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Tuesday 9 September, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
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As I reminded people in an article in New Hibernia Review we do have one
Professor of Irish Diaspora Studies, a personal chair held by Bronwen Walter
at Anglia Ruskin University.

And now the Inaugural lecture.

Our best wishes to Bronwen as this important day approaches.

Anyone who wants an invitation to the event should, I guess, in the first
instance contact me.

P.O'S.


Professor Bronwen Walter: Inaugural lecture

Tuesday 9 September, Mumford Theatre, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
5pm


Close to home: Irish/ English entanglements

How Irish are the English? The English have had an ambivalent relationship
with the Irish for centuries. Constructions of the Irish as the uncivilised
and violent 'other', which defines the boundaries of Englishness, are
well-recognised. But hybridities between the two - mixing, borrowing,
overlaps, exchanges, incorporations - are often overlooked or misread.
Novels may provide unexpected routes into these private worlds which are
often beyond the reach of social research. In this inaugural lecture I
explore some ways in which these identities constitute shared 'diaspora
spaces', both in England and more distantly.

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Many items of interest... Cunningham on Bramhall opens new lines of
thought. The study of Irish bishops in France shows what can be found in
the archives, as does the review of O Connell, The Irish college.

Don MacRaild has a little review essay, looking at Paul O'Leary's edition of
and Maureen Murphy's edition of. And then the great scholars in our field
continue to take in each other's washing...

P.O'S.


IRISH HISTORICAL STUDIES
NUMB 141; 2008
ISSN 0021-1214

pp. 1-15
John Bramhall's other island: a Laudian solution to an Irish problem.
Cunningham, J.P.

pp. 16-37
Irish bishops and clergy in exile in mid-seventeenth-century France.
d Ambrieres, R.; Ciosain, E.O.

pp. 38-52
The 1830 budget and repeal: Parliament and public opinion in Ireland.
McElroy, M.

pp. 53-71
The foundation and development of Na Fianna Eireann, 1909-16.
Hay, M.

pp. 72-90
Cumann na nGaedheal, sea fishing and west Galway, 1923-32.
Fathartaigh, M.O.

pp. 91-94
Review article: Personal narratives of emigration and adjustment.
MacRaild, D.M.

pp. 95-96
Theses on Irish history completed in Irish universities, 2006.

pp. 97-98
Major accessions to repositories relating to Irish history, 2006.

p. 99
O Croinin (ed.), A new history of Ireland, vol. I: prehistoric and early
Ireland.
O Loughlin, T.

pp. 100-101
Lacey, Cenel Conaill and the Donegal kingdoms AD 500-800.
Etchingham, C.

p. 102
O'Riordan, Irish bardic poetry and rhetorical reality.
Caball, M.

pp. 103-104
FitzPatrick & Gillespie (eds), The parish in medieval and early modern
Ireland: community, territory and building.
Cuarta, B.M.

p. 105
Moss, O Clabaigh & Ryan (eds), Art and devotion in late medieval Ireland.
Lawless, C.

p. 106
Crowley, Devoy, Linehan & O'Flanagan (eds), Atlas of Cork city.
Jefferies, H.A.

pp. 107-108
Smyth, Map-making, landscapes and memory: a geography of colonial and early
modern Ireland, c. 1530-1750.
Gillespie, R.

p. 109
Armstrong & O hAnnrachain (eds), Community in early modern Ireland.
Gillespie, R.

pp. 110-111
O Connell, The Irish college at Santiago de Compostela 1605-1769.
O Connor, T.

pp. 112-113
Miller, Schrier, Boling & Doyle (eds), Irish immigrants in the land of
Canaan: letters and memoirs from colonial and revolutionary America,
1675-1815.
Kenny, K.

pp. 114-115
Gribben & Holmes (eds), Protestant millennialism, evangelicalism and Irish
society, 1790-2005 and Holmes, The shaping of Ulster Presbyterian belief and
practice, 1770-1840.
Magennis, E.

p. 116
Dickson, Beyond religious discourse: sermons, preaching and evangelical
Protestants in nineteenth-century Irish society.
Holmes, A.R.

p. 117
MacRaild, The Irish in Britain, 1800-1914.
Fitzpatrick, D.

pp. 118-119
Kinmonth, Irish rural interiors in art.
Ciosain, N.O.

p. 120
Ramon, A provisional dictator. James Stephens and the Fenian movement.
Kelly, M.

pp. 121-122
Kelly, The Fenian ideal and Irish nationalism, 1882-1916.
McGarry, F.

p. 123
Macaulay, Patrick McAlister, bishop of Down and Connor, 1886-95.
Corrain, D.O.

