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THE UNIVERSITY OF S=C3O PAULO
=A0
FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY, LETTERS AND HUMAN SCIENCES
=A0
W.B. YEATS CHAIR OF IRISH STUDIES
=A0
IRISH EMBASSY IN BRAZIL
=A0
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have the honour of inviting you to the event in tribute to
=A0
Prof. Maureen O=92Rourke Murphy
Hofstra University, New York
=A0
18 March 2011, 9:30 a.m.
=A0
Auditorium of the Faculty of History
Av. Professor Lineu Prestes, 338 - Cidade Universit=E1ria - S=E3o Paulo
=A0

=A0
9:30=A0 =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Opening ceremony
10:00=A0 =A0=A0=A0=A0=93Yeats and the Gaelic Tradition=94
=A0=A0=A0=A0 Prof. Maureen Murphy (Hofstra University, New York)=20
10:45 =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=93From Yeats's Muse to Presidential Performance: =
Women in
Twentieth-=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=20
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Century Ireland=94. Prof. =
Margaret Mac Curtain (University
College Dublin)
11:30 =A0 =A0=A0=A0=A0=93Guimar=E3es Rosa e a Donzela-Guerreira=94 =
(=93Guimar=E3es Rosa and the
Woman
=A0=A0=A0=A0 Warrior=94). =A0Prof. Walnice Nogueira Galv=E3o =
(University of S=E3o
Paulo)
12:30 =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Launching of A Garland of Words. For Maureen =
O=92Rourke Murphy=20
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0(S=E3o Paulo: =
Humanitas/C=E1tedra de Estudos Irlandeses W.B.
Yeats, 2010)
=A0
=A0
Maureen Murphy is Professor of Curriculum and Teaching at the School of
Education, Health and Human Services at Hofstra University.=A0 She was =
one of
the senior editors of the prize-winning Dictionary of Irish Biography
published in nine volumes and on line by the Royal Irish Academy and
Cambridge University Press in 2009.=A0 Murphy also edited Asenath =
Nicholson=92s
Annals of the Famine in Ireland (1998) and Ireland=92s Welcome to the =
Stranger
(2002), Annie O=92Donnell=92s Your Fondest Annie (2005), and, with James
MacKillop, Irish Literature: a Reader (1987, 2006). She is currently =
writing
a biography of Asenath Nicholson. Murphy directed the New York State =
Great
Irish Famine Curriculum Project (2001), which won the National =
Conference
for the Social Studies Excellence Award in 2002. She was also the =
historian
of the Irish Hunger Memorial in Battery Park City.=20
=A0
=A0
Margaret Mac Curtain, born into the new Irish State, took degrees in =
History
at University College Cork and University College Dublin. She was a =
College
Lecturer in Irish History until her retirement, in 1994, and then became
Chair of the National Archives Advisory Council to the government for =
six
years. Mac Curtain co-edited, with seven other women academics, The =
Field
Day Anthology Irish Writing, Vols. V and V: Women=92s Writings and =
Traditions
(1992), and publis hed collected essays on women's history, Ariadne=92s
Thread: Writing Women into Irish History (2008). Margaret Mac Curtain =
has
lectured extensively in Ireland and abroad.
=A0
=A0
Walnice Nogueira Galv=E3o is Emeritus Professor of Literary Theory and
Comparative Literatures at the University of S=E3o Paulo. She has =
published 32
books, 12 of which are on Euclides da Cunha and the War of Canudos. In =
2008,
she was awar ded a prize by the National Library for M=EDnima m=EDmica =
=96 Ensaios
sobre Guimar=E3es Rosa (2008) and in 2010, a prize by the Brazilian =
Academy of
Letters for Euclidiana =96 Ensaios sobre Euclides da Cunha (2009). Other
titles include A forma do falso (1986), A donzela- guerreira (1997),
Desconversa (1998), Le carnaval de Rio (2000) and O tapete afeg=E3o =
(2006). =A0
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Please register your interest in the Atlas of the Great Irish Famine here

http://greatirishfamine.ie/


Regards


Mike

Mike Collins
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Ireland
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CONTENTS
Preface President Mary McAleese
Poem by Eavan Boland
Introduction John Crowley & W. J. Smyth

Section 1 Pre-Famine Ireland (Double page spread)
Introduction
Chapter 1 Pre-Famine Society and Landscape (W J. Smyth)=20
Case study: 1741 Famine (David Dickson)=20
Chapter 2 The failure of the potato and the Famine (John Feehan)
Case study: The Failure of the Potato: Baunreagh, Co. Laois (John =
Feehan)

Section II The Great Hunger (Double page spread)
Introduction
Chapter 3 Ireland and colonial policy (David Nally)
Chapter 4 British Relief measures (Peter Gray)
Box: Sir Charles Trevelyan (Peter Gray)
Chapter 5 Operation of the Poor Law (Christine Kinealy)
Box: Victoria and the Famine (Christine Kinealy)
Case study: =91The largest amount of good=92: Quaker relief efforts =
(Helen
Hatton)

