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From: john hearne [mailto:hearnejmp[at]hotmail.com]=20
Subject: RE: [IR-D] TOC Atlas of the Great Irish Famine

Paddy
could you or an Ir-D member let me know who is/are the editor/s of Atlas =
of
the Great Irish Famine, and the contact details.
Regards
John=A0
=A0

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TOC pasted in below. PDF of TOC and Editors' Inroduction can be found =
at the web site.

http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/New-Religion-in-Ireland--Alternative-Spiritua=
lities--Migrant-Religions--The-New-Age-and-New-Religiou1-4438-2588-3.htm


Ireland's New Religious Movements
Editor: Olivia Cosgrove, Laurence Cox, Carmen Kuhling and Peter =
Mulholland

Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Date Of Publication: Jan 2011
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-2588-7
Isbn: 1-4438-2588-3

Until recently, Irish religion has been seen as defined by Catholic =
power in the South and sectarianism in the North. In recent years, =
however, both have been shaken by widespread changes in religious =
practice and belief, the rise of new religious movements, the revival of =
magical-devotionalism, the arrival of migrant religion and the spread of =
New Age and alternative spirituality.

This book is the first to bring together researchers exploring all these =
areas in a wide-ranging overview of new religion in Ireland. Chapters =
explore the role of feminism, Ireland as global =E2=80=98Celtic=E2=80=99 =
homeland, the growth of Islam, understanding the New Age, evangelicals =
in the Republic, alternative healing, Irish interest in Buddhism, =
channelled teachings and religious visions.

This book will be an indispensable handbook for professionals in many =
fields seeking to understand Ireland=E2=80=99s increasingly diverse and =
multicultural religious landscape, as well as for students of religion, =
sociology, psychology, anthropology and Irish Studies. Giving an =
overview of the shape of new religion in Ireland today and models of the =
best work in the field, it is likely to remain a standard text for many =
years to come.


TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations viii=20
List of Tables ix=20

Chapter One 1=20
Editors=E2=80=99 Introduction: Understanding Ireland=E2=80=99s New =
Religious Movements=20
Olivia Cosgrove, Laurence Cox, Carmen Kuhling and Peter Mulholland=20

Chapter Two 28=20
Mapping the =E2=80=9CNew Religious Landscape=E2=80=9D and the =
=E2=80=9CNew Irish=E2=80=9D:=20
Uses and Limitations of the Census=20
Malcolm Macourt=20

Part I: The Changing Religious Faces of Ireland=20
The Long History of New Religions in Ireland=20

Chapter Three 53=20
The Wild Irish girl and the =E2=80=9CDalai Lama of Little =
Thibet=E2=80=9D: =20
The Long Encounter between Ireland and Asian Buddhism=20
Laurence Cox and Maria Griffin=20

Chapter Four 74=20
Inventing the Concept of Celtic Buddhism: A Literary and Intellectual=20
Tradition=20
John L Murphy=20

Alternative Spiritualities and New Religious Movements =20
in Contemporary Ireland=20

Chapter Five 97=20
Irish Travellers and =E2=80=9CPowerful=E2=80=9D Priests: An Alternative =
Response =20
to New Age Healing Techniques=20
Attracta Brownlee vi Table of Contents=20

Chapter Six 111=20
Irish Neo-paganism: World-view and Identity=20
Jenny Butler=20

Chapter Seven 131=20
The Changing Face of Irish Christianity: The Evangelical Christian=20
Movement in the Republic=20
Ruth Jackson Noble=20

Chapter Eight 147=20
A Course in Miracles in Ireland: From Channelled Authority =20
to Therapy and Self-help=20
Ruth Bradby=20

Making Sense of Religious Experience=20

Chapter Nine 165=20
The Psychological Dimension of Religious Experience: Spirituality =20
and Schizotypy=20
Diarmuid B Verrier and Brian M Hughes

Chapter Ten 176=20
Marian Apparitions, the New Age and the F=C3=81S Prophet
Peter Mulholland=20

Part II: Irish religion as global=20
The Globalised Irish Religious Market=20

Chapter Eleven 201=20
New Age Re-enchantment in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland
Carmen Kuhling=20

Chapter Twelve 220=20
=E2=80=9CBecoming Whole=E2=80=9D: An Exploration of Women=E2=80=99s =
Choices in the Holistic=20
and New Age Movement in Ireland=20
Ciara O=E2=80=99Connor Ireland=E2=80=99s New Religious Movements vii

Chapter Thirteen 240=20
A Crucial Site of Difference? Minority Religions and Attitudes =20
to Globalisation in Ireland=20
Olivia Cosgrove=20

Ireland as Global Homeland=20

Chapter Fourteen 262=20
Irish Base, Global Religion: The Fellowship of Isis
Catherine Maignant=20

Chapter Fifteen 281=20
=E2=80=9CCelticity=E2=80=9D in Australian Alternative Spiritualities=20
Carole M Cusack=20

Chapter Sixteen 300=20
=E2=80=9CCeltic Spirituality=E2=80=9D in Contemporary Ireland=20
Bo=C5=9Cena Gierek
Migrant Religion in Ireland=20

Chapter Seventeen 318=20
Islam in Ireland: Organising a Migrant Religion=20
Oliver Scharbrodt=20

Chapter Eighteen 337=20
Turkish Islam in Ireland: Exploring the Modus Operandi =20
of Fethullah G=C3=BClen=E2=80=99s Neo-brotherhood=20
Jonathan Lacey=20

List of Abbreviations 358=20
Bibliography 360=20
Contributors 405=20
Index 408

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I am assuming - as a matter of policy - that people who are very interested
in the elections in the Republic of Ireland will get their information
elsewhere, and we do not need the Irish Diaspora list to mirror that
discussion.

