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Available at
http://www.migration.ox.ac.uk/odp/pdfs/WP-31-2011.pdf

Working Papers
Paper 31, April 2011
Creating and destroying diaspora strategies
Alan Gamlen

This paper is published as part of the Oxford Diasporas Programme
(www.migration.ox.ac.uk/odp) by the International Migration Institute (IMI),
Oxford Department of International Development (QEH), University of Oxford,
3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB, UK (www.imi.ox.ac.uk). IMI does not have
an institutional view and does not aim to present one. The views expressed
in this document are those of its independent author.

The IMI Working Papers Series
IMI has been publishing working papers since its foundation in 2006. The
series presents current research in the field of international migration.
The papers in this series: analyse migration as part of broader global
change contribute to new theoretical approaches advance understanding of the
multi-level forces driving migration

Abstract
New Zealand, like many countries, has recently shifted from disparaging
emigrants to celebrating expatriates as heroes. What explains this change?
The new government initiatives towards expatriates have been attributed to a
neoliberal 'diaspora strategy', aimed at constructing emigrants and their
descendants as part of a community of knowledge-bearing subjects, in order
to help the New Zealand economy 'go global' (Larner 2007: 80). The research
in this paper confirms that the new diaspora initiatives emerged from a
process of neoliberal reform. However, it also highlights that, in the same
period, older, inherited institutional frameworks for interacting with
expatriates were being dismantled as part of a different dynamic within the
same wider neoliberalization process. In this way, the research builds on
and refines the 'diaspora strategy' concept by placing it within a broader
analysis of institutional transformation through 'creative destruction'. At
the same time, this study opens up a wider research agenda aimed at
revealing, understanding and explaining how states have related to diasporas
before and beyond the era of neoliberalism.

Keywords: New Zealand; diaspora strategies; multi-sited ethnography;
extra-territorial citizenship; creative destruction; neoliberalism

Author: Alan Gamlen, International Migration Institute, University of
Oxford, alan.gamlen[at]gmail.com


p12

"Using Ireland as an example of how the diaspora could be leveraged to
increase flows of talent and foreign direct investment and thereby to boost
economic growth, Grant and others put the case to government ministers that
'we're just not proactive enough around the New Zealand diaspora.'

We actually did have this little thing that we called 'The Group'; we just
got together in very informal place.a group of like minded individuals that
got together and discussed their issues and had a bit of a 'Save New
Zealand' agenda.We set up [a meeting] with Cabinet minus Helen [Clark, the
Prime Minister. Basically we framed it as saying 'we don't like the
relationship business has with government today'.Secondly, we actually
do think there's a new toolkit that can be deployed.We gave the example
around the war for talent, and gave some examples of what Ireland, for
example, and Israel were doing around talent.the whole notion of the
diaspora.was introduced by one of my Irish colleagues who said, 'listen we
did a fantastic job of really leveraging the Irish diaspora and actually in
Ireland we put together a plan to see who were the 100 most influential
expat Irish.and then called them or wrote them or had Mary, the President,
call them or write them. And basically the line was 'what have you done for
Ireland lately?' (Personal communication, 30 January 2007.)"

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and Transatlantic Migration. By Kerby A. Miller
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Journal of Social History
Volume 44, Number 3, Spring 2011
pp. 948-949

Reviewed by
David W. Miller
Carnegie Mellon University

Ireland and Irish America: Culture, Class, and Transatlantic Migration. By
Kerby A. Miller (Dublin: Field Day, 2008. xii plus 411 pp.).

Kerby Miller is best known for his monumental Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland
and the Irish Exodus to North America (New York: Oxford University Press,
1985). Notwithstanding its length (684 pages), that prize-winning first book
did not come close to exhausting the author's principal sources: a massive
array of correspondence and memoirs of Irish immigrants to America from the
seventeenth to the twentieth century. Not only had he searched nearly every
public repository on both sides of the Atlantic that might contain such
material, but he had also placed notices in local newspapers throughout
Ireland requesting access to emigrant letters in private hands. By the time
he completed the book he had accumulated photocopies of literally thousands
of letters and other manuscripts.

Miller has continued, to the great advantage of students of Ireland and the
Irish diaspora, to exploit his treasure trove in two ways. First, in
collaboration with several other scholars, he has projected a four-volume
selection of the documents, of which the first volume, Irish Immigrants in
the Land of Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary
America, 1675-1815 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), has been
published. Second, he has written numerous essays, typically based on a
memoir, a letter or a series of letters that reveals the experience of one
or more immigrants. The book under review is a collection of such essays.
[End Page 948]

The fifteen essays in the collection are divided into three clusters of five
essays each. Two of the clusters deal with (mainly Catholic) emigration from
Ireland and immigration to America, respectively. This division vividly
illustrates why Miller's work is so widely respected: more thoroughly than
anyone else in the field he has mastered both Irish history and U.S.
history. Furthermore, when he perceives that a particular correspondence may
contain components of a revealing narrative, he relentlessly pursues other
sources for every shred of information on the correspondents. One is tempted
to categorize his method as micro-history but for the fact that he
invariably places his findings into the context of relevant macro-historical
literature on social, political, economic and demographic issues.

The other cluster of essays deals specifically with Irish Protestants on
both sides of the Atlantic. Although the author divides his essays along
sectarian lines, he does not subscribe to the supposed primordial division
of Irish society that used to dominate most discourse on Irish migration.
Within both Protestant and Catholic sides he sees social class as the major
determinant of the lives of his subjects. At the micro-history level, for
example, a Protestant "middleman" whose living depended on his subletting of
farms to Catholics in the Irish midlands is forced a few years before the
Famine by a new and less patriarchal landlord to find a more modest farm for
himself in a predominantly Protestant area farther north. At the
macro-history level, middle-class, post-Famine Catholic immigrants in
American cities find it necessary to become the political leaders of the
more numerous impoverished Catholic immigrants and "civilize" them in order
to secure their own status. For Miller developments such as these are far
more important than enthusiasm evoked by either orange or green.

