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Individual articles from the journal Shared Space, Issue 10, December 2010,
have turned up in our alerts.

Shared Space is the research journal of the Community Relations Council of
Northern Ireland.

After a bit of backtracking we have found an announcement on the web site

http://www.community-relations.org.uk/about-us/news/item/605/shared-space-10
/

Pasted in below...

The link on that web page takes you to a list of publications - and
scrolling down, down, down, takes you to the Shared Space, Issue 10,
December 2010 section, where you can download the articles.

Note that the TOC as visible on the web site does not give the names of
authors.

It is a bit untidy, and I don't know what it means about Shared Space's
future publication policy, or access to past issues.

The paper version of the journal is now also turning up on sites like
Amazon.

P.O'S.


The latest issue of CRC's research journal Shared Space (issue 10) has just
been published. This is a special issue produced in association with the
School of Sociology at Queen's University Belfast and has been compiled and
edited by Professor Madeleine Leonard and Dr Martina McKnight.

The articles are based on some of the papers presented at a conference held
at the university in June 2010 on 'Growing Up in Divided Societies'.

The six articles chosen for Shared Space have a particular relevance for
community relations in Northern Ireland and reflect the challenge for young
people in a society coming out of conflict.

The articles are:

'Caught up in the past'? The views of 16-year olds on community relations in
Northern Ireland

Teenagers'Perceptions of Belfast as a Divided and/or Shared City

Differentiation, difference and denial: Drinking in divided societies

'Stuck' between ceasefires and peacebuilding: Finding positive responses to
young men's experiences of violence and personal safety

Sharing Education through schools working together

Re-framing conflict and conflict resolution as 'migration' and
schoolchildren as 'migrants': teaching 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland
.
Articles from Shared Space can be viewed or downloaded from the CRC website
http://www.community-relations.org.uk/services/publications/?filter=S. Hard
copies are also available from CRC. For free subscription to Shared Space
(published twice annually) contact info[at]nicrc.org.uk

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Further to my earlier email about Shared Space, Issue 10, December 2010...

One of the articles listed there is...

Brian Lambkin
Re-framing conflict and conflict resolution as 'migration' and
schoolchildren as 'migrants': teaching 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland

It is a wide ranging and closely argued article, which will interest many
Ir-D members - not least the rhetoricians. The article unpacks the
sometimes lazy metaphors that shape discourses, and sometimes have the
effect of shaping policy. I have pasted in, below, what seems to me to be a
key paragraph.

P.O'S.

This link takes you directly to the pdf of the Brian Lambkin article.

http://www.community-relations.org.uk/fs/doc/chapter-six.pdf

'Re-framing conflict and conflict resolution as 'migration'

Accepting that most people frame the Northern Ireland problem
metaphorically as a journey 'into' and 'out of' conflict, the idea of
'journey' can be interrogated more productively when it is recognised that
the journey is of a special type: 'migration', defined simply as 'moving
home'. All migration involves a journey, but not all journeys involve
migration. Although the restoration of the status quo ante (as for example
when a house that has been burned down is rebuilt on its original site) can
be thought of as a 'journey', it cannot be thought of convincingly as
'migration' because the essential criterion of 'moving home' is not met. If
the Northern Ireland peace process had been based on a proposal only to
restore things to the way they had been before 1969, it could not have
succeeded. Pressing the analogy with migration, it may be helpful to show
that the conflict and its resolution can be seen in terms of a migration
sequence: the move from the 'old world' of pre-1969 relative peace and
stability into a horrific 'new world' of violent conflict; and the move out
of the 'old world' of conflict, as it had become after protracted violence,
into the 'new world' of peace, marked by the Good Friday / Belfast
Agreement. The hermeneutical and pedagogical point to be made
here is that the better the understanding we have of migration in the real
world, the better equipped we are to develop the way we think metaphorically
about the peace process as migration.'

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Returning to the latest issue of Irish Studies Review - see TOC in earlier
IR-D message. Some interesting book reviews...

John Herson's review - extracts below - of James Moran, Irish Birmingham: a
history, appreciates the book but highlights some problems. We are at last
acquiring a more nuanced (as they say) research literature on the Irish in
Britain and it is an important part of its strength is that it requires us
to look at research methods as well as research findings. I would, for
example, put James Moran's intriguing book on Birmingham with its stress on
literature and media alongside Brendan McGowan's oral history study of
Leeds.

Even before we read the book we have to acknowledge that writing the history
of the Irish in Birmingham, England, is perhaps the most difficult task in
Irish Diaspora Studies. I can see why James Moran would look first to his
own strengths and specific skills as a researcher.

P.O'S.


To cite this Article: Herson, John 'Irish Birmingham: a history', Irish
Studies Review, 18:4, 462 - 464

James Moran, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2010, 278 pp., 65.00
(hardback), ISBN 9781846314742

James Moran rightly points out that the history of the Birmingham Irish has
been neglected in comparison with other areas of Irish settlement. Apart
from Carl Chinn's survey of 20031 and three unpublished theses, there has
been no modern academic study of Birmingham, so Moran's book is very much to
be welcomed.

Readers expecting a conventional social history of the Irish in Birmingham
will not find such an offering in this book. Rather, it aims to examine the
role played by the Irish in Birmingham by adopting a cultural approach. It
emphasises the changing political contexts of the period from 1800 to the
present and explores the nature of Irishness as expressed through
involvement in political movements, public spectacles and the theatre. It
focuses particularly on how 'both the orator's platform and playhouse stage
have . provided Birmingham's residents with the opportunity to enact,
contest, and parody different kinds of Irish nationality' (8).

The book uses a chronological approach. Each chapter 'begins with a key
public spectacle associated with Ireland in Birmingham' (9). The first four
main chapters therefore move from the work of William McCready in the early
nineteenth-century theatre through the Birmingham Political Union and the
Murphy Riots to Joseph Chamberlain. The final four deal with the Birmingham
Repertory Theatre's troubled handling of Irish issues from the 1910s
onwards, the Second World War and post-1945 immigration, the 1974 pub
bombings and the ultimate reclamation of the St Patrick's Day spectacle and
Irish self-confidence around the Millennium.

