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It is that time of year when we celebrate - or at least note - the
continuing existence of the Irish Diaspora list, and commend the foresight
of its founding father (me).

After a few test messages my first formal message to the IR-D list referred
to the planetary alignment of December 1997, then visible from my attic
window.

We now have over 13 years of Irish Diaspora list discussion, gossip and
reference stored in our database, the Special Access area of
www.irishdiaspora.net and backed up in various places...

Since 2004 the day to day management of the Irish Diaspora list has been
handled by the Listserv software, at Jiscmail...
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/

Note that Jiscmail also automatically creates its own Irish Diaspora list
archive, accessible to members - so IR-D messages since 2004 are stored
there, as well as at irishdiaspora.net.

The Irish Diaspora list is in fair health. We now have 237 members - we
have gained over 30 new members this year. They are very welcome.

We have - as Ir-D list members know - also lost some dear and valued members
over the past year. Often the first indication that I have that something
is amiss is when an email address stops working.

There are some crunch issues looming - and I want today, December 1 2010,to
think a bit about the future of the Irish Diaspora list, and how we might
handle the forthcoming problems. Foresight, see.

I now want to thank Bill Mulligan and Liam Greenslade for help in running
the Irish Diaspora list over the past year. It all worked fairly
seamlessly, I think.

Paddy O'Sullivan

--
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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Social Sciences and Humanities University of Bradford Bradford
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The British Library archiving programme has asked if it can archive our
Irish Diaspora list web sites.

There is more about this programme on

www.webarchive.org.uk

http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/info/faq

'We select and archive sites to represent aspects of UK documentary heritage
and as a result, they will remain available to researchers in the future.
The British Library works closely with leading UK institutions to collect
and permanently preserve the UK web, and our archive can be seen at
www.webarchive.org.uk.'

Unless anyone has any objections my inclination is to say yes to this
request.

We have two relevant web sites.

1.
The first web site is part of the University of Bradford web site

http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/

Many years ago the University of Bradford web folk instructed me to
re-design this web site, to fit their corporate identity - otherwise they
would remove it from their facility. I was weary of hand-knitted html, and
said Go on then.

And many years later it is still there. I do not have access to it, and
cannot correct or amend it. But it still brings in a bit of trade.

Presumably some day someone at Bradford will notice it is still there and
knock it on the head.

2.
The second web site is

http://www.irishdiaspora.net

I own this domain name, and a few other similar names.

Over the years I have used it in various ways, as a replacement web site for
the abandoned one at Bradford, as a contact point, as a scholarly resource.

For some years that domain name has pointed at a web site hosted for us by
Dr. Stephen Sobol, The Institute of Communications Studies, University of
Leeds.

You will see the visible, public stuff, like my own reports, Donald
MacRaild's bibliographic guides, Paul V. Walsh on military history, and so
on. The way we use this web site has been overtaken by events, I think - it
is now very easy for anyone to create a web site. Nowadays we do not use
the web site much.

Stephen Sobol's connection with the University of Leeds will very soon come
to an end. We are not in a great hurry, but we must plan ahead.

My plan is to let the British Library archive the public part of that web
site, and then let Stephen Sobol close it down.

The irishdiaspora domain names will still belong to me.

Which brings us to discussion of the private part of that web site, the
Special Access part where there resides the 13 years of archives of the
Irish Diaspora list.

Paddy

--
Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

Email Patrick O'Sullivan Email Patrick
O'Sullivan Personal Fax 0044 (0) 709 236 9050

Irish Diaspora Net http://www.irishdiaspora.net Irish Diaspora list
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Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Social Sciences and Humanities University of Bradford Bradford
BD7 1DP Yorkshire England

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As I have said, the Irish Diaspora list is currently archived in 2 places...

We have over 13 years of Irish Diaspora list messages archived, behind a
password in the Special Access area of
www.irishdiaspora.net
hosted for us by Stephen Sobol at the University of Leeds.

We have the archives since 2004 at Jiscmail
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/

(There are predictable future problems to do with Jiscmail, which I will
come to.)

When I meet with other email list owners and archivists for discussion it
turns out that the fact that we have a continuous 13 year run of archives is
something quite rare.

There have been Ir-D database disasters and collapses over the years, but
because I keep back-ups I have always been able to repair the archives.

The special feature which Stephen Sobol created for us, behind the password
at irishdiaspora.net is a database with its own email address. The database
is, simply, one of the members of the Irish Diaspora list.

We have to plan ahead for the time when we no longer have Stephen Sobol's
facility at the University of Leeds.

There are 3 options. Three or thereabouts. These are not mutually
exclusive options - in fact we can do all 3 of them. Each has its own
hazards and problems, technical and otherwise.

1.
British Library
We can remove the password protection and create an URL where the British
Library archiving programme can find the Irish Diaspora list archive, and
archive it alongside our web sites. The Irish Diaspora list archive then
becomes a general scholarly resource for the future.

2.
JISCMAIL
We can let JISCMIAL have the Irish Diaspora list archive from the University
of Leeds. JISCMAIL will park them in from of the existing Irish Diaspora
list archives. As things are currently configured only members of the Irish
Diaspora list will have access to the archives.

3.
We can give the archives of the Irish Diaspora list to selected institutions
or individuals, anywhere in the world. There are various ways of doing this
- for example in theory the archive is downloadable as an ACCESS database.
But there are other routes. The archive then becomes a widely available
scholarly resource.