At the end of the book, the author offers a passionate attack on
"revisionism" in Irish history. Readers who do not follow academic politics
in Ireland may be puzzled by this epilogue, for no one in the past
generation has been more effective in the revision of our understanding of
the trans-Atlantic Irish experience than Kerby Miller.

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Thank you, Muris...

This seems to be a version of a press release based on the research of
Gregory Clark - which we have discussed on the Ir-D list in the past.

I will send again an earlier Ir-D message from our archives - just to show
that we do have archives and they do work. That message gives links which
can be followed up.

This latest report on Gregory Clark's research seems, on first sight, to say
the exact opposite of the earlier material - I cannot locate its source.
But he is very approachable, and maybe has found a subset of his research
material worth commenting on.

On the specific question - surnames and wealth in Ireland... I think it is
a sort of given in Irish Historiography, and people comment on patterns,
Catholic/Protestant, Irish, Norman, varieties of Irish, varieties of
English. I think you can see this in the references within the Byrne &
O'Malley - information below. And always with provisos - I remember in
particular Patrick Maume's Mr. Pinkman and Mr. Blueman.

I have pasted in below information about two articles that sort of touch on
the issue. The Byrne & O'Malley article seems to be the most relevant, in
that through surname analysis it suggests 'ethnic origins' for the current
two main Irish political parties.

P.O'S.

1.
Social Reproduction and Mobility in Britain and Ireland in the Nineteenth
and Early Twentieth Centuries
Kenneth Prandy
School of Social Sciences University of Cardiff
Wendy Bottero
Department of Sociology University of Southampton
Abstract

This article presents some preliminary results from a historical study of
social mobility in Britain and Ireland, from the late eighteenth to the
early twentieth century. The study is marked by a unique combination of
features: (1) it follows families for up to five generations, through both
maternal and paternal lines; (2) it uses a continuous measure of social
position, rather than class categories; (3) this measure is derived from
data on social interaction - correspondence analyses of cross-tabulations of
the occupations for marriages taking place in the periods 1777-1866 and
1867-1913; (4) each individual's social position is summarised by a
work-life trajectory, represented by his social location at ages 20 and 50.
The analyses are based on twelve ten-year birth cohorts from 1790-99 to
1900-09. The results indicate a remarkable degree of stability of social
processes of reproduction throughout this period, although there is an
extremely slow shift towards a weakening of family influence. This process
appears to have accelerated for those born in the last quarter of the
nineteenth century, a period of both educational reform and major change in
Britain's industrial organisation.

2.
Politics with Hidden Bases:
Unearthing the deep roots of party systems1
KEVIN P. BYRNE
EOIN O'MALLEY 3

SMURFIT INSTITUTE OF GENETICS, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, IRELAND
SCHOOL OF LAW AND GOVERNMENT, DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY, IRELAND

*corresponding author, eoin.omalley[at]dcu.ie
Paper prepared for European Journal of Political Research

Abstract
The research presented here uses a novel method to show that contemporary
party systems may originate much further back than is usually assumed or
might be expected - in reality many centuries. Using data on Ireland, a
country with a political system that poses significant challenges to the
universality of many political science theories, by identifying the
ancestry of current party elites we find ethnic bases for the Irish party
system arising from population movements that took place from the 12th
Century. Extensive Irish genealogical knowledge allows us to use surnames as
a proxy for ethnic origin. Recent genetic analyses of Irish surnames
corroborate Irish genealogical information. The results are particularly
compelling given that Ireland is an extremely homogenous society and
therefore provides a tough case for our approach.

http://webpages.dcu.ie/~omalle/Politics%20with%20Hidden%20bases.pdf



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Subject: [IR-D] Correlation between surnames and wealth

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:
Working Paper, Gregory Clark, Was there ever a Ruling Class?
From:
Patrick O'Sullivan
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Date:
Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:50:52 -0000


Gregory Clark
Was there ever a Ruling Class? Surnames and Social Mobility in England,
1200-2009

This Working paper by Gregory Clark has appeared on his web site at...

http://www.gmu.edu/centers/publicchoice/wed%20seminars/papers%20spring10/23_
clark.pdf

I have contacted Professor Clark, and clarified his wishes. We have his
permission to bring the working paper to the attention of the Ir-D list -
but note that it is a working paper, might be modified, and should not be
cited without Professor Clark's permission.

The paper will be of interest to the Irish Diaspora list, because of the
general discussion of family name patterns, and the specific comments on the
Irish. It is indeed an intriguing use of the family name material in the
censuses - and of special interest to the isonymysts.

Gregory Clark tells me that he is planning to do a lot more on the social
mobility of the Irish in England as part of this project - but that lies
ahead.

Gregory Clark's book, A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the
World, Princeton University Press, 2007. There are extracts and links to
review on his web site.

http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/gclark/


http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/gclark/a_farewell_to_alms.html

Our thanks to Gregory Clark for his scholarly co-operation.

P.O'S.

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Routledge is offering everyone free access to its education journals,
throughout the month of April.

We have found that many Ir-D members, even the richest, like to be aware of
these offers - which, for a few days, level the playing field.

As ever, the advice is to get in there, download and store anything useful
while you can.

Some very useful stuff is there, for free - but might be a little tricky to
locate.

Go to the offer web page

www.educationarena.com/effa

Pick a subject area that interests you. For example, the language folk
might go to
Bilingualism / ESL

This gets you a list of 4 journals.

Go to, for example,
International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
And put the word IRISH into the little search box, Search within journal.

Useful articles are revealed, like Thomas Ihde's...

Curriculum Development and Textbook Design for North American Learners of
Irish
Language, Culture and Curriculum
Volume 13, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1 - 12
Author: Thomas Ihde

Or go to History of Education. Three journals.

