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Exploring the theme Ireland and the Supernatural, the 2014 conference of =
the
Southern Regional Chapter of the American Conference for Irish Studies =
takes
place in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Friday 14 and Saturday 15 February
2014. Please join us for an intellectually stimulating weekend and some
South Florida winter warmth. The Irish welcome will be warm, too! The =
venue
is the Fort Lauderdale Embassy Suites hotel by Hilton, and the principal
host institution is Nova Southeastern University.

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Topics May Include
Celtic and Irish mythology =95 the fairy world =95 the banshee (bean =
s=ED) =95
fallen and other angels =95 Catholic teachings versus Irish folk =
traditions
and beliefs =95 Irish fairies, elves, leprechauns, and the like in =
popular
culture (including books, television, film, and the arts) =95 W.B. Yeats =
and
Protestant magic =95 Irish Gothic literature =95 second sight and =
prophecy =95 the
Land of the Dead or the Otherworld in Irish thought =95 Irish ghosts and =
other
revenants =95 the vampire in Irish and world mythology, literature, and
culture =95 martyrdom and blood sacrifice in Irish nationalism =95 the =
"American
wake" and the concept of death in relation to Irish emigration

=09

Note
=95 Comparative studies are encouraged
=95 Topics other than the major conference theme will also be considered


Submission Procedures=20
Proposals for papers, including 100-word abstracts, or for panels, =
including
speakers and topics, should be submitted by Monday 30 September 2013 to =
any
of the following:


=95 Prof. James Doan doan[at]nova.edu


=95 Prof. Barbara Brodman brodman[at]nova.edu


=95 Prof. David Kilroy dkilroy[at]nova.edu

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Contact:
James Doan
Division of Humanities=20
Nova Southeastern University
3301 College Avenue=20
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314, USA
doan[at]nova.edu

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William H. Mulligan, Jr.=20

Professor of History

Moderator, Irish Diaspora Discussion List [IR-D[at]jiscmail.ac.uk]=20

Murray State University=20

Murray KY 42071-3341 USA

office phone 1-270-809-6571

dept phone 1-270-809-2231

fax 1-270-809-6587

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The 2014 meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies and the
Canadian Association of Irish Studies will be held at University College
Dublin on 11-14 June 2014
The Conference theme is: Latitudes: Irish Studies in an international
context. Banbha i gc=E9in=20

The 2014 joint ACIS/CAIS conference at UCD is an opportunity for =
scholars
from both sides of the Atlantic with a common interest in Ireland=92s =
history,
heritage, culture and society to meet and establish new intellectual
networks. The conference theme invites papers that set out to examine =
where
Ireland fits into wider cultural, socio-economic and historical =
patterns.=20

Is Ireland unique =96 and if so, in what way?=20
Can Ireland be seen as pioneering cultural/historical trends, or as a
laggard?=20
Some contributions may be explicitly comparative, but others may simply
suggest similarities with or differences from other literary or =
historical
movements.=20

We welcome papers on all aspects of Irish studies =96 history, social
sciences, literature, language, culture, and the creative and performing
arts. Individual papers and panel submissions are welcome. No =
contributor
should take part in more than two panels. F=E1ilte roimh ph=E1ip=E9ir in =
nGaeilge.
We also wish to encourage presentations in non-traditional formats =96
posters, exhibits and performances.=20

Proposals for individual papers should be 250-300 words in length plus a
brief 50 word bio.

Panel proposals should give a single statement =96 500 words maximum =96 =
setting
out the rationale for this panel, and identifying the contributions of =
each
speaker, with a brief 50 word bio for each.=20

We promise a lively programme of papers, receptions, readings, film
screenings and small-group workshops in Dublin=92s libraries and =
archives
which will showcase new print, manuscript and audio-visual collections.=20

The deadline for submissions is Monday 11 November. Please email =
proposals
and any queries to aciscais[at]ucd.ie=20

The ACIS/CAIS 2014 Conference Committee: Mary E. Daly, Marc Caball, =
M=E1ire N=CD
Annrach=E1in, Anthony Roche.

=20

William H. Mulligan, Jr.=20

Professor of History

Moderator, Irish Diaspora Discussion List [IR-D[at]jiscmail.ac.uk]=20

Murray State University=20

Murray KY 42071-3341 USA

office phone 1-270-809-6571

dept phone 1-270-809-2231

fax 1-270-809-6587

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From: "maureen e. Mulvihill"
Subject: Remembering Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) ~ "My passport is green".
Comments: To: sharp-l[at]iulist.indiana.edu, exlibris-l[at]iulist.indiana.edu,
"FICINO: FICINO Discussion - Renaissance and Reformation Studies"

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The international community of Irish scholars, teachers, and readers mourns
the recent passing of Seamus Heaney ~ poet, translator, essayist. He left a
considerable literary legacy, while also inspiring many an ardent writer.

Media attention has been lavish:

http://www.thestory.org/stories/2013-09/seamus-heaney

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/sep/01/what-seamus-heaney-taught-me/

http://www.irishtimes.com/comfort-is-best-found-in-seamus-heaney-s-poems-1.1511342

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/tributes-paid-to-keeper-of-language-seamus-heaney-1.1510607

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/31/arts/seamus-heaney-acclaimed-irish-poet-dies-at-74.html?_r=0

MEM

Maureen E. Mulvihill, PhD
Scholar, Writer, Collector: Princeton Research Forum, NJ.

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David Ryan. Blasphemers & Blackguards: The Irish Hellfire Clubs. Dublin
Merrion, 2012. 248 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-908928-03-0.

Reviewed by Padhraig Higgins
Published on H-Albion (September, 2013)
Commissioned by Nicholas M. Wolf

A Drink to the Devil: Enlightenment and Sociability in Eighteenth-Century
Ireland

Growing up in the foothills of the Dublin Mountains, a few miles from the
burnt-out ruins of Mountpelier Lodge, one could not but help encountering
the folklore of what was known locally as the Hellfire Club. Every child,
it seemed, knew some tale of how eighteenth-century aristocrats and
gentlemen had engaged in satanic rituals, sexual debauchery, and even
murder at the lodge. Indeed, stories with similar themes were commonplace
among local children from at least the 1930s, when the Irish Folklore
Commission gathered material on the club. It is somewhat disappointing to
learn, in this thoroughly researched and entertaining book, that no
evidence exists that the club ever met in what was a hunting lodge on
Mountpelier Hill. David Ryan shows that the club, when it emerged in the
1730s, probably met in Dublin City at the Eagle Tavern rather than in this
rural retreat. Only in the nineteenth century did a mythology develop
around Mountpelier that associated it with the diabolic activities of the
Hellfire Club. This short book engages with the store of mythology and
folklore associated with the culture of such clubs, while also examining
the realities of associational life in eighteenth-century Ireland in an
effort to place these clubs in their proper historical context.

There has recently been a revival of interest in Irish club life in the
eighteenth century. The groundbreaking collection _Clubs and Societies in
Eighteenth-Century Ireland_ (to which Ryan contributed an essay on
hellfire clubs), along with other recent studies, has redefined
understandings of associational culture during this period.[1] While this
research has included much on the convivial aspects of club culture, in
the main it has been concerned with the polite, improving aspects of this
culture and its relation to civil society. Many of these clubs and
societies, such as the Dublin Society, were self-consciously dedicated to
the economic and social improvement of Ireland through technological
innovation, philanthropic projects, and forms of social engineering. In
this book, Ryan presents the world of the so-called Irish hellfire clubs
(along with comparable clubs that also flourished briefly over the course
of the century) as a sort of mirror image of a polite improving world,
driven not by the pious and paternalist rhetoric of the conservative
Protestant elite, but by hedonism and irreligion.

Irish hellfire clubs were influenced by upper-class libertine clubs
established in London in the early eighteenth century. Though the Dublin
club is best known, between the 1730s and 1770s regional clubs emerged in
Limerick, Kildare, and in the midlands. Less is known about these clubs,
though the Limerick club is the subject of one of James Worsdale's
well-known Hellfire Club paintings in the National Gallery of Ireland. As
these paintings suggest, these clubs were committed mostly to heavy
drinking and conviviality, but also supposedly to the lampooning of
established religion. Irish clubs seem to have been even more committed to
violence and disorder than their English counterparts, which Ryan argues
can be explained by a culture of heavy drinking, a strict code of honor,
and the insecurity of the Protestant settler ruling class.

Perhaps the most notorious of all the figures depicted in Worsdale's
painting is Lord Santry, a leading figure in the Dublin club. After
inheriting a considerable estate in the 1730s, Santry embraced a
hedonistic and drink-fueled lifestyle and constantly courted public
outrage. In his first major scandal, he was accused of murdering a sick
sedan chairman, forcing him to drink a large quantity of brandy, and then
setting fire to him. Probably due to his connections, Santry was never
charged with any crime in that instance, but in 1738 he did stand trial
for the murder of Laughlin Murphy, a porter he had stabbed in a drunken
rage. He was found guilty, pardoned, and forced into exile in England.
Ryan does a fine job of providing vignettes of the various colorful
members of these clubs, from the murderous Santry to the balloonist and
inventor Richard Crosbie, a member of the gentlemanly street gang, the
Pinkindindies. If most of these men escaped justice for the violence,
theft, rape, and mayhem they committed while young men, there was a poetic
justice at least in that many came to sad and sorry ends in later life.
Ryan provides such biographies and sketches the culture of these clubs and
gangs without, for the most part, overly relying on retelling the tiresome
anecdotes of practical jokes and other "amusing" incidences that seem to
have delighted memorialists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

In some ways, Ryan's book reinvigorates an older historiography of the
Irish Protestant elite, as part of a culture defined by hard-drinking,
gambling, violence, and general debauchery. At the same time, he provides
a sound analytical framework for understanding the culture of these clubs
and the mostly young, elite men that formed them. He divides clubs
associated with libertinism, rakishness, and violence into two categories.
The first type, including the original Dublin Hellfire Club, were in part
driven by a radical Enlightenment rejection of revealed religion, mocking
and inverting Christianity and its rituals, and attacking traditional
forms of morality through hedonistic excess. Such clubs were part of a
libertine tradition and a reaction, Ryan suggests, to the conservative
nature of the Protestant elite and the Established Church. The second type
of club, including the Mohocks and the Pinkindindies, can be regarded as
"rakish" clubs, part of a violent upper-class subculture, little troubled
by philosophical reflection.

Originally conceived as a television documentary, Ryan's account is
eminently readable. But what are we to make of these clubs? In recent
years, historians have expended great energy in identifying and
delineating an "Irish Enlightenment." While the polite world of
coffeehouses, clubs, and societies has been seen as central to creating a
culture of Enlightenment in Ireland, is it possible that the most radical
expression of Irish Enlightenment ideas is to be found in elite male
libertine clubs?[2] Certainly the behavior of these clubs outraged those
concerned with upholding mortality and established religion, such as
Bishop Berkeley. Indeed, much of the evidence suggesting radicalism or
blasphemy comes from critics of the early hellfire clubs, including
Berkeley and other moralists, and should perhaps be treated with some
skepticism. There is to be sure anecdotal evidence that some club members,
such as the Earl of Rosse,were strongly anticlerical (Rosse supposedly
received Samuel Madden, clergyman and Dublin Society improver, while
naked). Yet it often seems to have been outsiders from London, such as the
portraitist James Worsdale and the miniaturist Peter Lens, who were most
committed philosophically to libertinism. For members of the Irish elite
who consorted with Lens and Worsdale, libertinism provided a philosophical
gloss on their bad behavior but, Ryan suggests, should not be taken too
seriously.

At the same time, Ryan does credit these clubs, with their attacks on
established religion, as promoting something akin to the separation of
church and state. This is certainly to go too far. While the earlier
hellfire clubs might have had something close to a philosophical agenda,
later clubs were little more than violent, gentlemanly street gangs. These
were hardly vehicles of freethinking or natural religion. Nor can we
regard these clubs as anti-establishment enterprises in any other sense.
Social status and wealth gave such men license to engage in carnivalesque
behavior. Yet unlike similar forms of disorderly behavior by the lower
orders, which might have challenged social hierarchies, the actions of
rakes and libertines reinforced them. The targets of their violence were
more often than not those of a lower social status: footmen, servants, the
helpless poor. Vulnerable women, particularly prostitutes, maids, and even
single heiresses, were also the victims of their often vicious assaults.
In some ways, the Irish hellfire clubs might be regarded as about as
radical as the contemporary English Bullingdon Club, an elite drinking
club that is hardly a bastion of anti-establishment values.

Whatever their radical credentials, popular interest in these clubs has
persisted. A final chapter reflects upon the ways in which these clubs
have been remembered in literature, art, and culture. Here, Ryan makes
good use of the Irish Folklore Commission archives to look at stories told
about these clubs in the 1930s. He also analyzes the surviving material
culture of the clubs, arguing that the reemergence of relics, such as
punchbowls and snuffboxes, connected to the clubs, along with James
Worsdale's paintings and the ruins of the Mountpelier lodge, have kept
interest alive in this transient and transgressive elite culture.

This book provides a much-needed scholarly account of the phenomenon of
hellfire clubs. At the same time, Ryan might have done more to place his
work within the historiography of libertinism and elite understandings of
masculinity. A substantial literature has emerged on this subject in
recent years, and the work of Karen Harvey on punch bowls and masculinity,
along with recent attempts to provide a broader understanding of
libertinism could have been addressed.[3] A comparative analysis of
hellfire club culture might have addressed the question of whether the
members of these Irish clubs were really more violent, more drunk, and
more psychologically insecure than elites who formed similar clubs in
other parts of the Atlantic world.

Yet, given these criticisms, this is a well-researched book that
challenges many of the popular misconceptions about Irish hellfire clubs.
Ryan has not been content to simply reproduce the mythologies of this
culture for a general audience, but has delved deep into the archives to
produce a readable and convincing account on a subject of enduring popular
interest.

Notes

[1]. James Kelly and Martyn J. Powell, eds., _Clubs and Societies in
Eighteenth-Century Ireland_ (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2010);

Jennifer Kelly and R. V. Comerford, eds., _Associational Culture in
Ireland and Abroad_ (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2010); Peter Clark,
_British Clubs and Societies, 1580-1800: The Origins of an Associational
World_ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).

[2]. For a recent suggestion that the Irish Enlightenment may not have
been as polite as its British or continental variants see Michael Brown,
"The Biter Bitten: Ireland and the Rude Enlightenment,"
_Eighteenth-Century Studies_ 45, no. 3 (2012): 393-407.

[3]. Karen Harvey, "Ritual Encounters: Punch Parties and Masculinity in
the Eighteenth Century," _Past and Present_ 214 (2012): 165-203;

Peter Cryle and Lisa O'Connell, eds., _Libertine Enlightenment: Sex,
Liberty, and License in the Eighteenth Century_ (New York: Palgrave,
2004).

Citation: Padhraig Higgins. Review of David Ryan, _Blasphemers &
Blackguards: The Irish Hellfire Clubs_. H-Albion, H-Net Reviews.
September, 2013.
URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=39955

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

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Forwarded from H-Albion with permission of the author,

I thought members of the list might be able to help here.

Dear Colleagues,

I am researching the same-sex relationship between a prominent upper-
middle-class English educational reformer, Constance Maynard, and a young
lower-middle-class Anglo-Irish woman, Marion Wakefield. At the start of
the relationship and again at its demise Maynard takes up racial
stereotypes usually applied by the English to Irish Catholics to describe
Wakefield.

Wakefield was the niece of the upper-middle-class Quaker linen
manufacturer John Grubb Richardson who is best known for establishing the
model village, Bessbrook, in County Armagh. Wakefield's father had fallen
on hard times (and in the process the family had become alienated from the
Richardsons); they lived in diminshed circumstances in Portadown. Maynard
was never to apply imperialist discourses of race to the wealthy, socially
prominent, and politically influential Richardson family with whom she was
well acquainted. It thus seems that class played a significant role in her
racializing of Wakefield.

I have read literary studies that explore the anxieties amongst the
Anglo-Irish novelists regarding "contamination" by Irish Catholics, but am
looking for historical studies that address this issue i.e. the blurring of
lines between Irish Catholics and the Anglo-Irish in the English
imagination. I am specifically interested in studies that address the role
of class in this slippage. Any suggestions of possible sources for this
investigation would be most appreciated (including detailed studies of
English perceptions of the Anglo-Irish generally).

Naomi Lloyd

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I thought list members would be able to help with this inquiry.

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From: "Cannady, Michael"
Subject: 1916 Easter Rising and it's role in the rise of nationalism in
Ireland
Date: 24 September, 2013 8:34:49 AM EDT

I am working on a project that explores the role of the 1916 Easter Rising
and it's aftermath in the rise of nationalism in Ireland. I've read a few
of the main secondary works by Charles Townshend, Tim Pat Coogan and Brian
Barton. l I've struggled to find scholarly journal articles dealing with
this topic. If anyone has any suggestions of sources (books, journals,
primary, etc.) or places to look for sources that would be most helpful.

Thanks,

Mike Cannady

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From: "Power, Maria"
Subject: Irish Women, Religion and the Diaspora: A Symposium
Date: 23 September, 2013 10:53:03 AM EDT

With apologies for cross-posting.

WOMEN ON IRELAND RESEARCH NETWORK (WOIRN)
Irish Women, Religion and the Diaspora: A Symposium
Venue: Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool
Saturday 18th January 2014

This Symposium organised by WOIRN seeks to understand not only the
shifting role that religion has played in the lives of Irish women but the
role that Irish women themselves have undertaken in religious institutions
and organisations and how this role has changed over time. Although the
idea of diaspora assumes a shared experience, Irish migrants were of
different social, economic, political and even religious backgrounds.

The subthemes for this conference include: Irish lay women and faith-based
organisations, institutional structures and the construction of identity,
anti-emigration and the significance of place. This symposium aims to
tease out the significance of religion to Irish women at home and abroad.

Places are limited. Please send completed booking form and cheque/money
order to Maria Power by 12 December 2013.

Any questions can be directed to Maria Power at m.c.power[at]liv.ac.uk or
Carmen Mangion atc.mangion[at]bbk.ac.uk. A booking form and programme can be
found at:
http://woirn.wordpress.com/2013/09/23/irish-women-religion-and-the-diaspora-a-symposium/?preview=true&preview_id=2&preview_nonce=a7db8bac8a&post_format=standard


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Dear Naomi:

L.P. Curtis' =5FApes and Angels: The Irishman in Victorian Caricature=5F (1=
997) includes some discussion of English depictions of Irish Protestants--u=
sually as handsome, brave auxiliaries in the struggle against the ape-like =
Catholic menace in Ireland. Curtis also spends some time elsewhere on the =
subject of class. Close reading of his book might be able to suggest furth=
er reading.