Section III The Workhouse
Chapter: 6 An ethnography of the workhouse (W. J. Smyth)=20
Case study: Lurgan/Portadown Workhouse during the Famine (Gerard Mac
Atasney)
Chapter : 7 Ideology, Architecture and the workhouse (Liz Thomas)
Case study: The Cork Workhouse (Michelle O=92Mahony)

Section IV Population Decline and Social Transformation (Double page =
spread)
Introduction
Chapter 8 Mortality (Cormac =D3 Gr=E1da)
Chapter 9 Medical Relief and the Great Famine (Laurence Geary)
Case study: William Wilde=92s survey of County Cork (Laurence Geary)
Chapter 10 Emigration 1846-1860 (Kerby Miller)
Case study The Great Famine and Religious Demography in mid-nineteenth
century Ulster (Kerby A. Miller, Brian Gurrin and Liam Kennedy)
Chapter 11 Women and the Great Irish Famine (Dympna McLoughlin)
Chapter 12 Landlordism and the Famine (David Butler)

Munster
Introduction=20
Case study: The Mizen Peninsula (Patrick Hickey)
Case study: Clogheen-Burncourt (Willie Smyth)
Case study: The Dingle Peninsula (Kieran Foley)

Connacht=20
Introduction
Case study: Connemara (Kathleen Villiers-Tuthill)
Case study: In the shadow of Sliabh an Iarann, Co. Leitrim (Gerard Mac
Atasney)
Case study: Ballykilcline, Co. Roscommon (Charles Orser)

Leinster
Introduction
Case study: Baltyboys, Co. Wicklow (Matthew Stout)
Case study: Co. Meath during the Famine (Peter Connell)
Case study: Burying the Famine Dead: Kilkenny Workhouse (Jonny Geber)
Case study: Co. Offaly during the Famine (Ciar=E1n Reilly)

Ulster
Introduction
Case study: Belfast=92s Hidden Famine (Christine Kinealy and Gerard Mac
Tasney)
Case study: Monaghan during the Famine (Paddy Duffy)
Case study: Enniskillen (Desmond McCabe)
Case study: The Management of Famine in Donegal in the Hungry Forties =
(Jim
MacLaughlin)

Section V Witnessing the Famine (Double page spread)=20
Introduction
Chapter 13 The Famine in Gaelic manuscripts (Neil Buttimer)
Case study: James Mahony (c.1816-c.1859)
Chapter 14 Asenath Nicholson=92s Famine narrative (Lorraine Chadwick)
Chapter 15 Carlyle=92s journey through Famine Ireland (John Crowley)
Case study: French response to the Great Famine (Grace Neville)

Section VI The Scattering (Double page spread)
Introduction
Chapter 16 Black 47' in Liverpool (Patrick Nugent and Carmen Tunney)=20
Case study: Glasgow, the Famine and the emergence of Glasgow Celtic (Dr =
John
Reid)
Case study: London=92s Famine burial site (Natasha Powers)
Chapter 17 Toronto and the Irish Famine Migration (Mark McGowan)
Box: Gross Ile (Mark McGowan)
Chapter 18 The Famine and New York (Analise Shrout)
Box: New York=92s Famine memorial (Joe Lee)
Chapter 19 The Famine and Australia (Thomas Keneally)
Case Study: =91Week after week, the eviction and the Exodus: Ireland =
and
Moreton Bay, 1848-51 (Jennifer Harrison)

Section VII Legacy (Double page spread)
Introduction
Chapter 20 Post-Famine Ireland (Willie Nolan)
Chapter 21 The Irish language (M=E1ir=E9ad Nic Craith)
Case Study: Co. Cork (M=E1ir=E9ad Nic Craith)=20
Chapter 22 The Irish Diaspora (Piaras Mac=C9inr=ED)

Section VIII Remembering the Famine (Double page spread)
Introduction
Chapter: 23 Folklore and memory (Cathal P=F3irt=E9ir)
Case study: Tadhg =D3 Murch=FA (1842-1928) (Cathal P=F3irt=E9ir)
Chapter: 24 Famine and politics (J Crowley)
Chapter: 25 New Sites of memory (J Crowley)
Box: Commemoratives sites in County Cork=20
Box: Memory and Music (M. Ingoldsby)
Chapter 26 'Strokestown Park House and the National Famine Museum as a =
site
of memory'(Terence Dooley)
Chapter 27 Art and the Famine:(Catherine Marshall)
Chapter 28 Literature and the Famine (Chris Morash)

Section IX Hunger and Famine Today (provisional title)
Introduction
Chapter 29 Famine, food security or food sovereignty? (Colin Sage)=20
Case study: Imaging Famine: Whose Hunger? (Luke Dodd)
Chapter 30 Fighting Hunger: Ireland=92s role (Connell Foley, Policy =
Director,
Concern)

(List of authors not finalized)

SOURCE
http://flavors.me/famine#8fc/custom_plain

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TP McKenna has long been a dignified and professional presence.

I was once at a do with TP McKenna, Peter O'Toole and another Irish actor
whose name I cannot remember. They spent the whole evening telling Gielgud
and Richardson stories. And doing the voices.

P.O'S.