Search in Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of
Education

First find is

"One man one job": the marriage ban and the employment of women teachers in
Irish primary schools
Jennifer Redmond; Judith Harford
Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education,
1477-674X, Volume 46, Issue 5, First published 2010, Pages 639 - 654

And so on, journal by journal, article by article. All free to download.

P.O'S.


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Subject: Article,
Irish orthography: what do teachers and learners need to know
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This article is currently free to download, through the Routledge special
offer - see earlier Ir-D email...

P.O'S.

Irish orthography: what do teachers and learners need to know about it, and
why?

Language, Culture and Curriculum
Volume 24, Issue 1, First published 2011, Pages 23 - 46
Authors: Tina Hickey; Nancy Stenson

Abstract
Irish has significant State support, but lacks a research base to support
the teaching of Irish reading. Current approaches to teaching Irish reading
are presented, and outcomes summarised. Issues of consistency and complexity
in Irish orthography are discussed in light of an analysis of a corpus of
early reader texts, and the formulation of rules for discriminating between
words which are regular by letter-sound and grapheme-sound rules is
outlined. While the most frequent words show a high level of regularity,
underlying rules are very complex. The need to target decoding skills early
is discussed. Recommendations regarding the teaching of aspects of Irish
orthography are presented.

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As part of an initiative with Patrick Mullen of Northeastern University (wh=
at we're calling the Boston Joyce Forum) Boston College will be presenting=
some very exciting Joyceana as we prepare for the various anniversaries of=
February 2012. on Saturday, April 16

Joe Valente (whose brilliant "The Myth of Irish Manliness" has just appear=
ed) and

Marilyn Reizbaum (director of Bowdoin's Gay and Lesbian Studies Program) wi=
ll lead the event. A highlight for many will be

Danis Rose launching of his new edition of Finnegans Wake.

a round table will include

Sergio Delgado (Harvard), Beryl Schlossman (Northeastern U), and Marjorie =
Howes (Boston College)

As usual, we'll have a special section devoted to graduate students--with w=
orkshops on publishing and incorporating Joyce into research.

As always at Boston College, there's no charge for this event--but as we'll=
be serving lunch, so do please let us know the numbers.

I"m including here the URL with all details of the upcoming colloquium:

http://joycegenderandhistory.wordpress.com/

for more details email Joe Nugent: nugentjf[at]bc.edu

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Dear Paddy,

Subscribers to the list might be interested in this recent Irish Times =
article, and RTE interview, on the role of the second-generation Irish =
in British popular music.=20

Irish Times article: =
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2011/0402/1224293607057.html

RTE interview: =
http://www.rte.ie/podcasts/2011/pc/pod-v-30031107m56sculturefile-pid0-4763=
28.mp3

Best wishes,
Sean.=20

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Dear All,

I should like to draw your attention to The Diasporic Family in Cinema
conference, held in London on 21 May 2011. You will find up-to-date details
of the conference programme and film screenings at:

http://www.farflungfamilies.net/events/item/the_diasporic_family_in_cinema


Thank you for circulating this conference announcement as widely as
possible.

Very best wishes,

Daniela

Dr Daniela Berghahn
Reader in Film Studies
Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Media Arts
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX

www.farflungfamilies.net

www.migrantcinema.net

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SOURCE
http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1053


Book:
The Year of Disappearances. Political Killings in Cork 1921-1922
Gerard Murphy
Dublin, Gill and MacMillan, 2010, ISBN: 9780717147489; 408pp.; Price:
=A335.00;

Reviewer:
Eugenio Biagini
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

Citation:
Eugenio Biagini, review of The Year of Disappearances. Political =
Killings in
Cork 1921-1922, (review no. 1053)
URL: http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1053
Date accessed: Sun 10 April 2011 16:35:20 BST

=91Madam, - Gerard Murphy=92s =85 contentious thesis =85 deserves =
further indepth
sincere evaluation and verification =85 rather than an internet campaign =
of
vilification against the author. If ... [it] holds up, I as a proud
passionate Corkman will be saddened and profoundly ashamed of my =
heretofore
understanding of this period of Irish history=92.(1) Not many history =
books
would inspire members of the public to write this sort of letter to the
press, or the editor of one of the most important newspapers of the =
world,
The Irish Times, to publish them. Even in Ireland, where people take a
fervent interest in national history, The Year of Disappearances has =
made
quite a splash. The =91internet campaign=92 to which the above-quoted =
letter
alludes is merely the tip of the iceberg of media attention. The latter
includes, besides academic reviews, fiery articles by well-known =
journalists
in leading dailies.(2) One of Murphy=92s most severe critics has even =
asked
for the authorities to search the sites where some of the victims of the =
IRA
are alleged to have been buried.(3)

The Anglo-Irish War of 1919=9621 and the subsequent Civil War were
particularly violent in Cork City and the surrounding County, especially =
in
West Cork. This was partly because of the bellicosity of the IRA units =
in
the region =96 including Cork No.1 Brigade, led by men of proven ability =
and
ruthlessness, such as Se=E1n O=92Hegarty, Florence O=92Donoghue, and =
Martin Corry.
However, it was also because of a backlash against the region=92s large =
number
of Protestants, who were suspected of being actively loyalist. The late
Peter Hart (in The IRA and its enemies, published in 1998) argued that =
the
IRA deliberately targeted that particular religious minority, in a =
campaign
of sectarian killings, culminating with the massacre of 13 civilian
protestants in the Bandon Valley. Although some of Hart=92s evidence has =
been
disputed by scholars in reviews and other publications, his work has =
opened
new questions and stimulated further studies. The Year of Disappearances =
is
one of them. It argues that in Cork there was sectarian violence on an =
even
larger scale than previously known, and that it continued for longer =
than
previously assumed.

