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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: I SARDI NEL MONDO, Sardinians Abroad Project
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This offers an interesting approach and starting point...

And the quote from di Lampedusa is always worth repeating.

P.O'S.

Sardinians Abroad Project

Antonio Mannu of the Universita' di Sassari writes:

Insieme ad altre persone sto lavorando ad un progetto: l'idea =E8 quella =
di
fare un viaggio intorno al mondo con l'obiettivo di realizzare un lavoro =
di
documentazione sui sardi e sulle comunit=E0 sarde che incontreremo =
durante il
cammino. Al progetto collabora anche Silvia Pigliaru, una ricercatrice =
in
antropologia culturale presso l'Universit=E0 di Sassari. In proposito =
abbiamo
creato un gruppo su facebook: I SARDI NEL MONDO. Raccoglieremo storie di
vita e materiali, pensiamo ad un racconto fotografico, alla =
realizzazione di
un film documentario. Per questo cerchiamo storie di sardi sparsi per il
pianeta disposti a raccontarci la loro esperienza e a lasciarcela
raccontare. In particolare in questo momento, e con una certa urgenza,
cerchiamo informazioni e contatti su/con sardi che vivono in Australia,
Nuova Zelanda e in alcuni paesi asiatici (Giappone, India, Iran). Ogni
notizia su sardi che vivono in paesi extraeuropei =E8 comunque utile. Se
dovesse essere interessata a saperne di pi=F9 sul progetto (lei =E8 =
sarda?) o
dovesse conoscere qualcuno che possa eventualmente esserlo la preghiamo =
di
mettersi in contatto con noi quanto prima, scrivendo ad=20

antoniomannu[at]tiscali.it. o a
paolaplacido[at]tiscali.it

If you know of Sardinians living abroad, especially in Australia, New
Zealand and Asia, or even in other parts of the world, please contact
Antonio or his colleague Paola Placido at the emails provided.

"If we want things to stay the way they are, everything will have to
change." ~ Giuseppe di Lampedusa, The Leopard

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From: Bill Mulligan
Subject: Re: Article,
The Sword and the Prayerbook: Ideals of Authentic Irish Manliness
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I would have replied earlier to Ed Hagan's post about the Knights of Colu=
mbus=20
in the US but I was preparing to leave for a term at UCC. I am now arriv=
ed=20
and settled in and have had a chnace to check this out because what was=20=

posted did not match my recollections.=20=20

While the Knights of Columbus in the US has no connection to any Irish=20=

organization, it was founded by an Irish American, Fr. Michael McGivney i=
n an=20
Irish parish in New Haven, CT. The KofC was heavily Irish in its members=
hip=20
and its leadership for many years. It diffeed from the AOH in that its b=
asic=20
princples were based on Catholic and American values, for this reason it=20=

attracted oer time many non-Irish members, as well aslarge numbers of Iri=
sh=20
members. Christopher Kauffman has written a book on the history of the K=
ofC=20
as wellas biography of Fr. McGivney. He has entries on both in Glazier's=
=20
Encyclopedia of the Irish in America for those who want a quick reference=
.=20

Bill Mulligan
Fulbright Scholar in History, UCC=20=20
Professor of History, Murray State Universioty

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The Sword and the Prayerbook: Ideals of Authentic Irish Manliness
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From: Patrick Maume
My understanding is that the Knights of Columbus are a much more public
organisation than the Knights of Columbanus in Ireland - for example, it's
commonplace for uniformed Knights of Columbus in full regalia (including
sword, with which they salute at the Consecration) to form an honour guard
during the celebration of Mass. (I have seen this myself.) The Knights of
Columbanus rarely if ever do this (though I have seen photos of church
parades from the 1970s when they went through a period of openness).
If I'm not mistaken, MT Foy's dissertation on the Board of Erin AOH says
that Joseph Devlin got the idea of developing the AOH as a political machine
for the Irish Parliamentary Party after seeing the Knights of Columbus while
he was on fund-raising tours in the US.
Has anything much been written on the Knights of St. Columba? I believe
this is an all-British, not just Scottish organisation, though I'm open to
correction. Some years ago I visited the Tyburn Convent at Hyde Park Corner
and saw a group of Knights of St. Columba (they were wearing blazers with
their insignia on the breast-pocket) coming out. As I left the convent I
passed a group of Shi'ite Muslims holding a commemopration for Imam
Hussein. From one diapsora, and one tradition of martyrdom, to another...
Best wishes,
Patrick

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Edward Hagan wrote:

> I appreciate Bill Mulligan's correction of my earlier posting on the
> Knights of Columbus. My posting was based on having spent time at the K of
> C building about 20 years ago, so I may be foggy on details. Wikipedia,
> however, suggests that I'm not entirely wrong. While the Irish were
> strongly involved in the foundation of the society, the choice of the name
> was apparently an attempt to create links with other non-WASP ethnic groups.
> The Italians were moving into Connecticut in force c. 1882 and were working
> in mills. Sometimes they were used as strikebreakers; thus a move to
> include them in a pan-Catholic organization would make sense. So my sense
> of the matter is that the K of C was and is a Catholic organization that
> transcends ethnic identity.
>
> It's certainly true that the K of C has boasted of many prominent
> Italian-Americans as members--Vince Lombardi and Supreme Court justice
> Samuel Alito, for example.
>
> My recollection is that there was labor trouble between the
> Italian-Americans and Yale, and the K of C was involved in helping the
> Italians. I suspect that the curtain-wall, glass monster of the K of C
> building in the middle of New Haven must still rankle with the Yalies.
>
> I'll check further and will go to the museum the next time I'm in New
> Haven.
>
> Thanks, Bill, for checking me on this one.
>
> Ed Hagan
> ________________________________________
> From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of
> Bill Mulligan [billmulligan[at]MURRAY-KY.NET]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 8:50 AM
> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: [IR-D] Article, The Sword and the Prayerbook: Ideals of
> Authentic Irish Manliness
>
> I would have replied earlier to Ed Hagan's post about the Knights of
> Columbus
> in the US but I was preparing to leave for a term at UCC. I am now arrived
> and settled in and have had a chnace to check this out because what was
> posted did not match my recollections.
>
> While the Knights of Columbus in the US has no connection to any Irish
> organization, it was founded by an Irish American, Fr. Michael McGivney in
> an
> Irish parish in New Haven, CT. The KofC was heavily Irish in its
> membership
> and its leadership for many years. It diffeed from the AOH in that its
> basic
> princples were based on Catholic and American values, for this reason it
> attracted oer time many non-Irish members, as well aslarge numbers of Irish
> members. Christopher Kauffman has written a book on the history of the
> KofC
> as wellas biography of Fr. McGivney. He has entries on both in Glazier's
> Encyclopedia of the Irish in America for those who want a quick reference.
>
> Bill Mulligan
> Fulbright Scholar in History, UCC
> Professor of History, Murray State Universioty
>

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Lectures, Boston College,
1. Comhaltas Ceolt=?iso-8859-1?Q?=F3ir=ED_=C9ireann=2C_?= 2.
History of childhood
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A number of IR-D members will wish to make a note of these lectures at
Boston College...
=20
Events

Lecture: Notai do Mholt=F3ir=ED/ Notes for adjudicators: Codifying Irish
traditional music and Comhaltas Ceolt=F3ir=ED =C9ireann, 1951-1972

M=E9abh N=ED Fhuarth=E1in presents "Notai do Mholt=F3ir=ED/ Notes for =
adjudicators:
Codifying Irish traditional music and Comhaltas Ceolt=F3ir=ED =C9ireann,
1951-1972," Thursday, January 22, 2009, 6:30-7:30pm, at Connolly House.

