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HOME SWEDE HOME: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF SWEDISH CULTURAL IDENTITY AT
A WESTERN HOMESTEAD
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This is a charming MA thesis, freely available at the University of Montana
web site. UMT is Montana, yes?

A number of Ir-D members will find it interesting and useful, since it
explores a growing area of interest, the presentation of immigrant or ethnic
groups in the archaeological record in the USA. Charles Orser and Stephen
Brighton are in the discussion and in the bibliography.

Defending her study of this Swedish homestead Amanda Haught comments:
'Archaeological literature associated with cultural identity often deals
with racial studies (e.g., Mullins 1999; Orser 2001). More often than not,
these publications focus on minority groups such as African Americans
(Mullins 1999; Orser 2001; Shackel 2010), Native Americans
(Lightfoot 2005), or Chinese immigrants (Wegars 1993; Williams and Voss
2008). Rarely have Euro-American groups been considered in these types of
studies; if they are included, more popular groups, such as Irish and
Italians, usually receive the most attention (e.g., Wegars 1991; Costello
1998; James 1998; Brighton 2009). While all of these groups of people are
vital to understanding the cosmopolitan cultural heritage of the
American West, it is essential to include the other European groups that
helped form this heritage to conduct a thorough study of cultural
identity...'

I have thought long and hard about her description of the Irish as one of
the more 'popular' groups. In the end in this context I think it might be
the right choice of word.

Note that this link takes you directly to a lengthy pdf file.

http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-08292010-190640/unrestricted/Hau
ght_Amanda_Master_Thesis.pdf

P.O'S.


HOME SWEDE HOME: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF SWEDISH CULTURAL IDENTITY AT A WESTERN
HOMESTEAD
By
AMANDA CLARE HAUGHT
Bachelor of Science in Anthropology, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho,
2005

Thesis
presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of
Master of Arts
in Anthropology
The University of Montana
Missoula, MT
August 2010

In the summer of 2003, the University of Idaho conducted an archaeological
field school at the Nora Creek site under the direction of Dr. Mark Warner
at a Swedish homestead just east of Troy, Idaho. The field school unearthed
a plethora of historical artifacts including metal, glass, ceramic, and
faunal items left behind by the inhabitants of the Johanson homestead in
Nora, Idaho. Historical documentation indicates that the Johansons
immigrated to America from Sweden in 1882 and they arrived in Nora in
1891. The research goal of this thesis is to determine whether and how a
signature of Swedish identity may be manifested in the material culture of
the Nora Creek site. The glass and ceramic assemblages, as well as the
faunal collection, are integrated with historical research to examine this
topic. In order to pursue an archaeology of Swedish identity, it is
essential to consider the ways in which class, gender, and cultural identity
contributed to a Swedish identity in the Nora Creek assemblage versus
general homesteading assemblages contemporary to the time frame of the site.

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IRISH HISTORICAL STUDIES
NUMB 145; 2010
ISSN 0021-1214

pp. 1-22
`A Fenian pastime'? Early Irish board games and their identification with
chess.
Harding, T.

pp. 23-47
Michael Cusack and the revival of Gaelic games in Ulster.
McAnallen, D.

pp. 48-60
William Walker, Irish Labour and `Chinese slavery' in South Africa, 1904-6.
O Connor, E.

pp. 61-82
Fenians, Ribbonmen and popular ideology's role in nationalist politics: east
Tyrone, 1906-9.
McCluskey, F.

pp. 83-106
`The most terrible assassination that has yet stained the name of Belfast':
the McMahon murders in context.
Wilson, T.

pp. 107-111
Review article: Everybody's doing it - the Dictionary of Irish biography and
national biography.
Goldman, L.

pp. 174-176
Report of the Royal Irish Academy Committee for Historical Sciences and
fourteenth biennial report (seventieth and seventy-first years) of the Irish
Committee of Historical Sciences: May 2007-May 2009.

pp. 112-113
Bhreathnach (ed.), The kingship and landscape of Tara.
Croinin, D.O.

p. 114
Richter, Bobbio in the early Middle Ages: the abiding legacy of Columbanus.
Croinin, D.O.

pp. 115-116
Jones (ed.), A short history of parliament: England, Great Britain, the
United Kingdom, Ireland and Scotland.
Hayton, D.W.

p. 117
Crawford & Gillespie (eds), St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
Jefferies, H.A.

p. 118
Davies (ed. Smith), Lords and lordship in the British Isles in the late
Middle Ages.
Frame, R.

pp. 119-120
Smith (ed.), Ireland and the English world in the late Middle Ages.
Ditchburn, D.

p. 121
Scott (ed.), Culture and society in early modern Breifne/Cavan.
Perceval-Maxwell, M.

p. 122
Empey (ed.), The proctors' accounts of the parish church of St Werburgh,
Dublin, 1481-1627.
Jefferies, H.A.

pp. 123-124
Andrews, Maps in those days: cartographic methods before 1850.
Duffy, P.

p. 125
Rapple, Martial power and Elizabethan political culture: military men in
England and Ireland, 1558-1594.
Chui, J.W.Y.

p. 126
Kelly & Young (eds), Scotland and the Ulster plantations: explorations of
the British settlements of Stuart Ireland.
McCavitt, J.

