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Those of you on twitter might want to have a look at the #beingirishmeans f=
eed - initiatied by the Irish Times presumably with St Patrick's day in min=
d. Inevitably quite a few references to drink and potatoes but also to red =
hair=2C Gaeilge (Irish language)=2C hating the British and living abroad so=
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h means to them. The hashtag is trending in Ireland.

Sarah.
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On a train of thought... A while back I discussed a little research =
project with a young scholar who was looking at the research literature =
on prejudice against people with red hair.

The starting point was a bland remark assigned to me on a BBC web =
site...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6725653.stm

The obvious things - like the straightforward Google search, comb =
through Wikipedia and so on - had turned up the usual oft-repeated =
stuff. With never a citation...

There is a trick that is available to scholars nowadays. Pinpoint a key =
article, either through Google Books or Google Scholar. Then in Google =
Scholar see who cites it, then see who cites them, and so on. And very =
quickly you have a picture of the shape of the research literature.

So, if I were thinking about red hair in literature, I would go for:

George Fenwick Jones
Chaucer and the Medieval Miller
Modern Language Quarterly March 1955 16(1): 3-15

But that does not really work. We don't get much away from Chaucer.

Try this...

Title There Are Some Things in Life You Can't Choose...: An =
Investigation Into Discrimination Against People with Red Hair
Sociology Working Papers
Issue 28 of Manchester sociology working papers
Authors Eleanor Anderson, University of Manchester. Sociology Dept
Publisher University of Manchester, Department of Sociology, 2001

That one sort of works...

Anything but simply red
http://www.heraldscotland.com/anything-but-simply-red-1.836066

And in Google Scholar it gets you one book about hair and culture...
Hair: styling, culture and fashion

So, again not much...

If you put this phrase into Google...

red hair in literature

...you get some quite good stuff...

http://www.abebooks.com/books/redhead-ginger-pickles-coffey-meggs/red-hai=
r.shtml

http://www.bmj.com/content/341/bmj.c6931.full

And so on. And of course the Sherlock Holmes story...

The Red Headed League by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Which is a great =
story.

See also:

http://programmes.stv.tv/made-in-scotland/news-gossip/110977-made-in-scot=
land-gingers/

Gingers - better red than dead

Scottish people are often associated with red hair, pale complexion and =
freckles, but is Scotland really the land of the gingers?=20

Red hair =E2=88=92 a desirable mutation?
Authors: Ha, Thomas; Rees, Jonathan L
Source: Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology, Volume 1, Number 2, July 2002 , =
pp. 62-65(4)
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
=20
Summary
Red hair is one of the most striking variants of human hair coloration =
and has historically been of profound social importance. Red hair in man =
is due to certain loss of function mutations of one of the peptide =
products of the pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) gene, the melanocortin-1 =
receptor (MC1R, MIM 155555). Such functional mutations enable the =
melanocyte to produce red-yellow pheomelanin in preference to the =
default, black-brown eumelanin. This paper reviews the path of discovery =
of the MC1R in control of animal coat colour, the subsequent role of =
MC1R in human physiology and possibly wider role of MC1R in human skin =
carcinogenesis and human development through history.

Looking at the prejudice generally... With red haired people it is very =
hard to think of anything in the background that could really explain =
what is going on. What is a possible rationale for this hostility?

Sherlock Holmes aside, is it possible to imagine red-haired people to be =
in a conspiracy against us? Is it possible that someone would say, I =
lost my job because of that red-haired man, and therefore I hate all =
red-haired people?

One possibility is that red hair is taken as a signifier for some other =
group - which is what that BBC web site was suggesting when it quoted =
me. But I cannot see any specific connection between red hair and =
Irishness.

Paddy Walls suggested looking at:

Ethnicity: not a black and white issue. A research note Hannah Bradby =
Sociology of Health & Illness Volume 17, Issue 3, pages 405=E2=80=93417, =
June 1995

which mentions red hair and the Irish and genes...

The article is freely available at the journal web site...