Is anyone interested in knowing more about this?

Let me deal now with one issue that might be on minds. We have always
stressed that the Irish Diaspora list is a semi-public discussion forum.
Some of these options make our discussions more publicly available. In fact
we often intervene behinds the scenes, to prevent members overstepping the
mark or embarrassing themselves, as fingers hit keyboard before brain
engages. I do not think that there is anything in the archive that need
worry us. But if people are worried they should contact me directly.

When we have found a safe place or places for the archives of the Irish
Diaspora list we can allow Stephen Sobol to permanently close down the
database in the Special Access area of irishdiaspora.net at the University
of Leeds.

We then have to ask if it is wise if we let JODCMAIL be the ONLY place where
we archive the messages of the Irish Diaspora list.

Paddy

--
Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

Email Patrick O'Sullivan Email Patrick
O'Sullivan Personal Fax 0044 (0) 709 236 9050

Irish Diaspora Net http://www.irishdiaspora.net Irish Diaspora list
IR-D[at]Jiscmail.ac.uk

Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Social Sciences and Humanities University of Bradford Bradford
BD7 1DP Yorkshire England

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Now...

As I have said, Jiscmail, through which we manage the Ir-D list, is the UK
academic community's listserver.

It is a requirement of Jiscmail that the 'listowner' - in this case me -
have a UK academic email address. One ending in ac.uk.

Currently I DO have an email address ending in ac.uk. But it is not at all
clear how much longer I will have such an email address, and how much longer
I will have a relationship with the University of Bradford. I am being
deliberately vague.

Just to show that we are thinking ahead... Could someone with a UK academic
email address, ending in ac.uk, volunteer to assist with the management of
the Irish Diaspora list?

Paddy

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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

Email Patrick O'Sullivan Email Patrick
O'Sullivan Personal Fax 0044 (0) 709 236 9050

Irish Diaspora Net http://www.irishdiaspora.net Irish Diaspora list
IR-D[at]Jiscmail.ac.uk

Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Social Sciences and Humanities University of Bradford Bradford
BD7 1DP Yorkshire England

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Some new members of the Irish Diaspora list will need this information.

Our archives are currently stored in 2 places (not counting my own back-ups,
and other back-ups elsewhere)...

1.
In June 2004 I moved the running of the Irish Diaspora list to Jiscmail -
the UK academic community's listserver. Jiscmail uses the software
LISTSERV, which many members will be familiar with.

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/

Jiscmail knows you through your email address. To gain access to the
archives you need to go to that web address. You sign up, in the usual
Listserv fashion, and become an individual Subscriber. Jiscmail sends a
password to your email address - you go back to the web site and log in.
Jiscmail knows you by your email address, and you will find that you have
access to the Irish Diaspora list archives there.

The archives at Jiscmail are nicely set out, and very usable.

2.
While we still have it, you might want to look at the 13 years of Irish
Diaspora list reference and discussion stored in our own private archive, a
searchable and browsable database at

http://www.irishdiaspora.net/

That is the web forwarding address, pointing to a web site hosted for us by
Dr. Stephen Sobol and The Institute of Communications Studies, University of
Leeds.

The database receives and stores an email every day that the Ir-D list is
active. This email contains all the Ir-D messages of that day.

To access that archive, go to the irishdiaspora.net web address.

Click on Special Access

Then
Username irdmember
Current Password profiterole

Note the new password, as of December 2010.

And in the RESTRICTED section you will be able to use the Database of the
Irish Diaspora list archive (DIRDA)

There are some little vagaries with the search system. Sometimes unclicking
'Whole words only' makes it behave better, especially with Irish family
names.

And it can be slow - but it is now quite a big archive.

Paddy

--
Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

Email Patrick O'Sullivan Email Patrick
O'Sullivan Personal Fax 0044 (0) 709 236 9050

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Irish Diaspora Net
http://www.irishdiaspora.net

Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Social Sciences and Humanities University of Bradford Bradford
BD7 1DP Yorkshire England

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Subject: Article,
Australia and Scotland: the Evolution of a Long-Distance
Relationship
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Australia and Scotland: the Evolution of a Long-Distance Relationship=86
Eric Richards

Australian Journal of Politics & History
Volume 56, Issue 4, pages 485=96502, December 2010

Scotland's impact across the world undoubtedly stretched to the =
Antipodes
particularly, but not only, in the colonial era. Under the =93canopy of
Empire=94, Australia and Scotland were linked by migration, trade, =
capital
movements and by cultural ties. But these were all two-way ties. They =
did
not simply colour the =93Australian civilisation=94. Rather there was a =
vital
and shifting reciprocation between Scotland and Australia. The =
relationship
between them has mainly been determined by their different economic
trajectories. Today financial and skilled human capital move each way
between the two countries with heightened velocity and efficiency. These
flows, along with continuing cultural connections, enmesh two fully
developed modern economies.

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Subject: Research Question,
opposition to a building. A church? Liverpool?
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We have been contacted by JENNIFER MARIE SCHNEIDER GRANI=C6, who is =
originally
from Nashville, Tennessee, and has in recent years worked mostly in =
Germany.

Jenni Granic is planning a historical research project which has as one
starting point debates about Muslim places of worship in present day =
Europe.
Comparison will be made with Europe in the nineteenth century, when =
similar
debates arose in a number of countries. This, for example, puts the
'Protestantenpatent' in Austria alongside 'Catholic Emancipation' in the
United Kingdom.

