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From: Celtic Conference

CALL for PAPERS
Celtic Representations
A Symposium at the University of Colorado at Boulder
Concerning perspectives on the Celts in Britain, Ireland, Brittany and
their diaspora communities Oct. 24, 2003

Sponsored by the Center for British and Irish Studies, University of
Colorado, and The Institute for Cornish Studies, Truro, Cornwall, United
Kingdom

Overview:
This international symposium seeks to connect scholars working
in multiple disciplines on topics related to Celtic culture. We hope to
forge new links among scholars that will encourage emergent ways of
thinking about culture and Celticity in particular. From more
traditional disciplines within Celtic Studies such as History,
Literature and Language to newer entries coming from Critical and Social
theory and Cultural Studies, the field is rich in methodological and
theoretical diversity, presenting challenges and opportunities for both
seasoned and junior scholars in individual and collaborative efforts.
This event will focus on the mediated construction and
expression of Celtic culture. In recent years, scholars have utilized a
wide variety of media to explore representations of Celticity, including
ethnographic evidence, film and photographic studies, ethnomusicology,
the Internet, literature, and historical documents, to name a few.
Anchoring this event will be guest lecturer Dr. Garry Tregidga
from the University of Exeter Institute of Cornish Studies, based in
Truro, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Dr. Tregidga will speak about the
Cornish Audio-Visual Archive (CAVA), which aims to capture the living
culture of Cornwall and its unique communities through recording the
memories of individuals from all generations. Dr. Tregidga will offer
perspectives on the Celts in Britain, Ireland, Brittany and their
diaspora communities drawn from oral-history projects.

Call for Papers:
We are seeking paper abstracts (no more than 500 words) and
panel proposals. The deadline is June 15, 2003. Possible topic areas
include, but are not limited to, the following:

§ The Celt of folklore, literature and imagination
§ Nationalism and globalization: implications for Celtic identity
§ Celtic representation in music and film
§ Methodological innovations (e.g. the use of text/images as data)
§ The Internet as Celtic space
§ Changing historical representations of Celtic people
§ Celtic spirituality
§ Tourism, commodification and the Celtic revival
§ Celtic languages: implications for education, political economy,
and independence
§ Celtic geographies and cultural representations
§ Celtic diasporas or any aspect of Celtic National History

Submission Guidelines:
§ Please submit by email attachment (Word document) to:
Monica Emerich
monica.emerich[at]colorado.edu

§ If you cannot access email, you may send your abstract or
proposal to:
Monica Emerich
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Colorado
Box 478, UCB
Boulder, Colorado 80309-0478

§ For more information, contact Monica Emerich,
monica.emerich[at]colorado.edu or
Sharon Curtis, sharon.curtis[at]colorado.edu

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

There will be a public launch of the Moving Here web site at the City
Hall, London, on Wednesday 30 July 2003, 3.30 to 6.30 pm.

Contact person Elizabeth Lovell
Elizabeth.lovell[at]nationalarchives.gov.uk

People who have not been to London recently will need to know that
London now has a city-wide Mayor, Mr. Ken Livingstone - and Mr.
Livingstone has a new City Hall near London Bridge. This is the new
London building that looks like a car headlamp - not the new London
building that looks like a gherkin.

There is information about the Moving Here project at the web site...
http://www.movinghere.org.uk/
Where it is described as 'the ultimate online database of original
sources recording the migration experience...'

Well, let us home it is not the ultimate, or the penultimate... I have
never disguised my mixed feelings about this lottery-funded project. It
is good to see a major English/British institution acknowledge that
Britain is a migrant-receiving country. But too much of the funding was
absorbed by the 'partner institutions' - and I strongly suspect that
their belated meeting with myself and Eibhlin Evans of BAIS was the
first time they had actually talked to any scholars of migration and
diaspora. (See earlier Ir-D discussion). I think what you will get
here is a somewhat arbitrary selection or taster - I will not use the
word 'sample' - of the kind of material held in the archives. Will that
be of any use to the scholar, or the family historian?

P.O'S.


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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

There will be a presentation and a celebration at the Irish Embassy,
London, this coming Monday, May 19, afternoon - when the recipients of
the the British Association for Irish Studies postgraduate bursaries for
2003 will receive applause and cheques. These bursaries are one of the
really nice things that the BAIS does.

BAIS is not currently running a newsletter, so that I have not seen a
list of this year's successful applicants - it is always heartening to
see such interesting and brave work in progress.

There is basic information on the web site that Siobhán Holland is
developing for BAIS, plus a list of last year's successful applicants.

http://www.english.ltsn.ac.uk/bais/pages/bursaries/bursaries2003.htm

http://www.english.ltsn.ac.uk/bais/pages/bursaries/bursaries2002.htm

Congratulations to the applicants of 2003 - whoever you are...

P.O'S.


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Department of Social Sciences and Humanities
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
Yorkshire
England

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For Information...

P.O'S.


Online article - freely available...

http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/winter_03/articles/mano.html


Anti-Catholicism in Albert Bierstadt's Roman Fish Market, Arch of
Octavius by Paul A. Manoguerra

Study of the 1858 painting, now in Museum of San Francisco

'Although it dramatizes a Yankee tourist couple surrounded by poor,
swarthy Romans, Bierstadt's picture can be read as an allegory of
anti-Catholic, anti-Irish sentiment...'

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For Information...

P.O'S.


