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Rock and Popular Music in Ireland: Before and After U2
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IRISH ACADEMIC PRESS
Rock and Popular Music in Ireland: Before and After U2
Noel McLaughlin, University of Northumbria and
Martin McLoone, University of Ulster
Foreword by Dave Laing

"This impressive and important book stands as a major contribution to =
the literature on Irish music. It offers compelling new ways of =
conceiving of Irish rock, illuminating some of its creative peaks and =
lesser-known pathways, and addressing the performances of key figures =
with impressive insight and detail". --Sean Campbell, author of 'Irish =
Blood, English Heart': Second-Generation Musicians in England

"McLaughlin and McLoone have written an admirably elegant and perceptive =
account of Irish rock and pop music that not only illuminates the =
transnational dynamics of contemporary Irish culture but also the =
cultural dynamics of global pop music more generally". --John Hill, =
author of Cinema and Ireland, Cinema and Northern Ireland and British =
Cinema in the 1980s

" ... a book to inform both Irish and non-Irish readers about a =
fascinating range of musical practices and expressions, but also one =
that will provoke thought and debate about the vectors of national =
identity that inform popular music of all kinds and all places". --Dave =
Laing, author of One Chord Wonders: Power and Meaning in Punk Rock
=95 Explores Irish popular music through many of the island's most =
internationally successful artists and bands.
=95 Provides a detailed account of the emergence of popular music in =
Ireland.
=95 Discusses Irish popular music in the new millennium.
=95 Accessibly written and well illustrated.
=95 Fascinating quotations and anecdotes from key figures.
=20

This book explores Irish rock's relationship to the wider world of =
international popular music through detailed analysis of the island's =
most prominent artists and bands such as U2, Van Morrison, Sin=E9ad =
O'Connor, The Boomtown Rats and Horslips - and key musical movements =
including the Beat Scene, the Folk Revival, Northern Irish Punk and =
Dance Music in Ireland.

352 pages, illus

Hardback: 9780716530763, =8060.00,/=A350.00
Paperback: 9780716530770, =A319.95
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_"What Else Could I Do?" Single Mothers and Infanticide,
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Subject: REV: Miller on Rattigan, _"What Else Could I Do?" Single =
Mothers
and Infanticide, Ireland 1900-1950_
From: H-Net Staff
Date: 4 March, 2012 7:51:36 AM EST

Cl=EDona Rattigan. "What Else Could I Do?" Single Mothers
and Infanticide, Ireland 1900-1950. Dublin Irish Academic Press.
288 pp. $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7165-3139-5.

Reviewed by Ian Miller (University College Dublin)
Published on H-Albion (March, 2012)
Commissioned by Nicholas M. Wolf

_"What Else Could I Do?" Single Mothers and Infanticide, Ireland
1900-1950 _is, as the title suggests, concerned with the personal and
social ramifications of infanticide in early twentieth-century Irish
contexts. It aims to provide a narrative that encompasses not only
the intimate emotional experience of mothers who, for whatever
reasons, chose to murder their newly born offspring, but also pays
close attention to figures who are often at the periphery of
historical attention, such as the father, family, and local
community. Rattigan's account is unsurprisingly grim. The reader
encounters illegitimate love being consummated in deserted fields;
domestic servants being seduced, and even raped, by their employers;
detectives scouring local communities for signs of illegitimate
pregnancies; unmarried mothers bearing the socio-psychological scars
of local gossip and media reportage; and families turning against one
another as personal secrets transmuted into communal knowledge. These
personal circumstances are all set against the desolate backdrop of a
nation profoundly uncomfortable with its sexuality, intensifying
religious and social objections to (and policies against) premarital
sex and contraception, overwhelming poverty, and an ever-encroaching
Catholic-led social conservatism that did little to increase sympathy
towards unmarried pregnant women, not to mention the social
ramifications of an island split into two during the time frame in
question.

The study draws upon the previously unmined judicial records of over
three hundred infanticide cases tried at the higher courts in Ireland
between 1900 and 1950. Its chronological time span is important as it
allows for cross-=3D analysis of the treatment of infanticide cases in
the "Two Irelands," and the impact of different legislative measures
with which to tackle the problem of women murdering their young
offspring. Rattigan's study is divided into five discrete thematic
chapters covering the general profile of mothers accused or convicted
of infanticide; familial responses; sexual attitudes; police and
communal detection; and sentencing. Rattigan has meticulously picked
through sources such as police reports in order to reconstruct the
personal, experiential aspects of infanticide. Yet her concern rests
not only with the accused mother. Rattigan also seeks to bring
figures such as the fathers of murdered illegitimate children back
into the picture, revealing how men responded to pregnancy and infant
murder in multifaceted ways. Some men wished to marry their pregnant
partners, others absconded, while some were active participants in
the harrowing act of murdering their offspring. Whilst most were of
the same age group as the mother, others might be elderly employers
or relatives alleged to have made use of familial or work power
relations to persuade, or force, the soon-to-be mother into sexual
acts. Families, too, are shown to have either colluded with mothers
in the killing of illegitimate infants, chosen to raise illegitimate
children as their own, or, at worst, turned their back entirely on
the unfortunate mother. Of course, the mother herself is also central
to Rattigan's account. Through analysis of police and legal records,
combined with journalistic coverage, Rattigan reveals how the private
world of the accused female became grossly misrepresented as her
voice became lost in the forums of police interrogation, media
coverage, and courtroom grilling.

