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Maybe someone of us should go along and ask them?
anthony

Dr Anthony McNicholas
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From: "MacEinri, Piaras"

Can it _really_ be the case that they intend to have a forum in London =
=3D
entitled 'A conversation with the Diaspora' with _not one_ expert =3D
speaker or community representative from the Diaspora?=3D20

Piaras Mac =3DC9inr=3DED
NUI Cork=3D20
(UCD 1972-1975).

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SOURCE
http://www.ucd.ie/johnhume/globalforum/edm/diasporaforum/

The Irish in Britain: A Conversation with the Diaspora

The Irish in Britain: A Conversation with the Diaspora=3D20
23 November 2009
The Royal Society
Carlton House Terrace
London

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As I'm sure Piaras recalls, they managed to do the same thing in Dublin
in 2007.

See here for the gory details
http://liamgr.blogspot.com/2007/04/come-in-to-parlour-and-keep-your-wallet.html

Are we going then?

Liam

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> entitled 'A conversation with the Diaspora' with _not one_ expert =
> speaker or community representative from the Diaspora?=20
>
> Piaras Mac =C9inr=ED
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> 23 November 2009
> The Royal Society
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How Many Irish Potato Famine Deaths?: Toward Coherence of the
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This article certainly seems to raise questions worth our considering - but
I do not have access to this journal. A web search for Nusteling turns up a
sequence of items of interest.

P.O'S.

Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History
Issue: Volume 42, Number 2 / Spring 2009
Pages: 57 - 80

How Many Irish Potato Famine Deaths?: Toward Coherence of the Evidence

Hubert P. H. Nusteling A1

A1 Department of History, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Abstract:

The author reexamines English, Irish, and American demographic statistics to
produce new estimates of the extent of mortality and migration during the
well-known Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s. He concludes that there was
significantly more emigration and significantly less mortality in Ireland
than is commonly believed. The starting point is a homeostatic population
series, which indicates that the 1841 English census population total was
about 6 percent too high. Most scholars assume that the total population
figure in that census is reliable, although many have questioned the numbers
of people that the census assigned to each age group. The lower homeostatic
population total for 1841, extrapolated from marriage data, implies that
Irish migration to England during the two succeeding decades was at least
twice as large as has generally been accepted. In addition to changing the
migration totals, substituting the homeostatic population estimate for the
1841 census total would create greater consistency between the population
and other English statistics during this period.

Keywords:

birthrates, death rates, 1841 English census, Irish excess deaths, Irish
Potato Famine, natural increase, population growth in the United Kingdom,
transatlantic migration 1841-61, U.S. migration statistics

SEE ALAO

Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History
Issue: Volume 38, Number 3 / Summer 2005
Pages: 126 - 142

Fertility in Historical Demography and a Homeostatic Method for
Reconstituting Populations in Pre-Statistical Periods

Hubert P. H. Nusteling A1

A1 University of Nijmegen Department of History the Netherlands
Abstract:

The homeostatic method, which was developed to reconstruct the number of
inhabitants of a city or even a country in pre-statistical periods, has yet
to receive much attention from demographic historians. Applied first to
Amsterdam during the years from 1586 to 1865, the method has subsequently
been used to compute the population of other places, including England from
1541 to 1871. The author reviews major schools of thought in historical
demography and shows that the homeostatic method, with its emphasis on
fertility regulated by marriages, logically extends some schools and is both
simpler and more accurate than others. He then explains the method in
detail, applying it to Dutch and English cases, and compares its estimates
with those obtained through the use of other techniques.

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Is charity a gift? Northern Irish supporters of Christian
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It is a long time since I have seen Marcel Mauss cited - but on checking I
see that there has been a new edition. He is often cited alongside Titmuss.

P.O'S.

Social Anthropology
Volume 17 Issue 2, Pages 171 - 183
Published Online: 12 May 2009
C 2009 European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)

Is charity a gift? Northern Irish supporters of Christian missions overseas
Elizabeth Tonkin 1
1 Queen's University of Belfast

KEYWORDS
belief . missionaries . charity . gifts . Europe

ABSTRACT
In Northern Ireland, as elsewhere in the British Isles, mainline church
denominations support their own mission societies. A small study of their
attitudes and objectives was conducted with society officials, and with
leading supporters in different denominations. Working in solidarity with
others in their congregation, supporters were often more interested in
helping to relieve suffering than to learn about the cultures and politics
of the 'missionised'. The sociality and disinterestedness of such charitable
activities is contrary to some common assumptions about Western
individualistic giving, deserves anthropological analysis and is relatable
to Maussian theories of 'the gift'.

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The Empire's War Recalled: Recent Writing on the Western Front
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A compact exploration of the different historiographies, ending with the
Irish and a quote from President McAleese during her visit to Brakey Orange
Hall. 'We have taken the first important steps towards ending the bitter
culture of Either-Or, of Them Versus Us... Now we must build a new culture
of Both...'

http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/1127/mcaleesemtext.html

P.O'S.