p. 124
O hOgartaigh, Kathleen Lynn: Irishwoman, patriot, doctor.
Walsh, O.

pp. 125-126
Morrissey, William O'Brien, 1881-1968: socialist, republican, Dail deputy,
editor and trade union leader.
King, C.

p. 127
Augusteijn (ed.), The memoirs of John M. Regan: a Catholic officer in the
RIC and RUC, 1909-48.
Townshend, C.

p. 128
Whelan, United States foreign policy and Ireland: from empire to
independence, 1913-29.
McMahon, D.

pp. 129-130
Martin, Censorship in the two Irelands, 1922-1939.
Hay, M.

p. 131
Puirseil, The Irish Labour Party, 1922-73.
Lane, F.

pp. 132-133
O Corrain, Rendering to God and Caesar: the Irish Churches and the two
states in Ireland, 1949-73.
Keogh, D.

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Gildas was recently mentioned on the list but I can't find the
relevant emails in the archives. Could some one remind me where the
discussion was and what books etc were mentioned. I'm a member of
another list and it has been suggested that Gildas only castigated
Irish Tyrants not 'British' (i.e. Brythonic/Welsh) ones and I would
like to see if that has been discussed.

Regards
Muiris

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From: Brian Lambkin [mailto:Brian.Lambkin[at]nmni.com]=20
Sent: 31 July 2008 13:50
Subject: FW: query

Hello Paddy
We have a Spanish post grad intern, Eduardo, working with us at the =
moment
and he has a query (below) that we have only been able to give him =
limited
help with. I have emailed Donal McCracken but would you also be kind =
enough
to circulate this on list in case anyone else can help.
With best wishes
Brian

________________________________________
From: Eduardo Mateo Carrasco [mailto:estadotransitorio[at]msn.com]=20
Sent: 31 July 2008 10:57
To: Brian Lambkin
Subject: query

there it goes Brian:
=A0
What=A0I'm basically looking for is some sort of publication about which =
was
the current legislation that regulated the migration schemes to South =
Africa
during the 19th century onwards. I do know the work of Oliver MacDonagh =
"A
Pattern of Goverment Growth. The Passenger Acts and their Enforcement" =
but,
due to its fundamentally American-oriented character, I'm not sure if =
the
information provided on it is applicable in my case. Does exist an
"equivalent" of administrative history to the South African case?
=A0
I will be very thankful to anyone who may provide any kind of =
contribution.
Thanks

Eduardo Mateo Carrasco

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Muiris,

Gildas has been mentioned only twice in recent years.

Once was in a TOC from Peritia in 2005.

I think you might be remembering the other mention, in 2008, this article
from Literature Compass... I do not have access to this article.

AU: Stephen J. Harris
TI: An Overview of Race and Ethnicity in Pre-Norman England
SO: Literature Compass
VL: 9999
NO: 9999
YR: 2008
CP: C 2008 The Author. Journal Compilation C 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
ON: 1741-4113
PN: 1741-4113
AD: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2008.00560.x
US: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2008.00560.x

AB: This article surveys ideas about race in pre-Norman England
(c.45020131066). I review contemporary race categories that tend to
structure our view of the medieval evidence; modern and medieval vocabulary;
and some ideas about race and ethnicity current in the early Middle Ages.
Within that broader context, I then discuss Gildas, Bede, and King Alfred.

Everyone, do note that all IR-D messages since 2004 are automatically
archived at JISCMAIL, and displayed in the usual Listserv manner. There is
a good search facility.

P.O'S.


-----Original Message-----
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Of Muiris Mag Ualghairg
Sent: 30 July 2008 00:38
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] Gildas

Gildas was recently mentioned on the list but I can't find the
relevant emails in the archives. Could some one remind me where the
discussion was and what books etc were mentioned. I'm a member of
another list and it has been suggested that Gildas only castigated
Irish Tyrants not 'British' (i.e. Brythonic/Welsh) ones and I would
like to see if that has been discussed.

Regards
Muiris

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The scholarly digital archives site "J-STOR" has recently announced the imminent launch of its "Ireland Collection". I did not see this announcement recognized on the IR-D list recently and thought the list members might like to know. One needs to be subscribed to search J-STOR but an abstract of the Ireland Collection is at:

http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/news/announcements/2008.jsp#JulC

Apologies if this has already made the rounds.

Cian McMahon

PhD candidate
Department of History
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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Dear Brian/Paddy,

Donal will help I am sure. I have a selection of Irish-Southern African
publications back home, but I am in Ireland at the moment so cannot
consult them for you until I return next week. You might also contact
Donald Akenson at Queen's University Press in Ontario, who has studied
Irish emigration to South Africa in considerable depth.

