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Net emigration at highest since 1989

Ireland has seen the highest level of net outward migration since 1989, data
released today by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) has shown.

While emigration from Ireland in the 12 months to last April remained
steady, the number of immigrants into Ireland fell sharply over the same
period.

Some 65,300 people emigrated in the year to April, while the number of
immigrants into Ireland declined from 57,300 to 30,800 over the same time
period.

These combined changes have resulted in an increase in net outward migration
from 7,800 in April 2009 to 34,500 this year.

At 42 per cent, Irish nationals were the largest group to emigrate. The
number of Irish people leaving increased significantly from 18,400 in April
2009 to 27,700 this year.

Over the same period, emigration of non-Irish nationals fell from 46,800 to
37,600.

The CSO said there were 2.15 million people in the labour force, down 50,000
in the year because of changes in the number of people of working age and
migration.

The estimated number of non-Irish nationals in the labour force also dropped
to 276,500, a decrease of 48,900.

SOURCE
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0921/breaking52.html

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James Graham-Campbell, Michael Ryan, eds. Anglo-Saxon/Irish
Relations before the Vikings. Oxford Oxford University Press, 2009.
xx + 462 pp. $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-726450-8.

Reviewed by Benjamin Hudson (Pennsylvania State University)
Published on H-Albion (September, 2010)
Commissioned by Margaret McGlynn

The Anglo-Saxon and the Irishman

Ever since the Venerable Bede wrote warmly of the Irish in his
_Ecclesiastical History _(c. 731),_ _scholars have been interested in
relations between the peoples of Ireland and Britain. Bede emphasized =
the
role of Irish missionaries in the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to
Christianity and their subsequent intellectual contribution. Not
surprisingly, scholarly studies of early Anglo-Irish contacts have =
followed
along the lines laid down by Bede. Historians and literary critics have
emphasized political or intellectual issues, particularly the Irish
contribution to devotional and judicial literature, while art historians
have been concerned more with stylistic borrowings and interpretation. =
Their
research has been aided by the contribution of the archaeologists who =
have
produced material remains from some likely and unlikely places. This
scholarly interest has been continued with _Anglo-Saxon/Irish Relations
before the Vikings_. The papers in this volume (with one exception) were
presented at a joint meeting of the British Academy and the Royal Irish
Academy in October 2005. The eighteen papers are divided into two =
sections:
history, law, language, and literature in the first part; and art =
history
and material cultural in the second, with a concluding addendum.

While the chronological range of the papers theoretically could extend =
from
the fifth century (or even the fourth century if one wanted to make an
argument for direct cooperation during the Pictish Revolt) to the late
eighth century, the bulk of the discussion is concentrated on the period
from the mid-seventh to mid-eighth century. Reasons for the popularity =
of
this period are not hard to find, and they speak volumes about the herd
instincts of scholars. On the one hand, Anglo-Saxon researchers have the
comforting figure of the Venerable Bede to provide guidance. His work so
dominates the academic horizon that several historical documents in
translation are gathered in a popular book with the title _The Age of =
Bede
_(1998). Irish scholars, on the other hand, have the comparative =
plethora of
Irish legal and devotional tracts from this era, which underline the =
western
island's influence on its eastern neighbor. The borrowing is visible in
works such as Bede's _De natura rerum_, influenced_ _by the Irish =
scholar
known as Pseudo-Augustine, or the Irish presence in art that persisted =
for
decades after the Synod of Whitby oriented the Northumbrian church =
towards
the continent. The so-called Golden Age of Northumbria would not have =
been
so bright without an Irish influence at even the most basic intellectual
level, as Patrick O'Neill demonstrates in his investigation of =
orthography
in "The Irish Role in the Origins of the Old English Alphabet: A
Re-assessment."

Ecclesiastical contact provided the arena for a trade in ideas within =
the
framework of a shared belief between the Irish and Anglo-Saxons. =
Evidence
from the scriptorium is discussed in Roy Flechner's "An Insular =
Tradition of
Ecclesiastical Law: Fifth to Eight Century" and Diarmuid Scully's =
"Bede's
_Chronica Maiora_: Early Insular History in a Universal Context." While
those intellectual contacts are properly emphasized in this volume, they
were important because the Irish and Anglo-Saxons were not that =
dissimilar
in their basic organization, thus sharing many of the same problems and
concerns. Because they did not have the pleasure of occupation by the =
Roman
Empire, neither the Irish nor the Anglo-Saxons had been forced to accept =
the
social structures of the Mediterranean area that accompanied the =
northward
expansion of Rome. Among both peoples, the inhabitants lived in kingdoms =
of
small farmers who dwelt in farmsteads or scattered villages. When they
converted to Christianity, the urban framework of their new faith gave =
them
the task of integrating the physical structures of belief--the church
building and its appendices--into their landscape, a point discussed by
Tom=E1s =D3 Carrag=E1in in "Cemetery Settlements and Local Churches in =
Pre-Viking
Ireland in Light of Comparisons with England and Wales." Another =
physical
aspect was the practical arrangements for contact or the pathways used =
by
people in order to come into contact with each other. Fiona Edmonds's =
"The
Practicalities of Communication between Northumbrian and Irish Churches,
_c_. 635-735" is an important blending of geography and history that =
offers
a fresh appraisal, with a concentration on the sadly neglected areas of
Cumberland and Westmoreland.

Contacts between the Irish and the Anglo-Saxons were varied enough to
include both trade and immigration. Not all the metalwork was =
necessarily
destined for religious houses, any more than one royal court was the =
sole
buyer of secular pieces, as is demonstrated in Raghnall =D3 Floinn's =
"The
Anglo-Saxon Connection: Irish Metalwork, AD 400-800." The familiarity
brought about by these ties led to interesting results. When Colm=E1n, =
the
unsuccessful Irish advocate at the Synod of Whitby, and his mixed Irish =
and
Anglo-Saxon community left Britain, it is instructive that they =
initially
settled in a place that was almost as far as they could go, on an island =
off
the west coast of Ireland, before the Anglo-Saxons were resettled at =
Mayo.
The subsequent legend is investigated by M=E1ire N=ED Mhaonaigh in "Of =
Saxons, a
Viking and Normans: Colm=E1n, Gerald and the Monastery of Mayo." The =
variety
of these associations helps to explain why the Irish are still found in
Anglo-Saxon kingdoms after the Synod of Whitby. Irish clergy remained =
among
the Anglo-Saxons for centuries, yet not everyone shared Bede's =
benevolent
attitude. While opposition might be tied to intellectual orientation, as
Jennifer O'Reilly argues in "'All that Peter Stands For': The =
_Romanitas_ of
the _Codex Amiatinus_ Reconsidered," the possibility of pique at =
competition
could also be part of it. In 816, the Council of Chelsea's strictures
against _Scoti _administering the sacraments shows that the Irish were
numerous and influential enough to attract the attentions of a major
ecclesiastical meeting (to be fair, a similar statement had been issued =
a
few years earlier at the Council of Chalon-sur-Sa=F4ne). In the ninth =
century
there were Irish pilgrims who insisted on visiting King Alfred and
afterwards, in the tenth century, Irish scholars educated St. Dunstan at
Glastonbury.

