From Email Patrick O'Sullivan


We have now heard from Susan Hickey, who would like to bring the following
to the attention of the Irish-Diaspora list...

1.
Two of John Hickey's colleagues in Chicago, Dr. Greg Singleton (Professor
and Chair of the History Department at NEIU) and Dr. William MCCready (a
known sociologist who has worked with John Hickey) have looked over John's
notes and are planning to
write those parts needed to complete the synthesis of the American materials
with his original book. His formwer student in Cardiff Dr. Robert Stradling
is willing to sub-edit the manuscript and it is hoped that Paul O'Leary
could look over the Cardiff material to see what is needed to add. The
publisher is still keen to complete the project as planned.

2.
Susan, with John's children, Patrick and Julia, will be bringing John's
ashes back to Cardiff to be buried with his parents in Cardiff. John's
sister, Catherine Bertelli, is organizing a Requiem mass for him on
Saturday, December 28th at 11 am in the Catholic Church in Llanishen,
Cardiff. A former student of his, Fr. Bob Riordan, will be officiating.
Anyone needing
further details can contact Susan Hickey . There were a
number of relatives, former colleagues and friends who were unable to attend
the service in Chicago - that is why the family is planning the Cardiff
ceremony.

Susan Hickey thanks the members of the Irish-Diaspora list for their
condolences and concern.

Patrick O'Sullivan


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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan


For Information

http://www.ivanrdee.com/fall_fl_McCaffrey_InSearch.html

FROM THE PUBLISHER'S WEB SITE...

Carmel McCaffrey and Leo Eaton
IN SEARCH OF ANCIENT IRELAND
The Origins of the Irish from Neolithic Times to the Coming of the English.
This engaging book traces the history, archaeology, and legends of ancient
Ireland from 9000 B.C., when nomadic hunter-gatherers appeared in Ireland at
the end of the last Ice Age-to 1167 A.D., when a Norman invasion brought the
country under control of the English crown for the first time. So much of
what people today accept as ancient Irish history-Celtic invaders from
Europe turning Ireland into a Celtic nation; St. Patrick driving the snakes
from Ireland and converting its people to Christianity-is myth and legend
with little basis in reality. The truth is more interesting. The Irish, as
the authors show, are not even Celtic in an archaeological sense. And there
were plenty of bishops in Ireland before a British missionary called Patrick
arrived. But In Search of Ancient Ireland is not simply the story of events
from long ago. Across Ireland today are festivals, places, and folk customs
that provide a tangible link to events thousands of years past. The authors
visit and describe many of these places and festivals, talking to a wide
variety of historians, scholars, poets, and storytellers in the very
settings where history happened. Thus the book is also a journey on the
ground to uncover ten thousand years of Irish identity. In Search of Ancient
Ireland is the official companion to the three-part PBS documentary series.
With 12 black-and-white illustrations and 1 map.

Carmel McCaffrey teaches Irish history, literature, culture, and language at
Johns Hopkins University. A native of Dublin, she founded the literary
review Wild About Wilde. She lives in Mount Airy, Maryland. Leo Eaton has
produced, written, and directed television and film in Europe and the United
States for thirty years and has received many of television's major awards.
He lives in New Windsor, Maryland.

A New Amsterdam Book.

From: "Sarah Morgan"
To:
Subject: conference on immigration, 15/16 November

A conference, 'Crossing Borders: a conference examining the legacy of
the Commonwealth Immigrants Act' will be held at London Metropolitan
University on November 15 and 16 2002 (what we used to know as the
University of London, on the Holloway Road). There is something of an
Irish strand - Mary Hickman will be speaking on the 15, and there is a
workshop on the same day hosted by Action Group for Irish Youth, a
London-based second-tier agency.

The web-site for the conference is www.blink.org.uk/borders/ and it is
worth looking at if only because of the photograph of a notice in a
window which reads 'NO IRISH, NO BLACKS, NO DOGS'.

Sarah Morgan.

