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British Imperial Statutes and Irish Sovereignty: Statutes Passed
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British Imperial Statutes and Irish Sovereignty: Statutes Passed After the
Creation of the Irish Free State

The Journal of Legal History
Volume 32, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 61 - 85

Author: Thomas Mohr a

Abstract
This is the second of two articles examining the relationship between
British Imperial statutes and Irish law in the early years of the
self-governing Irish state. The present article examines the assertion that
the Imperial parliament at Westminster enjoyed the right to legislate for
the self-governing Irish state in the 1920s and 1930s. Successive
governments in the Irish Free State denied the validity of this legislative
power. This article examines a number of Imperial statutes passed between
1922 and 1931 that purported to apply to the Irish Free State. These
Imperial statutes were seen as serious threats to Irish legislative
sovereignty and have never been recognised by the Irish courts as being part
of Irish law. This article examines how the controversial power to pass
Imperial statutes for the Irish Free State provoked a serious Anglo-Irish
dispute at a delicate stage in bringing the Irish Constitution of 1922 into
force. It attempts to illustrate the profound consequences of this dispute
for the 1922 Constitution. The article also examines the complex
relationship between Irish law and the Statute of Westminster as an Imperial
statute. The controversies over Imperial statutes and Irish legislative
sovereignty are examined in the context of earlier periods of Irish history
and also in the context of recent developments in twenty-first-century
Ireland. This permits a consideration of wider questions as to how concepts
of national identity influence the acceptance or rejection of particular
sources of law.

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The Irish Times - Saturday, March 26, 2011

KEITH HOPPER

ESSAYS: FLANN O'BRIEN 1922 - 1966: =E2=80=98Is It About a =
Bicycle?=E2=80=99: Flann O=E2=80=99Brien in the Twenty-first Century =
Edited by Jennika Baines Four Courts Press, 175pp, =E2=82=AC45

IN 1951 THE DUBLIN literary magazine Envoy devoted an issue to its =
patron saint and presiding deity, James Joyce. In a magnificently =
rambunctious editorial entitled =E2=80=9CA Bash in the Tunnel=E2=80=9D, =
guest editor Brian Nolan =E2=80=93 aka Brian O=E2=80=99Nolan (or =C3=93 =
Nuall=C3=A1in), aka Flann O=E2=80=99Brien, aka Myles na gCopaleen =
=E2=80=93 sketched a rather cantankerous portrait of Joyce as an =
egotistical iconoclast: =E2=80=9CJames Joyce was an artist. He has said =
so himself. His was a case of Ars gratia Artist =E2=80=9D. Although he =
admired Joyce intensely, Nolan remained sceptical of what he saw as =
Joyce=E2=80=99s tyrannical vision of authorship and his inaccessibility =
to the ordinary reader. =E2=80=9CPerhaps the true fascination of Joyce =
lies in his secretiveness, his ambiguity (his polyguity perhaps?) his =
leg-pulling, his dishonesties, his technical skill, his attraction for =
Americans. His works are a garden in which some of us may play.=E2=80=9D

Throughout his career, O=E2=80=99Nolan, who was born a century ago this =
October, engaged critically and creatively with Joyce=E2=80=99s legacy, =
both in his novels and in his Cruiskeen Lawn column, which ran in The =
Irish Times from 1940 to 1966. In retrospect, this anxiety of influence =
did O=E2=80=99Nolan no favours; in 1939 Se=C3=A1n =C3=93 Faol=C3=A1in =
complained that Flann O=E2=80=99Brien=E2=80=99s debut novel, At =
Swim-Two-Birds , had =E2=80=9Ca general odour of spilt Joyce all over =
it=E2=80=9D, and this notion of O=E2=80=99Brien as a =E2=80=9Cpoor =
man=E2=80=99s Joyce=E2=80=9D has dogged his critical reception ever =
since.

In her introduction to Flann O=E2=80=99Brien in the Twenty-first Century =
, Jennika Baines notes that despite a recent surge in his popular =
reputation, O=E2=80=99Brien =E2=80=9Chas not yet become canonised. Even =
his most well known works, At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Policeman , =
often fail to appear on 20th-century Irish literature syllabi. These =
supposedly comic novels are often not regarded as serious or weighty =
enough to sit alongside major contemporary works=E2=80=9D. As a =
consequence =E2=80=9Cthere remains no journal entirely devoted to =
O=E2=80=99Brien, no regular conference, no centre dedicated to him at =
his alma mater, University College Dublin=E2=80=9D.

The essays in the book she has edited tangentially address the issue of =
canonicity...

...The volume as a whole, which opens with a short foreword by the =
brother, Miche=C3=A1l =C3=93 Nuall=C3=A1in, is bookended by Frank =
McNally of The Irish Times , who joins the ranks of those Flanneurs who =
have always regarded O=E2=80=99Nolan as the vital third part in the Holy =
Trinity of modern Irish writers: alongside Joyce the Father, and Beckett =
the Son, O=E2=80=99Nolan remains the Holy Ghost in the machine.

Overall, the book is a welcome contribution to the growing body of =
O=E2=80=99Nolan scholarship, even if a certain academic tone =E2=80=93 =
or =E2=80=9CAmericanese=E2=80=9D, as Myles would have it =E2=80=93 =
creeps in sometimes, which seems slightly tin-eared to the nuances of =
O=E2=80=99Nolan=E2=80=99s exuberant language. With international =
conferences being held as far afield as Singapore and Vienna this summer =
to mark the centenary of his birth, and with several scholarly =
publications already in the pipeline, the traditional view of =
O=E2=80=99Nolan as a lesser Joyce seems set to change. Flann =
O=E2=80=99Brien=E2=80=99s works are a garden in which all of us may =
play.

