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Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:38:48 +0100
From: "MacEinri, Piaras"
To: "The Irish Diaspora Studies List"
Dear All

The article below, which appears in today's Irish Times, answers in part
a question raised some weeks ago (by David Rose?) about Protestants and
abuse in Ireland. It may give some comfort as well to those who
disagreed so strongly with Patsy McGarry's piece!

Piaras

Protestant abuse victims must also be heard

Wed, Jul 01, 2009

OPINION: Victims of Protestant prejudice and State neglect are at a
disadvantage, writes DEREK LEINSTER=20

Full text at...
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0701/1224249837505.html

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From: Patrick Maume
I'm not sure this is really comparable to the Ryan Report because he does
not say very much about the Bethany Home (which appears to have been a
short-stay "mother and baby" home rather than a Magdalen Asylum) and he was
abused by a foster-parent rather than in an institution. His real complaint
appears to be about attitudes to extra-marital pregnancy.
The reference to Rev. Thomas Chatterton Hammond is interesting. He was
the head of the Irish Church Mission; when I was researching the IRISH
WEEKLY INDEPENDENT for the 1920s and 1930s I saw quite a few reports of
custody cases involving orphans of a mixed/apparently mixed marriage in
which a Catholic relative supported by a religious order was suing agaisnt a
Protestant relative supported by Hammond, and it was pretty clear that the
real issue was whether the unfortunate children would be brought up in a
Protestant or a Catholic orphanage. The extent to which these institutions
were shaped by this sort of denominational competition is often overlooked.
There is a direct diaspora relevance, as Hammond emigrated to Australia in
1936 to become Principal of Moore Theological College, Sydney, where he
became a major architect of the ultra-Evangelical for of Anglicanism still
found in the Sydney Archdiocese. I have seen him compared to Daniel Mannix
as an example of Irish theological conflicts exported to Australia (both
were from Co. Cork; Hammond I think grew up near Kinsale, Mannix from
Charleville).
There is a short reverential biography by Warren Nelson, published by
Banner of Truth, Edinburgh in 1994, which is very eveasive about such issues
as the extent of his involvement in Orangeism.
Here is his Wikipedia entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._C._Hammond
Best wishes,
Patrick
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:

> Subject: Patsy McGarry, take 2
> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:38:48 +0100
> From: "MacEinri, Piaras"
> To: "The Irish Diaspora Studies List"
> Dear All
>
> The article below, which appears in today's Irish Times, answers in part
> a question raised some weeks ago (by David Rose?) about Protestants and
> abuse in Ireland. It may give some comfort as well to those who
> disagreed so strongly with Patsy McGarry's piece!
>
> Piaras
>
> Protestant abuse victims must also be heard
>
> Wed, Jul 01, 2009
>
> OPINION: Victims of Protestant prejudice and State neglect are at a
> disadvantage, writes DEREK LEINSTER=20
>
> Full text at...
> http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0701/1224249837505.html
>

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Greetings=2C

I found Patrick's e-mail both illuminating and revealing. Regarding Protes=
tant attitudes to children=2C a friend of mine=2C Margaret Connolly=2C who =
carefully transcribed the Dr. Kathleen Lynn diaries for the Royal College o=
f Physicians=2C was working on the Smyly Homes. These had been set up by E=
llen Smyly in the nineteenth century. Margaret was unable to gain access t=
o any historical material even though she was a bona fide researcher. I wo=
nder why. Is there even more to be revealed? There is a superb article by=
Sarah-Ann Buckley (UCC) in the most recent=2C 2008=2C issue of 'Saothar' o=
n 'child neglect=2C poverty and class'.

Best wishes=2C

Margaret.
=20
> Date: Mon=2C 6 Jul 2009 12:41:25 +0100
> From: pmaume[at]GOOGLEMAIL.COM
> Subject: Re: [IR-D] Patsy McGarry=2C take 2
> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>=20
> From: Patrick Maume
> I'm not sure this is really comparable to the Ryan Report because he does
> not say very much about the Bethany Home (which appears to have been a
> short-stay "mother and baby" home rather than a Magdalen Asylum) and he w=
as
> abused by a foster-parent rather than in an institution. His real complai=
nt
> appears to be about attitudes to extra-marital pregnancy.
> The reference to Rev. Thomas Chatterton Hammond is interesting. He was
> the head of the Irish Church Mission=3B when I was researching the IRISH
> WEEKLY INDEPENDENT for the 1920s and 1930s I saw quite a few reports of
> custody cases involving orphans of a mixed/apparently mixed marriage in
> which a Catholic relative supported by a religious order was suing agaisn=
t a
> Protestant relative supported by Hammond=2C and it was pretty clear that =
the
> real issue was whether the unfortunate children would be brought up in a
> Protestant or a Catholic orphanage. The extent to which these institution=
s
> were shaped by this sort of denominational competition is often overlooke=
d.
> There is a direct diaspora relevance=2C as Hammond emigrated to Australia=
in
> 1936 to become Principal of Moore Theological College=2C Sydney=2C where =
he
> became a major architect of the ultra-Evangelical for of Anglicanism stil=
l
> found in the Sydney Archdiocese. I have seen him compared to Daniel Manni=
x
> as an example of Irish theological conflicts exported to Australia (both
> were from Co. Cork=3B Hammond I think grew up near Kinsale=2C Mannix from
> Charleville).
> There is a short reverential biography by Warren Nelson=2C published by
> Banner of Truth=2C Edinburgh in 1994=2C which is very eveasive about such=
issues
> as the extent of his involvement in Orangeism.
> Here is his Wikipedia entry:
>=20
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._C._Hammond
> Best wishes=2C
> Patrick
> On Wed=2C Jul 1=2C 2009 at 6:15 PM=2C Patrick O'Sullivan P.OSullivan[at]bradford.ac.uk> wrote:
>=20
> > Subject: Patsy McGarry=2C take 2
> > Date: Wed=2C 1 Jul 2009 15:38:48 +0100
> > From: "MacEinri=2C Piaras"
> > To: "The Irish Diaspora Studies List"
> > Dear All
> >
> > The article below=2C which appears in today's Irish Times=2C answers in=
part
> > a question raised some weeks ago (by David Rose?) about Protestants and
> > abuse in Ireland. It may give some comfort as well to those who
> > disagreed so strongly with Patsy McGarry's piece!
> >
> > Piaras
> >
> > Protestant abuse victims must also be heard
> >
> > Wed=2C Jul 01=2C 2009
> >
> > OPINION: Victims of Protestant prejudice and State neglect are at a
> > disadvantage=2C writes DEREK LEINSTER=3D20
> >
> > Full text at...
> > http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0701/1224249837505.htm=
l
> >

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Subject: BOOK REVIEW,
Mary C. Kelly on Barry Vann _In Search of Ulster-Scots Land: the
Birth and Geotheological Imagings of a Transatlantic People_
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Subject: REV: Mary C. Kelly on Barry Vann _In Search of Ulster-Scots
Land: the Birth and Geotheological Imagings of a Transatlantic People_

Barry Vann. In Search of Ulster-Scots Land: the Birth and
Geotheological Imagings of a Transatlantic People. Columbis
University of South Carolina Press, 2008. 252 pp. $39.95 (cloth),
ISBN 978-1-57003-708-5.

