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Subject: Thesis,
Ports of recall: Memory of the Great Irish Famine in Liverpool
and Montreal
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Ports of recall: Memory of the Great Irish Famine in Liverpool and Montreal
by McMahon, Colin, Ph.D., York University (Canada), 2010, 397 pages; AAT
NR80549

Abstract (Summary)
This dissertation is a transnational and comparative study of Great Famine
memory from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century. It examines
how Irish groups in Liverpool and Montreal commemorated the Great Famine
(1846-51), a catastrophe that claimed the lives of one million people
through starvation and disease and spurred the emigration of another two
million. As the busiest British and Canadian urban ports of entry during the
Famine migration, Liverpool and Montreal struggled to cope with the influx
of Irish refugees, particularly in 1847 when typhus epidemics struck both
cities, killing thousands, despite the implementation of quarantine
measures. Though most of the Irish newcomers out-migrated subsequently,
memory of the devastation wrought settled into popular historical
consciousness. In the century spanning the Famine's jubilee and
sesquicentenary, Irish groups on both sides of the Atlantic kept Famine
memory alive through political rhetoric, religious rituals, and historical
commemoration, often recalling it as the traumatic genesis of Irish
emigration and mobilizing its memory in service of various forms of Irish
nationalism.

This study, however, demonstrates that Famine commemoration, which took
different forms in the changing social and spatial contexts of Liverpool and
Montreal, functioned as more than a conduit for the transmission of Irish or
Irish-American nationalism. The Famine was a memory through which collective
identities--ranging from the local to the diasporic--were generated,
maintained, and modified over time. During the most intense phases of
commemoration, which coincided with the Famine's 50 th and 150 th
anniversaries, groups in Montreal and Liverpool used this memory to bolster
claims to political power, to elevate their socio-economic standing, to
strengthen local, national, and diasporic solidarities, and, most recently,
to combat world hunger. Yet this study also highlights the different ways in
which the Famine was commemorated and the distinct Irish identities that
were organized in Montreal and Liverpool, as these cities were affected
uniquely by their proximity to the people and politics of Ireland and its
diaspora, processes of urban restructuring, shifting socio-economic
relations, the changing role of Irish Catholic parishes as centres of
community, and the creation of sites of memory and memorial practices.

Indexing (document details)
School: York University (Canada)
School Location: Canada
Keyword(s): Irish Famine, Liverpool, England, Montreal, Quebec
Source: DAI-A 73/01, Jul 2012
Source type: Dissertation
Subjects: Canadian history, European history, Modern history
Publication Number: AAT NR80549
ISBN: 9780494805497
Document URL:
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink?did=2498891041&Fmt=7&clientI
d=79356&RQT=309&VName=PQD

ProQuest document ID: 2498891041

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Subject: Article,
The U.S. and Irish Credit Crises: Their Distinctive Differences
and Common Features
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Journal of International Money and Finance
In Press, Accepted

The U.S. and Irish Credit Crises: Their Distinctive Differences and Common
Features
Gregory Connor a, Thomas Flavin a, Brian O'Kelly b,


Purchase
a NUI Maynooth, Ireland
b Dublin City University, Ireland

Available online 10 November 2011.

Abstract
Although the 2007-2008 US credit crisis precipitated it, the subsequent
Irish credit crisis is an identifiably separate one, which might have
occurred in the absence of the U.S. crash. The distinctive differences
between them are notable. Many of the apparent causal factors of the U.S.
crisis are missing in the Irish case; and the same applies vice-versa. At a
deeper level, we identify four common features of the two credit crises:
capital bonanzas, asset price bubbles, regulatory imprudence, and moral
hazard. The particular manifestations of these four "deep" common features
are quite different in the two cases.

Article Outline
1. Introduction
2. Differences between the US and Irish Crises
3. Asset price bubbles
4. Capital flow bonanza
5. Regulatory Imprudence
6. Moral Hazard
7. Summary and Conclusions
References

We wish to acknowledge support from the Science Foundation of Ireland under
grant 08/SRC/FM1389.

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Subject: CFP Diaspora and Race, October 25-27, 2012,
Wake Forest University (North Carolina, USA)
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CALL FOR PAPERS: International Conference
Title: DIASPORAS AND RACE
Conference dates: October 25-27, 2012
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: February 1, 2012

Place: Wake Forest University (North Carolina, USA)

In the wake of the 2011 conference on =B3Diasporas and Cultures of =
Migration=B2
that was held at Montpellier, University Paul Val=E9ry, the convenors of =
this
conference wish to extend and expand the reflection on the concept of
diaspora, its uses, its limits, or even its outright rejection as a =
useful
concept, by focusing on the links between diasporas and =B3race.=B2
Diasporas have always had to negotiate new articulations of =
ethnic/racial
identities while individuals had to make do with contexts already =
defined by
certain types of racial relations and the evolutions of racial =
transnational
references. The emergence of new racisms and of new racialized =
identities
reconfigures class hierarchies, which often results in violence against
migrants.

