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The IRISH SEMINAR has been presented annually since 1999 by the Irish
Studies program at Notre Dame at the Keough Naughton Notre Dame Centre,
situated in O=92Connell House on Merrion Square, Dublin. It is aimed at
post-graduate students and faculty in Irish Studies, drawn from all over =
the
world.


The IRISH SEMINAR 2011: Irish Modernisms
20 June =96 8 July 2011
=A0
THEME
Modernism, marked by a strong self-conscious rupture with tradition and =
a
formal and conceptual inventiveness, is often understood as a vigorous
reaction against established religious, social and political views. =
Informed
on one hand by the horrors of the Great War (1914-18) and governed on =
the
other by a belief that our world is created in the very act of =
perceiving
it, no absolute truth existed to provide guidance or solace. Dominated =
by a
relativistic aesthetic, Modernists turned inward to examine the
sub-conscious, advocating individuality and celebrating interiority. The
crisis of representation, the rise of the cosmopolitan, cultural
dislocation, the vexed issues of the subconscious, memory, sexuality, =
and
gender all found expression in European modernism in the late nineteenth =
and
early twentieth century. Modernism exerted, and still exerts, a profound
pressure on contemporary culture, literature, cinema, art and =
scholarship.=A0=20
=A0
The Irish Seminar 2011 convenes a stellar cast of international scholars =
to
examine Irish Modernism in its varied manifestations, as well as their
interrelationships with Western and global Modernism. The contribution =
of
Ireland=92s English-language authors to Modernism is unparalleled: =
Yeats,
Joyce, Beckett, Bowen, and O=92Brien. Recent criticism has engaged with =
issues
of national, regional and local origin to construct a =91Modernism of =
the
Margins=92. A three-week series of presentations, lectures and workshops
probes the paradoxical and opposed trends of revolution and reaction =
(1916,
War of Independence, Civil War), the struggles of nascent political =
parties
in their clashes with established forces and older vested interests, the
attrition of traditional elites and the emergence of new states north =
and
south.=20
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Yet Modernism, no less than Ireland itself, cannot be reduced to a
caricature or stereotype. A key concern of the Irish Seminar 2011 is the
interrogation of the standard account. In addition to exploring =
Modernism of
the margins, the Seminar examines minority languages, vernacular =
culture,
the local and the national, and gendered identities in the Irish =
Modernist
experience.=20
=A0
As well as concentrating on historical and theoretical issues, the =
Seminar
will focus on modernism as a mode of creativity that emphasizes =
disruption
and fracture, questioning expressiveness, originality, tradition,
revolution, gender, sexuality, language and identity. Exploring the =
constant
tension between nihilism and enthusiasm, energy and ennui that emerged =
in
Ireland between 1880 and 1940, and which sparked this efflorescence of
modernist works, the Irish Seminar 2011 will provide challenging
perspectives on Irish modernism in its multi-faceted dimensions.
=A0
Information available at=20

http://oconnellhouse.nd.edu/academic-programs/the-irish-seminar/

www.irishseminar.nd.edu

=A0
2011 FACULTY=20
The 2011 IRISH SEMINAR faculty includes the following speakers: Joe =
Cleary
(Yale), Seamus Deane (Notre Dame), Wes Hamrick (Notre Dame), John Kelly
(Oxford), Declan Kiberd (Notre Dame), Jos=E9 Lanters (Uni. of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Joseph Lennon (Villanova), David Lloyd (Uni. of
Southern California), Barry McCrea (Yale), Br=EDona Nic Dhiarmada (Notre
Dame), Emer Nolan (NUI Maynooth), Brian =D3 Conchubhair (Notre Dame), =
Gear=F3id
=D3 Tuathaigh (NUI Galway), Kevin Whelan (Notre Dame).
=A0
=A0
FURTHER INFORMATION
E-mail: eclowry[at]nd.edu
Tel. + 353 1 611 0611
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Subject: Re: New scams, new clutter: books of Wikipedia entries,
Ebook listings
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The only observation I'd make Paddy (I don't know whether to be =
astonished or amused at the wikipedia bundling!) is that the use of read =
ebooks by university libraries is a step forward. I have found it to be =
a problem for years that large undergraduate classes are not well served =
by the one or two copies of a book to be found on the library shelves, =
but specialist journal articles don't provide the kind of introduction =
or overview to a topic which a student at that level may need. This =
year, for the first time, I can put a standard text (a geopolitics =
reader from Routledge) as core reading on a course and know that every =
student taking the course can access it. Now, if only the students could =
be persuaded actually to read the damned thing...

Piaras

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Ebook listings
=20
From: "Patrick O'Sullivan"


I thought I should just make the Irish Diaspora Studies community - and
perhaps the scholarly community generally - aware of two problems that =
have
become dramatically more visible since the turn of the year.

I have not been able to find much serious discussion of these problems =
in
the formal media. But there is mention in discussion groups and blogs.=20

1.
Certain publishers are bundling up Wikipedia entries on specific topics =
as
Print on Demand books. Books on, for example, No. 15 Squadron RAF, =
Culture
of Pakistan, Singaporean Chess Players, or The Irish Diaspora. Anything
where there is a cluster and a market. I stress that these books are =
simply
collections of printed Wikipedia entries.

After a while you learn to recognise these things, but they are a =
surprise
when you first meet them.

2.
The Ebook listings problem is a bit more complex. It is clear by now =
that
more and more publishers - including many academic publishers - are =
using
Print on Demand routes. Very often publishers will issue an Ebook =
version
of a book at the same time as making the print book available. It costs
almost nothing.

An Ebook listing is, in the end, simply a link to a point of sale and a
download. Certain people, or computers, are bundling up Ebook listings, =
and
getting them to point to a web site that might, or might not, lead
eventually to a point of sale. The people are often cybersquatters and
domain name sitters. The point of the exercise seems to be to drive =
traffic
to those web sites. And maybe sell something, or not.

