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Late Medieval Ireland and the English Connection: Waterford and
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This is a splendid article which will interest many Ir-D members. In many
ways it can be read as an extended meditation on the statutes of the
Kilkenny parliament, which form its starting point. But what is especially
striking is the amount of new work that has appeared on Irish Sea
connections in the late medieval period, with the discovery of new sources.
Brendan Smith is a master of this material. The article ends with an
intriguing example of the Irish language being spoken in Bristol in the
1390s.

P.O'S.

Late Medieval Ireland and the English Connection: Waterford and Bristol, ca.
1360-1460
Brendan Smith
Journal of British Studies
Vol. 50, No. 3 (July 2011), pp. 546-565

'...Two recent and related historiographical developments have prompted
historians concerned with the fortunes of the English colony in medieval
Ireland to consider their subject in wider geographical and conceptual
contexts. The first, the British Isles approach, has deepened understanding
of the impulses behind the initial English intervention in the island and
the nature of the colonial settlement that resulted from it.1 The second,
the English world perspective, has sought to include Ireland in an analysis
of the various ways in which English power in northwest Europe was expressed
in the late Middle Ages.2 The result has been a tendency to question both
the extent to which the ties binding Ireland and England together weakened
in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and the degree to which the
English colony was in retreat in the same period in the face of an Irish
military and cultural resurgence.3 By focusing on the connections between
Waterford and Bristol, this article seeks to offer a fresh assessment of the
range and strength of the bonds between Ireland and England at this time. By
comparing and contrasting the character of the relationship each town
enjoyed with its political hinterland, it aims to provide new insights into
the nature of the late medieval English world...'

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This article by Claire Lynch will interest many Ir-D members. For example,
it looks at - a point I have made before - the ways in which the storing of
research material is shaped by assumptions that its users are going to be
'Family Tree Fans' and access to material is costed by these assumptions.
The Irish model, making the census research material freely available on the
web, becomes especially valuable - and we hope that that practice continues.

P.O'S.

Biography
Volume 34, Number 1, Winter 2011

E-ISSN: 1529-1456 Print ISSN: 0162-4962
Who Do You Think You Are?
Intimate Pasts Made Public
Claire Lynch

Abstract
The hugely successful BBC television series Who Do You Think You Are?
follows celebrities tracing their family trees as part of a journey of self
discovery in a format described here as "biogravision." The show's
popularity runs in parallel with the rise in genealogy made possible by
digital archives. What impact has this had on modes of self-narration and
the move between private and public histories.

Extracts
Genealogy, like life writing, spreads itself across a wide range of
definitions and contradictions. It is a profession as well as a hobby, a
passion as well as a chore, and an investigation into the lives of others as
a way to learn more about the self. Running through it all is a core
assumption that humans are "defined by who and where we are 'from'" (Watson
297)-that the question "who do you think you are" can be answered if only
the right documents are uncovered. The reality is patently far more complex;
genealogical documents often raise more questions than they answer, since
inconsistencies, surprises, and scandals are at the core of family history
research. The television program Who Do You Think You Are?, from which this
article draws its title, poses this multifaceted question of
self-identification by following a celebrity tracing his or her family
history. The television medium is also crucial to the process, allowing the
viewer to witness the unfolding of the "public" family narrative via
archival research, photographs, and memories, as well as the "private"
journey of self-discovery experienced by the celebrity protagonist.

The roots of this article grew out of an email I received from a popular
online retailer. It began as follows:

Dear Family Tree Fan, as you've shown an interest in genealogy titles
recently, we thought you might like to see our full range of family tree
software. Whether you want to uncover the past or record your heritage for
the future, our family tree software is perfect for your first dip into the
gene pool.1

The misplaced certainty of the targeted marketing technique seemed to be
strangely at odds with the product. I, they presumed, was in the market for
self-discovery; they, meanwhile, knew exactly who and what I was, a family
tree fan no less. In the first instance, the email points to an appealing
flaw [End Page 108] in the technology. Since the email was generated in
response to the IP (internet protocol) address of my computer, the automated
system had no way of knowing if it was really me showing "an interest in
genealogy titles," and so made the leap of judgment: what I read, or plan to
read, is who and what I am...

...Conclusion

Family history is arguably not the pursuit of truth at all, but rather an
expression of the ultimate human fantasy, the pursuit of immortality.
Throughout their research, family historians explore further and further
back into the past; simultaneously, the records and family trees they
produce are designed for future generations. This process effectively
extends the researcher's sense of temporal identity behind and ahead of
their own lifespan, without limitation. This use of an individual life to
link the past with the future depends, as with life writing, upon the
selective fictionalization of fact in order for a satisfactory plotline to
emerge. Simply, if the traditional self-reflection of auto biography is
rejected, it is only by dramatizing the archival findings, photographs, and
memories that the individual at the center of the search can hope to answer
the question "who do you think you are."...

