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From: Michael Kenneally [mailto:Michael.Kenneally[at]Concordia.ca]=20
Sent: 03 November 2011 17:26

Dear Paddy,

Rhona and I would be grateful if you would send this Call for Papers for =
the
2012 IASIL conference to those on the Irish Diaspora list.

As you will see, we have a special provision to offer bursaries to a =
limited
number of graduate students whose papers are accepted for presentation.

Many thanks and best wishes,=20

Michael


Michael Kenneally
Principal, School of Canadian Irish Studies
Concordia University, Hall Building, 1001-11
1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. West
Montreal, QC H3G 1M8
514 848 2424 ext. 7389
cell: 514 279 5764
www.cdnirish.concordia.ca


2012 IASIL CONFERENCE
International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

"Weighing Words: Interdisciplinary Engagements with and within Irish
Literatures" hosted by the School of Canadian Irish Studies and =
Department
of Design and Computation Arts

July 30 - August 3, 2012

Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

INFO: irishstu[at]alcor.concordia.ca

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF IRISH LITERATURES

ANNUAL CONFERENCE

CO-ORGANIZERS

MICHAEL KENNEALLY=20

RHONA RICHMAN KENNEALLY

CALL FOR PAPERS

Initially based primarily on text-based literary and historical
investigation, Irish Studies have increasingly been stimulated by =
resources
and methods derived from other disciplines. This conference will take
interdisciplinarity as the point of departure in its engagements with =
Irish
literatures. The premise is that literature provides a portal to worlds =
of
visual and material culture, to landscapes and built environments =
replete
with relationships between humans, things, and spaces.=20

For example, characters and narrators interact with and within their =
homes,
urban and/or rural domains; emigrate and inhabit diasporic terrain; eat =
and
drink; wear clothes; work with tools; react to road signs, =
advertisements,
or branding; play instruments and fill rooms with music; use raw =
materials
and produce waste; and, indeed, contemplate surreal or virtual spaces =
and
realities that might be distinctly other-worldly. We are therefore =
inviting
papers that respond to these realms inscribed in literary texts, and/or =
are
infused by ideas or methods of other fields such as anthropology,=20
architecture, art, design, digital humanities, film, geography, music,
theatre, etc. Papers will also be welcome on other topics of interest to
members of IASIL.

Please submit your proposal by March 1st, 2012 to
irishstu[at]alcor.concordia.ca. Full panels will also be considered.
Proposals should be 250-500 words in length, plus a brief (50 word)
biography.=20

BURSARIES FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS: The conference organizers will offer a
limited number of free registrations to graduate students whose =
proposals
are accepted for conference presentation. To be considered for such
bursaries it is best to send proposals in advance of the March 1, 2012
deadline.=20

Please send any questions to the conference e-mail address or contact +1
(514) 848-2424 ext. 8711.=20

HTTP://CDNIRISH.CONCORDIA.CA

Michael Kenneally
Principal, School of Canadian Irish Studies
Concordia University, Hall Building, 1001-11
1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. West
Montreal, QC H3G 1M8
514 848 2424 ext. 7389
cell: 514 279 5764
www.cdnirish.concordia.ca
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Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Design and Computation Arts
Editor, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies
Fellow, School of Canadian Irish Studies
Concordia University

office address if you visit
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A colleague in ACIS who will be teaching a survey of Irish lit class wrote =
to ask if I can recommend short stories (in English) involving the Famine; =
she knows the full-length novelistic treatments, but doesn't think she has =
space on the syllabus for a novel.

Suggestions?

JSR

James S. Rogers
UST Center for Irish Studies
Editor, New Hibernia Review
2115 Summit Ave, #5008
St Paul MN 55105-1096
(651) 962-5662

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Hi Jim=2C
I believe in Caledonia Kearns' Cabbage and Bones Helena Mulkerns has a cont=
emporary story with flashbacks to the Famine called "Famine Fever." Carole =
Ramsay also writes about contemporary consequences of the Famine in "Need t=
o Feed" or something like it.=20
I know that in the 19th century Mary Anne Sadlier of Bessy Conway fame wrot=
e about the famine period and immigration=2C but I'm not sure that any of h=
er stories were specifically about the Famine.
Hope this helps.
Linda

> Date: Fri=2C 4 Nov 2011 20:30:42 +0000
> From: JROGERS[at]STTHOMAS.EDU
> Subject: [IR-D] short stories involving the Famine
> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
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> A colleague in ACIS who will be teaching a survey of Irish lit class wrot=
e to ask if I can recommend short stories (in English) involving the Famine=
=3B she knows the full-length novelistic treatments=2C but doesn't think sh=
e has space on the syllabus for a novel.
>=20
> Suggestions?
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> JSR
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> James S. Rogers
> UST Center for Irish Studies
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> 2115 Summit Ave=2C #5008
> St Paul MN 55105-1096
> (651) 962-5662
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Subject: Launch bi-lingual book/DVD The Uncle Jack - Brazil and Ireland
meet in St Mary's, London, Friday 11th November
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Press Release

Brazil and Ireland meet in St Mary's, London

A research project that has culminated in a new bi-lingual book/DVD is to be
launched at St Mary's University College on Friday 11th November in a 6pm
reception sponsored by the Embassy of Ireland.

The Uncle Jack by the Belfast-born filmmaker John T. Davis, is a rare gem of
a film, first released to great critical acclaim in 1996. It has been
published by Humanitas/ WB Yeats Chair of Irish Studies, USP, as a scholarly
edition of the screenplay. It is edited jointly by Professor Lance Pettitt
and his Brazilian college Professora Beatriz Kopschitz Bastos (University of
Sao Paulo).

The film tells the story of Jack McBride Neill, a talented architect who
became well-known for designing Northern Ireland's most glamorous cinemas
during the heyday of the silver screen. Jack was lonely, obsessive and
poured his affections into his only nephew, John, with whom he shared his
passions for music, model aircraft and cinema.

Part biography of his uncle, part movie memoir, Davis's film explores the
relationship between the boy who grew up to be one of Ireland's most
innovative filmmakers and the man who left such a lasting impression on his
creative upbringing . the Uncle Jack.

