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This item has turned up in our alerts. In this interview James Kelman links
his own work with sectarianism in Scotland, the the study of the Irish
Diaspora - and he attempts to rescue James Connolly for Scotrland...

An Interview with James Kelman

http://www.open.ac.uk/wasafiri/

Wasafiri is a literary magazine at the forefront in mapping new landscapes
in contemporary international literature today. In over 25 years of
publishing, it has continued to provide consistent coverage to Britain's
diverse cultural heritage and publishes a range of diasporic and migrant
writing worldwide. Since its inception in 1984, it has focused on writing as
a form of cultural travelling (Wasafiri is Kiswahili for 'travellers') and
extended the boundaries of literary culture.

Roxy Harris
Wasafiri, 1747-1508, Volume 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 21 - 26
An Interview with James Kelman

James Kelman is one of Britain's best contemporary writers and has
radicalised the conventional narrative of the novel form. One of his
comrades was the late John La Rose, a political and cultural activist in the
Caribbean and the UK, founder of Britain's first black publishers and
bookshop, New Beacon Books, poet, writer and publisher (1927-2006). As a
measure of his affection for La Rose, Kelman asked New Beacon Books, and its
sister organisation the George Padmore Institute, to host an exclusive event
around the publication of his 2008 novel, Kieron Smith, boy. James Kelman's
long association with the International Book Fair of Radical Black and Third
World Books (1982-1995), which was initiated by John La Rose and others, led
to the founding of the Scottish Book Fair of Radical Black and Third World
Books in 1993, where Kelman played a pivotal role.

James Kelman was born in Glasgow. During the 1970s he published his first
collection of short stories. Since then he has published numerous novels,
short stories, plays and political essays. These include How Late It Was,
How Late, which won the Booker Prize, Disaffection and You Have To Be
Careful in the Land of the Free. James Kelman is in conversation here with
Roxy Harris, a Trustee of the George Padmore Institute and another
long-standing comrade of John La Rose.

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Things have become a bit clearer at the web sites of the JOURNAL OF IRISH
ARCHAEOLOGY.

Two new TOCs are available, and I will distribute them. VOL 15; 2006 -
below.

The publisher web site is
http://www.wordwellbooks.com/publisher.php?Publishers=Journal+of+Irish+Archa
eology

http://www.wordwellbooks.com/book.php?id=522

The publisher web site does not give article page numbers - and I usually
tend to wait for the academic systems to generate a more useful TOC. But
let us press on...

The web site of the parent organisation
Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland
http://journal.iai.ie/index.html

is now much better. And promises Volumes 11, 2009, soon...

It also says that an archive for all back issues of the journal is under
construction. And reminds us that back issues of the Journal are also
available online as part of the JSTOR archive...

Some background on that study of nineteenth-century institutional burial
practices - below - can be found at
http://mooregroup.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/19th-century-burial-in-ireland/

It will interest a number of Ir-D members.

P.O'S.


JOURNAL OF IRISH ARCHAEOLOGY
VOL 15; 2006
ISSN 0268-537X

pp. 1-14
Excavation of a Bronze Age round-house at Knockdomny, Co. Westmeath.
Hull, G.

pp. 15-38
The liminal boundary: an analysis of the sacral potency of the ditch at
Raith na Rig, Tara, Co. Meath.
Dowling, G.

pp. 39-72
Uisneach Midi a medon Erenn: a prehistoric `cult' centre and `royal site' in
Co. Westmeath.
Schot, R.

pp. 73-92
Cross-cultural occurrences of mutations in tower house architecture:
evidence for cultural homogeneity in late medieval Ireland?.
Sherlock, R.

pp. 93-104
Two glimpses of nineteenth-century institutional burial practice in Ireland:
a report on the excavation of burials from Manorhamilton Workhouse, Co.
Leitrim, and St Brigid's Hospital, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway.
Rogers, T.; Fibiger, L.; Lynch, L.G.; Moore, D.

pp. 105-116
Going astray in the fort field: `traditional' attitudes towards ringforts in
nineteenth-century Ireland.
Cheallaigh, M.N.

