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The American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) invites submissions for th=
e ADELE DALSIMER PRIZE FOR A DISTINGUISHED DISSERTATION to be presented at=
the annual ACIS meeting, held next year the National University of Ireland=
, Galway.

Any dissertation dated 2008, on any topic related to Irish Studies, is elig=
ible to be considered.

The award carries a $500 cash prize.

Please submit a hard copy or PDF file of the dissertation to each of the pr=
ize committee members before February 10, 2009. The winner will be notifie=
d in early April.

Committee:

Dr Irene Whelan (chair)
Manhattanville College
Please use home address:
16 Wildwood Road Apt. B9
Hartsdale, New York 10530

E-mail: whelani[at]mville.edu

Dr Christie Fox
1438 Old Main Hill
Honors Program
Utah State University
Logan UT 84322-1438

E-mail: Christie.Fox[at]usu.edu

Dr. Moira Casey
Miami University
Please use home address
3305 Spruce Lane
Oxford, OH 45056

E-mail caseyme[at]muohio.edu

The prize is named for the late Dr. Adele Dalsimer of Boston College, a pro=
minent Irish Studies scholar and active member of the ACIS, who died in 200=
0.

Previous winners are Alison Dean Harvey, UCLA; Douglas Kanter, Florida Atla=
ntic University; Audrey Scanlan-Teller, University of Delaware; Sarah McKib=
ben, Cornell University; Cara Delay, Brandeis University; Robert Doggett, U=
niversity of Maryland; and Ben Novick, Oxford University.

The American Conference for Irish Studies is a multidisciplinary scholarly =
organization with members in the United States, Ireland, Canada, and othe=
r countries around the world. For more information, see the ACIS web site a=
t http://www.acisweb.com/index.php

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IRISH THEATRICAL DIASPORA CONFERENCE
CALL FOR POSTERS

The sixth annual Irish Theatrical Diaspora Conference takes place at
National University of Ireland, Galway on 17-18 April 2009. The conference
theme is 'Contemporary Irish Theatre: Local and Global'.

The conference organisers wish to invite scholars carrying out research on
any aspect of Irish theatre to submit proposals for posters, which will be
displayed and discussed during the conference.

The poster should include the title of your project and a brief abstract,
together with any other illustrations, key points, or concerns that you want
to bring to the attention of delegates. Posters should be printed on A3 or
A2 paper and will be displayed on notice boards for the duration of the
conference. You will be able to introduce and discuss your poster in a
designated poster session and, for that reason, it should be noted that
posters cannot be presented in absentia. All abstracts for posters will be
included in the conference booklet.

Please send a brief abstract (100-200 words), including your name,
affiliation and the title of your research project to
patrick.lonergan[at]nuigalway.ie on or before 1 February 2009.

Please note that this is not a general call for papers.

Conference organising committee: Lisa Coen, Nicholas Grene, Patrick
Lonergan, Shelley Troupe.

This conference is funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities
and Social Sciences.


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Dr Patrick Lonergan
Room 301, Tower Block 1
English Department
NUI Galway
Ireland

patrick.lonergan[at]nuigalway.ie
Phone: + 353 (0)91 495609
internal: 5609
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Subject: CFP EXPRESSING TRAUMA : LITERATURE, CULTURE AND HISTORY IN IRELAND
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Call for submissions

Thematic volume

KLASK (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, France)

2008-09

EXPRESSING TRAUMA: LITERATURE, CULTURE AND HISTORY IN IRELAND

=20

The publication comes within the framework of the Center for Irish =
Studies
research programme (part of the CRBC =96 Center for Breton and Celtic
Research Centre), University of Rennes 2, France)

=20

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The publication will focus particularly on the following themes:

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Historiographic questions: the unsaid, peripheral histories and the
peripheries of history

History text books

Museographic choices

Commemoration, memory, memorials

History and literature; arts and history

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Trauma on a national scale

Forgotten wars and revolutions: the unsaid and failures: mythified =
events,
aborted revolutions

The traumatism of the First World War in Ireland and in Northern Ireland

The Troubles in Northern Ireland

Civil war movements in Ireland

The Titanic, the Famine, the diaspora=20

Espionage and intelligence gathering, informers and resistance, =
controlled
discourses, hegemonic and ideological discourses

=20

Trauma on a personal scale

Unedifying histories

Language- denied, transformed, controlled or re-appropriated

Socio-cultural taboos (upbringing, sexuality etc.): things forgotten,
omissions, circumventions, diversions, suppression, censorship

Emotion and traumatism: victims, victimisation, martyrdom

The impact and representation of sectarian violence, terror, the =
diaspora,
fear etc.

=20

Possible remedies for trauma

Post-trauma: verbalising the divergence between the peace process in
Northern Ireland and the reality at grass-roots level

Narrative strategies and metaphors of trauma=20

Discourses on memory and on the duty to remember: excess or censorship

=20

Languages accepted for publication : French, English

Length of articles : 36 000 characters maximum, notes included

An abstract in French and English (10-15 lines)

A short biographical note (5-8 lines)

Deadline for submission of articles : 23 March 2009

Articles will be peer reviewed

Please send your articles to : anne.goarzin[at]
univ-rennes2.fr

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Pr. Anne Goarzin

Centre d=92Etudes Irlandaises

Universit=E9 Rennes 2

Place du Recteur Henri le Moal

35043 RENNES CEDEX

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This book, by Patrick Fitzgerald and Brian Lambkin, is such an important =
and
significant intervention into our field of study that I think I should - =
in
a separate email - give some first impressions and first responses.

Meanwhile - as I collect my thoughts - here is the basic information. =
On
the Palgrave web site you will find the Table of Contents, the Index and
some sample text.

P.O'S.

Migration in Irish History 1607-2007
Patrick Fitzgerald and Brian Lambkin

9780230222564
2008
460 Pages
716 g
0230222560
=A318.99

Description
Migration in Irish History, 1607-2007 is the first book to survey the =
theme
of migration in Irish history over four centuries and to examine the =
dynamic
relationship between its immigrants (including return migrants), =
internal
migrants, and emigrants. The approach is based on the reconstruction of
individual migration stories, and detailed use is made of maps, =
paintings
and drawings to illustrate the migrant experience.
Key terms are home, family and diaspora. The book traces how Ireland, =
since
the Flight of the Earls (1607) and the Plantation of Ulster, developed =
as a
site of diaspora for the peoples of Britain and rest of the world; and =
how
the countries of the rest of the world developed as sites of diaspora =
for
the peoples of Ireland. It prompts the question of how a better
understanding of our migration past might help us meet the current
challenges of immigration and building a shared future.