Reviewed by Mary C. Kelly (Franklin Pierce University)
Published on H-Albion (July, 2009)
Commissioned by Michael De Nie

The Physical, Spiritual, and Thought Worlds of the Ulster-Scots

Documentation of Scotch-Irish settlement in colonial North America has
progressed over the course of two centuries by this point, the record
affirming James G. Leyburn's 1962 contention that "primary sources for
Scotch-Irish settlement and social life in America are almost
inexhaustible."[1] Most recently, an upswing of interest in the Scotch-
Irish zone of origin is accentuating the Ulster-Scots cultural
foundation and strengthening our understanding of the group's North
America settlement in the process. Barry Aron Vann embraces the trend,
casting a geographer's eye over the North Channel historical landscape
and the identity that developed in southwestern Scotland and the
easterly counties of Ulster throughout the seventeenth century.

The emergence of an Ulster-Scots ethnicity within the broader
transatlantic context is his primary focus, as per the headline of his
title. If _In Search of Ulster-Scots Land_ comprised the entire title,
readers might expect a revisionist interpretation of Leyburn, or
perhaps engagement with James Webb's _Born Fighting: How the Scots-
Irish Shaped America_ (2004), or Patrick Griffin's _The People With No
Name: Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scots Irish, and the Creation
of a British Atlantic World, 1689-1764_ (2001). Instead, the
"geotheological imagings" of the subheading offers quite a different
perspective on the ethnic history. Vann argues that Lowlander
migration into Ulster during the Jacobite Plantation is characterized
by a series of "thought worlds" deriving from a specifically Ulster-
centered, rural-based Presbyterian worldview aligned against a range
of powerful political forces. The defining elements of the Ulster-
Scots intellectual world are presented here as "geotheological
imagings," or key sources of the group's identity forged within the
North Channel theological and cultural milieu. While much of the
introduction is taken up with definitions, the geographical,
historical, religious, and intellectual factors underpinning the
"thought worlds" never quite fuse coherently to form a clear thesis.
As a result, while the aspiration to highlight these factors in a
history of the Ulster-Scots may be commendable, the "geotheological
imagings" approach is superficially rendered throughout.

The introductory chapters reveal the "imagings" as lenses through
which to explore the intellectual culture of these nonconformists
within the troubled political and social context of the 1600s.
Intrepid Scottish ministers, or "Puritan-Presbyterian
intelligentsia" (p. 46), who led devout congregations from a
hardscrabble existence in Scotland to the heartland of Protestant
Ireland are considered the primary architects of the "thought worlds"
emerging within the group. Over the course of an introduction and five
chapters, Vann ploughs valiantly through the convolutions of the
seventeenth century. He interweaves standard Jacobite themes with
continual reference to the intellectual culture under construction,
although much of this material has been addressed in other studies
mapping the cultural exchange between impoverished Lowlanders and
spare Ulster settlements. Vann's argument that Ulster-Scots Land
constituted the nexus of an intellectual worldview with far-reaching
consequences for American settlement harbors workable dimensions, but
the "thought worlds" fail to mobilize as useful categories of analysis
within the protracted attention to the economic and political concerns
of the Ulster-Scots.

Vann is conscientious in documenting the shift from a grace-centered
ideology to a covenant of works doctrine, and occasionally evokes the
pioneering spirit of the Scottish ministers as they wean their
newfound Presbyterian communities. Descriptive passages on the time-
honored sea-route operating between Portpatrick and Donaghadee (pp.
42-46) reflect the geographic approach of the book and frame the
Presbyterian/Puritan "exodus" from Scotland within a maritime context,
but the convolutions of Plantation politics dominate the narrative at
the expense of the ineffectual "thought worlds." The emergence of a
nonconformist culture straddling the North Channel is not in question,
and neither is the claim that dissenters forged a distinct
intellectual community, but the overextended coverage of ministers'
endeavors and incoherent modes of analysis ultimately suffocate the
intellectual progressions. "With respect to relationships between
schismatic actions and how those actions and beliefs influenced the
formation of the trans-Irish Sea Presbyterian community," Vann informs
us, "it is argued that it was their beliefs and steadfastness to their
oaths that created situations in which political and social conflict,
as well as theological schisms, could occur, with spatial relocation
for many being the consequence." (p. 90). Quite, but Vann might have
more profitably narrowed his focus to a single community, or selected
one dimension of the burgeoning intellectual culture to track. In so
doing, he might have avoided pronouncements more applicable to a
biblical epic than the inhabitants of Ulster-Scots Land, for example:
"Refuge such as the wilderness (for example, Egypt or the nearly
destroyed lands of Ulster) allowed the true followers of Christ to
avoid a wrong-headed monarch's staff and rod as they were let loose to
control their nation" (p. 107).

Chapter 6 finally brings us to the "transatlantic people" of the
title, where Vann abandons the constraints imposed by the book's time
frame of 1603-1703 in an extraordinary jump to the present day. To
describe the final chapter and conclusion as a leap of faith is not
entirely inaccurate. Vann's argument for the endurance of Ulster-Scots
culture in the American Bible Belt draws heavily from a selection of
pop-culture sources, demoting the final section of the book to mere
conjecture. Rather than mining Carrie Underwood's or Hank Williams
Jr.'s lyrics (regardless of their success in the country charts) for
evidence of Ulster-Scots cultural survival across the Atlantic, Vann
would have been better served subscribing to Leyburn's "thought world"
on the wealth of state, local, and personal records available to those
interested in the history of Ulster-Scots settlement in America.

Note

[1]. James Leyburn, _The Scotch-Irish: A Social History_ (Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 1962), 362.

Citation: Mary C. Kelly. Review of Vann, Barry, _In Search of Ulster-
Scots Land: the Birth and Geotheological Imagings of a Transatlantic
People_. H-Albion, H-Net Reviews. July, 2009. URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=24072

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-
Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Conference, Irish London: Print,
Politics and Performance in the Long 19th-Century,
September 10th, 2009, University of Notre Dame London Centre
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Irish London: Print, Politics and Performance in the Long 19th-Century

Student Bursaries Available

Irish London: Print, Politics and Performance in the Long 19th-Century
September 10th, 2009
University of Notre Dame London Centre
1 Suffolk Street
London SW1Y 4HG

A conference jointly organised by English Department, King=92s College =
London
and University of Notre Dame London Centre

Confirmed speakers:
Claire Connolly (Cardiff); Luke Gibbons (Maynooth); Richard Kirkland =
(KCL);
Maud Ellmann (UND); Susan Harris (UND); Mary Burgess
(UND); Liam Harte (Manchester); Robert Portsmouth (Galway); and Edna
O=92Brien.

This conference will examine the presence of Irish people in London from =
the
Union in 1801 to the General Election of 1918. =20
Against a backdrop of often extreme political tension, Irish people =
played
an array of different roles in London, both shaping and
contesting or disrupting metropolitan culture. Four sets of questions =
have
stimulated this conference:

1) diversity: we often think of the 'Irish' as a single group or
community, but in reality there are many different groups and
individuals with different interests and backgrounds. How does the
diversity of Irish experience figure in the cultural history
of London over this period?

