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"That sash will hang you": Political Clothing and Adornment in
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There is a new issue of the Journal of British Studies, full of interest =
as always - though there seems nothing that very directly connects with =
our interests. This article touches on the Irish in England - Don =
MacRaild is the main source, I think. And, of course, gives wider =
context to a number of Irish themes. Sashes? And, who owns green?

P.O'S.

"That sash will hang you=E2=80=9D: Political Clothing and Adornment in =
England, 1780=E2=80=931840
Katrina Navickas
Journal of British Studies. Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 540=E2=80=93565, =
Jul 2010

Katrina Navickas is lecturer in history at the University of =
Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. This research was undertaken during a =
temporary lectureship at the University of Edinburgh. She would like to =
thank Stana Nenadic, Joanna Innes, and the editor and reviewers of the =
Journal of British Studies.

'On 25 November 1830, John Benett, Tory MP for Wiltshire, met a group of =
=E2=80=9CSwing=E2=80=9D rioters approaching his property near Salisbury. =
Though their threat to break his agricultural machinery obviously =
disturbed him, Benett was also struck by their appearance. The leaders =
of the group were wearing what he described as =
=E2=80=9Cparty=E2=80=90coloured sashes.=E2=80=9D Benett warned one =
leader: =E2=80=9CI am sorry to see you with that sash on. =E2=80=A6 =
Young man, that sash will hang you.=E2=80=9D The rioters blankly refused =
to take off their adornments and continued toward his land. Benett =
called out the yeomanry but was unable to prevent his threshing machines =
from being destroyed.1

The sashes carried potent layers of symbolism. The rioters may have worn =
=E2=80=9Cparty=E2=80=90coloured sashes=E2=80=9D in order to connect =
their campaign against the agrarian capitalist economy with the wider =
political agitation of the time. The incident took place only a week =
after Lord Grey became prime minister, a situation that encouraged =
renewed pressure for parliamentary reform.2 Benett assumed that the =
leaders were expressing a radical political point through their attire. =
He later told Parliament that =E2=80=9Cthe mob had been excited by the =
writings of Mr Cobbett and by the speeches of Mr Hunt=E2=80=9D (the =
nationally prominent campaigners for parliamentary reform). Conversely, =
the leaders may have used parti=E2=80=90color, or pied, sashes merely as =
a means of identification. This was a bold gesture in itself, as =
previous forms of plebeian collective activity had often been enacted in =
disguise or at night. The rioters asserted their aims through a =
vestimentary symbolism usually seen at holidays and fairs: wearing =
carnivalesque adornments, they enacted their own interpretation of =
justice in a =E2=80=9Cworld=E2=80=90turned=E2=80=90upside =
down.=E2=80=9D3 The law took a different view. As foreman of the grand =
jury for the special assizes, Benett ensured that justice was done, =
though the sashes led the Swing rioters not to hanging but to seven =
years=E2=80=99 transportation.4

The Swing sashes were just one demonstration of the contested fabric of =
popular politics in England during the later Hanoverian era. Recent =
studies of popular movements in this period have emphasized the role of =
myriad means of political expression, including broadsides, music, and =
drinking toasts.5 This article argues that clothing and material =
adornments were a prominent part of this rich and participatory =
culture...'

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Did you hear about the Gaelic-speaking African?': Scottish Gaelic
Folklore about Identity in North America
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan [mailto:P.OSullivan[at]bradford.ac.uk]

I have not been able to get access to this article - but it does look as if
it touches on a number of Ir-D themes.

P.O'S.


Did you hear about the Gaelic-speaking African?': Scottish Gaelic Folklore
about Identity in North America
Author: Newton, Michael1
Source: Comparative American Studies, Volume 8, Number 2, June 2010 , pp.
88-106(19)
Publisher: Maney Publishing

Abstract:
This is the first sustained attempt to gather historical documentation about
Scottish Gaelic-speaking people of African descent in North America. Many
Scottish Gaels contemplated the consequences of assimilating into whiteness
in America, in order to access wealth and privilege. Gaels were not just
losing their language and culture, they were adopting an Anglophone identity
during a time of rabidly racist Anglo-Saxonism in America. The folk
anecdotes regarding Gaelic-speaking people of African descent examined in
this article - and there must have been many more variants in oral tradition
- illustrate the anxieties of immigrant Highland communities. By
assimilating they would no longer be 'Other' to the institutions of the
state, but their own ancestors would be 'Other' to them. Yet, at the same
time, they were aware of several significant cases of the 'Other' of white
identity in North America - African-Americans and Native Americans -
assimilating into immigrant Highland communities and becoming Gaelic
speakers. A range of folklore is explored, describing the ways in which they
engage with questions of linguistic and racial identity.

Keywords: SCOTTISH GAELIC; SCOTLAND; CANADA; UNITED STATES; AFRICAN
AMERICANS; NATIVE AMERICANS; IRISH; FOLKLORE; ORAL TRADITIONS; ASSIMILATION;
MULTILINGUALISM

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Subject: Economic and Social History Society of Ireland, Conference,
'Booms and busts: cycles in Irish economic history and the
current downturn'
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Economic and Social History Society of Ireland

ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2010

University College Cork , 17th & 18th September 2010.