The working title is... Identity Projected: A Historical Comparison of
Religious House of Worship Opposition Across Europe.

Jenni Granic wants to work through a series of case studies and has =
asked if
we can think of examples of opposition in England to the creation of
specific buildings, or a specific building - perhaps a Catholic church, =
or
an Irish Catholic church. Or maybe even a pub. And maybe in Liverpool.

Yes, her general reading has taken her to Liverpool.

I have suggested looking in the obvious places...

Waller PJ. Democracy and sectarianism. Liverpool: Liverpool University
Press, 1981.

Neal F. Sectarian violence. Manchester, U.K: Manchester University =
Press,
1988.

And more recently
Belchem J. Irish, Catholic and Scouse: The History of the Liverpool =
Irish,
1800-1939. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2007.

And I have let her have some recent articles...

Nickels HC, Thomas L, Hickman MJ, Silvestri S. "Suspect" communities and =
the
enemy within: Representations of the Irish and Muslims in the British =
press.
2010.

Levitt P. Religion as a path to civic engagement. Ethnic and racial =
studies
2008; 31(4): 766.

Pantazis C, Pemberton S. From The 'Old' to the 'New' Suspect Community:
Examining the Impacts of Recent UK Counter-Terrorist Legislation. =
British
Journal of Criminology 2009

This is really to stress to her that there is already a complex
historiography in place. But she seems used to that.

So, to return to her original question... Can we think of an example, =
or of
examples, where there was opposition to a Catholic and/or Irish =
building. A
church? Liverpool?

P.O'S.

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Email Patrick O'Sullivan Email Patrick
O'Sullivan Personal Fax 0044 (0) 709 236 =
9050

Irish Diaspora Net http://www.irishdiaspora.net Irish Diaspora list
IR-D[at]Jiscmail.ac.uk

Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Social Sciences and Humanities University of Bradford =
Bradford
BD7 1DP Yorkshire England

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Do correct me if I am wrong but I have not seen many mentions of Henry
Cowell in celebrations of Irish America. Sexual misadventure does not help,
but that might well make him the American Oscar Wilde.

Cowell himself drew attention to his Irish heritage, with pieces with titles
like The Banshee and The Tides of Manaunaun.

There is a Wikipedia entry and a number of other resources - the wonder of
the web means that video searches will find videos of performances of some
pieces. It will be seen that the music schools ('schools' in many senses)
have remained interested in Cowell and his works.

In the old days my avant garde pianist friends were for ever climbing inside
the piano to get their effects - and I listened suitably humbled. But -
until this recent article about Cowell turned up - I had not really
considered the complexities of the practice and the achievement.

P.O'S.

American Music
Volume 28, Number 4, Winter 2010

Embodied Experimentalism and Henry Cowell's The Banshee
Maria Cizmic

An audience sits in the dark facing a grand piano on a brightly lit stage.
The piano's lid angles upward, the keyboard waits for someone's fingers, and
the bench sits empty. The audience quiets. A pianist walks on stage and sits
at the keyboard, letting the hands lightly rest as the right foot lifts to
touch the damper pedal in a small gesture of readiness. While the audience
waits, another player walks to the crook of the piano, as a singer might.
But this player moves too close to the piano, touches its curved edge, and
reaches inside. The player's hands disappear as a strange assortment of
sounds emanates from the instrument. Remaining mostly still and silent on
the piano bench, the first player does not touch the keys but only moves the
right foot down two inches to raise the piano's dampers and enable a
performance of Henry Cowell's The Banshee (1925).

I have occupied a number of the roles described here: I have sat in
audiences, watching and listening to The Banshee; I have sat on the piano
bench and held down the damper pedal for teachers and friends as they play
the piece; I have learned to play the strings myself and performed The
Banshee for students and colleagues several times. Having encountered the
piece from these different points of view, I turn here to a series of
questions: What exactly happens when I practice and play The Banshee? How
does the piece rearrange my piano-playing habits? What are [End Page 436]
those normative habits? What is the nature of my physical relationship with
the piano? What does it really take to play the piano keyboard? To read
notation? To create a musical interpretation? Why is it so easy to forget
that the piano is a piece of technology? What do I expect to see, hear, and
do at a piano performance and how does Cowell manipulate those expectations?

It seems remarkable that the scholarly literature regarding Cowell as one of
the forefathers of American experimental music includes only the briefest
references to his manipulation of performers and instruments in works like
The Banshee

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Irish Studies Review

Volume 18, Number 4, November 2010

Madness and Mother Ireland in the fiction of Patrick McCabe
pp. 391-400(10)
Author: McWilliams, Ellen

Yeats, Samhain, and the aesthetics of cultural nationalism: 'a supreme
moment in the life of a nation'
pp. 401-419(19)
Author: McKenna, Bernard

Fate of the ash hurley in a global economy
pp. 421-425(5)
Author: Quigley, Stephen

Just this Once: urban Ireland in film
pp. 427-438(12)
Author: Mara, Miriam

George Egerton, James Joyce and the Irish Kunstlerroman
pp. 439-452(14)
Author: Standlee, Whitney

Review article

Assessing a literary legacy: the case of John McGahern
pp. 453-457(5)
Author: Maher, Eamon

Reviews

Historical archaeology of the Irish diaspora: a transnational approach
pp. 459-461(3)
Author: Hennessy, Eiden

