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Bryan,

Eileen Reilly's essay "Modern Ireland: An Introductory Survey" (about 84
pages) might be very useful with undergraduates. It can be found in J.J.
Lee and M.R. Casey, *Making the Irish American: History and Heritage of the
Irish in the United St*ates (NYU Press, 2006). She describes it as follows:


"This survey is intended to introduce the primary themes and events of the
past five centuries to those who are just becoming acquainted with the
history of Ireland. It necessarily compresses the historical experience in
the interest of concision, but it aims to be a lucid primer for those who
will, hopefully, pursue their specific interests further. The select list
of titles at the conclusion of this essay provides an initial bibliography
to that end."

Marion

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Bryan McGovern wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> ************************************
> 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
> 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
>

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Irish Post goes into liquidation

The Irish Post, the biggest-selling Irish community newspaper in =
Britain,
has gone into liquidation.

The 10 staff, who will all lose their jobs, have been told that last
Wednesday's publication was its final issue.

The paper is owned by the Cork-based company, Thomas Crosbie Holdings =
(TCH),
publisher of the Irish Examiner.

Dan Linehan of TCH said the closure was due to the severe economic =
downturn
and significantly reduced advertising revenues.

"I would like to pay tribute to the hard work and commitment of the =
staff at
the Irish Post," he said.

"They have been part of our group for eight years and they have tried =
very
hard to make the newspaper work. Regrettably, persistent trading losses =
and
the current economic climate have made the title unsustainable".

The Post was popular in areas of Britain with large Irish populations =
such
as London, Manchester and Birmingham. It traditionally received a major
proportion of its advertising from Irish-based companies.

Established in 1970 by Clare-born journalist Breand=E1n Mac Lua and =
accountant
Tony Beatty, it was later owned by Jefferson Smurfit until TCH bought it =
for
=A31.7m in 2003.

It had an ABC audited circulation of over 31,400 copies at the time it =
was
acquired by TCH but that had fallen to 21,794 by the end of 2008 and is =
now
at about 17,100.

Source: Irish Examiner/Irish Times/Inside Ireland

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2011/aug/19/newspapers-downtur=
n

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Paddy, I've heard today that the Irish Post, one of our two community papers=
for the Irish in Britain, is to close after 40 years. This is really sad.=20=


Sarah.=20

Sarah Morgan=

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Message-ID: {decoded}I endorse (c), as I think Ive said already.
Kerby Miller


On 8/29/11 7:24 AM, "D C Rose" wrote:


Dear Colleagues,

Further to earlier messages, I am very pleased to announce that 'Academics
for Undershaw', the group of academics and scholars supporting our campaign
to create the Conan Doyle Museum and Centre for British and Irish Crime
Writing, has signed up its 301st supporter (list available from
oscholars[at]gmail.com).

Many thanks to all members of IR-D who signed up, and/or recruited
colleagues. We can now scale down our recruiting campaign, although of
course we hope that you will wish to join us if you have not already done so
We would particularly like to tap the expertise of those whose subject is
heritage and cultural memory as we are now working on a policy document.


To recap, there are three plans in contention for the house in Surrey built
to his own designs for Arthur Conan Doyle in 1897, but empty since 2004:

(a) the aim of Fosseway Ltd for Undershaw to be turned into multiple private
residences;
(b) the aim of the Undershaw Preservation Trust, for it to become a single
private residence;
(c) our own aim as headlined above, with maximum public access and a strong
educational component, in effect 'saved for the nation(s)'.

If (c) is something you feel able to endorse but have not yet done so,
please let me know.

