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What are the best meals to cook for Irish in-laws?

What are the best meals to cook for Irish in-laws?
My in-laws from Northern Ireland are coming over to stay with us in Surrey.
They know what they like and they like what they know. What shall I cook for
them?

By Tracey Caldwell 4:46PM GMT 29 Dec 2010
Answer:
Start the day with an Ulster Fry and you won't go too far wrong. As well as
fried egg, bacon and sausage, cook up a treat with fried potato bread, or
fadge as your in-laws will call it. You might also fry soda bread - this is
not a low fat meal. Now add white pudding. Similar to black pudding but
without the blood, white pudding is made of pork meat and fat, bread and
oatmeal and bound into a sausage shape by suet. Serve with tea - your
in-laws may take their tea black with cold water. For dinner mash up some
potato and chopped spring onions with milk and fold in a large knob of
butter to create champ. Serve with pork chops and green cabbage. After
dinner wheaten bread with butter and raspberry jam will go down nicely, with
more tea.

SOURCE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/a-little-different/more-food-questions/
8230227/What-are-the-best-meals-to-cook-for-Irish-in-laws.html

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Government to launch Irish ancestry certificates in January
Irish Americans are eligible for new document
By CATHY HAYES , IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

The Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Michael Martin has told the
Government that he hopes to have the plan for a 'Certificate of Irish
Heritage' ready to launch in January 2011.

Irish Americans who are not eligible for Irish citizenship, those whose
ancestry is further back than their grandparents are all eligible.

Several discount programs on travel to Ireland will likely be included as
part of the heritage certificate.

He said "It will enable people who have a strong Irish connection to assert
their Irishness and their heritage. For many people beyond the grandparents
stage there is no manifestation of the fact they are Irish."

Martin was also keen to point out that there would be no cost to the
taxpayers. He said "It will be self-financing. There will be a charge for
the certificate but it's not to make money. It's not a revenue generating
mechanism at all."

Currently the Department of Foreign Affairs is finalizing a contract with a
Kerry-based company, Fexco, who will operate the scheme.

The idea for this 'Certificate of Irishness' arose from a review of
relations between Ireland and the U.S. carried out by Michael Collins, the
Irish Ambassador to the U.S. The scheme will target millions of people
worldwide who have Irish ancestry and a strong affinity with Ireland.

It's believed there are up to 80 million in total. Although many of these
people are no longer eligible for Irish citizenship due to the passage of
generations they will be eligible for the certificate.

The idea for such a scheme arose because of the strong demand amongst the
Irish diaspora around the world.

SOURCE
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Government-to-launch-Irish-ancestry-certifi
cates-in-January-112543809.html

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Love Death and Whiskey
40 Songs
Patrick O'Sullivan

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Bradford 2010
E-Book ISBN 978-0-9567824-1-0
Price $2.99

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all the usual devices, including Kindle.


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We have escaped the tyranny of paper and postage. It is a simple download.

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for example the hyperlinked Table of Contents works well in Kindle, but does
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Patrick Pinder Publisher
Bradford 2010

Love Death and Whiskey
40 Songs
Patrick O'Sullivan

40 song lyrics by Patrick O'Sullivan, selected from the long back catalogue.
New songs that measure themselves against tradition, folk, chanson, stage
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Dear Paddy,
I hope it's not too late to record my sadness at the death of Tony Stewart.
I greatly admired him as a scholar and gentleman, much though he no doubt
would have disagreed with some of my own views, and the historiography of
Ireland is far the poorer for his passing.
Joe Lee.


On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:

> 22 December 2010
>
> Tributes have been paid to Belfast historian and author ATQ Stewart
> Academics at Queen's University have been paying tribute to Belfast
> historian ATQ Stewart who died at home at the age of 81 after a long
> illness.
>
> Dr Stewart worked as a lecturer in Stranmillis College of Education, before
> becoming a lecturer at Queen's University Belfast.
>
> He was also a best-selling author and a contributor to BBC history
> programmes and to the Irish Times.
>
> Professor Lord Paul Bew, from Queen's School of Politics, International
> Studies and Philosophy, said Dr Stewart was an "outstanding historian in an
> outstanding generation of Queen's historians".
>
> "He was also a well-known journalist and broadcaster, capable of bridging
> the gap between the academic and public sphere.
>
> 'Immense'
>
> "His generosity to young scholars was legendary and there are many who owe
> him a great deal for his kindness and scholarly insight. Tony Stewart was a
> gentleman of the old school and he will be sorely missed."
>
> Professor Richard English, Head of the School, said Dr Stewart was "one of
> the most important Irish historians of the late-twentieth century".
>
> His colleague, Professor Graham Walker, described Dr Stewart's contribution
> to modern Irish history as "immense".
>
> He added: "His works are models of scholarly integrity. They illuminate in
> particular the mind and the world of Protestant Ulster. No other scholar
> has
> conveyed the history of this community with such insight and panache."
>
> Dr Stewart died peacefully at home in Belfast on Friday 17 December.
>
> He is survived by his wife, Anna and sons, Christopher and Peter.
>
> His funeral service will be held at Roselawn Crematorium in Belfast on
> Thursday.
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-12061154
>

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Irish influx to thwart Conservative election pledge on migration
Possibility of up to 120,000 leaving the Republic for Britain means
significant immigration drop unlikely for 2011


Alan Travis, home affairs editor
The Guardian, Thursday 30 December 2010
Article history

A new wave of Irish migration with as many as 120,000 leaving the Republic
is likely to ensure that a significant drop in immigration to Britain is
unlikely in 2011, according to a study published today.

The Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) says the level of UK net
migration - those coming to live in Britain minus those leaving to live
abroad - is unlikely to fall much below 200,000 over the coming 12 months -
about the same annual level as much of the past decade

FULL TEXT AT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/30/irish-influx-conservative-migrat
ion-pledge?INTCMP=SRCH

Significant drop in net migration to the UK in 2010 unlikely

30 December 2010

A new briefing on migration trends by ippr suggests that net migration is
unlikely to fall much below 200,000 in 2011 - roughly the annual level it
has been at for much of the last decade.

