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Subject: Re: Resignation from House of Commons
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Edward Porritt, The unreformed House of Commons, has a section on the =
Irish
equivalent of the Chiltern Hundreds - the escheatorships of Ulster, =
Munster,
Connaught and Leinster. Basically the same system, and after the Place =
Act
of 1793 modelled on the Westminster system - and absorbed by the Act of
Union. Porritt, p 347, recounts how Quinton Dick. MP for Cashel, =
resigned
from the Union Parliament in 1809 by applying for the escheatorship of
Munster.

There is a Wikipedia Entry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resignation_from_the_British_House_of_Common=
s

Ir-D members might find interesting...
Gerry Adams 'not allowed' to quit as MP
Sinn F=E9in leader's resignation letter flouts formal Commons procedure. =
Party
spokesman says: 'We couldn't give a toss'

Owen Bowcott
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 25 January 2011 17.47 GMT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/jan/25/gerry-adams-mp-parliament-=
rul
es?INTCMP=3DSRCH

Gerry Adams: 'I'm happy with who I am ... it's very important to be a
subversive'
The Sinn Fein president on his hopes to win a seat in the Irish =
parliament
and create a united Ireland =96 and how he has never distanced himself =
from
the IRA

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/jan/24/gerry-adams-ira-northern-i=
rel
and-election?INTCMP=3DSRCH

A rather ponderous John Paddy Carstairs rom com The Chiltern Hundreds, =
1949,
explores the issues, with a typical English focus on class. The movie =
was
renamed for USA audiences, The Amazing Mr. Beecham. You can see why.

P.O'S.


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Behalf
Of Muiris Mag Ualghairg
Sent: 25 January 2011 22:17
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] Resignation from House of Commons

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

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Subject: Book Review, Empire of Analogies: Kipling, India and Ireland
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Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies 15.1 (2010)

Thomas McLean reviews

Empire of Analogies: Kipling, India and Ireland.
Kaori Nagai. Cork: Cork University Press, 2006. 192pp.
ISBN 978-1-8591-8408-0

Is there Kipling beyond Kim? Once upon a time, Kipling's 1905 novel was just
one of an assortment of his works that were required reading for the
well-informed Anglophone. Today it's usually the only novel still considered
palatable to adults. A number of recent scholarly studies, including Andrew
Hagiioannu's The Man who would be Kipling (2003) and Peter Havholm's
Politics and Awe in Rudyard Kipling's Fiction (2008), have attempted to
recuperate Kipling beyond Kim. Kaori Nagai's Empire of Analogies: Kipling,
India and Ireland is a welcome and accessible addition to this turn in
Kipling studies. Nagai sees Kipling's writings as part of a "discursive war
of analogies being fought between imperial and nationalist modes of
representing Indo-Irish connections" (3). Two of her six chapters
extend this examination to South Africa. Nagai focuses on Kipling's short
stories and journalism, though some discussion of Kim arises in every
chapter.

Chapter One, "The Taming of the Irish Afreets," examines the provocative
links between India and Ireland present in Kipling's early short stories...

...I learned much from Empire of Analogies, and I hope it inspires further
research into the analogies that shaped nineteenth- and twentieth-century
debates around empire and sovereignty. Nagai's chapters on South Africa, and
her occasional references to Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, suggest
this is a topic where more work is needed. Nagai shows that there is much to
say about Kipling beyond Kim, though her regular return to Kim suggests that
there isn't much to say without it.

Thomas McLean

FULL TEXT AT

http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/AJVS/article/viewFile/1854/2244

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Subject: Article,
Catholic Healthcare Organizations and How They Can Contribute to
Solidarity
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Christian bioethics
First published online: January 6, 2011

Catholic Healthcare Organizations and How They Can Contribute to Solidarity:
A Social-Ethical Account of Catholic Identity
Martien A. M. Pijnenburg
Bert Gordijn
Frans J. H. Vosman
Henk A. M. J. Ten Have

Abstract

Solidarity belongs to the basic principles of Catholic Social Teaching (CST)
and is part of the ethical repertoire of European moral traditions and
European healthcare systems. This paper discusses how leaders of Catholic
healthcare organizations (HCOs) can understand their institutional moral
responsibility with regard to the preservation of solidarity. In dealing
with this question, we make use of Taylor's philosophy of modern culture. We
first argue that, just as all HCOs, Catholic ones also can embody and
strengthen solidarity by just doing their quintessential job, that is, to
care for people with ill health. Second, we focus on the Catholic identity
of these organizations and argue that this characteristic can empower a
radical commitment to solidarity. Finally, we argue that CST provides a
critical ethical framework for approaching solidarity from the perspective
of the common good.

Key words
Catholic healthcare organizations Catholic Social Teaching Charles Taylor
institutional moral responsibility solidarity

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Michael Mooney and the Leadville Irish: Respectability and resistance at
10,200 feet, 1875--1900
by Walsh, James Patrick, Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER, 2010, 390
pages; 3419548

Abstract:

Between 1877 and 1900, Leadville, Colorado experienced one of the greatest
silver rushes in American history. During this time, thousands of Irish
immigrants travelled to Leadville, settling on the east side of town and in
the many gulches in the mining district east of town. This community quickly
grew into the largest Irish enclave in the history of the state, with first
and second generation Irish residents numbering over four thousand by 1880.

Chapter one deals with the migratory networks of the Leadville Irish. U.S.
Federal Census reports and the baptism and marriage records at Annunciation
Catholic Church in Leadville reveal that the Leadville Irish came from
mining towns and camps across Ireland, the British Isles and North America.

In chapter two, a detailed exploration of the 1880 Federal Census for Lake
County, Colorado reveals the kinds of work opportunities afforded to Irish
and Irish Americans. This data also allows us to understand the kinds of
labor and upward mobility that were afforded to Irish men and women in
Leadville.

Chapters three and five explore two major strikes led by Irish miners. In
the spring of 1880, Dublin-born miner Michael Mooney led a walkout of the
mines. The miners demanded four dollars per day, an eight hour day, and more
control over their workspaces. Sixteen years later, the miners in Leadville
went on strike again, this time as part of the Western Federation of Miners.
The demands were largely the same as in the first strike. In both cases,
state troops were called into Leadville to break the strikes. Newspaper
accounts of the strikes and the personal journals of labor spies, recruited
by the companies to break the strikes, provide valuable insight into these
conflicts and the role played by Leadville's Irish community.

