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Subject: Article,
Narratives of 'Innocent Irish Childhoods': Return Migration and
Intergenerational Family Dynamics
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Caitr=EDona N=ED Laoire's article from...

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies=20
Volume 37, Issue 8, 2011=20
Special Issue: Transnational Migration and Childhood

Narratives of =91Innocent Irish Childhoods=92: Return Migration and
Intergenerational Family Dynamics

Caitr=EDona N=ED Laoire a*
pages 1253-1271

Abstract
There is growing recognition of the significance of circular and return
migration in contemporary global migration flows. Although many return =
moves
involve adults accompanied by their children, these migrant children are =
a
relatively invisible and under-researched group. In this article I =
explore
the experiences of children who have moved to Ireland with their Irish
return-migrant parent(s)=97a group who were born and spent part of their
childhoods in Britain, the US and elsewhere, and who, as part of the =
Irish
return-migration phenomenon of the late 1990s=962000s, have moved =
=91home=92 with
their parent(s) to a country with which they have strong, yet often
ambiguous, ties. Using participative research methods with children and
parents in some of these families, I explore the interrelation of =
notions of
childhood, identity and place in the return narratives of both the =
parents
and the children. Irish return migration is often constructed in terms =
of
home-coming and is assumed to involve the unproblematic reinsertion of =
Irish
nationals in their home country. I argue that, related to this, the =
notion
of =91innocent Irish childhoods=92 permeates familial narratives of =
return
migration. Adult return migrants construct their own and their =
children's
migrations around this particular idyllisation. I reflect on the ways in
which children in return-migrant families relate to this notion, and may
challenge but also reproduce these idealised narratives of return. In =
this
way, I show that involving children as active research participants can
highlight internal dynamics in migrant families and challenge hegemonic
constructs of return migration.

Keywords
Return Migration, Children, Family Migration, Narrative, Childhood, =
Ireland

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Subject: Article,
On an Island without Sun: Coping Strategies of Sikhs in Ireland
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Journal of Intercultural Studies

Volume 32, Issue 4, 2011

On an Island without Sun: Coping Strategies of Sikhs in Ireland

Glenn Jordan* & Satwinder Singh

pages 407-432

Abstract
This paper discusses 12 coping strategies - tools that Sikh immigrants and
their descendants have appropriated to make sense of and engage with their
new surroundings in Ireland: (1) keeping tradition alive; (2) improvisation;
(3) erasing markers of difference; (4) camouflage; (5) being smart, being
tough; (6) being cool; (7) downplaying racism; (8) living with India; (9)
crossing over, sharing experience; (10) becoming Asian; (11) becoming black;
and (12) pluralist theology. These categories emerged through an engagement
with Chicago School thinking from the first half of the twentieth century on
modes by which immigrant communities adapt to their new surroundings;
through a dialogical, hermeneutic process of reading and reflecting on the
interview material; and through reflections on our positions as immigrant,
racialised subjects. The mode of presentation is polyvocal - a patchwork
quilt of stories and images - and the 'Sikh identity' that emerges in the
text is plural.

Keywords
Diaspora, Immigration, Ireland, Life Stories, Polyvocality, Sikh Identity,
Sikh Immigrants

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Subject: Book Reviews, Pat Boran, Christopher Fitz-Simon
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Wasafiri=20
Volume 26, Issue 3, 2011

Rachel Bower=20

The Invisible Prison: Scenes from an Irish Childhood=20
Pat Boran
Dedalus Press, Dublin, 2009, pb=20
270pp ISBN 1 9066 1415 7 16=E2=82=AC
www.dedaluspress.co.uk
=20
Eleven Houses: A Memoir of Childhood=20
Christopher Fitz-Simon
Penguin, Dublin, 2007, pb=20
304pp ISBN 1 8448 8106 =C2=A38.99
www.penguin.com
=20
'Would I have been aware, that August, of the introduction of British =
troops into Derry? Of the thousands of refugees, frozen and miserable, =
that just eighteen months later would begin to pour across the border? =
Wasn't I more distracted =E2=80=93 weren't we all distracted? =E2=80=93 =
by the arrival of the seven-sided 50p piece, by Dana winning the =
Eurovision, by bombs under statues of Daniel O'Connell in Glasnevin =
=E2=80=A6?' (The Invisible Prison 163)

Pat Boran candidly reflects on the movement of British troops into =
Northern Ireland in 1969 through the eyes of his six-year-old self, =
showing how the significant events of history are often sidelined by the =
priorities of everyday life. In a refreshing move away from the =
dominance of =E2=80=98misery=E2=80=99 in Irish memoirs, particularly in =
the wake of Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes (1996), both Boran and =
Christopher Fitz-Simon unsentimentally craft uplifting accounts of life =
in Ireland which rigorously document the everyday and show how the =
personal and political are inextricably linked. Though the covers of =
both books feature the seemingly obligatory sepia photograph of a young =
Irish boy in short pants, which initially appear to suggest that they =
relate to the =E2=80=98Ryan Report=E2=80=99 (the recent investigation =
into child abuse in Irish state institutions), these memoirs offer a =
less seen insight into twentieth-century life in Ireland and =
innovatively stretch the formal possibilities of the memoir form.

Boran's precise prose is bright and energetic, and clearly influenced by =
his work as a poet. Unlike Eleven Houses, The Invisible Prison is =
published by the Irish publisher, Dedalus press, which is particularly =
interested in contemporary Irish poetry. Boran's reflections on =
childhood in Familiar Things (1993) resonate in the memoir, and there =
are echoes of poems like =E2=80=98Hall of Mirrors=E2=80=99 (As the Hand =
the Glove, 2001) in the memoir's exploration of the father=E2=80=93son =
relationship. The Invisible Prison is a collection of lively two to =
three page pieces, not dissimilar to a collection of linked short =
stories. These can be read as self-contained pieces, or as layers of =
colour in a larger whole. Boran evokes a delightful childhood world of =
holidays, of =E2=80=98candyfloss and toffee apples, of bumper cars and =
waltzers=E2=80=99 (82); a childhood that he described as =
=E2=80=98uncommonly happy=E2=80=99 in a recent interview (RTE radio, 3 =
November 2009). He deftly deals with the challenge posed by the =
unreliability of childhood memories by recalling the essence of =
unforgettable moments =E2=80=93 the swallowed whistle (=E2=80=98The =
=E2=80=98Self-Made=E2=80=99 Man=E2=80=99), the images reflected on his =
bedroom ceiling (=E2=80=98Camera Obscura=E2=80=99), the rope burns from =
the holiday where the car door fell off (=E2=80=98What We Did On Our =
Holidays=E2=80=99) =E2=80=93 and imaginatively bringing these shots of =
brilliance to life...

