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This is a charming MA thesis by Donna Thurston of the Victoria University of
Wellngton, NZ, and the New Zealand School of Music, Wellington, New Zealand.

This link takes you directly to a 142 page pdf file.

http://muir.massey.ac.nz/bitstream/10179/1416/2/02_whole.pdf

Donna Thurston spoke at the
Australasian Irish Studies Conference
9-12 July 2009
Massey University Campus, Wellington, New Zealand
Ireland and the Irish Antipodes: One World or Worlds Apart?

http://isaanz.org/conference/16th-australasian-irish-studies-conference-well
ington-2009

The conference proceedings are usually published.

P.O'S.

Authors: Thurston, Donna
Title: Irish music in Wellington : a study of a local music community : a
thesis submitted for the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of
the requirements for the degree of Master of Musicology, New Zealand School
of Music, Wellington, New Zealand

Abstract: The Irish session is a musical, social and cultural
experience that has emerged from international popularisation and
globalisation. In New Zealand today, communities of Irish music enthusiasts
maintain links to an international arena, and the session is valued as a
context for musical enjoyment and the affirmation of Irish identity.
Throughout my research I immersed myself in Wellington's vibrant Irish music
scene with fieldwork techniques that included participant observation, sound
recordings, and performance. The major part of this study took place in two
local Wellington pubs - Molly Malone's and Kitty O'Shea's - but I also
observed sessions in other New Zealand cities and in Ireland. The
similarities and differences between the two Wellington sessions were
examined in detail and my research included extensive interviews with the
participants. In addition to exploring Irish sessions in the context of two
Wellington pubs, this thesis explores session instrumentation and
repertoire, and aspects of cultural identity that include the participant's
experiences with Irish music. This thesis also examines how individual
session members actively contribute and link their musical training and
background to a transnational Irish music community. By studying the
individual and musical identities of those actively involved in the
community, this thesis reveals that Irish music in Wellington is an active
and dynamic scene made up of enthusiasts with a variety of musical and
cultural backgrounds. With music as its heart, the Wellington session
community, is simultaneously localised in New Zealand but extends outward
and connects with Irish communities globally.

Keywords: Irish music
Wellington New Zealand
Issue Date: 2010

http://muir.massey.ac.nz/bitstream/10179/1416/2/02_whole.pdf

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New Hibernia Review
Volume 14, Number 1, Earrach/Spring 2010

Table of Contents

N=F3ta=ED na nEagarth=F3ir=ED: Editors' Notes
pp. 5-8
=20
Rambles with Leo: A Howth Childhood
Timothy Brownlow
pp. 9-13
=20
"The Gates Were Shut": Catholics, Chapels, and Power in Late
Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Cara Delay
pp. 14-35
=20
Fil=EDocht Nua: New Poetry
Patrick Deeley
pp. 36-41

Breaking the Habit: Samuel Beckett's Critique of Irish-Ireland
Alexander McKee
pp. 42-58

After the Ryan and Murphy Reports: A Roundtable on the Irish Catholic =
Church
Andrew Auge
Louise Fuller
John Littleton
Eamon Maher
pp. 59-77

Belonging as Mastery: Selfhood and Otherness in the Poetry of Seamus =
Heaney
Magdalena Kay
pp. 78-95

Matilda Tone in America: Exile, Gender, and Memory in the Making of =
Irish
Republican Nationalism
David Brundage
pp. 96-111

"N=EDl an Focal Sin Againn": Orality, Literacy, and Accounts of the 1798
Rebellion
Radvan Markus
pp. 112-126

Ominous Festivals, Ambivalent Nostalgia: Brian Friel's Dancing at =
Lughnasa
and Billy Roche's Amphibians
Martin W. Walsh
pp. 127-141
=20
Music and the Irish Literary Imagination (review)
Rachael Sealy Lynch
pp. 142-145

Ireland and Irish America: Culture, Class, and Transatlantic Migration
(review)
David Gleeson
pp. 145-150
=20
Tourism, Landscape, and the Irish Character: British Travel Writers in
Pre-Famine Ireland (review)
Sean Farrell
pp. 150-152
=20
Ringside Seats: An Insider's View of the Crisis in Northern Ireland =
(review)
Bill Grantham
pp. 152-154

Knock: The Virgin's Apparition in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (review)
Timothy G. McMahon
pp. 154-157

Nuacht faoi =DAdair: News of Authors
p. 158

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New Hibernia Review
Volume 14, Number 2, Samhradh/Summer 2010

Table of Contents

N=F3ta=ED na nEagarth=F3ir=ED: Editors=92 Notes
pp. 5-8

Chris Arthur
pp. 9-16

=93The Indian Man=94 and the Irishman: James Mooney and Irish Folklore
P=E1draig =D3 Siadhail
pp. 17-42

Fil=EDocht Nua: New Poetry
Jean O=92Brien
pp. 43-48

=93The Hard Hunger=94: Famine, Sexuality, and Form in Eugene McCabe=92s =
Tales from
the Poorhouse
Eoin Flannery
pp. 49-68

