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Dear list members,

I'm currently expanding my research project of the Irish Diaspora in =
Canada to a larger data set. I want to examine the discourse of political =
elites (political speeches of PMs and policy documents), as well as media =
(newspaper) outlets related to Irish emigration during the period =
1967-1975. As a Canadian scholar, I'm unfamiliar with the best repositories=
of this kind of archival information. If you have any information, I =
would be grateful--I'm putting together a grant application, and at this =
point I'm just not sure if I will need to travel to the national archives, =
or if I would be best served visiting specific libraries with special =
collections.

Please feel free to contact me off-list at j.clary-lemon[at]uwinnipeg.ca .

Thank you,

Jennifer=20



Jennifer Clary-Lemon
Editor, Composition Studies
Assistant Professor
Department of Rhetoric, Writing, and Communications
University of Winnipeg
515 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, MB R3B 2E9
(204) 786-9457
http://ion.uwinnipeg.ca/~jclaryle
****************************************

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From: Patrick Maume
If you have access to the IRISH TIMES online archive that would be a
pretty vaulable resource. It sees itself as the paper of record so it
should pick up on this sort of stuff.
The Oireachtas debates are also available online and searchable.
Best wishes,
Patrick

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Jennifer Clary-Lemon wrote:

> Dear list members,
>
> I'm currently expanding my research project of the Irish Diaspora in Canada
> to a larger data set. I want to examine the discourse of political elites
> (political speeches of PMs and policy documents), as well as media
> (newspaper) outlets related to Irish emigration during the period 1967-1975.
> As a Canadian scholar, I'm unfamiliar with the best repositories of this
> kind of archival information. If you have any information, I would be
> grateful--I'm putting together a grant application, and at this point I'm
> just not sure if I will need to travel to the national archives, or if I
> would be best served visiting specific libraries with special collections.
>
> Please feel free to contact me off-list at j.clary-lemon[at]uwinnipeg.ca .
>
> Thank you,
>
> Jennifer
>
>
>
> Jennifer Clary-Lemon
> Editor, Composition Studies
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Rhetoric, Writing, and Communications
> University of Winnipeg
> 515 Portage Avenue
> Winnipeg, MB R3B 2E9
> (204) 786-9457
> http://ion.uwinnipeg.ca/~jclaryle
> ****************************************
>

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Subject: TOC EIRE IRELAND VOL 45; NUMB 1/2; 2010
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EIRE IRELAND
ANNOUNCING VOLUME 45 1&2 - Special Issue: Urban Ireland

If the urban experience has indeed been comparatively underappreciated in
Irish Studies, I think it fair to say that the strength and
range of this collection of essays goes some way toward remedying that
deficit. Comprising a variety of disciplinary methods, commitments,
and perspectives, the volume addresses many of the major cruxes, past and
present, that have contoured and continue to contour
the historical and cultural evolution of the Irish city.

Joseph Valente (SUNY-Buffalo)
Guest Editor

EIRE IRELAND
VOL 45; NUMB 1/2; 2010
ISSN 0013-2683

pp. 12-38
After the Race: Accelerator and the Cinematic Imagination of Urban Ireland.
Miller, N.

pp. 39-55
``Down These Mean Streets': The City and Critique in Contemporary Irish
Noir.
Kincaid, A.

pp. 56-88
Cities under Watch: Urban Northern Ireland in Film.
Brown, M.

pp. 89-110
The Extraordinary Ordinariness of Robert McLiam Wilson's Belfast.
Reimer, E.

pp. 111-127
Ciaran Carson's Books: A Bibliographic Mapping of Belfast.
Kuhn, A.A.

pp. 128-151
``Compelled to their bad acts by hunger': Three Irish Urban Crowds,
1817-45.
Cunningham, J.

pp. 152-197
``Unofficial' British Reprisals and IRA Provocations, 1919-20: The Cases of
Three Cork Towns.
Donnelly, J.S.

pp. 198-212
The State of Dublin's History.
Dickson, D.

pp. 213-241
North and South of the River: Demythologizing Dublin in Contemporary Irish
Film.
Knell, J.

pp. 242-265
Urban Legends.
Reizbaum, M.

pp. 266-276
Myopic Beauty: The Map, the Photograph, the Palimpsest, and Joyce.
Nugent, J.

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c.1789-1906', QUB
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Subject: Conference: 'Liberals and liberal politics in Ireland, =
c.1789-1906'
'Liberals and liberal politics in Ireland, c. 1789-1906'
Conference, 'Liberals and liberal politics in Ireland, c.1789-1906', 3
September 2010, Institute of Irish Studies, 53-67 University Road
Queen=92s University Belfast
=A0
Forwarded on behalf of

Elaine McKay
Irish Studies International Research Initiative
63 University Road
Queen's University Belfast
BT7 1NN
=A0
Tel: 028 9097 1402
Email:=A0e.mckay[at]qub.ac.uk
Website:=A0=A0http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/IrishStudi=
esIniti
ative/

Liberals and liberal politics in Ireland, c. 1789-1906


Institute of Irish Studies, Queen=92s University Belfast, 3 September =
2010


9:00-9:30 Arrival and Welcome

9:30-10:30 Dr Eugenio Biagini (Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge =
University):
=91Competing visions: Liberalisms in 19th-century Ireland=92