The problem for us, and for all scholarly groups, is simply CLUTTER. =
Google
and Amazon do not currently distinguish these kinds of nonsense from =
genuine
books and web sites. These phantom Ebooks have the same titles as =
genuine
books. It is becoming necessary to wade, cautiously, through
these nonsense listings to find genuine material.

P.O'S.

--
Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

Email Patrick O'Sullivan Email Patrick
O'Sullivan Personal Fax 0044 (0) 709 236 =
9050

Irish Diaspora Net http://www.irishdiaspora.net Irish Diaspora list
IR-D[at]Jiscmail.ac.uk

Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Social Sciences and Humanities University of Bradford =
Bradford
BD7 1DP Yorkshire England

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Book Notice, Ireland and Romanticism, Publics,
Nations and Scenes of Cultural Production
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Jim Kelly's Introduction can be downloaded at

http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=3D415676

Ireland and Romanticism
Publics, Nations and Scenes of Cultural Production
Edited by Jim Kelly
Palgrave Macmillan
2011
=20
9780230274570


Irish literature in the Romantic period produced a diverse and rewarding
body of work reacting to such upheavals as the 1798 rebellion, the 1800 =
Act
of Union, and the
wider European context of war and revolution. This collection, by =
leading
scholars in the field, provides a fascinating and ground-breaking
introduction to current research
in Irish Romantic studies. It proves the international scope and =
aesthetic
appeal of Irish writing in this period, and shows the importance of =
Ireland
to wider currents in
Romanticism.

Contents:
Introduction; J.Kelly

Part I: Scenes: The Country and the City=20
C=EDn Lae Amhlaoibh: Modernization and the Irish language; P.=D3 =
Drisceoil
Jemmy O'Brien: Informer to Gothic Villain; T.Webb=20

Part II: Influences from Abroad Spanish Literature and Irish =
Romanticism,
1800-1850; A.MacCarthy
Robert Burns and Hibernia; S.Dornan

Part III: The Irish Writer Abroad
'Transatlantic Tom': Thomas Moore in North America; J.Moore A United
Irishman in the Alps: William MacNevin's A Ramble Through Swisserland
(1803); P.Vincent Lady Morgan (Sydney Owenson) and the Politics of
Romanticism; S.Egenolf

Part IV: Irish Poetry in the Romantic Period
Drawing Breath: The Origin of Moore's Irish Melodies; A.Paterson =
Malvina's
Daughters: Irish Women Poets and the Sign of the Bard; L.Davis
Part V: Fictions of the Romantic Period The Irish Booktrade in the =
Romantic
Period; C.Benson 'Gothic' and 'National'? Challenging the Formal
Distinctions of Irish Romantic Fiction;
C.Morin Escaping from Barrett's Moon: Recreating the Irish Literary
Landscape in the
Romantic Period; J.Shanahan=20

Afterword: Placing 'Irish' and 'Romanticism' in the Same Frame: =
Prospects;
S.Behrendt

Index
Reviews:
'Each essay in this collection is well written and of interest, and =
there is
a clear focus
on a discussion of Ireland and Romanticism throughout. The volume will =
be
welcomed by scholars in the field and will make a significant =
contribution
to academic
debate on Romanticism in general.'
- James H. Murphy, DePaul University, Chicago, USA
=A0
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=3D415676

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Subject: Articles of interest at relaunched website, Historical Geography
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The journal, Historical Geography, has re-launched its web site - =
allowing
free access to articles in Volumes 37 (2009) to 29 (2001).=20

http://www.historical-geography.net/index.html

A moment's reflection recalls that there are articles of interest and =
use
there, now freely available to download. Some obvious examples are...


Historical Geography
Volume 36 =95 2008

Beyond the Cartesian Pale: Travels with Samuel Beckett, 1928-1946
Charles Travis

=93Rotting Townlands=94: Peadar O=92Donnell, the West of Ireland, and =
the Politics
of Representation in Saorst=E1t na h=C9ireann (Irish Free State) =
1929-1933
Charles Travis


Historical Geography
Volume 37 =95 2009

=93By a Thousand Ingenious Feminine Devices=94: The Ladies=92 Land =
League and the
Development of Irish Nationalism
Adrian Mulligan

There might be more.

Of course many articles offer background comment to our work, or are =
just
interesting in their own right. I was struck by this article, on
Australia's search for a 'bespoke peasantry...'

Historical Geography
Volume 30 =95 2002

Colonial Translations: Peasants and Parsons in Nineteenth-Century =
Australia
Joseph M. Powell

P.O'S.


-----Original Message-----
From: Karen Morin [morin[at]bucknell.edu]
Date sent: 7 Feb 2011

** Announcing the Re-Launch of Historical Geography's website **=20

Colleagues=20

We are pleased to announce that the website for the journal, Historical
Geography (http://www.historical-geography.net), has been re-launched =
with
added features.=20

Among other things you will now be able to download, free of charge,
full-text pdf articles for back issues dating from Vol. 37 (2009) to =
Vol. 29
(2001). Please stay tuned for further announcements regarding the =
journal.
In the meantime we want to thank all those who have supported the =
journal
through subscriptions and through membership dues to the Historical
Geography Specialty Group of the AAG. Your continued support is most =
welcome
and appreciated.=20

-Karen M. Morin, Garth Myers, Maria Lane Co-Editors, Historical =
Geography =20

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We have been contacted by Zak Presky, who has been charged with the task =
of
bringing the new Michael Flatley Lord of the Dance 3D Movie to the =
attention
of Irish communities in Britain.

Yes, 3D...

I will pass on a pared down version of Zak Presky's press release after =
this
email. There are the usual highly charged posters - which we can not =
pass
on through IR-D - and web sites.