The Dublin Tenement Plays of the Early Abbey Theatre
Elizabeth Mannion
pp. 69-83

Irish America, Race, and Bernadette Devlin=92s 1969 American Tour
Matthew J. O=92Brien
pp. 84-101

Defining the Irish Tourist Abroad: Souvenirs of Irish Footprints Over =
Europe
(1888)
Rapha=EBl Ingelbien
pp. 102-117
=20
Saints and Sisters: The Sacred Chorus in the Poetry of Eil=E9an N=ED
Chuillean=E1in
Christian Michener
pp. 118-132
=20
Reading the Lay of the Landscape in William Carleton=92s =93Ned =
M=92Keown=94
Thomas B. O=92Grady
pp. 133-144
)
L=E9irmheasanna: Reviews

The Last Minstrels: Yeats and the Revival of the Bardic Arts (review)
Adrian Frazier
pp. 145-147

Bowery to Broadway: The American Irish in Classical Hollywood Cinema
(review)
Michael Patrick Gillespie
pp. 148-150

The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney (review)
Richard Rankin Russell
pp. 150-152
=20
Disability, Representation and the Body in Irish Writing, 1800=961922 =
(review)
Nathaniel Myers
pp. 153-155
=20
Flowing, Still: Irish Poets on Irish Poetry (review)
Tracy Youngblom
pp. 155-157

Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry
pp. 158-159

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Studies in Canadian Literature/=C9tudes en litt=E9rature canadienne =
(SCL/=C9LC) is
a biannual, bilingual journal devoted to the study of Canadian =
literature in
English and French, and published at the University of New Brunswick in
Fredericton.=20

Some back issues have become available on the web site.

http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/SCL/index.html

I managed to find Anne Compton's interview with Thomas O=92Grady at

http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar_url?hl=3Den&q=3Dhttp://etc.hil.unb.ca=
/ojs/in
dex.php/SCL/article/download/12878/13939&oi=3Dscholaralrt&ct=3Dalrt&cd=3D=
0&sa=3DX&sc
isig=3DAAGBfm0DqggJuEDFU0Kbkhr4NJwoN5QhwA

But I don't know how stable that link might be...

P.O'S.

=93Doubly-Crossing Syllables: Thomas O=92Grady on Poetry, Exile, and =
Ireland.=94

SCL/=C9LC Interview by Anne Compton.

The interview focuses largely on Thomas O=92Grady=92s first collection =
of poetry
What Really Matters. He discusses ideas of home and exile, Prince Edward
Island and Island literature, the idea of language and its relation to
place, family history, and academics. O=92Grady=92s use of the formalist =
and the
Romantic tradition is considered.


OPENING PARAGRAPHS

PRINCE EDWARD ISLANDER Thomas O=92Grady, Director of Irish
Studies at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, published a =
remarkable
first collection of poetry, What Really Matters, in 2000,
a book already in its second printing. In his poems, and in this =
interview,
O=92Grady is an advocate for poetry=92s return to formalism. His poetry
unites depth of feeling and formal mastery, local lore and great
learning, the Irish diaspora and Maritime out-migration. A scholar and
a poet, O=92Grady has published extensively on Irish writers and on =
poetics.
He is currently writing a book on the Irish writers William
Carleton, Patrick Kavanagh, and Benedict Kiely.

On July 8th, 2000, we met on the Island, following the Island launch
of his book, for a conversation about the Island and Irish writers, =
exile
and poetry. Every summer, Tom, his wife, and daughters travel back to =
P.E.I.
from Milton, their home, just outside of Boston. Our conversation took
place in Southport, east of Charlottetown, overlooking the Hillsborough
River, a scene of some importance in O=92Grady=92s work. Cormorants =
stood
sentinel on the riverbank...

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'To Banish Ghost and Goblin': New Essays on Irish Culture

This book has turned up on the bibloworld web site.

http://www.bibloworld.com/epages/61560601.sf/es_ES/?ObjectPath=3D/Shops/6=
1560601/Products/'To-Banish-Ghost-and-Goblin':-New-Essays-on-Irish-Cultur=
e

A search will also find it on Google Books, where you can see the Table =
of Contents, and some extracts.

As an organising structure the editors, David Clark & Rub=C3=A9n Jarazo =
=C3=81lvarez, have used quotes from the song, The Rocky Road to Dublin. =
The book arises out of various projects supported by the government of =
Galicia and the university of La Coruna.=20

I suppose the book can be read as a report on 'Irish Studies' as a =
European - and indeed world-wide - phenomenon. Spain is very well =
represented.

Ute Anna Mittermaier's study of Charles Donnelly is especially welcome - =
it might be objected that it overstudies the work of a young man who was =
killed at the age of 22, but that it is no reason to not study his work. =
And - the point is made - there is a generation of neglected poets =
there.

P.O'S.


