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From: Patrick O'Sullivan

The latest issue of the journal Race Ethnicity and Education has a number of
articles that explore 'whiteness' in action.

There is also this article, which will interest a number of IR-D members.

P.O'S.

Naming the 'other': children's construction and experience of racisms in
Irish primary schools

Authors: Dympna Devine a; Mairin Kenny a; Eileen Macneela a
Affiliation: a School of Education, University College Dublin, Dublin,
Ireland

Published in: journal Race Ethnicity and Education, Volume 11, Issue 4
December 2008 , pages 369 - 385
Subjects: Multicultural Education; Sociology of Education;

Abstract
This paper considers the construction and experience of racisms among a
sample of primary school children in Ireland during a period of intensive
immigration. Placing children's voices at the centre of the analysis, it
explores how children's constructions draw upon discourses of 'norm' and
'other' in relation to national identity and cultural belonging.
Constructions of minority ethnic groups are located within a context that
defines what it is to be Irish, such constructions carrying with them
assumptions related not only to skin colour but also to lifestyle, language,
and religious belief. Drawing on key concepts related to power, social
identities and child cultures, the findings highlight the significance of
ethnic identity to children's negotiations around inclusion and exclusion in
their peer groups. Name-calling in general, and racist name-calling in
particular, was shown to be an important tool used by some children in the
assertion of their status with one another. The sensitivity displayed by the
majority ethnic children to skin colour only, in their discussions around
racism, highlights the salience of colour to many of these children's
typification of themselves as white Irish, and of many black migrant
children especially as 'other'. It also indicates, however, the limited
understanding these majority ethnic children had of racism in contrast to
their minority ethnic peers (including Irish Traveller children), all of
whom were able to recount their own experiences of being racially abused for
colour and/or culturally-based differences. The need for teachers to be
sensitive to the dynamics of children's social world is stressed, as is the
importance of developing clear procedures for the monitoring and tackling of
racist incidents in schools.
Keywords: racism; peer culture; children's voice; power; social identity

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From today's Guardian...

By way of comparison...

Tartan and home truths
A new centre for the study of the Scottish diaspora is already caught up =
in
controversy

* Jackie Kemp
* guardian.co.uk, Tuesday November 25 2008 00.01 GMT
* The Guardian, Tuesday November 25 2008

Oh, the swing of the kilt and the skirl of the bagpipes! The tens of
thousands who gather annually to try their strength at tossing Scottish
cabers around ... in Leipzig.

A mania for "the heedrum-hodrum Celtic twilight", which is afflicting =
parts
of northern Europe, is one of the topics to be researched at a new =
centre
for the study of the Scottish diaspora at Edinburgh University.

But since its launch at the end of last month, the new centre, funded by =
a
=A31m donation from a Scottish financier, has been caught up in =
controversy.

Its founder, perhaps Scotland's foremost historian, Professor Tom =
Devine,
announced in the opening lecture that he intended to challenge the =
"Burns
supper" school of Scottish history. As a result, he has been subject to
attacks by nationalists accusing him of "unionist revisionism"....

... He also wants the centre to generate studies of other diasporas in
history whether or not they have anything to do with Scotland.

The centre, the first of its kind in a history department, won a =A31m =
bequest
from international financier Alan McFarlane, and Devine believes other
wealthy philanthropists in Scotland and outside are interested. "The =
only
trouble is that your Donald Trumps and your Forbes tend to be quite =
right
wing," he muses.

Foreign students will also be attracted, he hopes, although he says they
will be selected on academic merit, and the higher fees they bring are =
not
an inducement.

David Hesse, an "urban intellectual from Zurich", who gave up a =
journalism
career to study in Edinburgh, says: "You could call my field the =
imagined
diaspora. I investigate highland games in Germany and Scottish clubs in
eastern Europe. I look at people dressing up as Scots. Those people have =
no
"real" Scottish ancestry but feel aesthetic connections. I think
international fascinations with Scotland and Scottish-looking things are =
a
phenomenon."

Hesse sees imaginary Scottishness as an identity that is becoming
increasingly popular in northern Europe. "It is a folk identity, but it =
is
quite macho. It involves military music and martial games. It is also a
generally white phenomenon."

Full text at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/nov/25/centre-study-scottish-dia=
spo
ra-controversy

Plus see also...