This is despite the fact that the Coalition government is introducing
measures to restrict immigration in order to meet the Conservative election
pledge of reducing net immigration 'from the hundreds of thousands to the
tens of thousands'.

The briefing sets out a number of reasons why the public should not expect
net immigration to reduce significantly in 2011...

FULL TEXT AT

http://www.ippr.org.uk/pressreleases/?id=4283

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Dear Paddy

Happy New Year to all.=20

I noticed this report as well and had a look at the original IPPR =
report, on their website, as well as the material which it references =
(and which appear to be its only sources on Irish emigration) - an RT=C9 =
report of an ESRI 'special article' entitled 'Recovery Scenarios for =
Ireland: an update', an interview with one of the authors, John =
Fitzgerald, who does not put forward any hard figures in the recorded =
interview and the text of the report itself, on the ESRI website.

As far as I can see the ESRI report (which is speculative anyway and =
puts forward two different scenarios for the Irish economy, based on =
assumptions about growth and recovery) nowhere refers to 'the =
possibility of up to 120,000 leaving the Republic for Britain'.=20

The Guardian report specifically says 'It has been predicted that =
120,000 Irish nationals could leave in 2010 and 2011 with the UK among =
their favoured destinations.' Even this is not the same as the headline, =
which baldly and even more inaccurately claims that the 'Possibility of =
up to 120,000 leaving the Republic for Britain means significant =
immigration drop unlikely for 2011'. Any casual reader could be forgiven =
for thinking this means that 120,000 Irish people are expected to arrive =
in Britain _in 2011_.

The ESRI report, the source of the IPPR paper, says none of these =
things. What it actually says (page 20) is=20

'Throughout these simulations migration is assumed to be driven by =
movements in after-tax wage rates and the unemployment rate in Ireland =
relative to the UK. As a result, the rise in unemployment would lead to =
substantial outward migration in this scenario. There would be =
cumulative net emigration of over 160,000 over the period 2009 to 2013, =
this is crucial to the rapid decline in the unemployment rate in this =
scenario'.=20

A number of points arise. One is that that there is a difference in the =
timeframe - the ESRI covers the period 2009 - 2013, not 2010-2011. The =
second and equally important point is that the ESRI report does not =
refer to 'Irish nationals'. The CSO's provisional data for gross =
emigration up to April 2010 shows that 65.3k left the country in the =
previous year, but only 27.7k were Irish. Moreover, immigration to =
Ireland (yes, even in that period) was 30.8k and 13.3k of these were =
Irish people, of whom it may be assumed a fair proportion came from the =
UK.=20

This is the only recent hard data we have, and it is very far from =
suggesting that 'up to 120,000 Irish nationals could leave for Britain'. =
It seems more likely that net migration by Irish people to Britain in =
the year up to April 2010 was not more than 20k, assuming (a) that not =
all of the 27.7k who left went to Britain and (b) that a good number of =
the 13.3k who returned were coming from there. Moreover, it is =
reasonable to assume that other (non-Irish) migrants from Ireland are =
relatively less likely to go to Britain than Irish migrants; in any case =
the IPPR report and the Guardian's piece specifically mention Irish =
migrants.

I am not suggesting at all that a rising trend of involuntary migration =
is not a problem, or that it may not have increased further in the =
months after April 2010. But the manner in which the Guardian reports =
the whole matter seems to me to be both innumerate and tendentious. And =
whose agenda is being served? The only answer I can think of is the =
anti-immigration, xenophobic, Eurosceptic elements of British society.

Piaras Mac Einri
Cork

-----Original Message-----
From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List on behalf of Patrick O'Sullivan
Sent: Thu 12/30/2010 6:34 PM
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] Irish influx to thwart Conservative election pledge on =
migration
=20
Irish influx to thwart Conservative election pledge on migration
Possibility of up to 120,000 leaving the Republic for Britain means
significant immigration drop unlikely for 2011

=20
Alan Travis, home affairs editor
The Guardian, Thursday 30 December 2010
Article history

A new wave of Irish migration with as many as 120,000 leaving the =
Republic
is likely to ensure that a significant drop in immigration to Britain is
unlikely in 2011, according to a study published today.

The Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) says the level of UK net
migration - those coming to live in Britain minus those leaving to live
abroad - is unlikely to fall much below 200,000 over the coming 12 =
months -
about the same annual level as much of the past decade

FULL TEXT AT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/30/irish-influx-conservative-mig=
rat
ion-pledge?INTCMP=3DSRCH

Significant drop in net migration to the UK in 2010 unlikely

30 December 2010

A new briefing on migration trends by ippr suggests that net migration =
is
unlikely to fall much below 200,000 in 2011 - roughly the annual level =
it
has been at for much of the last decade.

This is despite the fact that the Coalition government is introducing
measures to restrict immigration in order to meet the Conservative =
election
pledge of reducing net immigration 'from the hundreds of thousands to =
the
tens of thousands'.

The briefing sets out a number of reasons why the public should not =
expect
net immigration to reduce significantly in 2011...

FULL TEXT AT

http://www.ippr.org.uk/pressreleases/?id=3D4283

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Happy New Year everyone...

The contrast between what was written in The Guardian and Piaras's informed=
opinion is startling - but are Guardian readers being benefiting from it?

Ultan =20
----- Original Message -----
From: "Piaras MacEinri"
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Sent: Thursday, 30 December, 2010 10:02:35 PM
Subject: Re: [IR-D] Irish influx to thwart Conservative election pledge on =
migration

Dear Paddy

Happy New Year to all.=20

I noticed this report as well and had a look at the original IPPR report, o=
n their website, as well as the material which it references (and which app=
ear to be its only sources on Irish emigration) - an RT=C3=89 report of an =
ESRI 'special article' entitled 'Recovery Scenarios for Ireland: an update'=
, an interview with one of the authors, John Fitzgerald, who does not put f=
orward any hard figures in the recorded interview and the text of the repor=
t itself, on the ESRI website.