2) networks: interesting current work on the nineteenth century has
suggested ways of thinking about culture in terms of networks
of communication and exchange. In what kinds of networks were Irish =
people
active in London in this period? We want to think
about print networks (networks of writers and publishers, for instance),
political networks, and performance networks.

3) imagining London: how did London figure in the imagination of Irish
writers, artists and thinkers across the period?

4) theatre: what kind of cultural and political impact did Irish
dramatists, actors, and audiences exert, particularly on the
London stage but also in relation to the circulation of theatrical
performances and performers between London and Dublin?

Organising Committee: Greg Kucich (NDU), Josephine McDonagh (KCL) and
Melanie McMahon (KCL)

There is no charge for this conference, but places are limited. If you =
wish
to attend, please reserve a place by September 4th by sending an email =
to
melanie.mcmahon[at]kcl.ac.uk

. =20

Mark your email =91Irish London=92.

Enquiries: melanie.mcmahon[at]kcl.ac.uk

Student Bursaries: a number of bursaries of up to =A3100 each are =
available
to help graduate students to attend this conference.=20
Please submit by July 31st 2009 a paragraph of around 250 words =
explaining
why you wish to attend this conference, how it will
benefit your own research, and details of the cost of travel for you to
attend.

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Conference, Scotland's Global Impact, Inverness,
22-24 October 2009
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From: Alison Munro
Subject: Scotland's Global Impact - international conference

Why not join us this autumn for three exhilarating days in the Highlands =
of
Scotland?

Scotland's global impact: how one small nation changed the world! Buaidh
Chruinneil na h-Alba - mar a dh'atharraich aon d=F9thaich bheag an =
saoghal! is
a three day conference on the outstanding historical and contemporary
contribution made by the people of Scotland to countries and communities
around the globe. More than 30 leading historians from six countries =
join
family historians, geneaologists, archaeologists, battlefield experts,
folklorists and students of history in Inverness, the capital of the
Highlands of Scotland.

The event takes place in one of Scotland's premier arts facilities, Eden
Court Theatre, 22-24 October 2009 and is a signature event in the year =
of
Highland Homecoming 2009.

Bookings can be made now for one, two or three days. An abbreviated
programme is below. For the full programme, bookings and more =
information on
accommodation and related events, please see the conference website at
www.scotlandsglobalimpact.com

Day 1: Immigrants & Emigrants - the making of the Scottish diaspora

Keynote speaker: Professor John MacKenzie (University of Lancaster) The
peoples who made Scotland: Dr Dauvit Broun (University of Glasgow); Alex
Woolf (University of St Andrews): James Fraser (University of =
Edinburgh).
Scotland and Europe in the Medieval and Early Modern Period: Dr David
Ditchburn (Trinity College Dublin); Dr Steve Murdoch (University of St
Andrews): Dr David Worthington (UHI Millennium Institute). Incomers: Dr =
Enda
Delaney (University of Edinburgh): Dr Philomena de Lima (UHI Millennium
Institute); Dr Margaret Bennett (Singer, writer, folklorist & =
broadcaster).

Day 2: Empire and Beyond - North America to Australasia

Empire and beyond: Professor Ted Cowan (University of Glasgow). The
Transatlantic Dimension: Professor Margaret Connell Szasz (University of =
New
Mexico); Douglas Gibson (editor and publisher in Canada); Professor =
Ferenc
Morton Szasz (University of New Mexico). New Zealand Adventures: Rebecca
Lenihan (Victoria University of Wellington): Professor Angela McCarthy
(University of Otago): Rosalind McClean (University of Waikato). =
Comparative
Perspectives: Professor Michael Vance (Saint Mary's University, Nova
Scotia): Dr Marjory Harper (University of Aberdeen): Dr Tanja Bueltmann
(Northumbria University): Professor Graeme Morton (University of =
Guelph):
Professor Eric Richards (Flinders University).

Day 3: The Military Dimension - Scottish soldiers and battlefields

Professor Jim Hunter (UHI Millennium Institute), Dr Tony Pollard =
(University
of Glasgow) 'No great mischief if they fall' The Scottish soldier at =
home
and abroad in the 17th to 19th centuries: Dr Stana Nenadic (University =
of
Edinburgh): Dr Padraig Lenihan (University of Limerick): Vicky Henshaw: =
Dr
Tony Pollard. Scots in Continental Service: Dr Daniel Szechi (University =
of
Manchester): Dr Steve Murdoch: Professor Stephen Conway (University =
College
London). Foundations of the Empire: Lt Col Ian MacPherson MacCulloch:
Professor Edward Spiers (Leeds University). Keynote Speech: Dr Ewan =
Cameron
(University of Edinburgh).

The conference will be opened by Scotland's First Minister, Alex =
Salmond,
and chaired by the BBC's Lesley Riddoch, and promises to be exciting,
entertaining and educational. It is taking place within Highland =
Homecoming:
a fortnight of extraordinary cultural events in the Highlands of =
Scotland -
music, arts, theatre and much more - all with a Homecoming theme. So =
there
will be plenty going on by day and night.

Conference fees are =A350 per day and =A3150 for all three days. =
Discounts are
available for group bookings.

Further information on the conference is available at:
www.scotlandsglobalimpact.com

Further information on Highland Homecoming's programme of events see:
www.highlandeventsandfestivals.com


Best regards,

Alison Munro

UHI Millennium Institute, Ness Walk, Inverness IV3 5SQ
Institiud OGE nam Mile Bliadhna, Slighe Nis, Inbhir Nis IV3 5SQ

Creating the University of the Highlands and Islands www.uhi.ac.uk

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Subject: A kind of fame - Ulster Fare, Belfast Women's Institute Club
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'The most revolting dish ever devised'
Elizabeth David was the doyenne of food writers. But, says Tim Hayward, =
the bitchy annotations she wrote in her cookbooks reveal another side of =
her

Tim Hayward
The Guardian,
Wednesday 1 July

If Britain ever produced a deity in the world of food it was Elizabeth =
David. Chefs cling to her books and recipes as holy writ, collect old =
volumes and inhale her biographies like the scent of fresh bread. So I =
was intrigued when I got a call from Peter Ross, librarian at London =
Guildhall library and custodian of the vast collection of cookbooks that =
David bequeathed.

"I think you might find this interesting. According to a note I've =
found, Elizabeth David thought she'd discovered the most revolting dish =
ever devised."...

...And finally, there it is. A tersely worded Post-it attached to the =
bottom of a discarded invoice. "Italian salad p50. Sounds just about the =
most revolting dish ever devised." It was found folded inside Ulster =
Fare, published in 1945 by the Belfast Women's Institute Club, which =
David bought secondhand in 1974.

Full Text at...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jul/01/elizabeth-david-food-c=
ookbook

And the recipe...

Do not try this at home

Italian salad=20
1 pint cold cooked macaroni=20
=C2=BD pint cooked or tinned pears=20
=C2=BD pint grated raw carrot=20
French dressing to moisten=20
2 heaped tablespoons minced onion=20
=C2=BD pint cooked or minced string beans

Mix the chopped macaroni and vegetables; moisten with French dressing, =
=EF=AC=82avouring with garlic if liked. Serve on a dish lined with =
lettuce leaves. Decorate with mayonnaise and minced pimento or chives.