Does the prism of diaspora allow for a clearer conceptualization of the
concept of =B3race=B2 as a socio-historical construction and a surface =
of
projection that depends on context? Does diasporic belonging constitute =
a
response to racism and imposed ethno-racial identities? How have =
populations
appropriated it to foster local and global socialities and practices?
The terms creolization, transnationalism and cosmopolitanism, which =
certain
scholars prefer to diaspora, entertain certain specific relations to =
=B3race=B2:
do these new concepts help or create blind spots when it comes to racial
identity, racialization, multiracialism or the erasure of =B3race=B2?
What happens when we also address these issues in terms of gender and =
class?
What role does the mediation of art and literature play in these =
evolutions?
Are there specific artistic creations that emerge from/at this juncture? =
Is
there an aesthetics that simultaneously addresses issues of race and
diaspora? Can one point to the appropriation, the creation and the
circulation of images that translate diasporic sensitivity? Is race a
component of this aesthetics or is it left out as irrelevant?

If diaspora moves =B3beyond race=B2, how does diaspora intersect with =
gender
relations, religious identities and concepts of geography and space? Can =
we
address the link between the environment and the migrations linked to
diasporic movement? Can we speak of a postcolonial ecology? Can these =
issues
ultimately be thought within the wider frame of the human and the =
natural?
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS (maximum 250 words): February 1, =
2012
Please submit a short bio-bibliographical notice as well (maximum 200 =
words)
and copy the five co-convenors of the conference in your email.

Diasporas, Cultures of Mobilities, Race Conference series

This will be the second meeting in the series organized by the research
center EMMA (University Paul-Val=E9ry, Montpellier 3, France) over =
2011-13
which gathers leading scholars in the field to identify and assess the =
joint
evolutions of Diaspora Studies and Race studies to better understand:
1) how these approaches can be cross-fertilising; 2) how socio-economic =
and
political changes have affected race relations and diasporic =
communities; 3)
how literature and the arts, the social sciences and cultural studies =
have
seized that question. This project entails a redefinition of terms and
concepts and the confrontation of different, but not necessarily =
divergent,
perspectives.

A preparatory symposium, =B3Diasporas and Cultures of Migration=B2 was =
held at
University Paul-Val=E9ry, Montpellier 3 in June 2011, in partnership =
with CAAR
(Collegium for African-American Research), the Centre de Recherches
Litt=E9raires et Historiques de l=B9Oc=E9an Indien (CRLHOI, University =
of La
R=E9union), the Centre of South Asian Studies (CSAS, University of =
Edinburgh,
UK), the Department for Continuing Education (University of Oxford), the
Institut de Recherche Intersite Etudes Culturelles (IRIEC, University
Paul-Val=E9ry, Montpellier 3), the International Institute of Migration =
(IMI,
University of Oxford), the MSH-Montpellier (Maison des Sciences de
l=B9Homme-Montpellier), Wake Forest University (North Carolina, USA), =
Wesleyan
University (USA). Leading scholars assessed the state of the debate in
preparation for this second event. The third conference, =
=B3African-Americans,
Race and Diaspora, scheduled for June 13-15, 2013 at University
Paul-Val=E9ry, Montpellier 3, will be specifically dedicated to the
interlocking issues of =B3race=B2 and the Black Diaspora. The concluding
symposium, scheduled for October 25-26, 2013, at the University of =
Oxford,
UK, will allow for final reflections.


Partners for the conference at Wake Forest University:
CAAR (Collegium for African American Research)
Department for Continuing Education (University of Oxford, UK)
IRIEC (Institut de Recherche Intersite Etudes Culturelles, Universit=E9
Paul-Val=E9ry, Montpellier 3, France)
EMMA (Etudes Montpelli=E9raines du Monde Anglophone, Universit=E9 =
Paul-Val=E9ry,
Montpellier 3, France)
MIGRINTER (CNRS, Universit=E9 de Poitiers, France)
Wake Forest University (North Carolina, USA)


Co-convenors:
Dr Sally Barbour (Wake Forest University, USA) barbour[at]wfu.edu

Dr David Howard (University of Oxford, UK) david.howard[at]conted.ox.ac.uk

Dr Thomas Lacroix (IMI, Univ. of Oxford, UK; MIGRINTER, Universit=E9 de
Poitiers, France) thomas.lacroix[at]univ-poitiers.fr
Dr Judith Misrahi-Barak (EMMA, Universit=E9 Paul-Val=E9ry - Montpellier =
3,
France) judith.misrahi-barak[at]univ-montp3.fr

Pr Claudine Raynaud (EMMA, Universit=E9 Paul-Val=E9ry - Montpellier 3, =
France)
claudine.raynaud[at]univ-montp3.fr

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WEBSITE AT www.IrishWorldAcademy.ie

-- Ethnomusicology aims to discover, document, and deepen appreciation of
human musical life in all its richness and diversity.