Claire Lynch

Claire Lynch is Lecturer in English at Brunel University in London. She has
written on life writing in text and media forms, including Irish
Autobiography (Peter Lang, 2009), and "Trans-genre confusion: What does
autobiography think it is?" in Life Writing: Essays on Autobiography,
Biography and Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). She is currently
working on a book length study of WDYTYA with Prof. Peter Lunt.

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Forwarded on behalf of
Sharon O'Donovan [mailto:pr[at]mercierpress.ie]=20

Press release for On The Run, recently published by Mercier Press.=20
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ON THE RUN=20
=20
The Story of an Irish Freedom Fighter =20
=20
The translated autobiography of Colm =C3=93 Gaora, a leading figure in =
the first generation of nationalist figures who defined the emergence of =
the Irish state.
=20
An important figure in the development of Republicanism and the Irish =
Republican Brotherhood in the west of Ireland, Colm =C3=93 Gaora was =
also a leading figure in the first generation of nationalist =
intellectuals who defined the emergence of the nascent Irish state.
=20
As well as detailing his involvement in the War of Independence, =C3=93 =
Gaora looks back on his childhood in the Connemara Gaeltacht, his work =
as a travelling teacher for the Gaelic League, joining the Irish =
Volunteers, preparations for the 1916 Rising in Galway in Mayo and his =
subsequent imprisonment in Dublin and Dartmoor.=20
=20
On the Run is a fascinating memoir of early 20th century Ireland and =
provides a first hand insight into a particularly turbulent era in Irish =
history.
=20
Author Information=20
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This is a translation of the classic Irish revolutionary text Mise, =
translated by Miche=C3=A1l =C3=93 hAodha and edited by =C3=93 hAodha and =
Ruan O=E2=80=99 Donnell both of The University of Limerick.=20
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Rites of passage: The coffin ship as a site of immigrants'
identity formation in Irish and Irish American fiction, 1855-85
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A new article based on Margu=E9rite Corporaal's corpus of novels whose =
subject
matter is the Irish Famine...=20

Atlantic Studies

Volume 8, Issue 3, 2011

Rites of passage: The coffin ship as a site of immigrants' identity
formation in Irish and Irish American fiction, 1855=9685

Margu=E9rite Corporaal* & Christopher Cusack

pages 343-359

Abstract
The statue of Annie Moore and her brothers in Cobh, Ireland, is one of =
the
many lieux de m=E9moire which seek to crystallise the recollections of =
the
Irish exodus to North America between 1845 and 1900. Scholars have =
examined
the monuments erected to commemorate the massive exodus of 1.8 million =
Irish
to Canada and the United States. Hitherto, however, very little =
attention
has been paid to a transatlantic corpus of fiction, mainly written by =
the
so-called =93Famine generation,=94 which recollects the conditions of =
Irish
immigrants to the New World. These novels and stories, by Irish writers =
at
home who witnessed the outflux of population as well as authors who had
migrated themselves to escape starvation and poverty, not only describe
their migrant characters=92 conditions of departure from the homeland =
and
settlement in North American communities. An equally central role is
reserved for the transition from home to diaspora, on-board the =
so-called
=93coffin ships.=94 While the texts remember the fearful realities of =
poor
hygiene and high mortality rates on-board, the voyage also has a =
symbolic
function, featuring as a rite of passage for the characters and their =
sense
of ethnic identity. This article discusses several examples of the =
iconic
image of the coffin ship in Irish and Irish American fiction on =
immigration,
written between 1855 and 1885. In these texts, the storms that the =
immigrant
characters have to endure during their passage at sea prefigure the =
trials
the characters will face in the urban New World. Moreover, the coffin =
ships
represent microcosmic Irish =93imagined communities=94 that function as =
utopian
heterotopia where the cultural clashes experienced in the homeland and =
the
pending assimilation in the New World have to be negotiated.

Keywords
Irish diaspora, coffin ships, migration, identity formation, heterotopia

Marguerite Corporaal obtained her PhD from the University of Groningen, =
The
Netherlands, in May 2003, and is now Assistant Professor in British
Literature at Radboud University Nijmegen. Among her international
publications are a wide range of articles in the fields of Irish studies =
and
early modern literature; Heroines of the Golden (St)Age: Women and Drama
in Early Modern Spain and England (Reichenberger, 2008), with Rina =
Walthaus;
and The Literary Utopias of Cultural Communities, 1790=011900 (Rodopi, =
2010),
with Evert Jan van Leeuwen. Her current research project, supported by a
Starting Grant from the European Research Council, is entitled =
=91=91Relocated
Remembrance: The Great Famine in Irish (Diaspora) Fiction, =
1847=011921.=92=92 She
is co-editor of the anthology Recollecting Starvation: Cultural Memories =
of
the Great Famine in Irish Fiction, 1847=011920 (forthcoming with Irish
Academic Press in 2012).