Discussion of the future of the Irish language and of emigration have become
part of the debates - but only to a certain extent.

When I was last in Ireland I introduced the joke about the Celtic Ostrich.
That's it really - whenever you are asked to discuss the Celtic Tiger you
speak about the Celtic Ostrich. It's not a great joke, but my taxi driver
laughed, and asked if he could pass it on.

In the background is, I admit, some irritation. I spent a lot of time
looking at explanations of the Celtic Tiger - sorry, Ostrich. A lot of time
on the receiving end of explanations. And saying, puzzled, but this does
not add up. I am not alone, or unusual, in that, of course...

In the meantime I thought that Irish Diaspora list members might like to
look at Tarquin Blake's book and web site, Abandoned Ireland.

http://www.abandonedireland.com/start.html

http://www.abandonedireland.com/Book.html

There are no prizes for spotting the source of the quotation on his first
page...

'You may go anywhere you wish in the castle, except where the doors are
locked, where of course you will not wish to go...'

P.O'S.

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a fortune
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Message-ID: {decoded}Given the imminence of the Irish general election, Irish broadcaster Fergal Keane travels to Ireland to explore the state of contemporary Ireland and the stark prospects which confront those making decisions about the future:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00z0fyd/Panorama_How_to_Blow_a_Fortune/

Makes for bleak viewing and demonstrates the folly of hubris.

Steven
Birmingham City University
B42 2SU

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We have now heard from

Peter Mulholland [mailto:mulhollandp[at]hotmail.com]

He suggests looking at...
http://nrmireland.net/

Current debates: new religion(s) in Ireland
'Alternative spiritualities, new religious movements and the New Age in
Ireland' conference report, NUI Maynooth, 30-31 October 2009

Conference Report by LAURENCE COX, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
http://eprints.nuim.ie/2197/1/LC-Alternative_spiritualities.pdf


Ireland's New Religious Movements - List of Contents and sample:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/47522544/Ireland-s-New-Religious-Movements-PDF-Sam
ple

Peter notes 'Some list-members might also be interested in material posted
on my blog at http://orangecitadel.blogspot.com/
though some might find it contentious'

And Peter Mulholland reports that an Irish Society for the Academic Study of
Religion is in the process of formation. He adds 'Ireland being probably
the last country in Europe to have such.'

P.O'S.

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This is good news. Are there any contact details?

The short-lived Irish Religious History Society was founded in 1985 but fol=
ded when its secretary, Peter Brooke, Ulster Presbyterianism (1994, 9) resi=
gned in protest at the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement. A more broadly=
-based Society for the History of Religion in Ireland was formed in Septemb=
er 1995. I'm not sure what happened to it.
Brian Lambkin


And Peter Mulholland reports that an Irish Society for the Academic Study o=
f
Religion is in the process of formation. He adds 'Ireland being probably
the last country in Europe to have such.'

P.O'S.



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Subject: Call for Contributions - National Library of Ireland Newspaper
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The National Library of Ireland in association with the Newspaper &
Periodical History Forum of Ireland would like to invite submissions for its
Newspaper Descriptors Project. It is proposed that short descriptors or pen
notes be written for any of the newspaper titles listed in the National
Library's Newspaper Database
http://www.nli.ie/en/catalogues-and-databases-printed-newspapers.aspx

Descriptors should be 300-350 words in length and contain the following
elements:

1. Title of newspaper & dates of first appearance and end of publication
2. Proprietors, funding & company structure
3. Editors/significant journalists
4. Circulation figures (if known)
5. Comment on main policies advocated & political affiliation
6. Histories - .i.e. any publications about the newspaper; Are the
proprietors, editors, journalists included in the Dictionary of Irish
Biography, Oxford DNB, etc

All descriptor pieces should be authored. Contributors can cite themselves
as being contributors to the National Library's Newspaper Descriptors
Project.

Perspective contributors should indicate to the editor
Justin Furlong at jfurlong[at]nli.ie
why they feel it is appropriate for them to write the entry on a particular
title.