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9566.ep10933332/abstract

So, what do we think? Red haired people are a minority. The medical =
research that Google picks up amply confirms that. Red haired people - =
with some very few exceptions - are white skinned. They are a visible =
minority amongst white skinned people. You might be even able to think =
of them as, within white-skinned European culture, the first visible =
minority? That would make the literature and folkloric material of =
interest...

But then we would have to think about the persecution of the Jews in the =
middle ages...

One of the things the Irish - and all minority groups - have suffered =
from is ill thought out genetic assertions. But if there is real =
medical knowledge out there the Irish - and all minority groups - would =
like to have it.

Patrick O'Sullivan

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Paddy,=20
If there weren't fifty million blogs about having red hair (not to =
mention however many thousands of images on Google), this wouldn't be =
nearly so interesting. In "The Irish In US: Irishness, Performativity, =
and Popular Culture" (Diane Negra, ed.), Amanda Third has a chapter =
titled "'Does the Rug Match the Carpet?' Race, Gender, and the Redheaded =
Woman."

Being a redheaded woman (and having been asked that question countless =
times), this subject is of interest to me. This is the first time I've =
seen an academic treatise on it.

Sean Williams

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From: Ruth Barton
Subject: Re: [IR-D] Red Hair
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:10:19 +0000
To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List


Dear Paddy

Not long ago Besom Productions made a documentary called Rua. They =20
interviewed a number of us for it. The researcher asked me the normal =20=
questions and finished up by enquiring wistfully if I was perhaps a =20
redhead myself. Your friend will also find an essay on redheads =20
entitled 'Does the rug match the carpet? Race Gender and the =20
Redheaded Woman' by Amanda Third in Diane Negra's edited collection =20
The Irish In US.

Best

Ruth



Head of Department of Film Studies
School of Drama, Film and Music
Samuel Beckett Centre
Trinity College Dublin
Dublin 2

Tel: 353-1-8962961
http://www.tcd.ie/drama-film-music/

Rex Ingram project:
http://www.rexingram.ie/

Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film

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THE MAKING OF THE DOCUMENTARY FILM WOMEN IN RED
Jennifer Lynne Horst, B.S., B.A.
Thesis Prepared for the Degree of
MASTER OF FINE ARTS
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS
August 2008

Horst, Jennifer Lynne. The making of the documentary film Women in Red.
Master of Fine Arts (Radio, Television and Film), August 2008, 40 pp., 5
figures, 41 titles.

Though the remnants of a stereotype created over two millennia ago still
thrive in American popular culture today, redheaded women are enjoying a
more positive role in society than they have ever seen before. Women in Red
explores the experience of the redheaded woman in America today by examining
how the stereotypes have affected a small group of them, how these women
relate to the stereotypes, and why, given the verisimilitude of the
stereotype, a non-redheaded woman would embrace such an identity with the
simple act of dying her hair red. This is the story behind the experience
that is Women in Red.

http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9088/m1/1/high_res_d/thesis.
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Just tidyingup some references and thought that this one would interest the
Ir-D list...

The Library of Congress Folklife Center News, 29, 4, has an interesting
article about the re-discovery of some Francis O'Neill Cylinder
Recordings...

'AFC's new collection contains 32 Irish folk tunes, recorded by the early
twentieth century's greatest collector, Francis O'Neill. Lost for nearly
a century, they were recently rediscovered in Milwaukee.'

http://www.loc.gov/folklife/news/pdf/afcnews-fall-2007.pdf

You can now track on from there to this new Dunn Family Collection web
site.

'The Francis O'Neill cylinder recordings found in the Dunn Family Collection
are historical documents of the highest importance. They form part of the
dawn of the era of sound recording in Irish traditional music and constitute
an important element of the first sonic evidence documenting the music
styles and repertories in Irish traditional music.'

http://archives.irishfest.com/dunn-family-collection/Music.htm

http://archives.irishfest.com/dunn-family-collection/Music/Cylinders4.htm

So that it is now possible to hear the very musicians that Francis O'Neill
and his colleagues listened to, as they transcribed. Extraordinary.

P.O'S.

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A musical note from Paddy.

