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Paddy, Piaras & all,
I am proud to say that the New York Irish contributed an original and
enduring Famine commemoration. Claire Grimes, publisher of the Irish Echo
newspaper, commissioned Patrick Cassidy to write a symphony, "Famine
Remembrance," and it was premiered in St. Patrick's Cathedral on March 10.
1996. It was one of the most memorable occasions of my life, to hear such =
a
magnificently beautiful translation of suffering and redemption rendered
within the walls of Archbishop John Hughes' own enduring tribute to Irish
resurrection in the New World.

It is the furthest thing from street furniture: fully portable, in the
universal language of music! It was released on Windham Hill Records.

Marion

Marion R. Casey
Glucksman Ireland House
New York University







> 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.
>
> -----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 lo=
ok
> 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 an=
d
> 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 oth=
er
> locations such as Britain, Canada including Qu=E9bec, Australia and New
> Zealand? My concern is less with the new historical research which emerge=
d
> 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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Irish Identities in Victorian Britain

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/section?content=a915678076&fulltext=7132409
28

To cite this Article: Swift, Roger and Gilley, Sheridan 'Irish Identities in
Victorian Britain', Immigrants & Minorities, 27:2, 129 - 133

Introduction

The question of identity lies at the heart of modern Irish history, and for
most Irish people in the Victorian period and beyond, this issue was
resolved in one of two ways, as religious and political allegiances
reinforced each other. On the one hand, to be a Roman Catholic was to be an
Irish nationalist, and a rebel or Home Ruler; on the other, to be a
Protestant was to be a supporter of British rule in Ireland and of the
British Empire. In the same way, the great majority of Britons as
Protestants took the Irish Unionist view of Ireland. In practice, however,
for significant minorities, these combinations might be exchanged, or simply
varied in many and subtle ways, especially among the Irish in Britain, as a
consequence of the domestic pressures operating upon them and their own
influence upon the wider population. To take but one example, recent studies
have suggested that in Wales, the influence of Liberalism and a sense of
Welshness moved public perceptions of the Irish question away from one of
simple identification with Irish Protestants in 1860 towards a stronger
sympathy with Irish nationalism by 1914, as another 'Celtic' nationality
with its own legitimate demands.

The outcome was a complexity about the self-identity of the Irish in Britain
and about the manner in which their host communities regarded them, which
differed from place to place and from one generation to another. This forms
the central theme of this collection of essays, penned by established
scholars, which seeks to complement the trilogy previously co-edited by
ourselves, namely The Irish in the Victorian City (London: Croom Helm,
1985), The Irish in Britain, 1815-1939 (London: Pinter Publishers, 1989) and
The Irish in Victorian Britain: The Local Dimension (Dublin: Four Courts
Press, 1999).

The collection opens with Roger Swift's historiographical essay, which shows
how the recent historiography of the experiences of Irish migrants in
Victorian Britain has revised substantially earlier, monochrome studies of
the Irish, which presented them as the outcasts of Victorian society, by
emphasising the significance of the themes of change, continuity, resistance
and accommodation in the creation of a rich yet diverse migrant culture
within which a variety of Irish identities coexisted and sometimes competed.

Of course, one of the reasons why the Irish tend to be lumped together as an
undifferentiated mass is the lack of systematic analyses of the particular
regional and provincial provenance of those who made homes in England, Wales
and Scotland. Historians speculate about origins; but few have interrogated
the census to provide robust assertions about where in Ireland particular
migrants came from. As such, complexity and subtlety are absent. The failure
of the census systematically to capture specific birthplace data offers one
explanation of why this is so. The sheer difficulty of abstracting data on
birthplace to arrive at meaningful quantitative perspectives provides
another. Yet, as Malcolm Smith and Donald MacRaild illustrate, in an
innovative and stimulating analysis of the origins of Irish migrants in
northern England, the use of a technique from biological anthropology called
Random Isonymy enables the substitution of surname data for birthplace data
in order to establish the major interregional interconnections between the
two islands which are evinced in Irish migration pathways. They show that
the close association between name and place in Irish culture enables robust
conclusions about the provenance of migrants to be derived from surname data
drawn from the digitized 1881 census. Moreover, their work suggests that
names may underpin cultural transfer, and thus could help explain why
particular types of Irish culture emerged in one town or region but not in
another.

Indeed, the theme of Irish cultural diversity is explored further by Mervyn
Busteed, who demonstrates, with particular reference to Irish migrant
politics in Victorian Manchester, the ways in which Irish Catholic
nationalist self-expression was moulded and conditioned by new general
expectations of what constituted acceptable political behaviour in public
spaces, through demonstrations and processions, with distinctive
disciplines, dress codes and speeches. These exerted their own influence
upon the nature of the demands of the demonstrators themselves. There is a
similar theme of change in time in Elaine McFarland's account of the part
played by John Ferguson as the leader of the predominantly Catholic Irish
nationalist political movement in Scotland. As an Ulster Protestant yet a
progressive radical, closely connected with the whole left-wing dimension of
Scottish life, Ferguson made Irish nationalism part of the mainstream of
Scottish radicalism, giving it a British role and character beyond the
confines of ghetto politics. In different ways, both Busteed and McFarland
show how Irish identity in Britain in this era makes sense within a British
context and not just an Irish one, varying across the three nations in
Britain itself. The varieties of Irish nationalism also appear in Philip
Bull's essay on William O'Brien. A Catholic educated in Protestant
institutions with a reputation for anticlericalism yet an ally of Tim Healy,
a successful agitator for land reform who nonetheless advocated
reconciliation with Irish landlords, a nationalist but an international
sophisticate married to a Frenchwoman, a nationalist Member of Parliament
(MP) in the imperial parliament, O'Brien embodied some of the paradoxes of
Irish Catholic nationalism which was not simply of one complexion, but was
divided within itself.