...Boran's fast-paced flashes of childhood life contrast starkly with =
the tempo of Fitz-Simon's carefully crafted prose. The eleven residences =
of Fitz-Simon's early years provide the scaffolding for his narrative =
and illustrations by the author head each chapter. The writing lacks the =
theatricality that we might expect from a writer who has written several =
broadcast plays and spent much of his life in the theatre, including the =
position of Artistic Director of the Lyric Theatre, the Irish Theatre =
Company and the National Theatre. Eleven Houses meticulously accumulates =
physical details about buildings, people and places; from the =
description of the headmistress, Miss Hogan, with her round bun, =
spectacles and =E2=80=98round grey hat like a mixing bowl=E2=80=99, to =
the bookcases, tables and windows of the various houses. A sense of =
passing underpins the text, defying the occupation usually associated =
with buildings. With the exception of the beautifully sketched Newcastle =
summer, the writing borders on detachment and is occasionally wooden or =
inanimate, like the window frames and gravy-coloured benches that he =
describes. The plethora of places and characters is occasionally tricky =
to follow and yet this accumulation cuts to the heart of the memoir, =
evoking the transience of a childhood in which the minutiae of domestic =
life takes precedence over grand events, including the Second World War. =
Ireland was officially =E2=80=98neutral=E2=80=99 during =E2=80=98the =
Emergency=E2=80=99, and its position is revealed through a tapestry of =
details, particularly through the father's military work in India, =
Palestine and Egypt. Political and religious tensions are cleverly =
revealed through the familial, and these easy observations defy the =
sectarian schisms that divide many of the surrounding adults. The =
author's attachments to blood relatives are continually subordinated to =
his affiliation to governesses, parents=E2=80=99 friends and animals, =
and his portrait of Great-aunt =E2=80=98Zane=E2=80=99 is particularly =
successful. His unusual family history, which includes Daniel O'Connell =
and Ulster unionists, adds subtle depth rather than being loudly =
overstated...

....Both memoirs close with clever scenes that evoke the complexities of =
ageing, without adopting the painful longing that often marks memoirs. =
Read together, they mark a noteworthy intervention in the Irish memoir =
form, and add to our knowledge of Irish national history.

SEE ALSO

http://www.theinvisibleprison.com/

This week, Miriam O'Callaghan meets poets and writers Theo Dorgan and =
Pat Boran
http://www.rte.ie/radio1/miriammeets/200311.html

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Subject: A South Side Irish Parade revival?
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A South Side Irish Parade revival?
By Mark Konkol Staff Reporter/mkonkol[at]suntimes.com August 2, 2011 12:58AM

The South Side Irish - at least some of them - want their St. Patrick's Day
parade back.

On Monday, about 50 folks angling to revive the South Side Irish Parade -
which marched for the last time in 2009 after 31 consecutive years -
gathered at the Beverly Arts Center to discuss how to resurrect a more sober
version of the St. Patrick's Day tradition on Western Avenue.

After the last parade - which was crowded with more than 300,000 revelers
and resulted in 54 arrests, including an aggravated battery of a police
officer - the South Side Irish Parade Committee decided in a 12-9 split vote
to pull the plug on the Mardi Gras-like event.

James "Skinny" Sheahan, presided over the "public airing of feelings" aimed
at brainstorming ideas for the parade's successful "one-year trial" return
in 2012.

"The whole parade was a victim of its own success...

..."It started as a guy having a six-pack and cooler on the parade route. It
was no big deal. Then, it started to get really out of control. People
walking around with kegs on their shoulder," parade committee spokesman Jim
Davoren said. "It's gotta be controlled."

Davoren said the committee has been receptive to the idea of bringing back
the parade on a trial basis, but no final decision on the parade's fate has
been made.

"Do it for one year and see what happens," Sheahan said. "The sad thing
about it is that there are so many little kids on the parade route. It's a
great day for the neighborhood. It's unfortunate some idiots come in and
goof it up for everyone."

FULL TEXT AT
http://www.suntimes.com/6829993-417/a-south-side-irish-parade-revival.html

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From: Patrick Maume
Subject: Re: fisheries during the Famine
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From: Patrick Maume
have just been reading a local study THE GREAT FAMINE; GALWAY'S DARKEST
YEARS (Mercier Press, Cork, 2011) by a local amateur historian, William
Henry. The analysis is very weak, but because he is drawing on contemporary
local papers he has some good material (though he says very little about who
were running these papers, what was their political outloook etc). On
pp119-124 he has a discussion of fishing which includes complaints about the
dissolution of the Irish Fishery Board (which had been intended to develop
the industry) in 1830, a speech made by Archbishop Whately in the House of
Lords during the Famine in which he claimed a clerical friend had told him
there was no point in making loans to the fishermen in Queenstown/Cobh since
they would just spend the money on food - this provoked a furious
controversy in which it was argued that loans by Quaker relief agencies to
the Claddagh fishermen had been successful, how traditional restrictions on
times and places for fishing off Galway broke down in the Famine (partly
because of competition from fishermen based elsewhere) and an account of the
impact of the 1849 cholera epidemic on the Claddagh. The book as I say is
not that sophisticated analytically but it may provide some useful leads for
more detailed research.
It also reprints some contemporary verses on the Famine, e.g a long poem
on the Gregory Clause which ends:
Mercy shall point to regions hot
For those who forsake her
O pray to Gregory grant that spot
As his own quarter acre.
Best wishes,
Patrick

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:

> The Irish Diaspora list has discussed this issue a few times - the earliest
> I can recall was in 1999, when the question was posted by Peter Holloran,
> following a discussion with his students.
>
> The most substantial answers were by Peter Gray and Kerby Miller.
>
> I will post these answers to the Ir-D list as a new message, so that people
> can see what was said then.
>
> I do not know of any systematic new study of the question - there are
> mentions of fish and fisheries in Mokyr and in books by Cormac O Grada, but
> these do not add materially to Peter's comments and Kerby's comments.
>
> What HAS changed in the intervening years is the development of Google
> Books. So that it is now easy to read many of the original texts - for
> example Dufferin's mention of fishermen pawning their boats and nets,
> Narrative of a journey from Oxford to Skibbereen, p 13.
>
> Then you can track the discussion, such as it is, over the century and a
> half. Details are picked up from the original texts and used to illustrate
> a point - landlord oppression, gallant rebellion. But I have never seen a
> substantial scholarly discussion.
>
> Where there is discussion is in fiction about the famine, and in studies of
> that fiction. For example Karen Macnamara, "The Potato Eaters" has a
> little
> section labelled 'Why didn't the Irish just fish?', in a study of writing
> for children - see Critical approaches to food in children's literature By
> Kara K. Keeling, Scott T. Pollard, 2008.
>
> This does not add much to the discussion, but it does show that the
> questions continue to be posed.
>
> P.O'S.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf
> Of Rogers, James S.
> Sent: 19 July 2011 19:57
> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: [IR-D] fisheries during the Famine
>
> Can the list point me to recent historical scholarship on the Irish fishing
> industry during the years of the Great Famine?
>
> There seems to be a lot of opinionated jabber about this on a variety of
> Internet pages, but I think I have seen some solid research on the matter.
> Just trying to recall where.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> 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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From: Claire Healy
Subject: Asylum seekers in Ireland, past and present
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Hi Paddy,=0A=0AList readers may be interested in my letter to the Irish Tim=
es, published today:=0A=0AAsylum seekers past and present=0A=09* Sir, =E2=
=80=94 John Moran=E2=80=99s article on Marta Fernandez Miranda de=C2=A0Bati=
sta=E2=80=99s request to the Irish government for political asylum=C2=A0on =
behalf of=C2=A0her husband, Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, made for fasc=
inating reading (Opinion Analysis, August 1st). It is, however, quite incor=
rect to refer to Batista as =E2=80=9CIreland=E2=80=99s first asylum seeker=
=E2=80=9D.=0AThe first significant group of people to seek refuge in Irelan=
d were around 10,000 Huguenots, who left France in the late 17th century in=
the wake of widespread persecution and the revocation of the Edict of Nant=
es. A further 50,000 settled in England, and these French Protestants are s=
aid to have coined the term =E2=80=9Crefugee=E2=80=9D in the English langua=
ge. These forced migrants gradually settled in the country, learned the lan=
guage and intermarried with the Irish population.=0AJust two decades later,=
in 1709, the Irish House of Commons authorised the settlement of Protestan=
t Palatines in Ireland.=0AThe Palatines were fleeing the conflict with the =
French in their homeland in the Palatinate (Pfalz) in present-day Germany. =
Over 3,000 Palatines moved to Ireland in that year, the majority of whom se=
ttled on the estate of Lord Thomas Southwell in Rathkeale, Co Limerick. Ove=
r half of the Palatine refugees were dissatisfied with the refuge provided =
in Ireland and re-emigrated to North America.=0AAfter=C2=A0the second World=
War, the Irish government was reluctant to accept European refugees. The D=
epartment of Justice particularly opposed the resettlement of Jewish refuge=
es in the State.=0ANevertheless, in 1956, Ireland acceded to the Geneva con=
vention relating to the status of refugees. This UN convention defined a re=
fugee as =E2=80=9Cany person who, owing to well-founded fear of being perse=
cuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particula=
r social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his national=
ity [. . . ]=E2=80=9D, although this applied only to European people who we=
re refugees because of events that had taken place prior to 1951.=0AThe sam=
e year that Ireland signed up to the convention, a group of 530 Hungarian r=
efugees fleeing the Soviet invasion of Hungary were accepted into the count=
ry and accommodated in an army camp in Knockalisheen, Co Clare.=0AThe Irish=
government made little provision for their resettlement, beyond providing =
accommodation, food and =E2=80=9Cpocket money=E2=80=9D, according to UNHCR =
records, and considered their residence in Ireland to be temporary. Like th=
e Palatines before them, the vast majority of the Hungarians in Ireland ult=
imately resettled in the US and Canada.=0AIn fact, in 1959, Fulgencio Batis=
ta did not even qualify under the provisions of the Geneva convention, as i=
t was not until Ireland acceded to the protocol relating to the status of r=
efugees in 1968 that the right to seek asylum was extended to all nationali=
ties, without geographical or chronological limitations.=0AThe next signifi=
cant group of people who sought refuge in Ireland were Spanish-speaking, li=
ke the Batistas, but from much further south than Cuba. They were Chileans =
fleeing the aftermath of Augusto Pinochet=E2=80=99s overthrow of Salvador A=
llende=E2=80=99s government.=0AIt is timely indeed to look back on Ireland=
=E2=80=99s patchy history in relation to granting refuge and safety to thos=
e who seek it, when Eurostat figures for 2010 show that this State refused =
98 per cent of applicants at first instance, the highest refusal rate in th=
e EU. =E2=80=94 Yours, etc,Dr CLAIRE HEALY,=0AMargaretenplatz,=0AVienna, Au=
stria.http://www.irishtimes.com/letters/index.html#1224301767209=0A=C2=A0=
=0AAll the best,=0A=C2=A0=0AClaire.=0A

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Subject: CFP, Anniversary of The Yeats Society of Korea,
October 29 and 30, 2011
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Call for Papers

The 20th Anniversary of The Yeats Society of Korea
"International Conference on W. B. Yeats and Modern Poetry"
at Hanyang University, Seoul
on Saturday and Sunday, October 29 and 30, 2011


It is a great pleasure and honor to invite scholars, students, and lovers
of poetry to participate in the great global event of the 20th Anniversary
of The Yeats Society of Korea International Conference on "W. B. Yeats and
Modern Poetry" hosted by The Yeats Society of Korea and Hanyang University
sponsored by Korea Research Foundation. The Yeats Society of Korea was
founded in 1991, and has since published a bi-annual journal, The Yeats
Journal of Korea. The December issue will publish the conference papers as
soon as they are ready after the conference in October.

We have had two international conferences, in 1996 and 1999. It has been
a great pleasure and honor to contact so many great scholars of the world,
And it is our greatest pleasure again to invite a dozen greatest scholars
who have enthusiastically responded to our call for papers, although,
indeed, it is almost impossible for most of them to do so, They are all the
key professors in their department or their colleges and universities. We do
not know how this is made possible; we are just moved and thankful to all of
the great guest speakers.

We are making efforts to bring one more surprising guest, one of the
great poets in the present world, to celebrate this great event and predict
the course of poetry in the decade or so. But even without him, our
gathering is the greatest ever, already. We are truly thankful to all of
your guest speakers and to more participants to join.

We are pleased to announce all the keynote speakers and guest speakers of
the world.
Professor Daniel Albright (Harvard University, U.S)
Professor Edward Larrissy (Queens University Belfast, UK)
Professor Linda Ray Pratt (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, U.S)
Professor Elizabeth Loizeaux (University of Maryland, U.S)
Professor Anthony Roche (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Professor Charles Armstrong (University of Bergen, Norway)
Professor Margaret Harper (University of Limerick, Ireland)
Professor Rajeev S. Patke (National University of Singapore)
Dr. Jerry Weng (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Professor Kazuhiro Doki (Aichi University of Education, Japan)
Professor Peter Mathews (Hanyang University, Korea)
One more guest speaker and another from China will be announced
later.
And professors from Korea will further join them.

Now we announce the call for papers for more participants, (We will
provide University accommodations for participants from abroad, if their
paper is accepted. If you just want to attend the conference, we will
provide the Conference Proceedings for free.) If your paper is accepted and
read at the conference it will be published in The Yeats Journal of Korea,
It must be a new article or a radically revised one, if it had been read or
published elsewhere. Your conference paper will be about five to ten pages
long, good for 30 minutes and is to be initially in the Conference
Proceedings before publication in The Yeats Journal.

If you want to participate, please send us an e-mail showing your interest
including the 300 word proposal/abstract with a brief C.V. of yours by
September 30, 2011, to Prof. Jooseong Kim, the Secretary General of The
Yeats Society of Korea at kimjooseong[at]dankook.ac.kr

We look forward to hearing from you.

Cordially,
Kiho Yun, PhD.
President, The Yeats
Society of Korea
Professor of English,
Chungbuk National Univ.