Moran is very conscious of the problems of dealing with Irish migrant
history. He emphasises that migration was not necessarily a simple one-way
move and that the Irish are a diverse people. He makes brave attempts to
include the Protestant Irish and admits that the history of Irish women
tends to be less visible. His work communicates the shifting meanings of
Irishness and the significance of 'cultural incest' through contact with the
diverse host society - something often referred to elsewhere by the equally
unpleasant term 'ethnic fade'. The strength of anti-Irishness waxed and
waned in Birmingham, particularly in the second half of the twentieth
century, with massive impacts on the experience and self-confidence of Irish
immigrants and their descendants.

Does the book successfully portray the history of the Irish experience in
Birmingham? It certainly has a number of strengths. The particular incidents
chosen for each time period are presented vividly and are interesting in
themselves. The chronological approach does get across the changing contexts
and the ways in which the experiences and responses of the Irish also
changed. This avoids the impression of stasis that sometimes occurs when a
thematic approach is adopted. The book shows how Irish Birmingham was
influenced by external developments and, indeed, by the close links that
often existed between activities in the city and those going on elsewhere in
Britain and Ireland. This is particularly effective when the cultural
linkages are discussed. It is very difficult to avoid insularity when the
Irish are studied in particular localities, but Moran successfully avoids
this pitfall. He also grapples effectively with the always ambivalent role
of the Church in articulating but also modifying Catholic Irish
consciousness and identity. When he deals with the more recent period his
general discussion of the multiple and contested nature of identity amongst
the immigrant Irish and their descendants is open-minded and sensitive.

Moran's unusual approach to the Irish experience is clear as far as it goes,
but there are some problems...

...The book is underpinned by Moran's interest in the theatre, drama and
spectacle. It is fundamental to the approach, and the material on the
Birmingham theatre and other spectacles relating to the Irish is
authoritative and informative. This reviewer is, however, left feeling that
the significance of plays and the theatre is over-emphasised and unbalances
the book. The author claims that he 'seeks to recover the significant, if
little examined, role that the Irish have played in Birmingham' (8).
Birmingham certainly needs this task to be accomplished, and James Moran
offers a novel approach and many interesting insights into the problem.
There is, however, still room for much more work on the history of the Irish
in Birmingham.

C 2010, John Herson

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To cite this Article: Hennessy, Eiden 'Historical archaeology of the Irish
diaspora: a transnational approach', Irish Studies Review, 18:4, 459 - 461

Historical archaeology of the Irish diaspora: a transnational approach
Stephen A. Brighton, Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, 2009,
xxvii+221 pp., $49.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-57233-667-4

In the field of Irish studies, there are numerous tomes on immigration but
there is a lack of literature exploring the value of archaeologically
investigating the lives of Irish immigrants. The author Stephen Brighton
readdresses this imbalance by bringing his direct experience as an
historical archaeological researcher of the nineteenth-century poor in both
rural Ireland and the urban north-east of the USA to bear in this
informative and constructive book. This research follows on from a chapter,
which the writer contributed to Unearthing Hidden Ireland: Historical
Archaeology at Ballykilcline, County Roscommon (2006),1 that focused on
future research agendas applicable to archaeology and the 'Irish diaspora'.
The study under review is partially based on material previously published
in that book, but revised using an interdisciplinary comparative approach
aimed at understanding the lives of Irish immigrants in the north-east of
the USA by investigating patterns of cultural continuity and change within
excavated assemblages from both countries. This approach is influenced by
Kerby Miller's book Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to
North America (1985),2 which Brighton describes 'as the first to provide an
in-depth transnational study of the Irish diaspora' (26). Brighton valiantly
argues for the inclusion of the terms 'diaspora' and 'transnational' when
discussing debates regarding Irish immigration. He makes the bold claim that
'theoretical advancement in the study of the Irish diaspora remains
relatively undistinguished because scholars have not moved past the debate
over the use of terms such as diaspora and migration' (31). The discourse
within the study of Irish migration will continue but the arguments
contained here are a valuable addition to these debates on the meanings and
definitions employed in this area of research.

Brighton compares artefacts from Ireland and the north-east USA in order to
test material patterns over time and space. One site discussed incorporates
two houses at Ballykilcline, County Roscommon, in Ireland. Considering the
documented eviction and subsequent assisted immigration of the former
inhabitants to the USA in 1848, Brighton discusses the process of site
abandonment in relation to these excavated houses, identified as north and
south cabins. Using a comparison of artefacts like clay pipes with
depictions of 'nationalist' symbols excavated at the rural townland of
Ballykilcline and similar artefacts from the urban contexts of
nineteenth-century Irish immigrant tenements in the Five Points area of
Manhattan, New York City and Paterson, New Jersey, Brighton reveals evidence
of material commonalities declining as the nineteenth century progressed. He
thus argues that a fall off in such artefacts represents the incorporation
of Irish immigrants and Irish Americans into mainstream American society...

...Historical archaeologists working in both Ireland and parts of the world
where the Irish became immigrants would be the immediate specialist audience
for this work. Archaeologists using documentary and artefactual evidence to
research themes such as poverty, immigration, consumption and identity will
also discover much to interest them. Moreover, scholars from other
disciplines would find the interdisciplinary application inherent to this
research of interest owing to its convergence of archaeology and social
history. Brighton freely admits that this is a 'work in progress', with his
research based on a few excavation site examples that cannot speak for the
totality of the Irish tenant or Irish immigrant experience (162).
Archaeologists and scholars from other disciplines can utilise this book to
reference the archaeology of immigration in the nineteenth-century
north-eastern USA, but also as a means to gain insights into the
methodological discussions relevant to investigating this topic: its
artefacts and sites. A valuable section in the Conclusion emphasises future
research agendas. It calls on researchers to provide information on
excavations and surveys within Ireland and throughout the world connected to
this topic, to be included in databases for future comparison. Brighton is
currently living up to this aim with an excavation of a village in Texas,
Maryland, inhabited by Irish immigrants and Irish Americans in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which could possibly show differentiated
circumstances from the excavated assemblages utilised in this book. A
further future research goal he presents is the investigation of other
immigrant groups under a comparative framework that if utilised here would
have added much to this work. This research is a welcome addition to
academic discourse on Irish immigration, adding archaeological investigation
to the large body of literature already in existence on this subject.

