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This from my archive...

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Title: The geopolitics of the Irish-Catholic parish in nineteenth-century
Montreal
Author(s): R. Trigger
Source: Journal of Historical Geography Volume: 27 Number: 4 Page:
p553 -- p572
Publisher:Academic Press
Abstract: Irish Catholics in nineteenth-century Montreal, as a minority
within a larger French-Catholic population, encountered a cultural
environment very different from that experienced by their compatriots in
most cities of eastern North America. In contrast with the more typical
situation in which the majority position of Irish Catholics enabled them to
exercise leadership in local Catholic affairs, in Montreal they had to
overcome numerous obstacles in order to obtain churches and parishes they
could call their own. Diocesan and parish records demonstrate that these
struggles, in particular the controversy created by the subdivision of the
extensive parish of Notre Dame in the late 1860s were defining events in the
formulation of Irish-Catholic ethnic consciousness in Montreal.
Constructivist interpretations of ethnicity have drawn attention to the way
in which conflictual (and less frequently accommodative) relations among
groups contribute to the formation and preservation of ethnicities. Drawing
on this approach, it is argued that religious institutions acted as
catalysts for debates that encouraged Montreal's Irish Catholics to define
themselves in relation to the French-Catholic majority. These debates had an
important territorial dimension and ultimately led to the entrenchment of
ethnic boundaries in the urban landscape through the creation of separate
parishes for the two groups.

Year: 2001 Volume: 27 Number: 4 Pages: 553-572

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The Web site of the Irish Democrat, the Connolly Association's 'flagship
newspaper', is getting more and more substantial, and is always worth a
visit...

If only to hear a different voice...

Forwarded on behalf of David Granville, the Editor of the Irish Democrat.

P.O'S.


From: david granville
dgkeh[at]hardgran.demon.co.uk
Subject: New material on Irish Democrat Website


New material for June and July has now been added to the Irish Democrat
website at
www.irishdemocrat.co.uk

What's new:
Peter Berresford Ellis explores the origins of the 'fake' House of
Windsor
John Murphy outlines Ten Democratic principles for the nation, state
sovereignty and the EU
Ian McKeane reassesses the life of Napper Tandy, one of the most
colourful figures in the United Irish movement
Also: News and analysis and book reviews

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DALEY FAMILY DONATES PAPERS
OF THE LATE MAYOR TO UIC

On the 100th anniversary of the birth of American icon Richard J.
Daley, his family, including his son, current Chicago mayor Richard M.
Daley, donated the late mayor's papers to the University of Illinois
at Chicago in a morning ceremony at the campus. "For my father, UIC
was a shining star, a dream come true," said daughter Patricia Daley
Martino.
The current mayor noted that his father "fought long and hard to have
this university located near downtown Chicago and close to public
transportation. It was a very controversial project, but it was the
right thing to do." "Anyone who looks at this university today - and
at all it has contributed to the people of Chicago - should be
grateful that an earlier generation of leaders had the courage to see
it through to completion," Daley said.

Richard J. Daley was born May 15, 1902, in Chicago's Bridgeport
neighborhood and served as mayor from April 22, 1955, until his death
on December 19, 1976. UIC's Halsted Street campus opened in 1965,
replacing a two-year University of Illinois campus at Navy Pier.

"There would be no UIC were it not for Richard J. Daley," said UI
President James Stukel. "From his days as a young legislator in
Springfield, his dream was to have a University of Illinois campus in
Chicago. He recognized the importance of higher education and of
affording the opportunity for a first-rate public university education
to the citizens of the Chicago area."

The late mayor's papers will be housed in Special Collections in UIC's
Richard J. Daley Library, the largest public research library in the
Chicago metropolitan area. Librarians will organize the materials in a
secure, temperature- and humidity- controlled environment. The papers
will be accessible to scholars, writers, advanced students and
researchers from UIC and other universities.

A small exhibit about the Daley family is now on display in Special
Collections. The three cases contain 20 photographs of Richard J.
Daley, his son William M. Daley (the former U.S. commerce secretary
and Al Gore campaign manager) and the Daley household. These photos
have been specially selected to feature the many facets of the Daley
family's involvement in American life.