One of Murphy=92s major, and particularly explosive, points is the =
allegation
that after the truce the IRA deliberately and systematically targeted
specific organisations whose membership was exclusively Protestant
(including the Cork Freemasons, the YMCA and the Boys=92 Brigade) in the
belief that they had been operating, and potentially could continue to
operate, as part of loyalist intelligence network. While the author =
provides
strong evidence for some such killings (including at least two =
teenagers),
his argument largely remains unsubstantiated because most of the other
alleged =91victims=92 are simply hypothetical. Thus, the claim that 32 =
members
of the Cork Freemasons=92 lodge =91disappeared=92 under sinister =
circumstances is
based on the fact that their names were struck off membership records by
1925: but it is not clear whether they had been killed or just left, as =
many
other Protestants did in those years. What we know for sure is that =
their
families did not submit compensation claims to the British government, =
and
that there are no references to them being shot in the records of the
relevant organizations. Murphy mentions gaps in Cork Grammar School=92s
records for 1922 as an indication that the headmaster had probably =
destroyed
the relevant documents to protect his pupils from further attacks: =
however,
these records contain so many other gaps for the whole period from the
school=92s foundation in 1881 through to 1947, when it moved to its =
current
premises, that their non-existence for 1922 seems more part of a pattern
than a suspicious exception.(4)

Thus, it is not the brutality of the IRA campaign as a whole which is in
question here, but whether the killings about which we knew already
represent the full horror of the situation, or, as Murphy claims, =91the
Compensation (Ireland) Commission account[s] for only around half of =
those
killed=92 (p. 296). Such a conclusion, however, is difficult to accept =
without
documentary support: absence of evidence cannot be read as evidence of
massacres, especially since we have plenty of material on other murders =
or
=91executions=92 =96 such as those of April 1922 in rural West Cork.(5) =
The author
argues that the silence of the sources is a product of a collusion =
involving
both perpetrators and victims (the latter being eager to find a modus
vivendi with the new regime). In other words, lack of evidence is =
invoked as
evidence of a cover-up. It must be said that Murphy=92s hypothesis finds =
some
ex-post facto evidence in the unwillingness of Cork Protestants, even as
recently as 2008, to speak publicly about the 1920=963 period.(6) But =
even if
we were to accept this approach, we would expect to find echoes of the
killings at least in contemporary private letters and unpublished =
diaries,
especially those produced by loyalist =E9migr=E9s in Britain or =
elsewhere.
However, again Murphy produces no such evidence. This documentary =
deficit is
the most serious flaw in his argument, much of which depends on
hypotheses-turned-into-assumptions and presented as factual statements.

Yet, this raises another interesting question: as the author himself has
noted in a response to a previous review, if The Year of Disapperances =
is =91a
work of fiction, or =85 poorly researched and badly written=92, why do =
so many
scholars bother to review it at all?(7) In my view, there are at least =
three
reasons for the attention the book has received. The first is that, =
although
Murphy=92s evidence and arguments are patchy and at times confusing, =
parts of
his book are actually meticulously researched. Even some of his harshest
critics acknowledge his skilful use of sources such as the Cork Military
liaison record, Registry of Deeds, the petitions of the Irish =
Compensation
Claims Committee, and the records of the census of 1911. Thus, in an
otherwise damning review, John Borgonovo admits that =91Murphy=92s hard =
work
rewards him with a series of impressive nuggets found in forensically
researched chapters=92.(8) Second, the story is engagingly presented as =
a
personal journey of discovery into Cork=92s troubled past. This =
rhetorical
strategy makes it more intriguing, but it also has its drawbacks in that =
it
compounds the reader=92s difficulty in trying to assess how precisely =
the
author reaches his conclusions. Such narrative technique betrays the =
book=92s
origins as a novel, based on local folklore about an IRA =91killing =
field=92
outside Cork city. Indeed, the author is not a professional historian; =
and
it shows. The Year of Disappearances is his first non-fiction work. It =
was
because of the controversial nature of the stories Murphy heard, that he
decided to turn his projected novel into a history book, a process which =
has
required, we are told, seven years to complete, but which would clearly =
have
required more months of work and proof reading to be satisfactorily
completed. Finally and most importantly, the sensation which Murphy has
provoked in both the scholarly world and the general public can be =
explained
as a reflection of the delicate nature of the political issues at stake,
involving =96 to an extent =96 big questions about the plausibility of =
the whole
republican interpretation of Irish history, at a stage when the scandals
besetting institutions such as the Catholic Church and Fianna F=E1il =
cause
people to re-examine the received version of the national self.(9) In =
other
words, here we have =91public=92 history in the raw, but =96 alas =96 =
without enough
historical discipline in it.

Notes
=91Political killings in Cork=92, letter to the editor of The Irish =
Times, 13
January 2011, p. 17.Back to (1)
Kevin Myers, =91The IRA campaign in Cork against protestants and
non-republicans was on a truly vast scale=92, The Irish Independent, 15
November 2010 [accessed 1 February 2011].Back to (2)
Niall Meehan, =91An =93amazing coincidence=94 that =93could mean =
anything=94[at] Gerard
Murphy=92s The Year of the Disappearances=92, Spinwatch, 17 November =
2010 [accessed 1 February 2011].Back to (3)
I am grateful to Dr Ian d=92Alton for this piece of information.Back to =
(4)
Some of such evidence has been used for example, by Murphy himself, pp.
324=9630 and by P. McMahon, British Spies and Irish Rebels. British
Intelligence and Ireland 1916=961945 (Woodbridge, 2008), pp.75 and =
446.Back to
(5)
A conference on the period 1920-23 organised by the Anglican Diocese of =
Cork
in December 2008, addressed by historians and sociologists, with the
participation of Sen.E.Harris, was tightly controlled =96 invitation =
only to
members of the diocese and their guests, publicity virtually =
non-existent.
Members of the public were not permitted to attend. Heavy security was =
in
place to ensure that the conference would be run as an in-house event =
for
members of the diocese alone. This, however, did not prevent vigorous
polemics during and after the conference: see
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/eoghan-harris/scarred-by-for=
ced
-exodus-of-southern--protestants-1574348.html and
http://aubanehistoricalsociety.org/bishop_cork.pdf.Back to (6)
G. Murphy, =91Political killings in Cork=92, The Irish Times, 6 January =
2011 =

