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Subject: Second CFP: Irishness & Intertextuality: Re-reading the Visual in
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IRISHNESS AND INTERTEXTUALITY; RE-READING THE VISUAL IN IRISH CULTURE

Proposals for 30 minute papers are invited for this session on Irish visual
culture organized as part of INTERSECTIONS:
Association of Art Historians Annual Conference, Manchester Metropolitan
University, 2 - 4 April 2009

In recent years there has been an increased critical focus on visual
constructions of Irishness. This welcome interrogation of
the visual is one that benefits as much from the radical possibilities of
new art histories as from critical approaches within the
field of Irish studies, although these more usually converge around the
literary as the dominant mode of Irish culture. The most
productive of these readings within Irish studies actively interrogate the
tensions between the national and the postcolonial as a
means of positing questions about history, identity and the formation of
Irish culture. This session seeks to continue this line
of inquiry through inviting papers that apply similar approaches to the
construction of the visual. Proposals that seek to
position artistic practice in relation to other forms of representation,
whether visual or otherwise, are particularly welcome as
a means of expanding the critically informed dialogue that has so recently
begun.

Please submit proposals on the AAH form downloadable from:
http://www.aah.org.uk/conference/sessions2009.php

Please send proposals to the convenors:
Fionna Barber, Department of History of Art and Design, Manchester
Metropolitan University f.barber[at]mmu.ac.uk
Aidan Arrowsmith, Department of English, Manchester Metropolitan University
a.arrowsmith[at]mmu.ac.uk

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: 10 NOVEMBER 2008

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Forwarded on behalf of Maria Mazzenga [MAZZENGA[at]cua.edu]

New Website: American Catholics and Nazi Antisemitism

The American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives
announces a new website: "American Catholics and Nazi Antisemitism:
Father Maurice Sheehy, Father Charles Coughlin, and the 1938 Catholic
University Kristallnacht Broadcast." The site can be found at the
following url:

http://libraries.cua.edu/achrcua/kristallnacht/index.html

Our newest primary source materials website features digitized primary
documents and audio from the American Catholic History Center and
University Archives related to U.S. Catholic responses to the Nazi
regime in 1930s Germany. The materials on the site suggest that American
Catholics responded to the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany during
the anti-Jewish pogrom known today as Kristallnacht in ways distinct
from Catholics outside of the United States. Users will find, for
example, a recently discovered November 16, 1938 broadcast featuring a
group of 5 American Catholic clerical leaders and one layperson
condemning the Nazi violence against Jews. The broadcast was made under
the auspices of the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.
and received considerable media attention as it presented an instance,
unusual at the time, of Catholic priests and bishops voicing support for
a religious group other than their own on a national level. In contrast,
another prominent Catholic clerical leader with millions of devoted
fans, Father Charles Coughlin, responded to Kristallnacht with a
November 20, 1938 broadcast that justified the Nazi atrocities as a
natural defense against a Jewish-dominated global communist movement. A
transcript of that Coughlin broadcast is reproduced here. In addition to
the CUA broadcast audio and the Coughlin transcript this site features a
photo gallery of participants in the CUA broadcast and related
correspondence and press materials that help contextualize the
broadcasts.

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The summer issue of
Shakespeare, Volume 4 Issue 2 2008
Journal of the British Shakespeare Association
Was a Special issue
Shakespeare and Islam
Edited by
Mark Hutchings

I do not have access to this journal - for all my cunning...

But it looks as if the following article will interest a number of Ir-D
members.

P.O'S.



Ireland and Islam: Henry V and the 'War on Terror'
Author: David Coleman a
Affiliation: a Lecturer in Early Modern Literature, School of Arts and
Humanities, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK
DOI: 10.1080/17450910802083492

Published in: journal Shakespeare, Volume 4, Issue 2 June 2008 , pages 183 -
195
Subjects: Pre-20th Century Drama; Literature: Shakespeare; Drama:
Shakespeare;

Abstract
Scholars have long been aware that the original performances of
Shakespeare's Henry V (1599) are deeply implicated in debates surrounding an
expensive, unpopular and politically sensitive foreign war; the Elizabethan
military apparatus in Ireland, and in particular the mission of Robert
Devereux, Second Earl of Essex, to quell the rebellion of Hugh O'Neill, Earl
of Tyrone, loom behind the text, threatening at every moment to rupture the
illusion of a glorious English king. Critics are also sensitive to the ways
in which Shakespeare's play has been appropriated for propagandistic
purposes in a number of later conflicts; most saliently for the purposes of
this article, the British media's interpretation of the ongoing #8220war on
terror#8221 has frequently read the conflict explicitly through the language
and imagery of Shakespeare's play. Perhaps the most startling way in which
Henry V has been in operation can be seen in the way in which large sections
of the media reach quickly for the #8220Irish#8221 parallel, comparing the
#8220Islamic terrorists#8221 to the #8220Irish Republicans#8221 of recent
decades. One of the political implications of this is that Henry V's uneasy
strategy of incorporating ethnic #8220others#8221 is promoted as the
preferred means of dealing with a perceived cultural threat, and (sometimes
unintended) parallels are drawn between the early modern Irish and
contemporary Islamic populations of the #8220British#8221 isles.
Keywords: Shakespeare; Henry V; #8220War on Terror#8221; representation of
Islamic terrorism; representation of Irish terrorism; news media

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c.1800-1914: the role of empires
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The Summer issue of
European Review of History: Revue europeenne d'histoire, Volume 15 Issue 3
2008

Was a special issue
Municipalism, Regionalism, Nationalism: Hybrid Identity Formations and the
Making of Modern Europe

This will interest a number of Ir-D members.

The Berger & Miller article - details below - makes use of the Irish example
as one amongst many.

P.O'S.


1.
Border regions and identity
Authors: David Laven a; Timothy Baycroft b (Show Biographies) Affiliations:
a University of Manchester, UK
b University of Sheffield, UK

DOI: 10.1080/13507480802082581
Published in: European Review of History: Revue europeenne d'histoire,
Volume 15, Issue 3 June 2008 , pages 255 - 275


2.
Nation-building and regional integration, c.1800-1914: the role of empires
Authors: Stefan Berger a; Aleksey Miller b
Affiliations: a University of Manchester, UK
b Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
DOI: 10.1080/13507480802082649

Published in: journal European Review of History: Revue europeenne
d'histoire, Volume 15, Issue 3 June 2008 , pages 317 - 330
Subjects: European History; World/International History;

Abstract
This article takes issue with the view that nation-states challenged empires
in the nineteenth century and ultimately brought about their downfall.
Instead it argues that nation-states were created by empires. It discusses
nationalising strategies of diverse empires in comparative perspective, and
focuses on their key elements, including, first, mental mapping of empires,
second, the role of elites (both at the centre and at the periphery), third,
means of transport and communication as well as the emergence of a public
sphere, fourth, migration within and between empires, and, finally, the
economic development of empires and their border regions. In conclusion, the
article offers some tentative suggestions as to why some empires were more
successful than others in nationalising their cores and incorporating
diverse peripheries.
Keywords: empire; nation-state; region; identity; comparison; mental maps;
elites; transport; communication; migration; public sphere; economic
development; borders

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This article is very interesting, and has a number of diasporic resonances -
though it is right to say that that is not the direction that the writer
wants to explore. I thought I had better quote the bit that explains the
word Eudaimonistic - though it does not explain quite what advance or
advantage is sought by the use of the word....

There are Lahey paintings on...

http://www.qag.qld.gov.au/collection/queensland_heritage/vida_lahey2

http://www.artnet.com/artist/659329/frances-vida-lahey.html

And a web search might turn up more.

P.O'S.


'WANTED, A STRONG GIRL, ABLE TO MILK AND MAKE HERSELF AGREEABLE'
A Eudaimonistic Model for Femininity in the Art of Vida Lahey (1882-1968)
Author: Sue Lovell (Show Biography)
DOI: 10.1080/08164640802020576

Published in: journal Australian Feminist Studies, Volume 23, Issue 56 June
2008 , pages 195 - 211
Subjects: Gender Studies; Women's Studies;

EXTRACT
In 1916 the Australian artist Vida Lahey came to London to form a home base
for her three brothers and 12 cousins who were fighting in Europe. The visit
was also an opportunity to connect to her Irish heritage. During some 'off
duty' time, as she was cycling through the Irish countryside, she came
across the notice that forms the title of this paper: 'Wanted, a strong
girl, able to milk and make herself agreeable' (Lahey 1919, 9). That Vida
even recorded the advertisement in her journal says something about the
impression that it made on her. The roles of domestic worker and 'agreeable'
object form the twin poles of an ideologically determined continuum along
which single women have traditionally been expected to define themselves. It
is a short, rather constrained continuum because the definition of
femininity has been articulated in tandem with the heterosexual institution
of the family. Consequently, those who exceed or challenge normative
femininity have been considered at best deviant, and, at worst, subversive
and threatening to the social order.

