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Forwarded on behalf of
koconnell[at]irishfilm.ie

http://www.irishfilm.ie/
=A0
The Irish Film Institute
announces=A0the launch of its=A0latest DVD release
THE O'KALEM COLLECTION
1910-1915

=A0
The O=92Kalem Collection: 1910-1915 is a=A0double-disc DVD set makes a =
key
period of Irish film history available to the general public for the =
first
time.
=A0
Available from the IFI Film Shop and in=A0selected=A0DVD retailers from =
7th July
2011
=A0
A new DVD release from the IFI Irish Film Archive and BIFF Productions =
is
set to illuminate one of the most fascinating and rarely seen chapters =
of
Irish film history. The surviving silent films known as The O=92Kalem
Collection have been brought together, remastered and will be available
alongside a feature length documentary Blazing the Trail. This double =
disc
set is a perfect addition to=A0the IFI's=A0set of successful DVD =
releases that
includes GAA Gold, Irish Destiny and Seoda - an endeavour that aims to =
bring
the IFI Irish Film Archive collections to as broad an audience as
possible.=A0=A0
=A0=A0
The New York based Kalem Film Company first came to Ireland in 1910 to =
make
the short film The Lad from Old Ireland. This was the first ever
transatlantic film production and the first fiction film made in =
Ireland.
Led by actor/director Sidney Alcott and actor writer Gene Gauntier they
returned to Ireland several times to produce a series of Irish themed =
films
and, in an early example of a time-honoured tradition, earned themselves =
the
nickname the O=92Kalems in the process.
=A0
Announcing the forthcoming release Head of the IFI Irish Film Archive
Kasandra O=92Connell said =91Although=A0their significance in the =
history of Irish
cinema=A0is widely recognised, the O=92Kalem films have remained =
notoriously
difficult to access, with this DVD release contemporary audiences will
finally be able to enjoy these importance examples of silent era =
filmmaking.
The O=92Kalem films=A0provide an invaluable record of the earliest =
images of
Ireland on the American screen and are a must-have for all those =
passionate
about silent cinema and Irish=A0culture.=92
=A0
Between 1910 and=A01915=A0the O=92Kalems made almost thirty films =
adapted from
well-known songs, poems and dramas or original scenarios dealing with =
Irish
history or the experience of emigration to the United States. They were
extremely popular with American audiences and laid some of the templates =
and
stereotypes that defined Hollywood perspectives on Ireland over the next
half century.
=A0
Blazing the Trail, a feature-length documentary that is included on this =
DVD
release, explores the history, films and legacy of the O=92Kalems with a =
focus
on Sidney Alcott and Gene Gauntier.=A0 Director Peter Flynn and Producer =
Tony
Tracy, both of whom played leading roles in bringing The O=92Kalem =
Collection
to DVD, tell the story of these filmmaking pioneers through memoirs,
eyewitness recordings, scholars, and the films themselves, revealing a =
way
of life and a way of filmmaking long since passed.=A0=A0
=A0
Contact koconnell[at]irishfilm.ie to purchase the DVD=A0 priced=A019.99 =
Euros=A0
=A0

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Field Day and the Translation of Irish Identities: Performing
Contradictions
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Title: Field Day and the Translation of Irish Identities: Performing
Contradictions
Author: Aidan O'Malley
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Description:
In the 1980s, Field Day brought together some of the most important names in
Irish artistic life-Brian Friel, Stephen Rea, Seamus Deane, Seamus Heaney,
Tom Paulin, David Hammond and Thomas Kilroy-to articulate a cultural
intervention into the deadly stalemate of the Northern Irish 'Troubles'. At
the heart of the enterprise was an annual theatre tour around the island of
Ireland that visited cities and small villages, playing in theatres and
community venues. These plays did not tackle the 'Troubles' directly, but
brought their audiences to places such as pre-Famine Ireland, the world of
Greek tragedy, pre-Revolutionary Russian provinces and apartheid South
Africa. Informed by poststructuralist thinking and archival materials, this
book argues that the political and postcolonial salience of these dramas
lies in the ways in which they foregrounded acts of cultural translation in
order to disrupt disabling constructions of Irish identity that had
contributed to engendering the 'Troubles'.

Contents:
Introduction. In Other Words: Locating a Touring Theatre Company
Translating the Irish Past (Translations; Making History)
Translation, Home and Hospitality (The Communication Cord; Three Sisters;
Boesman and Lena)
Loyal Translations: The Spirit and the Letter (The Riot Act; Pentecost)
Reciprocation and Resolution (The Cure at Troy; High Time)
Masks: Men and History (Double Cross; Saint Oscar; The Madame MacAdam
Travelling Theatre)
Epilogue: Afterlives (Field Day Anthology; Uncle Vanya; Northern Star)

http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=359685

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recession.
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Translocations: Migration and Social Change
An Inter-Disciplinary Open Access E-Journal
ISSN Number: 2009-0420

Irish professionals, immigrants, and resource competition: talk from before
and during the recession.

Martina Byrne
Dept. of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin (email: Byrnem19[at]tcd.ie)

Abstract
This paper draws on data from the first in-depth qualitative exploration of
the attitudes of members of the Irish professional social class towards
immigrants. The findings suggest that, regardless of the socio-economic
context, the lives of the Irish professional class do not intersect with
those they categorise as immigrants and that immigration is seen as an
economic rather than social or cultural issue. This paper argues that the
'tolerance towards immigrants' this social class espouse in large-scale
quantitative attitudinal surveys needs be understood in that context.

Key words: Professional, social class, immigrants, resource competition.

