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Date: 10 October 2011 08:12
Subject: Women's Life Writing and Diaspora (10/31/2011) Special Issue
To: iaba-l[at]lists.hawaii.edu


Life Writing

A themed issue of the journal LIFE WRITING will be entitled 'Women's Life
Writing and Diaspora'. Contributors are asked to focus on the postcolonial
contexts of women's life writing, examining women's life writing in relation
to recent articulations of postcolonial/feminist and diasporic theory.
Articles should demonstrate some engagement with issues in the field of
auto/biographical study and a critical examination or extension of current
auto/biographical theory.

Deadline for submission: 31st October 2011

The journal will be published in 2012 as Volume 9, Issue 4.

Submissions to: j.ramone[at]newman.ac.uk

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/RLWR

** * *

IABA-L: A LIST FOR LIFE WRITING
International Auto/Biography Association
http://www.theiaba.org/

Craig Howes, list manager
craighow[at]hawaii, biograph[at]hawaii.edu
Center for Biographical Research, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CBRHawaii*

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The Mulvihill Collection of Rare & Special Books and Prints
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Forwarded on behalf of
The Florida Bibliophile Society

The Florida Bibliophile Society presents a guest lecture by one of our =
longstanding associates:=20

"The Mulvihill Collection of Rare & Special Books and Prints:=20
The Evolution & Education of a Collector"=20
With a display table of selected rarities.

Venue: University of Tampa, Macdonald-Kelce Library
16 October 2011. 1:30PM

Guest Speaker: Maureen E. Mulvihill=20
Princeton Research Forum, Princeton, NJ.=20

The strengths of this collection are books by early-modern English & =
Irish women writers, such as Aphra Behn, Katherine Philips, Lucy =
Hutchinson, 'Ephelia', Ann (Finch) Countess of Winchilsea, Delarivier[e] =
Manley, Ann Lady Fanshawe, Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale), Maria =
Edgeworth, Mary Tighe, Mary Shackleton Leadbeater, as well as later =
offerings by Anna Jameson, Sarah Hale, Vita Sackville-West, and Virginia =
Woolf (Hogarth Press imprint, with original jacket by Vanessa Bell). =
Also of interest, the collected writings of Anna Maria Van Schurman and =
a copy of the popular 19thC classic: Godey's Lady's Book. Shakespeareans =
and devotees of the American theatre will enjoy seeing several original =
playbills from Joseph Papp's 'Shakespeare in the Park' series, New York =
City.

For further details, see
http://www.floridabibliophilesociety.org/id2.html

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Christine Johnston [mailto:Christine.Johnston[at]librariesni.org.uk]=20

Subject: XIX Ulster American Heritage Symposium: Call for Papers


Dear colleagues and friends


XIX ULSTER-AMERICAN HERITAGE SYMPOSIUM,

'Ulster-American migration studies and public history'

Centre for Migration Studies at the Ulster-American Folk Park,

Omagh, Northern Ireland

27-30 June, 2012

Deadline for Call for Papers: 31 October



This is just a reminder that the next Ulster-American Heritage Symposium
will be in Omagh next year and that the deadline for the Call for Papers =
is
the end of this month, 31 October - for details please see:

http://www.qub.ac.uk/cms/UAHS%202012%20Call%20for%20Papers.pdf



With best wishes

Brian Lambkin

Brian Lambkin
Director of the Centre for Migration Studies

Centre for Migration Studies
at the Ulster American Folk Park
Castletown, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, BT78 5QU

T - 028 8225 6318
E - brian.lambkin[at]nmni.com

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Subject: Book Notice,
CONTEMPORARY IRISH FILM: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON NATIONAL CINEMA
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Werner Huber and Se=C3=A1n Crosson, eds.
CONTEMPORARY IRISH FILM: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON NATIONAL CINEMA

(=3D Austrian Studies in English, 102)

Wien/Vienna: Wilhelm Braum=C3=BCller, 2011.

ISBN 978-3-7003-1740-1, paperback, 152 pp., =E2=82=AC 22.90.


CONTENTS:

Werner HUBER (Univ. Vienna, Austria), Se=C3=A1n CROSSON (NUI Galway, =
Ireland): Contemporary Irish Film: An Introduction
-- Tony TRACY (NUI Galway, Ireland): Inventing the Past: Perspectives on =
How Harry Became a Tree -- Se=C3=A1n CROSSON (NUI Galway, Ireland): =
Irish Intolerance: Exploring Its Roots in Irish Cinema -- Agnes KAKASI =
(Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland): Migration and =
'Intercultural' Cinema in Ireland: A New Direction? --Z=C3=A9lie ASAVA =
(University College Dublin, Ireland): The Nephew, Irish Jam, and The =
Front Line: Black and Mixed Masculinities in Irish Cinema -- Eduardo =
BARROS GRELA (Univ. A Coru=C3=B1a, Galicia, Spain): Re-Defining Urban =
Identities in Contemporary Irish Film(s) -- Neasa HARDIMAN (Trinity =
College Dublin, Ireland): 'Once Won't Happen Twice': Peripherality and =
Equality as Strategies for Success in a Low-Budget Irish Film -- Thomas =
WALSH (Loughborough Univ./Arts Institute, Bournemouth, England):The =
Secret of Kells: Ireland's European Identity in Feature Animation -- =
Ruth BARTON (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland): Neil Jordan: Superstition =
and Religion -- D=C3=AD=C3=B3g O'CONNELL (Institute of Art, Design, =
Technology, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland): Immersed in Two Traditions: The =
Narratives of Adam & Paul, Garage, and Prosperity -- Se=C3=A1n CROSSON =
(NUI Galway, Ireland) and Mark SCHREIBER (Univ.Siegen, Germany): "If =
Irish cinema is going to be really great it has to stop worrying too =
much about being 'Irish cinema'": Q & A with Lenny Abrahamson and Mark =
O'Halloran.


