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The Documents in Irish Foreign Policy, a project of the Royal Irish =
Academy
is proud to announce that its first eBook on the=A0Anglo-Irish Treaty of =
1921
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One of the prescribed topics for the documents-based study in the Irish
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Sovereignty and
the Impact of Partition, 1919-1949.=92 Included in the three case =
studies for
this topic is =91The Treaty negotiations, October =96 December 1921=92 =
and as
such, the chapter on the Treaty negotiations in Volume I of the =
Documents of
Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) series=20
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will be immensely beneficial to history teachers. With this in mind, =
DIFP
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makes
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possible.
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structured chronologically and provide a gripping and accessible account =
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We have noted before the Island Studies web site, managed by Godfrey
Baldacchino, Canada Research Chair (Island Studies) at the University of
Prince Edward Island (UPEI). And its freely available journal. There is a
new issue Island Studies Journal, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2012 - this article caught
my attention.

P.O'S.

http://www.islandstudies.ca/

http://www.islandstudies.ca/journal

http://www.islandstudies.ca/sites/islandstudies.ca/files/ISJ-7-1-2012-Mezzan
a-et-al_2.pdf

Island Studies Journal, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2012, pp. 69-98

Islands and Islandness in Rock Music Lyrics
Daniele Mezzana
CERFE (Centro di Ricerca e Documentazione Febbraio '74)
Rome, Italy
daniele.mezzana[at]cerfe.org

Aaron Lorenz
Law & Society, Ramapo College
New Jersey, USA
alorenz[at]ramapo.edu

and
Ilan Kelman
Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo (CICERO)
Oslo, Norway
islandvulnerability[at]yahoo.com

ABSTRACT:
This paper presents a first exploration, qualitative in character, based on
a review of 412 songs produced in the period 1960-2009, about islands in
rock music as both social products and social tools potentially contributing
to shaping ideas, emotions, will, and desires. An initial taxonomy of 24
themes clustered under five meta-themes of space, lifestyle, emotions,
symbolism, and social-political relations is provided, together with
some proposals for further research.

Keywords: abductive method; art; islandness; rock music; social construction


C 2012 Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island,
Canada

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Turning the tune: traditional music, tourism, and social change in an =
Irish
village
Author: Snape, Bob
Source: Leisure Studies, Volume 31, Number 2, 1 April 2012 , pp. =
258-259(2)
Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Turning the tune: traditional music, tourism, and social change in an =
Irish
village
by Adam R. Kaul, Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2009, =A347.00 (hardback), ISBN
978-1-84545-623-8

This book is based on an ethnographic study undertaken in the village of
Doolin on on the west coast of Ireland. It explores the relationships
between global tourism and traditional Irish music, and investigates the
social impact of tourism on the economy and culture of the local =
community.
It is written in the context of Ireland=92s economic resurgence and the
emergence of the =91Celtic Tiger=92 economy. Its principal focus is upon =
the
production, commodification and consumption of traditional music,
particularly as performed for public consumption by both residents and
tourists, in Doolin=92s local bars. Although tourists travel from across =
the
globe to Doolin in search of authentic performances of traditional =
music,
both the music and its performance are revealed to be anything but, as =
what
has until recently been considered as authentic traditional music is =
based
on a 1960s revival. Furthermore, much of the traditional music available =
for
consumption in Doolin is now played by =91blow-ins=92, some from as far =
away as
Eastern Europe. In addition to explaining cultural complexities =
emanating
from the development of tourism around traditional music, a substantial
portion of the book is devoted to those tourists who settle in Doolin =
rather
than upon those who go there for a short visit. While this has resulted =
in a
limited analysis of the ways in which differing categories of tourists
experience Doolin as visitors, it extends the interest of the book by
investigating the longer term potential impacts upon a destination when =
some
tourists do not go home.

The author argues that far from damaging the supposed authenticity of =
the
music, tourism has in fact enabled it to survive by adapting to =
radically
changed modern circumstances. The attraction of the music to a global
tourist market has likewise brought economic benefits as the older =
practices
of fishing and agriculture have been replaced by tourism income. The =
book
thus approaches an example of niche tourism from a variety of =
perspectives,
touching upon invented tradition, authenticity, performance, cultural
geography and globalization. It will be of some interest to students and
researchers of tourism, although the majority of readers in these =
categories
would probably like to see more detail on aspects of consumption. In
particular, it would have been interesting to hear to what extent =
tourists
are aware of the inauthenticity of most of the music presented as
=91traditional=92 in Doolin and the extent to which this is of concern =
to them.
As most tourists are said to come to Doolin to see the scenery of the
shoreline, one would also like to know more about the extent to which
Doolin=92s music industry is dependent upon this aspect of its appeal =
and of
whether there are tensions between tourists for whom the music is =
incidental
and those for whom it is the principal reason to visit Doolin.

