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We are pleased to announce the launch of the PROMINSTAT online database
and the related publication of country reports on national data
collection systems, all accessible through the PROMINSTAT website
(www.prominstat.eu). The database and the country reports are part of a
36 months collaborative research project on statistical data collection
on migration, integration and discrimination involving a network of 18
established research institutions, universities and statistical offices
and coordinated by the International Centre for Migration Policy
Development (ICMPD) in Vienna. The project is funded under the European
Commission's 6th Framework Programme for Research (FP6).

The PROMINSTAT database is a comprehensive inventory of statistical
datasets on migration, integration and discrimination in Europe and
currently contains descriptions of more than 1,200 statistical datasets.
It documents the availability, comparability and accessibility of
quantitative data. Database entries provide general information on
datasets, including technical information on type, coverage and
methodology as well as extensive information on variables contained in
these datasets. The database is accessible at
www.prominstat.eu/prominstat/database.

The PROMINSTAT country reports complement the database by systematically
describing national data collection systems in 27 European countries
covered. The reports provide descriptions of key datasets and the
institutional setup of data collection in each country, concepts
employed and the evolution of national data collection systems. In
addition, the country reports analyse the scope, quality and
availability of data collection in 13 thematic areas (population stocks,
migration flows, residence permits, acquisition of citizenship, asylum,
irregular migration, employment, income, housing, health, education,
families and household, political participation and criminal justice).

For more information on the project visit the project website at
www.prominstat.eu

Apologies if you have already received this message via other channels.

With best regards,

Albert Kraler,
Coordinator, PROMINSTAT project

Albert Kraler
Research Officer
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Policy Development (ICMPD)
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A-1010 Vienna
Phone: +43-1-5044677-45
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We are pleased to announce the launch of the PROMINSTAT online databa=
se
and the related publication of country reports on national data
collection systems, all accessible through the PROMINSTAT website
(www.prominstat.eu). The database and the country reports are part of=
a
36 months collaborative research project on statistical data collecti=
on
on migration, integration and discrimination involving a network of 1=
8
established research institutions, universities and statistical offic=
es
and coordinated by the International Centre for Migration Policy
Development (ICMPD) in Vienna. The project is funded under the Europe=
an
Commission's 6th Framework Programme for Research (FP6).

The PROMINSTAT database is a comprehensive inventory of statistical
datasets on migration, integration and discrimination in Europe and
currently contains descriptions of more than 1,200 statistical datase=
ts.
It documents the availability, comparability and accessibility of
quantitative data. Database entries provide general information on
datasets, including technical information on type, coverage and
methodology as well as extensive information on variables contained i=
n
these datasets. The database is accessible at
www.prominstat.eu/prominstat/database.
=20
The PROMINSTAT country reports complement the database by systematica=
lly
describing national data collection systems in 27 European countries
covered. =A0The reports provide descriptions of key datasets and the
institutional setup of data collection in each country, concepts
employed and the evolution of national data collection systems. In
addition, the country reports analyse the scope, quality and
availability of data collection in 13 thematic areas (population stoc=
ks,
migration flows, residence permits, acquisition of citizenship, asylu=
m,
irregular migration, employment, income, housing, health, education,
families and household, political participation and criminal justice)=
.

For more information on the project visit the project website at
www.prominstat.eu

Apologies if you have already received this message via other channel=
s.
=20
With best regards,

Albert Kraler,
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=20
Albert Kraler
Research Officer
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Policy Development (ICMPD)
Gonzagagasse 1,
A-1010 Vienna
Phone: +43-1-5044677-45
Fax: +43-1-5044677-75
E-mail: Albert.Kraler[at]icmpd.org
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Colleagues may wish to know of this.=20
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Cultural policy as rhetoric and reality: a comparative analysis of
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Lessons of hybridity from Canada, with particular reference to its art
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Devolution in Italian cultural policies. Micro view and actual impacts -
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Creative Scotland - Susan Galloway and Huw David Jones=20
The rise and fall of the right to =93proper representation=94 - Amir Hets=
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National Culture, Local Governance and the Indigenous Peoples in the
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Volume 8 (2008/9) of the Australasian Journal of Irish Studies has =
arrived
in Murray, KY, which means it has already reached most outposts of =
Diaspora
interest. Congratulations to the editors on an outstanding issue.=20

Special Issue: Gender and the Irish Diaspora

Dianne Hall and Elizabeth Malcolm, 'Diaspora, Gender and the Irish' =
3-29.

Pauline Prior, 'Emigrants or Exiles? Female Ex-Prisoners Leaving =
Ireland,
1850-1900' 30-47.

Pauline Rule, 'Women and Marriage in the Irish Diaspora in
Nineteenth-Century Victoria' 48-66.

Mary O'Connell, 'Our Lady of Coogee: Marian Visions in Irish Australia'
67-88.

Paula Magee, 'Fractured Irish and British Families in Western Australia: =
the
Fairbridge Family Migration Scheme, 1960-69' 89-111.
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Bill

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Dear Colleagues,

Can anyone help? I'm doing some research into a little-known Irish writer
called Winifred Patton (born circa 1877-81 and died 1914). She lived in
London at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and published poems and
short stories in journals such as 'The Spectator', 'New Ireland' and 'The
Irish Packet'. She was originally from Dublin and whilst in London she was
connected with Sinn Fein and I believe worked at the same post office in
West Kensington as Michael Collins. Any further leads would be very
welcome.

Regards, Tony


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

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










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Dear Friends,

One of my new colleagues here at FIU is working on JM Synge. He told me tha=
t he recently came across a book, published by Synge's family, the prints p=
hotos taken by Synge on the Aran Islands and in Wicklow. The book is titled=
, My Wallet of Photos.=20

I had never heard of Synge's interest in photography (though admittedly one=
could fill a warehouse with things of which I had never heard). I would be=
very grateful if someone on the list could point my colleague and I in the=
direction of more information on Synge the photographer.

All the best,
Michael

Michael Patrick Gillespie
Professor of English
Florida International University

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Dear Michael,
=20
I'd recommend you look at "Visible Others: Photography and Romantic =
Ethnograhy in Ireland" by Justin Carville. The essay, an analysis of =
The Aran Islands as a visual/photographic text, appears in the =
collection I co-edited with Claire Culleton, Irish Modernism and the =
Global Primitive (Palgrave, 2009). His bibliography might also point =
your colleague in some useful directions.
=20
Best regards,
Maria McGarrity
LIU Brooklyn

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Dear Friends,

One of my new colleagues here at FIU is working on JM Synge. He told me =
that he recently came across a book, published by Synge's family, the =
prints photos taken by Synge on the Aran Islands and in Wicklow. The =
book is titled, My Wallet of Photos.

I had never heard of Synge's interest in photography (though admittedly =
one could fill a warehouse with things of which I had never heard). I =
would be very grateful if someone on the list could point my colleague =
and I in the direction of more information on Synge the photographer.

All the best,
Michael

Michael Patrick Gillespie
Professor of English
Florida International University

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Irish Studies Review: Volume 17 Issue 3 is now available.
This new issue contains the following articles:

Original Articles

Ghost hands, hands of glory, and manumission in the fiction of Sheridan Le
Fanu, Pages 275 - 295
Author: Shane McCorristine

Migration in childhood and its impact on national identity construction
among migrants from Northern Ireland, Pages 297 - 314
Author: Johanne Devlin Trew

'Unfurling the banner of reform': public opinion, nationalism, and Facts and
Figures from Italy, Pages 315 - 330
Author: Fergus Dunne

Domestic espionage: David Park's Swallowing the Sun as Troubles thriller,
Pages 331 - 345
Author: Caitlin McGuinness

The Bang Beggars of Derry city: borough policing in Londonderry, c .1832-70,
Pages 347 - 359
Author: Mark Radford

'The gentle art of re-perceiving': post-ceasefire identity in the poetry of
Alan Gillis, Pages 361 - 376
Author: Miriam Gamble

Reviews

History and politics, Pages 377 - 403
Authors: Stephen Forrest; Maria Luddy; Louise Ryan; Gary Pearce; Peter
Geoghegan; Kate Nielsen; Robert Mahony; Aurelia L. S. Annat; Caroline
Sumpter; Tom Walker; Lauren Arrington; Lucy Collins; Neal Alexander

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The latest Journal of English Linguistics has articles on minority varieties
of English - Yorkshire and Newfoundland.

The King and Wicks article - info below - will interest many Ir-D members,
in the light of the systematic disparagement of Newfoundland that is such a
feature of Canadian popular culture. The original advert and the parodies
are most probably still out there on the web.

P.O'S.

"Aren't We Proud of Our Language?"
Authenticity, Commodification, and the Nissan Bonavista Television
Commercial

Ruth King
York University, Toronto, Canada

Jennifer Wicks
University of Toronto, Canada

This article involves an analysis of a television commercial set in rural
Newfoundland, Canada in which the main actor's performance of Vernacular
Newfoundland English is accompanied by subtitles consisting of ostensibly
humorous nonparallelisms rendered in Standard English. The discursive
strategy employed by the ad's creators, of highlighting difference, "others"
the character and by extension actual speakers of the local variety. The
appearance of the commercial on national television resulted in intense
debate, particularly in Newfoundland and to some extent in mainland Canada.
A video parody responding to the original commercial and an online
discussion of the issues on a variety of Web sites are also analyzed. The
debate focuses on (in)authenticity (in particular, on who has the right to
perform the vernacular) and on the commodification of regional language and
culture in media representations.

Key Words: authenticity . Canadian English . commodification . Newfoundland
English . parody . television commercials . tourism and discourse

This version was published on September 1, 2009

Journal of English Linguistics, Vol. 37, No. 3, 262-283 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0075424209339924

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Religion, the Constitution, and the New Ireland

Patrick Hannon
St Patrick's College, Maynooth, patrick.hannon[at]may.ie

The Preamble to the 1937 Irish Constitution (Bunreacht na h=C9ireann) =
invokes
God as understood in Christian tradition as the source of human =
authority
and as man's final end. It is sometimes nowadays contended that in a
pluralist Ireland this is inappropriate. This contention is here =
considered
in the light of the main arguments made for and against inclusion of a
reference to God and Christian origins in a European Constitution. =
Drawing
on work of L. Siedentop and J. Weiler, the author proposes a =
starting-point
for informed public discussion of the issues involved.

Key Words: Bunreacht na h=C9ireann =95 Christian =95 European =
Constitution =95
preamble =95 Siedentop =95 Weiler

Irish Theological Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 3, 258-271 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0021140009105258

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Subject: Article,
"No Irish Need Apply"? Veto Players and Legislative Productivity
in the Republic of Ireland, 1949-2000
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I can't see that the quote in the title is explained or justified.

Veto players theory has become a major theme in political science - you can
tell it has become a major theme because you can buy already written essays
on the subject.

The main text is
George Tsebelis, Veto Players: How Political Institutions Work
Much cited in this article.

If you want to explore further - and I am not recommending this - a helpful
review can be found at
http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?a=468

And the full text of a Tsebelis book can be found at

http://politics.as.nyu.edu/docs/IO/4756/tsebelis_book.pdf

(Go carefully - that link leads to a 440 page pdf file)

A web search for author and theme will find much more.

This Conley and Bekafigo article is nicely done, placing the Irish patterns
and circumstances within this growing theoretical area.

P.O'S.

Article

"No Irish Need Apply"? Veto Players and Legislative Productivity in the
Republic of Ireland, 1949-2000

Richard S. Conley1* and Marija A. Bekafigo2
1 University of Florida
2 University of Southern Mississippi

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
rconley[at]polisci.ufl.edu.


This analysis fills an important lacuna in comparative legislative studies
by testing the veto players theory against a newly constructed data set of
significant domestic policy legislation passed in the Republic of Ireland
between 1949 and 2000. Distinguishing between single-party majority,
coalition, and minority governments, the analysis places into sharp relief
the ways in which the unique context of Irish political parties and
institutional dynamics conflict with the basic tenets of the veto players
framework. The results underscore the contextual constraints on
applicability of the theory.

First published on August 4, 2009
Comparative Political Studies 2009, doi:10.1177/0010414009341726

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IRISH HISTORICAL STUDIES
NUMB 143; 2009
ISSN 0021-1214

pp. 315-331
The fifth earl of Clanricarde and the founding of the Confederate Catholic
government, 1641-3.
Debe, D.D.

pp. 332-348
The Foxite Whigs, Irish legislative independence and the Act of Union,
1785-1806.
Kanter, D.

pp. 349-367
Jeremiah Jordan M.P. (1830-1911): Protestant home ruler or `Protestant
renegade'?.
McMinn, R.; Phoenix, E.; Beggs, J.

pp. 368-388
Irish Free State newspapers and the Abyssinian crisis, 1935-6.
McMahon, C.

pp. 389-406
The limits of diplomatic pressure: Operation Safehaven and the search for
German assets in Ireland.
Hale, K.P.

pp. 407-417
Exchequer malpractice in late medieval Ireland: a petition from Christopher
Fleming, Lord Slane, 1438.
Mercer, M.

pp. 418-427
`Divided hearts, united states': historians, the union and unionists.
Jackson, A.

p. 428
Colfer, Wexford: a town and its landscape.
Duffy, P.

p. 429
Jankulak & Wooding (eds), Ireland and Wales in the Middle Ages.
Duffy, S.

p. 430
Valante, The Vikings in Ireland: settlement, trade and urbanization.
Downham, C.

pp. 431-432
Flanders, De Courcy: Anglo-Normans in Ireland, England and France in the
eleventh and twelfth centuries.
Duffy, S.

p. 433
Hogan, The priory of Llanthony Prima and Secunda in Ireland, 1172-1541:
lands, patronage and politics.
Abram, A.

p. 434
McDonald, Manx kingship in its Irish Sea setting, 1187-1229: King Rognvaldr
and the Crovan dynasty.
Hall, D.

p. 435
Lyttleton & O'Keeffe (eds), The manor in medieval and early modern Ireland.
Frame, R.

pp. 436-437
Dryburgh & Smith (eds), Inquisitions and extents of medieval Ireland.
Crooks, P.

p. 438
McCullough & Crawford, Irish historic towns atlas no. 18: Armagh.
Duffy, P.

pp. 439-440
Connolly, Contested island: Ireland, 1460-1630.
Morrill, J.

p. 441
Downey & Crespo MacLennan (eds), Spanish-Irish relations through the ages.
O Connor, T.

p. 442
Breen, An archaeology of southwest Ireland, 1570-1670.
Klingelhofer, E.

p. 443
Wormald (ed.), The seventeenth century.
Connolly, S.J.

pp. 444-445
Jordan, A copper farthing: Sir William Petty and his times, 1623-1687.
McCormick, T.

p. 446
O'Hara, English newsbooks and Irish rebellion, 1641-9.
Walton, A.

p. 447
Barnard, Improving Ireland? Projectors, prophets and profiteers, 1641-1786.
Magennis, E.

pp. 448-449
Bell & Watson, A history of Irish farming, 1750-1950, and Kennedy & Solar,
Irish agriculture: a price history.
Ryan, R.

pp. 450-451
Williams, Tourism, landscape, and the Irish character: British travel
writers in pre-Famine Ireland.
James, K.J.

p. 452
Finnegan (ed), A tour in Ireland in 1775. By Richard Twiss.
James, K.J.

p. 453
Kelly, Bard of Erin: the life of Thomas Moore.
Leerssen, J.

p. 454
Dooley, The murders at Wildgoose Lodge: agrarian crime and punishment in
pre-Famine Ireland.
Malcolm, E.

pp. 455-456
Geary & McCarthy (eds), Ireland, Australia and New Zealand: history,
politics and culture.
Sweetman, R.

p. 457
Hepburn, Catholic Belfast and nationalist Ireland in the era of Joe Devlin,
1871-1934.
Maume, P.

p. 458
Newby, Ireland, radicalism and the Scottish Highlands.
Cathain, M.S.O.

p. 459
King & McCormack (eds), Michael Davitt: from the Gaelic American. By John
Devoy.
Ramon, M.

p. 460
Nevin (ed.), Between comrades: James Connolly, letters and correspondence
1889-1916.
Dillon, P.

pp. 461-462
McMahon, Grand opportunity: the Gaelic Revival and Irish society, 1893-1910.
Maume, P.

p. 463
Valiulis (ed.), Gender and power in Irish history.
Montgomery, D.

p. 464
Fanning, The quest for modern Ireland: the battle of ideas, 1912-1986.
Brownlow, G.

pp. 465-466
O'Malley, Ireland, India and Empire: Indo-Irish radical connections,
1919-1964.
O Driscoll, M.

p. 467
Coakley & O'Dowd (eds), Crossing the border: new relationships between
Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Kennedy, M.

pp. 468-469
Gkotzaridis, Trials of Irish history: genesis and evolution of a reappraisal
1938-2000.
Howe, S.

p. 470
O'Halpin, Spying on Ireland: British intelligence and Irish neutrality
during the Second World War.
Jeffery, K.

pp. 471-472
Delaney, The Irish in post-war Britain.
O Connell, S.

p. 473
Daly & O'Callaghan (eds), 1916 in 1966: commemorating the Easter Rising.
Hay, M.

pp. 474-475
Oppenheimer, IRA: the bombs and the bullets: a history of deadly ingenuity,
and Gillespie, Years of darkness: the Troubles remembered.
Wilson, T.

pp. 476-477
Holland & Manning (eds), Archives and archivists.
O Brien, G.

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There was a recent article in the Irish Times on this exhibition of
Synge's photographs.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/0516/1224246671468.html

But I know these pictures by Synge have been around - and public - for
some time. In the 1980s the Story of English series used some of them
in the section on language in Ireland, "The Loaded Weapon," when they
featured Synge's contribution to Hiberno/English and used some of his
photography.

Carmel

Michael Gillespie wrote:
> Dear Friends,
>
> One of my new colleagues here at FIU is working on JM Synge. He told me that he recently came across a book, published by Synge's family, the prints photos taken by Synge on the Aran Islands and in Wicklow. The book is titled, My Wallet of Photos.
>
> I had never heard of Synge's interest in photography (though admittedly one could fill a warehouse with things of which I had never heard). I would be very grateful if someone on the list could point my colleague and I in the direction of more information on Synge the photographer.
>
> All the best,
> Michael
>
> Michael Patrick Gillespie
> Professor of English
> Florida International University
>
> .
>
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A slightly related note: Steven Speilburg was just out in the Aran Islands,
scouting a film perhaps. Pictures of Aran continue to resonate apparently.

Best
Joseph Lennon



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Of Maria McGarrity
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Dear Michael,

I'd recommend you look at "Visible Others: Photography and Romantic
Ethnograhy in Ireland" by Justin Carville. The essay, an analysis of The
Aran Islands as a visual/photographic text, appears in the collection I
co-edited with Claire Culleton, Irish Modernism and the Global Primitive
(Palgrave, 2009). His bibliography might also point your colleague in some
useful directions.

Best regards,
Maria McGarrity
LIU Brooklyn

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Dear Friends,

One of my new colleagues here at FIU is working on JM Synge. He told me that
he recently came across a book, published by Synge's family, the prints
photos taken by Synge on the Aran Islands and in Wicklow. The book is
titled, My Wallet of Photos.

I had never heard of Synge's interest in photography (though admittedly one
could fill a warehouse with things of which I had never heard). I would be
very grateful if someone on the list could point my colleague and I in the
direction of more information on Synge the photographer.

All the best,
Michael

Michael Patrick Gillespie
Professor of English
Florida International University

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Forwarded from H-Albion.


Academic Symposium 11-12 Sept. 2009 in Savannah GA co-hosted by Georgia
Southern University and the University of Ulster

Frontiers and Fringes: The Scots Irish in America

Study of the Scots-Irish or Ulster-Scots in America is maturing.
Increasingly, scholars and others are adding detail and nuance to the =
grand
narrative of a Great Migration from Ulster into Appalachia. Local and
near-forgotten stories are being pieced together and analyzed to create =
a
more complex and complete understanding of one of America's most =
important
settler groups. We invite you to experience and participate in this =
exciting
movement by attending one or both days of an international symposium,
Frontiers and Fringes: The Ulster-Scots Experience in America. Highly
affordable ($30 registration fee for both days, $20 for one day), the =
event
takes place on September 11 and 12, 2009, at the Coastal Georgia Center: =
a
conference venue (with plenty of free parking) just steps from the heart =
of
historic Savannah. Co-hosted by the Institute for Ulster-Scots Studies =
at
the University of Ulster and the Center for Irish Studies at Georgia
Southern University, our open-to-all symposium features-among other =
things-
presentations on archaeological digs at early Scots-Irish settlements in
Maine and Georgia and on unique features of Scots-Irish literature. The
symposium also includes a Friday-evening musical concert. Why not plan a
Scots-Irish weekend in beautiful Savannah? Check out the full program, =
plus
lodging and other relevant information, on our website:

http://tinyurl.com/nqkfls

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the =
conference
organizers:

Howard Keeley
HKeeley[at]georgiasouthern.edu

Joe Pellegrino
JPellegrino[at]georgiasouthern.edu

Marti Lee
MDLee[at]georgiasouthern.edu

Jan Reynolds
JanReyn[at]georgiasouthern.edu


William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of History
Graduate Program Coordinator=20
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA=20
Office: 1-270-809-6571
Fax: 1-270-809-6587=20
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Book Review, Patrick Maguire,
MY FATHER'S WATCH: THE STORY OF A CHILD PRISONER IN 70S BRITAIN
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A heartfelt, and well argued, review by Joe Sim of Liverpool John Moores
University...

P.O'S.

British Journal of Criminology 2009 49(2):281-284; =
doi:10.1093/bjc/azn082=20

My Father's Watch: The Story of a Child Prisoner in 70s Britain. By =
Patrick
Maguire (London: Fourth Estate, 2008, 432pp., =A316.99 hb)

Joe Sim
Liverpool John Moores University

MY FATHER'S WATCH: THE STORY OF A CHILD PRISONER IN 70S BRITAIN. By =
Patrick
Maguire London: Fourth Estate, 2008, 432pp., =A316.99 hb)

EXTRACTS...

Patrick Maguire was the youngest of the Maguire 7, a group of family and
friends who were wrongly accused and then convicted of participating in =
the
IRA bombing campaigns of the 1970s. In March 1976, when he was 14, he =
was
sentenced to four years=92 imprisonment. This compelling, moving book
documents the brutal disintegration of an ordinary, working-class family
whose convictions were guaranteed by the combined weight of a complacent
judicial and legal system, an immoral, cosy relationship between this =
system
and =91neutral, scientific experts=92, a venal and violent police =
culture and a
rabid, anti-Irish mass media.

Patrick's mortifying journey through and beyond the criminal justice =
system
was dominated by institutionalized violence. As with other notorious
cases=97the Birmingham 6, the Guildford 4, the Bridgewater 4 and Stefan
Kiszko=97physical and psychological brutality was central to the police
investigation of his case and was dominated by the fact that those =
involved
believed they had the =91right=92 people. To secure convictions, a =
confession
was needed and violence, and the threat of violence, institutionally
embedded within the state's pre-trial procedures, was the route to =
achieving
these convictions. In prison, it was his mental health that was targeted =
as
he was moved between different cells and =91ghosted=92 between different
prisons. That such barbaric practices could be utilized against a =
teenage
boy graphically illustrates the desperate depths to which the state had
sunk....

...After his release, he continued to be targeted and harassed by the
Metropolitan Police, despite having his conviction quashed in June 1991. =
The
book details a series of threatening encounters throughout the 1990s...

...=91This is one of the Maguires,=92 he said. =91The whole family got =
caught
making bombs for the IRA.=92 He looked at me. =91You got banged up =
didn=92t you?
Your mum, your dad, all of you. Isn=92t that right? You=92re all out =
now, but
[if] you ask me, you got off lightly. You should still be in fucking =
prison,
doing life, or sent back to that shit-hole you all came from, fucking
Belfast.=92 (p. 387)...

...This book follows in the tradition of the great prison narratives =
that
have been published since prisoners=92 accounts of life inside began to =
emerge
in the 1860s and 1870s. It is a story that challenges the =91truth=92
articulated by state servants, politicians and their media acolytes. It =
is a
book that also allows us to ask a number of more general questions about =
the
operation of the criminal justice system.

First, and most chillingly, if hanging had still been in force, it is =
likely
that a number of the Maguire 7 would have been executed=97a view =
brutally
articulated by a prison governor who told the young teenager that =91if
hanging was still the law your mother and father would be dead by now=92 =
(p.
228). ...

...There is a final question to be asked: what have contemporary state
servants and politicians learned from what happened in the 1970s? To =
borrow
from Foucault, what they have learned is, inevitably, to =91punish =
better...

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Subject: Book Review, Stepping Stones: Interview with Seamus Heaney,
by Dennis O'Driscoll
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Stepping Stones: Interview with Seamus Heaney, by Dennis O'Driscoll

Nicholas Lezard
The Guardian, Saturday 8 August 2009

Here, in effect, is Seamus Heaney's autobiography - and what a good way of
doing it, in 500 pages of conversational interview with Dennis O'Driscoll,
himself an accomplished and indeed knowledgeable poet. He compiled the
highly amusing Bloodaxe Book of Poetry Quotations, which included the Irish
Farmers' Journal headline noting Heaney's Nobel prize: "Bellaghy celebrates
as farmer's son wins top literary award".

Which isn't to make fun of the Irish Farmers' Journal: Heaney has always
been rural, making much of his rustic upbringing, and I was completely
charmed by his take on his move to County Wicklow in 1972: "Horace says:
vivitur parvo bene. You can live well on a little . . . [I and his wife] had
both grown up in the country, so for us there was something rich and
unstrange about bathing the kids by firelight, having them play around in
the farmyard next door, giving them an experience of the dark country
nights. It was more than nostalgic. It seemed right to supply them with
memories of hedgebacks and hayfields and an open fire." Of course, for a
countryman he does get about an awful lot, whether picking up the Nobel,
hobnobbing with the Clintons (Bill, apparently, is as good a reader as any
academic), or having his toes trodden on by squirts like me at Poetry
Society events (this is true: I did tread on his toes, and he was very nice
about it). He has coped with his fame, and the demands of the book-launch
and dinner-party circuit, with more dignity than just about anyone you can
think of - only the more rabid Ulster Unionists get really upset by him
("you could hardly quarrel with that," says Heaney, quoting one vitriolic
attack).

But you can wonder what all this has to do with poetry, and sometimes I find
myself sympathising with Al Alvarez's condescending assessment of his work:
"It challenges no presuppositions, does not upset or scare, is mellifluous,
craftsmanly, and often perfect within its chosen limits." I must confess
that I picked this book up more from a sense of duty than excited curiosity
- I am not deaf to the virtues of Heaney's verse, but let's just say his
Collected Poems would not be the volume I would rescue from a burning
library, were I allowed only one.

So if I, who am not his number one fan, can love this book, then I can only
imagine what transports the true Heaneyphile will be in. O'Driscoll's
questions are very well chosen: as I said, he is knowledgeable, not just
about poetry, but about the world, Heaney's influences, literary, historical
and political; he has a knack for drawing his subject out without ever being
banal or toadying.

And as for Heaney himself . . . well, no one of any account has a bad word
to say of him and, after the publication of this, that position remains
unchanged. There is an easy but firm intelligence behind everything Heaney
says here: it might read as comfily as a fireside chat, but everything has
been considered. See how deftly he parries The Problem With Larkin. Larkin
had called him "the Gombeen Man" in his letters (Ted Hughes was "the
Incredible Hulk"; "not bad," says Heaney); but Heaney is both magnanimous
and insightful, saying not only "I suppose I was lucky to get off as lightly
as I did", but "a lot of the time in the letters, he was writing a script
for himself, lines to be spoken by his inner Steptoe, the Thersites of Toad
Lane". That really does look like the best way to approach the Larkin
persona; and, moreover, it is a memorable phrase.

So this really is a remarkable book. There isn't a dull, vapid or useless
sentence in it; it's about what it is to be human, as much as it is about
what it is to be a poet (or to be Seamus Heaney). It must have taken years,
and an enormous amount of energy and thought on the part of both people.
Even the index is highly commendable (always a good sign that a book has had
properly lavish attention spent on it). It is packed with both insight and
good humour. Even those possessing only scant familiarity with Heaney's
verse will like it. Unbelievably, it only costs a tenner. Off you go.

SOURCE

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/08/stepping-stones-dennis-driscoll

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All Names Have Been Changed by Claire Kilroy

Colin Greenland on a novel steeped in the Celtic literary tradition

Colin Greenland
The Guardian, Saturday 8 August 2009

'Michaelmas Term, 1985. Dublin languishes in a fug of tobacco and =
poverty.
Chucking in his factory job in Leeds and sneaking back without telling =
his
ma, Declan joins the Trinity College creative writing class run, in =
theory,
by his idol, the appalling genius Patrick Glynn. There are eight of =
them, "a
shower of messers" all in awe of the great Glynn, all vying for his =
erratic
approval. Declan, narrating, tells us how their year wears on. Much =
Guinness
is drunk, much whiskey. Souls are bared, hearts are broken. Novels are
begun, savaged, abandoned. The weakest fall by the way. Declan persists,
along with a close-knit coven of women. It rains. Sometimes it's very =
cold.
Gulls scream over the Liffey.

And that's about it, really...

Kilroy's charting of the inner turmoil of the introvert lad who falls in
love only to bollocks it all up is alarmingly perfect. And her best =
chapter,
in which Declan strikes up a perilous acquaintance with Giz, the =
delinquent
drug dealer downstairs, should be cut out and pinned up in creative =
writing
classes throughout the land. Perhaps now she's sluiced Dublin out of her
system we may look to be properly astonished by Claire Kilroy'

All Names Have Been Changed
by Claire Kilroy
271pp, Faber, =A312.99

Full text at...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/08/all-names-have-been-changed

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Article, Irish Domestic Servants,
`Biddy' and Rebellion in the American Home, 1850-1900
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Irish Domestic Servants, `Biddy' and Rebellion in the American Home,
1850-1900
Author: Urban, Andrew
Source: Gender & History, Volume 21, Number 2, August 2009 , pp. 263-286(24)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

Abstract:
This essay looks at the role that Anglo-American women played in governing
their Irish immigrant domestic servants and at the racial and gendered
meanings that were attached to servitude. In the second half of the
nineteenth century, female Irish Catholic immigrants predominated in
domestic service employment in the north-eastern United States. Newspaper
and magazine articles portrayed the home as a site of conflict where
Protestant, middle-class families clashed with Irish Catholic `peasant'
girls newly arrived in the US. Employers depicted `Bridget' or `Biddy', the
collective nickname given to Irish domestic servants, as insubordinate,
unrefined and prone to violent outbursts. While reliant on domestic service
for wages, female Irish immigrants understood that service represented
racialised labour in the United States and was viewed as an occupation
befitting non-white populations.

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Book Review, Nomads under the Westway, Irish Travellers,
Gypsies and Other Traders in West London
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A confident and fierce review article by Sin=E9ad n=ED Shuin=E9ar - she =
speaks of
the elephant in the portakabin on this traveller site. The review =
article
will interest Ir-D members who follow these discussions - there are
footnotes and references and the book under review is used to expand on
denbates.

P.O'S.

Community Development Journal 2009 44(2):263-268; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsp009 =

=20
Nomads under the Westway, Irish Travellers, Gypsies and Other Traders in
West London

Sin=E9ad n=ED Shuin=E9ar
email: snis[at]eircom.net

Christopher Griffin, University of Hertfordshire Press, Hatfield, UK, =
2008,
321 pp. (+6 pp preface, 18 pp bibliography, 15 pp index), ISBN-10
1-902806-54-9, ISBN-13 978-1-902806-54-9, paperback =A314.99/US$29.95.

EXTRACTS
Between 1984 and 1987, London-Irish anthropologist Christopher Griffin =
spent
a total of 2 years as warden of a large site in north London, 85% of its
residents Irish Travellers. He then emigrated to Australia where =96 =
with
occasional return visits, most recently in 2004 =96 he has lived ever =
since.
Twenty years on, he has written his observations of life on the site =
within
a context of both personalised (autobiographical) and localised (the
geography of the borough, its economic and social history) space and =
time.
That he has done so in plain English, and included long introductions to
basic sociological and anthropological theory, suggest that the target
audience is general rather than academic.

The back cover of Nomads under the Westway promises =91a detailed survey =
of
cultural practice amongst Travellers and Gypsies today=92...

...Given all of the above, how relevant is this book to community work? =
The
author's observations concerning his relations with, and the complex
political manoeuvrings of, local authorities, service providers and NGOs =
=96
both internally, and in their dealings with Travellers =96 will resonate =
with
anyone professionally involved in the sector (see, for example, pp.
181=96184). He also alludes to, but unfortunately does not detail, the =
=91cycles
of deceit practised by both [Traveller and non-Traveller] sides=92 (p. =
319).
Ultimately, Nomads under the Westway is a =91partly autobiographical ...
history of West London's Gypsies and Travellers set in a broader context =
of
immigration and race relations=92 (back cover), not a practical manual =
for
service providers who wish to understand the Travellers with whom they =
have
professional dealings.=20

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Niall Stanage's piece on IrishTimes.com strikes me as reasonably accurate.
There is no organized Irish political bloc in the U.S., although in local
politics in some communities a sense of identification as Irish-Americans
may play a (very) minor role. Enough residual Irish identification exists
so that temporary concern and engagement is possible when Irish issues are
front and center -- as they were during the worst of the Troubles. Likewise,
a small band of politicians with Irish heritage and Irish sympathies have a
fair amount of power, but most of them are of advanced age and, in the case
of Ted Kennedy, seriously ill.

What strikes me as almost humorous is any Irish expectation of a "special
relationship" after the recent decade. As soon as the Irish got a taste of
prosperity, they were in an enormous rush to forget their American ties and
to prove how "European" they are. The reaction was predictable. Poor
relations like to forget former dependency, and systematic EU investment
rather than ad hoc U.S. contributions or American remittances proved to be
the key to Irish development. Now, however, the economy of Mother Ireland
is spinning in the flusher even faster than that of the U.S., and the
traditional forelock tugging shows signs of resuming. Don't be surprised if
Americans are not quick to respond.

Relations between the U.S. and Europe (including Ireland but not so much the
UK) soured after 9-11, which initially generated sympathy for America on a
par with that in reaction to the death of Michael Jackson.* Much of the
problem was rooted in the unilateral nature of America's subsequent actions,
although Europe's own one-sided experience with the meaning of "collective
security" since World War II (i.e., let Uncle Sam bear the costs and we'll
pretend) possibly played a role. The Irish, of course, were unusually
visible among the disaffected. That's fine, but even if the Irish were
correct in their global views, they have to expect to pay a price. Although
Irish in America range politically from the far left to the far right, there
are still a lot of them who have old-fashioned ideas of patriotism and
public service. The funerals in NYC after 9-11 recalled an age of Irish
presence in America much different from our own. The families involved were
the kind of people who formerly provided the substance of the special
relationship. Does anyone think that Congressman Peter King, who represents
their world view, really cares as much about the fate of the Irish and of
Irish immigrants as he once did? Much farther to the right than King, John
Bolton wrote in the Wall Street Journal today to denounce President Obama's
decision to award the "Medal of Freedom" to Mary Robinson, whom the former
U.S. ambassador to the U.N. denounced as anti-American.

The U.S. remains a politically divided nation. President Obama won in 2008
with an impressive majority in the Electoral College, but his share of the
popular vote was only 53% (Bush had 51% four years earlier). The president
retains a high level of personal popularity, and the Republicans are still
stumbling. Nevertheless, despite the Democrats' great advantages in
Congress, the president's legislative program has not gone forward smoothly
and what will happen with the economy is still up for grabs. Afghanistan
could become Obama's Iraq; he now has the option to win the war or lose it.
Either outcome will cost him politically. Therefore, assumptions that the
United States has permanently changed course may be premature.

The immigration issue offers a grand insight into Irish ignorance about the
U.S. In light of all the chiding that Europeans, including the Irish, give
the U.S. about racism and xenophobia, the idea that the Americans will
handle Irish immigrants, especially undocumented ones, with a wink and a nod
is ludicrous. The Irish might constitute as many as 50,000 of the 11.5
million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. That's less than one-half of
one percent. They don't count. The vast majority of the undocumented are
either non-white or, in the case of Hispanics, may be considered non-white
or "another kind of white." What sane -- or just -- American politician is
going to suggest at this point special treatment for Europeans? What
holier-than-thou Irish person will have the nerve to ask for it?

*The allusion to Michael Jackson was sparked partly by a Hispanic
journalist's remark in the L.A. Times criticizing the hoopla over MJ's
passing. He suggested that Jackson's planned comeback would have been so
likely to fail that his chances for a second career would have been better
if he had opted to become an Irish priest. To an unfortunate extent, that's
more typical of the American outlook on Ireland these days than is any idea
of a special relationship.

Tom

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Of MacEinri, Piaras
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Subject: [IR-D] Irish Times article on links between Ireland and USA

A very interesting piece and one which seems sure to draw a
counter-blast from certain other voices in Irish America! I don't think
it's too difficult to work out who the main targets are here..

Piaras
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0808/1224252235105.html