'Booms and busts: cycles in Irish economic history and the current downturn'

The recent economic difficulties experienced in Ireland, which followed the
halcyon "Celtic Tiger" years, have emphasised the contrast between long term
economic development and short term cyclical fluctuations in economic
activity. This conference will place the current crisis in the wider context
of Irish economic history by examining both long run trends and short term
fluctuations in Irish economic performance, from the eighteenth century to
the present. Professor Louis Cullen, Emeritus Fellow Trinity College Dublin
will open the conference. The Annual Connell Lecture will be delivered by
Liam Kennedy, Professor of Economic & Social History, Queen's University
Belfast, on ' Trends and fluctuations in Irish economic and demographic
history: the long view, 1660-2001 .'

The rise and fall of the Celtic tiger will be examined in the wider context
of Irelands recent economic history by Professor John Fitzgerald of the
Economic and Social Research Institute, Proinsias Breathnach, National
University of Ireland Maynooth and Eoin O' Leary, University College Cork.
Other contributors include Professor Peter Solar, Vesalius College Brussels,
Professor Mary Daly, University College Dublin, Professor Frank Barry,
Trinity College Dublin and Professor Brian Girvin, University of Glasgow .

For further details please contact the conference organizers:

Andy Bielenberg, Department of History, UCC.

abielenberg[at]ucc.ie 021-4902590.

Raymond Ryan, Department of History, UCC.

trjryan[at]hotmail.com 086-3675706 .

SOURCE
http://eshsi.net/Forthcoming.htm

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Subject: Kitchen-Sink Laughter: Domestic Service Humor in
Twentieth-Century Britain
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This article also appeared in the latest Journal of British Studies, and =
will interest a number of Ir-D members.

P.O'S.

Journal of British Studies 49 (July 2010): 623=E2=80=93654
=C2=A9 2010 by The North American Conference on British Studies.
All rights reserved.

Kitchen-Sink Laughter: Domestic Service Humor in Twentieth-Century =
Britain
Lucy Delap=20

Lucy Delap is a fellow of St. Catharine=E2=80=99s College, Cambridge, =
and a member of the history faculty, University of Cambridge. She is a =
social and cultural historian, whose research has focused on =
nineteenth=E2=80=90 and twentieth=E2=80=90century Anglo=E2=80=90American =
feminism, print culture, and the subjectivities and cultural impact of =
gender and class. Her most recent work explores domestic service in =
modern Britain, situating it as symbolic of wider cultural and social =
trends as well as a major site of change itself. The author is grateful =
to those who have shared their memoirs and memories with her during the =
course of researching this article, and particularly for the generosity =
of Ursula Holden. Names of those still living have sometimes been =
changed. The author would also like to thank Leonore Davidoff, Mary =
Chapman, Jan R=C3=BCger, Michael Epp, Claire Pettit, Vic Gatrell, Mary =
Beard, Mike French, Alison Oram, Jane Hamlett, and Andrew Urban for =
their comments, readings, and insights over the past few years, as well =
as the anonymous reviewer and the editor of this journal. This article =
has been presented in various forms at the Cambridge Modern Cultural =
History Seminar, the Social History Society conference, and the =
Histories of Humour and Laughter conference (Newnham College, Cambridge, =
2009), and has benefited from the helpful discussions that resulted at =
those events.

'The idea of domestic service as a realm suitable for jokes and laughter =
has had a long cultural heritage. Carolyn Steedman and Jane Thaddeus =
have written of eighteenth=E2=80=90century domestic servant jokes and =
=E2=80=9CMollspeak,=E2=80=9D the pretentious and colloquial language put =
into the mouths of servants that made them so funny to their employers.1 =
Jokes and laughter at the expense of employers and servants were equally =
prominent and persistent in late nineteenth=E2=80=90 and =
twentieth=E2=80=90century British society. Victorians had for the most =
part regarded their jokes about servants as harmless or even as a =
healthy way of ensuring that servants knew their place. But, from around =
the turn of the century, reformers habitually talked of the comedy value =
of servants as a major problem, indicative of the lack of respect and =
dignity afforded the profession. The widely debated =E2=80=9Cservant =
problem=E2=80=9D was often recast as a =E2=80=9Chumor problem,=E2=80=9D =
a damaging tendency to laugh at all involved with domestic service. A =
1919 government inquiry into domestic service described how the press =
represented servants as =E2=80=9Ccomic or flippant characters =E2=80=A6 =
held up to ridicule,=E2=80=9D while the domestic difficulties of =
employers were also commonly portrayed as =E2=80=9Cignoble and =
laughable.=E2=80=9D2 Investigating the humor problem captures the deep =
sociocultural significance of domestic service in Britain and reveals =
the significance of laughter and comedy in delineating class and gender =
identities...'

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Irish explorer of Australia took bad decisions - author

LORNA SIGGINS Western Correspondent

THE IRISHMAN who led the first successful traverse of Australia was
"everywhere at the wrong time" and had "no sense of direction", writer and
mountaineer Dermot Somers has said.

Robert O'Hara Burke from east Galway was "overbearing" in his attitude to
the aboriginal people who tried to help him and made a series of "eccentric"
decisions that were to prove fatal in terms of survival, Somers said at the
weekend.

