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Wanderers across Language: Exile in Irish and Polish Literature
of the Twentieth Century.
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Wanderers Across Language
Exile in Irish and Polish Literature of the Twentieth Century

Kinga Olszewska

STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 12
Legenda: Oxford, 2007 =A345.00 ($69.00 US) Hardback 198pp
ISBN-13: 9781905981083

Exile has become a potent symbol of Polish and Irish cultures. =
Historical,
political and cultural predicaments of both countries have branded them =
as
diasporic nations: but, in Adorno's dictum, for an exile writing becomes
home. Olszewska offers a multifaceted picture of the figure of exile in
postwar Poland and Ireland, juxtaposing politics and culture: whereas =
Irish
exile appears more in an economic and cultural context, the essence of
Polish exile is political. This comparative study of works by Polish and
Irish authors - Stanis=F9aw Bara=F1czak, Adam Zagajewski, Marek =
H=F9asko,
Kazimierz Brandys, Brian Moore, Desmond Hogan and Paul Muldoon - shows a
literature which not only depicts the experience of exile, but which =
uses
exile as a literary device. Kinga Olszewska teaches courses in world
literature at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
Reviews:

http://www.mhra.org.uk/cgi-bin/legenda/legenda.pl?catalogue=3Db9781905981=
083

The book was reviewed by Fiona Becket, Modern Language Review 104.2, =
April
2009, 540-41

'This book is perhaps most interesting in the account given of key =
Polish
journals such as Kultura, and the contexts in which specific debates =
took
place; and in the translations of Polish texts that underpin the =
argument.'

The book is on Google Books, with - currently - the Introduction, a few =
more
pages and the Index freely available.

P.O'S.=20

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David L. Fleitz. The Irish in Baseball: An Early History
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David L. Fleitz. The Irish in Baseball: An Early History. Jefferson:
McFarland & Co., 2009. 200 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-3419-0.

Reviewed by Jerrold Casway
Published on H-Albion (July, 2009)
Commissioned by Michael De Nie
An Unfinished History

David Fleitz's The Irish in Baseball: An Early History is a timely book that
needed to be written. Baseball has always been a cultural and ethnic
barometer of American society. Examining the role of Irish American players
in the "emerald age of baseball" is a step in the right direction for
understanding the game's evolution and character. The author of other books
on nineteenth-century baseball, Fleitz is a credible chronicler of the
pre-modern sport. However, there is a difference in tracing an ethnic group
through baseball's early history and explaining the reasons for their impact
on, and fascination with, the American pastime.

From the beginning of the narrative the author reminds us of who was Irish,
or part Irish, among baseball's significant participants. He traces the
well-covered field of nineteenth-century baseball history and reminds us of
the many winning managers and players of Irish ancestry. Not much new is
gleaned by this discussion of straight baseball history or the citing of
players' ethnicity. Too many questions needed Fleitz's attention. Why were
the Irish drawn to baseball? What sporting advantages did they have over
other ethnic groups? How did postbellum urban living contribute to the Irish
American sporting experience? What were the actual contributions of Irish
American players? Successful ballplayers and managers by themselves do not
tell the full story of the Irish in baseball. Winning teams and prosperous
franchises led by Charles Comiskey, Ned Hanlon, John McGraw, and Connie Mack
had an ethos and character that circulated through baseball's veins. What
was it that moved New York manager Bill Joyce to say, "Give me a good Irish
infield and I will show you a good team?" (p. ??). Reciting the names of
players and their statistics does not tell the story behind this comment.

Another oversight was the lack of reference to the latest and most detailed
study of the Irish in baseball, Ed Delahanrty in the Emerald Age of Baseball
(2004). The author's only recognition of this study was indirect. Quoting
from an Irish baseball topic in the University of Notre Dame's The
Encyclopedia of the Irish in America (1999), Fleitz cites the article, but
unlike his other footnotes, does not indicate the author. Since the reviewer
is the author of these works, the question is, why does Fleitz not
acknowledge these studies?

The book also required better editing. There are many repetitious statements
and errors that need not have been made. Some players, such as John
Clarkson, Sliver Flint, and Jesse Burkett, went from full Irish to half
Irish in a matter of a few pages. Other players were mislabeled as Jewish or
"honorary Irish." The 1893 change- pitching distance was five, not ten, feet
and Comiskey did not immediately replace Ted Sullivan as manager of the
Brown Stockings. Neither did the author always properly cite quotations.
Often he used secondary sources when primary and contemporary quotations
were appropriate. Distinctions also were not made between famine and
post-famine refugees and little is said about the contributions of two
influential Irish men, Ted Sullivan and Bill McGunnigle. Attention to the
actual relationship between the aforementioned Sullivan and Comiskey would
have contributed greatly to this ethnic story.

David Fleitz's efforts are noteworthy, but they are flawed by the book's
omissions and correctable errors. His topic is too important to overlook its
sociological underpinnings. He may have opened the door to a significant
field of study, but he never provides his readers with a chance to
appreciate the furnishings.



If there is additional discussion of this review, you may access it through
the list discussion logs at: http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl.