Chapter four explores the ethnic organizations created in Leadville by Irish
immigrants in search of respectability. These include fraternal
organizations such as the Ancient Order of Hibernians and Knights of Robert
Emmet, ethnic militias such as the Wolfe Tone Guard and Rocky Mountain
Rifles, and nationalist organizations such as the Land League.

Advisor: Mann, Ralph; Foster, Mark
School: UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER
Source: DAI-A 71/10, p. , Apr 2011
Source Type: Ph.D.
Subjects: American history; Economics; Labor relations; Ethnic studies
Publication Number: 3419548

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Subject: Thesis,
Supranations: Writing the Irish and Scottish subjects in the
Atlantic world, 1763--1855
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Supranations: Writing the Irish and Scottish subjects in the Atlantic world,
1763--1855
by Nicholls, Christopher, Ph.D., NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, 2010, 259 pages;
3408301

Abstract:

Supranations: Writing the Irish and Scottish Subjects in the Atlantic World,
1763-1855, offers an alternate history of Irish and Scottish "national"
literatures in the long Romantic period. It argues for a new understanding
of the complex tensions between what are often read as competing
desires--for national autonomy or identity and for transnational
affiliation. I claim that within Irish and Scottish literatures a distinct
strain of "supranational" writing emerged. By supranational writing I mean
an aesthetics that imagined national specificity in the context of forces
that worked beyond the nation, such as globalized free markets, migration,
and the spread of universal rights discourses.

I thus trace literary representations of national identity not only within
Ireland and Scotland but also beyond these nations' geographical boundaries,
in England, the United States, and Central America. My readings of this
transatlantic archive--comprised of popular song collections, newspapers,
drama, and novels--outline a previously obscure trajectory in literary
history. They also reveal the supranational content in the canonical
"national" literatures of Ireland and Scotland and make visible traces of
the Irish and Scottish supranationals in American and English literatures.

Of course, Irish and Scottish supranational literatures assumed quite
different forms due to the countries' different political, economic and
social situations. Each developed as inhabitants of the two geographical
spaces moved from regional to national identities, from national identities
to being part of the Union with England, and from being part of the Union to
belonging to the Atlantic world. The Irish supranational imagined the
triumph of a distinctive Irish identity and freedom from British rule
through radical egalitarianism and violent, international rebellion, while
the Scottish supranational represented Scots dialect and culture as
connected to stories of Scottish resistance to British imperial power and,
at the same time, the spread of Smithian economic theory. Authors from both
sides debated the terms by which a peaceful accommodation could be found
between nationalisms and emergent forces that threatened national autonomy.
Supranations thus engages important problems in postcolonial theory, British
literary history, and transatlantic Romanticism.

Advisor: Poovey, Mary
School: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Source: DAI-A 71/07, p. , Jan 2011
Source Type: Ph.D.
Subjects: Modern literature; Latin American literature; American
literature; British and Irish literature
Publication Number: 3408301

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Subject: Thesis, "A land fit for heroes"?: The Great War, memory,
popular culture, and politics in Ireland since 1914
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"A land fit for heroes"?: The Great War, memory, popular culture, and
politics in Ireland since 1914
by Myers, Jason Robert, Ph.D., LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO, 2010, 341 pages;
3419851

Abstract:

Despite the fact that over 200,000 Irish men fought in the British Army
during the First World War, Ireland's sizeable contribution to the war
remained in the shadows of history for most of the twentieth century. This
dissertation examines the cultural components of the memory of the Great War
in Ireland and argues that, taken together, they constitute an alternative
Irish national identity that threatened and challenged republican
nationalism. These cultural components existed in the realm of vernacular
memory, which lay beyond the reach of the Irish government. By examining
commemorative rituals, war memorials, and popular culture, this project
breathes life into the vibrant and complex milieu of Great War memory in
Ireland. Studying culture opens new avenues to explore questions relating to
nationalism, memory, politics, and war. By tracking the changes to Great War
memory throughout the twentieth, and into the twenty-first century, this
study illustrates a sustained thread of shared history for all of Ireland,
north and south, that transcends religious and political barriers and
injects Ireland into a broader European context.


Advisor: Karamanski, Theodore J.
School: LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO
Source: DAI-A 71/10, p. , Apr 2011
Source Type: Ph.D.
Subjects: European history; Modern history; Military history
Publication Number: 3419851

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Subject: TOC Irish Economic and Social History Volume 37, Number 1,
December 2010
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The journal, Irish Economic and Social History, now with Manchester
University Press, has is now also visible on the Ingenta web site.

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/manup/iesh


Irish Economic and Social History
Volume 37, Number 1, December 2010

The Irish food crises of the early 1740s The economic conjuncture=20
pp. 1-23(23)=20
Author: Cullen, L.M.

'We Scotsmen by the banks o' the Lagan'1 The Belfast Benevolent Society =
of
St Andrew, 1867-1917=20
pp. 24-52(29)=20
Author: Hughes, Kyle

Killing in Ireland at the turn of the centuries: Contexts, consequences =
and
civilising processes=20
pp. 53-74(22)=20
Author: O'donnell, Ian

Symposium

Estimating Irish GDP from the mid- nineteenth century to the First World =
War

pp. 75-104(30)=20
Author: Cullen, L.M.