Best wishes,
Donal

> From: Brian Lambkin [mailto:Brian.Lambkin[at]nmni.com]
> Sent: 31 July 2008 13:50
> Subject: FW: query
>
> Hello Paddy
> We have a Spanish post grad intern, Eduardo, working with us at the mom=
ent
> and he has a query (below) that we have only been able to give him limi=
ted
> help with. I have emailed Donal McCracken but would you also be kind
> enough
> to circulate this on list in case anyone else can help.
> With best wishes
> Brian
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Eduardo Mateo Carrasco [mailto:estadotransitorio[at]msn.com]
> Sent: 31 July 2008 10:57
> To: Brian Lambkin
> Subject: query
>
> there it goes Brian:
> =A0
> What=A0I'm basically looking for is some sort of publication about whic=
h was
> the current legislation that regulated the migration schemes to South
> Africa
> during the 19th century onwards. I do know the work of Oliver MacDonagh=
"A
> Pattern of Goverment Growth. The Passenger Acts and their Enforcement"
> but,
> due to its fundamentally American-oriented character, I'm not sure if t=
he
> information provided on it is applicable in my case. Does exist an
> "equivalent" of administrative history to the South African case?
> =A0
> I will be very thankful to anyone who may provide any kind of
> contribution.
> Thanks
>
> Eduardo Mateo Carrasco
>

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From: "Brian Lambkin"
To: "The Irish Diaspora Studies List"


Many thanks Donal on behalf of Eduardo.
Brian

-----Original Message-----
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Behalf Of Dr Donal Lowry
Sent: 31 July 2008 17:46
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Subject: Re: [IR-D] Migration schemes to South Africa

Dear Brian/Paddy,

Donal will help I am sure. I have a selection of Irish-Southern African
publications back home, but I am in Ireland at the moment so cannot
consult them for you until I return next week. You might also contact
Donald Akenson at Queen's University Press in Ontario, who has studied
Irish emigration to South Africa in considerable depth.

Best wishes,
Donal

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The title is a reference to Edmund Leach. This is actually a very
significant and useful article, firmly within its own specialism of =
course.
But of interest to anyone following 'Black Irish' discussions, and
discussion about Montserrat in particular. At the very least it helps =
us to
organise some references, beginning with John Messenger. I am still
absorbing this article.

P.O'S.

Glimpses into the Unmentionable: Montserrat, Tourism and Anthropological
Readings of 'Subordinate Exotic' and 'Comic Exotic' Travel Writing

Author: Skinner, Jonathan

Source: Studies in Travel Writing, Volume 12, Number 2, July 2008 , pp.
167-191(25)

Publisher: White Horse Press


Abstract:
This article explores the relationship between anthropology and identity
through the process of travel writing and reading. Specifically, the =
article
examines a range of mid to late twentieth century travel writings about =
the
British Caribbean colony Montserrat to read into the culture of the =
writer
and the assumed reader. These deconstructive 'glimpses into the
unmentionable' often reveal an implicit racism. The travel writing texts =
=D0
built upon very brief and often sponsored visits to the island =D0 are =
also
found to copy ideas and themes from each other such as the idea of
Montserrat as an imitation of Ireland. Broadly speaking, these travel
writings about Montserrat divide into two types of representation =D0 =
the
'subordinate exotic' ('The Other Emerald Isle') and the 'comic exotic' =
(an
odd ethnic spectacle of the 'Black-Irish').

Keywords: Montserrat; travel writing; anthropology; tourism; Ireland; =
Black
Irish; comic; exotic

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.3197/136451408X329752

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British Propaganda in Neutral Eire after the Fall of France, 1940
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The British secret weapon, John Betjeman, wandering round Dublin, being
affable. A very nice article, and a useful contribution to Betjeman
scholarship. Plus remarks on Elizabeth Bowen, etc...

P.O'S.

British Propaganda in Neutral Eire after the Fall of France, 1940

Author: Corse, Edward

Source: Contemporary British History, Volume 22, Number 2, June 2008 , pp.
163-180(18)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:
This article examines the propaganda ideas and plans that the British
government put together in an attempt to coax neutral Eire into the Second
World War, or at least to make Eire's neutrality as benevolent as possible.
Britain's reputation in Eire, stemming particularly from the Irish Civil
War, meant that conducting British propaganda in the country was a delicate
task and had to be well judged. The article focuses on the work of John
Betjeman, the British press attache in Dublin 1941-43, in trying to
influence Irish thought. The article concludes that Betjeman was most
successful in propaganda by word-of-mouth, personality and Anglo-Irish
cultural links.