Conclusion
In this paper I argue that, for this social class, immigration is
predominantly an economic issue - though not necessarily or always in the
sense of economic resource competition. In the good times, immigration was
seen to benefit members of this social class both at a macro level, in terms
of economic growth and increased career opportunities, and at a micro level
with the availability of inexpensive services including care and domestic
work. In recessionary times concerns are expressed for 'the reputation of
Ireland Inc.', the employment opportunities for the next generation and in
relation to the ethnic identity of those whose social welfare our taxes are
paying.

The pre-dominant finding of this study is that both before and during the
recession, the lives of those, without whom it is acknowledged, the
economic boom 'wouldn't have happened', and their families, do not intersect
with most members of the Irish professional class. Immigration in Ireland
happened 'under the middle-class radar' as one professional put it.

Even in 2009 as recession deepened the working and social lives of the
majority of my Irish social class peers continued to be experienced in a
predominantly mono-cultural 'bubble'. We do not see those we categorise as
immigrants in our offices, neighbourhoods, social circles, or schools and if
they are, they are our social class peers and so they are 'not a problem'.
That this social class has self-identified as tolerant of immigrants and
immigration when surveyed in quantitative studies is, I argue, not
surprising. I suggest it is relatively easy to 'tolerate' those with whom
our lives rarely intersect and with whom, in our professional lifetime, we
do not expect to compete for economic resources.

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http://www.translocations.ie/

Translocations: Migration and Social Change An Inter-Disciplinary Open
Access E-Journal ISSN Number: 2009-0420

http://www.translocations.ie/current_issue.html


Volume 7 | issue 1 | Summer 2011

ISSN 2009-0420

LEAD ARTICLE

What happened to the "Celtic Tiger"
Denis O'Hearn
Department of Sociology, Binghamton University - State University of New
York


PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

Working through a Recession
Mary Gilmartina, Bettina Miggeb
a Department of Geography, NUI Maynooth
b School of Irish, Celtic Studies, Irish Folklore and Linguistics, UCD

Irish Professionals, Migrants, and Resource Competition:
Talk from before and during the Recession.
Martina Byrne
Dept. of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin

Education is a Fundamental Right: Do Immigrant Students have Equal Access to
Second Level Education in Ireland?
Rachael Fionda
Centre for Language and Communication Studies, Trinity College, Dublin

Migrant Networkscapes: Spatialising accounts of migrants' social practices
John Watters
National Institute for Regional & Spatial Analysis (NIRSA) & Geography
Department, NUI, Maynooth

Catholic Decline and Emerging Immigrant Faith Community Influences on Irish
Family Policy
Michael Rush
School of Applied Social Science, University College Dublin


PLATFORM

Migration and the Recession - the impact on migrants and their families:
Denise Charlton
CEO, Immigrant Council of Ireland

Direct Provision (Exclusion from Inclusion?): Analyzing the Experiences of
Nigerian Asylum Seekers in the Cork area
Chinyere Victor Nwagwuagwu
School of Applied Social Studies, National University of Ireland, Cork

BOOK REVIEWS

Bryan Fanning (2011) Immigration and Social Cohesion in the Republic of
Ireland
Abel Ugba
University of East Anglia

Marco Martinelli & Jan Rath (eds) (2010) Selected Studies in International
Migration and Immigrant Incorporation
Ronnie Munck
Dublin City University

Bryan Fanning and Ronaldo Munck (2011) Globalization, Migration and Social
Transformation: Ireland in Europe and the World
Fidele Mutwarasibo
Immigrant Council of Ireland

Peter Geoghegan (2010) A Difficult Difference: Race, Religion and the New
Northern Ireland
Chris Gilligan
University of the West of Scotland

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TRANSCULTURAL AREAS
2011, 41-57, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-531-93348-1_4

Northern Ireland
Space and Identity Performance

Aoileann N=ED =C9igeartaigh

Abstract
Ever since Michel Foucault declared that: =93The present epoch will =
perhaps be
above all the epoch of space. We are in the epoch of simultaneity; we =
are in
the epoch of juxtaposition=94 (Foucault, p.22), the importance of space =
in the
construction of identity has become one of the defining themes of
contemporary cultural studies. Foucault=92s assertion that the =
constricting,
chronological narratives of history can be replaced by the more =
flexible,
asynchronous narratives of space is particularly attractive to advocates =
of
globalization, for whom the disruption of the historic metanarrative is
synonymous with increased fluidity and the transcendence of traditional
boundaries and borders.

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Me and Mine: A Warm-hearted Memoir of a London Irish Family by Anna May
Mangan - review
Captivated by the joys and sorrows of an Irish emigrant family

Catriona Crowe
guardian.co.uk, Friday 5 August 2011 22.55 BST

In 1961, Tom Murphy's play A Whistle in the Dark appeared on the London
stage, having been rejected by Dublin's Abbey Theatre. The play showed for
the first time the underbelly of Irish emigration to England, displaying the
violence at the heart of the Carney family, newly arrived from Ireland, as
well as the futile longing for a peaceful life of the eldest son, Michael,
as he tries to evade the ferocious derision and contempt of his father and
brothers. The play reveals the sense of humiliation and displacement felt by
the fighting, drinking Carneys in a country where they would never feel at
home.

Between 1951 and 1961 more than 400,000 people - a sixth of the population -
left Ireland. Two-thirds of them went to the UK, attracted by the postwar
reconstruction boom and the welfare state put in place by Clement Attlee's
Labour government. They were leaving a country with high unemployment,
especially in rural areas, rigid Catholic church control over sexual
behaviour, and poor marriage prospects for young people. London, Birmingham
and Coventry offered a new life, but the sense of unchosen exile haunted
many emigrants.

Anna May Mangan's memoir, Me and Mine, is an affectionate account of her
parents and their siblings, who emigrated from Ireland during the 1950s,
settled in London, and married, worked, had children and died there. She
charts the difficulties experienced by immigrants then - "No Blacks, No
Irish, No Dogs" - and their determination to both fulfil and rise above the
role of "Irish peasant", an insult hurled at them on many occasions. When
her father flew home for a funeral in the early 60s, his first time on a
plane, the stewardess asked if he wanted a drink from the trolley, and he
politely requested a pint of stout. She hissed: "This is not a pub, you
Irish peasant."...

