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The Riddle of Father Hackett: A Priest in Politics in Ireland and
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Some extracts from this book have appeared on Google Books.

Material below from the publisher web site.

http://shop.nla.gov.au/product_info.php?products_id=11638

The Riddle of Father Hackett: A Priest in Politics in Ireland and Australia

ISBN: 9780642276858
Author: BRENDA NIALL
Pages: 252
Publisher National Library of Australia
Publication Date: 01/09/2009

In 1922, at the height of Ireland's tragic civil war, Irish Jesuit William
Hackett was transferred to Australia by his order. Assigned to a minor
teaching post, this seemingly unremarkable newcomer caused no stir. Yet
Father Hackett had been close to the centre of the provisional Irish
Republic's struggle for independence from Britain; part of the network of
Irish nationalists who carried intelligence, ministered to republican
troops, spoke on republican platforms, and helped to publicise British
injustices and atrocities in Ireland. Now, he was effectively an exile.

Leading Australian biographer Brenda Niall tells the story of this
remarkable priest, in both its Irish and Australian chapters. Cut off from
his compatriots, without news of his friends, Hackett sought out Daniel
Mannix, the formidable Archbishop of Melbourne, famous for his Irish
republican stance and his opposition to conscription. The enduring
friendship that followed drew Hackett into Australian cultural and political
life, and eventually into the central political controversy of 1950s
Australia-the Catholic Church's covert partnership with anti-communist
leaders of the labor movement. An absorbing narrative and a subtle character
study, The Riddle of Father Hackett is based on archives in Ireland and
Australia, including Hackett's personal correspondence with Michael Collins,
Eamon de Valera, Erskine Childers, Daniel Mannix and BA Santamaria.

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Note that this article has not yet been assigned a place in the paper
version of the journal.

P.O'S.

The Irish health disadvantage in England: contribution of structure and
identity components of Irish ethnicity
Author: Marie Clucas a

Affiliation: a Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, Coventry,
UK

DOI: 10.1080/13557850903111571
Published in: Ethnicity & Health
First Published on: 22 July 2009
Subjects: Ethnicity; General Medicine; Race & Ethnic Studies;

Abstract
Background. Irish people living in Britain face a significant health
disadvantage when compared to the white British host population.

Objectives. Using recent survey data, determine whether there is an 'Irish
health disadvantage' independent of socio-economic factors and explore
whether there is an Irish ethnic identity effect which operates on health.

Design. Data from the Census 2001 Individual Licensed SARs was analysed
using binary logistic regression to study the relationship between the
self-reported Irish ethnicity measure (which is presumed to reflect
self-identification with Irish culture and community), considering country
of birth subgroups, and the self-reported health measures of general health
and limiting long-term illness. The analysis was adjusted for key
demographic and socio-economic factors.

Results. When compared to the white British reference population, the
self-reported 'white Irish' population overall, the Irish born in Northern
Ireland, and UK-born Irish, show a significantly increased risk of both
self-reported poor general health and limiting long-term illness. The
increased risk of poor health of the Irish born in the Republic of Ireland
is greatly diminished after the socio-economic adjustments, and only
statistically significant in the case of general health. Finally, the Irish
born in Northern Ireland who self-report as Irish are significantly more
likely than those who self-report as British to report poor general health,
which may suggest an Irish ethnic identity effect.

Conclusions. The findings demonstrate a persistent ethnic health
disadvantage for first generation and UK-born Irish people living in England
with respect to self-reported general health and limiting long-term illness,
which cannot be fully explained by demographic and key socio-economic
factors. Aspects of ethnicity related to both structure and identity may
affect Irish self-reported health.

Keywords: Irish; England; self-reported health; limiting long-term illness;
general health; ethnicity; identity; socio-economic status

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There is much discussion on all the media about the death of Senator Edward
M. Kennedy.

There will be more. I now see comment from Ireland, north and south.

All this is becoming very visible on the web.

P.O'S.

Republicans join Democrats in mourning Kennedy

Republicans join Democrats in mourning Kennedy
By GLEN JOHNSON (AP) - 31 minutes ago
BOSTON - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was a Democrat's Democrat, so much so that
he became a rallying point for those in his party and an object of derision
for Republican opponents.

Yet his affability and capability to span the partisan divide on an array of
legislative matters prompted an outpouring of condolences from those in the
GOP as well as the Democratic Party following his death Tuesday at age 77
from brain cancer.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jB3VMXLp_h2aI59j8-Cc_wJ59C
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Subject: BOOK REVIEW,
Terrence Corrigan on _S. J. Connolly. Divided Kingdom: Ireland
1630-1800_
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Subject: REV: Terrence Corrigan on _S. J. Connolly. Divided Kingdom: =20
Ireland 1630-1800_
From: H-Net Staff
Date: August 31, 2009 10:19:18 AM GMT-04:00

S. J. Connolly. Divided Kingdom: Ireland 1630-1800. Oxford Oxford
University Press, 2008. 519 pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN
978-0-19-954347-2.

