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Irish Musicians in The Bronx

Irish Musicians in The Bronx =96 a Brief Oral History

Interviews with Irish Musicians in The Bronx

Project Overview

This project was instituted to document a slice of Irish musical life in =
The
Bronx, New York through a series of interviews with influential local
musicians =96 detailing their personal and family involvement with music =
in
their own words and on their own instruments.

Initiated through and funded by the City University of New York=92s =
Institute
for Irish American Studies (CUNY-IIAS), the interviews took place at the
IIAS Center for Traditional Irish-American Music at Lehman College in =
The
Bronx. Special thanks to Dr. Tom=E1s =D3 h-=CDde, Executive Director of =
CUNY-IIAS
for his support.

http://bronxtunes.wordpress.com/


America=92s epicenter of traditional Irish-American music has always =
been in
the kitchens and living rooms of the working musicians in The Bronx. =
From
recording giants Michael Coleman and Paddy Killoran at the dawn of the
Recording Age to modern touring giants Eileen Ivers and Joanie Madden,
musicians have learned, practiced, performed and honed their artform and
cultural ties in family settings throughout The Bronx. While many of the
early key players have been emigrants to America, younger generations of
Irish-Americans have steadfastly continued the artform and added their =
own
spin to the music, creating a style of playing particular to New York =
City.
Fiddle players such as Andy McGann and Paddy Reynolds kept continuity =
with
such early generations, playing the dancehalls of New York and passing =
their
knowledge on to succeeding generations ofmusicians. Many of their =
students,
such as Tony DeMarco and Brian Conway, have become internationally =
respected
musicians =96 each recording for Smithsonian Folkways records and =
teaching the
next generation. These are singular examples of the rich traditions kept =
by
Irish musicians in The Bronx, most of who have never been interviewed =
for
posterity.

Though the recordings of Bronx Irish musicians have been some of the =
most
influential in the global Irish music phenomenon, (see Spencer, 2010) =
the
musicians of The Bronx were often passed over for accolades in Ireland. =
This
changed in the early 1960s when Sean Quinn won a coveted All-Ireland
championship on button accordion in the Juniors category, and Kathleen
Collins on fiddle in the Seniors category a few years later. With the
Mulvihill school of Irish music and others in The Bronx preparing =
students
for competitions in the 1970s and 1980s, a string of younger =
Irish-American
musicians such as Eileen Ivers, Joanie Madden and Brian Conway began =
winning
All-Ireland championships, and the cultural repository of the Bronx =
Irish
music community became greatly respected in Ireland.

Today, Bronx musicians are some of the most influential in both America =
and
Ireland...

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July 17 (Sunday) 12:00 Noon (Free) Marine Firemen's Hall - 240 2nd St. San
Francisco

A Walk - Irish Labor Helped Build San Francisco
With IBEW electrician Peter O'Driscoll and labor writer and UAW NWU member
Larry Shoup.
This tour will focus on the history of San Francisco's famed waterfront and
the role of its Irish and Irish-American workers, leaders, and martyrs. It
will also include the cases of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings who faced a
labor frame-up in the Preparedness Day Bombing in San Francisco in July 1916
and the successful struggle for their release. The tour will also include
the sculpture dedicated to the waterfront strikers of 1934 and other
historic markers along the way. The tour will end inside Rincon Center
discussing the historic murals dedicated to the labor movement in San
Francisco.

SOURCE
http://www.laborfest.net/2011/2011schedule.htm

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Retrospective Reading of Fieldnotes - Living on Gypsy Camps
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This personal, reflective article by Judith Okely will interest a number of
Ir-D members, whose own research is exploring similar themes...

BEHEMOTH A Journal on Civilisation
2011 Volume 4 Issue Nr. 1

Retrospective Reading of Fieldnotes - Living on Gypsy Camps

Judith Okely

Abstract:
Decades after embarking on research among Gypsies, I examine that earlier
context when there was little published discussion of participant
observation practice. Snatched advice and rare texts suggested an open-ended
approach rather than limited hypothesis. The anthropologist's first weeks
of chronological narrative without selection of relevance, vindicate a
holistic perspective. Details reveal themes prophetically to emerge as
central. There are glimpses of individuals who were to play continuing or
passing, dramatic roles in the years to come. Fieldnotes both reveal and
conceal. Entwined with experience and analysis, they are later transformed
as texts. Fieldwork reveals embedded systems inaccessible through the
quantifiable. The 'merely anecdotal', so maligned by positivism, has the
grounded potential, as explored here, for theoretical and ethnographic
overviews, beyond place and time, in this case, residence on one Gypsy
encampment during the first few weeks.

Keywords: fieldwork; participant observation; traveller
camp; qualitative versus quantitative research methods;
anecdotal writing

http://www.reference-global.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1515/behemoth.2011.003


'...One puzzle, which inspired me was the fact that my ex partner, Hugh
Brody had written up the Irish fieldwork in the first person, as imagined
lone hero. Reviews had praised his apparently innovative autobiographical
style. In fact, he had been accompanied by 'Judith' his honorary 'wife',
wearing a Belfast Woolworths 'gold' wedding ring. This left me sceptical as
to how authors re-construct fieldwork in texts. The accompanying partner may
be erased or thanked as anonymised 'wife' in the preface (McDonald 1978;
Okely 2009). Puzzles can be transformed into something creative. Hence my
edited Anthropology and Autobiography (Okely/Callaway 1992) where I argued
it was important to explore the consequences of the gender, age and
ethnicity of the anthropologist in the context of the field...' p21

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Geeks and buffs will know that it is about now that the contents of the 2
Oxford journals
Year's Work Critical and Cultural Theory
Year's Work in English Studies
begins to come together.