Also included is a typescript of Richard J. Daley's second of the
nomination of Lyndon B. Johnson at the 1964 Democratic National
Convention and an original newspaper clipping of the late mayor's
"great cities" speech, which gave the name to UIC's Great Cities
Commitment.

The materials in this exhibit come from the William M. Daley papers,
the UIC University Archives, the Jarecki Collection and materials
gathered by UIC faculty, most notably eminent historian Melvin Holli
and former alderman Dick Simpson, professor of political science.

The new donation of Richard J. Daley's papers will complement a large
research archive already in place. It includes many collections
related to Chicago's urban, political, judicial and legislative
history: Richard J. Daley's speeches and related campaign materials;
the papers of Martin Kennelly, mayor from l947 to 1955; state
legislator Bernard Epton, who ran unsuccessfully for mayor against
Harold Washington in 1983; and County Judge Edmund K. Jarecki, a
reform-minded jurist who resisted Al Capone's takeover of Cicero's
town government.

"The library is the storehouse of the knowledge that the university
strives to pass along from one generation to the next," said UIC
Chancellor Sylvia Manning. "It is the heart of the university."

"This is the right place for his papers - in a library that bears his
name, and in a university that he helped create," Richard M. Daley
said.

The UIC Richard J. Daley Library includes approximately 2.1 million
volumes, 3.6 million microforms and 20,000 current serial titles.

The library's Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana includes
some 400 books published before the Chicago Fire, which destroyed
libraries, private book collections and much of the city's printed
history. In addition, the library has the first ordinances passed by
the newly incorporated city in 1837; the first history of the city in
book form, published in 1845; and the first annual report of the
Chicago Board of Trade in 1859.

Other congressional, judicial, and aldermanic collections include
those of Mary Bartelme, Harold Collier, Edgar Jonas, Charles E.
Armstrong, Esther Saperstein, Barratt O'Hara, Cardiss Collins, Grace
Mary Stern, Christopher Cohen and Dick Simpson.

The collection includes video interviews with many of Chicago's
political leaders: Jane Byrne, George Dunne, Tom Donovan, Ray Simon,
Edmund Kelly, Leon Despres, Ed Marciniak, Cecil Partee and others.

Related to the political collections is a rich store of Jane Addams,
Hull-House and social welfare collections, including the Immigrants
Protective League, Juvenile Protective Association, and the Chicago
Urban League.

May 15, 2002

CONTACT: Bill Burton, (312) 996-2269, burton[at]uic.edu
University Library, University of Illinois at Chicago
801 S. Morgan, M/C 234 Chicago, Illinois 60607 USA Administration:
312-996-2716

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D.C. Rose
d.rose[at]gold.ac.uk
Sent: 01 June 2002 14:15
To: d.rose[at]gold.ac.uk
Subject: THE OSCHOLARS Vol.II No 6. June 2002


Dear Colleagues, chers et chères collègues, Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,

umney

With this, our first anniversary issue, we are introducing an important new
feature. It is a useful thing to know one's friends and henceforth access to
THE OSCHOLARS will need the password umney. You will recognise this as the
name of the housekeeper who welcomed the Otis family to Canterville Chase.

This does, we realise, add a slight burden to entering the site, but there
are advantages: privity of information, a precise idea of who readers are, a
precaution against plagiarism. It will be very simple. The address remains
as before

http:homepages.gold.ac.uk/oscholars

On the new first page, click the log in button, which is about halfway down
the page, and type umney into box that will then appear. After that,
everything will be familiar, or so we hope: we have tested this fairly
exhaustively.

We also wish to herald a second change. When our academic year ends on 30th
September, my position here as Research Scholar expires (it was for three
years, and then non-renewable). We shall therefore need a new web home to
replace .gold.ac.uk.

We shall see an academic or academic-related address. Obviously we will let
everybody know what this will be.

Finally, as terms and semesters end, we wish you a pleasant summer (except
of course in Australia and New Zealand), and look forward to meeting many of
you at Conferences or in the British Library. And we, as always, salute your
loyalty to, and enthusiasm about, THE OSCHOLARS.