Yours sincerely,ÿ

David Charles Rose
___________________________________________________
D.C. Rose M.A. (Oxon), Dip.Arts Admin (NUI-Dublin)
Editor, THE OSCHOLARS and VISIONS; General editor, www.oscholars.com &
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oscholarship/
Editorial Advisory Board, Irish Studies Review and Literary London
Paris correspondent, Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide
Convenor, Magdalen en France
Co-ordinator 'Academics for Undershaw'
Past President, Société Oscar Wilde en France
1 rue Gutenberg, Paris XV

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=20
Dear Colleagues,=20
=20
Further to earlier messages, I am very pleased to announce that 'Academic=
s
for Undershaw', the group of academics and scholars supporting our campai=
gn
to create the Conan Doyle Museum and Centre for British and Irish Crime
Writing, has signed up its 301st supporter (list available from
oscholars[at]gmail.com).=20
=20
Many thanks to all members of IR-D who signed up, and/or recruited
colleagues. We can now scale down our recruiting campaign, although of
course we hope that you will wish to join us if you have not already done=
so
We would particularly like to tap the expertise of those whose subject i=
s
heritage and cultural memory as we are now working on a policy document.=20
=20
=20
To recap, there are three plans in contention for the house in Surrey bui=
lt
to his own designs for Arthur Conan Doyle in 1897, but empty since 2004:=20
=20
(a) the aim of Fosseway Ltd for Undershaw to be turned into multiple priv=
ate
residences;=20
(b) the aim of the Undershaw Preservation Trust, for it to become a singl=
e
private residence;=20
(c) our own aim as headlined above, with maximum public access and a stro=
ng
educational component, in effect 'saved for the nation(s)'.=20
=20
If (c) is something you feel able to endorse but have not yet done so,
please let me know.=20
=20
Yours sincerely,=EF=BB=BF=20
=20
David Charles Rose=20
___________________________________________________=20
D.C. Rose M.A. (Oxon), Dip.Arts Admin (NUI-Dublin)=20
Editor, THE OSCHOLARS and VISIONS; General editor, www.oscholars.com &=20
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oscholarship/=20
Editorial Advisory Board, Irish Studies Review and Literary London=20
Paris correspondent, Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide=20
Convenor, Magdalen en France=20
Co-ordinator 'Academics for Undershaw'=20
Past President, Soci=C3=A9t=C3=A9 Oscar Wilde en France=20
1 rue Gutenberg, Paris XV=20
=20

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After the party's over: The Irish employment model and the
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IIIS Discussion Paper No. 367

After the party's over:
The Irish employment model and the paradoxes of non-learning
James Wickham

Revised version of paper presented at
International Working Party on
Labour Market Segmentation
Bamberg 11-13 July 2011
Revised 27 July, 2011


Introduction
Until 2008 Ireland was the poster boy of neo-liberal politicians. With its
economic growth for over two decades at times reaching Asian proportions,
the so-called Celtic Tiger apparently demonstrated the veracity of liberal
economic principles: global openness, low taxation and a flexible labour
market. Ireland was held up as a model by the (then) UK Shadow Chancellor
George Osborne as a lesson for the UK and by the President of the European
Commission Manuel Barroso as a model for Europe. Today Ireland is one of
the bankrupt states of Europe, but Irish politicians like to claim that
Ireland is not Greece or Portugal. That is precisely the point. Nobody
ever claimed that Greece or Portugal were models for the rest of us, but the
crisis in Ireland is the crisis of a success story. Logically one would
expect that the depth of the crisis would lead to questioning of the model,
but that has not happened. The Irish crisis shows how whole political
systems can go into denial.

The paper begins by describing the bubble labour market of the final years
of the Celtic Tiger and its sudden collapse. The second part of the paper
shows how the road to the crisis was prepared by four core features of the
Irish model: the vetopower of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), the
financialisation of everyday life, the importance of the banking sector, and
last but not least, social partnership. The third part of the paper then
outlines the changes that have occurred so far in the employment system
during the crisis. The paper concludes with the paradox that the country
where the relative impact of the crisis has been greatest appears to have
learnt least from the experience.