I usually have a look, to see if there is anything relevant to our
interests.

Article:
James Procter and Stephen Morton
Postcolonial Theory
Years Work Crit Cult Theory (2011) first published online June 22, 2011

is of interest, in a general way, as a quick romp through a lot of stuff.
And two quotes...

of Home, Identity, and Mobility in Contemporary Diasporic Fiction by Jopi
Nyman they say...

'The main problem with this text is that its themes have already been well
established for some years now. Home, identity and hybridity are the
commonsense categories of diaspora studies and if the conclusion rings true,
this is because it tends to deal in truisms...'

So, 'diaspora studies' by now has 'commonsense categories '...

They mention McVeigh and Rolston...

'Robbie McVeigh and Bill Rolston's essay 'Civilising the Irish' (Race and
Class 51:i[2009] 2-29) traces the political and cultural genealogy of the
civilizing mission of British colonialism in Ireland. In so doing, they
disclose the ways in which the colonial rhetoric of 'civilization' continues
to inflect and inform the contemporary Northern Irish peace process...'

Moving on to
Year's Work in English Studies
it looks as if there are the usual mentions of Irish writers, or the Irish
experiences of English writers dotted throughout.

On a train of thought, I do recall that
Year's Work Critical and Cultural Theory
used to have occasionally a specific article on 'Irish Studies'. But the
last one I can see is...

2005
Irish Studies
Colin Graham
This chapter covers work published in the field of Irish Studies in 2003.
Years Work Crit Cult Theory (2005) 13 (1): 175-181.
First published online: August 19, 2005

P.O'S.

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Hollywood loves Boston's seamy underbelly

By Don Aucoin
Globe Staff / June 27, 2011

Through the 1980s and into the early 1990s, if there was an identifiable
face of Boston in the popular national consciousness, it might have belonged
to Sam Malone, depicted as an amiable former Red Sox relief pitcher and
proprietor of "Cheers,' a friendly, welcoming bar where everybody knew your
name.

But in the 16 years that James "Whitey' Bulger was on the run, right up
until his arrest last Wednesday, a more sinister onscreen image of the city
surfaced. Courtesy of pop culture, Boston's image underwent a kind of
rebranding campaign, and it was not the kind to gladden the heart of the
local chamber of commerce.

Increasingly, stories told about the city focused on its seamy underbelly
(while amounting to a full-employment act for dialect coaches, who were kept
busy teaching half of Hollywood how to drop their R's at the end of
syllables).

It was as if the revelations about Bulger's reign of terror as the head of
the Irish mob and his flight from justice encouraged filmmakers, television
producers, and writers to probe beneath the surface of Boston's notion of
itself as a genteel, erudite Athens of America...

...All these writers are working in the long shadow cast by the late George
V. Higgins. Four decades ago, in his debut novel "The Friends of Eddie
Coyle,' Higgins brilliantly nailed Boston's criminal milieu. In the 1973
film, Robert Mitchum, playing Eddie, gave one of best performances of his
career, and when he arrived in Boston to prepare for that performance, the
actor struck up an acquaintance with none other than Whitey Bulger,
according to a 2010 piece in The Irish Times by former Herald sports
columnist George Kimball.

"At the time, Bulger's public image was that of an eccentric but essentially
harmless South Boston version of Robin Hood, but Higgins, aware of exactly
how ruthlessly dangerous Whitey could be, tried to convey his apprehension
to the actor,' Kimball wrote. "Mitchum - who had in 1949 served time in
California, an experience he likened to Palm Springs without the riff-raff,
on a marijuana possession charge - reminded Higgins it was Bulger who was
imperiling himself, by associating with a known criminal.'...

FULL TEXT AT

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/06/27/hollywood
_loves_bostons_seamy_underbelly/?page=1

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Dear members,

Please find below an invitation to an event organised by the Centre for Iri=
sh Studies at the Universit=C3=A9 Rennes 2 on the occasion of the 30th anni=
versary of the hungerstrikes.

Wishing you all a restful summer break!

Grainne O'Keeffe-Vigneron


Programme

30 years on: assessing the impact and the legacy of the republican hungerst=
rikes
/ L'impact et l'h=C3=A9ritage des gr=C3=A8ves de la faim r=C3=A9publicaines=
: 30 ans apr=C3=A8s

Thursday, 22nd September 2011 / jeudi 22 septembre 2011

Venue / Lieu : M.I.R (Maison Internationale de Rennes), 7, Quai Chateaubria=
nd, 35000 Rennes.

Metro stop / M=C3=A9tro: R=C3=A9publique

Organisation : Centre d=E2=80=99Etudes Irlandaises, Universit=C3=A9 Rennes =
2 / MIR (Maison Internationale de Rennes), EA 4451- CRBC Rennes 2

=E2=80=A2 17h: Accueil / Welcome reception

=E2=80=A2 17h 30 : Introduction by members of the CEI (Centre d'Etudes Irla=
ndaises) Universit=C3=A9 Rennes 2 / Pr=C3=A9sentation g=C3=A9n=C3=A9rale pa=
r l=E2=80=99=C3=A9quipe du Centre d=E2=80=99Etudes Irlandaises, Universit=
=C3=A9 Rennes 2.

