From: Elizabeth Malcolm
Subject: Famine fiction

In replying to Dymphna's query about literature dealing with the
Great Famine, a couple of people have mentioned William Carleton's
novel 'The Black Prophet', published in 1847. It's a very interesting
work, but it deals in fact with the famine and typhus epidemic of
1817, which Carleton remembered from his youth, not the famine of
1845-9 - although I gather the events of 1846-7 inspired him to write
it.

The typhus epidemic, but not the famine, is discussed in Joseph
Robins, 'The Miasma: Epidemic and Panic in 19th-Century Ireland',
Dublin, 1995.

ELM


Professor Elizabeth Malcolm Tel: +61-3-8344 3924
Department of History Fax: +61-3-8344 7894
University of Melbourne email: e.malcolm[at]unimelb.edu.au
Parkville, Victoria
Australia 3010

From: "Patrick O'Sullivan"

There was a query about this on Ir-D earlier in the year,

Forwarded for information...

P.O'S.


Bush, Clinton, Irish America and the Irish Peace Process
Briand, R. J.


Journal name Political Quarterly
ISSN 0032-3179
Publisher Blackwell Publishing
Issue 2002 - volume 73 - issue 2


This edition of Political Quarterly has 2 main themes - the decline of
political parties in Britain, and the fracture of the United Kingdom.

FULL TOC...

Commentary: Is the Party Over?

Who Do They Think We Are? Being British
Patten, Chris


Scottish Devolution: What Lies Beneath?
Bonney, Norman

A Case Study of Scottish Labour: Devolution and the Politics of Multi-Level
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Hassan, Gerry

Devolution and Equality of Representation in the United Kingdom: A
Constitutional Mess?
Johnston, Ron; Pattie, Charles; Rossiter, David

Bush, Clinton, Irish America and the Irish Peace Process
Briand, R. J.

Egalitarian Liberalism and Justice in Education
Brighouse, Harry


Professor Macmurray and Mr Blair: The Strange Case of the Communitarian Guru
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A Running Repair for the Civil Service
Kingston, William

Education and Social Class
Chitty, Clyde

Celtic Exceptionalism? Scottish and Welsh Parliamentarians' Attitudes to
Europe
Baker, David; Randall, Nick; Seawright, David

Book Reviews

Notes on Contributors

From: Elizabeth Malcolm
Subject: James Carey

Dear Kerby,

Webb's 'A Compendium of Irish Biography' doesn't include a James
Carey, just the brothers, John (1756-1829), Matthew (1760-1839) and
William P. (1768-1839). The entry on Matthew, who escaped from a
Dublin prison to Philadelphia in 1784, mentions that he had a son
called Henry C., born there, who 'continued his father's fame as a
writer and publisher' (p.73). Webb gives his main reference for
information on these four as S. Austin Allibone, 'Dictionary of
British and American Authors', 3 vols, Philadelphia, 1859-71. Do you
know it? Webb says that Allibone devotes 2 pages to the works of
Henry C. Carey. Must confess I've never heard of him.

Hope this is of some use. Certainly seem like an interesting family!

Best wishes,

Elizabeth


Professor Elizabeth Malcolm Tel: +61-3-8344 3924
Department of History Fax: +61-3-8344 7894
University of Melbourne email: e.malcolm[at]unimelb.edu.au
Parkville, Victoria
Australia 3010

From: Kerby Miller
Subject: Re: Ir-D James Carey 2

Yes,

And their youngest sister, twice-widowed Margaret, also emigrated to
America and later became an associate of "Mother Seton."
Thanks,
Kerby