p. 127
Curtis Clayton (ed.), The council book for the province of Munster c.
1599-1649.
Irwin, L.

pp. 128-129
Genet-Rouffiac & Murphy (eds), Franco-Irish military connections, 1590-1945.
Ranger, P.

p. 130
McCormick, William Petty and the ambitions of political arithmetic.
Aspromourgos, T.

p. 131
Cope, England and the 1641 Irish rebellion.
McElligott, J.

pp. 132-133
McCarthy & Simmons (eds), Marsh's Library, a mirror on the world: law,
learning and libraries, 1650-1750.
Carpenter, A.

p. 134
Dennehy (ed.), Restoration Ireland: always settling and never settled.
Ohlmeyer, J.

p. 135
Hoppen (ed.), Papers of the Dublin Philosophical Society, 1683-1709.
McCormick, T.

p. 136
McBride, Eighteenth-century Ireland: the isle of slaves.
Connolly, S.J.

pp. 137-138
Kanter, The making of British unionism, 1740-1848: politics, government and
the Anglo-Irish constitutional relationship.
Bew, J.

p. 139
Kelly, Sir Richard Musgrave, 1746-1818: ultra-Protestant ideologue.
Mc Cormack, W.J.

p. 140
Wilson, Women, marriage and property in wealthy landed families in Ireland,
1750-1850.
Raughter, R.

p. 141
Blyth & Jeffery (eds), The British Empire and its contested pasts.
Martin, G.

pp. 142-143
Ferguson & McConnel (eds), Ireland and Scotland in the nineteenth century.
Tindley, A.

p. 144
Bielenberg, Ireland and the Industrial Revolution: the impact of the
Industrial Revolution on Irish industry, 1801-1922.
Daly, M.E.

p. 145
Potter, William Monsell of Tervoe, 1812-1894: Catholic unionist,
Anglo-Irishman.
Enright, A.

pp. 146-147
O Cadhla, Civilizing Ireland: Ordnance Survey, 1824-1842: ethnography,
cartography, translation.
Beiner, G.

p. 148
Kinealy, Repeal and revolution: 1848 in Ireland.
Quinn, J.

p. 149
King, Michael Davitt.
Marley, L.

pp. 150-151
Jenkins, The Fenian problem: insurgency and terrorism in a liberal state,
1858-1874.
Whelehan, N.

p. 152
Stephens (ed. Ramon), The birth of the Fenian movement: American diary,
Brooklyn 1859.
Davis, R.

p. 153
Purdue, The Big House in the North of Ireland: land, power and social
elites, 1878-1960.
Bull, P.

pp. 154-155
Hynes, Knock: the Virgin's apparition in nineteenth-century Ireland.
O Brien, G.

p. 156
Campbell, The Irish establishment, 1879-1914.
McConnel, J.

p. 157
McCarthy, Gold, silver and green: the Irish Olympic journey, 1896-1924.
Garnham, N.

p. 158
Hay, Bulmer Hobson and the nationalist movement in twentieth-century
Ireland.
McCluskey, F.

p. 159
Grayson, Belfast boys: how unionists and nationalists fought and died
together in the First World War.
Connelly, M.

pp. 160-161
Devine, Organising history: a centenary of SIPTU.
Maguire, M.

p. 162
McMahon, British spies and Irish rebels: British intelligence and Ireland,
1916-1945.
Hanley, B.

pp. 162-163
Mahon & Gillogly, Decoding the IRA.
Hanley, B.

p. 164
McNamara, Sean Lester, Poland and the Nazi takeover of Danzig.
O Driscoll, M.

p. 165
Whelan, Conor Cruise O'Brien: violent notions.
Skelly, J.M.

p. 166
Keogh, Jack Lynch: a biography.
Girvin, B.

pp. 166-168
Walsh, Patrick Hillery: the official biography.
Girvin, B.

p. 169
Bryson, No coward soul: a biography of Thekla Beere.
Maguire, M.

p. 170
Mulreany (ed.), Economic development 50 years on: 1958-2008.
Brownlow, G.

p. 171
Hanley & Millar, The lost revolution: the story of the Official IRA and the
Workers' Party.
Rekawek, K.

pp. 172-173
Frampton, The long march: the political strategy of Sinn Fein, 1981-2007.
McDaid, S.

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Subject: Symposium, Wales, Ireland and Popular Fiction, 24 Sept 2010,
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Wales=96Ireland Network: one day symposium on=A0Wales, Ireland and =
Popular
Fiction
24th September 2010
In association with the=A0School of English, Trinity College Dublin.

With the support of=A0the=A0Embassy of Ireland, Great Britain.

A one-day symposium on role and meanings of popular forms of fiction in
Welsh and Irish contexts.=A0

Topics include crime fiction, romance, suburban Gothic, weird fiction,
trickster stories and fiction and popular beliefs.