As in any collection of studies, there are some variations in theme. =
Several
of the essays are not about relations between the Irish and the =
Anglo-Saxons
as such; rather they are about traces of their separate activities in =
areas
such as Wales or the Isle of Man. Some of the studies claim that they =
are
merely a review of past work, which is a tribute to former scholarship, =
but
curious in a volume produced by internationally known scholars under the
auspices of two of the world's leading scholarly bodies. Other than =
Eogan
Wamers's essay "Behind Animals, Plants and Interlace: Salin's Style II =
on
Christian Objects," there is little evidence that the contributors are =
aware
of scholarship outside the English-speaking world. This is unfortunate =
as
some of the essays on sculpture, for example, would have benefitted from =
the
studies on dating monuments and identifying individual carvers carried =
out
in Sweden by Henry Freij and Laila Kitzler =C5hfeldt, while researches =
of
Scandinavian and German archaeologists on the physical aspects of trade
exchanges have led to the development of some innovative methodologies =
in
connection with the contacts between different groups of peoples. An
additional aspect of Irish and Anglo-Saxon contact omitted from this =
volume
(no doubt for the sake of good fellowship) is the warfare that =
accompanied
the expansion of the Irish and Anglo-Saxon colonists. Both peoples were
successful predators, so it is not surprising to find that they were
warrior-oriented communities. Their hunting grounds occasionally =
overlapped,
as in the clash between =C1edan mac Gabr=E1in of D=E1l Riata and =
AEthelfrith of
Northumbria at the battle of _Degsastan_, when Irish and Anglo-Saxon
expansion collided. They were also united in their continuation of the
ideals of pagan virtues that continued after their conversion to
Christianity. The similarities between the Irish C=FA Chulainn and the
Germanic Beowulf have been noted by scholars, especially James Carney.

The contributions to _Anglo-Saxon/Irish Relations before the Vikings_ =
are
informative and provided with numerous and helpful illustrations. These
essays demonstrate how much has been accomplished in early Irish and
Anglo-Saxon studies and offer directions for future investigations.

Citation: Benjamin Hudson. Review of Graham-Campbell, James; Ryan, =
Michael,
eds., _Anglo-Saxon/Irish Relations before the Vikings_. H-Albion, H-Net
Reviews. September, 2010. URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=3D29801

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons =
Attribution-Noncommercial-No
Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

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migration and diaspora reconsidered,
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'Kindcaid' below should of course be Kincaid. These kinds of errors are
often caused by Autocorrect, making one last stab at incoherence.

The chapter is Andrew Kincaid
WHAT THEY LEFT BEHIND The Irish Landscape after Emigration

Publisher web site
http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/Aftermaths.html

There are sections of this book on Google Books.

P.O'S.


To cite this Article: Douillet, Catherine M. 'Aftermaths: exile, migration
and diaspora reconsidered', Social Identities, 16:5, 705 - 709

Aftermaths: exile, migration and diaspora reconsidered, edited by Marcus
Bullock and Peter Y. Paik, Piscataway, Rutgers University Press, 2008, 256
pp., $24.95 (paperback), ISBN 0-813-54406-8


The 10 inter-disciplinary essays of Aftermaths: Exile, Migration and
Diaspora Reconsidered investigate various instances of collective or
individual displacements in multiple geographic locations, including
Ireland, Australia, Albania, and several Caribbean nations. In the
introduction, Peter Y. Paik argues that, with increasing population
movements and socio-cultural convergences in an era of global economic and
technological interconnectedness, a reconsideration of theoretical models of
globalization is necessary. He asserts that scholars and intellectuals tend
to look at increasing global convergences and permeability of boundaries
very positively: some, he argues, believe that an increasing capitalist
economy will serve to promote the political values of democracy that are
considered necessary to the creation of wealth. According to such a view,
the expansion of global commercial relations and prosperity would ease
political tensions and violences. Others, he continues, celebrate the
cosmopolitan values and hybrid identities, away from past ethnic, religious
and cultural boundaries, that the global age is held to foster. However,
Paik contends that, in light of the attacks on the United States on
September 11, 2001, we need to reconsider such optimistic prophesies. Such
attacks confront us with the fact that the consequences of a new global era
are more complex and uncertain than optimistic theorists of globalization
want to believe, particularly as globalization might exacerbate rather than
improve cultural and religious antagonisms. Hence, Paik declares that we
must reconsider overly optimistic intellectual models of globalization and
craft more refined theoretical tools. He thereby principally introduces the
book as a necessary break away from the too hopeful past views on
globalization.

Yet, while one can agree that diaspora and migration studies scholars tend
to seek out progressive and counter-hegemonic political subjects and hope
for, as Aihwa Ong (1999) puts it, 'great liberatory potential', the notion
that processes of globalization are complex and often negative are far from
new both in academic and non-academic circles (see, for example, Inda &
Rosaldo, 2002; Stigliz, 2002). While many of the essays do 'pay attention to
the exception or excluded term' (p. 3) as Paik mentions, the book does not
truly 'unsettle existing theoretical paradigms' (p. 3) as Paik claims.
However, the book does offer an original pluri-disciplinary dimension, with
essays in anthropology, sociology, political science, philosophy,
literature, and cultural studies. Such a pluri-disciplinary approach bridges
academic fields and provides provocative reflections on the interweaving of
varied trans-national socio-cultural practices. Its well-written essays are
grounded in cogent socio-cultural and literary analyses as well as, in the
case of Paul Brodwin's chapter, rich ethnographic data.

