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Yes, excellent, thanks, Joe! The Guardian link had it. I found all the =
rest, but they had fragments of it. =20
Cheers,
Matthew.

On 2014-02-27, at 10:52 AM, Joe Bradley wrote:

> Any use?
>=20
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_of_the_Great_Irish_Famine
> =
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/blair-issues-apology-for-irish-potato-fa=
mine-1253790.html
> =
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/wintour-and-watt/2012/feb/21/tonyblair=
-jeremy-paxman
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-17124401
> http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2012/12/irish-famine
> =
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/features/2012/11/28/the-irish-famine-was-a=
n-unnatural-disaster/
> =
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=3D1310&dat=3D19970603&id=3DWE1WAAAAI=
BAJ&sjid=3D8usDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3D6717,529912
> http://www.discussanything.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-7899.html
> =
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/03/world/past-as-prologue-blair-faults-brit=
ain-in-irish-potato-blight.html
>=20
>=20
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> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: [IR-D] Tony Blair's Famine Apology
>=20
> Hi all,
> I'm a slight panic in that I thought it would be easy enough to find a =
copy of the text of Tony Blair's 1997 apology for the Famine on the =
Interwebs, but, apparently it's not. Does anyone know where I can find =
a copy? I was hoping to use it in class Friday afternoon.
> Thanks,
> Matthew Barlow
> Salem State University
> --=20
> The University of Stirling has been ranked in the top 12 of UK =
universities for graduate employment*.
> 94% of our 2012 graduates were in work and/or further study within six =
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Forwarded from H-Asia.

H-ASIA
February 27, 2014

Barry Crosbie. Irish Imperial Networks: Migration, Social Communication and
Exchange in Nineteenth-Century India. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2012. 301 S. ISBN 978-0-521-11937-5.

Reviewed by Dietmar Rothermund
Published on H-Soz-u-Kult (February, 2014)


B. Crosbie: Irish Imperial Networks

Whereas much is known about the Scots in the British Indian Empire, the
role of the Irish has been so far neglected. Crosbies study is therefore a
welcome addition to the literature on the contribution of various British
ethnic groups to the maintenance of the empire. He initially highlights the
recruitment of Catholic Irish soldiers for the troops of the East India
Company (EIC), which established an outpost at Limerick on the Irish coast
in 1758. As late as 1900 the Irish contributed about 50 percent of soldiers
to the British Indian Army. Crosbie then studies the Irish networks in the
field of middle class employment in the empire. Laurence Sulivan
(17131786), who became chairman of the Court of Directors of the EIC in
1781 after a career in the Bombay Presidency, is a good example in this
line. Due to Sulivans patronage many Irish men did well in the service of
the EIC. They formed a Sulivannetwork which was well known in its time.

Later on the Irish also contributed famous members to the medical service
and the various scientific services of the EIC, the most famous being
William OShaughnessy (18091889). He had already made a mark by working on
the intravenous treatment of cholera before he went to India; then he
introduced Cannabis indica (Indian hemp) into Western medicine as a cure
for tetanus and similar diseases. Like many Irish physicians of his time he
was interested in Irish folk medicine. Sir William Wilde, father of Oswald
Wilde, was a leading Irish medical scholar who took note of OShaughnessys
work. OShaughnessys experiments with the telegraph added to his fame. In
1853 he became the first Superintendent of Telegraphs in India and
installed 3500 miles of telegraph wires. He was not the only prominent
Irish scientist in the service of the EIC. Crosbie also mentions Thomas
Oldham (18161878) who was Professor of Geology in Trinity College, Dublin,
and left this position in 1850 to become the first Superintendent of the
Geological Survey of India. He took a deep interest in the problems of the
Indian peasantry and was also an ardent advocate of the spread of science
education in India. Valentine Blacker (17781826) an Irish military officer
of the EIC wrote about British military history of India, but also served
as Surveyor General of India, doing pioneering work in the establishment of
the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India.