If you can be of help to Zak contact him directly - remember he is a =
young
man doing a job. I have suggested the obvious routes forward. Actually =
it
was really interesting talking to a young person who comes to all these
things totally from the outside.

I recall a discussion of Michael Flatley and his oeuvre at a recent =
theatre
conference - I particularly remember an intervention by Mary Hickman.
Partly what was going on, I thought, was a conflict of approaches,
arts/social sciences. But maybe also homeland/diaspora.

Anyway, here is a 3D research opportunity...

Marion Casey has said that since the original Jean Butler and Michael
Flatley duet in 1994 more people saw Irish step dancing than ever saw it
before in the history of mankind. See Making the Irish American: =
history
and heritage of the Irish in the United, Joseph Lee, Marion R. Casey.

Some further references pasted in below. The Yu-Chen Lin reference is =
new,
and a useful summary. Separate email about that follows...

Young Zak had already picked up that Michael Flatley is a divisive =
figure...

P.O'S.

Ceol Traidis=EDunta: Traditional Music: Your Mr. Joyce Is a Fine Man, =
but Have
You Seen "Riverdance"?
Frank Hall
New Hibernia Review / Iris =C9ireannach Nua
Vol. 1, No. 3 (Autumn, 1997), pp. 134-142

Creative entrepreneurship in the arts: transforming 'old' into 'new': =
Irish
dance and music test cases such as Riverdance and Lord of the Dance
Author: Cinn=E9ide, Barra .
Source: The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, =
Volume
6, Number 3, August 2005 , pp. 151-158(8)

Casey, Natasha.
Riverdance: The Importance of Being Irish American
New Hibernia Review - Volume 6, Number 4, Geimhreadh/Winter 2002, pp. =
9-25

EURAMERICA Vol. 40, No. 1 (March 2010), 31-64
http://euramerica.ea.sinica.edu.tw/
Ireland on Tour =97 Riverdance, the Irish Diaspora, =20
and the Celtic Tiger
Yu-Chen Lin

=20

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Subject: PRESS RELEASE Lord of the Dance 3D Movie - Limited one-week
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From: Zak Presky [mailto:zpresky[at]supervisionmedia.net]=20
Subject: Lord of the Dance 3D Movie - Limited one-week engagement

Below is an email I was planning on sending out:

Hi,

I would like to inform you of a special one-off event happening this =
March
that I believe will interest you.

Lord of the Dance is the most successful and critically acclaimed show =
of
all time and it has just been made in to a magical 3D movie like never
before seen. The 3D Movie is available in cinemas throughout the UK and
Ireland for one week only from the 13th of March.

The reason this would be of interest to your group is not just because =
the
show has grossed 1 billion dollars worldwide and is the most acclaimed =
show
of its type, but because the show has strongly promoted a =A0=91feel =
good
factor=92 that is so closely associated with the Irish.=20

60 million people around the world have seen Irish dance and music =
portrayed
in the most beautiful of ways. As Michael has said, =91I can look at 30
seconds of the show and spend 8 hours trying to improve it=92. Michael =
is
passionate about Ireland, this was his way to show the world how =
exciting
and magical Ireland can be.=20

The timing of the release of this 3D motion picture is perfect to tie in
with your St.Patricks Day festivities. Through the 3D medium you will =
see
the show like never before, as if you are on stage with Michael and his
troupe and it will be a great way to celebrate and have fun.

There are significant discounts for group bookings because we believe in
sharing the experience with friends and colleagues.=A0=20

Given the reaction we=92ve had from cinemas globally, we genuinely =
believe
this will be one of the 3D movie events of the year. The film is being =
shown
for one week only so we strongly suggest tickets are booked in advance =
to
avoid disappointment.

For tickets please visit the Lord of the Dance 3D Movie website or the
Facebook group

The website is: http://www.lordofthedance3d.com/=20

Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/#!/lordofthedance3d=20

Thank you for your time,

Zak=20

=A0
SuperVision
Mermaid House
First Floor
Puddle Dock
London=20
EC4V 3DS=20
=A0
Tel: +44 (0)20 7332 9890
E -Mail: zpresky[at]supervisionmedia.net=20
Website: www.supervisionmedia.net
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EURAMERICA Vol. 40, No. 1 (March 2010), 31-64
http://euramerica.ea.sinica.edu.tw/
C Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica

Ireland on Tour -Riverdance, the Irish Diaspora, and the Celtic Tiger

Yu-Chen Lin

Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Sun Yat-Sen
University
70 Lien-Hai Rd., Kaohsiung 80424, Taiwan
E-mail: yuchen[at]mail.nsysu.edu.tw

Abstract
Incorporating a historical perspective into culture
studies, this paper contends that, as an emblem of the Celtic
Tiger, Riverdance is a parable of Ireland's response to the
forces of globalization as the nation moved away from
preoccupations with its traumatic past toward the economic
competition of today. In their early forms, responses to
global influences were embedded in Irish culture. Long
before what is commonly called the age of globalization,
Irish dance was already "proto-global" in its openness to the
flow of cultural exchanges generated by people's travel. This
flow formed an interesting dialectic with cultural
nationalism and endowed Irish dance with a national(ist)
character. Meanwhile, this narrowing of Irish dance was
interrogated by dancers in diaspora who began to travel to
the home country to participate in dance competitions in the
late 1960s. This reversal of migration coincided with a
nationwide revision of cultural memory, leading to the
emergence of cultural tourism-a marriage between
tradition and commerce-along with the emergence of the
Celtic Tiger in the 1990s. Adopting cultural tourism studies
as my framework of interpretation, I subsequently explore
how Riverdance renovates tradition to produce a showcase
of modern Ireland. In conclusion, I argue that Riverdance is
interesting in that it compels us to redefine nationalism and
its attendant categories in the age of globalization.