Moreover, Sheridan Gilley explores another form of isolation, between Irish
and English and Scottish Catholics. He explains this in terms of the failure
of Irish Catholic ecclesiastics to take over the Catholic Church in England
and Scotland as elsewhere, although most Catholics in England and Scotland
were of Irish origin, and of the very different British and Irish Catholic
identities, in part a matter of largely dissimilar social backgrounds and
political traditions. On the other hand, he shows that despite tensions,
relations between the Irish and the English within the Church during the
Victorian period and beyond were generally marked by peaceful coexistence,
Catholicism in Britain offering as much a form of integration into the host
community as a kind of separation from it.

By contrast, in the Durham University doctoral research from which his
chapter here is derived, Ian Meredith has shown by a detailed scrutiny of
church registers how working-class members of the Church of Ireland (as
opposed to Presbyterians, more commonly associated with the Irish Protestant
immigration into Britain), made a substantial contribution to the
considerable nineteenth-century expansion of the Scottish Episcopal Church
in the west of Scotland, a theme which is largely ignored in Scottish
Episcopal historiography as well as in working-class history. In this
matter, Dr Meredith has thrown light upon another neglected area of
working-class life. Here, however, in his essay in this volume, he
delineates the obstacles to the success of the Episcopalian mission to these
Irish migrants, partly to do with the weaknesses in their own church
commitment and the shortcomings of the Scottish Episcopal Church itself, and
partly to do with the Church's own increasingly High Church character, which
was repugnant to the fundamental Protestantism of the Church of Ireland
immigration.

One of the failures of the historiography of the Irish in Britain has been
the provision of anything like an adequate account of the experiences of
Irish women, a theme addressed in Bronwen Walter's groundbreaking analysis
and assessment of Irish female domestic servants in late Victorian London.
By reference to both quantitative data drawn from the 1881 census and
contemporary qualitative evidence, Walter shows that Irish-born servants
formed an integral part of the domestic arrangements in the very sort of
Home Counties well-to-do Protestant households with cultures remotest from
their own. Moreover, she argues not only that their presence - as strangers
on the inside, at the very heart of the English 'establishment' -
contributed to social constructions of Englishness but also that Irish
women's identities were recognized as culturally distinct.

The concept of the Irish 'Other' is explored further by Veronica Summers,
who, by drawing upon hitherto little-used records from petty sessions,
priests and police in Glamorgan, exposes the limitations of the stereotype
of 'the criminal Irish' by exploring perceptions and realities surrounding
the Irish threat to property, persons and the community in Victorian South
Wales. By examining contemporary attitudes through each stage of the legal
process, her essay not only highlights the significance of deploying an
additional identifying label in the study of the relationship between
overwhelmingly poor Irish migrants and crime, that of the Roman Catholic
criminal, but also offers a specifically Welsh perspective on the subject.

In the final essay, Alan O'Day, by reference to a wealth of contemporary
literature, draws especially upon the comparison between the experience of
the Irish in Britain and the United States to stress the instability of the
content of Irish ethnicity, its increasing looseness of association with
Ireland and its tendency to 'mutate' in content over space and time, perhaps
most strikingly according to the various political and social benefits which
favoured its preservation from one locale to another. 'Mutative ethnicity'
and 'adaptative ethnicity' therefore become the terms best explaining the
history of the diaspora and casting light on Irish belief and behaviour. In
this context, Dr O'Day sums up the paradox of this volume, that in order to
preserve their Irishness, the Irish also had to change it. The essayists
have striven to show that such changes, made partly in order to harmonise
better with the varied local character and setting of the English, Welsh and
Scots populations, and made in part to seek their approval, were aspects of
a complicated process of remaining faithful in a range of ways to the
tradition. The identity of the Irish in Victorian Britain is, as O'Day
shows, like Irish identity elsewhere, a somewhat complicated and shifting
concept, moving and developing through the century following the
immigration, in a jostling for cultural, social and political space in which
the British and Irish changed one another.

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Irish Political Studies, Volume 26 Issue 1 2011
Subjects: European Politics; Irish Politics;
Publisher: Routledge

Articles

So Why Did the Guns Fall Silent? How Interplay, not Stalemate, Explains the
Northern Ireland Peace Process
Jonathan Tonge; Peter Shirlow; James McAuley
Pages 1 - 18

Rage Against the Machine: Who is the Independent Voter?
Liam Weeks
Pages 19 - 43

Blood, Thunder and Rosettes: The Multiple Personalities of Paramilitary
Loyalism between 1971 and 1988
Richard Reed
Pages 45 - 71

An Advocacy Coalition Framework Approach to the Rise and Fall of Social
Partnership
Maura Adshead
Pages 73 - 93

There is No Alternative: Prospect Theory, the Yes Campaign and Selling the
Good Friday Agreement
Landon E. Hancock
Pages 95 - 116

Book Reviews

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The latest of the important Swift & Gilley collections has finally =
appeared
as a book, with a publication year in the actual printed book of 2011.

A web search will find mentions and shops...