Christopher Cusack has studied at Radboud University Nijmegen, The
Netherlands, University College London, UK, and the National University =
of
Ireland, Maynooth. He has been awarded the prestigious Huygens =
scholarship
twice, once in 2008 and again in 2010. He is currently a postgraduate =
at
Radboud University Nijmegen, where he is working on the cultural memory =
of
the Great Famine in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish (American)
literature. He is a contributor to the Annotated Bibliography of English
Studies (Routledge) and has written reviews for Irish Studies Review and
English Studies. He is co-editor of the anthology Recollecting =
Starvation:
Cultural Memories of the Great Famine in Irish Fiction, 1847=011920
(forthcoming with Irish Academic Press in 2012).

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Beyond the Emerald Isle: Studying the Irish Atlantic
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Atlantic Studies=20
Volume 8, Issue 3, 2011=20

Beyond the Emerald Isle: Studying the Irish Atlantic

Christopher Cusack

pages 379-388

The Black and Green Atlantic: Cross-Currents of the African and Irish
Diasporas, edited by Peter D. O'Neill and David Lloyd, Basingstoke, =
Palgrave
Macmillan, 2009, xx=01283 pp., US$90 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-230-22818-4

The Irish in the Atlantic World, edited by David T. Gleeson, Columbia,
University of South Carolina Press, 2010, 344 pp., US$69.95 (hardback), =
ISBN
978-1-570-03908-9

American Slavery, Irish Freedom: Abolition, Immigrant Citizenship and =
the
Transatlantic Movement for Irish Repeal, by Angela F. Murphy, Baton =
Rouge,
Louisiana State University Press, 2010, xvi=01286 pp., US$45 (hardback), =
ISBN
978-0-807-13639-3

Irish Terrorism in the Atlantic Community, 1865=021922, by Jonathan =
Gantt,
Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, xii=01346 pp., US$110 (hardback), =
ISBN
978-0-230-53812-2

Although it has long had a reputation =02 since disproved =02 as a field =
with a
penchant for insularity because it used to be notoriously tardy in =
embracing
new currents in adjacent disciplines, Irish studies tends to come back =
with
a vengeance once it has adopted a new approach or paradigm. Irish =
studies'
engagement with post-colonialism, for instance, has been very fecund, as
attested by the works of Joe Cleary, David Lloyd, and Colin Graham, =
among
others. Similarly, as William Murphy states in a recent essay on the =
topic,
Irish studies' interest in diaspora studies got off to a slow start, but
this field of inquiry has since proved to be a fertile roaming ground =
for
historians and literary and cultural scholars alike, and there is now a
shipload =02 if not a surfeit =02 of scholarship dealing with Irish =
emigration
and the diaspora.1 Although some scholars, such asLawrence McCaffrey, =
were
quick to seize upon the term 'diaspora' in the 1970s, the field of =
Irish
diaspora studies was consolidated in the 1990s with monographs and =
edited
collections by Donald H. Akenson, Patrick O'Sullivan, Charles Fanning,
Arthur Gribben, Ruth-Ann M. Harris, Andy Bielenberg, and others.More
recently, Breda Gray and others have started considering the Irish =
diaspora
in terms of gender, and scholars such as Patrick Fitzgerald, Brian =
Lambkin,
Donald M. MacRaild, and Kevin Kenny have been instrumental in =
extrapolating,
expanding, amending, and qualifying much earlier work on the Irish
diaspora...

...Although Ireland and the Irish diaspora have interacted with the =
Atlantic
community in countless ways, and the Irish case is defined by a myriad =
of
fascinating tangents and fault lines connecting it to other Atlantics, =
the
Irish Atlantic has for a long time not received the interest it merits.
However, as is borne out by the books here discussed, Irish Atlantic =
studies
is now coming into its own, and we may expect a good number of Irish
Atlantic texts to follow on the heels of the examples here discussed

Atlantic Studies
Vol. 8, No. 3, September 2011, 379-388

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Much to interest Ir-D members in the latest issue of=20
Irish Communications Review, freely available at...

http://www.dit.ie/icr/

http://dit.ie/icr/currentandpastissues/

Note especially
Robert Schmuhl
Peering through the Fog: American Newspapers and the Easter Rising

P.O'S.