Key Words: Riverdance, the Irish Diaspora, the Celtic
Tiger, globalization, cultural tourism

Article freely available at

http://www.ea.sinica.edu.tw/eu_file/126933752514.pdf

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Subject: Book Notice, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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I am across this reference whilst pursuing a quite different topic.

The chapter on=20
Black Ireland: The Political Economics of African American Rhetorical
Pedagogy after Reconstruction=20
Will interest a number of IR-D members.

It explores how that particular rhetorical strand was absorbed and =
modified
by Black American theorists and activists.

P.O'S.


Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
African American Reform Rhetoric and the Rise of a Modern Nation State
By Michael Stancliff

Price: =A375.00
Binding/Format: Hardback
ISBN: 978-0-415-99763-8
Publish Date: 3rd August 2010
Imprint: Routledge
Pages: 200 pages
Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415997638/

Introduction Chapter 1. Composing Character: Cultural Sources of African
American Rhetorical Pedagogy Chapter 2. Reconstruction and Black =
Republican
Pedagogy Chapter 3. Temperance Pedagogy: Lessons of Character in a =
Drunken
Economy Chapter 4. Black Ireland: The Political Economics of African
American Rhetorical Pedagogy after Reconstruction Chapter 5. Not as a =
Mere
Dependent: The Historic Mission of African American Women=92s Rhetoric =
at the
End of the Century Afterword

A prominent early feminist, abolitionist, and civil rights advocate, =
Frances
Ellen Watkins Harper wrote and spoke across genres and reform platforms
during the turbulent second half of the nineteenth century. Her =
invention of
a new commonplace language of moral character drew on the persuasive and
didactic motifs of the previous decades of African-American reform =
politics,
but far exceeded her predecessors in crafting lessons of rhetoric for =
women.
Focusing on the way in which Harper brought her readers a critical =
training
for the rhetorical action of a life commitment to social reform, this =
book
reconsiders her practice as explicitly and primarily a project of =
teaching.
This study also places Harper's work firmly in black-nationalist =
lineages
from which she is routinely excluded, establishes Harper as an architect =
of
a collective African-American identity that constitutes a political and
theoretical bridge between early abolitionism and 20th-century civil =
rights
activism, and contributes to the contemporary portrayal of Harper as an
important theorist of African-American feminism whose radical =
egalitarian
ethic has lasting relevance for civil rights and human rights workers.

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Tony Tracy, Roddy Flynn
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On a train of thought...

John Huston: Essays on a Restless Director
Tony Tracy, Roddy Flynn

Notice the chapters on
The Irish Accent of The Dead
And
John Huston and an Irish Film Industry

Thee are sections of the book on Google Books.

http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=3D978-0-7864-5853-0

Table of Contents

Introduction

TONY TRACY and RODDY FLYNN 1
=93Let=92s Just See If It Matters=94: An Interview with Anjelica Huston
TONY TRACY 9
Strange but Close Partners: Huston, Romantic Comedy and The African =
Queen
PABLO ECHART 22
The Ideological Adventure of The Man Who Would Be King
JULIE F. CODELL 33
The Way We Were and White Hunter, Black Heart: Huston in Fiction and =
Reel
Life
PATRICK MCGILLIGAN 47
Huston=92s Mexico
RICHARD VELA 56
The Discreet Charm of Huston and Bu=F1uel: Notes on a Cinematic Odd =
Couple
NEIL SINYARD 73
Huston and the American South: The Night of the Iguana and Wise Blood
GARY D. RHODES 83
Re- Visioning the Western: Landscape and Gender in The Misfits
GEORGIANA BANITA 94
Ethical Commitment and Political Dissidence: Huston, HUAC, Hollywood and =
Key
Largo
REYNOLD HUMPHRIES 111
King Adapter: Huston=92s Famous and Infamous Adaptations of Literary =
Classics
PAGE LAWS 123
The Melodramatic Conscience of In This Our Life
VICTORIA AMADOR 136
The Irish Accent of The Dead
MICHAEL PATRICK GILLESPIE 147
A Walk with Love and Death: From the Jacquerie of 1358 to the Turbulence =
of
1968
PETER G. CHRISTENSEN 160
The Western, The Westerner, The Westernest: William Wyler, Menippean =
Satire
and John Huston=92s The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
LESLEY BRILL 173
John Huston and an Irish Film Industry
RODDY FLYNN and DIOG O=92CONNELL 185
Recollections of Huston: A Conversation with Wieland Schulz- Keil
TONY TRACY 199

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Subject: Poetry Trust - interview with Seamus Heaney
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The Poetry Trust is one of those organisations that does things.

The latest issue of its little magazine is available online.

It includes an interview with Seamus Heaney.

P.O'S.


The Poetry Trust is one of the UK's flagship poetry organisations,
delivering a year-round live and digital programme, creative education
opportunities, courses, prizes and publications.

http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/the-poetry-paper/

Hot off the press - Issue 7 of The Poetry Paper
Featuring exclusive interviews with Seamus Heaney & Don Paterson, Bill
Manhire on how to keep writing, an introduction to Marie Howe - plus new
poems from Jack Underwood, Caroline Bird, Toon Tellegen and more. The Poetry
Paper is back and it's the best yet. Aldeburgh Poetry Festival audience
members will be the first to get their hands on this perfectly packaged
triumph of content and style. And if you can't make it to the Festival, for
the first time you can enjoy The Poetry Paper online through an INTERACTIVE
FLIPBOOK

Did we mention that The Poetry Paper is completely free - in print & online
- ? Well, it's free!

