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Years ago I asked the list about how to get a copy of the great/awful Clark
Gable potrayal of CS Parnell. I believe others have been looking as well.

So, in case it's of use to anyone out there, the TCM channel in Canada (but not
the US, no idea why) will be showing it on June 16th at 1.45 am. Whereupon it
could be taped or copied in some other way.

I don't actually have cable but I'll be asking those who do...

Peter Hart

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Apropos other great/awful versions, what do colleagues (those old enough to=
remember it...) think of the 1990 mini series with Trevor Eve (Parnell and=
the Englishwoman)?
Joan Allen

________________________________________
From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Pe=
ter Hart [phart[at]MUN.CA]
Sent: 09 June 2009 20:19
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [IR-D] Parnell: the Movie

Years ago I asked the list about how to get a copy of the great/awful Clark
Gable potrayal of CS Parnell. I believe others have been looking as well.

So, in case it's of use to anyone out there, the TCM channel in Canada (but=
not
the US, no idea why) will be showing it on June 16th at 1.45 am. Whereupon=
it
could be taped or copied in some other way.

I don't actually have cable but I'll be asking those who do...

Peter Hart=

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From: Simon Jolivet
Subject: The British Empire and its Contested Pasts,
Historical Studies XXVI (Irish Academic Press, 2009).
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Dear all=2C

FYI : this new volume contains a section entitled "Irish perspectives".=20

Best regards=2C

Dr. Simon Jolivet
University of Ottawa



Robert J. Blyth & Keith Jeffery=2C eds.=2C The British Empire and its Conte=
sted Pasts=2C Historical Studies XXVI (Irish Academic Press=2C 2009)=2C 286=
p.

The British Empire and its Contested Pasts
Imperial rule=2C commerce=2C culture and contestation of empire are all r=
epresented=20
in this volume=2C with a particular (but by no means exclusive) focus on
aspects and consequences of Britain's Asian empire=2C as well as
reflections on Irish engagements with the British imperial phenomenon.
While engagements between colonisers (including those bringing with
them a 'civilising mission') and indigenous peoples are explored=2C so
too are cultural perceptions of empire by Britons=2C and Britain by the
colonised who ventured to the imperial 'Mother Country'. Unexpected
corners of the imperial experience are covered=2C including
Belfast-supported missionaries in Nigeria and French Canadian
sympathizers for Irish nationalists. Affirmations of empire stand side
by side with contestations in=2C for example=2C China=2C Ireland=2C Africa =
and
Canada.

http://www.irishacademicusa.com/acatalog/New_Titles.html

_________________________________________________________________
Internet explorer 8 aide =E0 prot=E9ger la vie priv=E9e.
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=3D9655573=

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Subject: TOC Irish Educational Studies, Volume 28 Issue 2
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Irish Educational Studies: Volume 28 Issue 2

is now available online at informaworld (http://www.informaworld.com).

This new issue contains the following articles:

Editorials

Editorial, Pages 135 - 139
Authors: Dympna Devine; Paul Conway; Emer Smyth; Aisling Leavy

Original Articles

Teachers' negative experiences and expressions of emotion: being true to
yourself or keeping you in your place?, Pages 141 - 154
Author: Karl Kitching

Key elements in a positive practicum: insights from Australian post-primary
pre-service teachers, Pages 155 - 175
Author: Janet Moody


A career in teaching: decisions of the heart rather than the head, Pages 177
- 191
Authors: Mary O'Sullivan; Ann MacPhail; Deborah Tannehill

Institutional racism and anti-racism in teacher education: perspectives of
teacher educators, Pages 193 - 207
Author: Joe O'Brien

Connecting policy aspirations with principled progress? An analysis of
current physical education challenges in Scotland, Pages 209 - 223
Authors: Malcolm Thorburn; Mike Jess; Matthew Atencio

BOOK REVIEW

Body knowledge and curriculum: Pedagogies of touch in youth and visual
culture, Pages 225 - 227
Author: Helen O'Donoghue

CORRIGENDUM

'The balancing act' - Irish part-time undergraduate students in higher
education, Page 229
Authors: Merike Darmody; Bairbre Fleming

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Joan,
I remember the mini series very well and have been trying to get a copy
of it for years - but not, I hasten to add, because of its historical
accuracy. I don't think it has ever been released either on video or
DVD. If so, it has eluded me.