[accessed 1 February 2011].Back to (7)
J. Borgonovo, History Ireland (January-February 2011), 56.Back to (8)
The climate is so incandescent that in a recent newspaper interview =
Murphy
himself added a disclaimer, to the effect that his book should not be =
read
as =91part of some conspiracy to denigrate the Republic=92 (=91Author =
owns up to
errors in IRA Cork deaths book=92, Sunday Tribune, 16 January 2011
[accessed 1 February 2011]).Back to (9)

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SOURCE
http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1053/response


Response to Review no. 1053

Book:
The Year of Disappearances. Political Killings in Cork 1921-1922
Gerard Murphy
Dublin, Gill and MacMillan, 2010, ISBN: 9780717147489; 408pp.; Price:
=A335.00;
Reviewer:
Eugenio Biagini
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

Author's response
I have to say I was flattered to discover that my book, The Year of
Disappearances, has caused =91quite a splash=92, especially among the =
dreaming
spires of Cambridge where, I=92d imagine, I=92m hardly flavour of the =
month, at
least in some quarters. Eugenio F. Biagini=92s review is a fascinating =
piece
of writing though. It is clear that the intention is to find fault with =
my
book while at the same time putting plenty water between the academic
community and the shriller of my critics. It does all this without =
getting
down to specifics, except for the case of the Freemasons where the =
evidence
I present is ignored.

There is plenty of evidence in Cork YMCA records and the records of the
Grand Lodge of Freemasons of Ireland that significant numbers of both
organizations left Cork city in 1920=963 under mysterious circumstances. =
Many
of those, presumably, left for England or the colonies; others fled in =
fear
of their lives, as their submissions to the Irish Grants Commission tell =
us.
There is no question, however, that others disappeared at the hands of =
the
IRA. Martin Corry stated that he executed seven members of the YMCA and
buried them at his farm; Frank Busteed claimed up to a dozen loyalists =
were
shot as =91reprisals=92 and buried at Rylane; Mick Murphy and Connie =
Neenan
between them claimed that an unnamed but still significant number of
=91Anti-Sinn Fein League=92 members =96 almost certainly a euphemism for
Freemasons =96 were shot =91singly and in pairs=92 and buried in =
Carroll=92s Bogs
just south of the city, Connie Neenan separately claimed that three
Protestant boys were shot and buried at Douglas. Finally, Florrie =
O=92Donoghue
stated that half a dozen members of what he termed a =91Freemason =
Intelligence
Organization=92 were rounded up and shot. These all add up to a =
substantial
number and this goes some way to explaining the sudden abandonment of =
areas
of the city by Protestants. Just because we cannot now name these
individuals does not mean these events did not take place. To argue that
this is just =91hypotheses-turned-into-assumptions and presented as =
factual
evidence=92 is just an attempt to create a fog of denial. As recently as
yesterday=92s Irish Times (IT, 19/02/2011), Dr Biagini=91s colleague, =
Caoimhe
Nic Dh=E1ib=E9id, wrote that the Ernie O=92Malley notebooks, in which =
most of
these claims were made by his interviewees, are =91detailed and frank=92 =
and
=91form an important and unique part of the growing corpus of source =
material
on the Irish revolution.=92 I could not agree more. I think they=92re =
marvellous
and are a great credit to O=92Malley=92s honesty and his capacity to =
accept a
warts-and-all view of the conflict. But you cannot go around saying =
these
are detailed and frank and important statements and then ignore what =
they
are saying.

The obvious thing I would take issue with is Dr. Biagini=92s suggestion =
that
=91parts of [my] book are actually meticulously researched=92 because =
this
implies that other parts are poorly researched or not researched at all. =
I
would hope that all parts of the book are equally researched. However, =
more
evidence is available in some areas than in others. The difference lies =
in
what is available not the meticulousness, or otherwise, of the research.
As for the suggestion that one of the main reasons why people are =
reading
the book is that it=92s =91engagingly presented=92 with a =91rhetorical =
strategy=92
this is another way of saying that the book is a triumph of form over
content. In fact, I could be drooling down my bib and people, =
particularly
in Ireland, would still want to read this book, solely for its content.

These peripheral criticisms are cheap jibes aimed at damaging the book: =
=91The
author is not a professional historian and it shows.=92 Indeed it does.
Professional historians in Ireland, with one or two notable exceptions, =
have
either proven incapable of, or are reluctant to, dig up the material =
that I
have uncovered, even though it=92s been sitting under their noses for =
two
generations.

My aim, as I have written elsewhere, is to put out all the evidence I =
could
find on the various strands of the conflict that I dealt with. Some of =
the
evidence is incomplete, especially in relation to events in 1922 but I =
would
hope, as your reviewer put it, that it asks new questions and may =
stimulate
further study in this area. If you=92ve spent ten years researching and
writing this material and are then faced with blank dismissal and =
frankly
silly reviews I think you are entitled to defend your work. Obviously, =
I=92d
accept some of the criticisms made, but they=92re largely of a semantic
nature. The perfect book has yet to be written.
=20
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From: Muiris Mag Ualghairg [mailto:welshtranslator[at]gmail.com]
Subject: Re: [IR-D] Article, Irish orthography: what do teachers and
learners need to know about it, and why?