Title: Les rh¨¦toriques de la continuit¨¦: les femmes, l'islam et l'h¨¦
ritage catholique en Irlande
Author(s): Tuula Sakaranaho
Source: Social Compass Volume: 50 Number: 1 Page: 71 -- 84
DOI: 10.1177/0037768603050001965
Publisher: Sage Publications

Abstract: Comment peut-on interpr¨¦ter le cas de cette femme musulmane
irlandaise qui pr¨¦tend que les valeurs qui lui ont ¨¦t¨¦ transmises par
son ¨¦ducation catholique traditionnelle ont ¨¦t¨¦ une pr¨¦paration id¨¦
ale pour sa vie de musulmane et que, d¨¨s lors, passer du christianisme
¨¤ l'islam ¨¦tait tr¨¨s facile? L'auteure tente d'apporter des ¨¦l¨¦
ments de r¨¦ponse ¨¤ cette question en observant le mode de vie des
musulmans et en relevant les similitudes avec le catholicisme tel qu'il
se pratique en r¨¦publique d'Irlande. D'un point de vue th¨¦orique, ce
continuum entre deux traditions religieuses diff¨¦rentes est mis en
rapport avec l'approche conceptuelle ¨¦labor¨¦e par la sociologue fran¦Ì
aise Dani¨¨le Hervieu-L¨¦ger. La cl¨¦ de son approche r¨¦side dans le
concept de 'm¨¦moire'. La conscience d'une m¨¦moire partag¨¦e est un
trait essentiel de l'identit¨¦ tant individuelle que sociale. L'auteure
met d¨¨s lors principalement l'accent sur les aspects th¨¦oriques du
passage d'une tradition religieuse ¨¤ une autre, en se r¨¦f¨¦rant ¨¤
l'exemple des femmes musulmanes irlandaises.

How does one interpret a case in which an Irish Muslim woman claims that
the values imparted by her traditional Catholic upbringing were an ideal
preparation for life as a Muslim, and that hence converting from one
religious tradition to another, Christianity to Islam, was very easy
indeed? The author aims to give some tentative answers to this question
by looking at the Muslim way of life and the resemblance it has to
Catholicism in the Republic of Ireland. From the theoretical point of
view, this continuum between two different religious traditions will be
conceptualized within the theoretical approach developed by the French
sociologist of religion Dani¨¨le Hervieu-L¨¦ger. The key to her approach
lies in the concept of 'memory': an awareness of a shared memory is an
essential feature of both individual and social identity. Thus, the main
emphasis here will be on theoretical discussion concerning a change of
religious tradition with reference to Irish Muslim women as an
illustrative example.
Reference Links: 8

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Title: The Illusion of State Neutrality in a Secularising Ireland
Author(s): Bill Kissane

Source: West European Politics Volume: 26 Number: 1 Page: 73 -- 94

Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers

Abstract: Ireland is frequently cited as a case of church-state
separation and state religious neutrality, but an examination of the
1937 constitution, and efforts to amend it, indicates that the Irish
state has never been neutral when it comes to religion. On the other
hand, if neutrality can be construed as the state regulating the affairs
of different religious communities in an even-handed way, recent trends
suggest that the Irish state is moving towards a position of 'religious
neutrality', even if this falls far short of what liberals would demand.
Indeed neutrality as practised in the Irish context precludes any
separation of church and state and actually reinforces the position of
the Catholic Church. As such there seems to be a weak relationship
between the wider process of secularisation and Irish state policy.
Keywords: State neutrality; church-state separation; state religious
neutrality; Irish constitution; Catholic Church

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of
Colette Cunningham
BBC Radio 4

P.O'S.

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From: Colette Cunningham
colette.cunningham[at]bbc.co.uk
Subject: Bookclub Radio 4


BOOKCLUB
Would you like a chance to meet author Edna O'Brien?
BBC Radio 4 programme Bookclub is looking for ordinary people who enjoy
reading to take part in a pre-recorded programme with Edna O'Brien where
the author will be discussing her book House of Splendid Isolation with
a small group of readers at the British Library.
Previous programmes have included Beryl Bainbridge's An Awfully Big
Adventure and Original sin by PD James
As a member of the studio audience you will be expected to have read the
book and be prepared to discuss it with the writer and other members of
the audience. You cannot just come along and listen!
It is just like a normal book club but with the advantage of having the
author there to answer questions.
The dates are:
Recording: Wednesday 25th June 2003 at 16.00
Venue: The British Library
Author: Edna O'Brien
Book: House Of Splendid Isolation
If you are interested in taking part in this programme,
please phone Colette Cunningham on 0207 765 4705
or email: colette.cunningham[at]bbc.co.uk
There are only a limited number of audience places so please book early
to avoid disappointment.


Colette Cunningham
BBC Radio Arts
Room 7073 Broadcasting House
Portland Place
London
W1A 1AA
Tel: 0207 7654705
E-mail: Colette.Cunningham[at]bbc.co.uk


BBCi at http://www.bbc.co.uk/

Subject: RE: Ir-D BAIS Bursaries 2003
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 11:28:02 +0100
From: "ARROWSMITH Aidan"


Patrick,

BAIS Bursaries were yesterday awarded to the following postgraduate
students for their research projects:

Ultan Gillen (Exeter College, Oxford): "Monarchy, Republic and Empire:
Irish Public Opinion & France c.1787-1804"

John Raven (Glasgow): "Comparative Archaeological Landscapes of Later
Mediaeval Gaelic Scotland and Ireland"

Moira Ruff (De Montford): "Transmission, Community and Aesthetics in
Contemporary Irish Dancing"

Claire McEwen (Aberdeen): "'Knowing who we are and finding a way to tell
ourselves': Gender and Nation in Contemporary Scottish, Irish and
Northern Irish Women's Poetry"

Kate Thompson (Liverpool): "Levels of Influence & Independence of Irish
Women in Nineteenth Century Argentina"

Claire Spencer-Jones (Manchester): "An Historical Investigation into the
Parodic Language of Menippean Satire in the Cyclops chapter of James
Joyce's ULYSSES"


Best wishes
Aidan Arrowsmith (BAIS Treasurer)


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Sent: 16 May 2003 06:59
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Ir-D BAIS Bursaries 2003



From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

There will be a presentation and a celebration at the Irish Embassy,
London, this coming Monday, May 19, afternoon - when the recipients of
the the British Association for Irish Studies postgraduate bursaries for
2003 will receive applause and cheques. These bursaries are one of the
really nice things that the BAIS does.

BAIS is not currently running a newsletter, so that I have not seen a
list of this year's successful applicants - it is always heartening to
see such interesting and brave work in progress.

There is basic information on the web site that Siobhán Holland is
developing for BAIS, plus a list of last year's successful applicants.

http://www.english.ltsn.ac.uk/bais/pages/bursaries/bursaries2003.htm

http://www.english.ltsn.ac.uk/bais/pages/bursaries/bursaries2002.htm

Congratulations to the applicants of 2003 - whoever you are...

