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Eastwood receives new Irish honour

Film great Clint Eastwood has been honoured with the inaugural John Ford
Award from the newly established John Ford Ireland, an annual symposium
celebrating the life and work of the legendary Irish-American filmmaker.

=C1ine Moriarty, Chief Executive of the Irish Film & Television Academy
(IFTA), and Michael Collins, Irish Ambassador to the US, presented the =
award
to Eastwood at a reception in Burbank, California, which was attended by
members of the Ford family, including the director's grandson, author =
Dan
Ford.

Eastwood said of the honour: "This is a great privilege for me because =
any
kind of association with John Ford is most directors' dream as he was
certainly a pioneer of American filmmaking and I grew up on his films.=20

"His Westerns had a great influence on me, as I think they had on =
everybody.
When I worked with Sergio Leone years ago in Italy, his favourite =
director
was John Ford and he spoke very openly about that influence.

"I want to thank everybody who is here from the Irish Academy, the John =
Ford
family and thank you to John Ford Ireland."

John Ford Ireland has been established by the Irish Film & Television
Academy in association with the John Ford Estate and the Department of =
Arts,
Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

The inaugural symposium will take place in June 2012 in Dublin and will
include screenings, exhibitions, discussions, masterclasses, lectures =
and
public interviews, with more details to be released in the new year.

A film school and scholarship programme will also be established in year
two.

SOURCE
http://www.rte.ie/ten/2011/1214/eastwoodc.html#IDCommentsNewThreadCover

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Winter 2011 "France and Ireland: Cultures en crise"
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This link takes you directly to the pdf of =20
Journal of Franco-Irish Studies, 2, Winter 2011 =93France and Ireland:
Cultures en crise=94=20

http://www.it-tallaght.ie/contentfiles/Documents/research%20and%20innovat=
ion
/research_centres/ncfis/winter_2011.pdf

Quite a lengthy pdf - not the ideal way to do this. So, go carefully...

TOC extracted and pasted in, below...

P.O'S.


J O F I S
N u m b e r 2, W i n t e r 2 0 1 1=20

Contents=20

Introduction=97France and Ireland: Cultures en crise=20
6-12

I. Contemporary Political, Theoretical and Linguistic Crises in Irish
Fiction and Drama=20

=93Foreign to One Another: The Critical Relationship between=20
=91Protholics=92 and =91Cathestants=92 in Some Short Stories by John=20
McGahern and William Trevor=94=20
Claudia Luppino, University of Florence =20
13-33 =20

=AB =AB What am I if I'm not words? =BB : la crise de l'identit=E9 et la =
faillite=20
du langage dans Bedbound d'Enda Walsh =BB=20
Jeanne Le Besconte, National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies/
CRBC-Rennes 2=20

II. French and Irish Identities in Crisis

=93Identity Crisis in James Joyce=92s Dubliners=94
Mark Corcoran, NUI Galway =20
54-68=20

=93Emaciated identities in William Trevor=92s =91Lost Ground=92 and =
Charlotte
Bront=EB=92s Jane Eyre=94=20
Catherine O=92Brien, Mary Immaculate College, University of=20
Limerick =20
69-82=20

=93Intertextual Identities: The Crisis of Voice and Location in Jane =
Eyre and
Wide Sargasso Sea=94=20
Kristy Butler, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick
83-108=20

III. Crises of Being and Health in Ireland and France=20

=93=91Are We Not Men?=92 The Effect of Cloning on Traditional Theories =
of Humanity
and Personhood=94=20
Michelle Kennedy, Mary Immaculate College, University of=20
Limerick =20
109-133=20

=93Reading the Novel: a Gothicized =91Enterprise of Health=92=94=20
Claire McGrail Johnston, Mary Immaculate College, University=20
of Limerick
134-157=20

=93Idea-making and Crises: Contradictions between the Presentation,
Argumentation and Form of Ideas in Selected Works of Descartes and =
Voltaire=94

Lauren Clark, University of Sunderland =20
158-183=20

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Subject: New Journal, Short Fiction in Theory and Practice. Volume 1,
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This new journal will interest many Ir-D members, given that the short story
figures so largely in the study of Irish literature. And that Irish
literature figures so largely in the study of the short story...

The first issue is available on the web site - access is free, to give you a
sense of scope and direction.

P.O's.

Short Fiction in Theory and Practice
ISSN 2043-0701, Online ISSN: 2043-071X
Volume 1, Number 1, 1 January 2011

Principal Editor
Ailsa Cox
Edge Hill University
coxa[at]edgehill.ac.uk

Aims & Scope
Short Fiction in Theory and Practice is an interdisciplinary journal
celebrating the current resurgence in short-story writing and research.
Looking at short fiction from a practice-based perspective, it explores the
poetics of short-story writing, adaptation, translation and the place of the
short story in global culture.

While all submissions are peer-reviewed, we aim to be inclusive.
Contributions are welcome from individuals who do not consider themselves
academics, and may take the form of personal commentaries, reflections,
interviews and reviews, as well as conventional essays. We are pleased to
consider proposals from those publishing or promoting the short story, as
well as from short-story writers.

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/fict

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/fict/2011/00000001/00000001

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mike.collins[at]ucc.ie

Dear Patrick

We have just received notification that "Irish Blood, English Heart" ISBN
9781859184905 has just won the Hot Press Annual (out today) Music Book of
the Year. Last week it won the Sunday Times Music Book of the Year.

Cambridge lecturer Sean Campbell previously co-wrote Beautiful Day, an
analysis of Irish rock over the past 40 years. In Irish Blood English
Heart, he examines the impact made on English music by Kevin Rowland, Shane
MacGowan and Morrissey. All have credited their Irish backgrounds with
influencing their music. Along with exploring the mordant wit and powerfully
expressive lyrics that characterise the work of these artists, Campbell also
reveals some truly gobsmacking stories, including that Morrissey's
anti-Thatcherite politics compelled An Phoblacht to publish a mid-'80s
editorial
praising The Smiths, thus forging a highly improbable link between
republicanism and early alt-rock-Hot Press Magazine.

Regards

Mike

Mike Collins
Publications Director
Cork University Press

www.corkuniversitypress.com

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This review by Noel McLaughlin will appear in the journal Popular Music
History. Our thanks to Noel McLaughlin for permission to share it here.

P.O'S.