Gold, silver and green: the Irish Olympic journey 1896-1924
pp. 461-462(2)
Author: O'Callaghan, Liam

Irish Birmingham: a history
pp. 462-464(3)
Author: Herson, John

Precarious childhood in post-independence Ireland
pp. 464-466(3)
Author: Reidy, Conor

Unlikely radicals: Irish post-primary teachers and the ASTI, 1909-2009
pp. 466-468(3)
Author: Walsh, John

A history of the media in Ireland
pp. 468-469(2)
Author: O'Brien, Mark

Jonathan Swift
pp. 470-471(2)
Author: McMinn, Joseph

A history of the Irish short story
pp. 471-473(3)
Author: Thurston, Michael

A passion for Joyce: the letters of Hugh Kenner and Adaline Glasheen
pp. 473-475(3)
Author: Baines, Robert Arvid

W.B. Yeats in context
pp. 475-477(3)
Author: Morris, Lawrence

The Cambridge companion to J.M. Synge
pp. 477-478(2)
Author: Cusack, George

Samuel Beckett and the problem of Irishness
pp. 479-480(2)
Author: Verhulst, Pim

The poetry of Paul Muldoon
pp. 480-481(2)
Author: Hanna, Adam

Ireland and postcolonial studies: theory, discourse, utopia
pp. 482-483(2)
Author: McMahon, Melanie

Sub-versions: trans-national readings of modern Irish literature
pp. 484-485(2)
Author: Alexander, Neal

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From: Elizabeth Malcolm
Subject: Australasian Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 10 (2010)
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Dear Paddy,

Below is the TOC of the latest volume of AJIS, which has just been publis=
hed. If
anyone on the list would like to subscribe, to buy this particular volume=
or to buy
back issues, they should consult the website of the Irish Studies Associa=
tion of
Australia and New Zealand: http://isaanz.org.

Having produced Volume 10, we are now starting work on Volume 11. If anyo=
ne would
like to submit an article or has any questions about submitting an articl=
e, they
should contact me.

Also, in terms of other important news from this part of the world, list =
members may
be interested to know that a major exhibition, entitled 'The Irish in Aus=
tralia'
will be opening at the National Museum of Australia, Canberra, on 17 Marc=
h 2011 and
running for about 4-5 months before going to Dublin.

The next, 18th, Australasian Irish Studies Conference will be held in con=
junction
with this exhibition at the Museum on 30 June to 3 July 2011. To offer a =
paper or
for further information, please contact the exhibition curator and confer=
ence
organiser, Dr Richard Reid (RiReid[at]nma.gov.au).


AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF IRISH STUDIES
Volume 10 (2010)
Special Issue: THE IRISH IN NEW ZEALAND
Editors: A/Prof. Malcolm Campbell (University of Auckland) and Dr Lyndon =
Fraser
(University of Canterbury, Christchurch)

Obituary: James Griffin (1929-2010), Paul Ormonde and Philip Bull, 7-10

ARTICLES

Editors=E2=80=99 Introduction, Malcolm Campbell and Lyndon Fraser, 11-15

An Undertaking Worthy only of Fanatics: Catholic Opinion on Temperance an=
d
Prohibition in New Zealand, c.1870=E2=80=931910, Greg Ryan, 16-36

Language and Accent among Irish Migrants in New Zealand, Angela McCarthy,=
37-54

The Orange Order in Wellington, 1874=E2=80=931930: Class, Ethnicity and P=
olitics, Gerard
Horn, 55-80

Orange Parading Traditions in New Zealand, 1880=E2=80=931914, Patrick Col=
eman, 81-104

The Irish and the Australasian Colonial Stage =E2=80=93 Confrontation and=
Compromise, Peter
Kuch, 105-18

17 BOOK REVIEWS, 119-61
__________________________________________________
Professor Elizabeth Malcolm

Gerry Higgins Chair of Irish Studies
School of Historical Studies ~ University of Melbourne ~ Victoria, 3010, =
AUSTRALIA
Phone: +61-3-83443924 ~ Email: e.malcolm[at]unimelb.edu.au

President
Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand (ISAANZ)
Website: http://isaanz.org
__________________________________________________

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Subject: UCD Press launch Rosamond Jacob by Leeann Lane Mon, 13 Dec,
Newman House, Dublin
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UCD PRESS
requests the pleasure of your company at a reception
to celebrate the publication
of
ROSAMOND JACOB
Third Person Singular
by
LEEANN LANE
for more details on this book click here Rosamond Jacob UCD PRESS

in
Newman House, 86 St Stephen=E2=80=99s Green, Dublin 2
on
Monday, 13 December 2010 at 6 p.m.
=E3=80=80
where the book will be launched by Catriona Crowe
Introductions by Dr William Murphy
=20
UCD PRESS
(01) 477 9812
ucdpress[at]ucd.ie
www.ucdpress.ie
ALL WELCOME


Born in Waterford in 1888 Rosamond Jacob, of Quaker background, was in =
many cases a crowd member rather than a leader in the campaigns in which =
she participated - the turn of the century language revival, the =
suffrage campaign, the campaigns of the revolutionary period. She =
adopted an anti-Treaty stance in the 1920s, moving towards a fringe =
involvement in the activities of socialist republicanism in the early =
1930s while continuing to vote Fianna Fail. Her commitment to feminist =
concerns was life long but at no point did she take or was capable of a =
leadership role. However, it was Jacob's failure to carve out a strong =
place in history as an activist which makes her interesting as a subject =
for biography. Her 'ordinariness' offers an alternative lens on the =
biographical project. By failing to marry, by her inability to find =
meaningful paid work, by her countless refusals from publishers, by the =
limited sales of what work was published, Jacob offers a key into lives =
more ordinary within the urban middle classes of her time, and suggests =
a new perspective on female lives. Jacob's life, galvanised at all times =
by political and feminist debate, offers a means of exploring how the =
central issues which shaped Irish politics and society in the first half =
of the twentieth century were experienced and digested by those outside =
the leadership cadre.

