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As 2015 ends I thought I would send a message to all list members.

First, thanks for your support of the list and for participating. The
members are the list. Special thanks to Anthony McNicholas, our
co-moderator.

Second, it would be helpful if list members would share news of articles
and books published and papers and lectures presented. I have not had much
success recreating Paddy's information network. I track them down as best
I can, but at times I am very busy with teaching and committees -- I think
everyone will relate to that. Plus I teach four lecture courses per
semester. Calls for papers for books and for conferences and announcements
for conferences are also welcome. The list cannot accommodate attachments
and, it seems, illustrations. I can usually sort it out, but a regular
email is easier for me and will be posted sooner.

Third, I can post things more quickly if you send a brief introduction and
a URL rather than just a URL for items, especially newspaper articles.
Also, items should be of general interest to those working on the
Diaspora. Paddy had ruled Northern Ireland out of bounds and I am
reluctant to get into contemporary Irish culture and politics. I was on a
list that was destroyed by a debate on An Gorta Mor. I know there is a lot
of gray in our guidelines -- not sure there are fifty shades, but a lot. I
am open to discuss individual items. I will try to always err on the side
of inclusion.

Finally, I have applied for a sabbatical for Spring 2017-- amazing how far
in advance these things are worked out. It will be my third here and
probably my last. My intention is to write a comprehensive history of the
Diaspora. Your work will be crucial. What you, those of us working in this
area, have accomplished is impressive. All the best for continued success.

Merry Christmas (Shona Nollaig) and all the best for 2016.

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,=20
Many thanks for all your work to keep us updated through Ir-D.=20
I'd like to know how I can access the archives of the Ir-D net. I had a vir=
us problem and lost all my data.=20


I wish you a very nice Christmas and a wonderful 2016!=20
Looking forward to seeing you in the near future,=20
Laura=20


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End-of-year musings ~

On behalf of many subscribers: Hearty thanks to *Bill Mulligan* and *Anthony
McNicholas* for all that they do so well. They've continued the spirit &
momentum of the Irish Diaspora List ~ a serious contribution. And they've
surely proved themselves worthy successors to Paddy O' Sullivan who
supplied the template. So applause, all around, say I.

Best o' the season,
MEM
___



On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Bill Mulligan
wrote:

> As 2015 ends I thought I would send a message to all list members.
>
> First, thanks for your support of the list and for participating. The
> members are the list. Special thanks to Anthony McNicholas, our
> co-moderator.
>
> Second, it would be helpful if list members would share news of articles
> and books published and papers and lectures presented. I have not had much
> success recreating Paddy's information network. I track them down as best
> I can, but at times I am very busy with teaching and committees -- I think
> everyone will relate to that. Plus I teach four lecture courses per
> semester. Calls for papers for books and for conferences and announcements
> for conferences are also welcome. The list cannot accommodate attachments
> and, it seems, illustrations. I can usually sort it out, but a regular
> email is easier for me and will be posted sooner.
>
> Third, I can post things more quickly if you send a brief introduction and
> a URL rather than just a URL for items, especially newspaper articles.
> Also, items should be of general interest to those working on the
> Diaspora. Paddy had ruled Northern Ireland out of bounds and I am
> reluctant to get into contemporary Irish culture and politics. I was on a
> list that was destroyed by a debate on An Gorta Mor. I know there is a lot
> of gray in our guidelines -- not sure there are fifty shades, but a lot. I
> am open to discuss individual items. I will try to always err on the side
> of inclusion.
>
> Finally, I have applied for a sabbatical for Spring 2017-- amazing how far
> in advance these things are worked out. It will be my third here and
> probably my last. My intention is to write a comprehensive history of the
> Diaspora. Your work will be crucial. What you, those of us working in this
> area, have accomplished is impressive. All the best for continued success.
>
> Merry Christmas (Shona Nollaig) and all the best for 2016.
>
> 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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Bill has continued the spirit, I merely lurk. A New Year's resolution from =
me to pass on anything of interest. Best wishes to all.
Anthony


Sent from my iPhone

> On 21 Dec 2015, at 13:40, maureen e. Mulvihill wrote:
>
> End-of-year musings ~
>
> On behalf of many subscribers: Hearty thanks to *Bill Mulligan* and *Anth=
ony
> McNicholas* for all that they do so well. They've continued the spirit &
> momentum of the Irish Diaspora List ~ a serious contribution. And they've
> surely proved themselves worthy successors to Paddy O' Sullivan who
> supplied the template. So applause, all around, say I.
>
> Best o' the season,
> MEM
> ___
>
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Bill Mulligan
> wrote:
>
>> As 2015 ends I thought I would send a message to all list members.
>>
>> First, thanks for your support of the list and for participating. The
>> members are the list. Special thanks to Anthony McNicholas, our
>> co-moderator.
>>
>> Second, it would be helpful if list members would share news of articles
>> and books published and papers and lectures presented. I have not had mu=
ch
>> success recreating Paddy's information network. I track them down as bes=
t
>> I can, but at times I am very busy with teaching and committees -- I thi=
nk
>> everyone will relate to that. Plus I teach four lecture courses per
>> semester. Calls for papers for books and for conferences and announcemen=
ts
>> for conferences are also welcome. The list cannot accommodate attachment=
s
>> and, it seems, illustrations. I can usually sort it out, but a regular
>> email is easier for me and will be posted sooner.
>>
>> Third, I can post things more quickly if you send a brief introduction a=
nd
>> a URL rather than just a URL for items, especially newspaper articles.
>> Also, items should be of general interest to those working on the
>> Diaspora. Paddy had ruled Northern Ireland out of bounds and I am
>> reluctant to get into contemporary Irish culture and politics. I was on =
a
>> list that was destroyed by a debate on An Gorta Mor. I know there is a l=
ot
>> of gray in our guidelines -- not sure there are fifty shades, but a lot.=
I
>> am open to discuss individual items. I will try to always err on the sid=
e
>> of inclusion.
>>
>> Finally, I have applied for a sabbatical for Spring 2017-- amazing how f=
ar
>> in advance these things are worked out. It will be my third here and
>> probably my last. My intention is to write a comprehensive history of th=
e
>> Diaspora. Your work will be crucial. What you, those of us working in th=
is
>> area, have accomplished is impressive. All the best for continued succes=
s.
>>
>> Merry Christmas (Shona Nollaig) and all the best for 2016.
>>
>> 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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Thank you for all the good work that you do, Bill.
Merry Christmas,
Peggy
____________________________________
Margaret Lynch-Brennan, Ph.D.
New York Council for the Humanities Public Scholar, 2015-2017, and
NY State Education Dept., Retired

