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THE AMERICAN FOLKLIFE CENTER AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PRESENTS

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

"I Am a Wee Weaver": Weaving and Singing in Northern Ireland

Presented by Maurice Leyden

December 4, 2008, 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm

Pickford Theater, James Madison Building, Library of Congress

Handloom weaving was dominated by men in 19th century Ireland. The
Industrial Revolution changed that, enabling women to take the
dominant role in the factory production of linen. Maurice Leyden will
discuss the reasons for this historical shift, and the impact of this
change on the traditions of singing and songwriting among weavers. To
illustrate his lecture, Leyden will sing songs composed by linen
weavers between the 18th and 20th centuries, setting the songs in
their historical context and discussing folklore and customs
associated with the weavers.

Maurice Leyden has been collecting traditional songs since the early
1980s. He has published two books: Belfast, City of Song and Boys and
Girls Come Out to Play, each of which was accompanied by a cassette of
songs. He is currently finishing a social history of the linen
industry in Ulster, in the north of Ireland, narrated through the
songs of the workers; this book will be accompanied by a CD. In
addition to his scholarly work and his singing, Leyden is a renowned
broadcaster, who produced and presented a radio program of traditional
music for over a decade.

For more information please visit the American Folklife Center at
www.loc.gov/folklife
or call 202-707-5510. This program is co-sponsored by the Arts
Council of Northern Ireland.

Joanne Rasi
American Folklife Center
Library of Congress
jrasi[at]loc.gov

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The History of the Family
Volume 13, Issue 4, 2008,

Is a special issue on 'Ireland church, state and society 1900=961975', =
which
will interest a number of Ir-D members. Ciara Breathnach's =
Introduction, as
well as offering the usual outline and comment on the contributions, =
begins
with a very useful overview of the historiography of the family in =
Ireland.

P.O'S.

Ciara Breathnach's opening paragraph...
'The articles in this collection arise primarily from a conference held =
at
the University of Limerick in June 2007, entitled History of European
Family: continuity and change. This conference provided a forum for
discussion on change in family and household structures over time; =
albeit
unintentionally the Irish context was well-represented. Hence, a special
Irish edition of this journal was the scholarly result. Akin to trends =
in
Spanish historiography, the history of family has been slow to emerge in =
the
Irish context (Urd=E1=F1ez, 2005, January G.G. Urd=E1=F1ez, =91The =
bourgeois family in
nineteenth-century Spain: Private lives, gender roles, and a new
socioeconomic model=92, Journal of Family History 30 (1) (2005, =
January), pp.
66=9668.Urd=E1=F1ez, 2005). While a number of scholars of Ireland =
notably,
historical geographers, demographers, and economic historians, have been
operating in this field for a few decades, few have explicitly published
under the rubric of history of family, with many aligning themselves to
demography, gender, or local and community studies to a lesser extent.'

Introduction: Ireland church, state and society 1900=961975
Pages 333-339
Ciara Breathnach

Poor relief and families in nineteenth-century Ireland and Italy
Pages 340-349
Mel Cousins

Economic status, religion, and demography in an Ulster town in the
early twentieth century
Pages 350-359
Cormac =D3 Gr=E1da

Reinforcing the family: The role of gender, morality and sexuality
in Irish welfare policy, 1922=961944
Pages 360-369
Lindsey Earner-Byrne

=91Done to death by father or relatives=92: Irish families and
infanticide cases, 1922=961950
Pages 370-383
Cl=EDona Rattigan

=91Alien family=92: The impact of the Aliens Act 1935 and subsequent
Orders on the family in Ireland, 1933=961945
Pages 384-394
Siobhan O'Connor

Mixed marriage, =91a grave injury to our church=92: An account of the
1957 Fethard-on-Sea Boycott
Pages 395-401
Catherine O'Connor

We were conscious of the sort of people we mixed with: The state,
social attitudes and the family in mid twentieth century Ireland
Pages 402-415
Mary Muldowney

Have the snakes come back?: The family and the defence of Catholic
educational structures in Ireland (1957=961975)
Pages 416-425
John Walsh

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This is a Review article which uses Foster and Bew to look at...
everything...

P.O'S.

Orbis
Volume 53, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 156-169

Review Essay

Irish Evolution and the Politics of Identity
Karl C. Schaffenburg

Available online 12 November 2008.

Article Outline

Irishness and Irish Historiography
The Irish and Postmodernism
Economic Evolution
The Politics of Grievance
Religion and Identity
Identity and History-in-the-Making
The Irish and the Definitions of Irishness
Vitae

Conclusion
'In the late twentieth century, Ireland has been transformed, modernized and
globalized. She has gone from being a land of myth to one in the mainstream
of Western society, and she struggles still with this evolution, for the
mainstream of Western society is itself being fragmented by the
subjectification of truth. And so Ireland clings to invented pasts while
seeking to invent a future in which Irishness is more than a theme pub in
Berlin or Boston. Ireland has to be more than a franchise, and this requires
coherence in national narrative. Seeking this coherence from competing
perspectives, the Irish are beset by mistrust both of each other and now of
history itself. They are, thus, "aggressively [of] the present," and in this
have the dubious distinction of being the most postmodern nation on earth.'


R. F. Foster, Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change from 1970
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).

Paul Bew, Ireland: The Politics of Enmity (Oxford: Oxford University. Press,
2007).