Nuevo
'To Banish Ghost and Goblin': New Essays on Irish Culture

This book presents a series of essays on some of the most challenging =
issues which are facing Irish Studies scholars in the twenty-first =
century. It aims to provide a variety of views on topics such as gender, =
media, the North and the revision of traditional approaches to Irish =
studies as seen by a number of scholars at the end of the first decade =
of the third millennium. The breadth of scope is justified by the =
dynamic growth of the field over the last decade and points to the =
diverse academic and national backgrounds of the authors of the chapters =
and the enthusiasm with which the cultural concerns of the island of =
Ireland are tackled in other countries. Writers from Austria, Brazil, =
Canada, Germany and Spain provide original viewpoints on Irish topics =
which are as bold as they are refreshing. The awareness of the unique =
situation of Ireland and her cultural practices has provided a scenario =
in which interest in the literature, art, film and other cultural =
manifestations is great, and it is hoped that this volume will play a =
part in stimulating debate about some of the fascinating areas of Irish =
cultural matters discussed herein and will provide a useful work of =
reference for anyone interested in the rich and ample field of Irish =
Studies.
35,00 =E2=82=AC / unidad(es)

Informaci=C3=B3n de producto adicional
T=C3=ADtulo 'To Banish Ghost and Goblin': New Essays on Irish Culture
C=C3=B3digo 9788497455015
Autor David Clark & Rub=C3=A9n Jarazo =C3=81lvarez (Eds.)
P=C3=A1ginas 224
Formato 15,5 x 23 cm
Encuadernaci=C3=B3n R=C3=BAstica
Idioma Ingl=C3=A9s

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Popular Music (2010), 29:155-157 Cambridge University Press
Copyright C Cambridge University Press 2010
doi:10.1017/S0261143009990547

Reviews
The Irishness of Irish Music. By John O'Flynn. Surrey: Ashgate, 2009. 256
pp. ISBN 978-0-7546-5714-9 Book query


The Making of Irish Traditional Music. By Helen O'Shea. Cork: University
Press, 2008. 236 pp. ISBN 13: 978-1-85918-436-3 Book query


Tuned Out: Traditional Music and Identity in Northern Ireland. By Fintan
Vallely. Cork: University Press, 2008. 216 pp. ISBN-13: 978-1-85918-443-1
Book query

Michael Mary Murphya1

a1 Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Ireland

EXTRACTS

The Irish music industry's own statistics for 2008 illustrate the support
for domestic artists in the local marketplace (Hot Press, Dublin, July 2009,
pp. 12-16) with the year's top 50 albums including twelve artists designated
Irish. At first reading a twenty-four per cent representation seemed to
indicate a healthy level of support, yet the taxonomy is open to question
given that UK acts like Snow Patrol and The Priests are deemed Irish. Their
Northern Irish origin, and presumably UK tax residence, points to why these
acts are considered British in UK statistics. The top 50 singles chart
yields less success for Irish artists; only four Irish singles (eight per
cent) rank amongst the fifty highest sellers. The top single Galway Girl by
Sharon Shannon and Mundy was written by North American writer Steve Earle.
The next highest Irish act is emblematic of the globalised music industry:
The Script are Irish born, found their success in Los Angeles, are managed
by a London company and signed to RCA records, now owned by Japanese
entertainment conglomerate Sony. Interestingly for a country where tourism
and music are highlighted in national discourse, the press release available
on their website quotes the band on their Irish home: 'I'm not trying to
romanticise it, where we grew up was a shit hole, it was stealing cars, all
the usual bollocks, but music gave me a sense that I could break away'
(http://www.sonybmg.ie, accessed 29 July 2009)...

...The Irishness of Irish Music also provides an overview of attendees at a
range of performances by artists in Ireland. Their perception of the artists
as Irish is thoroughly scrutinised by O'Flynn. Anecdotes from audience
participants give an insight into the mindset of the Irish music consumer.
This type of qualitative analysis may indicate a useful parallel tool to the
quantitative data gathered by Irish tourist and industry sources. It is
constructive knowing that a certain number of tourists enjoyed music in
Ireland; a more insightful question may be: 'what music would you have
preferred?'

In contrast to O'Flynn's interviews with attendees, in her book The Making
of Irish Traditional Music, Helen O'Shea converses directly with the
musicians. She applies this qualitative analysis to the performing
participants in Irish traditional music sessions. Taking us back-stage in a
number of venues around the country, her book is a literate, dense and
compelling study of the state of traditional music in Ireland. She uses her
insider knowledge of music and her qualification as a performer to glean
information and establish conclusions that are pointed and practical, if not
always pleasant. This makes this work all the more vital and fascinating.
She provides forty-four pages of references and footnotes containing, not
just a musical context for her work, but also an insightful social analysis
of the country...

...Both O'Shea and Vallely provide excellent histories of traditional music
in Ireland and document the groups with vested interests in its revival and
presentation. In a short, six-page chapter entitled, 'Tonal
boundary-marking: prejudice, politics and ethnicity', Vallely neatly deploys
John Blacking's 1970s work in South Africa. Commencing with the well-worn
slogan, 'Catholics dance, Protestants march', this is an excellent account
of the dominant ideologies at work in Ireland, and skilfully interrogates
the reasons for why these communities are often so out of step with each
other.