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415582865/

Irish Identities in Victorian Britain
Edited by Roger Swift, Sheridan Gilley

Price: =A375.00
Binding/Format: Hardback
ISBN: 978-0-415-58286-5
Imprint: Routledge
Pages: 218 pages

You might see on some web sites a version of the Contents that includes =
a
chapter by Roy Foster. This chapter does not appear in the book - my
gossips tell me that the publisher's copyright demands were not =
acceptable.
The chapter numbers have been jiggled, as below.

The book has an earlier existence as a Special Issue of the journal
Immigrants & Minorities...

Immigrants & Minorities, Volume 27 Issue 2 & 3 2009=20
Irish Identities in Victorian Britain=20
ISSN: 1744-0521 (electronic) 0261-9288 (paper)=20
Publisher: Routledge=20

You will find the editors' Introduction freely available on the =
journal's
web site.

Separate email with link and text follows.

P.O'S.

Contents

1. Introduction - Roger Swift and Sheridan Gilley=20
2. Identifying the Irish in Victorian Britain: Recent Trends in
Historiography - Roger Swift=20
3. The Origins of the Irish in Northern England: An Isonymic Analysis of
Data from the 1881 Census - Malcolm Smith and Donald MacRaild=20
4. Resistance and Respectability: Dilemmas of Irish Migrant Politics in
Victorian Britain - Mervyn Busteed=20
5. The Making of an Irishman: John Ferguson and the Politics of Identity =
in
Victorian Glasgow - Elaine McFarland=20
6. William O=92Brien, M.P.: The Metropolitan and International =
Dimensions of
Irish Nationalism - Philip Bull=20
7. English Catholic Attitudes to Irish Catholics - Sheridan Gilley=20
8. Irish Episcopalians in the Scottish Episcopalian Diocese of Glasgow &
Galloway during the Nineteenth Century - Ian Meredith=20
9. Strangers on the inside: Irish Domestic Servants in England, 1881 -
Bronwen Walter=20
10. =91A source of sad annoyance=92: The Irish and Crime in South Wales,
1841-1881 - Veronica Summers=20
11. A Conundrum of Irish Diasporic Identity: Mutative Ethnicity - Alan =
O=92Day

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Thanks to Piaras Mac Einri for the citation.



This article from the Guardian may be of interest.



Irish emigration worse than 1980s

Families are sending remittance payments home, says one 26-year-old who
emigrated to Australia

Kerry is the home of Gaelic football (GAA) and local businessman Jimmy
Banbury runs one of five local teams in the Dingle Peninsula. He usually has
no problem producing players sufficiently good to make the selection for the
county senior team.

Full text at:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/ireland-business-blog-with-lisa-ocarroll/
2011/jan/20/ireland-emigration-australia



Bill



William H. Mulligan, Jr.

Professor of History

President, Chapter 302, The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi

Murray State University

Murray KY 42071-3341 USA

office phone 1-270-809-6571

dept phone 1-270-809-2231

fax 1-270-809-6587

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This rather limited TOC has come to our attention. Better than nothing, =
I
suppose. I have not been able to find much about this latest issue on =
the
web. It looks very interesting.

Presumably that is Cormac =D3 Gr=E1da, writing on the Famine of 1740-41.

EIRE IRELAND
VOL 45; NUMB 3/4; 2010
ISSN 0013-2683

pp. 7-26
Return of the Repressed? ``Haunted Castles' in Seventeenth-Century =
Munster.
Tierney, A.

pp. 27-40
John Lynch and Renaissance Humanism in Stuart Ireland: Catholic
Intellectuals, Protestant Noblemen, and the Irish Respublica.
Campbell, I.W.S.

pp. 41-62
The Famine of 1740-41: Representations in Gaelic Poetry.
Grada, C.O.; Muirithe, D.O.

pp. 63-94
Gerard Dillon: Nationalism, Homosexuality, and the Modern Irish Artist.
Coulter, R.

pp. 95-123
Modernist Nationalism in Dana: An Irish Magazine of Independent Thought
(1904).
O Dea, D.M.

pp. 124-146
``A Good Quaker and a Bad Sein Feiner': Identity Formation in Rosamond
Jacob's Diary.
Smith, N.C.

pp. 147-183
``The Indispensable Informer': Daniel O'Sullivan Goula and the Phoenix
Society, 1858-59.
Kennedy, P.

pp. 184-210
Explaining the Altnaveigh Massacre.
Lynch, R.

pp. 211-244
The 1975 British-Provisional IRA Truce in Perspective.
White, R.W.

pp. 245-277
Haiku Aesthetics and Grassroots Internationalization: Japan in Irish =
Poetry.
Suhr-Sytsma, N.

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The Poor Law of Old England: Institutional Innovation and
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Cormac =D3 Gr=E1da watchers will want to be aware of this new article...

Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Volume 41, Number 3, Winter 2011

E-ISSN: 1530-9169 Print ISSN: 0022-1953=20
The Poor Law of Old England: Institutional Innovation and Demographic
Regimes
Morgan Kelly
Cormac =D3 Gr=E1da
Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Volume 41, Number 3, Winter 2011, =
pp.
339-366 (Article)

Subject Headings:
Poor laws -- England -- History.
England -- Population -- History.

Abstract:

The striking improvement in life expectancy that took place in England
between the Middle Ages and the seventeenth century cannot be explained
either by an increase in real wages or by better climatic conditions. =
The
decrease in the risk of utter destitution or of death from famine that =
was
evident on the eve of the Industrial Revolution stemmed, in part, from
institutional changes in the old poor law, which began to take shape and
become effective early in the seventeenth century.

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Maid as Muse: How Servants Changed Emily Dickinson's Life and
Language
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This review of Aife Murray's book will interest a number of Ir-D members.