Citation: Jerrold Casway. Review of Fleitz, David L., The Irish in Baseball:
An Early History. H-Albion, H-Net Reviews. July, 2009.
URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=24650

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

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The UK's Department for International Development, DFID, will spend =
around
=A31 billion over five years on development research.

The Call for Expressions of Interest, below, will interest a number of =
IR-D
members. And it has been interesting, over the years, watching =
migration
enter the research agenda...

Over the past year the 2 web sites, DFID and research4development.info =
have
changed dramatically, and many of the documents on them seem to be still
early drafts.

Somewhere, apparently, there is a scoping study on specific research =
gaps in
the study of migration. But I have not been able to find it.

P.O'S.


DFID Research Programme on Migration and Development - Call for =
Expressions
of Interest=20

DFID has issued a call for expressions of interest to design, develop =
and
implement a research programme on migration and development. The =
research
programme will address the important gaps in existing knowledge by =
providing
a strong basis of evidence and analysis to inform and influence policy
makers
Category Social and Political Change
Date Added: 08 July 2009 =20
read more...

SOURCE
http://www.research4development.info/


The services required will be to design, develop and implement a =
research
programme on migration and development. The research programme will =
address
the important gaps in existing knowledge by providing a strong basis of
evidence and analysis to inform and influence policy makers. The =
research
programme will seek to: understand the drivers of migration and their =
links
to broader process of economic and social and political change; =
understand
the linkages between migration policies and development outcomes and =
other
policy areas, and improve data and uptake of research.
=20
SOURCE
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/Working-with-DFID/Procurement/Current-contract-opp=
ort
unities1/UK-Glasgow-Migration-and-Development/

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Subject: Article,
Health and use of health services: a comparison between Gypsies
and Travellers and other ethnic groups
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Health and use of health services: a comparison between Gypsies and
Travellers and other ethnic groups

Authors: Jean Peters a; Glenys D. Parry a; Patrice Van Cleemput a; Julia
Moore a; Cindy L. Cooper a; Stephen J. Walters a
Affiliation: a University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

Published in: Ethnicity & Health, Volume 14, Issue 4 August 2009 , pages
359 - 377
First Published: August 2009

Abstract
Objectives. To examine the health status of adults from black and minority
ethnic groups and from a socio-economically mixed White population, all
resident in England.

Design. A cross-sectional questionnaire survey using validated standardised
health measures of a sample of Gypsies and Travellers, Pakistani Muslims,
African Caribbean, and White adults living in five geographical locations.
Health outcomes included general health, health in the past year, limiting
long-term illness, anxiety, depression, respiratory symptoms and angina.

Results. Of the 520 recruited age-sex matched sample (260 Gypsies and
Travellers matched with 260 Pakistani Muslims, African Caribbean, and White
residents), 516 were included in this analysis (173 men, 343 women). There
were no differences by age between the four groups but men were
approximately four years older than women. There were significant
statistical differences in smoking status and educational attendance with
more Gypsies and Travellers being current smokers (58% (95% confidence
interval (CI) 52, 64) versus 25% (14, 38) or lower in the other groups) and
having poorer regular educational attendance (61% (54, 68) versus 89% (77,
96) or higher in the other groups). For all health outcomes examined,
Gypsies and Travellers had significantly poorer outcomes (after adjustment
for age, sex and smoking status) compared with the White population. The
health status of the Pakistani Muslims and African Caribbeans was similar to
that of the Gypsies and Travellers for health in the past year, asthma, and
depression, but other outcomes (cough, sputum) were significantly less
prevalent. There were also significant differences in specific outcomes
between African Caribbean and Pakistani Muslim populations. Consultations
with various health professionals and use of health services varied between
the groups.

Conclusion. Being a Gypsy or Traveller is associated with even poorer health
outcomes than those seen in two other ethnic minority groups resident in
England, Pakistani Muslim and African Caribbean, and they in turn have
poorer health outcomes than the White residents. More remains to be done to
address the health and health service needs of such black and minority
ethnic groups.

Keywords: health; health services; ethnicity; Gypsies and Travellers

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From: William Jenkins [mailto:wjenkins[at]yorku.ca]
Subject: A. Macintyre's "Ireland For Ever" cartoon

Hi Paddy:

Hope you're doing well. I am back in Canada and am wondering if anyone on
the Ir-D list could assist me with the following issue.


I have found a very curious cartoon regarding the Home Rule/Ulster Crisis,
which
was published in the Toronto Telegram in early 1914. The paper
enthusiastically
supported the unionists' position, not surprising since the proprietor,
editor,
and political cartoonist all had ties to Orangeism in one way or another,
although none had Irish connections.

This cartoon is not, however, the work of the Telegram's resident
cartoonist,
George Shields. It is the work of one A. Macintyre and is modelled on Lady
Elizabeth Butler's painting "Scotland For Ever" (1881) that features the
charge
of the Scots Greys at the Battle of Waterloo.

