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Press release for Artist of the Revolution, recently published by =20
Mercier Press. The author is available for interview. If you would =20
like to feature an interview/extract please contact me, Sharon, on 021 =20=

4614700. Click here for more information.



Artist of the Revolution

The Cartoons of Ernest Kavanagh (1884-1916)




Prior to his death on the front steps of Dublin=92s Liberty Hall during =20=

the Easter Rising, Ernest Kavanagh, an employee of the Irish Transport =20=

and General Workers=92 Union, had established himself as a political =20
cartoonist. Using the initials =91E.K.=92, he regularly contributed =20
illustrations to Irish labour, nationalist and suffrage newspapers =20
during the course of the previous four years.





These cartoons saw him champion the rights of Ireland=92s working class, =
=20
depict William Martin Murphy and the Dublin Metropolitan Police as =20
murderous monsters during the 1913 Dublin Lockout, attack John Redmond =20=

for his recruitment of Irish soldiers following the outbreak of World =20=

War One, and lend his support to the Irish suffragette movement in =20
their effort to secure the vote for the women of Ireland.



This collection of original Kavanagh cartoons provides us with a =20
fascinating pictorial record of an Ireland filled with protest and =20
social unrest during the Dublin Lockout, First World War, and lead-up =20=

to the 1916 Easter Rising.



Author Information

James Curry is a native of Dublin and has graduated with B.A. and M. =20
Phil history degrees from Trinity College.


Artist of the Revolution is published in paperback at =8012.99



Sharon O'Donovan
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Cork, Ireland.
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Welcome to IR-D, Jane, and I regret not meeting you in New Orleans. I was
in San Antonio, at the annual 18thC conference there, speaking on Mary
Shackleton Leadbeater & the Irish Enlightenment, with a Table Display of
some of my rare & special Irish books, by Mary Tighe, Maria Edgeworth, WB
Yeats, Leadbeater, and Malachi McCormick's handcrafted book, in his own
calligraphic hand ~ *Herself Long Ago: Irish Women Poets, 8th-10thCs* (3
small softcover vols., in slipcase; Stone Street Press, Staten Island, NY,
publisher Malachi McCormick). We all look forward, of course, to hearing
more about your important work.

Wishing you continuing success,


MEM

Maureen E. Mulvihill, PhD
Scholar, Writer, Collector. Princeton Research Forum, Princeton NJ.
http://mysentimentallibrary.blogspot.com/2011/03/maureen-e-mulvihill-list-o=
f-online-work.html
http://www.floridabibliophilesociety.org/mulvihill.html
http://www.bookplatejunkie.blogspot.com/ (scroll down a bit)

___



On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:54 AM, Mark McGowan wro=
te:

> 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-eighteent=
h
>> century until the end of the Second World War, transatlantic constructio=
ns
>> 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 monograph=
.
> I am looking forward to renewed co-operation and collaboration between ou=
r
> Celtic Studies Program, at St. Michael's College, University of Toronto,
> and the School of Canadian Irish Studies at Concordia.
>
> Best wishes
> Dr Mark G McGowan
> Professor of History & Principal Emeritus
> St. Michael's College, University of Toronto
>

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Subject: The Typhus of 1847 -- Virtual Archive of Famine Stories, Limerick
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Dear all=2C

Fantastic work done by Dr. Jason King of Limerick University made the publi=
cation of these (so far) unknown archives of the Soeurs Grises possible. Th=
ey deal with the 1847 Irish Famine immigration to Montr=E9al=2C Qu=E9bec.

The Virtual Archive has been launched here : http://www.history.ul.ie/histo=
ryoffamily/faminearchive/

Best regards=2C

Simon Jolivet
Postdoctoral fellow and Lecturer in Irish-Canadian history
University of Ottawa
613-562-5800 poste 4002

___________________________________________________

Minister for Arts=2C Heritage and the Gaeltacht=20
launches Virtual Archive of Famine Stories - The Typhus of 1847 / Le=20
Typhus de 1847



=20
Jimmy Deenihan TD Minister for Arts=2C Heritage and=20
the Gaeltacht=2C recently launched a unique virtual archive of famine=20
stories at the University of Limerick. The archive translates the French
language annals and pays tribute to the French-Canadian
Sisters of Charity=2C or Grey Nuns=2C who cared for the Irish Famine=20
emigrants in the fever sheds of Montreal during the summer of 1847 and=20
provided homes for Irish widows and orphans. These annals contain=20
extensive and highly evocative eyewitness accounts of
the suffering of famine migrants in 1847.



=20
Speaking at the event=2C Minister Deenihan said=3B=20
"These annals contain extensive and very moving eyewitness accounts of=20
the suffering of famine migrants in 1847. Written in French and mostly=20
unpublished until now they were largely unknown
to both scholars and the general public. As Chair of the Famine=20
Commemoration Committee it is my role to ensure that the commemorations=20
undertaken in Drogheda and Boston this year honour the victims of the=20
Famine and also all those who selflessly assisted
them at that time."



=20
The archive consists of numerous eye witness=20
accounts and first hand testimonials about the suffering of Irish=20
emigrants in the fever sheds of Montreal in 1847=2C and of the harrowing=20
experiences of the priests and nuns who went to their aid
and sought to provide homes for stricken widows and orphans.