Infanticide, and opinions towards it, often took on peculiar, unique
forms in Irish contexts, which heightens the historiographical value
of this study. For instance, an accused mother might find herself
dispatched to a Magdalen Laundry. Meanwhile, the island becomes
partitioned midway through the period, with the Republic of Ireland
becoming increasingly dominated by conservative attitudes towards
sexuality and unmarried motherhood in a way that other countries
subject to historical inquiry into infanticide did not. Furthermore,
unmarried pregnancies often occurred in small towns and intimate
rural settings, an outcome that enables Rattigan to provide an
account of infanticide history that is less connected to processes of
industrialization and urban poverty than other existing studies.
_What Else Could I Do? _bears the hallmarks of doctoral studies,
which suggests that the transition from thesis to monograph could
have been smoother in some regards, particularly in terms of prose
and structure. However, the attention to detail is remarkable, whilst
the subject matter is resonant with concerns about past attitudes
towards sexuality and pregnant unmarried women that continue to
trouble Ireland today. In academic terms, _What Else Could I Do? _not
only contributes productively to modern Irish social history, but
also provides an account that enriches historical understandings of
cultures of death, female criminality, motherhood and childhood,
familial relations, and legal and gender histories. Furthermore, it
complements pre-existing studies of unmarried motherhood in Ireland
that have often focused upon the representations of murdering mothers
in popular discourse, and the responses of the church and Irish state
to the "unmarried mother question."

Citation: Ian Miller. Review of Rattigan, Cl=EDona, _"What Else
Could I Do?" Single Mothers and Infanticide, Ireland 1900-1950_.
H-Albion, H-Net Reviews. March, 2012.
URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=3D35076


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States
License.=3D

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Subject: CFP 1912: Irish Women before the Revolution - Women's History
Association of Ireland - Annual Conference, Dublin 25-26 May 2012
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Subject: Call for Papers: 1912: Irish Women before the Revolution - Women's
History Association of Ireland - Annual Conference

http://womensgrid.freecharity.org.uk/?p=9111

Call for Papers: 1912: Irish Women before the Revolution - Women's History
Association of Ireland - Annual Conference
25-26 May 2012 - Mater Dei Institute of Education (a college of Dublin City
University)

The WHAI http://www.whai.ie/

invites proposals for the 2012 annual conference that will address aspects
of women's lives and activism in the years immediately before 1913. As has
been noted the success of republican nationalism after 1916 has obscured the
reality of the aspirations and experiences of constitutional nationalists in
the early twentieth century. Yet for constitutional nationalists 1912
appeared to be the year in which expectations for a new Home Third Home Rule
Bill would be realized either as individuals or in the context of their
roles within family structures. Literature such as Paeseta's, Before the
Revolution, has focused on the identities of the male nationalist
elite-in-waiting. This conference will provide an opportunity to explore the
identities of Irish women who supported in various ways and hoped to benefit
from the Home Rule solution to Ireland's national question. Indeed, the
Irish Women's Franchise League turned to militancy in 1912 because of the
refusal of Redmond to allow women to attend the National Convention in
support of the Bill in April of that year. Suffrage women wanted votes for
women to be included in the third Home Rule Bill. The period also saw a
strong anti-suffrage lobby in Ireland, spearheaded by women, and the
conference welcomes papers on this subject.

1912 was also, however, a year which saw perceived and real challenges to
the success of the Home Rule campaign. While the militancy and demands of
the IWFL, in the wider context of the mass WSPU demonstrations in England,
was seen to have the potential to derail the Liberal/IPP alliance by forcing
a general election on the issue of women's suffrage, a more serious threat
was emerging in the north of Ireland. 1912 saw the signing of the Ulster
Solemn League and Covenant by which Ulster Unionists pledged to go to arms
to resist the imposition of Home Rule; the UWUC signed a separate women's
covenant.

1912 was also the year of the establishment of the Labour Party and the role
of women in labour activism prior to the 1913 strike deserves greater
attention. For many Irish women, of course, the activist causes had little
or no resonance or impact and in the spirit of a holistic investigation of
female lives before the revolution papers are encouraged that address the
'day-to-day' concerns of Irish women, an area that has been hugely aided by
the launch of the 1901 and 1911 Irish census online.

