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Micheal O hAodha has called our attention to this article in the Irish
Times.

"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their
own understanding of their history." - George Orwell

Recent decades have seen an enormous resurgence in the arts of memoir and
life writing. Nowhere is this truer than in Ireland and other postcolonial
countries, where memoir has functioned to regenerate and re-present
meaningful incidents and events in the pasts of particular individuals or
cultural groups" balance of article at;
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/treibh/remembering-what-others-wish-you-to
-forget-1.1891259



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Dear list members,

I am revising an article on the same-sex relationship between a prominent
English educational reformer, Constance Maynard (1849-1935) and a young
Anglo-Irish woman, Marion Wakefield (1876-1956) which took place from 1899
to 1905. One of the objectives of my paper is to chart shifts in the
racial discourse Maynard used in relation to Wakefield.

At the start of the relationship, Maynard refers to Wakefield as "crude,
abrupt, easy-going in manner," identifies her demeanor as "Irish openness,"
and contrasts it with "English reserve." Towards the end of the
relationship, when Wakefield is working as Maynard's secretary, Maynard
suggests she is slow, inaccurate, and unreliable and conflates this with
"Irishness" (she "shows" her how "how 'Irish' she was still, i.e. slack, &
forgetful & untidy & unfinished in her doings"). She suggests that
Wakefield, who was poorly (had been diagnosed repeatedly with
neurasthenia), would "with Irish recklessness . . . tend to dissipate what
little force she had gained at the moment she felt it in her possession." In
my article I suggested that there were slippages in how Maynard perceived
the Anglo-Irish Wakefield and English perceptions of Irish Catholics at the
turn of the twentieth century. "Irishness" as used here, seemed to
encompass Irish Catholics.

One of the colleagues who read my paper questioned whether the above could
be considered a discourse of race. He felt the Anglo-Irish were of the
same 'race' as the English and as the differences Maynard references in her
initial comments seem to are cultural, rather than pertaining to phenotype,
'race' may be an inaccurate description of this discourse. He also
wondered whether the idea of slippages between the racing of Irish
Catholics and the Anglo-Irish could be sustained historically.

I believe, following Catherine Hall, Ann Laura Stoler, and other
post-colonial scholars, that discourses of race are malleable, dynamic, and
encompass cultural factors. It seems possible to me that the English may
have argued for a shared 'racial' heritage with the Anglo-Irish in some
contexts and have distinguished themselves from them using racial
discourse, in others. Stoler's work, in particular, suggests the many ways
in which race was constructed beyond the scientific racism of the later
nineteenth century.

On reflection, however, it does seem to me that Maynard's notion of
"Irishness" derives more directly from English criticisms of negligent,
irresponsible, and lazy Anglo-Irish landlords than from English
characterisations of Irish Catholics. (Wakefield's father was an absentee
landlord for much of his life, living off his tenants rents, and later
refusing them the centuries-old right to sell peat from their lands). I
still, however, see some slippages between the two in Maynard's discourse.

My questions are: 1) do you see Maynard's use of the term "Irishness" above
as part of a racial discourse, and 2) are you aware of any literature that
deals with English characterizations of the Anglo-Irish as racial discourse?

Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

Naomi Lloyd

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Message-ID: {decoded}Dear all



This is a most interesting query. As someone who works on question of race, ethnicity and migration myself, albeit in a different part of the forest, I would tend to agree with Naomi's view on this. Raced constructions of identity are of course, as social and not biological constructs, malleable, porous and changeable. The case of the 'Anglo-Irish' is particularly interesting as they were never Irish enough for the other Irish and never English enough for the English. I am tempted to add that her colleague's question is, in itself, problematic, because it could be argued that it is based on a premise about 'race' that assumes there is such a fixed category in the first place. The 'cultural turn' has affected discussions of matters of race and ethnicity for a long time now. For me personally, Verena Stolcke's 1993 text 'Talking Boundaries: New Boundaries, New Rhetorics of Exclusion in Europe' (Current Anthropology, Vol 36, No.1, Feb 1995) is a key text. Race, like gender is cultural and not inherent.



Tina O'Toole (she lectures in English literature at U Limerick) has a book The Irish New Woman (Palgrave 2013) which discusses this period and describes the cultural environment of the time, including issues concerning same-sex relations and some material on the Anglo Irish. It might be worth contacting Tina herself.



Best



Piaras Mac Éinrí

Department of Geography

University College Cork



Dear list members,



I am revising an article on the same-sex relationship between a prominent English educational reformer, Constance Maynard (1849-1935) and a young Anglo-Irish woman, Marion Wakefield (1876-1956) which took place from 1899 to 1905. One of the objectives of my paper is to chart shifts in the racial discourse Maynard used in relation to Wakefield.



At the start of the relationship, Maynard refers to Wakefield as "crude, abrupt, easy-going in manner," identifies her demeanor as "Irish openness,"

and contrasts it with "English reserve." Towards the end of the relationship, when Wakefield is working as Maynard's secretary, Maynard suggests she is slow, inaccurate, and unreliable and conflates this with "Irishness" (she "shows" her how "how 'Irish' she was still, i.e. slack, & forgetful & untidy & unfinished in her doings"). She suggests that Wakefield, who was poorly (had been diagnosed repeatedly with neurasthenia), would "with Irish recklessness . . . tend to dissipate what little force she had gained at the moment she felt it in her possession." In my article I suggested that there were slippages in how Maynard perceived the Anglo-Irish Wakefield and English perceptions of Irish Catholics at the turn of the twentieth century. "Irishness" as used here, seemed to encompass Irish Catholics.



One of the colleagues who read my paper questioned whether the above could be considered a discourse of race. He felt the Anglo-Irish were of the same 'race' as the English and as the differences Maynard references in her initial comments seem to are cultural, rather than pertaining to phenotype, 'race' may be an inaccurate description of this discourse. He also wondered whether the idea of slippages between the racing of Irish Catholics and the Anglo-Irish could be sustained historically.



I believe, following Catherine Hall, Ann Laura Stoler, and other post-colonial scholars, that discourses of race are malleable, dynamic, and encompass cultural factors. It seems possible to me that the English may have argued for a shared 'racial' heritage with the Anglo-Irish in some contexts and have distinguished themselves from them using racial discourse, in others. Stoler's work, in particular, suggests the many ways in which race was constructed beyond the scientific racism of the later nineteenth century.



On reflection, however, it does seem to me that Maynard's notion of "Irishness" derives more directly from English criticisms of negligent, irresponsible, and lazy Anglo-Irish landlords than from English characterisations of Irish Catholics. (Wakefield's father was an absentee landlord for much of his life, living off his tenants rents, and later refusing them the centuries-old right to sell peat from their lands). I still, however, see some slippages between the two in Maynard's discourse.



My questions are: 1) do you see Maynard's use of the term "Irishness" above as part of a racial discourse, and 2) are you aware of any literature that deals with English characterizations of the Anglo-Irish as racial discourse?



Any thoughts would be much appreciated.



Naomi Lloyd

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List members might be interested in this article about a near-forgotten NEW=
YORKER staffer who moved to Ireland in the 1970s, by ACIS member Brian Ner=
ney.

http://www.assayjournal.com/11nerney.html


The on-line journal in which this appears , ASSAY, is a wonderful new publi=
cation devoted to the teaching of creative nonfiction. I'm proud to be on t=
he editorial board.

Jim Rogers

James S. Rogers
UST Center for Irish Studies
Editor, New Hibernia Review
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(651) 962-5662

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A new book on Cardinal Daniel manning has come to our attention - thanks to
Paddy O'Sullivan.



Val Noone and Rachel Naughton (eds), Daniel Mannix: His Legacy. It has 188
pages and costs $20. It is published by Melbourne Diocesan Historical
Commission.



Ordering information:

POST OR EMAIL TO:

Rachael Naughton

Melbourne Diocesan Historical Commission

383 Albert Street, East Melbourne VIC 3002

Tel: (03) 9926 5752

Email: archive[at]cam.org.au



William H. Mulligan, Jr.

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From time to time I receive notices about graduate programs or graduate
fellowships. I've been inconsistent in how I handle them because of a
concern about appearing to favor some over others.