Contents
Foreword
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements

PART I: PUTTING MIGRATION INTO IRISH HISTORY
Migration and Irish Migration Studies
A Three-Stage Process: Leaving, Crossing, Arriving
A Three-Way Process: Immigration, Internal migration and Emigration
A Three-Outcome Process: Segregation, Integration and Modulation

PART II: IN-WITHIN-OUT-MIGRATION, 1607-2007
1607-1650
1650-1700
1700-1750
1750-1800
1800-1845
1845-1855
1855-1900
1900-1950
1950-2007

PART III: THE WORLD IN IRELAND - IRELAND IN THE WORLD
In: the British and Other Diasporas
Within-Out: the Irish Diaspora
Conclusion: Migration in Irish History

Appendix I Types of Migration
Appendix II Migration Theory and Migration Studies
Appendix III Individual Migrants
Bibliography

Author Biographies
PATRICK FITZGERALD is Lecturer and Development Officer at the Centre for
Migration Studies at the Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh, Northern =
Ireland,
and has taught Irish Migration Studies at Queen=92s University Belfast =
since
1996. Formerly he was Assistant Curator for Emigration History at the
Ulster-American Folk Park.

BRIAN LAMBKIN is founding Director of the Centre for Migration Studies =
at
the Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh, Northern Ireland, and is Chairman =
of
the Association of European Migration Institutions. Formerly he was
Principal of Lagan College, Belfast.

http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=3D322215

http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=3D263841

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SOURCE
http://www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/fall-2008/myth-irish-cinema.html

FALL 2008 CATALOG

The Myth of an Irish Cinema
Approaching Irish-Themed Films

Michael Patrick Gillespie

Cloth $39.95L | 978-0-8156-3168-2 | 2008
Paper $19.95s | 978-0-8156-3193-4 | 2008

Description
For the past seventy years the discipline of film studies has widely invoked
the term national cinema. Such a concept suggests a unified identity with
distinct cultural narratives. As the current debate over the meaning of
nation and nationalism has made thoughtful readers question the term, its
application to the field of film studies has become the subject of recent
interrogation. In The Myth of an Irish Cinema, Michael Patrick Gillespie
presents a groundbreaking challenge to the traditional view of filmmaking,
contesting the existence of an Irish national cinema. Given the social,
economic, and cultural complexity of contemporary Irish identity, Gillespie
argues, filmmakers can no longer present Irishness as a monolithic entity.

The book is arranged thematically, with chapters exploring cinematic
representation of the middle class, urban life, rural life, religion, and
politics. Offering close readings of Irish-themed films, Gillespie
identifies a variety of interpretative approaches based on the diverse
elements that define national character. Covering a wide range of films,
from John Ford's The Quiet Man and Kirk Jones's Waking Ned Devine to Bob
Quinn's controversial Budawanny and The Bishop's Story, The Myth of an Irish
Cinema signals a paradigm shift in the field of film studies and promises to
reinvigorate dialogue on the subject of national cinema.

Author
Michael Patrick Gillespie is professor of English at Marquette University.
He is the author of The Aesthetics of Chaos: Nonlinear Thinking and
Contemporary Literary Criticism, Ulysses and the American Reader, and
Reading William Kennedy, the latter published by Syracuse University Press.

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Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:45:12 +0000
Subject: Migrating Music: Media, Politics and Style

Paddy,

Hope all is well with you and yours.

Please find.

As ever,

Jim

=D8 Migrating Music: Media, Politics and Style
An international conference
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Friday 10th =96 Saturday 11th July, 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

Over the last twenty years or so there has been much interest in music and
diaspora, that is in migrating music. No doubt this interest is historically
grounded. Movement of peoples and their music across the world has been
occurring to an unprecedented extent and in novel ways. Researchers in a
variety of disciplines have then responded by studying musical flows and the
formation of hybrid styles, but also the way in which apparently similar
music can mean quite different things in different contexts. We might sum up
the overarching framework as one in which researchers focus on the (largely
benign) diversification and pluralisation of musical meaning and experience.

We do not seek to overturn this framework.

Read more

http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/diasporas/events/migratingmusic.htm

Submission deadline: 22nd February 2009




James W. McAuley BSc PhD

Professor of Political Sociology and Irish Studies
Director of Research
School of Human & Health Sciences
University of Huddersfield, UK

Telephone: 0044 (0)1484-472691 [direct line]
0044(0)1484 - 422288 [switchboard]
0044(0)1484 - 471156 [secretary]

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Folks,

I sort of hesitate to ask a question this big-for fear of being deluged-- b=
ut, what the heck, the list is good about this sort of thing

This is a query from some associates at a nearby school, who are planning a=
n undergraduate seminar on sectarianism and peace in Northern Ireland. The=
controlling focus of their course is going to be the question, "How do we =
tell the story?"

They have a pretty solid idea of most of the texts and films to use, but ha=
ve asked me a number of good questions.

"Is there a good anthology of reportage and journalism on the North that yo=
u would recommend?

Are there good accounts of being a journalist in the North that you would r=
ecommend?

We plan to put excerpts from Gerry Adams's autobiography on the reading lis=
t. What do you recommend as a balancing autobiography from the Protestant o=
r unionist side?"

Thanks in advance.

Jim Rogers
University of St Thomas

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Happy Holidays to all,

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The following collection of essays has just been published by Palgrave. =
Given its interest in conceptions of Ireland both at home and abroad, it =
might interest readers of the list.

=20

Best wishes,

Maria McGarrity

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Irish Modernism and the Global Primitive

Edited by Maria McGarrity and Claire A. Culleton

New York: Palgrave Macmillan USA, 2008

=20

Irish Modernism and the Global Primitive is a collection of 11 essays =
that examine Irish Modernism and the rhetoric of the primitive =
encounter. From the 1880s to the present, modern Irish writers created =
primitives within and beyond Ireland's immediate borders, drawing upon =
or calling attention to its persistence within Irish culture. Because =
the construction of primitivism functions variously as an idealized =
nostalgia for the past, as a threat of the foreign, or as a potential =
representation of difference and connection, representations of the =
primitive as well as representations of global cultures in Irish modern =
texts beg for critical attention. Essays in this collection address =
three intersecting tropes, and focus critical attention on primitivism =
in Ireland, especially in the West,--often seen as the most "pure" or =
"authentic" repository of indigenous Irish culture-on the broader study =
of global primitive alterities abroad, especially from Africa, from the =
East, and on extreme representations of "indigenous others" from the New =
World. Since the complexities of the Irish dichotomy of at home and =
abroad are refracted temporally, several essays in our collection =
rightly address the ways Ireland's past primitive heritage regularly, =
albeit ironically, moves into the Irish present. =20