Lecture: Age as a category of analysis in the history of childhood

Harry Hendrick, University of Southern Denmark, presents "Age as a =
category
of analysis in the history of childhood," Monday, January 26, 2009,
4:00-5:00pm, Connolly House. Part of the Childhood and Ireland Lecture
Series, co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Social Work.

For more on Childhood and Ireland series see...

http://www.bc.edu/centers/irish/studies/lecseries.html

'Childhood and Ireland

This interdisciplinary lecture series, sponsored jointly by the Irish
Studies program and the Graduate School of Social Work, examines the =
place
of the child in Irish society and its alterations over time. Scholars =
have
long presented childhood as crucial to the development of modern welfare
states and to the histories of identity, sexuality, and selfhood. More
recent research focuses on children as historical actors, moving from
adults' perception of childhood to examine real children's lives. The =
series
evaluates the challenges and rewards of this scholarly turn in an Irish
context.

Childhood dominates contemporary Irish cultural representation, from
Oscar-winning films, to Booker-winning novels, to Pulitzer-winning =
memoirs.
The series will also examine the emergence of childhood as a central =
rope in
the story of contemporary Ireland against a broad historical and
sociological backdrop.'

'Central rope' is good...

P.O'S.

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Subject: Former Sinn Fein spokesman Danny Morrison...
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The specialists will obviously have been following this story, but this
article, written by Danny Morrison, in yesterday's Guardian will interest a
number of IR-D members...

P.O'S.


Dirty fighting
Former Sinn Fein spokesman Danny Morrison was found guilty in 1991 of
kidnapping an IRA informer. Last year his conviction was declared unsafe and
overturned - but the reason remains a state secret. So what was the murky
role of the intelligence services?

Danny Morrison
The Guardian, Tuesday 13 January 2009

'It was a bitterly cold January night in 1990 in Belfast and I was on my way
to meet a man who had just confessed to being a police informer. Things were
relatively quiet. There had been some raiding in the north of the city but
there were no army surveillance helicopters in the air and I had encountered
no checkpoints on the way to the rendezvous...'

FULL TEXT AT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jan/13/northernireland-northernireland

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Subject: Ireland isn't known for its big black voices - but Laura Izibor...
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'I'm old school soul'
Ireland isn't known for its big black voices - but Laura Izibor has already
got Aretha Franklin and Al Green excited. Hannah Pool meets the straight-
talking young Dubliner

* Hannah Pool
* The Guardian, Wednesday 14 January 2009

There is a memorable moment in Alan Parker's 1991 film The Commitments, when
Jimmy Rabbitte, the band's soul-loving manager, says to the others: "Do you
not get it, lads? The Irish are the blacks of Europe. And Dubliners are the
blacks of Ireland. And the Northside Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin."
Ever since hearing this line I've wondered what it must be like to be a
black Dubliner, especially one with musical ambitions.

I quote the line to Laura Izibor, the 21-year-old Irish/Nigerian
singer-songwriter sitting on the sofa next to me. "Ireland's really changing
now," she says. "The Irish themselves aren't completely aware of what change
is going on, because they are in it. It was horrible for my father 20 years
ago - that's a lot of the reason why he had to move away to London. He
couldn't get a job. He used to cycle everywhere and people would stop in
their tracks and go, 'I just saw a black fella, he was riding a bike.'"
(Izibor's father came to Dublin from Nigeria to look for work; he and her
Irish mother separated when she was eight.) Today, however, Izibor is happy
to call herself Irish, and the Irish are just as happy to claim her as their
own.

Full text at

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jan/14/urban-music-ireland-laura-izibor

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From: D C Rose
Subject: Arts Council of Ireland to terminate funding to the Irish
Writers=?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=99_?= Centre with immediate effect.
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Have you seen this appalling news?=20
=20
=EF=BB=BF=20
D.C. Rose Editor, THE OSCHOLARS; General editor, www.oscholars.com=20
Pr=C3=A9sident, Soci=C3=A9t=C3=A9 Oscar Wilde en France=20
1 rue Gutenberg, Paris XV=20
=20
-------Original Message-------=20
=20
Ireland's literary fraternity has been stunned by the decision by the Art=
s=20
Council of Ireland to terminate with immediate effect all funding to the=20
Irish Writers Centre. Their statementsigned by a number of Ireland leadin=
g=20
authorsincluding Maeve BinchyBooker prize winnersRoddy DoyleJohn Banville=
=20
and Anne Enrightacclaimed International authors Richard Ford and Will=20
Selfleading novelistsJoseph O=E2=80=99ConnorDermot BolgerJohn Boyne and S=
ebastian=20
Barrypoets Paul MuldoonDerek MahonPaul DurkinCiaran Carson and Ireland=E2=
=80=99s=20
Professor of Poetry Michael Longley and literary figures such as literary=
=20
agent Jonathan Williams are amongst the 55 signatories on the statement t=
hat

has been circulated to all the National newspapers in Ireland and the Uni=
ted

Kingdom expressing their dismay at this disturbing decision and calling f=
or=20
the urgent reinstatement of funding.=20
=20
The Irish Writers' Centrewhich Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney has called "a=
=20
part of the literary culture"and best selling author John Boyne has=20
described as =E2=80=9Ca part of the fabric of literature in Ireland=E2=80=
=9Dis the national=20
development agency for the development of writers and writing in Ireland=20
where one if its primary functions is to foster and develop new writing=20
talent so as to maintain Ireland's leading position in World literature.=20
=20
Literature is a major part of Ireland's social and cultural history. The =
Irish Writers=E2=80=99 Centre was a space that writers could call their o=
wn. It is the only centre in Dublin devoted to literature that can provid=
e an in-house space for readingsliterary eventsfestivalscreative writing =
coursesdevelopmental works and was the home to a number of writers groups=
and National organisations such as the Irish Writers=E2=80=99 Union and =
the Irish Translators and Interpreters Association. With the termination =
of funding access to these resources will be lostleaving the next generat=
ion of Irish authors in a vacuum and having to look elsewhere for guidanc=
e and development.

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Call for Papers: Thematic issue of the Journal of Genocide
Research - Cultural Genocide
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Call for Papers: Thematic issue of the Journal of Genocide Research =
(JGR)

Cultural Genocide

When Raphael Lemkin coined the term genocide during World War II, he
initially had a broader idea of the concept, namely that a group could
be effectively destroyed by an attack on its social institutions and
cultural heritage, even without the physical obliteration of its
members. Since Lemkin, scholars have defined cultural genocide as a
form of persecution involving the deliberate destruction of the
culture of a people, ranging from violence against material and
immaterial culture to assaults on identities of groups. Such
destruction is wrought in a variety of ways, typically including
restrictions upon of a group's language and traditions, the use of
boarding schools to forcibly assimilate children, the ruination of
objects and institutions, and the persecution of political, cultural,
intellectual, and religious elites.

History abounds with examples of cultural genocide. The expansion of
Europe from 1492 on, for example, can be read as a long process of
(un)intended destruction of indigenous cultures on the American and
Australian continents. Other examples include the Russian colonization
of the Caucasus, Chinese rule in Tibet, the Japanese occupation of
Korea, Nazi policies in occupied Poland, Young Turk cultural policies
in Eastern Turkey, and the destruction of Islamic architecture in
Bosnia. How can cultural genocide be conceptualized? Why do political
elites launch policies to eradicate cultures? How effective are these
policies? To what degree are processes of nation formation tantamount
to cultural genocide?