=E2=80=A2 17h40 : A brief overview of the Troubles through murals, Jean GUI=
FFAN, historien, Nantes / Un bref historique du conflit en Irlande du Nord =
=C3=A0 travers les =C2=AB murals =C2=BB.

=E2=80=A2 18h : The political context surrounding the Hungerstrikes, Profes=
sor Jon TONGE (Universit=C3=A9 de Liverpool, GB), followed by questions / L=
e contexte politique des gr=C3=A8ves de la faim, suivi de questions.

=E2=80=A2 18h40 : Presentation by Laurence McKEOWN, former IRA hungerstrike=
r, (ITT Dundalk, Irlande), followed by questions and discussion / Intervent=
ion de Laurence McKeown, ancien gr=C3=A9viste de la faim, suivie de questio=
ns et discussion.

=E2=80=A2 20h : End / Fin de la soir=C3=A9e.





Dr. Grainne O'Keeffe-Vigneron
Senior Lecturer
Centre for Irish Studies
Universit=C3=A9 Rennes 2


Dr. Grainne O'Keeffe-Vigneron
Senior Lecturer
Centre for Irish Studies
Universit=C3=A9 Rennes 2

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Subject: Book Notice,
Policing the Metropolis of Scotland: A History of the Police and
Systems of Police in Edinburgh & Edinburghshire 1770-1833
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Policing the Metropolis of Scotland: A History of the Police and Systems of
Police in Edinburgh & Edinburghshire 1770-1833 [Hardcover]
John Born McGowan (Author)

Hardcover: 544 pages
Publisher: Turlough Publishers (Dec 2010)
ISBN-10: 0956791700
ISBN-13: 978-0956791702

This book - which is based on an Open University thesis - will interest a
number of Ir-D members. There is an explicit critique of standard accounts
of the development of policing on these islands, and the emergence of the
differing policing models. And there are mentions of the Irish as a problem
group at various times in Edinburgh's policing history.

Sections of the book are visible on Google Books, and it is on sale through
all the usual outlets.

P.O'S.

In 2010, Turlough Publishers was established specifically to facilitate the
publication of books, written by John McGowan on aspects of the history of
policing and crime.

John completed 30 years service initially in the City of Edinburgh Police
and latterly the Lothian and Borders Police. Thereafter, he was a Company
Security Manager, safeguarding the security of eight nuclear power stations
and other vulnerable premises in the UK. With a wide range of investigative
experience and crime prevention / reduction policy development, his aim,
through historical studies and research, is to shed new light on a range of
Police related issues, such as, accountability, governance and crime
management bearing on public safety.

http://www.turloughpublishers.co.uk/

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Ireland's hidden diaspora: the 'abortion trail' and the making of
a London-Irish underground 1980-2000
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Book Review

Feminist Review (2011) 97, e9=96e11. doi:10.1057/fr.2010.44

Ireland's hidden diaspora: the =91abortion trail=92 and the making of a
London-Irish underground 1980=962000

Ann Rossiter,
LASC Publishing, 2009, 237pp., ISBN 978-0-9561785-0-3 (Pbk), =A38.00.
Distributed by Word Power Books http://www.word-power.co.uk

Rayah Feldman

In 1992, 25 years after the Abortion Act was passed in the Westminster
parliament, huge publicity was given to a shocking abortion story in the
Republic of Ireland. The case concerned a 14 year old girl, known only =
as X,
who had become pregnant as a result of rape and who wanted, against the =
law,
to travel to England to terminate her pregnancy. Since 1983, the rights =
of
the foetus have been enshrined in the Republic's constitution as equal =
to
those of the =91mother=92, prohibiting the termination of a pregnancy =
for any
reason other than to save the life of the pregnant woman. Abortion =
carries a
penalty of life imprisonment for both women and providers. In the X case
that went as far as the Irish Supreme Court, it ruled that because X was
suicidal, the pregnancy could be legally terminated, as it posed a real =
risk
to her life. She was therefore allowed to travel to England and have an
abortion.

The X case drew the British general public's attention to the appalling
implications of Irish abortion law, which, at the time also involved =
legal
prohibitions on providing information on abortion services in Britain as
well as on the right to travel abroad to seek abortions. Later that =
year,
both these restrictions were overturned in referenda, though the
constitutional prohibition on abortion remained, and is still in place. =
What
was (and remains) common knowledge in Ireland, though rarely spoken of
publicly, was that thousands of women have travelled to England, both =
from
the Republic and from Northern Ireland (where the 1967 Abortion Act =
still
does not apply), to seek abortions. Between 1968 and October 2008 it is
estimated that over 150,000 women from the Republic, and over 53,000 =
from
the North, travelled to England and Wales.