As far as I can see the ESRI report (which is speculative anyway and puts f=
orward two different scenarios for the Irish economy, based on assumptions =
about growth and recovery) nowhere refers to 'the possibility of up to 120,=
000 leaving the Republic for Britain'.=20

The Guardian report specifically says 'It has been predicted that 120,000 I=
rish nationals could leave in 2010 and 2011 with the UK among their favoure=
d destinations.' Even this is not the same as the headline, which baldly an=
d even more inaccurately claims that the 'Possibility of up to 120,000 leav=
ing the Republic for Britain means significant immigration drop unlikely fo=
r 2011'. Any casual reader could be forgiven for thinking this means that 1=
20,000 Irish people are expected to arrive in Britain _in 2011_.

The ESRI report, the source of the IPPR paper, says none of these things. W=
hat it actually says (page 20) is=20

'Throughout these simulations migration is assumed to be driven by movement=
s in after-tax wage rates and the unemployment rate in Ireland relative to =
the UK. As a result, the rise in unemployment would lead to substantial out=
ward migration in this scenario. There would be cumulative net emigration o=
f over 160,000 over the period 2009 to 2013, this is crucial to the rapid d=
ecline in the unemployment rate in this scenario'.=20

A number of points arise. One is that that there is a difference in the tim=
eframe - the ESRI covers the period 2009 - 2013, not 2010-2011. The second =
and equally important point is that the ESRI report does not refer to 'Iris=
h nationals'. The CSO's provisional data for gross emigration up to April 2=
010 shows that 65.3k left the country in the previous year, but only 27.7k =
were Irish. Moreover, immigration to Ireland (yes, even in that period) was=
30.8k and 13.3k of these were Irish people, of whom it may be assumed a fa=
ir proportion came from the UK.=20

This is the only recent hard data we have, and it is very far from suggesti=
ng that 'up to 120,000 Irish nationals could leave for Britain'. It seems m=
ore likely that net migration by Irish people to Britain in the year up to =
April 2010 was not more than 20k, assuming (a) that not all of the 27.7k wh=
o left went to Britain and (b) that a good number of the 13.3k who returned=
were coming from there. Moreover, it is reasonable to assume that other (n=
on-Irish) migrants from Ireland are relatively less likely to go to Britain=
than Irish migrants; in any case the IPPR report and the Guardian's piece =
specifically mention Irish migrants.

I am not suggesting at all that a rising trend of involuntary migration is =
not a problem, or that it may not have increased further in the months afte=
r April 2010. But the manner in which the Guardian reports the whole matte=
r seems to me to be both innumerate and tendentious. And whose agenda is be=
ing served? The only answer I can think of is the anti-immigration, xenopho=
bic, Eurosceptic elements of British society.

Piaras Mac Einri
Cork

-----Original Message-----
From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List on behalf of Patrick O'Sullivan
Sent: Thu 12/30/2010 6:34 PM
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] Irish influx to thwart Conservative election pledge on migr=
ation
=20
Irish influx to thwart Conservative election pledge on migration
Possibility of up to 120,000 leaving the Republic for Britain means
significant immigration drop unlikely for 2011

=20
Alan Travis, home affairs editor
The Guardian,=09 Thursday 30 December 2010
Article history

A new wave of Irish migration with as many as 120,000 leaving the Republic
is likely to ensure that a significant drop in immigration to Britain is
unlikely in 2011, according to a study published today.

The Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) says the level of UK net
migration - those coming to live in Britain minus those leaving to live
abroad - is unlikely to fall much below 200,000 over the coming 12 months -
about the same annual level as much of the past decade

FULL TEXT AT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/30/irish-influx-conservative-migra=
t
ion-pledge?INTCMP=3DSRCH

Significant drop in net migration to the UK in 2010 unlikely

30 December 2010

A new briefing on migration trends by ippr suggests that net migration is
unlikely to fall much below 200,000 in 2011 - roughly the annual level it
has been at for much of the last decade.

This is despite the fact that the Coalition government is introducing
measures to restrict immigration in order to meet the Conservative election
pledge of reducing net immigration 'from the hundreds of thousands to the
tens of thousands'.

The briefing sets out a number of reasons why the public should not expect
net immigration to reduce significantly in 2011...

FULL TEXT AT

http://www.ippr.org.uk/pressreleases/?id=3D4283

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Dear Paddy & co

In support of Piaras's points below, here is a link to a short piece I =
wrote on the issue for the current issue of Prospect:
=
http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2010/12/ireland-2011-emigration-immigrat=
ion-polish/

Regards

Colin Murphy

www.colinmurphy.ie






On 30 Dec 2010, at 22:02, MacEinri, Piaras wrote:

Dear Paddy

Happy New Year to all.=20

I noticed this report as well and had a look at the original IPPR =
report, on their website, as well as the material which it references =
(and which appear to be its only sources on Irish emigration) - an RT=C9 =
report of an ESRI 'special article' entitled 'Recovery Scenarios for =
Ireland: an update', an interview with one of the authors, John =
Fitzgerald, who does not put forward any hard figures in the recorded =
interview and the text of the report itself, on the ESRI website.

As far as I can see the ESRI report (which is speculative anyway and =
puts forward two different scenarios for the Irish economy, based on =
assumptions about growth and recovery) nowhere refers to 'the =
possibility of up to 120,000 leaving the Republic for Britain'.=20

The Guardian report specifically says 'It has been predicted that =
120,000 Irish nationals could leave in 2010 and 2011 with the UK among =
their favoured destinations.' Even this is not the same as the headline, =
which baldly and even more inaccurately claims that the 'Possibility of =
up to 120,000 leaving the Republic for Britain means significant =
immigration drop unlikely for 2011'. Any casual reader could be forgiven =
for thinking this means that 120,000 Irish people are expected to arrive =
in Britain _in 2011_.

The ESRI report, the source of the IPPR paper, says none of these =
things. What it actually says (page 20) is=20

'Throughout these simulations migration is assumed to be driven by =
movements in after-tax wage rates and the unemployment rate in Ireland =
relative to the UK. As a result, the rise in unemployment would lead to =
substantial outward migration in this scenario. There would be =
cumulative net emigration of over 160,000 over the period 2009 to 2013, =
this is crucial to the rapid decline in the unemployment rate in this =
scenario'.=20

A number of points arise. One is that that there is a difference in the =
timeframe - the ESRI covers the period 2009 - 2013, not 2010-2011. The =
second and equally important point is that the ESRI report does not =
refer to 'Irish nationals'. The CSO's provisional data for gross =
emigration up to April 2010 shows that 65.3k left the country in the =
previous year, but only 27.7k were Irish. Moreover, immigration to =
Ireland (yes, even in that period) was 30.8k and 13.3k of these were =
Irish people, of whom it may be assumed a fair proportion came from the =
UK.=20

This is the only recent hard data we have, and it is very far from =
suggesting that 'up to 120,000 Irish nationals could leave for Britain'. =
It seems more likely that net migration by Irish people to Britain in =
the year up to April 2010 was not more than 20k, assuming (a) that not =
all of the 27.7k who left went to Britain and (b) that a good number of =
the 13.3k who returned were coming from there. Moreover, it is =
reasonable to assume that other (non-Irish) migrants from Ireland are =
relatively less likely to go to Britain than Irish migrants; in any case =
the IPPR report and the Guardian's piece specifically mention Irish =
migrants.

I am not suggesting at all that a rising trend of involuntary migration =
is not a problem, or that it may not have increased further in the =
months after April 2010. But the manner in which the Guardian reports =
the whole matter seems to me to be both innumerate and tendentious. And =
whose agenda is being served? The only answer I can think of is the =
anti-immigration, xenophobic, Eurosceptic elements of British society.

Piaras Mac Einri
Cork

-----Original Message-----
From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List on behalf of Patrick O'Sullivan
Sent: Thu 12/30/2010 6:34 PM
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] Irish influx to thwart Conservative election pledge on =
migration

Irish influx to thwart Conservative election pledge on migration
Possibility of up to 120,000 leaving the Republic for Britain means
significant immigration drop unlikely for 2011


Alan Travis, home affairs editor
The Guardian, Thursday 30 December 2010
Article history

A new wave of Irish migration with as many as 120,000 leaving the =
Republic
is likely to ensure that a significant drop in immigration to Britain is
unlikely in 2011, according to a study published today.

The Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) says the level of UK net
migration - those coming to live in Britain minus those leaving to live
abroad - is unlikely to fall much below 200,000 over the coming 12 =
months -
about the same annual level as much of the past decade

FULL TEXT AT

=
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/30/irish-influx-conservative-migr=
at
ion-pledge?INTCMP=3DSRCH

Significant drop in net migration to the UK in 2010 unlikely

30 December 2010

A new briefing on migration trends by ippr suggests that net migration =
is
unlikely to fall much below 200,000 in 2011 - roughly the annual level =
it
has been at for much of the last decade.

This is despite the fact that the Coalition government is introducing
measures to restrict immigration in order to meet the Conservative =
election
pledge of reducing net immigration 'from the hundreds of thousands to =
the
tens of thousands'.

The briefing sets out a number of reasons why the public should not =
expect
net immigration to reduce significantly in 2011...

FULL TEXT AT

http://www.ippr.org.uk/pressreleases/?id=3D4283

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Article,
Memory dispositifs and national identities: The case of Ned Kelly
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Memory dispositifs and national identities: The case of Ned Kelly
Laura Basu
Utrecht University, The Netherlands, L.S.Basu[at]uu.nl
Abstract

Enduring cultural memories are never made by politicians, monuments or
individual media representations alone, although both media and politics =
(or
power relations) are essential to their existence; they are formed and
develop through a tangle of relations that reaches back and forth across
time. Although questions of media, temporality and power have all been
crucial to the field of memory studies, little work has been done on =
exactly
how these elements interact to form memories that shift over time and =
what
work they do in terms of identity formation and negotiation. Using the =
case
of Australian outlaw Ned Kelly and the idea of a memory dispositif, this
article will explore some of these types of relations and how they =
function
to assemble complex and contradictory group identities.

Memory Studies December 23, 2010 vol. 4 no. 1 33-41


See also
The Ned Kelly memory dispositif, 1930 to 1960: identity production
by Laura Basu
Traffic, Jan, 2008=20

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_6988/is_10/ai_n31337314/

and
on Google Books
and
http://www.degruyter.com/cont/fb/li/detailEn.cfm?isbn=3D9783110204445

LAURA BASU: Towards a Memory Dispositif: =20
Truth, Myth, and the Ned Kelly lieu de m=E9moire, 1890-1930
in
Mediation, remediation, and the dynamics of cultural memory By Astrid =
Erll,
Ann Rigney

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Census Ethnic Categories and Second-Generation Identities: A Study of the
Irish in England and Wales

Author: Mary J. Hickmana

Abstract
This article focuses on the second-generation Irish in Britain, and presents
findings of the relationship between particular social characteristics and
predictions of the likelihood of second-generation Irish selecting 'White
Irish' or 'White British' in the 2001 Census in England and Wales. Using a
combination of new quantitative data and earlier (unpublished) qualitative
evidence, it analyses the complexity underlying the public claiming of a
British or Irish identity in the Census and argues that it is not possible
to predict that individuals with the closest attachments to Ireland will
necessarily select the 'White Irish' category nor that those who select
'White British' inevitably have weaker ties. The ONS Longitudinal Survey
data presented here reveal that age, gender, marital status, educational
qualifications, upward social mobility and number of Irish-born parents are
significant social characteristics increasing the likelihood of particular
selections of census category. The article discusses the form of the ethnic
question and its impact on response patterns, proposed revisions for the
2011 Census, and the usefulness or otherwise of census categories as a lens
for examining second-generation identification.

Keywords: Irish; British; England; Wales; Census; Ethnic Categories

Affiliation: a Irish Studies and Sociology, London Metropolitan
University,

Published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Volume 37, Issue 1
January 2011 , pages 79 - 97

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The Debasing of Myth: The Privatization of Titanic Memory in
Designing the 'Post-conflict' City
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The Debasing of Myth: The Privatization of Titanic Memory in Designing the
'Post-conflict' City

Author: William J. V. Neilla

Abstract
This article argues that the newly relaunched 'Belfast Titanic story' puts
too much emphasis on extravagant claims for the real ship Titanic and
thereby overly commercializes design and other public space issues in
Belfast such that the Titanic of representation and its profound mythic
status in western culture is debased. This reality in a 'post-conflict'
city, where an ethnic war of attrition between competing identity claims
forecloses mature cultural dialogue, is regretted.