This thematic issue of the Journal of Genocide Research aims to
contribute to our understanding of cultural genocide. The editors
welcome original and innovative articles dealing with all possible
aspects of cultural genocide. After initial editor screening, all
submissions will undergo peer review. Proposals (max 1.5 pages) for
papers should be submitted together with a short curriculum vitae by 1
March 2009 both to the editors of the JGR

Dominik J. Schaller (dominik.schaller[at]uni-heidelberg.de)

J=FCrgen Zimmerer (j.zimmerer[at]sheffield.ac.uk)
and to the guest editor
ugur.ungor[at]gmail.com


The articles, which should be a maximum of 8500 words including
documentation, will be due on 1 July 2009.

JOURNAL OF GENOCIDE RESEARCH
http:// www.informaworld.com/jgr

INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF GENOCIDE SCHOLARS
http:// www.inogs.com
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=3D=3D=3D
DOMINIK J. SCHALLER

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69117 Heidelberg
Germany

phone ++49 (0)6221/54-2504
office 038

Editor of the Journal of Genocide Research
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(INoGS)
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: CFP Histories of (un)natural disasters: knowledge,
blame and defences - RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2009
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From: Anna Carlsson [Anna.Carlsson[at]postgrad.manchester.ac.uk]

Session CfP for the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2009,
Manchester, UK, 26-28th August 2009

Histories of (un)natural disasters: knowledge, blame and defences

?Natural? disasters are just as social as they are natural. Their impact
depends heavily on social issues such as vulnerability while the work done
by society to mitigate their impact is obviously social.

However, social aspects of ?natural? disasters have often been neglected and
they have frequently been understood as caused solely by nature or by divine
intervention. The different causal narratives of disasters have given rise
to different understandings of responsibilities and blame. Despite their
recurrent nature these sudden extreme events are often portrayed as
exceptional.

This session will explore the histories of (un)natural disasters across time
and space. Paper proposal on any aspects related to any aspects of this
topic are welcome. A general theme may be how knowledge and practices have
worked to change the likelihood, nature and impact of disasters. How have
physical and human geography interacted around disasters historically?

Papers for the session could for example discuss how natural disasters have
been framed as ?natural? and/or ?social? and the implications of different
framings. How has the knowledge or understanding of disasters as ?natural?,
?Acts of God? or ?social? developed throughout history? Who or what was
blamed?

Today the impacts of these events are managed by warning systems, emergency
planning and physical defences. These systems have a long history, and are
dependent on complex scientific and social networks.


What is this history and how does it link to narratives of causality and
blame? For example, whose responsibility have extreme events been seen to be
and whose work was it to deal with the consequences of them? Who paid for
defensive work? Individuals or the state? National or local government? What
were views on how defensive work should be organised?

Many other topics are also possible. If you are interested in submitting a
paper, please contact Anna Carlsson on
anna.carlsson[at]postgrad.manchester.ac.uk. The deadline for submission of
abstracts is February 3rd 2009.

Please include the following
information:
Name:
Affiliation:
Contact email:
Title of proposed paper:
Abstract (no more than 250 words):
Any technical requirements (video, data projector, sound, etc.):

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Maureen E Mulvihill
Subject: Re: Arts Council of Ireland to terminate funding to the Irish
Writers=?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=99_?= Centre with immediate effect.
Comments: To: THE OSCHOLARS ,
doc-irl-paris3[at]yahoogroupes.fr, Declan Foley
,
=?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=ADona_N=C3=AD_Riord=C3=A1in?=
,
Donald Mead ,
Mark Llewellyn ,
Richard Dietrich
Comments: cc: Des Geraghty ,
Gael Staunton ,
Michael Patrick Gillespie ,
Sheila Pratschke ,
Lucy Mc Diarmid ,
Derval Tubridy ,
Mary King ,
Jerry Nolan ,
Gerry Beswick
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Here's my reply, for what it's worth to such a group:


----- Original Message -----=20
From: Maureen E Mulvihill
To: bernie.oleary[at]artscouncil.ie
Cc: D C Rose, OScholars ; Declan Foley ; Patrick O'Sullivan ; Joe Lee ;=20
wcobert[at]aihs.org ; danielharris[at]danielharrismusic.com ; Eileen Reilly ; M=
ary=20
Baylis, for Mary Robinson, Ireland President emerita ; Maureen O. Murphy =
;=20
Robert G. Lowery, ILS ; Stephen Behrendt ; Gabriel Rosenstock,=20
Poet-Translator (Eire) ; Maureen E Mulvihill ; Gillespie, Michael ; Sam=20
McCready
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 1:11 AM
Subject: Funding of Irish Writers' Centre



Kindly forward to Mary Cloake, Director, Arts Council of Ireland - Thank=20
you.


Greetings, Mary Cloake -

While I can appreciate the present urgency to cut budgets globally=20
throughout the professions, I must ask you and your associates at the Art=
s=20
Council of Ireland to promptly reconsider your harsh and draconian decisi=
on=20
to cease all further funding of the Irish Writers' Centre. (I understand=20
from colleagues in Europe that quite a loud media protest is rising up on=
=20
this matter.)

Many of us here in the States, especially in New York City, have close ti=
es=20
to the Irish literary community and we have more than done our part to=20
advance the literature and careers of Irish writers. On behalf of many he=
re,=20
I must urge you to please take steps at once to reverse, or at least amen=
d,=20
the present decision. (I cannot say that the whole world is watching, but=
=20
many of us are.)

Yours sincerely,


Maureen E. Mulvihill, PhD
Scholar & Writer, New York City
Affiliation: Princeton Research Forum, Princeton, New Jersey - USA.
Advisory Editor, Ireland And The Americas, 3 vols
(Santa Barbara, California; Cambridge UK: ABC-Clio, 2008).
Editor (2008), Poems of Mary Shackleton Leadbeater (Dublin & London, 1808=
);
see http://alexanderstreet.com/brochure.pdfs/iwrp.wf.pdf

______










__________________
----- Original Message -----=20
From: "THE OSCHOLARS"
To: ; "Irish Disapora List"=20
; "Declan Foley" ; "Cl=C3=AD=
ona N=C3=AD=20
Riord=C3=A1in" ; "Maureen E Mulvihill=
"=20
; "Donald Mead" ; "Mar=
k=20
Llewellyn" ; "Richard Dietrich"=20

Cc: "Des Geraghty" ; "Gael Staunton"=20
; "Michael Patrick Gillespie"=20
; "Sheila Pratschke"=20
; "Lucy Mc Diarmid"=20
; "Derval Tubridy" ; "Mary Ki=
ng"=20
; "Jerry Nolan" ; "Gerr=
y=20
Beswick"
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 12:31 PM
Subject: Arts Council of Ireland to terminate funding to the Irish Writer=
s=E2=80=99=20
Centre with immediate effect.