The book was a sell-out at its launch last month in Sao Paulo and is the
first book of a new series called' Ireland on Film: Screenplays and critical
contexts' with Humanitas, the University Press of Sao Paulo,

At the London launch of the book, sponsored by the Embassy of Ireland in
London, officials from Ireland and Brazil will gather to celebrate this
unique collaboration that takes Irish film beyond an Anglophone audience. It
follows up on a two week Irish film festival in Sao Paulo, programmed last
year by Professor Pettitt, which was supported by Culture Ireland/Reel
Ireland.

At the event director John T Davis will read from his memoir-preface 'That
treacherous country of the past' and the reception will feature Brazilian
and Irish music provided by Irish Arts Association.

Contact/Interviews: Lance Pettitt pettittl[at]smuc.ac.uk in London Tel: +44 -
0208-240-4008 or John Davis in Belfast . Tel: +44 - 028-904-23160 or +44-
07913-220393. Web site: http://www.smuc.ac.uk/irish-studies/index.htm

Review copies: pettittl[at]smuc.ac.uk

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Jim,

Does your colleague want short stories written at the time of the Famine?
Or does she want literary short stories, written at a later date, and
looking back to the Famine, or offering some perspective on the Famine?

Melissa Fegan, Literature and the Irish famine, 1845-1919, p 213, says that
Mrs. Hoare must have the prize (which, in the context, seems an odd form of
words) for the first fictional representation of the Famine, in Shamrock
Leaves, written 1846-7, published as a book 1851. Mrs. Hoare even dares to
use first person narrative of the Famine in her story, Little Mary.

You can read the full text of Shamrock leaves; or, Tales and sketches of
Ireland By Hoare (mrs.) from Google Books, and download, as pdf and epub,
for free.

In fact it is now possible to get practically all the C19th Famine fiction
texts on Google Books - something that has changed the research picture
dramatically within a few years.

The opening sections of The Feminization of Famine: Expressions of the
Inexpressible? by Margaret Kelleher surveys famine fiction including short
stories, and studies works by Liam O'Flaherty and John Banville. Also, see
William Trevor's story The News From Ireland, 1985, set at the time of the
Famine.

Interesting idea from your colleague - should work. At the very least will
make students aware of the power of the trope...

Paddy O'Sullivan


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Of Rogers, James S.
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To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] short stories involving the Famine

A colleague in ACIS who will be teaching a survey of Irish lit class wrote
to ask if I can recommend short stories (in English) involving the Famine;
she knows the full-length novelistic treatments, but doesn't think she has
space on the syllabus for a novel.

Suggestions?

JSR

James S. Rogers
UST Center for Irish Studies
Editor, New Hibernia Review
2115 Summit Ave, #5008
St Paul MN 55105-1096
(651) 962-5662

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Subject: CFP,
'Outside his Jurisfiction': Interrogating Joyce's non-fiction
writings, York, March 23-25 2012.
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Forwarded on behalf of=A0James Fraser
(jf545[at]york.ac.uk)

=93Outside his jurisfiction=94: Interrogating Joyce=92s non-fiction =
writings
=A0
A three-day international conference at the University of York
March 23rd-25th=A02012
=A0
Keynotes:=A0
John McCourt=A0(Universita Roma Tre)
Emer Nolan=A0(NUI Maynooth)
=A0
With a final discussion led by:=A0Kevin Barry=A0(NUI Galway)
=A0
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Kevin Barry=92s=A0James Joyce: Occasional, =
Critical, and Political
Writing=A0contains over fifty pieces ranging in topic from the literary
theorizing of =91James Clarence Mangan=92 and =91Realism and Idealism in =
English
Literature=92 to the differing political interventions of =91The Shade =
of
Parnell=92 and =91Politics and Cattle Disease=92 and in genre from short =
book
review to spoken lecture.=A0These disparate writings, drawn mainly from =
the
first half of Joyce=92s career, have always had a troubled place within =
the
dominant strains of Joyce criticism. Although they are frequently =
referred
to in commentaries on Joyce,=A0the question has always been precisely =
what to
make of them. Are they genuine expressions of Joyce=92s intellectual and
emotional attitudes or part of a developing and deliberately fashioned
public persona? Is there any value, regardless of the intent of the =
pieces,
in attempting to read Joyce=92s fictional writings=A0through=A0these =
non-fictional
writings? If so, is it legitimate to =
describe=A0Ulysses=A0and=A0Finnegans
Wake=A0with reference to writing that precedes them by several decades?

=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Such questions haunt every discussion of =
Joyce=92s non-fiction
writing. The tremendous usefulness of these works as a source of =
pertinent
and pithy quotation, and at times as a quasi-genetic source for later =
works,
only aggravates the problem. =93Outside his jurisfiction=94 seeks to =
bring these
issues into focus, to interrogate the problematic boundary between =
Joyce=92s
=91thoughts=92 political and aesthetic and his writings, to ask what is =
at stake
in the prefix =91non-=92 -- to ask, indeed, to what the designation
=91non-fiction=92 can reasonably be made to refer. Perhaps most =
importantly,
this conference aims to consider the status of Joyce=92s -- and by =
extension
any artist=92s -- non-fictional writings in relation to a much wider =
creative
oeuvre; how=A0=A0can we appropriately connect, or, if necessary, =
separate, an
artist=92s life and opinions and his works?