Stephen Howe's =5FIreland and Empire: Colonial Legacies in Irish History an=
d Culture=5F (2000) is so wide-ranging and variegated in its considerations=
that I would not be surprised if it touched on your question on one point =
or another.

Bruce Nelson's =5FIrish Nationalists and the Making of the Irish Race (2012=
) is the most recent work on the history of the Irish (mostly Catholic nati=
onalists) and race. There is an opening chapter on English racial percepti=
ons of the Irish but I think it's all about perceptions of Irish Catholics.

I hope these comments help,

Cian


Cian T. McMahon, PhD
Department of History
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
cian.mcmahon[at]unlv.edu
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Forwarded from H-Albion with permission of the author,

I thought members of the list might be able to help here.

Dear Colleagues,

I am researching the same-sex relationship between a prominent upper-
middle-class English educational reformer, Constance Maynard, and a young
lower-middle-class Anglo-Irish woman, Marion Wakefield. At the start of
the relationship and again at its demise Maynard takes up racial
stereotypes usually applied by the English to Irish Catholics to describe
Wakefield.

Wakefield was the niece of the upper-middle-class Quaker linen
manufacturer John Grubb Richardson who is best known for establishing the
model village, Bessbrook, in County Armagh. Wakefield's father had fallen
on hard times (and in the process the family had become alienated from the
Richardsons); they lived in diminshed circumstances in Portadown. Maynard
was never to apply imperialist discourses of race to the wealthy, socially
prominent, and politically influential Richardson family with whom she was
well acquainted. It thus seems that class played a significant role in her
racializing of Wakefield.

I have read literary studies that explore the anxieties amongst the
Anglo-Irish novelists regarding "contamination" by Irish Catholics, but am
looking for historical studies that address this issue i.e. the blurring of
lines between Irish Catholics and the Anglo-Irish in the English
imagination. I am specifically interested in studies that address the role
of class in this slippage. Any suggestions of possible sources for this
investigation would be most appreciated (including detailed studies of
English perceptions of the Anglo-Irish generally).

Naomi Lloyd

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Murray State University
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1-270-809-6571 (phone)
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Colleagues

The list has been slow and I let it be slow rather than post mindless
material to try and stir things up and, part of the equation, I was
transitioning from Murray to Regensburg, Germany. I'll be in Regensburg
through the end of November -- teaching in a Murray State program.

To be candid, Paddy was able to do a lot more pump priming than I have
been able to do because he had access to more "to be published" lists
among other things.

All of us have to step forward and share what we are doing and what we are
publishing to keep the list vibrant. The list did not create Irish
Diaspora Studies but it gave it a structure and a focus and it brought
people from the many corners of the the Diaspora together in common
purpose. We knew one other -- perhaps only through our work and through
our participation on the list, but we knew one another. That is something
important in a field like ours that literally covers the whole planet. I
remember an Irish-Australasian conference in Cork when I was asked at the
last minute to offer some opening comment because the intended speaker was
delayed by meeting. I heard people whispering to others--that's who he
is--that's him from the list. People have taken me into their homes as a
guest because of the list. We We have something special. WE need to
maintain it by sharing information. You don't know what you got 'til it's
gone--let's avoid that,

Bill


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There is a large literature on this. Others will comment but I'd suggest
looking at the work of Michael Hopkinson, Sean Farrell Moran, and Paul Bew
to name but three. A great deal of primary material is easily available
as well.



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> From: "Cannady, Michael"
> Subject: 1916 Easter Rising and it's role in the rise of nationalism in
> Ireland
> Date: 24 September, 2013 8:34:49 AM EDT
>
> I am working on a project that explores the role of the 1916 Easter Rising
> and it's aftermath in the rise of nationalism in Ireland. I've read a few
> of the main secondary works by Charles Townshend, Tim Pat Coogan and Brian
> Barton. l I've struggled to find scholarly journal articles dealing with
> this topic. If anyone has any suggestions of sources (books, journals,
> primary, etc.) or places to look for sources that would be most helpful.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike Cannady
>
> Sent from my iPhone
> --
>
> --
>
>
> William H. Mulligan, Jr.
> Professor of History
> Murray State University
> Murray KY 42071-3341 USA
> 1-270-809-6571 (phone)
> 1-270-809-6587 (fax)
>


William H. Mulligan, Jr.
Professor of History
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Murray KY 42071-3341 USA
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Hi Bill,

In response to your call, I'd appreciate it if you'd send this out to the
list.
Thanks!

Anna Teekell



ACIS/CAIS Conference panel on the Emergency

I would like to put together a panel on the Emergency for the ACIS/CAIS
2014 Conference in Dublin (11-14 June). I am currently completing a book
on Irish Literature and the Second World War, and I would welcome panelists
working in any discipline. As the theme of the conference is =93Latitudes:
Irish Studies in an International Context,=94 a panel on the Emergency is
poised to address questions about Ireland=92s role in Europe in the
20thcentury. Questions the panel might address include: how did WWII
neutrality impact Irish literature and culture? What was the long-term
effect (on culture, economy, politics, etc.) of staying out of the war?
What was the cross-border impact of the neutral/belligerent split between
the Free State and Northern Ireland? In what ways did the experience of
the Emergency set Ireland apart from its European neighbors, and how has de
Valera=92s conception of neutrality ramified in Ireland=92s foreign policy =
and
cultural self-image to the present time? If you are interested in
participating in this panel, please email queries or paper proposals (along
with a brief bio) to Anna Teekell at anna.teekell[at]lmunet.edu by 30 October
2013.




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On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Bill Mulligan
wrote:

> Colleagues
>
> The list has been slow and I let it be slow rather than post mindless
> material to try and stir things up and, part of the equation, I was
> transitioning from Murray to Regensburg, Germany. I'll be in Regensburg
> through the end of November -- teaching in a Murray State program.
>
> To be candid, Paddy was able to do a lot more pump priming than I have
> been able to do because he had access to more "to be published" lists
> among other things.
>
> All of us have to step forward and share what we are doing and what we ar=
e
> publishing to keep the list vibrant. The list did not create Irish
> Diaspora Studies but it gave it a structure and a focus and it brought
> people from the many corners of the the Diaspora together in common
> purpose. We knew one other -- perhaps only through our work and through
> our participation on the list, but we knew one another. That is somethin=
g
> important in a field like ours that literally covers the whole planet. I
> remember an Irish-Australasian conference in Cork when I was asked at the
> last minute to offer some opening comment because the intended speaker wa=
s
> delayed by meeting. I heard people whispering to others--that's who he
> is--that's him from the list. People have taken me into their homes as a
> guest because of the list. We We have something special. WE need to
> maintain it by sharing information. You don't know what you got 'til it'=
s
> gone--let's avoid that,
>
> Bill
>
>
> William H. Mulligan, Jr.
> Professor of History
> Murray State University
> Murray KY 42071-3341 USA
> 1-270-809-6571 (phone)
> 1-270-809-6587 (fax)
>

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Thanks for mentioning this, Sean. I was interviewed for the Bing Crosby =
segment (tonight?) and I'm fairly sure I have no way of viewing it from =
the States; nor do I know if my interview actually made it to the final =
version! Does anyone know whether it'll be available for viewing online?

Sean Williams
Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA 98505



On Sep 26, 2013, at 8:05 AM, CAMPBELL SEAN wrote:

> Dear All,
>=20
> List members might be interested in a new TV series, Guth: Musical =
Sons of
> the Irish Diaspora, which starts tonight on TG4:
> http://www.hotpress.com/archive/10156128.html
>=20
> Cheers,
> Sean.
>=20
>=20
> On 25 September 2013 15:41, Bill Mulligan =
wrote:
>=20
>> Colleagues
>>=20
>> The list has been slow and I let it be slow rather than post mindless
>> material to try and stir things up and, part of the equation, I was
>> transitioning from Murray to Regensburg, Germany. I'll be in =
Regensburg
>> through the end of November -- teaching in a Murray State program.
>>=20
>> To be candid, Paddy was able to do a lot more pump priming than I =
have
>> been able to do because he had access to more "to be published" lists
>> among other things.
>>=20
>> All of us have to step forward and share what we are doing and what =
we are
>> publishing to keep the list vibrant. The list did not create Irish
>> Diaspora Studies but it gave it a structure and a focus and it =
brought
>> people from the many corners of the the Diaspora together in common
>> purpose. We knew one other -- perhaps only through our work and =
through
>> our participation on the list, but we knew one another. That is =
something
>> important in a field like ours that literally covers the whole =
planet. I
>> remember an Irish-Australasian conference in Cork when I was asked at =
the
>> last minute to offer some opening comment because the intended =
speaker was
>> delayed by meeting. I heard people whispering to others--that's who =
he
>> is--that's him from the list. People have taken me into their homes =
as a
>> guest because of the list. We We have something special. WE need =
to
>> maintain it by sharing information. You don't know what you got 'til =
it's
>> gone--let's avoid that,
>>=20
>> Bill
>>=20
>>=20
>> William H. Mulligan, Jr.
>> Professor of History
>> Murray State University
>> Murray KY 42071-3341 USA
>> 1-270-809-6571 (phone)
>> 1-270-809-6587 (fax)
>>=20

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Dear All,

List members might be interested in a new TV series, Guth: Musical Sons of
the Irish Diaspora, which starts tonight on TG4:
http://www.hotpress.com/archive/10156128.html

Cheers,
Sean.


On 25 September 2013 15:41, Bill Mulligan wrote:

> Colleagues
>
> The list has been slow and I let it be slow rather than post mindless
> material to try and stir things up and, part of the equation, I was
> transitioning from Murray to Regensburg, Germany. I'll be in Regensburg
> through the end of November -- teaching in a Murray State program.
>
> To be candid, Paddy was able to do a lot more pump priming than I have
> been able to do because he had access to more "to be published" lists
> among other things.
>
> All of us have to step forward and share what we are doing and what we are
> publishing to keep the list vibrant. The list did not create Irish
> Diaspora Studies but it gave it a structure and a focus and it brought
> people from the many corners of the the Diaspora together in common
> purpose. We knew one other -- perhaps only through our work and through
> our participation on the list, but we knew one another. That is something
> important in a field like ours that literally covers the whole planet. I
> remember an Irish-Australasian conference in Cork when I was asked at the
> last minute to offer some opening comment because the intended speaker was
> delayed by meeting. I heard people whispering to others--that's who he
> is--that's him from the list. People have taken me into their homes as a
> guest because of the list. We We have something special. WE need to
> maintain it by sharing information. You don't know what you got 'til it's
> gone--let's avoid that,
>
> Bill
>
>
> William H. Mulligan, Jr.
> Professor of History
> Murray State University
> Murray KY 42071-3341 USA
> 1-270-809-6571 (phone)
> 1-270-809-6587 (fax)
>

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Dear Bill,

Could you circulate the following information about our forthcoming =
seminar series please.

Kind regards,

Tony


Dr. Tony Murray
Director, Irish Studies Centre

London Metropolitan University



5th Annual Irish in Britain Seminar Series=20
24 Oct =96 21 Nov 2013

Irish migration to Britain has increased significantly in recent years. =
The way in which previous generations of Irish migrants responded to the =
challenges presented by building lives in this country can offer =
revealing insights and perspectives on current day preoccupations. This =
year=92s seminar series examines this process from a variety of =
historical perspectives with a focus on social and political =
engagements.

