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Thank you very much Patrick. I am sure you will be speaking for all of
us.

Piaras

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Subject: [IR-D] Frank Neal, Funeral

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.

It is suggested that donations be made to...

The Stuart Strange Vasculitis Trust

http://www.vasculitis-uk.org.uk/

Income of Vasculitis UK comes entirely from voluntary donations,
bequests and fundraising activities. Most of the money goes towards
sponsoring clinical research into the causes of and treatments for
vasculitic diseases.=20

Donation and Gift Aid forms can be obtained from Susan Mills (Hon
Secretary) - sandjmills[at]btinternet.com Please make cheques payable to:
Vasculitis UK.

It is also possible to make a donation through other online methods -
for example www.justgiving.com/ssvt

Patrick O'Sullivan

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Email Patrick O'Sullivan Email Patrick
O'Sullivan Personal Fax 0044 (0) 709 236
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Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Social Sciences and Humanities University of Bradford
Bradford
BD7 1DP Yorkshire England

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Subject: Article,
White Noise: A Critical Evaluation of Social Work Education's
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This article has not yet been assigned a place in the paper version of =
the journal - but if I wait until that happens I forget...

Many Ir-D members will find this article very useful - it provides a =
good summary of 'Whiteness' studies, their strengths and limitations. =
Ignatiev is there as only one example.

P.O'S.

White Noise: A Critical Evaluation of Social Work Education's Engagement =
with Whiteness Studies
Dharman Jeyasingham*
+ Author Affiliations

Dharman Jeyasingham is a lecturer at University of Salford. He delivers =
teaching about race and whiteness on social work qualifying programmes.
=E2=86=B5*Correspondence to Dharman Jeyasingham, School of Social Work, =
Psychology and Public Health, University of Salford, Frederick Road, =
Salford, M6 6PU, UK. E-mail: d.jeyasingham[at]salford.ac.uk
Accepted July 1, 2011.
Abstract

Literature about whiteness and white identities has proliferated across =
the social sciences and humanities over recent years. However, there has =
so far been only a small amount of writing in social work, almost all =
concerned with social work education, which has attempted to make use of =
ideas developed in this body of literature. This paper summarises the =
major themes examined in the field of whiteness studies and discusses =
two broad critiques of approaches to the topic, concerned with the =
reification of whiteness and the reflexive focus of much work in this =
field. It then evaluates social work education's engagement so far with =
these concepts and finds that, while social work education literature =
has started to discuss whiteness, it has not so far considered critical =
approaches to whiteness studies and has not engaged with recent, more =
situated and nuanced work about whiteness, such as studies that are =
concerned with performativity. The paper makes some suggestions about =
how whiteness studies can be used in social work education to enable =
more complex understandings of race and power.

Key words
Whiteness studies race privilege reification reflexivity performativity

Br J Soc Work (2011)
doi: 10.1093/bjsw/bcr110
First published online: August 7, 2011

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Very sorry to hear the news about Frank. I approached writing the history =
of 'Irish, Catholic and Scouse' with great diffidence given Frank=92s magis=
terial studies of the Liverpool-Irish. My task was made all the easier by t=
he help, advice and support which he gave with uncommon generosity. For al=
l his efforts, however, he failed to cure my innumeracy =96 I could never m=
atch his mastery of statistics and quantitative evidence. I had to rely on=
spatial and cultural turns. Very sorry to be about of the UK at present a=
nd hence unable to attend the funeral but Paddy=92s presence will underline=
the debt many of us owe to Frank.


John Belchem



Professor John Belchem
Director
The Institute of Cultural Capital
=A0
ic1 Liverpool Science Park, 131 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, L3 5TF
Tel: 0151 7053614

Professor of History and Pro-Vice-Chancellor
University of Liverpool
Tel: 0151 794 2220
Fax: 0151 794 2929
Email: j.c.belchem[at]liv.ac.uk



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f Of Patrick O'Sullivan
Sent: 09 September 2011 11:12
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Subject: [IR-D] Frank Neal, Funeral

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=20
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.

It is suggested that donations be made to...

The Stuart Strange Vasculitis Trust

http://www.vasculitis-uk.org.uk/

Income of Vasculitis UK comes entirely from voluntary donations, bequests
and fundraising activities. Most of the money goes towards sponsoring
clinical research into the causes of and treatments for vasculitic=20
diseases.=20

Donation and Gift Aid forms can be obtained from=20
Susan Mills (Hon Secretary) - sandjmills[at]btinternet.com
Please make cheques payable to: Vasculitis UK.

It is also possible to make a donation through other online methods - for
example=20
www.justgiving.com/ssvt

Patrick O'Sullivan

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Email Patrick O'Sullivan Email Patrick
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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 Bradfor=
d
BD7 1DP Yorkshire England

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Anyone thinking of using this online leaflet from the National Humanities
Center - go carefully...

I have checked it with Kerby Miller and with the original text in the book.

The leaflet gives the second person's name as Cample and says that he
emigrated from Dublin. His name was Campble and he came from near Dungiven,
County Derry.