>From: Elizabeth Malcolm
>Subject: James Carey
>
>Dear Kerby,
>
>Webb's 'A Compendium of Irish Biography' doesn't include a James
>Carey, just the brothers, John (1756-1829), Matthew (1760-1839) and
>William P. (1768-1839). The entry on Matthew, who escaped from a
>Dublin prison to Philadelphia in 1784, mentions that he had a son
>called Henry C., born there, who 'continued his father's fame as a
>writer and publisher' (p.73). Webb gives his main reference for
>information on these four as S. Austin Allibone, 'Dictionary of
>British and American Authors', 3 vols, Philadelphia, 1859-71. Do you
>know it? Webb says that Allibone devotes 2 pages to the works of
>Henry C. Carey. Must confess I've never heard of him.
>
>Hope this is of some use. Certainly seem like an interesting family!
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Elizabeth
>
>
>Professor Elizabeth Malcolm Tel: +61-3-8344 3924
>Department of History Fax: +61-3-8344 7894
>University of Melbourne email: e.malcolm[at]unimelb.edu.au
>Parkville, Victoria
>Australia 3010
>
>
>
>
>

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

From Oxford University Press web site...

http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-925464-8?view=sales

Literature and the Irish Famine 1845-1919

Melissa Fegan, Lecturer in English, Chester College of Higher Education

Hardback , 0-19-925464-8, 280 pages, 5 in-text plates, 216mm x 138mm ,
£30.00, AJ
Publication date: October 2002

Key Sales Points
Combines literary and historical scholarship to offer new insights into the
Irish Famine and its legacy

Table of contents

Description
The impact of the Irish Famine of 1845-1852 was unparalleled in both
political and psychological terms. In this scholarly new study, Melissa
Fegan explores the Famine's legacy to literature, tracing it down to 1919.
Dr Fegan examines both fiction and non-fiction, and provides a strong
historical framework for the understanding of the contemporary Irish
mentality.

Readership
Scholars and students of Irish history and literature; specialists in
Victorian Studies; specialists in Irish Studies.

Contents/contributors
Introduction: Not So Ambiguous
1 Faction: The Historiography of the Great Famine
2 War of Words: The Famine in The Times and the Nation
3 Victims and Voyeurs: Travelling in Famine Ireland
4 The Immigrant's Evasion: The Subtext of Trollope's 'Famine' Novels
5 William Carleton in Retrospect: The Irish Prophecy Man
6 'A Ghastly Spectral Army': History, Identity, and the Visionary Poet
7 The Black Stream: Politics and Proselytism in Second-Generation Famine
Novels
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

From: "Edmundo Murray"
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: RE: Ir-D Famine fiction

I wonder if there are any fictional works that link Famine victims with
contemporary hunger (as far as I know, there are no monuments being erected
in Bombay, Tucumán or Southern Sahara to the dead of last year's hunger
victims: 8.6 million worldwide, according to the Food + Agriculture org). If
someone can suggest readings, I would greatly appreciate it.

Edmundo Murray
Université de Genève

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Belatedly commenting on the Famine literature and fiction discussion - I am
sorry but I have been overwhelmed by stuff...

This is something we have discussed intermittently over the years - and I
have looked back over our archives. Also, Tom Archdeacon's irishstudies
list had a similar discussion a little while ago - I have exchanged emails
with the person who started that discussion, a teacher who wanted to use
fiction to promote discussion of the Famine in her class. She uses
O'Flaherty and Woodham-Smith. (Prompting memories here of an anecdote about
an infamous exam question - where was it? The Great Famine is a great
novel - discuss...)

Also last year, in connection with another project, I collected some
material about recent works of fiction, in the last twenty years or so, that
connected in some way with the Irish Famine. There were two obvious
clusters...

1.
There were a number of novels that used the Irish Famine broadly within the
genre of occult horror. It is easy to be disparaging about these - and some
were simply developments of the 'Oh Dear we have built our house on the old
Indian burial ground' genre. But others seem to genuinely connect with that
unasy sense of being haunted that all of us experience who have studied the
Famine.