FULL TEXT AT

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2011/0326/1224293117975.html

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Paddy,

List-members may be interested in the following course.

Best wishes,

Tony
*



16th Irish Writers in London Summer School
9 June - 15 July 2011 *

First established in 1996, the summer school runs for two nights a week
for five weeks and provides an informal but informative setting for student=
s

wishing to study Irish literature over the summer. Each week a set text is
discussed in class on Tuesday evening and the following Thursday,
the author reads and/or speaks about it to students.

Guests Writers:

=95 author and journalist *Mary Kenny* who will be talking about her recent
play *Allegiance* which dramatizes the relationship between Michael Collins
and Winston Churchill
=95 award-winning writer *Maurice Leitch *who will be discussing his latest
novel *Tell Me About It* set amongst the Irish community in London
=95 Booker long-listed author *Gerard Donovan* who will be discussing his
critically-acclaimed short story collection *Country of the Grand *
=95 Irish Post journalist *Joe Horgan* who will talking about living in
Ireland after growing up of Irish parents in England
=95 bookseller *Tony Whelan*, who recalls his life-long friendship with Joh=
n
McGahern in his memoir *The Last Chapter*.

*PREFERENTIAL FEES APPLY UNTIL 8 MAY (see below) *

N.B. This is not a creative writing course, but will complement such a
course of study at London Metropolitan University or elsewhere.

No prior qualifications are required to attend

Times: 6.00 - 8.30pm (refreshments provided)
Days: Tuesdays and Thursdays with the opening night on Thursday 9 June
and an additional class on Friday 15 July.
Fees: =A3125 (concessions =A395)

*=91Early Bird=92 enrolment before 9 May - =A3115 (concs =A385)
*
Enrol at:
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/research-units/iset/courses/irish-writers-in-lon=
don-summer-school-2011.cfm
or email: iset[at]londonmet.ac.uk
or ring: 0207 133 2913


More about this year=92s guest writers:

*Mary Kenny* has been a journalist for over four decades, working in London
and Dublin. She has contributed to more than 25 newspapers and journals,
including the Daily Mail, Guardian, Times, Catholic Herald, Irish Times,
and Times Literary Supplement. She has a special interest in the
relationship between England and Ireland which she explored in a biography
of =91Lord Haw-Haw=92 and in her book, Crown and Shamrock: Love and Hate
between Ireland and the British Monarchy. She will be talking about her
recent play Allegiance which dramatizes the relationship between Michael
Collins and Winston Churchill.

*Maurice Leitch *has been publishing novels and other works for over fifty
years. Rated by Robert McLiam Wilson, as =91perhaps the finest Irish
novelist of his generation=92 he was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize in
1969 for Liberty Lad and won the Whitbread Prize in 1981 for his novel
Silver's City. He moved to London from his native County Antrim to work as
a BBC radio producer and became editor of A Book at Bedtime on Radio Four
until leaving in 1989 to write full-time. He was awarded an MBE for
services to literature in 1999 and will be discussing his latest novel
Tell Me About It set amongst the Irish community in London.

*Gerard Donovan* is the author of the novels Schopenhauer=92s Telescope, wh=
ich

won the 2004 Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award and was long-listed for the
2003 Booker Prize, Doctor Salt and, most recently, Julius Winsome,
described in the Irish Times as =91a timeless fable of loss, isolation and
violence.=92 Born in Ireland, he currently lives in the south-west of
England and will be discussing his acclaimed book of short stories Country
of the Grand, described by Joseph O=92Connor as =91meltingly beautiful=92 a=
nd
=91an important and haunting collection=92.

*Joe Horgan* was born in Birmingham to Irish parents. He was shortlisted fo=
r

the Hennessy Prize in 2003 and won the Patrick Kavanagh Award for poetry
in 2004. He currently writes a weekly column for the Irish Post and
reviews for Books Ireland. His work has also appeared on RTE radio and
television. His first collection, Slipping Letters Beneath the Sea, was
published by Doghouse in 2008. In 2010 Horgan published a new collection
with Collins Press, A Song at Your Backdoor, and was anthologised in
Landing Places: Immigrant Poets in Ireland (Dedalus). He is married with
three children and lives in County Cork.

*Tony Whelan* was born near the Mountains of Mourne in 1928 and studied at
Queens University Belfast before moving to England in 1952. He worked as a
teacher and later in publishing and public relations and became a close
friend of John McGahern. Since retiring, he has developed a specialism in
selling second-hand and antiquarian Irish books. He will be discussing his
memoir, The Last Chapter, which has been described as, =91a crystal clear
window onto his life=92s experiences=92 and =91an intriguing portrait of th=
e
literary worlds of Ireland and England in the twentieth century.=92


For further information about the course contact Tony Murray at:
t.murray[at]londonmet.ac.uk or 020 7133 2593

The Irish Writers in London Summer School is supported by the Garnett
Foundation

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Writing Ireland's Working Class: Dublin After O'Casey
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Sincere congratulations to Micheal Mac Piarais on completing this =
important,
difficult and interesting project, a rare exploration of Irish =
working-class
culture, combined with a study of Irish literature. And therefore, I =
think,
of special interest to the Irish Diaspora list.

Note that in the published book the author's name is given as Michael
Pierse.

Book information and sample pages on

http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=3D410989

and the book is visible on the usual web bookshop pages.

