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Forwarded on behalf of
Professor Nicholas Allen=20
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Doctoral Fellowships (2) at the Moore Institute for Research in the =
Humanities & Social Studies, NUI, Galway
=20
The National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway) is pleased to =
offer two doctoral scholarships within the Moore Institute for Research =
in the Humanities & Social Studies. 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. =20
=20
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 (NUI =
Galway), the Long Room Hub (TCD), and the Graduate School of the College =
of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences (UCC). Applicants should =
have an excellent record of academic achievement.=20
=20
The Moore Institute is an international research hub in the humanities =
and social studies. Recognition of its 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 . The =
University=E2=80=99s library (http://www.library.nuigalway.ie/) holds =
major archives in twentieth literature including the papers of John =
McGahern, Thomas Kilroy, the Druid and Lyric Theatres. =20
=20
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.
=20
The closing date for applications is 5pm, Friday, 9th July 2010. =20
=20
For more information please contact Professor Nicholas Allen =
nicholas.allen[at]nuigalway.ie
=20
Application Process
=20
Applicants for doctoral scholarships at the Moore Institute for Research =
in the Humanities and Social Studies must include the following: =20
=20
=E2=80=A2 A letter of introduction outlining the applicant=E2=80=99s =
experience, research strengths and project plan=20
=E2=80=A2 A description of topic to include, for example, aims and =
objectives, contribution to new knowledge, and central research =
questions (max. 1000 words)=20
=E2=80=A2 A research methodology to include archival, material and =
theoretical resources and frameworks (max. 500 words)=20
=E2=80=A2 A CV=20
=E2=80=A2 Two academic references included with the application in =
signed and sealed letters=20
=20
One original copy of the application form must be submitted by letter =
post, postmarked on or before Friday, 9th July, 2010.
=20
An electronic copy of the application form (as one complete document =
file and excluding references) must also be sent to =
mooreinstitute[at]nuigalway.ie by 5pm (GMT) on Friday, 9th July, 2010. =
Failure to submit an electronic copy will result in immediate =
disqualification.
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Ulster Museum takes top arts prize
After a =A317.8m redevelopment, 'brilliant' Ulster Museum awarded Art =
Fund
prize

Mark Brown, arts correspondent
guardian.co.uk,=09

One of its most popular and best-loved exhibits is a polar bear called
Peter, but clearly there is a lot more to the redeveloped Ulster Museum =
in
Belfast as it was tonight named winner of one of the UK's biggest arts
prizes.

The museum picked up the =A3100,000 Art Fund prize at a ceremony in =
London,
beating competition from the Ashmolean in Oxford, the Herbert in =
Coventry
and Blists Hill Victorian town at Ironbridge.

The museum reopened last year after a three-year =A317.8m redevelopment =
and
has gone from strength to strength. It is now Northern Ireland's busiest
visitor attraction.

Kirsty Young, the broadcaster who chaired this year's judges, said that
choosing the winner had been tough but the panel was "moved and =
invigorated"
and "every one of the judges had a sort of gut reaction about Ulster
Museum".

In many ways it is like so many of the UK's provincial museums, with its
Victorian paintings, stuffed animals and meteorites. But Young said:
"Provincial museum is a terrible phrase because there is nothing =
provincial
about the Ulster Museum. It stands as a brilliant example of what a =
museum
should be and has to offer and wouldn't look out of place in any major
European city. Seriously, I would encourage anybody who doesn't live =
there
to get the cheap flight and go to Belfast and spend a couple of hours
there."

Young said she had looked back on her somewhat scatty notes from the =
judging
process and words such as "extraordinary, special, striking, moving".

Although the prize was not awarded for architecture, Young said, you =
could
not fail to be impressed with how the building =96 essentially 1960 =
brutalist
welded on to late Victorian =96 had been transformed so successfully and =
it
was now "building a lasting legacy".

Tim Cooke, the director of National Museums Northern Ireland, said his
organisation was delighted. It was particularly humbling to be chosen =
from
such a strong shortlist, he said. "Rejuvenating the Ulster Museum in =
Belfast
has been a deeply rewarding and purposeful experience, coinciding with a
remarkable period of change in Northern Ireland's history."

Stephen Deuchar, director of the the Art Fund, said Ulster was "a =
brilliant
example of a museum that is passionate about its public". He added: "The
redevelopment is stunning, capturing its visitors' minds and hearts with
exceptional creative flair."

The Arts Fund prize is the largest single arts prize. Previous winners =
have
included the Lightbox in Woking, Pallant House Gallery in Chichester and
Brunel's SS Great Britain in Bristol.

The other judges for this year's prize included the artist Jonathan Yeo,
Antiques Roadshow expert Lars Tharp, former BBC director of =
communications
Sally Osman, geneticist Steve Jones, philosopher AC Grayling and =
heritage
adviser Kathy Gee.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/jun/30/ulster-museum-arts-fund-pri=
ze

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"With redundance of blood": Reading Ireland in Neil Jordan's The
Company of Wolves
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Marvels & Tales
Volume 24, Number 1, 2010
Is a Special Issue on the Fairy Tale after Angela Carter
Which will interest a number of Ir-D members.

It is based on the April 2009 conference on "The Fairy Tale after Angela
Carter" held at the University of East Anglia (UK) to mark the thirtieth
anniversary of the publication of Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber.