The volume is divided into three sections in order to =
highlight recurring themes. Section One, "Ambivalent Primitives: =
Responding to the Revival," includes John McCourt's "Queering the =
Revivalist's Pitch: Joycean Engagements with Primitivism," Barbara =
Suess's "Robots and Rebels: Technological and Organic Primitive =
Discourse in Pearse's Political Essays," and Elizabeth Gilmartin's =
"'Magnificent Words and Gestures': Defining the Primitive in Synge's The =
Aran Islands." James Joyce, Padraic Pearse, and John Millington Synge =
may initially strike readers as a perverse trinity; yet McCourt's, =
Suess's, and Gilmartin's essays argue that each writer plays with =
ambivalent and multifaceted visions of Irish primitivism that engage =
with and are significantly drawn in relief against the Celtic Revival. =
Joyce's ambivalent conception of primitivism, as examined by McCourt, =
relies on indigenous, internal Irish forms that speak to the dominant =
forms of Irish identity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth =
centuries, Catholicism and the Irish Nationalist's Movement (both of =
which particularly display a grand sweeping nostalgia for the past). =
McCourt suggests that Joyce's development as a modernist writer relies =
on a "secular myth of a Celtic Eden" and an oppositional "Catholic myth =
of an Irish Golden Age of Saints and Scholars," and finds that Joyce's =
ambivalence with the primitivism of the Revival is not a rejection of =
cultural recovery but a rejection of its essentializing political =
ideologies. In contrast to Joyce, Patrick Pearse was a figure more at =
home with the call of Nationalism, of sacrifice of the self for the =
modern Irish nation. Yet, Pearse too exhibits a profoundly ambivalent =
relationship to his use of primitivist rhetorics within his political =
writings. While certainly his poetry and drama are more well known and =
studied, Suess's attention to his later political tracts show a =
surprising mechanistic rhetoric using metaphors more frequently familiar =
to materialist and psychoanalytic discourse that reveal inherent =
ambivalence of and contradictions between Pearse's romantic and modern =
modes of the primitivism. Pearse rejects the modern savage material =
world in favor of its organic primitive indigenous Irish one that for =
him results in his own final sacrifice. Gilmartin explores Synge's =
anthropological investigations into the lives of native islanders in his =
The Aran Islands. His attempt at demarcating a culture that remained =
pure of encroaching modernity, Synge's Aran Islands remains a text that =
defies easy classification. Gilmartin suggests that the series of =
highly charged primitive moments reveal Synge's ambivalence about the =
Revival, his place in it, and what its repercussions could be for Aran =
islanders.=20

Section Two of the volume brings together four essays on the =
topic "Ethnography and Cultural Translation" that serve to move the =
discussion from the negotiation and ambivalence of the internal =
indigenous constructions of primitives identified in earlier essays by =
McCourt, Suess, and Gilmartin to broader treatments focused on the ways =
Irish primitivisms become catalogued, hierarchized, and translated for =
audiences not only within Ireland but abroad. Kathleen St. Peters =
Lancia's "Ethnographic Roots of Joyce's Modernism: Exhibiting Ireland's =
Primitives in the National Museum and the 'Nestor' Episode" examines the =
ethnographic history of the National Museum of Ireland as it relates to =
the "Nestor" episode in Joyce's Ulysses. Her research reveals an =
intriguing foundational narrative for the establishment of the National =
Museum's preservation of "primitive" Ireland, its official and =
state-sponsored witnessing of cultural practices, and the institution's =
preservation of artifacts that document as well as historicize British =
Imperial experimentation. She provocatively suggests that Joyce's =
radically inclusive catalogue of Irish culture that is Ulysses itself, =
rescues the National Museum and Irish ethnography from its imperial =
"nightmare" and creates an infinite if ironic cultural history of modern =
primitives. Much like the observing gaze is an ordering element of =
museum collecting, presenting, and viewing, the ethnographic use of =
photography also depends on similar assumptions. Justin Carville =
explores in "Visible Others: Photography and Romantic Ethnography in =
Ireland" Synge's use of photographic representation in his ethnographic =
travelogue, The Aran Islands, theorizes how the photos themselves =
temporally dislocate the reader and viewer, incorporating and =
constructing primitives within modernity. Carville discusses the =
negotiation and translation of Aran's "primitive" culture that becomes =
possible with the technology of an observing and participatory graphic =
modernity; and he interrogates the illusion of precision and accuracy =
offered to the viewer, the subject and the photographer by photography. =
Similar questions of how to "translate" primitive Irish culture for =
viewers and readers inspire the work of Teresa Caneda-Cabrera, whose =
"'The Loveliness Which Has not Yet Come Into the World': Translation as =
Revisitation of Joyce's (Irish) Modernism" explores the critical =
reception of Joyce in Galicia (a northwest region of Spain) in the 1920s =
when a group of nationalist intellectuals ventured to publish a partial =
translation of Ulysses. The Galician interest in Joyce was largely =
dependent upon the belief in a commonality of Celtic heritage, history, =
and culture, she explains; and her essay demonstrates how the Galicians =
used Joyce's writing to construct a primitive "authentic" Celtic =
identity, to evoke broad nationalist discourse, to encourage the kind of =
aesthetic innovations that Joyce's modernism epitomized, and to converge =
the Galician native "primitive" culture with the Irish author's modern =
spirit. Maria McGarrity's essay, "Primitive Emancipation: Religion, =
Sexuality, and Freedom in Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young =
Man and Ulysses," analyzes ethnography and cultural translation along =
similar lines, identifying racial alterities and examining the role the =
Irish played in missionary campaigns, especially those commented on by =
Joyce in A Portrait and Ulysses. Her discussion of Irish missionary =
encounters with the primitive "other" concentrates on Joyce's references =
in the Cyclops episode of Ulysses to Roger Casement's 1904 Congo Report, =
where she discovers that Joyce's conception of the primitive encounter =
shifts with temporal and geographic dislocations. Yet, for Joyce, the =
threat of the encounter is not in revealing the "difference" of the =
primitive "other" but in its very uncomfortable correspondence within =
Irish identity and cultural positioning. The primitive alterity =
imagined and portrayed abroad reveals primitive Ireland at home.

