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Subject: New radio series,
From Stage to Street: Tune in to episode 2 this Saturday at 7.30pm
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Forwarded on behalf of Colin Murphy...

The email took a little while to reach us. I have tidied a little, but =
I am
not sure that the RTE links are working correctly.

More information on...

http://www.facebook.com/FromStageToStreet?v=3Dwall&filter=3D1

http://colinmurphy.ie.s72300.gridserver.com/?attachment_id=3D796

P.O'S.

________________________________________
From: colinmurphy[at]me.com [mailto:colinmurphy[at]me.com]=20

Colm T=F3ib=EDn & Chris Morash join on Saturday 6 January at 7.30pm to =
talk
about the politics and passions underlying the 1926 riots at The Plough =
and
the Stars=A0at the Abbey Theatre...with guest performances by Derbhle =
Crotty,
Karl Shiels & Joe Taylor.=20


From Stage To Street

A new six-part radio series, presented by Colin Murphy, on the times =
when
what was happening on the Irish stage reverberated on the streets =
outside.
From the Playboy riots of 1907 to more recent controversies, the series
takes a fresh look at key moments in Irish theatre. Why did Lady =
Gregory's
nephew lead a drunken chorus of 'God Save Our King' at the Abbey in =
1907?
And why, fifty years later, was Brendan Behan to be found leading a =
drunken
chorus of 'The Auld Triangle' outside Dublin's pocket theatre, the Pike?
We talk about the players and passions at stake in the most provocative
moments in Irish theatre history, and recapture those moments with the =
aid
of actors and archival gems.

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/stagetostreet/

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Subject: Thesis,
Ireland and India: Early analogies in British agriculture and
trade
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If you go to this web address there is a Preview of the early pages of this
thesis.

http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink?Ver=1&Exp=01-11-2016&FMT=7&DID=2155592691&RQ
T=309&attempt=1

Button on Right, labelled PREVIEW.

Ireland and India: Early analogies in British agriculture and trade
by Tavolacci, Laura, M.A., TUFTS UNIVERSITY, 2010, 157 pages; 1481058

Abstract:

The turn of the nineteenth century was an important period for both the
British empire and British intellectual history. Under the strain of
revolutionary threat and food scarcity in the late eighteenth century, many
in Britain began to modify their mercantilist visions of political economy
and empire. Mercantile ideas began to give way to liberal, free trade modes
of thinking, giving birth to what many historians have termed the "second
empire". A vast historiography exists that discusses various aspects of this
transformation including works by Karl Polanyi, Gordon Mingay, Eric
Voegelin, P.J. Cain, A.G. Hopkins, amongst many others. I place the
consolidation of imperial rule in Ireland and India at the launch of this
so-called "second empire" and examine how ideologies of empire included
them. Initially, there does not appear strong grounds for comparing Ireland
and India due to the many differences in culture, religion, and method of
colonization. However, beginning in the late eighteenth century, British
rule in both India and Ireland began to use very similar tactics. Chapter
one compares these tactics, beginning with negotiations with Grattan's
Parliament in Ireland and Cornwallis reforms in India. Chapter three
examines the British agricultural improvement movement as both an
intellectual and structural phenomenon that contributed to imperial networks
and the motivation for agricultural development in Ireland and India. The
rest of this paper examines the intellectual inclusion of India and Ireland
in theories of empire and economy by examining key works by Arthur Young,
Adam Smith, and Thomas Malthus. The domestic experience of the British
landed elite caused this fixation with agriculture and production increase.
However, India and Ireland played an important role in the emergence of a
discourse on political economy that focused on agriculture, especially as
they represented the problem of the wealth of land, and how to preserve it,
in the context of commercialization and an expanding globalizing economy. It
is this combination of domestic and imperial experience which contributed
specifically to Ireland and India's development as agricultural producers in
the British empire.

Advisor: Manjapra, Kris
School: TUFTS UNIVERSITY
Source: MAI 49/01, p. , Feb 2011
Source Type: M.A.
Subjects: History; European history; Economic history; Modern history
Publication Number: 1481058

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Subject: Research Report OFFENDER DEMOGRAPHICS AND SENTENCING PATTERNS IN
SCOTLAND AND THE UK
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Joe Bradley, University of Stirling, has brought to our attention this
Research Report, which arises out of a petition to the Scottish Parliament.
Our thanks to Joe.

The full report is available at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/s3/committees/petitions/petitionsubmission
s/sub-07/Researchaspublished-24-12-10.pdf

Now. Do be careful with that web address. As ever, email line breaks will
fracture it, and we have found that sending it on from person to person,
especially when using HTML emails, can insert garbage.

Another route is to go to the Scottish Parliament web site. This page one
gives you some background to the preparation of the Report.
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/s3/committees/petitions/petitionsubmission
s/sub-07/subIndexForPE1073.htm

Many Ir-D members will find the Research Report, and especially its
Bibliography, very useful - of course, it deals with issues that we have
discussed in the past.

P.O'S.

PUBLIC PETITIONS COMMITTEE
OFFENDER DEMOGRAPHICS AND SENTENCING PATTERNS IN SCOTLAND AND THE UK
RESEARCH COMMISSIONED BY THE PUBLIC PETITIONS COMMITTEE IN CONSIDERATION OF
PETITION PE1073 FROM TOM MINOGUE ON 'CATHOLICS IN SCOTTISH PRISONS'
RESEARCH UNDERTAKEN BY DR SUSAN WILTSHIRE, RESEARCH CONSULTANT


In response to the concerns raised in Petition PE1073, the Public Petitions
Committee of the Scottish Parliament commissioned a literature review to
explore Offender Demographics and Sentencing Patterns in Scotland and the
UK. The purpose was to identify and examine the possible reasons for the
disproportionate number of Catholics in Scottish jails. The specific
objectives were to:

. Examine available research and statistics on offender demographics and
prosecution and sentencing patterns in Scotland and the UK, including
sentencing outcomes for those offenders convicted of an offence, taking into
account variables such as age, gender, socio-economic status and, where
available, ethnicity and religion.

. Consider whether there is any evidence to indicate that factors such as
ethnicity and religion influence sentencers and others involved in the
criminal justice process.

The desk based review which, whilst not exhaustive, sought to identify
extant literature and statistical compilations on offender demographics in
Scotland and the UK. The summary ends with some research recommendations to
facilitate greater understandings of Catholic disproportionality, which
research and literature suggests can only be explained by examining a broad
range of social factors.