The plight of the Irish peasantry led to legislation for the protection of
tenants rights epitomized by the three Fs (Fair rent, Free sale, Fixity of
Tenure). This Irish legislation then served as a precedent for tenancy
legislation in India. Some Irish members of the Indian Civil Service were
in the vanguard of the movement for tenants rights in India. Crosbie pays
particular attention to a maverick Irish man, Charles James ODonnell
(18491934), who served in Bihar and Bengal and studied Indian famines and
the plight of the peasantry. He published pamphlets in which he severely
criticized the Government of India. Early Indian nationalists were
attracted by his views. As his brother was a Member of Parliament for an
Irish nationalist party, ODonnells views also resonated in Britain. He
advocated Home Rule for both Ireland and Britain. Later on he himself
became a Member of Parliament for the Liberal Party when it formed the
government in 1906. ODonnell was a harbinger of the growing sympathy of
Irish nationalists for Indian nationalism. This was continued in the next
generation by the Irish socialist, Annie Besant, who joined the
Theosophists and settled in India, founding an Indian Home Rule League. Her
activities are only briefly mentioned by Crosbie as her work in India
started in the 20th century which is not within the scope of his study.

This book can be recommended to readers who are interested in Irish history
as well as in Indian history. It is also good contribution to the study of
social networks. Both the advocates of a New Imperial History and those who
favour more traditional historical studies will find Crosbies approach
attractive.


If there is additional discussion of this review, you may access it through
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Citation: Dietmar Rothermund. Review of Crosbie, Barry, Irish Imperial
Networks: Migration, Social Communication and Exchange in
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Dear Robert,
I don't know if she mentions Cork specifically, but you might look at Mary
Seacole, *Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands*(1857).
Seacole was a Jamaican creole with a Scottish father. Her
book describes her experience as a hotel keeper, sutler, and nurse of
yellow fever victims in Panama (Cruces and Gorgona) and the Crimea. The
book includes a few references to Irishmen passing through with gold
seekers in the area of Panama where the railroad was being built. One
particularly harrowing scene comes in Chapter VII when she returns to the
Isthmus (Navy Bay) in 1853 to open a store in Colon. Upon her arrival she
sees three long boxes covered in rubble. "They had such a peculiar look
about them that I stopped to ask what they were, receiving an answer which
revived all my former memories of Darien life, 'Oh, they're only three
Irishmen killed in a row a week ago, whom it's nobody's business to bury.'"
She also meets the dancer Lola Montez and the singer Catherine Hayes (both
originally of Limerick) in Panama.
She dislikes North Americans and is quite fond of the British.
The editor of the Penguin edition sites two books that might be of
interest: Joseph Scott, Rails Across Panama and Velma Newton, Silver Men,
although the latter is on West Indian labor migration to Panama.
Hope this is some help.
April

April F. Masten
Dept. of History
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4348




On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 8:11 AM, Bill Mulligan
wrote:

> Immediately upon the discovery of gold in California, tens of thousands
> of people from the eastern United States tried to get to California.
> Their options were poor: the transcontinental railroad had not yet been
> built so overland travel was difficult and dangerous, they could take a
> ship around Cape Horn, or they could walk across the jungle of the
> Panama Isthmus (virtually impossible). In response, some US
> entrepreneurs endeavored to build a railroad across the Isthmus. It was
> opened in 1855 (and was immensely profitable), but at the cost of
> several thousand lives, mainly to yellow fever. Those who worked and
> died were Americans, Chinese, Jamaicans and several shiploads of men
> from Cork.
>
> I have been unable to discover (and I have utilized every research tool
> I know, and the help of world-class reference librarians) more than a
> few paragraphs about the men from Cork. Most are disparaging: they
> didn't work hard, they hated the Chinese, and they usually died. One
> gets the impression that many accounts are merely copying some earlier
> one. I recently went to Dublin and combed through back issues of the
> Cork Times to see if there were any recruiting advertisements placed by
> the railroad company. There were none. There are also very few
> mentions in the contemporary English newspaper published in Panama.
>
> If anyone knows of literature or archival material that would be
> helpful, I'd appreciate learning of it. I have yet to look at the
> archives of the Panama Railroad, which are in the National Archives in
> Washington, DC but the volume of materials appears to be very small.
> I would be very grateful for any leads.
>
> --
> Robert G. Healy
> Professor Emeritus of Environmental Policy and
> Public Policy Studies
> Nicholas School of the Environment and Terry Sanford School of Public
> Policy
> Duke University
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> 919-416-4543
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>
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Any use?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_of_the_Great_Irish_Famine
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/blair-issues-apology-for-irish-potato-fam=
ine-1253790.html
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/wintour-and-watt/2012/feb/21/tonyblair-=
jeremy-paxman
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-17124401
http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2012/12/irish-famine
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/features/2012/11/28/the-irish-famine-was-an=
-unnatural-disaster/
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=3D1310&dat=3D19970603&id=3DWE1WAAAAIB=
AJ&sjid=3D8usDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3D6717,529912
http://www.discussanything.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-7899.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/03/world/past-as-prologue-blair-faults-brita=
in-in-irish-potato-blight.html


