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This interesting article appeared yesterday in The Guardian newspaper...

I love the line 'Have you heard of this Cecil Sharp House?'...

P.O'S.


Music that moves: Thomas McCarthy's Irish Traveller songs

Thomas McCarthy's Irish Traveller songs were all but forgotten - until he
stepped up

Tim Cumming
guardian.co.uk

It has been more than a century since Cecil Sharp overheard John England
singing The Seeds of Love in a Somerset garden, setting him off on a
lifelong quest to document and preserve the folk music of Britain, and
hand-cranking the sense of a whole tradition into life in the process.

Most commentators would agree that the age of the source singer - a John
England of the 21st century who is loaded with rare songs - is done. But a
largely undocumented song tradition does still survive among the UK's
tight-knit Traveller and Gypsy communities: the role they have played in
keeping many great songs alive and in circulation has been crucial in
shaping the folk tradition as we know it.

"These are very private communities There are very few outsiders. Which
means the oral tradition is very strong," says Sam Lee, a folk archivist and
researcher. "And the nature of their being a transient community means
there's this tradition of self-made entertainment. The men are not afraid to
be great singers, to stand up and sing an unaccompanied song. They grew up
with it, it's part of their life and they have great ownership of it."

Nevertheless, formal live performances on a stage are rare. But one who has
crossed that line is Thomas McCarthy, an Irish Traveller in his 40s who
turned up at Cecil Sharp House one evening in December 2008.

Just a couple of weeks earlier, McCarthy had not even heard of Sharp. "I was
at a cousin's wedding," he tells me. "My uncle asked me to sing a song.
Afterwards someone came over to me and said, 'Have you heard of this Cecil
Sharp House?' I didn't know of it, so he said, 'Go down and have a listen -
they sing all of them old songs.' 'You mean old songs like that one?' 'Yep.'
That's when I got interested."

...Life on the road may be over, but the songs keep on travelling. "I'm
going to record for the Irish traditional music archives, songs that they
wouldn't have. It's important, I think, me being the last one of my family.
Even if Travelling people don't sing our songs, they'll be there for other
people and they won't be forgot. People will still sing them."

Thomas McCarthy's Round Top Wagon is available from tinfolkmusic.com. He
plays at the Cellar Upstairs, London, on 19 March.

Full text at

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/mar/10/thomas-mccarthy-irish-traveller-
songs?INTCMP=SRCH

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I'm surprised at a Traveller using the term 'round top wagon'. In Ireland the customary term is 'barrell-top wagon'. There is one so described on display in the Irish Agricultural Museum, Johnstown Castle, Wexford. It was built to order some years ago by a settled Traveller in New Ross.

Ultan Cowley

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Subject: New Irish collections at Ancestry.co.uk
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There has been a great deal of newspaper and magazine coverage of these new
developments at Ancestry.co.uk, Ancestry.com and its other web sites
throughout the world.

Once again frustration that these important digitised resources are behind a
pay wall, set up in ways that make sense only to the family historian or the
genealogist, or perhaps the biographer. And difficult to use in any kind of

broader research.

The press releases have been picked up and reprinted, in the manner you
would expect.

Famous names' Irish roots go online

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/republic-of-ireland/fa
mous-names-irish-roots-go-online-15113426.html

Nearly 37 Million Americans Claim Irish Ancestry Including President Obama
and Walt Disney

http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Ancestrycom-Releases-Definitive-19th
-Century-Irish-Collection-Celebrate-St-Patricks-NASDAQ-ACOM-1410350.htm

And so on...

Material from the web site pasted in below...

P.O'S.


Discover your true Irish roots in our new historical records.

http://www.ancestry.co.uk/irish?o_iid=47446&o_lid=47446


New Irish collections
We're expanding our records from Ireland, starting with four crucial
collections.

Griffiths Valuation,
1848-1864 - UPDATED One of the most important surviving 19th century
genealogical resources for Ireland, this collection of over 2.5 million
records gives you a snapshot of ancestors who rented land or property
throughout Ireland in the 1850s.

Tithe Applotment Books,
1823-1837 - UPDATED In 1823 a law was enacted requiring all land holders to
pay a tax or "tithe" to the Church of Ireland, regardless of their religious
affiliation. With details like tithe payer, acreage of their land and amount
of their tithe, these records in effect provide a census of pre-famine
Ireland.

Lawrence Collection of Photographs,
1870-1910 - NEW This collection of 20,000 images showcases the length and
breadth of Ireland - Howth Head in the East to Achill Head in the West and
from Malin Head in the North to Skibbereen the South - through the eyes of
William Lawrence's photography

Ordnance Survey Maps,
1824-1846 - NEW Almost 2,000 incredibly detailed six-inch-to-the-mile maps
of almost the whole of Ireland were produced before and during the Great
Famine and take you practically to the spot where your ancestor lived and
worked.

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Royal Irish Academy Modern Languages Symposium 2011 on Language, Migration
and Diaspora

Individual papers, group presentations and panels under the following themes
and headings are welcome. Contributions are limited to a duration of twenty
minutes.