History Compass
Published Online: 5 May 2009
C 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

The Empire's War Recalled: Recent Writing on the Western Front Experience of
Britain, Ireland, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa and
the West Indies

John Connor 1*
1 University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy

ABSTRACT
The ninetieth anniversary of the end of the First World War in 2008 was
marked with the publication of a number of works in many parts of what was
once the British Empire. We saw an increased output in publications on the
Western Front. In Britain, the recent literature attempts to rehabilitate
Douglas Haig and define the 'learning curve' that enabled the British army
to defeat Germany in 1918. In Australia, Canada and New Zealand, the
performance of their soldiers on the Western Front is seen as central to
national identity and this now focuses on military success rather than
sacrifice in a futile war. In India, South Africa and Jamaica, there is a
renewed interest in linking the First World War to national identities based
on the independence or liberation struggle. In Ireland, the Great War is
seen as a shared experience that can link the Nationalist and Unionist
traditions in Northern Ireland and the Republic. The article concludes that
this interest in the Western Front will continue into the next decade in the
lead-up to the centenary of the First World War.

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In the Shadow of the Church: Irish and Quebec Cinema
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This thesis by Mary Gillan has been brought to our attention and is now =
freely available on the web. Its subject matter and approach will =
interest a number of Ir-D members.

BE WARNED - the SOURCE URL at the bottom of this message leads DIRECTLY =
to a very large pdf file. A thesis, in fact. Do not click on unless =
you are sure your connections can cope.

P.O'S.


In the Shadow of the Church: Irish and Quebec Cinema.

Mary Gillan, M.A., M.Phil.

In the Shadow of the Church: Irish and Quebec Cinema. Mary Gillan, M.A., =
M.Phil.

This thesis is submitted to Dublin City University for the award of =
PhDin the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

2008

Chapter 1: Introduction=20
Chapter 2: Quebec: the social, historical and political context
Chapter 3: The growth and decline of the Catholic Church in Quebec and =
Ireland
Chapter 4: The emergence and consolidation of the Film Industries In =
Quebec and Ireland
Chapter 5: Quebec Cinema and its relationship to its Catholic heritage
Chapter 6: Irish Cinema and its relationship to its Catholic heritage
Chapter 7: Conclusion
Reference List
Filmography
Appendices

Abstract=20
Ireland and the Canadian, largely francophone, province of Quebec share =
many similarities. Issues of religion, language and cultural identity =
have marked their history and influenced their relationship with their =
former English colonizer. The Catholic Church was a formidable force in =
both societies and shaped the public and private spheres. =
Quebec=C3=A2=E2=82=AC=E2=84=A2s =C3=A2=E2=82=AC=CB=9CQuiet =
Revolution=C3=A2=E2=82=AC=E2=84=A2 of the 1960s sounded the death knell =
of this Catholic state as rapid secularization shattered Church power. =
Social change and the erosion of Church influence had a more belated =
arrival in Ireland by comparison. It was not until the 1990s, amid =
unprecedented economic growth and revelations of serious and =
far-reaching clerical transgression, that the =
Church=C3=A2=E2=82=AC=E2=84=A2s influence receded and it became a target =
of sustained media critique. This thesis will examine the historical and =
political reasons for the growth and decline of the Catholic Church in =
Quebec and Ireland, and highlight important differences in religious =
adherence. The cultural industries, especially film, were harnessed by =
both states to promote national self-expression while also attentive to =
the economic benefits of a film industry. However, film as it reflects =
national realities also problematises them, and it can be exploited to =
serve particular discourses. Through an analysis of key films, this =
thesis will track the evolving relationship of the Quebec and Irish =
populations with the Catholic Church. The core concerns of the thesis =
are the cyclical and relatively benign nature of =
Quebec=C3=A2=E2=82=AC=E2=84=A2s relationship with its Catholic heritage =
in contrast to Irish cinema=C3=A2=E2=82=AC=E2=84=A2s more troubled, and =
often bitter, one in films largely produced in the nineties. Ultimately, =
the trajectory of Quebec cinema=C3=A2=E2=82=AC=E2=84=A2s relationship =
with the Church provides an intimation of the direction Irish society =
and its cinema is likely to take, as the full import of the loss of this =
grand narrative hits home

SOURCE

http://doras.dcu.ie/2206/1/gillan_mary_2009.pdf

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This book has turned up in our alerts because of
Chapter 6. Dermographia: How the Irish Became White in India.

Imperial white: race, diaspora, and the British Empire
By Radhika Mohanram
Published by U of Minnesota Press, 2007
ISBN 0816647801, 9780816647804
212 pages

Radhika Mohanram is based at Cardiff, in Wales - and it is interesting to
look at her references, which include Kevin Kenny and Kipling's Kim. There
are extracts from the book on Google Books. The book has been reviewed -
example below...

P.O'S.