Kerby says he will have to look into this, and the 'permission pending' bit
in the note. When he has time.

The text of the extracts looks good. Odd business. I have brought the
problem to the attention of the National Humanities Center.

P.O'S.

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Subject: [IR-D] Leaflet, Two Irish Settlers in America 1720s-1740s
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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

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Journal of Women's History
Volume 22, Number 4, Winter 2010

Politics, Patriotism, and Women in Ireland, Britain and Colonial America,
c.1700-1780
Mary O'Dowd
Journal of Women's History, Volume 22, Number 4, Winter 2010, pp. 15-38
(Article)

Subject Headings:
Boycotts -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Boycotts -- Ireland -- History -- 18th century.
Women -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Women -- Political activity -- Ireland -- History -- 18th century.
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 18th century.

Abstract:

The use of the consumer boycott as a political tool is commonly associated
with pre-revolutionary colonial America and has been identified by
historians as an important means through which American women were
politicized. This article argues that from the late seventeenth century,
Irish political discourse advocated the non-consumption of imported goods
and support for home manufactures by women in ways that were strikingly
similar to those used later in North America. In Ireland and, subsequently
in the American colonies, the virtuous woman consumer was given an active
public role by political and social commentators. Rather than being a
"brilliantly original American invention," as T. H. Breen has argued, the
political exploitation of a consumer boycott and the promotion of local
industry were among what Bernard Bailyn has described as the "set of ideas,
already in scattered ways familiar" to the revolutionary leaders through the
Irish experience. The article also argues that a shared colonial environment
gave Irish and American women a public patriotic role in the period, c.
1700-1780 that they did not have in the home countries of England and
Scotland.

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From: "Patrick O'Sullivan"
Subject: Article, The Gaelic Peers, the Tudor Sovereigns, and English
Multiple Monarchy

The Gaelic Peers, the Tudor Sovereigns, and English Multiple Monarchy
Christopher Maginn
Journal of British Studies
Vol. 50, No. 3 (July 2011), pp. 566-586=20

'In the final decade of Henry VIII's reign there emerged a new =
phenomenon
in the centuries-old relationship between England and Ireland: the =
Gaelic
peer.1 When the king of England issued letters patent in June 1541
authorizing Barnaby MacGillapatrick's creation as first baron of Upper
Ossory, two societies' understanding of high social position and =
inherited
rank became intertwined.2 At that moment, the elected head of the
MacGillapatrick lineage, or clan, joined dozens of other temporal lords, =
in
England as well as in Ireland, who were recognized as titled peers, the
natural leaders of Tudor society. The crucial difference, in this case, =
was
that the new baron was the first man who was not of English or Welsh
paternal blood to hold a noble title of the king of England. The =
peerage of
Ireland was then populated exclusively by the English of Ireland
who were descended from the subjects of the king of England who had =
settled
in Ireland in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in the wake of =
conquest.3
But there was another important aspect of MacGillapatrick's ennoblement: =
he
was already a nobleman in Gaelic society. He belonged to Ireland's =
dominant
native elite whose social distinction derived in the first instance not =
from
a title held of any individual but from their ancient paternal ancestry =
and
from their military strength. The ennoblement of MacGillapatrick thus
touched on larger questions surrounding the constitutional relationship
between the English king and the Gaelic population of Ireland, the vast
majority of whom were not accounted the king's natural subjects, and the
future place of the Gaelic elite within a Tudorstate that was shortly to
redefine Ireland's place within the larger polity.

The next two years saw a spate of Gaelic lords granted noble titles =
based in
Ireland from the king of England...'

'...Yet, the fact that the Tudor peerage extended to Ireland and that it
included nobles of Gaelic ethnic extraction has been consistently =
overlooked
in studies of the sixteenth-century English nobility.6 Irish historians, =
for
their part, have generally shown a reluctance to explore what were, at =
base,
English titles of honor and social distinction. The acceptance by =
Irishmen
of English titles of nobility was difficult to reconcile with the
resistance-centered accounts of sixteenth-century Ireland later espoused =
by
Irish nationalism.7 Nobility=97when equated with the peerage=97carried =
with it
the connotation of Englishness, for the peers of the kingdom of Ireland
derived their nobility directly from the monarch of England. In a
twentieth-century expression of this nationalist tradition, the =
possession
of nobility by Irish citizens was prohibited in the constitution of =
Ireland.
Written in 1937, Article 40 of Bunreacht na hE=B4 ireann states that =
=93titles
of nobility shall not be conferred by the state=94 and =93no title of =
nobility
or honour may be accepted by any citizen except with the prior approval =
of
the government.=948 The historian seeking to probe the subject of =
nobility in
early modern Ireland thus must not only look beyond that distinctly
modern aversion to the phenomenon of inherited privilege and rank but =
must
also confront a nationalist tradition that has long excoriated the =
existence
in Ireland of titles of nobility and equated their possession with
foreignness.