=20
Dr Jason King=2C University of Limerick is the lead=20
researcher on the project. He explains the significance of the archive=3B=20
""The Typhus of 1847 / Le Typhus de 1847" virtual archive makes=20
accessible the stories of individuals and members of
religious communities who risked their own lives to care for and=20
provide comfort for Famine Irish emigrants in Montreal in 1847. It=20
provides a record not just of the hardships and suffering experienced by
the Famine emigrants=2C but also a moving tribute to
those who sought to help them."=20



=20
The Great Irish Famine of 1845-1850 was the greatest
social calamity in terms of mortality and suffering that Ireland has=20
ever experienced. During those years=2C over one million people perished=20
from hunger or=2C more commonly=2C from hunger-related
diseases. In the decade following 1846=2C when the floodgates of=20
emigration opened=2C more than 1.8 million people emigrated=2C with more=20
than half fleeing during the famine years.



=20
The main annal in the archive is that of the Grey=20
Nuns of Montreal which has been published in French in La Revue=20
Canadienne under the title "Le Typhus de 1847" in 1898=3B the UL virtual=20
archive is making this material accessible as it is
largely unknown in the English speaking world.


=20
The virtual archive can be accessed here:=20
http://www.history.ul.ie/historyoffamily/faminearchive/



=20
The event was also attended by representatives of=20
the Qu=E9bec Government Office=2C London and the Embassy of Canada in=20
Ireland. The project has been funded by the Arts=2C Humanities and Social=20
Sciences Faculty Teaching and Research Boards=2C University
of Limerick.
=20



http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0323/1224313766271.html



http://www.irishcentral.com/news/New-Irish-Famine-documents-shed-light-on-i=
ncredible-nuns-and-priests-in-Canada-143951296.html
=20
http://www.ul.ie/news-centre/news/virtual-archive-of-famine-stories-launche=
d-at-ul/ =

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Bruce Nelson's new book is turning up in our alerts, though it has not yet
been published. If I wait I will forget. Anyway, sections of the book are
already visible on Google Books.

Looks good. Looks significant.

P.O'S.

Irish Nationalists and the Making of the Irish Race [Hardcover]
Bruce Nelson (Author)

Hardcover: 348 pages
Publisher: Princeton University Press (13 May 2012)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0691153124
ISBN-13: 978-0691153124

This is a book about Irish nationalism and how Irish nationalists developed
their own conception of the Irish race. Bruce Nelson begins with an
exploration of the discourse of race--from the nineteenth--century belief
that "race is everything" to the more recent argument that there are no
races. He focuses on how English observers constructed the "native" and
Catholic Irish as uncivilized and savage, and on the racialization of the
Irish in the nineteenth century, especially in Britain and the United
States, where Irish immigrants were often portrayed in terms that had been
applied mainly to enslaved Africans and their descendants.

Most of the book focuses on how the Irish created their own identity--in the
context of slavery and abolition, empire, and revolution. Since the Irish
were a dispersed people, this process unfolded not only in Ireland, but in
the United States, Britain, Australia, South Africa, and other countries.
Many nationalists were determined to repudiate anything that could interfere
with the goal of building a united movement aimed at achieving full
independence for Ireland. But others, including men and women who are at the
heart of this study, believed that the Irish struggle must create a more
inclusive sense of Irish nationhood and stand for freedom everywhere. Nelson
pays close attention to this argument within Irish nationalism, and to the
ways it resonated with nationalists worldwide, from India to the Caribbean.

From the Inside Flap
"This is a brilliant history of British imperial white racism and Irish
resistance to it--and cooperation with it--in Ireland and the United States.
From Frederick Douglass and Daniel O'Connell in the nineteenth century to
Marcus Garvey and Liam Mellows in the twentieth, we are given here a
pathbreaking account of a still unfinished struggle."--Seamus Deane, Keough
Emeritus Professor of Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame

"This fine work of scholarship makes a valuable contribution to the
literature on Irish nationalism and the history of nationalism generally.
Nelson offers a cogent critique of those Irish nationalists who were so
caught up in their own narrow nationalistic grievances that any sympathetic
engagement with other reform movements was ruled out."--Cormac Grda, author
of Famine: A Short History

"This fine and learned study is based on prodigious reading, presented in a
compelling manner, and overall is a most impressive performance. I have
immense admiration for it."--J. Joseph Lee, New York University

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2 articles seem to be of special interest...

Peter Murray on John Vaizey, the Ford Foundation and the 1965 =
publication of
Investment in Education.

And Laura O'Connor & Daniel Faas on migration and national identity in
education.

P.O'S.