I remember it as being "soft" on the politics involving Gladstone and
the Liberals' role in the downfall of Parnell - or the more insidious
role of the English Conservative Party. Much was put down to Parnell's
own emotionally distant personality and what was portrayed as the petty
jealousy of Tim Healy. No mention was made of the Coogan assertion
[based on Collins' diary entries] that Healy might in fact, by the mid
1880s, have been a British spy. There was also a bogus scene where
Catholic Bishops were shown walking around with O'Shea putting pressure
on him to act against Parnell and bring the divorce case. No mention of
the role the English Conservatives played in conjunction with the
Catholic Church - via Rome - to destroy Home Rule.

My memory of it - and it has been some time - it that the issue is
mostly depicted as being a tragedy almost entirely made in Ireland.

Carmel

Joan Allen wrote:
> Apropos other great/awful versions, what do colleagues (those old enough to remember it...) think of the 1990 mini series with Trevor Eve (Parnell and the Englishwoman)?
> Joan Allen
>
> ________________________________________
> From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Peter Hart [phart[at]MUN.CA]
> Sent: 09 June 2009 20:19
> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: [IR-D] Parnell: the Movie
>
> Years ago I asked the list about how to get a copy of the great/awful Clark
> Gable potrayal of CS Parnell. I believe others have been looking as well.
>
> So, in case it's of use to anyone out there, the TCM channel in Canada (but not
> the US, no idea why) will be showing it on June 16th at 1.45 am. Whereupon it
> could be taped or copied in some other way.
>
> I don't actually have cable but I'll be asking those who do...
>
> Peter Hart
>
> .
>
>

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: CFP Irish and Scots Encounters with Indigenous Peoples,
Toronto and Guelph 10-12 June 2010
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Dear Patrick: Would you be so kind as to distribute this to your
diaspora list? With best wishes, David

Irish and Scots Encounters with Indigenous Peoples

The expansion of the British and American empires during the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries created the greatest mass migration in human
history. Irish and Scots migrants were major participants in this
process. Their experiences have traditionally been framed in terms of
push-pull factors, of exile, struggle, opportunity, and acculturation.


But there is another side to the story; as the Irish and Scots spread
throughout the world, they interacted extensively with indigenous
cultures and peoples. In many areas, these encounters led to the
displacement and destruction of indigenous peoples, while at other times
and places they generated a wider range of experiences with greater
opportunities for mutual cooperation and cultural exchange. At the same
time, the Scots and Irish existed in an ambivalent, tense and sometimes
hostile relationship to England. In what ways did their own experiences
of colonialism affect their attitudes towards indigenous peoples? To
what extent were they agents or critics of imperialism and how were
these interactions reflected in literature, music and the arts? How did
the Irish, Scots and indigenous peoples shape their political, social,
religious, and economic relations with one another? And how were Scots,
Irish and indigenous peoples' understandings of the world transformed as
a result of these encounters?

These are some of the issues that will be addressed in this
international conference to be held in Toronto and Guelph 10-12 June
2010. It is being jointly organized by the Celtic Studies Program, St.
Michael's College, University of Toronto; the Scottish Studies Program,
Guelph University; and the University of Aberdeen's AHRC Centre for
Irish and Scottish Studies.

Proposals of no more than 300 words should be sent to David A. Wilson
[david.wilson[at]utoronto.ca] by 28 February 2010.