Writing Ireland's Working Class
Dublin After O'Casey
Michael Pierse
=20
Palgrave Macmillan

14 Dec 2010
9780230272279
360 pages

As a social other, Ireland's urban working class inhabits a 'non-place' =
in
the national narrative, a place beset by galling levels of poverty and =
low
social mobility. Its exclusion is not just social and economic, but =
cultural
as well. Working-class Dublin in particular elicits little good press, =
and
less in terms of academic commentary or cultural appreciation, so where =
and
how does it appear in literature? Exploring the fiction and plays of =
this
marginalised community after Se=E1n O'Casey, this book breaks new ground =
in
Irish Studies scholarship, charting alternative directions for academic
research and unearthing submerged narratives in the history of Irish
culture. Most of the works examined have received little or no critical
commentary to date, yet this book makes a compelling case for their
centrality to the history and appreciation of Irish literature. From =
O'Casey
to Roddy Doyle, a rich tapestry of urban life is illuminated and =
explored,
which presents a robust challenge to stereotyped and staid views of =
Irish
life and literature.=20

Introduction
The Shadow of Se=E1n
Angry Young Men - Class Injuries and Masculinity
From Rocking the Cradle to Rocking the System - Writing Working-Class =
Women
Industry and the City - Workers in Struggle
Prison Stories - Writing Dublin at its Limits
Return of the Oppressed - Sexual Repression, Culture and Class
Revising the Revolution: Roddy Doyle's A Star Called Henry, =
Historiography,
Politics and Proletarian Consciousness
Conclusion
Bibliography=20
Index =20

P.O'S. =20

--
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
Department of Social Sciences and Humanities University of Bradford =
Bradford
BD7 1DP Yorkshire England

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I notice that a review of WRITING IRELAND'S WORKING CLASS: DUBLIN AFTER
O'CASEY has appeared on the Irish Left Review web page, repeated on the
Dublin Opinion and on Irish Labour sites. Very favourable though it
criticises Pierse's 'mis-reading of Marx on class' - which recalls days long
ago...

P.O'S.

http://www.irishleftreview.org/2011/04/07/review-writing-irelands-working-cl
ass-dublin-ocasey-michael-pierse-london-palgrave-macmillan-2011/

REVIEW: WRITING IRELAND'S WORKING CLASS: DUBLIN AFTER O'CASEY, by Michael
Pierse (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)

Author:
Conor McCabe of Dublin Opinion
Published:
April 7th, 2011

What a thing for a country to do to people - to take away who they are."
(Peter Sheridan, playwright, 2005)

In 2004 the author and academic Helena Sheehan wrote that for the first five
years of RTE's flagship soap opera, Glenroe, nobody worked for a wage. She
also noted that in its other soap, Fair City, which is set in a
predominantly working-class area of Dublin, a extraordinary number of
characters owned their own businesses. Although most characters were
supposed to be of working class origins' said Sheenan, 'hardly any of them
have been wage labourers. Those that have been, have worked in the local
businesses.' The head of drama at RTE, David Blake-Knox, said in the early
1990s that 'confrontation, when it occurs [in Fair City], is almost entirely
personal and lacking in any social resonance' and that 'there is hardly
mention - even in passing - of hospitals, social welfare, or any other
practicalities. In fact, there is Very little evidence of this community
being connected with any of the popular institutions of modern Ireland.' It
led the Scottish academic, Hugh O'Donnell, to comment that 'in Fair City
working class experience is replaced by petit bourgeois aspirations.'

These type of dramas - informed not so much by reality but by other works of
Irish mainstream fiction - form part of a wider approach to the working
class in Irish culture where, as Michael Pierse puts it, 'everyday issues of
class stratification, or of living on working class wages' receive 'scant
attention'.

This aversion in Irish mainstream fiction to issues of class is one of the
central concerns of Writing Ireland's Working Class. Here, Pierse sets out
to uncover works which deal with class in Irish society from a working-class
perspective - to chart the 'continuity of writing that is embedded in the
lived experience of working-class people' and which 'is mirrored in the
preoccupations of the writings itself.'

...It is an important publication, one which deserves to be read by anyone
interested not only in Irish cultural studies, but also in the shape and
flow of class dynamics within Irish society...

Pierse's objective is to 'explore how the working class is depicted in
Dublin's literature and to argue that the body of literature examined
represents a distinct, heretofore academically unrecognised lineage in Irish
writing.' He does this through seven thematic chapters with a loose
historical progression, and by drawing heavily from the conceptual
frameworks of class and class relations as espoused by E.P. Thompson.

Pierse also namechecks Erik Olin Wright, Pierre Bourdieu, and Antonio
Gramsci. However, in terms of approaches to class analysis, it is Thompson
and his famous introduction to The Making of the English Working Class which
seems to have had the most influence on the author. 'Thompson attends to the
contingencies of history and economics while also highlighting the role of
working class people in creating class as a social and cultural phenomenon'
writes Pierse. 'My understanding of class in this book proceeds from these
neo-Marxian concepts, and a contingent belief in the enduring relevance of
the working class as a culturally, socially and empirically self-evident
cohort.'...

...Pierse has set a high marker from which future debate and analysis can
develop.

It's a marvellous achievement, insightful and provocative, for which Pierse
richly deserves our praise and thanks

FULL TEXT AT

http://www.irishleftreview.org/2011/04/07/review-writing-irelands-working-cl
ass-dublin-ocasey-michael-pierse-london-palgrave-macmillan-2011/

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I now disappear for a few weeks, first to darkest Oxfordshire, then to
darkest Yorkshire.

There will be little out there in the way of computers and web - certainly
no guaranteed access.

I am hoping to rest and recuperate.

Bill Mulligan has kindly agreed to continue acting as Moderator of the Irish
Diaspora list for the time being.

Messages sent to IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK will be considered by Bill and
distributed to the Irish Diaspora list in the usual way.

Play nicely, now.

Messages sent to me personally will have to await my return.

My thanks to Bill Mulligan, Liam Greenslade and Anthony McNicholas for all
their help and support.

Paddy O'Sullivan

--
Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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

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The Basques are preparing for the Fifth World Basque Congress, later =
this
year.