Location: Room 0.31, Humanities Building, Cardiff University,=A0

Papers by:
Ailise=A0Bulfin (PhD researcher, Trinity College Dublin)
Claire Connolly (Cardiff University)=A0
Darryl Jones (Trinity College Dublin)
Katie Gramich (Cardiff University)
Stephen Knight (Cardiff University)
Bernice Murphy (Trinity College Dublin)
Catherine Phelps (PhD researcher, Cardiff University)=A0=A0
Jessica Webb (PhD researcher, Cardiff University)
Responses from:=A0
Jane Aaron (University of Glamorgan); Anthony Mandal (Cardiff =
University);
Shaun Richards (Staffordshire University)
The day will conclude with a=A0launch=A0of a new edition of Menna =
Gallie=92sYou=92re
Welcome to Ulster=A0(Honno Press), edited by Claire Connolly and Angela
V.John. The book will be launched by First Minister Carwyn Jones AM.=A0

PROGRAMME AVAILABLE ONLINE:
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/research/networks/wales-ireland/symposia.h=
tml

Registration costs =A35 and includes lunch, teas and coffees.=A0

TO REGISTER:=A0please email=A0encap-events2010[at]cardiff.ac.uk

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I received this from another listserv I'm on, and thought it would be of =
interest.

INTERNATIONAL IRISH DIASPORA CONGRESS

Buenos Aires (Argentina) -- From 15th to 19th of June 2011.=20

Official Notification: Presentation of Papers- 1st Call

In June of 2011, the 1st International Irish Diaspora Congress will =
take=20
in the City of Buenos Aires, exactly 90 years after a meeting of a=20
similar nature took place in 1921. The principal objective of next=20
year's Congress is to stimulate cultural exchange and share experiences=20
between Irish Associations and people.

Each participating Institution is asked to give a brief account of=20
current activities and its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and=20
threats. Learning how the Irish Community has integrated into each=20
specific Country-Destination will be of general interest, too.=20
Participating individuals or Associations are invited to present=20
speeches and/or lectures on the topic of cultural diversity of emigrants=20=

and their descendents.

The Department of Irish Culture from the Universidad Nacional de La=20
Plata (UNL) & the Universidad de Ciencias Empresariales y Sociales=20
(UCES) will provide the academic framework for these expositions. The=20
papers submitted for consideration must relate to any one of the=20
following topics:

- The Irish Diaspora
- Literature and the Irish Emigrant (essays, short stories, novels, =
poetry)
- History of Irish Emigration in each country
- Fundraising for Irish Associations (experiences, tips)
- Irish Education abroad
- Irish Dance & Music (experiences)
- Business and Work opportunities for Irish Descendents Abroad

Those who are interested in participating must submit an abstract =
before=20
February 1, 2011, written in English, of no more than 300 words, on any=20
of the aforementioned topics.

The proposals that are deemed adequate (given general interests and the=20
length of the Congress) have until May 15, 2011 to send the paper in=20
full to the Department's inbox.

The Academic Committee will be comprised of people with great knowledge=20
on the subjects to be discussed, including professors from the UNL and=20
the UCES.

For more info: http://www.asociacionirlandesa.com.ar/?lang=3Den or=20
asoargirl[at]yahoo.com.ar=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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In today's Guardian there is an Obituary of Mick Lally by Richard Pine, =
and
an appreciation by Garry Hynes.

Mick Lally obituary
Co-founder of the Druid theatre in Galway, he achieved soap fame as =
Miley
Byrne
Richard Pine
guardian.co.uk
=20
The Irish actor Mick Lally, who has died aged 64, succeeded in =
straddling
the worlds of stage, television and film. In particular, he was a vital
presence in the renaissance of Irish drama in the 1970s and 80s, while
making himself a household name in Radio Telef=EDs =C9ireann's soap =
operas
Bracken and Glenroe.

The eldest of seven children on a 30-acre hill farm in Tourmakeady, =
County
Mayo, in the Gaelic-speaking west of Ireland, Lally, through the =
generosity
of an emigrant uncle, attended St Mary's College in Galway and =
University
College Galway, where he read Irish and history. In extra-curricular =
time,
he acted in the Irish-language college drama society, and won the =
British
and Irish intervarsity boxing championship. He would later comment that
acting, even in ensemble, was not unlike being alone in the ring.

From 1969 Lally taught at a vocational school in Tuam, County Galway,
meanwhile acting at Galway's Irish-language theatre, An Taibhdhearc, =
until
in 1975, with Garry Hynes and Marie Mullen, he founded Druid Theatre
Company, which transformed the way in which Irish and international,
audiences received both classic and contemporary plays...

...Lally's innate strength when impersonating rural characters =96 and =
this
was his singular genius =96 came from the sophistication of his personal
background. Education had heightened his ability to reach into his =
personal
depths and offer his audiences a unique presence...

Fill text at

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2010/sep/09/mick-lally-obituary

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Saturday 16 October, Ulster American Folk Park
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Dear All

Subject: 11th Literature of Irish Exile Autumn School

Eleventh Literature of Irish Exile Autumn School: Saturday 16 October =
2010

If you don=92t already have the date in your diary, we hope you may take =
a
look at what is on offer and consider putting it there now:

http://www.qub.ac.uk/cms/events/LIE_Oct_2010.htm

The day, Saturday 16 October, will have the usual shape of a keynote =
lecture
in the morning in the Library of the Centre for Migration Studies; after
lunch a guided walk in the outdoor museum of the Folk Park; and a =
concluding
lecture and discussion in the Library.

Dr Fred Freeman, our keynote lecturer, is based at Edinburgh University =
and
an expert on Robert Tannahill (1774-1810), the Scottish weaver poet, =
hailed
as a successor to Burns, whose bicentenary is being celebrated this =
year. We
look forward to hearing about Tannahill=92s spirited defence of Irish
immigrant weavers in Scotland.