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=20
Dear Colleagues,=20
=20
I am very pleased to be able to tell you that the poll organised by the
Paris City Council to find an European writer after whom a Paris street o=
r
square is to be named has resulted in the choice of Oscar Wilde. Our than=
ks
to those who voted for him.=20
=20
To mark the centenary of the transfer of Wilde's remains from Bagneux
Cemetery to P=C3=A8re Lachaise, the Soci=C3=A9t=C3=A9 Oscar Wilde en Fran=
ce is arranging a
ceremony on Sunday July 19th. Details from melmoth.paris[at]gmail.com; these
will also be posted on http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oscholarship/.=20
=EF=BB=BF =EF=BB=BF =EF=BB=BF =EF=BB=BF =EF=BB=BF =EF=BB=BF=20
David Charles Rose=20
=20
___________________________________________________=20
D.C. Rose M.A. (Oxon), Dip.Arts Admin (NUI-Dublin)=20
Pr=C3=A9sident, Soci=C3=A9t=C3=A9 Oscar Wilde en France=20
Editor, THE OSCHOLARS=20
1 rue Gutenberg, Paris XV=20
www.oscholars.com=20
=20
Website pour la colloque The Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe, Trinity
College Oxford, 8th/9th March 2008.=20
=20
Visiter: www.esthetismes.org=20

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Transforming Anthropology presents a
special series on Whiteness (free access):

http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/view.asp?m=wcb5mgpi3ae3gns7nlkl&u=4375554&f=h

Edited by:
Deborah A. Thomas
John L. Jackson, Jr.

* INTRODUCTION: THE STAKES OF WHITENESS STUDIES Matthew
Durington
* WHAT ARE YOU LAUGHING AT? ASSESSING THE "RACIAL" IN U.S. PUBLIC
DISCOURSE John Hartigan Jr.
* CIRCUITS AND CONSEQUENCES OF DISPOSSESSION: THE RACIALIZED
REALIGNMENT OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE FOR U.S. YOUTH Michelle Fine,
Jessica Ruglis

INTRODUCTION: THE STAKES OF WHITENESS STUDIES
Matthew Durington

The papers collected in this issue of Transforming Anthropology emerged from
a panel at the American Anthropological Association meetings in 2006. The
panel was titled Racism and Interrogations of Whiteness. The essays
collected and expanded in this issue and the next one, part of an invited
session sponsored by the Association of Black Anthropologists, were
presented with the challenge of contributing to an antiracist politics and
discourse within anthropology by critically examining the historical and
contemporary meanings of "white privilege" and the sociopolitical contexts
of politicized cultural constructions as manifested from different racial,
class, gender, and national positions. The panelists continue to ask, along
with Ruth Frankenberg (1993), why talk about whiteness at all, especially
when this seemingly overdetermined intellectual undertaking can be seen as
contributing to so much more conceptual reification. This is particularly
true as the field of "critical whiteness studies" has increased
exponentially in the last 18 plus years, especially if we use David
Roediger's publication of Wages of Whiteness (1991) as a starting point for
the whiteness studies bandwagon. But as the following essays demonstrate, a
failure to critically engage the so-called unmarked status of whiteness,
accepting the ostensible transparency of a privileged "white" positionality,
creates even greater problems in terms of the asymmetry of power relations
within our discipline, even as it perpetuates methodological blindness in
our fieldwork practice. Further, it is imperative that anthropology continue
to lead the way to a more complex, nuanced, and culturally situated analysis
of racism, in general, and of whiteness (and its slippage into and out of
other identificatory trajectories), in particular, because of the
relationship between assumptions about whiteness and defenses of racist
discourse and practice.

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- Reg Hall, Researching the Irish in Britain
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Dear Colleagues

Irish in Britain Seminar Series concludes on Tuesday 16 June with a talk =
on:

Researching the Irish in Britain: Methodological Approaches
Dr Reg Hall

This seminar will focus on identifying and collecting evidence, with=20
particular emphasis on interview techniques,
oral testimony and written sources such as newspapers.

Dr Reg Hall has been an active traditional musician in the Irish=20
community in London since the 1950s and has produced many recordings of=20
archive material and seminal performers. He is working on The History=20
of Irish Music & Dance in London, 1845-1980, the subject of his
post-graduate study and a proposed publication.