These three books combined present a world of music and musicians with
immense possibilities for harmony. The authors' dissection of myths and
exposure of often under-acknowledged aspects of musical life in Ireland make
each of them welcome additions to the study of a small musical island caught
in the rising tide of globalisation.

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Subject: M=EDche=E1l =D3 Cl=E9irigh Institute website

I would like to draw your attention to the new UCD M=EDche=E1l =D3 =
Cl=E9irigh
Institute website http://www.ucd.ie/mocleirigh
and to the online version of the collaborative exhibition =
'Writing=A0Irish
History: the Four Masters and their world' held in Trinity=A0College =
Dublin,
October-December 2007 http://writingirishhistory.eu
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0
We hope that the 'Writing Irish History' website will be used as a =
resource
for second and third-level students as well as for=A0the public at =
large. I
welcome any suggestions regarding further=A0publicity for the site.

Dr Edel Bhreathnach
Deputy Director
UCD M=EDche=E1l =D3 Cl=E9irigh Institute
tel: 01 7168185

Welcome / F=E1ilte
The M=EDche=E1l =D3 Cl=E9irigh Institute for the Study of Irish History =
and
Civilisation, University College Dublin is a leading research institute =
in
the field of Irish studies. It was founded in 2000 as part of the =
UCD-OFM
(Order of Friars Minor) Partnership which also initiated the transfer of =
the
priceless Irish Franciscan archive to University College Dublin. The
Institute supports researchers in their pursuit of major projects and =
theses
and promotes Irish studies among academics and the public through
conferences, seminars and publications.

Ionad ceannr=F3da=EDoch taighde i stair agus sibhialtacht na h=C9ireann =
is ea
Fond=FAireacht Mh=EDch=EDl U=ED Chl=E9irigh. Buna=EDodh =E9 sa bhliain =
2000 mar chuid den
comhph=E1irt=EDocht idir An Col=E1iste Ollscoile, Baile =C1tha Cliath =
agus Ord na
bProinsiasach in =C9irinn a thiomnaigh aistri=FA leabharlann luachmhar =
na
bProinsiasach i gCill In=EDon L=E9in=EDn go Cartlann an Chol=E1iste =
Ollscoile.
Taca=EDonn Institi=FAid Mhich=EDl U=ED Chl=E9irigh le lucht l=E9inn ina =
gcuid taighde
agus le meas ar shaibhreas stairi=FAil na t=EDre a spreagadh in =C9irinn =
an lae
inniu.

http://www.ucd.ie/mocleirigh/

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The latest episode of the BBcC series Who Do You Think You Are?, with Dervla
Kirwan, is well worth watching.

There are a number of sub texts - like the extraordinary resources available
to family historians in Ireland. And the extraordinary moment when Dervla
Kirwan realises that her family is about to donate a footnote to James
Joyce, Ulysses...

P.O'S.

Nine celebrities trace their family trees to explore the lives of their
ancestors and uncover major themes in British social history.

Irish actress Dervla Kirwan became a household name in the hit series
Ballykissangel. But she has never spoken about her great-uncle Michael
Collins, a national figure who changed Irish history and fought to establish
the Irish Free State. Dervla wants to find out how her grandfather Finian,
Michael's nephew, fits into the events shaped by his famous uncle.

In the heart of Dublin, Dervla goes to Cathal Brugha Barracks to unearth
Finian's pension records which detail his activities before he joined the
Irish Free State Army. Dervla makes an unexpected discovery regarding the
IRA, and uses the documents to help her retrace Finian's steps. She heads to
Clonakilty in West Ireland where the War of Independence was at its height
when Finian was still a teenager.

Dervla knows little of her paternal side of the family and meets her father
who tells her that her great-grandfather Henry Kahn was Jewish. Knowing
nothing of the Dublin Jewish community, Dervla heads to the Jewish Museum.
Armed with new information Dervla discovers a Victorian love story, a dismal
miscarriage of justice and an act of anti-semitism that even reached the
House of Commons - and inspired an episode in one of the greatest novels of
the twentieth century, Ulysses by James Joyce.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tc6hh

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Tell About the Global South: Bushranger Nomadology and Minor
Literature in the Irish-Australian Boom
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The Global South

Volume 3, Number 2, Fall 2009

Tell About the Global South: Bushranger Nomadology and Minor Literature in
the Irish-Australian Boom
Jeffrey Stayton
pp. 83-98

Indiana University Press

Abstract:

My essay reads contemporary Irish-Australian literature as an intriguing
contact zone where global South discourses of the Pacific Rim meet those of
the U.S. South. Having evoked in their novels what had until recent decades
been considered Australia's national shame, the continent's convict history,
Peter Carey and Richard Flanagan not only re-imagine Australia and
Tasmania's past but also reframe their presents. Each novel attempts to
subvert the official record of the British Empire from the standpoint of its
Irish Others-Carey with his "true history" of the bushranger Ned Kelly and
Flanagan with his "book of fish" from the painter-convict William Gould.
True History of the Kelly Gang and Gould's Book of Fish confront the history
of the oppressor with legends of the oppressed through fragmented,
non-linear narratives whose organizing principles are repetition, saga, and
run-on sentences, all of which underscore the urgency in telling the largely
lost record of the Irish account of their experience in the colony's
foundation.