David Rose
Editor
Angela Kingston, Eva Thienpont
Assistant Editors

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Online ISSN: 1520-6629 Print ISSN: 0090-4392
Journal of Community Psychology
Volume 29, Issue 5, 2001. Pages: 563-584

(Special Issue: Spirituality, Religion, and Community Psychology II:
Resources, Pathways, and Perspectives . Issue Edited by Bret Kloos, Thom
Moore.)
Published Online: 6 Aug 2001


Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Convent girls, feminism, and community psychology
Anne Mulvey 1 *, Heather Gridley 2, Libby Gawith 3
1University of Massachusetts, Lowell
2Victoria University
3Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology


*Correspondence to Anne Mulvey, Anne Mulvey, Department of Psychology,
University of Massachusetts, 870 Broadway, Suite 1, Lowell, MA 01854-3043.
E-mail: Anne_Mulvey[at]UML.edu

Abstract
This trinity of articles in one incorporates reflections by three feminist
community psychologists from the Irish Catholic diaspora. Using a narrative
approach, we explore the roots of our common commitment to social justice,
and the emergence of our feminism from diverse life experiences across four
countries, within a shared spiritual tradition. We argue that building
inclusive and just communities is impossible without addressing the
complexities of our own communities, cultural identities, and spiritual
heritages, the latter often underacknowledged within feminism and community
psychology. Catholic Ireland in the 19th century was a colonized1 country
that became a colonial power by the export of its people and their religion
out of oppression, famine, and poverty to the new worlds of Australia,
Canada, New Zealand, and the USA. Our mixed experiences of internalized
dominance as White, English-speaking members of the one true Church and of
internalized oppression as Irish Catholic minority women in predominantly
Protestant Anglo-Saxon patriarchal societies resonate in our accounts of the
pressures to do good and be good. Our stories illustrate commonalities and
contradictions between feminism, community psychology, and shifting meanings
of spirituality. We offer strategies for harnessing energies and fostering
commitment for social change, and examine how understandings of feminism,
spirituality, culture, and community might be acknowledged and incorporated
into community psychology theory and practice. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons,
Inc.

From: patrick maume
Subject: H.G. Wells

From: Patrick Maume
Now that there is a new film of THE TIME MACHINE (which I
won't be going to see as it appears to be a travesty) it's time
to ask why no-one ever claims H.G. Wells as an Irish diaspora
author. His maternal grandfather was an Ulster Protestant.
Best wishes,
Patrick
P.s. The film has another Irish connection - Samantha Mumba
and her brother are in it.
----------------------
patrick maume

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Anglo-Saxons and Attacotti: the racialization of Irishness in Britain
between the World Wars

Ethnic and Racial Studies, 1 January 2002, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 40-63(24)

Douglas R. M.

Abstract:
During the interwar years, theories purporting to show that the people of
Ireland were racially distinct from their Anglo-Saxon neighbours underwent a
significant revival in Britain. These doctrines, which had featured
prominently in nineteenth-century scientific and political discourse, were
again employed following the secession of the Irish Free State from the
United Kingdom in 1921, both to explain the apparent failure of the British
civilizing mission in Ireland and to assuage what many Britons regarded as a
national humiliation. Although the discrediting of scientific racism in the
1930s undermined the premises upon which many of these ideas were based,
racial hibernophobia was an important component of the post-Great War
re-definition of British national identity during a period of economic and
political upheaval.