FULL TEXT AT
http://www.tcd.ie/iiis/documents/discussion/pdfs/iiisdp367.pdf

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TV review: Jig: The Great Irish Dance-off

For 90 minutes, this documentary got me hooked on Irish dancing

John Crace
The Guardian

If one of the measures of a good documentary is to keep you watching
something in which you have no interest, then Jig: The Great Irish Dance-Off
(BBC2) was a triumph. All the more so because it didn't leave me with a
single regret that I've never seen Riverdance. Me and Irish dancing are just
not meant to be, I guess.

And yet for the 90 minutes of the film, I was hooked. For this wasn't really
a film about the Irish dancing world championships so much as one about
obsession; here were people from all over the world - who would have thought
there were Russian Irish dancers? - who had dedicated huge amounts of time,
energy and money to a fundamentally pointless pursuit. Something I
understand only too well.

Even I have my limits, though, and dodgy wigs, gallons of hairspray and
brightly-coloured sequins are a definite no-go area. But one of this film's
charms was that it took no prisoners. No one felt the need to apologise for
doing something so uncool: better still, no one bothered to explain. None of
the dancers felt they were doing anything abnormal. And while it was
initially quite frustrating not to find out how any of the dancers, many of
whom had no Irish connection, became so passionate about it, by halfway
through the programme the lack of engagement in this debate became a defiant
celebration. You either got it or you didn't. This was their world, where
their rules applied. It was the rest of the world that was out of kilter,
not them.

SOURCE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/sep/02/review-jig-great-irish-da
nce-off

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Respectability and Cultural Identity... mid-Nineteenth Century
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Sectarianism, Respectability and Cultural Identity: The St Patrick's Total
Abstinence Society and Irish Catholic Temperance in mid-Nineteenth Century
Sydney

Author: ALLEN, MATTHEW
Source: Journal of Religious History, Volume 35, Number 3, 1 September 2011
, pp. 374-392(19)
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Abstract:
This article explores the surprising dominance of the Catholic St Patrick's
Total Abstinence Society within the Sydney temperance movement in the 1840s
and 1850s. It argues that this success and the corresponding decline of
Protestant temperance societies illustrates the importance of temperance as
a symbol of respectability for different cultural groups and the
significance of sectarian divisions within the temperance movement. Irish
Catholics supported temperance as a means of asserting their respectability
in the face of sectarian prejudice, whilst Protestants withdrew from a cause
that was increasingly perceived as a Catholic political front and a
challenge to their cultural hegemony.

Affiliations: 1: History Department at the University of Sydney
Publication date: 2011-09-01

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Children's Burial Grounds in Ireland
(Cillin=?iso-8859-1?Q?=ED=29_?=and Parental Emotions Toward
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Children's Burial Grounds in Ireland (Cillin=ED) and Parental Emotions =
Toward
Infant Death

Author: Murphy, Eileen

Source: International Journal of Historical Archaeology, Volume 15, =
Number
3, September 2011 , pp. 409-428(20)
Publisher: Springer


Abstract:
Cillin=ED=97or children's burial grounds=97were the designated resting =
places for
unbaptized infants and other members of Irish society who were =
considered
unsuitable by the Roman Catholic Church for burial in consecrated =
ground.
The sites appear to have proliferated from the seventeenth century =
onwards
in the wake of the Counter-Reformation. While a number of previous =
studies
have attempted to relate their apparently marginal characteristics to =
the
liminality of Limbo, evidence drawn from the archaeological record and =
oral
history accounts suggests that it was only the Roman Catholic Church =
that
considered cillin=ED, and those interred within, to be marginal. In =
contrast,
the evidence suggests that the families of the dead regarded the =
cemeteries
as important places of burial and treated them in a similar manner to
consecrated burial grounds.

Keywords: Burials; Unbaptized infants; Archaeology of emotion; Ireland

Affiliations: 1: School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, =
Queen's
University Belfast, Belfast, BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, Email:
eileen.murphy[at]qub.ac.uk
Publication date: 2011-09-01

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Subject: Article,
Tunepal: Searching a Digital Library of Traditional Music Scores
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Another article by Bryan Duggan on the Tunepal project - information on
earlier article pasted in below...