Literature / Language and Linguistics / Cultural Studies and
Interdisciplinary:

Integration and Exclusion: The Literary Portrayal of Migrant, Diaspora and
Centre-Periphery Dynamics
Representations of Diasporas in Literature
Migrant and National Literature
Migrant and Diaspora Culture versus Majority Culture: Literature, Film and
Art as Mediator and Integrative Agent of Cross- Fertilisation
Cultural Constructs of the Outsider
Literature as Multicultural Criticism
Linguistic and Cultural Construction of Migrant and Diaspora Identity
Language as Cultural and Learning Space
Idiomatic Use of Language by Migrants and in the Diaspora
Migrants, Diaspora and Language Learning and Teaching
Linguistic and Cultural Issues of Bi- and Multi-Lingualism
Language Policy
Language, Migration and Diaspora in Film, Theatre and the Arts
Cross-Fertilisation between Migrants, Diaspora and "Centre"
Impact of Migration and Diaspora on "Majority Culture"
Issues of Migration and Diaspora in the Reporting Media
Global Village or Global Provincialism / Post- Multiculturalism and
Integration Policy

Venue: Aungier Street Campus, DIT, Dublin, 2-3 December, 2011
Dr Sascha Harris
School of Languages
Dublin Institute of Technology
Kevin Street
Dublin 8
Phone: 00353-1-4023000
Email: sascha.harris[at]dit.ie
Visit the website at

http://ditlanguagesconferences.blogspot.com

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Anthony=20

I don't want to claim too much for Ricorso, but it does have entries on
the Doyles and provides a pretty extensive collation of biographical and
often critical information on many other authors. Try Burke or Joyce for
instance.) If you don't know the website yet, it can be found at
www.ricorso.net. Just follow the links you the author you want - or
explore the other regions.=20

There is a "Gateway" section which includes links to most of the online
biographical dictionaries of use in Irish studies as well as many of the
digital sources. Astonishing how much is now available!=20

If your institution stumps up the fee but the Dictionary of National
Biography (UK) and the Dictionary of Irish Biography (RIA/EI) are
available online. Free sources like the Catholic Encyclopaedia are
surprisingly replete and generally lay claim to Irish Catholic
writers/artists whenever they can. =20

Don't forget that Shaw named his Paddy on the make Doyle. Presumably
with forethought and intent.=20

Bruce=20


Bruce Stewart
Reader/Univ. of Ulster
Coleraine, Co. Derry
N Ireland BT52 1SA
www.ricorso.net


-----Original Message-----
From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Anthony Mcnicholas
Sent: 24 February 2011 06:15
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Subject: Re: [IR-D] FW: Help with documenting historical religious
affiliation

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,
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> Many thanks,
>=20
> Kerby Miller
> University of Missouri
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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.


--=20
The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by
guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office:
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This book by Sean Williams and Lillis =D3 Laoire has now been published, =
and
will interest many IR-D members. I have pasted in below information
including the full TOC - so that it can be seen that the book uses the =
story
of Joe Heaney to explore significant Irish Diaspora themes.

Just to remind people - this Sean Williams is female.

http://seanwilliams.org/index.shtml

and Lillis =D3 Laoire is male...

http://www.nuigalway.ie/gaeilge/foireann/foireann13/


P.O'S.

Bright Star of the West - Joe Heaney, Irish Song Man
Sean Williams and Lillis =D3 Laoire
OUP USA American Musicspheres Series
288 pages | 16 halftones, 32 music examples | 235x156mm
978-0-19-532118-0 | Hardback | 2011=20

Biography of one of the most important figures in Irish music in the =
20th
century

First study focused on sean-n=F3s, a distinguished and beautiful =
repertoire
and style

Unique exploration of gender and masculinity in Irish music

Bright Star of the West traces the life, repertoire, and influence of =
Joe
Heaney, Ireland's greatest sean-n=F3s ("old style") singer. Born in =
1919, Joe
Heaney grew up in a politically volatile time, as his native Ireland =
became
a democracy. He found work and relative fame as a singer in London =
before
moving to Scotland. Eventually, like many others searching for greater
opportunity, he emigrated to the United States, where he worked as a =
doorman
while supplementing his income with appearances at folk festivals, =
concerts
and clubs. As his reputation and following grew, Heaney gained entry to =
the
folk music scene and began leading workshops as a visiting artist at =
several
universities. In 1982 the National Endowment for the Arts awarded Heaney
America's highest honor in folk and traditional arts, the prestigious
National Heritage Fellowship. Heaney's works did not become truly =
popular in
his homeland until many years after his death. Today he is hailed as a
seminal figure of traditional song and is revered by those who follow
traditional music.

Authors Sean Williams and Lillis =D3 Laoire address larger questions =
about
song, identity, and culture. They explore the deep ambivalence both the
Irish and Irish-Americans felt toward the traditional aspects of their
culture, examining other critical issues, such as gender and =
masculinity,
authenticity, and contemporary marketing and consumption of sean-n=F3s =
singing
in both Ireland and the United States. Comingling Heaney's own words =
with
the authors' comprehensive research and analysis, Bright Star of the =
West
weaves a poignant critical biography of the man, the music, and his
continuing legacy in Ireland and the United States.