The book is about the influence and importance to Dickison's work of the
Irish servants, Margaret O'Brien and Margaret Maher. One starting point is
Aife Murray's own Irish origins.

Aife Murray contacted us some years ago, when this project was in its
infancy.

There are extracts from the book on Google books.

See also
http://feministreview.blogspot.com/2010/06/maid-as-muse-how-servants-changed
-emily.html

http://xpoetics.blogspot.com/2010/04/maid-as-muse.html

etc.

The Emily Dickinson Journal
Volume 19, Number 2, 2010

E-ISSN: 1096-858X Print ISSN: 1059-6879
Maid as Muse: How Servants Changed Emily Dickinson's Life and Language
(review)
Daneen Wardrop
The Emily Dickinson Journal, Volume 19, Number 2, 2010, pp. 110-112 (Review)

Subject Headings:
Murray, Aife. Maid as muse: how servants changed Emily Dickinson's life and
language.
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.

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

A couple decades ago the common wisdom in Dickinson studies held that Emily
Dickinson was fortunate to have lived an elite life that offered her
countless hours of leisure she could devote to writing; some years later the
common wisdom shifted so that Dickinson was seen as a woman who worked long
days performing duties such as caring for her mother and baking, her
literary output accordingly seen as nearly miraculous, stolen from midnight
hours. Aife Murray sides with neither of these outlooks in Maid as Muse but
instead offers a fresh, savvy picture of Emily Dickinson that compasses and
mediates both. The Dickinson she portrays was privileged and had the luxury
of performing the tasks of her choosing even as she worked alongside
domestic maids who performed the many onerous chores necessary to running a
nineteenth-century household. Murray puts forward an intricate and vivid
perspective on the poet's day-to-day life, a perspective in which literary
arts and domestic arts intertwine. She finds an Emily Dickinson we have
never seen before.

Murray does this by mixing modes of discourse, offering traditional archival
research and interviews of descendents of Homestead workers, interspersed
with occasional scenes of Murray's imagining. These created scenes, noted
and italicized, present an intuitive interpretation of the information she
amasses. Murray's scholarly sleuthing turns up incisive results, and she
follows those results to create occasional careful fictions that she argues

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Dear Paddy,

Below is the programme of Irish seminars to be held in Melbourne during t=
he first
half of 2011. This is our 11th year of operation and we are planning to b=
ring out a
collection of some of the previous papers later in the year to mark our f=
irst
decade. I'll let you know when the book is published.

We're delighted to have Niall O Ciosain and his family here for 6-8 weeks=
on an
O'Donnell Fellowship. Niall will be giving some workshops, as well as the=
first
seminar. He is our second recent Galway visitor, Louis de Paor and family=
having
just spent around 3 months in Melbourne.

We'll be advertising one or maybe two more O'Donnell Fellowships in May 2=
011 to be
taken up in January 2012. I'll send details when they're available, but i=
f anyone is
interested and wants to know more about the fellowships now they can emai=
l me.

Best wishes,

Elizabeth
-----------------------------------
Melbourne Irish Studies Seminars
1st Semester, 2011
The Oratory, Newman College
University of Melbourne

Tuesdays
6.00 refreshments; 6.15-7.00 paper; 7.00-7.30 discussion
With dinner afterwards if the speaker is available

8 February
Dr Niall =C3=93 Cios=C3=A1in (National University of Ireland, Galway; 201=
1 Nicolas O=E2=80=99Donnell
Fellow)
Print Culture in the Celtic Languages, 1700-1900

1 March
Tony Curtis (Dublin)
W.B. Yeats: =E2=80=98Write for the Ear=E2=80=99: a talk about Tony=E2=80=99=
s new collection of poems, =E2=80=98Folk=E2=80=99

8 March
John Clancy (Bendigo)
Galicia: the Forgotten Celtic Region?

5 April
Dr Lynn Brunet (Melbourne)
C=C3=BA Chulainn, Celtic Warrior Cults and Initiatory Rites in the Art of=
Francis Bacon

3 May
Dr William Jones (University of Cardiff, Wales)
Language, Religion and Ethnic Institutions: the Welsh in Melbourne, 1851-=
1914


These are free, public seminars. For further details please contact: Prof=
essor
Elizabeth Malcolm, University of Melbourne, at e.malcolm[at]unimelb.edu.au.

__________________________________________________
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 Claire Connolly

Dear All,

Our activities recommence today, with a lecture by Dr Nerys Williams =
(UCD).
The lecture title is

=93'We hear the tune, you and I, / but inside our ears it is always a
different one' (Peter Finch, 'Zen Cymru'): Negotiating experiment in =
Irish
and Welsh contemporary poetry=94=A0

The talk will take place in Room 2.47 of Cardiff University's Humanities
Building at 5.15 p.m.

Subsequent events as below:

Prof. John Kerrigan=A0'"By Ieshu" and "By Crish, La": Binding Language =
in
Henry V' - Lecture theatre 2.01, Humanities Building
Monday, February 21 at 5.15 p.m.=A0

Dr. Paul O'Leary=A0(Aberystwyth University)' Cities on an Inland Sea: =
Belfast,
Cardiff and the UK's Urban Mid-West' - Room 2.47, Humanities Building
Tuesday, March 22nd at 5.15 p.m.


