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Irish Studies Review: Volume 19 Issue 2 is now available online at
informaworld (http://www.informaworld.com).

This new issue contains the following articles:

Articles

The bilingual routes of Paul Muldoon/P=F3l =D3 Maold=FAin, Pages 135 - =
155
Author: Laura O'Connor

Border violence in Eugene McCabe's Victims trilogy, Pages 157 - 169
Author: Henry Patterson

Mirror of self-consciousness: the =91Chinaman=92 in Oscar Wilde's =
identity
politics, Pages 171 - 184
Author: Qi Chen

Samuel Beckett, the wordless song and the pitfalls of memorialisation, =
Pages
185 - 205
Author: Emilie Morin

Irish as symptom: the short films of Daniel O'Hara, Pages 207 - 220
Author: Melanie McMahon

Reviews

Irish =91Ingleses=92: the Irish immigrant experience in Argentina =
1840=961920,
Pages 221 - 223
Author: Christopher Cusack

Aloysius O'Kelly: art, nation, empire, Pages 223 - 226
Author: Philip McEvansoneya

The Church of Ireland and the third Home Rule Bill, Pages 226 - 228
Author: Andrew R. Holmes

Ibsen and the Irish Revival, Pages 228 - 230
Author: Joan FitzPatrick Dean
DOI: 10.1080/09670882.2011.565952

The Islandman: the hidden life of Tom=E1s O'Crohan, Pages 230 - 232
Author: Thomas F. Shea

A guide through Finnegans Wake, Pages 232 - 234
Author: Margarita Est=E9vez-Sa=E1

A companion to Samuel Beckett, Pages 235 - 236
Author: Derek Littlewood

The fictional imagination of Neil Jordan, Irish novelist and film maker: =
a
study of literary style, Pages 236 - 238
Author: Eamon Maher

Focus: Irish traditional music, Pages 238 - 240
Author: Fintan Vallely
DOI: 10.1080/09670882.2011.565957


Aloys Fleischmann (1880=961964): immigrant musician in Ireland, Pages =
241 -
242
Author: Adam Kaul
DOI: 10.1080/09670882.2011.565958

Hymns to the silence: inside the words and music of Van Morrison, Pages =
242
- 244
Author: Gerry Smyth

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'The Historian and the contemporary Irish crisis'. London
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The John Coffin Memorial Lecture in Irish Studies 2011: 'The Historian =
and
the contemporary Irish crisis', by Diarmaid Ferriter (Professor of =
Modern
History, University College Dublin): 6.00pm: Friday 6 May 2011.

The Chancellor=92s Hall, University of London, Senate House, Malet =
Street WC1E
7HU.

Free and open to the public, and followed by a wine reception. If you =
would
like to attend please contact jon.millington[at]sas.ac.uk at the Institute =
of
English Studies, University of London | tel. +44(0)207 664 4859.=20
=A0
Diarmaid Ferriter is one of the most influential commentators on Ireland =
in
the 20th Century, with work that spans social, cultural and political
history. His major publications: The Transformation of Ireland 1900-2000
(2004); Judging Dev: A Reassessment of the Life and Legacy of Eamon de
Valera (2007) - which won in three categories of the 2008 Irish Book =
Awards
- and Occasions of Sin: Sex and Society in Modern Ireland (2009), share =
a
capacity to challenge and inform public perception of Irish life both =
past
and present. As well as his academic tracts, Diarmaid Ferriter is the =
host
of What If, a radio programme that broadcasts weekly on RT=C9 1; and in =
June
2010 he co-wrote and presented a 3-part television series for RT=C9, The
Limits of Liberty, which considered the political underpinning of
independent Ireland. As well as being an influential historian, he is a
public intellectual, whose dynamic and engaging work has brought a new
charge and freshness to the discipline.
=A0
Please feel free to forward this message to friends, colleagues and =
other
interested parties.
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May 26th 7 pm Ann Saddlemyer will be speaking at Glucksman Ireland =
House,
New York University, on "The Search for George Yeats and where it led =
me".=A0=A0
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0
May 27th 6 pm=A0Ann Saddlemyer's=A0edition, W.B.YEATS AND GEORGE YEATS =
-- THE
LETTERS, and accompanying lecture will take place at the National Arts =
Club,
under the sponsorship of the Yeats Society of New York
=A0

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Fight or Flight: The Irish in Britain in World War Two
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Irish in Britain Seminar Series 2011 launches on Tuesday 10 May at 6.30
with a talk on:

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

This paper will explore the experiences of Irish people in Britain
during the Second World War by looking at two alternate responses to the
war: the desire to participate in a civilian or military capacity, and,
conversely, the desire to return to neutral Ireland. This presentation
is based on a study of over 23,000 application forms for travel permits,
necessary forms of photographic identity during the period. The research
is drawn from a wider project funded by the Irish Research
Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS). The records
reveal a detailed portrait of Irish men, women and children experiencing
life as 'conditionally landed aliens' in a belligerent nation. The forms
detail demographic material about Irish emigrants in Britain, including
their children, unavailable from any other source, including Census data.
Additionally, applicants had to provide qualitative comments on their reason
for leaving the country and these reveal much anxiety for children in the
wake of repeated bombings of civilian areas in Britain as well as other
statements that reveal a desire to "do their bit" in the war effort.

Dr Jennifer Redmond is an IRCHSS Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the
Department of History, NUI Maynooth, Ireland. She completed her
undergraduate degree at University College Dublin and an M.Phil and a
PhD at the School of Histories and Humanities at Trinity College Dublin,
the latter on the discourses surrounding Irish female migration to
Britain during the first decades of Irish independence. Her current
research project, 'Regulating Citizenship', focuses on
the experiences of Irish migrants in Britain during the Second World War
utilising travel permit applications from Irish people across the UK who
wished to return home. The project will result in a monograph, "War,
Citizens and Migrants", and a catalogue of the records to be held at the
National Archives of Ireland.

Future Seminars

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

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

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

Seminars take place on Tuesday evenings between 6.30-8pm
Room T1-20
London Metropolitan University
Tower Building
166-220 Holloway Road
London N7 8DB

FREE: ALL WELCOME
Refreshments provided

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


Administrator
Institute for the Study of European Transformations (ISET)
London Metropolitan University
166-220 Holloway Road
London N7 8DB
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7133 2913
www.londonmet.ac.uk/iset

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Dear Colleagues and Friends,=20

Please find attached the CFP for the next non-thematic issue of Etudes
Irlandaises, the French journal of Irish studies.=20

Would you be so kind as to publicize it as widely as possible?

Thank you for your cooperation.=20

For anyone interested in submitting a paper, do not hesitate to contact =
us.

Philippe Cauvet (on behalf of the editorial board)


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APPEL A CONTRIBUTIONS=A0/ CALL FOR PAPERS


ETUDES IRLANDAISES=20
The French Journal of Irish Studies
Spring 2012 issue/Num=E9ro de Printemps 2012


DATE LIMITE POUR SOUMETTRE / DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 30 JUNE. 2011


English version
The Editorial Board of Etudes Irlandaises is seeking submissions for the
Spring 2012 volume of the journal.