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The Abstract does not too justice to the article, which is a highly
intelligent, careful - and yes, mannered - exploration of 'the appeal of
personal accounts of the Northern Ireland/Irish conflict'...

P.O'S.

Women's Studies International Forum
Volume 31, Issue 6, November-December 2008, Pages 457-463

Critical reflections: 'Documenting gender and memory'

Eilish Rooney a, E-mail The Corresponding Author

aSchool of Sociology and Applied Social Studies, University of Ulster,
Jordanstown, Co. Antrim, BT37 0QB, United Kingdom

Available online 11 November 2008.

Frameworks of understanding are critical sites of power (Butler, Judith.
(2002). Explanation and exoneration, or what we can hear. Social Text. 3,
177-88; Morrison, Toni. (1992). Playing in the dark: Whiteness and the
literary imagination. London: Picador). The reflections in this article are
about finding ways of enabling the disclosure of what these frameworks admit
and contain and what they deny and exclude. In the opening reflection this
key insight of critical race theory is used to deconstruct and question how
a moment of revelation (about race) may simultaneously be a moment of
concealment. This insight is then applied to examining personal narratives
as an approach that centres on 'documenting, recording and transmitting'
marginalised women's lives. Whilst this feminist methodology focuses on
otherwise excluded lives, and is important for understanding how gender
regimes work, it may neither involve integrating the concept of gender into
analysis nor illuminate intersectional inequalities of social class and
race. These insights are applied to reflections on the overwhelming appeal
of personal accounts of the Northern Ireland/Irish conflict. The power of
this appeal is rarely critiqued for its assumptions and silences to do with
gender, sect and class. Intersectional analysis is recommended as a
corrective to these omissions. Learning to listen for silences is similar to
the critical work of deconstructing frameworks of understanding.
Article Outline

Introduction
Concerning assumptions - listening for silences
'Empty purses' and 'stories to live by'
Telling concerns
Conclusion in silence
Acknowledgements
References

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Subject: REV: Jim MacPherson on Karen Steele, _Women, Press, and =20
Politics during the Irish Revival_
From: H-Net Staff
Date: December 4, 2008 7:02:36 AM GMT-05:00

Karen Steele. Women, Press, and Politics during the Irish Revival. =20
Irish Studies Series. Syracuse Syracuse University Press, 2007. xii =20
+ 273 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8156-3141-5.

Reviewed by Jim MacPherson
Published on H-Albion (December, 2008)
Commissioned by Michael De Nie

Feminist Authors of the Irish Revolution?

A welcome trend in recent histories of Ireland at the beginning of the =20
twentieth century has been an increasing willingness to recognize some =20
of the interconnections between literature and politics that helped =20
shape Irish identity.[1] Few studies, however, have paid significant =20
attention to feminist contributions to the vibrant newspaper and =20
periodical culture of the Irish revival.[2] Drawing on broader =20
theoretical considerations of women=92s literary production, Karen =20
Steele=92s book seeks to outline a =93feminist genealogy of =
nationalism=94 =20
through a study of Irish women=92s journalism in the two decades leading =
=20
up to the Easter Rising in 1916 (p. 2). _Women, Press, and Politics =20
during the Irish Revival_ interprets the broad canopy of the Irish-=20
Ireland movement as forming a =93textual meeting place=94 in which =20
newspapers functioned as sites for women to articulate their feminist =20
and nationalist political beliefs (p. 10). This is an important book =20
that opens up a number of exciting possibilities for future research =20
and indicates that the press is a vital, and underused, source for the =20
study of Irish feminist and nationalist identity at the beginning of =20
the twentieth century.

Steele=92s book is structured around a number of case studies of =20
feminist and nationalist newspapers: the _Shan Van Vocht_, the _United =20
Irishman_, _Bean na h=C9ireann_, the _Irish Citizen,_ and the _Irish =20
Worker_. Steele=92s close reading of women=92s contributions to these =20
publications may, at first glance, appear to follow the concerns of a =20
prior generation in the historiography of Irish women, viewing these =20
texts through the prism of the period=92s =93star attractions,=94 Maud =
Gonne =20
and Constance Markievicz. However, Steele=92s approach to these two =20
figures is rather different. Analyzing Gonne=92s articles for the =20
_United Irishman_ and Markievicz=92s for the _Irish Citizen_ and _Bean =20
na h=C9ireann_, Steele delineates the complexities of their political =20
thought and the strong connections both women had with other activists =20
and feminist, nationalist, and socialist organizations. This =20
interconnectedness informs each of the book=92s chapters.

The first two chapters, examining the _Shan Van Vocht_ and the _United =20
Irishman_, outline what Steele terms the =93quiet feminism=94 of such =20
authors as Alice Milligan and Gonne (p. 73). Echoing Angela Bourke=92s =20
notion of =93feminist codings,=94 Steele identifies how articles in =
these =20
two newspapers could employ relatively narrow conceptions of =20
acceptable womanly behavior (usually centered on the home and family =20
life) to engage with aspects of feminine agency and activism.[3] In =20
chapter 1, she examines the nationalist and feminist content of =20
Milligan=92s stories in the_ Shan Van Vocht_. According to Steele, such =

stories as =93The Little Green Slippers=94 illustrate how Milligan =20
politicized "the Ascendancy girls=92 domestic realm," using seemingly =20
banal, everyday themes to engage with broader nationalist politics (p. =20
37). The second chapter addresses Gonne=92s columns in the _United =20
Irishman_, placing them in the context of other female writers for =20
this newspaper, such as Mary Butler, although Butler did not deplore =20
the feminist activism of Gonne and others quite as much as Steele =20
suggests (p. 74).[4]