Readership: Students and scholars of musicology, ethnomusicology, =
American
studies, American history, Irish culture/history/music, gender studies, =
and
diaspora studies; general readers interested in Irish music, =
Irish-American
history, and Joe Heaney

Introduction: Singing the Dark Away
1.: Sean-n=F3s Singing
1. Sean-n=F3s Singing in Theory and Practice
2. The Performance of Sean-n=F3s in Connemara
2.: The Iconic Repertoire
3. Singing the Famine
4. The Religious Laments
5. The Medieval Transformed
3.: Masculinity in a Musical Context
6. Irish Masculinities: The Irish Tenor and the Sean-n=F3s Singer
7. Fighting Words, Fighting Music: The Performative Male
4.: Joe Heaney in America
8. The Irishman at the Threshold
9. The Folk Revival and the Search for Authenticity
Guide to Pronunciation
References
Discography
Index

http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/academic/series/music/am/9780195321180=
.do
?sortby=3DbookTitleAscend

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Subject: CFP, EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND SOCIETY, Trim, 1-3 July 2011
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EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND SOCIETY
AN CUMANN =C9IRE SAN OCHT=DA C=C9AD D=C9AG

Annual Conference 2011

Trim, Co. Meath=20
in association with Trim Swift Festival

1-3 July 2011


CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers are invited for the annual conference of the Eighteenth-Century
Ireland Society to be held in Trim, Co. Meath, 1-3 July 2011. This =
year's
conference is held in association with Trim Swift Festival. The =
organizers
welcome papers relating to any aspect of Ireland and the eighteenth =
century.
A number of panels will be also be devoted to Jonathan Swift.=A0 2011 =
sees
some significant anniversaries such as those of the 1740-1 famine, the =
last
witch trial in Ireland, and the birth of Samuel Neilson, founder of the
Northern Star, and the organizers welcome papers and proposals for =
panels on
these or other topical subjects. Postgraduate students are particularly
encouraged to offer papers.

Please send abstracts for twenty-minute papers of approximately 250 =
words to
the conference organiser (preferably by email) by 15 April 2011.

Queries or requests for further details should be addressed to the
conference organiser:

Dr James Ward,
University of Ulster,
Coleraine
N. Ireland
BT52 1SA=20
E-mail: jg.ward[at]ulster.ac.uk.=20

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Struggling for Peace: How Women in Northern Ireland Challenged
the Status Quo
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New on the Solutions web site...

About SOLUTIONS
Solutions is a nonprofit print and online publication devoted to showcasing
bold and innovative ideas for solving the world's integrated ecological,
social, and economic problems.

Solutions
Volume 2: Issue 2: Feb 28, 2011

Struggling for Peace: How Women in Northern Ireland Challenged the Status
Quo
By Avila Kilmurray, Monica McWilliams

In Brief
Since the late 1990s women have been struggling for a place at the table in
peace accords. The inclusion of women in such negotiations is not merely a
question of gender equity but also contributes to an improved negotiating
process and the creation of a more durable peace agreement. A new political
party established in the midst of a macho conservative culture, the Northern
Ireland Women's Coalition (NIWC) succeeded in getting elected to the
multiparty talks that led to the Belfast Agreement in 1998 (also known as
the Good Friday Agreement). The struggle to find solutions so that women's
concerns are not discarded, particularly following the implementation of a
peace agreement, should resonate with those working with the UN resolutions
on women and peace building. The NIWC's legacy is its freshness of
perspective and solutions-focused approach-much needed in countries coming
out of conflict. The coalition's achievements in creating workable outcomes
for the long term should encourage people everywhere who seek solutions in
peace negotiations so that they can rebuild their societies.

FULL TEXT AT
http://www.thesolutionsjournal.com/node/893

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Two articles of interest have turned up in the latest issue of the journal
Advances in Mental Health.

Somewhat belatedly - so I have had a little look to see what has been
happening.

The issue was a special on Migration and Mental Health, and included
articles by Mary Tilki and team, and Liam Clarke. Separate emails follow,
in the usual way.

Advances in Mental Health continues what used to be the Australian e-Journal
for the Advancement of Mental Health - and this was archived and freely
available at PANDORA, Australia's Web Archive. Basically the journal is now
behind a pay wall. Advice - as always - is to grab and download what you
want, whilst it is still grab-able.

P.O'S.

Advances in Mental Health

Migration and Mental Health

Volume 9 Issue 3 - 2010

Older Irish people with dementia in England
Mary Tilki, Eddie Mulligan, Ellen Pratt, Ellen Halley, Eileen Taylor

An examination of the mental health of Irish migrants to England using a
concept of Diaspora
Liam Clarke

http://amh.e-contentmanagement.com/archives/vol/9/issue/3/

Editorial
Global economic crises and mental health
Nicholas G Procter
Irena Papadopoulos
Monica McEvoy

http://amh.e-contentmanagement.com/archives/vol/9/issue/3/article/3996/globa
l-economic-crises-and-mental-health

http://amh.e-contentmanagement.com/archives/

http://amh.e-contentmanagement.com/

From 2010, Advances in Mental Health (ISSN: 1837-4905), incorporating
volumes 1-8 of the Australian e-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health
(ISSN: 1446-7984), is available from eContent Management P/L.