C 2010, Eiden Hennessy

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Irish Society for Theatre Research=20

6th Conference, 29-30 April 2011=20

Hosted by the Department of English Literatures and Cultures of the
Institute of English Studies at the University of P=E9cs, Hungary
and the Irish Studies Work Group of the Hungarian Society for the Study =
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English =20

Call for Papers=20

on various aspects of=20
Interfaces Between Irish and European Theatre =20

The sixth ISTR Conference will be hosted by the Department of English
Literatures and Cultures of the Institute of English Studies at the
University of P=E9cs on 29-30 April 2011. The event intends to bring =
together
academics and PhD students who specialise in Theatre and Drama Studies =
and
are interested in relations between Ireland and Europe within this broad
field.=20
Confirmed key-note speakers are: Professor Marvin A Carlson (Graduate
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are
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Organiser Dr. M=E1ria Kurdi =09
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Postal Address
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Registration Fee for paid up members of ISTR=20
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Paper or panel proposals with an abstract of max. 200 words are welcome =
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If you wish to participate please fill out the form below and send it to =
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PETER LANG - International Academic Publishers are pleased to announce a =
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book by

Jeannine Woods

VISIONS OF EMPIRE AND OTHER IMAGININGS
Cinema, Ireland and India 1910-1962

Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, =
2011. X,
220 pp.
Reimagining Ireland. Vol. 21
Edited by Eamon Maher

ISBN 978-3-03911-974-5 pb.
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Since its inception cinema has served as a powerful medium that both
articulates and intervenes in visions of identity. The experiences of
British colonialism in Ireland and India are marked by many =
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not least in terms of colonial and indigenous imaginings of the
relationships between colony or former colony and imperial metropolis.
Cinematic representations of Ireland and India display several parallels =
in
their expressions and contestations of visions of Empire and national
identity. This book offers a critical approach to the study of =
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colonial and postcolonial heritage through a comparative exploration of =
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Drawing on postcolonial and cultural theory and employing Bakhtin=92s =
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Contents:

Orientalism, Celticism and the Emergence of Cinema =96 Imperial =
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Nationalism and Pre-Independence Cinema =96 Cinema and Nation-Building =
=96 The
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Science Express provides electronic publication of selected Science =
papers in advance of print. Some editorial changes may occur between the =
online version and the final printed version.

Published Online 16 December 2010

Science=20

RESEARCH ARTICLE
Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books

Jean-Baptiste Michel1,2,3,4,*=E2=80=A0, Yuan Kui Shen5, Aviva P. Aiden6, =
Adrian Veres7, Matthew K. Gray8, The Google Books Team8, Joseph P. =
Pickett9, Dale Hoiberg10, Dan Clancy8, Peter Norvig8, Jon Orwant8, =
Steven Pinker4, Martin A. Nowak1,11,12 and Erez Lieberman =
Aiden1,12,13,14,15,16,*=E2=80=A0
+ Author Affiliations

1Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA =
02138, USA.
2Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences, Harvard University, =
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
3Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
4Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA =
02115, USA.
5Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, =
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
6Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
7Harvard College, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
8Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA 94043 USA.
9Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, MA 02116, USA.
10Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., Chicago, IL 60654, USA.
11Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, =
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
12Department of Mathematics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, =
USA.
13Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA =
02138, USA.
14School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, =
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
15Harvard Society of Fellows, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, =
USA.
16Laboratory-at-Large, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
=E2=80=A0To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: =
jb.michel[at]gmail.com (J.B.M.); erez[at]erez.com (E.A.).
=E2=86=B5* These authors contributed equally to this work.

ABSTRACT

We constructed a corpus of digitized texts containing about 4% of all =
books ever printed. Analysis of this corpus enables us to investigate =
cultural trends quantitatively. We survey the vast terrain of =
"culturomics", focusing on linguistic and cultural phenomena that were =
reflected in the English language between 1800 and 2000. We show how =
this approach can provide insights about fields as diverse as =
lexicography, the evolution of grammar, collective memory, the adoption =
of technology, the pursuit of fame, censorship, and historical =
epidemiology. "Culturomics" extends the boundaries of rigorous =
quantitative inquiry to a wide array of new phenomena spanning the =
social sciences and the humanities.

Received for publication 27 October 2010.
Accepted for publication 6 December 2010.


FOR BACKGROUND SEE

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/17/books/17words.html

Google Launches New Book Database
By PATRICIA COHEN
Published: December 16, 2010
=20
With little fanfare, Google has made a mammoth database culled from =
nearly 5.2 million digitized books available to the public for free =
downloads and online searches, opening a new landscape of possibilities =
for research and education in the humanities.

The digital storehouse, which comprises words and short phrases as well =
as a year-by-year count of how often they appear, represents the first =
time a data set of this magnitude and searching tools are at the =
disposal of Ph.D.=E2=80=99s, middle school students and anyone else who =
likes to spend time in front of a small screen. It consists of the 500 =
billion words that are contained in books published between 1800 and =
2000 in English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese, Russian and Hebrew.

The intended audience is scholarly, but a simple online tool also allows =
anyone with a computer to plug in a string of up to five words and see a =
graph that charts the phrase=E2=80=99s use over time...

a simple online tool...

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/

The available years are not as quite what we want, but try it with
No Irish Need Apply

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Paddy - To add to this discussion I am sending you the link to the
Texas, Maryland archaeological research work on the Irish diaspora being
done by the University of Maryland. I visited the site last year - it's
close to where I live - but know little beyond what is here in the link.

http://www.heritage.umd.edu/chrsweb/Texas_MD/Texas_Overview.htm

Perhaps Kerby - as his work is mentioned in the post below - or someone
else can add more?