Affiliation: a Centre for Planning and Environmental Management, School
of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK

Published in: Journal of Urban Design, Volume 16, Issue 1 February 2011 ,
pages 67 - 86

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The latest issue of the online journal Translocations is freely =
available
at...

http://www.translocations.ie/current_issue.html

Translocations
Current Issue =20
Volume 6 | issue 2 | Winter 2010

ISSN 2009-0420

Guest Editors =97 Mark Maguire and Gavan Titley

Managing Editor =97 Mary Hyland

OVERVIEW / EDITORIAL
Mark Maguire and Gavan Titley

INTRODUCTORY ESSAY

The Body and Soul of Integration
Mark Maguire and Gavan Titley
Department of Anthropology, NUI Maynooth, Centre for Media Studies, NUI
Maynooth, Ireland

ARTICLES: EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

Counter Narratives to Multiculturalism and the Assimilationist Drift in
British Policy: Lessons from the Era of New Labour
Charles Husband
Professor of Social Analysis, Department of Social Sciences and =
Humanities,
University of Bradford, UK

The park near the Gare de l'Est: "Just waiting to go, to move on"
Liza Schuster
Department of Sociology, City University, London, U.K=20

Narrating the Ghetto, Narrating Europe: From Berlin, Kreuzberg to the
Banlieues of Paris
Maria Stehle
Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literature, University of
Tennessee, USA=20

Media and Multiplicity: Journalistic Practices and the Resurgence of
Xenophobia in Europe
Bolette Blaagard
Utrecht University, the Netherlands=20

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

Transcending cultural differences: the role of language in migrants'
integration
Ruth McAreavey
School of Planning, Architecture & Civil Engineering, Queen's =
University,
Belfast, Northern Ireland=20

Implementing integration? State responses and the experience of =
immigrants
and service providers in Co. Clare
=C9id=EDn N=ED Sh=E9
Department of Politics & Public Administration, University of Limerick,
Ireland=20

Integration, migration and religion: responses of the Church of Ireland
Alessia Passarelli
Department of Sociology and Trinity Immigration Initiative, Trinity =
College,
Dublin, Ireland=20

Educational integration in a divided society: lived experiences of =
settled
immigrants in Northern Ireland
Yuko Chiba
School of Law, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland=20

Beyond a 'realistic' new cosmopolitan ideal in the Irish Context: A
non-sovereign politics of solidarity
Aoileann N=ED Mhurch=FA
School of Law and Government, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland=20

'Settled in mobility' as a 'space of possibility': Bosnian post-refugee
transnationalism as a response to the bio-politics of Irish =
interculturalism

Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic
Department of Sociology, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland=20

REVISITING INTEGRATION

'All I have to do is dream?' Re-greening Irish integrationism
Ronit Lentin
Department of Sociology / Trinity Immigration Initiative, Trinity =
College
Dublin, Ireland=20

New Labour and Community Cohesion in Britain 2001-2010
Mary J Hickman,=20
Faculty of Applied Social Sciences, London Metropolitan University, =
London,
UK=20

The Entrenchment of Ireland's Laissez-Faire Integration Policy
Gerry Boucher
School of Social Sciences, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley,
Scotland=20

Segregating Northern Ireland from the discussion on integration
Chris Gilligan,=20
Faculty of Social Sciences, Magee College, University of Ulster, =
Northern
Ireland=20

PLATFORM

Training Interventions as a Site for Integration
Marian Tannam
Harnett Tannam Consultancy, Dublin, Ireland=20

Preparing for Equality and Training for Diversity within the Criminal
Justice System in the Republic of Ireland
Liam Leonard and Paula Kenny
School of Business and Humanities, Institute of Technology, Sligo, =
Ireland=20
BOOK REVIEWS

Fekete, Liz (2009) A Suitable Enemy: Racism, Migration and Islamophobia =
in
Europe=20
Kathleen M. Coll
Stanford University, USA=20

Faas, D. (2010) Negotiating Political Identities: Multiethnic Schools =
and
Youth in Europe
Maura Parazzoli
National University of Ireland, Maynooth=20

Fanning, T. (2010) The Fethard-on-Sea Boycott
Patrick Claffey
Milltown Institute, Dublin=20

Eva Bourke and Borb=E1la Farag=F3, eds (2010) Landing Places: Immigrant =
Poets in
Ireland=20
Katie Kane
University of Montana, Montana, USA=20

Finney, N. & Simpson, L. (2009) 'Sleepwalking to segregation'? =
Challenging
Myths about Race and Migration
Niamh McMahon
University of Cambridge, UK

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Translocations: Migration and Social Change=20
An Inter-Disciplinary Open Access E-Journal =20
ISSN Number: 2009-0420 =20

Implementing Integration? State responses and the experience of =
Immigrants
and Service Providers in Co. Clare=20
=C9id=EDn N=ED Sh=E9 =20
Department of Politics & Public Administration, University of Limerick,
Ireland, Email:=20
eidin.nishe[at]ul.ie

Abstract=20

Schierup, Hansen and Castles (2006) discuss three general types of
incorporation, and this article looks at the model of integration in
operation in Ireland and suggests which types of incorporation it most
closely resembles. The article examines state responses to integration =
and
argues that a hybrid model operates in Ireland. The paper then shifts =
focus=20
by assessing the experience of immigrants and perceptions of service
providers in County Clare and examines whether or not the status of an
immigrant impacts on how they integrate locally. An emancipatory =
community
project was undertaken to gather data and this will also be discussed. =20

Keywords: immigrants, service providers, experiences of integration, =
state
responses,=20
emancipatory research.=20

Article available at
http://www.translocations.ie/Vol%206%20Issue%202%20-%20Peer%20review%20-%=
20N
i%20She.pdf

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NEW: Call for Papers: Migration and Recession (Spring 2011 issue)

The problematics of migration and integration have come together in
contemporary Ireland creating a field of political and intellectual
intervention in which the future of social transformation in Ireland is
hanging in the balance. Translocations will address this emerging
problematic from the perspective of independent critical thinking where the
only given is a commitment to progressive social transformation.