---- Bill Mulligan wrote:
> As 2015 ends I thought I would send a message to all list members.
>
> First, thanks for your support of the list and for participating. The
> members are the list. Special thanks to Anthony McNicholas, our
> co-moderator.
>
> Second, it would be helpful if list members would share news of articles
> and books published and papers and lectures presented. I have not had much
> success recreating Paddy's information network. I track them down as best
> I can, but at times I am very busy with teaching and committees -- I think
> everyone will relate to that. Plus I teach four lecture courses per
> semester. Calls for papers for books and for conferences and announcements
> for conferences are also welcome. The list cannot accommodate attachments
> and, it seems, illustrations. I can usually sort it out, but a regular
> email is easier for me and will be posted sooner.
>
> Third, I can post things more quickly if you send a brief introduction and
> a URL rather than just a URL for items, especially newspaper articles.
> Also, items should be of general interest to those working on the
> Diaspora. Paddy had ruled Northern Ireland out of bounds and I am
> reluctant to get into contemporary Irish culture and politics. I was on a
> list that was destroyed by a debate on An Gorta Mor. I know there is a lot
> of gray in our guidelines -- not sure there are fifty shades, but a lot. I
> am open to discuss individual items. I will try to always err on the side
> of inclusion.
>
> Finally, I have applied for a sabbatical for Spring 2017-- amazing how far
> in advance these things are worked out. It will be my third here and
> probably my last. My intention is to write a comprehensive history of the
> Diaspora. Your work will be crucial. What you, those of us working in this
> area, have accomplished is impressive. All the best for continued success.
>
> Merry Christmas (Shona Nollaig) and all the best for 2016.
>
> 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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Subject: FW: H-Albion: Shared Histories: Media Connections Between Britain
and Ireland, Dublin, 6-7 July 2016
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I thought I had forwarded this but apparently did not =E2=80=93 =
apologies if duplicated.=20


Shared Histories: Media Connections Between Britain and Ireland, Dublin, =
6-7 July 2016 =
=20


by James O'Donnell =20

Shared Histories: Media Connections Between Britain and Ireland=20

Dublin, 6-7th July 2016

Venue: The National Library of Ireland

The relationship between Ireland and the rest of the British Isles has a
long and complex history. One key dimension has been the connections and
interactions between the various media of communication =E2=80=93 print =
and
electronic =E2=80=93 which have mediated this relationship. This =
conference
seeks to address this important, but relatively neglected, topic at a
timely moment in the history of Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales
drawing on the work of historians with specialisms that span the period
from the late 17th to the 20th century.

Keynote Speaker: Professor John Horgan, Dublin City University.

Speakers include: Eddie Brennan, Roseanna Doughty, Finola =
Doyle-O=E2=80=99Neill,
Christopher Doughan, Portia Ellis-Woods, Colum Kenny, Damen Keane,
Adrian Kirwan, Sam Manning, Jason McElligott, Anthony McNicholas James
O=E2=80=99Donnell, Elspeth Payne, Kevin Rafter, Abigail Riely, Yann =
Ryan,
Salvatore Scifo, Mark Turner and Anne Wilson

Panel themes: Print Histories and Methodologies; Anglo Irish News
Business; Censorship and Control; Television; Radio; Print Cultures and
Irish Identity; Ireland in the British Media.

For the full provisional programme, and details of how to register,
please go to: =
http://www.sharedhistories.eu/

The conference is jointly organised by the School of Communications,
Dublin City University, the Aberystwyth University Centre for Media
History, the Newspaper & Periodical History Forum of Ireland, and the
journal Media History.