The author=92s discussion of Markievicz retreads the familiar ground of =

her "Woman with a Garden" column in _Bean na h=C9ireann_, but, instead =20
of confirming her status as an =93exceptional woman,=94 Steele relocates =
=20
Markievicz in the nationalist and feminist networks of Inghinidhe na =20
h=C9ireann and the Irish Women=92s Franchise League. Steele successfully =
=20
captures how Markievicz embodied many of the connections and tensions =20
between the nationalist and feminist movements. Markievicz, according =20
to Steele, deployed domestic themes for subversive ends, using her =20
garden as =93a field of multiple political struggles=94 and suggested a =

powerful political role for women outside of the home (p. 116).

Chapter 4 takes as its premise the dispute between Delia Larkin and =20
Augusta Gregory over Larkin=92s production of Gregory=92s _The Workhouse =
=20
Ward_ (1908). Larkin produced this play as part of a fundraising tour =20
in 1914 but had done so without first seeking Gregory=92s permission. In =
=20
some respects, this is the least successful chapter in the book, =20
focusing on a quarrel that seemingly tells us little about the nature =20
of Irish women=92s activism or writings in the period. However, the bulk =
=20
of this chapter is devoted to a perceptive analysis of the tone of =20
Larkin=92s writings in _The Irish Worker_. Larkin=92s =93Women=92s =
Worker=94 =20
column was written in an abrasive, sarcastic style, which perhaps =20
explains why her work was received poorly by working women. In many =20
ways reminiscent of the sharpness and caustic character of Susan =20
Mitchell=92s writings in the _Irish Homestead_, Larkin=92s overtly =20
masculine style stood in contrast to the more feminine genres =20
(romance, gardening advice column) adopted by Milligan, Markievicz, =20
and Gonne.

Steele ends this book by addressing the debates about motherhood, =20
militancy, and nationhood within the pages of the _Irish Citizen_, =20
deftly capturing the deeply contested nature of Irish feminism both =20
before and during the First World War. The center piece of this =20
chapter is an examination of the rhetorical deployment of motherhood =20
in discussions about suffrage militancy and republican nationalism. =20
Steele traces the intriguing development of motherhood as a trope in =20
feminist thought, from Lillian Suffern=92s defense of militancy as =20
entirely congruent with a mother=92s concern for the health and well-=20
being of her children, to Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington=92s complete =20
rejection of motherhood as a rationale for feminist or nationalist =20
opposition to the First World War.

This book reveals much of the complexities of Irish women=92s feminist =20
and nationalist thoughts during the period of the Irish revival, and =20
offers historians a broader model of how we can use newspapers to =20
discern women=92s engagement with public debate and activism. There is =20
much to admire in Steele=92s approach to her subject, from her measured =

engagement with theoretical approaches, to her lucid presentation of =20
the shifts in feminist and nationalist thought and her evocative use =20
of images that serve as an important reminder of the visual impact of =20
newspapers. Although much work remains to be done on Irish women=92s =20
journalism, this book functions as an important foundation for an =20
emerging and vibrant area of scholarship in Irish studies.

Notes

[1]. For example, see P. J. Mathews, _Revival: The Abbey Theatre, Sinn =20
Fein, The Gaelic League and the Co-operative Movement_ (Cork: Cork =20
University Press, 2003).

[2]. Recent articles that examine Irish women=92s journalistic output at =
=20
the turn of the twentieth century include Catherine Morris, =93Becoming =

Irish? Alice Milligan and the Revival,=94 _Irish University Review_ 33 =20
(2003): 79-98; James MacPherson, =93=91Ireland Begins in the Home=92: =
Women, =20
Irish National Identity and the Domestic Sphere in the _Irish =20
Homestead_, 1896-1912,=94 _=C9ire-Ireland_ 36 (2001): 131-152; and =20
Virginia Crossman, =93The _Shan Van Vocht_: Women, Republicanism, and =20
the Commemoration of the 1798 Rebellion,=94 _Eighteenth Century Life_ 22 =
=20
(1998): 128-139.

[3]. Angela Bourke, "More in Anger Than in Sorrow: Irish Women's =20
Lament Poetry," in Joan Newlon Radnor, ed., _Feminist Messages: Coding =20
in Women's Folk Culture_ (Urbana: Illinois University Press, 1993), =20
160-82.

[4]. See Mary Butler, =93To the Women of Ireland,=94 in _The Irish =20
Yearbook 1908_, ed. The National Council (Dublin: The National =20
Council, 1908), 336-339.

Citation: Jim MacPherson. Review of Steele, Karen, _Women, Press, and =20
Politics during the Irish Revival_. H-Albion, H-Net Reviews. December, =20
2008.
URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=3D23354

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

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From: john hearne

Patrick
I am editing a book on Glassmaking in Ireland which will be published by
Irish Academic Press in late 2010. The book will be published in hardback
only and will cover all aspects of glass from pre -Christian times to the
present. The contributors are from various disciplines and many have an
international reputation. The reason I am contacting you is that I need
someone with a track record to write an article on the Cork glass industry
and perhaps you would alert IR-D members. Anyone interested can contact me
at hearnejmp[at]hotmail.com Submission deadline is 30 November 2009.
Many thanks
John

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Forwarded on behalf of
Johanna Church jchurch[at]drew.edu
Christine Kinealy [mailto:ckinealy[at]drew.edu]

CALL FOR PAPERS
The Caspersen School of Graduate Studies at Drew University
is pleased to announce that it will be holding an international and
inter-disciplinary conference on JUNE 19-20 2009

Remarkable Irish Women:
Radicals, Republicans and Writers...