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Ir-D members will be interested in this exchange between myself and Dawn
Duncan on the IASIL list...

P.O'S.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dawn Duncan [mailto:duncan[at]cord.edu]
Sent: 01 July 2009 13:36
To: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: RE: [IASIL] queries from supposed students and/or journalists

Dear Patrick,

By all means, feel free to share with others who may also be targets. We
should be able to outsmart these tricksters.

all the best,
Dawn

Dr. Dawn Duncan
Professor of English/Global Studies
Concordia College-Moorhead, MN
Secretary, International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures
(IASIL)
________________________________________
From: Patrick O'Sullivan [P.OSullivan[at]bradford.ac.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 4:58 AM
To: Dawn Duncan
Subject: RE: [IASIL] queries from supposed students and/or journalists

Dawn,

Thank you for this.

Very timely.

On the Irish Diaspora list such queries have always been a problem - but in
the 'old days' the messages did seem to be from genuine students who simply
wanted us to write their essays for them.

The queries now are becoming curiously specific. And it has become more
difficult to establish bona fides.

I have always sought evidence of work already done and thought already
thought.

I will, if I may, share your warning with the Irish Diaspora list.

Patrick O'Sullivan

________________________________________
From: iasil [mailto:IASIL[at]lists.cord.edu] On Behalf Of Dawn Duncan
Sent: 29 June 2009 14:09
To: IASIL[at]lists.cord.edu
Subject: [IASIL] queries from supposed students and/or journalists

Dear Colleagues,

Just a reminder to all that the scams for getting scholars to reply about
their work are numerous and getting a bit trickier. I received one from a
supposed Canadian college student (Brian) and Maureen Hawkins received one
from a supposed journalist (Matt), both recently. Please use the following
approach, and make sure each answer is supplied so that you may verify with
someone else, before sharing any information:

1. Ask where the individual is working or studying and who is his/her
supervisor
2. Ask the nature of the project and what work has been complete to date
3. Ask a specific question about your work that s/he should be able to
answer (not a factual one, but an analytical/evaluative one) if your work
has actually already been studied.

Then contact the place and person from answer number one (on your own, not
from an email provided through the individual making the query). We would
all love to believe that we are in such demand, but actually our work is
getting mined for electronic papers sold to students.

best,
Dawn

Dr. Dawn Duncan
Professor of English/Global Studies
Concordia College-Moorhead, MN
Secretary, International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures
(IASIL)=

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: TOC =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C9ire-Ireland=2C_?= Volume 44:1&2,
Earrach/Samhradh / Spring/Summer 2009, Special Issue: Children,
Childhood, and Irish Society
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Colleagues who have been following the development of this project will =
want
to warmly congratulate Maria Luddy and Jim Smith on seeing it through to
completion...

Obviously this Special Issue of =C9ire-Ireland, Children, Childhood, and =
Irish
Society, is timely, in the light of recent discussion on the Ir-D list, =
and
elsewhere. But it also marks a real turning point in the development of
Irish historiography.

The Special Issue of =C9ire-Ireland is now on Project Muse.

P.O'S.


=C9ire-Ireland
Volume 44:1&2, Earrach/Samhradh / Spring/Summer 2009
E-ISSN: 1550-5162 Print ISSN: 0013-2683

Table of Contents
Special Issue: Children, Childhood, and Irish Society
Guest Editor: Maria Luddy University of Warwick, James M. Smith, Boston
College Guest Editorial Assistants: Dathalinn O=92Dea, Justin Howell, =
Boston
College

Editors' Introduction
Maria Luddy
James M. Smith
pp. 5-8

Jonathan Swift's Childhoods
Mary Shine Thompson
pp. 10-36

Cribbed, Contained, and Confined?: The Care of Children under the Irish =
Poor
Law, 1850=961920
Virginia Crossman
pp. 37-61

The Early Years of the NSPCC in Ireland
Maria Luddy
pp. 62-90

"Fiction, Amusement, Instruction": The Irish Fireside Club and the
Educational Ideology of the Gaelic League
R=EDona Nic Cong=E1il
pp. 91-117
=20
"The Children of the Nation?": Representations of Poor Children in
Mainstream Nationalist Journalism, 1882 and 1913
Margot Gayle Backus
pp. 118-146

The Irish Schoolboy Novel
Ciaran O'Neill
pp. 147-168
=20
"In My Mind I Build a House": The Quest for Family in the Children's =
Fiction
of Patricia Lynch
Leeann Lane
pp. 169-193
=20
"The Primary and Natural Educator"?: The Role of Parents in the =
Education of
Their Children in Independent Ireland
Mary E. Daly
pp. 194-217
=20
"In My Father's House": Renegotiations of Boyhood in Life Writing by =
John
McGahern, Ciaran O'Driscoll, Dermot Healy, and Ciaran Carson
Barry Sloan
pp. 218-241

"No Right to Be a Child": Irish Girlhood and Queer Time in =C9il=EDs =
N=ED
Dhuibhne's The Dancers Dancing
Kelly J.S. McGovern
pp. 242-264

The "Public Child" and the Reluctant State?
Robbie Gilligan
pp. 265-290

Cover Note
Dathalinn O'Dea
pp. 291-292

Contributors
pp. 293-296
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I thought that Ir-D members would like to see this message and TOC from =
the
hard working Paul Everett - although the subject matter of this issue is
maybe not of immediate and direct interest. Generally the journal =
offers a
perspective from Ireland on the universe of musicology.

From the journal's web site thee is a link to=20
Public Knowledge Project
http://pkp.sfu.ca/about

and its Open Journal Systems
http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=3Dojs

The system is now looking very solid, and well designed - and worth
browsing.

As far as I know the *Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland*
(JSMI) is the only Ireland based journal making use of the Open Journal
Systems.

P.O'S.


Forwarded on behalf of
Paul Everett [mailto:pauljeverett[at]gmail.com]=20

To all registered readers of JSMI

It is my pleasure, on behalf of the Editorial Board, to announce the
publication of a new batch of=A0items in vol. 4 (2008-9) of the *Journal =
of
the Society for Musicology in Ireland* (JSMI): see the listing below.=A0 =
To
access the journal, go to
http://www.music.ucc.ie/jsmi/index.php/jsmi/issue/current

JSMI is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal established in 2005. It is
published exclusively online and its full-text contents are entirely =
free to
access. For more details about the journal, see=20
http://www.music.ucc.ie/jsmi/index.php/jsmi/about/editorialPolicies=20

We are currently seeking articles for consideration for vol. 5 =
(2009-10).
Interested authors are invited to get in touch with me.

