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At the Funeral and Celebration of the life of
Frank Neal, 1932-2011

Monday September 12 2011 at 12.30
St. Clements, Chorlton cum Hardy

John Hebden, a family friend, delivered an Eulogy...

EXTRACT
'When Evelyn asked me if I would say a few words today I realised that I had
been given one of the hardest tasks I could have and one of the easiest
tasks. I thought it an easy task, because looking at Frank's life, so full
and rich, there would be no shortage of things to say. That's when I
realised I had such a hard task. How to choose from the thousand memories
I had shared with him.

The basic facts are straight-forward of course. Frank was born in 1932 in a
small terraced house in Prescot, the only son of Lizzie and Frank senior, a
miner working at nearby Cronton colliery. He left school at 14 and took a
job as a stable boy at Chastleton House in Gloucestershire where he hoped to
become a jockey. But his size was against him and he soon returned home to
Prescot where he took a job as a boy messenger at BICC. There he met
Evelyn, who at that time was his boss. This was followed by two years
national service during which he served in Trieste. Upon returning home he
realised the importance of education if he were to advance beyond the
confines of Prescot and with Evelyn's help and support he began the climb
through the academic hierarchy, starting with night school classes in St
Helens and culminating as we know with Chairs at the Universities of Salford
and Liverpool. This journey took him via a secondary school in Melton
Mowbray, Southport Technical College, Chelmsford Technical College,
Sheffield Polytechnic and Salford University. In the midst of this, Frank
and Evelyn found time to get married. It was a marriage that lasted for
more than 55 years but which began on a cold and frosty day in February
1955, in a church with a broken boiler and when frost and ice caused their
planned honeymoon to be postponed...

...Trips with him to his beloved Liverpool were similarly enriched by his
in-depth knowledge of the history of the city. Sometimes his pursuit of
local history with an Irish flavour took us to strange places. He rang me
one morning to suggest we visit Beverley Minster. It was only as we left
Beverley that the real purpose of the mission became clear. Drive on to the
coast, he said, whereupon we came across a network of drainage ditches. He
then pointed us to a particular area and announced that here in 1856 four
Irish labourers had been murdered...'
EXTRACT ENDS

John Hebden has kindly allowed me to place his full text on our
supplementary web site at
http://www.irishdiaspora.org/

For the time being I have put it under
Information & Posts

I am sure that Frank Neal's friends and colleagues throughout the worldwide
Irish Diaspora Studies community will want to see it.

I have attached to the Euulogy my own photograph of Evelyn and Frank Neal -
in 2009 they came out to my boat, Narrowboat JUNE, as we took the boat down
through the locks, the infamous Rochdale Nine, in the middle of Manchester.
Half way down we stopped for lunch at a good Italian restaurant.

Patrick O'Sullivan

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The latest Population and Migration Estimates from the Central =
Statistics
Office, Republic of Ireland, have received very wide coverage, mostly a
matter of repeating the statistics with illustrative anecdotes.

I have pasted in the link to the CSO document, below...

P.O'S.


An Phr=EDomh-Oifig Staidrimh
Central Statistics Office

15 September 2011
Population and Migration Estimates
April 2011

Sharp rise in emigration among Irish nationals
Emigration among Irish nationals continued to increase sharply from =
27,700
to 40,200 over the 12 months to April 2011 while emigration among =
non-Irish
persons fell for the second year in a row. Irish nationals were by far =
the
largest constituent group among emigrants (almost 53 per cent) followed =
by
EU12 nationals (i.e. ten accession states, Bulgaria and Romania) who
accounted for just under 20 per cent of the emigrant population (See =
Table
3).

http://www.cso.ie/releasespublications/documents/population/2011/popmig_2=
011
.pdf

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Down but Not Out? An Interdisciplinary Symposium, November 2011,
SMUC Twickenham
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Centre for Irish Studies, St Mary=92s University College,
Twickenham, London, UK

CALL FOR PAPERS=20

=91Ireland Astray=92: Dislocated and Globalized, Down but Not Out? An
Interdisciplinary Symposium

11-12 November 2011=20

Confirmed speakers: Roy Foster, Munira Mutran, Liam Harte and Robert =
Savage
Readings by Eilean Ni Chuilleanain and Kathleen McCracken, John T. Davis =
and
a performance of Mary Kenny=92s play, Allegiance.