Coffee 10:30-11:00

Sessions 1 (11:00-1.00)=20

Dr Robert Whan (QUB): =91Sir John Newport (1756=961843): an Irish =
Liberal
Protestant in the =93age of reform=94=92

Dr Jonathan Wright (Trinity College Dublin): =91=93Good Orangemen as =
William
would have approved=94: William Drennan, the =93natural leaders=94 and =
real Whig
politics in late-Georgian Belfast=92

Dr Claire Allen (QUB): =91Public dining and liberal politics in =
post-Union
Belfast=92

Dr Elizabeth Heggs (NUI Maynooth): =91Liberalism and local politics in
Waterford, c.1800-40=92
Lunch 1.00-2:00

Session 2 (2.00-3:30)=20

Dr Andrew Holmes (QUB): =91Presbyterian religion and liberal politics in
nineteenth-century Ulster=92

Aidan Enright (QUB): =91Land, Loyalty, and reform: Catholic liberals in
nineteenth-century Irish and British politics=92 =20

Dr Colin Reid (NUI Maynooth): =91=93The difficulty of governing Ireland =
lies
entirely in our own minds=94: Liberal political thought, morality and =
the
Irish question, 1860-80=92

Coffee 3:30 =96 4.00

4.00-4:45 Roundtable discussion chaired by Professor Peter Gray (QUB), =
Dr
Eugenio Biagini (Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University), Professor =
R.
V. Comerford (NUI Maynooth), and Professor Gear=F3id =D3 Tuathaigh (NUI =
Galway).

4:45=965:00 Closing remarks Professor Peter Gray (QUB)

6:30 Conference Dinner

=A0
=A0

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Hints about this project have been turning up in our alerts for some =
time,
and I thought that it was time to tidy up the information.

The parts that connect with Do=F1a Teresa's Irish heritage are very =
brief.

Information about 4 items pasted in below.

Number 1 gives the details of the original article by Mar=EDa Magdalena =
Coll
More - her name is sometimes given as Mar=EDa Magdalena Coll.

The article appeared in a special issue of the journal, Romance =
Philology,
devoted to the Romance languages in the New World. The whole approach =
is
therefore within that philogical tradition - but also, as the journal =
editor
comments, gives us extraordinary detail about this woman's life, usually =
in
her own words.

Number 2 gives connections to that original article, in Spanish, as it =
has
now appeared, freely available, on the University of California's
eScholarship web site.

Numbers 3 and 4 give connections to, and information about, the =
transcripts
of Do=F1a Teresa's testimony before the Inquisition, in the original =
Spanish
and in English translation - also now freely available on the University =
of
California's eScholarship web site.

An extraordinary project - the obvious comparison is with the work of
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie.

P.O'S.

1.
Journal Romance Philology
Issue Volume 53, Number 2 / 2000
Author Mar=EDa Magdalena Coll More
=09
"fio me a de librar Dios Nuestro Se=F1or. . . de mis falsos acusadores": =
do=F1a
Teresa de Aguilera y Roche al Tribunal de la Inquisiti=F3n (Mexico, =
1664)
Journal Romance Philology
Publisher Brepols Publishers
ISSN 0035-8002
Issue Volume 53, Number 2 / 2000
Category Original
Pages 289-362
Online Date Thursday, December 11, 2008

2.
Title:
Do=F1a Teresa de Aguilera y Roche ante el Tribunal de la Inquisici=F3n =
(M=E9xico,
1664)

Author:
Coll, Magdalena, Universidad de la Rep=FAblica, Montevideo

Publication Date:
05-07-2009

Series:
Cibola Project

Publication Info:
Cibola Project, Research Center for Romance Studies, UC Berkeley

Permalink:
http://escholarship.org/uc/item/3v20d9v7

Additional Info:
Trabajo reproducido aqu=ED con permiso de la autora.


3.
Title:
Do=F1a Teresa de Aguilera y Roche ante la Inquisici=F3n (1664), 1a parte

Author:
Coll, Magdalena, Universidad de la Rep=FAblica, Montevideo;=20
Bamford, Heather, University of California, Berkeley;=20
McMichael, Heather, University of California, Berkeley;=20
Polt, John H. R., University of California, Berkeley

Publication Date:
05-16-2009

Series:
Cibola Project

Publication Info:
Cibola Project, Research Center for Romance Studies, UC Berkeley

Permalink:
http://escholarship.org/uc/item/00w4c1b2

Additional Info:
For an introduction to the background and circumstances of this trial,
consult=20
repositories.cdlib.org/rcrs_ias_ucb/cibola/dTeresa01

4.
Title:
Do=F1a Teresa de Aguilera y Roche ante la Inquisici=F3n (1664), 2a parte

Author:
Coll, Magdalena, Universidad de la Rep=FAblica, Montevideo;=20
Bamford, Heather, University of California, Berkeley;=20
McMichael, Heather, University of California, Berkeley;=20
Polt, John H. R., University of California, Berkeley

Publication Date:
01-25-2010

Series:
Cibola Project

Publication Info:
Cibola Project, Research Center for Romance Studies, UC Berkeley

Permalink:
http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/3769j3mm

Additional Info:
For part 1, go to http://escholarship.org/uc/item/00w4c1b2

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Quoting Jennifer Clary-Lemon :