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

www.londonmet.ac.uk/iset

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Obituary
David Marcus
Literary editor who championed Irish prose

Richard Pine
The Guardian, Friday 12 June 2009

David Marcus, who has died aged 84, was for more than 60 years a pivotal
figure in the Irish literary landscape, fostering the skills of generations
of young, aspiring writers, from his earliest forays as an editor, with the
journal Irish Writing, which he founded in 1946 aged 22, and from 1948
Poetry Ireland, which he edited until 1954. Contributions from Samuel
Beckett, George Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey, Frank O'Connor, Sean O Faolain
and Liam O'Flaherty ensured the vibrancy of Irish Writing.

Marcus was born to a family of Lithuanian-Jewish refugees who had made their
home in Cork. He studied law but decided not to practice in that profession
and instead spent 13 years in insurance in London before returning to
Ireland in 1967, intending to persuade the Irish Times to start a literary
page. By chance, he found his way instead to the Irish Press, where he
became literary editor and fathered the "New Irish Writing" page from 1968
until he retired in 1986 (he later returned to the cause of identifying new
talent in the pages of the Sunday Tribune). One writer said that to have a
poem published on Marcus's page was "an affirmation", and that his inspiring
sense of faith brought confidence to many younger writers. Several
collections of Irish Press material appeared in volume form in the 1970s.

In the meantime, in 1976, with Philip McDermott, he started Poolbeg Press,
publishing the work of established, and especially, new Irish writers,
including Katy Hayes, who made her debut with Forecourt (1995), and Kate
Cruise O'Brien, who became their literary manager...

... He once used his compositional powers to write a political speech for
his old college friend Jack Lynch, in 1970, when the latter was the
beleaguered taoiseach (prime minister) during the "arms trial" that rocked
the establishment and the republic. Marcus sat up all night and produced a
4,500-word speech focusing on the central issue of Northern Ireland and the
republic's relationship with it...

Full text at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jun/12/obituary-david-marcus

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I think it may be on TCM as well.

Peter

Quoting Carmel McCaffrey :

> Joan,
> I remember the mini series very well and have been trying to get a copy
> of it for years - but not, I hasten to add, because of its historical
> accuracy. I don't think it has ever been released either on video or
> DVD. If so, it has eluded me.
>
> I remember it as being "soft" on the politics involving Gladstone and
> the Liberals' role in the downfall of Parnell - or the more insidious
> role of the English Conservative Party. Much was put down to Parnell's
> own emotionally distant personality and what was portrayed as the petty
> jealousy of Tim Healy. No mention was made of the Coogan assertion
> [based on Collins' diary entries] that Healy might in fact, by the mid
> 1880s, have been a British spy. There was also a bogus scene where
> Catholic Bishops were shown walking around with O'Shea putting pressure
> on him to act against Parnell and bring the divorce case. No mention of
> the role the English Conservatives played in conjunction with the
> Catholic Church - via Rome - to destroy Home Rule.
>
> My memory of it - and it has been some time - it that the issue is
> mostly depicted as being a tragedy almost entirely made in Ireland.
>
> Carmel
>
> Joan Allen wrote:
> > Apropos other great/awful versions, what do colleagues (those old enough to
> remember it...) think of the 1990 mini series with Trevor Eve (Parnell and
> the Englishwoman)?
> > Joan Allen
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of
> Peter Hart [phart[at]MUN.CA]
> > Sent: 09 June 2009 20:19
> > To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: [IR-D] Parnell: the Movie
> >
> > Years ago I asked the list about how to get a copy of the great/awful
> Clark
> > Gable potrayal of CS Parnell. I believe others have been looking as well.
> >
> > So, in case it's of use to anyone out there, the TCM channel in Canada (but
> not
> > the US, no idea why) will be showing it on June 16th at 1.45 am. Whereupon
> it
> > could be taped or copied in some other way.
> >
> > I don't actually have cable but I'll be asking those who do...
> >
> > Peter Hart
> >
> > .
> >
> >
>

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Subject: Book Noted, Malouf,
Transatlantic solidarities; Irish nationalism and Caribbean
poetics
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Michael Malouf's book is turning up in alerts, but has not yet been reviewed
- as far as I can see.