Ann Rossiter's splendid book documents the background to this hidden
migration and the story of the support given by Irish feminists in =
England,
particularly, in London, to Irish women who made the =91other journey=92 =
from
Ireland to England to exercise the right to control their own fertility. =
Her
book, informed by her own and other activists=92 stories, is a delight =
to
read, ranging from oral history to campaign handbook, from reflections =
on
St. Augustine's repressed carnal desires to an analysis of the case for =
and
against Irish exceptionalism in relation to abortion. She describes in =
vivid
detail the =91alternative=92 Irish community in London of feminists, =
lesbians,
left activists, atheists and agnostics from the Republic and the North, =
from
the 1960s onwards, and examines the politics of abortion in both parts =
of
Ireland in the context of British colonial rule. The Irish Women's =
Abortion
Support Group (IWASG), founded in the early 1980s, grew out the =
recognition
by these =E9migr=E9 Irish women that the Irish abortion laws could and =
should be
subverted...

...Both IWASG and IASC have been partially reincarnated as the Abortion
Support Network (ASN) part of an international coalition of agencies =
helping
women to travel to obtain abortions. The continuing necessity of such
assistance was highlighted during the =91volcano=92 shutdown of most =
European
airspace when the ASN issued an appeal for donations to support several
Irish women forced to change their travel plans to the UK to obtain
terminations, and who consequently incurred huge new costs.

This appeal reminds us that Ireland's Hidden Diaspora is not there to
preserve in aspic a glorious period of =91feelgood=92 activism before =
its
participants are too forgetful to remember. Rather it is a contribution =
to
breaking the continuing silence about the lack of abortion rights in the
whole island of Ireland, and a mobilisation to others to carry on the
struggle so vigorously engaged in by an earlier generation in the period
covered by the book. The book bursts with energy and conviction. It is =
easy
to read, excellently annotated, often funny, and provides a
contextualisation that combines scholarly analysis with the authenticity =
of
the participants=92 own voices.

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The Rise and Fall of the Jumbo Breakfast Roll: How a Sandwich
Survived the Decline of the Irish Economy
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The Rise and Fall of the Jumbo Breakfast Roll: How a Sandwich Survived the
Decline of the Irish Economy

by Perry Share
Institute of Technology, Sligo

Sociological Research Online, 16 (2) 2


Published: 20 May 2011

Abstract

This paper examines a specific food item - the Jumbo Breakfast Roll [JBR] -
through a sociological lens, in order to trace the factors that contributed
to its rise to prominence in Irish food culture in the 'Celtic Tiger' period
of the late 20th/early 21st century. It also examines the development of
these factors in the period following the crash of the Irish bubble economy.
It is argued that the JBR arose at the intersection of a number of key
trends in the food technology, retail, transport, distribution and
construction sectors. Yet the JBR also had its antecedents in established
foodways and traditions. It reflects on how the JBR could be interpreted as
a 'national dish' that symbolised a particular moment in contemporary Irish
society, and raises the possibility that a sociologically-informed analysis
of such emblematic dishes allows us to explore aspects of national society,
culture and economy within a globalised world.

Keywords: Fast Food; Ireland; Culture; Economic Conditions; Celtic Tiger;
Convenience Stores; Baking Technology; Sandwich

Freely available at
http://www.socresonline.org.uk/16/2/2.html

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Cameras Roll July 5 on new TG4 Irish Civil War Docu-Drama =
'B=C3=A1s=C3=BA na gCarad'=20

Directed and produced by Jerry O=E2=80=99Callaghan (Broken Harvest) of =
Black Rock Pictures, a new 6x30 Irish language Civil War docu-drama =
series =E2=80=98B=C3=A1s=C3=BA na gCarad=E2=80=99 will begin shooting on =
locations throughout Dublin and Wicklow. Filming will take place in July =
and September before transmission on TG4 next Spring.

The historical series will focus on the execution of Irish nationalist =
Erskine Childers and several other prisoners during the Irish civil war. =
Dominic Frisby will play Erskine Childers with Jessica Reagan playing =
the role of Molly Childers. Other Irish political figures to be =
dramatised include Rory O=E2=80=99Connor (Will O=E2=80=99Connell), Liam =
Mellows (Killian O=E2=80=99Donnacha), Joe McKelvey (Jason Matthewson), =
Dick Barrett (Larry McGowan) and Kevin O=E2=80=99Higgins (Ciaran =
McMahon), all of who were executed between 1922-1923 with the exception =
of Kevin O=E2=80=99Higgins who was murdered by a republican group in =
1927. The script was written by Pat Butler.

Director of photography on the show is Ronan Fox (Croke Park Lives). =
Editing, finishing and colour grading will be done by Will Harris on the =
production in November and December ahead of a broadcast on TG4 in 2012. =
Budget is TBC but the production was awarded =E2=82=AC295,000 by the =
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland in February 2011 in the tenth round of =
its Sound and Vision II broadcasting funding scheme.

SOURCE

http://www.iftn.ie/news/?act1=3Drecord&only=3D1&aid=3D73&rid=3D4284034&tp=
l=3Darchnews&force=3D1

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Subject: Midwest ACIS Meeting
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Forwarded on behalf of Jim Rogers.





Friends,



I'm sending this CFP for the Midwest ACIS to all of the Irish Studies
contacts in my computer's capacious e-mail memory It would be wonderful to
see you at the Midwest meeting this autumn.





http://english.ndsu.edu/news_and_events/midwestamericanconferenceforirishstu
dies/





The plenary speakers will be Jose Lanters and Francis M. Carroll, and the
Mdwest always turns out an impressive array of papers. See you there, I
hope!