*Inquire: Secretary General, Dr. Jooseong Kim (Dankook Univ.)
kimjooseong[at]dankook.ac.kr
phone: +-82-10-7670-8610

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Subject: UCD Press launches Irish Boundary Commission and Its Origins by
Paul Murray 6pm Tues 9 Aug at Newman House
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Forwarded on behalf of
Noelle Moran [mailto:Noelle.Moran[at]ucd.ie]=20

UCD PRESS
=A0
requests the pleasure of your company at a reception
to celebrate the publication
=A0
of
=A0
The Irish Boundary Commission and Its Origins
1886-1925
=A0
by
=A0
Paul Murray
=A0
at Newman House
86 St Stephen=92s Green
Dublin 2
=A0
on Tuesday, 9th August 2011 at 6 pm
=A0
=A0
where the book will be launched by
=A0
Professor Paul Arthur
University of Ulster
=20
UCD PRESS (01) 477 9812/13
ucdpress[at]ucd.ie
www.ucdpress.ie
=A0
ALL WELCOME!

Noelle Moran
Executive Editor
UCD Press
Newman House
86 St Stephen's Green
Dublin 2,=A0 Ireland
=A0
tel. + 353 1 477 9813/9812
fax. + 353 1 4779821
www.ucdpress.ie

A history of the Irish Boundary Commission. It looks at British attempts
from 1886 onwards to satisfy the Irish Nationalist demand for Home Rule,
Ulster and British Unionist resistance to this demand, the 1920 =
partition of
Ireland, and the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty, where the roots of the
establishment of the Commission are to be found.

In this comprehensive history of the Irish Boundary Commission, Paul =
Murray
looks at British attempts from 1886 on to satisfy the Irish Nationalist
demand for Home Rule, Ulster and British Unionist resistance to this =
demand,
the 1920 partition of Ireland and the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty, where the
roots of the establishment of the Commission are to be found. The =
evidence
presented at the Commission and the principles on which it based its
decisions are analysed against the background of evolving British views =
on
the dangers posed for British and Unionist interests on both islands by =
a
radical redrawing of the 1920 border. New documentary evidence is =
brought to
bear on the motivation of its Chairman Justice Feetham, his =
susceptibility
to external influences, and the significance of his political background =
as
possible factors in his final decisions. The history of the Irish =
Boundary
Commission is shown to also be part of a larger European narrative. This
study is, thus, the first large-scale attempt to consider its =
significance
in its wider international context.

Introduction
ONE: The Partition of Ireland: The Forces at Play
TWO The Anglo-Irish Treaty &
the Ulster Question
THREE: Anticipating the Boundary Commission
FOUR: The Commission in Session
FIVE: Procedures and Findings
SIX: The Boundary Commission's European Context
SEVEN: The Division of Ireland: Normative Issues
EIGHT: Conclusion
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

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Subject: CFP ACIS Mid-Atlantic, Interrogating the Urban,
September 30th and October 1, 2011. Manhattan College
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ACIS Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, 2011, INTERROGATING THE URBAN: =
Irish
cities, cultures and identities.=20

September 30th and October 1, 2011. Manhattan College. Riverdale, NY.

We invite you to join us at the ACIS Mid-Atlantic regional conference at
Manhattan College in Riverdale, NY.

In what ways do Irish urban spaces and urban concerns, shape national =
policy
or culture in Ireland? How does Irish urban geography, or the =
representation
of it (in film, fiction, poetry and popular culture) inform our =
positions as
scholars of Irish history, literature, and identity? The 2011 ACIS
mid-atlantic conference invites submissions that focus on how the urban =
site
has historically engaged the complexity of Irish culture in relation to
either economics, literature, secularization and globalization. Possible
topics include (but are not limited to):

The Queen=92s recent visit to Ireland and Northern Ireland
Borders and Boundaries
Visas
Contested sites and liminal spaces
The Irish neighborhood at home and abroad
Immigration and the changing city=20
The city as alternative space
The rural/urban divide
Literary and visual representations of Irish cities
Representations of city life in mass media
Urban planning and the Irish city

Both individual papers and panel submissions (3-4 participants) are
welcomed, as are proposals for presentations in non traditional formats
(posters, performances, exhibits). =A0

Keynote Speaker will be announced shortly.

Please send proposals of approximately 350 words by August 10th to =
Deirdre
O=92Leary, Ph.D. at Deirdre.oleary[at]manhattan.edu. For further =
information,
visit the conference website at:=20
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The website will be regularly updated.

Contact:
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Department of English
Manhattan College
4513 Manhattan College Parkway
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Forwarded on behalf of
Jon Keljik
PhD Candidate, History
George Washington University
jkeljik[at]gwmail.gwu.edu


I'm writing to find out if anyone is planning to attend the American
Conference for Irish Studies meeting in New Orleans in March 2012. If
so, would anyone be interested in putting a panel together with me?
My paper is a part of my larger dissertation project about
Irish-American children in the nineteenth century and it will focus
on education in public schools, parochial schools, and the ethnic
identity of the children of Irish immigrants. Does anyone have a
paper that may fit well with this topic?

Thank you for your time. Please contact me if you or someone you know
would be interested in joining a panel with me for the ACIS conference in
2012.

Jon Keljik
PhD Candidate, History
George Washington University
jkeljik[at]gwmail.gwu.edu

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Ian S. Wood. Britain, Ireland, and the Second World War. Edinburgh
Edinburgh University Press, 2010. ix + 238 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN
978-0-7486-2327-3.

Reviewed by Daniel C. Williamson
Published on H-Albion (August, 2011)
Commissioned by Thomas Hajkowski

Ian S. Wood's _Britain, Ireland, and the Second World War_ provides a
valuable survey of the impact that the war had on Ireland and how it
affected relations among the governments of Eire, Northern Ireland,
and Great Britain. The author covers a number of major topics
including the neutrality of Eire, the impact that the war had on
Northern Ireland, the response of the IRA to the conflict, and
Britain's relations with the Irish governments on both sides of the
border.

Eamon de Valera's determination to keep Eire officially neutral is
given a central place in Wood's study. "With our history, with our
experience of the last war and with part of our country still
unjustly severed from us, we felt that no other decision and no other
policy was possible," de Valera announced to the Irish people on 3
September 1939 (quoted, p. 1). Wood provides the context of this
quote with a clear review of the events leading up to the creation of
the Irish Free State, the partition of the island, and de Valera's
own rise to power which culminated in the new Irish constitution of
1937. Under this constitution, Eire, as the Irish Free State was now
known, cut many of the symbolic ties that had bound it to the United
Kingdom. Even before war broke out, de Valera was preparing for Irish
neutrality by insisting on the return of the Treaty Ports to Eire, a
policy that Wood characterizes as "an affirmation of full
sovereignty" (p. 26).