> Dear list members,
>
> I'm currently expanding my research project of the Irish Diaspora in =20
> Canada to a larger data set. I want to examine the discourse of =20
> political elites (political speeches of PMs and policy documents), =20
> as well as media (newspaper) outlets related to Irish emigration =20
> during the period 1967-1975. As a Canadian scholar, I'm unfamiliar =20
> with the best repositories of this kind of archival information. If =20
> you have any information, I would be grateful--I'm putting together =20
> a grant application, and at this point I'm just not sure if I will =20
> need to travel to the national archives, or if I would be best =20
> served visiting specific libraries with special collections.
>
> Please feel free to contact me off-list at j.clary-lemon[at]uwinnipeg.ca .
>
> Thank you,
>
> Jennifer
>
>
>
> Jennifer Clary-Lemon
> Editor, Composition Studies
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Rhetoric, Writing, and Communications
> University of Winnipeg
> 515 Portage Avenue
> Winnipeg, MB R3B 2E9
> (204) 786-9457
> http://ion.uwinnipeg.ca/~jclaryle
> ****************************************
>

Jennifer

I am currently in Ireland, but will respond more fully when I return =20
to Canada.
Mark

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We are seeking a third paper for a panel at the ACIS national meeting in=
Madison next year -- we can be flexible about how we "package" this, but =
something along the lines of "The Lives Of Irish Artists" is what we have i=
n mind. A grad student here is writing on Seamus Murphy, the Cork sculptor =
who wrote STONE MAD, and I've long wanted to do something about Charles Mul=
ligan, the Irish-born monumental sculptor based in Chicago.

If anyone is considering a topic that might have an affinity with theses t=
wo (admittedly vague-sounding) papers, please contact me off- list at jrog=
ers[at]stthomas.edu

Everything I see about next year's ACIS tells me it is shaping up to be a =
super meeting!

Jim Rogers

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Jim,

I don't know if you are interested, but the paper I am working on takes it=
s inspiration from a painting of an Irish family--the Keanes--who emerged f=
rom Ireland, made their fortunes in the West Indies, and then settled into =
the English aristocracy. Would be great if we could work together again!

Thanks,
Mark Quintanilla

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f Of Rogers, James S.
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 4:45 PM
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] Artists' biographies -- panel at ACIS?

We are seeking a third paper for a panel at the ACIS national meeting in=
Madison next year -- we can be flexible about how we "package" this, but =
something along the lines of "The Lives Of Irish Artists" is what we have i=
n mind. A grad student here is writing on Seamus Murphy, the Cork sculptor =
who wrote STONE MAD, and I've long wanted to do something about Charles Mul=
ligan, the Irish-born monumental sculptor based in Chicago.

If anyone is considering a topic that might have an affinity with theses t=
wo (admittedly vague-sounding) papers, please contact me off- list at jrog=
ers[at]stthomas.edu

Everything I see about next year's ACIS tells me it is shaping up to be a =
super meeting!

Jim Rogers

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This might be of interest to some IR-D members. BBC Radio Foyle ran a story=
this morning on excavations that have been carried out on a mass grave of =
Irish labourers whose origins lay in Ulster and departed from Derry in the =
early 19th century. The story was presented by Sarah Brett. - 'New evidenc=
e from Pennsylvania suggests that the Irish railroad workers buried in a ma=
ss grave in 1832 were murdered . . .'
The programme can be listened to on the BBC Radio Foyle website.


Andrew Maguire
PhD student, UU, Magee campus, Derry.
Sent using BlackBerry=AE from Orange=

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Subject: The Sixth Annual Conference of Sports History Ireland, 25
September 2010, Dublin
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The Sixth Annual Conference of Sports History Ireland

Mater Dei Institute of Education
Dublin
25 September 2010

Plenary Speaker
Professor John Strachan=20
(University of Sunderland)
=91The Sinn Fein Depot and the Selling of Irish Sport=92

Full Programme Below

For further information see
http://www.materdei.ie/conferences/sixth-annual-conference-of-sports-hist=
ory
-ireland_timetable.html or=20
Contact Dr William Murphy at will.murphy[at]materdei.dcu.ie

Conference Programme:

Session 1a: 9.15am-10.15am =96 Rugby in Munster Session 1b: 9.15-10.15am =
=96
Neglected Gaels
Richard McElligott (UCD)
=91Degenerating, from sterling Irishmen into contemptible West =
Britons=92: The
GAA and Rugby Football in Kerry, 1885-1905
David Toms (UCC)
Cork Rugby 1880-1914 =95 R=EDona Nic Cong=E1il (St Patrick=92s College,
Drumcondra)
=91Looking on for centuries from the side-line=92: Camogie and the rise =
of
Gaelic Feminism
Yoshiaki Matsui (Nara National College of Technology)
Gaelic Handball in Global Sports History
=09

Session 2a: 10.20am-11.20am - The Press and Sport Session 2b:
10.20am-11.20am =96 Soccer
Timothy Harding (TCD)
Bell=92s Life in London, a window on Irish sport before the Famine
James Curry (TCD)
Jim Larkin, the Irish Worker and Sport =95 Ciar=E1n Priestly (NUI
Maynooth)
Bohemian Football Club: The enduring legacy of an idle youth
Robin Peake (UU)
From Boland=92s Mill to Barcelona: The story of Patrick O=92Connell and =
his
Peers