Jim Rogers



James S. Rogers

UST Center for Irish Studies

Editor, New Hibernia Review

2115 Summit Ave, #5008

St Paul MN 55105-1096

(651) 962-5662

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Wall Street Journal

By EAMON QUINN

DUBLIN=E2=80=94Ireland's population increased to a new modern-era high =
despite the country facing its biggest ever economic threat, preliminary =
census data showed Thursday.

The highest birth rate in the European Union and less emigration than =
expected helped boost the Irish republic's population to over 4.58 =
million this year.

This was up over 8% or 341,421 persons since the last census in 2006, =
said the Central Statistics Office, which conducts the five-yearly =
survey.

Amid Ireland's worst ever debt crisis, analysts had expected emigration =
to be much higher and the population therefore to be about 100,000 =
lower, CSO Director General Gerry O'Hanlon told journalists. "If we did =
not have the bust, the population would be higher by 100,000."

Since 2006, the Irish economy has suffered its worst financial shock in =
modern times, with the government rescuing at huge cost all the major =
Irish banks. Alarmed at the rescue costs, markets last year forced =
Ireland into striking a =E2=82=AC67.5 billion bailout deal with the EU =
and International Monetary Fund.

Unemployment has soared to 14.2% from 4.4% in 2007=E2=80=94the last of =
the "Celtic Tiger" boom years=E2=80=94prompting what many thought would =
be the return to high levels of emigration for the first since the late =
1980s.

During the height of the boom, many migrants from the new EU accession =
states, such as Poland and Baltic states, accounted for about 12% of the =
Irish labor force.

The population is "unexpectedly" much higher because emigration in the =
last two years has been lower than expected, while the Irish birth rate =
remains much higher than the European average, said Brian Hughes, an =
economics demographer at the Dublin Institute of Technology.

The bigger population may also present difficulties to the Irish =
government as it seeks to make do with less money because of the =
requirement for austerity budgets in the next few years.

As the economic crisis quickened, the inward flow of migrants will have =
slowed sharply in the last two years, CSO statisticians said Thursday. =
However, Ireland's population will continue to grow though not at the =
record levels recorded during the boom years, analysts say.

Thursday's census data show the population at its highest since 1851 as =
the island started to suffer from the effects of the Great Famine. The =
population of the island halved, with the area now comprising the Irish =
republic then standing at 5.1 million.

The lowest population, at 2.8 million, was recorded in the 1961 census =
year, the CSO said.

The previous census in 2006 showed that Ireland was the fastest =
re-populating country and one of the most youthful of all advanced =
economies.

Mr. O'Hanlon said the average annual births of 73,000 since 2006 meant =
Ireland was still the fastest growing country in the EU.

The latest data show a strong geographical divide, with eastern =
counties, including Laois and Cavan, around the Dublin capital, =
recording the largest population increases.

However, population in the city-specific areas of Limerick and Cork fell =
since 2006 because of regeneration projects, the CSO said.

CSO statisticians also said that housing unit construction grew over =
13%, outstripping the 8% population growth since 2006, because of the =
trend toward single-household occupancy,

SOURCE

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052702304450604576417542957=
041536-lMyQjAxMTAxMDAwMzEwNDMyWj.html

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Thanks Paddy. This is an eminently balanced and sensible corrective to =
some Irish media reports which have constantly trumpeted a nice round, =
dramatic, even scary, figure of 1000 emigrants per week, without the =
slightest hard evidence and basing themselves in part on entirely =
speculative estimates from the Economic and Social Research Institute, =
but which people who actually work in this field have been suggesting =
were not justified. For example, it is possible to look at emigration =
from the other end - the numbers signing on for national insurance in =
the UK, or the number of working holiday visas given to Irish people to =
go to Australia. Looked at from that viewpoint, the figures don't add =
up. Moreover, many immigrants have opted to stay in Ireland. In other =
words, we need a balanced perspective, not an hysterial debate driven by =
stereotypical discourses.
=20
This is in _no_ way to suggest that emigration is not a problem or that =
it has not been rising, but the public and political debates are marked =
by a level of crudeness and innumeracy which is shocking. And if all =
emigration is 'crisis' emigration, it does a grave disservice to those =
for whom it actually _is_ a crisis, i.e. an unwanted choice.
=20
best
=20
Piaras

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Wall Street Journal

By EAMON QUINN

DUBLIN-Ireland's population increased to a new modern-era high despite =
the country facing its biggest ever economic threat, preliminary census =
data showed Thursday.

The highest birth rate in the European Union and less emigration than =
expected helped boost the Irish republic's population to over 4.58 =
million this year.

This was up over 8% or 341,421 persons since the last census in 2006, =
said the Central Statistics Office, which conducts the five-yearly =
survey.

Amid Ireland's worst ever debt crisis, analysts had expected emigration =
to be much higher and the population therefore to be about 100,000 =
lower, CSO Director General Gerry O'Hanlon told journalists. "If we did =
not have the bust, the population would be higher by 100,000."

Since 2006, the Irish economy has suffered its worst financial shock in =
modern times, with the government rescuing at huge cost all the major =
Irish banks. Alarmed at the rescue costs, markets last year forced =
Ireland into striking a EUR67.5 billion bailout deal with the EU and =
International Monetary Fund.