Irish Communications Review
Volume 12, 2010

Articles

D.Fahy, M. O=92Brien and Valerio Poti
Combative Critics or Captured Collaborators? Irish Financial Journalism =
and
the End of the Celtic Tiger

Ray Burke
Irish Press coverage of the Troubles in the North from 1968 to 1995

Robert Schmuhl
Peering through the Fog: American Newspapers and the Easter Rising

Regina U=ED Chollat=E1in
Crossing Boundaries and Early Gleanings of Cultural Replacement in Irish
Periodical Culture

Ian d=92Alton
A Protestant Paper for a Protestant People: the Irish Times and the =
southern
Ireland minority

Sonja Tiernan
Tabloid Sensationalism or Revolutionary Feminism: the first-wave =
feminist
movement in an Irish women=92s periodical

Michael Flanagan
=91To Enlighten and Entertain=92 =96 Adventure narrative in the Our Boys =
paper

Mark Wehrly
=91Blessed with the faculty of mirthfulness=92: Arthur Malley, the =
=91new
journalism=92 and the local press in Sligo at the turn of the twentieth
century

Reviews

Pat Hannon
Brian O=92Neill (ed.), Digital Radio in Europe: Technologies, Industries =
and
Cultures 115 Rosemary Day, Community Radio in Ireland: Participation and
Multiflows of Communication

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Notes
Volume 68, Number 1, September 2011

Reviewed by=20
Joshua S. Walden
University of Oxford

Music and Displacement: Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations in =
Europe
and Beyond. Edited by Erik Levi and Florian Scheding. (Europea: Ethno
musicologies and Modernities, no. 10.) Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, =
2010.
[viii, 207 p. ISBN 9780810863798 (hardcover), $75; ISBN 9780810872950
(paperback), $50.] Music examples, bibliographies, illustrations, index.

The study of displacement, or forced migration, exile, and the formation =
and
movement of diasporas, is a relatively young field of inquiry in =
musicology.
Some scholars have recently begun to investigate the impacts of =
displacement
on composition, performance, and listening in a transnational context,
examining such questions as the relationship of music to the experiences =
of
nostalgia and acculturation among dispersed peoples, the representation =
of
exile in musical works, and the roles of music in the construction of
identities in displaced communities. This new volume, edited by Erik =
Levi
and Florian Scheding, considers this topic in a set of essays that =
explore
music in Europe, America, Israel, and North Africa, paying particular
attention to musicians forced into exile from Central Europe during the
twentieth century. The book offers a useful investigation of some of the
various techniques by which scholars might consider the significant =
effects
of displacement in the history of music.

Music and Displacement is divided into three parts that consider the
consequences of displacement on the creation and reception of music from
complementary perspectives. Part 1 investigates the ways forced =
migration,
racist policy, and genocide have affected musicians and their work. Part =
2
focuses on musical evocations of identities in exile, and on historical
instances in which musicians have responded to the conditions of
displacement to undertake innovative projects in the fields of =
composition
and performance. Part 3 covers displacement=92s impacts on music =
criticism,
and the roles a theory of displacement might play in broadening
musicological knowledge. Taken together, these groupings of essays =
provide a
usefully broad range of approaches to the subject matter...

...The third essay in part 2, by Sean Campbell, examines the expression =
of
displacement and difference in the output of rock musicians of Irish =
origin
who have made their careers in the United Kingdom. Campbell=92s essay =
focuses
on the ways in which the music of the band The Smiths evokes ambivalent
conceptions of home and national identity in its expressions of life in =
the
Irish diaspora in Britain. Part 2 closes with an essay by Bj=F6rn Heile =
about
the eclectic performances of Mahler symphonic works by the chamber =
ensemble
of American jazz pianist Uri Caine. In Caine=92s recording, the =
musicians
adopt a style of performance inspired by klezmer music to play passages =
in
which they interpret the sounds of Jewish folk music in Mahler=92s =
scores. In
its fusion of classical, jazz, and klezmer idioms, Uri Caine=92s =
ensemble
claims Mahler=92s symphonic writing as a product of the Jewish diaspora, =
while
constructing a new hybrid sonic identity out of displaced musical =
elements.

See also
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/music/news/2010/04_21_scheding.shtml

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Dear Paddy,
We would be most grateful if you would circulate the following
call-for-papers among the list-serve subscribers.
Yours,
Breen


Call for Papers:


*=C9ire-Ireland**: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies welcomes
submissions for a Spring/Summer 2013 special issue that will consider the
theme of Sport in Ireland and/or the Irish Diaspora.*


The guest editors of a special issue of *=C9ire-Ireland* invite essays on t=
he
subject of Ireland and Sport from the medieval through the contemporary
period. We are especially interested in essays that offer interdisciplinary
perspectives from history, literature, language, geography, sociology,
cartography, archaeology, fine arts, music, photography and film studies. W=
e
encourage submissions informed by newly available archival sources in all
disciplines, as well as essays that explore new methods and theoretical
paradigms for investigating sport as a cultural phenomenon.



Guest editors Mike Cronin and Brian =D3 Conchubhair invite critical article=
s
that engage with sport and Irish/Irish-American culture and
that contextualize sport in a broader social, cultural, linguistic and
historical setting. We welcome essays that offer interdisciplinary
perspectives from history, literature, visual culture, social welfare, and
social policy. We also invite submissions informed by new sources of
archival research.



