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In today's Guardian a personal account by Roxy Freeman of her Irish
Traveller background and her decision to enter formal education...

My Gypsy childhood
Roxy Freeman never went to school. But at the age of 22, she decided to get
a formal education, forcing her to face up to the prejudices that blight her
Gypsy community - and to shackle her wandering spirit

Roxy Freeman
The Guardian, Monday 7 September 2009

The receptionist looked at me with disdain when I walked into Suffolk
College asking to enrol. Their access course for mature students didn't have
any entry requirements as such, but the receptionist warned me it was an
advanced, intensive course, and there seemed to be a blank space under
"educational history" on my application form. When I explained that I wasn't
a dropout, I just hadn't gone to school, she looked even more scornful.

I was 22 and had never spent a day in a classroom in my life; an alien
concept for many people but common in Gypsy and Traveller families. There
are more than 100,000 nomadic Travellers and Gypsies in the UK, and 200,000
who live in permanent housing. Many, like me, never attend school, while
others are illiterate because formal education is not a priority in our
culture.

My upbringing was unusual, but not unique. Until I was eight my family lived
on the road, travelling around Ireland by horsedrawn wagon. I was one of six
children, with three more half-sisters, and our family was considered small.
Having 12 or 13 children was common among Travellers in Ireland.

Full text at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/sep/07/gypsy-childhood-prejudice
-education

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ed. Irish Theater in America: Essays on Theatrical Diaspora
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This brief notice has turned up in
Comparative Drama
Volume 43, Number 2, Summer 2009

John P. Harrington, ed. Irish Theater in America: Essays on Theatrical
Diaspora. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2009. Pp. xix + 226. =
$24.95.

Following contributors information (vii-x) and an introduction by the =
editor
(xi-xix), this volume contains the following essays:=20

Mick Maloney, "Harrigan, Hart, and Braham: Irish America and the Birth =
of
the American Musical" (1-18);=20

Maureen Murphy, "From Scapegoats to Gr=E1sta: Popular Attitudes and
Stereotypes in Irish American Drama" (19-37);=20

Christopher L. Berchild, "Ireland Rearranged: Contemporary Irish Drama =
and
the Irish American Stage" (38-53);=20

Deirdre McFeely, "Between Two Worlds: Boucicault's The Shaughraun and =
Its
New York Audience" (54-65);=20

Gwen Orel, "Reporting the Stage Irishman: Dion Boucicault in the Irish
Press" (66-77);=20

Peter Kuch, "Kilkenny, Melbourne, New York: George Tallis and the Irish
Theatrical Diaspora" (78-92);=20

Lucy McDiarmid, "The Abbey, Its 'Helpers,' and the Field of Cultural
Production in 1913" (93-102);=20

Joan Fitzpatrick Dean, "Mac Liamm=F3ir's The Importance of Being Oscar =
in
America" (103-13);=20

John P. Harrington, "Beckett and America" (114-23);=20

Claire Gleitman, "Another Look at Those 'Three Bollocks in a Cell': =
Someone
Who'll Watch Over Me and the Shackles of History" (124-37);=20

Nicholas Greene, "Faith Healer in New York and Dublin" (138-46);=20

Patrick Lonergan, "'Dancing on a One-Way Street": Irish Reactions to =
Dancing
at Lughnasa in New York" (147-62);=20

Christina Hunt Mahony, " 'The Irish Play': Beyond the Generic?" =
(163-78).=20

The text concludes with notes (179-94), a bibliography (195-204), and an
index (205-26)

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Forwarded on behalf of Margot Ryan: 0161 2021200 or email
mryan[at]iwhc.com.


Ireland and the World
Irish Diaspora Foundation
And
Irish World Heritage Centre
10th Annual one-day conference
Saturday 26th September

The aims and objectives of the Irish Diaspora Foundation are to advance
the education of the wider community on all aspects of Irish Culture and
Heritage, and the positive contribution of Irish emigrants worldwide.
In order to further those aims we are presently planning our tenth
annual Conference, to be held on 26th September 2009. The theme,
'Ireland and the World', has been chosen to enable us to explore
Ireland's place in the world both in the historical and modern context.
We have secured a number of speakers from an Irish background, who live
or have lived elsewhere in the world, who have excelled in their chosen
field, but who are touch with the Ireland of today.
Amongst the speakers will be:

Liam Harte
Lecturer in Irish and Modern Literature, The University of Manchester.

Don Mullan
Irish humanitarian worker and media producer.

Celestine Phealan
Founder of Event Communications, Europes leading museum and visitor
attraction designers.

Mary Hickman
Professor of Irish Studies and Sociology at London Metropolitan University.

There will also be a photographic exhibition (the Nokia Exhibition)
produced by Don Mullan on show at the conference.

Registration begins at 9.30am and the day is expected to finish at
approximately 4.30pm. Lunch and refreshments will be served throughout
the day and this year we are including the option of an evening meal.