Two =D3 Faol=E1in Postgraduate Essay prizes (=A3125)

The symposium seeks to explore how we view the island of Ireland and its
cultures, and to examine the state of Irish Studies as an =
interdisciplinary
research field. Abstracts of no more than 300 words, adopting =
contemporary
and historical approaches to the topics below are welcome to reach us by =
30
September:

=95 Northern Ireland: political violence and post-Assembly politics=20
=95 Ireland=92s Economic collapse, austerity and renewal
=95 Social Protest Movements
=95 Cultural production in Ireland post-2008
=95 Ireland and cultural theory
=95 Irish and other non-anglophone languages in Ireland
=95 Multiculturalism in Ireland
=95 The Catholic church and alternative spiritual lives
=95 Diplomatic relations between Ireland and the UK: past and future
=95 Literatures of the Irish in Britain
=95 New wave migrants to old destinations
=95 Ireland and the EU
=95 Irish Studies as interdisciplinary and international practice=20

Contact: Conference Administrator:
Wendy Bushnell=20
bushnew[at]smuc.ac.uk

The conference committee will contact you by email by Friday 7th October =
to
confirm accepted papers for the programme.=20

Venue:=20

St Mary=92s University College was founded in 1850 as a Catholic teacher
training foundation and has strong Irish connections, past and =
continuing.
Sean O=92Faolain taught here in the late-1920s. The campus features =
beautiful
grounds close by the River Thames and the symposium will be held in the
Waldegrave Drawing Room, connected to Walpole House, Horace Walpole=92s =
gothic
=91castle=92.=20


Conference Fees

Full 2-day rate: =A3125 (includes all teas/coffees, 2 lunches, Friday
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Brian Mac Cuarta, ed. Reshaping Ireland, 1550-1700: Colonization and
Its Consequences. Dublin Four Courts Press, 2011. Illustrations,
maps. 300 pp. $74.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-84682-272-8.

Reviewed by Christopher Maginn (Fordham University)
Published on H-Albion (September, 2011)
Commissioned by Nicholas M. Wolf

In the more than forty years since Nicholas Canny, the honorand whose
festschrift is here for review, began writing on the history of early
modern Ireland, the subject has undergone dramatic transformation.
Where once at the start of his academic career Canny could count on
his fingers the number of fellow specialists in his chosen field,
there are today countless scholars conducting research on early
modern Ireland. The nature of historical writing and research has
also been transformed, from a discipline that was only then emerging
from the twin shadows of nationalist and unionist views of Irish
history, but that continued to offer a narrow focus on the political
and ecclesiastical history of Ireland, into a broader, more
variegated brand of history, free from earlier historiographical
markers. This new scholarship sets the experience of early modern
Ireland within British, European, and Atlantic contexts and is
unafraid to employ other disciplines like social history,
linguistics, and geography to aid in the endeavor. Canny has been at
the center of this transformation. At one level, his many
publications--listed at the end of the festschrift by Marie
Boran--redefined the parameters of the historical study of Ireland,
for Canny's work frequently looked at Ireland in a comparative
context, most notably pointing up the similarities between English,
later British, political expansion and settlement in Ireland and
North America. At another level, the wide-ranging nature of Canny's
arguments and ideas led to his collaboration with historians from
outside of Ireland while occasionally sparking debate with Irish
historians, several of which played out in the pages of international
academic journals: collaboration and debate had the combined effect
of raising the international profile of the study of early modern
Irish history. Not surprisingly, over the decades students were drawn
to study under Canny's supervision and in some cases these students
matured into professional historians in their own right.

Canny's peers and former students are brought together in _Reshaping
Ireland, 1550-1700_ to pay written tribute to the man who, as the
collection's editor, Brian Mac Cuarta, puts it in a brief
introduction, has been instrumental in making the study of early
modern Ireland "part of the wider historiographical mainstream" (p.
16). Of the many strands running through the honorand's written work,
Mac Cuarta identifies colonization as the most prominent, and employs
it here as a means of drawing together the fifteen essays that
comprise the volume.

The preponderance of the essays, like Canny's own work, begin with
the Elizabethan conquest of Ireland in the later sixteenth century,
pivot on the transformative decades prior to 1640, and culminate in
the upheaval and wars that consumed Ireland in the 1640s. The first
two essays are devoted exclusively to the Tudor period. Ciaran Brady
offers a welcome summary of the recent historiography of the period
before providing an erudite discussion of Tudor strategies to effect
the reform of Ireland. John McGurk takes a different tack on a
similar theme in his case study of the proposals for Ireland's reform
put forth in the last years of Elizabeth's reign by the remarkably
indiscreet English soldier Thomas Lee.

It is the larger grouping of essays devoted primarily to the early
seventeenth century, however, when plantation and the prospect of
plantation were rapidly transforming Ireland, that forms the core of
this collection. Annaleigh Margey's analysis of English maps of
Ulster and Virginia--eight of which are reproduced here as full color
plates--and Rolf Loeber and Terence Reeves-Smyth's examination,
supported by a map and several illustrations, of Lord Audley's
building schemes in Ulster are concerned with the visible and
physical representations of English settlement in Ireland. Mac Cuarta
and Jane Ohlmeyer consider, respectively, some of the consequences of
this settlement in essays on the extraordinary Matthew De Renzy, the
German-born settler who attempted to carve out a life for himself in
Ireland as a member of the New English community, and on the changing
faces, and confessions, of the peerage of Ireland. That Thomas
Wentworth, the much-reviled lord deputy in the 1630s, exploited the
divisions in Ireland arising from British settlement to use the
kingdom as a testing ground for some of the authoritarian forms of
government adopted by Charles I in England is well known. But Brendan
Kane explains that Wentworth was also concerned with cultural matters
of honor, and that he compelled New English elites in Ireland to
conform to social norms as they existed at Charles I's court. Essays
by Bernadette Cunningham, on attitudes toward the growing prevalence
of the English language and bilingualism in Ireland, and by David
Finnegan, on Old English views of Gaelic history, are less period
specific, and both draw on examples from the Tudor and Stuart periods
to highlight how a new cultural world was emerging in Ireland along
with, and in opposition to, the new political order based on colonial
settlement.

