Irish and in British media, and the Saville process has been noted
> throughout the world.
>
> The Saville Report will be published later today.
>
> Much of the comment seems to amount to position taking, before the detail
of
> the Saville Report is available.
>
> I give some samples, below. A web search will find many more.
>
> I have included at the end Joshua Rozenberg's comments on the legal
> background.
>
> P.O'S.
>
> 'De Gaulle would have hated the Saville inquiry
> The French leader glossed over his nation's shortcomings. But sometimes
cold
> examination of the truth is needed
>
> Charles de Gaulle would have been baffled and outraged by the Saville
> inquiry. Not by its findings, but that any country would go to such
lengths
> to explore a painful and complicated chapter from the past.
>
>
>

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The following has been brought to our attention...

Migrant Workers' Rights in the Global Economy
ESRC Seminar

Thursday September 2nd 2010 International Slavery Museum, Liverpool, UK

This one-day seminar, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, is
the second in the Middlesex University series examining emerging issues of
global labour regulation. The seminar will be held at the International
Slavery Museum http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism/
in Liverpool's dockside on Thursday September 2nd 2010 from 10am until
5.30pm.

Migration is an integral part of an increasingly internationalised economy.
Around 3 per cent of the world's population, just less than 200 million
people, now live and work outside of their own country. This number has been
growing at just less than 3 per cent in each year. The increased tendency
for people to migrate to work and live has been spurred by changes in the
world economy and the effects of structural economic change, or through war
and civil upheaval, or environmental damage. Trade liberalisation and market
de-regulation has also increased the propensity to migrate, as new
geographical patterns of production have emerged. Yet labour migration is
not a central concern of international agencies such as the WTO, the IMF or
the World Bank. Migrant workers and their families are vulnerable to
exploitation and racism, and labour market imbalances can result from
migration in both sending and receiving countries.

The purpose of this seminar is to examine migration from a rights -based
perspective. We hope to explore aspects of civil, human and social rights of
migrant workers as well as labour and economic rights. Migrant labour is
thus viewed from within perspectives of forced, slave and child labour as
well as economic labour. As such the seminar welcome the participation of
those academics, practitioners and migrant worker activists who wish to
develop new agendas for regulating migrant labour through a variety of
agency and policy initiatives.

The seminar will be divided into two sessions. The first, thematic session,
will examine alternative perspectives on migrant workers' rights. The second
session will present case studies from different world regions.
Speakers/Participants will include:

Marion Hellmann (Assistant General Secretary, Building and Wood Workers
International, Geneva) - overview of migrant workers in the world economy

Professor Joshua Castellino (Law Department, Middlesex University) - A
Rights Based Approach to Migration

Svetlana Boincean (International Union of Food, Farm and Hotel Workers ) -on
eliminating Child Labour in agriculture and tobacco growing

Heather Connolly and Professor Miguel Martinez Lucio (Manchester
University)- Welfare Systems, Social Inclusion and Migrant Worker-Union
Relations in the EU

Steve Craig (UCATT building workers' union, UK) - Vulnerable Work and
Migration in the UK construction industry

Nick McGeehan (director of Mafiwasta www.mafiwasta.com
, an organisation
for migrant workers in the Gulf).

and case study representations from migrant worker activists in Ireland, the
Gulf Region, Italy, and India.

If you are interested in participating in the seminar please register your
interest with Denise Arden at d.arden[at]mdx.ac.uk

Lunch and refreshments are provided and the seminar is free to attend, but
registration in advance is necessary. More information can be obtained from
the seminar organisers, Professor Martin Upchurch m.upchurch[at]mdx.ac.uk
and Professor Miguel Martinez Lucio Miguel.MartinezLucio[at]mbs.ac.uk

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The Irish Diaspora list circulated the original Call for Papers in 2005.

Our sincere congratulations to Christine Cusick, Seton Hill University, =
USA,
on seeing this project through to happy conclusion.

This project represents a purposeful effort to connect Irish Studies to =
the
too often American dominated field of ecocriticism. I am told...

P.O'S.