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Journal of Irish Archaeology, Vol. XVI (2007).

Contents

Fiona Gavin and Conor Newman
Notes on Insular silver in the 'Military Style'

Elizabeth FitzPatrick
Interpreting a cultural landscape: a case for seaweed-harvesting at Aughris,
Co. Sligo

Clare Mullins
Socketed longbone points: a study of the Irish material with reference to
British and Continental examples

Christine Baker
Excavations at Cloncowan II, Co. Meath

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Ireland and the Empire: The Ambivalence of Irish Constitutional
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Radical History Review 2009 2009(104):57-76
Duke University Press
Features

Ireland and the Empire: The Ambivalence of Irish Constitutional Nationalism

Pauline Collombier-Lakeman

Throughout the nineteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth
century, Irish constitutional nationalism developed an ambivalent discourse
on the relationship between Ireland and the empire. As proponents of Repeal
or Home Rule, Irish leaders repeatedly denounced the political, economic,
and cultural domination imposed on Ireland through the union with Great
Britain. And yet they avoided defining Ireland as a colony, and rather
stressed Ireland's participation in British empire building as one further
argument in favor of Irish legislative autonomy. Leading figures like Daniel
O'Connell, Charles Stewart Parnell, John Dillon, or John Redmond at times
opposed British imperial policy, but they were not committed
anti-imperialists. Only a minority of MPs including Frank Hugh O'Donnell,
Alfred Webb, and Michael Davitt were more active in denouncing the excesses
of British colonialism in India or South Africa. The anti-imperialism of
Irish constitutional nationalists was all the more limited as Repeal of Home
Rule was not meant to lead to the dismemberment of the empire. On the
contrary, leading Irish nationalist MPs were aware that, with the granting
of legislative autonomy to colonies like Canada, Australia, or New Zealand,
the very nature of the empire was changing and that autonomy and empire were
perfectly compatible. Taking the newly autonomous colonies as models to
follow, they contemplated the possibility of reorganizing the empire into a
federation including Ireland.

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Destination Ireland: an ancestral and emotional connection for
the American tourist
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Destination Ireland: an ancestral and emotional connection for the American
tourist

Author: Angela Siobhan Wright a

Affiliation: a CIT, Continuing Education, Cork, Ireland
Published in: Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, Volume 7, Issue 1
March 2009 , pages 22 - 33
Subjects: Sports, Leisure, Travel & Tourism: Tourism; Sociology of Culture:
Tourism; Tourism Impacts; Tourism, Society & Culture;


Abstract
The direction of the research in this paper is dictated by the particular
characteristics attaching to the special relationship that exists between
Ireland and the USA. In order to understand the complexities that govern the
motivating factors underlying American tourist interest in Ireland, this
research examines the singular historical, psychological, emotional, and
connectional dimensions that will afford us the knowledge from which
deductible theories, conclusions, and recommendations can be extracted. This
paper, therefore, seeks to outline the historical framework governing the
development of the relationship between the USA and Ireland, and identifies
the historical, ancestral, emotional, and connectional factors that bind the
two nations. This research presents new empirical findings on the American
tourist's quest for ancestral tangibility in destination Ireland.
Destination Ireland is marketed in a highly competitive environment and the
future of the Irish tourism industry will inevitably be dependent on the
ability of tourism industry managers to deliver new viable options and
motivations to travel to Ireland. A significant finding in this current
research suggests that the development of an ancestral product would address
this requirement in the market place.