Yet, it has been convincingly shown that the concepts of nobility and =
honor
in early modern Europe transcended national borders...'

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Ireland and the New Journalism

For a contributed volume on the influence of W.T. Stead on Irish
journalistic practices, we seek essays examining the impact of New
Journalism on Irish politics, culture, newspaper practices, and
representations of journalism from the 1870s through the 1930s. Essays
might consider editorial, typographical, and textual changes in Irish
newspaper and periodical practices during the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries. We encourage essays that engage in wide cultural
perspectives, exploring how Irish periodicals provide new opportunities and
challenges for cultural researchers seeking to understand and analyze
cultural phenomena, such as nationalist advocacy, progressive activism,
sexual scandal, reading practices, national pedagogy, theatrical and
political spectacle, and more.

Abstracts (500 word) due 1 December 2011
Completed essay (3,000-5,000 word) due 1 June 2012

Please submit electronically to Karen Steele (k.steele[at]tcu.edu)
AND Michael de Nie (mdenie[at]westga.edu).

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The Cosgrave Party: A History of Cumann na nGaedheal, 1923-33
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The Cosgrave Party: A History of Cumann na nGaedheal, 1923-33

Book:
The Cosgrave Party: A History of Cumann na nGaedheal, 1923-33
Ciara Meehan
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 2010, ISBN: 9781904890652; 325pp.; Price:
=A330.00;

Reviewer:
Jason Knirck
Central Washington University

Citation:
Jason Knirck, review of The Cosgrave Party: A History of Cumann na
nGaedheal, 1923-33, (review no. 1120)
URL: http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1120


Ciara Meehan=92s The Cosgrave Party is the first monograph devoted =
solely to
the Cumann na nGaedheal party, and as such is an important addition to =
the
literature. Its novel focus on electioneering, in particular, should =
make
this book noteworthy to historians of the Irish revolution, and to those
interested in 20th-century Irish history more broadly. Meehan starts =
from
the premise that Cumann na nGaedheal has yet to receive its just due =
from
historians, who have =91largely neglected=92 the party (p. xi), or =
focused
excessively on its failures and decline. As a result the party =91has =
remained
something of an enigma=92 (p. xi). To correct this neglect, Meehan =
=91seeks to
evaluate the party and locate its place in Irish history=92 (p. xi). The
result will be a =91more balanced judgement than has previously been =
offered=92
(p. xvi), acknowledging the party=92s failures, while giving more =
attention to
its successes than previous analyses.

The Cosgrave Party=92s core argument is that Cumann na nGaedheal was =
active,
dynamic and productive, in contrast to the passive and listless party =
often
found in textbooks and monographs. Meehan lauds the party for continuing =
an
Irish tradition of =91moderate nationalism=92 (p. xi) =96 which later in =
the book
is rendered =91constitutional nationalism=92 (p. 91) =96 through its =
commitment to
solving problems through legislative change, rather than physical =
struggle.
The record of its achievements, as cataloged in The Cosgrave Party, =
includes
the preservation of Irish democracy, the promotion of Irish pride at =
home
and abroad, the winning of Irish sovereignty through the Anglo-Irish =
Treaty,
and the aggressive countering of Sinn F=E9in and Fianna F=E1il in Free =
State
elections.

Meehan does not paper over Cumann na nGaedheal=92s evident problems, but
argues they were largely caused by the unusual circumstances surrounding =
its
creation. Unlike most political parties, which are created in order to =
win
power, Cumann na nGaedheal came into existence after the state, and was
built by men who were already in power...

...In sum, this is a great addition to the literature on the 1920s. =
While
there are some structural and argumentative issues that handicap the =
book a
bit, and the book may have benefited by focusing more narrowly on =
elections,
these concerns should not detract from the many significant =
contributions
this book makes to the field. This should be standard reading for =
historians
of the 1920s, and The Cosgrave Party opens up new interpretations and
avenues of research for those interested in Cumann na nGaedheal.

FULL TEXT AT
http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1120

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Forwarded on behalf of
Dr. Kimm Curran

Subject: History of Women Religious Britain and Ireland information

Dear All,

The network: History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland have a new
website:

http://www.history.ac.uk/history-women-religious/

Events, call for papers and other information on female religious from
medieval to modern are collected on these new pages.

Feel free to visit our site and contact us if you have information to pass
on by using the contact page.

Best wishes,
Kimm Curran

------------------
*Dr. Kimm Curran*
http://glasgow.academia.edu/KimmCurran

Chair, History Lab Plus
Institute of Historical Research (IHR),
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

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Grainne's invitation reminds me to remind all of you to visit the online
exhibition the Archives of Irish America created ten years ago, "The 1981
Hunger Strikes: America Reacts" at this link:

http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/aia/exhibits/0501_hunger/intro.htm

Best wishes,
Marion

Marion R. Casey
Glucksman Ireland House
New York University

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Might be of interest to the list,
Grainne O'Keeffe-Vigneron

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0910/1224303850236.html

Conference explores diaspora as stakeholders in Irish society

KITTY HOLLAND

Sat, Sep 10, 2011

THE IRISH diaspora should be regarded as stakeholders in and contributors t=
o Irish society=E2=80=99s well-being, according to the organisers of a majo=
r conference on the issue taking place this weekend.

Martin Russell was speaking yesterday at the opening of the Diaspora Strate=
gies: Encouragement, Evolution and Engagement conference which continues to=
day at the Clinton Institute at University College Dublin.

Explaining the reasons for the conference, Mr Russell said the role and pot=
ential of diaspora population was under-explored and little understood.

=E2=80=9CIf you look at the major issues in the world today, diaspora have =
a real role to play in their homelands and in their host-lands, that are un=
ique to them. It=E2=80=99s about bringing the idea that there should be eng=
agement with the diaspora, to the agenda.=E2=80=9D

The conference will hear papers today from British, French, Canadian, Ameri=
can, Indian and Singapore academics, on such issues as =E2=80=9CClaiming th=
e diaspora=E2=80=9D; =E2=80=9Cdiaspora media and citizen engagement=E2=80=
=9D and =E2=80=9CThe issues of language and identity among Polish migrants =
in Ireland=E2=80=9D.

The main speaker yesterday was Prof Gabriel Sheffer, a world-renowned exper=
t on the transnational experience at the department of political science at=
the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He spoke on =E2=80=9CDiaspora, Homelan=
ds and Host-countries=E2=80=9D.

He said diaspora populations were not heterogeneous entities and there were=
many layers of both formal and informal networks between the diaspora popu=
lation and their homeland, and between them and their host-land.

=E2=80=9CThe homeland tends to use the formal networks with their diaspora =
to promote their interests in the host-land. The diaspora will use informal=
networks in an economic way, to invest money in both the homeland and the =
host-land. There are big debates around autonomy of both the diaspora and t=
he homeland =E2=80=93 about how much responsibility the homeland has to the=
diaspora and how much influence the diaspora should have on the politics a=
nd society of the homeland.=E2=80=9D

He said relations between the homeland and the host-land had a direct beari=
ng on whether or not the diaspora population thrived in their host-land, an=
d referred to how the Irish were less welcome in Britain through the 1970s =
and 1980s when relations between the two countries were strained.

It was critical, he said, that homelands knew more about their diaspora, to=
fully engage with the potential benefits to both of the networks and relat=
ionships.

=E2=80=9CVery few homelands really understand what is happening with their =
diaspora. In Jerusalem for example, very few realise that the majority of t=
he Israeli diaspora are critical of Israeli policy on Palestine.

Many in the diaspora are wealthy and have means and capabilities that can b=
e used to lobby and influence.

He also referred to the varying levels of interest different layers of the =
diaspora had in their homeland. Where they were assimilated into the host s=
ociety they had little interest in homeland affairs.

Where they were integrated and retained interest in the homeland they were =
more likely to seek to influence issues there, he said.

=C2=A9 2011 The Irish Times

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Dear members,

On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the 1981 Hunger Strikes, the Cen=
tre for Irish Studies at the University Rennes 2, France, would like to inv=
ite you to the following event:

Programme

30 years on: assessing the impact and the legacy of the republican hungerst=
rikes / L'impact et l'h=C3=A9ritage des gr=C3=A8ves de la faim r=C3=A9publi=
caines: 30 ans apr=C3=A8s

Thursday, 22nd September / jeudi 22 septembre

Venue / Lieu : M.I.R (Maison Internationale de Rennes), 7, Quai Chateaubria=
nd, 35000 Rennes.

Metro stop / M=C3=A9tro: R=C3=A9publique

Organisation : Centre d=E2=80=99Etudes Irlandaises, Universit=C3=A9 Rennes =
2 / MIR (Maison Internationale de Rennes)

=E2=80=A2 17h: Accueil / Welcome reception

=E2=80=A2 17h 30 : Introduction by members of the CEI (Centre d'Etudes Irla=
ndaises) Universit=C3=A9 Rennes 2 / Pr=C3=A9sentation g=C3=A9n=C3=A9rale pa=
r l=E2=80=99=C3=A9quipe du Centre d=E2=80=99Etudes Irlandaises, Universit=
=C3=A9 Rennes 2.

=E2=80=A2 17h40 : A brief overview of the Troubles through murals, Jean GUI=
FFAN, historien, Nantes / Un bref historique du conflit en Irlande du Nord =
=C3=A0 travers les =C2=AB murals =C2=BB.

=E2=80=A2 18h : The political context surrounding the Hungerstrikes, Profes=
sor Jon TONGE (Universit=C3=A9 de Liverpool, GB), followed by questions / L=
e contexte politique des gr=C3=A8ves de la faim, suivi de questions.

=E2=80=A2 18h40 : Presentation by Laurence McKEOWN, former IRA hungerstrike=
r, (ITT Dundalk, Irlande), followed by questions and discussion / Intervent=
ion de Laurence McKeown, ancien gr=C3=A9viste de la faim, suivie de questio=
ns et discussion.