24 Oct: Dr. Darragh Gannon, National University of Ireland, Maynooth=20
The Irish in Great Britain and the Irish Question, 1916-22

31 Oct: Natasha Powers, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology)
Escaping the Famine? Skeletal evidence for the health of Irish migrants
in mid-nineteenth century London

7 Nov: Dr. Louise Raw, independent scholar
Striking a Light, 1888: the Irish Matchwomen Who Made History

14 Nov: Dr. Terence McBride, University of the West of Scotland
Irishness in Glasgow, 1848=9661: =91Catholic=92 public elites and =
Ribbonism

21 Nov: Dr. Charlotte Wildman, University of Manchester
Irish-Catholic Women and Modernity in 1930s Liverpool

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 Thursday evenings at 6.30 =96 8.00 p.m.=20

Attendance is free but places are limited so it is essential to register =
in advance at:
http://iib2013.eventbrite.com/ =20

Room TM1-41, London Metropolitan University, Tower Building, 166-220 =
Holloway Road, N7 8DB

ALL WELCOME =96 Refreshments provided
For further information contact Tony Murray:=20
t.murray[at]londonmet.ac.uk
www.londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre











=20

=20




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The series will be shown on TG4 in September-October, and then sold at =
MIPCOM, the international market for television, in October. So it might =
be available internationally later on.=20

I'm not sure if it is available online, but will check to see if you're =
in it!

Best,
Sean.


On 26 Sep 2013, at 19:02, Sean Williams wrote:

> Thanks for mentioning this, Sean. I was interviewed for the Bing =
Crosby segment (tonight?) and I'm fairly sure I have no way of viewing =
it from the States; nor do I know if my interview actually made it to =
the final version! Does anyone know whether it'll be available for =
viewing online?
>=20
> Sean Williams
> Evergreen State College
> Olympia, WA 98505
>=20
>=20
>=20
> On Sep 26, 2013, at 8:05 AM, CAMPBELL SEAN wrote:
>=20
>> Dear All,
>>=20
>> List members might be interested in a new TV series, Guth: Musical =
Sons of
>> the Irish Diaspora, which starts tonight on TG4:
>> http://www.hotpress.com/archive/10156128.html
>>=20
>> Cheers,
>> Sean.
>>=20
>>=20
>> On 25 September 2013 15:41, Bill Mulligan =
wrote:
>>=20
>>> Colleagues
>>>=20
>>> The list has been slow and I let it be slow rather than post =
mindless
>>> material to try and stir things up and, part of the equation, I was
>>> transitioning from Murray to Regensburg, Germany. I'll be in =
Regensburg
>>> through the end of November -- teaching in a Murray State program.
>>>=20
>>> To be candid, Paddy was able to do a lot more pump priming than I =
have
>>> been able to do because he had access to more "to be published" =
lists
>>> among other things.
>>>=20
>>> All of us have to step forward and share what we are doing and what =
we are
>>> publishing to keep the list vibrant. The list did not create Irish
>>> Diaspora Studies but it gave it a structure and a focus and it =
brought
>>> people from the many corners of the the Diaspora together in common
>>> purpose. We knew one other -- perhaps only through our work and =
through
>>> our participation on the list, but we knew one another. That is =
something
>>> important in a field like ours that literally covers the whole =
planet. I
>>> remember an Irish-Australasian conference in Cork when I was asked =
at the
>>> last minute to offer some opening comment because the intended =
speaker was
>>> delayed by meeting. I heard people whispering to others--that's who =
he
>>> is--that's him from the list. People have taken me into their homes =
as a
>>> guest because of the list. We We have something special. WE need =
to
>>> maintain it by sharing information. You don't know what you got =
'til it's
>>> gone--let's avoid that,
>>>=20
>>> Bill
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>> William H. Mulligan, Jr.
>>> Professor of History
>>> Murray State University
>>> Murray KY 42071-3341 USA
>>> 1-270-809-6571 (phone)
>>> 1-270-809-6587 (fax)
>>>=20

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From: Patrick Maume
The literature on Charles Lever might be helpful. Lever's image of
harum-scarum Irish gentry who possess an instinctive bond with their
tenants was quite regularly used by conservatives to suggest Irish reforms
were neither wanted nor needed.
Colonel Edward Saunderson, the late nineteenth-century Ulster Unionist
MP/leader, liked to portray himself as a stage-Irishman with the aim of
provoking Irish nationalists (whose angry response was then presented as
proof that they were indeed stage-Irishmen. This is discussed in the
Saunderson biographies by Reginald Lucas and Alvin JAckson.
Best wishes,
PAtrick



On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 5:28 PM, wrote:

> Dear Naomi:
>
> L.P. Curtis' _Apes and Angels: The Irishman in Victorian Caricature_
> (1997) includes some discussion of English depictions of Irish
> Protestants--usually as handsome, brave auxiliaries in the struggle against
> the ape-like Catholic menace in Ireland. Curtis also spends some time
> elsewhere on the subject of class. Close reading of his book might be able
> to suggest further reading.
>
> Stephen Howe's _Ireland and Empire: Colonial Legacies in Irish History and
> Culture_ (2000) is so wide-ranging and variegated in its considerations
> that I would not be surprised if it touched on your question on one point
> or another.
>
> Bruce Nelson's _Irish Nationalists and the Making of the Irish Race (2012)
> is the most recent work on the history of the Irish (mostly Catholic
> nationalists) and race. There is an opening chapter on English racial
> perceptions of the Irish but I think it's all about perceptions of Irish
> Catholics.
>
> I hope these comments help,
>
> Cian
>
>
> Cian T. McMahon, PhD
> Department of History
> University of Nevada, Las Vegas
> cian.mcmahon[at]unlv.edu
> www.ctmcmahon.com
>
>
> -----The Irish Diaspora Studies List wrote: -----
>
> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> From: Bill Mulligan
> Sent by: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
> Date: 09/25/2013 06:21AM
> Subject: [IR-D] The role of class in 19C English representations of the
> Anglo-Irish
>
> Forwarded from H-Albion with permission of the author,
>
> I thought members of the list might be able to help here.
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I am researching the same-sex relationship between a prominent upper-
> middle-class English educational reformer, Constance Maynard, and a young
> lower-middle-class Anglo-Irish woman, Marion Wakefield. At the start of
> the relationship and again at its demise Maynard takes up racial
> stereotypes usually applied by the English to Irish Catholics to describe
> Wakefield.
>
> Wakefield was the niece of the upper-middle-class Quaker linen
> manufacturer John Grubb Richardson who is best known for establishing the
> model village, Bessbrook, in County Armagh. Wakefield's father had fallen
> on hard times (and in the process the family had become alienated from the
> Richardsons); they lived in diminshed circumstances in Portadown. Maynard
> was never to apply imperialist discourses of race to the wealthy, socially
> prominent, and politically influential Richardson family with whom she was
> well acquainted. It thus seems that class played a significant role in her
> racializing of Wakefield.
>
> I have read literary studies that explore the anxieties amongst the
> Anglo-Irish novelists regarding "contamination" by Irish Catholics, but am
> looking for historical studies that address this issue i.e. the blurring of
> lines between Irish Catholics and the Anglo-Irish in the English
> imagination. I am specifically interested in studies that address the role
> of class in this slippage. Any suggestions of possible sources for this
> investigation would be most appreciated (including detailed studies of
> English perceptions of the Anglo-Irish generally).
>
> Naomi Lloyd
>
> --
>
> --
>
>
> William H. Mulligan, Jr.
> Professor of History
> Murray State University
> Murray KY 42071-3341 USA
> 1-270-809-6571 (phone)
> 1-270-809-6587 (fax)
>