Keynote Speakers:
Professor Maria Luddy, Warwick University, UK
Dr. Jason Knirck, Washington State University, USA
Professor Christine Kinealy, Drew University, USA

From St Brigid in the 5th century, to the Presidency of Mary McAleese in the
21st century, the role of women in the development of Ireland has been
significant, if frequently overlooked. Women - as pirates, poets or patriots
- or simply sisters and wives - have played a pivotal role in the
development of Ireland. Moreover, the large number of Irish women who left
Ireland in the 19th and 20th centuries meant that their influence spread far
beyond the island of Ireland. The remarkable contribution of women in the
struggle for Ireland's independence was recognized in the 1916 Proclamation
which was addressed to Irish men and women equally. Ironically, the 1937
Constitution sought to assert the primary role of women as wives and
mothers.

This conference will reassess the contribution of Irish women, both in
Ireland and overseas, to the making of modern Ireland. It will be held at
Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, USA.

Suggested strands include: Gender Studies; Varieties of Feminism; Women and
Science; Women and the Diaspora; Women and the 'Troubles'; Representations
of Women; Women in Business; Women and the Arts/Literature; Women and
Religion; Women and Religion; Women in Politics; Women in Education; Women
and Sexuality...

If you are interested in presenting at this conference, either individually
or as part of a panel, please submit proposals, no more than 750 words, to:
Johanna Church jchurch[at]drew.edu

Deadline February 15 2009

Caspersen Graduate School
Drew University
36 Madison Ave
Madison
NJ 07940

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CAIS 2009: Call for Papers

Calgary=2C Alberta (June 3-6=2C 2009)
Mount Royal College

INTO THE WEST

The
2009 Canadian Association for Irish Studies is holding its annual
conference and AGM from June 3-6=2C 2009 at Mount Royal College in
Calgary=2C Alberta. Conference organizers are calling for 20-minute
contributions on any aspect connected with or suggested by the title of
the conference.=20

Keynote speakers: Ann Saddlemyer=20
Ronan Bennett

Topics
may include but are not limited to: frontiers=2C boundaries=2C edges=2C
peripheries of geographic and psychological landscapes=3B westward
migrations=3B urban vs. rural dynamics=3B globalization and dominance of
the west=3B wild characters and rough social structures=3B Celtic cowboys
and cowgirls=3B westerns=3B geography and history of food cultures=3B the
idealization of the west=3B tourism and commodification of the west=3B east
and west tensions and possibilities=3B out of the East=3B into which west?

Please send a 200-250 word abstract no later than December 30=2C 2008 to si=
mon.jolivet[at]mcgill.ca or simonjolivet[at]yahoo.com

Abstracts will be assessed by a conference committee and presenters will be=
notified by mid-February 2009.
_________________________________________________________________

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Forwarded on behalf of
Dr Eamonn Hughes
e.hughes[at]qub.ac.uk
www.qub.ac.uk/en

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.

=A0
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 =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/

=A0
The three thematic areas currently being developed within the Institute =
are:

=A4 Ireland=A9=96s Other Capital - Belfast : History, Representation, =
Reimagining

=A4 Political Conflict, Violence and Human Rights

=A4 Irishness in its Wider Setting: European and Global Perspectives.

=A0
=A0
International Masters Bursaries
The University is offering two bursaries for students undertaking any
Masters Program within the area of Irish Studies. Applications for these
studentships are invited from non UK students. The bursaries will be for =
one
year and cover both fees and a stipend of =A36632. The normal entry
requirement is a primary degree with high honours (usually a 2.1 or 3.3 =
GPA
or equivalent) in a relevant subject. 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 Bursary 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/

=A0
The deadline for both PhD studentships and Masters Bursaries is 23rd =
January
2009.
--=20


Dr Eamonn Hughes
Senior Lecturer, School of English
Asst Director, Institute of Irish Studies
Queen's University Belfast
Belfast BT7 1NN
N. Ireland
Tel.: +44 (0) 289097 3320/3319
Fax: +44 (0) 289031 4615
e.hughes[at]qub.ac.uk
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50th Anniversary W.B. Yeats International Summer School, 26 July-7 August
2009

Directors: Jonathan Allison and Maureen Murphy /
www.yeats-sligo.com

Please invite your students and colleagues to the Yeats Summer School, which
will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2009. The school will be officially
opened by Helen Vendler at the Hawk's Well Theatre, Sligo, on Sunday 26
July. There will be a poetry workshop, and poetry readings by Seamus Heaney,
Michael Longley, Dennis O'Driscoll, Julie O'Callaghan, Justin Quinn, Peter
McDonald and others, and as usual a drama workshop led by a leading theatre
practitioner.

Scholarships are available for students and academic credit may be arranged
in tandem with the student's college or university. Check the school website
for further details and to receive a brochure please write to: Stella Mew,
The Yeats Society, Douglas Hyde Bridge, Sligo, Ireland.