=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0We welcome abstracts of no more than=A0500 =
words=A0for papers addressing
any aspect of Joyce=92s non-fictional writings--whether in conjunction =
with
his fictional works, or in their own right=97by=A0November 18th. We =
especially
welcome papers that problematize or stretch the definitive boundaries of =
the
term =91non-fiction=92.
=A0
Questions to consider include:
Can we think of Ellmann=92s invention of the character =91James Joyce=92 =
as a
piece of non-fiction (or perhaps =91not-quite-fiction=92) that has, more =
than
any other, influenced our readings of Joyce=92s fictional writings? How =
do we
approach Joyce=92s letters as pieces of writing? What is (and what =
should be)
the status of Joyce=92s prose =91epiphanies=92, which were never =
published in his
life-time and which read like a sort of creative diary
Our aim is to address these and many other questions, in a
conference that re-envisions Joyce=92s non-fictional writing and =
reinvigorates
its use in future criticism.
=A0
=A0
Organized by:
James Fraser=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0(jf545[at]york.ac.uk)
Katherine Ebury=A0=A0=A0(ke500[at]york.ac.uk)
Derek Attridge
=A0
Visit our website at:
www.jamesjoycenonfiction.com
email:=A0
jamesjoyce.nonfiction[at]gmail.com

--=A0
James Fraser, Dept of English and Related Literature, University of =
York,
YO10 5DD

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Journal of British Studies
Vol. 50, No. 4, October 2011

Book Review
Reviewed work(s): David T. Gleeson, ed. The Irish in the Atlantic World. The
Carolina Low country and the Atlantic World Series. Columbia: University of
South Carolina Press, 2010. Pp. viii+341. $69.95 (cloth).

Cian T. McMahon
University of Nevada, Las Vegas


It has been almost exactly four years since I attended a lively conference
of Irish historians under the auspices of the Carolina Lowcountry and
Atlantic World Program at the College of Charleston in South Carolina.
Hosted by David Gleeson, one of the leading scholars of the Irish in the
American South, the goal was to compare and contrast perspectives on the
Irish around the Atlantic littoral. In The Irish in the Atlantic World,
Gleeson has brought the best of those papers together in a single volume.
This book is not, nor does it claim to be, a comprehensive textbook of all
things Irish around the ocean. But taken together, this excellent collection
of fourteen snapshots makes a compelling case for the continued employment
of transnational and comparative perspectives on the histories of Ireland
and the Irish.

In the book's introduction, Gleeson shows how Irish history challenges the
notion that the Atlantic World ended in the early 1820s with the collapse of
the last European empires in the Americas. From the sixteenth to the
twenty-first centuries, Irish people have crisscrossed the ocean as
colonists, soldiers, indentured servants, farmers, artisans, merchants,
laborers, priests, exiles, and students. Until fairly recently, however,
scholars have largely been afraid to leave the national boundaries of their
academic fiefdoms. As a result, the international fluidity of the
transatlantic Irish experience has been underrepresented in the literature.
This book's goal, writes Gleeson, is to show that a transnational, "Atlantic
perspective is still important for understanding Ireland and its people,
both those who stayed at home and those who left" (7)...

...Part 3, "The Irish in the Atlantic World," turns the tables to show how
the Irish themselves affected life in the Atlantic World. The majority of
works on the Irish diaspora focus on "Green" Catholics, but Donald
MacRaild's chapter, "The Orange Atlantic," illustrates the international
connections among Irish Protestants loyal to the British Crown. MacRaild
persuasively argues that "viewing colonies or nation-states as discrete and
disconnected entities is unhelpful in articulating a true sense of how
people such as Orangemen saw their world and made sense of it" (309).
Founded in Ireland in 1795, the Orange Order quickly became a transnational
association that exported and imported ideas from all four hemispheres. By
illustrating transnational patterns of violence and no-popery lecturing,
MacRaild demonstrates that "Orangeism is a useful surrogate for examining
patterns of Irish Protestant migration around the British and Irish worlds"
(320). In this way, his work fits with the current trends in the scholarship
on migration that stress transplantation over uprooting.

These three examples represent only a fraction of the stimulating questions
and answers posed in this excellent volume. After thinking about it for a
few days, however, I felt that the book implicitly raises a bigger issue
that it never directly addresses. Gleeson is certainly correct in arguing
that historians need to transcend the nation-state. And the Atlantic World,
for many and varied reasons, offers an excellent framework. But we never
learn why this wave of scholarship should stop at the craggy shores of the
Atlantic. In other words, is it time for a book titled The Irish in the
World?

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I am sure the latter , Paddy -- thanks

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Subject: Re: [IR-D] short stories involving the Famine

Jim,

Does your colleague want short stories written at the time of the Famine?
Or does she want literary short stories, written at a later date, and
looking back to the Famine, or offering some perspective on the Famine?

Melissa Fegan, Literature and the Irish famine, 1845-1919, p 213, says that
Mrs. Hoare must have the prize (which, in the context, seems an odd form of
words) for the first fictional representation of the Famine, in Shamrock
Leaves, written 1846-7, published as a book 1851. Mrs. Hoare even dares to
use first person narrative of the Famine in her story, Little Mary.

You can read the full text of Shamrock leaves; or, Tales and sketches of
Ireland By Hoare (mrs.) from Google Books, and download, as pdf and epub,
for free.

In fact it is now possible to get practically all the C19th Famine fiction
texts on Google Books - something that has changed the research picture
dramatically within a few years.

The opening sections of The Feminization of Famine: Expressions of the
Inexpressible? by Margaret Kelleher surveys famine fiction including short
stories, and studies works by Liam O'Flaherty and John Banville. Also, see
William Trevor's story The News From Ireland, 1985, set at the time of the
Famine.

Interesting idea from your colleague - should work. At the very least will
make students aware of the power of the trope...

Paddy O'Sullivan


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Of Rogers, James S.
Sent: 04 November 2011 20:31
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Subject: [IR-D] short stories involving the Famine

A colleague in ACIS who will be teaching a survey of Irish lit class wrote
to ask if I can recommend short stories (in English) involving the Famine;
she knows the full-length novelistic treatments, but doesn't think she has
space on the syllabus for a novel.

Suggestions?

JSR

James S. Rogers
UST Center for Irish Studies
Editor, New Hibernia Review
2115 Summit Ave, #5008
St Paul MN 55105-1096
(651) 962-5662=

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Recently our alerts picked up a new issue of the journal U.S. Catholic
Historian - and when I finally had time to poke around the web site, and see
what was new, I came across this article, from 2009.

Dennis Clark took the time to write to me when I was planning The Irish
World Wide series - in those days you actually had to write, a letter, on
paper. And post it. In an envelope. It was a letter of straightforward
encouragement, and seemed to exactly understand what I was trying to do.

