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From: W.F.Clarke[at]bton.ac.uk

Don't want to take up time but only fair to say thanks to those who very
helpfully responded to my request for movies with a theme of 'the fool'
(by whatever other name)

Liam Clarke =20

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International Conference of the Spanish Association for Irish
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VIII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE=20
OF THE SPANISH ASSOCIATION FOR IRISH STUDIES=20

"From Local Ireland to Global Ireland: the Reality Beyond"=20
University of Alcal=E1, 28-30 May 2009=20

The Spanish Association for Irish Studies (AEDEI) is pleased to announce =
the
organization of its VIII International Conference, which will be =
convened by
the English Department at the University of Alcal=E1.=20

Call for papers:=20
The traditional and often uncontested image of an Ireland governed by =
local
interests has, in the last decades, been replaced by its recognition as =
a
global country inimical to the romanticised rurality of its past. The
economic boom that led the nation to an unprecedented =96though =
unequally
shared=96 prosperity has also brought new concerns and uncertainties, =
mostly
related to questions of identity. However, more than ever, the concepts =
of
locality and globality, being ample, diverse and stretching, have turned
into complementary expansions of each other. For, while the local is =
said to
be framed within the global, this one re-inscribes the peculiarities of =
the
former. Ireland thus can be read as an "in-between" space where the
articulation of a "glocal" site appears as an apt expression to describe =
the
sudden social, demographic, economic, political, and cultural changes
affecting the country. Bearing these premises in mind, we welcome papers
that will tackle questions related to notions of identity, nationality,
fluidity or the intersection between the local and the global, among =
other
aspects such as:=20
- What do we include within the confines of Irish literature?=20
- Is there (dis)continuity from the local to the universal in Irish =
culture?

- How true is Declan Kiberd assertion that "the cult of the local is
probably a panic reaction to the forces of globalisation"?=20
- How has Ireland accommodated change and diversity?=20
- Has multiculturalism been implanted in the different realms of Irish
society?=20
We invite papers for a twenty-minute delivery, in English or Spanish, =
which
might approach the main theme of the conference from an array of =
theoretical
frameworks and fields of knowledge: linguistic, literary, historical,
sociological, gendered, cultural, musical or visual.=20
Confirmed plenary speakers:=20
- Ruth Barton (Trinity College Dublin)=20
- Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth)=20
Confirmed keynote writers:=20
- Deirdre Madden=20
- Mary O=92Donnell=20
Scientific Committee:=20
- Rui Carvalho Homem (U Oporto)=20
- David Clark Mitchell (U Coru=F1a)=20
- Sean Crosson (NUI Galway)=20
- Rosa Gonz=E1lez Casademont (U Barcelona)=20
- Luz Mar Gonz=E1lez Arias (U Oviedo)=20
- Munira H. Mutran (U Sao Paulo)=20
- M=E1ire N=ED Annrach=E1in (NUI Maynooth)=20
- In=E9s Praga Terente (U Burgos)=20
- Constanza del R=EDo =C1lvaro (U Zaragoza)=20
Organisers:=20
- Marisol Morales Ladr=F3n (marisol.morales[at]uah.es)=20
- Juan F. Elices Agudo (juan.elices[at]uah.es)=20

Submission of proposals:=20
Abstracts of around 250 words should be e-mailed to Juan F. Elices or,
alternatively, to Marisol Morales by Friday 6 March, 2009. For reasons =
of
homogeneity, please complete the filling form that that has been =
designed
for the purpose and send it as an attached document.=20
Please, do not hesitate to contact any of the organisers for whatever =
query
you may have.=20
WITH ALL BEST WISHES=20
*********************************************************************

VIII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
OF THE SPANISH ASSOCIATION FOR IRISH STUDIES

=93From Local Ireland to Global Ireland: the Reality Beyond=94

University of Alcal=E1, 28-30 May 2009


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Name:

Affiliation:

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Phone number:

E-mail:


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Will you need any technical support? If so, please state=20

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Journal of Franco-Irish Studies

The National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies has produced a new e-Journal
which will be of interest to members.

It is called JOFIS (Journal of Franco-Irish Studies).
http://www.ittdublin.ie/ncfis/jofis/

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The following Irish language film has been brought to our attention...

**** PRESS RELEASE ****

Igloo Films TG4 BCI present

Pimpernel sa Vatac=E1in

TG4 Wednesday November 12th at 09.30pm

During the German occupation of Rome from 1943-1944, Kerryman Monsignor =
Hugh
O=92Flaherty ran an escape organisation for Allied POWs and civilians,
including Jews.

He built a network of contacts and safe locations and his helpers =
included
communists, British soldiers, the singer Delia Murphy and many others.

The work was dangerous.

Safe within the Vatican State, he regularly ventured out in disguise to
continue his mission, which earned him the nickname of =93the Pimpernel =
of the
Vatican=94.

Kappler, the Gestapo chief in Rome, ordered him captured or killed.

When the Allies entered Rome in June 1944, O=92Flaherty and his =
colleagues had
saved over 4,000 lives.=A0 After the war Kappler was sentenced to life
imprisonment and his only visitor, monthly, was O=92 Flaherty.

O=92Flaherty was awarded the highest honours including a CBE (UK), the
Congressional Medal (US) and was the first Irishman named Notary of the =
Holy
Office.=A0 He retired to Cahersiveen, Co Kerry in 1960.

In 1963 eight million viewers watched him on BBC=92s This Is Your =
Life.=A0
Within months he had died. Newspapers all over the world reported his =
death.

Yet the only monument to him in Ireland is a grove of Italian trees =
planted
in Killarney National Park in 1994 by his family and friends.

The name of this great and good man is largely forgotten in his native
Ireland.

Pimpernel sa Vatac=E1in tells his remarkable story.