=C2=B7 Read more or reply =
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This will be of interest to many on the list.=20

=20

Dear colleagues and friends,

=20

Mellon Centre for Migration Studies Annual Report 2014-2015 and=20

Christmas greetings =20

=20

Please take a look at our latest Annual Report 2014-2015:

=
http://www.qub.ac.uk/cms/pubs/MCMS_Annual_Report_2014%202015.pdf

=20

Next year we host the biennial Ulster-American Heritage Symposium again =
for what will be its Twenty-First meeting. Please take a look at the =
draft provisional programme:=20

http://www.qub.ac.uk/cms/events/UAHS_2016/Symposium%202016%20Programme%20=
with%20Abstracts%2004.pdf

=20

The first Symposium was held in 1976, the same year in which the =
Ulster-American Folk Park opened, so in 2016 we will be =E2=80=98Forty =
Years On=E2=80=99, and that will be our main theme: =E2=80=98Forty Years =
On: Current Directions in Ulster-American Heritage Studies=E2=80=99. Do =
consider coming (22-25 June 2016) if you have not already done so.

=20

The Fifteenth Annual Irish Migration Studies Lecture 2016 will be given =
on Saturday 30 January at 11.00 am, when Dr Jennifer Redmond, who is =
Lecturer in Twentieth Century Irish History in the Department of History =
at Maynooth University and an associate research fellow of MCMS, will =
speak on =E2=80=98Emigrants and the Revolution, 1912-1926:

=
=
http://www.qub.ac.uk/cms/events/Reunion_Lecture_2016/Fifteenth_Annual_Lec=
ture_2016.html

=20

Dr Redmond=E2=80=99s lecture will develop the theme of the Decade of =
Centenaries (1912-22), opened up for us so memorably by our 2015 =
Lecturer, Professor Keith Jeffery (QUB), author of the widely acclaimed =
1916: A Global History (Bloomsbury 2015).

=20

Our annual Literature of Irish Exile Autumn School next year will be =
held on Saturday 15 October 2016. It will further develop the theme of =
=E2=80=98war, migration, and resettlement=E2=80=99, explored at this =
year=E2=80=99s Autumn School by our main speakers Mary Mc Cartan, author =
of A Long Road to Freedom: The Life of Patrick Mc Crystal (1920-2011), =
and Margaret McNulty of EMBRACE NI, one of the main organisations in =
Northern Ireland working =E2=80=98to promote a positive response to =
people seeking asylum, refugees, migrant workers, and minority ethnic =
people=E2=80=99.

=20

The director of the Autumn School programme 2016 will be our associate =
research fellow Dr Johanne Devlin Trew (Ulster University), who is a =
lead investigator in the project Living Legacies 1914-1918: From Past =
Conflict to Shared Future:

=
=
http://www.livinglegacies1914-18.ac.uk/ContactUs/MeettheTeam/CentreStaff/=
JohanneDevlinTrew/

=20

Also next year, we look forward to hosting visits from the Ulster =
Historical Foundation=E2=80=99s annual Family History Conference in =
June:

=
http://www.ancestryireland.com/family-history-conference/summer-2016/

=20

and from Queen=E2=80=99s University=E2=80=99s annual International =
Irish Studies Summer School in July:

=
=
http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/SummerSchools/IrishStudi=
esSummerSchool/

=20

As this year closes, we congratulate two of our students on their =
graduation last week from Queen=E2=80=99s University Belfast , with the =
new degree of M.Res. (Masters by Research) in Irish Local History: Sarah =
Riblet of Philadelphia (with distinction) and Ruair=C3=AD Small of =
Belfast. They are the first to graduate of the pioneer group of seven, =
who were taught the module on =E2=80=98Family, Community, and Migration =
History=E2=80=99, by Drs Fitzgerald and Lambkin. We wish them well in =
their further studies, and likewise their fellow pioneers as they =
complete their dissertations.=20

=20

Finally we should note, with thanks to our partners in National Museums =
Northern Ireland (NMNI) and Libraries NI (LNI), a successful digital =
=E2=80=98migration=E2=80=99 this autumn of the email addresses of =
Paddy.Fitzgerald and Brian.Lambkin from the NMNI network to the LNI =
network =E2=80=93 a sign of the developing partnership.=20

=20

With thanks from all of us here for your continuing interest and =
support, and with all good wishes for the Christmas Season and New Year,

=20

Yours sincerely,

Brian Lambkin

Director

=20

16/12/15

=20




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From: Bill Mulligan
Subject: New Publications
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Thanks to Kerby Miller for sharing references to recent and forthcoming =
publications.=20

>Recently published:
>
>"Lost Republics: The Cashman Brothers in Ireland and America,=20
>1870s-1920s,=C2=B2 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF IRISH STUDIES, 12 (2015), =
117-143.
>
>"The Derry Watershed: Its Religious and Political Demography,=20
>1622-1911,=C2=B2 FIELD DAY REVIEW, special issue on Derry City, no. 9=20
>(2013), 39-54 [with Brian Gurrin]. On changing religious demography in =

>west Ulster, but with obvious relevance to migration issues.
>
>Forthcoming in 2016:
>
>=C2=B3Walking Backward to Heaven? Edmond Ronayne=C2=B9s Pilgrimage in =
Famine=20
>Ireland and Gilded Age America,=C2=B2 in Breand=C3=A1n Mac Suibhne and =
Enda=20
>Delaney, eds., POWER AND HUNGER: THE GREAT FAMINE AND IRISH POPULAR =
POLITICS.
>London and New York: Routledge, 2015 [with Ellen Skerrett and Bridget=20
>Kelly].
>
>CATHOLICS AND PROTESTANTS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND: THE IRISH=20
>RELIGIOUS CENSUSES OF THE 1760s. Dublin: Irish Manuscripts=20
>Commission,
>2016 [with Brian Gurrin and Liam Kennedy]. Again, on Irish religious=20
>demography=E2=80=B9specifically, a compilation of all surviving data =
[virtually=20
>complete for Ulster] from the =C2=B3censuses=C2=B2 of 1764-65 and, most =