I read Dennis Clark's works with great interest, especially Erin's Heirs -
and perhaps found out more about life in Philadelphia than I could ever
really find useful. But I liked that - the journey from the particular to
the general. The experience of being a working Catholic intellectual in the
USA. The interest in Irishness in the USA, and the concern about what could
or could not - or what should or should not - be passed on to the next
generation.

This article by Eugene Halus uses personal diaries and other material stored
at Historical Society of Pennsylvania Balch collection

http://www2.hsp.org/collections/Balch%20manuscript_guide/html/clark.html

It is an odd article - sometimes oddly ungenerous and unkind. The
difficulty seems to me to be NOT in the 'Mind of Dennis Clark', but in the
nature of the tasks that he set himself.

P.O'S.


The Difficult Ethnic and Religious Mind of Dennis Clark
Eugene J. Halus Jr.

U.S. Catholic Historian, Volume 27, Number 4, Fall 2009, pp.
45-57 (Article)
Published by The Catholic University of America Press

'Dennis Clark is one of a cadre of American activists who have been largely
forgotten in the scholarly literature of urban history and politics, church
history and ethnic studies. Clark is in fact someone who should be
remembered for the significant and sometimes deeply contradictory role he
played as an historian, political activist, and lay activist within the
Roman Catholic Church. Before dying of cancer at the age of 66 in 1993 Clark
would write at least eight books, contribute multiple book chapters and
numerous articles on a diverse number of topics. He would also leave behind
a number of manuscripts both fiction and nonfiction. The majority of
Clark's efforts focused upon documenting the history of the Irish in
Philadelphia from colonial times to the early 1990s when he published Erin's
Heirs: Irish Bonds of Community, but Clark's intention was not simply to
document the Irish experience in Philadelphia. He strongly agreed with the
Italian-American activist Monsignor Geno Baroni that race relations in
America would only improve if ethnic groups first understood themselves...'

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This is one of those useful summarising, comparative articles...

Languages of Conflict and the Northern Ireland Troubles
Richard Bourke

The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 83, No. 3 (September 2011), pp. 544-578


Introduction
Accounts of civil breakdown and the emergence of political violence in
modern societies are widely subject to theories of conflict that fail to
represent reality. The frameworks for depicting extreme upheaval employed by
both the media and politicians, and likewise within much historical and
political analysis, frequently distort the object they are seeking to
understand. The interpretation of conflict is determined, in short, by
"languages of conflict" that are poorly designed to represent the phenomenon
they hope to explain; understanding is framed by explanatory schemes without
any genuine purchase on their subject of study. The result is often
bafflement in the face of the violence that accompanies such conflicts,
commonly reckoned to be "savage" or "senseless" and beyond all rational
accounting.1 Deforming languages of conflict are legion, but they reduce to
two fundamental types: theories of primitive regression, on the one hand,
and theories of cultural solidarity, on the other. Attempts to depict modern
conflicts in terms of "tribalism," "atavism," "mysticism," and the like are
examples of the former explanatory model; theories of clashing
"civilizations," "cultural" collision, and "ethnic" conflict exemplify the
latter mode of thought.2 The history of these approaches shows that they
were originally developed to apply to situations that bear no relation to
contemporary conflicts, but they are nonetheless reissued for usage whenever
the circumstances seem to fit.

It is a striking feature of prevalent ideas of conflict that so many owe
their origin to accounts of the German "catastrophe" of 1933-45, regularly
seen as having been brought about by tribal regression or ethnic solidarity
or by the perversion of one of these social states under the influence of
religion.3 The argument of this article is that concrete evidence is rarely
produced to support such abstract schemes of analysis, which frequently
predetermine the interpretation of the relevant data. This is not to say
that religion is somehow irrelevant to conspicuously religious conflicts or
that competing forms of solidarity play no part in civil unrest. But it is
to claim that the application of these categories is usually schematic, or
even inapposite, so that they lack any efficacy as forms of causal
explanation. Beginning in the 1950s, both primitivist and ethnic typologies
have been applied successively to civil disturbances in Europe, Africa, and
Asia, becoming widespread again as interpretative frameworks after the end
of the cold war.4 Originally developed in the academy, these approaches soon
migrated into think tanks and government bureaucracies, ultimately gaining
the status of commonsense assumptions in the perception of the public.

This is important because the frameworks governing the understanding of
political crises are intricately related to policy responses...

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Dear Paddy,

This new site might interested some members.

Based on the multi-volume Beathaisneis series by Diarmuid Breathnach and
Maire Ni Mhurchu, www.ainm.ie is a searchable on-line database with 1,693
biographies all of which, from 1560 to the present day, had a connection to
the Irish language. The information pages are available in Irish and in
English. The biographies, however, are in the Irish language only. There
are over 1.3 million words in the original text, therefore it is beyond our
resources to provide translation or linguistic support to visitors to the
Web site. This Irish-language biographies project is being developed by
Fiontar, DCU, since 2009, in collaboration with Cl=F3 Iar-Chonnacht and
Diarmuid Breathnach and M=E1ire N=ED Mhurch=FA, authors of the
*Beathaisn=E9is*series, which was published in nine volumes by An
Cl=F3chomhar (1986=962007).
The Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht provided the funding for
Phase 1 of this project, digitization and online publication of the
material.

Yours,
*B*reen

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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Volume 37, Issue 9, 2011

Whiteness and Diasporic Irishness: Nation, Gender and Class

Bronwen Walter
a*
pages 1295-1312

Abstract
Whiteness is often detached from the notion of diaspora in the recent flurry
of interest in the phenomenon, yet it is a key feature of some of the
largest and oldest displacements. This paper explores the specific contexts
of white racial belonging and status over two centuries in two main
destinations of the Irish diaspora, the USA and Britain. Its major
contribution is a tracing of the untold story of 'How the Irish became white
in Britain' to parallel and contrast with the much more fully developed
narrative in the USA. It argues that, contrary to popular belief, the
racialisation of the Irish in England did not fade away at the end of the
nineteenth century but became transmuted in new forms which have continued
to place the 'white' Irish outside the boundaries of the English nation.
These have been strangely ignored by social scientists, who conflate
Irishness and working-class identities in England without acknowledging the
distinctive contribution of Irish backgrounds to constructions of class
difference. Gender locates Irish women and men differently in relation to
these class positions, for example allowing mothers to be blamed for the
perpetuation of the underclass. Class and gender are also largely
unrecognised dimensions of Irish ethnicity in the USA, where the presence of
'poor white' neighbourhoods continues to challenge the iconic story of Irish
upward mobility. Irishness thus remains central to the construction of
mainstream 'white' identities in both the USA and Britain into the
twenty-first century.