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Dear Bill:

Our friends and colleagues on the IR-D List may get some mileage out of thi=
s recent article in the =5FIrish Times=5F on an alleged "brain drain" out o=
f Ireland due to out-migration.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/emigration-of-educated-people=
-a-brain-drain-study-1.1541741

Cian


Cian T. McMahon, PhD
Department of History
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
cian.mcmahon[at]unlv.edu
www.ctmcmahon.com


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From: Bill Mulligan
Sent by: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
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Subject: [IR-D] The role of class in 19C English representations of the Ang=
lo-Irish

Forwarded from H-Albion with permission of the author,

I thought members of the list might be able to help here.

Dear Colleagues,

I am researching the same-sex relationship between a prominent upper-
middle-class English educational reformer, Constance Maynard, and a young
lower-middle-class Anglo-Irish woman, Marion Wakefield. At the start of
the relationship and again at its demise Maynard takes up racial
stereotypes usually applied by the English to Irish Catholics to describe
Wakefield.

Wakefield was the niece of the upper-middle-class Quaker linen
manufacturer John Grubb Richardson who is best known for establishing the
model village, Bessbrook, in County Armagh. Wakefield's father had fallen
on hard times (and in the process the family had become alienated from the
Richardsons); they lived in diminshed circumstances in Portadown. Maynard
was never to apply imperialist discourses of race to the wealthy, socially
prominent, and politically influential Richardson family with whom she was
well acquainted. It thus seems that class played a significant role in her
racializing of Wakefield.

I have read literary studies that explore the anxieties amongst the
Anglo-Irish novelists regarding "contamination" by Irish Catholics, but am
looking for historical studies that address this issue i.e. the blurring of
lines between Irish Catholics and the Anglo-Irish in the English
imagination. I am specifically interested in studies that address the role
of class in this slippage. Any suggestions of possible sources for this
investigation would be most appreciated (including detailed studies of
English perceptions of the Anglo-Irish generally).

Naomi Lloyd

--

--


William H. Mulligan, Jr.
Professor of History
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA
1-270-809-6571 (phone)
1-270-809-6587 (fax)

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Dear All,

The London Irish Centre has announced a number of events that might be of
interest to list members.

See: http://www.londonirishcentre.org/arts-culture

Cheers,
Sean.

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10
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Hi Bill,If you could post this please.Thanks,Linda


Glucksman Ireland House NYU announces the release of Volume 10 of its American Journal of Irish Studies. Among the articles featured are reflections by Kevin Kenny and Angela F. Murphy on the relationship between the Irish, Abraham Lincoln and Daniel O'Connell 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, a trio of essays about the life and work of Mary Lavin from Colm Tóibín, Mary Gordon, and Greg Londe, as well as work from Frank McDonald, Alan Titley, and Marion R. Casey on the real estate fall out from the Celtic Tiger, using Irish language sources to write Irish history and how a deeper look into the banking industry may enhance our understanding of emerging immigrant communities. The volume also includes a poem written by the late Seamus Heaney for Loretta Brennan Glucksman on the 20th anniversary of Glucksman Ireland House. The diverse collection of scholars and articles is posted in the TOC below. AJIS is available through Jstor. For more details on the journal and how to obtain a copy go to: http://irelandhouse.fas.nyu.edu/page/ajis.




AJIS 10 Contents:


Daniel OConnell
Abolitionist by Angela Murphy


Angela Murphy examines the influence and impact of Daniel
OConnells commitment to abolition on his relationship with the Irish in
America and on Americans in general. He pursued a difficult dance of conscience
and consistency criticizing slavery in the United States while seeking support
in America for Catholic emancipation in Ireland. He became a role model for
many African-American leaders, most notably Frederick Douglass. As a result his
legacy as the great liberator is celebrated by both African and Irish
Americans.


Abraham Lincoln and
the Irish by Kevin Kenny


Kevin Kenny looks at the legacy of Abraham Lincoln among the
Irish in America and Ireland before, during, and after the Civil War. He looks
at their relationship in the context of immigration and labor issues, military
service and conscription, and then the historical memory of the Irish about
Lincoln at the end of the nineteenth century. During his lifetime Lincoln did
not enjoy political popularity among the Irish. He was a Republican, they were
overwhelmingly Democrat. Kenny explains that while the Irish in general
supported the Union effort during the Civil War they resented the draft and
worried about competing with emancipated slaves for work once the war was
won. As for Lincoln, Kenny argues that
he was neither for nor against the Irish, but took the position that they, like
all Americans and immigrants to the country, had the right and capacity to
become engaged successful citizens of the nation. It was not until his
assassination and in the years that followed did the Irish embrace the idea and
ideals of Lincoln politically and his popularity among the Irish in America and
Ireland blossomed.


After the Celtic
Tiger by Frank McDonald


Frank McDonald looks back on the real estate fallout from
the Celtic Tiger collapse which precipitated the government-sponsored tourist
initiative called The Gathering this past year (2013). He is most interested in
the frantic commercial building and residential housing frenzy that resulted infamously
in ghost estates and the redesign of public spaces that altered the skylines
and landscape of Ireland. It is an interesting assessment of how design,
culture, and capital came together at the opening of the twenty-first century.


Hidden History of
Irish Ireland by Alan Titley


Alan Titley encourages us to consider how the history of
Ireland would be written if it was drawn from entirely Irish language sources.
He argues that most of what we read or accept as historical sources are limited
because they rely on English language sources and historians. He advocates for
a history born of the Irish and by the Irish in their own tongue.