Unemployment has soared to 14.2% from 4.4% in 2007-the last of the =
"Celtic Tiger" boom years-prompting what many thought would be the =
return to high levels of emigration for the first since the late 1980s.

During the height of the boom, many migrants from the new EU accession =
states, such as Poland and Baltic states, accounted for about 12% of the =
Irish labor force.

The population is "unexpectedly" much higher because emigration in the =
last two years has been lower than expected, while the Irish birth rate =
remains much higher than the European average, said Brian Hughes, an =
economics demographer at the Dublin Institute of Technology.

The bigger population may also present difficulties to the Irish =
government as it seeks to make do with less money because of the =
requirement for austerity budgets in the next few years.

As the economic crisis quickened, the inward flow of migrants will have =
slowed sharply in the last two years, CSO statisticians said Thursday. =
However, Ireland's population will continue to grow though not at the =
record levels recorded during the boom years, analysts say.

Thursday's census data show the population at its highest since 1851 as =
the island started to suffer from the effects of the Great Famine. The =
population of the island halved, with the area now comprising the Irish =
republic then standing at 5.1 million.

The lowest population, at 2.8 million, was recorded in the 1961 census =
year, the CSO said.

The previous census in 2006 showed that Ireland was the fastest =
re-populating country and one of the most youthful of all advanced =
economies.

Mr. O'Hanlon said the average annual births of 73,000 since 2006 meant =
Ireland was still the fastest growing country in the EU.

The latest data show a strong geographical divide, with eastern =
counties, including Laois and Cavan, around the Dublin capital, =
recording the largest population increases.

However, population in the city-specific areas of Limerick and Cork fell =
since 2006 because of regeneration projects, the CSO said.

CSO statisticians also said that housing unit construction grew over =
13%, outstripping the 8% population growth since 2006, because of the =
trend toward single-household occupancy,

SOURCE

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052702304450604576417542957=
041536-lMyQjAxMTAxMDAwMzEwNDMyWj.html

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Forwarded on behalf of

From: Jacqueline Smith [mailto:jacqueline.smith[at]qeh.ox.ac.uk]=20
Subject: Oxford Diasporas Programme E-Update 2

Dear all

Welcome to the second email update from the Oxford Diasporas Programme
(ODP). ODP is a research programme at the University of Oxford. It is an
initiative of Oxford=92s three migration centres: the Centre on =
Migration,
Policy and Society, the International Migration Institute and the =
Refugee
Studies Centre. It is funded by the Leverhulme Trust from 2011 to 2015.

Inaugural Lecture by Khaching T=F6l=F6lyan

Over 100 people attended the launch of the Oxford Diasporas Programme on =
the
evening of 2 June in the Holywell Music Room in Oxford. Professor =
Khaching
T=F6l=F6lyan of Wesleyan University gave the programme=92s inaugural =
lecture on
=91Diaspora Studies:=A0 Past, Present and Promise=92.=20
=A0
You can listen to the lecture on our website

http://www.migration.ox.ac.uk/odp/audio/Kach_0.mp3

While Professor T=F6l=F6lyan was here, we recorded him in conversation =
with
Professor Robin Cohen.

You can watch a video of their discussion on our website

http://www.migration.ox.ac.uk/odp/multimedia.shtml

Diaspora-Related Publications

The first working paper associated with the Oxford Diasporas Programme =
has
been published and is available to download for free from our website:

Creating and Destroying Diaspora Strategies, by Alan Gamlen

http://www.migration.ox.ac.uk/odp/working-papers.shtml

A new book looking at the advantages of international mobility and
suggesting new approaches towards its governance has been written by the
Director of the Oxford Martin School, of which the International =
Migration
Institute is a member:

Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our
Future, by Ian Goldin

Jacqueline Smith
Communications and Outreach Officer
International Migration Institute,=20
Oxford Dept of International Development,=20
3 Mansfield Road Oxford OX1 3TB
T: +44(0)1865 281738
E: jacqueline.smith[at]qeh.ox.ac.uk
W: http://www.imi.ox.ac.uk/

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Available

on

http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/

at

http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/dougaldpaper.pd
f

Singing Home: Re-locating Scottishness in Diaspora
Josephine Dougal

Abstract
The idea that diasporas are responsible for preserving homeland culture in
aspic remains a widely held view, particularly when it comes to the Scots
across the globe. In many ways this view begs the important question of why
migrants continue to be engaged with their homeland culture.
Much of the migration theory and research that addresses this question
focuses on the role of migrant communities, institutions and networks, and
transnational social, economic and political ties. Some of this work has
placed greater emphasis on the role of 'imagined' connections, and on the
ways in which migrants make symbolic connections to a sense of homeland as a
means of supporting new identities. It is these symbolic connections that
this paper investigates, focusing on music as a source of symbolic
connections to homeland, and its role in the construction of family and
migrant identity. Of particular interest are the ways in which concepts
of home are 'imagined' in migrant life through song. This analysis
challenges the idea that cultural traditions are backward looking and
regressive, and frozen in time in diaspora, arguing instead that tradition
and the past are actively deployed as key cultural strategies in migrants'
creation of home and belonging.

Key Words: Migration, identity, Scottish diaspora, music, home and
belonging.

