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A new book edited by Raymond Hickey, a collection offering a =
representative
cross-section of current research on the languages of Ireland, =
specifically
Irish and English with Ulster Scots a significant addition.

The volume is reasonably priced. Because Uppsala University is
not-for-profit, they keep the costs low. The book (351 pages) sells at =
305
Swedish crowns, i.e. 45 dollars, 33.50 Euros or 29 pounds Sterling. You =
can
order copies for your library through Uppsala University (contact:
acta[at]ub.uu.se)

TOC and outline pasted in below...

Remember to have a look at Raymond Hickey's web sites
Email: raymond.hickey[at]uni-due.de
Homepage: www.uni-due.de/~lan300/HICKEY.htm
Linguistics online: www.uni-due.de/ELE
History of English: www.uni-due.de/SHE
Varieties of English: www.uni-due.de/SVE
Irish English: www.uni-due.de/IERC
Discover Irish: www.uni-due.de/DI



Researching the Languages of Ireland=20

Raymond Hickey (ed.)=20

Uppsala University Studia Celtica Upsaliensia=20

2011. x + 351 pp.; price: c 35 Euro=20

Summary=20

The chapters of this volume are intended to offer a representative
cross-section of current research on the languages of Ireland, =
specifically
Irish and English with Ulster Scots a significant addition to the =
latter.
The=20
chapters span a considerable range. Those dealing with Irish concern
themselves with the history of the language and the classification of =
Irish,
with the acquisition of Irish as a first language and with the syntactic =
and
lexical structure of present-day Irish. The chapters with English as =
their
focus encompass matters such as the use of limited databases for =
linguistic
analysis, questions of language contact, the comparison of Irish English
with other varieties, the issue of standard Irish English and the =
position
of Ulster Scots in present-day Ireland.=20

Contents=20

The Languages of Ireland. An Integrated View (Raymond Hickey, Essen)=20

The Designation of Old Irish as a =91Celtic=92 Language (Graham Isaac, =
Galway)=20

Earthquakes and their Resonances (Liam Mac Math=FAna, Dublin)=20

Early Language Acquisition in the Celtic Languages (S=E9amus Mac =
Math=FAna,
Coleraine)=20

Latin and Latin Learning in Fifteenth-Century Ireland (Erich Poppe, =
Marburg)


More on the Origin of Irish and Welsh Continuous Periphrasis (Patricia
Ronan, Lausanne)=20

On =91Phrasal Verbs=92 in Modern Irish (Arndt Wigger, Wuppertal)=20

Gender in Modern Irish (Raymond Hickey, Essen)=20

The =91Art of Making the Best Use of Bad Data=92 (Karen Corrigan, =
Newcastle)=20

Echoes of Irish in the English of Southwest Tyrone (Una Cunningham,
Stockholm)=20

English Grammar, Celtic Revenge? (Kevin McCafferty, Bergen)=20

It-Clefts in Irish English (Peter Siemund and Kalynda Beal, Hamburg)=20

The Cultural Context of ICE-Ireland (John Kirk, Belfast and Jeffrey L.
Kallen, Dublin)=20

Ulster Scots in Present-day Ireland (Raymond Hickey, Essen)=20

Raymond Hickey is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of
Duisburg and Essen, Germany.=20

Please send orders to: =20

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From: Ruth Barton [mailto:ruth.barton[at]tcd.ie]

Dear Paddy

Please could you circulate this. Thanks too for all the work you're doing
and have a great Christmas.

Best

Ruth


CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS - SCREENING IRISH-AMERICA III
WORKSHOP AT TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN

On Friday 30 March 2012 the Department of Film Studies, Trinity College
Dublin, will host a workshop titled 'Screening Irish-America III'. This
follows conferences at Boston College and at UCD and the publication of
Screening Irish-America (ed. Ruth Barton) in 2009.

Since then, a number of new films and television shows have appeared that
deal with the topic. New publications from a variety of authors and the
release of the DVD, The O'Kalem Collection 1910-1915, attest to the vibrancy
of this field of research.

We therefore invite researchers, at any level or any stage of their
research, to join us in an informal workshop to share ideas and discuss
further outcomes. We are not looking for formal papers, rather proposals for
topics for discussion at the workshop.

Please email Ruth Barton
ruth.barton[at]tcd.ie
by 27 January 2012 with a suggestion of a topic or topics for inclusion at
the workshop and an expression of interest in participating.

If you have work in progress that you would like the participants in the
workshop to read, or if you would like to present your ideas either formally
or informally on paper, you will be invited to join a Dropbox folder where
you can deposit your work. You may also wish to invite participants to read
already published work. All members of the workshop will be requested to
read all submitted written work in advance.

Confirmed participants in the workshop to date include: Dr Ruth Barton
(TCD), Prof Kevin Rockett (TCD), Prof Diane Negra (UCD), Prof Timothy
Meagher (The Catholic University of America), Tony Tracy (NUI Galway).

For all further enquiries, please contact: Dr Ruth Barton, Head of
Department of Film Studies, Trinity College Dublin.

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There are a number of debates going on in the world about the possible
futures, if any, for the humanities within the present, and changing,
university systems.

I have listed below 3 items that have been brought to our attention by Ir-D
members...

The first 2 are simply available on the web. The third, the special edition
of the journal Representations, is behind the JSTOR wall. Outsiders can get
to see the first page of each article. Which, I think, makes a point in
itself...

P.O'S.

1.
The Research Bust
By Mark Bauerlein

'In my hand I have a hefty article on a canonical English poet, published 10
years ago in a distinguished journal. It runs for 21 pages and has 31
footnotes, with extensive references to philosophy and art. The article is
learned, wide-ranging, and conversant with scholarship on the poet and
theoretical currents in literary studies. The argument is dense, the
analysis acute, on its face a worthy illustration of academic study
deserving broad notice and integration into subsequent research in the
field.

That reception doesn't seem to have happened...'
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Research-Bust/129930

2.
Faulty Towers: The Crisis in Higher Education
William Deresiewicz

'A few years ago, when I was still teaching at Yale, I was approached by a
student who was interested in going to graduate school. She had her eye on
Columbia; did I know someone there she could talk with? I did, an old
professor of mine. But when I wrote to arrange the introduction, he refused
to even meet with her. "I won't talk to students about graduate school
anymore," he explained. "Going to grad school's a suicide mission."

The policy may be extreme, but the feeling is universal. Most professors I
know are willing to talk with students about pursuing a PhD, but their
advice comes down to three words: don't do it...'


3.
The Humanities and the Crisis of The Public University
special edition of Representations (JSTOR)
Vol. 116, No. 1, Fall 2011
Edited by Colleen Lye, Christopher Newfield, and James Vernon, it addresses
many of the issues facing British and Irish Studies and academia more
generally.

Click here for the TOC
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/rep.2011.116.issue-1

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Positioning Ireland, positioning geography
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NOTE: John Sweeney's Introduction to this special issue is freely available
at the T & F web site...

http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rigy20/current

The exposed location of Ireland has always rendered it vulnerable to weather
and climate extremes. Awareness that future climate change will pose a
complex mix of impacts necessitates strategic thinking on how best
adaptation to future conditions can be achieved for Ireland. This extended
introduction to seven papers examines how different perspectives and tools
can be brought to bear on the problem. First, a historical context is needed
to learn from past mistakes and inform future strategy. Current
uncertainties are then addressed with reference to hydrological modelling
where the need to act in advance of scientific certainty is emphasised.
Analytical techniques involving satellite remote sensing and climate
envelope modelling are then shown to have considerable utility for managing
valuable habitats and biodiversity change. Weaknesses in governance systems
are highlighted with reference to the Cork floods of November 2009, and at a
local government level, where an urgent need for leadership at a central
government level to drive the climate change agenda is identified. The
interdisciplinary position of geography is seen to offer many advantages to
contribute to progress in the climate change arena.


IRISH GEOGRAPHY : Climate change: Positioning Ireland, positioning geography
VOL 44; NUMB 1 (2011)
ISSN 0075-0778

pp.1-5
Climate change: Positioning Ireland, positioning geography
Sweeney, J.

pp.7-26
Looking backward to see forward: Historical changes of public knowledge
about climate hazards in Ireland
Mitchell, J.K.

pp.27-60
Developing a predictive modelling capacity for a climate change-vulnerable
blanket bog habitat: Assessing 1961-1990 baseline relationships
Coll, J.; Bourke, D.; Skeffington, M.S.; Sweeney, J.; Gormally, M.

pp.61-80
The Cork City flood of November 2009: Lessons for flood risk management and
climate change adaptation at the urban scale
Jeffers, J.M.

pp.81-95
Against a `wait and see' approach in adapting to climate change
Murphy, C.; Bastola, S.; Hall, J.; Harrigan, S.; Murphy, N.; Holman, C.

pp.97-110
Identifying volcanic signals in Irish temperature observations since AD 1800
Galvin, S.D.; Hickey, K.R.; Potito, A.P.

pp.111-135
Object oriented classification of disturbance on raised bogs in the Irish
Midlands using medium- and high-resolution satellite imagery
Connolly, J.; Holden, N.M.

pp.137-150
Multi-level climate policies in Ireland
McGloughlin, J.S.; Sweeney, J.

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The Achill Yawl: vernacular boats in historical context on Achill
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Nicely done - excellent use of photographs from the Lawrence collection,
showing what useful details can be found in them. Though, oddly, the
photographs are credited as 'by William Mervin Lawrence...'

The Achill Yawl: vernacular boats in historical context on Achill Island,
Ireland

Authors: Meide, Chuck1; Sikes, Kathryn2

Source: International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, Volume 40, Number 2,
1 September 2011 , pp. 235-255(21)

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell


Abstract:
Achill yawls, originally introduced to Ireland as ships' boats aboard
Norwegian merchantmen, developed into distinct working vessels along Achill
Island's shores during the 19th century. These boats were subsequently
modified for recreational racing in the mid-20th century. Despite changes to
their design, they are often nostalgically viewed as traditional symbols of
an Achill islander identity, though their popularity may have been prompted
by late-19th-century British legislation. The authors take an ethnographic
approach in interpreting Achill yawls over time, contextualizing their
social functions through an exploration of primary historical and
photographic archives, extant vessels, and interviews with Achill islanders.