The deadline for receipt of proposals (two pages) is November 1, 2011, and
completed articles (6,000=968,000 words) will be due by April 1, 2012.



Please send electronic proposals to Professor Mike Cronin (Boston
College) at croninmr[at]bc.edu and Professor Brian =D3 Conchubhair (University=
of
Notre Dame) at Brian.OConchubhair.1[at]nd.edu



Below is a list of suggested (but not inclusive) areas for exploration:



Gender and sport

Nationalism and sport

Globalism and sport

Literature and sport

Minorities and sport

Discrimination and sport

Diaspora and sport

Languages and sport

Sporting organizations

Sporting controversies

Identity and sport

Animal rights and sport

Education and sport

Religion/Sectarianism and sport

Violence and Sport

1916 Sport

Irish Civil War and sport

Cinema and sport

Post-colonialism and sport

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This article has not yet been assigned a place in the paper journal.

Review of International Political Economy

Ideas, structure, state action and economic growth: Rethinking the Irish
miracle

Dan Breznitz

ABSTRACT

This paper advances an argument about the need to take into account two
components of state-industry relations if we are to fully understand
economic development and policy trajectory, as well as industry-state
co-evolution. The first component, the specific structure of the bureaucracy
and state-industry relations, has been the focus of intense research.
However, the second, the particular industrial economic ideology defining
the correct role of the state in industry and industry in a state, is at
least as important, if under-researched. In order to do empirically advance
the argument the paper merges a cognitive-based constructivist argument with
a neo-developmental state structuralist one, to present a new understanding
of the role of the state in the Irish miracle that explains not only its
success and failures but its internal dissonances, such as the continuous
discrimination of the local, Irish-owned, industry in favor of foreign-owned
MNCs. The paper illustrates how a particular industrial economic ideology
has been formed and crystallized in Ireland. Focusing on the IT industry and
using a multimethod research strategy, it traces the influence and evolution
of this ideology at five critical decision points over a fifty-year period.

KEYWORDS
Developmental state, economic ideology, high technology, industrial policy,
innovation, cognitive-base constructivism, co-evolution

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Towards a 'tourism for all' policy for Ireland: achieving real
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Current Issues in Tourism
Volume 14, Issue 5, 2011
Special Issue: SOCIAL TOURISM: PERSPECTIVES AND POTENTIAL

Towards a 'tourism for all' policy for Ireland: achieving real
sustainability in Irish tourism

Kevin Griffina & Jane Staceya*

pages 431-444

Abstract

The importance of tourism for all initiatives in contributing to the
economic and social well-being of citizens has long been recognised by many
European Union Member States. The European Commission and the European
Economic and Social Committee have acknowledged not only the social value of
tourism for all in terms of personal development, well-being and social
cohesion, but also its potential economic value in terms of revenue
generation, job creation and regional development.

This paper focuses on Ireland, where the concept of tourism for all is
poorly understood. While social inclusion is explicitly on the national
policy agenda, Irish tourism has tended to be viewed entirely through
economic lenses, with little acknowledgement of its social value. Within the
context of sustainable development, which is a stated policy objective in
Ireland, environmental issues have received a disproportionate level of
attention within the tourism domain. The core argument forwarded here is
that unless Irish tourism policy-makers turn their attention to 'making
holidays available for all', Irish tourism will fail to meet at least one of
the eight key tourism sustainability challenges, as identified by the
European Commission (2007) and further fail to realise the existing Irish
policy commitment to sustainable tourism development.

Keywords
tourism, equality, sustainability, policy

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Treating alcohol-related problems within the Irish healthcare
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Treating alcohol-related problems within the Irish healthcare system,
1986--2007: An embedded disease model of treatment??

Author: Cullen, Barry

Source: Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, Volume 18, Number 4, August
2011 , pp. 251-260(10)

Publisher: Informa Healthcare

Abstract:
This article assesses the implementation of the policy on the treatment of
alcohol problems in Ireland during the period 1986--2007. At the
commencement of this period, a major policy statement in relation to the
treatment of alcohol within the mental health care system presaged radical
change -- in effect it proposed a shift from the then dominant disease model
of alcoholism to one that was focused on public health principles. Towards
the end of the period, a further statement made the rather sanguine claim
that many of the intended changes had taken place. This article adopts a
more critical approach. Using epidemiological data from annual reports on
the activities of mental health centres and also drawing from a recently
conducted action-research project that focused on addiction treatment within
a regional health authority, the article highlights that change has been
slow and that some of the main tenets of the disease model remain in place.