Section Three, titled "Gender, Primitivism, and the Body," =
collects essays foregrounded in gender and sexuality as they relate to =
the formation of Ireland's primitives. Greg Winston's "'Reluctant =
Indians: Irish Identity and Racial Masquerade" explores the perspective =
and the performativity that attends primitivist encounters. Beginning =
with a discussion of Neil Jordan's film version of Patrick McCabe's =
Breakfast on Pluto and its use of stage Indians as a manifestation of a =
constructed primitive alterity for Irish identity, border-crossing, and =
transvestism, Winston discusses Jordan's film within the context of =
racial masquerades of Irish identity so prominent in Joyce's modernism, =
particularly, in his early Dubliners stories. Irish identity then is =
formed not simply in relation to the British but in relation to "other" =
primitive cultures and peoples whom the Irish appropriate for cultural =
positioning and sympathetic response. In "Female Militancy and Irish =
Primitivism: Dorothy Macardle's Earth-Bound " Lisa Weihman examines =
conflicts between the desire for political agency in the national fight =
of the early twentieth century and the necessity of maintaining a =
fiction of primitive Ireland as powerfully masculine in Macardle's =
collection of short fiction, written while imprisoned in Kilmainham and =
Mountjoy gaols during the Civil War. Macardle's work frequently employs =
the supernatural as a controlling force; ancient primitive Ireland =
emerges through the text to police the borders of women's contemporary =
domain. Phyllis Lassner's and Paula Derdiger's "Domestic Gothic, the =
Global Primitive, and Gender Relations in Elizabeth Bowen's The Last =
September and The House in Paris," explores domesticity and Gothicism, =
revealing Bowen's elusive conception of the primitive encounter based on =
an original archival source, and showing it to be a subtle, restrained, =
and inherently destabilized in a violent, proto-fascist modernity. =
Lassner's and Derdiger's focus on the distance between the west of =
Ireland and the urban middle class domesticity is continued in the final =
essay of the collection. Claire A. Culleton's "The Gaelic Athletic =
Association, Joyce, and the Primitive Body" explores the early years of =
the GAA (Gaelic Athletic Asso ciation), its efforts to revive ancient =
Irish sports, and the organization's focus on the athletic male body. In =
its first two decades, the GAA worked to develop the male body and to =
cultivate, as well, the male body politic, resexualizing it to restore a =
perceived lost virility. James Joyce's response to GAA propaganda was at =
first hardy, but he came to mistrust GAA (and other nationalist) =
injunctions. Culleton's essay in

many ways returns the collection to its beginnings, to the corpus of the =
"queer creatures" of a lost homeland in search of recovery, and to =
concepts that set primitive authenticity against the rights of =
indigeneity to arrive at the irrepressible source of Ireland's modern =
nation.


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Subject: Centre for Migration Studies, Tenth Annual Report
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This message from the Centre for Migration Studies at the Ulster =
American
Folk Park will interest Ir-D members.

P.O'S.

________________________________________
From: Christine Johnston [mailto:Christine.Johnston[at]NI-Libraries.NET]=20
Sent: 16 December 2008 14:09

Dear colleagues and friends

CMS Annual Report 2007-2008=A0=20

A little later than usual, may we draw your attention to our Annual =
Report
for 2007-2008, which may be viewed at: http://www.qub.ac.uk/cms/
The front cover photograph features our partnership with the Public =
Record
Office (PRONI) and the Ulster Historical Foundation at the Smithsonian
Folklife Festival in Washington DC in June 2007. If you have any =
comments on
the report, do please let us know.

This will be our first Christmas without our Librarian Chris McIvor who
retired in March, having been with us since 1992. In her place we =
welcomed
Deirdre Nugent. The year ahead will see a major restructuring of the
libraries of the five Education and Library Boards come together as a =
single
Northern Ireland Library Authority (NILA) at the beginning of April =
2009.

This year was a big year for us as we hosted the XVII Ulster-American
Heritage Symposium, 25-28 June, 2008. The group photograph may be =
accessed
at:
http://www.qub.ac.uk/cms/photo_gallery/latest_photos.html . The next
Symposium will be hosted by the Mountain Heritage Center at Western =
Carolina
University, Cullowhee, June 24-27, 2010.

Another big event for us this year was the long-awaited publication of
Migration in Irish History, 1607-2007, which is now available (paperback
only) from all good booksellers, or online at:
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=3D322215 .

The Eighth Annual MSSc Reunion Lecture will be given on Saturday 31 =
January
by Sir Peter Froggatt, who will speak on =91Emigrating for Medical =
Education:
Sons of Ulster Abroad, 1750-1900=92: =
http://www.qub.ac.uk/cms/about/events.htm
. We hope that as many students and friends of the course as possible, =
past
and present, will be able to attend this event. It is a special year as =
it
is the last that Paddy Fitzgerald and John Lynch will be teaching =
partners
in Omagh. After thirteen years of migration between Belfast and Omagh, =
John
has decided that he deserves to be allowed to settle down and we would =
like
to express our appreciation of the tremendous contribution he has made.=20

With thanks for your support during the year and best wishes from all =
here
for the Christmas season and the New Year,

Yours sincerely,

Brian Lambkin
Director


Christine Johnston
Senior Library Asst
Centre for Migration Studies
Ulster American Folk Park
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Tel:=A0 028 8225 6315
Fax:=A0 028 8224 2241
Email:=A0 christine.johnston[at]ni-libraries.net

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Hi,

>

War and Words by Bill Rolston

>

Flash Frames by Mark Davenport

>>

David Trimble by Henry McDonald

Karst=

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Perhaps "The Billy Boy: The Life and Death of LVF Leader Billy Wright"
by Chris Anderson might be a better book (as both Adams and Wright
were paramilitaries). The book is sympathetic to Wright (as is Adams's
biography to himself). It might also be worthwhile comparing the
biography of Gerry Adams, Man of War, Man of Peace? David Sharrock and
Mark Devenport with passages of Adam's own book to see how two
different people spin the same events in the same life.

Muiris

2008/12/16 kdejong01 :
> Hi,
>
> >
>
> War and Words by Bill Rolston
>
> >
>
> Flash Frames by Mark Davenport
>
> >>
>
> David Trimble by Henry McDonald
>
> Karst

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From: Patrick Maume
I don't think THE BILLY BOY is a good parallel to Adams' autobiography. Its
summary of his paramilitary activities is very brief and more than half of
it is devoted to the question of whether there was British state complicity
in his murder. It is certainly sympathetic to his family (father and
children) who are sources for it but not necessarily to Wright himself -
indeed I am not even sure that it is particularly sympathetic to loyalism.
(Tim Pat Coogan did the introduction and its central theme of British state
collusion in loyalist murders - it suggersts Wright himself was an agent
disposed of when he became inconvenient - is one where loyalists and
republicans often sing from the same hymn sheet; republicans because it
discredits the state, loyalists because they see it as giving them
legitimacy and undercutting their holier-than-thou unionist and British
state critics.)
The best parallel to Adams would be DAVID ERVINE - UNCHARTED WATERS by
Henry Sinnerton (2003). This is not an actual autobiography but it is an
"as told to" biography which very much conveys Ervine's viewpoint. Roy
Garland did a similar work on Gusty Spence, and Martin Dillon has interview
material with loyalIsts (including Wright) in his book GOD AND THE GUN.
Steve Bruce's books on Paisleyism and on loyalist paramilitarism rely very
heavily on interview material so they have something of the same "as told
to" status - however the interviews are anonymous and the main book on
loyalist paramilitarism, THE RED HAND, dates from the early 90s and had been
rendered out of date by later revelations (for example, it is clear there
was much more security force collusion with loyalists than he claims there,
though its extent and depth is still debated). His recent book PAISLEY
would probably be the best, as it has a discussion of why Paisleyites had
only limited sympathy for paramilitarism (it has a discussion of Billy
Wright in this context) and it is the nearest you will get to an academic
text which while not necessarily endorsing Paisley argues that he has
generally had a rational and consistent political project. (Of
course keeping interviewees sweet in the long term may tend to have this
effect.)
There are journalistic accounts of the UVF and UDA by Jim Cusack and Henry
McDonald.
Johnny Adair and Michael Stone had autobiographies written for them (and
no doubt read to them). However, they show very little political
consciousness and are generally agreed to fall into the category of fantasy
fiction for boys.
Best wishes,
PAtrick
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Muiris Mag Ualghairg wrote:

> Perhaps "The Billy Boy: The Life and Death of LVF Leader Billy Wright"
> by Chris Anderson might be a better book (as both Adams and Wright
> were paramilitaries). The book is sympathetic to Wright (as is Adams's
> biography to himself). It might also be worthwhile comparing the
> biography of Gerry Adams, Man of War, Man of Peace? David Sharrock and
> Mark Devenport with passages of Adam's own book to see how two
> different people spin the same events in the same life.
>
> Muiris
>
> 2008/12/16 kdejong01 :
> > Hi,
> >
> > that you would recommend?>>
> >
> > War and Words by Bill Rolston
> >
> > would recommend?>>
> >
> > Flash Frames by Mark Davenport
> >
> > or unionist side?">>>
> >
> > David Trimble by Henry McDonald
> >
> > Karst
>

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Shakespeare and the Cultural Colonization of Ireland
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This book review will interest a number of Ir-D members...

And certainly 'cultural impressment' is an interesting notion.

P.O'S.


Robin E. Bates. Shakespeare and the Cultural Colonization of Ireland. New
York: Routledge, 2008. vii + 170 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-415-95816-5.

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

Impressing Shakespeare

EXTRACT
Robin Bates explores William Shakespeare's problematic influence upon the
shared pasts of the Irish and the English in this latest installment of
Routledge's Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory series. The slender
volume achieves its goal by focusing its attention on three Shakespeare
plays and a handful of the major Irish authors of the twentieth century.

Drawing upon the work of several postcolonial critics and Irish historians,
Bates's work articulates the representation of explicitly or suggestively
Irish characters by English writers as "an act of violent inclusion," one
which "enlists the recorded culture in the self-defining projects of the
[English] empire" (p. 17). The author reformulates this broader postcolonial
concept by labeling such writing as "cultural impressment," defined as "an
act ... of forcibly enlisting another in the service of the empire" (p. 27).
The first chapter expands upon this bold metaphor, which is chosen because
"the cultural practice of representation in the service of an
empire-building project bears a similarity to the act of impressment which
the English military used for recruiting" (p. 27), while contextualizing the
English perception of Ireland in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Excerpts from English commentaries on Ireland by Sir Philip Sidney, Barnaby
Riche, and Edmund Spenser help justify the book's contention of violence in
Shakespeare's portrayals of Irishmen or characters with Irish
characteristics.

Bates asserts that, rather than "attempting to decide for myself which
characters and structures represent 'Irishness' in Shakespeare, I will defer
to nationalist Irish writers of the twentieth century and allow them to
decide for me" (p. 10). The resulting three chapters--which concern
themselves with Henry V (c. 1599), Richard II (c. 1595), and Hamlet (c.
1601) respectively--devote half their space to readings of the plays and
half to the modern Irish responses to these plays. This division helps to
ground the reader in each play's context before examining the later works,
but in general the author's interpretations of the Irish responses are far
more persuasive.

Full text at
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23456

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From today's Guardian.

I don't think that the author, Brian Fallon, quite gets GUBU right.

A web search will find much more comment.

P.O'S.

Obituary: Conor Cruise O'Brien
This article was first published on guardian.co.uk at 14.45 GMT on =
Friday 19
December 2008. It was last updated at 14.52 GMT on Friday 19 December =
2008.
Published in The Guardian December 20 2008.

Brian Fallon

Conor Cruise O'Brien, who has died aged 91, was a natural =
controversialist,
probably the most pugnacious Irish intellectual since George Bernard =
Shaw.
He was a man of so many contradictions that to call him a blend of all =
these
seems utterly inappropriate; rather, they appeared to pull him in many
contrary directions at once. He seems posthumously fated to give rise to
further controversy, since opinions on his career, his writing, his
personality and his public stances vary hugely.

He was a historian, an essayist, a journalist-publicist, an academic, a
politician, a career diplomat, a cabinet minister (for nearly four =
years), a
man who held many plum jobs, yet was constantly at war with the =
intellectual
and socio-political establishments of his time. At times he seemed
consciously to stand above the battle(s), yet his attitude to many of =
his
antagonists, intellectual or political, was often personal and he could =
be
vituperative in his verbal attacks on enemies, real or imagined. His
contempt for Charles Haughey, twice taoiseach and long-term leader of =
the
Fianna Fail party, was notorious, and much of it seems to have been =
returned
by Haughey, who refused to engage in public debate with him.

Not even O'Brien's denigrators, however, could deny that he was an
intellectually formidable figure and a man who commanded attention in =
many
countries. Perhaps his nearest equivalent were French intellectuals such =
as
Jean Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. O'Brien, as with many Irishmen of his
generation, was deeply influenced by French culture. His early essays on
contemporary French writers, especially the neo-Catholic novelists of =
the
1940s such as Fran=E7ois Mauriac, first brought him into the public eye,
though they were written under the pseudonym Donat O'Donnell. Later he =
used
the title of a Mauriac novel for his book Maria Cross, which dealt =
largely
with those writers and the intellectual and moral dilemmas with which =
they
wrestled.

O'Brien was born in 1917 in Rathmines, a Dublin suburb, the only child =
of
Francis Cruise O'Brien, a journalist who worked for the Freeman's =
Journal
and later the Irish Independent, and Kathleen Sheehy, a teacher, =
feminist,
pacifist and author of a book on Irish grammar. His father died when his =
son
was 10, so the dominant influence on O'Brien was his strong-minded =
mother.

Full text at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/dec/19/conor-cruise-brien

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Conor Cruise O'Brien, Irish Diplomat, Is Dead at 91

By WILLIAM GRIMES
Published: December 19, 2008

Conor Cruise O'Brien, an Irish diplomat, politician, man of letters and
public intellectual who staked out an independent position for Ireland in
the United Nations and, despite his Roman Catholic origins, championed the
rights of Protestants in Northern Ireland, died Thursday. He was 91 and
lived in Howth, near Dublin....

..."I think the intellectual in relation to politics is something like the
Greek chorus," Mr. O'Brien told an interviewer in 2000. "He's outside the
action, but he tells you quite a bit about it."