Imperial White: Race, Diaspora, and the British Empire (review)
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History - Volume 10, Number 1, Spring
2009

Reviewed by Angela Woollacott
Macquarie University

Imperial White: Race, Diaspora, and the British Empire. By Radhika Mohanram.
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007) Despite the efflorescence
of critically-engaged work in British imperial history (along with
comparable work on other empires), there has been little cross-fertilization
between postcolonial studies and whiteness studies within it. Perhaps the
main reason for this is the dearth of historical scholarship on empires and
colonialism that brings the insights of the interdisciplinary field of
whiteness studies to bear. Given the central role of British and other
settlers within the British Empire from the seventeenth century onwards, and
the large scale of settler migration in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries, the lack of application of theory from whiteness studies...

Chapter Six analyzes the interesting topic of the Irish in India...

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Networks of Empire: Linkage and Reciprocity in Nineteenth-Century
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History Compass
Volume 7 Issue 3, Pages 993 - 1007
Published Online: 27 Apr 2009
C 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Networks of Empire: Linkage and Reciprocity in Nineteenth-Century Irish and
Indian History
Barry Crosbie 1*
1 National University of Ireland, Galway

ABSTRACT
Recent debates surrounding Ireland's historical relationship with the
British empire have focused almost exclusively upon its constitutional and
political ties with Britain. The question of Ireland's colonial status
continues to be heavily debated in Irish historiography and has been a
contributing factor in obscuring our wider understanding of the complexity
of Ireland's involvement in empire. For over 200 years, Ireland and India
were joined together by an intricate series of networks that were borne out
of direct Irish involvement in British imperialism overseas. Whether as
migrants, soldiers, administrators, doctors, missionaries or educators, the
Irish played an important role in administering, governing and populating
vast areas of Britain's eastern empire. This article discusses new
approaches to the study of Ireland's imperial past that allow us to move
beyond the old 'coloniser-colonised' debate, to address the key issue of
whether Ireland or the varieties of Irishness of its imperial servants and
settlers made a specific difference to the experience of empire. By
highlighting the multiplicity of Irish connections within the context of the
nineteenth-century British empire in India, this article describes how
imperial networks were used by contemporaries (settlers, migrants and
indigenous agents) as mechanisms for the exchange of a whole set of ideas,
practices and goods between Ireland and India during the colonial era.

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How Many Irish Potato Famine Deaths?: Toward Coherence of the
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If we are consider statistics, and god forgive our rashness, one line of
inquiry needs to be to postulate what the death rate would have been during
the famine years without the famine / famine fever. What was the life
expectancy of Irish country people in the first half of the 19th century?
How many (would have) reached that age in 1845-8 ? Apart from the
catastrophe of the famine deaths, how many people died in Ireland of other
causes that would have effected the 1851 census figure ?

David




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Date: 03/06/2009 10:08:20
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Subject: [IR-D] Article, How Many Irish Potato Famine Deaths?: Toward
Coherence of the Evidence

This article certainly seems to raise questions worth our considering - but
I do not have access to this journal. A web search for Nusteling turns up a
Sequence of items of interest.

P.O'S.

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Subject: Article,
The examination of the Book of Kells using micro-Raman
spectroscopy
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Note that this article has not yet been assigned a place in the paper
journal.

For some background on Raman Spectroscopy and Nobel Prize winner Sir
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman see...

http://www.microspectra.com/support/technical-support/raman-science/35-te=
chn
ical-support/126-science-of-micro-raman-spectroscopy

http://www.physics.ncsu.edu/optics/nanoRaman/nanoRaman.html

And a web search will find much more. It is a very clever technology.

The lovely blues of the Book of Kells have been dragged into the =
discussion
of the use of lapis lazuli as a pigment - but, I think, because an
incautious use of words to describe a colour became, through repetition,
evidence of trade with Afghanistan...

This claim was recently repeated in a current tv series on BBC 4, How =
the
Celts Saved Britain. It is basically How the Irish Saved Civilization, =
but
with less guff. And the tv series is quite unwatchable - coarse acting =
and
daft visuals drove this viewer back to the comfort of Thomas Cahill...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/5369864/Dan-Snow-How-Britai=
n-n
early-became-the-Irish-Isles.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00kps7h/How_the_Celts_Saved_Britain=
_A_
New_Civilization/

But I digress...

On lapis lazuli see for example...=20
The Use of Lapis Lazuli as a Pigment in Medieval Europe
Lucretia Karg=E8re

http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/objects_conservation/spring_2003/la=
pis
.asp

where again Raman Spectroscopy enters the debate.

Anyway, I have been looking out for this research by Bioletti and =
colleagues
- and here it is. They note in passing the lapis lazuli discussion, =
they
look and find none in the Book of Kells. They do find indigo.

They conclude: 'Thus far results indicate a simple palette that could =
be
created from sources reasonably local to the sites where the manuscript =
is=20
thought to have originated...' But more work remains to be done.