=E2=80=A2 20h : End / Fin de la soir=C3=A9e

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A 1940s Cork City childhood memoir
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The Somerville Press invite you to a book launch

to celebrate the publication of

ROSENHEIM AND WINDERMERE

A 1940s Cork City childhood memoir

by BRIAN LALOR

at The Central Hotel, Exchequer Street, Dublin 2

at 6.30 p.m. on Wednesday, 5 October 2011.

The book will be launched by Professor Robert Welch.

R.S.V.P.

E-mail: somervillepress[at]eircom.net

Tel: 028-32873

Brian Lalor has pursued a distinguished career in which the disciplines
of art, archaeology and writing merge. Born in Cork, he studied at the
Crawford Municipal School of Art and subsequently in London. In a brief
archaeological career he made significant discoveries on the architecture
of classical Jerusalem. Amongst his many books are a definitive illustrated
edition of Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol, (1997) and a study of
Irish early medieval architecture, The Irish Round Tower (1999). He was the
General Editor of the internationally award-winning The Encyclopaedia of
Ireland (2003) and the recipient of the International Swift Society Award
for Juvenalian Satire (2004). His most recent publication is Ink-Stained
Hands (2011), a pioneering study of fine-art printmaking in twentieth
century Ireland. He lives in West Cork.

The Encyclopaedia of Ireland,
Gill and Macmillan/Yale
University Press, 2003
'A marvellous, multitudinous, and instructive compendium, up-to-date and
up-to-speed.'
Seamus Heaney

'It's all here. Everything you ever wanted to know about Ireland and
its people.'
Mia Farrow

Ultimate Dublin Guide,
O'Brien Press, 1991

'A Dublin book for a Desert Island.' Evening Press

The Laugh of Lost Men, Mainstream Publishing, 1997
'Lalor writes like a less folksy Ben Kiely and a crushingly critical Paul
Theroux.'
Tom Widger, Sunday Tribune

West of West, an Artist's Encounter with West Cork, Brandon, 1990
'In its carefully sculpted sentences Brian Lalor
celebrates West Cork, not only with that special
insight of the artist , but with much obvious love.'
Tim Cramer, The Cork Examiner.

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Dear Paddy: Would you be so kind as to please forward the following CFP to =
the IR-D List? Thanks, Cian

CFP, "Internationalizing Irish Studies," Panel Proposal (ACIS national meet=
ing, March 2012)

Scholars working across the humanities and social sciences agree on the nee=
d to "globalize" Irish Studies but struggle with the methodological and ana=
lytical problems associated with the project. Dogged by lacunae in the sou=
rces, their discipline's built-in biases, and--of course--national borders,=
only brave and hardy souls dare try to internationalize Irish Studies.

I would like to bring the latest work of these intrepid scholars together b=
y coordinating an interdisciplinary panel entitled "Internationalizing Iris=
h Studies" for the national meeting of the American Conference for Irish St=
udies in New Orleans next March (2012). In essence, I am looking for three=
or four papers by scholars wrestling with how to situate their own little =
corner of Irish Studies in a global context.

Individual presentations need not offer a comprehensive, neatly packaged, r=
eady-to-serve analytical framework for all future work. The goal is, rathe=
r, to create a multidisciplinary common ground for those interested in the =
subject.

Please email 150-200 word abstracts to cian.mcmahon[at]unlv.edu. Given that t=
he deadline for proposals is 30 September, 2011, prospective presenters are=
encouraged to forward their submissions at their earliest convenience. Th=
anks!

Cian


Cian T. McMahon, PhD
Scholar in Residence
Department of History
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Barry Crosbie's book has begun to turn up in our alerts, with a publication
date given as, variously, November or December 2011, or January 2012.

This might mean only that the publishers as assigned an ISBN to the book.

Anyway... It means that Barry is nearly there with this project - so
sincere congratulations to him.

Irish Imperial Networks
Migration, Social Communication and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century India
Barry Crosbie, Universidade de Macau
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521119375
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
2011? 2012?

This is an innovative study of the role of Ireland and the Irish in the
British Empire which examines the intellectual, cultural and political
interconnections between nineteenth-century British imperial, Irish and
Indian history. Barry Crosbie argues that Ireland was a crucial sub-imperial
centre for the British Empire in South Asia that provided a significant
amount of the manpower, intellectual and financial capital that fuelled
Britain's drive into Asia from the 1750s onwards. He shows the important
role that Ireland played as a centre for recruitment for the armed forces,
the medical and civil services and the many missionary and scientific bodies
established in South Asia during the colonial period. In doing so, the book
also reveals the important part that the Empire played in shaping Ireland's
domestic institutions, family life and identity in equally significant ways.

Contents

1. Introduction; 2. The business of empire; 3. British overseas expansion,
Ireland and the sinews of colonial power; 4. From trade to dominion; 5.
Religion, civil society and imperial authority; 6. From company to Crown
rule; 7. Imperial crisis and the age of reform; Conclusion.