From: Sara Brady
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk



"Irish Studies: Forged/Forging Youth"

5th Annual GRIAN Conference on Irish Studies

March 7-9, 2003

Glucksman Ireland House, New York University



forge (fôrj, fōrj) n. a smithy, workshop; a physical space where metal
is shaped and worked

v.1 to beat into shape, cast, coin, construct, hammer out, manufacture,
mould, shape, work

v.2 to push ahead slowly; to make way, ie. of a vessel: ?shoot ahead? esp.
by mere

momentum, or the pressure of tide

v.3 to conjure falsely; to fabricate, frame, invent; to make or devise in
fraudulent

imitation

Irish Studies, while still "young," has in recent years come of age as a
discipline. And with that relative maturity arise issues beyond those of
discovery and establishment that have dominated much of the "youthful"
discourse to-date. Both new responsibilities and possibilities arise at such
a juncture, as well as contrary applications of traditional material. We are
very excited at the possibility of a conference that embodies youthfulness
in all its resistance to conventional definitions, and instead applies the
multiple manifestations of that term in order to explore the concept of
"youth" ?the content, the methodology, the historiography and the
interdisciplinarity of Irish Studies at its current moment.

Conference methodology:

Critical projects are in constant danger of transforming their objects of
study into "children"? the push to make studies alive, pertinent and
relevant endlessly inaugurating an act of "parentage." But these same
critical projects also provide spaces for creation, nurturing and
development. Why/how/where/with what tools do we forge youth? To what
result? Youthful things discover, develop, and establish themselves; they
also get produced, exploited, and represented by others.
Describing/analyzing/questioning how Irish Studies has made its subject
youthful and/or how youth has been the subject of Irish Studies is a return
to the smithy?s workshop as the site of conception/construction/contention;
to see where, how, why and in what way we make pliable the raw material of
youth in the ongoing fabrication of our discipline.

Regardless of particular focus, we especially desire works that are
self-reflective about their processes. We hope to talk not simply about
"youth" or Ireland, but to think critically and to complicate the term
through the vehicle of Irish Studies. To forge, to make/create, to rebel.

Some particulars to consider: the "non-traditional family" (i.e. Irish
Studies and interdisciplinarity); the parents (mentorship, wisdom and
generational anxiety); the children (what they witness, how they develop,
what they remember); plus all of their stories (in works of literature,
history, art, film, etc.).

Other applications might include questions of? forging or coining identity;
politics of youth; memoir and nostalgia; formation and adolescence; rituals
and rites of passage; rebellion; play and sport; innocence and naivete;
witnessing and interpreting, or witnessing rather than interpreting;
violence; mythology of youth; memory; and self-consciousness.

Methodological applications might explore new approaches to? (re)writing or
(re)conceiving nationality; historiography; iconography; psychology and
origins; anxieties of influence; education and teaching; and varieties of
curriculum.

This working conference, for both emerging and established scholars, will be
held March 7-9, 2003 at Glucksman Ireland House (1 Washington Mews, New
York, NY). Paper and panel proposals are due December 13, 2002. We welcome
relevant papers from all disciplines. Those presented at the conference will
be considered for publication in the fourth volume of Foilsiu, an Irish
Studies journal. In addition, travel and/or housing assistance may be
available for graduate student presenters.

For information, or to propose a paper or panel, email
grianconference[at]hotmail.com.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Can anyone help with this query...

Other than by quoting Byron, Don Juan...

Her memory was a mine: she knew by heart
All Calderon and greater part of Lopé,
So that if any actor miss'd his part
She could have served him for the prompter's copy;
For her Feinaigle's were an useless art,
And he himself obliged to shut up shop - he
Could never make a memory so fine as
That which adorn'd the brain of Donna Inez

P.O'S.


- -----Original Message-----
X-Sender: Jacques.Dahan[at]pop.wanadoo.fr

Dear Sir,

I'm not a specialist of Irish studies, but only of nineteenth French
studies. However, I'm looking for biographic information about Gregor von
Feinaigle (1765-1819), a native of Baden, who founded in 1813 a school near
Mountjoy Sq., Dublin, and there taught on the basis of his "New system of
mnemonics and methodics". His name gave rise to the Hiberno-English verb
"feinaigle" meaning to achieve an effect by sleight of hand ; a bust can be
seen in the Royal Dublin Society (RDS), Ballsbridge Dublin 4.
Do you think that I could get an answer from the Irish Diaspora List ?