The new Socialist (not Basque Nationalist) government has been reaching =
out
to Basque organisations throughout the world, with visits by the
Lehendakari, the President of the Basque Government, and the Director =
for
Basque Citizens and Communities Abroad.

There is an exhibition on Ellis Island. Some links, below.

The links in paragraph 3 will take you to the Basque Government web site
where you can read and download issues of Euskal Etxeak Magazine. The =
issue
of 2010 includes material about Ellis Island.

And an article by Juli=E1n Celaya on his first year as the government's
contact point with the Diaspora - an article that will, I think, give =
Irish
specialists food for thought. Well, maybe not thought, as such...

P.O'S.


http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1895828,00.html

1.
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Basques - Ellis Island=20

Things like this do not happen very often for Basques. Patty Miller,
Director of the Boise Basque Museum, called it "a perfect day" and =
indeed it
was as several hundred gathered for the inauguration of the "Hidden in =
Plain
Sight: The Basques" immigration exhibit.

http://www.nabasque.org/Astero/Ellis_Island2.htm

2.
The Basque Government, through the Directorate for Relations with Basque
Communities, every four years hosts a World Congress that assembles
delegates from most all Basque communities from around the world for a
week-long assembly to exchange ideas and create viable networks of
cooperation.
=09
ZER|What: =20
5th World Basque Congress
=20
NOIZ|When: =20
Nov. 2-3-4-5, 2011

NON|Where: =20
Donostia-San Sebastian

http://www.nabasque.org/NABO/Congress.htm

3.
http://www.lehendakaritza.ejgv.euskadi.net/r48-3872/en/contenidos/informa=
cio
n/06_revista_euskaletxeak/en_ee/revista.html

http://www.lehendakaritza.ejgv.euskadi.net/r48-3872/en/contenidos/informa=
cio
n/06_revista_euskaletxeak/en_ee/adjuntos/88_i.pdf

Juli=E1n Celaya Loyola
One year with the Basque Diaspora

'Like most Basques living in the Basque Country, the only experience I =
had
had of the Basque Diaspora had been through references to the ancestor =
of
some distant relative who had been forced to emigrate for whatever =
reason.=20
My experience so far has been full of surprises...

The first surprise came even before I came into direct contact with the
descendants of Basque emigrants, especially in certain parts of South =
and
Central America. Unlike North America and Europe, where the change of
government in the Basque Country was accepted without any fuss at all, =
the
suspicion with which I was greeted in South and Central America, fed by =
the
malicious rumors that were spread around at that time (and which =
continue to
be rife) came as a bit of a shock. The story was that the new Basque
Government was going to do away with the Euskal Etxeak-Basque clubs. =
During
my trips to those countries where large numbers of Basque emigrants=20
had settled in the past, I have been able to reassure Basque communities =
not
only with my words (in my baserri Basque and in the Spanish of the =
average
man in the street) but also with details of the subsidies that would =
come
into effect at the end of 2009 in my hand. These show that the economic =
aid
has not decreased at all - just the opposite - in some specific cases it =
has
increased...

...The second surprise was the meager (or should I say nonexistent)
relations between the Euskal Etxeak and other Spanish institutions =
abroad,
the regional centers of other autonomous communities and Spanish =
embassies.
This way of doing things is extremely puzzling and has, once again, been
fostered by a nationalist ideology that claims to defend the interests =
of=20
Basques abroad. But it is this attitude that deprives them of more =
subsidies
and the aid that would be available to them were they to adopt a more =
open
outlook. Just look at the Catalonians and Galicians, for example. =
Moreover,
Basque businessmen and women who seek to promote their companies on =
foreign
markets do not act like that. The first thing they do when they arrive =
in
the country, whether they are nationalists or not, is to go to the =
embassy
in search of assistance.

The third surprise was that the apparent prevalence of nationalistic
ideologies in the Euskal Etxeak is nothing more than just that - =
apparent.
It is true that many members of their Boards of Directors are persons =
who
define themselves publicly as Basque nationalists. Despite the fact that
they cannot even vote in this country, they believe themselves to be=20
more Basque than me, a person born in a farmhouse in the mountains, =
someone
who did not learn Spanish until the age of eight...'

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Dear Colleagues

I would be grateful if you could circulate details of our forthcoming
lecture series
"Irish Achievers in British History" commencing on 4 May at Hammersmith
Irish Cultural Centre, West London.

Admission to all lectures is free and further information can be found on w=
www.irishculturalcentre.co.uk


