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1.
Top ten most annoying things about Ireland
What I didn't like about my first trip to the Emerald Isle
By SIMON MORRISON

ust back from a week in Ireland, my first ever visit and the weather was
glorious and everyone was upbeat. The new government and the upcoming Obama
and Queen's visit seems to have enlivened everyone.

Just to be contrarian. however, here are ten things I didn't like.

FULL TEXT AT

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Top-ten-most-annoying-things-about--Ireland
--118641669.html

2.
Why I stand by my comments on downsides to my Irish trip
By SIMON MORRISON , IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

I have been amazed by the reaction to my mild criticisms of my visit to
Ireland, which I made clear I really enjoyed. I understand my article has
been widely quoted all over Ireland.

There has been a lot of negative and positive comment, but I would like to
address some of the negative vibes first.

Re: hotel lights...

FULL TEXT AT

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Why-I-stand-by-my-comments-on-downsides-to-
my-Irish-trip--118762954.html

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Dear all subscribers=2C

Here's the link to my book that just came out this week. It's the first boo=
k written in French and dealing with the Irish political question and its i=
mpact in the province of Quebec=2C 1898-1921.

Simon Jolivet=2C Le vert et le bleu. Identit=E9 qu=E9b=E9coise et identit=
=E9 irlandaise au tournant du XXe si=E8cle=2C Montr=E9al=2C Les Presses de =
l'Universit=E9 de Montr=E9al=2C 2011=2C 292 p.=20

http://www.pum.umontreal.ca/ca/fiches/978-2-7606-2223-4.html

Merci!!

Simon Jolivet
Postdoctoral fellow in History=2C
University of Ottawa =

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Hello, Simon Jolivet, and happy congratulations on the recent book, sure =
to be appreciated.=20

Question, please: Do you know of anyone who has information on the Irish =
circle of the famous Madam Rolland who was politically active during the =
French Revolution (and paid dearly for it)? She attracted serious =
support from the Shackleton Leadbeaters in Ballitore, County Kildare, =
who had even planned to leave their homes in Ireland and participate in =
some of Rolland's workshops in and around Paris, and doubtless other =
activities (even, perhaps, political writings for circulation). This =
plan was never realized, sadly, owing to the general mayhem of the =
times, but it remains an important cross-cultural / cross-ethnic =
connection which should be investigated.=20

Any information or leads, from you and your associates, or from others =
on the Irish Diaspora List, would be most appreciated.=20

Continuing success for your work ~=20


Maureen E. Mulvihill, PhD
Scholar & Writer, Princeton Research Forum, Princeton, NJ ~ USA
Editor, Poems by Mary Leadbeater (2008; with extended essay & rare image =
of Leadbeater),
Irish Women Poets series, Alexander Street Press, Virginia; now online, =
by subscription.

=
http://mysentimentallibrary.blogspot.com/2011/03/maureen-e-mulvihill-list-=
of-online-work.html

_____

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How Bridget Was Framed: The Irish Domestic in Early American
Cinema, 1895-1917
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Peter Flynn
How Bridget Was Framed: The Irish Domestic in Early American Cinema,
1895-1917

Cinema Journal - 50, Number 2, Winter 2011, pp. 1-20
University of Texas Press

Abstract:

This article explores the form and function of the Bridget stereotype in
pre-classical American cinema. It argues that the character of the unruly
Irish maid-a grotesque inversion of nineteenth-century domestic and feminine
norms-was a cipher for underlying tensions at the heart of the new urban
middle-class family.

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This article has turned up in our alerts. Something will have clicked
somewhere and made it visible to the search engines. It is interesting =
-
the voice of the subaltern is heard through the land...


Paradigms of Peripheral Modernity in Lorca and Yeats=20

Author: Hart, Stephen 1

Source: The Modern Language Review, Volume 102, Number 2, 1 April 2007 , =
pp.
410-426(17)

Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association

Abstract:
The aim of this essay is to explore the similarities between the work of =
W.
B. Yeats and Federico Garc=EDa Lorca, with particular reference to their
fascination with the supernatural, nurtured by their attachment to the =
land.
The ghost functions in their work as a site of postcolonial defiance
undermining the economy of the visible and the discourse of the real, =
and
the cultural archive of folk and fairy tales plays an intrinsic though
elusive role in that artistic process. Indeed, the incantation of rhyme =
is
used in both Yeats's and Lorca's work as a conduit leading back to the
`Gaelic/gypsy' imaginary.=20

Keywords: similarities; W. B. Yeats; Federico Garc=EDa Lorca; ghost;
postcolonial defiance; cultural archive of folk and fairy tales; rhyme;
conduit; `Gaelic/gypsy' imaginary

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Subject: Report, Honohan & Rougier,
Tolerance and Cultural Diversity Discourses in Ireland
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A number of Ir-D members will find useful this Report by Iseult Honohan =
and
Nathalie Rougier - freely available at

http://www.eui.eu/Projects/ACCEPT/Documents/Research/wp1/ACCEPTPLURALISMW=
p1B
ackgroundreportIreland.pdf

There is much discussion of 'identity', including this paragraph...