>
>
> Have you seen this appalling news?
>
> =EF=BB=BF
> D.C. Rose Editor, THE OSCHOLARS; General editor, www.oscholars.com
> Pr=C3=A9sident, Soci=C3=A9t=C3=A9 Oscar Wilde en France
> 1 rue Gutenberg, Paris XV
>
> -------Original Message-------=20
>
> Ireland's literary fraternity has been stunned by the decision by the A=
rts
> Council of Ireland to terminate with immediate effect all funding to th=
e
> Irish Writers Centre. Their statementsigned by a number of Ireland lead=
ing
> authorsincluding Maeve BinchyBooker prize winnersRoddy DoyleJohn Banvil=
le
> and Anne Enrightacclaimed International authors Richard Ford and Will
> Selfleading novelistsJoseph O=E2=80=99ConnorDermot BolgerJohn Boyne and=
Sebastian
> Barrypoets Paul MuldoonDerek MahonPaul DurkinCiaran Carson and Ireland=E2=
=80=99s
> Professor of Poetry Michael Longley and literary figures such as litera=
ry
> agent Jonathan Williams are amongst the 55 signatories on the statement=
=20
> that
> has been circulated to all the National newspapers in Ireland and the=20
> United
> Kingdom expressing their dismay at this disturbing decision and calling=
=20
> for
> the urgent reinstatement of funding.
>
>
>
> The Irish Writers' Centrewhich Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney has called =
"a
> part of the literary culture"and best selling author John Boyne has
> described as =E2=80=9Ca part of the fabric of literature in Ireland=E2=80=
=9Dis the=20
> national
> development agency for the development of writers and writing in Irelan=
d
> where one if its primary functions is to foster and develop new writing
> talent so as to maintain Ireland's leading position in World literature.
>
>
>
> Literature is a major part of Ireland's social and cultural history. T=
he=20
> Irish Writers=E2=80=99 Centre was a space that writers could call their=
own. It is=20
> the only centre in Dublin devoted to literature that can provide an=20
> in-house space for readingsliterary eventsfestivalscreative writing=20
> coursesdevelopmental works and was the home to a number of writers grou=
ps=20
> and National organisations such as the Irish Writers=E2=80=99 Union and=
the Irish=20
> Translators and Interpreters Association. With the termination of fundi=
ng=20
> access to these resources will be lostleaving the next generation of Ir=
ish=20
> authors in a vacuum and having to look elsewhere for guidance and=20
> development.=20

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Theatre and Globalization: Irish Drama in the Celtic Tiger Era
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New from Palgrave Macmillan=20
=A0
Theatre and Globalization: Irish Drama in the Celtic Tiger Era=20
Patrick Lonergan, 2009.=20
=A0
ISBN 9780230214286
=A0
Globalization is transforming theatre everywhere. As writers seek to =
exploit
new opportunities to produce their work internationally, audiences are
seeing the world - and the stage - differently. And, as national borders
became more fluid, the barriers between economics and culture are also
becoming weaker. In this groundbreaking study, Patrick Lonergan explores
these developments, placing them in the context of the transformation of
Ireland - =A0the =93most globalized country in the world=94 - since the =
early
1990s. Drawing on archival material that has never before been =
published,
this study sheds new light on the culture of Celtic Tiger Ireland, =
focusing
on such writers as Brian Friel, Sean O=92Casey, Marie Jones, Martin =
McDonagh,
Marina Carr and Conor McPherson. In doing so, it shows how globalization
poses difficult questions for authors and audiences - and reveals how we =
can
begin to come to terms with these new developments.
=A0
'Deftly adapting Walter Benjamin=92s The Work of Art in the Age of =
Mechanical
Reproduction, Patrick Lonergan identifies commodification and branding =
as
the determining agents in the creation and circulation of modern theatre
and, blending textual analysis with globalisation theory, provides the
paradigm for a new phase of Irish theatre criticism.' - Professor Shaun
Richards, Staffordshire University
=A0
Contents
Introduction
1. Globalization and Irish Theatre
2. Globalizing Irish Drama: Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa, 1990/1999 =

3. Globalizing National Theatres: Sean O'Casey's The Plough and the =
Stars,
1926/1991/2002=20
4. Historicizing the Brand: Dion Boucicault's The Shaughraun, 1874/2004=20
5. Globalization and Authorship: Martin McDonagh, 1996-2005=20
6. Globalization and Cultural Exchange: Tony Kushner's Angels in =
America,
Dublin, 1995=20
7. Globalizing Gender=20
8. Race and the Brand: Irish Theatre in 2005
Conclusion: Our Global Theatre=20

Publisher's Website: =
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=3D300270
=A0

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Shakespeare and the Cultural Colonization of Ireland
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From: Patrick Maume
This should really have been sent in earlier - but here goes:
Isn't Bates' methodology a bit odd? First, it assumes that
twentieth-century Irish nationalist writers can be unproblematically
accepted as representing sixteenth-century Irish resistance to colonialism,
despite the obvious differences between (say) Seamus Deane and one of Hugh
O'Neill's soldiers, or the Earl of Desmond's followers. Second, why only
twentieth-century nationalists - why are earlier nationalists excluded?
Third, are non-nationalist Irish writers to be declared perpetually
incapable of commenting on this subject? (I have a personal interest here
as two years ago I published an article on Emily Lawless's novel MAELCHO
which discusses how its depiction of the destruction of sixteenth-century
Gaelic Munster uses/comments on/parodies the pastoral motifs of CYMBELINE.
Clearly Lawless' depiction is influenced - sometimes for the wose - by her
late-Victorian Unionism, but does that mean it can possess no value at all,
as Bates would imply?)
Bates seems to me to be engaged in a very dubious enterprise here,
claiming to escape the taint of colonialism by abdicating in favour of
"Irish" perspectives, yet at the same time surreptitiously asserting the
power to judge what is and is not authentically Irish.
Best wishes,
Patrick

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:

> 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...
>
> 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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Note: I have copied in, below, as text the pdf file of the Table of
Contents. A bit untidy, but the best I can do.

I have also checked and corrected the web link.

P.O'S


Forwarded on behalf of
Le Comit=E9 Editorial d=92Etudes Irlandaises/ The Editorial Committee of =
Etudes
Irlandaises

Chers amis/ Dear Friends

We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of Etudes Irlandaises =
(The
French Journal of Irish Studies) has just been released. It is entitled:
French and Irish theatres: influences and interactions.=20

For orders and subscriptions:

http://etudes-irlandaises.septentrion.com/


---------

Nous sommes tr=E8s heureux d=92annoncer la parution du dernier num=E9ro =
d=92Etudes
Irlandaises, intitul=E9 Th=E9=E2tres Fran=E7ais et Irlandais : =
influences et
interactions

Voir la table des mati=E8res en pi=E8ce jointe.

Pour le commander ou pour s=92abonner :=20

www.etudes-irlandaises.septentrion.com

Please circulate as widely as possible/ Merci de transmettre ce message =
le
plus largement possible

Le Comit=E9 Editorial d=92Etudes Irlandaises/ The Editorial Committee of =
Etudes
Irlandaises

=20

=20



sommaire 20/11/08 18:32 Page 5=20

=96 Martine PELLETIER (Universit=E9 Fran=E7ois Rabelais Tours)=20
et Alexandra POULAIN (Universit=E9 Charles de Gaulle-Lille 3)=20
Avant-propos p 7=20

=96 Pascal AQUIEN (Universit=E9 de Paris 4- Sorbonne) :=20
=93Sardoodledom revisited or a few trivial remarks=20
about Oscar Wilde=92s An Ideal Husband (1895)=94 p 9=20

=96 Shaun RICHARDS (Staffordshire University) :=20
=93Synge and the =91Savage God=92=94 p 21=20

=96 Peter KUCH (University of Otago New Zealand) :=20
=93Sarah Bernhardt the Irish et le pays de Kangaroo=94 p 31=20

=96 Brian SINGLETON (Trinity College Dublin) :=20
=93The Performance of Artaud in Ireland=94 p 43=20

=96 Wesley HUTCHINSON (Universit=E9 Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3) :=20
=93 =AB Un point d=92interrogation qui se voudrait =E9criture =BB :=20
Gatti=92s Maze=94 p 53=20

=96 Cathy LEENEY (University College Dublin):=20
=93Under the Influence - Lecoq the Body and the Irish=94=20
Postscript by Mikel Murfi p 65=20

=96 Alexandra POULAIN (Universit=E9 Charles de Gaulle-Lille 3) :=20
=93=91Lady Gregory s=92en va t=92en guerre=92 : the Kiltartan =
Moli=E8re=94 p 75=20

=96 Julie VATAIN (Universit=E9 Paris 4-Sorbonne) :=20
=93Face to face in word and translation: playing with words=20
and playing with accents in two scenes=20
by Oscar Wilde and G B Shaw=94 p 91=20

=96 Emile-Jean DUMAY (traducteur) : =AB Traduire et mettre en sc=E8ne=20
Dermott Bolger =BB p 105=20

=96 Isabelle FAMCHON (traductrice) : =AB Traduire la diff=E9rence =BB p =
113=20

=96 Helen Penet-Astbury (Universit=E9 Charles de Gaulle-Lille 3) :=20
=93Rough for Theatre I and II and why they stayed that way=20
or when Beckett=92s French theatre became Irish again=94p125=20

=96 Nicholas GRENE (Trinity College Dublin) :=20
=93The Hibernicization of En Attendant Godot=94 p 135
=20
Round table: =93Staging Beckett in France=94=20
With Nathalie Kourouma Stuart Seide Conor Lovett p 145=20

COMPTES RENDUS DE LECTURE (Book Reviews)=20

=C9TUDE CRITIQUE=20

A Norman JEFFARES and Peter van de KAMP eds : Irish Literature=20
The Nineteenth Century An Annotated Anthology (C Fierobe) p 159=20

LITT=C9RATURE=20
Kevin KIELY : Breakfast With Sylvia (J Stephens) p 163=20

John REDMONS : MUDe (C N=ED R=EDord=E1in) p 163=20

Jennifer JOHNSTON : Foolish Mortals (JM Carton-Charon) p 164=20

Barry McREA : The First Verse (MFitzpatrick) p165=20

Henry HUDSON : Beyond Pulditch Gates et Derri=E8re les grilles de =
Pulditch=20
Chroniques dublinoise d=92une usine ordinaire F=E9vrier1958-Septembre =
1983=20
(F Canon-Roger) p 165=20

Jacqueline FULMER : Folk Women and Indirection in Morrison N=ED Dhuibhne =

Hurston and Lavin (C Dessaint) p 166=20


sommaire 20/11/08 18:32 Page 6=20

Jacqueline GENET : La Po=E9sie de William Butler Yeats (J Brihault) p =
167=20
Hugh HAUGHTON : The Poetry of Derek Mahon (M Boisseau) p168=20

Shane ALCOBIA-MURPHY : Sympathetic Ink: Intertextual Relations=20
in Northern Irish Poetry (C N=ED R=EDord=E1in) p 169
=20
Thierry ROBIN : Flann O=92Brien un voyageur au bout du monde=20
(M Mianowski) p 170=20

Eugene McNULTY : The Ulster Literary Theatre and the Northern Revival=20
(M Pelletier) p 170=20

Heinz KOSOK : Explorations in Irish Literature (C Fierobe) p 172=20
Danine FARQUHARSON AND Sean Farrell eds : Shadows of the Gunmen :=20
Violence and Culture in Modern Ireland (A Goarzin) p 172=20

Fran=E7oise CANON-ROGER & Christine CHOLLIER : Des genres aux textes :=20
Essais de s=E9mantique interpr=E9tative an litt=E9rature de langue =
anglaise (C
Chartier) p 173=20

Paula MURPHY : The Shattered Mirror: Irish Literature and Film 1990-2005 =

(JC Penet) p 175=20

Heidi HANSSON : New Contexts: Re-Framing Nineteenth-Century=20
Irish Women=92s Prose (V Jobert-Martini) p 176=20

Malcolm BALLIN : Irish Periodical Culture 1937-1972 Genre in Ireland=20
Wales and Scotland (M Boisseau) p 177=20

Carolina P AMADOR MORENO : An Analysis of Hiberno-English=20
in the Novels of Patrick MacGill Bilingualism and Language Shift from =
Irish=20
to English in County Donegal (JC Penet) p 177=20

CIVILISATION=20
Billy COLFER : Wexford a Town and its Landscape (P Brillet) p 178=20

John LITTLETON & Eamon MAHER eds : Contemporary Catholicism=20
in Ireland A Critical Appraisal (S Hierle) p 179=20

Christophe ARCHAN : Les Chemins du jugement proc=E9dure et science du =
droit=20
dans l=92Irlande M=E9di=E9vale (C Mailhes) p 180=20

Caoilfhionn NIC PH=C1ID=CDN & Se=E1n =D3 CEARNAIGH eds : A New View=20
of the Irish Language (C N=ED R=EDord=E1in) p 181=20

Mike CRONIN & Daryl ADAIR : The Wearing of the Green A History=20
of St Patrick=92s Day (F Mebarki) p 182=20

J=E9r=F4me AAN DE WIEL : The Irish Factor 1899-1919: Ireland=92s =
strategic=20
and diplomatic importance for foreign powers (PL Coudray) p 186=20

Laurence M GEARY & Andrew J McCARTHY eds : Ireland Australia=20
and New Zealand (A Slaby) p 184=20

Charlie McGUIRE : Roddy Connolly and the Struggle for Socialism in =
Ireland=20
(J Guillaumond) p 186=20

Ruth DUDLEY-EDWARDS : An Atlas of Irish History (M Brasseur) p 186=20

Richard TWISS : A Tour in Ireland in 1775 (F Mebarki) p 187=20

Geraldine STOUT & Matthew STOUT : Newgrange (C Maignant) p 188=20

Pierre JOANNON : Histoire de l=92Irlande et des Irlandais (W Hutchinson) =
p 189

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Hi Patrick

The nerdboy strikes again! Something to make the moderator's (and any=20
other lister's) life a little easier

"Note: I have copied in, below, as text the pdf file of the Table of
Contents. A bit untidy, but the best I can do."

There's a really useful bit of software for just this kind of situation=20
available for download available here:

http://somepdf.com/some-pdf-to-word-converter.html
http://somepdf.com/some-pdf-to-txt-converter.html

With small documents they work like lightning and will preserve tables=20
etc (although the graphics conversion is a wee bit idiosyncratic) and=20
it's free. We like free.

Best

Liam



Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:
> Note: I have copied in, below, as text the pdf file of the Table of
> Contents. A bit untidy, but the best I can do.
>
> I have also checked and corrected the web link.
>
> P.O'S
>
>
> Forwarded on behalf of
> Le Comit=E9 Editorial d=92Etudes Irlandaises/ The Editorial Committee o=
f Etudes
> Irlandaises
>
> Chers amis/ Dear Friends
>
> We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of Etudes Irlandaises =
(The
> French Journal of Irish Studies) has just been released. It is entitled=
:
> French and Irish theatres: influences and interactions.=20
>
> For orders and subscriptions:
>
> http://etudes-irlandaises.septentrion.com/
>
>
> ---------
>
> Nous sommes tr=E8s heureux d=92annoncer la parution du dernier num=E9ro=
d=92Etudes
> Irlandaises, intitul=E9 Th=E9=E2tres Fran=E7ais et Irlandais : influenc=
es et
> interactions
>
> Voir la table des mati=E8res en pi=E8ce jointe.
>
> Pour le commander ou pour s=92abonner :=20
>
> www.etudes-irlandaises.septentrion.com
>
> Please circulate as widely as possible/ Merci de transmettre ce message=
le
> plus largement possible
>
> Le Comit=E9 Editorial d=92Etudes Irlandaises/ The Editorial Committee o=
f Etudes
> Irlandaises
>
> =20
>
> =20
>
>
>
> sommaire 20/11/08 18:32 Page 5=20
>
> =96 Martine PELLETIER (Universit=E9 Fran=E7ois Rabelais Tours)=20
> et Alexandra POULAIN (Universit=E9 Charles de Gaulle-Lille 3)=20
> Avant-propos p 7=20
>
> =96 Pascal AQUIEN (Universit=E9 de Paris 4- Sorbonne) :=20
> =93Sardoodledom revisited or a few trivial remarks=20
> about Oscar Wilde=92s An Ideal Husband (1895)=94 p 9=20
>
> =96 Shaun RICHARDS (Staffordshire University) :=20
> =93Synge and the =91Savage God=92=94 p 21=20
>
> =96 Peter KUCH (University of Otago New Zealand) :=20
> =93Sarah Bernhardt the Irish et le pays de Kangaroo=94 p 31=20
>
> =96 Brian SINGLETON (Trinity College Dublin) :=20
> =93The Performance of Artaud in Ireland=94 p 43=20
>
> =96 Wesley HUTCHINSON (Universit=E9 Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3) :=20
> =93 =AB Un point d=92interrogation qui se voudrait =E9criture =BB :=20
> Gatti=92s Maze=94 p 53=20
>
> =96 Cathy LEENEY (University College Dublin):=20
> =93Under the Influence - Lecoq the Body and the Irish=94=20
> Postscript by Mikel Murfi p 65=20
>
> =96 Alexandra POULAIN (Universit=E9 Charles de Gaulle-Lille 3) :=20
> =93=91Lady Gregory s=92en va t=92en guerre=92 : the Kiltartan Moli=E8re=
=94 p 75=20
>
> =96 Julie VATAIN (Universit=E9 Paris 4-Sorbonne) :=20
> =93Face to face in word and translation: playing with words=20
> and playing with accents in two scenes=20
> by Oscar Wilde and G B Shaw=94 p 91=20
>
> =96 Emile-Jean DUMAY (traducteur) : =AB Traduire et mettre en sc=E8ne=20
> Dermott Bolger =BB p 105=20
>
> =96 Isabelle FAMCHON (traductrice) : =AB Traduire la diff=E9rence =BB p=
113=20
>
> =96 Helen Penet-Astbury (Universit=E9 Charles de Gaulle-Lille 3) :=20
> =93Rough for Theatre I and II and why they stayed that way=20
> or when Beckett=92s French theatre became Irish again=94p125=20
>
> =96 Nicholas GRENE (Trinity College Dublin) :=20
> =93The Hibernicization of En Attendant Godot=94 p 135
> =20
> Round table: =93Staging Beckett in France=94=20
> With Nathalie Kourouma Stuart Seide Conor Lovett p 145=20
>
> COMPTES RENDUS DE LECTURE (Book Reviews)=20
>
> =C9TUDE CRITIQUE=20
>
> A Norman JEFFARES and Peter van de KAMP eds : Irish Literature=20
> The Nineteenth Century An Annotated Anthology (C Fierobe) p 159=20
>
> LITT=C9RATURE=20
> Kevin KIELY : Breakfast With Sylvia (J Stephens) p 163=20
>
> John REDMONS : MUDe (C N=ED R=EDord=E1in) p 163=20
>
> Jennifer JOHNSTON : Foolish Mortals (JM Carton-Charon) p 164=20
>
> Barry McREA : The First Verse (MFitzpatrick) p165=20
>
> Henry HUDSON : Beyond Pulditch Gates et Derri=E8re les grilles de Puldi=
tch=20
> Chroniques dublinoise d=92une usine ordinaire F=E9vrier1958-Septembre 1=
983=20
> (F Canon-Roger) p 165=20
>
> Jacqueline FULMER : Folk Women and Indirection in Morrison N=ED Dhuibhn=
e=20
> Hurston and Lavin (C Dessaint) p 166=20
>
>
> sommaire 20/11/08 18:32 Page 6=20
>
> Jacqueline GENET : La Po=E9sie de William Butler Yeats (J Brihault) p =
167=20
> Hugh HAUGHTON : The Poetry of Derek Mahon (M Boisseau) p168=20
>
> Shane ALCOBIA-MURPHY : Sympathetic Ink: Intertextual Relations=20
> in Northern Irish Poetry (C N=ED R=EDord=E1in) p 169
> =20
> Thierry ROBIN : Flann O=92Brien un voyageur au bout du monde=20
> (M Mianowski) p 170=20
>
> Eugene McNULTY : The Ulster Literary Theatre and the Northern Revival=20
> (M Pelletier) p 170=20
>
> Heinz KOSOK : Explorations in Irish Literature (C Fierobe) p 172=20
> Danine FARQUHARSON AND Sean Farrell eds : Shadows of the Gunmen :=20
> Violence and Culture in Modern Ireland (A Goarzin) p 172=20
>
> Fran=E7oise CANON-ROGER & Christine CHOLLIER : Des genres aux textes :=20
> Essais de s=E9mantique interpr=E9tative an litt=E9rature de langue angl=
aise (C
> Chartier) p 173=20
>
> Paula MURPHY : The Shattered Mirror: Irish Literature and Film 1990-200=
5=20
> (JC Penet) p 175=20
>
> Heidi HANSSON : New Contexts: Re-Framing Nineteenth-Century=20
> Irish Women=92s Prose (V Jobert-Martini) p 176=20
>
> Malcolm BALLIN : Irish Periodical Culture 1937-1972 Genre in Ireland=20
> Wales and Scotland (M Boisseau) p 177=20
>
> Carolina P AMADOR MORENO : An Analysis of Hiberno-English=20
> in the Novels of Patrick MacGill Bilingualism and Language Shift from I=
rish=20
> to English in County Donegal (JC Penet) p 177=20
>
> CIVILISATION=20
> Billy COLFER : Wexford a Town and its Landscape (P Brillet) p 178=20
>
> John LITTLETON & Eamon MAHER eds : Contemporary Catholicism=20
> in Ireland A Critical Appraisal (S Hierle) p 179=20
>
> Christophe ARCHAN : Les Chemins du jugement proc=E9dure et science du d=
roit=20
> dans l=92Irlande M=E9di=E9vale (C Mailhes) p 180=20
>
> Caoilfhionn NIC PH=C1ID=CDN & Se=E1n =D3 CEARNAIGH eds : A New View=20
> of the Irish Language (C N=ED R=EDord=E1in) p 181=20
>
> Mike CRONIN & Daryl ADAIR : The Wearing of the Green A History=20
> of St Patrick=92s Day (F Mebarki) p 182=20
>
> J=E9r=F4me AAN DE WIEL : The Irish Factor 1899-1919: Ireland=92s strate=
gic=20
> and diplomatic importance for foreign powers (PL Coudray) p 186=20
>
> Laurence M GEARY & Andrew J McCARTHY eds : Ireland Australia=20
> and New Zealand (A Slaby) p 184=20
>
> Charlie McGUIRE : Roddy Connolly and the Struggle for Socialism in Irel=
and=20
> (J Guillaumond) p 186=20
>
> Ruth DUDLEY-EDWARDS : An Atlas of Irish History (M Brasseur) p 186=20
>
> Richard TWISS : A Tour in Ireland in 1775 (F Mebarki) p 187=20
>
> Geraldine STOUT & Matthew STOUT : Newgrange (C Maignant) p 188=20
>
> Pierre JOANNON : Histoire de l=92Irlande et des Irlandais (W Hutchinson=
) p 189
>
> =20

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Dear all,

While stuck in Dublin's no-sign-of-thinning-out-despite-the-recession
traffic yesterday afternoon, I chanced upon an interview on the radio with
Glenn Cumiskey who, it would appear, is the director of the Irish Oral
History Archive. Anyway, he seemed like a nice lad so I thought I'd draw
the attention of the IR-D list to his work.

The project seems to consist currently of interviewing Irish elders from
the last-but-one great wave Irish emigration to Britain of the 1940s and
50s and depositing them in digital form. You can obtain further details
at http://www.ioha.co.uk/

I don't know what the politics (with a small 'p') of the project are but
the site seems to be notably lacking in links to other Irish in Britain
and I suspect it may have emerged from the Department of Foreign Affairs
conference held in Dublin Castle in 2007 ( See
http://liamgr.blogspot.com/2007/04/come-in-to-parlour-and-keep-your-wallet.html).


Anyway, whatever its origins I think it's worth encouraging.

Best

Liam

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Friends:

The Winter, 2008 issue of New Hibernia Review (volume 12, number 4) has a=
lready arrived in the mailboxes of subscribers, and can be viewed on Proj=
ect Muse=AE as well. This year's covers feature contemporary prints from =
the Graphic Studio Gallery of Dublin; "Winter Field" by Carmel Benson of Wi=
cklow appears on this issue.

Below is a table of contents and brief descriptions of the articles.

Mark Roper
"Halcyon: A Kingfisher in Gortrush Woods" pp. 9-14
The issue opens with a personal essay from poet Mark Roper, who unpacks the=
levels of meaning that attended his mother's reported sighting of a kingfi=
sher: a window on folklore; a family mythology that links mother to son; th=
e genesis of a poem; and finally, a healing admonition against any too-read=
y certainty.

Andrew Devenney-Western Michigan University
"A Unique and Unparalleled Surrender of Sovereignty": Early Opposition to E=
uropean Integration in Ireland, 1961-72" pp 15-38
In an article eerily reminiscent of the Lisbon Treaty debate, Devenney char=
ts the vociferous opposition to the EEC that informed certain precincts i=
n Irish political life before the 1972 referendum Led by Anthony Coughlan, =
Raymond Crotty, and John de Courcy Ireland, an ad hoc "Common Market Defenc=
e Committee" inveighed against what it believed to be a betrayal of Ireland=
's nationalist heritage and sovereignty. But the Irish public of 1972 was d=
isinclined to listen to the jeremiads of anti-EEC campaigners.

Mary Montague
Fil=EDocht Nua: New Poetry. pp. 33-42
A suite of new poems from the Derry native now living in Lancaster. The a=
ccomplishment of these poems relies upon the faith in her experience of, sa=
y, the individual's collision with the bureaucratic state in Britain, or th=
e almost Gaelic wildness of moose glimpsed in the rough country of Canada. =
.


Jennifer Molidor-Kanas State University, Salina
"Dying for Ireland: Violence, Silence, and Sacrifice in Dorothy Macardle's =
Earth-Bound: Nine Stories of Ireland (1924)" pp. 43-61
In the 1924 collection, each of Macardle's stories is dedicated to one of t=
he women with whom she was incarcerated during the Irish Civil War. These s=
tories well demonstrate the insights of recent feminist scholarship that =
reconsiders women's participation in Irish political life and in nationalis=
t ideology. Macardle's women negotiate not only with the immediate result=
s of their republican convictions- but also with the potent myths of Irish =
womanhood, as in the cult of Mother Ireland.

Nicholas M. Wolf-George Mason University
"The Irish-Speaking Clergy in the Nineteenth Century: Education, Trends, an=
d Timing" pp. 62-83
That the Irish language went into a tailspin just as the Catholic church ro=
se to unprecedented eminence in Irish life has not gone unnoticed; still, =
Nicholas Wolf cautions against any hasty cause-and-effect conclusion. The =
church's tepid approach to Irish may have had more to do with timing and =
the backgrounds of the young men entering the priesthood than with any over=
t rejection of the language. The language was indeed a part of clerical edu=
cation, but only for the purpose of facilitating pastoral care.

Michael O Jauchen-Louisiana State University, Lafayette
"Prostitution, Incest, and Venereal Disease in Ulysses' "Nausicaa"" " pp. 8=
4-100.
Jauchen notes that neither Gerty nor Bloom arrived on the strand devoid of=
cultural expectations. Joyce provides no definitive answer to the question=
, "Who was Gerty?" but there is much to suggest that Bloom-alert to her dis=
ability and her socioeconomic status-would have perceived Gerty as a potent=
ial prostitute; and for Gerty, the sight of an adult male might well might =
evoke suggestions of incest.

C. W. Sullivan III-East Carolina University
"Reconsidering the Convict Ships" pp 101-16.
Sullivan examines of one of Australia's foundation myths-the nightmare lega=
cy of convict transportation, an experience in which Irish deportees played=
prominent roles. Sullivan never disputes the horrifying accounts of early =
transportation, but he notes that this particular chapter in penal history =
played out over a full seven decades, and suggests that the always harsh sy=
stem may, in fact, have moderated as time went on.

Mary Fitzgerald-Hoyt-Siena College
"William Trevor's Cheating at Canasta (2007): Cautionary Tales for Contempo=
rary Ireland" pp 117-33
Fitzgerald-Hoyt finds that Trevor's most recent collection has updated =
his dark vision of Irish village life to include our own time. Celtic Tiger=
affluence surrounds the protagonists of these stories, yet, bereft of soci=
al cohesion and tradition, they are all the more haunted by the maimed past=
of their family, church, and nation.

Finally, "Radharc ar gC=FAul: The Backward Glance" offers three fresh looks=
at Cecil Woodham's classic account of the Famine:

Christine Kinealy-Drew University
The Historian is a Haunted Man": Cecil Woodham-Smith and The Great Hunger :
pp. 134-43
Elizabeth Malcolm-University of Melbourne
"On Fire": The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849 "
William H. Mulligan, Western Kentucky University
"The Case for Emotion: Looking Back at The Great Hunger "
pp. 149-152

In addition, this issue of New Hibernia Review includes seven pages of b=
ook reviews, including James H. Murphy's lead review of Timothy McMahon, Gr=
and Opportunity: The Gaelic Revival and Irish Society, 1893-1910 (Syracuse,=
2008).


Please see http://www.stthomas.edu/=
irishstudies/nhr.htm for contributor guidelines and/or or subscription in=
formatioon, or contact me at the address below. Happy reading!



James S. Rogers



Editor/New Hibernia Review

jrogers[at]stthomas.edu

University of St Thomas #5008

2115 Summit Ave

St Paul, MN 55105-1096

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: CFP MIGRATING MINDS: IMAGINED JOURNEYS - IMAGINED HOMECOMINGS,
University of Aberdeen 14-15 MAY 2009
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Forwarded on behalf of
Dr. Paul Shanks

Migrating Minds - Imagined Journeys - Imagined Homecomings

MIGRATING MINDS:
IMAGINED JOURNEYS - IMAGINED HOMECOMINGS
14-15 MAY 2009
University of Aberdeen

Call for papers
The AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen
will host a conference in 2009 on the topic "Migrating Minds: Imagined
Journeys - Imagined Homecomings". The conference will take place on the 14
and 15 May 2009 alongside the Aberdeen WORD Festival. Literature (both
fiction and non-fiction), personal journals and correspondence, and art
enable us to explore the impact that journeys and homecomings have had on
Irish and Scottish imaginations. Irish and Scottish migrants, as well as
those who sought to understand, interpret and exploit the experience of
migration, participated in the production and circulation of these accounts
and images both at home and abroad. As such, they form an important
dimension to any understanding of the Irish and Scottish diasporas. With
this in mind, we seek to investigate the idea of migration as a series of
narratives and rhetorical tropes that develop over time. Papers that
consider diasporic movements from a non Irish/ Scottish point of view are
welcome as are those that adopt a theoretical perspective.

Suggested Topics Include:
. Imagining Elsewhere in Irish and Scottish Culture
. Imagined homecomings: the diasporic novel
. Hybrid landscapes: re-presenting place through memory
. Writing between cultures
. Irish and Scottish narratives of the New World
. Trans-national narratives
. Irish and Scottish writers in Europe
. Representations of Empire in Irish and Scottish Culture
. National Memory, National Traditions
. Language and dialect in the Scottish / Irish diaspora
. Foreign Voices
. The Travel Book
. Enlightenment and Romanticism in the Irish and Scottish Diaspora
. Rural idylls, urban wastelands
. Community and dislocation
. Re-reading the homeland
. Translating domesticity
. The literature of exile
. Migrating texts: The publication and reception of Irish / Scottish texts
abroad.