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tthew Barlow [matthew.barlow[at]THEFLICKERINGLAMP.ORG]
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To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] Tony Blair's Famine Apology

Hi all,
I'm a slight panic in that I thought it would be easy enough to find a copy=
of the text of Tony Blair's 1997 apology for the Famine on the Interwebs, =
but, apparently it's not. Does anyone know where I can find a copy? I was=
hoping to use it in class Friday afternoon.
Thanks,
Matthew Barlow
Salem State University
--=20
The University of Stirling has been ranked in the top 12 of UK universities=
for graduate employment*.
94% of our 2012 graduates were in work and/or further study within six mont=
hs of graduation.
*The Telegraph
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This may be of interest to some on the list.



Call for Papers:



The Harvard Celtic Department cordially invites proposals for papers on
topics which relate directly to Celtic studies (Celtic languages and
literatures; cultural, historical, or social science topics; theoretical
perspectives; etc.) for the 34th Annual Celtic Colloquium, taking place at
Harvard University, October 10-12, 2014. Papers concerning interdisciplinary
research with a Celtic focus are also invited. Attendance is free.



Presentations should be no longer than twenty minutes. There will be a short
discussion period after each paper. Papers given at the Colloquium may later
be submitted for consideration by the editorial committee for publication in
the Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium.



Potential presenters should send a 200-250 word abstract in English suitable
for reproduction, plus a brief biographical sketch. Submissions should be
sent by e-mail to hcc[at]fas.harvard.edu, faxed,
or posted to the departmental address; we encourage submissions in the form
of RTF or Word Document email attachments.



Further information is available on our website:
http://www.hcc.fas.harvard.edu.



Closing date for proposals: May 1, 2014.

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The next meeting of the Modern Irish History Seminar at Cambridge will =
be a very special one, as the Ambassador of Ireland will be our guest =
speaker. This event will begin at the new time of 5.30pm and will take =
place in the Old Library at Sidney Sussex College. Details are below.



You are cordially invited to
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Note title change:

YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO
THE FINAL MEETING OF THE

SEMINAR IN MODERN IRISH HISTORY
FOR THE LENT TERM 2014

7 March H.E. the Ambassador of the Republic of Ireland, Dan Mulhall,

'" History is to blame" - Commemorating Ireland 1912-1922.'

- _N.B. THIS
MEETING WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE OLD LIBRARY_, _SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE

AT 5.30 P.M._

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Dear friends, colleagues and students,


My book London Irish Fictions: Narrative, Diaspora and Identity is now
available in paperback at the following link:

http://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/index.php/?option=3Dcom_wrapper&v=
iew=3Dwrapper&Itemid=3D54&AS1=3D9781846318313



You can buy it at a *special 20% St Patrick's Day discount of =A315.99* if
you enter the following code: PATRICK14


Please note, however, that the offer is only available until *Tuesday 18th
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Best wishes,

Tony






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*

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ople/surnames-k-to-m/tony-murray/
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My most recent publication is:


'Winifred M. Patton and the Irish Revival in London' in *Irish Studies
Review *22:1 (2014)

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Other recent publications include:


'Edna O'Brien and Narrative Diaspora Space' in *Irish Studies Review *21:1
(2013)

http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/zDcp9SNAKw3dZ5kjhhxj/full


'Troubled Tales: Fictional Portrayals of the Irish in London in the
1970s'
in Tom Herron (ed) *Irish Writing London - Volume 2: Post-War to the
Present*(London: Continuum, 2013)


'A Diasporic Vernacular?: The Narrativization of Identity in Second
Generation Irish Memoir' in *Irish Review *44:44 (Spring 2012), 75-88

*http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cork/irrev/2012/00000044/00000044/ar=
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Glucksman Ireland House NYU, on April 25th and 26th, will host the Ernie
O'Malley Symposium on Modern Ireland and Revolution, at which twenty-five
leading scholars will examine social, cultural, and political revolution in
modern Ireland and its intersections with the life and times of
revolutionary and author Ernie O'Malley.