PANDORA, Australia's Web Archive

Australian e-journal for the advancement of mental health : AeJAMH
This title has ceased. It is continued by Advances in mental health :
incorporating the Australian e-journal for the advancement of mental health

Australian e-journal for the advancement of mental health : AeJAMH was
selected for preservation by the National Library of Australia. This title
is not scheduled for re-archiving. The publisher's site may provide more
current information.

http://pandora.nla.gov.au/tep/24225

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Note: the research report upon which this article is based is freely
available at

http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/6350

Separate email about that research report follows.

P.O'S.


Advances in Mental Health
Migration and Mental Health
Volume 9 Issue 3 - 2010

Older Irish people with dementia in England

Mary Tilki
Research Centre for Transcultural Studies in Health, Middlesex University,
London, United Kingdom

Eddie Mulligan
Community Development Worker, Leeds Irish Health and Homes Country, UK

Ellen Pratt
Community and Health Development Worker, Federation of Irish Societies, UK

Ellen Halley
Director, Irish Community Services, UK

Eileen Taylor
Carers Service Coordinator, Irish Community Services, UK

The Irish community is the oldest minority ethnic community in Britain.
Despite an older age profile than general or minority ethnic populations, as
well as excesses of mental and physical ill-health and socio-economic
disadvantage, the community is largely ignored by policy makers and
providers. Several of these factors predispose the Irish community in
England to a higher incidence of dementia. Unlike other minority ethnic
groups with growing numbers of people with dementia, the incidence of
dementia is already high. Older Irish people are often reluctant to access
mainstream services because they fail to recognise their distinct cultural
needs and experiences. Irish third sector organisations provide a range of
culturally specific services to older people and their carers and
increasingly to those with dementia. This article uses data from a mapping
exercise which identifies non-governmental services for Irish people with
dementia and their carers, explaining what cultural sensitivity means for
them. Changes in the UK government and the 'Big Society' agenda pose a
threat to dementia services. However prioritising the National Dementia
Strategy and revising the National Carers Strategy within this agenda could
expand the role of the Irish third sector in England and improve the lives
of Irish people with dementia and their carers

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Advances in Mental Health
Migration and Mental Health
Volume 9 Issue 3 - 2010

An examination of the mental health of Irish migrants to England using a
concept of Diaspora

Liam Clarke
Faculty of Health and Social Science, University of Brighton, Eastbourne,
East Sussex, UK

Abstract

This paper asks if Diaspora is an intellectually overloaded term or if,
alternatively, it augments existing understandings of migrant's experiences
when individuals are adrift from their homeland. Fundamentally, Diaspora is
a concept that transcends the nation-state as the primary unit of analysis
of migration movements and developments. Although some migrations are
voluntary, most are not: thus, this paper addresses involuntary migrations,
this emphasis drawing support from Cohen's Global Diasporas (2008) which
employs an elastic method but with 'victim diasporas' taking precedence: by
victim diasporas, Cohen means Jews, Africans, Armenians and Irish. This
paper, of course, explicates matters in respect of 'the Irish', the second
largest dispersed group in history.

Keywords

Diaspora, migration, depression, sexuality, research methods

Article Text Begins...

The paper is structured in two parts, the first describing the origins and
applicability of the Diaspora concept, the second focusing on the Irish
community - particularly in relation to depressive illness. An additional
focus of the paper is the forms of analyses of migrant groups, the broad
methodologies by which their constituent problems are discussed. Data
arising from qualitative and quantitative inquiry are discussed in the
context of theoretical formulations of migrant's experiences. Conceptual
models that posit an 'Irish mind', spiritually, morally, culturally at odds
with, and suffering within, a demonic host culture are challenged by
narrative accounts drawn from an empirical study into Irish immigrants to
England...

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Freely available at

Middlesex University Research Repository

http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/6350/


The Forgotten Irish
Report of a research project commissioned
by
The Ireland Fund of Great Britain
Mary Tilki, Louise Ryan, Alessio D'Angelo, Rosemary Sales,
Social Policy Research Centre
Middlesex University
August 2009

Forgotten Irish.

Tilki, Mary and Ryan, Louise and D'Angelo, Alessio and Sales, Rosemary A.
(2009) Forgotten Irish. Project Report. Middlesex University.


The research was commissioned by the Ireland Fund of Great Britain to inform
its Forgotten Irish Campaign and decisions about where to deploy funds most
effectively. It aimed to identify groups of Irish people who have
experienced problems settling in Britain but who, for personal or economic
reasons, are reluctant or unable to return to Ireland. They may be isolated
and lack support in Britain, especially as they get older, but have little
contact with family in Ireland. It is this group which has become the focus
of the Forgotten Irish Campaign.

The research used a range of evidence - from national statistics, local
research reports and key informant interviews - to identify particular
groups who suffer disadvantage and specific issues which disproportionately
affect the Irish population.

Some of these groups - such as single elderly men - are well known to
organisations working with the Irish community. The research provides
further evidence of the inter-related problems which they face. The research
also uncovered evidence of other problems which particularly affect the
Irish population in Britain and of groups within the Irish community who
face specific difficulties but whose needs are not widely acknowledged
either by mainstream service providers or by Irish services.