Review Articles

Irish diplomatic history in the twenty- first century=20
pp. 105-116(12)=20
Author: O'sullivan, Kevin

Did Ireland 'under'- industrialise?=20
pp. 117-123(7)=20
Authors: Gr=E1da, Cormac =F3

Thesis abstracts

Rebels and revivals: Ulster immigrants, western Pennsylvania =
Presbyterianism
and the formation of Scotch- Irish identity, 1780-1830=20
pp. 124-142(19)=20
Author: Thesis,
Selected list of writings on Irish economic and social history published =
in
2009

Selected list of writings on Irish economic and social history published =
in
2009=20
pp. 143-153(11)=20
Author: Hughes, Kyle

Reviews=20
pp. 154-204(51)
Miscellany

Economic and Social History Society of Ireland
Report of the Honorary Secretary, 2009=20
pp. 205-206(2)=20
Author: Kelly, Jennifer

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Subject: Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation: Panel Discussion,
Liverpool, Feb 1 2011
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Panel discussion=A0
=A0
on
=A0
Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation
=A0
at
=A0
6.00 p.m. Tuesday 1st=A0February 2011
=A0
in
=A0
The Eleanor Rathbone Theatre, Eleanor Rathbone Building,
Bedford Street South, Liverpool L69 7ZA
=A0
Opening Welcome:
Professor Jon Saunders=A0(Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of
Liverpool)
=A0
Chair:
Professor Marianne Elliott=A0(Blair Chair, Director of The Institute of =
Irish
Studies and member of the Opsahl Commission on Northern Ireland)
=A0
=A0
Panel members:
Martti Ahtisaari=A0(President of Finland (1994-2000) and Nobel Peace =
Prize
laureate)
Lord David Owen=A0(former UK Foreign Secretary and former Chancellor of =
the
University of Liverpool)
Francesc Vendrell=A0(Spanish diplomat)
D=E1ith=ED O=92Ceallaigh=A0(Director General of the Institute of =
International and
European Affairs, Dublin)
=A0
Please note that attendance is free, but=A0registration is =
required=A0for this
event.
To register, please email Dorothy Lynch on Dorothy[at]liv.ac.uk.

=A0
Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation
=A0
Once peace has broken out, there is a tendency by the international
community to move on.=A0 However, conflicts such as those in Northern =
Ireland,
Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia develop from very long-standing =
memories of
victimization and stereotypes, which extremists can play upon.=A0The =
panel
will discuss how historic grievances and potential conflict might be
defused, with the help of international diplomacy.=A0 Most of all, the
speakers will address the difficult issue of how the necessarily lengthy
process of peace-building in the aftermath of ethno-religious conflict =
can
be sustained, given the 'short-termism' of national and international
politics.
=A0
Chair: Professor Marianne Elliott OBE=A0FBA=A0is Blair Chair and =
Director of The
Institute of Irish Studies at Liverpool University. As a historian =
Professor
Elliott is best known for her acclaimed biography=A0Wolfe Tone: Prophet =
of
Irish Independence (1989) and=A0When God took Sides: Religion and =
Identity in
Ireland =96 Unfinished History=A0(2009).=A0 In October 2000 she was =
awarded an OBE
for services to Irish Studies and the Northern Ireland peace process.

President Martti Ahtisaari=A0is=A0a former President of Finland =
(1994-2000), a
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and United Nations diplomat and mediator, =
noted
for his international peace work. In October 2008 he was awarded the =
Nobel
Peace Prize =93for his efforts on several continents and over more than =
three
decades, to resolve international conflicts=94. He has played a =
prominent role
in resolving conflicts in Namibia, Indonesia, Kosovo and Iraq, among =
other
areas. In 2000 President Ahtisaari founded Crisis Management Initiative =
to
help the international community improve its efforts in preventive
diplomacy, peacemaking and post-conflict state building.

The Rt Hon Lord Owen CH FRCP (David Owen)=A0was a member of the British
parliament from 1966 to 1992. Under Labour Governments, he served as =
Navy
Minister, Health Minister and Foreign Secretary. He was leader of the =
SDP
from 1983 to 1990 and served as EU Peace negotiator in the former =
Yugoslavia
from 1992 to 1995.=A0 He was Chancellor of the University of Liverpool =
until
2009.

Francesc Vendrell=A0is a Spanish diplomat who was Head of the =
Documentations
Services of the United Nations General Secretariat in Europe and America
from 1987 to 1992. He was the personal representative of=A0the UN =
Secretary
General of the United Nations in the peace processes in El Salvador and
Nicaragua (1989-1991), Guatemala (1990-1992) and East Timor (1999). From
2000 to 2002 he headed the UN Special Mission to Afghanistan.

D=E1ith=ED O=92Ceallaigh=A0is an Irish diplomat whose career has spanned =
more than
35 years.=A0 He held posts in Moscow, London, Belfast, New York, Finland =
and
Estonia, before serving as Ambassador to London for 6 years from 2001. =
He
retired from the Foreign Service in 2009 and is currently Director =
General
of the Institute of International and European Affairs in Dublin.
"Before acting on this email or opening any attachments you should read =
the
Manchester Metropolitan University email disclaimer available on its =
website
http://www.mmu.ac.uk/emaildisclaimer "=20

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Subject: Commons
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There are more important things happening in the world, no doubt.

For example, another Commons story...

Celtic to announce Commons signing

Celtic are set to announce the signing of Kris Commons after the Scotland
winger finalised his move to Parkhead.
It is understood that Commons has agreed a three-and-half year deal.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5j8LLs_8dZnYZekoOGmt3x
JS4cV3g?docId=N0404481296160569562A

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/editor-s-picks/celtic-agree-kris-commons
-fee-1.1082245

But I digress...

To complete the story about Gerry Adams' resignation from the House of
Commons...

Gerry Adams appointed to Crown Office 'against his will'
Gerry Adams has had a state office conferred on him after refusing to apply
for the post according to the tradition for leaving the House of Commons.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/northernireland/8285373/Gerry-Adams-a
ppointed-to-Crown-Office-against-his-will.html

Hilary Benn issues challenge to rules on MP resignation

Sinn Fein has said Gerry Adams resigned his seat by writing to the Speaker
of the House of Commons

Speaker says Adams is not an MP 'Sacred rules' block Adams' exit
Adams sparks constitutional issue The Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
has called for a change in the constitution to allow a member of parliament
to resign by letter.

Under current rules, members wishing to step down must apply for an office
of profit under the crown.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-12298010

It looks like the authorities have decided that, whether he likes it or not
(to coin a phrase) Gerry Adams had in effect applied for office under the
crown by sending in his letter of resignation.

But not the Chiltern Hundreds. The other one.