About the Author
Dr Leeann Lane is Head of Irish Studies at Mater Dei Institute of =
Education (a college of Dublin City University). She has published on =
the co-operative work of George Russell and on the children's novelist =
Patricia Lynch.

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Civil rights mobilization and repression in Northern Ireland: A
comparison with the US Deep South
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The Informaworld TANDF Routledge web sites are offering a monthly theme with
free access to selected articles and journals...

QUOTE
Hot Topics

Each month we have chosen a 'hot topic' and gathered together a variety of
articles from across our vast array of arts and humanities titles, providing
free online access to a selection of these articles for one month.

December - Human Rights

10th December is Human Rights Day, marking the anniversary of the United
Nations Assembly's adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in
1948. The Declaration asserts that respect for human rights and human
dignity "is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world".

A selection of articles chosen from Routledge arts and humanities journals,
including a free article from Labor History, chart the advancement of human
rights in many parts of the world and identify areas where the aims of the
Declaration are yet to be realised.

Read the articles here: http://bit.ly/MonthlyHotTopics
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Some of the links in previous months are still live, and can get you to free
stuff.

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/access/hottopics.pdf

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/access/humanrights.pdf

I noticed this free article from the journal, The Sixties.

The Sixties
Civil rights mobilization and repression in Northern Ireland:
A comparison with the US Deep South
Gianluca De Fazio
FREE online until the end of December

Civil rights mobilization and repression in Northern Ireland: a comparison
with the US Deep South

Author: Gianluca De Fazioa
Affiliation: a Department of Sociology, Emory University, Atlanta, USA
Published in: The Sixties, Volume 2, Issue 2 December 2009 , pages 163 -
185
Publication Frequency: 2 issues per year

Abstract

In the context of 1960s contention, the outbreak of the Troubles would
suggest the distinctiveness of the Civil Rights Movement in Northern
Ireland. Yet a comparison with the civil rights struggle in the US Deep
South indicates otherwise. I rely upon original archival sources located in
the Linen Hall Library in Belfast and on the vast literature on the US Civil
Rights Movement to show how the processes of mobilization,
counter-mobilization and repression in the two countries shared striking
similarities. Blacks in the US South and Irish Nationalists in Northern
Ireland shared a similar structural position within their societies, which
partially explains the similarities in their mobilizations. Likewise, the
reaction of local majority communities to civil rights mobilization was
informed by the social mechanism of "attribution of threat," unleashing
similar patterns of counter-mobilization and police repression. However,
while the Civil Rights Movement in the US was devoted to nonviolence,
activists in Northern Ireland utilized nonviolence in their rhetoric, but
not in their protest activities.

Keywords: Civil Rights Movement; Northern Ireland; US Deep South; legal
mobilization; protest; attribution of threat; repression; nonviolence

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Subject: The Tocqueville Review/La revue Tocqueville, Volume 31, Number 1,
2010,
L'Irlande et l'Am=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E9rique_?=de Gustave de Beaumont
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The latest issue of

The Tocqueville Review/La revue Tocqueville
Volume 31, Number 1, 2010

Has a section, 5 articles, on Gustave de Beaumont

L'Irlande et l'Am=E9rique de Gustave de Beaumont=20

List of articles and introduction, with rough translation, pasted in =
below.

Bravo & Cooper on Marx and Engels is maybe old fashioned in its =
approach,
but during a crisis of capitalism that might be welcome - it is =
certainly a
very useful review of the present state of Marxist comment on Ireland.

P.O'S.


L'Irlande et l'Am=E9rique de Gustave de Beaumont=20

Pr=E9sentation
Laurence Guellec

Ce dossier sur =AB L'Irlande et l'Am=E9rique de Gustave de Beaumont =BB =
rassemble
quelques-unes des communications pr=E9sent=E9es lors du colloque =
international =AB
Gustave de Beaumont : L'Irlanda, la schiavitu, la questione sociale nel =
XIX
secolo =BB qui s'est tenu =E0 Turin les 23 et 24 octobre 2008. Nous =
remercions
les organisateurs, Manuela Ceretta (Universita degli studi di Torino,
Dipartimento di Studi Politici) et Mario Tesini (Universita degli studi =
di
Parma, Dipartimento di Studi Politici et Sociali) d'avoir donn=E9 leur =
accord
pour la publication de ces textes dans la Revue Tocqueville. =
L'int=E9gralit=E9
des actes de ce colloque est =E0 para=EEtre en italien en 2010 : Gustave =
de
Beaumont. La schiavit=F9, l'Irlanda, la questione sociale nel XIX =
secolo, a
cura di M. Ceretta, Milano, FrancoAngeli. Sur Tocqueville et Beaumont,
signalons en 2010 =E9galement la parution du travail d'Olivier Zunz et
d'Arthur Goldhammer, Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in
America (UVA Press), =E9dition critique en anglais des lettres, notes,
documents r=E9dig=E9s par Tocqueville et Beaumont pendant leur voyage =
aux
=C9tats-Unis en 1831-1832 et de leur correspondance ult=E9rieure =
concernant
l'Am=E9rique. La Revue Tocqueville/The Tocqueville Review rendra compte
prochainement de ces deux ouvrages.

This folder on "Ireland and America of Gustave de Beaumont" brings =
together
some of the papers presented at the International Symposium" Gustave de
Beaumont: Ireland, schiavitu, the social question nel secolo XIX "which =
was
held in Turin on 23 and 24 October 2008. We thank the organizers, =
Manuela
Ceretta (Universita degli Studi di Torino, Dipartimento di Studi =
Politics)
and Mario Tesini (Universita degli Studi di Parma, Dipartimento di Studi
Sociali and Politics) have given their consent to the publication of =
these
texts in the Revue Tocqueville. The full proceedings of this conference =
is
to be published in Italian in 2010: Gustave de Beaumont. The =
schiavit=F9,
Ireland, nel XIX secolo social issue, a cura di M. Ceretta, Milano,
FrancoAngeli. On Tocqueville and Beaumont in 2010 also note the =
publication
of the work of Olivier Zunz and Arthur Goldhammer, Alexis de Tocqueville =
and
Gustave de Beaumont in America (UVA Press), critical edition in English
letters, notes, documents written by Tocqueville and Beaumont during =
their
trip to the United States in 1831-1832 and their subsequent =
correspondence
concerning America. La Revue Tocqueville / The Tocqueville Review will
report shortly on the two works.


Marx and Engels: Reflections on Ireland and on Beaumont=20
Gian Mario Bravo
Frances Cooper
pp. 121-137=20

L'Irlande de Beaumont: entre histoire et politique fran=E7aises=20
Manuela Ceretta
pp. 139-157=20

Gustave de Beaumont's Ireland and the Anxieties about Corruption and =
Forms
of Empire=20
Michael Drolet
pp. 159-179=20

John Stuart Mill: expert de l'Irlande et interlocuteur de Beaumont et de
Tocqueville=20
Maria Teresa Pichetto
pp. 181-199=20

Les injustices r=E9voltantes: Gustave de Beaumont and the Pre-history of
Crimes Against Humanity=20
Cheryl B. Welch
pp. 201-219=20

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Subject: CFP English & Welsh Diaspora, Loughborough, April 2011
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English & Welsh Diaspora: Regional Cultures, Disparate Voices, Remembered
Lives Loughborough University, 13-16 April, 2011

eynote & Plenary Speakers:
John Barrell, York University,
Roger Ebbatson, Lancaster University,
Nick Groom, Exeter University,
Ronald Hutton, Bristol University,
Bridget Keegan, Creighton University,
Donna Landry, University of Kent,
Ruth Robbins, Leeds Metropolitan University

Performers, musicians and artists provisionally booked:
BILLY BRAGG, ELIZA CARTHY, JOHN KIRKPATRICK, HUGH LUPTON, CERI RHYS
MATTHEWS, CHRIS WOOD.
Others to be announced.

In addition to conference panels, there will be music and related workshops

While the histories of Scots and Irish rural and local culture are well
documented, and Celtic tradition celebrated, less explored are the
traditional ways of life of English and Welsh rural or local communities and

identities in terms of diasporic event. 'English & Welsh Diaspora' aims to
address all aspects of rural and regional experience, consciousness, and
representation of displacement, dispossession, the transformation or
destruction of communities, the idea of community, across a millennium of
change and loss, from the Norman Invasion and the Harrowing of the North,
the loss of Welsh and the decline of the language community in Wales, to
more recent historical and cultural events, such as the closure of mines and
factories, the gentrification of villages, and the closure of post offices.
There will, in addition be the exploration of the historical transformation
of the landscape, the relation of land to identity, regional as opposed to
national identity, folklore, folk practices and oral tradition through song,
dance, story-telling and forms of ritual and seasonal Practice.

Papers are welcome from all humanities disciplines, including, but not
restricted to, English, History, Geography, Cultural Studies. Topics may
include, but are not limited to, the following: Representations of
agricultural labouring classes; regional narratives and representations;
Brythonic traditions; George Eliot & the midlands; landscape and identity;
traditional song; folklore and belief; seasonal ritual and practice, oral
traditions; enclosure; myth and tradition; changing ways of life; John
Clare; the English or Welsh village; Thomas Hardy; dispossession &
displacement; the remains of Anglo-Saxon culture & language; riots,
rebellion, & protest; agricultural & labouring class poetry; William
Cobbett's rural rides; cricket & rural life; local and communal
subjectivities; 'documentary literature' from Woodforde to Blythe; mummers &
Morris; de-Cymrisization; modern rural life; parish records & local history;
disappearance of the Welsh language; the Poor law; cultural memory & oral
tradition; charity & the poor; politics & policing; rural & regional
dialect; parish life; gypsies, witches, poachers, highwaymen & other
demonized groups; rural crafts.