Carmel

On 12/16/2010 9:07 AM, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:
> To cite this Article: Hennessy, Eiden 'Historical archaeology of the Irish
> diaspora: a transnational approach', Irish Studies Review, 18:4, 459 - 461
>
> Historical archaeology of the Irish diaspora: a transnational approach
> Stephen A. Brighton, Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, 2009,
> xxvii+221 pp., $49.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-57233-667-4
>
> In the field of Irish studies, there are numerous tomes on immigration but
> there is a lack of literature exploring the value of archaeologically
> investigating the lives of Irish immigrants. The author Stephen Brighton
> readdresses this imbalance by bringing his direct experience as an
> historical archaeological researcher of the nineteenth-century poor in both
> rural Ireland and the urban north-east of the USA to bear in this
> informative and constructive book. This research follows on from a chapter,
> which the writer contributed to Unearthing Hidden Ireland: Historical
> Archaeology at Ballykilcline, County Roscommon (2006),1 that focused on
> future research agendas applicable to archaeology and the 'Irish diaspora'.
> The study under review is partially based on material previously published
> in that book, but revised using an interdisciplinary comparative approach
> aimed at understanding the lives of Irish immigrants in the north-east of
> the USA by investigating patterns of cultural continuity and change within
> excavated assemblages from both countries. This approach is influenced by
> Kerby Miller's book Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to
> North America (1985),2 which Brighton describes 'as the first to provide an
> in-depth transnational study of the Irish diaspora' (26). Brighton valiantly
> argues for the inclusion of the terms 'diaspora' and 'transnational' when
> discussing debates regarding Irish immigration.
> .
>

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Forwarded on behalf of
Nicholas Allen

Dear colleague,
I am writing to inform you of the opportunity to apply for a Moore =
Institute
Visiting Fellowship (2011-12) at the National University of Ireland, =
Galway,
closing date 1st March 2011.=A0 These fellowships may be held in any =
field of
the Humanities and Social Sciences, can be academic or practise related, =
and
are offered in association with the James Hardiman Library.=A0 =
Fellowship
terms can last from one week to one semester.

The Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies =
will
host fellows during their tenure. Its work is supported by the Andrew =
Mellon
Foundation, the Marie Curie scheme, the Irish Research Council in the
Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Programme for Research in Third
Level Institutions.=A0 For a list of people, events, and current =
projects see
http://www.nuigalway.ie/mooreinstitute

The James Hardiman Library has significant archives, including the =
papers of
the Druid Theatre, Lyric Theatre, An Taibhdhearc (the Irish language
national theatre), John McGahern, Thomas Kilroy and Joe Burke, as well =
as
two major collections dealing with the recent =91Troubles', principally =
the
papers of Ruair=ED =D3 Br=E1daigh and Brendan Duddy. For details see
http://www.library.nuigalway.ie/collections/archives/

he Library possesses substantial printed and electronic resources. The
University's longstanding commitment to the Irish language provides =
further
opportunities for engaging with the Connemara Gaeltacht. Visiting =
fellows
will have access to all the major repositories on the island of Ireland.
Details on terms, condition, and how to apply for a Moore Institute =
Visiting
Fellowship are available at
http://www.nuigalway.ie/mooreinstitute/site/view/822/
=A0
The Moore Institute Visiting Fellowships are supported by the Galway
University Foundation, the James Hardiman Library, the Office of the =
Vice
President for Research, and the College of Arts, Social Sciences and =
Celtic
Studies.
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Regards
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Nicholas Allen
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Stewart Love. Selected Plays
Belfast: Lagan Press, 2010
300 pages/=A310.99 pb
www.lagan-press.org.uk
ISBN: 9781904652847

As part of Lagan Press' mission to restore the best pre-Troubles drama =
of
Northern Ireland to print, it is proud to announce this collection of
Belfast's own Angry Young Man of the 1960s. As one of the young =
playwrights
to have his first stage play premiered by the Ulster Group Theatre in =
1960
(the other being Brian Friel), Stewart Love is an important playwright =
of
the era; indeed, his dramas for the stage and television were so =
popular, in
1965 he was named by Ulster Week as one of the Ireland's 'Big Five'
playwrights.

Love's first play, The Randy Dandy (1960) saw the emergence of a vibrant =
and
recognisable modernity on the local stage. Indebted to Osborne's Jimmy
Porter and the era's Angry Young Man, Love's Dandy Jordan, a Belfast
steelworker in the shipyards, is a voice of discontent against Belfast's
emotionally, imaginatively and sexually stultifying culture. Love =
quickly
followed this with other plays of striking realism and protest. His =
second
play The Big Long Bender (1962), which received its professional premier =
by
the Abbey Theatre, is arguably the first Irish play to convincingly =
present
the new urban youth culture, concerning itself with sexual freedom and =
the
price paid for it.

More traditional in its themes, The Big Donkey (1964) is a bleak =
portrayal
of working-class life on Belfast's waterfront and the ever-present =
struggle
against unemployment. The final play of this selection, Me Oul Segocia
(1980) - written in the late 1960s at the onset of the Troubles, but =
only
professionally produced a decade later - stands as a play of rare power =
and
honesty in its exploration of the communal fault lines underlying life =
in
the North.

Stewart Love: Selected Plays - edited and introduced by Scott Boltwood -
provides not just ample testimony to Love's importance as a dramatist =
but is
a bracing exploration of life in 1960s Northern Ireland.

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The Reunion of Irish Convicts and their Families in Australia,
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McIntyre, Perry
Free Passage
The Reunion of Irish Convicts and their Families in Australia, 1788-1852
Irish Academic Press
9780716531005

This is the poignant and complex story of the reunion of Irish families in
Australia from 1788-1852. A hidden history full of human drama, the story
has never been told before. Over one third of convicts transported to the
Australian colonies between 1788 and 1868 were Irish. The ensuing disruption
to family life was evident, and the perception is that these transported men
and women disappeared to the antipodes and that familial connections were
severed forever. But a controversial government policy encouraged reformed
married men to apply from the colonies for the free passage for their wives
and children. These women and children travelled on female convict ships,
and, until now, they have remained hidden in the records. Author Perry
McIntyre examines the British and colonial policy which facilitated this
reunion, and the book is given great humanity by some of the individual
stories of reunion. The research was conducted in England, Ireland, and
Australia, revealing a benevolent attitude, particularly towards Irish
families who had very little institutional support once their breadwinner
was banished. Free Passage is a must-have book for historians and general
readers interested in genealogy and Australian connections.

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From: Stephen Brighton [mailto:sbrighton[at]anth.umd.edu]

Hi Patrick,

I noticed Carmen McCaffrey's post and I wanted to add that the project run
through the University of Maryland is actually my project.

If people are interested they can look up the website:

http://sites.google.com/site/archaeologyoftexasmaryland/

The web page has the archaeology, press coverage, as well as the current
site report.

Also if people want to contact me:

http://www.bsos.umd.edu/anth/People/FacStaff/faculty/sbrighton/IrLifeways.ht
ml

Have a wonderful holiday!