It may be that you have already drawn attention to these, but there are a
number of interesting articles in the journal Language, Culture and
Curriculum, starting with Volume one, issue 3, such as

Bringing up children in English, French and Irish: Two case studies

Language planning and Irish: 1965-74

Irish government policy and political development of the Gaeltacht

Diglossia and interlanguage contact in Ireland

Bringing up children in English, French and Irish: Two case studies

If you haven't already mentioned these articles, you may wish to draw
the group attention to them.

Yours
Muiris



On 5 April 2011 15:31, Patrick O'Sullivan
wrote:
> This article is currently free to download, through the Routledge special
> offer

> P.O'S.
>
> Irish orthography: what do teachers and learners need to know about it,
and
> why?
>
> Language, Culture and Curriculum
> Volume 24, Issue 1, First published 2011, Pages 23 - 46
> Authors: Tina Hickey; Nancy Stenson
>

Education Free for All

http://www.educationarena.com/effa/

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NARRATING IRELAND: AN INTERNATIONAL LECTURE SERIES
Bergische Universit=E4t Wuppertal, Germany
April-July 2011 (Tue 16-18, HS 21)
Contact: rennhak[at]uni-wuppertal.de

In 13 lectures colleagues form Ireland, the UK and continental Europe
analyse how Ireland was and still is narrated in different genres and
media.=A0 Everybody is welcome to join us at the English Department of =
the
Bergische Universit=E4t Wuppertal! There will also be a Student =
Reception
(with free soft drinks and Irish beer) after Nell McCafferty's lecture =
(10
May 2011).

Programme:

12 APRIL
Katharina Rennhak (Wuppertal): Sebastian Barry: Narrating Ireland Across =
the
Genres
19 APRIL
Shaun Richards (Staffordshire): "It would be well to shut the door on =
the
past and to move forward": T.K Whitaker and the Drama of Modern Ireland
26 APRIL
R=FCdiger Imhof (Wuppertal): 'Mad Ireland hurt [him] into poetry?: W.B. =
Yeats
03 MAY
Rainer Emig (Hannover): Craggy Island - Cranky Ireland? Serial Visions =
of
Irishness in /Father Ted/
10 MAY
Nell McCafferty: The Collapse of Feminism
17 MAY
Chris Morash (Maynooth): "In the Big World": Historical Reflections on =
the
Changing Shape of the Irish Public Sphere
24 MAY
Christian Huck (Kiel): In between Country and City: Eavan Boland and the
Suburb
31 MAY
Claire Lynch (London): iPad(dy): Narrating the Stereotypes of Irish =
Identity
Online
07 JUNE
Hedwig Schwall (Leuven): Dealing with Trauma in Contemporary Irish =
Fiction:
Seamus Deane, Anne Enright and Colum McCann
(14 June: semester break)
21 JUNE
Werner Huber (Wien): Celtic Tiger Cinema
28 JUNE
Luke Gibbons (Maynooth): Text and the City: Joyce, Wittgenstein and =
Language
05 JULY
Claire Connolly (Cardiff): O'Brien's Bridge: Understanding Narrative
Strategies in the Nineteenth-Century Irish Novel
12 JULY
Martin Middeke (Augsburg): Storytelling and Deconstruction in =
(Globalised)
Irish Drama

The programme is also available at the homepage of the Centre for =
Narrative
Studies (BUW):
http://www.zef.uni-wuppertal.de/aktuelles/ansicht/detail/21/maerz/2011/ar=
tik
el///ringvorlesung-narrating-ireland.html
=20

--
Prof. Dr. Katharina Rennhak
Bergische Universit=E4t Wuppertal
Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Gau=DFstr. 20
42119 Wuppertal
Germany
Tel.: 0202/439-3585=20

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Women=E2=80=99s History Association of Ireland (WHAI)
Conference 2011
Gender and Sexual Politics in Ireland
Call for Papers
(Deadline Monday 18th April)

The 2011 conference of the Women=E2=80=99s History Association of =
Ireland will take place in University College Cork on the evening of =
Friday 27th May and on Saturday 28th May. It will be hosted by Women's =
Studies, in association with the School of History, University College.

On Friday 27th May, Professors Maria Luddy (Warwick) and Mary =
O=E2=80=99Dowd (QUB) will conduct a symposium on their AHRC-funded =
project, Marriage in Ireland, 1660-1925.

The keynote speaker on Saturday 28th will be Dr Leeann Lane, whose =
biography of Rosamond Jacob was published in 2010. (Rosamond Jacob: =
Third Person Singular, Dublin: UCD Press, 2010)

The conference theme will be Gender and Sexual Politics / Politics of =
Sexuality in Ireland.

This might include, but is not limited to, such topics as:

Histories of repression /transgression / emancipation / liberation / =
revolution; body politics; sexual cultures; the sexual politics of =
personal relationships; deconstructing public discourse/religious =
discourse; LGBT histories; sex education; reproductive rights; =
medicalisation; sexology; rape and sexual crime; age of consent; =
prostitution; double standards; institutions and abuse; censorship.

Proposals for papers by early career scholars will also be welcomed. =
While research is ongoing on the nineteenth and twentieth century =
histories of some of these topics, suggestions for papers relating to =
earlier periods would also be welcomed.

There will be a conference fee of =E2=82=AC25 to cover lunch and =
coffees/teas. Registration information will be issued shortly.

There will be a conference dinner on the night of Friday 27th May. =
Further information on the cost of the dinner will be available soon and =
will be forwarded to those registering for the conference.

Abstracts (200-300 words) for 20 minute papers, with proposed title, =
brief
biographical information and contact details, should be submitted by =
email to Dr
Sandra McAvoy, Women=E2=80=99s Studies University College Cork, by =
Monday18th
April at: sandra.mcavoy[at]ucc.ie

--
Dr. Mary McAuliffe
Secretary, Women's History Association of Ireland (WHAI)
Women's Studies,
School of Social Justice,
L517, Library Building
University College Dublin
Belfield, Dublin 4
Ireland
Tel: +353 1 7167325
Fax: +353-1-7161195
Web: www.ucd.ie/werrc

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Congratulations to Sean Campbell on seeing through to completion this =
subtle and difficult project.

