From: Ruth Hegarty

I will be away from today for the whole of August - thanks

Ruth Hegarty
Administrative Officer,
Royal Irish Academy / Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann
19 Dawson Street,
Dublin 2,
Ireland.

Switchboard: 00 353 1 6762570
Fax: 00 353 1 6762346
Direct Dial: 00 353 1 6380918
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To:
Subject: fyi
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 06:18:25 -0400


The Chronicle of Higher Education
Thursday, July 31, 2003

Charity's Decision to Stop Supporting Higher Education Will Cost
Ireland Millions
By DOUG PAYNE

The Irish-American philanthropist responsible for pouring more than
$600-million into Irish universities over the past 20 years is turning
off the tap. The Atlantic Philanthropies, a charity founded by the
businessman Charles Feeney, announced Tuesday that it was carrying out
a plan, disclosed last year, to phase out support for higher
education, both in the United States and abroad.

The organization will now direct its funds to programs on aging,
disadvantaged children, reconciliation and human rights, and public
health.

The change in direction follows a decision last year to make Atlantic
a limited-life philanthropy that would pay out its entire endowment
over the next 12 to 15 years. At the end of 2002, the organization,
which was bankrolled by the fortune Mr. Feeney made in duty-free
shopping, held assets worth approximately $3.9-billion.

John Healy, Atlantic's chief executive officer, said that it has
discussed providing universities with "exit grants," which would help
them secure future support. He emphasized that any Atlantic grants
already approved "would be honored in full."

Nevertheless, the impact in Ireland will be considerable. Atlantic was
the biggest single source of private funds for Irish universities,
paying for new buildings, faculty chairs, and advanced research. By
way of comparison, during 2002, the philanthropy gave American
universities $43.3-million, Irish universities $44.5-million, and
institutions in Northern Ireland $15.8-million.

Roger Downer is president of the University of Limerick, which
received $3-million last year, and head of the Conference of
University Rectors in Ireland. He said that although "the exit was
handled in a highly professional fashion, with each university advised
well in advance of the impending change, the decision to concentrate
on other philanthropic causes is a concern."

"Atlantic Philanthropies has had an enormously positive impact on the
quality of the higher-education environment in Ireland," he continued.
Despite the loss of Atlantic's support, he said, the country's
universities "are well positioned to generate the additional resources
required to ensure continued excellence in academic programs."


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Subject: fyi
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 01:28:41 -0400

The Christian Science Monitor - csmonitor.com
from the August 01, 2003 edition -
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0801/p15s03-almo.html

Modern women trapped in a medieval system
By David Sterritt

Months before its American opening this week, "The Magdalene Sisters"
sparked controversy at film festivals with its searing portrait of an
Irish Catholic home for "wayward girls."

On one hand, it won the coveted Golden Lion at Venice and earned a
berth in the highly selective New York filmfest.

On the other, it infuriated some moviegoers, who felt its views were
motivated by anti-Catholic animosity. A review on Vatican radio
reportedly said the Venice jury had been "offensive and pathetic" in
honoring it."

In the United States, meanwhile, Miramax Films acquired it for
distribution, while worrying that critics would focus more on this
brouhaha than on the picture itself.

That would be a shame, because "The Magdalene Sisters" is a pungent,
powerful film that points an accusing finger not at religious beliefs
but at flawed human institutions. It also targets social and cultural
mores that are almost medieval in their patriarchal bias against girls
and women.

The story takes place mainly in a Magdalene Sisters shelter, where
young women accused of sinful behavior - often unfairly or
fraudulently - are steered toward the straight-and-narrow path by a
regimen of labor, celibacy, and isolation from the outside world. We
see the misery they endure in this harshly unforgiving place, and we
see the futility of efforts to enforce strict morality on women whose
experience of life is so limited that some of them hardly understand
the injustice of their own treatment.

Most chilling of all is the realization that such things really
happened, that some girls were kept in servitude for their entire
lives, and that none of this is buried in the distant past. The story
takes place in the 1960s, and the Magdalene system stayed in operation
until 1996.

The movie was written and directed by actor Peter Mullan, who was
inspired by a British television documentary on the subject. His
fictionalized screenplay brings awful realities to vivid life,
reminding us that piety without compassion is meaningless.

. Rated R; contains violence, sex, and nudity.



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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.