The collection of essays represents only a small number of the papers
presented over the four days of the conference.

The guest editors for this issue identify some themes...

'One of the more persistent of these emerging themes concerns the
relationship between fairy tales and nationalist or colonialist ideology, a
theme that was addressed at the conference in three of the four keynote
addresses (Donald Haase's, Cristina Bacchilega's, and Marina Warner's) and
that is represented here by Haase's "Decolonizing Fairy-Tale Studies" and by
Sara Hines's examination of how the collection practices employed in Andrew
Lang's colored Fairy Books corroborate nineteenth-century discourses on
colonialism and empire...'

'...Another robust area of research in fairy-tale studies, as it became
apparent in the course of the conference, concerns the intersection of fairy
tale and film. Jack Zipes's keynote address focused on reutilizations of
"Little Red Riding Hood" in recent films, and there were conference papers
on Neil Jordan's Company of Wolves (1984), the films of the Walt Disney
Company, Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth (2006), and Mitchell
Lichtenstein's Teeth (2008), among others. In the present collection this
area of interest is represented by Susan Cahill's investigation of the
representation of older women in Terry Gilliam's The Brothers Grimm (2005)
and Matthew Vaughn's Stardust (2007), and by Sharon McCann's innovative
analysis of The Company of Wolves, which explores the possibility that
Jordan's primary concern in this film is less with the female psyche, as
conventional criticism has tended to suggest, and more with the Irish
"Troubles" that preoccupy him in several of his other films...'

I have pasted in, below, information about Sharon McCann's article...

P.O'S.

"With redundance of blood": Reading Ireland in Neil Jordan's The Company of
Wolves
Sharon McCann
Marvels & Tales, Volume 24, Number 1, 2010, pp. 68-85 (Article)

Subject Headings:
Company of wolves (Motion picture)
Jordan, Neil, 1951- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Carter, Angela, 1940-1992. Company of wolves.
Ireland -- In motion pictures.

Abstract:

This speculative new reading of Neil Jordan's The Company of Wolves focuses
on how the film deviates from Angela Carter's original short story.
Concentrating in particular on the director's representation of the heroine,
Rosaleen, and on his use of the extended dream sequence, it identifies the
traces in Jordan's film of specifically Irish literary tropes and genres. In
so doing, The Company of Wolves is situated against the backdrop of the
Troubles in Northern Ireland, bringing it closer in line with the films in
Jordan's oeuvre that take Ireland's troubled social and political history as
their explicit subject.

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Frank McCourt's The Irish...and How They Got That Way
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The following item has been brought to our attention...
=A0
The Irish...and How They Got That Way

by FRANK MCCOURT

directed by CHARLOTTE MOORE
=A0
musical direction by KEVIN B. WINEBOLD=A0=A0 choreography by BARRY =
MCNABB

starring
Kerry Conte, Terry Donnelly, Ciaran Sheehan,=20
Patrick Shields, Gary Troy, Kevin B. Winebold

original musical arrangements by Rusty Magee

July 14th - September 5th

THE IRISH...AND HOW THEY GOT THAT WAY is an irreverent history of the =
Irish
through the tumultuous 20th and 21st centuries through the eyes of =
Pulitzer
Prize winning author, Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes, Tis, Teacher Man).=20

McCourt's razor sharp wit, coupled with his trademark bitter irony, and =
his
boundless love for the Irish People are all underscored by glorious =
music
extending all the way from the auld Irish folk ballades, through George =
M.
Cohan's patriotic love songs to America, World War II standards sung in
movies, USOs and foxholes all over the world, and including the latest =
from
contemporary Ireland's U2.

Order Before July 22nd & Save $5!

To order call 212-727-2737 or visit www.irishrep.org.

Use code EARLY to save today!
Performances:
Wednesday - 3pm & 8pm
Thursday - 8pm
Friday - 8pm
Saturday - 3pm & 8pm
Sunday - 3pm

The Irish Repertory Theatre
132 West 22nd Street
New York, New York 10011
212-255-0270

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Subject: Query, The Returned Yank
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We have received the following query from
Ann Schofield
University of Kansas

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From: Schofield, Ann [mailto:schofield[at]ku.edu]
To: P.OSullivan[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: The Returned Yank

Dear Patrick O'Sullivan,

I'm presently writing an article on The Returned Yank figure in Irish
culture. While I realize a good deal has been published on this topic I am
particularly interested in the survey done by the Irish Folklore Commission
in 1955 at the suggestion of Arnold Schrier. Would it be possible for you
to post a query to the Irish Diaspora list serve asking for information
about the survey?

I'd like to know who developed the questions, what is known about the
informants, were the questioners school masters or field agents for the
Folklore Commission, and generally any information your subscribers might
have about the survey.

Many thanks!

Ann Schofield
University of Kansas

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Coincidentally, I happened to notice this item on the UCD web site...

P.O'S.

http://www.ucd.ie/irishfolklore/en/manuscripts/theirishvirtualresearchlibrar
yarchiveivrla/image-1-thumb,35985,en.html

Description: In 1955 a questionnaire on the subject of Irish emigration to
America was compiled by Arnold Schrier, in collaboration with the Irish
Folklore Commission. The questionnaire was distributed by the Commission to
its various full-time and part-time collectors, and to its network of
respondents around Ireland. The information returned was used as source
material for a book by Schrier entitled Ireland and the American Emigration
1850-1900 (Minneapolis 1958).