P.O'S.

FROM
Publisher web site

Transatlantic Solidarities:
Irish Nationalism and Caribbean Poetics

Michael G. Malouf
280 pages, 6 x 9
6 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-0-8139-2779-4 . $55.00
Paper 978-0-8139-2780-0 . $22.50
New World Studies
February 2009

Despite their prominent place in twentieth-century literature in English,
novelists and poets from Ireland and the anglophone Caribbean have long been
separated by literary histories in which they are either representing a
local, nationalist tradition or functioning within an international movement
such as modernism or postcolonialism. Redressing this either/or framework,
Michael Malouf recognizes an integral history shared by these two poetic and
political traditions, arising from their common transatlantic history in
relation to the British empire and their common spaces of migration in New
York and London. In examining these cross-cultural exchanges, he reconsiders
our conception of transatlantic space and offers a revised conception of
solidarity that is much more diverse than previously assumed.

Offering a new narrative of cultural influence and performance, this work
specifically demonstrates the formative role of Irish nationalist
discourse-expressed in the works of Eamon de Valera, George Bernard Shaw,
and James Joyce-in the transnational political and aesthetic self-fashioning
of three influential Caribbean figures: Marcus Garvey, Claude McKay, and
Derek Walcott. It provides both an innovative historical and literary
methodology for reading cross-cultural relations between two postcolonial
cultures and a literary and political history that can account for the
recent diversity of the field of anglophone world literature.

SOURCE

http://www.upress.virginia.edu/books/malouf.HTM

Transatlantic solidarities; Irish nationalism and Caribbean poetics.
Malouf, Michael G. (New world studies)

U. of Virginia Press, C2009 258 p. $55.00 PR8719978-0-8139-2780-0

In this synthesis of literary, historical and political studies, Malouf
(English, George Mason University) covers the interactions and cross-
influences between Ireland and the islands of the Caribbean. He traces the
immigration of Irish to the islands, usually as workers, but also, as in the
case of Montserrat, as land and slave owners. The cross- cultural influences
are demonstrated through the lives and work of Marcus Garvy and Claude McKay
in the early twentieth century and the poet Derek Wolcott in the 1970s and
1980s. The tension between social solidarity and racial chasms runs through
the book, ending in the music of Sinead O'Connor, who adapted Caribbean
rhythms in her personal spiritual exploration. Malouf shows through his
examples how permeable culture can be. (Annotation C2009 Book News Inc.
Portland, OR)

SOURCE
http://www.booknews.com/ref_issues/ref_may2009/uvap1.html

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Subject: Note to self...
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Note to self...

Cambridge Journals online has suddenly lurched into the past, creating =
many
new alerts with the year date 2009. Which turn out on inspection to be =
from
many decades earlier...

These include classics, like Ang=E8le Smith's article on the OS, =
below...

And articles sometimes from a century earlier...

Like
Agricola's Invasion of Ireland once More
Alfred Gudeman and F. Haverfield
1900

Early Colonial Constitutions
J. P. Wallis
1896

Some Survivors of the Armada in Ireland
Major Martin A. S. Hume
1897

Go carefully and do not trouble the Ir-D list unnecessarily...

P.O'S.


Archaeological Dialogues (1998), 5:69-84 Cambridge University Press
Copyright =A9 The Author(s) 1998

Landscapes of power in nineteenth century Ireland

Archaeology and Ordnance Survey maps

Ang=E8le Smith

Abstract

The British Ordnance Survey mapping of Ireland in the nineteenth-century =
was
an official systematic survey which created a picture document of the
landscape and the past. While the maps influenced the =
institutionalization
of archaeology, the documenting of an archaeological record on the maps
shaped their look and language. Within a setting of the political =
contest
between British colonialism and Irish nationalism, both the Ordnance =
Survey
maps and the archaeological past they recorded became powerful tools =
that
helped to construct Irish identity and a sense of place and heritage.

Keywords Ireland; maps; archaeology; landscapes; colonialism; =
nationalism

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Subject: Book Launch, Olwen Purdue, THE BIG HOUSE IN THE NORTH OF IRELAND
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UCD Press cordially invites you to attend the launch of

THE BIG HOUSE IN THE NORTH OF IRELAND
Land, Power and Social Elites 1878-1960

by Olwen Purdue

on

Thursday, 18 June 2009 at 5.30--7 p.m.

at

THE BOOKSHOP

at Queen's,
91 University Road, Belfast, BT7 1NL
tel: 028 9066 6302/6378 e: info[at]queensbookshop.co.uk
www.queensbookshop.co.uk

Guest Speakers: Professor Peter Gray & Mr Henry McDonald

feel free to contact us for further details at

UCD Press

Tel. (01) 477 9812/9813

e-mail ucdpress[at]ucd.ie

www.ucdpress.ie

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: MA in Manx Studies, University of Liverpool,
Centre for Manx Studies, Isle of Man
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I would be very grateful if you would circulate the information among =
staff,
students, and any other interested parties. =20

With thanks and good wishes,

Catriona Mackie
=A0

MA and PG Diploma in Manx Studies
=20
Based at the Centre for Manx Studies in the Isle of Man, the University =
of
Liverpool offers an MA and PG Diploma in Manx Studies. =20

The MA and Diploma in Manx Studies are designed for graduates in any =
subject
who are interested in exploring multi- and inter-disciplinary approaches =
to
the study of the Isle of Man and its region.=20
=A0
The Centre for Manx Studies also offers Research Degrees in a wide =
variety
of subjects relating to the Isle of Man.=A0=20

Enquiries are currently sought for 2009 entry on a full-time and a =
part-time
basis. =20

For more information, please visit our website at =
www.liv.ac.uk/manxstudies
or contact:

Dr Catriona Mackie
Lecturer in Manx Studies
University of Liverpool
Centre for Manx Studies
6 Kingswood Grove
Douglas
Isle of Man
IM1 3LX
=A0
Tel:=A001624 695 153=20
Email: c.mackie[at]liverpool.ac.uk

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Subject: Irish Seminar Public Lectures Dublin June 2009
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Dear Colleagues=20
You are cordially invited to the following Irish Seminar Keynote =
Lectures,
all of which take place in the=20
National Gallery Ireland
(Merrion=A0St. Entrance)=20
on successive Thursdays at 7pm. Details as follows:=A0=20

Addressing one of the more controversial issues of recent years and =
recent
weeks particularly, our first lecture is by Professor Elizabeth Butler=20
Cullingford=A0who will discuss =93Catholicism in Crisis: Representing =
the Abuse
Scandals in Ireland and Irish-America.=94 This lecture takes place on =
next
Thursday 18 June at 7pm.

The second Public Lecture by Professor Declan=A0Kiberdand is entitled =
=93After
Ireland: The Death of a National Literature?=94 Professor Kiberd=A0will =
consider
whether the globalisation=A0of the economic boom years and the recent =
global
fiscal crisis have finally put paid to the idea of a national =
literature.
This will take place on Thursday 25 June, again at 7pm.

The third Public Lecture will be given by the distinguished American
scholar, Professor Paul Bove=A0on Thursday 2 July on the theme:
=93Misprisions=A0of Utopia: Messianism, Apocalypse, and Allegory.=94 The =
author of
several books on American intellectuals and cultural criticism, =
Professor
Bove=A0will engage critically with the idea of utopia in =
Fredric=A0Jameson=92s
work and with the modes of apocalyptic rhetoric common to various modes =
of
American conservative debate.

I hope some of these lectures may be of interest and would welcome your
support. Full details can be found on the website Irishseminar.nd.edu
Best regards,
=A0
Joe
=A0
Professor Joe Cleary
Executive Director
The Irish Seminar

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Ir-D members will recall the planning that went into this special issue =
of
Radical History Review. It looks very interesting indeed.

I will distribute some of the Abstracts too, just for completeness.

P.O'S.


