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A Floating Commonwealth: Politics, Culture, and Technology on Britain's
Atlantic Coast, 1860=961930

Christopher Harvie. A Floating Commonwealth: Politics, Culture, and
Technology on Britain's Atlantic Coast, 1860=961930. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2008. xii+ 319 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-822783-0, $110.00
(cloth).=20

Robert McLain=20

+
Author Affiliations
California State University, Fullerton=20

Christopher Harvie has produced an intriguing, deeply interesting, and =
at
times frustrating book. Its stakes are high and revisit some of the key
questions of British history and identity: what does it mean to be
=93British?=94 What is the relationship between the =93Celtic fringe=94 =
and the
metropolitan core? More precisely, what influence did cultural and
industrial production have on notions of =93Britishness=94 along the =
western
littoral of Scotland, England, and Wales (and Ireland's eastern coast) =
in
the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?=20

Methodologically, the author sees the Irish and Celtic Seas as a smaller
version of Ferdinand Braudel's Mediterranean world system. As Harvie =
argues,
it was in this =93antechamber of Britain=94 that print capitalism, =
trade,
transportation, and industrialization forged a regional, and to be sure,
unique quasi-national =93Western British=94 bourgeoisie elite. One =
cannot help
but reflect on =93West British=94 identity as akin to Max Weber's =
Protestant
capitalist ethic. This dynamic Faustian world likewise included a =
striking
cultural array, embracing at various times Robert Burns, Thomas Carlyle, =
Sir
Walter Scott, George Bernard Shaw, and a host of other writers.=20

The difficulty though, as Harvie sees it, is that the =93West British=94
intellectual and business leaders engaged in an ambiguous =
=93contractual=94
cultural nationalism, one that was always beholden to the =93core=94 of =
London
in some way. Later, nineteenth-century Scots, for example, may have read =
and
admired Burns, but they also had a pound to earn. Their civic and =
cultural
pride did not lend itself to ethnic separatism or the violent =
millenarian
nationalism so evident on the continent. This was true of Wales also, =
whose
respectable and v=F6lkisch inhabitants were steady and undramatic in =
their
behavior save periods of labor unrest. One gets the sense that it was a
different sort of =93Victorian Compromise,=94 a trade-off between =
identity
politics and the perceived prosperity of the Union; the contours of =
=93Western
British=94 identity were fuzzily defined and made malleable by class
interests.=20

According to the author, the real backbreaker for this regional ethos =
was
the crucible of World War I and David Lloyd George's centralization of =
the
munitions industry toward the Home Counties...

...Overall, this is an engaging and lively book, often bold and witty. =
One
senses that Harvie has been deliberately provocative=97a latter day =
Scots
Covenanter. It is likely that his work will only generate more debate on =
the
meaning of =93Britain=94 at a time when the core of London and the =
=93Celtic
Tiger=94 economies of the periphery face tremendous budget crisis.


Enterprise & Society (2011) 12 (3): 678-680.

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Subject: REV: Douglas Kanter on Gerald R. Hall _Ulster Liberalism,
1778-1876_

Gerald R. Hall. Ulster Liberalism, 1778-1876. Dublin Four Courts
Press, 2011. 272 pp. EUR 49.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-84682-202-5.

Reviewed by Douglas Kanter
Published on H-Albion (August, 2011)
Commissioned by Nicholas M. Wolf

A quarter-century ago, modern Irish political history was dominated by
analyses of nationalism in its various forms. Unionism has, more recently,
also emerged as a significant subject of study, but there remain few works
that explore alternative political movements, particularly in
nineteenth-century Ireland.[1] These lacunae make Gerald R. Hall's _Ulster
Liberalism, 1778-1876_ a particularly welcome addition to Irish political
historiography. In this impressive first book, Hall seeks "to rescue the
history of a political tradition in Ulster in which neither nationalism nor
unionism was the foremost consideration." This tradition, Hall contends, is
"best described as liberal" (p. 11). In four chapters, Hall charts the
emergence and efflorescence of liberalism in Ulster, before concluding with
an examination of the factors that precipitated its decline.

Hall locates the origins of Ulster liberalism in the Volunteer movement.
Although the Volunteers employed several types of political discourse, some
spoke the language of "nascent liberalism" (p. 27). The liberal Volunteers
had imbibed the ideals of the Scottish Enlightenment either directly from
the Scottish universities or indirectly through the publications of its
leading lights, particularly John Millar. Their political creed was defined
by religious toleration; a skepticism about the martial values associated
with civic republicanism; and a stadial, progressive conception of society.
Many of Ulster's early liberals persevered in their support of peaceful
political change during the turbulent 1790s, and they were well equipped,
after 1800, to accept the new union with Britain as providing a framework
for further reform.