I thank you by advance.

Sincerely yours,

J.-R. Dahan.

From: M. A. Ruff
m.ruff[at]sheffield.ac.uk]
Subject: RE: Ir-D No I, No B, No D


Dear Patrick

I was brought up in Ealing, West London, during the late 40s through to the
60s. My father worked with the committee of the Irish Club at the then St
Benedict's (now Ealing Abbey) in finding reasonable accommodation for the
young Irish people coming into the area - and I remember some of the houses
around my home area with these signs displayed. They hurt my father's pride
terribly, especially as he had served as a fire officer in London during the
blitz and so thought them deeply insulting.

However, there were also a lot of large houses that went up for sale cheaply
after the war, some of which were bought up by Irish people to let as bed
sits, often with the family living on the ground floor and offering meals to
the tenants. I remember visiting several in the vicinities of Gordon Road
and The Grove in Ealing. These seemed friendly places, with Irish ladies
running them, and I remember being fascinated by the groups of Irish men
often seen sitting round the kitchen table eating or intent on a card game
("fives" usually). These places, in my memory, seemed to be a home-from-home
and I have often wondered if they have been documented any where.

But I am another witness to the "No ..." signs, and the time when I recall
them being around would be from the nineteen-fifties at least.

Moira

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Irritatingly - for a scholarly site - this web site does not give us a
source for this photograph...

http://www.blink.org.uk/borders/

We have had a number of Ir-D discussions, about use of images and
photographs - and there is certainly a tendency for the normal uses of
scholarship to be forgotten, in the search for a telling image...

I have seen this photograph somewhere before - and I am trying to place
it... It certainly looks staged... The text is far too clean and
legible...

So, source please?

Unfortunately the picture - in every sense - is now even more confused.
Because there is a book with the title No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs : The
Authorized Autobiography Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols, by John Lydon,
Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman... Which will create its own staged
photographs...

Of course, we have already had honourable Ir-D members attesting that they
saw such signs when they came to England in the 1960s...

And there are things like this...

http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/LewishamVoices/FamilyLife/ourhouse6.htm

http://www.irishdemocrat.co.uk/reviews/racism-in-ireland/

P.O'S.


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England

From: Kerby Miller
Subject: Re: Ir-D Crossing Borders, Conference, LMU, November

Anyone willing to bet that some very respectable person will
immediately claim that the photograph - mentioned by Sarah, below - was
either doctored or staged?

KM


>From: "Sarah Morgan"
>To:
>Subject: conference on immigration, 15/16 November
>
>A conference, 'Crossing Borders: a conference examining the legacy of
>the Commonwealth Immigrants Act' will be held at London Metropolitan
>University on November 15 and 16 2002 (what we used to know as the
>University of London, on the Holloway Road). There is something of an
>Irish strand - Mary Hickman will be speaking on the 15, and there is a
>workshop on the same day hosted by Action Group for Irish Youth, a
>London-based second-tier agency.
>
>The web-site for the conference is www.blink.org.uk/borders/ and it is
>worth looking at if only because of the photograph of a notice in a
>window which reads 'NO IRISH, NO BLACKS, NO DOGS'.
>
>Sarah Morgan.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I think this message is worth sharing...

UK establishments might want to make use of this offer of training...

Scholars outside the UK will need to be aware of the useful resource that is
the Archives Hub.

As usual, go to the web site and search for 'Irish'...

Interesting stuff.

P.O'S.



Forwarded on behalf of Amanda Hill

Subject: Training available in online UK archival resources
From: "Amanda Hill"

There has been a lot of progress in the last two or three years in improving
online information about archives held in the UK. As a provider of one of
these services, the Archives Hub is able to offer free training sessions to
UK universities and colleges. These sessions cover all the resources
available for discovering more about UK archives and can be tailored to suit
the needs of individual departments.

If you would like to host a training session in your institution please
contact the Archives Hub's Training Officer, Michelle Bell, at
mailto:michelle.bell[at]man.ac.uk or by telephone on 0161 275 6789.

If you are outside the UK, you can access leaflets about the Archives Hub at
http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/pubs.shtml . Links to the other services which
make up the UK's embryonic National Archives Network can be found at
http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/links.shtml.