Radical History Review, Volume 2009, Number 104, Spring 2009 =20

http://rhr.dukejournals.org/current.dtl#FEATURES


The Irish Question
Volume 2009, Number 104, Spring 2009 =20
Van Gosse, Conor McGrady, and Donal O Drisceoil, guest editors


Van Gosse, Conor McGrady, and Donal =D3 Drisceoil
Editors' Introduction=09
Radical History Review 2009(104): 1-3 (2009

Reflection =20

Donal =D3 Drisceoil
Framing the Irish Revolution: Ken Loach's The Wind That Shakes the =
Barley
Radical History Review 2009(104): 5-15 (2009

Features =20

Kerby A. Miller
"Heirs of Freedom" or "Slaves to England"? Protestant Society and =
Unionist
Hegemony in Nineteenth-Century Ulster=09
Radical History Review 2009(104): 17-40 (2009)

Steve Garner
Ireland: From Racism without "Race" to Racism without Racists=09
Radical History Review 2009(104): 41-56 (2009)

Pauline Collombier-Lakeman
Ireland and the Empire: The Ambivalence of Irish Constitutional =
Nationalism
Radical History Review 2009(104): 57-76 (2009)

Bill Kissane
The Constitutional Revolution That Never Was: Democratic Radicalism and =
the
Sinn F=E9in Movement=09
Radical History Review 2009(104): 77-102 (2009)=20

John Corbally
The Jarring Irish: Postwar Immigration to the Heart of Empire=09
Radical History Review 2009(104): 103-125 (2009)=20

Kevin Bean and Mark Hayes
Sinn F=E9in and the New Republicanism in Ireland: Electoral Progress,
Political Stasis, and Ideological Failure=09
Radical History Review 2009(104): 126-142 (2009)=20


Curated Spaces =20

Kevin Noble
The Irish Republicans=09
Radical History Review 2009(104): 143-152 (2009)=20

(Re)Views =20

Diane F. George
Colonization by Documentation: British Representations of Ireland in =
Maps,
Archives, and Travelogues=09
William J. Smyth, Map-making, Landscapes, and Memory: A Geography of
Colonial and Early Modern Ireland, c. 1530 =96 1750. Cork: Cork =
University
Press, 2006.; Stiof=E1n =D3 Cadhla, Civilizing Ireland: Ordnance Survey =
1824 =96
1842: Ethnography, Cartography, Translation. Dublin: Irish Academic =
Press,
2007.; William H. A. Williams, Tourism, Landscape, and the Irish =
Character:
British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine Ireland. Madison: University of
Wisconsin Press, 2008.=20
Radical History Review 2009(104): 153-158 (2009)

Mary Conley
Ireland, India, and the British Empire: Intraimperial Affinities and
Contested Frameworks=09
Tadhg Foley and Maureen O'Connor, eds., Ireland and India: Colonies,
Culture, and Empire. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2006.; Julia M. =
Wright,
Ireland, India, and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature. =
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2007.; Kaori Nagai, Empire of Analogies:
Kipling, India, and Ireland. Cork: Cork University Press, 2006.; Kate
O'Malley, Ireland, India, and Empire: Indo-Irish Radical Connections, =
1919 =96
64. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008.=20
Radical History Review 2009(104): 159-172 (2009)=20

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS=09
Radical History Review 2009(104): 173-175 (2009)
=20

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Duke University Press

"Heirs of Freedom" or "Slaves to England"? Protestant Society and Unionist
Hegemony in Nineteenth-Century Ulster

Kerby A. Miller

Based on Ulster Presbyterian immigrant correspondence and recent research in
Irish religious demography, this essay argues that Unionist cultural and
political hegemony over northern Irish Protestants was constructed largely
because of the massive emigrations (mostly to the United States) of Ulster
Presbyterians, between the 1790s and the 1850s, who would or could not
accommodate themselves to the political and socioeconomic regime fastened on
the north of Ireland after the United Irishmen's failed rebellion of 1798
and the Act of Union in 1800. Hence this essay directly challenges
revisionist scholars who argue that Ulster Presbyterians' post-1798 embrace
of the Union and the Orange Order was rapid, inevitable, and natural.