The focus of the walk in the outdoor museum, growing out of Paddy
Fitzgerald=92s lecture this summer to the William Carleton Summer =
School, will
be, with the help of Folk Park guide Walter McFarlane, on the role of
hedge-schools in preparing migrants.

Sean McCartan, one of our distinguished Irish Migration Studies =
graduates,
received a signal honour this year in being invited to France to speak =
about
his researches on the Irish ancestry of President de Gaulle. We look =
forward
to finding out how he fits into the migration story of the McCartan =
family.=20

We do hope you may be able to join us.

Brian Lambkin
Director

Christine Johnston
Senior Library Asst
Centre for Migration Studies
Ulster American Folk Park
=A0
Tel:=A0 028 8225 6315
Fax:=A0 028 8224 2241
Email:=A0 christine.johnston[at]librariesni.org.uk

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Immigration History
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Tenure track position - York U - Canadian Environmental or Immigration
History


*York University*
*Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies*
*Department of History*
*CANADIAN HISTORY*

The Department of History, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional
Studies, York University invites applications for a tenure-track
position at the rank of Associate or Assistant Professor in the field of
Canadian History to commence July 1, 2011, subject to budgetary
approval. Preference will be given to candidates whose specialization
lies in the area either of Canadian Environmental History or of Canadian
Immigration History.

Required qualifications include a completed PhD in History or
equivalent, and an ongoing program of research in the area of
specialization. Candidates are expected to demonstrate excellence in
teaching and in scholarly research and publication appropriate to their
stage of career. Candidates will be expected to teach a wide range of
courses in Canadian History at all levels and to make a major
contribution to the Graduate Program in History. The successful
candidate should be eligible for prompt appointment to the Faculty of
Graduate Studies.

Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

York University is an Affirmative Action Employer. The Affirmative
Action Program can be found on York's website at www.yorku.ca/acadjobs
or a copy can be obtained by calling the Affirmative Action office at
416-736-5713. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however,
Canadian citizens and Permanent Residents will be given priority.

Applicants should submit a letter of application outlining their
professional experience and research interests, an up-to-date
/curriculum vitae/, a sample of their scholarly work, and a teaching
dossier, and arrange for three confidential letters of recommendation to
be sent no later than *November 15, 2010* to: Professor Jonathan
Edmondson, Chair, Department of History, Faculty of Liberal Arts &
Professional Studies, 2140 Vari Hall, York University, 4700 Keele
Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3.

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John Gray pours it out with 'White Irish Drinkers'
The 'Ghost Whisperer' creator has long wanted to make the
semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama.

By Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times Film Critic
September 15, 2010

Reporting from Toronto - If there was a theme song for "White Irish
Drinkers," writer-director John Gray's emotionally charged coming-of-age
drama premiering Wednesday at the Toronto International Film Festival, it
would probably be "You Can't Always Get What You Want" by the Rolling
Stones. But more about that later.

Over the years, many people said they liked the script and it got Gray work,
yet no one wanted to make the movie. The script gathered dust for a decade
until the digital age brought costs down enough for Gray to shoot the film
on his own dime. The haunting memories of his tough, working-class Brooklyn
childhood in the '70s, on which the film is based, refused to leave him
alone.

While the script languished, Gray's career was doing anything but. He wrote
and directed a string of TV movies, most notably 2004's Emmy-nominated
Manson Family drama, "Helter Skelter," which he adapted from the book by
Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry...

...A few years ago, he pulled "White Irish Drinkers" out of a drawer and
starting rewriting it with the idea of shooting it digitally and cheaply -
scaled back, more intimate.

The semi-autobiographical story is built around the tension between
18-year-old Brian (Nick Thurston), who turns out to have a real talent for
drawing, and his older brother Danny (Geoff Wigdor), who's hard at work on
the thug life. They're both trying to survive not just the streets but also
their Irish Catholic father, a mean drinker played by Stephen Lang, just off
a slightly larger production in "Avatar." Karen Allen ("Raiders of the Lost
Ark") is world-weary as their long-suffering mother, with Peter Riegert
("Crossing Delancey") as Whitey - a mensch who runs a local movie house and
has taken Brian on to help him jumpstart the business.

"I had an easier time of it than Brian, but I wanted to capture the notion
of what it felt like to be different in that neighborhood - that sense of
being the misfit," said Gray, now 52. "It's a personal story I couldn't let
go of."...

Full Text at
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-john-gray-20100915,0,1836261
.story

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Subject: Article, "That Coming Storm": The Irish Poor Law,
Colonial Biopolitics, and the Great Famine
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For those following David Nally's series of articles, this one has popped up
in our alerts.

David Nally's home page is

http://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/nally/

where he confidently lists a forthcoming book...

Nally, D.P. Human Encumbrances: Political Violence and the Great Irish
Famine. Notre Dame: The University of Notre Dame Press (In press, Spring
2011)

P.O'S.