Web: www.yeats-sligo.com

T: +353 (0)71 42693 / Fax: +353 (0)71 42780 /

E: info[at]yeats-sligo.com

or contact Jonathan Allison, Department of English, University of Kentucky,
Lexington!
KY 40506-0027 / T: 859-269-5024 / Fax 859-323-1072 / E: jalliso[at]uky.edu

Lectures in 2009 to include the following: Denis Donoghue (New York
University): "Three Presences: Yeats, Eliot, Pound;" Helen Vendler (Harvard
University): "Vacillation: the Yeatsian Contraries;" Roy Foster (Hertford
College, Oxford): "Yeats and Fascism;" Terence Brown (Trinity College
Dublin): "Yeats: the Colour of Poetry;" Edna Longley (Queen's University,
Belfast), "Yeats's Other Island;" John Kelly (St. John's College,
Oxford):"Inheriting a Philosophy of Life: W.B. Yeats's Debt to his Father;"
Elizabeth Butler Cullingford (University of Texas): "Cuchulain's Only Son;"
David Fitzpatrick (Trinity College Dublin): "Yeats and Sligo;" George Watson
(University of Aberdeen): "Yeats, Nationality and Nationalism;" Ronald
Schuchard (Emory University): "Yeats's Early Vision: Lost and Regained,
1903-1917;" Warwick Gould (University of London): "Yeats, Arthur Symons and
Symbolism;" Bernard O'Donoghue (Wadham College, Oxford): "Yeats, Edward
Walsh and the Gathering of Folklore;" Deirdre Toomey (University of London):
"'Sent out naked on the roads': Yeats's Phantasmagoria from 'The Cold
Heaven' to 'Cuchulain comforted';" Colbert Kearney (University College
Cork), "Yeats and O'Casey in the Abbey Theatre;" George Bornstein
(University of Michigan): "The Winding Stair and Other Poems;" Declan Kiely
(Morgan Library, New York): "Yeats and Milton;" Meg Harper (Georgia State
University), "Cuchulain the American;" Nicholas Allen (NUI Galway),
"Observing Jack Yeats;" Anne Margaret Daniel (New School University): "Yeats
the Literary Hero;" Peter McDonald (Christ Church, Oxford) Title
forthcoming; Maureen Murphy (Hofstra University) [Associate Director]: "Lily
and Lolly Yeats: the American Dimension;" Jonathan Allison (University of
Kentucky) [Director]: "'The Old Moon-Phaser': Yeats, Auden and MacNeice."

Seminars to include the following: Ron Schuchard: "Early Poems: The
Wanderings of Oisin, Crossways, and The Rose;" John Kelly: "Yeats and the
Abbey Theatre;" Helen Vendler: "Middle Poems;" Bernard O'Donoghue: "Yeats
and Folklore;" Elizabeth Butler Cullingford: "Yeats and Sex;" Jonathan
Allison: "Yeats and Sligo;" George Watson: "Yeats and Nationalism;" Terence
Brown: "Yeats as Public Poet;" Declan Kiely: "Yeats's Plays;" Maureen
Murphy: "The Faces of Irish Folklore;" George Bornstein: "The Tower, The
Winding Stair and the Material Text;" Meg Harper: "Yeats and the Occult;"
Helen Vendler: "Late Poems" and others to be announced. For updates see
www.yeats-sligo.com

Jonathan Allison
Associate Chair
Department of English
1215 Patterson Tower
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0027
email jalliso[at]uky.edu

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Subject: Conference (May 2009) -- Des accommodements pas toujours
raisonnables.
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To whom it may concern:

FYI. Here's pasted below a call for papers for a conference to be held in O=
ttawa in May 2009.

Thank you=2C

Simon Jolivet (member of the organizing committee)
=20
ps:
please note that the presentations must be delivered in French since
this conference will be part of the 77th Annual Convention of
l'Association Francophone pour le Savoir (ACFAS).


________________________

APPEL DE COMMUNICATIONS

Colloque=20
Des accommodements pas toujours raisonnables. L=92Irlande=2C le Qu=E9bec et=
le Canada fran=E7ais

Dans le cadre du congr=E8s de l=92ACFAS 2009Universit=E9 d=92OttawaEntre le=
11 et le 15 mai 2009 (la date exacte est =E0 confirmer)

Sous les auspices de la Chaire de recherche en =E9tudes celtiques=2C la Cha=
ire de recherche Francophonie et politiques publiques et le Centre de reche=
rche en civilisation canadienne-fran=E7aise

Comit=E9 organisateurPaul Birt =96 Linda Cardinal =96 Yves Frenette =96 Sim=
on Jolivet - Isabelle Matte


Les
Irlandais et les Canadiens fran=E7ais ont =E9t=E9 en contact =E9troit au se=
in
du monde atlantique=2C en Am=E9rique du Nord en particulier=2C d=E8s le 18e
si=E8cle et surtout depuis le 19e si=E8cle. Leurs relations ont oscill=E9
entre l=92accommodement et le conflit=2C tant au Qu=E9bec que dans le reste
du Canada fran=E7ais. Le Qu=E9bec a =E9t=E9 une soci=E9t=E9 d=92accueil pou=
r les
immigrants irlandais=2C catholiques comme protestants =3B =E0 l=92ext=E9rie=
ur de
ses fronti=E8res=2C migrants irlandais et canadiens-fran=E7ais ont aussi
souvent partag=E9 l=92espace urbain et les lieux de travail=2C en m=EAme te=
mps
qu=92ils ont b=E2ti des institutions religieuses et politiques au sein
desquelles ils se sont affront=E9s.