Keywords: Propaganda; Second World War; Eire; Neutrality; Betjeman

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/13619460701191555

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Skills shortages are not always what they seem: migration and the
Irish software industry
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It is part of the - how can I put this delicately? - part of the charm of
comment on the new immigration into Ireland that we find ourselves going
again over the practical and theoretical ground, the arguments, that our
original Irish emigrants faced.

This latest article from James Wickham and his colleague Ian Bruff moves
confidently within the varieties of capitalism literature.

For more...
http://www.educationpolicy.eu/names.php?page=jameswickham

http://www.tcd.ie/ERC/

Note that Ian Bruff's original research paper is available on the ERC web
site, 'Why migration to Ireland reinforces skill shortages: the case of the
software industry' by Ian Bruff.

P.O'S.


Skills shortages are not always what they seem: migration and the Irish
software industry

Authors: Wickham, James1; Bruff, Ian2

Source: New Technology, Work and Employment, Volume 23, Numbers 1-2,
March/July 2008 , pp. 30-43(14)

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

Abstract:
This paper argues that the skills shortage in the Irish software industry is
socially produced by a range of domestic factors, especially the education
and training system. It also contends that immigration reinforces rather
than resolves skills shortages.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-005X.2008.00201.x

Affiliations: 1: Employment Research Centre, Trinity College Dublin 2:
Department of Research and Knowledge Transfer at Edge Hill University, UK

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Related to this article is the review of Skinner's book "Before the =
Volcano: Reverberations of Identity on Montserrat": =
http://www.irlandeses.org/0711festino1.htm by Cielo Festino, and the =
Author's Reply.=20

Edmundo Murray

-----Original Message-----
From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On =
Behalf Of Patrick O'Sullivan
Sent: 01 August 2008 13:51
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] Article, Glimpses into the Unmentionable: Montserrat, =
Tourism and Anthropological Readings...


The title is a reference to Edmund Leach. This is actually a very
significant and useful article, firmly within its own specialism of =
course.
But of interest to anyone following 'Black Irish' discussions, and
discussion about Montserrat in particular. At the very least it helps =
us to
organise some references, beginning with John Messenger. I am still
absorbing this article.

P.O'S.

Glimpses into the Unmentionable: Montserrat, Tourism and Anthropological
Readings of 'Subordinate Exotic' and 'Comic Exotic' Travel Writing

Author: Skinner, Jonathan

Source: Studies in Travel Writing, Volume 12, Number 2, July 2008 , pp.
167-191(25)

Publisher: White Horse Press


Abstract:
This article explores the relationship between anthropology and identity
through the process of travel writing and reading. Specifically, the =
article
examines a range of mid to late twentieth century travel writings about =
the
British Caribbean colony Montserrat to read into the culture of the =
writer
and the assumed reader. These deconstructive 'glimpses into the
unmentionable' often reveal an implicit racism. The travel writing texts =
=D0
built upon very brief and often sponsored visits to the island =D0 are =
also
found to copy ideas and themes from each other such as the idea of
Montserrat as an imitation of Ireland. Broadly speaking, these travel
writings about Montserrat divide into two types of representation =D0 =
the
'subordinate exotic' ('The Other Emerald Isle') and the 'comic exotic' =
(an
odd ethnic spectacle of the 'Black-Irish').

Keywords: Montserrat; travel writing; anthropology; tourism; Ireland; =
Black
Irish; comic; exotic

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.3197/136451408X329752

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Dear Paddy,

I was wondering if you could please circulate this message, announcing th=
e recent
publication of the latest volume of the 'Australasian Journal of Irish St=
udies'. The
next volume is planned for early in 2009. We welcome new subscribers and =
also offers
of articles for publication in the journal. Contact information is given =
below.

Best wishes,

Elizabeth Malcolm
Joint Editor

--------------------------------------

AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF IRISH STUDIES
NEW ISSUE, Volume 7, August 2008

The 'Australasian Journal of Irish Studies' is a peer-reviewed, scholarly=
journal
that publishes articles on Ireland and the Irish diaspora in many fields,=
including
history, literature, politics, geography, economics, religion, drama and =
film, as
well as reviews of important new books in these and other areas of Irish =
Studies.

The latest issue (Volume 7), which will be published in August 2008, feat=
ures an
article by the late Greg Dening on =E2=80=98James Joyce and the Soul of I=
rish Jesuitry=E2=80=99, as
well as a tribute to Dening by Charles Sowerwine. Other articles include:=
Dianne
Hall and Lindsay Proudfoot, =E2=80=98Memory and Identity among Irish Migr=
ants in
Nineteenth-Century Stawell=E2=80=99; Laurence M. Geary, =E2=80=98Charles =
Gavan Duffy, the Great
Famine in Ireland, and Famine Memory in Colonial Australia=E2=80=99; Chad=
Habel, =E2=80=98Irish
Roots, Australian Rhizomes: Ancestry and Diasporic Cultural Identity in t=
he Works of
Thomas Keneally and Christopher Koch=E2=80=99; and Richard O=E2=80=99Sull=
ivan, =E2=80=98=E2=80=9CDon John Conmee=E2=80=9D
and the Jesuit Link between James Joyce and Australia=E2=80=99. There are=
also a large
number of reviews and short notices discussing new books in Irish Studies.