Lavin, Context and
Character by Colm Tóibín


Colm Tóibín remembers author Mary Lavin as a mentor and
model for his own work and recalls that he found resonance in her words because
he recognized himself in her stories. However, he argues that her characters
and themes while Irish did not rely on social context, politics or contemporary
culture to be relevant. They were at once specific and universal. He compares
her to influential writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in
particular, the writing team of Somerville and Ross from the 1890s, who created
a fictional world built on character rather than connections to reality.


Mary Lavin and
Writing Women by Mary Gordon


Mary Gordon continues the theme of Lavin as a writer who
influences apart from the prevailing trends and style of the day. Gordon
examines her work from the perspective of its traditional female characters
and themes, including widows, daughters, and mothers in the short story format
that does not often receive the recognition or notoriety of the novel or
memoir. She focuses on the power of
Lavins words and how she illuminates the hidden, often latent, emotional force
in the relationships forged by women arguing that in her treatment of the
material she is radical rather than traditional.


Mary Lavin and 1972
by Greg Londe


Greg Londe completes the study of Mary Lavin taking a look
at the collection of short stories Lavin published in 1972. Using 1972 as the
frame work for his study because of its significance to Irish political, social
and religious events, he offers a thoughtful complement to TÌibín and Gordon.
Noting that Irish artists at the time were grudgingly drawn into contemporary
politics to provide some response to the upheaval in the North, he takes a
critical look at Lavins Memory and Other Stories. Lavin was often criticized because she did
not engage in the drama of the North, Londe demonstrates how Lavin does
engage with contemporary Ireland on the issues of womens rights, Catholicism,
and participation in the European Economic Community in the themes and
chronology of her stories in Memory.
Like Tóibín and Gordon he argues for the universal, yet specific, nature
of Lavins work. All three inspire us to
take a closer look at Mary


Banking and
Irish-American Scholarship by Marion R. Casey


Marion R. Casey examines the rich research opportunities to
be found in the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank Test Books and deposit
records. The personal and financial details available from these sources Casey
believes may force scholars to rethink the economic goals and actual progress of
immigrants and Irish Americans in the nineteenth century.


Lauds for Loretta by
Seamus Heaney


In February of 2013 Glucksman Ireland House hosted a Gala
celebrating twenty years of scholarship and culture at New York University.
Seamus Heaney took the occasion to pen a poem recognizing the generosity of
stewardship and vision that Loretta Brennan Glucksman brought that made those
two decades possible. We share his words here. His passing in August make his
tribute all the more poignant and memorable.


Oral History: The
Gathering, edited by Linda Dowling Almeida

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LEANNE O'SULLIVAN "On the Beara Peninsula: Written in Stone"
A personal essay by the young Cork poet. O'Sullivan recalls a visit at Chr=
istmas, she reveals her home as a place where the mythic and the personal w=
alk close together.
MICHAEL HUGGINS "The Nation and Giuseppe Mazzini, 1842-48"
Huggins notes that as recently as 2008 an influential historian could clai=
m that the Young Irelanders of the 1840s had only a nugatory connection to =
continental Europe. The reality was that they were very much a part of a =
cosmopolitan and romantic sense of nationalism that developed in Europe, of=
which the central figure was the Italy's Giuseppe Mazzini.
J. EDWARD MALLOT " 'There's No Good Riot Footage Any More': Waging Northe=
rn Ireland's Media War in Eoin McNamee's Resurrection Man"
McNamee's violent 1994 novel Resurrection Man fictionalizes the life of Len=
ny Murphy, the leader of the Shankill Butchers gang in Belfast of the 1970s=
and 1980s. The novel depicts a time when the subject of how violence shou=
ld be portrayed in the media was intensely debated, in Northern Ireland and=
elsewhere. In McNamee's Belfast, the war for television becomes as importa=
nt as the war on television.
GERALDINE MITCHELL Fil=EDocht Nua: New Poetry
A suite of new poems from Geraldine Mitchell, who has lived near County Ma=
yo's Clew Bay since 2000, after long residence abroad. Mitchell won the P=
atrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 2008.
DOMINIC BRYAN, MIKE CRONIN, TINA O'TOOLE, CATRIONA PENNELL, "Ireland's Dec=
ade of Commemorations: A Roundtable"
In one of its periodic "Ceisteanna =DAra: Fresh Questions " features, New =
Hibernia Review asks four scholars (each active in shaping the commemorat=
ion conversation) to reflect on the larger questions raised by the decade. =
A watchful skepticism runs through all of their responses.
JAMES H. MURPHY "Daniel O'Connell and the Catholic Lawyer in Irish Victoria=
n Fiction"
Murphy considers Victorian Irish novels that portray Catholic lawyers. Ma=
rtin Francis Mahoney, Samuel Alfred Cox, and especially Charles Lever usua=
lly disparaged the Catholic lawyer as a calculating parvenu, and drew hars=
h fictional portraits of Daniel O'Connell, the embodiment of the new breed.
AIDAN BEATTY "Irish Modernity and the Politics of Contraception, 1979-1993=
"
Beatty reprises three flare-ups recent history of this legislation and the =
frequently heated rhetoric of D=E1il debates, letters to newspapers, and jo=
urnalism. Beatty frames these disputes in the context of George Mosse's id=
eas on nationalism's intertwined relationship with middle-class respectabil=
ity.
NELSON BARRE "Old Stories, New Styles: Irish Theater in 2012"
New Hibernia Review's annual round-up of the Irish theater scene. Barre lo=
oks back at the year 2012 as a year in which Irish theater companies and d=
ramatists also made a point of "looking back." Revivals and adaptations do=
minated the Irish stage; even the boundary-testing work of companies like D=
ublin's Brokentalkers took a turn toward reflection and introspection.
KATARZYNA BARTOSZ=D1SKA "Adam Smith's Problems: Sympathy in Owenson's Wild=
Irish Girl and Edgeworth's Ennui"
Bartoszy=F1ska considers how these two works were not only in dialogue with=
one another, but also with the philosopher Adam Smith. Each author wres=
tled with the so-called "Adam Smith problem," the question of whether perso=
ns are motivated by self-interest or by fellow-feeling.


James S. Rogers
UST Center for Irish Studies
Editor, New Hibernia Review
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