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Subject: CFP From Jack's Army to Jedward: Ireland Masculinity and Popular
Culture 1990-2010, Huston School, NUI Galway
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From Jack's Army to Jedward: Ireland Masculinity and Popular Culture
1990-2010

Huston School of Film and Digital Media
NUI Galway, September 2011

1990 was a watershed year in contemporary Irish history for several =
reasons,
but perhaps the most resonant was the election of Mary Robinson, =
feminist,
activist and lawyer, to the position of Irish President, a position
previously reserved as a retiring ground for elderly male politicians A =
new
and exciting phase of Irish history was suddenly in the offing and
Robinson's inclusive vision of Ireland looked beyond earlier =
understandings
of the state to give a central importance to the women of Ireland and =
those
forgotten by generations of emigration; the Irish Diaspora. Slowly but
incrementally over the following two decades the patriarchal authority =
of
Irish political and religious structures collapsed.

During this period Irish popular culture generated a variety of
masculinities across genres and forms. In fiction and theatre - the =
stage
and screen plays of Conor McPherson, Martin McDonagh and Mark O'Rowe; =
the
soft masculinity of Louise Walsh's boybands - Boyzone, Westlife, =
Jedward;
the cinema of the Celtic Tiger; Irish TV drama - Bachelor's Walk, Pure =
Mule,
Love/Hate; national sporting moments circulating around male sports =
stars
and teams. As traditional roles models and models of male authority
gradually eroded and Ireland became a more multicultural environment,
popular culture assumed an ever-increasing centrality in exploring =
tensions
in Irish manhood.

We invite papers and panels exploring manhood in Irish popular culture -
sport, film and television, theatre and fiction, music and media - for a
conference to take place at NUI Galway September 23-25th 2011. Proposals =
of
300-500 words) should be sent to tony.tracy[at]nuigalway.ie =A0/
conn.holohan[at]nuigalway.ie =A0

Closing date for submission is April 4th 2011.=20

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Dear Paddy ~
If it would be of use to you, here is the TOC for Berg and N=ED =C9igearta=
igh's edited volume, Exploring Transculturalism: A Biographical Approach:

Aoileann N=ED =C9igeartaigh and Wolfgang Berg
Editors' Introduction: Exploring Transculturalism, pp. 7-18

Serine Haghverdian
"It's my own stuff": The Negotiations and Multiplicity of Ethnic Identities=
among Young Women of Middle Eastern Backgrounds in Sweden, pp. 19-36

Aoileann N=ED =C9igeartaigh
Eamonn Wall: Transculturalism, Hybridity, and the New Irish in America, pp.=
37-52

Magda Danciu
Petru Popescu and the Experience of Fragmentation, pp. 53-62

M=E1rta F=FCl=F6p
Natsume Soseki: Culture Shock and the Birth of the Modern Japanese Novel, p=
p. 63-80

Cristina Chevere=FEan
Becoming "Un-Dominican-York": Julia Alverez, Transculturalism, and How the =
Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, pp. 81-96

Catherine Leen
How Not to Make a Mexican Musical: Luis Bu=F1uel and the Perils of Mexicani=
dad, pp. 97-112

Aoileann N=ED =C9igeartaigh
Homesick while at Home: Hugo Hamilton and The Speckled People, pp. 113-130

Gerald David Naughton
Confronting the "Foreigner from Within": (Sexual) Exile and "Indomitable Fo=
rce" in the Fiction of James Baldwin and Colm T=F3ib=EDn, pp. 131-146

Wolfgang Berg, Franziska Scholze, Janina Lehr, and Christin Buchheim
Transcultural Biographies: A Cultural Perspective, pp. 147-172

Cheers, Deb

Dr.=A0Deb Rotman, RPA
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Anthropology
University of Notre Dame=20
622 Flanner Hall
Notre Dame IN=A0 46556
(574) 631-2308 voice
(574) 631-5760 fax
www.nd.edu/~anthro
Spring 2011 Office Hours:=A0 Monday/Tuesday 1-3 pm; Wednesday/Friday 11 am =
- 1pm; and by appointment. No office hours on Thursday.

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." ~ Seneca


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Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 11:55 AM
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Subject: [IR-D] Book Chapter, Eamonn Wall: Transculturalism, Hybridity and =
the New Irish in America

It has proved irritatingly difficult to get hold of a full copy & paste TOC
of this book.

The Chapter that will most interest the Ir-D list is

Eamonn Wall: Transculturalism, Hybridity and the New Irish in America
Aoileann N=ED =C9igeartaigh

There are sample pages on the publisher's web site - the open book symbol,
Ins buch schauen - and on Amazon and Google Books.

There are also chapters on Hugo Hamilton and on Colm Toibin.

P.O'S.

Berg, Wolfgang; N=ED =C9igeartaigh, Aoileann (Eds.) (2010): Exploring
Transculturalism. A Biographical Approach. VS Verlag. Wiesbaden.

http://www.vs-verlag.de/Buch/978-3-531-17286-6/Exploring-Transculturalism.h=
t
ml

Transnational mobility is a widespread phenomenon. It has a big impact on
the lives of the individuals who travel or migrate. In order to survive and
achieve their goals, they have to go through a process of learning with
regard to the cultural texts and practices they now confront. They have to
cope with a range of rules and tools with which they are not familiar. In
some cases, migrants will simply adopt these rules and practices. In others=
,
their engagement with them will lead to fundamental changes in the host
culture. Wolfgang Berg and Aoileann N=ED =C9igeartaigh interrogate the noti=
on of
"transculturalism" in an interdisciplinary way and explore the tensions
inherent in contemporary theories of culture and identity. Exploring the
(auto)biographical writings of transcultural protagonists, the authors show
that crossing borders remains a difficult and challenging experience.=20
The book will be of interest to researchers and students in the fields of
cultural/intercultural studies, literature, and social science.=20

With contributions by Wolfgang Berg, Christin Buchheim, Cristina Cheveresan=
,
Magda Danciu, M=E1rta F=FCl=F6p, Serine Haghverdian, Catherine Leen, Janina=
Lehr,
Aoileann N=ED =C9igeartaigh, Gerald David Naughton, Franziska Scholze

Dr. Wolfgang Berg is a professor for European Studies at the University of
Applied Sciences in Merseburg, Germany.=20
Dr. Aoileann N=ED =C9igeartaigh is a lecturer in literature and cultural st=
udies
in Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland.