Sean Campbell, Irish Blood, English Heart: Second-Generation Irish =
Musicians
in England. Cork: Cork University Press, 2011. =A335. ISBN-13:
978-185918-461-5 (hbk).

Reviewed by: Noel McLaughlin, Senior Lecturer in Film and Television
Studies, Department of Arts, Northumbria University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
noel.mclaughlin[at]northumbria.ac.uk

One consequence of the increased diversification of popular music =
studies in
the current context has been the difficulty for any book to achieve the
status of an =91event=92 in the manner of, say, Simon Frith=92s Sound =
Effects or
Dave Laing=92s One Chord Wonders, where it is widely reviewed, known to =
all
within the discipline, and penetrates the broader world beyond the =
academy.
This contextual shift is a shame, because Sean Campbell=92s excellent =
book,
Irish Blood, English Heart, deserves a similar =91event=92 billing as it =
takes
popular music studies into exciting new territory as it considers in a
thorough and detailed fashion the complex political and musical =
tramlines,
and related creative struggles, of second-generation Irish musicians in
England. =20

Organised into three lengthy chapters, Irish Blood English Heart =
explores
three prominent examples of second-generation Irish popular musical
creativity, with a chapter each devoted to Kevin Rowland and Dexys =
Midnight
Runners, Shane MacGowan and The Pogues and, perhaps most =
controversially,
that most cultish =96 and indeed most =91English=92 of bands, The Smiths =
and
Morrissey and Marr. The focus is, therefore, solidly on the 1980s, =
beginning
with the immediate aftermath of punk and working its way through the =
decade.
As Simon Reynolds in his seminal Rip It Up and Start Again has argued,
post-punk was an important period, politically, aesthetically and =
musically,
realised in a whole series of re-inventions of rock sound. The =
significance
of post-punk period is evidently shared by Campbell but, by obstinately
focusing on ethnicity, in-between-ness and the complexities of =
post-imperial
national identity, he manages to go beyond Reynolds, who largely =
neglects
these important areas in his discussion of the =91movement=92. This =
narrowing
of the time-frame, and limiting the discussion to three artists/bands =
makes
sense for another reason: it allows the author to explore the issues and
debates concerned with precision and in depth (as there are, of course, =
many
more bands and artists of Irish descent spread over a wider period of
English popular musical history).

The 1980s is important for another, less directly musical, reason. It =
marked
the period when the Irish in England functioned as a very specific
Thatcherite =91enemy within=92 in the wake of the IRA Maze Prison Hunger =
Strikes
and a sustained bombing campaign of UK towns and cities. In the culture =
of
1980s England the Irish were frequently the victims of racism, =
negatively
stereotyped in media representation and, less occasionally to sections =
of
the Left, associated with anti-imperialist struggle.

With well over a thousand footnotes, IBEH is thoroughly researched and =
the
author attends in depth to both musical and political factors. A key =
aspect
of this fastidiousness is what the author describes as a =91systematic
trawling of British and Irish newspapers, and collation of broadcasted
materials=92. This intensive =91trawl=92 (especially of the music press) =
is
supported by lengthy interviews with key protagonists from all three =
bands
(Kevin Rowland, Shane MacGowan, Cait O=92Riordan and Johnny Marr), who =
are
judiciously quoted throughout. The combination of interview and forensic
archival research enables Campbell to construct a complex and nuanced
picture of Irish-English para-musicality. The complexities of cultural,
social and political context are skilfully described and analysed. Key
primary and secondary texts: songs, music videos, live performances, =
group
iconographies, record covers, feature articles and interviews are =
explored
with economy and by an elegant and apposite use of the tools of cultural =
and
popular musical criticism. Campbell side-steps any semblance of a simple
reflection thesis (of how, for example in Dexys or The Pogues, the music
reflects a pre-given Irishness) and instead seeks to explore =91how =
issues of
Irish ethnicity were invoked and inflected in the popular musical =
realm=92
(p.3). Politically, the overall approach might be best described, pace
Gilroy, as non-essentialist or =91anti-anti-essentialist=92. This book =
is
clearly not a simple exercise in =91naming and claiming=92 the artists =
explored
as =91really Irish after all=92. Rather, Campbell deploys Mark =
Slobin=92s edict
that music comes =91from many places=92 but reveals how, for the English =
music
press especially, the Irish aspect of these musicians=92 oeuvres had to =
be
disavowed and denied. A clear, yet contradictory, picture emerges: =
English
popular music can seemingly absorb other identities and styles and =
remain
quintessentially English, whereas Irishness is doomed to be confined to, =
and
to repeat, the rituals of a conspicuously marked ethnic authenticity. =
Thus,
to return to Slobin, if music does indeed come from many places, it is
interesting that Ireland (and Irish origins) has functioned as a type of
non-place, or non-influence: one to de denied, shot down or explained =
away
(and, in the case of the music press, often via crude =91humour=92). =
Campbell
deftly opens up and describes how these sometime Left-Liberal =
organisations
were in the ironic position of policing authentic ethnic Irishness; as
superficially evidenced in the many bad puns on =91sham=92 and =
=91rock=92 etc which
were applied to Dexys and The Pogues, through to the out-and-racism
expressed about the Irish (with Julie Burchill a principal culprit). =20
However, on the flip side, the Irish have a history of a similar type of
policing of identity. The appearance of The Pogues on B.P. Fallon=92s
Orchestra on RTE radio is one such prominent example, with traditional
musician Noel Hill particularly hostile to the group=91s raucous =
=91punking-up=92
of Irish folk and traditional musics. Campbell describes the incident
beautifully and is difficult not to be moved when one reads about =
bassist
Cait O=92Riordan=92s mix of bewilderment and antagonism in the face of =
such
Island-Irish aggression to their work. Thus, for Campbell, The Pogues =
are
rendered doubly-inauthentic: simultaneously a perversion of essential
Irishness =91at home=92 and a =91faux Paddy band=92, a version of, and a =
precursor
to, the =91plastic Paddy=92 in England. However, as the author moves on =
to point
out, The Pogues=92 power resides in, and emerges from, their =
London-Irish
musico-cultural location (and given this, it is ironic that MacGowan, in
interview with Campbell in the current context, has re-invented himself =
as
an essential Irish man).