Justin Furlong
Newspapers/Periodicals Librarian
National Library of Ireland

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Subject: Famine Atlas: Here is publisher's Web page (w/ editors named).
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In reply to John Hearne's enquiry:=20

See Web page on this upcoming product at:

=
http://corkuniversitypress.typepad.com/cork_university_press/2011/02/cork-=
university-press-signs-contract-for-book-on-the-great-irish-famine-.html

"Authors list not finalised" is stated at the foot of this notice, yet =
Cork UP told me only yesterday that the project (pub date, 2012) was=20
"at an advanced stage", not accepting additional contributors, alas. (I =
had proposed an exciting essay on Irish women's political critique=20
of the Famine years, a subject worthy a dedicated essay, with a suitably =
explicit title along such lines.) These leviathan-scale projects can=20
and do change, so John Hearne should not be discouraged ~ he should =
message the three editors, in any case, expressing interest and so on.=20=

Irish Stds scholars stateside have made a serious contribution to this =
subject, of course, such as getting the Famine officially accepted=20
into school curricula, in New York state and elsewhere; view =
http://www.irishcentral.com/IrishAmerica/Education-and-Debate-93284999.htm=
l .=20
The importance of the Famine Atlas cannot be overstated, and we wish the =
associates every success. =20


MEM
Brooklyn, NY; Princeton, NJ.
http://www.yeatssociety.org/JackYeats_Mulvihill.html

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CROSSROADS

Irish-American Festival, 2011 - San Francisco



=B2 =B2 =B2

Contact: Hillary Flynn, 415-810-3774 or

Margaret McPeake

707-235-9858



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



Crossroads Irish-American Festival Announces Winners

of the First Annual

Crossroads Irish-American Writing Contest



The 8th Annual Crossroads Irish-American Festival is pleased to =20
announce the winners of the First Annual Crossroads Irish-American =20
Festival Writing Contest in the genre of memoir.



Michael Carolan of Belchertown, MA is the recipient of the First Prize =20=

Award for this contest with his submission entitled, "Perpetual =20
Hunger". This prize comes with a $300 cash award plus round-trip =20
airfare to San Francisco and a two-night hotel stay. Additionally, =20
Michael will be a featured reader at a literary event on Tuesday, =20
March 15th, 2011 as part of the 8th Annual Crossroads Irish-American =20
Festival.

=93I am honored to have received the first annual Crossroads Irish-=20
American Festival Writing Award,=94 Carolan said. =93My imagination was =
=20
captivated by my Irish heritage since I discovered a little unknown =20
record of my ancestors on a sailing ship that crossed the Atlantic in =20=

1847. This contest provided me the opportunity to tell that narrative =20=

as well as my own, and reflect on the meaning of =93Irish-American=94 in =
=20
the new millennium. The Festival has created a unique space for =20
writers, poets, artists, performers, and musicians to experience the =20
multiple dimensions of the Irish-American experience in the world =20
today.=94

Michael Carolan was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He is a 2009 =20
graduate of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he was =20
nominated for the Distinguished Teacher Award and received his MFA in =20=

Creative Writing. He writes fiction and nonfiction and teaches =20
writing and literature at Clark University in Worcester, =20
Massachusetts. He is the recipient of writing awards from the =20
Atlantic Monthly magazine, the Virginia Press Association, the =20
University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and the University of Kansas-=20
Lawrence, where he received degrees in English and Journalism. He =20
lives in Western Massachusetts with his wife and two children.



John D. Maloney of Fremont, CA is the recipient of an Honorable =20
Mention Award with his submission entitled, "=46rom Irish Brogues to =20
Mexican-American Accents: An Irish-American Memoir of Seventy-Four =20
Years A-Growin=92".

=93I have always had a deep interest in my Irish and Irish-=20=

American heritages, especially their literatures,=94 said Maloney.

John Maloney, Professor Emeritus of English, was born in New York City =20=

of Irish parents. Before his retirement from College teaching in =20
2000, he had been an educator for 38 years teaching on all levels from =20=

elementary school through college. He was the recipient of an award =20
from the California Teachers Association for Innovative Instruction. =20=

His profession as an educator linked him to the long line of teachers =20=

in his maternal grandmother=92s family, which stretched back to the =20
English Government-prohibited Hedge teachers of early 19th Century =20
Ireland.

John has a masters degree from the New College of California and has, =20=

since his retirement, spent the past six years as a volunteer in a low-=20=

income, inner city Mexican-American neighborhood teaching middle =20
school students to play the traditional Irish tin whistle, which he =20
studied informally at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at =20
the University of Limerick.



Join us at "Open Mic Night" on Tuesday, March 15th, 2011 when will =20
host an awards celebration for the winners of this contest. This =20
event is part of the 8th Annual Crossroads Irish-American Festival =20
(running from March 4-25, 2011 in San Francisco) and will also be an =20
'open mic' opportunity for writers in the community to read from their =20=

memoirs (time limited, five minutes per reader) about the meaning of =20
an Irish-American heritage.



We especially welcome all individuals who submitted their work of =20
memoir to the contest to join us! This event will be held on Tuesday, =20=

March 15th, 2011 from 7-9pm at St. Patrick's Church, McKenna Hall, 756 =20=

Mission Street (between 3rd & 4th Sts) in San Francisco.



About The Crossroads Irish-American Festival and its Writing Contest

The Crossroads Irish-American Festival promotes the discovery and =20
understanding of the Irish experience in the Americas to ensure that =20
the richness of the arts, culture, history and traditions of this =20
heritage are both held in great esteem and preserved for generations =20
to come. We achieve this mission through the production of events and =20=

projects that promote Irish-American culture and heritage with an =20
emphasis on the Irish and Irish-American communities of the San =20
Francisco Bay Area. Through the establishment of a Crossroads Irish-=20
American Writing Contest, we wish to support and develop the voices of =20=

Irish-American writing.