-----Original Message-----
=20
Cork University Press =20
Cork University Press

Youngline Industrial Estate
Pouladuff Road
Togher, Cork=20
IRELAND =09


Out of the Earth: Ecocritical Readings of Irish Texts edited by =
Christine
Cusick

Within the current climate of both literary and environmental studies =
=93Out
of the Earth=94: Ecocritical Readings of Irish Texts is an =
unprecedented
integration of Irish Studies and Ecocriticism that is both timely and
necessary. The essays offer ecocritical readings of Irish literary and
cultural texts of various genres, including fiction, poetry, creative
nonfiction, drama and the visual image.

Long before there was a theoretical movement that gave a name to and
vocabulary for literary readings of nature, scholars of Irish literature
have understood the importance of the natural world to an Irish cultural
sensibility. An emphasis on place not only pervades Irish writing of =
the
twentieth century but also is in fact rooted in ancient traditions of =
Celtic
mythology and place-lore. While critical assessments of Irish place =
writing
are numerous, few of them address such representations of the natural =
world
as politically and culturally informed and scripted texts. Even fewer =
of
them address the ecological implications embedded in these ways of =
knowing
place. This project explores the natural world as a record of and
participant in the experiences of a vibrant and changing Ireland.=20

This study is thus aimed toward a readership within multiple disciplines
whose specific research agenda is to examine what cultural =
representations
of nonhuman nature reveal about how humans care for and dwell in place.=20

Contents

Introduction: John Elder=20
Wings beating on stone: Richard Murphy=92s ecology - Eamonn Wall
Dark outlines, grey stone: nature, home and the foreign in Lady =
Morgan=92s The
Wild Irish Girl and William Carleton=92s The Black Prophet -Jefferson
Holdridge=20
=91Sympathy between man and nature=92: landscape and loss in Synge=92s =
Riders to
the Sea-Joy Kennedy - O=92Neill
=91Nothing can happen nowhere=92: Elizabeth Bowen=92s figures in =
landscape -
Joanna Tapp Pierce
George Moore=92s landscapes of return - Greg Winston
Ireland of the welcomes: colonialism, tourism and the Irish landscape =
-E=F3in
Flannery
Between country and city: Paula Meehan=92s ecofeminist poetics - Kathryn
Kirkpatrick
=91Love poems, elegies: I am losing my place=92: Michael Longley=92s =
environmental
elegies - Donna Potts
=91Becoming animal=92 in the novels of Edna O=92Brien - Maureen =
O=92Connor
Reading the landscape for clues: environment in Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha -
Miriam O=92Kane Mara
Collaborative ecology in Martin McDonagh=92s The Cripple of Inishmaan - =
Karen
O=92Brien
Conclusion: Mindful paths: an interview with Tim Robinson - Christine =
Cusick

Hardback: June 3 2010
Printed Pages:=20
Size: 234 x 156mm
ISBN: 9781859184547


Christine Cusick is in the Division of Humanities, Seton Hill =
University,
USA.

Further details at:

http://www.corkuniversitypress.com/Out_of_the_Earth:_Ecocritical_Readings=
_of
_Irish_Texts/318/

Please the promotional code: news
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Regards

Mike

Mike Collins
Publications Director
Cork University Press

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From: Dymphna Lonergan
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/No other major change=20
has stemmed so directly from a single incident./=20


Not least emigration; although I lived in the trouble-free South, Bloody =
Sunday was a catalyst for my emigration to Australia in October 1972-not =
the only one, but a major one.

Dymphna Lonergan

> From: Carmel McCaffrey

....Here an article in the Irish Times by Eamonn McCann, a=20
> Derry based journalist.
>
> /In contrast, Bloody Sunday catapulted working-class Catholic=20
> communities across the North outside all notions of constitutionality,=20
> removing from the Stormont parliament whatever legitimacy it had=20
> retained among Catholics. The parliament, which had governed the North=20
> since partition, was abolished eight weeks after Bloody Sunday, three=20
> weeks before publication of Widgery's findings. No other major change=20
> has stemmed so directly from a single incident./
>
>
> Full article:
>

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2010/0612/1224272334779.html

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The Report of the The Bloody Sunday Inquiry

Is now online at
http://www.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org/

The Rt Hon Lord Saville of Newdigate (Chairman)
The Hon Mr William L. Hoyt
The Hon Mr John L. Toohey

"... it is expedient that a Tribunal be established for inquiring into a
definite matter of urgent public importance, namely the events on Sunday
30th January 1972 which led to loss of life in connection with the
procession in Londonderry on that day, taking account of any new information
relevant to events on that day"

Resolution of the House of Commons, 30th January 1998,
and of the House of Lords, 2nd February 1998

There are links to
Read the Report
Read the Principal Conclusions
Search the Evidence

P.O'S.