Item Type: Monograph (Project Report)
Additional Information:
This paper was subsequently presented at 'Ageing population' conference held
at Middlesex University, July 2010.

Research Areas: Health and Social Sciences > Social Policy & Administration
ID Code: 6350
Deposited By: Anna Jablkowska
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Subject: CFP Innovation in Irish poetry, University College Cork, Ireland,
July 12th 2011
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Call for Papers: Extended deadline March 28th Conference: Innovation in
Irish poetry University College Cork, Ireland. July 12th 2011

Call for Papers: Extended deadline March 28th
Conference: Innovation in Irish poetry University College Cork, Ireland.
July 12th 2011

This conference investigates issues surrounding innovation in Irish =
poetry.
Its aim is not only to re-examine the influence that Irish writers have =
had
on 20th Century literature, but also to explore the current status of =
Irish
innovative poetics in the 21st Century. Due to the historical, and yet =
ever
present, issue of emigration from Ireland, this conference will not =
restrict
itself to provincial ideas of national identity. Instead it aims to =
consider
=93Irish poetry=94 as transnational, considering not only poets born, =
raised or
living in Ireland, but also those who have emigrated, those who are part =
of
the Irish diaspora and those who have been significantly influenced by =
Irish
innovative writing. The conference will take place in University College
Cork on the 12th of July 2011 so that it coincides with the 15th =
SoundEye
festival of the Arts of the Word (13th =96 17th). Papers should be =
approx. 20
minutes in length.

Some possible areas of interest for papers might include=20
- Cadence in Irish poetry
- The influence of international poetics on Irish poetry
- The influence of Irish modernism on British and American writers
- Irish poetry and the historical avant-garde
- Constructions of Irish Modernism
- Irish small presses
- National identity
- Religion
- Post colonialism
- Emigration
- Irish poetry=92s engagement with critical theory
- The Irish poetic canon

Below is a possible, but not exhaustive, list of writers whose poetry =
papers
could explore.

W.B. Yeats, Mary Devenport O=92Neill, Sheila Wingfield, Blanaid Salkeid,
Thomas MacGreevey, Denis Devlin, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Brian =
Coffey,
Michael Smith, Trevor Joyce, Geoffrey Squires, Maggie O=92Sullivan, Tom
Raworth, John James, Catherine Walsh, Billy Mills, Randolph Healy, =
Maurice
Scully, Mair=E9ad Byrne.

Abstracts should be 300 words in length (approx) and should be emailed =
to
irishpoetryconference[at]gmail.com no later than Extended deadline March =
28th
2011.

James Cummins=20
School of English=20
University College Cork=20
Ireland
Email: irishpoetryconference[at]gmail.com

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Hi Paddy=2C

We just want to bring your attention to a podcast that we have created here=
at
Glucksman Ireland House drawing on the oral history collection we have been
nurturing over the past several years. This is the 250th anniversary of the=
St.
Patrick's Day Parade in New York City=2C so we decided to explore our archi=
ve for
memories of the event from the various parade Grand Marshalls=2C organizers=
and
spectators we have interviewed for the oral history project. The result is =
a
podcast that is posted on our website and that has been incorporated into t=
he
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts exhibit=2C "Ireland
America:Ties that Bind"=2C curated by Marion Casey (Glucksman Ireland House=
/NYU) and produced in collaboration with Glucksman Ireland House=2C New Yor=
k University=2C the Irish Film Institute and Culture Ireland as part of Ima=
gine Ireland=2C a program of Irish arts taking place across the US in 2011=
=2C an initiative of Culture Ireland.

"Memories of the New York City St. Patrick's Day
Parade": http://irelandhouse.as.nyu.edu/object/memoriesstpatsparade"Ireland=
America: Ties that Bind":=20
http://irelandhouse.fas.nyu.edu/object/ne.tiesthatbind


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Thanks=2C

Linda=20

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Dear all,=20
Paddy is venturing south today for an engagement at the Irish embassy. To=
morrow evening, the 17th, he and I are meeting up for a drink/chat at O'N=
eill's (post modern irony!) in Covent Garden at 7.00pm. The address is 14=
, New Row, Covent Garden WC2N 4LF. Any list members who are free are very=
welcome to join us.=20
anthony

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In case you haven't seen this notice yet...

Best wishes,
Maria McGarrity
LIU Brooklyn

To: H-SOUTH[at]h-net.msu.edu
Subject: The Spring 2011 issue of Southern Cultures: The Irish

From: Shaw, David M [mailto:dshaw[at]email.unc.edu]
Subject: The Spring 2011 issue of Southern Cultures: The Irish

The Spring 2011 issue of Southern Cultures is devoted entirely to The Irish=
, and it is available now in print, online through Project Muse, and throug=
h eBooks.

The Irish issue features:
William R. Ferris on the lasting influence of the Emerald Isle's music, lit=
erature, and culture; Conor O'Callaghan's stirring introduction to "Smoke a=
nd Guns," his remarkable poem born in dual voices of Ireland and the South;=
Geraldine Higgins on the Irish influences in Gone With the Wind; David Gle=
eson on the politics and the stories behind Irish Civil War vets and their =
commemorations of the War; Christopher J. Smith on "The Roots of American P=
opular Music"; and more.