Thank you

Ivan Gibbons



Irish Achievers in British History
A lectures series profiling eminent Irish achievers in British politics=2C =
literature and the arts.
All lectures start at 7.30pm. Free Entry.
=20
Wed 4 May John Wheatley MP. =93Red Clydeside=94 Labour MP and Minister of H=
ousing in the first Labour Government in 1924 Wheatley is credited with int=
roducing social housing into British politics as well as bringing the Scott=
ish Catholic vote over to the Labour Party. Wheatley was mistrusted by Rams=
ay MacDonald and never held office in subsequent Labour administra.tions
=20
Lecturer Steve Schifferes. Professor of financial journalism at City Univer=
sity and formerly producer at London Weekend Television=2C BBC journalist a=
nd has worked at Shelter=2C the National Campaign for the Homeless .
=20
=20
=20
Wed 18 May Sir John Lavery. Society artist. One of the =93Glasgow Boys=94 s=
chool Lavery (and his wife Lady Lavery) were movers and shakers in British =
Establishment society in the early 20th century. He painted not only member=
s of the British Establishment but also the emerging politicians of the Iri=
sh Free State and Northern Ireland. His wife is credited with facilitating =
contacts between British politicians and Michael Collins during the negotia=
tions leading to the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1921. This lecture examines both=
the artistic and political significance of the artist.
=20
Lecturer Bernard Canavan. Art Historian and Irish History lecturer at the I=
rish Cultural Centre.
=20
=20
=20
Wed 1 June Elizabeth Bowen. Now regarded as one of the foremost novelists i=
n the English language in the twentieth century Elizabeth Bowen came from a=
n Anglo-Irish background but lived in Britain most of her life. Her novel =
=93The Heat of the Day=94 has been described as the best portrayal of livin=
g in London during the Blitz. She was also alleged to have been a spy for B=
ritain during =93the Emergency=94 in Ireland in the early 1940s. Her ambiva=
lent national allegiance and her literary importance are addressed in this =
lecture.
=20
Lecturer Tony Staniland. Lecturer in literature and psychology at Birkbeck =
College=2C London. Former headteacher and educational administrator in NW L=
ondon.
=20
=20
=20
Wed 15 June George Bernard Shaw. Fabian socialist and acute observer of the=
human condition in his various plays Shaw was born in Dublin but spent mos=
t of his long life (1855-1950) in Britain. This lecture examines his politi=
cal and literary achievement from the Victorian era to the Second World War=
.
=20
Lecturer Michelle Paull. Lecturer in Drama at St Mary=92s University Colleg=
e=2C Twickenham and renowned expert on the work of Sean O=92Casey. Formerly=
Curator of Modern Literary Manuscripts at the British Library.
=20
=20
=20
Join us for another visit to the House of Lords to view paintings by Cork -=
born artist Daniel Maclise.=20
Monday 13 June.
=20
Our visit last year courtesy of Lord Soley (former Hammersmith MP Clive Sol=
ey) attracted substantial interest. Such was the demand that this summer =
=2Cagain thanks to Lord Soley=2C we are arranging another visit to see Macl=
ise=92s monumental paintings on the Death of Nelson and the Battle of Water=
loo in situ.
=20
Meet 10.15am on Monday 13 June here at ICC for an introductory talk by art =
historian Bernard Canavan. We will then depart for the House of Lords where=
we will be taken on a guided viewing of the Maclise paintings by Lord Sole=
y with commentary by Bernard Canavan.
=20
The visit will end by 12.15.
=20
Admission free (pay your own tube fare!) but as numbers are limited to 20 y=
ou MUST register with the Irish Cultural Centre in advance.
=20
=20
=20
That=92s it Catherina =96contact me if you need any clarification
Best wishes
Ivan
=20
Dr Ivan Gibbons
Programme Director
Irish Studies
School of Communications=2C Culture and Creative Arts
St. Mary's University College
Waldegrave Road
Strawberry Hill
TW1 4SX
=20
Tel: 0208 240 4081
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Dear Colleagues,

I'm writing new lectures, for the end of my 20th-Century Ireland course, on=
the Irish Republic from 1969 to the present.

From one recent source, I have the statement that in 1971 only 52% of the I=
rish Republic's population lived in towns with 1,500 or more inhabitants.

Unfortunately, I've been unable to find comparable figures for any later ye=
ar.

I've looked in major Irish history textbooks (some list "urbanization" in t=
heir indexes, most don't), but without success. Friends have directed me t=
o the websites for the very recent Irish censuses, but I can find no links =
to "urban" or "urbanization."

Do you have any post-1971 (ideally, very recent) figures on urbanization, w=
hich are somewhat comparable with those of 1971? Or, can you suggest other=
sources, which I can explore?

Many thanks,

Kerby

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Of course, much depends on the relevance of being in a town of more than 1,500. What do you "operationally" (ugly word) imply by "urbanization"?

Tom



On Apr 21, 2011, at 16:38, "MacEinri, Piaras" wrote:

> Dear Kerby
>
> It's not easy to find on the Census site, as so much of the information is presented in a very disaggregated form. But it is there - Volume 1 of the 2006 Census http://www.cso.ie/census/documents/Amended%20census2006_%20Volume%201%20Pop%20Classified%20by%20Area.pdf has the data on page 20. It shows that just over 39% of the population lived in rural areas or in towns of fewer than 1,500 persons. For 2002, it can be found, again on page 20, at http://www.cso.ie/census/documents/vol1_entire.pdf. In that case the rural/small town population was slightly higher - about 40.4%. So, read in conjunction with your 1971 figure the trend is clear.
>
> I don't have hard copies of the 1996 or 1991 or earlier censuses to hand but I expect they would confirm a trend towards greater urbanisation. The whole issue has been a topic of discussion and sometimes dissent in recent years in Ireland - urbanisation has destroyed the power base of Fianna Fail, for instance (as we saw, dramatically, in the last election) and future political battles are increasingly likely to be about the battle for the hearts and minds of urban Ireland - FF, for instance, is likely to find itself increasingly challenged by SF and left-wing parties.
>
> best
>
> Piaras
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List on behalf of Miller, Kerby A.
> Sent: Thu 4/21/2011 7:19 PM
> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: [IR-D] Recent Irish urbanization question
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I'm writing new lectures, for the end of my 20th-Century Ireland course, on the Irish Republic from 1969 to the present.
>
> From one recent source, I have the statement that in 1971 only 52% of the Irish Republic's population lived in towns with 1,500 or more inhabitants.
>
> Unfortunately, I've been unable to find comparable figures for any later year.
>
> I've looked in major Irish history textbooks (some list "urbanization" in their indexes, most don't), but without success. Friends have directed me to the websites for the very recent Irish censuses, but I can find no links to "urban" or "urbanization."
>
> Do you have any post-1971 (ideally, very recent) figures on urbanization, which are somewhat comparable with those of 1971? Or, can you suggest other sources, which I can explore?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Kerby

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Dear Kerby

It's not easy to find on the Census site, as so much of the information =
is presented in a very disaggregated form. But it is there - Volume 1 of =
the 2006 Census =
http://www.cso.ie/census/documents/Amended%20census2006_%20Volume%201%20P=
op%20Classified%20by%20Area.pdf has the data on page 20. It shows that =
just over 39% of the population lived in rural areas or in towns of =
fewer than 1,500 persons. For 2002, it can be found, again on page 20, =
at http://www.cso.ie/census/documents/vol1_entire.pdf. In that case the =
rural/small town population was slightly higher - about 40.4%. So, read =
in conjunction with your 1971 figure the trend is clear.