- -----Original Message-----
Forwarded on behalf of Michael Londra
Subject: RadioCelt


Hello

My name is Michael Londra, originally from Wexford but currently based
in Chicago, USA. Recently I took on a new project as Director of
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From: T.Murray t.murray[at]unl.ac.uk
Subject: Moving Here Launch


Paddy,

As promised find below my report on the launch of the Moving Here
website -
hope you had a good holiday in Italy - I'm off to France myself tomorrow
for
two and half weeks and I can't wait!

Tony



Launch of the 'Moving Here' Website at City Hall, London
30th July 2003

"Archives are the new gardening!" according to Sarah Tyacke, Chief
Executive
of The National Archives (a recent marriage between the Public Record
Office
and Historical Manuscripts Commission). "Like all good gardeners we
should
begin by looking over the garden fence to see what they are growing next

door". She was referring here to the keynote of this ambitious project
- -
which is to begin opening up the considerable resources of the NA to
migrant
communities in England and to not only give them the chance to
contribute
their own artefacts, stories and images to the official record but to
compare
mutual experiences. The opportunity to take her metaphor further and
begin
thinking 'cross-fertilisation', 'roots' and 'hybrids' was perhaps just
too
tempting, but the focus on community involvement was very pronounced and

clearly reflected in the turn-out for this extremely well organised
event.

Kerry Rowe, the co-ordinator of the launch got the balance between an
informative and inspiring insight into the project and an marvellously
friendly and informal atmosphere exactly right. The stunning venue and
panaoramic view of London of course helped but the refreshing lack of
suits
and preponderance of colourful and varied attire did too. Professor
Lola
Young, Head of Culture at the Greater London Authority highlighted the
participative emphasis of the project encouraging other ethnic groups to
get
involved and help to build a better recognition of our interwining
histories.
The Irish, South Asian, Jewish and Caribbean communities are just the
first
four to be chosen to get the project on the rails. Alison Taylor of the
Luton
Museum Service talked about the Luton Irish Forum had led the way in
this
particular corner of the Irish diaspora north of London with the wealth
of
oral history their members had contributed by way of their stories of
emigration to England in the 1950s. Stephen Dunmore, Chief Executive of
the
New Opportunities Fund (which has put £2.6million into the project)
praised
the high quality of the content and the 'socially inclusive and
life-long
learning' dimensions of the programme and saw it as an important counter
to
the 'sometimes frantic current debates in Britain around the issue of
asylum-seekers and refugees' .

The speeches were only a small if important part of this event - the
chance to
meet people from other communities working in similar areas and compare
notes
was the real benefit for guests. It was an upbeat and celebratory
occasion
for all concerned as much as a publicity event, something reflected in
the
musical accompaniment provided by a 8-piece Klezmer Ensemble which
played us
out down the spiral ramps and onto the Thames walkway to enjoy the rest
of a
balmy July evening.

List-members will make up their own minds about the quality, relevance
and
usefulness of the website's contents for their own personal as well as
wider
academic endeavours, but there was real evidence here of a genuine
attempt to
build an authentic and truly community-driven historical resource and
the
organisers should be congratulated on this.


Tony Murray
Archive of the Irish in Britain
London Metropolitan University

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Back safely from the family holiday in Italy and in France. Very nice.
Though - despite my dashing from tree to shady tree - my skin has
developed a strange colouration. How the Irish Became Brown?

My thanks to Russell Murray for looking after the Ir-D list. Much of
his work will, of course, not be visible to Ir-D members - but the
behind the scenes work is important too.

I am now tidying up here, and tidying up the notes I made whilst on
holiday. Immediately I see that we have not one but two reports from
Ir-D members on the Launch of the 'Moving Here' Web site, City Hall,
London, 30 July 2003. Our thanks to Tony Murray and to Louise Ryan - it
is really very helpful when Ir-D members take the time and trouble to
keep us informed in this way.

Paddy


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- -----Original Message-----
From: lryan[at]supanet.com
Sent: 31 July 2003 12:46
To: owner-irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Report on Launch of Moving Here website

HI all,
yesterday I had the enviable task of representing Paddy O'Sullivan at
the
launch of the new website Moving Here. The launch was held in London's
brand
new City Hall (otherwise known as the funny-looking glass house by the
Thames). As we sipped champagne and listened to suitably 'ethnic
music', we could admire the views from the 9th floor balcony. And the
views over the Thames, near Tower Bridge are pretty spectacular.

