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This story has received a lot of coverage

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A web search will find many more.

P.O'S.


Ambitious display of creative talent asks US audiences to imagine a better
Ireland

IMAGINE IRELAND, the year-long season of Irish cultural events that was
launched in New York yesterday "began as an act of imagination", said
Gabriel Byrne, the actor and Ireland's Cultural Ambassador who has been one
of the driving forces behind this ambitious display of Irish creative
talent.


Byrne said he was inspired by John Lennon. "If you imagine something, you
are a great deal of the way to achieving it," he said. "The difference
between reality and imagination is very thin for me. The transformative
power of art is incredible."

Byrne spoke against a backdrop of falling snow, in the three-storey glass
atrium of the Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, to an audience of 170
people.

Full Text at
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0108/1224287042415.html


$5M grant brings Ireland to Chicago

Chicago theaters, galleries and concert halls will help showcase the full
range of Irish culture in the coming year as part of Imagine Ireland, a $5.2
million project underwritten by the Irish government.

The project, which was formally announced Friday at New York's Lincoln
Center, will showcase Irish-bred work in the fields of theater, music, the
visual arts, film, dance, literature and more, and will reach 40 cities
nationwide.

To be seen in Chicago under the general umbrella of the project will be two
previously announced theater events - the Druid Theatre production of Martin
McDonagh's "The Cripple of Inishmaan" (running March 16-27 at Chicago
Shakespeare Theatre), and the Abbey Theatre production of Mark O'Rowe's
"Terminus" (running March 2-6 at the Museum of

http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/3205846-421/chicago-march-ireland-iris
h-project.html


Ireland to Fund Cultural Programs in U.S.

The government of Ireland is set to fund a $5.3 million initiative to
support a vast array of arts programming in the U.S. during 2011, the
country's minister of culture is set to announce Friday in New York.

Encompassing 400 events in 40 states, the project, "Imagine Ireland," will
finance programming related to the country at major New York cultural
institutions such as the New York Public Library, the Museum of Modern Art
and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. It will also support U.S. tours by at
least three of Ireland's historic theaters: the Abbey, Gate and Druid.

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Subject: Resurrecting the Celtic Tiger: the man selling Ireland to the
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Resurrecting the Celtic Tiger: the man selling Ireland to the world

The IMF/EU bailout saw the Irish economy laid low. So what better time =
to invest, asks IDA chief Barry O'Leary

Henry McDonald, Ireland correspondent
The Guardian, Friday 7 January 2011

Selling Ireland to the world is not easy. Just ask Barry O'Leary. He is =
head of the republic's Industrial Development Authority (IDA) and spends =
a lot of his year flying across the planet to woo multinationals to =
Irish shores.

A softly spoken, mild-mannered man, O'Leary has been driven to =
frustration by Ireland's banks, whose reckless lending he has to explain =
away to would-be investors in the emerald isle.

His anger reached a high pitch before Christmas when Allied Irish Banks =
announced that it would be paying =E2=82=AC40m (=C2=A334m) to its top =
staff in bonuses. Although the Irish government later forced AIB to back =
down amid an outburst of collective national anger, O'Leary blew his top =
on the radio...

...Despite the problems, he does see chinks of light in the economic =
gloom. In a quiet and measured way he makes a passionate case for the =
fundamentals of the Irish economy, which he insists will enable Ireland =
to trade its way out of the recession...

The IDA, where he has worked for 30 years, has a central role in =
Ireland's economic development. Since its inception has been one of =
Ireland's major success stories. Founded in 1949, it played a key role =
in the industrialisation of the republic during the 1960s when the then =
taoiseach Se=C3=A1n Lemass abandoned the autarchic nationalist policy of =
protectionism and turned Ireland into an open economy.

Some of the biggest companies, including many on Forbes top 200, now =
have their foreign base in Ireland, including Hewlett-Packard, IBM, =
Pfizer, Microsoft and recently Facebook =E2=80=93 many directly the =
result of work by the IDA...

..."If you look at the multinational community that are heavily invested =
in Ireland, historically what they looked for were four core things: the =
talent pool; the corporation tax rate of 12.5%; the English language and =
our track record. They all remain intact," he says.