-- Ethnomusicology seeks to understand the processes by which music is
imagined, made, heard, and discussed among human beings, anywhere and
everywhere, by following musics as these circulate from person to person and
through various media.

-- Ethnomusicology asks how musical experience becomes meaningful for
individuals who come together in social groups of all types, ranging in
scale from nations to families, and no matter whether they gather together
in the intimacy of their homes or communicate through the far-flung networks
of the world-wide-web.

-- The Master of Arts in Ethnomusicology at the Irish World Academy of Music
and Dance at the University of Limerick, is a one-year taught post-graduate
degree that trains students in the field's histories, theories, and methods
in relation to a variety of world musics. Musical practice is an important
part of the program and is a central modality through which to engage in
research.

-- The course caters to the international interest in Irish traditional
music and contributes to the growing significance of ethnomusicology as an
academic discipline. It was the first programme of its kind in an Irish
University and it continues to work in this pioneering spirit. Directed by
Dr. Colin Quigley, who teaches core seminars in theory and method, its
modules also incorporate contributions from other members of our faculty,
one that is renowned for its collective expertise in both Irish music and
ethnomusicology.

-- Founded together with the Master of Arts Degree in Ethnochoreology (the
anthropology of dance), the two programmes interact frequently in both
practical and theoretical modes. Collaborations with the MA in Irish
Traditional Music Performance is also a prominent feature of ethnomusicology
study in the Irish World Academy. The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance
offers a suite of taught postgraduate and two undergraduate courses in music
and dance related subject areas. Its research is at the forefront of these
fields of enquiry worldwide.

As well as Ethnomusicology and Ethnochoreology, programmes include Master of
Arts degrees in Classical String Performance, Contemporary Dance
Performance, Community Music, Irish Traditional Dance Performance, Irish
Traditional Music Performance, Music Therapy, Music Education and Ritual
Chant and Song. Phone: + 353 61 202917

Email:
irishworldacademy[at]ul.ie

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Subject: Undergraduate dissertation,
Irish criminality in Victorian Bristol in 1881
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University of Bristol
Department of Historical Studies
Best undergraduate dissertations of
2011

Matthew Smith
'The ready made nucleus of degradation and disorder': an examination of
Irish criminality in Victorian Bristol in 1881

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/history/ug/ugdissertations/2011smith.pdf

p 3 '...One of the most important areas yet to be analysed by historians
looking at Irish criminality is the south west, and in particular the port
city of Bristol. Despite its proximity to Ireland, passenger links to the
important Irish cities of Cork, Dublin and Waterford, and containing a
significant Irish population, Bristol has been significantly undervalued in
the study of the Irish Diaspora and has been the subject of only three
published individual works, none of which deal directly with the
relationship between the Irish and crime in the city...'

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Subject: Illegal Migration and Gender in a Global and Historical
Perspective, available in open access format
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This useful collection is freely available, as a PDF download, at the =
web
link, below... =20

'The differences between men and women involved in migration have
been studied from various angles in the last decades (Sinke 2006).
However, study of the =91illegal=92 side of migration has remained =
relatively
sparse. A special issue of International Migration Review on gender and
migration offers an impressive overview of what has been written on
gender differences in migration in recent years (Donato, Gabaccia,
Holdaway, Manalansan & Pessar 2006), but the focus has mainly been
on legal migration. Not much light is shed on the historical roots and
global differences within illegal migration. In this book we therefore =
use
a historical and global perspective to look at illegality =96 one of the
leading subjects of current debates on migration =96 and the way the
construction of illegality can help us understand migration from a =
gender
perspective. Since the construction of migrant illegality is related to =
the
construction of citizenship, research into the construction of migrant
illegality clarifies how citizenship is defined and how mechanisms of
inclusion and exclusion work out differently for men and women...'

I can see two mentions of the Irish experience, both of them within a
comparative context, both of them interesting issues: the removal of =
Irish
people under the English Poor Law, and patterns of gender and =
emigration.

P.O'S.


=20
Amsterdam University Press and the IMISCOE Network Office are delighted =
to
inform you that the book

Illegal Migration and Gender in a Global and Historical Perspective

published in the IMISCOE-AUP Series is now available in open access =
format.

This ensures worldwide online access to it as a full-length, cost-free
downloadable file hosted by the Open Access Publishing in European =
Networks
library, known as OAPEN.