The website which I would encourage you all to visit
(www.movinghere.org.uk) was set up with the aid of 2.5 million pound
grant from the Lottery Fund. It is a very useful resource as it is free
and easily accessible to everyone. It provides an archive of
immigration to Britain over 200 and sets out to dispell the view that
migrants only came to Britain from the 1950s onwards. The website
currently focuses on 4 main migrant groups: The Irish, Jewish, South
Asian and African-Caribbean. There are plans to expand it. The Irish
sources include some excellent photographs, historical background
information, oral histories/ personal testimony, as well as audio
sources, all of which can be easily downloaded. I have some very nice
screen savers! The partners in the website include the British Library,
the Public Record Office but also smaller groups like Hull City Archive,
West Yorkshire Archive Service and Luton Museum Service. The
participation of the Luton Museum Services seems to have particularly
fortuitous for the Irish representations to the website as it enabled a
very active local group, the Luton Irish Forum, to make a good
contribution in terms of images and oral history.

It is easy to criticise and no doubt there will be those who find some
errors/ flaws in the material on the site but in my opinion this is a
very important and innovative project which is to be congratulated for
recognising the important contribution of the Irish community to Britain
and in so doing for challenging the virtual invisibility of Irish
migrant history in this country. It will be a good resource for school
children as well as academic researchers but also community groups.

Enjoy the summer,
Louise

Dr. Louise Ryan
Royal Free and University College Medical School, Rowland Hill St.
London, NW3 2PF

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Our attention has been drawn to the following item - an almost classic
example, I think, of diasporic tensions...

P.O'S.

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/story.jsp?story=428071

Irish on the Inside: In search of the soul of Irish America By Tom
Hayden
Cease now your wailing! Cal McCrystal takes a dim view of an American
activist's appropriation of the Irish struggle
27 July 2003

'For possibly the majority of Irish Americans, the Ireland of the Great
Famine which propelled Tom's ancestors to the New World in the 19th
century is also the Ireland of saints and scholars, champions and
victims, poets and pikemen, harps and history, lost battles and terrible
beauties; of swords being whetted and invalids quaffing mead; of viands
on spits and uisce beatha [whiskey] on tables; of fragrant maidens in
speckled silks, and strong men discoursing uproariously. Who could
possibly resist it?'

'...The book abounds in what Irish speakers call raiméis, or drivel. Yet
its naive utterances, facile assumptions and earnest improbabilities are
often quite enthralling...'

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of...

Catherine Boone
Administrator
Institute of Irish Studies
Queen's University Belfast

Subject: Research Fellowships

ANNOUNCEMENT

Research Fellowships in Irish Studies

Two fellowships are available for one year to commence as soon as
possible. Applicants must possess a doctorate, have publications in
print or in press and have a viable research proposal. Preference may be
given to those conducting research of relevance to the Institute's
research programme and that of participating Schools.

Salary: £18,267 per annum.

Informal enquiries may be made to Dr Dominic Bryan, Institute of Irish
Studies, Tel: 028 9027 3386 or e-mail: d.bryan[at]qub.ac.uk

Closing date 5.00 pm, Friday 29 August 2003.

An online application pack may be downloaded from the Queen's University
website:
www.qub.ac.uk/jobs

Alternatively an application pack can be obtained by contacting the
Personnel Office at Queen's University. Please quote Ref: 03/W046B

Applications must be submitted to the Personnel Office and not to the
Institute of Irish Studies.

Best wishes

Catherine Boone
Administrator
Institute of Irish Studies
Queen's University Belfast
8 Fitzwilliam Street
Belfast BT9 6AW
Northern Ireland
Tel: (0) 28 9027 3386
E-mail: irish.studies[at]qub.ac.uk

Sender: P.Maume[at]Queens-Belfast.AC.UK
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Ir-D Query, Publication info Paisley?


Sermons by W.P. Nicholson: Tornado of the Pulpit - Biographical
Sketch by Ian R.K. Paisley, M.P.
Published 1982 by Martyrs Memorial Productions, 356 Ravenhill
Road, Belfast BT6 8GL, Northern Ireland. Copyright Ian R.K.
Paisley 1982
xii+200 pages.

The original sermon texts were supplied by Pastor David
Cassells, Jock Troup Memorial Church, Glasgow.

I picked up my copy in the Belfast Faith Mission bookshop some
years ago - I drop in there every so often to see if I can find
anything interesting. I've seen it in second-hand bookshops
occasionally; I will drop into some over the next few days and
see if I can find one for Daryl.

I must say it surprises me that no major library has it -
Paisley and Nicholson are certainly significant historical
figures, whatever we may think of them. You'd think someone
would keep an eye out for Paisley's publications.