Full text at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/jan/07/ireland-foreign-investment=
-barry-oleary?INTCMP=3DSRCH

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Hi Paddy, friends and colleagues

I haven't formulated this fully and clearly yet in my own mind yet, but =
I am interested in anything that colleagues can suggest about where I =
might look for evidence about the legacy of the various debates, =
controversies, events, publicity, publications,conferences, curriculum =
proposals etc at the time of the 150th anniversary of the Famine. Did it =
all have significant effects on how the broader diasporic Irish =
communities saw themselves in the here and now? Has anyone looked at the =
impact of the teaching of the Famine in states such as New York and New =
Jersey? What about the impact of all this in other locations such as =
Britain, Canada including Qu=E9bec, Australia and New Zealand? My =
concern is less with the new historical research which emerged at the =
time, valuable as it was, and more with question of representation, =
self-image and the like.=20

Ideas welcome!

Piaras

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Hello Piaras,
You might check out Tom Archdeacon's article on that, "The Irish Famine i=
n
American School Curricula," in the Spring-Summer issue of *Eire-Ireland* fo=
r
2002.
All the best,
Matt O'Brien

On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 6:12 PM, MacEinri, Piaras wrote:

> Hi Paddy, friends and colleagues
>
> I haven't formulated this fully and clearly yet in my own mind yet, but I
> am interested in anything that colleagues can suggest about where I might
> look for evidence about the legacy of the various debates, controversies,
> events, publicity, publications,conferences, curriculum proposals etc at =
the
> time of the 150th anniversary of the Famine. Did it all have significant
> effects on how the broader diasporic Irish communities saw themselves in =
the
> here and now? Has anyone looked at the impact of the teaching of the Fami=
ne
> in states such as New York and New Jersey? What about the impact of all t=
his
> in other locations such as Britain, Canada including Qu=E9bec, Australia =
and
> New Zealand? My concern is less with the new historical research which
> emerged at the time, valuable as it was, and more with question of
> representation, self-image and the like.
>
> Ideas welcome!
>
> Piaras
>

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Subject: Rethinking International Migration, Summer Seminar,
UCLA June 13- July 15, 2011
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Subject: Rethinking International Migration, Summer Seminar, UCLA June 13-
July 15, 2011

Applications are invited to "Rethinking International Migration," a 2011
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and
University Teachers.

To be directed by Roger Waldinger, Distinguished Professor of Sociology,
University of California, Los Angeles, this five week summer seminar will be
held at the UCLA campus from June 13 through July 15, 2011. The seminar is
open to 16 NEH summer scholars, from a broad range of disciplinary
backgrounds. Principally oriented to teachers of American undergraduate
students, the seminar is open to qualified independent scholars, and will
include two full-time graduate students.

The seminar will be informed by a view that the study of migration resembles
the process of migration itself: an activity that cuts across boundaries, in
this case intellectual, not political, one best pursued by draw insights and
methods from a variety of disciplines.

The seminar will seek to expose NEH summer scholars to an interdisciplinary
approach to migration studies, via focused discussions of three key areas at
the core of migration debates: rights, citizenship, migration policy; the
second generation; diasporas and transnationalism.

More information can be found at:
http://apply.international.ucla.edu/migration/

Applications can be made on line.

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JEGP, Journal of English and Germanic Philology
Volume 109, Number 2, April 2010

Queens as Political Hostages in Pre-Norman Ireland: Derbforgaill and the
Three Gormlaiths

Lahney Preston-Matto
JEGP, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Volume 109, Number 2, =
April
2010, pp. 141-161 (Article)

Subject Headings:
Irish literature -- Middle Irish, 1100-1550 -- History and criticism.
Queens -- Ireland -- History -- To 1500.
Hostages in literature.
Abduction in literature.