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Forwarded on behalf of
Dr. Marc Hight

I am searching for privately held correspondence (ALS or otherwise) to or
from George Berkeley (1685-1753), Irish philosopher and later Bishop of
Cloyne. I am publishing the correspondence and want the volume to be as
complete as possible. If you are aware of letters privately held (or
otherwise), kindly let me know. I have already visited the major
repositories (British Library, Trinity College Dublin, etc.) but feel free
to provide suggestions! The volume will appear with Cambridge University
Press.

Many thanks,
Marc Hight

*******************************
Elliott Associate Professor of Philosophy
Coordinating Editor Berkeley Studies
Department of Philosophy Box 41
Hampden-Sydney College
Hampden-Sydney, VA 23943
(434) 223-6388
mhight[at]hsc.edu

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Forwarded on behalf of
Cathy Swift=20
Catherine.Swift[at]mic.ul.ie

The dates for the 25th Irish Conference of Medievalists are now 24th =96 =
26th
June 2011 with keynote address by Professor Alfred Smyth and it will be =
held
in NUI Galway. =A0The website, with its call for papers is
http://www.irishmedievalists.com

and deadline for paper submissions (only 20 minute papers please) is =
28th
February. You can submit online or directly to the conference organiser, =
Dr
P=E1draic Moran - [padraic.moran[at]NUIGALWAY.IE]. There is also a facebook =
page
under Irish Conference of Medievalists.=20
=A0
There will be a meeting of the Midlands Viking Symposium in Dublin 29th
April-1st May. The Midlands Viking symposium is an outreach event =
organised
by the Universities of Nottingham, Birmingham and=A0 Leicester and this =
year
they will be joined in sponsorship by the National Museum of Ireland and
Dublin City Corporation.=A0 The visit celebrates the completion of a =
jointly
funded IRCHSS/AHRC network initiative between the University of =
Nottingham
and Mary Immaculate College, Limerick on Viking genetics and migration. =
A
website summarizing the project, together with resources for primary =
schools
on Viking settlement in Ireland and with accompanying film of farmers,
raiders and slave-traders, is now in the throes of final editing and =
will be
hosted at http://www.mic.ul.ie/research
=A0
The Old Irish language summer schools at Mary Immaculate College will be
running again this year: Old Irish beginners (6th =96 17th June) and
Intermediate (20th June =96 1st July). We would also like to draw =
people=92s
attention, in particular to a new venture this year: a summer school on
medieval liturgical music (to be led by Dr Ann Buckley) and another on
Celtic spirituality. For further information, check www.mic.ul.ie/isss
or drop me an email. (There are facebook pages for these too but the
organizer, i.e. me, is not gifted at facebook interaction so contacting =
me
the =93old-fashioned=94 way by email is probably safer.)
=A0
Best wishes to all,=20
=A0
Cathy Swift=20

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It has always struck me that it was in fact the Irish-descent in Britain, via Jack Charlton's team, who made nationalism respectable in Ireland again. No need to elaborate, I'm sure...

Ultan Cowley

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Community Politics and the Peace Process in Contemporary Northern
Irish Drama, 24 February, UCD
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The Project Arts Centre and University College Dublin invite you to a
reception to launch=20
=A0
Community Politics and the Peace Process in Contemporary Northern Irish
Drama=20
(Peter Lang, Irish Studies Series Reimagining Ireland)=20
=A0
by Dr Eva Urban.
=A0
The book will be launched in the Project by=20
Professor Anthony Roche from=20
5:00pm to 7:00 pm on Thursday, 24 February

Community Politics and the Peace Process in Contemporary Northern Irish
Drama

Ort: Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien
Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH
Jahr: 2011
Autor(en): Eva Urban
ISBN: ISBN 978-3-0343-0143-5
Umfang / Preis: 303 pages / =A3 38.00


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's 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.=20

Contents:=20

Political Purpose and Dramatic Alienation: Patrick Galvin's We do it for
Love and Tinderbox Theatre Company's Convictions

History Plays: Representations of the United Irishmen in Northern Star =
by
Stewart Parker and Tearing the Loom by Gary Mitchel

Remodelling Mythologies: Field Day's =ABFifth Province=BB and Frank =
McGuinness's
Ulster Plays

Caricaturing Iconographies or Puppet Masters and Broken Strings in Tim
Loane's To be Sure or how to count chickens when they come home to roost =
and
Caught Redhanded or How to Prune a Whin Bush

The Politics of the Peace Process and Theatrical Imagination: Sole =
Purpose
Productions

Foucault's Looking Glass and Tongues of Flame: Pentecost, After Easter,
Ourselves Alone, The Wedding Community Play, Massive.