Keywords: Irish tourism; ancestry; emigration; emotional bonds; motivation;
light-touch ancestry

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Please find=A0below the announcement and call for abstracts for the 4th
International Seminar on Language and Migration, sponsored by the AILA
Research Network on Language and Migration.
=A0
Date: 28-Jan-2010 - 29-Jan-2010
Location: Fribourg, Switzerland
Contact Person: Alexandre Duch=EAne
Meeting Email: alexandre.duchene[at]unifr.ch
Web Site: http://www.institut-plurilinguisme.ch/en/AILA-Seminar

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics;
Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 01-Oct-2009

Meeting Description:

Language, Migration and Labour
4th International Seminar Series
AILA Research Network on Language and Migration

Institute of Multilingualism, University of Fribourg and HEP Fribourg,
Switzerland

The fourth AILA Language and Migration Research Network Seminar focuses =
on
the relationship between language, migration flows and labour processes. =
Our
major concern is to explore the complex relationship between the =
economic
and cultural capital of migrants and its use or exploitation by power
institutions in a globalized labour market. We will focus on the role of
language in access, selection, social mobility and gate-keeping =
processes.
The seminar will address some of the following key issues:

A) The way language operates as a means of social selection in the =
workplace
for migrants (ie. the role of language skills in recruitment processes =
or
job performance, with attendant issues of measurement and evaluation);
B) Language teaching for migrants and acquisition of language =
proficiencies
on the workfloor (including literacy issues);
C) The capitalization by employers of migrant language skills in the
management of multilingualism (through commodification of language and
identity and/or the (non)-recognition of crucial multilingual =
practices);
D) The role of language in the regulation of labour market related =
migration
trajectories.

Plenary speakers
- Beatriz P. Lorente, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Ingrid Piller, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates
- C=E9cile Vigouroux, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Inscription
Inscription fees: 150 CHF
Please fill in the inscription form available on our website:
www.institut-plurilinguisme.ch
Deadline: 27 November, 2009

Host Institution
Institute of Multilingualism
University and HEP Fribourg
Rue de Morat 24
1700 Fribourg
Switzerland
Tel +41 26 305 61 73

Chair: Prof. Alexandre Duch=EAne (alexandre.duchene[at]unifr.ch)

General Information
General information regarding hotel, program and inscription will be
regularly posted on our website: www.institut-plurilinguisme.ch

For information on the AILA Research Network on Language and Migration,
please consult the following website:
http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~extcmh/ReNLM/index.htm

Call for Papers and Posters

Please submit by e-mail a 300-word abstract of your paper or poster
proposal.
Include your name, affiliation, address, phone and e-mail at the end of =
your
abstract. The abstract should include enough detail to allow reviewers =
to
judge the scientific merits of the proposal. Please mention whether you
would like to present a paper or a poster.

All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously. Oral papers will be allotted =
30
minutes, allowing 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for =
questions.
An extra poster session will be organized.

In order to insure discussion between the participants, no parallel =
sessions
will be organized. As a consequence the number of accepted oral papers =
will
be limited.

Abstract submissions should be sent to Liselotte Lutz: lutzl[at]edufr.ch

Deadlines
The submission deadline for proposals for papers is October 1st, 2009.
Acknowledgement of receipt of the abstract will be sent by e-mail as =
soon as
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later
than November 1st, 2009.

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Dear Colleagues,

A feature article on a rediscovered documentary about late 1980s Irish
migration to London appears in today's Irish Times.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2009/0616/1224248891969.html

Not something I'd previously any knowledge of - does anybody have any
further information about it?

Best, Tony


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

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






Companies Act 2006 : http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/companyinfo

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The New York Times printed this in it's op-ed section today. Although it's
ostensibly about Bloomsday (thus qualifying it for publication in the NYT),
it also seems directly relevant to the diaspora in a couple of ways.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/16/opinion/16mccann.html

All the best,
Matt

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IRCHSS FUNDED
Graduate Research Education Programme: Gender, Culture and Identity, UCD =
and University of Limerick.=20

Applications are invited for the IRCHSS thematic doctoral programme =
=E2=80=93 Gender, Culture and Identity: International, National and =
Local Contexts. This is an interdisciplinary thematic structured =
graduate research programme offered by the Graduate School in Arts and =
Celtic Studies in UCD, the Department of History and College of =
Humanities in University of Limerick and School of History and =
Anthropology in the Queen=E2=80=99s University Belfast.