We've also updated our online archives, which include all the essays and fe=
atures we've published over the last ten years in nineteen subject areas. =
To date, over 65,000 students and scholars from more than 60 countries have=
read Southern Cultures online. To read Southern Cultures by subject area,=
please visit:
http://www.southerncultures.org/content/read/read_by_subject/

To read The Irish issue, locate our submission guidelines, and find more in=
formation, please visit:
www.SouthernCultures.org

Thanks-and Happy St. Patrick's Day.

Best,
Dave Shaw
Executive Editor, Southern Cultures
UNC's Center for the Study of the American South CB# 9127, UNC-CH Chapel Hi=
ll, North Carolina 27599-9127 www.SouthernCultures.org

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This is forwarded from the Beara Peninsula genealogy list and may be of
interest to the list.=20

Bill Mulligan

There is a good article in todays "THE IRISH TIMES" about Butte, Montana =
and
St Patrick's day celebrations.
=A0
Happy St Patrick's day to everyone on the list from here in London, =
England.
=A0
Here is the link;-
=A0
=A0
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2011/0316/1224292257518.html=
?vi
a=3Dmr
=A0
Regards
=A0
Michael Lyons=A0
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Rebecca Graff-McRae _Remembering and Forgetting 1916:
Commemoration and Conflict in Post-Peace Process Ireland_
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Rebecca Graff-McRae. Remembering and Forgetting 1916: Commemoration and
Conflict in Post-Peace Process Ireland. Dublin Irish Academic Press, 2010.
240 pp. $74.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7165-3067-1.

Reviewed by Jason Knirck
Published on H-Albion (March, 2011)
Commissioned by Nicholas M. Wolf

Rebecca Graff-McRae's _Remembering and Forgetting 1916_ is an ambitious
attempt to analyze the commemoration of four critical events in Irish
history: the Easter Rising, the Battle of the Somme, the 1798 rebellion, and
the 1981 hunger strikes. The book examines the ways in which each of these
events are remembered, commemorated, or invoked in the context of the peace
process that ultimately led to the 1998 Good Friday accords. Graff-McRae's
key assertion is that memory should be read as a discourse, and she cites
the work of Duncan Greenlaw and Jenny Edkins as particularly useful, as they
"enable and encourage polysemic and multi-faceted readings of memory as
discourse--that is, as an inherently political interaction between socially
constructed relations of power which reflect and reproduce contested
positions and meanings" (p. 11). Thus, she argues that commemoration is not
merely a series of discrete events, but instead involves a collection of
discourses, each of which attempt to place their subjects outside the bounds
of the political and to establish their own hegemony, but actually
themselves contribute to the exclusion, disharmony, disunity, and
instability of meaning that they seek to prevent.

In analyzing these critical readings of memory as discourse, Graff-McRae has
"primarily deployed and adapted the theories of Michel Foucault, Jacques
Derrida and Slavoj ?i?ek," and "strongly argue[s] that the topic of
commemoration demands a deconstructive approach. The ambiguities,
complexities and paradoxes of commemoration require a flexible theoretical
and methodological framework that does not attempt to resolve
contradictions, to draw black-and-white lines of distinction" (pp. 15-16).
Many themes crucial to deconstructionist analysis are prevalent in this
work, including the notion that texts inherently undermine and destabilize
themselves, as well as a recognition of constructed binaries, the most
important of which identified by Graff-McRae are public/private,
memory/forgetting, us/them, past/present, and unity/division. These
binaries are always unstable, and discourses that attempt to resolve them
always fail to do so.

Through the use of deconstructionism, this book proposes to demonstrate that
commemoration is always political and always reproduces unequal power
relations. Previous approaches to the subject, according to Graff-McRae,
have placed too much emphasis on reinstating marginalized groups and
discourses, or have blithely asserted that a focus on "shared history" can
overcome these divisions. For example, Anne Dolan's _Commemorating the
Irish Civil War: History and Memory, 1923-2000 _(2006), in unfavorably
contrasting the rather formal and hollow state commemorations of the civil
war with more "genuine" private grief, failed to recognize that discourses
of private grief are also themselves constructed, and thus furthered an
artificial public/private separation. Graff-McRae is less concerned about
the "truth" of any particular commemorative discourse, than in how it
attempts (and fails) to make itself hegemonic, universal, or unassailable.

As Peter Hart and others repeatedly have asserted, Irish history could
benefit from more theoretically sophisticated approaches, and Graff-McRae's
book is a step in the right direction as far as the blending of theory and
Irish history. Armed with her theoretical approach, Graff-McRae raises a
series of key questions about these four events, most notably, "how have the
commemorations of these events become incorporated into present politics in
the wake of the Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement?" (p. xv). She also lists
some "critical questions" about the process of commemoration: "What is being
commemorated, where, and how? By whom is it commemorated, and by whom
forgotten? Who is excluded or marginalized and whose interests does this
serve?... How does this legitimate, (re)produce or contest unequal power
relations and particular understandings of political dynamics? What then is
_political_ about memory and commemoration?" (p. 6). The four case studies
are well chosen, and Graff-McRae skillfully demonstrates the interrelation
between her cases, in particular how the "ghosts" of 1916 hang heavily over
all of the other commemorations. Unlike many other historical works, which
posit theoretical approaches in the introduction and then largely abandon
them in the subsequent chapters, Graff-McRae is consistent in her
theoretical deployment.