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RETURNING TO THE QUESTION OF A WAGE PREMIUM FOR RETURNING MIGRANTS
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RETURNING TO THE QUESTION OF A WAGE PREMIUM FOR RETURNING MIGRANTS
Alan Barrett
Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin Alan.Barrett[at]esri.ie
Jean Goggin
Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin

Abstract

Using data from a large-scale survey of employees in Ireland, we estimate
the extent to which people who have emigrated from Ireland and returned earn
more relative to comparable people who have never lived abroad. In so doing,
we test the hypothesis that migration can be part of a process of human
capital formation. We find through OLS estimation that returners earn 7 per
cent more than comparable stayers. We test for the presence of
self-selection bias in this estimate but the tests suggest that the premium
is related to returner status. The premium holds for both genders, is higher
for people with postgraduate degrees and for people who migrated beyond the
EU to the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The results show how
emigration can be positive for a source country when viewed in a longer-term
context.

Return migration circular migration Ireland

National Institute Economic Review July 2010 vol. 213 no. 1 R43-R51

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Homesick while at Home: Hugo Hamilton and The Speckled People
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Homesick while at Home: Hugo Hamilton and The Speckled People
Book Exploring Transculturalism
Publisher VS Verlag f=FCr Sozialwissenschaften
DOI 10.1007/978-3-531-92440-3
Copyright 2010
ISBN 978-3-531-17286-6 (Print) 978-3-531-92440-3 (Online)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-531-92440-3_8
Pages 113-129
Subject Collection Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
SpringerLink Date Thursday, July 08, 2010

Aoileann N=ED =C9igeartaigh

Abstract
Hugo Hamilton was born in Dublin in 1953. His father was an ardent
nationalist, who forbade the use of the English language in their home =
as
part of his fight to restore Irish traditions and cultural sovereignty. =
His
mother was German, homesick for her family and a country that was =
imploding
in the aftermath of the Nazi reign. Hamilton thus grew up in a household
significantly at odds with the surrounding society. Teased for speaking
Irish and bullied for being German, he found himself constantly =
struggling
to find a personal identity neither his family nor society would allow =
him
to express. In his memoir The Speckled People (2003), he paints a =
searing
and poignant portrait of a childhood dominated by feelings of isolation =
and
uncertainty. Reflecting on his alienation from his peers, Hamilton =
describes
himself in terms we would usually associate with someone forced to leave
behind their country of origin and go into exile: =93We were =91the =
homesick
children=92, struggling from an early age with the idea of identity and
conflicting notions of Irish history and German history=94.

Exploring Transculturalism
A Biographical Approach
10.1007/978-3-531-92440-3_8
Wolfgang Berg and Aoileann N=ED =C9igeartaigh

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Where Does "Diaspora" Belong?: The View from Greek American
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Journal of Modern Greek Studies
Volume 28, Number 1, May 2010
E-ISSN: 1086-3265 Print ISSN: 0738-1727

Where Does "Diaspora" Belong?: The View from Greek American Studies
Journal of Modern Greek Studies - Volume 28, Number 1, May 2010, pp. 73-119

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Abstract:

Diaspora, variously defined, denotes difference within a host nation and
connection with a real or imaginary homeland elsewhere. Diaspora claims,
that is, a location that entangles the national, otherness within the
national (often construed as ethnic), and places across national borders,
all this in vastly complex ways. The study of diaspora therefore requires an
analogous scholarly location that brings into conversation national, ethnic,
and area studies. The analysis of the U.S. "Greek diaspora," for instance,
calls for cross-fertilization between American ethnic, Greek American, and
modern Greek studies. This kind of systematic exchange did not materialize
in the context of post 1960s U.S. academy, despite vocal calls for such
dialogue. Here I demonstrate that "diaspora" was not a primary organizing
reference for research in either U.S. Greek American or U.S. modern Greek
studies, a lapse all too conspicuous if one takes into account the
political, economic, and cultural importance of the Greek diaspora. Instead,
dominant threads within Greek American and modern Greek studies developed
along the trajectory of a nation-centric paradigm respectively, the former
privileging the study of ethnicity in a national (American) context, the
latter attaching analytical priority to Greece. As a result of this
bifurcation "diaspora" was relegated to the margins, remained
under-theorized, and was often neglected as a research prospect. From the
perspective of Greek American studies and focusing on selective Greek
American histories, texts, and institutional contexts, it is possible to
illuminate the ideological underpinnings for turning diaspora into a
contested terrain for both Greek American and modern Greek studies. Thus,
the clashing positions can be charted against the ongoing
transnationalization of Greek worlds as well as of the transnational turn in
the humanities and social sciences, a parallel development that invites a
fundamental remapping of Greek America and consequently obliges scholars of
both Greek American and modern Greek studies to rethink their spatial and
cultural frames of analysis. The operation of transnational geographies
associated with Greek worlds calls attention to the artificiality of the
boundary between Greek American and modern Greek studies and the necessity
for joining their forces for the purpose of new critical mappings, a project
now under way within U.S. modern Greek studies programs.