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Interpretative Repertoire of Victimhood: Narrating Experiences of
Discrimination and Ethnic Hatred among Polish Migrants in Belfast
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Interpretative Repertoire of Victimhood: Narrating Experiences of
Discrimination and Ethnic Hatred among Polish Migrants in Belfast

Author: Kempny, Marta

Source: Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, Volume 20, Number 1,
Spring 2011 , pp. 132-151(20)

Publisher: Berghahn Journals

Abstract:
Based on one year of ethnographic fieldwork, this article discusses the
narratives of perceived discrimination and ethnic hatred of Polish migrants
in Belfast. Using narrative theory, it examines the construction of identity
of Poles as an unprivileged stratum of the Northern Irish society. Migrants'
stories are followed by analysis of the contradictions and tensions between
what they construct as their realities and 'objective truth'. Subsequently,
the article accounts for these tensions by exploring the links between
'cultural repertoires' of Polish migrants and the ways in which their
narratives are presented.

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: TOC Historical Reflections, Volume 37, Number 2, Summer 2011,
'Gender, History,
and Heritage in Ireland and Scotland: Medieval to Modern
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This Special Issue of the journal Historical Reflections has turned up =
in
our alerts.

I am grateful to Elizabeth Macknight for help in clarifying the origins =
of
this Special Issue.

'Gender, History, and Heritage in Ireland and Scotland: Medieval to =
Modern'
- Elizabeth C. Macknight, guest editor

This special issue of Historical Reflections/R=E9flexions Historiques =
derives
from panel sessions for the Irish-Scottish Academic Initiative (ISAI)
conference held at the University of Aberdeen in October 2009. The
conference marked the tenth anniversary of the founding of Aberdeen's
Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies. It was also the first =
ISAI
conference to feature panel sessions dedicated to the study of gender in
Irish and Scottish history. The overarching theme of the conference =
-'Global
Nations? Irish and Scottish Expansion'- encouraged discussion of the =
ways in
which the history and heritage of Ireland and Scotland are interpreted =
and
understood both within those countries and abroad. In the two panels on
gender, history, and heritage we sought to interrogate past and present
notions of Irish and Scottish identity through the lens of gender by
bringing together speakers from universities and the heritage sector.

Here is the URL for the issue via ingentaconnect:
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/berghahn/hisref/2011/00000037/00000=
002
;jsessionid=3D134oi168gcvdp.victoria

Historical Reflections

Volume 37, Number 2, Summer 2011

Gender, History, and Heritage in Ireland and Scotland: Medieval to =
Modern
pp. 1-7(7)
Author: Macknight, Elizabeth C.

Gender(ed) Identities? Anglo-Norman Settlement, Irish-ness, and The =
Statutes
of Kilkenny of 1367
pp. 8-23(16)
Author: Mitchell, Linda E.

Censorship as Freedom of Expression: The Tailor and Ansty Revisited
pp. 24-38(15)
Author: Valiulis, Maryann Gialanella

Female Correspondence and Early Modern Scottish Political History: A =
Case
Study of the Anglo-Scottish Union
pp. 39-57(19)
Author: Carr, Rosalind

Challenging Presumptions of Heterosexuality: Eva Gore-Booth, A =
Biographical
Case Study
pp. 58-71(14)
Author: Tiernan, Sonja

Telling Her Story of War: Challenging Gender Bias at Culloden =
Battlefield
Visitor Centre
pp. 72-89(18)
Author: Deufel, Nicole

Remembering the Piper Alpha Disaster
pp. 90-104(15)
Author: O'Byrne, Catherine

Archives, Heritage, and Communities
pp. 105-122(18)
Author: Macknight, Elizabeth C.

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: CONFERENCE Ireland, America and the Worlds of Mathew Carey,
Philadelphia + Dublin
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Forwarded on behalf of
Lauren Propst
Subject: Ireland, America and the Worlds of Mathew Carey


Mark your Calendar!
Ireland, America and the Worlds of Mathew Carey

Philadelphia
27-29 October 2011

Cosponsored by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies,

The Program in Early American Economy and Society,

The Library Company of Philadelphia

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries, and

This first part of a trans-Atlantic conference will feature
presentations and discussion about printer and editor of influential
periodicals, on Mathew Carey (1760-1839). By the mid-1790s, he had
transformed himself from printer to publisher, from artisan to
manufacturer, and into one of the early republic's foremost political
economists. Carey's identity as an Irish-American and a Catholic, and
his contributions to the economy and politics are inseparable from the
trans-Atlantic print culture of the early national era. This conference
is free and open to everyone interested in its themes. To review the
program and read pre-circulated papers for this conference, which will
be posted in late September, please register electronically at:
http://www.librarycompany.org/careyconference/

The second part of this trans-Atlantic conference will be
held at Trinity College Dublin, on November 17-19, 2011. It will hosted
by the Centre for Irish-Scottish and Comparative Studies and Trinity
College Dublin, and the Trinity Long Room Hub in association with the
National Library of Ireland, University College Dublin, and the
University of Aberdeen. For further information please contact Johanna
Archbold at: johanna.archbold[at]tcd.ie

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Article, Gender(ed) Identities? Anglo-Norman Settlement,
Irish-ness, and The Statutes of Kilkenny of 1367
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Gender(ed) Identities? Anglo-Norman Settlement, Irish-ness, and The Statutes
of Kilkenny of 1367

Author: Mitchell, Linda E.