Reviewed by Terrence Corrigan
Published on H-Albion (August, 2009)
Commissioned by Michael De Nie

Cultural Identities Reconsidered

In this thoughtful, engaging, and broad historical survey, the sequel =20
to his _Contested Ireland_ (2007), S. J. Connolly continues to track =20
the evolution of the divisions that characterized early modern =20
Ireland. The success of this book lies in its stimulating =20
reassessment, as Connolly argues, of "the fluid and contingent nature =20
of allegiances and aspirations," which could traverse as well as =20
reinforce cultural divides (p. 497). These shifting loyalties played =20
havoc on identity, which could be made and remade especially during =20
times of upheaval, of which Ireland was never short in the seventeenth =20
and eighteenth centuries. As a result, such identities as Gaelic, Old =20
English, New English, Catholic, and Protestant in Connolly's account =20
emerge more complex, as neither static nor fleeting.

The implications are significant. Confronting the recent =20
historiographical interest in British identities, Connolly's account =20
breaks from the prevailing nationalist interpretation, especially that =20
of Brendan Bradshaw, that views cultural identity in Ireland as a =20
straightforward issue between Gaelic and English or Catholic and =20
Protestant. Such convenient divisions exemplify a nationalist =20
tradition of resistance against English rule on the part of the Gaelic =20
and Catholic population pushing aside themes that Connolly =20
illustrates, such as Catholic monarchical attachment and Protestant =20
anti-English sentiment. These and other examples that complicate =20
cultural identities fill _Divided Kingdom_ and allow Connolly to =20
question both the image of a uniquely polarized society as well as =20
misguided attempts to ascribe modern nationalism to a sectarian era.

The resulting account, combining primary sources with recent =20
publications, is the most convincing revisionism since T. W. Moody's =20
voluminous _A New History of Ireland_.

Evoking the revisionist spirit of Moody, Connolly breaks from the =20
traditional teleological starting point of 1641. Shifting the focus =20
away from the British Civil Wars of the 1640s to 1630, which was =20
preceded by three decades of peace in Ireland, serves to highlight the =20
interaction between groups in society. To be clear, Connolly does not =20
skirt the violence and turmoil of the seventeenth century but that is =20
not his main concern. Instead, he explores the complex strategic and =20
personal relationships and alliances that could bring English settlers =20
and Irish natives together. These patterns continued, as ethnic =20
identities gave way to religious distinctions in the eighteenth =20
century obscuring seemingly clear-cut conflicts between Catholics and =20
Protestants. Although deficient in the history of gender, Connolly's =20
account weaves a complex political narrative with thematic chapters on =20
religion, society, and the economy. Taken together this book =20
represents Ireland as a divided society common to ancien r=E9gime =20
Europe, but also one that was neither conveniently nor exceptionally =20
polarized.

Connolly's narration is at its best in post-1660 Ireland or the period =20
encompassing most of his research, making for engaging reading. Of =20
special mention is the chapter "Rulers and Ruled" that deals with =20
popular disaffection. While most historians want to argue that the age =20
they study are eras of major upheaval, Connolly does the opposite. He =20
considers flawed, recent efforts that overstress the magnitude of =20
Jacobite sentiment in Ireland, because of their use of Gaelic poets =20
detached from political reality, as a dubious source.

Furthermore, agrarian protest so often cited by historians as proof of =20
agitation, especially those linked to the Catholic Whiteboys or =20
Rightboys, posed little threat to the Protestant state. The movements =20
were inherently conservative with followers looking to protest rising =20
costs, not the political system. They could also target fellow =20
Catholics and receive support from Protestants, further supporting =20
Connolly's argument of the complexity of Irish allegiances.

In the last chapter, Connolly offers proof that the religious =20
identities that divided Ireland were not as fleeting as historians =20
have recently conceived. He concludes that the new republicanism of =20
the Society of United Irishmen proved impermanent and only served to =20
deepen cultural divides. Out of the brutal United Irish-conceived =20
Rebellion of 1798 emerged Catholic Ribbonmen and Protestant Orangemen, =20
not modern democratic republicans. This confronts the lately popular =20
misconception that the United movement is the origin of a modern =20
national identity void of sectarianism. Instead, ancien r=E9gime_ =20
_identities survived, and like other nationalisms, the conventional =20
Irish variant emerged much later in the course of the nineteenth =20
century. Although Connolly notes this in the conclusion, a more =20
thorough examination would have been most welcome or perhaps will =20
serve as a starting point for a future project.

Since cultural identities remained a divisive factor beyond 1800, =20
Connolly injects one final revision. He challenges most previous =20
historical interpretations of the Act of Union arguing that the =20
joining of Great Britain and Ireland should not be viewed as a great =20
failure but perhaps as a lasting effort to deal with religious =20
divisions. This revisionist approach combined with concise summaries =20
of only the most recent research, a straightforward writing style, and =20
thematic organization make the text most useful. At a juncture when =20
scholars, students, and the public are reconsidering Irish identities, =20
it is hoped that all will read Connolly's account.

Citation: Terrence Corrigan. Review of Connolly, S. J., _Divided =20
Kingdom: Ireland 1630-1800_. H-Albion, H-Net Reviews. August, 2009.
URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=3D23591

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

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An update on this extraordinary resource...

All thirty-two counties for 1911 are now available...

P.O'S.

Census of Ireland 1911
The household returns and ancillary records for the censuses of Ireland of
1901 and 1911, which are in the custody of the National Archives of Ireland,
represent an extremely valuable part of the Irish national heritage. Read
more about their digitisation.

All thirty-two counties for 1911 are now available on this site . We have
decided to make the material immediately available, in the knowledge that
the vast majority of our users will be able to find what they want.
Corrections and improvements will be ongoing, and we are very grateful to
all users who have submitted corrections to us.