Keywords: IRELAND; RACE; GREAT; BRITAIN; NATIONAL; IDENTITY; HISTORY

Language: English Document Type: Research article ISSN: 0141-9870

SICI (online): 0141-9870(20020101)25:1L.40;1-

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To: d.rose[at]gold.ac.uk

Subject: Staging Wilde: Final Programme


STAGING WILDE, 25th June, Senate House, Malet Street London WC1

The programme of this Conference is now complete and may be found at
www.sas.ac.uk/ies/conferences/

Speakers:

John H. Bartlett, author/actor of the Wilde play That Tiger Life, 'Staging
Wilde as a one-man show'

Patricia Flanagan Behrendt, Associate Professor, Department of Theatre
Arts, University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 'Neither On Nor Off, Nor In Nor Out:
Upstaged Fathers in Plays by Wilde'

Yvonne Brewster, director of the Talawa Theatre Company: 'Never Seeing a
Spade: Staging Wilde as Black Comedy'

William P. Cartlidge, Director 'An Ideal Husband': Staging Wilde as Film'
Robert Gordon, Reader in Drama and Head of the Drama Department, Goldsmiths
College: 'The staging of the "society plays" in Britain the last decade'

Joel Kaplan, Professor of Drama and Head of the Department of Drama and
Theatre Arts, University of Birmingham, on 'An Earnest for Our Time: KAOS,
Handbag and Lady Bracknell's Confinement'

Xavier Leret, Director of the KAOS Theatre Company, on the KAOS production
of 'The Importance of being Earnest'

Frederick Roden, Assistant Professor of English, University of Connecticut,
on 'Staging Wilde in the Classroom'

Robert Tanitch, author of Oscar Wilde On Stage and Screen (London: Methuen
1999)


D.C. Rose
Department of English/Centre for Irish Studies
Goldsmiths College
University of London
SE14 6NW

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FAUVISM AND CULTURAL NATIONALISM

Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 1 April
2002, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 35-52(18)

Smith A.

Abstract:
This essay argues that early twentieth-century Paris, as the most
artistically avant-garde metropolitan centre of its time, enabled a group of
artists and writers from British colonies to define their own national
identity. Their nationalism was not primarily political but cultural. The
Scottish Colourist J. D. Fergusson, the Canadian life-writer and painter
Emily Carr and the Australian artist Margaret Preston all encountered in
Paris the work of the Fauvists, and through it they came to recognize the
stylistic particularity of the indigenous art of their own homelands.
Through the agency of the Fauvist inflection of Post-Impressionism, they
were enabled to perceive the 'native', Celtic, indigenous Canadian or
Aboriginal, as a powerful aesthetic, rather than as a primitive and outmoded
convention. A specific focus for artistic iconoclasm, and the breaking down
of the traditional genre boundaries of academicians, was the influential
philosophy of Henri Bergson. To investigate his ideas in relation to the
arts, John Middleton Murry created the influential journal Rhythm, with
Fergusson as its art editor and, soon after it began, with Katherine
Mansfield as assistant editor and contributor. Though the magazine had no
explicit political affiliations, its stance was implicitly anticolonial; its
watchword was taken from the Irish cultural nationalist J. M. Synge: 'Before
art can be human it must learn to be brutal.' It looked for contributors,
both artists and writers, who eschewed realism in favour of a pared-down
aesthetic that could stimulate an intuitive response in the perceiver. Its
impact was felt in New Zealand, Australia and Canada; what Carr wrote after
her training in Paris expresses the paradox of discovering the local through
the international: 'I was glad I had been to France. More than ever I was
convinced that the old way of seeing was inadequate.'

Keywords: FAUVISM; CELTIC; MODERNISM; ABORIGINAL; NATIVE; CANADIAN; BERGSON;
RHYTHM

Language: English Document Type: Research article ISSN: 1369-801X

SICI (online): 1369-801X(20020401)4:1L.35;1-

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American Journal of Public Health
November 1 2000, Volume 90, Issue 11
http://www.ajph.org/

Learning to live with complexity: ethnicity, socioeconomic position, and
health in Britain and the United States
GD Smith
Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, England.
zetkin[at]bristol.ac.uk

The relation between ethnicity, socioeconomic position, and health is
complex, has changed over time, and differs between countries. In the United
States there is a long tradition of treating ethnic group membership simply
as a socioeconomic measure, and differentials in health status between
African Americans and groups of European origin have been considered purely
socioeconomic. A contrary position sees the differences as either "cultural"
or due to inherent "racial" differences. Although conventional socioeconomic
indicators statistically explain much of the health difference between
African Americans and Americans of European origin, they do not tell the
full story. Incommensurate measures of socioeconomic position across ethnic
groups clearly contribute to this difference. Additional factors, such as
the extent of racism, are also likely to be important. The interaction of
ethnicity, social position, and health in Britain is similarly complex.
Studies that inadequately account for socioeconomic circumstances when
examining ethnic-group differences in health can reify ethnicity (and its
supposed correlates); however, the reductionist attribution of all ethnic
differences in health to socioeconomic factors is untenable. The only
productive way forward is through studies that recognize the contingency of
the relations between socioeconomic position, ethnicity, and particular
health outcomes.