The climber, author and broadcaster, who retraced the expedition's course
for a TG4 series broadcast last year, was speaking at a seminar hosted by
Galway County Council and Loughrea Literary and Historical Society.

The event is one of several planned in Galway to mark the 150th anniversary
of the Burke and Wills Victorian Exploring Expedition. Burke (1820-1861),
from St Cleran's, Craughwell, Co Galway, was one of half a dozen Irish in a
group which left Melbourne in 1860 with horses, camels and six wagons,
heading north on a 3,250km trek through as-yet unmapped territory.

The party had been commissioned by the Royal Society of Victoria's
expedition committee, which was keen to open up new pastoral grounds, and to
ascertain whether there was an inland waterway system which could shorten
shipping routes.

Plagued by poor leadership and lack of bushcraft knowhow, the expedition
lost most of its members. Just three men - Burke, English surveyor William
John Wills and Tyrone man John King - eventually reached the shores of the
Gulf of Carpentaria in the north.

Burke and Wills subsequently died and the sole survivor, King, owed his life
to the aboriginal tribe of Yandruwhanda people, who gave him food and
shelter. He was later taken back to Melbourne by a Victorian relief
expedition, but died 11 years later at the age of 33.

Somers said King was an animal handler who could speak to the Afghans and
Indians looking after the camels. He could communicate with the aborigines,
but Burke repeatedly alienated indigenous people who offered aid.

"Burke had no sense of direction, and was eccentric enough not to care,"
Somers said. "He was part of an aristocratic mindset . . . the only reason
they reached the north coast was because Wills was a navigator and surveyor,
who could therefore find water."

Also speaking were historian and archaeologist William Henry, and author
Catherine de Courcy. Marie Boran of the NUI Galway James Hardiman library's
special collections section spoke on the background to the landed society
Burke was born into.

SOURCE
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0906/1224278287135.html

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Earrach/Samhradh / Spring/Summer 2010
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This TOC has been distributed before on Ir-D, but this version is a =
little
more complete. The issue is now available on Project Muse.

Editor's Introduction
Joseph Valente
=C9ire-Ireland, Volume 45:1&2, Earrach/Samhradh / Spring/Summer 2010, =
pp. 5-10


'In his St. Patrick's Day broadcast of 1943, Eamon de Valera epitomized,
somewhat risibly, the backward-looking, anti-modernizing impetus of the
nationalist ideology that had prevailed in the founding of the Free =
State
and persisted beyond the establishment of the Republic in 1949. =
Deploying a
"we" at once royal and collective, de Valera judges the "ideal Ireland =
that
we would have," the "Ireland which we dreamed of," to inhere in a
pre-industrial physical and social landscape, where the organic =
community of
man and nature, man and fellow man, and man and Deity implicate and =
mutually
reinforce one another.

=85 a land whose countryside would be bright with cosy homesteads, whose
fields and villages would be joyous with the sounds of industry, with =
the
romping of sturdy children, the contests of athletic youths and the =
laughter
of comely maidens, whose firesides would be forums for the wisdom of =
serene
old age. It would, in a word, be the home of a people living the life =
that
God desires that man should live.

His hope, "our" hope, for Ireland's future is that there should be no
future, commonly understood as a site of imperfectly foreseeable change,
difference, or innovation, but rather a sentimentalized persistence of =
the
past. To couch the ideal of a nation on such a resolutely nostalgic =
basis is
to exhort its people not to develop themselves=97the species of =
political
mandate typical of western (-izing) societies in the twentieth =
century=97but
to become what they already are. It is to eschew the prospect of =
achievement
for the pretense of authenticity.

The first corollary of the revivalist nationalism to which de Valera =
lent
amplified voice that March day is what we might call the pastoral
synechdoche...'=20

=C9ire-Ireland
Volume 45:1&2, Earrach/Samhradh / Spring/Summer 2010

Editor's Introduction
Joseph Valente
pp. 5-10

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

"Down These Mean Streets": The City and Critique in Contemporary Irish =
Noir
Andrew Kincaid
pp. 39-55

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

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

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

"Compelled to their bad acts by hunger": Three Irish Urban Crowds, =
1817=9645
John Cunningham
pp. 128-151

"Unofficial" British Reprisals and IRA Provocations, 1919=9620: The =
Cases of
Three Cork Towns
James S. Donnelly Jr.
pp. 152-197

The State of Dublin's History
David Dickson
pp. 198-212
=20
North and South of the River: Demythologizing Dublin in Contemporary =
Irish
Film
Jenny Knell
pp. 213-241
=20
Urban Legends
Marilyn Reizbaum
pp. 242-265
=20
Myopic Beauty: The Map, the Photograph, the Palimpsest, and Joyce
Joseph Nugent
pp. 266-276

Contributors
pp. 277-279

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Irish Strands and the Imperial Eye: Henry James's "The Modern
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The text of The Modern Warning is freely available at

http://www.henryjames.org.uk/modernw/home.htm

Denis Flannery is based at the University of Leeds.
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/english/staff/pages/flannery.htm

On his web site he says this of his ongoing Henry James project...