The online platform for Taylor & Francis Online content
Irish Educational Studies, Vol. 31, No. 1, 01 Mar 2012 is now available =
on
Taylor & Francis Online.=20

This new issue contains the following articles:=20

Original Articles=20
The professional knowledge base and practice of Irish post-primary =
teachers:
what is the research evidence telling us?
Jim Gleeson
Pages: 1-17

Critical emotional praxis for reconciliation education: emerging =
evidence
and pedagogical implications
Michalinos Zembylas
Pages: 19-33

Integrating experiential and academic learning in teacher preparation =
for
development education
Anne Ryan
Pages: 35-50

The impact of migration on national identity in a globalized world: a
comparison of civic education curricula in England, France and Ireland
Laura O'Connor & Daniel Faas
Pages: 51-66

=91Can I write to you about Ireland?=92: John Vaizey, the Ford =
Foundation and
Irish educational policy change, 1959=961962 [document study]
Peter Murray
Pages: 67-75

The impact of a curriculum course on pre-service primary teachers' =
science
content knowledge and attitudes towards teaching science
Cl=EDona Murphy & Greg Smith
Pages: 77-95
DOI: 10.1080/03323315.2011.634061

BOOK REVIEWS=20
The changing faces of Ireland: exploring the lives of immigrant and =
ethnic
minority children
Mary Masterson
Pages: 97-99

A history of Ireland's school inspectorate, 1831=962008
Ciaran Sugrue
Pages: 99-102

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This review article by Bill Mulligan will interest many Ir-D members.

It looks at Rogers & O'Brien, After the Flood
Barton, Screening Irish-America
Rains, The Irish-American in Popular Culture.

I wonder if there is any way to prevail upon the writer of the article to
make it more widely available...

P.O'S.

Alive and Well: New Perspectives on Irish America
William H. Mulligan Jr.
Journal of American Ethnic History
Vol. 31, No. 3 (Spring 2012), pp. 80-86

Published by: University of Illinois Press
Article Stable URL:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jamerethnhist.31.3.0080

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Subject: Article, Teaching and Learning Oral History/Theory/Performance
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From: "Patrick O'Sullivan"
Subject: Article, Teaching and Learning Oral History/Theory/Performance

This article will interest many Ir-D members and is freely available at the
journal web site...

P.O'S.

Jennifer Clary-Lemon and Lynne Williams

"Teaching and Learning Oral History/Theory/Performance: A Case Study of the
Scholarship of Discovery, Integration, Application and Teaching,"

Oral History Forum d'histoire orale 32 (2012), Special Issue "Making
Educational Oral Histories in the 21st Century

Abstract
In this piece, we argue that oral histories are rich sites of teaching and
learning that bridge the concept of disciplinary ownership and create
opportunities for diverse scholarship, using Boyer's four-part model of
scholarship: Discovery, Integration, Application, and Teaching. In this case
study, we describe the circular motion of oral history, theory, research,
practice, and performance between researcher, student, and community group,
arguing that oral history projects and their outcomes, as sites of applied
knowledge, offer opportunities for multiple stakeholders to move beyond
disciplinary, methodological, and institutional boundaries. We describe a
long-term oral history project that, in various iterations, represented
linguistic research, interdisciplinary communication, teaching tool, and
theatrical performance in response to community-based needs.

Article freely available at
http://www.oralhistoryforum.ca/index.php/ohf/article/viewFile/427/491

Full TOC of the Special Issue at

http://www.oralhistoryforum.ca/index.php/ohf

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Subject: Cfp Irish drama/ dramaiocht na hEireann, University of Notre Dame
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Forwarded on behalf of
Brian =D3 Conchubhair
=20
From: Boconchubhair [mailto:boconchubhair[at]gmail.com]=20
Sent: 27 March 2012 01:30
Subject: Cfp Irish drama/ dramaiocht na hEireann

Dear Paddy,
May I trouble you to circulate this call for papers please?
Thanks,
Brian
=A0
VIA 2012: Irish Drama=A0/ Dr=E1ma=EDocht na h=C9ireann
A Scholarly Conference on Irish Drama/ Comhdh=E1il Acad=FAil ar =
Dhr=E1ma=EDocht na
h=C9ireann

The Department of Irish Language & Literature, University of Notre Dame =
is
hosting VIA, an academic conference that charts a new way of bringing
scholars of Irish and English together in a productive intellectual
engagement on a single theme. VIA 2012 (27-28 September) is a bilingual
interdisciplinary conference focusing on Irish drama covering all =
aspects of
Irish theater making. Key note speakers include Jose Lanters, Philip
O=92Leary, Micheal O Conghaile, Padraig O Siadhail and Mary Trotter. We
welcome proposals (250 words) for twenty-minute papers and/or 3 person
panels (in English or Irish) on any aspect of Irish theater including
history, literature, language and culture. Proposals from graduate =
students
also welcome. Please submit proposals for individual papers/panels
at=A0http://nd.edu/~irishstu/via/index.html=A0
before 1 May 2012.

Cuirfear f=E1ilte ar leith roimh ph=E1ip=E9ir agus/n=F3 roimh phain=E9il =
ioml=E1na i
nGaeilge ar ghn=E9 ar bith den dr=E1ma=EDocht in =C9irinn. Iarrtar ar =
dhaoine ar
mhaith leo p=E1ip=E9ar 20 n=F3im=E9ad a l=E9amh teideal an ph=E1ip=E9ir =
mar aon le
hachoimre ghairid (250 focal) a chlaru
aghttp://nd.edu/~irishstu/via/index.html=A0roimh 1 Bealtaine 2012. =
Iarrtar
orthu si=FAd a bhfuil sp=E9is acu pain=E9al a eagr=FA ainmneacha na =
gcainteoir=ED, na
n-institi=FAid=ED lena mbaineann siad, teidil na bp=E1ip=E9ar agus =
achoimr=ED mar aon
le hainm agus sonra=ED teagmh=E1la an chathaoirligh a bheith san =
=E1ireamh. F=E1ilte
roimh mhic l=E9inn iarch=E9ime.