SEE ALSO

http://umac.academia.edu/BarryCrosbie

http://www.umac.mo/fsh/hist/Academic_Staff/crosbie.html

where there is a full list of articles and chapters, including...

"Ireland, Colonial Science and the Geographical Construction of British
Rule in India, c.1780-1870," Cambridge University Press, The Historical
Journal, volume 52, issue 04, pp.963-987.

"Networks of Empire: Linkage and Reciprocity in Nineteenth-Century Irish and
Indian History" History Compass, 7/3 (2009), pp.993-1007.

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This is a melange of items that have turned up in our alerts and which, =
on
inspection, proved to be nothing substantial, as far as creating an =
Irish
Diaspora Studies citation is concerned.

But which, on further inspection, seemed to connect with deeper, ongoing
discussions and debates within Irish Diaspora Studies.

1.
The latest issue of
The Western Historical Quarterly=20
Vol. 42, No. 3, AUTUMN 2011

Published by: Western Historical Quarterly, Utah State University on =
behalf
of The Western History Association

is a historiographic enterprise, looking at the ways in which the study =
of
the western USA has developed in recent decades.

The WHA at Fifty: Essays on the State of Western History Scholarship A
Commemoration

http://www.usu.edu/whq/

I have talked elsewhere about the 'valorisation' of various 'Wests' in =
our
study, and there are entry points here - particularly in the article by

Mar=EDa E. Montoya
"From Homogeneity to Complexity: Understanding the Urban West"

which cites The Butte Irish : Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining
Town, 1875-1925 David M. Emmons, and which argues that cities are =
important
in the development of the USA West, as they were everywhere else - so an
outline of, and a counter to, the Turner 'frontier'.

By the way, I am looking forward to reading Beyond the American Pale by=20
David M Emmons...

Anyway... This Special Issue will interest a number of IR-D members.


2.
As will this Special Issue...

The Public Historian
Vol. 33, No. 3, Summer 2011

Strengthening the Management of State History: Issues, Perspectives, and
Insights from New York

The Special Issue is about public history, especially museums, in a =
specific
place, New York. The article that will especially interest IR-D members =
is=20

The History Museum in New York State: A Growing Sector Built on Scarcity
Thinking
Anne W. Ackerson
The Public Historian
Vol. 33, No. 3 (Summer 2011), pp. 18-37=20

which, again, mentions the Irish only in passing. But which describes
patterns and problems familiar to Ir-D members throughout the world.

Abstract
Many history museums and similar historical programs begin with =
excellent
intentions of commemorating a community milestone, saving a historic =
house,
or creating a home for someone's collection. But they do not fully =
consider
audience, scope, or resources and operate with very modest or inadequate
financial and other resources. Their role needs also to be seen in the
context of changing demographics, declining visitorship, and advances in
information technology. There are solutions under discussion or being =
tried,
including changing state chartering requirements, state assistance,
cooperation among programs, consolidating small/marginal programs, =
mergers
with academic institutions, and taking imaginative advantage of social =
media
and other information technology.

Key words: Boards of trustees/directors, budgets and resources, =
chartering,
history museums, New York state and local history


3.
An article which is part of a discussion within the discipline of
anthropology of certain 'keywords', in this case 'identity. Its only
mention of the Irish is in a quote from Scottish Marxist John Holloway,
Change the World without Taking Power, 2002. =20

(Remember? 'When we write or when we read, it is easy to forget that =
the
beginning is not the word, but the scream...')

Lauren Leve argues that for Holloway, 'the logic of property and the =
logic
of identity are one and the same...'

Special Section: Keywords=20
=93Identity=94
Lauren Leve=20

Lauren Leve is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious =
Studies at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (125 Saunders Hall, CB =
3225,
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599=963225, U.S.A. [lgleve[at]unc.edu]).

=93Identity=94 is a key term for anthropological analysis today. This =
paper
explores the challenge posed by modernist Buddhists in Nepal who
participated in identity politics while grounding their claims to
identity-based rights in belonging to a religious community defined by =
the
doctrine that there is no such thing as a =93self=94 in the conventional =
sense.
Examining the sharp proliferation of identity-based discourses and =
claims in
post-1990 Nepal in light of broader structural transformations =
associated
with the globalization of neoliberal governance strategies and against =
the
rise of a popular vipassana meditation movement, I suggest that the rise =
of
ethnoreligious politics in Nepal at that time reflects the presence of a
global =93identity machine=94=97an apparatus that establishes not only =
the
categories of identity recognized and claimed in democratic states but =
also,
indeed, their very ontological foundations in liberal conceptions of =
self,
citizenship, and social relations. Nepali Buddhists who claim religious
rights while also engaging in practices that challenge the very idea of
identity are at once participating in the ideological and institutional
conditions of neoliberal modernity and also reworking these in =
unexpected
ways. This paradox calls on anthropologists to study the processes that
produce and extend particular ways of seeing and organizing the world =
rather
than inadvertently naturalizing them.