Crossroads is interested in the varied and multiple ways in which one =20=

can be "Irish" in "America". In this sense, to be Irish-American =20
means that one can be first or fifth generation, with or without a =20
diversity of other ethnic/racial inheritances. We are interested in =20
all of the possible ways that the Irish have impacted and shaped =20
experience, identity, culture and society in each and every corner of =20=

the Americas.

We started with memoir in this inaugural writing contest as it has =20
been a strength in Irish-American expression. Through this contest, =20
we endeavor to spur and support the development of memoir from new and =20=

aspiring writers, wishing to add their voice to this growing =20
repository of tradition.

The readers of this inaugural contest include: Michael Patrick =20
MacDonald, author, All Souls: A family Story =46rom Southie and Easter =20=

Rising: A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion; Patricia Monaghan, author, =20
Red-Haired Girl =46rom The Bog: The Landscape of Celtic Myth and =20
Spirit; James Silas Rogers, editor, New Hibernia Review: A Quarterly =20=

Record of Irish Studies; and Maureen Waters, author, Crossing =20
Highbridge: A Memoir of Irish America.

Future Writing Contests



In 2010, the inaugural year of the writing contest, we solicited =20
submissions in the genre of memoir. We aim to hold a writing contest =20=

every year and in future years we will solicit submissions in =20
different genres.



For more information about the First Annual Crossroads Irish-American =20=

Writing Contest and about the 8th Annual Crossroads Irish-American =20
Festival, please go to: www.irishamericancrossroads.org.







###



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On Feb 19, 2011, at 6:40 AM, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:

> 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 =20
> analysis
> of negative Irish stereotypes and shows how Irish characters became =20=

> the site
> of intense cultural debate regarding American identity, with some =20
> 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 =20
> Irishness
> was imagined by both Irish-American writers conscious of the process =20=

> of
> self-definition as well as non-Irish writers responsive to shifting =20=

> cultural
> concerns regarding ethnic others. It analyzes specific iconic Irish-=20=

> American
> characters including Mark Twain=92s Huck Finn and Margaret Mitchell=92s =
=20
> Scarlet
> O=92Hara, as well as lesser-known Irish monsters who lurked in the =20
> American
> imagination such as T.S. Eliot=92s Sweeney and Frank Norris=92 =
McTeague.
>
> As Dowd argues, in contemporary American society, Irishness has been =20=

> largely
> absorbed into a homogenous white culture, and as a result, it has =20
> become a
> largely invisible ethnicity to many modern literary critics. Too =20
> often, they
> simply do not see Irishness or do not think it relevant, and as a =20
> result,
> many Irish-American characters have been de-ethnicized in the critical
> literature of the past century. This volume reestablishes the =20
> importance of
> Irish ethnicity to many characters that have come to be misread as
> generically white and shows how Irishness is integral to their =20
> stories.
>
> List of Figures Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Staging =20
> 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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George Sigerson book-launch, Cardinal =D3 Fiaich Library

BOOK ON LIFE OF GREAT TYRONE, ULSTER AND IRISHMAN TO BE LAUNCHED IN =D3 =
FIAICH
LIBRARY
=20
The extraordinary career of one of the greatest historical figures from
Tyrone, Ulster and Ireland will be revived at a launch of a biography of =
Dr
George Sigerson (1836-1925) at the Cardinal =D3 Fiaich Library and =
Archive,
Armagh, on next Tuesday, 1 March, at 7.30 p.m. From a local perspective, =
Dr
Sigerson - who was born at Holyhill, near Strabane, is generally =
remembered
little more than as the man who wrote the words of the Tyrone 'anthem', =
The
Mountains of Pomeroy, and the man who presented the Sigerson Cup for
inter-varsity Gaelic football. In truth, however, these were rather =
minor
details in a long life of achievement. Over several decades, Sigerson =
was
one of the most eminent figures in Ireland in the fields of medicine and
science, university life, literary, linguistic and political affairs.

...Ken McGilloway will be present at the event in the Cardinal =D3 =
Fiaich
Library to speak and sign copies of his book. Joseph Martin, author of =
the
acclaimed history, The GAA in Tyrone, will formally launch it. =
Tea/coffee
will be served complimentary.
=20
The book will also be launched at Strabane's Alley Theatre on Monday 28
February, and at the National Library of Ireland, Dublin, on Wednesday 2
March. The Dublin launch of the book will be preceded by the unveiling =
of a
plaque on Sigerson's long-term residence in Dublin, 3 Clare Street, by =
the
Lord Mayor of Dublin. On the following day, Thursday 3 March, the =
centenary
Sigerson Cup finals weekend will commence at University College Dublin. =
It
is hoped that these events, as well as the launch of this book, will =
lead to
a heightened public awareness of the significance of Dr Sigerson.
=20
The book, George Sigerson: Poet, Patriot, Scientist and Scholar, is
published by the Ulster Historical Foundation, and retails at =A316.99. =
For
further details of the launch at the Cardinal =D3 Fiaich Library, please
contact D=F3nal at 37-522981 or e-mail dmcanallen[at]ireland.com.

SOURCE
http://www.hoganstand.com/armagh/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=3D142859

See also
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-12524276

http://mcgillowaygallery.com/default.aspx

http://www.tad.ie/images/data/gallery/0_3968_George%20Sigerson%20Flyer[1]=
.pd
f

etc.

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Ainmeil Thar Cheudan
Comharrachadh Ceud Bliadhna air

Somhairle MacGill-Eain (1911-2011)
A Centenary Celebration of Sorley MacLean (1911-2011)

Thursday 16 - Saturday 18 June 2011
Sabhal M=C3=B2r Ostaig, Isle of Skye

In commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Sorley MacLean (1911 - =
1996) Sabhal M=C3=B2r Ostaig and the Scottish Centre for Island Studies, =
Faculty of Business and Creative Industries, University of the West of =
Scotland invite you to join in a celebration of his life, work and =
legacy. It is anticipated that this event will offer a range of academic =
and creative responses to Sorley=E2=80=99s cultural and political legacy =
with particular=20
attention to his deep roots and referencing of island culture, history =
and experience. Furthermore, this proposed event will explore, with both =
established and more recently introduced scholars and artists, the=20
signi=EF=AC=81cance and importance of Sorley MacLean within the wider =
context of the national culture of Scotland, the cultural terrain of the =
Highlands and Islands, and the cultural engagement of the 20th century =
Scottish left.

The academic focus will be a two day event structured around a selection =
of papers and discussion panels, as well as performance and creative =
practice activity detailing both Sorley=E2=80=99s own work and his =
inspiration to others. In keeping with the internationalist perspectives =
that permeate Sorley=E2=80=99s own work, the event will be framed as an =
opportunity to offer an appreciation of what experiences and =
understanding of island life and culture, and of an island sense of =
place and dwelling, speci=EF=AC=81cally but not exclusively in reference =
to Scotland, informed Sorley in his creative work and commentary.
=20
CFP: Papers are invited, in Gaelic or English, on any aspect of =
Sorley=E2=80=99s life and work.

Contributors may wish to consider themes such as:=20
> Poetic and Political Legacy
> Islands: Places and Representations
> History, Scholarship, Collections
> Creative Identity, Practice and Performance
Please send a 300 word abstract to either
Rody Gorman sm00rg[at]groupwise.uhi.ac.uk=20
or Kathryn A Burnett kathryn.burnett[at]uws.ac.uk=20
by the deadline of March 18th 2011. =20

This event is co-hosted by the Scottish Centre for Island Studies, =
Faculty of Business and Creative Industries, University of the West of =
Scotland and Sabhal M=C3=B2r Ostaig UHI, the National Centre for Gaelic =
Language and Culture.=20

Further details, including information relating to registration, draft =
programme and con=EF=AC=81rmed speakers, will be made available at =
www.uws.ac.uk/sorley2011

Download the Sorley MacLean flyer (pdf)
http://www.uws.ac.uk/schoolsdepts/mlm/sorley-maclean/documents/Sorley_Mac=
Lean.pdf

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Colleagues,

One of our graduate students, doing research on 19th-century Irish/British =
political cartoonists, asked me this question. Can anyone out there help? =
I don't have access here to the newish DICTIONARY OF IRISH BIOGRAPHY.

Many thanks,

Kerby Miller
University of Missouri

Kerby,
A quick question, I am having a terrible time figuring out the religious af=
filiation or "conversation" of a father and son artist "team". The elder, =
John Doyle, is from a Catholic family who moved to Dublin from his family's=
estates, where his father became a silk merchant. John Doyle moved to Lon=
don fairly early in life, and he raised his family there and was a prominen=
t political caricaturist during the 1830s/1840s. All of the sources that I=
can find about him simply say he came from a Catholic family, but none of =
them state whether he, himself, was Catholic or Protestant.

His son, Richard Doyle, an artist for Punch, was born and raised in London.=
It appears that he is assumed to be protestant (I think?), but he resigne=
d from Punch in 1850 b/c of the editorial board's stance on the anti-papal =
controversy of that year.

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Unmarried Mothers in Ireland, 1880-1973

Author: Maria Luddy

Abstract
This article explores the changing experiences and representation of
Ireland's unmarried mothers from 1880 to 1973. It focuses on the stigma of
illegitimacy in political and cultural discourse and the representation of
unmarried mothers as immoral and their children as a drain on resources.
These remained constant themes within the discourse of unmarried motherhood
in Ireland throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The article
uses the records of philanthropic, government and religious organisations to
chart the rising interest in the moral reformation of unmarried mothers at
the end of the nineteenth century and rising tolerance towards them by the
end of the twentieth century.