While many of the essays focus on artistic productions (mostly films and
literature), the interests of the authors vary greatly from, for example, an
investigation of the ways in which state politics of land and border shape
literary criticism in Ireland and Northern Ireland (Conor McCarthy's essay)
to a comparison between the philosophies associated with global movements in
Late Antiquity and in the contemporary world (Stefan Rossbach's article) and
an evaluation of how the popular film Bend It Like Beckham intimates new
gendered and sexual identities for Indian women immigrants that break away
from past representations (K. Supriya's essay). Such a wide-ranging
amalgamation of varied foci is at times surprising and therefore
thought-provoking. The plurality of interests and voices is also evidenced
by the volume's international team of authors: although most of the
contributors teach at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, many of them
are active scholars outside the United States (Rossbach is based in England,
McCarthy in Ireland) or are foreign-born (for example, Helen Fehervary is
originally from Budapest and is a professor of German in the US while Ihab
Hassan is from Egypt). Furthermore, the juxtaposition of 'conventional'
academic research essays with some personal narratives (Fehervary's and
Hassan's contributions) is also unexpected and, because of this
unexpectedness, innovative. Also worthy of note is the sort of
correspondence that is present throughout the book between a critique of
academic boundary-making (particularly in the essays by McCarthy, Ricardo
Ortiz, Fehervary) and an analysis of the implications of borders between
nations (particularly in the contributions by Fehervary, Andrew Kindcaid,
Brodwin, Ortiz, Zoran Samardzija, and Hassan)...

...Kindcaid's essay also focuses on the relations between notions of land
and diaspora. More specifically, Kindcaid explores various examples of the
ways in which historical changes in the conceptualizations of migration and
diaspora have left an imprint on Ireland's natural landscape and its
architectural and urban planning. He looks at the rhetorics and politics of
the tourist and golf industries and examines, for example, how the
refurbishment of the Temple Bar neighborhood in Dublin signals a shift from
past conceptualizations of Irish migrants as poor and desperate seekers of a
better life elsewhere to current reevaluations of Ireland as a vibrant,
cosmopolitan nation where thriving, well-travelled Irish migrants and
professionals can return and work successfully. Overall, Kindcaid's reading
of the Irish space for an investigation of how ideological bricolage in the
realms of ideas can shape the physical landscape is at the cutting edge of
interdisciplinary scholarship and is therefore particularly interesting...

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Forwarded on behalf of
Ray Cashman, Ohio State University, cashman.10[at]osu.edu


Dear Friends of Folklore,

Apologies for multiple postings. As you may know, Henry Glassie =20
retired from Indiana University after forty-one years of teaching, =20
mentoring, and leadership in the field of folklore. Henry=92s folklore =20
career continues, even as his classroom teaching has drawn to an end.

In honor of this occasion, a group of Henry=92s former students and =20
colleagues gathered to create a volume of essays. We are soliciting =20
funds to support the publication by selling advance copies. The =20
book, entitled The Individual and Tradition, honors Henry=92s =20
remarkable contributions to the field of folklore by examining the =20
role of the individual in tradition=97telling narratives, writing =20
stories, singing songs, playing music, throwing pots, carving decoys, =20
etc. This book does not follow the standard pattern of a festschrift =20
but rather tackles a specific issue as a coherent contribution to the =20
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This 350-page volume includes essays by: Ilhan Basg=F6z, Richard =20
Bauman, John Burrison, Ray Cashman, Bob Cochran, Karen Duffy, Michael =20
Evans, Bill Hansen, Gregory Hansen, Lee Haring, Mark Hewitt, Maggie =20
Holtzberg, Marjorie Hunt, George Jevremovic, Greg Kelley, John =20
Laudun, John McDowell, Tom Mould, Elliott Oring, Philip Peek, =20
Jennifer Schacker, Pravina Shukla, Takashi Takahara, John Vlach, =20
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The book will be published by the Special Publications of the =20
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=D3scar Recio Morales. Ireland and the Spanish Empire, 1600-1815.
International Studies in Irish History Series. Dublin Four Courts
Press, 2009. 344 pp. $74.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-84682-183-7.

Reviewed by Thomas O'Connor (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
Published on H-Albion (September, 2010)
Commissioned by Brendan Kane

The Irish in the Spanish Empire

=D3scar Recio Morales's _Ireland and the Spanish Empire _opens with a=20
broad-ranging historiographical chapter whose main aim, and virtue, is =
the=20
robust affirmation that Spain, even at the height of its early=20
seventeenth-century engagement with Ireland, at least tacitly accepted =
two=20
fundamental realities: Ireland's inclusion in the English sphere and the =

imperative of achieving and maintaining free trade. Any apparent =
ambiguity=20
in regard to either was strategic, even before 1627. In explanation, the =

author ponders the (non-Spanish) use of the term "empire" to describe =
the=20
early modern _monarqu=EDa_; he then outlines the concept of=20
"non-territorial interest," which he proceeds to apply aptly to Spain's=20
Irish policy, including the 1603 Kinsale expedition, which, as he sees =
it,=20
had as much Dutch as Ulster Irish motivation. These affirmations and=20
conceptual salvos are supported by copious archival evidence as well as =
a=20
fascinating overview of Ireland in the Spanish imagination in chapter 1. =

The latter is beautifully calibrated to include not only Francoist=20
fantasies of Hugh O'Neill as the _caudillo_ of an early modern=20
_alzamiento_ but also the highly selective use of Irish history by=20
Galician, Basque, and Catalan nationalists. Morales emerges from this=20
complex interpretational whirlwind to insist that Spain's self interest=20
never faltered. He hammers his point home with what is the conceptual=20
foundation of the book and its most significant historiographical=20
contribution: what differentiated Spanish-Irish relations over time was=20
neither Spanish policy nor Irish special pleading but rather Irish=20
activism in Spain and its overseas possessions.

To a great extent then this book is the story of Irish activism in the=20
Spanish world, understood in terms of clientship and _correspondencia_=20
(mutual support and joint responsibility) and with particular reference =
to=20
its military and mercantile dimensions. The decision to concentrate on =
the=20
activities of the Irish in the Spanish sphere is justifiable, but =
Morales=20
could have incorporated more conceptual argument especially here in the=20
key first chapter, which sets the agenda not only for the rest of the =
book=20
but also, one hopes, for future work in this field. Further, it could be =

said that the concentration on Irish activism in the Spanish sphere,=20
however justified, jars somewhat with the rather more old-fashioned =
title=20
of the book, a title that invites one to return to the traditional and=20
still important questions regarding Habsburg motivation and Spanish=20
influence on Irish =E9migr=E9 elites. An important contemporary =
dimension of=20
the latter is M=EDche=E1l Mac Craith's and Nollaig =D3 Muraile's current =

discussion of the intellectual debt owed by the originators of the=20
_n=E1isi=FAn =C9ireannach_ (Irish nation) to the exponents of the =
_naci=F3n=20
espa=F1ola_. That the author himself is perhaps not entirely convinced =
by=20
the methodological shift from traditional high politics to the=20
Annales-inspired examination of military, commercial, and political=20
activism is hinted at on page 22 where he claims that the defense of=20
Catholicism was actually Spain's primary motivation for engagement with=20
Ireland and the Irish. This is a perfectly tenable but rather =
conservative=20
position which sits a little strangely at this particular stage in the=20
argument. Does the fact that the rest of the book largely overlooks =
Irish=20
religious activism in the Spanish sphere (the colleges, military=20
chaplaincies, vagrant clergy, personal piety, etc. are given short =
shrift)=20
and ignores Spanish-supported religious activism in Ireland betray a=20
certain conceptual timidity? While there is no doubt that work has =
already=20
been done in this field, some of the best of it by the author himself, =
and=20
although one understands that he cannot do everything and must respect=20
division of labor protocols with fellow researchers in the area, a=20
treatment of the question of religious activism and its integration with =

its military and commercial bedfellows, at least conceptually and=20
historiographically, would not have been out of place in this key first=20
chapter.