This cartoon is entitled "Ireland For Ever" and shows the charge of a 'Home
Rule
Army', all of whose members are riding not horses but pigs. Shillelaghs are
wielded aplenty and there is at least one cabbage flying through the air
alongside a teapot, a turnip and what looks to be a cat. The leading
pig-rider
bears some resemblance to Asquith, and there is a figure somewhat like John
Redmond beside him, though I'm not sure who else among the eight riders is
depicted. One looks a bit like Carson, though he'd be an unlikely inclusion.

Anyway, if anyone wants to play the game of name-the-political-figure among
the
other six pig-riders, send me an email and I will send the cartoon to you in
an
attachment. If anyone has previously seen the cartoon in a different
publication, or knows something about 'A. Macintyre', that would obviously
be
of interest to me as well. I am currently doing some work on the pictorial
representation of the Home Rule/Ulster issue in the city's newspapers, so
I'd
be grateful for the assistance.

All the best,
Willie Jenkins

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dr. William Jenkins
Associate Professor
Department of Geography
Graduate Programmes in Geography and History
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario M5J 1P3
Canada

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Our attention has been drawn to the following item...

Voices of our Magdalene women washed out of history for too long

Ireland's Magdalene survivors are being denied a distinct redress scheme
despite the state's culpability, writes James M. Smith

Irish society still needs to confront the abuse of thousands of women in
Magdalene laundries

'Are you the man who wrote the Magdalene book?" A voice, hesitant and frail,
asked from the other end of my office phone. "I just finished it. I read
about 10 pages a day." She called to share her story. She wanted someone to
listen. She needed someone to understand.

Her mother died when she was seven. Initially, she and a younger sister were
cared for within the extended family. The farm required her father's
attention. At 14, he deposited her with the Good Shepherd nuns in New Ross.
Her sister was sent to the congregation's Limerick convent.

The Good Shepherd Sisters managed industrial schools at both these
locations. They also operated a reformatory school for girls in Limerick.
But the two teenage sisters would live and work with the adult women in the
Magdalene laundry. They remained enslaved, unpaid for their labour, for
almost five years.

The Report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse evades this woman's
experience of childhood abuse. She was disappeared directly into the
Magdalene laundry. There was no judge. No "cruelty man". No committal order.
She never was a ward of state. She was just dumped. Consequently, she exists
in a legal limbo...

...In places like Drumcondra, Cork, and New Ross, laundries and industrial
schools stood side by side. In Limerick, a system of underground tunnels
ensured both populations could attend church and then return to their
separate buildings without ever seeing each other. Indeed, survivor
testimony speaks to mothers and children separated by walls within the one
convent complex without ever knowing of the other's whereabouts.

Is the abuse experienced by these woman and children somehow fundamentally
different? Is it conceivable that nuns abused children and didn't abuse
adult women in a different part of the same institution? Or, is contemporary
Irish society suggesting that the Magdalene women somehow deserved the
treatment they received?

The woman who called me is a survivor of institutional child abuse. She
remains scarred by her childhood experience. Elderly and alone, she is angry
about the past, afraid for the future. Irish society now demands
accountability for child abuse at the state's industrial and reformatory
schools. When will it do likewise for the abuse of girls and women in the
nation's Magdalene laundries?

July 12, 2009

FULL TEXT AT
http://www.tribune.ie/news/home-news/article/2009/jul/12/voices-of-our-magda
lene-women-washed-out-of-histor/

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China and the Irish: Different Stories, Similar Dreams
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SOURCE
http://www.rte.ie/radio1/china/

China and the Irish: Different Stories, Similar Dreams
RT=C9 Radio 1 Thomas Davis Lectures
Producer: Seamus Hosey
Consulting Editor of the series is Dr. Jerusha Mc Cormack, Visiting
Professor, Beijing Foreign Studies University Producer: Seamus Hosey

Every week for nine weeks different experts give their personal take on
various aspects of Ireland - China relations over the centuries, opening
windows of wonder into unexplored worlds. The series includes =
contributions
from well known experts including Richard Barrett CEO of Treasury =
Holdings,
Irish Times journalists Fintan O'Toole and Ruadh=E1n Mac Cormaic,
ethnomusicologist at UCD Dr. Hwee-San Tan, Curator of Chinese Art at the
Chester Beatty Library Dr. Shane Mc Causland and the Seventh Earl of =
Rosse
of Birr Castle Brendan Parsons.
This series is now finished. Listen back to each programme by clicking =
on
the link below.

Each programme is available to download as a podcast...

Thomas Davis Lecture Series
=20
China and the Irish: Different Stories, Similar Dreams
Consulting Editor: Professor Jerusha McCormack

All lectures to be broadcast on Monday, 10 pm,
starting Monday, 9 June.
Thereafter available as a podcast from RTE website

Lecture One:=20
Ireland through a Chinese Mirror
Jerusha McCormack,=20
Visiting Professor
Beijing Foreign Studies University

This series of Thomas Davis Lectures shows how encounters between =
Ireland
and China over the last century have become ways that Ireland can also, =
from
new and unexpected angles, encounter itself. =20

Lecture Two:
Empires at Odds: The Qianlong Emperor and Lord Mcartney=92s British =
Mission
Dr. Shane McCausland, Curator of Chinese Art, Chester Beatty Library

In 1793, Lord Mcartney, from County Antrim, led a mission aimed at =
exporting
British goods to China to correct the trade deficit caused by importing =
tea.
This mission failed because the two empires involved found no common =
ground
that would allow them to set aside national self-interest. We need to
understand what motivated the Qianlong Emperor to say that, as far as he =
was
concerned, China needed nothing the West had to offer. The collection of
Qianlong=92s books and imperial robes held by the Chester Beatty =
Library,
Dublin help us appreciate the China of Qianlong, its reception of Lord
Mcartney, and the means by which he impressed on his English visitor the
status of the Emperor himself.