Amanda Hill

Archives Hub Project Manager
MIMAS, Manchester Computing
Kilburn Building
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL

0161 275 6055

http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Ireland takes her place amongst the nations of the world...

P.O'S.

Forwarded for Information
on behalf of
Michael Kennedy
difp[at]iol.ie

Just Published by the Royal Irish Academy:
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy
Volume III 1926-32

A project of the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Royal Irish Academy

The third volume in the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series reveals how
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overseas missions the Department of External Affairs protected Ireland's
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late 1920s and the early 1930s.

Elected in 1930 to the Council of the League of Nations (the equivalent of
today's UN Security Council) Irish diplomats faced grave problems across the
globe. Through the Council Irish foreign policy developed a truly
international perspective, far beyond the concerns of Anglo-Irish relations
which had long dominated Ireland's external affairs.

Anglo-Irish relations were strained in the 1920s as successive Ministers for
External Affairs, FitzGerald, O'Higgins and McGilligan and President W.T.
Cosgrave sought to develop Ireland's independence by stripping the 1921
Anglo-Irish Treaty back to its basic articles.

The result was a widespread reform of Dominion status in which the Irish
increasingly took the initiative through the Imperial Conferences of 1926
and 1930. By 1932, when Cosgrave's Cumann na nGaedheal government left
office, Ireland was in full control of her internal and external affairs and
the British Empire had given way to the Commonwealth.

Volume III explores the varied means by which Irish politicians and
diplomats sought to secure Ireland's place amongst the nations. The volume
examines the visit of Cosgrave to the United States and Canada in January
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Irish relations with the Holy See in the run-up to the 1932 Eucharistic
Congress in Dublin, the views of Irish diplomats on the collapse of Weimar
Germany and problems such as selling Ireland as a tourist destination in the
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Other issues covered include how much state hospitality should be afforded
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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of
Colman Etchingham
Colman.Etchingham[at]may.ie


SEVENTEENTH IRISH CONFERENCE OF MEDIEVALISTS

ST KIERAN'S COLLEGE KILKENNY THURSDAY 26 TO SATURDAY 28 JUNE 2003

Chair: MAIRE HERBERT

Organising Secretary: CATHERINE SWIFT
Programme Secretary: COLMAN ETCHINGHAM

The Seventeenth Irish Conference of Medievalists will be the first, in a
series stretching back to 1987, to be held outside Maynooth. Next year's
venue, St Kieran's College, is located in Kilkenny, a compact city which
boasts an unusually impressive - by Irish standards - surviving medieval
fabric and ambience. The surrounding countryside is also replete with relics
of the Middle Ages, from ogam stones to tower houses. Kilkenny is an obvious
location for the Medievalists' Conference and St Kieran's College enjoys an
institutional link with NUI Maynooth as the venue for some of our distance
learning programmes.


CALL FOR PAPERS

Offers of papers are invited on medieval archaeology, art, history,
language, learning and literature. Preference will be given to papers with a
bearing on Irish and Insular medieval studies.

Length of papers: Either 45-50 minutes (10-15 minutes discussion) or 20-25
minutes (5-10 minutes discussion).

Responses should reach DR COLMAN ETCHINGHAM, DEPT OF HISTORY, NUI MAYNOOTH,
CO. KILDARE, IRELAND by the deadline of 28 FEBRUARY 2003.
Phone: (353 1) 7083816; Fax: (353 1) 7083314; e-mail:
colman.etchingham[at]may.ie

Responses should indicate: (1) YOUR NAME, ADDRESS, PHONE OR E-MAIL

(2) TITLE OF PROPOSED PAPER

(3) LENGTH OF PAPER (45-50 or 20-25 minutes)

(4) BRIEF ABSTRACT OF PAPER (max. 100 words)

(5) PROJECTOR(S) REQUIRED


Details of FEES FOR REGISTRATION, ON-CAMPUS MEALS AND ACCOMMODATION will be
circulated, together with the CONFERENCE PROGRAMME, in March 2003. Those
needing advance information on these details, for securing funding from
their institutions, should contact the Organising Secretary, DR CATHERINE
SWIFT, DEPT OF HISTORY, NUI MAYNOOTH, CO. KILDARE, IRELAND (e-mail:
catherine.swift[at]may.ie), for a provisional estimate of costs.