In the remaining chapters, the author displays a staggeringly detailed=20
knowledge of the vast archival base on which historians of the Irish in=20
Spain can draw. While he uses the archives in Simancas and the Archivo=20
Hist=F3rico Nacional extensively, he has also delved into numerous=20
provincial and municipal archives, especially in C=E1diz, bringing =
swathes=20
of new notarial material to light. Nor has he been remiss with regard to =

overseas repositories. Altogether these permit a detailed examination of =

some of the minutiae of Irish activism, which is dense enough to permit=20
generalization. This is particularly the case with regard to the Irish=20
regiments (whose longish presentation on pages 127 to 166 disrupts an=20
already established and comforting narrative structure). It also=20
facilitates a look at changing Spanish attitudes to the Irish as they=20
ascended to real power in the state on the coattails of Richard Wall. =
The=20
author is enlightening on Irish lobbying throughout the period but=20
especially in the seventeenth century with petitioners stressing, ad=20
nauseam, their service to Spain, their alleged Spanish descent, and, of=20
course, their Catholicism. The eagerness of the Irish to buy into the=20
_limpieza de sangre_ (purity of blood) mentality, one used so =
effectively=20
to exclude many from Spanish society and institutions, is an object =
lesson=20
in adaptability, morally unedifying and impressive in almost equal=20
measure. Morales devotes considerable attention to the matter of Irish=20
identity in Spain and its sphere, usefully describing the complex=20
maneuvering required to milk their distinctiveness from other foreigners =

without exciting rejection by Spanish hosts. However, the better the =
Irish=20
did (short of complete integration) the more inclined were their Spanish =

hosts, particularly the old nobility, to replace their customary=20
condescension in their regard with a jealousy that managed to be at once =

xenophobic, self-regarding, and peevish. Wall and Alexander O'Reilly =
knew=20
this better than most as the author's archival trawl reveals. In dealing =

with the Irish regiments in Spanish service, the author notices the same =

broad recruitment patterns already established by Colm =D3 Conaill,=20
Nathalie Genet Rouffiac, Patrick Clarke de Dromantin, and David Murphy =
for=20
their French counterparts: by the second half of the eighteenth century, =

the officer class remained Irish and indeed hermetically sealed against=20
other nationalities; the rank and file, however, was overwhelmingly=20
non-Irish and in these circumstances, non-Irish sergeants had no hope of =

promotion. This created significant problems for the Spanish command. =
The=20
decline in Irish rank and file also illustrates the beginning of the =
slow=20
drain of the Catholic Irish from Europe to the Americas and the British=20
army. Morales also looks at the intriguing and significant role of Irish =

reformers, innovators, and thinkers in the _Ilustraci=F3n _(Spanish=20
Enlightenment). On page 256, he refers to Thomas Connolly OP, the author =

of a Spanish-English dictionary (1798). Incidentally, a selection of his =

letters appears in the current (2010) issue of _Archivium Hibernicum_. =
The=20
reviewer could find no mention of the C=E1diz-born poet Mar=EDa Gertrude =

Hore or Hoare (1742-1801). Morales stays with the _Ilustraci=F3n_ theme =
to=20
discuss how ambient Spanish culture, in the years before the _Guerra de =
la=20
Independencia_ became less tolerant of foreigners, as the old=20
multinational enlightenment mutated into a unitary, nation-state=20
absolutism (imported, of course, from France!). One would like a more=20
detailed treatment of this important topic. Morales extends his =
treatment=20
to include Irish activism in Spanish America. His call for a =
reexamination=20
and reassessment of the role of the Irish in the independence movements =
of=20
Peru, Chile, Argentina, and elsewhere is especially apt though one fears =
a=20
little late for the imminent spate of bicentenaries. In his epilogue,=20
Morales opines that the Irish were lucky to arrive in Spain when they =
did.=20
From this one can conclude that if they enjoyed a special status in the=20
Spain sphere it was largely of the accidental variety and, given the=20
exiguity of opportunity back home one can hardly fault them for taking=20
full advantage.

This is an important book, first because of its conceptual richness=20
(especially in the first chapter) and also because of its archival =
wealth,=20
its author's evenhandedness, and his attention to detail. One hopes that =

his methodological concerns will become standard in the field as =
treatment=20
of Irish migration is contextualized and normalized within the larger=20
European and global migrant phenomenon. The translation is lucid and=20
accessible and the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, sponsors of the=20
English-language version, can congratulate itself on well spent=20
grant-in-aid.

Citation: Thomas O'Connor. Review of Recio Morales, =D3scar, _Ireland
and the Spanish Empire, 1600-1815_. H-Albion, H-Net Reviews.
September, 2010.
URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=3D31020

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States
License.

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A Study of the Irish System of Recording Suicide Deaths

Paul Corcoran a, b, 1, , and Ella Arensman a, 2

a National Suicide Research Foundation, Cork, Ireland
b Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Oviedo, =
Centro
de Investigaci=F3n Biom=E9dica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), =
Oviedo, Spain

Available online 16 September 2010.=20

Background: Many studies have examined the reliability of national =
suicide
statistics.=20

Aims: To examine the Irish system of certifying suicide deaths and data
collected by it.=20

Methods: Data were recorded from a police form (Form 104) completed and =
sent
to the Irish Central Statistics Office (CSO) after all inquested deaths =
that
occurred in Ireland in 2002.=20

Results: Of the approximately 1,800 inquested deaths, 6% (and 4% of
suicides) were not included in routine mortality statistics because of =
late
registration. Of the 495 deaths thought by the police to be suicide, 485
(98%) were so recorded by the CSO. Information relating to medical =
history
and contributory factors was provided in just 54% and 34% of suicides,
respectively. Suicide deaths showed significant variation by weekday =
(excess
on Mondays) and calendar month (summer peak). The peak suicide rate (35 =
per
100,000) was among men aged 25=9634 years. Persons separated, living =
alone,
and unemployed had significantly elevated suicide rates. Conclusions: =
There
is a need for a better understanding of national suicide recording =
systems,
as this study has provided for Ireland. Such systems may routinely =
provide
data relating to sociodemographic factors but not relating to medical =
and
psychosocial factors.