For more information contact Igloo Films (Brian Willis) 0868147573

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Educating for Peace? Citizenship Education in Quebec and Northern
Ireland
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Comparative Education Review, vol. 52, no. 4
=A9 2008 by the Comparative and International Education Society. All =
rights
reserved.
0010-4086/2008/5204-0002$10.00
DOI: 10.1086/591296
Educating for Peace? Citizenship Education in Quebec and Northern =
Ireland

Ulrike Niens and

Marie-H=E9l=E8ne Chastenay

Electronically published July 31, 2008

This article explores the theoretical underpinnings of citizenship =
education
as well as issues relating to educational practice to identify and =
discuss
challenges that divided societies, which are characterized by =
conflicting
national or cultural identities, may face in the development and
implementation of such programs. Formal education curricula from =
Northern
Ireland and Quebec are compared to identify how they promote citizenship =
in
their divided societies. Both societies are characterized by high levels =
of
segregation in education as well as other aspects of social and =
political
life, but they differ in the extent to which conflict and violence are
features of these societal divisions.

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Gillian Kenny. Anglo-Irish and Gaelic Women in Ireland
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Gillian Kenny. Anglo-Irish and Gaelic Women in Ireland, c.
1170-1540. Portland Four Courts Press, 2007. 218 pp. $65.00
(cloth), ISBN 978-1-85182-984-2.

Reviewed by Lisa Bitel
Published on H-Albion (November, 2008)
Commissioned by Margaret McGlynn

"No Alliance by Marriage ... or Amour": Women in the Two Medieval
Irelands

Gillian Kenny's book offers a concise summary of women's lives in both
Anglo-Irish and Gaelic (her labels) regions of medieval Ireland--or,
rather, a summary of the legal categories of women created by Anglo-
Irish legal discourses (in formal laws as well as a small number of
charters, wills, and cases primarily from the fifteenth-century Pale)--
between 1170 (Norman invasion) and 1540 (Protestant Reformation).
Although Kenny exploits this scanty evidence to bring a few
individuals to life, she tries mainly to compare the lives of women
governed by this legal system to those living under traditional Irish
laws. Her thesis is not obvious in the book's brief preface, but her
table of contents and her last chapter lay out the book's principal
point that "each society accorded its women respective laws and
traditions with regards to their rights as single women, wives, widows
and nuns. Confusion and resentment often arose when these two systems
clashed, as in the case of intermarriage" (p. 185).

Kenny's book provides a useful starting point for readers who know
nothing about the gender systems of colonial Ireland. She summarizes
the basic legal concepts informing her diverse sources, and provides a
handy glossary at the book's end for those few who may not know about
seisin, socage, or stang. Despite a list of manuscript materials in
the bibliography, her most important evidence appears to have come
from printed English calendars, registers, and rolls, supplemented by
Anglo-Irish wills, charters, and deeds (only a few still in
manuscript), as well as published Irish sources, such as annals, and
antiquarian works, such as Mervyn Archdall's _Monasticon Hibernicum_
(1876). Most of these medieval texts are familiar to Irish
medievalists but not to outsiders, and few scholars have exploited
these documents for information about women. Indeed, the massive
thousand pages of Oxford's multivolume _A_ _New History of Ireland_
(1976), edited by Art Cosgrove, dedicated to this period contains
index subheadings for such crucial topics as "salt" and an entire
chapter about "Coinage to 1534," but nothing notable on women, wives,
or nuns.

Kenny's chapters are all premised on the first sentence of her first
chapter: "Late medieval Ireland was a land divided between two
different systems of law, society, economy, and politics," as well as
churches (p. 13). Anglo-Irish and Gaelic are as firmly binary in
Kenny's interpretation as the sexes. Chapters describe first an Anglo-
Irish legal category and then its Irish counterpart. Kenny's
comparisons show that Irish women had fewer formally defined legal
rights, thus less influence, agency, and control over property, than
English women, whether they were single women, laborers, heiresses,
wives, ex-wives, widows, mothers, foster-mothers, concubines, or vowed
nuns. Only highly aristocratic Irish women who brought major property
into their marriages had a chance at social independence and political
power. Any cultural mixing occurred, in Kenny's interpretation, on
the marches of the Pale and in towns where anglicizing Irish women
might take advantage of Anglo-Irish laws, or in the marriage beds of
ethnically intermarried couples. Although Kenny reminds her readers
that status and location could thus influence women's legal status,
her argument assumes the essential similarity of women's experiences
within each ethnic group and legal category over the four centuries
covered by the book.

The book's best sections treat marriage between the Irish and Anglo-
Irish, which was also the subject of Kenny's previously published
article, "Anglo-Irish and Gaelic Marriage Laws and Traditions in Late
Medieval Ireland," in _The Journal of Medieval History_ (2006). She
has found about seventy case studies from a variety of published and
manuscript records, all tidily reported in an appendix with
references. Chapter 9 on "Intermarriage" and other pages on
betrothal, marriage crises, divorce, and widowhood fruitfully exploit
this evidence, demonstrating ways that wives manipulated their kin,
courts, and cultural identities to their benefit.

Most of Kenny's points are straightforward and well made, but the book
has some flaws typical of first books. Kenny tends to weight all
evidence equally across genres. Her expertise in some areas (English
documents, secular women) is better developed than in others (Irish
legal evidence, religious women). This is especially clear in the
book's last chapter on nuns where the author rehearses a few chestnuts
(most women became nuns against their wills, convents were cauldrons
of sexual debauchery, and bishops harassed women's communities to
discipline nuns).

However, we need more books on women in medieval Ireland. I applaud
Kenny's industrious research among the Anglo-Irish records and her
effort to contribute to this still underdeveloped field.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States
License.

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=?iso-8859-1?Q?=C9M_IGR=C9S?= AND MIGRANTS 1933 TO 1956,
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Call for Papers
TRANSNATIONALISM AND VISUAL CULTURE IN BRITAIN: =C9MIGR=C9S AND MIGRANTS =
1933 TO
1956
9-11 September 2009
Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne
Deadline for proposals: 15 November 2008

Keynotes:

Dr Marian Malet
(Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, University of
London)

Brigitte Mayr and Michael Omasta
(Synema - Gesellschaft f=FCr Film und Medien, Vienna)

Historically British visual culture has been shaped by trans-cultural
cooperation, exiles, =E9migr=E9s and migrant workers. Besides =
multi-faceted
collaboration across geographical and cultural boundaries, the political
situation in the mid-twentieth century in continental Europe prompted
various migration movements. Many professionals, artists and =
intellectuals
left their home countries as a response to the establishment of =
totalitarian
regimes first by Italian, German and Spanish fascists and later by
communists in central and Eastern Europe. Others arrived in Britain =
almost
by chance =96 caught out by war or redrawn national boundaries. To a
significant number Britain offered a new =96 often permanent =96 home. =
Among the
large group of =E9migr=E9s who helped to change the face of visual =
culture in
Britain were film producers such as Alexander Korda, art historians such =
as
Nikolaus Pevsner, filmmakers such as Karel Reisz and Lotte Reiniger, =
ceramic
designers such as Grete Loebenstein and Agnete Hoy, architects such as
Walter Gropius and Erich Mendelsohn, avant-garde artists such as =
L=E1szl=F3
Moholy-Naghy, and photographers such as Bill Brandt.

This international and interdisciplinary conference looks at the
cross-fertilisation and trans-national contact of British visual culture
from the year the Nazis seized power in 1933 to the uprising in Hungary =
in
1956. Its wide focus invites papers on the avant-garde as well as on =
popular
culture, centres of immigration as well as marginalised communities.

Presentations may feature analyses of individual =E9migr=E9s, =
trajectories of
migrants, specific studies of cross-cultural contacts, specific =
artefacts,
schools of thought and theory, places of migration and trans-national
cultural life, film, photography, material visual culture, fashion,
journalism, television, architecture, academic life, the avant-garde,
design, race, gender, national identities, etc.

Topics of trans-national aspects of visual culture in Britain not =
included
in the above list are also welcome. Panel proposals are also welcome but =
we
ask each presenter to submit his or her own paper proposal. Roundtable
sessions and international participation are strongly encouraged.

Please send 150-250 word proposals to

Dr Tobias Hochscherf, Conference Co-organiser
Northumbria University
School of Arts and Social Sciences
Lipman Bldg.
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST
United Kingdom
Phone: ++44(0)191-227-4932
Email: tobias.hochscherf[at]northumbria.ac.uk

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In the absence of support systems and access to resources, an absurd and =
badly-thought out policy. No change there then...

We should now logically move to introduce compulsory Irish for =
foreigners.

Piaras

Ireland sets test for new citizens
Plans have been laid to assess the English skills of new arrivals in a =
bid to boost social integration, but concerns are growing that language =
support will suffer in the economic crisis, reports Henry McDonald

Henry McDonald
guardian.co.uk, Friday November 14 2008 12.53 GMT
Article history

Until just over a decade ago the Republic of Ireland was one of the most =
culturally and racially homogeneous societies on Earth.

Yet in a relatively short time a nation that was once almost entirely =
white and more than 95% Catholic has been radically and rapidly =
transformed into a multicultural society.

According to the latest figures from the Republic's Central Statistics =
Office, around 18% of Ireland's population are non-nationals, the =
majority of them from eastern Europe, China and west Africa. This also =
includes a large proportion of Britons who have settled on the island.

Irish academics who study the new immigration patterns, such as =
University College Dublin sociologist Dr Bryan Fanning, believe the =
official figures underestimate the numbers. Despite the credit crunch =
and economic downturn, Fanning estimates that the proportion of =
non-Irish nationals in the population could be over 20%.

The challenges raised by this immigration prompted the government to =
establish a ministry for integration in 2007, headed by Conor Lenihan.

Last month Lenihan confirmed that he is determined to make the ability =
to speak English a key requirement for people wanting to work and settle =
in Ireland.

The minister said that at all tiers of the immigration process =97 full =
citizenship, permanent residency, a green card (full employment status), =
work permit (limited access to applying for jobs) =97 English would be =
the key precondition.

"The category you will be eligible for will be determined by which level =
of English you are competent at. So, for example, those who gain the =
highest marks in English, who are the most competent, can apply for full =
citizenship," said Lenihan.

He said his citizenship test would not be ready until next year, while =
defending the language requirement.

"Increasingly throughout all the nations of the EU language of the host =
nation is the key requirement. Learning that language is no longer =
voluntary. All of us in the EU are going down the mandatory route," he =
said.

The minister also revealed that adult migrants would have to pay =
contributions out of their own pockets for English language courses. =
Around 10,000 adults are currently taking part in English classes across =
the Republic.

But immigration support groups and education unions are still waiting =
for the integration and education ministries to publish their joint =
policy on English language training for adults. That's due before the =
end of the year.

Last May Lenihan's department published Migration Nation, its first =
statement on its strategy for integration, with a promise to increase =
the numbers of language support teachers for migrant children in =
schools. But that measure was thrown into doubt last month after cuts in =
education spending were announced as part of a "crisis" budget.

John Carr, general secretary of Ireland's largest teachers' union, the =
Irish National Teachers Organisation (Into), pointed out that two years =
ago the department of education increased the number of staff teaching =
English to foreign children in Irish schools from two to six per school. =
Carr said that Into has been informed that, after the budget, the =
numbers of specialist language teachers tutoring migrant children in =
English would be slashed back to two per school.

"It is a savage attack on the primary education system where many of =
these kids are taught. These children have very specific needs and their =
families came to Ireland and make a significant contribution of the =
Irish economy and society. Now at the first sign of economic trouble =
support for them is being removed," Carr said.

One gateway towards language skills, and ultimately passing Lenihan's =
proposed citizenship test, is Ireland's traditionally large network of =
community, voluntary and sporting organisations. One such body, Sport =
Against Racism Ireland (Sari), uses sport to help integrate foreign =
communities into Irish society. They run multicultural soccer leagues =
and Frank Buckley, one of Sari's founders, said one of the first things =
they do when migrant teams join a league is to encourage the players to =
improve their English skills.

"Sari has an arrangement with a number of English language schools in =
Dublin who give us a fair discount for our members. We actively promote =
English learning as part of our programme of integrating the new people =
coming into Ireland," he said.

While the government has said that community organisations such as Sari =
will continue to play an important role in its strategy to support =
migrants, concerns remain about how much direct funding will be =
available for English language courses.

Fidele Mutwarasibo, a spokesman for the Irish Immigrant Council, pointed =
to a major unfairness built into the proposed English-for-citizenship =
requirement plan.

"Our contention is that you cannot ask people to sit an exam if you =
don't teach them [the language] first.