Annual subscriptions to the journal are available costing $A35 for indivi=
duals and
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so
available for $A35 each for individuals (or $A50 for institutions), plus =
postage. If
you wish to subscribe, or wish to order a single copy, please email
hwdoyle[at]gmail.com or P.Austin[at]latrobe.edu.au.

Membership of the Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand =
(ISAANZ)
includes a subscription to the journal, as well as to the regular ISAANZ
Newsletters. For details of membership and to download an application for=
m, please
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President
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: TOC Accounting, Business & Financial History,
Volume 18 Issue 1 2008, Special Issue Ireland
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The journal Accounting, Business & Financial History has a tradition of
creating country-based special issues with the expressed aim of
'internationalising' the study of accounting history. Countries and
accounting locales which have been the subject of these special issues
include France (1997, 2001), the United States (2000), Japan (2001), =
Spain
(2002), China (2003), the 'German language arena' (2005) and Italy =
(2007).

Accounting, Business & Financial History, Volume 18 Issue 1 2008 was an
Ireland special issue, edited by=20
Ciar=E1n =D3 h=D3gartaigh=20
UCD School of Business, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

I have pasted in the TOC below. Copy & Paste has played havoc with the
Irish Language elements, which I have corrected as best I can. Those
elements are interesting in themselves, of course - as international
signifiers of Irishness. The proverb in Ciar=E1n =D3 h=D3gartaigh's =
title would
mean something like, People live in each other's shadows. Another Irish
signifier in his Editorial is a glum quote from Louis MacNeice.

Ciar=E1n =D3 h=D3gartaigh has also compiled a database of accounting and =
corporate
governance archives in the National Archives of Ireland (Bishop Street,
Dublin) and the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI, =
Belfast) -
available at
http://webpages.dcu.ie/~ohogartc/busarchivesinfo.htm

This special issue of Accounting, Business & Financial History is full =
of
interest. Margaret =D3 h=D3gartaigh's article is very useful. Of =
specific
interest is Peter Clarke's article, with its suggestion that emigrating
Irish people took with them book keeping skills. Keith Warnock finds
something new to say about Joyce. With the suggestion that, in =
analysing,
'Compile the budget for 16 June 1904', literary critics have perhaps
heretofore known too little about accounting procedures.

Ciar=E1n =D3 h=D3gartaigh and his colleagues are to be congratulated.

P.O'S.

Editorials =09
'Ar scath a cheile a mhaireann na daoine' - shadow and shade in Irish
accounting history=20
1 =96 6=20
Author: Ciar=E1n =D3 h=D3gartaigh =20

Original Articles=20
=09
Irish accounting, business and financial history: a bibliographical =
essay=20
7 =96 19=20
Author: Margaret O Hgartaigh=20

The teaching of bookkeeping in nineteenth-century Ireland=20
21 =96 33=20
Author: Peter Clarke=20

'Elevating the profession': the Institute of Chartered Accountants in
Ireland and the implementation of social closure strategies 1888-1909=20
35 =96 59=20
Author: Philip O'regan=20

Irish voluntary hospitals: an examination of a theory of voluntary =
failure=20
61 =96 80=20
Authors: Geraldine Robbins; Irvine Lapsley=20

Auditing Bloom, editing Joyce: accounting and accountability in Ulysses=20
81 =96 95=20
Author: Keith Warnock=20

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
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A tale of tar and feathering: the retail price inventory method
and the Englishman
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And just when you thought that the history of accounting could not get any
more exciting... This article appears in the latest issue of Accounting,
Business & Financial History. Using archives and interviews, it chronicles
attempts to introduce the retail price inventory method into Arnotts
department store, Dublin.

Listen very carefully... 'Prior to the advent of the retail price inventory
method, department stores valued inventories only at cost price. An
inventory count would take place on an annual or semi-annual basis and it
was at this stage that an inventory valuation (at cost price) was determined
for every department and subsequently the gross profitability of each was
computed. The adoption of the retail price inventory method however, offered
a number of benefits over the traditional cost method of valuation...' In
particular, of course, it made visible bad decisions by store buyers, and it
made visible 'shrinkage', or theft. The job of bringing in the new system
was given to an Englishman, Reginald Wilks. Who was attacked one night in
the street near his hotel... One of Arnotts's buyers was accused by the
police of organising the attack.

The theoretical background, Foucault, and the rest, which the authors have
woven round their case study is actually very convincing.

P.O'S.

A tale of tar and feathering: the retail price inventory method and the
Englishman

Authors: Jeacle, Ingrid1; Walsh, Eamonn2

Source: Accounting, Business & Financial History, Volume 18, Number 2, July
2008 , pp. 121-140(20)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:
This paper examines the implementation and operation of a simple method of
inventory valuation: the retail price inventory method. Previous research
has examined the method's widespread adoption by US department stores during
the 1920s. In particular, attention has focused on the disciplinary
properties of the method and the creation of visibilities which recast power
relations within the store. This paper attempts to extend existing scholarly
enquiry by crossing the Atlantic to follow the practical adoption of the
method by an Irish department store in the 1930s. The case reveals the
extent of employee resistance to the method's adoption, culminating in a
physical attack on the accountant employed with its execution. More
importantly however, implemented incorrectly, the method failed to deliver
the promised surveillance role, but instead yielded an unanticipated
consequence. It revealed the gross profitability of the retail component of
store trade and hence supported a managerial initiative to expand this side
of business activities to the eventual detriment of the former resistant
departmental buyers. The paper therefore acknowledges the broader role of a
seemingly neutral accounting technique and reinforces the importance of
recognising the organisational context of accounting practice.

Keywords: department store; Foucault; inventory control; retail history;
retail price inventory method

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/09585200802058602

Affiliations: 1: The Management School, University of Edinburgh, UK 2:
Smurfit Graduate Business School, University College Dublin, Ireland

The full text article is available for purchase

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Subject: Irish Diaspora Foundation Annual Conference, Manchester,
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Forwarded on behalf of Margot Ryan, Irish World Heritage Centre, =
Manchester.
(mryan[at]iwhc.com)

Out of the archives=85
taking a fresh look at key events and figures in=20
Irish history, utilising the archives and primary sources of =
documentation.

This year=92s annual One Day Conference will take place at the Irish =
World=20
Heritage Centre on Saturday the 27th of September.

The conference is organised by the Irish Diaspora Foundation and the=20
theme this year is =91Out of the Archives=92 as we plan to take a look =
at=20
key events and key figures in Irish history, with a view to reassessing=20
long-held historical interpretations of past events. The day will=20
consist of four lectures on this topic. All of the chosen speakers will=20
travel from Ireland for the event and have an interest in gathering=20
information from first hand accounts of historical events, previously=20
unpublished historical documents or newly presented information.

The ways in which researchers disseminate information will also be=20
examined in the course of the day. For example David Ryan=92s talk on=20
=91Cromwell in Ireland=92 will deal with the documentary-making process =
and=20
the problems of balancing historical accuracy with the need to follow a=20
dramatic storyline, and the use of first-hand accounts in this context.

Annie Ryan, author of =91Witnesses =96 Inside the Easter Rising=92 will =
speak=20
about her work on the collection of first hand accounts of the Easter=20
Rising and the Irish War of Independence, which are held in the Irish=20
Military Archives, and the work involved in preparing this information=20
to be published.

Dr Billy Kelly will explore the provenance of the text of the=20
Commentarius Rinnuccinianus, the papal nuncio=92s account of his time in =

Ireland between 1645-1649. It will briefly outline the history of the=20
period and will also introduce the digitized text on the website.

Sin=E9ad McCoole is a historian, author, broadcaster, script-writer and=20
exhibition curator. She will speak on her work involving the preparation =

and curation of the most impressive private library of Irish material=20
anywhere in the world which was discovered in Mayo. This material was=20
collected by Jackie Clarke over his lifetime, starting in his youth and=20
continuing until the year of his death in 2000.

As always, there will be a bookstall courtesy of the Working Class=20
Movement Library and an exhibition presented by the Irish Diaspora=20
Foundation.We will send programmes and booking forms on request but if=20
you are interested in attending, please let us know by contacting Margot =

Ryan on the details provided.

We are pleased to announce that this conference is generously subsidised =

by Dion which allows us to keep the cost of the conference low.
Individual - =A315
Concession - =A310, This price includes lunch. We look forward to sseing =

you on the 27th of September and if you do have any questions please do=20
not hesitate to get in touch.

