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A Sage journal.

These Dublin based researchers look at the world wide patterns of sexual
abuse, the state of research and knowledge. The Irish material becomes one
part of this.

I have added a link to the ISPCAN web site, below...

P.O'S.

Trauma Violence Abuse October 2010 vol. 11 no. 4 159-177

Child Sexual Abuse, Links to Later Sexual Exploitation/High-Risk Sexual
Behavior, and Prevention/Treatment Programs
Kevin Lalor
Department of Social Sciences, Dublin Institute of Technology,
kevin.lalor[at]dit.ie
Rosaleen McElvaney
Department of Social Sciences, Dublin Institute of Technology
Abstract

This paper reviews the literature on the nature and incidence of child
sexual abuse, explores the link between child sexual abuse and later sexual
exploitation, and reviews the literature on prevention strategies and
effective interventions in child sexual abuse services. Our understanding of
the international epidemiology of child sexual abuse is considerably greater
than it was just 10 years ago, and studies from around the world are
examined. Childhood sexual abuse can involve a wide number of psychological
sequelae, including low self-esteem, anxiety, and depression. Numerous
studies have noted that child sexual abuse victims are vulnerable to later
sexual revictimization, as well as the link between child sexual abuse and
later engagement in high-risk sexual behaviour. Survivors of child sexual
abuse are more likely to have multiple sex partners, become pregnant as
teenagers, and experience sexual assault as adults. Various models which
attempt to account for this inter-relationship are presented; most invoke
mediating variables such as low self-esteem, drug/alcohol use, PTSD and
distorted sexual development. Prevention strategies for child sexual abuse
are examined including media campaigns, school-based prevention programmes,
and therapy with abusers. The results of a number of meta-analyses are
examined. However, researchers have identified significant methodological
limitations in the extant research literature that impede the making of
recommendations for implementing existing therapeutic programmes
unreservedly.

NOTE

This article is based on a review commissioned by ISPCAN for the Pre
'3rd World Congress on Sexual Exploitation' Workshop (Hong
Kong, September 2008). Resources can be found at

www.ispcan.org/congress2008/wcse.html

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and Audiotape: Anonymity and the Ethics of Exposure in Public
Ethnography
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A Sage journal...

This is worth looking at, as an example of the ways in which Nancy
Scheper-Hughes' Irish experience becomes part of a discipline's
interrogating of itself.

I think the article mis-reads the Scheper-Hughes book - I cannot recall any
part of it suggesting that this 'Irish village' had 'high rates of mental
illness'. What Scheper-Hughes does is take the then available accounts and
statistics and read them down into the village.

P.O'S.

Stein, Arlene. 2010. Sex, Truths, and Audiotape: Anonymity and the Ethics of
Exposure in Public Ethnography. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. 39
(5):554 - 568.

This article discusses ethical issues confronted in The Stranger Next Door,
my ethnographic study of a small town divided by a local ballot initiative
against gay/lesbian civil rights. Seeking to intervene in public debates
about the issue, I wrote a book that was broadly accessible, painting vivid
portraits of local activists engaged in this conflict. When the pseudonymous
community was "outed" by a review in the statewide newspaper, rightwing
activists became incensed, and charged me with compromising their anonymity,
among other offenses. Years later, as I reflect upon these accusations, I
recognize that some of them have some credence. While public sociological
work cannot and should not seek to avoid controversy, I question whether the
quest for anonymity in ethnographic research always serves the interests of
researchers and their subjects of study.


EXTRACT
Reflecting on my experiences after several years of hindsight, I believe
that the controversy surrounding my book might have been avoided if I had
not promised my respondents anonymity-a realization that has led me to
question whether ethnographic anonymity is really such a good thing. As it
turns out, I am not alone. After publishing Saints, Scholars, and
Schizophrenics, an ethnography of an Irish village that attempted to account
for its high rates of mental illness, anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes
was criticized heatedly in the Irish press for violating community and
cultural privacy. Twenty years after its publication, Scheper-Hughes (2000,
132) returned to the village to reflect upon the ethics of her project and
came to suggest, among other things, that the "time-honored practice of
bestowing anonymity on 'our' communities and informants fools few and
protects no one-save perhaps the anthropologist's own skin." As my own
experience suggests, often we cannot even protect that.

Scheper-Hughes (2000) concludes that we should discard anonymity altogether,
use people's real names, and reveal the names of our research sites.
This will "force us to write less poignant, more circumspect ethnographies,"
she suggests, works that might temper "our brutally frank sketches of other
people's lives as we see them" (Scheper-Hughes 2000, 128). While we can
never fully inform our subjects about our intentions, not the least because
we often do not really know the substance of our research until we finish it
and sit down to write about it, she says, we can strive for greater
openness. Like good journalists who reveal their sources, who aspire to be
"fair and balanced," at least in part because they know their interviewees
will probably read their work, doing away with anonymity could make us
better ethnographers.

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The Sepoys of the Pound and Sandy Row: Empire and Identity in
Mid-Victorian Belfast
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A Sage journal...

Articles:
Mark Doyle
The Sepoys of the Pound and Sandy Row: Empire and Identity in Mid-Victorian
Belfast
Journal of Urban History November 2010 36: 849-867, first published on July
19, 2010

Abstract

This article examines the place of empire in Belfast's popular culture
during the mid-Victorian era, paying particular attention to how Protestants
and Catholics responded to the Crimean War and the Indian "Mutiny" of 1857.
It argues that Belfast was a remarkably cosmopolitan city during this
period, its people well attuned to-and, in many cases, considerably invested
in-the vicissitudes of empire. This is intriguing, for it suggests that the
city's people (and their burgeoning sectarian rivalries) were less parochial
than is often assumed-that there was, in a sense, an imperial dimension to
their identities. The inhabitants' attitudes toward the empire also
demonstrate that mid-Victorian Belfast was a city of surprising ideological
fluidity, that the hard-and-fast divisions that characterized later periods
were not yet fully formed. This article therefore offers a useful corrective
to those who would see Belfast's sectarian divisions as somehow inevitable,
unchanging, or primordial.

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Subject: CFP Vernacular Architecture Conference, Douglas, Isle of Man,
22-25 June 2011
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If anyone would like the PDF of the Call for papers, to display it
somewhere, please contact Catriona.

P.O'S.