Full text at

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N. C. Fleming, Alan O'Day. Longman Handbook of Modern Irish History =20
since 1800. New York Longman, 2005. 824 pp. $40.40 (paper), ISBN =20
978-0-582-08102-4.

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

Just the Facts: A Fundamental Guide to Modern Ireland

This work joins Longman's previous efforts to compile and consolidate =20
decades worth of national data and information into single reference =20
volumes. As with the _Longman Handbook_ _of Modern British History, =20
1714-2001_ (2001) compiled by Chris Cook and John Stevenson, there is =20
much to commend in this Irish entry. N. C. Fleming and Alan O'Day have =20
produced a valuable and convenient reference for researchers and =20
students of Irish history.

The _Longman Handbook of Modern Irish History_ is divided into six =20
sections focusing on political history, social and religious history, =20
economic history, foreign relations, biographies, and a glossary. =20
Though published in 2005 and promising to cover events and information =20
since 1800, the _Handbook_ only slightly surpasses the millennium with =20
the most recent data ending in 2002. This minimal coverage of =20
Ireland's most recent history is likely due to the restrictions of =20
publishing and difficulty of obtaining and compiling recent data; it =20
does not detract from the overall usefulness of the work.

The political section is the longest part of the text. Transitions =20
within Irish politics and governmental structure since the Act of =20
Union took effect in 1801 demand the inclusion of information =20
pertaining to Britain as well as Northern Ireland, the Free State, and =20
the Republic. An index of parliamentary candidates from 1801 for =20
seats in respective parliaments makes up the bulk of this section. =20
Students will appreciate the glossary of political parties, list of =20
principal government ministers, and chronology of key political =20
developments in Ireland as well as pertinent events in Britain. =20
Curiously, Fleming and O'Day include occasions that might be =20
considered distinctly religious or social, such as the founding of =20
Catholic orders, in the chronology without explanation. Those looking =20
for less commonplace information may have greater interest in the =20
subsection on election data; the editors provide data on the size of =20
the electorate and voter turnout for Westminster and D=E1il contests, =20
and a table of the breakdown of party composition in the D=E1il from =20
1918 to 2002.

Readers concerned with the changes in Irish society in the last two =20
centuries will appreciate the economic, social, and religious sections =20
of the _Handbook__._ Fleming and O'Day have drawn from Central =20
Statistics Office (CSO) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research =20
Agency (NIAAS) data to provide cost of living and wage indices as well =20
as trade figures. Unfortunately, the editors offer only trade =20
statistics from the 1930s onward, and useful detailed breakdowns based =20
on commodity and countries of origin and destination are largely =20
limited to 1984 to 2001. Researchers working outside of this =20
timeframe will have to look elsewhere, but the _Handbook_ is =20
especially useful for students interested in charting the expansion of =20
the Irish economy in recent decades.

The social and religious components of the work draw heavily on W. E. =20
Vaughan and A. J. Fitzpatrick's_ Irish Historical Statistics: =20
Population, 1821-1971_ (1978) to incorporate data on crime; religious =20
affiliation; population growth and decline; and enrollment in primary, =20
secondary, and higher education institutions. While the volume edited =20
by Vaughan and Fitzpatrick is a standard resource for Irish scholars, =20
the now thirty-year-old study deserves an updated edition. Fleming =20
and O'Day have done their readers a service by incorporating CSO and =20
NIASS data, thereby extending the range of the data on births, =20
marriages, and deaths.

The social and religious history section also includes twenty-four =20
pages dedicated specifically to women. The editors have compiled =20
lists of women elected to seats in the D=E1il, Senate, Parliament of =20
Northern Ireland, and the Assembly. In the context of the text's =20
overall organization, the lists might have been more conveniently =20
located in the political section of the _Handbook,_ but this is a =20
minor quibble. Students may be particularly interested in the =20
chronology of significant events in education, religion, law, and =20
politics pertaining to women; though it is unclear why Fleming and =20
O'Day have chosen to start the chronology in 1765, a year that is =20
outside the parameters of the text.

The editors' addition of a substantial list of Irish periodicals =20
included in the social and religious section may be valuable to =20
researchers. In effect, Fleming and O'Day provide an abbreviated =20
periodical directory complete with not only the names and locations of =20
the periodicals but also their publication dates and succinct =20
descriptions of the content and political leanings of many =20
publications. The roster is not exhaustive; it is surprising, for =20
example, to find that the list includes the _Capuchin Annual_ but not =20
other significant religious periodicals, such as the valuable _Irish =20
Ecclesiastical Record_ and the Jesuit publication _Studies: An Irish =20
Quarterly Review_. Nonetheless, these omissions do not detract from =20
the value of the _Handbook_?s catalog of more than four hundred =20
newspapers and journals.

There are some minor errors in the text. For instance, the founder of =20
the Presentation Sisters, Nano Nagle, is identified as Namo Negle (p. =20
4). The biography and glossary sections are useful and extensive in =20
scope, covering key political and cultural figures and events. The =20
information Fleming and O'Day give for each entry is necessarily =20
brief; however, numerous glossary entries suffer from too much brevity =20
where even a single additional sentence would have greatly aided =20
novice students of Irish history. In addition, students, or those =20
unfamiliar with economic statistics, might have benefited from greater =20
explication of the data, particularly the price and wages indices that =20
Fleming and O'Day include in the economic history section.

On the whole, the _Handbook_ is a useful and valuable investment for =20
scholars and advanced students of Irish history. The tables of facts =20
and figures alone that are included in the sections on society, =20
religion, and economic history are among the most useful parts of the =20
text and will save readers some of the time they might have spent =20
scouring volumes from the CSO or the NIAAS.

Citation: Ledesma. Review of Fleming, N. C.; O'Day, Alan, _Longman =20
Handbook of Modern Irish History since 1800_. H-Albion, H-Net Reviews. =20
December, 2008.
URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=3D23563

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States
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The Daily Record


Daily Record

December 22, 2008, Monday

HOKEY COKEY COULD LAND YOU IN POKEY;
..AND THAT'S NO JOKEY!

BYLINE: By John Ferguson

SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 9

LENGTH: 454 words


POLICE have vowed to crack down on football fans singing the Hokey Cokey - =
after claims that the song was sectarian.

Catholic church leaders believe the old time children's ditty pokes fun at =
priests. And they fear it could be hijacked by bigots.

The Hokey Cokey became a popular song and dance in the 1940s, in the UK and=
the USA.

But some claim the song was composed by Puritans during the 18th century.

They say it originates from the term "hocus-pocus" - a reference to the Lat=
in Mass - and the words used by priests to give communion: "Hoc est enim co=
rpus meum", or "This is my body".

It has also been claimed that references to "left-hand in, left-hand out" r=
idicules the priest's hand movements during the Mass.