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Even 'Wilder Workhouse Girls': The Problem of
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The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

Volume 39, Issue 5, 2011

Even 'Wilder Workhouse Girls': The Problem of Institutionalisation among
Irish Immigrants to New Zealand 1874

Ciara Breathnach*

pages 771-794

Abstract
Studies of the Irish in New Zealand tend to focus predominantly on sectarian
issues and respective 'identities'. While class is explored to a lesser
extent, it is mainly through the lens of occupational status. Overall,
migrant poverty and criminality in that colonial setting has received the
least attention from historians, because the socio-economic profile of the
majority of Irish immigrants was generally of a higher status. This article
traces a group of poor assisted immigrants that departed Cork at very short
notice in 1874 and examines how some of them achieved notoriety in New
Zealand. Using a combination of poor law records, shipping records,
newspapers, government reports and criminal statistics, this article traces
the fortunes of the single Irish workhouse girls. Irish Poor Law registers
can be notoriously tricky to negotiate and present many problems for
historians. Periodically Poor Law Guardians invested in assisted immigration
schemes and to that end they surrendered groups of migrants. In so doing,
the guardians bound individuals by a range of similarities-marital status,
social class, fiscal means, age, abilities and gender to mention but a
few-and such groups lend themselves to case-study analysis. As prophesised
by those who argued against its foundation, the poor law network in Ireland
both created and exacerbated many social problems. In many respects, when
over-crowding occurred, it offered little by way of training and thus
created a stasis for poverty. Building on recent case studies of 'wild
workhouse girls' undertaken by Anna Clark on the South Dublin Union and
Virginia Crossman on a Wexford Union, this research explores the concept of
'modulation' used by Patrick Fitzgerald and Brian Lambkin in the context of
migration, whereby migrants were at the mercy of the host community to
decide whether they can be accepted or rejected.1

This article traces and links the 'institutionalised' behavioural patterns
of these poor, unskilled, single, young women with indefinite periods of
'modulation' in a negotiated space between rejection, vice, incarceration
and an existence on the 'outside'.

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Forwarded on behalf of
Brian Lambkin
& Christine Johnston=20


Dear colleagues and friends,

CMS Annual Report 2010-2011 =A0

May we draw your attention to our Annual Report for 2010-2011, which can =
now
be viewed and downloaded at:=20

http://www.qub.ac.uk/cms/pubs/CMS_13th_Annual_Report_2010-2011.pdf.pdf

(Moderator's Note - this link looks like it might not work, bit it does
work...)

As our Chairman warned in his Foreword last year, from this year we are =
only
distributing the Annual Report on-line, but hard copies will be =
available to
visitors in the Library, and on request we will gladly post out hard =
copies.

We have important news regarding a change to the name of the Centre (to =
be
written up more fully in next year=92s Annual Report). The Mellon family =
held
a reunion at the Ulster American Folk Park in June 2010 (the front cover =
of
the Report features their group photograph). Following this, Mr James =
Ross
Mellon II, who is President of the Scotch-Irish Trust of Ulster, made a
special visit to the Centre for Migration Studies on 12 September 2011 =
when
he re-named it, at the request of the Trust, as The Mellon Centre for
Migration Studies. So we are honoured that henceforth the Centre will be
known as The Mellon Centre for Migration Studies (MCMS).

The major digitisation project that we were engaged in with Queen=92s
University and other partners, =91Documenting Ireland: People, =
Parliament and
Migration=92 (DIPPAM), was launched on 21 March 2011 and is in popular =
use at
http://www.dippam.ac.uk/

Congratulations to our most recent group of Irish Migration Studies
students, due to graduate on 15 December: Liam Corry, our colleague in =
the
Ulster American Folk Park, who has completed the part-time MSSc degree =
with
distinction; and Lauren Ferguson and Catherine Black who have completed =
the
Irish Migration History module in the full-time QUB Irish History MA =
degree.

Please also note that our new course on =91Family, Community and =
Migration
History=92, in partnership with Libraries NI, the Ulster Historical =
Foundation
and Ballymena Council is successfully underway since October 2011 with =
over
twenty students.

The Eleventh Annual Irish Migration Studies Reunion Lecture will be =
given on
Saturday 28 January 2012 at 11.00 am by Professor Liam Kennedy of =
Queen=92s
University, Belfast:
http://www.qub.ac.uk/cms/events/Reunion_Lecture_2012/Reunion_Lecture2012_=
pro
gramme.html

As usual we look forward to welcoming back our students, past and =
present,
and friends of the Centre, old and new.

The theme of next year=92s Literature of Irish Exile Autumn School on =
Saturday
13 =A0=A0October will be related to that of the new exhibition due to =
open in
the Ulster American Folk Park in February 2012: Titanic: a window on
emigration.

We also look forward to hosting the Nineteenth Ulster-American Heritage
Symposium in June 2012:
http://www.qub.ac.uk/cms/events/UAHS_2012/UAHS_2012.html

With thanks from all of us here for your continuing interest and =
support,
and with all good wishes for the Christmas Season and New Year,

Yours sincerely,

Brian Lambkin
Director


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

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Treaty Doc 'An Conradh 1921' TG4 Premiere

New TV documentary 'An Conradh 1921', which focuses on the signing of the
1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty, will air this Wednesday on TG4 at 9.30pm. The
series was written and directed by Andrew Gallimore (In Sunshine or in
Shadow, Troid Fhuilteach (A Bloody Canvas)) and commemorates the 90th
anniversary of the signing of the Anglo Irish treaty and details the three
days in December of the negotiations and the dramatic sequence of events
that would follow.

'An Conradh 1921' will piece together the events from the period through
real life accounts of the key players involved and the men and women who
lived out the drama on the streets and villages of Ireland through
recordings by voice actors. This will be inter-cut with newly discovered and
never before seen archive footage and photographs.

Speaking about the documentary executive producer Morgan Bushe (Other Side
of Sleep, The Runway) at Fastnet Films said, "Andrew Gallimore has done an
incredible job. He's managed to unearth a ream of archive footage which has
never being seen before on Irish television; coupled with the deeply
personal first hand accounts. 'An Conradh 1921' succeeds in adding a whole
new dimension for audiences that might already have knowledge of this time
while also in my opinion making the definitive film on this period for a
first time viewer."

The documentary was made with the support of TG4 and was photographed by
Stephen Hart, with sound design by Avatar Post. It was edited by Eoin
McDonagh (In Sunshine or In Shadow, Kiss for Jed Wood) and produced by Rory
Dungan (I Hate Musicals; The Musical!, Passing).

SOURCE

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Subject: CFP A Symphony of Flavours: Music & Food in Concert,
University of Cape Verde, Friday 13, Saturday 14 July 2012
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Call for Papers
Released: 9 December 2011
A Symphony of Flavours: Music & Food in Concert
Friday 13, Saturday 14 July 2012=20
University of Cape Verde
Praia, Ilha de Santiago, Cape Verde

superb =85 delightful =85 divine =85 juicy =85 delicious =85 =
mouth-watering =85 yummy =85
lip-smacking =85 luscious =85 succulent =85 tasty =85 pleasant =85 fine =
=85 dull =85
mediocre=85 bland =85 flat =85 monotonous =85 insipid =85 unsavoury =85 =
nasty =85 horrible
=85 shocking =85 repulsive =85=20

From superb to repulsive, from divine to shocking, music and food arise =
our
finest sensitivities as well as our basic survival instincts. Sound and
taste conjugate a special relationship, and they are often presented and
represented together. The linkage between music and food has been a
traditional field for artists to express, among various emotions, love =
and
sexual desire, as well as environmental, urban, ethnic and class values =
(let
alone plain hunger). Present-day tourist guides, city handbooks and =
holidays
cookbooks are just a few examples of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of
representations based on both music and food in multiple languages and
cultures.=20

From Heinrich Biber=92s =93Mensa Sonora=94 (1680) to Gioachino =
Rossini=92s =93Quatre
hors d=92=9Cuvres=94 (1868), all the way to Compay Segundo=92s =
=93Chicharrones=94 (1977)
and =93All You Can Eat=94 by the Fat Boys hip-hop trio (1985), countless =
pieces
and songs about food, cooking and eating have been written and published
around the world. They speak about food preparation, ingredients, eating =
and
its effects in the individual and social groups. Some cultures are more
likely to sing and dance about food while others can hardly conceive the =
act
of eating without music. Furthermore, a relationship can be established
between spaces and periods where and when food is insufficient, and =
music
that is created to be =93eaten=94.=20

This multidisciplinary conference attempts to identify the
interconnectedness of music and food and their meaningful relations. =
With a
multicultural approach, papers are invited from scholars, researchers =
and
students focusing on any world culture and historical period. We invite
abstracts for oral or poster presentations related to music-food links =
from
academic fields such as history, literature, music theory, philosophy,
religion studies, anthropology, sociology, linguistics, media and
communications, migration studies, business studies, geography, =
psychology,
gender studies, art history and cultural studies. Practitioners from =
varied
professional backgrounds are also welcomed. Artistic performances =
supporting
papers are invited in music, dance, theatre and the visual arts. The
conference is organised in conjunction with the Cape Verdean Festival of
Music and Food.=20

Keynote speakers include Patrick O'Sullivan of the Irish Diaspora =
Research
Unit, Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies, University of =
Bradford.

The conference committee welcomes abstracts for oral or poster =
presentations
for the following themes:=20
1. Music to eat
- Meaning and reference in food song lyrics
- Cultural production of food music
- Cuisine poetry and musical fiction
- Musical behaviours related to food production and consumption

2. Food to listen to
- Eating with music
- Cooking melodies, harmonies and rhythms=20
- Recipes that sing and dance
- Musical representations of hunger and famine

3. Harmonious settings
- Music in dining rooms, restaurants and kitchens
- The musical environment of food
- Concerts and junk food
- Food film music=20

4. Musical business and food politics=20
- Use of music in food product advertising and promotion
- Food and music in political discourse
- Trading music for food

5. The folklore of music in food
- Musical rituals of the edibles
- Music associated to agriculture and food production
- Rhythmical cooking, melodic consumption, harmonic digestion

Proposals on other relations between food and music are encouraged.
Abstracts proposals for oral or poster presentations are to be submitted
using the email below. Proposals for pre-organised panels are also =
welcomed.
The conference languages are English, French, Portuguese and Spanish. =
The
language of the submitted abstract is the language of the presentation. =
A
selection of the papers presented in this conference will be considered =
for
the publication of a multi-author book in late 2015.

Deadlines
- Abstract to be submitted: 31 January 2012
- Acceptance confirmation: 30 March 2012

Organising Committee
Maria de F=E1tima Fernandes, Edmundo Murray, L=FAcia Cardoso
University of Cape Verde=20
Email: foodandmusic[at]unicv.edu.cv
www.unicv.edu.cv

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'Billy the Kid' PBS film explores Hispanic link

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.-His mythical exploits and jail escapes made this son of
Irish immigrants one of the nation's most famous Old West outlaws. Yet fewer
know that the man widely known as Billy the Kid was a central figure in a
violent, Irish-English land war in New Mexico, and was beloved by
Mexican-American ranchers who felt discriminated against by racist white
bankers and land thieves.

And the Kid's end came only after he refused to abandon his Mexican-American
teen girlfriend.

Despite hundreds of stories and books, movies, songs and even poems covering
the notorious Billy the Kid, the PBS series American Experience is joining
in exploring his life and myth with a new documentary set to air in January.
Filmmaker John Maggio said this documentary will focus less on Billy the Kid
the legend and more on Billy the Kid the human being.

"His whole life he was searching for a home," said Maggio. "There was more
to him that the fact that he killed and was an outlaw."

Born Henry McCarty, likely in New York City, he came to New Mexico with his
mother while searching for a better economic future. It was in Silver City,
N.M., that a young Billy the Kid learned Spanish and Mexican dances as he
mingled easily among the territory's large Mexican-American population when
others from the East Coast didn't even bother, according to Paul Hutton, a
University of New Mexico American West historian, who appears in the new
film.

When his mother died of tuberculosis when he was 15, Billy the Kid was left
an orphan and raised largely by Mexican-American ranchers and sheepherders.

This helped the Kid later when he was on the run from the law and was given
shelter by poor Mexican-Americans ranchers he befriended, Hutton said...

FULL TEXT AT

http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2011/12/11/billy_the_kid_pbs_film_explo
res_hispanic_link/

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http://www.continuumbooks.com/Books/detail.aspx?BookID=3D131834

The Great Famine
Ireland's Agony 1845-1852
by Ciar=E1n =D3 Murchadha

An engaging and moving account of this most destructive event in Irish
history.
Imprint: Continuum
Pub. date: 04 Aug 2011
ISBN: 9781847252173
272 Pages, hardcover

$29.95

Description

Over one million people died in the Great Famine, and more than one =
million
more emigrated on the coffin ships to America and beyond. Drawing on
contemporary eyewitness accounts and diaries, the book charts the =
arrival of
the potato blight in 1845 and the total destruction of the harvests in =
1846
which brought a sense of numbing shock to the populace. Far from meeting =
the
relief needs of the poor, the Liberal public works programme was a first
example of how relief policies would themselves lead to mortality.
Workhouses were swamped with thousands who had subsisted on public works =
and
soup kitchens earlier, and who now gathered in ragged crowds. Unable to
cope, workhouse staff were forced to witness hundreds die where they =
lay,
outside the walls. The next phase of degradation was the clearances, or
exterminations in popular parlance which took place on a colossal scale.
From late 1847 an exodus had begun. The Famine slowly came to an end =
from
late 1849 but the longer term consequences were to reverberate through
future decades.

Table of Contents

Prologue / 1. An Emerging People - The Pre-Famine Irish / 2. A Long =
Farewell
to the White Potatoes - The Coming of the Blight / 3. One Wide Waste of
Putrefying Vegetation - The Second Failure of the Potato / 4. The =
Blessed
Effects of Political Economy - Public Works and Soup Kitchens / 5. =
Emaciated
Frames and Livid Countenances - From Fever Pandemic to Amended Poor Law =
/ 6.
Asylum by the Neighbouring Ditches - The Famine Clearances / 7. Leaving =
this
Land of Plagues - The Famine Emigrations / 8. Exiled from Humanity - The
Last Years of the Famine / 9. The Murdered Sleeping Silently - Aftermath =
and
Explanations / Index

Author(s)

Ciar=E1n =D3 Murchadha ,

Dr Ciaran O Murchadha is based at the Department of History at the =
National
University of Ireland, Galway. His book about a single community in =
County
Clare during the Great Famine =96 Sable Wings Over the Land =96 was =
published in
1998.

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Alfred and Ireland: Irony and Irish Identity in John O'Keeffe's
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European Romantic Review

Volume 22, Issue 6, 2011

Alfred and Ireland: Irony and Irish Identity in John O'Keeffe's Alfred

Ruth Wehlau

pages 801-817

Abstract
In 1796, three plays on the subject of Alfred the Great's conquest of the
Danes appeared on the London stage, John O'Keeffe's Alfred, Richard
Cumberland's Days of Yore and John Penn's Battle of Eddington. These plays
show interesting features that differentiate them from earlier Alfred plays;
all three reflect concern with national unity and an interest in the role of
external nations within Britain, and each addresses, directly or indirectly,
a desire for extension of rights to Ireland. O'Keeffe's Alfred is especially
interesting in that O'Keeffe was an immigrant to Britain, and his play is an
ironic re-telling of the Alfred story, in which the Saxons are replaced with
Britons, and the Vikings are led by a heroic British rebel, Hastings.
O'Keeffe's interest in the political rhetoric of the period is represented
by Alfred himself, a monarch who rejects patriotism and espouses instead
universal rights. As the play's hero, Eustace, is called upon to choose
between his adopted father, Alfred, and his biological father, Hastings.
Alfred addresses the nature of national loyalty while offering us insights
into O'Keeffe's understanding of his own mixture of Irish and British
identity and the double loyalties this mixed identity entailed.

Author affiliations
Queen's University, Kingston, Canada

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Just to remind Ir-D members...

This is the last week of this offer, free access to Routledge Area =
Studies
Journals.

See below...

P.O'S.

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick O'Sullivan [mailto:P.OSullivan[at]bradford.ac.uk]=20
Sent: 04 November 2011 08:26
To: IR-D Jiscmail
Subject: Free Online Access to Routledge Area Studies Journals

This is a very useful offer from the Routledge 'Area Studies' group of
journals.

You can have free access to some 150 journals within that category until
Friday December 16.

See the email from Routledge, pasted in below.

Follow this link, and follow the instructions there...

http://www.tandfonline.com/action/showPublications?category=3D43983479

The offer includes the journals

Irish Geography
Irish Political Studies
Irish Studies Review

Unusually for this kind of free offer you seem to get access to the full
digitised back catalogue. For example I now have in my computer, for =
the
first time ever, pdf files of everything I have written for Irish =
Studies
Review over the years. =20

Including my short story, The Fiddler's Apprentice, which the ISR team =
more
or less accidentally published in 1994 - when they were still finding =
voice
and feet. (The ISR team later told me that they wish they had not =
published
that story - for short stories then flooded in. They never again =
published
a work of fiction, and soon stopped publishing new poetry...)

As ever, the advice with these access offers is to get in there, and =
store
whatever is useful on your own computer as pdf files.

Remember to look at the other journals in the offer...

For example
American Review of Canadian Studies
will get you Scott See on Nativism and Irish Famine Immigration to =
Canada,
and Houston & Smyth on Orangism.

The journal
Wasafiri
will get you Fintan Cullen on New York, Cl=EDona N=ED R=EDord=E1in on =
Translation,
Fiona Wilson on Thomas Campbell.

But search further, move beyond the usual boundaries...

The journal
Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas
gives you Gonzalo Aguilar on Rodolfo Walsh.

Rodolfo Walsh's Orwellian story (I think it is Orwellian, rather than
Borgesian) Un oscuro d=FDa de justicia was republished not long ago by
MissingBooks, Amsterdam, 2005 - see=20

http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/un_oscuro_dia_de_justicia_a_dark_day_o=
f_j
ustice/

Search on...

P.O'S.
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Access All Areas

Dear Colleague

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and related journal content for six weeks.

Simply click this link to be taken to the content.

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How will this benefit you?

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covering our Area Studies portfolio which includes the following subject
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If you have any questions about this offer please do get in contact. My
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From Fighting the War to Writing the War: From Glory to Guilt?
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This article was discovered by following the links created by my Google
Scholar Citations page - see earlier Ir-D message.

The article cites my study of MacGill and says...

"O'Sullivan's reference to the books MacGill wrote during the war as an
'expensive detour for Patrick MacGill the writer' singularly fails to do
justice both to the books and the development of the man..."

So there.

David Taylor has now written 4 interesting pieces about Patrick MacGill,
listed below...

P.O'S.


Contemporary British History

Volume 23, Issue 3, 2009

From Fighting the War to Writing the War: From Glory to Guilt?

David Taylor

pages 293-313

Abstract

Perceptions of the Great War are still dominated by the accounts of a few
canonical writers, such as Owen and Sassoon. Alternative soldier narratives
have been marginalised. The wartime writings of the ex-navvy from Donegal,
Patrick MacGill, published in 1915 and 1916, reveal an alternative
perspective that throws a different light on the meaning attached to the
war. Further, MacGill's post-war novel Fear!, published in 1921 is a
strikingly early example of disillusionment with the war and shows how, even
at an individual level, perceptions of the Great War changed dramatically as
the writer moved from near-contemporaneous to reflective writing on the
conflict.

Taylor, D. '"A Little Man in a Great War": Patrick MacGill and the London
Irish Rifles'. In War: Identities in Conflict, 1300-2000, edited by B.
Taithe and T. Thornton. Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1998, 235-49.
---. '"The Minstrel Boy to the War has Gone": Rifleman 3008, Patrick MacGill
and a Soldier's Experience of the First World War'. In The Representation
and Reality of War: The British Experience, edited by K. Dockray and K.
Laybourn. Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1999, 190-202.
---. 'Blood, Mud and Futility? Patrick MacGill and the Experience of the
Great War'. European Review of History: Revue Europeene d'Histoire 13, no. 2
(2006): 229-50.

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US Bill may permit 10,000 Irish people to obtain work visas

INES NOVACIC in New York

A US senator from New York introduced a new Bill to the United States Senate
yesterday that would annually allow up to 10,000 Irish citizens to obtain
American work visas.

Senator Charles Schumer previously wrote legislation for the diversity visa
programme, while a member of the House of Representatives, and created the
"Schumer visa", distributed to 50,000 people in countries with low rates of
immigration to America. This Bill is the first in 15 years, when the
Morrison and Donnelly visa lottery programmes were cut, that focuses
exclusively on Irish-American immigration.

"Fundamentally, the whole game has changed in the last few weeks," said
Niall O'Dowd, publisher of the Irish Voice newspaper in New York, and
co-founder of the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform. "Hispanic, Indian,
Filipino and Chinese lobby groups got their Bill through the House of
Representatives last week. Until then, it was about comprehensive,
non-country-specific immigration reform."

Members of the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform, an Irish-American
grassroots organisation, worked with Mr Schumer to push for this
legislation. Since its founding in 2005, the organisation has rallied to
counter the problem of undocumented Irish immigrants in the US and create a
quota-based legal channel for Irish to come live in America.

"This Bill is the beginning of a process," said O'Dowd. "We are reasonably
confidant it will succeed. With the recession, increased numbers of Irish
are coming to America, and we would prefer them to come legally."

James O'Malley, an immigration lawyer from Ireland, said the Irish have been
accustomed to coming to the US since the Donnelly-Morrison Green Card
Lottery in the late 1980s. This legislation fixed a 40 per cent visa quota
for Ireland from 1989 to 1996.

"This Bill is like the Australian E3 visa. It's not permanent and it doesn't
include a waiver or amnesty," said Mr O'Malley. "But I think it's great.
Senator Schumer is a friend to the Irish and a great strategist; I don't
think he'd be doing this without encouragement."

A spokesperson for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said the
Government is working with Irish-American community activists, and the
American embassy and consulates to advance the prospects of this Bill.

"The ministry welcomed the proposals being tabled this week by Senator
Schumer, with support from Senator Patrick Leahy, said Philip Grant, a press
officer for the department. While Irish politicians and activists consider
this Bill a positive development, immigration is vaulting into the spotlight
as one of the most contentious issues of the 2012 presidential race.

Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Centre for Immigration Studies in
Washington DC, said the idea of "affirmative action" for visas was
unjustifiable. "If this Bill were to pass, it would be because of nostalgia
and sentimentality, not national interest," he said. "Maybe lawmakers want
to get down something pro-immigration without angering voters."

SOURCE
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/1214/1224309044417.html

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Cartoonist Draws Ire of N.J. Irish

By HEATHER HADDON

Thomas Nast, whose antislavery political cartoons propelled him to notoriety
in the 19th century, has ignited another uproar: whether his anti-Irish and
-Catholic drawings should disqualify him from the New Jersey Hall of Fame.

Irish and Catholic groups are waging a campaign against including the father
of the American political cartoon in that group of notable New Jerseyans,
arguing that he routinely depicted them in an unfavorable light.

"He portrayed the Irish as drunken apes, and the image still remains today.
We have a lot to offer beyond that," said Sean Pender, president of the New
Jersey Ancient Order of Hibernians, a fraternal group with 2,500 members
that is campaigning against Nast's nomination. The Knights of Columbus in
New Jersey has also joined the cause...

...Nast was an abolitionist who supported equal treatment for blacks and
Asians. The anti-Irish tenure of his cartoons was a product of the times,
said Christine Jochem, the head of special collections at the Morristown &
Morris Township Library, which holds one of the nation's largest
repositories of cartoons by the artist.

Nast is credited as being instrumental with the downfall of Tammany Hall
leader Boss Tweed, who reportedly issued a bribe to try and stop the
cartoonist.

In 1902, Theodore Roosevelt appointed Nast to be the consul general to
Guayaquil, Ecuador, where he died after contracting yellow fever.

No "reputable" historian has discredited the cartoonist as a bigot, Mr.
Smith said. The Hall of Fame is encouraging those with misgivings to channel
them by voting online rather than calling the office.

"He really did champion a lot of minorities," Ms. Jochem said. "Unless you
put his work in context, it's easy to say he was racist."

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Oaths, Threats and Henry V

John Kerrigan

University of Cambridge

Abstract

Why is Shakespeare's Irish captain, MacMorris, so full of angry oaths? Why
does the valiant Fluellen profanely swear 'By Cheshu'? To address these
questions is to be led through early modern accounts of swearing into the
binding language of Henry V, with its dramatic potential not just to secure
through speech acts but to mislead, evade and threaten. This article puts
the play's preoccupation with oaths into context, both in relation to such
plays as Edward III and Richard II and more largely in connection with
sixteenth-century attitudes to gages, pledges, ransom and earnest. It
pursues binding words not just through the main, historical action but
through the King Henry and Williams plot, and the related comic sequence
that leads to Fluellen beating Pistol. Overarching the discussion is a
reappraisal of the play's relationship with the Elizabethan wars in Ireland.
Analogues of MacMorris are found in Sir Henry Sidney's Memoir and the State
Papers, while Sir Francis Bacon's observations about the oaths and vows of
princes are used to illuminate the unresolved outcome of the play's
high-political drama.

Review of English Studies (2011)
doi: 10.1093/res/hgr103
First published online: December 7, 2011

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International Review for the Sociology of Sport December 2011 vol. 46 no. 4
418-435

'Sectarianism' and Scottish football: Critical reflections on dominant
discourse and press commentary

John Kelly

University of Edinburgh, UK

John Kelly, Institute for Sport, Physical Education and Health Sciences, The
Moray House School of Education, The University of Edinburgh, St Leonard's
Land, Holyrood Road, Edinburgh EH8 8AQ, UK. Email: john.kelly[at]ed.ac.uk

Abstract

This article provides a critical discourse analysis of Scottish newspaper
reports relating to football and 'sectarianism' in Scotland. It claims that
there is a powerful and longstanding ideological 'framing' of sectarianism
in sections of the Scottish press that is latently power-laden. This
discourse attempts to construct and reaffirm a unified non-sectarian core
identity that 'real' and 'authentic' Scots (should) share in opposition to a
set of sectarian 'others'. The various connotations attached to sectarian
and sectarianism, together with their use in particular ways that reflect an
ideological hegemony, are illustrated. Much of the press treatment of
sectarianism is shown to lack sensitivity to the historical, hierarchical
and relational aspects of religious, political and ethnic identities in
Scotland.

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Women's History Review

Volume 20, Issue 5, 2011

Special Issue: The Gender of Whig Historiography: women writers and
Britain's pasts and presents

Late Disturbances: Maria Edgeworth's An Essay on Irish Bulls (1802)

Clara Tuite

pages 719-743

Abstract
This article examines Maria Edgeworth's parodic essay on the 'Irish bull' (a
form of blunder or linguistic absurdity associated with the Irish), as a
form of counter-Whig history. It argues that Edgeworth satirically
refunctions the genre of the Irish bull by interrogating its presumptive
status as an essentially Irish form of speech and exposing it instead as an
English imperial genre. Engaging the Essay against the contexts of the 1798
United Irish rebellion and the 1801 Act of Union, the article argues that
Edgeworth's Essay offers a counter-history of the Union by illuminating how
rhetorical or symbolic violence underwrites the material violence of empire.

'Ma'am, it will wear for ever, and make you a petticoat afterwards.' (Maria
Edgeworth, An Essay on Irish Bulls)1

There seems to be no limit to what tropes can get away with. (Paul de Man,
Allegories of Reading)2

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Bryan Duggan's academic articles about his Tunepal project have turned up in
our alerts, and I have distributed information about them

I thought that Ir-D members might like an update on this interesting
project. Basic information pasted in again, below, plus some links that
will take you to support and discussion...

In a way you can see the project as building on the work of Francis O'Neill
- people interested in and players of traditional Irish music have provided
Bryan Duggan with his samples and his dataset. Of course, plenty of
Carolan. Tunepal remembers tunes and notes the usual and traditional name
of that tune. It will also transpose and generate sheet music. It works on
computers and all the usual portable devices.

One development is that Bryan Duggan can map - literally map - interest in
Irish traditional music, by mapping use of Tunepal. This is not QUITE the
same thing as mapping the Irish Diaspora - but I will leave it to other
people to ponder how Bryan Duggan's data might be used.

One complaint is that no more will we have a familiar tune travelling around
the world acquiring different names here and there - people will look to
Bryan Duggan's data in order to name that tune. So, no more convincing
people that we are playing a slip jig called Paddy Burns The Toast.

P.O'S.


There is a list of his publications on Bryan Duggan's his personal web
site...

http://www.comp.dit.ie/bduggan/research.php

Note that you can pick up free PDFs of some of his articles from that web
site, and the original thesis.

Note especially
Bryan Duggan, "Tunepal: The Traditional Musician's Toolbox", eHeritage 2010:
2nd ACM Workshop on eHeritage and Digital Art Preservation, 25 October 2010,
Firenze, Italy. (2010) |pdf|

Bryan Duggan, Brendan O' Shea, "Tunepal - Disseminating A Music Information
Retrieval System To The Traditional Irish Music Community", 11th
International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR
2010), Utrecht, Netherlands, August 9th to 13th, 2010. (2010) |pdf|

The Irish Diaspora Studies element is very visible in both those articles -
with, for example, homage to Francis O'Neill.

The best introduction is here...

TunePal traditional/folk Music Search Engine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEcBvWMKSqk

See also LECTURE
Tunepal - Tracking the playing of Traditional Irish Music using Mobile Apps
and Google Maps

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dsNft7E_XQ

The slideshow is here

http://www.slideshare.net/LAICMG/tunepal-7548659

http://www.comp.dit.ie/bduggan/index.htm

There is a helpful support blog

http://tunepal.wordpress.com/

http://www.comp.dit.ie/bduggan/TunePal.html

The Session has an ongoing discussion about Tunepal

http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/22327/comments

See also Melodeon net

http://forum.melodeon.net/index.php?topic=7272.0