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I thought we might like to look on the bright side...

Or look at an attempt to look on the bright side...

From yesterday's Guardian...

P.O'S.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jun/14/ireland-green-new-deal


Emerald Isle plots green revolution
Ireland seems ready to lead the way as Europe gears up for the =
low-carbon=20

Larry Elliott
guardian.co.uk

Of all the world's developed nations, Ireland is the one that is closest =
to
a depression. The banking system is shot, the housing market has =
collapsed,
unemployment is expected to rise to more than one in six of the =
population.
The deterioration in the public finances =96 and this is saying =
something =96
has been even more acute than in Britain. The Irish economy is expected =
to
contract this year by just under 10%...

The good news is that Ireland's predicament makes it a prime candidate =
for a
"green new deal" =96 policies aimed not just at helping the economy =
through a
difficult time but also to make it better able to face the twin =
challenges
of a world where fossil fuels are dwindling and the temperature is =
rising.

Even better news is that Ireland appears quite keen to act as Europe's
guinea pig for the green new deal concept, and is likely to reap a
considerable dividend as a result. While the short-term outlook for =
Ireland
is dire, the longer term picture is much rosier. As Eamon Ryan, a Green
party minister in the coalition government, put it: "The crisis makes it
easier =85 The status quo is gone. This is a moment when you can =
recalibrate
everything."

Policymakers in Dublin see it this way. As a country on the western edge =
of
Europe, Ireland is particularly vulnerable to peak oil and peak gas. It =
has
no fossil fuels to speak of and is at the end of the pipelines that =
bring
gas from Russia. Dell's decision to close its Limerick plant and move
production to Poland underlines Ireland's vulnerability to the constant
search by US inward investors to reduce costs.

But these weaknesses are outweighed by considerable strengths...

...A third advantage is that Ireland's framework for decision-making is =
more
like Germany's than Britain's. It operates a system of social =
partnership in
which the government, unions, business, the agricultural lobby and civil
society collaborate to find consensual solutions to the country's =
problems.
The downside of this approach is that it can be slow-moving and =
cumbersome;
the upside is that when the social partners agree, things can happen =
fast.

... Where the UK government talks a lot about sustainability and
opportunities in a low-carbon economy, the Irish government appears to =
be
putting words into action. Forf=E1s wants Dublin and Belfast to =
co-operate on
developing wind and ocean power as well as on electricity supply. =
Northern
Ireland has a strong manufacturing tradition ripe for transformation =
into
the new environmental industries. If it waits for London to get its act
together, it may wait a very long time.

Full text at...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jun/14/ireland-green-new-deal

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Features

Ireland: From Racism without "Race" to Racism without Racists

Steve Garner

The Irish have been relentlessly racialized in their diaspora settings, yet
little historical work engages with "race" to understand Irish history on
the island of Ireland. This article provides an interpretation of two key
periods of Irish history-the second half of the sixteenth century and the
period since 1996-through the lens of racialization. I argue that Ireland's
history is exceptional in its capacity to reveal key elements of the history
of the development of race as an idea and a set of practices. The English
colonization of Ireland was underpinned by a form of racism reliant on
linking bodies to unchanging hierarchically stacked cultures, without
reference to physical differences. For example, the putative
unproductiveness of the Gaelic Irish not only placed them at a lower level
of civilization than the industrious English but it also authorizes
increasingly draconian ways of dealing with the Irish populace. The period
since 1996, during which Ireland has become a country of immigration,
illustrates how racism has undergone a transformation into the object of
official state policies to eliminate it. Yet it flourishes as part of a
globalized set of power relations that has brought immigrants to the
developing Irish economy. In response to immigration the state
simultaneously exerts neoliberal controls and reduces pathways to
citizenship through residence while passing antiracism legislation. Today,
the indigenous nomadic Travellers and asylum seekers are the ones that are
seen as pathologically unproductive. Irish history thus demonstrates that
race is not only about color but also very much about culture. It also
illustrates notable elements of the West's journey from racism without race
to racism without racists.