With best wishes

Paul Everett
Executive Editor, JSMI

=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D

Table of contents (new items)
Vol. 4 (2008-9)

Rhoda Dullea (University College Cork)
Article: Populism and Folklorism in Central European Music Pedagogy of =
the
Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Abstract: http://www.music.ucc.ie/jsmi/index.php/jsmi/article/view/51

Christopher Morris (University College Cork)
Review of Steven Baur, Raymond Knapp and Jacqueline Warwick (eds),
Musicological Identities: Essays in Honor of Susan McClary (Aldershot =
and
Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008), ISBN 978-0-7546-6302-7

Antonio Cascelli (NUI Maynooth)
Review of Nicholas Cook, The Schenker Project. Culture, Race, and Music
Theory in Fin-de-si=E8cle Vienna (New York: Oxford University Press, =
2007)
ISBN 978-0-1951-7056-6=20

Harry White (University College Dublin)
Review of Matthew Gelbart, The Invention of =91Folk Music=92 and =91Art =
Music=92.
Emerging Categories from Ossian to Wagner (Cambridge: Cambridge =
University
Press, 2007), ISBN 978-0-521-86303-2=20

Nicole Grimes (Queen's University Belfast)
Review of Kevin C. Karnes, Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of =
History:
Shaping Modern Musical Thought in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna =
(Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2008), ISBN 978-0-19-536866-6=20

Anne Margaret Hyland (University of Cambridge)
Review of Barbara M. Reul and Lorraine Byrne Bodley (eds), The Unknown
Schubert (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), ISBN 978-0-7546-6192-4=20

Fiona M. Palmer (NUI Maynooth)
Review of Robert Beale, Charles Hall=E9: A Musical Life (Aldershot: =
Ashgate,
2007), ISBN 978-0-7546-6137-5=20

Martin Adams (Trinity College Dublin)
Review of Robert O. Gjerdingen, Music in the Galant Style (Oxford: =
Oxford
University Press, 2007), ISBN 978-0-19-531371-0=20

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Dear all,=A0

We are writing to remind you that our next and final AHRC-funded
Ireland-Wales symposium will take place in Cardiff University from =
Thursday
17th to Saturday 19th September. The 17th will be devoted to a =
postgraduate
conference (details in a separate email) while the 18th and 19th will
feature a symposium on the topic of Ireland and Wales: Nations and
Knowledges.=A0

A full list of speakers and topics will follow but includes the =
following:
Claire Connolly (Cardiff); Simon Brooks (Cardiff); Virginia Crossman =
(Oxford
Brooks); David Dickson (Trinity College Dublin);=A0Ian Duncan =
(Berkeley);
Alice Entwistle (Glamorgan); Neil Evans (Llafur);=A0Luke Gibbons =
(Maynooth);
Angela John (Aberystwyth); Margaret Kelleher (Maynooth); David Lloyd
(Syracuse); Susan Manning (Edinburgh); Catherine Nash (Queen Mary); Paul
O'Leary (Aberystwyth); Chris Williams (Swansea); Daniel Williams =
(Swansea).

To register, please email irelandwales[at]cardiff.ac.uk (The event will be =
free
and open to all and will include lunches, teas and coffees).

Among the highlights of the event will be a public lecture by the
distinguished Welsh politician, Paul Murphy MP, on the topic of 'Wales =
and
Ireland: a Personal Perspective'. =A0

We'd be most grateful if you could forward this message to others who =
might
be interested.=A0

Best wishes,
Claire Connolly, Katie Gramich, Paul O'Leary

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Dear all,=A0

Please find below a call for=A0papers for a one-day interdisciplinary
postgraduate symposium to be held at Cardiff University on Thursday 17
September 2009 and hosted by the Wales-Ireland Research Network. The =
keynote
speaker is Luke Gibbons.=A0

We could be grateful if you could pass this on to any interested
postgraduates working in Irish, Welsh, or Irish-Welsh Studies.=A0The
organisers are soliciting twenty-minute papers focusing on any aspect of
Welsh or Irish studies from the early modern to the contemporary =
periods.
Papers which place the cultures and societies of Wales and Ireland =
within a
comparative context are particularly encouraged.
=A0
Accommodation and travel bursaries will be available to all =
speakers.=A0The
deadline for abstracts is 31 July 2009.

Conference Organisers:=A0Rhodri Glyn (Aberystwyth),=A0Tomos Owen
(Cardiff),=A0Lowri Rees (Aberystwyth),=A0=A0Laura Wainwright (Cardiff).

Email:=A0PGIrelandWales[at]Cardiff.ac.uk

Best wishes,
Claire Connolly, Katie Gramich, Paul O'Leary

Ireland and Wales: Correspondences
Call for Papers
A one-day interdisciplinary postgraduate symposium to be held at Cardiff
University on Thursday 17 September 2009 and hosted by the Wales-Ireland
Research Network
Keynote speaker: Professor Luke Gibbons

In Corresponding Cultures: The Two Literatures of Wales (1999), M. Wynn
Thomas suggests that we might understand and conceptualise the =
relationships
between the Welsh-language and English-language cultures of Wales as
=91correspondences=92 =96 an idea which is amenable to a number of =
different
interpretations and which supports a wide range of scholarly approaches.
This one-day interdisciplinary postgraduate symposium aims to extend =
this
idea of =91correspondence=92 to the burgeoning field of Welsh and Irish
comparative studies. In keeping with the aims and objectives of the
AHRC-supported Wales-Ireland Research Network, this event seeks to bring
Welsh and Irish studies into dialogue with each other. To what extent, =
and
in what ways, do the cultures and societies of Wales and Ireland =
=91speak=92 to
each other? How might comparative approaches towards Wales and Ireland
illuminate our understanding of these two nations? How are these
correspondences figured in the imagining of Welsh and Irish national
consciousness?=20
We welcome 200- to 300-word abstracts for twenty-minute papers focusing =
on
any aspect of Welsh or Irish studies from the early modern to the
contemporary periods. Papers which place the cultures and societies of =
Wales
and Ireland within a comparative context are particularly encouraged.
=20
Accommodation and travel bursaries will be available to all speakers.

The deadline for abstracts is 31 July 2009.
Email: PGIrelandWales[at]Cardiff.ac.uk

Website: www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/research/networks/wales-ireland

=91Ireland and Wales: Correspondences=92 forms part of the Ireland-Wales
Network=92s =91Nations and Knowledges=92 symposium to be held on 18-19 =
September
2009.=20
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
=95 Wales, Ireland and the world: international contexts=20
=95 Celticism, Pan-Celticism, mythology =20
=95 Medievalism, Romanticism, Modernism, Postmodernism=20
=95 Nationalism, transnationalism, postnationalism, postcolonialism=20
=95 Nation and religion=20
=95 Feminist and gender approaches=20
=95 The languages and literatures of Wales and Ireland=20
=95 Correspondences across disciplines and genres: literature; history;
visual art; journalism and media; cultural studies; architecture=20
Conference Organisers: Tomos Owen, Laura Wainwright, Lowri Rees, Rhodri
Glyn.

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Friends,

The most recent issue of New Hibernia Review (volume 13, number 2; Summer=
, 2009) has by now arrived in discerning mailboxes everywhere, and is ready=
for viewing on Project Muse =AE .

Here follows a TOC, with brief descriptions of the articles and features.

Michael Coady , "Beside the Suir: Voices of a River Town" pp. 9-15

A clutch of short prose passages from poet Michael Coady, taken from his fo=
rthcoming collection A Litany for Monsieur Sax, due this autumn from the=
Gallery Press. Coady sets his experiments in vernacular against the overar=
ching metaphor of the tidal river.