This articles comments on usage patterns... 'It is significant that the
majority of international queries originate in the USA and the UK, these
being major centres for the Irish diaspora and also countries where
traditional music sessions take place regularly...'

Title: Tunepal: Searching a Digital Library of Traditional Music Scores

Author(s): Bryan Duggan, (Dublin Institute of Technology), Brendan
O'Shea, (Dublin Institute of Technology)

Citation: Bryan Duggan, Brendan O'Shea, (2011) "Tunepal: Searching a
Digital Library of Traditional Music Scores", OCLC Systems & Services, =
Vol.
27 Iss: 4

Article type: Case study
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract:=09
Purpose - This paper describes the Tunepal project as an example of a =
Music
Information Retrieval (MIR) system that is having an impact on how =
musicians
access, learn and play traditional Irish music around the world.

Design/methodology/approach - This paper describes the functionality of =
the
Tunepal system: consisting of the tune corpus, the website tunepal.org =
and
mobile apps supporting iOS and Android OS. Tunepal facilitates
query-by-title and query-by-playing music (QBP) searches and allows a
musician to retrieve and playback scores amongst other supported =
functions.

Findings - Tunepal has been favourably received and musicians report =
that
the system is being used in variety of scenarios including archiving and =
the
preparation of sleeve notes for commercial recordings. Tunepal has a =
growing
user base in twenty five countries.

Originality/value - The comprehensive tune corpus (over 16,000
compositions), the query-by-playing technology and the fact that the =
mobile
apps provide access to the corpus in situ in traditional music sessions =
and
classes make this project uniquely useful.



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Subject: Article, Tunepal: the traditional musician's toolbox

Tunepal: the traditional musician's toolbox
Author: Bryan Duggan Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland

=B7 Proceeding eHeritage
Proceedings of the second workshop on eHeritage and digital art =
preservation

ABSTRACT
In this paper we present Tunepal, a search engine and music retrieval =
tool
for traditional musicians that runs on an iPhone/iPod Touch (2nd
generation)/iPad. Tunepal connects musicians the scores and metadata of
13,290 traditional Irish, Welsh, Scottish and Breton dance tunes. These
tunes are drawn from community sources, such as the website =
thesession.org
and "standard" references including O'Neills Dance Music of Ireland and
Brendan Breathneach's Ceol Rince Na h=C9ireann series. Tunes can be =
retrieved
by typing in a title or by playing a twelve second extract from the tune =
on
a traditional instrument. Tunepal can be used in sitiu in traditional =
music
sessions, classes and concerts. This paper presents background =
information
on the sources of music contained in the Tunepal corpus and describes =
the
functionality, operation, development and usage of the app.

SOURCE
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3D1877922.1877931&preflayout=3Dflat=


http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3D1877922&picked=3Dprox&cfid=3D1142=
76107&cft
oken=3D76439199

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'Nothing to write home about': Troubling Concepts of Home,
Racialization and Self in Theories of Irish Male (E)migration
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'Nothing to write home about': Troubling Concepts of Home, Racialization and
Self in Theories of Irish Male (E)migration

Mairtin Mac an Ghaill
University of Birmingham, UK, m.macanghaill[at]bham.ac.uk

Chris Haywood
Newcastle University, UK, c.p.haywood[at]ncl.ac.uk

Abstract

This article critically engages with the concepts of home, nationality and
belonging by evaluating explanations of (e)migration of mid-20th century
Irish working class men. We do this by suggesting that contemporary
approaches to Irish (e)migration employ 'containing' categories that frame
the possibilities of knowing and understanding. We problematize such
approaches by examining notions of home/homelessness and the ambivalent
racialization of the diasporian Irish male subject within the dynamic
intersection of categories of 'self' identification. Within an Irish
context, this article recognizes that representations of generations of
emigrants have been subsumed under hegemonic images of post-Famine
emigration with their overarching motif of exile. Within a British context
this analysis is located within a broader epistemological frame of the
cultural production of the conceptual invisibility of Irish transnational
migrants. Finally, the article concludes by suggesting that theoretical and
conceptual frames are themselves involved in the regulation/control of
understandings of (e)migration.