Applications are invited in the following areas-
=20
1) Gender, medicine and healthcare in Ireland
This part of the programme will be based in the UCD Centre for the =
History of Medicine and will build on the new MA in the Cultural and =
Social History of Medicine. Gender is a very important issue in the =
social history of medicine and healthcare. Potential research topics =
include the gendered nature of healthcare services; representations of =
women in medicine as providers and consumers, the nursing profession; =
women in medicine; maternity and child health and medical services; =
family planning; reforms in healthcare and their impact on women and the =
family. =20

2) Gender, Cultural Change and Artistic Practice
This part of the programme will be based in the UCD Centre for the Study =
of Gender, Culture and Identities which encompasses a broad range of =
disciplines including literature, film, drama and history of art. =
Applications to work on any aspect of the relationship between gender =
and cultural production are welcome, with particular emphasis on =
interdisciplinary work with a strong theoretical or historical =
component. =20

Scholarships are valued at =E2=82=AC16,000 per annum plus fees. They =
will be awarded initially for one year, but subject to terms and =
conditions are renewable for two additional years. =20

For any additional information, please contact Dr Susan Cahill, GREP =
Research Co-ordinator.

Applicants must apply for the scholarships using the application form =
available at =
http://www.ucd.ie/gendercultureidentity/scholarships/currentcalls/ The =
deadline for applications is 5.00 pm Thursday, 25th June 2009.=20

Applicants must submit four copies of the application form. One copy of =
the references is sufficient.

Applications for Gender, medicine and healthcare in Ireland, 1922-60 and =
Gender, Cultural Change and Artistic Practice should be submitted to =
Barbara Gannon, UCD College of Arts and Celtic Studies Graduate School, =
Room A108, Newman Building, UCD, Belfield, Dublin. =
http://www.ucd.ie/artsceltic/graduateschool.htm

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NEW PUBLICATION:
Vol. 2 of the IRISH STUDIES IN EUROPE series published
under the aegis of EFACIS: The European Federation of
Associations and Centres of Irish Studies

**Place and Memory in the New Ireland**
Ed. Britta Olinder and Werner Huber
Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2009
(Irish Studies in Europe; vol. 2)
ISBN 978-3-86821-146-7

Contents:

Re-Imagining the Imaginary: A Challenge to Revisionist
Mythology (Kerby A. Miller) =96 Reconstructed Memory: Irish
Emigrant Letters from the Americas (Graham Davis) =96 Urban
Regeneration in Belfast: Landscape and Memory (Val=E9rie
Peyronel) =96 Anticipating the Peace Process: In the Name of
the Father as a Myth-Breaking Message (Yann B=E9vant) =96
Irish Animation and Radical Memory (Tom Walsh) =96 Two Poems
(Harry Clifton) =96 =93Chipped and tilted Marys=94: Two Irish
Poets and Their Contemporary Contexts (Patricia Coughlan)
=96 =93Watch me wherever I go=94: Ambivalence and Misdirection
in Eil=E9an N=ED Chuillean=E1in=92s Poetry (Borbala Farag=F3) =96
=93Out-and-out weary of excavating in the past=94: The New
Irelands of Cathal =D3 Searcaigh and Dennis O=92Driscoll (Mary
Pierse) =96 from Authenticity, Chapter Thirty-Five (Deirdre
Madden) =96 Place, Time and Perspective in John McGahern=92s
Fiction (Martin Ryle) =96 Mammies, Trollops, and Re-Claimers
of the Night: Women in Patrick McCabe=92s Fiction (David
Clark) =96 Here and Then, There and Now: Place and Memory in
=C9il=EDs N=ED Duibhne=92s Fiction (Giovanna Tallone) =96 Frank
McGuinness and Armand Gatti: Plays of Memory and Survival
(Joseph Long)

Available from:
WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
Bergstra=DFe 27, D-54295 Trier, GERMANY
Internet: http://www.wvttrier.de

E-Mail: wvt[at]wvttrier.de

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The Dreaming Body: Contemporary Irish Theatre
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Melissa Sihra & Paul Murphy, The Dreaming Body: Contemporary Irish =
Theatre
(Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009)

Contents:

'The Wood Road' by Seamus Heaney

Introduction, 'The Dreaming Body' - Melissa Sihra & Paul Murphy

'Urban Drama: Any Myth Will Do?' - Eamonn Jordan

Excerpt from Marina Carr's Chekhov. Introduced by Melissa Sihra

'Showtime: The Strategy of Mischief in the Plays of Stewart Parker' - =
Lynne
Parker

'Performing "Authentic" Ireland: (Dis)Connecting the Cultural Politics =
of
the Irish Revival and the Celtic Tiger on the Irish Stage' - Mark Phelan

'Staging Morality in On Raftery's Hill: A Kristevan Reading' - Rhona =
Trench

'Terry Eagleton's Saint Oscar' - Stephen Regan

Excerpt from Terry Eagleton's Saint Oscar

'Queer Eye for the Irish Guy: Transgressive Sexualities and the =
Performance
of Nation' - Brian Singleton

'Operating Theatre and Angel/Babel' - Olwen Fouere

'Looking for Fiona: Gender and Nationality in the work of Fiona Shaw' -
Aoife Monks

'Brian Friel's Wonderful Tennessee, or what was lost in Translations' - =
Paul
Murphy

'The Future of Ancient Greek Tragedy' - Conal Morrison

Excerpt from Conal Morrison's The Bacchae of Baghdad

'Birthdays and Deathdays in the theatre of Samuel Beckett and Marina =
Carr' -
Melissa Sihra
=A0
'En Ontras Palabras: Frank McGuinness and Spanish drama' - David =
Johnston

Donal O'Kelly in conversation with Paul Murphy

'Des Maxwell: An Afterword' - Robert Welch

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Irish Elegies and Words of the Grey Wind
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2 New Books by Chris Arthur...

Irish Elegies
Words of the Grey Wind

Irish Elegies (June 2009)

Irish Elegies, Chris Arthur's fourth collection, is forthcoming in Palgrave
Macmillan's New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature series.
The Series Editor is Professor Claire Culleton.

Publisher web site...

http://us.macmillan.com/irishelegies

http://www.palgrave-usa.com/catalog/product.aspx?isbn=0230615341

A web search will find the book already on the usual sites, and at a
discounted price,

Claire Culleton's Foreword can be found on

http://www.chrisarthur.org/elegies.html

A perhaps more sensibly priced collection is

Words of the Grey Wind (April 2009)

This volume of new and selected essays is published by Belfast's Blackstaff
Press. It draws on Irish Nocturnes, Irish Willow and Irish Haiku and
presents some of their essays alongside three new pieces of work.

The book includes the haunting essay "Mistletoe", an early version of which
was published in the Southern Humanities Review.

The book is not yet published - publisher web site...

http://www.blackstaffpress.com/ProductInfo.aspx?product=145

John Wilson Foster's Foreword can be found at

http://www.chrisarthur.org/greywind.html

Chris Arthur's own web site is turning into a very useful resource, and
worth spending time on - considering how important 'the essay' is in
pedagogy and in academia...

http://www.chrisarthur.org/

P.O'S.

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Journal of Historical Sociology
Volume 22 Issue 2, Pages 269 - 289
Published Online: 1 Jun 2009
Journal compilation C 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Colonial Oppression, Gender, and Women in the Irish Diaspora
POLLY RADOSH

ABSTRACT
This paper explores the relationship between colonial oppression in
pre-famine Ireland and the development of gender patterns that fostered
uncommon social and familial roles for women. In post-famine Ireland women's
traditional family roles illustrate cultural empowerment that combined with
the pull factors of employment opportunities to spawn higher female than
male emigration at the same time that patriarchal oppression restricted
women's full social participation in Ireland and limited their authority to
specific domains of family life. Cultural changes in post-famine Ireland,
including increased power for the Catholic Church, mothers' socialization of
children to the moral teachings of the Church, delayed marriage, and
permanent celibacy among large segments of the population, intersected to
produce unique patterns of migration. For women who immigrated to the United
States, the cultural background of colonial oppression instilled values that
respected independence and employment. In the case of the Irish, colonial
oppression initiated gender patterns that pushed women to greater familial
power and occupational independence than was typical of other ethnic groups.