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"Geschichte Irlands" (1869/70) im Kontext der Deutsch-Irischen
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Gisela.Holfter [mailto:Gisela.Holfter[at]ul.ie]=20
Subject: 13th conference in Irish-German Studies - Friedrich Engels'
"Geschichte Irlands" (1869/70) im Kontext der Deutsch-Irischen =
Beziehungen
im 19. Jahrhundert, Berlin 11-12 August=20

In case you will be in Berlin in August and want to brush up your German =
=85
though some papers are in English. The reception in the Irish Embassy is
multilingual. There is no conference fee. Please forward to anyone who =
might
be interested.

All good wishes from Limerick
Gisela

Friedrich Engels' "Geschichte Irlands" (1869/70) im Kontext der
Deutsch-Irischen Beziehungen im 19. Jahrhundert

Akademiegeb=E4ude am Gendarmenmarkt, Einstein-Saal, J=E4gerstrasse =
22/23,
10117 Berlin


Organisers:
Dr. J=FCrgen Herres
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften Akademienvorhaben
Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) herres[at]bbaw.de

Dr. Gisela Holfter
Centre for Irish-German Studies, University of Limerick =
gisela.holfter[at]ul.ie

Dr. Eberhard Illner
Historisches Zentrum Wuppertal
Eberhard.Illner[at]stadt.wuppertal.de

Supported by the
Irish Embassy, Berlin

13th Conference in Irish-German Studies
Centre for Irish-German Studies, Limerick

Wir danken f=FCr die Unterst=FCtzung durch den Deutschen Akademischen
Austauschdienst (DAAD), die Irische Botschaft, Berlin, die Faculty for =
Arts,
Humanities & Social Sciences, University of Limerick, und den =
F=F6rderverein
Historisches Zentrum Wuppertal.


DONNERSTAG, 11. AUGUST 2011

13.30 Uhr
Begr=FC=DFung

14.00 Uhr
Einleitende =DCberlegungen
Friedrich Engels und die deutsch-irischen Beziehungen, Gisela Holfter
University of Limerick

14.45 Uhr
Marx und Engels =FCber Irland
Ein =DCberblick
Artikel, Briefe, Manuskripte und Schriften, J=FCrgen Herres
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe

15.30 Uhr
Pause

16.00 Uhr
Aspects of 19th century German-Irish relations, Dan Mulhall Irish
Ambassador, Embassy of Ireland, Berlin

16.45 Uhr
Deutsche Reiseberichte =FCber Irland im 19. Jahrhundert, Eoin Bourke =
National
University of Ireland, Galway

17.30 Uhr
Rezeption Daniel O=91Connells und der irischen Emanzipationsbewegung im
vorm=E4rzlichen Deutschland, James M. Brophy University of Delaware, =
Newark

19.00 Uhr
Empfang der Irischen Botschaft Berlin


FREITAG, 12. AUGUST 2011

09.00 Uhr
Mary und Lizzie Burns
Irische Fabrikarbeiterinnen und Engels=92 Lebensgef=E4hrtinnen, Gisela =
Mettele
Friedrich-Schiller-Universit=E4t Jena

09.45 Uhr
Das Textilunternehmen Engels in Manchester Wirtschaftsbeziehungen und
Arbeiterverh=E4ltnisse, Eberhard Illner Historisches Zentrum Wuppertal

10.30 Uhr
Pause

11.00 Uhr
The situation of Irish political prisoners in Great Britain, Se=E1n =
McConville
University of London, Queen Mary

11.45 Uhr
Irland und die englischen Arbeiter- und Reformbewegungen im 19. =
Jahrhundert,
Detlev Mares Technische Universit=E4t Darmstadt

12.30 Uhr
Engels=91 Irlandbild In seiner =84Geschichte der Lage der arbeitenden =
Klassen in
England=93 von 1845, Regina Roth Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der
Wissenschaften Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe

13.15 Uhr
Abschlussbemerkungen


Veranstaltungszeitraum:
11.08.2011 13:30 Uhr bis 12.08.2011 14:00 Uhr

Veranstaltungsort:
Akademiegeb=E4ude am Gendarmenmarkt, Einstein-Saal, J=E4gerstrasse =
22/23, 10117
Berlin

Der Eintritt ist frei. Eine Anmeldung ist nicht erforderlich.


Dr Gisela Holfter
Senior Lecturer in German &=20
Joint Director Centre for Irish-German Studies
University of Limerick
Limerick / Ireland
phone: +353 (0)61 202395
fax: +353 (0)61 202556=20
http://www.ul.ie/~lcs/Irish-German/

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A number of Ir-D members will find this web site of use and interest.

Ireland is one of the places examined in the Topography section, so that
there is a route there into the history of The Dublin Society for improving
Husbandry, Manufactures and other Useful Arts and Sciences, or of the The
Society of Artists in Ireland.

There is a section on Sitters and another on Subjects, so that it is
possible to identify and place portraits of people of interest. Before 1800
of course. Charles O'CONOR (1710-1791), scholar and antiquary, is in there.

There is a sub-text - pastels and pastellists are in a different place in
the social strata.

And you can explore the lives and careers of individual artists - like
Henrietta Johnston, through France, Ireland and the Americas. 'While her
Irish pastels used deep earth tones, the American works were lighter and
smaller, since her materials had to be imported...'

P.O'S.