TP McKenna
TP McKenna, the versatile Irish actor who died on Sunday aged 81, brought an
urbane air of authority to his many stage, film and television characters,
often playing lawyers, judges, detectives, priests and bishops.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obitu
aries/8326662/TP-McKenna.html

Theatrical world mourns the loss of Mullagh-born actor, TP McKenna
Mullagh-born actor TP McKenna, who died on Sunday evening, has left an
immense legacy to the world of acting. Forever proud of his Cavan roots, he
was a regular visitor until the onset of illness in recent times.

http://www.anglocelt.ie/news/roundup/articles/2011/02/16/4003240-theatrical-
world-mourns-the-loss-of-mullaghborn-actor-tp-mckenna/

Irish actor TP McKenna dies at the age of 81

The actor TP McKenna had a career spanning five decades
The Irish actor, TP McKenna, who starred in numerous films and TV dramas in
a career spanning five decades, has died at the age of 81.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-12465552

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Discussion of 'Jacobite material culture' has surfaced a number of times on
the Ir-D list over the years - I recall mentions of Jacobite glass.

Ireland and the Irish are a small part of Murray Pittock's analysis, but
fairly seamlessly absorbed. Many Ir-D members will find his summary of the
literature and the arguments useful, and his detailed accounts of specific
objects are enlightening.

The 'theorising' is more critical than constructive. 'Carlo Ginzburg has
suggested that 'the historian' reads into the image only 'what he [sic] has
already learned by other means', not unlike E. H. Gombrich's view that
'language conveys meaning while images are things to which meaning is
given'. But in the Jacobite case the 'other means' that supplement 'the
indeterminacy of the visual' and render it transparent to interpretation are
lacking. In fact, insofar as language is present in Jacobite material
culture, it is usually fragmentary, enciphered, an aid to memorialisation of
an unspoken linguistic sphere - or one only present in cant and catch-phrase
- rather than the contents of that sphere itself...'

But I accept that we are working 'towards' - as the title indicates.

P.O'S.


Treacherous Objects: Towards a Theory of Jacobite Material Culture
MURRAY PITTOCK

Keywords:
Jacobitism; treason; sedition; culture; objects; art; architecture; theory

Abstract
This article examines the importance of material objects and their
circulation, decor, cant and code as means of avoiding prosecution under
sedition or treason legislation in the period from 1680 to 1760. It seeks to
move the discussion of the use of such material in communicative and
associative strategies beyond the realms of antiquarianism and
connoisseurship to develop a theory of Jacobite material culture. The study
concludes with an examination of the work of James Gibbs and a discussion of
interior plasterwork in Scotland and England, notably at the House of Dun.

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Volume 34, Issue 1, pages 39-63, March 2011

'Penal legislation in England, Scotland and especially in Ireland extended
the definition of treason into religious dissent just as the application of
sedition legislation extended it into political dissent...'

murray pittock is Bradley Professor of English Literature at the University
of Glasgow and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is currently
Principal Investigator of an Arts & Humanities Research Council grant on
material culture and popular memory; his recent books include Scottish and
Irish Romanticism (2008) and The Myth of the Jacobite Clans: The Jacobite
Army in 1745 (2009). He is the editor of the Scottish Musical Museum in the
Oxford Burns and of the Political Correspondence in the Yale edition of
Boswell.

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On a train of thought...

This article is freely available at the journal's web site...

Title: Sweden and the Jacobite movement (1715-1718)
Author: Costel Coroban

Abstract: During the second decade of the century of the
Enlightenment, a short interesting episode occurred between the Kingdoms =
of
Britain, Sweden and the Russian Empire. In the context of Sweden=92s =
downfall
as an imperial power, Charles XII, after the return from his stay in the
Ottoman Empire, instructed his minister, G=F6rtz, to surreptitiously =
journey
to the Netherlands in search of finances. The purpose was to revitalize =
what
was left of Sweden=92s maritime power. The only ones interested in =
funding
Charles XII=92s fleet were the Jacobites. They were those English, =
Scots,
Irish and Welsh who were still loyal to the dynasty of James II Stuart =
of
England, exiled during the Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689. James II =
having
died in 1701, they now gathered around his son, Francis Edward Stuart =
(the
Old Pretender). In 1715-1716, the Pretender attempted to invade Britain =
in
order to prevent the succession of George I of Hanover, but failed. =
Through
the Swedish envoys in London and Paris (Gyllenborg and Sparre,
respectively), G=F6rtz tried to obtain an agreement from the Jacobites =
that
money would be secretly loaned to Charles XII in exchange for Sweden =
helping
a new Jacobite invasion. British counterintelligence was well aware of =
these
negotiations. Eventually the government of George I arrested Gyllenborg,
furthermore publishing his documents. This was done in the hope of
internationally isolating Sweden, as the British Hanoverian monarch =
feared a
Russian-Swedish-Jacobite alliance. The topic cannot be fully understood
without taking in consideration the position of the Russian Empire, so a
section of the article is also dedicated to the role played by Russia in
this affair.