Translocations refers to an intersecting set of perspectives that create the
terrain on which we choose to situate ourselves. We will be
trans-disciplinary taking in the social sciences, cultural studies, the
arts, law and the broad humanities. We are also engaged with a
trans-national process, namely migratory flows and trans-border insofar as
Ireland is divided by one.

We are also very firmly trans-sectoral insofar as our audience is not just
an academic one but also the world of the NGO's and progressive policy
makers. Some of us might also think of ourselves as trans-gressors of
established power-knowledge paradigms!

While it is a 'trans' journal, Translocations is not another global studies
journal disembodied and non-grounded. We are a trans locational journal in
the belief that global processes can only take shape in particular
locations. Our chosen location - where we are grounded - is Ireland in all
its divided and conflictual complexity and not the anodyne 'island of
Ireland ' of the tourist brochures. We are located also in relation to the
new migrant communities that we do not 'speak for' but whose democratic
aspirations we support. We are trans-locational too in the sense that the
members of the editorial board are located socially and spatially in a
diversity of subject locations.

SOURCE
http://www.translocations.ie/index.html

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Subject: REV: Benjamin J. Hazard on Mary Ann Lyons, Thomas O'Connor, =
eds.
_The Ulster Earls and Baroque Europe: Refashioning Irish Identities,
1600-1800_
From: H-Net Staff
Date: January 3, 2011 9:35:32 AM EST

Mary Ann Lyons, Thomas O'Connor, eds. The Ulster Earls and Baroque =
Europe:
Refashioning Irish Identities, 1600-1800. Dublin Four Courts, 2009. =
404
pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-84682-185-1.

Reviewed by Benjamin J. Hazard (M=EDche=E1l =D3 Cl=E9irigh Institute =
University
College Dublin)
Published on H-Albion (January, 2011)
Commissioned by Brendan Kane

Iconic Emigration

Amid the insecurity concerning Ireland's place in the world and the
recurrence of emigration from the country, this, the fourth volume in =
the
Irish in Europe Series, is aptly timed. Arranged thematically in =
eighteen
articles, the book explores the experiences of exiles from the Atlantic
archipelago and their reception overseas in the early modern period. =
Recent
anthologies of historical essays have lacked consistent conclusions. =
The
editors of this tome ably forestall such criticisms with a =
well-coordinated
collection which reassesses the flight of the earls in its European =
context.

In his imposing analysis of Hugh O'Neill (earl of Tyrone), the power of
print media, and the exercise of authority, Hiram Morgan treats of =
O'Neill's
faith and fatherland ethos. He makes the case that, rather than being =
led
by his chaplain Fr. Robert Chamberlain or the Kilkenny Jesuit Fr. James
Archer, it was "pressure from the centralizing Protestant state" which
compelled Tyrone to foster closer links with Spain and Rome (p. 50). =
This
is reminiscent of Aidan Clarke's theory that "the union of Catholics in
Ireland was, from first to last, a Protestant achievement, not a =
Catholic
one."[1] After setting the agenda in Ulster at the close of the =
sixteenth
century, O'Neill was consigned to the political margins after 1608--one
amongst many Irish =E9migr=E9s on the Continent (p. 1).

The historiographical view that suppressing the education of Catholic =
clergy
in Ireland led to the foundation of colleges abroad is challenged by
Laurence Brockliss. Although Irish Catholicism was undermined socially =
and
economically, he asserts, its survival did not depend upon "sending more =
and
more young men out of the kingdom" (p. 143). This suggests, perhaps, =
that
the enforcement of laws in Ireland before the invasion of Oliver =
Cromwell in
1649 was less exacting than those against English recusants. David =
Edwards
presents a valuable case study on the garrisoning of Ulster after the =
battle
of Kinsale, a military practice prevalent across northern Europe during =
this
period. With original evidence for the implementation of martial law in
Ireland, he notes the severity of measures in Ulster which precipitated =
the
flight of the earls (pp. 56-60).

The application of comparative methodology also identifies parallel
processes at the courts of mainland Europe. The emphasis which =
Professor
Brockliss places upon the Society of Jesus and their "Rolls Royce =
service"
as a teaching order is offset by the next essay: Raymond Gillespie's =
study,
which concentrates on Irish Franciscan communities. Dealing with the =
role
of theology and doctrinal controversy in contemporary politics,[2] Bruno
Boute and Jason Harris reveal consistencies in the patronage networks
negotiated by Peter Lombard and his Scottish counterpart George Con.
Ruadhri O'hUiginn's survey of early seventeenth-century writing in the
Habsburg Netherlands complements Peter Stoll's article on the =
hagiography of
Monasteranenagh in southern Germany, illustrating how Irish historical
tradition was perpetuated by its transfer to the Continent. The =
extensive
catalogue of Irish Franciscan collections at the Strahov Library by =
Hedvika
Kucharova and Jan Parez, and Grainne McLaughlin's article on Aristotle =
and
Greco-Roman imagery attest the linguistic confidence of Irish scholars =
who,
for a comparatively small community overseas, created an abundant corpus =
of
published work. The Strahov sources account for the majority of the
accompanying plates which enhance the text.

The Irish portrait of the Blessed Virgin and the Infant Christ brought =
to
Hungary by Walter Lynch of Clonfert shows that seventeenth-century Irish
religious art remains a neglected field of historical research.[3] The
inclusion of new work on art, literature, and architecture in this book
offers the impetus for further such investigation. Events in Ireland
clearly appealed to the Baroque imagination.

Ciaran Brady takes a wry look at commemorative events at the end of the
book. Policymakers identify emigration as a means to defuse civil =
unrest
and ease economic burdens within a country's borders. This book =
provides
an Irish precedent for this phenomenon, whilst articulating the keen =
sense
of religious and cultural identity generated by early modern exiled
communities.

Notes

[1]. Aidan Clarke, _The Old English in Ireland, 1625-42_ (London: =
MacGibbon
& Kee, 1966; repr. Dublin: Four Courts, 2000), 10-11.

[2]. _Cfr._ Paolo Broggio, _La teologia e la politica: controversie
dottrinali, Curia romana e monarchia spagnola tra Cinque e Seicento_
(Firenze: Olschki, 2009), 1-27.