Source: Historical Reflections, Volume 37, Number 2, Summer 2011 , pp.
8-23(16)

Abstract:

Through the analysis of three important texts-Gerald of Wales's Topographia
Hibernica, the poem known as both The Song of Dermot and the Earl and The
Deeds of the Normans in Ireland, and the 1367 Statutes of Kilkenny-this
article seeks to demonstrate that characterizations of the Irish by the
English during the first centuries of conquest and settlement established
the Irish as differently gendered from the English. This is shown through
the use of terms that define the Irish as sexually, socially, and culturally
deviant, as unmanly and emasculated, and as legally and culturally inferior
even to English women.

Keywords: ANGLO-NORMAN; ENGLISH; GENDER; GERALD OF WALES; MEDIEVAL IRELAND;
POST-COLONIAL; THE SONG OF DERMOT AND THE EARL; THE STATUTES OF KILKENNY

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Article,
Challenging Presumptions of Heterosexuality: Eva Gore-Booth,
A Biographical Case Study
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Challenging Presumptions of Heterosexuality: Eva Gore-Booth, A Biographical
Case Study

Author: Tiernan, Sonja

Source: Historical Reflections, Volume 37, Number 2, Summer 2011 , pp.
58-71(14)

Abstract:

In 1925 Virginia Woolf described, with a hint of humor, how biography "is
only at the beginning of its career; it has a long and active life before
it, we may be sure-a life full of difficulty, danger, and hard work." 1
Recent debates suggest that one difficulty in writing a biography is
deciding just what issues should be included. Sexuality may not always be of
primary importance for a biographical study, but what if a subject's
homosexuality is willfully ignored or vehemently denied by a biographer?
Using the life of Irish poet and political activist Eva Gore-Booth as a case
study, this article examines how misnaming Gore-Booth's relationship with
her partner, Esther Roper, has helped to erase both women from the histories
of Ireland and England.
Keywords: BIOGRAPHY; EVA GORE-BOOTH; IRELAND; ESTHER ROPER; SEXUALITY;
URANIA

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Article,
Censorship as Freedom of Expression: The Tailor and Ansty
Revisited
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Censorship as Freedom of Expression: The Tailor and Ansty Revisited

Author: Valiulis, Maryann Gialanella

Source: Historical Reflections, Volume 37, Number 2, Summer 2011 , pp.
24-38(15)

Abstract:

Censorship laws were introduced in the Irish Free State in 1928 and sparked
immediate controversy among intellectuals, the media, and the political
classes. The issue of censorship became the center of a conversation about
Irish national identity. It was, in part, an assertion of independence and a
conscious rejection of colonialism, an attempt to decide what stories would
be told about them, what image they would portray to the world. In 1942, one
text in particular sparked a renewal of the censorship controversy: Eric
Cross's book, The Tailor and Ansty, which was banned because it was a
realistic portrayal of Irish peasant life that was unacceptable to
post-colonial Ireland, and because the author, an English folklorist, was
perceived to be trying to undermine post-colonial attempts to establish a
modern identity for Ireland. Thus, the application of censorship laws in
Ireland can be seen as a move to free Irish self-identity from the negative
portrayals of the Irish so prevalent in the colonial period.

Keywords: CENSORSHIP; COLONIALISM; CULTURAL NATIONALISM; IRELAND; THE TAILOR
AND ANSTY

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From: Bryan McGovern
Subject: ACIS National Conference in New Orleans
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I'm looking to put together a panel to discuss pedagogy in Irish studies for the ACIS national conference in New Orleans in March. I find that I have the most difficulty teaching Irish history to American students because they know so little about the subject before they enter my class. Even finding an appropriate text is difficult. I think this could be a valuable panel for those who face similar struggles. If you are interested, I can be reached at bmcgover[at]kennesaw.edu. Thanks.


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Bryan P. McGovern, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History
Kennesaw State University
Department of History and Philosophy
1000 Chastain Road -- MD 2206
Kennesaw, Georgia 30144
678-797-2296 (office)
770-423-6432 (fax)
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From: "Patrick O'Sullivan"
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 5:22:31 PM
Subject: [IR-D] Article, Censorship as Freedom of Expression: The Tailor and Ansty Revisited

Censorship as Freedom of Expression: The Tailor and Ansty Revisited

Author: Valiulis, Maryann Gialanella

Source: Historical Reflections, Volume 37, Number 2, Summer 2011 , pp.
24-38(15)

Abstract:

Censorship laws were introduced in the Irish Free State in 1928 and sparked
immediate controversy among intellectuals, the media, and the political
classes. The issue of censorship became the center of a conversation about
Irish national identity. It was, in part, an assertion of independence and a
conscious rejection of colonialism, an attempt to decide what stories would
be told about them, what image they would portray to the world. In 1942, one
text in particular sparked a renewal of the censorship controversy: Eric
Cross's book, The Tailor and Ansty, which was banned because it was a
realistic portrayal of Irish peasant life that was unacceptable to
post-colonial Ireland, and because the author, an English folklorist, was
perceived to be trying to undermine post-colonial attempts to establish a
modern identity for Ireland. Thus, the application of censorship laws in
Ireland can be seen as a move to free Irish self-identity from the negative
portrayals of the Irish so prevalent in the colonial period.