Journal: Revista Rom=E2na de Studii Baltice si Nordice
Issn: 20671725
EIssn: 2067225X
Year: 2010
Volume: 2
Issue: 2
pages/rec.No: 131-152
Key words Charles XII ; Sweden ; Jacobites ; Britain ; George I ;
G=F6rtz ; Gyllenborg ; Sparre ; Peter the Great

Freely available at
http://www.arsbn.ro/user/image/04.coroban.pdf

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Global Philadelphia: Immigrant Communities Old and New
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This book has turned up in our alerts.

One chapter is

Changes in the Behavior of Immigrants: The Irish in Philadelphia - Noel J.
J. Farley and Philip L. Kilbride

P.O'S.


Global Philadelphia: Immigrant Communities Old and New By Ayumi Takenaka,
Mary Johnson Osirim

The racial and ethnic composition of Philadelphia continues to diversify as
a new wave of immigrants-largely from Asia and Latin America-reshape the
city's demographic landscape. Moreover, in a globalized economy, immigration
is the key to a city's survival and competitiveness. The contributors to
Global Philadelphia examine how Philadelphia has affected its immigrants'
lives, and how these immigrants, in turn, have shaped Philadelphia.

Providing a detailed historical, ethnographic, and sociological look at
Philadelphia's immigrant communities, this volume examines the social and
economic dynamics of various ethnic populations. Significantly, the
contributors make comparisons to and connections between the traditional
immigrant groups-Germans, Italians, the Irish, Jews, Puerto Ricans, and
Chinese-and newer arrivals, such as Cambodians, Haitians, Indians, Mexicans,
and African immigrants of various nationalities.

While their experiences vary, Global Philadelphia focuses on some of the
critical features that face all immigrant groups-intra-group diversity, the
role of institutions, and ties to the homeland. Taken together, these essays
provide a richer understanding of the processes and implications of
contemporary immigration to the area.

Contributors include: Jennifer Atlas, Rasika Chakravarthy, Keo Chea-Young,
Noel J.J. Farley, Philip L. Kilbride, Garvey F. Lundy, Ajay Nair, Rakhmiel
Peltz, Birte Pfleger, Joan Saverino, Ellen Skilton-Sylvester, Lena Sze,
Victor Vasquez-Hernandez, and the editors.

http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/2029_reg.html

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I have now had a chance to read the TP McKenna obituary in today's =
Guardian.
For theatre folk, it is a much more detailed piece of work by Michael
Coveney, giving a good idea of McKenna's style and career.

It also reminded me of a further detail of my meeting with TP, Peter =
O'Toole
and another Irish actor whose name I cannot remember. See earlier Ir-D
email. TP happened to say that his next project was Pinter's No Man's =
Land,
and there was some discussion of the two main juicy roles. I said that =
I
had seen the original Gielgud and Richardson production. And THAT =
started
them off. So it was all my fault...

P.O'S.

TP McKenna obituary
Versatile Irish stage actor who became a familiar face across British =
drama
=20
Michael Coveney
guardian.co.uk

Before he became a familiar face on television and cinema screens, the
outstanding Irish actor TP McKenna, who has died after a long illness =
aged
81, bridged the gap between the old and the new Abbey theatres in =
Dublin. He
appeared with the company for eight years during the interim period at =
the
Queen's theatre; the old Abbey burned down in 1951, the new one opened =
by
the Liffey in 1966.

During that time he made his reputation as a leading actor of great =
charm,
vocal resource =96 with a fine singing voice =96 and versatility. He was =
equally
adept at comedy and tragedy, a great exponent of the best Irish =
playwriting
from JM Synge and S=E9an O'Casey to Hugh Leonard and Brian Friel. The =
elder
son in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night was a favourite, =
much
acclaimed role...

...For an actor, McKenna was an unusually modest and self-effacing man, =
and
this trait lent a profound transparency and poignancy to those =
performances
that touched on failure and disappointment, notably in Chekhov. You =
never
saw the joins...

...He returned to the Gate several times. The artistic director Michael
Colgan said that his Uncle Vanya there in 1987 was the most moving
performance of his tenure, while his Serebryakov in the same Chekhov =
play, a
few years later, fitted equally well. His whiskey-sodden, disenchanted
ophthalmologist in Friel's Molly Sweeney (1994), a play about regaining
sight but losing faith, was just as potent and memorable, and he played =
a
wonderful double act with Niall Buggy in Pinter's No Man's Land in =
1997...

FULL TEXT AT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/feb/16/tp-mckenna-obituary?INTCMP=3D=
SRCH

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Forwarded on behalf of
Lawrence Switzky [mailto:lawrence.switzky[at]utoronto.ca]=20

CALL FOR PAPERS:
?SHAW WITHOUT BORDERS/SHAW SANS FRONTI=C8RES?

July 25-29, 2011

THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL SHAW SOCIETY CONFERENCE AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH, GUELPH, ONTARIO, CANADA
(SPONSORED BY THE INTERNATIONAL SHAW SOCIETY IN COLLABORATION WITH THE =20
UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH AND THE SHAW FESTIVAL)

Papers (for twenty minute talks) may be on a wide range of topics and =20
written from any critical perspective, but those who choose to speak =20
on the conference topic should address Bernard Shaw?s broad =20
international interests as expressed in his novels, plays, prefaces, =20
speeches, and travels; productions of Shaw?s plays in different =20
countries and languages; ??boundary-free?? internet Shaw; and =20
??copyright-free?? Shaw (in Canada since 2000, and in most other =20
countries from 2020).