"That Coming Storm": The Irish Poor Law, Colonial Biopolitics, and the Great
Famine
David Nally
Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 1467-8306, Volume 98,
Issue 3, 2008, Pages 714 - 741

Abstract

The potato blight, Phythophthora infestans, was first recorded in Dublin in
August 1845. Over the next five years the Irish potato harvest failed four
times, triggering mass hunger and disease on a magnitude the European
continent had not endured for centuries. During this period, over one
million Irish perished and a further two million fled the land, never to
return. Thus, in a relatively short period, three million people were dead
or gone. The purpose of this article is to situate this story of human
deprivation and suffering within the context of an evolving "colonial
biopolitics" aimed at regenerating Irish society. Although recent writings
demonstrate an interest in the regimes of power that produce famine, there
has been little attempt to connect such arguments to the theory and practice
of colonialism, especially its investments in the liberal goals of
development and social improvement. Building on the perspectives of Michel
Foucault, particularly his discussion of "biopolitics," I argue that the
Great Famine was shaped by a regulatory order willing to exploit catastrophe
to further the aims of population reform. The article draws particular
attention to the development of an Irish Poor Law system, arguing that this
legislative debate exposes the growing perception that agricultural
rationalization, fiscal restructuring, and population clearances were
necessary to "ameliorate" and "improve" Irish society. This twining of
relief and development facilitated dangerous distinctions between productive
and unproductive life and allowed the colonial state to apply its own
sovereign remedy to Irish poverty.

Keywords: biopolitics; colonialism; famine; Ireland; political economy

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There is something of a tradition, or nervous tic, that when we, in =
Irish
Diaspora Studies, discuss exile we must mention Ovid. There seems to be
developing a mirror practice - that when classical scholars discuss Ovid
they must mention the Irish.

Note 7 of Sabine Grebe's article goes...

'7. W. Vortriede, "Vorl=E4ufige Gedanken zu einer Typologie der
Exilliteratur," Akzente 15 (1968) 575. Emigration is sometimes also
connected with a journey into death. For example, when the Irish left
Ireland for North America, in days past, their families and friends =
would
hold a wake the night before for those leaving. The phenomenon of the
"American wake" was based on the myth of the westering son who would =
never
return to his native land. See K. A. Miller, Emigrants and Exiles: =
Ireland
and the Irish Exodus to North America (Oxford and New York, 1985) 489, =
492,
556=9661. I am thankful to Barbara O'Cleirigh for this information.'

Werner Vortriede's taxonomy of exile is much used by German scholars, in
Germany and in the USA, and it has been reprinted, but I cannot recall =
ever
seeing it connected with Irish themes. I have seen the name spelled
Vortriede and Vordriede within one paragraph in a scholarly journal. Is
this the same person who translated Yeats?

P.O'S. =20

Classical World
Volume 103, Number 4, Summer 2010

Why Did Ovid Associate His Exile with a Living Death?
Sabine Grebe
Classical World, Volume 103, Number 4, Summer 2010, pp. 491-509 =
(Article)

Abstract:
When Ovid was banished to Tomis by the Black Sea he considered his exile =
a
living death. He understood his exile as an expulsion from the known =
world
(Rome) to an unknown world (Tomis) on the other side of the boundary of =
what
was familiar and knowable for him. Like death, Tomis, in all its =
exteriority
beyond the boundary of known world, was unknown and unknowable for Ovid. =
I
shall also identify two features of Roman culture which help to explain =
the
association of exile with death: the archaic religious background of =
exile
and the legal history of exile.

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Oscar Wilde love letters discovered

A collection of affectionate letters written by Oscar Wilde to a young =
male
magazine editor have been revealed for the first time.

Penned in his own hand, the revealing letters appear to show the poet
struggling with his homosexuality at a time when it was punishable by
prison.

In one he muses: "This is all wrong isn't it."
=20
In fact eight years after he wrote these letters Wilde began his famous =
two
years in HMP Reading for "gross indecency" with the son of a lord.
The intriguing collection is now expected to fetch =A310,000 or more =
when it
goes to auction later this month.

During his time writing and editing for Society Magazines in London =
Wilde
wrote a series of letters in 1887 to fellow editor Alsager Vian inviting =
him
for 'cigars and Italian wine'

Full text at

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overed.html

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Simon Chadwick's web site is

http://www.earlygaelicharp.info/

There are links to books and cds. The link on the web site to =
information
about this article and the journal, Early Music, also mentions a special
issue...

Ann Buckley (ed.)=20
Early Music of Ireland=20
Early Music Vol 28 No.2, May 2000=20

There are also links to some of the background discursive material used =
in
the article.

See also the web site of
Historical Harp Society of Ireland
http://www.irishharp.org/

Simon Chadwick's article is one of those important pieces of work that
collect together much information and clear the ground. Of special =
interest
to IR-D is his thinking about European connections. But simply it is
helpful that a musician/historian clarifies what it is we are looking at =
-
and listening to.

P.O'S.