From: McCaffrey
Subject: Wilde travesty

On the subject of travesties and Diaspora authors - the 'new' film of
The Importance of Being Earnest is a total travesty. Why would anyone
think that could improve on Wilde? The result is a disaster not
withstanding the all star cast.
Carmel

irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk wrote:

> From: patrick maume
> Subject: H.G. Wells
>
> From: Patrick Maume
> Now that there is a new film of THE TIME MACHINE (which I
> won't be going to see as it appears to be a travesty) it's time
> to ask why no-one ever claims H.G. Wells as an Irish diaspora
> author. His maternal grandfather was an Ulster Protestant.
> Best wishes,
> Patrick
> P.s. The film has another Irish connection - Samantha Mumba
> and her brother are in it.
> ----------------------
> patrick maume

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Things will go quiet on the Irish-Diaspora list, over the next few days...

We have decided that we need a long weekend away...

There seems nothing of great urgency happening - unless you count the
football in Korea and Japan. Well done Donovan and O'Brien on the USA
team... Well done Robbie Keane - that desperate goal for Ireland. And did
anyone spot that defining diasporic moment in the Roy Keane/Mick McCarthy
confrontation? Roy Keane (reportedly) said: And you're not even Irish you
English EXPLETIVE DELETED. McCarthy's parents came, I think, from
Wexford...

Paddy


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England

I need some Canadian (I think) help.

One of the several conflicts of the late xix and early xx centuries
between Franco-American parishes in New England and the mostly Irish US
hierarchy, revolved around attempts to import into the US what was
apparently the Quebec tradition of parish governance. In this, if I
understand it rightly, the cur handled spiritual affairs, while an
elected lay committee, usually of three or four (the fabrique) was in
charge of business and financial affairs, handling among other things,
donations, investments, upkeep of church building, and so forth, all of
this independent, as far as I can make out, of the diocese.

It sounds, in other words, rather like a vestry in the Episcopal Church
(or, I think, the practice in the early xix century Catholic Church in
the US), but it flew in the face of the strongly centralized (by the
late xix century) US church, where the bishop was legally the owner of
all property, real estate included, in the diocese. As indeed he remains
today.

Insofar as I've described the Quebec system correctly, where did it come
from? Was it Anglican-influenced? Or was it a replication of a system
imported from France? And, for that matter, does it persist today in
Quebec, or anywhere else?

On another subject - Franco-American attempts to have bishops of their
ethnicity named to New England dioceses in this period - it is
interesting to note that, while Rome of course made the final decision,
on the advice (usually) of the apostolic delegate to the US, in fact
there was a good deal of room at least for the expression of clerical
opinion (diocesan parish priests were solicited for a list of three
names of candidates whom they thought would be good appointments). My
sense is that today this has totally vanished, and that Rome resents any
notion that such nominations from the trenches (even excluding the
laity) might enable it to do its job better. O tempora o mores!

Nicholas Clifford
clifford[at]middlebury.edu

Dear Nicholas:

The trustee system (la fabrique) in Canada was exported from France
during the late 17th century with the establishment of the diocese of
Quebc, and appointment of the first bishop. While the Canadian trustee
system is similar in appearance to that of the US Catholic parishes of
the early 19th century, they were totally different in operation. The
cur (missionary and parish priest) did not leave matters of parish
temporalities solely to the marguilliers (churchwardens or trustees). He
let them do all of the work, but decisions regarding building and
maintenance of churches, collection of tithes, subscriptions, etc., had
to have final approval of the parish priest.