Les
tensions entre les deux groupes dans les institutions paroissiales
ainsi que dans les domaines de l=92=E9ducation=2C de l=92emploi et de la
politique ont =E9t=E9 importantes. Elles ont donn=E9 lieu =E0 des alliances
souvent inattendues entre Irlandais catholiques et Anglo-protestants.
Toutefois=2C les transferts culturels de l=92Irlande vers l=92Am=E9rique et=
les
occasions d=92interactions entre les Irlandais et les francophones ont
aussi permis des rapprochements importants entre eux.

Le
colloque Des accommodements pas toujours raisonnables. L=92Irlande=2C le
Qu=E9bec et le Canada fran=E7ais explore les r=E9alit=E9s et les
repr=E9sentations issues de la cohabitation et des relations entre les
deux groupes en ne perdant pas de vue les contextes nationaux et les
interinfluences. Il s=92adresse aux chercheurs de toutes les disciplines
travaillant sur les relations Irlande =96 Qu=E9bec =96 Canada fran=E7ais=2C=
y
compris les =E9tudiants des cycles sup=E9rieurs.


Modalit=E9s de proposition d=92une communication

Pr=E9sentationLa proposition devra =EAtre pr=E9sent=E9e comme suit :1. C=
oordonn=E9es exactes (nom=2C pr=E9nom=2C fonction=2C institution=2C adresse=
=20
=E9lectronique) de chaque pr=E9sentateur ou pr=E9sentatrice =
=3B2. Texte de 400 mots environ=2C pr=E9sentant la proposition comme sui=
t :=B7 Titre=B7 Exposition succincte du sujet et de la probl=E9ma=
tique=B7 Biographie succincte (5 lignes)


Soumission des pr=E9sentations
Veuillez soumettre votre proposition par voie =E9lectronique =E0 l=92adress=
e suivante :
isamatte70[at]yahoo.fr

Date limite de
soumission des propositions: 30 janvier 2009

Chaque
proposition de communication fera l=92objet d=92une =E9valuation par le
comit=E9 organisateur. Les auteurs et auteures des propositions retenues
seront inform=E9(e)s par voie =E9lectronique avant le 15 f=E9vrier 2009.

Publication
Les meilleures communications pourront =EAtre transform=E9es en article ou =
en chapitre de livre.



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Very interesting piece in last week's Economist.

Ignore the fantasy figures about a quarter of a million Poles though. =
The last Census said there were about 63,000. There may have been some =
undercounting, but the Census is reasonably robust. In fact, it reminds =
me of the fantasy figure of 50,000 undocumented Irish in the USA touted =
by certain people, when the real figure is somewhere between a fifth and =
a tenth of that figure (it may of course be going up in the present =
climate!)

Piaras

http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=3D1267678=
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Subject: CFP Diasporas, Migration and Identities, 11-12 June 2009,
University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
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Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism
(CRONEM)

AHRC Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme / CRONEM Conference
2009
Diasporas, Migration and Identities: Crossing Boundaries, New Directions
University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
11-12 June 2009

'Diasporas, migration and identities ' has
been the subject of a major national research programme funded by the
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in the UK since 2005. Its
central concerns have also been at the heart of the work of the Centre
for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism (CRONEM).
The aim of this international conference is to examine the past and
present impact of diasporas and migration on nation, community, identity
and subjectivity, culture and the imagination, place and space, emotion,
politics, law and values.

Confirmed speakers:
Ien Ang, Professor of Cultural Studies, University of West Sydney,
Australia
Robin Cohen, Professor of Development Sociology, University of
Oxford / Honorary Professor at the University of Warwick, UK
Peggy Levitt, Associate Professor, Wellesley College, USA
Ato Quayson, Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Diaspora
and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada

We invite abstracts that address the following themes in the UK and
beyond:
* Migration, settlement and diaspora: modes, stages and forms
* Representation, performance, discourse and language
* Subjectivity, emotion and identity
* Objects, practices and places
* Beliefs, values and laws
* The role of youth in relationship to diasporas, migration and
identities
* Diasporic economics and labour markets
* The recognition of multiple origins and mixedness
* The politics of immigration and integration
* Public opinion and public policy
* Ethnic identity politics
For more information and submission forms, please visit
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/Arts/CRONEM/index.htm


The closing date for abstracts is 2 February 2009.
****************************************
Mirela Dumic
Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism
(CRONEM)
Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences
21 AC 05
Post Box I4
University of Surrey
Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH
E-mail: m.dumic[at]surrey.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1483 682365
www.surrey.ac.uk/arts/cronem

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Subject: Conference, Catholics in the Movies,
Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism,
University of Notre Dame, April 2-4, 2009
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Conference outline at
http://www.nd.edu/~cushwa/conference/CatholicsInTheMovies.shtml

Book Information at
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/ReligionTheology/American/?=
vie
w=3Dusa&ci=3D9780195306576

Catholics in the Movies
Edited by Colleen McDannell
ISBN13: 9780195306576ISBN10: 0195306570 paper, 384 pages

P.O'S.

Catholics in the Movies
Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism
University of Notre Dame

April 2-4, 2009

Cinema is arguably the most understudied and potentially enlightening =
lens
through which to examine the historical trajectories of Catholics in the
United States over the previous century. This conference will explore =
how
American Catholics produced, acted, viewed, boycotted, and were depicted
in film.

