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Call for Contributions
The Other Capital: Irish Writing London

Contributors are sought for a new collection of essays (edited by Tom
Herron, Leeds Metropolitan University) examining London-Irish =
writing.=A0 The
collection seeks to address the lack of sustained scholarly attention to =
the
variety of ways in which London has been rendered by writers visiting or
domiciled in the city.=A0=A0=A0Proposals on the following writers are =
particularly
welcome: W. B. Yeats, G. B. Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Elizabeth Bowen, Louis
MacNiece, J. M. O=92Neill, John O=92Donoghue, D=F3nall Mac Amhlaigh, =
Katherine
Tynan, Martin McDonagh, Desmond Hogan, Anne Enright, Seamus Heaney, and
Derek Mahon.=A0 Needless to say, contributions on other writers and on =
other
media (music and film, in particular) are most welcome.

Informal queries and abstracts of 300-500 words should be emailed to
t.herron[at]leedsmet.ac.uk by 12 December 2008.
Slan agus beannacht
www.neicn.com=20
=A0
Alison O'Malley-Younger [Dr]
Programme Leader: English and Creative Writing
Department of English
University of Sunderland
=A0

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From: Patrick Maume
The article's author is actually making an interesting point - since
there is no organised movement which claims the famine didn't take
place or was the victims' fault in the way that holocaust deniers or
slavery apologists do, who is the ban targeted at? One possibility
would be "sick jokes" making fun of suffering in general, or loyalist
material (like the recent Glasgow Rangers' supporters song which
begins by praising Rangers' supporters ancestors for their
'generosity' to the Famine victim ancestors of Celtic supporters,
lists all the alleged historical misdeeds of generations of Celtic
supporters as 'repayment' for this generosity, and has as chorus
"Well, the Famine is over/ Why don't you go home").
I presume that material arguing that the Famine was not a deliberate
act of genocide by the British government, or e.g. replicating the
arguments made by Robin Haines and Austin Bourke in defense of
Trevelyan, would not count as "trivialisation" (since it is based on
serious scholarly argument - whether or not you accept its
conclusions) as distinct from the conscious distortions, slanders and
conspiracy theories of holocaust deniers. Still, one never knows, and
perhaps that is what the article is concerned about.
Best wishes,
Patrick

On 10/17/08, Liam Greenslade wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> While cruising the internet in geek-mode this morning, I came across the
> following snippet:
> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081016-verizon-says-dont-mess-with-the-irish-famine.html
>
> What's puzzling about it is the writer's apparent bemusement that the
> famine should be included in a veto list of this kind. He implies that
> it's a kind of 'thin end of the wedge' situation, i.e. once we let the
> Irish into the historical victims category, where does it end?
>
> On a lighter note, RTE was exercised the other night by the news that a
> forthcoming episode of the Simpsons is to be set in Dublin. Apparently
> it involves Homer buying a pub off Grafton St. Given the series' less
> than PC approach to Irish stereotypes, I look forward to Homer's
> adventures on the auld sod.
>
> Best
>
> Liam
>

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Dear All

The letter below from my colleague emeritus Donnchadh =D3 Corr=E1in, on =
the proposed amalgamation of the National Library, National Archives and =
Irish Manuscripts Commission mentioned by Peter Hart last week, =
eloquently says all that needs to be said on this subject.

Truly, Paudeen is still fumbling in a greasy till.

Piaras

Madam, - I protest strenuously at the ill-judged and impractical =
proposal of the Minister for Finance to merge the National Library, the =
National Archives and the Irish Manuscripts Commission as a so-called =
economy measure. This must not happen.

The library and archives are not quangos, but venerable anchor =
institutions of Irish culture that trace their origins back to the 18th =
century - to 1702 in the case of the National Archives. Since =
Independence, the Irish State has spent only derisory sums of money on =
them.

Currently, the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) in =
Belfast, founded in 1923, is much better capitalised and has more than =
twice the staff of the National Archives in Dublin, which lacks (and has =
always lacked) the appropriate buildings, the space, and enough trained =
staff to do its duties properly.

As I write, foreign affairs documents much sought by modern historians =
are being sent into external storage for lack of room. By contrast, in =
Belfast, PRONI's spanking modern archives repository is being built at a =
cost of =A330 million.

The case of the National Library is much the same. In 1921 it was equal =
in funding and holdings to the National Library of Wales and the =
National Library of Scotland. How does it stand now? The difference in =
funding is even more dramatic than the difference in holdings. The =
National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth has 5 million volumes, 30,000 =
manuscripts and 3.5 million deeds. The National Library of Scotland has =
13 million volumes.

But the National Library of the Irish people, who have made a far =
greater contribution to world literature, medieval and modern, in three =
or more languages, has just a little over a million volumes (if that) - =
comparable to size to the national libraries of Albania and Algeria and =
less than half the size of those of Portugal, Slovakia, Venezuela and =
Cuba. Is that not shame enough in a country that until recently boasted =
extravagantly and in bad taste of its wealth?

Does the National Library need more cutbacks after 87 years of =
deplorable government neglect? Merging national libraries and national =
archives is not done, in Europe or elsewhere. Even tiny countries such =
as Iceland, Cyprus, the Faroes, and Ivory Coast keep them apart. The =
same is true of Eastern Europe and the Third World - for example, Chile, =
Colombia, Mongolia, Peru, Democratic Republic of Congo, even war-torn =
Iraq. Here we must follow best international practice.

The Irish Manuscripts Commission, founded in 1928 in response to the =
deliberate destruction of the Irish Public Record Office in 1922, has =
served Ireland remarkably well and at little cost in seeking out and =
editing the sources of Irish history. It has published more than 140 =
titles (some multi-volume) and 40 volumes of Analecta Hibernica, a =
scholarly journal of high international standing. It owns no premises, =
its members and authors give their services free, and its paid staff is =
a part-time secretary.

Is this a quango? Can its meagre budget be trimmed? Even in the desolate =
1950s nobody in government cut it back or thought it should be merged, =
on grounds of economy, with some other body, for there is nothing to =
save.

Merging these three institutions will save no money: there is none to =
spare, if we intend to have national institutions of learning as do all =
but the very poorest states. This plan will add a new and costly layer =
of administration, incur serious legal expenses, mix like with unlike, =
cause institutional and personal conflict, distract meagre staff from =
their work; and in the end the State will pay more for less. - Yours, =
etc,

DONNCHADH =D3 CORR=C1IN, Professor Emeritus, University College Cork.


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Does anyone know what this might mean for users - which I assume =
includes pretty
well all of us? Or employees? A merger cast in terms of cost savings =
sounds
pretty bad.

(an interesting site, incidentally)

http://artsmanagement.ie/2008/10/15/budget-2009-the-arts-the-verdict/

Peter Hart

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We have been asked to clarify information about the Royal Irish Academy's
plans to mark the Darwin anniversaries next year.

There was a mention in a list of RIA lectures. The RIA is planning what
they call a 'discourse' - which is to say a lecture....

19 January 2009 in the Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson St, Dublin 2, at 6:00
pm

To mark the bicentenary of Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the
publication of On the Origin of Species

'Charles Darwin (1809-1882), Hon. MRIA: The Man and the Myths'

Speaker: Professor Peter J. Bowler, MRIA, FBA, Professor of the History of
Science, Queen's University Belfast

Other events might fall into place, as time passes. And of course we can
expect events throughout the world.

P.O'S.

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On a train of thought...

The following items might be of interest...

P.O'S.

1.
Miguel DeArce, Darwin's Irish correspondence, Proceedings of the Royal Irish
Academy section B, 108B, 2008, p43 - 56
http://www.ria.ie/cgi-bin/ria/papers/100726.pdf

And see the other items listed on Miguel DeArce's web page...
http://people.tcd.ie/mdearce

Miguel DeArce, Reception of Darwin in Catholic Ireland: Professors, plain
people, the press, priests and prelates., Notes and records of the Royal
Society
Miguel DeArce, Correspondence of Charles Darwin on James Torbitt's project
to breed blight-resistant potatoes, Archives of natural history, 35, (2),
2008, p208 - 222


2.
The British Journal for the History of Science (2005), 38 : 411-436
Cambridge University Press

Evolution on display: promoting Irish natural history and Darwinism at the
Dublin Science and Art Museum 1
JULIANA ADELMAN a1
a1 Department of History, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.
E-mail: Juliana.Adelman[at]nuigalway.ie.

Abstract

In 1890 the staff of the Dublin Natural History Museum began a comprehensive
rearrangement of the collection in their care. Inspired by visits to
American museums and motivated by a desire to produce a truly educational
display, curators arranged the zoological collection to include cases on the
history and geographical distribution of animals. These cases explicitly
depicted, in words and specimens, the main arguments of Charles Darwin's On
the Origin of Species. Placed at a ground-floor entrance to the museum, the
cases invited the visitor to examine the remainder of the collection in
terms of evolution by natural selection. The exhibit was supplemented by
guidebooks and several lecture-demonstrations, which served to further
reinforce its messages. Through an analysis of the exhibit's development and
contents, this paper will show how these cases reflected not only the status
of evolutionary thinking in Ireland, but also the curators' goals for the
future development of Irish natural history.

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From ivory tower to factory floor? How universities are changing
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From ivory tower to factory floor? How universities are changing to meet the
needs of industry

Authors: Geoghegan, Will; Pontikakis, Dimitrios

Source: Science and Public Policy, Volume 35, Number 7, August 2008 , pp.
462-474(13)

Publisher: Beech Tree Publishing


Abstract:
While policy recognises the need to facilitate university-industry
technology transfer (UITT), international studies indicate that the setup
and effectiveness of the associated instruments is highly context-specific.
We examine the reorientation of Irish universities in the direction of
facilitating UITT, with a substantive focus on the role of Ireland's
technology transfer offices. This paper also questions how academic research
is changing in line with policy rhetoric. We find that Irish university
research and the management of its output are changing in a manner that is
not incompatible with UITT, although with significant resource and skills
constraints. These findings hold important lessons for national economic and
innovation systems of comparable size, with a development trajectory shaped
by foreign direct investment.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.3152/030234208X329095

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Annie Moore remembered in New York Sunday, 19 October 2008

Annie Moore, the Irish teenager who was the first immigrant to be processed
through the Ellis Island Immigration Centre in 1892, was commemorated in New
York last weekend. Many of her descendants were present when a monument was
unveiled in her memory in Calvary Cemetery. Among those who spoke on the
occasion was Niall Burgess, Consul General of Ireland in New York, while
Ronan Tynan sang "Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears".

from the "The Irish Emigrant" web site
http://www.emigrant.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=66586&Itemi
d=168

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For more details, see:

Ray O'Hanlon's story in the Irish Echo (New York)
http://www.irishecho.com/newspaper/story.cfm?id=3D18883

There is also a five-and-a-half minute video of the unveiling of the
memorial at http://www.rootstelevision.com/
Scroll down to the sixth video on the website, called "Annie Moore Memorial
Dedication Ceremony." It is followed by a 37 minute video shot in Cork the
day before, when a plaque was unveiled on the last house she lived in prior
to sailing for New York.

To remind everyone about why this is such a big story, I'm pasting in
the New York Times piece from September 14, 2006 (also heard on
the September 15,
2006 National Public Radio program "Morning Edition")
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3D6080581

Story of the First Through Ellis Island Is Rewritten By SAM ROBERTS
Annie Moore is memorialized by bronze statues in New York Harbor and Irelan=
d
and cited in story and song as the first of 12 million immigrants to arrive
at
Ellis Island. Her story, as it has been recounted for decades, is that she
went
west with her family to fulfill the American dream =97 eventually reaching
Texas,
where she married a descendant of the Irish liberator Daniel O'Connell and
then
died accidentally under the wheels of a streetcar at the age of 46.
The first part of the myth seems authentic enough.
Hustled ahead of a burly German by her two younger brothers and by an Irish
longshoreman who shouted "Ladies first," one Annie Moore from County Cork
set
foot on Ellis Island ahead of the other passengers from the steamship Nevad=
a
on
Jan. 1, 1892, her 15th birthday. She was officially registered by the forme=
r
private secretary to the secretary of the treasury and was presented with a
$10
gold piece by the superintendent of immigration.
"She says she will never part with it, but will always keep it as a pleasan=
t
memento of the occasion," The New York Times reported in describing the
ceremonies inaugurating Ellis Island.
As for what happened next, though, history appears to have embraced the
wrong
Annie Moore.
"It's a classic go-West-young-woman tale riddled with tragedy," said Megan
Smolenyak Smolenyak, a professional genealogist. "If only it were true."
In fact, according to Mrs. Smolenyak Smolenyak's research, the Annie Moore
of
Ellis Island fame settled on the Lower East Side, married a bakery clerk an=
d
had
11 children. She lived a poor immigrant's life, but her descendants
multiplied
and many prospered.
The story of the immigrant girl who went west, however, became so commonly
accepted that even descendants of the Annie Moore who died in Texas came to
believe it. Over the years, several have been invited to participate at
ceremonies on Ellis Island and in Ireland.
It took some genealogical detective work to find the proper Annie. After
offering a $1,000 reward on the Internet a few months ago for information
about
Annie Moore, Mrs. Smolenyak Smolenyak teamed up with New York City's
commissioner of records, Brian G. Andersson, and discovered the woman who
they
have concluded is, in fact, the iconic Annie Moore.
Joined by several of her descendants, they are scheduled to announce the
results of their research tomorrow at the New York Genealogical and
Biographical
Society in Manhattan.
Mrs. Smolenyak Smolenyak (a genealogist's dream: she's a Smolenyak married
to
a previously unrelated Smolenyak) became interested in Annie Moore four
years
ago while researching a documentary film on immigration. Pursuing the paper
trail, she found that the Annie who died instantly when struck by a
streetcar
near Fort Worth in 1923 was not an immigrant at all but was apparently born
in
Illinois. Moreover, she traced that Moore family to Texas as early as 1880.
"I realized it was the wrong Annie," she recalled.
Then, what had happened to the Ellis Island Annie?

Mrs. Smolenyak Smolenyak made little progress for a few years, but her
search
was reinvigorated this year after she moved to southern New Jersey and
visited a
genealogical exhibition in Philadelphia featuring a 1910 photograph of the
Texas
Annie. (The photograph might also have been a model for Jeanne Rynhart's tw=
o
bronze sculptures, one of which is at Ellis Island.)
She posted a challenge on her blog for information about the immigrant Anni=
e
Moore. She also mentioned it to Mr. Andersson, who she knew was very
interested
in genealogy.
"With the power of the Internet and a handful of history geeks we cracked
this
baby in six weeks," she said. "Brian found this one document, and we knew w=
e
had
the right family. We had the smoking gun."
What Mr. Andersson found was the naturalization certificate belonging to
Annie's brother Phillip, who arrived with her on the steamship. He was also
listed in the 1930 census with a daughter, Anna. They found Anna in the
Social
Security death index. That identification led to her son, who is Annie
Moore's
great-nephew.
On her first try, Mrs. Smolenyak Smolenyak was lucky enough to find the
great-nephew listed in a directory. "As soon as I said 'Annie Moore,' he
knew
instantly =97 'That's us,' " she said. "They had been overlooked, but they =
had
sort of resigned themselves. I think they're very happy to be found."
Her $1,000 reward is to be split between Mr. Andersson, who is donating it=
,
and Annie's great-niece.
As for Edward P. Wood, a New Jersey plumbing contractor who is descended
from
the Texas Annie Moore and has been feted on Ellis Island, Mrs. Smolenyak
Smolenyak said that when she told him of her findings, he said, "I'm
disappointed, but I'm not heartbroken."
The Annie Moore who arrived in steerage and inaugurated Ellis Island
initially
joined her parents, who had arrived several years earlier, apparently in a
five-story brick tenement at 32 Monroe Street in Manhattan. (One of many
problems that complicated Mrs. Smolenyak Smolenyak's search, she said, is
there
is also a 32 Monroe Street in Brooklyn.)
Records indicate that Annie Moore later moved to, among other places, a
nearby
apartment on New Chambers Street =97 near the Newsboys' Lodging House and t=
he
Third Avenue El on the Bowery.
The area now includes the Alfred E. Smith Houses, a public project
constructed
in the early 1950's and named for the governor who grew up nearby, and the
Knickerbocker Village complex of rental apartments built in the 1930's.
"She had the typical hardscrabble immigrant life," Mrs. Smolenyak Smolenyak
said. "She sacrificed herself for future generations."
According to her latest research, Annie's father was a longshoreman. She
married a bakery clerk. They had at least 11 children. Five survived to
adulthood and three had children of their own. She died of heart failure in
1924
at 47. Her brother Anthony, who arrived with Annie and Philip on the Nevada=
,
died in his 20's in the Bronx and was temporarily buried in potter's field.
Annie lived and died within a few square blocks on the Lower East Side,
where
some of her descendants lived until just recently. She is buried with 6 of
her
11 children (five infants and one who survived to 21) alongside the famous
and
forgotten in a Queens cemetery.
Her living descendants include great-grandchildren, the great-nephew and th=
e
great-niece. One of the descendants is an investment counselor and another =
a
Ph.D.
Mrs. Smolenyak Smolenyak described them as "poster children" for immigrant
America, with Irish, Jewish, Italian and Scandinavian surnames. "It's an
all-American family," she said. "Annie would have been proud."
So far, this turns out to be one of the few cases in which historical
revisionism may have enhanced a legacy instead of subverting it. As one
guidebook says: "Annie Moore came to America bearing little more than her
dreams; she stayed to help build a country enriched by diversity."


On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:

> Annie Moore remembered in New York Sunday, 19 October 2008
>
> Annie Moore, the Irish teenager who was the first immigrant to be process=
ed
> through the Ellis Island Immigration Centre in 1892, was commemorated in
> New
> York last weekend. Many of her descendants were present when a monument w=
as
> unveiled in her memory in Calvary Cemetery. Among those who spoke on the
> occasion was Niall Burgess, Consul General of Ireland in New York, while
> Ronan Tynan sang "Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears".
>
> from the "The Irish Emigrant" web site
>
> http://www.emigrant.ie/index.php?option=3Dcom_content&task=3Dview&id=3D66=
586&Itemi
> d=3D168
>

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The latest issue of Atlantic Studies is a New Orleans special issue -
interesting in its own right, of course.

Lafcadio Hearn enthusiasts will want to know about Adam Rothman's article.

P.O'S.


Atlantic Studies
Literary, Cultural and Historical Perspectives, Volume 5 Issue 2 2008
New Orleans in the Atlantic World, I

Lafcadio Hearn in New Orleans and the Caribbean
Author: Adam Rothman
Published in: journal Atlantic Studies, Volume 5, Issue 2 August 2008 ,
pages 265 - 283
Subjects: Diaspora Studies; Imperial & Colonial History; Literature &

Abstract
Cosmopolitan and anti-modern, Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) arrived in New
Orleans in 1877 and spent the next thirteen years of his life in Louisiana
and the Caribbean, writing newspaper articles, travel essays, and novellas
depicting the rich cultural world he experienced there. Hearn's writing
during these years constitutes a "tropical" phase of his peripatetic career,
which eventually took him to Japan. Hearn's tropical writings connect New
Orleans, Louisiana, and the American South to broader circum-Caribbean,
transatlantic, and global fields of historical and literary representation.
He fused classic motifs of tropicality and Orientalism to represent the
circum-Caribbean milieu as exotic and erotic. In his major works, published
at the end of the 1880s, Chita (1889), Two Years in the French West Indies
(1890), and Youma (1890), Hearn emphasized cultural and racial diversity,
the power of tropical nature to overwhelm human civilization, and the demise
of the old Creole order through ecological disaster and slave emancipation.

Keywords: Lafcadio Hearn; tropicality; New Orleans; race; Chita; Youma

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Hello all:

I have a request for help from my uncle, Bernard Hart, who has been working for
quite a while on turning the long abandoned Shubenacadie Canal (built to
connect the Halifax area Atlantic coast to the Bay of Fundy) into a fully
restored National Historic Civil Engineering site. I've seen it - its really
an impressive project. The URL is www.shubie.chebucto.org.

Here is his question:

As we discussed our interest is in trying to find our more about the Irish stone
masons who worked on the construction during the period 1826 to 1831, As I
mentioned we believe this group who arrived in 1827 on the ship Corsair were
previously working on the Clyde and Forth Canal in Scotland. This was because
the Scottish workers were on strike. We have no firm evidence for this as it
has all been anecdotal. What we do have is several lists of worker's names.
So the initial questions we would like to address are: a) from where did
these Irish workers come; b) what would their lifestyles have been; c) where
had they worked previously. We would very much like to be able to interpret
their lifestyles in this area based on that which they left.

So: can anyone suggest sources - archival or published - that might help? It
would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Peter Hart

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Call for Papers

AHRC Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme / CRONEM Conference 2009

Diasporas, Migration and Identities: Crossing Boundaries, New Directions

University of Surrey, 11-12 June 2009

'Diasporas, migration and identities' has been the subject of a major
national research programme funded by the Arts and Humanities Research
Council (AHRC) in the UK since 2005. Its central concerns have also been at
the heart of the work of the Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity
and Multiculturalism (CRONEM). The aim of this collaborative and
multi-disciplinary conference (CRONEM's 5th annual conference) is to examine
the past and present impact of diasporas and migration on nation, community,
identity and subjectivity, culture and the imagination, place and space,
emotion, politics, law and values. We invite abstracts that address the
following themes:

* Migration, settlement and diaspora: modes, stages and forms
* Representation, performance, discourse and language
* Subjectivity, emotion and identity
* Objects, practices and places
* Beliefs, values and laws
* The role of youth in relationship to diasporas, migration and
identities
* Diasporic economics and labour markets
* The recognition of multiple origins and mixedness
* The politics of immigration and integration
* Public opinion and public policy
* Ethnic identity politics

This year, in addition to individual papers and poster presentations, we are
also calling for proposals for convened symposia. A symposium may consist
either of a panel discussion or a set of individual paper presentations
which provide a range of perspectives on a particular issue or set of
related issues. It is useful for the final presentation in a symposium to be
made by a discussant, who provides a summary set of reflections on the
preceding presentations and on the symposium as a whole. A symposium
normally lasts 90 minutes, with each paper being allocated 15-20 minutes.
The convenor of the symposium is responsible for submitting the overall
abstract for the symposium as a whole together with the abstracts of the
individual contributing papers (on behalf of their authors). The convenor
will introduce and chair the symposium, and the discussant should be named
when submitting the symposium proposal. The convenor will be responsible for
communicating with the symposium contributors and with the conference
organisers about the symposium proposal. We would particularly like to
encourage the submission of symposia which draw upon a range of different
disciplinary perspectives.

Please send abstracts for papers and posters (not more than 200 words) and
abstracts for convened symposia (in which the symposium abstract should
consist of not more than 200 words, and the individual paper abstracts
should consist of not more than 200 words each) by completing one of the
following forms:

Individual papers and posters - submission form

Symposium proposal - submission form

The closing date for abstracts is 2 February 2009.

Notification of paper acceptance will be 2 March 2009.

If you have any further queries about the Call for Papers, please contact
Katie Roche (K.A.Roche[at]leeds.ac.uk)

For registration queries, please contact Mirela Dumic (m.dumic[at]surrey.ac.uk)

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Hi all

Still in Geekmode I'm afraid. I stumbled across a site called 'Joyce
Walks' at http://www.stunned.org/walks/index.html that I thought listers
might find interesting.

Constructed by an artist called Conor McGarrigle the site uses Google
maps and enables you to construct walking maps based on Ulysses for
any city in the world. It links excerpts from the novel with video clips
of modern Dublin. It's curious and a little disconcerting. I did a walk
for Liverpool based on the Lotus eaters segment and at one point I
thought the video was of Liverpool not Dublin! The apparent temporal and
spatial specificity of Ulysses isn't as fixed as it might seem.

Anyway so check it out.

Liam

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2008
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2008

I should have forwarded this earlier.

"William Mulligan Jr."

Reminder - Free Access to all SAGE journals ends October 31, 2008

You still have time to register for free online access to all SAGE journals
until October 31, 2008.

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SOURCE
http://www.iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&aid=73&rid=4281626&tpl=archnews&only=1

Ardmore Studios Presents Three Restored Titles to Irish Archive

23 Oct 2008 |

For the 50th anniversary celebrations of Ardmore Studios, Jonathan Rhys
Meyers (The Tudors), Kevin Moriarty (Managing Director of Ardmore Studios)
and Morgan O'Sullivan (Tudors Series Executive Producer) presented three
films produced in the early years of the studios to the Irish Film Archive.

Two of the feature films - 'Sally's Irish Rogue', 'This Other Eden' and have
until recently been locked in British and American archive vaults and will
screen in the coming weeks at the IFI.

With the support of Ardmore Studios and Managing Director Kevin Moriarty,
the films have been found, restored and are repatriated for presentation and
preservation in the Irish Film Archive.

'Home is the Hero' was donated to the Archive by Vincent Dowling and this
will be the first screening of the restored 35mm print funded by the
Hertiage Council.

Kasandra O'Connell, Head of the Irish Film Archive at the IFI said: "The
restoration and repatriation of these early Ardmore productions is a fitting
way to celebrate the studios' 50 year heritage. The Irish Film Archive is
pleased to be able to add these films to the National film collection and we
are honoured that Minister Cullen will be joining us as we pay tribute to
the legacy of Ardmore."

'Home is the Hero' was the first film to go into production in the newly
formed Ardmore Studios. Directed by American Fielder Cook, the script is by
Henry Keating from the 1952 stage play of the same name by Walter Macken.
'Home is the Hero' tells the story of Paddo O'Reilly (beautifully played by
Macken himself), 'the Goliath of Galway', who is released from prison after
a five-year conviction for killing the father of his son's girlfriend, and
his attempts to re-establish his role as head of the family, entering into
conflict with his wife Daylia (Eileen Crowe), his daughter, Josie (Joan
O'Hara), and his assertive son Willie (played by Arthur Kennedy).

The IFI is delighted to announce that the screening will be introduced by
Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, Martin Cullen, T.D.

The first Ardmore film production to be released in cinemas, 'Sally's Irish
Rogue' received its world premiere at the 1958 Cork Film Festival. Based on
the George Shiels stage play The New Gossoon, and directed by George
Pollock, it was one of the few Irish-made films of the 1950s to get an
American release, probably due to the popularity at the time of its star
Julie Harris. Harris (the Sally of the title) is engaged to the roguish,
restless Luke (Tim Seely) who is more interested in motorcycles and other
women than in settling down or the farm he is about to inherit. This film
was digitally re-mastered from elements preserved at the British Film
Institute.

The first Irish feature to be directed by a woman - Muriel Box, 'This Other
Eden' is a caustic comedy set in 1945 where the erection of a statue of
patriot martyr Jack Carberry creates problems in a small town. The film
explores the traumatic legacy of the Civil War, and in particular the impact
of the death of Michael Collins on successive generations. Given that the
producer Emmet Dalton was with Collins the day he was shot, some critics
have speculated that this film was an attempt to redress, even rewrite the
history of that time. However, with a fine supporting cast of Abbey players
and star turns from Milo O'Shea and Hilton Edwards, 'This Other Eden' is not
just a critique of the past but a witty and complex comment on an emergent
modern Ireland. This film was digitally re-mastered from elements preserved
at the British Film Institute.

The screening times at the IFI are as follows;

'Home is the Hero' (1959) 29 October, 6.30pm (82 mins)
'Sally's Irish Rogue' (1958) 26 November, 6.30pm (74 mins)
'This Other Eden' (1959) 17 December, 6.30pm (80 mins)

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Subject: Call for Panelist, The Politics of Education in Ireland,
1700-1949, ACIS, Galway, June 10-13, 2009
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Nicholas Wolf
Western Civilization Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of History and Art History
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA
nwolf2[at]gmu.edu


Call for Panelist, "The Politics of Education in Ireland, 1700-1949"

American Conference for Irish Studies Annual Meeting, NUI-Galway, Ireland,
June 10-13, 2009

A third participant is sought to join a panel focusing on the history and
cultural politics of education and schooling in Ireland, broadly defined.
Current participant papers focus on case studies of schools in the 18th and
19th centuries whose histories reveal the importance of local circumstances
in negotiating religious, linguistic, and political forces. However, a
third presentation need not be confined in its
approach; rather, any proposals offering new research on the topic of Irish
education from a literary or historical vantage point will be
entertained. Those interested should contact Sean Farrell at
sfarrel1[at]niu.edu or Nicholas Wolf at nwolf2[at]gmu.edu with an abstract of the
proposed paper. Please send abstracts by November 24th. No
decisions on proposals will be made prior to that date.

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I remember the conference as one of the best I have ever attended. =
Really
outstanding papers, discussion, and opportunities to talk with others.=20

Who is the publisher?

Bill

William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of History
Graduate Program Coordinator=20
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA=20
Office: 1-270-809-6571
Fax: 1-270-809-6587=20
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Subject: [IR-D] Book Announced, Irish Protestant Identities

Irish Protestant identities
Edited by Mervyn Busteed, Frank Neal, Jonathan Tonge

Irish Protestant Identities is the first major multi-disciplinary =
portrayal
and
analysis of the Protestant tradition - one which is often forgotten - in
Ireland. A distinguished team of authors explore what is distinctive =
about
the
religious minority on the island of Ireland. Protestant contributions to
literature, culture, religion and politics are all examined. Accessible =
and
engaging throughout, the book examines the roles of Protestant authors,
Protestant churches, Orange Order, Unionist parties and Ulster =
loyalists.
Most
books on Ireland have concentrated upon the Catholicism and Nationalism
which
shaped the country in terms of literature, poetry, politics and outlook.
This
book is different, instead exploring how a minority tradition has coped =
with
existence in a polity and society where they have often felt
under-represented
or neglected.

Mervyn Busteed is Honorary Research Fellow of the Universities of
Manchester,
Salford and Liverpool. Frank Neal is Honorary Fellow of the University =
of
Liverpool. Jon Tonge is Professor of Politics at the University of
Liverpool.

234x156mm 368pp
01 August 2008
hb 9780719077456 =A360.00





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Hi Paddy,

This may be of interest to some.

As always,

Jim

Ulster community archive goes online

Ulster community archive goes online
http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/Ulster-community-archive-goes-online.462=
5736.jp

Published Date: 24 October 2008
By Staff reporter
ULSTER folk with a keen historical interest will now be able to share
their endeavours with a potential worldwide audience, thanks to a
government initiative.
The Northern Ireland Community Archive website was launched yesterday by
Culture Minister Gregory Campbell in Belfast.