I don't have hard copies of the 1996 or 1991 or earlier censuses to hand =
but I expect they would confirm a trend towards greater urbanisation. =
The whole issue has been a topic of discussion and sometimes dissent in =
recent years in Ireland - urbanisation has destroyed the power base of =
Fianna Fail, for instance (as we saw, dramatically, in the last =
election) and future political battles are increasingly likely to be =
about the battle for the hearts and minds of urban Ireland - FF, for =
instance, is likely to find itself increasingly challenged by SF and =
left-wing parties.=20

best

Piaras

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=20
Dear Colleagues,

I'm writing new lectures, for the end of my 20th-Century Ireland course, =
on the Irish Republic from 1969 to the present.

From one recent source, I have the statement that in 1971 only 52% of =
the Irish Republic's population lived in towns with 1,500 or more =
inhabitants.

Unfortunately, I've been unable to find comparable figures for any later =
year.

I've looked in major Irish history textbooks (some list "urbanization" =
in their indexes, most don't), but without success. Friends have =
directed me to the websites for the very recent Irish censuses, but I =
can find no links to "urban" or "urbanization."

Do you have any post-1971 (ideally, very recent) figures on =
urbanization, which are somewhat comparable with those of 1971? Or, can =
you suggest other sources, which I can explore?

Many thanks,

Kerby

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Dear Kerby,

I assume you're taking your 1971 figures from Vaughan and Fitzpatrick (eds), 'Irish
Historical Statistics' (1978), p.27. I use those figures in teaching too - actually,
I know the figures well because, as a student, I helped check parts of the book
before publication.

But the disparities are striking: Leinster was 70.09% urban in 1971, while Connacht
was only 21.48%.

I have a 2009 book that compares Australia to 17 other developed countries (mainly
European, but including USA, Canada, Japan and New Zealand) on a large number of
political, economic and social indices. It seems a reputable work - published by
Cambridge UP and with figures on urbanisation taken from publications of the
Population Division of the UN's Dept of Economic and Social Affairs.

For 2005 it lists Ireland as 61% urban, putting it at the bottom of the 18, tied
with Finland - Australia is 88% urban and the mean is 78%. (Unfortunately, the book
doesn't give a definition of 'urban' to compare with Vaughan and Fitzpatrick's, but
I assume the UN probably does.)

But Ireland is very high on the list in terms of the proportion of the population
living in the largest city: in 2005 25% of Irish people lived in Dublin. So, as in
1971, a lot of the story of Irish urbanisation seems really to be about Dublin.

Best wishes,

Elizabeth

-------------------------------------
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I'm writing new lectures, for the end of my 20th-Century Ireland course, on the
> Irish Republic from 1969 to the present.
>
> From one recent source, I have the statement that in 1971 only 52% of the Irish
> Republic's population lived in towns with 1,500 or more inhabitants.
>
> Unfortunately, I've been unable to find comparable figures for any later year.
>
> I've looked in major Irish history textbooks (some list "urbanization" in their
> indexes, most don't), but without success. Friends have directed me to the websites
> for the very recent Irish censuses, but I can find no links to "urban" or
> "urbanization."
>
> Do you have any post-1971 (ideally, very recent) figures on urbanization, which are
> somewhat comparable with those of 1971? Or, can you suggest other sources, which I
> can explore?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Kerby
>


__________________________________________________
Professor Elizabeth Malcolm
Gerry Higgins Chair of Irish Studies

Research Coordinator
School of Historical and Philosophical Studies
University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, AUSTRALIA
Phone: +61-3-83443924; Email: e.malcolm[at]unimelb.edu.au

President
Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand (ISAANZ)
Website: http://isaanz.org
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That's very helpful,
Many thanks,
Kerby


On 4/21/11 5:17 PM, "Elizabeth Malcolm" wrote:

Dear Kerby,

I assume you're taking your 1971 figures from Vaughan and Fitzpatrick (eds)=
, 'Irish
Historical Statistics' (1978), p.27. I use those figures in teaching too - =
actually,
I know the figures well because, as a student, I helped check parts of the =
book
before publication.

But the disparities are striking: Leinster was 70.09% urban in 1971, while =
Connacht
was only 21.48%.

I have a 2009 book that compares Australia to 17 other developed countries =
(mainly
European, but including USA, Canada, Japan and New Zealand) on a large numb=
er of
political, economic and social indices. It seems a reputable work - publish=
ed by
Cambridge UP and with figures on urbanisation taken from publications of th=
e
Population Division of the UN's Dept of Economic and Social Affairs.

For 2005 it lists Ireland as 61% urban, putting it at the bottom of the 18,=
tied
with Finland - Australia is 88% urban and the mean is 78%. (Unfortunately, =
the book
doesn't give a definition of 'urban' to compare with Vaughan and Fitzpatric=
k's, but
I assume the UN probably does.)

But Ireland is very high on the list in terms of the proportion of the popu=
lation
living in the largest city: in 2005 25% of Irish people lived in Dublin. So=
, as in
1971, a lot of the story of Irish urbanisation seems really to be about Dub=
lin.