We will also rearrange the following lecture, cancelled in December =
because
of the bad weather. Details to follow:

Dr. Sondeep Kandola (Liverpool John Moores University): =93'[O]ne of the
silliest men I have ever met': Arthur Machen, W.B. Yeats and the Celtic
Occult=94

Thanks, and apologies as ever for cross-posting.=A0

Claire Connolly, Katie Gramich and Paul O'Leary

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Breaking the Mould. Literary Representations of Irish Catholicism
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PETER LANG - International Academic Publishers

are pleased to announce a new book by

--------------------------------------------

Eamon Maher / Eugene O=92Brien (eds)

BREAKING THE MOULD
Literary Representations of Irish Catholicism


Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, =
2011.
VIII, 241 pp.
Reimagining Ireland. Vol. 36
Edited by Eamon Maher

ISBN 978-3-0343-0232-6 pb.
sFr. 62.00 / EUR* 42.80 / EUR** 44.00 / EUR 40.00 / =A3 36.00 / US-$ =
61.95
* includes VAT - only valid for Germany=A0 /=A0 ** includes VAT - only =
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Austria=A0 /=A0 EUR does not include VAT



Catholicism has played a central role in Irish society for centuries. It =
is
sometimes perceived in a negative light, being associated with =
repression,
antiquated morality and a warped view of sexuality. However, there are =
also
the positive aspects that Catholicism brought to bear on Irish culture, =
such
as the beauty of its rituals, education and health care, or concern for =
the
poor and the underprivileged. Whatever their experience of Catholicism,
writers of a certain generation could not escape its impact on their =
lives,
an impact which is pervasive in the literature they produced.
This study, containing twelve chapters written by a range of =
distinguished
literary experts and emerging scholars, explores in a systematic manner =
the
cross-fertilisation between Catholicism and Irish/Irish-American =
literature
written in English. The figures addressed in the book include James =
Joyce,
Maud Gonne, Constance Markievicz, Kate O=92Brien, Edwin O=92Connor, =
Brian Moore,
John McGahern, Seamus Heaney, Paul Durcan, Vincent Carroll and Brian =
Friel.
This book will serve to underline the complex relationship between =
creative
writers and the once all-powerful religious Establishment.


Contents:

Eamon Maher/Eugene O=92Brien: Introduction =96 Jeanne I. Lakatos: The =
Semiotic
Theory of Iconic Realism and Cultural Dissonance in de Meun=92s and de
Lorris=92s =93Roman de la Rose=94 and James Joyce=92s =93Ulysses=94 =96 =
Cathy McGlynn: =91In
the buginning is the woid=92: Creation, Paternity and the Logos in =
Joyce=92s
=93Ulysses=94 =96 Mary Pierse: The Donkey and the Sabbath =96 Sharon =
Tighe-Mooney:
Exploring the Irish Catholic Mother in Kate O=92Brien=92s =93Pray for =
the
Wanderer=94 =96 Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka: Catholic Agnostic - Kate =
O=92Brien =96
James Silas Rogers: Edwin O=92Connor=92s Language of Grace =96 Eamon =
Maher: Issues
of Faith in Selected Fiction by Brian Moore (1921-1999) =96 Peter Guy:
=91Earth=92s Crammed with Heaven, and every Common Bush Afire with =
God=92:
Religion in the Fiction of John McGahern =96 Eugene O=92Brien: =91Any =
Catholics
among you =85?=92: Seamus Heaney and the Real of Catholicism =96 John =
McDonagh:
=91Hopping Round Knock Shrine in the Falling Rain=92: Revision and =
Catholicism
in the Poetry of Paul Durcan =96 Victor Merriman: =91To sleep is safe, =
to dream
is dangerous=92: Catholicism on Stage in Independent Ireland =96 Tony =
Corbett:
Effing the Ineffable: Brian Friel=92s =93Wonderful Tennessee=94 and the
Interrogation of Transcendence.



Eamon Maher is Director of the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies =
at
the Institute of Technology, Tallaght. He is currently completing a
monograph entitled =93=91The Church and its Spire=92: John McGahern and =
the
Catholic Question=94.

Eugene O=92Brien is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of =
English
Language and Literature at Mary Immaculate College, University of =
Limerick.
His previous publications include =93=91Kicking Bishop Brennan Up the =
Arse=92:
Negotiating Texts and Contexts in Contemporary Irish Studies=94 (2009).


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Subjects Without an Empire: The Irish in the Early Modern
Caribbean
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Oxford Journals Humanities

Past & Present 2011 Volume 210, Issue1 Pp. 33-60.

Subjects Without an Empire: The Irish in the Early Modern Caribbean*

Kristen Block
Florida Atlantic University
Jenny Shaw
University of Alabama

During the seventeenth century, thousands of Irish men and women were
unwilling migrants to the Caribbean, 'barbadoesed' to toil in tobacco or
cane fields or deported following the post-1641 Ulster uprising and
Cromwellian reprisals. Few who are familiar with this particular century
(and the long sweep of antagonisms between the English and Irish in Ireland)
would be surprised to hear that in 1656 in Barbados, Cornelius Bryan was
sentenced to twenty-one lashes on 'the bare back' for declaring (as he ate a
plate of meat) 'that if there was as much English Blood in the Tray as there
was meat he would eat it'.1 As one of those who most likely suffered
transportation, Bryan's declaration seems an iconic voice of protest against
English forces that had removed him from his land, exploited his labour, and
repressed the practice of his Catholicism.