....
Such an alternative model for understanding how single women constructed
lives that they perceived as virtuous and rewarding might be called a
eudaimonistic (eu-well-being, daimon-spirit or soul) model: one concerned
with a person's flourishing. In this, I am following Martha Nussbaum's use
and spelling of the word to acknowledge that what is 'good' is not
necessarily linked only to happiness or pleasure but can be linked to other
states or activities perceived as valuable. Indeed, Nussbaum states quite
plainly (for a philosopher!):

Not only virtuous actions but also mutual relations of civic or personal
love and friendship, in which the object is loved and benefited for his or
her own sake, can qualify as constituent parts of a person's eudaimonia.
(Nussbaum 2003, 32)
EXTRACT ENDS

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Clinical and social characteristics of women committed to
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This is another of Brendan Kelly's very thorough articles on the history of
psychiatry in Ireland.

P.O'S.

Clinical and social characteristics of women committed to inpatient forensic
psychiatric care in Ireland, 1868-1908
Author: Brendan D. Kelly a
Affiliation: a Department of Adult Psychiatry, University College Dublin,
Ireland
DOI: 10.1080/14789940801999710

Published in: journal Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, Volume
19, Issue 2 June 2008 , pages 261 - 273
Subjects: Aggression in Adults; Criminology; Criminology & Delinquency;
Ethics & Legal issues in Mental Health; Psychiatry: Forensic Psychiatry;
Psychiatry & Clinical Psychology - Adult: Forensic Psychiatry; Psychological
Disorders - Adult; Social Psychology;

Abstract
This study aimed to examine the characteristics and experiences of women
admitted to inpatient forensic psychiatric care in Ireland in the late 19th
and early 20th centuries. The case records of all women admitted to the
Central Mental Hospital, Dublin, between 1868 and 1908 (n = 70) were
examined. Most women were Roman Catholic and single, with between one and 12
children. Over half were convicted of killing, of whom a majority were
convicted of child-killing. Mean age was 32.8 years. Women convicted of
killing were younger than those convicted of other offences. Women convicted
of child killing were less likely to be unmarried than those convicted of
killing adults. Almost one woman in 10 was 'sane' on admission; 'mania' and
'melancholia' constituted the largest diagnostic groupings. Approximately
15% of the women died at the Central Mental Hospital; almost 50% were
ultimately transferred to local asylums; 12% were transferred to prison; and
others were released to family or friends. The lives and institutional
experiences of this patient group merit further examination and study from
the perspectives of legal, social, and psychiatric history.
Keywords: history; 19th century; mental disorders; psychiatric hospitals;
forensic psychiatry; social alienation

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'Race' Migration and Education in a globalised context
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This CFP will interest a number of IR-D members...

P.O'S.


Call for Papers - Special Issue on 'Race' Migration and Education in a
globalised context

Irish Educational Studies

www.tandf.co.uk/journals/ries

Included in the Social Science Citation Index (R)
Published on behalf of the Educational Studies Association of Ireland
(www.esai.ie/)

Irish Educational Studies is hosting a special issue on the area of 'Race',
Migration and Education. Papers that explore issues related to migration,
'race', ethnicity and education, stimulating debate that is of relevance to
the Irish and International research community are welcome. Papers may
include but are not limited to the following topics:

* 'new' immigrant communities and the education system

* 'established' 'minority ethnic communities and education

* processes of identity formation that are mediated by migrant/ethnic
status, as well as
intersections of gender, class and religion.

* Challenges of teaching and learning, including language learning

* parents, teachers and students' perspectives

* racisms and mechanisms of inclusion/exclusion at local and national levels

* effective practices in schools

* Teacher Education

* Higher Education and Further Education

For complete details please visit www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cfp/riescfp.pdf

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Subject: Book Noticed, Connolly, S.J. Divided Kingdom - Ireland 1630-1800.
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A new feature has begun to emerge in our web alerts and searches - and I am
just taking this on board. Specific chapters of books are appearing, and
can be tracked back to - for example - Oxford Scholarship Online.

Thus this new book, Connolly, S.J. Divided Kingdom - Ireland 1630-1800,
becomes visible - and its specific chapter on the Atlantic.

P.O'S.

Connolly, S.J. Divided Kingdom - Ireland 1630-1800. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2008. Oxford Scholarship Online. Oxford University Press.
2 November 2008


For Ireland, the 17th and 18th centuries were a period marked by war,
economic transformation, and the making and remaking of identities. By the
1630s, the era of wars of conquest seemed firmly in the past. But the
British civil wars of the mid-17th century fractured both Protestant and
Catholic Ireland along lines defined by different combinations of religious
and political allegiance. Later, after 1688, Ireland became the battlefield
for what was otherwise Britain's bloodless (and so Glorious)
Revolution. The 18th century, by contrast, was a period of peace, permitting
Ireland to emerge, first as a dynamic actor in the growing Atlantic economy,
then as the breadbasket for industrialising Britain. But at the end of the
century, against a background of international revolution, new forms of
religious and political conflict came together to produce another period of
multi-sided conflict. The act of union, hastily introduced in the aftermath
of civil war, ensured that Ireland entered the 19th century still divided,
but no longer a kingdom.


9 Atlantic Island
S. J. Connolly
The first half of the 18th century saw only modest economic growth,
interrupted by disastrous famines in 1728-9 and 1740-1. Thereafter, there
was a rapid growth in exports both of agricultural produce, destined for
markets in North America and the Caribbean, and of linen cloth. Rising
prosperity was evident in the growth of population, rapid urban development,
and the creation of a consumer culture. There was also a quickening of
cultural life, reflecting in part the influence of the European
Enlightenment. Meanwhile a combination of religious disadvantage, social
dislocation, and economic expansion carried Irish men and women to mainland
Europe, the Caribbean, and North America in a diaspora possibly without
parallel in early modern Europe.
Keywords: famine, linen, exports, Enlightenment, population, diaspora

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publication
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

ISSN
0020-2754 electronic: 1475-5661

publisher
Blackwell Publishing

year - volume - issue - page
2008 - 33 - 4 - 483

article

Rhythmanalysing the coach tour: the Ring of Kerry, Ireland

Edensor, Tim - Holloway, Julian

table of content - full text

abstract

This paper utilises and extends Henri Lefebvre's ideas about rhythmanalysis
to explore the rhythmic qualities of taking a coach tour. The paper
investigates the Ring of Kerry tour in the West of Ireland and reveals both
the reproduction and disturbance, through itinerary and narratives of the
coach drivers, of anticipated discourses and visual indexes of commodified
Irishness. Central to the paper is the ordering of different rhythmic
assemblages, which connect and disconnect in multiple ways. It is argued
that the rhythmic multiplicity of coach tours involve entanglements of
embodiment, affective registers, technologies and materialities. The paper
reveals how the myriad tempos and rhythms of the tour take on different
consistencies and intensities at different stages of the journey, and
investigates the capacities of these rhythms to affect and be affected by
the pulse of the spaces moved through and stopped at. In so doing, a
supplemented rhythmanalysis is suggested as a productive approach for
apprehending tourist spaces, practices and landscapes.

keyword(s)

rhythm, rhythmanalysis, tourism, mobility, Ireland, materiality, embodiment,

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Oil and Water-18th-Century Whale and Basking-Shark Fisheries of
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A very interesting work of industrial archaeology, which slots into many
discussions of the 'West'...

P.O'S.

publication
International Journal of Nautical Archaeology

ISSN
1057-2414 electronic: 1095-9270

publisher
Blackwell Publishing

year - volume - issue - page
2008 - 37 - 2 - 302


article

Oil and Water-18th-Century Whale and Basking-Shark Fisheries of Donegal Bay,
Ireland

McGonigle, Martin

table of content - full text

abstract

The whale fisheries of Scotland and England have long been the source of
much attention in scholarly journals and statistical economic reports. The
whale fisheries of Ireland-albeit of a miniscule scale in comparison-have
generated little other than local interest. The whale and basking-shark
fishery in Donegal Bay is unique. It was conducted by the inventor of the
first swivel-gun harpoon, Thomas Nesbittt, who also built the first and only
Irish whale-rendering plant at Port, Inver, Donegal Bay, where he undertook
shore-based whaling at a time when other European whaling industries were
based in the northern seas.

C 2007 The Author

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publication
West European Politics

ISSN
0140-2382 electronic: 1743-9655

publisher
Taylor & Francis Group

year - volume - issue - page
2008 - 31 - 5 - 960

article

Why is there no Radical Right Party in Ireland?

O'Malley, Eoin

abstract

The rise of the radical or extreme right parties in Europe - parties usually
noted for strong, sometimes racist anti-immigrant ideologies - has attracted
a great deal of attention in political science. Ireland, despite having some
conditions favourable to the growth of such a party has no radical right
party. This paper argues that that this is because the 'space' usually
occupied by such parties - for young, poor people disaffected by economic
change - is taken up by Sinn Fein, which though it has similarities to
radical right parties, differs markedly in its attitudes to immigrants. It
goes on to explain the special circumstances that prevent nationalist
parties in Ireland from presenting overtly anti-immigrant platforms. The
focus on anti-immigration and liberal economic policies for such parties may
mean that other parties with strong resemblances are excluded from studies
they might usefully be included.

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Subject: THOMAS CARLYLE,
'YOUNG IRELAND' AND THE 'CONDITION OF IRELAND QUESTION'*
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This article in the latest issue of The Historical Journal takes thinking
about Carlyle and Ireland in new directions, but is perhaps most useful in
its referencing of the story so far...

P.O'S.

The Historical Journal (2008), 51:643-667 Cambridge University Press
Copyright C 2008 Cambridge University Press
doi:10.1017/S0018246X0800695X

Research Article
THOMAS CARLYLE, 'YOUNG IRELAND' AND THE 'CONDITION OF IRELAND QUESTION'*
JOHN MORROWa1 c1
a1 University of Auckland

ABSTRACT

This article reconsiders Thomas Carlyle's views on the crisis facing Ireland
in the 1840s and British responses to it. It argues that while Carlyle saw
this crisis as being related to difficulties facing contemporary 'English'
society, he treated it as a distinctive manifestation of a malaise that
afflicted all European societies. Carlyle's views on Ireland reflected the
illiberal and authoritarian attitudes which underwrote his social and
political thought, but they were not, as has sometimes been suggested,
premised on anti-Irish prejudices derived from racial stereotypes. An
examination of Carlyle's writings on Ireland demonstrate that he attributed
the parlous state of that country in the 1840s to widespread failures in
leadership and social morality that were not unique to the inhabitants of
Ireland and were also to be found in England. Carlyle's works were not only
admired by leading members of 'Young Ireland', but also generated ideas that
framed their response to the economic, social, and political challenges
facing Ireland.

Correspondence:

c1 Department of Political Studies, University of Auckland, Private Bag
92019, Auckland Mail Centre, Auckland, New Zealand j.morrow[at]auckland.ac.nz

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Radical yes, but right? What about Sinn Fein's "left" discourse,
including relations with FARC in Colombia and Gerry Adams theorising in
Havana on the analogies of "two islands"? (and apparently recent
contacts with the new president of Paraguay). I thought it was left...
Can anybody explain?

Edmundo Murray

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publication
West European Politics

ISSN
0140-2382 electronic: 1743-9655

publisher
Taylor & Francis Group

year - volume - issue - page
2008 - 31 - 5 - 960

article

Why is there no Radical Right Party in Ireland?

O'Malley, Eoin

abstract

The rise of the radical or extreme right parties in Europe - parties
usually
noted for strong, sometimes racist anti-immigrant ideologies - has
attracted
a great deal of attention in political science. Ireland, despite having
some
conditions favourable to the growth of such a party has no radical right
party. This paper argues that that this is because the 'space' usually
occupied by such parties - for young, poor people disaffected by
economic
change - is taken up by Sinn Fein, which though it has similarities to
radical right parties, differs markedly in its attitudes to immigrants.
It
goes on to explain the special circumstances that prevent nationalist
parties in Ireland from presenting overtly anti-immigrant platforms. The
focus on anti-immigration and liberal economic policies for such parties
may
mean that other parties with strong resemblances are excluded from
studies
they might usefully be included.

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Dear All,

I have had a quick look at this. it is as shabby and illogical a piece
of work as I have seen in a long time. Apparently young working class
males vote for Sinn Fein in Ireland but in other countries with a
different history this type of individual votes for radical right wing
parties. I thought that in England where I live for example most working
class people voted Labour but I may have been imagining it. Another
reason adduced is that Sinn fein is interested in the irish language.
The only vaguely right wing opinion espoused by someone from SF are some
remarks by Joe Cahill on the Officials 30 years ago, and the thesis is
that though the party is not right wing and racist, the people who vote
for it may well be. It may be (this is true, he does argue it believe
me) that SF voters don't actually care about its policies but are
impressed by its community activism - like some Islamic groups in the
middle east.

The upshot is that working class people, especially males are racist,
and Sinn Fein is in league with Al Quaida. (only a very slight
exaggeration on my part).

anthony =20

Dr Anthony McNicholas
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Radical yes, but right? What about Sinn Fein's "left" discourse,
including relations with FARC in Colombia and Gerry Adams theorising in
Havana on the analogies of "two islands"? (and apparently recent
contacts with the new president of Paraguay). I thought it was left...
Can anybody explain?

Edmundo Murray

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publication
West European Politics

ISSN
0140-2382 electronic: 1743-9655

publisher
Taylor & Francis Group

year - volume - issue - page
2008 - 31 - 5 - 960

article

Why is there no Radical Right Party in Ireland?

O'Malley, Eoin

abstract

The rise of the radical or extreme right parties in Europe - parties
usually
noted for strong, sometimes racist anti-immigrant ideologies - has
attracted
a great deal of attention in political science. Ireland, despite having
some
conditions favourable to the growth of such a party has no radical right
party. This paper argues that that this is because the 'space' usually
occupied by such parties - for young, poor people disaffected by
economic
change - is taken up by Sinn Fein, which though it has similarities to
radical right parties, differs markedly in its attitudes to immigrants.
It
goes on to explain the special circumstances that prevent nationalist
parties in Ireland from presenting overtly anti-immigrant platforms. The
focus on anti-immigration and liberal economic policies for such parties
may
mean that other parties with strong resemblances are excluded from
studies
they might usefully be included.

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I think Edmundo's point is well taken. It's not really possible to =
pigeonhole SF as left or right. It did lose its avowedly Marxist wing =
when the Provos and the Stickies ('Official Sinn F=E9in') split at the =
beginning of the Troubles, but it seems to me that there has always been =
something of the pantomine horse about the Provisionals ever since that =
period. In other words, the movement inherited the tradition of hardline =
non-ideological militarism (some would use less polite words) embodied =
by people like Joe Cahill. But it also espoused socially and politically =
radical ideas, from the 'Eire Nua' document of the early 1970s to its =
generally progressive position on immigration issues. Its progressive =
impulses have been tarnished on many occasions by its evidently =
sectarian and intolerant actions but that is not to say that there are =
not people in SF who actually believe in them. In the south of Ireland, =
that makes them more or less the only radical party, as Labour has long =
since embraced the cosy consensus of statist 'national agreements'. I'm =
not saying that was necessarily wrong, just that (especially with the =
Greens actually sharing government with FF) SF is more or less the only =
party outside the tent.

It remains to be seen how SF will manage an increasingly fractious =
working class vote in a deteriorating economic climate while pursuing a =
right-on policy on issues like immigration. As for their flirting with =
FARC, I think most people outside the SF fold found that to be a =
reprehensible and disgusting alliance. In saying this I do not deny in =
any way the murderous policies of official Columbia, where there are =
clear links between Government figures and right wing death squads. The =
SF involvement in the place was shabby and opportunistic and almost =
certainly meant that they were implicated indirectly in a drugs trade =
which is blighting the lives of millions.

Another factor to bear in mind is that SF/IRA has always found itself in =
an ambiguous position in the USA because of the need to placate/get =
money from right wing Irish America (think Martin Galvin) while holding =
onto a radical Euroleft agenda closer to home.

Piaras


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Radical yes, but right? What about Sinn Fein's "left" discourse,
including relations with FARC in Colombia and Gerry Adams theorising in
Havana on the analogies of "two islands"? (and apparently recent
contacts with the new president of Paraguay). I thought it was left...
Can anybody explain?

Edmundo Murray

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publication
West European Politics

ISSN
0140-2382 electronic: 1743-9655

publisher
Taylor & Francis Group

year - volume - issue - page
2008 - 31 - 5 - 960

article

Why is there no Radical Right Party in Ireland?

O'Malley, Eoin

abstract

The rise of the radical or extreme right parties in Europe - parties
usually
noted for strong, sometimes racist anti-immigrant ideologies - has
attracted
a great deal of attention in political science. Ireland, despite having
some
conditions favourable to the growth of such a party has no radical right
party. This paper argues that that this is because the 'space' usually
occupied by such parties - for young, poor people disaffected by
economic
change - is taken up by Sinn Fein, which though it has similarities to
radical right parties, differs markedly in its attitudes to immigrants.
It
goes on to explain the special circumstances that prevent nationalist
parties in Ireland from presenting overtly anti-immigrant platforms. The
focus on anti-immigration and liberal economic policies for such parties
may
mean that other parties with strong resemblances are excluded from
studies
they might usefully be included.

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan [mailto:P.OSullivan[at]bradford.ac.uk]

SOURCE
http://www.ucd.ie/hume/

Welcome to the 2008 Irish Diaspora Forum at UCD

Last year, 1,000 people participated in our first Irish Diaspora Forum,
which was held in New York.

The purpose of the event is to explore and to stimulate discussion on issues
that are of significance to people in Ireland and to people elsewhere who
identify with Ireland and with Irishness, an estimated 80 million people
world wide.

Discussion will focus on four themes:

* New World Order? "Change" and the US administration
* "After the Deluge" Ireland and the Global Economy
* "Giving Back"- Can philanthropy shape the future?
* Irish Culture- A Global Bridge?

Panels of special guest speakers will address specific topics, but the day
is intended to be a forum and discussion and debate from other participants
will be welcome.

This year the conference will take place in the Global Irish Institute. The
event is free to members of the public who wish to participate, but we ask
that you register for the event as places are limited.

I look forward to welcoming you to what should be a lively and stimulating
day.

Dr Hugh Brady
President
UCD

07.30 hours
Registration

08.30 hours
Welcome:
Dr Hugh Brady, President UCD;
Niall O'Dowd, Publisher Irish America Magazine;
Loretta Brennan-Glucksman, Chairman American Ireland Funds

09.00 hours
Session One:
"After the Deluge: The future of the Global Economy"

Karl Whelan, UCD School of Economics (Session Chair)
Hugo MacNeill, Goldman Sachs
John Gilmore COO Sling Media
Colm McCarthy, UCD School of Economics
Professor Eamonn Walsh, UCD Michael Smurfit Business School
Ian Hyland; Publisher, Business and Finance Magazine


11.15 hours
Session Two:
"The New US Administration - Implications for Ireland and the World"

Conor O'Clery (Session Chair)
Bob Schmuhl, Professor of Journalism, Notre Dame and 2009 John Hume Visiting
Fellow UCD.
Grant Lally, National Co-chair Irish American Republicans
Bruce Morrison, Former Member US House of Representatives
HE Thomas C Foley, US Ambassador to Ireland

14.00 hours
Session Three:
"Giving Back - How Philanthropy Can Shape the Future"

Fergus Finlay, Chief Executive, Barnardos (Session Chair)
Gara LaMarche, CEO Atlantic Philanthropies
Kingsley Aikins, President and CEO, The Ireland Funds
Joan Burton, TD, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party

15.00 hours
Conference Address
President Mary McAleese, President of Ireland

16.00 hours
Session Four:
"Irish Culture - The Global Bridge"
John Kelly RTE (Session Chair)
Lenny Abrahamson, Film Producer
Hugo Hamilton, Novelist
Eugene Downes: Chief Executive Culture Ireland
Declan Kiberd, Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature UCD
Jim Flannery, Director of the W. B. Yeats Foundation and the Winship
Professor of Arts and Humanities at Emory University.
Frank McGuinness, Playwright and Professor of Creative Writing, UCD

17.30 hours
Conference Close & Reception

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Forwarded on behalf of
Irish Theatre Magazine [info[at]irishtheatremagazine.ie]

Irish Theatre Magazine Online

Internet update - November 2008

Irish Theatre Magazine is now publishing its reviews section
online. To read our critics on the latest productions from the
breadth of the country, kindly direct your internet browser
towards the cornucopia of critical endeavour carefully
hypertextualised at

www.irishtheatremagazine.ie

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AMERICAN FOLKLIFE CENTER AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

A LECTURE IN THE BENJAMIN A. BOTKIN FOLKLIFE LECTURE SERIES
AND REDISCOVER NORTHERN IRELAND AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

It's Of My Rambles... A Journey in the Song Tradition of Ulster

presented by Len Graham

November 6, 2008, 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm, FREE

Pickford Theater, James Madison Building, Library of Congress

Traditional singer and song collector Len Graham from County Antrim in
Northern Ireland will explore the folk song tradition of his native
Ulster. His talk/recital will be interspersed with live performances
of songs in English on many themes, including, early classic ballads,
broadside ballads, songs of love, politics, emigration and many other
topics. Len Graham has been a professional traditional singer since
1982 and He has received many awards for his work as a singer and
collector. In 1993 he received the Sean O'Boyle Cultural Traditions
Award for his book and field recordings - It's Of My Rambles.... In
2002 he was the first recipient of the Irish television TG4 National
Music Award for - 'Traditional Singer of the Year' and in 2008 he
received the 'Tommy Makem Keeper of the Tradition' Award. Here I Am
Amongst You his book on the songs, music and traditions of Joe Holmes
(1906-78) is due for publication by Queen's University, Belfast in
late 2008. For more information please visit the American Folklife
Center at www.loc.gov/folklife or call 202-707-5510. This program is
co-sponsored by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

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"Citizenship Matters": Lessons from the Irish Citizenship
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American Quarterly
Volume 60, Number 3, September 2008

E-ISSN: 1080-6490 Print ISSN: 0003-0678

DOI: 10.1353/aq.0.0034
"Citizenship Matters":
Lessons from the Irish Citizenship Referendum
J. M. Mancini and Graham Finlay

OPENING PARAGRAPHS
In 1916, armed insurrectionists revolted against the chief ally of the
United States. The rebels surrendered quickly, but were punished severely:
15 were executed, and 3,500 faced imprisonment. Curiously, the British
government spared one of the rebel leaders, propelling him to take a central
role in an ongoing and ultimately successful campaign to subvert British
rule. Even more curiously, nearly fifty years later, in 1964, President
Lyndon B. Johnson welcomed this aging insurrectionist-who had abandoned his
belief in the use of force against the British only a few years before-to
the White House on a state visit. Johnson's greeting to Eamon de Valera, by
then the president of the Republic of Ireland, immediately suggests why he
was spared: "This is the country of your birth, Mr. President . . . this
will always be your home."1 Although de Valera, the American-born son of an
Irish mother and a Spanish father, lived in the United States for fewer than
three years, both the British courts and Johnson after them understood de
Valera to be an American citizen-despite his expatriation, despite his
participation in armed political struggle, and despite his ascent to the
leadership of a foreign government.