Author Keywords: Ireland; suicide recording; inquests; mortality data

The study was funded initially by the Irish National Suicide Review =
Group
and subsequently by the Health Service Executive's National Office for
Suicide Prevention. Thanks are due to the officers of the Irish Central
Statistics Office, in particular Mr. Joseph Keating, for supporting and
facilitating the study. Special thanks are also due to Ms. Vera McCarthy =
of
the Irish National Cancer Registry who was seconded to work on the study =
and
to Dr. Harry Comber, Director of the National Cancer Registry, for
facilitating this arrangement.


National Suicide Research Foundation, 1 Perrott Avenue, College Road, =
Cork,
Ireland, +35 321 4277499.
1 Paul Corcoran, PhD, is Deputy Director of the National Suicide =
Research
Foundation, Cork, Ireland, where he has worked since it was established =
15
years ago by the late Dr. Michael J. Kelleher. His primary research =
interest
is the epidemiology of suicidal behavior and related health information
systems.
2 Dr. Ella Arensman is Director of Research at the National Suicide =
Research
Foundation and Honorary Senior Lecturer with the Department of =
Epidemiology
and Public Health, University College Cork, Ireland. Her research =
interests
are risk and protective factors associated with suicidal behavior,
cross-cultural differences, and effectiveness of treatment and =
prevention
programs.

Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention
Volume 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 174-182

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First Irish genome sequenced

08 September 2010 by Debora MacKenzie
New Scientist
Magazine issue 2777.

THE Irish are genetically distinct from other Europeans - including their
British neighbours. That's according to the first genome of an Irish person
to be sequenced, which turns out to have a host of unusual genetic
variations.

Brendan Loftus of University College Dublin, who led the team responsible,
says the unnamed Irishman - whom a genotyping study had already shown to be
representative of Ireland - possessed 400,000 novel mutations of single DNA
bases. Nearly 8000 of these appear to be inherited along with genes known to
influence disorders such as inflammatory bowel disease and liver disease, so
the newly discovered mutations may help shed light on the genetic basis of
these conditions.

As an outlying island, Ireland should hold some genetic surprises, Loftus
says. Indeed, the genome was so distinctive it shows that "the Irish genome
inhabits a hitherto unsampled region in European genome variation", he adds.

SOURCE

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727770.201-first-irish-genome-sequen
ced.html

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UCD Press launch Suburban Affiliations RIA Dawson St Tues 28 Sept 6pm

Irish sociologists used to say: Urban squalor! At last we can join
mainstream sociology...

And now, Suburbs! At last we can join mainstream sociology...

________________________________________

UCD PRESS=A0

requests the pleasure of your company at a reception=20
to celebrate the publication=20

of=20
=A0
Suburban Affiliations: Social Relations in the Greater Dublin Area=20

by=20
=A0
Mary P. Corcoran, Jane Gray & Michel Peillon=20
at the
Royal Irish Academy
19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2=20
=A0
on Tuesday, 28 September 2010
at 6 p.m.=20
=A0
where the book will be launched by=20
Mr David McWilliams=20

UCD PRESS
(01) 477 9813=20
ucdpress[at]ucd.ie

all welcome!

http://www.ucdpress.ie/display.asp?isbn=3D9781906359478&

Suburban Affiliations
Social Relations in the Greater Dublin Area


Author(s):
Mary P. Corcoran (author)
Jane Gray (author)
Michel Peillon (author)
Format:
Paperback, 234 x 156mm, 360pp
Publication date:
01 Jul 2010
ISBN-13:
9781906359478
ISBN-10:
1906359474
Author Biography
Mary P. Corcoran is Professor of Sociology at the National University of
Ireland Maynooth, where she is also a research associate at the National
Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis. Jane Gray is a Senior =
Lecturer
in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Ireland
Maynooth. She is a research associate at the National Institute of =
Regional
and Spatial Analysis and Director of the Irish Qualitative Archive. =
Michel
Peillon is Professor of Sociology at the National University of Ireland
Maynooth.

Description
"Suburban Affiliations" presents the reader with a thorough and engaging
study of the everyday civic and social relations that are observed in
suburban localities, in this case in Dublin, Ireland. It provides =
insight
into the ways in which suburbs develop and consolidate across time, with =
the
authors' analysis presented against a backdrop of the extensive American =
and
European literature on suburbs. Drawing on four case studies, the =
authors
offer a wealth of sociological insights into the suburban experience,
demonstrating how particular examples can be drawn upon to advance a =
general
theory of suburban affiliations. They re-visit the mainly negative
assessment that has been made of the suburban social fabric. The title,
"Suburban Affiliations", underlies the book's main conclusions. =
Residents in
suburban estates are not disaffiliated: they are in fact connected with =
the
place where they live and with each other, in many different ways. The =
book
maps the nature, quality and focus of these affiliations, paying =
particular
attention to attachment to place, the prevalence of social support =
networks
and levels of civic and social participation. As an empirically =
grounded,
contemporary study of everyday suburban realities this book offers a =
wealth
of timely and innovative insights of interest not only to social =
scientists
but also to architects, planners, policy makers and the general public.

Contents
Introduction
PART ONE, Locating the Suburbs
- The International and Irish Context
The Significance of Suburbs
Suburban Formation
- The Case of Dublin
Suburbs and the Life Course.
PART TWO, Attachment and Belonging in Suburbia
- Suburban Pastoralism and Sense of Place
Linked Lives
- Personal Communities in the Suburbs
Family-Friendly Communities?
Making Friends and Losing Spaces
Child's View of the Suburban World
PART THREE, The Public Life of Suburbs
- Joining In
- The Dynamic of Voluntary Associations
Fragments of Activism
Community and the Structure of Social Capital
Conclusion
- Suburban Variation and Suburban Affiliation
Appendix Telling Suburban Tale - Leixlip, Lucan-Esker, Mullingar, and
Ratoath
References
Index.

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of a complete Riverdance stage show in unison with on-ice routines from
Olympic, World, and National champion figure skaters. Riverdance on Ice is
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Riverdance, the Irish dance revue acclaimed around the world, is reaching
new heights this season by teaming up with a troupe of the world's best
figure ice skaters.