Stephen


Stephen A. Brighton
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Rm 0132 Woods Hall
Affiliate, Center for Heritage
Resource Studies
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
phone: 301-405-3700
fax: 301-314-8305
email: sbrighton[at]anth.umd.edu

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Thread-Topic: [IR-D] Book Review, Historical archaeology of the Irish
From: "Emmons, David M."
To: "The Irish Diaspora Studies List" ,



Something on this issue will be coming in from all over the world, I'm =
sure, but on the matter of Ballykilcline, see Robert Scally's brilliant, =
The End of Hidden Ireland: Rebellion, Famine, and Emigration. Oxford =
UP, 1995.
=20
Dave Emmons
Univ. of Montana

________________________________

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Subject: Re: [IR-D] Book Review, Historical archaeology of the Irish =
diaspora: a transnational approach



Paddy - To add to this discussion I am sending you the link to the
Texas, Maryland archaeological research work on the Irish diaspora being
done by the University of Maryland. I visited the site last year - it's
close to where I live - but know little beyond what is here in the link.

http://www.heritage.umd.edu/chrsweb/Texas_MD/Texas_Overview.htm

Perhaps Kerby - as his work is mentioned in the post below - or someone
else can add more?

Carmel

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EFACIS CONFERENCE, University of SALFORD, September 2011
Ireland and Italy in Retrospect and in the Future: Comparative =
Perspectives
=A0
A themed panel on intercultural relations between Ireland and Italy will =
be
offered at the EFACIS conference at Salford, trying to assess the
significance of the encounter with the Italian elsewhere and =
otherness.=A0
Paper proposals are to be submitted directly to the panel organizers
Donatella Badin and Chiara Sciarrino who will then laise with Scott
Brewster.

Comparative approaches are welcome in the fields of imagology, travel
writing, translation studies, rewritings and the exploration of all =
sorts of
other influences and contacts, literary and artistic as well as social =
and
historical. It would be particularly challenging to study in an Italian
perspective the themes related to the major topics of the conference, =
that
is Ireland and globalization, the current economic crisis and its social
impact as well as the problems of immigration and emigration.
=A0
Please submit a proposal for a 20 min. paper=A0 by April 1st=A0 2011 to =
both=20

Donatella Abbate Badin, University of Turin, EFACIS board member,
donatella.badin[at]unito.it

Chiara Sciarrino, University of Palermo, chiara.sciarrino[at]unipa.it

=A0
Later on chosen panelists (probably four) will be asked to share their
papers before the conference in order to discuss them, rather than read
them, at the conference.
=A0
=A0

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I have been TOLD OFF by a loyal Ir-D member about the way I presented
information about the Google Labs - Books Ngram Viewer.

It was feared that SOME PEOPLE might not read all the way to the end of =
the
information, and would therefore never see the punch line. But where =
else
would you put the punch line?

Anyway. I can take criticism. Yes, I can. So, here is the information =
the
other way round. With a few additions...

Google Labs have an extraordinary new project, a corpus of digitized =
texts
containing about 4% of all books ever printed.

The simple interface is at

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/

You can test it by typing into search box the phrase=20

No Irish Need Apply

Then hit the button marked SEARCH LOTS OF BOOKS.

You get a diagram showing occurrences of this phrase from 1800 to 2000.
Note the 2 peaks in the 1950s and 1970s

At the bottom of the diagram you see date ranges. So, for example if =
you
click on the earliest one, 1800-1939 - best to right click and chose =
Open
Link in New Tab - you can see the actual books and journals where the =
phrase
is used.

The earliest I can see is in the 1840s, in England, in The Mirror of =
1842,
where the full package is already in place - in time of war the Irish =
are
needed, and so on. And the journal, The Mirror, is quoting another =
source,
the Christian Examiner. You can find quite a few examples in the 1840s. =
I
have to say I was surprised to see everything in place at such an early
date.

By the way, while we are at it, if you search for the phrase

Irish Diaspora

You do get one nineteenth century instance.

Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, =
Volume
4, 1893, p 175

But this is an error.

The Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/

has digitised many of the Records of the American Catholic Historical
Society of Philadelphia, and you can check the page.

I think the correct reference should be Records of the American Catholic
Historical Society of Philadelphia, Volume 39, 1928, p 175. But I have =
not
been able to check this.

'The literature on the Irish diaspora has grown to such vast proportions
that it is now beyond the control of any one scholar to master it in all =
its
details. O'Donnell's Irish Abroad (1902) is a fair example of the
difficulties...'

(The clue is that it seems unlikely that a journal published in 1893 =
would
cite a book published in 1902...)

In fact if you tweak the Google Labs utility a little bit you get a good =
few
of uses of the phrase 'Irish Diaspora' in the 1920s. Denis Gwynn, 1929.
Louis Gougaud, 1923. Studies, Volume 11, 1922, p 511, seems to be the
earliest that has turned up so far. The phrase, Irish Diaspora, does =
not
seem to have been remarkable - though Peter Guilday, 1927, seems to put
'diaspora' in italics, if we can rely on the book scan.

Going back to the original Books Ngram Viewer graph, use of the phrase
'Irish Diaspora' escalates madly from 1980 onwards.

The academic article about the Books Ngram Viewer project is

Published Online 16 December 2010

Science=20

RESEARCH ARTICLE
Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books

Jean-Baptiste Michel1,2,3,4,*=86, Yuan Kui Shen5, Aviva P. Aiden6, =
Adrian
Veres7, Matthew K. Gray8, The Google Books Team8, Joseph P. Pickett9, =
Dale
Hoiberg10, Dan Clancy8, Peter Norvig8, Jon Orwant8, Steven Pinker4, =
Martin=20

ABSTRACT

We constructed a corpus of digitized texts containing about 4% of all =
books
ever printed. Analysis of this corpus enables us to investigate cultural
trends quantitatively. We survey the vast terrain of "culturomics", =
focusing
on linguistic and cultural phenomena that were reflected in the English
language between 1800 and 2000. We show how this approach can provide
insights about fields as diverse as lexicography, the evolution of =
grammar,
collective memory, the adoption of technology, the pursuit of fame,
censorship, and historical epidemiology. "Culturomics" extends the
boundaries of rigorous quantitative inquiry to a wide array of new =
phenomena
spanning the social sciences and the humanities.