Bill,

Thought you might like to hear, and see, a little virtual project. I play a
small part in it, a musical partnership with contributions from all over the
USA, Australia, the Isle of Man, and here in Yorkshire...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCEwpvZDVrE

It is our version of the Stephen Foster song, Hard Times Come Again No More
- published in 1854. If you do the Youtube search you will find many other
versions, and connections made with the Depression or the current economic
crisis. Very much a 'parlour song', in its cadences and diction - but that
date of publication always links the song, for me, with my research on the
Irish Famine.

Paddy O'Sullivan

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The line "there are frail forms fainting at the door" is the one that
gets me, every time. I always teach this one to my Irish Studies
students when I teach them about the Irish in America.
Sean Williams

On Mar 14, 2012, at 5:41 PM, Bill Mulligan wrote:

> A musical note from Paddy.
>
> Bill,
>
> Thought you might like to hear, and see, a little virtual project.
> I play a
> small part in it, a musical partnership with contributions from all
> over the
> USA, Australia, the Isle of Man, and here in Yorkshire...
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCEwpvZDVrE
>
> It is our version of the Stephen Foster song, Hard Times Come Again
> No More
> - published in 1854. If you do the Youtube search you will find
> many other
> versions, and connections made with the Depression or the current
> economic
> crisis. Very much a 'parlour song', in its cadences and diction -
> but that
> date of publication always links the song, for me, with my research
> on the
> Irish Famine.
>
> Paddy O'Sullivan

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From: Patrick Maume
This piece from the right-wing CITY JOURNAL on Calvin Coolidge's
friendships with Catholic Irish-Americans and support of Irish causes has
an odour of conservative Republican pedigree-claiming about it (I suspect
Silent Cal's attitudes had a good deal to do with the requirements of
Massachusetts politics) but it may be of interest. Perhaps someone with
more expertise on Coolidge and his era can point out the distortions (if
any)?
Incidentally, when contrasting Coolidge and Woodrow Wilson on Ireland it
doesn't mention that Wilson was also of Irish descent, except that his
ancestors were Ulster Presbyterians.

http://www.city-journal.org/2012/bc0316cj.html

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Dear Paddy/Bill,

List members may be interested in the forthcoming seminar series at London
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Best wishes, Tony


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At a glance, the missing "elephant in the room" in this article appears to
be Coolidge's vicious anti-labor behavior, while governor of Mass., in the
Boston police strike of 1919, about which (and, more specifically,
anti-"subversion" among conservative Irish-American Catholics--including,
ironically, the police) there's an interesting article in an issue of the
JOURNAL OF AMERICAN ETHNIC HISTORY, which appeared several years ago.
Perhaps a classic example of the Right betraying (or ideologically
purifying) its own "shock troops"?
Kerby=20


On 3/17/12 10:32 AM, "Patrick Maume" wrote:

> From: Patrick Maume
> This piece from the right-wing CITY JOURNAL on Calvin Coolidge's
> friendships with Catholic Irish-Americans and support of Irish causes has
> an odour of conservative Republican pedigree-claiming about it (I suspect
> Silent Cal's attitudes had a good deal to do with the requirements of
> Massachusetts politics) but it may be of interest. Perhaps someone with
> more expertise on Coolidge and his era can point out the distortions (if
> any)?
> Incidentally, when contrasting Coolidge and Woodrow Wilson on Ireland i=
t
> doesn't mention that Wilson was also of Irish descent, except that his
> ancestors were Ulster Presbyterians.
>=20
> http://www.city-journal.org/2012/bc0316cj.html

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=C9amonn Ceannt was executed at Kilmainham Gaol on 8 May 1916, along =20
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the Easter Rising. Ceannt was one of the seven signatories of the =20
Proclamation of the Irish Republic read by Patrick Pearse outside the =20=

GPO on that Easter Monday. He had led the rebel occupation of the =20
South Dublin Union, and despite having been vastly outnumbered his =20
volunteers were not overpowered but ordered to surrender by Pearse.

=C9amonn Ceannt, together with Patrick Pearse and Joseph Plunkett, was =20=

instrumental in planning the rebellion. He had joined the Gaelic =20
League in 1899, where he met Pearse and Eoin MacNeill. He became a =20
member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood in 1912 and became a =20
founding member of the Irish Volunteers the following year. This is =20
the only biography of this brilliant military tactician and key player =20=

in the story of 1916.


Part of the =91Irish Revolutionaries=92 series



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William Henry is an historian, archaeologist and author of several =20
titles including Coffin Ship, Hidden Galway, Famine: Galway's Darkest =20=

Years, Forgotten Heroes and Galway and the Great War. He lives in =20
Galway.

=C9amonn Ceannt is published in paperback at =8014.99


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Hello,

My name is Jane McGaughey and, beginning 1 July 2012, I will be the new
assistant professor of Irish Diaspora Studies at Concordia University's
School of Canadian Irish Studies. I received my PhD in 2008 from
Birkbeck College, University of London, and was the 2009-10 Keough
Faculty Fellow at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at
the University of Notre Dame.

My interests include the Irish military diaspora since the mid-eighteenth
century until the end of the Second World War, transatlantic constructions
of gender, in particular Orange masculinities, and the Irish Diaspora's
representation in Canada, Newfoundland, America and Britain in terms of
national identities, politics, and popular culture.

I have just published my first book, "Ulster's Men", with McGill-Queen's
University Press and currently am working on two projects. The first
is a comparison of Orange fraternities and social connections between
Canada, Newfoundland and Ireland from the 1820s to the 1950s; the
second is an examination of how the Irish Diaspora has created modern
Canadian political identities and milestones.

Many thanks,
Jane

--=20
Dr Jane McGaughey
Assistant Professor History | Professeure adjointe histoire
Royal Military College of Canada | Coll=E8ge militaire royal du Canada
PO Box 17000, Stn Forces
Kingston, ON K7K 7B4
Tel 613 541 6000 ext. 3603
Facsimile | T=E9l=E9copieur 613 541 6056

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Dear Patrick,

Can anyone on here provide a source for some commentators in the 17th
century saying how scandalous it was
because they had "seen Irish women, naked and in cattle pens on open
sale'" in Bristol - presumably to the colonies?

I know that indentured servitude often included coerced Irish
people in this period, so this might be related to that practice.

Any suggestions gratefully received.

Many thanks in anticipation.
Donal

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Northumbria University, June 27-28 2012
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A Special Relationship? Irish popular music in Britain

An interdisciplinary conference to be hosted at Northumbria University =
in
conjunction with the Centre for Media Research at the University of =
Ulster
June 27th-28th 2012

Call for Papers

Ireland and Britain share in large measure a common, if disputed, =
history.
Ireland is, of course, a former colony of Britain, and Northern Ireland =
is
still part of the United Kingdom so that one of the conundrums of the =
Irish
experience is that it is both post-colonial and neo-colonial; national =
and
regional; periphery and centre. Irish popular music, therefore, displays =
a
complex set of sometimes contradictory characteristics, and Irish =
artists
and musicians work within and against such an intricate web of social,
economic, political and cultural influences that their art and music =
raises
dizzying questions about national identity.

Irish musicians in Britain offer an interesting case study for wider =
debates
about identity and cultural expression, as the Irish have been =
frequently
caught between the two poles of assimilation - too alike for difference =
to
matter (and naturalised into honorary Anglo-Americanism) - and ethnic
difference (condemned to a narrowly defined =91Irishness=92).

=91A Special Relationship? Irish popular music in Britain=92 focuses on =
the
complex relationship of Irish musicians and bands, music journalists and
other industry personnel to British popular music culture more
generally. The conference is inspired by the publication in 2011 of Sean
Campbell=92s important book, 'Irish Blood, English Heart': =
Second-Generation
Irish Musicians in England (Cork University Press), which won Hot Press
magazine=92s =91Music Book of the Year=92 - a rare accolade for an =
academic text.