>important, of 1766=E2=80=B9but also with obvious relevance to migration =
issues.
>
>
>Best wishes for 2016!
>
>Kerby

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Bill,=0A=
=0A=
A brief note on my recently published article: "'A Tower of Strength to the=
Movement': Father Michael Hannan and the Irish Republic," in the AMERICAN =
JOURNAL OF IRISH STUDIES vol. 12 (2015): 77-116. Thanks and Happy New Year=
.=0A=
=0A=
David Emmons=0A=
=0A=
________________________________________=0A=
From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] on behalf of Bi=
ll Mulligan [billmulligan[at]MURRAY-KY.NET]=0A=
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 9:29 AM=0A=
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK=0A=
Subject: [IR-D] New Publications=0A=
=0A=
Thanks to Kerby Miller for sharing references to recent and forthcoming pub=
lications.=0A=
=0A=
>Recently published:=0A=
>=0A=
>"Lost Republics: The Cashman Brothers in Ireland and America,=0A=
>1870s-1920s,=B2 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF IRISH STUDIES, 12 (2015), 117-143.=0A=
>=0A=
>"The Derry Watershed: Its Religious and Political Demography,=0A=
>1622-1911,=B2 FIELD DAY REVIEW, special issue on Derry City, no. 9=0A=
>(2013), 39-54 [with Brian Gurrin]. On changing religious demography in=0A=
>west Ulster, but with obvious relevance to migration issues.=0A=
>=0A=
>Forthcoming in 2016:=0A=
>=0A=
>=B3Walking Backward to Heaven? Edmond Ronayne=B9s Pilgrimage in Famine=0A=
>Ireland and Gilded Age America,=B2 in Breand=E1n Mac Suibhne and Enda=0A=
>Delaney, eds., POWER AND HUNGER: THE GREAT FAMINE AND IRISH POPULAR POLIT=
ICS.=0A=
>London and New York: Routledge, 2015 [with Ellen Skerrett and Bridget=0A=
>Kelly].=0A=
>=0A=
>CATHOLICS AND PROTESTANTS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND: THE IRISH=0A=
>RELIGIOUS CENSUSES OF THE 1760s. Dublin: Irish Manuscripts=0A=
>Commission,=0A=
>2016 [with Brian Gurrin and Liam Kennedy]. Again, on Irish religious=0A=
>demography=8Bspecifically, a compilation of all surviving data [virtually=
=0A=
>complete for Ulster] from the =B3censuses=B2 of 1764-65 and, most=0A=
>important, of 1766=8Bbut also with obvious relevance to migration issues.=
=0A=
>=0A=
>=0A=
>Best wishes for 2016!=0A=
>=0A=
>Kerby=

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This may be of interest to some of you.=0A=
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Best,=0A=
=0A=
Chris=0A=
--=0A=
=0A=
CALL FOR PAPERS=0A=
=0A=
Trinity College Dublin, Carlow College and VISUAL Centre for Contemporary A=
rt present:=0A=
=0A=
Conflict, Migration and Identity in Modern Ireland: =0A=
Global and transnational perspectives =0A=
=0A=
13-15 April 2016=0A=
=0A=
Keynote Speakers:=0A=
=0A=
Professor Bridget Anderson (Oxford University)=0A=
=0A=
Professor Joe Cleary (Maynooth University)=0A=
=0A=
Professor Enda Delaney (University of Edinburgh)=0A=
=0A=
Professor Joe Lee (New York University)=0A=
=0A=
This interdisciplinary conference will offer a timely opportunity to examin=
e and reflect on the relationships between conflict, migration and identity=
in modern Irish history and culture. Along with local and national perspec=
tives on conflict, migration and identity, we also seek contributions that =
explore the Irish experience within transnational and global trends, connec=
tions and contexts. Masterclasses on the histories, sociology and literatur=
es of migration, conflict and identity will also be offered by leading scho=
lars in the field. The conference will be set within the context of VISUAL=
=92s spring exhibition programme of Irish and international work which expl=
ores questions of contemporary cultural identities in response to the cente=
nary of the 1916 Rising. The programme includes a major solo show by Yinka=
Shonibare MBE, Post Colony by Gareth Kennedy, new work by Clodagh Emoe in =
collaboration with Spiresi, a humanitarian, intercultural, non-governmental=
organisation that works with asylum seekers, refugees and migrants; The Gr=
eat Wall by Tadhg O Sullivan; and a new musical composition in response to =
the season=92s themes, by musicians Caoimh=EDn =D3 Raghallaigh and Iarla =
=D3 Lion=E1ird. =0A=
=0A=
Proposals for individual papers (max. 20mins) and for complete panel sessio=
ns from all relevant disciplines are welcome. =0A=
=0A=
Suggested topics may include but are not restricted to:=0A=
=0A=
- Relationships between migration and revolutionary violence =0A=
- Warfare, political conflict and migration =0A=
- Representations of migration, conflict and identity in modern Irish liter=
ature=0A=
- Migration and ideas of nationhood and integration =0A=
- Migration, crime and violence =0A=
- Histories and theories of conflict=0A=
- Questions of identity in modern Ireland=0A=
- The politics of representation: migrant voices within media, art and cult=
ure=0A=
- Northern Ireland: experiences of conflict, migration and identity=0A=
- Ireland within the global experience of migration =0A=
- Resistance and subaltern identities in Irish and transnational contexts=
=0A=
=0A=
Please send proposals of 200-250 words and a brief biography to the followi=
ng email address: migrationconference16[at]gmail.com=0A=
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Dear friends and colleagues,


There are still some tickets available for this evening of readings and
debate which will be jointly hosted by the Irish Studies Centre

(London Metropolitan University
)
and the Irish Literary Society

from
*7.30 - 9.30 pm *on *Monday 25th January* at The Bloomsbury Hotel, Great
Russell Street, London WC1B 3NN.