Riverdance on Ice combines the music and artistry of Irish step dancing with
on-ice figure skating from Olympic, World and National champion figure
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skating, one of the world's most graceful, athletic competitions. You'll
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F=?iso-8859-1?Q?=F3mhar/Autumn_?=2010
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan [mailto:P.OSullivan[at]bradford.ac.uk]=20

New Hibernia Review
Volume 14, Number 3, F=F3mhar/Autumn 2010

Table of Contents

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

Home to Ring
Catherine Foley
pp. 9-15

The Prison Writing of Michael Davitt
Sean T. O=92Brien
pp. 16-32

Learning to be Brutal: Synge, Decadence, and the Modern Movement
Alex Davis
pp. 33-51

Fil=EDocht Nua: New Poetry
Catherine Phil MacCarthy
pp. 52-58

Anne Enright=92s The Gathering: Trauma, Testimony, Memory
Carol Dell=92Amico
pp. 59-73
=20
Irish Journalists in the Intellectual Diaspora: Edward Alexander Morphy =
and
Henry David O=92Shea in the Far East
Christopher Shepard
pp. 75-90

Rewriting Genre in The Country Girls Trilogy
Elizabeth A. Chase
pp. 91-105
=20
Bread and Butter to Boiling Oil: From Wilde=92s Afternoon Tea to The =
Beauty
Queen of Leenane
Christopher S. Morrison
pp. 106-120

Ties that Bind: Ethnic and Religious Factors in the Marriage Choices of
Irish-American Catholics on the Dakota Frontier
Michael F. Funchion
pp. 121-142
=20
Adapt or Die, Known Text or Non-Text: Irish Theater in 2009
Ciara O=92Dowd
pp. 143-151

Northern Irish Literature: The Imprint of History, 1956=962006 (review)
Joseph Heininger
pp. 152-155

Irish Autobiography: Stories of Self in the Narrative of a Nation =
(review)
Ann Nicodemi
pp. 157-159

Cl=FAdach: Cover
p. 142

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From: "Patrick O'Sullivan"
To: "IR-D Jiscmail"
Subject: TOC Jouvert, SPECIAL ISSUE: IRELAND 2000

The online journal, JOUVERT, has been mentioned on Ir-D in the past.

This message now appears on the web site...
'We are sorry to announce that Jouvert has ceased publication. We would like
to thank contributors and readers for their support, and to express our
regrets that significant changes in personal, professional, and
institutional situations have made continuation of the journal impossible.
We also release reprint rights for all articles appearing in or submitted to
Jouvert; contributors no longer need individual permission to reprint your
articles elsewhere.'

http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert/index.htm

The last issue seems to have been JOUVERT, Volume 7, Issue 2 (Winter/Spring
2003).

There were a number of items of interest in the journal - most important
this SPECIAL ISSUE: IRELAND 2000. TOC below.

As always the advice in such circumstances is to store somewhere safe
anything you are interested in - there is simply no telling how long the
host web site will continue to display this material.

P.O'S.


JOUVERT

SPECIAL ISSUE: IRELAND 2000

Editor: Maria Pramaggiore

Contents: Volume 4, Issue 1 (Fall 1999)

http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert/v4i1/con41.htm

Editor's Introduction


Articles

Richard Haslam, 'A race bashed in the face':
Imagining Ireland as a Damaged Child.

Eugene O'Brien, Alternate Irelands:
Emigration and the Epistemology of Irish Identity.

Lauren Onkey, "A Melee and a Curtain":
Black-Irish Relations in
Ned Harrigan's The Mulligan Guard Ball.

Mike Cronin, Ignoring Postcolonialism:
The Gaelic Athletic Association
and the Language of the Colony.

Catherine Wynne, Mollies, Fenians and Arthur Conan Doyle.

James Morrison, Hitchcock's Ireland:
The Performance of Irish Identity
in Juno and the Paycock
and Under Capricorn.

Michael Malouf, Forging the Nation:
James Joyce and The Celtic Tiger

Pat O'Connor, Ireland: A Country for Women?

Stanley Orr, Genres and Geographies:
Cultural Decolonization in
Mike Newell's Into the West.

Interviews

The Irish Interest Group (U Texas -- Austin), "Sinn Fein and the
Educative Process:
An Interview with Daisy Mules.

Susan Shaw Sailer, Translating Tradition:
An Interview with Declan Kiberd.

Reviews

Jude R. Meche, Wherever Green is Torn . . .

Kelli Maloy, Sexual Politics and the "New Order."

Richard Rankin Russell, Fiction and the Changing Ireland.

Eileen O'Halloran, Reading "Otherwise"
Theorizing the Place of Politics and Gender in Joyce.

About the Contributors

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Dear Patrick - could you please circulate the following:

=20

Lord Soley (former Hammersmith MP Clive Soley) talks on the Labour Party
and Northern Ireland in the second annual lecture commemorating Brendan
Mac Lua, founder and editor of the "Irish Post" newspaper-the newspaper
of the Irish in Britain.

=20

As a British Labour Party spokesman in opposition Clive Soley was
pivotal in initiating the first contacts between Britain's official
opposition party and Sinn Fein. This pioneering work contributed
substantially to the successful outcome of the Good Friday Agreement in
1998 and the establishment of the current relative political stability
in NI.

This will be the first time that Clive Soley has talked publicly about
his pioneering efforts to develop meaningful communication with militant
Irish republicanism and his lecture will add much to our awareness of
how political progress developed in NI in the period before Labour took
power in 1997.

=20

Hammersmith Irish Cultural Centre, Black's Road, London W6. Wednesday 13
October 7.30pm. Admission Free. See www.irishculturalcentre.co.uk for
details.

=20

Thanks

=20

Ivan

=20

Dr Ivan Gibbons

Programme Director

Irish Studies

School of Communications, Culture and Creative Arts

St. Mary's University College

Waldegrave Road

Strawberry Hill

TW1 4SX

=20

Tel: 0208 240 4081

=20

=20

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The Following has been brought to the attention of the list


First Call for Papers

17th International Conference of the SSNCI

Irish Elites in the Nineteenth Century

Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool

30 June - 01 July, 2011


This conference seeks to redefine the concepts of elites and elitism in nineteenth-century Ireland. Issues such as social stratification and the distr=
ibution of power in Irish society have often been overlooked by nineteenth-century scholars,
or discussed narrowly in relation to political history. Power, wealth, and influence were
distributed in myriad ways in the nineteenth century, and often through localised elites
or social networks. County clubs, old school networks, and voluntary and charitable organisations
appeared throughout the century, vying for the attention of the established elite and the
rising middle classes alongside political parties, freemasonry and sports and social clubs.
Aspirational behaviour was evident at many levels of society and affected Irish men and
women of all religious backgrounds.