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The American Historical Review, 114:718-719, June 2009
C 2009 American Historical Association. All rights reserved.
DOI: 10.1086/ahr.114.3.718
Reviews of Books
Comparative/World

Ronald L. Lewis. Welsh Americans: A History of Assimilation in the
Coalfields. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2008. Pp. x,
395. $49.95.

Mary H. Blewett

University of Massachusetts, Lowell

EXTRACTS
... Lewis, uninterested in diasporas such as the Welsh in Argentina, traces
a one-dimensional transnational connection between homeland and hostland.
Although he argues that the Welsh transplanted a distinct work culture,
resisted out-marrying, cherished Welsh nationalism, spoke a different
language, and possessed their own religious traditions and culture, this
somehow did not differentiate them from Americans of British stock. Settled
in the heavy industrial areas of Pennsylvania and Ohio, they played a
formative role in shaping the coal industry, its practices, safety laws, and
trade associations. Lewis asks why a culture so "foreign" encountered so
little "discrimination" (p. 8). Apparently this culture bowed before the
forces of assimilation. Wales was forgotten, and Americanization prevailed.
Surely, the inevitability that all this suggests should raise questions...

... Welsh miners also transplanted a tradition of resistance and support for
trade unions and a hatred for the Catholic Irish.

The conflict between Welsh and Irish immigrants in the American coal fields
provides a most interesting transnational clash of culture and class. The
skills of coal miners from Wales were unique; neither native nor immigrant
workers offered an alternative. Lewis argues that the rise of English
industrial capitalism intertwined ethnic relations with class warfare. For
example, in Wales such conflict spilled over from the workplace into the
community. Hatred of Irish immigrants to Wales and their Catholicism became
yet another transplanted cultural heritage, making class unity difficult but
assimilation more probable...

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Working toward the De-essentialization of Identity Categories in
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Comparative Education Review, vol. 53, no. 2
=C2=A9 2009 by the Comparative and International Education Society. All =
rights reserved.

Working toward the De=E2=80=90essentialization of Identity Categories in =
Conflict and Postconflict Societies: Israel, Cyprus, and Northern =
Ireland
Zvi Bekerman, Michalinos Zembylas, and Claire McGlynn=20

Electronically published February 16, 2009

During the past decade, we have conducted research in our own countries, =
all of which are considered conflict or postconflict societies: Israel, =
Cyprus, and Northern Ireland. We have focused on a variety of topics =
related to peace education, reconciliation, and coexistence. Giving =
special emphasis to the formation of identity in educational settings, =
two of us have investigated primarily in integrated schools (in Israel =
and Northern Ireland), while the third has conducted research in =
multicultural schools (in Cyprus). We believe that a comparative study =
of these three settings is valuable because such juxtaposition helps to =
conceptualize how some aspects of identity are developed in practice in =
the countries in question (Phillips and Schweisfurth 2006).

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Philadelphia and the Re-invention of America
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The American Historical Review, 114:717-718, June 2009
C 2009 American Historical Association. All rights reserved.
DOI: 10.1086/ahr.114.3.717
Reviews of Books
Comparative/World

Maurice J. Bric. Ireland, Philadelphia and the Re-invention of America,
1760-1800. Portland, Oreg.: Four Courts Press. 2008. Pp. xix, 363. $65.00.

David A. Wilson

University of Toronto

...When, in 1797, Irish republicans in Philadelphia published the
constitution of the American Society of United Irishmen, they were keen to
enlist not only their fellow countrymen but all supporters of the "rights of
mankind," irrespective of nationality. The cause of liberty, they believed,
was indivisible. As citizens of the world, they viewed themselves as part of
a struggle that transcended but included the United States-a struggle that
pitted them against entrenched elites on both sides of the Atlantic, in
counterrevolutionary Britain, Ascendancy Ireland, and Federalist America.
Joining Democratic Clubs, establishing their own ethnic organizations, and
editing radical newspapers, they became an integral part of the Republican
Party, and contributed to Thomas Jefferson's Revolution of 1800.