And it remains a wonderful blue...

P.O'S.


Journal of Raman Spectroscopy
Published Online: 11 Mar 2009
Copyright =A9 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Research Article

The examination of the Book of Kells using micro-Raman spectroscopy

Susan Bioletti 1 *, Rory Leahy 2, John Fields 2, Bernard Meehan 1, =
Werner
Blau 2
1Trinity College Library, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
2School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland

email: Susan Bioletti (bioletts[at]tcd.ie)
*Correspondence to Susan Bioletti, Trinity College Library, Trinity =
College
Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland.

Currently working at Animal Feedingstuffs Section, The State Laboratory,
Co.Kildare, Ireland.

KEYWORDS
Book of Kells =95 pigments =95 micro-Raman spectroscopy

ABSTRACT
The Book of Kells, Trinity College Dublin MS 58, is one of Ireland's
greatest cultural treasures, and as such all aspects of its production =
have
attracted academic attention. Until recently, studies of its dyes and
pigments have relied exclusively on techniques such as visual and =
optical
microscopic and spectroscopic examination, and comparison of the =
appearance
of the pigment with specimens prepared using ancient or medieval =
recipes.
These studies have yielded interesting results, but, due to the =
limitations
of the examination techniques, they have remained incomplete and =
somewhat
speculative. This article presents the results of a pigment analysis =
that
took place between 2004 and 2006 using micro-Raman spectroscopy. In =
total,
681 sites over the 4 volumes of the Book of Kells were analysed using 2
separate laser wavelengths (632.8 and 532 nm), making this the most
extensive Raman spectroscopic investigation of a single medieval =
manuscript.
In this article several pigments are identified, in particular, blue
(indigo), red-orange (red lead), yellow (orpiment), green (vergaut), =
black
(carbon and iron gall ink), and white (gypsum). In addition, purple =
(orcein)
is also discussed.=20

Copyright =A9 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Received: 29 April 2008; Accepted: 13 January 2009

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Building a Swiss Chalet in an Irish Legal Landscape? Referendums
on European Union Treaties in Ireland...
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To
argue for less judicial activism and more legislative activity...

P.O'S.=20

European Constitutional Law Review (2009), 5:32-70 T.M.C. Asser Press
Copyright =A9 T.M.C. Asser Press and the Authors 2009
doi:10.1017/S1574019609000327
Articles

Building a Swiss Chalet in an Irish Legal Landscape? Referendums on =
European
Union Treaties in Ireland & the Impact of Supreme Court Jurisprudence

Dr Gavin Barrett*

Abstract

Irish legal framework on European referendums =96 Case-law =96 Judicial =
activism
=96 No appropriate legislative reaction =96 Essential scope or =
objectives test =96
Constitutional amendment necessary if test not met =96 Single Act =96 =
Pressure
for referendum at each new treaty =96 Political implications =96 =
Positive and
negative sides of referendums =96 Referendum-elites =96 Government =
sidelined =96
Equal access to broadcasting =96 Issues of equality =96 Diminished role =
of
political parties

Key Words:European Union; Treaty of Lisbon; European Parliament; =
National
parliaments; Ireland; Irish Supreme Court; Treaty of Nice; Referendum;
Judicial Activism; Member States; Crotty; Coughlan; McKenna; =
Euroscepticism

Footnotes

* Senior Lecturer, School of Law, University College Dublin. The writer =
is
grateful for the input of Professor David Gwynn Morgan, Cathryn =
Costello,
Dr. Katya Ziegler, Dr. Alicia Hinarejos, T. John O'Dowd, Madeleine =
Coumount
de Bair=E9id and of attendees both at the UCD Irish European Law Forum,
Responses to the Lisbon Treaty Referendum: EU and National Perspectives =
held
on 23 Jan. 2009, and at the presentation given by the author at the
Institute of European and Comparative Law in Oxford University on 11 =
Feb.
2009. Responsibility for what follows rests with the author.

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PLEASE NOTE THAT THE NEXT SEMINAR WILL TAKE PLACE ON A WEDNESDAY

Dear Colleagues

Irish in Britain Seminar Series continues on Wednesday 10 June with a=20
talk on:

Irish Connections: London's County Associations
Dr Nicole McLennan

This paper will explore connections made by members of London's County=20
Associations. Most of the County Associations were established in the=20
1950s at a time when there were many new arrivals from Ireland, but few=20
organisations to support them in their new environment. In this=20
historical context, my paper will look at the work undertaken by the=20
Council and the County Associations to bring Irish men and women=20
together and also their efforts to maintain connections with communities =

at home in Ireland. This discussion will also be placed in the context=20
of the current Archival project being conducted with the Council of=20
Irish County Associations and the Archive of the Irish in Britain.