P.O'S.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For Information...

P.O'S.

EYEWITNESS - The Irish Company at Jadotville, Congo, 1961: Soldiers or
Symbols?

International Peacekeeping, Winter 2002, vol. 9, no. 4, pp.
127-144(18)

O'Neill J.T.

Abstract:

The article examines an incident during the UN operation in the Congo
(ONUC) in which a company of Irish troops under siege at the isolated
post of Jadotville was forced to surrender to the authorities of the
secessionist province of Katanga. It looks at the circumstances leading
up to the incident; the confusion surrounding the role of the UN force,
and in particular, the problems arising from assigning military tasks to
troops equipped only for peacekeeping duties. It argues that failure to
learn the lessons of the incident led to many of the problems
encountered by UN troops at Srebrenica and in Rwanda and Sierra Leone.

From: "Richard Jensen"
Subject: newdeal: Harry Stack Sullivan, psychiatrist

American National Biography Online

Sullivan, Harry Stack (21 Feb. 1892-14 Jan. 1949), psychiatrist and
social scientist, was born in Norwich, Chenango County, New York, the
third and only surviving child of Timothy J. Sullivan and Ella Stack,
both the children of Irish immigrants who had left their country due to
the potato famine. Sullivan's mother came from a professional family
that influenced him to pursue a scholarly life. His father resigned his
job as a laborer in a farm machinery factory to manage the family farm
of his wife, which was located near New Smyrna, New York. Sullivan was
three years old at the time. An only child, he spent many isolated hours
on the farm, a loneliness that was further intensified by a lack of
friends his age, and this acute sense of childhood loneliness shaped his
ideas on human relations. He came to believe that every human contact in
one's life is profoundly important. Indeed, Sullivan's theory of
interpersonal relations, the work for which he is best known, was in a
very real sense based on his own life and is more easily understood
within the framework of his strong sense of childhood loneliness and
isolation.

Sullivan attended the local school but was ostracized by the other
students because of his ethnic and religious differences as well as his
lower economic status. This ostracism further reinforced his sense of
loneliness and isolation. He later came to believe that his inability as
an adult to accept compromise and cooperation originated in the
rejection and alienation he experienced in childhood. He blamed the
inability to compromise on a lack of training during a child's early
years, which he as an only child had not received.

When Sullivan was eight and a half he finally found a friend, Clarence
Bellinger, a neighbor on the adjoining farm who was five years older
than Sullivan. Although the two became life-time friends, Sullivan later
came to believe that theirs was not an ideal type of companionship for
the critical preadolescent period. Bellinger was to have a profound
impact on Sullivan's future for it was he who first suggested that they
both become psychiatrists. Despite the strong influence they exerted on
each other, Bellinger and Sullivan differed widely in their clinical
approach and their personal qualities, and neither of them ever married.
Sullivan later selected the age of eight as a key element of his theory,
citing it as the earliest possible age for the beginning of
preadolescence.

At the age of sixteen Sullivan graduated as valedictorian from Smyrna
High School and entered Cornell University on a state scholarship. He
had intended to major in physics, but by the middle of the second term
he stopped performing academically and was suspended for one term (Jan.
1909). Sullivan chose not to return to Cornell, and in the fall of 1911
he entered the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery. Little is known
about Sullivan's years of study there (now Loyola University). Sullivan
himself had little to record as he was under considerable financial
stress and apparently spent most of his time and energy working to pay
his tuition. At a later period in life he referred to this school as a
"diploma mill." Sullivan also claimed that with the exception of two or
three teachers, he had taught himself by intensive reading and practical
application in the hospital. Ultimately, in 1917 he received the M.D.

This graduation marks another confused period in Sullivan's life, and
it may well be that he again suffered some psychological lapse, as he
had at Cornell. In later years Sullivan stated that he was hospitalized
as a young man for a schizophrenic break. Perhaps exacerbating the
breakdown were the rumors circulating around Smyrna that Sullivan was
getting into trouble with the law because of sexual involvements with
older boys. Arrested, Sullivan pretended to be crazy in order to avoid a
jail sentence. During the next few years after graduation he worked as a
first lieutenant in the Medical Corps and for a time as an industrial
surgeon. Sullivan later recalled that during the winter of 1916-1917 he
had to undergo about seventy-five hours of psychoanalysis.

With the conclusion of World War I, Sullivan received a contract with
the army that placed him in direct contact with veterans who were
suffering from psychological trauma. In 1922 he became liaison officer
for veterans at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., where he
became a student of the hospital superintendent, William Alanson White.
White, an early advocate of the teachings of Sigmund Freud, was firmly
convinced that Freud's teachings provided a new source of hope for
long-term hospital patients suffering from psychological trauma. White
encouraged Sullivan to develop his ideas on the schizophrenic patient
and may have facilitated Sullivan's move in 1923 to Enoch Pratt Hospital
in Baltimore, where he remained until his death.

At Enoch Pratt Sullivan established a new type of ward, one made up
entirely by young male schizophrenics treated almost exclusively by
attendants directly trained and supervised by him. Sullivan believed
that the attendants had suffered some of the same humiliations as had
the patients and that in this one-sex, one-class patient society
recovery would be encouraged by the controlled interaction of patients
and attendants. Sullivan also believed that the tragic events of his own
childhood would be re-created for the patients and that the attendants
would become trusted friends for them as Bellinger had for him, thereby
creating an environment promoting adjustment and recovery.

According to Sullivan's theory of interpersonal relations, a child
develops through the process of learning to compromise and cooperate
primarily after entering school. Later, as preadolescence begins, the
child learns to trust and develops a relationship with another child of
the same age group and sex. At this point, according to Sullivan, the
child is ready for the beginnings of lust dynamism, and it is at this
developmental stage that a shift from trust in a person like oneself to
trust in a biological stranger takes place. If certain deprivations
occur, adolescence can be delayed until the age of seventeen, and such
delays are often associated with periods of great stress. Given that
Sullivan's suspension from Cornell occurred when he was seventeen, it
may be safe to assume that, in line with his theory, he underwent a
period of severe adolescent stress. Sullivan freely admitted that he
never went through the typical heterosexual adjustment, and he viewed
this as a great personal loss. His own life was further subjected to
additional stress by his homosexuality, which he considered to be a
miscarriage of human living and which he always denied was innate. It
was also his view, however, that a homosexual lifestyle was preferable
to a lifetime spent in a mental hospital trying to correct the behavior.
He also believed that an early homosexual experience during
preadolescence is normal and that the lack of one presents a major
handicap in the patterning of heterosexual behavior. Parenthood, in
Sullivan's view, presents the last great opportunity for significant
social change and growth.