To resolve my concerns and to disseminate information, please send
information about (post)graduate programs in Irish Diaspora Studies and
related areas or similar (post)graduate opportunities to the list and I will
post them .



While I have your attention, remember to sends Calls for Papers,
announcements of publications, etc.



Thanks



Bill



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=E2=80=8BMay I be allowed to mention my wife's new biography of Wilde, 'Osc=
ar
Wilde, Qui-suis-je'? (Editions Pardes)

=E2=80=8B'=E2=80=8B
A very good introduction to the subject
=E2=80=8B'=E2=80=8B

=E2=80=93 Merlin
=E2=80=8B
Holland


*=E2=80=8B =E2=80=8B*
=E2=80=98A delightful book=E2=80=99
=E2=80=94 *Molly Robinson Kelly**, *Assistant Professor of French at Lewis =
and
Clark College
,Portland, Oregon=E2=80=8B

=E2=80=98Un petit bijou=E2=80=99
=E2=80=8B
--Caroline Robinson=E2=80=8B
=E2=80=8B,* Pr**=C3=A9sent Litt=C3=A9raire*

=E2=80=8B

*David Charles Rose*




Pr=C3=A9sident, Soci=C3=A9t=C3=A9 Oscar Wilde
=E2=80=8B =E2=80=8B

http://societeoscarwilde.fr/
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Hi all,
I have a student who is writing an historiography paper on Wellington, =
mostly from a British perspective, but he wants to include the Irish =
point-of-view as well, given his complicated legacy in Irish =
historiography. However, I am having a hard time coming up with =
suggestions for him. Does anyone know of a good Irish treatment or two =
of Wellington and his place in Irish history?

Many thanks,
Matthew Barlow
Department of History
UMass-Amherst
jbarlow[at]umass.edu=20=

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Well you could look up some of Daniel O'Connell's speeches and letters.
He didn't think much of Wellington and his vacillating about Catholic
Emancipation.

It was O'Connell who referred to Wellington as:

"The poor of Duke, what shall I say of him, to be sure he was born in
Ireland, but being born in a stable does not make him a horse". /
Shaw's Authenticated Report of the Irish State Trials,/ 1844.

Legend attached the statement to the Duke himself - but it was O'Connell
who actually made the remark.

Carmel




On 9/30/2014 3:59 PM, Matthew Barlow wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a student who is writing an historiography paper on Wellington, mostly from a British perspective, but he wants to include the Irish point-of-view as well, given his complicated legacy in Irish historiography. However, I am having a hard time coming up with suggestions for him. Does anyone know of a good Irish treatment or two of Wellington and his place in Irish history?
>
> Many thanks,
> Matthew Barlow
> Department of History
> UMass-Amherst
> jbarlow[at]umass.edu



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From: Patrick Maume
It might be worth looking at the entry on Wellington in the Cambridge
UP/Royal Irish Academy DICTIONARY OF IRISH BIOGRAPHY.
Rory Muir's new Wellington biography from Yale (first volume only) has a
good deal on the Irish background in his earlier life.

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Matthew Barlow wrote:

> Hi all,
> I have a student who is writing an historiography paper on Wellington,
> mostly from a British perspective, but he wants to include the Irish
> point-of-view as well, given his complicated legacy in Irish
> historiography. However, I am having a hard time coming up with
> suggestions for him. Does anyone know of a good Irish treatment or two of
> Wellington and his place in Irish history?
>
> Many thanks,
> Matthew Barlow
> Department of History
> UMass-Amherst
> jbarlow[at]umass.edu

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A very interesting and different portrait of Wellington is portrayed in Jehanne Wake's biography "Sisters of Fortune: America's Caton Sisters At Home and Abroad." One of the sisters, both of whom were members of the famed Catholic Carroll Family (of Irish descent), was apparently the love of Wellington's life, although she never married him, but instead married his brother, and lived in Ireland with him while he, Wellington's brother, was the head Brit (I forget his actual title) in Ireland.
Best,
Margaret Lynch-Brennan, Ph.D.
NYS Education Dept., Retired, and
Independent Scholar

---- Carmel McCaffrey wrote:
> Well you could look up some of Daniel O'Connell's speeches and letters.
> He didn't think much of Wellington and his vacillating about Catholic
> Emancipation.
>
> It was O'Connell who referred to Wellington as:
>
> "The poor of Duke, what shall I say of him, to be sure he was born in
> Ireland, but being born in a stable does not make him a horse". /
> Shaw's Authenticated Report of the Irish State Trials,/ 1844.
>
> Legend attached the statement to the Duke himself - but it was O'Connell
> who actually made the remark.
>
> Carmel
>
>
>
>
> On 9/30/2014 3:59 PM, Matthew Barlow wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I have a student who is writing an historiography paper on Wellington, mostly from a British perspective, but he wants to include the Irish point-of-view as well, given his complicated legacy in Irish historiography. However, I am having a hard time coming up with suggestions for him. Does anyone know of a good Irish treatment or two of Wellington and his place in Irish history?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > Matthew Barlow
> > Department of History
> > UMass-Amherst
> > jbarlow[at]umass.edu
>
>
>
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Can anyone point me to sources, whether research-based or anecdotal, regar=
ding the entry of Irish Catholics in the US into elite American universitie=
s? I am specifically interested in the case of Harvard.

JFK's father went to Harvard, didn't he? Was that highly unusual in his day=
?

Thanks,

Jim Rogers

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When doing research in "The Boston Pilot," (the newspaper read by the Catholic Irish all over the U.S.) for my book, "The Irish Bridget," I was surprised to note information seemingly encouraging Irish Catholic men to attend both Harvard and Cornell. That is, as noted on p. 154 of my book, the Jan. 8, 1870 edition of "The Pilot" contained an advertisement for Harvard College on p. 7. Also, on Sept. 4, 1875, p. 6, "The Pilot" advised readers that Catholic young men could obtain a good education at Cornell, in Ithaca.
Hope this helps.
All the best,
Peggy
______________________________
Margaret Lynch-Brennan, Ph.D.
NYS Education Dept., Retired, and
Independent Scholar

---- "Rogers wrote:
> Can anyone point me to sources, whether research-based or anecdotal, regarding the entry of Irish Catholics in the US into elite American universities? I am specifically interested in the case of Harvard.
>
> JFK's father went to Harvard, didn't he? Was that highly unusual in his day?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim Rogers

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lic Irish all over the U.S.) for my book, "The Irish Bridget," I was surpri=
sed to note information seemingly encouraging Irish Catholic men to attend =
both Harvard and Cornell. That is, as noted on p. 154 of my book, the Jan. =
8, 1870 edition of "The Pilot" contained an advertisement for Harvard Colle=
ge on p. 7. Also, on Sept. 4, 1875, p. 6, "The Pilot" advised readers that =
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Peggy=0A=
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NYS Education Dept., Retired, and=0A=
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arding the entry of Irish Catholics in the US into elite American universit=
ies? I am specifically interested in the case of Harvard.=0A=
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ay?=0A=
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Hi Jim,
I seem to remember that James Michael Curley boasted that his sons could
have gone to Harvard but instead chose to attend Boston College. (His
eldest son, James M. Curley, Jr., attended Harvard Law School but left
after a professor called his father corrupt during a lecture.) I might
have gotten that from Jack Beatty's biography of the elder Curley, *The
Rascal King*.
All the best,
Matt

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> Can anyone point me to sources, whether research-based or anecdotal,
> regarding the entry of Irish Catholics in the US into elite American
> universities? I am specifically interested in the case of Harvard.
>
> JFK's father went to Harvard, didn't he? Was that highly unusual in his
> day?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim Rogers
>

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A documentary based on the Paul Hill Prison Letters which are housed in the
Archive of the Irish in Britain will be broadcast tomorrow 4th October at
8pm on BBC Radio 4.



*From Inside: the Guildford Four* centres on the previously unheard letters
home of Paul Hill, written during his fifteen-year wrongful incarceration
for the Guildford Pub Bombings.



Paul Hill was one of the Guildford Four, who were subsequently found to
have been wrongly convicted of IRA pub bombings in England in 1974. After a
lengthy campaign, their convictions were quashed and they were released in
1989.



Martin McNamara presents this collection of passionate, evocative, angry
and poignant letters written by Paul Hill to members of his family,
especially his mother, sister and uncle.



The Paul Hill Prison Letters are one of the most historically important
deposits in the Archive of the Irish in Britain which is housed in the
Irish Studies Centre at London Metropolitan University. The Archive is
looking to raise funds to digitize the letters and by doing so make them
more accessible to researchers.



Director of the Irish Studies Centre, Tony Murray said, =E2=80=98Forty year=
s on
from Hill=E2=80=99s original conviction, it would be fitting if this vital =
slice of
British-Irish history was made more widely available.=E2=80=99





More information about *From Inside: the Guildford Four* is available here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04k4034



Further information about the Archive of the Irish in Britain is available
by contacting irishinbritainarchive[at]londonmet.ac.uk



Or visit the Irish Studies Centre website:

https://metranet.londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre/irishstudiescentre_home=
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Companies Act 2006 : http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/companyinfo
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A high school classmate called this novel to my attention, will be of
interest to many on the list.



From the publisher: Destined to be a classic, this "powerfully moving"
(Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding), multigenerational debut novel of an
Irish-American family is nothing short of a "masterwork" (Joshua Ferris,
Then We Came to the End).

Born in 1941, Eileen Tumulty is raised by her Irish immigrant parents in
Woodside, Queens, in an apartment where the mood swings between heartbreak
and hilarity, depending on whether guests are over and how much alcohol has
been consumed.

When Eileen meets Ed Leary, a scientist whose bearing is nothing like those
of the men she grew up with, she thinks she's found the perfect partner to
deliver her to the cosmopolitan world she longs to inhabit. They marry, and
Eileen quickly discovers Ed doesn't aspire to the same, ever bigger, stakes
in the American Dream.

Eileen encourages her husband to want more: a better job, better friends, a
better house, but as years pass it becomes clear that his growing reluctance
is part of a deeper psychological shift. An inescapable darkness enters
their lives, and Eileen and Ed and their son Connell try desperately to hold
together a semblance of the reality they have known, and to preserve,
against long odds, an idea they have cherished of the future.

Through the Learys, novelist Matthew Thomas charts the story of the American
Century, particularly the promise of domestic bliss and economic prosperity
that captured hearts and minds after WWII. The result is a riveting and
affecting work of art; one that reminds us that life is more than a tally of
victories and defeats, that we live to love and be loved, and that we should
tell each other so before the moment slips away.

Epic in scope, heroic in character, masterful in prose, We Are Not Ourselves
heralds the arrival of a major new talent in contemporary fiction.



. ISBN-13: 9781476756660

. Publisher: Simon & Schuster

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*Inaugural Irish Studies Centre Autumn Lecture*





6.00 pm, Wednesday 19th November 2014



His Excellency, Daniel Mulhall, Irish Ambassador to Great Britain



*Changed Utterly: the birth of independent Ireland, 1912-1922*





The decade between 1912 and 1922 was the key period in the evolution of
modern Ireland. In 1912, no-one would have predicted the kind of
developments that transformed Ireland in the ten years that followed. At
that time, it looked as if Ireland had arrived at the end-point of a
political era that has started with the establishment of the Home Rule
movement in the 1860s. With the Liberal Party in power, and depending on
the Irish Parliamentary Party for its majority, Home Rule seemed destined
to be achieved.



By 1922, Ireland had been =E2=80=98changed utterly=E2=80=99 as WB Yeats put=
it. In the
interim, Ireland had experienced the Home Rule crisis of 1913-1914,
participation in World War 1, the Easter Rising of 1916, the war of
independence and the setting up of an independent Irish State which in 1922
was beset by civil war.



How and why did all of this come about? What changed Ireland between 1912
and 1922? Ireland=E2=80=99s Ambassador in London, Dan Mulhall, has maintai=
ned a
lifelong interest in Irish history, with a particular focus on the period
between 1900 and 1922. In this talk, he will reflect on Ireland=E2=80=99s
revolutionary decade, =E2=80=98The Birth of Independent Ireland=E2=80=99, a=
period whose
centenary is now upon us and is the focus in Ireland of a Decade of
Commemorations.





Henry Thomas Room

London Metropolitan University

Tower Building

Holloway Road

London N7 8DB



Nearest tube: Holloway Road





The lecture will be followed by a *Q&A and Reception*



Attendance is *FREE *but places are limited so it is essential to *register
in advance *at:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-irish-studies-centre-autumn-lectur=
e-registration-13432369579



For further information contact Hema Joshi at: h.joshi[at]londonmet.ac.uk


Or visit the Irish Studies Centre website:

https://metranet.londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre/

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Colleagues

The Women's History Association of Ireland Conference will be held in
Maynooth University, 10/11th April 2015

The theme of the conference is Irish Women in the First World War Era, a
deliberately expansive theme which includes women emigrant experiences.
Please see here for the call for papers

http://womenshistoryassociation.com/events/whai-conference-2015-irish-women-in-the-first-world-war-era/call-for-papers/

Feel free to spread the news to any of your networks

Best wishes

Jennifer


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Dr. Jennifer Redmond
Lecturer in Twentieth Century Irish History
Department of History
NUI Maynooth

Email: j ennifer.redmond[at]nuim.ie
Twitter: [at]RedmondJennifer

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From: Grainne OKEEFFE
Subject: CFP: Ireland: Shared Futures?
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Dear Irish diaspora members,


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This call for papers might be of interest to some.


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Kind regards,


Grainne O'Keeffe-Vigneron


Universit=C3=A9 Rennes 2


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Universit=C3=A9 Rennes 2, Brittany, France =C2=A0(Centre d'Etudes Irlandais=
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This conference will consider the future to be shared by the people of the =
island of Ireland, both North and South, at home and abroad, including futu=
re relations with Britain, the European Union and the outlook for Ireland i=
n an increasingly globalised and inter-dependent world.=20

The theme of the conference owes much to the ongoing debate within Northern=
Ireland, as an integral part of the conflict transformation process, on ho=
w to build a shared and better future for all citizens out of a divided and=
traumatic past. Some critics of the consociational model which underpinned=
the 1998 Good Friday Agreement have argued that, "whereas the minutiae of =
the governing institutions, security arrangements, and the relationships be=
tween the UK and Ireland were detailed, no such policy specifications were =
made for societal transformation."[1]=20

Subsequent consultations and reports have sought to address this vacuum, fo=
llowing on from Harbison's Review of Community Relations Policy in 2002[2].=
A large-scale consultation, A Shared Future on Improving Community Relatio=
ns in Northern Ireland, was launched in January 2003, recognizing that "Nor=
thern Ireland remain[ed] a deeply segregated society with little indication=
of progress towards becoming more tolerant or inclusive", citing segregate=
d housing and education, violence at interfaces, high levels of racial prej=
udice and stating that "people=E2=80=99s lives continue to be shaped by com=
munity division".=20

In May 2013, the First Minister and deputy First Minister affirmed their co=
mmitment to "building a united and shared society" with the unveiling of a =
new good relations strategy: Together: Building a United Community. The fra=
mework policy document advocates a community "strengthened by its diversity=
, where cultural expression is celebrated and embraced and where everyone c=
an live, learn, work and socialize together, free from prejudice, hate and =
intolerance".

In the Republic, the financial crisis has left a deep mark on both the econ=
omy and its people. The 2010 bailout of =E2=82=AC67.5 billion granted by th=
e EU and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has left the Republic with a=
staggering debt to pay, 123% of GDP. The austerity measures imposed by thi=
s bailout have done much to affect the morale of the country. Unemployment =
rose to over 15% in 2012 and cuts of billions of euros have been made to so=
cial welfare, public sector wages and pensions. In addition, many capital e=
xpenditure projects have been stopped. Mass Irish emigration has increased =
again as Irish people are forced to leave a struggling economy to start a n=
ew future in destinations such as the UK and Australia.=20

Ireland exited the bailout programme at the end of 2013 and has now taken c=
ontrol of its own affairs again. The Taoiseach Enda Kenny in a live televis=
ed address to the nation in December 2013 stated: =E2=80=9CThroughout our h=
istory, the Irish people have already shown that nothing is impossible for =
us to achieve, when we really apply ourselves to a challenge or a cause=E2=
=80=9D[3].

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The decade of centenaries and commemorations on both sides of the Irish Sea=
is providing an opportunity to reflect upon some of the challenges that Ir=
eland has been confronted with in the past. Queen Elizabeth's first state v=
isit to =C2=A0the Republic of Ireland in June 2011 acknowledged a common bu=
t difficult history and confirmed the closeness of British-Irish relations.=
Likewise, during his reciprocal visit to Britain in 2014, President Higgin=
s declared that, =E2=80=9Csuch reflection offers an opportunity to craft a =
bright future on the extensive common ground we share and, where we differ =
in matters of interpretation, to have respectful empathy for each other=E2=
=80=99s perspectives=E2=80=9D [4].

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Suggested topics for paper proposals:

1. State and institutional roles in promoting a shared future (political pa=
rties, the Churches); constitutional perspectives; cross-border cooperation=
.

2. Expressions of communal or individual identities; shared or neutral publ=
ic spaces.=20

3. Community or grass-roots initiatives (faith-based groups, community arts=
, NGOs, minority groups).

4. Sociological indicators; violence, racism and hate crimes. Segregation /=
integration in housing, employment, education, sports, personal relationsh=
ips and leisure activities.=20

5. Economic issues; the diseconomies of division.

6. Dealing with a traumatic past; paramilitary activity; transitional justi=
ce; new perspectives on Irish history.

7. Migration and immigration from Central and Eastern Europe (impact in the=
North and the Republic); the Diaspora (its role in the future of the islan=
d; the place accorded by the Irish state to the Irish abroad).=20

8. Social liberalism v social conservatism; issues of morality, gender, sex=
uality.

9. Ireland's relationship with Britain, Europe and further afield; implicat=
ions of the referendum on Scottish independence.

10. Representations of community relations and a shared future in literatur=
e, film, art...

The cross-disciplinary nature of Irish Studies provides a wide range of app=
roaches from which to examine the theme of =E2=80=98Shared Futures=E2=80=99=
. We welcome submissions for 20-minute papers in English from numerous area=
s including Conflict and Peace Studies, Law and Human Rights, History, Poli=
tics, Comparative Analysis, Sociology, Psychology, Economics, Cultural Stud=
ies, Migration Studies, Literature, Media and Film Studies, Visual Arts, Pe=
rforming Arts...

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Keynote Speakers confirmed

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Prof. John D. Brewer, Professor of Post-Conflict Studies, Queen=E2=80=99s U=
niversity Belfast.

Fergal Keane, BBC journalist and Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Ir=
ish Studies, University of Liverpool.

Dr. Piaras MacEinri, Director of the Irish Centre for Migration Studies (IC=
MS), Department of Geography, University College Cork (UCC).=20

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Paper Submission

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Please submit your proposals (title and 250-word maximum abstract) by 31st =
January 2015 via the=C2=A0 conference website:

http://sharedfuturesr2.sciencesconf.org/

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Publication:

A selection of papers will be published following the conference.

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Conference Organisers:

Dr. St=C3=A9phane Jousni (http://perso.univ-rennes2.fr/stephane.jousni)

Dr. Lesley Lelourec (http://perso.univ-rennes2.fr/lesley.lelourec)

Dr. Grainne O'Keeffe-Vigneron (http://perso.univ-rennes2.fr/grainne.o.keeff=
e)

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[1] See James Hughes, "Is Northern Ireland a "Model" for Conflict resolutio=
n?"; LSE Workshop on State Reconstruction after Civil War?" 29 March 2011 (=
http://personal.lse.ac.uk/HUGHESJ/images/NIModel.pdf), (accessed 28 July 20=
14).



[2] http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/community/harbison02.pdf, (accessed 28 Ju=
ly 2014).



[3] An address by Taoiseach Enda Kenny TD, (15/12/2013), https://www.youtub=
e.com/watch?v=3D5qjCLvANgkM, (accessed 1 July 2014).



[4] http://www.president.ie/news/address-by-president-higgins-to-the-houses=
-of-parliament-westminster/ (accessed 1 August 2014).