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In Lincoln's Watch, A Mystery Etched?

For nearly 150 years, Abraham Lincoln's pocket watch has been rumored to
carry a secret message, allegedly written by an Irish immigrant and
watchmaker named Jonathan Dillon. It sounds like a plot premise for
"National Treasure 3," but it was real, or at least a real legend, and it
went like this:

Dillon told family members that he was working in M.W. Galt and Co.'s
jewelry shop on Pennsylvania Avenue in 1861. By incredible happenstance, he
said he was repairing Lincoln's watch when the shop owner burst in with news
that Fort Sumter in South Carolina had been attacked. It was the opening
salvo of the Civil War.

Dillon told his family (and, four decades later, a reporter for the New York
Times) that he opened the watch's inner workings, etched his name, the date
and a message for the ages: "The first gun is fired. Slavery is dead. Thank
God we have a President who at least will try."

...In front of an audience of 40 or so reporters and museum employees,
expert watchmaker George Thomas used a series of delicate instruments --
tweezers, tiny pliers -- to pull apart Lincoln's timepiece.

...He pried off the watch's face, pulled off the hands, and turned it over
to see the brass underside of the movement.

The audience, watching on a monitor, gasped.

Split into three different sections to get around the tiny gears was this
razor-thin etching: "Jonathan Dillon April 13-1861. Fort Sumpter [sic] was
attacked by the rebels on the above date thank God we have a government." He
added "Washington" and his name again.

The old man's memory had not been exact. He had not forecast the end of
slavery, or Lincoln's critical role in its demise. And the fort had actually
been attacked on April 12. (The name "Jeff. Davis," the president of the
Confederacy, is also etched on a different part of the brass plate, in
different handwriting. It remains unexplained. And someone added the name
"LE Grofs" and "1864.")

But it was there, a little bit of history that had been hidden at Lincoln's
side during those tumultuous days of war and rebellion, the Emancipation
Proclamation and Gettysburg Address, and then resting, unseen, for nearly a
century and a half.

SOURCE
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/10/AR2009031001
449.html

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Dear Paddy,

From today's Irish Times--an art exhibit in London about the struggles of=
Irish immigrants in London in the 1950s and '60s.

Unsure of the copyright rules, I have included both the link and the full=
-text of this article.

Cian McMahon



http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0317/1224242946299.html

A portrait of lonely, toiling London-Irish migrants

Tue, Mar 17, 2009

There is no monument to the labouring lives of those shown in a new exhib=
ition, writes FRANK MILLAR London Editor

IN THESE recessionary times, you might hardly think to find entertainment=
in an art exhibition depicting the hard, often harrowing experience of a=
n earlier generation of male Irish immigrants forced to leave their homel=
and in search of work in a strange and often hostile place.

Yet if you should find yourself at a loose end in London over the next fe=
w weeks, you could certainly spend a stimulating hour or two visiting the=
PM Gallery in Ealing.

The gallery is currently hosting the premiere of a new exhibition featuri=
ng the work of artists Bernard Canavan, Daniel Carmody, John Duffin, Derm=
ot Holland and curator Brian Whelan, depicting the London-Irish experienc=
e in the 1950s and 1960s.

My first surprise was to see The Quiet Men billed as =93the first major c=
ontemporary London-Irish art exhibition=94 to explore this subject. As Wh=
elan explains: =93Irish music, literature, poetry and dance are celebrate=
d all over the world. However, when asked to name an artist, many will ha=
ve difficulty as very few have been celebrated outside Ireland. Perhaps b=
ecause a people that experienced famine, war, economic hardship and mass =
immigration carried only their portable culture with them in their heads,=
hearts and suitcases.

=93Poems and songs have few requirements short of a good memory or the ab=
ility to carry a tune, whereas painting, sculpture and architecture are l=
ess portable and need peace, prosperity and time in order to flourish.=94

The second surprise was to learn it has taken Whelan eight years to put t=
his powerful work together =96 courtesy of the local council =96 in face =
of a curious lack of interest on the part of Irish businesses and officia=
l and other funds.

Having viewed the paintings =96 and a brilliant supplementary exhibition =
of photographs from the Paddy Fahey Collection at Brent Archive =96 it oc=
curred to me that The Quiet Men might almost serve as a sort of travellin=
g roadshow for the Ireland Fund=92s Forgotten Irish campaign.

For they are here, those forgotten, pushed to the margins of society, som=
etimes slipping below the radar altogether =96 the theme of their journey=
presented in the songs, toasts, prayers of the immigrants, their lives f=
ull of stories and great humour as well as tragedy.

At a packed opening night broadcaster, Fergal Keane told Whelan the paint=
ings prompted in him an =93overwhelming sense of loneliness=94. That lone=
liness, fear, apprehension and uncertainty is powerfully presented, for e=
xample, in the faces of those queuing to leave the boat train in Holyhead=
in Bernard Canavan=92s Disembarkation .

It isn=92t all angst and hardship, however. There is relief =96 if attend=
ed by some melancholia too =96 in the depiction of community life as expe=
rienced in the cafes and launderettes, as well, of course, as in the pub.

The subject of Whelan=92s Fine Girl You Are is surrounded by musicians an=
d looks jolly, while underlining the point that probably the only woman i=
n the bar was the singer.

This is unapologetically an exhibition about the male experience.

There are elements of nurture and family in Fahey=92s beautiful portrayal=
of the lives of the London-Irish in the years following the second World=
War, the sense of community and its spirit, and the role and influence o=
f the church in peoples=92 lives in what he also reminds us was the era o=
f the ballrooms of romance.

There is no romance, it must be said, in Whelan=92s tribute to those who =
helped build Britain. Paddy in the Smoke shows a fairly evil-looking St P=
atrick with angels clutching on to coffins, it is not immediately clear w=
hether the holy man is sucking the bodies in or spewing them out. In fact=
, Whelan explains, the bodies are sitting on unfinished slabs of motorway.

In what he describes as a sort of =93spaghetti junction=94 moment, the ar=
tist says it occurred to him =93there is no memorial to those, say, who b=
uilt the Hammersmith flyover=94, to those in that time, like his own fath=
er and uncles, whose hard lives and hard work also spelt a prematurely ea=
rly death.

The Quiet Men is showing until April 18th. For further information contac=
t Michael Barrett or Kirsten Canning on 0208295 2424, e-mail mb[at]thepresso=
ffice.uk.com

=A9 2009 The Irish Times

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Please forgive the aspect of self-promotion here, but I thought it
somewhat newsworthy that the previously little-known Arthur O'Connor
is beginning to gain a modicum of recognition. The Irish Echo ("The
USA's most widely read Irish-American newspaper") printed a full-page
article they asked me to write about my new biography of O'Connor.
Entitled "Arthur O'Connor was the man in '98", it appears on page 50
of their St. Patrick's Day issue, and can be seen in their on-line
edition at this web address:

http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/Launch.aspx?referral=other&pnum=&refresh=jQ035dT10R8p&EID=ba46a6f0-37fc-4995-895f-7c783b86c33f&skip=

[Accessing that website may require "subscribing" to the Irish Echo on-
line edition, but the subscription is free.]

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St Patrick's Day Greetings from President McAleese

Beannachtai na Feile Padraig ar chlann mhor dhomhanda na nGael, sa
bhaile agus ar fud na cruinne, ar an la naisiunta ceiliurtha seo.

Warmest St Patrick's Day Greetings to everyone taking part in this
happy festival celebration, in Ireland and around the world. This is
our time for showcasing the spirit of the Irish through our wonderful
culture and heritage, our gift for friendship and our love of life.
We will gather in both the most obvious and the most obscure of
places under the patronage of St. Patrick, a man, an immigrant to
Ireland whose life was one of outrageous hardship and outstanding
endurance. The chances are that wherever the Irish, and their
neighbours and friends gather this St. Patrick's Day they will be
making a very determined effort to find joy in adversity and a moment
of distraction from serious economic and financial worries that face
our country and our world.

St Patrick's own personal story is one of facing into huge
difficulties and hardships, not of his own making. His coping skills
were sorely tested. In the Deer's Cry, the beautiful poem attributed
to him he says, "I arise today, through a mighty strength". We have
our own mighty strength, in the goodness, decency and hard work of so
many individuals, in our uniquely strong and robust sense of
community, in our history of overcoming hardship, our culture of
welcome, our investment in peace and in our ability on St. Patrick's
Day to be family to one another from Beijing to Bahrain and from
Belfast to Bantry. We know that our patron saint would encourage us
to work with each other, for each other and work through these
difficulties to a better future for everyone.

Behind every St. Patrick's Day gathering wherever it is in the world
there is a story of men and women who came together to celebrate
being Irish, whether by birth or by association. They are part of a
generations old tradition of volunteering help to one another, and of
being community to one another. I thank all of them for the many
ways in which they bring such noble and life-enhancing qualities into
our world and for the fun, enjoyment and happy memories they help
create for us through St. Patrick's Day 2009.

To each and every one of you, I wish a wonderful St. Patrick's
festival. Enjoy every moment of it and may the spirit of St Patrick
be with you and your families on this day and every day. May that
mighty strength be yours as it was his.


MARY McALEESE
PRESIDENT OF IRELAND

MARCH, 2009

http://www.president.ie/index.php?section=5&speech=623&lang=...

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{decoded}i have just been to see the exhibition-in fact I am writing this in the magnificent grounds of the PM gallery in Ealing Green. A few minutes from Ealing Broadway Tube Station. This is a must-see for anyone passing through London portraying the lives of a forgotten generation of London Irish migrants. It should be shown in Ireland. Ultan Cowley is speaking there this friday evening 20 march. Piaras

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Subject: [IR-D] "The Quiet Men" London Irish Art Exhibition
From: Cian McMahon
Date: Tue Mar 17 16:32:20 GMT+00:00 2009


Dear Paddy,

From today's Irish Times--an art exhibit in London about the struggles of Irish immigrants in London in the 1950s and '60s.

Unsure of the copyright rules, I have included both the link and the full-text of this article.

Cian McMahon



http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0317/1224242946299.html

A portrait of lonely, toiling London-Irish migrants

Tue, Mar 17, 2009

There is no monument to the labouring lives of those shown in a new exhibition, writes FRANK MILLAR London Editor

IN THESE recessionary times, you might hardly think to find entertainment in an art exhibition depicting the hard, often harrowing experience of an earlier generation of male Irish immigrants forced to leave their homeland in search of work in a strange and often hostile place.

Yet if you should find yourself at a loose end in London over the next few weeks, you could certainly spend a stimulating hour or two visiting the PM Gallery in Ealing.

The gallery is currently hosting the premiere of a new exhibition featuring the work of artists Bernard Canavan, Daniel Carmody, John Duffin, Dermot Holland and curator Brian Whelan, depicting the London-Irish experience in the 1950s and 1960s.

My first surprise was to see The Quiet Men billed as the first major contemporary London-Irish art exhibition to explore this subject. As Whelan explains: Irish music, literature, poetry and dance are celebrated all over the world. However, when asked to name an artist, many will have difficulty as very few have been celebrated outside Ireland. Perhaps because 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.

The second surprise was to learn it has taken Whelan eight years to put this powerful work together  courtesy of the local council  in face of a curious lack of interest on the part of Irish businesses and official and other funds.

Having viewed the paintings  and a brilliant supplementary exhibition of photographs from the Paddy Fahey Collection at Brent Archive  it occurred to me that The Quiet Men might almost serve as a sort of travelling roadshow for the Ireland Funds Forgotten Irish campaign.

For they are here, those forgotten, pushed to the margins of society, sometimes slipping below the radar altogether  the theme of their journey presented in the songs, toasts, prayers of the immigrants, their lives full of stories and great humour as well as tragedy.

At a packed opening night broadcaster, Fergal Keane told Whelan the paintings prompted in him an overwhelming sense of loneliness. That loneliness, fear, apprehension and uncertainty is powerfully presented, for example, in the faces of those queuing to leave the boat train in Holyhead in Bernard Ca
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The following item has been brought to our attention.

I am not clear from the web site how you actually get the special sale
prices. But I think that a number of Ir-D members will be interested in the
resource.

P.O'S.

From: Archive CD Books Ireland [mailto:newsletter[at]archivecdbooks.ie]
Subject: New Releases & Sale

Issue 35, 16 March 2009

Dear Project Members and friends,


Thank you all so much for your support and custom during our Winter Sale.


We apologise that your our production could not always keep pace with your
enthusiasm, but we thank you for supporting our project and making it
possible for us to expand and develop for the future.

Contents:
1. St. Patrick's Day Sale
2. New Releases
3. Free Download
4. Who Do You Think You Are Live? - Competition Winners

1. ST. PATRICK'S DAY SALE
***************************
To celebrate St. Patrick's Day on 17th March we're offering a 40% discount
on all our Irish titles. Visit the Archive CD Books shop between now and 22
March to avail of this offer.
Please note: this is an internet-only sale. During the sale period our
delivery times may be a little longer than normal.

http://www.archivecdbooks.ie/acatalog/


2. NEW RELEASES
******************
This month we have a number of new Irish and British titles:

Irish Interest
* Upper Lough Erne in 1739
* HMC Franciscan Manuscripts
* Deserted Children in Dublin 1854
* Real Life in Ireland 1904
* Working Class Conditions in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales 1908

Have a very Happy St. Patrick's Day!

The Archive CD Books project team

Archive CD Books Ireland
Unit 1, Trinity Enterprise Centre,
Pearse Street,
Dublin 2,
Ireland
Tel: +353 1 6710338
Fax: +353 1 6710281
www.archivecdbooks.ie
enquiries[at]archivecdbooks.ie

Irish VAT (Sales Tax): This is charged on all customers
from the European Union at 21%, but customers from north
America, Australia, and anywhere outside the EU shop at our
site tax free.

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Forwarded on behalf of
Jean Talman [mailto:jean.talman[at]utoronto.ca]

Subject: Canadian Association for Irish Studies Annual Conference - Into the
West

Dear CAIS members and friends:

Our Annual Conference will be held June 3-6, 2009 at Mount Royal
College, Calgary, Alberta. Michele Holmgren has been working hard on
the local arrangements and has lined up some great events for us. Simon
Jolivet and Sean Farrell are working on the academic program. And
Danine has been overseeing everything in her usual efficient way, in
spite of the demands of motherhood. Information is now available on
the website and this year we will be accepting registrations and
payments on-line. Or if you prefer, you can print out the registration
form and mail it to me with your cheque.

www.irishstudies.ca

Information on accommodations in Calgary is also available on the website.

Happy St. Patrick's Day to all!


Jean Talman (CAIS Communications Officer)
Celtic Studies
St. Michael's College
University of Toronto

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Kate O'Malley

Subject: Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) volumes, live online
and FREE
From: Kate O'Malley

NEW COLLECTION OF IRISH FOREIGN POLICY DOCUMENTS FROM 1923 TO 1932
AVAILABLE FREE ONLINE

The full and searchable text of volumes II and III of the Documents on
Irish Foreign Policy series is now available free online at www.difp.ie

The new material runs from 1923 to 1932 and joins that from 1919 to
1921 already available at www.difp.ie.

Amongst the new topics covered are:

* The final months of the Irish civil war from an international and
diplomatic perspective;

* The Boundary Commission;

* Ireland's admission to the League of Nations;

* League of Nations assemblies from 1923 to 1931;

* Ireland's election to the Council of the League in 1929 and
Ireland's term on the Council 1930-32 (to Feb. 1932);

* The Imperial Conferences of 1923, 1926 and 1931and Commonwealth
policy to 1932;

* The Balfour Declaration (1926) and the Statute of Westminster
(1931);

* Bilateral relations with the Britain, the United States, France,
Germany and the Vatican City;

* The Japanese invasion of Manchuria;

* The collapse of Weimar Germay and the rise of Nazism;

* Irish views on the Briand Plan for a European Union (1930);

* The Great Depression.


For further information and queries contact
Dr Michael Kennedy, Executive Editor, DIFP at: difp[at]iol.ie

Documents on Irish Foreign Policy is a project of the Department of
Foreign Affairs, the National Archives and the Royal Irish Academy.

________________________

Dr Kate O'Malley,
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy,
The National Archives, Bishop Street, Dublin 8.
Ph.: +353-(0)1-4072312 Mob.:+353-(0)87 215 2522
View DIFP documents online at: www.difp.ie

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The University of Lodz
The Institute of English Studies=20
The Department of British Literature and Culture


Playfulness, Light(ness) and Air in Irish Literature=20
and Culture

=A3=F3d=BC, 4-5 June 2009


THE SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

An interdisciplinary Irish Studies conference aims to explore the theme =
of
playfulness, light(ness) and openness in Irish literature, art, film, =
music,
psychology, history and philosophy. The research areas could examine, =
among
other topics:

.=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 epiphanies and affirmations in Irish literature =
and culture
.=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 the passion of Irish elements (in Irigaray's =
idiom)
.=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 openness and air in Irish tradition, history and =
philosophy
.=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 jouissance and Molly Bloom's YES=20
.=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 playfulness, craic and the "joyful affirmative =
passion" (in
Braidotti's words)=20
.=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Irish cinema and Irish film directors=20
.=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 playfulness in Irish art, music and design=20
.=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 "joying in the truth of self-division" (Jean =
Graybeal)=20
.=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 lightness that Italo Calvino cherishes in his Six =
Memos For the
Next Millennium, even in the form of "unbearable lightness of being"=20

The language of the conference is English. It will take place at the
University of =A3=F3d=BC Centre. The conference fee is 180 PLN (c. 38 - =
40 euro).
If you are interested in that topic, please send your abstract (up to =
300
words) by 15th of April 2009 to this address: poloczek[at]uni.lodz.pl. The
reviewed collection of essays will follow in a book form. The conference =
is
organised by Katarzyna Poloczek (ph.d.), Marta Goszczy=F1ska (ph.d.) and =
Agata
Budzi=F1ska (M.A).=20
=A0

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Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I am off to London for a few days this morning...

I am going to pick up on some research work. And I have a conference - on
interdisciplinarity - all day tomorrow, Friday March 20, in the Bloomsbury
area.

At 6 pm on the evening of Friday March 20 I am committed to being in this
pub...

Cittie of Yorke (sic)
22 High Holborn, Holborn, London, WC1V 6BN

http://www.pubs.com/pub_details.cfm?ID=160

http://barblog.co.uk/london/blackfriars-and-chancery-lane/the-cittie-of-york
e-chancery-lane-london/

If anybody wants to join me in the pub they would be very welcome. I note
that, as well as our London Ir-D members there seem to be quite a few
members from further afield visiting. For people who do not know what I
look like - I am told that I currently have an extraordinary resemblance to
Karl Marx. That is, long grey hair and beard...

My mobile phone number is 0781 049 0525.

Obviously one of the things I hope to do in London is see this Quiet Men
exhibition in Ealing...

I will be back here in my attic in Bradford some time at the weekend.

Paddy O'Sullivan

--
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
Department of Social Sciences and Humanities University of Bradford Bradford
BD7 1DP Yorkshire England

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Subject: Forming Nations,
Reforming Empires: Atlantic Polities in the Long Eighteenth
Century
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Forming Nations, Reforming Empires: Atlantic Polities in the Long =20
Eighteenth Century

This conference will discuss the ways in which people and polities =20
from the Americas, Europe, and Africa assumed, legitimized, rejected =20
and interacted with various forms of authority in the =91long eighteenth =
=20
century.=92 This period is typically characterized by the dissolution of =
=20
Atlantic Empires combined with the emergence of the nation state. Yet, =20=

historians have begun to argue that even as nation states began to =20
emerge in the colonial Atlantic, Empires continued to thrive, =20
reconstructing themselves in the face of changing notions of =20
sovereignty, freedom and territoriality. This conference seeks to =20
explore the affinities, groups and networks that were important to =20
peoples=92 thinking and acting politically and examine the ways that =20
nations and empires coexisted and came into conflict during the period =20=

of the =91long eighteenth century.=92

Keeping in mind that the options for =93acting like a state=94 were not =20=

simply national or imperial, we invite proposals from well-established =20=

and newer scholars, working on any aspect of the experience and =20
mechanisms of authority in the =93long eighteenth century Atlantic =20
world,=94 understood in its broadest sense and reaching across =20
disciplinary boundaries. Topics might include:

Collective memories and origin myths about the forming of nations, =20
extra-national and supranational bodies, citizenship and subjecthood, =20=

migration
State-knowledge formation; law, legal spaces, jurisdiction
Consumption; material culture, arts, commodity frontiers/exchange, =20
commodity trade, trade networks
Political economy
Authority and the private sphere
Inter-state interactions and actors
Politics in Africa, North and South America, informal authorities
Impositions and experiences of disciplinary regimes (e.g, slave =20
codes, master and servant law, crime and punishment)
Structures of religious authority
Wars and violence

Please send submissions to atlanticconf2010[at]nyu.edu. Include a 200-300 =20=

word abstract and two-page C.V. Some funds may be available to defray =20=

transportation costs for graduate student presenters.


Anelise Shrout
Atlantic World History
New York University
ahs4[at]nyu.edu

"Must we give up history as a serious study but keep it as a =20
delightful amusement, turn away from European wars and watch the =20
ladies thronging to the toy ships, cease studying what sort of =20
government our ancestors had and enquire what they had for dinner?"

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School of English, Queen's University Belfast

Postgraduate Awards for PhD and Masters Study, 2009-2010.

Following our success in the AHRC's Block Grant Partnership Scheme, next
academic year we are pleased to offer 2 AHRC doctoral
awards and 1 AHRC research preparations MA award. These will be awarded on a
competitive basis subject to normal AHRC eligibility
rules. These awards will be supplemented over the next four years by a
further 9 PhD and 5 MA awards under the Block Grant
Partnership.

As a result of the School's performance in RAE 2008, it has also been
awarded 7 DEL doctoral awards and 2 University doctoral
awards for next academic year. In addition, the School will make available
up to 20 home tuition fee awards for MA students. These
will be awarded on a competitive basis (and subject to normal eligibility
rules in the case of the DEL awards).

Therefore, in 2009-2010 we have a total of 11 doctoral awards and up to 21
MA awards available for postgraduate study in the
School. The deadline for applicants who wish to be considered for funding is
31st March 2009 and students can access the
application portal via the School's homepage
www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofEnglish/

Our highly praised MA programme comprises the following strands:

MA in English Language and Linguistics
MA in Medieval Studies
MA in Reconceiving the Renaissance
MA in Irish Writing
MA in Modern Literary Studies
MA in Creative Writing

From 2009, we will also be offering an exciting new MA in Poetry. See the
School website via the link above for further
information.

The School currently has over 70 PhD students working on projects from the
earliest writings in English to twenty first century
writing. Staff offer a wide range of supervisory expertise and further
information on their research interests can be found here
www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofEnglish/Staff/ Staff welcome informal
enquiries from potential PhD students. Alternatively,
interested students may wish to contact one of the co-directors of
postgraduate education, Dr Adrian Streete (who covers Language
and Linguistics, Medieval and Renaissance: a.streete[at]qub.ac.uk) or Dr Philip
McGowan (who covers Irish, Modern, Creative Writing
and Poetry: p.mcgowan[at]qub.ac.uk). Again, the deadline for applicants who
wish to be considered for PhD funding is 31st March 2009.

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Hi Paddy

I'm in the bloomsbury area as we 'speak'; passed that pub this a.m.; looked promising...

Unfortunately I'm doing my thing at the Quiet Men event Friday evening - doubt you'd make that though. Ah well - ships that pass...

Best

Ultan
----- "Patrick O'Sullivan" wrote:
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>
> I am off to London for a few days this morning...
>
> I am going to pick up on some research work. And I have a conference
> - on
> interdisciplinarity - all day tomorrow, Friday March 20, in the
> Bloomsbury
> area.
>
> At 6 pm on the evening of Friday March 20 I am committed to being in
> this
> pub...
>
> Cittie of Yorke (sic)
> 22 High Holborn, Holborn, London, WC1V 6BN
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> http://www.pubs.com/pub_details.cfm?ID=160
>
> http://barblog.co.uk/london/blackfriars-and-chancery-lane/the-cittie-of-york
> e-chancery-lane-london/
>
> If anybody wants to join me in the pub they would be very welcome. I
> note
> that, as well as our London Ir-D members there seem to be quite a few
> members from further afield visiting. For people who do not know what
> I
> look like - I am told that I currently have an extraordinary
> resemblance to
> Karl Marx. That is, long grey hair and beard...
>
> My mobile phone number is 0781 049 0525.
>
> Obviously one of the things I hope to do in London is see this Quiet
> Men
> exhibition in Ealing...
>
> I will be back here in my attic in Bradford some time at the weekend.
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Following on from the exchange of views on the IR-D List on the subject o=
f the
Glasgow Rangers Famine Song, I thought people might be interested in Fint=
an
O'Toole's piece in today's Irish Times comparing that controversy with th=
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representations of the Irish in the latest episode of the Simpsons
Belated St Patrick's Day wishes to all!
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STUDIES -DUBLIN-
VOL 98; NUMB 389; 2009
ISSN 0039-3495

pp. 7-18
The Central Bank and National Crisis.
O Criodain, D.

pp. 19-30
Beholden to No-One Public Bodies, Patronage and Probity.
Clancy, P.

pp. 31-42
Public Service Reform - A Question of Liberty.
Grace, E.

pp. 43-57
The Relevance of Irish Local Government.
MacCarthaigh, M.

p. 58
Processing Peace : a poem.
Keefe, B.

pp. 59-70
Integration and political participation: Immigrants and the 2009 local
elections in Ireland.
O Boyle, N.

pp. 71-79
Interrogating Irish Policies Revisited.
Kingston, W.

p. 80
Going Dutch : a poem.
Woods, M.

pp. 81-88
The Death of American Capitalism.
Coleman, M.

pp. 89-94
``Mea Culpa'.
Quinn, B.

p. 95
Irish Children and Teenagers in a Changing World: The National ``Write Now'
Project, by Pat O'Connor.
Andrews, P.

pp. 96-97
Emotions: Their Cognitive Bases and, Ontological Importance, by Kevin
Sludds.
Leonard, L.

pp. 98-99
Divided Kingdom: Ireland 1630-1800, by S. J. Connolly.
Keogh, D.

pp. 100-102
Edmund Rice and the First Christian Brothers, by Daire Keogh.
Langan, M.D.

pp. 103-105
Irish Periodical Culture, 1937-1972: Genre in Ireland, Wales and Scotland,
by Michael Ballin.
Fanning, B.

pp. 106-107
The civil service and the revolution in Ireland, 1912-1938: `Shaking the
blood-stained hand of Mr Collins', by Martin Maguire.
Swift, J.

pp. 108-109
The Irish College, Rome and its World, ed. Daire Keogh and Albert McDonnell.
O Donoghue, F.

pp. 110-111
Government in Modern Ireland, by Muiris MacCarthaigh.
Adshead, M.

pp. 112-115
The Catholic Church and the Protestant State: Nineteenth-Century Irish
Realities, by Oliver P. Rafferty.
Roantree, D.

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IRISH HISTORICAL STUDIES
NUMB 142; 2008
ISSN 0021-1214

pp. 138-152
Questioning the (bad) question: `Was Ireland a colony?'.
Howe, S.

pp. 153-172
Marx on nineteenth-century colonial Ireland: analysing colonialism as a
dynamic social process.
Slater, E.; McDonough, T.

pp. 173-187
The `Irish' policeman and the Empire: influencing the policing of the
British Empire-Commonwealth.
Sinclair, G.

pp. 188-201
James Craig: Chamberlainite imperialist, 1903-14.
Daly, T.P.

pp. 202-226
The captive dominion: imperial realities behind Irish diplomacy, 1922-49.
Lowry, D.

pp. 227-242
Northern Ireland and the British Empire-Commonwealth, 1923-61.
Ollerenshaw, P.

pp. 243-256
The road to Asia, and the Grafton Hotel, Dublin: Ireland in the `British
world'.
Jeffery, K.

pp. 257-259
Theses on Irish history completed in Irish universities, 2007.

pp. 260-265
Major accessions to repositories relating to Irish history, 2007.

p. 266
Reviews and short notices (see over).

p. 266
Hudson, Irish Sea studies, 900-1200.
McDonald, R.A.

pp. 267-268
Breen, The Gaelic lordship of the O'Sullivan Beare: a landscape cultural
history.
McCormack, A.M.

p. 269
Mac Cuarta, Catholic revival in the North of Ireland, 1603-41.
Jefferies, H.A.

p. 270
Dickson, Old World colony: Cork and south Munster, 1630-1830.
Miller, D.W.

p. 271
Childs, The Williamite wars in Ireland, 1688-1691.
Lenihan, P.

pp. 272-273
Delaney and MacRaild (eds), Irish migration, networks and ethnic identities
since 1750.
Fitzgerald, P.

p. 274
Blackstock, Loyalism in Ireland, 1789-1829.
Hill, J.

pp. 275-276
Bew, Ireland: the politics of enmity, 1789-2006.
Coleman, M.

p. 277
Beiner, Remembering the Year of the French: Irish folk history and social
memory.
hOgartaigh, M.O.

p. 278
Luddy, Prostitution and Irish society, 1800-1940.
Fleming, D.

p. 279
James, Handloom weavers in Ulster's linen industry.
Gray, J.

p. 280
Hansson, Emily Lawless, 1845-1913: writing the interspace.
Morris, C.

pp. 280-282
Hansson (ed.), New contexts: re-framing nineteenth-century Irish women's
prose.
Morris, C.

p. 283
Meleady, Redmond: the Parnellite.
Maume, P.

p. 284
O Cathain, Irish republicanism in Scotland, 1858-1916: Fenians in exile.
Barr, C.

p. 285
Marley, Michael Davitt: freelance radical and frondeur.
Shields, A.

pp. 286-287
McBride, The experience of Irish migrants to Glasgow, Scotland, 1863-1891: a
new way of being Irish.
Girvin, B.

p. 288
Shannon, Gladstone: God and politics.
Bew, P.

p. 288
Biagini, British democracy and Irish nationalism, 1876-1906.
Bew, P.

p. 289
Swift & Kenealy (eds), Politics and power in Victorian Ireland.
Shields, A.

p. 290
Griffin, Cycling in Victorian Ireland.
Garnham, N.

pp. 291-292
Ryan & Ward (eds), Irish women and the vote: becoming citizens.
Thane, P.

p. 293
McNulty, The Ulster Literary Theatre and the Northern revival.
Maume, P.

p. 294
Wheatley, Nationalism and the Irish party: provincial Ireland, 1910-1916.
McConnel, J.

pp. 294-296
Campbell, Land and revolution: nationalist politics in the west of Ireland,
1890-1921.
McConnel, J.

p. 297
Walker, A history of the Ulster Unionist Party: protest, pragmatism and
pessimism.
Martin, P.

p. 298
Jeffery, Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson: a political soldier.
Bowman, T.

p. 299
Bowman, Carson's army: the Ulster Volunteer Force, 1910-22.
Hart, P.

p. 300
D'Arcy, Remembering the war dead: British Commonwealth and international war
graves in Ireland since 1914.
Jeffery, K.

pp. 301-302
Foxton, Revolutionary lawyers: Sinn Fein and Crown Courts in Ireland and
Britain, 1916-1923.
Kotsonouris, M.

p. 303
Ferriter, Judging Dev: a reassessment of the life and legacy of Eamon de
Valera.
Augusteijn, J.

pp. 303-304
Foster, Luck & the Irish: a brief history of change, c. 1970-2000.
Augusteijn, J.

pp. 305-306
Earner-Byrne, Mother and Child: maternity and child welfare in Dublin,
1922-1960.
McCormick, L.

p. 307
Girvin & Murphy (eds), The Lemass era: politics and society in the Ireland
of Sean Lemass.
Brownlow, G.

p. 308
Eliash, The harp and the shield of David: Ireland, Zionism and the state of
Israel.
Miller, R.

p. 309
Bryson (ed.), The insider: the Belfast prison diaries of Eamonn Boyce,
1956-1962.
Murphy, W.

p. 310
O'Donnell, Fianna Fail, Irish republicanism and the Northern Ireland
Troubles, 1968-2005.
Hanley, B.

pp. 310-311
Prince, Northern Ireland's '68: civil rights, global revolt and the origins
of the Troubles.
Hanley, B.

pp. 312-313
Wood, Crimes of loyalty: a history of the UDA.
Gillespie, G.

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Just a thought in my head, niggling away

He's got a little green jerkin on and one of those green stove pipe
hats, his little skinny legs wrapped up also in the green: his cheeks
are red and he appears to be dancing: he has adopted a pose of having
jumped into the air and then in flight clicked his heels together. He's
clearly ecstatically happy, if he is indeed male: the caption is an
invite to a club for 'Paddy's Nite' and the leaflet was districted by
the student body around the campus where I work:

a) calm down Liam, it's just a silly caricature, a bit of fun=20

b) its racist, offensive, speak up: get yourself a reputation as a
'deadbeat' and the rest


Liam Clarke =20

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Subject: CFP - alternative spiritualities, the New Age and new religious
movements in Ireland

Dear colleagues,

Please find below a call for papers for a forthcoming conference at NUI
Maynooth. We would very much welcome papers from colleagues abroad studying
any of these topics.

Many thanks,

Laurence Cox

Alternative spiritualities, the New Age and
New Religious Movements in Ireland:
an interdisciplinary conference

National University of Ireland, Maynooth
October 30th 31st 2009

Welcome address:
Prof. Tom Inglis (UCD)

Plenary lectures:
Prof. Eileen Barker (LSE)
Prof. Paul Heelas (Lancaster University)

Conference website:
www.nrmireland.blogspot.com


Call for papers
In recent decades, the religious landscape of the island of Ireland has
transformed dramatically. New religious movements and what is sometimes
called the "New Age" have flourished, along with the arrival of religions
long-established elsewhere. Ways of being which classify themselves as
non-religious or as consciously resisting religion (new spiritualities,
humanism, skepticism, anti-cult organisations etc.) have also become far
more significant. (The "newness" of any movement or group, and the "New Age"
classification, are of course both often strongly contested, but are used
here for practical purposes.)

This is the first conference to bring together academic research on these
topics in Ireland. We are interested in work on religious groups and
movements, as well as more diffuse expressions of spirituality and religious
organisation which have arrived, (re-)emerged or flourished in Ireland after
1945.

These developments raise big questions for the study of religion, but also
have important implications in fields as wide-ranging as gender relations,
roads protests, the politics of church and state, immigration, tourism,
funeral practices, education, youth cultures, health and regulation,
globalization, and our relationship to the past, physical or imagined. They
shed light on the transformation of religion in contemporary Ireland as well
as providing us with insights into the nature of the society we live in.

With this in mind, we welcome theoretical and empirical papers in a range of
disciplines on all aspects of these new movements in Ireland, including but
not limited to "New Age" groups, pagan / Celtic movements, other new
religious movements, world religions in Ireland, alternative medicine and
bodywork, "cults" and schisms within established Irish churches, non- and
anti-religious groups, and new religious movements abroad which have strong
Irish roots or influences.

While the conference is dedicated to academic research, it will be open to
the public and we expect interest from the media as well as from mainstream
churches, alternative practitioners and other interested parties.

Suggested themes
We welcome papers by established researchers and graduate students in all
academic disciplines (including but not limited to anthropology,
archaeology, cultural studies, economics, English, health research, history,
neuroscience, philosophy, politics, psychology, sociology, religious
studies, tourism studies, women's studies ) as well as cross-disciplinary
and interdisciplinary papers and work by researchers outside of academia.

Papers may be theoretical or empirical in their approach, and include
historical, qualitative and quantitative studies, documentary and case study
approaches, and other methodologies and approaches. The only limitation is
that this is a research conference rather than a place to debate the truth
or religious value of particular religious beliefs or practices, and we are
looking for papers which advance understanding rather than simply
describing, celebrating or condemning.

Some suggested themes for papers include:
o The New Age and understanding religion: concepts and theories,
understanding "experiences" and techniques, biography and religion etc
o New religious movements and social change in Ireland: secularisation,
class, Celtic Tiger and prosperity consciousness, modernity and
post-modernity etc
o Alternative spiritualities and identity: ethnicity, feminism, bodies,
ecology, landscapes, globalisation, "Celticity", counter-culture etc
o The organisation of the New Age: new religious structures, the Internet
and new religions, credentialism, seminar spirituality etc
o Contesting religion: media coverage, mainstream religious responses, moral
panics, anti-cult movements, secular movements etc
o Institutional implications of new religious movements: education, health,
policing, funerals, marriages, conflicts over regulation etc
o The economics of new spirituality: commodification, publishing, spiritual
tourism, alternative health etc
o Historicising new religious movements: reading the pre-Christian past,
Orientalism in Ireland, literary aspects etc


We also welcome proposals on other topics related to the conference focus.

Timeframe and other practical details
The deadline for proposals is May 1st, 2009. Please submit proposals by
email to Olivia Cosgrove (olivia.cosgrove[at]ul.ie), including an abstract of
no more than 500 words in .rtf, .doc or .pdf format and your academic or
institutional affiliation. We will notify acceptance of proposals by May
31st at the latest.

Papers accepted for the conference will be distributed to participants on
the day, and may be reworked for later publication elsewhere. The deadline
for registration, and for submission of completed papers, is October 1st,
2009. Papers should be in .doc format and be no longer than 9,000 words
including footnotes, bibliography etc. Speakers will have 20 minutes for
each paper.

The conference will run during the day on Friday and Saturday, with plenary
lectures in the evening. An excursion to local pre-Christian sites (which
include Tara and the Boyne Valley tombs) will be organised on the Sunday if
there is sufficient interest.


As this will be a multi-disciplinary conference, as well as being open to an
informed and interested public, we encourage presenters to deliver papers
which are clear and accessible, without talking down to their audience or
devoting the whole of their paper to simple description. We intend to
publish a volume based on selected papers from the conference, suitably
rewritten, as a definitive collection on the subject.

Maynooth is 15 miles outside Dublin, close to the airport and easily
accessible by rail and bus as well as car. More details at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynooth and www.nuim.ie. In May-June we will
organise affordable accommodation for those who need it and make details and
a booking form available. We will also work to deal with specific food
requirements at that point.

Organising committee:
Dr Anthony d'Andrea, University of Limerick
Ms Olivia Cosgrove, University of Limerick
Dr Laurence Cox, NUI Maynooth
Ms Maria Griffin, NUI Maynooth
Dr Carmen Kuhling, University of Limerick
Dr Peter Mulholland, NUI Maynooth
Dr Patricia Neville, University of Limerick
Ms Ciara O'Connor, NUI Maynooth


Department of Sociology
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Co. Kildare
Republic of Ireland

Tel. (+353-1) 708 3985
email: laurence.cox[at]nuim.ie

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Dear all,=20
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Last =A0reminder re paper call for 2009 conference =A0
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Also this year the Old Irish summer schools are being supplemented by a =
ten
day intensive Old Norse for beginners course by Dr Katrina Burge of
Melbourne, which will run along the same lines and like them, will be =
hosted
here in Mary Immaculate College in Limerick. =A0Cost of courses =3D 300 =
euros
per course with B x B accommodation available on campus for 25 euros per
night.=20
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Relevant dates:=20
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Beginners Old Irish 8th =96 18th June 2009
Intermediate Old Irish 6th =96 17th July 2009
Beginners Old Norse 20th =96 30th July.=20
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Hope weather is as good with ye as it is with us!=20
Cathy Swift=20
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TWENTY-THIRD CONFERENCE OF IRISH MEDIEVALISTS -- 27TH =96 30TH JUNE 2009
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history,
language and literature (Latin and the vernaculars). Length of papers:
45minutes (15 minutes discussion) or 20 minutes (10 minutes discussion).
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2009
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Reforming Empires: Atlantic Polities in the Long Eighteenth Century

The following information was left out of the original CFP:

(1) applications will begin being reviewed on June 1, 2009

(2) the conference will be held in New York City on February 26-27, 2010

If you have inquiries please contact:

Anelise Shrout
Atlantic World History
New York University
ahs4[at]nyu.edu

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Subject: [IR-D] Forming Nations, Reforming Empires: Atlantic Polities in the
Long Eighteenth Century

Forming Nations, Reforming Empires: Atlantic Polities in the Long
Eighteenth Century

This conference will discuss the ways in which people and polities
from the Americas, Europe, and Africa assumed, legitimized, rejected
and interacted with various forms of authority in the 'long eighteenth
century.' This period is typically characterized by the dissolution of
Atlantic Empires combined with the emergence of the nation state. Yet,
historians have begun to argue that even as nation states began to
emerge in the colonial Atlantic, Empires continued to thrive,
reconstructing themselves in the face of changing notions of
sovereignty, freedom and territoriality. This conference seeks to
explore the affinities, groups and networks that were important to
peoples' thinking and acting politically and examine the ways that
nations and empires coexisted and came into conflict during the period
of the 'long eighteenth century.'

Keeping in mind that the options for "acting like a state" were not
simply national or imperial, we invite proposals from well-established
and newer scholars, working on any aspect of the experience and
mechanisms of authority in the "long eighteenth century Atlantic
world," understood in its broadest sense and reaching across
disciplinary boundaries. Topics might include:

Collective memories and origin myths about the forming of nations,
extra-national and supranational bodies, citizenship and subjecthood,
migration
State-knowledge formation; law, legal spaces, jurisdiction
Consumption; material culture, arts, commodity frontiers/exchange,
commodity trade, trade networks
Political economy
Authority and the private sphere
Inter-state interactions and actors
Politics in Africa, North and South America, informal authorities
Impositions and experiences of disciplinary regimes (e.g, slave
codes, master and servant law, crime and punishment)
Structures of religious authority
Wars and violence

Please send submissions to atlanticconf2010[at]nyu.edu. Include a 200-300
word abstract and two-page C.V. Some funds may be available to defray
transportation costs for graduate student presenters.


Anelise Shrout
Atlantic World History
New York University
ahs4[at]nyu.edu