Cultural Sociology September 2011 vol. 5 no. 3 385-402

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The "Swinish Multitude" Controversies over Hogs in Antebellum New
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The =E2=80=9CSwinish Multitude=E2=80=9D
Controversies over Hogs in Antebellum New York City
Catherine McNeur

Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA=20
Catherine McNeur, Department of History, Yale University, P.O. Box =
208324, New Haven, CT 06520-8324 Email: catherine.mcneur[at]gmail.com=20

Abstract

In the first half of the nineteenth century, New Yorkers fought =
passionately over the presence of hogs on their streets and in their =
city. New York=E2=80=99s filthy streets had cultivated an informal =
economy and a fertile environment for roaming creatures. The =
battles=E2=80=94both physical and legal=E2=80=94reveal a city rife with =
class tensions. After decades of arguments, riots, and petitions, =
cholera and the fear of other public health crises ultimately spelled =
the end for New York=E2=80=99s hogs. New York struggled during this =
period to improve municipal services while adapting to a changing =
economy and rapid population growth. The fights between those for and =
against hogs shaped New York City=E2=80=99s landscape and resulted in =
new rules for using public space a new place for nature in the city.

Journal of Urban History September 2011 vol. 37 no. 5 639-660

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Dear Colleagues,

=20

I would like to draw your attention to a new book on culture and =
identity in contemporary Ireland which was published recently by Duras =
Press. It is now available for purchase at the following link: =
www.spd.dcu.ie/main/academic/education/research/oduibhir_p_11.shtml

=20


Title: All Changed? Culture and Identity in Contemporary Ireland: =
Lectures from the Fifth Seamus Heaney Lecture Series


=20

=20

Synopsis: These essays were first delivered as lectures in the fifth =
Seamus Heaney Lecture Series in St Patrick=E2=80=99s College, =
Drumcondra, under the theme of Culture and Identity in Contemporary =
Ireland. This theme was chosen to provide an opportunity to engage in a =
critical debate on the nature of Irish civil society and on the framing =
and shaping of policies, perspectives and public opinions. A range of =
internationally renowned academics together with activists from, and =
working in, marginalised communities in Ireland were invited to address =
these issues. The resultant essays respond to the complexity of issues =
relating to culture and identity from a number of inter-related =
perspectives and traditions. These include the perspectives of migrants, =
Irish Travellers and those experiencing socio-economic inequalities; the =
role of language and identity; the effects of globalisation on identity; =
the concept of identity and otherness explored through philosophic, =
religious, sociological and dramatic lenses.

This book will appeal to a wide audience including policymakers, =
educators, activists and anyone with an interest in social and cultural =
developments in contemporary Ireland, especially those committed to =
social justice.

Editors: P=C3=A1draig =C3=93 Duibhir and Andrew O=E2=80=99Shea are =
lecturers in Education at St Patrick=E2=80=99s College, Drumcondra, a =
college of DCU. Rory Mc Daid, who was formerly a lecturer in St =
Patrick=E2=80=99s College, is currently teaching in London.

=20

CONTENTS

Mary Hickman RE-IMAGINING IRELAND: IRELAND AND THE =
IRISH DIASPORA FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

Abel Ugba WHEN =E2=80=98HOME=E2=80=99 IS =
NOWHERE: RE-ASSESSING AFRICAN DIASPORIC EXPERIENCE IN 21ST-

CENTURY IRELAND

Amel Yacef ETHNICITY =E2=86=94 CLASS AND SOCIAL =
(IN)JUSTICE=20

Cathleen O=E2=80=99Neill THE IRISH COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY =
SECTOR: VITAL WORK UNDER CRITICAL ATTACK