In lieu of an abstract, here is a preview of the article.
Abbreviations:
AFM: The Annals of the Four Masters, ed. and trans. John O'Donovan, 2
vols., 3d ed. (Dublin: Edmund Burke, 1998); also accessed via CELT:
www.ucc.ie/celt.
AI: The Annals of Inisfallen, ed. and trans. Se=E1n Mac Airt (Dublin:
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1988); also accessed via CELT:
www.ucc.ie/celt.
AT: The Annals of Tigernach, ed. and trans. Whitley Stokes, 2 vols.
(Felinfach: Llanerch, 1993); reprint of edition published in Revue =
Celtique,
17 (1896), 6=9633, 116=9663 and 337=96420; and 18 (1897), 9=9659 and =
150=96303.
AU: The Annals of Ulster (to A.D. 1131), ed. and trans. Se=E1n Mac Airt
and Gear=F3id Mac Niocaill (Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced =
Studies,
1983).
CS: Chronicon Scotorum: A Chronicle of Irish Affairs from the Earliest
Times to AD 1135, ed. and trans. William Hennessy (1866; repr. =
Wiesbaden:
Kraus Reprint, 1964); accessed via CELT: www.ucc.ie/celt.

Medieval Irish queens such as Derbforgaill and the three Gormlaiths =
achieved
notoriety not through their actions, but through depictions of those =
actions
as written by commentators, who were occasionally disinterested, but =
more
generally extremely opinionated. Derbforgaill, wife of Tigern=E1n Ua =
Ruairc,
king of Br=E9ifne, is best-remembered for having supposedly sparked the =
Norman
invasion of Ireland...

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There was an article by Tom Archdeacon on the NY/NJ Famine teaching controv=
ersies, which appeared in EIRE-IRELAND some time ago. Christine Kinealy mi=
ght be the scholar who's focused most on the kinds of questions you asked, =
especially on the Famine commemoration. Also, weren't there heated exchang=
es between Roy Foster on one side and Tom Bartlett (and maybe Kevin Whelan)=
on the other side about the Famine commemorations and scholars' roles in t=
hem?

Best wishes,

Kerby


On 1/8/11 5:12 PM, "MacEinri, Piaras" wrote:

Hi Paddy, friends and colleagues

I haven't formulated this fully and clearly yet in my own mind yet, but I a=
m interested in anything that colleagues can suggest about where I might lo=
ok for evidence about the legacy of the various debates, controversies, eve=
nts, publicity, publications,conferences, curriculum proposals etc at the t=
ime of the 150th anniversary of the Famine. Did it all have significant eff=
ects on how the broader diasporic Irish communities saw themselves in the h=
ere and now? Has anyone looked at the impact of the teaching of the Famine =
in states such as New York and New Jersey? What about the impact of all thi=
s in other locations such as Britain, Canada including Qu=E9bec, Australia =
and New Zealand? My concern is less with the new historical research which =
emerged at the time, valuable as it was, and more with question of represen=
tation, self-image and the like.

Ideas welcome!

Piaras

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In my almost-published book on the Connemara sean-n=F3s singer Joe =20
Heaney, I have a full chapter on his presentation of the Famine to =20
Irish-American audiences. In a nutshell, he bypassed performing a very =20=

important but controversial local song in Irish -- Johnny Seoighe -- =20
in favor of a song he cobbled together himself from three separate =20
popular songs. Its salient feature -- the sing-along chorus -- enabled =20=

the audiences here in the States to absorb his ideas of the Famine in =20=

a way that was palatable to them. His insistence that "this is the way =20=

the old people at home sang it" gave him the unassailable authority he =20=

needed to get his points across. The book is supposed to come out in =20
March from Oxford ("Bright Star of the West: Joe Heaney, Irish Song-=20
Man" by, well, me and Dr. Lillis =D3 Laoire of NUI Galway).

Sean Williams
Ethnomusicology and Irish Studies
Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA 98505=

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On 1/8/2011 6:12 PM, MacEinri, Piaras wrote:
> Hi Paddy, friends and colleagues
>
> I haven't formulated this fully and clearly yet in my own mind yet, but=
I am interested in anything that colleagues can suggest about where I mi=
ght look for evidence about the legacy of the various debates, controvers=
ies, events, publicity, publications,conferences, curriculum proposals et=
c at the time of the 150th anniversary of the Famine. Did it all have sig=
nificant effects on how the broader diasporic Irish communities saw thems=
elves in the here and now? Has anyone looked at the impact of the teachin=
g of the Famine in states such as New York and New Jersey? What about the=
impact of all this in other locations such as Britain, Canada including =
Qu=E9bec, Australia and New Zealand? My concern is less with the new hist=
orical research which emerged at the time, valuable as it was, and more w=
ith question of representation, self-image and the like.
>
> Ideas welcome!
>
> Piaras
I have been working on this question myself, with respect to Canada.=20
There was a controversy over the re-development of Grosse-Ile in the=20
1990s and I recently published a pamphlet on aspects of the famine=20
memory in Canada with the Canadian Historical Association, "Creating=20
Canadian Historical Memory: The Case of the Irish Famine Migration,"=20
Booklet 30, Ottawa 2006.