Social and economic changes in Ulster provided a stimulus to liberalism
following the conclusion of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
The landed elite resisted a political accommodation with the growing
mercantile, manufacturing, and professional middle class, which provoked a
liberal assault on the oligarchic structure of politics in the North. Hall
argues that scholars have tended to overrate the influence of the Reverend
Henry Cooke, who sought to establish a pan-Protestant conservative coalition
in the aftermath of the wars. Instead, he maintains, liberal Presbyterians
and Catholics cooperated to undermine landed control of local government. In
1828, Ulster liberals succeeded in securing permissive parliamentary
legislation, enabling local communities to establish town commissions which
possessed broad powers over cleaning, lighting, and policing. The Irish town
commissions, which numbered eighteen in 1829 and eighty-eight in 1876,
enabled Ulster liberals "to mount a surprisingly widespread, prolonged and
effective challenge to the traditional order in Ulster towns" (p. 106). By
mid-century, moreover, three of the four leading newspapers in Ulster, as
measured by circulation, were liberal, while the leading political cause in
the North, tenant right, was also identified with liberalism.

Hall attributes the decline of Ulster liberalism to changes in both Catholic
and Presbyterian religious practice after 1850. The Devotional Revolution,
and Cardinal Paul Cullen's ultramontane leadership, encouraged the
development of a more confessional identity among Ulster's Catholics.
Presbyterians experienced a parallel revival that attracted proselytizers
and anti-Catholic street preachers. The result of mounting intercommunal
tension was increased violence. Predictably, the repeal of the Party
Processions Act in 1872 only exacerbated hostilities. Though Ulster
liberalism experienced a St. Martin's Summer between 1868 and 1874, when
liberals captured a number of parliamentary seats at two general elections,
such successes were inevitably ephemeral in the absence of a genuine
ecumenism. The survival of Ulster liberalism depended on the alliance of
Catholics and liberal Presbyterians, and sectarianism subverted the sense of
a common community on which their cooperation depended.

_Ulster Liberalism_ makes two significant contributions to the
historiography. First, by examining what Hall, following Habermas, refers to
as the "public sphere," rather than focusing more narrowly on parliamentary
election results and elite politics, it persuasively demonstrates the
long-term vitality of liberalism in the North. Second, the study of town
commissions points to an aspect of local government in Ireland that
historians have neglected. Hall has devoted considerable attention to the
Ulster commissions, and provides detailed case studies throughout the book,
but the commissions in southern and western Ireland are understandably not
explored. Here, then, is an agenda for future research. No book is perfect,
of course, and Hall may have understated the unionism of Ulster's liberal
Presbyterians. He briefly examines the sectarian tensions that developed
when Daniel O'Connell pursued the repeal of the Act of Union in the 1840s,
but avoids similar engagement with the challenge of Home Rule by ending his
study in 1874. Hall portrays liberalism as providing a "middle path" between
the polarized alternatives of nationalism and unionism, but perhaps
nineteenth-century Ulster liberalism was essentially a regional variant of
liberal unionism. This reviewer, at any rate, would have appreciated further
discussion of liberal attitudes toward the union. If, however, Hall has not
exhausted the subject of Ulster liberalism, he has provided the
indispensable foundation on which all subsequent scholars will build.

Note

[1]. For a thorough overview of the literature, see Patrick Maume, "Irish
Political History: Guidelines and Reflections," in _Palgrave Advances in
Irish History_, ed. Mary McAuliffe, Katherine O'Donnell, and Leeann Lane
(Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), 1-48.

Citation: Douglas Kanter. Review of Hall, Gerald R., _Ulster Liberalism,
1778-1876_. H-Albion, H-Net Reviews. August, 2011.
URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=32552

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

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International Feminist Journal of Politics

Volume 13, Issue 3, 2011

A. B. and C. versus Ireland

Katherine Side

pages 390-412

Abstract
This article analyses some possible political implications of the case and
the decision in A. B. and C. v. Ireland at the European Court of Human
Rights. This case was heard in a public hearing on 9 December 2009; the
judgment was provided in December 2010. I argue that the three applicants in
this case employed a novel strategy, not previously considered, to access
legal abortion in the Republic of Ireland. By highlighting the varied
circumstances of unintended pregnancy in more than a single instance, the
applicants utilized an offensive manoeuvre to which the government is
unlikely to respond consistently over time. They exposed Irish governments'
use of clandestine political negotiations in relation to European treaties,
the questionable exertion of governments' authority to uphold political and
moral agendas and racialized constructions of Irishness and national
interests. The applicants also raised serious questions about state
practices in the Republic of Ireland in relation to its legal obligation to
uphold human rights under the European Convention. However, I argue that it
is unlikely that this novel strategy and legal decision and their political
implications are enough to adequately address the lack of access to legal
abortion in the Republic of Ireland.

abortion, Republic of Ireland, human rights, European Court of Human Rights

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It is with great sadness that I must tell the Irish Diaspora list that Frank
Neal died last week.

This indomitable spirit, and generous, kindly man, will be much missed.

Frank retired from the University of Salford in the year 2000 - he was then
Professor of British Economic and Social History. By training he was an
economist - the joint author of two books in the field of mathematical
economics.

His main research interest became the study of the Irish in Britain, with
formal connections with the University of Salford and with the Institute of
Irish Studies, University of Liverpool. His chief fault as a historian was
that - like an economist - he did not know when enough detail was enough.
His two books about the Irish in Britain, Sectarian Violence: the Liverpool
experience 1819-1914, and Black 47: Britain and the Famine Irish are
therefore wonderful treasures of detail and reference, encouraging us all to
go further. His chief virtues as a historian was an indefatigable
willingness to explore the archives, and then a willingness to walk the
ground - when he found a significant incident in the archives he would walk
the streets where the incident occurred, and plot out the sequence of
events.