Topics will include Irish republican intellectual history; feminism and
guerrilla war; postcolonial approaches to Irish literature, history, and
culture; the visual arts; music history; the history of the Irish War of
Independence and Civil War; Irish autobiography, historiography, and
folklore; and oral history.

The five keynote speakers are Luke Gibbons of NUI Maynooth, R.F. Foster of
Oxford University, David Lloyd of UC Riverside, Nicholas Allen of
University of Georgia, and R=F3is=EDn Kennedy of UCD. They will be joined b=
y
twenty panelists from a variety of institutions.

Irish Republican Army leader Ernie O'Malley, who, in his stylistically
innovative memoir *On Another Man's Wound* (1936), integrated modernist
technique with revolutionary political history, reinvented what it meant to
tell the story of Irish anti-colonial struggle. His post-military papers
are housed at the Archives of Irish-America at New York University.

This symposium is the final event being hosted by Glucksman Ireland House
to celebrate its twentieth anniversary as the Center for Irish and
Irish-American studies at New York University. The event is open to the
public and free of charge. RSVP is recommended. A full schedule of the
lectures and panels can be seen at:
http://irelandhouse.as.nyu.edu/object/ne.ernieomalleysymposium.


*About Glucksman Ireland House*
Glucksman Ireland House is NYU's Center for Irish and Irish-American
Studies and one of the top-ranked academic Irish Studies programs in the
United States. Through innovative undergraduate and graduate academic
curricula and extensive public programming, it provides access to the best
in Irish and Irish-American culture.

For further information: Miriam Nyhan, Glucksman Ireland House NYU, (212)
998-3953 and miriam.nyhan[at]nyu.edu.


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We are organising a series of free public lectures on Ireland and the First=
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Forwarded from H-Albion.

The theme for the seventh annual NPHFI Conference, to be held at University
College Cork on Friday and Saturday, 21 & 22 November 2014, is:

Home thoughts from abroad

History, the Press and Diaspora

Proposals are welcome for papers that address the relationship between the
press and Diaspora in Irish and other historical contexts. The focus of the
papers should be print journalism, and topics that might be addressed
include:

* Biographical sketches of individual journalists who lived / worked
abroad
* Press and empire(s)
* Journalism, migration and migrant identity
* Transnational journalism in a historical context
* Technological and transnational influence on print journalism
* Case studies of key Diaspora publications / Diaspora press owners

Abstracts should be no longer than 500 words. Abstracts must contain a
clear title and present clearly the main thesis / argument proposed. Each
abstract must also include name(s), affiliation, institutional address and
email address(es) of the author(s).

To submit a proposal, please email a 500-word summary of your paper and a
brief biographical note to the NPHFI secretary, Oliver O'Hanlon, at:

nphficonference[at]gmail.com

The closing date for submission of proposals is 27 June 2014.





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The latest issue of New Hibernia Review (Vol. 18, no. 1)has arrived. There
are a number of articles of interest to members of the list, as always.



Kerry Hardie, "Aftermath"



Julia C. Obert, "'Shared Space': A Belfast Soundscape Study"



Ann Wilson, "Irish Catholic Fiction of the Early Twentieth Century: The
Power of Imagery"



Billy Ramsell, "Filiocht Nua: New Poetry"



Edyta Lehmann, "'I am a Clean Whirlwind from the Far Seas': Biddy
Jenkinson's Conversation with Romance of Mis and Dubh Rois"



Emmet Larkin, "The Beginnings of the Devotional Revolution in Ireland: The
Parish Mission Movement, 1825-1846"



David Clare, "Bernard Shaw, Henry Higgins, and the Irish Diaspora"



Gavin Wilk, "'No Hope for Him Unless He Can Be Got Out of the Country':
Disabled Irish Republicans in America, 1922-1935"



Miriam O'Kane Mara, "Mundane Doubles: Anorexia in Stories by Anne Enright
and Colum McCann"





William H. Mulligan, Jr.