This begins to get to heart of the book=92s strength: the detailed and =
nuanced
picture of musical hybridity it offers. This is not, as it were,
hybridity-in-the-general, whereby hybridity is simply celebrated or
critiqued (and in the abstract). Instead, the book offers a persuasive =
and
insightful analysis of hybridity-in-the-particular: hybridity for whom,
where, what and when. It gives texture to the complex types of
inbetween-ness offered in the Irish-English interface =96 in the =
interstices
between assimilation and difference, and acceptance and marginalisation.
Campbell opens up these enclosed, overlooked and particular spaces (or
contact zones) between the essentialist and the assimilated and =
consistently
steers his argument between the two poles of =91where you=92re from=92 =
and =91where
you=92re at=92. It is considerable conundrum, the book avers, that
anti-essentialist politics can be pressed into the conservative =
enterprise
of denying the Irish aspect of these musician=92s work and creative =
struggles.

This writer must confess to not being a huge fan of the three groups
profiled, being at best a casual fan of The Pogues and liking the odd =
song
by The Smiths. Shane MacGowan=92s criticisms of Too-Rye-Ay Dexys as
distasteful and retrogressive, largely described my perception of them =
as a
teenager growing up in (Northern) Ireland. However, it is a testament to =
the
quality of the book=92s argument that I was not only forced into digging =
out
old albums and reviewing material on YouTube, but was frequently =
persuaded
to revise my perceptions by the sheer quality and force of the argument.
=91Come on Eileen=92 is one such track/video I loathed; but after the =
analysis
of both, I was attuned to contradictions, musical and political =
struggles
and a very particular form of parody of which I was hitherto unaware. =20
Irish Blood, English Heart is, perhaps most importantly, a critically =
and
historically powerful assertion of the (oft-denied and overlooked) =
agency of
the migrant Irish in post-Imperial England (although the impetus and =
tenor
of the book is vehemently non-chauvanistic). It greatly assists in =
opening
and making visible (and audible) forms of popular Irish musical =
creativity
that have been caught between assimilation and ethnic difference. As
Campbell argues, the two =91strategies=92 available to the Irish-English
musician have been problematic: assertion of Irish ethnicity in the form =
of
an overt musical register (as with The Pogues and Too-Rye-Ay Dexys) has
resulted in either ethnic ghettoisation or claims of =91faux=92 Irish =
travesty;
whereas assimilation (an avoidance of overt Irish tropes) has reduced =
the
Irish aspect to a non-presence; hence the long narrative of distrust and
hostility to any claims of Irish subjectivity and identity in The =
Smiths.
Indeed, as a brief perusal of fan-sites reveals, even some =
second-generation
Irish fans of the band have been hostile to the book=92s thesis and =
claims of
Irish subjectivity informing Morrissey and Marr=92s work.

All in all this is an excellent piece of scholarship, offering an =
erudite
mix of rigorous cultural history and insightful musical analysis. In one
sense, it is a great example of a critical-theoretical autobiography of =
the
Irish-English popular musical aficionado as the author, himself, is
second-generation Irish. It is elegantly and accessibly written, =
balancing
theoretical sophistication with clear narrative exposition. It should =
appeal
to the casual reader and the academic alike. As if to confirm the =
book=92s
thesis, it has been heavily reviewed in Ireland, where it has had a high
media presence, but little reviewed in England. This is particularly
regrettable, as the book challenges the orthodox musical-historical
discourse of both nations. It is a major contribution to popular music
scholarship and Irish and English popular music in particular. It deftly
opens up and gives critical texture to the complexities of the =
in-between
spaces of the English/Irish interface, and significantly forwards
discussions of hybridity. My only criticism is that the book is only
available in hardback and hence relatively expensive.=20

References
Frith, Simon. 1983. Sound Effects: Youth, Leisure and the Politics of =
Rock
=91n=92 Roll. New York: Constable.
Gilroy, Paul. 1993. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double =
Consciousness.
London: Verso.=20
Laing, David. 1985. One Chord Wonders: Power and Meaning in Punk Rock.
Milton Keynes: Open University Press.
Reynolds, Simon. 2005. Rip It Up and Start Again: Post-punk 1978-1984.
London: Faber.=20
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From
Damian Shiels' Blog Web site...

http://irishamericancivilwar.com/

http://irishamericancivilwar.com/2011/05/05/book-review-civil-war-citizen=
s-r
ace-ethnicity-and-identity-in-americas-bloodiest-conflict/

Book Review: Civil War Citizens- Race, Ethnicity and Identity in =
America=92s
Bloodiest Conflict

The Irish experience of the American Civil War was not necessarily the =
same
as that of the native-born white American majority who bore witness to =
the
conflict. As a distinct ethnic grouping within 19th century America they
often had different motivations for engaging (or disengaging) with the =
war,
which tended to be grounded in their experiences prior to 1861 and their
hopes and aspirations for what might be achieved following the =
conflict=92s
conclusion. The Irish were not the only such group, however. Other
communities such as the Germans, Jews, Native Americans and African
Americans also had much at stake, and had to make decisions on how best =
to
navigate their way through the turbulent war years. Civil War Citizens
examines the Civil War experiences of a number of these different
communities, drawing them together for the first time in this edited =
volume.

Seven different scholars have provided papers for the book, with each
focusing on a different aspect of the experience of one of these =
=91outside
groups=92. It is edited and introduced by Susannah J. Ural, Associate
Professor of History at the University of Southern Mississippi and a =
Senior
Fellow of the Center for the Study of War and Society. Professor Ural =
has
previously authored The Harp and the Eagle: Irish-American Volunteers =
and
the Union Army, 1861- 1865, an excellent study of the motivations and
experiences of the Irish community in the North during the Civil War.

The first two chapters concentrate on the German experience of the war,
North and South. Even though more Germans fought in the American Civil =
War
than any other immigrant group, there is surprisingly little written =
about
their involvement, and it is informative to compare their war with that =
of
the Irish. Stephen D. Engle explains how German communities in the North
often grouped together in =91Kleindeutschlands=92 (Little Germanies), =
and formed
organisations such as the German American Turnvereine; these =
=91Turners=92 were
some of the first to mobilize for the war. Despite their commitment to
service, German troops often endured extreme prejudice from comrades, a
problem which became particularly prevalent following the rout of the
largely German 11th Corps at the Battle of Chancellorsville. The Germans =
in
the South often had markedly different experiences of the war dependent =
on
where they lived, as Andrea Mehrl=E4nder discusses. While many Germans =
in
Charleston were in a position to establish themselves in Southern =
society
through business activities such as blockade running, those in Richmond
struggled with being branded traitors and collaborators due to their =
close
ties with German communities in the nearby North and the compassion they
demonstrated towards wounded and captured German Federals.