Mark

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Piaras,
With respect to Canada, Colin McMahon completed a PhD dissertation at =
York University, Toronto, in 2008 or 2009 comparing famine memorials in =
Boston, Liverpool, and Montr=E9al. As for Montr=E9al, I argue in my =
dissertation that a confluence of events in the 1990s, including but not =
limited to, the marketing of Ireland as a tourist destination for the =
diaspora, the Celtic Tiger, and major commemorative events such as the =
Famine commemorations in 1997 and the United Irishmen uprising the =
following year, contributed to a rejuvenation of the Irish community =
here.=20
Cheers,
Matthew Barlow

On 2011-01-10, at 2:05 PM, Mark McGowan wrote:

> On 1/8/2011 6:12 PM, MacEinri, Piaras wrote:
>> Hi Paddy, friends and colleagues
>>=20
>> I haven't formulated this fully and clearly yet in my own mind yet, =
but I am interested in anything that colleagues can suggest about where =
I might look for evidence about the legacy of the various debates, =
controversies, events, publicity, publications,conferences, curriculum =
proposals etc at the time of the 150th anniversary of the Famine. Did it =
all have significant effects on how the broader diasporic Irish =
communities saw themselves in the here and now? Has anyone looked at the =
impact of the teaching of the Famine in states such as New York and New =
Jersey? What about the impact of all this in other locations such as =
Britain, Canada including Qu=E9bec, Australia and New Zealand? My =
concern is less with the new historical research which emerged at the =
time, valuable as it was, and more with question of representation, =
self-image and the like.
>>=20
>> Ideas welcome!
>>=20
>> Piaras
> I have been working on this question myself, with respect to Canada. =
There was a controversy over the re-development of Grosse-Ile in the =
1990s and I recently published a pamphlet on aspects of the famine =
memory in Canada with the Canadian Historical Association, "Creating =
Canadian Historical Memory: The Case of the Irish Famine Migration," =
Booklet 30, Ottawa 2006.
>=20
> Mark

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Just an anecdote - I recall being in an audience at Boston College
where there were some speakers sent over by the Irish government - the
only one I remember was then-senator Avril Doyle. Some tension
erupting in a bit of a debate between the senator and people from the
floor. I don't recall the details, but if I remember correctly, the
source of the tension was that some in the audience felt they were
being told what to think about a subject they didn't feel the need to
be lectured on. The disconnect between "official Ireland" and the
diaspora was very pronounced in that room, and my impression at the
time was that there was an unfortunate note of imperiousness on the
part of the senator that wasn't helping to foster understanding.

A fascinating topic, Piaras! You might also look at what Fintan
O'Toole wrote in the Irish Times about the Boston Famine monument -
it's years since I read the article, but I remember thinking at the
time that it was another good illustration of that same type of
disconnect.

Regards,
Noreen

http://www.globalirish.ie

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Miller, Kerby A. wr=
ote:
> There was an article by Tom Archdeacon on the NY/NJ Famine teaching contr=
oversies, which appeared in EIRE-IRELAND some time ago. =A0Christine Kineal=
y might be the scholar who's focused most on the kinds of questions you ask=
ed, especially on the Famine commemoration. =A0Also, weren't there heated e=
xchanges between Roy Foster on one side and Tom Bartlett (and maybe Kevin W=
helan) on the other side about the Famine commemorations and scholars' role=
s in them?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Kerby
>
>
> On 1/8/11 5:12 PM, "MacEinri, Piaras" wrote:
>
> Hi Paddy, friends and colleagues
>
> I haven't formulated this fully and clearly yet in my own mind yet, but I=
am interested in anything that colleagues can suggest about where I might =
look for evidence about the legacy of the various debates, controversies, e=
vents, publicity, publications,conferences, curriculum proposals etc at the=
time of the 150th anniversary of the Famine. Did it all have significant e=
ffects on how the broader diasporic Irish communities saw themselves in the=
here and now? Has anyone looked at the impact of the teaching of the Famin=
e in states such as New York and New Jersey? What about the impact of all t=
his in other locations such as Britain, Canada including Qu=E9bec, Australi=
a and New Zealand? My concern is less with the new historical research whic=
h emerged at the time, valuable as it was, and more with question of repres=
entation, self-image and the like.
>
> Ideas welcome!
>
> Piaras
>