Full Text at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/s3/committees/petitions/petitionsubmission
s/sub-07/Researchaspublished-24-12-10.pdf

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Subject: Article, Interrogating Medical Tourism: Ireland, Abortion,
and Mobility Rights.
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SIGNS is one of the Chicago Journals, and is a leading international journal
in women's studies.

http://www.jstor.org/page/journal/signs/about.html

It is unusual amongst scholarly journals in that it is now running ahead of
time - the latest issue is Winter 2011.

This issue was/is/will be a Special Issue
Comparative Perspectives Symposium: Gender and Medical Tourism
Edited by Andrew Mazzaschi and Emily Anne McDonald

That is to say that the focus on 'Medical Tourism' is given to the
researchers by the Special Issue. However this approach does give to Mary
Gilmartin and Allen White a fierce and focussed way of engaging with the
Irish abortion debates, the Irish abortion constitutional crises, and the
consequence of 'abortion tourism'.

Their conclusion reads
'The framing of Irish women's right to travel as a victory of sorts masks
the ways in which these rights come at the expense of the well-being of
others; it displaces the broader question of access to abortion services
across international borders. Rather than a proliferation of political
possibilities, the Irish experience shows how mobility rights become a means
of creating and enforcing social distinctions and challenges the discursive
construction of medical tourism as universally positive.'


Signs (Chic). 2011;36(2):275-79.

Interrogating Medical Tourism: Ireland, Abortion, and Mobility Rights.

Gilmartin M, White A.

National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

Abstract
Medical tourism in Ireland, like in many Western states, is built around
assumptions about individual agency, choice, possibility, and mobility. One
specific form of medical tourism-the flow of women from Ireland traveling in
order to secure an abortion-disrupts and contradicts these assumptions. One
legacy of the bitter, contentious political and legal battles surrounding
abortion in Ireland in the 1980s and 1990s has been securing the right of
mobility for all pregnant Irish citizens to cross international borders to
secure an abortion. However, these mobility rights are contingent upon
nationality, social class, and race, and they have enabled successive Irish
governments to avoid any responsibility for providing safe, legal, and
affordable abortion services in Ireland. Nearly twenty years after the X
case discussed here, the pregnant female body moving over international
borders-entering and leaving the state-is still interpreted as problematic
and threatening to the Irish state.

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Subject: Thesis,
Far from the homes of their fathers: Irish Catholics in St.
John's, Newfoundland, 1840-86
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Far from the homes of their fathers: Irish Catholics in St. John's,
Newfoundland, 1840-86
by Lambert, Carolyn, Ph.D., MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND , 2010, 491
pages; NR64751

Abstract:

Despite being the first substantial Irish Catholic settlement in British
North America, little work has been done on the Irish Catholic community in
St. John's, Newfoundland in the second half of the nineteenth century. Much
of what has been written by historians has focused on the migrant
generation, their settlement patterns and adaptation. There is little
understanding of the development of the multigenerational Irish ethnic group
after 1840. This study addresses this lacuna, examining the Irish Catholic
ethnic group in St. John's between 1840 and 1886. There are many reasons to
undertake such a case study. St. John's was not only the political, economic
and social center of the colony, it was also the most populous area with the
largest number of Irish Catholics. It provides an opportunity to study the
evolution of an Irish Catholic group that was unique in North America in
that it formed the majority of the city's population during that period.
Demographically, St. John's was also distinctive because Catholics were
counterbalanced by a Protestant population that was of English rather than
Irish descent. This makes the context of study different from other urban
areas of British North America, where Catholics formed a minority and Irish
Protestants formed a large portion of the population. Lack of large-scale
Irish migration to Newfoundland after the 1830s allows for an examination of
the development of a Catholic group that was established in the pre-Famine
period and that was majority Newfoundland-born by 1857.

As the first detailed account of Irish Catholics in St. John's between 1840
and 1886, this study chronicles their political, religious and social
evolution through an examination of the Catholic Church, education,
associations, politics and support for Irish nationalism. As a community
study viewed through the lens of ethnicity, it traces the evolution of the
identity of the multi-generational community. The findings are placed within
the context of the wider North American diaspora to illuminate how the Irish
Catholic experience in St. John's compares to other regions.

Catholics in St. John's did well compared to other urban areas in North
America. By 1886, they were an integral part of the fabric of St. John's at
all levels. The Catholic community of the late 1880s was confident,
politically involved, and socially active due to the leadership of the
Catholic Church and an expanded middle-class elite. Greater resources
allowed the Church to assume control over education and associational life,
which reinforced religious devotion and allowed it to impose its moral code
upon the community. Catholics continued to have a say in the running of the
colony as they dominated electoral politics and maintained a strong
political voice. Politics became less divisive and less ethnically and
religiously-based. By the 1880s, the growth of Newfoundland nationalism
superseded that of Irish nationalism. For native-born Catholics and their
political leaders, far removed from the everyday struggles of Ireland, local
political issues and concerns became paramount.

Between 1840 and 1886, the Catholic community in St. John's evolved from a
largely immigrant one defined by an Irish ethnic identity and world view, to
one where Catholicism and not ethnicity became the basis of community
solidarity. Members identified primarily as Newfoundland-born Catholics, and
it was their religion that provided them with an essential link to their
Irish past. Although a romantic attachment to Ireland remained, they were
far from the homes of their fathers.

School: MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND
Source: DAI-A 71/09, p. , Mar 2011
Source Type: Ph.D.
Subjects: Religious history; Canadian history
Publication Number: NR64751

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Subject: Thesis, Competing fenianisms: British, Irish,
and American responses to a transatlantic movement
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Competing fenianisms: British, Irish, and American responses to a
transatlantic movement

by McLean, John, Ph.D., STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO, 2010, 272
pages; 3423581

Abstract:

This dissertation examines the Fenians, an Irish militant nationalist
organization founded in 1858. The dissertation emphasizes the trans-Atlantic
nature of Fenianism, examining the relationship between the Fenian
Brotherhood, the United States branch of Fenianism, and the Irish Republican
Brotherhood (IRB), its Irish counterpart. From its inception, the existence
of Fenianism was defined by the relationship between these two distinct
groups. The IRB depended on funds, weapons, and officers sent to Ireland by
the Fenian Brotherhood. Likewise, the Fenian Brotherhood depended on its
link to the IRB, a secret society in Ireland intent on bringing about a
military revolution and an Irish republic, for its legitimacy in the eyes of
Irish-Americans. Starting in 1863, the founder of Fenianism, James Stephens,
was able to publish a newspaper from Dublin to spread the Fenian nationalist
program to adherents on both sides of the Atlantic. The message set forth in
this newspaper, the Irish People, was unstintingly violent. The editors of
the Irish People argued that only after British control of Ireland was
thrown off through a military revolution would Ireland reach its true
potential. The Irish People portrayed proponents of constitutional
nationalism and peaceful reform in Ireland as emasculated dupes of the
British establishment.