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Yes to all of the above, especially "walking" on that slippery slope. What
I've noticed, though, is that sometimes people can do a kind of reverse
judgment about how Irish people walk, based on how they don't walk. I was
recently in Donegal and heard, over and over, about how the Germans walk
when they come to Donegal to go hiking. "They march around with their sticks
like they own the place." The implication is that Irish people DON'T march
around with sticks like they own the place. I've also heard that Americans
tend to wander along in a cowboy-like slouch. It could have to do with
purpose (or lack thereof).

Sean Williams


On 6/16/10 8:48 AM, "Thomas J. Archdeacon" wrote:

> This is anecdotal if not completely idiosyncratic. When I was a child in
> the 1950s, my family occasionally commented on my habit of walking with my
> hands in my pockets and with my head slightly bent forward. For the most
> part, I was being corrected for having poor posture. There were, however,
> other remarks about walking like an old Irishman. These, of course, came
> from a group of West of Ireland people who were not more than middle-aged at
> the time. In my perverse way, I took it as a compliment and wondered why I
> needed to break myself of such a worthy habit.
>
> The memory of the above story immediately came to mind when I read BW's
> email to the list. I agree with Carmel's warning about thin ice, slippery
> slope, stereotyping, etc. On the other hand, a person's appearance and even
> his or her gait can sometimes give clues to his or her background. A
> perhaps better example comes from another personal story -- this one about
> my uncle, who had been in the US for perhaps a year, seizing and throwing
> away the tweed, working-man's cap of his more recently arrived cousin on the
> grounds that it made him look like a greenhorn.
>
> Fun stuff if Bronwen can pull it off, but risky too.
>
> Tom
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
> Of Carmel McCaffrey
> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 10:59 AM
> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: [IR-D] Irish bodies
>
> Not sure what you are comparing "Irish" with "visually" - what standard
> do you consider to be the norm against which you are making your
> comparisons? Why don't you consult nineteenth century images? We were
> usually depicted as apes and monkeys then. Frankly, I think you are on
> thin ice on this one.
>
> Carmel
>
> On 6/16/2010 6:57 AM, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:
>> Thread-Topic: Irish bodies
>> From: "Walter, Bronwen"
>> To:
>>
>> Dear All
>> =20
>> I am just completing an article about the taken-for-grantedness of Irish
>> people in English films, and thinking about ways in which they may be
>> recognised visually. In addition to hair and eye colour I want to say
>> something about distinctive ways of walking. I remember talking to Irish =
>> men
>> in Luton in the 1970s who told me they could always identify men from =
>> the
>> West of Ireland by the way they walked. Does anyone have any more =
>> detailed
>> observations about this?
>> =20
>> Thanks very much
>> =20
>> Bronwen Walter
>> =
>>
>> .
>>
>>

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Rangatiratanga and Oritetanga: responses to the Treaty of
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On the theme of 'ethnic sensitivity'... I thought that this study from New
Zealand of great interest.

Rangatiratanga and Oritetanga: responses to the Treaty of Waitangi in a New
Zealand study

Authors: Emma H. Wyetha; Sarah Derrettb; Brendan Hokowhituc; Craig Hallc;
John Langleyb

Affiliations: a Te Roop Rangahau Hauora Mori a Ngi Tahu (Ngi Tahu Mori
Health Research Unit), Department of Preventive and Social Medicine,
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
b Injury Prevention Research Unit, Department of Preventive and Social
Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
c Te Tumu - School of Mori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies, University of
Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Published in: Ethnicity & Health, Volume 15, Issue 3 June 2010 , pages 303
- 316
First Published on: 10 May 2010

Abstract
Introduction. Although opportunities exist for positive experiences in
research, Maori in New Zealand, like other indigenous people colonised by
Europeans in the nineteenth century, have also been subject to research and
associated policies that have had long-lasting negative consequences.
Researchers have subsequently been challenged by Maori to conduct research
that is acceptable, accountable and relevant. Much of this debate has taken
place within the framework of the Treaty of Waitangi, a treaty of cession
signed between Mori and British Crown representatives in 1840. Nowadays,
health and health research statutes exist that require researchers to
respond to the 'principles' of the Treaty. Few practical examples of how
health researchers have undertaken this have been published.