Anmerkungen:=20
Reihe: Reimagining Ireland - Band 31

http://www.theaterforschung.de/annotation.php4?ID=3D2004&PHPSESSID=3Dd2b6=
deb5978
15f00492d509bb6f228ad

http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=3Dcmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.details=
eiten
&seitentyp=3Dseries&pk=3D1384&concordeid=3DREIR

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Forwarded on behalf of
Patrick.Lonergan[at]nuigalway.ie=20

Irish Drama in Times of Crisis=20
The 2011 Synge Summer School=20
Rathdrum, County Wicklow=20
Thursday 30 June to Sunday 3 July.=20
=A0
The programme for this year=92s Synge Summer School for Irish Drama is
available online on:=20
www.syngesummerschool.org/=20
=A0
Highlights this year include:=20
=95 Lectures on modern and contemporary Irish theatre by leading =
scholars=20
=95 Colm Toibin=92s lecture about his memories of Irish theatre in the =
1980s.=20
=95 A performance of two plays by Una McKevitt, one of the most exciting =
young
theatre-makers in Ireland today.=20
=95 Tour of Synge country and Avondale House=20
=A0
For further information please see the website or email
Patrick.Lonergan[at]nuigalway.ie=20
=A0
Lectures=20
=95 Patrick Lonergan, =91Irish Drama in Times of Crisis=94=20
=95 Chris Morash, =92There Does Be A Power of Young Men Floating Round =
in the
Sea:=92 Space, Place and Placelessness After Synge.=20
=95 Cathy Leeney, =93All Over Again: New Beginnings in Irish Theatre?=94 =

=95 Christopher Collins "'The Lord Protect us from the saints of God!':
Saints, Sinners and Synge."=20
=95 Aisling Mullan, 'Synge's Mediation of Scripture and Primitive Custom =
in
The Shadow of the Glen.'=A0=20
=95 Emer O=92Toole, 'Intercultural Playboys: Contemporary Conflicts.'=20
=95 James Moran, =91Synge and Ezra Pound=92=20
=95 Fintan Walsh, 'Saving Ulster from Sodomy and Hysteria: Sexual and
Political Performance in Northern Ireland.'=20
=95 Riana O=92Dwyer, 'That's how I spell IRELAND': Tom Murphy's drama =
from 1959
to 2009=92.=20
=95 Aideen Howard, =91New Writing at the Abbey Theatre=94=20
=A0
Special Events
=95 =93Darkening the Past; Lighting up the Future: Irish Theatre in the =
1980s'=94.
A memoir about Irish theatre in the 1980s by Colm Toibin=20
=95 Performances of Una McKevitt=92s 565+ and Victor and Gord. Followed =
by
post-show discussion.=20
=A0
Seminars:=20
=95 Synge and Contemporary Irish Drama=20
=95 Contemporary Irish Women Dramatists=20
=95 Joseph O=92Connor=92s Ghost Light=20
=95 Queer Theatre and Performance=20
=A0
Other Events=20
=95 Tour of Synge Country=20
=95 Book Launch: Synge and His Influences: Centenary Essays from the =
Synge
Summer School=20
=95 Tour of Avondale House and Park=20
=95 Traditional Irish night.=20
=A0

_______________________________
Dr Patrick Lonergan
English, School of Humanities=20
National University of Ireland, Galway=20
http://www.nuigalway.ie/english/patrick_lonergan.html
Email: Patrick.Lonergan[at]nuigalway.ie=20
Phone: (+353) 91 49 5609.=20
______________________________
=A0

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John Rocque=92s Dublin: A Guide to the Georgian City

John Rocque=92s Dublin: A Guide to the Georgian City
Colm Lennon, John Montague
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 2010, ISBN: 9781904890690; 108pp.; Price:
=A315.00;
Reviewer:
Arnold Horner
University College Dublin
Citation:
Arnold Horner, review of John Rocque=92s Dublin: A Guide to the Georgian =
City,
(review no. 1022)
URL: http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1022

John Rocque (c.1705=9662) was a cartographer and engraver of European =
repute,
who could count among his achievements maps of London, Paris, Berlin and
Rome. In Britain, his many projects included plans of great gardens, =
several
county and provincial city maps and a great, highly innovative, survey =
of
London which resulted in a 16-sheet map of London and its immediate
hinterland (1746), and an immense 24-sheet map of the city itself (also
1746), laid out at a very large scale close to 200 feet to an inch. With
much already to his credit, it is perhaps no surprise that in 1753, as =
John
Montague shows in this volume, he briefly contemplated retirement, =
passing
on his business as a going concern to a nephew then based in Mannheim. =
When
that relative showed no interest, however, Rocque continued with renewed
vitality, spending six of the last nine years of his life based in =
Ireland.

Rocque=92s Irish work between 1754 and 1760, included a remarkable =
series of
c.170 manuscript estate maps for the earl of Kildare, and a range of
commercially-driven projects that resulted in finely-engraved and =
printed
surveys of the cities of Dublin, Cork and Kilkenny, a town map of =
Thurles,
county maps of Dublin and Armagh, and a general map (derived mainly from
already-existing sources) of Ireland.(1) It is with his earliest, and
arguably most significant, project that this book is concerned. =
Rocque=92s
Exact Survey of the City and Suburbs of Dublin commenced in the autumn =
of
1754 and was published in four sheets just two years later.
Beautifully-engraved and apparently surveyed with great accuracy, the =
map
was drawn to a similar scale to his London masterpiece, two hundred feet =
to
an inch (1:2400), and portrayed =91all publick buildings, dwelling =
houses,
ware houses, stables, courts, yards &c=92. Shown too are a disparate =
range of
places of worship (taking in, besides the established (Anglican) church,
=91Roman chappels=92, French churches, Presbyterian, Quaker and other =
meeting
houses), while various buildings associated with manufacturing and =
community
activity are identified by name...

...In their short introductory chapters Montague provides a short but
informative briefing on Rocque and his survey, and Lennon gives an =
overview
on Dublin in 1756. The extracts follow, each being placed on a left-hand
page, with the right-hand facing page being given over to a short =
commentary
on some aspect of the area featured in the commentary. Except for the
two-page select bibliography which appears at the end, the commentaries =
are
unreferenced, and it is not possible to determine directly the =
information
sources, for example if use was made of contemporary almanacks or if
recourse was had to the property data embedded in the Registry of Deeds.
Presumably this rather generalised presentation is in the hope of =
avoiding
too much textual overburden, the reasoning being that those interested =
can
refer to the very comprehensively-referenced material in Dublin Part =
II...