The conference themes might include, but are not limited to the following:
* Women in the Home Rule campaign
* Suffrage and anti suffrage campaigns and intersections with the Home Rule
debate
* Women and unionism
* Labour and trade union activism
* The United Irishwomen

* Papers on the family, fashion, work inside and outside the home, women and
popular culture, female sport and leisure activities, participation in the
organisations of the cultural revival
Paper proposals should be 500 words and be sent by 24th March to Dr Leeann
Lane and Dr Mary McAuliffe at
whai[at]materdei.dcu.ie

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Subject: Feminist Review, Volume 100, Issue 1 (March 2012),
Avtar Brah special
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The latest issue of Feminist Review, Volume 100, Number 1, is an Avtar Brah
special, which reprints the original 1999 'Scent of Memory' article.

Information pasted in, below.

If you go to the web site, link below, you will find that the special issue
is currently freely available, to mark this special milestone.

Our congratulations to Feminist Review - Volume 100, Issue 1. Significant.

P.O'S.


Feminist Review
Volume 100, Issue 1 (March 2012)
recalling 'the scent of memory': celebrating 100 issues of feminist review

http://www.palgrave-journals.com/fr/journal/v100/n1/index.html


Article

Feminist Review (2012) 100, 6-26. doi:10.1057/fr.2011.73

the scent of memory: strangers, our own and others

Avtar Brah 1

1This article first appeared in 1999 in Issue 61 of Feminist Review and has
been reprinted here as originally published.

Top of page
Abstract
Using, as a point of departure, Tim Lott's recent autobiography where he
attempts to make sense of his mother's suicide of 1988 through a
reconstruction of his family genealogy, this article tries to map the
production of gendered, classed, and racialized subjects and subjectivity in
west London. It addresses the tension between Lott's discourse of his own
white working-class boyhood during the 1970s where questions of 'race' are
all but absent, and the racialized 'commonsense' that pervades the
interviews with other local white contemporaries of Lott and his parents.
These narratives are analysed in relation to the socio-economic context and
the political activism of the period. Theoretically, it analyses the
'diaspora space' of London/Britain, interrogating essentialist 'origin
stories' of belonging; reaching out to a glimmer on the horizon of emerging
non-identical formations of kinship across boundaries of class, racism and
ethnicity; and exploring the purchase of certain South Asian terms -
'ajnabi', 'ghair' and 'apna/apni' - in constructing a nonbinarized
understanding of identification across 'difference'.

Keywords: biography/autobiography; memory; interpellation; posthumanist
subject; whiteness; class; gender; ethnicity; racism; Asians; Blacks

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From: "Patrick O'Sullivan"
To: "IR-D Jiscmail"
Subject: Article, Activism, imagination and writing: Avtar Brah reflects on
her life and work

Further to my email about the latest issue of Feminist Review, Volume 100,
Number 1, the Avtar Brah special...

Many Ir-D members will find interesting this interview with Avtar Brah. It
is published in that issue of Feminist Review, and is freely available on
the web site.

Link and extracts, below...

Article

Feminist Review (2012) 100, 39-51. doi:10.1057/fr.2011.66

Activism, imagination and writing: Avtar Brah reflects on her life and work
with Les Back

Les Back and Avtar Brah

Avtar Brah (AB) was interviewed by Les Back (LB) on 3 July 2009 at a
colloquium held to mark her retirement where, inter alia, her work was
discussed. The interview is a reflection on her politics, activism and
scholarship. It touches on some key moments of her life.

Keywords: gender; race; ethnicity; politics; solidarity; difference

http://www.palgrave-journals.com/fr/journal/v100/n1/full/fr201166a.html


'...What was it about the notion of diaspora that caught your imagination?

AB: Well, it is a different way of exploring migrancy and the position of
categories of people such as immigrants and ethnic minorities. I'm not
against the terminology of immigrants and ethnic minorities per se. Rather,
I tend to de-centre instead of replace these labels. But I think that the
concept of diaspora offers you a way of conceptualising the kind of global
mobilities today and the ways in which, economically, politically,
culturally and psychically, we cross all kinds of borders all the time. And
we are having to think about questions of home and belonging. The concept of
diaspora helped me think through some questions that I had been preoccupied
with under different headings for a long time. But, you know, diaspora is
about globalisation and dispersal, but at the same time it's also about
location and 'staying put'...'


'...We were again lucky to be at Birkbeck's Faculty of Lifelong Learning
where there weren't that many bureaucratic obstacles to innovation. If you
thought of an idea that was good, you could actually produce a course. And
some of the courses we developed would today be called Diaspora Studies. For
instance, we had courses in Irish Studies, Jewish Studies, Palestinian
Studies, Caribbean Studies, Asian Studies. We had a course in Black Theatre.
We produced courses in Women's Studies and Lesbian Studies. And actually our
Lesbian Studies programme was one of the first in London and Jane was very
centrally involved in that...'

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Subject: Invitation to London launch of Ruan O'Donnell, SPECIAL CATEGORY,
ON 9 MARCH, REMINDER
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Revised invitation, pasted in below...

I have had intriguing discussions with Ruan O'Donnell - a speaker who is
certainly worth your time. I think that for his interviewees he must =
appear
like some kind of angel, a Recording Angel perhaps, precursor of the
appearance of an even better angel, a more final angel...

P.O'S.

=A0
Dear all
=A0
I am pleased to distribute an invitation to the London launch of SPECIAL
CATEGORY: THE IRA IN ENGLISH PRISONS, 1968-1978 by Ruan O'Donnell, to be
held at the beautifully refurbished London Irish Centre in Camden Town =
on 9
March. Guest speakers include the civil rights solicitor GARETH PEIRCE =
and
Ruan O'Donnell. PLEASE RSVP
=A0
See the link below for a brief history of the London Irish Centre:
=A0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DEucN5dcvRK4
=A0
The book will be available at a special launch price of =A317.00 =
paperback,
=A340 hardback. Please contact me if you wish to pre-order a copy.
=A0
You are welcome to pass this invitation on to any interested parties, =
but we
do ask that everyone RSVPs.
=A0=A0
RSVP:
Lisa Hyde
Editor
Irish Academic Press
Lisa.hyde[at]iap.ie

The London Irish Centre and Irish Academic Press
cordially invite you to celebrate the launch of

SPECIAL CATEGORY
The IRA in English Prisons, Vol. 1: 1968-1978
by Ru=E1n O=92Donnell

Guest Speakers
Gareth Peirce
Ru=E1n O=92Donnell

Refreshments will be served.
All are welcome.
The Presidential Suite
The London Irish Centre
50-52 Camden Square
London NW1 9XB
www.londonirishcentre.org
Friday 9th March 2012
6.30pm for 7.00pm

RSVP
Lisa Hyde
T: 0208 952 9526, ext. 25,
F: 0208 952 9242
E: lisa.hyde[at]iap.ie

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I am travelling a lot over the coming month - I have some music events in
the first part of March. And then...

On Thursday March 22 I am in Limerick, to take part in Jason King's Famine
Symposium at the University of Limerick. I will report there on my research
into the use of coroners' court material in the study of the Irish Famine -
building on the work of the late Frank Neal.

The day before, Wednesday March 21, I have now been asked to give a lecture

4-5pm. Tower Theatre. The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance
Patrick O'Sullivan. "Music and Diaspora - What should we tell Cape Verde?"

This is a dry run of a keynote lecture I will be giving in Cape Verde later
in the year, and uses the Irish experience to explore diasporic themes.

Also on the Wednesday, in the morning, I will take part in session on
Developing Irish Diaspora Studies: University of Limerick Research.

My plan is to speak briefly about the 1987/1988 oral history stage play,
IRISH NIGHT, play some of the archive audio material, speak in general
terms. And then listen to Robert O'Keeffe and Louise Sheridan.

On Friday March 23 I must dash in the Padmobile from Limerick to Bath,
because I want to attend Ellen McWilliams' Conference on Women and Diaspora
on Saturday March 24.

http://womenandtheirishdiaspora.wordpress.com/

Ellen has brought together an extraordinary and important meeting. I will
sit quietly at the back, and listen...

Patrick O'Sullivan

--
Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

Email Patrick O'Sullivan Email Patrick
O'Sullivan Personal Fax 0044 (0) 709 236 9050

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School of Social and International Studies University of Bradford Bradford
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Call for Book Proposals
Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World

The University of Illinois Press, the University Press of Mississippi,
and the University of Wisconsin Press, in cooperation with the
American Folklore Society and with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation, are collaborating to host an author's workshop at the 2012
conference of the American Folklore Society for authors working on
their first book.

Up to six authors will be selected to participate in a full day of intensive
activities devoted to critiquing and developing their individual projects.
Workshop activities will include one-on-one mentoring sessions with editors
and senior scholars and group discussions of revision and editing
strategies, publishing processes, and project critiques. A modest stipend
will be provided to participants to help defray the costs of attending the
workshop.

This opportunity is open only to authors preparing their first books.
Projects must be single-authored, nonfiction books based on folklore
research. Edited volumes, photography collections with minimal text,
and memoirs will not be considered.

Projects selected for the workshop will be candidates for publication
in the Presses' new collaborative series, Folklore Studies in a
Multicultural World, which aims to publish exceptional first books
that emphasize the interdisciplinary and/or international nature of
the field of folklore. Within the series, each Press will focus on
specific aspects of folklore studies related to its areas of
expertise: Illinois on gender and queer studies, world folk cultures,
and multiculturalism as manifested in forms of vernacular expression
such as music, dance, and foodways; Mississippi in folk art, American
folk music, African American studies, popular culture, and Southern
folklife; and Wisconsin in folklore studies that intersect with Upper
Midwest cultures, Irish/Irish-American studies, Jewish studies,
Southeast Asian studies, gay/lesbian studies, foodways, and travel.
Applicants may indicate in their proposal whether they have a
preference of publisher.

Proposals should be submitted via e-mail at any time until the
deadline of April 1, 2012, to fsmw[at]uillinois.edu. For submission
guidelines, please see
http://folklorestudies.press.illinois.edu/guidelines.html

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Subject: Books Notice, Military History of the Irish Civil War
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Since we mentioned the Civil War...

This Mercier Press series is receiving attention - and the extracts I =
have
been able to read online look very good. Sober military history applied =
to
still freighted narratives.

The Series Editor is Gabriel Doherty.

http://www.mercierpress.ie/MilitaryHistoryoftheIrishCivilWar/

If you follow the links from that page you will get information about =
the
individual volumes, usually an extract, and sometimes links to other
material.

Books published in the series so far include
The Battle for Kilmallock John O'Callaghan=20
Battle For Limerick City P=E1draig =D3'Ruairc=20
Summer Campaign In Kerry Tom Doyle
The Battle for Cork July=96August 1922 John Borgonovo
The Fall Of Dublin Liz Gillis

It is also interesting to follow discussion on the web - search for the
individual book titles. There is certainly a feeling in some of the
discussion of ghosts being listened to and silences explored.

My own mother would recall her experience as a child in the family home =
in
the centre of Kilmallock, being pinned down for some days as bullets =
passed
overhead.

P.O'S.

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Subject: Web Resource,
The Irish Story: Irish History Online With Green Lamp Media
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The Irish Story is a web site with the subtitle Irish History Online With
Green Lamp Media

http://www.theirishstory.com/

I was a bit concerned that the Irish History Online bit might cause
confusion for and with Irish History Online...

From Facebook you can pick the following information...

About
The Irish Story is the Irish History imprint of Green Lamp Media
Mission
To bring the story of Ireland and Irish people online and to publish great
ebooks about Irish history.
Company Overview
The Irish Story is a website about Irish History and a publisher of Irish
History ebooks. It is part of Green Lamp Media.
Description
Eoin Purcell, publisher
John Dorney, managing editor

On Eoin Purcell's blog page you can read more about the background and about
his plans...

'Last year I launched a niche Irish History site, The Irish Story. The idea
was to create a vibrant site where people could discuss Irish history in an
intelligent and interesting way.'

http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/tag/irish-history/

Eoin Purcell was Commissioning Editor at Mercier Press. You can see from
his new web site that he is a good editor, and takes charge of the text. If
only every web site had one...

P.O'S.

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The following essays are currently the free samples at the Field Day
Publications web site.

Something for everyone, I think...

Nearly everyone...

Well, maybe not you.

P.O=92S.


Field Day Publications
http://oconnellhouse.nd.edu/affiliated-programmes/field-day-publications/=


FREE DOWNLOAD Select essays in full from Field Day Review (vols. 1-7)

Luke Gibbons, =91Space of time through times of space: Joyce, Ireland =
and
Colonial Modernity=92

Cormac =D3 Gr=E1da, =91Settling In: Dublin=92s Jewish immigrants of a =
Century Ago=92

Breand=E1n Mac Suibhne and Amy Martin, =91Fenians in the Frame: =
Photographing
Irish Political Prisoners, 1865-68=92

Benedict Anderson, =91Globalization and Its Discontents=92

Seamus Deane, =91Edward Said (1935-2003): A Late Style of Humanism=92

Brendan O=92Leary, =91Mission Accomplished? Looking Back at the IRA=92

Ciar=E1n Deane, =91Brian Friel=92s Translations: The origins of a =
cultural
experiment=92

http://oconnellhouse.nd.edu/affiliated-programmes/field-day-publications/=

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Field Day Review, 7, 2011

=E2=82=AC35
Editors: Seamus Deane & Ciar=C3=A1n Deane
Paperback: 270 pages
ISBN 978-0-946755-51-6

Contents

Essays

Stephanie Rains: 'The Ideal Home (Rule) Exhibition: Ballymaclinton and =
the 1908 Franco-British Exhibition';

Tony Crowley: 'The Art of Memory: The Murals of Northern Ireland and the =
Management of History';

Niall =C3=93 Dochartaigh, ' =E2=80=9CEveryone Trying=E2=80=9D, The IRA =
Ceasefire, 1975: A Missed Opportunity for Peace?';

Kevin Honan, 'The Political Conscious: =E2=80=9CA Further Round of =
Reflection=E2=80=9D on Fredric Jameson's Valences of the Dialectic';

James Chandler, 'Cinema, History, and the Politics of Style: Michael =
Collins and The Wind that Shakes the Barley';

Luke Gibbons, ' =E2=80=9CThe Wild West of European Finance=E2=80=9D: =
Anachronism, Modernity and the Irish Crisis';

Niamh O'Sullivan, '=E2=80=9CAll Native, All our Own, and All a =
Fact=E2=80=9D: John Mulvany and the Irish-American Dream';

Niall Meehan & Kerby Miller, ' =E2=80=9CFor God and the Empire=E2=80=9D: =
An Irish Historian's Rapid Rise, Strange Fall, and Remarkable =
Resurrection';

Lucy Cotter, 'Ambivalent Homecomings: Louis le Brocquy, Francis Bacon =
and the Mechanics of Canonization';

Seamus Deane, 'A Church Destroyed, The Church Restored: France's Irish =
Catholicism'

(ed and transl) 'Montalembert Letter on Catholicism in Ireland'

https://shop.nd.edu/C21688_ustores/web/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=3D289=
7&SINGLESTORE=3Dtrue

See also sample pages as pdf on
Field Day Publications
http://oconnellhouse.nd.edu/affiliated-programmes/field-day-publications/=
=3D

See also Niall Meehan's note on
http://gcd.academia.edu/NiallMeehan/Papers/1081176/_For_God_and_the_Empir=
e_An_Irish_Historians_Rapid_Rise_Strange_Fall_and_Remarkable_Resurrection=

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From: Joseph Nugent [mailto:joseph.nugent.2[at]bc.edu]=20
Subject: Joyce Symposium. The Boston Joyce Forum

Dear Patrick,

I hope all's well with you.=A0

Joyce Symposium News

Joyce and Religion is the symposium's theme. The conference's subtitle
addresses the main speakers' focus: =A0A Gradual Reawakening of the =
Irish
Conscience. The phrase is taken from this somewhat prescient quotation =
from
Joyce:

"In time, perhaps there will be a gradual reawakening of the Irish
conscience, and perhaps four or five centuries after the Diet of Worms, =
we
will see an Irish monk throw away his frock, run off with some nun, and
proclaim in a loud voice the end of the coherent absurdity that was
Catholicism and the beginning of the incoherent absurdity that is
Protestantism." =A0

The symposium will take place here at Boston College on April 21, and is
being run under the auspices of the Boston Joyce Forum,=A0a =
collaboration
between Boston College and Northeastern University. =A0The goal of the =
Forum
is to provide an environment for local scholars and students working on =
any
aspect of Joyce=92s work. Last year we ran a series of talks and =
colloquia
featuring eminent Joyceans, and ran our major symposium on the theme of
"Joyce and Gender." =A0

Valente and Mahaffey are well known as two of the most engaging scholars =
at
work in America today. Valente's recent=A0The Myth of Manliness in Irish
National Culture was groundbreaking. Mahaffey will be presenting
her=A0Collaborative Dubliners. =A0It's an innovative collection of =
essays on
each story in Dubliners, each by a pair of specialists in dialogue with =
each
other.=A0Dermot Keogh's history of relations between Ireland and the =
Vatican
makes him a must-see presenter especially today.

Of course, Fintan O'Toole will be as stimulating and provocative as =
ever.=A0

Next year's symposium will be a major one too--its theme will be "Joyce =
and
Technology." =A0We're looking to bring together all the voices speaking =
to
innovation and the future of Joyce scholarship.=A0

We in the Boston Joyce Forum--that is myself, Patrick Mullen from
Northeastern, and Marjorie Howes from BC, are looking forward to talking
more about this symposium and next year's with any and all Joyceans at =
ACIS
in New Orleans next week.

Here's the URL.=20
http://www.bc.edu/content/bc/centers/ila/events/joyce.html

Many thanks,

Joe Nugent

English Department and Irish Studies=A0Program
Connolly House

Boston College

617 552 2228

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Dear Paddy and colleagues

I am pleased to announce that my interactive map depicting Irish place name=
s in Australia is up and running at theirishinaustralia.com
It comes up first on a Google search using that URL.
The places discussed were either named by an Irish person or for an Irish p=
erson or in memory of an Irish place name. For me the term 'Irish' is anyo=
ne born on the island of Ireland.
The site remains a work in progress and presently gives the erroneous impre=
ssion that more Irish settled in South Australia than in any other state.
I hope to redress that imbalance when I have time off later this year to tr=
avel interstate to do some serious research.

Bainigi sult as-Enjoy it!

le gach dea ghu=ED

Dymphna
Dr Dymphna Lonergan
English, Creative writing, and Australian Studies (Head)
Professional English (Coordinator)
Professional Studies Minor (Director of Studies)
ESOL8003 Introduction to English Linguistics (Lecturer)
http://www.theirishinaustralia.com
http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/dymphna.lonergan
This email and any attachments may be confidential. If you are not the inte=
nded recipient, please inform the sender by reply email and delete all copi=
es of this message.

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Subject: Invitation : Launch of Virtual Archive 'Le Typhus de 1847/The
Typhus of 1847': - 22 March 2012, University of Limerick
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From: Jason.King [mailto:Jason.King[at]ul.ie]=20
Subject: Invitation : Launch of Virtual Archive 'Le Typhus de 1847/The
Typhus of 1847': - 22 March 2012, University of Limerick

The School of Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication, =
University
of Limerick

cordially invites you to the launch of=20

The Virtual Archive of =91Le Typhus de 1847 / The Typhus of 1847=92=20

The virtual archive translates the French language annals and pays =
tribute
to the Grey Nuns of Montreal, who cared for famine emigrants and =
provided
homes for Irish orphans and widows during the famine migration of 1847

By=20
Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Jimmy Deenihan T.D.
Speakers include:=20
Agent General Pierre Boulanger, Qu=E9bec Government Office, London,=20
Jackie Ellis, =A0General Relations Officer, Embassy of Canada

Thursday, 22 March 2012
East Room, Plassey House, University of Limerick
Reception begins at 16h00=20
RSVP Jason.king[at]ul.ie by Friday 16th March 2012.

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Subject: Symposium: Famine Memory and the Irish Diaspora: Migrants,
Remembrance, Limerick, Thursday, March 22nd 2012
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Symposium: Famine Memory and the Irish Diaspora: Migrants, Remembrance,=20
Performance=20

Thursday, March 22nd.=20

Symposium Convener: Dr. Jason King=20


Panel 1: 9-11:00am. Wood Room, Plassey House.=20
Displaced Families: Research Seminar in History of the Family.=20

Ciara Breathnach (University of Limerick), =93Orphaned for the =
Voyage=94.=20

Patrick O=92Sullivan (Irish Diaspora Studies Unit, Bradford), =93Their =
own
words: personal=20
narratives of Irish Famine victims and refugees in coroners' inquests,
1845-1852=94=20

Ciaran J. Reilly (Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses & =
Estates),
=93Emigration and=20
the Strokestown estate during the Famine: Myth and memory=94=20

Niamh Ann Kelly (Dublin Institute of Technology), =93Staging a Modern =
Journey:
Famine Emigration in Memorial Culture=94=20


Panel 2. 12-2pm. Engineering Research Building (ERB) 001.=20

Relocated Remembrance:=20

Margu=E9rite Corporaal, (Radboud University, Nijmegen), =93Diasporic
Displacements: The Remembrance of the Great Famine in Irish-American and
Irish-Canadian Fiction, 1850-1870=94.=20

Lindsay Janssen, (Radboud University, Nijmegen), Recollecting Home:
Fictional Representations of Landscape and their Role in the Formation =
of
Transatlantic Irish Cultural Memory in Irish, Irish-American and
Irish-Canadian Novels, 1871-91"=20

Christopher Cusack, (Radboud University, Nijmegen), "Irish Revivalism,
Religion and Transatlantic Famine Recollection, 1892-1921"=20


Panel 3. 2:30-4pm. Wood Room, Plassey House.=20

Famine Commemoration in Ireland , Canada, and Quebec.=20

Emily Mark-Fitzgerald (University College Dublin), 'Monuments, museums & =
the
memory of migration in Canada'=20

Piaras Mac Enry (University College Cork), =93Remembering the =
uncommemorable:
Famine, memorialisation and Diaspora=94=20

Caroilin Callery & Maggie Gallagher (Cultural Connections and Curious =
Tail
Theatre Companies), =93Strokestown =96 Quebec Youth Connection =
Project=94.=20


4-5pm March 22nd 2012. East Room, Plassey House.=20

Launch of Virtual Archive of =91Le Typhus de 1847 / The Typhus of =
1847=92 By=20

Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Jimmy Deenihan T.D. The
virtual archive translates the French language annals and pays tribute =
to
the Grey Nuns of Montreal, who cared for famine emigrants and provided =
homes
for Irish orphans and widows during the famine migration of 184.=20

Speakers include:=20
Agent General Pierre Boulanger, Qu=E9bec Government Office, London,=20
Jackie Ellis, General Relations Officer, Embassy of Canada=20

=20

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In Bruges: Heaven or Hell?
Author: O'Brien, Catherine
Source: Literature and Theology, Volume 26, Number 1, 11 March 2012 , pp.
93-105(13)

Abstract:
The tale of two foul-mouthed Irish contract killers hiding out in Belgium
may initially appear incompatible with the writings of Saint Augustine of
Hippo (354430), the Latin Father of the Church. However, this article argues
that Martin McDonagh's film In Bruges (2008, UK/USA) has the dimensions of
an Augustinian drama, addressing themes raised in the theological epic City
of God, including eschatology, sin, suicide, war and the nature of
suffering. In 107 minutesrather than the voluminous pages of Augustine's
magnum opusIn Bruges offers an opportunity for its protagonists to ponder on
some of life's most vital questions.

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Subject: Article,
Production Places or Consumption Spaces? The Place-making Agency
of Food Tourism in Ireland and Scotland
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Tourism Geographies: An International Journal of Tourism Space, Place and
Environment

Production Places or Consumption Spaces? The Place-making Agency of Food
Tourism in Ireland and Scotland

Sally Everett

Available online: 29 Feb 2012

Abstract
This article examines the transformation of food production sites into
spaces of touristic experience. Traditional food producers are opening their
doors to visitors as the popularity of food tourism increases, negotiating a
balance between the operation of their business and the drive towards
developing new arenas of consumption. An approach that retains spatial,
social and cultural influences is advanced to conceptualize the place-making
agency of food tourism, whilst theorizing the blurring of work/leisure to
explore the merging of work places with leisure spaces. Findings from 32
interviews with producers and 34 interviews with tourists in Ireland and
Scotland include the identification of hybrid spaces where consumer needs
clash with production requirements; the discovery of producers who create
new spaces of consumptive leisure to accommodate touristic interests; the
constructive agency of tourist expectations; and insights into how producers
alter patterns of traditional production to facilitate growing consumptive
demands.

Key Words
Consumption, food tourism, Ireland, place-making, production, Scotland

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Subject: Article,
Diaspora and Tourism: Transylvanian Saxons Visiting the Homeland
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Tourism Geographies: An International Journal of Tourism Space, Place and
Environment

Diaspora and Tourism: Transylvanian Saxons Visiting the Homeland

Monica Iorio & Andrea Corsale

Available online: 29 Feb 2012

Abstract
This paper discusses visits to the homeland made by Transylvanian Saxons and
their descendants, now mainly living in Germany, after their emigration from
the former Saxon areas of Transylvania (Romania). The aim is to understand
what compels those people to temporarily return to Transylvania, how the
perception of the re-discovered places influences the sense of belonging, or
not belonging, to the homeland, and the forms of connection that are
re-established. Furthermore, the study aims at analysing the potential of
diasporic-roots tourism for heritage protection and local development in
this part of Romania. Study results revealed that the landscape re-visited
over the journeys played an ambivalent role in the (re)definition of the
meanings of home and homeland, reaffirming the sense of belonging to
Transylvania and to Germany at the same time. Transylvanian Saxons
pragmatically kept connections with the homeland both in Romania (visits,
house properties, etc.) and away (associations, newspapers, social networks,
etc.), without renouncing the new life found in Germany. Keeping house
properties in the homeland was revealed to be a key feature for Saxons'
heritage protection and local development, especially when properties were
turned into guesthouses for tourists.

Key Words
Diaspora, roots tourism, Transylvanian Saxons, Romania, identity, heritage,
local development

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Forwarded on behalf of
Walsh, James [mailto:James.Walsh[at]ucdenver.edu]=20
Subject: Irish Denver Book Signings and Talks

Dear Friends:
=A0
Our new book, Irish Denver, is now on bookstore shelves.=A0I'm excited =
to
invite you to attend one of several book talks and signings next week, =
St.
Paddy's week.=A0 Dennis Gallagher, Tom Noel, and I will be showing =
slides and
talking about our research into the history of the Colorado Irish.=A0 =
We'll
have Irish music and even some Irish refreshments.=A0 Please consider =
coming
out and bringing your friends.=A0 I have attached a flyer with all the
specific information.
=A0
Tuesday, March 13th.=A0 Auraria Campus, Tivoli Student Union. Room 320 =
BC,
Barresen Ballroom, 5:30-7:30 pm.=A0 Sponsored by Historic Denver
=A0
Wednesday, March 14th.=A0 Tattered Cover downtown, 16th and =
Wynkoop.=A0=A0
7:15-9:15 pm.
=A0
Thursday, March 15th.=A0 Regis University, Dayton Memorial Library, 50th =
and
Lowell Blvd.=A0 4:00-6:30 pm.
=A0
Friday, March 16th.=A0 Auraria Campus, Auraria Casa Mayan Heritage=92s
Leprechano Day, at 1020 9th Street.=A0 5:30-7:00 pm.
=A0
I hope to see you at one of these events,
=A0
all the best
Jim=20
=A0
MODERATOR'S NOTE
SEE ALSO
http://www.amazon.com/Denver-Images-America-Dennis-Gallagher/dp/073858907=
1

The very first Irish in Denver came as miners, railroad workers, =
soldiers,
and domestic servants. These workers, cogs of an expanding American
industrial empire, later gave way to 20th-century politicians, priests, =
and
business leaders who defined Irish respectability. Denver has always =
been a
prominent stopping point for Irish patriots and cultural icons on their =
way
to California. Former visitors include Oscar Wilde, Michael Davitt, =
Eamon de
Valera, and Mary McAleese. Irish cultural institutions and businesses
continue to flourish across Denver, which today boasts of having the
second-largest St. Patrick's Day parade in the nation.

http://www.archden.org/index.cfm/ID/5703

http://www.historicdenver.org/

etc.
=A0