My role in recent years has been simply to be on the end of a phone, whilst
Frank tried out stories, events and analysis. His indomitable will meant
that he was with us longer than we deserve, and he gave us more than we
deserve.

Patrick O'Sullivan

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From: Joan Allen
To: "'The Irish Diaspora Studies List'"
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 15:45:24 +0100

So sorry to hear this sad news. Frank was a member of the 'Diasporas strand=
' of the North East England Historical Institute between 2000 and 2005, and=
was a lively and generous contributor to our meetings at Sunderland Univer=
sity and the work of the Institute. He will be missed.=20


Dr Joan Allen
Head of History
Armstrong Building
University of Newcastle
NE1 7RU
Tel 0191 222 6701

Vice Chair, Society for the Study of Labour History/Editor, Labour History =
Review



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Subject: RE: [IR-D] Frank Neal, at peace

My personal experience was that Frank was a lovely and well ground person. =
Sad news.=20=20
Joe



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I'm so sorry to hear about Frank's passing.

Although we had been out of touch for the past few years I remember with
him with great fondness for the encouragement and kindness he showed
toward me when I first began researching the Irish in Britain. His book
on the Irish in Liverpool was a touchstone work of reference for many
members of the Liverpool Irish community, both scholars and non-scholars
alike.

Please pass on my sincerest condolences to his family, if at all possible.

Liam

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I only met Frank Neal a few times and we corresponded a bit. I have seldom
met a more generous, sharing person who was genuinely interested in sharing
his work without ego and knowing what others were doing. His books are of
immense value and his loss is real. At times like this one wishes we had an
organization that could keep his
memory alive by offering a Frank Neal Award for Diaspora Studies or in some
other way.

Bill Mulligan

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Subject: [IR-D] Frank Neal, at peace

It is with great sadness that I must tell the Irish Diaspora list that Frank
Neal died last week.

This indomitable spirit, and generous, kindly man, will be much missed.

Frank retired from the University of Salford in the year 2000 - he was then
Professor of British Economic and Social History. By training he was an
economist - the joint author of two books in the field of mathematical
economics.

His main research interest became the study of the Irish in Britain, with
formal connections with the University of Salford and with the Institute of
Irish Studies, University of Liverpool. His chief fault as a historian was
that - like an economist - he did not know when enough detail was enough.
His two books about the Irish in Britain, Sectarian Violence: the Liverpool
experience 1819-1914, and Black 47: Britain and the Famine Irish are
therefore wonderful treasures of detail and reference, encouraging us all to
go further. His chief virtues as a historian was an indefatigable
willingness to explore the archives, and then a willingness to walk the
ground - when he found a significant incident in the archives he would walk
the streets where the incident occurred, and plot out the sequence of
events.

My role in recent years has been simply to be on the end of a phone, whilst
Frank tried out stories, events and analysis. His indomitable will meant
that he was with us longer than we deserve, and he gave us more than we
deserve.

Patrick O'Sullivan

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Cultural Contrasts in Dublin A montage of ethnographic studies
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan [mailto:P.OSullivan[at]bradford.ac.uk]=20

Sections of this book are visible on Google Books - there are chapters =
on
Poles, Hinduism, Homelessness, and Irish Paganism. In Dublin.

Hamburg University has a long tradition of sending ethnography and
anthropology students to Ireland, to complete the fieldwork part of =
their
courses. Usually the students have gone to the rural south or west.

In 2006 it was decided that they would go to an urban setting, Dublin. =
The
fieldwork was conducted in 2006 and 2007 - that is, before the economic
crises. One of the first challenges facing the students was finding
accommodation in Dublin that they could afford.

Many Ir-D members will find useful Astrid Wonneberger's Introduction:
Ethnographic Studies in Dublin.

P.O'S.


Astrid Wonneberger (Ed.)=20
Cultural Contrasts in Dublin
A montage of ethnographic studies=20

Reihe: lines. Beitr=E4ge zur Stadtforschung aus dem Institut f=FCr =
Ethnologie
der Universit=E4t Hamburg
Bd. 6, 2011, 144 S., 19.90 EUR, br., ISBN 978-3-643-80102-9


Up to the 1990s, Dublin and Irish urban cultures had only been =
marginally
studied by cultural and social anthropologists, even though the Greater
Dublin Area has been home to almost one third of the Republic's =
population
for several decades. From this time anthropologists slowly became aware =
of
the variety of cultural groups and topics which shape Ireland's capital.

This growing awareness went hand in hand with the major economic,
architectural, social and cultural changes which Dublin was =
experiencing.
Sparked by Ireland's membership of the EU (then EEC) and accelerated by =
the
Celtic Tiger economy and increasing numbers of immigrants, the city has
turned into a multicultural space of a variety unprecedented before.