Session 3a: 11.40-1pm =96 Ideology, Identity and Sport Session 3b:
11.40-1pm =96 Cricket
Susan Grant (UCD)
Physical Culture and the New Person in 1920s and 1930s Soviet Russia
Cormac Moore (UCD)
The Hyde Incident
Leeann Lane (MDI)
Constructing National Identity: Sport and Irish children=92s fiction =
1922-1960
Patrick Bracken
Cricket and Society in Rural Ireland: Co. Tipperary, a case study, =
1849-1914
Conor Curran (De Montfort University, Leicester)
The Development of Cricket in County Donegal, 1865-1900
Sean Reid (University of Huddersfield)
The Place of Irish Cricket in the Nineteenth Century British Empire of
Cricket

Session 4: 2pm-2.55pm Plenary Speaker=09
Professor John Strachan (University of Sunderland)
The Sinn F=E9in Depot and the Selling of Irish Sport=09

Session 5a: 3.15pm-4.35pm =96 Sporting Spaces Session 5b: 3.15pm-4.35pm =
=96
The GAA: centres and peripheries
Rois=EDn Higgins (Boston College)
Reading Ireland=92s Sporting Landscape
=C1ine Ryan (St Patrick=92s College, Drumcondra)
The Irish Handball Alley: A Space for Play
Suvi Talja (University of Helsinki)
=91Civic Amenities for Dublin Suburbs=92: The Case for Public Swimming =
Pools,
c.1950-1974 =95 John Connolly (DCU) and Paddy Dolan (DIT)
Centripetal and centrifugal tensions in the Gaelic Athletic Association:
1884-2009
Stephen Moore (UU)
The GAA in London
D=F3nal McAnallen (O=92Fiach Library, Armagh)
Finding John McKay: journalist, athletics official, GAA co-founder

Session 6: 4.40-5.40 =96 Sporting Networks=09
James Kelly (St Patrick=92s College, Drumcondra)
Horse Racing in Eighteenth Century Ireland

Concluding Remarks=09

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Childhood in Irish Culture, New England ACIS
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REMINDER: DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS IS 10 SEPTEMBER 2010
=A0
New England ACIS Regional Conference, November 12-13, 2010,=20
Framingham State University, Framingham, Massachusetts
www.framingham.edu/2010-neacis

The Country of the Young: Interpretations of Youth and Childhood in =
Irish
Culture

=93That is no country for old men,=94 declared W. B. Yeats in =93Sailing =
to
Byzantium,=94 describing his native land=92s fascination with youth and =
legends
of rebirth.=A0 Some fifteen years later, Taoiseach Eamon de Valera =
summoned an
idyllic version of Irish childhood when he pledged his commitment to an
ideal Ireland of happy maidens, sturdy children, and athletic youths.=A0 =
Such
images have been challenged by recent controversy over the experiences =
of
children within Church-sponsored schools, as well as by popular memoirs =
such
as Angela=92s Ashes and Are You Somebody? =96 all of which yield fertile =
ground
for exploration and discussion in this year=92s New England ACIS =
regional
conference.=A0 Papers are welcome on such topics as historical =
depictions of
childhood, contemporary youth culture, schooling in Ireland, =
children=92s
literature, definitions of Irish boyhood and girlhood, memoirs of =
childhood
and adolescence, and images of Ireland as an infant or ancient =
nation.=A0 Our
list of plenary speakers includes Dr. James Smith, playwright Damian =
Gorman,
and Maurice Fitzpatrick, writer and co-producer of The Boys of St.
Columb=92s.=A0 Further information can be found on the conference =
website,
www.framingham.edu/2010-neacis

Papers in all Irish Studies disciplines are encouraged, as are all =
papers on
Irish subjects that do not specifically address the conference theme.=A0
Graduate students are particularly encouraged to participate.=A0 =
Proposals for
panels are welcome.

Papers should not exceed 20 minutes in length.=A0 Please send abstracts =
of no
more than 250 words to Kelly Matthews, Assistant Professor, Department =
of
English, Framingham State University, kmatthews[at]framingham.edu.=A0 The
deadline for submission is September 10, 2010.

We hope to publish a collection of essays on the conference theme, and
encourage=A0each=A0presenter interested in publication to submit an =
expanded
version of his or her conference paper for editorial consideration. =
=A0The
collection editors will be Dr. Kelly Matthews and Dr. John Countryman of
Berry College, Georgia.

Essays to be considered for publication should be 6000-8000 words in =
length,
double-spaced, in 12-point Times New Roman font.=A0 Please include a =
brief
author=92s biography which lists affiliations and previous publications. =
Two
hard copies and an electronic attachment of the manuscript should be =
sent to
Dr. Kelly Matthews, Department of English, Framingham State University, =
100
State Street, Framingham, MA 01701, kmatthews[at]framingham.edu,=A0by =
Friday,
November 12, 2010.

Framingham State University is located 20 miles west of Boston, with
convenient access to the Massachusetts Turnpike (I-90).=A0 The Sheraton =
Tara
hotel in Framingham will offer a reduced room rate of $109 per night for
conference attendees, and will provide complimentary shuttle service =
between
the hotel and the college.=A0 An airport shuttle service is available =
from
Logan Airport in Boston, with reduced rates for those sharing transport.
=A0

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This book has been noticed in some of the specialist journals. It is, I =
think, an expanded and updated rewrite of the authors=E2=80=99 Irish =
Farming 1750-1900, published in 1986. And welcome for that reason.

Some reviewers have put this book alongside John Feehan=E2=80=99s =
Farming in Ireland published in 2003.