Published in: Women's History Review, Volume 20, Issue 1 February 2011 ,
pages 109 - 126

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Postcolonial passages: Migration and cinematic form in Michael
Haneke's Hidden and Alan Gilsenan's Zulu 9
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Postcolonial passages: Migration and cinematic form in Michael Haneke's
Hidden and Alan Gilsenan's Zulu 9

Author: Eoin Flannery

Abstract
This essay examines two recent cinematic productions from France and
Ireland, respectively: Michael Haneke's Hidden and Alan Gilsenan's Zulu 9.
These two films are considered comparatively in terms of migration,
postcolonial identity and global capital. But the essay also focuses on how
the formal features of the two cinematic, visual texts act and interact with
the primary thematic concerns cited above. Thus, the essay foregrounds
technical form as a crucial aspect of any consideration of contemporary
postcolonial texts, not just cinematic or visual. The essay explores how
different forms can co-exist within one text and charts how these chafe
against each other, particularly in Haneke's Hidden, as competing sides in
France's colonial history come into conflict in the present - it is the
issue of form that most explicitly underscores the violent tensions of the
past erupting in the present. Likewise, Gilsenan's much shorter film makes
the viewer highly self-conscious about the ways in which we view the
tragedies and the hardships of the other. As it is an Irish film, Ireland's
own protracted colonial history obviously bears upon our reactions to this
specific and tragic consequence of neo-colonialism charted by Gilsenan.

Keywords: France; Ireland; migration; neo-colonialism; cinema

Published in: Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 47, Issue 1 February
2011 , pages 65 - 77

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http://www.examiner.ie/ireland/emigration-rate-of-ucc-graduates-doubles-
146187.html

There is much argument at present about what level of emigration is
taking place - the ESRI says 100,000 for 2010-2011, but without
providing the basis for its calculations/estimates, the latest CSO
figures (to end March 2010) give a figure of just 27,700 Irish emigrants
although clearly the trend is upwards. The Cork data is at least an
indication of emerging trends and also confirms the pre-eminent place of
Britain as the destination of choice for the majority.

Piaras

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The New Catholic Dictionary lists John Doyle and Richard Doyle as Roman
Catholic.

http://saints.sqpn.com/ncd02843.htm

Carmel


On 2/23/2011 4:52 PM, Miller, Kerby A. wrote:
> Colleagues,
>
> One of our graduate students, doing research on 19th-century Irish/British political cartoonists, asked me this question. Can anyone out there help? I don't have access here to the newish DICTIONARY OF IRISH BIOGRAPHY.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Kerby Miller
> University of Missouri
>
> Kerby,
> A quick question, I am having a terrible time figuring out the religious affiliation or "conversation" of a father and son artist "team". The elder, John Doyle, is from a Catholic family who moved to Dublin from his family's estates, where his father became a silk merchant. John Doyle moved to London fairly early in life, and he raised his family there and was a prominent political caricaturist during the 1830s/1840s. All of the sources that I can find about him simply say he came from a Catholic family, but none of them state whether he, himself, was Catholic or Protestant.
>
> His son, Richard Doyle, an artist for Punch, was born and raised in London. It appears that he is assumed to be protestant (I think?), but he resigned from Punch in 1850 b/c of the editorial board's stance on the anti-papal controversy of that year.
>
> .
>

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Doyle the son who worked on Punch was Catholic, according to a letter I have
read in a London-Irish newspaper the Irish Liberator, on 14th November 1863.
anthony


On 23/02/2011 21:52, "Miller, Kerby A." wrote:

> Colleagues,
>
> One of our graduate students, doing research on 19th-century Irish/British
> political cartoonists, asked me this question. Can anyone out there help? I
> don't have access here to the newish DICTIONARY OF IRISH BIOGRAPHY.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Kerby Miller
> University of Missouri
>
> Kerby,
> A quick question, I am having a terrible time figuring out the religious
> affiliation or "conversation" of a father and son artist "team". The elder,
> John Doyle, is from a Catholic family who moved to Dublin from his family's
> estates, where his father became a silk merchant. John Doyle moved to London
> fairly early in life, and he raised his family there and was a prominent
> political caricaturist during the 1830s/1840s. All of the sources that I can
> find about him simply say he came from a Catholic family, but none of them
> state whether he, himself, was Catholic or Protestant.
>
> His son, Richard Doyle, an artist for Punch, was born and raised in London.
> It appears that he is assumed to be protestant (I think?), but he resigned
> from Punch in 1850 b/c of the editorial board's stance on the anti-papal
> controversy of that year.


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Volume 19 Issue 1 - Special Issue: Screening the Irish in Britain
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Irish Studies Review: Volume 19 Issue 1 is now available online at
informaworld.