Lecture Three:
Early Irish Botanical Expeditions in China: Three Generations of the =
Earls
of Rosse (Birr Castle)
Brendan Parsons, Seventh Earl of Rosse

The Irish botanist, Augustine Henry, served in the Chinese Maritime =
Service
in the time of Robert Hart, but his heart was not devoted to trade but =
to
plants. In 1908, in collaboration with the Fifth Earl of Rosse, Henry
organized the importation of Chinese trees and plants that were formerly
unknown in this part of the world. Many of these came to Ireland where =
they
have become quite common garden plants. These expeditions have been
continued up to the present by Seventh Earl of Ross, Brendan Parsons.
Today, the grounds of Birr Castle =96 open on a regular basis to the =
Irish
public =96 are witness to three generations of botanic exploration in =
China
and surrounding territory.
All this is far from a one-way process. The Chinese Academy of
Sciences has already sent four of their best botanical technicians (two =
from
the Botanic Gardens in Beijing and two from the Botanic Gardens in =
Kunming)
to study and work in the Birr Castle Demesne, and in 2004, no less than
three Chinese delegations were received at Birr.


Lecture Four:
Business in China: Piercing the Veil
Richard Barrett, CEO, Treasury Holdings

Over the last decade, many Irish people are now engaged in doing =
business in
China. How do these interchanges work and what do we have to learn from
them? Are they merely about making money, or are more subtle =
interactions
involved? What is different about doing business in China =96 and how, =
if at
all, has it tended to change Irish business practice?


Lecture Five:
China=92s Economic Boom: Mega-Cities and Their Planning
Pauline Byrne, Strategic Planning Officer, Treasury Holdings=20

After eighteen months direct experience working in Shanghai and Beijing,
Pauline Byrne can speak as an Irish architect and city planner about how
these massive cities are being projected into the future. Shanghai has =
an
official population of around 18 million residents, Beijing around 14
million. The scale of their problems are representative of those =
affecting
China as a whole. How has the configurations of these new cities been
affected by those of Chinese society at large =96 and how will it now =
change
them? How does a Westerner assess the aims and outcomes of Chinese urban
planning? And what lessons, if any, can we in Ireland learn from the =
Chinese
experience?

Lecture Six:
From Patsy O'Wang to Fu Manchu: Ireland, China and Racism
Fintan O=92Toole

A well-known cultural commentator, Fintan O=92Toole will explore the =
migratory
experiences of the Irish and Chinese people, especially in America in =
the
19th century. Beginning with the image of the trans-continental railroad =
=96
with Chinese workers building it from the West and Irish from the East =
=96 the
essay will reflect on the connections and contrasts in their different
experiences, leading to more contemporary reflections on the different =
ways
of confronting globalisation.


Lecture Seven:
China and Ireland: Musical Meetings, East and West
Dr. Hwee-San Tan, Ethnomusicology, University College, Dublin

Dr. Tan, originally from Singapore, earned her doctorate at SOAS in =
London
on Chinese ethnic and religious music. In her present work, she has
developed a number of comparisons between traditional Irish =
music/practice
and performance techniques and those of traditional Chinese music. It =
was
perhaps just these similarities that allowed The Chieftains to be =
invited as
one of the first groups from the West to visit China in 1983, where they
performed both alone and together with Chinese musicians =96 producing a
well-received CD, The Chieftains in China.

Lecture Eight:
Oscar Wilde=92s Chinese Sage
Dr. Jerusha McCormack, Visiting Professor, Beijing Foreign Studies
University

Until Dr. McCormack called attention to Wilde=92s 1890 review of the =
first
Zhuangzi translation into English, few realized what a dramatic impact =
this
Chinese Daoist sage=92s thought had on Wilde: on his anarchist =
principles, his
dandyism, and his sense of Irishness. Wilde=92s appropriation of =
Zhuangzi=92s
thinking and literary techniques point to sympathetic intellectual =
stances
in these key cultural icons. Significantly, the Wilde essay most =
indebted to
Zhuangzi=92s thought, =93The Soul of Man under Socialism=94 (1891), =
became, in
translation, a favourite text of the Young China Movement which sought =
to
modernize their country after the turn of the century.