Three essays are devoted to the turbulent 1640s. Jason McHugh and
Aidan Clarke look at the early years of the decade through the
often-distorting lens of the corpus of material known as the 1641
depositions. McHugh's essay, a local study of events in county
Wexford, is an homage to Canny's similar study of Cork in 1641 and
shows how pent-up Catholic grievances exploded in waves of violence
which were ultimately appropriated by the clergy and directed into a
holy war against Protestantism. Clarke uses his essay to reconstruct
the functioning of the commission that was established in December
1641 to collect the depositions on which the punishment of Irish
rebels was to be predicated once order was restored. Kevin Forkan's
essay looks at the 1640s from the perspective of the Ulster Scots,
whom he refers to as "a separate and independent community within
Ireland," as they were subjected to the push and pull forces exerted
by the Scottish covenanters, English parliamentarians and royalists,
and confederate Irish Catholics (p. 280). Three additional
essays--Alan Ford's analysis of how Irish history, notably the 1641
insurrection, was used to bolster the anti-Catholic hysteria that
gripped England in the1680s; P=E1draig Lenihan on the impact on the
Catholic elite of the bloody battle of Aughrim; and Toby Barnard's
study of Sir Richard Bellings, an example of an Irish Catholic who
thrived in voluntary exile in England while maintaining links in
Ireland--are intended to round out the volume's emphasis on the
Stuart period. But while each are fine studies in their own right,
they stand chronologically apart from earlier contributions and sit
less comfortably with the colonial paradigm that binds the rest of
the volume together.

There is no formal conclusion to take stock of the contents of this
volume. Instead, the final say is left to John Elliott in a short
piece entitled "Atlantic Horizons." Elliott praises Canny for the
care shown by him throughout his career to place Ireland "into its
British and European framework." For Elliott, however, Canny remains
a "committed Atlanticist" whose Ireland is "westward-facing" (p.
350). The essays in this festschrift, with the exception of Margey's
piece, display little of Canny's overtly Atlantic interests so
admired by Elliott. But these essays make important contributions to
the study of early modern Ireland--the subject on which Canny built
his career--and for this the editor should be praised and honorand
can be proud.

Citation: Christopher Maginn. Review of Mac Cuarta, Brian, ed.,
_Reshaping Ireland, 1550-1700: Colonization and Its Consequences_.
H-Albion, H-Net Reviews. September, 2011.
URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=3D33831

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

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The Conversion of the Vikings in Ireland from a Comparative
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This thesis will interest many Ir-D members and is freely available on the
University of Toronto web site.

I have contacted the author, Gwendolyn Sheldon gwendolyn.sheldon[at]utoronto.ca

She does have plans to produce a book in due course - but in the meantime is
happy to let this information go forward to the Irish Diaspora list.

P.O'S.


The Conversion of the Vikings in Ireland from a Comparative Perspective
by
Gwendolyn Sheldon

has turned up in our alerts.

The thesis is visible at

https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/29866/1/Sheldon_Gwendolyn_
L_201106_PhD_thesis.pdf

The Conversion of the Vikings in Ireland from a Comparative Perspective
by Gwendolyn Sheldon
A thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy
Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies
University of Toronto
C Copyright by Gwendolyn Sheldon 2011

The history of the Viking invasions in England and what is now France in the
ninth and tenth centuries is fairly well documented by medieval chroniclers.
The process by which these people adopted Christianity, however, is not. The
written and archaeological evidence that we can cobble together indicates
that the Scandinavians who settled in England and Normandy converted very
quickly. Their conversion was clearly closely associated with settlement on
the land. Though Scandinavians in both countries expressed no interest in
Christianity as long as they engaged in a Viking lifestyle, characterized by
rootless plundering, they almost always accepted Christianity within one or
two generations of becoming peasants, even when they lived in heavily
Scandinavian, Norse-speaking communities.

While the early history of the Vikings in Ireland was similar to that of the
Vikings elsewhere, it soon took a different course. While English and French
leaders were able to set aside land on which they encouraged the
Scandinavians to settle, none of the many petty Irish kings had the wealth
or power to do this. The Vikings in Ireland were therefore forced to
maintain a lifestyle based on plunder and trade. Over time, they became
concentrated into a few port towns from which they travelled inland to
conduct raids and then exported what they had stolen from other parts of the
Scandinavian diaspora. Having congregated at a few small sites, most
prominently Dublin, they remained distinct from the rest of Ireland for
centuries. The evidence suggests that they took about four generations to
convert. Their conversion differed from that of Scandinavians elsewhere not
only in that it was so delayed, but also in that, unlike in England and
Normandy, it was not associated with the re-establishment of an
ecclesiastical hierarchy. Rather, when the Scandinavians in Ireland did
convert, they did so because they were evangelized by monastic communities,
in particular the familia of Colum Cille, who had not fled from foundations
close to the Viking ports. These communities were probably driven by
political concerns to take an interest in the rising Scandinavian towns.