The methodology works best in the chapter on the 1798 bicentennial. Here,
Graff-McRae identifies four discursive strategies (borrowed from the
Slovenian political scientist ?i?ek) by which political actors attempted to
confine and shape debate. These strategies include the definition of what
is to be commemorated and how, the use of commemoration for the benefit of
political parties, the connection of commemoration to wider economic forces
or "universal" values (such as liberalism, pluralism, etc.), and the turning
of commemoration into "a weapon of war, a battleground" by tactics of
exclusion (p. 120). Graff-McRae then gives examples of how various
politicians, historians, and self-proclaimed revolutionaries used some of
these strategies in attempts to both derive advantage from and close off
debate over the commemoration of 1798. For example, language used during
the 1798 bicentennial emphasized "the desirability of such 'universal'
political values as liberty, liberalism, equality, inclusivity, pluralism
and tolerance. Within this consensus, these goods were held to be
unproblematic, even though their meaning and significance were contested on
a myriad of levels" (pp. 156-157).

While the chapter on 1798 is solid, the book does have some significant
flaws that reduce its effectiveness. To start, it is hamstrung by an odd
introduction. Few of the major works on memory or commemoration in
Ireland--works by Dolan, James S. Donnelly Jr., Michael Silvestri, and David
Fitzpatrick, to name a few--are engaged in the introduction, which gives the
erroneous impression that there has been little historical work done on
memory in Ireland.[1] The theoretical perspective is explained well in the
introduction, but the historiographical perspective is not. In addition,
the introduction spends a lot of time developing ideas that are widely
accepted in the discipline now. For example, most historians would agree
that commemoration is not merely an event, but a series of discourses, or
that commemoration needs to be seen as problematic and contestable.
Similarly, attempts to disrupt the use of 1916 as a unifying foundational
myth were initiated by revisionists in the 1930s, and seem less surprising
now. These ideas are certainly useful for the book, but there is a sense in
the introduction that the author is pushing rather strenuously at open
doors. Finally, the introduction curiously never justifies or explains the
choice of the 1998 peace process as a focus for the study. No literature on
the peace process, or on Ulster in general, is mentioned. Some discussion
of this topic would have placed the book on much more solid footing.

A larger problem has to do with the relationship between theory and
evidence. The questions identified as central by Graff-McRae--those
mentioned above, as well as others spread throughout the text--are not
answerable or accessible solely through deconstructionism. For example, the
question "how does the memory of the Easter Rising serve to solidify and
disrupt attempts at a stable, consensual and linear narrative of both the
Irish state(s) and the Irish nation?" is not a new question (pp. 17-18).
Thus _Remembering and Forgetting 1916_ stands or falls not based on the
questions asked--which I think most historians would accept as crucial--but
on the usefulness of deconstructionism in answering those questions. And
this is where the book could have used some greater evidentiary support. In
some chapters, the theoretical discussion overwhelms the subject purportedly
at hand, so much so that the discussion and analysis of Irish political
rhetoric in the 1990s seems almost an afterthought. This is particularly
true of the chapters on 1916 and on the 1981 hunger strikes, both of which
spend more time with secondary sources--the hunger strike chapter relies
heavily on Greenlaw--than with material from the 1990s. This is not to
reject the use of theory in history, or to say that the particular
theoretical approach proposed here is wrongheaded or useless, but instead to
say that the case for the utility of deconstructionism could have been more
convincingly established. This is due, in part, to the balance between
theory and primary source evidence being too heavily tipped toward the
former. The book would have been better served by more discussion of the
commemorations themselves, rather than by somewhat repetitive explanations
of the theoretical perspective. Such evidence is crucial in getting the
reader to accept the utility of the theories invoked, and a much stronger
and clearer case could have been made.

However, _Remembering and Forgetting 1916_ does have a lot to offer the
study of Irish history. Its subject is an interesting one, and the author's
use of theory as well as her consistent deployment of that theory throughout
are both praiseworthy. Greater use of evidence from the 1990s and a
stronger introduction would have made for a better book, but even so this is
an audacious and intelligent work that deserves careful attention from Irish
historians and scholars of memory.

Note

[1]. Anne Dolan, _Commemorating the Irish Civil War: History and Memory,
1923-2000_ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006); James S. Donnelly
Jr., "The Construction of the Memory of the Famine in Ireland and the Irish
Diaspora, 1850-1900," _Eire-Ireland_ 31, nos. 1-2 (1996): 26-61; Michael
Silvestri, _Ireland and India: Nationalism, Empire and Memory _(London:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009); and David Fitzpatrick, "Commemoration in the
Irish Free State: a Chronicle of Embarrassment," in _History and Memory in
Modern Ireland_, ed. Ian MacBride (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2001): 184-203.