While the deed(s) to parish property were executed in the name of the
chief marguillier, the property had to first be donated to the bishop
who had ecclesiastical authority. It was a system in the late 18th and
early 19th century that caused certain US parishes, inherited by Bishop
John Carroll from Quebec, with their transfer from British to US control
in 1796 of the Old Northwest Territory much grief and problems. This was
eventually resolved in the 1820s and 1830s with the bishop acquiring
control of the deeds from the marguillier through the parish priest that
ended the fabrique.

There is some relevant literature on both sides (Canadian and US)
regarding the two systems, and their differences. Perhaps the best
person on the subject regarding both is Luca Codignola, Professor of
History during the Age of European Exploration, University of Genova,
Italy. I believe Luca is doing some research at Brown University on a
fellowship, and will be assuming a position with the University of
Toronto (Canada) in the near future.

I have his e-mail address somewhere, and will get it for you as soon as
I have some more time.

Pat Tucker
French-Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan

From:

Apropos of the Keane/McCarthy barney, & accusations of plastic Paddiness,
that particular happening has been strenuously denied - by both parties.

I find it very difficult to believe that Keane would say such a thing given
his United associations & the plethora of Irish- Descent in English
football - & in the room where the confrontation was happening!

But, as endless features in The Irish Post wil testify, the Irish-Descent in
England will never find that easy. If it can truthfully be said of the
Irish-born emigrants of the post-Independence era, 'They taught us to hate
england - and then they sent us over here', it can also be said with equal
emphasis that those same Irish-born, in overwhelming numbers, compounded the
sin by doing the same to their own children - with the crucial difference
that those children were de facto English!!!

Etc., etc., etc.


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From: "Maria Power"
To:
Subject: Irish Seminar in London

Hi Everyone,

I've been thinking for a while that it is a shame that we have no =
regular Irish Studies Seminar in London at which people in the field of =
Irish Studies can present papers and share ideas. I know there is an =
Irish Literature seminar at Goldsmiths but there isn't one that covers =
everything.=20

I'm thinking of trying to set a regular seminar series up at the =
Institute of Historical Research in Malet Street and was wondering =
what everyone thought of the idea. Do you think that it would last? =
Would any of you be willing to give papers? Has this been tried before? =
Finally are there any souls out there brave enough to help!=20

Let me know what you think. Any feedback on the idea would be gratefully =
received.


Maria Power

From: "MacEinri, Piaras"

Paddy

I have to tell you about the latest t-shirt on the streets here in Cork. It
says Michael Collins and Roy Keane: Two Great Corkmen shot in the back..

Piaras

From: patrick maume

From: Patrick Maume
While I have more sympathy with McCarthy on this one, I believe
Keane has denied in a radio interview that he made the remark in
question. It would have been extrardinarly indiscreet (if that is
the word) to say it in front of a team half of whom were born in
Britain...
Best wishes for Paris,
Patrick
On 06 June 2002 06:00 irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk wrote:

>
> >From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> Things will go quiet on the Irish-Diaspora list, over the next few days...
>
> We have decided that we need a long weekend away...
>
> There seems nothing of great urgency happening - unless you count the
> football in Korea and Japan. Well done Donovan and O'Brien on the USA
> team... Well done Robbie Keane - that desperate goal for Ireland. And
did
> anyone spot that defining diasporic moment in the Roy Keane/Mick McCarthy
> confrontation? Roy Keane (reportedly) said: And you're not even Irish
you
> English EXPLETIVE DELETED. McCarthy's parents came, I think, from
> Wexford...
>
> Paddy
>
>
> --
> 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 list
> Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/
> Irish Diaspora Net Archive http://www.irishdiaspora.net
>
> Irish Diaspora Research Unit
> Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies
> University of Bradford
> Bradford BD7 1DP
> Yorkshire
> England
>
>

----------------------
patrick maume

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John Kirk
Tel. +44 (0)28 9027 3815
email: j.m.kirk[at]qub.ac.uk