Paper abstracts/Achoimr=ED 1 May Bealtaine 2012
Event registration/Cl=E1r=FA 1 September Me=E1n F=F3mhair 2012

Conference Coordinator/Sti=FArth=F3ir na Comhdh=E1la: Brian =D3 =
Conchubhair=A0
Tuilleadh Eolais/Additional =
Information:http://nd.edu/~irishstu/via/index.h

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Forwarded on behalf of
From: Jason.King [mailto:Jason.King[at]ul.ie]=20
Subject: New Virtual Archive of Famine Irish records -- The Typhus of =
1847

Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht launches Virtual Archive =
of
Famine Stories - The Typhus of 1847 / Le Typhus de 1847
=A0
Jimmy Deenihan TD Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, =
recently
launched a unique virtual archive of famine stories at the University of
Limerick. The archive translates the French language annals and pays =
tribute
to the French-Canadian Sisters of Charity, or Grey Nuns, who cared for =
the
Irish Famine emigrants in the fever sheds of Montreal during the summer =
of
1847 and provided homes for Irish widows and orphans. These annals =
contain
extensive and highly evocative eyewitness accounts of the suffering of
famine migrants in 1847.
=A0
Speaking at the event, Minister Deenihan said; "These annals contain
extensive and very moving eyewitness accounts of the suffering of famine
migrants in 1847. Written in French and mostly unpublished until now =
they
were largely unknown to both scholars and the general public. As Chair =
of
the Famine Commemoration Committee it is my role to ensure that the
commemorations undertaken in Drogheda and Boston this year honour the
victims of the Famine and also all those who selflessly assisted them at
that time."
=A0
The archive consists of numerous eye witness accounts and first hand
testimonials about the suffering of Irish emigrants in the fever sheds =
of
Montreal in 1847, and of the harrowing experiences of the priests and =
nuns
who went to their aid and sought to provide homes for stricken widows =
and
orphans.
=A0
Dr Jason King, University of Limerick is the lead researcher on the =
project.
He explains the significance of the archive; ""The Typhus of 1847 / Le
Typhus de 1847" virtual archive makes accessible the stories of =
individuals
and members of religious communities who risked their own lives to care =
for
and provide comfort for Famine Irish emigrants in Montreal in 1847. It
provides a record not just of the hardships and suffering experienced by =
the
Famine emigrants, but also a moving tribute to those who sought to help
them."=20
=A0
The Great Irish Famine of 1845-1850 was the greatest social calamity in
terms of mortality and suffering that Ireland has ever experienced. =
During
those years, over one million people perished from hunger or, more =
commonly,
from hunger-related diseases. In the decade following 1846, when the
floodgates of emigration opened, more than 1.8 million people emigrated,
with more than half fleeing during the famine years.=20
=A0
The main annal in the archive is that of the Grey Nuns of Montreal which =
has
been published in French in La Revue Canadienne under the title "Le =
Typhus
de 1847" in 1898; the UL virtual archive is making this material =
accessible
as it is largely unknown in the English speaking world.
=A0
The virtual archive can be accessed here:
http://www.history.ul.ie/historyoffamily/faminearchive/
=A0
The event was also attended by representatives of the Qu=E9bec =
Government
Office, London and the Embassy of Canada in Ireland. The project has =
been
funded by the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty Teaching and
Research Boards, University of Limerick.
=A0
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0323/1224313766271.html

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/New-Irish-Famine-documents-shed-light-on=
-in
credible-nuns-and-priests-in-Canada-143951296.html=20

=A0

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The Women of Dolours: Sunday's Well & Lifting the Shroud of
Silence
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In following up the thinking process provoked by Ellen McWilliams'
conference in Bath last Saturday I came across this article, freely
available on the Global Media Journal web site.

Note the 'Click image to view slideshow' instruction below the photograph.
It is worth clicking - maybe once before and once after reading the article.

The article specifically engages with James M. Smith's (2008), Ireland's
Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment - but from a
special point of view.

P.O'S.


The Women of Dolours: Sunday's Well & Lifting the Shroud of Silence

Kellie Greene- University of Western Sydney

Abstract

While carrying out field research in Ireland in the winter of 2010, I
visited the former Magdalene Laundry in Sunday's Well, Cork City. Situated
on a hill overlooking the river Lee, the laundry was part of a vast network
of schools, convents, asylums and hospitals that were funded by the Irish
government and run by various religious orders. Locating the dilapidated
laundry proved to be incredibly difficult due to the vague directions from
locals and the labyrinth of narrow avenues and blind alleys leading up to
the buildings. While exploring the laundry itself, it became apparent that
it shared a perimeter wall with the local, historic prison which was a local
tourist attraction. This has led me to question, how is it possible to make
similar, adjoining sites of incarceration simultaneously visible and
invisible? What techniques of governmentality are at play that privileges
one and silences the other? Through word, photography, and theory this
article focuses on the complex and no doubt contradictory experiences of
lives as they were lived within Ireland's Architecture of Containment.

http://www.commarts.uws.edu.au/gmjau/v4_2010_2/kellie_greene_RA.html


Notes from my Fieldwork Diary: Ireland, Jan 6 - Feb 4, 2010

'...In the winter of 2010 I returned to Ireland to embark on the
photographic component of my research project. Ten years had passed since I
had last been 'home', and I knew that during my long absence the
institutions I wanted to explore would no doubt have changed considerably.
Within days of arriving three significant events occurred which, along with
the material I had been immersed in prior to my trip, shaped my practice in
the field in profound ways.