Rosaleen McDonagh TRAVELLERS AND TRAVELLER EDUCATION: ALL CHANGED?=20

Livingstone Thompson RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY IN CONTEMPORARY IRELAND: =
EXPANDING THE DEBATE

Jim Cummins DIVERSE FUTURES: IMMIGRATION, EDUCATION, =
AND IDENTITY IN CHANGING TIMES

M=C3=A1ir=C3=ADn Nic Eoin CULT=C3=9AR NA GAEILGE N=C3=93 =
POBAL NA GAEILGE? THE IRISH LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY FROM=20

DOUGLAS HYDE TO DES BISHOP

Peadar Kirby GLOBALISATION AND IDENTITY: =
REFLECTIONS FROM THE IRISH EXPERIENCE

Richard Kearney WELCOMING THE STRANGER=20

Chrissie Poulter WHAT=E2=80=99S THE STORY? THE TEACHER AS =
ARTIST . . . THE ARTIST AS TEACHER: THEATRE OF THE=20

OPPRESSED

Regards,

P=C3=A1draig =C3=93 Duibhir

Education Department

St Patrick=E2=80=99s College,

Dublin City University

Ireland


padraig.oduibhir[at]spd.dcu.ie=20
00353-1-8842074=20

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Members of the Irish Diaspora list will want to know that our two web sites
were successively archived earlier in the year by the British Library UK Web
Archive project

http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/


1.
Our original hand-knitted web site at the University of Bradford...

Irish Diaspora Studies, University of Bradford
This site was archived for preservation by the British Library.

http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/target/60293319/source/subject

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Archived
30 Mar 2011

to see the web site as archived.

2.
Our more simple, content management site, created and hosted for us by Dr.
Stephen Sobol, The Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds.

irishdiaspora.net
This site was archived for preservation by the British Library.

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irishdiaspora.net

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Archived
08 Apr 2011

to see the web site as archived.

On that archived web site it will be seen that all of our Irish Diaspora
list messages up to 08 Apr 2011 have been archived, under

Irish Diaspora List Archives

So, some 14 years of Irish Diaspora Studies reference, comment and
discussion, saved for posterity.

Posterity, you are welcome.

P.O'S.

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Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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Members of the Irish Diaspora list will know that we have long been
concerned that the archives of the Irish Diaspora list were, in effect,
archived in two different places.

1.
In a section of

www.irishdiaspora.net

the content management site, created and hosted for us by Dr. Stephen Sobol,
The Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds.

This, by now quite large, database contained all Irish Diaspora list
messages from 1997 to the present. This archive has been rescued at least
twice, and rebuilt, from my own back-ups.

2.
In 2004 I moved the management of the Irish Diaspora list to Jiscmail, the
listserver of the UK's academic community. There, since 2004, another
archive has developed, organised in the familiar Listserv fashion.

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/

We have been in discussion with Sarah Steele and with her colleague, Wayne
Chung, about the possibility of integrating the two archives.

This integration has now been accomplished, overseen by Wayne Chung.

If you log in to Jiscmail - I will send a separate email about that - you
will see that Wayne Chung was able to transfer the material supplied by me
and by Stephen Sobol in way that ensures it is compatible with the existing
Jiscmail, Listserv, archives, and fully searchable there.

When I am in discussion with other groups I find that it is very rare for an
email discussion forum, like ours, to have a complete set of archives, going
back to its founding. I think I am allowed to point out that this kind of
preservation and integration was made possible by decisions made in 1997,
about how our Irish Diaspora list archives should be stored and backed up.

So, again, some 14 years of Irish Diaspora Studies reference, comment and
discussion, saved for posterity.

Posterity, you are welcome.

And you should thank Sarah Steele, Stephen Sobol, and especially Wayne
Chung, for this accomplishment.

P.O'S.

--
Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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O'Sullivan Personal Fax 0044 (0) 709 236 9050

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http://www.irishdiaspora.org/ Irish Diaspora list IR-D[at]Jiscmail.ac.uk

Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Social Sciences and Humanities University of Bradford Bradford
BD7 1DP Yorkshire England

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All of the Irish Diaspora list archives are now integrated at Jiscmail - the
UK academic community's listserv.