Historians have long understood that Irish neutrality, or more
accurately, nonbelligerence, tilted strongly in favor of the Allies.
Dublin cooperated with Britain on intelligence matters, supplied the
Allies with valuable weather information, and made secret military
plans to coordinate with British forces in case of a German invasion
of Ireland. Irish cooperation with Britain reflected not just a
policy of practical self-preservation but, as Wood points out, a
genuine desire by de Valera and the majority of the population of
Eire to see the Allies defeat Nazi Germany, albeit not at the cost of
Irish neutrality. Indeed the formal neutrality of Eire was almost
universally supported by the Irish people. Wood concludes that Eire's
informal help, in particular intelligence cooperation, "was of no
small importance to Britain and her allies, and was indeed the hidden
side of the Irish state's neutrality" (p. 58). Irish citizens, with
no interference from their own government, served the Allied cause
directly as workers in war-related British industries or as
volunteers in the British forces. Wood accepts the estimate that over
50,000 Irish citizens served with the British. Irish soldiers were
numerous enough for the British army to organize an Irish Brigade.
Wood expresses a great deal of admiration for these Irish volunteers
whom he sees as having overlooked narrow Irish nationalist concerns
to confront the evil of Nazism.

At home, the Irish state did its best to limit the impact of the war
which was euphemistically referred to as the "Emergency." While
wartime shortages and the need for an expanded defense force could
not be ignored in Eire, official censorship kept news of the conflict
to a bare minimum. Aside from the mistaken but deadly German bombing
of Dublin in May 1941, and the bodies of dead sailors and airmen that
washed up on Ireland's coast, the violence of the Second World War
bypassed Eire. Dublin's studious adherence to the forms of
neutrality, most famously displayed by de Valera's public trip to the
German embassy to pay his respects on the death of Hitler, seem
unnecessary to the author. Wood believes that the crimes of the Nazi
regime warranted official condemnation even from a neutral state.

Wood also examines the impact of the war on the northern side of the
border. Unlike Eire, Northern Ireland was formally at war along with
the rest of the United Kingdom. However, as Wood ably demonstrates,
the experience of the Second World War in Northern Ireland was
distinct from that of the rest of the United Kingdom. One major
difference was that Northern Ireland was exempt from military
conscription. Despite attempts by Stormont's Unionist government to
have the province included in the draft, London decided at the start
of the war that the resistance that conscription would face from the
nationalist community made the move counterproductive. In fact, Wood
claims that sectarian divisions remained at the heart of life in
Northern Ireland, despite the province's active participation in the
Second World War. British and American servicemen stationed in
Northern Ireland were often shocked by the pervasiveness of sectarian
tensions. Wood provides a telling incident regarding BBC programming
during the war. When a radio broadcast called the _Irish Half Hour_
was introduced for the benefit of Irish nationalists serving in the
British military, Northern Ireland's prime minister, Sir Basil
Brooke, pushed for an _Ulster Half Hour_ as a counterweight. When the
new unionist-centered program played a traditional nationalist song
the prime minister publicly protested. "In the midst of a global
conflict consuming thousands of lives," Wood writes, "these exchanges
vividly capture all of Northern Ireland's unresolved cultural and
sectarian divisions" (p. 81).

Northern Ireland was not untouched by the war as Belfast was bombed
by the Luftwaffe, war-related industrial production almost eliminated
unemployment, and nearly 50,000 volunteers served in the armed
forces, but it remained fundamentally unchanged. Wood views the war
and the postwar creation of the British welfare state as a missed
opportunity to change the trajectory of the history of Northern
Ireland. Wood criticizes Stormont for failing to push for some
fundamental changes during this period. He characterizes the Unionist
governments as "simply coasting along, averting their gaze from the
chasm of misunderstanding and prejudice which partition, devolved
government, and world war had failed to close" (p. 192).

Unlike Dublin's desire to avoid and ignore the war as much as
possible, the Irish Republican Army welcomed the conflict as yet
another episode of an English difficulty that could be made Ireland's
opportunity. Although prewar divisions in the republican movement
along left-right lines continued, the IRA officially opened its war
against Britain in January 1939, months before the invasion of Poland
by Germany. The IRA of this period was focused on ending partition,
not overthrowing Dublin's government. In a vain attempt to force the
British to withdraw from Northern Ireland the IRA launched a bombing
campaign in Britain. The attacks quickly sputtered out, but
republicans were encouraged by the actual outbreak of the war in
September to seek aid from Germany. Nazi aid never amounted to much,
in large part because of informal but effective cooperation among the
Royal Ulster Constabulary, the Garda Siochana, and British
intelligence. In addition, the policy of interning known republicans
that was introduced in both parts of Ireland reduced the
effectiveness of the IRA. Despite the high degree of cooperation,
Wood points out that dealing with the IRA remained a point of
contention in public between Eire and the United Kingdom. While de
Valera's government saw no problem with its own execution of two IRA
members convicted of murdering an Irish detective, Dublin loudly
protested the hanging of two IRA men convicted of playing a role in a
fatal bombing in Britain and the execution of IRA volunteer Tom
Williams for the killing of a member of the Royal Ulster
Constabulary.

Wood examines in some detail the German sojourns of Sean Russell, the
traditionalist IRA chief of staff, and Frank Ryan, a champion of the
republican Left. Despite the policy differences between them, both
men cooperated with the Germans to further the goal of Irish
unification. Wood is harshly critical of the IRA for failing "to see
any moral imperative in the need to destroy the Third Reich and its
monstrous tyranny across Europe" (p. 117).

The last major topic covered by Wood is Britain's relations with both
Irish governments. British sentiment was divided over Eire. Neville
Chamberlain's government had pursued good relations with Dublin and
had agreed to return the Treaty Ports to full Irish control in order
to end the Economic War. Many British government and military
officials, such as British representative to Dublin Sir John Maffey,
continued to have a basically positive attitude toward Eire even
after Dublin refused to enter the war. On the other hand, Prime
Minister Winston Churchill was very bitter regarding Irish
neutrality. Churchill's offers to Dublin to work for Irish
unification if Eire declared war on Germany came to naught as de
Valera recognized that Churchill did not have the backing of Stormont
for his plans. In fact Anglo-Irish relations were so strained that
the Irish military took the threat of British invasion every bit as
seriously as that of German invasion. While Churchill was as aware as
anyone about the secret cooperation that Dublin offered to the
Allies, Wood suggests that the prime minister, ever a staunch
imperialist, had never come to terms with the desire of Irish
nationalists to leave the British Empire. Churchill also did not
trust de Valera. This mistrust must be linked to Churchill's direct
involvement in the events of the Irish Revolution. Churchill's anger
at Irish neutrality was not even assuaged by the Allied victory over
Germany. He singled out Eire for criticism in his victory speech of
May 13, 1945. In his response a few days later de Valera told his
radio audience that if Britain had invaded Eire for its own purposes,
as Churchill suggested it could have rightfully done during the war,
than British policy would be no different from that of Nazi Germany.
Ironically, as Wood points out, Churchill's attack, and de Valera's
response, was a major political coup for the Irish leader as the
exchange completely erased any negative feelings that the Irish
public had over de Valera's condolence visit to German ambassador
Hempel after Hitler's suicide. Like the policy of neutrality itself,
de Valera's speech was almost universally hailed in Ireland.