These events were firstly, the discovery of the complete disappearance of St
Anne's Girl's Home in Kilmacud where I was committed as an adolescent;
secondly, the retrieval of my records from Our Lady of Charity archives in
Sean McDermott street in Dublin; and finally the global financial crisis
which had manifested itself in Ireland through the abrupt cessation of the
construction industry, which included the demolition and refurbishment of
much of Ireland's former 'architecture of containment'. The significance of
these events lay in the fact that each, in different ways, posed a challenge
to, and ultimately undermined, the search for origins which I now, following
Foucault, associate with 'progressive history' (as a metaphysical and
meta-historical practice). If I had once thought that visiting the
institutions in which abuse occurred, or obtaining the records of my
internment might furnish me with truths that would lead to liberation, I was
to be sorely disappointed...'

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This book has turned up in our alerts, and it certainly seems to refer to
the Irish material, particularly the sturdy work of Catherine Nash.

But I have not been able to locate a full Table of Contents.

From what I have seen certainly of interest, and all in all many case
studies of the ways in which new knowledge is shaped by present interests.

P.O'S.

Genetics and the Unsettled Past
The Collision of DNA, Race, and History

Edited by Keith Wailoo, Alondra Nelson, and Catherine Lee

Subject: Sociology, Health and Medicine
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-5255-2
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-5254-5
Pages: 368 pages
Publication Date: March 2012
Series: Rutgers Studies in Race and Ethnicity


Praise for Genetics and Unsettled Past:

"Intellectually and analytically strong, this volume comes together in a
fluid melding of many different voices and perspectives that, when taken
together, provide the richest and best collection of scholarship on the
topic."
-Troy Duster, author of Backdoor to Eugenics

Description:

Our genetic markers have come to be regarded as portals to the past.
Analysis of these markers is increasingly used to tell the story of human
migration; to investigate and judge issues of social membership and kinship;
to rewrite history and collective memory; to right past wrongs and to
arbitrate legal claims and human rights controversies; and to open new
thinking about health and well-being. At the same time, in many societies
genetic evidence is being called upon to repair the racial past and to
transform scholarly and popular opinion about the "nature" of identity in
the present.

Genetics and the Unsettled Past considers the alignment of genetic science
with commercial genealogy, with legal and forensic developments, and with
pharmaceutical innovation to examine how these trends lend renewed authority
to biological understandings of race and history.

This unique collection brings together scholars from a wide range of
disciplines to explore the emerging and often contested connections among
race, DNA, and history. Written for a general audience, the book's essays
touch upon a variety of topics, including the rise and implications of DNA
in genealogy, law, and other fields; the cultural and political uses and
misuses of genetic information; the way in which DNA testing is reshaping
understandings of group identity for French Canadians, Native Americans,
South Africans, and many others within and across cultural and national
boundaries; and the sweeping implications of genetics for society today.

About the Editors:
KEITH WAILOO is the Townsend Martin Professor of History and Public Affairs
at Princeton University and the author or editor of several books, including
Katrina's Imprint: Race and Vulnerability in America (Rutgers University
Press), How Cancer Crossed the Color Line, and Dying in the City of the
Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health.

ALONDRA NELSON is an associate professor of sociology at Columbia
University. She is the author of Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and
the Fight Against Medical Discrimination and coeditor of Technicolor: Race,
Technology, and Everyday Life.

CATHERINE LEE is an assistant professor of sociology and a faculty associate
at the Institute for Health at Rutgers University. She is completing a book
entitled Fictive Kin: Family Reunification and the Meaning of Race in
Immigration Policy.

http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/genetics_and_the_unsettled_past.htm
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Dear Bill/Patrick,

The only European launch of Barry Crosbie's long awaited book *Irish
Imperial Networks: Migration Social Communication and Exchange in
Nineteenth-Century Ireland and India* will take place at TCD Long Room Hub
on April 11 as part of our new C19th seminar series. I remember that a
notification of publication went out in the IR-D list some time ago and
list members might well be interested and are very welcome to come along if
it proves possible. Details pasted in below:


*Ireland, Empire and Education Project*

www.irelandempire.ie



Ireland and the British World



TCD C19th Seminar Series



April =96 May 2012


Neill/Hoey Theatre, TCD Long Room Hub











11 April Barry Crosbie
(Macau) 4pm

*=91Ireland, British Overseas Expansion and t=
he
Sinews of Colonial Power in East Asia=92*

* BOOK LAUNCH: Barry Crosbie, Irish Imperial
Networks (Cambridge, 2011)*



18 April Aidan Enright
(QUB) 4pm

* **The Roman Catholic Aristocracy of Great
Britain and Ireland 1829-1900*



25 April James Golden (Cambridge)
*5.30pm

*The Protestant Origins of Home Rule*



2 May John Bew (KCL)
4pm

* =91**Castlereagh and Ireland reconsidered.=92*=
**

*
*

Convenors: Jonathan Wright and Ciaran O=92Neill (TCD)




Best wishes


Ciaran.