'My more recent work has focused first on the relationship between =
Waiting,
Teaching and Love in Henry James with a comparative emphasis on =
parallels
between James's treatment of this connection and the work of more recent
artists, particularly Derek Jarman and Marguerite Duras. Second I have =
been
looking at Ireland in James, how it was for him an object of anxious
derision and tentative curiosity, as well as being a source of =
inspiration.
This work freshly considers the relationship between genre and Jamesian
internationalism. Its major focus is on the divided status James confers =
on
the occupants, =E9migr=E9s, and writing of Ireland. James barely =
acknowledges
Ireland as a site of origin and he sometimes figures it as an object of
repugnance. Yet values that are foundational to James=92s sense of =
ethically
validated subjectivity =96 autonomy, idealism, and an emphasis on
non-instrumental subjectivity =96 are repeatedly connected with Ireland =
in his
fiction, his critical writing and his drama. This project explores this
contradiction by concentrating on the forgotten Irish aspects of some of
James's best-known texts and through readings of some of his neglected
fiction. It also considers historical questions such as the Irish =
provenance
of the James family, the haunting presence of the Great Famine in his =
most
celebrated writing, his relationship to figures such as Parnell and =
Wilde
and his ongoing cultural presence in twenty-first century Ireland. =
Finally,
I am in the process of completing, in collaboration with my father (who =
was
born in Tipperary in 1919), a memoir of his life there in the 1920s and =
the
1930s...'

The Henry James Review
Volume 31, Number 1, Winter 2010
E-ISSN: 1080-6555 Print ISSN: 0273-0340

Irish Strands and the Imperial Eye: Henry James's "The Modern Warning"
Denis Flannery
The Henry James Review, Volume 31, Number 1, Winter 2010, pp. 39-45
(Article)

Subject Headings:
James, Henry, 1843-1916. Modern warning.
Ireland -- In literature.

Abstract:
This essay considers the representation of Ireland in James 1888 novella
"The Modern Warning." It begins by arguing that James's representation =
of
Ireland more broadly is divided between his use of anti-Irish =
stereotypes
common in the nineteenth century and his fiction's simultaneous critique =
and
undermining of the very figures who employ those same stereotypes. The =
essay
then explores the impact that Ireland has on "The Modern Warning"'s =
modes of
representation. These include the relationship between naming and sound, =
the
strategic manipulation of the very term "Irish," and the story's
increasingly uncontrolled use of free indirect discourse as it =
progresses
towards a suicidal conclusion.

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From At Tiri to Qana: the impact of peacekeeping in Lebanon on
Israeli-Irish bilateral relations, 1978-2000
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This very interesting article continues the story of the service of the
Irish military with the United Nations, and shows how the deaths of Irish
soldiers in Lebanon shaped Irish-Israeli relations for decades.

From At Tiri to Qana: the impact of peacekeeping in Lebanon on Israeli-Irish
bilateral relations, 1978-2000

Author: Rory Miller a
Affiliation: a Middle East and Mediterranean Studies, King's College
London, London, UK

Published in: Israel Affairs, Volume 16, Issue 3 July 2010 , pages 386 -
405

Abstract

In the period between 1978 and 2001 Ireland undertook the most significant
operational tasking in its history on behalf of the United Nations, when it
sent almost 40,000 troops to participate in the UNIFIL operation in Lebanon.
This commitment increased Irish prestige across the international arena but
it also had a highly negative impact on bilateral diplomatic and political
relations between Ireland and Israel due to clashes and tensions between
Irish UNIFIL peacekeepers and Israeli troops and their south Lebanese
Christian allies. This article charts and examines the deterioration in
Irish-Israeli relations and shows how events in Lebanon dominated the
bilateral agenda in these two decades.

Keywords: Lebanon; UNIFIL; Ireland; United Nations; Israel Defence Forces;
South Lebanese Army

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HELLENISM AND THE POSTCOLONIALIST IMAGINATION
Yeats, Cavafy, Walcott
By MARTIN McKINSEY

Hellenism and the Postcolonial Imagination: Yeats, Cavafy, Walcott follows
the careers of three major poets of the European and North American
periphery as they engage one of the master tropes of Western civilization.

As colonial subjects, they inherited an Anglicized version of Hellenism
whose borders might easily have excluded them as civilizational 'others.'
The book describes the diverse strategies they used-from Bloomian kenosis to
Afro-Caribbean 'signifyin(g)'-to make Hellenism their own. Their use of
Greek material, the book argues, is closely tied to their need as members of
colonial minorities-Irish Protestant, Greek-Egyptian, and 'part-white and
Methodist'-to define themselves against mainstream metropolitan culture on
the one hand, and nationalist constructions of the post-colonial homeland
on the other. Their Hellenisms participate in the dialectic of local and
global, as the poets at once indigenize the Universal Greek, and re-deploy
him to hybridize national culture. The result is a triangulated dynamic
that challenges established notions of the postcolonial. Among works
discussed are Tennyson's 'Ulysses,' Yeats's 'No Second Troy,' C.P.
Cavafy's 'Waiting for the Barbarians,' and Walcott's Omeros.