"Our concern is that the Irish citizenship test will be introduced =
before the teaching programme. We would like to see the rolling out of =
the programme before any citizenship test. It would be unfair to test =
people before they have had the chance to learn English. The test is =
going to happen, it's all about timing and providing teaching =
beforehand," he said.

Mutwarasibo added that Ireland's ailing economy is actually losing out =
because of the lack of a coherent nationwide English-teaching programme.

Many of the migrants doing menial jobs in Ireland are actually highly =
qualified and could be doing more productive work, he said. But they =
can't at present because they are not sufficiently competent in English.

There is also a cost barrier for many migrants, he said: "There is =
evidence that, where the migrant contributes a bit [to training] it =
encourages them to participate. But at a commercial rate they may not be =
able to afford it. It's in our own self-interest for people to learn the =
English language because we need migrants who are competent to do more =
skilled jobs and fill the skills gap in the economy.

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Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I am going to take advantage of a little Ir-d lull to deal with some Ir-d
housekeeping items...

First I want to remind members about the Irish Diaspora list archives - and
how to access them.

As will be known we usually celebrate our Ir-D birthday at the beginning of
December. The list was founded in November 1997, and the first real
messages were sent out in December 1997.

Our archives are currently stored in 2 places (not counting my own back-ups,
and other back-ups elsewhere)...

1.
At the end of November 2008 we will have 11 years of Irish Diaspora list
reference and discussion stored in our own private archive, a searchable and
browsable database at

http://www.irishdiaspora.net/

That is a web forwarding address, pointing to a web site hosted for us by
Dr. Stephen Sobol and The Institute of Communications Studies, University of
Leeds.

There have been problems with this system in the recent past. But
everything now works well and I have repaired and restored the database.
Back-ups, you see, back-ups...

The database receives and stores an email every day that the Ir-D list is
active. This email contains all the Ir-D messages of that day.

To access that archive, go to the irishdiaspora.net web address.

Click on Special Access

Then
Username irdmember
Current Password minnesota

And in the RESTRICTED section you will be able to use the Database of the
Irish Diaspora list archive (DIRDA)

There are some little vagaries with the search system. Sometimes unclicking
'Whole words only' makes it behave better, especially with Irish family
names.

2.
In June 2004 I moved the running of the Irish Diaspora list to Jiscmail -
the UK academic community's listserver. Jiscmail uses the software
LISTSERV, which many members will be familiar with.

So, the archives for recent years, since our move to Jiscmail, are ALSO
automatically stored at Jiscmail

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/

Jiscmail knows you through your email address. You have to log in, in the
usual Listserv fashion, and become an individual Subscriber. The
instructions are there, on the web site.

You then have access to a highly organised, Listserv type, Irish Diaspora
list archive.

Jiscmail has recently had a tidy-up and update. There are now all sorts of
facilities that we do not use. Feel free to poke around, look at these
facilities, and report.

I tend to use the archive at
http://www.irishdiaspora.net/
when I want to see how a recurring topic has been discussed over the years.

P.O'S.

--
Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

Email Patrick O'Sullivan Email Patrick
O'Sullivan Personal Fax 0044 (0) 709 236 9050

Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/
Irish Diaspora Net
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Irish Diaspora Research Unit
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Subject: CFP Screening the Irish in Britain, Trinity College Dublin,
Saturday 26 September 2009
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From: Ruth Barton [mailto:ruth.barton[at]tcd.ie]

Call for Papers
17 November 2008

Screening the Irish in Britain

To complement the established Screening Irish-America research project, the
Department of Film Studies at Trinity College Dublin would like to announce
the launch of Screening the Irish in Britain. This project has been
initiated in order to research and analyse screen images of the Irish in
Britain, both historically and in the present. This includes images
circulated in films, on television and via the internet.

We invite interested academics to participate in a symposium/workshop to be
held at Trinity College Dublin on Saturday 26 September 2009. Speakers
confirmed to date include:

Professor John Hill
Royal Holloway, University of London

Dr Lance Pettitt
Leeds Metropolitan University

We welcome interdisciplinary and subject-specific approaches and hope to
develop a dialogue between this topic and other topics associated with Irish
diaspora studies.

Proposals should be limited to around 200 words and be accompanied by brief
biographical details.

If you would like to be kept up to date with the project, please email your
name to the project director, Dr Ruth Barton (ruth.barton[at]tcd.ie)

All proposals should be sent to ruth.barton[at]tcd.ie.

This project is supported by the Trinity College Dublin Long Room Hub
Research Initiative Funding Scheme.

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Subject: TOC Irish Political Studies Volume 23 Issue 4, Continuity,
Change and Crisis in Ireland
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A Special Issue, somewhat overtaken by events...

P.O'S.

Irish Political Studies: Volume 23 Issue 4=20

Special Issue:

Continuity, Change and Crisis in Ireland: New Perspectives, Research and
Interpretation

This new issue contains the following articles:

Continuity, Change and Crisis in Ireland: An Introduction and =
Discussion,
Pages 457 - 474
Author: Brian Girvin

=91A Greek Authoritarian Phase=92? The Irish Army and the Irish Crisis, =
1969=9670,
Pages 475 - 490
Author: Eunan O'Halpin

The British State and the Rise of the IRA, 1969=9671: The View from the =
Conway
Hotel, Pages 491 - 511
Author: Henry Patterson

Mobilisation, State Crisis and Counter-Mobilisation: Ulster Unionist
Politics and the Outbreak of the Troubles, Pages 513 - 532
Author: Christopher Farrington

=91Is it a New Allowance?=92 Irish Entry to the EEC and Popular Opinion, =
Pages
533 - 553
Authors: Gary Murphy; Niamh Puirs=E9il

Contraception, Moral Panic and Social Change in Ireland, 1969=9679, =
Pages 555
- 576
Author: Brian Girvin
DOI: 10.1080/07907180802452804

Fianna F=E1il, the Trade Union Movement and the Politics of =
Macroeconomic
Crises, 1970=9682, Pages 577 - 598
Authors: Gary Murphy; John Hogan

The Politics of Economic Adjustment in a Liberal Market Economy: The =
Social
Compensation Hypothesis Revisited, Pages 599 - 626
Authors: Niamh Hardiman; Patrick Murphy; Orlaith Burke

Managing Change: Party Competition in the New Ireland, Pages 627 - 648
Author: Sean McGraw

Continuity, Change and Crisis in Ireland: An Afterword, Pages 649 - 652
Author: Gary Murphy

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De Valera in America by Dave Hannigan Tuesday, 11 November 2008

Arriving in America in 1919 as Priomh Aire of the as yet unrecognised =
government of the Irish Republic, Eamon de Valera was transformed by =
republican Joseph McGarrity into the President of the Irish Republic. =
McGarrity reckoned that the newly arrived representative of D=C3=A1il =
=C3=89ireann needed a makeover in both dress and address, and thus he =
was known almost from the start of his visit.

Dave Hannigan's account of de Valera's return to his homeland is told =
with a refreshing lack of illusion. He almost immediately informs his =
readers that the quintessential Irish move, the split, was almost a =
foregone conclusion. Disputes arose between de Valera and two of the =
weightiest Irish-Americans of the day, John Devoy and Daniel F. Cohalan. =
Disagreements arose over the handling of the raising of money for the =
fledgling republic through the sale of bonds. Many had misgivings about =
this particular form of fundraising, articulated by New York alderman =
W.F. Quinn, who said, "A bond issue is a financial lien against a =
tangible property. The misty dream of a deluded agitator is not and =
never can be called security for a bond issue". The problem was =
eventually overcome by renaming them bond-certificates.

But though one of the primary reasons for de Valera's eighteen-month =
tour of the US was fundraising, there was another more important aim - =
the recognition by the US of the new republic. Travelling thousands of =
miles from coast to coast, and almost universally treated to =
extraordinary shows of loyalty and adulation, de Valera's primary cause =
always was the Irish Republic, for which he had fought and for which he =
had been imprisoned. However he was also open to the accusation of =
trying to interfere in the politics of another country as he tried to =
persuade both Republicans and Democrats to include in their election =
manifestos a commitment to the new Irish Republic.

Eventually de Valera established the American Association for the =
Recognition of the Irish Republic, making public the split with the =
Friends of Irish Freedom of Devoy and Cohalan, and exacerbating the =
situation by attracting hundreds of thousands of members while =
membership of the FOIF dwindled correspondingly.

He returned to Ireland in 1920 - smuggled on board ship just as he had =
been on the outward journey - with the main plank of his mission =
unaccomplished. He did manage to raise more the =E2=82=AC5m for the =
Irish cause, and he was also reunited with his mother Catherine, from =
whom he had parted as a very small child. They had met on at least two =
occasions since, when Catherine visited Ireland, and a visit to her =
Rochester home was his first priority when he reached America in 1919. =
The story of his family ties to New York provide a pleasant antidote to =
the political intrigue, animosity and adulation that permeate much of =
the narrative. However it is the fusing of all the strands of the story, =
both political and personal, that produces such a cogent account of just =
one short period in the life of this major figure in Irish politics.
(O'Brien Press, ISBN 978-1-84717-086-6, pp318, =E2=82=AC14.99)

Dave Hannigan is the author of three previous books, and is a sports =
columnist with the Sunday Tribune in Dublin, the Evening Echo (Cork) and =
the Irish Echo (New York). He is also an adjunct professor of history at =
Suffolk County Community College on Long Island. Born in Cork, he now =
lives in New York.

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publication
Legal Studies

ISSN
0261-3875 electronic: 1748-121X

publisher
Blackwell Publishing

year - volume - issue - page
2008 - 28 - 3 - 452

article

Religious ethos and employment equality: a comparative Irish perspective

Coen, Mark

abstract

This paper addresses, from a comparative perspective, the legal position of
the lay employees of religious institutions such as schools and hospitals.
The legal regimes governing 'ethos' in the Republic of Ireland, Northern
Ireland and Britain are compared. The tension which exists between the right
of religious schools and hospitals to uphold their ethos in a secular
society on the one hand, and the rights of their employees to privacy and
personal autonomy on the other, is highlighted. It will be argued that
legislative reform is required to remove uncertainty from the lives of lay
employees of religious institutions who work conscientiously but fear
dismissal or discrimination because an aspect of their lifestyle - usually
their sexuality - is considered unorthodox by their employer. The need for a
change in judicial attitudes and a lessening of deference towards the
actions of religious denominations is also a theme throughout.

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One highlight of my recent trip to Minnesota was a meeting with Brigittine
French, who is doing very interesting work unpacking the archives - and the
arguments - of Arensberg and Kimball. This led to much discussion of that
whole Harvard enterprise...

Coincidentally this article turned up in our alerts. There is all that data
collected by the Harvard Anthropological Survey of Ireland (1934-1936). It
might have been collected in ways that now seem odd to us, and for reasons
that seem odder - see earlier IR-D discussion. But it is there. John H.
Relethford has made several attempts to persuade the data to tell us...
something.

P.O'S.

American Journal of Human Biology
Volume 20 Issue 6, Pages 726 - 731

Published Online: 20 Aug 2008

Copyright C 2008 Wiley-Liss, Inc., A Wiley Company

Original Research Article
Postfamine stature and socioeconomic status in Ireland
Kristin Young 1 *, John H. Relethford 2, Michael H. Crawford 1
1Laboratory of Biological Anthropology, University of Kansas, Lawrence,
Kansas 66045
2Department of Anthropology, SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta, New York 13820
email: Kristin Young (kjmel[at]ku.edu)

*Correspondence to Kristin Young, Department of Anthropology, University of
Kansas, 622 Fraser Hall, 1415 Jayhawk Boulevard, Lawrence, Kansas 66045

Funded by:
National Science Foundation; Grant Number: DBS-9120185

Abstract
Previous research has documented socioeconomic stratification of secular
trend in height in historical populations. Using data from 4,900 males and
1,430 females born between 1840 and 1910 collected as part of the Harvard
Anthropological Survey of Ireland (1934-1936), this study examined the
secular changes in postfamine Ireland using several socioeconomic variables,
including: occupation, migration, education, siblings, birthplace, and
occupation of father and mother's father. Correlations were also calculated
between height and various historical economic indices. Significant
differences in the height of Irish males were found by occupation,
education, and socioeconomic status of father and maternal grandfather.
Males employed in agriculture, or whose fathers or grandfathers were so
employed, were significantly taller than other males. For the smaller female
sample, only occupation and grandfather's socioeconomic status had a
significant impact on height. An inverse correlation was also found between
the British Cost of Living Index (BCL) and male heights. Our results suggest
that availability of resources plays an important role in the overall
nutritional status reflected in terminal adult height. Am. J. Hum. Biol.,
2008. C 2008 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
Received: 19 February 2008; Revised: 11 June 2008; Accepted: 14 June 2008

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1002/ajhb.20807 About DOI

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"Liquid Modernity" and Irish Identity: Irishness in Guinness,
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Another highlight of my visit to Minnesota was a meeting - in a pub - with
two very pretty young women, who were part of a campaign to persuade me, and
others, that Jameson whiskey should be used as a mixer. With free samples.
I made an excuse. But they did give me a very nice Jameson baseball cap.

I don't know how seriously we are supposed to take all this stuff -
sometimes all we are doing is investigating the mentality of the admen. But
I know that this article will interest a number of Ir-D members.

P.O'S.


"Liquid Modernity" and Irish Identity: Irishness in Guinness, Jameson, and
Ballygowan Advertisements
Carmen Kuhling
Advertising & Society Review, Volume 9, Issue 3, 2008 (Article)
DOI: 10.1353/asr.0.0010

Subject Headings:
Advertising -- Drinking water -- Ireland.
Advertising -- Beverages -- Ireland.
Commercial art -- Social aspects -- Ireland.
Nationalism in advertising -- Ireland.

Abstract:

Advertisements tap into collective representations or shared cultural values
regarding identity, community, and authenticity. In this paper, we will
examine representations of Irish identity in advertising campaigns for
Guinness Stout, Ballygowan Water, and Jameson Whiskey, all of which reflect
Ireland's experience of "liquid modernity" and occupy different places on
the spectrum of two conflicting representations of Irishness apparent in
Ireland today. On one side, these brands appeal to a pre-modern Celtic
culture or traditional solidarity, but on the other, they aspire to and
exhibit a postmodern, hybridized, and aspirational cosmopolitanism, though
to differing degrees. Ad campaigns for Ballygowan Water (which formerly had
used a slogan, "the power of purity," as well as Celtic mythology) now
represent Irishness through exuberant young street dancers and a diverse
urban culture. On the other hand, the Guinness ad campaign's "knowing what
matters" paradoxically appeals to a traditional version of Irish community
despite the fact that Guinness is now owned by Diageo, a multinational
corporation. These diverse representations of Irishness reflect the cultural
ambivalence and contradictory effects of various cultural collisions that
have resulted from the processes of globalization/accelerated modernization
in Ireland.

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Civic reception to launch new Irish Group
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Irish Diaspora in Scotland
=20
Following several years of talks and negotiations a new group =
representing
Scotland=92s Irish community will be officially launched at a civic =
reception
in Glasgow City Chambers on Friday 21 November 2008.

This new group has chosen the name =91Irish Diaspora in Scotland =
Association=92,
or IDSA for convenience.

As Diaspora refers to people who share a common culture, religion or =
ethnic
background it was felt this was an appropriate title to describe our
community in Scotland which is now multigenerational with a smaller
percentage actually born in Ireland.

IDSA will work on behalf of the Irish community in Scotland seeking out
funding for our many groups, liaise with the Irish government, the =
Scottish
Parliament and local authorities to ensure the Irish are treated equally =
to
other Ethnic groups.

The launch will be attended by Irish Government representatives, =
numerous
MPs, MSPs, local councillors, representatives from several ethnic =
minority
groups, religious figures, Glasgow=92s Lord Provost, Council leaders,
academics, members of the business community, sports people and
representatives from all the organisations that currently comprise IDSA. =


Gaelic Athletic Association (Cumann Luthcleas Gael), Gaelic League =
(Conradh
na Gaeilge), Feis Glasch=FA, St Patrick=92s Festival Committee =
Coatbridge,
Erin=92s Ways, An Sc=E9al, Irish in Scotland History Group, Irish Famine
Commemoration Committee, Coatbridge Irish Genealogy Project, Comhaltas
Ceolt=F3ir=ED =C9ireann, Croy Historical Society, Garngad Irish Heritage =
Group,
St.Helen=92s Irish C=E9il=ED club, Celtic Supporters Association, Croy =
Welfare
Development Trust and both Irish dance organizations:An Coimisi=FAn le =
Rinc=ED
Gaelach and Comhdh=E1il Na Rince Gaelacha.

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From: Patrick Maume
Brigittine gave a very interesting paper on this topic at the NEICN
conference in Sunderland last weekend. This is definitely research worth
keeping an eye on.
Best wishes,
Patrick

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:

> One highlight of my recent trip to Minnesota was a meeting with Brigittine
> French, who is doing very interesting work unpacking the archives - and the
> arguments - of Arensberg and Kimball. This led to much discussion of that
> whole Harvard enterprise...
>
> Coincidentally this article turned up in our alerts. There is all that
> data
> collected by the Harvard Anthropological Survey of Ireland (1934-1936). It
> might have been collected in ways that now seem odd to us, and for reasons
> that seem odder - see earlier IR-D discussion. But it is there. John H.
> Relethford has made several attempts to persuade the data to tell us...
> something.
>
> P.O'S.
>
> American Journal of Human Biology
> Volume 20 Issue 6, Pages 726 - 731
>
> Published Online: 20 Aug 2008
>
> Copyright C 2008 Wiley-Liss, Inc., A Wiley Company
>
> Original Research Article
> Postfamine stature and socioeconomic status in Ireland
> Kristin Young 1 *, John H. Relethford 2, Michael H. Crawford 1
> 1Laboratory of Biological Anthropology, University of Kansas, Lawrence,
> Kansas 66045
> 2Department of Anthropology, SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta, New York 13820
> email: Kristin Young (kjmel[at]ku.edu)
>
> *Correspondence to Kristin Young, Department of Anthropology, University of
> Kansas, 622 Fraser Hall, 1415 Jayhawk Boulevard, Lawrence, Kansas 66045
>
> Funded by:
> National Science Foundation; Grant Number: DBS-9120185
>
> Abstract
> Previous research has documented socioeconomic stratification of secular
> trend in height in historical populations. Using data from 4,900 males and
> 1,430 females born between 1840 and 1910 collected as part of the Harvard
> Anthropological Survey of Ireland (1934-1936), this study examined the
> secular changes in postfamine Ireland using several socioeconomic
> variables,
> including: occupation, migration, education, siblings, birthplace, and
> occupation of father and mother's father. Correlations were also calculated
> between height and various historical economic indices. Significant
> differences in the height of Irish males were found by occupation,
> education, and socioeconomic status of father and maternal grandfather.
> Males employed in agriculture, or whose fathers or grandfathers were so
> employed, were significantly taller than other males. For the smaller
> female
> sample, only occupation and grandfather's socioeconomic status had a
> significant impact on height. An inverse correlation was also found between
> the British Cost of Living Index (BCL) and male heights. Our results
> suggest
> that availability of resources plays an important role in the overall
> nutritional status reflected in terminal adult height. Am. J. Hum. Biol.,
> 2008. C 2008 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
> Received: 19 February 2008; Revised: 11 June 2008; Accepted: 14 June 2008
>
> Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
>
> 10.1002/ajhb.20807 About DOI
>

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I am having trouble seeing quite how you might be able to buy this book. =
I
have been told that it is published by the Universidade de Valladolid - =
but
cannot find anything on the UVA web site. Perhaps I am too early.

There is information on the AEDEI web site - The Spanish Association for
Irish Studies (Asociaci=F3n Espa=F1ola de Estudios Irlandeses). See =
below.

The volume looks very interesting, and Mar=EDa Jos=E9 Carrera and =
colleagues are
to be congratulated - the whole AEDEI approach has been to stand =
confidently
within the mainland 'filologia' tradition but reach out to =
English-speaking
colleagues. The structures of the book and the section titles are based =
on
an elaborate metaphor involving Celtic knot patterns and Jacques Lacan.
Fun, eh?=20

P.O'S.

Carrera, Mar=EDa Jos=E9
Carrera, Anunciaci=F3n
C=E1mara, Enrique
Dap=EDa, Celsa
(Eds.)

THE IRISH KNOT: ESSAYS ON IMAGINARY/REAL IRELAND
Valladolid , 2008
391 PAGES
ISBN: 978-84-8448-455-4

22 euros

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements. 11

Introduction: Ireland, the Imaginary Knot. Mar=EDa Jos=E9 Carrera, =
Anunciaci=F3n
Carrera, Enrique C=E1mara, Celsa Dap=EDa. 13

1: HISTORIATED CAPITALS

Imagination and Reality in a Flat World: Ireland in the Global Economy. =
John
Bradley. 31

Revising the Rising, Again! The President, 1916 and the Real Thing. =
Alfred
Markey. 49

"The scars of a fractured nation": Imagination and Reality in Popular
Historical Fiction. David Clark. 57

Robert McLiam Wilson's Eureka Street: Real or Imagined Northern Ireland.
Esther Aliaga Rodrigo. 65

A 'True Believer': Joseph O'Connor Imagining Dublin in the Second Half =
of
the Twentieth Century. Jos=E9 Manuel Est=E9vez Sa=E1. 71

'Science-Fictional Northern Ireland': Belfast in Ian McDonald's =
Sacrifice of
Fools. Stephanie Schwerter. 79

2: ILLUMINATIONS

Ireland/Cinema and Reality/Illusion. Rod Stoneman. 87

Revisioning Ireland's Recent Past: Just Seeing the Record Straight? Rosa
Gonz=E1lez. 99

Real/Imagined Children: Images of Children in the Northern Ireland Peace
Process. Chris Gilligan. 111

The Symbols of Music in John Huston's The Dead. Carlos Villar Flor. 127

Yeats's Theatrical Thinking: Imagination Between the Real and the =
Realist.
Enrique C=E1mara Arenas & Teresa Calder=F3n Quind=F3s. 137

Stereo-Typed to Stereotype: Illustrations, 'the Most Influential =
Novelty' of
the Nineteenth-Century Irish and British Press. Robin. J. Kavanagh. 147

Writing the Ruins: Beckett and Benjamin. David Pattie. 161

3: PALIMPSESTS

Myth: Adequate Language to Interpret Ireland. Munira H. Mutran. 175

Landscape as Text in Seamus Heaney: The Irish 'Songlines'. Carlos =
Herrero
Quir=F3s. 187

Classical Fairy Tales in Modern Landscapes: Felicia's Journey, by =
William
Trevor. Libe Garc=EDa Zarranz. 193

Yeats and the Celtic Twilight: Between the Worlds. Tim Wenzell. 201

The Sepulchral Metaphor in The Burial at Thebes, a Translation of =
Sophocles'
Antigone by Seamus Heaney. Loredana Salis. 207

Translating Irish Culture: How Real and Imaginary Celtic Ireland is =
Rendered
into the Ulster Cycle Stories. Ana I. Hern=E1ndez Bartolom=E9 & Isabel =
Parrado
Rom=E1n. 213

4: MATRIX LINGUA

Imaginations of Irish Womanhood vs. Real Women in Mary Beckett's A =
Belfast
Woman. Mar=EDa Jes=FAs Lorenzo Modia & Cristina Fern=E1ndez M=E9ndez. =
223

Language Performativity in Donal O'Kelly's Catalpa (1995) and Enda =
Walsh's
Disco Pigs (1996): Two Radical Theatre Proposals. Rosana Herrero =
Mart=EDn. 231

The Journey to Peace: Metaphorical Representations of Post-Agreement
Northern Ireland. Laura Filardo Llamas. 243

Our Boys in Green! Coverage of the Republic of Ireland Football Team
Campaign for the 2006 World Cup by the Irish Independent and the Irish
Times. Jean Mercereau. 253

Imagining a New Mother-Daughter Relation: Jennifer Johnston's =
Construction
of the Female Servant in The Old Jest. M=AA de la Bendici=F3n Olivares =
Allepuz.
263

A Postcolonial Reading of Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark. Pilar =
Villar
Arg=E1iz. 271

5: VARIANCE

From the Emerald Isle to Errorland: Contesting Visions in the Irish =
Literary
Field. Matthew C. Cissell. 283

Revisiting 'Real' Ireland: New (Imagi)Nations in =C9il=EDs N=ED =
Dhuibhne's The
Dancers Dancing. Aida Rosende P=E9rez. 291

The Spectre of Ideology in Joyce's "The Dead". Ana Losada P=E9rez. 299

The Real Ireland: Myths and Realities in a Re-Imagining of Irishness =
within
the Ulster-Scots Contribution to Social and Political Discourse. Linda =
M.
Hagan. 307

"...crazier ad more of it than we think": The Ulster-Scots Contribution =
to
Irish Literature. Carol Baraniuk. 315.

6: VADE MECUM

"They took the dull coast road home": Images of Ireland in Samuel =
Beckett's
Dream of Fair to Middling Women. Jos=E9 Francisco Fern=E1ndez S=E1nchez. =
329

La visi=F3n realista de Irlanda de Maria Edgeworth. Lina Sierra Ayala. =
339

Flann O'Brien's Real Ireland. Giordano Vintaloro. 347

An 'Imagined Country': W. B. Yeats, Ireland and Identity. Elena Cotta
Ramusino. 355

Between Biographical Fooprints and Legendary Traces: The Real and =
Imaginary
Worlds of At Swim-Two Birds by Flann O'Brien. Cristina Bay=F3n Garc=EDa =
& H=E9ctor
Fern=E1ndez Bahillo. 363

7: WATERMARKS

Imagining the Basques, Imagining the Irish. Asier Altuna-Garc=EDa de =
Salazar.
373

Imagining Ireland in Twentieth-Century Spanish Writers: Diasporic
Imagination in the Works of =C1lvaro Cunqueiro. Rub=E9n Jarazo =
=C1lvarez. 383

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Tuned Out: Traditional Music and Identity in Northern Ireland
Fintan Vallely [ Dundalk Institute of Technology ]

This book looks at the attitudes of Protestant performers to Traditional =
music in Northern Ireland. It reflects on broader Protestant community =
views of the music through their eyes, and considers too the impact of =
historical literature, political statements and other interventions =
which have affected and shaped Traditional music today.

Traditional music is taken to mean the dance music, forms of dance and =
style of songs which were the onetime entertainment of rural people =
prior to urbanisation and the development of mass forms of =
entertainment.

This is a thought provoking, considered and original contribution to a =
wide range of academic fields including Irish music studies, =
ethnomusicology, anthropology, history, political science, popular =
culture studies, conflict studies and folklore studies.

Tuned Out explores its territory largely through musicians. Most of =
these are conversant with the traditional and continued practice of =
Traditional music by people of Protestant-religion backgrounds and by =
Protestant people in predominantly Protestant areas. The observations =
which are made contradict some popularly held beliefs about Traditional =
music, proffering instead that the common ownership and identification =
myths are, in addition to political pragmatism, underpinned also by =
absence of information. The selected comments show that while the =
ascription =E2=80=98Traditional music is Catholic music=E2=80=99 may be =
popular political pragmatism, the notion is substantially superficial =
and uninformed.

Fintan Vallely is course co-ordinator and lecturer in Traditional Music =
in Dundalk Institute of Technology and is the author of The Companion to =
Traditional Irish Music
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Size: 234 x 156mm
ISBN: 9781859184431
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Professor Terry Eagleton Appointed Adjunct Professor at NUI Galway
Thu 13th Nov 2008

Professor Terry Eagleton Appointed Adjunct Professor at NUI Galway
NUI Galway is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Terry
Eagleton as Adjunct Professor of Cultural Theory based at the Moore's
Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies.

Professor Eagleton, who is of Irish descent, is regarded by many as arguably
Britain's most influential living literary critic. His specialities are
literary and cultural theory and the English-language literature and culture
of Ireland, on which he has recently completed a trilogy of works.

Eagleton's books of literary criticism include Literary Theory: an
Introduction (1983) and After Theory (2003). He is also the author of the
novel Saints and Scholars (1987) and The Gatekeeper: a Memoir (2001). His
latest books are How to Read a Poem (2006); The Meaning of Life (2007); and
Trouble with Strangers: a Study of Ethics (2008).

Announcing the appointment, Professor Kevin Barry, Dean of the College of
Arts, Social Sciences, and Celtic Studies at NUI Galway, said: "We warmly
welcome Terry Eagleton to the College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Celtic
Studies where he will join the Moore Institute for Research in the
Humanities and Social Studies. Eagleton, as adjunct Professor of Cultural
Theory, will provide each semester master-classes for doctoral students and
junior staff, in addition to open lectures and seminars on modern
literature".

"Without doubt Terry Eagleton is one of the most distinguished and
recalcitrant public intellectuals of his time. He has on many occasions been
a celebrated visitor to Galway, receiving an Honorary Doctorate from this
University some ten years ago. He has continued, whether in his writings on
culture, critical thinking, economic inequality, or the politics of terror,
to rough up the edges of the mainstream , as he calls it. He remains (and
his time may have come again) a defender of Marx's analysis of power and its
discontents. He is a famous and fabulous communicator and one of the rare
articulate, persuasive critics of contemporary liberalism. His presence on
campus will bring exciting benefits to our students, and we are delighted he
will be sharing with them his time and the energy of his arguments."

Terry Eagleton was recently appointed to a Chair in English Literature at
the Department of English and Creative Writing at Lancaster University and
has previously held the positions of Thomas Wharton Professor of English
Literature at the University of Oxford (1992-2001), and until recently the
John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at the University of
Manchester.

Eagleton commented on his appointment to NUI Galway: "I am delighted to be
appointed to a chair in the most beautiful of all the Irish campuses, a
college which honoured me with a Degree of Doctor of Letters some years ago.
Coming to Galway is particularly exciting for me since I have many old
friends in the town and college. In fact, the Eagletons come from Headford
and Shrule and there are still members of my family in the borderlines of
Co. Galway and Co. Mayo. I am particularly grateful to Professor Kevin Barry
who took the initiative to bring me to Galway and I look forward to meeting
the students very soon".

Professor Eagleton will deliver his Inaugural Lecture at NUI Galway on 10
December entitled 'The Death of Criticism'.

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