You can read and download, free of charge, an electronic version of =
Illegal
Migration and Gender in a Global and Historical Perspective here:
http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=3D340072;keyword=3Dimiscoe


Author(s) Schrover, Marlou, Leun, Joanne van der, Lucassen, Leo &
Quispel, Chris
Publisher Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam
Published 2008
Subjects Society and social sciences, Sociology and anthropology
Society and social sciences, Sociology and anthropology
Abstract Two issues come to the fore in current debates over
migration: illegal migration and the role of gender in illegal =
migration.
This incisive study combines the two subjects and views the migration
scholarship through the lens of the gender perspective, investigating
definitions of citizenship and the differences in mechanisms of =
inclusion
and exclusion for men and women, producing a comprehensive account of
illegal migration in Germany, the Netherlands, Great Britain, the Soviet
Union, Mexico, Malaysia, the Horn of Africa and the Middle East over the
nineteenth- and the twentieth centuries.
Abstract (other language) Twee onderwerpen staan centraal in het
hedendaagse debat over migratie: illegale migratie en de verschillen =
tussen
mannen en vrouwen binnen migratie. In dit boek worden deze gecombineerd =
en
wordt illegaliteit van migranten verklaard vanuit een genderperspectief. =
Dit
onderzoek maakt duidelijk welke definities van burgerschap er worden
gebruikt en hoe mechanismen van in- en uitsluiting voor mannen en =
vrouwen
kunnen werken. Dit onderzoek benadert de illegaliteit van migranten =
vanuit
een interdisciplinair, socio-legaal en historisch vergelijkend =
perspectief.
Het boek heeft betrekking op een lange periode (de negentiende en =
twintigste
eeuw) en een groot geografisch gebied (Duitsland, Nederland, Engeland, =
de
VS, Mexico, Maleisi=EB, het Midden Oosten, de Hoorn van Afrika, de =
Sovjet Unie
en Pakistan).
Keywords Anthropology
Sociology
Number of pages 196
ISBN 9789089640475
Rights All rights reserved

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Subject: TOC Irish Economic and Social History, Volume 38, Number 1,
November 2011
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The latest issue of Irish Economic and Social History. I'll send on
separate emails about the first two articles...

Irish Economic and Social History
ISSN 0332-4893
Volume 38, Number 1, November 2011


Articles

Coercion in the Irish countryside: The Irish smallholder, the state, and
compulsory tillage 1939-45=20
pp. 1-17(17)=20
Author: Evans, Bryce

Symposium: Booms and busts: Cycles in Irish economic history and the =
current
downturn=20
pp. 18-88(71)

Review articles

'Everything and nothing spoken': Tales from the Celtic Tiger Twilight=20
pp. 89-102(14)=20
Authors: h=D3gartaigh, Ciar=E1n =D3

West Belfast exceptionalism: Richard S. Grayson's Belfast Boys=20
pp. 103-107(5)=20
Author: Fitzpatrick, David

Thesis abstract=20
pp. 108-110(3)
Selected list of writings on Irish economic and social history published =
in
2010

Selected list of writings on Irish economic and social history published =
in
2010=20
pp. 111-121(11)=20
Author: Keogh, Richard A.
Reviews

Reviews=20
pp. 122-169(48)

Secretary's report
Economic and Social History Society of Ireland
Report of the Honorary Secretary, 2010=20
pp. 170-171(2)

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Subject: Article,
Coercion in the Irish countryside: The Irish smallholder,
the state, and compulsory tillage 1939-45
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Coercion in the Irish countryside: The Irish smallholder, the state, and
compulsory tillage 1939-45

Author: Evans, Bryce

Source: Irish Economic and Social History, Volume 38, Number 1, November
2011 , pp. 1-17(17)
Publisher: Manchester University Press
=20
Abstract:
This paper traces the origins and enforcement of the policy of =
compulsory
tillage introduced by the Fianna F=E1il government in response to =
war-time
food shortages. It emphasises the increasing demands made on small =
farmers,
the harshness with which the policy was enforced, and the evidence for
widespread resentment and attempted resistance within the farming
population. Challenging previous studies, it argues that Sean Lemass's
advocacy during this period of the compulsory rationalisation of =
agriculture
reflected a lack of understanding of the nature of Irish farming.

Keywords: SECOND WORLD WAR; AGRICULTURE; TILLAGE; LEMASS; FIANNA F=C1IL

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Symposium: Booms and busts: Cycles in Irish economic history and
the current downturn
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Symposium: Booms and busts: Cycles in Irish economic history and the current
downturn

Mary Daly
Brian Girvan
Frank Barry
Eoin O'Leary

Source: Irish Economic and Social History, Volume 38, Number 1, November
2011 , pp. 18-88(71)
Publisher: Manchester University Press