Martin McKinsey is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of
New Hampshire.
2010 ISBN 978-0-8386-4201-6 $60.00

Fairleigh Dickinson
University Press
2010

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To cite this Article: Ging, Debbie 'The Irish-American in Popular Culture
1945-2000', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 30:3, 452 -
454

The Irish-American in Popular Culture 1945-2000

Author: Debbie Ginga
Affiliation: a Dublin City University,

Published in: Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Volume 30,
Issue 3 September 2010 , pages 452 - 454

The Irish-American in Popular Culture 1945-2000

STEPHANIE RAINS

Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 2007

252 pp., $65.00 (cloth), $27.50 (paper)

At Mary Robinson's official inauguration in 1990, Ireland's new President
declared herself committed to cherishing the 70 million people around the
world who claimed Irish descent. Arguably, this was the point at which the
Irish diaspora officially appeared on the radar of public consciousness in
Ireland, and at which Irishness began to be imagined in broader, more
transnational terms. However, as Stephanie Rains' argues in The
Irish-American in Popular Culture (1945-2000), Irish cultural producers and
politicians have long been aware of the need to engage not only with the
island of Ireland as a geo-political entity but also with the vast and
diverse socio-cultural entity that is Irish-America.

The focus of this book, however, is not with Irish-American culture per se
but rather with the Irish-American diaspora's specific relation to and
engagement with Ireland, both as a place and as a symbol of 'homeland'.
Thus, unlike Diane Negra's excellent collection, The Irish in US: Irishness,
performativity, and popular culture (2006), which looks at the significance
of Irishness within American culture, Rains' book focuses exclusively on the
Irish-American diaspora's links with Ireland and Irish culture. In it, she
explores the broad range of popular cultural practices-all involving a
connection with or return to the 'homeland'-by which Irish-Americans
construct their identity, including film, television, genealogical research,
tourism and the consumption of Irish-produced goods.

What is particularly interesting about Rains' far-reaching and insightful
analysis is that, unlike many discourses about Irish diasporic culture, it
abandons the more usual perspective of the Irish looking outward in favour
of how Irish-America engages with Ireland and Irishness. Rather than
conceptualising the diaspora as an extension of 'us', therefore, Rains
positions 'us' an extension of 'them'. This refocusing of the lens is subtle
but it is also extremely useful in that it enables us to consider the
disaporic Irish experience in the broader context of migrant identity
formation, rather than merely as an extension of Irish cultural studies...

...Throughout the entire book and in the chapter on Heritage and Consumption
in particular, Rains dispels commonly held assumptions about the films,
promotional materials and other cultural artefacts that have been produced
in Ireland for the American market. She interrogates the tendency to dismiss
these artefacts as sentimental 'Paddywhackery', which cynically panders to
the Irish-American market, arguing instead that their consumption often
represents a complex and sophisticated (re)negotiation of ethnic, cultural
and individual identity by Irish-born emigrants and their descendants. Using
classic films such as The Quiet Man (1952) as well as lesser-known films
produced during the 1960s by the Irish Tourist Board (Bord Filte) such as
Honeymoon in Ireland (1963) and O'Hara's Holiday (1960), Rains demonstrates
that the persistent theme of return to the 'homeland', whether it is a
genuine return or a journey made for the first time, offers the diasporic
audience the possibility of reconsidering their concepts of ethnicity,
citizenship and belonging. This is particularly evident in Honeymoon in
Ireland, in which Irish emigrant Mary returns to Ireland for her honeymoon
with American husband Bill. Not only does this transformative pilgrimage
allow Mary to reassert her Irish roots but it also results in Bill's
inclusion into the Irish-American diasporic fold...

...Indeed, Rains' consideration of the Irish migrant's relationship to the
culture of 'homeland' positions her work alongside other studies of
diasporic cultural consumption, such as Arvind Rajagopal's (2000) analysis
of Hindu nationalism in the US and, in particular, Aswin Punathambekar's
(2005) study of the role played by Bollywood cinema among the
Indian-American diaspora. Like Rains, Punathambekar argues that narratives
of homeland provide a space in which 'a transitive logic of cultural
citizenship' can be negotiated. Just as Rains claims that the theme of
return, which has been so deeply embedded in cultural output aimed at the
Irish-American diaspora, facilitates a renegotiation of self identity,
several Indian film scholars have shown that the diasporic Indian audience
has become an integral part of the cultural imaginary of Hindi cinema, with
themes of migration and return, and tradition and modernity being
deliberately woven into Bollywood's plots. What also emerges from much of
the research on consumption of Bollywood among expatriate audiences is a
growing acknowledgement that the pleasures offered by ostensibly nostalgic
and sentimental representations of 'homeland' do not exclude an awareness of
their artifice or inauthenticity, or indeed their importance as narratives
which facilitate 'temporal continuities with the imagined homeland' (Ram,
1999: 156) as well as celebrating 'a freer form of civilizational belonging
explicitly delinked from the political rights of citizenship' (Rajadhyaksha,
2003: 32).

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The University of Toronto Press has a policy of making some articles in some
of its journals free to access - the fine detail of the policy is a bit
mysterious to me. But I do notice one thing...