The conference schedule will include a visit to the renowned Shaw =20
Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, to see the Festival's =20
fiftieth anniversary productions of at least two Shaw plays. ??A major =20
exhibit of materials from the extensive Shaw collections in the =20
University of Guelph's L. W. Conolly Theatre Archives will be mounted =20
for the conference. ??It is anticipated that conference participants =20
will come from many parts of the world. Some financial support will be =20
available to assist with travel costs.

Abstracts of 300-500 words should be submitted at the conference =20
website, www.shawconference.org. THE DEADLINE IS APRIL 15, 2011.

Applications for travel grants can be found at =20
http://www.shawsociety.org/ISS-Travel-Grants.htm.

Information about the International Shaw Society and its activities =20
can be found at www.shawsociety.org.

Confirmed plenary speakers to date include Michael Billington, theatre =20
critic for the Guardian, Jackie Maxwell, current Artistic Director of =20
the Shaw Festival, Stanley Weintraub, Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus, =20
Pennsylvania State University, and Christopher Newton, Artistic =20
Director Emeritus of the Shaw Festival.

Please send any questions about the conference to issconf[at]uoguelph.ca.

Larry Switzky

Assistant Professor
Department of English and Drama
University of Toronto

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Forwarded on behalf of
Anne Solari [mailto:anne.solari[at]nyu.edu]=20

NYU M.A. in Irish and Irish-American Studies

NYU=92s Graduate School of Arts and Science M.A. in Irish and =
Irish-American
Studies offers students a broad interdisciplinary curriculum that =
emphasizes
new approaches modelled on the best methods of contemporary Humanities =
and
Social Science scholarship.

Our unique Master of Arts in Irish and Irish-American Studies provides
students an interdisciplinary curriculum with top-ranked faculty in =
Irish
and Irish-American History, Literature, Music, Irish Language, and =
Cultural
Studies.

The M.A. degree can be completed in three semesters at NYU=92s Greenwich
Village campus in New York City, or in one calendar year with full-time
summer study in New York and in Dublin. Part-time study is also =
available.=20

Priority application deadline: March 1st.

Financial aid is available.=A0 Fellowships are available for the =
strongest
applicants.

Rolling admissions.

For more information, visit=20
www.irelandhouse.fas.nyu.edu

Glucksman Ireland House
New York University
1 Washington Mews
New York, NY 10003
Phone: (212) 998-3950
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Fax: (212) 995-4373
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David Charles Rose=20
[mailto:oscholars[at]gmail.com]=20

Dear Colleagues,
=20
As you will know, although ACD was born in Edinburgh (like James =
Connolly), both his parents were born in Ireland, and his father's =
brother Henry was Director of the National Gallery. I think that is =
enough to make a sufficient claim to consider him as Irish. He =
certainly was not English under any reasonable definition.
=20
I am setting up an informal group of 'French Friends of Undershaw', this =
being the house, now empty and threatened with 'development', that Conan =
Doyle built in Surrey. The primary task of the group will be to support =
the Save Undershaw Preservation Trust
http://www.saveundershaw.com/
of which I have just been made Paris rep. I hope that, if Undershaw is =
saved, this group will then have the function of supporting any move to =
turn Undershaw into a Conan Doyle 'heritage centre'.
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The Trust is also looking to appoint an Irish rep, and I would be =
grateful if you could forward this letter to anybody whom you think =
might be interested in taking this on. I can send on the guidelines. =20
=20
Julian Barnes, Gyles Brandreth and other English luminaries are =
endorsing the campaign, but the Irish connection should not slip away by =
default.
=20
Your thoughts on this will be very welcome indeed, as well as your =
support for the wider campaign to save Undershaw, all details being on =
the website mentioned above.
=20
Yours sincerely,=EF=BB=BF=20
David Charles Rose=20
___________________________________________________
D.C. Rose M.A. (Oxon), Dip.Arts Admin (NUI-Dublin)
Editor, THE OSCHOLARS and VISIONS; General editor, www.oscholars.com &
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oscholarship/
Editorial Advisory Board, Irish Studies Review and Literary London
Paris correspondent, Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide
Convenor, Magdalen en France
Past President, Soci=C3=A9t=C3=A9 Oscar Wilde en France
1 rue Gutenberg, Paris XV=20
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Forwarded on behalf of
ESRC Centre on Migration, Policy and Society
(COMPAS)
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ESRC Scholarships in Migration=20

Now Available=20

We are pleased to announce that the University of Oxford has=A0recently
become=A0an ESRC Doctoral Training Centre. Within this=A03 ESRC =
scholarships
have been allocated to=A0a Migration Studies Pathway.=A0 It is not too =
late to
apply for this year's intake.

The scholarships=A0are open to=A0students applying to either=A0the MSc =
in Refugee
and Forced Migration Studies and=A0the MSc in Migration Studies (and =
intending
to continue on to a DPhil), or to students applying directly for =
admission
to a DPhil on a migration-related topic.

This pathway recognises the University's research strength in
interdisciplinary migration studies, based in the ESRC Centre on =
Migration,
Policy and Society (COMPAS), the International Migration Institute =
(IMI),
and the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC). Please visit
http://www.compas.ox.ac.uk//news/latest/article/date/2011/02/esrc-scholar=
shi
ps/

for further information.

How to apply
Applicants should first apply to the university for the degree that they
wish to obtain through the standard on-line application procedure - =
deadline
Friday 11th March 2011.
Application for ESRC funding is separate (there is no application form).
Applications should consist of two things:

(1) a doctoral-level proposal (3-4 pp.) containing a description of the
project, the problem to be addressed and the methods to be used, =
together
with a brief timetable for the proposed research; and

(2) a curriculum vitae. Applicants for 1 + 3 (MSc +=A0DPhil)=A0may like =
to warn
their referees, who have submitted references to support their =
application
to the university for the MSc, that they may also be approached for a
statement about the candidate's suitability for doctoral work.
Applications for the ESRC funding should be sent to the Director of =
Graduate
Studies, c/o Ms Marina Kujic, Department of International Development,
University of Oxford, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB, by 12 noon on =
Friday
18th March 2011. (We are unable to accept electronic applications) All
applicants must satisfy the ESRC's citizenship and residence =
requirements
and are advised to acquaint themselves with relevant ESRC sources of
information on these requirements directly. EU citizens are eligible for
'fees only' awards.

ESRC Centre on Migration, Policy and Society
(COMPAS)

University of Oxford,
58 Banbury Road, Oxford,
OX2 6QS

T: +44 (0) 1865 274566
W:www.compas.ox.ac.uk
E:info[at]compas.ox.ac.uk

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Forwarded on behalf of
Dr Stefanie Lehner

CULTURE AFTER CONFLICT:
BETWEEN REMEMBRANCE AND RECONCILIATION
=A0
23rd=A0March 2011 =96 Ulster Museum
10:30AM =96 5:30PM
=A0
The re-establishment of power sharing in May 2007 was a watershed in the
bloody and bitter conflict that blighted Northern Ireland for almost =
four
decades. For the first time since the foundation of the state, Northern
Ireland would be governed by all the main unionist and nationalist =
parties,
suggesting that the promise of the 1998 Agreement for a peaceful, =
stable,
and reconciled society could be fulfilled. This event aims to create a =
forum
to facilitate discussion and debate on the role of culture in =
remembering
the Northern Irish conflict and fostering reconciliation and peace.

PARTICIPANTS INCLUDE: GERRY ANDERSON, ROBERT BALLAGH, PAT COOKE, RITA =
DUFFY,
ALAN GILLIS,=A0=A0ANTHONY HAUGHEY, EAMONN HUGHES, EDNA LONGLEY, MARTIN =
LYNCH,
MEDBH MCGUCKIAN, PHILIP NAPIER, ANTONY O=92KANE, PHILIP ORR,=A0
DAVID PARK, GLENN PATTERSON

Organised by the Institute for British-Irish Studies (IBIS) in =
association
with the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Ulster Museum
=A0
RSVP
Tel: +353 (0)1 716 =
8670=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Email:=
ibis[at]ucd.ie

--=20
Dr Stefanie Lehner


UCD John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies
University College Dublin
Belfield
Dublin 4
Ireland

Email:=A0stefanie.lehner[at]ucd.ie
http://www.ucd.ie/johnhume/thematicareas/profiles/postdoctoral/lehner_ste=
fan
ie.html

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Forwarded on behalf of
Catherine Boone

The School of History and Anthropology is offering School-funded MA
bursaries for UK/EU students and three MA bursaries to pay 50% of fees =
for
international students taking the following programmes:

MA Ancient History=20
MA Irish History (Strands in Irish Women=92s History, in Culture, =
Politics &
Identity, and in Irish Migration)
MA Modern History (Strands in British, British Intelligence, American =
and in
Medieval History)
MA Irish Studies=20
MA Cognition and Culture
MA Social Anthropology

There are also two Special bursaries that will pay fees at UK/EU level =
and
are also open to international students. One is a bursary in British
intelligence for someone enrolled on that strand of the MA Modern =
History.
The other is a bursary in Irish Migration Studies for a student enrolled =
in
that strand of the MA Irish History programme.

Details of our taught programmes can be found at:
http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofHistoryandAnthropology/ProspectiveSt=
ude
nts/PostgraduateMADegrees/

Our postgraduate funding is also detailed on our webpages at:
http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofHistoryandAnthropology/ProspectiveSt=
ude
nts/PostgraduateFunding/SchoolPostgraduateFunding/

I would be very grateful if you could circulate the information above to =
any
interested students or e-mail contact lists.=A0

Please don=92t hesitate to get in touch if you have any queries.

Best wishes, Catherine

Catherine Boone
Postgraduate Administration and Marketing
School of History and Anthropology
Queen's University Belfast
Belfast BT7 1NN
Tel: +44 (0) 28 9097 3325
Fax: +44 (0) 28 9097 3440
E-mail: c.boone[at]qub.ac.uk
School website: www.qub.ac.uk/historyandanthropology

Queen's is approved by the US Department of Education for participation =
in
the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) programme, a source of loan =
funding
for US applicants to our postgraduate programmes. Postgraduate funding
information can be found at www.qub.ac.uk/historyandanthropology
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PETER LANG - International Academic Publishers
are pleased to announce a new book by

Neil O'Boyle

NEW VOCABULARIES, OLD IDEAS
Culture, Irishness and the Advertising Industry

Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2011.
XVI, 217 pp., 1 table
Reimagining Ireland. Vol. 22
Edited by Eamon Maher

ISBN 978-3-03911-978-3 pb.

Advertisements are often viewed as indices of cultural change, just as the
advertising industry is often imagined as innovative and transformative.
Advancing from an alternative position, which borrows much from
practice-based research, this book instead highlights the routinisation of
practices and representations in advertising. Drawing extensively from his
own study, the author uses Irishness to investigate the relationship between
cultural symbolism in advertising and the cultural vocabularies of
advertising practitioners. While globalisation and immigration to Ireland
have putatively unhinged taken-for-granted understandings of Irish identity,
the author argues that representations of Ireland and Irishness in the
global context continue to draw from a stock of particularisms and that
advertising practitioners continue to operate with largely essentialist
understandings of culture and identity. As the first of its kind in Ireland,
this book makes a case for renewed attention to advertising by academic
scholars and promotes the benefits of interdisciplinary research.


Contents:
The Irish Advertising industry and internationalisation - Advertising and
Irish identity - Irishness and the nation brand - Cultural encoding in
advertising - The cultural vocabularies of advertising producers in Ireland
- Knowing what it means to be Irish - The Smithwick's 'Locals' Campaign.

'Neil O'Boyle's study of Irishness and the Irish advertising business
significantly enriches our understanding of important industrial and
cultural phenomena. His deft analysis treats a number of key and
interrelated dynamics including national identity, representation and
self-representation, consumerism and globalisation. Among the book's many
strengths is the way it opens up a lens on Celtic Tiger circumstances in a
post-Celtic Tiger era.' (Diane Negra, Professor of Film Studies and Screen
Culture, University College Dublin)


Neil O'Boyle lectures in the School of Communications at Dublin City
University and is Director of the International Media, Interculturalism and
Migration research cluster.

Direct order:
http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?vLang=E&vID=11978

e-mail:
mailto:info[at]peterlang.com

Internet:
http://www.peterlang.com

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Many Ir-D members have been following with interest the 1641 Depositions
project.

The Dissemination Conference is taking place this weekend.

Links and comment below.

P.O'S.


Fully searchable digital edition of the 1641 Depositions at Trinity College
Dublin Library, comprising transcripts and images of all 8,000 depositions,
examinations and associated materials in which Protestant men and women of
all classes told of their experiences following the outbreak of the
rebellion by the Catholic Irish in October, 1641...

http://1641.tcd.ie/

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/1641-depositions/

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/1641-depositions/press-book/

Dissemination Conference

Collaborative Research on the 1641 Depositions - Process and Impact' is an
interdisciplinary conference which aims to explore the digital humanities',
socio-linguistic, socio-historical, political, religious, and legal aspects
of the Aberdeen 1641 project. It will bring together a distinguished
international group of researchers from a broad variety of disciplines.

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/1641-depositions/events/


1641 Rebellion massacre reports based on hearsay, study shows
In this section >

CHARGES THAT thousands of Protestants settlers were massacred during the
1641 Rebellion in Ireland were often based on hearsay, according to a new
high-tech analysis of thousands of 450-year-old witness statements.

The new research by University of Aberdeen and computer experts, aided by
up-to-the-minute linguistics software, will be unveiled this morning.

FULL TEXT AT

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0218/1224290141110.html


How lies about Irish 'barbarism' in 1641 paved way for Cromwell's atrocities
Conference hears how 17th century 'dodgy dossier' spread stories about
Catholics ripping open pregnant Protestant women

Hearsay evidence and bible-inspired testimony inflamed popular fears about
the "barbaric" Catholic Irish after the 1641 Rebellion, according to
linguistic analysis of the world's first war crimes investigation.

A two-day academic conference (18-19 February) will expose unsubstantiated
propaganda within the 31 handwritten volumes of witness statements that
provided Oliver Cromwell with justification for his subsequent slaughter of
defeated garrisons at Drogheda and Wexford.

Described as a prototype "dodgy dossier" featuring allegations of
cannibalism, the 17th-century accounts of atrocities committed against
Protestant settlers have been put online for the first time.

FULL TEXT AT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/18/1641-irish-rebellion-anti-cathol
ic-propaganda

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The Construction of Irish Identity in American Literature By
Christopher Dowd
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Parts of the book are visible on Google Books. And there are ebook
versions.

P.0'S.


The Construction of Irish Identity in American Literature
By Christopher Dowd

Price: =A380.00
Binding/Format: Hardback
ISBN: 978-0-415-88043-5
Publish Date: 16th July 2010
Imprint: Routledge
Pages: 220 pages
Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

This book examines the development of literary constructions of
Irish-American identity from the mid-nineteenth century arrival of the
Famine generation through the Great Depression. It goes beyond an =
analysis
of negative Irish stereotypes and shows how Irish characters became the =
site
of intense cultural debate regarding American identity, with some =
writers
imagining Irishness to be the antithesis of Americanness, but others
suggesting Irishness to be a path to Americanization.

This study emphasizes the importance of considering how a sense of =
Irishness
was imagined by both Irish-American writers conscious of the process of
self-definition as well as non-Irish writers responsive to shifting =
cultural
concerns regarding ethnic others. It analyzes specific iconic =
Irish-American
characters including Mark Twain=92s Huck Finn and Margaret Mitchell=92s =
Scarlet
O=92Hara, as well as lesser-known Irish monsters who lurked in the =
American
imagination such as T.S. Eliot=92s Sweeney and Frank Norris=92 McTeague.

As Dowd argues, in contemporary American society, Irishness has been =
largely
absorbed into a homogenous white culture, and as a result, it has become =
a
largely invisible ethnicity to many modern literary critics. Too often, =
they
simply do not see Irishness or do not think it relevant, and as a =
result,
many Irish-American characters have been de-ethnicized in the critical
literature of the past century. This volume reestablishes the importance =
of
Irish ethnicity to many characters that have come to be misread as
generically white and shows how Irishness is integral to their stories.

List of Figures Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Staging Ireland =
in
America 2: "Sivilizing" Irish America 3: The Invisible Ethnicity 4:
Replacing the Immigrant Narrative Afterword: Huck Finn=92s People Notes
Bibliography Index

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415880435/

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Southern Cultures Volume 17, Number 1, Spring 2011 - the Irish issue - has
now appeared. Southern Cultures issues are always interesting - many
illustrations and photographs, personal engagement with historical material,
plus sober research...

P.O'S.

Southern Cultures
Volume 17, Number 1, Spring 2011

E-ISSN: 1534-1488 Print ISSN: 1068-8218
Table of Contents

Essays
"A lengthening chain in the shape of memories": The Irish and Southern
Culture
William R. Ferris
pp. 9-29

Subject Headings:
Ferris, William R. -- Family.
Irish -- Southern States -- History.
Ireland -- Relations -- Southern States.
Southern States -- Relations -- Ireland.

Tara, the O'Haras, and the Irish Gone With the Wind
Geraldine Higgins
pp. 30-49

Subject Headings:
Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949. Gone with the wind.
Irish Americans in literature.
National characteristics, Irish, in literature.

Another "Lost Cause": The Irish in the South Remember the Confederacy
David T. Gleeson
pp. 50-74

Subject Headings:
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, Irish
American.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects --
Southern States.
Collective memory -- Southern States.

Blacks and Irish on the Riverine Frontiers: The Roots of American Popular
Music
Christopher J. Smith
pp. 75-102

Subject Headings:
Minstrel music -- United States -- History and criticism.
African Americans -- Relations with Irish Americans.
African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism.

Smoke 'n' Guns: A Preface to a Poem about Marginal Souths, and then the Poem

Conor O'Callaghan
pp. 103-112

Subject Headings:
O'Callaghan, Conor, 1968-
Irish -- Southern States.
Southern States -- Social conditions.

Contributors
About the Contributors
p. 113

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David Gleeson's article from the latest issue of Southern Cultures...

Southern Cultures
Volume 17, Number 1, Spring 2011
E-ISSN: 1534-1488 Print ISSN: 1068-8218
DOI: 10.1353/scu.2011.0005
David T. Gleeson
Another "Lost Cause": The Irish in the South Remember the Confederacy
Southern Cultures - Volume 17, Number 1, Spring 2011, pp. 50-74

The University of North Carolina Press

In 1877 a group of prominent Irish Americans met in Charleston to
commemorate the Irish Volunteers in the Confederate States of America. The
original volunteers, Company C of the Charleston Battalion, later Company H
of the 27th South Carolina Infantry, had participated in all the major
battles around Charleston between 1861 and 1864 before being sent to the
trenches of Petersburg, Virginia, in the summer of 1864. Confederate and
Union dead side-by-side, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865
courtesy of the Collections of the Library of Congress In 1877 a group of
prominent Irish Americans met in Charleston to commemorate the Irish
Volunteers in the Confederate States of America. Two companies of that name
had served during the American Civil War in South Carolina, Virginia, and
North Carolina. The original volunteers, Company C of the Charleston
Battalion, later Company H of the 27th South Carolina Infantry, had
participated in all the major battles around Charleston between 1861 and
1864, including...

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Dear Colleagues,

Further to my puff for saving Conan Doyle's house, I learn that the current
owner - Fossway Ltd - seems to be registered in the British Virgin Islands
with directors called Des Moore and Neil Caffrey. I thought of Bernard Shaw
s 'There's never an Irishman hanged without there's another pulling on the
rope'.

More info at http://www.saveundershaw.com/words-of-support/

David