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My essay on Belfast, for the *Irish Literary Supplement*, may be of
interest to the Irish Diaspora community, not least for its spotlight on
the work of Sam McCready, Mick Gold, and John McCavitt ~

http://www.scribd.com/doc/52914679/Belfast-ILS-Spring-2011


In the spirit,
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Sustaining Home Across Diasporas, 2014 SAMLA Conference, Atlanta, Georgia,
November 7-9, 2014


In keeping with the theme of this year's conference, the MELUS (Society for
the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature in the United States) is seeking papers
that explore contemporary literatures that examine they way in which
postcolonial immigrant literatures of North America sustain 'home' across
diasporic dislocations. More specifically, this panel seeks papers that
explore the ways in which diasporic literatures demonstrate the development
and maintenance of immigrant communities across multiple diasporic locations
in the United States and in doing so complicate prior postcolonial
understandings of diasporic movement, i.e., notions of: 'home' and
'homelessness;' the 'host' nation and the transnation, etc. This panel
invites proposals for 15- minute papers that which seek to address, but are
not limited to the following topics:

*The transnational exilic and migratory experience

*Geographies and Politics of U.S. diasporic spaces

*Migration and Transnational Feminisms

*Migrations, Diasporic Movements and Trauma

*U.S. immigration policies and Diasporic communities

*Diasporic Communities and Activism

*Performance Arts and U.S. Diasporic Communities

By May 15, 2014, please submit a biography, 300 word abstract, and A/V
equipment needs to Megan Feifer, Louisiana State University, at
mfeife1[at]lsu.edu.





William H. Mulligan, Jr.

Professor of History

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

Murray State University

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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This received from Paddy O'Sullivan


Bill,

News of this book, FREELY available on the web, has reached me...

Much discussion of Irish throughout...

I think will interest you...


Paddy

Patrick O'Sullivan
Bradford
Yorkshire

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Fighting for a Living is the first volume of IISH's new book series: Work
around the Globe: Historical Comparisons and Connections, published by
Amsterdam University Press.For optimal availability for readers all over the
world, volumes in this series are published online in open access.

Open Access - Knowledge Unlatched

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From Kerby Miller.



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Listers,

This is by way of trying to say something about Frank McCourt in another co=
ntext. In ANGELA's ASHES, one of the writers he learns to love as a young =
reader is Charles Dickens (and for that matter, the circumstances of his "=
escape" are to my mind a bit too Dickensian to be plausible) .

Can people on the list point me to other texts wherein Irish writers report=
being absorbed in Dickens's novels?

Thanks,

Jim Rogers

James S. Rogers
UST Center for Irish Studies
Editor, New Hibernia Review
2115 Summit Ave, #5008
St Paul MN 55105-1096
(651) 962-5662

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Jim,

Somerville and Ross spring to mind, especially "The Real Charlotte," but I =
don't know if they ever paid tribute to Dickens.

Ed Hagan

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Listers,

This is by way of trying to say something about Frank McCourt in another co=
ntext. In ANGELA's ASHES, one of the writers he learns to love as a young =
reader is Charles Dickens (and for that matter, the circumstances of his "=
escape" are to my mind a bit too Dickensian to be plausible) .

Can people on the list point me to other texts wherein Irish writers report=
being absorbed in Dickens's novels?

Thanks,

Jim Rogers

James S. Rogers
UST Center for Irish Studies
Editor, New Hibernia Review
2115 Summit Ave, #5008
St Paul MN 55105-1096
(651) 962-5662=

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Oscar Wilde didn't like Dickens at all. Far too much reliance on
sentiment. On one occasion Wilde wrote: "One would have to have a
heart of stone not to burst out laughing at the death of Little Nell".