We have already seen on Ir-D a message from Sean, giving some links to =
discussion. Below is the original press release from Mike Collins, of =
Cork UP.

I have just bought a copy of this book as a birthday present for my son.

P.O'S.


=E2=80=98Irish Blood, English Heart=E2=80=99: Second-Generation Irish =
Musicians in England by Sean Campbell
=20
Second-generation Irish musicians have played a vital role in the =
history of popular music in England. Irish Blood, English Heart is the =
first full account of popular music-making amongst the Irish diaspora.
=20
This book explores the role of Irish ethnicity in the lives and work of =
these musicians, focusing on Kevin Rowland and Dexys Midnight Runners, =
Shane MacGowan and The Pogues, and Morrissey/Marr and The Smiths. It =
follows the diverse 'routes' pursued by second-generation Irish =
musicians, tracing their different styles and personas. The book =
disputes the view of England's Irish as a peripheral and problematic =
presence, seeing the second generation as a highly active and creative =
presence at the forefront of both British and Irish culture.
=20
The book includes the following previously unpublished material:
- An account of Kevin Rowland=E2=80=99s meetings with Sinn F=C3=A9in =
representatives in the early 1980s, leading to his plans to perform a =
Dexys concert for the republican movement
- An account of The Pogues=E2=80=99 reception in mid-80s Ireland, when =
they were viewed as suspect (English) interlopers, making unwelcome =
incursions into Irish culture, leading to claims that the band were =
=E2=80=98anti-Irish racists=E2=80=99=20
- An account of The Smiths=E2=80=99 Irish tour in 1984, when the band =
received threats from paramilitary factions and were praised by An =
Phoblacht=20
=20
Advance praise for Irish Blood, English Heart:
'Irish Blood, English Heart is a constantly intriguing and often =
provocative book about the complex process =E2=80=93 and peculiar =
freedom =E2=80=93 of not wholly belonging to one culture or the other' - =
Sean O=E2=80=99Hagan, The Observer
=20
ISBN 978-185918-461-5, =E2=82=AC39, =C2=A335, Hbk, 234 x 156mm, 272pp, =
Cork University Press
=20
Sean Campbell is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Media =
at Anglia Ruskin in Cambridge. He was raised in an Irish family in the =
north of England in the 1970s and 80s. He is a musician and writer, and =
is the co-author of Beautiful Day: Forty Years of Irish Rock (Cork =
University Press, 2005)
=20
Further details at
http://corkuniversitypress.com/=E2=80=9CIrish_Blood,_English_Heart=E2=80=9D=
:_Second_Generation_Irish_Musicians_in_England_/323/

Regards
=20
=20
Mike=20
=20
=20
Mike Collins=20
Publications Director=20
Register your interest for the Atlas of the Great Irish Famine=20
http://greatirishfamine.ie/
=20

Cork University Press/Attic Press=20
Youngline Industrial Estate=20
Pouladuff Road, Togher=20
Cork, Ireland=20
Tel: + 353 (0)21 4902980=20
Fax: + 353 (0)21 4315329=20
http://www.corkuniversitypress.com=20
My blogs: http://www.corkuniversitypress.org
=20
The Cork University Press helps to nurture the distinctiveness of local, =
regional and national cultures and extends the reach of UCC to national =
and international communities making evident the University=E2=80=99s =
commitment to the broad dissemination of knowledge and ideas.
=20
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Call for Papers =96 MWACIS
Ireland & Its Global Influence: Past, Present, Future=20
October 6-8 2011
FARGO=97MOORHEAD=20

We invite papers on various historic and artistic topics for the Mid =
West
Regional conference to be held on the campuses of North Dakota State
University (Fargo) and Minnesota State University (Moorhead).=20
=A0
Housing at downtown Radisson Hotel
Two blocks from the iconic Fargo Theatre and Dempsey=92s Irish Bar

Send proposals and questions to:=20
Dr Sandy Pearce(pearces[at]mnstate.edu)=20
Dr Miriam Mara(miriam.mara[at]ndsu.edu)
=A0

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Acis-west 2011 (San Jose, Ca) - Oct. 21-23: "Ireland And Globalization"

The ACIS West conference organizers welcome you to join us at San Jos=E9 =
State
University in California for the twenty-seventh annual meeting of Irish
studies scholars and artists. This interdisciplinary conference features =
a
range of lectures, readings, exhibits, and performances. We welcome =
papers
on any and all aspects of Irish studies, including literature, theatre,
film, dance, history, economics, sociology, music, religion, politics,
language, culture, diaspora, conflict and border studies, as well as the
material and visual arts. We particularly encourage papers that explore =
the
broad theme of Ireland and Globalization. We recognize globalization, as =
a
phenomenon, is nothing new. As such, in addition to papers that explore
contemporary globalization, we welcome those that explore Ireland and =
the
global prior to the last decade. We also recognize that globalization =
comes
in many forms. Papers that examine its cultural, political, or economic
roots and effects are all welcome.

Keynote speaker is Dr. Patrick Lonergan of the National University of
Ireland, Galway, author of Theatre and Globalization: Irish Drama in the
Celtic Tiger Era, winner of the Theatre Book Prize 2008.

Please submit your proposal by May 15, 2011 to aciswest2011[at]gmail.com.
Individual paper and panel submissions (3-4 participants) are welcome, =
as
are proposals for live performances, dramatic readings, poster
presentations, or exhibits. The proposal should be 250-500 words in =
length,
and include a brief bio of the submitter (50 words). In the case of =
panel
proposals, live performances, dramatic readings, posters, or exhibits,
please submit a rationale (250-500 words), as well as bios for each of =
the
presenters.

