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'War Is Not a Map': Irish America, Transnationalism, and Joseph =
O'Connor's
Redemption Falls

Author: Moynihan, Sin=E9ad

Source: Comparative American Studies, Volume 6, Number 4, December 2008 =
,
pp. 358-373(16)

Publisher: Maney Publishing


Abstract:
This essay argues for a transnational reading of Irish novelist Joseph
O'Connor's Redemption Falls (2007). It contends that O'Connor's =
revisiting
of the period of the American Civil War and its aftermath begs all sorts =
of
questions regarding Ireland and Irish America's historical and =
contemporary
transnational intercessions and responsibilities. As Ireland underwent a
period of unparalleled economic prosperity beginning in the mid-1990s, =
which
most commentators attribute to successive Irish governments' commitment =
to
globalization, it began to face new and pressing challenges in relation =
to
its involvement with the rest of the world, particularly with regard to =
its
stance on neutrality and recent immigrants to Ireland. I conclude that
Redemption Falls reveals the complexity of Irish and Irish Americans'
relationship to notions of whiteness and (racial) innocence and =
challenges
readers to consider how Ireland will conduct its future relations with =
the
global community both within and beyond its borders.

Keywords: AMERICAN CIVIL WAR; IRELAND; IRISH AMERICA; REDEMPTION FALLS
(2007); JOSEPH O'CONNOR; YOUNG IRELANDERS; THOMAS FRANCIS MEAGHER;
TRANSNATIONALISM; RACE; SLAVERY

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1179/147757008X366385

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REFRAMING ONLINE: ULSTER LOYALISTS IMAGINE AN AMERICAN AUDIENCE

Author: O Dochartaigh, Niall1

Source: Identities: Global Studies in Power and Culture, Volume 16, Number
1, January 2009 , pp. 102-127(26)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:
This article examines one initiative aimed at taking advantage of new
technologies to build new transnational connections between a political
movement in the "homeland" and a diaspora population in the United States.
It analyzes an initiative by Ulster loyalists in Northern Ireland to
mobilize Americans of Ulster Protestant descent in support of their cause,
while simultaneously attempting to undermine the American support base of
their Irish nationalist opponents. By contrast with Irish nationalists,
Ulster loyalists have never had significant support networks in the United
States. This attempt to mobilize a distant diaspora has met with little
success. This article argues that loyalist understandings of their imagined
audience in the United States are built on a misleading caricature of
Irish-American support networks for Irish republicans. These
misunderstandings direct loyalists towards a strategy that places undue
weight on the role of homeland propaganda in converting shared ancestry into
political support for ethnic compatriots in the "homeland" to the neglect of
more fundamental factors in the mobilization of transnational support
networks. The article argues that new technologies are of minimal
significance for the mobilization of transnational support networks on the
basis of shared ancestry in the absence of other fundamental conditions for
mobilization. However, the new technologies allow movements to learn more
about distant and little-understood support pools. The reflexive character
of online interaction is illustrated by the way in which at least some
loyalists have begun to explore other bases for transnational co-operation.

Keywords: Internet mobilization; diaspora; Ireland

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/10702890802605851

Affiliations: 1: School of Political Science and Sociology, National
University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

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global identity and human rights: the deportation of Nigerians in
Ireland
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Paradoxes of diaspora, global identity and human rights: the deportation of
Nigerians in Ireland

Author: White, Elisa Joy1

Source: African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal, Volume 2,
Number 1, January 2009 , pp. 67-83(17)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group


Abstract:
This article examines the contemporary reversal and rupture of the Nigerian
diasporic flow to Ireland through the circumstances of deportation;
emphasizing the utility of deportations in the discursive context of
national identity, global standing, human rights and racism. Through an
examination of the unique relationship between the Nigerian and Irish
diasporas, it is argued that the state-level discourse and public policy
regarding the deportation of Nigerian migrants in Ireland highlight the
presence of 'parallel' and 'catalytic' diasporas that form what can be
considered paradoxes of diaspora. The article also maintains that
deportations: 1) facilitate the proliferation of national racisms and human
rights violations through the legitimating mechanisms of international law;
2) expose the attempt at insuring a national Irish identity that is
racialized as White; 3) bring into sharp relief the simultaneous
determination of Nigeria to secure a reputation as democratic and Ireland to
preserve its standing as a philanthropic and benevolent nation in the global
arena and; 4) highlight the post-national significance of diasporic
belonging in a contemporary global context.

Keywords: African Diaspora; Nigeria; Ireland; human rights; racism;
deportation

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/17528630802513474

Affiliations: 1: Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Hawaii, Manoa,
USA

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Subject: Special Offer,
Special Issue - Ethnopolitics - Northern Ireland 10 years after
the Agreement
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Special Issue - Ethnopolitics - Northern Ireland 10 years after the =
Agreement...

This Special Issue Volume 7, Issue 1, 2008
Guest Edited by Chris Gilligan, Aston University, UK
- see earlier Ir-D message or the web site for TOC -=20
Is being offered at a single issue price of
=C2=A320 US$34 =E2=82=AC27
promotional code YG07607D

Ethnopolitics
Special Issue: Northern Ireland 10 years after the Agreement

To read the table of contents and for more details, please visit =
www.tandf.co.uk/journals/spissue/reno-si.asp

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/pdf/spissue/reno-si-7-1.pdf

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The Time Team popular archaeology programme at the weekend featured the
excavation of a navvy camp or settlement on the line of the Settle &
Carlisle Railway, above the Rise Hill tunnel.

The programme also gave some insight into our local weather, as we watched
the archaeologists become wet, wetter and then more wet.

The camp was in use for some five years from 1869 to 1875, and thus the
inhabitants appear in the 1871 Census.

There are clips plus further information on the web site.

Rise Hill, Cumbria
First screened 1 February 2009

http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/T/timeteam/2009/risehill/index.ht
ml

http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/T/timeteam/2009/risehill/risehill
-found.html

One of the items found was a fragment of clay pipe, decorated with an Irish
harp...

On a train of thought... There is Heather Coleman's clay pipes web site

http://www.dawnmist.demon.co.uk/cadger.htm

http://www.dawnmist.demon.co.uk/pipdex.htm

This is the Irish pipes page
http://www.dawnmist.demon.co.uk/pipe-12.htm

And see
Hartnett, Alexandra. "The Politics of the Pipe: Clay Pipes and Tobacco
Consumption in Galway, Ireland." International Journal of Historical
Archaeology, 2004/06// 2004, 8(2), pp. 133 - 147.

P.O'S.

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Subject: CFP, Conference,
North by North West - Maritime history of Ulster,
University of Ulster, Magee Campus, 3-6 Sept 2009
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From: Trew Johanne [mailto:JD.Trew[at]ulster.ac.uk]=20

Dear Paddy,
=A0
Could you please circulate this CFP for the following conference which =
will
no doubt be of interest to many Irish Studies researchers on the IR-D =
list.=20
=A0
Best wishes!
Johanne
=A0
Johanne Devlin Trew, PhD
Institute of Ulster Scots Studies
University of Ulster
Magee Campus, Londonderry
jd.trew[at]ulster.ac.uk
=A0
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=A0
North by North West: An International Conference=20

Date: 3rd -6th Sept 2009

Description: We invite proposals for papers exploring themes that will
examine the Maritime history of Ulster from 1599-2009 focussing in
particular the Port of Derry/Londonderry as a =91Gateway to the =
Atlantic=92. The
conference will be hosted by the Institute of Ulster Scots Studies. The
themes of the conference are Environmental & Archaeological history,
Military & Port Fortifications of Loughs Foyle & Swilly, Merchants & =
Traders
in 18th & 19th century Ulster & Scotland, Ulster & the Atlantic World,
Shipbuilders & Shipping Lines, From Here to Wherever, emigration from =
North
West Ulster. Paper proposals should indicate under which theme they wish =
to
be considered. Conference proceedings will be published


Conference organisers: Sally Halliday M.Phil & Dr Billy Kelly

Venue: University of Ulster, Magee Campus

Contact: Sally Halliday

E:Mail : sp.halliday[at]ulster.ac.uk

Tel: 02871375098

Sally Halliday M.Phil
Institute of Ulster Scots Studies
RoomMI021
Aberfoyle House
Northland Road
L=92Derry
BT48 9JL

Submission date for papers: 18th May 2009 =20

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Subject: Irish Theatrical Diaspora Conference ,
Contemporary Irish Theatre - Local and Global Dimensions,
17-18 April 2009
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Dear Colleagues,

The sixth annual Irish Theatrical Diaspora Conference takes place at
National University of Ireland, Galway on 17-18 April 2009.

Registration is free, but must be completed in advance. To register, please
send an email to conference[at]irishtheatricaldiaspora.org As places are
limited, early registration is advised.

A provisional timetable appears below.

'Contemporary Irish Theatre - Local and Global Dimensions'
The sixth annual Irish Theatrical Diaspora Conference National University of
Ireland, Galway
17-18 April 2009


Friday, 17 April 2009

14.30: Conference opening and welcome, followed by first panel

Irish Theatre: Local to Global
. Jose Lanters (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee): "DruidSynge in
America"
. Werner Huber (University of Vienna): 'What's the news from
Kilcrobally? On the Reception of Contemporary Irish?Theatre in Germany and
Austria'

16.00 - 17.00: Panel
Irish Dramatists: Local and Global
. Elizabeth Kuti: 'Writing for an Irish audience? Nationality and the
Playwright'
. Ursula Rani Sarma: 'Audience expectation and the expected audience -
writing for the international stage'

17.30 - 19.00: Keynote address:
Christopher Morash (NUI Maynooth) - 'The Spaces of Irish Theatre'
Chair: Nicholas Grene (Trinity College Dublin)

20.00
Visit to Town Hall Theatre for Druid Theatre production of Enda Walsh's New
Electric Ballroom.
(Delegates must purchase their own tickets, and may do so directly from Town
Hall Theatre - http://www.tht.ie/ )

Saturday, 18 April

9.30- 10.30: Northern Irish Drama: International Perspectives
. Mark Phelan (Queens University Belfast): "Global Routes and Local
Roots: Post-Conflict Theatre in the North"?
. Brenda Winter (Queens University Belfast): "Charabanc, Cultural
Capital and the Men of Recognised Credit".

10.30 - 11.30: Panel -Beckett and Friel: Ireland and the World
. Anna McMullan (Queen's University, Belfast): Friel's Dancing at
Lughnasa: at the crossroads of the local and global
. Sinead Mooney (NUI Galway): "Samuel Beckett: 'Famous throughout the
Civilised World and the Irish Free State"

11.30 - 12.00: Coffee Break

12.00 - 13.00: Panel
Communities - Local, National, International
. Christopher Murray (University College Dublin): Roddy Doyle, the new
Playboy, and Multiculturalism'.
. David Grant (Queen's University Belfast) 'Orality and the Ethics of
Ownership in Community-based Drama'

13.00 - 14.00: Lunch

14.00 - 15.30: Keynote Event
Irish Theatre Practitioners in conversation (speakers to be confirmed)
Chair: Patrick Lonergan (NUI Galway)

16.00 - 17.00: Panel
Irish Theatre: Global to Local
. Rhona Trench (IT Sligo) 'Physical Trends: to Physical Acts: Blue
Raincoat, Bicycles and Policemen'
. James Moran (University of Nottingham) 'Ireland Onstage at the
Birmingham Repertory Theatre'.

17.00: Closing remarks. Launch of _Theatre and Globalization: Irish Drama in
the Celtic Tiger Era_ by Patrick Lonergan

The event is held as part of a TCD/NUIG research project on the
Internationalization of Irish Drama, which 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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A number of Ir-D members will find this article of use and interest - it is
a wide ranging attempy to create a dialogue between international historians
and historians of religion. One of its examples is the Irish Diaspora -
Sheridan Gilley is cited.

P.O'S.

European History Quarterly, Vol. 38, No. 4, 578-607 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0265691408094533

International History, Religious History, Catholic History: Perspectives for
Cross-Fertilization (1830-1914)
Vincent Viaene

Universitaire Pers Leuven, Belgium

The essay explores what recent trends in international and religious (in
particular, Catholic) history have to offer one another. On the one hand,
the transformation of imperial history into global history and a new
attention for the role of non-state actors in international politics are
opening the eyes of international historians to religion as one of the main
forces shaping the modern world. On the other hand, historians of religion
are rediscovering the essentially transnational nature of their subject, and
its enmeshment with politics at every turn. In the history of Catholicism,
this takes the form of an aggiornamento of 'old-fashioned' themes such as
ultramontanism, missionary expansion and the papacy. After having drifted
apart for half a century, the two subdisciplines thus increasingly appear as
natural allies in reconsidering the master narrative of modernity. The
concept of 'religious internationalism', illustrated here through its
Catholic variety, allows us to 'think together' the different aspects of
religion's transformation into worldwide mass movements, and to grasp the
key role of religion in creating a global public sphere that was conditioned
by international politics, but in turn also refashioned the international
system.

Key Words: globalization . history of Catholicism . international relations
. religious history

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Subject: Online Monograph, Hepburn,
Catholic Belfast and Nationalist Ireland in the Era of Joe
Devlin, 1871-1934
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One of the new items on the Oxford Scholarship Online Monographs web =
site,
this has turned up in our alerts.

P.O'S.

Author: Hepburn, A.C.

Source: Catholic Belfast and Nationalist Ireland in the Era of Joe =
Devlin,
1871-1934, July 2008 , pp. i-308(309)

Publisher: Oxford Scholarship Online Monographs

Abstract:
The Irish revolution of 1916-23 is generally regarded as a success. It =
was a
disastrous failure, however, for the Catholic and nationalist minority =
in
what became Northern Ireland. It resulted in partition, a discriminatory
majoritarian regime and, more recently, a generation of renewed violence =
and
a decade of political impasse. It is often suggested that the blame for =
this
outcome rests not only on `perfidious Albion' and the `bigotry' of =
Ulster
Unionism but also on the constitutional nationalist leaders, John =
Redmond,
John Dillon, and Joe Devlin. This book argues that, on the contrary, the =
era
of violence provoked by Sinn F=E9in's 1918 general election victory was =
the
primary cause of partition so far as actions on the nationalist side =
were
concerned. The book also suggests that the exclusively Catholic Ancient
Order of Hibernians was in fact less sectarian than Sinn F=E9in, and =
that
Devlin's practical contribution to the improvement of working-class
conditions was more substantial than that of his republican socialist
contemporaries. Too much Irish history has been written from the =
standpoint
of the winners. This book, as well as detailing the life of an important =
but
neglected individual in the context of a social history of Catholic =
Belfast,
offers a general re-interpretation of Irish political history between =
the
1890s and the 1930s from the perspective of the losers.

Keywords: John Redmond; Irish Revolution; John Dillon; Catholic Ancient
Order of Hibernians; Albion; Sinn F=E9in; Joe Devlin; Ulster Unionism

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Subject: Article, Philosophers and practical men: Charles Babbage,
Irish merchants and the economics of information
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Quite a technical piece of work within the sub-discipline of economic
thought - but the examples are taken from the early C19th Parliamentary
inquiry into the Irish linen industry.

P.O'S.

Philosophers and practical men: Charles Babbage, Irish merchants and the
economics of information

Authors: Geary, Frank; Prendergast, Renee

Source: European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Volume 15,
Number 4, December 2008 , pp. 571-594(24)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:
Before the emergence of coordination of production by firms, manufacturers
and merchants traded in markets with asymmetric information. Evidence
suggests that the practical knowledge thus gained by these agents was well
in advance of contemporary political economists and anticipates
twentieth-century developments in the economics of information. Charles
Babbage, who regarded merchants and manufacturers as the chief sources of
reliable economic data, drew on this knowledge as revealed in the evidence
of manufacturers and merchants presented to House of Commons select
committees to make an important pioneering contribution to the theory of
production and exchange with information asymmetries.

Keywords: Information; quality; verification; reputation; trust

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/09672560802480922

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Subject: Article, The Museum of Irish Industry,
Robert Kane and education for all in the Dublin of the 1850s and
1860s
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This article first appeared on the journal web site in 2007, and has now
been assigned a place in the print version of the journal. It is all a bit
confusing - but I guess that this now becomes the preferred citation.

P.O'S.

The Museum of Irish Industry, Robert Kane and education for all in the
Dublin of the 1850s and 1860s

Author: Cullen, Clara1

Source: History of Education, Volume 38, Number 1, January 2009, pp.
99-113(15)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:
The Museum of Irish Industry in Dublin, in its short existence (1845-1867)
facilitated the access of ordinary people to popular scientific education,
became a cause celebre and was defended by popular protest when the
government recommended its abolition in 1862. Its Director, Sir Robert Kane
(1809-1890) was not only an advocate of popular industrial education but
also had a lifelong commitment to 'united' (or non-denominational) education
believing that only this type of education would achieve the ultimate result
of tolerance, religious peace and national prosperity in Ireland. From 1854
a Government School of Science was part of the museum's educational
activities and from 1854 to 1867 the professors attached to the museum
offered courses of lectures, both 'popular' and formal courses, on physics,
chemistry, botany, zoology and geology, and in applied science. With its
exhibition collections, its laboratories and the range of educational
courses organised by its staff the museum was one of the British
government's most innovative experiments in education in Victorian Ireland.
Beyond this, Kane's determination that the courses offered by the museum
would be available to all, with no distinction of creed or gender,
distinguishes this institution as a pioneer in providing equal access to
scientific education to all in the mid-nineteenth century. This article will
explore the role this unique education played in the educational and social
life of mid-Victorian Dublin.

Keywords: education; Ireland; history; science; women

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/00467600701482138

Affiliations: 1: School of History and Archives, University College Dublin,
Belfield, Dublin

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Subject: Article, The Scholar Recalls the Child,
The Difference Girlhood Studies Makes
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Girlhood Studies is a new journal, and this is the first time that this
journal has turned up in our alerts. And the trouble with new journals is
that none of my scheming ways can get access to the journal. Anyway...
Here is the reference...

P.O'S.


The Scholar Recalls the Child
The Difference Girlhood Studies Makes

Author: Sullivan, Megan

Source: Girlhood Studies, Volume 1, Number 2, Winter 2008 , pp. 95-107(13)

Publisher: Berghahn Journals


Abstract:
In this article I analyze fiction and non-fiction using the critical lens or
methodology of Girlhood Studies. I re-examine my published writing on Irish
writer Mary Beckett and Irish-American author Lucy Grealy to demonstrate how
feminist scholars can read differently. I argue that in my initial readings
of the aforementioned texts I neglected the girl in the story, because I was
concerned about the woman the female character would become. Finally, I also
argue that feminist scholars should mine their own childhood experiences for
insight into the study of girls. I provide an excerpt from my memoir in
progress to demonstrate how this might be accomplished.

Keywords: ILLNESS; CHILDHOOD; MARY BECKETT; LUCY GREALY; FICTION AND
NON-FICTION; CLASS; GENDER; LITERARY CRITICISM

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.3167/ghs.2008.010206

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We have received a number of news items about the global economic crisis and
Ireland. I am not against distributing such items via the Ir-D list, though
at the moment I feel that our core scholarly work is keeping the Ir-D list
busy enough. Of course it does look as if the crisis is going to be bad
everywhere...

It has been interesting to see how slow the scholarly journals are to
reflect, and comment on, events out in the real world. Reading them often
feels unreal. We are still getting comment on the Celtic Tiger, when we
would really expect to see something about the Celtic Ostrich.

Anyway... Just to acknowledge that we are not totally ignoring the real
world...

P.O'S.

--
Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

Email Patrick O'Sullivan Email Patrick
O'Sullivan Personal Fax 0044 (0) 709 236 9050

Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/
Irish Diaspora Net
http://www.irishdiaspora.net

Irish Diaspora Research Unit
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BD7 1DP Yorkshire England

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so long as it doesn't become the Celtic Dodo. fingers crossed!
=20
Dr Anthony McNicholas
CAMRI
University of Westminster
Watford Road
Harrow
HA1 3TP
0118 948 6164 (BBC WAC)
Editor, Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture

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To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] Economies and economics



We have received a number of news items about the global economic crisis =
and
Ireland. I am not against distributing such items via the Ir-D list, =
though
at the moment I feel that our core scholarly work is keeping the Ir-D =
list
busy enough. Of course it does look as if the crisis is going to be bad
everywhere...

It has been interesting to see how slow the scholarly journals are to
reflect, and comment on, events out in the real world. Reading them =
often
feels unreal. We are still getting comment on the Celtic Tiger, when we
would really expect to see something about the Celtic Ostrich.

Anyway... Just to acknowledge that we are not totally ignoring the real
world...

P.O'S.

--
Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

Email Patrick O'Sullivan Email Patrick
O'Sullivan Personal Fax 0044 (0) 709 236 =
9050

Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/
Irish Diaspora Net
http://www.irishdiaspora.net =20

Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Social Sciences and Humanities University of Bradford =
Bradford
BD7 1DP Yorkshire England





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Coach Fellas: Heritage and Tourism in Ireland
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From web site...

http://www.lcoastpress.com/index.php

Coach Fellas
Heritage and Tourism in Ireland
Kelli Ann Costa
200 pp. / 6.00 x 9.00 / Apr, 2009
Hardback (978-1-59874-406-4)
Paperback (978-1-59874-407-1)
Available Apr, 2009

The Coach Fellas are known to almost all tourists who traverse the Irish
countryside. Ostensibly bus drivers, they are also the tour guides who
provide the crucial component in the branding of "people, place, and pace"
upon which Irish heritage tourism depends. Kelli Costa's ethnography of
these highly-trained and informed working class men highlights a previously
ignored component of the tourism industry. She also demonstrates their
importance in providing a visitor-specific vision of heritage that contrasts
with the realities of contemporary economic development.

http://www.lcoastpress.com/book.php?id=210

Left Coast Author: Kelli Ann Costa

Kelli Ann Costa received her PhD in 1998 from the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst where she studied archaeology, heritage and
tourism. She was a professor of anthropology at Franklin Pierce College in
New Hampshire for ten years before taking a Fulbright Fellowship at the
Dublin Institute of Technology in 2006. Now residing in Ireland, Kelli
remains associated with the Dublin Institute of Technology and involved in
the Irish tourism industry. She conducts accredited college tours of
Ireland's archaeological heritage sites, is busy with research, and lives in
the Midlands surrounded by the people and places she loves.

Shown below are all our current books for Kelli Ann Costa.

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{decoded}Thanks for this Paddy.

You are so right about the disconnect between the journals and the real world. I have also had to delete large parts of my last year's lecture notes, with their confident predictions of a buoyant economy, ongoing immigration, emigration as a phenomenon of the past and the grasping by the Government, however timidly, of the nettle of integration policy.

We are now the least creditworthy state in the EU, just below Greece. Government expenditure this year will be ¬60bn, income is projected at ¬40bn. Unemployment in 2004 was 4.3%, it's now about 9% and may hit anywhere between 12-14% or worse by year's end. One bank, Anglo Irish, has been nationalised and two more (the main two), AIB and Bank of Ireland, are in serious trouble. The Government is about to raid the national pension fund in order to recapitalise the banks for a second time, while simultaneously levying up to 10% on public sector pay to meet pension costs. The Government is quite extraordinarily and frighteningly inept. Thousands of jobs are being lost every week. The property speculators and bankers who are largely responsible for the indigenous part of this crisis - there is of course an international dimension but we have made it greatly worse, all on our own - are untouched; most are close to the main party in power and there is a strong view that the taxpayer will end up paying for their actions.

The worst-case scenario would be for the state to default on its sovereign debt; this is not that likely but no longer unimaginable. Meanwhile the country is in meltdown. The current joke is 'what is the difference between Iceland and Ireland?'. Answer: one letter and about six months.

Here on campus all salaries, increments and promotions are frozen, no retirement posts are being filled, contract staff are being let go and departmental budgets have been raided and clawed back. Further severe cutbacks are inevitable.

The next hurdle will be to see whether Ireland's international credit rating slips below AAA later this week. Already it costs twice as much for Ireland Inc to borrow money as Germany pays, although we belong to the same eurozone. Private debt is also extraordinarily high, including the excessive mortages incurred by people paying frankly ridiculous prices in a spiral of property speculation driven upwards by people bidding against each other with money borrowed elsewhere in the eurozone.

The Celtic Tiger is dead and we have all crashed to earth in the most painful fashion imaginable.

I've been a public servant of one kind or another since 1976. No crisis in that period even comes close to this one.

I know that almost everyone on this list lives in countries also experiencing several economic difficulties. In Ireland's case, hubris, mismanagement, corruption and living way beyond our collective means (although not every person did) have made a bad situation unimaginably worse.

Piaras


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We have received a number of news items about the global economic crisis and
Ireland. I am not against distributing such items via the Ir-D list, though
at the moment I feel that our core scholarly work is keeping the Ir-D list
busy enough. Of course it does look as if the crisis is going to be bad
everywhere...

It has been interesting to see how slow the scholarly journals are to
reflect, and comment on, events out in the real world. Reading them often
feels unreal. We are still getting comment on the Celtic Tiger, when we
would really expect to see something about the Celtic Ostrich.

Anyway... Just to acknowledge that we are not totally ignoring the real
world...

P.O'S.

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Who looks like the smartest man in Ireland right now? Bertie Ahern: got =
Out just at the right moment and won't get blamed.

Peter Hart

Quoting "MacEinri, Piaras" :

> Thanks for this Paddy.=20
>=20
> You are so right about the disconnect between the journals and the real
> world. I have also had to delete large parts of my last year's lecture =
notes,
> with their confident predictions of a buoyant economy, ongoing immigrat=
ion,
> emigration as a phenomenon of the past and the grasping by the Governme=
nt,
> however timidly, of the nettle of integration policy.=20
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Subject: Book Review,
Letters across Borders: The Epistolary Practices of International
Migrants
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The English Historical Review 2009 CXXIV(506):211-212;
doi:10.1093/ehr/cen412

Letters across Borders: The Epistolary Practices of International =
Migrants
Marjory Harper=20

University of Aberdeen=20

Letters across Borders: The Epistolary Practices of International =
Migrants,
ed. Bruce S. Elliott, David A. Gerber and Suzanne M. Sinke (Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006; pp. 315. =A345).

Opening paragraph

'Migrant letters are a minefield, but a minefield that must be navigated =
by
historians who seek=97as many do=97to utilise them in their =
investigations of
the motives and experiences of international settlers and sojourners. =
If, as
Donald Akenson once suggested, such letters are an unknown subset of a
universe the perimeters of which are themselves unknown, the task of
subjecting them to meaningful analysis might seem to be well nigh
impossible. Perhaps that is why=97with the exception of Charlotte =
Erickson's
ground-breaking work in the 1970s=97rigorous scholarly studies of the =
genre of
the migrant letter have been largely absent from the historiography of
migration....'

Conclusion

'Hidden agendas, multi-layered meanings and untapped potential are among =
the
major recurring themes of this richly textured and rigorously researched
collection. It is a long overdue addition to the historiography of =
migration
and should be obligatory reading for every historian who seeks to get to
grips with the pitfalls and rewards of interpreting personal
correspondence.'

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Beyond Revisionism? Some Recent Contributions to the Study of
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The English Historical Review Advance Access originally published online =
on
January 15, 2009=20

The English Historical Review 2009 CXXIV(506):94-107; =
doi:10.1093/ehr/cen341


=A9 The Author [2009]. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights
reserved.=20
Beyond Revisionism? Some Recent Contributions to the Study of Modern
Ireland*

Brian Girvin=20

University of Glasgow

Books Reviewed...=20

Ireland: The Politics of Enmity 1789-2006. By Paul Bew (Oxford: Oxford =
U.P.,
2007; pp. 613. =A335);=20

Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000. By R.f. Foster
(London: Allen Lane, 2007; pp. 228. =A320);=20

Se=E1n MacBride: A Life. By Elizabeth Keane (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, =
2007;
pp. 311. =A324.99);=20

The Irish Labour Party: 1922-73. By Niamh Puirs=E9il (Dublin: U.C. =
Dublin P.,
2007; pp. 400. =A342; pb. =A318.95);=20

Preventing the Future: Why was Ireland So Poor for So Long? By Tom =
Garvin
(Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 2004; pp. 278. Pb. =A313.99);=20

Judging Dev: A Reassessment of the Life and Legacy of Eamon de Valera. =
By
Diarmaid Ferriter (Dublin: Royal Irish Academy P., 2007; pp. 396. =
=A332.50).

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Journal of British Studies 48 (January 2009): 51=E2=80=9375

=C2=A9 2009 by The North American Conference on British Studies.

Sc=C3=A9al Grinn? Jokes, Puns, and the Shaping of Bilingualism in =
Nineteenth Century Ireland

Nicholas Wolf

Extract
'... The rarity of evidence referring to language shift from a popular =
perspective makes it all the more striking that one of the richest =
sources for the linguistic history of Ireland lies in folk humor. =
Anecdotes or jokes centering on the linguistic misunderstandings of a =
foolish character circulated extensively in oral form throughout this =
period. The Irish scholar Robert MacAdam recorded one such story in 1847 =
in county Meath about two Irish=E2=80=90speakers visiting a town market =
who engage an English=E2=80=90speaker in a conversation about local =
events. Struggling to make out the meaning of the English phrases, the =
Irish speakers mistake the English word =E2=80=9Cagony=E2=80=9D for the =
homophonous Irish word eagnaidheacht (argue, dispute), creating a =
humorous misinterpretation of an otherwise tragic story of a =
child=E2=80=99s death.4 Humorous stories about attempts to use English =
have been found in a string of tales about the adventures of a Connemara =
hackler, which were originally recorded in Irish by an Irish American =
born in county Galway in 1832 and recently edited and published by Nancy =
Stenson.5 The Irish scholar Douglas Hyde encountered a number of such =
stories when he collected oral source material in the last decades of =
the nineteenth century in Galway and Mayo, and he reportedly had found a =
Leinster story about the stupidity of Connacht migrant laborers in a =
Meath manuscript written in 1851. The language revivalist David Comyn =
also found and published a few examples in the 1880s, presumably taken =
from popular sources.6

The prevalence of these jokes in Irish popular culture can be gauged =
from the number of them collected by the Irish Folklore Commission in =
the 1930s and 1940s from oral sources...'

Nicholas Wolf is Western Civilization Postdoctoral Fellow in the =
Department of History and Art History at George Mason University. He =
gratefully acknowledges the kind permission of the Delargy Centre for =
Irish Folklore and S=C3=A9amas =C3=93 Cath=C3=A1in, the director of the =
National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin, to reproduce =
material. He thanks Emer N=C3=AD Cheallaigh, Chriost=C3=B3ir Mac =
C=C3=A1rthaigh, Jonny Dillon, Nancy Stenson, James Leary, Margaret =
Kelleher, Anna Clark, the journal=E2=80=99s two anonymous reviewers, and =
the participants of the Newberry Library Seminar in Rural History for =
their advice in preparing this article.