While Anglo-Irish tensions were bound to happen London also had
difficulties with the government of Northern Ireland. Wood argues
that Northern Ireland never fully lived up to its potential as part
of the British war effort. Each of Northern Ireland's three wartime
prime ministers urged London to extend conscription to the province
but the British never took the step and voluntary recruitment was
disappointing. Among the unionist community, memories of the
slaughter of the Great War were fresh and there was the added concern
that veterans would return to find that their jobs had been taken by
men who has not served. Nationalists in the North were understandably
reluctant to join the British forces in great numbers. Industrial
production in Northern Ireland was also somewhat disappointing and
labor disputes were more common in the province than in other parts
of the United Kingdom. However, in general Wood argues that Stormont
cooperated with London to try to promote the maximum war effort from
the people of Northern Ireland and the British were grateful for the
strategic bases that the North provided.

Taken as a whole, Wood's study stresses two basic facts about the
Second World War and the British Isles. The first is that the
relations among the two Irish governments and the British government
were very much dominated by the continuing effects of the Irish
Revolution and partition. Eire did not stay out of the war due to any
sympathy for Germany or any antipathy to the Allied cause but rather
because de Valera and the great mass of the Irish people believed
that it was inappropriate to fight side by side with Britain as long
as Northern Ireland remained a part of the United Kingdom. The
government in Stormont, while dedicated to fighting the war, never
flagged in its devotion to maintaining Unionist domination in
Northern Ireland. London understood that partition had had a profound
impact on Irish politics and treated Northern Ireland differently
from the rest of the United Kingdom, while using the possibility of
reunification to tempt Dublin into the war. Many British officials,
Churchill being a notable exception, accepted that Eire's informal
cooperation was the best outcome that London could reasonably hope
for as long as Ireland was divided. The second fact that Wood
illuminates is that, despite near universal support for the policy of
formal neutrality, many Irish citizens were directly involved in the
war as military volunteers and industrial laborers in the United
Kingdom. Thus, a true history of the period needs to acknowledge that
while Eire avoided the full rigors of war, tens of thousands of its
people experienced the conflict firsthand.

Wood expresses a great deal of respect for the Irish people from both
sides of the border who fought against Hitler. He is critical of the
fact that for a half-century after the end of the war Ireland
studiously ignored the memory of its citizens who were veterans of
the conflict. It has only been since the beginning of the peace
process in Northern Ireland that Dublin has felt comfortable
celebrating their service. While Wood's revulsion at the Nazi regime
is warranted, it is perhaps na=C3=AFve of him to expect that the IRA
should have rejected cooperating with Germany out of moral
compunction. The IRA was primarily interested in ending partition and
even left-wing republicans stood by the maxim: "the enemy of my enemy
is my friend." To Irish republicans the ultimate enemy was British
imperialism, not fascism. Likewise, Wood questions the morality of
Ireland's neutrality in the face of Nazi barbarism. While he gives
Eire full credit for unofficially helping the Allies, he fails to
compare its pro-Allied nonbelligerence to the neutrality of other
democratic states like Switzerland and Sweden.

_Britain, Ireland and the Second World War_ is an admirable
introduction to the history of the topic. As the author admits in his
acknowledgments, the historiography on Ireland and the war is
extensive, of high quality, and constantly expanding and he could not
include everything. For instance, volumes 6 and 7 of the Documents on
Irish Foreign Policy series published by the Royal Irish Academy now
cover the whole period from 1939 to 1945. However, Wood makes no
claim to have written a definitive history and his book has value for
a general reader or for students in a course on Irish history. Aside
from a few copy-editing errors, the book is well written and
conveniently organized by topic. Wood also provides more than
adequate background material for readers who are not specialists.
While Wood focuses mostly on Ireland, as his book makes clear, it is
impossible to separate the Irish experience of the war from that of
Great Britain. Wood clearly demonstrates that even as Eire publicly
trumpeted its sovereignty, its ties to Britain were extraordinarily
close, and indeed inescapable. While most of the book is a summary of
existing literature, Wood does contribute a good deal of primary
research on Northern Ireland. His suggestion that the Second World
War and its immediate aftermath constituted a missed opportunity for
reform in Northern Ireland is certainly worthy of further
investigation by historians.

Citation: Daniel C. Williamson. Review of Wood, Ian S., _Britain,
Ireland, and the Second World War_. H-Albion, H-Net Reviews. August,
2011.
URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=3D31015

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

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El Celtic FC y la
expresi=?iso-8859-1?Q?=F3n_del_republicanismo_a_trav=E9s_de_los_c=E1nticos_de?=
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There are articles of interest in the latest issue of the freely =
available
online Spanish language journal Oce=E1nide

http://oceanide.netne.net/

The journal can also be accessed through the DOAJ, Directory of Open =
Access
Journals

http://www.doaj.org/

The article on Celtic FC is in Spanish, with video clips.

Remember that you can put an entire web page through Google Translate or =
you
can install the Google Translate facility in your own web browser.

http://oceanide.netne.net/articulos/articulos3.php

http://oceanide.netne.net/articulos/art3-6.php

Title: El Celtic FC y la expresi=F3n del republicanismo a trav=E9s de =
los
c=E1nticos de f=FAtbol.
Author: Carlos Seco Gonz=E1lez

Abstract: It is well known that one of the most common forms of
expression within a football field is through music, either through =
hymns,
songs and chants of support for the team. No need to remember that any
international tournament always has a certain prestige anthem. So many =
times
football fans use music as a means of expressing their identity or =
ideology,
politics, and even remember the history of their country. In this sense, =
in
the following case study, we have analysed a small sector of Celtic fans
whose chants or songs have brought Media attention, namely for =
nationalist,
pro-Republicans and pro-IRA issues are or simply as a means of showing
historical content and / or pay tribute to political heroes of Irish
history. An article on the Irish land that means so much for Celtic fans =
and
the Irish Catholic community settled in Scotland, a community that even
nowadays is still forced to privatize certain aspects of their identity.
Journal: Oce=E1nide
Issn: 19896328
=09
Year: 2011
Volume: 3
=09
Keywords music ; identity ; Irish nationalism ; football

In the same issue see also

The Irish Modernist Literary Writing: A Dialogic Space.
Dra. Hana Fayez Khasawneh
Yarmouk University, Jordan

El Purgatorio de San Patricio (Sir Owain), de Henry of Saltrey: Apuntes
generales.
D. Jos=E9 Antonio Alonso Navarro
EADE, Universidad de Gales

http://oceanide.netne.net/articulos/articulos3.php

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School of Canadian Irish Studies at Concordia University in
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From: Michael Kenneally [mailto:Michael.Kenneally[at]Concordia.ca]=20

Michael Kenneally
Principal, School of Canadian Irish Studies
Concordia University, Hall Building, 1001-11
1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. West
Montreal, QC H3G 1M8
514 848 2424 ext. 7389
cell: 514 279 5764
www.cdnirish.concordia.ca