This conference proves to be one of the highlights of our annual
programme every year, with speakers and participants going away feeling
fulfilled by an informative and enjoyable day.

For further details please contact Margot Ryan on 0161 2021200 or email
mryan[at]iwhc.com.

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=A0
Call for Papers
=A0
Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture
Volume 1, Issue 1 (2010)
=A0
__________________________________________________
=A0
=A0
"Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture" is a new peer-reviewed
journal published by Intellect:
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=3D173/

=A0
Crossings provides a space for debate on the important nexus of
migration and culture from diverse global and local perspectives,
with a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary methodologies. The
journal is concerned with questions of displacement, mobility,
diaspora, cultural memory, and the negotiation of cultural identity
and cultural representation in global and local contexts of migration
from the mid twentieth century to the present day.
=A0
Contributions are sought from academics working in Migration Studies,
Cultural Studies, Sociology, Geography, Media Studies, Philosophy,
Politics, Film Studies, Oral History and Ethnography, Modern
Languages and Literatures, as well as from cultural practitioners
such as filmmakers, photographers, musicians, curators, writers and
scriptwriters who work on or around the topic of migration. In
addition to refereed articles, Crossings also welcomes review
articles of films, music, photography, exhibitions or books on
migration-related topics, as well as interviews with cultural
practitioners who focus on migration-related topics and oral
histories of migrant cultural experiences.
=A0
The deadline for submissions is DECEMBER 1st 2009. All submissions
should be sent electronically to the Principal Editor, Professor
Parvati Nair.
=A0
=A0
Contact:
=A0
Prof. Parvati Nair, Director
Centre for the Study of Migration
Queen Mary
University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 8317
Email: p.nair[at]qmul.ac.uk
Web: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=3D173/
=A0
=A0

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Subject: Discussion Paper,
POSTCOLONIAL IRELAND AND ZIMBABWE: STAGNATION BEFORE CONVERGENCE
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Institute for International Integration Studies IIIS Discussion Paper
No.291/ June 2009

POSTCOLONIAL IRELAND AND ZIMBABWE: STAGNATION BEFORE CONVERGENCE

Frank Barry, Patrick Honohan and Tara McIndoe

IIIS Discussion Paper No. 291

Abstract
This paper discusses the slow and hesitant integration of two post-colonial
economies into the global economy. One is Ireland, whose independence began
in 1921, but which only found its place securely at the productive frontier
by the 1990s, with many setbacks on the way. The other is Zimbabwe, which
ceased being a colony in 1965 but achieved proper independence only in 1980.
Following independence, Zimbabwe's economic performance in an increasingly
globalized world was, like that of Ireland at first, hesitant and
disappointing, even before its catastrophic decline in the past decade.
Zimbabwe - now reckoned one of the poorest countries in the world -seems to
have stumbled through a series of disastrous economic policy errors. Yet the
struggles in Zimbabwe over land ownership and the errors in trade policy,
fiscal discipline and even financial policy have parallels, more or less
close, with the longer and ultimately more successful history of Irish
independence.

SOURCE

http://www.tcd.ie/iiis/documents/discussion/pdfs/iiisdp291.pdf

Note: This link takes you directly to a 27 page pdf file. Take care.

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The Jarring Irish: Postwar Immigration to the Heart of Empire
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This article has now entered our alerts. It is from the special issue of
Radical History Review, The Irish Question
Volume 2009, Number 104, Spring 2009
Van Gosse, Conor McGrady, and Donal O Drisceoil, guest editors

I do not have access to this article and cannot comment on its merits or
approach.

P.O'S.


Radical History Review 2009 2009(104):103-125; DOI:10.1215/01636545-2008-070


The Jarring Irish: Postwar Immigration to the Heart of Empire

John Corbally

In 1948, as citizens of Birmingham and London attempted to recover from the
destructive effects of World War Two, they were perhaps unaware that another
barrage was about to be unleashed upon them, this time in the shape of
migrants rather than bombs. As commonwealth and Irish migrants streamed into
postwar England, they instigated enduring tensions around issues of
citizenship, housing, and employment, which irrevocably altered the makeup
of the nation in the process. Mostly poor workers from Ireland, the
Caribbean and South Asia, these migrants were welcomed bluntly with signs
stating, "No Blacks, no dogs, no Irish." My study of the experiences of
white and non-white immigrants in this period aims to add to existing
political analyses with a sociocultural exploration of migrants' adaptations
to life in post-imperial Britain. By analyzing the Irish experience as well
as those of non-white immigrants, I attempt to fragment monolithic
assumptions of a singular "whiteness," which implies that Irish migrants
adapted in postwar British society free of the ethnic tensions that other
migrants endured.