Jiscmail uses the software Listserv, which many members will be know well.

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/

Jiscmail knows you through your email address. To gain access to the
archives you need to go to that web address. You sign up, in the usual
Listserv fashion, and become an individual Subscriber. Jiscmail sends a
password to your email address - you go back to the web site and log in.

Jiscmail knows you by your email address, and you will find that you have
access to the Irish Diaspora list archives there.

So, to give a recent example...

In an Ir-D discussion in July 2011, about Ireland, famine and fish - I had
to go back to a separate archive to find our first discussion of this topic,
in March 1999.

All of this material is now in one place, in an integrated and searchable
archive.

Patrick O'Sullivan

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Irish Diaspora Net
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BD7 1DP Yorkshire England

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Subject: Article, Ireland: from boom to austerity
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Ireland: from boom to austerity
Patrick J. Drudy a and Miche=E1l L. Collins b
+ Author Affiliations

aCentre for Urban and Regional Studies, Trinity College, Dublin 2, =
Ireland,
pdrudy[at]tcd.ie
bDepartment of Economics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland,
mlcollin[at]tcd.ie

Abstract

For the first 40 years as an independent state, Ireland faced many
difficulties. Failing to provide sufficient employment opportunities,
emigration and austerity were constant themes. During several decades of
relative prosperity from the 1960s, foreign investment was encouraged =
and
created new employment opportunities. A recession in the 1980s was =
followed
by a remarkable period of prosperity from the mid-1990s. This was driven
first by an export boom and later by an unsustainable housing bubble.
Serious risk taking by property developers and lax lending practices by
banks led to a banking crisis and a financial rescue by the government, =
the
International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European
Commission. A new austerity has returned.

Key words
Ireland austerity housing bubble light regulation banking crisis urban =
and
regional policy

Cambridge J Regions Econ Soc (2011)
doi: 10.1093/cjres/rsr021
First published online: September 2, 2011

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Irish Studies Review Volume 19, Issue 3, 2011

Belfast and the American Civil War
Francis M. Carroll
pages 245-260

'If it was just th'oul book .': a history of the McGahern banning
controversy
Val Nolan
pages 261-279

Commissions of inquiry as ritual: Bourdieu, the marquis and the Endowed
Schools of Ireland, 1854-58
Kieran Flanagan
pages 281-306

Making hay: Paul Muldoon and pastoral
Iain Twiddy
pages 307-320

Sounding the darkness and discovering the marvellous: hearing 'A Lough Neagh
Sequence' with Seamus Heaney's auditory imagination
Jeffrey Bilbro
pages 321-340

Review Article
Festering ideas: Paul Muldoon's Maggot
Jefferson Holdridge
pages 341-351


Reviews

Ireland and medicine in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
History and Politics
Laura Kelly
pages 353-354

Ireland and Irish Americans 1932-1945: the search for identity
Linda Dowling Almeida
pages 355-356

Outside the glow: Protestants and Irishness in independent Ireland
Martin Maguire
pages 356-358

The nation-state in transformation: economic globalisation, institutional
mediation and political values
Gerard Downes
pages 358-361

After the Irish: an anthology of poetic translation
John Goodby
pages 361-363

W.B. Yeats (visions and revisions: Irish writers in their time)
Claire V. Nally
pages 363-365

Seamus Heaney's rhythmic contract
Robert Brazeau
pages 365-366

Irish autobiography: stories of self in the narrative of a nation
Liam Harte
pages 366-369

Place and memory in the New Ireland
Eamon Maher
pages 369-371

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Subject: TOC New Hibernia Review Volume 15, Number 3,
F=?iso-8859-1?Q?=F3mhar/Autumn_?=2011
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New Hibernia Review
Volume 15, Number 3, F=F3mhar/Autumn 2011