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Rebels without Applause: History, Resistance, and Recognition in the =
Ulster Defence Association
Richard J. Reed*

+ Author Affiliations

Queen=E2=80=99s University Belfast
=E2=86=B5*rreed01[at]qub.ac.uk.

Abstract

During and since the recent conflict in Northern Ireland, history has =
been an important resource in the creation and sustenance of political =
and cultural identities. The loyalist Ulster Defence Association (UDA), =
the largest paramilitary group, has deployed its own historical =
discourse in support of sporadic political and cultural endeavours, and =
in its ongoing struggle for influence, esteem and recognition. This =
article provides an account of this narrative, and proceeds to consider =
the ways in which the UDA=E2=80=99s narrative has ultimately provided =
support for existing binary structures, militating against its efforts =
to secure greater recognition and to establish itself as an independent =
political and cultural voice,

Twentieth Century Brit Hist (2011)
doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwr012
First published online: September 10, 2011

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and Education: An Introduction to Various Heritage Centers,
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ARCHAEOLOGIES
DOI: 10.1007/s11759-011-9175-7

Forum
Research, Preservation, and Education: An Introduction to Various Heritage
Centers, Organizations, and Projects

Alicia Ebbitt McGill1 (1) Department of Anthropology, Indiana
University, 800 North Smith Road, Apartment #2D, Bloomington, IN 47408, USA

Alicia Ebbitt McGill
Email: aebbitt[at]indiana.edu

Published online: 11 September 2011

Abstract
This forum showcases the work of a variety of different heritage-based
centers, organizations, and projects dedicated to research, education, and
preservation of tangible and intangible forms of cultural heritage. The
descriptions of these centers demonstrate the diversity of heritage work
being done today. The centers and projects described in the forum vary in
their contexts, missions, and outcomes. Highlighted in the forum are
preservation organizations, university-based heritage centers, and a global
collaborative cultural heritage project. Each organization in the forum
provides information about their missions and goals, their approaches or
methods to heritage work, and a brief description of some of their
initiatives.

Key Words Heritage centers - Preservation - University education - Heritage
studies

...A recent Invited Roundtable Session at the American Anthropological
Association (AAA) meeting in November 2010 (titled: "Saving the Lore"
Version 2.0?: Sustainability, Heritage Studies, Cultural Preservation and
Development) brought together scholars involved in heritage centers and
heritage-based projects throughout the world. The AAA session was an
opportunity to discuss some of the different meanings of "heritage" and the
varied goals and agendas involved in heritage work. Participants in the
session also addressed various approaches to and best practices for
heritage-based work, as well as challenges and ethical issues faced in
heritage studies. The fruitful and engaging conversations in the AAA session
were part of the inspiration for this forum.

This forum demonstrates the diversity of heritage work being done today. The
centers and projects described below vary in their contexts, missions, and
outcomes. For this reason, I have divided them into three different foci:
preservation organizations, university-based heritage centers, and a global
collaborative cultural heritage project. Although many of the centers and
projects in this forum have a commitment to heritage preservation, the first
set of organizations described (the Global Heritage Fund, Sustainable
Preservation Initiative, and the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of
Latin America) are explicitly dedicated to preserving, maintaining, and
promoting various tangible and intangible forms of cultural heritage
including archaeological sites, cultural materials, and Indigenous
languages. The second set of organizations (The Center for Heritage and
Society, The Heritage Research and Resource Management Lab, The Center for
Archaeology in the Public Interest, The Center for Heritage Resource
Studies, and The International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies) are
centers, organizations, and programs located in university contexts. These
centers recognize the need for new kinds of training for students that will
raise awareness about heritage issues and prepare them for work in a variety
of contexts with diverse stakeholders. The university-based centers are
dedicated to training undergraduate and graduate students in heritage
studies, conducting research on various aspects of heritage, as well as
engaging in heritage-based outreach and education within local and
international communities. The last project highlighted in this forum is a
collaborative cultural heritage project with a virtual "center" of resources
related to cultural heritage.

Each organization in the forum has provided information about their missions
and goals, their approaches or methods, and a brief description of some of
their initiatives. Many of the organizations have volunteer, educational,
research and/or grant opportunities for interested individuals. Websites and
contact information for further information about each organization are
provided...

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New Book Announcement from=A0
Ohio University Press

TEXTILE HISTORY =95 IRISH HISTORY


Irish People, Irish Linen
By Kathleen Curtis Wilson

Irish People, Irish Linen is a beautifully illustrated cultural history =
of a
textile with deep roots in Ireland and the Irish diaspora. This project =
was
ten years in the making=97Kathleen Curtis Wilson spent six of those =
years in
Ireland working closely with scholars, museum curators, individual
collectors, and designers to identify the many threads of linen=92s =
influence.
The result is a handsome coffee table book that accessibly encompasses a
range of subjects as they relate to the history of Irish linen: =
agriculture,
production, marketing, labor, design, emigration, and even literary and
linguistic contributions.