Keywords
Irish, Whiteness, 'Poor White', Diaspora, National Identity

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The following Call for Papers has been brought to our attention.

The original email was far too long - in fact I nearly dozed off twice
whilst trying to read it... But each time I was woken up by irritation...

The original CFP can be seen at

http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition/dia
sporas/call-for-papers/

The version below has been shortened. By me.

P.O'S.

5th Global Conference
Diasporas: Exploring Critical Issues

Friday 29th June 2012 - Sunday 1st July 2012
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

Call for Papers:
This inter- and multi-disciplinary project seeks to explore the contemporary
experience of Diasporas - communities who conceive of themselves as a
national, ethnic, linguistic or other form of cultural and political
construction of collective membership living outside of their 'home lands.'

In order to increase our understanding of Diasporas and their impact on both
the receiving countries and their respective homes left behind, key issues
will be addressed related to Diaspora cultural expression and interests. In
addition, the conference will address the questions: Do Diasporas continue
to exist? Is the global economy, media and policies sending different
messages about diaspora to future generations?

Papers, workshops, presentations and pre-formed panels are invited on any of
the following themes:

1. Movies and Diasporas
2. Motivational Factors for Research into Diaspora
3. Myths and Symbols: how to meet, and get to knoweach other through the use
of creative lenses
4. Public, Private and Virtual Spaces of Diaspora
5. Novel ways to think about Diaspora due to globalization

The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel
proposals. Papers will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word
abstracts should be submitted by Friday 13th January 2012. If an abstract is
accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by
Friday 11th May 2012.

Organising Chairs
Dr S. Ram Vemuri
School of Law and Business
Faculty of Law, Business and Arts
Charles Darwin University
Darwin NT0909
Australia
Email:

Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Freeland, Oxfordshire,
United Kingdom
Email: The conference is part of the
'Diversity and
Recognition' series of research projects, which in turn belong to the At the
Interface programmes of http://ID.Net

For further details of the project, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition/dia
sporas/

For further details of the conference, please
visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition/dia
sporas/call-for-papers/

Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are
not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or
subsistence.

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Benjamin Farrington: Cape Town and the Shaping of a Public
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South African Historical Journal

Volume 62, Issue 4, 2010

Benjamin Farrington: Cape Town and the Shaping of a Public Intellectual

John Atkinson

pages 671-692

ABSTRACT
Benjamin Farrington, an Irish Protestant, joined the University of Cape
Town, Classics Department in 1920, and wrote articles for De Burger to win
Afrikaner support for Sinn Fein and the Irish Republic. He was credited with
initiating a conference in Paris in 1922, to launch the Irish World
Organisation. Disillusioned by its stillbirth he effectively shut down the
Irish Republican Association of South Africa and its newspaper, The
Republic, which he had founded and edited. Prominent in the circle of Ruth
Schechter, whom he later married, he engaged with the likes of Hogben and
Bodmer. Disengaged from active politics by mid-1922, he emerged as a public
intellectual in Marxist and Leninist/Trotskyist groupings. Inspired by Karl
Marx's thesis on the Epicurean theory of atomism, he campaigned against
determinism, and in particular against fundamentalist and superstitious
attacks on experimental science. Thus in the classical context he presented
Socrates' mix of disembodied mathematics, ethics and theology as a major
block to Greek physical science long before Christianity. Farrington's
scientific humanism is evidenced in his translations of the Africana texts
of Ten Rhyne and Grevenbroek, and in his work on Vesalius. At UCT he
advanced Classics from primarily language study to the broader study of
history, science and culture. He could be labelled a public intellectual by
virtue of his lectures to groups in the community, articles and reviews in
the press, and publications for a general readership. But he took his model
rather from Epicurus.

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Human Encumbrances - Political Violence and the Great Irish Famine
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This book by David Nally, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge,
has just become visible to our alerts...

You can pick up interviews and other material from his web site

http://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/nally/

including a little piece he wrote for the latest issue of the historical
geography newsletter Past Place...

http://maps.cisat.jmu.edu/public/hgsg/pplace/PastplaceF2011.pdf

P.O'S.


David P. Nally
Human Encumbrances
Political Violence and the Great Irish Famine

http://undpress.nd.edu/book/P01459

U Notre Dame Press
Paper Edition 2011
368 pages
ISBN 10: 0-268-03608-X
ISBN 13: 978-0-268-03608-9

The history of the Great Irish Famine has been mired in debate over the
level of culpability of the British government. Most scholars reject the
extreme nationalist charge of genocide, but beyond that there is little
consensus. In Human Encumbrances: Political Violence and the Great Irish
Famine, David Nally argues for a nuanced understanding of "famineogenic
behavior"-conduct that aids and abets famine-capable of drawing distinctions
between the consequences of political indifference and policies that promote
reckless conduct.

Human Encumbrances is the first major work to apply the critical
perspectives of famine theory and postcolonial studies to the causes and
history of the Great Famine. Combining an impressive range of archival
sources, including contemporary critiques of British famine policy, Nally
argues that land confiscations and plantation schemes paved the way for the
reordering of Irish political, social, and economic space. According to
Nally, these colonial policies undermined rural livelihoods and made Irish
society more vulnerable to catastrophic food crises. He traces how colonial
ideologies generated negative evaluations of Irish destitution and
attenuated calls to implement traditional anti-famine programs. The
government's failure to take action, born out of an indifference to the
suffering of the Irish poor, amounted to an avoidable policy of "letting
die."