--=20


Ciaran O'Neill

Ussher Lecturer in C19th History
Department of History
Trinity College
Dublin 2.

Telephone: +353 1 896 1405
Fax: +353 1 896 3995

Join the SSNCI at www.ssnci.com/join or visit us on Facebook

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Radical Human Ecology: Intercultural and Indigenous Approaches
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Radical Human Ecology: Intercultural and Indigenous Approaches
By Lewis Williams, Alastair McIntosh, Rose Roberts
Imprint: Ashgate
Published: January 2012
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 978-0-7546-7768-0

Many Ir-D members will find this book of interest. The chapters by =
Gerri
Smyth and by Eimear O'Neill explicitly explore very personal attempts to
engage with Irish heritage.=20

Sections of the book are visible on the publisher's web site and on =
Google
Books.

P.O'S.

http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754677680


Human ecology - the study and practice of relationships between the =
natural
and the social environment - has gained prominence as scholars seek more
effectively to engage with pressing global concerns. In the past seventy
years most human ecology has skirted the fringes of geography, sociology =
and
biology. This volume pioneers radical new directions. In particular, it
explores the power of indigenous and traditional peoples' epistemologies
both to critique and to complement insights from modernity and
postmodernity.=20

Aimed at an international readership, its contributors show that an
inter-cultural and transdisciplinary approach is required. The demands =
of
our era require a scholarship of ontological depth: an approach that can =
not
just debate issues, but also address questions of practice and meaning.=20

Organized into three sections - Head, Heart and Hand - this volume =
covers
the following key research areas:=20

Theories of Human Ecology=20
Indigenous and Wisdom Traditions=20
Eco-spiritual Epistemologies and Ontology=20
Research practice in Human Ecology=20
The researcher-researched relationship=20
Research priorities for a holistic world=20

With the study of human ecology becoming increasingly imperative, this
comprehensive volume will be a valuable addition for classroom use.=20

Contents: Foreword; Introduction: human ecology: a pedagogy of hope?, =
Lewis
Williams with Rose Roberts and Alastair McIntosh;=20

Part I Head: Theories of Human Ecology: The attitude of human ecology,
Ulrich Loening; The challenge of radical human ecology to the academy,
Alastair McIntosh; Being from and coming to: outline of an =
ethno-ecological
framework, Ullrich Kockel; Returning the sacred: indigenous ontologies =
in
perilous times, Makere Stewart-Harawira.=20

Part II Heart: Radical Epistemologies of Relationship: The human =
ecologist
as alchemist: an inquiry into Ngai Te Rangi cosmology, human agency and
well-being in a time of ecological peril, Lewis Williams; Exploring
identity, belonging and place-making as a transition activist, Gerri =
Smyth;
Education for life: human ecology pedagogy as a bridge to indigenous
knowing, Iain McKinnon; Sufi path: possibilities of transcending limited =
and
limiting identity, Nayyar Javed; The promise of Orthodox Christianity =
for
sustainable community development, Keith Morrison; North American =
Indians,
connectivity and human ecology, Lewis Mehl-Madrona and Barbara J. =
Mainguy;
Living in respect: traditional knowledge of the Woodland Cree in =
Northern
Saskatchewan, Rose Roberts.=20

Part III Hand: Human Ecology in Practice: Teaching radical human ecology =
in
the academy, Alastair McIntosh; Human ecology as peacebuilding, Anne
Goodman; Migration, aboriginality and acculturation, Ben-Zion Weiss; The
immigration experience: losses and gains for immigrant and refugee =
women,
Judy White; Rebuilding China's economy on gendered rural family labour: =
a
case study of generational migration stasia and ecological degradation,
Yongmei Zhang and Marie Lovrod; Human ecology: from conceptual exercise =
to
militant practice in Maranh=E3o, Istv=E1n van Deursen Varga and Cristina =
Moreno;
The place of creation: transformation, trauma and re-rooting creative
praxis, Eimear O'Neill; Experiments in action research and human =
ecology:
developing a community of practice for rural resilience pioneers, Nick
Wilding; He whanaunga tera: the politics and practice of an indigenous =
and
intercultural approach to ecological well-being, Lewis Williams; =
Afterword;
Index.