Special Issue: Screening the Irish in Britain

This new issue contains the following articles:

Screening the Irish in Britain: introduction, Pages 1 - 4
Author: Ruth Barton


Articles

Including the Irish: taken-for-granted characters in English films, =
Pages 5
- 18
Author: Bronwen Walter


Why didn't Kevin Keegan play for Ireland? Contrasting narratives of the
Irish in Britain, Pages 19 - 30
Author: Martin McLoone


=91Is it his war as well as hers?=92 =96 the view from Ealing, Pages 31 =
- 40
Author: Charles Barr
DOI: 10.1080/09670882.2011.541644

Irish exilic cinema in England, Pages 41 - 54
Author: Lance Pettitt

On the edge: the Irish in Britain as a troubled and troubling presence =
in
the work of Jimmy McGovern and Alan Bleasdale, Pages 55 - 64
Author: Marcus Free

Hyde and seek: English=96Irish hybridity in Stephen Frears' Mary Reilly, =
Pages
65 - 73
Author: Emmie McFadden

Stained flesh =96 Ireland as idyll/damp patch in Mike Leigh's Naked, =
Pages 75
- 86
Author: Padraic Killeen

Dreaming of home: migrant spaces in Felicia's Journey, Pages 87 - 97
Author: Conn Holohan

Routes Irish: =91Irishness=92, =91authenticity=92 and the working class =
in the films
of Ken Loach, Pages 99 - 109
Author: John Hill

Reviews

Alexander Nimmo master engineer 1783=961832: public works and civil =
surveys,
Pages 111 - 113
Author: Kathleen Villiers-Tuthill

Gaelic games, nationalism and the Irish diaspora in the United States, =
Pages
113 - 114
Author: Paul Rouse

Turning the tune: traditional music, tourism, and social change in an =
Irish
village, Pages 114 - 116
Author: Sally K. Sommers Smith

Crisis of confidence: Anglo-Irish relations in the early Troubles,
1966=961974, Pages 117 - 118
Author: Cillian McGrattan

Power and popular culture in modern Ireland, Pages 118 - 120
Author: Carla King

Theatre of crisis: the performance of power in the kingdom of Ireland,
1662=961692, Pages 120 - 122
Author: Natalie Aldred

The first Yeats: poems by W.B. Yeats 1889=961899/Irish modernism: =
origins,
contexts, publics, Pages 122 - 124
Author: Claire V. Nally

Envisioning Ireland: W.B. Yeats's occult nationalism, Pages 124 - 126
Author: Matthew DeForrest

Modernism, Ireland and civil war, Pages 126 - 128
Author: Si=E2n White

No country for old men: fresh perspectives on Irish literature, Pages =
128 -
130
Author: Michael Thurston

Bernard MacLaverty, Pages 130 - 132
Author: Peter Mahon

Writing bonds: Irish and Galician contemporary women poets, Pages 132 - =
134
Author: Katharina Walter

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Connections~Verbindungen: Irish-German Perspectives through
Etching
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The TOC and some preliminary pages can be found on the publisher's web site.

http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Connections--Irish-German-Perspectives-through-E
tching1-4438-2636-7.htm

Connections~Verbindungen: Irish-German Perspectives through Etching

Gerhardt Gallagher (Author), Gisela Holfter (Author), Micheal O hAodha
(Author)

When artist Gerhardt Gallagher came across a series of etchings by his
German grandmother Margarethe it launched a sequence of events, which led to
an exhibition and then this book. Magarethe's artistic career had been
severely disrupted by two wars and Gerhardt conceived a project, which would
allow Margarethe's works to be exhibited in Ireland along with his own.

Gisela Holfter of the Centre for Irish - German Studies in the University of
Limerick, when approached, supported the project enthusiastically and when
Micheal O'Haodha of the Glucksman Library saw the works hanging there he
thought them worthy of publication. He went on to coordinate the work of
putting together a series of contributions which, along with the images of
Ireland and Germany, connects Irish and German cultures through etching,
family histories and art appreciation.

Gerhardt Gallagher is a Waterford born artist of Irish German parentage now
living in Dublin. Gerhardt while largely self-taught also studied Art in
Waterford Technical School and in the National College of Art and Design. He
has had some 15 one and two person exhibitions and exhibited in numerous
group and open exhibitions in Ireland and abroad. His work is in private and
public collections in Ireland, Europe, the US and China.Gerhardt also has
had a parallel career in Forestry Research.

Hardcover: 120 pages
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing; New edition edition (January 1,
2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1443826367
ISBN-13: 978-1443826365
Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 6 x 0.9 inches

http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Connections--Irish-German-Perspectives-through-E
tching1-4438-2636-7.htm

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EXTRACTS FROM

Screening the Irish in Britain: introduction
Author: Ruth Bartona Affiliation: a School of Drama, Film and Music,
Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

To cite this Article: Barton, Ruth 'Screening the Irish in Britain:
introduction', Irish Studies Review, 19:1, 1 - 4

Introduction

This collection of essays originates in a one-day symposium held at Trinity
College Dublin in September 2009. The surprise for most of us who gathered
there was that such an event had not been held before. It was as if the
scholarship that was unfolded during the course of the day had somehow lain
invisible over the years of our collective research. It was at once all new
- most speakers were presenting their ideas for the first time - and very
old - the articulation of histories and concepts that stretched back over
the eras.