A History of Irish Farming, 1750-1950
Jonathan Bell & Mervyn Watson

New Paperback Edition

Four Courts Press
Paperback
368pp; colour ills. Spring 2009
ISBN:
978-1-84682-208-7
Catalogue Price: =E2=82=AC24.95
Web Price: =E2=82=AC22.45

The book shows the rationality of Irish farmers, in developing systems =
and techniques that fitted their resources, or lack of them, making =
Ireland a major agricultural producer, and overcoming huge environmental =
and social obstacles to ensure the survival of millions of people.=20

=E2=80=98A fascinating read for those interested in =
agriculture=E2=80=A6wonderful photographs=E2=80=A6The editorial content =
of this book covers the entire island=E2=80=99, Irish Field (31 May =
2008).

=E2=80=98=E2=80=A6should be of interest to students of Irish history and =
agriculture=E2=80=99, Book News (August 2008).

=E2=80=98Building in 30 years of investigation and fieldwork, undertaken =
at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Jonathan Bell and Mervyn Watson =
have compiled an encyclopaedic narrative of Irish agriculture and rural =
life, over the past two centuries and more. The comprehensive =
documentation of changes to rural housing and of the progressive =
development of Irish crop and livestock farming systems are complemented =
by an exceptional collection of close to 150 illustrations and =
photographs. These are an important feature of this very informative =
publication=E2=80=99, Liam Downey, Irish Farmers Journal.

http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/reviews.php?intProductID=3D865

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A review from REVIEWS IN HISTORY.

I have pasted in first the CONTENTS of the volume.

P.O'S.


Introduction; M. Cragoe & P. Readman

The Common Field Landscape, Cultural Commemoration, and the Impact of
Enclosure, c.1770-1850; I. Waites

'Witnesses for the Defence': the Yeomen of Old England and the Land
Question, c.1815-1837; K. Beresford

Chartism and the Land: 'the Mighty People's Question'; M. Chase

The 'Manchester School' and the Landlords: the Failure of Land Reform in
Early Victorian Britain; A. Howe

'A Contemptible Mimic of the Irish': the Land Question in Victorian =
Wales;
M. Cragoe

Setting the Heather on Fire: the Land Question in Scotland, 1850-1914; =
E.
Cameron

Irish Land and British Politics; P. Bull

Richard Cobden, J. E. Thorold Rogers and Henry George; A. Taylor

London and the Land Question c.1880-1914; R. Quinault

The Edwardian Land Question; P. Readman

Unemployment, Taxation and Housing: the Urban Land Question in Late
Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain; I. Packer

Land Reform and the English land Market, 1880-1925; J. Beckett & M. =
Turner

Socialism and the Land Question: Public Ownership and Control in Labour
Party Policy, 1918-1950s; C. Griffiths

Epilogue: the Strange Death of the English Land Question; F.M.L. =
Thompson


From REVIEWS IN HISTORY

The Land Question in Britain, 1750-1950

Book:
The Land Question in Britain, 1750-1950
edited by Matthew Cragoe, Paul Readman
Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, ISBN: 9780230203402; 288pp.; =
Price:
=A355.00;
Reviewer:
Jamie Bronstein
New Mexico State University
Citation:
Jamie Bronstein, review of The Land Question in Britain, 1750-1950, =
(review
no. 946)

URL: http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/946

The Land Question in Britain, 1750=961950, is that rare collection of =
essays
which is more than the sum of its parts; 14 essays by different authors, =
all
of which connect with each other to reveal a hidden picture of a topic =
that
has inexplicably dropped from view. An excellent introduction by Matthew
Cragoe and Paul Readman explains the nature of the =91land question=92 =
as
explored in the volume: the multifaceted issue encompasses everything =
from
allotments of land to the poor, to access to smallholdings for peasant
proprietors, to reform of land laws like primogeniture, to land-value
taxation on urban land. In addition, since the land question energized
people in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, the volume integrates =
the
story of land reform in all parts of the British Isles.

Read side by side, chapters on Scotland, Wales and Ireland reveal that =
even
within particular regions, calls for land reform were not monolithic. In
Matthew Cragoe=92s Victorian Wales, the call for land reform was divided =
in
two. Tenant farmers, some of whose families had been living on the same
farms for hundreds of years, desired social and economic reform, but
political leaders sought to stoke Welsh nationalism by forging a =
mystical
ideological connection between the soil and the Welsh gwerin (folk).
Similarly, in Scotland, land reform encompassed not just the familiar =
quest
of the Highlanders to remain on the land that they farmed at fair rents, =
but
also an urban discourse of access to the land, animated by visits from =
Irish
activists like Michael Davitt, and the American social reformer Henry
George...