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Subject: Re: [IR-D] Irish Famine and the Diaspora, 1990s to present
From: John Waters
To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List

Emily Mark Fitzgerald of UCD completed a very ambitious and compelling
dissertation on the subject of famine memorials. The monograph from the
dissertation is being revised for publication; here is a description of her
project from her departmental profile in the UCD School of Art History and
Cultural Policy:

Her doctoral research investigated how issues of place, form and memory wer=
e
negotiated through the contemporary sculptural commemoration of the Irish
Famine, in local, national and global contexts. From 2003-7 she completed
the first large-scale documentation and critique of commemorative responses
to the Famine, surveying eighty post-1990 monuments built in Ireland,
Northern Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales, Canada, Australia and the U.S.
This work forms the basis of a book manuscript currently underway.

all best,
john waters
Ireland House, NYU

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Subject: Re: [IR-D] Irish Famine and the Diaspora, 1990s to present
From: Colin McMahon
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There are several other studies of late 20th century Famine
commemoration in domestic and diasporic contexts that are well worth a
look: Margaret Kelleher, =93Hunger and History: Monuments to the Great
Irish Famine=94 Textual Practice (2002): 249-276; Peter Gray, =93Memory
and the Commemoration of the Great Irish Famine=94 in The Memory of
Catastrophe, (2004); and Cormac =D3 Gr=E1da, =93Famine, Trauma, and Memory,=
=94
B=E9aloideas: Journal of the Folklore of Ireland 69 (2001).

I also explore Famine commemoration in Montreal and Liverpool in my
doctoral thesis: Colin McMahon, =93Ports of Recall: Memory of the Great
Irish Famine in Liverpool and Montreal.=94 Ph.D., York University, 2010.

Best,
Colin McMahon

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Piaras,

There certainly were tensions over the commemoration of the Famine betwee=
n the
government and government-employed historians, on the one hand, and those=
who felt
the whole thing was being manipulated for political purposes on the other=
. But my
impression is that these tensions re-emerged much more seriously over the
commemoration of 1798.

I was in Liverpool at the time and have materials produced by the commemo=
rative
committee there, which put up a monument in the city centre unveiled by t=
he
President. People at the Institute of Irish Studies at Liverpool Universi=
ty were
involved and the Institute should have information about continuing activ=
ities and
influences.

Monuments were also erected in Sydney and Melbourne. The people involved =
with those
are still around and I'm sure would be happy to supply information if ask=
ed.
Ceremonies are still held at both sites, often focusing on the so-called =
'Famine
orphans', and are reported here in Irish newspapers and magazines. I'm su=
re the
subject will also be covered by the big 'Irish in Australia' exhibition o=
pening in
March at the Australian National Museum in Canberra.

And I certainly teach the Famine here and its commemoration, as well as 1=
798. At
present I have a 4th-year Honours course about memory, commemoration and =
Irish
history.

Elizabeth

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Subject: [IR-D] Irish Famine and the Diaspora, 1990s to present
From: "MacEinri, Piaras"
Date: Sun, January 9, 2011 10:12 am
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
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Hi Paddy, friends and colleagues

I haven't formulated this fully and clearly yet in my own mind yet, but I=
am
interested in anything that colleagues can suggest about where I might lo=
ok for
evidence about the legacy of the various debates, controversies, events, =
publicity,
publications,conferences, curriculum proposals etc at the time of the 150=
th
anniversary of the Famine. Did it all have significant effects on how the=
broader
diasporic Irish communities saw themselves in the here and now? Has anyon=
e looked at
the impact of the teaching of the Famine in states such as New York and N=
ew Jersey?
What about the impact of all this in other locations such as Britain, Can=
ada
including Qu=EF=BF=BDbec, Australia and New Zealand? My concern is less w=
ith the new
historical research which emerged at the time, valuable as it was, and mo=
re with
question of representation, self-image and the like.