Received for publication 27 October 2010.
Accepted for publication 6 December 2010.

FOR BACKGROUND SEE

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/17/books/17words.html

Google Launches New Book Database
By PATRICIA COHEN
Published: December 16, 2010
=20
With little fanfare, Google has made a mammoth database culled from =
nearly
5.2 million digitized books available to the public for free downloads =
and
online searches, opening a new landscape of possibilities for research =
and
education in the humanities.

But the project has received quite a bit of attention.

For use of the word Internet
http://www.coated.com/google-books-ngram-viewer/

Vampire and Zombie
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/vampire-vs-zombie-c=
omp
aring-word-usage-through-time/68203

daft punk
http://www.switched.com/2010/12/20/google-books-ngram-viewer/


P.O'S.

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Patrick O'Sullivan
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Email Patrick O'Sullivan Email Patrick
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Forwarded on behalf of
Julia M. Wright
Canada Research Chair in European Studies

A Companion to Irish Literature
Julia M. Wright
ISBN: 978-1-4051-8809-8
Hardcover
1000 pages
November 2010, Wiley-Blackwell

VOLUME I.
Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors.

Introduction (Julia M. Wright, Dalhousie University).

Part I: The Middle Ages.

1. T=E1in B=F3 C=FAailnge (Ann Dooley, University of Toronto).

2. Finn and the Fenian Tradition (Joseph Falaky Nagy, University of
California, Los Angeles).

3. The Reception and Assimilation of Continental Literature (Barbara =
Lisa
Hillers, Harvard University).

Part II: The Early Modern Era.

4. Bardic Poetry, Masculinity, and the Politics of Male Homosociality =
(Sarah
E. McKibben, University of Notre Dame).

5. Annalists and Historians in Early Modern Ireland, 1450=971700 =
(Bernadette
Cunningham, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin).

6. "Hungry Eyes" and the Rhetoric of Dispossession: English Writing from
Early Modern Ireland (Patricia Palmer, King's College London).

7. Kinds of Irishness: Henry Burnell and Richard Head (Deana Rankin, =
Royal
Holloway, University of London).

Part III: The Eighteenth Century.

8. Crossing Acts: Irish Drama from George Farquhar to Thomas Sheridan =
(Helen
M. Burke, Florida State University).

9. Parnell and Early Eighteenth-Century Irish Poetry (Andrew Carpenter,
University College Dublin).

10. Jonathan Swift and Eighteenth-Century Ireland (Clement Hawes, =
University
of Michigan).

11. Merriman's C=FAirt An Mheono=EDche and Eighteenth-Century Irish =
Verse (Liam
P. =D3 Murch=FA, National University of Ireland, Cork).

12. Frances Sheridan and Ireland (Kathleen M. Oliver, University of =
Central
Florida).

13. "The Indigent Philosopher": Oliver Goldsmith (James Watt, University =
of
York).

14. Edmund Burke (Luke Gibbons, National University of Ireland, =
Maynooth).

15. The Drama of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Robert W. Jones, University =
of
Leeds).

Part IV: The Romantic Period.

16. United Irish Poetry and Songs (Mary Helen Thuente, North Carolina =
State
University).

17. Maria Edgeworth and (Inter)national Intelligence (Susan Manly,
University of St Andrews).

18. Mary Tighe: A Portrait of the Artist for the Twenty-First Century
(Harriet Kramer Linkin, New Mexico State University).

19. Thomas Moore: After the Battle (Jeffery Vail, Boston University).

20. The Role of the Political Woman in the Writings of Lady Morgan, =
Sydney
Owenson (Susan B. Egenolf, Texas A&M University).

Part V: The Rise of Gothic.

21. Charles Robert Maturin: Ireland=92s Eccentric Genius (Robert Miles,
University of Victoria).

22. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Gothic Grotesque and the Huguenot =
Inheritance
(Alison Milbank, University of Nottingham).

23. A Philosophical Home Ruler: The Imaginary Geographies of Bram Stoker
(Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University).

Part VI: The Victorian Era.

24. Scribes and Storytellers: The Ethnographic Imagination in
Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Stiof=E1n O'Cadhla, University College =
Cork).

25. Reconciliation and Emancipation: The Banims and Carleton (Helen
O'Connell, Durham University).

26. Davis, Mangan, Ferguson: Irish Poetry, 1831-1849 (Matthew Campbell,
University of Sheffield).

27. The Great Famine in Literature, 1846 -1896 (Melissa Fegan, =
University of
Chester).

28. Dion Boucicault: From Stage Irishman to Staging Nationalism (Scott
Boltwood, Emory & Henry College).

29. Oscar Wilde's Convictions, Speciesism, and the Pain of Individualism
(Dennis Denisoff, Ryerson University, Toronto).

VOLUME TWO.

Introduction (Julia M. Wright, Dalhousie University).

Part VII: Transitions: Victorian, Revival, Modern.

30. Cultural Nationalism and Irish Modernism (Michael Mays, University =
of
Southern Mississippi).

31. Defining Irishness: Bernard Shaw and the Irish Connection on the =
English
Stage (Christopher Innes, York University, Toronto).

32. The Novels of Somerville and Ross (Vera Kreilkamp, Pine Manor =
College).

33. W.B. Yeats and the Dialectics of Misrecognition (Gregory Castle, =
Arizona
State University).

34. John Millington Synge -- Playwright and Poet (Ann Saddlemyer, =
University
of Toronto).

35. James Joyce and the Creation of Modern Irish Literature (Michael =
Patrick
Gillespie, Florida International University).

Part VIII: Developments in Genre and Representation after 1930.

36. The Word of Politics/Politics of the Word: Immanence and
Transdescendence in Sean O'Casey and Samuel Beckett (Sandra Wynands, =
Zayed
University, Dubai).

37. Elizabeth Bowen: A Home in Writing (Eluned Summers-Bremner, =
University
of Auckland, New Zealand).

38. Changing Times: Frank O'Connor and Se=E1n O'Faol=E1in (Paul Delaney, =
Trinity
College Dublin).

39. "Ireland is small enough": Louis MacNeice and Patrick Kavanagh (Alan
Gillis, University of Edinburgh).

40. Irish Mimes: Flann O=92Brien (Joseph Brooker, Birkbeck College, =
University
of London).

Part IX: Debating Social Change after 1960.