Dr Nicole McLennan is a research assistant at the Archive of the Irish=20
in Britain, London Metropolitan University. Over the past year she has=20
been working with the Council of Irish County Associations on a=20
Dion-funded Archival project to collect and preserve the records of the=20
Council and the individual County Associations.



Next Seminar:

Researching the Irish in Britain: Methodological Approaches
Tuesday 16 June, Dr Reg Hall

I look forward to seeing you there - please feel free to pass this on to =

anyone interested.

6:30 - 8:00pm in The Old Staff Caf=E9, London Metropolitan University,
Tower Building, 166-220 Holloway Road - ALL WELCOME - refreshments =
provided


--=20
Irish in Britain Archive
Institute for the Study of European Transformations (ISET)
London Metropolitan University
166-220 Holloway Road
London N7 8DB

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Subject: CFP Journal of Genocide Research,
Massacre and Its Use in the Old and New European Worlds: 1780-1820
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Call for Papers

Massacre and Its Use in the Old and New European Worlds: 1780-1820
Special Issue of Journal of Genocide Research: 2011

Dr Philip Dwyer and Professor Lyndall Ryan from the University of
Newcastle, Australia, are seeking contributors to a special issue of the
Journal of Genocide Research which explores how massacre was used in the
period surrounding the Napoleonic Wars, c 1780-1820. The purpose is to
assess the impact of modernity in the Napoleonic period, to pinpoint key
similarities and differences, and to develop new hypotheses about how
massacre was used to control rebel or indigenous populations.

The editors are seeking contributors with expertise in the conduct of
massacre, especially in Canada, Ireland, the Caribbean and Central and
South America.

The contributors should be on board by August 2009, with papers submitted
for peer review by June 2010. Publication is planned for 2011.

For expression of interest please contact:

Lyndall.Ryan[at]newcastle.edu.au
Philip.Dwyer[at]newcastle.edu.au

Dr Philip Dwyer
School of Humanities & Social Science
University of Newcastle
Callaghan NSW 2308
Australia

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A wide ranging review essay which has to pedal furiously to keep up with
events in the real world... Much discussion of the nature of 'Irish
Studies' - 'In a disciplinary intervention Kincaid argues that Irish studies
and postcolonial theory has had a limited scope as since its inception it
has been dominated by a literary paradigm...'

Pasted in below, some extracts from the section on Liam Harte and Yvonne
Whelan (eds) Ireland Beyond Boundaries.

And, o, by the way this issue of Social & Cultural Geography, Volume 10
Issue 3 2009, is a special - Trieste: geographies beyond borders.

No, I don't know - have not read it all the way through...

P.O'S

Book review essay
Contemporary Ireland: thinking spatially
Declan Cullen
Social & Cultural Geography, 1470-1197, Volume 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 363
- 367

Works Reviewed

Carmen Kuhling and Kieran Keohane
Cosmopolitan Ireland: Globalisation and Quality of Life
Dublin, London and Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto Press, 2007, 256pp., $26.95
paperback, (ISBN 0-7453-2649-8),, $85.00 hardback, (ISBN 0-7453-2650-1)

Brendan Bartley and Rob Kitchin (eds)
Understanding Contemporary Ireland
Dublin, London and Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto Press, 2007, x+342pp., $35.00
paperback, (ISBN 0-7453-2594-7),, $95.00 hardback, (ISBN 0-7453-2595-5).

Andrew Kincaid
Postcolonial Dublin: Imperial Legacies and the Built Environment
London and Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006, xxx+267pp.,
$25.00 paperback, (ISBN 0-8166-4346-6),, $75.00 hardback, (ISBN
0-8166-4345-8).

Liam Harte and Yvonne Whelan (eds)
Ireland Beyond Boundaries: Mapping Irish Studies in the Twenty-first Century
Dublin, London and Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto Press, 2007, viii+274pp., $24.10
paperback, (ISBN 0-7453-2185-2),, $78.04 hardback, (ISBN 0-7453-2186-8).


... Ireland Beyond Boundaries is a much-needed critical reflection on the
scope and direction of Irish Studies. The collection was prompted by Eugene
O'Brien's statement that for Irish Studies as a discipline 'what is needed
at a meta level . is a range of enquiry into the grounds of this discipline
in terms of its epistemological and ethical status' (p. 1). The contents of
the book are wide-ranging, spanning disciplines and continents. It is
divided into two parts: Irish Studies in Practice and Irish Studies in
Critical Perspective. Part One offers a critical reading of the state of
affairs of Irish Studies in the USA, Canada, Australia, England and Ireland.
These chapters contain many interesting insights on the institutional
history of Irish Studies outside Ireland and the often tenuous nature of
their relationship with institutions in Ireland. Christina Hunt Mahony
argues in the case of the USA that 'the time has come for Irish government
agencies, universities and scholars to acknowledge both the intellectual and
financial contribution of the diaspora to Irish Studies' (p. 26). In many
respects these chapters show that critically situating Irish studies and
examining that relationship between the job and the work is vital to the
discipline.