The new facility, which will be driven by local communities, will allow
photographs, documents or oral history to be shared online.

It is hoped as the project develops it will help promote the use of the
rich collections of material in museums, libraries and the Public Record
Office.

Coincidentally, individuals, communities and events that would otherwise
lie dormant will be brought to life.

The minister said: "Many of us have family documents stored in boxes in
the attic.

"Community groups are now collecting and digitising such information so
that the local history and personal stories are not lost."

He said that a community archive brought together people to "celebrate
the communities to which they belong" leaving "a legacy for future
generations".

Visit the webpages at www.niarchive.org for more information.



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Subject: CFP The Churchills and Ireland: From Marlborough to Winston
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Note the change of date...

P.O'S.


The Churchills and Ireland: From Marlborough to Winston Churchill
An International Conference to be held at the
University of Ulster, Belfast Campus,
18 & 19 June 2009 [Please note change of date due to a schedule clash]
Second Call for papers
=20
Since 1688, when John Churchill (later first duke of Marlborough) =
defected
to the Williamites to Randolph Churchill playing the Orange card to =
Winston
Churchill=B9s long and contentious relationship with Irish nationalism =
and
unionism, the Churchill have had an enormous impact on the history of
Ireland. The aim of this conference is to explore this relationship =
since
the late 17th century. Possible themes include Marlborough, the =
Jacobites
and the Williamite War, the 6th and 7th dukes and Ireland, Randolph
Churchill and the Union, Winston Churchill and Home Rule, the writing of
Anglo-Irish History and the legacies of the Churchills and Ireland

Abstracts of 250 words should be submitted not later than 15th January =
2009
though preferably by 1 December 2008 to facilitate organization.

For more information and proposals please contact Robert McNamara and =
James
McConnel at: rm.mcnamara[at]ulster.ac.uk. For further information please =
visit
the website=20

http://www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/schools/history_intern/downloads/churchills.=
pdf

We would warmly encourage submissions in the following areas : =B7
Marlborough and the Williamite war

=B7 The 6th and 7th dukes of Marlborough

=B7 Randolph Churchill and Ireland

=B7 Churchill and the Irish Field Marshalls in the British army =
during the
World Wars

=B7 Aspects of Winston Churchill and Unionism and/or Northern =
Ireland

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Subject: Report,
Irish mental health in Birmingham: what is appropriate and
culturally-competent primary care?
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Centre for Community Mental Health (Birmingham City University)

CCMH Publications

Irish mental health in Birmingham: what is appropriate and
culturally-competent primary care?

The findings and recommendations of this three year study were recently
completed.

This was a project by the Centre for Community Mental Health (Birmingham
City University) in partnership with Birmingham Irish Welfare and
Information Centre, Federation of Irish Societies (FIS), Immigrant
Counselling and Psychotherapy (ICAP), Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health
Trust (BSMHT), and a GP Practice at Balsall Heath Health Centre.

The executive summary and full report from this project are now available to
download or purchase.

Executive Summary

Full report

To purchase hard copies of either report please contact Dawn McCarrick on
0121 331 7151 or e-mail ccmh[at]bcu.ac.uk for further details.

http://www.health.bcu.ac.uk/ccmh/ccmh_publications.htm

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Subject: Book Launch Sunday 9 November 2008 at 1pm, RIA, John Horne,
Our War: Ireland and the Great War
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We have received an invitation to the RIA book launch of John Horne, Our
War: Ireland and the Great War, produced in collaboration with RT=C9=92s =
season
on the Great War.=20

The event is on a Sunday in Dublin. Families welcome. Large numbers =
are
expected, so you do need to reply formally.

Contact me directly for a copy of the invitation as an email attachment.

P.O'S.

Our War: Ireland and the Great War (Hardcover)
by John Horne (Editor)

Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Royal Irish Academy (24 Oct 2008)
ISBN-10: 1904890504
ISBN-13: 978-1904890508

This book, written by some of Ireland's leading historians, provides an
Irish perspective on the biggest war in Irish history which saw over =
200,000
Irish soldiers fighting. It relays the experience of ordinary Irish =
people
during the war and chronicles the effect this war had, and still has, on
Irish society. Soldiers in the trenches, volunteer nurses, politicians,
women and the workforce are all examined. Archival letters, diaries, =
wills
and illustrations are reproduced which document the pride, fear, anxiety =
and
sorrow felt by soldiers, nurses, sweethearts, families and friends.

www.ria.ie/publications/=20
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