Keywords: CENSORSHIP; COLONIALISM; CULTURAL NATIONALISM; IRELAND; THE TAILOR
AND ANSTY

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: "Miller, Kerby A."
Subject: Re: ACIS National Conference in New Orleans
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Thanks. I'm cutting back on new commitments, but I'll think about it. Tom=
Bartlett's new textbook, IRELAND: A HISTORY, might be what we've wanted fo=
r so long. In my class on "Ireland 1850-1923," I've gotten permission for =
the MU Bookstore to make and sell cheap, bound photocopies of Liz Curtis's =
THE CAUSE OF IRELAND. For my "20th-Century Ireland" class (ca. 1900 to pre=
sent), Charles Townshend's IRELAND IN THE 20TH CENTURY is OK. I've found n=
othing (at least before Bartlett, which I've not yet used) that works for m=
y class on "Ireland from the Ice Age through the Famine." (Yes, I now teac=
h three Irish history courses, sequentially!)
All the best,
Kerby


On 8/17/11 7:57 AM, "Bryan McGovern" wrote:

I'm looking to put together a panel to discuss pedagogy in Irish studies fo=
r the ACIS national conference in New Orleans in March. I find that I have=
the most difficulty teaching Irish history to American students because th=
ey know so little about the subject before they enter my class. Even findi=
ng an appropriate text is difficult. I think this could be a valuable panel=
for those who face similar struggles. If you are interested, I can be rea=
ched at bmcgover[at]kennesaw.edu. Thanks.


************************************
Bryan P. McGovern, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History
Kennesaw State University
Department of History and Philosophy
1000 Chastain Road -- MD 2206
Kennesaw, Georgia 30144
678-797-2296 (office)
770-423-6432 (fax)
************************************


----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick O'Sullivan"
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 5:22:31 PM
Subject: [IR-D] Article, Censorship as Freedom of Expression: The Tailor an=
d Ansty Revisited

Censorship as Freedom of Expression: The Tailor and Ansty Revisited

Author: Valiulis, Maryann Gialanella

Source: Historical Reflections, Volume 37, Number 2, Summer 2011 , pp.
24-38(15)

Abstract:

Censorship laws were introduced in the Irish Free State in 1928 and sparked
immediate controversy among intellectuals, the media, and the political
classes. The issue of censorship became the center of a conversation about
Irish national identity. It was, in part, an assertion of independence and =
a
conscious rejection of colonialism, an attempt to decide what stories would
be told about them, what image they would portray to the world. In 1942, on=
e
text in particular sparked a renewal of the censorship controversy: Eric
Cross's book, The Tailor and Ansty, which was banned because it was a
realistic portrayal of Irish peasant life that was unacceptable to
post-colonial Ireland, and because the author, an English folklorist, was
perceived to be trying to undermine post-colonial attempts to establish a
modern identity for Ireland. Thus, the application of censorship laws in
Ireland can be seen as a move to free Irish self-identity from the negative
portrayals of the Irish so prevalent in the colonial period.

Keywords: CENSORSHIP; COLONIALISM; CULTURAL NATIONALISM; IRELAND; THE TAILO=
R
AND ANSTY

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From: Linda Dowling Almeida
Subject: Glucksman Ireland House/NYU 9/11 Commemorative Event and Podcast
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Hi Paddy=2C
Just want to bring your attention to our 9/11 Commemorative event on Septem=
ber 8=2C at 7 p.m. here at Glucksman Ireland House but also our podcast: 'T=
hat Forever September Morning': Memories of 9/11 which can be found on our =
home page: http://irelandhouse.fas.nyu.edu.=20
The evening will feature Tom Flynn reading from his epic poem=2C Bikeman=2C=
which recalls his experiences that morning covering the attacks for CBS ne=
ws as well as excerpts from our podcast. The podcast is drawn from intervie=
ws which we have collected and house in our Archives of Irish America. We =
have noticed over the past several years that stories about 9/11 emerge rep=
eatedly in our oral histories=2C so we thought this anniversary a good oppo=
rtunity to bring them together as a way of respecting and reflecting on the=
event.
A news release on the event and podcast is attached which provide additiona=
l detail.
Thanks and hope you are enjoying a restful summer.
Linda

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