Ready for a chilly winter
Martin Hall, the new vice-chancellor of Salford University is returning =
from
South Africa. He talks to Linda Nordling

... Giving the transformation job to a white guy was an inspired choice =
by
the black vice-chancellor, Hall says. "Normally, that job goes to a =
black
deputy vice-chancellor, and often a woman. By giving it to a white man =
[the
VC] was saying ... that these issues, these challenges, these problems =
are
ours as well, and not just yours."

This is something Hall has also touched upon in his research on the =
concept
of "whiteness" - something he says is by no means seminal work in the =
field,
but which is an essential part of the puzzle needed to understand =
modern-day
South Africa. "One of the reasons for looking at whiteness is that one =
of
the big myths in South Africa and, I suspect, all over the world, is the
assumption that those of us who are white don't have race. The problem =
of
that approach is that it shifts the race work entirely on to black =
people,"
he says...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/nov/25/salford-university-martin=
-ha
ll-vicechancellor

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Carmel,

A useful article here is -

Hilary Beckles, "A Riotous and unruly lot": Irish Indentured Servants
and Freemen in the English West Indies, 1644-1713', William & Mary
Quarterly, 47, 1990, 503-22.

Best,

Paddy Fitzgerald=0D

=0D

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=0D

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=0D

lecture by an African American scholar where Irish slavery in the=0D

Caribbean was briefly mentioned.

=0D

A quick search brings up a few books - one, "To Hell or Barbados" by=0D

Sean O'Callaghan. I have not read it but the book description tells of=0D

Irish transportees being sold on an auction block [anyone know of this=0D

book and have opinions on it?]. I am specifically looking for research=0D

papers by anyone working with original source material.

=0D

I also have a copy of the PBS "The Story of English" and in the section=0D

on Irish English there is a clever recording of black Caribbeans [on=0D

Montserrat] talking in what sounds like a rural Irish accent. =0D

Intermarriage and the close relationship [undefined] between the African


slaves and transported Cromwellian Irish is suggested.=0D

=0D

Is there any basis at all for the idea that the Irish shipped were in=0D

fact in a form of slavery?

=0D

Carmel



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Carmel

I seem to recall coming across a phrase=20

'Red Legs in Barbados' which I think was a filmed documentary?

Liam Clarke

=20

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Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 1:15 PM
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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=20
lecture by an African American scholar where Irish slavery in the=20
Caribbean was briefly mentioned.

A quick search brings up a few books - one, "To Hell or Barbados" by=20
Sean O'Callaghan. I have not read it but the book description tells of=20
Irish transportees being sold on an auction block [anyone know of this=20
book and have opinions on it?]. I am specifically looking for research=20
papers by anyone working with original source material.

I also have a copy of the PBS "The Story of English" and in the section=20
on Irish English there is a clever recording of black Caribbeans [on=20
Montserrat] talking in what sounds like a rural Irish accent. =20
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=20
fact in a form of slavery?

Carmel

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From: Patrick Maume
Does this piece mention the dancing (cartoon) blackface "Lyons' Minstrels"
which used to advertise Lyons' Tea in Ireland in the late 1970s? I remember
them quite well - "Extra Quality, Extra Flavour - Lyons' The Quuality Tea"
they would sing while waving their canes and wearing white hats and
black-and white striped jackets.
Best wishes,
Patrick

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:57 PM, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:

> '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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From: Patrick Maume
It should be noted for those unfamiliar with the book that the
disestablishment does not refer to the actual disestablishment of the Church
of Ireland in 1869-70 but to a fictional attempt by a Conservative
government led by the unscrupulous Daubeny/Disraeli to disestablish the
Church of England. (In real life, this would have been about as likely as,
let us say, the present-day British Labour Party formally and completely
privatising the National Health Service, or an American administration
cutting off all aid to Israel - Trollope's point being that
Disraeli's about-turns on the Corn Laws in 1846-52 and parliamentary reform
in 1866-67 showed he would do anything to obtain power.)
It might also be noted that in the last novel of the series, THE DUKE'S
CHILDREN, Phineas Finn is mentioned as a staunch upholder of the Union and
opponent of Home Rule. (One of the likeliest candidates for his real-life
model is Chichester Fortescue, later Lord Carlingford, a Co. Louth landowner
who was Gladstone's Chief Secretary for Ireland in the early 1870s and
became a Liberal Unionist in 1886, though Trollope could not have foreseen
this last point as he died in 1882.)
Best wishes,
Patrick
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:

> 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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Well, Sean O'Callaghan is certainly an interesting writer. He has several books
on the 'white slave trade' and the like (quite lurid as I recall) dating from
the 60s or so, and he's done some stuff on the IRA as well (mixed). I doubt
his Barbados book is reliable, but I'd bet its a ripping good yarn.

Peter

Quoting Carmel McCaffrey :

> 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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In reply to Carmel McCaffrey's posted query:=20

As scholars' recent delvings have shown, there evidently was an =
established tradition of Irish exploitation and enslavement of =
dark-skinned peoples (to use the current, broadly generic term), well =
before the 18thC; there was also a fairly hearty representation of =
protest against this economic system (a rising Irish abolitionism). Here =
are some sources (note that Rodgers' work does include the Cromwellian =
and pre-Cromwellian timeframe, Carmel's immediate interest): =20

Nini Rodgers, Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery: 1645-1685=20
NY: Palgrave, 2008
B&N webpage at
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Ireland-Slavery-and-Anti-Slavery-1645-18=
65/Nini-Rodgers/e/9780333770993

See also this online essay by Rodgers (Royal Irish Academy Proceedings, =
2000):=20
http://www.ria.ie/cgi-bin/ria/papers/100214.pdf

Moira Ferguson, Subject to Others: British Women Writers & Colonial =
Slavery, 1670-1834
NY: Routledge, 1992.
Amazon webpage at
http://www.amazon.com/Subject-Others-British-Colonial-1670-1834/dp/041590=
4765/ref=3Dsr_1_2?ie=3DUTF8&s=3Dbooks&qid=3D1227652527&sr=3D1-2

Also see also my edition of Mary Shackleton Leadbeater,
Irish Women Poets textbase, Alexander Street Press (Summer, 2008);=20
this is a subscription-only resource ;=20
for the publisher's product webpage, with downloadable brochure, see
http://www.alexanderstreet.com/products/iwrp.htm

My extended critical essay on Leadbeater includes two images, one being =
the first-ever publication of a portrait-silhouette of Leadbeater ; the =
essay also includes a lengthy primary & secondary bibliography. Here's a =
relevant excerpt from that essay (and I'll transmit a copy, under =
separate cover, to Carmel):=20


" ... the most memorable piece, reprinted in Leadbeater's 1808 Poems =
(87-116), is her longest and arguably best poem, 'The Negro: addressed =
to Edmund Burke', which reveals both her moral fervor and Burke's =
influence on her evolving social philosophy and abolitionist spirit. The =
poem is an historical survey of its subject ('the Negro') and also a =
critique, in the traditional form of a philosophical verse-essay, on =
slavery and the slave-trade, whose prominence in the transatlantic had =
become a profitable economic system well before 1794. Above all, =
Leadbeater's important poem seeks to secure Burke in the polity of =
abolitionist agitation. Rhetorically, the poem exploits the tactic of =
the exempla, being a catalogue of worthies; Leadbeater's "godlike band" =
includes such liberal-thinking activists as John Woolman, Prince Leopold =
of Tuscany, Thomas Clarkson, and Lady Arabella Denny. The volatile =
subject of slavery drew the pens of several early-modern women writers, =
of course: Aphra Behn, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Birkett, Maria =
Edgeworth, Hannah More, et al. (see Moira Ferguson, Subject to Others: =
British Women Writers & Colonial Slavery, 1670-1834 [1992])." =20



I trust some of this may be of use.=20



MEM

Princeton Research Forum, Princeton, NJ

mulvihill[at]nyc.rr.com



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Carmel:

You could begin by having a look at the book by myself and Michael Shannon,=
Encounters: How Racism Came to Ireland, which has some brief coverage bu=
t will lead you to other sources, including the work of Hilary Beckles, w=
here he examines the evidence for collaboration between slaves, Irish and=
African, in resistance and rebellion. See his 'A "riotous and unruly lot=
": Irish indentured servants and freemen in the English West Indies 1644-=
1713', William and Mary Quarterly 47, 1990: 500-522.=20

You could also have a look at the intriguing case of 'Irish Nell', Eleanor =
Butler. In 1661 a law was enacted in Maryland which said: =E2=80=9CThat w=
hatsoever free-born woman shall intermarry with any slave, from and after=
the last day of the present assembly, shall serve the master of such sla=
ve during the life of her husband; and that all the issues of such free-b=
orn women, so married, shall be slaves as their fathers were.=E2=80=9D=20

=E2=80=9CIrish Nell,=E2=80=9D a servant brought from Ireland to Maryland by=
Lord Baltimore, was sold to a planter when he returned to England. The p=
lanter married her to a slave named Butler to produce slaves. When he hea=
rd of this, Baltimore tried to have the law repealed. But it was almost a=
century later before the offspring of Nell and her husband successfully =
obtained their freedom through the courts. (See, for example, Carter G. W=
oodson, 'The Beginnings of the Miscegenation of the Whites and Blacks', J=
ournal of Negro History 3 (October 1918): 335-53: http://www.dinsdoc.com/=
woodson-1.htm)

Happy hunting!

Bill Rolston

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As others have suggested, I'd look at the Nini Rogers book. Though, you =
might also be interested in my own book, coming out in the next month =
optimistically or two (absolutely). Washed by the Gulf Stream: the =
Historic and Geographic Relation of Irish and Caribbean Literature =
(Delaware), available at a nice pre-publication discount on Amazon.com. =
The first chapter is an historical overview of the Irish in the =
Caribbean. I agree rather more with Eric Williams' assessment of Irish =
slavery/servitude in the Caribbean (see his Capitalism and Slavery) than =
the O'Callaghan which is unreferenced and anachronistic even in its =
title (note his his use of "ethnic cleansing." ) I was able to do some =
research at the National Institute of Jamaica (their National Library in =
Kingston) and even found a few interesting bits in the NLI for it.=20
=20
regards,
=20
Maria McGarrity
Long Island University, Brooklyn

________________________________

From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List on behalf of Carmel McCaffrey
Sent: Tue 11/25/2008 08:15
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.=20
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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Queen's University Belfast
Institute of Irish Studies

International Research Initiative
Queen's University Belfast has a long and distinguished record in
scholarship and teaching in a range of disciplines within the area of =
Irish
Studies. To consolidate and build on this success the University =
established
its Irish Studies International Research Initiative (IRI) in 2007.

=20
Post Graduate International Research Studentships
The University is offering two full-time Postgraduate studentships for
research leading to the award of a PhD. Applications for these =
studentships
are invited from non UK students. These three year awards are available =
for
research within the three thematic areas of Irish Studies outlined below =
and
will cover both fees and a yearly stipend of =C2=A313,264. Applicants =
must have a
primary degree with high honours (usually a 2.1, 3.3 GPA, or higher) in =
a
relevant subject and would normally also have a masters degree or
equivalent. If your first language is not English, evidence of =
competence
will also be required. There is no separate form for this competition.

Applicants should indicate that they wish to be considered for this
competition on their University admission form
http://pg.apply.qub.ac.uk/home/ Further guidance and information on the
studentships is available by contacting Elaine McKay at =
e.mckay[at]qub.ac.uk or
the following website
http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/IrishStudiesInitiative/ =


=20
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{decoded}Carmel,

A counterbalance to the Irish as "slaves" were the Irish as slave owners, who played a significant role in the Caribbean and slave trade "encomiendas" of Central and South America. The O'Farrill family in Havana and the Murphys of Veracruz, New Spain (Mexico) are two examples of successful slave merchants and plantation owners.

Others in this list mentioned Nini Rodgers's "Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery, 1612-1865", which provides very good information and interpretation. A thorough review of this book by Gera Burton and the author's reply were published in the IMSLA journal 5:3 November 2007 (http://www.irlandeses.org/0711burtonb1.htm).

In the same IMSLA issue, Nini contributed "The Irish in the Caribbean 1641-1837: An Overview" (http://www.irlandeses.org/0711rodgers1.htm). And there are other pieces that you may find informative: "Irish Indentured Servants, Papists and Colonists in Spanish Colonial Puerto Rico, ca. 1650-1800" by Jorge Chinea; "Libertys Call: Richard Robert Maddens Voice in the Anti-Slavery Movement" by Gera Burton; "Beyond Kinship: A Study of the Eighteenth-century Irish Community at Saint Croix, Danish West Indies" by Orla Power; and "Banished by Cromwell? John Hooke and the Caribbean" by Thomas Byrne (http://www.irlandeses.org/imsla0711.htm).

March 17th in the island of Montserrat is illustrative of the different viewpoints about the Irish as "slaves" and slave owners. Some celebrate St Patrick's Day, and others celebrate a slave's victory in the 1768 revolt against their masters (see the review of Jonathan Skinner's "Before the Volcano: Reverberations of Identity on Montserrat" by Cielo G. Festino and author's reply at: http://www.irlandeses.org/0711festino1.htm).

Furthermore, there are some slavery-related entries in our bibliography of the Caribbean (http://www.irlandeses.org/bibliography.htm).

Edmundo Murray

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From: Patrick Maume
Has anyone yet mentioned DH Akenson's IF THE IRISH RAN THE WORLD, an
account of Monserrat which argues that the Irish slaveholders of Monserrat
were no better than other slaveholders and that later images of Monserrat as
a particulalry fruitful place of black/Irish interchange are a retrospective
myth cooked up for various reasons?
I remember when I was a child RTE used to have a children's story-reading
programme before the 6pm news. One week the featured book was a story about
the end of slavery in the Danish West Indies, and I remember being dismayed
at its references to cruel Irish overseers. I can't remember the book's
title or author - has anyone on the list come across it?
Best wishes,
Patrick

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Murray, Edmundo wrote:

> Carmel,
>
> A counterbalance to the Irish as "slaves" were the Irish as slave owners,
> who played a significant role in the Caribbean and slave trade "encomiendas"
> of Central and South America. The O'Farrill family in Havana and the Murphys
> of Veracruz, New Spain (Mexico) are two examples of successful slave
> merchants and plantation owners.
>
> Others in this list mentioned Nini Rodgers's "Ireland, Slavery and
> Anti-Slavery, 1612-1865", which provides very good information and
> interpretation. A thorough review of this book by Gera Burton and the
> author's reply were published in the IMSLA journal 5:3 November 2007 (
> http://www.irlandeses.org/0711burtonb1.htm).
>
> In the same IMSLA issue, Nini contributed "The Irish in the Caribbean
> 1641-1837: An Overview" (http://www.irlandeses.org/0711rodgers1.htm). And
> there are other pieces that you may find informative: "Irish Indentured
> Servants, Papists and Colonists in Spanish Colonial Puerto Rico, ca.
> 1650-1800" by Jorge Chinea; "Liberty's Call: Richard Robert Madden's Voice
> in the Anti-Slavery Movement" by Gera Burton; "Beyond Kinship: A Study of
> the Eighteenth-century Irish Community at Saint Croix, Danish West Indies"
> by Orla Power; and "Banished by Cromwell? John Hooke and the Caribbean" by
> Thomas Byrne (http://www.irlandeses.org/imsla0711.htm).
>
> March 17th in the island of Montserrat is illustrative of the different
> viewpoints about the Irish as "slaves" and slave owners. Some celebrate St
> Patrick's Day, and others celebrate a slave's victory in the 1768 revolt
> against their masters (see the review of Jonathan Skinner's "Before the
> Volcano: Reverberations of Identity on Montserrat" by Cielo G. Festino and
> author's reply at: http://www.irlandeses.org/0711festino1.htm).
>
> Furthermore, there are some slavery-related entries in our bibliography of
> the Caribbean (http://www.irlandeses.org/bibliography.htm).
>
> Edmundo Murray
>

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I just noticed this sale, which includes deep discounts on a number of Irish
titles:

http://www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/65-anniversary-sale.html

Peter Hart

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SOURCE

http://www.nuigalway.ie/research/centre_irish_studies/acis_gcis_09.html

ACIS / GCIS 2009

A chairde,

The Centre for Irish Studies at the National University of Ireland is
pleased to announce details of next year=92s international meeting of =
the
American Conference for Irish Studies which will be convened in Galway,
10-13 June 2009.

The title of the ACIS conference is =92New Irish, Old Ireland: =92The =
same
people living in the same place=92 and papers which explore aspects of
emigration and immigration are especially welcome.

We are also pleased to announce that the Second Galway Conference of =
Irish
Studies =92Into the heartland of the ordinary=92 will run concurrently =
with the
ACIS meeting and will explore aspects of the everyday in Irish culture =
and
society.

We would be grateful if you could circulate the attached calls for =
papers to
colleagues and others with an interest in Irish Studies.

The deadline for submission of proposals to both conferences and further
details can be viewed at the links given below.

Le gach dea-ghu=ED,

Samantha Williams
Conference Administrator

* American Conference for Irish Studies 2009
* Second Galway Conference of Irish Studies 2009

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Here's a couple which may be useful to you:

Hilary McD. Beckles, "A 'riotous and unruly lot': Irish Indentured Servants
and Freemen in the English West Indies, 1644=961713" *The William and Mary
Quarterly* 47.4 (October 1990).

Peter Wilson Coldham, *Emigrants in Chains: A Social History of Forced
Emigration to the **Americas** 1607=961776* (Phoenix Mill, UK: Alan Sutton
Publishing Ltd, 1992).

Bob Reece also has a useful overview of Irish transportation:
Bob Reece, *The Origins of Irish Convict Transportation to New South
Wales *(Hampshire:
Palgrave, 2001)

O'Callaghan's book is indeed a ripping great yarn but unreferenced.



2008/11/26 Carmel McCaffrey

> 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 Caribbe=
an
> 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 o=
n
> Irish English there is a clever recording of black Caribbeans [on
> Montserrat] talking in what sounds like a rural Irish accent. Intermarri=
age
> 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 fac=
t
> in a form of slavery?
>
> Carmel
>

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Many, many thanks to all the very helpful replies to my initial query.
I have ordered the Nina Rogers book - of great help also are the links
that some supplied.

I just want to clarify something about my post. The issue of Irish
slavery was not used, as someone suggested, as a way of solidifying or
suggesting a familial relationship between the Irish and the African
experience. Far from it. It was something that came up almost
accidentally in a Q and A session and it made me wonder. It was an
African American conference and I was one of only about six non blacks
amongst about 500 attendees.

What was of interest to me also was a lecture given by Cornel West in
which he repeated something I had heard as a sub narrative during the
Obama campaign - that younger African Americans are less aware, and
therefore not fully appreciative of the struggle it was for their
forebears to go through to get to where they are today. Obama may
represent a new generation -so the argument goes- but the older African
American generation fear a loss of connection to their past - or maybe
even a "revision" or denial of how things actually were. Sound
familiar? [I couldn't help but notice that it did not take long for the
MOPE tag to be brought into the discussion on the Irish experience.]

Off now to cook some turkey - Happy Thanksgiving to all who are
celebrating the day!

Carmel




>

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Subject: Article, Fiddling for outcomes: traditional music,
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Fiddling for outcomes: traditional music, social capital, and arts policy in
Northern Ireland
Author: Martin Dowling a
Affiliation: a School of Music and Sonic Arts, Queen's University of
Belfast, Northern Ireland

Published in: journal International Journal of Cultural Policy, Volume 14,
Issue 2 May 2008 , pages 179 - 194
Subject: Cultural Studies;

Abstract
Arts development policies increasingly tie funding to the potential of arts
organisations to effectively deliver an array of extra-artistic social
outcomes. This paper reports on the difficulties of this work in Northern
Ireland, where the arts sector, and in particular the so-called 'traditional
arts', have been drawn into a politically ambiguous discourse centred on the
concepts of 'mutual understanding' and, more recently, 'social capital'. The
paper traces the recent history of these policies and the difficulties in
evaluating the social outcomes of arts programs. The use of the term 'social
capital' in the work of Putnam and Bourdieu is considered. The paper argues,
through a rereading of Bourdieu's articulation of the 'forms' of capital and
Eagleton's 'ideology of the aesthetic', the concept of social capital can be
released from its current neoliberal trappings by imagining a reconnection
of the concepts of 'capital' and 'the aesthetic'.
Keywords: traditional arts; social capital; Northern Ireland; Arts Councils;
Bourdieu; Putnam

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Subject: Book Noticed,
Akenson. Some Family: The Mormons and How Humanity Keeps Track of
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Donald Harman Akenson's latest book is getting some respectful attention

Donald Harman Akenson. Some Family: The Mormons and How Humanity Keeps Track
of Itself. Montreal: McGill-Queen's UP, 2007. 360 pp. ISBN 0-7735-3295-1,
$29.95.

See

http://www.bcachievement.com/nonfiction/2008/finalist-info.php?finalist=0

Plus
Review on Mormon web site

' In "Some Family" Akenson takes on the science of genealogy, and the role
members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have taken in the
pursuit of human history. The book is divided into three sections. The first
part deals with Joseph Smith, the LDS Church he founded, and the
preoccupation members have had with genealogy ever since Smith's death.
While relying heavily on the official, seven-volume History of the LDS
Church, Fawn Brodie (No Man Knows My History), Richard Bushman (Joseph
Smith: Rough Stone Rolling), Klaus Hansen (Mormonism and the American
Experience), and a handful of other works, Akenson rarely makes reference to
original documents or primary sources. In addition, though promising to
relay information as a "secular historian" who has "no interest in proving
or disproving Mormon beliefs," his choice of vocabulary while describing LDS
faith and history will quickly frustrate anyone trying to get a serious
grasp on why believers are so passionate about genealogy.

Akenson introduces ordinary Mormons as "outwardly modest people [who] are
silently driven by a hubris that is well beyond that of the most
megalomaniacal imperializers," while at the same time affirming they are
"something special" due to their being "so irritatingly nice and vexingly
and smilingly optimistic."'

Full text at

http://forums.mormonletters.org/yaf_postst251_Akenson-Some-Family.aspx

Scholarly reviews are appearing or are in the pipeline...

Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Winter 2009, Vol. 39, No. 3, Pages 449-450
Posted Online November 7, 2008.
(doi:10.1162/jinh.2009.39.3.449)

Some Family: The Mormons and How Humanity Keeps Track of Itself. By Donald
Harman Akenson (Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007) 349 pp.
$29.95

Amy Harris-
Brigham Young University


Biography
Volume 31, Number 3, Summer 2008
E-ISSN: 1529-1456 Print ISSN: 0162-4962

Some Family: The Mormons and How Humanity Keeps Track of Itself (review)
Kathleen Flake
pp. 480-484

'Score one more for the advocates of narrative's culture-constructing power.
In a work that combines admirable scholarly detail, depth, and range, as
well as wit and imaginative insight, Donald Akenson analyzes western
humanity's effort to "track itself" genealogically. Benefiting from
Akenson's expertise as a leading Irish social and cultural historian,
sometime interpreter of the Bible, and successful novelist, Some Family is
both a serious and lively argument for the narrative function of genealogy.
A finalist for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, it deserves
to be widely read by specialists in religious and historical studies, as
well as generalists with an interest in genealogy.

Akenson's main point is that genealogies do not report biological patterns
of human descent, but construct them according to ideologically driven
rules. Viewed as a whole, these patterns constitute meaning-bearing sagas of
human origins that inexorably shape the culture they dominate. Some Family
applies this hypothesis to the genealogical apparatus of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), increasingly the source of choice for
those wanting to identify their progenitors. Akenson argues that, by virtue
of its domination of the field of genealogical research and collection, the
LDS Church is on the way to becoming an extraordinarily powerful cultural
force. All who have ever lived and those who seek information about them are
gradually being gathered within the set of meanings conveyed by the
Latter-day Saint way of recording and explaining humankind.'

...Most significantly, the Church's data entry forms force diverse family
systems into a single type: i.e., European patrilineal. Moreover, like the
bible, the entire system assumes a biological, not social ordering of human
existence. Both criticisms are discussed in detail, largely in appendices
that provide scientific analysis without interrupting the more lively
historical evidence in the body of the text. One appendix demonstrates the
lack of an adequate and shared terminology with which to describe with any
uniformity the most basic human relations. Other appendices analyze such
distorting factors as uncertainties of paternity (and even maternity),
adoption, polygamy, inbreeding, and incest. Of course, deliberate wrenching
of ancestral data to achieve status is a common distorter of biological
descent, and not only for kings and queens. In all, Akenson marshals a
variety of proofs to show that genealogy has never been about biological
tracking. Rather, its data about the birth, death, and marriage of
individuals constitute "compositional units" or stories, and when [End Page
481] collected into lines of descent, comprise a value-laden saga of human
origins and significance...'

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Patrick,

The article does not mention tea...

It moves by focusing on certain 1970s cultural products, plays and specific
lines by Brendan Behan, Paul Durcan's poem 'Black Sister', Phil Lynott
(maybe seeing Phil Lynott as a cultural product). The article is therefore
about a sort of 'pre-existing racism' in 1970s Ireland, but says little
about its origins and uses.

Paddy

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From: Patrick Maume
Does this piece mention the dancing (cartoon) blackface "Lyons' Minstrels"
which used to advertise Lyons' Tea in Ireland in the late 1970s? I remember
them quite well - "Extra Quality, Extra Flavour - Lyons' The Quality Tea"
they would sing while waving their canes and wearing white hats and
black-and white striped jackets.
Best wishes,
Patrick

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:57 PM, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:

> '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;
>