Subject: Ir-D Applications Invited, Cork
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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK
Coliste na hOllscoile Corcaigh


DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT
(1 permanent post; 2 contract posts)


Applications are invited for 1 full-time permanent post, 1 three-year and 1
one-year contract posts at College Lecturer level in Government.


Applicants will have an excellent research and teaching record. The
Department offers a full-time undergraduate degree in Government and Public
Policy and teaches on the BComm Programme. It has an extensive part-time
teaching programme using e-mail, Web and other distance learning
methods. All appointees will have a familiarity with a wide range of
teaching strategies. The permanent post will involve administrative duties
particularly in relation to the development of the Department's
postgraduate programme. Preference will be given to applicants with a
research interest in one or more of the following areas:



Citizenship and human rights;

Policy implementation;

Local government;

Public sector finance;

Political systems; and,

NPM



Experience of EU funded research would be an advantage.

Applicants for permanent post should have a PhD in one of the Department's
core disciplines.


For informal discussion contact Professor Neil Collins, Head of Department
of Government

Tel: + 353 21 902941 / Fax: + 353 21 903321 / Email: n.collins[at]ucc.ie


Salary scales:

Permanent Post: IR19,742 (Euro 25067) - IRIR27,149 (Euro 34472) pa [new
entrants]

There is provision for promotion to a higher salary scale, max. IR40,892
(Euro 51922)

Contract Posts: IR18,756 (Euro 23815) - IR25,792 (Euro 32749) pa

Application forms and further details of above posts may be obtained from
Academic Appointments,

Personnel Office, University College, Cork, Ireland.

Tel: 021 902364 / Fax: 021 271568 / Email: acad.per[at]ucc.ie



Closing date: 12 March 1999

UCC is an Equal Opportunities Employer


Professor Neil Collins,
Department of Government,
National University of Ireland, Cork,
Western Road,
Cork, IRELAND

Tel +353-21-902770
Fax +353-21-903135
E-Mail n.collins[at]ucc.ie

Subject: Ir-D C19th Irish childhood rhymes
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Dear Paddy,

Although this request does not touch on themes of the diaspora, I wanted to
run something by you in the hope that someone on the list might have some
knowledge about a 'simple rhyme of childhood'. I have been having
difficulty interpreting an Irish nationalist political cartoon titled 'The
Pig and the Blackberries' (United Ireland, May 1885) which depicts
Gladstone as an old woman and Earl Spencer as her pig. I am fluent with
the historical references but have had little success in locating such a
rhyme. I have gathered a handful of articles addressing a range of related
topics, including: medieval representations of pigs playing musical
instruments; the form and spirit of beast fable; the relationship between
fable, proverb, and unripe fruit; representations of metamorphosis; and the
fable of the Fox and the grapes. Yet nothing specific to this rhyme has
emerged. Any assistance anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated....

All the best,

Joel A. Hollander

Subject: Ir-D BAIS Newsletter
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The latest issue of the Newsletter of the British Association for Irish
Studies (BAIS), Issue No. 17, January 1999, is being distributed.

The Newsletter is now edited by Jerry Nolan, who asks that copy and/or
disks (Word 6/95) for the next issue, No. 18, be sent to him, by April
12, at 8 Antrobus Road, Chiswick, London, W4 5HY. BAIS does not have a
Web site - though, I understand, this possibility has been discussed.

Much of interest to Irish Diasporas Studies in this issue, No. 17...

Jerry Nolan reports on the reception, in the Irish Embassy, London, last
November, to celebrate the recent appointments of Marianne Elliott as
Director of the Institute of Irish Studies, Liverpool, and Donald
Akenson as the first Beamish Professor of Migration Studies at the
Institute. [Everyone on the Irish Studies and Irish Diaspora Studies
communities welcomes these appointments.]

Then pride of place is given to Jerry Nolan's interview with Don
Akenson. Don pays tribute to John Kelleher, his mentor at Harvard;
pauses to defend the Faberge egg, a bit of 'retrospective correction'
[see footnote below]; looks again at the 'Keegan's diary' fiasco [see
further footnote below]; pauses to look at the 'dysfunctional Irish'
literature [see yet another footnote below]; defends his Montserrat
book; and praises Marianne Elliott's 'brilliant job of leadership' at
Liverpool [no need for a footnote there]. That is to say that, in a
brief interview, Don gives Irish Diaspora Studies much to chew on.

There follows a very interesting piece by Sean Hutton about his visit to
the grave of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, in the church of S. Pietro in
Montorio in Rome. Sean was prompted to search for the grave by his
memory of the autobiography - which he quotes - of Seamus O Grianna (the
Irish language novelist 'Maire').

[Sean does not remark on this, but O Grianna's image of a future
'taistealai as New Zealand', the traveller from New Zealand, sketching
the ruins of London, whilst the Roman Church still thrives, comes from
Thomas Babington Macaulay's review of Ranke's History of the Popes.]

In O Grianna's account a priest begins to recite the poem by Eoghan
Ruadh Mac an Baird, 'O woman left lonely at the grave' - which is a
poem about this very grave.

Kevin Whelan argues for an inclusive history of the United Irishmen and
1798.

Colin Power reports on The Irish Community Archive, an ambitious Web
archive project, originated by Jim O'Hara, baed at the Centre for Irish
Studies, St. Mary's University College. The full launch awaits 'the
success of a current financial funding application...' A prototype of
the Web site can be seen at...
http://www.smuc.ac.uk/scg/ica/index.htm
Colin Power can be contacted at colm[at]depaor.freeserve.co.uk

Now, how many footnotes was it?...
The Faberge egg - Don Akenson begins his book The Irish Diaspora, A
Primer, with this image, comparing the Irish Diaspora to a Faberge egg.
I was one of the many reviewers who thought this image just beside the
point, starting up the wrong train of thought. I do not stand
corrected.
'Keegan diary'. This is the book whose correct reference should most
probably be [Robert Sellar] _Gerald Keegan: Famine Diary_, edited by
James J. Mangan, Wolfhound, Dublin, 1991 - it purports to be an
autobiographical account of the voyage to Grosse Ile by a famine
refugee, and was published as such. Extracts were broadcast on Irish
radio. I was sent a typescript by Don Mullan, of the charity Concern
Worldwide - and I immediately contacted him with questions about its
authenticity. It wasn't just the obvious errors and borrowings (from
Vere Foster). Literature folk will know what I mean - every sentence
was wrong. This text could not have been written in the 1840s. [For
discussion and references see Patrick O'Sullivan, ed., The Meaning of
the Famine, 1997.] The important points are... Irish people, and
people of Irish heritage, wanted a 'famine diary', and were conned. And
students still come across this book and are mis-led.
'dysfunctional Irish' - this is an important point about the way that
research accumulates, like coral. Inspired by David Gerber I am writing
a paper on Thomas and Znaniecki, 'Chicago School' sociology, and their
influence on peasant studies.

P.O'S

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Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit
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