The articles in this book are based on a student research project in =
Dublin
in 2006, presenting four ethnographic case studies ranging from =
immigration
and the formation of new religious groups to survival strategies of the
urban homeless.=20

http://www.lit-verlag.de/isbn/3-643-80102-9

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Second Language Learning and Teaching
2012, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-20141-7

SPECIAL ISSUE
Extending the Boundaries of Research on Second Language Learning and
Teaching
Miros=B3aw Pawlak

Poles Experiencing English (and Much More!) in Ireland
David Singleton

Abstract
This paper attempts a portrayal of the recent Polish experience of =
Ireland,
drawing on data from the project "Second language acquisition and native
language maintenance in the Polish Diaspora in Ireland and France". This =
is
a multi-disciplinary, comparative project focused on the acquisition and =
use
of the languages of the two respective host communities and on the
transmission of the migrants' L1, Polish, to their children. The paper
begins with a sketch of the socio-historical background to Polish =
migration
to Ireland, homing in specifically on the great increase in Polish =
migration
to Ireland after Poland's accession to the EU. It goes on to provide a =
range
of information about Poles' reported experience in Ireland in respect of
various dimensions of life in their new environment and specifically in
respect of language learning.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/r30p173q54317214/

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Two Irish Settlers in America 1720s-1740s

http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/growth/text4/irishpenns
ylvania.pdf

National Humanities Center, 2008: nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds. In

Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from Colonial
and Revolutionary America, 1675-1815, eds. Kerby A. Miller, et al. (Oxford
University Press, 2003), pp. 76-81, 319-322; permission pending. Com-
plete image credits at
nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/imagecredits.htm

http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/growth/text4/irishpenns
ylvania.pdf

For more on the National Humanities Center and its teaching resources see...

http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/

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Them Wild Woods: The Transatlantic Letters of An Irish Quaker
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Note that the Books Ireland web page gives a different version of the title.
Below I give the title as it has come to us from the Ulster Historical
Foundation - and it is the title on the cover of the book, visible on the
Books Ireland page.


Them Wild Woods: The Transatlantic Letters of An Irish Quaker Family,
1818-77

Editor: Bill Jackson
Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation
Publication Date: September 2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-908448-00-2


That emigration tore Irish families apart is a given, but rarely is the
separation chronicled across three generations.

These hitherto unpublished letters describe the life of an Ulster Quaker
shop-keeping family whose daughter married and emigrated in 1818. They bring
out the fears of parents who will never see their child again and the
preoccupations of sisters and brothers who remained behind, caring for the
parents and themselves hoping just as much for material success, romance and
marriage, as well as for spiritual fulfilment.

They reveal along the way the situation of Irish Friends in the first half
of the nineteenth century, and the difficulties of making one's way, whether
in unsettled Tyrone or settler upstate New York.

Among other things, just about everyone who was anyone in Dungannon and its
hinterland is mentioned - for good or ill. Armagh, Dublin and Lisburn also
feature, as do New York, Buffalo and Collins. There is everything here, from
jilting to murders, bankruptcies to fashions, potato prices to politics. The
events of the times stud the background. In Ireland, visits by Dungannon's
absentee landlords, the proscription of unionist and nationalist parades,
O'Connell's trial for sedition, the possibility 'of propelling vessels by
steam', Queen Victoria's opening of the Queen's College, Belfast. In
America, an encounter with Napoleon's brother, the opening of the Erie
Canal, the ball given in New York for Charles Dickens, the abolitionist
cause, various presidential elections, P. T. Barnum's hoax exhibition of the
'Feejee Mermaid'

These couple of hundred simple family letters throw a candid but sympathetic
light on life as it was lived in Ulster and on the Lake Erie shore nearly
two centuries ago.

Educated at Campbell College, Belfast and Trinity College, Dublin, Bill
Jackson retired in 1999 from a career with Oxfam, the Irish public service
and the United Nations.

http://www.booksireland.org.uk/store/all-departments/them-wild-woods-an-iris
h-quaker-familys-transatlantic-correspondence-1818-1875/

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'Sectarian Violence in Liverpool' is a great book, without which it is
impossible to understand the specificity of the history of Liverpool. I will
remember a particularly open-minded historian and a lovely man.

Mary Hickman



On 7 September 2011 00:40, Bill Mulligan wrote:

> I only met Frank Neal a few times and we corresponded a bit. I have seldom
> met a more generous, sharing person who was genuinely interested in sharing
> his work without ego and knowing what others were doing. His books are of
> immense value and his loss is real. At times like this one wishes we had an
> organization that could keep his
> memory alive by offering a Frank Neal Award for Diaspora Studies or in some
> other way.
>
> Bill Mulligan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf
> Of Patrick O'Sullivan
> Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 8:54 AM
> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: [IR-D] Frank Neal, at peace
>
> It is with great sadness that I must tell the Irish Diaspora list that
> Frank
> Neal died last week.
>
> This indomitable spirit, and generous, kindly man, will be much missed.
>
> Frank retired from the University of Salford in the year 2000 - he was then
> Professor of British Economic and Social History. By training he was an
> economist - the joint author of two books in the field of mathematical
> economics.
>
> His main research interest became the study of the Irish in Britain, with
> formal connections with the University of Salford and with the Institute of
> Irish Studies, University of Liverpool. His chief fault as a historian was
> that - like an economist - he did not know when enough detail was enough.
> His two books about the Irish in Britain, Sectarian Violence: the Liverpool
> experience 1819-1914, and Black 47: Britain and the Famine Irish are
> therefore wonderful treasures of detail and reference, encouraging us all
> to
> go further. His chief virtues as a historian was an indefatigable
> willingness to explore the archives, and then a willingness to walk the
> ground - when he found a significant incident in the archives he would walk
> the streets where the incident occurred, and plot out the sequence of
> events.
>
> My role in recent years has been simply to be on the end of a phone, whilst
> Frank tried out stories, events and analysis. His indomitable will meant
> that he was with us longer than we deserve, and he gave us more than we
> deserve.
>
> Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> --
> Patrick O'Sullivan
> Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit
>
> Email Patrick O'Sullivan Email Patrick
> O'Sullivan Personal Fax 0044 (0) 709 236
> 9050
>
> Irish Diaspora Net http://www.irishdiaspora.net Irish Diaspora Studies
> 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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Director,
Institute for the Study of European Transformations
Faculty of Applied Social Sciences
London Metropolitan University
166-220 Holloway Rd
London N7 8DB
Tel: +44 (0)20 7133 2927
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/research-units/iset/staff/hickman.cfm
>
> My 2 latest articles:
> 'Census Ethnic Categories and Second-Generation Identities: A Study of the
> Irish in England and Wales', Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies,
> Volume 37 Issue 1, January 2011
> (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2011.523005)
>
> 'New Labour and Community Cohesion in Britain 2001-2010', Translocations,
> Volume 6, issue 2, Winter 2010
> http://www.translocations.ie/current_issue.html

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Campaign to save the Irish Post

A campaign aimed at saving the Irish Post - which went into liquidation last
month - is getting up a head of steam.

A public meeting is being held this evening at the Commons (committee room
7, at 7.30pm) to discuss alternatives to the closure of the London-based
weekly.

Some of the Post's 10 staff, who have lost their jobs, are expected to
speak. The event is being hosted by the all-party parliamentary group on the
Irish in Britain, chaired by Labour MP Chris Ruane.

Ruane has also sponsored an early day motion along with supported by Mark
Durkan, Paul Flynn, Greg Mulholland, Paul Murphy and Robert Walter.

Among the first signatories are Frank Dobson, Peter Bottomley, Stephen
Pound, Mike Hancock and Jack Dromey.

The motion begins by expressing its "concern at the sudden decision of the
Cork-based Thomas Crosbie Holdings to close the longest running, largest
circulation community weekly newspaper for the Irish in the UK."

It goes on to describe the Post as a central pillar of the Irish community"
and offers support to that community "in its battle to save this vital
resource."

To understand more about the significance of the Irish Post, read two Press
Gazette pieces, one by Joe Horgan here
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=6&storycode=47808&c=1

and anther by the Post's excellent former columnist, Paul Donovan, here
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=47796

The Irish Post campaign can be contacted directly by emailing
savetheirishpost[at]hotmail.co.uk

Source: NUJ

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2011/sep/07/newspapers-downturn

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Why the Irish Post went into liquidation

6 September 2011
By Joe Horgan

Just over two weeks ago the Irish Post closed with the loss of 10 jobs. Last
week former columnist Paul Donovan wrote for Press Gazette about why he
thought it had closed. Here another former columnist for the title, Joe
Horgan, has his say about the demise of the weekly newspaper for the Irish
in Britain after 41 years in print

The overnight disappearance of the British-based Irish Post from the ranks
of our newspapers may not rank as highly in news terms as the disappearance
of others. The sudden collapse of The Sunday Tribune and the self-immolation
of the News of the World were far more spectacular and registered far more
highly. In human terms they were the cause of far more job losses.

Yet the loss of the Irish Post is not simply another signpost in the
changing world of newsprint and electronic media or the tale of an
organisation judged cold-heartedly to be no longer a going concern. The loss
of the Irish Post on the 19th August says as much about the Irish community
in Britain that established it as it does about anything else...

FULL TEXT AT
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=6&storycode=47808&c=1


Why the Irish Post went into liquidation

2 September 2011
By Paul Donovan

Two weeks ago the Irish Post went into liquidation with the loss of 10 jobs,
with owners Thomas Crosbie Holdings citing the "severe economic downturn"
and falling ad revenue.

Paul Donovan, who wrote a weekly column for the paper, thinks the reasons
behind the newspaper's closure were more complex, including a lack of
leadership, a crisis of identity, the end of the Troubles and an ageing
readership.

Here he examines the story behind the Irish Post's demise - and why he
believes it could still have a future.

It is almost 18 months to the day since the great and the good of the Irish
community sat down for a celebratory meal to mark the 40th anniversary of
the Irish Post.

Two weeks ago, some of those same people from Thomas Crosbie Holdings
announced that it will cease trading. So what went wrong?

The Irish Post was founded in 1970 by journalist Breandan Mac Lua and
accountant Tony Beatty. It was the height of the Troubles in Northern
Ireland which had by then extended to Britain.

Irish living in England, Scotland and Wales felt part of a suspect community
- every time a bomb went off in Britain eyes seemed to turn to those people
of Irish descent, staffing the hospitals, working in the schools and
building the roads.