YOU CAN ACCESS OUR WEBSITE AT www.geocities.com/irishmedievalists.

From: Molloy, Frank
FMolloy[at]csu.edu.au
Subject: FW: Ir-D Query, Gregor von Feinaigle


Paddy and everyone,

Sorry, cant help with 'the life of ...', but the word 'feinaigle' fascinated me. Interestingly, it does not appear in the OUP Concise Ulster Dictionary (normally excellent on such matters) nor in Terence Dolan's Dictionary of Hiberno-English, yet I do recall it from my (Ulster) childhood. The meaning of achieving something slyly does accord with my own rather vague understanding of the meaning.

Anyone else familiar with the word?

Cheers,
Frank

- -----Original Message-----

Subject: Ir-D Query, Gregor von Feinaigle

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Can anyone help with this query...

Other than by quoting Byron, Don Juan...

Subject: Irish-Argentine Song
From: "Murray, Edmundo"

I was told by a friend, who is a descendant of Irish-Argentines re-emigrated
to Co. Longford in the 1890s, that his mother rememberd a song that she
learnt in the Irish school in Argentina. The first words of the lyrics were:
'Irlanda la verde, mi dulce hogar', which my friend translated as 'Ireland,
my sweet native land'. Does this sound familiar to any lister? Thank you,
Edmundo Murray
Geneva, Switzerland

From: "Jim Doan"
To:
Subject: RE: Ir-D Feinaigle 2

This word certainly exists in American English: "finagle," defined in the
American Heritage Dictionary as "to use or achieve by dubious or crafty
methods," with origin unknown. Does anyone have a good etymology for this?

Jim Doan

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
[mailto:owner-irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk]On Behalf Of
irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 5:59 AM
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Ir-D Feinaigle 2



From: Molloy, Frank
FMolloy[at]csu.edu.au
Subject: FW: Ir-D Query, Gregor von Feinaigle


Paddy and everyone,

Sorry, cant help with 'the life of ...', but the word 'feinaigle' fascinated
me. Interestingly, it does not appear in the OUP Concise Ulster Dictionary
(normally excellent on such matters) nor in Terence Dolan's Dictionary of
Hiberno-English, yet I do recall it from my (Ulster) childhood. The meaning
of achieving something slyly does accord with my own rather vague
understanding of the meaning.

Anyone else familiar with the word?

Cheers,
Frank

From: "Nieciecki, Daniel"
To: "'irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk'"
Subject: RE: Ir-D Feinaigle 2

It's probably the ancestor of "finangle," which entered American English in
the 1920's (OED)

Gregor von Feinaigle
?1765-1819; b. Bunden (Germany); fnd. school near Mountjoy Sq., Dublin, and
there taught on the basis of his own mnemonic method; his name gave rise to
the Hiberno-English verb 'feinaigle' meaning to achieve an effect by sleight
of hand; a bust can be seen in the RDS, Ballsbridge.


From http://pseudonumerology.com/19.htm
*While researching this topic I came across the probable origin of the
English word finagle (also spelled fenagle, finnagel, finaygle), which is
apparently not known to etymologists. Gregor von Feinaigle (b.26 August
1760, d.1819) was well known in Great Britain for his techniques of mental
manipulation. In the famous poem Don Juan (1818), Byron wrote of Donna
Inez, who had an exceptional memory: "For her, Feinaigle's were an useless
art" (complete quote). The point here is that she needed no tricks to
remember well. But the word "Feinaigle's" could easily have been
misunderstood, leading to the meaning that to "feinaigle" is a useless art.


Daniel Oisín Nieciecki
New York University

- -----Original Message-----
From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk [mailto:irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk]
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 12:59 AM
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Ir-D Feinaigle 2


From: Molloy, Frank
FMolloy[at]csu.edu.au
Subject: FW: Ir-D Query, Gregor von Feinaigle


Paddy and everyone,

Sorry, cant help with 'the life of ...', but the word 'feinaigle' fascinated
me. Interestingly, it does not appear in the OUP Concise Ulster Dictionary
(normally excellent on such matters) nor in Terence Dolan's Dictionary of
Hiberno-English, yet I do recall it from my (Ulster) childhood. The meaning
of achieving something slyly does accord with my own rather vague
understanding of the meaning.