This impression of something hidden but always there was reflected in the
papers, and now in the essays in this collection. As so many of the
contributors note, the presence of the Irish in Britain has often been an
invisible one; Bronwen Walter outlines the historical background to the
issue of invisibility, discussing the reasons why it so often suited the
Irish to be unnoticed members of English society, just as it suited the
English not to notice them. Martin McLoone refers to a 'hidden history . of
dispersal and removal' noting how the identification of Irish characters may
rest on the process of 'naming and claiming', of recognising Irishness
through surnames. Padraic Killeen suggests that one way of reflecting on the
presence of the Irish in Britain is not to depict their Irishness at all.
Conn Holohan refers to another hidden history in his essay on Felicia's
Journey (Atom Egoyan, 1999) with its narrative of a displaced young woman
and her need to seek an abortion. Emmie McFadden adds to this the double
invisibility of Irish women, rendered silent by their gender and their
social status, as maids and onlookers in the greater dramas of British
society. These Bridgets and Paddies built the roads and railways and emptied
the grates and minded the children of a society that seldom paused to wonder
who they were and why they were there. The Irish were poor and servile in
the British narrative because that was what nature intended for them. They
were drunk and disruptive by virtue of their own failings; and superstitious
because of their Catholicism. These white Others represented everything that
the British were not, a colony on their own doorstep, a source of plunder
and cheap labour. For the Bridgets and Paddies, Britain held out the promise
of a living, and sometimes too an escape from the restrictive, narrow-minded
society that was Ireland.

They were also official entertainers to the wider British public. The Irish
provided cheap laughter in the Music Halls and sentimental ballads for the
Victorian parlour. And in this way, they transferred to early British
cinema, emerging, just as they did in early American cinema, as comic
figures in short sketches of which the earliest recorded in Kevin Rockett's
The Irish Filmography is listed simply as Irish Jig (1898): 'Four Irishmen
dance a jig'. Bridget made her first appearance in 1901 in The Inexhaustible
Cab (directed by George A. Smith), followed shortly afterwards (in 1902) by
Paddy and Mike in The Hodcarriers' Ping Pong (directed by James Williamson).
Only in 1908 were Irish politics represented, in British filmmaking pioneer
R.W. Paul's A Cattle Drive in County Galway. Early British filmmakers also
drew, as did their American counterparts, on the dramas of Dion Boucicault
and on thrilling narratives of Irish rebels and outlaws.1

Yet if early British cinema seemed to share a model of representation with
its counterpart in the USA, matters were soon to change. We may see an early
indication of this divergence in another entry in The Irish Filmography
entitled Spud Murphy's Redemption.2 According to the synopsis, the narrative
revolves around an Irish private in the British army, Spud Murphy, who is
jailed after an unprovoked attack on an Irish coolie. Spud emerges from
imprisonment a reformed man and becomes an invaluable member of the
regiment, saving the day when hostile natives attack. The date of the film's
release, 1913, may provide us with a clue as to why Spud Murphy had to learn
where his allegiances lay. Later, as Charles Barr details in his
contribution to this collection, Irish neutrality was to weigh heavily on
the minds of filmmakers. In narrative after narrative, the Irish were
persuaded to love the British and to commit themselves to the cause of the
Allies. Of course, this is the theme too of The Fighting 69th (William
Keighley, 1940) and Yankee Doodle Dandy (Michael Curtiz, 1942), yet there is
a difference of emphasis in these transatlantic pairings. In the American
films, James Cagney's patriotism is summoned into being through his love of
country, of America, and his self-realisation as a hyphenated
Irish-American. In the British films, the recalcitrant Irish must draw on
their own rebel identities as true fighting Irishmen, not on their
allegiance to Britain, to commit themselves to the right side.

Indeed, it is this distinction, between the representation of the Irish in
American cinema as hyphenated ethnics, often as preferential hyphenated
ethnics, and between the representation of the Irish in Britain as outsiders
and as lesser citizens, that most distinguishes the two cinemas, and, we may
further infer, the two societies...

...As well as recognising the appearance of the Irish as characters in
British television, cinema and popular entertainment, this collection also
pays tribute to the creative personnel behind those images. Many of the
essays comment on how casting decisions affect how we read the characters
and how films such as the Terence Davies Trilogy (1983) and Davies' other
works, or Cracker are inflected by their director's or author's
Irish-Catholic inheritance. It is our hope in putting together this
collection, therefore, that the screen representations and careers of the
Irish in Britain will gain greater visibility. The collection has been
organised with a dual perspective - to encourage further research into this
still underdeveloped area and to form the basis for teaching. The one-day
seminar threw up far more ideas and themes than could fit into one issue and
I would like to apologise to those whose work I was unable, for reasons of
space, to include. I would also like to conclude by re-stating that this
collection is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of this topic. It
coincides with a resurgence of interest in screen depictions of the Irish in
Britain funded or co-funded by sources from within Ireland, notably I Could
Read the Sky (Nicola Bruce, 1999) and Kings (Tom Collins, 2007) and the
documentary The Forgotten Irish (Maurice Sweeney, TV3, 2009), as well as
Tony Murray's documentary I Only Came Over for a Couple of Years . (2005)
which Murray introduced and screened at the symposium. Regrettably we have
not been able to cover these in this issue.

This collection also comes at a moment when the initiatives of the Peace
Process as well as the resurgence of non-white terrorism mean that not every
Irish person in Britain is viewed as an IRA operative in disguise and
British culture is, or perhaps should be, more open to positive
representations of the Irish than it ever was before. Time will tell.