Acts of official wrongdoing, Nally charges, can also be found in the British
government's attempt to use the Famine as a lever to accelerate
socioeconomic change. Even before the Famine reached its deadly apogee, an
array of social commentators believed that Ireland's peasant culture was
fundamentally incommensurable with Enlightenment values of human progress.
To the economists and public officials who embraced this dehumanizing logic,
the potato blight was an instrument of cure that would finally regenerate
what was seen to be a diseased body politic. Nally shows how these views
arose from a dogmatic insistence on the laws of political economy and an
equally firm belief, fostered through centuries of colonial contact, that
the Irish were slovenly, improvident, and uncivilized, and therefore in need
of external disciplining. In this context, Nally recasts the Great Famine to
look less like a natural disaster and more like the consequence of colonial
oppression and social engineering.

http://undpress.nd.edu/book/P01459

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New World Irish - Notes on One Hundred Years of Lives and Letters
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New World Irish
Notes on One Hundred Years of Lives and Letters in American Culture
Jack Morgan
=20
Series: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
=20
Palgrave Macmillan

25 Nov 2011
=A352.00
Hardback =09
9780230116962=20

http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=3D523985

http://us.macmillan.com/newworldirish/JackMorgan

This book carefully examines representative texts and events that =
reflect
the Irish presence in American culture from the Famine to the present. =
A
noted scholar in the field of Irish-American literature and history, =
Jack
Morgan sets forth and analyzes a wealth of material previously =
unexamined
with clarity and insight. Writers from Mark Twain, Henry David Thoreau, =
and
Margaret Fuller, to Harold Frederic and Sarah Orne Jewett, are =
considered in
terms of their engagement with and relationships to the new Irish =
arrivals
in the nineteenth century. Through a variety of texts, lives, and =
events,
this study unfolds a fascinating panorama of Irish-American history,
culture, and popular culture.

CONTENTS
Among Cromwell's Children: The Irish in Yankee New England=20
Requiem for the St. John: Thoreau's 'The Shipwreck' as Irish Famine
Narrative =20
Blighted Prospects: Irish Historical Haunting in America =20
Fair and Funeral: Henry O'Clarence McCarthy and the American Fenian =
Years =20
Broom and Bridget: The Irish Servant and New England Households =20
Harold Frederic, The Irish, and The Damnation of Theron Ware =20
The Liffey to the Red River: Demented Mentors in Scott Fitzgerald's
"Absolution" and Joyce's 'The Sisters'=20
John Ford, the Irish, and His Cavalry Trilogy=20
Jack Conroy, the Irish-American Left, and the Radical Irish Legacy=20
Dublin to Bodega Bay: The Dark Side of Alfred Hitchcock's Juno and the
Paycock=20
'Missouri Sequence': Brian Coffey's St. Louis Years=20
Migration and Memory: Irish Poetry in the U.S. =20
The Celtic Carnivalesque and Muriel Rukeyser's Irish Journey of Passion =
and
Transformation=20
'He's Irish, and He Broods Easy' - John McNulty and the Irish Cohort at =
The
New Yorker=20

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Call for papers:=A0WELCOMING STRANGERS

An international, interdisciplinary postgraduate conference, 27 April =
2012
Humanities and Arts Research Centre, Royal Holloway, University of =
London

Keynote speakers:=A0
Professor Robin Cohen (Emeritus Professor and Principal Investigator of =
the
Leverhulme-funded Oxford Diasporas Programme, University of Oxford
Professor John Hill, Department of Media Arts, Royal Holloway, =
University of
London.=A0

With accelerated inter- and intra-national mobility, the concepts of =
place
and displacement, and their impact on individual and collective =
identities,
have received unprecedented scholarly attention in disciplines as =
diverse as
Geography, Politics, Music, Film and Media Studies, English, =
Postcolonial
Studies and Migration and Diaspora Studies. The growing importance of
multi-locality, transnational (and 'post-national') communities,
cosmopolitanism and various forms of flexible citizenship call binarisms
which posit =91the stranger=92 as =91the Other=92 of the indigenous =
community, as
the =91guest=92 who is welcomed by the hegemonic host society, into =
question.=20

Contests around notions of ethnic essentialism and cultural purity have
given way to a widespread acceptance of diversity and the celebration of
hybridity. In music, literature, and film, the contributions of artists =
with
transnationally mobile and/or ethnic minority backgrounds to the =
aesthetic
traditions of western hegemonic cultural productions have resulted in
innovative creative synergies of the local and the global and have =
enjoyed
considerable cross-over appeal. On the other hand, many =91strangers=92 =
have not
been welcomed, their voices have been silenced, and their artistic
expressions have been marginalized.=20

The exponential growth in informational technologies and the mobility of
global capital, which once promised to fulfil McLuhan=92s vision of a =
global
village, has been accompanied by many unforeseen challenges. Restricted
mobility of labour, asylum legislation, and new security challenges pose =
a
threat to the ideal of global identities and a cosmopolitan society.=A0

The conference committee invites proposals for papers from postgraduate
students working in or (in)between the fields of Geography, Politics, =
Music,
Film and Media Studies, English, Postcolonial Studies and Migration and
Diaspora Studies. In particular, we are interested in papers addressing =
the
following issues:=A0

=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0The impact of displacement and transnationalism and =
artistic practice
in literature, film and music
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Hybridity, creolisation and artistic innovation
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Representations of migration and diaspora in =
literature, film and
television
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Stereotyping strangers
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Cosmopolitanism and identities at the margins
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Transnational mobilities, citizenship and bordering =
practices
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Migrants of calamity: financial crisis, terrorism, =
and environmental
change
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Migration, politics, law, territoriality
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0(Inter)disciplinary approaches to hospitality
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Producing and performing locality
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Transnational flows, transnational connections
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Emotional and social constructions of =91home=92
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=91Stranger again=92 =96 returning to the country =
of origin
=A0
Please send your 200-word abstract, together with a brief biographical =
note,
4 key words, and 4 bibliographical references to the conference =
committee no
later than 31 January 2012.=A0
Email:=A0WelcomingStrangers[at]rhul.ac.uk

The Conference Committee:
John Abrahm (Politics)
Richard Bater (Geography)
Prof. Daniela Berghahn (Media Arts)
Lia Deromedi (English)
Stephanie Vos (Music)
Deniz Yardimci (Media Arts)
=A0

Daniela Berghahn
Professor of Film Studies
Department of Media Arts
Royal Holloway
University of London
Egham
TW20 0EX
T. +44 (0)1784 443838

www.farflungfamilies.net
www.migrantcinema.net

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Health & Place
In Press, Accepted Manuscript=20

Socio-demographic, environmental, lifestyle and psychosocial factors =
predict self rated health in Irish travellers, a minority nomadic =
population

CC Kelleher, J Whelan 1, L Daly, P Fitzpatrick,=20


UCD School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Population Science, =
Woodview house, Belfield, Dublin 4

Received 1 July 2011; revised 28 October 2011; Accepted 31 October 2011. =
Available online 10 November 2011.

Abstract
Irish Travellers are an indigenous nomadic minority group with poor life =
expectancy. As part of a census survey of Travellers (80% participation =
rate), a health status interview was conducted (n=3D2065, 43.5% male). =
In the final regression model, positive predictors of self-rated health =
(SRH) were having a flush toilet (OR 2.2, p=3D0.021), considering where =
one lives to be healthy (OR 1.9, p=3D0.017), travelling twice yearly (OR =
2.3 p=3D0.026), taking a brisk walk weekly (OR 2.4, p=3D0.000) and =
non-smoking (OR 1.7, p=3D0.03). Conversely, SRH was negatively =
associated with age (p=3D0.000), activity-limiting ill health (OR 0.4, =
p=3D0.001), or chronic health condition (OR 0.4, p=3D0.002).

Highlights
=E2=96=BA This is the first comprehensive census survey since 1987 of =
Ireland=E2=80=99s nomadic Travellers. =E2=96=BA It employed a highly =
novel oral-visual electronic questionnaire to overcome literacy =
challenges. =E2=96=BA Self-rated health is negatively associated with =
social indicators, including discrimination. =E2=96=BA The final model =
shows both material and psycho-social indictors predict self-rated =
health. =E2=96=BA The study is relevant to other International studies =
of hard-to-reach ethnic minorities.

Keywords: Self rated health; Inequality; Social disadvantage; Nomadic; =
Ethnicity; Discrimination

Corresponding author. Tel.: +00353 1 7162045.

1Present Address: National Institute of Public Health and the =
Environment (RIVM)< P.O. Box 1, 3720, BA Bilthoven, the Netherlands.

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Age of Atrocity: Violence and Political Conflict in Early Modern
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David Edwards, P=E1draig Lenihan, and Clodaigh Tait, eds. Age of =
Atrocity:
Violence and Political Conflict in Early Modern Ireland
Age of Atrocity: Violence and Political Conflict in Early Modern Ireland =
by
David Edwards; P=E1draig Lenihan; Clodaigh Tait
Review by:Dianne Hall=20
Journal of British Studies, Vol. 50, No. 4 (October 2011), pp. 965-966


Book Review=20
Reviewed work(s): David Edwards, P=E1draig Lenihan, and Clodaigh Tait, =
eds.
Age of Atrocity: Violence and Political Conflict in Early Modern =
Ireland.
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2010. Pp. 320. $35.00 (paper).

Dianne Hall=20

Victoria University

Originally published in 2007, this collection of articles is the outcome =
of
two conferences held in 2002 and 2004. Its republication as a paperback =
by
Four Courts Press is nicely timed to coincide with the launch in late =
2010
of the digital edition of the archive known as the 1641 Depositions
(http://www.1641.tcd.ie). While the 1641 rebellion is only one event in =
what
can only be called an extremely violent epoch, its shadow has been long,
partly because of the wealth of material that is now part of the 1641
Deposition archive and originally collected by Protestant commissioners =
to
prove Irish Catholic guilt of rebellion. The editors=92 introduction, =
=93Early
Modern Ireland: A History of Violence,=94 is particularly useful as it
analyzes the roles of violence itself rather than the political =
consequences
of violent events. Many of the contributors advance arguments that are =
part
of important historiographical exchanges about the nature and importance =
of
violence, particularly against noncombatants in the early modern period.
These contributions mean that this collection is an important addition =
to
scholarship on early modern Ireland and Europe more generally.

The contributions are arranged chronologically, starting with an =
overview of
violence in sixteenth-century Ireland by David Edwards. Here, he weighs =
into
the debates over interpretations of Tudor policy in Ireland. Edwards =
argues
strongly that whatever might have been the Tudor objectives, the reality =
of
policy implementation in Ireland was =93very bloody=94 (78). The next =
five
articles examine specific events and people in this =93very bloody=94 =
century.
Vincent P. Carey focuses on the way that Spenser and others made sense =
of
the actions of his employer Lord Grey at the massacre at Smerwick in =
1580.
Hiram Morgan continues with the late sixteenth century with his =
exploration
of the murders ordered by Hugh O=92Neill. His article is an interesting
analysis of the way that politically expedient killings were understood =
by
both the Gaelic Irish and the English. John McGurk analyzes the
justifications for killing civilians in Ulster put forward by the =
notorious
English commanders Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Sir Arthur Chichester, and Sir
Henry Docwra. His analysis extends the important work of Nicholas Canny =
and
D. B. Quinn in linking these colonial military commanders with the =
expansion
of Europeans in the Americas. Clodaigh Tait=92s contribution analyzes =
how
perpetrators of these sorts of massacres of noncombatants were =
themselves
understood to have been recipients of divine justice by civilians. She =
has
used diverse material, including that of the Folklore Commission, to =
analyze
reactions to the deaths of four government officials that were ascribed =
to
divine vengeance=97William Drury, Henry Ireton, Charles Coote, and Henry
Brouncker. Kevin Forkan=92s article examines the death of one of these =
men,
Charles Coote, from the perspective of the English rather than the =
Irish.

The next group of articles focuses on the 1641 rebellion itself. Brian =
Mac
Cuarta begins the section by examining religious motivations for =
violence in
the southern Ulster counties. As he points out, most recent historians =
have
concentrated more on the nonreligious elements of the =
violence=97personal
indebtedness, local animosities, as well as generalized anti-English
sentiments. Mac Cuarta, while not denying these aspects, has found =
within
the Depositions evidence for specific anti-Protestant inspired violence,
some of which was fueled by resentment of the imposts of the established
church as well as identification of Protestantism with demonic =
pollution.
Kenneth Nicholls=92s important article on English killings of the Irish =
needs
to be required reading for any analysis of the rebellion and its =
victims.
While scholars now understand the extent of the exaggeration of the
Protestant death toll, it remains true that the sheer quantity of =
witness
statements in the Deposition archive means that much scholarly attention =
has
and still is focused on the sufferings of Protestants. Nicholls has =
combed a
vast array of sources for evidence of killings of Irish Catholics by
Protestants, either in retaliation or as a result of the war that =
engulfed
Ireland after the initial rebellion in October 1641. His findings need =
to be
set against the numerous reports of violence perpetrated against
Protestants. An interesting and very welcome addition to scholarship on
violence in the seventeenth century is the report by a team of
archaeologists on the site of the mass grave from the 1642 siege of
Carrickmines Castle, County Dublin. Their finds support the documentary
evidence that there were a large number of combatants as well as women =
and
children killed at the siege. The fate of many of the Protestants who =
fled
Ireland is taken up by John R. Young in his article on the refugees who
arrived in Scotland. He analyzes the form and extent of official relief
ordered in Scotland. This relief was administered by local churches, and =
it
is in their records that many refugee women in particular are found.

The Cromwellian period in Irish history is the focus of the next two
articles, with Miche=E1l =D3 Siochr=FA and John Morrill examining the =
infamous
massacre at Drogheda. Morrill supports the arguments made by Jason
McElligott against those of Tom Reilly=92s 1999 controversial book on
Cromwell. However, he cautions against charging Cromwell with blind
anti-Irishness, arguing that his actions at Drogheda, while exceptional, =
can
be understood in the context of Cromwell=92s plans in Ireland. =D3 =
Siochr=FA then
analyzes how the events at Drogheda were related both within and outside =
of
Ireland. Having two analyses of the same event is a strength of this
collection, demonstrating the importance of different perspectives on =
the
same material. Military historian John Child=92s article on the Jacobite =
wars
of 1688=9691 concludes the book with an interesting investigation of the =
ways
that the =93laws of war=94 or the customs of war, some written and some =
not,
were actually applied to conflicts. His conclusion that the wars of =
1688=9691
were not out of the ordinary in terms of violence or property damage is =
set
within the context of seventeenth-century European wars in general.

As with any collection of articles, there are disparate points of view
expressed in this book, which the editors wisely have not attempted to
harness into a completely coherent whole. Rather, the range of
interpretations offered gives a particularly useful guide to the state =
of
research in the field that will continue to be transformed over the next =
few
years as scholars harness the research possibilities of the digital
publication of the 1641 Depositions and other collections.

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Christine Dual=E9 and Rosie Findlay are developing the journal, =
Civilisations,
at the Universit=E9 Toulouse 1 Capitole. They like to go in for themed =
issues
- the latest Civilisations n=B0 11 is on the theme of Le Rejet / =
Rejection.

It includes this article

Anna-Marie O'Connell (UT1), The Irish Hedge Schools: rejection, =
resistance
and creativity (1695-1831).

http://www.univ-tlse1.fr/78437940/0/fiche___document/&RH=3Dpresses

Christine Dual=E9 et Rosie Findlay (dirs.)
"Le Rejet / Rejection".=20
Civilisations n=B0 11.
Toulouse: Presses de l'Universit=E9 Toulouse 1 Capitole. 294 p.
ISBN 978 2 36170-026-3
Prix 20 euros

Table des mati=E8res / Contents

Christine Dual=E9 et Rosie Findlay (UT1), Introduction.
Patricia Ban=E8res-Monge (Montpellier III), L'Espagne des refus : les =
'statuts
de puret=E9 de sang' dans le royaume de Valence, entre la fin du XVe et =
le
d=E9but du XVIe si=E8cle.
Christine Dual=E9 (UT1), Rejecting racism? The taboo around 'race' and =
racism
in France and in America.
Anna-Marie O'Connell (UT1), The Irish Hedge Schools: rejection, =
resistance
and creativity (1695-1831).
Tri Tran (Tours), The London Matchgirls' rejection of inhumane =
industrialism
in 1888: some new perspectives.
Laurence Matthewman (UT1), Rejet social, rejet spatial et rejet d'un =
genre :
la femme folle dans l'Angleterre victorienne illustr=E9e par quelques
exemples.
Marie-Annick Mattioli (IUT Paris Descartes), Le rejet de la carte =
d'identit=E9
au Royaume-Uni.
Fanny Lauby (Paris III), Les =E9tudiants sans papiers aux Etats-Unis : =
une
menace pour les universit=E9s publiques ?
Michel Prum (Paris Diderot), Le Rejet du capitalisme chez Charles Hall.
Pierre M. Martin (UT1), Terrorisme de rejet et rejet du terrorisme.
Fiona Simpkins (Lyon 2), Post-devolution politics in Scotland: rejecting
Britishness.
Kelly Moctar (Toulouse 2), Was the Scottish lion 'feart'? Parliament, =
the
people and the Scotland Act of 1978.
Erika Thomas (Paris III), Ilha das Flores (J. Furtado, 1989) : les
trajectoires de l'exclusion.
Boris Maynadier (UT1), Le rejet des objets : une exp=E9rience sensible =
entre
densit=E9 et h=E9donisme.
M=E9lisande Fitzsimons, The Envelope.

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SEE ALSO

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P.U.S.S : CIVILISATIONS N=B0 9
L'ADULTE EN MINIATURE / UNE VIE PRIVEE D'ENFANCE

which includes
Christian Mailhes (UT1) - Les enfants et la violence
dans le conflit nord-irlandais