________________________________________
From: Mackie, Catriona [mailto:C.Mackie[at]liverpool.ac.uk]=20

Dear all,

I would be most grateful if you could circulate the following =
information
around your School, Faculty, Department, or Institution. If you have
somewhere where you are able to display the Call for Papers, I would be =
most
grateful if you would do so.=20

With many thanks,

Catriona=20

New Light on Vernacular Architecture:=20
Studies in Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man

International Conference, Douglas, Isle of Man, 22-25 June 2011

Due to the success of the first call for papers, which saw submissions =
from
all over the British Isles, Australia, Malaysia and the US, the =
Conference
committee is pleased to announce a second call for papers and posters ),
with a deadline of 31st January 2011. =20

The conference organisers would welcome papers and posters on all =
aspects of
vernacular architecture from within the British Isles, particularly =
those
exploring new directions, interpretations and approaches to the subject.
Submissions that discuss new approaches=A0and methodologies=A0to the =
study of
vernacular architecture elsewhere are also welcome.=20

The second call for papers and posters, and further details about the
conference, including details of session themes and panel discussions, =
can
be found on the conference website
www.liv.ac.uk/manxstudies/VernacularArchitecture.htm. Further details =
about
the conference will be added here in due course. =20

Keynote speakers at the conference will be=20
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Prof. Henry Glassie (College Professor =
Emeritus of Folklore,
Indiana University, Bloomington);=20
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Dr Marcel Vellinga (Director of the =
International Vernacular
Architecture Unit at Oxford Brookes University); and=20
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Dr Eurwyn Wiliam (Chairman of the Royal =
Commission on the Ancient
and Historical Monuments of Wales). =20
The conference organisers are also pleased to announce that Dr R. W.
Brunskill, the doyen of British vernacular architecture, will also be
speaking at the conference.

Any enquiries can be directed to Dr Catriona Mackie at
c.mackie[at]liverpool.ac.uk or 01624 695 777. =20
=A0
=A0
Dr Catriona Mackie
Lecturer in Manx Studies
University of Liverpool
Centre for Manx Studies
The Stable Building
The University Centre
Old Castletown Road
Douglas
Isle of Man
IM2 1QB
=A0
Tel:=A001624 695=A0777=20
Fax: 01624 695 783
Email: c.mackie[at]liverpool.ac.uk
Website: www.liv.ac.uk/manxstudies/people/mackie.htm
=A0
International Conference, New Light on Vernacular Architecture:
www.liv.ac.uk/manxstudies/VernacularArchitecture.htm
=A0
Dr Catriona Mackie
Leaghteyr Studeyrys Manninagh
Ollooscoill Lerphoyll
Laare-Studeyrys Manninagh
Thie ny Gabbyl
Ynnyd yn Ollooscoill
Shenn Raad Valley Chashtal
Doolish
Ellan Vannin
IM2 1QB

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ICELAND-IRELAND: Universities merge post-bubble
Yojana Sharma
10 October 2010

Universities in Iceland and Ireland expanded dramatically during the 1990s
boom, in part to promote regional development and absorb more students. But
when the economic bubble burst, experts recommended a reduction in the
overall number of institutions through painful mergers, as Denmark had
already done.

For decades Iceland had only two universities, but during the 1990s it
sustained seven higher education institutions - four state-owned, the rest
private - to serve a population of just 320,000. In the wake of the economic
downturn, which devastated Iceland, an international panel of experts
recommended that the country merge its universities.

In Ireland, another country severely affected by the downturn, experts are
also recommending university mergers. Not surprisingly, there is resistance
to the idea...

...In Ireland, meanwhile, higher education has experienced an 11% reduction
in core funding since 2008, and further reductions are expected in 2011 -
and student numbers have been growing at the rate of around 5% a year.

Just as Iceland's higher education sector overreached itself, in Ireland the
"pursuit of world-class status has over-determined the strategies of both
Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin in recent years, with
both universities going into deficit even before the current downturn", said
Ellen Hazelkorn of the Dublin Institute of Technology, in a paper delivered
at the OECD conference.

She noted that in Ireland, too, there was "a strong chorus" arguing that the
country had too many higher education institutions relative to population
and the financial environment, "amid concerns that the cost of resourcing a
single world-class university would be equivalent to [Ireland's] entire
annual higher education budget".

Ireland has set up a review group to decide on the future of universities.
"A recommendation to reduce the number of higher education institutions was
never in doubt," Hazelkorn said. "There is strong emphasis on mergers for
greater efficiency, rationalisation of resources, better specialisation and
sharing back-office functions."

Higher education participation rates in Ireland are now over 55%, up from
44% a decade ago, and the government has set a target of 72% by 2020. Demand
is projected to increase over the next 20 years, from some 160,000 students
today to 200,000 by 2020 and 275,000 by 2030.

Even so, Hannibalson believed Ireland may fare better than Iceland. "Irish
institutions are larger," he said. "In a downturn small institutions will
hurt a lot more than larger ones."...

...In Ireland, an expected 30% surge in student numbers could pose a serious
threat to quality, making it more difficult to take action. "The perceived
quality of the higher education system is a key factor in helping to attract
inward investment," said Hazelkorn.

Even if the recommended mergers never actually occur, the review of Irish
higher education was timely, according to Hazelkorn. "Even if the economy
had not collapsed, a strategy taking into account global competitiveness,
internationalisation and excellence was required. Indeed, it is arguable
that Ireland has been very late tackling many of these issues."...

FULL TEXT AT

http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=2010100811375955

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Subject: Article,
Orality and Agency: Reading an Irish Autobiography from the Great
Blasket Island
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The journal, Oral Tradition, has moved to an open access model...

http://journal.oraltradition.org/about

'With the advent of eOT, the free, open-access electronic version of the
journal, we aspire to remove many of the natural barriers created by
print-based and subscription media. Since we believe that academic
contributions should be as democratically available as possible, we are =
from
this point onward offering the journal as a pro bono, gratis =
contribution to
the field. Anyone with a connection to the internet will be able to read =
and
redistribute its contents =96 not only the current issue, but also the =
entire
23 years and more than 10,000 pages of back issues...'

This means that some articles of interest are now freely available. Not =
a
huge number, but a number. Here I highlight one, John Eastlake's =
article on
Blasket Island autobiography, which I know will interest a number of =
Ir-D
members. Including me. The autobiographies are often a very good entry
point for students and scholars. And I wish that whoever it was who
borrowed my copies had returned them...

http://journal.oraltradition.org/issues/24i/eastlake

Oral Tradition
Volume 24, 2009, Number 1, March 2009

John Eastlake
Orality and Agency: Reading an Irish Autobiography from the Great =
Blasket
Island
Oral Tradition - Volume 24, 2009, Number 1, March 2009

Center for Studies in Oral Tradition=20

Abstract

The Islandman (1934) by Tom=E1s =D3 Criomhthain is the first =
autobiography to be
published by a member of the Irish-speaking community on the Great =
Blasket
Island. This book, whose author was a member of a largely oral community =
and
a participant in many communal oral traditions, has often been read as =
the
work of a passive informant rather than that of an active author. By
examining the critical attitudes towards =D3 Criomhthain and his work,
particularly those that associate orality with passivity and communalism =
and
deny textual authority to members of largely oral communities, this =
article
identifies a crucial tension between opposing readings of this text: =
reading
=D3 Criomhthain as a representative type and reading =D3 Criomhthain as =
an
author. By developing the latter reading of the text, the reader may
recognize the agency of the author-subject of a collaborative =
autobiography
that has its roots in a life lived largely through orality.

First Paragraph

The early twentieth century saw the publication of a singular group of =
texts
in Ireland: the Blasket Island autobiographies. These texts were =
produced by
members of the Irish-speaking community living on the Great Blasket =
Island
off the west coast of Co. Kerry, c. 1850-1953. As a group, they have =
often
been viewed as having greater ethnographic, rather than literary,
significance. Se=E1n =D3 Tuama's assessment regarding what has been the
prevalent appraisal of the Blasket texts, reads: "From the Blasket =
Islands,
in particular, has come a handful of autobiographies which by common
European standards are sui generis=85. The only vaguely comparable =
series of
books known to me is that by Indian chiefs describing their ancestral =
life
before the white man's conquest" (1995:203). =D3 Tuama's rhetoric serves =
to
assert the degree to which the Blasket texts differ from other
Irish-language literature. In so doing, he suggests that these texts...

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"I found it out by the bogs": Reviewing Shakespeare in Ireland
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"I found it out by the bogs": Reviewing Shakespeare in Ireland

Author: Patrick Lonergan a

Abstract
This paper explores the reviewing of Shakespeare's plays in Ireland.
Although his works are often staged in that country, there have been
relatively few productions of the eleven Shakespeare plays that explicitly
mention Ireland or the Irish. Rather than considering the Ireland that
actually appears in those works, some Irish critics instead consider his
work from a postcolonial perspective - an approach that does little to
advance understanding of Shakespeare's work, and which occludes the rich
history of Shakespearean production in Ireland since the late seventeenth
century. The article proposes a number of ways in which critics might
respond to this situation.

Keywords: Abbey Theatre; Shakespeare; Irish theatre; Jonathan Swift; John
Millington Synge; Smock Alley

Affiliation: a Department of English, School of Humanities, National
University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

Published in: Shakespeare, Volume 6, Issue 3 September 2010 , pages 343 -
349

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I have already thanked the Ir-D member who brought this article to our
attention.

I now thank another Ir-D member, who has found this article freely =
available
on the web.

http://www.faqs.org/periodicals/201009/2136852731.html

This has the extra merit of explaining Dead Rabbits to the uninitiated. =
Hi,
guys.

There has been some discussion of the Rabbits on Ir-D over the years - =
first
around Asbury, Gangs of New York, and then at the time of the release of =
the

2002 Martin Scorsese movie. There is now a huge amount, on the web and
elsewhere, about the movie - it has its own Wikipedia entry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_of_New_York

which draws attention to Tyler Anbinder's comments on historical =
accuracy.

http://hnn.us/comments/6212.html

P.O'S.
=A0

On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Patrick O'Sullivan
wrote:
Our attention has been drawn to the following article...

The Art Bulletin
September 2010, Volume XCII Number 3

Rioting Refigured: George Henry Hall and the Picturing of American =
Political
Violence
ROSS BARRETT
211

In 1858, American artist George Henry Hall completed A Dead Rabbit =
(Study of
the Nude or Study of an Irishman), a stunning picture of a working-class
Irish rioter. Directly engaging a subject-political violence-that
contradicted the orderly imperatives of antebellum aesthetic and =
democratic
theory, Hall undertook a project fraught with risk and difficulty. =
Reframing
the midcentury rioter as an ideal nude, A Dead Rabbit seems both to =
temper
and exacerbate the alarming connotations of violent upheaval. Marked by
contradiction, the painting offers a unique lens on the broader =
conflicts
and quiet ambivalences that complicated bourgeois responses to =
antebellum
violence.


MODERATOR'S NOTE
George Henry Hall, A Dead Rabbit
Can be seen on these web sites. =A0Scroll down:

http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2009/george-henry-hall-skinner-national-a=
cad
emy/

http://americangallery.wordpress.com/2010/04/13/george-henry-hall-1825-19=
13/

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This article makes bold attempts to connect the study of social policy in
Ireland with studies elsewhere over time and space. It looks back to
Townsend (1979) and Mack and Lansley (1985). The comparative analysis looks
at seven countries, Ireland, the UK, Finland, Austria, Portugal, the Czech
Republic and Estonia. 'The UK has been chosen for obvious historical
Reasons. The remaining countries have been included to enable us to compare
Irish outcomes with a set of smaller European countries that span the range
of welfare regimes that have been identified in the social policy
literature....'

Whelan, Christopher, and Bertrand Maitre. 2010. Poverty in Ireland in
Comparative European Perspective. Social Indicators Research. 95 (1):91 -
110.

Abstract
In this paper we seek to put Irish poverty rates in a comparative European
context. We do so in a context whereby the Irish economic boom and EU
enlargement have led to increasing reservations being expressed regarding
rates deriving from the EU 'at risk of poverty' indicator. Our comparative
analysis reports findings for both overall levels of poverty and variation
by household reference person characteristics for this indicator and a
consistent poverty measure for Ireland, the UK and five smaller European
countries spanning a range of welfare regimes. Our findings demonstrate that
the distinctiveness of Ireland's situation lies not in the overall levels of
poverty per se but in the very high penalties associated with being in a
household where the household reference person is a lone parent or excluded
from the labour market.

Keywords Ireland - Europe - Poverty comparisons - EU enlargement - Lone
parent

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Although this is not strictly an Irish Diaspora topic, it may be of
interest to listers. BBC Radio 4 aired a fascinating interview with
Roddy Doyle on the Bookclub programme last week

It's still available on the BBC iPlayer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00v1511/Bookclub_Roddy_Doyle/

I've also put a downloadable mp3 of the show in the cloud at
http://www.mediafire.com/?yszx653iapk7b8e for listers outside of the UK.


Best

Liam

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Gareth Peirce: Why I still fight for human rights

'Justice dies when the law is co-opted for political purposes.' Gareth
Peirce, one of our key human rights lawyers, talks to Stuart Jeffries
=20
Stuart Jeffries
The Guardian, Tuesday 12 October 2010

'I don't have any memories of my childhood now," says Gerry Conlon, as =
he
rolls a cigarette in the sun-dappled garden of a cafe in Camden Town, =
north
London. "But everything that happened from Saturday 30 November 1974 is
absolutely vivid." That was the day the 20-year-old was arrested in =
Belfast
for his supposed part in the Guildford pub bombings, in which five =
people
died and 65 were injured. It was 15 years before Conlon was finally =
released
from prison =96 thanks mostly to the human rights lawyer Gareth Peirce.

Conlon became known as one of the Guildford Four, whose convictions, =
along
with those of the Birmingham Six and the Maguire Seven, remain among the
most grievous miscarriages of justice in British history...

...In her new book, Dispatches from the Dark Side: On Torture and the =
Death
of Justice, Peirce argues that these miscarriages catalysed conflict in
Northern Ireland. "Central to the anger and despair that fuelled the
conflict was the realisation that the British courts would offer neither
protection nor justice," she writes. "This should be always in our minds =
as
we analyse the experiences of our new suspect community." Certainly, =
this
thought has been in her mind a long time. Moazzam Begg, the one-time =
terror
suspect whom Peirce represented before and during his imprisonment in
Guant=E1namo Bay, says, "She said soon after I met her in 1998: 'It was =
the
Irish first and I can see now it's the turn of the Muslims.'"...

FULL TEXT AT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2010/oct/12/gareth-peirce-fight-human-right=
s
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June 3-6 2011
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FIFTH INTERNATIONAL GEORGE MOORE CONFERENCE
NUI Galway, Moore Hall, Mayo, Coole Park, Galway: June 3-6 2011

2011 marks the one hundredth anniversary of the publication of Ave. =
Bearing
this in mind, the focus of this conference will concern the relationship =
of
George Moore to the Irish Revival and to those involved in various
social/cultural/political movements in Ireland during the first decade =
of
the twentieth century. Since a portion of the conference will be held at
Moore Hall, we will also welcome papers concerning the Moore family and
estate.

Topics may include but are by no means limited to:
- Moore=92s Literary Legacy
- Moore and autobiography
- Irish Modernism
- The Irish fin de si=E8cle
- Moore as collaborator
- Moore as conduit of European influence (Dujardin, Turgenev, Wagner)
- The Moores of Moore Hall=20
- Moore=92s Dublin Circle
- Moore & the West of Ireland
- Maurice Moore as revivalist
- Literary Modernism and/or the Modernist Heresy
- The Big House and the Irish Revival
- Dublin and urban folklore
- Yeats and Moore, Joyce and Moore, AE and Moore, etc.
- Moore, Clerics, and Christianity
- Moore, Hyde and the Gaelic League
- Controversy and the Irish revival=20
- Moore=92s best book?

Abstracts for individual papers and round tables on the topic of the
conference are welcome. They should be limited to 150-200 words. All
non-plenary papers or presentations are limited to a maximum of 20 =
minutes.
Submissions must include name, institutional affiliation or independent
scholar status and contact information.

Conor Montague=20
Texts, Contexts, Cultures=20
Moore Institute=20
NUI Galway=20
Ireland

Email: c.montague1[at]nuigalway.ie
Visit the website at http://conference.ie

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Ireland Since 1966: New Perspectives

UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland, 11 November 2010

Ireland since 1966: New Perspectives is a day-long conference jointly =
organised by UCD School of History and Archives and the Department of =
Politics, University of Glasgow, to be held at UCD Humanities Institute =
of Ireland on 11 November 2010.

The conference is the first such gathering to explore new historical =
perspectives on Ireland since 1966 and the issues involved in their =
construction. Broadly interdisciplinary in its approach, it will draw =
together established and upcoming scholars from across Britain and =
Ireland to examine that period under a number of themes, including =
=E2=80=93 though not limited to =E2=80=93 the Irish political system, =
Europe, Northern Ireland, globalisation, economics, foreign policy, =
women and gender, social change, the arts, culture, sport, and the =
media. What insights do historians bring to our understanding of this =
period? How do they engage in the study of the recent past? And how do =
their interpretations compare with the social sciences? Firmly grounded =
in historical methodologies, the conference will explore issues that =
have not been normally dealt with in the conventional historiography but =
which continue to carry a contemporary resonance.

The programme, including directions to the venue, can be seen here=20
http://irelandsince1966.com/programme/

(and pasted in below)

Further information is available by contacting the organisers =E2=80=93 =
Professor Brian Girvin (University of Glasgow), Dr Ciara Meehan (UCD) =
and Dr Kevin O=E2=80=99Sullivan (UCD) =E2=80=93 at =
newperspectives[at]ucd.ie.

http://irelandsince1966.com/


Programme

Ireland Since 1966: New Perspectives

UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland, 11 November 2010

Programme:

Session I:

9.30 =E2=80=93 11.00 Which Ireland? Labels and Identities

Chair: John Coakley (UCD)

Sarah Campbell (UCD), =E2=80=98New nationalism? The SDLP and the =
creation of a socialist labour party in Northern Ireland, =
1970-1974=E2=80=99.

Brian Hanley (St. Patrick=E2=80=99s, Drumcondra), =E2=80=98=E2=80=9CThey =
used to be a great organization at one time didn=E2=80=99t they? But =
then they started all this killing=E2=80=9D. Popular attitudes to the =
IRA in southern Ireland, 1968-1994=E2=80=99.

John M. Regan (Dundee), =E2=80=98Conor Cruise O=E2=80=99Brien and the =
meanings of liberalism in Ireland=E2=80=99.

Session II:

11.15 =E2=80=93 12.45 Agents of Change

Chair: Lindsey Earner-Byrne (UCD)

Bill Kissane (LSE), =E2=80=98=E2=80=9CDe Valera=E2=80=99s =
Constitution=E2=80=9D becomes disharmonic: social change and Irish =
constitutional life since 1966=E2=80=99.

Mary Muldowney (TCD), =E2=80=98Still =E2=80=9Cgrinding babies in the =
abortion mills of England=E2=80=9D? Changes in the Irish perspective on =
abortion since 1966=E2=80=99.

Finola Doyle-O=E2=80=99Neill (UCC), =E2=80=98From the confession box to =
the radio soap box: the talk radio show in Ireland and social =
change=E2=80=99.

Session III:

13.45 =E2=80=93 15.15 Chasing Progress

Chair: Tom Garvin (UCD)

Brian Girvin (Glasgow), =E2=80=98De Valera=E2=80=99s achievement and the =
emergence of contemporary Ireland, 1966-1989=E2=80=99.

Ciara Meehan (IRCHSS Postdoctoral Fellow, UCD), =E2=80=98In search of a =
Just Society: Fine Gael and the National Coalition, 1973-1977=E2=80=99.

Alan Power (TCD), =E2=80=98Economic policy in Ireland and the goal of =
full employment, 1973-1979=E2=80=99.

Session IV:

15.30 =E2=80=93 17.00 Citizens of the World

Chair: Michael Kennedy (UCD / Documents on Irish Foreign Policy Project)

Carole Holohan (UCD), =E2=80=98Opportunities and aspirations: Irish =
youth in the sixties=E2=80=99.

Aoife Keogh (EUI), =E2=80=98Perspectives from within the EEC: =
Ireland=E2=80=99s commitment to the acquis communitaire =
1973-1975=E2=80=99.