Scientific project of the review :
Etudes Irlandaises is a peer-reviewed journal publishing articles in =
English
and French which explore all aspects of Irish literature, history, =
culture
and arts from ancient times to the present. Etudes Irlandaises publishes
twice a year on a wide range of interdisciplinary subjects including: =
poetry
/ fiction / drama / film / music / politics / economy / social studies, =
etc.
General issues published in Spring alternate with special issues in =
Autumn .
Etudes Irlandaises is aimed at scholars, postgraduate students, =
institutions
specializing in Irish studies as well as people who have an informed
interest in the subject. Each number has a comprehensive section devoted =
to
recently published material on Ireland.



Submission procedure
Submissions must be sent before JUNE 30 (in order to be published in the
Spring issue of the following year).

http://www.pur-editions.fr/pdf/consignes_etudes_irlandaises.pdf

Contacts:=20
General Information
Dr Philippe Cauvet (Univ.Poitiers)
cauvetp[at]hotmail.com

For literature=20
Prof. Sylvie MIKOWSKI (Univ.Reims)
sylvie.mikowski[at]noos.fr

For history, civilisation, politics
Dr Karin FISCHER (Univ.Orl=E9ans)
karin.fischer[at]wanadoo.fr=20

For visual arts=20
Prof. Anne GOARZIN (Univ.Rennes2)
anne.goarzin[at]wanadoo.fr

For book reviews
Dr Cliona NI RIORDAIN (Univ. Paris 3)=20
cniriordain[at]gmail.com

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IRISH HISTORICAL STUDIES
NUMB 146; 2010
ISSN 0021-1214

pp. 179-202
King and magnate in medieval Ireland: Walter de Lacy, King Richard and King
John.
Veach, C.

pp. 203-220
Forsaking their `own flesh and blood'? Ulster unionism, Scotland and home
rule, 1886-1914.
Dunn, P.

pp. 221-240
T. W. Russell and the compulsory-land-purchase campaign in Ulster, 1900-3.
Cosgrove, P.

pp. 241-264
`This is a case in which Irish national considerations must be taken into
account': breakdown of the MacBride-Gonne marriage, 1904-8.
Dhaibheid, C.N.

pp. 265-292
Irish public histories as an historiographical problem.
Regan, J.M.

pp. 293-295
Theses on Irish history completed in Irish universities, 2009.

pp. 296-298
Major accessions to repositories relating to Irish history, 2009.

pp. 299-303
Review article: The history of Parliament as grand project.
Hoppen, K.T.

p. 304
Bartlett, Ireland: a history.
Boyce, D.G.

p. 305
Phillips, Edward II.
Smith, B.

pp. 306-307
Bhreathnach, MacMahon & McCafferty (eds), The Irish Franciscans, 1534-1990.
Jefferies, H.A.

p. 308
Morash, A history of the media in Ireland.
Savage, R.

p. 309
Kane, The politics and culture of honour in Britain and Ireland, 1541-1641.
Campbell, I.W.S.

p. 310
Andrews, The queen's last mapmaker: Richard Bartlett in Ireland, 1600-3.
Hennessy, M.

pp. 311-312
O'Connor & Lyons (eds), The Ulster earls and Baroque Europe.
McCafferty, J.

p. 313
Kelly with Clark (eds), Ireland and medicine in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries.
Malcolm, E.

p. 314
Woods (ed.), Travellers' accounts as source-material for Irish historians.
James, K.J.

p. 315
Smyrl, Dictionary of Dublin dissent; Dublin's Protestant meeting houses,
1660-1920.
Cormack, W.J.M.

pp. 316-317
Kelly, Cafferty & McGrath (eds), People, politics and power: essays on Irish
history, 1660-1850, in honour of James I. McGuire.
Chambers, L.

p. 318
Fleming, Politics and provincial people: Sligo and Limerick, 1691-1761.
Hayton, D.W.

pp. 319-320
Gavin, Kelly & O'Reilly (eds), Atlantic gateway: the port and city of
Londonderry since 1700.
Brownlow, G.

p. 321
Higgins, A nation of politicians: gender, patriotism, and political culture
in late eighteenth-century Ireland.
Kennedy, C.

pp. 322-323
Ferguson & Holmes (eds), Revising Robert Burns and Ulster: literature,
religion and politics, c. 1770-1920.
Patten, E.

p. 324
Livesey, Civil society and empire: Ireland and Scotland in the
eighteenth-century Atlantic world.
Murdoch, A.

p. 325
Dooley (ed.), Ireland's polemical past: views of Irish history in honour of
R. V. Comerford.
Maume, P.

pp. 326-327
Lane (ed.), Politics, society and the middle class in modern Ireland.
Dhaibheid, C.N.

p. 328
Adelman, Communities of science in nineteenth-century Ireland.
Holmes, A.R.

p. 329
Gray, The making of the Irish poor law, 1815-43.
Geary, L.M.

pp. 330-331
Wilson, Thomas D'Arcy McGee, volume 1: passion, reason, and politics,
1825-1857.
Quinn, J.

p. 332
Coolahan with O'Donovan, A history of Ireland's school inspectorate,
1831-2008.
Walsh, J.

pp. 333-334
Regan-Lefebvre, Cosmopolitan nationalism in the Victorian Empire: Ireland,
India and the politics of Alfred Webb.
Kelly, M.

p. 335
Vaughan, Murder trials in Ireland, 1836-1914.
O Brien, G.

p. 336
Doyle, Fighting like the Devil for the sake of God: Protestants, Catholics
and the origins of violence in Victorian Belfast.
Wilson, T.

p. 337
Silvestri, Ireland and India: nationalism, Empire and memory.
Biagini, E.F.

pp. 338-339
Nic Dhaibheid & Reid (eds), From Parnell to Paisley: constitutional and
revolutionary politics in modern Ireland.
Maume, P.

p. 340
Darby, Gaelic games, nationalism and the Irish diaspora in the United
States.
O Callaghan, L.

p. 341
Horgan (ed.), Parnell to Pearse: some recollections and reflections.
Paseta, S.

p. 342
Scholes, The Church of Ireland and the third home rule bill.
Corrain, D.O.

p. 343
Baguley (ed.), World War I and the question of Ulster: the correspondence of
Lilian and Wilfrid Spender.
Jeffery, K.

pp. 344-345
McGarry, The Rising. Ireland: Easter 1916.
Lee, J.J.

p. 346
Figgis, A chronicle of jails.
King, C.

p. 347
Kautt, Ambushes and armour: the Irish rebellion, 1919-1921.
Augusteijn, J.

pp. 347-348
McKenna (ed.), A beleaguered station: the memoir of Head Constable John
McKenna, 1891-1921.
Augusteijn, J.

pp. 349-350
Coleman, The Irish sweep: a history of the Irish Hospitals Sweepstake,
1930-87.
Earner-Byrne, L.

p. 351
Leach, Fugitive Ireland: European minority nationalists and Irish political
asylum, 1937-2008.
O Donoghue, D.

p. 352
Murray, Facilitating the future? U.S. aid, European integration and Irish
industrial viability, 1948-73.
McGlade, J.

p. 353
Walsh, The politics of expansion: the transformation of educational policy
in the Republic of Ireland, 1957-72.
Brownlow, G.

pp. 354-355
Parkinson, 1972 and the Ulster Troubles.
Mulholland, M.

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Thomas Bartlett. Ireland: A History. Cambridge Cambridge
University Press, 2010. xvi + 625 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN
978-0-521-19720-5.