The Early Irish Harp
Simon Chadwick
Early Music
Vol. 36, No. 4 (Nov., 2008), pp. 521-531=20
Published by: Oxford University Press

Abstract

The early Irish harp, or early cl=E1rsach, Ireland's national symbol and =
also
its beer logo, is one of the most recognized of all musical instruments, =
yet
it is almost never heard and as is rarely studied by musicologists and
scholars; it is eleven years since this journal last published an =
article
dealing with the subject. This article summarizes the current state of
knowledge regarding the early Irish harp. It starts by explaining the
distinction between the early Irish harp, which died out 200 years ago, =
and
its 19th-century Romantic replacement, the neo-Irish harp commonly =
played
today. The extant historical Irish harps are surveyed, some illustrated =
with
colour photographs of the instruments, some published here for the first
time. Their construction, usually from only three pieces of timber, is
described; stringing principles are discussed with both historical data =
and
recent practical experiments, and the tuning schemes noted by Edward =
Bunting
from the last of the old harpers is explained. Historical playing =
techniques
are described, and some characteristic elements of the repertory are
highlighted. The conclusion briefly indicates the nature of the modern
revival.

EXTRACT

'...Firstly, it is useful to differentiate clearly between the early =
Irish
harp and the neo-Irish harp. The latter was invented by John Egan in the
early decades of the 19th century, and was rediscovered in the last =
decades
of that century when the Gaelic revival demanded Romantic harps to =
accompany
Gaelic singing in the parlours of Dublin and Edinburgh. Its ancestor is =
not
the early Irish harp at all, but the orchestral pedal harp; John Egan =
was a
pedal-harp maker, and his =91newly invented=92 =91Portable Irish harp=92 =
was
equipped with the orchestral harp=92s gut strings and mechanical
semitone-fretting mechanisms, so that classically trained polite
aristocratic ladies could easily play it.5

The early Irish harp, on the other hand, after a long decline, died out
during the 19th century. The last of the indigenous players died in the
years after 1800; students, from the charitable schools that were set up =
in
a vain attempt to preserve the tradition, survived until the last decade =
of
the 19th century, leaving no further students of their own.6...'

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Just to remind everyone, and inform new members of Ir-D. The Sage journls
web site is offering free access to all journals until October 15.
This is a Sage journal.

Tom Inglis visits Ballivor and meditates on globalisation.

He also engages with classics of sociology, like Whyte and Willis. Fun.

P.O'S.

Sociological Forensics: Illuminating the Whole from the Particular
Tom Inglis
University College Dublin, Tom.Inglis[at]ucd.ie
Abstract

A central task in sociology is to make links between the micro world of
events in everyday life and wider social structures and long-term processes
of change. This is particularly evident in studying the impact of
globalization on local cultural life. I argue that case studies are a good
method for making connections between the micro and the macro. I use an
example of a study of globalization I conducted in a village in Ireland.
However, I also argue that within each case study there will be clues,
episodes or events which, when analysed with the appropriate theories and
concepts, will illuminate the micro and macro connections. This is what I
mean by sociological forensics. I justify this approach by grounding it in
sociological theory and pointing out how versions of it have been used in
some classical case studies.

Sociology June 2010 vol. 44 no. 3 507-522

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From a SAGE journal...

Ned Kelly, Armoured icon

Bruce Tranter
University of Tasmania, Bruce.Tranter[at]utas.edu.au
Jed Donoghue
University of Tasmania, jedonogh[at]postoffice.utas.edu.au
Abstract

Myths associated with outlaws or 'social bandits' are important elements of
national identity in many countries. Long after his death the outlaw Ned
Kelly lives on in Australian culture through various media, ensuring his
enduring symbolic importance for national identity. National survey data
indicates Kelly's salience for a majority of Australians, although attitudes
regarding his status as hero or villain vary considerably. Younger,
left-leaning, working-class Australians and consumers of popular culture
view Kelly as important, while tertiary-educated, political conservatives
tend to downplay his significance. Perceptions of Kelly's character also
influence attitudes regarding his national significance. The lack of
foundation heroes in a nation built not only by free settlers but also by
English convicts and Irish rebels goes some way to explaining why a
19th-century outlaw is one of the few historical figures recognized by a
majority of Australians.

Published online before print April 8, 2010, doi: 10.1177/1440783309355063

Journal of Sociology June 2010 vol. 46 no. 2 187-205

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A SAGE journal...

This article places itself firmly within a certain strand of anthropological
theory - in this case the anthropology of ethics - and so finds its place
within a journal called Anthropological Theory.

It will interest many Ir-D in its exploration of changing attitudes to
unmarried motherhood in contemporary Ireland, and the decisions individuals
and families have made.

P.O'S.

'You aren't the first and you won't be the last'
Reflections on moral change in contemporary rural Ireland
China Scherz
Reed College, USA, china.rose.scherz[at]gmail.com

Abstract

During the last decades of the 20th century, notions of morality related to
sexuality and family life underwent a dramatic transition in Ireland. In
this paper, I explore changing attitudes towards a rapidly growing
population of unmarried mothers in a small community in rural Ireland. In my
analysis, I draw upon recent work on the anthropology of ethics, morality,
and cultural change to analyze the ways in which individual experiences of
ethical conflict and transformation relate to aggregate processes of
cultural change. My analysis of one woman's account of her own moral
epiphany speaks to the limits of conceptualizing ethico-moral change as a
necessarily conscious or cognitive process.

doi: 10.1177/1463499610372181
Anthropological Theory September 2010 vol. 10 no. 3 303-318

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Forwarded on behalf of Vic Merriman (merrimv[at]hope.ac.uk)

This is to announce the publication of Part II of a Special Issue of Kritika
Kultura on Radical Theatre and Ireland,
At

http://150.ateneo.edu/kritikakultura/

Part I (three essays) was published in February 2010, in Kritika Kultura 14,
and the current publication, which includes seven
essays, completes the special issue.