About the Editor: Lewis Williams, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, =
Rose
Roberts, member of Lac La Ronge Indian Band and previous faculty, =
University
of Saskatchewan, Canada and Alastair McIntosh, Centre for Human Ecology =
and
University of Strathclyde, UK=20

Reviews: 'Below the clamor of a bustling world, this volume imparts the
seeds of a radical alternative for human ecology. They lie beneath the
surface: amid the whispered voices at the margin, in the praxis of
traditional spirituality, along the dusty road of post-modernism, and =
from
the ivy halls of science. This is not the human ecology of a prehistoric
fireside or an academic symposium. It is an unconventional and timely
pedagogy of hope.'=20
From the Foreword by Richard J. Borden, Rachel Carson Chair in Human
Ecology, College of the Atlantic and Past-President/Executive Director,
Society for Human Ecology=20

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Forwarded on behalf of
Mackie, Catriona
Subject: Masters degree in Manx Studies

Please find below details of the University of Liverpool's MRes in Manx
Studies, based in the Isle of Man. I would be very grateful if you could
forward this information to anyone who may be interested in such a
postgraduate degree. A poster which can be printed and displayed is also
available.

With best wishes,

Catriona

MRes in Manx Studies
University of Liverpool, Centre for Manx Studies, Douglas, Isle of Man

Commencing September 2012

The MRes in Manx Studies offers students the chance to study for a
postgraduate qualification while spending a year on the beautiful Isle of
Man, with its rich Celtic and Viking heritage. Although one of the British
Isles, the Island is not part of the UK and has its own parliament, Tynwald.

The MRes is a postgraduate research qualification in which the emphasis is
on independent research and study. It is particularly suitable to students
who already have a defined area of research interest. Students will also
have the opportunity to learn Manx Gaelic and participate in Manx cultural
events.

Please visit the Centre for Manx Studies website for more details:
www.liv.ac.uk/manxstudies/

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Subject: TOC The Political Quarterly Volume 83, Issue 2,
Northern Ireland Symposium
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The Political Quarterly

Volume 83, Issue 2, pages 203=96209, April-June 2012

Northern Ireland Symposium

The latest issue of the journal, The Political Quarterly, includes a
section, Northern Ireland Symposium, which is currently available for =
FREE
on the journal's web site...

It is based on a symposium held at Birkbeck College, London, on 14 =
October
2011.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/poqu.2012.83.issue-2/issuetoc

Northern Ireland Symposium

The Northern Ireland Peace Process in an Age of Austerity (pages =
203=96209)
ERIC KAUFMANN

=91New dissidents are but old Provisionals writ large=92? The Dynamics =
of
Dissident Republicanism in the New Northern Ireland (pages 210=96218)
KEVIN BEAN

=91No-one likes us; we don't care=92: =91Dissident=92 Irish Republicans =
and Mandates
(pages 219=96226)
JONATHAN TONGE

Dissident Irish Republican Violence: A Resurgent Threat? (pages =
227=96237)
MARTYN FRAMPTON

A Prosperity of Thought in an Age of Austerity: The Case of Ulster =
Loyalism
(pages 238=96246)
PETER SHIRLOW

Unionism after Good Friday and St Andrews (pages 247=96255)
HENRY PATTERSON

Republicanism Domesticated? All-Ireland Politics in an Age of Austerity
(pages 256=96264)
NIALL =D3 DOCHARTAIGH

In Defence of Politics: Interpreting the Peace Process and the Future of
Northern Ireland (pages 265=96276)
PAUL DIXON

Debating the =91Stalemate=92: A Response to Dr Dixon (pages 277=96282)
JOHN BEW and MARTYN FRAMPTON

Bew and Frampton: Recognisably Neoconservative (pages 283=96286)
PAUL DIXON

The Media in Northern Ireland: A Stormont Correspondent's View (pages
287=96291)
MARK DEVENPORT

The Media, the Peace Dividend and =91Bread and Butter=92 Politics (pages
292=96298)
GREG MCLAUGHLIN and STEPHEN BAKER

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In that same issue of The Political Quarterly which contains the Northern
Ireland Symposium - see earlier Ir-D message - but not one of the free
samples, is this article.

Scotland's Sectarianism Problem: Irish Answers?
GRAHAM WALKER

Issue
The Political Quarterly
Volume 83, Issue 2, pages 374-383, April-June 2012

'INTRODUCTION
There is little doubt that Scotland has become a very different political
place since the advent of devolution at the turn of the century and
especially so under the Scottish National party (SNP) since 2007. The
party's improbably comprehensive election victory of May 2011 was a reward
for four years of prudent stewardship as a minority government, and
seemingly indicative of a public mood in favour of loosening further, if
not on the whole breaking, the United Kingdom union. Yet jostling SNP leader
Alex Salmond for headlines at the moment of his greatest triumph was the
far from upbeat outpouring of anxiety over an apparent upsurge in religious
sectarian tensions. Just when Salmond was invoking the advice of novelist
Alasdair Gray to live as if in the early days of anew nation, an old problem
resurfaced.

The football season of 2010/11 in Scotland will be best remembered for
several ill-tempered 'Old Firm' (Rangers versus Celtic) encounters...

...The new law is aimed at eradicating offensive chanting and singing at
football matches and clamping down on threatening communications online and
elsewhere. The measure was opposed by the other parties at Holyrood...

CONCLUSION...
...This article has attempted to make the case for a way of proceeding which
has the added value of strengthening and developing the country's Irish
links, North and South, and of opening up a proper conversation with what is
all too often dismissively and condescendingly considered to be Scotland's
'underbelly', with the people routinely referred to as Scotland's 'black
sheep' or depicted as the mad relatives in the attic.24 It can be argued
that it is long past time to embark on the heavy lifting required to ensure
that if Scotland does move towards independence, it is not leaving
disgruntled and traduced portions of the population behind...'

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Globalizing St George: English associations in the Anglo-world to
the 1930s
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Journal of Global History
Journal of Global History March 2012 7 : pp 79-105 Copyright C London School
of Economics and Political Science 2012

Globalizing St George: English associations in the Anglo-world to the 1930s*
Tanja Bueltmann a1 and Donald M. MacRaild a1

a1 School of Arts & Social Sciences, Northumbria University, Lipman
Building, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UK E-mail:
tanja.bueltmann[at]northumbria.ac.uk; don.macraild[at]northumbria.ac.uk

Abstract
While English nationalism has recently become a subject of significant
scholarly consideration, relatively little detailed research has been
conducted on the emigrant and imperial contexts, or on the importance of
Englishness within a global British identity. This article demonstrates how
the importance of a global English identity can be illuminated through a
close reading of ethnic associational culture. Examining organizations such
as the St George's societies and the Sons of England, the article discusses
the evolving character of English identity across North America, Africa,
Southeast Asia and the Antipodes. Beginning in the eighteenth century, when
English institutions echoed other ethnic organizations by providing
sociability and charity to fellow nationals, the article goes on to map the
growth of English associationalism within the context of mass migration. It
then shows how nationalist imperialism - a broad-based English defence of
empire against internal and external threats - gave these associations new
meaning in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The article
also explores how competitive ethnicity prompted English immigrants to form
such societies and how both Irish Catholic hostility in America and Canada
and Boer opposition in South Africa challenged the English to assert a more
robust ethnic identity. English associationalism evinced coherence over time
and space, and the article shows how the English tapped global reservoirs of
strength to form ethnic associations that echoed their Irish and Scottish
equivalents by undertaking the same sociable and mutual aspects, and lauded
their ethnicity in similar fashion.

Keywords
Anglo-world; competitive ethnicity; diaspora; English associations;
ethnicity; imperial nationalism; inter-ethnic rivalry; St George

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Dear Colleagues, A Chomhghleacaithe liom,

There is to be a Conan Doyle weekend in Haslemere, Surrey, in June - see
http://www.haslemere.com/conandoyle/home.html.

The campaign to save Conan Doyle's house from development by creating a
Conan Doyle Museum / Centre for British & Irish Crime Writing now has a
website at www.undershawalliance.com. The Undershaw Alliance is an
association between 'Academics for Undershaw' and 'Crime Writers for
Undershaw', both of which continue to attract supporters. These now total
well over 500 but we are still recruiting.

To recap, there are three plans in contention for the house in Surrey built
to his own designs for Arthur Conan Doyle in 1897, but empty since 2004: (a)
the aim of Fosseway Ltd for Undershaw to be turned into multiple private
residences; (b) the aim of the Undershaw Preservation Trust, for it to
become a single private residence; (c) the aim of the Undershaw Alliance for
a Conan Doyle Museum / Centre for British & Irish Crime Writing.

If you have not already done so, do please send a line endorsing option (c)
to undershavian[at]gmail.com.

David Charles Rose

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The Northern Echo > News > Local News > Durham >

Ex-Irish bar ale and hearty in new role as cask beer haven

A FORMER Irish bar is re-opening as a real ale pub named after Durham's own
[version of] Dick Whittington.

The John Duck in Claypath - which was part of the O'Neill's chain for more
than ten years - is getting the final touches before the first pint of
pulled on Thursday (April 5).

It is undergoing a major refurbishment after being bought by local
businessman Andrew Ward who also owns the Elm Tree and The Angel.

John Duck became Durham's wealthiest citizen and its Mayor in the 17th
Century after arriving in the city to become a butcher's apprentice only to
be refused employment because it was feared he might be Scottish...

...The free house, which reverted to its previous name The Castle Inn after
O'Neill's, will offer ten cask ales "It will be a sensible pub for sensible
people,' Mr Hughes said.

"Durham's always liked pubs like that, It is a nice big space inside and it
is looking good.

"More choice in the centre of town can't be a bad thing."...

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/local/durham/9626811.Ex_Irish_bar_ale_
and_hearty_in_new_role_as_cask_beer_haven/

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Very interesting article, which treads carefully through research material
and comment. Oddly, no mention of Brendan Behan, The Quare Fellow.

The Journal of Legal History

Volume 33, Issue 1, 2012

The Death Penalty in Post-Independence Ireland

David M. Doyle & Ian O'Donnell

pages 65-91

Abstract
The history of capital punishment in post-Independence Ireland has received
scant scholarly attention. This essay is an attempt to set out what can be
learned about the executed persons, the executioners, and the politicians
whose inaction (not reforming the law) and actions (deciding against
clemency) brought the two former groups together. The death penalty was
deployed strategically against IRA members during the early 1940s as part of
a package of legal measures designed to crush subversive activity, but more
usually its targets were murderers whose acts had no wider ramifications.
One notable aspect of the Irish arrangements was that when a prisoner was to
be taken to the gallows an English hangman was always contracted to arrange
the 'drop'. Reflecting popular antipathy towards the practice the Irish
state was unable to find a willing executioner within its borders.