Bernard McKenna, University of Delaware, " Yeats, 'Leda,' and the Aestheti=
cs of To-Morrow: 'The Immortality of the Soul'" pp. 16-35

McKenna looks closely at the "little magazine" To-Morrow, which vanished a=
fter two issues in 1924. One of those issues featured an early version of=
Yeats's "Leda and the Swan," and McKenna argues that its context there i=
lluminates the poem .

Margaret O hOgartaigh, University of Limerick, "A Quiet Revolution: Women a=
nd Second-Level Education in Ireland, 1878-1930" pp. 36-51

=D3 h=D3gartaigh takes note of a far-reaching change in Irish social histor=
y, the opening up of university education to women-a dramatic shift away f=
rom an emphasis on "refinement," and toward professional preparation for y=
oung women to enter such professions as health and education.


AnneFitzgerald, " Fil=EDocht Nua: New Poetry," pp. 52-55

Poet Anne Fitzgerald offers a selection of new work, some of which antica=
lly takes on the conventions of the well-poem as it works traditional mater=
ials or gossips in Dublin accents.

NHR's Taispe=EDntais/Exhibitions feature then presents three short pieces o=
n Riverdance, which considers the phenomenon from a musicological point of=
view:

James Flannery, Emory University , "The Music of Riverdance ," pp. 56-63.

Flannery extends a heartfelt paean to the music of Riverdance. He closes hi=
s appreciative essay by asking if Riverdance's critics are not more than a =
little guilty of begrudgery.

Harry White, University College Dublin, "Riverdance: Irish Identity and the=
Musical Artwork," pp. 63-69

White suggests that we have now attained enough distance from the cultural =
phenomenon of the show to evaluate it as a work of musical art, and suggest=
s that its "sheer originality poses an absorbing problem."

Adrian Scahill, NUI-Maynooth, "Riverdance: Representing Irish Traditional =
Music," pp. 70-76

Ethnomusicologist Scahill surveys Riverdance's complicated relationship to =
traditional music-including a conscious conflation of the local and the glo=
bal, and a joyous hybridity.

Timothy Lynch, California Maritime Academy, CSU " ' Kindred and Congenial =
Element': Irish-American Nationalism's Embrace of Republican Rhetoric," pp=
. 77-91.

Unlike historians who would overlook or dismiss the American Fenians' exces=
ses of oratory, Lynch contends that such rhetoric was crucial to the devel=
opment of a group identity-and changed the future position of the Irish imm=
igrant community for the better.

Constance B. Rynder, University of Tampa "A Woman at the Center: Anne Dicks=
on and the 'Troubles'," pp. 92-109.

Rynder examines the career of Anne Dickson, leader of the Unionist Party of=
Northern Ireland from 1976 to 1981 and the first woman on either side of t=
he border to head a viable political party.
Kay Martinovich, University of Minnesota, "Ghosts of the Great War in The S=
teward of Christendom," pp. 110-24.

Martinovich examines the several ways in which Sebastian Barry's play emplo=
ys the figure of the ghost; linking Steward to McGuinness's Observe the Son=
s of Ulster, she contends that the play bears witness to the prospect of re=
conciliation
Renee Fox, "Michael Longley's Early Epitaphs," pp 125-40

Fox looks at Longley's early fascination with short couplets that, in his w=
ords, carried "the brevity of epitaphs " and she outlines a theory of the=
epitaph that suggests that. for Longley, the epitaph functioned to elabo=
rate a political agenda.

Liam Leonard, Sligo Institute of Technology, "Keeping the Rural in Sight: T=
he Future of Environmental Politics in Ireland," pp. 141-47.

A political scientist, Leonard appraises the tensions that have arisen in=
Irish political life when local environmental issues enter the national co=
nversation. He holds that a locally based "ecopopulism" is the source and s=
trength of Irish environmentalism

The issue concludes with its customary review section, including an apprais=
al of Liam Harte's contribyuted volume Modern Irish Autobiography: Self, N=
ation and Society.


Subscription information, contributor guidelines, and much else can be foun=
d at www.stthomas.edu/irishstudies, o=
r send an e-mail to jrogers[at]stthomas.edu





Jim Rogers

Editor, New Hibernia Review

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Thanks Jim=2C my personal copy arrived this morning=2C Margaret.
=20
> Date: Wed=2C 8 Jul 2009 09:08:42 -0500
> From: JROGERS[at]STTHOMAS.EDU
> Subject: [IR-D] New Hibernia Review Summer 2009 issue
> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>=20
> Friends=2C
>=20
> The most recent issue of New Hibernia Review (volume 13=2C number 2=3B Su=
mmer=2C 2009) has by now arrived in discerning mailboxes everywhere=2C and =
is ready for viewing on Project Muse =AE .
>=20
> Here follows a TOC=2C with brief descriptions of the articles and feature=
s.
>=20
> Michael Coady =2C "Beside the Suir: Voices of a River Town" pp. 9-15
>=20
> A clutch of short prose passages from poet Michael Coady=2C taken from hi=
s forthcoming collection A Litany for Monsieur Sax=2C due this autumn from =
the Gallery Press. Coady sets his experiments in vernacular against the ove=
rarching metaphor of the tidal river.
>
> Bernard McKenna=2C University of Delaware=2C " Yeats=2C 'Leda=2C' and the=
Aesthetics of To-Morrow: 'The Immortality of the Soul'" pp. 16-35
>=20
> McKenna looks closely at the "little magazine" To-Morrow=2C which vanishe=
d after two issues in 1924. One of those issues featured an early version o=
f Yeats's "Leda and the Swan=2C" and McKenna argues that its context there =
illuminates the poem .
>=20
> Margaret O hOgartaigh=2C University of Limerick=2C "A Quiet Revolution: W=
omen and Second-Level Education in Ireland=2C 1878-1930" pp. 36-51
>=20
> =D3 h=D3gartaigh takes note of a far-reaching change in Irish social hist=
ory=2C the opening up of university education to women-a dramatic shift awa=
y from an emphasis on "refinement=2C" and toward professional preparation f=
or young women to enter such professions as health and education.
>=20
>
> AnneFitzgerald=2C " Fil=EDocht Nua: New Poetry=2C" pp. 52-55
>=20
> Poet Anne Fitzgerald offers a selection of new work=2C some of which anti=
cally takes on the conventions of the well-poem as it works traditional mat=
erials or gossips in Dublin accents.
>=20
> NHR's Taispe=EDntais/Exhibitions feature then presents three short pieces=
on Riverdance=2C which considers the phenomenon from a musicological point=
of view:
>=20
> James Flannery=2C Emory University =2C "The Music of Riverdance =2C" pp. =
56-63.
>=20
> Flannery extends a heartfelt paean to the music of Riverdance. He closes =
his appreciative essay by asking if Riverdance's critics are not more than =
a little guilty of begrudgery.
>=20
> Harry White=2C University College Dublin=2C "Riverdance: Irish Identity a=
nd the Musical Artwork=2C" pp. 63-69
>
> White suggests that we have now attained enough distance from the cultura=
l phenomenon of the show to evaluate it as a work of musical art=2C and sug=
gests that its "sheer originality poses an absorbing problem."
>=20
> Adrian Scahill=2C NUI-Maynooth=2C "Riverdance: Representing Irish Traditi=
onal Music=2C" pp. 70-76
>=20
> Ethnomusicologist Scahill surveys Riverdance's complicated relationship t=
o traditional music-including a conscious conflation of the local and the g=
lobal=2C and a joyous hybridity.
>=20
> Timothy Lynch=2C California Maritime Academy=2C CSU " ' Kindred and Conge=
nial Element': Irish-American Nationalism's Embrace of Republican Rhetoric=
=2C" pp. 77-91.
>=20
> Unlike historians who would overlook or dismiss the American Fenians' exc=
esses of oratory=2C Lynch contends that such rhetoric was crucial to the de=
velopment of a group identity-and changed the future position of the Irish =
immigrant community for the better.
>=20
> Constance B. Rynder=2C University of Tampa "A Woman at the Center: Anne D=
ickson and the 'Troubles'=2C" pp. 92-109.
>=20
> Rynder examines the career of Anne Dickson=2C leader of the Unionist Part=
y of Northern Ireland from 1976 to 1981 and the first woman on either side =
of the border to head a viable political party.
> Kay Martinovich=2C University of Minnesota=2C "Ghosts of the Great War in=
The Steward of Christendom=2C" pp. 110-24.
>=20
> Martinovich examines the several ways in which Sebastian Barry's play emp=
loys the figure of the ghost=3B linking Steward to McGuinness's Observe the=
Sons of Ulster=2C she contends that the play bears witness to the prospect=
of reconciliation
> Renee Fox=2C "Michael Longley's Early Epitaphs=2C" pp 125-40
>=20
> Fox looks at Longley's early fascination with short couplets that=2C in h=
is words=2C carried "the brevity of epitaphs " and she outlines a theory of=
the epitaph that suggests that. for Longley=2C the epitaph functioned to e=
laborate a political agenda.
>
> Liam Leonard=2C Sligo Institute of Technology=2C "Keeping the Rural in Si=
ght: The Future of Environmental Politics in Ireland=2C" pp. 141-47.
>=20
> A political scientist=2C Leonard appraises the tensions that have arisen =
in Irish political life when local environmental issues enter the national =
conversation. He holds that a locally based "ecopopulism" is the source and=
strength of Irish environmentalism
>
> The issue concludes with its customary review section=2C including an app=
raisal of Liam Harte's contribyuted volume Modern Irish Autobiography: Self=
=2C Nation and Society.
>=20
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> Subscription information=2C contributor guidelines=2C and much else can b=
e found at www.stthomas.edu/irishstudies=2C or send an e-mail to jrogers[at]stthomas.edu
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Subject: Article,
On Church Grounds: Political Funerals and the Contest to Lead
Catholic Ireland
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On Church Grounds: Political Funerals and the Contest to Lead Catholic
Ireland
Thomas J. Brophy
The Catholic Historical Review, Volume 95, Number 3, July 2009, pp. 491-514
(Article)