=93Identity=94
Lauren Leve
Current Anthropology
Vol. 52, No. 4 (August 2011), pp. 513-535=20
Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of Wenner-Gren
Foundation for Anthropological Research=20

P.O'S.

--
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 =
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the Collecting of Middle English Manuscripts in Ireland in the
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This article is fairly limited - looking at what Chaucer MSS Ware might, or
might not, have owned. But I have not seen many studies of Ware in recent
years - others might know better.

It is worth noting that many of the C18th and C19th editions of Ware's works
are now freely available on Google Books.

P.O'S.


Sir James Ware, the Collecting of Middle English Manuscripts in Ireland in
the Seventeenth Century, and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
A. S. G. Edwards
The Chaucer Review
Vol. 46, No. 1-2 (2011), pp. 237-247

Published by: Penn State University Press

In lieu of an abstract, here is a preview of the article.

The history of the post-medieval collecting and study of Middle English
manuscripts has yet to be written. 1 It is clear that by the later sixteenth
century such manuscripts had become objects of antiquarian and scholarly
curiosity, reflected in the activities of a number of early collectors. But
assessing the nature and extent of their activities can involve complex
problems of identification. Early records of the existence of manuscripts in
books lists, inventories, wills, and sale catalogues are usually
descriptively perfunctory and hence often hard to link confidently to those
copies that survive. Such questions of identification are exemplified by
Chaucer's works, particularly manuscripts of his Canterbury Tales, where the
extensive records of provenance that survive still leave many unresolved
problems. 2 These problems of identification, both in particular connection
with Chaucer's works and more generally in relation to the early collecting
of Middle English, are represented in the records of Middle English
manuscripts collected by James Ware.

Sir James Ware (1594-1666) was an important Irish politician and historian
who amassed a substantial collection of medieval manuscripts. 3 In 1648 he
published in Dublin his Librorum manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca Jacobi Waraei
Equitis, the first printed catalogue of a private manuscript library in the
British Isles. 4 His interest in Middle English manuscripts was only one
aspect of what was clearly a far more extensive book collecting project.
Ware's 1648 catalogue lists ninety-two manuscripts, described under various
headings, the great majority (some fifty-five), unsurprisingly under "Libri
Historici," consisting of works chiefly in Latin. However, his catalogue
does contain a number of works in Middle English...

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Tom Devine's book has begun to turn up in our alerts, and there are some
small sections visible on Google Books. Note that the book includes a
specific chapter on 'Scots and Irish in the USA'.

To the Ends of the Earth
Scotland's Global Diaspora, 1750-2010
T. M. Devine
Allen Lane
Hardback : 25 Aug 2011

Synopsis

The Scots are one of the world's greatest nations of emigrants. For
centuries, untold numbers of men, women and children have sought their
fortunes in every conceivable walk of life and in every imaginable climate
across the British Empire, the United States and elsewhere, from finance to
industry, philosophy to politics.

To the Ends of the Earth puts this extraordinary epic centre stage, taking
many famous stories and removing layers of myth and sentiment to reveal the
no less startling truth, paying particular attention to the exceptional
Scottish role as traders, missionaries and soldiers.

This major new book is also a study of the impact of this global world on
Scotland itself and the degree to which the Scottish economy was for many
years an imperial economy, with intimate, important links through shipping,
engineering, jute and banking to the most remote of settlements.

Filled with fascinating stories and with an acute awareness of the poverty
and social inequality that provoked so much emigration, To the Ends of the
Earth will make its readers think about the world in quite a different way.

http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780713997446,00.html


Reviews

John MacKenzie
...Devine brings a much colder eye to bear on all of this. He is rightly
anxious to reject notions of Scottish "exceptionalism", testing some of the
more outlandish claims by quantifying the extent to which Scots were
involved in imperial and other projects in numbers higher than their
proportion in the British population would warrant. He also seeks to
demonstrate the manner in which reputations can rise and fall - in the 18th
century, North American colonies, for example, the Irish were often extolled
and the Scots vilified (as the Scots were in England itself).

But by the 19th century, the Scots had come to be revered, even by the
English...

...The excitement of the book lies in the fact that it sometimes feels like
a bare-knuckle ride: thesis set up, knocked down; enthusiasm followed by
scepticism; lyricism followed by cold douches of realism (as in his
debunking of the recent and often ludicrous rediscovery of Scottish
"heritage" in the USA and elsewhere). But the overall impression is that
Devine has done it again - has written a near-definitive work (until those
ever busy historians set about knocking it down again!), another in his
remarkable series on the Scottish nation and its global activities. We await
his next book, on the Scots in England, with bated breath...