Aims. We examine how, in developing a national study of injury outcomes, we
responded to the Treaty. Our study, the Prospective Outcomes of Injury
Study, aims to quantitatively identify predictors of disability following
injury and to qualitatively explore experiences and perceptions of injury
outcomes.

Discussion. Responses to the Treaty included: consultation with Maori
groups, translation of the questionnaire into te reo Maori, appointment of
interviewers fluent in te reo Maori, sufficient numbers of Maori
participants to allow Maori-specific analyses and the inclusion of a
Maori-specific qualitative component. While this article is located within
the New Zealand context, we believe it will resonate with, and be of
relevance to, health researchers in other former settler societies. We do
not contend this project represents an 'ideal' model for undertaking
population-based research. Instead, we hope that by describing our efforts
at responding to the Treaty, we can prompt wider debate of the complex
realities of the research environment, one which is scientifically,
ethically and culturally located.

Keywords: indigenous; Maori; policy; bicultural; power; injury

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Not sure what you are comparing "Irish" with "visually" - what standard
do you consider to be the norm against which you are making your
comparisons? Why don't you consult nineteenth century images? We were
usually depicted as apes and monkeys then. Frankly, I think you are on
thin ice on this one.

Carmel

On 6/16/2010 6:57 AM, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:
> Thread-Topic: Irish bodies
> From: "Walter, Bronwen"
> To:
>
> Dear All
> =20
> I am just completing an article about the taken-for-grantedness of Irish
> people in English films, and thinking about ways in which they may be
> recognised visually. In addition to hair and eye colour I want to say
> something about distinctive ways of walking. I remember talking to Irish =
> men
> in Luton in the 1970s who told me they could always identify men from =
> the
> West of Ireland by the way they walked. Does anyone have any more =
> detailed
> observations about this?
> =20
> Thanks very much
> =20
> Bronwen Walter
> =
>
> .
>
>

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Yes, the Oireachtas Committee on Justice made it clear that questions
had to be answered about British army collusion in these bombings and
asked the British Government - in 2008 - to investigate the
Dublin/Monaghan bombings but I'm not holding my breath on that one. In
fact, I suspect Cameron's mea cupla on behalf of the UK government is a
way of attempting to draw a line under British army atrocities - they
really don't want this going any further.

Carmel

On 6/16/2010 9:17 AM, Miller, Kerby A. wrote:
>
> Yes, and it will be 100+ years before our grandchildren learn the truth about the Dublin/Monaghan bombings of 1974 or the Dublin bomb of 1972.
> Kerby
>
>
> On 6/16/10 2:33 AM, "Patrick O'Sullivan" wrote:
>
> From: Carmel McCaffrey
> Subject: Re: [IR-D] De Gaulle would have hated the Saville inquiry
>
> Why am I not surprised at the posturing and back slapping of the
> British media on this issue? De Gaulle would have hated the inquiry? Heck,
> the British avoided a real inquiry until they were pushed into it in the
> 1990s. The British authorities delayed the granting of justice for 38
> years but now the Times is gloating at the imminent release of the
> results? And the victims were "protesters"? How about unarmed,
> peaceful civil rights marchers, that is more accurate. And the reality
> is that the victims' families had to go through hell and hight water to
> demand that justice be done.
>
> The Irish media have also something to say - and it is frequently less
> "complimentary" than the back slapping going on in the London Times and
> the Guardian. Here an article in the Irish Times by Eamonn McCann, a
> Derry based journalist.
>
> Carmel
>
>
>

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This is anecdotal if not completely idiosyncratic. When I was a child in
the 1950s, my family occasionally commented on my habit of walking with my
hands in my pockets and with my head slightly bent forward. For the most
part, I was being corrected for having poor posture. There were, however,
other remarks about walking like an old Irishman. These, of course, came
from a group of West of Ireland people who were not more than middle-aged at
the time. In my perverse way, I took it as a compliment and wondered why I
needed to break myself of such a worthy habit.

The memory of the above story immediately came to mind when I read BW's
email to the list. I agree with Carmel's warning about thin ice, slippery
slope, stereotyping, etc. On the other hand, a person's appearance and even
his or her gait can sometimes give clues to his or her background. A
perhaps better example comes from another personal story -- this one about
my uncle, who had been in the US for perhaps a year, seizing and throwing
away the tweed, working-man's cap of his more recently arrived cousin on the
grounds that it made him look like a greenhorn.

Fun stuff if Bronwen can pull it off, but risky too.

Tom



-----Original Message-----
From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Carmel McCaffrey
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 10:59 AM
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [IR-D] Irish bodies

Not sure what you are comparing "Irish" with "visually" - what standard
do you consider to be the norm against which you are making your
comparisons? Why don't you consult nineteenth century images? We were
usually depicted as apes and monkeys then. Frankly, I think you are on
thin ice on this one.

Carmel

On 6/16/2010 6:57 AM, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:
> Thread-Topic: Irish bodies
> From: "Walter, Bronwen"
> To:
>
> Dear All
> =20
> I am just completing an article about the taken-for-grantedness of Irish
> people in English films, and thinking about ways in which they may be
> recognised visually. In addition to hair and eye colour I want to say
> something about distinctive ways of walking. I remember talking to Irish =
> men
> in Luton in the 1970s who told me they could always identify men from =
> the
> West of Ireland by the way they walked. Does anyone have any more =
> detailed
> observations about this?
> =20
> Thanks very much
> =20
> Bronwen Walter
> =
>
> .
>
>

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From: "Murray, Edmundo"
To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:09:56 +0200
Subject: Re: [IR-D] 1901 Census of Ireland goes online

This is indeed a great tool. Return migration is one of the important field=
s that can be explored/tested, although the list in "County/Country of Orig=
in" looks rather weird including countries like "America, ... Austria, Belg=
ium, Bulgaria, ... China, ... Greece, Hungary, India, ... Russia, Switzerla=
nd (indeed with dozens of Swiss residents in N. Ireland)" and excluding "Bu=
enos Ayres", "South Africa" and others. It wouldn't be difficult to include=
these major destinations (if they were transcribed).

Edmundo Murray


On 6/5/10 7:10 PM, "Morgan, Tony" wrote:

Congratulations are due to the people who produced this. It is a profession=
al
and user-friendly work which will help many.

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

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Thread-Topic: Irish bodies
From: "Walter, Bronwen"
To:

Dear All
=20
I am just completing an article about the taken-for-grantedness of Irish
people in English films, and thinking about ways in which they may be
recognised visually. In addition to hair and eye colour I want to say
something about distinctive ways of walking. I remember talking to Irish =
men
in Luton in the 1970s who told me they could always identify men from =
the
West of Ireland by the way they walked. Does anyone have any more =
detailed
observations about this?
=20
Thanks very much
=20
Bronwen Walter
=

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For what it's worth, I never noticed an Irish walk as such, but I think I and
others were sometimes identifed as North Americans by the way I /we walked. I
am specifically recalling being in Derry with another Newfoundlander, hearing
giggling behind us, turning around and seeing two little boys behind us
mimicing the way we walked. Pretty funny - I can't quite recall how they
looked but I got the vague impression we looked sort of cowboyish somehow.

Again, for what it's worth.

Peter Hart

Quoting Carmel McCaffrey :

> Not sure what you are comparing "Irish" with "visually" - what standard
> do you consider to be the norm against which you are making your
> comparisons? Why don't you consult nineteenth century images? We were
> usually depicted as apes and monkeys then. Frankly, I think you are on
> thin ice on this one.
>
> Carmel
>
> On 6/16/2010 6:57 AM, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:
> > Thread-Topic: Irish bodies
> > From: "Walter, Bronwen"
> > To:
> >
> > Dear All
> > =20
> > I am just completing an article about the taken-for-grantedness of Irish
> > people in English films, and thinking about ways in which they may be
> > recognised visually. In addition to hair and eye colour I want to say
> > something about distinctive ways of walking. I remember talking to Irish =
> > men
> > in Luton in the 1970s who told me they could always identify men from =
> > the
> > West of Ireland by the way they walked. Does anyone have any more =
> > detailed
> > observations about this?
> > =20
> > Thanks very much
> > =20
> > Bronwen Walter
> > =
> >
> > .
> >
> >
>