Subject Headings:
Cullen, Paul, 1803-1878.
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Political aspects -- Ireland -- History --
19th century.
Nationalism -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century.
Nationalism -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.

Abstract:

Political funerals organized by Irish nationalists, who intended to use the
heady mixture of sacred ceremony and political imperative to create a
secular sainthood, bedeviled much of Cardinal Paul Cullen's Dublin
episcopate (1852-78). Cullen, who did not share the principles or
aspirations of the men who sought his acquiescence in their funereal
ventures, would not countenance the use of church resources or rituals as
means to what he perceived as irreligious republican ends. In the
competition for the political allegiance of Ireland's Catholics these
demonstrations came to epitomize the divide between the cardinal and
nationalists from parliamentary and militant groups.

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Subject: Article, Ireland and the Birth of the Irish-American Press,
1842-61
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The latest issue of
American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism, and Bibliography
Volume 19, Number 1, 2009

Is a

Special Issue: Immigrant Periodicals

And it includes...

Ireland and the Birth of the Irish-American Press, 1842-61
Cian McMahon

American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism, and Bibliography,
Volume 19, Number 1, 2009, pp. 5-20 (Article)
DOI: 10.1353/amp.0.0015

Subject Headings:
Irish-American newspapers -- History -- 19th century.
Irish -- United States -- History -- 1815-1861.
McGee, Thomas D'Arcy, 1825-1868.
Meagher, Thomas Francis, 1823-1867.

EXTRACT
But what was Irish about this new Irish-American press? This article breaks
new ground by unearthing the personal, commercial, and ideological
connections between the nineteenth-century Irish American press and Ireland.
It argues that links with home played a critical role in shaping the
Irish-American press during its genesis in the late 1840s and '50s.
Irish-American newspapers drew the United States into an integrated,
transatlantic Irish conversation. It is only when we understand the living
connections between the home country and its far-flung emigrant communities
that the full picture of American immigration comes into sharp relief. This
is, in other words, a story of people who were both immigrants and emigrants
EXTRACT ENDS

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Subject: Article,
Tax exemption as a marketing tool: The Irish Republic and profits
derived from artistic creativity
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This is one of those odd articles that you find again and again in business
research - an all embracing survey of all Irish history, leading to very
specific present day questions... Like, is software design artistic
creativity?

P.O'S.

publication
Journal of Business Research
ISSN
0148-2963
publisher
Elsevier Science and Technology
year - volume - issue - page
2009 - 62 - 10 - 1002
Pages
1002

Tax exemption as a marketing tool: The Irish Republic and profits derived
from artistic creativity
O'Connor, Thomas S. - O'Connor, Terrence M.

abstract
The Republic Of Ireland (Eire), though a relatively new nation, having been
chartered in 1923, reflects a culture more than twenty-five centuries old.
This Irish culture has been the source of much uniquely creative fine art,
writing, drama, and philosophy. Creativity as a vocation and source of
work-product seems endemic to the Irish mentality. As a result, the Irish
look upon creativity differently than do most cultures. They have created a
tax exemption for many of the financial rewards reaped by creators of "art"
in any of the forms mentioned above and some new forms as well. This paper
examines the marketplace effects of the Irish exemption from taxation of
personal income derived from artistic creativity.

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Subject: Book Noted, Daniel Leach,
Fugitive Ireland: European minority nationalists and Irish
political asylum, 1937 - 2008
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Ir-D members will recall discussion of Daniel Leach's project when it was in
the planning stage some years ago...

Our sincere congratulations to Daniel on seeing this project through to
happy completion.

It always was a very interesting topic, and a very interesting approach. I
have no doubt it will be a significant contribution to 'small nation'
historiography...

My enemy's enemy...

And, for a Four Courts book, the price hovers on the edge of reasonable.

Web links pasted in below...

P.O'S.

Fugitive Ireland
European minority nationalists and Irish political asylum, 1937 - 2008
Daniel Leach

From 1937 to 1950 the Irish government granted political asylum to a number
of European minority nationalists, many of whom were wanted for crimes of
collaboration with Axis forces during the Second World War. Although
inspired by the Irish struggle for independence, they came discreetly and
their hosts sought largely to conceal their presence. Bretons, Basques,
Scots, Flemings - even a high-ranking Croat later dubbed the 'Yugoslav
Himmler' - all found temporary or permanent refuge in Ireland.