=93Irish People, Irish Linen is a magnificent history of the Irish =
people and
their association with linen, a tie that dates back to the eighth =
century.
As 10 million Irish moved from their homeland during the past four
centuries, they carried their love for Irish linen with them. Kathleen
Curtis Wilson eloquently describes this saga in her beautifully =
illustrated
book on linen, the queen of fabrics.=94
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 =97William R. Ferris, Chairman of the National Endowment =
for the
Humanities, 1997-2001
=A0

Please visit our website
http://www.ohioswallow.com/

http://www.ohioswallow.com/book/Irish+People%2C+Irish+Linen

for more information about this title, including a media kit with images
from the book, a link to the author's website, and a download of the
introduction
=A0
Our mailing address is:
Ohio University Press
19 Circle Drive
The Ridges
Athens, OH 45701

Add us to your address book

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Amongst the oddities thrown up by our tracking the research literature and
comment on the Irish and Ireland is the fact that the word 'Irish' is often
used as shorthand for groups that have a only a special, tangential
relationship with our field of study. In sport, for example, 'The Irish'
can be the Notre Dame (American) football team or the London Irish (Soccer)
football team.

At the same time there is a constant churning of material, articles and
books, about sport - about the British (Soccer) football teams, for example.
A sub-section of that material we have commented on a number of times - the
place of the Celtic Football club in Scottish sport and wider culture.
There is a further sub-sub-section of comment on the Celtic club - which
focuses on Celtic 'paranoia'. The use of quotes or no quotes around the
word 'paranoia' can signal positions taken in that discourse. Except here,
of course, in my email.

Against all that background the following book has turned up in our alerts
and seems worth mentioning to the Ir-D list... Sections of this book are
visible on Amazon and Google Books. There is a chapter on being a Celtic
supporter in Manhattan.

All in all, it seems a considered piece of work.

P.O'S.


We Are Celtic Supporters By Richard Purden

Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Hachette Scotland (15 Sep 2011)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0755360958
ISBN-13: 978-0755360956


In We Are Celtic Supporters Richard Purden examines what created the
culture, ideas and beliefs around Celtic football club. In new and exclusive
interviews with supporters, he explores the Celtic way of life and the rich
traditions that give context to much of the support while deconstructing
some myths along the way.

As a travelling supporter he visits a variety of fans in locations such as
New York, Spain, Germany, Italy and various parts of the UK. He talks to
well-known Celtic supporters such as James MacMillan about the often
misrepresented Catholic roots, to Pat Nevin about why he fell out of love
with the club and to a number of well-known rock 'n' rollers such as Noel
Gallagher, Bobby Gillespie and Johnny Marr.

We Are Celtic Supporters gives the inside story of how major events in
Celtic's history have shaped the identity of the fans, and what it really
means to follow this unique football club.

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New search service for Irish roots

Three centuries of historic Irish records have just been published online
detailing 40 million records of births, marriages and deaths in Ireland
between 1742 and 1958.

The website, Ancestry. co. uk has incorporated 400,000 Irish parish records
which will allow millions of people with Irish heritage around the world to
dig deeper into their Irish roots.

The records feature famous people from Ireland, including CS Lewis, WB Yeats
and Samuel Beckett.

However, the Ulster Historical Foundation has argued that a lot of those
records are available for free.

Russell James from Ancestry.co.uk said: "We have made it far quicker to
trace your family history. Forty million new records will help you trace
right back to the 1700s. The records were already available, but it was
difficult to get hold of them."

But Fintan Mullan from the Ulster Historical Foundation, said: "A lot of
this really is not news.

"The Catholic Parish records have been on line for years now. There are 18
million records to search at rootsireland.ie which is the biggest
all-Ireland resource.

"I don't think this is really much that is new. It is a competitor service
to what we would believe is a much superior service. As a non-profit
organisation working in this field for 25 years, we would say we are the
real experts and there is no replacement for local knowledge and expertise."

Mr James acknowledged that rootsireland did "excellent work".

He said the Ancestry.co.uk service was not free although it was possible to
search for free. What was different was the scope of the search, he said.

"We have seven billion records from all over the world. A lot of Irish
people emigrated during the famine. You can follow them to America,
Australia, different places, all within one service," he pointed out.

SOURCE
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-15018413


SEE ALSO

Who do you think you are? With website's 40m new Irish records, now you can
find out

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/who-d
o-you-think-you-are-with-websitersquos-40m-new-irish-records-now-you-can-fin
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THE NATIONAL Library of Ireland is investigating whether a tranche of more
than 400,000 records released by a UK-based genealogy company yesterday
infringes on its legal rights to the microfilms behind the records.

Yesterday ancestry.co.uk, the world's largest genealogy site, published more
than 40 million Irish birth, marriage and death records.