2.
The other cluster was in writing for children...
The Big Guide to Irish Children's Books says: 'The Great Irish Famine of
the 1840s has received more fictional treatment than almost any other period
in Irish historical children's books. Writing about the Famine posed new
challenges to writers for children. The traditional passivity linked to
ideas about famine would need to be overcome by some kind of action. The
intense and horrible suffering and disease would need to be confronted
truthfully but without lurid sensationalism. Some sense of an ending would
need to be provided.' And it specifically mentions Under the Hawthorn Tree
by Marita Conlon-McKenna, already mentioned on the Ir-D list: it
'confronted these problems with honesty and simplicity: the plight of three
children becomes a kind of pilgrimage. The search for survival is not merely
that, but also a search to sustain family loyalty and preserve memory.'

I think the echo of Yeats in the Big Guide must be deliberate. I
acknowledged Yeats myself in my Introduction to the Famine volume of The
Irish World Wide, Volume 6, The Meaning of the Famine, p5: 'If, as W. B.
Yeats famously remarked, "passive suffering is not a theme for tragedy" then
the problems of "writing the famine" for popular markets become a little
clearer...'

And that of course is a reference Christopher Morash's chapter in The
Meaning of the Famine - which is a nice introduction to the complexities of
his method, and which does look at novels by O'Flaherty, Louis J. Walsh and
Alan Ryan. Leading us to...

Christopher Morash
Writing the Irish Famine
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995
ISBN 0 19 818279 1

I recently wrote an appraisal of Christopher's book. And at the end of that
I said...

'Throughout the world, throughout the Irish Diaspora, there were, from the
anniversary year, 1995, onwards, efforts made to erect monuments to the dead
of the Irish Famine, projects which had perhaps to do with bringing into the
present the absent Famine dead ? I can think of examples in Grosse Ile,
Boston, Liverpool, Sydney. We can respect those monuments, and respect
those efforts ? but we can also wish that some of that effort had gone into
a reading of Christopher Morash, Writing the Irish Famine.'

I should now add New York to that list of monuments.

There is a similar volume in the pipeline, Melissa Fegan, Literature and the
Irish Famine 1845-1919 - a separate email follows. This is the published
version of Melissa's thesis.

I must add too that both Morash and Fegan have much to say about William
Carleton - Morash speaks of ?the troubled space occupied by Carleton's
writing in nineteenth century Ireland...?. Both focus their discussion on
'Far Gurtha'. Which Morash calls 'the haunting projection of the absent
Famine dead...'

P.O'S.

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The Global Review of Ethnopolitics, online...

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ARTICLES
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Virulent Ethnocentrism: A Major Challenge for Transformational Conflict
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Analysing Political Exchanges between Minority and Majority Leaders in
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Lilia Petkova
The Ethnic Turks in Bulgaria: Social Integration and Impact on Bulgarian -
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Aldis Purs
The Price of Free Lunches: Making the Frontier Latvian in the Interwar Year

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For information...

P.O'S.

The Bombing of Omagh, 15 August 1998: The Bombers, Their Tactics, Strategy,
and Purpose Behind the Incident

Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 1 November 2001, vol. 24, no. 6, pp.
451-465(15)

Dingley J.

Abstract:
The purpose of this article is to review the above incident: what happened,
how it happened and who did it and why. Also, to place it in the context of
the current "peace process," Irish history and the history of Irish
Republican violence. In looking at who carried out the bombing there is also
an attempt to explain the split between the Provisional and Real IRA, their
motives and ideas, the complex relationship between the two and what they
hope to achieve. This is then followed by an analysis of the actual bombing,
the tactics involved in carrying it out and what went wrong. And finally to
look at the after effects of the bombing. In many ways the bombing was not
as unusual as portrayed by the media, just a continuation of what had been
happening for the last 30 years; thus, it is instructive in itself as an
"ideal" terrorist operation.

Language: English Document Type: Research article ISSN: 1057-610X

SICI (online): 1057-610X(20011101)24:6L.451;1-

From: "Richard Jensen"
Subject: online

Valente, Joseph -
Dracula's Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness, and the Question of Blood
complete text is online at
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/epub/books/valente/toc.html


Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xi
Introduction: More Irish Than the Irish Dracula 1
1.
Double Born 15
2.
"The Dualitists": Prelude to Dracula 42
3.
The Metrocolonial Vampire 51
4.
Double Agents 84
5.
Beyond Blood: Defeating the Inner Vampire 121

Notes 145
Index 165

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.

Article
Gender Difference, National Identity and Professing History: the Case of
Alice Stopford Green

History Workshop Journal, 2002, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 118-127(10)

Holton S.[1]

[1]The History Department, University of Adelaide

Abstract:

This article explores the relation between the work of history and a
changing sense of national and gender identities in the life of Alice
Stopford Green. Born within the Anglo-Irish ascendancy, she began such work
as assistant to her husband, J. R. Green, one of the pioneers of social
history. When he died a few years after their marriage, she found her own
calling as a historian, a calling she understood in terms of the world of
letters, rather than that of the ?professional? historians then emerging
within universities. For her history was, and remained, a clearly political
undertaking, especially for the part she believed it must play in any
education for citizenship. In her widowhood, however, there is evident also
a shift in her own national and gender identities. Her work on English
history was within a few years entirely abandoned for the pursuit of Irish
history, as she came to see herself as Irish rather than English. While
thorough in her scholarship, she also began to think about the particular
contribution that ?woman? might make to the world of letters, a contribution
that she often conceptualized in terms of an emphasis on the ?picturesque?
in history. The practice of her calling came increasingly, therefore, to
refelect a sense of herself as a woman, and more especially, as an Irish
woman.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Volume 10 Number 2/August 01, 2002 of Irish Studies Review is now available.

As usual it will be distributed to members of the British Association for
Irish Studies.

Further information at the Taylor and Francis web site
http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com.

This issue contains:

Fictionalising Ireland p. 125
Desmond Taynor

Reckonings: The Political Contexts for Northern Irish Literature 1965-68 p.
133
Michael Parker

Samuel Beckett: Towards a Political Reading p. 159
Peter Boxall

Distinguishing Catholics and Protestants among Irish Immigrants to
Clydeside: A New Approach to Immigration and Ethnicity in Victorian Britain
p. 171
John Foster, Muir Houston, Chris Madigan

'A Code of Images': Northern Irish Centos p. 193
Shane Murphy

Reviews p. 205


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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This review of John Newsinger's latest book is circulating on the H-Net
lists...

Forwarded for information.

P.O'S.

H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by H-Diplo[at]h-net.msu.edu (June, 2002)

John Newsinger. _British Counterinsurgency: From Palestine to
Northern Ireland_. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002. x + 221 pp.
Endnotes, index. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-333-79385-4.

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Jonathan Colman
, Department of Historical and Critical
Studies, University of Central Lancashire, England

Shattering Myths about British Counterinsurgency

Since 1945 Britain has found itself involved in major
counterinsurgency campaigns in Palestine, Malaya, Kenya, Cyprus,
South Yemen, Dhofar and Northern Ireland. The literature on these
campaigns has tended to be somewhat celebratory in tone, giving the
impression that Britain has enjoyed considerable success in the
conduct of its counterinsurgency campaigns. This success is
contrasted starkly with the experiences of the French in Indochina
and Algeria, the Dutch in Indonesia, the Portuguese in Angola and
Mozambique, the Americans in Vietnam and the Russians in
Afghanistan. As Newsinger points out, this triumphalist approach is
"a distortion of the facts," because the British "record includes
significant defeats in Palestine and South Yemen and the failure,
despite overwhelming numerical and material superiority, to destroy
their opponents in Cyprus and Northern Ireland" (p. 1). From the
1945-51 Labour governments onwards, the British favoured withdrawal
rather than attempting to combat an uprising in any major Imperial
territory. "The decision to withdraw from India and Burma" in 1947
"saved the British Empire from its Vietnam, from its Afghanistan,"
Newsinger argues (p. 1). Using secondary sources, he attempts a
study of Britain's chief counterinsurgency campaigns in the postwar
era, and contends that "British success, whether complete or
partial, was dependent not on any supposed military process, but on
the ability to establish a large enough political base among
sections of the local inhabitants prepared to support and assist in
the defeat of the insurgents" (p. 2).

However, the book opens not with success but with failure: the
counterinsurgency campaign in the British mandate of Palestine
immediately after the Second World War. British forces, though
freshly victorious over Germany and Japan, found themselves
beleaguered by a challenge from the Yishuv, the small Zionist
settlement in Palestine. The Yishuv rebellion, "tacitly supported
by the United States, was to compromise the British Empire's overall
position in the Middle East and thereby begin the process of
dissolution in the region" (p. 3). Britain's failure to neutralize
the Zionist revolt--including by means of repression--was "one of
the most humiliating episodes in immediate postwar British history"
(p. 3). It was "a major factor in Britain's political defeat at
the hands of the Jewish Agency and its supporters in the United
States," and it "contributed to Britain's eviction from a territory
that the Chiefs of Staff regarded as essential for the security of
the Empire" (p. 29). London found itself "trapped between the
Zionists and the Palestinian Arabs, unable, because of external
circumstances and considerations, to enlist the support of either
group in the maintenance of British rule in the mandate" (p. 30).
The result was the emergence of the state of Israel in 1948.

The chapter on the "Mau Mau" or Kikuyu revolt in Kenya in the 1950s
and 1960s, "an almost forgotten incident in British colonial
history" (p. 60), is especially interesting because this gruesome
edisode has indeed received relatively little coverage. The
uprising was at the time portrayed as a "barbaric tribal response to
the pressures of modernization, as a reversion to primitive
superstition and blood-crazed savagery caused by the inability of
Africa to cope with the modern world" (p. 60). This was of course
merely a "racist caricature of a revolt against oppression,
exploitation and injustice that was to be crushed with incredible
brutality and ruthlessness" (p. 60). By 1948, as a result of
European settlement, the 1.25 million Kikuyu people found themselves
confined to a mere 2,000 square miles of tribal land, while the
30,000 white settlers occupied some 12,000 square miles. The Kikuyu
faced "widespread poverty, unemployment and underemployment, and
chronic overpopulation" (p. 61). The British overlords were less
than understanding, and their repression of the Kikuyu was in its
intensity "unprecedented in the history of British postwar
governments" (p. 60). Newsinger points out that "within six months
of the declaration of the Emergency" in 1952 "an incredible 430 men
had been officially shot dead while trying to escape" (p. 68). By
1954 there were 77,000 of the Kikuyu in detention. "Beating,
torture, mutilation and the shooting of prisoners out of hand were
everyday occurrences" (p. 77). London granted Kenya its independence
in 1963, although not from enlightened concerns about the plight of
the indigenous population but because the "British and foreign
companies" who were the chief investors in Kenya were willing "to
accommodate themselves to Africans" (p. 83). The white settlers who
had resisted Kenyan independence so vigorously were merely an
"epiphenomenon" (p. 83). Although they wielded political power
within Kenya, they lacked the economic clout that was more critical
in the context of British rule.

The coverage of "The Unknown Wars: Oman and Dhofar" indicates above
all that the British--like most states--are not always choosy when
it comes to friends and allies. Although these two wars "fought on
behalf of the Sultans of Oman, Said bin Taimur and his son, Qaboos,
were both small affairs that involved only small numbers of British
personnel" (p. 132), they were significant in that they helped to
maintain "a British presence and British influence in the Middle
East" (p. 132). Since the 1870s the Sultanate of Oman had been a
British protectorate "ruled by the Sultan but under the effective
control of his British advisers" (p. 132). The Sultan and his
backers ruled "a backward poverty- and disease-ridden society where
the infant mortality rate was 75 percent and the literacy rate was 5
percent" (p. 133). Here "slavery was still practised quite openly,"
and "mistreatment, mutilation and torture were routinely used to
intimidate the population into quiescence and passivity" (p. 133).
Although some of the British backers of Said's regime had their
reservations, according to Newsinger most regarded "royal autocracy
as a perfectly legitimate form of government with which they felt
completely at home" (p. 133). They expressed few, if any, ethical
concerns about serving a "medieval tyranny" (p. 132). British
backing "for this despotism continued under successive governments,
both Conservative and Labour" (p. 135). Without this backing the
Omani regime could not have survived, giving rise to "one of the
most unsavory episodes in postwar British foreign policy" (pp. 136).
After victory against the tribes of the interior in the Jebel Akhdar
campaign in 1959, the British and Omani forces faced a more
protracted campaign in Dhofar, an Omani colony. Victory was finally
secured by the mid-1970s. This success was by no means impressive,
though, as the Dhofar war was "a very small scale conflict" in which
Britain was able to bring "overwhelming force" to bear on the
insurgents (p. 150). Dhofar was "certainly a British victory," but
it was achieved only "in the most favourable circumstances" (p.
150).

Other chapters of _British Counterinsurgency_ address the British
efforts in Malaya, Cyprus, South Yemen, and--obviously--Northern
Ireland. These chapters all make compelling reading, and all-in-all
Newsinger's book is a provocative, lucid and sensibly organized work
which strikes a good balance between the military and the political
elements of the subject matter. There are relatively few books
about British counterinsurgency campaigns, and the author has
illuminated a number of conflicts that have tended to receive only a
scant or a self-serving coverage in much of the existing literature.
This literature tends in any case to focus mainly on the military
side of events.

Newsinger is at his best when he attempts to strip away layers of
myth and distortion. For instance, he comments that the battle of
Mirbat in Dhofar in 1971 has, without justification, been depicted
in some of the literature as "a celebration of the British soldier
hero" in which "the romance of Empire is combined with the
excitement of a heroic stand against the menace of communism" (p.
147). Newsinger's work would have been still more useful if the
author had brought his critical skills to bear on primary as well as
secondary source material. There is also scope for more coverage of
the influence of the wider international environment upon Britain's
conduct of its counterinsurgency campaigns. In the light of the
close diplomatic ties between Britain and the United States, this
could include more on American attitudes, although this dimension
receives good coverage in the chapter on Palestine. Newsinger's
arguments are not kind to any British government, Labour or
Conservative, as most of their policies emerge as reactionary and
benighted. Yet the fact remains that Britain did avoid an Algeria
or a Vietnam.

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Forwarded for information.

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- -----Original Message-----
From: kath harding and david granville
dgkeh[at]hardgran.demon.co.uk
Subject: New from the Irish Democrat

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

What's new:
David Granville writes about the spread of the controversial new Plastic
Baton Round (L21A1) to police forces throughout Britain
Bobbie Healley and David Granville assess recent developments in the
Irish peace process
Historians Priscilla Metcher and Emmet O'Connor take a fresh look at the
politics of two great Irish labour leaders, James Connolly and Jim
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Journalist Paul Donovan argues that the recent biography of Airey Neave
raises important questions about a number of deaths related to the the
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Historian Peter Berresford Ellis looks at the troubled history of
another divided nation -- Kashmir
Plus: news, analysis & book reviews

Subject: Re: Ir-D Web Resource: Bram Stoker, Irishness
From: Candice Ward

Yes, this looks like a marvelous book--and so does another Illinois
production, _Genealogies of Difference_ by one Nathan Widder. I've only had
a chance to skim the first three chapters, but as I was wearing my boater at
the time I can safely say that it promises an exemplary depth and to suck
the wind out of the sails of my own poetic project (tentatively entitled
_Physiology of Spirit_). Cause for celebration on several grounds! To the
extent that this study focuses (rather narrowly) on Hegel, it seems to me
that he himself may be aptly--if perhaps too broadly--summed up in a comment
by Muriel Spark's Miss Brodie to the effect of giving one "a gel" at an
impressionable age, whence s/he is yours forever--C




on 7/26/02 6:00 AM, irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk at
irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk wrote:

>
> From: "Richard Jensen"
> Subject: online
>
> Valente, Joseph -
> Dracula's Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness, and the Question of Blood
> complete text is online at
> http://www.press.uillinois.edu/epub/books/valente/toc.html
>
>

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of
D.C. Rose oscholars[at]netscape.net

Subject: THE OSCHOLARS Vol II No 8 August 2002


Dear colleagues, chers et chères collègues, liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,

I have pleasure in alerting you to the current edition of THE OSCHOLARS, now
posted to its website at http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/oscholars and accessed
as before by using the password umney. All the customary items of Wilde
news are featured. This edition carries more pictures than usual, and may
be a little slower to download.

I will be away from my desk from 22nd August to 9th September, visiting
North America, and attending the 'Shaw summit' at Niagara-on-the-Lake. I
will be visiting friends near Portland, Oregon and in Washington DC, and
plan a couple of days in New York. I would be very glad to meet any reader
who wishes to contact me. It has been a great pleasure to meet a number of
you who have visited London.

We hope to have enough material for the September edition before we go away
and will be transmitting it early if so, or late if not. We are very much in
your hands when it comes to news; and we especially would like to expand our
reviews of Wilde plays. We believe, too, that we should give increasing
room to the Notes and Queries and Work in Progress sections. The
Correspondence section can be used at any time via the JISCmail link and pen
and ink bottle picture.

Yours sincerely,

D.C. Rose

From: "Matthew Barlow"
To: "irish-diaspora"
Subject: Call for Reviewers

Paddy,
Can you please circulate this on the Irish-Diaspora list?
Thanks,
Matthew

The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies is published by the Canadian
Centre for Irish Studies at Concordia University and is presently
seeking reviewers for books on subjects related to history and Irish
Studies. Such topics include matters of Irish History, and that of the
Irish diaspora, including the Irish experience in Canada. Reviews are
typically no more than 500 words. Gradute students, preferably at the
Ph.D. level, are also welcome. Those interested are invited to contact:

Matthew Barlow
History Book Review Editor
Canadian Journal of Irish Studies
Department of History
McConnell Library Building, Room LB-601
1400 de Maisonneuve West,
Montr=E9al (QC) H3G 1M8
P: 514.848.2435
F: 514.848.4538
or email: mbarlow[at]videotron.ca=20

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

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P.O'S.

Journal name Policy and Politics
ISSN 0305-5736 electronic:0305-5736
Publisher The Policy Press
Issue 2001 - volume 29 - issue 4
Page 393 - 411

Social exclusion, equality and the Good Friday Peace Agreement: the
implications for land use planning

Ellis, Geraint

Keywords
NORTHERN IRELAND EQUALITY, SOCIAL EXCLUSION PLANNING,

Abstract
The Good Friday Peace Agreement has attempted to establish a constitutional
settlement in Northern Ireland by trying to address the long-term causes of
conflict in the region. While it primarily deals with the region's
relationship to Britain and the Republic of Ireland, it also includes
measures that tackle social exclusion and discrimination in policy making.
The article examines the impact of these on land use planning in the region,
which has traditionally adopted a centralised, technocratic approach to
policy making that denied the realities of sectarian division. The new
policy agenda directly challenges this style of planning and has included a
number of initiatives that could partially open the planning system to
public scrutiny and force it to incorporate issues of social justice. This
article describes the partial success in implementing these measures and
makes an interim assessment of their potential impact and broader policy
relevance.

L'accord du Vendredi Saint a tenté d'établir un arrangement en Irlande du
Nord en essayant d'indiquer les causes anciennes à l'origine du conflit dans
les régions. Alors qu'il traite principalement des rapports de la région
avec la Grande-Bretagne et la République d'Irlande, il inclut également les
mesures qui s'attaquent à l'exclusion sociale et la discrimination lors de
l'élaboration des lois. Cet article examine leur impact sur le projet
d'utilisation des terres dans la région qui a adopté traditionnellement une
approche centralisée et technocratique législative qui refusait d'admettre
les réalités de la division sectaire. Le nouveau programme politique
conteste directement ce style de d'élaboration et a inclus un nombre
d'initiatives qui pourraient partiellement rendre le système de législation
accessible à un examen minutieux du public et le forcer à incorporer des
questions de justice sociale. Cet article décrit le succès partiel de
l'implémentation de ces mesures et donne une évaluation intérimaire de leur
impact potentiel, et leur rapport avec la politique au sens plus large.

El Acuerdo del Viernes Santo ha atentado establecer un convenio
constitucional en el Norte de Irlanda intentando dirigir las causas a largo
plazo del conflicto en las regiones. Mientras primeramente trata con las
relaciones entre las regiones de Bretaña y la República de Irlanda, también
incluye medidas que abordan la exclusión social y la discriminación en la
elaboración de directrices generales. El artículo examina el impacto de todo
lo mencionado en planear el uso del territorio en la región, el cual ha
adoptado tradicionalmente un acercamiento centralizado y tecnocrático hacia
la elaboración de directrices generales que negó las realidades de la
división sectaria. La nueva agenda política desafía directamente este estilo
de plan y ha incluido un número de iniciativas que podrían abrir
parcialmente el sistema planeado al examen público y forzarlo para
incorporar asuntos de justicia social. Este artículo describe el éxito
parcial en el implemento de estas medidas y hace una evaluación parcial de
sus impactos potenciales y una mayor ampliación de relación política.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

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Journal name International Sociology
ISSN 0268-5809 electronic:0268-5809
Publisher SAGE Publications
Issue 2002 - volume 17 - issue 1
Page 57 - 72

Towards a Sociology of Art Collections: Irish Intellectuals, Modernity and
the Making of a Modern Art Collection
Herrero, Marta

Keywords
art collection, intellectuals, Ireland, modern art, modernity,

This article draws on Zygmunt Bauman's concept 'legislator' - the
intellectual practice of modernity...

[It has not been possible to get a full abstract of this article. But it
seems a nice idea...

For more on Bauman see for example

http://www.sociologyonline.co.uk/PopBauman.htm

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/sociology/people/bauman.htm

Bauman used to be based in Leeds, the next city along the motorway here in
Yorkshire.

P.O'S.]

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

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Political Geography
Volume 21, Issue 5, June 2002, Pages 687-694

Belfast: walls within

F. W. Boal

Department of Geography, Queen's University, Belfast, BT7 1NN, Northern
Ireland, UK

Available online 8 February 2002.

Abstract
Belfast has been characterised by a degree of residential segregation
between Catholics and Protestants from the city's founding in the early
seventeenth century. This segregation has increased over time, producing
current levels that are higher than in any earlier period. It is suggested
in this paper that a useful framework for understanding Belfast's
segregation history is to see the city as one that has developed in a
`frontier zone'¯¯a zone founded on the interfacing of the `British' and the
`Irish' realms. The dynamics of the situation can be periodised under four
headings¯¯referred to here as the `colonial city', the `immigrant-industrial
city', the `ethnonational city: beginnings' and the `ethnonational city:
rampant'.

Segregation in Belfast has provided a basis for community solidarities
whilst also generating an environment for the maintenance of community
conflict and group stereotyping. In this context only a resolution of the
ethnonational conflict itself is likely to lead to a reduction in
residential segregation.

Author Keywords: Belfast; Walls; Segregation; Ethnonationalism; Ratchet


Article Outline
1. Introduction
2. Segregation levels
3. Segregation: the underlying factors
3.1. The colonial city
3.2. The immigrant-industrial city
3.3. The ethnonational city: beginnings
3.4. The ethnonational city: rampant
4. Consequences of division
5. Conclusion
References