The issue was raised after comments made on Rangers websites in the wake of=
the ban on The Famine Song.

Some supporters discussed whether they would be allowed to belt out the Hok=
ey Cokey without offending anyone.

Peter Kearney, spokesman for the Catholic church in Scotland, said: "This s=
ong does have quite disturbing origins. It was devised as an attack on, and=
a parody of, the Mass.

"If there are moves to restore its more malevolent meaning then considerati=
on should perhaps be given to its wider use."

And SNP MSP Michael Matheson said: "It is important that the police and foo=
tball clubs are aware of the sinister background to this song.

"They must take the appropriate action against individuals and groups who u=
se it at matches or in other situations to taunt Catholics."

But Labour MSP Frank McAveety - himself a Catholic - last night laughed off=
the suggestion that the Hokey Cokey was offensive.

He said: "I remember doing the Hokey Cokey at family parties all the time. =
It looks like we must all have been offending each other without realising.

"I have visions of Alex Salmond's barmy army kicking down doors to get into=
kids parties and dragging everyone off to jail."

Last night, the Rangers Supporters Trust said they were stunned by any poss=
ible moves to ban the song.

Spokesman Stephen Smith said: "This is absolutely insane. It has to be the =
most ridiculous thing I have ever heard in my life.

"Unfortunately if it wasn't so serious it would be laughable. What do we lo=
ok at banning next?"

But police promised to investigate any complaints made - and could lock up =
anyone found singing the song in a sectarian context.

A Strathclyde Police spokeswoman said: "Where a song or chant is perceived =
to be racist and reported to us we will take positive action."

Earlier this year, website YouTube was urged to remove offensive Hokey Coke=
y clips posted by football fans.

Scottish Justice secretary Kenny MacAskill said it was "unacceptable" to sh=
ow videos glorifying violence against Catholics and Protestants.


The Sunday Times (London)

December 21, 2008
Edition 1

Church makes a song and dance about Hokey Cokey

BYLINE: Jason Allardyce

SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 4

LENGTH: 499 words


YOU put your right leg in ... It's a dance-floor favourite at family gather=
ings and a good indicator of when elderly aunts have had enough sherry.

But, as the party season gets into full swing, the Catholic church and poli=
ticians in Scotland have warned that singing the Hokey Cokey could get you =
arrested because it contains a sinister, sectarian message. They claim it w=
as composed by Puritans during the 18th century to mock the Latin mass and =
it could be hijacked by bigots.

Supporters of Rangers have been banned from singing sectarian songs at the =
Glasgow club's ground but discussions are taking place about singing the so=
ng at matches.

Michael McMahon, a Labour MSP, said: "I discovered it when I read a Rangers=
supporters' website where they were having a debate about whether they sho=
uld start singing the Hokey Cokey at Ibrox in place of the Billy Boys, whic=
h was at that time being criticised for its offensiveness. The argument was=
being put that it would appear innocent enough but those singing it would =
know why it was being sung."

Senior church figures and Catholic politicians have urged the police to use=
legislation on incitement to religious hatred to arrest anyone caught sing=
ing the song in a sectarian context.

"This song , though apparently innocuous, does have quite disturbing origin=
s. It was devised as an attack on, and a parody of, the Catholic mass," sai=
d Peter Kearney, a spokesman for the Catholic church in Scotland. "Today it=
s origins are generally unknown and it is used harmlessly as an innocent ch=
ildren's rhyme. If, however, there are moves to restore its more malevolent=
meaning, then consideration should perhaps be given to its wider use."

According to the church, the song's title derives from "hocus pocus", words=
supposedly used by magicians. The phrase is said to ridicule the words use=
d by Catholic priests to accompany the transubstantiation in the Eucharist,=
"hoc est enim corpus meum", or "this is my body". This was mocked by Purit=
ans as a form of "magic words". The leg and arm movements supposedly mimic =
the priest's actions during mass.

Michael Matheson, a nationalist member of the Scottish parliament and pract=
ising Catholic, said: "It is important that the police and football clubs a=
re aware of the sinister background to this song, and they take the appropr=
iate action against [those] who may use it at matches or in other situation=
s to taunt Catholics."

James MacMillan, one of Britain's leading composers and a prominent Catholi=
c campaigner against sectarianism, said: "The idea that people want to rein=
troduce the original malevolent meaning of something that has since become =
innocent and childlike is beyond belief and very sad."

Some politicians said it was "ludicrous" to criticise the song. "This is co=
mplete and utter nonsense," said Murdo Fraser, the deputy leader of the Sco=
ttish Conservatives. "I can't believe that Scottish children performing the=
Hokey Cokey are doing so in pursuit of any sinister anti-Catholic agenda."

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This sounds very much like what Americans would call the "Holey Pokey." If
I'm correct, then the connection with "hocus pocus," of whose reputed origin
as a play on "Hoc ..." I've heard, would be even more direct. In the US,
however, I am not aware of the song's having any sinister connotations. It
seems to be a party game song here, nothing more nothing less. I wonder if
it ever carried any derogatory weight here. I just don't know. Catholics
(and fair-minded) people of all backgrounds could find the "Famine Song"
offensive, but pushing hard on this one -- especially if there are no
special lyrics to go with it -- might seem a bit much.

Taking digs at the other side is a respected sports tradition. Last year in
American football, the New England Patriots were hoping for a perfect
season, which would be 19-0, including playoff games. They, however, lost
the championship game to the NY Giants, some of whose fans then wore shirts
with the logo 18-1, with the 1 being an upraised middle finger (the American
version of the UK's two-finger salute). In some contexts, giving the finger
is really provocative; in others, it's a (probably tasteless) joke. From
afar, I wonder if, at this point, some of the even more vile Rangers-Celtics
stuff represents bed-rock discriminatory feeling, or is it primarily a means
(albeit loutish) to get the goat of the other side, without truly vicious
intent.

In the movie, "The Devil's Own," Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt are in a NY
neighborhood bar where Ford and his friends tease each other with ethnic
slights. I remember things like that happening in my own crowd when I was
an adolescent. The slights were undoubtedly rooted in some nasty past
divisions, but they were on a par with the other kinds of banter with which
young men razz each other. If they had had substantive content, somebody
would have gotten hit. Of course, in the movie, Pitt makes the point that
divisions in Northern Ireland are not like divisions in NYC. I suppose I'm
asking what best represents Scottish (and perhaps English) realities today.
Are these residual taunts, used in a content that minimizes their meaning,
or are sporting matches still war by other means?

Tom

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Paul R. Wylie. The Irish General: Thomas Francis Meagher. Norman: University
of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xi + 404 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN
978-0-8061-3847-3.