Among the files are transcriptions of 433,560 historical Irish Catholic
parish records, dating from between 1742 and 1884, which were part of a
collection assembled by a private company on behalf of the National Library
of Ireland.

National Library inquiry into legality of records release by UK ancestry
firm

THE NATIONAL Library of Ireland is investigating whether a tranche of more
than 400,000 records released by a UK-based genealogy company yesterday
infringes on its legal rights to the microfilms behind the records.

Yesterday ancestry.co.uk, the world's largest genealogy site, published more
than 40 million Irish birth, marriage and death records.

Among the files are transcriptions of 433,560 historical Irish Catholic
parish records, dating from between 1742 and 1884, which were part of a
collection assembled by a private company on behalf of the National Library
of Ireland.

Director of the library Fiona Ross said yesterday the records were published
"without our permission or knowledge" and that the library was investigating
if it held legal protections relating to the microfilms.

"We are currently investigating our precise legal position in relation to
this issue," she said.

However, a spokesman for ancestry.co.uk said there was no dispute over the
files, which it acquired as part of a wider tranche of microfilm records
last year.

The records that appear on the site are a transcription of church records
which are now available in a machine-readable database which users of
ancestry.co.uk can access by paying a subscription fee. The company provides
a free 14-day trial of its services.

In addition to the 400,000 parish records, the site has posted more than 40
million birth, marriage and death records dating from 1845 to 1958, and
Irish births and baptisms recorded between 1620 and 1911.

"These new collections will not only be of huge relevance to anyone living
in Ireland, but also the millions of people worldwide with Gaelic heritage
who from today will be able to delve as far back as the 1740s," the
website's global content director Dan Jones said.

Ms Ross said the library was keen to digitalise its collection of parish
records which is currently available in microfilm format. However, she said
the library did not have the resources to do so and was awaiting further
Government direction on the matter.

Earlier this year Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Jimmy
Deenihan said his approach to genealogical services was to assist the
National Archives and the National Library to make publicly available
records of genealogical interest in their collections, "online and free of
charge, to gain the highest usage domestically and around the world".

A spokesman for the department said yesterday that this was a matter for the
National Library.

Brian Donovan of Irish genealogy company findmypast.ie and the Trinity-based
history and heritage company Eneclann, said it was "deeply regrettable" that
ancestry.co.uk had published the records "without the agreement of the Irish
cultural institutions".

"An opportunity has been missed here for this work to be carried out in
Ireland to facilitate the development of culture, heritage and roots
tourism," he said.

SOURCE
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0922/1224304521506.html

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A classic example of the paragraph you are about to write contaminating the
paragraph you are actually writing...

In my earlier message about varieties of football. The London Irish are, of
course, a (rugby) football team...

I woke in the middle of the night in a cold sweat...

P.O'S.

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Subject: CFP- American Conference for Irish Studies, New Orleans 2012
=A0
Dear Dr. O'Sullivan,
=A0=20
I wanted to mention to the members on this list that we (Tulane =
University)
will be hosting the 2012 international=A0meeting of the =A0American =
Conference
for Irish Studies in New Orleans, Louisiana.=A0=A0Below is the call for =
papers
as well as a link to our conference website which has much more
information.=A0=A0=A0 For plenary speakers we have Christine=A0Kinealy =
and=A0Cormac
O=A0Grada as well as Dan Barry and Stephen Watt. =A0The conference =
itself will
be held at the Historic Hotel=A0Monteleone in the French Quarter March =
14th to
the 17th.=A0 In addition, we have extended the due date for the=A0CFP to =
October
15.
=A0
=A0Please feel free to contact me at the conference=A0gmail account=A0if =
you have
any further questions=A0 We appreciate you circulating this announcement =
among
your members.
=A0
Thank you,=A0
Laura D. Kelley, Ph.D.
=A0
http://acisnola2012.org/index.html

=A0
CFP
=A0
=A0
ACIS
2012 International Meeting
New Orleans, Louisiana
March 14~17
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 The theme for this conference is=A0=A0 =
Erin at Home, Erin Abroad:
Capturing the Irish Experience. The Irish=A0diaspora to all corners of =
the
globe over many centuries continues to engage scholars in diverse fields
from history to literature to art and anthropology.=A0 This conference
proposes to examine the varied experiences of the Irish and how they
manifested themselves. More attention has been paid in recent years to =
the
stories the Irish tell to themselves and to =93others=94 and how =
outsiders have
viewed the Irish.=A0 We would like scholars to consider how these =
expressions
vary over time and place.=A0=20
We encourage graduate students and emerging scholars to consider =
submitting
paper proposals to this conference.=A0 All organizations benefit from =
new
approaches of up and coming scholars. This conference will provide those
just entering the field with the possibility to share their ideas with =
more
seasoned academics.
=A0
Along with papers specific to the conference theme, we are interested in
using this conference to highlight the most recent work in the field.=A0
Therefore, we welcome submissions addressing any and all topics or =
themes
relevant to Irish studies.=A0 Both individual paper and panel =
submissions (3-4
participants) are welcomed, as are proposals for presentations in
non-traditional formats (posters, performances, exhibits). Proposals =
should
be 250-500 words in length, and include a brief (~50 word) bio of the
submitter or=97in the case of panels=97each participant.=20