The British media ran government propaganda about the Troubles - two feuding
tribes with the army trying to keep the peace between them.

The Irish community needed a voice...

FULL TEXT AT
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=47796

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=A0
A new 38 minute podcast, =93=91That Forever September Morning=92: =
Memories of
9/11,=94 drawn from 16 interviews that are part of the Glucksman Ireland =
House
Oral History Collection in New York University's Archives of Irish =
America,
can be downloaded from NYU's iTunes-U page or heard on the Glucksman =
Ireland
House website.=A0 Among the voices heard on the podcast are Police
Commissioner Ray Kelly, former firefighter Vince Dunn, journalist Mary
Murphy and her journalist/producer brother Jim Murphy, and author Alice
McDermott.=A0=20

For further information, see=A0=A0
http://irelandhouse.as.nyu.edu/object/ne.bikeman

A commemoration of September 11th=20
with Thomas Flynn reading from Bikeman
Thursday, September 8th at 7pm
at Glucksman Ireland House NYU

or
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=3D429956=
357

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Forwarded on behalf of
Yolande Cohen
cohen.yolande[at]uqam.ca=20

We are glad to announce the launching of our new website: please feel =
free
to pass it on to your students, colleagues etc=85
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Bonjour =E0 tout-e-s,

c'est avec grand plaisir que nous vous annon=E7ons la mise en ligne du =
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internet de notre groupe de recherche =85

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Bien cordialement,
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Forwarded on behalf of

Mike.Collins[at]ucc.ie [mailto:Mike.Collins[at]ucc.ie]=20
Subject: Elizabeth Bowen's Selected Irish Writings=20

Dear Patrick

Cork University Press has just published Elizabeth Bowen's Selected =
Irish Writings by Eibhear Walshe.

This anthology of the Irish writings of the Anglo-Irish novelist, =
Elizabeth Bowen 1899-1973 gathers together, for the first time, her =
Irish writings including her lectures, essays, reviews and reports and =
includes an extensive introductory essay by the editor as well as =
annotations and a critical bibliography.

"... a welcome addittion to Bowen publications....it has a value in =
restoring a due emphasis to the novelist's birthplace [Cork] and to her =
sense of herself as an Irish, or Anglo-Irish woman. It contains, =
criticism, reviews, prefaces, social comment and reports for the =
Ministry of Information in London on the mood in Dublin vis-a-vis the =
war and controversial Irish neutrality........These essays remind us =
powerfully of how Ireland was in the past, and how it was viewed....[The =
editor]...provides a cogent and informative introduction.....the real =
virtue of the book...is to remind us how magnificently Elizabeth Bowen =
rose to every occasion....[and] ... through it all shines her =
distinctive critical manner, at once grand, colloquial and engagingly =
idiosyncratic."
The Irish Times

Elizabeth Bowen's family had been settled in Farrahy in North Cork for =
nearly two hundred years by the time of her birth in 1899 and her =
fictions reflect this long and difficult history between landlord and =
landscape. As she wrote in her family history Bowen's Court (1942) =
'The land outside Bowen's Court's windows left prints on my ancestors =
eyes that looked out: perhaps their eyes left, also, prints on the =
scene? If so, those prints were part of the scene to me'. In all of =
these Irish writings, Bowen looked homewards to North Cork as a place of =
stability and loyalty in an endangered world and her vision of =
Anglo-Ireland becomes her talisman, her source for imaginative power and =
stability in war-disordered London.

This edited collection charts her illuminating relationship with the new =
Irish state from her perspective as an Anglo-Irish novelist and provides =
an account of her life-long engagement with her own country from 1929 =
until the late 1960s.


Eibhear Walshe is a senior lecturer in the Department of Modern English =
at University College Cork. He is the editor of Ordinary People Dancing: =
Essays on Kate O'Brien (Cork University Press, 1993), Sex, Nation and =
Dissent, (Cork University Press, 1997)

ISBN 978-185918-449-3, =E2=82=AC39.00, =C2=A335, Hardback 234 x =
156mm 272 pages

Further details on the book at:
www.corkuniversitypress.com

Regards

Mike

Mike Collins
Publications Director

Cork University Press, Youngline Industrial Estate, Pouladuff Road, =
Cork, Ireland
Tel: 00 353 (0) 21 490 2980 Fax: 00 353 (0) 21 431 5329

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IV LUPOR Conference=20
In and Out of (Postcolonial) Europe: Portugal and Ireland
Queen=92s University Belfast, Friday 6th and Saturday 7th of July 2012
Hosted by Queen=92s Postcolonial Research Forum

CALL FOR PAPERS
Positioned at the geographical limits of Western Europe, Portugal and
Ireland have also been envisioned to differing degrees and at various =
points
in history as the periphery of an idea of Europe =96 culturally, =
economically
and politically. Until recently both countries have, despite or because =
of
their peripheral status, engaged with a Europe that has seemingly =
assisted
Irish and Portuguese accommodation to their postcolonial histories. For
Portugal, European finance helped in its return to a Europe that it had,
until 1974, largely turned its back on while stubbornly clinging to its
empire. For the south of the island of Ireland, on the other hand, =
Europe
provided the means to further assert its independence from its former
colonial ruler, whilst in the north European funds were employed to help
bring an end to a campaign of violence between those who sought Irish
reunification and those loyal to the British crown. Now, however, both
Portugal and the Republic of Ireland, following their economic collapse,
appear to have been firmly repositioned within a periphery of nations
failing to live up to European norms, and one that threatens the very
foundations of the European project.