The starting point for the conference is the outstanding volume
Catholicism in the Movies (Oxford, 2008), to which the conference =
speakers
contributed essays.

Speakers include Darryl Caterine (LeMoyne College), Mar=EDa Amparo =
Escand=F3n
(novelist and screenwriter), Thomas J. Ferraro (Duke), Tracy Fessenden
(Arizona State), James T. Fisher (Fordham), Amy Frykholm (correspondent
for The Christian Century), Paula Kane (University of Pittsburgh), =
Jeffrey
Marlett (College of St. Rose), Colleen McDannell, (University of Utah)
Timothy Meagher (Catholic University of America), Carlo Rotella (Boston
College), Anthony Burke Smith (Dayton), Judith Weisenfeld (Princeton).

Register at www.nd.edu/~cushwa

or call 574-631-6691

Web page: http://www.nd.edu/~cushwa=3D

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Subject: Conference, Ireland,
Britain and the Americas: The International Book Trade in the
Long Eighteenth Century, January 2009, QUB
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Forwarded on behalf of=20
Dr Sarah McCleave
Lecturer, School of Music and Sonic Arts
Queen=92s University Belfast

________________________________________
From: Sarah McCleave [mailto:S.McCleave[at]qub.ac.uk]=20

Dear Colleague,

The attached relates to an imminent conference (9 January 2009),
=93Ireland, Britain and the Americas: The International Book Trade in =
the Long
Eighteenth Century=94,
which could be of interest to members of your mailing list. I would be
grateful if you could circulate or post the attached.
The same information will soon be available at the following web link,
http://www.qub.ac.uk/cecs

Thank you for your attention to this.

Regards,

Dr Sarah McCleave
Lecturer, School of Music and Sonic Arts
Queen=92s University Belfast
Belfast BT7 1NN
Northern Ireland

s.mccleave[at]qub.ac.uk

Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Queen=92s University Belfast=20

Ireland, Britain and the Americas: The International Book Trade in the =
Long
Eighteenth Century

All events will take place in the School of Music, Queen=92s University
Belfast, 9 January 2009

10:00 Registration and Coffee=20

10:30-12:00 Session 1, Communicating the Text
Bill McCormack (Edward Worth Library), Goldsmith=92s The Deserted =
Village to
1811; some oddities of type, setting, and type-setting=94
Dr Sarah McCleave (QUB), =93Getting the detail right: Moore=92s Irish =
Melodies
as issued and re-issued by William and James Power=94
Dr =DAna Hunt =93Creating an audio archive of Moore=92s Irish =
Melodies=94

10:30-12:00 Session 2, Markets: Ireland and Beyond
Dr Johanna Archbold (TCD), =93Publishing for the American market: the
book-businesses of John Chambers and Patrick Byrne, 1790-1800=94
Ursula O=92Callaghan (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick), =
=93Book
advertisements and subscriptions in eighteenth-century Limerick.=94
Rachel Talbot (DIT), =93Kane O=92Hara and Irish ballad opera: a European
journey=94

12:10 KEYNOTE =20
Professor James Raven (University of Essex), =93Classical transports and
foreign bodies: the importation of non-English texts into North America
before 1820.=94

1:10 LUNCH (provided)

2:00-4:00 Session 3, Collections and Sources I
Triona O=92Hanlon (DIT), =93The Mercer=92s Hospital part-books and =
music-making in
eighteenth-century Dublin=94
Dr Kerry Houston (DIT), =93Magnum mysterium: reconstruction of a lost
repertoire at the Dublin cathedrals from the restoration of Charles II =
to
the mid eighteenth century=94
Sue Hemmens (Christ Church Cathedral), =93Musical scores and printed =
books:
eighteenth-century acquisitions at Christ Church Cathedral Dublin=94
Mary Delargy and Jennifer Jarvis (Derry and Raphoe Diocesan =
Library),=93The
Cinderella of the book world: The Derry and Raphoe Diocesan Library
collection=94

2:00-4:00 Session 4, Readership and Audiences=20
Madeleine Inglehearn (QUB), =93Aspects of the book trade: English and =
French
dance publications=94
Sarah McNamara (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick), =93 =
=91I love
the myst=92ry of a female missal=92: an exploration of female readers =
and
authors in the early nineteenth century: Anna Maria Bunn and The =
Guardian: A
Tale.=94
Dr John Moulden (Moore Institute, NUI Galway) =93Songs, satire and
sensibility; plays, prophecies, and prurience: the library of a small
farming family in early 19th-century County Down=94

4: 00 Tea

4:30 FINAL SESSION. Directions in Research; Reports; Notes and Queries =

Professor James Raven (Chair)

6:00 Conference dinner. Venue: TBC.