One journal
SIMILE: Studies In Media & Information Literacy Education
ceased publication last year, and all the articles are freely available on
the web site.

http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/120764/?p=8ab91e409abf49e18c86afcf1
5529b46&pi=0

http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/x591886k8263t988/?p=426ebadf78cf4c1
58b589c7a06b078ee&pi=1

These include Donna Potts' fun, and detailed, exploration of 'Irishness' in
Buffy - 'Buffy reveals that, even at the end of the twentieth century, Irish
stereotypes are as pervasive as ever, suggesting how deeply engrained the
Celt/Saxon dichotomy is in American popular culture...'

P.O'S.

Convents, Claddagh rings, and Even The Book of Kells: Representing the Irish
in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Journal SIMILE: Studies In Media & Information Literacy Education
Publisher University of Toronto Press
ISSN 1496-6603
Issue Volume 3, Number 2 / May 2003
Pages 1-9

Donna L. Potts
1 Kansas State Univeristy

Abstract

After a brief overview of theoretical approaches to the television series
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, this article relies on postcolonial theory to
analyze the portrayal of the Irish vampire Angel in Buffy , as well as his
rivalry with the English vampire Spike. Beginning in the twelfth century,
the Anglo-Norman conquerors of Ireland had relied on stereotypes of the
Irish in order to justify governance of them. Introduced in Season 1 of
Buffy, the vampire Angel embodies the major cultural stereotypes used by
English colonizers to represent their Irish conquests. The English vampire
Spike, introduced in Season 2, also embodies various cultural stereotypes of
the English. The subsequent rivalry between Angel and Spike draws on aspects
of the Celt/Saxon dichotomy, which was developed during the Victorian era at
the height of British colonization to reinforce British claims to power.

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The mention of the 'small college' in the title refers to the collective
theme of this issue of Pedagogy, Volume 10, Issue 2, Spring 2010 - teaching
and learning in small college departments. By which is meant, I think,
outside the doctorate-granting institutions. It is actually a very
interesting issue - exploring the fine detail, and indeed the gossip, of the
actual teaching business.

And so to Joyce...

P.O'S.


Pedagogy 2010 10(2):363-388; DOI:10.1215/15314200-2009-043
Duke University Press

Here Comes Everybody

An Epistemic Approach to Teaching Ulysses in a Small College

Kathleen McCormick and Melissa Shofner

Using George Hillocks's epistemic pedagogy and Michael Smith and Jeff
Wilhelm's concept of "flow" as frameworks, I create a classroom in which
students teach each other to read James Joyce's Ulysses. Students can do
this while reading Ulysses for the first time because of the intricate
scaffolding I create that requires close interaction outside of class with
me, with one or two peer mentors, and with small groups of other students in
the class, and that is actively supported by the library, which creates a
special "Joyce room" whenever I offer my course. This essay describes how
the course is organized and what students are required to do, and it
attempts to explain why, in this particular course, students develop complex
reading and writing skills and engage in critical work on a difficult
literary text beyond what one would think could be possible in one semester
on an undergraduate level. While one could teach this course in any type of
college or university setting, I suggest that that the values and community
of a small liberal arts college encourage faculty to create courses
requiring intense student-faculty interaction and encourage students to blur
intellectual and social boundaries that enable them to grow in myriad ways.

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Just to remind people, and to inform new members. The Sage journals has one
of its free access offers in place at the moment - until October 15 you can
have free access to everything from 1999 to the present.

This article in a SAGE journal will interest a number of Ir-D members. It
is, in effect, a useful history of policing in Ireland leading to an
exploration of the Commodification (that useful word) of the Northern
Ireland experiences. As is so often thecase, we are loking at the careers
of senior police officials.

P.O'S.

From Empire to Iraq and the "War on Terror": The Transplantation and
Commodification of the (Northern) Irish Policing Experience
Graham Ellison and Conor O'Reilly
Police Quarterly, December 2008; vol. 11, 4: pp. 395-426., first published
on June 20, 2008

Graham Ellison
Queen's University, Belfast, g.ellison[at]qub.ac.uk
Conor O'Reilly
University of Oxford

Abstract

Charting the enduring export appeal of policing models from (Northern)
Ireland, this article sheds some light on the processes by which policing
models are communicated and actively promoted to the global policing
environment. The authors demonstrate how the transplantation of the Irish
colonial model (ICM) represents an early example of the globalization of
policing. The legacy of counterinsurgency expertise embedded within the ICM
remains a historical constant and is a key factor in relation to the
increasing commodification of the contemporary Northern Irish policing
model, a model that successfully blends counterterrorism experience with a
template for democratic policing reform. By juxtaposing these models, the
authors provide a conceptual framework through which to assess the
contemporary substance of policing transfer. The authors conclude by
suggesting that the seductiveness of these policing models is largely
attributable to lessons in counterinsurgency and notions of "Ireland as the
solution" to a host of complex security scenarios.

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The jobs immigrants do: issues of displacement and
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This is a SAGE journal.

The jobs immigrants do: issues of displacement and marginalisation in the
Irish labour market
Thomas Turner
Work, Employment & Society, June 2010; vol. 24, 2: pp. 318-336.

Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, tom.turner[at]ul.ie
Abstract

Recently Ireland experienced rapid economic growth and an inflow of
immigrants into the labour force. Using census data this article examines
the occupational distribution of immigrants by country of origin and whether
immigrants displace native workers from jobs. In the period studied it seems
that immigrant workers have relieved bottlenecks in the labour market and
have been complementary rather than substitutes for native workers. Between
2002 and 2006 the proportion of immigrants employed in high-skill jobs
decreased while the number in low-skill jobs increased substantially.
Compared to Irish nationals the possession of education qualifications for
immigrants, particularly those from the 10 new EU member states, does not
appear to confer the same advantages. The evidence here indicates a
significant degree of occupational downgrading and 'brain waste' among
non-nationals.

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Structural Identity Theory and the Post-Recruitment Activism of
Irish Republicans
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Social Problems
August 2010, Vol. 57, No. 3, Pages 341=96370 , DOI =
10.1525/sp.2010.57.3.341
Posted online on July 16, 2010.
(doi:10.1525/sp.2010.57.3.341)

Structural Identity Theory and the Post-Recruitment Activism of Irish
Republicans: Persistence, Disengagement, Splits, and Dissidents in =
Social
Movement Organizations
Robert W. White=9D
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Abstract

This research adopts a structural identity theory framework to examine
post-recruitment activism in the Irish Republican Movement. The data are
from members of Provisional Sinn F=E9in who were first interviewed in =
the
mid-1980s and subsequently reinterviewed in the mid-1990s and the late
2000s. Ten and 20 years after their initial interviews, some respondents
were still involved in Provisional Sinn F=E9in while others had: helped =
create
a rival organization, Republican Sinn F=E9in, in 1986; helped create =
another
rival organization, the 32 County Sovereignty Movement, in 1997; =
withdrawn
from activism; and withdrawn from and then reentered activism. The
interviews show that the decision to exit from activism was primarily
motivated by changes in the respondents' personal lives and not for
political reasons. For some respondents, life changes brought with them =
new
relationships and new identities that limited their availability for
activism and also forced respondents to choose between competing =
identities.
The decision to remain an activist but to create a rival organization =
was
influenced by interaction among subgroups of activists in Provisional =
Sinn
F=E9in and by the respondents' perception of what is important for Irish
Republicanism.

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Orange Alba: The Civil Religion of Loyalism in the Southwestern
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan [mailto:P.OSullivan[at]bradford.ac.uk]

This thesis, by one of John Bohstedt's students, will interest a number of
Ir-D members.

Note that the first link below takes you directly to a lengthy pdf file.

P.O'S.


Orange Alba: The Civil Religion of Loyalism in the Southwestern Lowlands
of Scotland since 1798
Ronnie Michael Booker Jr.
University of Tennessee - Knoxville, rbooker[at]utk.edu

http://trace.tennessee.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1823&context=utk_grad
diss


INTRODUCTION
In 1999, Scottish composer, James MacMillan, delivered a lecture at the
Edinburgh Festival entitled, "Scotland's Shame," which claimed that
sectarianism was endemic in contemporary Scottish society. Using powerful
and emotive language, MacMillan spoke of lowland Scotland as being like
"Northern Ireland without the guns or bullets."1 The renowned
composer accused Scotland of being a land characterized by "sleep-walking
bigotry" where "visceral anti-Catholicism" disfigured most aspects national
life.2 Although his accusations were certainly exaggerated, it was clear to
anyone who attended a football match between Scotland's two most popular
football clubs, Glasgow Rangers and Glasgow Celtic3, that the ethno-tribal
bitterness that historically plagued Ulster also contaminated sections of
Scottish cultural life in the modern southwestern lowlands.

This work examines the making of a distinct and identifiable civil religion
of loyalism in the southwestern lowlands of Scotland since the establishment
of the Orange Order in the early nineteenth century. Loyalists were
intensely loyal to the British Crown, the Act of Union of
1800, the unwritten British Constitution and the Protestant faith...

Booker, Ronnie Michael Jr., Orange Alba: The Civil Religion of Loyalism in
the Southwestern Lowlands of Scotland since 1798. " PhD diss., University of
Tennessee, 2010.
http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk graddiss/777

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Jim Rogers has kindly drawn the attention of the list to this
celebration of Eugene O'Neill:

http://www.drunkenboat.com/db12/04one/intro.php

Liam

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The following may be of interest to the list.



The Irish in the Atlantic World edited by David T. Gleeson

The Irish in the Atlantic World presents a transnational and comparative
view of the Irish historical and cultural experiences as phenomena
transcending traditional chronological, topical, and ethnic paradigms.
Edited by David T. Gleeson, this collection of essays offers a robust new
vision of the global nature of the Irish diaspora within the Atlantic
context from the eighteenth century to the present and makes original
inroads for new research in Irish studies.

These essays from an international cast of scholars vary in their subject
matter from investigations into links between Irish popular music and the
United States-including the popularity of American blues music in Belfast
during the 1960s and the in-fluences of Celtic balladry on contemporary
singer Van Morrison-to a discussion of the migration of Protestant Orangemen
to America and the transplanting of their distinctive non-Catholic
organizations. Other chapters explore the influence of American politics on
the formation of the Irish Free State in 1922, manifestations of
nineteenth-century temperance and abolition move-ments in Irish communities,
links between slavery and Irish nationalism in the formation of Irish
identity in the American South, the impact of yellow fever on Irish and
black labor competition on Charleston's waterfront, the fate of the Irish
community at Saint Croix in the Danish West Indies, and other topics. These
multidisciplinary essays offer fruitful explanations of how ideas and
experiences from around the Atlantic influenced the politics, economics, and
culture of Ireland, the Irish people, and the societies where Irish people
settled. Taken collectively, these pieces map the web of connectivity
between Irish communities at home and abroad as sites of ongoing negotiation
in the development of a transatlantic Irish identity.