The book offers a good example of the potential of ethnography to enable
deep exploration of the complexities of the lived experiences of a =
community
not only inhabiting a global tourist destination but also producing the
lived cultural practices that constitute its appeal. It is strong on the
construction of place and on the performance of musical and social =
spaces.
There are, however, various points at which the author seems to display =
a
romanticised attachment to the community and the music under =
investigation.

=A9 2012, Bob Snape

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ncode
=3D26


Turning the Tune: Traditional Music, Tourism, and Social Change in an =
Irish
Village
8 April 2010
How everyone got carried away

Jeremy MacClancy is impressed by a study of the way performance can =
unite
disparate groups

"Performance studies" are on the rise in anthropology these days. About =
time
too, most would say. Many anthropologists have long concentrated on
elucidating local rules and their regulation, and have skipped around
performative dimensions of people's practice. The trouble is that
performance is not easy to research well; it is all too tempting to =
produce
a supposed "analysis" that is an exercise in almost meaningless
abstractions. Trying to verbalise the non-verbal then results in the
non-readable, or edges towards the vacuous. Here, getting the language =
and
context right is key.

This is what makes this unpretentious but convincing ethnography so =
welcome.
Because what Adam Kaul wants to examine is the generation of "craic", a =
term
used by contemporary Irish speakers of English to describe that fleeting
moment in festive occasions when identities dissolve and tensions relax, =
as
participants let the celebration carry them collectively away. His focus =
is
Doolin, a village in County Clare. Thanks to the dedication of a handful =
of
local musicians, it has become a world centre of what is referred to as
traditional Irish music. Fiddlers, flautists, drummers and guitarists =
come
from afar to hear and learn the tunes and the local style, hoping for a
little craic.

Sensibly, Kaul lets ethnography form the core of his book. Almost all =
the
theory that is involved arises from his ethnographic analysis, not vice
versa. He let locals comment on his manuscript and provides generous =
quotes
from his fieldwork interviews. He wants, to an illuminating extent, to
portray the terms and rhythms of local language. This has to be the =
first
ethnography I've read where the many pauses in talk are almost as
significant as the words.

He is wary of overgeneralising, instead concentrating on individual =
lives
and particular contexts. He doesn't like "the global" - too vague and =
too
taken up with laying boundaries - but prefers Pnina Werbner's =
"vernacular
cosmopolitanism", connoting fluid spaces where the local, the rooted and =
the
customary can coexist with the transnational, the transcendent and
modernity. What he underlines is the way a musical style, branded as
traditional yet always evolving, brings otherwise disparate people =
together
in a manner that undercuts the otherwise domineering geographies of =
imperial
hegemonies. Tired worries about the nature of authenticity give place to
concerns about credibility - a much more workable concept. The outcome? =
A
performative account of craic that both academics and the locals of =
Doolin
can readily believe in.

I have my quibbles: I'm sure my father, a good Clareman, would have =
asked:
"But what about class? When I was a lad, the well-to-do wouldn't have =
dreamt
of fiddling in a bar." Many anthropologists of Europe can be cagey about
discussing class, as though it is meant to no longer exist. Yet recent =
work
in Ireland, for instance, shows that it hasn't gone away, just =
transformed.

When I did fieldwork on the Clare "blow-ins" (expatriate incomers, =
including
musicians), they emphasised that there were three different waves: the
hippies of the 1960s and 1970s, the hardened crusties of the 1980s, and =
the
rural suburbanites of later decades. Kaul does not differentiate between
blow-in musicians, no matter when they turned up: perhaps the =
attractions of
the craic are so strong that homeland differences are deliberately
forgotten.

And what of gender? There appear to be no women interested in picking up =
a
fiddle or banging a drum. In this sense, Irish sexism is still as alive =
as
ever.

Turning the Tune: Traditional Music, Tourism, and Social Change in an =
Irish
Village
By Adam R. Kaul

Berghahn, 200pp, =A347.00

ISBN 9781845456238

Published 14 December 2009

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I'd like to read this - seems like a worthwhile piece of work...I sang in D=
oolin pubs with the likes of Tim Lyons in the mid '70s, when the bulk of th=
e musicians were Irish, but by a decade later Doolin musicians were predomi=
nantly 'foreign nationals', as we like to describe them nowadays.=20

Without the '60s Revival there would have been precious little truly popula=
r trad. music played in Ireland once the Clancy Brothers & the Ballad Boom =
went out of fashion. Of course, it was the prior English post-war Folk Revi=
val, with its burgeoning circuit of folk clubs, which enabled the first wav=
e of Irish 'trad' musicians - Donal Lunny, Johnny Moynihan, Christy Moore =
et. al.(and of course The Dubliners) to survive long enough to popularise t=
heir music in Ireland itself sufficiently to make a living from it.