Three other people played major roles in Sullivan's later life. With
the assistance of Edward Sapir and Harold Lasswell, Sullivan founded a
new journal, Psychiatry, and established the Washington School of
Psychiatry. James Inscoe's role was more personal. Fifteen years old
when he came to live with Sullivan in 1927, Inscoe stayed with Sullivan
until his death, acting as his secretary and running the household so
effectively that Sullivan was able to be productive even after his
health began to fail.

Beginning in 1939 Sullivan became very involved in government work,
assisting in establishing psychiatric standards for the Selective
Service System and working as a consultant to the White House. In 1948
he participated in a United Nations Educational, Scientific, and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO) study on the tensions that cause wars. A
year later, after attending a World Federation for Mental Health meeting
in Amsterdam, he died from a meningeal hemorrhage in Paris.

Sullivan's importance lies in his influence on two separate, though
related, disciplines, psychiatry and social science. Sullivan's work
with schizophrenic patients at Sheppard and Pratt hospitals is
considered to be a prime example of therapeutic art in a clinical
setting. Social scientists have used the same work as a means of
defining a new, broader view of the human process within a broader
spectrum. As social psychologist Gordon W. Allport stated, "Sullivan,
perhaps more than any other person, labored to bring about the fusion of
psychiatry and social science" (Tensions That Cause Wars, ed. Hadley
Cantril [1950], p. 135n). This multifaceted influence, his concept of
early mental injury being modified by any significant personal
encounter, even with a stranger, and his ideas about sexual development
remain as Sullivan's greatest contributions.


Bibliography

One of the more interesting volumes dealing with Sullivan's work is
Clinical Studies in Psychiatry, ed. Helen Swick Perry et al. (1956). His
own Collected Works (1965) is valuable for insight into his theories.
Conceptions in Modern Psychiatry (1947) is the best collection of his
lectures presented to the William Alanson White Psychiatric Foundation.
Another valuable source is his The Fusion of Psychiatry and Social
Sciences (1964), which has comments by Perry. His The Interpersonal
Theory of Psychiatry, ed. Perry and Mary Ladd Gawel (1953), also
provides insight into his ideas, as does Personnel Psychopathology
(1972). Perry worked with Sullivan in producing two other works, The
Psychiatric Interview
(1954) and Schizophrenia as a Human Process (1962).

Several excellent volumes about Sullivan and his life have been
published. Two of the more important ones are by Arthur H. Chapman,
Harry Stack Sullivan: His Life and His Work (1976) and Harry Stack
Sullivan's Concepts of Personality Development and Psychiatric Illness
(1980). John C. Dillingham provides a good case study with A Harry Stack
Sullivan Case Seminar: Treatment of a Young Male Schizophrenic (1976).
Another good secondary source is Dorothy R. Blitsten, The Social
Theories of Harry Stack Sullivan: The Significance of His Concepts of
Socialization and Acculturation (1953). Gerard Chrzanowski,
Interpersonal Approach to Psychoanalysis: Contemporary View of Harry
Stack Sullivan (1977), provides a more personal view, and Perry, who
worked very closely with Sullivan, reviews his life in Psychiatrist of
America: The Life of Harry Stack Sullivan (1982). Ralph M. Crowley also
presents a solid interpretation in Harry Stack Sullivan: His
Contributions to Current Psychiatric Thought and Practice (1971), as
does Patrick Mullahy in Psychoanalysis and Interpersonal Psychiatry: The
Contributions of Harry Stack Sullivan (1970). Of all of these, perhaps
the best was published by the William Alanson White Association, The
Contributions of Harry Stack Sullivan: A Symposium of Interpersonal
Theory in Psychiatry and Social Sciences (1952).

Arthur Chapman
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Citation:
Arthur Chapman. "Sullivan, Harry Stack";
http://www.anb.org/articles/14/14-00609.html
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This item has turned up in the new database search systems...

(See my earlier Ir-D message about stuff turning up in the new database
systems...)

I have not seen the article. It cannot be very substantial - only a few
pages. But it might be worth adding to the list of material on the
Irish language outside Ireland...

P.O'S.


Royds, John. 'The dear old tongue in the heart of Babylon: the Catholic
church and the Irish language in South London, 1750-1914.' Catholic
Ancestor, 4 (1992), 31-6.

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publication
Historical Journal - London

ISSN
0018-246X electronic: 1469-5103

publisher
Cambridge University Press

year - volume - issue - page
1998 - 41 - 2 - 457

article


CHURCH OR PROTESTANT SECT? THE CHURCH OF IRELAND, HIGH CHURCHMANSHIP,
AND THE OXFORD MOVEMENT, 1822-1869

NOCKLES, PETER

abstract

The Church of Ireland has been regarded as almost devoid of a high
church element and as unreservedly hostile to Tractarian claims. This
article questions these assumptions. It considers the evidence for an
influential, if minority, high church tradition within the Church of
Ireland and shows how far its adherents during the 1830s and early 1840s
looked to English Tractarians for support. The very raison d'être of the
Irish church was questioned under the reforming and erastian pressures
unleashed by a whig ministry in the early 1830s. Tractarian rhetoric
stressing apostolical descent and continuity was echoed by Irish high
churchmen in their concern to demonstrate that they belonged to a church
that was not a creature of the state and was no mere Protestant sect;
Irish high churchmen held many theological and spiritual ideals in
common with the early Tractarians, but guarded their independence. Irish
high churchmen and English Tractarians nevertheless became estranged:
the Protestant credentials of Irish high churchmen were suspect as a
result of the low church and Evangelical backlash against 'Puseyism';
Irish high church attempts to put church principles into practice,
notably over the foundation of St Columba's as an establishment to
educate Roman Catholic converts in high church teaching, were
cold-shouldered by English Tractarians. The Irish high church tradition
survived but was weakened by Roman Catholic undermining of its
assumption of apostolical continuity as well as by ultra-Protestant
critiques. Disestablishment in 1869 paved the way not for a high church
'restoration' on the Caroline model, as Irish high churchmen wished and
as early Tractarian rhetoric assumed, but for the completion of an
Evangelical ascendancy rooted in the Irish Articles of 1615 and the
church of James Ussher.