Please send any questions to Laura D. Kelley, Ph.D. Tulane University at =
the
conference email address.=20
Submissions are due October 15, 2011 to=A0acis2012[at]gmail.com=20
=A0

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Forwarded on behalf of
Dawn Duncan

Dear Colleagues,
=A0
If you are interested in spending a fellowship semester (up to 4 months) =
at
NUI Galway, please see the application information available at
http://www.iaci-usa.org/pdf/NUI-G%20Application%
and perhaps contact Donna Potts (donnal.potts[at]gmail.com ), who is =
currently
enjoying such a fellowship.=A0 The fellowship provides $4000, but then =
the
Irish Studies Centre at NUIG provides up to 7000 euros, which can cover
housing, etc.=A0 Flight arrangements, if made through NUI Galway, may =
also be
covered.=A0 There have been few applicants in the past year, so consider
making an application this year.
=A0
best,
Dawn
=A0
Dr. Dawn Duncan
Professor of English/Global Studies
Concordia College-Moorhead, MN
Secretary, International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures
(IASIL)

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The latest issue of

Sport in Society

Volume 14, Issue 6, 2011

is a special issue...

Special Issue: Sport: race, ethnicity and identity: building global
understanding

and of special interest is...

In-groups, out-groups and contested identities in Scottish international
football

Joseph M. Bradley a*
pages 818-832

Abstract
Previous quantitative research arising from a study of Scotland's
international football team's supporters indicates that politics, ethnicity
and religion are relevant to an understanding of the symbolic boundaries and
markers of Scottishness that these supporters bring to the sports
environment. Utilizing a qualitative study, this article extends the
original work by further exploring these boundaries and markers that
contribute towards the production and constitution of these supporters'
predominant sense of Scottishness. The article focuses upon three aspects
that are relevant to the construction of Tartan Army Scottishness; religion,
Britishness and Irishness in Scotland.

a University of Stirling, Stirling, UK

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Rural History
Rural History (2011), 22: 115-146
Copyright C Cambridge University Press 2011

Research Article
Economic Change in South-West Ireland, 1960-2009
DAVID R. STEAD a1

a1 School of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine, University
College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland Email: david.stead[at]ucd.ie

Abstract

This article reflects on the striking economic changes recently experienced
in a part of peripheral south-west rural Ireland. In 1960, west Cork's
economy was largely dependent on low-productivity agriculture and was
undergoing long term decline. Unexpectedly the region began to be
revitalised from the turn of the 1990s, reflected in a rapid reversal of
chronic depopulation and growth of employment in the service sector.
Important to this process was the area's ability to capitalise on several
familiar national and global socioeconomic changes, including the 'Celtic
tiger' macroeconomic boom and the rise of counter-urbanisation and
rural-urban commuting. A pioneering regional brand network has been one
notable local initiative. However west Cork's historic east/west division in
affluence persists, and the adverse impacts of the national economic
downturn during 2007-9 highlight that the fortunes of the area are somewhat
fragile and still linked to those of the macroeconomy.

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School of Canadian Irish Studies, Concordia
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School of Canadian Irish Studies
Special Announcement=20
The School of Canadian Irish Studies presents=20
=A0
THE FOURTH ANNUAL ANN SADDLEMYER LECTURE=20
=A0
=91A Delightful Change of Fashion=92: Fair Trade, Cottage Craft and =
Textiles in
late 19th-century Ireland=20
A lecture by=20
Janice Helland=20

Wednesday, September 28, 2011=20
7:30 p.m.=20

Concordia University=20
Father McEntee Reading Room=20
1455 de Maisonneuve West=20
Hall Building, Room H-1001.01=20

Janice Helland specialises in the late 19th-century arts and crafts =
movement
in Britain and Ireland with a particular focus upon the production and
consumption of textiles. She also publishes on home arts and industries =
and
craft as related to fashion. Her most recent single-authored book, =
British
and Irish Home Arts and Industries 1880-1914: Marketing Craft, Making
Fashion (2007) explores this relationship as does her article, =
"'Caprices of
Fashion': Hand Made Lace in Ireland 1883-1907," published in Textile =
History
(2008). Professor Helland is currently the Head of the Department of Art
History at Queen=92s University.=20

This event is free and open to the public.=20

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Forwarded on behalf of
Christine Johnston [mailto:Christine.Johnston[at]librariesni.org.uk]=20

Dear Colleague

Please find below the link to the programme for the forthcoming =
Literature
of Irish Exile Autumn School which the Centre for Migration Studies is
hosting on Saturday 15 October.=A0=20

You can access this information on our website at the following =
address:=A0
http://www.qub.ac.uk/cms/Twelfth%20Literature%20of%20Irish%20Exile%20prog=
ram
me.pdf

I look forward to hearing from you if you are able to attend.