The overarching purpose of the IV LUPOR (Lusophone Postcolonial Research
Network) conference is to gain a critical understanding of Ireland and
Portugal=92s changing relationships with postcolonial Europe =96 that =
is, a
Europe which, since the Second World War, gradually abandoned colonial
territorial possession in favour of an identity based on a =93coalition =
of the
willing=94. By looking at the evolution of Portuguese and Irish =
relations with
Europe, it will not only identify their similarities and differences, =
but
also assess how =93Europe=94 =96 through its own visions of Ireland and =
Portugal =96
sees itself.

The suggested themes are:

=95 =93European visions of Ireland and Portugal: From the Berlin =
Conference to
the Present=94=20
=95 =93Ireland and Portugal during the Second World War: National =
Sovereignty
and Imperial Identity=94=20
=95 =93Religion, Nationalism and (anti-) Imperialism in Portugal and =
Ireland=94=20
=95 =93Portuguese and Irish Outward Migration: Extra-European =
Identities?=94=20
=95 =93Inward Migration to Ireland and Portugal: Markers of a =
(Postcolonial)
European Maturity?=94=20
=95 =93Postcolonial Portugal and (Northern) Ireland: The Theoretical =
Gaps?=94=20
=95 =93(Non) Europe in the Irish and Portuguese Cultural Imaginations=94

We welcome both individual proposals for papers and for specific panels
dealing with the =93Portuguese=94 or =93Irish=94 perspectives, and not =
necessarily
both. Abstracts (200 words) must be submitted by email to Anthony Soares
(a.soares[at]qub.ac.uk) by Friday 16th December 2011, and we welcome =
proposals
from colleagues working in any discipline within the humanities and =
social
sciences, broadly conceived. Conference Fee: =A335.00 per day (=A320.00 =
for
postgraduate students); Conference Dinner: =A325.00.

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Colm O'Gaora
On The Run: The Story Of An Irish Freedom Fighter

Translated by
Micheal O'hAodha
Dept of History
UL

Edited by
Ruan O'Donnell

The translated autobiography of Colm O'Gaora, a leading figure in the first
generation of nationalist figures who defined the emergence of the Irish
state.

An important figure in the development of Republicanism and the Irish
Republican Brotherhood in the west of Ireland, Colm O'Gaora, was also a
leading figure in the first generation of nationalist intellectuals who
defined the emergence of the nascent Irish state.

He details the IRA seizure of the barracks at Maam Cross in April 1920
amongst other events like his childhood in the Connemara Gaeltacht, his work
as a travelling teacher for the Gaelic League, joining the Irish Volunteers,
preperations for the 1916 Rising in Galway in Mayo and subsequent
imprisonment in Dublin and Darthmoore. On his release he returned to
Republican activities working with Peadar O'Donnell and was imprisoned again
in Galway.

'On the Run' is his memoir and provides a fascinating insight into a
particularly turbulent era in Irish history.

Published
06/06/2011
Publisher
The Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 9781856357517

Reviews
Limerick Post : '... one of the best-known accounts of the War of
Independence..'
Evening Echo : '... captures the atmosphere of the troubled times...'
Ireland's Own : '...a fascinating memoir of Ireland in the early 20th
century..'

http://www.mercierpress.ie/On_the_Run:_The_story_of_an_Irish_Freedom_Fighter
_/582/

http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/products/colm+o27gaora/micheal+o+h
aodha/ruan+o27donnell/on+the+run/8286260/

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IRISH HISTORICAL STUDIES
NUMB 147; 2011
ISSN 0021-1214

pp. 357-375
The mendicant orders and vernacular Irish learning in the late medieval
period.
Bhreathnach, E.

pp. 376-395
The transplanters' certificates and the historiography of Cromwellian
Ireland.
Cunningham, J.

pp. 396-411
Making hay when the sun don't shine: the Rev. William Richardson, science
and society in early nineteenth-century Ireland.
Blackstock, A.

pp. 412-426
The political career of Michael Tierney, 1920-44.
Martin, P.

pp. 427-446
`A reasonable cause': the age of consent and the debate on gender and
justice in the Irish Free State, 1922-35.
Riordan, S.

pp. 447-460
Directions in historiography: History and Irish nationalism.
English, R.

p. 461
Sheehan & O Corrain (eds), The Viking Age: Ireland and the West.
Beougher, D.

p. 462
Murphy & Potterton (eds), The Dublin region in the Middle Ages: settlement,
land-use and economy.
Jefferies, H.A.

pp. 463-464
Jefferies, The Irish Church and the Tudor Reformations.
Heffernan, D.

p. 465
Gleeson (ed.), The Irish in the Atlantic World.
Emmons, D.M.