Reviewed by Nicholas Canny (Moore Institute; National University of Ireland,
Galway)
Published on H-Albion (April, 2011)
Commissioned by Brendan Kane

When Thomas Bartlett mentioned to me some years back that he was about to
embark on a short single volume on the history of Ireland from the beginning
of recorded time to the present, I tendered the sage advice that he should
think twice before doing so because he still had serious original historical
work to complete, and I thought his proposed undertaking would put paid to
that. Whatever about the road not taken, Bartlett has given ample
demonstration in _Ireland _that his time since then has been well spent
because he has not only read, but also reflected on and summarized the most
recent writing on the history of Ireland from the eve of St. Patrick's
supposed coming to Ireland to the present. He has proven that one can
advance an original interpretation in a general history as effectively as
can be done in a monograph.

I had to seek deeply for the key to his success, and while I am not certain
that I have fully fathomed it I can give some pointers to why this volume is
certain to reach and influence a wide audience. First, unlike earlier
authors, Bartlett carefully avoids concentrating on larger-than-life
personalities who supposedly dictated the pace, if not the course, of events
for good or evil at particular junctures.

Instead he looks quizically on all principal actors and sees some
vindicating feature to each with the possible exceptions of David, Lord
Trimble, and T. M. Healy. In doing so, he alludes to a wider cast of
characters than others have done, and regularly takes account of the role
and influence of women on the course of events.

Bartlett also situates happenings in Ireland in wider contexts (three
kingdom, European, Atlantic, and even global), which enables him to explain
the limited scope for maneuver that was usually open to his dramatis
personae. Another feature of his method is that he develops comparisons both
between events in Ireland and those happening elsewhere in the world at
roughly the same time--one example is when he compares the civil war in
twentieth-century Ireland with analogous struggles in Finland and in
Spain--and between events that occurred within Ireland but in different
centuries. Bartlett can indulge in these various devices because he has
mastered a wider range of historical literature (and particularly of
non-Irish historical literature) than most of his competitors.

However, lest potential readers gain the impression that this volume is
totally different in approach from any previous attempt at writing a general
history of Ireland over time, I hasten to point out that it is, like most
such accounts, a political narrative, and my only major criticism is that it
does not give sufficient weight to socioeconomic historical writing on
Ireland and elsewhere. Thus, for example, on the one hand, when challenging
the frequently expressed contemporary view that nineteenth-century Ireland
was vastly different from nineteenth-century Britain, Bartlett (in my view)
does not adequately acknowledge that societal differences were wide and
widening because Ireland was being rapidly deindustrialized at the very time
that Britain was becoming the most industrialized country in the world, and
the most urbanized outside of Asia. On the other hand, some of his
contextualization alone sustains the arguments he chooses to promote. One
example is his treatment of the government led by W. T.

Cosgrave, which has been as much derided by many recent historians as it was
by contemporary republican opponents for having abandoned the ideals of
1916. Instead of alluding to its shortcomings, which were many, Bartlett
credits this government with achieving functioning statehood for Ireland in
the face of terrible odds: internal and external threats of war which were
major by any standards; the requirement that it, like any new state hoping
to survive in the international arena, conform with normal diplomatic
protocols; and a worsening, and eventually a calamitous, international
economic climate.

While Bartlett may succeed better as a narrator than most authors of general
histories, because he is less judgmental than they, this does not explain
his further success in being strongly interpretative. His strength here is
that he allows himself the license of assigning space relative to the
importance that he accords to the episodes he treats; and there is no
episode that receives a more generous assignment of space than the period to
which he has devoted his life to studying in detail: the mid-eighteenth
century to the 1830s. Even within this timeframe, the author sees no decade
more important than the 1790s from which he looks forward and backward to
other centuries. In other words, Bartlett succeeds in being interpretative
because his interpretation hinges on what he knows best.

The features he finds most striking in the tumultuous decade of the 1790s
are the consolidation of the separatist impulse leading to sectarian mayhem
and bloody civil war; the clearer articulation than previously of both Irish
and British Unionism; the emergence of militant loyalism; and, over and
above these, the general commitment of the Irish Catholic community to the
constitutional path. As Bartlett looks backward, he traces the origins of
these various threads, and as he looks forward from the 1790s he shows how
each came to be woven into the texture of Irish political life. In doing so,
he alludes to developments in Ulster more frequently than most previous
authors have done, and while he does point to the pushiness of Daniel
O'Connell and the sectarian dimension to many of his actions, and to the
real challenge presented to the Protestant interest by the land war, he
always avoids being teleological and allows for the possibility of different
political outcomes for Ireland, at least until 1918. He also avoids being
polemical by balancing the separatist impulse against the militancy of
Unionism and the ready willingness of the latter to flout constitutional
conventions, particularly after 1914. And as he deals with the sequence of
conflicts that beset the twentieth century, Barlett can almost be heard to
sigh with relief that the ultimate, and potentially most devastating,
conflict--a fully fledged civil war between Catholics and Protestants in
Ulster--was somehow avoided.

This summation will make it clear that this is a book that challenges both
nationalist and the so-called revisionist interpretations of Ireland's past.
Those favoring strong nationalist accounts will be displeased by his
repeated references to the sectarian dimension to most separatist movements,
while those branded as revisionists will take issue with his insistence on
what he regards as Unionist disregard for constitutional niceties. But the
strength of this book is that the author is not striving to please any
party; rather he is struggling to give a judicious appraisal of what
happened over time and to present this in lucid prose with frequent witty
interjections.

In this, he succeeds magnificently, and I have every confidence that this
volume will attract the wide and international readership it deserves within
the academy and with the educated public.

Citation: Nicholas Canny. Review of Bartlett, Thomas, _Ireland: A History_.
H-Albion, H-Net Reviews. April, 2011.
URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=32769

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Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States
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James Lyttleton, Colin Rynne, eds. Plantation Ireland: Settlement and
Material Culture, c.1550-c.1700. Dublin Four Courts, 2009. Maps. 323 =
pp.
$65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-84682-186-8.

Reviewed by Eric Klingelhofer
Published on H-Albion (April, 2011)
Commissioned by Brendan Kane

_Plantation Ireland_ is an important and well-produced collection that
represents the present state of archaeological and historical research =
on
the hundred-plus years between medieval Ireland and the Georgian Age. =
James
Lyttleton and Colin Rynne have brought together thirteen papers given at =
a
2006 University College Cork conference of the same name, cosponsored by =
two
groups that have newly come of age, the Group for the Study of Irish
Historical Settlement and the Irish Post-Medieval Archaeology Group. It
joins two other collections of studies on one of the most rapidly =
advancing
research fields in Ireland and the United Kingdom, _The Manor in =
Medieval
and Early Modern Ireland_ (edited by Lyttleton and Tadhg O'Keeffe =
[2005])
and _Post-Medieval Archaeology of Ireland_ (edited by Audrey Horning, =
Ruairi
O'Baoill, Colm Donnelly, and Paul Logue [2007]).

The conference and the editors face important questions of nomenclature =
and
periodization, both addressed in the introduction.

The editors and most of the contributors, it seems, prefer "Plantation
Period" for the initial stage of the postmedieval period.

Not so O'Keeffe, who doubts its usefulness in addressing the complex
political-social-cultural relations among the three sixteenth- and
seventeenth-century social identities: Gaelic, Old English (Catholic), =
and
New English (Protestant). To this reviewer, the differences between =
ruling
governments and dynasties, Tudor versus Stuart, are more important than
their similarities, and reflect a major realignment of politics and =
culture
taking place throughout Europe. This watershed was one that contemporary
writers, like Ben Jonson, recognized and regretted. Nevertheless, the
practice in Ireland of planting immigrants in often new communities did
occur throughout one century, 1550-1650, with further confiscations and
settlements taking place sporadically until the end of the seventeenth
century. That practice and the changes it produced--or failed to--are
undeniably important to understanding the dynamics of the period, =
however we
define it.

The essays are arranged chronologically within thematic groupings.

First, Rolf Loeber examines arguments for the colonization of Ireland, =
in
particular, Ulster. He publishes here an early seventeenth-century =
tract,
_Certeyne Notes ... [on] the Planting of Colonies_, which combines =
biblical
and classical references so strongly that it can be plausibly attributed =
to
Sir John Davies. Five papers on material culture follow. Considering the
"problem with plantations," Raymond Gillespie questions the linear
cause-and-effect relationship between plantation and the end of medieval
Irish culture. Rather, plantations were one element in the "shifting
boundaries" of postmedieval changes in material culture. Most =
plantations
fell far short of undertakers' hopes of recreating English life and =
making a
profit. Looking for typical plantations and unable to find them--or =
enough
about them--Gillespie draws heavily from his previous economic studies. =
This
provocative essay reveals how many questions are as yet unanswered by an
archaeology in its infancy.

Sharon Weadock's following paper responds to Gillespie's queries by =
offering
a survey of fortified houses, which she sees as the most revolutionary
result of the late sixteenth- to early seventeenth-century building boom
involving many tower houses.

Weadock uses diagnostic features to distinguish fortified houses from =
tower
houses; she bases her national register on standing remains, =
antiquaries'
drawings, the Down Survey maps, and the Archaeological Survey of =
Ireland.
The resulting distribution map shows a significant increase of possible
fortified houses over proven ones, especially in western Ulster and =
along
the Shannon and Barrow valleys. Also noteworthy is the near absence of
fortified houses in west Munster beyond a line from Kinsale to Adare.
Weadock then compares this pattern to the distribution of castles, and
concludes by proposing that plantations replaced the medieval Pale as =
the
primary venue for the introduction of cultural change to Ireland. Her
valuable research stimulates new questions. A site with both tower house =
and
(often attached) fortified house is the most common type of fortified =
house,
but is it a new standard or simply an "upgrade" with a multifunctional =
(and
chimneyed) house replacing an outdated medieval hall? Yet the opposite =
did
occur, as new tower houses appeared in the seventeenth century. =
Archaeology
ought to tell us if members of the post-Tudor generation chose to =
maintain a
tradition when their owners retained or rebuilt existing halls. =
Archaeology
could also tell us which defended houses were built without a previous =
tower
house. A further issue arises concerning _unfortified_ houses--they may =
be
hard to find. Certain defensive features survive at Ormond, Rathfarnham, =
and
Kanturk castles; others may have lost theirs. But if it turns out that =
there
are no proven unfortified rural manor houses in the sixteenth century, =
what
does that make the category of "fortified" houses?

O'Keefe and Sinead Quirke reduce this national scale of material culture
investigation to a single structure, Ightermurragh Castle, constructed =
c.
1641 in County Cork. This large, masonry four-story building of cross =
plan
was constructed by the new landowning elite associated with the rise of
Richard Boyle and "fully fledged capitalism" (p. 100). Critical of the
accepted evolutionary explanation first offered by Harold Leask for the
"castellated house," the authors stress the novelty of its features and
attribute its development to class coding and function (lifestyle) (p. =
98).

Despite its modern external elements, however, they conclude that the
interior design of Ightermurragh Castle was that of an English medieval
house. How does this, then, address the authors' search for modernity? =
The
setting of the building in its immediate landscape represents =
"cartographic
architecture," which they consider part of the "Great Rebuilding" that =
in
England was interior remodeling and in Ireland was external. Similar =
house
types appeared in North America and the Caribbean, and therefore =
Ireland's
new architecture made it part of the modern Atlantic world. The authors
enter the deeper waters of architectural history. Symmetry, regularity, =
and
a projecting entrance in the fa=E7ade, with an identifying plaque or =
armorial
decoration, identify the new architecture, to which the theories of =
Matthew
Johnson and Bernard Klein are applied, but reference to Nicholas =
Cooper's
1999 magisterial _Houses of the Gentry_ is strangely absent.

Horning follows with a balanced historical/archaeological study of the
Ulster alehouse. This unusual topic is shown to reveal an important =
social
nexus in the Ulster plantations. In addition to the documents, Horning =
uses
Thomas Raven's 1622 maps to identify inns and brewhouses and provides a
contemporary example from the Jamestown excavations. After reviewing the
topic of alcohol in "Plantation Ireland," she notes that identifying an
alehouse would be difficult by archaeological means. Colin Breen next
presents a short essay on Munster, drawing on twentieth-century third =
world
experiences. Famine and its accompanying population displacements were
common in late Elizabethan Munster, and these exceptional conditions are
relevant to any study of the period. Annaleigh Margery's paper returns =
to
the North, examining the cartographical record for sixteenth- and
seventeenth-century Ulster, which she analyzes according to source and
purpose. The mapping of Ulster, she asserts, has been so extensive that =
one
can use it to trace the development of cartography and survey by the
British. All readers here must thank the editors and publishers for
including eight color prints of Ulster maps. These Tudor maps use =
important
color coding that black-and-white reproductions simply fail to convey.

Several following papers treat aspects of religion. Harold Mytum looks =
at
outdoor mortuary monuments in Ulster, noting that among decorative
practices, like the symbols of the Counter-Reformation, those of =
Scottish
origin accompanied plantations, but that some of the planter families =
were
Catholic themselves. He also studies graveyards by spatial analysis,
concluding that large cemeteries show stronger religious zoning, but =
smaller
cemeteries have a variety of spatial patterns. As for memorial stones,
planters typically had grave slabs (ledgers) and Catholics had =
headstones.
This reviewer's casual examination of seventeenth- and =
eighteenth-century
outdoor memorials in the Anglican St. Thomas's churchyard on Nevis =
suggests
that a similar difference existed between the "plantocracy" and their =
estate
mangers, smallholders, and local merchants.

Lyttleton moves from the churchyard to the church itself, seeking =
evidence
of the Counter-Reformation among the Gaelic aristocracy.

Outside Dublin, nothing has survived of church records, so Lyttleton =
looks
to religious structures for relevant symbols. For two brief periods, the
1640s and the 1680s, Catholics held power, and building programs during
those times at Clonmacnoise and County Offaly do indeed show a return to
simple romanesque and primitive Gothic architecture, as well as
Counter-Reformation symbols on dedication stones in association with
heraldry of local Catholic families. Even as English styles did =
influence
Catholic memorials, the Gaelic landed families continued to worship in =
their
homes. There, a "Passion or Crucifixion Stone" displays emblems of the
Passion, Scared Heart, and rosary, which were forbidden in religious =
sites
but permitted in grave memorials.

Clodagh Tait extends the religious theme with an unexpected essay on the
treatment of the Catholic martyrs in modern Ireland. Tait traces the
veneration of these 258 victims of Protestant intolerance and the
canonization of one--Oliver Plunkett--as well as the movement and =
treatment
of their relics. These martyrs had received minimal interest until they =
were
promoted by twentieth-century nationalists, which also led to many =
streets
renamed for Plunkett. Tait cautions that the veneration of Irish martyrs =
is
rapidly waning; with the passing of generations Ireland has become a =
more
secular nation.

From matters of faith, the papers turn to the planters themselves.

Tom Herron argues that Edmund Spenser's epic and pastoral poems, as much =
as
his polemic prose, can tell us much about the thinking of an Elizabethan
planter and colonial administrator. Herron first sets this approach in =
the
context of contemporary literary criticism, then addresses multiple
Spenserian analogies: from wedding wine to Roman ritual to barrel =
staves.
The landscape of poetry "reflects the rural Irish political theatre," =
and
seizing phrases and artifacts, Herron recreates Spenser's world, a world
outside literature but reflected in it (p. 247).

Rynne examines the postmedieval iron industry and finds that it differed
substantially from the agricultural plantations. Many ironworkers were
temporary immigrants from England and Germany, and ironmasters exercised
limited social control over the workforce. The habitations were also =
new,
because locations of ore meant that ironworks were usually distant from
existing settlements. Rynne suggests, as an exception, that Sir Thomas
Norreys's 1593 ironworks near Mogeely housed workers around Mogeely =
Castle
in the cottages depicted on Raleigh's famous estate map. It is more =
likely
that these ironworks and settlement lay in the forests further south, =
nearer
the modern Mogeely village. We also learn that skilled "men of mystery"
earned half the pay of those in England, offering much profit to early
capitalists, like Richard Boyle, William Petty, and Thomas Wentworth (p.
254). Yet their unregulated exploitation of Irish forests eventually =
ruined
the industry, and Ireland was importing English timber by 1711. In any =
case,
Rynne does not consider Irish ironworking "colonial." Rather, it was one =
of
several contemporary regions of European industry developed by imported
technology and technicians.

The final essay, by Toby Barnard, seeks to explain why the pace of
plantation slowed after the 1650s. Although opportunity for new lands =
had
decreased, the greater problem, he sees, was that Ireland remained
underpopulated through the seventeenth century. English planners may =
have
pushed for immigration, urbanism, and industrial development, but the
returns on Irish investments were disappointing.

One wonders to what extent opportunities in the New World stripped =
Ireland
of both immigrants and investors, like the Calverts. Barnard finds after
1650 a shift toward consolidated landholdings and higher income over =
further
economic development. This "disengagement" by the Percevals, Boyles, and
Southwells was accompanied by their demand for specialist craftsmen, =
their
use of castles and military leadership as status symbols, and their
genealogical efforts to associate themselves with the medieval nobility.
Their competition with Catholic landowners led to an unstable ruling =
class,
which Barnard and others here do not call "The Ascendancy," a sign that =
this
long-established term may have fallen into disuse.

Well edited and designed, _Plantation Ireland_ proves to be a valuable
addition to scholarship, offering much of interest to a broad audience =
on
such varied topics as architecture, archaeology, local history, =
literature,
genealogy, economics, and religion.

Readers are exposed to viewpoints, research techniques, and arguments =
that
are new and often challenging, as they discover the complexities of this
Irish Age of Transition.

Citation: Eric Klingelhofer. Review of Lyttleton, James; Rynne, Colin, =
eds.,
_Plantation Ireland: Settlement and Material Culture, c.1550-c.1700_.
H-Albion, H-Net Reviews. April, 2011.
URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=3D32716

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States
License.

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12 funded scholarships available for PhDs in Digital Humanities and =
Digital
Arts at NUI, Galway

NUI Galway is pleased to offer 12 funded scholarships for its Digital =
Arts &
Humanities (DAH) programme. DAH is a full-time four year =
inter-disciplinary
structured PhD programme co-ordinated with an all-Irish university
consortium: National University of Ireland, Galway; Trinity College =
Dublin;
University
College Cork; and National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Additional
teaching contributions to the programme will be made by Queen's =
University
Belfast; University of Ulster and the Royal Irish Academy. The programme
also includes contributions from its industrial partners, Google, IBM, =
and
Intel. Six scholarships will be offered for PhDs in Digital Humanities
within the Moore Institute for Humanities and Social Studies and six for
PhDs in Digital Arts within the Huston School of Film & Digital Media.

=D8 Digital Humanities

Applications are invited in two clusters:

(i) Creativity at the Edges

(ii) Culture and Location

Proposals may consider the cultural location and archival holdings of =
NUI
Galway. Proposals are encouraged in, but are not limited to, the =
following
areas: Tim Robinson; the Druid Theatre Company; C=FAirt; Tom Kilroy; =
John
McGahern; Jack Yeats; linguistic, musical and cultural geographies of =
the
west of Ireland in global context; tourism and culture; the environment.
Discipline is open.

For further information on Digital Humanities please contact Professor =
Sean
Ryder,
sean.ryder[at]nuigalway.ie or www.nuigalway.ie/mooreinstitute.

=D8 Digital Arts

Applications are invited in two clusters:

(i) Galway and the international - West coast culture in the digital =
age

(ii) Digital media practice-based research.

Proposals may examine questions such as: how arts practices on the west
coast of Ireland act as a contact zone between the local and the
international? Ideas and histories of the region can be seen in relation =
to
wider contexts as people move in and out of the rhetorics of =
authenticity.
In what way do specific digital
arts practices offer forms of resistance to the impositions of a global
image system? How can research and experimentation explore the =
intersection
between artistic creativity and technological innovation? What forms can
writing take in the digital age? How has the specificity of the digital
changed the form, structure and function of narrative?

Although there would be emphasis on practice-based doctorates in both =
these
areas we will continue to be open to traditional academic formats.

For further information on Digital Arts please contact Dr. Rod Stoneman,
rod.stoneman[at]nuigalway.ie or http://www.filmschool.ie/.

Applications should be made online at the Postgraduate Application =
Centre:
www.pac.ie/nuig - Course reference code: To Be Confirmed

Closing Date for Applications is Friday, June 17, 2011.

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Forwarded on behalf of

Mike.Collins[at]ucc.ie [mailto:Mike.Collins[at]ucc.ie]

Dear Patrick

Cork University Press will join with 60 other University Presses to provide
e-books to the worldwide library community. The University Press Contents
Consortium (UPCC) will be run by project MUSE, which is the leading
e-journal
in the humanities and social sciences. The UPCC will launch in January 2012
with an expected collection of over 30 000 books.

This new initiative will adopt a collection-based pricing model which is
decoupled from print pricing. The UPCC value-based collection list price
will be based on an average price per title and will be determined by
market-driven factors such as collection size and library budgets.
The feedback from the library market has been overwhelmingly positive. The
goal is to deliver the largest collection of high quality university press
e-books to the widest possible audience. In this age of shrinking library
budgets, the market research revealed that libraries would object to
purchasing the same e-books multiple times in various collections and
aggregations.