Fugitive Ireland reveals for the first time why Dublin sheltered foreign
militants who had so disastrously regarded Nazi invasion as their
nationalist 'opportunity.' Employing unpublished sources and personal
accounts, Daniel leach explores the role of political asylum in asserting
Irish sovereignty, Catholic anti-communism and revolutionary heritage, and
exposes a previously hidden and controversial chapter of Irish and European
history - one which, through the continued actions of post-war and even
modern exiles, continues to affect Ireland's reputation to this day.

Daniel Leach held the inaugural Gerry Higgins Postgraduate Scholarship in
Irish Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

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Inside the era of minority exiles

DEIRDRE McMAHON
HISTORY : Fugitive Ireland: European minority nationalists and Irish =
political asylum, 1937-2008 By Daniel Leach Four Courts Press, 285pp, =
=E2=82=AC31.50

IN THE DECADE after 1945, the Irish government granted political asylum =
to various European ethnic nationalists =E2=80=93 Bretons, Basques, =
Flemings, Croats, Ukrainians and Cossacks. Bretons and Basques had =
sought refuge in Ireland before the war but some of the minority =
nationalists who arrived after 1945 were wanted for war crimes and =
collaboration with the Axis powers.

Many of them claimed to be inspired by the Irish independence struggle =
but this was a mixed compliment for the Irish government. As Daniel =
Leach observes, that Ireland sheltered these fugitives at a time when =
Nazism was reviled seemed to confirm the pro-Axis sympathies of the =
Irish during the war. As his book reveals, the picture was more =
complicated.

A common assumption was that the Irish government was motivated by an =
=E2=80=9Cinter-celtic solidarity=E2=80=9D but Leach argues that while =
this may have existed in the cultural sphere, practical political =
assistance from Dublin was non-existent. The true inter-celtic exchange, =
as Leach highlights throughout the book, was between the Welsh =
nationalists and the Bretons. When Yann Fou=C3=A9r=C3=A9 fled to Wales =
in 1946 he was warned about Irish duplicity by the Welsh nationalists =
who sheltered him, the Irish would promise much but deliver little. The =
imperatives were, of course, completely different. The Welsh were =
assisting what they regarded as a persecuted fraternal movement whereas =
the Irish state had just emerged from a world war whose victors could =
make life difficult for small neutral states.

Leach places Irish post-war asylum in the context of the Cold War and =
Catholic anti-communism when the Allied intelligence services and the =
Catholic Church assisted those who could destabilise communist regimes. =
This was the murky underworld of the ratlines which spirited away war =
criminals to north and south America. Leach=E2=80=99s account of Croat =
Alois Anitch, alias Andrija Artukovic, makes particularly queasy =
reading. He was deeply implicated in the Ustase genocide of the Serbs =
during the war and came to Ireland in 1947, helped at every stage by the =
Catholic Church. When he and his family left Ireland a year later for =
the United States, they had Irish documentation.

There were political differences between the various minority =
nationalists. The Basques and the Catalans were left-wing and staunchly =
anti-fascist, but many of the Bretons and Flemings were conservative =
Catholics who had collaborated to varying degrees with the German =
occupiers. Leach illustrates the divisions which opened up within the =
Irish government over how to treat these exiles. The department of =
external affairs viewed them as unwelcome guests at a time when Ireland =
was trying to re-establish itself after the war. The department of =
justice was more willing to give them asylum.

The personal stories of these exiles and how they fared in Ireland are a =
fascinating strand of the book. The Basque Gallastegis, who arrived from =
Spain in 1937, settled in the Irish-speaking part of Meath and their =
children spoke Irish. The Breton sculptor Yann Goulet obtained Irish =
citizenship in 1952 but refused to accept the French goverment=E2=80=99s =
amnesty. He won a competition to design a memorial at the Custom House =
in 1957 and also designed the Ballyseedy memorial. He opposed Irish =
entry to the Common Market. Yann Fou=C3=A9r=C3=A9, whose daughter Olwen =
is the distinguished actress, had returned to Brittany, was arrested in =
1975 and was eventually released after pressure from, among others, =
Irish TDs. The era of these minority exiles has now passed but their =
implications for a new generation are thoughtfully described in this =
book.

Deirdre McMahon lectures in history at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick

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Companion pieces...

Personal accounts of the researcher in Dublin experience...

Nice.

P.O'S.


Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature
Volume 27, Number 2, Fall 2008

1.
Weihman, Lisa. "National Treasures and Nationalist Gardens: Unlocking =
the
Archival Mysteries of Bean na h-=C9ireann." Tulsa Studies in Women's
Literature, 2008, 27(2), pp. 355-364.

'=93Who wrote =91bitch=92 in the margin next to Anna Parnell=92s =
name?=94 This
quotation is a fragment from my research notebook. I was working in the
National Library of Ireland, in June 1998, sitting with a copy of R. M.
Fox=92s Rebel Irishwomen (1935), a long out-of-print text that offers
biographies of women committed to the Irish nationalist movement.1 Was =
this
penciledin =93bitch=94 evidence of some bored student, writing a note to =
a
friend in class while teachers weren=92t looking? Or was the rude =
comment
meant, as I intuited from its position next to her name, for Anna =
Parnell
herself, the firebrand sister of =93Ireland=92s Uncrowned King,=94 =
Charles Stewart
Parnell? Could it have been meant for Helena Molony, the subject of =
Fox=92s
essay, whose dealings with Anna Parnell had often been contentious? =
Staring
at the pages, I couldn=92t help but wonder who had sat with that text in =
the
past, what reader had chosen to deface it, and why. The archives of the
National Library of Ireland and the Kilmainham Gaol Museum are full of =
many
such mysteries about the women who fought for Ireland=92s independence.'

2.
Monteiro, Emily Janda. "Finding Order through Serial Fiction: Literary
Detective Work in the National Library of Ireland." Tulsa Studies in =
Women's
Literature, 2008, 27(2), pp. 365-369.

'I take pause out of my dissertation work to reflect on a recent =
experience
with the inadequacies of archival research concerning radical women=92s
periodicals in twentieth-century Ireland, specifically, Bean na =
h-=C9ireann
(Woman of Erin). In the summer of 2006, I spent a wonderfully rainy, =
chilled
month working in the National Library of Ireland in Dublin. My interest =
in
this periodical and the lack of sources available at libraries in my =
region
fed the fire to investigate Bean na h-=C9ireann and its publishing
organization, Inghinidhe na h-=C9ireann (Daughters of Erin). I was =
interested
in how this long-discounted nationalist magazine navigated its agenda =
for
women=92s rights within Irish society. My study revealed that the =
inclusion of
serial fiction held strict compliance to the journal=92s political =
philosophy
to seek gender equality through republicanism.
But before delving into the periodical, a brief background of the =
women=92s
organization is necessary. Inghinidhe na h-=C9ireann wasn=92t the first =
women=92s
nationalist organization in Ireland. The Ladies=92 Land League, =
organized in
1881, is often considered to be one of the earliest semipolitical groups =
to
advance the issue of gender equality through their insistence that women =
be
included in nationalist and resistance campaigns, but it was hardly more
than an auxiliary group of women...'=20