[3]. James Ryan, "Our Lady of Gyor, and Bishop Walter Lynch," in _Irish
Ecclesiastical Record_, 1 (1897): 193-205; Benjamin Hazard, _Faith and
Patronage: The Political Career of Flaithr=ED =D3 Maolchonaire, =
c.1560-1629
_(Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009), 128.

Citation: Benjamin J. Hazard. Review of Lyons, Mary Ann; O'Connor, =
Thomas,
eds., _The Ulster Earls and Baroque Europe: Refashioning Irish =
Identities,
1600-1800_. H-Albion, H-Net Reviews. January, 2011.
URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=3D31103

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons=20
Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States=20
License.

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Literatures in English and Cultural Studies,
No 58 (2010) Contemporary Irish theatre
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The latest issue of Ilha do Desterro is now available at the =
Peri=F3dicos UFSC
web site - the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.

It is a very powerful and focussed collection on Contemporary Irish =
theatre,
which will interest many IR-D members - a credit to the editors and =
their
colleagues.

P.O'S.

Ilha do Desterro A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English =
and
Cultural Studies

A Revista Ilha do Desterro publica, desde 1979, artigos e resenhas =
in=E9ditos
nas =E1reas de Ingl=EAs, Literatura e Estudos Culturais.=20
Ilha do Desterro =E9 um peri=F3dico do Programa de P=F3s-Gradua=E7=E3o =
em Letras:
Ingl=EAs e Literatura Correspondente da UFSC, publicado uma vez a cada
semestre. Sua maior miss=E3o =E9 circular os resultados de pesquisas =
acad=EAmicas
nas =E1reas de Ingl=EAs, Literatura e Estudos Culturais.

http://www.journal.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro

The editors' outline is at
http://www.journal.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/viewFile/16318/1486=
2

'The current issue of Ilha do Desterro explores aspects of
contemporary Irish theatre, within the island of Ireland and in its
international contexts, after 1950: this is the first publication in =
Brazil
dedicated specifically to critical contribution in this field. The =
articles
by scholars and theatre practitioners from various countries apart from
Brazil and Ireland, such as The United States, France, Italy, Germany,
and the Czech Republic, address the work of individual writers as well
of theatre groups, considering textual and performance practices, most
of them not confined to the areas of theatre and literature, but =
including
considerations on other fields of knowledge such as politics, economics,
history, philosophy, media and film studies, arts and psychology...'

No 58 (2010)

Sum=E1rio
Introdu=E7=E3o/Introduction
Contemporary Irish theatre: a dynamic collection of critical voices
Beatriz Kopschitz Xavier Bastos, Jos=E9 Roberto O'Shea 11-22

Artigos/Articles
Universal or provincial?: Early reception of Brian Friel's Philadelphia,
Here I Come!=09
Peter James Harris 21-51

The old lady says "no": the language of denial in Brian Friel's The =
Loves of
Cass McGuire=09
Giovanna Tallone 53-76

Doomed volunteers: two great political plays from Ireland=09
Heinz Kosok 77-98

Friel and his "sisters"=09
Nicholas Grene 99-111

Landscapes of the mind: postdramatic features in Brian Friel's Molly =
Sweeney
Anna Stegh Camati 113-133

Brian Friel: the master playwright
Martine Pelletier 135-156

"A Sceptic in a Credulous World": re-evaluating the work of Stewart =
Parker
on the twentieth anniversary of his death
Clare Wallace 157-178

Sam Thompson, Stewart Parker, and the lineage of northern Irish drama=09
Marilynn Richtarik 179-189

(Un)settlement: political parody and the Northern Irish peace process=09
Mark Phelan 191-215

"Poor Banished Children of Eve": Tom Murphy and the syntax of history=09
Paul Murphy 217-237

A constitui=E7=E3o, a fam=EDlia, a tradi=E7=E3o e a deconstitui=E7=E3o =
da fam=EDlia
tradicional em The Beauty Queen of Leenane=09
Magda Velloso Fernandez de Tolentino, Raimundo Expedito Santos Sousa
239-266

Impossible promise: the child and the androgyne in Thomas Kilroy's The
Secret Fall of Constance Wilde and My Scandalous Life=09
Jos=E9 Lanters 267-288

Violence and hope in Ariel, by Marina Carr=09
Zoraide Rodrigues Carrasco de Mesquita 289-308

From mass media to new media in contemporary Irish drama: Billy Roche's =
On
Such As We and Paul Meade's Skin Deep=09
Patrick Lonergan 309-332

"Stuff From Back Home": Enda Walsh's The Walworth Farce=09
Eamonn Jordan 333-356

Conor McPherson's The Seafarer: tinkering with tradition=09
Roberto Ferreira da Rocha 357-380

Conor McPherson's view of Endgame by Samuel Beckett=09
Maria Rita Teixeira Silva K=F6ster 381-396

"Estranging Exteriority": translation and adaptation in Irish drama=09
Maureen Murphy 397-411

Different appropriations of greek tragedy in contemporary drama: Irish =
and
otherwise=09
Munira Hamud Mutran 413-438

Charabanc, cultural capital and the men of recognised credit=09
Brenda Winter 439-458

Druid theatre's economics: the first decade=09
Shelley Troupe 459-478

A brief history of Cia Ludens and its productions of Irish plays in
BrazilDomingos Nunez 479-505

Revista Ilha do Desterro A Journal of English Language, Literatures in
English and Cultural Studies, ISSN - 2175-8026, Florian=F3polis, Brasil.

http://www.journal.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/viewFile/16318/1486=
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From: john hearne
To:
Subject: RE: [IR-D] Irish influx to thwart Conservative election pledge on
migration

Piaras
A friend of mine who travels Aer Arran Waterford/Luton=2C Luton/Waterford=
=2C mentioned that two years ago he was the only one doing this journey for=
work purposes on a weekly basis(he's an engineer). But in the last few mon=
ths there are twenty-three doing this weekly jouney. More worringly=2C half=
are married females. There is no reason to believe that this is an isolate=
case. It can only get worse. No wonder the unemployment stats are decreasi=
ng. As Brian Lenihan (the current Minster's father) lamented ... there are =
too many people in Ireland for the available jobs! Hopefully these will be =
home on the last Friday in March to vote!!!
John

=20
> Date: Thu=2C 30 Dec 2010 22:02:35 +0000
> From: p.maceinri[at]UCC.IE
> Subject: Re: [IR-D] Irish influx to thwart Conservative election pledge o=
n migration
> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>=20
> Dear Paddy
>=20
> Happy New Year to all.=20
>=20
> I noticed this report as well and had a look at the original IPPR report=
=2C on their website=2C as well as the material which it references (and wh=
ich appear to be its only sources on Irish emigration) - an RT=C9 report of=
an ESRI 'special article' entitled 'Recovery Scenarios for Ireland: an upd=
ate'=2C an interview with one of the authors=2C John Fitzgerald=2C who does=
not put forward any hard figures in the recorded interview and the text of=
the report itself=2C on the ESRI website.
>=20
> As far as I can see the ESRI report (which is speculative anyway and puts=
forward two different scenarios for the Irish economy=2C based on assumpti=
ons about growth and recovery) nowhere refers to 'the possibility of up to =
120=2C000 leaving the Republic for Britain'.=20
>=20

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Liam Ferrie's Irish Emigrant newsletter commented on the issue raised in an
earlier Ir-D discussion.

P.O'S.

Headline writers exaggerate emigration problem
Sunday, 02 January 2011

Monday's Irish Times headline, "Surge in emigration as economic downturn
takes toll", and the headline to a related article on page nine, "Emigration
levels similar to the 1980s", grossly distorted the reality of the
situation. It is widely accepted that emigration levels have increased but
in the two articles, Jamie Smyth, the newspaper's Social Affairs
Correspondent, acknowledges that some of the figures he uses look much more
dramatic when expressed in percentages rather than in real numbers.
The big increase is in emigration to Canada which, based on figures for the
first six months of the year, appears to have doubled from the 3,047
recorded in 2009. The number of Irish people obtaining permanent visas for
Australia increased by 540. For temporary Australian visas Mr Smyth uses a
different time period, suggesting a possible increase of 2,126 in the year
to the end of June 2011. A 33% increase in the number of Irish people
obtaining immigrant visas to the US was accounted for by around 70 people.
Similarly a 49% increase in the number of New Zealand residency visas issued
to Irish people equated to just over 140.

The journalist also accepts that, while emigration totals in the year to
April 2010 are very close to those of 1989, the emigration patterns of today
are radically different from those in the past. If only Irish people are
considered, an estimated 27,700 emigrated, compared with the 70,600 who left
in 1989.

http://www.emigrant.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=81276&Itemi
d=368

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*****DEADLINE EXTENDED*****

The Call for Papers for the 2011 Southern ACIS, Ireland: Layers and
Laminates, has been extended to January 26, 2011.

Join us in beautiful Savannah Georgia Feb 17-19 for the 2011 Southern
regional American Conference for Irish Studies. Details of cfp,
registration, and accomodations can be accessed at
http://class.georgiasouthern.edu/irish/acis/call/index.html

Held in conjunction with the 19th Annual Savannah Irish Festival
http://www.savannahirish.org/
this conference promises insightful scholarly presentations as well as
music, dance, food, and entertainment.

Please submit paper or panel proposals as abstracts not exceeding 400 words
and a short biographical sketch of 125 words to Irish[at]georgiasouthern.edu

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Our attention has been drawn to the latest issue of the journal, Child =
Care
in Practice.

The issue is somewhat confusingly introduced, and the articles sometimes
confusingly titled - with the usual pattern of giving universal =
significance
to a local study. And why not?=20

Well, because sometimes that is not the most important thing going on =
here.
As I noted to the colleague who helped me locate this special issue - =
and
thank you for that - when I was in the business of teaching social work =
the
rubric specified that social work students had to demonstrate that they
could 'oppose discrimination'. So that social work students in Northern
Ireland found themselves putting their own lives in danger.

Caroline Skehill's article feels constrained to foreground this issue...

'...Lastly, and perhaps most significantly, although strangely lacking
reference in the history of child welfare provided by the DHSSPS in =
2003,
the political conflict=97known usually as the =93Troubles=94 in Northern =
Ireland
from 1968 to 1998=97had a profound impact on various aspects of Northern =
Irish
public policy, and neither social work nor child welfare services were
unaffected by this. Indeed, as indicated in specific histories of social
work and social services during this period, a critical understanding of =
the
impact of the Troubles on social work practice remains of central =
importance
in the present post-conflict context...'

I can confirm the 'strangely lacking'...

All the articles in this issue - except the last one, set in Norway - =
have
Northern Ireland or Republic of Ireland subject matter. Though I might =
ask
that people be a bit clearer about which jurisdiction they are talking
about.

Of special interest to members of the Ir-D list is the article by =
Kiersey &
Hayes, Reporting the Rhetoric - showing, as ever, rhetoric used as a
substitute for policy.

P.O'S.


Child Care in Practice: Volume 16 Issue 4 October 2010=20

Original Articles

Foreword, Pages 307 - 308
Author: Rosemary Kilpatrick

History of Child Welfare and Protection Social Work in Northern Ireland:
Finding Continuity amongst Discontinuity in Case Files from 1950 to =
1968,
Pages 309 - 325
Author: Caroline Skehill

Reporting the Rhetoric, Implementation of the United Nations Convention =
on
the Rights of the Child as Represented in Ireland's Second Report to the =
UN
Committee on the Rights of the Child: A Critical Discourse Analysis, =
Pages
327 - 346
Authors: Rachel A. Kiersey; N=F3ir=EDn Hayes

Alternative Education, Equity and Compromise: Dilemmas for Practice
Development, Pages 347 - 358
Author: Peter Bryson

Positive Highlights on Quality Daycare for Children: A North West of =
Ireland
Study, Pages 359 - 375
Author: Maureen O'Hara

Parents' Experience of the Diagnostic Process for Autistic Spectrum
Disorders, Pages 377 - 389
Authors: Hannah-Jane Braiden; Janice Bothwell; Joe Duffy

Children's Lived Experience and their Sense of Coherence: Bodily Play in =
a
Norwegian After-school Programme, Pages 391 - 407
Author: Knut L=F8ndal