Contributors include Victor Merriman, as guest editor, Jim Moran, Tim
Prentki (Kritika Kultura 14), Tom Maguire, Bill McDonnell &
Joe Reid, Terry Phillips, Elaine Sisson, Mark Phelan and Lionel Pilkington.

I hope colleagues find the contents of interest.

Vic Merriman

Kritika Kultura
Issue No. 14
FEBRUARY 2010 (Special Issue)

FORUM KRITIKA: RADICAL THEATRE AND IRELAND (PART 1)
Guest Editor: Victor Merriman

Victor Merriman convened "Radical Theatre and Ireland: A Colloquium" on
February 6-7, 2009 at Liverpool Hope University. The project to publish the
proceedings of the colloquium in Kritika Kultura is suggested by David
Lloyd, Visiting Professor at Hope and member of the Kritika Kultura
International Advisory Board.

"Not Always, But Often": Introduction to a Special Issue on Radical Theatre
and Ireland
Victor Merriman

"He Calls His Dada Still": Nineteenth Century English Radicalism and the
Drama of Padraic Pearse
James Moran

Socialist Shenanigans and Emerald Epiphanies: The Case of Margaretta D'Arcy
and John Arden
Tim Prentki


Kritika Kultura
Issue No. 15
AUGUST 2010 (Special Issue)

FORUM KRITIKA: RADICAL THEATRE AND IRELAND (PART 2)
Guest Editor: Victor Merriman

"Willing to Do Public Work":
Introduction to a Special Issue on Radical Theatre and Ireland (Part 2)
Victor Merriman

Radical Remembering: Contaminating Memory in the Works of Martin Lynch
Tom Maguire

"To Speak Your Truth": Dialogues on Political Theatre and the Troubles
Bill McDonnell and Joe Reid

Sean O'Casey and Radical Theatre
Terry Phillips

"A Note on What Happened": Experimental Influences on the Irish Stage,
1919-1929
Elaine Sisson

The Advent of Modern Irish Drama and the Abjection of Peasant Culture:
Folklore, Fairs and Faction Fighting
Mark Phelan

"At a Loss for Words": Theatre, Performance and the Northern Ireland Prison
Protests
Lionel Pilkington

NOTE
from
http://150.ateneo.edu/kritikakultura/
Click on
E-Journal
To see earlier issues of the journal

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Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World by
Doug Saunders

Instead of fearing overcrowded cities, we should embrace their diversity. By
Fred Pearce
The Guardian, Saturday 18 September 2010

Humanity, that most adaptable of species, is on the march. The
hunter-gatherers who became farmers are now halfway down the road from being
agriculturalists to urbanites. Arrival City brilliantly captures the
breakneck pace of this "great migration", as the peasants of the poor world
relocate to their own megacities - and ours. And it brings profoundly good
news from the mean streets. These migrants move in hope from field to
favela. Their new urban streets may not be paved with gold, but at least
they are sometimes paved. They offer opportunity. And while disaster may
await, life in the city is usually better, more healthy, more interesting
and with a better chance of advancement. We should welcome the newcomers.

Doug Saunders, a Canadian journalist skilled in both colourful reportage and
sustaining a good argument, provides a badly needed progressive and
optimistic narrative about our future...

...This may be the best popular book on cities since Jane Jacobs's The Death
and Life of Great American Cities half a century ago. Certainly, it shares
the same optimism about human aspiration amid overcrowded buildings and
unplanned urban jungles, and the same plea for planners to help rather than
stifle those dreams.

To that end, Saunders sees "high-intensity" living - overcrowding, in the
words of most planners - as a key to success in arrival cities. It
encourages the cheap housing, business start-ups, social networking and
sheer spontaneity that are key to taking the next step up...

...To those who see urban migrants as totems of soaring world population, he
says cities are the places where rural peasants, accustomed to raising large
families to work in the fields, learn the virtues of having fewer kids and
getting them educated. Arrival cities are actually where the world's
population stops growing...

Full text at

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/sep/18/arrival-city-migration-doug-saun
ders

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Associate Dean (Research & Enterprise)
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Telephone: 00 44 (0)1484-472691 (Work)
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On 19 Sep 2010, at 10:27, "Patrick O'Sullivan" =
wrote:

> Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World=
by
> Doug Saunders
>
> Instead of fearing overcrowded cities, we should embrace their diversity.=
By
> Fred Pearce
> The Guardian, Saturday 18 September 2010
>
> Humanity, that most adaptable of species, is on the march. The
> hunter-gatherers who became farmers are now halfway down the road from be=
ing
> agriculturalists to urbanites. Arrival City brilliantly captures the
> breakneck pace of this "great migration", as the peasants of the poor wor=
ld
> relocate to their own megacities - and ours. And it brings profoundly goo=
d
> news from the mean streets. These migrants move in hope from field to
> favela. Their new urban streets may not be paved with gold, but at least
> they are sometimes paved. They offer opportunity. And while disaster may
> await, life in the city is usually better, more healthy, more interesting
> and with a better chance of advancement. We should welcome the newcomers.
>
> Doug Saunders, a Canadian journalist skilled in both colourful reportage =
and
> sustaining a good argument, provides a badly needed progressive and
> optimistic narrative about our future...
>
> ...This may be the best popular book on cities since Jane Jacobs's The De=
ath
> and Life of Great American Cities half a century ago. Certainly, it share=
s
> the same optimism about human aspiration amid overcrowded buildings and
> unplanned urban jungles, and the same plea for planners to help rather th=
an
> stifle those dreams.
>
> To that end, Saunders sees "high-intensity" living - overcrowding, in the
> words of most planners - as a key to success in arrival cities. It
> encourages the cheap housing, business start-ups, social networking and
> sheer spontaneity that are key to taking the next step up...
>
> ...To those who see urban migrants as totems of soaring world population,=
he
> says cities are the places where rural peasants, accustomed to raising la=
rge
> families to work in the fields, learn the virtues of having fewer kids an=
d
> getting them educated. Arrival cities are actually where the world's
> population stops growing...
>
> Full text at
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/sep/18/arrival-city-migration-doug-s=
aun
> ders


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Editorial in today's Guardian.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/sep/21/in-praise-of-gaelic-sports

On Sunday about 80,000 football fans gathered in Dublin's Croke Park
to watch Cork defeat Down. There was no segregation of supporters, no
need for stewards in high-visibility jackets or even police officers.
It's a sport without agents or stars driving Ferraris. Moreover, 85
cents out of every euro that the devotees put into the game is
reinvested in grassroots clubs. Football is supposed to be the
people's game in the UK. But the real "people's sports" are those
across the Irish Sea. The Gaelic sports of hurling and Gaelic football
represent a real link between people, players and the governing
association. Although Gaelic football attracts tens of thousands to
its national championship, the players who turn out for Down, Cork and
the other 30 counties of Ireland do so on a voluntary basis. A few
have formed the Gaelic Players Association in an effort to extract
more payments. But the GPA has generally been unsuccessful in creating
a professional wage structure. Some stars earn money advertising
everything from milk to fertiliser, but the overwhelming majority will
turn up for training after a day at the factory or working on the
farm. The Gaelic Athletic Association has had many proud achievements
of late: the construction of Croke Park stadium, the end of its ban on
members of the security forces playing its sports in Northern Ireland,
and the generous decision to allow Ireland's national rugby and soccer
teams to use its HQ as a temporary home. But the most notable is the
survival of its amateur status. Long may it continue.

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The problems of "great" and other qualifying adjectives... A review in one =
of the latest issues of The New Yorker comments on "what historians call th=
e Great Migration [of African Americans from south to north], which can be =
confusing, because historians also talk about the Great Migration of Purita=
ns who left England between 1630 and 1641. There's is great and then there'=
s great. The seventeenth-century migration to New England - twenty thousand=
people - was great because the Puritans thought it was great. ... The twen=
tieth-century migration from the Cotton Belt was great in numbers, but whet=
her it was great for the people who made it was something to wonder about. =
... 1.3 million between 1920 and 1930." (Jill Lepore "The Uprooted" review=
of Isabel Wilkerson "The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's=
Great Migration", The New Yorker September 6, 2010 p. 76).

Edmundo Murray

On 9/20/10 10:44 AM, "Jim McAuley" wrote:

Professor James W. McAuley
Associate Dean (Research & Enterprise)
School of Human & Health Sciences
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On 19 Sep 2010, at 10:27, "Patrick O'Sullivan" =
wrote:

> Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World=
by
> Doug Saunders
>
> Instead of fearing overcrowded cities, we should embrace their diversity.=
By
> Fred Pearce
> The Guardian, Saturday 18 September 2010
>
> Humanity, that most adaptable of species, is on the march. The
> hunter-gatherers who became farmers are now halfway down the road from be=
ing
> agriculturalists to urbanites. Arrival City brilliantly captures the
> breakneck pace of this "great migration", as the peasants of the poor wor=
ld
> relocate to their own megacities - and ours. And it brings profoundly goo=
d
> news from the mean streets. These migrants move in hope from field to
> favela. Their new urban streets may not be paved with gold, but at least
> they are sometimes paved. They offer opportunity. And while disaster may
> await, life in the city is usually better, more healthy, more interesting
> and with a better chance of advancement. We should welcome the newcomers.
>
> Doug Saunders, a Canadian journalist skilled in both colourful reportage =
and
> sustaining a good argument, provides a badly needed progressive and
> optimistic narrative about our future...
>
> ...This may be the best popular book on cities since Jane Jacobs's The De=
ath
> and Life of Great American Cities half a century ago. Certainly, it share=
s
> the same optimism about human aspiration amid overcrowded buildings and
> unplanned urban jungles, and the same plea for planners to help rather th=
an
> stifle those dreams.
>
> To that end, Saunders sees "high-intensity" living - overcrowding, in the
> words of most planners - as a key to success in arrival cities. It
> encourages the cheap housing, business start-ups, social networking and
> sheer spontaneity that are key to taking the next step up...
>
> ...To those who see urban migrants as totems of soaring world population,=
he
> says cities are the places where rural peasants, accustomed to raising la=
rge
> families to work in the fields, learn the virtues of having fewer kids an=
d
> getting them educated. Arrival cities are actually where the world's
> population stops growing...
>
> Full text at
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/sep/18/arrival-city-migration-doug-s=
aun
> ders


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