*Please note the change to the start time of this event*


Leading Irish writers will join academics in discussion on the artistic
legacy of the Revival.


The playwright Marina Carr, poet Nuala N=C3=AD Dhomhnaill and novelist Jenn=
ifer
Johnston will reflect on the influence of the Revival in their work and the
place of the artist in Ireland after independence.


Prof Declan Kiberd and Dr PJ Mathews of University College Dublin, joint
editors of the recent *Handbook of the Irish Revival*, will present a
literary and historical overview of the period.

*Please note that tickets

are
only available through the Irish Literary Society.*


If you are not a member of the Irish Literary Society, tickets are =C2=A35 =
and
available here:
http://irishlitsoc.org/event/ireland-1916-death-of-a-literary-revival/


If you would like to become a member of the Irish Literary Society, you can
do so here:
http://irishlitsoc.org/home/membership/join/
or
by email: ilsmembership[at]hotmail.com


I hope very much you can join myself and our guests for what promises to be
a landmark event in a historic year for Ireland and the Irish in Britain.



Tony Murray
Director, Irish Studies Centre
London Metropolitan University









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2190 51. Our registered office is at 166-220 Holloway Road, London N7 8DB.
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Final Call for Papers



1916, CINEMA AND REVOLUTION

25-27 MAY 2016, HUSTON SCHOOL OF FILM & DIGITAL MEDIA,

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY



Plenary Speakers to include: Dr. Denis Condon (Maynooth University), Profes=
sor Charles Barr (Emeritus Professor, University of East Anglia), Professor=
Michael Chanan (University of Roehampton), Dr D=ED=F3g O Connell (IADT).



1916 marked the establishment of Ireland's first indigenous film company, T=
he Film Company of Ireland, whose co-founder James Mark Sullivan was arrest=
ed after the Rising and charged with complicity. As part of NUI Galway's pr=
ogramme of events to commemorate the 1916 Rising, the Huston School of Film=
& Digital Media invites contributions on the theme of 1916, Cinema and Rev=
olution. Events in that year and subsequently have featured in a range of c=
inematic and televisual productions while there is also a significant inter=
national dimension to the relationship between revolutionary history and ci=
nema. Therefore, we invite considerations on aspects of the representation =
of the Rising, as well as other revolutionary moments in Irish and world hi=
story. Topics may include, but are not limited to:



- Filming the Rising;

- The representation of revolution in film and television;

- Postcolonial cinema and revolution;

- the Cuban revolution in film;

- Representing the Russian Revolution;

- Cinema and Vietnam;



The conference will include screenings of Irish and international films rel=
evant to the conference theme, including a screening of a rarely seen print=
of John Ford's THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS (1937).



Abstracts: If you would like to propose a paper (not exceeding 20 minutes),=
please submit your title and an abstract of 250 words accompanied by a sho=
rt biographical sketch to sean.crosson[at]nuigalway.ie



Deadline for submission of proposals and abstracts: 1st March 2016.

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I am going to impose despite the awkwardness and share three items of
personal news.



First, my article in New Hibernia Review on Irish organizations in the
Michigan Copper Country arrived, it is always special to actually see
something I've written in print. Never has gotten old."Building New Lives,
Marinating Old Identities: Irish Associations in Michigan's Copper Country,
1860-1900" NHR 19 (2015). Second, a book with a chapter I have written on
Irish knowledge of geology and how affected migration from copper mining
areas has been accepted.



Finally,, it appears my application for a sabbatical in Spring 2017 will be
successful. My intention is to write a one-volume history of the Diaspora.
I would like to visit Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa if possible.





William H. Mulligan, Jr. , PhD

Professor of History

Coordinator, Religious Studies Program

Chair, East Asia Seach Committee

MSU Alumni Association Distinguished Researcher 2012

MSU Board of Regents Award for Teaching Excellence, 2005

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

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

President, Jackson Purchase Historical Society

President, Chapter 302 The Hoinor Society of Phi Kappa Phi

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This will be of interest to the list. Please send news of publications =
and conferences =E2=80=93 we are all in this together. =20

=20

Women, Reform, and Resistance in Ireland, 1850-1950

=20

Edited by Christina S. Brophy and Cara Delay (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) =
documents the challenges faced by Irish women and their complex =
reactions. This interdisciplinary volume focuses on the categories of =
gender and class in a sustained analysis of both reform and resistance =
in modern Irish history. By investigating philanthropies, prisons, =
hospitals, and inebriate reformatories; interrogating court records, =
begging letters, and memoirs; and exploring the =E2=80=98imaginative =
resistance=E2=80=99 of folk narratives and formulaic cursing; authors =
illuminate previously obscured experiences of Irish women. Several =
contributors explore the ways in which middle-class and elite women, =
through philanthropy and reform, found their voices by attempting to =
regulate the lives of the poor. Rather than passively accepting their =
lot, these women were often insubordinate, opportunistic in their use of =
charity, and defiant toward the ideologies of dominating-elites.