Despite this violent rhetoric, the leaders of Fenianism delayed the promised
revolution due to their belief in the futility of a military uprising during
a period in which the British army was not engaged by an outside conflict.
American Fenians, frustrated by these delays, and believing that their
military strength would never be greater than it was in the period
immediately following the American Civil War, ousted the original leaders of
Fenianism in 1866. In their place were promoted individuals who resolved to
go ahead with military attacks on the British, whatever the cost. The result
was the Fenian raids on Canada in 1866 and the Fenian Rising in Ireland in
1867. These events were possible because the United States government did
not hinder the Fenian Brotherhood as they armed and trained with the
expressed purpose of attacking the British in both Canada and Ireland. Due
to the importance of the Irish vote during the Reconstruction period and the
unpopularity of the British diplomatic stance during the Civil War, American
politicians of both political parties expressed support for the Fenians.

Because of the strength of American Fenianism and the unwillingness of the
United States Government to hinder their military activities, traditional
British policing methods failed to eliminate incidents of Fenian violence in
the United Kingdom. While the activities of the IRB were drastically curbed
by the suspension of habeas corpus in Ireland and the arrest and
imprisonment of the editors of the Irish People in 1865, the activities of
the Fenian Brotherhood in America continued unabated. The Liberal Government
elected in December 1868, led by William Gladstone, attempted to address
this problem by enacting a program of "justice for Ireland." This consisted
of measures designed to pull supporters away from radical, militant
Fenianism in both Ireland and the United States. Specifically,
disestablishment of the Church of Ireland and the reform of the Irish Land
Laws were designed to convince moderates in both Ireland and the United
States that it was possible to gain concessions from the British government
and that it was not necessary to resort to violent Fenianism. The use of
remedial legislation to address the problem of Fenian violence was made
necessary by the trans-Atlantic nature of the organization.



Advisor: McDevitt, Patrick
School: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO
Source: DAI-A 71/11, p. , May 2011
Source Type: Ph.D.
Subjects: European history; American history
Publication Number: 3423581

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Subject: Thesis, "The house of the Irish": Irishness, history,
and memory in Griffintown, Montreal, 1868-2009
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"The house of the Irish": Irishness, history, and memory in Griffintown,
Montreal, 1868-2009
by Barlow, John Matthew, Ph.D., CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY , 2009, 338 pages;
NR63386

Abstract:

This dissertation examines the arc of Irish-Catholic identity in
Griffintown, a working-class neighbourhood of Montreal, over the course of
the "long" twentieth century, from 1868 to 2009. Griffintown is significant
as it was both the first and last Irish-Catholic neighbourhood of the city.
Situating the working-class Irish-Catholics of Griffintown within a
postcolonial framework, this dissertation examines the development and
functioning of a diasporic Irish culture in Montr?al.

We see how that culture operated in Griffintown, at times shielding the
residents of the neighbourhood from goings on in the wider city and nation,
and at other times allowing for the forging of common cause across class
lines within the Irish-Catholic community of Montr?al. In the years
following World War II, Irish-Catholic Griffintown disappeared from the
landscape, owing to depopulation and the physical destruction of the
neighbourhood. We then see how Irish-Catholic identity in Montr?al as a
whole broke down, as the Irish made common cause with the Anglo-Protestants
of the city to forge a new alliance: Anglo-Montr?al. Thus situated, the
Anglophone population of the city girded itself in a defensive posture for
the linguistic, cultural, economic, and constitutional strife that dominated
life in Montr?al over the second half of the twentieth century.

In the years since the second referendum on Quebec sovereignty in 1995,
Irish identity has undergone a renaissance of sorts in Montr?al, due to both
developments locally and the reinvigoration of the Irish diaspora globally
since the 1980s. In this process, we see the intersection of history and
memory as Griffintown has become the site of Irish memory and remembrance on
Montr?al's cultural landscape. The Irish of Montr?al, then, have used
Griffintown as a means of claiming their space on the cultural landscape of
the city and to demonstrate their long-standing connection to Montr?al. In
effect, Griffintown has allowed the Irish in Montr?al to re-claim their
stake as one of Montr?al's "founding nations."

School: CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
Source: DAI-A 71/07, p. , Jan 2011
Source Type: Ph.D.
Subjects: Canadian history; Ethnic studies
Publication Number: NR63386

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Subject: Book Notice,
European Stories: Intellectual Debates on Europe in National
Contexts
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This project may have been a little bit overtaken by events. But will =
still interest many Ir-D members.

The chapter on Ireland is by Katy Hayward
European Stories as National Narratives: Irish Intellectuals on Europe , =


Covers what will be familiar ground to specialists, and covers it well - =
quoting, for example, Joe Lee on that difficult role, the intellectual =
in Ireland. Then asks even more of the intellectual in Ireland.

So, useful...

There is some information about the origins of the project at

http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/esc/esc-lectures/Deakin_PROGRAM5.pdf

'Romanians see Europe as an ethical hazard; the French as La Grande =
France; the Germans as (still) their best bet at national atonement; the =
Spaniards as the key to their democracy and the Italians as the one to =
their unity; and so on. These may be but simplistic clich=C3=A9s as each =
national debate in=20
Europe about Europe pits schools of thought against schools of thoughts, =
ideology against ideology, national trope against national trope. =
Nevertheless, they belong to distinctly different national debates=20
about the XXIst century project that is the European Union (EU), its =
relationship to the respective nations history and the promises or =
threats it may hold for the national project today...'

There is some comment at
http://reconproject.eu/projectweb/portalproject/Lacroix_EuropeanStories.h=
tml

The Editors' Introduction can be found at
http://fds.oup.com/www.oup.com/pdf/13/9780199594627.pdf

Justine Lacroix, Kalypso Nicola=C4=ABdis
European Stories: Intellectual Debates on Europe in National Contexts' =
(Oxford University Press)

432 pages | 234x156mm
978-0-19-959462-7 | Hardback | 11 November 2010

European Stories is the first book of its kind in any European language. =
Its authors explore the many different ways 'public intellectuals' have =
debated Europe - the EU and its periphery - within distinct =
epistemological, disciplinary, ideological and above all national =
traditions. The chapters focus on the post-1989 era but with a view to =
the long history of the 'European idea' and its variants across the =
continent. To what extent such ideas frame the attitude of European =
publics is left open. But the authors assume that they matter to the =
European project as a whole.

While the twelve national cases have been selected for the broad range =
they offer, from founding to non-EU member states, they are not =
exhaustive as the book is meant to encourage further research. The =
authors of these chapters are all themselves fully immersed in their =
respective public spheres although generally not strongly identified =
with one 'camp' or another.=20

The expected readership is broad and interdisciplinary, ranging from =
political philosophy, to political science, international relations, =
history, sociology and the history of ideas. Beyond academia, European =
Stories is meant for all readers interested in the intellectual debates =
of our time.=20

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Irish Novelists and the Victorian Age=20
James H. Murphy=20
Oxford University Press=20
320 pages | 234x156mm=20
978-0-19-959699-7 | Hardback | 13 January 2011=20
Price:=A0 =A360.00=20
http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199596997.do
=A0
This is the first comprehensive study of the Irish writers of the =
Victorian
age, some of them still remembered, most of them now forgotten. Their =
work
was often directed to a British as well as an Irish reading audience and =
was
therefore disparaged in the era of W.B. Yeats and the Irish Literary =
Revival
with its culturally nationalist agenda. This study is based on a reading =
of
around 370 novels by 150 authors, including still-familiar novelists =
such as
William Carleton, the peasant writer who wielded much influence, and =
Charles
Lever, whose serious work was destroyed by the slur of =91rollicking=92, =
as well
as Joseph Sheridan LeFanu, George Moore, Emily Lawless, Somerville and =
Ross,
Bram Stoker, and three of the leading authors from the new-woman =
movement,
Sarah Grand, Iota, and George Egerton.=20

James H. Murphy examines the work of these and many other writers in a
variety of contexts: the political, economic, and cultural developments =
of
the time; the vicissitudes of the reading audience; the realities of a
publishing industry that was for the most part London-based; the often
difficult circumstances of the lives of the novelists; and the ever =
changing
genre of the novel itself, to which Irish authors often made a =
contribution.
Politics, history, religion, gender and, particularly, land, over which
nineteenth-century Ireland was deeply divided, featured as key themes =
for
fiction. Finally, the book engages with the critical debate of recent =
times
concerning the supposed failure of realism in the nineteenth-century =
Irish
novel, looking for more specific causes than have hitherto been offered =
and
discovering occasions on which realism turned out to be possible.
=A0
Contents
1: Introduction: Approaches to Reading Irish Fiction
2: The Fashionable Potato: Lady Blessington and W.H. Maxwell
3: Peasant or Pheasant novelist? The Authority of William Carleton
4: Ruin through Rollicking: Poor Charles Lever
5: Sensational Stalwarts: Irish Victorian Novelists in Mid Century
6: 'Two Nations on One Soil': Land, Fenians, and Politics in Fiction
7: 'Real Protestantism never Slumbers': Religious and Historical Fiction
8: Frenzied Form: The Land-War Novel
9: Grania and her Sisters: New Women Abroad and at Home
10: Fin de Si=E8cle: Vortex of the Genres
11: The Lives of the Irish Novelists
12: Conclusion: Contested Representations
Bibliography
Index

James H. Murphy, Professor of English, DePaul University, Chicago

James H. Murphy is Professor of English and was also for a time Director =
of
Irish Studies at DePaul University, Chicago, having previously taught in
Ireland. He specialises in nineteenth-century Ireland, focusing =
particularly
on the history of the novel and on the political history of the period. =
He
is the author or (co-) editor of ten previous books, including (as =
author)
Abject Loyalty: Nationalism and Monarchy in Ireland, during the Reign of
Queen Victoria, Ireland, a Social, Cultural and Literary History, =
1791-1891,
and Catholic Fiction and Social Reality in Ireland, 1873-1922. He has =
twice
been president of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century =
Ireland.

http://condor.depaul.edu/jmurphy5/publications.html

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Subject: Web Resource, Juan Jos=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E9_?=Delaney, Short Story,
The Two Coins
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A short story by Juan Jos=E9 Delaney has appeared in=20

Words Without Borders
The online magazine for world literature.

http://wordswithoutborders.org/

Words Without Borders also develops books, anthologies of world =
literature.

The issue of October 2010 had as its theme
Beyond Borges: Argentina Now
http://wordswithoutborders.org/issue/october-2010/

This link takes you directly to the author details on the Words Without
Borders web site
http://wordswithoutborders.org/contributor/juan-jose-delaney/

On the right you will see a link to the short story, The Two Coins.

It begins with an exploration of 'emigrant letters', and what we might =
call
'ethnic fade' - and indeed the story could be cited by scholars in those
terms. It then goes off into unexpected directions - maybe even Latin
American directions?

The story has been translated to English by Donald A. Yates. It is part =
of
a new Juan Jos=E9 Delaney project, a book of short stories about the =
Irish in
Argentina.

http://www.juanjosedelaney.com.ar/Profile.htm

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Subject: Anthropology of Food : Migration,
food practices and social relations,
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A quote from

Mastering French Cuisine, Espousing French Identity
The Transformation Narratives of American Wives of Frenchmen
Epouser la cuisine et l'identit=E9 fran=E7aises: r=E9cits de =
transformation
d'Am=E9ricaines mari=E9es =E0 des Fran=E7ais
Christy Shields-Argel=E8s

Beth:

=93I learned to cook here by myself, when I was on my own. You know, you
always make what your mom makes, but it ended up being kind of bland, =
white,
Irish food. '(laughs)


Message, below, forwarded on behalf of=20
Chantal Crenn=20


-----Original Message-----
=20
The latest issue of Anthropology of Food is now online.=20
=20
Have a look=20
http://aof.revues.org/index6515.html

and discover our new issue (7 -2010): "Migration, food practices and =
social
relations: when continuity is not reproduction and discontinuity is not
rupture" , edited by Jean-Pierre Hassoun and F.Xavier Medina and myself
Chantal Crenn.
=20
Sincerely yours=20

Chantal Crenn=20

Anthropology of Food WebJournal =20
Revue en ligne sur internet ISSN 1609-9168

http://aof.revues.org/

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Subject: Book Review, Listening In: Broadcasts, Speeches,
and Interviews by Elizabeth Bowen
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New on the Cercles web site...

Listening In
Broadcasts, Speeches, and Interviews by Elizabeth Bowen
=20
Edited with an Introduction by Allan Hepburn
=20
Edinburgh: University Press, 2010. 381 pages. =A324.99 (Paper)
ISBN 978 0 7 486 4042 3
=20
Reviewed by Christine Reynier
Universit=E9 Paul-Val=E9ry-Montpellier III
=20
=20
Between 1941 and 1973, Elizabeth Bowen was a regular contributor on the =
BBC.
She had been attuned to the role of radio during the blitz as a means of
informing people and bringing them together and was a great radio =
listener.
Speaking over the radio was a challenge for her since she had a bad =
stammer
but she came out as a wonderful talker, a compelling conversationalist. =
And
in her own words, =93Writing for the air frenzies me: it is such a new =
and
different technique =96 all the same, its problems are fascinating=94. =
Having a
broad range of interests, she wrote plays for radio, broadcasts and
speeches, radio essays and reviews, and gave interviews. Allan Hepburn
offers here a rich selection, mostly published versions of essays and
corrected typescripts which are more reliable as base texts than mere
transcriptions of broadcasts =96 material accumulated while he was =
editing
People, Places, Things: Essays by Elizabeth Bowen (2008). (1)...

...She draws a portrait of Ireland and the Irish, their melancholy and =
their
contradictions; she captures in a few pages the tragic history of =
Ireland, a
tragedy which, according to her, will last as long as Partition does. =
She
discusses the pros and cons of emigration and how, by going abroad, =
=93you
make money there, but you may lose your soul=94; she discusses the =
Catholic
Church, how it rules Ireland but has also kept it European rather than
insular. She hovers between a sociological analysis and a subjective,
insider=92s vision of the country. We feel we know it better when we =
come to
the end of the essay...

...In a speech on =93The Idea of Home=94, Bowen addresses a very =
different topic
and shows how important home is, how =93identity would be nothing =
without its
frame=94 and how =93there is involved, when one speaks of home, at least =
some
notion of the ethics and aesthetics of living=94. She then proceeds to =
see if
this is true of all countries, especially of a new dynamic country like
=93America=94. She points out that in the Old world, =93the past has =
force because
of its length=94 whereas in America, =93it has force because of it =
nearness and
its intensity=94 and while =93the Englishman=92s home is his castle=94, =
the American
=93conceives of the home as the seat of virtue, the symbol of =
independence,
the source of strength=94. But, she wonders, isn=92t the idea of home =
too
traditional and somewhat anachronistic in a modern mid-twentieth-century
country like America? And how is the self to be retained in such
circumstances? Her answer is that the idea of home has given place to a
constructive idea for the home, the wish to bring together different
generations and characters, to blend ideas and personalities. The new =
=93home=94
in the end extends outwards and becomes indistinguishable from society, =
a
society where cross-fertilisation is the rule. A very modern,
thought-provoking reassessment of the traditional idea of home and =
roots...

...These broadcasts are witness to Bowen=92s curiosity for the arts as =
well as
for society, history, politics and more homely topics. Her skill in
addressing listeners, her liveliness during the interviews come out, so =
much
so that the reader wishes she could listen to her voice, for instance, =
in a
CD attached to the book =96 but the BBC archive probably did not allow =
the
editor to go that far. In any case, we are grateful to Allan Hepburn for
giving us to read such nice, rich and varied pieces, studded with such
sentences as this one: =93When I was young, I found it alarming to meet =
a
writer; I now realise that it is alarming for a writer to be met. He may
learn to adopt a manner, as time goes on, but behind that manner lingers =
a
shy monster=94.

Full Text at

http://www.cercles.com/review/r45/Bowen.html

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Subject: TOC Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland,
Vol 6 (2010-11)
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The review, by David Cooper, of John O=92Flynn, The Irishness of Irish =
Music,
is most probably the item of most interest to Ir-D members.

But the substantial article by Una Hunt - I have pasted in the Abstract =
-
and the other review by Axel Klein are really worth reading too.

P.O'S.=20

Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland =20

Vol 6 (2010-11)

Table of Contents

Articles

The Harpers' Legacy: Irish National Airs and Pianoforte Composers PDF
Una Hunt 3-53

Abstract

Ireland=92s harpers were part of an ancient culture and they left behind =
an
unique and important legacy of indigenous art. The harpers=92 airs =
enjoyed
renewed popularity during the nineteenth century when visiting virtuosi =
to
Ireland extemporized on the best-known melodies. Among these musicians =
were
some of the most highly regarded pianist-composers of the era, including
Fr=E9d=E9ric Kalkbrenner, Ignaz Moscheles and, later still, Henri Herz, =
Franz
Liszt and Sigismund Thalberg. In addition, a substantial number of =
pieces
were published for the drawing-room market.=20

This article charts the rise and fall in popularity of Irish airs in
nineteenth-century piano literature and aims to provide reasons for =
these
trends. It shows that Thomas Moore=92s almost universally-known =
drawing-room
songs, the Irish Melodies, exerted an influence. But, while these songs =
may
have prompted significant activity among nineteenth-century Irish and
Continental musicians, Moore=92s role was by no means exclusive. Irish =
airs
were in vogue in the eighteenth century, and even earlier.

A catalogue of around 500 works published between c1770 and c1940, =
included
as an appendix to the article, demonstrates the diversity and =
surprisingly
wide-ranging nature of this virtually unknown repertoire.

Reviews
John O=92Flynn, The Irishness of Irish Music (2009) PDF
David Cooper 55-59

Jeremy Dibble, Michele Esposito (2010) PDF
Axel Klein 61-65

Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland ISSN: 1649-7341
www.music.ucc.ie/jsmi

http://www.music.ucc.ie/jsmi/index.php/jsmi/issue/current

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Subject: Review of Web Resource,
The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003
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This Reviews in History review of The Illustrated London News Historical
Archive, 1842-2003 brings us up to date as to the present state of play.

The web site of The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, =
1842-2003 is
http://gale.cengage.co.uk/product-highlights/history/illustrated-london-n=
ews
.aspx


Digital resource:
The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003
edited by Seth Cayley
Andover, Cengage Learning, 2010

Reviewer:
Peter Sinnema
University of Alberta

Citation:
Peter Sinnema, review of The Illustrated London News Historical Archive,
1842-2003, (review no. 1002)
URL: http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1002

If the debut of the Illustrated London News (ILN) in May 1842 signalled =
=91a
revolution in journalism and news reporting=92, as the introduction to =
this
remarkable on-line collection contends, there can be little doubt that =
an
equally revolutionary transformation has occurred over the course of the
last 15 years with the development, expansion, and refinement of the =
digital
archive, an electronic convulsion that is in the process of altering
radically both the practice and the object of periodicals research. As a
graduate student in the early 1990s writing a dissertation on national
identity and word-image interplay in the first decade of the ILN, I =
spent
the better part of my time and effort poring over the massive, =
bi-annually
bound issues of the original newspaper that sat in enticing neglect on =
the
shelves of my university library, a nearly-complete and well-preserved =
run
that would have been a common enough acquisition for scholarly =
institutions
across Britain and North America in years gone by. By necessity, the =
manner
of my scrutiny was desultory, overwhelmed as I was by the sheer amount =
of
printed material, by the seemingly unconstrained exuberance of the =
paper=92s
pictorial and textual coverage. I was further hampered by the lack of
rationally organized indexes to the vast majority of the 21 volumes I =
had
committed myself to mastering, each comprising 500=96800 pages of
densely-columned news and high-quality woodcuts =96 an enterprise in =
unguided,
delighted absorption that brought me as close to a direct experience of
Edmund Burke=92s magnitudinal sublime as any subsequent encounters with
residuum Victoriana. In recent years those once readily-accessible =
volumes
have been making their way into the protective custody of special
collections, away from the greasy hands, unscrupulous lacerators, and
uncontrolled atmospheres of the comparatively public stacks they =
occupied
until their historical and cultural value was properly appreciated.

If the tactile pleasures and attendant intellectual bewilderments =
derived
from handling the bound ILN are now lost to a majority of undergraduates =
and
library fl=E2neurs, the loss is arguably more than made up for by this =
new
online archive, which offers users immediate access to the entire run =
(161
years) of the ILN...

...Well, of course it=92s not quite that simple. The sweeping democratic
promise heralded by Leary is checked somewhat by the fact that the ILN
archive is not available to individual subscribers =91at this stage=92. =
Its
current users will need to log on via their institutional host, although
Gale/Cengage anticipates a pay-per-view service in the future, =
presumably
something along the lines of the existing agreement that allows archive
surfers to download and purchase ILN images for commercial purposes from =
the
conveniently-highlighted Mary Evans Picture Library...

...Maidment=92s and Leary=92s articles could be helpfully supplemented =
with a
bibliography of scholarly and historical works directly concerning the =
ILN,
and perhaps with extracts from some of them. My own Dynamics of the =
Pictured
Page: Representing the Nation in the Illustrated London News (1998) =
comes to
mind, as does Christopher Hibbert=92s The Illustrated London News: =
Social
History of Victorian Britain (1975) and Gerry Beegan=92s more recent The =
Mass
Image: A Social History of Photomechanical Reproduction in Victorian =
London
(2008).(2) Mason Jackson, who worked as an engraver for the ILN, =
published a
useful book on The Pictorial Press: Its Origin and Progress in 1885 that
could be reproduced in whole or part by the ILN archive without any
copyright hassles. Inclusion of such background materials would add to =
the
comprehensiveness of an already outstanding digital resource.

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Subject: Celebrating the centenary of U Dhammaloka's trial for sedition,
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'Dhammaloka Day', Saturday 19 February, 2.30-6pm
Boole Lecture Theatre, UCC, Cork:
All welcome, admission free

Dear colleagues,

Full details of "Dhammaloka Day" are now available on the UCC website at
http://www.ucc.ie/en/studyofreligions/dhammaloka-day/ with links to the
draft programme, on-line registration (please register if you're hoping =
to
come) and a short video introduction by Prof. Brian Bocking on youtube =
at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D3mUil5bVPsI.=20

'Dhammaloka Day' celebrates the centenary of "The Irish Buddhist's" 1911
trial for sedition in colonial Burma. It is also the Irish launch of the
special issue of the journal Contemporary Buddhism (Vol. 11, no.2, 2010) =
on
the remarkable and unjustly forgotten figure of U Dhammaloka, a =
Dublin-born
vagrant worker who crossed the world to become one of the first western
Buddhist monks in Asia.=20

Autodidact, atheist, temperance campaigner and Buddhist revivalist,
Dhammaloka was supported in Japan by Letitia Jephson of Mallow, =
denounced in
Singapore by journalist Edward Alexander Morphy of Killarney and tried =
for
sedition in Burma by Justice Daniel H. R. Twomey of Carrigtwohill.=20
=A0
Famous throughout South-East Asia in his time, Dhammaloka travelled
extensively between 1900-1914 in colonial Burma, Siam, Cambodia, =
Singapore,
Malaya, Japan, China, Ceylon, India and Nepal and beyond.=20

This unique event features an international line-up of scholars of =
Buddhism
including Prof. Thomas Tweed from Austin, Texas (author of The American
Encounter with Buddhism), Dr Alicia Turner from Toronto (editor of the
Journal of Burma Studies), Dr Elizabeth Harris from Liverpool (author of
Theravada Buddhism and the British Encounter), Dr Laurence Cox from =
Maynooth
(co-editor of Ireland's New Religious Movements) and Prof. Brian Bocking
from Cork (chair of Ireland's first Department of the Study of =
Religions).
=A0
The provisional programme for the day is:

2 pm: Arrival, Tea and coffee

2.30: Welcome: Introducing Dhammaloka (Brian Bocking, Study of Religions
Dept., UCC)
2.45: Dhammaloka, "The Irish Pongyi" in colonial Burma (Alicia Turner,
Religious Studies, York University Toronto)
3.15: Dhammaloka - atheist, activist, Irish Buddhist (Laurence Cox,
Sociology, NUI Maynooth)
3.45: Response: Ananda Metteyya and U Dhammaloka (Elizabeth Harris, =
Theology
and Religious Studies, Liverpool Hope)

4.00=A0 tea / coffee break -

4.30: Dhammaloka's Irish connections: Letitia Jephson, Edward Morphy, =
Daniel
Twomey (Brian Bocking)
5.00: Dhammaloka in context: globalising Buddhism at the turn of the =
20th
century (Thomas Tweed, Religious Studies, North Texas University)
5.30: Discussion
6.00: Close

Information and registration (free):
www.ucc.ie/en/studyofreligions/dhammaloka-day=20
Enquiries: dhammaloka[at]ucc.ie =20
Tel: 021 490 2773
Department of Sociology
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Co. Kildare
Republic of Ireland

Tel. (+353-1) 708 3985
email: laurence.cox[at]nuim.ie

=20

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Subject: FW: CALL FOR PAPERS 2012 MLA CONVENTION, SEATTLE, WA
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-----Original Message-----
From: joan.reilly[at]bc.edu [mailto:joan.reilly[at]bc.edu]=20
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 9:09 AM
To: irishstudies[at]listserv.bc.edu
Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS 2012 MLA CONVENTION, SEATTLE, WA

CALL FOR PAPERS 2012 MLA Convention, Seattle, WA

The American Conference for Irish Studies will host one panel at the Januar=
y
2012 MLA convention in Seattle. Please send 200-word abstracts to Karen Ste=
ele
(k.steele[at]tcu.edu) by March 21, 2011. All panelists must be registered MLA =
members by April 1, 2011 to be included on the Seattle conference program; =
all panelists must also be registered ACIS members.=20

POLITICS OF LANGUAGE: Papers should explore the social, cultural, or politi=
cal implications of Irish languages and literatures, especially as they rel=
ate to Irish national or postcolonial identity, from the 17th century to th=
e present.
Papers might include discussions of translation, Celticism, historical brea=
ks and continuities, minority discourse, collapse of Celtic Tiger, and more=
.=20

SEND 200-WORD PROPOSALS BY MARCH 20, 2011. PRESENTATIONS MAY NOT EXCEED 20 =
MINUTES.

Questions? Please contact Karen Steele, ACIS Representative k.steele[at]tcu.ed=
u

Department of English
TCU
Fort Worth, TX 76129

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Re: Irish Famine and the Diaspora, 1990s to present
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I was too busy with detail a while back to myself give a considered =
response
to Piaras' message, below - and maybe enough people have usefully =
replied
now.

I did go to
One-day Symposion on the Great Famine, Thursday 25 November, 2010, =
Maynooth
Organised by Margaret Kelleher and colleagues.

And I saw some members of the Irish Diaspora list there. Hi.

See earlier Ir-D message for an outline of the day, or
http://www.forasfeasa.ie/index.php?option=3Dcom_content&view=3Darticle&id=
=3D169:an
-gorta-mor-the-great-famine-symposium&catid=3D42:frontpage

The day gave a useful update on themes in Famine research and projects -
some of which I have been advising on. Things are moving forward on a =
broad
front.

In history a new development is Fotheringham and Kelly, =91Mapping =
Population
Change in Ireland 1841-1851: Quantitative Analysis using Historical =
GIS=92,
which gets the detail down to electoral districts. As well as more
traditional - and so very expensive - archive research by Patrick J. =
Duffy,
Ciar=E1n Reilly.

Margu=E9rite Corporaal's research into novels has been discussed already =
on
the Ir-D list. And her approach connects with the more general study of
famine literature - the leader there being, of course, Chris Morash.

Chris's paper was a very useful addition to discussions about the =
spreading
news of the Famine - like, for example, the precise dates at which the
Telegraph became available., and Spectrality=92.

Margaret Kelleher then led a general discussion, =91Famine and the =
Future of
Commemoration=92. And there arose some of the issues outlined in =
Piaras'
message below. Some of us remembered our encounters with commemorations =
and
their committees.

My review of Chris Morash's book for the CJIS ended...

'Throughout the world, throughout the Irish Diaspora, there were, from =
the
anniversary year, 1995, onwards, efforts made to erect monuments to the =
dead
of the Irish Famine, projects which had perhaps to do with bringing into =
the
present the absent Famine dead - I can think of examples in Grosse Ile,
Boston, Liverpool, Sydney, and New York. We can respect those =
monuments,
and respect those efforts - but we can also wish that some of that =
effort
had gone into a reading of Christopher Morash, Writing the Irish =
Famine.'

I was pussyfooting around. In fact sometimes in discussions with =
committees
I have to say that I did not really understand what they thought would =
be
accomplished by the creation of another piece of street furniture.
Theorists of place can pile in at this point. When I suggested that the
committees might think of another approach - that they might, for =
example,
endow a scholarship - I was met with bafflement.

P.O'S.=20

-----Original Message-----
From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On =
Behalf
Of MacEinri, Piaras
Sent: 08 January 2011 23:12
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] Irish Famine and the Diaspora, 1990s to present

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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Subject: New Website: Diasporic Family in Cinema
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Forwarded on behalf of
Dr Daniela Berghahn
Reader in Film Studies
Royal Holloway, University of London

I am pleased to announce the launch of the website 'Far-flung Families =
in
Film: The Diasporic Family in Cinema', which is part of an AHRC-funded
project on this topic.=A0

http://www.farflungfamilies.net/

The website provides information about the scope, aims and objectives of
this project and a small but growing database of films about the =
diasporic
family in contemporary cinema, a blog and details about forthcoming =
events.
Further features such as podcasts and additional interactive functions =
will
be added in due course.

Please share your thoughts about some of the films and the blogs via the
comment function on the website. I'd also be most grateful if you could
forward this email to anyone else who might be interested in the =
topic.=A0

Dr Daniela Berghahn
Reader in Film Studies
Royal Holloway,=A0University of London

www.farflungfamilies.net
www.migrantcinema.net

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Subject: Book Notice, Beyond Ireland. Encounters Across Cultures
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PETER LANG - International Academic Publishers

are pleased to announce a new book by

Hedda Friberg-Harnesk / Gerald Porter / Joakim Wrethed (eds)

BEYOND IRELAND
Encounters Across Cultures


Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, =
2011.
VIII, 334 pp.
Reimagining Ireland. Vol. 42
Edited by Eamon Maher

ISBN 978-3-0343-0270-8 pb.
sFr. 75.00 / EUR* 51.10 / EUR** 52.60 / EUR 47.80 / =A3 43.00 / US-$ =
74.95
* includes VAT - only valid for Germany=A0 /=A0 ** includes VAT - only =
valid for
Austria=A0 /=A0 EUR does not include VAT


This collection looks beyond Ireland metaphorically as well as
geographically, moving beyond nationalism towards the culturally =
diverse,
beyond a bilingual Ireland to a polyvocal one, beyond the imagined =
community
towards a virtual one, beyond a territorial Ireland to an excentric one. =
The
focus is on outsiders, ranging from Colm T=F3ib=EDn=92s subversion of
establishment norms to Paul Muldoon=92s immersion in Jewish discourse to =
John
Banville=92s extensions of the parameters of Irishness to the Lass of =
Aughrim
finding a new role through her exclusion from the domestic hearth. The
contributors to the volume work mainly with poetry and prose fiction, =
but
genres such as autobiography, the essay and song lyrics are also
represented.
The issues addressed all look =91beyond Ireland=92. In considering the =
creative
frictions and fictions that result from the dissolving of old loyalties,
these essays examine contested concepts such as =91the nation=92, and =
attempt to
shed light on global forces that demand cultural re-definitions and
transformations. The world order that let loose the Celtic Tiger has
brought, together with a diversified Ireland, new forms of dependence. =
It is
one of the main aims of this book to explore how Irish writers have =
regarded
this diversification and contested that dependence.


Contents:

Charles I. Armstrong: Drinking Tea, Drawing Ideograms and Making Waves:
Pursuing the =91Japanese Effect=92 in Irish Poetry =96 Billy Gray: =
=91Less like
marching, more like meditation=92: Zen Buddhism, Haiku, and the Theme of
Tolerance in the Work of Chris Arthur =96 =C5ke Persson: Recalibrating =
the Mind:
Globalization, Viticulture, Wine-Tasting and Change in Kate =
O=92Riordan=92s =93The
Memory Stones=94 =96 Carmen Zamorano Llena: Multiculturalism and the =
Dark
Underbelly of the Celtic Tiger: Redefinitions of Irishness in =
Contemporary
Ireland =96 R=F3is=EDn Keys: =91Why is a gramophone like a parrot?=92: =
Intermediality
and (Inter)cultural Identity in Brian Friel=92s =93Dancing at =
Lughnasa=94 =96 Anne
Karhio: =91Immram=92, =91Haggadah=92 and the New Jersey Suburb: Jewish =
and Irish
America in Paul Muldoon=92s Poetry =96 Martin Shaw: Warning Signs and
Reflexivity in Nan Joyce=92s Anti-Traveller Protest Story =96 Lene Yding
Pedersen: Cultural Images and Cross-Cultural Encounters in Colum =
McCann=92s
=93Zoli=94 =96 Ruben Moi: =91Drawn by the colour and light=92: Ekphrases =
and
Aesthetics in the Poetics of Derek Mahon =96 Gerald Porter: Distant
Transformations: The Shifting Topologies of a Diaspora Song =96 Joakim
Wrethed: =91Horribly pleasurable transgression=92: Metaphor, Theology =
and Evil
in John Banville=92s =93The Book of Evidence=94 =96 Hedda =
Friberg-Harnesk:
Encounters Across Borders in a European Arena: John Banville=92s =
=93Kepler=94 and
Carl-Henning Wijkmark=92s =93Dacapo=94 =96 Britta Olinder: =
Cross-Cultural Encounters
and Clashes in John Hewitt=92s Work =96 Anders Olsson: Walk the Line: =
Experience
and Interpretation in Colm T=F3ib=EDn=92s =93Bad Blood=94 =96 Ronald =
Paul: Frederick
Engels and the International Significance of Irish History.



Hedda Friberg-Harnesk is Associate Professor at Mid Sweden University,
H=E4rn=F6sand. Within the field of Irish Studies, her primary research =
interest
is the fiction of John Banville.

Gerald Porter is Professor of English Literature and Culture at the
University of Vaasa, Finland. His main field of interest is in the =
mediation
of vernacular song, and he has also published on constructions of =
national
identity and on literary representations of social disorder.

Joakim Wrethed is Visiting Assistant Professor in English Literature at =
the
University of Stockholm, Sweden. His main fields of research are Irish
Studies, phenomenology, aesthetics and metaphor theory.


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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: TOC Irish Political Studies, Volume 25 Issue 4,
Minor Parties in Irish Political Life
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Dear Patrick O'Sullivan,

Irish Political Studies: Volume 25 Issue 4 is now available online at
informaworld (http://www.informaworld.com).

Special Issue: Minor Parties in Irish Political Life

This new issue contains the following articles:

Articles

Minor Parties in Irish Political Life: An Introduction, Pages 473 - 479
Author: Liam Weeks

Minor Parties: A Schema for Analysis, Pages 481 - 501
Author: Liam Weeks

The Rise and Fall of Minor Parties in Ireland, Pages 503 - 538
Author: John Coakley

Punch Bags for Heavyweights? Minor Parties in Irish Government, Pages =
539 -
561
Author: Eoin O=92Malley

Influencing Political Decision-Making: Interest Groups and Elections in
Independent Ireland, Pages 563 - 580
Author: Gary Murphy

On the Road to Extinction: Agrarian Parties in Twentieth-Century =
Ireland,
Pages 581 - 601
Author: Tony Varley

The Irish Green Party: From Protest to Mainstream Party?, Pages 603 - =
623
Author: Nicole Bolleyer

From Mainstream to Minor and Back: The Irish Labour Party, 1987=961992, =
Pages
625 - 642
Authors: Shaun McDaid; Kacper Rekawek

The Parliamentary Behaviour of Minor Parties and Independents in D=E1il
=C9ireann, Pages 643 - 660
Author: Martin Ejnar Hansen

Breaking the Mould or Fiddling at the Edges? Ireland=92s Minor Parties =
in
Comparative and Systemic Perspective, Pages 661 - 680
Author: Alistair Clark

Miscellany

Editorial Board