41. Reading William Trevor and Finding Protestant Ireland (Gregory A.
Schirmer, University of Mississippi).

42. The Mythopoeic Ireland of Edna O'Brien's Fiction (Maureen O'Connor, =
Mary
Immaculate College, Limerick).

43. Anglo-Irish Conflict in Jennifer Johnston's Fiction (Silvia Diez =
Fabre,
University of Burgos, Spain).

44. Living History: The Importance of Julia O'Faolain's Fiction =
(Christine
St Peter, University of Victoria, Canada).

45. Holding a Mirror Up to a Society in Evolution: John McGahern (Eamon
Maher, Institute of Technology, Tallaght, Dublin).

Part X: Contemporary Literature: Print, Stage, and Screen.

46. Brian Friel: From Nationalism to Post-Nationalism (F.C. McGrath,
University of Southern Maine).

47. Telling the Truth Slant: The Poetry of Seamus Heaney (Eugene =
O'Brien,
Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick).

48. Belfast Poets: Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, and Medbh McGuckian
(Richard Rankin Russell, Baylor University, Texas).

49. Eil=E9an N=ED Chuillean=E1in's Work of Witness (Guinn Batten).

50. Eavan Boland's Muse Mothers (Heather Clark, Marlboro College, =
Vermont).

51. John Banville's Dualistic Universe (Elke D'hoker, University of =
Leuven,
Belgium).

52. Between History and Fantasy: The Irish Films of Neil Jordan (Brian
McIlroy, University of British Columbia).

53. "Keeping That Wound Green": The Poetry of Paul Muldoon (David =
Wheatley,
University of Hull).

54. Nuala N=ED Dhomhnaill and the "Continuously Contemporary" (Frank =
Sewell,
University of Ulster).

55. The Anxiety of Influence and the Fiction of Roddy Doyle (Danine
Farquharson, Memorial University, St John's, Newfoundland).

56. The Reclamation of "Injurious Terms" in Emma Donoghue's Fiction
(Jennifer M. Jeffers, Cleveland State University).

57. Martin McDonagh and the Ethics of Irish Storytelling (Patrick =
Lonergan,
National University of Ireland, Galway).

Index.

More information at

http://ca.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-140518809X.html

=A0
Julia M. Wright
Canada Research Chair in European Studies
Co-editor, Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies
Department of English
Dalhousie University
6135 University Avenue
Halifax, Nova Scotia=A0=A0 B3H 4P9
homepage: http://myweb.dal.ca/jl441155

Companion to Irish Literature. 2 vols.=20
http://ca.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-140518809X.html

Now available in paperback:
Reading the Nation in English Literature:=A0 A Critical Reader.=20
http://www.routledge.com/9780415445245

Irish Literature, 1750-1900:=A0 An Anthology.=20
http://ca.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1405145196.html
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Alexandra Slaby has sent news of her recently-published book L'Etat et =
la Culture en Irlande, "the fruit of ten years' research, it seeks to =
highlight the cultural discourses and priorities which unfolded over =
time in Ireland."=20

Preface by Michael D. Higgins. Published by Presses universitaires de =
Caen - Publications des Universites de Rouen et du Havre, France.

De l'=C3=A9mergence du nationalisme culturel irlandais qui a =
inspir=C3=A9 W.B. Yeats et Lady Gregory aux ann=C3=A9es grisantes du =
Tigre celtique qui ont plac=C3=A9 Riverdance sur la sc=C3=A8ne de =
l'Eurovision, l'Irlande a mis la culture au c=C5=93ur de l'expression de =
son identit=C3=A9. Mais, paradoxe irlandais, l'=C3=89tat s'est tr=C3=A8s =
peu pr=C3=A9occup=C3=A9 de cette culture avant les ann=C3=A9es 1990. =
Fruit de dix ans de recherche - analyse de d=C3=A9bats parlementaires, =
d'articles de presse, de discours politiques et autres rapports =
d'activit=C3=A9, dizaines d'entretiens avec les acteurs majeurs de la =
sc=C3=A8ne politico-culturelle irlandaise - cet ouvrage postule =
l'id=C3=A9e d'une politique culturelle originale qui repose sur des =
idiosyncrasies nationales tir=C3=A9es de l'histoire, mais aussi de =
fa=C3=A7on plus singuli=C3=A8re sur la culture politique de ses =
=C3=A9lites et en particulier de son =C3=A9lite Fianna F=C3=A1il qui par =
la force des choses a =C3=A9labor=C3=A9 la politique culturelle de =
l'Irlande pendant la plus grande partie du XXe si=C3=A8cle et le =
d=C3=A9but du XXIe. L'auteur, qui emm=C3=A8ne le lecteur au c=C5=93ur =
des d=C3=A9bats politico-culturels ayant fa=C3=A7onn=C3=A9 =
l'identit=C3=A9 irlandaise depuis l'ind=C3=A9pendance, explore la voie =
culturelle irlandaise unique qui se d=C3=A9gage des traditions =
intellectuelles europ=C3=A9ennes qui ont =C3=A9t=C3=A9 impos=C3=A9es =
=C3=A0 ce pays mais ne l'ont pas =C3=A9loign=C3=A9 d'un certain =
culturalisme exclusif consistant =C3=A0 affirmer haut et fort la =
sp=C3=A9cificit=C3=A9 de sa culture =C3=A0 l'heure d'une mondialisation =
uniformisante.

Langue fran=C3=A7ais
=C3=89diteur Presses universitaires de Caen
Co-=C3=A9diteur Publications des universit=C3=A9s de Rouen et du Havre
ISBN-10 2-84133-359-0
ISBN-13 978-2-84133-359-2
Ann=C3=A9e de publication octobre 2010
Prix recommand=C3=A9 30,00 =E2=82=AC

http://www.lcdpu.fr/livre/?GCOI=3D27000100508250

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AFTER THE BALL:=A0 CULTURAL PRODUCTIONS AND PRACTICES IN POST-CELTIC =
TIGER
IRELAND

ERIBIA-GREI, University of Caen Lower Normandy, December 2 & 3, 2011
MRSH, Salle des Actes (SH 027)

The impact of the Celtic Tiger and the following recession on cultural
creation and practices opens a new area of investigation for scholars in
cultural history, cultural economy, sociology, art history and media
studies.