=20

Chapters and Contributors:

=20

1. =E2=80=98Souper, Souper, Go To Hell!=E2=80=99: Women, Sectarianism, =
and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Dublin; Margaret Preston, Augustana =
College, USA

=20

2. Regulating Poor Mothers: St. Ultan=E2=80=99s Infant Hospital, Dublin =
from 1918; Vanessa Rutherford, University College Cork, Ireland

=20

3. Safeguarding Irish Girls: Welfare Work, Female Emigrants, and the =
Catholic Church, 1920s -1940s; Jennifer Redmond, NUI Maynooth, Ireland

=20

4. =E2=80=98Should I Take Myself and Family to Another Religion =
[?]=E2=80=99: Irish Catholic Women, Protest, and Conformity, 1920-1940; =
Lindsey Earner-Byrne, University College Dublin, Ireland

=20

5. =E2=80=98Having an Immoral Conversation=E2=80=99 and Other Prison =
Offenses: The Punishment of Convict Women; Elaine Farrell, Queens =
University Belfast, Northern Ireland

=20

6. Poverty, Alcohol, and the Women of the State Inebriate Reformatory in =
Ireland, 1900-1918; Conor Reidy, University of Limerick, Ireland

=20

7. Gendered Speech and Engendering Citizenship in the Irish Free State: =
Ordinary Women and County Clare District Courts, 1932-1934; Brigittine =
French, Grinnell College, USA

=20

8. Girls, the Body, and Sexual Knowledge in Modern Ireland; Cara Delay, =
College of Charleston, USA

=20

9. =E2=80=98What Nobody Does Now=E2=80=99: Imaginative Resistance of =
Rural Laboring Women;Christina S. Brophy, Triton College, USA

=20

10. =E2=80=98All I Had Left Were My Words=E2=80=99: The Widow=E2=80=99s =
Curse in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Ireland; E. Moore Quinn, =
College of Charleston, USA

=20

ISBN 9781137513137

=20

Reviews:

=20

=E2=80=98Brophy and Delay=E2=80=99s eclectic mix of historical essays =
provide accounts of struggles faced, and lives lived, by mn=C3=A1 na =
h=C3=89ireann (the women of Ireland). Each essay can be read either as =
active engagement in, or resistance to, social, legal and cultural =
reform in modern Ireland. Covering a diverse range of themes from =
philanthropy =E2=80=93both as actors and agents- deviant behavior, =
criminality, patriarchy and folk beliefs, the entire social spectrum =
finds representation in this lively read, which will appeal to scholars =
of Irish studies, gender, and world histories alike.=E2=80=99=20

Ciara Breathnach, Lecturer in History, University of Limerick, Ireland

=20

=20

=E2=80=98This collection of essays offers a fresh and insightful =
exploration of women=E2=80=99s lives in Ireland in the nineteenth and =
twentieth centuries. Including work by historians and anthropologists it =
provides enlightening studies of how the interactions between middle =
class and poorer women shaped both the nature of power between them, and =
also the character of their resistance to wider economic and social =
pressures=E2=80=A6These essays provide a sense of the complexity of =
Irish women=E2=80=99s lives within a dramatically changing social, =
economic and political period of Irish history.=E2=80=99=20

Maria Luddy, Professor of History, University of Warwick, England

=20

=20

=E2=80=98The historians in this collection provide rich narratives of =
how the forces of modernization resulted in increased surveillance and =
stifling regulation of women and girls in late Nineteenth and early =
Twentieth century Ireland. Yet the central achievement of these scholars =
is the attention they give to the resilience of the women they document: =
their strategies of resistance, subversion and even rebellion. The =
archives used for documentary sources in this book are more varied than =
generally mined by Irish historians and the deft deployment of =
theoretical concepts is also not routinely found in Irish history =
writing. Perhaps most impressive is that the scholars are as attentive =
to how class inflects, constrains and demarcates differing female =
experiences as much as they are focused on the discourses of gender. The =
essays gathered here are not =E2=80=98women=E2=80=99s history=E2=80=99 =
in that they don=E2=80=99t seek to add an account of what women did to =
the dominant narrative of Irish history. The scholars in this collection =
provide a consummate example of how feminist historiography not merely =
adds nuance or complicates received historical accounts but radically =
challenges the unreflective assumptions of much Irish history writing: =
their work provides new ground from which to gain a perspective on how =
lives were lived, and what lives mattered in post-Famine =
Ireland.=E2=80=99=20

Katherine O=E2=80=99Donnell, Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophy, =
University College Dublin, Ireland

=20

=20

=E2=80=98This is a coherent and very stimulating collection of essays. =
It makes an innovative and fresh contribution to Irish historical =
studies. Drawing on the multi-disciplined approaches of historians, =
folklorists and literary scholars, the volume interrogates the notion of =
Irish women as passive victims of church and state. It documents the =
complex and, often, surprising ways in which women responded to the =
challenges of post-Famine Irish society. The volume is essential reading =
for students of modern Irish history.=E2=80=99=20

Mary O=E2=80=99Dowd, Professor of Gender History, Queen=E2=80=99s =
University Belfast, Northern Ireland