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On a train of thought...

I well remember my first discovery of the Irish-Australian Conference Series
and Conference Proceedings. In the days before the web and the internet,
and before computers were widely available, how could you find out who was
writing about the Irish in Australia, and about directions of research and
thinking? In a secondhand bookshop in Leeds I came across a copy of
Oliver MacDonagh and W. F. Mandle (eds), Irish-Australian Studies: Papers
delivered at the Fifth Irish-Australian Conference, Canberra, Australian
National University, 1989.

(1989 being coincidentally the year in which Tim Berners-Lee wrote his paper
proposing "a large hypertext database with typed links" - but I did not know
that then...)

MacDonagh and Mandle gave me some indication of names and themes - and so
the business of letter writing and establishing contact began. Later, a fax
machine was used.

On the developing web site of the Irish Studies Association of Australia and
New Zealand there is a guide to the Series and Proceedings

Dr Val Noone has written two important bibliographic essays on this and
related conference series and the publications resulting from them. These
two essays are available for download at the web site...

Val Noone, 'Irish-Australian conference publications: content and context',
pp
349-366, in Philip Bull, Frances Devlin Glass and Helen Doyle (eds),
Ireland and Australia 1798-1998: Studies in Culture, Identity and Migration,
Sydney, Crossing Press, 2000.

Recent Australian Irish research papers, 1998-2007
Paper for 15th Irish-Australian Conference
La Trobe University
23-26 September 2007
Dr Val Noone

Cumulatively these 2 papers give a feel for the development of Irish Studies
and Diaspora Studies in Australia and New Zealand, and the links with
Ireland and elsewhere.

http://isaanz.org/conference/irish-australian-conference-series-1980-2007

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Dear Paddy,

Thanks for drawing the list's attention to Val Noone's very useful lists on the
ISAANZ website that detail papers given at Irish-Australian Conferences since 1980
and published in the conference books.

These conferences have recently become the Australasian Irish Studies Conferences,
reflecting the fact that they are now held in New Zealand as well as in Australia
and Ireland. The 16th conference was held last year in Wellington and the book of
the proceedings was published last month (see details below). It was launched on 2
July in Belfast at the 17th conference, held at Queen's University. Plans are afoot
for the papers of the Belfast conference to appear, edited by Peter Gray and Lindsay
Proudfoot.

The 18th conference will take place in Canberra in July 2011, in conjunction with a
major exhibition on the Irish in Australia at the Australian National Museum,
curated by Richard Reid. Anyone interested should consult the ISAANZ website where
we'll put up information about the conference and the exhibition as it becomes
available. Future conferences are also in the pipeline, to be held in Dunedin and
Sydney.

The 2009 Wellington conference book is:

Brad and Kathryn Patterson (eds), 'Ireland and the Irish Antipodes: One World or
Worlds Apart?', Sydney: Anchor Books Australia, 2010. (Copies can be ordered from
the publisher via: www.anchorbooksaustralia.com.au.)

As you noted in an earlier email Paddy, a paper on music was given at the 2009
conference by Donna Thurston, but it doesn't appear in the book, although the book
does contain 27 other papers from the conference - so lots to read!

Elizabeth
__________________________________________________
Professor Elizabeth Malcolm

Gerry Higgins Chair of Irish Studies
School of Historical Studies ~ University of Melbourne ~ Victoria, 3010, AUSTRALIA
Phone: +61-3-83443924 ~ Email: e.malcolm[at]unimelb.edu.au

President
Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand (ISAANZ)
Website: http://isaanz.org
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Subject: TOC Irish Political Studies Volume 25 Issue 3
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Irish Political Studies: Volume 25 Issue 3 is now available online at
informaworld (http://www.informaworld.com).