For abstracts, see http://www.qub.ac.uk/cecs

Registration forms are available at: http://www.qub.ac.uk/cecs

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Revisionist Marxism in Ireland: The Party

Author: Perry, Robert

Source: Critique, Volume 36, Number 3, December 2008 , pp. 457-477(21)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:
This article looks at the revisionist development and modernization of the
political movements representing the anti-nationalist Marxist school. It
looks at the political evolution of these movements and considers, amongst
other things, attitudes and stances on political violence in Ireland,
partition and Ulster unionism. It examines the constant of 'revisionism'
that has featured prominently in the history and development of the Official
Republican Movement. In charting the ideological transition from Official
Republican Movement to Democratic Left, it argues that the concern was to
win legitimacy in all relevant political processes-which most definitely
included the processes of government. It argues that this represented a
determined pursuit of and desire for respectability. 'A Southern Agenda'
involves discussion of the New Departure, the quest to find a social and
political platform relevant to the needs and understanding of the Irish
people in the late 20th century, and the radical republican response to what
was considered to be anti-Connolly politics and an anti-Connolly critique of
the Northern Question. The article then examines: the questioning by the
Official Republican Movement of Irish nationalism and its role within Irish
political life; the desire to undermine the pursuit of the Irish national
project; the Workers' Party's concentration on the Irish Republic rather
than on striving for a united Ireland; the ideology, political organization
and strategy that the Workers Party adopted; and the reasons for the
successful political profile of the Workers' Party in the state during the
1980s. The second part, 'Communist Denouement', explains the response to the
collapse of the Soviet Union: the undermining of the 'Soviet model'; the
reaction within the Workers' Party to the Soviet crisis; and the felt need
to distance a changed party from a perceivedly discredited Marxist ideology.
'A New Party' reviews the failed attempt to reconstitute the Workers Party
from 1990, initiated by party leader Proinsias de Rossa and others
(including Henry Patterson and Ellen Hazelkorn). The next section concerns
the drift towards a new political party, namely Democratic Left. The
following section focuses on the electoral battles between Democratic Left,
the Workers Party and the Labour Party.

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Subject: Article,
'Without the Aid of a Sporting Safety Net?': the Gaelic Athletic
Association and the Irish Emigre in San Francisco (1888-c.1938)
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'Without the Aid of a Sporting Safety Net?': the Gaelic Athletic Association
and the Irish Emigre in San Francisco (1888-c.1938)

Author: Darby, Paul1

Source: The International Journal of the History of Sport, Volume 26, Number
1, January 2009 , pp. 63-83(21)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:
This article builds on an emerging corpus of work that seeks to uncover the
history and social, cultural and political significance of the Gaelic
Athletic Association (GAA) in the United States. However, it also marks a
departure from any of the published work to date because for the first time
it addresses the place of Gaelic games in the lives of the Irish emigre in
the San Francisco Bay area. The article accounts for the origins and early
history of the GAA there, and details the key agents and agencies
responsible for the Association's development during the first 50 years of
its existence. In doing so, it reveals that the GAA's growth in San
Francisco appears to have been more moderately paced than it was in some of
America's other centres of Irish immigration, particularly Boston, New York
and Chicago. The article concludes by exploring the reasons for this and
argues that a combination of quantitative differences in levels of Irish
immigration to America's Pacific and Atlantic coasts and qualitative
differences in the nature of the experiences of the Irish emigre in San
Francisco were key in this regard.

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Subject: Article,
The Politics of Migration to Western Europe: Ireland in
Comparative Perspective
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The Politics of Migration to Western Europe: Ireland in Comparative
Perspective

Author: Messina, Anthony

Source: West European Politics, Volume 32, Number 1, January 2009 , pp.
1-25(25)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:
This article locates Ireland's relatively recent experience with mass
immigration within a comparative West European context. It poses two
questions: To what degree has Ireland become a 'normal' country of
immigration? What does the Irish case reveal about the contemporary politics
of migration to Western Europe? The article's main finding is that Ireland's
experience with mass immigration since the 1990s appears to be following a
political trajectory similar to that of the traditional
immigration-receiving states, despite being separated from the latter by as
many as four decades. This said, the evidence suggests that some of the
policy challenges precipitated by mass immigrant settlement may be currently
arriving earlier in time than previously.

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Arend Lijphart and the Transformation of Irish Democracy

Authors: Bulsara, Hament; Kissane, Bill

Source: West European Politics, Volume 32, Number 1, January 2009 , pp.
172-195(24)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:
This article assesses the extent to which institutional change has produced
a consensus democracy in the Republic of Ireland. It measures this change
over time, examining each of the variables Lijphart associates with the
distinction between majoritarian and consensus democracy. We show that the
Irish system is moving away from its Westminster roots, but some variables
on the executive-parties dimension have hardly changed at all. Hence, we
relate the Irish preference for 'divided power' forms of consensus democracy
to the strong British imprint on the state's core legislative institutions.

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Challenging Ethno-National Division: New Social Movements in
Belfast
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Challenging Ethno-National Division: New Social Movements in Belfast

Author: Nagle, John1

Source: Social Movement Studies, Volume 7, Number 3, December 2008 , pp.
305-318(14)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group


Abstract:
Literature on social movements in societies undergoing violent
ethno-national conflict between two 'warring factions' has typically
concentrated on civil rights, ethnic revivalists, peace and women's groups.
This paper concentrates on two loose groupings - lesbian, bisexual, gay and
transgender, and 'ban-the-bomb' - that have been ignored. I argue that in
the context of a 'divided city' like Belfast, the capital of Northern
Ireland, these collective actors can be analysed as New Social Movements.
Specifically, I look at how these new social movements have sought to
experiment with forms of intercultural dialogue, expressive pluralistic
communities which embrace unity through diversity and cosmopolitan, global
identities which challenges the competitive, monolithic and divisive
nationalisms which contribute to the sedimentation of violence and
segregation of Irish Nationalists and British Unionists in the city.