The history of the Irish in the Caribbean has become solidified as a story
of bitterness and exploitation.2 Closer investigation shows this picture to
be too simplistic, and not just because there was one Caribbean island,
Montserrat, where Irishmen could dream of ruling the world.3 Investigation
into Cornelius Bryan's life finds him on Barbados thirty years after his
'mutinous' speech, writing a will in which he bequeathed a 'mansion house',
twenty-two acres and 'elevaen negroes with their increase' to his wife
Margaret and their six children.4 Although Bryan was not rich by West Indian
standards, he seems to have achieved a fairly comfortable life in the bosom
of English colonial control. Placing Bryan's experience alongside those of
other Irish who found themselves living in the colonial Caribbean, this
article suggests that we should look beyond the antipathies and prejudices
of Irish-Anglo religious-ethnic relations. Using an Atlantic approach, we
compare English and Spanish sources, showing the nuances of Irish experience
in the Caribbean. Voluminous but rarely exploited Spanish colonial records
presenting the Irish as refugees, migrants, and petitioners help to
re-examine fragmentary evidence in English records, enriching the analysis
of Irish motivations and restoring a broader sense of agency to Irish
individuals inhabiting this hotly contested Atlantic centre. Between 1630
and the close of the century, Irish individuals in the Caribbean attempted
different strategies to achieve security, property, and tolerance in
colonial spaces that were not their own, and those varieties of experience
deserve greater attention...

http://past.oxfordjournals.org/content/210/1/33.full

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Flann O=92Brien Centenary Conference
Trinity College Dubin, 14-15 October 2011
=A0=20
October 2011 is the centenary of the birth of Brian O=92Nolan, as well =
as that
of Flann O=92Brien, Myles na gCopaleen, Brother Barnabas, George =
Knowall, John
James Doe and all their literary associates. To mark the occasion, =
Trinity
College Dublin will host a conference examining O=92Nolan=92s work and =
legacy in
the twenty-first century.=20
=A0
Writing as Flann O=92Brien, he became one of the most critically =
acclaimed
novelists of the modern (or post-modern) period. As the Irish Times
columnist Myles na gCopaleen, he also achieved a popular success unique
among his generation of Irish writers. The conference organisers invite
consideration of Brian O=92Nolan in all his literary guises: as an
experimental novelist and a surreal humorist, as an Irish modernist and =
a
self-styled populist, as a cultural critic, a bilingual author, and a
classic exemplar of the writer=92s writer.
=A0
The conference organisers particularly welcome discussion of =
O=92Nolan=92s
position in Irish culture as well as his significant international =
legacy,
his work in the Irish language, his movement between the experimental
modernist novel and a mass newspaper readership, and his influence on
contemporary writers.=20
=A0
Suggested topics include:
=95 O=92Brien, modernism and popular culture=20
=95 The Irish comic tradition=20
=95 Authorship and originality=20
=95 The Irish language and the Gaelic Revival=20
=95 Flann/ Myles as a cultural critic=20
=95 Adaptations and translations=20
=95 Post-modernism and metafiction=20
=95 Flann O=92Brien and the =91new physics=92
=A0
Confirmed Speakers: Fintan O=92Toole (The Irish Times), Dr Keith Hopper
(Oxford), Dr Louis de Paor (NUIG), Dr Joseph Brooker (Birkbeck)
=A0
The conference will be followed by a programme of public talks and
performances on Sunday 16th October. For updates see
www.flann100.wordpress.com or visit the Flann O=92Brien Centenary =
Conference
on facebook.
=A0
Please submit proposals of 250 words to conference organisers Paul =
Delaney,
Carol Taaffe and Eibhl=EDn Evans at flann100[at]gmail.com =A0by 16th May =
2011.
=A0

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The Northern United States and the Genesis of Racial Lynching
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The Journal of American History (2010) 97 (3): 621-635.

The Northern United States and the Genesis of Racial Lynching: The Lynching
of African Americans in the Civil War Era

Michael J. Pfeifer, associate professor of history


John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University of New York
Recent scholarship has emphasized that the remaking of the nation during and
after the Civil War was a national process, not merely a southern one.
Northerners and westerners, along with southerners, responded to and remade
social, political, economic, and legal arrangements amid the expansion of
federal and state authority; emancipation; and the extension of rights to
African Americans in the 1860s and 1870s. In these interpretations, the
transformation of the United States during the Civil War and Reconstruction
was a complex, fitful process with interconnected local, regional, and
national dimensions. Violence, including the collective violence of lynching
and vigilantism, was an important aspect of this process, a visceral way to
resist and redirect the dynamics of social, political, and legal change.
Historians have long interpreted congressional Reconstruction as an era when
white southerners unleashed collective racial violence to resist the
expansion of governmental authority that sought to promote racial equality.
Yet collective violence in response to the war's social and legal
alterations emerged soon after the 1861 Confederate attack on Fort Sumter,
and it transcended regional boundaries throughout the war and
Reconstruction, occurring in the South and the North.1

Historians have charted the rise of racial ideologies among working-class
whites-particularly Irish Catholics-in tandem with class and political
formation in the antebellum North, and their participation in large-scale
racial violence in the 1863 New York City draft riots. But the draft riots,
which included numerous mob beatings and hangings of African Americans,
constituted merely the highest tide of reactionary racial violence in the
North during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Analysis of wartime racial
lynchings in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Newburgh, New York, offers an
additional vantage point for apprehending the dynamics of racial violence in
the urban North in the Civil War era. In Milwaukee and Newburgh, Irish
Catholic ethnic solidarity was as pivotal to the emergence of racial
violence as a developing concept of "whiteness." Competing with African
Americans for social status and jobs on the lowest rungs of northern society
and influenced by the racial slogans and ideology with which the Democratic
party sought to link southern planters and northern workers in defense of
white supremacy, Irish Catholic communities in the North enacted homicidal
collective violence that sought to avenge Irish kinfolk victimized by
alleged African American criminality. Irish American lynchers sought to
vindicate Irish immigrant communities that viewed themselves as diminished
by nativism and a racial egalitarianism that sought to elevate blacks.
Reflecting the profoundly hybrid, transnational characteristics of the
northern United States in the mid-nineteenth century, Irish American
lynchers reinterpreted Old World practices of communal violence in an
unfamiliar and seemingly hostile American legal and social context by
resorting to collective murder as retaliation for crimes against fellow
Irish. Irish Americans were transposing traditions of community violence
that had been manifested in Ireland in highly localistic legal cultures that
distrusted and sometimes nullified British laws. During the Civil War, Irish
Americans lynched to avenge slights by blacks to Irish communal honor,
eschewing Republican efforts to create an omnipotent state that might
override local preferences and guarantee rights to African Americans.2...

http://jah.oxfordjournals.org/content/97/3/621.full

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Power? Oxford Brookes University, 2nd and 3rd September 2011
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CFP: "Catholics and Cinema: Productions, Policies, Power"?

Call for Papers =96 Conference

Oxford Brookes University, 2nd and 3rd September 2011

Keynote speech: Professor Thomas Doherty (Brandeis U)

There has been a renewed interest in how film and religion interconnect
and how religious characters and rituals have been popular subject =
matters
of movies. Books such as S. Brent Plate=92s Representing religion in =
world
cinema: filmmaking, mythmaking, culture making (2003), Colleen =
McDannell=92s
Catholics in the movies (2008) and Pamela Grace=92s The religious film:
Christianity and the hagiopic (2009) have provided an insight into the
representation of religious people, places and symbols in world cinema.

However, over the last hundred years, Catholic organizations around the
world have tried to assess, manipulate, control and intervene in the
development of cinema. This inter-disciplinary conference seeks to =
examine
and explore issues of power in the relationship between the film =
industry
and an external institution such as the Roman Catholic Church. In
particular the conference is interested in investigating the various
contexts of production, distribution, exhibition, reception,
classification, censorship, which have been influenced by an =
organization
that has nothing to do with the commercial enterprise called cinema.

Papers, work-in-progress, and pre-formed panels are invited on issues on
the following and other themes related to Catholics, cinema and power:

- Vatican film policy and its effects (for example the growth of =
national
and international Catholic film organisations such as OCIC)
- Political pressure on national film legislations coming from Catholic
film organisations (for example influence on national censorship laws)
- Catholic organisations=92 pressure on production, distribution,
exhibition, film festivals, censorship, film criticism, technological
developments,... (for example the role of the American Legion of Decency
and their European counterparts in these fields)
- Forms of collaboration between Catholic Church representatives and =
film
artists and critics (Roberto Rossellini and Felix Morlion=92s long
collaboration for example)
- Case studies of individual film productions whose development has been
influenced by the Catholic Church or Catholic organisations (for example
Rossellini=92s The Flowers of St. Francis)
- Changes in cinema-going habits and the role of the Catholic Church
- Issues of Catholic censorship which has determined the success or
failure of individual films (such as Luis Bu=F1uel=92s Viridiana, =
Federico
Fellini=92s La dolce vita, Monty Python's Life of Brian or Martin =
Scorsese=92s
The Last Temptation of Christ)

Organising Chairs
Daniel Biltereyst
Centre for cinema and Media Studies, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
E-mail: daniel.biltereyst[at]ugent.be

Daniela Treveri Gennari
Film Studies, Dept of Arts, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
E-mail: dtreveri-gennari[at]brookes.ac.uk

Submissions should be:
300 word abstracts with a bibliography of 3-4 titles, should be =
submitted
by 30th January 2011. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a
full draft paper should be submitted by 30th July 2011.

300 word abstracts should be submitted to the Organising Chairs, =
following
this order:

author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) =
body
of abstract, f) bibliography

E-mails should be entitled: Catholic Cinema Abstract Submission

Please use plain text (Arial 12) and abstain from using any special
formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline).
We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If =
you
do not receive a reply from us in two weeks you should assume we did not
receive your proposal.

It is our intention to publish an edited volume with articles included =
in
the conference. More information about this will be available closer to
the conference date.

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Subject: Ireland and Vichy
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Not a political but a technical question (or questions):

Can anyone tell me, or tell me who can tell me,

1. When the Irish Embassy (Legation?) moved from Paris to Vichy, and with
what staff ?
2. Where in Vichy was it located?
3. Did an office in Paris remain open, and if so where, and with what staff
?
4. Has anyone written on the lives of Irish residents in either the Occupied
or Unoccupied Zones (I suppose there were some), who technically must have
had British Commonwealth nationality - or am I wrong about that ?

QQ 1-3 emanate from the Paris Embassy.

David
www.oscholars.com

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At last...

Technology Ireland is one of those journals whose TOC we can sometimes pick
up, but whose TOC is a pretty useless guide to the contents.

Latest issue TOC pasted in below.

But. The Enterprise Ireland has begun to display the journal on its web
site, beginning with the issue of JAN/FEB; 2011 - available as a PDF file

http://www.enterprise-ireland.com/en/Publications/Technology-Ireland/

http://www.enterprise-ireland.com/en/Publications/Technology-Ireland/Jan-Feb
11-TI.pdf

The issues currently available are

January/February 2011
November/December 2010
September/October 2010
May/June 2010
March/April 2010
January/February 2010
November/December 2009

I am not sure I understand the business model here, but I am not sure that
we are required to understand the business model.

P.O'S.

TECHNOLOGY IRELAND
JAN/FEB; 2011
ISSN 0040-1676

pp. 22-25
When food gets personal: How do our genes and diet interact?.

pp. 26-30
Picture perfect: Two Irish companies whose images are turning heads.

pp. 31-33
Game on: What are the opportunities for Irish games developers?.

pp. 34-36
Making Europe more innovative: Europe's designs on supporting innovation.

pp. 37-39
Changing with the times: Prof Barry Smyth on catching web trends and linking
people with information.

pp. 40-43
Taking the wireless pulse: The wireless future of health monitoring in
Ireland.

pp. 47-48
Risk management key to easing premium pressure.

pp. 49-51
Protection boosts bottom line.

pp. 52-57
Fluid approach to lowering costs.

pp. 58-58
Damini Kumar, European Ambassador for Creativity and Innovation.

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Maybe look at

Ireland, Vichy and Post-Liberation France, 1938-48
Robert Patterson
(Dept of Foreign Affairs)

In

Irish Foreign Policy, 1919-66: from Independence to Internationalism
Michael Kennedy, Joseph Morrison Skelly
Four Courts Press, 2000

Review at
http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/204

by Owen Dudley Edwards

Response
http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/204/response

Don't know where Robert Patterson is now, but your own contacts might know.

Paddy

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Subject: [IR-D] Ireland and Vichy

Not a political but a technical question (or questions):

Can anyone tell me, or tell me who can tell me,

1. When the Irish Embassy (Legation?) moved from Paris to Vichy, and with
what staff ?
2. Where in Vichy was it located?
3. Did an office in Paris remain open, and if so where, and with what staff
?
4. Has anyone written on the lives of Irish residents in either the Occupied
or Unoccupied Zones (I suppose there were some), who technically must have
had British Commonwealth nationality - or am I wrong about that ?

QQ 1-3 emanate from the Paris Embassy.

David
www.oscholars.com

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Subject: TOC Familia: Ulster Genealogical Review, No. 26 (2010)
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Forwarded on behalf of
William Roulston [mailto:william.roulston[at]uhf.org.uk]

Below the list of the contents of the most recent edition of Familia: Ulster
Genealogical Review, No. 26 (2010). This was recently sent out to our 2,000
or so members.

ARTICLES

BARRY KELLY: Dancing Jimmy: Pinkerton Agent James McParland
and the Molly Maguires 1

BRIAN LAMBKIN: The Mellons. A Scotch-Irish Family 19

DAVID IAN HAMILTON: A Voyage to Glubbdubdrib: Paternal ancestry
and DNA 40

DONALD HARMAN AKENSON: Bridging to the Deep Past: Genealogists,
Geneticists and the Vexed Matter of 'False-Paternity' 49

MARGARET GORDON: The Short(t) Family Research leads down an
improbable path 79

PAUL RICHMOND: Lost Passages. Shipwrecks in Ulster Emigration 90

PERRY MCINTYRE: Transported Ulster family men: lives moved to
New South Wales 112

SIR KENNETH BLOOMFIELD: Famous Belfast Instonians over
the last 200 years 123

WILLIAM ROULSTON: The Parish of Upper Badoney,
County Tyrone, 1814 139


REVIEWS
EULL DUNLOP: S. Alex Blair. The Banner of the Blue in Auld Garrydoo:
A History of Garryduff Presbyterian Church 153

DONALD H. AKENSON: Patrick M. Geoghegan. King Dan. The Rise of
Daniel O'Connell 163

PATRICK FITZGERALD: (eds) Robert Gavin, William P. Kelly
& Dolores O'Reilly. Atlantic Gateway. The port and city of
Londonderry since 1700 166

RICHARD MCMINN: John McKenna (ed). A Beleaguered Station.
The Memoir of Head Constable John McKenna, 1891-1921 169

ROGER DIXON: C.J. Woods. Travellers' Accounts as Source-Material
for Irish Historians 173

TREVOR PARKHILL: William Maguire Belfast. A History 176

TREVOR PARKHILL: John E. Bassett. The McIlrath Letters. A Family
History in Letters from New Zealand to Ireland 1860-1915 179

DAVID N. DOYLE: Richard K. MacMaster. Scotch-Irish Merchants
in Colonial America 181

EULL DUNLOP: Randalstown Historical Society. Old Randalstown
& District 187

Back issues are available from www.booksireland.org.uk

Best regards,
William Roulston

----------------------------
Dr William Roulston
Research Director
Ulster Historical Foundation
49 Malone Road
Belfast, BT9 6RY
028 9066 1988
www.ancestryireland.com

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In light of the current questions about whether Gerry Adams is or is
not the MP for West Belfast, having sent a letter of resignation to
the Speaker of the House of Commons but not having applied for an
office of profit under the crown - as per the usual method of
resigning, see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-12277669

I was wondering if anyone knows how MPs resigned in the old Irish
House of Commons (i.e. the Pre-Union House of Commons)? Apply to the
Crown for a position goes back to 1642 and would appear to be a quirk
of the English House of Commons but that body came to an end with the
Act of Union between Scotland and England, and a new body was created,
which, itself came to an end with the 1801 Union. One would assume,
therefore, that Gerry Adams, as an Irish MP could resign in what ever
way was acceptable to the Old Irish House of Commons rather than be
bound by what used to happen in the Old English House of Commons.

I know it seems to be an arcane issue but it is one which is live
today and raises a lot of constitutional questions.

Muiris