Third Language and Politics Symposium
Wednesday 18 ? Friday 20 September 2002


Third Language and Politics Symposium
Format
This year?s symposium will largely take the form of structured panel
discussions around certain central themes. Except for the session of offered
papers, all speakers will have been invited. In each panel, it is envisaged
that there will be speakers from each of three main jurisdictions of
interest: Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Scotland. Most
discussion sessions will comprise three presentations each of 15 minutes
followed by 45-minutes discussion. Many other invited participants will have
a chance to participate during the discussion sessions. Three distinguished
international plenary speakers have accepted invitations to speak: Terence
Dolan, Robert Phillipson, and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas. A fourth, the
distinguished Irish-born language-educationalist Professor Jim Cummins
(University of Toronto,) has recently been invited. We also hope that
government ministers and prominent politicians in each jurisdiction will
also accept invitations to speak.
The exact timetable will be released in late June in the light of the
present round of invitations and planning negotiations. Those planning to
travel to Belfast should aim to arrive by the evening of Tuesday 17
September so that we can begin early on Wednesday 18 September. The
symposium will end with lunch on Friday 20 September, when the IASI
Conference will start.

Major themes are:
· Education and Language Planning: the politics of teaching, teacher
training and assessment through another language
· The needs of teaching through another language and Part III of the
European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
· Language Policy
· International Comparisons
· Research Needs

Aims:
We aim to facilitate a rich exchange of ideas and critical debate about the
issues affecting and affected by language policy in Northern Ireland, the
Republic of Ireland, and Scotland by bringing together identified key
stakeholders from each of the three areas. We also aim to produce a volume
of edited papers for publication and wider dissemination within the calendar
year.

Outcomes:
By the end of the Symposium you will have acquired a greater awareness and
clearer understanding of the problems arising from and the solutions needed
for the successful implementation of current language policy in Northern
Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and Scotland. In particular, you will have
a clearer understanding of the differences between the implementation of
Irish-medium education in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and
Gaelic-medium education in Scotland and that of English, Scots/Ulster-Scots
and any other recognised regional or minority language in these
jurisdictions.

Session 1: Structures
To teach through another language (e.g. Irish in Northern Ireland and the
Republic of Ireland and Gaelic in Scotland) what structures do we need to
have in place? Is teacher training the only structure and where does it
exist? What is missing from present structures? Even if we had ideal
structures in place, would they work? If not, why not? In both parts of
Ireland, there are Councils for all-Irish education: can they be overlooked?
Does the Government or the political system help or hinder? How is Politics
an obstruction to the implementation and smooth-running of education through
another medium? Why doesn?t the government better support such a policy?
What is Government afraid of? Why is it worth the trouble and effort?
Invited speakers: Brendan Mac Cormaic (Gaelscoileanna)
Seán Ó Coinn (Comhairle na Gaelscolaíochta)
Margaret MacIver (Comunn na Gàidhlig)


Session 2: Teacher Training
How is training for teaching in another language to be carried out? Where is
it done? What politics are involved in getting good teacher training
practices accepted and up and running?
Invited speakers: Padraig de Bhál (Trinity College Dublin)
Gabrielle Nic Uidhir (St. Mary?s University College)
Boyd Robertson (University of Strathclyde)


Session 3: Assessment
How is assessment in another language to be carried out? What standing will
such outcomes have in society? What politics are involved in getting
assessment practices accepted and up and running?
Invited speakers: John Harris (ITÉ)
Seán Mac Nia (Northern Ireland Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and
Assessment)
Christina Walker (Aberdeen College of Education)

Session 4: Invited Plenary Lecture: Other-Language Education: Needs and
Solutions
Jim Cummins (University of Toronto)

Session 5: Are the realities and needs of other-medium education met by Part
III of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages?
We expect the previous sessions to show clearly that there not only are
there many needs not being met, but that these needs are not met by the
Charter?s provisions of Part III, which however worthily aspirational
reflect the present deficiencies and do not offer the solutions ? policies
and structures ? which are needed. This session will focus on Northern
Ireland as a case study.
Invited speakers: Eddie Rooney (Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure)
Stephen Peover (Department of Education)
Janet Muller (POBAL)