On a lighter note, I am reminded me of the 1970s spoof trad, song with the =
line,=20
'One arm 'round Brunhilda
Singing "Waltzing Matilda"

Most of the remainder is too risque for the delicate sensibilities of List =
members...

Regards to all

Ultan Cowley=20
=20
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From: "Patrick O'Sullivan"
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Sent: Friday, 11 May, 2012 10:20:08 AM
Subject: [IR-D] Book Review, Turning the tune: traditional music, tourism, =
and social change in an Irish village

Turning the tune: traditional music, tourism, and social change in an Irish
village
Author: Snape, Bob
Source: Leisure Studies, Volume 31, Number 2, 1 April 2012 , pp. 258-259(2)
Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Turning the tune: traditional music, tourism, and social change in an Irish
village
by Adam R. Kaul, Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2009, =C2=A347.00 (hardback), ISBN
978-1-84545-623-8

This book is based on an ethnographic study undertaken in the village of
Doolin on on the west coast of Ireland. It explores the relationships
between global tourism and traditional Irish music, and investigates the
social impact of tourism on the economy and culture of the local community.
It is written in the context of Ireland=E2=80=99s economic resurgence and t=
he
emergence of the =E2=80=98Celtic Tiger=E2=80=99 economy. Its principal focu=
s is upon the
production, commodification and consumption of traditional music,
particularly as performed for public consumption by both residents and
tourists, in Doolin=E2=80=99s local bars. Although tourists travel from acr=
oss the
globe to Doolin in search of authentic performances of traditional music,
both the music and its performance are revealed to be anything but, as what
has until recently been considered as authentic traditional music is based
on a 1960s revival. Furthermore, much of the traditional music available fo=
r
consumption in Doolin is now played by =E2=80=98blow-ins=E2=80=99, some fro=
m as far away as
Eastern Europe. In addition to explaining cultural complexities emanating
from the development of tourism around traditional music, a substantial
portion of the book is devoted to those tourists who settle in Doolin rathe=
r
than upon those who go there for a short visit. While this has resulted in =
a
limited analysis of the ways in which differing categories of tourists
experience Doolin as visitors, it extends the interest of the book by
investigating the longer term potential impacts upon a destination when som=
e
tourists do not go home.

The author argues that far from damaging the supposed authenticity of the
music, tourism has in fact enabled it to survive by adapting to radically
changed modern circumstances. The attraction of the music to a global
tourist market has likewise brought economic benefits as the older practice=
s
of fishing and agriculture have been replaced by tourism income. The book
thus approaches an example of niche tourism from a variety of perspectives,
touching upon invented tradition, authenticity, performance, cultural
geography and globalization. It will be of some interest to students and
researchers of tourism, although the majority of readers in these categorie=
s
would probably like to see more detail on aspects of consumption. In
particular, it would have been interesting to hear to what extent tourists
are aware of the inauthenticity of most of the music presented as
=E2=80=98traditional=E2=80=99 in Doolin and the extent to which this is of =
concern to them.
As most tourists are said to come to Doolin to see the scenery of the
shoreline, one would also like to know more about the extent to which
Doolin=E2=80=99s music industry is dependent upon this aspect of its appeal=
and of
whether there are tensions between tourists for whom the music is incidenta=
l
and those for whom it is the principal reason to visit Doolin.

The book offers a good example of the potential of ethnography to enable
deep exploration of the complexities of the lived experiences of a communit=
y
not only inhabiting a global tourist destination but also producing the
lived cultural practices that constitute its appeal. It is strong on the
construction of place and on the performance of musical and social spaces.
There are, however, various points at which the author seems to display a
romanticised attachment to the community and the music under investigation.

=C2=A9 2012, Bob Snape

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Substantial sections of this book are visible on Google Books...

Turning the tune: traditional music, tourism, and social change in an =
Irish
village
by Adam R. Kaul, Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2009, =A347.00 (hardback), ISBN
978-1-84545-623-8

http://books.google.com/books?id=3D92oMRAxbEJMC&pg=3DPA9

It certainly does look worth reading. And, once I search, I see more =
(and
favourable) reviews. I have forwarded another review to the Ir-D list.

P.O=92S.


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Behalf
Of Ultan Cowley
Sent: 11 May 2012 18:00
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [IR-D] Book Review, Turning the tune: traditional music,
tourism, and social change in an Irish village

I'd like to read this - seems like a worthwhile piece of work...I sang =
in
Doolin pubs with the likes of Tim Lyons in the mid '70s, when the bulk =
of
the musicians were Irish, but by a decade later Doolin musicians were
predominantly 'foreign nationals', as we like to describe them nowadays. =


Without the '60s Revival there would have been precious little truly =
popular
trad. music played in Ireland once the Clancy Brothers & the Ballad Boom
went out of fashion. Of course, it was the prior English post-war Folk
Revival, with its burgeoning circuit of folk clubs, which enabled the =
first
wave of Irish 'trad' musicians - Donal Lunny, Johnny Moynihan, Christy
Moore et. al.(and of course The Dubliners) to survive long enough to
popularise their music in Ireland itself sufficiently to make a living =
from
it.

On a lighter note, I am reminded me of the 1970s spoof trad, song with =
the
line,=20
'One arm 'round Brunhilda
Singing "Waltzing Matilda"

Most of the remainder is too risque for the delicate sensibilities of =
List
members...

Regards to all

Ultan Cowley=20
=20

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Dear Patrick,

Some members of the list might be interested in this new book, published
by the Ireland and Southern Africa Project, which is about to be
launched. Needless-to-say, anyone who is passing through the Kingdom of
the Zulus will be welcome at the launch.

Best regards

Donal
Irelandand South Africa Project
=20
TheIreland and South Africa Project is pleased to announce the launch of
a newbook, the fourth in the occasional series SouthernAfrican-Irish
Studies.
=20
Essays and source material on SouthernAfrican-Irish History
=20
Thisbook, edited by Donal McCracken, is published thanks to the
generoussponsorship of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs. It is,
therefore,appropriate that the volume will be launched by His
Excellency, Brendan McMahon,Ambassador of Ireland to South Africa.
=20
Details are as follows:
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The Irish Girls' Rising: Building the Women's Labor Movement in
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The Irish Girls' Rising: Building the Women's Labor Movement in
Progressive-Era Chicago
Suellen Hoy

Abstract

The Chicago Women's Trade Union League (CWTUL), inaugurated at Hull House in
1904, had its roots in the 1900 stockyard strike of Irish women, the
short-lived Maud Gonne Club, and Local 183 of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters,
the first women's union in the stockyards. Mary E. McDowell, head resident
of the University of Chicago Settlement and advisor to Local 183, served as
CWTUL's first president from 1904 to 1907. The working-class leadership of
the Chicago branch - unlike its better-known counterpart in New York - was
"old immigrant" (primarily Irish Catholic but also including Germans and
Scandinavians) with a distinct culture that derived from its ethnic makeup
and its settlement-house attachments. In "The Irish Girls' Rising," Suellen
Hoy explores these developments and highlights CWTUL's significance in
building the women's labor movement in Chicago at the turn of the twentieth
century.

Labor 2012 Volume 9, Number 1: 77-100

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Ducking for Cover: Chicago's Irish Nationalists in the Haymarket Era
Mimi Cowan

Abstract
This article explores the effects of the 1886 Haymarket violence and
executions on Chicago's other "radical" group: Irish nationalists. Although
Chicago's Irish nationalists were mainly concerned with freedom for Ireland
and not radical social change in the United States, their support for
violent and immediate action, and especially their use of dynamite, caused
many Americans to see them in the same light as other "European radicals."
Therefore, when the execution of the Haymarket martyrs demonstrated the
state's intolerance for radical discourse, Chicago's Irish nationalists took
pains to separate their cause from anarchism. Their reputation as an
organization of violent foreigners was hard to overcome because of the
lingering effects of nativism caused by the Haymarket incident.

Labor 2012 Volume 9, Number 1: 53-76

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Taking on almost everyone?' Migrant and employer recruitment
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Taking on almost everyone?' Migrant and employer recruitment strategies in a
booming labour market

Authors: Moriarty, Elaine1; Wickham, James1; Krings, Torben2; Salamonska,
Justyna1; Bobek, Alicja1

Source: International Journal of Human Resource Management, Volume 23,
Number 9, 1 May 2012 , pp. 1871-1887(17)
Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:
This paper explores the recruitment strategies of employers in the Irish
Celtic Tiger boom labour market. It explores Irish employers' turn towards
immigrants rather than pursuing other strategies such as raising
productivity or mobilising alternative sources of labour. It demonstrates
that during the boom years a more casualised approach to recruitment was
favoured, privileging soft skills and competencies above credentialised
skills. Immigrants became the employees of choice, not least because of
issues of costs and obedience, but also because they brought new skills, in
particular soft skills. Indeed, employers in some sectors developed a
categorical preference for migrant workers as they recruited for attitude,
work ethic and potential.

Keywords: boom labour market; employers; EU enlargement; migrant workers;
recruitment strategies
Affiliations: 1: Department of Sociology,Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland 2:
Institute of Sociology, JKU Linz, Austria
Publication date: 2012-05-01

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The current free sample of the journal

National Identities
Volume 11, Issue 4, 2009

http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cnid20/11/4

has a number of interesting items.