'A further aspect of identity, if less controversial, is that living in
Ireland was for most Irish people considered a precondition of being
=91really=92 Irish. Despite references to the evil of emigration in=20
literature and policy documents, the Irish diaspora was given little
attention until President Mary Robinson's 1995 address to the Joint =
Houses
of the Oireachtas, =91Cherishing the Irish Diaspora=92, in which she =
reached
out to the =9170 million people worldwide who can claim Irish descent=92 =
and
spoke of the =91added richness of our heritage that Irishness is not =
simply
territorial=92.9 Those who claimed to be Irish by descent, living in =
the
United States or Britain were not seen as really Irish by those living =
on=20
the island, and have sometimes been referred to in recent years as =
=91plastic
paddies=92 (Hickman, 2002). This reflects a practical attitude of what =
has
been termed a =91twenty-six county nationalism=92, which contrasted to =
the
equally widely held official belief in the goal of unity of the whole
island. Allied to this was a growing gulf between those living in the
Republic, and those in Northern Ireland, both Protestant/Unionist and
Catholic/nationalist, due to the different experiences on each side of =
the
border since independence in 1922. At the same time, living in Ireland =
was
not enough to be considered Irish,as even after living on Irish soil for
many years individuals were regarded as =91newcomers=92...'

There is a companion Report for the United Kingdom - separate email =
follows.

P.O'S.

Tolerance and Cultural Diversity Discourses in Ireland=20
DR. ISEULT HONOHAN AND DR. NATHALIE ROUGIER
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
SCHOOL OF POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Work Package 1 =96 Overview of National Discourses=20
on Tolerance and Cultural Diversity=20
D1.1 Country Reports on Tolerance and Cultural=20
Diversity Discourses=20

Tolerance, Pluralism and Social Cohesion: Responding to the Challenges =
of
the 21st Century in Europe (ACCEPT PLURALISM)
=20
ACCEPT PLURALISM is a Research Project, funded by the European =
Commission
under the Seventh Framework Program. The project investigates whether
European societies have become more or less tolerant during the past 20
years. In particular, the project aims to clarify: (a) how is tolerance=20
defined conceptually, (b) how it is codified in norms, institutional
arrangements, public policies and social practices, (c) how tolerance =
can be
measured (whose tolerance, who is tolerated, and what if degrees of
tolerance vary with reference to different minority groups). The ACCEPT
PLURALISM consortium conducts original empirical research on key issues =
in
school life and in politics that thematise different understandings and
practices of tolerance. Bringing together empirical and theoretical
findings, ACCEPT PLURALISM generates a State of the Art Report on =
Tolerance
and Cultural Diversity in Europe, a Handbook on Ideas of Tolerance and
Cultural Diversity in Europe, a Tolerance Indicators=92 Toolkit where
qualitative and quantitative indicators may be used to score each=20
country=92s performance on tolerating cultural diversity, and several
academic publications (books, journal articles) on Tolerance, Pluralism =
and
Cultural Diversity in Europe. The ACCEPT PLULARISM consortium is formed =
by
18 partner institutions covering 15 EU countries. The project is hosted =
by
the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and co-ordinated by Prof.
Anna Triandafyllidou.=20

The EUI, the RSCAS and the European Commission are not responsible for =
the
opinion expressed by the author(s). The UCD School of Politics and
International Relations is the oldest and the largest of its kind in=20
the Republic of Ireland. Academic staff is engaged in cutting-edge =
research
on a wide variety of political issues, including ethno-political =
conflict,
human rights, and Ireland's role in the European Union. The School is =
also
home to three research centres: the Centre for Development Studies, the=20
Dublin European Institute, and the Institute for British-Irish Studies.=20

Dr. Iseult Honohan is Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics and
International Relations, University College Dublin. Her research =
interests
lie in normative political theory, with a focus on republican theory, =
both
its foundations and its application to areas including citizenship,
immigration and diversity. See also: =
http://www.ucd.ie/spire/staff/honohan/


Dr. Nathalie Rougier holds a Licence, Ma=EEtrise and DEA in Social =
Psychology
from the Universit=E9 Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France, and a PhD =
in
Psychology from the University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Northern =
Ireland.
Her main research interests revolve around issues of identity construal=20
and (re)definition over time and across socio-cultural contexts; =
inter-group
and inter-cultural relations; integration and acculturation processes;
stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination.=20

Contact details:
Dr. Iseult Honohan, School of Politics and International Relations=20
University College Dublin=20
Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland=20
Fax: + 353 1 716 1171=20
E-mail: Iseult.Honohan[at]ucd.ie ; Nathalie.Rougier[at]ucd.ie=20

http://www.ucd.ie/politics/
=20
For more information on the Socio Economic Sciences and Humanities =
Programme
in FP7 see:
=20
http://ec.europa.eu/research/social-sciences/index_en.htm
=20

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This is a companion piece to the Report, Honohan & Rougier, Tolerance and
Cultural Diversity Discourses in Ireland - see earlier Ir-D email.

The Irish now appear in statistical tables, but there is, I think, a
determination to not include the Irish in discussion. Yet, there are
repeatedly points where the Irish might have been included.

Looking back over the key events outlined by Modood and Colleagues, I am
struck by often I was a participant/observer - I was a probation officer in
south London and active in the NCCL at the time of the New Cross Fire and
the Brixton Riots, I was active in local politics in Bradford at the time of
the Honeyford Affair, the Rushdie Affair, and the Bradford Riots.

Thus looking back, the analysis of 'discourses' by Modood and colleagues is
actually interesting and helpful.

P.O'S.


Tolerance and Cultural Diversity Discourses in Britain
PROFESSOR TARIQ MODOOD
JAN DOBBERNACK
DR. NASAR MEER

Freely available at
http://www.eui.eu/Projects/ACCEPT/Documents/Research/wp1/ACCEPTPLURALISMWp1B
ackgroundreportUnitedKingdom.pdf


Tolerance, Pluralism and Social Cohesion: Responding to the Challenges of
the 21st Century in
Europe (ACCEPT PLURALISM)

Tariq Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy and
Director of the Research Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship
at the University of Bristol.

Jan Dobbernack is a Research Assistant at the Research Centre for the Study
of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol.

Nasar Meer is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Department of Social
Sciences, Northumbria University.

Contact details
Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship
Bristol Institute for Public Affairs
University of Bristol
2-3 Priory Road
Bristol
BS8 1TX
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)117 33 10929
Fax: +44 (0)117 954 6609
Email: jan.dobbernack[at]bristol.ac.uk
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/ethnicity/
For more information on the Socio Economic Sciences and Humanities Programme
in FP7 see:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/social-sciences/index_en.htm

http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/cooperation/socio-economic_en.html

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The School of English, Trinity College, Dublin, cordially invite you to =
the
launch by=20
Prof Margaret Kelleher of

Ireland and Romanticism: Publics, Nations, and Scenes of Cultural =
Production

Ed. Jim Kelly
Date: Thursday, April 7th, 6.30pm-7.30pm
Venue: Boston College, 43 St Stephen=92s Green, Dublin

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

http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=3D415676
=09

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

Introduction; J.Kelly

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

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

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

Part IV: Irish Poetry in the Romantic Period
Drawing Breath: The Origin of Moore's Irish Melodies; A.Paterson
Malvina's Daughters: Irish Women Poets and the Sign of the Bard; L.Davis

Part V: Fictions of the Romantic Period
The Irish Booktrade in the Romantic Period; C.Benson
'Gothic' and 'National'? Challenging the Formal Distinctions of Irish
Romantic Fiction; C.Morin
Escaping from Barrett's Moon: Recreating the Irish Literary Landscape in =
the
Romantic Period; J.Shanahan

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

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http://www.irishdiaspora.net

is a domain name that I own, which we have used in a variety of ways over
the years. In a sense it is our brand name.

Currently we use it as a web forwarding address, pointing to the web site
hosted for us by Dr. Stephen Sobol, The Institute of Communications Studies,
University of Leeds.

Soon our friendly association with the University of Leeds will come to an
end, and we will close down the web site there. Technologies and fashions
change - and that web site is no longer as useful as it used to be. For
example, it is now far easier for an individual person to create a web site.

But amongst the features created for us at that web site by Stephen Sobol is
a database holding the archives of the Irish Diaspora list - from 1997
onwards, some nearly 14 years of Irish Diaspora Studies reference and
discussion, automatically stored daily and preserved in a Special Access
area behind a password.

However, if you go today to
http://www.irishdiaspora.net

you will see that a new 'Folder' has appeared, Folder 27 labelled
RESTRICTED. We have removed the passport protection to the archive area,
making it generally visible.

This is because - see earlier IR-D messages - the British Library's UK Web
Archive Project has asked if it can archive our web sites:

the old abandoned one at the University of Bradford
http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/

and the current one at the University of Leeds
http://www.irishdiaspora.net

We are now going to give the British Library permission to archive those web
sites, in their entirety, including the Irish Diaspora list's 14 year
archive.

Patrick O'Sullivan

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Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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

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

Irish Diaspora Research Unit
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Dear Prof. Mulvihill=2C
Merci beaucoup for your good words!
I wish I could be of some help on that issue. Unfortunately=2C my book & re=
cent researches are dealing with French Canadians in Qu=E9bec and their rel=
ations with the important Irish community in that province at the time of t=
he Irish Home Rule question. I wish I could be more helpful but perhaps oth=
ers subscribers have got a better knowledge of the Irish circle of Madame R=
olland. One person who could perhaps be of some help on that issue is Prof.=
Guy Beiner who wrote an excellent book called " Remembering the Year of th=
e French. Irish Folk History and Social Memory"=2C University of Wisconsin =
Press=2C 2009.
Best wishes=2C
Simon

> Date: Wed=2C 30 Mar 2011 15:50:13 -0400
> From: mulvihill[at]NYC.RR.COM
> Subject: [IR-D] Submission for posting: Question for Simon Jolivet.
> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>=20
> Hello=2C Simon Jolivet=2C and happy congratulations on the recent book=2C=
sure to be appreciated.=20
>=20
> Question=2C please: Do you know of anyone who has information on the Iris=
h circle of the famous Madam Rolland who was politically active during the =
French Revolution (and paid dearly for it)? She attracted serious support f=
rom the Shackleton Leadbeaters in Ballitore=2C County Kildare=2C who had ev=
en planned to leave their homes in Ireland and participate in some of Rolla=
nd's workshops in and around Paris=2C and doubtless other activities (even=
=2C perhaps=2C political writings for circulation). This plan was never rea=
lized=2C sadly=2C owing to the general mayhem of the times=2C but it remain=
s an important cross-cultural / cross-ethnic connection which should be inv=
estigated.=20
>=20
> Any information or leads=2C from you and your associates=2C or from other=
s on the Irish Diaspora List=2C would be most appreciated.=20
>=20
> Continuing success for your work ~=20
>=20
>=20
> Maureen E. Mulvihill=2C PhD
> Scholar & Writer=2C Princeton Research Forum=2C Princeton=2C NJ ~ USA
> Editor=2C Poems by Mary Leadbeater (2008=3B with extended essay & rare im=
age of Leadbeater)=2C
> Irish Women Poets series=2C Alexander Street Press=2C Virginia=3B now onl=
ine=2C by subscription.
>=20
> http://mysentimentallibrary.blogspot.com/2011/03/maureen-e-mulvihill-list=
-of-online-work.html
>=20
> _____
=

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Since we have quite a few new members, and since very soon our Irish
Diaspora list archives at

http://www.irishdiaspora.net/

will no longer be available, I thought it right to circulate this
information...

In June 2004 I moved the running of the Irish Diaspora list to Jiscmail -
the UK academic community's listserv - and the Irish Diaspora list archives
since that date are stored at Jiscmail.

Jiscmail uses the software LISTSERV, which many members will be familiar
with.

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/

Jiscmail knows you through your email address. To gain access to the
archives you need to go to that web address. You sign up, in the usual
Listserv fashion, and become an individual Subscriber. Jiscmail sends a
password to your email address - you go back to the web site and log in.
Jiscmail knows you by your email address, and you will find that you have
access to the Irish Diaspora list archives there.

The archives at Jiscmail are nicely set out, and very usable.

We are currently exploring the possibility of integrating older Irish
Diaspora list archives, pre 2004, into the Jiscmail archives - as well as
allowing the British Library UK Web Archive Project to collect them. See
earlier IR-D message.

Buy the way...

It is possible to download the Irish Diaspora list archives - for example as
an MS ACCESS database - from

http://www.irishdiaspora.net/

Anyone who wants to explore this possibility should contact me directly.

Patrick O'Sullivan

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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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

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Irish Diaspora Net
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The Irish Times - Friday, April 1, 2011

DONALD CLARKE

YOU HAVE TO feel some sympathy for Jim Loach. It can=92t be easy =
becoming a
film-maker when you have Ken Loach as a dad. Jim=92s powerful debut, the
bizarre true story of illegal deportations of British children to =
Australia,
will, however, go some way to shaking off inconvenient comparisons.

Oranges and Sunshine is certainly fired with anger, but Loach fils =
exhibits
a very different style to the older director. He is more concerned with
story. He devotes less energy to v=E9rit=E9 clutter. The result may be a
relatively uncomplicated piece of work, but it is as moving as anything
you=92ll see this season.

Emily Watson stars as Margaret Humphreys, the Nottingham social worker =
who
uncovered the scandal. The most peculiar aspect of the tale is its long
obscurity. By some estimates, as many as 100,000 children, most in =
community
care, were, from the 1940s to the late 1960s, shipped to Australia with
promises of oranges and sunshine.

Humphreys first encountered the case when a client, recently returned =
from
Australia, asked her to trace her English family. Margaret initially =
refused
to believe the story. If shiploads of children had been transported to =
the
other side of the world she would surely have known.

At first investigating on her own time and later working officially, =
this
dogged professional discovered that many of the children, born to single
mothers, had wrongly been told that their parents were dead. She then =
set
about furnishing the middle-aged citizens with their lost identities.

Hugo Weaving (hammered- down, resigned) and David Wenham (aggressively
defensive, suspicious) offer superb performances as men reacting very
differently to the revelations. Denson Baker=92s camerawork is gently
energetic. Lisa Gerrard=92s music is seductive.

If the film has a problem, it comes when Loach seeks to address the
(depressingly familiar) abuse meted out by Christian Brothers at the =
Bindoon
children=92s home in western Australia. The story is certainly worth =
telling,
but, too complex and awful for a subplot, it causes the film to lose =
focus
somewhat.

Still, Oranges and Sunshine remains a powerful piece that =96 if Jim =
will
allow us one last comparison =96 is actually more satisfying than =
another
director=92s recent Route Irish.=20


SOURCE
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/theticket/2011/0401/1224293476512.htm=
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Not Just Ned: A true history of the Irish in Australia

Not Just Ned: A true history of the Irish in Australia
17 March to 31 July 2011

Discover the surprising but true history of the Irish in Australia at Not
Just Ned.

This fascinating exhibition reveals the extraordinary influence of the Irish
in Australia, from the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, to the continuing
influx of young Irish backpackers today.
From politics and religion, to industry, art, music and dance, the Irish
have had a far-reaching influence on Australia.
Come and see how the Irish presence in Australia is 'not just Ned'!

Highlights include the complete set of Kelly gang armour - seen together for
the first time outside of Victoria; the Rajah quilt, sewn by convict women
as they sailed from England to Tasmania in 1841; the pistol which explorer
Robert O'Hara Burke had in his hand when he died in 1861; Cardinal Patrick
Moran's magnificent replica of the Cross of Cong brought to Australia in the
1890s; and the 1993 Melbourne Cup won by Vintage Crop.

http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/irish_in_australia/

http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/irish_in_australia/exhibition_overview/


Minister Fitzgerald launches 'Irish in Australia' exhibition

The centrepiece of Minister Fitzgerald's Saint Patrick's Day itinerary was
the launch of the "Irish in Australia" exhibition at the National Museum of
Australia in Canberra. This major exhibition focuses on the role played by
Irish migrants in shaping the history of Australia. Organised by the
National Museum it is the first time the Irish diaspora has been honoured in
this way in Australia

http://www.merrionstreet.ie/index.php/2011/03/minister-fitzgerald-launches-i
rish-in-australia-exhibition/

'Where the action was in Australian history, there also were the Irish'. So
wrote Patrick O'Farrell, in his lifetime Australia's leading authority on
the Irish in Australia.
He is not far wrong. Without the Irish there would be no Kelly Gang, no
backbone to the Eureka Rebellion, no Les Darcy with his mighty boxing fists,
no Archbishop Daniel Mannix to stand up to Prime Minister Billy Hughes over
conscription, and no great trans-oceanic escape story of the Irish
republican prisoners (Fenians) from Fremantle in 1876. These are the events
and personalities which give colour and movement to a complex story, the
real history of the Irish in Australia since 1788. That was marked by the
emigration and settlement in every Australian colony of perhaps half a
million Irish men and women up to the First World War in 1914, where they
formed between a quarter and a third of the population. Unlike Great
Britain, whose population and economy forged ahead in the 19th century, the
Irish came from a country of poverty and hardship, convulsed in mid century
by the Great Famine when one million died and one million emigrated. By
1900, the population was a little over half of what it had been in 1845.
What has this large Irish presence meant for Australia? To tell this
intriguing story the National Museum of Australia has assembled more than
450 objects, large and small, from public institutions and private
collections all over Australia, from Ireland, from the United States, and
from New Zealand into a large exhibition - 'Not Just Ned: a true history of
the Irish in Australia'.

http://www.irishscene.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22
0:irishaust&catid=42:front-page-articles

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Subject: Lecture, National Gallery of Ireland,
Digitising Irish Treasures - Tuesday 5 April
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=A0
Digitising Irish Treasures
Susan Schreibman, Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities

A Lecture at the National Gallery of Ireland
Tuesday 5 April
10.30 a.m.
This is a free event open to all

Irish Cultural Heritage organisations are just beginning to make =
available
their holdings in digital form. This is an exciting opportunity for
institutions to reach beyond the spatial restrictions of their bricks =
and
mortar facilities to=A0new audiences. However, digital initiatives are
expensive, there is a lack of individuals with the skill sets needed to
establish and carry them out, and the technologies employed vary widely,
sometimes becoming obsolete even within the life of the project. This =
talk
will explore the challenges and opportunities for memory organisations
embarking on (or thinking of embarking on) a digitisation programme.

Susan Schreibman is the Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Digital =
Humanities.
Previously she was the founding Director of the Digital Humanities
Observatory, a national digital humanities centre developed under the
auspices of the Royal Irish Academy (2008-2011).=A0 She was previously
Assistant Dean for Digital Collections and Research, University of =
Maryland
Libraries (2005-2008). =A0Dr Schreibman is the Founding Editor of The =
Thomas
MacGreevy Archive and the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative. She =
is on
the executive of several European and international organisations, =
including
The Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, The Modern Language Association
Committee on Scholarly Editions, the Association for Computers and the
Humanities, and Intereditions.=20

--=20
Katie McCadden
Programme Manager
Digital Humanities Observatory
28-32 Upper Pembroke Street
Dublin 2
Ireland
=A0
Tel: +353(0)1-2342442 =A0 =A0 =A0=20
Fax:+353(0)1-2342400
E-mail: k.mccadden[at]ria.ie=A0
http://dho.ie=A0
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From: Muiris Mag Ualghairg
Subject: Correlation between surnames and wealth
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There is an interesting article in the Telegraph about how people with
Norman names tend to be wealthier than other people - the article can
be seen at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8424904/People-with-Norman-names-wealthier-than-other-Britons.html

I was wondering if any kind of research has been done in Ireland
regarding surnames and wealth (i.e. those with 'English' names are
wealthier or not).

Muiris

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Subject: TOC New Hibernia Review Volume 15, Number 1, Earrach/Spring 2011
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New Hibernia Review
Volume 15, Number 1, Earrach/Spring 2011

E-ISSN: 1534-5815 Print ISSN: 1092-3977=20

Table of Contents
=20

N=F3ta=ED na nEagarth=F3ir=ED: Editors=92 Notes=20
pp. 5-8=20


Reassembling the Broken Jar=20
Moya Cannon
pp. 9-15=20


The Trials of Patrick Kavanagh=20
Matthew Brown
pp. 16-41=20

Fil=EDocht Nua: New Poetry=20
Donna L. Potts
pp. 42-48=20

=93The Ghost of the Real Leg=94: Maurice Walsh, John Ford, and =
Adaptation in
Roddy Doyle=92s The Dead Republic=20
Sin=E9ad Moynihan
pp. 49-63=20

=93Sarsfield Is the Word=94: The Heroic Afterlife of an Irish Jacobite=20
John Gibney
pp. 64-80=20

Expressing the Nineteenth Century in Irish: The Poetry of Aodh Mac =
Domhnaill
(1802=9667)=20
Fionnt=E1n de Br=FAn
pp. 81-106=20

=93Consumption, Was It?=94: The Tuberculosis Epidemic and Joyce=92s =
=93The Dead=94=20
Sarah Marsh
pp. 107-122=20

The Music of the Sentimental Nationalist Heart: Thomas Moore and Seamus
Heaney=20
Simon B. Kress
pp. 123-137=20

=93Life Just Is Like That=94: Martin McDonagh=92s Estonian Enigma=20
Kersti Tarien Powell
pp. 138-150=20

L=E9irmheasanna: Reviews
Human Chain: Poems (review)=20
Se=E1n Lysaght
pp. 151-154=20

Commodity Culture and Social Class in Dublin 1850=961916 (review)=20
Shannon Scott
pp. 154-158=20

Cl=FAdach: Cover
Cl=FAdach: Cover=20
p. 150=20

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Subject: Article,
Transferring national allegiance: cultural affinity or flag of
convenience?
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Transferring national allegiance: cultural affinity or flag of convenience?

Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics
Volume 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 253 - 271

Authors: Michael Holmes a; David Storey b

Abstract
In international sport in recent years there has been a growing tendency for
sportspeople to represent a country other than the one in which they were
born. Most international sporting bodies allow people to represent either
the country of their birth or one to which they have an attachment through
ethnicity, residency or marriage. This article explores the senses of
national identity and belonging felt by sportspeople competing for a country
other than the one in which they were born and grew up. It does so through a
focus on the case of the Republic of Ireland soccer team since the 1980s. It
examines perceptions of national identity amongst the so-called 'Anglo'
contingent, players who were born in Britain but were eligible to play for
Ireland under FIFA rules relating to parentage. The article is based on
self-evaluations recorded in newspaper and magazine interviews and in
players' 'auto' biographies. It further examines the reactions by various
individuals outside Ireland to this phenomenon and the views of Irish fans
towards player eligibility and selection.

The article places this work in an analytical context of sport and
nationalism, with particular emphasis on the complex relationships between
sport and nationalism in Ireland. The article argues that there is evidence
of significant attitudinal differences between players; that players'
attitudes are by no means uniform but range from the 'careerist' to the
'nationalist' position. Responses to this phenomenon have been sharply
divided between those who view it as a dilution of the authentically Irish
nature of the team to those who see it as a pragmatic response to an
otherwise limited player pool.

Affiliations: a Department of Politics, Liverpool Hope University,
Liverpool, UK
b Department of Geography, Institute of Science and the Environment,
University of Worcester, Worcester, UK

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Argentina
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The latest issue of Ilha do Desterro, n. 59 (2010), has appeared on its =
web
site.

http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro

It includes this article by Laura Izarra.

http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/18310

Note that Ilha do Desterro is an open access journal.
Click on Texto completo: PDF to open a small window, then right click =
and
SAVE AS to store the article as a straightforward PDF.


Revista Ilha do Desterro A Journal of English Language, Literatures in
English and Cultural Studies, ISSN - 2175-8026, Florian=F3polis, Brasil.

n. 59 (2010) > Izarra
"Don=B4t Cry for me Ireland - Irish Women=B4s Voices from Argentina"
Laura P. Z. Izarra

Resumo

In the South American diaspora space, language and culture are the
constituent elements of the process of defamiliarization. Critical =
issues of
gender and a politics of nostalgia are interrelated with the identity
politics generated by the tension of being/becoming and belonging. Avtar
Brah affirms that the concept of diaspora =93places the discourse of =
=91home=92
and =91dispersion=92 in creative tension=94. Moreover, if this =
problematic is
integral to the diasporic condition (Brah 1996. 192-193) I will =
demonstrate
that nineteenth-century Irish women migration to Argentina provides
paradoxical writings that disclose the swinging movement of the pendulum
between opacity, complexity and equivocal positions in the formation of =
a
diasporic identity. Thus, three different kinds of narratives by Irish =
women
immigrants will be analysed in a comparative way: Marion Mulhall=92s =
travel
writing Between the Amazon and Andes (1881), the memories of Barbara =
Peart
in Tia Barbarita (1932), and an autobiographical novel by Kathleen =
Nevin,
You=92ll never go back (1946). Following some theoretical issues raised =
by
Breda Gray in Women and the Irish Diaspora (2004) and by Eric Landowski =
in
Presen=E7as do Outro (2002) I will deconstruct the rhetoric of the =
quotidian
to highlight discursive elements that would prove how and why these =
women
achieved the paradoxical status of =93controlled independence=94 (Gray =
2004) or
were positioned as either =93other=94 or =93going native=94.

Texto completo: PDF

Revista Ilha do Desterro A Journal of English Language, Literatures in
English and Cultural Studies, ISSN - 2175-8026, Florian=F3polis, Brasil.

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Subject: IRISH IN BRITAIN SEMINAR SERIES LAUNCHES TUESDAY 10 MAY 2011
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Irish in Britain Seminar Series 2011 launches on Tuesday 10 May at 6.30pm

The recent upturn in Irish migration indicates that Britain continues to
be one of the primary destinations of Irish migrants into the 21st
Century. This year's seminar series covers a broad range of research in
the field and aims to put current trends into their wider historical and
political context.

10 May, Dr Jennifer Redmond, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Fight or Flight: The Irish in Britain in World War Two

17 May, Prof Mary J Hickman, London Metropolitan University
Diaspora space, national (re)formations and Irish immigration to Britain
and the USA

24 May, Dr Marc Scully, Open University
'It's not as if I'm a "fake" Irish person': 'Authenticity' and the Irish
in England

31 May, Whitney Standlee, University of Liverpool
'Making Rebels': Home Rule Politics and the Novels of Diasporic Irish
Women in Britain

Seminars take place on Tuesday evenings between 6.30-8.00pm
Room T1-20
London Metropolitan University
Tower Building
166-220 Holloway Road

For further information contact Tony Murray: t.murray[at]londonmet.ac.uk


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Administrator
Institute for the Study of European Transformations (ISET)
London Metropolitan University
166-220 Holloway Road
London N7 8DB
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7133 2913
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Launch of DHO:Discovery - A New Gateway to Irish Cultural
Artefacts
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DHO:Discovery=A0=A0 - Launch of New Gateway to Irish Cultural Artefacts

http://discovery.dho.ie
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Deputy Se=E1n Sherlock, Minister of State for Research and Innovation, =
today
launched discovery.dho.ie, a website to find and explore Irish cultural
artefacts online.

Speaking at the launch, Minister Sherlock said =91The DHO:Discovery =
website is
yet another innovative project developed by the Royal Irish Academy in
cooperation with higher education and cultural institution partners as =
it
seeks to promote excellence in the sciences, humanities and social =
sciences.
The new website will give users access to over 6,000 digital artefacts =
from
a range of world class collections held here on the island of Ireland. =
This
project illustrates how we have combined innovation and technology to
provide Ireland with a world class platform that provides outreach and
education on our rich cultural heritage.=92

DHO:Discovery currently draws together digital objects from collections =
at
Chester Beatty Library, Irish Traditional Music Archive, National =
University
of Ireland, Galway (NUIG), Queen=92s University Belfast (QUB),Royal =
Irish
Academy (RIA), St. Patrick=92s College, Drumcondra (SPCD), Trinity =
College
Dublin (TCD), andUniversity College Cork (UCC).

DHO:Discovery | DHO:Fionnachtain allows users to discover images of art,
music and voice recordings, letters, maps, drawings and more, from
collections at higher education and cultural institutions. The website =
acts
as a gateway to resources that were not previously linked by offering a
single place from which disparate collections can be searched and =
browsed.
In doing so, DHO:Discovery supports the sharing and creation of new
knowledge.

Luke Drury, President of the Royal Irish Academy said 'I am delighted to =
be
a part of this initiative, both as President of the Royal Irish Academy =
and
as National Coordinator for e-INIS.=A0 I cannot emphasise enough the
importance of e-infrastructures for research in all areas. The =
convergence
of Digital Humanities with Sciences make collaborative initiatives such =
as
DHO:Discovery and looking to the future, the National Audio Visual
Repository (NAVR), possible.'

DHO:Discovery allows users to browse and search digital collections =
using
descriptive text, or =91keywords=92, and discover related knowledge
serendipitously; it has been designed with the user in mind, allowing =
for
various ways to experience rich collections within a single portal, or
=91website=92.

Shawn Day, DHO Project Manager, added that =91this is just the first =
step for
DHO:Discovery. Users drive content and knowledge creation in the digital
world. DHO:Discovery allows users to combine diverse Irish historical =
and
cultural collections in ways never before imagined. Every user creates =
their
own experience by combining records and information in unique ways and =
the
DHO welcomes their input and feedback. This resource will be of great
interest to those passionate about Ireland and it's rich heritage.=92

DHO:Discovery launches following two years of development. The website =
is
consistently developing, evolving, improving and taking user feedback =
into
account.=A0 The DHO looks forward to welcoming the inclusion of new and
exciting Irish digital collections as this new web venture expands and
grows.

This initiative was developed with the support of DHO partners, =
including
those from the HSIS consortium, Irish cultural institutions and =
Ireland=92s
High Performance Computing Centre (iCHEC).

For more information, or to enquire about making your Irish digital
collections available, please contact us at:

http://discovery.dho.ie/contact.php


--- Shawn Day
--- Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA),
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--- s.day[at]dho.ie=20
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