p. 466
Hazard, Faith and patronage: the political career of Flaithri O
Maolchonaire, c.1560-1629.
Hernan, E.G.

p. 467
Williams & Forest (eds), Constructing the past: writing Irish history,
1600-1800.
Darcy, E.

pp. 468-469
Morales, Ireland and the Spanish Empire, 1600-1825.
Alarcia, D.T.

p. 470
Caball & Carpenter (eds), Oral and print cultures in Ireland, 1600-1900.
Mc Cormack, W.J.

p. 471
Greene (ed.), Exclusionary Empire: English liberty overseas, 1600-1900.
Kidd, C.

p. 472
de Nie & Farrell (eds), Power and popular culture in modern Ireland: essays
in honour of James S. Donnelly, Jr.
Purdue, O.

p. 473
Mitchel (ed.), New perspectives on the Irish in Scotland.
Delaney, E.

pp. 473-474
Harte (ed.), The literature of the Irish in Britain: autobiography and
memoir.
Delaney, E.

p. 475
Walsh & Malcomson (eds), The Conolly archive.
Barnard, T.C.

p. 475
Walsh, The making of the Irish Protestant ascendancy: the life of William
Conolly, 1662-1729.
Barnard, T.C.

pp. 476-477
Kenny, Peaceable Kingdom lost: the Paxton Boys and the destruction of
William Penn's holy experiment.
Wilson, D.A.

p. 478
Portsmouth, John Wilson Croker: Irish ideas and the invention of modern
conservatism, 1800-1835.
Kanter, D.

p. 479
Breathnach & Lawless (eds), Visual, material and print culture in
nineteenth-century Ireland.
Ciosain, N.O.

p. 480
Geoghegan, Liberator: the life and death of Daniel O'Connell, 1830-1847.
Owens, G.

pp. 481-482
Boyce & O'Day (eds), Gladstone and Ireland: politics, religion and
nationality in the Victorian age.
Hoppen, K.T.

p. 483
Brighton, Historical archaeology of the Irish diaspora: a transnational
approach.
Horning, A.

p. 484
Harford & Rush (eds), Have women made a difference? Women in Irish
universities, 1850-2010.
Muldowney, M.

pp. 485-486
Samito, Becoming American under fire. Irish Americans, African Americans,
and the politics of citizenship during the Civil War era.
Gleeson, D.T.

p. 487
O'Brien, For the liberty of Ireland at home and abroad.
Ramon, M.

p. 488
Casey, A mingling of swans: a Cork Fenian and friends `visit' Australia.
Davis, R.

pp. 489-490
Gantt, Irish terrorism in the Atlantic community, 1865-1922.
Whelehan, N.

pp. 491-492
Barr, The European culture wars in Ireland. The Callan schools affair,
1868-81.
Kelly, M.

p. 493
Augsteijn, Patrick Pearse. The making of a revolutionary.
Maume, P.

p. 494
Feeney, Sean MacEntee. A political life.
Kelly, S.

p. 495
McCullagh, The reluctant Taoiseach: a biography of John A. Costello.
Meehan, C.

pp. 496-497
Keogh & Keogh, Bertram Windle. The Honan bequest and the modernisation of
University College Cork, 1904-1919.
Privilege, J.

p. 498
Breitenbach & Thane (eds), Women and citizenship in Britain and Ireland in
the twentieth century: what differnce did the vote make?.
Murphy, C.

p. 499
Wilson, Frontiers of violence: conflict and identity in Ulster and Upper
Silesia, 1918-1922.
Eichenberg, J.

pp. 500-501
Murphy, The year of disappearances: political killings in Cork, 1921-1922.
Leeson, D.M.

p. 502
O'Malley, Military aviation in Ireland, 1921-45.
Kennedy, M.

p. 503
Curtis, A challenge to democracy: militant Catholicism in modern Ireland.
Maume, P.

pp. 504-505
Crawford, Outside the glow: Protestants and Irishness in independent
Ireland.
Bryson, A.

p. 506
Tully, Ireland and Irish Americans, 1932-1945: the search for identity.
Meagher, T.

p. 507
Garvin, News from a new republic: Ireland in the 1950s.
Girvin, B.

pp. 508-509
Savage, A loss of innocence? Television and Irish society, 1960-72.
Horgan, J.

p. 510
Kinealy, War and peace: Ireland since the 1960s.
Patterson, H.

p. 511
Craig, Crisis of confidence: Anglo-Irish relations in the early Troubles,
1966-1974.
McDaid, S.

pp. 512-513
Farren, The SDLP: the struggle for agreement in Northern Ireland, 1970-2000.
McLoughlin, P.J.

pp. 514-515
Graff-McRae, Remembering and forgetting 1916: commemoration and conflict in
post-peace process Ireland.
Beiner, G.

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I will be attending the funeral of Frank Neal this coming Monday, where I
would think of myself as representing his friends and colleagues throughout
the world.

Frank Neal
Funeral - Monday September 12 2011 at 12.30

St. Clements
6 Edge Lane
Chorlton cum Hardy
Manchester, Lancashire M21 9JF

http://www.stclement-chorlton.org.uk/

Frank Neal and his family discussed the question of tributes and donations
before his death.

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