Until recently, the notion that the country of one's birth determines one's
citizenship had as powerful a hold in Ireland-where it was encoded in the
1922 Constitution of the Irish Free State, the Irish Nationality and
Citizenship Acts of 1935 and 1956, and from 1998 to 2004 in Article 2 of the
Irish Constitution-as it has in the United States, where it is protected by
the Fourteenth Amendment.2 Nonetheless, in 2004, a referendum was called-and
passed with a nearly 80 percent majority3-removing the constitutional
provision of territorial birthright citizenship for the children of
noncitizens.4 This monumental change in the citizenship regime of the newly
prosperous Ireland of the "Celtic Tiger" marked a radical departure from the
shared history, embodied in de Valera's personal story, that joined Ireland
to the United States. At the same time, the citizenship referendum also
highlighted both continued and new interconnections between the two nations.
In the debates leading up to the referendum, both the American legal example
and the historical [End Page 575] experience of legal and illegal Irish
immigrants in the United States figured prominently. And both the revocation
of jus soli and the circumstances leading to its revocation underscored the
fact that Ireland's sudden exposure to the complicated political pressures
resulting from globalization, including new inward migration from Africa,
Asia, and the accession states of the European Union, made its political
landscape more like that of the United States than it had been.

In this article, we discuss both the importance of American practice for the
normative discussions surrounding the removal of jus soli as an automatic
qualification for citizenship in Ireland and the importance of the Irish
debates as an example for the historical and normative investigation of the
foundations of citizenship in the United States, especially in the field of
American studies. In an increasingly interconnected world in which people,
and not just goods and capital, are on the move, we argue that the
elimination of jus soli as a basis for citizenship was unjustified in the
Irish case, despite the popular pressures on Irish politicians, and that the
pressure being placed on U.S. politicians to undermine jus soli should be
consciously resisted. Changes in the basis of citizenship are not simply
about the moral composition of the civic public, but have important economic
and social consequences-chiefly, the creation of a docile class of laborers
who can be dismissed and deported at will, and who have almost no rights to
seek redress for the exploitive aspects of their condition. We believe that
it is a lack of attention to these consequences that allowed the Irish
government to succeed in removing unrestricted jus soli from the Irish
Constitution, leading the debates to be solely carried on in terms of the
intensity of immigrants' connections to the Irish state and in terms of
Ireland's emigrant past. At a time when politicians from across the
political spectrum in the United States propose the replacement of permanent
immigrants by guest workers, a similar neglect of the moral, cultural, and
economic importance of jus soli threatens to impoverish contemporary debates
surrounding immigration in the United States.

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Irish Society for Theatre Research
Cumann Taighde Amharclanna=EDochta na h=C9ireann
Symposium 2009: 'Players and Painted Stage'
Call for Panel Papers


Venue: Institute of Technology Sligo, Friday 8th May and Saturday 9th =
May,
2009 (Pre-conference event on Thursday evening)


Confirmed keynote speakers
Professor Richard Cave, Royal Holloway, University of London
Professor Baz Kershaw, University of Warwick
Niall Henry, Artistic Director, Blue Raincoat Theatre Company


Submission of Abstracts: 9th January 2009
Panel Paper Submissions: The conference theme 'Players and Painted =
Stage'
could reflect critical as well as practical approaches to theatre in and =
of
Ireland in terms of performance, space and place. The theme aims to =
include
elements of performance such as dramaturgy, artistic direction, design,
alongside writing and acting.
We invite submissions of 200 words that respond to the conference theme.
Please forward all Panel Paper Submissions and any general enquires to:
trench.rhona[at]itsligo.ie
Suggested topics include
* Performance Contexts
* Postmodernism & Postdramatic Theatre
* Local and Global in Irish Theatre
* Intercultural and Devising
* Site Specific Performance
* Yeats in Performance
* Scenographic Tradition
* Performances of Irish Plays Internationally
* The Early Performance Tradition
* Amateur Theatre Movement
* Emerging Dramaturgies
* Intertextuality and Theatre
Please include the following information with your proposal:
* a description of your paper;
* the full title of your paper;
* your name, postal address and e-mail address;
* your institutional affiliation and position;
* any AV requirements you might have;
* your ISTR membership status (i.e. present member, membership to be
renewed, membership application submitted/to be submitted) to
eamonn.jordan[at]ucd.ie
* Individual CFPs for respective working groups will be issued in due =
course