The conference seeks to build upon this book and invites papers =
exploring
any aspect of Irish popular music in Britain and the popular cultural
aspects of the Irish diasporic experience. Topics might include:

- British music press and Irish musicians and bands;=20
- The role of Irish writers in the British music press;
- Case studies of Irish musicians in Britain, whether traditional,
folk, pop, rock and from any era (from the Nolans to The Virgin Prunes;
Victorian ballads to boy-bands in the =9290s; Val Doonican to Boy =
George);
- The issue of Irish rock in exile (Rory Gallagher, Thin Lizzy, =
Van
Morrison etc).

We also welcome a broad range of critical approaches: cultural history,
textual analysis, post-colonial, musicological, and so forth.

A selection of papers from the conference will appear in a special issue =
of
the journal, Popular Music History. Keynote speakers include Dr Sean
Campbell (Irish Blood, English Heart), Dave Laing (One Chord Wonders) =
and
Professor Martin McLoone (Rock and Popular Music in Ireland). The =
conference
will be held at Northumbria University=92s City Campus in Newcastle city
centre and in the city=92s culture quarter, the Ouseburn Valley.

Please send a brief abstract to noel.mclaughlin[at]northumbria.ac.uk on, or
before, April 10th 2012.=

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Hi, Jane. Good to see you again in New Orleans. Congratulations on your
book's publication.
Best wishes,
Kerby


On 3/20/12 5:50 PM, "Dr Jane McGaughey" wrote=
:

> Hello,
>=20
> My name is Jane McGaughey and, beginning 1 July 2012, I will be the new
> assistant professor of Irish Diaspora Studies at Concordia University's
> School of Canadian Irish Studies. I received my PhD in 2008 from
> Birkbeck College, University of London, and was the 2009-10 Keough
> Faculty Fellow at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at
> the University of Notre Dame.
>=20
> My interests include the Irish military diaspora since the mid-eighteenth
> century until the end of the Second World War, transatlantic construction=
s
> of gender, in particular Orange masculinities, and the Irish Diaspora's
> representation in Canada, Newfoundland, America and Britain in terms of
> national identities, politics, and popular culture.
>=20
> I have just published my first book, "Ulster's Men", with McGill-Queen's
> University Press and currently am working on two projects. The first
> is a comparison of Orange fraternities and social connections between
> Canada, Newfoundland and Ireland from the 1820s to the 1950s; the
> second is an examination of how the Irish Diaspora has created modern
> Canadian political identities and milestones.
>=20
> Many thanks,
> Jane

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Quoting Dr Jane McGaughey :

> Hello,
>
> My name is Jane McGaughey and, beginning 1 July 2012, I will be the new
> assistant professor of Irish Diaspora Studies at Concordia University's
> School of Canadian Irish Studies. I received my PhD in 2008 from
> Birkbeck College, University of London, and was the 2009-10 Keough
> Faculty Fellow at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at
> the University of Notre Dame.
>
> My interests include the Irish military diaspora since the mid-eighteenth
> century until the end of the Second World War, transatlantic constructions
> of gender, in particular Orange masculinities, and the Irish Diaspora's
> representation in Canada, Newfoundland, America and Britain in terms of
> national identities, politics, and popular culture.
>
> I have just published my first book, "Ulster's Men", with McGill-Queen's
> University Press and currently am working on two projects. The first
> is a comparison of Orange fraternities and social connections between
> Canada, Newfoundland and Ireland from the 1820s to the 1950s; the
> second is an examination of how the Irish Diaspora has created modern
> Canadian political identities and milestones.
>
> Many thanks,
> Jane
>
> --
> Dr Jane McGaughey
> Assistant Professor History | Professeure adjointe histoire
> Royal Military College of Canada | Coll=E8ge militaire royal du Canada
> PO Box 17000, Stn Forces
> Kingston, ON K7K 7B4
> Tel 613 541 6000 ext. 3603
> Facsimile | T=E9l=E9copieur 613 541 6056
>

Dear Jane,

Congratulations upon your appointment to Concordia and your new =20
monograph. I am looking forward to renewed co-operation and =20
collaboration between our Celtic Studies Program, at St. Michael's =20
College, University of Toronto, and the School of Canadian Irish =20
Studies at Concordia.

Best wishes
Dr Mark G McGowan
Professor of History & Principal Emeritus
St. Michael's College, University of Toronto