See Future Plans for information about the next releases of material.
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/


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I should note that the Census of Ireland 1911 at the National Archives of
Ireland is turning into an extraordinary resource.

More and more of the detailed household forms are being made available. The
period is, of course, of special interest to scholars in Irish Studies and
Irish Diaspora Studies. Two examples that the Archivists give are Peig
Sayers and Oliver St. John Gogarty - who seems to have forgotten, for a
moment, that he was married...

The site is, of course, also of special interest to family historians - new
material covers our area of North Cork and I have been helping members of my
own family coax matters of interest out of the data. And becoming worried
about the early deaths of O'Sullivan males...

P.O'S.

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/


Census of Ireland 1911

The household returns and ancillary records for the censuses of Ireland of
1901 and 1911, which are in the custody of the National Archives of Ireland,
represent an extremely valuable part of the Irish national heritage. Read
more about their digitisation.

Donegal, Cork, Galway, Wexford and King's County (Offaly) are the latest
batch of counties to be made available. Even though there is still some
material missing (in particular, some Irish language returns, and
corrections submitted by the public), we have decided to make the material
immediately available, in the knowledge that the vast majority of our users
will be able to find what they want. Corrections and improvements will be
ongoing, and we are very grateful to all users who have submitted
corrections to us.

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/

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Call for Papers - 'Education and Empire' - Galway, Ireland, June
24-26th 2010


The aim of this interdisciplinary conference is to explore the role
of education in shaping, promoting, and challenging imperial and
colonial ideologies, institutions and processes throughout the modern
world. We invite papers that address the following themes:

. the role of educational institutions, ranging from primary schools
to institutions of higher education such as universities, missionary
colleges, engineering and medical schools, and so on, in shaping
imperial, colonial and global processes

. the relationship between imperialism, colonialism and the
development of modern knowledge systems, including new disciplines
and new techniques of rule, particularly in areas such as science.

. the development of curriculum innovation to meet the needs of empire

. education about imperial history (during and after empire)

. education and imperial and (post-)colonial models of childhood

. education and the creation of professional diasporas

. types and patterns of knowledge transfer within the framework of
empire, including publications and broadcasting relating to
education, science, technology, health and government, both between
metropoles and colonies and within and between colonies

. the insecurities or failures of imperial and colonial educational
and knowledge practices, as well as of resistances to these practices

. transitions in educational practice, either from pre-colonial to
colonial or colonial to post-colonial eras


Since this conference is being in part funded through a grant
provided by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social
Sciences to an inter-university group to explore the relationship
between empire and higher education in Ireland, papers are especially
invited for a strand exploring the particularity of Irish
institutions of higher education in shaping the above processes, and
of the role of higher education in shaping Ireland's ambiguous
coloniality.
Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes.

Please submit an abstract, of not more than 300 words, to Fiona
Bateman and Muireann O'Cinneide at www.conference.ie/ before 31
January 2010.

Fiona Bateman
SSRC
St Declan's
Distillery Road
NUI Galway
Ireland
00 353 91 492280
Email: fiona.bateman[at]nuigalway.ie

Visit the website at http://www.conference.ie/

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The online version of this book has turned up in our alerts. It looks like
another piece of work that has been overcome by the financial crisis - but
the analysis of the Irish state and its partners look interesting.

P.O'S.

The Political Economy of Managed Migration
Nonstate Actors, Europeanization, and the Politics of Designing Migration
Policies
Menz, Georg, Senior Lecturer in Political Economy, Goldsmiths College,
University of London.

Print publication date: 2008
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2009
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-953388-6
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199533886.001.0001

Abstract: European governments have rediscovered labor migration, but are
eager to be perceived as controlling unsolicited forms of migration,
especially through asylum and family reunion. The emerging paradigm of
managed migration combines the construction of more permissive channels for
desirable and actively recruited labor migrants with ever more restrictive
approaches towards asylum seekers. Nonstate actors, especially employer
organizations, trade unions, and humanitarian nongovernmental organizations,
attempt to shape regulatory measures, but their success varies depending on
organizational characteristics. Labor market interest associations' lobbying
strategies regarding quantities and skill profile of labor migrants will be
influenced by the respective system of political economy they are embedded
in. Trade unions are generally supportive of well-managed labor recruitment
strategies. But migration policymaking also proceeds at the European Union
(EU) level. While national actors seek to upload their national model as a
blueprint for future EU policy to avoid costly adaptation, top-down
Europeanization is recasting national regulation in important ways,
notwithstanding highly divergent national regulatory philosophies. Based on
field work in and analysis of primary documents from six European countries
(France, Italy, United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, and Poland), this book
makes an important contribution to the study of a rapidly Europeanized
policy domain. Combining insights from the literature on comparative
political economy, Europeanization, and migration studies, this book makes
important contributions to all three, while demonstrating how migration
policy can be fruitfully studied by employing tools from mainstream
political science, rather than treating it as a distinct subfield.

Keywords: employer organizations and migration, Europeanization of
migration, humanitarian nongovernmental organizations, lobbying strategies,
managed migration, trade unions and migration, systems of political economy


http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/politicalscience/9780199
533886/toc.html

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There is a review of

The Political Economy of Managed Migration by Georg Menz (book review)

by Lucia Kurekova

at

http://pergceu.blogspot.com/2009/07/political-economy-of-managed-migration.h
tml

Georg Menz. The Political Economy of Managed Migration. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2009. 298 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-953388-6. Forthcoming in Acta
Oeconomica.

