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The Irish Times - Thursday, May 12, 2011
Motion passes to pardon Irishman hanged in 1845
In this section >
LARA MARLOWE in Washington

The Rhode Island House of Representatives took a significant step yesterday
towards clearing the name of an Irishman who was hanged for murder 166 years
ago.

The execution of John Gordon has long been a symbol of intolerance against
Irish immigrants in 19th-century America. Resolution 5068, which was passed
by 65 votes to zero late yesterday, calls on Governor Lincoln Chafee to
pardon Gordon, who emigrated from Ireland in 1843 and was accused of
murdering Amasa Sprague, a mill owner and the brother of a US senator, on
New Year's Eve that year.

Historians do not know where in Ireland Gordon was from. He joined his
brothers Nicholas and William in Rhode Island, where they ran a general
store and tavern near the mill owned by Sprague. Sprague argued repeatedly
with Nicholas because his workers were buying alcohol and showing up drunk
for work. Sprague used his political connections to have the Gordons' liquor
license revoked.

Sprague's body was found on the bank of the Pocasset River, with a bullet in
one arm and a fractured skull. John Gordon was arrested the following day.
Catholics were banned from his jury, and jurors were told to favour the
testimony of native-born Protestant Americans over that of Irish Catholics.
The stains on a blood-stained coat turned out to be dye. A prostitute called
as a witness could not identify the Gordon brothers.

Gordon appealed his conviction for murder, but his death sentence was upheld
by the same judges who presided over his first trial. Gordon was hanged in
downtown Providence on St Valentine's Day 1845, at the age of 29.

The public of Rhode Island were so appalled by the conditions of Gordon's
trial and execution that the state abandoned capital punishment forever. "I
was brought up understanding two things," said Representative Peter Martin
(70), the sponsor of the resolution, who is a retired software executive
elected to a seat held by Irish-Americans for more than half a century.
"That the Irish endured prejudice here, and that a young man hanged for a
murder he did not commit."

When he was contacted last November by Ken Dooley, one of his constituents
who wrote a play about Gordon, "the two ideas came together," Mr Martin
said. "This isn't only to do with Irish-Americans. It's about justice for
the underprivileged," he insisted. "This man didn't get proper treatment."
The public defender's office, historians, the American Civil Liberties Union
and the Catholic Diocese of Providence all supported the drive to exonerate
Gordon.

The resolution will now be sent to the state senate, where it is also
expected to pass. Mr Martin expects Governor Chafee to sign Gordon's pardon
"within weeks, not months".

SOURCE
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0512/1224296753043.html

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CFP
The 2012 International Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies

Erin at Home, Erin Abroad: Capturing the Irish Experience
March 14-17, 2012 New Orleans, LA
http://acisnola2012.org/index.html

Call for Papers

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

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

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

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

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


http://acisnola2012.org/index.html

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'Britain, Ireland and the Italian Risorgimento'
A one-day conference at the Italian Cultural Institute in London
Friday 28 October 2011
Keynote speaker: Professor Lucy Riall (Birkbeck, University of London)

To mark the 150th anniversary of Italian unification, the Italian Cultural
Institute in London, in conjunction with the University of Wales, Newport,
and the Association for the Study of Modern Italy, will host a one-day
conference on the theme of 'Britain, Ireland and the Italian Risorgimento'
on Friday 28 October 2011. The purpose of the conference is to allow for a
critical examination of old assumptions and interpretations regarding
British and Irish responses to the Risorgimento, and to map out new ways of
understanding the impact of the 'Italian Question' on UK politics, society,
commerce and culture (broadly defined). The conference will also examine the
British-Irish influence on mid-century Italian politics, society, commerce
and culture.

Themes that participants may wish to address include:

* The Irish and Italian Questions compared
* Irish nationalism and the Risorgimento
* The Risorgimento in Scotland and/or Wales
* Religion and the Risorgimento
* Class and the Risorgimento
* Gender and the Risorgimento
* The idea of Italy in the British/Irish literary imagination
* The Grand Tour and the Risorgimento
* Romanticism and the Risorgimento
* Trade and the Risorgimento
* Art and the Risorgimento
* Radicalism and the Risorgimento
* Liberalism and the Risorgimento
* Conservative responses to the Risorgimento
* Britain and/or Ireland as seen from Italy
* Italian exiles in Britain and Ireland

The focus of the conference is on the period 1848-1861. However, papers that
cover subjects outside of these dates will be considered. Interested parties
should send proposals of no more than 300 words to the conference organiser
Dr Nick Carter at nick.carter[at]newport.ac.uk. The deadline for proposal
submissions is Monday 20 June 2011.

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Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies

A New Ireland?=20
Representations of History Past and Present in Literature and Culture,=20
DUCIS,=A0Dalarna University, Sweden=20
3-4 November 2011=20
=A0
History and the related memory processes of remembering and forgetting =
have
been crucial concepts in the definition of communal belonging in =
Ireland, as
especially underscored by the nation-building process that unfolded at =
the
end of the nineteenth century. However, the globalisation
and=A0cosmopoltisation of Ireland as experienced in the last decade and =
a
half, together with the strained socio-economic circumstances of
contemporary Ireland, has arguably provoked the need for cultural and
literary=A0artifacts to concentrate on the present in an attempt to =
comprehend
and come to terms with the momentous transformations that the island has
experienced in the last few years. In this context, where the presence =
of
the present seems more pervasive than the presence of the past, a
re-examination of the role of history in the construction of Ireland, =
past
and present, is called for.=20
=A0
The conference will examine representations of history and the changes =
in
the narratives of individual and collective identities that Ireland, =
north
and south, has undergone, from modernism to the current global epoch. =
The
focus of the conference will be on past and present uses of history in
definitions of national identity from the time of=A0W.B. Yeats and the =
Celtic
Revival to the post-Celtic Tiger and post-Good Friday agreement era, and =
how
these are reflected in literature and culture.
=A0
Confirmed speakers are:
Prof Marianne Elliott , OBE (Director - Institute of Irish Studies -
Liverpool University)
Prof Meg Harper (Glucksman Chair in Contemporary Writing in English,
University of Limerick)
Gary Mitchell (Northern Irish playwright)
Colm=A0T=F3ib=EDn (Novelist)

Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
=95 postnationalism=A0and nationalist identity
=95 migration and belonging=20
=95 images of home and the nation=20
=95 migration and earlier minorities in Ireland=20
=95 dual tradition vs. a culture of difference=20
=95 history of conflict=20
=95 historical representations of gender=20
=95 history and the visual arts
=95 Yeats and definitions of national and historical identity=20
Abstracts of no more than 250 words - together with a short bio (max 200
words) - should be sent by email to Irene=A0Gilsenan=A0Nordin =
(ign[at]du.se), Billy
Gray (bgr[at]du.se) and Carmen=A0Zamorano=A0Llena (cza[at]du.se). The deadline =
for
submission of abstracts has been extended to 15 Aug 2011. Notification =
of
acceptance will be sent by 31 Aug 2011. A selection of the papers =
presented
at the conference will be published in book form.
=A0
For further information about the conference, please go to:
www.du.se/ducis/forthcoming

