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Obstacles to the Implementation of an Integrated National Alcohol
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Journal of Social Policy (2009), 38 : 343-359 Cambridge University Press
doi:10.1017/S0047279408002870
Published online by Cambridge University Press 10 Feb 2009

Article
Obstacles to the Implementation of an Integrated National Alcohol Policy in
Ireland: Nannies, Neo-Liberals and Joined-Up Government
SHANE BUTLERa1
a1 School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College, Dublin email:
sbutler[at]tcd.ie

Abstract

This article explores how proponents of a public health model of alcohol
policy have, for more than a quarter of a century, argued consistently but
unsuccessfully for an integrated national alcohol policy in the Republic of
Ireland. It looks in particular at the past decade, a time when increases in
alcohol consumption and related problems strengthened the case for such an
integrated policy, and when managerial innovations in the sphere of
cross-cutting management appeared to provide a template for its
implementation. A number of explanations are offered for the refusal of
successive governments to respond to what its advocates see as the only
rational, evidence-based approach to the prevention of alcohol problems. It
is argued that, unlike the Nordic countries, the political culture of
independent Ireland has never been one in which the state could unilaterally
impose strict alcohol control policies as a feature of its broader vision of
the welfare state. It is also argued that during the recent period of
economic prosperity (the so-called 'Celtic Tiger' era) the country was
characterised by a neo-liberal policy climate, which was specifically
antipathetic to the idea that the state should interfere directly in the
alcohol market with a view to preventing related problems. It is suggested
that the social partnership model of governance, to which many people
attributed the country's economic success, created an atmosphere of
consensualism within which the state as mediator between the two main
protagonists (the public health lobby and the drinks industry) was unwilling
to challenge the drinks industry. It is also concluded that this failure to
create a national alcohol policy based on public health principles
demonstrates the limitations of the cross-cutting, or 'joined-up', approach
to public management in those areas of social policy characterised by
clashing value systems or fundamental conflicts of economic interest.
Finally, it is acknowledged that in Ireland, as elsewhere, neo-liberal
certitudes have been effectively dethroned by the economic recession and
banking crisis of late 2008; whether these more straitened economic
circumstances will provide a better fit for the 'nanny state' ideals of the
public health perspective on alcohol remains to be seen.

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Article, The Dance Floor, Nightlife, Civilizing Process,
and Multiculturalism in Canada
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The Irish references are Wulff and O'Connor. And the article offers a good
summary of what might be called dance hall theory... And practice.

P.O'S.


This version was published on February 1, 2009
Space and Culture, Vol. 12, No. 1, 116-135 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1206331208325604

The Dance Floor
Nightlife, Civilizing Process, and Multiculturalism in Canada
David Mario Matsinhe

University of Alberta

This article is based on a study of dance floors of Whyte Avenue in the city
of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. As extended cases, the life processes on the
floors are interpreted as manifestations of Canada's emotional history in
the form of multiculturalism. Building on observations combined with
informal and casual conversations, the study focuses on arousal and
expression of emotions through bodily movements on the dance floors. The
readings of these spaces along with their life processes are informed by the
theoretical concepts of the "carnival" and the "grotesque" (Bakhtin),
"liminality" (Turner), and the "civilizing process" and "informalization"
(Elias and Wouters). In this theoretical framework, the particular emotional
life processes that occur on the dance floors are rendered orderable as
historically contingent phenomena that incarnate the wave of
multiculturalization that shaped and has continued to shape the cultural,
geographic, political, social, and psychological (emotional) landscapes of
Canada since the 1960s.

Key Words: dance floor . emotions . figuration . informalization . liminal
spaces . multiculturalism

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Do we have to contact anyone if we want to go?

Dr Anthony McNicholas
CAMRI
University of Westminster
Harrow Campus
Watford Road
Harrow
HA1 3TP
0118 948 6164 (BBC WAC)
07751 062735


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Behalf Of Patrick O'Sullivan
Sent: 07 March 2009 12:51
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] PRIVATE VIEW, THE QUIET MEN ART EXHIBITION, Tuesday 10
March 2009 6pm - 9pm, Ealing

THE IRISH DIASPORA LIST AND A GUEST=20
ARE INVITED TO THE PRIVATE VIEW OF=20
THE QUIET MEN ART EXHIBITION=20
at the
Pitzhanger Gallery, Walpole Park Matlock Lane, Ealing W5 5EQ
Tuesday 10 March 2009 6pm - 9pm=20
=20
FEATURING THE WORK OF=20
BERNARD CANAVAN DANIEL CARMODY JOHN DUFFIN
DERMOT HOLLAND BRIAN WHELAN
=20
br and tube: Ealing Broadway (10 min from Paddington)
Buses 207, 65 & 83 Tel 020 8567 1227
=20
The exhibition opens Wed 11 March and=20
runs until Saturday 18 April 2009=20
Tuesday - Friday 1-5
Saturday 11 - 5

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I am late in responding to Patrick Maume's query because I have only toda=
y
become a member of this listserv. This is my "inaugural post."

On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:20:07 +0000, Patrick Maume =
wrote:

>From: Patrick Maume
>I wonder does he have anything about O'Conner's relationship with the la=
d
>reformer William Conner, who I believe was a nephew. I did the DICTIONA=
RY
>OF IRISH BIOGRAPHY entry on Conner; he's quite an interesting figure but=
we
>know very little about him (compared to what we know about, say James Fi=
ntan
>Lalor, who was his protege and later quarreled with him).

The answer is "yes." It seems to me to be a rather sad story. After Arthu=
r
O'Connor's death in 1852, William Conner advanced a legal claim in France=

against O'Connor's estate on the grounds that he was the natural son of t=
he
late General O'Connor. O'Connor's widow, Eliza Condorcet-O'Connor, fought=

his claim. A very prominent lawyer and close friend of the O'Connor famil=
y,
Fran=E7ois-Andr=E9 Isambert, represented her and, because William Conner =
could
produce no documentary evidence to support his claim, it was disposed of
with little difficulty. Isambert declared: "I have lived above twenty-fiv=
e
years on terms of intimacy with the General . . . . Never did he speak to=
me
upon a matter of so much importance in his life as that of a son whom he =
had
left in his native land, worthy of his name and of his assistance."

It is quite possible, however, that William Conner was telling the truth,=

and that O=92Connor=92s failure to acknowledge paternity was unjust. Lady=
Lucy
Fitzgerald, Lord Edward's sister, reported in her diary the presence of a=
n
illegitimate son of O=92Connor=92s at Lord Edward=92s house in March 1797=
.
(O'Connor himself could not have been there at that time because he was i=
n
prison from February through July of that year. Perhaps the boy had been
entrusted to Lord Edward's care.) Furthermore, an account of Conner famil=
y
genealogy mentions a =93William Conner, Esq, late of Inch, near Athy, in =
the
Queen=92s County, author of =91The true Political Economy of Ireland=92, =
etc,=94 and
identifies him as =93the son of the celebrated Arthur Condorcet O=92Conno=
r.=94

[Reference: Arthur O'Connor: The Most Important Irish Revolutionary You M=
ay
Never Have Heard Of, by Clifford D. Conner, pp. 79-80, 199, 228, 260.]

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Subject: A Hooley for Danny Cassidy: Crossroads Irish-American Festival
2009
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Forwarded on behalf of
From: Irish-American Crossroads [mailto:crossroads[at]iacrossroads.org]
Subject: A Hooley for Danny Cassidy: Crossroads Irish-American Festival 2009

Time: 7:00 PM
The Plough and the Stars Pub, 116 Clement Street [at] 2nd Avenue, San Francisco


Crossroads 2009 includes an opportunity to honor the memory of Danny
Cassidy, founder of both the Crossroads Irish-American Festival and the
Irish Studies Program at New College of California, who tragically passed
away in October, 2008.

This memorial "Hooley," a traditional Irish celebration, will take place on
Tuesday, March 10th, at the Plough and the Stars Pub, starting at 7:00 p.m.

Come tell a story, sing a song, read a poem, or play a tune to remember and
honor our beloved friend and colleague in a living tribute to Danny.

Also, don't miss Martin Hayes, an extraordinary musical talent, playing
fiddle in a solo concert on Thursday, March 12th and with Andrew MacNamara
on Friday, March 13th at the Plough and the Stars Pub, starting at 9pm.

Click here for more details: www.irishamericancrossroads.org or call
415-810-3774.

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Joan,

I did want to thank you for this - which is very helpful...

With your message to the Ir-D list, these items automatically enter our
searchable archives. But you are right - I am not sure that that is good
enough nowadays.

I have been compiling an IR-D list of Things We Do Not Do, Or Are Not Good
At. I spent some time over the winter looking at the problems...

Oddly enough book information has become hard to locate - some of the alert
systems I used have collapsed or have become expensive. A special problem
is the contents of multi-authored books.

In other ways what we do has simply been overtaken by developments
elsewhere. We now hardly use for our own purposes the web site,
irishdiaspora.net - apart from the storing of our archive in the Special
Access area. When we created the web site it was very difficult for an
ordinary person to post material on the web - nowadays nearly every
university has a content managing system like ours. And do it yourself web
sites are much easier.

Of course the web site continues to work as a contact point. And I
increasingly value that.

Book reviews have become more problematic. Really the only scholarly book
reviews that we have ready access to are the H-Net reviews and Reviews in
History, and a few others. Again and again in academic journals I see
reviews written by Ir-D members of books written by Ir-D members. I have
wasted a great deal of time negotiating with the journals and their
publishers about the possibility of re-distributing these reviews to the
Ir-D list. I think I am offering them a free advertisement. They always
say No.

I sometimes draw the Ir-D lists attention to such items of interest in the
academic journals. I know that such notices can annoy Ir-D members based
outside the richer parts of academia. Indeed, they annoy me...

But they do put the book information out, and archive it.

And so on. As I say, I have been looking at what we do... And perhaps
wondering about our long term purposes...

In the end we depend a great deal on information that comes from Irish
Diaspora list members.

Patrick O'Sullivan


-----Original Message-----
From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Joan Allen
Sent: 04 March 2009 12:39
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [IR-D] As Saint Patrick's Day approaches...

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 starting
point and has prompted a good deal of additional work:

I note that you promoted Susan Kelly's work on Dundee a few weeks ago (Susan
Kelly St.Patrick's Day in Dundee c.1850-1900: a contested Irish institution
in a
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 in
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
England, 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 and
tragic overtones (CSP, Newcastle, 2008); T.G.Fraser(ed), The Irish Parading
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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Thank you for this Paddy.
Yes, I agree, we are moving into uncharted waters. Him indoors has just bee=
n advised that his co-edited volume [Irelands of the Mind] is to become an =
electronic book. It has been in print less than 12 months... Now it might s=
eem that this is good, and perhaps it is, but for those who don't have elec=
tronic access it will disappear from view altogether. Getting information a=
bout edited volumes is a particularly problematic area as sometimes they ma=
y only have one item of obvious interest to IRD members.

I must confess that I don't use the website in the way that I used to-my fi=
rst port of call has become the RHS website which is particularly good for =
Irish material.It maybe that the IR-D list needs to concentrate on raising =
the profile of the more obscure published work (which might slip under the =
radar)rather than provide information about mainstream publications and, as=
you say, this might not go down well in all quarters]. And in this we all =
need to be responsible, not just your good self.
All best
Joan

>-----Original Message-----
>From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List=20
>[mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Patrick O'Sullivan
>Sent: 10 March 2009 09:58
>To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: [IR-D] As Saint Patrick's Day approaches...
>
>Joan,
>
>I did want to thank you for this - which is very helpful...
>
>With your message to the Ir-D list, these items automatically=20
>enter our searchable archives. But you are right - I am not=20
>sure that that is good enough nowadays.
>
>I have been compiling an IR-D list of Things We Do Not Do, Or=20
>Are Not Good At. I spent some time over the winter looking at=20
>the problems...
>
>Oddly enough book information has become hard to locate - some=20
>of the alert systems I used have collapsed or have become=20
>expensive. A special problem is the contents of multi-authored books.
>
>In other ways what we do has simply been overtaken by=20
>developments elsewhere. We now hardly use for our own=20
>purposes the web site, irishdiaspora.net - apart from the=20
>storing of our archive in the Special Access area. When we=20
>created the web site it was very difficult for an ordinary=20
>person to post material on the web - nowadays nearly every=20
>university has a content managing system like ours. And do it=20
>yourself web sites are much easier.
>
>Of course the web site continues to work as a contact point. =20
>And I increasingly value that.
>
>Book reviews have become more problematic. Really the only=20
>scholarly book reviews that we have ready access to are the=20
>H-Net reviews and Reviews in History, and a few others. Again=20
>and again in academic journals I see reviews written by Ir-D=20
>members of books written by Ir-D members. I have wasted a=20
>great deal of time negotiating with the journals and their=20
>publishers about the possibility of re-distributing these=20
>reviews to the Ir-D list. I think I am offering them a free=20
>advertisement. They always say No.
>
>I sometimes draw the Ir-D lists attention to such items of=20
>interest in the academic journals. I know that such notices=20
>can annoy Ir-D members based outside the richer parts of=20
>academia. Indeed, they annoy me...
>
>But they do put the book information out, and archive it.
>
>And so on. As I say, I have been looking at what we do... =20
>And perhaps wondering about our long term purposes...
>
>In the end we depend a great deal on information that comes=20
>from Irish Diaspora list members.
>
>Patrick O'Sullivan
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List=20
>[mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Joan Allen
>Sent: 04 March 2009 12:39
>To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: [IR-D] As Saint Patrick's Day approaches...
>
>Dear Paddy
>Reviving the competition would be interesting but will depend=20
>upon whether you have time.
>I also think it would be good to circulate a dedicated list of=20
>recent works on the topic of SPD/ celebrations. Cronin and=20
>Adair offers the best starting point and has prompted a good=20
>deal of additional work:=20
>
>I note that you promoted Susan Kelly's work on Dundee a few=20
>weeks ago (Susan Kelly St.Patrick's Day in Dundee c.1850-1900:=20
>a contested Irish institution in a Scottish context, in=20
>IRELAND AND SCOTLAND IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY edited by Frank=20
>Ferguson & James McConnell. I have a chapter on St Patrick's=20
>day in the NE of England due out in April (Joan Allen and=20
>Richard C Allen (eds), Faith of Our Fathers: Popular culture=20
>and belief in post reformation England, Ireland and Wales=20
>(CSP, Newcastle)
>
>Other interesting work I can think of include Marie-Claire=20
>Considere-Charon, Philippe Laplac and Michel Savaric (eds) The=20
>Irish Celebrating: festive and tragic overtones (CSP,=20
>Newcastle, 2008); T.G.Fraser(ed), The Irish Parading
>Tradition: following the drum (Macmillan, 2000)
>
>Best wishes
>Joan
>
>Dr Joan Allen
>Senior Lecturer in Modern British History Armstrong Building=20
>University of Newcastle
>NE1 7RU
>Tel 0191 222 6701
>Editor, Labour History Review
>=

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Subject: Article,
Mystical internationalism in Margaret Cousins's feminist world
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Women's Studies International Forum
Volume 32, Issue 1, January-February 2009, Pages 29-34
Special Issue on Circling the Globe: International Feminism Reconsidered,
1910 to 1975

Mystical internationalism in Margaret Cousins's feminist world

Catherine Candy a

aDepartment of History, Education Bldg, Room 186, University of New Orleans,
New Orleans, LA 70148, USA

Available online 15 February 2009.

Synopsis

Another international feminist venue which this issue adds to our historical
knowledge is the All Asian Women's Congress, formed by Indian feminists in
1931. Catherine Candy takes us into the AAWC via the person of Margaret
Cousins, the Irish militant suffragist who went on to become a leading
Indian patriot. Candy's portrayal of Cousins carries one of the major
messages of this special issue: that an expanded account of international
feminism is best understood, not via the simple opposition between imperial
domination and colonial resistance, but through the rich subaltern
transmutations of European feminist practices and principles and the tension
and exchange between diverse and geo-politically unequal national feminisms.

A major theme of Candy's examination is the mystical, non-rational,
spiritualized feminist vision on which Cousins relied and which, Candy
argues, may have been one of the underlying themes, and secret strengths of
non European feminists on an international stage. Cousin's organizational
convictions, and her ability to inspire challenges to European leadership,
were motivated in part by a conviction that national female "essences" were
at work, under the surface, on an international stage. Asia, she believed,
and Asian women especially, could provide the world with an alternative
basis of knowledge, empowerment and even "civilization" itself.

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Paddy,

List members may be interested to learn about the following recently
published book.

Best, Tony


Tony Murray
Irish Studies Centre
London Metropolitan University
Tower Building
Holloway Rd
London N7 8DB

Tel: (44) 207 133 2593
Email: t.murray[at]londonmet.ac.uk
www.londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre




Ireland's Hidden Diaspora: the "abortion trail" and the making of a
London-Irish underground, 1980-2000, published by IASC Publishing House.

'Every year, approximately 5,000 women from the Republic of Ireland and
1,500 from Northern Ireland cross the Irish Sea to have an abortion in a
British clinic. They come and go in secret, like women "on the run",
bearing a terrible burden of shame for two societies in denial. In fact,
much pride is taken in the island being seen as a "pro-life" sort of
place. We have been constantly reminded over recent years that Ireland ha=
s
changed, changed utterly, since the establishment of the Peace Agreement
in the North, and the emergence of the Celtic Tiger in the Republic. But,
when it comes to the right of a woman to choose, it is a place that is
still in the dark ages, north and south of the Border.

This book is not an account of the experience of abortion seekers by the
women themselves - we still wait to hear them speak out in their own
names. However, an equally important part of this hidden story is told
here by London-Irish women who supported many such individuals before,
during, and after their lonely, and often frightening journey "across the
water" It is also a record of their campaigns for a change in the law in
both parts of the island. The supporters and campaigners were members of
the Irish Women's Abortion Support Group (IWASG) and the Irish Abortion
Solidarity Campaign (Iasc). The book is a testament to their tireless
work, over a twenty year period from the early 1980s, much of which was
conducted undercover. In offering new first-hand evidence of such
activities, this oral history presents a vivid and timely
contribution to debates about the Irish feminist movement in Britain in
the late twentieth century.'

The cover price is =A38 and orders could be placed by sending an email to
iascpub[at]yahoo.com.

Ann Rossiter, a long-standing Irish feminist who has been involved in IWA=
SG
and Iasc for many years, is from Bruree, Co. Limerick and has lived in
London for nearly half a century. She has also been an activist in
feminist
groups concerned with women and the Irish National Question, such as Wome=
n
and Ireland and the London Armagh Group. The latter was set up to oppose
the treatment of republican women prisoners, in particular the practice o=
f
strip searching. She has written a number of articles and essays on thes=
e
subjects and holds a doctorate in the history of the encounter between
English and Irish feminism during the years of 'the Troubles'. She taugh=
t
Irish Studies for over a decade at various institutions, including Kilbur=
n
Polytechnic (now the College of North West London), Birkbeck, London
Metropolitan, and Luton universities.















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Subject: Re: PRIVATE VIEW, THE QUIET MEN ART EXHIBITION,
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Anthony,

I have seen nothing in the material sent to me that suggests that you have
to contact anyone, or RSVP.

I suppose we should guard against the possibility that the organisers will
have to barricade the doors against the art-hungry masses - like the zombies
in Shaun of the Dead.

But I can't get too worried...

Paddy

-----Original Message-----
From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Anthony Mcnicholas
Sent: 07 March 2009 14:01
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [IR-D] PRIVATE VIEW, THE QUIET MEN ART EXHIBITION, Tuesday 10
March 2009 6pm - 9pm, Ealing

Do we have to contact anyone if we want to go?

Dr Anthony McNicholas
CAMRI
University of Westminster
Harrow Campus
Watford Road
Harrow
HA1 3TP
0118 948 6164 (BBC WAC)
07751 062735


-----Original Message-----
From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Patrick O'Sullivan
Sent: 07 March 2009 12:51
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] PRIVATE VIEW, THE QUIET MEN ART EXHIBITION, Tuesday 10
March 2009 6pm - 9pm, Ealing

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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V & A=20
Fashioning Diasporas
Friday 15-Saturday 16 May 2009
Hochhauser Auditorium, Sackler Centre

In association with Royal Holloway, University of London and the=A0AHRC

This major international conference brings together some of the most
exciting thinkers on fashion, culture and identity to explore the
relationship of diaspora communities, objects and spaces to the =
processes of
clothing production and consumption in historical and contemporary world
cultures.=A0 The first day considers the ways in which fashion has been =
used
as a basis for establishing new identities and connecting with old ones =
by
diaspora communities.=A0 The second day discusses objects such as the =
sari,
the cheongsam, and denim, and their design and reception.=A0 The =
conference is
part of the AHRC funded Fashioning Diaspora Space project.


Friday May 15
10.30 =96 Welcome and Introduction to the conference Professor Philip =
Crang
(Royal Holloway University of London)=20

10.45 Refashioning the Islamic: British Islamic fashion designers and =
the
search for culturally relevant dress for Muslims in the West =96 Emma =
Tarlo
(Goldsmiths, University of London)

11.30 =96 Fashioning Ethnicities: Ghulam Sakina and the commercial =
spaces of
multiculture =96 Claire Dwyer (University College London)

12.15 - Style- Fashion-Dress: From 'Black' to 'Post-Black' =96 Carol =
Tulloch
(Victoria & Albert Museum)
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Lunch and an opportunity to visit Moving Patterns at the Royal =
Geographical
Society,=20
1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR

2.30 - Changing Alliances in Changing Diasporas: California garment =
workers
in the 1930s and Now =96 Susan Kaiser/Lesley Rabine

3.15 - The Long March West: The Conquest of London=92s fashion industry =
by
East End Jews =96 Andrew Godley (University of Reading)

4.30 - Filaments of History: Lace, Movement, and Migration in
Nineteenth-Century Culture =96 Lara Kriegel (Florida International =
University)

5.15 - Patterns, Place and Heritage =96 Susan Roberts (Bridging Arts)
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6.00 - Wine Reception

Saturday May 16
10.30 - Global Threads: Textile Exchange and Material Culture in the =
Early
Modern World =96 Giorgio Riello (University of Warwick)

11.15 - Denim Jeans and Diaspora: Adapting to living in North London =96
Sophie Woodward (Nottingham Trent University)

12.00 - Territorial Tartan: Locating Conjugation =96 Jonathan Faiers =
(Central
St Martin=92s, University of the Arts)

1.45 - Chinese Gowns in Western Interiors: Transitionality and
Transformation =96 Sarah Cheang (London College of Fashion)

2.30 - =91Indiennes=92 in England? Tracking textile migration in =
Britain,
1850-1900 =96 Sonia Ashmore (Victoria and Albert Museum)

3.45 - Diasporas and Diffusions: A Contrast in Clothes =96 Robert Ross =
(Leiden
University)

4.30 =96 Response - Suzanne Kuechler (University College London)


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=A325 one day, =A320 concessions, =A35 students
=A350 two days, =A340 concessions, =A310 students
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Tuesday 10 March 2009 6pm - 9pm, Ealing
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Good to have some sense of humour, with the current economic situation you =
never know what you'll meet when they open the doors to the public!

>>> Patrick O'Sullivan 10/03/09 11:47 AM >>>
Anthony,

I have seen nothing in the material sent to me that suggests that you have
to contact anyone, or RSVP.

I suppose we should guard against the possibility that the organisers will
have to barricade the doors against the art-hungry masses - like the =
zombies
in Shaun of the Dead.

But I can't get too worried...

Paddy

-----Original Message-----
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Behalf
Of Anthony Mcnicholas
Sent: 07 March 2009 14:01
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [IR-D] PRIVATE VIEW, THE QUIET MEN ART EXHIBITION, Tuesday 10
March 2009 6pm - 9pm, Ealing

Do we have to contact anyone if we want to go?

Dr Anthony McNicholas
CAMRI
University of Westminster
Harrow Campus
Watford Road
Harrow
HA1 3TP
0118 948 6164 (BBC WAC)
07751 062735


-----Original Message-----
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Behalf Of Patrick O'Sullivan
Sent: 07 March 2009 12:51
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] PRIVATE VIEW, THE QUIET MEN ART EXHIBITION, Tuesday 10
March 2009 6pm - 9pm, Ealing

THE IRISH DIASPORA LIST AND A GUEST=20
ARE INVITED TO THE PRIVATE VIEW OF=20
THE QUIET MEN ART EXHIBITION=20
at the
Pitzhanger Gallery, Walpole Park Matlock Lane, Ealing W5 5EQ
Tuesday 10 March 2009 6pm - 9pm=20
=20
FEATURING THE WORK OF=20
BERNARD CANAVAN DANIEL CARMODY JOHN DUFFIN
DERMOT HOLLAND BRIAN WHELAN
=20
br and tube: Ealing Broadway (10 min from Paddington)
Buses 207, 65 & 83 Tel 020 8567 1227
=20
The exhibition opens Wed 11 March and=20
runs until Saturday 18 April 2009=20
Tuesday - Friday 1-5
Saturday 11 - 5

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The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by
guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office:
309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW, UK.

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The following interactive map from the NY Time has come to our attention.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/10/us/20090310-immigration-explorer.html?emc=eta3

Bill Mulligan

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Subject: Lecture: From Beara to Keweenaw: Irish Miners in the Michigan
Copper Country
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List members who will be in Cork are invited to attend a public =20
lecture sponsored by the Department of History, University College Cork.

Thursday, 26 March, 7.30 pm, Boole II, University College Cork

?From Beara to Keweenaw: Irish Miners in the Michigan Copper Country, =20
1845-1920?

Speaker: Professor William H. Mulligan, Jr.

William H. Mulligan, Jr. is Professor of History at Murray State =20
University in Kentucky. During the spring term 2009, he is a =20
Fulbright Scholar in history at UCC.

He is the author or editor of eight books and numerous articles, =20
reviews, encyclopedia entries, and conference papers on American =20
social and industrial history. He is co-moderator of the Irish =20
Diaspora discussion list and migration studies editor of New Hibernia =20
Review.

His current research is on migration from copper mining areas in =20
Ireland, especially the Beara Peninsula, to the Michigan Copper =20
Country and has appeared in New Hibernia Review, Tipperary Historical =20
Journal, Radharc, the Journal of the Mining Heritage Trust of Ireland, =20
ABEI Journal (Brazilian Association for Irish Studies) and a number of =20
anthologies. In 2006, he delivered the Ernie O?Malley Memorial Lecture =20
at New York University and in 2007 the DeSantis Lecture at the =20
University of Notre Dame. In May 2005 he received the Murray State =20
University Board of Regents Award for Teaching Excellence and in April =20
2007, the MSU College of Humanities and Fine Arts Award for =20
Scholarship and Creative Activity.

For further information contact: Rory O'Dwywer r.odwyer[at]ucc.ie

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Tony,

Thank you for this...

It might help the institutions, with their book ordering procedures, to =
know
that the book is already appearing on some of the usual book selling =
sites
with an ISBN number. Which should make things easier.

ISBN: 9780956178503 - Ireland's Hidden Diaspora
Ireland's Hidden Diaspora

Ann Rossiter
ISBN10: 0956178502 ISBN13: 9780956178503 =20
Publisher: IASC Publishing
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Mar 2009
Place: London

Another earlier work on this theme by the indefatigable Ann Rossiter is
freely available as a pdf download.

Rossiter, Ann and Sexton, Mary. The other Irish journey. London: Voice =
for
Choice/Marie Stopes International, 2001.

Rossiter, Ann and Sexton, Mary
The other Irish journey
A survey update of Northern Irish women
attending British abortion clinics, 2000/2001

http://www.mariestopes.org.uk/documents/the-other-irish-journey.pdf

P.O'S.


-----Original Message-----
From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On =
Behalf
Of Anthony Murray
Sent: 10 March 2009 11:35
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] Ireland's Hidden Diaspora

Paddy,

List members may be interested to learn about the following recently
published book.

Best, Tony


Tony Murray
Irish Studies Centre
London Metropolitan University
Tower Building
Holloway Rd
London N7 8DB

Tel: (44) 207 133 2593
Email: t.murray[at]londonmet.ac.uk
www.londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre




Ireland's Hidden Diaspora: the "abortion trail" and the making of a
London-Irish underground, 1980-2000, published by IASC Publishing House.

'Every year, approximately 5,000 women from the Republic of Ireland and
1,500 from Northern Ireland cross the Irish Sea to have an abortion in a
British clinic. They come and go in secret, like women "on the run",
bearing a terrible burden of shame for two societies in denial. In fact,
much pride is taken in the island being seen as a "pro-life" sort of
place. We have been constantly reminded over recent years that Ireland =
has
changed, changed utterly, since the establishment of the Peace Agreement
in the North, and the emergence of the Celtic Tiger in the Republic. =
But,
when it comes to the right of a woman to choose, it is a place that is
still in the dark ages, north and south of the Border.

This book is not an account of the experience of abortion seekers by the
women themselves - we still wait to hear them speak out in their own
names. However, an equally important part of this hidden story is told
here by London-Irish women who supported many such individuals before,
during, and after their lonely, and often frightening journey "across =
the
water" It is also a record of their campaigns for a change in the law in
both parts of the island. The supporters and campaigners were members of
the Irish Women's Abortion Support Group (IWASG) and the Irish Abortion
Solidarity Campaign (Iasc). The book is a testament to their tireless
work, over a twenty year period from the early 1980s, much of which was
conducted undercover. In offering new first-hand evidence of such
activities, this oral history presents a vivid and timely
contribution to debates about the Irish feminist movement in Britain in
the late twentieth century.'

The cover price is =A38 and orders could be placed by sending an email =
to
iascpub[at]yahoo.com.

Ann Rossiter, a long-standing Irish feminist who has been involved in =
IWASG
and Iasc for many years, is from Bruree, Co. Limerick and has lived in
London for nearly half a century. She has also been an activist in
feminist
groups concerned with women and the Irish National Question, such as =
Women
and Ireland and the London Armagh Group. The latter was set up to =
oppose
the treatment of republican women prisoners, in particular the practice =
of
strip searching. She has written a number of articles and essays on =
these
subjects and holds a doctorate in the history of the encounter between
English and Irish feminism during the years of 'the Troubles'. She =
taught
Irish Studies for over a decade at various institutions, including =
Kilburn
Polytechnic (now the College of North West London), Birkbeck, London
Metropolitan, and Luton universities.















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Forwarded on behalf of=20
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Lecturer in Drama Studies
Queen's University Belfast
BT7 1NN

MA and PhD Scholarships in Drama Studies=20
Brian Friel Centre for Theatre Research=20
Queen=92s University Belfast
Closing Date: 27th March and 29th May
=A0
Drama Studies at Queen=92s is proud to announce that it will offer 2 =
AHRC
awards for Doctoral and Masters study, and 2 bursaries for MA and PhD =
study
commencing in Autumn 2009 at the newly opened Brian Friel Centre for =
Theatre
Research.=20
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These awards are the result of Drama's success in the AHRC Block Grant
Partnership, and will be supplemented by a further 2 AHRC Awards over =
the
following four years.=A0
=A0
PhD Awards
=A0
Drama will offer 1 AHRC Doctoral Award as well as the new Brian Friel
Doctoral Scholarship each worth more than =A315,000 per year. =A0These =
include
tuition fee waivers (at UK/EU rates) and maintenance grants at AHRC =
levels.
(The Friel doctoral scholarship may be held in part payment by a non-EU
student).
=A0
MA Bursaries
=A0
Drama Studies will offer 1 AHRC Award as well as the new Michael and =
Ruth
West M.A. Scholarship (fees plus an additional annual maintenance grant =
of
=A36350). =A0These bursaries waive tuition fees (at UK/EU rates), and we =
will
have further awards available from 2010.
=A0
For more information on PhD study, please contact Dr. Mark Phelan=A0at
m.phelan[at]qub.ac.uk=20
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For more information on MA study, please contact=A0the convenors of each =
MA
programme: for MA in Irish Theatre and Culture, Dr Mark
Phelan=A0m.phelan[at]qub.ac.uk; for the MA in Drama and Performance Dr. =
Alyson
Campbell a.e.campbell[at]qub.ac.uk=A0 =A0
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awards;=20
29 May for the Brian Friel Doctoral Scholarship & the Michael and Ruth =
West
MA Scholarship.
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For further postgraduate information on funding applications see:

http://www.qub.ac.uk/lla
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For more information on the new Brian Friel Centre for Theatre Research =
see:

http://www.qub.ac.uk/home/TheUniversity/GeneralServices/News/Qtv/NewBrian=
Fri
elCentreforTheatreResearch/#d.en.138772
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About Drama at Queen=92s University
=A0
In February 2009, the Brian Friel Theatre and the Brian Friel Centre for
Theatre Research was opened by Brian Friel, Ireland=92s greatest living
playwright.=20
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The Friel Centre consolidates the reputation of Drama Studies at =
Queen=92s
which was acknowledged in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise for
producing world-leading and internationally excellent research in Irish
theatre, as well as excellence in practice-as-research. The Brian Friel
Centre for Theatre Research aims to produce cutting-edge research into
contemporary theatre practice and its historical contexts, and to =
develop
international teaching, research and creative arts partnerships.
=A0
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performance, staff research interests also engage with modern European,
American and Australian drama; theatre and conflict; theatre history and
historiography; gender and performance; postdramatic theatre; =
dramaturgy;
theatre and geography; queer theory/theatre; theatre and cultural =
memory;
theatre in education.=20
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Our vibrant graduate community contributes strongly to Drama's thriving
research culture and in the last six months alone we have hosted three =
major
international conferences, colloquia and festivals examining the work of
Brian Friel, Stewart Parker and Samuel Beckett.=20
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Drama Studies also collaborates with leading arts organizations and =
theatre
companies, such as the Belfast Festival, The Linen Hall Library, The =
Lyric
Theatre, Prime Cut Productions, Tinderbox Theatre Company,=A0 Kabosh, =
and
Ransom Productions which have helped us develop a vital professional
practice dimension as part of our overall provision.=20
In recent years, distinguished speakers and visiting scholars visitors =
have
included: Simon Callow, Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, Dennis Kennedy, =
Michael
Longley, Thomas Kilroy, Owen McCafferty, Bruce McConnachie, Lynne =
Parker,
Stephen Rea, Christina Reid, Janelle Reinelt, Frances Tomelty, Phillip
Zarilli.=20
_____________________________________
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Queen's University Belfast
BT7 1NN

Ph: 0044 (0)2890 975107
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Buffoonery in Irish Drama: Staging Twentieth-Century
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Heininge, Kathleen=20
Buffoonery in Irish Drama
Staging Twentieth-Century Post-Colonial Stereotypes
Series: Irish Studies Vol. 11
Year of Publication: 2009
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, =
2009.
200 pp.
ISBN 978-1-4331-0546-3 hardback
Peter Lang Publishing Group

http://www.peterlang.de/home.cfm?vLang=3DE&vScreenWidth=3D1024

The publisher web site is a bit complex - but the book is there. And is
already on Amazon.

P.O'S.

Generations of Irish playwrights have tried to assert the reputation of =
the
stage Irish figure as other than comic, but each effort was in its turn
assailed as buffoonery. Using post-colonial and performative theory,
Buffoonery in Irish Drama demonstrates the ways the Irish struggled to
create a sense of identity in a colonial structure, and it explores the
distortion and appropriation of that new identity that elicit further =
calls
to eradicate negative stereotypes. Demonstrating the pervasiveness of =
the
reclamation efforts, Buffoonery in Irish Drama covers a wide range of
well-known and obscure plays to show the trajectory of twentieth-century
drama that brings us into a globalized twenty-first-century Ireland.=20

Kathleen Heininge received her doctorate from University of California =
Davis
and is now Assistant Professor of Writing/Literature at George Fox
University in Oregon, where she teaches British and world literature and
women=92s studies. She publishes primarily on Irish literature, =
especially
drama.=20

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`Eire' or `Ireland'? The Contested Name of John Bull's Other
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Note that the current issue of The Political Quarterly is being flagged on
the Wiley InterScience web site as a Free Sample...

The issue includes a number of items of interest, including this one...

And finally reality begins to enter academic journal world - see, in this
issue, The Political Origins of the Financial Crisis: The Domestic and
International Politics of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (p 17-24)
HELEN THOMPSON

P.O'S.


`Irish Republic', `Eire' or `Ireland'? The Contested Name of John Bull's
Other Island

Author: COAKLEY, JOHN1

Source: The Political Quarterly, Volume 80, Number 1, January/March 2009 ,
pp. 49-58(10)

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

Abstract:
One of the less visible consequences of the Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement
of 1998 was that it finally put to rest a fifty year dispute between Ireland
and the United Kingdom about the names of the respective states. This
article begins by outlining the constitutional background to this complex
terminological dispute, and then examines it from three perspectives. The
first is that of the Irish state itself, which in recent decades has opted
unambiguously for `Ireland'. The second is the British government, which
until the end of the twentieth century preferred the labels `Eire' or `Irish
Republic'. The third is the militant nationalist republican movement, whose
terminology was designed to deny the legitimacy of the existing state. The
article concludes by examining the political significance of this issue,
arguing that while its most obvious importance is symbolic, it has also had
real meaning for the identity and for the geographical definition of the
state, as well as for the British-Irish relationship.

Keywords: Ireland; Northern Ireland; United Kingdom; nationalism;
constitutional reform; terminology

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-923X.2009.01957.x

Affiliations: 1: Head of the School of Politics and International Relations
at University College Dublin.

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This item is also in the Free Sample issue of the journal.

Political Quarterly
Volume 80 Issue 1, Pages 59 - 66

Published Online: 9 Mar 2009

C 2008 The Political Quarterly Publishing Co. Ltd

Rebels without a Cause? The Irish Referendum on the Lisbon Treaty

MATT QVORTRUP 1
1 Senior Research Fellow at University College London.
KEYWORDS
referendum . EU . direct democracy . public opinion . Ireland . campaign
finance

ABSTRACT

The Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty follows a pattern of class-voting
also seen in the 2005 referendums on the European Constitution. However, the
poll differed in other respects. Polling in the wake of the vote suggested
that the main reason given for voting no was a lack of knowledge about the
treaty (22 per cent of no voters holding that view). A further 40 per cent
of the voters voted no because they claimed not to understand the Treaty.
This is in contrast to referendums in 2005 in Spain and the Netherlands
where, respectively 70 and 51 per cent, of those with a self confessed 'very
limited ' knowledge of the Constitution voted yes.

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Perhaps soon to be followed by 'Will Irish Social Partnership Survive?'

P.O'S.

British Journal of Industrial Relations
Volume 47 Issue 1, Pages 55 - 78

Published Online: 9 Feb 2009

C 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and London School of Economics

Why has Irish Social Partnership Survived?
Paul Teague 1 and Jimmy Donaghey 1
1 Queen's University Belfast
ABSTRACT

The present system of social partnership in Ireland is in its twentieth
year. A range of explanations have been put forward to explain why social
partnership has been so durable even though it does not possess the
institutional endowments often considered necessary to sustain tripartite
industrial relations arrangements. Although these accounts are considered to
have merits, this article suggests that they also suffer from a range of
weaknesses. The article suggests that the longevity of the social
partnership regime is a result of it being part of an unorthodox system of
institutional complementarities that triggered a spectacular period of
economic and employment growth.