Abstract:
Historians have long debated the relationship between Ireland's long-term
economic performance and the distinctive features of its culture and
political system. The catastrophic downturn that has taken place since 2008,
coming at the end of a period of unprecedented growth, has given these
questions a new and pressing relevance. By historicising fluctuations and
economic crisis in the more distant past, economic historians can provide
important insights for contemporary debates. The four items in this
symposium are revised versions of papers delivered to the Annual Conference
of the Irish Economic and Social History Society, which was held at
University College, Cork, on 17-18 September 2010. Mary Daly's paper covers
the belated Irish reaction to the Great Depression in the 1930s, while Brian
Girvan argues that the failure of the Irish establishment to engage
positively with the new international economic institutions established
after the Second World War exacerbated Irish economic difficulties in the
1950s. Frank Barry has focused closely on the Exports Profit Tax Relief
Scheme of 1956, as a major turning point which led to greater foreign direct
investment thereafter. The final paper by Eoin O'Leary suggests that the
small scale of the Irish economy was an important factor in accounting for
recent spectacular growth trends, arguing that centralized economic policies
are unsuitable for an economy the size of the Republic of Ireland.

Keywords: DEPRESSION; ECONOMIC POLICY; CELTIC TIGER; TAXATION; AGRICULTURE;
PROTECTIONISM

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Subject: Article,
Irish immigrants in Scotland's shipyards and coalfields:
employment relations, sectarianism and class formation
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Irish immigrants in Scotland's shipyards and coalfields: employment
relations, sectarianism and class formation

Authors: Foster, John 1; Houston, Muir 2; Madigan, Chris 3

Source: Historical Research, Volume 84, Number 226, 1 November 2011 , pp.
657-692(36)

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Abstract:
This article examines relations between Catholic and Protestant Irish
immigrants in two Clydeside towns, Govan and Kinning Park, and two
Lanarkshire mining towns, Airdrie and Coatbridge, for the half century after
1841. It finds evidence of greater social distance and sectarian conflict in
the Lanarkshire towns, particularly from the eighteen-fifties onwards, than
on Clydeside. It seeks to explain these differences in terms of the collapse
of trade union organization in north Lanarkshire after 1850 as against its
vigorous development among all grades of workers in Clydeside shipbuilding
from the eighteen-sixties.

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: University of the West of Scotland 2: University of Glasgow
3: Glasgow

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Subject: Article, Peace through Economic Opportunity,
Cross-Cultural Understanding and Public-Private Partnership
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Peace through Economic Opportunity, Cross-Cultural Understanding and
Public-Private Partnership: A Case Study of the Irish Peace Process Cultural
Training Programme

Authors: Carstaphen, Nike; Avruch, Kevin; Collins, Laurel

Source: Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, Volume 6, Number 2, 2011 ,
pp. 73-87(15)

Publisher: Journal of Peacebuilding and Development

Abstract:
In support of the Irish Peace Process, the Walsh Visa Programme provided job
and training opportunities in the United States for unemployed youths from
Northern Ireland and designated border counties of the Republic of Ireland.
The premise was that unemployed youth from all sides of the sectarian divide
could benefit from the experience of peaceful coexistence through living and
working in a multicultural society and return home better able to contribute
to their economy and sustainable peace. More than a thousand participants
were involved in the programme over 10 years. This article summarises the
programme's challenges, achievements and lessons learned through the lens of
economic development and justice, reconciliation, and public-private
partnerships.

Document Type: Research article
Publication date: 2011-11-01

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Subject: CFP CAIS Ottawa, 20-23 June 2012,
CULTURES AND CONTEXTS IN IRELAND'S DIASPORAS
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CALL FOR PAPERS

ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE=20

CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR IRISH STUDIES/L=92ASSOCIATION CANADIENNE =
D=92ETUDES
IRLANDAISES=20

University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, 20-23 June 2012

CULTURES AND CONTEXTS IN IRELAND=92S DIASPORAS

The transposed and rediscovered aspects of Irish culture continue to =
thrive
and renew themselves throughout the New World and elsewhere. The =
interaction
of such cultures within a wider spectrum provide the opportunity to =
discover
and celebrate a wider definition of those directions towards which Irish
culture overseas is developing. The growing body of literature produced =
by
writers of Irish origin or heritage helps focus attention on the many =
Irish
communities outside of Ireland. In the same way, the social and =
political
history of the Irish in North America provides ample material for our
understanding of transposed and renewed ethnicity. =20

For the conference Cultures and Contexts in Ireland=92s Diasporas, we =
invite
proposals for papers concerning as widely as possible the various Irish
diasporas as reflected in literature, language, history, folk culture,
life-writing, gender studies, contemporary popular culture, and new =
media.
We particularly welcome papers that will address aspects of Irish =
culture in
the Francophone communities of Canada, as well as the rich heritage of =
the
Canadian-Irish experience in general. Although all papers reflecting the
Irish diasporas of North America are welcome, we also encourage the
submission of proposals concerning the Irish in South America and beyond =
the
Anglophone world. The Organizing Committee also welcomes proposals on =
other
Irish-related topics as well as proposals for special panels.

Nous acceptons des soumissions en fran=E7ais ou en anglais.

Final date for proposals: February 15TH , 2012

Contact: Paul W. Birt, PhD, Chair of Celtic Studies,=20
Arts Hall,
70, Laurier Avenue East
Room 134
Ottawa, ON Canada
K1N 6N5
pwbirt[at]uottawa.ca

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Bit of a theme in a number of items I am currently preparing for the Irish
Diaspora list - what happens when computing power is unleashed on study
within the arts and humanities.

For example, we have already seen how Google Books, Google Scholar, and the
Google Books Ngram have changed things.

Many Ir-D members will be interested in the latest Google development...

Google Scholar Citations

Some links and comments pasted in below...

I have done my own page, and have made it public...

Public URL: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=M7mdi34AAAAJ

It was not hard. First I had to separate myself out from all the other
Patrick O'Sullivans, tidy the information Google had already found, and add
to it where necessary.

The big problem for my Google Scholar Citations is The Irish world wide
series. The Google system does not like a series - and the series has been
entered in a variety of databases in a variety of ways over the years. It
has also been cited, a lot, as a 'See also...' It will be interesting to
what how Google cleverness does with all this.

What does not appear at all, of course, is my informal work - as here on the
Irish Diaspora list.

But it all sort of works. And following up the links that Google has
created I have found some really useful material that I had not known about.

P.O'S.

Google Scholar Citations Open To All

A few months ago, we introduced a limited release of Google Scholar
Citations, a simple way for authors to compute their citation metrics and
track them over time. Today, we're delighted to make this service available
to everyone!

http://googlescholar.blogspot.com/2011/11/google-scholar-citations-open-to-a
ll.html

Thoughts on Google Scholar Citations

Posted by Brian Kelly (UK Web Focus) on 22 November 2011

Citation Analysis Services

...Whenever I come across a new service which appears to provide value I am
also interested in seeing if the are alternative offerings. In part this is
to ensure that I don't find myself being locked into a single vendor. But in
addition it can also help to see ow other providers address the same area.
As the Microsoft Academic Search service is based on harvesting metadata
about papers hosted on institutional repositories, publishers Web sites and
similar resources we should expect to see similar competing services. I was
therefore pleased when I received an email last week which announced that
the Google Scholar Citations service, which I had signed up to during the
beta testing, had been opened as a public service...

http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/thoughts-on-google-scholar-citati
ons/

Google Scholar Opens Up Its Citations
November 17, 2011, 1:07 pm

By Jennifer Howard
Anyone can now track his or her citations via Google Scholar. The free
citation service is "a simple way for authors to compute their citation
metrics and track them over time," the company said in an announcement
yesterday on the Google Scholar blog. Google announced a limited-release
test of the service in July.

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/google-scholar-opens-up-its-citations
/34385

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Getting integration right? Media transnationalism and
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This article has been accepted but not yet been assigned its place in the
journal.

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Getting integration right? Media transnationalism and domopolitics in
Ireland

Gavan Titley


Abstract
This article examines the transnational media environments and experiences
of Nigerian and Chinese nationals living in Ireland. It theorizes empirical
research in the context of the mode of integration governance developed in
the Republic of Ireland during a period of significant in-migration.
Building on a theory of domopolitics, it suggests that Ireland's short-lived
integration regime deployed culture and interculturalism as resources for
the self-governing integration of all foreign nationals, while developing a
system of civic stratification designed to limit claims to citizenship and
social and economic rights. It examines the concomitant development of
public service media policies in this context. Drawing on recent discussions
of contrapuntal media readings, the article argues that transnational media
experience refracts the lived tensions inherent in the disjuncture between
the possibilities of cultural participation and the constraints of
socio-political containment.

Keywords
Integration, Ireland, transnationalism, domopolitics, multiculturalism,
Nigeria, China

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Call for Papers:

Who Owns the Legacy of Oscar Wilde?

An Interdisciplinary Conference
History and Culture Program
Caspersen School of Graduate Studies
Drew University, Madison, New Jersey=20
1-2 June 2012


Who was Oscar Wilde? =A0An aesthete who subverted philistine values, or
pandered to bourgeois taste? =A0The first modern dramatist, or the last =
of the
Victorian playwrights? An Irish nationalist, or an Anglophile? =A0A
socialist, or a shrewd literary entrepreneur? =A0An immoralist, or a new =
kind
of moralist? A philosopher, or a court jester? =A0A misogynist, or a =
feminist?
=A0A pioneer of =93queer theory,=94 or someone who never quite came to =
terms with
his sexuality?

This conference will present and debate diverse perspectives on Wilde
and his work, from many disciplines and all points on the ideological
compass.=20

Abstracts of panels or individual papers (one page/250 words maximum per
paper) should be submitted by 15 January 2012 to the Program Committee
Chair, Prof. Edward Baring (ebaring[at]drew.edu). =A0We welcome submissions =
from
graduate students as well as faculty.

Direct all other queries to the Conference Co-chairs, Prof. Christine
Kinealy (ckinealy[at]drew.edu) and Prof. Jonathan Rose (jrose[at]drew.edu). =
=A0

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Beyond
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Irish Political Studies

Volume 26, Issue 4, 2011
Special Issue: Hard Questions for Democracy: Ireland and Beyond

Introducing Hard Questions for Democracy
Raj Chari
pages 425-426


Articles

Democracy and Moral Autonomy
James L. Hyland
pages 427-437

The Values of Democratic Proceduralism
Gerry Mackie
pages 439-453

Financial and Economic Crisis: Theoretical Explanations of the Global =
Sunset
Patrick Bernhagen & Raj Chari
pages 455-472

Financial and Economic Crisis: Explaining the Sunset over the Celtic =
Tiger
Raj Chari & Patrick Bernhagen
pages 473-488

Why Vote-seeking Parties May Make Voters Miserable
Michael Laver
pages 489-500

What Gives Politics Such a Bad Name?
Heinz Brandenburg
pages 501-511

Can Compactness Constrain the Gerrymander?
Macartan Humphreys
pages 513-520

Electing Women to the D=E1il: Gender Cues and the Irish Voter
Gail McElroy & Michael Marsh
pages 521-534

Parties and Referendums in Ireland 1937=962011
Michael Gallagher
pages 535-544

Should Irish Emigrants have Votes? External Voting in Ireland
Iseult Honohan
pages 545-561

Can the Internet Reinvent Democracy?
Maria Laura Sudulich
pages 563-577

Are the Citizens of a Democracy a Just Target for Terrorists?
Colm McKeogh
pages 579-592

Bombings to Ballots: The Evolution of the Irish Republican Movement's
Conceptualisation of Democracy
Garrett O'Boyle
pages 593-606

Miscellany

Editorial Board

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Raj Chari's Introduction, pasted in below...

Irish Political Studies=20
Volume 26, Issue 4, 2011=20
Special Issue: Hard Questions for Democracy: Ireland and Beyond

Introducing Hard Questions for Democracy

Raj Chari

pages 425-426

In December 2008, Girvin and Murphy edited a significant issue of Irish
Political Studies in which contributors analysed continuity, crisis and
change in Ireland, focusing on developments during the 1960s, 1970s and
1980s. In many ways, this issue builds on their insights, but in the =
context
of a very changed Ireland. The country =96 indeed, the world =96 now =
finds
itself questioning many aspects of democratic development in the second
decade of the 2000s given the recent financial and economic crisis.
In fact the raison d'=EAtre of this issue is based on the recent global
crisis, the effects of which have been deeply felt, especially in small
states in world markets: the crisis has caused students of Irish and
comparative politics to ask some hard questions about how democracy has
evolved. Some of these are old questions with new answers; others are =
new
questions with both old and new answers. The underlying theme of Hard
Questions for Democracy is whether democracy as it was originally =
conceived
in Ireland and the world can live up to people's expectations in modern
times. That is, can democracy function democratically in the =
twenty-first
century?

With this in mind, the objectives of this issue are to address hard
questions about the theoretical, institutional, policy, partisan,
participatory and conflictive aspects of democracy that are so relevant
today.

The issue is subdivided into five main thematic sections, where each =
paper
in each section addresses specific hard questions. The first section is
=91democracy and legitimacy=92, where Hyland starts by exploring the =
roots of
democratic legitimacy and questions if democracy is really the most
desirable form of government. Mackie then ponders what the values of
democratic proceduralism are.

The second section considers =91democracy and the markets=92, focusing =
on
institutions and policymakers. In the first of two =91back-to-back=92 =
papers,
Bernhagen and Chari ask which theoretical explanations from the =
political
science literature are useful in understanding why the global financial =
and
economic crisis that started in 2007 occurred. Chari and Bernhagen then
evaluate which of these theoretical explanations are of more value in
understanding, more specifically, the crisis starting in 2008 in =
Ireland.
The third section focuses on =91democracy, political parties and =
voters=92,
offering five papers. First, Laver asks why vote-seeking parties may =
make
voters miserable. Brandenburg then reflects on what factors give =
politics
such a bad name. Humphreys questions how much of a constraint =
compactness
places on would-be gerrymanderers. McElroy and Marsh then consider =
whether
or not women's under-representation in Irish politics can be explained =
by
voter bias, or be understood in the recruitment practices of parties and
supply-side issues. Gallagher closes by asking whether referendums =
weaken
parties and constitute a threat to liberal democracies such as Ireland.