Ideas welcome!

Piaras
__________________________________________________
Professor Elizabeth Malcolm

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

President
Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand (ISAANZ)
Website: http://isaanz.org
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Forwarded on behalf of=20
Laurence De Cock, Universit=E9 Lyon 2

From: Laurence De Cock [laur.decock[at]gmail.com]
Date sent: 4 Jan 2011


Hello Everybody,

The University of Lyon 2 (France) will soon start a four-year =
international
project, called "How Do Children Write the History of their Country?".
As for the research program started by Jocelyn Letourneau at =
Universit=E9 de
Laval, in Qu=E9bec, we would like to investigate the historical =
knowledge of
students from secondary schools, especially the modes with which they =
write
national histories. In France, the team is composed of 8 teachers and
research workers who are right now considering the research protocol. We
would also like to extand our project to other countries. Is anybody =
among
you would be interested in conducting such an inquiry ? With a =
historical
background like ours, where disputes around identities and nationalist
crispations are so vivid, it may be relevant to compare school =
approaches of
national histories, and their effects on the public.

Of course, I am at your service for further information.

Yours truly,
Laurence De Cock, Universit=E9 Lyon 2

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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:18:54 +0000

1798 is still on the agenda

There was a review in the Times Literary Supplement=2C January 2002 by Tom =
Bartlett of Roy Foster's prize-winning book 'The Irish Story'. It is well =
worth reading. =2C Tom Dunne's prize-winning book Rebellions is now into a
second edition with a new chapter on the reaction to the book. Edward
Hay=2C Historian of 1798 will be launched at 1798 Visitor Centre in
Enniscorthy=2C Co Wexford this Thursday the 13th by Louis =
Cullen.


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Subject: [IR-D] Irish Famine and the Diaspora, 1990s to present

Piaras,

There certainly were tensions over the commemoration of the Famine between
the
government and government-employed historians, on the one hand, and those
who felt
the whole thing was being manipulated for political purposes on the other.
But my
impression is that these tensions re-emerged much more seriously over the
commemoration of 1798...

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Brendan Scott, ed. Culture and Society in Early Modern Breifne/Cavan.
Dublin Four Courts, 2009. Illustrations. xviii + 241 pp. $60.00 =
(cloth),
ISBN 978-1-84682-184-4.

Reviewed by Joseph Cope (SUNY Geneseo)
Published on H-Albion (January, 2011)
Commissioned by Brendan Kane

Contextualizing the Local

Over the past decade, Four Courts Press has supported a growing list of
solid local studies in Irish history. _Culture and Society in Early =
Modern
Breifne/Cavan_, edited by Brendan Scott, is a fine addition to this =
catalog.
The thematic sweep of this interdisciplinary collection is broad: essays
examine Gaelic poetry and devotional literature, landscape and =
historical
geography, ecclesiastical history, the social history of the Ulster
plantations, and the political and cultural significance of the 1641 =
Irish
Rising. Taken as a whole, this volume represents a significant =
contribution
to our understanding of issues in early modern Irish history and
demonstrates the important ways that local studies can shed light on =
broader
historical problems.

The essays in this collection approach early modern Breifne (inclusive =
of
the modern counties of Cavan and Leitrim) as a frontier society. By the
sixteenth century, the region reflected a hybridized political order, in
which, as Christopher Maginn puts it, "English structures of local
government were superimposed onto Gaelic lordships" (p. 69). County =
Cavan's
shared border with the Pale looms large in this work, with many of the
essays emphasizing the ways that kinship ties, cultural practices, and
economic and legal structures linked Gaelic, Old English, New English, =
and
Scottish interests in the region. Jonathan Cherry's essay on Cavan =
town,
for example, demonstrates the extent to which the O'Reilly family =
developed
significant connections to Dublin and the Pale in the decades before the
Ulster plantation. Cavan's status as a Gaelic market town reflected =
these
connections and also differentiated the settlement from other parts of
Gaelic Ulster. Raymond Gillespie's examination of representations of =
Brian
Ballach O'Rourke's inauguration in 1536 demonstrates the other side of =
the
coin. This essay focuses on the creative ways in which an ambitious =
Gaelic
lord used intermarriage with powerful Ulster families and the
reconfiguration of bardic material to cement his local authority and
prestige. O'Rourke's 1540 participation in surrender and =
regrant--conceived
in part as a means to construct O'Rourke supremacy over other Gaelic
lordships in Leitrim--likewise demonstrates the ways in which an
enterprising Gaelic lord could shore up his local political power by =
playing
on English structures of authority.

The plantation accelerated the hybridization of Breifne, resulting in =
the
emergence of ethnically and religiously diverse communities by the
mid-seventeenth century. William Roulston's essay explores the =
significant
Scots presence in county Cavan. Elsewhere in Ulster, Scottish =
undertakers
tended to settle Scottish tenants. In Cavan, by contrast, Scottish
undertakers like Sir James Craig and the Hamilton brothers presided over =
a
mix of English, Scots, and pre-plantation era Irish tenants. Several of =
the
other essays in the collection underscore the religious diversity of =
this
frontier society, highlighting the (predictable) presence of Irish and =
Old
English Catholics, and English and Scottish Protestants; less =
predictably,
English and Scottish Catholics and Scottish Episcopalians had a =
significant
presence in the region.

Pursuing a theme that has been prominent in the recent historiography of
seventeenth-century Ireland, a number of the essays highlight tensions
within the confessional communities. Brian Mac Cuarta explores tensions
arising out of the Counter-Reformation, particularly "between prelates
educated abroad in the tridentine mould, and a clerical body accustomed =
to
the more relaxed style of an earlier age" (p. 160). Tensions were also
evident among the Cavan Protestants. John McCafferty presents a
well-rounded essay on William Bedell, Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh, and
persuasively delineates the complicated position in which evangelically
minded Protestants could find themselves in the seventeenth century. In =
his
commitment to rooting out the institutions of the Roman Catholic Church =
in
the 1620s and 1630s, Bedell reached out to Irish Catholics by supporting =
the
Gaelicization of the Church of Ireland. To many New English planters =
and
clergy, however, this accommodation was itself objectionable and =
suggested a
"softness to popery" (p. 177).

Whereas McCafferty's essay suggests the significant disagreements that =
could
emerge among committed Protestants, several essays on the 1641 Rising =
point
to the ways that religious identity could be deformed and jettisoned in =
the
midst of crisis. Roulston's coverage of the Scottish planters' =
responses to
the 1641 Rising, for example, articulates the tensions between Scottish =
and
English Protestants and explores the ways in which Irish rebels
opportunistically manipulated these divisions. Scott's discussion of
Protestants who converted to Catholicism in the midst of the rising =
likewise
underscores the ways in which varying degrees of religious commitment =
played
out in the context of widespread social dislocation. Scott's work =
further
complicates this picture, offering tantalizing accounts from the 1641
depositions of recent English converts to Catholicism who found =
themselves
despoiled by Irish rebels in spite of their religious profession.

A number of the essays highlight the extensive accommodation that =
occurred
in plantation society as a result of the ethnic and religious diversity =
that
characterized this frontier zone. Clodagh Tait's contribution, for =
example,
makes very effective use of the 1638 will of Philip McPhilip O'Reilly.
Deeply indebted at the time of his death, O'Reilly's financial situation
reveals the pressures that Irish landholders faced after the plantation.
Tait presents a fascinating reconstruction of O'Reilly's debt =
obligations to
a range of Irish, Old English, New English, and Scottish creditors, and
demonstrates his ability to maneuver within the English law through the
creation of an "English-style jointure" to provide for his widow (p. =
196).
However, the essays also suggest that accommodation could itself be a =
source
of tension and conflict. Following the microhistorical approach to the =
1641
depositions pioneered particularly by Gillespie, several works in this
collection address the experiences of planters in Cavan during the 1641
Rising and the interplay between individuals from various ethnic and
religious backgrounds. Scott's contribution is especially noteworthy in
this regard, providing a persuasive analysis of experiences in 1641 that
balances accounts of settler survival against evidence of opportunistic =
and
retributive violence. As the concluding essay, Scott's work serves as a
reminder of how cataclysmic the outbreak of the 1641 Rising must have =
been
after decades of--perhaps superficial--peace and stability.