Pastels & pastellists
Neil Jeffares

Dictionary of pastellists before 1800

The Dictionary of pastellists before 1800 by Neil Jeffares is an art
reference work on pastels by artists of all schools working during the
eighteenth century or before. The print edition was awarded the
Besterman/McColvin medal for the outstanding reference book published in the
UK in 2006...

Online edition - Pastels & pastellists

Since 2008 this website has made available an online version of the
Dictionary, regularly updated to include the latest available information.
In October 2010 the site was renamed Pastels & pastellists (with url
unchanged) in recognition of the amount of new material and the way in which
it is presented. These additions are detailed below, and include information
that would not be appropriate in a dictionary of artists. The information
contained on this site (which will continue to develop) is intended to
constitute a complete prosopography of those involved in the art of
pastel...

http://www.pastellists.com/index.htm

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Subject: Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies,
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The following has been brought to our attention...

It means that the journal is a bit more visible, and not simply on the
University of Toronto Press web site.

P.O'S.


The Diaspora back file will be available on Project MUSE on July 6th

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/diaspora_a_journal_of_transnational_studies/

Diaspora is dedicated to the multidisciplinary study of the history,
culture, social structure, politics and economics of both the traditional
diasporas - Armenian, Greek, and Jewish - and those transnational
dispersions which in the past three decades have chosen to identify
themselves as 'diasporas.' These encompass groups ranging from the
African-American to the Ukrainian-Canadian, from the Caribbean-British to
the new East and South Asian diasporas.

For more information about Diaspora or for submissions information, contact:

Diaspora
University of Toronto Press - Journals Division
5201 Dufferin Street
Toronto, ON
Canada M3H 5T8
Tel: (416) 667-7810
Fax: (416)667-7881
Email: journals[at]utpress.utoronto.ca
www.utpjournals.com

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Many news outlets have picked up this press release...

Scientists sequence potato genome
Researchers from Imperial College London and international colleagues have
decoded the genome of the potato - News

This new information about the potato's genetic makeup will speed up the
traditionally time-consuming process of developing new varieties. Scientists
are convinced that this will improve the quantity and quality of potatoes,
as well as their nutritional value and resistance to pests and diseases.

In addition, the genome sequence will allow scientists and breeders to
increase the efficiency of potato production. This will be particularly
important for developing countries, where potato consumption is expanding,
and which now produce more than half of the global potato harvest. The ease
of cultivating potatoes and their high energy content have made them a
valuable cash crop for millions of farmers in these areas.

Full Text at

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/ne
ws_11-7-2011-11-40-45

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Tom=E1s Mac Anna obituary
Playwright and artistic director of the Abbey theatre in Dublin

Richard Pine
guardian.co.uk

As the artistic director of Ireland's national Abbey theatre in Dublin,
Tom=E1s Mac Anna, who has died aged 87, trod a delicate path between
conservatism and cosmopolitanism. Dubbed "the Gorbachev of Irish =
theatre",
he sought a cultural glasnost, promoting modern Irish and world drama.

Born in Dundalk, County Louth, and educated at the National College of =
Art
and Design, in Dublin, Mac Anna served for two years in the Irish =
customs
office in Ballyshannon, County Donegal. He was appointed to direct
Irish-language drama at the Abbey in 1947. The then managing director,
Ernest Blythe, regarded the theatre as a vital means of restoring the =
Irish
language, and in other matters, such as repertoire and staging, was =
deeply
conservative. The Abbey was imploding with its diet of kitchen comedies
while the rival Gate theatre in Dublin was introducing a plethora of =
world
drama. Mac Anna's first production, in 1947, was Diarmuid agus Gr=E1inne =
by
Miche=E1l Mac Liamm=F3ir, the co-founder of the Gate.

For the next 20 years, Mac Anna directed plays in Irish (including 12
written by himself), as well as the annual Christmas pantomime. His =
skills
as a stage designer also came to the fore. This became increasingly
important as the Abbey strove to emulate the Gate, where Mac Liamm=F3ir =
was
delighting audiences with his mise en sc=E8ne...

...During his five years as artistic director of the Abbey (1973-78;
although he returned to the post briefly in 1985), Mac Anna consolidated =
his
grasp on alternative Irish drama with productions of Thomas Murphy's The
Sanctuary Lamp =96 complete with outraged clerical objections in 1975 =
=96 and a
vigorous revisiting of the later work of O'Casey, including Purple Dust
(1975), Cock-a-Doodle Dandy (1977) and The Star Turns Red (1978). =
O'Casey
also provided another international platform for the Abbey when it =
toured
the US during the American bicentennial in 1976 with a production of The
Plough and the Stars, featuring Cyril Cusack and Siobh=E1n McKenna.

Perhaps Mac Anna made a mistake when, in 1986 at Boston College, he =
directed
the world premiere of TH Nally's The Spancel of Death, which had been
scheduled to open at the Abbey back in 1916. He had little sympathy with =
the
stage-Irishry of the play and the audience found it unpalatable. Mac =
Anna
recognised this and, in self-derogatory mood, showed himself to be one =
of
the most unproud figures in an Irish theatre which thrives on egotism. =
Four
years later, in 1990, he scored a late triumph in his Abbey swansong,
directing Tagann Godot (Godot Arrives), Alan Titley's Irish-language =
sequel
to Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot...

FULL TEXT AT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/jul/10/tomas-mac-anna-obituary