Please send any questions to Matthew Spangler, Associate Professor of
Performance Studies, San Jos=E9 State University, at the conference =
email
address, or spanglermatthew[at]yahoo.com.

San Jos=E9 State University is California=92s oldest institution of =
public
higher education. The campus is located on the southern end of San =
Francisco
Bay in downtown San Jos=E9 (Pop. 945,000), hub of the world-famous =
Silicon
Valley high-technology research and development center. Many of =
California=92s
most popular national, recreational, and cultural attractions are
conveniently close. San Francisco, Berkeley, Stanford, Santa Cruz, the
Monterrey Peninsula, redwood forests, wineries, and the California =
coastline
are all within an hour=92s drive of downtown San Jos=E9.

Contact Matthew Spangler
spanglermatthew[at]yahoo.com

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Diaspora Dilemmas and Shifting Allegiances: The Irish in London
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This article is currently a free sample at the Wiley web site.

Just go to the Abstract web page, link below, click on the GET PDF link on
the right.

P.O'S.

Diaspora Dilemmas and Shifting Allegiances: The Irish in London between
Nationalism, Catholicism and Labourism (1900-22)
John Hutchinson

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism
Volume 10, Issue 1, pages 107-125, April 2010

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1754-9469.2010.01041.x/abstract

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www.prio.no/research-and-publications/migration/moralities-of-migration

Call for abstracts
Moralities of Migration

How do moralities shape migration and subsequent transnational =
practices?
Much research has addressed the influence of presumed universal =
rationality;
less systematic attention has been given to the role of socially =
grounded
moralities in directing the behaviour of migrants and their counterparts =
in
transnational relationships. Under what circumstances is migration =
condemned
or acclaimed in migrants=92 communities of origin? What forms of =
deception in
the migration process are deemed morally justifiable by migrants and =
which
are not? Why are certain remittance transfers perceived to be a moral
imperative? The migration research team of the Peace Research Institute =
Oslo
(PRIO) will host an explorative workshop on the moralities of migration =
and
invites abstracts that address these or similar questions.

Objective and scope: The workshop is concerned with descriptive =
moralities,
i.e. the socially constructed codes of conduct that migrants and their
communities relate to. (This implies that contributions about the =
normative
moralities of how migration ought to take place or be governed, fall =
outside
the scope of the workshop) We invite contributions that are based on
empirical research, either with a specific case or synthesizing across
cases. Theoretical extensions from empirical accounts are particularly
welcome. The primary objective is to better understand how =
migration-related
behaviour is shaped by culturally specific moralities.

Expected contribution: In order to facilitate targeted contributions =
that
address the core theme of the workshop, we do not require full-length
papers. Shorter memos that explore key ideas are also welcome. This =
should
allow participants to draw upon their past publications, unpublished =
data
and new thinking. The written contributions will be circulated in =
advance.

Format and costs: The workshop will have a limited number of =
participants
and will not be open to the public. Selected participants must cover =
their
own travel expenses. The organizers will cover accommodation (3 nights) =
and
meals for the duration of the workshop. There is no participation fee.

Context and host: The workshop is organized in conjunction with the =
research
project Theorizing Risk, Money and Moralities in Migration (TRiMM), =
which is
funded by the Research Council of Norway and carried out in =
collaboration
with Fafo Applied International Research. Conveners of the workshop are
J=F8rgen Carling (PRIO), Mar=EDa Hern=E1ndez Carretero (PRIO) and =
Cecilie =D8ien
(Fafo). Confirmed participants include Julie Chu (University of =
Chicago),
Stephen Lubkemann (George Washington University) and Deirdre McKay =
(Keele
University)

Timeline
=95 15 June 2011: Deadline for submission of abstracts

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Hi,
I wanted to mention to the members on this list that we (Tulane
University) will be hosting the 2012 American Conference for Irish Studies
in New Orleans, Louisiana. Below is the call for papers as well as a link
to our conference website which has much more information. We are
especially keen on encouraging women (academics and graduate students alike)
engaged in research on Ireland as well as Irish America to consider
submitting a paper proposal for we feel that their work is often
under-represented, especially that of female historians.

For plenary speakers we have Christine Kinnealy and Cormac O Grada as well
as Dan Barry. We are currently working out the details for our literary
speaker. The conference itself will be held at the Historic Hotel
Monteleone in the French Quarter March 14th to the 17th.

Please feel free to contact me at the conference gmail account if you have
any further questions- thanks!
Best,
Laura D. Kelley, Ph.D.

http://acisnola2012.org/index.html

ACIS

2012 International Meeting

New Orleans, Louisiana

March 14~17

The theme for this conference is
Erin at Home, Erin Abroad: Capturing the Irish Experience

The Irish diaspora to all corners of the globe over many centuries continues
to engage scholars in diverse fields from history to literature to art and
anthropology. This conference proposes to examine the varied experiences of
the Irish and how they manifested themselves. More attention has been paid
in recent years to the stories the Irish tell to themselves and to "others"
and how outsiders have viewed the Irish. We would like scholars to consider
how these expressions vary over time and place.

We encourage graduate students and emerging scholars to consider submitting
paper proposals to this conference. All organizations benefit from new
approaches of up and coming scholars. This conference will provide those
just entering the field with the possibility to share their ideas with more
seasoned academics.

Along with papers specific to the conference theme, we are interested in
using this conference to highlight the most recent work in the field.
Therefore, we welcome submissions addressing any and all topics or themes
relevant to Irish studies. Both individual paper and panel submissions (3-4
participants) are welcomed, as are proposals for presentations in
non-traditional formats (posters, performances, exhibits). Proposals should
be 250-500 words in length, and include a brief (~50 word) bio of the
submitter or-in the case of panels-each participant.

Please send any questions to Laura D. Kelley, Ph.D. Tulane
University at the conference email address.

Submissions are due September 30, 2011 to acis2012[at]gmail.com