This new issue contains the following articles:

Articles

The Place of the First World War in Contemporary Irish Republicanism in
Northern Ireland, Pages 325 - 345
Author: Richard S. Grayson

'Glorified Gofers, Policy Experts or Good Generalists': A Classification of
the Roles of the Irish Ministerial Adviser, Pages 347 - 369
Author: Bernadette Connaughton

Putting the Peaces Back Together: The 'Long' Liberalising Peace in Northern
Ireland, from O'Neill to PEACE, Pages 371 - 391
Author: Audra Mitchell
DOI: 10.1080/07907184.2010.497637

Exploring and Explaining Public Attitudes towards the European Integration
Process in Northern Ireland, Pages 393 - 416
Author: Ben Clements

Immigrants in Irish Politics: African and East European Candidates in the
2009 Local Government Elections, Pages 417 - 435
Authors: Bryan Fanning; Neil O'Boyle

Interview

Managing a Peace Process: An Interview with Jonathan Powell, Pages 437 - 455
Author: Graham Spencer

Book Reviews

Book Reviews, Pages 457 - 471
Authors: Henry Patterson; Paul Arthur; Cillian McGrattan; Mark McNally;
Theresa Reidy; Martin Durham; Katy Hayward; Mary-Alice C. Clancy

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Subject: Article, Irish immigrants in Scotland's shipyards and coalfields
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Irish immigrants in Scotland's shipyards and coalfields: employment =
relations, sectarianism and class formation
John Foster1,=E2=80=A0, Muir Houston2, Chris Madigan3
Article first published online: 4 AUG 2010

Historical Research
Early View (Articles online in advance of print)

Abstract
This article examines relations between Catholic and Protestant Irish =
immigrants in two Clydeside towns, Govan and Kinning Park, and two =
Lanarkshire mining towns, Airdrie and Coatbridge, for the half century =
after 1841. It finds evidence of greater social distance and sectarian =
conflict in the Lanarkshire towns, particularly from the =
eighteen-fifties onwards, than on Clydeside. It seeks to explain these =
differences in terms of the collapse of trade union organization in =
north Lanarkshire after 1850 as against its vigorous development among =
all grades of workers in Clydeside shipbuilding from the =
eighteen-sixties.

Author Information
1 University of the West of Scotland
2 University of Glasgow
3 Glasgow
=E2=80=A0*=E2=80=82
This article builds on the methodology and findings of two previous =
papers: J. Foster, M. Houston and C. Madigan, =E2=80=98Distinguishing =
Catholics and Protestants among Irish immigrants to Clydeside: a new =
approach to immigration and ethnicity in Victorian Britain=E2=80=99, =
Irish Studies Rev., x (2002), 172=E2=80=9392, and =E2=80=98Sectarianism, =
segregation and politics on Clydeside in the later 19th =
century=E2=80=99, in New Perspectives on the Irish in Scotland, ed. M. =
J. Mitchell (Edinburgh, 2008), pp. 65=E2=80=9396. The first of these =
outlines the methodology for distinguishing Catholic and Protestant =
immigrants and applies it to six Clydeside centres. The second provides =
a micro-analysis of neighbourhoods in Govan and Kinning Park and an =
examination of the industrial and political context. For critical =
comment the authors would like to thank Alan Campbell, Mary Davis, =
Elaine McFarland, Martin Mitchell, Chik Collins and the referees of this =
journal.

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Subject: Book Release: New Novel By Peter Quinn
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The Man Who Never Returned
=A0
Detective Fintan Dunne is back on the case in Peter Quinn's latest novel
from Overlook Press.
=A0
On the sultry evening of August 6, 1930, in the first summer of the =
Great
Depression, Joseph Force Crater, recently appointed a justice of the New
York State Supreme Court by Governor Franklin Roosevelt, bid two dinner
companions good night and hailed a cab. Off he went into history, myth, =
and
urban legend. Judge Crater's disappearance remains the most enduring,
fascinating, unsolved mystery in the chronicles of Gotham.
=A0
In The Man Who Never Returned, Peter Quinn brings back Fintan Dunne, the
relentless, skeptical ex-cop/detective from Hour of the Cat, and puts =
him on
the Crater case. The year is 1955, the silver anniversary of the Judge's
vanishing and a last golden moment for solving the puzzle before the =
people
and clues follow Crater into the fast-receding past. In a search full of
unexpected twists, Dunne uncovers the shocking and menacing truth.

=3D=3D=3D

To see a recent interview featuring Peter Quinn on NY1 about The Man Who
Never Returned and the unconfirmed fate of Judge Joseph Crater please =
click
here.
http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/122994/long-missing-state-justice-=
ins
pires-historical-crime-novel?ap=3D1

=A0
To read the New York Times article, August 4, 2010 please click here.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/05/nyregion/05crater.html?_r=3D1&hp

=A0
To read the Barnes & Noble Review click here.
http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/?

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Peter Quinn's Website: www.newyorkpaddy.com.
http://www.newyorkpaddy.com/

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Subject: Tempoary Job,
Temporary Lecturer in Irish Historical/Cultural Geography,
Liverpool
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Note that thee is an outline of the application process at

http://www.liv.ac.uk/working/job_application_process/index.htm

P.O'S.


Forwarded on behalf of
M.C.Power[at]LIVERPOOL.AC.UK


Please find below details of a post at the Institute of Irish Studies,
Liverpool

Maria Power

Job Description
Temporary Lecturer in Irish Historical/Cultural Geography
Institute of Irish Studies University of Liverpool

The University of Liverpool is seeking a one-year replacement (to commence
27 September 2010) for Dr Pat Nugent at the Institute of Irish Studies.