Proposals of 200- 250 words are invited.
For further details, or to send a proposal, please contact Julian Wolfreys
(Diaspora[at]lboro.ac.uk)

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ea/events/English%20&%20Welsh%20Diaspora.
html

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Subject: Article,
"Never Tear the Linnet from the Leaf": The Feminist
Intertextuality of Edna O'Brien...
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies
Volume 31, Number 3, 2010

"Never Tear the Linnet from the Leaf": The Feminist Intertextuality of Edna
O'Brien's Down by the River
Jane Elizabeth Dougherty
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Volume 31, Number 3, 2010, pp. 77-102


Subject Headings:
O'Brien, Edna. Down by the river.
Rape victims in literature.
Ireland -- In litetature.

In lieu of an abstract, here is a preview of the article.

In 1983 an amendment was added to the Irish Constitution proclaiming that
"the State acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard
to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect,
and as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right."
In 1992 a fourteen-year-old Irish girl who had traveled with her family to
England to obtain an abortion was forced to return to the Republic of
Ireland without having completed the procedure. The girl, who had been raped
by an adult friend of her family, was determined to be suicidal, and it was
this determination that allowed the Irish Supreme Court to lift the
injunction against her leaving the country while upholding the 1983
constitutional amendment. The case of a suicidal pregnant girl-whose
despondency threatened equally her own life and that of her fetus-continues
to provide an anomalous legal rationale for abortion in the Republic of
Ireland, a state in which abortion is otherwise banned. This remains so
despite the best efforts of the Irish government, in a number of referenda,
to close this loophole. The legal consequences of the 1992 X case continue
to determine the parameters of Irish law-and of Irish women's sexuality,
reproductive rights, and citizenship. 1

Because the adjudication of the X case continues to affect Irish law, the
case continued to be debated in the Irish media long after its resolution.
For example, in 2000 a former Irish High Court justice, Roderick J.
O'Hanlon, wrote a letter to the Irish Times arguing that in fact Miss X had
not been suicidal, that her suicidality had been concocted as a legal
strategy to circumvent the 1983 amendment. O'Hanlon begins his letter by
writing, "The 'X' case will not go away. In the words of Shakespeare, it
'will rise, though all the world o'erwhelm it, to men's eyes.'" 2 O'Hanlon
uses-and misquotes...

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Mentioned in earlier Ir-D message...

The Tocqueville Review/La revue Tocqueville
Volume 31, Number 1, 2010

Marx and Engels: Reflections on Ireland and on Beaumont
Gian Mario Bravo
Frances Cooper
The Tocqueville Review/La revue Tocqueville, Volume 31, Number 1, 2010, pp.
121-137 (Article)

Subject Headings:
Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.
Engels, Friedrich, 1820-1895.
Beaumont, Gustave de, 1802-1866.
Ireland -- Economic conditions.

In lieu of an abstract, here is a preview of the article.

1 - Ireland and the National Question
Until the critical edition of Marx' and Engels' work is published, that is
Marx-Engels-Gesamtausagabe ( MEGA/2), the most compact (though incomplete)
edition of their writings, or at least of the texts available today, may be
found in the inventory of arguments treated in the volumes of Werke. 1 Very
many works by Marx and by Engels, originally in German, English or French,
were translated into Russian in the first half of the twentieth century but
were not included in Werke and, subsequently, only some of them were
inserted into the 50 volumes of the Collected Works, begun in Moscow and
completed in London.

If we look at the index of the themes treated between the beginning of
Marx's publishing career (1835) and Engels' death (1895), we find
approximately 1420 "subjects" and "places" concerning Ireland and the
history of that country before and after 1800, the workers' movement, the
peasants' condition, the significance of an agrarian revolution also for the
"revolutionary process" in England, the significance of the liberation of
the country from the yoke of the United Kingdom, the dominion exercised by
English landowners and the consequent need to overturn the agricultural
world in order to "liquidate" the landlords. 2

Also the question of the "ruin" of the small tenant farmers ( pachtsystem) 3
by the large landowners, the presence of two "parties", conservative and
liberal, the revolutionary movements, the country's backwardness as a
"nation of peasants," the English oppressions, the electoral systems and the
reforms put in place.

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Subject: Article, Decoding the Sheela-na-gig
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Feminist Formations
Volume 22, Number 2, Summer 2010

Decoding the Sheela-na-gig
Georgia Rhoades
Feminist Formations, Volume 22, Number 2, Summer 2010, pp. 167-194 (Article)

Subject Headings:
Sheela-na-gigs.

Abstract:
Sheela-na-gigs are old, bald, naked female figures on churches, walls, and
towers (as well as in museums) in Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland,
Wales, and England, similar to grotesques throughout Europe, to Baubo in the
Middle East, and to Kali and other goddess figures in India and Southeast
Asia. While most surviving sheelas are medieval, Irish legend and older
carvings suggest connections to pagan crone goddesses. According to lore and
scholarship, sheelas offer protection and warning or serve as fertility,
birthing, or erotic figures. While most sheelas do not have breasts, they
are likely to hold open or point to their vulvas, offering a puzzling
message about the presumed creator of many surviving figures-the medieval
Catholic Church. Contemporary feminist scholarship is more likely to regard
sheelas as empowering female figures through shifting roles in the
rhetorical relationships between the figure as agent and the decoder.

Keywords:
crone, exhibitionist figures, fertility, pagan, rhetorical analysis,
sheela-na-gigs, stone carvings

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Subject: Article,
Female Suffrage in Ireland: James Joyce's Realization of
Unrealized Potential
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Criticism
Volume 51, Number 4, Fall 2010

Female Suffrage in Ireland: James Joyce=92s Realization of Unrealized
Potential
Michael Wainwright
Criticism, Volume 51, Number 4, Fall 2010, pp. 651-682 (Article)

Subject Headings:
Women -- Suffrage -- Ireland.
Women -- Ireland -- Social conditions.
Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation.