Reviewed by Chris Samito
Published on H-CivWar (December, 2008)
Commissioned by Hugh F. Dubrulle

"Meagher of the Sword": Thomas Francis Meagher in Ireland and America

As an Irish nationalist and ethnic leader in the United States, Union
general during the Civil War, and postwar territorial governor in Montana,
Thomas Francis Meagher left his mark on both sides of the Atlantic during
his short life. Born in Waterford, Ireland, in 1823, and educated by
English Jesuits, Meagher early on established his reputation as an
impassioned Irish nationalist. The British banished him to Van Diemen's
Land (Tasmania) after he helped to lead a failed uprising in Ireland in
1848. He escaped and arrived in New York City in the spring of 1852, where
thousands of cheering Irish Americans greeted their newest hero. Meagher
found a way to blend his fame, oratorical skills, and livelihood by
commencing a lecture tour that took him through New England, the
Mid-Atlantic states, and the Deep South within one year of his arrival.
Meagher gained admission to the New York bar in September 1855, and he
founded the Irish News the following year. He rejected abolitionism and
strongly endorsed Democrat James Buchanan's candidacy for president.

Just before the shelling of Fort Sumter, Meagher declared his sympathy for
the South. His stance completely changed once hostilities erupted, however,
and he admitted to a friend that he felt compelled to fight for the Republic
that had taken him in as a refugee. Even though he joined the Irish
American 69th New York State Militia (NYSM), he revealed a continuing
attentiveness to Irish nationalism: Meagher hoped that the experience Irish
American troops would receive during the war might assist Ireland's future
liberation. His regiment fought at the battle of the First Bull Run, where
it suffered heavy casualties and lost its colonel, Michael Corcoran, to
capture. Within weeks, the regiment began recruiting to fight again as the
core of an entire Irish American brigade that Meagher organized. Meagher
commanded this Irish brigade through some of its fiercest fighting during
the war, including the Seven Days battles, Antietam, and Fredericksburg.
After the war, Meagher served as postwar governor of Montana Territory,
where he died by drowning on July 1, 1867.

With his book, The Irish General, Paul R. Wylie provides a deeply detailed
account of Meagher's life, based on impressive archival research.
Unfortunately, however, Wylie rarely takes the opportunity to connect the
facts of Meagher's life to broader historical themes. Excising some of the
detail and using this space to provide more analysis would have made Wylie's
narrative shorter and strengthened his book as a whole by allowing him to
engage with some of the interesting questions raised in Meagher's life. For
instance, Meagher quickly transformed from a Southern sympathizer to an
ardent Union Civil War officer, but Wylie provides little discussion about
how this conversion took place. Moreover, in light of prewar nativism,
Irish Americans' commitment to the Union remained uncertain. Wylie could
have examined how Meagher considered and resolved all of these issues as an
individual, and then could have linked that personal story to a deeper
understanding of the Irish American community in the North in 1861.

Wylie also could have examined how Meagher, as an ethnic spokesman,
interpreted Irish American service for the Union. A revolutionary who had
previously focused on the liberation movement for his native land, Meagher,
during the Civil War, came to embrace both sides of his identity, at once
Irish and American. From his position as one of its prominent spokesmen,
Meagher energetically urged members of Irish America to defend the Union,
and he asserted to all Americans that this participation solidified Irish
American status within the Republic and vanquished nativism. Meagher's
addresses comprised something more than simple recruiting speeches: they
helped define an American identity for the Irish in the United States, and
they explained to all Americans how the Irish Americans fit into American
society. In the course of his speeches, Meagher also placed the Civil War
in its international context. For example, at a Union rally on September
14, 1861, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Meagher emphasized that should the
flame of the United States extinguish, so also would that of republicanism
worldwide, including for Ireland.[1]

Meagher started the war as a pro-Southern Democrat devoted to Irish
nationalism, but he came to articulate with eloquence how Irish American
service earned that community inclusion within the United States. Not only
did Irish Americans fight and die for the Union, Meagher argued, but they
also tangibly affirmed their naturalization as U.S. citizens by showing
loyalty to its republican ideals. Moreover, while Irish Americans continued
to maintain their ethnic culture and devotion to Irish liberation, under the
leadership of Meagher and others, they increasingly placed this ethnic
culture within an American context, and emphasized an American allegiance
alongside support for Irish nationalism.

Meagher's wartime conversion to the Republican Party is another issue Wylie
could have examined more deeply. Despite party fluidity during the Civil
War, many Irish Americans remained loyal to the Democratic Party. In
contrast, Meagher and some other Irish Americans eventually became active
supporters of Republicans. By October 1863, Meagher wrote to another Irish
American who faced opposition for his new Republican allegiance, Colonel
Patrick Guiney of the 9th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, to condemn Irish
Americans who blindly followed the Democratic Party. Meagher expressed his
intense personal frustration: "To their own discredit and degradation, they
[Irish Americans] have suffered themselves to be bamboozled into being
obstinate herds in the political field." He continued: "Democrats they
profess themselves to be from the start--the instant the baggage-smashers
and cut-throat lodging-house-keepers lay hands on them--and Democrats they
remain until the day of their deaths, miserably and repulsively regardless
of the conflicting meanings that name acquires through the progressive
workings of the great world about them," members of a party "which under the
captivating pretexts of the States-Rights, Habeas Corpus, and the popular
claims and rights of the kind, would cripple the national power."[2]

Meagher's outspoken support for Republicans seriously damaged his position
within the Irish American community. Of Meagher's political stance, the New
York Irish-American newspaper lamented, "between him and the people who
loved and trusted him once he has opened a gulf he never can bridge over."
Another edition of the same newspaper declared, "in General Meagher's fall
from the high position he once held in the esteem and affection of his
countrymen, we see only a subject for regret; our indignation at his
unprovoked attack upon our people has long since subsided into contempt, and
we have no desire to add a deeper tint to an act that has gone so far to
darken the record of a life, of which the promise was once so fair."[3]
Wylie could have taken the opportunity to examine more deeply Meagher's own
political evolution, as well as link his individual story to a broader
examination about the wartime Irish American community in the North.

Wylie's deeply detailed (and well-illustrated) book restores attention to a
long-neglected Civil War officer and ethnic leader, and for that, the author
should be applauded. Hopefully, Wylie's effort will spawn additional
research into Meagher's life as well as other aspects of the Irish American
community during the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Notes

[1]. New York Times, September 16, 1861.

[2]. Thomas F. Meagher to Patrick R. Guiney, New York, October 7, 1863, in
Christian G. Samito, Commanding Boston's Irish Ninth: The Civil War Letters
of Colonel Patrick R. Guiney, Ninth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (New
York: Fordham University Press, 1998), 225-227.

[3]. Thomas F. Meagher to the Union Committee of Ohio, New York, September
23, 1863, The Irish-American, October 3, 1863. See also The Irish-American,
October 3, 1863; The Irish-American, October 13, 1864; The Irish-American,
October 15, 1864; and The Irish-American, November 12, 1864.