=20

=20

=E2=80=98Christina Brophy and Cara Delay have brought together a =
dazzling array of writers who produced a challenging set of essays, all =
of which give Irish women agency and voice. Whether think about family, =
religion, the criminal justice system, sexuality or citizenship, these =
articles challenge and inform, rightfully making the women who come =
alive in these pages powerful historical actors.=E2=80=99=20

Hasia R. Diner, Director, Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish =
History, New York University, USA

=20

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*Call for Submissions: American Journal of Irish Studies, Volume 13, Fall
2016/Spring 2017Special Issue: 1916 and Its Aftermath*

*American Journal of Irish Studies* (AJIS) welcomes submissions for a Fall
2016/Spring 2017 special issue entitled "1916 and Its Aftermath." Since
fall of 2015 Glucksman Ireland House NYU, home of *AJIS*, has been engaged
in a year-long program of research, publication and public programming
dedicated to shedding new light on the context of the Easter 1916 Rising.
In keeping with this commemorative agenda, AJIS editors will devote Vol. 13
as a special issue examining the impact and reverberations of Easter 1916
both in Ireland and beyond.

The editors seek papers that take on any aspect of the impact of the events
of 1916 through literature, history, arts and culture and contemporary
issues. Given Glucksman Ireland House NYU=E2=80=99s focus on American and g=
lobal
Irish communities, editors are especially, although not exclusively, keen
on diasporic lenses on topics related to 1916 and its political and
cultural aftermath. Professor Joe Lee will be advisory editor of the
volume.

The deadline for submissions, which should be between 6,000 and 8,000
words, is 1 March 2016. All submissions will be subject to peer review. All
submissions should adhere to the Chicago Manual of Style, see the *AJIS*
Style Sheet:
http://irelandhouse.fas.nyu.edu/docs/CP/4030/AJIS-StyleSheet.pdf.

Please send your submissions electronically to ireland.house[at]nyu.edu.



Anne Solari Dunn

Assistant Director

Glucksman Ireland House

New York University

1 Washington Mews

New York, NY 10003

Tel: (212) 998-3952

Web: www.irelandhouse.fas.nyu.edu

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*New Product Posting*
Cross-posted: Irish-Studies List / Irish Diaspora List
Transmitted, 28th January 2016.
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It is my pleasure to alert colleagues to this winning new representation of
The Great Hunger ~



*THE BAD TIMES. AN DROCHSHAOL. A Graphic Novel about The Great Hunger.*
By Christine Kinealy, Director, Hunger Institute, Quinnipiac University, CT=
;
and John A. Walsh, Illustrator & Graphic Novelist, Boston.

Webpage on this graphic novel, set during The Great Hunger:
http://www.badtimesgraphicnovel.com/

Seller:
https://www.xanedu.com/higher-education/educators/custom-books-catalog/the-=
bad-times/

Official Launch, in New York:
Wednesday, January 20, 2016.
Consul General Barbara Jones, host.

Book Signings (meet the authors!):
Thursday, March 3, 5:30-7 p.m. =E2=80=A2 Ireland's Great Hunger Museum
3011 Whitney Avenue | Hamden, CT
Registration required. See website.

Sunday, March 13, 3-5:30 p.m. =E2=80=A2 Gaelic American Club
74 Beach Road | Fairfield, CT

Sunday, March 20, 2 p.m. =E2=80=A2 Lawrence Heritage State Park Visitor's C=
enter
1 Jackson Street | Lawrence, MA

Amazon sales (note ye well):
Amazon has already sold out its copies of the novel.
More copies are on the way! Do visit the webpage soon.

Educational purchases / resale:



Submitted by:
Maureen E. Mulvihill, PhD
Princeton Research Forum, Princeton NJ.
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In the 1930s Hitler is said to have claimed that his idea for
concentration camps came from his reading about the British
concentration camps where tens of thousands died of starvation in Africa
during the Bohr War.

Himmler is said to have remarked this to the British Ambassador at the
time.

Carmel

On 1/31/2016 8:08 PM, Miller, Kerby A. wrote:
> Very interesting.
>
> Did the Germans also point to India as another deindustrialised and
> famished example of British imperial benevolence?
>
>
> On 1/31/16 4:42 PM, "The Irish Diaspora Studies List on behalf of Patrick
> Maume" 000006248b010d94-dmarc-request[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK> wrote:
>
>> From: Patrick Maume
>> I have just been reading Alexander Watson RING OF STEEL: GERMANY AND
>> AUSTRO-HUNGARY AT WAR, 1914-1918 (London, 2014)
>> On p.489 I came across a passage which might be of interest to the list.
>> Watson is describing a propaganda campaign directed at the German public
>> in
>> 1917 to keep up their support for the war effort by warning them of the
>> consequences of defeat:
>> "The suffering of Ireland under British rule was held up as a terrible
>> warning of what the future would hold for a defeated Reich. The story of
>> the Irish famine in the 1840s, closer to contemporaries than the First
>> World War is to us, could be expected to resonate with malnourished,
>> blockaded Germans. [The Allies had imposed a blockade on food imports by
>> the Central Powers which caused severe food shortages - PM.] The British
>> had taken Ireland, 'a once so blooming land', into a 'hunger state', and
>> had 'taken around half its inhabitants through murder, hunger and forced
>> deportation'. [A reference is given to two leaflets in the Stuttgart
>> archives.]
>>
>> It would be interesting to know if there are any other examples of
>> parallels being drawn between the famine and the hunger blockade, either
>> by
>> Germans or by Irish nationalists, and whether anyone has looked at the
>> invocation of the Famine by Continental opponents of Britain.
>> Best wishes,
>> Patrick


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From: Patrick Maume
I have just been reading Alexander Watson RING OF STEEL: GERMANY AND
AUSTRO-HUNGARY AT WAR, 1914-1918 (London, 2014)
On p.489 I came across a passage which might be of interest to the list.
Watson is describing a propaganda campaign directed at the German public in
1917 to keep up their support for the war effort by warning them of the
consequences of defeat:
"The suffering of Ireland under British rule was held up as a terrible
warning of what the future would hold for a defeated Reich. The story of
the Irish famine in the 1840s, closer to contemporaries than the First
World War is to us, could be expected to resonate with malnourished,
blockaded Germans. [The Allies had imposed a blockade on food imports by
the Central Powers which caused severe food shortages - PM.] The British
had taken Ireland, 'a once so blooming land', into a 'hunger state', and
had 'taken around half its inhabitants through murder, hunger and forced
deportation'. [A reference is given to two leaflets in the Stuttgart
archives.]

It would be interesting to know if there are any other examples of
parallels being drawn between the famine and the hunger blockade, either by
Germans or by Irish nationalists, and whether anyone has looked at the
invocation of the Famine by Continental opponents of Britain.
Best wishes,
Patrick

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Very interesting. =20

Did the Germans also point to India as another deindustrialised and
famished example of British imperial benevolence?


On 1/31/16 4:42 PM, "The Irish Diaspora Studies List on behalf of Patrick
Maume" wrote:

>From: Patrick Maume
>I have just been reading Alexander Watson RING OF STEEL: GERMANY AND
>AUSTRO-HUNGARY AT WAR, 1914-1918 (London, 2014)
> On p.489 I came across a passage which might be of interest to the list.
>Watson is describing a propaganda campaign directed at the German public
>in
>1917 to keep up their support for the war effort by warning them of the
>consequences of defeat:
> "The suffering of Ireland under British rule was held up as a terrible
>warning of what the future would hold for a defeated Reich. The story of
>the Irish famine in the 1840s, closer to contemporaries than the First
>World War is to us, could be expected to resonate with malnourished,
>blockaded Germans. [The Allies had imposed a blockade on food imports by
>the Central Powers which caused severe food shortages - PM.] The British
>had taken Ireland, 'a once so blooming land', into a 'hunger state', and
>had 'taken around half its inhabitants through murder, hunger and forced
>deportation'. [A reference is given to two leaflets in the Stuttgart
>archives.]
>
> It would be interesting to know if there are any other examples of
>parallels being drawn between the famine and the hunger blockade, either
>by
>Germans or by Irish nationalists, and whether anyone has looked at the
>invocation of the Famine by Continental opponents of Britain.
> Best wishes,
> Patrick

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OK, but remember that my response was directed toward German propaganda in
World War ONE. =20

On 1/31/16 8:42 PM, "The Irish Diaspora Studies List on behalf of Carmel
McCaffrey" wrote:

>In the 1930s Hitler is said to have claimed that his idea for
>concentration camps came from his reading about the British
>concentration camps where tens of thousands died of starvation in Africa
>during the Bohr War.
>
>Himmler is said to have remarked this to the British Ambassador at the
>time.
>
>Carmel
>
>On 1/31/2016 8:08 PM, Miller, Kerby A. wrote:
>> Very interesting.
>>
>> Did the Germans also point to India as another deindustrialised and
>> famished example of British imperial benevolence?
>>
>>
>> On 1/31/16 4:42 PM, "The Irish Diaspora Studies List on behalf of
>>Patrick
>> Maume" > 000006248b010d94-dmarc-request[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Patrick Maume
>>> I have just been reading Alexander Watson RING OF STEEL: GERMANY AND
>>> AUSTRO-HUNGARY AT WAR, 1914-1918 (London, 2014)
>>> On p.489 I came across a passage which might be of interest to the
>>>list.
>>> Watson is describing a propaganda campaign directed at the German
>>>public
>>> in
>>> 1917 to keep up their support for the war effort by warning them of the
>>> consequences of defeat:
>>> "The suffering of Ireland under British rule was held up as a
>>>terrible
>>> warning of what the future would hold for a defeated Reich. The
>>>story of
>>> the Irish famine in the 1840s, closer to contemporaries than the First
>>> World War is to us, could be expected to resonate with malnourished,
>>> blockaded Germans. [The Allies had imposed a blockade on food
>>>imports by
>>> the Central Powers which caused severe food shortages - PM.] The
>>>British
>>> had taken Ireland, 'a once so blooming land', into a 'hunger state',
>>>and
>>> had 'taken around half its inhabitants through murder, hunger and
>>>forced
>>> deportation'. [A reference is given to two leaflets in the Stuttgart
>>> archives.]
>>>
>>> It would be interesting to know if there are any other examples of
>>> parallels being drawn between the famine and the hunger blockade,
>>>either
>>> by
>>> Germans or by Irish nationalists, and whether anyone has looked at the
>>> invocation of the Famine by Continental opponents of Britain.
>>> Best wishes,
>>> Patrick
>
>
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