Lecture Nine:
China Comes to Ireland
Ruadh=E1n MacCormaic, Journalist for the Irish Times=20

Suddenly, Chinese young people seem to be everywhere. We have seen them =
on
the street and working in supermarkets. Significant numbers are now =
studying
at Irish universities, who are, in fact, competing to enroll them. In =
the
short term, we have seen some of the effects of these new immigrants =96 =
in
the development of Asian food stores and new restaurants. We now =
celebrate
Chinese New Year. How else will their presence change an already
rapidly-changing Ireland? In the long-term, a significant contribution =
to
Ireland has already been made by the opening of the new Confucius =
Institute
in Dublin with funds from the Chinese government: presenting new
possibilities for Irish people who are interested in learning something =
more
about the language and the culture of this emerging world power. How the
Irish people regard these visible manifestations of China=92s presence =
in
their world will be the subject of this final programme

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China and the Irish:=20
Different Stories, Similar Dreams

Editor
Jerusha McCormack

Price
=E2=82=AC29.99

Publication Date
June 2009

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Category
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Description
China and the Irish is a pioneering work, the first to explore relations =
between the Chinese and Irish peoples. Its eleven essays cover a wide =
range of topics, from diplomatic history to music, from business to =
botanical exchanges and literary connections. What the book makes clear =
is that, although formal diplomatic relations may go back only thirty =
years, interactions between the people of China and those from Ireland =
have a long and complex history, going back well before the actual =
founding of either Republic. The book includes a welcoming letter from =
the President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, and an afterword by the current =
Irish Ambassador to China, Declan Kelleher.

Selling Points
=E2=80=A2 Coincides with the 30th anniversary of the =
establishment of diplomatic relations between the People=E2=80=99s =
Republic of China and the Republic of Ireland.
=E2=80=A2 Broadcast by RTE Radio in the form of the Thomas Davis =
Lectures in 2008, the book contains contributions from well known =
experts including Irish Times journalist Fintan O'Toole and Curator of =
Chinese Art at the Chester Beatty Library, Dr. Shane Mc Causland.

Publicity
=E2=80=A2 Review coverage in The Irish Times and other =
broadsheets.
=E2=80=A2 Promotion on RTE Radio website.


About the Editor
Following a long career in the English Department at University College, =
Dublin, Dr. Jerusha McCormack has spent much of the last five years =
teaching culture studies as a Visiting Professor at Beijing Foreign =
Studies University. During this time she helped to found the first (and =
so far the only) Irish Studies Centre in China, located at BFSU. The =
essays which appear in this book, China and the Irish, are the result of =
her long-standing interest in discovering hitherto unexplored links =
between Ireland and China.

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Forwarded on behalf of Margot Ryan, IWHC.

Immerse yourself in Irish Culturefor two days with the Irish Diaspora
Foundation

On *Friday the 14th* and *Saturday the 15th of August* we will bring=20
to you a flavour of *Irish history* through a series of talks, tours and =

Irish entertainment.
Have you ever wanted to pick up =91*c=FApla focal=92* so that you could=20
converse simply in Irish?

We can offer places on this short *summer school* which will give you=20
the opportunity to do just that, and also to learn about Irish subjects=20
as varied as:

* *Renowned Irish Sculptor John Cassidy*

* *The Manchester Martyrs*

* *An introduction to Irish language*

* *Trips & tours around Manchester*

The summer school will take place primarily at the *Irish World Heritage =

Centre, Manchester *with various trips and tours around Manchester.=20
Lunch and refreshments will be served each day, with an *evening meal=20
*on *Saturday the 15th August*, followed by an evening of *Irish=20
entertainment*.

The priceof the summer school will be subsidised by the Irish Diaspora=20
Foundation and so will cost only *=A325 per person* which includes all=20
refreshments, meals and travel.

Contact Margot Ryan on 0161 202 1200 or email mryan[at]iwhc.com.
Please book as soon as possible as places are limited
and are filling up quickly!

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Subject: Article,
The Green and Golden World: Spenser's Rewriting of the Munster
Plantation
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The Green and Golden World: Spenser's Rewriting of the Munster Plantation
Benjamin P. Myers

ELH, Volume 76, Number 2, Summer 2009, pp. 473-490 (Article)
DOI: 10.1353/elh.0.0043

...his experience as an Irish undertaker to represent his vision of a...the
English campaign in Ireland but also from the demands of allegory...intense
focus on the Irish issue -- beginning with Stephen Greenblatt,...frdedly
New-English Ireland, and the Munster plantation is rewritten as...

Subject Headings:
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Faerie queene. Book 6.
Pastoral poetry, English -- History and criticism.

Abstract:

Book six of Spenser's epic The Faerie Queene is often seen as a welcomed
escape not only from book five's focus on the English campaign in Ireland
but also from the demands of allegory itself, but the shift into pastoral
that accompanies the onset of book six offers the poet a chance to refocus
his allegory from matters of conquest to matters of settlement. In creating
this pastoral vision, Spenser borrows from his experience as an Irish
undertaker to represent his vision of a decidedly New-English Ireland, and
the Munster plantation is rewritten as the golden world of pastoral.

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Reading the latest issue of Irish Studies Review...

See TOC in earlier Ir-D message...

I think I have invented a new game - Explore the Whimsy of Autocorrect.

In this issue, Enda Walsh, of course, becomes Edna (p 267).

And whilst it is possible that Yeats might think of leaving Ireland to find
a new vintage (p 240), I think he most probably wanted a new vantage.

I will let others search on. In something like a journal, where text passes
from hand to hand, it just needs one person to have Autocorrect switched on,
perhaps unknowingly, for such whimsy to assert itself.

Anyway, 2 articles of interest...

1.
Ideological content and institutional frameworks: Unionist identities in
Northern Ireland and Scotland

Authors: Christopher Farrington a; Graham Walker b
Affiliations: a Institute of British Irish Studies, School of Politics and
International Relations, University College Dublin, Ireland
b School of Politics, Philosophy and International Studies, Queen's
University Belfast, Northern Ireland

Published in: Irish Studies Review, Volume 17, Issue 2 May 2009 , pages 135
- 152

Abstract
This article examines the complex interactions between British national
identity and the territorial identities of Northern Ireland and Scotland. We
argue that the current literature on national identities in Britain
misunderstands the nature of British identities in Northern Ireland and
Scotland. Indeed, much of this literature wrongly defines Unionists in both
of these areas. By examining the content of British national identity, a
comparison of Scotland and Northern Ireland reveals that Unionism finds
political significance through an ideological project committed to the
Union. However, we also have to account for the differences in the Unionist
ideology of Scotland and Northern Ireland. We argue that the institutional
framework in which these identities and ideologies are exercised explains
this variation. Overall, we argue that the debate on nationalism in the
United Kingdom has not adequately shown how the integrative functions of
British national identity can co-exist with the separatist nature of
territorial national identity.
Keywords: Unionism; devolution; British identity; Scotland; Northern Ireland

2.
'Home is where the heart is'? Understandings of 'home' among Irish-born
return migrants from the United States

Author: David Ralph a
Affiliation: a Institute of Geography, School of Geosciences, Drummond
Street, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Published in: Irish Studies Review, Volume 17, Issue 2 May 2009 , pages 183
- 200

Abstract
This article draws on original research with Irish-born return migrants from
the United States to consider how the concept of 'home' is understood by
this returnee cohort. Specifically, it focuses on the late 1980s and early
1990s emigrant cohort who went to live and work in the United States, and
have recently returned to 'Celtic Tiger' Ireland. It examines how their
various understandings of this elusive spatial imaginary compares with ideas
of home as articulated in recent public debates on Irish migration, return
and the diaspora. Through analysis of the interview transcripts, it is
argued that home - while featuring as a significant anchoring referent in
returnees' lives - is by no means an unambiguously located place. Rather,
home - and the return home - for this returnee cohort is a Janus-faced
experience that cannot easily be mapped onto traditional cartographies of
belonging.

Keywords: home; return migration; belonging; emigration; diaspora
view references (51)

Note especially the lengthy note 24.

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Yeats's country and "Yeats Country": conceptualizing literary
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Yeats's country and "Yeats Country": conceptualizing literary spaces
Clarissa Wallace
Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 1747-7654, Volume 7, Issue 1, 2009,
Pages 48 - 60

Abstract
The year 1991 saw Dublin named as a "European Capital of Culture"; 1991 was
also the year that the Dublin Writers' Museum found a permanent home in
numbers 18 and 19 Parnell Square. Currently, there are 12 other attractions
in Dublin designed to draw tourists interested in Dublin's literary history.
What does it mean for a nation to capitalize on its literary production?
Failt Ireland, currently responsible for marketing Ireland to tourists,
seeks not to create the artifice of an "authentic" Ireland, but to allow
tourists to experience on a more personal level what Ireland has produced.
The increasing emphasis on cultural production over cultural difference
belies the extent to which contemporary tourists struggle with the issue of
authenticity. As Erik Cohen shows, the desire for authenticity forms a
central part of the tourist experience. Considering the tourist from this
perspective, my project analyzes tourist sites related to literary figures
in both Ireland and St Petersburg, Russia. Exploring this form of tourism as
a model for life in general, my paper asks whether tourist attractions
related to literature can work against the larger process of "spatial
homogenization" endemic in the postmodern era.

Keywords: literary destinations; postmodernism; tourist experiences

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Library Trends
Volume 57, Number 4, Spring 2009
E-ISSN: 1559-0682 Print ISSN: 0024-2594
DOI: 10.1353/lib.0.0056
Crystal Fulton
Quid Pro Quo: Information Sharing in Leisure Activities
Library Trends - Volume 57, Number 4, Spring 2009, pp. 753-768

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Abstract:

This article explores information sharing in the context of amateur
genealogists researching their Irish ancestry. Information sharing is an
important feature of this hobby, with individuals networking with others to
supplement information they have found when searching sources. Because of
the nature of the hobby, reciprocal sharing behavior may be significant in
this process. This study adopted a multi-case, exploratory approach to
learning about amateur genealogists' sharing behavior associated with their
information seeking. Twenty-four amateur genealogists from around the world
participated in semi-structured telephone interviews about their hunt for
their Irish ancestors. Data were transcribed and analyzed to identify
patterns and conditions of information sharing between participants as they
researched their genealogy. Participants in this study were avid information
seekers, who prized information sharing as a means of advancing their
research. The Internet played a central role in information sharing.
Particular social norms surrounded the sharing of information that shaped
interactions, including expectations of reciprocal information sharing. The
findings of this study suggest that information sharing is an important
feature of hobby participation for amateur genealogists, supporting learning
as well as achievement in locating one's ancestors. Reciprocal information
behavior strengthened social relationships between genealogists and multiple
information sharing events solidified the network positions of individuals
as information champions.

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1.
Ulysses, modernism's most sociable masterpiece
There are good reasons why Dublin has taken Bloomsday, the celebration =
of
Joyce's classic novel, to its heart

Declan Kiberd
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 16 June 2009=20

"What a town Dublin is!' exclaimed James Joyce to the painter Frank =
Budgen:
"I wonder if there is another like it. Everbody has time to hail a =
friend
and start a conversation about a third party."

Joyce's Ulysses (1922) is one of the masterpieces of modernism, accorded =
the
same exalted status as Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past or =
Robert
Musil's The Man Without Qualities. Unlike them, however, it has become a
defining element in the life of the city where it is set.

Like the prelates of the Catholic church, Joyce was perhaps cunning in
setting aside a single day (16 June, or Bloomsday, the day in 1904 the =
book
takes place) on which to celebrate a feast. When Leopold Bloom and =
Stephen
Dedalus sit down together at day's end over coffee and a bread-roll, =
neither
man says "do this in memory of me", yet every year the cult grows. As =
with
so many cults, it has its routes of pilgrimage, special foods, ritual
observances and priestly decoders of the sacred text.

Full text at...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jun/16/jamesjoyce-classics

(Full text of Declan Kiberd's article, that is - not full text of
Ulysses...)

2.
Review by Blake Morrison
Of
Ulysses and Us : The Art of Everyday Living
by Declan Kiberd
416pp, Faber, =A314.99

Hymn to everyday life
Far from being obscure or inaccessible, Ulysses is a novel of and for =
the
people. By Blake Morrison
=20
Blake Morrison
The Guardian, Saturday 18 July 2009

Forty-four years ago, in between A Clockwork Orange and the Beatles' =
sixth
LP, Anthony Burgess published Here Comes Everybody, a critical study of
James Joyce intended for readers who had been "scared off by the
professors". Joyce, difficult? Not at all, Burgess said: "If ever there =
was
a writer for the people, Joyce was that writer." Burgess polished off =
his
book in eight months; Declan Kiberd has spent three decades working =
towards
his. But his title is similarly inclusive and he, too, wants to demolish
"the legend of forbidding difficulty" that has "scared readers off". On =
the
cover is an Eve Arnold photo showing how it should be: a young Marilyn
Monroe devouring the final pages of Ulysses

Kiberd tells the story of his father, a Dubliner who loved Ulysses and =
knew
it by heart, but who, having been enticed to attend a Joyce symposium at
Trinity College, bolted for the door almost as soon as he'd arrived. =
Though
himself an academic, Kiberd is dismayed that a book which set out to
celebrate the common man and woman isn't read by them - or, indeed, by =
"most
students, lecturers and intellectuals", only by paid-up Joyceans. =
Hemingway
professed to admire Joyce, yet all but a few pages of his copy of =
Ulysses
remained uncut. More recently Roddy Doyle set the cat among the pigeons =
when
he complained that the novel had been overpraised and "could have done =
with
a good editor".

Full text at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jul/18/ulysses-and-us-declan-kiberd

Sender:       The Irish Diaspora Studies List  From:         Patrick O'Sullivan  Subject:      CFP Ireland And Ecocriticism: An Interdisciplinary Conference,               18-19 June 2010, MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit  Ireland And Ecocriticism: An Interdisciplinary Conference, 18-19 June 2010 Submission Due By: 2010-02-15  It is a truth universally acknowledged that Ireland is a land of pastoral greenery, but its landscape is an arguably 'unnatural' construct, a topography shaped by a history of conflict and suffering. Gerry Smyth asserted in 2000 that 'Irish Studies and ecocriticism ... have a lot to say to each other', yet despite the centrality of the land to Irish identity at home and abroad, ecocriticism remains largely absent from Irish Studies in Ireland.   One explanation for reluctance to engage with this theoretical practice may be the long history of the country's conflicted, traumatized relation to the land, its often reductive figuration as 'nature', and one aim of this conference will be to examine this critical recalcitrance, when the land and the landscape feature in a vast range of cultural productions in Ireland, from folklore and music, to poetry and painting.   The longstanding tension in Western society between 'nature' and 'culture' has unique implications for the social and political framing of the natural world in an Irish context. This fraught and complicated relationship urgently requires interrogation in an age of rapid climate change, when, for example, a country as wet as Ireland faces a water crisis.   Proposals are welcome from across the disciplines, including environmental studies, anthropology, journalism, migration studies, history, geography, urban planning, music, literary studies, art history, folklore studies, archaeology, education, architecture, women's studies, philosophy, theology, cultural studies, sociology, film and media studies, and colonial/postcolonial studies.   Possible topics include, but are not limited to: Plantation and settlement Irish ecofeminism The simianised Irish, Paddy's pig, and animal rights Folklore and fairytales Traditional music Irish-language texts-the nature of translation, translating nature Meat-eating and national identity 'Oriental' Ireland and theosophy Colonial/postcolonial perspectives on representations of the natural Agrarian movements and utopian communities Ruins and landscape Landscape and national character Gendering the landscape The 'Celtic Tiger', late capital, and the death of nature Tourism and the heritage industry The visual arts, past and present The Catholic Church and the 'natural' Diaspora and nostalgia Landscape-based worship: holy wells, patterns, and pilgrimages Send proposals (of no more than 500 words)  Contact Maureen O'Connor Department of English Language and Literature, Mary Immaculate College Limerick,  maureen.oconnor[at]mic.ul.ie

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The Making of British Unionism, 1740-1848
Politics, Government, and the Anglo-Irish constitutional relationship
Douglas Kanter

Between 1740 and 1848, an overwhelming majority of the British ruling =
class determined that a legislative union with Ireland was preferable to =
the devolved constitutional framework of the eighteenth century, =
succeeded in securing the enactment of such a union, and resolved upon =
an uncompromising defense of the new constitutional arrangement when it =
became the focus of Catholic nationalist discontent.=20

This book explains how the British ruling class came to support a union =
with Ireland, and why the British elite insisted upon upholding the =
union after it became evident that the measure had failed to solve the =
basic problems of Irish governance. It also explicates the various =
strategies adopted by successive British governments for maintaining the =
union in response to the strident, if sporadic, opposition to the =
constitutional settlement offered by Irish nationalists from 1830 to =
1848. This book provides an important reassessment of the British-Irish =
relationship in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries.

Douglas Kanter is assistant professor of history at Florida Atlantic =
University.

Hardback
320pp. Summer 2009
ISBN:
978-1-84682-160-8
Catalogue Price: =E2=82=AC55.00
Web Price: =E2=82=AC49.50

http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/product.php?intProductID=3D846

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From the New York Times:

"Frank McCourt, a former New York City schoolteacher who turned his
miserable childhood in Limerick, Ireland, into a phenomenally popular,
Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, "Angela's Ashes," died in Manhattan on
Sunday. He was 78 and lived in Manhattan and Roxbury, Conn. . . .
for the rest of this story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/books/20mccourt.html?_r=1&hp

The Times also has a second article on McCourt at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/books/20frank.html?hp


Bill Mulligan

William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of History
Graduate Program Coordinator
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA
Office: 1-270-809-6571
Fax: 1-270-809-6587

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I can't comment on his writing but he sure did inspire a lot of North American
students to take Irish history (and probably literature) courses.

Peter Hart

Quoting Bill Mulligan :

> From the New York Times:
>
> "Frank McCourt, a former New York City schoolteacher who turned his
> miserable childhood in Limerick, Ireland, into a phenomenally popular,
> Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, "Angela's Ashes," died in Manhattan on
> Sunday. He was 78 and lived in Manhattan and Roxbury, Conn. . . .
> for the rest of this story:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/books/20mccourt.html?_r=1&hp
>
> The Times also has a second article on McCourt at:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/books/20frank.html?hp
>
>
> Bill Mulligan
>
> William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
> Professor of History
> Graduate Program Coordinator
> Murray State University
> Murray KY 42071-3341 USA
> Office: 1-270-809-6571
> Fax: 1-270-809-6587
>
>
>

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An intermittent list of Things we don't do on the Ir-D list, or don't do
well...

Continued...

JOURNALS
Our journal alerts seem to be working well at the moment. I cannot
guarantee that this will always be so. Various little wrinkles that I use
will disappear in the near future.

But we have been making greater effort to keep an eye on North American
journals - Canada and USA. Who have, themselves, been trying to make
themselves more organised and more visible on the web.

IRISH LITERATURE
I regard 'Irish Studies' as a diasporic phenomenon, and therefore of
interest to us, and especially of interest in a comparative context.

And I try to keep our litcrit Ir-D members happy-ish...

But we cannot really track everything that happens within 'Irish Studies',
literature and history.

And especially we cannot track work on what you might call the 'giants' of
Irish literature. Basically, figures who have their own journals and
conferences.

We assume that people who are interested in Wilde, Joyce, Yeats, O'Casey,
Shaw, Beckett, and so on, have their own ways of tracking research and
comment. And, frankly, such research and comment - with its leaps straight
from the particular to the universal - only rarely connects with Irish
Diaspora interests.

On the other hand... You often find a diasporic dimension to study of such
'giants'. And occasionally we do come across an article - maybe in one of
the specialist 'giant' journals - that should be shared with the Ir-D list.
So, we have been letting a few through.

Is this letting in silence, exile, or cunning, by the back door...?

P.O'S.

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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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Could the list suggest good sources for learning about the controversies ab=
out the demolition of Georgian Dublin in the 1960s and '70s, and perhaps mo=
re important, about the rise of a architectural-preservation consciousness=
in Ireland?

Thank in advance

Jim Rogers