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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Elliott Barkan need authors on Lithuanians in US/ Protestant
Irish in US
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Elliott Barkan needs authors on Lithuanians in US/ Protestant Irish in US

Elliott Barkan, Prof. Emeritus, is editing a 4 volume, one million
word, encyclopedia on U.S. Immigration for ABC-Clio. Eighty-five
persons have already signed on to participate in this unique,
multi-ethnic, multi-disciplinary project. However, there remain two
holes in our coverage:

Lithuanians in America roughly since World War One
Protestant Irish in America since about 1870

If you are interested in getting more information and might like to
participate (there is considerable flexibility in terms of length,
compensation, and due dates), contact Elliott: ebarkan[at]csusb.edu

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On a recent trip to London I was able to visit, and be absorbed by, the
British Library's free exhibition, TAKING LIBERTIES...

Some web links below, and a search will find many more...

The USA connections are very evident, and many commentators have remarked on
the Irish dimensions...

See 1893 Gladstone's notes on Home Rule, scribbled out quickly to guide his
speech in Parliament, and the 1998 Belfast Agreement.

A fascinating object, which I had never seen before, is a map - very large
and detailed - prepared for the King in the 1830s to explain the recent
troubles in the south of Ireland. I must find out more about this. What is
immediately evident on the map is the vast amount of territory owned by
absentee landlords.

P.O'S.


1.
http://www.bl.uk/takingliberties

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/takingliberties/staritems.html


TAKING LIBERTIES
The British Library's free exhibition on the 900-year struggle for Britain's
freedoms and rights 31 Oct 2008-1 Mar 200

See exhibits and video
Introduction to Taking Liberties exhibition

2.
Statutes of liberty
From the Magna Carta to CCTV, a new exhibition at the British Library tells
the definitive story of the nation's fight for liberty. Historian Tristram
Hunt is inspired

'In the month when the women of Northern Ireland were once again denied the
same abortion rights as those on the mainland, the documents highlight that
long tradition of strange things happening to British liberty as it crosses
the Irish Sea...'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/oct/30/civil-liberties-exhibition-british-
library

3.
These values we hold dear

Shami Chakrabarti

Published 16 October 2008

An exhibition on Britain's fight for civil liberties is a humbling reminder
of how precious those rights are

http://www.newstatesman.com/arts-and-culture/2008/10/rights-exhibition-liber
ties

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From: Elizabeth Malcolm
Subject: Irish Studies Seminar,
Melbourne: Archaeology of Irish in Australia
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Dear Paddy,

Could you please circulate this message. Of course few on the list will be able to
get to this seminar. But still, I thought some might be interested to know that work
such as this is being pursued here.

Elizabeth
----------------------------------------------------------

MELBOURNE IRISH STUDIES SEMINARS (MISS)

Newman College, University of Melbourne
Tues. 25 Nov., 6.00pm - 7.15pm
Drinks 6.00; Paper 6.15-7.00; Questions 7.00-c.7.15; Dinner in
Lygon St.

PROFESSOR TIM MURRAY, FSA, FAHA
Professor of Archaeology
Head of the School of Humanities & Social Sciences
La Trobe University, Melbourne

'Building an Archaeology of 19th-Century Irish Migration to Australia'

Professor Murray will speak about excavations undertaken in central Sydney,
especially in 'The Rocks' area, and in central Melbourne, especially in 'Little Lon'
Street and Casselden Place, which were parts of these cities heavily settled by
Irish immigrants during the early and mid 19th century. He is also currently engaged
on an ARC-funded project about the archaeology of Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney,
1848-86, which housed many of the so-called 'famine orphans' - c.4,000 young women
sent to Australia in 1848-50 from Irish workhouses during the Great Famine.
Professor Murray will consider what archaeology can tell us about the nature of
Irish migration to Australia during the 19th century.

All welcome. Any questions, please contact me.

Elizabeth
_________________________________________________
Professor Elizabeth Malcolm

Gerry Higgins Chair of Irish Studies
School of Historical Studies ~ University of Melbourne ~ Victoria, 3010, AUSTRALIA
Phone: +61-3-83443924 ~ Email: e.malcolm[at]unimelb.edu.au

President
Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand (ISAANZ)
Website: http://isaanz.org
__________________________________________________

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Glasgow Rangers 'Famine Song' controversy
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Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Irish Diaspora list members might like - or even need - to be aware of a
controversy that has been rumbling away for most of this year, on the web
and in parts of the media. The controversy is now entering the more
mainstream parts of the media.

For background, see much earlier IR-D discussion about the history of the
Celtic football team, and the rivalry with the Glasgow Rangers football
team.

Glasgow Rangers supporters have developed a football terrace chant, which
has become known as the 'Famine Song'. It is specifically aimed at Glasgow
Celtic supporters, who are in the main of Irish Catholic heritage. It has
occasionally been aimed at football players of Irish heritage who have
decided to play for the Irish national team rather than the Scottish. The
chant is designed to annoy and discomfort.

A very much longer version of the chant has emerged, a lengthy song lyric,
which is basically a catalogue of practically every canard that could be
directed at people of Irish Catholic heritage in Scotland.

I think it is right that the Irish Diaspora list should be aware of this
controversy - for one thing the controversy might impinge on work and
discussion, wherever you are.

I have pasted in below some links to background information, including
places where the two texts can be found. A web search for key lines will
find many more.

I am NOT prepared to circulate on the Irish Diaspora list the text of the
longer version of the song. For one thing, the text will cause me many
problems - there are trigger words in the text which will be blocked by
email systems throughout the world. And I am not entitled to force Ir-D
members to read objectionable words.

The text is freely available elsewhere. It is usually topped and tailed
with expressions of outrage. I am NOT prepared to circulate further
expressions of outrage on the Irish Diaspora list.

It is not really clear, at this stage, who actually wrote the text. It IS
clear that the text was designed to provoke outrage. In that sense it is a
very successful piece of work.

P.O'S.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=975ksUA6dqQ

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2OkIC1iN9fM

YouTube items come and go, and tend to disappear if there is controversy. A
search of YouTube might find more.

Article from The Irish Post
http://www.keepandshare.com/doc/view.php?id=828345&da=y
http://www.keepandshare.com/doc/view.php?id=828346&da=y

Vanguard Bears
Defending our traditions
http://www.vanguardbears.com/famine.html

Reid responds to Murray warning
Celtic chairman John Reid says he will comment "without fear" after
Rangers counterpart Sir David Murray expressed concern over his views.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/sport1/hi/football/teams/r/rangers/7738171.
stm

--
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 list Irish Diaspora Net
http://www.irishdiaspora.net

Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Social Sciences and Humanities University of Bradford Bradford
BD7 1DP Yorkshire England

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Subject: Re: Glasgow Rangers 'Famine Song' controversy
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I've met people from both sides of the 'divide' who been to an 'Old Firm
derby' and who tell me that it is extremely emotionally charged;
particularly the sectarian abuse that is directed against the opposing
fans. The Northern Ireland situation did not assist as many supporters
groups have been happy to show explicit allegiance to organisations
directly involved in the troubles. Therefore, songs such as these whilst
being no surprise are extremely sad in our more enlightened times.=20

Steven

Dr. Steven McCabe=20
Senior Lecturer (UCU Chair)
Birmingham City University=20
B42 2SU

* 0121 331 5178=20
6 0121 331 5172=20
* steve.mccabe[at]bcu.ac.uk=20

P Before you print think about the ENVIRONMENT


-----Original Message-----
From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Patrick O'Sullivan
Sent: 21 November 2008 12:47
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] Glasgow Rangers 'Famine Song' controversy

Email Patrick O'Sullivan =20

Irish Diaspora list members might like - or even need - to be aware of a
controversy that has been rumbling away for most of this year, on the
web
and in parts of the media. The controversy is now entering the more
mainstream parts of the media.

For background, see much earlier IR-D discussion about the history of
the
Celtic football team, and the rivalry with the Glasgow Rangers football
team.

Glasgow Rangers supporters have developed a football terrace chant,
which
has become known as the 'Famine Song'. It is specifically aimed at
Glasgow
Celtic supporters, who are in the main of Irish Catholic heritage. It
has
occasionally been aimed at football players of Irish heritage who have
decided to play for the Irish national team rather than the Scottish.
The
chant is designed to annoy and discomfort.

A very much longer version of the chant has emerged, a lengthy song
lyric,
which is basically a catalogue of practically every canard that could be
directed at people of Irish Catholic heritage in Scotland.

I think it is right that the Irish Diaspora list should be aware of this
controversy - for one thing the controversy might impinge on work and
discussion, wherever you are.

I have pasted in below some links to background information, including
places where the two texts can be found. A web search for key lines
will
find many more.

I am NOT prepared to circulate on the Irish Diaspora list the text of
the
longer version of the song. For one thing, the text will cause me many
problems - there are trigger words in the text which will be blocked by
email systems throughout the world. And I am not entitled to force Ir-D
members to read objectionable words.

The text is freely available elsewhere. It is usually topped and tailed
with expressions of outrage. I am NOT prepared to circulate further
expressions of outrage on the Irish Diaspora list.

It is not really clear, at this stage, who actually wrote the text. It
IS
clear that the text was designed to provoke outrage. In that sense it
is a
very successful piece of work.

P.O'S.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D975ksUA6dqQ

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3D2OkIC1iN9fM

YouTube items come and go, and tend to disappear if there is
controversy. A
search of YouTube might find more.