Migration continues to represent an important academic and policy issue, not
least due to its critical implications for political, economic, social,
demographic and cultural aspects of life of individuals as well as
societies. Before the 2008 world economic crisis loomed in, labor and skill
shortages in booming European economies incited 'war on talent', forcing the
European governments to redefine the basic principles of their migration
policies. A recent book by Georg Menz "Political Economy of Managed
Migration" addresses a topical issue of development of migration policy in
the EU, both at the level of the countries and at the level of the European
Union, proposing a paradigmatic shift towards 'managed migration'. His
analysis of a range of traditional immigration countries - Germany, France
and the United Kingdom - together with new immigration states - Italy,
Ireland and Poland is a significant contribution to migration studies,
international relations and Europeanization literature and to the field of
political economy. Both the novelty in respect to theoretical
cross-fertilization of different fields and the breath and depth of the
evidence that the author assembles and presents about the issue of active
migration policy make the book an important social science read...

Full text at
http://pergceu.blogspot.com/2009/07/political-economy-of-managed-migration.h
tml

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This book has turned up in our alerts because the author uses Irish
literature and history to explore her own background - and a part of that
inheritance is a genetic condition. So, a contribution to Irish-American
memoirs...

Going Blind
A Memoir

Mara Faulkner, OSB - Author

http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61832

Memoir and meditation on blindness.

Mara Faulkner grew up in a family shaped by Irish ancestry, a
close-to-the-bone existence in rural North Dakota, and the secret of her
father's blindness-along with the silence and shame surrounding it. Dennis
Faulkner had retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic disease that gradually blinded
him and one that may blind many members of his family, including the author.
Moving and insightful, Going Blind explores blindness in its many
permutations-within the context of the author's family, more broadly, as a
disability marked by misconceptions, and as a widely used cultural metaphor.
Mara Faulkner delicately weaves her family's story into an analysis of the
roots and ramifications of the various metaphorical meanings of blindness,
touching on the Catholic Church of the 1940s and 1950s, Japanese internment,
the Germans from Russia who dominated her hometown, and the experiences of
Native people in North Dakota. Neither sentimental nor dispassionate, the
author asks whether it's possible to find gifts when sight is lost.

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A number of Ir-D members will want to be aware of this volume...

P.O'S.

Competitive Irish Dance: Art, Sport, Duty (Paperback)
by Frank Hall (Author)

Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Macater Press; 1 edition (June 10, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0981492428
ISBN-13: 978-0981492421

What happens when you put an expressive form in a competitive frame? This
question motivates Frank Hall's study of competitive Irish stepdancing. He
examines this dance tradition-from the organization of competitions to the
movement of dancers' bodies-in relation to themes of authority,
authenticity, and control. Irish stepdancing, known for many decades
primarily in ethnic enclaves, expanded tremendously as Riverdance and other
shows took this dance form to new performance contexts on the world stage.
In describing and analyzing the history and development of competitive
stepdancing in Ireland, the United States, and beyond, Hall reveals the
issues, forces, and values that entwine all participants, including
competition organizers, judges, dancers, parents, and teachers.
Investigating the process of teaching and learning the movement and
analyzing its stage performance, he elucidates the syntactic and semantic
dimensions of Irish dancing as a body language.

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Historical Archaeology of the Irish Diaspora
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This book has turned up in our alerts.

There is a short excerpt from the Introduction on the publisher web site...

Historical Archaeology of the Irish Diaspora
A Transnational Approach

Brighton, Stephen A.

Cloth Edition, $49.95
Cloth ISBN: 1572336676
Status: Forthcoming


Publication Date: 9/2009
Description

Between 1845 and 1852, a watershed event in Ireland's history-the Great
Hunger-forced more than one million starved and dispossessed people, most of
them poor tenant farmers, to leave their native country for the shores of
the United States. Further weakened by the arduous voyage across the
Atlantic Ocean, many sought refuge in the harbor cities in which they
landed. Not surprisingly, Irish immigrants counted as one quarter of New
York City's population during the 1850s.

In Historical Archaeology of the Irish Diaspora, Stephen A. Brighton places
Irish and Irish American material culture within a broad historical context,
including the waves of immigration that preceded the Famine and the
development of the Irish American communities that followed it. He
meticulously details the archaeological research connected with excavations
at two pre-Famine sites in County Roscommon, Ireland, and with several
immigrant tenements located in the Five Points, Manhattan, and the Dublin
section of nearby Paterson, New Jersey. Using this transnational approach to
link artifacts and ceramics found in rural Ireland with those discovered in
sites in the urban, northeastern United States, Brighton also employs
contemporary diaspora studies to illustrate how various factions sustained a
distinct homeland connection even as the Irish were first alienated from,
and then gradually incorporated into, American society.

With more than forty million Americans claiming Irish ancestry, fully
understanding Ireland's traumatic history and its impact on the growth of
the United States remains a vital task for researchers on both sides of the
Atlantic. Brighton's study of lived experience follows a fascinating
historical path that will aid scholars in a variety of disciplines.

Stephen A. Brighton is an assistant professor of anthropology at the
University of Maryland. His articles have appeared in the International
Journal of Historical Archaeology and Historical Archaeology.

SOURCE

http://utpress.org/a/searchdetails.php?jobno=T01339

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Nationalism and the Irish Diaspora in The United States
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Title Gaelic Games, Nationalism and the Irish Diaspora in The United
States
Author Paul Darby
Publisher University College Dublin Press, 2009
ISBN 1906359237, 9781906359232

Gaelic sports have been played for over a century in America, and provide a
revealing window into the lives and culture of the Irish community there.
Much has been written about the ways that the successes of their
politicians, the efforts of the Catholic Church and the solace, identity and
friendships offered by a whole range of their social, political and
charitable organisations helped the Irish adapt to life in urban America.
Far less has been said though about the role of sport, let alone Gaelic
games, in allowing them to make sense of their new surroundings and deal
with the rigours of adjusting to and progressing in the New World. "Gaelic
Games, Nationalism and the Irish Diaspora in the United States" redresses
this neglect by uncovering the origins and development of Gaelic sport and
by exploring the political, economic and social impact that the GAA has had
on Irish communities in America. New York, Boston, Chicago and San
Francisco, cities that were not only focal points of Irish immigration but
were also the main centres of GAA activity in the US, are taken as case
studies. The book draws on detailed archival research, interviews with
leading figures in the GAA in America and contains a selection of rare
photographs of clubs, teams and players of significance which help to bring
to life a remarkable story of cultural preservation, persistence and passion
for Gaelic games.

About the Author
Paul Darby is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Sports Studies at the
University of Ulster (Jordanstown). He is author of Africa, Football and
FIFA: Politics, Colonialism and Resistance and joint editor of Emigrant
Players: Sport and the Irish Diaspora (with David Hassan) and Soccer and
Disaster: International Perspectives (with Gavin Mellor and Martin Johnes).
He sits on the editorial board of the international journal, Soccer and
Society and the advisory board of Impumelelo: The Interdisciplinary
Electronic Journal of African Sport. He has written numerous scholarly
articles dealing with the relationship between sport and society in a range
of contexts

See also
Emigrants at Play: Gaelic Games and the Irish Diaspora in Chicago,
1884-c.1900
Paul Darby
Sport in History, 1746-0271, Volume 26, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 47 - 63

Gaelic Games, Ethnic Identity and Irish Nationalism in New York City
c.1880-1917 [ ]
Paul Darby
Sport in Society, 1743-0445, Volume 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 347 - 367

http://www.routledgepolitics.com/books/Emigrant-Players-isbn9780415464918

Emigrant Players
Sport and the Irish Diaspora
Edited by Paul Darby, David HassanJ. A. ManganBoria MajumdarMark Dyerson
Published by: Routledge
Publication Date: 25th June 2008

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Swansea University, 28 June - 1 July 2010
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We would be very grateful if you could please help us to circulate the
following CFP electronically to members of your list.

Many thanks and best wishes
Hilary Brown

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Dr Hilary Brown
Department of Modern Languages (German)
School of Arts
Swansea University
Singleton Park
GB-Swansea SA2 8PP

Tel. +44 (0)1792 602434
http://www.swan.ac.uk/german/
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Call for Papers

The Author-Translator in the European Literary Tradition
Swansea University, 28 June - 1 July 2010

Confirmed keynote speakers include:
Susan Bassnett, David Constantine, Lawrence Venuti

The recent 'creative turn' in translation studies has challenged notions of=
translation as a derivative and uncreative activity which is inferior to '=
original' writing. Commentators have drawn attention to the creative proce=
sses involved in the translation of texts, and suggested a rethinking of tr=
anslation as a form of creative writing. Hence there is growing critical a=
nd theoretical interest in translations undertaken by literary authors.
This conference focuses on acts of translation by creative writers. Litera=
ry scholarship has tended to overlook this aspect of an author's output, ye=
t since the time of Cicero, authors across Europe have been engaged not onl=
y in composing their own works but in rendering texts from one language int=
o another. Indeed, many of Europe's greatest writers have devoted time to =
translation - from Chaucer to Heaney, from Diderot and Goethe to Seferis an=
d Pasternak - and have produced some remarkable texts. Others (Beckett, Jo=
yce, Nabokov) have translated their own work from one language into another=
. As attentive readers and skilful wordsmiths, writers may be particularly=
well equipped to meet the creative demands of literary translation; many t=
ranslations of poetry are, after all, undertaken by poets themselves. More=
over, translation can have a major impact on an author's own writing and on=
the development of native literary traditions.
The conference seeks to reassess the importance of translation for European=
writers - both well-known and less familiar - from antiquity to the presen=
t day. It will explore why authors translate, what they translate, and how=
they translate, as well as the links between an author's translation work =
and his or her own writing. It will bring together scholars in English stu=
dies and modern languages, classics and medieval studies, comparative liter=
ature and translation studies. Possible topics include:

* individual author-translators: motivations, career trajectories, =
comparative thematics and stylistics
* the author-translator in context: literary societies, movements, =
national traditions
* the problematic creativity of the author-translator
* self-reflective pronouncements and manifestos
* the author-translator as critic of others' translations
* self-translation: strengths and weaknesses
* authors, adaptations, re-translation and relay translation
* the reception and influence of the work of author-translators
* theoretical interfaces

Proposals are invited for individual papers (max. 20 minutes) or panels (of=
3 speakers). The conference language is English. It is anticipated that =
selected papers from the conference will be published. Please send a 250-w=
ord abstract by 30 September 2009 to the organisers, Hilary Brown and Dunca=
n Large (author-translator[at]swan.ac.uk):

Author-Translator Conference
Department of Modern Languages
Swansea University
GB-Swansea SA2 8PP
http://www.author-translator.net/

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This conference call might interest list members. Could you distribute
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Conference:=20

LOCATING THE HIDDEN DIASPORA:THE ENGLISH IN THE ANGLO-PHONE WORLD

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Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, 8 July to 10 July 2010

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More information and a pdf 'call for papers' can be found at:=20

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www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sass/about/humanities/history/seminars
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Best wishes,

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Don MacRaild

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Donald M. MacRaild

Professor in History

School of Arts & Social Sciences
Northumbria University
Lipman Building
Sandyford Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8ST
T: +44 (0) 191 243 7259
F: +44 (0) 191 227 3189

E: don.macraild[at]northumbria.ac.uk

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This conference call might interest list members. =
Could you
distribute on the list, please?

 

 

Conference:

LOCATING THE HIDDEN DIASPORA:THE ENGLISH IN THE =
ANGLO-PHONE
WORLD

 

Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, 8 =
July to 10
July 2010

 

 

 

More information =
and a pdf ‘call
for papers’ can be found at:

 

www.northumbr=
ia.ac.uk/sd/academic/sass/about/humanities/history/seminars_conferences/h=
iddendiaspora/?view=3DStandard

 

 

Best wishes,

 

 

Don MacRaild

 

 

 

Donald
M. MacRaild

Professor in History

School of Arts & Social Sciences
Northumbria University
Lipman Building
Sandyford Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8ST
T: +44 (0) 191 243 7259
F: +44 (0) 191 227 3189

E:
don.macraild[at]northumbria.ac.uk

 







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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: The O'Donnell Fellowship in Irish Studies - non-stipendiary
Fellowship, Melbourne, 2010
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The O=92Donnell Fellowship in Irish Studies=20

The O=92Donnell Fellowship commemorates the donation to Newman College,
University of Melbourne, of the personal library of Melbourne-based =
doctor
and Irish scholar, Nicholas Michael O=92Donnell (1862-1920). This =
collection
of books, pamphlets and manuscripts, many in the Irish language, was
presented in 1924, =91subject only to the condition that Dr =
O=92Donnell=92s name
should be permanently associated with the gift=92 (Letter from Frank =
Brennan
(1873-1950), Dr O=92Donnell=92s son-in-law and later Australian Federal
Attorney-General, to the Rector, Newman College, 3 July 1924).=20

The O=92Donnell library forms the core of an Irish Studies Collection =
that has
grown since 1924 with further donations and acquisitions relating to
Ireland. Highlights of the collection include many 19th-century Irish
histories and Irish-language publications, plus two 19th-century
manuscripts. One manuscript is a version of the great Irish saga T=E1in =
B=F3=20
Cuailnge or The Cattle Raid of Cooley, written by Seosamh =D3 Long=E1in =
in 1862;
the other is a collection of several stories by a number of scribes
-available online at Irish Script on Screen, Dublin Institute of =
Advanced
Studies: http://www.isos.dias.ie

The Irish Studies Collection is now housed in the Gerry Higgins Room in =
the
Allan and Maria Myers Academic Centre at Newman College and St Mary=92s
College. The room=92s name pays tribute to a generous donor to Newman =
College,
whose family has also funded the Gerry Higgins Chair of Irish Studies at =
the
University of Melbourne. The collection is largely catalogued and =
records
are available for searching via the Academic Centre=92s library =
catalogue:
http://amlib.newman.unimelb.edu.au/=20

The inaugural O=92Donnell Fellowship will be available for the period 4
January 2010 =96 12 February 2010.=20

The O=92Donnell Fellowship aims to:=20

Promote the O=92Donnell library to a research audience;=20
Add value to the O=92Donnell library by encouraging scholarship based =
around
it;=20
Support scholars especially in Irish Diaspora Studies and Irish History; =

Enhance the Academic Centre=92s role as a community of scholars;=20
Strengthen ties between the Centre and the Irish Studies community in
Australia.
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The O=92Donnell Fellowship, which is non-stipendiary, offers physical =
and
intellectual space to a scholar with an interest in Irish Studies, for a
period of 6 weeks. The offering includes:=20

College living quarters;=20
Access to the Academic Centre building and collections;=20
Desk and study space in the Gerry Higgins Room;=20
A University of Melbourne email address and access to the University of=20
Melbourne library ;=20
$2000 for travel and other expenses.=20


Eligibility=20
Applicants should have a demonstrated track record in Irish Studies. =
This
could take the form, for example, of a relevant academic degree; and/or =
the
completion of relevant courses or projects; and/or the publication of
relevant books or articles.=20

Application process=20
Fellowship applications should address ways in which the O=92Donnell =
library
and/or the Irish Studies Collection could be used to further a research
project upon which the applicant is engaged.=20

Selection process=20
Applications in the form of a letter and including a CV, two references =
and
a project proposal, should be sent by Friday 16 October 2009, by post or
email, to Ms Angela Gehrig, Director of the Allan and Maria Myers =
Academic
Centre.=20

Email: agehrig[at]academiccentre.stmarys.newman.unimelb.edu.au=20

Post:=20
Ms Angela Gehrig,=20
Academic Centre, Newman College and St Mary=92s College=20
887 Swanston Street=20
Parkville VIC 3052=20
Australia=20

Applications will be considered by a committee chaired by Professor
Elizabeth Malcolm, the Gerry Higgins Professor of Irish Studies at the
University of Melbourne.=20

Successful applicants=20
The O=92Donnell Fellowship holder will be expected to present a seminar =
in the
Melbourne Irish Studies Seminar (MISS) series, hosted at Newman College =
by
the Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand (ISAANZ). It =
is
also expected that any work produced as a result of the Fellowship will
acknowledge the support of the Academic=20
Centre.=20

Enquiries=20
Any enquiries about the O=92Donnell Fellowship should be sent by email =
to Ms
Angela Gehrig, Director of the Allan and Maria Myers Academic Centre, =
at:=20

agehrig[at]academiccentre.stmarys.newman.unimelb.edu.au=20

For more information about the Academic Centre please see=20

http://www.academiccentre.stmarys.newman.unimelb.edu.au/
=20

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From: "MacEinri, Piaras"
Subject: migration once again
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Migration is back in the news in Ireland, sometimes with a distinctly =
waspish tone. It reminds me all over again of the 1980s and the =
injunction: last one out, turn out the lights.
=20
See, for example
=20
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/exodus-is-expected-among-all-leve=
ls-of-society-1879556.html
=20
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article6823224.ece
=20
The climate of public political discourse is in something close to panic =
mode in Ireland right now. The Government faces three major challenges =
in the coming weeks and months (a) Lisbon, the second referendum (b) the =
banking crisis, which it is proposed to solve via the creation of a 'bad =
bank', to be known as the National Assets Management Agency (NAMA), =
which will buy up impaired loans at a discount in the hope that the =
banking system will start to provide credit again (c) a budget so =
horrendous that it seems certain to attract near-total opposition from a =
battered public. Fianna Fail's support, according to an Irish Times =
poll, is at 17%. If the Government falters it may be even worse; the =
public finances are teetering on bankruptcy with expenditure of =
appoximately EUR60bn this year and income expected to be less than =
EUR35bn.=20
=20
The rest of you outside Ireland are all in trouble as well, but sheer =
perfidy, corruption and rogue politics have combined in Ireland to =
create a unique cocktail.=20
=20
Piaras

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Lecture, William H. Mulligan, Jr., Irish-American Labor History,
THE MINEWORKERS
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Subject: Lecture: Irish-American Labor History: THE MINEWORKERS

List members who will be in the St. Louis, MO area may be interested in =
The following...

Irish-American Labor History: The Mineworkers

William H. Mulligan, Jr.

Thursday 10 September 2009
12:30 - 1:45 PM
331 Social Sciences & Business Building
University of Missouri-St. Louis


Skilled Irish miners were part of the first great mining boom in =
American
History, the Michigan Copper Boom of the mid-1840s. The Irish were =
important
as both miners and entrepreneurs in numerous mining frontiers - =
California,
Nevada, Colorado, Idaho, the Klondike, and Butte, Montana. This lecture
will discuss the role of the Irish on the Michigan mining frontier and =
how
this core group influenced the role the Irish played in American mining
generally.=20


SPONSORED BY
Smurfit-Stone Endowed Professorship in Irish Studies,
Center for International Studies, University of Missouri-St. Louis

A PARKING PERMIT is required for ALL visitors to UMSL. To request your =
FREE
permit, a campus map and make a reservation for this program, visit our
website or call 314-516-7299.

WILLIAM H. MULLIGAN, JR. is Professor of History and coordinator of the
history graduate program at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky. =
He
is the co-moderator of the Irish Diaspora Discussion List. During =
spring
semester 2009, he was a Fulbright Scholar in history in University =
College,
Cork, Ireland.

He is the author or editor of a number of books, including: Northborough
during the American Revolution (1974); (co-editor) Canals and Railroads =
of
the Mid-Atlantic States, 1800-1860 (1981); Northborough: The Town and =
Its
People, 1638-1975 (1982);Michigan Remembered: Photographs from the Farm
Services Administration and the Office of War Information (2001); The
Shoemakers of Lynn, Massachusetts, 1850-1880: Family during the =
Transition
from Hand to Machine Labor.); (editor) Badger Boy in Blue: The Civil =
War
Letters
of Chauncey H. Cooke (2007).

He is currently working on a book on migration from copper mining areas =
in
Ireland to the Copper Country of Michigan in the nineteenth century.

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Postgraduate Conference on the European Avant-garde,
25-26 September, PROGRAMME ONLINE
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Subject: EUROPEAN AVANTGARDE PROGRAMME ONLINE

Dear all,

Could you please circulate to all interested ones the definitive programme
of the Postgraduate Conference on the European Avant-garde (25-26 September,
Humanities Institute of Ireland, UCD, Dublin), which is officially online at
the blog address:

http://europeanavantgarde.blogspot.com/

We would be very grateful if you checked the website for information
regarding the conference. Among other things it includes registration
procedure, essential as we need to book catering for the two days, wine and
cheese reception and final dinner on Saturday 26th. For this reason we would
like confirmation of attendance to the events as soon as possible. Also
available on the website are all the abstracts and a couple of links on
events taking place that weekend in Dublin, which we think you might be
interested in.

Looking forward to hearing from you and seeing you in a few weeks,

Best regards,

Monica and Selena


Monica Insinga
Ph.D. student in Comparative Studies
School of English, Drama and Film
School of Languages and Literatures (Italian)
University College Dublin
(Government of Ireland GREP scholar (IRCHSS)
e: monica.insinga[at]ucdconnect.ie
t: +353 1 716 4695/6

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From: Peter Hart
Subject: Re: Interview, William Trevor
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I wrote once to ask for an interview, and I too got a 'no' on a postcard. But
it was a very polite 'no' that included an explanation - which I thought was
very decent of him indeed, given that he didn't have to reply at all. A
gentleman as well as a very fine writer.

Peter Hart

Quoting Patrick O'Sullivan :

> This interview in Saturday's Guardian will interest a number of Ir-D
> members...
>
> A life in books
> 'I would use anything in order to tell a story, anything at all to make the
> story work'
>
> Interview by Lisa Allardice
> The Guardian, Saturday 5 September 2009
>
> EXTRACTS
>
> "I have been interviewed by the Guardian before," William Trevor declares
> triumphantly when, finally, we meet. "It was way back in 1964, so maybe it
> doesn't count." For such a prolific and internationally celebrated writer,
> Trevor's reluctance to submit to the demands of today's publicity machine
> almost qualifies him for reclusive author status. It's no exaggeration to
> say this interview has taken several years - and a small cache of postcards
> in the author's tiny handwriting - to set up. "But I do always say no," he
> concedes. "It kills you in the end, anything you are doing that isn't just
> writing. It's no joke."
>
> The last significant interview was 20 years ago for The Paris Review...
>
> ...Trevor is still regarded, both by readers and himself, as "an Irish
> writer" even though he left his native country in the 1950s. Today he lives
> with his wife of more than 60 years, Jane, in a Victorian farmhouse opposite
> an old mill they bought many years ago in some of Devon's loveliest
> countryside, spending several months of each year in either Italy or
> Switzerland. While he doesn't quite start at the punishing time of 4am, as
> he used to, he is still at his desk every morning between six and half past.
> For those couple of hours before breakfast, he says, he has the same energy
> and sharpness as when he was 16 or 17. He writes on blue paper, "an
> affectation", on one of four Olympia typewriters, "a German one, the best
> machine in the world": Jane is in sole command of the computer. A great deal
> of his work is rewriting, a process he compares to cutting and editing a
> film - "what you leave out is the most important" - often revisiting stories
> many months later. He works until coffee at 11, when "a great deal of
> conversation takes place, which should be my good writing time, but I can
> never resist talking to Jane." The rest of the day he works in his garden.
>
> While a writer's life seems idyllic, there are, perhaps, clues to the tragic
> sensibility of his fiction in his past. He was born Trevor Cox in County
> Cork in 1928 to "lace-curtain Protestant" parents who hated the sight of
> each other. His own, very happy, marriage (they have two sons, a barrister
> in London and a television presenter in Boston), he says, is the product of
> of two appalling marriages, his parents' by far the worst. "It wasn't so
> much that they quarrelled; I never heard my father shouting or anything like
> that. They just simply didn't get on. There was no respect, nothing."
>
> Full text at
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/sep/05/william-trevor-interview
>

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
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This interview in Saturday's Guardian will interest a number of Ir-D
members...

A life in books
'I would use anything in order to tell a story, anything at all to make the
story work'

Interview by Lisa Allardice
The Guardian, Saturday 5 September 2009

EXTRACTS

"I have been interviewed by the Guardian before," William Trevor declares
triumphantly when, finally, we meet. "It was way back in 1964, so maybe it
doesn't count." For such a prolific and internationally celebrated writer,
Trevor's reluctance to submit to the demands of today's publicity machine
almost qualifies him for reclusive author status. It's no exaggeration to
say this interview has taken several years - and a small cache of postcards
in the author's tiny handwriting - to set up. "But I do always say no," he
concedes. "It kills you in the end, anything you are doing that isn't just
writing. It's no joke."

The last significant interview was 20 years ago for The Paris Review...

...Trevor is still regarded, both by readers and himself, as "an Irish
writer" even though he left his native country in the 1950s. Today he lives
with his wife of more than 60 years, Jane, in a Victorian farmhouse opposite
an old mill they bought many years ago in some of Devon's loveliest
countryside, spending several months of each year in either Italy or
Switzerland. While he doesn't quite start at the punishing time of 4am, as
he used to, he is still at his desk every morning between six and half past.
For those couple of hours before breakfast, he says, he has the same energy
and sharpness as when he was 16 or 17. He writes on blue paper, "an
affectation", on one of four Olympia typewriters, "a German one, the best
machine in the world": Jane is in sole command of the computer. A great deal
of his work is rewriting, a process he compares to cutting and editing a
film - "what you leave out is the most important" - often revisiting stories
many months later. He works until coffee at 11, when "a great deal of
conversation takes place, which should be my good writing time, but I can
never resist talking to Jane." The rest of the day he works in his garden.

While a writer's life seems idyllic, there are, perhaps, clues to the tragic
sensibility of his fiction in his past. He was born Trevor Cox in County
Cork in 1928 to "lace-curtain Protestant" parents who hated the sight of
each other. His own, very happy, marriage (they have two sons, a barrister
in London and a television presenter in Boston), he says, is the product of
of two appalling marriages, his parents' by far the worst. "It wasn't so
much that they quarrelled; I never heard my father shouting or anything like
that. They just simply didn't get on. There was no respect, nothing."

Full text at

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/sep/05/william-trevor-interview