Conference papers will address the theme of elitism in Ireland with the widest possible
interpretation of the term, and with a focus on the local, practical applications of power
and influence.

Appropriate topics for 20-minute papers may include, but are not restricted
to:
Education
Social mobility
Elitism and the state
Literary and cultural elites
Elites and elitism in fiction
Local Government
Working class perspectives
Religious elites.
Elites and elitism in fiction

=
Speakers:
Tom Garvin(UCD)
John Hutchinson (LSE)
Marianne Elliott (UoL)
Convenors:
Ciaran O'Neill (Hertford College, Oxford)
James H. Murphy (DePaul University, Chicago)

The convenors welcome both individual proposals and suggestions for panels
on additional themes. Please send your proposals as attachments to

sssnci2011[at]gmail.com by 31 January 2011.

NB: Selected papers from this conference will be published.

More information available at the conference website:
http://irishelites.wordpress.com

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The Migration Policy Institute has announced the publication of its 4th
report on the role of diasporas in development

The report, /*Heritage Tourism and Nostalgia Trade: A Diaspora Niche in
the Development Landscape*/
,
discusses diasporas' role in promoting trade and tourism in their
countries of origin. The key findings of the study by MPI's Kathleen
Newland and Carylanna Taylor include the following:

* Diasporas play an important role in opening markets for new
tourism destinations and goods produced in the country of origin.
* These "nostalgia" goods are often labor intensive or artisanal, so
the earnings are likely to benefit local communities.
* Tourism is a key industry for many developing economies and the
goods and services consumed by diaspora tourists often have a
disproportionate impact on local businesses.
* In some instances, diasporas have invested in tourism facilities
or opened new tourist destinations to broader publics.

The study is available at
www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/diasporas-tradetourism.pdf

and www.microlinks.org/diaspora
.
ww.microlinks.org/diaspora
.


While the report's primary focus on developing world diasporas, there
are interesting parallels with the Irish experience in the past, and
given the present economic situation, the mobilisation of the Irish
diaspora to bail the Irish economy out.


Liam

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Announcing
=A0
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An Oral History Project
=A0
The Crossroads Irish-American Festival gratefully acknowledges support =
of
the Irish Government=92s Emigrant Support Programme (ESP) and the San
Francisco Irish Consulate to begin an oral history project documenting =
the
experience of men and women who emigrated from Ireland to the San =
Francisco
Bay Area in the 1950s.=A0
=A0
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If you or family members, friends, neighbors or colleagues could =
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What Being Catholic Means to Me

Author Edited by Eamon Maher and John Littleton

Category Contemporary Issues

In the aftermath of the publication of the Commission of Inquiry into =
Child
Abuse Report (popularly referred to as the Ryan Report) and when the
findings of the investigation into the handling of clerical sex abuse in =
the
Dublin Archdiocese are about to be made public, this book invites a wide
range of people to answer honestly and frankly the very searching =
question,
=91What Being Catholic Means to Me=92. These are difficult times for =
anyone to
be a Catholic in Ireland. There is a natural tendency to paint everyone =
with
the same brush. But being Catholic means something different for each =
and
every one of us. Each person interprets the Gospel in his or her =
particular
way. Each experiences the rituals of the Church, the ministry of priests =
and
lay people, the transmission of the word, as individuals who are part of =
a
wider community. The fact that the Church is undergoing serious upheaval =
in
Ireland is not in itself a valid reason for everyone to get up and leave =
it.
Equally, no one should stay a member simply because of habit or the =
absence
of a viable alternative.

Approximately 25 people from all walks of life contribute short essays =
on
what it means to them to be Catholic. The contributors include: Conor =
Brady,
Finola Bruton, Patricia Casey, Thomas Finegan, Mark Patrick Hederman, =
Se=E1n
Kelly, Mary T. Malone, Enda McDonagh, Patsy McGarry, Peter McVerry, =
Andrew
O'Connell, Mary O'Donnell, Colm O'Gorman, Nuala O=92Loan, Garry =
O'Sullivan,
David Quinn, William Reville, Brendan Ryan, Aidan Troy, D. Vincent =
Twomey,
John Waters.
=20
Further information about What Being Catholic Means to Me
ISBN 9781856076753
Rights World
Binding Paperback
Extent 176pp
Size 215mm
Date published 29th October, 2009
Publisher The Columba Press

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Oxford Brookes University, September 2011
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Call for Papers =96 Conference
Catholics and cinema: productions, policies, power

Oxford Brookes University, 2nd and 3rd September 2011

Keynote speech: Professor Thomas Doherty (Brandeis U)

There has been a renewed interest in how film and religion interconnect =
and
how religious characters and rituals have been popular subject matters =
of
movies. Books such as S. Brent Plate=92s Representing religion in world
cinema: filmmaking, mythmaking, culture making (2003), Colleen =
McDannell=92s
Catholics in the movies (2008) and Pamela Grace=92s The religious film:
Christianity and the hagiopic (2009) have provided an insight into the
representation of religious people, places and symbols in world cinema.

However, over the last hundred years, Catholic organizations around the
world have tried to assess, manipulate, control and intervene in the
development of cinema. This inter-disciplinary conference seeks to =
examine
and explore issues of power in the relationship between the film =
industry
and an external institution such as the Roman Catholic Church. In =
particular
the conference is interested in investigating the various contexts of
production, distribution, exhibition, reception, classification, =
censorship,
which have been influenced by an organization that has nothing to do =
with
the commercial enterprise called cinema.

Papers, work-in-progress, and pre-formed panels are invited on issues on =
the
following and other themes related to Catholics, cinema and power:

- Vatican film policy and its effects (for example the growth of =
national
and international Catholic film organisations such as OCIC)=20
- Political pressure on national film legislations coming from Catholic =
film
organisations (for example influence on national censorship laws)
- Catholic organisations=92 pressure on production, distribution, =
exhibition,
film festivals, censorship, film criticism, technological =
developments,...
(for example the role of the American Legion of Decency and their =
European
counterparts in these fields)

- Forms of collaboration between Catholic Church representatives and =
film
artists and critics (Roberto Rossellini and Felix Morlion=92s long
collaboration for example)
- Case studies of individual film productions whose development has been
influenced by the Catholic Church or Catholic organisations (for example
Rossellini=92s The Flowers of St. Francis)
- Changes in cinema-going habits and the role of the Catholic Church
- Issues of Catholic censorship which has determined the success or =
failure
of individual films (such as Luis Bu=F1uel=92s Viridiana, Federico =
Fellini=92s La
dolce vita, Monty Python's Life of Brian or Martin Scorsese=92s The Last
Temptation of Christ)

Organising Chairs
Daniel Biltereyst
Centre for cinema and Media Studies, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
E-mail: daniel.biltereyst[at]ugent.be

Daniela Treveri Gennari
Film Studies, Dept of Arts, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
E-mail: dtreveri-gennari[at]brookes.ac.uk

Submissions should be:=20
300 word abstracts with a bibliography of 3-4 titles, should be =
submitted by
30th January 2011. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full
draft paper should be submitted by 30th July 2011.