...Ireland is not a homogeneous place: Donegal is as different from Wexford
as Yorkshire is from Cornwall, and there are distinct differences within
counties even down to parish level. Mangan's relatives are slightly too
Irish-generic, in spite of her attention to their individual quirks. There
is a kind of hollowness to the statement made by her father - "Remember
we're just visitors in this country" - when the potential destination of
family return is never named. The exoticism of red lemonade and the
stickiness of cow dung are mentioned when Mangan has her annual holidays in
Ireland, but there's no rich local detail of the sort that characterises
real places like John McGahern's Leitrim, John B Keane's Kerry or Brian
Friel's Donegal. Martin McDonagh got six plays out of his annual holidays in
Galway and has created a whole new version of the west of Ireland.

Despite its topographical vagueness, Me and Mine is, as its subtitle
proclaims, warm-hearted, and Mangan has captured many memorable characters
whose lives deserve to be recorded.

FULL TEXT AT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/05/mine-irish-family-mangan-review

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Declan Kiberd on James Joyce: A Biography by Gordon Bowker
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James Joyce: A Biography by Gordon Bowker - review
A fine, unfussy biography of James Joyce

Declan Kiberd
guardian.co.uk,

No book on James Joyce goes half as far as this one in establishing
connections between passages in the classic texts and incidents in the
artist's life. Even Joyce's uneasy struggle to exclude unflattering =
details
from the first biography of him, by Herbert Gorman, is used to explain a
passing reference in Finnegans Wake to a "biografiend". What Joyce =
wanted
was someone who would allow him control over every element of his
reputation: a biografriend. Gorman, although he accepted the main
interdictions =96 on family privacies =96 was not happy with the =
arrangement or
the outcome. He insulted Joyce by failing to send him a copy of the
published volume.

Gordon Bowker demonstrates just how comprehensively the artist also =
sought
to control the first extended works of literary analysis on Ulysses. =
Joyce
was a gifted autocritic, and even today Frank Budgen's 1934 memoir about =
the
making of Ulysses sparkles, because it is filled with the Dubliner's
table-talk. Stuart Gilbert, author of James Joyce's Ulysses (1930), was
somewhat more resistant to manipulation, keeping his reservations out of =
his
study of Homeric analogies in the masterpiece, but filling a sardonic =
diary
with sarcasms about the Joyce circle. Bowker, whose respect for the
greatness of Joyce's texts never wanes, is shrewd enough to include a
liberal amount of these balancing judgments.

The strictest injunction laid on Gorman was also the last: that Joyce's
motivation in leaving Ireland never be disclosed. All subsequent =
biographies
have accepted that Joyce made himself modern by abandoning Ireland as a
cultural backwater disfigured by clerical oppression and a general
censoriousness. The truth is more mundane but sadly prophetic of the =
fate of
thousands of Irish graduates in the decades after Joyce: he simply could =
not
find a post in the country commensurate with his qualifications, =
abilities
and ambitions. So the flight with Nora Barnacle had to be rebranded as a
dissident exercise in "silence, exile and cunning".

Only once did Joyce deviate from this line. He told the painter Arthur =
Power
that in the Dublin of his youth the British retained all power, with the
consequence that ordinary people felt no responsibility for anything and
were free to do or say what they wanted. Only with independence in 1922
emerged a nation of apple-lickers: people who, if tempted in the Garden =
of
Eden, would have licked rather than bitten the apple.
Like all honest biographers before him, Bowker knows that
turn-of-the-century Dublin was filled with intrepid artists and =
unfettered
intellectuals. Yet somehow he feels compelled to support the common
contention that the great man made himself thoroughly modern by ceasing =
to
be knowingly Irish. Not so. To be Irish, in those days, was to be modern
anyway, whether one wanted to be or not. Good educational opportunities
along with chronic undercapitalisation produced the formula for a major
experimental culture...

...This study will be valuable to students as a summation of our current
biographical knowledge of Joyce. It captures recurring features of his =
art:
a vaudevillian's love of seaside settings, a delight in using children's
lore and nursery rhymes as portals of discovery, a compulsion to map his =
own
family romance on to world history. It shows how difficult he could be =
even
to his greatest admirers; yet it also evokes the heroism of a man who,
confronted by poverty, ill health and endless uprootings, somehow found =
in
himself the courage to write epics in celebration of ordinary people and =
the
intricacies of their minds. It is in its way an example as well as an
account of dignified audacity.

This doesn't mean that Ellmann's 1959 biography is pass=E9. Not only did =
he
write a beautiful prose, which no subsequent scholar has equalled, but =
he
also had a fellow-artist's understanding of the strange blend of facts,
experiences, ideas and accidents which went into the creation of "The =
Dead"
and Ulysses. Ellmann was one of the great literary critics of the last
century and his biography, though long, implies a great deal more than =
it
says. His account is of a flawed but decent man...