Tenure-Track Position in Irish Diaspora Studies

The School of Canadian Irish Studies at Concordia University in =
Montreal,
Quebec currently offers Minor and Certificate programs in Canadian Irish
Studies, sponsors a prestigious annual lecture series, hosts Visiting
Scholars, provides scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students,
presents an Irish Studies Seminar Series, publishes the Canadian Journal =
of
Irish Studies, and organizes various community-outreach events.=A0 In =
2012,
the School is planning to introduce a Major in Canadian Irish Studies =
and,
in July, will host the annual conference of the International =
Association
for the Study of Irish Literatures.=20

The School now invites applications for a tenure-track position in Irish
Diaspora Studies.=A0 Candidates in Humanities, Social Sciences and Fine =
Arts
disciplines are encouraged to apply.=A0 The ideal candidate will have a
completed PhD, a strong research and teaching profile, previous
administrative experience, a demonstrated multidisciplinary approach to
his/her own subject, a broad interdisciplinary conceptualization of =
Irish
Studies, and expertise in the discourses of migration studies in =
general, as
well as Irish diaspora studies.=A0 The candidate will also be expected =
to
facilitate the development of Irish Studies within the university and =
play
an active role in the School=92s outreach to the Irish community.

Applications must consist of a cover letter, a current curriculum vitae,
copies of recent publications, a statement of teaching =
philosophy/interests,
a statement of research achievements, and evidence of teaching
effectiveness. Candidates must also arrange to have three letters of
reference sent directly to the departmental contact.=20

Dr. Michael Kenneally
Principal, School of Canadian Irish Studies
Concordia University
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., S-H 1001-11
Montreal, Qc. H3G 1M8.
Michael.Kenneally[at]Concordia.ca
www.cdnirish.concordia.ca

Subject to budgetary approval, we anticipate filling this position, =
normally
at the rank of Assistant Professor, for July 1, 2012. Review of =
applications
will begin immediately and will continue until the position has been =
filled.
All applications should reach the School no later than November 1, 2011. =
All
inquiries about the position should be directed to Dr. Kenneally
(Michael.Kenneally[at]Concordia.ca).

For additional information, please visit our website at
artsandscience.concordia.ca.

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian =
citizens
and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority. Concordia
University is committed to employment equity.

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The place of the Irish in vampire narrative is well established, and well
studied - from Stoker to Wheedon, Dracula to Buffy...

But where is the Irish contribution to Zombie studies?

This new book gives us something - p 8, John Clyn and his Last Man on Earth
narrative...

'So that notable deeds should not perish with time, and be lost from the
memory of future generations, I, seeing these many ills, and that the whole
world encompassed by evil, waiting among the dead for death to come, have
committed to writing what I have truly heard and examined; and so that the
writing does not perish with the writer, or the work fail with the workman,
I leave parchment for continuing the work, in case anyone should still be
alive in the future and any son of Adam can escape this pestilence and
continue the work thus begun...'

P.O'S.

Generation Zombie
Essays on the Living Dead in Modern Culture

Edited by Stephanie Boluk and Wylie Lenz

About the Book
Growing from their early roots in Caribbean voodoo to their popularity
today, zombies are epidemic. Their presence is pervasive, whether they are
found in video games, street signs, hard drives, or even international
politics. These eighteen original essays by an interdisciplinary group of
scholars examine how the zombie has evolved over time, its continually
evolving manifestations in popular culture, and the unpredictable effects
the zombie has had on late modernity. Topics covered include representations
of zombies in films, the zombie as environmental critique, its role in mass
psychology and how issues of race, class and gender are expressed through
zombie narratives. Collectively, the work enhances our understanding of the
popularity and purposes of horror in the modern era.

About the Author
Stephanie Boluk is a postdoctoral fellow in the Media Studies program at
Vassar College.
Wylie Lenz is a Ph.D. candidate in the English Department at the University
of Florida.

http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-6140-0

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I am often tempted by the idea of starting a Wall of Shame, or something -
as Irish Diaspora list messages gets rejected by the email systems of Irish
Diaspora list members.

For example, today...

NIU.EDU
rejected the message
Article, El Celtic FC
'Message rejected because of unacceptable content.'

VU.EDU.AU
rejected the message
Asylum seekers in Ireland
'SpamAssassin score=15.6
Please contact postmaster[at]vu.edu.au for assistance if your message was not
spam.'

Who knows? Every day it is something. We can't follow up everything...

By the way, Thanks to Claire Healy for sight of her excellent letter about
asylum seekers. Perhaps I should start a Wall of Splendour.

P.O'S.

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This article is freely available, at the links below...

The pdf links take you straight to a 23 page document.

PANOECONOMICUS, 2011, 1, pp. 19-41

Constantin Gurdgiev, Brian M. Lucey, Ciar=E1n Mac an Bhaird and Lorcan
Roche-Kelly:

The Irish Economy: Three Strikes and You=92re Out?

Summary: We examine the three interlinked Irish crises : the
competitiveness, fiscal and banking crises, showing how all three =
combined
to lay a lethal trap for Ireland. Starting from a point of economic =
balance,
a series of poor government decisions led to the country once dubbed the
=93Celtic tiger=94 become the second eurozone state after Greece to seek =
a
bailout, with the EFSF/IMF intervening in late 2010.

Key words: Debt, Banking, Bond yields.

http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/1452-595X/2011/1452-595X1101019G.pdf

http://www.panoeconomicus.rs/

http://www.panoeconomicus.rs/issue.php?id=3D42

http://www.panoeconomicus.rs/casopis/2011_1/Clanak2.pdf

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Subject: Chapter,
International and Professional Dimensions of National Governing
Bodies: Insights from the Gaelic Athletic Association
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I have contacted Ann Bourke, to clarify the confusion about her first
name... It is given, variously, as Ann or Anne - sometimes on the same =
page
or in the same document.

http://www.ucd.ie/research/people/business/drannbourke/

The background seems to be that UCD assigned Ann an email address which =
gave
the name as Anne, and she has learned to live with this. She has more
patience than I have - and it does confuse the research record... =
Though
you can usually work out when a piece of work is her work...

http://www.ucd.ie/research/people/business/drannbourke/publications/


International and Professional Dimensions of National
Governing Bodies: Insights from the Gaelic Athletic Association=20

Anne Bourke

in

Sport as a Business
International, Professional and Commercial Aspects
Edited by Harald Dolles and Sten S=F6derman

http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=3D405812

See also

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Subject: Book Notice,
Irish Literature in the Celtic Tiger Years 1990 to 2008 Gender,
Bodies, Memory
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Title: Irish Literature in the Celtic Tiger Years 1990 to 2008 Gender,
Bodies, Memory
Author: Susan Cahill
Publisher: Continuum

http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=3D158489&SearchTyp=
e=3DBas
ic


Description:

When Irish culture and economics underwent rapid changes during the =
Celtic
Tiger Years, Anne Enright, Colum McCann and =C9il=EDs N=ED Dhuibhne =
began writing.
Now that period of Irish history has closed, this study uncovers how =
their
writing captured that unique historical moment.