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The EU-Japan Friendship Week is in full swing...

http://jpn.cec.eu.int/english/eu-relations/e3-01a.htm

Ireland's contributioin is a showing of the film, COUNTRY...

Information pasted in below...

I am sure it reads better in Japanese...

'Irishness as a version of pastoral...?'

P.O'S.


Reference Number AC677
Title COUNTRY
Fiction Fiction
Language English
Country of Origin Ireland
Date 2000
Production Company Indi Films
Rights Indi Films
Producer Jack Armstrong
Director Kevin Liddy
Production Credits Opening Credits
Strongarm Films
Bord Scannan na hEireann / The Irish Film Board, in association with The
National Lottery Fund, through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland

Cast
Lisa Harrow
Des Cave
Gary Lydon
Marcella Plunket
Pat Laffan
Laurence Kinlan
And introducing Dean Pritchard

Location Irish countryside. Border between Southern and Northern
Ireland
Contents Summary Set on the border between Northern Ireland and
Southern Ireland, COUNTRY is concerned with the plight of Frank Murphy
and his two sons Con and Jack. Frank, an embittered man is in his late
fifties, farms his meagre holdings with little to look forward to, save
his hunting forays with his gun and dog. Con, the elder son drives a
truck and is having a secret affair with Sarah Clifford, the local
publican's daughter. Sarah's only real desire is to leave the drudgery
and oppressiveness of small town life in Ireland much to Con's
opposition. Jack, a twelve-year-old-boy, is an innocent waif; lonely
and bullied at school who has to fend for himself in this harsh
landscape.
Mick clifford, Sarah's uncle, is a man who holds a long-standing grudge
against Frank Murphy. On the death of her brother, Frank's sister in
law Miriam returns from London and rekindles a degree of warmth and
emotional need long forgotten in the house. Once again the house begins
to fill with laughter as Frank begins to feel the emotions for Miriam he
thought long dead. Through her presence, the boys come to locate the
suppressed elements in their characters, and grow to depend on her for
emotional expresion. Miriam finds herself fitting in well in the house,
enjoying the companionship of the boys as well as Frank's attention.
The drama of their evolving relationship takes place against the
background of violent tensions between the local farmers and a comunity
of travelers. Jack befriends a traveler boy, much against the townlands
feeling, bringing the two communities to the point of conflict.
Type Description Feature Film
Date Created 27/09/00
Edited By Liam Wylie

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

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TI: Rural women and urban extravagance in late nineteenth-century
Britain

AU: Helland_J
JN: Rural history, Oct 2002, Vol.13, No.2, pp.179-198

AB: This essay discusses two exhibitions that romanticised the rural
Celtic fringes of Britain for consumption in London, the `metropolis of
the world'. Alice Hart's reconstructed Donegal Village at the Irish
Exhibition (1888), organised under the auspices of the Donegal
Industrial Fund, assuaged the reality of poverty in the Congested
Districts; the Duchess of Sutherland's faux Highland cottage at the
Victorian Era Exhibition (1897), organised by Scottish Home Industries,
suggested hunting, fishing and scenic views rather than land reform and
emigration. While the differences between the organisations inform the
parts they played in exhibitions, they clearly and precisely converge in
one respect: both advertised, glorified and sold the rural when
existence in Donegal and in the Highlands was financially precarious and
disappearing. They also share another characteristic: the female
patrons, their associations and the female workers have ironically
disappeared from historical writings while still visible are the
colonised representations of exhibitions in which they participated.
This essay seeks to recollect the historical moment at which the two
associations flourished, examine how each group performed its
self-appointed task and analyse their places as urban enthusiasts of the
rural experience. Reprinted by permission of Cambridge University Press.
An electronic version of this article can be accessed via the internet
at http://journals.cambridge.org
IS: 0956-7933
DT: Article
DC: Anthropology
SD: History Rural studies Rural history Women Exhibitions Rural
poverty Industrial history Victorian Age
GD: United Kingdom Northern Ireland Scotland

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

A venture that looks very much worth supporting, and which will be of
use to the more isolated scholar...

Earlier this month the University of Lund, Sweden, launched the
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

http://www.doaj.org/

'The directory contains information about 350 open access journals, i.e.
quality controlled scientific and scholarly electronic journals that are
freely available on the web. The service will continue to grow as new
journals are identified.'

More information on the web site...

This resource is not (yet) huge - but already it has helped me locate
web material that I had lost sight of. For example...
Erfurt Electronic Studies in English
http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/ia/eese/eese.html

And Werner Huber's Strategy Statement about 'Irish Studies'.

P.O'S.


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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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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 Social Sciences and Humanities
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
Yorkshire
England

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The full ACIS Conference schedule is now available on the web site...

I have pasted in, below, for the record, the more obviously Irish
Diaspora Studies sessions. Trying not to forget the occasional orphan,
like...

John P Harrington, Rennsalaer Polytechnic Institute
Canonization and the Irish Theatre Diaspora

I think it is worth noting - because there have been complaints in the
past - that there is very substantial Irish Diaspora Studies matter and
participation at this Conference. A greater proportion, I think, than
at any similar Conference heretofore.

This is a tribute to the Conference organisers, and to the scholarly
world, within academia and outside.

I wish I could be there.