Table of Contents

N=F3ta=ED na nEagarth=F3ir=ED: Editors' Notes
pp. 5-8

The City That Does Not Leave: August in Ballinascarthy
Joe Horgan
pp. 9-15

Traitors to Their Faith?: Protestant Clergy and the Ulster Covenant of =
1912
Nicola K. Morris
pp. 16-35

Assessing the Irish General Election of 2011: A Roundtable
Sean Farrell
Ciara Meehan
Gary Murphy
Kevin Rafter
pp. 36-53

Fil=EDocht Nua: New Poetry
Joseph Woods
pp. 54-60

Elizabeth Bowen and Language at War
Anna Teekell
pp. 61-79
=20
Ut Pictura Poesis?: Art and the Irish Nation in The Wild Irish Girl
Katja Jylkka
pp. 80-93
=20
Dueling Cultures: Ireland and Irish America at the Chicago World's Fairs =
of
1933 and 1934
Charles Fanning
pp. 94-110

Florence Conry, the Flight of the Earls, and Native-Catholic Militancy
Jerrold Casway
pp. 111-125
=20
Personal and Political: Irish Theater in 2010
Deirdre Mask
pp. 126-135
=20
Whitelaw's Essay on the Population of Dublin: A Window on Late
Eighteenth-Century Housing
Thomas E. Jordan
pp. 136-145
=20
Beyond the American Pale: The Irish in the West 1845-1910 (review)
Eamonn Wall
pp. 146-149

Close to the Next Moment: Interviews from a Changing Ireland (review)
Katy Dycus
pp. 149-151

James Joyce and the Revolt of Love: Marriage, Adultery, Desire (review)
Russell McDonald
pp. 151-153
=20
Bernard MacLaverty (review)
Richard Haslam
pp. 153-155

Benign Anarchy: Alcoholics Anonymous in Ireland (review)
David Downs
pp. 155-156

'The Church and its Spire': John McGahern and the Catholic Question =
(review)
John K. Malloy
pp. 157-159
=20

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and Orientals: "Orientalism" Reoriented?
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This article will interest a number of Ir-D members...

Journal of World History
Volume 22, Number 2, June 2011

Kipling, the Orient, and Orientals: "Orientalism" Reoriented?
David Scott
Brunel University

Abstract

Rudyard Kipling and Edward Said are influential figures in reconstructing
Western attitudes to the East. Kipling's comments on the "East" outside
India, however, show a different picture from Said's Orientalism paradigm of
negative portrayals of the Orient, which included Kipling as a typical
Orientalist supremacist. Kipling emphasized threats from China rather than
from the Muslim world. Kipling also had a range of positive comments on
Burma, Japan, and Tibet, reflecting a common Buddhist substratum that
Kipling seems to have appreciated. Consequently, both the perception of
Kipling and the application of Said's paradigm need adjustment and
reorientation.

EXTRACT

...Said's sensitivity to the entwining of imperialism (and racism) to
literary writings and images remains highly valuable and of rightful
enduring impact. His paradigm often works. There is the twist that Said had
an "irreverent approach" and acted as something of an "agent
provocateur."140 Ironically this is also something that could be said of
Kipling. Said himself noted that "Orientalism is theoretically inconsistent
and I designed it that way."141 He also noted that that "Orientalism is a
partisan book."142 The reason for that partisan, some would argue polemical,
edge was that Said considered that "Orientalism is very much a book tied to
the tumultuous dynamics of contemporary history," the excesses of what he
saw in U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and in Orientalist advisors to
the U.S. government in the 1990s, in which he argued "Orientalism once again
raises the question of whether modern imperialism ever ended."143 It is as
much then a political tract as a history exercise. Two consequences now seem
valid in considering East-West encounter, if we return to Kipling's earlier
imperialism times. First, Said's Orientalism framework needs reorientation
to take account of the Orient beyond just the Middle East. Second, there
needs to be recognition that the important figure of Kipling and his
particular views of the Orient, especially positive on Buddhism, involved
more than just political imperialism.