Best wishes,

Elizabeth

-------------------------------------
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I'm writing new lectures, for the end of my 20th-Century Ireland course, =
on the
> Irish Republic from 1969 to the present.
>
> From one recent source, I have the statement that in 1971 only 52% of the=
Irish
> Republic's population lived in towns with 1,500 or more inhabitants.
>
> Unfortunately, I've been unable to find comparable figures for any later =
year.
>
> I've looked in major Irish history textbooks (some list "urbanization" in=
their
> indexes, most don't), but without success. Friends have directed me to t=
he websites
> for the very recent Irish censuses, but I can find no links to "urban" or
> "urbanization."
>
> Do you have any post-1971 (ideally, very recent) figures on urbanization,=
which are
> somewhat comparable with those of 1971? Or, can you suggest other source=
s, which I
> can explore?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Kerby
>


__________________________________________________
Professor Elizabeth Malcolm
Gerry Higgins Chair of Irish Studies

Research Coordinator
School of Historical and Philosophical Studies
University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, AUSTRALIA
Phone: +61-3-83443924; Email: e.malcolm[at]unimelb.edu.au

President
Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand (ISAANZ)
Website: http://isaanz.org
__________________________________________________

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The United Nations Population Division has excellent online resources, =
by country and world region and it's also possible to generate timelines =
by country showing the trend in urbanization from 1950 into the future. =
Ireland is projected to be 78% urban by 2050. The data is updated to =
2009 and can be found at http://esa.un.org/unpd/wup/

It's true that the definition of what constitutes an urban area is very =
problematic and varies from country to country.

best

Piaras

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Sent: Fri 4/22/2011 12:04 AM
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [IR-D] Recent Irish urbanization question
=20
Of course, much depends on the relevance of being in a town of more than =
1,500. What do you "operationally" (ugly word) imply by "urbanization"?

Tom=20



On Apr 21, 2011, at 16:38, "MacEinri, Piaras" wrote:

> Dear Kerby
>=20
> It's not easy to find on the Census site, as so much of the =
information is presented in a very disaggregated form. But it is there - =
Volume 1 of the 2006 Census =
http://www.cso.ie/census/documents/Amended%20census2006_%20Volume%201%20P=
op%20Classified%20by%20Area.pdf has the data on page 20. It shows that =
just over 39% of the population lived in rural areas or in towns of =
fewer than 1,500 persons. For 2002, it can be found, again on page 20, =
at http://www.cso.ie/census/documents/vol1_entire.pdf. In that case the =
rural/small town population was slightly higher - about 40.4%. So, read =
in conjunction with your 1971 figure the trend is clear.
>=20
> I don't have hard copies of the 1996 or 1991 or earlier censuses to =
hand but I expect they would confirm a trend towards greater =
urbanisation. The whole issue has been a topic of discussion and =
sometimes dissent in recent years in Ireland - urbanisation has =
destroyed the power base of Fianna Fail, for instance (as we saw, =
dramatically, in the last election) and future political battles are =
increasingly likely to be about the battle for the hearts and minds of =
urban Ireland - FF, for instance, is likely to find itself increasingly =
challenged by SF and left-wing parties.=20
>=20
> best
>=20
> Piaras
>=20
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List on behalf of Miller, Kerby A.
> Sent: Thu 4/21/2011 7:19 PM
> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: [IR-D] Recent Irish urbanization question
>=20
> Dear Colleagues,
>=20
> I'm writing new lectures, for the end of my 20th-Century Ireland =
course, on the Irish Republic from 1969 to the present.
>=20
> From one recent source, I have the statement that in 1971 only 52% of =
the Irish Republic's population lived in towns with 1,500 or more =
inhabitants.
>=20
> Unfortunately, I've been unable to find comparable figures for any =
later year.
>=20
> I've looked in major Irish history textbooks (some list "urbanization" =
in their indexes, most don't), but without success. Friends have =
directed me to the websites for the very recent Irish censuses, but I =
can find no links to "urban" or "urbanization."
>=20
> Do you have any post-1971 (ideally, very recent) figures on =
urbanization, which are somewhat comparable with those of 1971? Or, can =
you suggest other sources, which I can explore?
>=20
> Many thanks,
>=20
> Kerby

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Agreed on the definitional problems, but, for simplicity's sake, I wanted s=
omething that could be compared with the 1971 data. Piaras says that the %=
of Irish living in towns with less than 1,500 people has now fallen to 39%=
, but I suspect that many of those are now suburbanites (in terms of their =
economic [daily commuter-patterns] and other orientations to nearby cities)=
, rather than "traditional" village- and rural-dwellers, whose economic and=
other activities are/were mostly localized.
Thanks,
KM


On 4/21/11 6:04 PM, "Thomas J. Archdeacon" wrote:

Of course, much depends on the relevance of being in a town of more than 1,=
500. What do you "operationally" (ugly word) imply by "urbanization"?

Tom



On Apr 21, 2011, at 16:38, "MacEinri, Piaras" wrote:

> Dear Kerby
>
> It's not easy to find on the Census site, as so much of the information i=
s presented in a very disaggregated form. But it is there - Volume 1 of the=
2006 Census http://www.cso.ie/census/documents/Amended%20census2006_%20Vol=
ume%201%20Pop%20Classified%20by%20Area.pdf has the data on page 20. It show=
s that just over 39% of the population lived in rural areas or in towns of =
fewer than 1,500 persons. For 2002, it can be found, again on page 20, at h=
ttp://www.cso.ie/census/documents/vol1_entire.pdf. In that case the rural/s=
mall town population was slightly higher - about 40.4%. So, read in conjunc=
tion with your 1971 figure the trend is clear.
>
> I don't have hard copies of the 1996 or 1991 or earlier censuses to hand =
but I expect they would confirm a trend towards greater urbanisation. The w=
hole issue has been a topic of discussion and sometimes dissent in recent y=
ears in Ireland - urbanisation has destroyed the power base of Fianna Fail,=
for instance (as we saw, dramatically, in the last election) and future po=
litical battles are increasingly likely to be about the battle for the hear=
ts and minds of urban Ireland - FF, for instance, is likely to find itself =
increasingly challenged by SF and left-wing parties.
>
> best
>
> Piaras
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List on behalf of Miller, Kerby A.
> Sent: Thu 4/21/2011 7:19 PM
> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: [IR-D] Recent Irish urbanization question
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I'm writing new lectures, for the end of my 20th-Century Ireland course, =
on the Irish Republic from 1969 to the present.
>
> From one recent source, I have the statement that in 1971 only 52% of the=
Irish Republic's population lived in towns with 1,500 or more inhabitants.
>
> Unfortunately, I've been unable to find comparable figures for any later =
year.
>
> I've looked in major Irish history textbooks (some list "urbanization" in=
their indexes, most don't), but without success. Friends have directed me=
to the websites for the very recent Irish censuses, but I can find no link=
s to "urban" or "urbanization."
>
> Do you have any post-1971 (ideally, very recent) figures on urbanization,=
which are somewhat comparable with those of 1971? Or, can you suggest oth=
er sources, which I can explore?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Kerby

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Dear Colleagues,=20
=20
When Paddy kindly allowed me to go a little beyond the boundaries of the
group to draw attention to the campaign to save Conan Doyle's house,
Undershaw, I was moved to set up a list 'Academics for Undershaw', which
to-day has seventy-seven signatories, too many to list here, but I can se=
nd
it on request (oscholars[at]gmail.com) =96 and I hope you will consider addi=
ng
your own names (drop me a line) and/or putting a message on http://www
saveundershaw.com/2010/09/leave-your-feedback/. My particular thanks to
Kerby for sparking this off.=20
=20
The house is empty and is being allowed to deteriorate subject to plannin=
g
permission to develop the site. What I am hoping for is something on the
lines of a Conan Doyle Centre for British & Irish Crime Writing, with a
library, conference facilities and perhaps a writer in residence.=20
=20
Apparently, the powers that be are reluctant to accept the idea that
Undershaw can have any cultural value, and we must convince them otherwis=
e.
Videos of the house, which dates to 1897, can be seen at http://www.youtu=
be
com/user/SaveUndershaw. =20
=20
Do please also pass this on: the destruction of a writer=92s house strike=
s at
all our values.=20
=20
This has the official support of the British Association for Victorian
Studies, and has been endorsed by the North American Victorian Studies
Association and the London 19th Century Seminar.=20
=20
It may not be widely known that Conan Doyle campaigned for a reprieve for
Roger Casement. We can acknowledge this by supporting a reprieve for
Undershaw.=20
=20
Easter greetings !=20
=20
David

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Dear Colleagues

I thought some members of the IR-D list who are in London or within
commuter distance might be interested in seeing this show by Peter
Sheridan (a friend of mine who is truly entertaining) which is on
throughout May, based on his memoir of the same name which some of you
may be familiar with.

Best wishes

Jennifer



*******

Hello,

After a sell-out run in Dublin, Peter will perform his moving one man
show at The Waterloo East Theatre from May 3rd to May 22nd.

Please see the link below - and pass it on to anyone interested in a
great evening at the theatre!

http://www.waterlooeast.co.uk/page92.html




--
Dr. Jennifer Redmond
IRCHSS Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of History
NUI Maynooth

Email: jmredmon[at]tcd.ie
Alternative email: Jennifer.Redmond[at]nuim.ie

Regulating Citizenship Project
http://history.nuim.ie/staff/contractstaff/jenniferredmond

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Having seen this, and interviewed Peter (for the Irish Independent), I can agree.

My interview with him is here:

http://colinmurphy.ie.s72300.gridserver.com/?p=837


Colin Murphy





On 25 Apr 2011, at 09:47, Jennifer May Redmond wrote:

Dear Colleagues

I thought some members of the IR-D list who are in London or within
commuter distance might be interested in seeing this show by Peter
Sheridan (a friend of mine who is truly entertaining) which is on
throughout May, based on his memoir of the same name which some of you
may be familiar with.

Best wishes

Jennifer



*******

Hello,

After a sell-out run in Dublin, Peter will perform his moving one man
show at The Waterloo East Theatre from May 3rd to May 22nd.

Please see the link below - and pass it on to anyone interested in a
great evening at the theatre!

http://www.waterlooeast.co.uk/page92.html




--
Dr. Jennifer Redmond
IRCHSS Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of History
NUI Maynooth

Email: jmredmon[at]tcd.ie
Alternative email: Jennifer.Redmond[at]nuim.ie

Regulating Citizenship Project
http://history.nuim.ie/staff/contractstaff/jenniferredmond

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Might be of interest to the list:

A long way back

They left Ireland for England as young men=E2=80=A6 and never returned. As =
a film documents their homecoming 40 years later, Jon McGregor meets the ex=
iles
Jon McGregor
The Guardian, Saturday 30 April 2011

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/apr/30/return-irish-exiles-film-jon-mcg=
regor/print

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Great to see a film on this topic being made by such men to their own ends =
rather than in the service of 'art' or a commercial agenda.=20

List members wanting the 'back story' on the Irish male migrant labour expe=
rience in British construction might be interested to learn that The men wh=
o built Britain, out of print since 2006, is being reissued in hardback & p=
aperback under my own imprint Potter's Yard Press. For more visit www.ultan=
cowley.com

Regards to all

Ultan Cowley
----- Original Message -----
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Subject: [IR-D] A long way back

Might be of interest to the list:

A long way back

They left Ireland for England as young men=E2=80=A6 and never returned. As =
a film documents their homecoming 40 years later, Jon McGregor meets the ex=
iles
Jon McGregor
The Guardian, Saturday 30 April 2011

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/apr/30/return-irish-exiles-film-jon-mcg=
regor/print