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Subject: Living Landscapes Conference, Aberystwyth University,
18-21 June 2009
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The following item has been brought to our attention. Landscape is such =
a
theme and an issue within Irish Studies and Irish history. And we can =
note
the 're-creation' of an Irish landscape in the centre of New York. It =
seems
right to pass on this information.

P.O'S.

Living Landscapes, an International Conference=A018-21 June 2009 under =
the
auspices of the AHRC landscape and the Environment Programme.=A0 =
Deadline for
Call for Proposals is 1 December 2008

The conference will be held in various buildings on Aberystwyth =
University
Penglais campus

http://www.landscape.ac.uk/2009conference.html

Landscape and performance, performance in landscape, performance about
landscape, performance as landscape, landscape as performance=85

Site-specific events, walking projects, land art, environmental =
activism,
traditional customs, mediated visits, guided tours, leisure =
activities=85

Phenomenology, performativity, non-representational theory, mobility,
dwelling, embodiment, dynamism, affect=85

Landscape and environment are currently of compelling cultural =
significance:
as fields of scholarly research, sites of artistic endeavour and arenas =
of
public concern. As both imaginative representations and material =
realities,
they are the site of negotiation for the expression of complex ideas and
feelings =96 about beauty, belonging, access to resources, relations =
with
nature, the past and the future, making sense of the world and people's
place in it.

This four-day trans-disciplinary conference attends to the manifold and
diverse relationships =96 actual and potential =96 between landscape,
environment and performance; it draws together artists, practitioners =
and
academics from such fields as geography, archaeology, anthropology,
performance, music and dance studies, media studies, museology, cultural =
and
environmental policy, folklore studies, art history.

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http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2008/1126/1227486583636.html

Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Grabbing attention of Serbs keen to enjoy EU's embrace

BELGRADE LETTER: EU accession will not solve all of Serbia's problems, =
but
they believe it offers hope, writes Piaras MacEinri =20

AT FIRST sight, it looks, and in many respects is, like any other =
central
European city.

There are wide boulevards and handsome late 19th century buildings.
Sometimes the architect's name, set in stone on a building's exterior,
mentions Prague as well as Belgrade. The Orthodox churches of St Sava =
and St
Mark are magnificent and Byzantine in style; people of all ages come to
light candles in front of favoured icons.

There are few beggars in the streets, but buskers play jazz, classical =
and
traditional Serbian music. Young people dress the way they do anywhere. =
The
shops bear the usual names found from Berlin to Barcelona.

And yet, my hotel is the Continental, a soulless modern 1970s building
probably most renowned as the place where Zeljko Ranatovi, a =
paramilitary
war criminal and gangster better known as Arkan, was killed in 2000. =
Just
across the road a shanty town sprawls, home to gypsies from different =
parts
of old Yugoslavia, many without papers or official identities. This
impoverished slum of wooden shacks houses people whose children have =
little
chance of schooling and who in many cases cannot themselves read or =
write.

Walking in the old city, I come to a bookshop dominated by a huge bust =
of
Radovan Karadzic, now in The Hague on trial for war crimes. Nationalist
literature in the window is all about Kosovo, Serbia's lost territory.

Graffiti on walls features a "no parking" circular sign with "EU" inside =
it.
In the main square, a small group of mostly older people, but with a few =
of
the kind of muscular young men to be seen on such occasions from Beirut =
to
Belfast, hold a large banner proclaiming "No to Nato fascism". The flags =
are
those of Russia and Serbia. On walls and gables everywhere the year 1389
commemorates a key encounter between Serbs and Ottomans in the Battle of
Kosovo, a founding myth of Serbian identity.

The Chinese embassy, bombed by Nato (whether accidentally or not) during =
the
events of 1999, is still a wrecked and gutted building. The television
centre has been repaired, but 16 young staff members, their names =
engraved
on a monument outside, perished when it was targeted from the air.

The streets are crowded with innumerable older, small cars, many of them
Zastavas, a Yugoslav version of Fiat. Some are used for improvised car =
boot
sales by impoverished Serbs who fled other parts of the former =
Yugoslavia as
it imploded in a welter of extreme nationalism, war and ethnic =
cleansing.
Serbs brought much of this on themselves but others, such as Croatian =
leader
Franjo Tujman, also played a part.

It is not all bad news. EU membership offers the possibility, to both
Croatia and Serbia, of moving beyond violence and rampant corruption. In
July a new government under the slogan "For a European Serbia" took =
office.
A broad-based moderate grouping in a fragile country, it still faces a
strong challenge from the far right.

I was in Belgrade for a conference organised by Serbia's Ministry for
Diaspora and the UNDP. There were papers from Israel, Armenia, India,
Slovenia, Croatia and Ireland (myself). Representatives of the Serbian
diaspora in France, Sweden and Germany also attended, and did not =
hesitate
to lay into the politicians and civil servants of Serbia for their =
alleged
failures.

It all made for a lively and sometimes acrimonious debate, a tribute to =
a
more open and liberal Serbia. Diaspora representatives were divided =
between
a nostalgic desire to return to a restored greater Serbia, and those who
said Serbs in the diaspora should integrate in their countries of =
residence
while preserving their language, culture and identity. Most participants
agreed with the Slovenian speaker, who pleaded that Serbs should =
relinquish
the entire idea of a nationality based on blood in favour of a broader
notion of identity.

My remarks focused on the Irish diaspora and Government policy, but when =
I
mentioned the Irish Lisbon Treaty referendum and hopes for a second more
positive outcome, I had everyone's attention. EU accession matters very =
much
to most Serbs and their Croatian neighbours. It will not solve all their
complex internal problems, but they clearly believe it offers a window =
of
hope and progress. The failure to ratify Lisbon is seen as a serious
obstacle.

Before leaving, I visited Belgrade's main Jewish cemetery as well as the
city centre quarter Dorcol, home to Belgrade's old Jewish district. It =
is
also the location of the 17th-century Bajrakli mosque, burned by Serbian
Orthodox fanatics in 2004 but since restored. Muslim-Jewish relations =
are
good. In the cemetery there are names from all parts of Ashkenazi and
Sephardic Jewry, a poignant testimony to their role in Serbia's life =
over
the centuries.

The vast majority of Balkan Jews perished in the Holocaust; Belgrade was =
one
of the first cities declared Judenfrei by the Nazis. Pro-fascist Serbian
Chetnik paramilitaries, as well as some Muslims, played a murderous =
role,
but many Serbs opposed Nazi policy and Tito's partisans welcomed Jewish
volunteers. Serbia's record is better than that of Croatia, where the
Ustashe puppet regime pursued a genocidal policy against Jews, Serbs and
others, with active support from significant parts of the Catholic =
Church.

Like Ireland, the states of the former Yugoslavia are seeking to lay =
their
demons to rest. We should offer them every support.

Piaras Mac =C9inr=ED is a lecturer at the Department of Geography, UCC

This article appears in the print edition of the Irish Times

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Subject: Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, on Project Muse
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Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies
Edited by Khachig T=F6l=F6lyan

Has at last begun to appear on Project Muse.

I suspect that what has happened is that the University of Toronto Press =
has
done a deal.

The Project Muse web site says
JOURNAL COVERAGE:
Vol. 13 (2004) through current issue... =20

But in fact there are only 3 issues displayed - I fear that this is =
because
Khachig has become victim to the journal out of kilter with time =
problem...

Anyway...

On the Project Muse web site there is a Free Sample issue=20
Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies=20
Volume 13, Number 1, Spring 2004

Which gives a flavour of the journal.

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/diaspora_a_journal_of_transnational_studies/=


There is another sample article on the journal's home web site at UTP.
http://www.utpjournals.com/diaspora/diaspora.html

http://www.utpjournals.com/diaspora/Diaspora-13(2-3)-002_SAMPLE.pdf

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 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: CFP + News, Irish Conference of Medievalists,
27TH - 30TH JUNE 2009
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Forwarded on behalf of
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Catherine.Swift[at]mic.ul.ie

Apologies for late circulation of this year=92s paper call =96 we were =
waiting
for news of bid for a grant to run conference on monasticism on =
Ireland=92s
west coast as agreed at AGM last year. Unfortunately we were not =
successful
but the conference will go ahead on a self-funded basis in Easter 2010. =
The
idea of this conference is to look at the early medieval sites within =
the
context of the later regional history =96 both in terms of provision of
monastic houses and in the context of modern pilgrimage practices (which
seems likely to have affected appearance and status of many sites.) =
=A0If
anybody is interested in getting involved in this project, please =
contact me
at Catherine.Swift[at]mic.ul.ie
=A0
Please note also that dates of conference are slightly later this year =
to
facilitate those who wish to attend the Third International T=E1in =
conference
at Coleraine (22nd =96 25th June)
=A0
Cathy Swift
Organising Secretary=20
=A0
=A0
=A0
TWENTY-THIRD CONFERENCE OF IRISH MEDIEVALISTS -- 27TH =96 30TH JUNE 2009
=A0
CALL FOR PAPERS: Papers are invited on medieval archaeology, art, =
history,
language and literature (Latin and the vernaculars). Length of papers: =
45
minutes (15 minutes discussion) or 20 minutes (10 minutes discussion).
=A0
Send details of proposed papers by e-mail - at the latest by 31st March =
2009
-
=A0
to=20
=A0
Dr Catherine Swift
Irish Studies
Mary Immaculate College
University of Limerick
=A0
TEL: (353 61) 204300
FAX: (353 61) 313632
E-mail: Catherine.Swift[at]mic.ul.ie
=A0
=A0
=A0
NEWS-FLASH: We now have a Conference of Irish Medievalists website =
designed
for us by concept.ie of Waterford. Address: www.irishmedievalists.com

Programme, details of fees, accommodations & transport links=A0 will be =
posted
on that so that, hopefully, organizing attendance will become a little
easier for all.
=A0
Details of fees for registration, meals and accommodation will be
circulated, together with the Conference programme, in April 2009. =
Details
of transport links, by air, rail and road will also be provided. Those
needing information in advance in order to apply to their institutions =
for
funding should contact the Organising Secretary, Dr Catherine Swift, for =
a
provisional estimate of costs.
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=A0
Summer Schools in Old Irish
Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick
June-July 2009
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Call for Papers
Irish History Students Association
announces its
Annual Conference
NUIM Maynooth
6-7 March 2009

The Irish History Students Association (IHSA) is a cross-border association
for students of history in Irish universities. Submissions are invited on
all topics from postgraduate and undergraduate students for this year's
conference, which will be held at NUI Galway next February. We also welcome
students from outside of Ireland working on Irish topics.

The 2009 conference is being organised by NUI Maynooth and there will be a
meeting of delegates from member History Societies on Saturday 22nd November
2008 to discuss the arrangements for the conference. The meeting will be
held in Room A6009, 6th floor, Sutherland Centre, Arts Building. The nearest
entrance is at Nassau Street (facing Dawson Street). Dr Deirdre McMahon,
Senior Treasurer IHSA, will meet delegates at the Nassau Street entrance at
2.00.

The organising committee can be contacted at ihsa2009[at]gmail.com

SOURCE
http://www.irishhistorystudents.net/conference.htm

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Subject: Article, Irish fondations and boursiers in early modern Paris,
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Irish fondations and boursiers in early modern Paris, 1682-1793

Author: Chambers, Liam

Source: Irish Economic and Social History, Volume 35, Number 1, December
2008 , pp. 1-22(22)

Publisher: Manchester University Press


Abstract:
A case study of the bursaries established in the wills of two Irish clerics,
Father Patrick Maginn and Bishop John O'Molony, to support students at the
University of Paris, provides important insights into the world of
eighteenth-century Irish Catholicism and its continental European links.
Initially monopolised by particular families, the bursaries over time passed
under the control of the Irish bishops and the administrators of the Irish
Colleges. Despite recurrent litigation, especially in the case of the Maginn
bursary, both foundations made an important contribution to the training of
Catholic priests, and to the survival of a network of Catholic propertied
families in Ireland.

References: 5 references open in new window

Keywords: CATHOLICISM; EDUCATION; PARIS; IRISH COLLEGE; PENAL LAWS

Document Type: Research article

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Caprices of Fashion': Handmade Lace in Ireland 1883-1907

Author: Helland, Janice

Source: Textile History, Volume 39, Number 2, November 2008 , pp.
193-222(30)

Publisher: Maney Publishing

Abstract:
This essay examines late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century handcrafted
Irish lace as material object related to both its conditions of production
and its consumption with an emphasis placed upon the consumption of what was
consistently referred to in the contemporary press as 'real lace'. Why, for
example, would a woman specifically choose handmade Irish lace for her
elegant court gown or bridal costume? What might have influenced a consumer
to select Irish lace rather than imported lace? Did the wearing of 'real'
Irish lace have any symbolic or social meaning beyond adornment? Might the
relationship between patrons and workers be viewed through the lens of
today's fair trade movement, thereby expanding the consumers' intentions and
complicating the workers' conditions?

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1179/174329508x347089

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Subject: Article, Protection,
inward investment and the early Irish cotton industry... William
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Protection, inward investment and the early Irish cotton industry
The experience of William and John Orr

Authors: Nisbet, Stuart; Foster, John

Source: Irish Economic and Social History, Volume 35, Number 1, December
2008 , pp. 23-50(28)

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Abstract:
The rise and fall of the Irish cotton industry has been examined by
historians over several decades. This paper contributes to the debate by
examining the trajectory of one particular firm, owned by the Orr family of
Paisley. The evidence presented in this case supports the assertion that
protection of the industry in the eighteenth century was vital for its
growth, but qualifies this by noting that this policy placed limits on its
development by reducing the available markets for Irish goods. However there
is a suggestion the industry continued to be profitable after the end of
post-Union protectionism, despite the largely unacknowledged influences of
worker combinations.

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Articles that cite this article?

Keywords: COTTON; TEXTILES; ORR; BELFAST; TRADE

Document Type: Research article

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Criminal justice and penal populism in Ireland

Author: Campbell, Liz1

Source: Legal Studies, Volume 28, Number 4, December 2008 , pp. 559-573(15)

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

Abstract:
In constructing criminal policy the Irish legislature seems to be driven
predominantly by a pragmatic and populist approach, in contrast to the
rights-oriented jurisprudence of the Supreme Court. This paper describes the
conflict between the courts and the legislature in relation to criminal
justice matters in Ireland, particularly in the context of bail, the
exclusionary rule and sentencing, and analyses the reasons for this
divergence, drawing on the concept of penal populism. Although the Irish
courts serve as a valuable bulwark against punitive populist policies, this
paper considers if this failure to adhere to the desires of the legislature
and to public opinion is anti-democratic. Furthermore, in assessing the
apparent rift between the two arms of the Irish State, this paper highlights
areas of criminal justice in which this conceptualisation of the legislature
as punitive and the courts as rights-enforcing is unduly simplistic and
possibly inaccurate.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-121X.2008.00104.x

Affiliations: 1: Lecturer, School of Law, University of Aberdeen

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Subject: Article, Why Ireland rejected the Lisbon Treaty
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publication
Journal of Public Affairs

ISSN
1472-3891 electronic: 1479-1854

publisher
John Wiley & Sons

year - volume - issue - page
2008 - 8 - 4 - 303

Pages
303

article

Why Ireland rejected the Lisbon Treaty

Brugha, Cathal M.

table of content - full text

abstract

The reason why Ireland voted in a referendum on June 12th 2008 to reject the
Lisbon Treaty was mainly due to the failure from Europe to articulate the
overall justification for this strengthening of European powers in terms
acceptable to the Irish, who hope for a federalist Europe, and don't trust
the global military intentions of some of Europe's leaders. Most people were
not canvassed door-to-door at all. Where there was a canvass it was
generally against Lisbon, raising fears about threats to Irish neutrality,
and of conscription, as well as about abortion, taxation, and the loss of an
Irish Commissioner. While 51% of men voted in favour because of the
perceived economic benefits, 56% of women voted against because of the
perceived risks associated with a more powerful Europe. Copyright C 2008
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Subject: Book and Radio, Alannah Hopkin, Eating Scenery: West Cork,
the People and the Place
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The following message has been forwarded to us by a member of Ir-D.

It is from Alannah Hopkin, the author of

Eating Scenery: West Cork, the People and the Place

# Paperback: 250 pages
# Publisher: The Collins Press (1 April 2008)
# Language English
# ISBN-10: 1905172605
# ISBN-13: 978-1905172603

Extracts from the book are available on Amazon.

A web search will find reviews and comment.

It is a very readable book, and not the usual tourism gourmet effusion -
more about the realities of food and farming in Ireland today.

P.O'S.



-------Original Message-------

From: Alannah Hopkin
Date: 01/12/2008 12:28:15
To: RTE; RTE2; RTE3; RTE4; RTE5
Subject: Eating Scenery: West Cork, the People and the Place

Greetings from Kinsale!

This is to let you know that I am reading extracts from Eating Scenery: West

Cork, the People and the Place on RTE Radio 1 this week as The Book on One.

It will go out at 11.45pm from Monday 1 December to Friday 5th.

If you are overseas you can listen on the net by going to www.rte.ie and
Following the links to Radio 1.

If you cannot listen live, but would like to hear the five ten minute
Segments in your own time, let me know and I should be able to send you an
Audio file.

All the best,

Alannah
--
2 Higher Street,
Kinsale,
Co. Cork
Tel. 021 477 2120
Mobile: 087 679 9397

(Apologies for impersonal group mailing - practicality prevailed.)

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The following email has entered our system. The writer is not a member of
the Irish Diaspora list.

P.O'S.

From: "Louise Page"

Dear Carmel,

I've been copied into this because I was asked to do a film treatment about
Irish Slaves in Barbados. One of the reasons that the slave owners liked
Irish slaves was because as Catholics they wouldn't commit suicide. So
didn't need to be chained on the journey.

My father's family were slave owners. He remembers as a child - in about
1929 being held up over the wall of St John's Church to look down on the
poor whites. He thinks it was an instruction against laziness but says what
he found most interesting was the fact that they had red hair - like his.
His memory is that they were the very bottom of the heap - much worse to be
a poor white than be black and they were Catholic.

During my research in Ireland I also bumped into a man from Maryland whose
ancestors had been sent there from Dingle in about 1650.

Louise

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Lancaster University
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We have been asked to distribute the following message.

P.O'S.

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE NEEDED

Applications are invited for a Research Associate to support the =
=A312.3m
AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme, and to work closely with its
Director, Professor Linda Woodhead. The post is until December 2012. The
post will be based at Lancaster University. The RA will have a PhD =
completed
or near completion (or be of postdoctoral standing), with research
experience in some aspect of religion and society.=20

The role will involve monitoring findings from the 70-80 research =
projects
in the Programme, working with the Director to identify cross-cutting
themes, presenting these in written form, assisting researchers on the
Programme to communicate their results effectively, writing for =
publication,
editing for publication. Applicants should have the requisite =
intellectual
skills, effective written communication skills, a high level of personal
organisation and administrative efficiency, good inter-personal skills, =
and
an ability to prioritise and take initiatives. The job description =
contains
further particulars.=20

For more information see Lancaster University website:
http://www.personnel.lancs.ac.uk/vacancydets.aspx?jobid=3DA128

Interviews will be held on 26 January 2009=20

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SOURCE

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7749793.stm

Irish swell ranks of UK military
By Michael Buchanan
BBC News

The British military is experiencing a large rise in recruits from the Irish
Republic, figures obtained by BBC Radio 4's PM programme have shown.

They reveal a four-fold increase in military personnel from the Irish
Republic during the past three years.

Between 2005 and 2006, just 3% of recruits entering the military through its
recruitment centres in Northern Ireland came from the Republic.

The figure so far this year is 14%, and officers believe it will rise
further.

Lt Col Dick Rafferty, who runs the Northern Ireland recruitment centres
where most of the southern Irish recruits join up, says several factors are
driving enlistment.

They include the weakening economy in the Irish Republic and the sheer
number of opportunities a career in the British military offers.

He also says the reduction in tensions in Northern Ireland itself has been
crucial.

"This is a generation who are less familiar with the British army supporting
the policing operation of the north," he says.

"They are more familiar with the wider efforts of the British army in Iraq
and Afghanistan. Where previously [the troubles in] Northern Ireland
informed the mindsets of the last generation, that is less the case with
this upcoming generation."

FULL TEXT AT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7749793.stm

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Applications are currently being accepted for an appointment as =
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The appointment will begin, pending final budgetary and administrative
approval, in September 2009.=A0 This is a term appointment, renewable =
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Why Obama's Offaly roots help shatter Irish-American myths

ANALYSIS: Irish America was first seen as Catholic, then Presbyterian and
now Church of Ireland too, writes BRIAN WALKER

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2008/1122/1227293429221.html

PRESS COVERAGE of Barack Obama's election as US president has drawn
attention to his connection with Ireland. His late mother Ann Dunham was a
descendant of Fulmouth Kearney who left Moneygall, Co Offaly, for the US in
1850.

This connection is of special interest, however, because it casts an
important light on the subject of the Irish diaspora in the US. Indeed, it
provides an answer to some of the mystery about this diaspora, the full
character of which has often been obscured by widely-held myths about both
the Irish Americans and the Scots Irish.

Fifty years ago the number of those with an Irish background in America was
put at about 16 million. It was assumed that most of these were Irish
Americans who were mainly descendants of Catholic Irish who had come to
America from the time of the Great Famine on. The family background of Joe
Biden, the incoming vice-president, falls into such a category.

This picture, however, was upset radically in the 1980s. The American census
results of 1980, which for the first time stated ancestral backgrounds,
recorded a figure of about 40 million people who gave Ireland as their
ethnic background or country of origin. This figure was much greater than
had been expected.

A second surprise followed with publication of a number of opinion polls
which revealed that a majority of those who indicated an Irish background
were Protestant and not Catholic, as had been widely assumed. For example, a
survey by Gallup in the 1980s put the proportion of Protestants at 54 per
cent.

To explain this situation attention now focused on the Scots Irish. The
first waves of emigrants from Ireland to America in the eighteenth century
consisted largely of Ulster Presbyterians, numbering about a quarter of a
million people, who were descendants of 17th-century Scottish immigrants to
Ireland. Due to their early arrival and thanks to a multiplier factor, it
was argued, their descendants made up a major part of those in America with
an Irish background.

This conclusion, however, was dramatically challenged by the outcome of the
1990 census. For the first time, the census allowed people to declare a
Scots Irish background. The results recorded a figure of 38.7 million Irish,
but only 5.6 million Scots Irish. Again we may note that the National Survey
of Religious Identification, published in 1991, confirmed that a majority of
people who acknowledged an Irish background were Protestant.

This raised very interesting questions. Who exactly are these people who
make up the majority Protestant section of the Irish in America? The
assumption had been that they were mostly Scots Irish, but only a small
proportion chose to identify themselves this way. From a total figure of 44
million Irish and Scots Irish, self-identified Scots Irish were only about
12 per cent and not half, as we might have expected.

A number of explanations have emerged to try to explain who they are. One of
them is that many in fact are Scots Irish, part of the eighteenth- and early
nineteenth-century emigration from Ulster. When we look at recent US census
returns we discover that the area with the largest number of those who
describe themselves as Irish is not the north-eastern region (which includes
Boston and New York), but the southern region. We know from
nineteenth-century census figures that relatively few of the famine and
post-famine emigrants went south, so most of these people are a result of
the earlier emigration.

Canadian academic Michael Carroll has argued that these people retain what
is often a very distant link with Ireland because of their origins and
because the Scotch Irish image of individuality and self-reliance linked to
the American Revolution accords with how they see themselves. Why don't they
call themselves Scots Irish in the census? While the term Scots Irish was
sometimes used in the eighteenth century, many from this background called
themselves Irish rather than Scots Irish. This has remained the case.

Republican John McCain has written with pride about his Scottish
Presbyterian ancestors, who came from Ulster in the eighteenth century, and
included John Young, one of Washington's staff officers. His wife, Cindy
McCain, recently acknowledged this Irish background in response to a
question about race in the presidential election by saying: "Yes, you know,
Mr Obama is an African-American man, and yes, we're Irish. And isn't that a
wonderful thing for America?"

Another explanation is that these figures of Irish with a Protestant
background include descendants of people who were Catholic. Several
historians have argued that numbers for the Irish in the 18th-century
American colonies include Catholics, who became Protestant because there
were very weak Catholic Church structures. During the 19th and 20th
centuries, in predominantly Protestant America, people from a Catholic
background became Protestant. A good example was Ronald Reagan whose father
was from an Irish Catholic background, but who followed the Protestant faith
of his mother.

Bill Clinton claims a Protestant Irish link from his mother who was a member
of the Cassidy family, originally from Co Fermanagh. In 2004 on BBC
television, in a reference to David Trimble, Clinton declared: "He's a Scots
Irish Presbyterian and so am I... but my state of mind [ is] more like the
Irish Catholics. I am more rosy and loquacious."

In fact, Cassidy is a Gaelic rather than a Scots name, and most, but not
all, Cassidys in Fermanagh are Catholic. Perhaps this explains Bill
Clinton's personality!

Finally, we must consider the explanation that there are people in America
who have Irish ancestry and are Protestant, but who are not from a
Presbyterian Scots Irish or Irish Catholic background. This is where Barack
Obama's Irish ancestry casts a special light on the diaspora.

In Ireland, there has been, and still is, a sizeable section of people from
a Church of Ireland background whose roots are often English, but also,
sometimes, Scottish or Gaelic. Significant numbers of these people have
emigrated to America from all parts of Ireland, but their presence has often
been overlooked.

Recently, however, historians have acknowledged that serious attention must
be paid to this Irish group. Barack Obama's Irish ancestor, Fulmouth
Kearney, is a good example of such emigrants. Thanks to the research of
Canon Stephen Neill, rector of Cloughjordan, we know that he and his family
were members of the Church of Ireland in Moneygall, Co Offaly. A shoemaker
by trade, he left in 1850 to settle as a farmer in Ohio. In 1960, his direct
descendant, Ann Dunham, married a Kenyan student, Barack Obama. Their son,
also called Barack Obama, will be the next US president.

The latest indicators of Irish identity make interesting reading. The 2000
US census recorded 30.5 million Irish and 4.4 million Scots Irish. This drop
in numbers is explained largely by an increase in those who register simply
as Americans.

Recently the National Opinion Research Centre published its 2006 general
social survey, which included an Irish but not a Scots Irish category. It
revealed that of those who described their first ethnic identity as Irish,
48 per cent were Protestant, 29 per cent were Catholic and 23 per cent were
unaffiliated or other or no religion.

Numbers in this last category have grown in recent years. It may include
vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Her mother's name is Sheeran and
her family came from Ireland in the first half of the nineteenth century. An
evangelical Christian, she has been described as "post denominational".
Links between religion and identity are now fluid for many Americans. Early
this year, the Pew Forum survey found that more than a quarter of American
adults have left the faith in which they were raised in favour of another
religion, or no religion at all.

All this serves to demonstrate the great diversity of those with an Irish
background in the US. Contrary to a commonplace Irish American myth, it is
Irish with a Protestant background who make up the largest single component
of the Irish in America. Contrary to a popular Scots Irish/Ulster Scots
myth, the majority of these people identify themselves as Irish rather than
Scots Irish. The example of Barack Obama's ancestors reminds us of the
danger of viewing the Irish diaspora in America in a simplistic,
two-dimensional light.

In Banbridge Church of Ireland parish church there is a memorial plaque,
dated 1920, to James White, Chicago, and his father John White, Banbridge.
The plaque states that the White family presented a clock and chime of 10
bells to the church, with the proviso that at Halloween the air of "Home
sweet home" should be played on the bells. A few weeks ago, as in every year
since 1920, this tune rang out over Banbridge.

. Brian Walker is professor of Irish studies in the politics school at
Queen's University Belfast

C 2008 The Irish Times

This article appears in the print edition of the Irish Times

SOURCE
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2008/1122/1227293429221.html

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I thought that Ir-D members would like some background information about
Brian Walker's piece in The Irish Times - see earlier Ir-D message.

Below is information about Michael Carroll's article. Michael Carroll's
suggestion is that stressing Irish origins or connections is a way of
stressing what are seen as American values. I was finally able to read this
article earlier this year - thanks to the kindness of a friend. I am afraid
that my usual wriggles and wrinkles did not get me a pdf - so you are on
your own there...

Michael Carroll's web site

http://www.sociology.uwo.ca/faculty/Carroll.asp

P.O'S.


Carroll, Michael P. "How the Irish Became Protestant in America." Religion
and American Culture, 2006, 16(1), pp. 25 - 54.

Abstract
It often comes as a surprise to learn that most contemporary Americans who
think of themselves as "Irish" are, in fact, Protestant, not Catholic. While
commentators generally agree that these Protestant Irish-Americans are
descended mainly from the Irish who settled in the United States prior to
the Famine, the story of how they became the Protestants they are is-this
article argues-more complicated than first appears. To understand that
story, however, one must correct for two historiographical biases. The first
has to do with the presumed religiosity of the so-called "Scotch-Irish" in
the pre-Famine period; the second involves taking "being Irish" into account
in the post-Famine period only with dealing with Catholics, not Protestants.
Once these biases are corrected, however, it becomes possible to develop an
argument that simultaneously does two things: it provides a new perspective
on the contribution made by the Irish (generally) to the rise of the
Methodists and Baptists in the early nineteenth century, and it helps us to
understand why so many American Protestants continue to retain an Irish
identity despite the fact that their link to Ireland is now almost two
centuries in the past.

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From: "Muiris Mag Ualghairg"
To: "The Irish Diaspora Studies List"
Subject: Re: [IR-D] Why Obama's Offaly roots help shatter Irish-American
myths

An interesting article which misses out one obvious source of 'Irish'
Protestants in America, conversion after moving to America (either
because of intermarriage or a change in religious outlook). My own
'Catholic' family has emigrated to America twice, one branch are
Catholics and one other branch are now Seventh Day Adventists but both
are aware of their Irish ancestry and would define themselves as
'Irish' for census purposes (additionally one of the branches now has
'black' members in it so 'black' Irish such as Obama are not so rare
as it may first seem).

Muiris


2008/12/3 Patrick O'Sullivan :
> Why Obama's Offaly roots help shatter Irish-American myths
>
> ANALYSIS: Irish America was first seen as Catholic, then Presbyterian and
> now Church of Ireland too, writes BRIAN WALKER
>
> http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2008/1122/1227293429221.html
>

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Cork University Press/Attic Press


The Making of Irish Traditional Music
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Helen O=E2=80=99Shea
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=E2=80=9CThe Making of Irish Traditional Music provides a valuable, =
theoretically informed cultural history of the retrieval and =
codification of Irish music in the context of an emergent Irish =
nationalism. It offers a valuable critique of notions of identity and =
authenticity at the very inner sanctum of an essential mode of Irish =
self-expression, but does so with considerable sensitivity to the =
pressures that draw people to adhere to notions of ethnic or national =
identity. The historical dimension of this work, from Bunting in the =
late eighteenth century and O'Neill in the late nineteenth to the =
emergence of independent state cultural institutions and their effect on =
the formation of =E2=80=98traditional=E2=80=99 and official versions of =
Irish music, is one of the very best continuous accounts =
available.=E2=80=9D
David Lloyd, Professor of English, University of Southern California
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December 2008
ISBN 978-185918-436-3, =E2=82=AC39, =C2=A330, Hbk, 234 x 156mm, 300pp
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The first critical study of Irish traditional music, The Making of Irish =
Traditional Music draws on the author=E2=80=99s observations and =
participation as a musician. It analyses the experiences of foreigners =
playing Irish music at summer schools, where they encounter the tourism =
industry=E2=80=99s =E2=80=98Ireland of the Welcomes=E2=80=99, and in the =
heart of Ireland=E2=80=99s traditional music empire, County Clare. The =
book concludes that a view of Irish traditional music as expressive of =
an ethnically pure, geographically bound, masculine, national culture is =
an inadequate basis for a multi-ethnic Irish society.
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Helen O=E2=80=99Shea is a Research Fellow at Monash University, =
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