Chapters 3 and 4 focus on the Irish experience. From a Northern =
perspective,
Susannah Ural examines the motivations behind Irish enlistment in Union
armies and concludes that many exhibited a dual loyalty to both Ireland =
and
the United States. For example, some were Fenians who joined up to gain
military experience for a future attempt to free Ireland, while others
sought to preserve the United States as a refuge for Irish immigrants. =
The
Irish in the North remained staunch supporters of the Democratic Party
throughout the course of the conflict, and often distrusted Republicans =
and
Abolitionists who they associated with the Know Nothing movement. =
Terrible
casualties during the battles of 1862, Lincoln=92s Emancipation =
Proclamation,
and the Draft combined to cause a dramatic reduction in Irish support =
for
the war, which manifested itself in outbreaks of violence such as the =
1863
New York City Draft Riot. This opposition to the Republican Party and =
the
Lincoln administration was remembered following the war, and was =
exacerbated
by Lincoln=92s assassination. David T. Gleeson, the author of the =
landmark
work The Irish in the South, 1815- 1877, discusses the Irish presence in =
the
Confederate military and the contribution of notable units and =
individuals
during the war, including members of religious orders. The Irish did not
perform uniformly well for the Confederacy, however. Information =
suggests
that Irish formations suffered from high desertion rates and that when
captured they often chose to take the Oath of Allegiance rather than be
exchanged. After the war, many Irish resented the added competition in =
the
labour market caused by recently freed slaves, and some became actively
involved in the =91Lost Cause=92 movement; Gleeson argues that it was =
this as
much as their service during the war that aided Irish integration in the
post-Civil war South.

The final three papers discuss the Jewish, Native American and African
American experience of the Civil War. Robert N. Rosen discusses how Jews =
in
the South generally integrated well in pre-war society. Although they =
tended
not to form themselves into distinct ethnic units, many did see their
service as a necessary act to show that those of the Jewish faith were =
loyal
and willing to fight. William McKee Evans uses three case studies to =
examine
the Native American experience of war. These are the Western Cherokees, =
the
Eastern Cherokees and the Lumbees. No matter who these tribal groups
supported, Union or Confederacy, they were destined to end up as losers, =
and
none of the groups fared particularly well after the conflict. The =
African
American experience in the North is related by Joseph P. Reidy in the =
book=92s
final paper. It examines the pre-war views of the African-American
community and the run up to the Emancipation Proclamation, before =
focusing
on the struggle for equal pay and equal citizenship rights to which =
African
American soldiers felt entitled having taking up arms to fight for the
Union.

Civil War Citizens is a revealing and informative work. The term =
=91outside
group=92 coined by the editor to describe these communities is an apt =
one;
each had to deal with particular prejudices and discrimination as they
sought to increase their citizenship rights through participation in the
war. Their own situation did not prevent them from displaying prejudice =
and
discrimination towards other =91outside groups=92, and within each =
community
there were a complex set of circumstances which dictated how they viewed
themselves and others. Bringing these papers together in one volume =
allows
the reader to compare how these communities dealt with the war, and =
explore
the similarities between what each ultimately hoped to achieve. Not only
does it provide the reader with two excellent papers on the Irish =
experience
of the Civil War, it also places the Irish community in its wider =
context
with recourse to other racial and ethnic groups. Civil War Citizens is
compulsory reading for anyone who wants to move beyond the battlefield =
and
campaigns and learn what motivated these communities to make the =
decisions
they did during America=92s bloodiest conflict.

For those who would like to find out more about the book they can read =
an
interview on the Bull Runnings blog with editor Professor Susannah Ural
here. A previous post on this site provided a link to a lecture on Irish
volunteers in the Union Army given by Professor Ural at The U.S. Army
Heritage and Education Center which can be accessed and viewed here.

References

Ural, Susannah (ed.) 2010. Civil War Citizens: Race, Ethnicity and =
Identity
in America=92s Bloodiest Conflict. 236pp.

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If any list members are coming to the US early for ACIS meeting in New
Orleans and are interested, I probably can arrange travel and an honorarium
to come to Murray to speak to my Diaspora class and give a public lecture.
Quite a few people have come to Murray over the years and I think we have
been good hosts. Unfortunately, the week after the conference is our spring
break so there will be no students to lecture to-greatly reducing the
chances of finding funding.



Let me knew if you are interested and I will see what I can arrange.



Bill

William H. Mulligan, Jr.

Professor of History

Past President, Chapter 302, The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi

Murray State University

Murray KY 42071-3341 USA

office phone 1-270-809-6571

dept phone 1-270-809-2231

fax 1-270-809-6587

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=C2=A3500,000 for Irish Cultural Centre in London

MARK HENNESSY, London Editor

THE GOVERNMENT looks set to give nearly =C2=A3500,000 to the Irish =
Cultural Centre in London to help buy its Hammersmith home. The building =
is being sold by the cash-strapped Conservative-controlled local =
council.

Under the deal, which is expected to be signed next week by Minister for =
Foreign Affairs Eamon Gilmore, the centre will be guaranteed State =
contribution provided that it raises the remaining =C2=A31.5 million =
needed before next March.

Talks have been under way for months between the Department of Foreign =
Affairs and the centre=E2=80=99s chairman, Jim O=E2=80=99Hara, who =
received strong support from Michael D Higgins before he won the =
presidential election.

Mr O=E2=80=99Hara is believed to have agreed a deal with the Shepherds =
Bush Housing Association under which the centre will be knocked down and =
rebuilt to include low-cost accommodation for nurses, police officers =
and other key workers (public sector employees who are deemed to provide =
an essential service).

The sale of the building, which has been the centre=E2=80=99s home since =
1995, is part of Hammersmith and Fulham Council=E2=80=99s plan to reap =
=C2=A314 million by selling eight buildings in the borough, including =
Fulham Town Hall, to cut its =C2=A3133 million debt, which is costing =
=C2=A35 million a year in interest.

Campaigners, including Mr O=E2=80=99Hara, had pleaded with the council =
not to sell the building and to renew its lease, which falls due in =
March 2012, for a further five years; or to give it a two-year extension =
to give it more time to raise funds.

Last night both the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Irish Cultural =
Centre =E2=80=93 which has been warmly supported by leading Irish =
actors, including Gabriel Byrne =E2=80=93 declined to comment on the =
negotiations.