This confluence of the "new immigrants" and "new politics," argues Maurice
J. Bric, broke the American ideal of an "organic and undifferentiated
polity," shattered earlier patterns of deference, and helped to create a new
public space characterized by ethnic involvement and popular participation
in politics...

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The American Historical Review, 114:483=E2=80=93485, April 2009
=C2=A9 2009 American Historical Association. All rights reserved.
DOI: 10.1086/ahr.114.2.483

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Maria Luddy. Prostitution and Irish Society, 1800=E2=80=931940. New =
York: Cambridge University Press. 2007. Pp. xiii, 352. Cloth $80.00, =
paper $29.99.

Myrtle Hill

Queen's University Belfast


We are all to some extent familiar with the history of Ireland's narrow =
moral code and the grim consequences of its sexually repressive regimes =
for women during the nineteenth and most of the twentieth centuries. All =
too often, however, it is a generalized knowledge, which does not take =
into account the experiences of different groups of women, subtle shifts =
over time, and the varying impacts of wider social, economic, and =
political developments. Maria Luddy's attractive and comprehensive study =
of prostitution in Irish society, written with scholarly rigor and =
attention to context and detail, is therefore a particularly welcome =
addition to the historiography...

... The introduction describes hostile responses to Luddy's public =
lectures on this subject, and the examples she provides reflect the =
strongly held notions of Irish sexual purity and moral superiority that =
have long dominated nationalist discourse. She also draws attention to =
the intense interest generated by the late twentieth=E2=80=90century =
revelations of the abuses to which unmarried mothers, in particular, =
were subjected and the emotional reactions to which they gave rise. =
Luddy argues that both of these discourses need to be treated with =
caution and subjected to critical contextual analysis, a process =
facilitated by her concise outline of the social and economic =
environment inhabited by Irish women and a discussion of the key =
literature on this topic...

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{decoded}Dear All,

Please see email below from CSO. This is an incredibly useful initiative. Now, if only someone would put the Report of the Commission on Emigration and Other Population Problems online, but for some reason the copyright belongs, as far as I know, to the Department of Health and Children

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Subject: Diaspora Cities: Urban Mobility and Dwelling

Diaspora Cities:
Urban Mobility and Dwelling
A one-day conference
Wednesday 16 September 2009
The Department of Geography and The City Centre,
Queen Mary, University of London

CALL FOR PAPERS
This one-day interdisciplinary conference will explore the critical
relationships between cities and diasporas. Drawing on historical and
contemporary research, this conference will address the ways in which the
city, as a place of departure, travel, sojourn and resettlement, is a site
of diasporic mobility and dwelling. Through its focus on urban diasporas and
the importance of the city in fostering diasporic identities, imaginations
and networks, the conference will extend debates about migration and
diaspora; transnational and postcolonial urbanism; cosmopolitan cities; and
urban memory.

The conference is funded by The Leverhulme Trust and convened by the
Diaspora Cities research project team based at QMUL (Alison Blunt, Jayani
Bonnerjee, Noah Hysler-Rubinand Shompa Lahiri).

Abstracts are invited from researchers working on the relationships between
cities and diasporas with reference to particular cities and to wider
conceptual themes. Conference themes are likely to include:

. Diasporic memories, imaginings and experiences of the city
. Tales of urban mobility and dwelling in life stories, cultural practices,
text and images
. The emotional, embodied and sensory geographies of diaspora cities
. Public and private spaces of diaspora urbanism
. Diasporic practices, networks and the neo-liberal city
. Comparative studies of diaspora cities
. Mobility and dwelling in relation to urban modernities, cosmopolitanism
and consumption

Please send abstracts of up to 200 words by 10 July 2009 to Dr Shompa
Lahiri: S.Lahiri[at]qmul.ac.uk

Registration is free but places are limited.

To confirm your place, please email S.Lahiri[at]qmul.ac.uk by 15 August 2009
Visit www.geog.qmul.ac.uk/diasporacities/
to find out more about the conference and the Diaspora Cities research
project