The fourth section highlights issues related to =91democracy and
participation=92. Situating the Irish case in comparative perspective, =
Honohan
contemplates whether or not Irish emigrants should have votes. Sudulich =
then
asks whether or not the Internet promotes increased political =
participation
in Ireland.

The final section examines =91democracy, violence and conflict=92. =
McKeogh
questions whether or not citizens of a democracy can be considered =
=91just
targets=92 for terrorists. Focusing on the Irish Republican movement, =
O'Boyle
finishes by asking how those who have been politically violent =
ultimately
become democrats.

In addressing significant hard questions, leading academics and rising =
stars
from around the globe are brought together, many of whom have been =
students
or colleagues of Eddie Hyland, whose =91hard questions=92 during =
seminars and
presentations have always proved to be the toughest to answer. In this
tradition, the work presented here is envisaged to provide social =
scientists
with both a basis for reflection and a foundation to pursue novel work.

Raj Chari

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This article appears in that
Irish Political Studies
Volume 26, Issue 4, 2011
Special Issue: Hard Questions for Democracy: Ireland and Beyond

Many Ir-D members will find this article by Iseult Honohan very useful
indeed - it is comparative, and looks in sufficient detail at the debates
within Ireland and within the Irish Diaspora.

Rainer Baubock and his colleagues are thanked in Iseult Honohan's
Acknowledgements. Separate email about his work follows...

P.O'S.


Irish Political Studies

Volume 26, Issue 4, 2011
Special Issue: Hard Questions for Democracy: Ireland and Beyond

Should Irish Emigrants have Votes? External Voting in Ireland

Iseult Honohan

pages 545-561

Abstract
Ireland is one of the few countries in Europe not to offer some form of
suffrage to its citizens who live abroad permanently. By contrast, it has
been a front-runner in the trend towards providing more liberal voting
regimes for resident non-citizens, as since 1963 it has allowed all
residents for the previous 6 months to vote and stand in local elections.
This paper considers the normative case for and against external voting, the
current comparative context of its increasing provision among European
countries and the range of ways in which voting rights abroad combine with
the extensibility of citizenship by descent abroad. Addressing the Irish
case, it argues that there is no basis for a general right to vote for
external citizens, but that, none the less, persisting connections and the
rate of return migration give some reason to grant votes to first-generation
emigrants, if differently weighted from those of resident citizens.

Keywords
citizenship, voting rights, Ireland, emigrants, demos, subjection

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Intimate mixing - bridging the gap? Catholic-Protestant
relationships in Northern Ireland
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Ethnic and Racial Studies

Volume 34, Issue 12, 2011

Intimate mixing - bridging the gap? Catholic-Protestant relationships in
Northern Ireland

Katrina Lloyd* & Gillian Robinson

pages 2134-2152

Abstract
For many years Northern Ireland has been a divided society where members of
the two main religious groups, Catholics and Protestants, have limited
opportunities to interact due to segregation in their social lives. Attempts
have been made to encourage religious mixing through integration in schools,
housing, and workplaces predicated on the theory that bringing people
together can improve community relations and remove prejudices - known as
the 'contact hypothesis'. However, little is known about those who enter
into mixed-religion partnerships often against the wishes of their families
and communities. This paper examines the characteristics and attitudes of
mixed-religion couples and suggests that they differ in their
socio-demographic characteristics and in their attitudes from those who
marry within their own religion. These findings add to the weight of
evidence from other countries in conflict suggesting that intermarriage has
a role to play in contributing to less sectarian views and improved
community relations.

Keywords
Intermarriage, conflict, religion, survey data, politics of identity,
Northern Ireland

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Subject: CFP New Voices Queen's Belfast, 19th-21st April 2012
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LEGITIMATE IRELAND: New Voices conference, Queen's Belfast, 19th-21st =
April
2012

From plantations to Grattan=92s parliament, poit=EDn distillers to the =
IMF
bailout, the Irish have always had a fraught relationship with =
institutions
of economic, political, social, legal and religious power. This raises
questions surrounding the legitimacy of performative and systemic =
aspects of
Irishness, which has been and continues to be in flux both north and =
south
of the border.

We invite postgraduate and early career researchers from across the
humanities and social sciences to interrogate the concept of legitimacy =
from
an historical and a contemporary perspective through papers including, =
but
not limited to, the following:

=95 =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0The spaces, performances and subversions of =
Irishness.
=95 =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Transgression and informing, surveillance and =
policing.
=95 =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Biopolitics and the regulation of the body and =
behaviour.
=95 =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0The representation of gendered and LGBTQ =
identities.
=95 =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0The challenges of multiculturalism and diaspora.
=95 =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0The relationship between Church and State.
=95 =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Economic and political accountability.
=95 =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0The national question from the Act of Union to the =
post-nation.

We invite abstracts of 250 words for 20 minute presentations to be =
submitted
by Friday 16th December 2011 to=A0newvoices2012[at]qub.ac.uk