By showing how N=ED Dhuibhne=92s novels act as considered arguments =
against
attempts to disavow the past, how McCann=92s protagonists come to terms =
with
their history and how Enright=92s fiction explores connections and
relationships with the female body, Susan Cahill=92s study pinpoints =
common
concerns for contemporary Irish writers: the relationship between the =
body,
memory and history, between generations, and between past and
present.

Cahill is able to raise wider questions about Irish culture by looking
specifically at how writers engage with the body. In exploring the =
writers=92
concern with embodied histories, related questions concerning gender, =
race,
and Irishness are brought to the fore. Such interrogations of =
corporeality
alongside history are imperative, making this a significant contribution =
to
ongoing debates of feminist theory in Irish Studies.

Table of Contents:

Introduction 1. Submerged Histories: =C9il=EDs N=ED Dhuibhne=92s The =
Bray House
and The Dancers Dancing 2. Corporeal Genealogies: Colum McCann=92s =
Songdogs
and This Side of Brightness 3. Bodily Doubles and Dislocations: Anne
Enright=92s The Wig My Father Wore and What Are You Like? 4. Embodied
Histories: Colum McCann=92s Dancer and Anne Enright=92s The Pleasure of =
Eliza
Lynch 5. Celtic Tiger Bodies: =C9il=EDs N=ED Dhuibhne=92s Fox, =
Swallow, Scarecrow
and Anne Enright=92s The Gathering Conclusion: Bodies and Futures
Bibliography Index=20

Author Susan Cahill is Assistant Professor in the School of Canadian =
Irish
Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
Reviews:

With the Celtic Tiger well and truly dead, it=92s time for the =
post-mortem to
begin, and this book represents a significant contribution to that =
process.
Susan Cahill=92s study of a number of important novelists offers an =
overview
of an extraordinary period in modern Irish history, as well as close
analyses of some of the most sensitive artistic responses to the =
island=92s
changing fortunes. In teasing out the complex interplay between
time, memory and the body, Irish Literature in the Celtic Tiger Years
challenges the theoretical parameters of contemporary Irish cultural
criticism, while also providing a compelling vision of the vicissitudes =
of
modern Irish identity.

Gerry Smyth, Reader in Cultural History, Liverpool John Moores =
University,

Dr Susan Cahill
Assistant Professor
School of Canadian Irish Studies
Concordia University, Hall Building, 1001-09
1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. West
Montreal, QC H3G 1M8

Tel: 514 848 2424 ext. 5864
Email: susan.cahill[at]concordia.ca=20

www.cdnirish.concordia.ca
=20

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Book Review, Diaspora: An Introduction
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Diaspora: An Introduction by Jana Evans Braziel
Edward C. Holland

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism

Volume 9, Issue 2, pages 343=96344, September 2009

Oxford : Blackwell , 2008 . 320 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4051-5339-3 (hbk) =
=A350.00=20

In the past decade, the concept of diaspora has been used increasingly =
as an
analytical tool for elucidating processes related to international
migration. Diaspora has become a catch-all term, associated with =
population
movements manifested in multiple ways, occurring across geographic =
contexts
and initiated because of a range of motivations such as education,
employment and conflict. Given this variety in form and function, there =
is a
need for synthesis of the resulting diverse literature. In this critical
introduction, Jana Evans Braziel has succeeded in integrating a varying =
set
of topics into a concise statement of the central issues currently =
extant in
diasporic studies.

The book opens with a brief preface that identifies two central factors
influencing changing migratory behaviours: the continued globalisation =
of
labour and production markets, which began in the 1970s and 1980s, and =
the
post-Cold War =91refugee crisis=92 (pp. 3=964). Despite the triumph of =
liberalism
associated with the =91end of history=92, the date 9/11 marks a critical
disjuncture for international migrants and refugees. An introductory =
chapter
limns three historical case studies (the Jewish, African and =
transatlantic
European diasporas) and provides definitions for a number of key terms =
found
in the diaspora literature. This latter section, in essence, serves as a
typology of diasporic forms, with particular focus on economic migrants,
economic and political refugees, asylum seekers and detainees...

...In the spirit of constructive review, I conclude with two points of
critique. Firstly, while the book succeeds in its stated goal of =
introducing
the topic of diasporas, there is no clear attempt (other than a =
synthesis of
pre-existing work) to move academic understandings of the topic forward.
This is not to gainsay the value of the contribution that the book =
makes;
rather, it is to acknowledge that diasporic studies is a dynamic area of
study, and that scholars engaged directly in related research will find =
the
book most useful for the review of prior literature and cases that it
provides. Secondly, a question of relevance to diasporic studies, and to =
the
societal, political and economic processes connected to globalisation =
more
broadly, is whether such processes are theoretically generalisable =
across
cases and localised contexts. Were, for example, the motivations of =
Haitian
boat people in the early 1990s comparable, in a general sense, to those =
that
sparked the exodus of Vietnamese to Thailand in the late 1970s? Work on
diasporas must recognise and engage with the tension that exists between
case studies and generalisation in order to unpack more completely the
particularities found at the range of scales at which globalising =
processes
occur. While the recognition of this friction is present, a more =
explicit
discussion of its relevance to diasporas would augment the book's =
case-based
content.

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Subject: Spanish Armada ship found off Donegal Coast
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5 August 2011
Spanish Armada ship found off Donegal Coast

In the summer of 1588 the Spanish Armada set sail to invade England
A wreck believed to be a ship from the Spanish Armada, discovered by
archaeologists off the coast of County Donegal, is to be excavated by the
Irish government.

It was found in the summer of 2010 and divers at the time discovered a tunic
button and piece of Spanish pottery.

Far from home, this wreck is not the first to be found off the coast of
Ireland.

It's thought that up to 24 ships were wrecked along the north and west
coasts of Ireland as the Armada made its way home after defeat at the hands
of the English.

In the summer of 1588 the Spanish Armada set sail for England after decades
of hostility between Spain's catholic King Philip II and the protestant
Queen Elizabeth I of England.

Once in-laws, when Phillip was married to Elizabeth's elder sister Mary, the
Spanish king was determined to overthrow the new Protestant regime in
Britain introduced by Henry VIII...

...This latest find was discovered in shallow water near Burtonport.

The Irish Department of Arts Heritage and the Gaeltacht has given 50,000
euros of funding for an exploratory excavation of the wreck.

Minister Jimmy Deenihan said that he was "delighted" to be able to support
investigations into "a major find of significance not only to Ireland but
also to the international archaeological, historical and maritime
communities".

If it proves to be an Armada vessel, the minister said that it could
constitute one of the most intact of these wrecks discovered to date.

"It could provide huge insight into life on board and the reality of the
military and naval resources available to the Armada campaign", he said.

The Geological Survey of Ireland will supply one of its research vessels,
the RV Keary, free of charge as the main dive vessel.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-14418698