Papers should be 30 minutes in length. Selected proceedings from the
conference will be published in the Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies.
Proposals for papers of no more than 200 words should be sent by 15 February
2009 to Dr. Paul Shanks (p.f.shanks[at]abdn.ac.uk), AHRC Centre for Irish and
Scottish Studies, 19 College Bounds, Aberdeen, AB24 3DB.

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Subject: A real cultural asset closes, a bogus one opens?
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From: guillaumond julien=20
Date: 16/01/2009 17:25:34=20
To: liste; groupe doc irlande=20
Subject: [doc-irl-paris3] Ah, ces Irlandais=20
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Obama's Irish ancestoral home may become heritage centre=20
=20
RONAN McGREEVY=20
Fri, Jan 16, 2009=20
=20
THE HOMESTEAD of US president-elect Barack Obama=92s Irish ancestors has =
been
withdrawn from sale with a view to being developed as a heritage centre.=20
The one-acre site in the centre of Moneygall is owned by Offaly County
Council and was on the market for social housing for the last two years.=20
=20
Mr Obama=92s great-great-great grandfather on his mother=92s side, Fulmou=
th
Kearney, was born and grew up on the site before emigrating to the US in
1850.=20
Though Kearneys have not lived there for generations, the site was known
until recently as =93Kearney=92s Gardens=94.=20
=20
The council=92s Birr electoral area committee has now approved a proposal=
by
Moneygall councillor Peter Ormond to withdraw the site from sale and use =
it
instead as a possible future location for a centre which would mark Mr
Obama=92s connection with the village.=20
=20
The proposal has to go before the council=92s housing, social and cultura=
l
strategic policy committee and then the full council for final approval.=20
=20
The site was divided into 16 plots with a view to selling it to local peo=
ple
on modest incomes who would build their own homes there rather than in th=
e
countryside.=20
=20
However, the economic slump meant there was no interest and the =93for sa=
le=94
signs have been taken down since Mr Obama=92s election.=20
=93It is perfectly located within the village. It is fortunate that we di=
d not
sell it. If it was in private ownership, it would be hard to resurrect it
again,=94 Mr Ormond said.=20
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=93I would strongly oppose anything else going on that site. I think Offa=
ly
County Council should do something pretty soon. I=92d hate to think that =
if
Obama did decide to come to Moneygall we would have nothing ready for him=
.=94=20
=20
Ironically, the site was formerly owned by the family of Mr Obama=92s dis=
tant
cousin, Henry Healy.=20
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=93The council bought it from my father 30 years ago through a compulsory
purchase order. Nobody knew the significance of it at the time,=94 said M=
r
Healy.=20
Canon Stephen Neill, who discovered Mr Obama=92s Irish connections, said
Moneygall residents will be forming a committee after the inauguration to
exploit the connection between the new president and the village.=20
=20
=93It has given an injection of interest in Moneygall and put us on the m=
ap.
It is an opportunity which would be silly to pass by and, if it brings
tourist revenue into the area, it would be good for the whole region,=94 =
he
said.=20
=20
Both Canon Neill and Mr Healy have been invited to an inaugural lunch and
parade party organised by the America Ireland Fund, where they hope to
promote the idea of a heritage centre.=20
=20
=A9 2009 The Irish Times=20
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Conference, U2., The Hype and the Feedback, New York, May 2009
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The following Conference has been brought to our attention...

And, yes, the web site organisation is daft...

And the prose...

P.O'S.

http://www.u2conference.com/

Scholars, teachers, students, journalists, clergy, musicians and
intellectually curious U2 fans: for more than 30 years, U2 has asked us to
look at the world, wrestle with ourselves and then dream out loud. From "I
Will Follow" and "Running to Stand Still," to "The Wanderer," "Walk On," and
"One Step Closer," U2 has charted the human heart and the ways of the world,
calling out some of their more dynamic points of intersection. While doing
so, they have created what Bruce Springsteen described as "some of the most
beautiful sonic architecture in rock and roll."

A band of paradoxes, ironies, ambition and sincerity, their influence in the
worlds of music, entertainment, popular culture, humanitarian relief and the
global politics of peace and social justice should be the stuff of spirited
conversation. Hype? Feedback? Or the real thing? Come join the conversation
as we see what U2 has done...

...The New York Marriott Marquis, in energetic Times Square, New York City,
is our conference location.

http://www.u2conference.com/

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Book Review, Nationalism in the New World
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A number of Ir-D members will be interested in this volume...

Don H. Doyle, Marco Antonio Pamplona, eds. Nationalism in the New World.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006. 320 pp. $22.95 (paper), ISBN
978-0-8203-2820-1.

Book Information
http://www.ugapress.uga.edu/0820326542.html

A review at Latin American Review of Books
http://www.latamrob.com/?p=270

Reviewed by Gavin O'Toole

'ONE OF THE distortions in the study of nationalism is that it has been
disproportionately focused upon Europe and the developing world, both in
terms of empirical content and theoretical debates.

This is ironic, because the models for many European "nation-states",
wrongly considered older by virtue of their lineage, came from the "younger"
societies of the Americas: the independence struggles of the early 19th
century provided much food for thought for later German and Italian unifying
nationalists as well as fuelling the debates among European thinkers about
what nations, and the "races" so often thought to form their bedrock, really
were...'

Full text available on web site...

Also see the H-Net review...

Reviewed by Robert Parkinson
Published on H-Nationalism (January, 2009)

FULL TEXT AT
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=23154

'Nationalism in the New World grew out of a conversation between editors Don
H. Doyle of the University of South Carolina and Marco Antonio Pamplona of
Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro in March, 2001 about why the Americas
were relatively ignored in recent studies of nationalism. Two conferences on
nationalism and comparative history followed, taking place in both
hemispheres, and the final results of this collaboration are the
thought-provoking and rich essays that make up this substantive collection.

The nation-states created in the Americas, Doyle and Pamplona argue in their
introduction, have been ignored by nationalism scholars because they do not
fit the European paradigm. As immigrant nations, they lack an ancient ethnic
core. Moreover, the Americas have witnessed far less interstate violence,
subnational separatist movements, or border fluidity when compared to Asia,
Europe, or the Middle East.

It may seem surprising for Doyle and Pamplona to claim that the Americas
have been ignored after the 1983 publication of Benedict Anderson's landmark
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of
Nationalism.[1] In less than twenty pages Anderson allegedly put the New
World on the nationalism map. His chapter "Creole Pioneers" asked why
immigrant leaders of the American colonies "developed so early conceptions
of their nation-ness - well before most of Europe?"[2] Anderson provided two
answers: administrative functionaries and print capitalism, especially
newspapers. Anderson concluded that the American states created in the late
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were "not only historically the
first such states to emerge on the world stage, and therefore inevitably
provided the first real models what states should 'look like,' but their
numbers and contemporary births offer fruitful ground for comparative
enquiry."[3]

All of this is quite familiar to readers of H-Nationalism. But, Doyle and
Pamplona argue, in the two decades since Anderson's powerful interpretation,
that fruit has not been well harvested. Nationalism and the New World is an
effort to follow up on--and put under the microscope--Anderson's claim that
the Americas have something interesting to offer to nationalist studies...'

Further review - for those who have access - at
Nationalism in the New World by Don Doyle and Marco Antonio Pamplona (eds.)

Author: MIORELLI, ROMINA1

Source: Nations and Nationalism, Volume 14, Number 2, April 2008 , pp.
422-423(2)

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing