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The Irish Bridget: Irish Immigrant Women in Domestic Service in
America, 1840-1930
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Subject: The Irish Bridget

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce that my new book, "The Irish Bridget" will be out
tomorrow. To the best of my knowledge, it is the first book-length
treatment of the topic! Specific book information follows.

Lynch-Brennan, Margaret. The Irish Bridget: Irish Immigrant Women in
Domestic Service in America, 1840-1930. With a Foreword by Maureen O'Rourke
Murphy. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, April 2009.
ISBN 978-0-8156-3201-6
Cloth $39.95)

Best to all,
Peggy

--
Margaret Lynch-Brennan, Ph.D.
Independent Scholar
Member, National Coalition of Independent Scholars
NY State Education Dept., Ret.
7 Morgan Way
Latham, NY 12110
518-783-7327
mlynchbrennan[at]nycap.rr.com

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This may interest colleagues, if it has not been picked up yet.

David
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From: Costica Bradatan=20
Date: 18/04/2009 17:50:20=20
To: H-IDEAS[at]H-NET.MSU.EDU=20
Subject: CFP: ESSHC Session =91History, Memory and Mig ration=92=20
=20
CFP: ESSHC Session =91History, Memory and Migration=92=20
=20
We seek proposals for papers that compliment our panel session on=20
=91History, Memory and Migration=92 at the European Social Science=20
History Conference (ESSHC) in April 2010 (http://www.iisg.nl/esshc/).=20
Please find the description of the planned session below.=20
=20
This is an almost last-minute attempt to put a panel together. Please=20
Send abstracts to both of the following email addresses by *Friday,=20
24th of April:*=20
=20
Irial.Glynn[at]EUI.eu =20
=20
o.kleist[at]fu-berlin.de =20
=20
=20
ESSHC 2010 Session: History, Memory and Migration=20
=20
Every country has a long history of migration experiences, marked by=20
Emigration, immigration or both. Yet societies remember these pasts=20
Differently. Some countries embrace their experiences while others=20
Try to forget. Social memories are highly selective and politically=20
Contested. In public debates about current migration, historical=20
Experiences are often recalled to underpin political statements. The=20
Past is employed for claims about cultural identity or historical=20
Lessons in order to argue for the inclusion or exclusion of new=20
Immigrants.=20
=20
This session will explore how the past is utilized in societies in=20
Relation to contemporary migration. It will analyze how memories=20
Promote or restrict the movement of people and how they influence=20
Migrant incorporation. Papers will explore memories of migration in=20
Different countries and how they relate to migration politics.=20
Comparative, theoretical and empirical papers are welcome. Overall,=20
The session will contribute to understanding the benefits and limits=20
Of memories in migration debates.=20
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Subject: CFP Postgraduate Conference on The Politics of Irish Writing, 18
- 19 September 2009, Prague
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Postgraduate Conference on The Politics of Irish Writing
Call for papers
THE POLITICS OF IRISH WRITING
International Postgraduate Conference
18 - 19 September 2009
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Website: www.
http://www.english-department-prague.cz/centre-for-irish-studies
Contact e-mail: maciej.ruczaj(at)gmail.com
=20
CALL FOR PAPERS
Paper proposals are invited for an international conference which aims =
to
bring together some of the most interesting postgraduate projects in the
area of Irish Studies. Following the successful model of New Voices in =
Irish
Criticism, the conference seeks to provide a much needed discussion =
space
for graduate students working in Irish literature and studies, offer an
innovative platform for the exchange of ideas, and give space to =
stimulating
new voices in the discipline. We particularly welcome those working =
outside
the Anglophone academic environment.

Proposals for papers of 20 minutes' duration are welcome on any aspect =
of
Irish writing, with a special attention to the politics of identity
(national, religious, class, gender etc.), the literary negotiations =
between
the discourses of tradition and (post)modernity, and the politics of =
Irish
writing in the European and/or global contexts.

The conference will be hosted by the Centre for Irish Studies at Charles
University, Prague and inaugurated by Dr Ond=F8ej Piln=FD, Director of =
the
Centre and Head of the Department of Anglophone Literatures and =
Cultures.
The event is supported from a grant awarded by the Department of Foreign
Affairs, Ireland.

The conference involves no registration fee, student accommodation for
international participants will be available free of charge. The =
proceedings
of the conference will provide the basis for an edited book which is to =
be
published in February 2010.

Abstracts of 250 words, in either English or Irish, should be submitted =
by
20 June 2009. Abstracts must include the title of your paper, name, =
postal
and e-mail addresses, institutional affiliation and any AV requirements =
for
your presentation.

Abstracts should be sent to Maciej Ruczaj, maciej.ruczaj(at)gmail.com. =
Do
not hesitate to contact us for any further inquiry.
Conference Committee:

Ond=F8ej Piln=FD, Barbara Bindasov=E1, Michaela Markov=E1, Radvan =
Markus, Hana
Pavelkov=E1, Maciej Ruczaj (chair), Ester =AEantovsk=E1
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Subject: CFP Elizabeth I and Ireland, 12-14 November 2009,
University of Connecticut, Storrs
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"Elizabeth I and Ireland"
Thursday - Saturday, 12-14 November 2009
University of Connecticut, Storrs

This conference aims to bring together a diverse range of historians and
literary scholars to explore both Elizabeth I's direct role in the =
shaping
of Irish policy and the ways in which Irish events and people affected =
her
political style.

Issues that we hope will be addressed by speakers and commentators =
include
the following:

* Elizabeth I's intervention in the administrative and military affairs =
of
Ireland;
* Her relationship with her military commanders and viceroys in Ireland;
* Her role in--and views of--the violence that increasingly marked the
English presence in Ireland;
* Her policies effecting religious change;
* Her interest in the mytho-historical origins of the Irish and their
culture;
* The extent to which she considered Ireland kingdom or colony; and
* Irish views of Elizabeth I.

We welcome proposals on these or other subjects from historians, =
literary
scholars, and those working in related fields. Proposals of no more than =
300
words should be e-mailed to brendan.kane[at]uconn.edu. Deadline: May 1, =
2009.

Plenary speakers: Paul Hammer (Department of History, University of
Colorado, Boulder) Leah Marcus (Department of English, Vanderbilt
University) Breand=E1n =D3 Buachalla (Department of Irish Language and
Literature, University of Notre Dame)

Brendan Kane
Wood Hall
241 Glenbrook Road Unit 2103
Storrs, CT 06269-2103
Email: brendan.kane[at]uconn.edu

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I am back from my holiday, and getting to grips...

My sincere thanks to Liam Greenslade for looking after the IR-D list over
the past weeks.

Bill Mulligan visited and we had a very pleasant few days - we had a
wide-ranging (from Gargrave up to Salterforth) discussion about the future
of the Irish Diaspora list.

One of the things I have been getting to grips with now is the free access
to the Sage Journals - which, of course, coincided with my holiday. See
Matt O'Brien's message, below. Thank you to Matt.

We do like to keep an eye open for these things - this is a great
opportunity for the 'more isolated' scholar to get hands on lots of good
stuff.

P.O'S.

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Of Matt O'Brien
Sent: 06 April 2009 15:55
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] Sage Journals Online- free access

Sage Journals has just started another free access period that runs until
April 30. You can register at
http://www.sagepub.com/home.nav

All the best,
Matt O'Brien

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A sage journal...

War in History, Vol. 16, No. 2, 133-156 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0968344508100987

`Black Bob' Craufurd and Ireland, 1798-1804

Michael J. Durey
This article represents a reassessment of Robert Craufurd, focusing on his
role as a soldier-politician concerned with the position of Ireland in the
wider empire during the era of the Act of Union. It explains the impact
Irish conditions had on his political thought and explores how he used his
new awareness while an MP not only to support his military defence policy,
but also to promote a reform programme for Ireland, even though his military
career was threatened as a consequence.

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Subject: Article,
Officering Kitchener's Armies: A Case Study of the 36th (Ulster)
Division
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War in History, Vol. 16, No. 2, 189-212 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0968344508100989

Officering Kitchener's Armies: A Case Study of the 36th (Ulster) Division

Timothy Bowman
This article reassesses the original composition of the officer corps of the
Kitchener armies formed in late 1914 using the recently released officers'
personal files at the National Archives, Kew. It challenges the existing
historiography by showing that many Kitchener units did not draw their
officers from pre-war Officer Training Corps products and relied on men with
very limited or no previous military experience. It demonstrates that the
officer composition of the 36th (Ulster) Division was similar to that of its
counterparts in Great Britain, and that the Ulster Volunteer Force influence
on officer appointments was much more limited than has been assumed.

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Conflict Management and Peace Science, Vol. 26, No. 1, 67-91 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0738894208097667

Early Conflict Prevention in Ethnic Crises, 1990=9798

A New Dataset*

Magnus =D6berg
Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden,
magnus.oberg[at]pcr.uu.se

Frida M=F6ller

Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden

Peter Wallensteen

Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden

In this article we present a new dataset: the Early Conflict Prevention =
in
Ethnic Crises dataset (ECPEC). It contains data on operational conflict
prevention in 67 ethnic crises in the period 1990=9798 that vary in =
terms of
both preventive action and crisis outcomes. The new dataset thus allows =
for
the evaluation of the effects of different types of preventive measures =
and
also gives an overview of who takes what measures and in what conflicts. =
The
global overview shows some interesting patterns. Preventive activity in =
the
escalatory phase of ethnic conflict is dominated by verbal attention and
facilitation. Coercive measures are rarely employed prior to the =
outbreak of
war. Preventive action is most common in Europe and the Middle East, =
while
crises in Asia tend to receive comparatively little attention. Most of =
the
preventive action is focused on a relatively small number of high =
profile
cases like those in Northern Ireland, the Balkans, Afghanistan, and =
Iraq.
Major Powers (with the exception of China), neighboring states, the UN, =
and
regional organizations are the most active interveners. To illustrate =
the
usefulness of a large-N dataset on preventive measures, we also present =
a
first analysis of the effects of different types of measures. The =
findings
suggest that diplomatic measures and relief efforts both have conflict
dampening effects, while carrots (inducements) increase the likelihood =
of
escalation to war. Other measures show no significant effects in this
sample. The findings also show that third parties are more likely to
intervene in conflicts that are more prone to escalate to war. This =
implies
that unless we account for the propensity of third parties to intervene =
in
the more difficult cases, we risk underestimating the effects of =
preventive
measures.

Key Words: civil war =95 conflict prevention =95 crises =95 escalation =
=95 ethnic
conflict =95 intervention =95 third party

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Subject: Book Notice, Jackson,
Popular Opposition to Irish Home Rule in Edwardian Britain
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Popular Opposition to Irish Home Rule in Edwardian Britain
Jackson, Daniel
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price: =A3 65.00
ISBN 9781846311987

Synopsis
This book is a salutary reminder that the realities of British politics
before 1914 were more complex and rather different from the =
=91whiggish=92
stereotypes about New Liberalism, and the rise of Labour and class =
politics
which have dominated our understanding of late Edwardian Britain. =
Jackson=92s
groundbreaking research shows that from the start of the Third Home Rule
Bill crisis, there was in Britain considerable popular interest in the =
Irish
issue, and that the Curragh army mutiny of 1914 was not an isolated
incident, but part of a wider popular movement. A well-orchestrated =
campaign
of agitation led by Unionist leaders Sir Edward Carson and Andrew Bonar =
Law
had so exploited patriotic and sectarian resentment at the prospect of =
Irish
Home Rule that by 1914 the United Kingdom was on the verge of civil war.

Jackson locates this movement at the end of a =91long nineteenth =
century=92,
where communal and confessional identities were still as powerful as =
class,
and where native hostility to Catholicism and Irish migration still
prevailed. This work shows that the rhetoric and street-theatre of =
Carsonism
had as much resonance in Britain as =91Protestant Ulster=92, where =
enormous
crowds turned out to protest against Home Rule throughout Great Britain =
(and
not just in the sectarian cauldrons of Liverpool and Glasgow). For =
Jackson,
the study of these massive demonstrations becomes a way of capturing the
opinions of those rendered voiceless by history, and shows how the =
Ulster
question allowed Conservative politicians to bridge the gap between =
elites
and masses, and elicit a degree of popular enthusiasm unmatched in the =
years
before the Great War.

'One of the most important studies in British-Irish history to be =
published
this decade.' Don MacRaild, University of Ulster

Daniel Jackson works in policy development in local government. He has
contributed articles to a number of journals including Transactions of =
the
Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire.

256pp, 234 x 156mm, cased

Published April 2009

http://www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk/html/publication.asp?idProduct=3D3886=


The book is handled in the USA by The University of Chicago Press

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=3Dsynopsis&book=
key=3D1
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Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson: A Political Soldier
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The following item has been brought to our attention...

Book Review noted at...

The Journal of Military History

Volume 73, Number 2, April 2009

E-ISSN: 1543-7795 Print ISSN: 0899-3718

DOI: 10.1353/jmh.0.0273
Reviewed by
David R. Woodward
Emeritus, Marshall University
Huntington, West Virginia

Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson: A Political Soldier. By Keith Jeffrey. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2008 [2006]. ISBN 978-0-19-923967-2. Maps.
Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. x, 325. $39.99.

On June 22, 1922, Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, one of Britain's most
acclaimed soldiers, was assassinated in London by two IRA gunmen at his
doorstep at Eaton Place. Wilson had held many important positions during his
illustrious military career, including Staff College Commandant, 1907-1910;
Director of Military Operations, 1910-1914; Liaison Officer with the French
Army, 1915; commander of a corps, 1916; British Permanent Military
Representative on the new Supreme War Council, 1917-1918; and Chief of the
Imperial General Staff, 1918-1922. Five years after his assassination,
however, his reputation was dealt a severe blow with the publication of his
diaries and letters in an official biography [End Page 665] by Sir C. E.
Callwell. Within the army establishment Wilson had always been thought of as
a "political" general. One British officer had famously said of him:
"Whenever Wilson came within a mile of prominent politicians he suffered
from a sexual disturbance." But Wilson also had many supporters who found
him good company and enjoyed his wit. Callwell's biography, however, seemed
to reveal the real Wilson. Rather than being a congenial colleague Wilson's
own words indicted him as being petty and vindictive, perhaps even at times
unbalanced. His letters and diary entries also underscored his love of
intrigue and exploitation of his political relationships to further his
career.

Two Wilson biographies were written in the 1960s, Brasshat (1961), by Basil
Collier and The Lost Dictator (1968), by Bernard Ash. The book under review,
which is based on research in archival sources unavailable to Collier and
Ash in the 1960s, is written by an historian who is an authority on Ireland
during the Great War and who has edited Wilson's military correspondence,
1918-1922, in a volume published by the Army Records Society...
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Book Review noted at...

Civil War History
Volume 55, Number 1, March 2009

E-ISSN: 1533-6271 Print ISSN: 0009-8078

DOI: 10.1353/cwh.0.0042
Reviewed by
Mark E. Neely Jr.
Penn State University

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Fenians, Freedmen, and Southern Whites: Race and Nationality in the Era of
Reconstruction. By Mitchell Snay. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University
Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 218. Cloth $40.00.)

The relationship between race and nation during the Civil War has always
vexed the study of the period. In the case of the Emancipation Proclamation,
nationalism, from all appearances, triumphed over racism in the North, as
the mass of Northerners continued to fight the South just as fiercely after
the proclamation as they had before. Surprisingly, among African Americans,
North and South, nationalism triumphed over merely "racial" goals as well.
From Frederick Douglass to the recently freed field hand, African Americans
desired the flag and the franchise. But for Irish Americans in the North,
the pattern seems different. With the New York City draft riots in July
1863, ethnic identity appeared to triumph over nation for some Irish
Americans.

It occurred to Mitchell Snay that such relationships, as yet poorly
understood for the period of the war, were even more poorly understood for
the period of Reconstruction. And in this well-written and solidly
researched book he explores the relationship between race and nationality in
that period. The result is a book wholly original, as far as I know, in that
it juxtaposes three groups not previously compared, Fenians, freedmen, and
Southern whites. To get a handle on the difficult subject, he chooses to
write about the groups "from the perspective of nationalism" (6). In
particular, he seizes on a distinction commonly made between "civic" and
"ethnic" nationalism.

Perhaps the most convincing similarity pointed out is the common role of
"semi-secret, fraternal, paramilitary societies" among these groups in their
political aspirations in early Reconstruction: the Fenians, the Ku Klux
Klan, and the Union Leagues...
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GEOGRAPHIES OF THE CELTIC TIGER
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From the Editors' Introduction...

'This special issue on the Geographies of the Celtic Tiger is more timely
than we imagined it would be when first being planned. Its publication
coincides with the Republic of Ireland entering its worst recession for at
least a quarter of a century; a recession that owes as much to domestic
policy failures as it does to the wider international context of bad debt
and constrained credit. This special issue then is being published at a time
that calls for a searching re-examination of the policies and underlying
paradigm that for two decades were seen to facilitate an historically unique
period of economic and social development in the Republic of Ireland. We are
confident that the papers that passed critical review for inclusion in this
special issue each have an original contribution to make, based on primary
research, to reconsidering key areas of public policy and of the broader
paradigm that informed the successes of recent decades...'


Irish Geography, Volume 42 Issue 1 2009
GEOGRAPHIES OF THE CELTIC TIGER
Journal of the Geographical Society of Ireland

ISSN: 1939-4055 (electronic) 0075-0778 (paper)

Subjects: Economic and Political Geography; Regional Geography - Human
Geography;
Publisher: Routledge

Introduction
Geographies of the Celtic Tiger
1 - 5
Authors: Peadar Kirby; Pdraig Carmody
DOI: 10.1080/00750770902815570

Articles
The spatiality of Irish manufacturing linkages in the 'Celtic Tiger'
era
7 - 22
Authors: Nicola Brennan; Proinnsias Breathnach
DOI: 10.1080/00750770902815588

The Irish pharmaceutical industry over the boom period and beyond
23 - 44
Authors: Chris van Egeraat; Frank Barry
DOI: 10.1080/00750770902815604

The contribution of the overseas ICT sector to expanding R&D
investment in Ireland
45 - 67
Authors: Seamus Grimes; Patrick Collins
DOI: 10.1080/00750770902815612

The role of 'hard' and 'soft' factors for accommodating creative
knowledge: insights from Dublin's 'creative class'
69 - 84
Authors: Enda Murphy; Declan Redmond
DOI: 10.1080/00750770902815620

New residential neighbourhoods within the inner city: an examination
of neighbouring
85 - 99
Author: Peter Howley
DOI: 10.1080/00750770902815638

'Germs' in the heart of the other: emigrant scripts, the Celtic
Tiger and lived realities of return
101 - 117
Author: Deirdre Conlon
DOI: 10.1080/00750770902815646

Book Reviews
Book reviews
119 - 124
Authors: Adrian Kavanagh; John McDonagh; Enda Murphy
DOI: 10.1080/00750770902815653

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From Irish Geography, Volume 42 Issue 1 2009, GEOGRAPHIES OF THE CELTIC
TIGER...

'Germs' in the heart of the other: emigrant scripts, the Celtic Tiger and
lived realities of return
Author: Deirdre Conlon a
Affiliation: a Emerson College, Institute for Liberal Arts and
Interdisciplinary Studies, USA

Published in: Irish Geography, Volume 42, Issue 1 March 2009 , pages 101 -
117

Abstract
During the 1990s and 2000s, the period coinciding with Ireland's economic
and social transformation and ubiquitously referred to as the 'Celtic Tiger'
years, the Irish nation transitioned from being an emigrant-sending to an
immigrant-receiving society. In association with this shift, considerable
attention has been devoted to Ireland's new immigrant groups, including
refugees and asylum seekers and more recently to migrant workers from new EU
accession states. During the same period, inward migration was consistently
comprised of significant numbers of former emigrants returning to Ireland;
however, the place and experiences of Ireland's return migrants has received
comparatively little attention from mainstream media sources and is a
relatively recent development in scholarship on migration. Taking as its
impetus Piaras MacEinri's (2001) call for scholarship that places Ireland's
history of emigration alongside contemporary immigration, this paper
critically explores scripts - media representations and discourses - on
emigrants and emigration in the late 1980s and 1990s as they reflect in the
lived realities of Irish migrants who returned to Ireland during the Celtic
Tiger years. I argue that these scripts, which bestowed emigrants with
characteristics that were subsequently gathered back into the social spaces
of Irish society during the Celtic Tiger period, generated a social
landscape that was complex to navigate and where lived realities - marked by
a devaluation of the emigrant experience and displacement in return -
illustrate the contradictions between the representations of emigration in
the 1980s and experiences of return. Instead, the lived realities of return
highlight the intricate linking of time and space in social exclusions from
post-Celtic Tiger Ireland.

Keywords: global modernity; media representation/cultural production; return
migrants; diaspora; devaluation and displacement

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Craic in a box: Commodifying and exporting the Irish pub
Author: Bill Grantham

Published in: Continuum, Volume 23, Issue 2 April 2009 , pages 257 - 267
Subjects: Cultural Theory; Media Studies;

Abstract
The Irish pub has become a worldwide commercial phenomenon. Its huge success
since the 1990s has been the result of a conceptual, marketing, design and
branding effort to create a complex figment of 'Irishness' attractive to
non-Irish consumers, but increasingly difficult to reconcile with
contemporary, multicultural Irish life.

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The civilizing of hurling in Ireland
Authors: Paddy Dolan a; John Connolly b

Affiliations: a Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland
b Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

DOI: 10.1080/17430430802590995

Published in: Sport in Society, Volume 12, Issue 2 March 2009 , pages 196 -
211
Subjects: Sociology of Sport; Sport & Society; Sports, Leisure, Travel &
Tourism;

Abstract
This essay examines the sport of hurling in Ireland through the theoretical
framework of sport and leisure developed by Elias and Dunning. Through an
analysis of newspaper reports of games, of rulebooks and codes of play, as
well as historical data on increasing social differentiation and
integration, we argue that hurling has undergone sportization and civilizing
processes. However, due to the unevenness of wider figurational shifts these
processes have been non-linear and fragile. Gradually, we see increasing
numbers of rules, as well as increasing severity of punishment for the
breaking of specific rules relating to violent play. The level and extent of
violent conduct also appears to change with both players and spectators
becoming more self-controlled. The increasing emotional restraint of
spectators and players can be explained by the changes in the overall
structure of Irish society during this period, particularly from the 1960s
onwards with increasing interdependencies between people.

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Nationalizing the post-national: reframing European citizenship
for the civics curriculum in Ireland
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Nationalizing the post-national: reframing European citizenship for the
civics curriculum in Ireland
Author: Avril Keating a
Affiliation: a National Foundation for Educational Research, Berkshire,
UK

DOI: 10.1080/00220270802467475

Published in: Journal of Curriculum Studies, Volume 41, Issue 2 April 2009
, pages 159 - 178

Abstract
The EU and other European institutions have launched a wide range of
educational initiatives over the past 50 years in order to foster European
citizenship and bring Europe 'closer to the people'. However, the efficacy
of these efforts is questionable. In the EU, education policy (and in
particular, curriculum policy) is governed by subsidiarity: citizenship
education curricula are designed at the national level, with limited input
from European institutions. This paper examines whether European citizenship
education initiatives have impact upon national-level curricula and,
moreover, how the concept of European citizenship has been defined and
constructed in national citizenship education programmes. These questions
are explored here using qualitative, socio-historical methods through a case
study of curricular reform in the Republic of Ireland. This case illustrates
that there has been a gradual deepening and broadening of the way in which
European citizenship is conceptualized in the Irish curriculum. However,
this remains a narrow conception of European citizenship, and one which
ultimately limits both the impact on national citizenship and the prospects
of European citizenship.

Keywords: citizenship education; education policy; European citizenship;
Ireland

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Minding the Gaps: New Directions in the Study of Ireland and
Empire
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Minding the Gaps: New Directions in the Study of Ireland and Empire
Author: Stephen Howe
DOI: 10.1080/03086530902757779

Published in: The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Volume 37,
Issue 1 March 2009 , pages 135 - 149
Subjects: British History; Imperial & Colonial History;

Principal works discussed...

Versions of Ireland: Empire, Modernity and Resistance in Irish Culture
Ein Flannery
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006

Enemies of Empire: New Perspectives on Imperialism, Literature and
Historiography
Edited by Ein Flannery and Angus Mitchell
Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2007

Ireland and Anglo-Irish Relations Since 1800: Critical Essays: Vol. 1, Union
to Land War; Vol. 2, Parnell and his Legacy to the Treaty; Vol. 3, From the
Treaty to the Present
Edited by N. C. Fleming and Alan O'Day
Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008

Ireland and India: Colonies, Culture and Empire
Edited by Tadgh Foley and Maureen O'Connor
Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 2006

Was Ireland a Colony? Economics, Politics and Culture in Nineteenth-Century
Ireland
Edited by Terrence McDonough
Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 2005

Eire-Ireland
Edited by Michael de Nie and Joe Cleary
Special issue 42, 1 & 2, 2007

Ireland, India and Empire: Indo-Irish Radical Connections, 1919-64
Kate O'Malley
Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2008

Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery: 1612-1865
Nini Rodgers
Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Map-making, Landscapes and Memory: A Geography of Colonial and Early Modern
Ireland c.1530-1750
William J. Smyth
Cork, Cork University Press, 2006

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Subject: Book Reviews at irishtheatremagazine.ie, Kenneth Tynan,
Patrick Lonergan
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The theatre folk will by now have got the message...

You go to=20

www.irishtheatremagazine.ie

Where you will find the latest Table of Contents, plus access to =
reviews.
And you can sign up for regular updates.

The magazine has now started to put book reviews on the web site...

Currently there are 2...

Kenneth Tynan, Theatre Writings =20
Selected and edited by Dominic Shellard =20
Nick Hern Books, 2008 =20
Reviewed by R=F3n=E1n McDonald=20

Theatre and Globalization: Irish Drama in the Celtic Tiger Era =20
Patrick Lonergan =20
Palgrave, 2009 =20
Reviewed by Emily Pine

I wonder if this Emily Pine and the Emile Pine who appears on the TOC =
are by
chance related?

P.O'S.

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A blue plaque marking the birthplace of Belfast playwright and poet Stewart
Parker has been unveiled by his niece.

Lynne Parker performed the ceremony at the house in Larkfield Road,
Sydenham, in the east of the city where her uncle spent his early years.
Stewart Parker died in 1988 after battling cancer. He was 46 years of age.
Among the works for which he is best known are the plays Spokesong and
Catchpenny Twist.

Full text at...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8010319.stm


The 2008 Stewart Parker Awards for new playwrights were announced yesterday
(Monday 20 April 2009) at an event in the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, attended by
President Mary McAleese.

Set up in honour of the late Belfast playwright, Stewart Parker, the Stewart
Parker Trust seeks to encourage new writing for the theatre in Ireland. Two
BBC Northern Ireland awards have also been established in Stewart Parker's
memory and form part of this annual initiative.

Full text at...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/04_april/21/park
er.shtml

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From today's Irish Times

Congrats to Liam Harte. Pity the damned book is so expensive!

Piaras

Untold stories of the Irish in Britain

Sat, Apr 25, 2009

FINTAN O'TOOLE reviews The Literature of the Irish in Britain: =
Autobiography and Memoir, 1725-2001 By Liam Harte Palgrave Macmillan, =
301pp. =A355

AS EARLY AS 1605, the Privy Council in London was issuing warnings about =
the migration of =93base people from Ireland=94 who were being deported =
from France as beggars and making their way to the English capital. In =
the same year, there are reports of an Irish shanty town in the East =
End. The figures given by Brian Lambkin and Patrick Fitzgerald in their =
recent and superb overview, Migration in Irish History, 1607-2007 =
suggest that over three million Irish-born people have emigrated to =
Britain since 1600. Over the course of the 20th century alone, 1.6 =
million Irish left for Britain, more than twice as many as went to North =
America.

Yet, compared to the Irish in America, the Irish in Britain have an =
oddly low profile. Irish policy has been much more concerned with the =
British in Ireland than with the Irish in Britain. The diaspora itself =
has produced no towering literary masterpieces like Eugene O=92Neill=92s =
Long Day=92s Journey into Night or James T Farrell=92s Studs Lonigan , =
and there have been no great historical explorations like those of Kerby =
Miller or Donald Akenson in North America. The overwhelming consensus in =
critical and historical analysis is that the Irish in Britain did not, =
on the whole, write their own stories. Silence, if not cunning, is =
assumed to have accompanied their exile.

Into this silence, Liam Harte=92s superb anthology of first-person =
narratives by Irish writers in Britain drops like a crashing cymbal, =
making some wonderful noises and setting up reverberations that will =
hang in the air for a long time. This is a rare book, a real act of =
discovery that overturns inherited perceptions and opens up a rich =
terrain of Irish experience.

Harte=92s selection from 63 narratives published between 1725 and 1993 =
amounts, as he acknowledges in his introduction, to a corpus of writing =
that is collectively =93fragmentary, eclectic, amorphous, uneven and =
obscure=94. Yet if that sounds like an apology, it is in fact a brave =
declaration of intent. Harte does include the better-known =
autobiographies, like the great Irish-language writings of Mic=ED Mac =
Gabhann ( The Hard Road to the Klondike ) and Donall MacAmhlaigh ( The =
Diary of an Exile ), and the much-read accounts of WB Yeats, Patrick =
MacGill, Elizabeth Bowen, Sean O=92Casey, Louis MacNeice and John B =
Keane. But the real excitement of the book is its archaeological =
uncovering of the fragmentary and the obscure, of names and stories =
that, if they were ever remembered, have long been forgotten.

One of the narratives, by the tailor =93JE=94, is anonymous. Some of the =
other authors =96 Jane Jowitt, Robert Crowe, Mary Loughran =96 though =
not literally anonymous, exist in memory only through the survival of =
their writings. This obscurity is in fact entirely appropriate to the =
exercise. The thrill of Harte=92s work is that he is =93reading =
blind=94, exploring an uncharted territory in which basic facts =96 what =
is the earliest Irish autobiography in England? How many autobiographies =
are there? Who were the authors writing for? =96 remain elusive. =
Harte=92s earliest author, Mary Davys, may not even be Irish at all =96 =
in one narrative she claims English birth, in another she is quite =
emphatic about her Irish origins. The lawyer Michael Fagg, from whose =
memoirs Harte extracts an entertaining account of the fleecing of two =
naive Irish emigrants in Bristol, may or may not be a pseudonymous =
creation. The Ulster-born James Dawson Burn, whose remarkable account of =
his life as a vagrant beggar is one of the highlights of the book, =
confesses that =93where or how I came into the world I have no very =
definite idea=94.

THERE ARE ALSO significant gaps. Harte could not find any surviving =
narratives by Irish Protestant labourers in 19th-century Scotland, and =
the women who worked so prominently as nurses and domestic servants are =
largely absent from the record. (Though Harte did find one fascinating =
account by a Tyrone-born woman, Mary Loughran, who wrote under the =
pseudonym Maureen Hamish.)

Yet these absences draw attention to the remarkable range of Harte=92s =
research. His sources include St Crispin: A Magazine for the Leather =
Trades , whose issue for May 1869 yields the autobiography of a =
London-Irish shoemaker, John O=92Neill. The story of the tailor JE is =
drawn from an 1857 edition of the Glasgow didactic magazine The =
Commonwealth . One grippingly unsentimental account of post-famine =
emigration, by Owen Peter Mangan from Co Cavan, is previously =
unpublished, and comes from the Public Record Office of Northern =
Ireland.

This range of sources makes the anthology valuable, not just as a record =
of the Irish in Britain, but as a collection of voices both from the =
edge and from below. Prisons, for example, feature heavily in these =
recollections, whether for debt (Laetitia Pilkington), for ordinary =
crime (the pickpocket Ellen O=92Neill, whose reminiscences were recorded =
while she was in Preston jail awaiting transportation or the =
extraordinary Inchicore man Jim Phelan, who spent 13 years in various =
English jails for various crimes), for political activities, such as =
those of the United Irishmen organiser John Binns or the Chartist Robert =
Crowe, or for journalistic purposes, as with the pioneering feminist =
Frances Power Cobbe, who visits a =93poor, pale=94 battered wife in =
Newgate.

The texture of underclass life emerges with great immediacy, from the =
rawness of the vagrant=92s feet (James Dawson Burn) to the blistering of =
fingers from climbing chimneys as a boy sweep (Walter Hampson) or =
picking oakum in prison (Robert Crowe), and from casual violence within =
families (Ellen O=92Neill recalls that she went to Hull to wait for her =
brother to emerge from prison, whereupon he =93leathered me for coming =
away from home=94) to the dangers of disease (=93I lost my little =
daughter,=94 recalls the weaver Owen Mangan blankly, =93who was then =
near two years old. She died from whooping cough.=94). If the volume =
bears out the notion of the Irish as natural rebels (even in the 20th =
century, there is a stream of agitators, from the Bolton trade unionist =
Alice Foley to the soapbox socialist and Hyde Park orator Bonar =
Thompson) it might be simply because they were over-represented at the =
bottom of the heap.

Yet Harte is careful to avoid any mere indulgence in misery. One of the =
great strengths of the anthology is its alertness to the ambiguous =
status of Britain in the minds of Irish migrants. If Britain is hard, =
Ireland is no paradise either. The Donegal-born Patrick Gallagher, =
living in Lanarkshire, recounts his wife=92s receipt of a letter from =
her sister in Dungloe, reacting to the news that she is pregnant: =93You =
both must come home . . . Your child must be Irish not Scotch.=94 =
Gallagher gives a compelling description of the anguish this causes =
them, drawn as they are between the knowledge that they have a better =
life in Scotland and the powerful pull of ethnic identity.

And within the migrant experience itself, there is a further doubleness. =
Britain has been a place of miserable exile. It has also been, as Harte =
puts it, =93a longed-for escape from drudgery and obligation, a gateway =
to opportunity, and an invigorating test of self-sufficiency=94.

This is obviously true of high-profile figures such as the Victorian =
journalist, novelist and politician Justin McCarthy or Bob Geldof =96 =
whose superb autobiography features here =96 but even the 19th-century =
beggar James Dawson Burn remarks that =93had I remained in Ireland, I =
think my natural energy of mind would have been crushed=94.

AS ANY IRISH emigrant knows, the carefully maintained religious and =
social distinctions of the Irish mean little in Britain, and it is =
fascinating to discover that this has been so since the 18th century. =
Irish otherness was often inescapable, even for =E9migr=E9 Protestants. =
Laetitia Pilkington, who grew up privileged and Protestant in early =
18th-century Dublin, is assailed by the London toughs who have come to =
haul her off to debtors=92 prison as =93you Irish Papist bitch=94. The =
mid-19th century tailor JE, a sober-minded Antrim man, finds himself =
among his colleagues in the north of England, =93the butt of their =
ridicule and scorn=94. The hand-loom weaver William Hammond, another =
sober Ulsterman, is reminded of his origins by his Glasgow co-workers: =
=93some of the baser sort=94, he writes with sublime understatement, =
=93made me understand that it was not an advantage to have been born in =
Ireland=94.

There is, of course, the further ambivalence of the English-born child =
of Irish parents who is presented with alternative identities and has to =
work out an acceptable relationship between them. We tend to think of =
this struggle as a relatively new phenomenon =96 the poor and desperate =
have no time for identity crises. Yet one of the jewels of the book is =
the recollection of the socialist agitator Tom Barclay of growing up in =
a Leicester slum in the mid-19th century. His mother sings songs of =
Ois=EDn and Fionn and Cuchulain but, he asks, =93What had I to do with =
that? I was becoming English! I did not hate things Irish, but I began =
to feel that they must be put away; they were inferior to things English =
. . . My pronunciation was jeered at =96 mimicked, corrected . . . =
Presently, I began to feel ashamed of the jeers and mockery and =
criticism, and tried to pronounce like the English.=94

Conversely, the writer Joseph Keating, born to Irish parents in 1871 in =
the south Wales coalfield, gives an overtly idealistic account of a =
respectable Irish community in which bad language and illegitimacy are =
virtually unknown. He declares himself Irish, not Welsh, since =
=93nationality had nothing to do with the land of birth, but was =
inherited in the blood=94. He is =93entirely Irish in every way=94 and =
sees the Irish as =93a race chosen, above all other nationalities, by =
the Almighty, to establish the ideals of spiritual perfection=94. These =
two reactions to the diasporic dilemma =96 shame and self-loathing, or =
exaggerated, almost hysterical pride =96 are surely two sides of the =
same sweaty coin.

The alternative currency, of course, is the kind of hybrid identity that =
we again tend to think of as a postmodern phenomenon, but that Harte=92s =
narratives help to establish as a longer tradition. The Liverpool-Irish =
Pat O=92Mara, for example, in his 1934 autobiography, describes his =
=93mental prejudices=94 as a =93three-way ticket=94: passionate Irish =
Catholic nationalist first; =93ferocious sacrificial Britisher second=94 =
and thirdly =93patient, wondering dreamer=94.

By reflecting these ambiguities, Harte undermines the whole notion of =
=93the Irish in Britain=94 as a single entity and restores the =
complicating factors of class, gender, religion and geography. Above =
all, he restores in his wonderful book the individuality of each one of =
the millions of painful, hopeful journeys across the Irish Sea.

The Literature of the Irish in Britain: Autobiography and Memoir, =
1725-2001 By Liam Harte Palgrave Macmillan, 301pp. =A355