Reference
http://muse.jhu.edu/about/new/ebook_collections.html

Regards

Mike

Mike Collins
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Cork University Press, Youngline Industrial Estate, Pouladuff Road, Cork,
Ireland
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Forwarded on behalf of
Josh Curtis
Doctoral Fellow, Irish Centre for Human Rights

Dear Colleagues,

The program for the tenth annual Minority Rights & Indigenous Peoples Summer
School, hosted by the Irish Centre for Human Rights, has now been finalised
and can be viewed at
http://www.conference.ie/Conferences/index.asp?Conference=17

Registration will close on June 1st, so please register soon to ensure a
place.

The course will take place from June 13-17, 2011 on the campus of the
National University of Ireland, Galway, a charming small city on Ireland's
west coast, well known for its traditional Irish music, pubs and beaches.
This highly acclaimed course gives an overview of the legal, political and
philosophical issues pertaining to international human rights law and its
relationship to minority rights and the rights of indigenous peoples.

The theme of this year's summer school is Minorities and Religion.

Religion has a fraught relationship with minority and human rights
standards, being perceived at once as a right and a cause of the denial of
rights. This year's school highlights religion in contemporary minority
rights discourse, focussing on issues such as: religious minorities,
religion and international institutions, Islam in Europe, caste, indigenous
peoples and spiritual beliefs, women and religion, genocide and defamation
of religion.

For biographies of the teaching faculty, further information and
registration please visit
http://www.conference.ie/Conferences/index.asp?Conference=17. And for any
queries please contact us at minorityrightssummerschool[at]gmail.com.

Many thanks, and we hope to see you here in June.

Warm Regards,

Josh Curtis

Josh Curtis
Doctoral Fellow, Irish Centre for Human Rights
National University of Ireland, Galway
Office: +353(0) 91 493798
Fax: +353 (0) 91 494575
Irish Mobile: +353 (0) 851015322

Email: minorityrighhtssummerschool[at]gmail.com

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54 INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICANISTS: "BUILDING DIALOGUES IN THE
AMERICAS"
Vienna, Austria, July 15 - 20, 2012


Thematic Area: History
=20
Symposium 979 - Immigration in Argentina: Multiple Voices and =
Alternative
Approaches
=20
Conveners: Marcelo Borges (History, Dickinson College, USA) and Mar=EDa =
Bjerg
(History, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes/CONICET, Argentina)
=20
Abstract:

Migration studies boomed in Argentina in the last twenty years, =
resulting in
a re-evaluation of immigration history that put the immigrants back at =
the
center of analysis. New studies privileged the multiple experiences of
particular immigrant groups and expanded the original spatial boundaries =
to
include a variety of settings, both urban and rural. The historiography =
of
Argentine immigration is today more complex and richer than ever before, =
yet
there is still much ground to be covered. This symposium wants to draw a
provisional balance and explore new approaches by looking at experiences
that have been neglected by historical studies and examine the =
possibilities
of new sources or alternative readings of traditional ones. In =
particular,
we are interested in the intersection and interaction of migratory paths
with diverse origin (transatlantic, neighboring, and internal flows), as
well as in the perspective of heretofore neglected experiences (such as
children, migrants of specialized occupations or trades, women, etc.). =
In
addition, the symposium wants to explore topics that have received =
little
attention in traditional historiography such as memory and =
commemoration,
personal identities and mentalscapes, consumption patterns and =
sociocultural
integration, among others. We are also interested in examining the
analytical possibilities of sources that illustrate the migration =
experience
from these different perspectives, in particular personal and =
ego-sources
such as oral testimonies, correspondence, diaries, and visual documents. =
We
welcome case studies and theoretical discussions.
=20
Call for papers: from 15 April 2011 until 31 August 2011
=20
Paper proposals must be sent using the online submission form available =
on
the Congress website (follow links below).
=20
http://ica2012.univie.ac.at/call-for-papers/how-to-submit-a-proposal

http://ica2012.univie.ac.at/es/convocatoria-de-ponencias/como-presentar-u=
na-
propuesta
=20
General information on the ICA 2012 congress at =
http://ica2012.univie.ac.at

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The Catholic Historical Review
Volume 97, Number 2, April 2011

E-ISSN: 1534-0708 Print ISSN: 0008-8080

Reviewed by
Donald Harman Akenson
Queen's University, Canada

Historical Archaeology of the Irish Diaspora: A Transnational Approach. By
Stephen A. Brighton. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 2009. Pp.
xxvii, 226. $49.95. ISBN 978-1-572-33667-4.)

The epic immodesty of an insufficiently revised dissertation can almost be
awe-inspiring. Stephen A. Brighton has analyzed the contents of four toilet
pits in the late-nineteenth-century United States (two from tenements in the
Five Points, New York City, and the others from two single-dwellings in
Patterson, New Jersey). He has compared the material culture in those sites
with baseline data: two pre-Potato Famine cabin sites in County Roscommon.
Now, whether the rather small rural data base in midland Ireland and the
rather small urban data base in the northeastern United States are miscible
is not a matter about which he worries, since apparently everybody concerned
was Irish Catholic and therefore socioeconomically comparable. In any case,
to interpret his data he developed a theoretical frame that he broadcasts as
having far-reaching applications for historical archaeologists and
historians. Broadly speaking, its purpose is to serve as a multidisciplinary
model of how material culture can be used to interpret continuities and
changes in social identity within a critical and analytical discourse of the
term diaspora. (p. xxvii) [End Page 336]

Along with this hyperinflation of the importance of his own work comes the
usual self-vaunting review of the literature that is standard PhD fare.
Brighton's reading of Irish historical writing is notably eccentric. For
example (p. 270), he sees the 1966 work of Raymond Crotty as being one of
the influential levers of the "new history" of Ireland, of which Brighton
seems to disapprove. In fact, if there ever was a forgotten and
noninfluential historian of mid-nineteenth-century Ireland, Crotty fills
that description. And one wonders how he could believe that "it was not
until the 1990s that the Great Famine was considered an issue for serious
academic study" (p. 29). Understudied it certainly was, but not for
frivolous reasons, but because it was taken so very seriously. A modest
respect for a massive subject is not something Brighton seems to understand.
Indeed, he airily explains the problems with all views of historical
diasporas, save his own. He introduces two overarching
constructs-"proletarian diasporas" and "mobilized diasporas" (p. 25)-an
exercise in false dichotomization that would not survive a first-year logic
class.

Yet, wonderfully, surprisingly, when the half (or more) that is vapor is
allowed to drift away, the actual analysis of the items in the various privy
pits turns out to be clear, rigorous, and often deftly suggestive. Brighton
makes a compelling case that in the Irish-Catholic cultures of the
mid-nineteenth century, the commonalities between Ireland and America
diminished as the later nineteenth century progressed.

This is a valuable, small start toward a comparative archaeology of aspects
of Irish and U.S. culture. In future, one would like to see three sorts of
studies. First, a comparison of rural material culture in Ireland with rural
material culture among the Irish ethnic group in the United States. The work
of John Mannion on eastern Canada would be a useful model. Second, scholars
need to deal specifically with Irish-derived Protestant cultures,
particularly as material transfer to the American South occurred. And,
third, the material culture of religious observance, both in homes and
churches, needs study, for religion undeniably was a central matter in the
Irish diaspora.