300 word abstracts should be submitted to the Organising Chairs, =
following
this order:

author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) =
body
of abstract, f) bibliography

E-mails should be entitled: Catholic Cinema Abstract Submission

Please use plain text (Arial 12) and abstain from using any special
formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). =
We
acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you =
do
not receive a reply from us in two weeks you should assume we did not
receive your proposal.

It is our intention to publish an edited volume with articles included =
in
the conference. More information about this will be available closer to =
the
conference date.

Daniel Biltereyst=20
Centre for cinema and Media Studies, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium=20
E-mail: daniel.biltereyst[at]ugent.be=20

Daniela Treveri Gennari=20
Film Studies, Dept of Arts, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK=20
E-mail: dtreveri-gennari[at]brookes.ac.uk=20

Email: daniel.biltereyst[at]ugent.be , dtreveri-gennari[at]brookes.ac.uk

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=3D179227

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Article,
'Slightly Constitutional' Politics: Fianna
F=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E1il's_?=Tortuous Entry to the Irish Parliament,
1926-7
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=91Slightly Constitutional=92 Politics: Fianna F=E1il's Tortuous Entry =
to the
Irish Parliament, 1926=967
DONNACHA =D3 BEACH=C1IN
Article first published online: 1 OCT 2010

Keywords:
Fianna F=E1il;Sinn F=E9in;D=E1il =C9ireann;Ireland;Irish Free =
State;parliament;oath
of allegiance;Eamon de Valera

Fianna F=E1il is Ireland's largest political party since 1932, and has =
been in
office for almost 60 years, mostly as a single-party government. Despite
this impressive electoral and parliamentary history, the party's
constitutional origins are fraught with ambivalence towards Irish state
institutions. Fianna F=E1il's early years, perhaps eclipsed by =
subsequent
electoral successes, have received relatively little attention from
historians and most general works content themselves with a couple of =
lines
about the oath of allegiance with an underlying assumption that entry to =
the
Irish parliament was inevitable. The aim of this article is to show how =
the
process that brought Fianna F=E1il into parliamentary politics was =
haphazard
and unpredictable. Through extensive use of party literature and
parliamentary party minutes from the 1920s, this article presents a =
detailed
account of Fianna F=E1il's evolving attitude towards the oath of =
allegiance
and how it succeeded in overcoming ideological reservations to take its
seats in the Irish Free State legislature.

Parliamentary History
Volume 29, Issue 3, pages 376=96394, October 2010

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Warning to prospective Irish emigrants
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Warning to prospective Irish emigrants on 'Green card' scams

For more information contact:

Sheila Gleeson, Director, Coalition of Irish Immigration Centres, Boston,
USA.
T: 001 617 987 0193

Joe O'Brien, Policy Officer, Crosscare Migrant Project, 1 Cathedral St.,
Dublin 1.
T: 00 353 87 9608540

At noon EST on October 5, 2010 the US Diversity Visa ('green card') lottery
will open for applications. This year with more applications expected from
Ireland due to the entrenched unemployment problem organizations in Ireland
and the US are warning prospective applicants about lottery scams. The
Coalition of Irish Immigration Centres (CIIC) in the US and Crosscare
Migrant Project (CMP) in Dublin are urging people to be extra vigilant about
companies and websites that charge a fee for processing the application and
especially those that guarantee results.

Joe O'Brien of Crosscare Migrant Project explained that 'all applications go
through the one official route which is a US Department of State website at
www.dvlottery.state.gov . Applications can only be made online via this site
and there is no charge to submit an application'. Mr. O'Brien stated that
there have been instances of fraudulent websites posing as official U.S.
Government sites or misrepresenting their services by saying that they are
affiliated with the U.S. government. These companies charge fees in order to
complete lottery entry forms.

Sheila Gleeson the Director of the Coalition of Irish Immigration Centres
stated that 'Not only are immigrants unnecessarily giving their money and
their personal information to private companies, but often no application is
actually filed for them and they loose their opportunity to submit an entry.
Many other websites provide legitimate and accurate information but the CIIC
and CMP recommend that applicants should only submit their personal
information on the official DV Lottery website'. Ms. Gleeson said that
'Irish Centers in the USA are seeing increasing numbers of new immigrants
arriving in all the major cities and we urge anyone thinking of coming to
the US to avail of legal avenues that will allow them to live and work
legally here'. This follows a recent statement by Minister Micheal Martin on
his visit to the USA urging prospective Irish emigrants to 'not come to
America without your papers in order. We must at all costs avoid a new
generation of illegals'.

Recently released figures by the CSO show a two fold increase in emigration
of Irish people compared to 2008 with 27,700 Irish people estimated to have
left in the year to April 2010.

Both CMP and CIIC members will provide accurate information and assistance
about how to submit an application to the US DV Lottery along with other
legal options to emigrate to the US.

Irish Emigrant Editors notes:

Founded in 1996, the Coalition of Irish Immigration Centers (CIIC) is a
national umbrella organization of Irish Immigrant advice centers throughout
the United States. Its membership includes 15 active immigrant and pastoral
centers in the US with groups in California, Philadelphia, Washington,
Illinois, Maryland, New York, Massachusetts, and Wisconsin. Member Centers
provide direct services to immigrants in the US including immigration and
visa advice and information. A list of Irish Centers may be found at
http://ciicusa.wordpress.com/find-a-center-near-you/

Crosscare Migrant Project (CMP) is a project of Crosscare the social care
agency of the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin. Since the 1950s CMP has
provided assistance to prospective Irish emigrants. It has an information
and advocacy service based in Dublin city centre and provides a range of
information on emigrating on its website

The DV Lottery program gives winning entrants an opportunity to apply for a
permanent visa to live and work in the US. The program makes 50,000 visas
available annually to applicants who meet eligibility requirements. The
application period starts at 5pm Irish time on 5 October 2010 and closes at
5pm Irish time on 3 November 2010. In the 2008 and 2009 there were 167 and
201 successful Irish applications respectively.

SOURCE

http://www.emigrant.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=79938&Itemi
d=168