The second part of the book contains contributions on a wide range of
subject material covering Irish criticism, historiography, religion, media,
sport, geography and music. It is an eclectic collection of perspectives
which gives voice to topics, such as music, which are serially
underrepresented in Irish studies (p. 203). Louise Ryan's examination of
unwanted pregnancy and female migration to Britain explores some 'of the
hidden social phenomena and taken for granted dynamics of Irish civic
society', arguing that Ireland's national boundaries were inextricably
linked to reproductive politics (p. 138). Her work also points to the
importance of gender in reading Irish migration in a field which Linda
Connolly has argued is dominated by a postcolonial paradigm largely
uniformed by Irish feminist scholarship (p. 1)...

... Together these works show that Ireland's future is still very much for
the making and that the national and disciplinary boundaries of engagement
can, and indeed are, being challenged. Liam Harte argues for the usefulness
of a diasporic understanding because of its 'destabilising dynamic, its
potential to accentuate the multiple and dialogical aspects of Irish
cultural identities and the ambiguity of transnational interactions' (p 3).
Contemporary Ireland can be understood through the interplay of these
multiplicities and as these analyses show it is out of these multiple
aspects that Ireland must fashion a future...

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Just thought this might be of interest to the list and wondering if anyone
has any information on the "John Gallagher" referred to here.

I was curious about this person so I googled him - and the truth seems
elusive! It was apparently an explorer named Juan Galindo who published the
accounts of the ruins as described in the article. Some sources say his real
name was Gallagher, but others say Galindo's birthplace is unknown, and some
say that Galindo is Irish but his real name is unknown. Another site said he
was Spanish, and another one English. I checked www.irlandeses.org but
didn't find anything there.

Bit of a mystery... perhaps one of our experts on the Irish in Latin America
has the scoop?



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Subject: "Irish Theatre: 100 Years After Synge" - the 2009 JM Synge Irish
Drama Summer School. Rathdrum Co Wicklow, 28 June - 3 July 2009.

Dear friends,

A small number of places are still available for this year's Synge Summer
School (Rathdrum, Co Wicklow, 28 June - 3 July). I'd be very grateful if you
could forward the attached information to anyone who you think might be
interested.

The year 2009 marks the hundredth anniversary of Synge's death, an event
that we will be marking with a series of papers that aim to consider Synge's
impact on contemporary Irish theatre. And as always, the School will explore
and celebrate many other kinds of Irish drama. We will be hearing about the
works of many great writers: Brian Friel, Sean O'Casey, Marina Carr, Martin
McDonagh, Conor McPherson, and many others.

We're also introducing an exciting new series, called 'Irish Writers in
Conversation', in which leading Irish dramatists Billy Roche and Christina
Reid will visit the School to talk about their work, their approach to
writing, and their views on Irish theatre. And the novelist and playwright
Joseph O'Connor will be reading from his work during the week too.

Participants in the School will have access to a wide range of other events.
There will be talks on a range of topics by leading international scholars
and critics, including Mary Burke, Nicholas Grene, Aoife Monks, Karen
Fricker, PJ Mathews, Lionel Pilkington, Alexandra Poulain, Paige Reynolds,
and Melissa Sihra. And there is a lively social programme too, which
includes a visit to the Abbey Theatre to see Tom Murphy's latest play, and a
tour of Wicklow's Synge Country - one of the most beautiful parts of
Ireland.

The School is open to anyone with an interest in drama and theatre. Every
year, it is visited by a wide variety of people: teachers, university
students and lecturers, broadcasters, publishers, theatre practitioners,
people involved in amateur drama, and countless others - all of whom come to
the School to share their enthusiasm for theatre-going. Our visitors come
from all parts of Ireland, and from many different countries throughout the
world.

Do feel free to contact us if you have any questions about the School, and
don't forget to log onto our website (www.syngesummerschool.org
) for regular updates about the
programme. You'll find in the attached document an application form, a full
programme, and biographical notes about our speakers.

Patrick Lonergan, Academic Director

The Synge Summer School gratefully acknowledges the support of the
Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism.

IRISH THEATRE - 100 YEARS AFTER SYNGE: THE 2009 JM SYNGE IRISH DRAMA SUMMER
SCHOOL

Sunday 28 June

12.00 -15.00: Registration at the Annexe, Avondale House, Rathdrum

17.30 Official opening of the 2009 School by Professor Nicholas Grene


Monday 29 June

09.30 Lecture: Melissa Sihra: 'The Eye of the Dream: Marina Carr's Marble'

11.15 Lecture: Patrick Lonergan: 'The Ethics of Irish Storytelling - Synge
and Tom Murphy, Beckett and Martin McDonagh'

14.00: Irish Writers in Conversation: Billy Roche

16.00: Synge Country Tour (including Afternoon Tea at Glenmalure Lodge)

Tuesday 30 June

09.30: Lecture: Lionel Pilkington, 'Synge and Ireland's Performance
Culture'.

11.15: Lecture: Mary Burke: 'After Synge: 100 years of the "stage tinker"',

16.15: Dublin Theatre outing - travel to the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin for evening performance of Tom
Murphy's Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant.

Wednesday 1 July

11.15: Lecture: Aoife Monks, "Kiss Me, I'm Irish: Performing Gender in St
Patrick's Day parades and Irish Dance Shows"

20.00 Reading by playwright and novelist Joseph O'Connor (venue: Brockagh
Centre, Laragh)

Thursday 2 July

9.30 Lecture: Alexandra Poulain, 'Synge and Tom Murphy'

11.15 Lecture: Karen Fricker, 'Irish Theatre and Globalization'.

Afternoon: Tour of Avondale House and surrounding parklands.

Friday 3 July

09.30 Lecture: Paige Reynolds, "Synge's Things: Material Culture in Modern
and Contemporary Irish Drama"

11.15 Lecture: PJ Mathews. 'Re-Thinking Synge'

14.00 Irish Writers in Conversation: Christina Reid

19.30 Synge Summer School Closing Dinner (venue to be confirmed)

___________________________________________

Dr Patrick Lonergan

Room 301

English Department

NUI Galway

Galway

Ireland


Phone + 353 91 49 5609

patrick.lonergan[at]nuigalway.ie

Personal Webpage:

http://www.nuigalway.ie/english/patrick_lonergan.html

The Synge Summer School - http://www.syngesummerschool.org/

The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures -
http://www.iasil.org/

The Irish Theatrical Diaspora Project -
http://www.irishtheatricaldiaspora.org/

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Greetings to colleagues now gathering in Galway for the AMERICAN =
CONFERENCE
FOR IRISH STUDIES 2009 and SECOND GALWAY CONFERENCE OF IRISH STUDIES =
2009...

We are with you in spirit...

P.O'S.


Forwarded on behalf of
Samantha Williams=20
Conference Administrator


ACIS / GCIS 2009
AMERICAN CONFERENCE FOR IRISH STUDIES 2009=20
New Irish, Old Ireland: 'The same people living in the same place.'=20

AND=20

SECOND GALWAY CONFERENCE OF IRISH STUDIES 2009=20
'Into the heartland of the ordinary.'

A chairde,

The Centre for Irish Studies at the National University of Ireland is
pleased to announce details of next year=92s international meeting of =
the
American Conference for Irish Studies =92New Irish, Old Ireland: =92The =
same
people living in the same place=92 which will be convened in Galway, =
10-13
June 2009.

We are also pleased to announce that the Second Galway Conference of =
Irish
Studies =92Into the heartland of the ordinary=92 will run concurrently =
with the
ACIS meeting and will explore aspects of the everyday in Irish culture =
and
society.

The call for papers is now closed. You can view all Conference =
information
at ACIS/GCIS Conference 2009
http://www.nuigalway.ie/research/centre_irish_studies/acis_09.html

Le gach dea-ghu=ED,

Samantha Williams=20
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Subject: Book Notice, Coleman, American Indians, the Irish,
and Government Schooling
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Michael Coleman's book is now turning up in our alerts, and is being
reviewed... Example below...

The book is on Amazon and there are extracts on Google Books.

P.O'S.

Citation
Pacific Historical Review

February 2009, Vol. 78, No. 1, Pages 120=96121 , DOI =
10.1525/phr.2009.78.1.120
Posted online on January 23, 2009.
(doi:10.1525/phr.2009.78.1.120)

Review
American Indians, the Irish, and Government Schooling: A Comparative =
Study.
By Michael C. Coleman . (Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2007. =
xiii +
368 pp. $49.95)
Robert A. Trennert=9D
Arizona State University

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This new article by Nancy Green will interest a number of Ir-D members - =
it can be read as an extended mediation on The Expatriation Act of 1868.

See also
Citizenship and those who leave: the politics of emigration and =
expatriation
By Nancy L. Green, Fran=C3=A7ois Weil
Edition: illustrated, annotated
Published by University of Illinois Press, 2007

P.O'S.


The American Historical Review, 114:307=E2=80=93328, April 2009
=C2=A9 2009 American Historical Association. All rights reserved.
DOI: 10.1086/ahr.114.2.307
Articles=20
Expatriation, Expatriates, and Expats: The American Transformation of a =
Concept
Nancy L. Green=20

There have been many expatriates, but few people have legally =
expatriated. Living abroad is one thing; losing one's citizenship is =
another. With the notable exception of Henry James in 1915, Americans =
who chose to live and write abroad rarely gave up or lost their =
citizenship in the process.1 The terms =E2=80=9Cexpatriate=E2=80=9D and =
=E2=80=9Cexpatriation=E2=80=9D have a long and complex history, but they =
have been largely absent from recent studies of citizenship. Their use =
ranges from simple residence abroad (=E2=80=9Cfor a considerable amount =
of time=E2=80=9D) to the more definitive legal renunciation or =
destitution of allegiance, =E2=80=9Cdenationalization,=E2=80=9D or =
=E2=80=9Cdecitizenization.=E2=80=9D2 Most often, the noun =
=E2=80=9Cexpatriate=E2=80=9D conjures up the interwar =E2=80=9CLost =
Generation=E2=80=9D writers. The lives, essays, and novels of the =
American expatriate writers in Paris in the 1920s have captured readers' =
imaginations and framed an important debate on exile and a comparative =
critique of the New World versus the Old. The term =
=E2=80=9Cexpatriate=E2=80=9D has been extended backward to refer to =
Edith Wharton in the early twentieth century and beyond World War II to =
James Baldwin and Richard Wright. Encompassing everyone from the =
Henrys=E2=80=94James and Miller=E2=80=94to Gertrude Stein and Alice B. =
Toklas, from White Bostonians and New Yorkers to Black Harlemites, from =
those escaping sexual and social convention to those fleeing prejudice =
and discrimination, expatriate writers, artists, and musicians have =
become a romanticized icon, haunting Parisian caf=C3=A9s where =
Hemingway's Moveable Feast can still be seen, clutched by earnest =
would=E2=80=90be Ernests.3

However, the writers and artists have eclipsed a broader understanding =
of expatriation both as a legal act and with regard to its meaning for =
changing notions of citizenship. The concept itself comprises somewhat =
contradictory elements. Ever since Roman times, the question of =
belonging has turned on the question of patria or domus.

... Expatriation has also been largely absent from migration studies. =
Immigration history, written primarily in the countries of arrival, has =
most often focused on the problematic policies and experiences of entry, =
acceptance, rejection, and/or settlement of newcomers. Yet emigration =
and expatriation provide reverse mirrors of immigration and are =
connected to it both in theory and in practice.9 Individuals are =
emigrants before they reach the other shore and become immigrants; their =
past and present cannot be so neatly severed. For states, one country's =
emigrant is another's immigrant, embedding the process in a web of =
international relations. For historians, immigration studies need to =
integrate emigration and expatriation. We can reverse the usual =
immigration and citizenship questions by reflecting on how the state =
defines itself not only through those whom it incorporates (more or less =
well) within its boundaries but also with regard to those who cross =
beyond...

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Subject: Book Notice, Poynings' Law and the Making of Law in Ireland,
1660-1800
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James Kelly's book on Poynings' Law is now turning up in our alerts and is
being reviewed - example below...

AHR Forum
The American Revolution
JACK P. GREENE

Is available at
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/105.1/ah000093.html

P.O'S.


The American Historical Review, 114:827-828, June 2009
C 2009 American Historical Association. All rights reserved.
DOI: 10.1086/ahr.114.3.827
Reviews of Books
Europe: Early Modern and Modern

James Kelly. Poynings' Law and the Making of Law in Ireland, 1660-1800. (The
Irish Legal History Society.) Portland, Oreg.: Four Courts Press. 2007. Pp.
xi, 401. $75.00.

Julian Hoppit

University College London


Poynings's Law, passed in 1494, was designed to restrict significantly the
legislative independence of the Dublin Parliament, providing the main
framework for the legislative history of Ireland until it was significantly
amended in 1782. There followed eighteen years of relative freedom for
Ireland's Parliament, until Union in 1801 focused all legislative creativity
for the island at Westminster. It has been known for some time, however,
that by the late seventeenth century ways had been found to circumvent some
of the restrictions of Poynings's Law. By preparing "heads of bills," both
Houses of the Irish Parliament were able to draft legislation, although
those drafts might be rejected or amended by the Privy Council in London.
James Kelly's very valuable and richly researched book explores the
operation of Poynings's Law in this era, particularly administratively,
emphasizing subtle yet profound changes that have important consequences for
our view of Irish history and the nature of the British polity, both
domestic and imperial...

... In conclusion, Kelly considers whether his findings support the view
that Ireland was effectively an English/British colony in this period. As
ever, his answer is subtle and careful, full of qualifications. He opens up
some interesting comparisons with legislative activity in the Thirteen
Colonies, though it is interesting that he does not engage with Jack P.
Greene's work. But perhaps Kelly might have addressed a different agenda,
the nature of the composite state as brilliantly explicated by J. H. Elliott
and Conrad Russell? For example, the legislation passed at Dublin was much
more often general in scope than that passed at Westminster, or at Edinburgh
before 1707. Why this was the case is difficult to see from Kelly's
marvellous study. Differing patterns of legislation within Britain and
Ireland hint at the different nature of non-legislative authorities
available in the three kingdoms, but also at differences in the composition
of interests groups. Kelly does not address such matters. But this should
not be read as a carping criticism. Rather, like the best of books, this one
not only establishes many matters definitively, it also opens up many other
questions. Kelly has enlightened us and challenged us...