Anyone else familiar with the word?

Cheers,
Frank

From: "Sarah Morgan"
To:
Subject: Re: Ir-D Crossing Borders, Conference, 2

Yes, I worried that posting this would bring up this bug bear again!
However, I have emailed one of the conference organisers to see if he knows
or can find out about the source of the photograph. I'll let the list know
what the answer is. It would be nice to think it is genuine, but it does
look a bit clean, as Paddy says.

Sarah Morgan.

- ----- Original Message -----

>
> From: Kerby Miller
> Subject: Re: Ir-D Crossing Borders, Conference, LMU, November
>
> Anyone willing to bet that some very respectable person will
> immediately claim that the photograph - mentioned by Sarah, below - was
> either doctored or staged?
>
> KM
>

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.

Political Transformation and the Reinvention of the Ulster-Scots Identity
and Culture

Identities: Global Studies in Power and Culture, 1 January 2002, vol. 9,
no. 2, pp. 197-218(22)

McCall C.[1]

[1] Institute of Governance, Queen's University, Belfast, United Kingdom

Abstract:
In the 1990s, Ulster-Scots language and culture was mobilized by some Ulster
unionists in Northern Ireland as a badge of their cultural identity. The
Ulster-Scots language and culture had its eighteenth century, premodern
heyday in the north-eastern counties of the north of Ireland where it
expressed distinctiveness from English and Englishness. However, in common
with many regional dialects elsewhere in Europe, the processes of
modernization signalled the demise of Ulster-Scots. The contemporary
reinvention of an Ulster-Scots identity was precipitated by the 1990s
political transformation of Northern Ireland. This reinvention has multiple
manifestations. It is, variously, a myth of origin, a language and culture,
a communal consciousness, a reaction against Irish nationalist cultural
assertiveness in Northern Ireland, an embryonic nationalism, and a component
part of the British identity. Ultimately, the reinvention of the
Ulster-Scots cultural narrative appears designed to offset advances made by
Irish nationalists in the assertion of their culture in Northern Ireland.
Ulster-Scots has also been reinvented in an attempt to provide the Ulster
unionist identity with the cultural booster required to deliver security and
continuity to an identity experiencing chronic insecurity and doubt during a
period of political transformation. However, the ability of Ulster-Scots to
deliver on these aims is questionable.

Keywords: Ulster-Scots, cultural politics, reinvention, Irish

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Specialist will be aware that an article by Michael Ragussis, Jews and Other
'Outlandish Englishman': Ethnic Performance and the Invention of British
Identity under the Georges, Critical Inquiry, Summer 2000,Volume 26, Number
4 - info at
http://www.uchicago.edu/research/jnl-crit-inq/v26/v26n4.ragussis.html -
has become something of an instant classic. Ragussis sees C18th London
theatre as a 'site of resistance' by ethnic minorities, protesting at
negative representations of their group. It is an interesting line of
enquiry, a new way of looking at all those protests, counter-protests and
apologies from the stage that were such a feature of C18th theatrical
life...

Paul Goring's latest article - details pasted in below - is a critique of
Ragussis, using the career and work of Charle Macklin to demonstrate the
comparative powerlessness of this true-born Irishmen to change the standard
depictions of 'Irishness'. Of special interest is the prologue, which
Goring prints in full, that Macklin wrote for the revised London version of
The Irish Fine Lady - a very thoughful outline of the frustration Macklin
felt, as an actor, writer and producer...

Hibernias Sons from earliest days have been
The Jest and Scandal of the Comic Scene:
For Dullness gave her Bards this modest Rule.
'To Irish Tones associate Knave and Fool...'

As I read this, the Bards belong to Dullness, of course, that famed
eighteenth century goddess...

I don't think Goring detracts from Ragussis - Goring is critical, but does
demonstrate that there is an interesting line of enquiry here...

P.O'S.