Margot Ryan

Cultural and Educational Development Officer
Irish Diaspora Foundation 10 Queens Road
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mryan[at]iwhc.com
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Famine and Mass Violence: An International Conference,
September 7-9, 2008, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH
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Famine and Mass Violence: An International Conference
Location: Ohio, United States
Conference Date: 2008-09-07

Famine and mass violence frequently go hand in hand. Unfortunately, scholars
of famine and scholars of mass violence often deal with different questions
resulting in a wide lacuna in research and the methodology for analyzing
connections between famines and violence. Famine specialists mostly deal
with socioeconomic questions, with people as economic subjects, with the
working of markets and speculation, food distribution, or deficiencies of
state intervention. Entangled in the availability vs. entitlement debate,
they care less for power relationships or war-related situations, although
famines often occur during wartime or civil conflict. Genocide experts view
certain famines as state-organized. Such scholars are interested in
motivations of violence, lack of relief efforts, escape prevention, or
special policies victimizing refugees. They may miss out on the
participatory dimension of famines: social and economic networks,
profiteering, or family relations. This conference seeks to bring together
both famine experts and genocide specialists to engage in a dialogue with
each other, first during the conference and later in a collective volume
resulting from the meeting.

To register for the conference, please send your name and contact
information to judaic[at]ysu.edu.


Conference Program

Famine and Mass Violence: An International Conference
September 7-9, 2008
Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH


Sunday
2 pm Welcome
Shearle Furnish, Dean of College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

2:15 pm Keynote Address: Famine and Mass Violence
(Christian Gerlach, University of Berne)

3:20 pm Break

3:45 pm Panel I: Famine and Colonial Exploitation

"Rinderpest", Drought and Scorched Earth: The Relationship between Natural
Disaster, Famine and Conquest in Germany's African Colonies (Dominik J.
Schaller, Heidelberg University)


Monday
9:00 am Panel II: Famine as a Weapon: Policies of Famine

Famine and Violence, Famine as Violence in Russia of the early 1920s
(Natalia Reshetova, University of London) Case study: Food policy and mass
crimes: Lithuania under German occupation 1941-1944. (Christoph Dieckmann,
Keele University)

10:30 am Break

10:45 am Panel III: Famine as a Weapon?: The Question of Intention

Stalin's Terror and the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-33: Camouflage for
Genocide? (Henry Huttenbach, City College of New York) On famines, genocide,
and jumping to conclusions (Mark Tauger, West Virginia University)

12:15 pm Lunch

2:00 pm Panel IV: Social Impact of Famine: Violence and Its Absence

The 1847 food riots in Prussia (Hans Bass, Bremen University of Applied
Science)
Fighting Hunger: Food in Wartime Japan (Katarzyna Cwiertka, University of
Leiden)

3:30 pm Break

3:45 pm Panel V: Social Impact of Famine: Survival Strategies

"Too little to keep them alive and too much to let them die": Nazi
Starvation Policy and Jewish Coping Methods in the Ghettos of Nazi Occupied
Europe (Helene Sinnreich, Youngstown State University)

5:15 pm Break

5:45 pm Panel VI: Social Impact of Famine: Socialist Rule and Political
Participation

Primitive Accumulation, Famine, and Mass Repression, 1937-39 (Wendy Goldman,
Carnegie Mellon University) Hunger and State Violence in the PRC during the
Great Leap Forward (Klaus Muehlhahn, Indiana University)


Tuesday
9:30 am Starvation and Structural Violence

Structural violence and women's survival during famines: gender, caste, work
and hunger in nineteenth century India (Leela Sami) The Daily Catastrophe:
Structural Violence and Mass Starvation in the 20th and 21st century
(Andreas Exenberger, University of Innsbruck)

10:45 am Break

11:00 am Concluding Roundtable Discussion


Helene J. Sinnreich
Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies
Youngstown State University
Youngstown, OH 44505
Email: judaic[at]ysu.edu
Visit the website at http://judaic.ysu.edu/conference3.html

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Subject: Article, 'An Amazing Anthology of Modern Art': Place,
Archetype and Identity in the Art of Colin Middleton
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'An Amazing Anthology of Modern Art': Place, Archetype and Identity in the
Art of Colin Middleton

Author: Coulter, Riann

Source: Visual Culture in Britain, Volume 9, Number 1, June 2008 , pp.
1-25(25)

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Abstract:
The Northern Irish painter Colin Middleton (1910-83) has been variously
celebrated and condemned for his eclecticism. His international influences
and failure to paint the west of Ireland landscapes that dominated Irish art
for much of the twentieth century have left him on the periphery of the
Irish canon. Exploring the themes that unite his diverse oeuvre and belie
charges of inconsistency, this article examines how Middleton reconciled his
international influences with his cultural identification with Northern
Ireland. Focusing on Middleton's attitudes to place, his interest in Jungian
archetypes and his relationship with curator, critic and Ulster regionalist
John Hewitt, I argue that Middleton's engagement with both the regional and
the international challenged the dominance of the national in Irish culture
and produced art that Hewitt could promote as 'Ulster modernism'.