I liked this historiographic study

When did the Danish nation emerge? A review of Danish historians' attempts
to date the Danish nation
Benedikte Brincker

And there are two articles on Northern Ireland - one of them comparative...

Religion, truth, national identity and social meaning: The example of
Northern Ireland
James Dingley
pages 367-383

Post-agreement societies and inter-ethnic competition: A comparative study
of the Protestant community of Londonderry and the white population of
Pretoria
Neil Southern
pages 397-415

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The challenge of sustaining respect in a central budget agency:
what can Ireland learn from New Zealand?
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Public Money & Management

Volume 32, Issue 4, 2012

The challenge of sustaining respect in a central budget agency: what can
Ireland learn from New Zealand?

Joe Wallis*, Shaun Goldfinch & Andy Klein

pages 281-288

Abstract
A primary leadership challenge facing central budget agencies is sustaining
the respect of finance ministers. Lessons are drawn in this article from the
corrosive effect that missed opportunities to take the lead on economic
strategy and public service modernization had on the long-term respect
commanded by the Irish Department of Finance, and from the strategic
re-orientation the New Zealand Treasury undertook to correct its tendency to
'over-reach' itself in these areas following a process of capacity-building
and cultural transformation in the 1980s.

Keywords
Irish Department of Finance, leadership failure, New Zealand Treasury,
respect

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Confirming the existence of gaps and depletions in the Irish oak
tree-ring record
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One of the great scholarly stories of the past decades has been the creation
by Mike Baillie and his colleagues of the dendrochronoloy Irish oak tree
ring record - a record which, once it was in place, has had all sorts of
good solid effects in archaeology and in many branches of history.

Recently on the Irish Diaspora list we discussed trees. This latest paper
will intrigue many Ir-D members. Briefly, as the tree ring record was
developed, it became clear that there were 4 significant gaps in the record,
at around AD 1700, AD 800, 100 BC and 900 BC. So, the usual problem of
evidence collection and analysis - were these gaps just failures to collect
material, or was there really no material to collect?

This paper by Brown & Baillie concludes that the gaps are most probably
real. '...It can now be seen that the case is swinging towards them being
real. Large amounts of additional sampling have singularly failed to provide
robust chronological units that bridge the depletions.'

This article covers a lot of ground, reviewing the ways in which the record
was constructed - Irish ship's timbers found at the bottom of a Danish
fjord, ancient logs found in the roof of a nineteenth century cottage.

By the way, do note that many of Baillie's key articles over the decades are
freely available on the web - the simplest way to get at them is to put a
few key words, Baillie, oak, and so on, into Google Citation. Google
Citation is very good at finding unguarded back doors.

P.O'S.




Dendrochronologia
Available online 16 April 2012
In Press, Corrected Proof

Confirming the existence of gaps and depletions in the Irish oak tree-ring
record

D.M. Brown, M.G.L. Baillie

Queens University Belfast, School of Geography, Archaeology and
Palaeoecology, 42 Fitzwilliam Street, Belfast BT9 6AX, United Kingdom
Received 21 June 2010. Accepted 30 September 2010. Available online 16 April
2012.

Abstract
In the course of building the 7000 year Belfast long oak chronology a series
of depletion problems were encountered. These problems were overcome by 1984
when the completion of the Long Chronology was announced. The solution to
the bridging of the various 'gaps' in the Irish chronology lay in the use of
long sections of oak chronology from Britain. Now that a quarter of a
century has elapsed and large numbers of additional oak samples, and site
assemblages, have been accumulated it seems reasonable to review the 'gaps'
in order to see if the Irish chronology could now be constructed without the
use of British material. That is, are the depletion periods in the Irish
chronology still evident, and if so, what might they imply about past
conditions and human populations? The perhaps surprising conclusion is that
the original depletions are still evident after 25 years of quasi-random
sampling by archaeologists and palaeoecologists throughout Ireland.

Keywords
Depletions; Irish; Bridging; Oak; Gaps; Long Chronology

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Dear IDR,

I wonder if any of you have been following the recent discourse in Ireland
around the issue of 'ghettos' formation?

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0514/breaking12.html
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0514/breaking9.html

I'd be interested to hear your opinions of the language
used, the anticipated
tensions, and fears, especially with regard to the second generation.
I come at the discussion from the Canadian side, where 'ethnic
enclaves' serve a particular function in society that is
often recognized and welcomed.

Any insights/context/historical significance of this
fear in Ireland would be much appreciated.
*Though
I anticipate some of your answers, it would be interesting to hear
from academics from different countries on the matter.

Kindly,
Agata.