...The essays comprised in the volume are uniformly painstakingly
researched, well-argued, and well-written, so that one can only critique =
the
book based on questions that these 14 essays intriguingly raised but =
lacked
space to answer. For example, although the authors do a wonderful job of
touching on each region of the British Isles, the reader is scarcely =
aware
of the imperial context. Except for a brief mention in Ian Packer=92s =
essay
about =91Unemployment, Taxation and Housing=92, insufficient attention =
is paid
to emigration as a manifestation of the land question. Did the myth of =
free
land, and then the embodiment of that myth in the 1862 Homestead Act, =
draw
English emigrants to the United States? Or were people deterred from
emigrating because they agreed with Chartist leader Feargus O=92Connor =
that
emigration was a form of government-directed exile? What variations on =
the
theme of land possession drew the Irish to the prairies of Canada, the
Scottish to the Appalachians, and the English to Australia and New =
Zealand?
The cultural meaning of landownership might also have fruitfully been
addressed in more detail. The reader learns much about the political
rhetoric of leaders, proponents, and opponents of land reform, but =
little
from their putative constituencies. Were prospective smallholders drawn =
in
by the prospect of political participation, or by the prospect of =
escaping
from urban existence? Did they share an orientation toward the market, =
or
were they seeking yeoman self-sufficiency? Paul Readman convincingly =
argues
that landownership was promoted as a bolster to nationalism in this =
period:
that being the case, what was the role for the farm family? Was life on =
the
land intended to hark back to =91traditional=92 gender roles, in the =
face of the
challenge posed by the =91New Woman=92? The Land-Company Chartists had =
described
landed family existence as a bountiful utopia: in the midst of the
agricultural depression of the 1870s and after, did the vision of
smallholder life among boundless harvests change?

Finally, while the volume is very strong in its chronicle of attempts to
theorize and politically shape land reform, it is not as strong in =
detailing
the role that the land played in the expressive culture of the 19th and =
20th
centuries. The one exception is Ian Waites=92s study of the cultural
commemoration of enclosure. He points out that while few painters =
captured
on canvas the unfenced, undeveloped field, the examples that do exist
demonstrate a certain nostalgia and an awareness of the social impact of
changing agricultural methods. Although painters were encouraged to
cultivate the picturesque, these landscape painters found beauty in the
uninterrupted, pre-enclosure flatness of common arable or =91waste=92 =
land.
Waites=92s study ends in 1850 and is confined to painting: it would have =
been
interesting to compare and contrast these paintings with art celebrating =
the
rural from later in the 19th century or in the next, or with the =
products of
contemporary writers like the poet John Clare...

FULL TEXT AT
http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/946

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Irish Studies Review: Volume 18 Issue 3 is now available online at
informaworld (http://www.informaworld.com).

This new issue contains the following articles:

Articles

Border crossings: new approaches to the Irish border, Pages 265 - 284
Authors: Catherine Nash; Bryonie Reid

An argument manqu=E9 : Kate O'Brien's Pray for the Wanderer, Pages 285 - =
298
Author: Brad Kent

=91Aristocracies of thought=92: social class in the early folklore of =
Yeats and
Hyde, Pages 299 - 313
Author: Lawrence P. Morris

Rare models: Roger Casement, the Amazon, and the ethnographic =
picturesque,
Pages 315 - 330
Author: Lesley Wylie

From golden hills to sycamore trees: pastoral homelands and ethnic =
identity
in Irish immigrant fiction, 1860=9675, Pages 331 - 346
Author: Margu=E9rite Corporaal

Interview

Un- Eclipsed : an interview with Patricia Burke Brogan, Pages 347 - 357
Authors: Jessica Farley; Virginia Garnett

Review Article

Irish music: what it is and what we think it is, Pages 359 - 363
Author: Gerry Smyth


Reviews

William Petty and the ambitions of political arithmetic, Pages 365 - 366
Author: Toby Barnard

The Irish sweep: a history of the Irish Hospitals Sweepstake, 1930=9687, =
Pages
366 - 368
Author: Elizabeth Malcolm

Going to the well for water: the S=E9amus Ennis field diary 1942=961946, =
Pages
368 - 370
Author: Adam Kaul

Labour and the Northern Ireland problem 1945=9651: a missed opportunity, =
Pages
370 - 372
Author: Claire Fitzpatrick

Facilitating the future: US Aid, European integration and Irish =
industrial
viability 1948=9673, Pages 372 - 374
Author: Gary Murphy

Irish times: temporalities of modernity, Pages 374 - 376
Author: Colin Graham

Making Ireland Roman: Irish neo-Latin writers and the republic of =
letters,
Pages 376 - 378
Author: Naomi McAreavey


Book Reviews, Pages 378 - 380
Author: Claire V. Nally

Bernard Shaw as artist-Fabian, Pages 380 - 382
Author: Lauren Clark

Beckett and death, Pages 382 - 384
Author: Emilie Morin

Franco-Irish connections: essays, memoirs and poems in honour of Pierre
Joannon, Pages 384 - 386
Author: Eamon Maher

Modern Irish theatre, Pages 386 - 388
Author: Rebecca Steinberger

Race in modern Irish literature and culture, Pages 388 - 390
Author: Catherine Eagan

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Forwarded On Behalf Of Claire Connolly
Subject: Wales-Ireland Network: update

Dear all,

We write with news of the activities of the Wales-Ireland Research =
Network,
and to alert you of some forthcoming events.=A0

Our AHRC Network Award came to an end this year. Our activities have =
been
assessed by peer review and judged 'outstanding' (from a range that =
spans
outstanding, good, satisfactory and unsatisfactory). Among other =
favourable
comments, the report praises 'a strong record of public impact in both
countries'; the 'impressive range of outcomes'; and judges=A0the Network =
to
have been 'very good value for money.' The Network is currently featured =
as
a banner and a case study on the AHRC site:
=20
http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundedResearch/CaseStudies/Pages/irelandwalesresear=
chn
etwork.aspx

Thanks to everyone, in particular our advisory board and those of you =
who
participated in and attended our symposia.=A0

Planned activities for the next academic year include a symposium on =
Wales,
Ireland and Popular Fiction to be held at Cardiff University on 24
September. All are welcome to attend.