'John Bull, pit, box, and gallery, said No!': Charles Macklin and the
Limits of Ethnic Resistance on the Eighteenth-Century London Stage

Representations, 1 August 2002, vol. 79, no. 1, pp. 61-81(21)

Goring P.

Abstract:
THIS ARTICLE EXAMINES REPRESENTATIONS of Irishness on the eighteenth-century
London stage as a basis for reconsidering the theater's role as a site of
interethnic contest and negotiation. Ethnic interaction is thematized in
numerous eighteenth-century plays - a tendency that highlights the function
of the stage as a mediator of the social and cultural shifts that followed
urban expansion, the growth of the British empire, and, with immigration,
the increasing multiculturalism of Britain and particularly London. The
theaters of the period have consequently been presented as spaces in which
minority ethnic groups were able to express forceful antihegemonic
resistance - both from the stage and from the auditorium. That such
resistance typically inspired vigorous counterresistance has received
minimal critical attention. The article examines several Irish-themed plays,
particularly those by the celebrated Irish actor-playwright Charles Macklin
(1699?-1797), and it investigates their reception by the heterogeneous
London public. Exploring issues of both authorship and reception - and
presenting previously unpublished writings by Macklin - it uncovers a
dialogue between ethnic resistance and counterresistance, and thus it
interrogates the radicalism attributable to London theaters as sites of
ethnic negotiations. It argues that the ethnic voice gained only
circumscribed legitimacy during the eighteenth century, and that, despite
the efforts of writers such as Macklin, traditional modes of representing
Irishness were not radically overturned.

Language: English Document Type: Research article ISSN: 0734-6018


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Bullan, 2002, vol. 6, no. 2,
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS

1. The Ghost in the House: Colonial Consequences in Elizabeth Bowen's
Bowen's Court (1942) and "The Back Drawing-Room" (1926)
Corcoran, N.

2. Between Fleet Street and Mayo: P. D. Kenny and the Culture Wars of
Edwardian Ireland
Maume, P.

3. Swift's Scotophobia
Fox, C.

4. Does Revolution Make Moral Sense? Political Options in Ireland and
Scotland in the 1790s
Brown, M.

5. Disturbing Events: Assessing and Re-assessing J. M. Synge
King, M. C.

6. Reconfiguring Northern Ireland
Todd, J.

7. Ireland after Theory
Kearns, G.

8. Dangerous Authority: The Instability of the Classic in Irish Writing
Welch, R.

9. Patricia Boyle Haberstroh, ed., My Self, My Muse: Irish Women Poets
Reflect on Life and Art
Tell, C.

10. Fearghal McGarry, Irish Politics and the Spanish Civil War
Cronin, M.

11. Patricia Palmer, Language and Conquest in Early Modern Ireland:
English Renaissance Literature and Elizabethan Imperial Expansion
Maley, W.

12. T. M. Charles-Edwards, Early Christian Ireland
Mhaonaigh, M. N.

13. Bernadette Cunningham, The World of Geoffrey Keating: History, Myth
and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Ireland
Siochru, M. O.

14. Linda Dowling Almeida, Irish Immigrants in New York City, 1945-1995;
Maureen Waters, Crossing Highbridge: A Memoir of Irish America
O Brien, M.

15. Jim Smyth, The Making of the United Kingdom, 1160-1880: State Religion
and Identity in Britain and Ireland
Kearney, H.

Bullan, 2002, vol. 6, no. 2,
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS

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Allegiance and Illusion: Queen Victoria?s Irish Visit of 1849

History, October 2002, vol. 87, no. 288, pp. 491-513(23)

Loughlin J. [1]

[1] University of Ulster at Magee

Abstract:

This article examines Queen Victoria?s first visit to Ireland in 1849.
Taking place in the wake of the Great Famine, the occasion was,
nevertheless, a great popular success and raised enduring expectations about
inculcating loyalty to the Union among Irish Catholics. Through empirical
analysis informed by insights drawn from studies of the social function of
public ritual, this article will attempt to assess the visit?s significance,
especially the extent to which it evidenced authentic loyalty, and whether
it deserved to be regarded as the potential harbinger of a loyal and
Unionist Ireland.