Hammersmith and Fulham Council had agreed in January 2009 to give the =
centre a five-year lease extension, until 2017, even going so far as to =
send contract documents to the centre.

However, it then changed its mind and declared its intention to sell.

The centre, which was visited on a number of occasions by presidents =
Mary Robinson and Mary McAleese during their terms of office, has a high =
reputation, particularly in the teaching of Irish music and dance to =
adults and children.

In July the Hammersmith centre received funding of =E2=82=AC205,650 =
under the Department of Foreign Affairs=E2=80=99 DION programme to help =
with its running costs.

SOURCE
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/1217/1224309215833.html

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N=?iso-8859-1?Q?=ED_cothram_na_F=E9inne_=E9_?=sin: Cricket,
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For our cricket lovers...

Journal of Historical Sociology,=20
Special Issue: Special Issue: Sports and History. Edited by Alan =
Tomlinson
and Christopher Young
December 2011

Volume 24, Issue 4

N=ED cothram na F=E9inne =E9 sin: Cricket, Lexicography and Cultural =
Purity in
Ireland

Authors: CRONIN, MIKE; =D3 CONCHUBHAIR, BRIAN=20

Source: The Journal of Historical Sociology, Volume 24, Number 4, 1 =
December

2011 , pp. 494-518(25)

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Abstract:
This article explores the relationship between the game of cricket and =
the
Irish language in Ireland. In our analysis, dictionaries are invoked as
indices of formations of cultural purity and political power, documents =
of
defiance, tools of codification, assertions of confidence, =
representations
of linguistic identity. By examining the treatment of the term =
=93cricket=93 in
Irish language dictionaries from the eighteenth-century to the present =
day,
we find an index of cultural values, responding and adapting to ongoing
changing cultural power and capital. This demonstrates how the game, and =
its
translated presence in the lexicography of the native language, =
functions as
a form of cultural hybridity in the nineteenth-century, yet is cleansed =
in
the twentieth as part of the process of Irish cultural purity (as it =
fights
for an established postcolonial nationhood). The article offers a new =
way of
understanding social and linguistic conventions, in the context of the
colonial/postcolonial, and how such conventions function in the field of
sport. Given the dominance (with the exception of India) of English as =
the
lingua franca of sport's colonial and ludic diffusion, the article's =
ability
to access and interrogate the processes of inclusion/exclusion in the
linguistic and sporting Irish setting marks it out as an original and
innovative way of understanding how cultural transfers occurred and were
later annulled.

First Paragraph...
'In June 2007 the First and Deputy First Minister of the DUP-Sinn
F=E9in government of Northern Ireland held a joint reception to
celebrate the surprising success of an all-Ireland sports team. That
the team in question was an Irish cricket team, which had won
through to the final group stages in the cricket World Cup finals,
appeared incongruous, but more bizarre, to many with fixed ideas
about the game and its ideological leanings, was the enthusiasm of
Deputy First Minister, Sinn F=E9in=92s Martin McGuinness. Interviewed
by the Irish Times, McGuinness admitted that Ian Botham and Fred
Trueman were his idols and =93that there were many closet supporters
of cricket within the Irish republican movement=94.2...

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Message-ID: {decoded}UNIVERSITY OF LODZ, POLAND
DEPARTMENT OF STUDIES IN DRAMA AND PRE-1800 LITERATURE
The Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 Literature at the University
of Lodz, Poland, is advertising a lectureship position in Irish Studies.

Job Description and Duties:

-          The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to
shaping and developing the newly established Irish Studies Specialization.
-          The appointee will deliver classes and lectures in the broadly
defined field of Irish Studies with special emphasis placed on literature,
culture and politics of contemporary Ireland.
-          Additional duties will include the assessment of students’
progress, providing feedback to B.A. and M.A students who wish to carry on
research within Irish Studies as well as contributing to the design of new
course modules.
-          The successful candidate is expected to have completed his/her
PhD in the field related to Irish Studies.
-          The appointee will have a significant record of publications,
conference participation and teaching experience.
-          He or she is expected to carry out research in line with the
Department’s field of study.

Type of contract: one year (2012-2013), full time.

Closing Date for Applications: Friday 30 March 2012.

Each candidate is asked to complete an application form (see the
attachment). The completed application forms must be returned to dr Michal
Lachman (milach[at]poczta.wp.pl).

www.filolog.uni.lodz.pl/engdrama

www.filolog.uni.lodz.pl

See application below:
 
UNIVERSITY OF LODZ, POLAND
DEPARTMENT OF STUDIES IN DRAMA AND PRE-1800 LITERATURE

Contact details:
Kosciuszki 65
90-514 Lodz, Poland
Tel. / fax: +48 42 6655220
www.filolog.uni.lodz.pl/engdrama, www.filolog.uni.lodz.pl

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Christmas message from President Michael D. Higgins

http://www.president.ie/


President recognises difficulties for families

A Christmas message from President Michael D Higgins has acknowledged the
difficulties that some families will experience at this time of the year.
President Higgins said rising unemployment, emigration and family
bereavement will cast a dark shadow.

However, he said he was confident the people of Ireland can rebuild a
sustainable and strong economy.

"So these are troubling and testing times for so many but while
acknowledging the hurt inflicted, the dismay caused, by the mistakes that
were made," he said.

"I also believe that the Irish people have the resilience, the fortitude and
the wisdom to move beyond any destructive cynicism and recrimination and
have the capacity and determination to move on and craft a new positive form
of their Irishness."

He said he had been inspired by the "innovation and the resourcefulness"
that people had displayed in recent times and said people were showing
practical concern for each other and the less fortunate.
President Higgins said Ireland was a country which still had a lot to be
proud of and where "possibilities are still to be fully imagined and
realised".

SOURCE
http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/1221/president.html


Irish President Michael D Higgins hopeful for future

Irish President Michael D Higgins said there were positive signs of Ireland
economic recovery
There are some positive signs in Ireland's economy, Irish President Michael
D Higgins has said in his first Christmas message.

He said he was conscious unemployment and financial insecurity would cast a
dark shadow over Christmas for some.

However, Mr Higgins said people had the resilience and wisdom to move beyond
destructive cynicism and recrimination.

"Exports continue to grow, many companies have become more innovative and
competitive," he said.

"Direct inward investment is robust but the great challenge of creating
jobs, reducing unemployment remains.

"I am confident that, drawing on our shared strengths and our ethical
values, we will rebuild a sustainable and strong economy while also at the
same time, building a just and inclusive society that ensures the
participation of all its citizens.

"I would like to send my best wishes for Christmas and the New Year to
everyone here in Ireland and to our extended global family across the
world."

SOURCE
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-16282323

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Subject: TOC Journal of Family Issues January 2012; 33 (1) Special Issue:
Irish Voices: Families in a Globalizing Economy
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan [mailto:P.OSullivan[at]bradford.ac.uk]

The forthcoming Journal of Family Issues is a special...

Special Issue: Irish Voices: Families in a Globalizing Economy

A number of Ir-D members will find it worth having a look at the detailed
TOC and Abstracts. For example - it is signalled in the title - the article
by Anne Byrne and Deirdre O'Mahony is a meditation on Arensberg and
Kimball... Sort of.

P.O'S.


From the Editors' Introduction...

'In June 2008, the Groves Conference on Marriage and Family met in Ireland-
the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland-to learn how the globalizing
economy was affecting Irish families.1 The weeklong conference met a few
weeks before the economic bust that rocked the world in August 2008, but in
June the Irish economy was still booming. The participants traveled together
on buses, meeting with researchers at NUI Galway and at Queens College,
Belfast; talking with individuals and families living in rural villages in
the West; viewing Catholic and Protestant neighborhoods in Belfast; and
visiting Fatima Mansions, a community project in Dublin built for urban
families coping with the exorbitant costs of housing due to rising
prosperity. The goal of Groves Conference was to hear from Irish
researchers, community members, and families and to observe first hand the
effects of a rapidly globalizing society on families...'

'...In this special issue of the Journal of Family Issues, we present five
articles by Irish scholars that convey some of the key issues discussed in
the conference. Although outsiders "looking in" might offer their views of
Irish families (e.g., Arensberg & Kimball, 1940/2001; Scheper-Hughes, 2001),
the Irish scholars represented in this issue present an "insider's" view of
how the effects of globalization are being experienced and interpreted by
family members, researchers, and policy makers in Ireland...'

Table of Contents
Journal of Family Issues
January 2012; 33 (1)
Special Issue: Irish Voices: Families in a Globalizing Economy
Guest editors: Christine A. Readdick, Michael P. Farrell and Leslie A.
Koepke

Christine A. Readdick, Michael P. Farrell, and Leslie A. Koepke
Irish Voices: Families in a Globalizing Economy
Journal of Family Issues January 2012 33: 3-9,

Articles
John Canavan
Family and Family Change in Ireland: An Overview
Journal of Family Issues January 2012 33: 10-28

Michelle Millar, Liam Coen, Ciara Bradley, and Henrike Rau
"Doing the Job as a Parent": Parenting Alone, Work, and Family Policy in
Ireland
Journal of Family Issues January 2012 33: 29-51

Anne Byrne and Deirdre O'Mahony
Family and Community: (Re)Telling Our Own Story
Journal of Family Issues January 2012 33: 52-75

Ricca Edmondson
Intergenerational Relations in the West of Ireland and Sociocultural
Approaches to Wisdom
Journal of Family Issues January 2012 33: 76-98

Stephen Coulter and Anne Mullin
Resilience and Vulnerability in the Midst of Sociopolitical Violence in
Northern Ireland: One Family's Experience of a Paramilitary Style Assault
Journal of Family Issues January 2012 33: 99-111,

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The Disowned Army

John Waite reports on the campaign to recognise 5,000 Irish soldiers who
deserted their own country's army to fight Nazism alongside the British in
World War 2. When they returned home their names were placed on "The List"
and they were denied jobs and treated as outcasts. Many in Ireland now see
their treatment as inhumane and unjustified and there is a campaign underway
to have the Irish Government officially erase the stain on their names.

BROADCAST
Wed 4 Jan 201212:30BBC Radio 4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018xtr9

see also

Why Irish soldiers who fought Hitler hide their medals
By John Waite
BBC Radio 4, Face the Facts

John Stout: "I feel very betrayed about how we were treated, it was wrong"
Five thousand Irish soldiers who swapped uniforms to fight for the British
against Hitler went on to suffer years of persecution.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16287211

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The approach to access by the web journal Sociological Research Online is so
unusual that it deserves mention in its own right.

Access to Sociological Research Online is free for individuals. They charge
institutions an annual subscription.

This - unusually - privileges people who work from home, or who are not part
of the formal academic networks. The signing up process is fairly straight
forward - you sign in, the system looks at your IP address, and there is,
after a delay, an authorising email from the editorial team.

Recent items of interest to Ir-D members would include...

Ronit Lentin, the Racialisation of Irishness
Chris Yuill, the Body As Weapon - hunger strikes
Perry Share on the Jumbo Breakfast Roll

P.O'S.


Welcome to Sociological Research Online

http://www.socresonline.org.uk/home.html

We publish fully peer-reviewed sociology looking at current issues. A purely
online journal, we make use of new media and reach a wide and international
readership. We also publish special sections and rapid response articles,
which address key issues in the public arena.

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This from JSTOR...

You do need, of course, a special kind of mind to use these early journals
to explore themes now seen as lying within Irish Studies or Irish Diaspora
Studies. Tropes and discourses, tropes and discourses... Sometimes - never
mind the 1850s - it is like being back in the 1950s. Or 1970s...

Some of the material now freely available through this new JSTOR initiative
is also available to some academic institutions through another route, the
JSTOR Irish Collection.

There is a bit of a problem trying to get into ONLY the free content. The
easiest way seems to be to use Advanced Search and limit results to 'Only
content I can access'.

P.O'S.


Early Journal Content on JSTOR, Free to Anyone in World

On September 6, 2011, we announced that we are making journal content in
JSTOR published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870
elsewhere freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world. This "Early
Journal Content" includes discourse and scholarship in the arts and
humanities, economics and politics, and in mathematics and other sciences.
It includes nearly 500,000 articles from more than 200 journals. This
represents 6% of the content on JSTOR.

While JSTOR currently provides access to scholarly content to people through
a growing network of more than 7,000 institutions in 153 countries, we also
know there are independent scholars and other people that we are still not
reaching in this way. Making the Early Journal Content freely available is
a first step in a larger effort to provide more access options to the
content on JSTOR for these individuals.

The Early Journal Content will be released on a rolling basis beginning
today. A quick video tutorial about how to access this content is also
available.

We encourage broad use of the Early Journal Content, including the ability
to reuse it for non-commercial purposes. We ask that you acknowledge JSTOR
as the source of the content and provide a link back to our site. Please
also be considerate of other users and do not use robots or other devices to
systematically download these works as this may be disruptive to our
systems. For more information, you can read a new section about Early
Journal Content in our Terms & Conditions of Use.

If you would like to be notified of the first and subsequent releases of the
Early Journal Content, you may follow us on Twitter or Facebook.

You can browse a list of available content by discipline or by title. Please
read our Frequently Asked Questions if you have additional questions about
the Early Journal Content or contact us at support[at]jstor.org.

Download a brief program description that lists some Early Journal Content
highlights.

http://about.jstor.org/participate-jstor/individuals/early-journal-content

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Subject: Article,
Gendered and generational experiences of place and power in the
rural Irish landscape
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There is a very strange feeling of d=E9j=E0 vu as you read this article, =
and you
note the ways in which it connects, or does not connect, with earlier
studies.

In some of the detail I was reminded of Seamus Taylor, 1988, =
=91Smalltown boys
and girls: emigrant Irish youth in London=92.

The article is fairly firmly placed within the discipline of =
ethnography,
and is helpful with issues within that discipline. For example, the
community under study is identified as Killybegs - and there is =
discussion
of earlier ethnographic studies, and attempts to disguise places. In =
fact
so much of the detail of the place is so specific to Killybegs that it =
is
hard to see how the place could be disguised.

The article has not yet been assigned a place in the full TOC of the
journal.

P.O'S.


Gender, Place & Culture

Gendered and generational experiences of place and power in the rural =
Irish
landscape

Experiencias generizadas y generacionales de lugar y poder en el paisaje
rural irland=E9s

Available online: 20 Sep 2011

Rachel Donkersloot

Abstract
The out-migration of young people from rural regions is a selective and
highly gendered process suggesting considerable differentiation in the =
way
young men and women identify with and experience rural life. Gender
imbalance in rural youth out-migration has prompted feminist researchers =
to
consider more carefully linkages between the gendered nature of rural =
space
and place and the social and spatial mobility of rural young men and =
women.
Based on 11 months of ethnographic fieldwork in a rural Irish fishing
community, this article explores the gendered dimensions of rural youth
experience. Theoretically grounded in the conceptual triad of gender, =
power
and place, this article considers how young men and women experience =
=91the
rural=92 as masculine and feminine subjects. Special attention is given =
to the
ways in which relations of power in =91the rural=92 are articulated, =
contested
and accommodated in the everyday lives of local young men and women. As =
well
as highlighting the ways in which rural space and place is =
male-dominated,
this article foregrounds other power relations at play in the rural. As =
part
of this effort, I problematize male power and point to the =
=91effectivity of
girls as conduits of power=92. I argue that subjectivities of =
intra-gender
relations are a critical dimension of rural youth experience and cannot =
be
overlooked in research on rural youth experience and emigration.

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Subject: A letter to =?windows-1252?Q?=85_?=my Irish birth mother -
Saturday 31 December 2011
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This is in the Guardian,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/dec/31/letter-to-irish-birth-mo=
ther
and
is relevant to the list.


Almost 60 years ago you fled to England, eight months pregnant and
desperate. I do understand that you could never have told your parents
about me. Many years later I learned that the family had more than the
usual Irish share of priests and nuns, and that your mother would have died
of shame if you had turned up with an illegitimate child.

So I was born in England, adopted by an English family, educated in
England, employed in England, married in England =85 and now I am a pension=
er
in England with English children and grandchildren of my own.

I know that you did what you thought would work out best, for me and for
you. You were terrified that, if you gave birth anywhere in Ireland, the
secret would leak out and you would be disgraced for ever.

But I do often wonder how it would have been if you had done things
differently! If, all those years ago, you hadn't run to England in your
despair. If you'd taken yourself to some mother and baby home in, say,
Dublin, I would have been adopted into an Irish family. I would have been
brought up in what I often feel is my proper place, among people I feel are
my people.

The problem is that I have always felt displaced. At times throughout my
life, I have felt a painful sense of exile from a beloved home country.

My life, despite this, has been blessed in many ways. Over the years I have
had some very good friendships, some very happy times and, above all, I
have my precious family.

But there is part of me that has never been completely at ease in England,
and has always felt a strangeness in the land of my birth.

As a child, I was taken to Ireland for a week or so almost every year, as
one of my adoptive parents was Irish. From a very early age I felt strongly
that it was where I should be, that it was home. As the time to leave drew
nearer, I would become filled with dread. I never, ever wanted to return to
England.

Now, much older and accepting of my circumstances, I know I can never make
my home in Ireland. My dear children and grandchildren are here, and I want
and need to be near them.

When I visit your country now, I still yearn to belong and know that I
never will. But then I remember that you too became an exile after my
birth. Even though your baby had been taken for adoption, you never
returned to Ireland to live.

Perhaps it was too painful to go back. I don't know. But I do know that you
did what you could at a terribly cruel time. You did your best.

Your daughter, Teresa

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Subject: Call for H-ALBION Book Review Editors: History of Ireland,
1500 to 1800, History of Ireland, Medieval
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Our attention has been drawn to the following messages...

P.O'S.


-----Original Message-----
From: H-Net List for British and Irish History
[mailto:H-ALBION[at]H-NET.MSU.EDU] On Behalf Of Kelly, Jason
Subject: Call for H-ALBION Book Review Editor: History of Ireland, 1500 to
1800

Call for H-ALBION Book Review Editor: History of Ireland, 1500 to 1800

H-Albion is looking for candidates who would like serve as our Book Review
Editor for Ireland. Applications are invited from scholars specializing
in the early modern period. The successful candidate will serve as book
review editor for two years and will be responsible for commissioning and
editing book reviews. Please send a cover letter and CV to Jason M. Kelly
at jaskelly[at]iupui.edu.

Application deadline is 1 December 2011

(please re-distribute)

Best wishes,
Jason

--
Jason M. Kelly PhD, FSA
Associate Professor of British History, IUPUI

-----Original Message-----
From: H-Net List for British and Irish History
[mailto:H-ALBION[at]H-NET.MSU.EDU] On Behalf Of Kelly, Jason
Sent: 03 January 2012 18:07
To: H-ALBION[at]H-NET.MSU.EDU
Subject: Call for H-ALBION Book Review Editor: History of Ireland, Medieval

Call for H-ALBION Book Review Editor: History of Ireland, Medieval

H-Albion is looking for candidates who would like serve as our Book Review
Editor for Medieval Ireland. Applications are invited from scholars
specializing in the middle ages. The successful candidate will serve as
book review editor for two years and will be responsible for commissioning
and editing book reviews. Please send a cover letter and CV to Jason M.
Kelly at jaskelly[at]iupui.edu.

Application deadline is 1 February 2012

(please re-distribute)

Best wishes,
Jason

--
Jason M. Kelly PhD, FSA
Associate Professor of British History, IUPUI

School of Liberal Arts
Indiana University
Department of History, IUPUI
Cavanaugh Hall 503N
425 University Boulevard
Indianapolis, IN 46202-5140

telephone: 317.274.1689
fax: 317.278.7800
email: jaskelly[at]iupui.edu

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Message-ID: {decoded}Having listened to the appealing treatment meted out to the brave men who deserted to fight against the Nazis and, even worse, their children reminds me of the lyrics from a song penned by Bob Geldorf of the Boomtown Rats 'Banana Republic' which was written about his childhood experiences of Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s:

Banana Republic
Septic Isle
Screaming in the Suffering sea
It sounds like crying (crying, crying)
Everywhere I go, oh yeah
Everywhere I see
The black and blue uniforms
Police and priests

And I wonder do you wonder
While you're sleeping with your whore
That sharing beds with history
Is like a-licking running sores
Forty shades of green yeah
Sixty shades of red
Heroes going cheap these days
Price; a bullet in the head

Banana Republic
Septic Isle
Suffer in the Screaming sea
It sounds like dying (dying, dying)
Everywhere I go, oh yeah
Everywhere I see
The black and blue uniforms
Police and priests

Take your hand and lead you
Up a garden path
Let me stand aside here
And watch you pass
Striking up a soldier's song
I know that tune
It begs too many questions
And answers too

Banana Republic
Septic Isle
Suffer in the Screaming sea
It sounds like dying (dying, dying)
Everywhere I go, oh yeah
Everywhere I see
The black and blue uniforms
Police and priests

The purple and the pinstripe
Mutely shake their heads
A silence shrieking volumes
A violence worse than they condemn
Stab you in the back yeah
Laughing in your face
Glad to see the place again
It's a pity nothing's changed

Banana Republic
Septic Isle
Suffer in the Screaming sea
It sounds like dying
Everywhere I go
Everywhere I see
The black and blue uniforms
Police and priests

Steven

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Sent: 28 December 2011 13:14
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Subject: [IR-D] The Disowned Army

The Disowned Army

John Waite reports on the campaign to recognise 5,000 Irish soldiers who deserted their own country's army to fight Nazism alongside the British in World War 2. When they returned home their names were placed on "The List"
and they were denied jobs and treated as outcasts. Many in Ireland now see their treatment as inhumane and unjustified and there is a campaign underway to have the Irish Government officially erase the stain on their names.

BROADCAST
Wed 4 Jan 201212:30BBC Radio 4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018xtr9

see also

Why Irish soldiers who fought Hitler hide their medals By John Waite BBC Radio 4, Face the Facts

John Stout: "I feel very betrayed about how we were treated, it was wrong"
Five thousand Irish soldiers who swapped uniforms to fight for the British against Hitler went on to suffer years of persecution.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16287211

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Subject: CFP The North: Exile, Diaspora, Troubled Performance,
Irish Theatrical Diaspora Conference
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Call for Papers:=20
THE NORTH: Exile, Diaspora, Troubled Performance
8-9 June 2012
=A0
The 9th annual Irish Theatrical Diaspora Conference will take place in =
June
2012 in Derry/Londonderry, hosted by the School of Creative Arts at the
University of Ulster, in the former Foyle Arts Centre and previous home =
of
Field Day Theatre Company.=20
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The conference aims to build upon the scholarly work already done by the
Irish Theatrical Diaspora project, and to extend it in an exploration of
performances of =91The North=92. Tracing the trajectories of emigrants =
from the
North of Ireland to Scotland, Newfoundland, New England and Canada, the
conference aims to analyze and explore performative and=A0theatrical
representations of =91The North=92 and the northerly migration of =
peoples. This
migration stretches back to the Flight of the Earls and the Famine, and =
also
includes recent historical events such as the exiling of individuals and
families by paramilitary groups during and after the =91Troubles=92; =
movements
of population within Northern Ireland in response to violent =
sectarianism,
and economic and cultural migration. It further aims to recognize =
Northern
Ireland=92s history of immigration, most famously of the Chinese =
community
which established itself in Belfast in the early 1960s, and the recent
establishment of Central and Eastern European communities, which are =
slowly
reshaping Northern Ireland=92s cultural landscape and conception of
diversity.=A0=20
=A0
=91Performance=92 in this case includes theatre, dance, spectacle, and =
all
aspects of the performing arts, as well as extra-theatrical activity =96 =
such
as parades and community gatherings =96 that foreground =91the North=92 =
in some
way.
=A0
Possible topics include:
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Dynamics of Space and Place;
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 The=A0Utopian North: the pure North of the =
imagination;
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Performance of Exile, Emigration, Migration, =
Immigration;
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Northern Connections: Ulster/Northern =
Ireland, Canada,
Newfoundland, Scotland, New England in performance;
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Performances of identity (Apprentice Boys; =
Orange Order; Easter
parades; performance of paramilitarism and of peace; murals; public
memorials) in Northern=20
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Ireland and in diaspora;
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Intercultural and Multicultural performance =
in Northern Ireland;
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Borders, Borderlands and No-Man=92s-Lands=20
=A0
Keynote speakers will be announced soon.=20

Deadline for proposals (max. 250 words) along with a brief bio and =
contact
details: Friday, 10th February, 2011 to:

Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick
School of Creative Arts=20
University of Ulster
Foyle Arts Building
Northland Road, Derry BT48 7JL
l.fitzpatrick[at]ulster.ac.uk
=A0
The conference organizers welcome applications from scholars at any =
stage of
their career, and particularly encourage graduate students to submit
proposals.=20
=A0
For more information on Irish Theatrical Diaspora personnel, =
conferences,
and publications, please visit www.irishtheatricaldiaspora.net.=20
=A0
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