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Dear Agata

In general, I think much comment about ethnic clusters/ghettoization in
Ireland is ill-informed. I'm thinking notably of comments by former
Minister for Integration Conor Lenihan, a man who rarely betrayed much
evidence of having actually read the literature on this topic from other
countries and who seemed to regard ethnic clustering as always and
everywhere an undesirable trend. In fact, as you suggest, it can play an
important role, about which Irish people should know more than most
(think Liverpool or South Boston) in the process of integration into a
new society and in enabling new migrants to gain a foothold in that
society using the informal networks, cultural capital and support of
their own more established fellow-ethnics. However I think that the
point Fidele Mutwarasibo is making in the Irish Times piece is that
there is a danger of an entirely non-interventionist approach by
government (in the sense of not providing appropriate supports and
services) which could simply lead to such clusters becoming pockets of
disadvantage and exclusion in a period when unemployment is running
high.=20

One of the best comparative studies of this issue I know was carried out
in the UK (including Northern Ireland) under the direction of Professor
Mary Hickman=20
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/research-units/iset/projects/joseph-rowntree-
foundation.cfm, full report at
http://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/files/jrf/2230-deprivation-cohesion-immigrat
ion.pdf. Unfortunately I don't think there is a similar large-scale
Irish study, other than studies which tend to focus on specific ethnic
communities. An example of this is Getting On: from Migration to
Integration - Chinese, Indian, Lithuanian and Nigerian migrants'
experiences in Ireland, at
http://www.immigrantcouncil.ie/research-publications/archive/268-getting
-on-from-migration-to-integration-chinese-indian-lithuanian-and-nigerian
-migrants-experiences-in-ireland

best

Piaras

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Subject: [IR-D] Ghetto vs. Ethnic Enclave

Dear IDR,

I wonder if any of you have been following the recent discourse in
Ireland around the issue of 'ghettos' formation?

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0514/breaking12.html
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0514/breaking9.html

I'd be interested to hear your opinions of the language used, the
anticipated tensions, and fears, especially with regard to the second
generation.
I come at the discussion from the Canadian side, where 'ethnic
enclaves' serve a particular function in society that is often
recognized and welcomed.

Any insights/context/historical significance of this fear in Ireland
would be much appreciated.
*Though
I anticipate some of your answers, it would be interesting to hear from
academics from different countries on the matter.

Kindly,
Agata.

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Just a quick comment regarding the ghetto/ethnic enclave distinction in the
U.S. Despite its origins in the experience of European Jews, the word
"ghetto" in the U.S. has been most strongly associated with non-white
minorities, most notably African-Americans. The connotation is strongly
negative, implying that ghettoes exist due to discrimination against
African-Americans rather than due to their own choice to associate with each
other. Likewise, ghetto implies the existence of high levels of social
problems. "Ethnic enclave" is a modern term associated usually at present
with non-black minorities, often Asian or Cuban. Had it existed in an
earlier era, the term might also have fit the Jewish experience. It can
have positive connotations; enclaves can serve as the base for businesses
serving particular ethnic communities; they offer an advantage to a group's
entrepreneurs, and "enclave" implies that entrepreneurship is a tradition
for the group. (American scholars associate entrepreneurship with the
existence of high levels of social mobility for a group). Enclave
businesses also afford employment opportunities for workers in the group,
especially those whose lack of skill in the society's dominant language
might impede their progress in the wider society. Critics, however, claim
that enclave businesses often are marginal and can be exploitative of their
workers. The term "ethnic neighborhood" is probably more popular than
"ethnic enclave" and more neutral. It refers to an area that has the
cultural imprint of a particular ethnic group and a concentration of its
members. The debate over the costs versus benefits of ethnic geographic
concentration has often focused on ethnic neighborhoods, with those pushing
the benefits side of the argument dominating the discussion in recent
decades.

When scholars (mostly sociologists) looked at ghettoes and ethnic
neighborhoods, they found more than semantic differences between them. The
1960s and 1970s were a big period for such studies, but the tradition
continues. Using various measures of concentration (which method of
measurement is best is a matter of major contention), they found that the
dominant ethnic group in an ethnic neighborhood rarely constituted more than
a plurality of the area's population. The group did not live in isolation,
although their neighbors were likely to be members of other "ethnic" groups.
Moreover, in a larger city a single ethnic group might have multiple ethnic
neighborhoods. The found, however, that conditions in ghettoes were more
extreme. The minority group experienced a substantially higher level of
isolation from other groups, and it might be concentrated in one area or at
least in fewer areas than a white ethnic group might have. I have not been
following the recent literature closely enough to know if anyone has
attempted to determine where enclaves fall on the spectrum. Perhaps another
list member can enlighten me.