Best wishes=20

Christine

Christine Johnston
Senior Library Asst
Centre for Migration Studies
Ulster American Folk Park
=A0
Tel:=A0 028 8225 6315
Fax:=A0 028 8224 2241
Email:=A0 christine.johnston[at]librariesni.org.uk


The Twelfth Literature of Irish Exile
Autumn School
Centre for Migration Studies at the Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh
Saturday, 15 October 2011

10.30 Registration (CMS Library at Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh)
Tea / Coffee on arrival

11.00 Welcome (CMS Library)

11.05 Christopher Fitz-Simon, =91Writing Home, 1849-1864: the letters of =
Ben
Elliott=92

Chair: Sir Peter Froggatt

1.30 Walk in the Outdoor Museum:
Paddy Fitzgerald and Brian Lambkin with Philip McDermott: =91Migrants =
and
Language=92=20

3.20 Sophia Hillan, =91Daughters of the House: Jane Austen=92s Nieces in
Ireland, 1834-1895=92
=09
Chair: Brian Lambkin

4.15 Reception=20

4.45 Close

Fee: =A320.00 stg (=A315.00 concession for students, unwaged and senior
citizens)
Includes: registration, morning tea/coffee, lunch, afternoon
tea/coffee and drinks reception.

Contact
Tel: 028 8225 6315; Fax: 028 8224 2241=20
Email: Christine.Johnston[at]librariesni.org.uk
=A0

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Hybrid Irelands: At Culture=92s Edge (Abstracts due November 15th, 2011)

A Graduate-Student Conference Exploring the Relationship between =
Hybridity
and Irish Literature

Place:=A0 University of Notre Dame
Date:=A0=A0 March 29-31, 2012

Keynote Speakers:=A0
Terry Eagleton (University of Lancaster, University of Notre Dame)
David Lloyd (University of Southern California)
Clair Wills (Queen Mary, University of London)
Poetry Reading: Nuala N=ED Dhomhnaill
Medbh McGuckian (tentative) (Queen=92s University, Belfast)

In recent literary and cultural analyses, Ireland=92s unique relation to
various notions of hybridity has been given preliminary consideration.
Whether pertaining to genres and styles, discourses and disciplines, or
identities and influences, it has become apparent that a defining =
feature of
many Irish works is their resistance to traditional, narrow =
categorization.
In an attempt to expand upon these earlier approaches, the =
Keough-Naughton
Institute at the University of Notre Dame will be holding a three-day
graduate-student conference to address the relationship between =
hybridity
and Irish literature, with a special focus on texts from the nineteenth,
twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Submissions might interrogate =
past
engagements with the concept of hybridity=97a term itself which has no =
clear
definition=97as well as posit possible new understandings of =93the =
hybrid=94 that
are specific to Ireland. We invite criticism that focuses on =
conventionally
understood literary genres (poetry, fiction, drama, memoir) as well as =
work
from related fields, including but not limited to history, art, theory,
folklore, material culture, and film studies. Furthermore, because the
nature of hybridity suggests a coming-together of different elements, =
one of
our goals is to cultivate a critical approach that is itself hybrid; in
other words, we very much encourage interdisciplinary approaches to the
topic. Our hope is to facilitate a critical conversation that envisions =
a
hybrid Ireland=97or, more appropriately, hybrid Irelands=97and its =
literature.

Suggested topics:
Transnational Poetics
Generic Crossovers
Contemporary Engagements with Folklore
Transatlantic Fictions
Ireland in Translation
Evolving Images in Film and Art
Recontextualizing =93Literary Ireland=94
Dialects and Language Change
Dislocated Spaces
Print Culture and Textual Authorship

Abstracts should be no longer than 150 words. The deadline for =
submissions
is November 15, 2012. Please email your abstracts to hybridIE[at]nd.edu .

For questions or concerns, please contact John Dillon and Nathaniel =
Myers at
hybridIE[at]nd.edu , or look us up on Facebook (search: Hybrid Irelands).

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Ethical globalisation or privileged internationalisation?
Exploring global citizenship and internationalisation in Irish
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We are having a little run of journals offering Special Issues with at least
one item of interest to the Irish Diaspora list. Earlier in the week we had
Joe Bradley on Scottish football, in a Sport in Society Special Issue.

I like these - they make visible in a very crisp way the range of our
interests and the interdisciplinary nature of our project. A sequence of
articles in Special Issues now follows...

P.O'S.

Globalisation, Societies and Education

Volume 9, Issue 3-4, 2011
Special Issue: The political economy of global citizenship education

Ethical globalisation or privileged internationalisation? Exploring global
citizenship and internationalisation in Irish and Canadian universities

Su-ming Khooa*
pages 337-353

Abstract
This article explores policies and practices of global citizenship and
internationalisation within higher education in Canada and Ireland,
comparing two Canadian and two Irish universities. The cases suggest a
number of entangled and contradictory strands of internationalisation, with
implications for global citizenship. Underlying notions of globalisation,
citizenship and 'development' are interrogated and issues surrounding the
local/global distinction, privilege and marketisation are discussed.
International relations paradigms and the 'development connection' are
examined as broader determinants of understandings of global citizenship.