Paddy


http://www.acisweb.com/acisprog03r.html

American Conference for Irish Studies
41st Annual Meeting
June 4-7, 2003
University of St. Thomas
Further information:Jim Rogers
(651) 962-5662 or jrogers[at]stthomas.edu


Inevitable Success? The Uneven Journey of Irish America
Thornton Auditorium
Chair: Maureen Murphy, Hofstra University

David Noel Doyle, University College, Dublin
The Phoenix Rising from Angela's Ashes: Culture Shock vs. Achievement in
Irish America

Bill Mulligan, Murray State University
Irish Copper Mining, 1840-1880: The End of an Industry

Thomas P. O'Keefe, independent scholar
The Artistic Legacy of Henry McIlhenny of Philadelphia, Irish-American
Philanthropist and Art Collector


Landscapes, Imagined and Real
Room TMH 250
Chair: Nathalie Anderson, Swarthmore College

Jill Brady Hampton, Washington University
Contemporary Irish Poets and American Landscapes

Karen Holland, Providence College
Quilting the Irish Landscape and Culture

Matthew Jockers, Stanford University
From the Parks of Menlough to Menlo Park: Irish Writing in California


Irish Sobriety(!?): New Perspectives
Room TMH 255
Chair: Lawrence McCaffrey, Loyola University, Chicago

George Bretherton, Montclair State University
Irish Temperance: A Sense of Class

John Quinn, Salve Regina University
"Father Mathew's Legacy: the American Temperance Movement, 1849-1920."

Paul A. Townend, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
'Heretical Plants of Irish Growth:' Thomas Chisholme Anstey, the Oxford
Movement, and the Problem of Mathewite Temperance


Communities in Change
Room TMH 253
Chair: Daniel Gahan, University of Evansville

Dominic Bryan, Institute of Irish Studies (QUB)
Where have all the Orangemen gone?: Protestant Identities and Northern
Politics

Michael J. Curran, Trinity College, Dublin
From Wembley to Wimbledon: the Psychosocial Adaptation of the Irish in
Britain

James J. Kennelly, Skidmore College
Ireland's "Celtic Tiger" Economy: Can it Foster an Ethic of Sustainable
Enterprise?


East, West, and In-Between: Regional Perspectives
in Irish-American Historiography
Room TMH 352
Chair: William Mulligan, Murray State University

Mary Lethert Wingerd, Macalester College
The St. Paul Experience: Politics, Faith, and Place in St. Paul

Timothy Meagher, Catholic University of America
An East Coast Response to the Midwestern Irish

David Emmons, University of Montana
The Many Layers of Irishness in the American West



The Harp and the Loon: Minnesota's Irish Connections
Room TMH 253
Chair Michael Funchion, South Dakota State University

Patrick O'Donnell, Normandale Community College
Irish Theater in Minnesota

Eileen R. McCormack, Hill Reference Library
In Her Own Name: The Catholic Philanthropic Activities of Mary T. Hill

Ann Regan, Minnesota Historical Society
Minnesota's Irish: A Story Still Being Told


Staging Race and Ethnicity: Irish, Jewish
and African American Representation and Social Protest, 1850-1920
Room TMH 255
Chair: Matthew Guterl, Brown University

Lauren Onkey, Associate Professor, Ball State University
The Irish in the Red Summer: Studs Lonigan and the Threat to Whiteness

M. Alison Kibler, Franklin and Marshall College
Paddy and Shylock: Irish and Jewish Campaigns against American Mass
Culture

Robert Nowatzki, Ball State University
Paddy Jumps Jim Crow: Irish-Americans and Blackface Minstrelsy
The 'Other' Irish in the 'Other' Colony:



Transatlantic Environments and Early Irish Protestant
Migration to America
Room TMH 250
CHAIR: David Noel Doyle, University College Dublin

Kerby Miller, University of Missouri, Columbia
Ulster Presbyterians and the 'Two Traditions' in Ulster and America

Patrick Griffin, University of Ohio
Translating Papists and Savages: Irish Transatlantic Constructions of
Human Difference

Michael Griffin, Notre Dame University
Crouching Tigers, Hidden Indians: Georgia in The Deserted Village



The Literature of the Diaspora
Room OEC 203
Chair: Matthew Jockers, Stanford University

Mary Haslam, National University of Ireland, Galway
Love in a Time of Cholera? Ireland and the Irish in Early Nineteenth
Century French-Canadian Writing

Eileen Kearney, Texas A & M University
Emigrant Dreams: The Drama of the Irish Diaspora

Katie Kane, University of Montana
"America was Born in the Streets": Violence, The Irish in American
Cinema, and the Wages of Assimilation and Belonging



A Celebration of Mary McCarthy
Room OEC 208
Chair: Charles Fanning, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale

Ron Ebest, University of Missouri-St. Louis
"Le Premier Pas": McCarthy and Kate Chopin

Mary Mueth, University of Missouri-St. Louis
The Personal is Political, Philosophical, and Literary: Mary McCarthy's
Marriages and Relationships

Sally Barr Ebest, University of Missouri-St. Louis
The Fledgling Feminist: McCarthy's The Group



Traditional Music
in the Old World and the New
OEC Auditorium
Chair: Patrick Coleman, Minnesota Historical Society

Rebecca Troeger, Boston College
"A Map of a Tune": Identity and Authenticity in Literary Representations
of Irish Music

Ruth-Ann M. Harris, Boston College
Civil War Soldier Christopher Byrne in Minnesota Writes to his Brother
Patrick, the Harper

Sally Sommers-Smith, Boston University
Patrick Byrne: From the Great House to the Public Stage



Irish Immigrant Networks
Room OEC 207
Chair: Craig S. Piper, Mississippi State University

David T. Gleeson, College of Charleston
'The Ferocity of his Patriotism': Irish Immigrant Networks in
Charleston, South Carolina

Brendan J. Buttimer, Mississippi State University
'Perverting, Confounding, and Eluding the Law': Irish Entry into the
Legal Profession in Georgia, 1865-1925

Matthew J. O'Brien, Franciscan University of Steubenville
Crisis and Cooperation: Cross-Channel Networks during the Second World
War, 1939-1945



Beyond Ireland's Borders
Room OEC 206
Chair: Seán Farrell, College of St Rose

Michael de Nie, Texas Christian University
Paddy, Baboo, and John Bull: The British Press and Self-Government in
India and Ireland in the 1880s