P.O'S.

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Subject: CFP: "Restating Ireland's Place in Global History"
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Would you mind circulating this to the IR-D List? Thanks very much!

CFP: "Restating Ireland's Place in Global History"
American Historical Association panel, Chicago, 2012.

How should Ireland fit into the "narrative" of World History? How should
the world fit into the "narrative" of Irish history?

Dr. Ken Shonk (U. Wisconsin--Superior) is organizing a panel for the
American Historical Association's Annual Meeting in Chicago in January
2012 entitled "Restating Ireland's Place in Global History." The goal is
bring together the latest and greatest historical research on the subject
of Ireland in the world (defined broadly).

Proposals for 35-40 minute papers dealing with any chronological period
are welcome. Presenters should be members of the American Historical
Association unless they are based outside the United States.

The deadline for panel proposals is in a couple of weeks so potential
panelists and/or commentators should contact Ken directly (preferably
sooner than later) at kshonkjr[at]uwsuper.edu

Thanks!

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Subject: MA in Manx Studies
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Forwarded on behalf of
C.Mackie[at]liverpool.ac.uk

Dear all,
=A0
Please find below details of the University of Liverpool's taught MA in =
Manx
Studies, based in the Isle of Man. I would be very grateful if you =
could
forward this information to any students who may be interested in such a
postgraduate degree. I can also supply a pdf foster to print and =
display.

MA in Manx Studies
University of Liverpool, Centre for Manx Studies, Douglas, Isle of Man=20
Commencing October 2011
The MA in Manx Studies offers students the chance to study for a
postgraduate qualification while spending a year on the beautiful Isle =
of
Man, with its rich Celtic and Viking heritage. Although one of the =
British
Isles, the Island is not part of the UK and has its own parliament, =
Tynwald.

The MA allows students to pursue a wide variety of subjects, which are
taught with a combination of general study skills training, disciplinary
background and Manx case studies. Students will learn about Manx =
history,
archaeology, and culture, and will have the opportunity to learn Manx =
Gaelic
and participate in Manx cultural events.=20

Please visit the Centre for Manx Studies website for more details:
www.liv.ac.uk/manxstudies/

With best wishes,

Catriona=20
=A0
Dr Catriona Mackie
Lecturer in Manx Studies
University of Liverpool
Centre for Manx Studies
The Stable Building
The University Centre
Old Castletown Road
Douglas
Isle of Man
IM2 1QB
=A0
Tel:=A001624 695=A0777=20
Fax: 01624 695 783
Email: c.mackie[at]liverpool.ac.uk
Website: www.liv.ac.uk/manxstudies/people/mackie.htm
=A0
International Conference, New Light on Vernacular Architecture:
www.liv.ac.uk/manxstudies/VernacularArchitecture.htm
=A0
Dr Catriona Mackie
Leaghteyr Studeyrys Manninagh
Ollooscoill Lerphoyll
Laare-Studeyrys Manninagh
Thie ny Gabbyl
Ynnyd yn Ollooscoill
Shenn Raad Valley Chashtal
Doolish
Ellan Vannin
IM2 1QB

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Subject: Book Review, Ireland and the English World in the Late Middle Ages
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Ireland and the English World in the Late Middle Ages: Essays in Honour =
of
Robin Frame

Ireland and the English World in the Late Middle Ages: Essays in Honour =
of
Robin Frame, ed. Brendan Smith (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009; =
pp.
241. =A350).

In this age of hyperbole, the introductory appreciation to this =
collection
in honour of Robin Frame seems rather understated, but then its author,
Michael Prestwich (who worked with him for many years in the History
department at Durham), knows better than most the honorand's innate =
aversion
to eulogy. The volume itself is understated. Many more than the twelve
disciples selected by the editor would have wished to write in honour of =
a
scholar who=97and it is a rare accomplishment=97has transformed his =
field of
expertise over the course of the last third of a century. While it is =
wrong
to imagine a linear =91progression=92 throughout the twentieth century =
in the
historiography of Anglo-Norman Ireland=97from G.H. Orpen to Edmund =
Curtis to
A.J. Otway-Ruthven to James Lydon to Robin Frame=97nevertheless, Frame's =
work
has all the strengths and few of the weaknesses of his great =
predecessors,
always communicated in a beauteous prose unmatched by any medievalist of =
his
generation, with the exception perhaps of his late friend Rees Davies, =
with
whom his work shares many other traits. Among these is one which lifts
Frame's work from the oubliette of Irish historiography (to adapt a term =
he
used himself in one dazzling essay): namely, that he is always alert to =
the
need to view relationships within the island of Ireland, particularly =
those
between the native Irish and the English colonial community, or between =
the
latter and their lord, the king of England, in the light of parallel or
contrasting sets of relationships throughout the archipelago.

The editor, Brendan Smith, has set himself the task of assembling a body =
of
essays that fulfils this need, explicit in his own piece on =91The =
British
Isles in the late middle ages: shaping the regions=92 and in Steven =
Ellis's
wise words on the subject of =91England and =93the Celtic Fringe=94, =
1415=961625=92,
although Andrea Ruddick presents a useful corrective to the insular =
emphasis
of the =91New=92 British history in her evaluation of the role of
Gascony/Aquitaine in the English king's dominions...

...It was to the Lancastrian Henry V that the Irish parliament appealed, =
in
1421, to lead an expedition to his Irish lordship, where the Irish (the
petition names Mac Murchadha, =D3 N=E9ill, =D3 Briain, and =D3 =
Conchobhair Donn) had
long since resiled from the fealty they had sworn to Richard II during =
his
expeditions to the country; Elizabeth Matthew admirably discusses this
petition, calling attention to a mention in the document that what was
needed was a crusade. Of equal interest are the briefing documents she =
has
unearthed, perhaps prepared for the envoys who brought the petition to
England, which included protest-too-much assertions of the English =
king's
undoubted right to rule Ireland based on Giraldus Cambrensis=92 =
controversial
five-fold justification, including the voluntary submissions of certain
Irish kings to Henry II (specific recourse is made to Expugnatio =
Hibernica
to prove that Henry did not have to fire a shot in anger while in =
Ireland).