SOURCE
http://www.scotsman.com/books/Book-review-To-The-Ends.6825927.jp

Michael Fry
...In his introduction, Devine depicts this book as the third in a series
which started with his bestselling The Scottish Nation 1700-2000 and
continued (rather less successfully) with Scotland's Empire 1600-1815. There
he tried to ginger up his dry statistical biscuit with a bit more human
interest, but his lifeless prose proved incapable of doing justice to the
material he sought to exploit. This time he makes no further effort to deal
with human beings beyond half a dozen pages on David Livingstone and a
couple each for William Jardine and James Matheson, founders of the great
oriental trading house. The general focus has therefore narrowed. At fewer
than 300 pages of text, this is not a long book. It concentrates especially
on the history and processes of emigration, and of movement in the mass
rather than at the individual level. That lends itself to Devine's
statistical method, of course, and he extends the theme to cover emigration
not only to British territories but also to Europe and the United States, at
the same time making frequent comparisons with the Irish.

But while a chapter is devoted to "The Emigrant Experience in the New
Lands", this seldom stretches beyond generalities. There are many emigrant
memoirs, and emigrant newspapers existed in Victorian times. From his
footnotes Devine seems to have made no great use of them. Nor, as in his
previous work, does he show much interest in the 20th century, which merits
here only two chapters out of 13.

It would be a fair point to say that the archival research needed to fill in
the gaps is often yet to be done, and that this should not stop us proposing
from what is already to hand the frameworks within which future results
might be judged, always subject to modification by their actual nature. As
for the existing state of knowledge, Devine's relentless exposition of it
probably will not need to be revised for some time to come.

Meanwhile, however, the nature of historical research has been changing, and
in ways which may soon render Devine's colourless approach extinct...

SOURCE
http://living.scotsman.com/bookreviews/Book-review-To-the-Ends.6823160.jp

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From: Catherine.E.Foley [mailto:Catherine.E.Foley[at]ul.ie]=20

27th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology
=09
University of Limerick, Ireland,
July 23rd - 29th, 2012
Call for Submissions

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 31st October, 2011

We are pleased to announce the 27th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on
Ethnochoreology and invite proposals to be submitted by Monday, 31st
October, 2011.

Please note that in accordance with our aims and objectives as a Study =
Group
of the ICTM this biennial event is not a general conference on dance but =
a
symposium dedicated to two selected themes, which will form the focus of =
our
presentations and discussions.

The themes of the Symposium are:
1. Dance and Place
2. Dance and Festival

We welcome proposals that address one or more of these questions and =
other
related issues that arise directly from the themes. All proposals should =
be
based on substantial fieldwork experience and/or textual consideration. =
It
is expected that all individual presentations and panels will present =
new
insights. Proposals for presentations that were previously given or
have appeared in print, or in other formats, will be rejected.

Languages
English is the official language of the Symposium. Participants not =
familiar
with English may present the paper in a language of large circulation =
(such
as French, German, Russian, Italian, Spanish) or in Irish, the language =
of
this year's host country. They are asked to provide at the conference =
and
disseminate a translation of the full paper in English for the sake of =
wider
understanding. Proposal abstracts should be submitted in English for
selection purposes.

For further information contact
The Programme Committee=20
Catherine Foley (Local Organising Chair) Catherine.E.Foley[at]ul.ie
Colin Quigley (Programme Chair) Colin.Quigley[at]ul.ie
Hanafi Hussin hhhanafihussin1[at]gmail.com
Mehmet =D6cal =D6zbilgin oc al.ozbilgin[at]ege.edu.tr
Daniela Stavelov=E1 stavelova[at]eu.cas.cz
Judy Van Zile zile[at]hawaii.edu

MEMBERSHIP
Please note that the Programme Committee will only consider proposals =
whose
authors are current members of the ICTM in good standing for 2012. For
membership in the Study Group, please contact both the Chair: L=E1szl=F3
Felf=F6ldi, Folk Dance Department, Institute for
Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary; =
email:
laszlof[at]zti.hu; and Secretary: Anne von Bibra Wharton, Dance Department. =
St.
Olaf College, 1520 St. Olaf Avenue, Northfield, MN. 55057, U.S.A.; =
email:
annevbibrawharton[at]gmail.com

Members may join and submit a proposal at the same time. Membership
applications are available at the ICTM website
http://www.ictmusic.org

=A0
Dr Catherine Foley
Project Leader, National Dance Archive of Ireland
Course Director MA=A0Ethnochoreology
Course Director MA=A0Irish Traditional Dance Performance
Founding Chair Emerita, Dance Research Forum Ireland
The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance
University of Limerick
Limerick
Ireland
Tel:=A0+353 61 202922
Fax:=A0+353 61 202589
Email: catherine.e.foley[at]ul.ie

www.irishworldacademy.ie

www.danceresearchforumireland.org

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Every Saturday, in the Weekend Review of the Irish Times, Fintan O=92Tool=
e=20
takes a look at A History of Ireland in 100 objects.
Each object opens a window on to an important moment in Irish history.=20
It's often fascinating and always interesting reading.

The National Museum of Ireland has aggregated links to the articles=20
here: http://www.museum.ie/en/info/100-objects.aspx

I suspect that as O'Toole moves into the 18th and 19th items of=20
relevance to the list will become more common, but it's nonetheless=20
interesting.

Best

Liam