This point, however, also suggests a missed opportunity within the
collection. Although the book title suggests a focus on early modern
Breifne, the essays in fact stop with the 1641 Rising. This in large
measure reflects historiographical conventions, with 1641 often =
appearing as
a decisive break between two distinct periods in Irish history. =
However, an
assessment of the aftermath of the rebellion would have been useful,
particularly given this collection's focus on the themes of continuity =
and
change and the overall presentation of Breifne as a frontier society.
Several essays note that episodic violence and dislocation was in fact a
normative part of Breifne's history--Jonathan Cherry's reference to the
razing of Cavan town during the Nine Years' War (1594-1603) seems the =
most
vivid example of this point. In light of this, one wonders what =
happened
after 1641 and particularly what effect the upheavals of the 1640s and =
1650s
had on the diversity and accommodation that was evident in the 1620s and
30s. Scott's introduction to the volume suggests that the essays reveal =
how
"native forces remained surprisingly resilient in the face of such
interlopers and retained many of their Gaelic customs, language and =
dress"
(p. 4). The local perspective adopted in this collection presents an
opportunity to explore this resiliency in the context of the later =
1640s,
the Cromwellian conquest, and the Restoration, but these later =
developments
are unfortunately not addressed here.

In general, elements of the collection seem somewhat out of balance.
Several essays--for example, Nollaig =D3 Mura=EDle's work on the =
Duanaire M=E9ig
Shamhradh=E1in (the MacGovern poembook), and Annaleigh Margey's =
"Surveying and
Mapping Plantation in Cavan"--are primarily descriptive in nature. They
highlight underutilized sources for the history of this region and are
suggestive of opportunities for future research, but seem out of place
alongside the more analytical approaches reflected in other essays. The
late medieval focus of =D3 Mura=EDle's work and Salvador Ryan's essay on
representations of women in Gaelic devotional literature represent =
useful
scholarly contributions but likewise sit uncomfortably with the =
sixteenth-
and seventeenth-century focus of the other works in the collection =
(Scott's
introduction acknowledges this point). Finally, although Breifne
incorporated the modern counties of Leitrim and Cavan, the essays in =
this
volume tend to focus on the latter. Ryan and Gillespie both address the
O'Rourkes and Scott's essay on the 1641 Rising incorporates evidence =
from
the Leitrim depositions. The main focus of the collection, however, is
county Cavan and in fact the essays tend to gravitate toward the central =
and
southeastern portions of the modern county. One wonders whether this
reflects a deeper point about the declining relevance of Gaelic Breifne =
even
before the creation of the English counties and plantations. More =
sustained
engagement with this issue might have complicated the collection's =
overall
argument regarding Gaelic resiliency in the region.

These minor structural criticisms should not detract from the overall =
value
of this collection, especially in staking out an important direction for
future scholarship. Scott notes in his introduction that the essays
collected here reflect the fact that "the academic community [is]
undertaking more localized case studies than ever before" (p. 1). Many =
of
the essays take this a step further by situating the local in national =
and
regional contexts. Maginn's work on Tudor state-building, Cherry and
Roulston's coverage of plantation policies and the formation of =
multiethnic
plantation communities, and Scott's comparative analysis of the =
depositions
and print culture representations of the 1641 Rising connect local =
studies
to wider British contexts. Likewise, McCafferty's essay on Bedell and =
Mac
Cuarta's treatment of Counter-Reformation activism contextualize local
experiences by making connections to broader themes in European history.
The care with which the contributors to _Culture and Society in Early =
Modern
Breifne/Cavan_ have taken to keep these "big picture" contexts in mind
models an approach to local studies that underscores the relevance and
importance of this kind of perspective and is a significant strength of =
this
volume.

Citation: Joseph Cope. Review of Scott, Brendan, ed., _Culture and =
Society
in Early Modern Breifne/Cavan_. H-Albion, H-Net Reviews. January, 2011.
URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=3D30798

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Date: January 11, 2011 9:30:36 AM EST=20
Subject: TOC Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa - 3/2010 - Memory and
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The new issue of Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa has just been published.
The thematic issue is dedicated to "Memory and Commemoration", and featur=
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three case studies on collective memory and commemoration in Italy, as we=
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as contributions by leading sociologists of memory (Wagner-Pacifici, Barr=
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Politiche della commemorazione=20
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Tracce urbane di un conflitto permanente. La memoria pubblica dei fatti d=
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