On the evening of 24 September, First Minister Carwyn Jones AM will =
launch a
new edition of Menna Gallie's You're Welcome to Ulster, edited by Claire
Connolly and Angela V. John and published by Honno Press. The Embassy of
Ireland in London have kindly agreed to sponsor the launch. We are =
preparing
invitations at the moment, but please do make a note of the date and =
come
along if you can.=A0

On 17 November, Cardiff University will host a lecture by Edna Longley =
on
Edward Thomas.=A0

On 18 November, Cardiff University will host a reading by Michael =
Longley.

The Wales-Ireland seminars will run in Cardiff University as normal in
2010/11 and will commence as follows:

19 October: Kevin Bean (Liverpool University) 'Brothers in Arms? Irish
republicans and militant Welsh nationalism in the late twentieth =
century'

The series will include papers from John Kerrigan (St John's College,
Cambridge); Sondeep Kondola (Liverpool John Moores University); =
Elizabeth
Malcolm (Melbourne University); and Nerys Williams (University College
Dublin). Dates and names of other speakers tbc.=A0

Meanwhile we are currently planning a conference on Wales, Ireland and
Popular Culture to take place in Trinity College Dublin in the spring of
2011. Dates and other details to follow.

With our best wishes,=A0

Claire Connolly, Katie Gramich, Paul O'Leary

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Human Chain by Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney's new collection brilliantly enacts the struggle between
memory and loss, says Colm T=F3ib=EDn

Colm T=F3ib=EDn
The Guardian, Saturday 21 August 2010

In the early 1990s Seamus Heaney began to contemplate how to deal with =
time
passing and the death of family and friends. In a lecture, he contrasted
Philip Larkin's poem "Aubade", in which death comes as something dark =
and
absolute and life seems a trembling, fearful preparation for extinction,
with Yeats's "The Cold Heaven", which allowed a rich dialogue between =
the
ideas of life as a cornucopia and life as an empty shell. Heaney saw =
poetry
itself, no matter what its content or tone, standing against the dull
thought of life as a great emptiness. "When a poem rhymes," Heaney =
wrote,
"when a form generates itself, when a metre provokes consciousness into =
new
postures, it is already on the side of life. When a rhyme surprises and
extends the fixed relations between words, that in itself protests =
against
necessity. When language does more than enough, as it does in all =
achieved
poetry, it opts for the condition of overlife, and rebels at limit."...

...In Human Chain, his best single volume for many years, and one that
contains some of the best poems he has written, Heaney allows this =
struggle
between the lacrimae rerum and the consolations of poetry to have a =
force
which is satisfying because its result is so tentative and uncertain. =
Memory
here can be filled with tones of regret and even undertones of anguish, =
but
it also can appear with a sense of hard-won wonder. There is an active =
urge
to capture the living breath of things, but he also allows sorrow into =
his
poems...

Full text at
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iew



Human Chain by Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney's latest collection muses upon heredity and absent friends
with restraint and rich imagery, writes Kate Kellaway

Kate Kellaway
The Observer, Sunday 22 August 2010

Human Chain is about inheritance =96 in the fullest sense of the word. =
If it
were a poet such as Philip Larkin writing, human chain would mean "man =
hands
on misery to man". But what makes Seamus Heaney's writing so fortifying =
is,
partly, his temperament: his human chain is tolerant, durable, =
compassionate
and every link is reinforced by literature. In more than one poem he =
makes
this plain, recalling the moment in his younger life (in "Route 110") in =
an
Irish bookshop when a woman in brown overalls with a "marsupial" pocket =
(a
perfect, unexpected adjective) sold him a "used copy of Aeneid VI" in a
"deckle-edged brown paper bag". What follows is a poem in which the =
Aeneid
co-exists with autobiography. Heaney reminds you that this is what
literature is: another life.

This beautiful and affecting collection includes Heaney's own =
not-so-distant
brush with death. "Chanson d'Aventure" describes a Sunday afternoon
ambulance ride (during which, he reflects, he might have quoted Donne, =
but
was not fit to quote anything)...

Full text at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/aug/22/seamus-heaney-human-chain-fab=
er

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Dissimilation and Federation: Irish and Caribbean Modernisms in Derek
Walcott's The Sea at Dauphin
Author: Malouf, Michael1
Source: Comparative American Studies, Volume 8, Number 2, June 2010 , pp.
140-154(15)
Publisher: Maney Publishing

Abstract:
In this article, Derek Walcott's play The Sea at Dauphin (1954) and John
Millington Synge's Riders to the Sea (1903) are discussed in order to
address the problem of comparing modernisms that are seen as 'heterogenous'
insofar as they exist on the peripheries of traditional transatlantic
modernism. Most readings of Walcott's play have assumed that it should be
read in terms of a 'comparison' to Synge's Riders to the Sea, the play that
it most resembles and which Walcott has claimed as his source. Natalie
Melas's theory of 'dissimulation' makes us reconsider the principles of such
inter-peripheral comparisons, making it possible to consider cross-cultural
readings within the colonial peripheries not in terms of identity but rather
as processes of recognition and misrecognition. It is suggested that
Walcott's 'dissimilation' of Synge's play is rooted in his transformation of
Synge's modernist practice from an (Irish) nationalist to a (Caribbean)
federationist aesthetics.