Kevin O=E2=80=99Sullivan (IRCHSS Postdoctoral Fellow, UCD), =
=E2=80=98=E2=80=9CBorn missionaries=E2=80=9D? Geldof, Robinson, aid and =
the Irish=E2=80=99.

Session V:

17.15 =E2=80=93 18.30 Roundtable: The Challenges of Contemporary Ireland

Chair: Mary Daly (UCD)

Participants:
Diarmaid Ferriter (UCD)
John Horgan (DCU)
Tom Inglis (UCD)
Eunan O=E2=80=99Halpin (TCD)
Geoffrey Roberts (UCC)

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Posting on behalf of Barry Lewis, Historian=A0
(New York History & Architecture)=A0


New Work On 17thC Dutch New York=A0
Submitted, 14th October 2010
Catalogue Announcement (Diaspora Studies)=A0
__________________________________


The prominence of the Netherlands in the formation of early New York has
always engaged historians, but the subject has now captured a broad =
range of
researchers in Diaspora Studies, Cultural Studies, and Feminism.=A0

Students of this productive interface between New World America and the
bounteous Dutch Republic now have a treasure trove of new research (and
images) in recent work on the life and career of an important woman of
17th-century Dutch New York:=A0Margrieta Van Varick=A0(b. Amsterdam, =
1649 - d.
Flatbush, Breuckelen [Brooklyn], NY, 1695). Van Varick was a successful
merchant of high-end textiles (wall hangings, rugs, coverings), as well =
as
fine furniture, luxury clothing, and artisanal silver pieces and =
jewelry.
Her suppliers were based in East India (Indonesia) and in Europe; her
clientele was mostly the rising monied class of Nieuw-Amsterdam =
(colonial
New York). Van Varick was the subject of an extended exhibition at the =
Bard
Graduate Center Gallery, New York City:=A0Dutch New York Between East & =
West:
The World of Margrieta Van Varick=A0(September 2009 ~January 2010; 171
exhibits; 35 U.S. and Dutch lenders; curators, Marybeth De Filippis and
Deborah L. Krohn).=A0

For those who did not view this unusual show, I am eager to bring =
attention
to its lavish, large-format catalogue (2010; cloth; 399 pp; 9" x 11.5";
color plates; index; jacket; see link, below, to Amazon ad). The =
catalogue,
printed in Italy, received the First Runner-up prize in the 'excellence =
in
museum catalogue' category competition sponsored by the Association of =
Art
Museum Curators.=A0

Of special interest to students of material culture and publication =
history
is the detailed probate inventory (1696, 19 folios) of Van Varick's =
estate
(her stock and household goods), published in full facsimile in the
exhibition catalogue (pp 342-364), with detailed commentary, notes, and =
a
glossary of specialized terms. In a twenty-minute interview with one of =
the
show's principals, Peter N. Miller (Bard Graduate Ctr.), Natalie Zemon
Davis, a distinguished scholar in feminist history and cultural studies,
spoke on the evidentiary power of extant inventories as integral to =
material
culture and biography; a transcription of the interview is published in =
the
catalogue. For a link to the taped (live) interview, along with an =
Images
Gallery of nine captioned images from the Van Varick show, see Maureen =
E.
Mulvihill's comprehensive review in the current issue =
of=A0Seventeenth-Century
News=A0(vol. 68, vols 1&2, pp 75-89; journal editor, Donald R. Dickson, =
Texas
A&M University); see link, below.=A0

As an active speaker on the history of New York, both in special =
television
programs and public forums, I am eager to introduce my audiences to the
availability of the Van Varick show catalogue and the contribution of =
Van
Varick (and her descendants) to the developing frontier of 17th-century
America; with the availability of this catalogue, the Van Varick subject =
is
now an accessible case study for Diaspora specialists. The show,
incidentally, included a first-edition copy of Daniel Denton's
important=A0Brief Description of New York (1670; Exhibit 45; catalogue
commentary, with color image, pp 192-3); two copies of the Denton are at =
the
Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza, and the 1845 reprint (with
extensive notes) is preserved in the Library's new Brooklyn Collection
research and reading room, an invaluable repository of archival =
documents
and other resources in several mediums. The Library's History Division =
also
includes a dedicated section on early Brooklyn.

For Exhibition Catalogue, with jacket image:
http://www.amazon.com/Dutch-York-between-East-West/dp/0300154674

For Exhibition Review, with Gallery of Images:
http://repositories.tdl.org/tdl-ir/handle/2249.1/9386
Click on 'View / Open' =A0 =A0=A0

Congratulations to my colleagues and associates at the Bard Graduate =
Center
and at the New-York Historical Society on a spectacular achievement, and
to=A0Seventeenth-Century News=A0on a glorious exhibition review. For
particulars, see the links, above (or contact the show's curators).=A0


Barry Lewis
Historian: New York History; New York Architecture.
For a schedule of my speaking engagements (Fall 2010), and=A0
for information on my televised 'Walking Tours of New York' (PBS),=A0
visit:=A0http://www.barrylewis.org/

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CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue of
21st Century Society: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences (to be
renamed Contemporary Social Sciences)
on 'Identity, Politics and Social Action'.

The notion of identity has become core to much social science analysis and
understanding. Moreover, although identity has different roots in social
psychology, sociology, social anthropology and politics the concept can also
act as a bridge between them, providing a focus for interdisciplinary and
multidisciplinary research across the social sciences.

Since the late 1960s, the politics of identity have become central to
contemporary social life, transforming the political landscape, through the
actions of individuals and groups seeking to heighten our understanding of
race, class, gender, and sexuality as organisational features of everyday
political life. The deepening of 'identity politics' have led to the
formation of social and political movements designed to advance the
interests of those groups who unite around lines of culture, religion,
ethnicity, ideology, gender, region or sexual orientation. Often identity
politics has proved the focus for political activism by groups who are
excluded from traditional mainstream political representation, and those
highlighting issues of social justice, social marginalisation and
discrimination.

This special edition calls for papers that address the strengths and
contradictions in current understandings of political identity. It seeks
contributions to review and analyse political identities as the basis for
social action, and/ or to deepen our understanding of the formative forces
that 'construct' personhood, through biology, personality, culture,
socialization, regional and national identities. Papers may also, for
example, focus on the intersections between gender, social class,
ethnicities, sexualities, and the manifestation of these identities through
social and political movements, as experienced for example, through
diasporas, nation-building, organized social action, globalization,
political violence and in specific identity conflicts.

Manuscripts should follow the usual instructions for electronic submission
of papers to 21st Century Society. Authors should indicate that they wish
the manuscript to be reviewed for inclusion in the special issue. The Editor
of this issue would be happy to review plans for papers in advance of their
receipt. All papers will be peer reviewed. The closing date for submitting
papers is 7th February 2011.