Session 6: Invited plenary speaker: Language Policy in the Republic of
Ireland
Terence Dolan (University College Dublin)

Session 7: Scots and Part III: what is the policy and what is the education
policy?
Activists for Ulster-Scots and now for Scots have urged Part III
recognition. What is envisaged, particularly for (Ulster-)Scots based
education? What would be the outcomes? How realistic are the chances?
Invited speakers: John McIntyre (Tha Boord o Ulstèr-Scotch)
John Edmund (Bangor)
Derrick McClure (University of Aberdeen)
Dauvit Horsbroch (University of Aberdeen)
Irene McGugan (Scots Language Cross-Party Group, The Scottish
Parliament)
Invited government speakers: Speaker from the Irish Government
Speaker from the Scottish Executive
Matthew MacIver (Scottish Education Department)
Maurna Crozier (Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure)

Session 8: Invited plenary lectures: Language policy and education
They have been invited to provide international perspectives on the
situation in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Scotland with
particular regard to other-language education, Part III policy, and other
issues.
Invited plenary speakers: Robert Phillipson (Copenhagen Business School)
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (University of Roskilde)
Invited respondents: Helen Ó Murchú (Comhar ma Múinteoirí Gaeilge)
Wilson McLeod (University of Edinburgh)
Mari FitzDuff (University of Ulster)

Session 9: Research Needs
We anticipate that our discussion will highlight the need for much new
research, not just into other-medium education,but into other-medium
broadcasting and media, and other areas. Invited speakers: Dónall Ó
Baoill (QUB)
Morag MacNeill (Sàbhal mor Ostaig)

Session 10: Offered papers
Several people have offered research papers on other central themes (e.g.
standardisation of Scots, Scots-English schizophrenia, and critical
discourse analyses of ?troubles texts?). We are open to other offers,
subject to time constraints, but these should be made as soon as possible.

Presentations by Government Ministers
We have invited the following Government Ministers with responsibilities for
education and language to speak in an appropriate session or to give an
address at the reception or dinner:

Northern Ireland
Minister for Culture, Arts and Leisure: Michael McGimpsey
Minister for Education: Martin McGuinness
Minister for Employment and Learning: Carmel Hanna
The Republic of Ireland
Minister for the Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands: Síle de Valera
Minister for Education and Science: Michael Woods
Minister for Foreign Affairs: Brian Cowan
Scotland
Minister for Enterprise, Training and Lifelong Learning: Wendy Alexander
Minister for Education and Young People Cathy Jamieson:
Minister for Gaelic: Lord Watson
Scottish Opposition Spokesperson for Gaelic: Michael Russell

Social Programme
There will be a wine reception and book launch on Wednesday 18 September. On
Thursday 19 September, there will be a dinner in the magnificently restored
Queen?s Great Hall.

Costs
As in previous years, it is our intention to raise the funding so that there
will be no charge for participation. In addition, we will endeavour to raise
the funds to pay for travel and accommodation of all invited speakers and
participants. Accommodation has been reserved in Queen?s Common Room, but
please book through us.

Contacts
John Kirk Dónall Ó Baoill
Tel. +44 (0)28 9027 3815 tel. +44 (0)28 9027 3390
email: j.m.kirk[at]qub.ac.uk email: d.obaoill[at]qub.ac.uk

From: "lryan"
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Subject: Re: Ir-D Proposed Irish Seminar in London 3

Hi Maria,

I agree that it would be great to have a regular seminar series in London
and I too would be happy to give a paper.
I would suggest, from past experience of trying to organise seminars in
London, that you try to get a cheap (if not free) venue which is centrally
located. Perhaps one of the universities in central London could be
persuaded to provide a free room??

Louise Ryan
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> Dear Maria
> I think it's a good idea. There must be a lot of people within the
> London area who could attend. I'd certainly give a paper...if anyone
> would listen.
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> Anthony McNicholas
> Research Fellow
> University of Westminster
> 0118 948 6164 (BBC Written Archive Centre)
> 07751 062735 (mobile)
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