Article from The Irish Post
http://www.keepandshare.com/doc/view.php?id=3D828345&da=3Dy
http://www.keepandshare.com/doc/view.php?id=3D828346&da=3Dy

Vanguard Bears
Defending our traditions
http://www.vanguardbears.com/famine.html

Reid responds to Murray warning
Celtic chairman John Reid says he will comment "without fear"
after
Rangers counterpart Sir David Murray expressed concern over his views.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/sport1/hi/football/teams/r/rangers/7738
171.
stm

--
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 list Irish Diaspora Net
http://www.irishdiaspora.net

Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Social Sciences and Humanities University of Bradford
Bradford
BD7 1DP Yorkshire England


Birmingham City University is the new name unveiled for the former Univer=
sity of Central England in Birmingham=0AFor more information about the na=
me change go to http://www.bcu.ac.uk/namechange/official_announcement.htm=
l=0A

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Subject: Article, Northern Ireland and Cyprus
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Northern Ireland and Cyprus: Towards a Typology of Intercommunal Conflict in
the European Periphery
Author: Allan Zink a
Affiliation: a Independent Researcher,

Published in: journal Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Volume 14, Issue 4
October 2008 , pages 579 - 612
Subjects: Citizenship - Political Sociology; Nationalism; Race & Ethnic
Studies;

Abstract
This macrofactorial analysis compares the conflicts in Northern Ireland and
Cyprus with particular reference to their historical background and regional
context. The two cases are shown to possess common structural features which
cannot be explained in terms of ethnoreligious antagonisms per se. These
characteristics distinguish them from other types of ethnic conflict and
identify them as outcomes of conditions characteristic of the European
periphery. The process of European integration constitutes a "metafactor"
which appears beneficial for resolving conflicts of this type.

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Article,
Horowitz's Theory of Ethnic Party Competition and the Case of the
Northern Ireland Social Democratic and Labour Party
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Horowitz's Theory of Ethnic Party Competition and the Case of the Northern
Ireland Social Democratic and Labour Party, 1970-79
Author: P. J. Mcloughlin a
Affiliation: a University College Dublin,

Published in: journal Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Volume 14, Issue 4
October 2008 , pages 549 - 578
Subjects: Citizenship - Political Sociology; Nationalism; Race & Ethnic
Studies;

Abstract
Donald Horowitz's theory of ethnic conflict suggests that a political party
operating in a deeply divided society can be affected by a centrifugal pull
even when it is not subject to formal electoral competition. This idea can
be applied to Northern Ireland's SDLP in the 1970s, when the party faced no
credible electoral rival within its primary political constituency. Doing so
helps to explain why the SDLP failed in its original objective of mobilizing
a cross-community constituency, and instead became what Horowitz terms an
"ethnically based party," representing the interests of only one side of the
political divide in Northern Ireland.

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Colloque : Les langues r=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E9gionales?= et
minoritaires en Irl ande,
INDIGENOUS MINORITY LANGUAGES IN IRELAND, DECE MBER, Paris
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GROUPE DE RECHERCHE EN ETUDES IRLANDAISES DE=20
L=92UNIVERSIT=C9 SORBONNE NOUVELLE-PARIS III
(EA 1775)

LES LANGUES R=C9GIONALES ET MINORITAIRES EN IRLANDE :=A0
PERSPECTIVES CROIS=C9ES.

INDIGENOUS MINORITY LANGUAGES IN IRELAND:=20
A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE.=20

VENDREDI 5 DECEMBRE
FRIDAY 5th DECEMBER
AMPHITH=C9=C2TRE
BIBLIOTHEQUE SAINTE BARBE=20
(4, RUE VALETTE, 75005 PARIS)
=A0
9.00-9.15=A0 =A0OUVERTURE / OPENING
=A0
9.15-10.15
Adeline Tissier-Moston (Paris 3)
=93The Campaign for the Recognition of the Irish Language in National =
Schools,
1878-1904=94
=A0
Mathew Staunton (Paris 3)
=93Sinn F=E9in, Don Quixote agus Foghra=EDocht F=E9ind=E9anta:
Canon O'Leary's Simplified Spelling in the Advanced Nationalist Press=94
=A0
10.40-11.40
Moya Jones (Bordeaux 3)
=93The Case of Wales: The Welsh Language as a Model=94
=A0
Yann Bevant (Rennes 2)
=93What future for the Irish Language? Elements of comparison with =
Wales,
Britanny and Scotland=94
=A0
11.45-12.30=A0
Aod=E1n MacP=F3il=EDn (Ultach Trust)
=93Something of a cultural war:" linguistic politics in Northern =
Ireland=94
=A0
GRAND AMPHITH=C9=C2TRE
INSTITUT DU MONDE ANGLOPHONE
(5, RUE DE L'=C9COLE DE M=C9DECINE, PARIS=A0 6=C8ME)
=A0
14h30-15h15
Ian Adamson (Ullans Academy)
=93The History of the Ulster-Scots Movement=94
=A0
15.15-16.00=A0
Diarmait Mac Giolla Chriost (University of Cardiff)
=93The Turn to Rights in the Language Question=94
=A0
16.30-18.00
=A0Grace Neville (University College Cork)
=93=91I got second in Latin, Greek and English and eleventh in French=92
=A0Attitudes to language in Daniel O=92Connell=92s correspondence=94=A0

Agn=E8s Maillot (Dublin City University)=20
=93The importance of the Irish language in Republican politics=94

Giovanni Olcese=A0(Longford VEC / Rennes 2)
=93The modern day approach to minority language promotion and =
sustainability:
a comparative observation of Irish and Proven=E7al, their successes and
shortcomings=94
=A0
SAMEDI 6 DECEMBRE
SATURDAY 6th DECEMBER
=A0
PETIT AMPHITH=C9=C2TRE
INSTITUT DU MONDE ANGLOPHONE
(5, RUE DE L'=C9COLE DE M=C9DECINE, PARIS=A0 6=C8ME)
=A0
9.30=9611.00
Tangui Pennec (Paris 8)
=AB=A0Le patronat breton et la langue bretonne=A0: investissement =
sentimental ou
engagement politique=A0?=A0=A0=BB
=A0
Cyril Tr=E9pier (Paris 8)
=AB=A0Attitudes des entrepreneurs de la Catalogne sur l=92usage du =
catalan=A0=BB
=A0
Barbara Loyer (Paris 8)
=AB=A0Les territoires de la langue basque : conflits et =
repr=E9sentations=A0=BB
=A0
11.30-12.30
Ronan Barr=E9 (Rennes 2)
=AB=A0L=92irlandais peut-il =EAtre seulement une langue ?=A0=BB
=A0
Pierre-Yves Lambert (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes)
=AB=A0Comment vivre sa langue dans une minorit=E9 linguistique : =
comparaison avec
la Bretagne=A0=BB
=A0
14.00=9614.45
Frank Ferguson (University of Ulster)
=93Ulster-Scots Revival or Ullans Twilight. States in play in =
contemporary
Ulster-Scots literature=94=20
=A0
14.45-15.45
P=E1draig de Paor (Trinity College Dublin)
=93Travel Narratives in Irish=94
=A0
Cl=EDona N=ED R=EDord=E1in (Paris 3)
=93Translation Strategies in Contemporary Irish Language Poetry=94
=A0
16.00-17.30
P=E1draig =D3 Duibhir (Col=E1iste Ph=E1draig, Dublin)
=93=91It=92s only a language=92: The attitudes and motivation of =
Irish-medium
education students to Irish=94
=A0
Patricia Fournier (Paris 3)
=93Immigrant pupils and the Irish language in Republic of Ireland =
primary
schools=94
=A0
Vanessa Mas-Moury (Bordeaux 3)
=AB=A0Les =E9coles d=92immersion en R=E9publique d=92Irlande : une =
affaire de familles
?=A0=BB
=A0
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=A0
Contacts=A0:
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=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0
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=A0
Cl=EDona N=ED R=EDord=E1in=A0
cliona.niriordain[at]club-internet.fr

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Subject: TOC Irish Studies Review, Volume 16 Issue 4
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Irish Studies Review: Volume 16 Issue 4=20

This new issue contains the following articles:

Fallout from the thunder: poetry and politics in Seamus Heaney's =
District
and Circle, Pages 369 - 384
Author: Michael Parker

Enigmas of the Great War: Thomas Kettle and Francis Ledwidge, Pages 385 =
-
402
Author: Terry Phillips

Stand(ing) up for the immigrants: the work of comedian Des Bishop, Pages =
403
- 413
Author: Sin=E9ad Moynihan

Beyond the stereotypes: Mary Lavin's Irish women, Pages 415 - 430
Author: Elke D'hoker

James Arbuckle and Dean Swift: cultural politics in the Irish =
confessional
state, Pages 431 - 444
Author: Richard Holmes

=91Wel gelun a gud?=92: Thomas Sheridan's Brave Irishman and the =
failure of
English, Pages 445 - 460
Author: Julia M. Wright

A bloodied bond: Fly River heads and body image in Beatrice Grimshaw's
colonial landscapes, Pages 461 - 485
Author: Clare McCotter

Here be monsters: the Irish Industrial Exhibition of 1853 and the growth =
of
Dublin department stores, Pages 487 - 506
Author: Stephanie Rains

The drawling, dead, doleful and die-away manner, Pages 507 - 510
Author: Matthew Campbell

History, Pages 511 - 540
Author: Valerie McGowan-Doyle

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Subject: Short Term Job, lecturer Irish literature, culture, Zagreb
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Forwarded on behalf of=20
Professor Ljiljana Ina Gjurgjan

The English Department, University of Zagreb, in cooperation with the =
Irish
Ministry for Foreign Affairs, seeks a lecturer with an MA or PhD in =
Irish
literature, culture or a related subject to teach an undergraduate (3rd
year) course in Irish culture (3 hours a week) in summer term (March 1st
June 15th, 2009) as a part of Irish module we wish to introduce.

Some knowledge of Irish language and/or singing, dancing (to be =
introduced
as an informal activity with students) is desirable.=20

Zagreb University provides a shared office space, housing supplement (or =
a
small apartment, all inclusive) and basic medical insurance. The Irish
Ministry of Foreign Affairs kindly provides a salary of 1500 Euros per
month, per diems sufficient to cover basic living expenses and covers =
travel
expenses and supplementary medical insurance.=20

Zagreb is an attractive central European city with good street culture. =
The
University is a lively and intellectually stimulating place.

The deadline for application is 15th December. However, later =
applications
(until Feb 1st. 2009) will be considered in a case suitable person is =
not
appointed in November.=20

For further info please write to mailto:
ljgjurgj[at]ffzg.hr

Professor Ljiljana Ina Gjurgjan, English dept, U. of Zagreb, Ivana =
Luci=E6a 3,
10000 Zagreb, Croatia.=20
=A0

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Forwarded on behalf of
Dr Eamon Maher,

First book in major new Irish Studies series launched
=A0
The first book in Reimagining Ireland, a major new Irish Studies series
published by Peter Lang (Oxford), was launched on Friday 14 November =
2008.=20

Some 16 new books by leading Irish and international scholars have =
already
been commissioned for the peer-reviewed series. The series explores what =
is
meant by =91Irishness=92 through re-examining Ireland=92s literature, =
culture and
history. This is achieved by publishing volumes by writers who are =
foremost
in their fields, as well as those with emerging reputations. The first =
book
to appear in the series No Country for Old Men: Fresh Perspectives on =
Irish
Literature, edited by Paddy Lyons and Alison O=92Malley-Younger, was =
launched
at the Sixth Annual Irish Studies Conference at the University of
Sunderland.=20

The series is actively seeking proposals for single author books or
conference proceedings. For more information, contact the editor, Dr =
Eamon
Maher, Institute of Technology, Tallaght (eamon.maher[at]it-tallaght) or =
the
Commissioning Editor for Ireland, Mr Joe Armstrong
(joearmstrong[at]eircom.net).
=A0
Below is a list of the first 14 titles:
=A0
Vol. 1 Eugene O=92Brien: =91Kicking Bishop Brennan Up the Arse=92:
Interlacing Texts and Contexts in Contemporary Irish Studies
ISBN 978-3-03911-539-6. Forthcoming.
Vol. 2 James Byrne, Padraig Kirwan and Michael O=92Sullivan (eds):
Affecting Irishness: Negotiating Cultural Identity Within and
Beyond the Nation
ISBN 978-3-03911-830-7. Forthcoming.
Vol. 3 Irene Lucchitti: The Islandman: The Hidden Life of Tom=E1s
O=92Crohan
ISBN 978-3-03911-837-3. Forthcoming.
Vol. 4 Paddy Lyons and Alison O=92Malley-Younger (eds): No Country
for Old Men: Fresh Perspectives on Irish Literature
ISBN 978-3-03911-841-0. 289 pages. 2009.
Vol. 5 Marc Caball and Eamon Maher (eds): Cultural Perspectives on
Globalization and Ireland
ISBN 978-3-03911-851-9. Forthcoming.
Vol. 6 Lynn Brunet: =91A Course of Severe and Arduous Trials=92:
Bacon, Beckett and Spurious Freemasonry in Early Twentieth-
Century Ireland
ISBN 978-3-03911-854-0. Forthcoming.
Vol. 7 Claire Lynch: Irish Autobiography: Stories of Selves in the
Narrative of the Nation
ISBN 978-3-03911-856-4. Forthcoming.
Vol. 8 Victoria O=92Brien: A History of Irish Ballet, 1927=961963
ISBN 978-3-03911-873-1. Forthcoming.
Vol. 9 Irene Gilsenan Nordin and Elin Holmsten (eds): Liminal
Borderlands in Irish Literature and Culture
ISBN 978-3-03911-859-5. Forthcoming.
Vol. 10 Claire Nally: Envisioning Ireland: W.B. Yeats=92s Occult
Nationalism
ISBN 978-3-03911-882-3. Forthcoming.
Vol. 11 Raita Merivirta: =91Trying to take the Gun out of Irish =
Politics=92:
Neil Jordan=92s Michael Collins: Examining National History and
Reimagining Irishness on Screen
ISBN 978-3-03911-888-5. Forthcoming.
Vol. 12 John Strachan and Alison O=92Malley-Younger (eds):
Ireland: Revolution and Evolution
ISBN 978-3-03911-881-6. Forthcoming.
Vol. 13 Barbara Hughes: Private Lives, Shattered Identities: A Study
in Eighteenth-Century Diaries
ISBN 978-3-03911-889-2. Forthcoming.
Vol. 14 Edwina Keown and Carol Taaffe (eds): Irish Modernism:
Origins, Contexts, Publics
ISBN 978-3-03911-894-6. Forthcoming
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NEW FROM CARYSFORT PRESS =96 INTERACTIONS: DUBLIN THEATRE FESTIVAL =
1957-2007=20
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Nicholas Grene and Patrick Lonergan (editors)=20
Part of the Irish Theatrical Diaspora Series=20

For over fifty years, the Dublin Theatre Festival has been one of =
Ireland's
most important cultural events, bringing countless new Irish plays to =
the
world stage, while introducing Irish audiences to the most important
international theatre companies and artists. With contributions from =
leading
scholars and practitioners, Interactions explores and celebrates the
Festival's achievements since 1957 featuring essays on major Irish =
writers,
directors and theatre companies, as well as the impact of visiting =
directors
and companies from abroad. This book includes specially commissioned =
memoirs
from past organisers and observers of the Festival, offering a unique
perspective on the controversies and successes that have marked the =
event's
history. An especially valuable feature of the volume, also, is a =
complete
listing of the shows that have appeared at the Festival from 1957 to =
2008.

ONTENTS=20
Preface Loughlin Deegan
Introduction: the Festival at Fifty Nicholas Grene and Patrick Lonergan
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PART ONE: ESSAYS
1 A Playwright=92s Festival=20
Thomas Kilroy
2 Theatre, Sexuality, and the State: Tennessee Williams=92s The Rose =
Tattoo at
the Dublin Theatre Festival, 1957=20
Lionel Pilkington
3 Irish Language Theatre at the Dublin Theatre Festival=20
Sara Keating
4 Leonard=92s Progress: Hugh Leonard at the Dublin Theatre Festival=20
Emilie Pine
5 Subjects of =91the machinery of citizenship=92: The Death and =
Resurrection of
Mr Roche and The Gentle Island at the Dublin Theatre Festival=20
Shaun Richards
6 West Meets East: Russian Productions at the Dublin Theatre Festival,
1957-2006=20
Ros Dixon
7 Tom Murphy=92s The Sanctuary Lamp at the Dublin Theatre Festival, 1975 =
and
2001=20
Alexandra Poulain
8 Patrick Mason: A Director=92s Festival Golden Fish=20
Cathy Leeney
9 In-dependency: Rough Magic and the Dublin Theatre Festival=20
Tanya Dean
10 Festivals National and International: The Beckett Festival=20
John P. Harrington
11 | From Ex Libris to Ex Machina =96 Two Shakespearean Case Studies at =
the
Dublin Theatre Festival=20
Carmen Szab=F3
12 An Antipodean Epic: Cloudstreet at the Dublin Theatre Festival=20
Peter Kuch
13 =91Bogland Parodies=92: The Midlands Setting in Marina Carr and =
Fabulous
Beast Dance Theatre=20
Lisa Fitzpatrick
14 The Dublin Theatre Festival: Social and Cultural Contexts=20
Fintan O=92Toole
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PART TWO: MEMOIRS AND PRODUCTIONS
1 An T=F3stal and the First Dublin Theatre Festival: a Personal Memoir=20
Christopher Fitz-Simon
Production History Part One: 1957-1970
2 Dublin Theatre Festival: 1984 to 1989=20
Lewis Clohessy
Production History Part Two: 1971 to 1985
3 =91Present Tense=92 or =91It shouldn=92t happen to a festival =
programmer!=92=20
David Grant
Production History Part Three: 1986-1994 295
4 Dublin Theatre Festival in the 1990s=20
Tony O=92D=E1laigh
Production History Part Four: 1995- 2008
Dublin Theatre Festival in the Twenty-First Century=20
Fergus Linehan
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Read the Irish Times review by Chris Morash -
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2008/1004/1222959337412.html
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The Times is now trying to turn its archives into a money spinner - but the
search is free, and some of the original examples have been left on the web
site, as free samples...

There are 2 that will interest...

The Parnell letters
Parnellism and crime: Mr Parnell and the Phoenix Park murders

'We do not think it right to withhold any longer from public knowledge the
fact that we have had in our custody for some time documentary evidence
which has a most serious bearing on the Parnellite conspiracy, and which,
after a most careful and minute scrutiny, is, we are satisfied, quite
authentic. We invite Mr Parnell to explain how his signature has become
attached to such a letter...'

* The alleged Parnell letters

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/system/topicRoot/The_Parnell_letters/


The trials of Oscar Wilde

.The Marquis of Queensberry was charged with having published a defamatory
libel concerning Mr Oscar Wilde. Mr Humphreys, solicitor, stated that Mr
Wilde, who was a married man and lived on most affectionate terms with his
wife and children, had been the object of a system of the most cruel
persecution...'

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/system/topicRoot/The_trials_of_Oscar_Wilde/

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Trial Separations: Divorce, Disestablishment, and Home Rule in Phineas Redux
Cathrine O. Frank
College Literature, Volume 35, Number 3, Summer 2008, pp. 30-56 (Article)
DOI: 10.1353/lit.0.0005

Subject Headings:
Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882. Phineas redux.
Politics in literature.
Law in literature.
Abstract
Abstract:

Phineas Redux (1874), the fourth of Anthony Trollope's "political" novels,
depicts several unions between parties who remain formally tied to one
another although they have no affective bond. Two failing marriages are
dissolved (one by death, another through revelation of bigamy), but actual
divorce is never mooted. Debate over disestablishment of the Anglican Church
opens the novel, but formal interest in the separation of church and state
is supplanted by a murder trial and barely resurrected. And in the breach
between these parties stands Phineas Finn, the novel's Catholic, Irish hero.
This paper argues that the novel's early focus on unsuccessful marriages
voices parallels albeit unspoken concerns about "Home" Rule and England's
increasingly tenuous union with Ireland. More broadly, it suggests that
through Phineas's trial initially political questions of church versus state
authority governing the legitimacy of these unions are transformed into
personal ones of conscience and feeling. This internalization of the
political becomes an aspect of character formation that raises the questions
of how law transforms national politics into personal conviction and how
literature uses law to develop its characters.

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Subject: Article, Irish, Scottish,
Welsh and English Worlds? A Four-Nation Approach
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History Compass
Volume 6 Issue 5, Pages 1244 - 1263

Published Online: 8 Sep 2008

C 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English Worlds? A Four-Nation Approach to the
History of the British Empire
John M. MacKenzie 1*
1 Lancaster University
Copyright C 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

ABSTRACT

A four-nation approach to the history of the British Empire is becoming
increasingly necessary. For a number of years, it has been accepted that the
domestic history of the British and Hibernian Isles (sometimes known as the
Atlantic Archipelago) can only be understood in terms of an analysis on the
basis of the four constituent ethnicities of those islands (Irish, Scottish,
Welsh and English). Even these four conceal further ethnic breakdowns, but
they are the main categories which help to facilitate such an approach. The
British Empire was supposed to act as a solvent for these different
ethnicities and identities, but it can now be suggested, from recent work,
that the reality was very different. The four nations each had separate
relationships with empire and each identity was developed and enhanced
rather than destroyed by the imperial experience. So far there have been
separate studies of aspects of Scottish, Irish, Welsh and English empires.
But there is now a need to bring them together to recognise the fact that
the British Empire was merely a name which obscured many more complex
phenomena. Members of each ethnicity interacted with empire, and its
indigenous peoples, in different ways. Moreover, simple bilateral
metropole-periphery relations can no longer be sustained as a basis for
analysis: empire constituted sets of multilateral relationships which help
to explain both the expansion, settlement, and patterns of dominance of the
imperial connection and also the pressures towards decolonisation.

History Compass 6/5 (2008): 1244-1263, 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2008.00543.x
DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER (DOI)
10.1111/j.1478-0542.2008.00543.x About DOI

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Subject: Article, 'Ireland, and black!': minstrelsy, racism,
and black cultural production in 1970s Ireland
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'Ireland, and black!': minstrelsy, racism, and black cultural production in
1970s Ireland

Author: John Brannigan a
Affiliation: a University College Dublin,
DOI: 10.1080/09502360802044943

Published in: journal Textual Practice, Volume 22, Issue 2 June 2008 , pages
229 - 248
Subjects: Interdisciplinary Literary Studies; Literary/Critical Theory;

Abstract
This Article does not have an abstract.

So I will paste in the conclusion...

A changing society

The cultural productions discussed here explore the inscriptions of Irish
racism and raciology in the 1970s, examining and problematising the
reiteration of Irishness as 'white or sallow' against the figurations of
blackness as other. The terms with which the essay began, 'Ireland, and
black!', can be seen to resonate in these productions, in the ways in which
both Ireland and black are understood as tropes, and in their critical
reading of each other. The analysis of blackness as a trope of the other,
fetishized or feared, desired or denied, in Irish culture constitutes a
response to the ways in which racism is represented in contemporary Ireland
as a new discourse and a new experience. In his book, Ireland and the Irish:
Portrait of a Changing Society, published in 1994, John Ardagh wrote that
'the Republic is spared the racial problems found in so much of Europe today
. The Irish are not racist, and they even feel some solidarity with the
Third World, in part because of their shared colonial experience'.46 The
evidence for this solidarity, perhaps predictably, is given as Irish
contributions to charitable funds for Africa, and 'Irish Catholicism's
strong missionary tradition'. But Ardagh asks, 'if Asiatics or Africans were
ever to arrive in some numbers, would the Irish remain so tolerant? As yet
they have no experience of living in a multiracial society'. The implication
of Ardagh's question, of course, is that Irish people have lived within a
broadly homogeneous society, untested by prolonged experience of living with
people of other racial backgrounds. Racism breeds only in multiracial
societies, according to this understanding. It arrives with the migrants,
refugees, and asylum seekers. Despite the relative lack of black or Asian
peoples in Ireland in the 1970s, however, we can trace the existence of
racism, in sometimes virulent forms, through the literary artefacts of Irish
cultural relations presented here. It is no surprise, especially in the
light of many recent studies of racism in Ireland from sociological and
historical perspectives, that racism in various forms precedes the recent
influx of immigrants.47 My concern in this essay, however, has been to show
that several cultural explorations of racism in this period reveal a
consistent pattern for the ways in which blackness is figured as a
stereotypical and objectified other, and for the problematic conjunction of
the terms 'black' and 'Ireland'. One further implication of Ardagh's
question about the arrival of black and Asian peoples into Ireland, is that
there is a blank space of representation when it comes to how that arrival
might be conceptualised in Irish cultural and social narratives. What I'm
suggesting here is the opposite, that the cultural productions examined in
this essay evince the existence of prescribed narratives of multiracial
experience in Ireland, and that these narratives leave a problematic legacy
for the attempt to negotiate cosmopolitan relations in contemporary Ireland.

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Does anyone on the list know of any recent work being done on the Irish
who were shipped to Barbados in Cromwell's time? Recently I attended a
lecture by an African American scholar where Irish slavery in the
Caribbean was briefly mentioned.

A quick search brings up a few books - one, "To Hell or Barbados" by
Sean O'Callaghan. I have not read it but the book description tells of
Irish transportees being sold on an auction block [anyone know of this
book and have opinions on it?]. I am specifically looking for research
papers by anyone working with original source material.

I also have a copy of the PBS "The Story of English" and in the section
on Irish English there is a clever recording of black Caribbeans [on
Montserrat] talking in what sounds like a rural Irish accent.
Intermarriage and the close relationship [undefined] between the African
slaves and transported Cromwellian Irish is suggested.

Is there any basis at all for the idea that the Irish shipped were in
fact in a form of slavery?

Carmel

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My guess is that you're encountering a variant on an old argument tinged
with racism.

I would expect that the Irish were sold as servants. Although persons
became indentured servants for a variety of reasons, punishment sometimes
took the form of placing them in that status. For the situation to have
been slavery -- in a form like that experienced by Africans -- they would
have to have been held for their lifetimes and to have passed the status
onto their children (if they had any). I have not seen any evidence of both
conditions holdings, although I am open to correction.

Back at the beginning of the civil rights movement, some white hostile to it
belittled the source of blacks' complaints. Referring to the status of
temporary servants, they argued that whites too were held in "slavery." Now
a person of African descent has reversed the process and sought to gain the
empathy of whites by arguing that whites too were "slaves." I'm suspicious
of both spins on the story.

Donald Akenson has written on the Irish in Montserrat ("If the Irish Ruled
the World"). He has suggested that the much oppressed Irish found it quite
easy to adapt to imperial ways in the colonies and stick it to the even
worse off Africans. The treatment is cynical in a way typical of Akenson,
who is a constant critic of what Liam Kennedy and others have described as
the Irish MOPE attitude ("most oppressed people ever"), but it probably has
a fair element of truth to it.

Tom



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To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] Irish slavery?

Does anyone on the list know of any recent work being done on the Irish
who were shipped to Barbados in Cromwell's time? Recently I attended a
lecture by an African American scholar where Irish slavery in the
Caribbean was briefly mentioned.

A quick search brings up a few books - one, "To Hell or Barbados" by
Sean O'Callaghan. I have not read it but the book description tells of
Irish transportees being sold on an auction block [anyone know of this
book and have opinions on it?]. I am specifically looking for research
papers by anyone working with original source material.

I also have a copy of the PBS "The Story of English" and in the section
on Irish English there is a clever recording of black Caribbeans [on
Montserrat] talking in what sounds like a rural Irish accent.
Intermarriage and the close relationship [undefined] between the African
slaves and transported Cromwellian Irish is suggested.

Is there any basis at all for the idea that the Irish shipped were in
fact in a form of slavery?

Carmel

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You might look at Messenger, J. C. "Montserrat: 'The Most Distinctively
Irish Settlement in the New World."' Ethnicity 2: 281=AD303, 1975.

David


On 11/25/08 8:15 AM, "Carmel McCaffrey" wrote:

> Does anyone on the list know of any recent work being done on the Irish
> who were shipped to Barbados in Cromwell's time? Recently I attended a
> lecture by an African American scholar where Irish slavery in the
> Caribbean was briefly mentioned.
>=20
> A quick search brings up a few books - one, "To Hell or Barbados" by
> Sean O'Callaghan. I have not read it but the book description tells of
> Irish transportees being sold on an auction block [anyone know of this
> book and have opinions on it?]. I am specifically looking for research
> papers by anyone working with original source material.
>=20
> I also have a copy of the PBS "The Story of English" and in the section
> on Irish English there is a clever recording of black Caribbeans [on
> Montserrat] talking in what sounds like a rural Irish accent.
> Intermarriage and the close relationship [undefined] between the African
> slaves and transported Cromwellian Irish is suggested.
>=20
> Is there any basis at all for the idea that the Irish shipped were in
> fact in a form of slavery?
>=20
> Carmel
>=20

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In answer to Carmel McCaffrey's question on "any recent work being done on the Irish who were shipped to Barbados in Cromwell's time," perhaps the best place to start is:
Nini Rodgers, _Ireland, Slavery, and Anti-Slavery: 1612-1865_ (Palgrave MacMillan, 2007). See especially chapter two "Servants and Slaves: The Seventeenth Century." Dr. Rodgers' bibliography should provide further reading.

Hope this helps,

Cian McMahon