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I know a bit about it-I've read through all the notebooks (some bits are in=
Irish)--but she can ask Arnold Schrier directly, at .

Kerby


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We have received the following query from
Ann Schofield
University of Kansas

-----Original Message-----
From: Schofield, Ann [mailto:schofield[at]ku.edu]
To: P.OSullivan[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: The Returned Yank

Dear Patrick O'Sullivan,

I'm presently writing an article on The Returned Yank figure in Irish
culture. While I realize a good deal has been published on this topic I am
particularly interested in the survey done by the Irish Folklore Commission
in 1955 at the suggestion of Arnold Schrier. Would it be possible for you
to post a query to the Irish Diaspora list serve asking for information
about the survey?

I'd like to know who developed the questions, what is known about the
informants, were the questioners school masters or field agents for the
Folklore Commission, and generally any information your subscribers might
have about the survey.

Many thanks!

Ann Schofield
University of Kansas

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Edmundo,

I thought that one of the Northern Ireland specialists might have chimed =
in
here. But maybe it is one of those things that is so pervasive as to be
invisible to specialists...

But, briefly, this has been, for many decades, a feature of analysis of
Northern Ireland. There is even a classic phrase which recurs again and
again: 'outbreeding the Protestants'.

Put that into your favourite search engine. And you will get many, many
hits...

'There is still an inbuilt unionist majority in Northern Ireland that =
will
continue far beyond Sinn F=E9in's former target date for Irish unity in =
2016,
the 100th anniversary of the Easter rising. Nonetheless, some =
nationalist
commentators such as Tim Pat Coogan have recently resurrected the notion =
of
a "bio-bomb" or, to put it crudely, that Catholics are out-breeding
Protestants and this will ultimately deliver unity through biology.'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/mar/27/northern-ireland-constitut=
ion
al-referendum

But the phrase will also connect with some fairly standard anti-Catholic
prejudices in a number of countries.

Put the phrase into Google Scholar and again you find many references, =
like
this... The... '(unsuccessful) attempt to reduce family allowance =
payments
to large families reflected the common assumption that Catholics were =
trying
to bring about a united Ireland by =91out-breeding=92 their Protestant
neighbours...'

Eighty Years of Talking About Equality in Northern Ireland
Fran Porter, Myrtle Hill, Caroline McAuley and Eithne McLaughlin
p. 29

http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/EqualitySocialInclusionInIreland-HomePage/File=
Sto
re/Filetoupload,24266,en.pdf

The Wikipedia entry on Demography and politics of Northern Ireland looks
quite good, and shows the Catholic proportion of the population to have
reached 40%.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_and_politics_of_Northern_Ireland

This particular discourse, of 'outbreeding', seems to have abated =
somewhat
in recent years, with the search for peace and companionship.

Paddy


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From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On =
Behalf
Of Murray, Edmundo
Sent: 24 June 2010 09:35
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] Irlanda y los vascos

The following article published today by El Pa=EDs takes some elements =
from
the Northern Ireland conflict and applies them to the violence by ETA in
Spain and France. There were other pieces suggesting the export of the
Northern Irish conflict resolution model to other contexts in Europe and
Latin America. In two instances the author refers to Catholics having =
more
children than Protestants and the electoral consequences. Is this true =
in
today's Northern Ireland? Are Catholics more prolific than Protestants?



Edmundo Murray

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Subject: The Irish Sword, Vol XXVII, No. 107, No. 108
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The Irish Sword is one of the journals where we have difficulty getting hold
of Tables Of Contents.

The Military History Society of Ireland is collecting older TOCs on its web
site...

http://www.mhsi.ie/

http://www.mhsi.ie/thesword.htm

The latest issues of The Irish Sword will interest many Ir-D members.

The Irish Sword, Vol XXVII, No. 107 Spring 107 publishes...

The Irish Rebellion in the 6th Division Area
From after the 1916 Rebellion to December, 1921
An account compiled in 1922 by the General Staff, 6th Division
Printed from Sir Peter Styrickland's typescriot copy in the Imperial War
Museum
With an introduction and notes by Patrick McCarthy

The 6th Division was that part of the British forces based in Cork, and
active in the martial law area of the south. A note at the beginning of the
journal makes a distinction - this is the first time this account has been
published, but not the first time it has been printed. Patrick McCarthy's
Introduction maps out the record, making use of the work of Peter Hart,
David Fitzpatrick and Charles Townshend. He calls the account 'a neglected
primary source'.

It is an extraordinary read, and - I suppose this is an obvious point -
reflects the same mind set and style as the official accounts of The Great
War.

The Irish Sword Vol XXVII, No. 108
Essays on the War of Independence 1919-1921, Part 1
Offers a series of essays, of differing styles and approaches.

Perhaps most interesting are..
Risteard Mulcahy on his father's working relationship with Michael Collins
Alfred Isaaacson on the role of the New York Carmelites
W. H. Kautt on the Irish Revolution as Military History - making the point
that the conflict is extraordinarily well documented from both sides.

P.O'S.