Candidates can discover details of Dr Nugent's teaching on the Institute
website

http://www.liv.ac.uk/irish/

These consist of :
Level 1: 2nd semester, an overview of Irish historical geography, 17th-20th
centuries.
Level 2: 1st semester, modern Irish culture 19th-20th century
Level 3: 1st semester, Ireland 1540-1691
MA: 4-6 sessions on Irish Culture

The appointee may also be asked to contribute to the field-based module 'The
Practice of Irish History'and to provide basic Irish Language teaching,
although inability to do so will not necessarily be an impediment,

The Institute is a lively department, offering a genuinely interdisciplinary
programme in Irish culture, politics, history, literature, geography,
language and music. It has a very strong research culture and was placed
8th out of 27 submissions to the last Research Assessment Exercise (2008),
with 75% of its research rated internationally excellent and 20% truly
world-leading. It was also recently rated joint first for student
satisfaction in Liverpool University. The successful candidate will be
expected to also progress their own research and help out with basic
administrative duties.

Please apply enclosing a C.V. and list of three referees, ensuring that your
referees are forewarned, as little time will elapse between the closing date
7 September and interviews (c.16-23 September).

Details of the application process can be found at:

http://www.liv.ac.uk/working/job_application_process/index.htm

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Book Launch, Colin Barr, The European Culture Wars in Ireland,
Thurs 26 Aug 6pm Newman House
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Specialists will recall that the excellent Clark & Kaiser collection...

Culture Wars - Secular-Catholic Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Edited by Christopher Clark & Wolfram Kaiser
Cambridge University Press, 2003

...did not have a chapter on Ireland - nor one on Poland. The editors
(plausibly) argued that neither was a sovereign state in the period, and
that in neither Poland nor Ireland was the Catholic identity of the =
nation
plausibly contested by a powerful secular competitor.

It will be interesting to see what Colin Barr has to say about the =
issues.

P.O'S.


UCD PRESS
=A0
requests the pleasure of your company at a reception
to celebrate the publication
=20
of
=A0
The European Culture Wars in Ireland
The Callan School Affair, 1868=9681
=A0
by
=A0
COLIN BARR
=A0
at Newman House
86 St Stephen's Green
Dublin 2
=A0
on Thursday, 26 August 2010
at 6.00 p.m.
=A0
where the book will be launched by
=A0
PROFESSOR R. V. COMERFORD
=A0
UCD PRESS (01) 477 9812
ucdpress[at]ucd.ie
=A0
ALL WELCOME

"The European Culture Wars in Ireland" tells the story of Father Robert
O'Keeffe of Callan, County Kilkenny, and his conflict with =
ecclesiastical
authority. O'Keeffe's serial lawsuits against his own curates, his =
bishop,
and the cardinal archbishop of Dublin, and his consequent removal as =
manager
of a number of national schools and chaplain of the local workhouse,
commanded attention across Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the world. =
In
Callan, the town split into warring camps, and riot became a part of =
life
for nearly ten years - the colourful local details eventually inspired =
two
novelists. To contemporaries, Callan and O'Keeffe mattered because they
seemed to be an Irish manifestation of a global Catholic-secular culture =
war
that encompassed both the definition of papal infallibility and the =
German
Kulturkampf. For a time, the Callan Schools dominated British political
debate, and O'Keeffe secured a private meeting with Prime Minister =
William
Gladstone. Political fury at his removal from publicly funded positions =
at
the behest of clerical authority nearly wrecked the Irish system of =
national
education. In May 1873, the libel trial O'Keeffe v. Cullen saw the =
competing
claims of canon and civil law tested in spectacularly public fashion as =
the
island's first Roman Catholic cardinal was tried before the Queen's =
Bench.
"The European Culture Wars in Ireland" traces the Callan Schools Affair =
from
its origins in 1868 to O'Keeffe's death in 1881. It examines not only =
the
riotous local events and the spectacular libel trial in Dublin, but also =
the
complex and politically charged response of the British state. A new
departure in Irish historiography, the book argues that Robert O'Keeffe =
and
his grievances could only become both cause celebre and constitutional
crisis because the United Kingdom as a whole was an integral part of =
Europe,
responsive to and influenced by continental concerns.

About the Author
Colin Barr is Associate Professor at Ave Maria University, Florida, and =
the
author of Paul Cullen, John Henry Newman, and the Catholic University of
Ireland, 1845-65 (University of Notre Dame Press)

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Subject: Book Review,
Rome in Australia: The Papacy and Conflict in the Australian
Catholic Missions
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On a train of thought...

This book review has just turned up in our alerts.

There are substantial sections of Rome in Australia in Google Books - enough
for you to see how the book works, its sources and its approach.

Book Review: Rome in Australia: The Papacy and Conflict in the Australian
Catholic Missions, 1834-1884. By Christopher Dowd. Leiden: Brill, 2008. Pp.
658. Price: 170 (hbk). ISBN 978-9-00416-529-8
Colin Barr
Irish Theological Quarterly, August 2010; vol. 75, 3: pp. 318-320.