A native of Ireland, David T. Gleeson is a reader in history in the School
of Arts and Social Sciences at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon
Tyne. He is a former director of the College of Charleston's Carolina
Lowcountry and Atlantic World pro-gram. His first book, The Irish in the
South, 1815-1877, won the Donald Murphy Prize of the American Conference for
Irish Studies.



The Irish Atlantic? 1

David T. Gleeson



Part I: Ireland in the Atlantic World

Mathewite Temperance in Atlantic Perspective 19

Paul Townend



The Anatomy of Failure: Nineteenth-Century Irish Copper Mining in the

Atlantic and Global Economy 38

William H. Mulligan Jr.



Transatlantic Migrations of Irish Music in the Early Recording Age 53

Scott Spencer



The "Idea of America" in the New Irish State, 1922-1960 76

Bernadette Whelan



Part II: Irish Identity in the Atlantic World

"The Transmigrated Soul of Some West Indian Planter": Absenteeism,

Slavery, and the Irish National Tale 109

Susan M. Kroeg



Slavery, Irish Nationalism, and Irish American Identity in the South,

1840-1845 129

Angela F. Murphy



"From the Cabins of Connemara to the Kraals of Kaffirland": Irish

Nationalists, the British Empire, and the "Boer Fight for Freedom" 154

Bruce Nelson



Kathleen O'Brennan and American Identity in the Transatlantic Irish

Republican Movement 176

Catherine M. Burns



"Blues Coming down Royal Avenue": Van Morrison's Belfast Blues 195

Lauren Onkey





William H. Mulligan, Jr.

Professor of History

Graduate Program Coordinator

Murray State University

Murray KY 42071-3341 USA

office phone 1-270-809-6571

dept phone 1-270-809-2231

fax 1-270-809-6587

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'Dying Irish': eulogising the Irish in Scotland in Glasgow
Observer obituaries
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=91Dying Irish=92: eulogising the Irish in Scotland in Glasgow Observer
obituaries

M=E1irt=EDn =D3 Cath=E1in

Dr M=E1irt=EDn =D3 Cath=E1in is an occasional tutor for the Ulster =
People's College,
Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Citation Information. Innes Review. Volume 61, Page 76-91 DOI
10.3366/inr.2010.0004, ISSN 0020-157x, Available Online May 2010 .

The Glasgow Observer newspaper, founded in 1885 by and for the Irish
community in Scotland regularly published both lengthy and brief =
funereal
and elegiac obituaries of the Irish in Scotland in the nineteenth and =
early
twentieth centuries. They marshal an impressive, emotive and oftentimes
contradictory body of evidence and anecdote of immigrant lives of the =
kind
utilised, and as often passed over, by historians of the Irish in =
Britain.
They contain, however, a unique perspective on the march of a migrant =
people
bespoke of their experiences and, perhaps more importantly, the =
perception
of their experiences in passage, in the host society and ultimately in
death. Moreover, the changing sense of Victorian sensibilities over the
solemnity, purpose and ritual of death into the Edwardian era finds a =
moot
reflection in the key staples of Irish immigrant obsequies with their =
stress
on thrift, endeavour, piety, charity and gratitude.This article explores
Glasgow Observer obituaries from the 1880s to the 1920s to see what they =
say
about the immigrants, their lives, work and culture, the Scots, =
migration
itself, the wider relations between Britain and Ireland, and the place =
where
Irish and British attitudes to death meet in this period. It does so by
drawing upon recent sociological perspectives on obituaries and their
relationship with the formation and articulation of collective memory.

Keywords. Obituaries, Irish, immigrants, Glasgow Observer, memory

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Sectarianism Revisited: The Provisional IRA Campaign in a Border
Region of Northern Ireland
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Sectarianism Revisited: The Provisional IRA Campaign in a Border Region of
Northern Ireland

Author: Henry Patterson - Henry Patterson is a professor of politics,
University of Ulster, and author of Ireland Since 1939: The Persistence of
Conflict (London: Penguin, 2007).a
Affiliation: a School of Criminology, Politics and Social Policy,
University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Northern Ireland, UK

Published in: Terrorism and Political Violence, Volume 22, Issue 3 July
2010 , pages 337 - 356
Subjects: Security Studies - Pol & Intl Relns; Terrorism & Political
Violence;

Abstract
This article revisits the debate, hosted by this journal in the 1990s, on
whether the Provisional IRA campaign was sectarian. In the light of current
debates about how Northern Ireland deals with its past, it challenges the
analysis that emphasises the non-sectarian ideology of republicanism and
ignores the effects of IRA violence. It uses research on the IRA campaign in
Fermanagh and south Tyrone to argue that the campaign was unavoidably
sectarian but rejects current attempts to label it a form of ethnic
cleansing.

Keywords: border; ethnic cleansing; Fermanagh & South Tyrone; provisional
IRA; sectarianism