Citation: Jason Knirck. Review of Graff-McRae, Rebecca, _Remembering and
Forgetting 1916: Commemoration and Conflict in Post-Peace Process Ireland_.
H-Albion, H-Net Reviews. March, 2011.
URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=32274

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States
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Michael Pierse=20
Writing Ireland=92s Working Class: Dublin After O=92Casey=20

It is currently available at Hodges Figgis bookstore, or online at:=A0=20
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or
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amongst other sites.

Description:
As a social other, Ireland's urban working class inhabits a 'non-place' =
in
the national narrative, a place beset by galling levels of poverty and =
low
social mobility. Its exclusion is not just social and economic, but =
cultural
as well. Working-class Dublin in particular elicits little good press, =
and
less in terms of academic commentary or cultural appreciation, so where =
and
how does it appear in literature?=A0 Exploring the fiction and plays of =
this
marginalised community after Se=E1n O'Casey, this book breaks new ground =
in
Irish Studies scholarship, charting alternative directions for academic
research and unearthing submerged narratives in the history of Irish
culture. Most of the works examined have received little or no critical
commentary to date, yet this book makes a compelling case for their
centrality to the history and appreciation of Irish literature. From =
O'Casey
to Roddy Doyle, a rich tapestry of urban life is illuminated and =
explored,
which presents a robust challenge to stereotyped and staid views of =
Irish
life and literature.

Contents:
Introduction
The Shadow of Se=E1n
Angry Young Men - Class Injuries and Masculinity
From Rocking the Cradle to Rocking the System - Writing Working-Class =
Women
Industry and the City - Workers in Struggle
Prison Stories - Writing Dublin at its Limits
Return of the Oppressed - Sexual Repression, Culture and Class
Revising the Revolution: Roddy Doyle's A Star Called Henry,
Historiography, Politics and Proletarian Consciousness
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Author:
Michael Pierse is a Communications teacher at Col=E1iste =CDde CFE in =
Finglas,
Dublin, Ireland. He is a former editor of the regional Cavan and =
Monaghan
Echo newspaper group, and completed his PhD in English at
Trinity College Dublin. He has published academic work on Flann O'Brien =
and
Dermot Bolger, as well as many articles on social issues and current
affairs.

--
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Adult Education,
Col=E1iste =CDde College of Further Education,
Cardiffsbridge Road,
Finglas,
Dublin 11.
Mob: 0857150152
Tel: 01 834 2333 / 01 834 2450
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A History of the Irish Novel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, =
2011)=20

Derek Hand, St Patrick's College, Drumcondra
=A0
Hardback; ISBN: 9780521855402; 352 pages; =A3 55.00

Derek Hand's A History of the Irish Novel is a major work of criticism =
on
some of the greatest and most globally recognisable writers of the novel
form. Writers such as Laurence Sterne, James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, =
Samuel
Beckett and John McGahern have demonstrated the extraordinary =
intellectual
range, thematic complexity and stylistic innovation of Irish fiction. =
Derek
Hand provides a remarkably detailed picture of the Irish novel's =
emergence
in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He shows the story of the =
genre
is the story of Ireland's troubled relationship to modernisation. The =
first
critical synthesis of the Irish novel from the seventeenth century to =
the
present day, this is a major book for the field, and the first to
thematically, theoretically and contextually chart its development. It =
is an
essential, entertaining and highly original guide to the history of the
Irish novel.
=A0
=A0
Table of Contents=20
Introduction: a history of the Irish novel: 1665=962010
Interchapter: Virtue Rewarded, or The Irish Princess: burgeoning silence =
and
the new novel form in Ireland
1. Beginnings and endings: writing from the margins, 1665=961800
Interchapter: beyond history: Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent
2. Speak not my name or, the wings of Minerva: Irish fiction, =
1800=961891
Interchapter: Edith Somerville and Martin Ross's The Real Charlotte: the
blooming menagerie
3. Living in a time of epic: the Irish novel and literary revival and
revolution, 1891=961922
Interchapter: James Joyce's Ulysses: choosing life
4. Irish independence and the bureaucratic imagination: 1922=961939
Interchapter: Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September and the art of =
betrayal
5. Enervated island - isolated Ireland? 1940=961960
Interchapter: John Banville's Doctor Copernicus: a revolution in the =
head
6. The struggle of making it new, 1960=961979
Interchapter: Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark and the rebel act of
interpretation
7. Brave new worlds - Celtic tigers and moving statues: 1979 to the =
present
day
Interchapter: John McGahern's That They May Face the Rising Sun: saying =
the
very last things
Conclusion: the future of the Irish novel in the global literary =
marketplace
Bibliography.
=A0
"At once panoptic and intimate, visionary yet incisive, this profound
meditation on the forms of the novel is one of the grand, essential =
works on
the Irish imagination. Derek Hand's take on the Irish novel is a work in
which interpretative audacity is tempered only by scholarly scruple. =
This
deft and=A0 brilliant analysis combines a wonderful alertness to form =
and
style with a sure understanding of the social world out of which so many
classic texts have come."
(Professor Declan Kiberd)
=A0
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GB