While essays like this have the makings of a valuable collection, the =
editor
will, I hope, accept the Irish compliment (with which he will be =
familiar)
paid at the end of a delicious but unexpectedly light meal: =91Is =E9 a =
locht a
laghad!=92. Direct translation is elusive but it conveys a suggestion of =
=91More
of the same, please!=92.

Se=E1n Duffy

English Historical Review (2010) CXXV (517): 1508-1510.
doi: 10.1093/ehr/ceq318

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Celtic Tiger in Collapse: Explaining the Weaknesses of the Irish
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Celtic Tiger in Collapse: Explaining the Weaknesses of the Irish Model

Peadar Kirby. Celtic Tiger in Collapse: Explaining the Weaknesses of the
Irish Model, 2nd ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. xi + 237 pp.
ISBN 978-0-333-71708-0, $95.00 (hardcover); 978-0-333-71110-1, $28.00
(paperback).

Frank Barry
Trinity College Dublin

For fifteen years or so, until the onset of the current global crisis, the
Irish economy had been the toast of Europe. The subsequent downturn has been
one of the most severe suffered by any developed economy since the Great
Depression. The fiscal cost of the banking system bailout will be one of the
largest on record, and years of fiscal consolidation loom.

Are the size of the boom and the extent of the bust related? They clearly
would be had the "Celtic Tiger" simply been a speculative bubble. It was
not. The high-growth era can be divided into an export-led phase that lasted
until the early years of the new millennium, followed by a private
debt-financed property and construction bubble. The bubble was much larger
than that seen across most of the rest of Europe, and the severity of
Ireland's crash can arguably be analyzed in these terms alone.

Peadar Kirby, Professor of International Politics and Public Policy at the
University of Limerick, does not agree. He argues that the crisis reveals
flaws in a putative "Irish model" that underlay both phases of the
high-growth era. I think this argument cannot be sustained, though it does
force one to ask how a largely unchanging political, governmental, and
bureaucratic regime could have presided over both the "good boom" and the
"bad boom."

In broad-brush terms, Ireland of the boom years would typically have been
seen as a variant of the Anglo-American model, scoring strongly in terms of
efficiency (a high rate of employment) but poorly in terms of income
inequality. Kirby rejects the "mainstream" notion that the distributional
consequences of a country's growth strategy can be determined through the
political system, though he later quotes approvingly from a former Taoiseach
(prime minister) who questions why, given the economic success the country
had achieved, governments "failed so miserably to deploy the vast resources
thus created in such a way as to give us the kind of public services we can
clearly afford and desperately need" (167). He classifies Ireland as "a
competition state" that prioritizes economic growth over concerns with
poverty and inequality. The Irish growth strategy, based on maintaining
competitiveness in order to attract inward foreign direct investment (FDI),
is argued to necessitate a low-tax regime, and the distributional outcomes
follow from this.....And then there is the question of methodology to which
several chapters are devoted. What the author claims to seek in a
theoretical approach is "the analytical ability to uncover the central
weaknesses of the Irish growth model" (108). Is his talk of a "neoliberal
political agenda" more or less useful in this regard, however, than the
focus of the former Taoiseach (and economist) cited earlier, on "cozy
relationships between vested interest groups"? (167). Which methodology
might prove more useful in analyzing why the dominant political party in
Ireland introduced hosts of new construction incentives at a time when the
economy was already booming? Was it neoliberalism that drove the Irish
Finance Minister to engage in reckless pro-cyclical policies even when
reprimanded by the EU in 2001, or might this be better explained by standard
methodologies from economics and political science that focus on populism,
the political business cycle, and weaknesses in institutional structures?

Enterprise & Society (2010)
doi: 10.1093/es/khq130
First published online: December 10, 2010

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The Irish Establishment, 1879=961914, by Fergus Campbell

The Irish Establishment, 1879=961914, by Fergus Campbell (Oxford: Oxford =
U.P.,
2009; pp. xviii + 344. =A355).

Eugenio F. Biagini
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

Throughout Europe the years 1870=961914 saw the gradual democratisation =
of the
political system and rise of =91professional society=92, with =
=91merit=92 replacing
status as the main criterion of social advancement. However, the
significance and extent of such developments have always been =
controversial
in view of the persistence of an aristocratic ancien r=E9gime, =
particularly
within the armed forces and the diplomatic service. The complexity of =
the
question is compounded by the fact that the period was also =
characterised by
the spreading of both national separatism and countervailing imperialist
movements, which often generated clashes between ethnic groups. Ireland
exemplifies each of these developments and, in this respect, is more =
readily
comparable to Bohemia or German Poland than to any British colony. =
Ireland's
case is further complicated by its ambiguous relationship with the
=91metropole=92=97the Irish being both partners in the Empire and its =
most
troublesome subjects. Thus, while Fenians plotted rebellions, large =
numbers
of Irishmen staffed British armies in the Empire, which Roman Catholic
bishops used to establish their own missionary imperium in imperio.

Perhaps there was an =91Irish=92 empire of sorts, but historians =
disagree about
the extent to which, within Ireland itself, members of the Catholic =
majority
secured their foothold in the power structure. Some believe that they =
did:
in particular, Lawrence McBride has argued that, as a consequence of the
democratisation and professionalisation of government, Dublin Castle was =
by
the turn of the century undergoing a =91greening=92 process. By =
contrast, Fergus
Campbell has long questioned the validity of such a claim, insisting =
that a
=91glass ceiling=92 prevented Catholic promotions in the civil service =
and that,
because government-sponsored land purchase had never delivered the =
desired
social changes, the nationalist rising in 1919 was also a =
social/agrarian
revolution. The book reviewed here further develops this argument by
offering a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the island's
establishment. The latter deserves to be considered =91Irish=92 (as the =
title
indicates) in so far as most of its members were born in Ireland, which =
they
regarded as their country=97although not necessarily as their nation. =
They
were =91an establishment=92 because they =91wielded a great deal of =
power on the
basis of their control of or access to critical resources =85 which =
meant that
their decisions often affected many peoples=92 lives=92 (p. 5).

The book consists of six main chapters, each of which examines a =
specific
area of =E9lite formation, including land, administration, policing, =
politics,
business and religion. The method used (detailed in an Appendix) is
quantitative and prosopographic. It studies about 1,200 biographies of
influential men and women through a historical database containing =
roughly
25,000 separate pieces of information. The =91central question=92 which =
Campbell
addresses is whether =91the Irish establishment between 1879 and 1914 =
[was]
=93open=94 and representative =85 or =93closed=94 and unrepresentative =
of Irish
society=92 (p. 10)...

...Readers may be tempted to conclude that, far from proving that social
discrimination caused revolutionary ferment, Campbell's evidence
corroborates Senia Pa=F0eta's revisionist account of a pre-1914 =
nationalist
=91establishment-in-waiting=92 (Before the Revolution: Nationalism, =
Social
Change and Ireland's Catholic Elite, 1879=961922, 1999), eager to see =
Home
Rule implemented and expecting to secure a larger share of power by the =
same
non-revolutionary means by which they had risen to middle-rank status =
over
the previous twenty years.

English Historical Review (2011) CXXVI (518): 201-203.

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Not to be confused with
Out of the Earth: Ecocritical Readings of Irish Texts edited by =
Christine
Cusick
Cork University Press


Emerald Green: An Ecocritical Study of Irish Literature

Emerald Green: An Ecocritical Study of Irish Literature. By Tim Wenzell.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2009. 175 pp. Hardcover =
=A334.99.
Terry Gifford1,2
+ Author Affiliations

1Bath Spa University, UK
2Universidad de Alicante, Spain
This book is written with an awareness that this is a difficult time in =
the
history of human culture's appropriation of nature on the island of =
Ireland.
The economic growth popularly characterized as =93the Celtic Tiger=94 =
has
resulted in a sprawling building boom of low-density housing, roads, and
tourist centres that Wenzell says is =93quickly diminishing Ireland's =
natural
world=94 (2). Since this book was written, the economic crash has =
brought talk
of demolishing whole new housing estates that will never be lived in.
Wenzell's final chapter, titled =93Architects of the Unbeautiful=94 (in =
the 1937
phrase from the writer who preferred to be known as A. E.), may have =
many
twists of irony yet to come.

Wenzell begins with Gaelic writing about a forested island, alive with =
birds
and their symbolic resonances for hermit poets, proceeding via travel
writing about a deforested and eventually barren landscape (William
Carleton's famine fiction and Emily Lawless's Land Wars in the Burren) =
to
the idealized mysticism of Yeats, Lady Gregory, George Moore, and A. =
E.=92s
=93religion of nature.=94 This is followed by a fascinating chapter on =
the
literature of four island groups=97Achill, the Aran Islands, Skellig =
Michael,
and the Blaskets=97before an all-too-brief chapter on the poetry of =
Patrick
Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Longley. This =
chapter
is inaccurately titled =93Poets of the North, Nature of the West=94 and =
deploys
the unfortunate framing, for an American author, of =93the wild West=94 =
of
Ireland as the subject matter of each of these poets. In the final =
chapter,
Eavan Boland's ironic poem =93Ode to Suburbia=94 is quoted in full =
(without
acknowledgement, however) to illustrate the apparent alienation of urban
=93housewives.=94 But without irony, Wenzell then writes, =93This is =
what you get
when you remove man from nature=94 (139).

...one cannot avoid the conclusion that despite the exemplary =
ecocritical
polemic in its first and final chapters, this book usefully indicates a
field that remains open to a better book with this subtitle.

ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment=20
Interdiscip Stud Lit Environ (2011)
doi: 10.1093/isle/isq133
First published online: January 24, 2011

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Eighteenth-Century Ireland: The Isle of Slaves, by Ian McBride

Eighteenth-Century Ireland: The Isle of Slaves, by Ian McBride (Dublin: =
Gill
and Macmillan, 2009; pp. 563. Eur 21.99).

Martyn Powell
Aberystwyth University

This is the final volume of the New Gill History of Ireland to be =
published,
and it has certainly been worth the wait. Whether seen as a survey, =
textbook
or introduction to eighteenth-century Ireland, only the very churlish, =
or
the very partisan, will be disappointed. Ian McBride has gone beyond =
what
most historians attempt in these works, as by trying =91where possible =
to
employ fresh printed and archival material=92 he makes it an =
indispensable
work for those already familiar with this subject area. Throughout the =
book,
McBride gives a master-class in how to negotiate an historiographical
minefield. Occasionally this is through some judicious soft-soaping, as =
in
references to the =91bravura exploration=92 and =91brilliant studies=92 =
of Kevin
Whelan, the (again) =91brilliant studies=92 of Seamus Deane, and a more =
general
chapeau! to the membership of the Notre Dame School that has been at the
heart of post-revisionism, before a forensic, and often damning, =
assessment
of their methodology and conclusions. But, more usually, it is through a
very even-handed appraisal of the work produced by the warring
historiographical tribes. If McBride is able to find an accommodation
between ancien r=E9gime and colonial approaches to eighteenth-century =
Ireland,
he is much less willing to accord a positive role to the impact of
post-colonialism. As he puts it: =91the rhetorical simplifications of
old-style nationalist historiography have begun to re-enter Irish
historiography via the literary back door=92. McBride, however, is not a =
mere
nay-sayer in his approach to literary theory, and, on a number of =
occasions
(most notably Wexford in the =9198), he stresses the need to re-examine =
the
primary sources=97given their potentially fictive character. In this =
sense it
is not a book that will give succour to post-colonialists and
post-revisionists; on the other hand they will not be able to accuse him =
of
a wilful neglect of their work. On other topics his laudable =
even-handedness
gives way to exasperated, and revealing, comments along the lines of: =
=91as
historians of Jacobitism never tire of reminding us =85 =92.

Apart from its very solid and perceptive historiographical =
grounding=97the
introduction is an accomplished historiographical essay that should be =
set
reading for students of eighteenth-century Irish history=97I would =
contend
that the primary strengths of this book are a preparedness to accentuate
European themes and a willingness to put political thought at the core =
of
the work...

...In reference to the debates on revisionism, he claims that it is not =
his
intention to distract attention from the =91pain=92 in Irish history. =
And
perhaps this point is best drawn out by his approach to the Penal Laws,
where one of his chief concerns, after examining their intellectual
framework and European parallels, is to draw out, through pamphlet
literature, their severity. There is also no shortage of =91pain=92 in =
the
chapter on 1798, always the most likely to cause controversy...

...Overall this book successfully marries an interest in social =
structures
with an appreciation of the influence of ideas, which would be fairly
unusual in the context of any survey book, I think. In a specifically =
Irish
context, it is the marrying of a work that is so strong on Catholic =
rather
than Ascendancy Ireland, with the preference for political thought over =
high
politics, that makes it so remarkable, and for this reason alone it =
should
be respected by all sides of recent historiographical wrangling.

English Historical Review (2011) CXXVI (518): 174-176.
doi: 10.1093/ehr/ceq434

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"Community Politics and the Peace Process in Contemporary
Northern Irish Drama
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PETER LANG - International Academic Publishers

are pleased to announce a new book by


Eva Urban

COMMUNITY POLITICS AND THE PEACE PROCESS IN CONTEMPORARY NORTHERN IRISH
DRAMA

Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, =
2011.
303 pp.
Reimagining Ireland. Vol. 31
Edited by Eamon Maher

ISBN 978-3-0343-0143-5 pb.
sFr. 66.00 / EUR* 45.20 / EUR** 46.40 / EUR 42.20 / =A3 38.00 / US-$ =
65.95
* includes VAT - only valid for Germany=A0 /=A0 ** includes VAT - only =
valid for
Austria=A0 /=A0 EUR does not include VAT

This book examines theatre within the context of the Northern Ireland
conflict and peace process, with reference to a wide variety of plays,
theatre productions and community engagements within and across =
communities.
The author clarifies both the nature of the social and political vision =
of a
number of major contemporary Northern Irish dramatists and the manner in
which this vision is embodied in text and in performance. The book
identifies and celebrates a tradition of playwrights and drama =
practitioners
who, to this day, challenge and question all Northern Irish ideologies =
and
propose alternative paths. The author=92s analysis of a selection of =
Northern
Irish plays, written and produced over the course of the last thirty =
years
or so, illustrates the great variety of approaches to ideology in =
Northern
Irish drama, while revealing a common approach to staging the conflict =
and
the peace process, with a distinct emphasis on utopian performatives and =
the
possibility of positive change.


Contents:

Political Purpose and Dramatic Alienation: Patrick Galvin=92s =93We do =
it for
Love=94 and Tinderbox Theatre Company=92s =93Convictions=94 =96 History =
Plays:
Representations of the United Irishmen in =93Northern Star=94 by Stewart =
Parker
and =93Tearing the Loom=94 by Gary Mitchell =96 Remodelling Mythologies: =
Field
Day=92s =ABFifth Province=BB and Frank McGuinness=92s Ulster Plays =96 =
Caricaturing
Iconographies or Puppet Masters and Broken Strings in Tim Loane=92s =
=93To be
Sure or how to count chickens when they come home to roost=94 and =
=93Caught
Redhanded=94 or =93How to Prune a Whin Bush=94 =96 The Politics of the =
Peace Process
and Theatrical Imagination: Sole Purpose Productions =96 Foucault=92s =
Looking
Glass and Tongues of Flame: =93Pentecost=94, =93After Easter=94, =
=93Ourselves Alone=94,
=93The Wedding Community Play=94, =93Massive=94.


Eva Urban received her PhD from University College Dublin in 2008 for a
thesis on community and identity in contemporary Northern Irish drama. =
She
currently lectures at University College Dublin. Her research interests =
are
in political and utopian theatre in an international context and she
regularly engages in theatre and performance practice.

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Anti-Irish Job Discrimination circa 1880: Evidence from Major
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Social Science History 2010 34(4):407-443
Duke University Press

Anti-Irish Job Discrimination circa 1880

Evidence from Major League Baseball

E. Woodrow Eckard

Historians have generally presumed that Irish immigrants in the late
nineteenth century suffered from ethnic job discrimination. However,
empirical scholarship reports conflicting evidence. The present article
presents new evidence on the issue based on data from Major League Baseball
circa 1880. These data are unique in that "firms" (teams) and individual
"employees" (players) can be identified along with "job assignments"
(positions played) and "performance" (e.g., batting averages). Linking the
players' names with U.S. census enumeration records allows relatively
accurate identification of ethnicity. I test various hypotheses derived from
Gary S. Becker's economic theory of discrimination. The main results are
that Irish players outperformed non-Irish players both on average and at the
margin, were (generally) relegated to less central positions in the field,
were more often required to fill in at nonregular positions, and were less
likely to be hired as managers. In addition, the proportion of Irish on ball
clubs and in their host cities was positively correlated, and team win
percentage had a (weak) positive correlation with the team's proportion of
Irish. Overall, the results generally support anti-Irish discrimination
against skilled workers in this highly visible, albeit small, "industry."

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A very strong issue, which will interest many Ir-D members. =20

Note for example Timothy J. White's article, which links with recent =
Ir-D
disciussion. Do take the time to look at the good spread of book =
reviews
with very significant reviews of significant books.

The "Radharc ar gC=FAl / The Backward Glance" feature - to which I have =
had
the pleasure of contributing in the past - allows scholars and writers =
to
reflect on their experience of a specific writer and book. In this =
issue,=20
the Australian poet Vincent Buckley and Memory Ireland: Insights into =
the
Contemporary Irish Condition (1985).

Edward A. Hagan begins...

'Even for well-informed Irish Studies scholars in the year 2010, Vincent
Buckley's Memory Ireland: Insights into the Contemporary Irish =
Condition,
makes some startling claims. A few of his 1985 pronouncements: the Irish =
are
not religious and have not been so for some time; Buckley asserts that
"while most are religious adherents and 'believers' . . . a deep basic
religion, and certainly mysticism, have long been merely residues"1 He
disposes of the notion that the Irish possess any meaningful historical
consciousness. Rather, they live in a frozen present," for sure what =
ever
happens but the same old thing" (MI 1). In addition, the Irish are not
communal and are really only loyal to their own immediate families =
although
"Home is where you can't take your 'illegitimate' baby" (MI 21).
Furthermore, the Irish are not nationalists in any real sense: "They =
have
little sense of a nation, and none of a polis" (MI 50).

Where does a third-generation Irish Australian find the temerity to make
such pronouncements?...'

And it gets better.

P.O'S.

New Hibernia Review
Volume 14, Number 4, Geimhreadh/Winter 2010

Table of Contents

N=F3ta=ED na nEagarth=F3ir=ED: Editors' Notes=20
pp. 5-8=20

"All the Themes of Hagiography": An Turas Cholm Cille Revisited=20
E. Moore Quinn
pp. 9-26=20
Subject Headings:
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Ireland -- Glencolumbkille.
Columba, Saint, 521-597 -- Cult -- Ireland -- Glencolumbkille.

Celtic Collapse, or Celtic Correction?: Ireland's Recession in =
Historical
Perspective=20
Timothy J. White
pp. 27-43=20
Subject Headings:
Ireland -- Economic conditions.

Fil=EDocht Nua: New Poetry=20
Tom French
pp. 44-50=20
Subject Headings:
Poetry.

Apostates or Imperialists?: W. T. Cosgrave, Kevin O'Higgins, and
Republicanism=20
Jason Knirck
pp. 51-73=20
Subject Headings:
Cosgrave, William Thomas, 1880-1965.
O'Higgins, Kevin Christopher, 1892-1927.
Great Britain. Treaties, etc. Irish Free State, 1921 Dec. 6.
Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1910-1921.
Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1922-1949.

Mayo Littoral: Michael Longley's Eco-elegies=20
Tom Herron
pp. 74-89=20
Subject Headings:
Longley, Michael, 1939- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Ireland, West of -- In literature.

Flann O'Brien's Creative Betrayal of Joyce=20
Lucas Harriman
pp. 90-109=20
Subject Headings:
O'Brien, Flann, 1911-1966 -- Criticism and interpretation.

As Above, So Below: Doubled Plots and Notions of Aristocracy in Two =
Plays by
W. B. Yeats=20
Michael A. Moir Jr.
pp. 110-124=20
Subject Headings:
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939. Countess Cathleen.
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939. Player queen.
Social classes in literature.

We Stayed Up Late: Remembering Vincent Buckley=20
Thomas McCarthy
pp. 125-128=20
Subject Headings:
Buckley, Vincent.

Memory Ireland: Computing Consciousness and Historical Coma=20
Edward A. Hagan
pp. 129-133=20
Subject Headings:
Buckley, Vincent. Memory Ireland: insights into the contemporary Irish
condition.
Ireland -- Civilization -- 20th century.

The Bus Will Come, Please God: Looking Back with Vincent Buckley=20
Rachael Sealy Lynch
pp. 133-137=20
Subject Headings:
Buckley, Vincent. Memory Ireland: insights into the contemporary Irish
condition.
Ireland -- Civilization -- 20th century.

Captain Rock: The Irish Agrarian Rebellion of 1821-1824 (review)=20
Timothy G. McMahon
pp. 138-141=20

Love of the World: Essays (review)=20
Margaret Lasch Carroll
pp. 141-143=20

Going by Water (review)=20
Charles Fanning
pp. 144-147=20

Poet of the Lost Cause: A Life of Father Ryan (review)=20
Kieran Quinlan
pp. 147-149=20

Out of Sight: New & Selected Poems (review)=20
Andrew J. Auge
pp. 149-151=20

Steps in Time: The History of Irish Dance in Chicago (review)=20
Michael D. Nicholsen
pp. 151-152=20

Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery: 1612-1865 (review)=20
Mark Quintanilla
pp. 153-154=20

Music in Irish Cultural History (review)=20
Alison Fanous
pp. 155-157=20

Se=E1n Keating in Context: Responses to Culture and Politics in =
Post-Civil War
Ireland (review)=20
Ryan Barland
pp. 157-159=20

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Call for Papers

Abstracts are invited for a conference entitled

Ireland and Empire: Seafaring, Slavery and Salvation in the =
Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World.=20

This event will be held on 7, 8 and 9 June 2012 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, =
Canada, and it is being co-hosted by the Gorsebrook Research Institute =
of Saint Mary=E2=80=99s University (Canada) and the Centre for History =
of the University of the Highlands and Islands (Scotland). It will =
feature keynote addresses by Dr Nini Rogers of Queen=E2=80=99s =
University Belfast and Professor Angela McCarthy of the University of =
Otago in New Zealand.

After the union of 1801, there was a dramatic shift in the civil and =
religious landscape of Britain and this would have long-lasting and =
dramatic consequences for Empire. This conference aims to bring together =
scholars whose work considers the representation and experience of the =
Irish in the British Empire during the nineteenth century. Much of the =
work to date on Irish citizenship and Empire has focused on the =
political and ethnic tensions inherent in the relationship between =
Ireland and Great Britain, but this conference seeks to explore the role =
of the Irish in the wider imperial context.

Papers that explore the naval, racial and religious dimensions of the =
Irish imperial experience are especially welcome - particularly those =
that relate to the following topics:

=EF=82=B7 Race and racial discourse
=EF=82=B7 Slavery and anti-slavery
=EF=82=B7 Networks and Networking
=EF=82=B7 Naval medicine and health in Empire
=EF=82=B7 Colonialism and legacy
=EF=82=B7 Gender
=EF=82=B7 Missionary activity, religiosity and identity
=EF=82=B7 Class and community
=EF=82=B7 Ethnicity and associational culture

Topics not listed will also be considered. Proposals for complete panels =
as well as individual papers are welcome. Applicants are asked to submit =
a 300 word abstract and an academic cv to Dr S. Karly Kehoe =
(karly.kehoe[at]thurso.uhi.ac.uk) or Professor Michael E. Vance =
(michael.vance[at]smu.ca) by 31 March 2011. Decisions will be announced in =
mid-April 2011.

The conference organisers plan to produce a publication of selected =
papers in 2013.