Timothy G. McMahon, Marquette University
Pro-Boers or Little Irelanders? Assessing Attitudes about the Second
South African War in Provincial Ireland

Lee A. Smithey, University of St. Thomas
Irish Nationalist Identity, Strategic Decisions, and Arthur Griffith's
Hungarian Plan



American Voices, Irish Backgrounds
Room OEC 203
Chair: Lori Gallagher, University of St Thomas (Houston)

Charles Duffy, Providence College
Edwin O'Connor's Years as a Television Reviewer

Joseph Heininger, University of Michigan
From Ireland to America and Back Again: The Poetry of Thomas Lynch and
Eamonn Wall

Ciarán Mac Murchaidh, St Patrick's College
Bishop James Gallagher's Irish Sermons (1736): Dialogue, Doctrine and an
American Edition


The Locales of Irish-American Life
Room OEC 204
Chair: Jack Morgan, University of Missouri-Rolla

Sara Brady, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU
Gaelic Park, the Bronx: A Pocket of a Resistant and Resilient
'Irishness'

Arthur Mitchell, University of South Carolina
Hugh O'Brien and the Rise of the Boston Irish

Ellen Skerrett, University of Illinois at Chicago
Irish Material Culture in Chicago's Hull-House Neighborhood

From: christine cusick
Subject: Re: Ir-D Ethnicity and Race/Identity
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk


christine cusick cusickclm[at]yahoo.com

Grainne,

A good place to start might be Simon Gikandi's Maps of Englishness:
Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism, 1996. He offers an
incisive consideration of the fluidity of British identity and explains
this instability through the lens of postcolonial theory. Although it
is not limited to a discussion of the Irish experience, his
consideration of ideologies of postcoloniality certainly leads him in
this direction. Best of luck with your research. christine cusick

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This looks an interesting conference - note that the conference
organisers, Leos Müller and Linas Eriksonas, are happy to send a
schedule, including abstracts, to any interested person.

The main focus of the conference is on the small nations of eastern
Europe - but we have already exchanged notes about the small nations of
the west. Like Ireland and Scotland. The core discipline is history -
but with that cheerful European embracing of theory. And one paper, by
Gabriella Elgenius of the LSE, is on 'National Days and
Nation-building'.

So, much food for thought here.

P.O'S.


- -----Original Message-----
Subject: Conference on Statehood Beyond Ethnicity: Comparative and
Trans-National Perspectives in Europe

Statehood Beyond Ethnicity: Comparative and Trans-National Perspectives
in Europe

A Conference for Young Scholars in the Humanities

13-14 June, Moas Båge, Flemigsberg, near Stockholm

The conference will tackle the issue of statehood and nationhood in the
case of the smaller European countries. According to the prevailing
political theory, a modern state came into being through the merging of
two principles - the idea of state and the concept of nation. In order
to challenge this view this conference will attempt to analyse
non-ethnic statehood in two renditions in two different periods of
history: as a historical phenomenon at the time of the emergence of the
early modern state and as a historical tradition upon which the
nation-builders from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries called. The
conference thus suggests to take into consideration both the historical
facts and historiographical constructs about statehood. While examining
the arguments put forward for the existence of a state in the early
modern age, the conference will seek to describe those essential
elements which found their later appropriation in explicitly ethnic
cultural and historical thinking about the older new nations. Yet, in
parallel, it will also look at the arguments of the modern nationalists
which echoed the non-ethnic past

Conference Themes: Concepts of Statehood, Legitimacy of the Military
State, Traditions of Statehood, Legacy of Empires, Statehood versus
Nationalism

Keynote Speakers: Dr Almut Bues (German Historical Institute Warsaw), Dr
Eric Kaufmann (University of Southampton/University of London)

Participants: around 30 young scholars from 15 countries will deliver
papers on their research

A detailed conference programme (including the paper summaries) is
available upon the request from either Dr Leos Müller at
leos.muller[at]sh.se or Dr Linas Eriksonas at linas.eriksonas[at]sh.se

Södertörns University College - Baltic and East European Graduate
School - Copyright, 2003

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan


This Conference Announcement is being circulated...

I have pasted in, below the Organisers' message, the Abstracts of the 3
Irish Diaspora Studies papers, by Don MacRaild, John Herson, and Louise
Ryan. Abstracts of all the papers are available on the web site...
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/faculties/humanities/his/HistConfHome.jsp

P.O'S.


History Conference: Immigration, History and Memory in Britain
6th & 7th September 2003

A two day conference that brings together leading researchers in British
immigrant(ion) history. The papers will cover themes connected to a wide
range of migration movements, from the Huguenots, to Jewish, Irish and
Italian migration, to post-war movements from eastern Europe, to
Commonwealth migration.

Sessions will:

Explore the meeting points between tales of immigration and British
history more generally
Underline the significance of history from below, in particular in
constructing and maintaining ethnic and national identity
Provide an opportunity for scholars from a variety of disciplinary
backgrounds to bring together their work on the diverse minority groups
in Britain.
Speakers include: Professor Colin Holmes (Northumbria University), Dr
Anne Kershen (Queen Mary College, University of London), Professor Tony
Kushner (University of Southampton)

Topics to be covered include:

African-Caribbean communities
Asian cultures and histories
Polish and Hungarian refugees after World War II
Irish experiences of exile
Italians in nineteenth and twentieth century Britain
Jewish immigration in British history and literature
Post-colonial British narratives of ethnicity
Gendered experiences of migration
Remembering and forgetting in Leicester
Full details, including the programme and abstracts, a booking form and
accommodation information are available online at our website.



Kathy Burrell,
School of Contemporary Studies,
De Montfort University,
Polhill Avenue,
Bedford,
MK41 9EA,
United Kingdom

Phone: +44 (0)1234 793126
Email: kburrell[at]dmu.ac.uk
Visit the website at
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/faculties/humanities/his/HistConfHome.jsp

Selected Abstracts...

Memory or Amnesia? Diaspora, migration and the cult of 'exile' among
Irish migrants
(Don MacRaild, Northumbria University)

In a recent article in the American Historical Review, Alon Corfino
contended that the notion of memory had become 'a leading term, recently
perhaps, the leading term, in cultural history'. 'Memory',
'remembrance', and 'remembering', are all concepts that helped to shape
the lives of migrants no less than of other groups in society. This
paper will seek to explore this complex and important element of the new
cultural history, with particularly reference to Irish migration.
Drawing upon wide historiographic traditions, and sources in which the
migrants speak for themselves (letters, commentaries, novels, etc), the
paper will at the same time seek to shed light on the application on the
use of the term Diaspora and the way in which it is evoked-after all,
part of the importance of collective memory of the Irish world-wide
derives from the persistence of the group and its sense of (collective)
self.
The paper also has a second theme: to discuss the role of migration
itself in the shaping of group consciousness and collective remembering.
The fact of migration perhaps gives an added to the idea of memory for
those who leave their homeland. 'Imagined communities' are, for those
who leave home, become doubly important because the initial referent,
the shaping community, is left behind and a further community, the new
homeland, begins to shape the mental landscape. Add to this a migration
process which is often traumatic (or is imagined to be so), and these
issues impart new meaning and impose additional considerations.
The paper will then go on to discuss, for the main part, the
peculiarities of the Irish migration. For the Irish, especially those in
America, the leaving of Ireland has been remembered, collectively and
individually as 'exile', with Britain, as 'colonial oppressor' featuring
prominently in the shaping and maintaining of this line of thinking.
Comparisons have been made with victim Diasporas (such as Africans, Jews
and Armenians); scholars have even likened the experiences of Irish
people in nineteenth-century Ireland to those of African-American slaves
in the ante-bellum South. Despite the fact that most Irish emigrants
were not-objectively-exiles or victims in quite the dramatic sense
implied in such comparisons, the consciousness of the group says that
this is otherwise. According to Sian Jones, moreover, key meaning is
ascribed to the self-definitions of ethnic groups as opposed to the
labels deployed by others. In which case, the collective memory of the
migrant-ethnic Irish-in Britain, America or elsewhere-acquires new
resonance, and deeper meaning. In such a formulation, we might not, and
perhaps should not, question the role of exile and victimhood that so
many Irish imagined their forebears suffered. But such a subjectivist
position leads to a partial picture, and so the problems therein will
require further discussion here. To offer such an analysis of the
critical tensions within collective and individual notions of migration
may finally help us provide a more critical, and valuable, application
of the very term Diaspora-as social theory rather merely as a collective
noun.


Migrant Irish Families and a Small Town, 1830-1919
(John Herson, Liverpool John Moores University)

This paper discusses research being carried out on the Irish who settled
in Stafford in the period from 1830 to 1919.
In the context of this conference and the wider British migrant history
the Irish are in an ambiguous position. They were white, generally
English-speaking, internal migrants within the 19th century political
entity of the United Kingdom. The parallel between the Irish experience
and that of immigrants from outside Britain seems superficially weak.
Yet the predominant historical literature tends to argue that there were
many similarities between the Irish experience and that of later
immigrants.
This research examines the range of Irish experiences by means of a
micro-study. It takes a small town and considers all the Irish people to
be found there during the 19th century. It gives due recognition to the
unobtrusive people who are inherently more difficult to study. The work
focuses on specific families and family strategies as the fundamental
units of the Irish social experience and synthesises evidence from
traditional historical sources with testimony from modern day
descendants of the immigrant Irish. This evidence, together with family
memorabilia, is used to explore the significance of ethnic identity
amongst the immigrant Irish and their descendants. It also links the
present with the past by considering contemporary descendants' attitudes
to their Irish heritage and the factors that have conditioned those
attitudes.


Irish Women's Memories of Immigration to Britain in the 1930s
(Louise Ryan, University College London)

The 1930s are an important and under-researched period in the
history of Irish immigration to Britain. During this time Irish patterns
of immigration underwent a shift with Britain replacing North America as
the primary destination for migrants. In the mid-1930s Irish immigration
to Britain increased dramatically and sparked widespread public debate
and media coverage in British society (Ryan, 2001). However, while the
dominant stereotype of the Irish migrant is 'Paddy the Nav vie', in
reality the majority of migrants at this time were young women destined
for jobs in domestic service (Walter 2001).
Their location within the British private sphere may partly explained
their invisibility from public discourses. The 1930s are also
significant as perhaps the earliest decade for which it is possible to
do oral history research. I have interviewed 11 women who left Ireland
in the 1930s to work in Britain. All of these women are now close to 90
years of age and have spent almost seven decades in Britain, yet they
still call Ireland 'home'. In this paper I will analyse their oral
testimonies of migration and examine the process of remembering and
retelling events that took place 70 years ago. In so doing this paper
will also explore how issues of ethnic identity are constructed through
oral history narratives and consider how my own identity as a young(er)
and more recent Irish migrant may have impacted on this process of
narrative and identity construction.

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British Journal of Sociology of Education
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Company, part of the Taylor & Francis
Group
Issue: Volume 23, Number 3/September 01, 2002
Pages: 341 - 355
URL: Linking Options

Racist Harassment in the White Hinterlands: minority ethnic children and
parents' experiences of schooling in Northern Ireland

Paul Connolly , Michaela Keenan

Abstract:

The present article explores the nature and extent of racist harassment
in predominantly white areas. It is based on a case study of Northern
Ireland, and draws on data from in-depth interviews with a total of 32
children and 43 parents chosen from the four largest minority ethnic
groups in the region: Chinese, Irish Travellers, South Asians and Black
Africans. The article demonstrates that racist harassment is a
significant problem in schools in Northern Ireland and highlights the
varied forms that it can take, from overt acts of physical and verbal
abuse to more covert and subtle forms of teasing and 'friendly' banter.
It also highlights the central role that schools play within this. More
specifically, some schools were found to respond appropriately and
effectively to incidents of racist harassment among their pupils. Other
schools, however, through inactivity and/or responding inappropriately,
were found to not only indirectly reinforce the racist harassment that
was taking place, but at times to directly contribute to it. The article
concludes by stressing the relevance and importance of schools
developing effective strategies for dealing with racist harassment in
predominantly white areas.