At conferences and advocacy events, the Irish Arts Council, Department =
of
Culture and cultural policy-makers directed considerable efforts to =
reach
out to public opinion, tourists, companies and the Irish diaspora to =
raise
awareness about the economic dimension of culture in the country. =
Culture
indeed generates wealth and employment, and cutting public funding of
culture would have negative consequences on the economy. The economic
justification has dominated cultural discourse over the past few years, =
so
that the cultural process, ie artistic creation and reception by the =
public
have been almost totally excluded from public debate. The Arts Council =
is
only just beginning to investigate the living conditions of artists and =
the
social bonding potential of culture. Social sciences are also beginning =
to
research cultural practices.

The comparison with Northern Ireland will be welcome. The impact of the
recession on cultural funding and creation may be compared with the
situation in the Republic. Another =AB after =BB is also to be =
investigated,
through the impact of the Good Friday Agreement on cultural practices =
and
productions and the effective community bonding that has taken place as =
a
result of Northern Irish cultural policy.

Culture will be understood broadly, including not only the arts and =
formal
cultural practices such as the attendance of cultural institutions but =
also
cultural industries, and generally, as is the case in the =
English-speaking
world, all modes of expression which are codified: design, fashion and
culinary arts which are the multi-sensorial translation offered in daily
communion of a new, more sophisticated and cosmopolitan self-perception =
on
the part of the
=A0Irish.

=A0What remains after the ball? What trends do we see emerging in terms =
of
productions and practices? Papers may cover the following topics:
=A0-=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Perceptions of actual or putative =
prosperity of cultural sectors
=A0-=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Contemporary artistic creation: =
literature, music, cinema,
architecture etc.
=A0-=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Cultural institutions : attendance, =
evolutions of museography
=A0-=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Cultural tourism, festivals, marketing =
strategies
=A0-=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Cultural industries
=A0-=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Formal or informal cultural practices =
(purchase of commercial
cultural goods)
=A0-=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Media (broadcasting, the press, the =
internet) as a critical
space

Proposals to be submitted to Alexandra Slaby
(alexandra.slaby[at]unicaen.fr) by June 15, 2011.

Alexandra Slaby
Ma=EEtre de conf=E9rences en anglais
UFR LVE/Groupe de recherches en =E9tudes irlandaises
Bureau LE428 ou S3032
Universit=E9 de Caen/Basse-Normandie
Esplanade de la Paix BP 5186
14032 CAEN Cedex
FRANCE

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: CFP Spanish Association for Irish Studies: (Un)Becoming
Irishness: Imperfections and National Identities,
Universidad de Oviedo
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TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SPANISH ASSOCIATION FOR IRISH STUDIES=20
X AEDEI INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE=20
"(Un)Becoming Irishness: Imperfections and National Identities" =
University
of Oviedo, 25-28 May 2011=20
Universidad de Oviedo=20
=A0
Call for Papers=20
=A0
The binary nature of traditional Western thought is partly responsible =
for
the generalised assumption that perfection is the opposite of =
imperfection
and that in order to achieve a full understanding of the latter, =
defining
the characteristics of the former would suffice. Over the last decades
Ireland has experienced deep transformations in its economic, cultural =
and
physical landscapes that have called into question all the idealisations
upon which the identity of the nation had been based. In his latest
publication, Enough is Enough (Faber 2010), Fintan O=92Toole suggests =
that the
Irish Republic was built upon false myths that are at odds with the =
harsher
=96 and altogether more dystopian =96 realities of Irish life. The sole
comprehension of utopian national mythologies proves unable to tackle =
issues
such as the degradation of Irish landscapes in the name of "progress", =
the
religious scandals or the crumbling down of previously sacred pillars of
Irishness. Addressing the shadowy side of life appears to be =
particularly
relevant in a time characterised by deep instability.=20
=A0
We invite papers that will assess the important role that the imperfect, =
the
disquieting and the dystopian have historically had =96 or are currently
having =96 in the construction of Irish identities. Papers should not =
exceed
the 20-minute delivery, in English or Spanish, and may address, from a
variety of disciplines and fields of knowledge, topics such as:=20
=A0
=95 Imperfect Republic/s: political, religious and economic failures=20
=95 Progress Imperfect: environmental damages=20
=95 Scars: physical, emotional, (post)colonial=20
=95 Memories and distorted remembering; childhood and stunted growth=20
=95 Imperfect bodies: disabilities and illnesses=20
=95 Ageing, ugliness and identity=20
=95 Freaks: the grotesque, the monstrous=20
=95 Humorous distortions=20
=95 Dysfunctional norms: family models and heterosexual compulsion=20
=95 The limitations of whiteness: ethnic and racial diversities=20
=95 "Barbarous uses of language"?: Irish-English=20
=95 The dynamics of negative prefixing=20
=95 "The Irish for No": representations of the negative in Irish culture =

=95 (Mis)translations and identity=20
=95 Past Imperfect: historical reflections=20
Confirmed keynote writers=20
Lia Mills=20
Hugo Hamilton=20
=A0
Confirmed plenary speakers=20
Patricia Coughlan (University College Cork)=20
Ciar=E1n Benson (University College Dublin)=20
=A0
Scientific Committee J
os=E9 Francisco Fern=E1ndez (U Almer=EDa)=20
Rosa Gonz=E1lez Casademont (U Barcelona)=20
Munira H. Mutran (U Sao Paulo)=20
Barry McCrea (Yale University)=20
Marisol Morales Ladr=F3n (U Alcal=E1)=20
Anne Mulhall (UCD)=20
Juan Ignacio Oliva Cruz (U La Laguna)=20
In=E9s Praga Terente (U Burgos)=20
=A0
Conference Secretariat=20
Carolina Amador Moreno (U Extremadura)=20
=A0
Conference Organiser=20
Luz Mar Gonz=E1lez Arias=20
Dpto. Filolog=EDa Anglogerm=E1nica y Francesa=20
Campus de Humanidades "El Mil=E1n"=20
Universidad de Oviedo=20
33071 Oviedo, Asturias=20
Spain=20
=A0
Submission of proposals=20
Abstracts of around 250 words should be emailed to
=A0AEDEI2011[at]gmail.com by Wednesday 16th March 2011. Please do not =
hesitate to
contact the organiser for any queries you may have.=20