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Subject: Conference Invitation

Einladung / Invitation

*EUROSPHERE International Project Conference:*

*Towards a Diverse European Public Sphere? Theoretical Puzzles and =
Empirical
Evidences*

November 13-14, 2009
Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS),
University of Osnabr=FCck, Germany

Registration=A0and information:
http://www.imis.uni-osnabrueck.de/EurosphereConference.htm

-----------

The EUROSPHERE research network will hold its first international =
conference
about the European Public Sphere. EUROSPHERE is a framework 6 project
(http://www.eurosphere.uib.no/)

The idea of the conference is to bring together international experts to
discuss 'European public spheres' and 'diversity' as well as the
relationships between them. Experts in political and social sciences are
invited to deal critically with these concepts in theoretical,
methodological and empirical terms. During the afternoon sessions,
Eurosphere researchers will present empirical results based on the =
ongoing
research in the Eurosphere project.
Furthermore, representatives of European NGOs as well as politicians and
representatives of think tanks are invited to discuss issues of the =
European
public sphere and diversity from their specific point of view.

=A0
Please note that registration is needed until October 15, 2009.

We hope that our conference attracts your interest. Please feel free to
contact us for any further questions.

Michael Bommes / Karin Mackevics

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Karin Mackevics=A0
Universit=E4t Osnabr=FCck=A0
Institut f=FCr Migrationsforschung und Interkulturelle Studien=A0/ =
Institute for
Migration Research and Intercultural Studies=A0 (IMIS)=A0
http://www.imis.uni-osnabrueck.de

Neuer Graben 19/21, D-49069 Osnabr=FCck
Fon: +49 (0)541 969 4917
Fax: +49 (0)541 969 4380
E-mail: kamackev[at]uni-osnabrueck.de

Projektbearbeitung:
Eurosphere - Diversity and The European Public Sphere:=20
Towards a Citizens' Europe
http://www.imis.uni-osnabrueck.de/FORSCHUNG/eurosphere.htm

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From the publishers' pages...

Helen Kelly
9780716530077
Irish 'Ingleses': The Irish Immigrant Experience in Argentina, 1840-1920
This is the first book-length analysis of the Irish in Argentina. The exper=
ience of the Irish in Argentina was qualitatively different from that of Au=
stralia, Britain, or the United States, and this study employs a comparativ=
e methodology both in relation to the more established Irish immigrant dest=
inations, as well as to European immigration as a whole. Against establishe=
d destinations of nineteenth-century Irish settlement, Argentina was unique=
. Separated immediately from the native populace by language and culture, I=
rish immigrants were quickly identified by the governing Argentine hosts in=
to the broader English-speaking community with ambivalent consequences for =
the Irish migrants. The distinct socio-economic advantages experienced by '=
Ingleses' within a particularly Euro-centric Argentina facilitated and enco=
uraged the diminution of ethnic distinctions. But the conflicting identitie=
s which emerged contributed to the distinct development of the Irish commun=
ity within this unique nineteenth-century Latin environment.

Michael Lillis and Ronan Fanning
9780717146116
The Lives of Eliza Lynch: Courage and Scandal
Her notorious reputation was invented by Paraguay's enemies in Brazil, Arge=
ntina and Uruguay (who wiped out over ninety per cent of the male populatio=
n of Paraguay in the War of the Triple Alliance of 1864-70), and by Paragua=
y's tiny Spanish =E9lite who hated her glamour and sophistication. 'I repre=
sent Scandal,' she ruefully admitted.
The authors have discovered the truth about Eliza's Irish origins and the c=
ruel deception of her marriage at the age of sixteen to a duplicitous Frenc=
h Army officer. They reconstruct the systematic invention of her image as a=
prostitute around her first meeting with Solano L=F3pez in Paris in 1854.
Eliza Lynch was a courageous woman who was adored by the ordinary women of =
Paraguay and who tried to help many victims of an appalling war. The parano=
id L=F3pez, on discovering that his family and colleagues had been conspiri=
ng against him, trusted only Eliza and their relationship became a love sto=
ry of the damned. The book reveals why the Emperor of Brazil, against the a=
dvice of his generals, pursued L=F3pez to his death in 1870; Eliza buried h=
im and their eldest son in the jungle with her bare hands.
Eliza defied her enemies in a pamphlet she published in 1875 - here transla=
ted for the first time - when she returned to face her enemies in Paraguay.=
The authors' exclusive access to the unpublished journals of Eliza's daugh=
ter-in-law shows how scurrilous writers in South America, Britain and the U=
S finally broke her spirit and how she died a 'burnt-out case' in Paris in =
1886. In 1961 a later dictator, General Stroessner, declared her the nation=
al heroine of Paraguay.

Edmundo Murray
9781933146676
How the Irish Became Gauchos Ingleses: Diasporic Models in Irish-Argentine =
Literature
This monograph fills a large gap in the literary and cultural history of th=
e Irish diaspora The Argentine Republic in the 19th and 20th centuries. Sin=
ce 2000 there has been a growing research interest in the Irish in Latin Am=
erica and the Caribbean. This work is the only modern research by a skilled=
scholar on the topic of the literature of the Irish Argentine. The work ha=
s ground breaking material on specific authors, their economic and their de=
mographic milieu as well as assessments on Irish allied cultural activities=
(journalism, politics and music). Contents include: -Introduction -Ninetee=
nth-century Emigration to Argentina -Irish-Argentine Literature -Autobiogra=
phy: Edward Robbins, John Brabazon and J. Macnie -Fiction: Katherine Nevin =
and William Bulfin -Becoming Irish Argentine -Chronology Irish Research Ser=
ies,No.57 Irish Studies, Irish Literature, Argentine Literature 19th-20th c=
, Irish in Latin America, Latin American Studies/ literature; Irish-Argenti=
ne Literature

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Potato famine blight DNA decoded

Scientists have decoded the DNA secrets of the notorious pathogen that
caused the Irish potato famine, which led to the deaths of a million =
people.
Phytophthora infestans, or "potato blight" still costs the industry more
than =A33bn a year due to crop failures.
The research, which involved the Scottish Crop Research Institute in =
Dundee,
found the pathogen is highly adaptable and can change quickly.
The study will be used to try and curb the impact of the plant disease.
Scientists discovered that the organism boasts an unusually large genome
size, more than twice that of closely related species, and an =
extraordinary
genome structure.
Together, they enable the rapid evolution of genes, particularly those
involved in plant infection.

'Many clues'

Studies have revealed that the pathogen can outsmart its plant hosts =
because
of its ability to change and can adapt to new plant hosts, including
tomatoes or seemingly immune potato crops.
Dr Stephen Whisson, of the SCRI, said the study could have a huge impact =
on
the industry.
He said: "The utility of the genome sequence in our research against =
late
blight cannot be overstated.
"It gives us many clues as to which genes might be absolutely required =
for
late blight disease development.
"The products from these essential 'disease' genes are then potentially
useful to target for resistance in potato breeding programmes, or in
development of more specific and environmentally friendly control
chemicals."
P. infestans thrives in cool, wet weather, and can infect potatoes, =
tomatoes
and other related plants, causing a "late blight" disease that can =
decimate
entire fields in just a few days.
Long considered a fungus, it is now known to be a member of the =
oomycetes or
"water moulds", which are more closely related to brown algae than to =
fungi.
The study's findings, which involved researchers from all over the =
world,
are published this week in Nature.

SOURCE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/8246761.stm

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Subject: Conference, Elizabeth I and Ireland, University of Connecticut,
November 13-14, 2009
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Forwarded on behalf of
"Kane, Brendan"

The University of Connecticut will host the conference "Elizabeth I
and Ireland" November 13-14, 2009. Registration is now open and
available through the following link:
http://www.regonline.com/elizabethconference

Keynote speakers:
Marc Caball (University College Dublin)
Paul Hammer (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Leah Marcus (Vanderbilt)

Panelists:
Ciaran Brady (Trinity College, Dublin); Jean Brink (Huntington
Library); Ruth Canning (University College, Cork); Vincent Carey (SUNY
Plattsburgh); Kim Draggoo (Boston College); David Finnegan (Trinity
College, Dublin); Steven Galbraith (Folger); Tom Herron (East
Carolina); Karen Holland (Providence); Mark Hutchinson (Canterbury
Christ Church); Stuart Kinsella (Christ Church Cathedral); Eric
Klingelhofer (Mercer University); Wayne Lee (UNC, Chapel Hill); Brian
Lockey (St John's); Valerie McGowan-Doyle (Lorain County) Christopher
Maginn (Fordham); Adam McKeown (Tulane); Peter McQuillan (Notre Dame);
John Montano (Delaware); Eoin O'Neill (Fluminense Federal University);
Rory Rapple (Notre Dame); Brandie R. Siegfried (Brigham Young);
Natalie Sweet (Kentucky)

Questions/further information please contact Brendan Kane at
brendan.kane[at]uconn.edu
or 860 486-3224

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Subject: Article,
The Life and Death of Language. A Kristevan Reading of the Poets
Gwyneth Lewis and Medbh McGuckian
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Orbis Litterarum
Volume 64 Issue 5, Pages 385 - 412
Volume 64 Issue 5 (October 2009)
Published Online: 1 Sep 2009
=A9 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

The Life and Death of Language. A Kristevan Reading of the Poets Gwyneth
Lewis and Medbh McGuckian
Zo=EB Brigley Thompson 1
1 University of Northampton

Correspondence to Zo=EB Brigley Thompson (zoe.brigley[at]gmail.com), born =
1981,
BA, MA, PhD (University of Warwick, England), lecturer in English and
Creative Writing at Northampton University. One of her current projects =
is
editing a volume of essays titled Violence and Violation: Feminism,
Literature and Rape Narratives with co-editor Sorcha Gunne, which will =
be
published in 2009 by Routledge. She has published a number of articles =
on
contemporary British poetry and feminism. She has published a poetry
collection, The Secret (Bloodaxe 2007), and edited the poetry anthology
Bluebeard's Wives (Heaventree 2007).

KEYWORDS
Kristeva =95 language =95 identity =95 poetry =95 abjection =95 ekstasis

ABSTRACT
This reading of Gwyneth Lewis (born 1959) and Medbh McGuckian (born =
1950)
considers language and identity through the frame of Julia Kristeva's =
ideas
about foreignness, strangeness and abjection. For Lewis, the focus is =
the
loss of Cymraeg (the Welsh language), while McGuckian's key poems =
present
lost languages and minor modes of speaking. The death of Cymraeg and =
Gaelige
(the Irish language) is read through Kristevan theory, which helps to
explore the consequent abject breakdown of selfhood. For both poets, the
death of language is worked through European poetics, in which a
metaphysical distance allows fresh comment on culture and identity. For
Lewis, this dictates a dialogue with Rainer Maria Rilke (1875=961926), =
while
McGuckian gestures to the poetics of Osip Mandelstam (1891=961938). What
emerges is ekstasis, a state that Kristeva describes as going beyond
oneself, and ekstasis is represented by both poets through the figure of =
the
angel. The appearance of the angel after the breakdown of language and
identity represents possibilities in being exiled from a stable sense of
self, which in itself reflects the potential of minor or marginal =
cultures.

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African Mothers: Rites of Passage and Rights in Citizenship in
Post-Millennial Ireland
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This article has only just fallen into our nets, and will interest many =
Ir-D
members.

Irish Babies, African Mothers: Rites of Passage and Rights in =
Citizenship in
Post-Millennial Ireland
Dianna J. Shandy

Anthropological Quarterly, Volume 81, Number 4, Fall 2008, pp. 803-831
(Article)
DOI: 10.1353/anq.0.0029

Irish Babies, African Mothers: Rites of Passage...in Post-Millennial =
Ireland
Project MUSE Journals Anthropological..., Number 4, Fall 2008 Irish =
Babies,
African Mothers: Rites of Passage...in Post-Millennial Ireland
Anthropological Quarterly Volume 81,...

Subject Headings:
Citizenship -- Ireland -- Public opinion.
Public opinion -- Ireland.
Children's rights -- Ireland.
Ireland -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.

Abstract:
In June 2004, Ireland underwent a dramatic transformation when the =
citizenry
passed a national referendum limiting access to citizenship by birth in
unprecedented ways. At issue was Ireland's transition from a country
characterized by emigration to one of net immigration. Among the =
immigrants
to Ireland in this period were a certain number of pregnant African =
asylum
seekers, who subsequently gave birth to children with rights to Irish
citizenship. In this setting, immigration debates were literally and
figuratively inscribed on African immigrant women's bodies, and they =
were
the target of verbal and physical assaults. This paper examines this
phenomenon through the discursive lens of rite of passage, and the
renegotiation of relationships brought about by dual rites at work
here=97birth for the children and motherhood for the women. This article
contends, therefore, that while the mothers were publicly demonized, it =
is
these children with their renegotiated status vis-=E0-vis the state that =
are
feared. This paper draws on research in Ireland spanning the period
surrounding the implementation of the referendum in an attempt to =
understand
the linchpin role children play in the complex intersection of the
feminization of migration, citizenship, and the state.

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Subject: CFP Canadian Association for Irish Studies Annual conference
2010, IRELAND AND ITS DISCONTENTS, Saint Mary's University,
Halifax
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Forwarded on behalf of
Jean Talman [mailto:jean.talman[at]utoronto.ca]=20

Subject: Canadian Association for Irish Studies Annual conference 2010

To CAIS members and friends:

Below is the Call for Papers for the annual conference of the Canadian
Association for Irish Studies to be held at=20
Saint Mary's University, Halifax, May 19-22, 2010.

And to those of you who have been with CAIS for a while and may remember =

him, I'm sorry to have to pass along the news that Sean Ward, Professor=20
Emeritus, Department of English, Ryerson University, Toronto, passed=20
away on September 3.

Jean Talman
Celtic Studies
St. Michael's College
University of Toronto

IRELAND AND ITS DISCONTENTS
Success and Failure in Modern Ireland

Canadian Association for Irish Studies/ l=92Association canadienne=20
d=92=E9tudes irlandaises Annual Conference, 2010
Saint Mary=92s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
19-22 May 2010

=93Anyone who is failing at one thing,=94 psychoanalyst Adam Phillips =
has=20
suggested, =93is always succeeding at another.=94 We invite proposals =
for=20
papers interrogating the relationship between success and failure in=20
modern and contemporary Ireland, as reflected in its politics, its=20
economic policies, its literature, and its popular culture. The Celtic=20
Tiger is one obvious recent example of a =91success=92 narrative that =
was=20
intimately linked to a series of failures on the part of Irish society=20
to safeguard its more vulnerable communities. With the recent=20
publication of the =93Ryan Report,=94 to cite another example, it is =
clear=20
that the success of the Catholic Church in exerting its power over=20
Ireland=92s educational and reformatory institutions came at the price =
of=20
a failure to guarantee the safety and welfare of Ireland=92s youth. By =
the=20
same token, it might be argued that Fianna F=E1il=92s longtime political =

success depended on the failure to engage with the =91National =
Question,=92=20
i.e., Partition and Northern Ireland. Success and failure, as manifested =

in language revival policies, in gender-related issues, in the lives of=20
prominent public figures, and the reality and perceptions of the Irish=20
diaspora, including the Irish in Canada, are also topics worthy of=20
consideration.

We welcome papers that address other topics and proposals for special=20
panels.

Please send proposals including contact information (250 words) by=20
e-mail to:
P=E1draig =D3 Siadhail, D=92Arcy McGee Chair of Irish Studies, Saint =
Mary=92s=20
University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3H 3C3=20
(padraig.osiadhail[at]smu.ca) by 15 January 2010.

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Dear Paddy:
I'm one of the attendant and one of the only two who are invited from South
America.

Regards

Guillermo MacLoughlin

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> Keen followers of such things will already know that the The Ireland Funds
> Report...
>
> The Global Irish Making a difference together A Comparative Review of
> International Diaspora Strategies by Kingsley Aikins, Dr. Anita Sands,
> Nicola White
>
> (see earlier Ir-D message...)
>
> Is part of the preparation for the Global Irish Economic Forum, Dublin,
> September 18-20, 2009.
>
> The Global Irish Economic Forum has its own web site...
>
> http://www.globalirishforum.ie/
>
> And a web search for the term will turn up much comment, some of it
> respectful.
>
> http://www.finfacts.ie/irishfinancenews/article_1017867.shtml
>
> Global Irish Economic Forum: Diaspora "key achievers" due to meet; A
> gabfest
> with potential?
>
> http://www.irishpost.co.uk/tabId/550/itemId/5532/Diaspora-the-key-to-future-
> Irish-success.aspx
>
> Diaspora the key to future Irish success
>
> IRELAND must reach out to its Diaspora to create a global Irish network
> that
> can help the country's financial recovery.
>
> This is the message coming from leading figures ahead of this month's
> economic forum in Dublin.
>
> And...
>
> Noreen Bowden's Reports...
>
> http://www.ean.ie/2009/global-irish-economic-forum-to-focus-on-growth-relati
> onship/
>
> But search on...
>
> P.O'S.
>


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From: "Patrick O'Sullivan"
Subject: IRELAND FUNDS Report, The Global Irish making a difference together

The Ireland Funds have published a Report...

The Global Irish Making a difference together
A Comparative Review of
International Diaspora Strategies
by Kingsley Aikins, Dr. Anita Sands, Nicola White

The Report can be downloaded at...
http://www.irlfunds.org/news/ffund/diaspora.asp

The authors are
Kingsley Aikins
President and CEO
The Worldwide Ireland Funds

Dr Anita Sands
Board Director
The Ireland Fund of Canada

Nicola White
Senior Research Officer
The Ireland Funds

P.O'S.

--
Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

Email Patrick O'Sullivan Email Patrick
O'Sullivan Personal Fax 0044 (0) 709 236 9050

Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/
Irish Diaspora Net
http://www.irishdiaspora.net

Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Social Sciences and Humanities University of Bradford Bradford
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Keen followers of such things will already know that the The Ireland Funds
Report...

The Global Irish Making a difference together A Comparative Review of
International Diaspora Strategies by Kingsley Aikins, Dr. Anita Sands,
Nicola White

(see earlier Ir-D message...)

Is part of the preparation for the Global Irish Economic Forum, Dublin,
September 18-20, 2009.

The Global Irish Economic Forum has its own web site...

http://www.globalirishforum.ie/

And a web search for the term will turn up much comment, some of it
respectful.

http://www.finfacts.ie/irishfinancenews/article_1017867.shtml

Global Irish Economic Forum: Diaspora "key achievers" due to meet; A gabfest
with potential?

http://www.irishpost.co.uk/tabId/550/itemId/5532/Diaspora-the-key-to-future-
Irish-success.aspx

Diaspora the key to future Irish success

IRELAND must reach out to its Diaspora to create a global Irish network that
can help the country's financial recovery.

This is the message coming from leading figures ahead of this month's
economic forum in Dublin.

And...

Noreen Bowden's Reports...

http://www.ean.ie/2009/global-irish-economic-forum-to-focus-on-growth-relati
onship/

But search on...

P.O'S.

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This item has turned up in one of our alerts...

`Messe ocus Pangur Ban': Structure and Cosmology.
Toner, G.
pp. 1-22
CAMBRIAN MEDIEVAL CELTIC STUDIES
NUMB 57; 2009
ISSN 1353-0089

I used to say that you can locate Irish language courses throughout the
world by simply initiating a web search for 'Pangur Ban'. This is no longer
true - partly because a lot of people have decided to name their own cats
Pangur... Sigh...

But, never the less, the poem has become one of the foundation texts of
Irish Diaspora Studies, not least because so many poets - including me -
have produced versions.

So, it seemed important to find out what Gregory Toner has to say.

I must now thank friends who negotiated access to this article for me, and
thank Patrick Sims-Williams, the Editor of CAMBRIAN MEDIEVAL CELTIC STUDIES.

The opening sections of the article are compact, but very useful. They
cover readings and translations, and the importance the text has acquired
since its discovery. By the way, here Greg Toner mentions a forthcoming
chapter by Celia Keenan, The Hunt for Pangur. He also reports on what is
known about the scribe and what is known about the poet.

Greg Toner then offers a new translation and an exploration of the poem in 3
closely argued sections, Structure Sense and Metaphor, Nature and God, and
Creation Theology. It is this section that adds most to our understanding,
because Greeg Toner puts the poem back on to the page of the manuscript
where it was found.

Here I will summarise clumsily... The tendency has been to see the poem in
isolation from its provenance, and in isolation from its theology. You can
even find comments about the 'weary' scribe and his 'wearisome' task - the
suggestion is that he is turning to Pangur Ban for respite. But the poem is
in a context with an extract from Ambrose's Hexaemeron, one of the many
meditations on the six days of creation. If we were to read Ambrose on from
that extract we would come to Ambrose's meditation on dogs, where he
compares a hound to a rhetorician. In other words, the scribe knows his
Ambrose, and his meditation on Ambrose and dogs brings the poem of Pangur
Ban to mind.

This article is a lovely, scholarly piece of work and adds new dimensions to
Pangur Ban studies.

Patrick O'Sullivan

--
Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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Irish Diaspora Net
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Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Social Sciences and Humanities University of Bradford Bradford
BD7 1DP Yorkshire England

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20th Anniversary ASEN Conference:

"Nation and Charisma"

13 - 15 April 2010, LSE

CALL FOR PAPERS


The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) is holding
its 20th Anniversary
Conference entitled "Nation and Charisma", on Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday, 13th - 15th April
2010 at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Must nations have 'founding fathers', and nationalist movements charismatic
leaders? Does nationalism differ in this respect from any other mass
movement? If nationalism is a species of secular religion, is it
also therefore a cult of the hero or heroine? How important is leadership
for the national cause, and what are its effects for good or ill? These are
some of the questions which the ASEN's 20th Anniversary Conference seeks to
address.

The conference will include keynote addresses from leading scholars in the
field, along with opportunities for scholars from various disciplines to
examine the relationship between nationalism and charisma in a
series of panel sessions. Suggested themes include:

. Charismatic Authority and Oratory
. Charisma, Cultural Nationalism and the Arts
. Religious Charisma and Secular Nationalism
. Iconography and Personality Cults
. Popular Mobilisation vs. Elite Manipulation
. Charismatic Leadership from Above and Grass-root Movements from Below
. Political Transformation of Charisma

The first day will explore the theoretical and historical relationship
between nations, nationalism and the concept of charisma. The second day
will address types of political leadership, ranging from right to left;
religious to secular; democratic to authoritarian. The third day will
explore how far charismatic nationalism is a movement from below or above,
and how it responds to the national vision of historians, linguists, poets,
musicians and other intellectuals. The conference will adopt an
interdisciplinary approach focusing on historical, theoretical, and
contemporary aspects of the theme.

The 2010 Conference Committee is now calling for papers to be presented at
the conference. The application is open to any researcher who is interested
in the study of nationalism, and PhD students and young scholars are
particularly encouraged to apply. The abstracts of the proposed papers
should not exceed 500 words and are expected by Friday 6th November 2009.
Suggestions for panels and additional themes are also welcome. The Committee
will notify applicants with its decision in December 2009.
Please see the ASEN website http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ASEN/ for more
information and to submit your proposal.

Papers submitted to the conference will be considered for publication in a
special issue of Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (SEN). Please note
that ASEN cannot cover travel and accommodation costs.
Presenters are expected to register for the conference. Further enquires are
welcome at
asen.conference[at]lse.ac.uk

____________________________________________________________________________


The Association for the Study of Ethnicity& Nationalism (ASEN),

London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE.
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 6801 Fax: +44 (0)20 7955 6218

The conference will include keynote addresses from leading scholars in the
field:


Lord Desai: "Gandhi and Nehru: Reason and Charisma in Narratives of
Nationhood"

Prof. MacGregor Knox: "Mussolini and Hitler: Charisma, Regime and
Nationalism"

Prof. Erik Zurcher: "The Ataturk Cult in Turkey"

Prof. Lucy Riall: "Mazzini and Garibaldi"

Prof. David Martin: "Theory and Charisma: Examining Max Weber"

Prof. Elleke Boehmer: "Madiba Magic: Mandela's Outlier Charisma"

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Final reminder!

The Program in Early American Economy and Society

Library Company of Philadelphia

Eighth Annual Conference

Friday, October 30, 2009

Registration: 1 p.m.

Conference and reception: 2 p.m to 7 p.m.

1314 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA

Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore

Seth Rockman's recently published study, Scraping By, brings to life
the enslaved mariners, white seamstresses, Irish dockhands, free black
domestic servants, and native-born street sweepers who navigated the
low-end labor market in booming post-Revolutionary Baltimore. In the
city's variegated workforce, race, age, family structure, and gender
were crucial markers of economic opportunity and vulnerability.
Baltimore's emergent capitalism also featured many slaves earning wages
and white workers performing arduous labor for inadequate pay. Rockman
analyzes the material experiences of these workers, how they found work,
translated labor into food, fuel, and rent, and navigated underground
economies and social welfare systems. He also explores what happened
when they failed to find work or lost their jobs. His rich accounts of
day laborers and domestic servants illuminate the history of early
republic capitalism and its consequences for working families. Rockman's
study is a powerful addition to scholarship about the hidden labor of
capitalist economies where the unpaid and mundane, but vital, tasks of
sewing, washing, feeding, provisioning, and boarding were an important
complement to the backbreaking work of making Baltimore.

This conference will be organized around three thirty-minute presentations
by Mary Ryan, Michael Zuckerman, and David Roediger, plus a response by
Seth Rockman, followed by a lively audience discussion. Copies of
presentations will be posted by October 10, 2009 on the PEAES website,
where you can also find the program and registration page for the
conference: www.librarycompany.org/Economics. For more information
contact Cathy Matson, PEAES Director, at cmatson[at]udel.edu.

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Home/sickness: Desire, Decay, and the Seduction of Nostalgia

The University of Florida's 9th annual English Graduate Organization=20
conference will explore nostalgia, focusing on the contradictory =
relations=20
among desires for recovered pasts as well as deliberate attempts to=20
manipulate the present through representations of the past. Of =
particular=20
interest will be the extent to which both nostalgia and the desire for=20
utopia are linked to historical trauma, as textual manifestations of an=20
extratextual cause.

When Johannes Hofer coined the term "nostalgia" in 1688, it referred to =
a=20
literal disease plaguing French soldiers who were dying from =
homesickness.=20
By the 1870s, it had lost its medical usage but had been taken up by=20
culture to frame Romanticism's desire for both the concept of the =
homeland=20
and the past. Despite connotations of rosy na=EFvet=E9, nostalgia =
retains=20
pathological connotations in its implicit desire to recreate or=20
reformulate the past. This decay of the so-called historical truth, =
then,=20
is replaced by a necessity to invent conceptions of the past and/or =
loose=20
conceptions of home--whether a geographical or ontological distinction.=20
How this preoccupation with decay frames possibilities for both personal =

and cultural reinvention through representation, demands further=20
investigation.

Its cultural complications have continued to reinvent the term, both=20
positively--in cases where the past is looked at in fondness--and=20
negatively--when the (longing for a) past becomes again a sickness. This =

bi-polar logic is manifest in cultural texts as disparate as the =
decrepit=20
streets and uncanny fashion of Ridley Scott's Bladerunner and President=20
Obama's invocations of JFK's Camelot. Theorists such as Foucault,=20
Benjamin, Jameson, and White have continued to reflect upon =
representation=20
and recreation of the past, a theoretical counterpart to authors such as =

Flannery O=92Conner and Tim O=92Brien. Present in all these examples are =

versions of a desire to re/create the past in order to overcome trauma,=20
create a political version of historical narrative, or to manipulate the =

present and/or future.

We welcome both creative and critical presentations on a variety of =
topics=20
dealing with any aspect of nostalgia: desire, the past, representation,=20
notions of home/identity. Please submit an abstract of 250 words to=20
ego09atuf[at]gmail.com by September 28th. If accepted, plan on a =
presentation=20
of 15 minutes. This year's conference will be held on November 12th and=20
13th, with a keynote speaker (TBC) on Friday evening with a reception to =

follow.

Possible (but certainly not exhaustive) Topics:

Identity crisis
Managing trauma through representation
Theories of memory

Representations of youth and childhood
Nostalgia in text, film, or television
Reconfiguring personal or collective memory

Nostalgia as the repression of historical memory
Nostalgia as physical/cultural displacement
Recovering pre-colonial identity

Nostalgia and the reproduction of gender
Theory as a form of nostalgia
Nostalgia as origin: Foucault's critique.

Visions of utopia/dystopia