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From: Cian McMahon
Subject: Re: Irish history document reader?
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Dear Bryan:

You might have a look at Dennis Dworkin, *Ireland and Britain, 1798-1922:
An Anthology of Sources* (Boston: Hackett Publishing Company, 2012).

Good luck!
Cian T. McMahon
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Cian T. McMahon, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of History & Honors College
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
cian.mcmahon[at]unlv.edu
www.ctmcmahon.com
http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/12616.html

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 7:47 AM, Bryan McGovern
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am looking for an Irish history document reader (similar to Going to the
> Source for US history) to use in my Modern Irish history course in the
> spring. My course focuses on 1800-present. Any suggestions? Thanks.
>
> regards,
> bpm
>
> ************************************
> Bryan P. McGovern, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor of History
> Coordinator of History Education
> Department of History and Philosophy
> Kennesaw State University
> 402 Bartow Ave
> MD #2206
> Kennesaw, Georgia 30144
> P: 470-578-2296
> F: 470-578-9149
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From: Anthony Murray
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> Dear Bill,
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> Dr. Tony Murray
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> London Metropolitan University
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> You are warmly invited to a celebration of the
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> The Great Hall
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> Tuesday 22 November 2016 at 6.30 to 8.30pm
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From: Bill Mulligan
Subject: CFP: British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference
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The deadline for submission of a proposal to the 26th annual British
Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference has been extended to
November 1, 2016.

The BCPCS will be held on February 17-18, 2017, at the Hilton Savannah
DeSoto in Savannah, GA.

CFP: http://bcpcsconference.com/cfp.html

Submit a proposal:
https://docs.google.com/a/murraystate.edu/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSco0tbywM2wBXA5jlYbesx3FocySTPaqOsresPZUkIqpTaxUw/viewform

Conference Website: http://bcpcsconference.com/index.html

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Clair Wills, Leonard L. Milberg Professor of Irish Letters at Princeton
University
Dr. Wills is a 2016 inductee to the Royal Irish Academy, the highest
academic honor in Ireland. Her work addresses the issues of historical and
political representation in modern Ireland: Books in this area include
Improprieties: Politics and Sexuality in Northern Irish Poetry (1993) and
Reading Paul Muldoon (1998). She did significant work on the monumental
Field Day Anthology of Irish Women's Writing (2002). Since then her focus
has shifted towards cultural and social history, in studies such as the
prize-winning That Neutral Island: A History of Ireland during the Second
World War (2007) and Dublin 1916: The Siege of the GPO (2009). Her most
recent book is a study of the cultures of Irish migration to post-war
Britain, The Best Are Leaving: Emigration and Post-War Irish
Culture(2015). She is currently working on a comparative history of
post-war immigration to Britain

FEATURED SPEAKER
Waïl S. Hassan, Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Hassan is an associate with the University's Centers for African
Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, French and Italian, and
Global Studies. His work includes Tayeb Salih: Ideology and the Craft of
Fiction (2003), and Immigrant Narratives: Orientalism and Cultural
Translation in Arab American and Arab British Literature (2011), He is the
co-editor of Approaches to Teaching the Works of Naguib Mahfouz (2012) and
has translated Abdelfattah Kilito’s Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language
(2008) and Alberto Musso’s O Enigma de Qaf (2015).

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From: Sean Campbell
Subject: Modern Irish History seminar at Cambridge
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Dear All,

The Modern Irish History Seminar at Cambridge will convene this =
Wednesday (2nd November) for a screening of the BBC/RTE/PBS documentary =
'1916: The Irish Rebellion'. The screening will be followed by a panel =
discussion with the documentary creator and writer, Professor Br=C3=ADona =
Nic Dhiarmada, University of Notre Dame.

The seminar will begin at 5pm in the Knox Shaw room, Sidney Sussex =
College. Refreshments will be provided.

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From: Bill Mulligan
Subject: CFP: 2017 Ohio Valley History Conference
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As conference organizer, I would like to have one or more sessions on
Irish Diaspora topics. This is medium-size conference; very welcoming to
gradate student papers.
The 2017 Ohio Valley History Conference will be hosted by The Department
of History, Murray State University in Murray, KY October 19-21, 2017.
We invite proposals related to the centennial of US entry into World War
I, broadly understood to include the debate over entry and the home front
as well as papers addressing military topics. We also welcome papers and
panels on topics before 1500 CE, public history programs and activities,
and teaching history. Papers and panels on any aspect of history from any
time period are, of course, welcome. We will continue the OVHC tradition
of welcoming papers by advanced graduate students.
Proposals can be submitted for full panels or individual papers. Offers to
chair sessions or comment on papers are welcome.
Submission:
For a panel, please submit a title and 100-word summary of each paper and
1-2-page cv for each participant. For individual papers, please submit a
250-word abstract and 1-2-page cv. Session chairs and commentators should
submit a 1-2 page cv indicating areas of interest and expertise. All
proposals should include affiliation and contact information.
Submit proposals as attachments in Word to: wmulligan[at]murraystate.edu
PROPOSAL DEADLINE: June 15, 2017. We anticipate notifying those who submit
proposals of decisions by August 1.
Conference website will have more details and will be launched
approximately December 15 and updated as new information is available.
Murray is in southwest Kentucky readily accessible through Nashville and
Paducah (through Chicago) by air.
Driving directions to MSU:
http://www.murraystate.edu/campus/PlanVisit/DirectionsToMSU.aspx

Bill Mulligan