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Thank you very much,
Kerby


On 2/24/11 5:18 AM, "Patrick Maume" wrote:

From: Patrick Maume
The Doyles were Catholic, although the elder Doyle was critical of
O'Connell. Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, was a grandson
of HB and a nephew of Richard, and was raised a Catholic though he did not
remain one.
Best wishes,
Patrick

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Miller, Kerby A. wro=
te:

> Colleagues,
>
> One of our graduate students, doing research on 19th-century Irish/Britis=
h
> 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 eld=
er,
> 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 sour=
ces
> 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 Londo=
n.
> It appears that he is assumed to be protestant (I think?), but he resign=
ed
> from Punch in 1850 b/c of the editorial board's stance on the anti-papal
> controversy of that year.
>

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Thank you,
Kerby


On 2/24/11 12:14 AM, "Anthony Mcnicholas" wrote=
:

Doyle the son who worked on Punch was Catholic, according to a letter I hav=
e
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/Britis=
h
> 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 eld=
er,
> 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 Lo=
ndon
> 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 the=
m
> state whether he, himself, was Catholic or Protestant.
>
> His son, Richard Doyle, an artist for Punch, was born and raised in Londo=
n.
> 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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List



I have had an inquiry about an interactive map showing the percentage of
Irish and as I recall other immigrants in the US over time. I remember it
clearly, but no search I have tried has turned it up.



Did anyone save it-or is otherwise able to provide a link?



Thanks in advance,



Bill

William H. Mulligan, Jr.

Professor of History

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

Murray State University

Murray KY 42071-3341 USA

office phone 1-270-809-6571

dept phone 1-270-809-2231

fax 1-270-809-6587

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From: Patrick Maume
The Doyles were Catholic, although the elder Doyle was critical of
O'Connell. Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, was a grandson
of HB and a nephew of Richard, and was raised a Catholic though he did not
remain one.
Best wishes,
Patrick

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:52 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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Subject: Journal Free Access, Economy and Society,
Michel Foucault and Governmentality
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A number of Ir-D members will be interested in this message, below...

The journal Economy and Society is giving away free access to certain
articles in themed 'virtual issues' - the first being on Michel Foucault.

If you are new to Foucault I am not sure that this is a good place to start
- but I suppose you could just absorb, let it waft...

P.O'S.


In 2011 Economy and Society celebrates its 40th year of
publication. As a tribute to the wealth of contributions to the
journal over the last 40 years the editors have chosen a variety
of articles from the journal archive which highlight the breadth of
content and demonstrate its continued relevance to today's
research.

Chosen articles have been grouped together in four 'Virtual
Special Issues' representing four themes which are central to the
content of the journal.

The first Virtual Special Issue is on Michel Foucault and
Governmentality. Click on the Special Issue title below to view the
list of articles which are free to access online until 30th April 2011.
Michel Foucault and Governmentality

Three more Virtual Special Issues with free access will be
released throughout the year, so remember to check this
page for the latest articles.

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/access/RESO-foucault-and-governmentality.pdf

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http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/10/us/20090310-immigration-ex
plorer.html

This is the one I use, from the NY Times - it's a great tool

Piaras

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List

=20

I have had an inquiry about an interactive map showing the percentage of
Irish and as I recall other immigrants in the US over time. I remember
it clearly, but no search I have tried has turned it up. =20

=20

Did anyone save it-or is otherwise able to provide a link?

=20

Thanks in advance,

=20

Bill

William H. Mulligan, Jr.=20

Professor of History

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

Murray State University=20

Murray KY 42071-3341 USA

office phone 1-270-809-6571

dept phone 1-270-809-2231

fax 1-270-809-6587

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Diaspora and Development: Prospects and Implications for Nation States
14 to 15 October 2011
New Delhi, India

The Conference will critically examine the development scenario and have
comparative understanding of development across the different nations
vis-a-vis diaspora. Policy makers, educationist,corporates & development
thinkers are welcome.

The deadline for abstracts/proposals is 15 May 2011.

Enquiries: ssahoo[at]ignou.ac.in
Web address:
http://www.ignou.ac.in/upload/Announcement/diasporaconferenceignou.pdf

Sponsored by: Indira Gandhi National Open University

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Following on from earlier IR-D discussion...

We have been offered free tickets to the Michael Flatley, Lord of the Dance
3D Movie, Empire Leicester Square preview on Sunday March 6th at 11am.

If you go to this web site and register

https://www.showfilmfirst.com/pin/157455

you will be able to get 2 tickets to that Sunday morning showing.

As I understand it you will have to log in and create an account, but the
tickets for the preview are free.

Let me know how you get on.

For some London-based IR-D members this will be a research opportunity, for
others a chance to indulge in post-modern ironication, and for others
something to do on a too quiet Sunday.

In any case the Irish Diaspora list will expect a Report.

Patrick O'Sullivan

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Subject: Article,
Migrants' information practices and use of social media in
Ireland: networks and community
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Migrants' information practices and use of social media in Ireland: networks
and community

Authors: Lee Komito University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin,
Ireland
Jessica Bates University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

Published in:

. Proceeding
iConference '11 Proceedings of the 2011 iConference
ACM New York, NY, USA C2011

Migrants, having left their home society and community, often depend on
electronic modes of communication to maintain contacts with distant friends
and relations. Their practices illustrate the affordances provided by social
media when face to face communication is not available. This paper describes
the information and communication practices of Polish and Filipino nationals
in Ireland, based on interviews with over sixty-five migrants in 2009.
Migrants display increased dependence on the Internet as an information
source and use various electronic media to maintain significant contacts
with friends and relations in their home societies. Social media (including
Web 2.0) practices have an impact on long distance relations that previous
technologies have not had, due to differences in the way these technologies
are utilized. Social media usage is a passive monitoring that complements
the active communication of first generation technologies; this monitoring
creates a background awareness and presence in terms of which active
communication takes place, which facilitates bonding as well as bridging
capital. This enables resilient and durable transnational links, while also
facilitating greater mobility for migrants.

Lee Komito's web sites

http://www.ucd.ie/lkomito/

http://www.ucd.ie/research/people/informationlibrarystudies/drleekomito/

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I have put on to our main web site a research report that we wrote in 2001,
at the end of a peculiarly difficult research process.

http://irishdiaspora.net/

In Folder 8

The title of the report is 'The Impact on Policy of Research' - sometimes in
conversation this becomes 'The Impact of Policy on Research'. Which makes
sense too...

Briefly, the report outlines a pattern that will be familiar to many IR-D
members, where research about Irish people and their experiences is
orchestrated within a discourse of needs shaped by a (in this case specific
United Kingdom) Black and Ethnic Minority policy agenda.

I have placed the report on the web site as part of a general tidying up and
archiving process.

As always when you move a piece of text from one kind of software to another
some further tidying is needed. The text is also there as a downloadable MS
Word document.

P.O'S.


The Impact on Policy of Research

The impact on policy, and implementation of policy, of recent research into
the needs of the Irish Community in England

By Patrick O'Sullivan
With Russell Murray

October 2001

http://irishdiaspora.net/

FOLDER 8

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The Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921: The Response of the British
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Another article on Ireland and the UK Labour Party from Ivan Gibbons...

The Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921: The Response of the British Parliamentary
Labour Party and Labour Press

Author: Gibbons, Ivan
Source: Labour History Review, Volume 76, Number 1, April 2011 , pp.
1-15(15)
Publisher: Maney Publishing

Abstract:
The British Labour Party became increasingly aware after the First World War
that it was potentially a government in waiting. In opposition the party was
generally supportive of Irish nationalism. It supported Home Rule and was
adamantly opposed to the partition of Ireland contained in the 1920
Government of Ireland Bill. Despite the fact that the Anglo-Irish Treaty of
1921 was inconsistent with Labour Party Irish policy, cementing as it did
the partition of Ireland as well as hardly being an exercise in
'self-determination', both Labour MPs in the debate on the Treaty as well as
the Labour press supported the Treaty as it offered a way out of the Irish
imbroglio and a return to rational class-based politics. The overriding
concern of, in particular, the parliamentary leadership of the Labour Party
by now was to prove to the British electorate that it could be as protective
of British state interests as its rivals. The article argues that this
pragmatic about-turn was adopted as many members of the Parliamentary Labour
Party (PLP) in particular were acutely aware that the party needed to be
seen as patriotic, moderate, and responsible if it was to stand any chance
of being elected to power. The article traces this reversal in policy by
reference to contemporary parliamentary debates as well as through the
columns of the contemporary Labour press.

Keywords: ANGLO-IRISH TREATY; BRITISH LABOUR PARTY; RAMSAY MACDONALD;
PARTITION; IRISH FREE STATE

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Middle-Class Ideologies and American Respectability: Archaeology
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Full reference for Stephen Brighton's article now available...

Middle-Class Ideologies and American Respectability: Archaeology and the
Irish Immigrant Experience

Author: Brighton, Stephen

Source: International Journal of Historical Archaeology, Volume 15, Number
1, March 2011 , pp. 30-50(21)

Publisher: Springer

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Subject: Article, Middle-Class Ideologies and American Respectability:
Archaeology and the Irish Immigrant Experience

Note that this article has not yet been assigned a place in the paper
version of the journal.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
DOI: 10.1007/s10761-010-0128-4

Middle-Class Ideologies and American Respectability: Archaeology and the
Irish Immigrant Experience
Stephen A. Brighton

Abstract
This study illustrates the materialization of identity shifts through
refined ceramic and glass forms recovered from working class Irish immigrant
and Irish-American communities. The sites used in this article were chosen
because of their spatio-temporal compatibility covering dynamic periods of
Irish identity in the United States. Historians argue that 1880 marks the
beginning of an identity shift from Irish immigrant to Irish-American. This
research attempts to provide the necessary materials to begin a discourse
bringing together material and historical evidence illuminating the conflict
between competing ideologies of respectability and changing conceptions of
Irish identity in America.

Keywords Irish identity - Material culture - Ideology - Class conflict

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Subject: Book Review, Child, Nation,
Race and Empire. Child Rescue Discourse, England,
Canada and Australia, 1850-1915
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Child, Nation, Race and Empire. Child Rescue Discourse, England, Canada =
and
Australia, 1850-1915

This book review will interest many Ir-D members...

P.O'S.

Book:
Child, Nation, Race and Empire. Child Rescue Discourse, England, Canada =
and
Australia, 1850-1915
Shurlee Swain, Margot Hillel
Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2010, ISBN: 9780719078941; =
224pp.;
Price: =A360.00;
Reviewer:
Pat Starkey
University of Liverpool

Citation:
Pat Starkey, review of Child, Nation, Race and Empire. Child Rescue
Discourse, England, Canada and Australia, 1850-1915, (review no. 1033)
URL: http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1033

During the second half of the 20th century, scandals arising from abuses
suffered by some children in residential care in the UK encouraged the
uncovering of the experiences of looked-after children in the past.
Particular interest has been shown in the lives of those who were =
removed
from their homes and sent as migrants to the colonies =96 a traffic that
reached its height in the late 19th century but did not end until the =
last
group of children was flown to Australia in 1967. Descendants of child
migrants, as well as adults who had themselves been sent abroad as =
children,
have pressed for recognition of the abuse they suffered, and in recent =
years
the UK, Canadian and Australian governments, sometimes reluctantly, have
responded to that pressure and acknowledged the distress experienced by =
many
such children.

Child rescue and child migration has claimed the attention of a number =
of
historians, including Gillian Wagner, June Rose, Geoffrey Sherington,
Patrick Dunae, Michele Langfield and Lydia Murdoch, all of whom have
explored the history of individual charitable organisations. In Child,
Nation, Race and Empire, Shurlee Swain and Margot Hillel have used their
skills as historian and literature specialist respectively to examine a
hitherto only partly explored aspect of child rescue =96 the printed =
material
produced by the societies in order to publicise their work and the
children=92s literature that accompanied it. They examine the intent =
behind
the production of these books, house magazines, reports and pamphlets =
and
then invite the reader to imagine how such material might have been
received, not just by those whose moral and financial support was being
sought, but also by those children whose lives were featured and who may
have been exposed to these stories during their work in the printing =
houses
that produced them, as well as in the homes and institutions in which =
they
found themselves...

...This is a welcome and important addition to the growing literature on
child migration. Its discussion of the extensive literature produced by =
the
child-rescue movement in the 19th and early 20th centuries has =
demonstrated
the extent to which it was influenced by a powerful amalgam of Christian
evangelicalism and imperialism. It has shown clearly the extent to which =
the
message of child rescue was used not just in overt publicity material =
but
also in improving tales for children; within narratives by authors such =
as
Captain Marryat, G. A. Henty and R. M. Ballantyne, for example, it was
celebrated within the broader narrative of imperial adventure. An =
important
feature is the way that it has drawn together the threads that connect =
child
rescue in Britain with movements in colonial situations which portrayed
indigenous peoples as barbaric, child-neglecters and provided =
justification
for removal of children, especially those of mixed race, from parents =
whose
culture the imperial power failed to understand and chose to impugn as
degenerate and neglectful. Society had the right and the duty to remove
=91infected=92 children for its own protection. The final section, which
includes recollections of some of those children removed from their home
situations =91for their own good=92, and for that of society makes =
almost
unbearable reading. It rehearses views that Swain has expressed =
elsewhere
(1) and demonstrates the cruelty inherent in a system that severed both
family and community ties and which, at the very least, subjected
deracinated children to life in distant and unfamiliar surroundings. A
former residential school supervisor is reported as saying =91Twenty =
years ago
I would have said that it was a good system with some bad people. Now I
realise it was a bad system with a lot of good people in it=92. And as =
the
authors opine, although =91there is no evidence to suggest that all =
children
were subjected to abuse, abuse in its various manifestations was, and =
is,
endemic in all forms of out-of-home care=92 (p.160).

FULL TEXT AT
http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1033

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Celebrate Ireland At the New York Public Library This Spring With A New
Exhibition, Documentary Film Series, Programming And Educational =
Initiatives


Events throughout Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island are centered
around the new multimedia exhibition Ireland America: The Ties That Bind =
at
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.=20


Irish culture and heritage will be celebrated throughout The New York =
Public
Library in March, with over 100 events connected to Imagine Ireland, an
initiative by Culture Ireland to promote Irish arts across the United =
States
in 2011.=20

NYPL locations in Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island will offer 115 =
free
programs for visitors of all ages, such as film screenings; staged
performances of Irish folk tales and legends for children; cooking
demonstrations; Irish language lessons; and a talk on how the Irish
landscape influences teen fantasy fiction. For adults, there are =
dramatic
readings of plays by Oscar Wilde and live Irish traditional music with =
Don
Meade.=20

In addition to the array of programs, the Library will also offer =
several
education initiatives connected to Imagine Ireland, including =
professional
development for teachers and a collaboration between students from New =
York
City and Dublin. The Irish organization =93Fighting Words=94 =96 which =
promotes
writing =96 is working with kids from a Lower East Side school and from =
an
NYPL literacy program for kids aged 16 to 21. The kids will work with =
Irish
authors and artist =96 and then swap their writing with kids in Dublin. =
All of
the work will eventually be published. =20

The programming is being done in conjunction with the March 14 opening =
of
the 4,000 sq. ft. exhibition Ireland America: The Ties That Bind at The =
New
York Public Library for the Performing Arts, which explores key aspects =
of
Irish American performance history since 1800, and Hidden Ireland, a
documentary film series drawn from the archives of the Irish Film =
Institute,
starting on March 17. The exhibition is presented in collaboration with =
New
York University=92s Glucksman Ireland House; the Film Series is in
collaboration with the Irish Film Institute.=20
=20
Ireland America: The Ties That Bind is curated by Professor Marion R. =
Casey,
who teaches in New York University=92s Masters of Irish and Irish =
American
Studies program. Hidden Ireland is curated by Sunniva O=92Flynn of the =
Irish
Film Institute and David Callahan of the New York Public Library for the
Performing Arts. Both exhibition and film series are part of Imagine
Ireland, a year long season of Irish arts sponsored by Culture Ireland =
and
taking place across the United States in 2011. =20

"Irish theatre, music and dance have influenced the development of
performing arts in America in the most surprising ways,=94 said Eugene =
Downes,
chief executive of Culture Island. =93It's time to explore this story =
and
bring it alive for a new generation."

In the United States, tradition and popular culture are twin strands =
that
determine Irish musical and theatrical expression. Performance has =
carried
the cultural markers of identity across an ocean and through two =
centuries.
Songs, tunes, dances, plays, and dramatic roles from the past resonate =
in
the present. From the enduring melodies of Thomas Moore to the =
infectious
percussion of Riverdance, Irish art continues to appeal to American
audiences. The exhibition includes rare scores, prompt books, posters,
banners, costumes, photographs, original sound recordings, oral =
histories,
as well as videotaped excerpts from Irish plays and other performances.
Materials have been gathered from the various collections at The New =
York
Public Library for the Performing Arts as well as from the Archives of =
Irish
America at Bobst Library, New York University.

Designed to be interactive, the exhibit =96 which contains material from =
both
NYPL and NYU=92s Archives of Irish America =96 will enable visitors to =
play
music, dance a step, listen to songs and personal stories, as well as
experience how records, radio and television made the home an incubator =
for
Irish American creativity and cultural transmission in the Twentieth
Century.

Ireland America: The Ties That Bind will be on display from March 14, =
2011,
to August 13, 2011 in the Donald & Mary Oenslager Gallery at The New =
York
Public Library for the Performing Arts at 40 Lincoln Center Plaza.
Programming is free and open to the public. Hours: Mon. & Thurs. =
12pm-8pm,
Tues.-Weds. & Fri.-Sat. 12pm-6pm.=20

=93The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts is honored to be =
a part
of Imagine Ireland by hosting both the terrific exhibition Ireland =
America:
The Ties That Bind and the Hidden Ireland film series,=94 said =
Jacqueline Z.
Davis, Barbara G. and Lawrence A. Fleischman Executive Director of The =
New
York Public Library for the Performing Arts. =93Ireland=92s cultural =
influence
in the United States has been greater than other small western European
nations. This exhibition and film series, along with a diverse range of
programming throughout the entire New York Public Library system,
demonstrates why Americans love Irish music, dance and drama. At the =
same
time, it presents new perspectives on Ireland=92s history.=94

Drawing on unique material in the Irish Film Archive, the documentary =
series
Hidden Ireland offers fascinating insights into Ireland and the Irish
immigrant experience in the United States. Films by both indigenous =
Irish
and visiting foreign filmmakers offer a unique view into the realities =
of
Irish society over the last century, at points providing a stark
counterpoint to the fictional representations of Ireland that have =
dominated
international perceptions of the country. The program presents films =
about
Ireland; about Irish experience in the United States; about a living =
culture
within a diasporic community; and about exile and home-coming, The films
range from amateur films documenting rural village life in the 1930s to
Walter Cronkite=92s suave 1960s television presentations to young =
filmmakers
processing the contemporary Irish experience in a series of compelling =
new
documentaries.=20

The series starts with a very special Gala screening of the 1935 silent =
film
The Seasons, an intimate portrayal of life in the small village of =
Kilkelly,
Co Mayo, with live musical accompaniment by renowned Irish musicians =
from
K=EDla and harpist Cormac de Barra.

Screenings will take place on Thursday evenings at 6:30 PM. and on =
selected
Saturdays at 6:30 PM beginning March 17 through May 19, 2011, many of =
them
introduced by Glucksman Ireland House faculty. Some screenings of note
include The Emigrant Chaplain, introduced by the film=92s lead subject, =
Father
Colm Campbell of Holy Trinity R. C. Church in Manhattan on Thursday, =
April
28. On Thursday, March 17, there will be a rare screening of The Ed
Sullivan Show filmed in Ireland in 1959. And on Saturday, April 9, there
will be a screening of the documentary From Shore to Shore: Irish
Traditional Music in New York City that will feature an introduction by =
the
filmmaker Patrick Mullins of the University of Texas, El Paso. To get =
the
full schedule of films being shown please visit www.nypl.org =20

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts will also present
throughout the course of the exhibition several poetry readings, musical
performances, staged readings and panel discussions. A series of case
exhibitions on American avant-garde theater, dance and music inspired by
James Joyce can be seen in the 3rd floor reading room. Rare artifacts =
from
The Library's archival collections include Zero Mostel's annotated =
script
for Ulysses in Nighttown (Off-Broadway, 1958) and John Cage scores. For =
more
information about these programs please go to www.nypl.org=20

In conjunction with The Library=92s exhibition and film festival, New =
York
University=92s Glucksman Ireland House presents a lecture by Professor =
Stephen
Rohs of Michigan State University on March 24th at 7pm. Rohs is the =
author
of Eccentric Nation: Irish Performance in Nineteenth Century New York =
City.
For more information about this program please go to
http://irelandhouse.fas.nyu.edu.

Contact: Jonathan Pace | 212.592.7710 | Jonathan_Pace[at]nypl.org
Contact: Amy Geduldig | 212.592.7177 | Amy_Geduldig[at]nypl.org=20

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In Danger and Distress: Presentation of Gunshot Cases to Dublin
Hospitals during the Height of Fenianism, 1866-1871
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In Danger and Distress: Presentation of Gunshot Cases to Dublin Hospitals
during the Height of Fenianism, 1866-1871

Barry Kennerk*

*Department of Paediatric Neurosurgery, Children's University Hospital,
Temple Street, Dublin 1, Ireland and Department of History, St Patrick's
College, Drumcondra, Dublin 1, Ireland. E-mail: barry.kennerk[at]cuh.ie
Abstract

The Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood (IRB) was founded in Dublin on St
Patrick's Day, 1858. Its leadership held an unsuccessful rising in Ireland
on 5 March 1867. The period immediately prior to this event is often
referred to as the high point of Fenianism and in Dublin it bore witness to
a number of sporadic shootings, many of which were conducted under the
auspices of a loosely controlled assassination circle. These were, however,
often little more than thinly disguised reprisal attacks and the burden for
treating the victims fell on the shoulders of the city's civil surgeons.
This article uses the highly publicised shooting of the retired policeman,
Thomas Talbot in 1871 as its central theme in order to highlight a number of
key topics concerning the management of civilian gunshot injuries in Ireland
during the mid to late nineteenth century.

Key words
gunshot bullet surgeon Fenian military Dublin coroner Talbot

Soc Hist Med (2011)
doi: 10.1093/shm/hkq094
First published online: March 2, 2011

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Subject: You Are Invited to IRELAND AMERICA The Ties That Bind

Part of Imagine Ireland: a year-long season of Irish arts in the US in =
2011,
an initiative of Culture Ireland.


The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
=A0
in collaboration with
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New York University=92s Glucksman Ireland House,
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the Irish Film Institute,
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and Culture Ireland

cordially invite you to a reception celebrating the opening of the
exhibition:

IRELAND AMERICA
=A0
The Ties That Bind
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Sunday, March 13, 2011
5:30 - 7:30 PM

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
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Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
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Enter through the Lincoln Center Plaza
between the Metropolitan Opera and the Lincoln Center Theater

RSVP by March 8, 2011 to arussell[at]nypl.org or 212-870-1617
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The exhibition will remain on view in the
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Oenslager Gallery through August 13, 2011.

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts gratefully
acknowledges the leadership support of Dorothy and Lewis. B. Cullman.
Additional support for exhibitions has been provided by Judy R. and =
Alfred
A. Rosenberg and the Miriam and Harold Steinberg Foundation.

Programs are subject to change or cancellation. For up-to-date
information, visit www.nypl.org/events

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Celtic Tiger Ireland" Caen, France, December 2 & 3, 2011
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Forwarded on behalf of
Alexandra SLABY [mailto:alexandra.slaby[at]unicaen.fr]

"'AFTER THE BALL.' CULTURAL PRODUCTIONS AND PRACTICES IN POST-CELTIC
TIGER
IRELAND"

ERIBIA-GREI, University of Caen Lower Normandy, December 2 & 3, 2011

MRSH, Salle des Actes (SH 027)

The impact of the Celtic Tiger and the following recession on cultural
creation and practices opens a new area of investigation for scholars
in cultural history, cultural economy, sociology, art history and media
studies.

At conferences and advocacy events, the Irish Arts Council, Department
of Culture and cultural policy-makers directed considerable efforts to
reach out to public opinion, tourists, companies and the Irish diaspora to
raise awareness about the economic dimension of culture in the country.
Culture indeed generates wealth and employment, and cutting public funding
of culture would have negative consequences on the economy. The economic
justification has dominated cultural discourse over the past few years,
so that the cultural process, ie artistic creation and reception by the
public have been almost totally excluded from public debate. The Arts
Council
is only just beginning to investigate the living conditions of artists and
the social bonding potential of culture. Social sciences are also beginning

to research cultural practices.

The comparison with Northern Ireland will be welcome. The impact of the
recession on cultural funding and creation may be compared with the
situation in the Republic. Another is also to be
investigated, through the impact of the Good Friday Agreement on cultural
practices
and productions and the effective community bonding that has taken place as

a result of Northern Irish cultural policy.

Culture will be understood broadly, including not only the arts and
formal cultural practices such as the attendance of cultural institutions
but
also cultural industries, and generally, as is the case in the
English-speaking world, all modes of expression which are codified--design,
fashion and
culinary arts which are the multi-sensorial translation offered in
daily communion of a new, more sophisticated and cosmopolitan
self-perception
on the part of the Irish.

What remains after the ball? What trends do we see emerging in terms of
productions and practices? Papers may cover the following topics:

- Perceptions of actual or putative prosperity of cultural sectors

- Contemporary artistic creation: literature, music, cinema,
architecture
etc.

- Cultural institutions : attendance, evolutions of museography

- Cultural tourism, festivals, marketing strategies

- Cultural industries

- Formal or informal cultural practices (purchase of commercial
cultural
goods)

- Media (broadcasting, the press, the internet) as a critical space

Proposals to be submitted to Alexandra Slaby
(alexandra.slaby[at]unicaen.fr
[1]) by June 15, 2011.

--
Dr Alexandra Slaby

University of Caen

France


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A Comparison of Rhythm in English Dialects and Music

Rebecca W. McGowan and Andrea G. Levitt

Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Vol. 28, No. 3 (February 2011), pp. 307-314
(article consists of 8 pages)

Published by: University of California Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/mp.2011.28.3.307

Abstract
Informal Observations have Often been Made That a country's language is
reflected in its instrumental music. Limited research exists studying
similarities between the rhythmic characteristics of French music and
language on the one hand and British music and language on the other. Our
research compares the rhythmic characteristics of the music and English
dialects of the Shetland Islands in Scotland, County Donegal in Ireland, and
the state of Kentucky, examining spontaneous speech and unscored musical
recordings from the same people. We found that rhythmic characteristics are
correlated in the speech and music in each dialect area.

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Dutch Influence in the Urban Landscape of Cork City pre-1800:
Fact or Myth?
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Dutch Influence in the Urban Landscape of Cork City pre-1800: Fact or Myth?

Author: McCarthy, James P.1
Source: Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies, Volume 35, Number
1, March 2011 , pp. 63-88(26)
Publisher: Maney Publishing

Abstract:
The early years of the eighteenth-century Irish port town, Cork, saw an
expansion of its city limits, an era of reconstruction both within and
beyond the walls of its medieval townscape, and a reclamation of its
marshlands to the east and west. New people, new ideas, and the beginnings
of new wealth infused the post-Elizabethan character of the recently
siege-battered city. It also brought a desire for something different,
something new, an opportunity to redefine the ambience and visual perception
of the urban landscape and thereby make a statement about its intended
cultural and social orientations. It brought an opportunity to re-imagine
and model a new, continental style of place and surrounding environment.
This article seeks evidence for a Dutch influence in that story.

Keywords: CORK (IRELAND); URBAN LANDSCAPE; DUTCH INFLUENCE; MERCHANTS;
MARSHLAND DEVELOPMENT; MEER DYKE

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Imaginary Lines: Border Enforcement and the Origins of
Undocumented Immigration, 1882-1930.
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Sections of this book are available on Google Books. I had hoped that =
Patrick Ettinger's book would tell us something real about the route =
from Canada into the USA - but at first look it does not seem to add =
anything much.

P.O'S.

Reviewed work(s): Imaginary Lines: Border Enforcement and the Origins of =
Undocumented Immigration, 1882=E2=80=931930 by Patrick Ettinger
The American Historical Review
Vol. 116, No. 1 (February 2011), pp. 180-181=20
(review consists of 2 pages)
Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf=20

Reviews of Books=20
Canada and the United States=20
Reviewed work(s): Patrick Ettinger. Imaginary Lines: Border Enforcement =
and the Origins of Undocumented Immigration, 1882=E2=80=931930. Austin: =
University of Texas Press. 2009. Pp. xi, 244. $60.00.

Erika Lee

University of Minnesota

The reports coming in from U.S. immigration officials stationed on the =
U.S.=E2=80=90Mexico border were alarming. Transnational smuggling =
networks were surreptitiously transporting thousands of migrants across =
the border into the United States. Individuals who would have been =
excluded at regular ports of entry were easily entering the country =
without inspection through the country's =E2=80=9Cback door.=E2=80=9D =
Every attempt immigration officials made to stem the tide was met with =
resistance, migrant ingenuity, and new technology. There seemed little =
that the U.S. government could do to remedy this broken immigration =
system.

Contemporary readers might quickly place this characterization of the =
U.S.=E2=80=90Mexico border in the late twentieth or early =
twenty=E2=80=90first centuries. In fact, as Patrick Ettinger's book =
illustrates, these reports and the struggles of U.S. immigration =
officials to enforce a seemingly unenforceable border are a century old.

Undocumented immigration into the United States became prevalent =
beginning in the late nineteenth century and involved a surprisingly =
diverse group of immigrants: Chinese, Japanese, Irish, Italians, Greeks, =
Syrians, and Mexicans. In his attempts to recover this largely unknown =
history, Ettinger offers a complex thesis. On the one hand, border =
control at both the U.S.=E2=80=90Mexican and U.S.=E2=80=90Canadian =
borders underwent an immense amount of change. Beginning in the 1880s, =
the two borders were mostly unguarded, existing only as =
=E2=80=9Cimaginary lines=E2=80=9D that were easily traversed. By the =
1930s, a highly regulated and professionalized system of border control =
was in place with dedicated immigrant inspection stations, border =
patrols, and policies. However, undocumented entry did not disappear. =
Border=E2=80=90crossing patterns changed, but as we know from =
contemporary headlines and immigration debates, illicit entry of =
immigrants into the United States continues. Ettinger's goal, then, is =
to =E2=80=9Cunderstand and explain how a border to which so many =
resources had been devoted could undergo such little fundamental =
change=E2=80=9D (p. 3)...

...Nevertheless, this book accomplishes a lot. It explains how the =
United States shored up its borders and formalized border migration at =
the same time that it consistently failed to establish an effective =
border control. Determined migrants, labor demand, and the vast expanse =
of the border itself allowed permeability to coexist with =
border=E2=80=90making over the last century. It is this complex =
contradiction that makes Ettinger's book a great piece of historical =
scholarship that strongly resonates with us today.