The Special Editor responsible for this issue is:

Professor James W. McAuley
University of Huddersfield
School of Human and Health Sciences
Queensgate Campus
HUDDERSFIELD Email: j.w.mcauley[at]hud.ac.uk
HD13DH Tel: +44 (0)1484-472691

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Colleagues,



I am conference chair for the Ohio Valley History Conference (OVHC) next
October 6-8, 2011. The OVHC started almost 30 years ago as a regional
general history conference, but now draws from a very wide area. The level
of the papers is quite good. The conference starts with a reception on the
Thursday night and usually ends after a luncheon with speaker on the
Saturday. I was also conference chair the last time it was at Murray State
six years ago. I would again like to have a number of sessions on the
Diaspora and Irish history-and a few more. So, I am inviting those on the
list to submit panel or paper proposals-we are very open to presentations by
(post)graduate students, so feel free to refer this to them if you wish. I
plan to have a major Diaspora scholar as the Friday banquet speaker, but
that is yet to be confirmed. Murray is not as remote as it might look on a
map-a number of list members have been here in lecture series I have
organized. I think they all enjoyed their visit. Paducah-one hour
away--has commuter jet flights from Chicago and the Nashville, Tennessee
airport is just over two hours away I will provide "hospitality" to insure
you enjoy your visit and, depending on the schedule, can probably arrange
airport pickups and some touring. Unfortunately, I do not have a budget to
subsidize travel for participants.



The preliminary CFP without graphics:



The 2011 Ohio Valley History Conference will be hosted by Murray State
University in Murray, KY October 6, 7, and 8, 2011. The conference
organizers welcome proposals for sessions or individual papers in all
geographic areas and chronological periods of history and teaching history
from secondary school, college, and university faculty; public history
professionals; graduate students; and others interested in history. Paper
proposals should include a 250-word abstract of the paper and a brief
curriculum vitae (c.v.). Session proposals should include a brief abstract
of each paper and a c.v. for each participant. Individuals interested in
chairing a session or serving as a commentator should send a brief c.v. to
the organizers. The conference will include a Friday evening banquet with
speaker and a Saturday luncheon with speaker. The headquarters hotel will be
announced later as will the URL for the conference website. Further
information is available from the conference organizers.

Please submit proposals by July 1, 2011

OVHC Conference Chair
Department of History
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341
bill.mulligan[at]murraystate.edu
1-270-809-2231





Thanks for considering this-please pass on to potentially interested
colleagues and students.



Bill



William H. Mulligan, Jr.

Professor of History

Graduate Program Coordinator

Murray State University

Murray KY 42071-3341 USA

office phone 1-270-809-6571

dept phone 1-270-809-2231

fax 1-270-809-6587

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A few years ago the Ir-D list mentioned

Enforcing Reformation in Ireland and Scotland, 1550-1700
Elizabethanne Boran and Crawford Gribben
Series: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History

This review of James Murray's new book will interest many Ir-D members.

P.O'S.


James Murray. Enforcing the English Reformation in Ireland: Clerical
Resistance and Political Conflict in the Diocese of Dublin, 1534-1590.
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History Series. Cambridge
Cambridge University Press, 2009. 374 pp. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN
978-0-521-77038-5.

Reviewed by Sarah Covington (Queens College/City University of New York)
Published on H-Albion (October, 2010)
Commissioned by Brendan Kane

The Failed Reformation

If the religious changes of early modern England continue to bedevil
historians, the Reformation in Ireland presents an even greater complexity.
On the one hand, certain points are clear and inarguable. Ireland, for one,
did not get a Protestant Reformation but an English Protestant Reformation,
imposed from above and by statute, and existing within a larger context of
Tudor colonization and dispossession. And the Reformation of course,
ultimately failed in Ireland, even as political and military conquest
proceeded forward with violent effectiveness. But why and when precisely did
this Reformation fail, particularly in the Pale, and can such terms as
"success" and "failure" even be utilized to describe the sometimes
conciliatory and often moderate religious policies enacted over the course
of the sixteenth century? For that matter, how did enforcement of such
policies actually proceed? And what role did political figures, and viceroys
in particular, play in shaping religious policy, in relation to archbishops
and ecclesiastics? In the last forty years, the most notable historians of
early modern Ireland, including Brendan Bradshaw and Nicholas Canny, have
weighed in on these questions, with lively if at times contentious results;
building on this work, and these debates, is James Murray's _Enforcing the
English Reformation__ in Ireland_, an essential contribution based on
original research that proposes a few convincing theories of its own.

Working from difficult if at times scanty sources, Murray constructs a
highly detailed analytical narrative of the Reformation policies enacted in
the diocese of Dublin from the reign of Henry VIII through Elizabeth.
According to one of the book's main arguments, the enforcement of Tudor
religious policies was, with the exception of the reign of Mary, subject to
(and ultimately felled by) an ongoing struggle between "reforming
archbishops enjoined to use the conventional ecclesiastical structures for
reformist purposes and a clerical conservative elite which was equally
determined to maintain its traditional stranglehold over those same
structures and to use them for its own, essentially Catholic, ideological
ends" (p. 17). This Anglo-Norman elite--"Catholic and English to the
core"--had developed its identity over the course of centuries, claiming St.
Patrick's Cathedral as its administrative "nerve centre" and "most potent
symbol," and assiduously upholding the principles of the papal bull
_Laudabiliter_ (1155), which was used to justify the conquest of Ireland by
the English Crown (pp. 49, 33). Indeed, the "threat of the Irishry,"
including the perceived "fundamental lawlessness and inherent canonical
deviancy of Gaelic Irish politics and society," did as much to define this
Pale community as one that "preserved English ecclesiastical order and
canonical rectitude" as well as the larger "Christian values" that stood
behind them (pp. 58, 62, 78).

When the break with Rome came, Murray writes, it was not the assertion of
the royal supremacy that elicited such consternation so much as the Crown's
"disregard for the independence and liberties of the clerical estate,
[which] undermined or threatened to destroy virtually every element of the
clerical elite's ethos, including the political basis of the _Laudabiliter_
settlement, the intellectual and legal foundations of their cherished
notions of canonical correctness, and even their own hallowed position in
Pale society" (p. 80). The figure who was charged with enforcing these
changes, and thus became the recipient of the attendant suspicions, was the
archbishop of Dublin, beginning with George Browne, to whom Murray devotes
two lengthy chapters. Browne's difficulties in the 1530s, however, rested
not so much in a concerted clerical opposition but--as Murray writes--in
"the fitful nature of the king's and Cromwell's interest in Ireland, and the
restricted nature of royal authority there," as well as a general mistrust
between Crown and magnates that got off to a bad start with the Kildare
revolt in 1534 (p. 95). Though such weaknesses could allow the space for
clerical resistance to emerge, Murray proceeds to concentrate on Browne's
policies, including the imposition of legal measures enacted in the 1537
Irish Reformation parliament that would, along with visitations by the
archbishop himself, ensure clerical obedience and conformity, at least in
the Pale. The suppression of the monasteries allowed Browne to further
weaken the resistance of the corporate clergy, to the point where the
Reformation proceeded to make "significant headway" that was interrupted not
by the clerical elite's resistance but by Cromwell's fall in 1540 (p. 123).