Irene=A0Gilsenan Nordin, Professor of English
Head of English Department
Director of=A0DUCIS (Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies)
Programme Co-Ordinator: MA Irish Literature/MA African Literature and
Postcolonial Studies
School of Humanities and Media Studies
Dalarna=A0University
SE 791 88 Falun, SWEDEN
+46 23 778308/ 073 8283924
http://www.du.se/ducis

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Overhearing Ireland: Mediatized personae in Irish accent culture
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Language & Communication

Overhearing Ireland: Mediatized personae in Irish accent culture

Original Research Article
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 4 May 2011

Robert Moore
Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
19104, USA

Abstract
Metapragmatic representations of 'accent' in Irish English over a 400-year
period are examined, identifying the phonological shibboleths that have
remained in place as emblems of 'Irishness' over the whole period. A textual
structure based on direct quotation is shown to have supported a brisk trade
in commodified text-artifacts (joke-books, pamphlets, a web site) that
present amusing anecdotes of Irish English speech. These narrational
miniatures vivify a wide range of recognizable personae, inviting readers to
align (or dis-align) themselves with the Irish 'characters' represented. The
figure of the overhearer as reporter has been central to the genre ever
since a shift to realist reportage around 1800.

Article Outline
1. Introduction
2. Contemporary accent culture
3. Overheard in Dublin
4. Stage Irishry
5. Bulls and blunders
6. English as we speak it in Ireland
7. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References

Introduction
This paper emerges from a larger project investigating 'the politics of
accent' in contemporary Ireland. Drawing material from Web sites,
newspapers, and literature, the larger project explores how figurations of
personhood in contemporary Ireland emerge as shibboleths of commoditized
personae, circulating in textual forms that are remarkably stable and
perduring, even as they are today being used to render figurations of an
ever-expanding range of social types.

My initial concern is with the emblematic value of certain highly salient
phonological segments, i.e., those that co-occur in speech as what people
call 'accents'. In every linguistic community, variations in the way a
language is pronounced can be seized upon as reliable indicators of a
speaker's provenance, and/or membership in ethnic, class, or other social
groupings. Once enregistered, or widely recognized, such diacritics gain the
status of shibboleths, or emblematic signs, of a given speaker's
identity-which of course opens the door to citation, parody, and other
'parasitic' usages.

And indeed, preliminary research indicates that many speakers of English in
Ireland are routinely able to recognize, and to perform, more than one
accent. Speech practices involving the imitation of (other people's) accents
inform the texture of face-to-face interaction and popular media in Ireland
today (see, e.g., Brereton, 2008; Coleman, 2004). Meanwhile, some
speakers attempt consciously to intervene in their own habits of speech,
reshaping their pronunciation, vocabulary, voice quality, etc., in the
direction of a positively-valued norm or target, or at least away from a
stigmatized one (see Moore, 2011 for an extended treatment of accent
avoidance).

The most obvious such interventions into accent are of course those of
elocution-a field essentially invented in the 18th century by one Irish
writer (Thomas Sheridan), and given a kind of literary immortality by
another (G.B. Shaw)...

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BC faces dilemma over Irish archive
Subpoena for interviews with IRA members fuels ethical, legal concerns

By Lisa Wangsness and Tracy Jan
Globe Staff / May 14, 2011

An Irish journalist who oversaw a secret Boston College oral history project
on the war in Northern Ireland said yesterday that if the US government
succeeds in compelling the college to surrender decade-old interviews with
two former soldiers of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, he believes
that BC may have to destroy the rest of the tapes to protect those who
participated under what they understood to be an ironclad promise of
confidentiality until their death.

At the request of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, federal
prosecutors have issued a subpoena ordering BC to turn over the tapes of two
interviewees, including one who is still living, who disclosed last year
that the interviews may contain information about the disappearance and
killing in the early 1970s of people the IRA suspected of being British
informants.

"Everyone else who has given interviews will be worried now about the
consequences of this, and quite rightly,' said Ed Moloney, whom BC hired to
direct the project. "They are going to be alarmed there will be more leaks,
and we're going to have to address that in a very determined way.'

The college is weighing whether to cooperate with the subpoena as it seeks
legal guidance and additional information from the US attorney's office, in
a case that has rattled academics and oral historians around the country
because it raises questions about confidentiality guarantees that
researchers often promise subjects.

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Irish regiment places headstones for five Civil War soldiers in Philadelphia

By Linda Loyd
Inquirer Staff Writer

Under a sunless morning sky Saturday, young Timmy Kelly sang the haunting
Irish patriotic ballad "Minstrel Boy" while reenactors from the 69th
Pennsylvania Irish regiment stood at five graves where headstones had been
placed for Civil War soldiers at New Cathedral Cemetery in North
Philadelphia.
Though parades, battle reenactments, and speeches will be common to mark the
150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, the mission of members of
the 69th Pennsylvania Irish is different:

They find the burial spots of Civil War solders whose families could not
afford gravestones. They sift through Philadelphia death records and look up
cemetery plot maps. When they find a soldier, they file the required
paperwork to get a headstone for the unmarked grave.

"We have located 350 of our soldiers around the country. Of those, we have
put stones on 66," said Don Ernsberger, former Council Rock High School
history teacher and author of five Civil War books, including Paddy Owen's
Regulars about the 69th's Irish volunteers from Philadelphia.

"Every time we think we've found everybody, we find a few more,"...

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Inbhear - Journal of Irish Music and Dance

Issue 1 (Volume 1)

Articles in this issue:

A Litany of the Saints: Musical Quotations and Influences in the Music of
Tommie Potts

"Geographies of Movement"

Negotiating Boundaries in Irish Step-dance Performance Practice: Colin Dunne
and Piano One

The Parameters of Style in Irish Traditional Music

Vernacular Sociality and Regional Iconicity in Step Dance

Welcome to the first issue of the on-line journal for Irish music and dance,
Inbhear. The intention is that this will be a yearly journal,
free-to-access, concerned with these arts practices relevant to Ireland, the
Irish (wherever they may be) or perceived to be of Ireland or the Irish. Our
definition of Irish is inclusive, welcoming all the dance and music
practices implied by the description above although there is an implicit
focus on traditional arts.

The journal is also intended to be relevant to the areas of arts practice
and academic research engaged at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance,
University of Limerick, reflecting and augmenting our activities and
providing ties to the communities of practice that develop resources for
university and arts communities. A regular criticism, particularly among the
traditional arts community in Ireland, is that the University does not
deliver the fruits of its research back to the people that nourish it. There
is certainly an element of truth in this critique and this is one platform
to counter it.

This first issue is made up of five invited papers, mostly from faculty here
at the Academy, to get things going...

http://www.inbhear.ie/index.html

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Horace Plunkett in America
An Irish Aristocrat On The Wyoming Range
By: Lawrence M. Woods

ILLUSTRATIONS: 36
PUBLISHED: 2010
HARDCOVER ISBN: 9780870623943
296 PAGES, 6" X 9.5"
VOLUME 34 IN WESTERN FRONTIERSMEN
SUBJECT: HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN WEST , BIOGRAPHY / AUTOBIOGRAPHY / MEMOIR

University of Oklahoma Press

When Horace Plunkett left Britain for the American West in 1879, seeking
relief for lung problems, he launched a ranching career in Wyoming that
influenced the cattle industry and altered the course of his own life.
Previous biographers have studied his career in British politics and his
involvement in the agricultural cooperative movement. Lawrence M. Woods now
offers a detailed look at Plunkett's American years.

This is the first book to portray Plunkett as a major figure in the
western-range cattle industry, unearthing new evidence that reveals how he
mastered the microeconomics of ranching. Woods brings his own business and
legal acumen to the narrative to describe how, even as other Britons failed
to find fortune in the West, Plunkett continually pursued new business
arrangements while navigating the thickets of American law.

Woods also shows that Plunkett's influence carried well beyond the range. In
Washington, D.C., he promoted his ideas on agricultural education and the
rural cooperative movement, earning him the ear of President Theodore
Roosevelt. And when the Great War broke out, Plunkett functioned as a kind
of private diplomat, carrying messages back and forth between the
administration of President Woodrow Wilson and the British government.

Horace Plunkett in America draws on Plunkett's extensive diaries and on
American sources hitherto unexplored by previous biographers to disclose
more of the man than has ever been known. Featuring three dozen
illustrations, it is a definitive look at the American chapter of a
distinguished career.

SOURCE
http://www.oupress.com/ECommerce/Book/Detail/1391/horace%20plunkett%20in%20a
merica

REVIEW
Horace Plunkett in America: an Irish aristocrat on the Wyoming range
Business History
Volume 52, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1014 - 1015
Author: Wilson J. Warrena

Few episodes in United States history are seen as quintessentially American
as the open-range cattle era from 1865 to 1890. Lawrence M. Woods' book on
Horace Plunkett shows that this was not true; often the entrepreneurs
associated with this development were from the British Isles. Many British
gentlemen believed that there was a lot of money to be made in raising
cattle in the US and, in the process, the experience would build character.
Woods has written widely on Wyoming's frontier period, including the British
aristocrats who participated in the open-range cattle industry. This book is
best read alongside this larger body of research (especially, British
gentlemen in the Wild West: The era of the intensely English cowboy. New
York: Free Press, 1989). Although focused squarely on Plunkett's life, which
Woods clearly sees as exemplary for its accomplishments, his biography
provides a window on the vagaries of the open-range cattle industry's final
decade.

The first half of Woods' biography emphasises Plunkett's experiences from
1881 to 1889 in the Powder River Basin located in north-eastern Wyoming. The
disastrous winter of 1886-87 exacerbated overgrazing in the region, and
contributed to the end of the open-range era in that part of the country.
Plunkett's Western travels after that point were largely focused on
reorienting his business interests away from cattle. Although Woods stresses
that his book is not meant to be a full-length biography, the last half of
it is devoted to Plunkett's ongoing involvement in American politics and
society through 1930, just before his death two years later...

...While the details of Plunkett's adventures in the American West are
interesting, Wood misses opportunities to place his experiences in a larger
context of the burgeoning American meat industry. The book emphasises
Plunkett's financial misfortunes in the cattle business, but it is not clear
how important British financing was in the overall development of the
open-range cattle industry. Mention is made of other British aristocratic
farming operations, such as the intriguing Close Colony, where families of
wealthy Brits sent their sons to work on a farm outside Le Mars, Iowa...

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Forwarded on behalf of
Tim Matovina
Director of The Cushwa Center at the University of Notre Dame
=A0
Call for Nominations, Lived History of Vatican II Project

In conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the opening and closing of =
the
Second Vatican Council, the Cushwa Center announces the launching of a =
major
research project designed to produce the first comparative, =
international,
lived history of Catholicism in the Vatican II era. Our goal is to =
enlist
researchers who will write close-grained local social histories of the
immediate Council era and its aftermath in twelve select dioceses, at =
least
one from each continent around the globe. Thus we are not looking for
broad-brush accounts of the Council period in South Africa, for example, =
but
a close study of how the changes mandated by the Council were actually
experienced in specific dioceses such as Pretoria or Umtata. The twelve
researchers selected to participate in this project will participate in
project consultations at the University of Notre Dame in spring 2012 and
spring 2013, research and write a substantial chapter on the lived =
history
of Vatican II in a select diocese, present their work at an =
international
conference at Notre Dame in spring 2014, and have their work published =
in
the project volume. Each researcher will receive a research account, =
travel
expenses to consultations and the international conference, and a =
stipend of
$5,000.=20

Self-nominations or nominations of colleagues as researchers for this
project are being accepted now until June 15, 2011. Please send the name =
of
the proposed researcher, the diocese he or she would investigate, and a
brief (two-page) CV and (one-page) statement of the availability of =
primary
sources for that diocese, why it is a particularly apt choice for this
study, and previous investigations the proposed researcher already =
conducted
on the diocese (if any).=20

Nominations and inquires about this project can be sent to Cushwa =
director
Timothy Matovina at matovina.1[at]nd.edu.=20
=A0
=A0

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=91After the Ball.=92 Cultural productions and practices in Post-Celtic =
Tiger
Ireland

ERIBIA-GREI, University of Caen Lower Normandy, France, December 2 & 3, =
2011

Confirmed guest speakers and artists: Kieran Bonner (sociologist of =
Irish
culture, University of Waterloo), Pat Cooke (head of arts policy =
department,
UCD), Rita Duffy (visual artist), John Byrne (visual artist), Desi =
Wilkinson
(musician)

The impact of the Celtic Tiger and the following recession on cultural
creation and practices opens a new area of investigation for scholars in
cultural history, cultural economy, sociology, art history and media
studies.

At conferences and advocacy events, the Irish Arts Council, Department =
of
Culture and cultural policy-makers directed considerable efforts to =
reach
out to public opinion, tourists, companies and the Irish diaspora to =
raise
awareness about the economic dimension of culture in the country. =
Culture
indeed generates wealth and employment, and cutting public funding of
culture would have negative consequences on the economy. The economic
justification has dominated cultural discourse over the past few years, =
so
that the cultural process, ie artistic creation and reception by the =
public
have been almost totally excluded from public debate. The Arts Council =
is
only just beginning to investigate the living conditions of artists and =
the
social bonding potential of culture. Social sciences are also beginning =
to
research cultural practices.

The comparison with Northern Ireland will be welcome. The impact of the
recession on cultural funding and creation may be compared with the
situation in the Republic. Another =AB=A0after=A0=BB is also to be =
investigated,
through the impact of the Good Friday Agreement on cultural practices =
and
productions and the effective community bonding that has taken place as =
a
result of Northern Irish cultural policy.

Culture will be understood broadly, including not only the arts and =
formal
cultural practices such as the attendance of cultural institutions but =
also
cultural industries, and generally, as is the case in the =
English-speaking
world, all modes of expression which are codified=97design, fashion and
culinary arts which are the multi-sensorial translation offered in daily
communion of a new, more sophisticated and cosmopolitan self-perception =
on
the part of the Irish.

What remains after the ball? What trends do we see emerging in terms of
productions and practices? Papers may cover the following topics:
-=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Perceptions of actual or putative =
prosperity of cultural sectors
-=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Contemporary artistic creation: literature, =
music, cinema,
architecture etc.
-=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Cultural institutions=A0: attendance, =
evolutions of museography
-=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Cultural tourism, festivals, marketing =
strategies
-=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Cultural industries
-=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Formal or informal cultural practices =
(purchase of commercial
cultural goods)
-=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Media (broadcasting, the press, the =
internet) as a critical space
Proposals to be submitted to Alexandra Slaby =
(alexandra.slaby[at]unicaen.fr) by
June 15, 2011.
=A0
--=20
Alexandra Slaby

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Subject: Call for Papers: XIX Ulster-American Heritage Symposium,
Omagh June 2012
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Dear Paddy

I would be grateful as ever for the help of the List in circulating the Cal=
l for Papers for the next Ulster-American Heritage Symposium, which we are =
due to host next June, 2012. This is the link:

http://www.qub.ac.uk/cms/UAHS%202012%20Call%20for%20Papers.pdf

with best wishes
Brian

XIX ULSTER-AMERICAN HERITAGE SYMPOSIUM, 2012
'Ulster-American migration studies and public history'
Centre for Migration Studies
Ulster-American Folk Park,
Omagh, Northern Ireland
27-30 June, 2012
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Centre for Migration Studies at the Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh, i=
s
pleased to host next year the Nineteenth Ulster-American Heritage Symposium=
, 27-30
June, 2012, with regular partners the Ulster-American Folk Park (NMNI), Que=
en=92s
University Belfast, the University of Ulster, Libraries NI, the Public Reco=
rd Office
(PRONI), and in a special way this year the Ulster Historical Foundation (U=
HF).
Since 1976 the Ulster-American Heritage Symposium has met every two years,
alternating between co-sponsoring universities and museums in Ulster and No=
rth
America. Its purpose is to encourage scholarly study and public awareness o=
f the
historical connections between Ulster and North America including what is
commonly called the Scotch-Irish or Ulster-Scots heritage. The Symposium ha=
s as its
general theme the process of transatlantic emigration and settlement, and l=
inks
between England, Scotland, Ireland and North America. Its approach is inter=
disciplinary,
encouraging dialogue between those working in different fields including
history, language and literature, geography, archaeology, anthropology, fol=
klife,
religion and music.
The particular theme of the meeting in 2012 will be =91Ulster-American migr=
ation
studies and public history=92 with the aim of presenting and exploring rece=
nt research
that challenges habitual ways of thinking about the historical relationship=
between
Ulster and North America over the last four hundred years, rendering this r=
esearch
more inclusive of a broad array of Irish, British, and North American migra=
tion
experiences, and addressing the recent prominence given to Ulster-American =
themes
in public history, including recent television programmes such as Senator J=
im Webb=92s
=91Born Fighting=92, =91So You Think You Are Related To An American Preside=
nt=92, and
Fergal Keane=92s =91A History of Ireland=92.
Confirmed speakers include Patrick Fitzgerald, Katherine Brown and Warren H=
ofstra,
who contributed to these programmes, and Brenda Collins, Steve Ickringill, =
Richard
MacMaster, Trevor Parkhill, William Roulston, Turlough McConnell and Kathle=
en
Wilson.
The organisers will be pleased to receive offers of individual papers or pa=
nels of
papers from both established and new scholars in the field. Especially welc=
ome will
be offers relating to the emergent themes of Ulster emigration in Irish and=
Scottish
comparative history; Irish emigrants in the French and Spanish empires in N=
orth
America; the nineteenth century; =91the two migrations myth=92; Canada; the=
role of
women; relations with other ethnic groups; regional, local community and fa=
mily
studies; foodways; recent developments in Scotch-Irish / Ulster-Scots cultu=
re, history
and heritage.
As at the last Symposium in Cullowhee, North Carolina in 2010, there will b=
e an
excursion on offer the day before the formal opening. Our plan for 2012 is =
for this to
be part of the Ulster Historical Foundation Summer School programme.
(http://www.ancestryireland.com/summerschool/)
Deadline for proposals for individual papers or panels: October 31 2011
Proposals should include an abstract of the paper (250 words) and brief c.v=
.
We encourage proposals to be submitted via e-mail to:
Dr Brian Lambkin brian.lambkin[at]nmni.com
Dr Patrick Fitzgerald patrick.fitzgerald[at]nmni.com
Professor Warren Hofstra whofstra[at]su.edu


Brian Lambkin
Director of the Centre for Migration Studies

Centre for Migration Studies
at the Ulster American Folk Park
Castletown, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, BT78 5QU

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From: Jennifer May Redmond
Subject: Women's History Association of Ireland Conference,
27th-28th May 2011
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*Women=92s History Association of Ireland Conference 2011*
* *
*Friday 27th May and Saturday 28th May 2011*
* *
*Theme: Gender and Sexual Politics/ the Politics of Sexuality in Ireland*
* *
* *
*Hosted by Women=92s Studies in Association with the School*
*of History, University College Cork*
* *
*Programme*
*Friday 27th May Venue: West Wing 5 (Main Campus)*
**
5.30 p.m. -6.00 p.m. Registration

6.00 p.m. =96 7.30 p.m. Symposium on Marriage in Ireland
Professor Maria Luddy (Warwick) and Professor Mary O=92Dowd (QUB) will cond=
uct
a symposium on their AHRC-funded project, Marriage in Ireland, 1660-1925.

7.30 p.m. =96 8.15 p.m. Wine Reception and awarding of the MacCurtain/Culle=
n
Prize =96 in the Common Room.

8.15 p.m. Conference Dinner in the Staff Restaurant

*Saturday 28th May Venue: Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, College Road,
G04*
9.30 a.m. =96 10.00 a.m. Registration

10.00 a.m. -10.45 a.m. Keynote speaker
Dr Leeann Lane (DCU): Single Women and Sex in the Newly Independent Irish
State.

Dr Lane=92s book Rosamond Jacob: Third Person Singular was published by UCD=
in
2010

10.45 a.m. -11.10 a.m. Break - teas and coffees

11.10 a.m. =96 12.40 p.m. Parallel Sessions

Panel I: Sexual Politics and Crime

Bl=E1ithnaid Nolan (UCD) (IRCHSS scholar): Was =91Unnatural Crime=92 the Re=
al
=91Convict Stain=92 of Van Diemen=92s Land?

Dr Conor Reidy (UL): Gender bias and the enforcement of the Inebriates Act
(Ireland) 1898: the case of the State Inebriate Reformatory at Ennis.

John Johnston-Kehoe (TCD) (IRCHSS scholar): The gendered politics of
policing sex in Dublin, 1930-1960.

Panel 2: History and Current issues of Sexuality

Dr Linda Connolly (UCC): Historicising reproductive rights in Ireland since
the 1960s: from fertility =91control=92 to =91the promotion of=92 (more) fe=
rtility.

Dr. Mary Muldowney (TCD): Breaking the Silence: Pro-Choice Activism in
Ireland since 1983.

Dr Elizabeth Kiely (UCC): Living =91in Seventh Heaven on Walton=92s Mountai=
n=92
and not in the Real World: Analysing the Public Debate on the Irish
Relationships and Sexuality Education
(RSE) Programme, 1996-2002.

12.40 p.m. 2.00 p.m. Lunch and WHAI AGM

2.00 p.m. =96 3.30 p.m. Panel 3: Body Politics

Dr Ann Daly (Independent Scholar): =91...a sudden and complete revolution i=
n
the female=92 : The Adolescent Girl in Post-Famine Ireland.

Dr Aoife Bhreatnach (Independent Scholar): Bodies and Barracks: the medical
treatment of men, women and children in the nineteenth-century British Army=
.

Dr Tanya N=ED Mhuirthile (UCC): Building Bodies: Legal Implications of
Medicalisation and Pathologisation of Intersex Bodies in Ireland.

3.30p.m. -3.45p.m. Break =96 teas and coffees

3.45 p.m. =96 4.45 p.m. Panel 4: Mid-Twentieth Century Perspectives

Dr Bryce Evans (UCD):=93The married woman=92s place, the mother of the fami=
ly,
is in the home=94: the =91Architect of Modern Ireland=92 and Irish Women.

Jacinta Kelly (Manchester) Christine Hallett (Manchester) Jane Brooks
(Manchester):

=91To think I went off to England and I didn=92t even know the facts of lif=
e=92:
Irish civilian nurses in Britain during the Second World War.
*

For information on registration and on the conference dinner on Friday
27th May,
contact Dr

Sandra McAvoy ( *sandra.mcavoy[at]ucc.ie ) or see the WHAI website at
www.whai.ie

--=20
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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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Book Review, Harte. The Literature of the Irish in Britain
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Citation
Liam Harte. The Literature of the Irish in Britain: Autobiography and
Memoir, 1725=962001
James H. Murphy
Reviewed work(s): The Literature of the Irish in Britain: Autobiography =
and
Memoir, 1725=962001
The Journal of British Studies
Vol. 50, No. 2 (April 2011), pp. 514-516=20

Reviewed work(s): Liam Harte. The Literature of the Irish in Britain:
Autobiography and Memoir, 1725=962001. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, =
2009.
Pp. xl+301. $75.00 (cloth).

James H. Murphy=20

DePaul University

Liam Harte has undoubtedly rendered a singular service in producing this
anthology with its varying accounts of Irish moves to Britain over an =
almost
three-hundred-year period. It includes the writings of individuals from
maids and policemen to literary stars such as W. B. Yeats and Sean =
O=92Casey.
Such writing has received little attention hitherto, the great exception
being that of the navvy Patrick MacGill, whom Harte rightly dubs the
=93literary laureate=94 of =93unskilled Irish migratory workers in
twentieth-century Britain=94 (139).

For some it was a welcome escape or sometimes an opportunity not to be
missed. Fleeing Dublin after being denounced by Jonathan Swift as a =
whore,
Laetitia Pilkington eked out a writer=92s living in London. A century on =
James
Dawson Burn was delighted to escape his Ulster home: =93I thus landed in
Scotland a penniless wanderer, but with a mind full to overflowing with =
real
joy at my escape from bondage=94 (26). After he left school in the 1970s =
the
future pop star Bob Geldof decided he was =93off. Off meant England. =
England
had given me my first sense of real liberty=94 (267). For the young =
Justin
McCarthy, later an Irish nationalist parliamentarian and author, =93my
yearnings were especially for a first sight of London=94 (55). McCarthy =
went
on to write within a British cosmopolitan culture. London-based Francis =
Fahy
supported late nineteenth-century Irish cultural movements such as the
literary revival and the Gaelic League, while continuing to enjoy life:
=93Many a soiree of dance and song relieved the heaviness of our =
programme,
many an outing into the woodlands of Kent and Surrey gave some of us our
first delightful picture of the English countryside=94 (100).

For many others, mostly the poor, it was a different story. One
nineteenth-century author moved from Belfast to work as a tailor in
Liverpool but found himself the butt of =93ridicule and scorn; every =
mean and
vile epithet was too good for me=94 (34). For D=F3nal Foley, emigrating =
toward
the end of the Second World War =93was a nightmare adventure in which I =
was
involved with all these strange people and strange faces=94 (236). Even =
an
Anglo-Irish aristocrat such as the twentieth-century novelist Elizabeth
Bowen found the change to England a trauma, a move =93into a different
mythology=97in fact, into one totally alien to that of my forefathers =
none of
whom had resided anywhere but in Ireland for some centuries=94 (126)...

The characterization of diasporas is notoriously difficult. As far as
Ireland is concerned the most prominent diaspora appears to be that of =
the
Irish-American community. This is largely made up of descendants of =
Irish
Catholics, as Irish Protestants generally integrated in Protestant =
American
society without any great difficulty. People with Irish ancestors five =
or
six generations back still identity as Irish, though that identity is
nowadays generally little more of a recreational adjunct to a =
substantive
American identity. The situation with the Irish in Britain is somewhat
different, as Liam Harte=92s anthology demonstrates. By my count, =
forty-nine
of the sixty-three extracts included here are by persons who were born =
in
Ireland and moved to Britain. Generally speaking the maintenance of an =
Irish
identity by persons belonging to generations born in Britain is =
indicative
of an antagonistic relationship with British society...

...=93The Irish in Britain,=94 the usual phrase for the Irish-British =
diaspora
and the one that Liam Harte employs here, is therefore a telling one. =
One
can be used-to-be-Irish-but-now-British or =
still-unhappily-Irish-in-Britain
but not, it would seem, happily-Irish-British. In his thorough =
introduction,
written largely from a literary-critical perspective, Harte uses terms =
such
as =93migration,=94 =93emigration,=94 and =93exile=94 almost =
interchangeably. This is
another telling usage: perhaps the trope of exile was a necessary myth =
for
some Irish people in Britain to cling onto to sustain an Irish identity.
However, it would be unhelpful if this were used to bolster the old =
notion
of the Irish in Britain as emigrants of despair, as opposed to the =
emigrants
of hope who went to America...=20

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Book Review, Emmons,
Beyond the American Pale: The Irish in the West,
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Mary C. Kelly
The American Historical Review
Vol. 116, No. 2 (April 2011) (pp. 464-465)

Reviewed work(s): David M. Emmons. Beyond the American Pale: The Irish =
in the West, 1845=E2=80=931910. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. =
2010. Pp. viii, 472. $34.95.

Mary C. Kelly

Franklin Pierce University

The =E2=80=9Cvast, hungry, and mobile army=E2=80=9D (p. 18) of over five =
million Irish immigrants to America between the 1840s and early 1900s =
included sizeable contingents settling in the West. In this book David =
M. Emmons frames the history of these =E2=80=9Ctwo=E2=80=90boat =
Irish=E2=80=9D (p. 1) within the powerful transatlantic =
cross=E2=80=90currents shaping immigrant Irish progress in the United =
States. Their Catholicism rendered them unfit for assimilation, and the =
Irish struggled against the American pale of the book's title=E2=80=94a =
cultural divide comparable to that separating Ireland's Protestants from =
the native Catholic population. The factors of Ireland's precarious =
mid=E2=80=90nineteenth=E2=80=90century economy, its volatile political =
culture, and American hostility to Irish Catholics adversely affected =
their prospects as western settlers, Emmons argues. Noxious associations =
with their ethnicity and faith were compounded by Irish unwillingness to =
abandon their ethnic linchpins, he advances, as the forces of American =
=E2=80=9Cmarket capitalism and evangelical Protestantism=E2=80=9D (p. 7) =
confronted the objectionable =E2=80=9CIrish Catholic culture =
code=E2=80=9D (p. 9) at a critical point in the white settlement of the =
West.

As mid=E2=80=90century Protestant Americans melded =E2=80=9Cpiety with =
prosperity=E2=80=9D (p. 61) on the advice of Lyman Beecher, George =
Templeton Strong, and other guardians of the American republic, the =
Irish heading west confronted an extraordinary cultural landscape. From =
the first, =E2=80=9CGoing west was an act of forgetting, of starting =
over,=E2=80=9D but, Emmons maintains, the Irish =E2=80=9Cforgot =
nothing=E2=80=9D (p. 129). They sought to improve their economic status, =
and their aspirations coincided with American interest in exploiting =
their labor for western industrial and agricultural advancement. Emmons =
argues persuasively that the Irish were thus grudgingly tolerated for =
their labor=E2=80=94not their whiteness=E2=80=94within a region =
increasingly glorified as a =E2=80=9Cprophylaxis against =
revolution=E2=80=9D (p. 34). He dismisses the contemporary argument that =
Irish movement westward would reduce labor militancy in the East, mining =
a range of national, ethnic, and political narratives to show that the =
West never provided the =E2=80=9Csafety valves=E2=80=9D (p. 34), =
freedoms, or national purity promised by its mythologies.

Classed alongside Indians as savage Others, and spurred by the bitter =
memory of Ireland's Great Famine of 1845=E2=80=931852, ethnic bosses =
such as ex=E2=80=90Fenian and Montana territorial administrator Thomas =
Francis Meagher established what Emmons characterizes as an Irish =
=E2=80=9Cparallel universe=E2=80=9D (p. 209) in the West...=20

...Emmons might have pursued Irish women's experience in the West more =
explicitly and roved beyond the limited collective of Irish communities =
he addresses, but the book's potential as a future cornerstone of =
western Irish and Irish American history is readily apparent. The text =
is less a narrative history of Irish settlement in the West than a =
forceful case for the centrality of the Irish presence within the =
history of the American West, but Emmons's thoroughgoing fluency with =
nineteenth=E2=80=90century intellectual and political currents =
distinguishes his study from less=E2=80=90comprehensive histories of =
America's Irish. Emmons can expect a lively response to his Kerby A. =
Miller=E2=80=90inspired interpretive lens, but his contextualization of =
the western Irish within their transatlantic world guarantees the book a =
place of honor within the Irish American canon. This rousing, =
provocative study will not close off the western Irish historical =
frontier, but no future engagement with this topic=E2=80=94or with Irish =
America in general=E2=80=94can proceed without duly crediting this book. =
Grand in scale and pioneering in nature, Emmons's absorbing study is =
vital material for anyone interested in the history of America's Irish, =
particularly the Irish in the West, and the cultural freight they bore =
with them.

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Subject: Article, An Irish El Dorado: Recovering Gold in County Wicklow
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An Irish El Dorado: Recovering Gold in County Wicklow =20
Timothy Alborn
The Journal of British Studies, Vol. 50, No. 2 (April 2011), pp. 359-380

As the California gold rush of 1849 was first finding its way into
English newspapers, a journalist for the Literary Gazette greeted the
discovery by remarking that =93almost the best of the joke is, that no
sooner does famished Ireland hear of this El Dorado, than up starts an
association to swear that Wicklow is infinitely superior, and solicit
subscriptions to work the mines, where gold is not found in paltry =
spangles
or drops, but in quarts (which they spell with a terminating zed).=941 =
The
reason he selected Wicklow, a smallcounty south of Dublin, for his scorn =
was
that the quartz deposits in its mountains had, in fact, fleetingly =
yielded
thousands of ounces of gold fifty years earlier, bringing celebrity to =
the
region that would persist intermittently through the nineteenth century. =
For
six weeks in the autumn of 1795, Wicklow residents left their fields and
worked around the clock sifting the sands of a stream that flowed from
Croghan Kinsella, the highest mountain in the county. Their labors =
earned
them around =A310,000 in gold dust and nuggets before authorities called =
in a
local militia, as much to take possession of the newfound wealth as to
restore public order. Subsequent state-sponsored excavations (which were
interrupted by the Irish rebellion of 1798) yielded much less gold and =
no
sign of a mother lode further upstream.

The literary and scientific yield of this gold mine, which vied with its
economic output, included more than a century=92s worth of travelogues,
mineralogical surveys, and a string of poems, plays, and short stories =
that
either took the gold as a central metaphor or referred to it in =
passing...

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Book Review, John Day Tully. Ireland and Irish Americans,
1932-1945
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Eric G. E. Zuelow
The American Historical Review
Vol. 116, No. 2 (April 2011) (pp. 419-420)

Reviewed work(s): John Day Tully. Ireland and Irish Americans, =
1932=E2=80=931945: The Search for Identity. Irish Academic Press. 2010. =
Pp. x, 182. $69.95.

Eric G. E. Zuelow

University of New England

Identity is slippery. It changes and evolves over time. Groups and =
individuals define themselves with reference to others, not in =
isolation. It follows that understanding =E2=80=9CIrish =
American=E2=80=9D or =E2=80=9CIrish=E2=80=9D identities demands =
reference to a host of relationships, contexts, actors, and =
contingencies.

The story of Irish and Irish American identity formation is inextricably =
bound up with its =E2=80=9Cexiles,=E2=80=9D men and women who left =
Ireland under duress. Even before the Irish Famine of 1845=E2=80=931851, =
Ireland's sons and daughters fled their homeland in astonishing numbers, =
hoping to find a better life or simply to survive. Later, many looked =
back to Ireland through rose=E2=80=90colored glasses, just as those left =
behind saw emigration as a disease every bit as damaging as the potato =
blight. The resulting relationship certainly shaped both =
groups=E2=80=94especially in terms of political nationalism. At various =
points, Irish Americans such as John O'Mahony tried to define the terms =
and strategies of the nationalist struggle in Ireland. At other times, =
Irish politicians such as Charles Stewart Parnell and =C3=89amon de =
Valera hoped that support in America would shift politics at home.

John Day Tully's book is premised on the belief that identity in both =
Ireland and America was not fixed following the Anglo=E2=80=90Irish =
Treaty signed in 1921. According to Tully, Irish Americans continued to =
feel isolated and excluded from the dominant Protestant culture. Back in =
Ireland, de Valera, whom Tully imbues with astonishing power to shape =
Irish politics and identity to the exclusion of virtually everyone else, =
faced the daunting challenge of creating a unified national identity in =
a country painfully divided by history and culture. For the author, =
these twin struggles for collective identity collided as a result of de =
Valera's insistence on Irish neutrality during World War II. Given this =
convergence, Tully endeavors to tell the story of the creation of a =
postcolonial Irish identity and of the Americanization of Irish =
Americans through the lens of the wartime =
=E2=80=9CEmergency.=E2=80=9D...

...the story of Irish American nationalist politics in the early =
twentieth century is one of rampant factionalism, not common purpose. =
The story in Ireland is no less complicated and simply cannot be told =
with reference only to de Valera. There were myriad ideas about how to =
move the country forward, deep fissures over the civil war, diverging =
institutional cultures within the branches of Irish government, as well =
as very real divisions between urban and rural. While de Valera dreamed =
of creating a rural, Gaelic Ireland, others imagined an industrialized =
and largely anglophone country. Although it is true that neutrality =
helped draw the country together and that it played an important part in =
the story of post=E2=80=90independence Irish identity, the tale is =
considerably more varied than is allowed for here.

Ultimately, the book under review is a very readable if ultimately =
unsatisfying text. The author bites off far more than can be reasonably =
chewed in fewer than 180 pages. As a consequence, Tully disregards Irish =
America during much of the neutrality discussion and largely omits the =
complicated give and take of politics and identity formation. Despite =
these concerns, the book will ultimately prove a success if it inspires =
further scholarship of a time period often ignored by historians of =
Irish America.

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From: Don MacRaild
Subject: AHRC-funded research studentship - English ethnicity
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Message-ID: {decoded}Dear Paddy and crew,

We have just won major AHRC funding (£286k over three years) to investigate the English in North America. So you may wonder why I'm on this list talking about the Irish Diaspora's bêtes noires ... Well, the project funding includes a fully-supported PhD studentship (fees and living allowances covered for three years) to investigate the implications, at home and within the 'near diaspora', of English ethnicity in the Anglo-world. This means, someone qualified in history or a related discipline who works on modern Ireland or Scotland might be interested in it. And

More details of the project can be found here: http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sass/studentship201112/
There is a flyer about the project here: http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/static/5007/sasspdf/hiddendiaspora

Anyone interested in the project more generally can find info here:
http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sass/about/humanities/history/research/projects/englishdiaspora/

I'm afraid the eligibility criteria (imposed by the funder) exclude non-UK residents/citizens. However, I would be grateful if colleagues could circulate this information as they see fit.

I am happy to field queries at the address below.

Best wishes,


Don

Don MacRaild,
Professor of History and
Associate Dean for Research,
School of Arts and Social Sciences,
Northumbria University,
Lipman Building
Sandyford Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8S
T: +44(0)191 243 7259
E: don.macraild[at]northumbria.ac.uk

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Subject: Article,
Selling National Value at the Auction Market: The London and
Dublin Markets for Irish Art
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Cultural Sociology March 2011 vol. 5 no. 1 139-153

Selling National Value at the Auction Market: The London and Dublin Markets
for Irish Art
Marta Herrero
University of Plymouth, UK, marta.herrero[at]plymouth.ac.uk

Abstract

This article explores how nationality is articulated as a form of art value
in the art market, where art is defined in two related ways: instrumentally,
in terms of its economic value, and culturally, by defining its meaning and
significance. Focusing on the auction market of Irish art in London and in
Dublin, and drawing upon interviews with auctioneers in both capitals, it
investigates how nationality is produced and marketed as a form of cultural
value for Irish art, comparing the specific dynamics of this process in both
London and Dublin auction markets. Whilst the findings in this article agree
with existing literature on the economic and cultural forms of art value
prevalent in art markets, they add to the literature by arguing that the
cultural, national element of value-making for Irish art is very pronounced.

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Re. this review:
'Harte uses terms such as =E2=80=9Cmigration,=E2=80=9D =E2=80=9Cemigration,=
=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9Cexile=E2=80=9D almost interchangeably. This is
another telling usage: perhaps the trope of exile was a necessary myth for
some Irish people in Britain to cling onto to sustain an Irish identity.
However, it would be unhelpful if this were used to bolster the old notion
of the Irish in Britain as emigrants of despair, as opposed to the emigrant=
s
of hope who went to America...'

Here we go again: I am more and more convinced, observing episodic academic=
debate around these issues, that a real understanding of the Irish experie=
nce in Britain is only to be had by living and working amongst them and, ab=
ove all, LISTENING to, and reflecting on, what the older generation have to=
say about it. Anecdotal evidence but, unsurprisingly, all there is - take =
it or leave it.=20
=20
Historically the term' exile', as used by Irish expatriates, carried connot=
ations of punishment by the English Administration for crimes against the C=
rown. As loosely but emotionally used in the post-Independence decades of t=
he last century by the Irish in Britain, however, it is is intended as a re=
flection on independent Ireland and its failure 'to treasure all the childr=
en of the nation equally' in the sense of providing the possibility of a li=
velihood 'at home'.=20

This reflects the preponderance of emigrants from disadvantaged lower middl=
e and working class backgrounds. Political conditioning, exacerbated by cla=
ss consciousness in both societies,inevitably meant that they perceived Bri=
tish society as not only alien but also intolerant ('know your place - you'=
ll never amount to anything coming from your people'; 'they taught us to ha=
te England - then they sent us over here'). Ironically, the reality of thei=
r working lives actually demonstrated a degree of tolerance, fair play, and=
equal opportunity in Britain far greater than prevailed in Ireland.

American society on the other hand was perceived as positivly predisposed t=
owards the Irish and of course anyone demonstrating the resources to emigra=
te to America was accorded a degree of respect in the home community which =
was in marked contrast to the condescending if not downright contemptuous a=
ttitude shown towards those obliged to settle for emigration (as opposed to=
seasonal migration)to Britain (cf. John Healy, 'No One Shouted Stop').

These are of course wild generalisations; scholars would rightly ask where =
the evidence exists to support them. I can only answer that, as with Liam H=
arte's literary sources, it is for obvious reasons only to be found in the =
margins - in, to Tom Kettle's memorable phrase, 'the secret scriptures of t=
he poor'; and there is only one key to those...

Ultan Cowley =20



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Subject: [IR-D] Book Review, Harte. The Literature of the Irish in Britain

Citation
Liam Harte. The Literature of the Irish in Britain: Autobiography and
Memoir, 1725=E2=80=932001
James H. Murphy
Reviewed work(s): The Literature of the Irish in Britain: Autobiography and
Memoir, 1725=E2=80=932001
The Journal of British Studies
Vol. 50, No. 2 (April 2011), pp. 514-516=20

Reviewed work(s): Liam Harte. The Literature of the Irish in Britain:
Autobiography and Memoir, 1725=E2=80=932001. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmilla=
n, 2009.
Pp. xl+301. $75.00 (cloth).

James H. Murphy=20

DePaul University

Liam Harte has undoubtedly rendered a singular service in producing this
anthology with its varying accounts of Irish moves to Britain over an almos=
t
three-hundred-year period. It includes the writings of individuals from
maids and policemen to literary stars such as W. B. Yeats and Sean O=E2=80=
=99Casey.
Such writing has received little attention hitherto, the great exception
being that of the navvy Patrick MacGill, whom Harte rightly dubs the
=E2=80=9Cliterary laureate=E2=80=9D of =E2=80=9Cunskilled Irish migratory w=
orkers in
twentieth-century Britain=E2=80=9D (139).

For some it was a welcome escape or sometimes an opportunity not to be
missed. Fleeing Dublin after being denounced by Jonathan Swift as a whore,
Laetitia Pilkington eked out a writer=E2=80=99s living in London. A century=
on James
Dawson Burn was delighted to escape his Ulster home: =E2=80=9CI thus landed=
in
Scotland a penniless wanderer, but with a mind full to overflowing with rea=
l
joy at my escape from bondage=E2=80=9D (26). After he left school in the 19=
70s the
future pop star Bob Geldof decided he was =E2=80=9Coff. Off meant England. =
England
had given me my first sense of real liberty=E2=80=9D (267). For the young J=
ustin
McCarthy, later an Irish nationalist parliamentarian and author, =E2=80=9Cm=
y
yearnings were especially for a first sight of London=E2=80=9D (55). McCart=
hy went
on to write within a British cosmopolitan culture. London-based Francis Fah=
y
supported late nineteenth-century Irish cultural movements such as the
literary revival and the Gaelic League, while continuing to enjoy life:
=E2=80=9CMany a soiree of dance and song relieved the heaviness of our prog=
ramme,
many an outing into the woodlands of Kent and Surrey gave some of us our
first delightful picture of the English countryside=E2=80=9D (100).

For many others, mostly the poor, it was a different story. One
nineteenth-century author moved from Belfast to work as a tailor in
Liverpool but found himself the butt of =E2=80=9Cridicule and scorn; every =
mean and
vile epithet was too good for me=E2=80=9D (34). For D=C3=B3nal Foley, emigr=
ating toward
the end of the Second World War =E2=80=9Cwas a nightmare adventure in which=
I was
involved with all these strange people and strange faces=E2=80=9D (236). Ev=
en an
Anglo-Irish aristocrat such as the twentieth-century novelist Elizabeth
Bowen found the change to England a trauma, a move =E2=80=9Cinto a differen=
t
mythology=E2=80=94in fact, into one totally alien to that of my forefathers=
none of
whom had resided anywhere but in Ireland for some centuries=E2=80=9D (126).=
..

The characterization of diasporas is notoriously difficult. As far as
Ireland is concerned the most prominent diaspora appears to be that of the
Irish-American community. This is largely made up of descendants of Irish
Catholics, as Irish Protestants generally integrated in Protestant American
society without any great difficulty. People with Irish ancestors five or
six generations back still identity as Irish, though that identity is
nowadays generally little more of a recreational adjunct to a substantive
American identity. The situation with the Irish in Britain is somewhat
different, as Liam Harte=E2=80=99s anthology demonstrates. By my count, for=
ty-nine
of the sixty-three extracts included here are by persons who were born in
Ireland and moved to Britain. Generally speaking the maintenance of an Iris=
h
identity by persons belonging to generations born in Britain is indicative
of an antagonistic relationship with British society...

...=E2=80=9CThe Irish in Britain,=E2=80=9D the usual phrase for the Irish-B=
ritish diaspora
and the one that Liam Harte employs here, is therefore a telling one. One
can be used-to-be-Irish-but-now-British or still-unhappily-Irish-in-Britain
but not, it would seem, happily-Irish-British. In his thorough introduction=
,
written largely from a literary-critical perspective, Harte uses terms such
as =E2=80=9Cmigration,=E2=80=9D =E2=80=9Cemigration,=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9C=
exile=E2=80=9D almost interchangeably. This is
another telling usage: perhaps the trope of exile was a necessary myth for
some Irish people in Britain to cling onto to sustain an Irish identity.
However, it would be unhelpful if this were used to bolster the old notion
of the Irish in Britain as emigrants of despair, as opposed to the emigrant=
s
of hope who went to America...=20