...The studies that have been the immediate stimulus for the present =
work
have undoubtedly represented major advances. Nevertheless, explicit and
generous recognition deserves to be offered to those earlier =
contributions,
by Andrews, Ferguson and the Bonar Laws, which have done much to =
facilitate
the present studies.
When this volume is considered overall, these are very minor =
considerations.
As =91a guide to the Georgian city=92, its subtitle, this book works =
well as an
introduction. Most importantly, it will whet the appetite, and so should
stimulate greater interest in the development of Dublin. As well as =
being of
value to those Irish readers already with an interest in their capital =
city,
this book can be recommended to a more general readership, who will find =
in
it much of relevance for a general appreciation of Dublin in the wider
context of city development and city planning in north-west Europe =
during
the 18th century.

FULL TEXT AT
http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1022

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Galegos e irlandeses na di=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E1spora_?=(1830-1950):
elementos para unha comparanza
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Galicia 21: Journal of Contemporary Galician Studies is a refereed
electronic journal co-sponsored by the Centre for Galician Studies in =
Wales
(Bangor University) and Cardiff University

http://www.galicia21journal.org/index.php

Two issues are now available. If you go to that web site and click on =
the
pretty pictures you get into the journal.

I have a great affection for Galicia and its people, which began with a =
cup
of Ribeiro many years ago (Ribeiro is drunk from cups, not glasses...)

Ah. Now. Where was I?

Many Ir-D members will find this article, Galegos e irlandeses na =
di=E1spora
of interest - from Issue B Year 2010. The Abstract, pasted in below, is =
in
English - the full text is in Galician.

Nope, me neither...

If you have a little Portuguese or Spanish you could maybe puzzle it out =
-
in fact I often find that Google pages think Galician is Portuguese.

But things are now much easier. Google Translate now supports Galician.

http://translate.google.com/#

So you can get a rough and ready translation very easily.

Also in Galicia 21: Issue B Year 2010 is a book review, in English...

Manuela Palacios and Laura Lojo, eds. Writing Bonds: Irish and Galician
Contemporary Women Poets. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009.
Review by Vanessa Silva Fern=E1ndez, University of Vigo

P.O'S.


Article Title: Galegos e irlandeses na di=E1spora (1830-1950): elementos =
para
unha comparanza

Author: Xos=E9 Manuel N=FA=F1ez Seixas
Abstract: On the basis of the shared ground of Irish and Galician
emigration overseas since the nineteenth century, this article offers a
comparative analysis of both historical processes and goes beyond the
mythical discourse created by galeguismo (and Galician culture in =
general),
which attempted to draw a parallel between both migratory processes, =
based
on a supposed common ethnic origin. The realities of Irish and Galician
transatlantic migration were similar to an extent. Yet three main =
factors
determine their radical differences: the chronological periods involved =
(the
second half of the nineteenth century in the case of Ireland, and =
1880-1930
in the case of Galicia), the destinations (North America and Australia =
in
the Irish case, and South America in that of Galician), and the =
work-related
and social integration programmes with which the Irish and Galician
populations engaged in their respective host countries. The levels of
organisation and socio-political protest differed between each migrant
community, although both experienced the nationalist and land reform
movements within their elites. By analysing how these variables evolved =
in
both cases, important conclusions can be reached which can be useful for =
the
transnational study of migration movements.

Journal: Galicia 21 : Journal of Contemporary Galician Studies
Issn: 20407181
Year: 2010
Issue: 2
pages/rec.No: 92-108
Key words Migration ; migrant communities ; migrant associations ;
nationalism ; land reform ; celticism.

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and Representing the Other in Irish Chick Lit
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Title: =E2=80=9CStepping Out from the Margins: Ireland, Morality, and =
Representing the Other in Irish Chick Lit.=E2=80=9D
Author: Mary Ryan.
Journal: Nebula
Issn: 14497751
Year: 2010
Volume: 7
Issue: 3
pages/rec.No: 137-149

No Abstract

Conclusion
It has been suggested that any discussion of the changes in Irish =
society over the past few decades =E2=80=9Etends to elicit two views: =
that it has changed completely, and that it has not changed at =
all=E2=80=9F (O=E2=80=9FConnor: 1998, 1). While it is certainly possible =
to argue for the latter view, it is also important to note that life in =
Ireland has undoubtedly changed considerably in recent decades, and =
=E2=80=9Ein modern Ireland things which were once hidden are now being =
told=E2=80=9F (Hill: 2003, 218).

This exploration of Irish chick lit is demonstrating how such novels are =
allowing authors to speak loud and clear about Irish issues, =
particularly those which were once hidden and silenced, and were largely =
related to the notion of Irish morality and purity, which has pervaded =
many areas of Irish life. Until recently, there existed a =
=E2=80=9Enotion that the only sexuality compatible with Irishness is =
marital heterosexuality=E2=80=9F (Pramaggiore: 2006, 118), and issues of =
race and ethnicity were rarely discussed in Irish fiction. That Irish =
chick lit writers are attempting to tackle such topics is a huge step =
towards portraying Ireland as a more tolerant and racially-aware =
society, therefore helping to diminish the traditional =
=E2=80=9Ehomogeneity of the Irish nation in terms of race, gender, and =
sexuality=E2=80=9F (Pramaggiore: 2006, 118). Irish chick lit is thus =
developing into a socially-aware genre in terms of positively =
portraying, and promoting, difference and individuality, and, in doing =
so, may finally help to break the restraints of the notions of Irish =
=E2=80=9Cmorality=E2=80=9D that have repressed and controlled Ireland =
for so long.

Full text available at
http://www.nobleworld.biz/images/Ryan.pdf