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From: Dymphna Lonergan
Subject: Re: TOC Accounting, Business & Financial History,
Volume 18 Issue 1 2008, Special Issue Ireland
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Just a comment on your translation, Paddy, that 'The proverb in Ciar=E1n =
=D3
h=D3gartaigh's title would
mean something like, People live in each other's shadows.' The word scath
here is used in the sense of 'protection': people live under the protection
of each other'. The English equivalent of the proverb is probably 'No man i=
s
an island onto himself'. The Irish proverb is often used in acknowledging
group work-such as our own!

On 8/6/08, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:
>
> The journal Accounting, Business & Financial History has a tradition of
> creating country-based special issues with the expressed aim of
> 'internationalising' the study of accounting history. Countries and
> accounting locales which have been the subject of these special issues
> include France (1997, 2001), the United States (2000), Japan (2001), Spai=
n
> (2002), China (2003), the 'German language arena' (2005) and Italy (2007)=
.
>
> Accounting, Business & Financial History, Volume 18 Issue 1 2008 was an
> Ireland special issue, edited by
> Ciar=E1n =D3 h=D3gartaigh
> UCD School of Business, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
>
> I have pasted in the TOC below. Copy & Paste has played havoc with the
> Irish Language elements, which I have corrected as best I can. Those
> elements are interesting in themselves, of course - as international
> signifiers of Irishness. The proverb in Ciar=E1n =D3 h=D3gartaigh's titl=
e would
> mean something like, People live in each other's shadows. Another Irish
> signifier in his Editorial is a glum quote from Louis MacNeice.
>
> Ciar=E1n =D3 h=D3gartaigh has also compiled a database of accounting and
> corporate
> governance archives in the National Archives of Ireland (Bishop Street,
> Dublin) and the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI, Belfast)=
-
> available at
> http://webpages.dcu.ie/~ohogartc/busarchivesinfo.htm
>
> This special issue of Accounting, Business & Financial History is full of
> interest. Margaret =D3 h=D3gartaigh's article is very useful. Of specif=
ic
> interest is Peter Clarke's article, with its suggestion that emigrating
> Irish people took with them book keeping skills. Keith Warnock finds
> something new to say about Joyce. With the suggestion that, in analysing,
> 'Compile the budget for 16 June 1904', literary critics have perhaps
> heretofore known too little about accounting procedures.
>
> Ciar=E1n =D3 h=D3gartaigh and his colleagues are to be congratulated.
>
> P.O'S.
>
> Editorials
> 'Ar scath a cheile a mhaireann na daoine' - shadow and shade in Irish
> accounting history
> 1 =96 6
> Author: Ciar=E1n =D3 h=D3gartaigh
>
> Original Articles
>
> Irish accounting, business and financial history: a bibliographical essay
> 7 =96 19
> Author: Margaret O Hgartaigh
>
> The teaching of bookkeeping in nineteenth-century Ireland
> 21 =96 33
> Author: Peter Clarke
>
> 'Elevating the profession': the Institute of Chartered Accountants in
> Ireland and the implementation of social closure strategies 1888-1909
> 35 =96 59
> Author: Philip O'regan
>
> Irish voluntary hospitals: an examination of a theory of voluntary failur=
e
> 61 =96 80
> Authors: Geraldine Robbins; Irvine Lapsley
>
> Auditing Bloom, editing Joyce: accounting and accountability in Ulysses
> 81 =96 95
> Author: Keith Warnock
>

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From: Brian Lambkin
Subject: Irish Women in Egypt
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Can anybody help with this enquiry please?
Thanks
Brian Lambkin

________________________________________
From: Da=B9a Koprivec [mailto:dasa.koprivec[at]etno-muzej.si]=0D
Sent: 04 August 2008 13:47
To: Brian Lambkin; CentreMigStudies[at]ni-libraries.net
Subject: Ask for help about the domestic work in Egypt research


Dear Brian, and all the colleagues and friends in CMS
Today I would like to ask you for a help. My resent research has been going=
on the domestic work, nannies and wet nannies of Slovene origin worked in=
Egypt in the 20th Century (see the attached text) and it would be of great=
help to me if you could let me know about the research of the some kind of=
Irish or British women (and man) working in Egypt in the 20th century.=
Does any research of this kind exist? Please, let me know if you find=
anything.
Thank you very much. I also have to thank you ones again for the very warm=
welcome an everything you have done for me in 2004. It was so important=
experience for me!

Yours
Da=B9a
Hribar Koprivec
Slovene Ethnographic Museum, Ljubljana



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