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Subject: CFP Vernacular Architecture, Studies in Britain,
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Forwarded on behalf of
Mackie, Catriona [mailto:C.Mackie[at]liverpool.ac.uk]=20

Dear all,

I would be most grateful if you would circulate the following =
information
around your School, Faculty, Department, or Institution. =20

With many thanks,

Catriona=20

New Light on Vernacular Architecture: Studies in Britain, Ireland and =
the
Isle of Man
Douglas, Isle of Man, 22-25 June 2011

The University of Liverpool's Centre for Manx Studies=A0and Manx =
National
Heritage,=A0will be holding a vernacular architecture conference in =
Douglas,
Isle of Man, from 22 =96 25 June 2011.=A0=20
=A0
New Light on Vernacular Architecture: Studies in Britain, Ireland and =
the
Isle of Man=A0will bring together scholars and practitioners from a =
variety of
different disciplines to identify and encourage new directions, new
approaches, and new interpretations in the study of vernacular =
architecture
in Britain, Ireland, and the Isle of Man.=A0=A0The conference will be =
held at
the Manx Museum in Douglas. =A0
=A0
The Call for Papers has now been announced on the conference website:
www.liv.ac.uk/manxstudies/VernacularArchitecture.htm. More details =
about
the conference will be added here in due course. The conference =
organisers
would welcome papers on all aspects of vernacular architecture from =
within
the British Isles, particularly those exploring new directions,
interpretations and approaches to the subject. The deadline for =
abstracts is
30th September 2010. Submission details can be found on the conference
website. =20

If you would like to be added to the conference mailing list, please =
email
Dr Catriona Mackie at c.mackie[at]liverpool.ac.uk. Enquiries can also be
directed to this address or to 01624 695 777.

Dr Catriona Mackie
Lecturer in Manx Studies
University of Liverpool
Centre for Manx Studies
The Stable Building
The University Centre
Old Castletown Road
Douglas
Isle of Man
IM2 1QB
=A0
Tel:=A001624 695=A0777=20
Fax: 01624 695 783
Email: c.mackie[at]liverpool.ac.uk
=A0
Dr Catriona Mackie
Leaghteyr Studeyrys Manninagh
Ollooscoill Lerphoyll
Laare-Studeyrys Manninagh
Thie ny Gabbyl
Ynnyd yn Ollooscoill
Shenn Raad Valley Chashtal
Doolish
Ellan Vannin
IM2 1QB

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The Negotiated Hibernian: Discourse on the Fenian in England and
America
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The author feels he is ploughing a new furrow... Does engage with Michael
de Nie and D.C. Williamson's unpublished thesis.

Extract from pages 52-53

'...Yet for all the numeric claims published about the Fenian movement in
the United States, by and large it remained a mystery to most outsiders on
both sides of the Atlantic. An editorial in The New York Times noted that
"the papers are all at sea in regard to the movement, hardly knowing whether
to treat it as a ridiculous bugbear, gotten up for mere political effect, or
a serious attempt to precipitate [Ireland] into revolution."18

This fact is paramount to understanding not only the temporal nature of the
Fenians and the construction of the Fenian image during the nineteenth
century, but also why subsequent scholars have largely ignored articles in
the press written by both Irish nationalist in favor of the view promulgated
by pro-imperial agents. Most studies of the Fenians frequently fail to note
the inchoate nature of the organizations; compared to their enemy, the FB
had only been active for 10 years, four of which were spent fighting for the
Union in the American Civil War. Furthermore, many scholars largely dismiss
pro-Irish independence and pro-Fenian documents published in the public
sphere, usually relegating them to the role of factual point-of-reference to
support their given arguments rather than analyzing them as discourse.19
Given that the negotiation of the Fenian image was not the primary focus of
these works, this unfortunately has had the unanticipated result of
presenting a narrative that adopts one of the two streams, either that of
"defiant Irish nationalists battling their British oppressors" or of
"radical Irish terrorists bringing death to the innocent British
populace" (depending upon one's particular paradigm regarding the subject).
This is understandable considering the highly polemic nature of the British
press and the singular problem that this polemic poses in constructing a
non-partisan, non-hostile interpretation of the Fenians.

It is this polemic nature that provides the key to the public image of the
"Fenian."...'


The Negotiated Hibernian: Discourse on the Fenian in England and America
Author: James H. Adams a Affiliation: a Department of History,
Pennsylvania State University - Abington, Abington, PA, USA

Published in: American Nineteenth Century History, Volume 11, Issue 1 March
2010 , pages 47 - 77

Abstract
During the 1850s and 1860s, the British Empire faced a threat from
nationalists advocating self-rule for Ireland. Known as the Fenians, the
English press quickly identified them as a monolithic terrorist organization
and blamed them for all manner of threats against the Empire; furthermore,
they argued that elements in the United States, for reasons of their own,
supported the separatists. However, the image of the Fenian was far more
complex than the simple rhetorical image constructed in the British press,
especially when an alternate stream of pro-Irish rhetoric is considered.
Indeed, the Fenian was as much a rhetorical cultural construct as it was a
transnational independence movement.