On 4/15/2014 7:08 AM, Edward Hagan wrote:
> Jim,
>
> Somerville and Ross spring to mind, especially "The Real Charlotte," but I don't know if they ever paid tribute to Dickens.
>
> Ed Hagan
>
> ________________________________________
> From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Rogers, James S. [JROGERS[at]STTHOMAS.EDU]
> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 4:31 PM
> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: [IR-D] Dickens and Irish writers
>
> Listers,
>
> This is by way of trying to say something about Frank McCourt in another context. In ANGELA's ASHES, one of the writers he learns to love as a young reader is Charles Dickens (and for that matter, the circumstances of his "escape" are to my mind a bit too Dickensian to be plausible) .
>
> Can people on the list point me to other texts wherein Irish writers report being absorbed in Dickens's novels?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim Rogers
>
> James S. Rogers
> UST Center for Irish Studies
> Editor, New Hibernia Review
> 2115 Summit Ave, #5008
> St Paul MN 55105-1096
> (651) 962-5662

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Forwarded from H-Net. This may be of interest to some on the list. =20

We are proud to announce the call for submissions to the edited volume

"Formulas for Betrayal": Traitors, Deserters, Collaborators in European
Politics of Memory

One of the most resonant topics in contemporary discussions about =
history
and memory of the 20th century is the traumatic experience of =
participants
and witnesses of wars, calamities and atrocities unfolding in discourses =
on
victims and victimization. In particular, in the mnemonic landscape of =
World
War II discourse of war victims comes close or intersects with discourse =
of
war heroes with its own canon of characters. Although critically =
revisited,
this normatively charged hierarchy of roles and positions has re-emerged
after 1989 all over Europe. Inseparably from the narrations on heroes =
and
victims circulate the discourses of war perpetrators which also combine =
both
unchanged and revised components. These three mnemonic discourses have =
an
immense effect on European societies and social consciousnesses.

Still, there exists a complex issue closely connected to the mentioned
discourses that has not been subjected to equally scrupulous academic
interrogation. This is namely an extremely ambivalent issue of treason =
and
the figure of the betrayer in its widest meaning =96 from deserters from
military units and officers who changed the side and served the enemy to
civil persons who actively or passively supported or collaborated with =
the
enemy. Shaping, imposition and perpetuation of images of the betrayer =
which
corresponded with dominant socio-cultural trends and political =
ideologies of
the 20th-century=92s Europe, is of special interest in investigations of
social (re)construction of memory on the cusp of the 20th and 21st =
century.

The main focus of the anthology is elucidation of the specific character =
of
shaping and imposition of certain =93formulas for betrayal=94 as a =
result of
memory politics in post-war Europe facilitating discussion about (and in
some cases re-evaluation of) treachery, desertion and collaboration in =
the
course of the 20th century. This focus invites exploration of both =
political
control over memory (presupposing selection, suppression or ideological
=93twisting=94 of facts), political usage of =93formulas for =
betrayal=94, and
cultural framing of the betraying subject in the context of =
legitimization
of various political regimes and ideologies.

Possible contributions should address at least one of the following =
issues:

- general analysis of positions and roles which the =
subjects
of war and civil betrayal took in politics of memory in Europe;

- how and by what means =93formulas for betrayal=94 were =
shaped,
translated and perceived in the public discourse of European countries
throughout the 20th century as well as presently;

- discursive-semantic features of different categories of
betrayers and specificity of gradation of their betrayal in European
politics of memory;

- gendered nature of =93formulas of betrayal=94;

- transformations of meaning and symbolic dimensions of
images of traitors/deserters/collaborators during the Cold War and =
post-Cold
War periods;

- specificity of scholarly, journalistic and fictional
presentation of images of betrayers during World War II;

- perspectives for further study of sociopolitical,
anthropological and historiographical premises for contemporary
=93commemorative inversion=94 of war crime (for example, the recent =
trend for
erecting monuments for former Wehrmacht deserters).

- contemporary political uses and cultural reverberations =
of
memories about the 20th century in connection with recent events in =
Russia
and Ukraine, including usage of the word =93betrayal=94 as a clich=E9, =
label, or
unconditional accusation in different forms of political discourses.

The deadline for submissions of the 300-500 word abstract outlining
conceptual framework, material and methodology of the chapter is 30
September 2014.=20

* The full-size drafts of the selected contributions are expected to
be ready by 1 June 2015. The maximum length for consideration of an =
article
is 8,000-10,000 words (including footnotes).
* Submissions to the editors should be sent via email attachment
(gelinada.grinchenko[at]gmail.com, Eleonora.Narvselius[at]slav.lu.se).

=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

=20