Copyright C 2011 The Catholic University of America Press

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This article by Stephen Brighton has become available at the Buffalo
Collective Commons web site...

This web address takes you directly to the pdf file.

http://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3D1005=
&cont
ext=3Dneha

P.O'S.


Brighton, Stephen (2008) "Collective Identities, the Catholic Temperance
Movement, and Father Mathew: The Social History of a
Teacup," Northeast Historical Archaeology: Vol. 37: Iss. 1, Article 3.

Available at: http://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/neha/vol37/iss1/3

Collective Identities, the Catholic Temperance Movement,=20
and Father Mathew: The Social History of a Teacup

Stephen A. Brighton

People use material culture and its associated symbolism to express
collective identities. The aim of this paper is to illuminate class and
religious conflict and negotiation between Irish Catholic immigrants, =
the=20
American Roman Catholic Church, mainstream native-born Americans, and
various Protestant cohorts in New York City between 1850 and 1870. To do
this I explore the social meaning and significance embedded within a =
refined
white earthenware teacup decorated with the image of Father Theobald =
Mathew.
The cup was discovered during excavation of a mid- to late-19th-century,
predominantly Irish immigrant section of New York City known as the Five
Points.=20

La culture mat=E9rielle, mais aussi le symbolisme qui y est associ=E9, =
est
utilis=E9e pour exprimer les identit=E9s collectives. Cet article a pour =
but de
faire la lumi=E8re sur les classes, les conflits religieux et les
n=E9gociations entre les immigrants Irlandais catholiques, les =
Am=E9ricains
appartenant =E0 l=92=E9glise catholique romaine, les Am=E9ricains de =
souche ainsi
qu=92une vari=E9t=E9 de cohortes protestantes dans la ville de New York =
entre 1850
et 1870. Pour ce faire, nous explorerons la signification sociale et
symbolique dont est empreinte une tasse =E0 th=E9 en terre cuite fine =
blanche =E0
l=92effigie du p=E8re Theobald Mathew. Cette tasse a =E9t=E9 mise au =
jour lors de la
fouille de Five Points, un secteur de la ville de New York occup=E9
principalement par des immigrants irlandais pendant de la deuxi=E8me =
moiti=E9 du
XIX=E8 si=E8cle

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A Modest Proposal in the Context of Swift's Irish Tracts: A
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In another part of my brain I have been looking again at the Modest
Proposal, and came across this book, which will interest many Ir-D members.
Very much part of what I think of - in understandable shorthand - as the
European 'filologia' tradition. They take texts seriously.

P.O'S.

A Modest Proposal in the Context of Swift's Irish Tracts: A
Relevance-Theoretic Study
Author: Maria-Angeles Ruiz Moneva
Date Of Publication: Jan 2010
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-1662-5
Isbn: 1-4438-1662-0

Swift's A Modest Proposal has always aroused the interest not just of
literary critics, but also of linguists and pragmatists. Within the latter
approaches, the study of irony, and more concretely, the intentions and
attitudes that must have guided the production of such an intricate work,
have always been paramount. However, it seems that within pragmatics the
analysis has been restricted so far to the 1729 work itself. In the present
author's view, it is interesting to contextualise this masterpiece of irony
and satire within Swift's wider writing on Ireland, an approach that remains
to be carried out. Accordingly, this work sets out to analyse a selection of
Swift's Irish Tracts, with a view to tracing the evolution within Swift's
literary production of his views and attitudes towards the situation of his
homeland. Although different pragmatic approaches are applied, the emphasis
is laid upon the contributions that the relevance-theoretical framework and
its studies on irony may bring to the understanding of this particular
Tract. The works selected are meant to cover and also be representative of
the main phases currently distinguished within Swift's writing on the "Irish
Question". It is therefore hoped that a deeper analysis of the former works
by Swift on this topic will provide new insights for a better understanding
of A Modest Proposal.

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Sample pages

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1.
Review: JIG - An Insightful If Meandering Documentary

...A celebration of a dance so cripplingly uncool that it makes the macarena
look like the moonwalk, director Sue Bourne's documentary looks to rely upon
the likability of its batch of wide-eyed talent to add universal appeal to
its otherwise niche subject.

Following nine 11-21 year-olds as they compete for the world title in the
annual Irish Dancing Championships, Jig documents 365 days in the lives of
the young dancers and their families as they aim for the top spot on the
winners podium. The clear bright stars amongst the competitors are
precocious chatterbox Brogan McCay and the bloody adorable John Whitehurst,
two 11 year-olds with an intense passion for their craft and a humbling
level of maturity. The latter is one of five football-loving brothers, who
has found himself the subject of homophobic bullying due to his love of
dancing, whilst the former is a bubbly and charming student of two hardened
veteran dancing sisters...

Full text at

http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/reviews/review-jig-an-insightful-if-meanderi
ng-documentary.php


2.
Jig
DONALD CLARKE

ONE MEASURE of a successful documentary is its ability to interest viewers
in a subject to which they had never paid much attention. A few years ago,
Spellbound managed that feat with its study of the spelling-bee phenomenon.
If you've never given Irish dancing a second thought, there is no reason to
fear Jig . Sue Bourne's beautifully balanced film should win over even those
terminally resistant to this peculiar art.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/theticket/2011/0506/1224296189026.html

3.
Jig - review

It's compelling for 40 minutes, but Sue Bourne's documentary about the 40th
Irish Dancing championship stumbles into X Factor-style pathos, says
Catherine Shoard

To kick Sue Bourne's documentary about the 40th Irish Dancing World
Championships feels both mean and ill-advised - these people sure know how
to use their tootsies. And for a good 40 minutes, it's compelling stuff:
pint-sized dancers from round the globe goosestep to the sound of tinny
fiddles, torsos stiff as ladders, yelled at in gyms by parents or coaches.
But once they descend on Glasgow for the competition proper, Jig loses its
footing and stumbles into X-factor style pathos, with morbid slo-mo reaction
shots and heavy orchestration.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/may/05/jig-review

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What 'Irish' plaster is and how it can be fixed...

...A lot of people asked what "Irish" had to do with the style of
construction, so let me explain that first. The "Irish" applies to the
nation of origin of the masons, who devised a way to rid themselves of
job-site debris and save on construction costs.

When the bosses told the Irish workers to do something with the clay soil
excavated from digging a home's foundation, the workers mixed it with lime
and used it to plaster the inside basement walls.

These construction materials must have begun turning to reddish powder in a
matter of years, and gathering on the edges of the inside walls - at least,
that's where I was sweeping it up in the house I once owned that was built
in 1904.

In the mid-1990s, I helped out with the youth group at a church that spent
several months of the year preparing to work on the Pine Ridge Reservation
in South Dakota.

To gain experience, we rehabbed houses with soon-to-be homeowners for
Habitat for Humanity, and every house we worked on had these crumbling
basement walls. That's when the Habitat people introduced some of the
teenagers to pargeting...

Full Text At

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Media History=20
Volume 17, Issue 2, 2011
A Special Issue on SPORT AND THE MEDIA IN IRELAND

You must feel sorry for Carmen Espejo, whose interesting study of early
European journalism gets slotted in at the end.

P.O'S.=20



From the editors's Introduction...

'This special number of Media History is conceived as a contribution to =
the
ongoing scholarly analysis of sport's social significance, as a set of
mass-mediated practices and spectacles giving rise to a complex network =
of
images, symbols and discourses. Its specific aim is to examine the
distinctive contribution of various sports=97as communicated by a range =
of
mass media=97to the creation of modern Irish identities. For sport =
inhabits a
central place in Irish life, more possibly than in any other country in
Europe. Indeed, sport provides a defining element in many Irish people's
sense of themselves and their country. One might even suggest that given =
the
loss of an indigenous language to most Irish people and the increasing
secularisation of the country, sport is as important as a distinct =
marker of
identity now in Ireland as at any point in the country's history. And =
this
in a country in which the emergence and consolidation of Irish =
nationalism
and the building of the Irish state were inextricably linked with sport, =
in
particular the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), still the largest =
sporting
organisation on the island. Indeed, uniquely again in international =
sport,
Gaelic games (essentially amateur in ideology and practice) continue to =
be
the most popular sports followed and practised in Ireland, despite the
significant and growing popularity of non-indigenous sports such as =
soccer
and rugby. Given the recent celebrations in 2009 to mark the 125th
anniversary of the GAA's founding, it is thus particularly appropriate =
that
we should focus on a parish-based institution that is present in all 32
counties of the island of Ireland, and thus north and south of the
still-contested international border.

Yet while sport has occupied a central position in Irish life, one =
cannot
underestimate the role of the media in popularising and affirming this
position...'=20



SPORT AND THE MEDIA IN IRELAND
An introduction=20
Se=E1n Crosson; Philip Dine=20
Pages 109 - 116

JOURNALISTS AND THE MAKING OF THE GAELIC ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION, 1884-1887 =

Paul Rouse=20
Pages 117 - 132

THE REPRESENTATION OF BRITISH SPORTS IN LATE NINETEENTH AND EARLY =
TWENTIETH
CENTURY ELITE IRISH SCHOOL PUBLICATIONS=20
Jeff Dann=20

FOOTBALL SPORTS WEEKLY AND IRISH SOCCER, 1925-1928=20
Conor McCabe=20
Pages 147 - 158

'CROKE PARK GOES PLUMB CRAZY'
Gaelic Games in Path=E9 Newsreels, 1920-1939=20
Se=E1n Crosson; D=F3nal McAnallen=20
Pages 159 - 174

THE RED THREAD OF HISTORY
The media, Munster rugby and the creation of a sporting tradition=20
Liam O'Callaghan=20
Pages 175 - 188

Non-Themed Article=20
EUROPEAN COMMUNICATION NETWORKS IN THE EARLY MODERN AGE
A new framework of interpretation for the birth of journalism=20
Carmen Espejo=20
Pages 189 - 202

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There is an interesting discourse of 'Quare Studies' developing within =
Queer
Studies - see for example Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader By =
Michael
Hames-Garc=EDa et al - which deliberately appropriates the word 'Quare' =
to
develop greater awareness of race and class.

Searching back it seems to me that the locus classicus is most probably =
this
2001 article by E. Patrick Johnson - which begins with some personal
definitions. For example...

'Quare (Kwa=88 r), n. 1. meaning queer; also, opp. of straight; odd or
slightly off kilter; from the African American vernacular for queer;
sometimes homophobic in usage, but always denotes excess incapable of =
being
contained within conventional categories of being; curiously equivalent =
to
the Anglo-Irish (and sometimes =91=91Black=92=92 Irish) variant of =
queer, as
in Brendan Behan=92s famous play, The Quare Fellow.'

Later the article references Quare Joyce by Joseph Valente, The =
Comitments,
and Ignatiev.

P.O'S.


"Quare" studies, or (almost) everything I know about queer studies I =
learned
from my grandmother=20
Text and Performance Quarterly=20
Volume 21, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1 - 25=20
Author: E. Patrick Johnson=20

Abstract
Although queer studies has the potential to transform the way scholars
theorize sexuality in conjunction with other identity formations, the
paucity of attention given to race and class in queer studies represents =
a
significant theoretical gap. Most current formulations of queer theory
either ignore the categories of race and class altogether or theorize =
their
effects in discursive rather than material terms. To suture that gap, =
this
essay proposes "quare" studies as a vernacular rearticulation and =
deployment
of queer theory to accommodate racialized sexual knowledge.=20

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Will interest a number of Ir-D members - references include Cronin & =
Mayall.
A lot of that philosophy thing, where ever more detailed description is
assumed to amount to explanation - but I guess that that is =AEi=BEek.


The World Cup and the national Thing on Commercial Drive, Vancouver

Paul Kingsbury

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space=20

Received 5 March 2010; in revised form 20 August 2010; published online =
26
April 2011

Abstract.=20

Nationalism is central to global sports events such as the Olympics and =
the
men's football World Cup. Recognizing the unique capacity of these
multibillion dollar 'mega-events' to stage captivating spectacles and
generate intense enjoyment for vast numbers of people, researchers =
usually
examine sport-induced nationalism in terms of the socioeconomic staging =
of
national identities, meanings, and ideologies. And yet, few theoretical =
and
empirical studies ask the following questions: Why are nationalist =
sports
spectacles so emotive for so many people? How do sports fans enjoy these
televised global events in concrete local settings of, for example, =
caf=E9s,
streets, and sports bars? This paper attempts to provide answers by =
drawing
on Slavoj =AEi=BEek's Lacanian concept of the "national Thing" and one =
month of
research on the 2006 FIFA World Cup on Commercial Drive in Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada. I explore how the national Thing-a specific
incarnation of social enjoyment-takes place in people's consumption of =
the
World Cup in terms of community, belief, and anxiety.
This article has supplementary online material: Colour figures


The World Cup and the national Thing on Commercial Drive,
Vancouver
Paul Kingsbury

Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive,
Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada; e-mail: kingsbury[at]sfu.ca

Received 5 March 2010; in revised form 20 August 2010; published online =
26
April 2011

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space advance online publication

'In what follows, I explore where, why, and how the World Cup incites =
``a
shared relationship toward a Thing, toward Enjoyment incarnated' =
(Z=EDzek,
1993, page 201) in terms of the sociopsychical spaces of community,
belief, and anxiety. Briefly, Z=EDzek argues that nations are not =
merely
contingent, discursive, and socio-historically constructed ``ways of =
life'.
Rather, a ``nation exists only as long as its specific mode of enjoyment
continues to be materialized in a set of social practices and =
transmitted
through national myths that structure these practices' (Z=EDzek, 1993,
page 202, emphasis in original). Enjoyment is an extremely complex =
concept
in Z=EDzek's corpus (see Kingsbury, 2008). For the purposes of my =
argument, I
focus on enjoyment in terms of Z=EDzek's translation of what Lacan calls
``jouissance': a fundamental and multifaceted concept in Lacanian
psychoanalysis that draws on Freud's notion of ``libido' and Marx's =
notion
of ``surplus-value'. Enjoyment is a stubborn yet elusive, exquisite yet
agonistic form of pleasure that can be likened to ``an excessive =
quantity
of excitation' (Evans, 1996, page 148) that is ``embodied, =
materialized, in
the effective functioning of the social field' (Z=EDzek, 1989, page =
36). From
a Lacanian perspective, enjoyment helps consolidate and divide social =
groups
through rapture, antagonism, and sacrifice...

Cronin & Mayall=20