Available from:
Wilhelm Braum=C3=BCller Universit=C3=A4ts-Verlagsbuchhandlung GmbH,
Servitengasse 5, A-1090 Wien/Vienna, AUSTRIA.
Internet: www.braumueller.at=20
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'What should we do in America?': Immigrant Economies in
Nineteenth-Century American Children's Fiction
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Subject: Article, 'What should we do in America?': Immigrant Economies in
Nineteenth-Century American Children's Fiction

'What should we do in America?': Immigrant Economies in Nineteenth-Century
American Children's Fiction

Roxanne Harde

Roxanne Harde is an Associate Professor of English at Augustana Campus,
University of Alberta, Canada. She teaches courses in American Literature
and Culture and covers the period by field, before and after the Civil War,
by genre, including children's literature, and by theme, including
environmental writing and feminist theory. Her current research focuses on
nineteenth-century American reform writing for children.

Citation Information. International Research in Children's Literature.
Volume 4, Page 59-72 DOI 10.3366/ircl.2011.0007, ISSN 1755-6198, Available
Online July 2011 .

This essay examines narratives about immigrants in a sampling of
nineteenth-century American children's texts and grows out of my work on
reform writing by major women authors. Many of the stories they published in
the leading children's periodicals seem to welcome the immigrant contributor
to American society even as they defined that immigrant's place in
economic/class structures. The goal of this paper is to trace certain
strains of the systematic discipline by which American culture tried to
manage the immigrant in terms of class. I therefore consider the role of
economics in immigrant stories written for children by a number of American
women writers, with analyses of the ways in which these stories situate the
dependent and independent immigrant in the marketplace.

Keywords. immigration, United States, nineteenth-century, economics,
assimilation

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Scott Calhoun=20
Exploring U2: Is This Rock =91N=92 Roll?
Essays on the Music, Work and Influence of U2

The Scarecrow Press
$59.95 Cloth | 978-0-8108-8157-0 | 272 pp | November 2011=20
www.scarecrowpress.com | 800-462-6420

http://u2conference.com/u2-studies/exploring-u2-the-book

Table of Contents

Foreword: U2: Contents and Discontents
Anthony DeCurtis

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Scott Calhoun


Section I: Eighteen Years of Dawning

1. Boy to Man: A Dublin-Shaped Band
Neil McCormick

2. My Voyage of Discovery: Returning October=92s Lost Lyrics
Danielle Rh=E9aume

3. Potent Crossroads: Where U2 and Progressive Awareness Meet
Rachel E. Seiler

4. The Authentic Self in Paul Ricoeur and U2
Jeffrey F. Keuss and Sara Koenig

Section II: Don=92t Expect, Suggest

5. Vocal Layering as Deconstruction and Reinvention in U2
Christopher Endrinal

6. =93Bullet The Blue Sky=94 As An Evolving Performance
Steve Taylor

7. U2: An Elevated Brand
Michele O=92Brien

8. Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: U2 and the Politics of Irony
Kevin J. H. Dettmar

Section III: Take This Soul

9. Playing the Tart: Contexts and Intertexts For =93Until the End of the
World=94
Daniel T. Kline

10. Where Leitourgia Has No Name: U2 Live
Beth Maynard

11. Bono v. Nick Cave Re: Jesus
Greg Clarke

12. Fallen Angels in the Hands of U2
Deane Galbraith

Section IV: When I Look At The World

13. Bono=92s Rhetoric Of The Auspicious: Translating and Transforming =
Africa
for the Consumerist West
Bruce L. Edwards

14. Boy, Baby & Bomb: U2=92s Use of Anti-Language
John Hurtgen

15. All That We Can=92t Leave Behind: U2=92s Conservative Voice
Stephen Catanzarite

16. Across the Universe: U2=92s Hope in Space and Time
Scott Calhoun

Bibliography for U2 Studies

Index

Song Index

About the Contributors

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Liverpool
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Panel Discussion
on

A Radical Legacy:
The Larkins of Liverpool

at
6.00 p.m. Wednesday 19 October

in
Lecture Theatre 6,
The Rendall Building

Panel members:
Dr Enda Leaney, Dublin City Public Libraries
Dr Lauren Arrington, The Institute of Irish Studies
Dr John Gray, Linen Hall Library, Belfast, author of City in Revolt: James
Larkin and the Belfast Dock Strike of 1907

This event forms part of the Liverpool Irish Festival and will also launch
the Institute of Irish Studies Decade of Commemorations' Series.

http://www.liv.ac.uk/businessgateway/events/event.php?eventid=27949&date=19-
OCT-11

http://www.liv.ac.uk/irish/events/

'A Radical Legacy: The Larkins of Liverpool'
Born in Toxteth in 1876, James Larkin - or Big Jim as he was known to the
workers - radicalised labour in Belfast and Dublin in major strikes of 1907,
1911, and in the 1913 Dublin Lockout, a six-month standoff between Dublin
workers and employers. Remembered as an unmatched orator and memorialised in
James Plunkett's Strumpet City, his greatest legacies are the foundation of
the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union and his anti-sectarian
message. His sister, Delia, was forgotten by history for decades, but she
has recently been recovered as a vital figure in labour: founder of the
Irish Women Workers' Union and advocate of the rights of women of all
classes.

Jim Larkin's Dublin: The Social Context of Revolution in a Slum City
Dr Enda Leaney
James Larkin is the only non-Irishman to be represented by a statue on
Dublin's main thoroughfare, O'Connell Street. Larkin is celebrated in the
city for his catalytic role in the 1913 Lockout and remains fondly
remembered by Dubliners today. Using images - some previously unseen - this
presentation examines the social context of Larkin's support in Dublin by
focusing on a series of photographs taken in 1913 to illustrate the depth of
degradation of Dublin's working classes.

Radical Women: Delia Larkin and the Irish Women Workers' Union
Dr Lauren Arrington
In 1911, Delia Larkin moved to Dublin to join her brother in the fight for
workers' rights. Women, by the nature of their employment, were
unrepresented by the ITGWU, so she founded the Irish Women Workers' Union in
an attempt to generate solidarity among factory girls, street hawkers, and
domestic servants. She believed culture was central to labour and organised
a workers' choir and an amateur dramatic society, which she toured to
Liverpool and London to raise money for locked-out workers. Her ties to her
native city were strong; she constantly looked to the citizens of Liverpool
for support of labour in Dublin - from providing homes to the children of
Dublin workers to organising a boxing match in Birkenhead to raise funds for
locked-out women.

Larkin and the Frontier Society of Belfast: Putting the Match to the Tinder
Dr John Gray
Larkin arrived in Belfast in January 1907 with a sound record as an
effective union organiser in an English and Scottish context, but no more
than that. John Gray asks why did Larkin make such a dramatic impact there?
He argues that Belfast was a frontier society, at one and the same time a
success story of late imperial industrial expansion but one dependent on
cheap native unskilled labour, creating a unique potential for social
conflict and new forms of struggle.

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QUB...

Queen's University=A0is=A0currently advertising=A05 positions=A0in the
newly-formed=A0School of Creative Arts, including two Professorial =
Chairs (x1
Drama; x1 Film) and=A0three lectureships=A0(x1 Drama; x2 Sonic Arts).
=A0
For detailed pdf brochures and further application details please visit =
the
QUB website:=A0

http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/QUBJobVacancies//

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The Ties That Bind? Spatial (Im)mobilities and the Transformation
of Rural-Urban Connections
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The Ties That Bind? Spatial (Im)mobilities and the Transformation of
Rural-Urban Connections
Henrike Rau

TRANSLOCAL RURALISM
GeoJournal Library, 2012, Volume 103, Part 1, 35-53, DOI:
10.1007/978-94-007-2315-3_3

Abstract
The concept of mobility has gained considerable prominence in social theory
and research in recent years, resulting in calls for a paradigm shift or
'mobility turn'. This chapter argues that notions of spatial mobility as
largely voluntary, individualised and contingent upon large-scale
infrastructure at the core of this new paradigm reveal an urban-centric
perspective. This contrasts with largely implicit conceptions of rural life
as predominantly immobile and rooted in place. This chapter draws on
documents, policy reports and publicly available statistics from various
sources to illustrate the increasingly mobile and translocal nature of rural
life in Ireland. It focuses on two examples of heightened spatial mobility -
car-dependent daily mobility and the emergence of 'mobile farmers' - to
challenge prevailing stereotypical views of rural immobility and to
demonstrate the significance of politics and policy for the formation of
spatial mobility patterns. It is argued that a theoretical and empirical
focus on spatial (im)mobilities can shed new light on the socio-political
causes and consequences of the recent rapid transformation of rural-urban
connections in Ireland.

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Not yet assigned a place in the paper version of the journal...

Journalism Studies

DE/CONSTRUCTING "SUSPECT" COMMUNITIES

Henri C. Nickels*, Lyn Thomas, Mary J. Hickman & Sara Silvestri

Available online: 07 Oct 2011

Abstract
Irish and Muslim communities in Britain are, or have often been, constructed
negatively in public discourse, where they have been associated with
terrorism and extremism. Despite similarities in the experiences of these
communities, little comparative research has been conducted. We address this
gap by implementing a critical discourse analysis of national and diaspora
press coverage of events involving Irish and Muslim communities that
occurred in Great Britain between 1974 and 2007. We identified a consensus
within the press that "law-abiding" Irish and Muslim people must stand up
against "extremists" within their ranks and defend what newsmakers perceive
are British values; in this way Irish and Muslim communities are constructed
as both inside and outside Britishness. We conclude that the construction of
these communities as "suspect" happens mostly in the ambiguity of news
discourse, which contributes to fostering a socio-political climate that has
permitted civil liberties to be violated by the state security apparatus.

Keywords
Irish, Muslims, press, suspect communities, terrorism

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Subject: DERREG Developing Europe's Rural Regions in the Era of
Globalization
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This week sees the formal ending of the European Commission funded =
DERREG
project...=20

DERREG
Developing Europe's Rural Regions in the Era of Globalization

http://www.derreg.eu/content/about-derreg-project

with the Final Conference of the DERREG Project, 12-13 October 2011,
Slovenia

http://www.derreg.eu/content/events/final-conference-derreg-project-12-13=
-oc
tober-2011-slovenia

'DERREG seeks to develop understanding of rural development in the era =
of
globalization by examining globalization processes, local effects and
experiences, and regional development responses in ten case study
regions...'

The ten regions were

Oevre Norrland, Sweden
West Region, Ireland
Alytus, Lithuania
Comarca de Ver=EDn, Spain
Gori=B9ka region, Slovenia
Pomurska region, Slovenia
Jihomoravsk=FD kraj, Czech Republic
Westerkwartier, the Netherlands
Regierungsbezirk Dresden, Germany
Saarland, Germany=20

The project, aimed at 'stakeholders and other social scientists', seems
mostly to have been developed by the geographers - and all the better =
for
that, you might say. It was led by Michael Woods at Aberystwyth, =
assisted
by Laura Jones - who seems very able indeed. The Irish team was led by =
John
McDonagh, NUI Galway.

It is worth looking at some of the documents produced by DERREG, to see
familiar Irish references and themes integrated into discussion about =
rural
areas and problems in other parts of Europe. For example...

On the main web page, under RESOURCE CENTRE, Case Study Reports, see

D2.3: Survey of Best Practices (International mobility and migration of
rural populations)
Wioletta Frys and Birte Nienaber (Eds.), with contributions of WP2
colleagues.

'This report identifies 'good practice' examples of regional development
initiative which are in promoting and facilitating regional engagement =
with
internationalised migration flows, and in responding to key social
challenges linked to international migration and mobility.'

There is to be a book...
McDonagh, J. Nienaber, B. and Woods, M. (eds) (forthcoming 2012)
Globalization and Europe's Rural Regions. Ashgate.

Our congratulations to everyone associated with this intriguing project.

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 =
Bradford
BD7 1DP Yorkshire England

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Subject: Queen Mary London, Annual Guest Lecture, Tariq Modood,
'Multiculturalism and Integration, November 1st 2011
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Forwarded on behalf of
Parvati Nair
p.nair[at]qmul.ac.uk

The Centre for the Study of Migration at Queen Mary, University of London is
delighted to announce its Annual Guest Lecture for 2011 on November 1st 2011
at 6.30pm: Professor Tariq Modood (Director, Centre for the Study of
Ethnicity and Citizenship) will speak on multiculturalism and integration in
a lecture entitled 'Multiculturalism and Integration: struggling with
confusions.' We look forward to seeing you at this event. Please see the
invitation for details of how to reserve your seat.

--
Parvati Nair, BA, MA, PhD,
Professor of Hispanic, Cultural and Migration Studies, School of Languages,
Linguistics and Film, and Director, Centre for the Study of Migration, Queen
Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS

Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 8317
e-mail: p.nair[at]qmul.ac.uk

Tuesday 1 November 2011 at 6.30pm
ArtsOne Lecture Theatre, ArtsOne Building, Queen Mary,
University of London, Mile End Road, London

One of strange features of the Multiculturalism is dead discourses is that
they now define multiculturalism. It is now commonplace for even neutral
commentators to define multiculturalism as a view which emphasises
difference at the expense of commonality, separatism rather then mixing,
group rather than national identities, relativism rather a defence of
democratic values. Yet no evidence is ever offered by reference to academic
texts, political speeches or actual policies that any of this has ever been
promoted by multiculturalists. This rhetorical strategy has been so
successful that even those who defend multiculturalism today prefer to use a
vocabulary of multiculture and interculturalism. I challenge this strategy
by arguing that multiculturalism is a mode of integration, which can be
contrasted with other modes such as assimilation, individualist-integration
and cosmopolitanism, and like the others it is based on the core democratic
values of liberty, equality and fraternity/solidarity.

Professor Tariq Modood, MBE is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public
Policy at the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies,
University of Bristol and founding Director of the University Research
Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship. A leading authority
on ethnic minorities in Britain, he the co-founding editor of the
international journal, Ethnicities and the author of numerous books on
multiculturalism, citizenship and religion.

A reception in the ArtsOne foyer area will follow the lecture.

Book Place at

http://tariq-modood.eventbrite.com/

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Subject: Moody & Martin, Course of Irish History,
updated to include 2002-2011
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"Sharon O'Donovan"

Subject:
Press release: Seminal text on Irish History updated to include 2002-2011

From:
"Sharon O'Donovan"

Press release for The Course of Irish History, recently published by
Mercier Press. If you would like to feature an extract please contact
Sharon, on 021 4614700.

The Course of Irish History

The Course of Irish History is the classic general history of Ireland,
covering the island's economic, social and political development from
prehistoric times to the present day. It provides a comprehensive
overview of the major events, personalities and movements in Ireland's
history that have helped shape the country.

In this edition, Dr Dermot Keogh and Patrick Kiely provide a new
chapter covering the momentous changes that occurred in Ireland
between 2002 and 2011, including, the rise and fall of the Celtic
Tiger, the fall of Ireland from grace in the EU, the property
collapse, the fall from grace of the Catholic Church following a
series of sex abuse scandals, the banking crisis and government
bailout, sporting triumphs and cultural and literary achievements.
This remarkable period in Ireland's turbulent history is examined in
the spirit of objectivity that shapes the rest of The Course of Irish
History.

First published in 1967, The Course of Irish History has been
regularly updated and revised in response to the continued demand for
a balanced view of Ireland that is both popular and authoritative. It
is widely regarded as the best single-volume overview of Irish
history. The book is illustrated throughout and includes a detailed
bibliography and chronology to aid further research.


Author Information

Dr T.W. Moody was Fellow Emeritus and formerly Professor of Modern
History at Trinity College Dublin. He died in 1984. Dr F.X. Martin OSA
was Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at University College
Dublin. He died in 2000. Dr Dermot Keogh is an Emeritus Professor of
History at University College, Cork. Patrick Kiely is the Online
Learning Development and Delivery Coordinator, Teaching & Learning,
University College Cork.

Sharon O'Donovan
Publicity
Mercier Press
Unit 3B, Oak House, Bessboro Rd., Blackrock,
Cork, Ireland.
Tel: (+353 21) 461 4700
Fax: (+353 21) 461 4802
http://www.mercierpress.ie
Find us on www.Facebook.com/mercier.press!

http://www.mercierpress.ie/Course_of_Irish_History/576/

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Subject: CFP Hybrid Irelands: At Culture's Edge, Notre Dame, March 29-31,
2012
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Nathaniel Myers
hybridIE[at]nd.edu

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

A Graduate-Student Conference Exploring the Relationship between =
Hybridity
and Irish Literature=20

Place: University of Notre Dame
Date: March 29-31, 2012
Keynote Speakers: 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)
=09
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
Culture and Immigration
Ireland in Translation
Evolving Images in Film and Art
Recontextualizing =93Literary Ireland=94
Dialects and Language Change
Dislocated Spaces
Print Culture and Textual Authorship
=20
Abstracts should be no longer than 150 words. The deadline for =
submissions
is November 15, 2011. Please email your abstracts to hybridIE[at]nd.edu.=20

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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Subject: CFP Etudes Irlandaises,
'Feminist and Women's Issues in Contemporary Irish Society'
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Dear Colleagues,

The peer-reviewed journal Etudes Irlandaises is inviting contributions =
for
its Autumn 2012 issue entitled 'Feminist and Women's Issues in =
Contemporary
Irish Society', which will be guest edited by Fiona McCann and Nathalie
Sebbane.

The decline of second wave feminism in Western societies, the legacy of =
the
Celtic Tiger and the emergence of a more liberal society, along with the
transformation of the cultural and media landscape, have given rise to a =
new
discourse that can tentatively be entitled postfeminist. Our =
understanding
of this term requires the utmost prudence, however. The postfeminist =
current
posits equality between men and women as a given and the feminist =
struggle
as no longer relevant. However, according to Tasker and Negra =
(Interrogating
Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture), postfeminism =
is
more a series of diffuse attitudes to be found within the media and =
related
to second wave feminism's attachment to the past than an ideology or a =
form
of activism. Nevertheless, it is not a backlash or a violent reaction
against feminism since postfeminism acknowledges the complex =
relationships
between culture, politics and feminism.

=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 The fact remains, however, that one of =
the characteristics of
postfeminism is its positing of a gender equality which is far from =
being
experienced by Irish women, whether in relation to salaries, political
representation or access to certain professions, among other issues.
Moreover, the secularisation of Irish society and the unshackling of
Catholic church discourse have enabled new discursive approaches to the =
body
and sex to emerge. The new media landscape presents the image of a
hypersexualised woman, while male discourse tends to converge more than =
ever
towards essentialism and biological determinism. Irish women may rightly
have felt liberated from the weight of religion, but don't they now have =
to
struggle against the weight of a consumerist discourse=A0 which =
threatens to
annuhilate a fight for rights that they have never really obtained?

=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 The Celtic Tiger and the economic boom =
which accompanied it
provoked an unprecendented wave of female immigration, notably from =
Eastern
Europe. An inevitable confrontation then emerged between Irish women in
search of fulfillment and consumerism and a foreign population which was
isolated and vulnerable and in search of a freedom that all too often =
boiled
down=A0 to psychological subservience and physical violence.

=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 North of the border, the Good Friday =
Agreement and the period of
relative peace which has ensued have enabled women and feminist =
movements to
focus on issues pertaining directly to the amelioration of women's lives =
in
a society which continues to founder on the bedrock of ethno-religious,
economic and cultural divisions.

=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 At a time when the Irish government =
has just rejected UN
recommendations which invited Ireland to align its legislation on =
abortion
with the rest of Europe, it seems as though patriarchy is still a force =
to
be reckoned with.

=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 In literature, the 'chick lit' =
phenomenon, which emerged in the
1990s (with Maeve Binchy as precursor), has been commercially very
successful. However, although these novels testify to a desire to shed =
light
on the lives of (Irish) women, they are far from receiving positive =
critical
attention and are often reproached for their focus on consumerism and =
their
reinforcement of a stereotypical vision of women. Other novelists, such =
as
Edna O'Brien, Anne Enright or Deirdre Madden, to name but a few, have
offered more nuanced representations of the relationship between women =
and
the changes which have profoundly affected contemporary Irish society. =
Emma
Donoghue and Anna Burns explore lesbianism and the consequences of the
Troubles in an innovative and original style. In the theatre, Marina =
Carr
and Christina Reid, among others, represent and thereby give visibility =
to a
disillusioned working class and women who are violent and/or victims of
violence. Poetry too has continued to be a privileged place to propose =
and
challenge images of women since Seamus Heaney's 'The Wife's Tale' (1969) =
and
Eavan Boland's 'Mise =C9ire' (1987) and the poetry of Medbh McGuckian, =
Sinead
Morrissey, Leontia Flynn and Colette Bryce.

=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 These observations, which are by no =
means exhaustive, invite
authors to analyse (post)feminist issues in contemporary Irish society.
Contributions could question the very nature of feminism, its evolution =
and
its status in post Celtic Tiger Ireland; they could also tackle
representations of women in the contemporary media, cultural and =
literary
landscape. Authors are also invited to focus on the specificities of =
female
immigration to Ireland over recent years. The question of women's =
bodies,
how they are appropriated and violated is also relevant.

Articles of 36000 signs and following the stylesheet
(http://www.pur-editions.fr/pdf/consignes_etudes_irlandaises.pdf) should =
be
sent to both Fiona McCann (mccannfiona[at]gmail.com) and Nathalie Sebbane
(nathalie.sebbane[at]gmail.com) before January 9th 2012.

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Article,
Boom
=?windows-1256?Q?=E9conomique_et_d=E9clin_des_pratiques_religieuses_en?=
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From: Simon Jolivet
To:

Dear IR=3DD subscribers=3D2C

An interesting article was recently published in Social Compass by =
Anthropo=3D
logist Isabelle Matte.

See Isabelle Matte=3D2C =3DABBoom =3DE9conomique et d=3DE9clin des =
pratiques religi=3D
euses en Irlande: quand le tigre celtique d=3DE9vore le sens=3DBB=3D2C =
Social Com=3D
pass=3D2C September 2011=3D2C vol. 58=3D2C p. 302-308.
http://scp.sagepub.com/content/58/3/302.abstract.fr
=3DC1dh M=3DF3r=3D2C

Simon Jolivet

Boom =E9conomique et d=E9clin des pratiques religieuses en Irlande: =
quand le
tigre celtique d=E9vore le sens

Isabelle Matte

Cit=E9 Universitaire, Qu=E9bec, Canada

L=92Irlande du Celtic Tiger est un exemple spectaculaire de passage =
d=92une
soci=E9t=E9 catholique traditionnelle =E0 une soci=E9t=E9 o=F9 le =
march=E9 devient le
nouveau r=E9f=E9rent. Cette mutation sociologique s=92est accentu=E9e =
lors du boom
=E9conomique des ann=E9es 1995=962005, alors que passait =E0 l=92=E2ge =
adulte toute une
nouvelle g=E9n=E9ration d=92Irlandais issue du baby-boom des ann=E9es =
1970=961980.
Cette cohorte a massivement d=E9laiss=E9 le principal rituel catholique: =
la
messe du dimanche. L=92auteure renvoie =E0 ses exp=E9riences de terrain
ethnographiques en Irlande, particuli=E8rement =E0 la distance qui =
s=E9pare
l=92univers culturel qu=92elle a connu en 1992 de celui qu=92elle a =
retrouv=E9 en
2005, apr=E8s la vague du Celtic Tiger. De ce choc culturel, qui devient =
le
c=9Cur de la compr=E9hension de ce passage, il en ressort que la culture =
de la
consommation est =E0 m=EAme de remplacer tr=E8s rapidement celle d=92une =
soci=E9t=E9
dont les activit=E9s sociales et religieuses sont plut=F4t bas=E9es sur =
la
tradition.

Ireland=92s Celtic Tiger years are a spectacular example of the passage =
from a
traditional society to one where the market becomes the new reference =
point.
That sociological mutation took place during the economic boom of =
1995=962005,
when a whole new generation, born during the Irish baby-boom of the =
1970s
and 1980s, experienced their coming of age. It is within that period =
that
the major religious/economic change took place, making Ireland=92s =
Celtic
Tiger a fascinating anthropological case study for the passage from
traditional modalities of life to consumerist ones. The culture shock =
felt
by the author when returning to the field after the economic boom =
becomes
the core of the comprehension of that passage: that culture shock =
informs
the anthropologist looking at the profound religious mutation that =
propelled
the market to become the transcendent reference, while the Catholic =
Church
of Ireland was losing power and social meaning and significance.=20

Key words: Catholicism =B7 Celtic Tiger =B7 church decline =B7 =
consumption =B7
Ireland =B7 market=20

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: 2011 SAGE JOURNALS ONLINE FREE ACCESS: OCTOBER 1 - 31, 2011.
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Many thanks to Simon Jolivet, for his alert, below...

When I follow up Simon's message I find that SAGE Journals have one of =
their
free offers in place...

REGISTER TO RECEIVE FREE ONLINE ACCESS TO ALL 630+ SAGE JOURNALS UNTIL
OCTOBER 31, 2011.

https://online.sagepub.com/cgi/register?registration=3DFT2011-2

There is a little hoop to jump through, but you then have free access to =
the
Sage journals, until October 31.

The advice, as always, is to get in there, grab what you want while you =
can
- store it on your computer as PDF files.

Recent items of interest, previously mentioned on the IR-D list, would
include Mairtin Mac an Ghaill and Chris Haywood on maleness, Alan =
Johnson on
The Siege of Krishnapur, William Jenkins on Buffalo, Jennifer =
Clary-Lemon on
=91We=92re not ethnic, we=92re Irish!... =20

And Isabelle Matte on le tigre celtique...

Also, it is worth pointing out that this is an unusual SAGE offer, in =
that
it includes all back issues. SAGE has been resolutely digitising their
paper archives. Some of their journals are now online well back into =
the
nineteenth century, so that there might be that useful detail for a =
footnote
there. Like...

The Decay of State and Local Governments
Simon N. Patten
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, =
January
1890; vol. 1, 1: pp. 26-42.
'...People from New England, Pennsylvania and Virginia find themselves
thrown into one town, and among them are sprinkled the Irish, Germans =
and
other classes of immigrants. Such an aggregate cannot agree upon =
measures of
common interest...'

P.O'S.

-----Original Message-----
From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On =
Behalf
Of Patrick O'Sullivan
Sent: 14 October 2011 09:08
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] Article, Boom =E9conomique et d=E9clin des pratiques =
religieuses
en Irlande: quand le tigre celtique d=E9vore le sens

From: Simon Jolivet
To:

Dear IR=3DD subscribers=3D2C

An interesting article was recently published in Social Compass by =
Anthropo=3D
logist Isabelle Matte.

See Isabelle Matte=3D2C =3DABBoom =3DE9conomique et d=3DE9clin des =
pratiques religi=3D
euses en Irlande: quand le tigre celtique d=3DE9vore le sens=3DBB=3D2C =
Social Com=3D
pass=3D2C September 2011=3D2C vol. 58=3D2C p. 302-308.
http://scp.sagepub.com/content/58/3/302.abstract.fr
=3DC1dh M=3DF3r=3D2C

Simon Jolivet

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: The Irish Post returns...
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Forwarded on behalf of
Fiona Audley
Senior Reporter
The Irish Post

www.irishpost.co.uk

New address:
The Irish Post
Suite A
1 Lindsey Street
Smithfield
City of London
EC1A 9HP
United Kingdom

MESSAGE

The Irish Post returns...in just 3 days!!!

The excitement is building in the office, as we prepare to send our =
first
edition of the relaunched Irish Post to the printers early this week.=A0
Just wanted to give you all a reminder that the paper will be back on =
the
newstands=A0this Wednesday, October 19!!! So check your local newsagents =
or
usual supplier to make sure they will have the paper back in stock and =
ready
and waiting for you on the big day!!=A0

Anyone who wants to subscribe and hasn't done so yet can
call=A002089004329=A0for further details!=A0

Remember...The Irish Post is out=A0on Wednesday October 19=A0and each =
and every
Wednesday after!=A0

Spread the word!!!

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Queries, Hugh Mahon (1857-1931) and/or passenger lists
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Ir-D member, Ireland-based, Danny Cusack is helping an Australian colleague,
who is intending to write a biography of Hugh Mahon (1857-1931). Mahon,
from Offaly, rose to prominence and controversy in Australian politics in
the early 1900s.

This is the ADB entry
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mahon-hugh-7460
There is a brief Wikipedia item
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Mahon

The specific query has to do with passenger lists. Danny Cusack tells me
that several members of Mahon's family emigrated to North America c1861, as
did Hugh himself c1874. Hugh and several other family members returned to
Ireland c1880. Hugh then went to Australia in 1882. Danny Cusack's query
has to do with trying to clarify the details of these journeys.

Danny Cusack has had no luck with shipping records in Ireland and wondered
whether he might have better luck with shipping or immigration records at
the North American end. Or maybe the more general British records.

Danny's query prompted me to look again - I last looked some years ago - at
the state of play as regards passenger lists on the web, and the use of them
as a research resource. I remember being very interested in Maureen
Murphy's use - for example, 1997. The Fionnula Factor: Irish Sibling
Emigration at the Turn of the Century, in Bradley and Valiulis.

It does look as if the passenger lists have disappeared behind paywalls, at
Ancestry.co.uk and Findmypast.co.uk.

Which is disgraceful...

See
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/passenger-lists.htm

Some passenger lists on the Irish Times still seem to be visible for free,
but searching the site soon meets paywalls.

http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/index.htm

And see

http://www.immigrantships.net/

I have had a look round some of my archived web links, and many web sites
seem to have disappeared.
http://www.searchforancestors.com/
still offers free search, but again you meet paywalls.

It does look as if we are now being asked to pay separately for every tiny
piece of information, which makes the researcher's use of this source very
expensive. And maybe distorts possible uses...

Does anyone have any specific suggestions or help for Danny Cusack with his
queries? Or, more generally, is anyone using the passenger lists for
research purposes? Are there comments on problems and solutions?

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 Bradford
BD7 1DP Yorkshire England

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Subject: CFP The London-Irish in the Long Eighteenth Century (1680-1830),
Warwick, 13-14 April 2012
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Forwarded on behalf of
Dr David O'Shaughnessy
Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL

CFP: The London-Irish in the Long Eighteenth Century (1680-1830) University
of Warwick, 13-14 April 2012

The Irish became an intrinsic part of the London population through the
course of the eighteenth century. Whether Catholic and Protestant,
professional or plebeian, London provided opportunities for waves of Irish
migrants. Irish migrants can of course be found throughout Britain (and
Europe) at this time but London offered a burgeoning world capital that
embraced all tiers of Irish society. The Irish, from both sides of the
religious divide, could be found almost anywhere in London: in its kitchens,
drawing rooms, legal chambers, banking houses, theatres, newspaper offices,
and courts. Nevertheless robust systematic historical data on these migrants
is scarce - such accounts that exist of the Irish diaspora in pre-1815
London (Denvir, Akenson, and Jackson) are useful but fragmentary and Irish
historiography on the diaspora has generally tended to concentrate on the
famine years.

There is work on Irish Catholics in Europe but only recently have more
focused accounts of Irish networks operating in London in the eighteenth
century begun to emerge. Yet despite the sparse accounts of their
activities, there was certainly a strong Irish - Catholic as well as
Protestant - presence in London throughout this period. Archbishop King
warned that Irish visitors in London 'converse only in a very sneaking
private way with one another' and this observation suggests a metropolitan
space within which the Irish diaspora could form themselves into tight
social and professional networks. The study of such networks would provide a
fresh perspective on London in the long eighteenth century. How did such
networks form? How did they evolve? To what degree were they inclusive/
exclusive? How did they represent 'Irishness' and/or Ireland to London? And
how were they received?

This interdisciplinary conference is being organized by David O'Shaughnessy
and will be hosted by the Department of English & Comparative Literature,
University of Warwick. Plenary lectures will be given by Professor Toby
Barnard (History, University of Oxford); Professor Claire Connolly
(Literature, University of Cardiff; and Professor Mary Hickman (Sociology,
London Metropolitan University). Papers will be welcomed in all disciplines
and from scholars at all stages of their careers. The deadline for 300-word
abstracts is 31 January 2011 (email: londonirish[at]warwick.ac.uk ).

Suggested topics might include but are not limited to:

. Quantifying the Irish diaspora (population, migration patterns/routes,
births, deaths, baptisms, funerals)
.Defining an Irish community/network
.Catholic and Protestant communities/networks
.Professional Irish (lawyers, bankers, merchants, tutors, physicians,
booksellers)
.Literary and artistic Irish (theatre, newspapers, literary clubs, artists,
Society of Antiquaries, Royal Academy, bookshops)
.Labouring Irish (military, servants, sailors, shipwrights, builders)
.Religious Irish (places of worship, priests)
.Political Irish (clubs, societies, parliament, lobbyists, spies,
petitioners, the Irish at court)
.Anti-Irish sentiment
.Irish language
.Riots
.Sport
.Irish societies and charitable organizations
.The Irish on trial (lawyers and criminals)
.The rise of the Irish pub (taverns/coffee houses patronised by the Irish)
.The Irish 'ghetto' (geography of the Irish in London)
.Irish elites and their circles (Burke, Goldsmith, Sheridan)

Dr David O'Shaughnessy
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL