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Metropolitan Surveillance and Rural Opacity: Secret Photography
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The work of Gail Baylis in developing the history of photography is now
becoming visible in the research record. See also

magining/imaged Irishness: photography and Irish cultural memory',
Eigeartaigh, A., K. Hoard and D. Getty (eds), Rethinking Diasporas: Hidden
Narratives and Imagined Borders, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007

P.O'S.


Metropolitan Surveillance and Rural Opacity: Secret Photography in
Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Author: Baylis, Gail

Source: History of Photography, Volume 33, Number 1, February 2009 , pp.
26-38(13)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis GroupAuthor: Baylis, Gail


Abstract:
This essay considers the significance of the Foucaultian notion of
surveillance in accounts of the history of photography, raising the question
whether Ireland's colonial placement during the nineteenth century led to a
different history of the medium. The study focuses on Irish Special Branch's
adoption of secret photography during the latter part of the nineteenth
century in order to determine why this type of photography was considered
useful. It also pays attention to the types of photographs collected by the
Branch. The writer situates Special Branch's adoption of secret photography
within a visual economy in Ireland where an alternative type of imagery
(commercially produced eviction photographs) was employed to construct a
different register for what constituted legitimacy and lawlessness. In
addition, emphasis is placed on the role of photography in Ireland within a
larger discursive framework of colonial policy making. Visibility is crucial
to the Foucaultian model, and the failure to embed such signs in both the
photographs produced and collected by Special Branch indicates that it was
possible to produce lacunae in the power/knowledge paradigm. The writer
concludes that the history of the deployment of secret photography in
Ireland reveals how it failed to produce the required visual signs needed to
win consent for control.

Keywords: Irish Special Branch; secret photography; the Land Wars;
evictions; centres and periphery; Michel Foucault (1926-1984); surveillance;
photographic theory

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The Popularity of Irish Theme Pubs in Contemporary Australia: A
Legacy of Irish Migration
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I do not have access to this article, and cannot report on its merits...

P.O'S.

The Popularity of Irish Theme Pubs in Contemporary Australia: A Legacy of
Irish Migration

Author: O'Mahony, Barry

Source: Tourism Culture & Communication, Volume 9, Numbers 1-2, 2009 , pp.
115-123(9)

Publisher: Cognizant Communication Corporation

Abstract:
With increasing flows of economic, social, and cultural migration an
understanding of the contribution of migrants to host societies is central
to social stability. This study uses a series of qualitative research
techniques to uncover a connection between the popularity of contemporary
Irish theme pubs in Melbourne and early Irish migration to Australia. The
history of Irish migrants within the hospitality industry in Melbourne and
Victoria during the mid- to late 1800s is reported upon and the study
concludes that the recent popularity of Irish theme pubs within the
Australian community is supported by a cultural resonance based on familiar
themes and deeply ingrained notions of Irishness and the Irish Australian
colonial experience.

Keywords: MIGRATION; IRISH; IRISH THEME PUBS; AUSTRALIA

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Subject: Oxford Scholarship Online Monographs: O'Connell, Sean,
Credit and Community
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This volume has turned up in our alerts. Chapter 7 - see abstract below -
would seem to be of special interest.

P.O'S.

Author: O'Connell, Sean

Source: Credit and Community, January 2009 , pp. i-306(307)

Publisher: Oxford Scholarship Online Monographs



Abstract:
This book examines credit in working class communities since 1880, focusing
on forms of borrowing that were dependent on personal relationships and
social networks. It provides an extended historical discussion of credit
unions, legal and illegal moneylenders (loan sharks), and looks at the
concept of `financial exclusion'. Initially, the book focuses on the history
of tallymen, check traders, and their eventual movement into moneylending
following the loss of their more affluent customers, due to increased
spending power and an increasingly liberalized credit market. They also
faced growing competition from mail order companies operating through
networks of female agents, whose success owed much to the reciprocal
cultural and economic conventions that lay at the heart of traditional
working class credit relationships. Discussion of these forms of credit is
related to theoretical debates about cultural aspects of credit exchange
that ensured the continuing success of such forms of lending, despite
persistent controversies about their use. The book contrasts commercial
forms of credit with formal and informal co-operative alternatives, such as
the mutuality clubs operated by co-operative retailers and credit unions. It
charts the impact of post-war immigration upon credit patterns, particularly
in relation to the migrant (Irish and Caribbean) origins of many credit
unions and explains the relative lack of success of the credit union
movement. The book contributes to anti-debt debates by exploring the
historical difficulties of developing legislation in relation to the
millions of borrowers who have patronized what has come to be termed the
sub-prime sector.

Keywords: mail order; moneylenders; tallymen; co-operative retailers; check
traders; loan sharks; debt; credit unions; credit; financial exclusion


7. Renewed Hope for Mutuality: Credit Unions

Author: O'Connell, Sean

Source: Credit and Community, January 2009 , pp. 238-286(49)

Publisher: Oxford Scholarship Online Monographs

Abstract:
This chapter charts the history of credit unions and their arrival in
Britain during the 1960s. Initially championed as equitable alternatives to
moneylenders and vehicles through which to renew community, by the 1990s
their low membership levels produced pessimistic assessments of their
ability to do either. The essential role of the Catholic Church and Orange
Order in providing trust and the common bond in successful Irish credit
unions is explained, as is the role of Irish and Caribbean immigrants in
Britain. The latter turned to credit unions in response to financial
exclusion. The Credit Union Act 1979, produced much optimism, but economic
recession and credit liberalization in the 1980s were inopportune
developments. Thereafter, philosophical splits and failure to build
economically viable community credit unions dogged the movement and it had
little impact on the sub-prime market. The conclusion to this chapter
assesses the potential impact of `new model' credit unions.

Keywords: sub-prime market; community; common bond; Credit Union Act;
financial exclusion; Ireland; Orange Order; Catholic Church

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Fianna Fail and the Spanish civil war 1936-1939: The rhetoric of hegemony
and equilibrium

Author: Mcnally, Mark1

Source: Journal of Political Ideologies, Volume 14, Number 1, February 2009
, pp. 69-91(23)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:
The Fianna Fail Government's management of the crisis that broke out in
Irish politics in 1930s Ireland over the Spanish Civil War and its policy of
Non-intervention has usually been viewed in one of two ways. On the one
hand, it has been claimed that the Party adopted a robust neutral position
and faced down the widespread discontent that existed among a significant
pro-Franco Catholic lobby. On the other, it has been argued that its
reaction was much more pro-Franco than the above interpretation suggests,
doing all in its power to conduct and present its policy as conducive to the
Spanish Nationalists. This article challenges both these interpretations by
focusing on the Party's ideological and rhetorical strategy and deploying
the Gramscian categories of hegemony and equilibrium in order to reveal the
complex and integral strategy that Fianna Fail embarked on to transcend this
crisis and maintain its supremacy in Irish politics.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/13569310802639640

Affiliations: 1: Department of Government, University of Essex, Colchester,
UK

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The Connor/O'Connor family were a fascinating, not to say very eccentric, crowd, who
made their mark, not only in Ireland, but in England, France, Bolivia and Australia
as well. I've recently read Larry Geary's interesting article about them:

L.M. Geary, 'From Connerville, Co. Cork, to Connorville, Van Diemen's Land: the
Irish Family Background and Colonial Career of Roderic O'Connor, 1786/7-1860' in
L.M. Geary and A.J. McCarthy (eds), 'Ireland, Australia and New Zealand: History,
Politics and Culture', Dublin and Portland, OR: Irish Academic Press, 2008, pp.
152-69.

Elizabeth
__________________________________________________
Professor Elizabeth Malcolm

Gerry Higgins Chair of Irish Studies
School of Historical Studies ~ University of Melbourne ~ Victoria, 3010, AUSTRALIA
Phone: +61-3-83443924 ~ Email: e.malcolm[at]unimelb.edu.au

President
Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand (ISAANZ)
Website: http://isaanz.org
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There has been an interesting exchange in the latest issue of Ethnicities -
and of course we have to be aware of US debates and models, even if we are
not, as it were, plugged into them. This is my image of the migrant
crossing borders, and the borders of discourses...

Yiorgos Anagnostou questions what he calls the 'influential sociological
paradigm' of ' symbolic ethnicity' - looking especially at...

Gans, H. (1979) `Symbolic Ethnicity: The Future of Ethnic Groups and
Cultures in America', Ethnic and Racial Studies 2(1): 1-20.

Waters, M. (1990) Ethnic Options: Choosing Identities in America. Berkeley
and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Of course Herbert Gans and Mary Waters are still around, and still active -
and have exercised the right to reply. Gans is chuffed to see a 1979
article still provoking comment. One of Mary Waters' starting points is her
own Irish American background.

P.O'S.


Yiorgos Anagnostou
A critique of symbolic ethnicity: The ideology of choice?
Ethnicities 2009 9: 94-122

This article undertakes a critical analysis of symbolic ethnicity, an
influential sociological paradigm of white ethnicity in the US. It
highlights a fundamental contradiction that is present in the work of one of
its most influential proponents, sociologist Mary Waters: the simultaneous
affirmation and negation of the operation of choice in the making of ethnic
identities, followed by the methodological neglect of the cultural
production of identity. The article argues that this methodological
oversight embeds symbolic ethnicity in a wider discourse on choice as a
constitutive element of American identity. Also, it shows how the
privileging of choice makes it possible to achieve a vision of American
multiculturalism based on the dialectical synthesis of two historically
competing ideologies: the concept of America as a melting pot and a cultural
mosaic. Showing that symbolic ethnicity conflates culture, identity and
ancestry, and noting that it undervalues the social valence of white
ethnicity, the article concludes with a discussion of how to recover ethnic
identity analytically as an enduring, politically significant disposition
and practice.

Key Words: American multiculturalism . assimilation and diversity . ethnic
identity . symbolic ethnicity . white ethnicity

Herbert J. Gans
Reflections on symbolic ethnicity: A response to Y. Anagnostou
Ethnicities 2009 9: 123-130

Mary C. Waters
Social science and ethnic options
Ethnicities 2009 9: 130-135.

Yiorgos Anagnostou
About facts and fictions: Reply to Herbert Gans and Mary Waters
Ethnicities 2009 9: 136-140.

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IASIL 2009 conference at the University of Glasgow
Monday 27th July =96 Friday 31st July
Irish Literatures =96 World Perspectives

The call for papers is now live on the web.

Here is the short notice to lead you to the CFP:
=A0
IASIL 2009 - Glasgow - 27th to 31st July 2009

Full details as to how to propose a paper are now live on the=20
conference website.

http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/IASIL2009/proposal.htm

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Subject: Professor Donna Gabaccia at University of Warwick,
May 5th to 14th, 2009
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Forwarded on behalf of
Paola Toninato, Department of Italian, University of Warwick


Dear=A0all,=20
=A0
In early May, the University of Warwick will be hosting Professor Donna
Gabaccia (Minnesota) as a Visiting Fellow in the Institute of Advanced
Study. You are warmly invited to attend=A0any of the=A0events listed =
below.
Please email any inquiries to: P.Toninato[at]warwick.ac.uk=20
=A0
Best wishes,
=A0
Paola Toninato, Department of Italian, University of Warwick
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Professor Donna Gabaccia at Warwick=A0
May 5th to 14th, 2009
=A0
Programme
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Week 1
Tuesday 5th May, 10.30-12.30
Symposium: Diaspora Studies and Diasporic Identities: Italians and =
Others
Speakers: Donna Gabaccia (Minnesota), Stefano Luconi (Florence). Main
discussant: Robin Cohen (Oxford)
Venue: Social Studies Building. Room S0.13

Friday 8th May, 1-6pm
Workshop: Interrogating the usefulness of the diaspora paradigm for the
study of migrant, transnational and postcolonial cultures and =
literatures
Detailed programme to follow
Venue: Humanities Building. Room H0.60

Week 2
Monday 11th May, 5.30-7pm
Seminar: Gender and Theory in an Interdisciplinary Field: International
Migration Studies
Venue: Ramphal Building. Room R3.25

Wednesday 13th May, 5-7pm
Public lecture: Imagining Nations of Immigrants
Venue: Humanities Building. Room H0.52
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Thursday 14th May, 3-5pm
Seminar: Do Words Matter? The History of Ideas meets the Digital Archive
Venue: Ramphal Building. Rooms R0.03/4=20

ALL WELCOME=A0

These events have been=A0organised by the Warwick Institute of Advanced =
Study,
in collaboration with=A0the Department of Italian and the Social Theory =
Centre
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The following item has been brought to our attention...

P.O'S.

Diaspora deserves greater recognition from State

Instead of viewing Irish communities abroad as commodities, we must
acknowledge the great contribution that they have made to their
country, writes SARAH CAREY

Instead of viewing Irish communities abroad as commodities, we must
acknowledge the great contribution that they have made to their country,
writes SARAH CAREY

COUNTY MEATH never suffered from mass emigration. We didn't even have much
in the way of a famine here and that has left a curious legacy. The poorest
western counties that experienced the great exoduses now have the richest
associations in the cities to which their people flocked. As St Patrick's
Day approaches and the floats representing Mayo, Roscommon or Cavan are
being assembled in London, Manchester, New York or Boston, there is a great
constituency available to provide logistical and financial support. There
are building and earth-moving companies to provide shiny low-loaders and
forty foots for the float. There's sponsorship for glittering banners, brass
bands and plenty of volunteers to march. They can put on a great face and
are rightly proud.

Not so for the couple of dozen members of the Meath Association who have to
struggle to put together a float for the London parade. There are no bands,
no twirling batons and no uniforms. They made a breakthrough two years ago
when they managed to get a white pick-up truck onto which they could put a
lone St Patrick. Observers weren't able to identify the small group until
the urban councils in Meath found a few shekels to buy them a decent county
banner. It takes four of them to carry it and they do so with immense pride.

What never fails to surprise my father are the looks on their faces when he
shows up each year to join them in the parade. He's a Meath county
councillor and his duties back in Enfield permitting, he's one of the
regular official representatives at the Hyde Park parade. He can never get
over how happy they are to see him. "Me!" he exclaims. "Me" being a
comfortable-shoe wearing small businessman from a village of little import.

Poor "me" is so accustomed to being the subject of derision at home that the
delight he encounters abroad comes as a terrible shock.

FULL TEXT AT

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0304/1224242229107.html

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Email Patrick O'Sullivan

As Saint Patrick's Day approaches...

We receive notice of very many events throughout the world celebrating - or
whatever - the national day...

A google search for Saint Patrick's Day will give 15 million hits -
including (a new thing, I think) a significant number of specific content
chasing, web scraping, ad-supported sites, listing Saint Patrick's Day
events......

If there is some real scholarly content in any of these we might share it
with the Irish Diaspora list - since we do like to know who is talking about
what, and where. But we should not allow the Ir-D list to get swamped.

On the other hand, if you see something interesting...

I suppose I should raise this question: Should we revive the traditional
Irish Diaspora list Saint Patrick's Day competition?

P.O'S.

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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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Subject: RE: [IR-D] As Saint Patrick's Day approaches...
From: "Brian Lambkin"

Yes indeed Paddy. A highlight of the year, even for those of us who are
no good at that sort of thing!
Brian

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As Saint Patrick's Day approaches...

...I suppose I should raise this question: Should we revive the
Traditional Irish Diaspora list Saint Patrick's Day competition?

P.O'S.

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Dear Paddy
Reviving the competition would be interesting but will depend upon whether =
you have time.
I also think it would be good to circulate a dedicated list of recent works=
on the topic of SPD/ celebrations. Cronin and Adair offers the best starti=
ng point and has prompted a good deal of additional work:=20

I note that you promoted Susan Kelly's work on Dundee a few weeks ago (Susa=
n Kelly St.Patrick's Day in Dundee c.1850-1900: a contested Irish instituti=
on in a=20
Scottish context, in IRELAND AND SCOTLAND IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY edited =
by Frank Ferguson & James McConnell. I have a chapter on St Patrick's day i=
n the NE of England due out in April (Joan Allen and Richard C Allen (eds),=
Faith of Our Fathers: Popular culture and belief in post reformation Engla=
nd, Ireland and Wales (CSP, Newcastle)

Other interesting work I can think of include Marie-Claire Considere-Charon=
, Philippe Laplac and Michel Savaric (eds) The Irish Celebrating: festive a=
nd tragic overtones (CSP, Newcastle, 2008); T.G.Fraser(ed), The Irish Parad=
ing Tradition: following the drum (Macmillan, 2000)

Best wishes
Joan

Dr Joan Allen
Senior Lecturer in Modern British History
Armstrong Building
University of Newcastle
NE1 7RU
Tel 0191 222 6701
Editor, Labour History Review

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Paddy, this news item may be interesting to the list.
Thank you and best wishes,
Edmundo

Dear IR-D list members,

SILAS General Meeting has appointed the Executive Committee Members and =
Auditor for the period 2009-2012. The following candidates have been =
elected or re-elected:

Claire Healy, President=20
John Kennedy, Vice-President=20
Andr=E9s Romera, Secretary=20
Gera Burton, Treasurer=20
Hilda Sabato, Director=20
Sharon Newman, Director=20
Juan Pablo Alvarez, Director=20
Mary Harris, Director=20
Maureen Murphy, Director=20
Mariela Eliggi, Director=20
Carolina Barry, Auditor=20

Their mandate commences on 1 May 2009. You can consult their profiles in =
the SILAS website: http://www.irlandeses.org/ec2009-2012.htm

Edmundo Murray
The Secretary
Society for Irish Latin American Studies

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The Quiet Men=09
11 March-18 April 2009 =09
London-Irish art exhibition, PM Gallery Pitzhanger Manor, Ealing

Bernard Canavan =09
Daniel Carmody =09
John Duffin =09
Dermot Holland =09
Brian Whelan =20

Private View: Tuesday 10 March 2009 6pm-9pm

FIVE ARTISTS EXAMINE THE EXPERIENCE OF MALE IRISH IMMIGRANTS=20
TO BRITAIN IN THE 20TH CENTURY=20

29 January 2009 - The Quiet Men is a new exhibition curated by Brian =
Whelan
and PM Gallery, featuring the work of artists drawing upon their own =
lives
to depict the London-Irish experience. It runs from 11 March-18 April =
2009
at PM Gallery, the extension to architect Sir John Soane=92s home, =
Pitzhanger
Manor in Ealing, west London.

The first major contemporary London-Irish art exhibition to explore this
subject, The Quiet Men features paintings and etchings by Brian Whelan,
Dermot Holland, John Duffin, Bernard Canavan and the late Daniel =
Carmody.
The exhibition premieres at PM Gallery prior to an international tour, =
which
will see The Quiet Men travel to Spain, Philadelphia and Chicago between
2009 and 2011.

Each featured artist is an immigrant, or child of immigrants, from =
Ireland.
This immigrant status informs the work, which observes the margins of
society and is full of stories, humour and tragedy. The church and pub
appear, as do the launderette, bus and train. The theme of the journey =
is
often present in the songs, toasts, poems and prayers of the immigrant =
and
the artists do not stray far from the vehicles that brought them to the =
city
and might take them away again.=20

Featured artist and exhibition curator, Brian Whelan, said =91Irish =
music,
literature, poetry and dance are celebrated all over the world. However,
when asked to bring to mind Irish paintings, sculpture or architecture =
or to
name an artist, many will have difficulty as very few have been =
celebrated
outside Ireland. One reason for this may be that a people that =
experienced
famine, war, economic hardship and mass immigration, carried only their
portable culture with them in their heads, hearts and suitcases. Poems =
and
songs have few requirements short of a good memory or the ability to =
carry a
tune, whereas painting, sculpture and architecture are less portable and
need peace, prosperity and time in order to flourish.=92

VISITOR INFORMATION=20
Exhibition Dates: 11 March-18 April 2009. Admission is free to all =
visitors
Opening Times: Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm; Saturday 11am-5pm

For further information www.ealing.gov.uk/pmgalleryandhouse, 020 8567 =
1227
or email Zo=EB Archer at zarcher[at]ealing.gov.uk

Exhibition curator tour & talk: Friday 20 March 2009 at 7pm. Artist =
Brian
Whelan leads a tour of the exhibition, followed by a presentation of
dramatic images and anecdotes of Irish labourers on site and in the pubs =
and
ballrooms of London, by Irish historian Ultan Cowley, author of 'The Men =
Who
Built Britain'.=20

Please telephone 020 8567 1227 for more information.
PM Gallery & Pitzhanger Manor, Walpole Park, Mattock Lane, Ealing, =
London,
W5 5EQ
Travel: Trains & tube to Ealing Broadway. Buses 207, 65 & 83.

-ends-

Notes to Editors: 1. Bernard Canavan paints his own experience using the
skills of a great storyteller. Leaving Ireland in 1959 from County =
Longford,
he endured many of the hardships of the immigrant Irish of the 50=92s =
and
60=92s. His paintings will strike deep into the heart of anyone who =
shared
this experience. He paints the docks, the boat train, the dingy digs, =
the
pick, the drill and the shovel with the psychological intensity and
tenderness of an empathetic witness.=20

Daniel Carmody =91is probably the only artist who authentically manages =
to
capture the rawness and soreness of being Irish and living in London=92
(Rosalind Scanlon, Director of the Irish Centre in Hammersmith). Carmody
came to London from Galway at the age of 17 and worked in the building
trade, first digging trenches and then learning bricklaying. He was
prolific, and largely untrained, using all the materials he found around
him. His subject was the life he knew as an immigrant labourer in Camden
Town: the pubs, churches, bookies, cafes, working men=92s clubs and the =
High
Street. Daniel Carmody took his own life in 2004.

John Duffin captures the enigma of the city, in ink, paper and paint, =
with
economy and grace. He invites us to consider our lives as dreams, =
complete
with all the disorientation an immigrant might experience in a strange =
and
foreign land. Born in Barrow-in-Furness with Irish grandparents, he =
moved to
London to work. His experience of the city is one of an outsider. The =
sense
of alienation from the city is balanced with that of awe for the place. =
By
using his inventive and surprising elevated perspectives on buildings =
and
streets, he creates a sense of the dislocation of reality.=20

Dermot Holland left Dublin at 21. At the heart of his work is a =
discipline
built on his fundamental drawing ability. His paintings come with the =
hard
graft of an artist who has never lost his desire to engage in the =
adventure
of drawing. He has chosen to ally his draughtsmanship skills to subject
matter that most of us find hard to give more than a glance to: the =
addict,
the busker, the bus queue. He does this by employing his knowledge and
understanding of charcoal, pencil, paint and printing ink and by testing =
the
composition and subject matter over and over again.=20

Brian Whelan was born in Ealing, of Irish parents. His Dublin father =
worked
on the buses (the red bus features often in his work) until moving into =
the
building trade and factories. Many of his highly coloured mixed media
paintings engage with the city as a turbulent, convulsive beast. Old
churches and modern skyscrapers lean up against each other for security,
lashed together by convoluted knots of roads laden with traffic. His
paintings are both fractured, with contradictory perspectives and =
figurative
scales functioning together, and harmonious, a tribute to his skill with
colour and design.=20

2. PM Gallery is the extension to Pitzhanger Manor, the =91dream =
house=92
designed by Sir John Soane. The largest exhibition space in West London, =
PM
Gallery sits in Walpole Park, central Ealing and houses contemporary art
exhibitions throughout the year. The Manor was built by Sir John Soane =
as a
place to entertain his friends and display his collection of art and
antiquities.=20
3. Pitzhanger Manor and PM Gallery is owned and run by Ealing Council. =
In
2008, the Council made an award of =A32.8m to Pitzhanger, towards a =
major
development project which aims to see further rooms restored and =
improved
gallery, visitor and education facilities.

Issued 29 January 2009 by The Press Office. For further information or
pictures, please contact Michael Barrett or Kirsten Canning on 020 8295
2424, 07813-558772 or email mb[at]thepressoffice.uk.com=09
=09

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Subject: Photographic exhibition, Irish Londoners 1950-1975
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To complement PM Gallery's The Quiet Men exhibition, Irish Londoners 1950 -
1975 is an evocative photographic exhibition, chronicling the lives of the
London Irish since the Second World War. It captures the spirit of Irish
life, and offers a remarkable insight into the character of one of London's
most distinctive communities.

The photographs are from the Paddy Fahey Collection at Brent Archive. Fahey
was a talented professional photographer whose sharp eye and rare sense of
living history created a body of work which gives us an exceptional insight
into the strong traditions and vitality of Irish life in the British capital
after the war.

This exhibition is a partnership project between PM Gallery & House and
Brent Archive.

PM Gallery and House, Walpole Park, Ealing, LONDON W5 5EQ, United Kingdom.

http://www.ealing.gov.uk/services/leisure/museums_and_galleries/pm_gallery_a
nd_house/index.html

jisc

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Subject: Post-Doctoral Fellowship: The Internationalization of Irish
Drama, 1975-2005, TCD & Galway
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Post-Doctoral Fellowship: The Internationalization of Irish Drama, =
1975-2005


Funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social =
Sciences


Trinity College Dublin/National University of Ireland, Galway


Tenable from 1 September 2009

1 year contract.
Closing Date:Friday, 3rd April, 2009.
Salary:=E2=82=AC31,745 per annum.

A vacancy exists for a Postdoctoral researcher to work on a joint =
Trinity College Dublin/National University of Ireland, Galway
project on Irish Drama. The project is run by Professor Nicholas Grene =
and Dr Patrick Lonergan.

This project is part of the broader Irish Theatrical Diaspora project, =
an international research network established in 2002 to
develop and co-ordinate research on the production and reception of =
Irish drama in its local, national and international contexts.

A dedicated website has been established
see http://www.irishtheatricaldiaspora.org/

To date, conferences have taken place in
Dublin, London, New York, and Lille. The sixth annual conference takes =
place in Galway on 17-18 April 2009. A book series arising
from these conferences has been launched, with four volumes in print; =
the proceedings of another conference has appeared in a
special issue of an academic journal.

For further information, click on this link: =
http://www.tcd.ie/vacancies/MS_PostDocFel_IntIrishDrama_FP_Mar09.pdf

APPLICATION
To apply, please send a letter of application (outlining your =
qualifications for the appropriate position), an academic CV, two
academic references, and a writing sample to BOTH of the Project =
Directors before Friday 3 April 2009. An interview may form part
of the assessment process.

For further information or discussion contact the Project Directors:
Professor Nicholas Grene,
School of English
Trinity College Dublin
DUBLIN 2
Ireland
Phone : + 353 1 896 1179.
ngrene[at]tcd.ie.
http://www.tcd.ie/english

AND

Dr Patrick Lonergan
English Department
NUI Galway
Galway
Ireland
Phone + 353 91 49 5609
patrick.lonergan[at]nuigalway.ie
http://www.nuigalway.ie/english/

PROJECT FUNDED BY
The Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences

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Subject: PRIVATE VIEW, THE QUIET MEN ART EXHIBITION,
Tuesday 10 March 2009 6pm - 9pm, Ealing
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THE IRISH DIASPORA LIST AND A GUEST
ARE INVITED TO THE PRIVATE VIEW OF
THE QUIET MEN ART EXHIBITION
at the
Pitzhanger Gallery, Walpole Park Matlock Lane, Ealing W5 5EQ
Tuesday 10 March 2009 6pm - 9pm

FEATURING THE WORK OF
BERNARD CANAVAN DANIEL CARMODY JOHN DUFFIN
DERMOT HOLLAND BRIAN WHELAN

br and tube: Ealing Broadway (10 min from Paddington)
Buses 207, 65 & 83 Tel 020 8567 1227

The exhibition opens Wed 11 March and
runs until Saturday 18 April 2009
Tuesday - Friday 1-5
Saturday 11 - 5

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Subject: Crossroads Irish-American Festival 2009, San Francisco
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The Crossroads Irish-American Festival begins this Saturday, March 7th with
the Children's Hour featuring Murphy School of Irish Dance and John
Caulfield on fiddle at the San Francisco Public Library Fisher Children's
Center, 100 Larkin [at] Grove.

Sunday, March 8th - Storytelling At The Crossroads: A conversation about the
importance of Oral History and Community Memoir in the Irish-American
Community, featuring Frances Browner, Tony Bucher and Joe McHugh, at San
Francisco Public Library, Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin [at] Grove, San
Francisco.

Tuesday, March 10th - A Hooley For Danny Cassidy: Remember Danny Cassidy by
telling a story, singing a song, or playing a tune at this traditional
gathering to honor our friend and colleague at the Plough & Stars Pub, 116
Clement Street, San Francisco.

Thursday, March 12th - Martin Hayes in Concert: A rare opportunity to hear
Martin Hayes in solo concert at the Plough & Stars Pub, 116 Clement Street,
San Francisco.

Friday, March 13th - Martin Hayes & Andrew MacNamara in Concert: A unique
chance to hear two renowned Irish traditional musicians [at] The Plough & Stars
Pub, 116 Clement Street, San Francisco.

Sunday, March 15th - Finding Our Truest Stories: A Memoir Workshop at the
United Irish Cultural Center, 2700 45th Avenue [at] Sloat, San Francisco.

Learn more at: www.irishamericancrossroads.org or call 415-810-3774.

We look forward to seeing you at the Crossroads!

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IRISH REVIEW -CORK-
NUMB 39; 2008
ISSN 0790-7850

pp. 1-17
Roundtable: Contemporary Art and the Matter of Ireland.
Jewesbury, D.; Leith, C.M.G.; Pierce, S.; Thomas, R.; Long, D.

pp. 18-35
Strategic Amnesia: Modernism and Art History in Ireland in the Twenty-first
Century.
Halsall, F.

pp. 36-40
We Curate, We Destroy.
De Burca, B.

pp. 41-59
Any-space-whatever: Notes on the New Terrains of `Northern Irish Art'.
Long, D.

pp. 60-69
Unconditional: A Conversation on Curatorial Practice.
Jackson, G.; Claffey, V.; Garry, M.; Giblin, T.

pp. 70-77
Dallas, Belfast.
Browne, S.; Kennedy, G.; Graham, C.

pp. 78-92
Looking Backwards into the Future: Steadicam Cinematography, Urban
Regeneration and Artists' Cinema.
Connolly, M.

pp. 93-100
Migratory Aesthetics: An Email Exchange.
Bal, M.; Hanrahan, S.; Kelly, N.-A.; O Brien, E.-L.

pp. 101-115
`Hey, That's Interesting!': Richard Hamilton's Finn MacCool.
Murphy, G.

pp. 116-120
some things about Belfast (or so I'm told).
O Beirn, A.

pp. 125-138
Disturbed Ground: Francis Bacon, Traumatic Memory and the Gothic.
Barber, F.

pp. 139-160
Louis le Brocquy's Presences, 1956-64: Irish, British or International?.
Coulter, R.

pp. 161-174
An Elizabeth of the Pacific: The Monarch in Motion in Beatrice Grimshaw's
Travel Writing.
McCotter, C.

pp. 185-187
McDermott and McGough, An Experience of Amusing Chemistry: Photographs
1990-1890.
O Brien, P.

pp. 188-189
Clair Wills, That Neutral Island: A Cultural History of Ireland during the
Second World War; Robert Cole, Propaganda, Censorship and Irish Neutrality
in the Second World War.
McCarthy, J.-P.

pp. 190-191
Joep Leerssen, National Thought in Europe: A Cultural History.
Comerford, R.V.

pp. 192-194
Guy Beiner, Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and
Social Memory.
McLean, S.

pp. 195-197
Nadia Clare Smith, A `Manly Study'? Irish Women Historians, 1868-1949; Nadia
Clare Smith, Dorothy Macardle: A Life.
Lane, L.

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This article puts the character - and the language - of Macmorris into a
wider context. But I think is really for only true Macmorris freaks...

By the way, a web search for Macmorris turns up this

http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/drama/radio/macmorris.shtml

MACMORRIS
Repeat on Monday 8 May 2006 at 2.15pm on Radio 4
Writer : John Morrison
Producer :Tanya Nash
A comic fantasy about some of the minor characters in Shakespeare's canon of
plays who demand that their Creator write them better roles or they will
destroy his universe.

P.O'S.

Language and Literature, Vol. 18, No. 1, 25-44 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0963947008099304

Ideologies of English in Shakespeare's Henry V
Philip Seargeant

The Open University, UK, p.seargeant[at]open.ac.uk

This article examines the way in which the English language is
conceptualized in Shakespeare's Henry V, and the role this conceptualization
plays in the portrayal of an emergent national identity. By analysing how
both the theme of language and the stylistic manipulation of language are
foregrounded to effect the dramatic representation of cultural identity, the
article considers the extent to which the play engages with early ideologies
of linguistic nationalism, while also exploiting wider language ideological
beliefs in its construction of character and dramatic narrative.

Key Words: Early Modern England . ethno-linguistic nationalism . language
community . language ideology . metapragmatics . national language