FULL TEXT AT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/05/james-joyce-biography-bowker-=
rev
iew?INTCMP=3DSRCH

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Subject: CFP, Great Exhibitions in the Margins, 1851-1938, Wolverhampton,
26-27 April 2012
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Forwarded on behalf of
Dr. Marta Filipov=E1=20

Call for Papers

Great Exhibitions in the Margins, 1851 =96 1938
University of Wolverhampton, 26-27 April 2012
=20
Research has for a long time focused on world fairs, great exhibitions =
or
expositions universelles in the capitals of Europe and in the large =
cities
of the USA. Their crucial role in communicating ideas about the =
identities
of the exhibiting nations (and their relation to other cultures) and in
showcasing contemporary art and design has been examined in detail. =
However,
in the heyday of these spectacular events - in the second half of the
nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century - smaller cities =
and
regional centres, such as Li=E8ge, Poznan, Edinburgh or Wolverhampton, =
staged
their own =93great exhibitions=94 modelled on those held in the national =
(or
imperial) centres. Their goals, although executed on a more modest =
scale,
were often the same and involved the promotion and sale of goods but =
also
communication of ideas, ideologies and identities. These smaller shows
usually had large ambitions and tried to engage not only the local
population but also national and international audiences and exhibitors.
=20
This symposium turns attention to the exhibitions of arts and industries =
in
the regions outside the capitals and to the assumptions that lay behind
them. Its main focus will be placed on their ambitions, originality,
relationship to the =93greater=94 exhibitions and, in particular, their
engagement with visual culture. The questions explored may include:
=20
- what ambitions motivated the idea of staging an exhibition in =
the
particular location and what were its objectives

- what was the long-term impact of the show on the region, =
nationally
and internationally

- how were the arts displayed at the exhibition and what role they
played

- what specific influence did exhibitions like the Great =
Exhibition or
Expositions Universelles in Paris have on the exhibitions in the =
margins?

=20
The symposium encourages an inter-disciplinary approach to the topic and
papers are therefore welcome from scholars in a wide range of =
disciplines,
including the history of art and design, history, politics, =
anthropology,
ethnography, cultural studies etc. A network of researchers interested =
in
the subject of exhibition cultures will be created through the symposium =
as
further academic activities on the theme are planned (a publication and =
a
research network). News about the symposium and the research network =
will be
posted at http://greatexhibitions.blogspot.com.
=20
Please send your paper proposals of up to 250 words to Dr. Marta =
Filipov=E1 at
Marta.Filipova[at]wlv.ac.uk by 1 =
November
2011.=20

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Subject: TOC Politics, Religion & Ideology, Volume 12, Issue 3, 2011,
Special Issue: Transatlantic Representations of Religion
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Politics, Religion & Ideology

Volume 12, Issue 3, 2011
Special Issue: Transatlantic Representations of Religion

This Special Issue will interest a number of Ir-D members. It is based on
articles presented at the international conference, 'Does God Matter?
Representing Religion in the European Union and the United States', held at
Aston University, Birmingham, 12-13 November 2010.

The wide ranging article by John Wolffe is especially useful - though it
mentions the Irish only in passing, as a example of local
Protestant-Catholic encounters created by migration.

P.O'S.

Introduction
Transatlantic Representations of Religion
Lucian N. Leustean
pages 233-239


Protestant-Catholic Divisions in Europe and the United States: An Historical
and Comparative Perspective
John Wolffe
pages 241-256


Regimes of Religion and State: A Widening Atlantic?
Kenneth D. Wald
pages 257-270


The Religious Left in Contemporary American Politics
Laura R. Olson
pages 271-294


Representing Religion in the European Union. A Typology of Actors
Lucian N. Leustean
pages 295-315

Between America and Europe: Religion, Politics and Evangelicals in Canada
Jonathan Malloy
pages 317-333


A Universal Sacred Mission and the Universal Secular Organization: The Holy
See and the United Nations
Alan Chong & Jodok Troy
pages 335-354

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Protestant-Catholic Divisions in Europe and the United States: An
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Politics, Religion & Ideology
Volume 12, Issue 3, 2011
Special Issue: Transatlantic Representations of Religion

Protestant-Catholic Divisions in Europe and the United States: An Historical
and Comparative Perspective

John Wolffe

Abstract
The article opens by highlighting the parallels between expressions of
Protestant feeling in the aftermath of the death of Queen Victoria in 1901
and Islamophobia in the wake of the 9/11 attacks of 2001. The history of
Protestant-Catholic conflict is worthy of attention both in its own right,
because it provides context for understanding enduring tensions in the North
Atlantic and European worlds, and because it suggests comparisons with the
contemporary perceived 'clash of civilizations' between Christianity and
Islam. Focusing on the nineteenth century, the diversity of anti-Catholicism
is explored, and particular attention given to the development of the
Protestant internationalism associated with the Evangelical Alliance,
contrasted with the Catholic internationalism of the Papacy. On both sides
of the Atlantic, Protestantism has sometimes been nationalistic and
confrontational, tendencies which have persisted to the present, albeit
normally in secularized forms. At the same time though, Protestantism has
also inspired a model of 'unity in diversity', mediated by American
constitutional practice, which may prove helpful in furthering European
acceptance of wider religious pluralism.

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As our Australian members will know, the Snowy scheme continues to play an
important part in Australia's epic narratives - and in current ecological
and political debates...

And, of course, through Ulick O'Boyle and his colleagues, it has its own
song history...

P.O'S.


Ulick O'Boyle, 1932-2011

Irish balladeer fell into the rhythm of life in the Snowies
August 8, 2011

Ulick O'Boyle was a songwriter, poet and balladeer whose music has become
part of Australia's heritage - in particular, his stories of the
construction days of the Snowy Mountains Scheme.

Needless to say, with a name like his, O'Boyle came from Ireland. He was
born there on February 19, 1932, and after schooling, did his national
service in the British Army Medical Corp, where he trained as a
radiographer. He was also a middleweight boxing champion in the army and a
successful amateur boxer in Britain, Canada and the US before coming to
Australia in 1962.

He found work on the Snowy scheme, first as a concrete labourer and later as
a first-aid officer by virtue of his radiography training.

O'Boyle could be infuriatingly stubborn and astonishingly gentle, all at the
same time. He was articulate and well informed about current affairs but
preferred life in construction to pursuing a professional career.
This was the background that enabled him to transcribe his observations into
song. His work contained that special lilt and use of words that somehow
seems to come almost uniquely to the Irish.

He formed his group, the Settlers, in 1965 and their first album, about the
Snowy Mountains, was recorded in 1966. The group's name came about because
its members - initially Ulick, his first wife, Anne Rutherford, and Peter
Barry (a Snowy dozer driver) - were immigrants. As the replacement for
Barry, Paul Davey was also an immigrant - a '10 pound Pom'.
Over the years, O'Boyle and the Settlers did five more collections - Sing
More Songs of the Snowy Mountains, West of Cooma (which involved all of the
original group), Snowy Rambler, Mountain Tracks and the last album, recorded
in 2002, Kiandra and Beyond.

Almost all of the songs and music were written by O'Boyle and have made a
lasting contribution to the history of the mighty Snowy scheme.

FULL TEXT AT

http://www.smh.com.au/national/obituaries/irish-balladeer-fell-into-the-rhyt
hm-of-life-in-the-snowies-20110807-1ihqn.html#ixzz1UMO9OwyF

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Anti-communism in Mid-Twentieth-Century Ireland*
Enda Delaney

University of Edinburgh

Abstract
This article investigates anticommunism in Ireland during the late 1940s and
early 1950s. It focuses in particular on the campaigns waged by the
right-wing Catholic organisations, Maria Duce and the Catholic Cinema and
Theatre Patrons' Association, opposing the influence of American cinema,
which it was alleged was dominated by Communists. The central argument is
that Ireland's 'red scare' was an ephemeral phenomenon, fuelled by American
anticommunism, which was then at its height, and the cultural Cold War in
Europe. Combined with these broader fears it reveal how anticommunism was
shaped by domestic political and cultural contexts, especially concerns
about the impact of external influences on Irish minds, in the omnipresent
form of American cinema. Hollywood films offered visions of modernity that
undermined traditional Irish nationalist values of simple living, an innate
distaste of materialism, and an unflinching moral code, informed by Catholic
teachings. In independent Ireland, far from the front line of confrontation
with the red menace, the ideological dimensions made themselves felt, but
were not perceived to be a sufficient threat as to dominate public life, as
was the case in the United States

English Historical Review (2011) CXXVI (521): 878-903.
doi: 10.1093/ehr/cer202

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Dr. Adrian Grant
Editor
Scol=E1ire Staire Magazine


From: Scolaire Staire [mailto:scolairestaire[at]gmail.com]=20
Sent: 09 August 2011 13:39
To p.osullivan[at]bradford.ac.uk

Hi,

I would be grateful if you could take a look at the details of the email
below and pass it on to any anyone who might be interested. I think this
magazine and website has the potential to become a great resource for
students of Irish history and will go a long way towards connecting =
research
students too. It is intended that our contributors will be mainly =
postgrads
and recently graduated PhDs but we welcome contributions from =
established
academics too.

Thank you,
Adrian Grant.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Scolaire Staire
Date: Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 2:43 PM
Subject: New Online History Magazine
To: scolairestaire[at]gmail.com

I am currently in the process of establishing a new online Irish history
magazine called Scol=E1ire Staire (History Scholar). The projected =
release
date is October 2011 but we are currently looking for authors among the
postgrad and recently graduated Phd community. If you have any ideas for
short articles, reviews or anything else you think might fit in the =
magazine
please contact us at scolairestaire[at]gmail.com.

Click on this link http://scolairestaire.wordpress.com/
to go to our blog site. Here you will see what our aim is. This will not
just be any old Irish history website. It will be the online forum of =
the
worldwide Irish history postgraduate and postdoctoral community. Having =
just
recently finished my Phd thesis I came up with this idea as a way for us =
to
get our research out there, quickly, and to a large interested audience.

If you are interested, and want to get involved in any way, please =
contact
us through one of the methods below.

http://scolairestaire.wordpress.com/

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Scol%C3%A1ire-Staire/150542248352619


Regards,

--=20
Dr. Adrian Grant
Editor
Scol=E1ire Staire Magazine

(00353) 860885193
scolairestaire[at]gmail.com
www.scolairestaire.wordpress.com

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A Comparative History of Church-State Relations in Irish Education
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A number of Ir-D members will find this article useful - its sources include
Akenson, Magray and Hickman. A slight feeling that the urge to establish
ground rules for future individual-country case studies means that the
specificities of the Irish experience get glossed over - and, of course (see
the extract, below) those other individual-country case studies will have
their Irish dimensions.

P.O'S.

A Comparative History of Church-State Relations in Irish Education
Tom O'Donoghue and Judith Harford
Comparative Education Review
Vol. 55, No. 3 (August 2011), pp. 315-341

A Comparative History of Church-State Relations in Irish Education
Tom O'Donoghue and Judith Harford

ABSTRACT
This essay argues for the development of a research agenda on the
comparative history of Catholic education internationally from the
nineteenth century to the present. This requires, in the first instance, the
production of a series of individual-country case studies, concentrating on
relations between the Catholic Church and the particular state in question
on education over the period. The example of Ireland is provided to indicate
one way in which a case might be constructed. Not until a large corpus of
such case studies is produced will it be possible to engage in comprehensive
theory generation and development in the field.

EXTRACT
'...Priests, religious brothers, and nuns also were sent to the destinations
of emigrants to sustain the faith of their compatriots. Heavily represented
among these were members of religious teaching orders, including members of
orders established in Ireland. New Catholic religious teaching orders,
founded and run by middle-class men and women in Ireland, played their part
in the associated process of class formation and class consolidation through
using schools for "the imposition of bourgeois values and beliefs on the
lower classes" (Magray 1998, 34). The principal male Irish teaching order
was the Irish Christian Brothers, established by Edmund Rice in 1802, while
the major female teaching orders were the Presentation Sisters, established
by Nano Nagle in 1775; the Sisters of Charity, established by Mary Aikenhead
in 1815; and the Sisters of Mercy, established by Catherine McAuley in
1831.2 From the middle of the nineteenth century until recent decades, the
Church in Ireland was successful in recruiting large numbers to join the
ranks of these and other religious orders, largely because of its influence
on schooling. This influence, which is the concern of the next section of
this essay, was facilitated by the particular set of relations that existed
between the Church and the state in education in Ireland over the period.

Before presenting our Irish case study, we wish to highlight features of the
exposition that could be replicated in the research and presentation of
other cases. First, we concentrate on Church-state relations in education.
We recognize the importance of considering other areas, including access to
Catholic education and associated attendance patterns and retention rates.
The aims of Catholic education and related policies constitute another area
for examination. Equally important is the need to study the nature of, and
variations in, the curriculum and pedagogical approaches both advocated and
practiced at various times. Our assumption, however, is that before research
on such areas is undertaken, it is necessary to understand the educational
system's political and administrative arrangements. We support Donald
Akenson's contention that "the outlines of the bureaucracy of the education
system" need to be accurately defined and "the political influences upon
that outline" need to be determined first (Akenson 1970, vi)...'

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Dr Grant, Would you kindly give me permission to advertise your Scolaire=
=20
Staire journal in the Journal I edit - Duiche Neill- now in its 19th issu=
e.=20
I could put your notice in our Notes and Questions section. D.N. is the=20
Journal of the O'Neill Country Historical Society. Professor John McGurk=
-=20
e.mail. jjnmcg1[at]eircom.net. Thank you. John

-----Original Message-----=20
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
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Subject: [IR-D] Scol=E1ire Staire , New Online Irish History Magazine

Forwarded on behalf of
Dr. Adrian Grant
Editor
Scol=E1ire Staire Magazine


From: Scolaire Staire [mailto:scolairestaire[at]gmail.com]
Sent: 09 August 2011 13:39
To p.osullivan[at]bradford.ac.uk

Hi,

I would be grateful if you could take a look at the details of the email
below and pass it on to any anyone who might be interested. I think this
magazine and website has the potential to become a great resource for
students of Irish history and will go a long way towards connecting resea=
rch
students too. It is intended that our contributors will be mainly postgra=
ds
and recently graduated PhDs but we welcome contributions from established
academics too.

Thank you,
Adrian Grant.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Scolaire Staire
Date: Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 2:43 PM
Subject: New Online History Magazine
To: scolairestaire[at]gmail.com

I am currently in the process of establishing a new online Irish history
magazine called Scol=E1ire Staire (History Scholar). The projected releas=
e
date is October 2011 but we are currently looking for authors among the
postgrad and recently graduated Phd community. If you have any ideas for
short articles, reviews or anything else you think might fit in the magaz=
ine
please contact us at scolairestaire[at]gmail.com.

Click on this link http://scolairestaire.wordpress.com/
to go to our blog site. Here you will see what our aim is. This will not
just be any old Irish history website. It will be the online forum of the
worldwide Irish history postgraduate and postdoctoral community. Having j=
ust
recently finished my Phd thesis I came up with this idea as a way for us =
to
get our research out there, quickly, and to a large interested audience.

If you are interested, and want to get involved in any way, please contac=
t
us through one of the methods below.

http://scolairestaire.wordpress.com/

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Scol%C3%A1ire-Staire/150542248352619


Regards,

--=20
Dr. Adrian Grant
Editor
Scol=E1ire Staire Magazine

(00353) 860885193
scolairestaire[at]gmail.com
www.scolairestaire.wordpress.com=20

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When forwarding items to the list, please try and clean them up by
eliminating the various head matter and foot matter that accumulates with
forwarded posts. I am sure there is a word for them but it escapes me just
now. It is time consuming to do it and can lead to errors in the subject
line.



Thanks.



Bill



William H. Mulligan, Jr.

Professor of History

Murray State University

Murray KY 42071-3341 USA

office phone 1-270-809-6571

dept phone 1-270-809-2231

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Subject: Article, Molloy or Le conte du Graal
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Only occasionally on the Ir-D list do we look at something about writers =
of
the Irish 'canon' - broadly, writers who have their own journals. If we =
did
more we would be swamped - there is so much stuff out there... And most =
of
that stuff adds nothing to our area of study - apart from just existing.
That is to say, being part of the ways in which 'Ireland' is visible in =
the
world...

However...

This article by Jonathan Ullyot is so good, and such fun, and so =
perceptive
- and actually does add something to Beckett studies.=20

The best kind of holiday reading. And I am on my holidays...=20

P.O'S.


Molloy or Le conte du Graal
Jonathan Ullyot
Modern Philology
Vol. 108, No. 4 (May 2011), pp. 560-579=20

'In an article written a few years after Samuel Beckett's own =
translation of
his trilogy first appeared in English (1955=9658), Ruby Cohn argued that =
the
supposedly radical new style of Beckett's fiction =93links back to the
medieval romance by virtue of that sine qua non of the knight =
errant=97his
single-minded and compulsive quest.=94 =93Although the narrative method =
of the
trilogy has been called stream-of-consciousness and interior monologue, =
it
must be emphasized that all four quests, far from an unfettered flood of
associations, are explicitly written,=94 writes Cohn. =93The quest theme
structures all the novels, down to the most apparently irrelevant =
detail.=941
Certainly, Beckett's heroes are not in search of the magical objects =
typical
of traditional quest romances, such as the Bleeding Lance or the Golden
Fleece. Molloy is on a journey to his mother's house, Moran is on a =
search
for Molloy, Malone is trying to get to the end of his stories, and the
unnamable one is searching for what he calls =93the silence.=942 =
Nevertheless,
Cohn identifies an important structural predecessor of the trilogy, =
though
she does not compare it with any actual quest romances.3

Her suggestion is especially pertinent when reading Molloy (1951). As I =
will
show, Molloy is a rereading, if not a re-creation, of the first Grail
narrative, Chr=E9tien de Troyes's Perceval, ou le conte du Graal (ca. =
1181).
It contains a complex network of allusions to the original (unfinished)
Grail text, the medieval continuations, and early twentieth-century
scholarship on the Celtic origins of the Grail myth. On the surface, =
Molloy
tells the story of two modern knights who cannot succeed in their =
quests. By
alluding to the medieval Grail story, however, which makes the idea of
progress in the chivalric quest problematic, Beckett introduces a =
radically
new model of success or redemption in the quest. Molloy is a modernist
continuation of Perceval insofar as it =93fails better=94 than =
Chr=E9tien's
original version.

MOLLOY AS A STALLED PERCEVAL...'

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Might be of interest to a few Patrick
Hope you are well
Joe

Scottish Catholic Observer Friday 5th August 2011

Letters at info[at]sconews.co.uk.

Don't blame Rome, look closer to home
The crisis in the Church in Ireland reveals a country that needs direction =
to re-vindicate Catholic orthodoxy

Allow me, if you will, to indulge a bit of self promotion. Thank you. Debut=
ing this season on the Catholic television station EWTN is Catholic Lives I=
reland.=20
It is a series that does exactly what it says on the tin: It brings to the =
small screen 12 half-hour interviews-hosted by yours truly-featuring 12 ins=
pirational Catholic Irish lives. And it has arrived at a time when, it seem=
s, there is very little inspiration to be had for those of us who care abou=
t the fate of the Catholic Church in Ireland.=20=20
"This is not Rome," stated Taoiseach Enda Kenny in the Dail, Wednesday July=
20, in response to a judicial inquiry that found the Cloyne Diocese in Cor=
k had failed to refer nine cases of clerical abuse to the authorities betwe=
en 1996 and 2005. "Nor is it industrial-school or Magdalene Ireland, where=
the swish of a soutane smothered conscience and humanity, and the swing of=
a thurible ruled the Irish-Catholic world."=20
The Irish premier concluded that 'the Cloyne Report excavates the dysfuncti=
on, disconnection, elitism... the narcissism... that dominate the culture o=
f the Vatican to this day,' a culture, he said, in which 'the rape and tort=
ure of children were downplayed or "managed" to uphold......the primacy of =
the institution, its power, standing and 'reputation."'=20=20
For an aspirant statesman it was a ridiculously inflammatory, inaccurate an=
d unintelligent tirade. In short, it was a disgrace.=20

T he reality is that the root of the crisis in Irish Catholicism is not to =
be found in Rome but much closer to home.=20=20
Firstly, the case for Rome. Enda Kenny's anger is largely directed at the C=
loyne Report's finding that, in 1997, the Vatican's Congregation for Clergy=
did not give full approval to the Irish Church's newly drafted guidelines =
for dealing with allegations of abuse. This, concluded the report, helped '=
to strengthen the position of those who dissented from the official stated =
Irish Church policy.' This would seem to be true.
However, Rome's reservations were not aimed at aiding the cover-up of abuse=
but were, rather, rooted in a fear that discordance between the Irish proc=
edures and the Church's Canon law could see abusers escape justice.=20
What is more, when the sole responsibility for the issue of abuse was trans=
ferred to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, under Cardinal Jo=
seph Ratzinger in 2001, the seriousness, swiftness and severity of punishme=
nt for such crimes were significantly ramped up. Even more so when said Car=
dinal Ratzinger became Pope in 2005.=20
I have actually met and interviewed those in the Vatican with responsibilit=
y for dealing with cases of abuses. They are caring, competent and consciou=
sness. They are also unstinting in their mission to root out what Pope Bene=
dict XVI has bluntly described as 'filth' from the Church. To therefore sug=
gest that they somehow downplay 'the rape and torture of children' and do s=
o for the sake of 'power, standing and reputation,' is an outrageous defama=
tion which Enda Kenny should have the good grace to withdraw.

In fact, the only valid contemporary criticism of the Vatican is the lament=
able tardiness with which any explanation or clarification has been issued =
to the Irish public and global media.=20
For whatever reason, Rome's PR-machine has once again allowed others to wri=
te the first draft of history thus setting the parameters for all future de=
bate. Indeed, we are still awaiting an official response which we are told =
'will be forthcoming in the most appropriate time and manner.' Well, that t=
ime has long gone. It will now be almost impossible for the Vatican to get =
off the back foot on the issue of Cloyne.=20=20

Now for the Church in Ireland. What the 400 pages of the Cloyne Report make=
s abundantly and repeatedly clear-and what the Taoiseach largely chose to i=
gnore-is that the man to blame for the situation in Cloyne was not the Pope=
but the local bishop, John Magee.=20
The report charts in detail how Bishop Magee effectively handed over all re=
sponsibility for the issue of abuse to his vicar general, Mgr Denis O'Calla=
ghan, who disliked both the Irish Church guidelines and the Vatican guideli=
nes. So, states the report, Mgr O'Callaghan simply ignored both and then se=
t about misleading Church and state authorities as to his modus operandi. S=
uch deceptions are severely criticised in the Cloyne Report.=20=20
While this was going on Bishop John Magee, a former private secretary to th=
ree Popes, seems to have expounded much of his energy over 23 years in offi=
ce actually opposing traditional forms of Catholicism. Pope John Paul II's =
indult allowing the Tridentine Mass was suppressed. Plans to re-order his V=
ictorian cathedral, designed by Edward Pugin, saw him fight an expensive pl=
anning battle against local Catholics who deemed the move to be architectur=
al vandalism. Priestly vocations plummeted. You get the idea.=20
In fact, as someone who spent a week filming in Bishop Magee's cathedral la=
st year, I can assure Enda Kenny that it is the one place in Ireland where =
you most certainly won't find the 'swish of a soutane' nor 'the swing of a =
thurible.'=20=20
It is a similar story across the rest of the country which has been transfo=
rmed into a liturgical la-la-land where the Roman Rite of the Mass varies w=
ildly from parish to parish. But lex orandi, lex credendi and, so, last yea=
r saw a former philosophy lecturer at the national seminary in Maynooth blo=
w the whistle on a how 'Irish seminaries are hotbeds of serious moral decay=
which is devastating the Church in this country.'=20
"Their culture is one which rejects piety and Holiness in favour of religio=
us laxity and moral confusion (resulting in priests who) barely believe in =
the doctrine they are ordained to promote," Dr Mark Dooley said.=20
Remember, it was Ireland that gave the world-Scotland included-the woeful A=
live-O religious education programme for schools.=20
All in all, this has rendered the Irish Church a Church terrified of its ow=
n shadow and bereft of the intellectual wherewithal to re-vindicate, never =
mind re-vivify, Catholic orthodoxy in Ireland.=20

So what is to be done? Well this year has also seen the conclusion of a yea=
r-long investigation into the state of the Irish Church initiated by Pope B=
enedict himself. This 'apostolic visitation' will report back early next ye=
ar. It will hopefully chart a radical path to reform and renewal. That coul=
d involve input from the vast Irish Diaspora who would be happy to assist I=
reland regain the Faith of our fathers. After all, St Patrick himself came =
from Scotland.=20=20
And 2012 will also see Ireland host the International Eucharistic Congress.=
There were voices this week calling for it to be cancelled. Actually, it i=
s hard to think of circumstances where it's more necessary.=20
The time has finally come for beauty of Jesus Christ-rather than the bluste=
r of Enda Kenny-to take centre stage in Irish life.=20

- David Kerr is the Rome correspondent for a US-based news agency. He is al=
so a former SNP parliamentary candidate

--=20
The Sunday Times Scottish University of the Year 2009/2010
The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland,=20
number SC 011159.

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Forwarded on behalf of
Jim Doan [doan[at]nova.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 9:00 AM

Call for Contributors: "The Universal Vampire."

We are seeking contributions for an edited collection of essays on the
subject of universal vampire studies. The book will be intended for an
informed popular audience interested in literature, film, folklore and
cultural studies. The collection of approximately fifteen original essays
will examine the vampire phenomenon from a variety of angles, accounting for
both its popularity and the reactions it has provoked.

We envision the book divided into three parts:
(1) introductory and cultural-historical analyses, defining the legend, its
origins and manifestations around the world, current trends and future
possibilities; (2) critical essays on the vampire genre and its influence;
and (3) unique individual perspectives, either literary, film, or folklore.
We expect the completed work to provide a detailed contemporary portrait of
a vibrant cultural phenomenon.

If you are interested in contributing to this project, please respond by
JANUARY 1, 2012 with a brief description of your proposed essay. For
further information, feel free to contact us.

Barbara Brodman
Professor
Department of Humanities
Nova Southeastern University
brodman[at]nova.edu

James Doan
Professor
Department of Humanities
Nova Southeastern University
doan[at]nova.edu

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan [mailto:P.OSullivan[at]bradford.ac.uk]=20

RT=C9 Factual Calls for New "Big Ideas"

RT=C9 Factual =94urgently require=94 ideas for high-impact cultural TV =
events and
series for 2012 and beyond. The broadcaster is is currently seeking
proposals for two and three part series which have real depth and =
insight,
but are also accessible to a broad audience. Closing date for =
applications
is Friday 9th September .The brief mentions four areas which are
specifically welcomed by RT=C9 Factual.
The first area is observational series which document the experiences of
Irish people (famous or not) and/or communities as they engage with the
arts. Access must be fully secured for proposals and the biggest =
question to
be asked by the commissioning team will be =93Why should we make this =
series
now?=94

The second area is loose hour-long formats which introduce new audiences =
to
the arts through the hands-on experience of ordinary Irish people or
well-known faces. The intention is not to dumb-down the content but to =
make
intelligent, informative and enjoyable programmes which bring wider
audiences to art forms they may never have experiences or would never =
choose
to watch. Original formats which tap into current issues and existing
cultural activity in Ireland are particularly welcomed.

The third area is authored or =93big idea=94 documentary series, along =
the lines
of =91Cromwell in Ireland=92 or =91The Story of Ireland=92. RT=C9 are =
looking for
=94big, swashbuckling arts series that give an absolutely fresh =
perspective on
an area of Irish cultural activity =96 from literature to song =96 that =
we think
we know well?=94 RT=C9 Factual are open to straight documentary formats =
but also
welcome ideas for series fronted by knowledgeable and engaging =
presenters
(not necessarily experts in the arts) who can bring the audience on an
amazing journey week after week.

The fourth area specified in the commissioning brief is Events centred
programmes which have cultural activity at their core. They are seeking
ideas that will get the nation =94doing things together: rediscovering =
their
favourite poems, songs, plays or books; going to Irish galleries, =
theatres
and cinemas; engaging with architecture, heritage or the environment.=94 =
RT=C9
suggest possible basis for ideas in this area to emerge from =
anniversaries,
events, big issues facing the nation or even to create a newly generated
event or campaign. Ideas that use online and radio to allow the audience =
to
contribute to content or debate are particularly welcomed.

Applicants should inform RT=C9 if they feel that their idea has =
potential for
co-production or BAI funding. To see the full brief from RT=C9 Factual =
go to
rte.ie/commissioning/rtefactual.html.

Producers should submit ideas to the eCommissioning system by clicking =
HERE,
under the programme category Factual =96 Arts 2012 before close of =
business on
Friday 9th September.

SOURCE

http://iftn.ie/news/?act1=3Drecord&only=3D1&aid=3D73&rid=3D4284137&tpl=3D=
archnews&forc
e=3D1