In lieu of an abstract, here is a preview of the article.

In his brilliant book, =93The Authoress of the Odyssey,=94 Dr. Butler =
proves
undeniably that the poem was written by a woman, =93young, =
headstrong,=94 a
maiden fancy free . . . jealous for the honour and dignity of her own
sex=97the very youngest of suffragists.
=97Margaret Wynne Nevinson, =93Ancient Suffragettes=94 (1911) 1

The following essay testifies to the prolongation of a propitious moment =
in
Irish history, an era when, as historian Roy MacLeod affirms, =
=93discussion is
replacing violence=94 and =93many of the polarisations and ambivalences =
that
have marked Ireland=92s passage into the modern world are becoming =
instead the
subjects of reflection and hope.=94 2 The academic part of this debate =
has
largely focused on the science of colonial state formation, a subject =
that,
as Patrick Carroll relates, =93has made tremendous advances.=94 3 There =
remain,
however, as Deirdre Raftery avers in repeating the thoughts of historian
Maria Luddy, =93many areas of Irish women=92s lives that demand research =
and
analysis.=94 4 The provenance of feminism in Ire-land constitutes one =
such
topic.

Britain in the 1860s witnessed the emergence of a female demand for
self-development. First voiced from within the bourgeoisie by the Girl =
of
the Period, this opposition to male strictures not only resisted the =
clich=E9s
of femininity, but also challenged marriages arranged for social or =
economic
standing. 5 Quite unexpectedly, an influential but seldom studied
counterpart to this socioeconomic desire evolved among the Protestant =
women
of Ireland. Despite their colonial status, Irish Protestants had enjoyed
increasing power, or Ascendancy, since the Flight of the Earls from =
Ulster
at the beginning of the seventeenth century. The Act of Union had =
formally
ratified this preeminence in...

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Subject: "We still can't all live on a small island"
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List members will be interested in an article on emigration by Piaras
MacEinri on Politico.ie. As always, Piaras is spot-on.

http://politico.ie/?option=com_content&view=article&id=7011:emigration-we-still-cant-all-live-on-a-small-island&catid=255:going-forward&Itemid=1062


Regards,
Noreen

Noreen Bowden
http://www.globalirish.ie

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Subject: Book Review,
The Musical Traditions of Northern Ireland and its Diaspora
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Popular Music (2010), 29: 493-495 Cambridge University Press

Reviews
The Musical Traditions of Northern Ireland and its Diaspora: Community and
Conflict. By David Cooper. Farnham: Ashgate, 2009. 186 pp. ISBN
978-0754662303
Helen O'Shea
Monash University, Australia

Introducing this scholarly work, David Cooper notes that, despite the
success of the peace process, Northern Ireland remains 'a divided country in
which traditional culture . is still widely used as a marker of religious
affiliation and ethnic identity' (p. 1) and that music is one way in which
these separate identities are maintained. Cooper's book explores how such
musical identities are delineated, while at the same time arguing that the
region's rich musical heritage is heterogeneous and, at source,
non-sectarian. Initially, the book's title is puzzling, given its focus on
Protestant traditions. It becomes apparent, however, that the author's
strategy is to emphasise connections between these musical traditions and
the better known Catholic repertoire, in the service of a broader argument
that the region's traditional music 'interweaves the ethnic, political and
religious divides' (p. 160)...

...The second chapter focuses on Protestant song sources, traditions and
ideologies, in part because they have received little scholarly attention
relative to Catholic songs, but also in order to demonstrate that so-called
loyalist songs draw on a shared musical and metrical vernacular. Cooper
draws on diverse sources, many of which are reproduced in the book:
transcribed song collections; 19th-century Ordnance Survey accounts of
Presbyterian singing schools; and the repertoires of late 20th-century
singers. His analysis of these texts and of contemporary commentaries leads
him to conclude that Gaelic song has influenced the verse-rhythms of both
Protestant and Catholic songs and that the writers of 'Orange' political
songs frequently adopted melodies from the shared vernacular, including many
tunes with strong nationalist associations...

...The final chapter gives a brief account of the musical history of the
Protestant Irish in America. Against those who regard Southern Appalachian
music as the intact tradition of the Scots-Irish, Cooper argues that, since
this population held a weak sense of ethnic identity, and the area included
immigrants from many countries, it is better understood as the result of
musical interactions among these groups. He goes so far as to suggest that
the region's syncopated bowing style may be the result of contact with
African-American fiddlers, rather than distant Scottish ancestors.

Of particular interest is Cooper's discussion of the emerging identity of
'Ulster-Scots', a nomenclature that gained status when the Good Friday
Agreement of 1998 included, as a balancing act against the Gaelic language's
significance as a cultural marker of the Catholic community, the
establishment of an agency to promote Ulster-Scots language, culture and
history. Cooper notes the resurgence of interest in Ulster-Scots traditional
music and increased scholarly attention on the region's Protestant music, of
which this book is the most extensive to date. At one point, Cooper
describes the Scottish musical style as 'rational and phlegmatic'. This is
also an apt description of his own writing style. There is no doubt,
however, that his heart is in every word of this groundbreaking and
provocative work of scholarship.