Tom







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Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 5:42 AM
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Subject: Re: [IR-D] Ghetto vs. Ethnic Enclave

Dear Agata

In general, I think much comment about ethnic clusters/ghettoization in
Ireland is ill-informed. I'm thinking notably of comments by former
Minister for Integration Conor Lenihan, a man who rarely betrayed much
evidence of having actually read the literature on this topic from other
countries and who seemed to regard ethnic clustering as always and
everywhere an undesirable trend. In fact, as you suggest, it can play an
important role, about which Irish people should know more than most
(think Liverpool or South Boston) in the process of integration into a
new society and in enabling new migrants to gain a foothold in that
society using the informal networks, cultural capital and support of
their own more established fellow-ethnics. However I think that the
point Fidele Mutwarasibo is making in the Irish Times piece is that
there is a danger of an entirely non-interventionist approach by
government (in the sense of not providing appropriate supports and
services) which could simply lead to such clusters becoming pockets of
disadvantage and exclusion in a period when unemployment is running
high.

One of the best comparative studies of this issue I know was carried out
in the UK (including Northern Ireland) under the direction of Professor
Mary Hickman
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/research-units/iset/projects/joseph-rowntree-
foundation.cfm, full report at
http://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/files/jrf/2230-deprivation-cohesion-immigrat
ion.pdf. Unfortunately I don't think there is a similar large-scale
Irish study, other than studies which tend to focus on specific ethnic
communities. An example of this is Getting On: from Migration to
Integration - Chinese, Indian, Lithuanian and Nigerian migrants'
experiences in Ireland, at
http://www.immigrantcouncil.ie/research-publications/archive/268-getting
-on-from-migration-to-integration-chinese-indian-lithuanian-and-nigerian
-migrants-experiences-in-ireland

best

Piaras

-----Original Message-----
From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Agata Piekosz
Sent: 16 May 2012 11:15
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] Ghetto vs. Ethnic Enclave

Dear IDR,

I wonder if any of you have been following the recent discourse in
Ireland around the issue of 'ghettos' formation?

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0514/breaking12.html
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0514/breaking9.html

I'd be interested to hear your opinions of the language used, the
anticipated tensions, and fears, especially with regard to the second
generation.
I come at the discussion from the Canadian side, where 'ethnic
enclaves' serve a particular function in society that is often
recognized and welcomed.

Any insights/context/historical significance of this fear in Ireland
would be much appreciated.
*Though
I anticipate some of your answers, it would be interesting to hear from
academics from different countries on the matter.

Kindly,
Agata.

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Subject: SEMINAR 22 MAY, LMU, Lance Pettitt,
Belgravia's Belfast Bohemian: The Cinema of Brian Desmond Hurst
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The Irish in Britain Seminar Series continues on Tuesday 22 May at =
6.30pm
with=20

Prof Lance Pettitt, St Mary's University College, Twickenham
Belgravia's Belfast Bohemian: The Cinema of Brian Desmond Hurst

Hurst was born in east Belfast in 1895 and was a linen-worker until he
volunteered for the British Army in 1914. Surviving Galipolli, he =
studied
art in Toronto, spent time in avant-garde Paris and ended up working for
John Ford in silent pictures until 1932.=20

His own career as a director/producer spanned four decades, over twenty
features and notable highlights in Dangerous Moonlight (1941), Theirs is =
the
Glory (1946) and his best-known, Scrooge (1951). He lived an =
extravagant,
long life (d. 1986), straddling cosmopolitan social circles in an =
enclave of
d=E9class=E9 bohemia in mid-century London. This paper explores Hurst's =
exilic
engagement with British cinema and his adoptive position as a creative
migrant within a changing social and cultural landscape.

Lance Pettitt is Professor of Screen Media at St Mary's University =
College,
London, and Director of its Centre for Irish Studies.=20
He is the author of Irish Media and Popular Culture (Routledge, 2013),
Screening Ireland (MUP, rev.2nd ed. 2014), co-editor (with Beatriz
Kopschitz) of The Uncle Jack (Humanitas 2011) and is preparing the next =
book
in the 'Ireland on Screen' series, The Woman Who Married Clark Gable
(Humanitas 2013).=20

Future Seminars:
29 May: =A0 Dr. Louise Sheridan, University of Northampton=20
Beyond Nation, Beyond Nostalgia: Representations of Women's Migration in
Edna O'Brien's =91The Light of Evening=92 (2003) and Kate O'Riordan's =
=91The
Memory Stones=92 (2003)

Attendance is free but places are limited so it is essential to register =
in
advance at
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3053622467

The Irish Studies Centre has provided a forum for teaching, learning and
research since 1986. The Irish in Britain Seminar Series offers an
opportunity for students, researchers and scholars to debate and =
disseminate
the latest research on Ireland, migration and the diaspora.

Seminars will take place on Tuesday evenings at 6.30 =96 8.00 p.m.
Room T120, London Metropolitan University, Tower Building,=20
166-220 Holloway Road, N7 8DB
ALL WELCOME =96 Refreshments provided

For further information contact Tony Murray: t.murray[at]londonmet.ac.uk
www.londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre

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Subject: TOC Immigrants & Minorities, Volume 30, Issue 1, 2012,
Special Issue: Scots Abroad: The New Zealand Scots in
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Immigrants & Minorities=20

Special Issue: Scots Abroad: The New Zealand Scots in International
Perspective =96 Part III

Volume 30, Issue 1, 2012=20
Routledge=20

Original Articles=20

=91Frugal and Thrifty, Hard-Working and Sober=92: Representations of
Scottishness in New Zealand
Angela McCarthy
pages 1-21

Being Scottish in an Irish Catholic Church in a Scottish Presbyterian
Settlement: Otago's Scottish Catholics, 1848=961895
Se=E1n Brosnahan
pages 22-42

A Model Colony: Texts and the Teaching of Scottish History in New =
Zealand
Schools, 1907=961945
Tom Brooking
pages 43-58

The Poetry and Fiction of Scottish Settlers in New Zealand
Kirstine Moffat
pages 59-77

=91The Image of Scotland which We Cherish in Our Hearts=92: Burns =
Anniversary
Celebrations in Colonial Otago
Tanja Bueltmann
pages 78-97

Turakina's Highland Games: Maintaining a Gaelic Tradition?
Brad Patterson
pages 98-117

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Sweden and the Great European Migration 1815-1914
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There are a number of book reviews of interest lining up in the =
Forthcoming
articles section of the journal, Immigrants & Minorities - that is to =
say,
awaiting an assigned place in the paginated, paper version of the =
journal.

For now... I am simply going to flag up these book reviews...


Immigrants & Minorities=20
Ireland, Sweden and the Great European Migration 1815=961914

Gerard Horn=20
Available online: 11 May 2012

Donald Harman Akenson, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2011, 320 =
pp,
ISBN 978-1846316616, =A365.00 (hardcover)

D.H. Akenson's most recent publication, Ireland, Sweden and the Great
European Migration 1815=961914, is a work of characteristic insight and
innovation. In it he compares the migration histories of two of Europe's
greatest exporters of people in the years between the end of the =
Napoleonic
Wars and the outbreak of the First World War.

The substantive sections of the book develop from what Akenson =
identifies as
a central conundrum in Swedish and Irish migration historiography, which =
he
labels the =D3 Gr=E1da Paradox. Simply put, despite opportunities to =
migrate in
the early part of the nineteenth century, in both countries the mass of =
the
population resisted that option, living in extreme poverty until a =
period of
intense crisis resulted in the development of an embedded emigration
culture. Akenson examines this early reluctance to migrate in terms of
demotic assessments of risk and security. Developing a schema for =
assessing
the vulnerability of rural families to potential threats such as =
seasonal
crop failure, he argues that not only were large swathes of Swedish and
Irish rural society vulnerable to extreme risks but that they were =
almost
certainly aware of the risks that they faced. Given this, their refusal =
to
leave their respective homelands can only be ascribed to non-economic
values. Thus Akenson argues that, prior to the Deprivation and the =
Famine,
emigration did not register as a culturally acceptable option for the =
vast
majority of the inhabitants of Sweden or Ireland.

The implications of this are not straightforward and there remains a =
need to
explain the still extensive levels of pre-Deprivation and pre-Famine
emigration. Akenson's suggestion is that in both countries groups who =
were
culturally atypical of the rest of society were the first to develop
migration cultures. Amongst the groups assayed are Pietists and Baptists =
in
Sweden, Irish Catholics with mercantile interests in the Caribbean and
fishing interests in Newfoundland as well as Ulster Presbyterians. Such
clusters acted as precursors to what was to follow, puncturing, as =
Akenson
puts it, the fabric of their respective societies.

These =91leading sectors=92 created small but significant holes in =
Swedish and
Irish life, yet Akenson maintains that the persistent mass migration =
which
marked the later nineteenth century was not given in either case...

...This is a book in which ideas abound, but a final one worth =
mentioning is
a third underlying argument that rejection rather than refinement has =
become
the dominant method of academic historical writing. Akenson sets out to
challenge this development, hence the use of =C5ckerman, K.H. Connell =
and
others. This produces neither a wholesale endorsement of earlier =
scholarship
nor a misty-eyed rejection of the present, rather what emerges is like =
the
effort of a nineteenth-century prospector reworking an old claim and =
finding
gold amongst the tailings. It is presumably not coincidental that this =
theme
and the book itself chime with one another. Perhaps the great strength =
of
this work is that it adds precision of thought and clarity of argument =
to
the histories of two distinct, but comparable, migration cultures.

=A9 2012 Gerard Horn