Keywords: Fenians; Irish; nationalism; cultural history; discourse

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Frederick Douglass and the Atlantic World

Author: Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie a
Affiliation: a Howard University,

Published in: American Nineteenth Century History, Volume 11, Issue 1 March
2010 , pages 136 - 138

To cite this Article: Kerr-Ritchie, Jeffrey R. 'Frederick Douglass and the
Atlantic World', American Nineteenth Century History, 11:1, 136 - 138


Fionnghuala Sweeney
Frederick Douglass and the Atlantic World
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2007

EXTRACT

Frederick Douglass, former slave, abolitionist, journalist, confidante to
President Lincoln, social reformer, and diplomat, was the most famous
nineteenth-century African American. This fame drew largely from his three
autobiographies: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American
Slave published in 1845; My Bondage and My Freedom issued in 1855; and The
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass published in 1881 and updated in 1892.
Scholars have heaped attention on him, while numerous roads, schools, and
organizations in the USA bear his name. Most recently, his slave narrative
has shifted from its original "reformist margins" to a prestigious place in
the American literary canon (p. 3).

Dr Sweeney, a lecturer in comparative American studies at the University of
Liverpool, argues that a vital link is missing in this remarkable tale.
Transnational encounters, she argues, "were key to Douglass's project of
American self-fashioning," and it is this extra-American world with which
this book is concerned (p. 3). Rather than focus on Douglass' previously
examined trips to the British mainland, Sweeney chooses to focus on his time
as an antislavery activist in Ireland during the mid-1840s as well as later
trips to Egypt (1887) and to Haiti as U.S. minister (1889-1891). In short,
she examines the fugitive, tourist, and diplomat for "mediating
transnational sites of US interest" to get at what she refers to several
times as the American or national "cultural imaginary" (pp. 162, 163).

The book's seven main chapters explore numerous ways these transnational
sites provided Douglass with opportunities to reshape his identity. Thus,
the Irish editions of his 1845 Narrative provided him with financial
stability, social mobility, and inclusion in patriarchal forms of
citizenship. In Chapter four, Sweeney examines Douglass' brief encounters
with Irish folk during the mid-1840s, arguing for a "nativist
counter-representation" of Irish peasants and the urban working class in
support of his claim as "an idealized nation-subject" (p. 164). In his visit
to Egypt, Sweeney identifies Douglass' affinity with an "oriental" racial
hierarchy in which "backward" Arabs contrast with progressive Americans and
African Americans. The final chapter expands this imperial model of progress
in relation to poverty-stricken Haiti, the struggle for Irish independence,
and the expansion of the American empire during the late nineteenth century.
These later transnational encounters described in his third autobiography
reveal that "the sensibilities of this most representative of American
nation-subjects were always more western than otherwise" (p. 192)...

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This article is a sort of love letter to the city of Butte, warts and all.
Many specialists will want to be aware of it. It is also, in many ways, a
critique of the heritage industries.

Author info and opening paras pasted in below.

P.O'S.


Edwin Dobb

Butte native Edwin Dobb is a fourth-generation descendant of Cornish tin
miners and Irish copper miners. A former editor of The Sciences, Dobb writes
for National Geographic, Harper's, and The New York Times Magazine, among
other publications. Dobb is cowriter and coproducer of the feature-length
documentary Butte, America. He is lecturer at the University of
California-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and is an adjunct
professor in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Montana,
Missoula.


Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum
Volume 17, Number 1, Spring 2010

E-ISSN: 1934-6832 Print ISSN: 1936-0886

DOI: 10.1353/bdl.0.0036
Viewpoint: Location, Occupation, Juxtaposition, Interpenetration: Notes on
an Erotics of the Mining City
Edwin Dobb
Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, Volume
17, Number 1, Spring 2010, pp. 1-12 (Article)

Subject Headings:
Butte (Mont.) -- Description and travel.
Mineral industries -- Montana -- Butte.


Most of us are animated by what might be called the cosmological impulse-a
reflexive tendency to orient ourselves with respect to space and time. It's
so deep-seated that we usually don't think about it. On a mundane level, the
impulse manifests itself in a variety of ways, depending on circumstance. In
cities such as New York, where I lived for ten years before moving back to
Butte, people usually ask, "What do you do?" But when I returned to Butte,
the first questions almost always concerned parish, neighborhood, and family
connections. Kinship trumped all other ways in which one might "place"
someone else. Oh, I went to school with your mother. Or: Your dad worked
with my uncle. Or: My cousin is married to your cousin. There was nothing
better than that: discovering that the stranger you just met is in fact a
relative. Your name was your calling card. I don't know who you are until I
know who you're related to and what part of town you come from.

This was a map that you developed unconsciously and which stayed with you.
And you can still find it today. When I met John T. Shea, my neighbor, now a
dear friend, he stood on North Main Street and, while pointing to empty lots
in both directions, recited the names of people long dead who once lived and
worked in buildings that were razed years ago-residences, bars, grocery
stores, boarding houses. All within the shadow of the Mountain Con Mine,
where his father worked, a mile below the surface across the street from the
family home. John T. says that he and his buddies stole the bottles that
miners placed outside the second-story windows of the Mullan, the biggest of
the boarding houses in the neighborhood. That was the first sign of his
knack for climbing, which served him well later when he became an ironworker
building those very headframes. His labor is embodied-and memorialized-in
several of the thirteen head-frames that have survived and that today stand
as the most iconic structures in town. As I listened to John, the now-empty
lots and silent streets came alive, ever so briefly. Much of what was here
is gone, but not to those who lived here before.

"I was born to this," John T. Shea says. And by that he means both the place
and the life it has offered. The Mining City. Mining. The mines. This is the
voice of a native, of course. Native: one born or reared in a particular
place. The Latin form of which, of course, is vernaculus, which literally
means native to a certain place and time. Contrasted with what's
uncharacteristic, foreign-originating elsewhere. Some people are born to a
particular place and time; others are not. They are outsiders. Visitors.
Butte has a reputation for friendliness toward outsiders. And it is well
deserved. But part of Butte's maddening complexity, and contributing to both
its persistence and its fatality, is that it is one of the hardest clubs in
the world to join. You can go a long time without noticing this demarcation,
but once you do recognize it, suddenly the town seems impenetrable-and
inscrutable. It's a place you cannot enter under your own power. To convert
from outsider to insider, you must be invited, sponsored-adopted. It helps
to have an Irish surname.

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On 7/8/2010, "Patrick O'Sullivan" wrote:

>I see that since I first read the article in Nature one comment has
>suggested that these things are also well managed in North America.
>
>P.O'S.

It depends on how one defines well managed. While government agencies
like
the Bureau of Land Management, US Forest Service, etc. and State Historic
Preservation Offices keep the reports and make them accessible to other
contractors, the real shame is they are ignored by most North American
academics. Unlike Richard Bradley, most academics rarely delve into
this material. The contractors are required to use it though.

{It should also be noted too, given the differences in philosophy
concerning site locations, the laws are such in the USA that unless data
sharing agreements, are made, site locations can only be revealed to
relevant contractors, researchers, etc. and it is kept confidential.
Wasn't the case when I worked in Ireland and Britain back in the 1980s
and early 1990s.}

Best, MEH

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Putting the border in place: customs regulation in the making of
the Irish border, 1921-1945
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Journal of Historical Geography
Article in Press, Corrected Proof


Putting the border in place: customs regulation in the making of the Irish
border, 1921-1945

Catherine Nash a, Lorraine Dennis b, and Brian Graham b,
a Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road,
London E9 7HA, UK
b School of Environmental Sciences, University of Ulster, Cromore Road,
Coleraine BT52 1SA, UK

Available online 2 July 2010.

Abstract

This paper explores the historical geography of the making of the Irish
border through a focus on the practices of customs regulation through which
it was constituted and on the impeded, permitted and concealed mobilities of
people and objects across the customs boundary after 1923. It traces how
legislative change at the level of the state - in this case the governments
of the Irish Free State, Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom - was
translated into the routine practices of those trying to regulate the
movement of people and objects across the customs boundary, and considers
the responses of those subject to, and regularly subverting, these efforts.
Drawing on recent interests in the prosaic practices of the state, and in
materiality and mobility more widely, our focus is both on the work of
political power at the border through the practices, texts, tools and
techniques of customs regulation, and on the experience and effects of
customs control for those living near the newly defined line between
Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State.

Keywords: Irish border; Partition; Customs regulation

Article Outline

The making of the customs barrier: crossing points and custom posts
The border in practice: lists, duties and allowances
Circumventing the customs barrier
Conclusion
Acknowledgements

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There was a very interesting article recently in the journal, Nature - it is
available on the web site - looking at the great number of commercial
archaeology projects now taking place in Britain. Basically financed by the
construction industry, as part of the planning process, this becomes
unpublished 'grey literature', not visible in the normal academic record.

Some paras and the link pasted in below...

Some initiatives singled out for praise include the Ireland's Heritage
Council's 'unpublished excavations' web site

http://heritagecouncil.ie/unpublished_excavations/

and the INSTAR Web Archive

http://www.heritagecouncil.ie/archaeology/research-funds-grants/instar-web-a
rchive/?L=ralwkumqobskv

I see that since I first read the article in Nature one comment has
suggested that these things are also well managed in North America.

P.O'S.


Archaeology: Hidden treasure

Archaeology: Hidden treasure
The explosion in commercial archaeology has brought a flood of information.
The problem now is figuring out how to find and use this unpublished
literature, reports Matt Ford.

Archaeologists are used to gathering data by scratching in the dirt. But
when Richard Bradley set out to write a new prehistory of Britain in 2004,
he unearthed his most important finds while wearing sandals and a sweater
rather than work boots and a hard hat.

Bradley is one of a growing number of academics in the United Kingdom who
are doing their digging in the masses of unpublished 'grey literature'
generated when commercial archaeologists are brought in to excavate before
any sort of construction.

Bradley, a professor at the University of Reading, travelled around the
country, visiting the offices of contract archaeological teams and local
planning officials. There, he unearthed dozens of reports showing that
settlements in England had remained strong during the Bronze Age and had not
suffered a population crash, as academics had long thought.

"I became aware that what I was teaching would be out of date without
looking at the grey literature," says Bradley.

For the past 20 years, Britain has been at the centre of a revolution in the
funding and practice of archaeology. The shift was spurred by a 1990 change
in policy that requires local governments to consider how construction
projects will affect archaeological remains. That policy has essentially
forced public and private entities to pay for archaeological assessments
before they start laying a road, constructing an office building or engaging
in other projects that disturb the ground.

In many ways the law has achieved its aim, helping to preserve relics that
otherwise would have been destroyed. But at the same time, it has created
problems for academics, who have struggled to keep up with the avalanche of
new data, which some argue are hard to access.

Similar concerns have emerged in other countries that have enacted
equivalent laws. But it's in the crowded British Isles - with its densely
packed archaeological record and rapid pace of development - where the
effect has been particularly profound.

Full text at
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100407/full/464826a.html

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A double book review in the latest Modern Language Review is of =
interest...

Some extracts pasted in below...


Antithetical Arts: On the Ancient Quarrel between Literature and Music
Music and the Irish Literary Imagination.
Author: Carlson, Matthew Paul1
Source: The Modern Language Review, Volume 105, Number 3, 1 July 2010 , =
pp. 815-818(4)
Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association

Antithetical Arts: On the Ancient Quarrel between Literature and Music
Peter Kivy

Music and the Irish Literary Imagination
Harry White

As the title of Peter Kivy=E2=80=99s latest book indicates, the =
increasingly common interdisciplinary project to yoke together musical =
and literary studies=E2=80=94a project that Harry White=E2=80=99s Music =
and the Irish Literary Imagination carries forward=E2=80=94still has its =
detractors. While Kivy describes the relation between music and =
literature as fundamentally antithetical, White discusses specific =
instances in which the two arts might be thought of as =
=E2=80=98apposite=E2=80=99 (p. =EF=99=85=EF=99=88), or even =
=E2=80=98synonymous=E2=80=99 (p. viii). It would seem that these two =
viewpoints could never find common cause, but in their separate ways, =
both authors helpfully refine and delimit current approaches to =
musico-literary criticism: one by negation and the other by example...

...Harry White has no qualms about making musico-literary analogies;
in fact, the writers he discusses in Music and the Irish Literary =
Imagination seem constantly to seek expressive modes situated precisely =
at the boundary between words and music. The underlying question at the =
heart of White=E2=80=99s study is why there is no strong tradition of =
classical music in Ireland. The answer, he proposes, is that the =
(undeniably strong) Irish literary tradition has, in effect, taken the =
place of music within the culture. Alluding to Yeats=E2=80=99s sequence =
of poems called =E2=80=98Words for Music Perhaps=E2=80=99, White =
delineates the various ways in which Irish writers have
produced words for music=E2=80=94that is, literature that somehow =
supplants music.

At first glance, the subject of Chapter 1, Thomas Moore, does not seem =
fit
company for the canonically recognized figures treated in the rest of =
the book: Yeats, Synge, Shaw, Joyce, Beckett, Friel, and Heaney. In a =
sense, this is exactly the point. For White, Moore represents a time in =
Irish cultural history before art music had been subsumed under =
literature; Moore=E2=80=99s poetry, much of which was written to =
pre-existing Irish melodies and subsequently set to music by the likes =
of Berlioz and Schumann, submits to the demands of actual music in ways =
that his successors=E2=80=99 would not. As White puts it, =
=E2=80=98Moore=E2=80=99s displacement from the canon of Irish literature =
can fairly be read as a displacement of music itself, in favour of the =
music of language and the symbolic properties of musical discourse as =
these apply
to poetry=E2=80=99

The poet chiefly responsible for this displacement is W. B. Yeats...

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This Discussion Paper, freely available at the IRES web site, will =
interest
a number of Ir-D members. It is quite robust in its definitions and
arguments.

It identifies 3 strands in the existing research literature
1. the interaction between networks and education
2. the impact of traditional determinants (including networks) on female
international migration - here Hasia Diner is cited
3. migrants=92 selection, the complex mix of self-selection factors =
(wage
differentials, probability to find a job, welfare programs and =
amenities,
migration costs, etc.) and out-selection factors (immigration
policies at destination, mobility agreements, etc.)

The Discussion Paper aims 'to reconcile these different strands of the
existing literature analysing whether the sensitiveness to the above
self-selection factors is a matter of education or gender.' One danger =
it
identifies is 'to spuriously ascribe a role for gender in female
migration while the effect is primarily related to education...'

P.O'S.

Networks Effects in International Migration:
Education versus Gender
M. Beine and S. Salomone
Discussion Paper 2010-22

Michel Beine=86
Sara Salomone=87
May 26, 2010

Abstract
This paper analyses the impact of networks on the structure of =
international
migration flows to OECD countries. In particular, we look at whether
diaspora effects are different across education levels and gender. Using =
new
data allowing to include both dimensions, we are able to analyze the
respective impact of networks on the proportion of each category of =
migrant.
Therefore, unlike the preceding literature on macro determinants of
international migration, we can identify the factors that influence the
selection in terms skills and in terms of gender. We find
that network effects vary by education level but not by gender.

JEL Classification: F22, O15
Keywords: Migration, Human capital, network/diaspora externalities, =
Gender

http://sites.uclouvain.be/econ/DP/IRES/2010022.pdf

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The effects of language planning initiatives ... A comparative
study of Irish and Basque
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The effects of language planning initiatives on the language attitudes =
and language practices of university students
A comparative study of Irish and Basque=20

Los efectos de las iniciativas de la planificaci=C3=B3n =
ling=C3=BC=C3=ADstica sobre las actitudes y las pr=C3=A1cticas de lengua =
de los estudiantes universitarios. Un estudio comparativo de la lengua =
irlandesa y el euskera=20
La efiko de lingvoplanaj iniciatoj je lingvosinteno kaj lingvopraktiko =
de universitataj studentoj: Kompara studo de la irlanda kaj la =
e=C5=ADska

Author: Moriarty, M=C3=A1ir=C3=A9ad
Source: Language Problems & Language Planning, Volume 34, Number 2, 2010 =
, pp. 141-157(17)
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Abstract:
This paper seeks to gauge the success of language planning initiatives =
in reversing language shift in Ireland and the Basque Autonomous =
Community (BAC) amongst Irish and Basque university students who are not =
first-language speakers of either minority language. By examining data =
elicited through questionnaires on the students' language attitudes and =
practices, the paper aims to uncover the attitudinal support the =
students exhibit to Irish and Basque respectively and the extent to =
which these levels of attitudinal support are transferred to actual =
language use. The resulting data suggest a favourable attitudinal =
perspective based largely on relevance to ethnic identity. While the =
data indicate less favourable results with respect to language =
practices, there are some positive conclusions to be made particularly =
in terms of the domains in which Irish and Basque language use occurs =
and the interlocutors involved. For example, the Irish and Basque =
languages may not form part of the students' active linguistic =
repertoire, but there are examples of code-switching in domains from =
which these languages were traditionally absent.=20

Spanish
Este art=C3=ADculo intenta evaluar el =C3=A9xito de las iniciativas de =
la planificaci=C3=B3n ling=C3=BC=C3=ADstica en la inversi=C3=B3n de =
cambio de lengua en Irlanda y en la Comunidad Aut=C3=B3noma Vasca (CAV) =
entre los estudiantes universitarios irlandeses y vascos que no tienen =
la lengua irlandesa ni el euskera respectivamente come primera lengua. =
Por medio de examinar los datos obtenidos a trav=C3=A9s de cuestionarios =
que indagaron sobre las actitudes que tienen los estudiantes hacia =
respectivamente el irland=C3=A9s y el euskera y sus usos, el =
art=C3=ADculo tiene como objetivo revelar el apoyo actitudinal que =
exponen los estudiantes hacia el irland=C3=A9s y el vasco, =
respectivamente, y la medida en que estos niveles de apoyo de actitud se =
transfieren al uso real de las lenguas. Los datos resultantes sugieren =
una perspectiva favorable actitudinal, basada en gran parte en la =
importancia de ambas lenguas para la identidad =C3=A9tnica. Mientras los =
datos indican resultados menos favorables con respecto a las =
pr=C3=A1cticas de lengua, a la vez surgieron algunas conclusiones =
positivas, sobre todo en cuanto a los =C3=A1mbitos en los que las dos =
lenguas se usan y los interlocutores que hacen uso de ellas. Por =
ejemplo, puede que tanto el irland=C3=A9s como el vasco no formen parte =
del repertorio ling=C3=BC=C3=ADstico activo de los estudiantes pero en =
algunos casos s=C3=AD existen ejemplos de cambio de c=C3=B3digo en =
=C3=A1mbitos donde tradicionalmente estas lenguas no se usaban.=20

Portugese
La artikolo klopodas mezuri la sukceson de lingvoplanaj iniciatoj en =
inversigo de lingvo=C5=9Dovi=C4=9Do en Irlando kaj la E=C5=ADska =
A=C5=ADtonoma Komunumo inter irlandaj kaj e=C5=ADskaj studentoj kiuj ne =
estas unualingvaj parolantoj de tiuj minoritataj lingvoj. Ekzamenante =
donita=C4=B5ojn havigitajn per demandaroj pri la lingvosinteno kaj =
lingvopraktiko de la studentoj, la artikolo celas malkovri la sintenan =
apogon, kiun la studentoj montras rilate la du respektivajn lingvojn. La =
rezultaj donita=C4=B5oj implicas favoran sintenan perspektivon surbaze =
=C4=89efe de la rilato al etna identeco. Kvankam la donita=C4=B5oj =
indikas malpli favorajn rezultojn rilate lingvan praktikon, restas =
fareblaj kelkaj pozitivaj konkludoj precipe rilate la domenojn en kiuj =
oni utiligas la irlandan kaj e=C5=ADskan kaj la koncernajn =
interparolantojn. Ekzemple, la irlanda kaj e=C5=ADska lingvoj eble ne =
formas parton de la aktiva lingva repertuaro de la studentoj, sed okazas =
ekzemploj de kod=C5=9Daltado en domenoj kie tradicie tiuj lingvoj =
forestis.

Keywords: LANGUAGE PLANNING; LANGUAGE ATTITUDES; LANGUAGE IDEOLOGY; =
LANGUAGE PRACTICES; UNIVERSITY STUDENTS; IRISH LANGUAGE; BASQUE LANGUAGE
Document Type: Research article

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We have entered the (northern hemisphere's) summer holiday season.

The 3 moderators of the Irish Diaspora list - myself, Bill Mulligan and Liam
Greenslade - have parcelled up the coming weeks and months between us.

Bill Mulligan is going to take the first shift.

Emails sent to the Irish Diaspora list

IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK

Will be picked up by the duty moderator and distributed in the usual way.

Emails sent to me personally will mostly have to wait until my return to my
home and my home computer.

My sincere thanks to Bill and to Liam for their help in maintaining the
Irish Diaspora list.

I do hope that everyone gets the chance of some rest and recuperation. And
no sunburn...

Paddy O'Sullivan

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