Though Murray demonstrates that Browne was hardly a "spent force" as a
reformer after Cromwell's death, the focus shifts in subsequent chapters to
the new and "wily" Lord Deputy Anthony St. Leger, to whom Browne was
indebted, not least for the problem of his being married in a period that
witnessed a renewed campaign against incontinent priests (p. 143). St.
Leger's regime proceeded to merge political and ecclesiastical reform,
represented by Henry's acquiring the title of king rather than lord of
Ireland in 1541--an event that produced a "muted response" from a clergy
rendered vulnerable by the dissolution of its monasteries. More important,
however, was the manner in which the now-conservative reforms of the 1540s
were made palatable and "congenial" to--and thus co-opting of--that very
clergy (p. 134). The emphasis here thus rests not on resistance but on
accommodation, even compromise, from both ends of the ecclesiastical
spectrum.

The religious settlement of 1542, minutely detailed by Murray, was
reinforced by St. Leger instigating various property giveaways that "lured
many of Dublin's most senior clergymen into the web of economic and social
relationships that he had spun," resulting in "an exceptional period of
religious consensus and tranquility" that lasted up through 1546 (p. 180).
Murray argues that St. Leger's reform project was even effected in Gaelic
Ulster, in conjunction with Archbishop George Dowdall of Armagh, through the
use of a canon law that the viceroy hoped would serve as the "transitional
legal medium through which he would proceed with the peaceful and gradual
assimilation of Gaelic Ulster into a fully anglicized Irish kingdom" (p.
185). These advancements, effecting reform through a "flexible approach,"
would end not by way of any clerical resistance but through a series of
complex political (and religious) events that would ultimately bring the
viceroy down and undermine all previous gains (p. 188).

Murray is particularly strong in a chapter examining the restoration of
Catholicism during the reign of Mary, arguing that it was not prompted by
any "groundswell of popular affection for traditional religion" nor an
ideological Counter-Reformation upsurge, but brought forward instead by a
group of senior diocesan clergy led by Archbishop Dowdall, an "ultra loyal
Palesman" who used the canon law, as his predecessors did, but this time to
effect a return to traditional values and to "defend the English political
and socio-cultural order" and impose a "standard of civility" on the "wild
Irish," at least until the common law took hold (pp. 210, 212). For Dowdall,
political reform was thus "synonymous with Catholic religious orthodoxy and
traditional canonical rectitude," with his "rejuvenated, independent, and
assertive clericalism" exerting an influence on Dublin and representing a
victory for the corporate clergy (p. 219). Returning in the following
chapter to the diocese of Dublin and Archbishop Hugh Curwen, installed in
1555, Murray further describes the Marian restoration as an "unqualified
success," even if the accession of Elizabeth to the throne brought further
change, and with it, Curwen's own acceptance of the new oath of supremacy
(p. 252). Curwen's regime, however, had "subversive intentions" (in
undercutting the Elizabethan settlement at nearly every turn, with the
diocese failing to enforce many of the primary tenets of that
settlement--itself an act of resistance) (p. 257). In doing so, Murray
writes, Curwen's outward conformity succeeded in "throwing a protective veil
over the community of the diocese of Dublin," which "ensured that the local
and customary attachment to the old religion ... would be preserved and
consolidated even as the state endeavored to destroy it" (pp. 258-259). The
failure of the Reformation in the diocese of Dublin, Murray concludes, was
finally consolidated by the religiously involved policies of Lord Deputy
Henry Sidney, despite the attempts of the new archbishop, Adam Loftus and
his lord chancellor, Robert Weston, to effect a "carefully modulated" and
"less coercive approach to enforcement" of Reformation (pp. 265, 267).
Murray seems to imply that despite Curwen's legacy of sustaining Catholicism
under Mary, the Reformation might have been somewhat successful with the
"conciliatory and gradualist approach" of Loftus and Weston, were it not for
the harsh policies of Sidney, the outbreak of more revolts, and the
increasingly hard-liner stance of Loftus himself, which "decisively
alienated the Pale community" (pp. 284, 316).

_Enforcing the English Reformation in Ireland_ is concerned almost solely
with how the enforcement of Reformation policies played itself out not among
the population at large but with the clerical elite located within the Pale.
This does not detract from the book, but one wonders if part of the
resistance by that elite involved playing on the sentiments of the people
(St. Leger's attempt to downgrade Christ Church, for example, would be
abandoned after "agitated opposition from the loyal citizens of Dublin" [p.
168]). While Murray also makes a convincing case in arguing that the
persistence of the old faith was due to the "survivalist" attachment of the
corporate clergy to traditional and "deeply colonial" Pale values, more
might have been written about how those values proceeded to mesh or clash
with the later influence of the Counter-Reformation (pp. 317, 318). Finally,
and perhaps most important, though Murray writes that he seeks to understand
"the nature of the response of the English Irish community to the
Reformation," and states that the book is "the story of a generation of
clergymen based in St. Patrick's Cathedral," he is as much concerned with
the secular and ecclesiastical policymakers themselves as with the clerical
opposition that resisted them (pp. 13, 321). Occasionally, the personalities
of these figures tends to overshadow the forces that oppose them, just as
their policies appear to be a success--until they are not anymore (and not
because of any concerted resistance on the part of the clerical elite).
Thus, it is not that resistance necessarily killed the policies of the early
1570s, but the illness and death of Weston (and the coercive policies of
Sidney, which "would finally and irrevocably crystallize the Pale
community's rejection of the Reformation in the late 1570s and early 1580"
and beyond [p. 303]). And of course, the changing nature of religious
policies among the Tudors also prevented the necessary stability in order
for true change to take hold. These caveats aside, _Enforcing the __English
__Reformation__ in Ireland_ is an impressive and much-needed work that
succeeds in integrating the complex history of the era, and in skillfully
examining the successes and failures, the high-flown plans, and the
compromised realities, of bringing the Reformation--or the English
Reformation--to Ireland.

Citation: Sarah Covington. Review of Murray, James, _Enforcing the English
Reformation in Ireland: Clerical Resistance and Political Conflict in the
Diocese of Dublin, 1534-1590_. H-Albion, H-Net Reviews. October, 2010.
URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=31022

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

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It is a recurring feature of Irish Diaspora Studies that we have to discuss
the latest movie that happens to feature the Irish, Irishry and Irishness...