Keywords: DEREK WALCOTT; J. M. SYNGE; IRELAND; ST LUCIA; CARIBBEAN;
MODERNISM; DRAMA; NATIONALISM; DISSIMILATION; FEDERATION

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Note that the link below leads directly to a 21 page pdf file.

P.O'S.

Geographies of Diaspora: A Review
Michael Rios & Naomi Adiv

http://regionalchange.ucdavis.edu/projects/current/sacramento-diasporas-proj
ect-1/Geographies%20of%20Diaspora%20MR-NA.pdf

Michael Rios is Associate Professor of Community Planning and Design, UC
Davis. Naomi Adiv is a PhD candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center in
New York City. This research is supported by the USDA Cooperative State
Research, Education and Extension Service, Hatch project # CA-D*-END-
7717-H. The suggested citation is: Rios, M., & Adiv, N. (2010). Geographies
of Diaspora: A Review. Davis, CA: UC Davis Center for Regional Change.


INTRODUCTION
The term 'diaspora' is inherently geographical, implying a scattering
of people over space and transnational connections between
people and places. Geography clearly lies at the heart of diaspora
both as a concept and as lived experience, encompassing the
contested interplay of place, home, culture and identity through
migration and resettlement. (Blunt 2003: 282)

In the above quote by Alison Blunt, the term 'diaspora' is defined through
the words "scattering," "transnational," "migration" and "resettlement".
Within the field of geography, these terms are used, alternately, to
describe very specifically, but also generally, the various circumstances of
migrating people. However, this muddle of language also points to a
different phenomenon - the practice of geographers to describe patterns of
human migration as well as the social identities and political constructions
that are created by diaspora populations around the places they call 'home'.

In the following, the literature in geography is reviewed. The purpose is to
describe how geographers have employed the term 'diaspora' and to discuss
primary themes emerging from this work. In this introductory section, major
terms-diaspora, transnationalism, and migration-are defined given that these
terms are used frequently and often interchangeably. In the second section,
major themes of this body of work are discussed, followed by a third section
that identifies areas for further research. In the conclusion, several
questions are raised that lend a geographical perspective to future studies
of diaspora...

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The following item has been brought to our attention.

It appeared originally on the BSA-RACE list.

P.O'S.


Dear all

Dr Pauline Leonard (University of Southampton) and I would like to submit a
panel proposal to the BSA Annual Conference 2011, 6-8 April, London School
of Economics with the theme of 'Diaspora, Identity and Expatriate Lives'.
This panel will bring together research focused on expatriate communities
and explores questions of identity, place, diaspora and change across the
life course. We are particularly interested in highlighting work focusing on
race, gender, citizenship, lifestyle migration and notions of home.

Chair and discussant: Dr Karen O'Reilly (Loughborough University)

Provisional Paper:

Daniel Conway and Pauline Leonard 'British Residents in South Africa:
Continuity or Change?'

If you would like to participate in this panel please forward a title and
abstract to me by September 30th.

Best wishes

Daniel

Dr Daniel Conway
Lecturer in Politics
Department of Politics, History and International Relations (PHIR)
Loughborough University
Loughborough
Leicestershire
LE11 3TU
Tel: +44(0)1509 223089
Fax: +44(0)1509 223917
E-Mail: d.j.conway[at]lboro.ac.uk
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/eu/

British Academy Project: 'The British in South Africa: Continuity or
Change?'
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/eu/research/Projects/BSA/BritishInSouthAf
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Irish Performance in Nineteenth-Century New York
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News of this book by Stephen Rohs has turned up in our alerts.

If you go to the web site of the journal LIMINALITIES, Volume 4, Number 1,
2008, you have access to an earlier Stephen Rohs article.

http://liminalities.net/4-1/

"Full of Proud Memories of the Past, on which Irishmen Love to Dwell":
Irish Nationalist Performance and the Orange Riots of 1871
by Stephen Rohs

Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, Volume 4, Number 1, 2008,

Founded in 2005, Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies is an
open-access, peer-reviewed online publication that addresses three needs in
performance studies scholarship and practice: 1) expanding opportunities to
share peer-reviewed work, 2) creating a space for the publication of
multimedia texts and projects that are difficult or impossible to publish in
traditional print venues, and 3) international accessibility.

P.O'S.


Eccentric Nation
Irish Performance in Nineteenth-Century New York
By STEPHEN ROHS

Eccentric Nation examines four performance events in nineteenth-
century New York City in which Irish cultural nationalism
was constructed and reinforced by musicians, actors,
playwrights, speakers, paraders, and athletes, and disseminated
among diverse crowds that included both Irish- and
Anglo-Americans. Their contemporaries and more recent analysts
alike have often taken these performance conventions
as representations of a common Irish voice or a monolithic
national identity. Close examination reveals a much more
conflicted Irish community. What appeared as shared symbolism
was contested among both Irish- and Anglo-Americans.
Masculine nationalist heroes, visions of a romanticized
peasant class, evocations of collective memories, and the repetition
of performance traditions all served to reinforce the
idea of a single community bound together. Those symbols
often gave rise to diverse meanings that were circulated in the
urban populace. Each chapter examines the staging of these
four events that produced dissension in the Irish community,
providing insight into the ways that a nation is imagined in
different ways by a broad array of people who have a stake in
its existence, even if they often disagree about its core identity.

Stephen Rohs is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies
at Michigan State University.

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
AUGUST 2009 ISBN 978-0-8386-4138-5 $50.00