1.
So, an alert...

'Ealing Studios have left it late to promote 'Burke & Hare', their Hammer
Horror style black comedy that centers on a pair of Irish immigrants who
took to murdering their tenants 'Sweeney Todd' style, when they were low on
cash. The pair would sell off the bodies of their 17 victims to the
Edinburgh Medical College whose ambitious Dr. Robert Knox would pay
handsomely to use them for medical dissections, and by all intents
encouraged the killings...

...Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis star as the devilish duo that marks John
Landis' (American Werewolf in London, Blues Brothers) first live action film
in over a decade.

http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/burke-hare-trailer.php

A search will turn up trailers and clips, and many indications that the film
distributors have qualms.

The main book on the devilish duo is

Edwards, O. D. (1981). Burke and Hare. Edinburgh: Polygon Books.

Which is full of Owen Dudley Edwards isms. But sound research.

2.
On a completely different planet...

The Secret of Kells

Has been well reviewed - though some reviewers were puzzled by it, and
struggled for context. But I think a lot of film reviewers know little
about animation.

Empire magazine's reviewer, who is called Helen O'Hara, says ' the closest
thing we've seen to a European Miyazaki movie...' Praise indeed.

The movie is now out on dvd etc. There is a Wikipedia entry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_of_Kells

http://newvideo.com/secretofkells/

P.O'S.

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There is a new pattern emerging in some of our web searches and alerts.

Very often now draft conference papers are put on academic web sites =
before conferences, and left there for a while after the conference =
ends. These draft conference papers thus become visible on the web.

I am still trying to think through the implications - of protocol and
courtesies.

In this particular case I have approached Patrick R. Ireland (Illinois =
Institute of Technology) and I have his permission to share this =
information with the Irish Diaspora list.

This draft conference paper is on the DIT web site, left over from he =
Political Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference, Dublin, 8 =
October - 10 October 2010

http://www.dit.ie/psai/papers/

You will see a number of draft conference papers there.

This link will take you straight to=20

Patrick R. Ireland
October 2010
DRAFT
Only Distant Cousins: Irish Protestants and Politics in the U.S., =
Canada, and Australia

http://www.dit.ie/media/documents/psai/PatrickIrelandPSAIpaper82.pdf

ABSTRACT: In the United States, the (re)discovery and celebration of =
Irish Protestant ancestry has extended in recent years to arguments by =
some journalists and politicians=E2=80=94albeit fewer =
scholars=E2=80=94that there exists yet today an identifiable =
=E2=80=95Scots-Irish vote=E2=80=96. This paper explores the political =
behavior of Irish Protestant migrants and their descendants in the U.S. =
and in a critical state-level case (Kentucky). To assist in identifying =
the factors that have fostered or mitigated an Irish Protestant =
political identity, comparative analysis will be constructed between the =
American experience and the very different ones of two other major =
recipient countries: Canada (and the province of Ontario) and Australia =
(and the state of New South Wales). The timing and magnitude of mass =
migration, settlement patterns, source regions, and religious =
affiliation have all mattered in determining the political roles played =
by Irish Protestants in the three former British colonies since the 18th =
and 19th centuries. Even more important have been the local economic and =
political contexts, including prevailing political party structures and =
competition. These factors explain why none of the three case countries, =
the U.S. included, bears witness to a coherent, identifiable Irish =
Protestant political legacy.

I also have, as separate documents, the maps that Patrick Ireland used =
to illustrate his paper. If anyone wants these, do contact me directly.

And do note that I do not know how long the conference material will =
stay on the DIT web site. As I say, it is a new pattern that we are =
even aware of it.

I did comment to Patrick Ireland that being called Patrick O'Sullivan is =
bad=20
enough, but being called Patrick Ireland must be a search engine =
nightmare...

He says that he has started using 'the middle initial in my academic =
work after complaints about my being "ungoogleable."...'

P.O'S.=20

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Book Review, New Guests of the Irish Nation, By Bryan Fanning
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A very thoughtful book review by Agata Piekosz...

The review is quite long - key themes identified are Solidarity, Citizenship
Irish Identity. A few extracts, below...

P.O'S.

Book Review: New Guests of the Irish Nation. By Bryan Fanning. Dublin, Irish
Academic Press, 2009. Pp. 228. $69.25 (cloth). ISBN: 9780716529668
Agata Piekosz
Critical Sociology, November 2010; vol. 36, 6: pp. 915-919.

Bryan Fanning takes a detailed look at the changing role of Ireland in its
contemporary stage of migration history. Formerly, Ireland has been
considered an emigration nation, largely homogeneous with a seemingly
'self-contained universe' (p. 7). This has rapidly changed with the onset of
the booming Celtic Tiger economy. Now, Ireland faces a particularly new and
challenging role while re-imagining its identity and dealing with the
precarious status of multi-ethnic immigrants.

In New Guests of the Irish Nation, Fanning relies on a diverse toolkit,
incorporating the role of culture, politics, history, and most interestingly
solidarity. Fanning emphasizes the roles of nepotism and suggests that Irish
ethnocentrism and racism are an extension of Irish nepotism, defined as
preference for kin over outsiders...

...One of Fanning's most interesting contributions is the focus on
solidarity and the cognitive aspects of social inclusion in Irish society.
His account reflects a re-emerging interest in solidarity in the social
sciences, especially in sociology (cf. Gray 2004 for an exceptional
example). Solidarity in new countries of immigration, like Ireland, is of
particular importance. Having experienced emigration abroad, Ireland has a
historical knowledge of migration that could readily be applied to the
current wave of immigrants to the nation. However, as Fanning has
exemplified, the extension of 'empathy' is multifaceted and undoubtedly
complex. The dualism of 'us' and 'them' often stands in the way of
solidarity toward others (p. 89), and, as Fanning claims, it creates an
'ideological gridlock that [has] misshaped current legal and political
responses to immigration' (p. 90). The source of this 'gridlock' is twofold,
according to Fanning. First, it comes from 'a nativist conception
of Irishness' and, second, from a 'willingness to treat immigrants as
disposable beasts of burden' (p. 90)...

...The theme of solidarity is used consistently throughout the book. At one
point, Fanning writes that '[p]ost-colonial claims of mutual solidarity
between different societies with a history of oppression . may perform
poorly [when] facing up to the racism and discrimination' in their own
countries (p. 115, emphasis added).1 In this way, Fanning insightfully
exposes the fact that while Ireland may have a long drawn out experience of
emigration, spanning a vast diaspora, this knowledge and experience
may not be enough to extend solidarity toward others in a now similar
situation given its current 'receiving' context. The shortcomings of empathy
are quite real and Fanning poignantly brings to light how relevant social
exclusion can be despite Ireland's history of migrant struggle.