Perhaps Paisley's site at www.ianpaisley.org may have info on
the book & its availability.
Best wishes,
PAtrick

On 12 August 2003 05:59 irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk wrote:

> From: Daryl Adair
> Subject: W.P. NICHOLSON, TORNADO OF THE PULPIT
>
> Colleagues,
>
> I am in urgent need of the publisher, place of publication, and date
> of publication for the following:
>
> Ian Paisley (ed.) W.P. NICHOLSON, TORNADO OF THE PULPIT
>
> I have tried every major library in Britain and Ireland without
> success.
>
>
> Hope someone can help me.
>
> Daryl Adair
> University of Canberra
> Australia
>
>

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

From: Daryl Adair
Subject: W.P. NICHOLSON, TORNADO OF THE PULPIT

Colleagues,

I am in urgent need of the publisher, place of publication, and date of
publication for the following:

Ian Paisley (ed.) W.P. NICHOLSON, TORNADO OF THE PULPIT

I have tried every major library in Britain and Ireland without success.


Hope someone can help me.

Daryl Adair
University of Canberra
Australia

From: patrick maume
Sender: P.Maume[at]Queens-Belfast.AC.UK
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Ir-D CFP Hoaxes in Australian Literature

From: patrick Maume
Did they just adapt the name of Ernie O'Malley? He was a man of
letters as well as a fighter, after all.
I wonder if he ever heard of it?
Iolo Morganwg in Wales is another good example of the
forger/refounder. Perhaps someone should compare him with
Mangan, in terms of fantasy, Celtic revival, and opium.
His reinvention of the Druids to the extent where respectable
Protestant ministers could declare themselves archdruids without
any incongruity paved the way for Archbishop Williams' recent
contretemps with American Evangelicals who don't understand
these Welsh things...
Best wishes,
Patrick
On 12 August 2003 05:59 irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk wrote:

>
> >From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> I thought this CFP might amuse and interest - since it specifically
> mentions Ern Malley...
>
> Australian Literary Studies
> URL: http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/archive/2003-07/0122.html
>
> It is weirdly wonderful that there is now almost an 'Ern Malley'
> industry - though I don't recall anyone having analysed his name. His

> 'Irishness' taken as read, perhaps...
>
>

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

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I thought this CFP might amuse and interest - since it specifically
mentions Ern Malley...

Australian Literary Studies
URL: http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/archive/2003-07/0122.html

Topic: Imposture, Hoaxes, and Identity Conflicts in Australian
Literature
Submission deadline: January 30, 2004.

Call for Papers
Special Issue on Imposture, Hoaxes, and Identity Conflicts in Australian
Literature
Edited by Marguerite Nolan and Carrie Dawson

Dr Marguerite Nolan
Lecturer in Australian Studies
School of Arts and Sciences
Brisbane Campus
Australian Catholic University
PO Box 456
Virginia Q 4014
Email: M.Nolan[at]mcauley.acu.edu.au

It is weirdly wonderful that there is now almost an 'Ern Malley'
industry - though I don't recall anyone having analysed his name. His
'Irishness' taken as read, perhaps...

For those new to Ern Malley Studies... Basic info at
http://www.jcu.edu.au/aff/history/reviews/heyward.htm

Michael Heyward, The Ern Malley Affair, University of Queensland Press,
1993. Reviewed by Bridget Brooklyn.

It has been pointed out that the early development of 'Celticism'
depended on forgery - Ossian in Scotland, the Barzaz Breiz in Britanny.
So, I think Margaret Nolan and her colleagues have here a really
interesting idea for a special edition of Australian Literary Studies.

P.O'S.


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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The message about the new Carroll and King book left me wondering if
Edward Said had learnt a little more about Ireland. So I must read
that... On a train of thought...

Beginnings of a useful debate on George P. Landow's Victorian Web...

http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/victorian/index.html

http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/victorian/history/ireland2.html

Why Ireland Wasn't a Colony
Paul Gough

http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/victorian/history/halloran1.html

"An Éirinneach nó Sassanach tú?" -- Are You Irish or English?
Thomas Halloran, Postgraduate English, Mary Immaculate College,
University of Limerick, Ireland

I understand that Thomas Halloran is creating a section on Ireland for
the Postcolonial Web.

For those - especially teachers - who have not already encountered the
projects of George Landow and colleagues... They are worth looking at
and using. He keeps a eye on quality...

P.O'S.


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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Social Sciences and Humanities
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
Yorkshire
England

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

Useful article...

I have to add that the web address given in 'Refering to This Article'
at the end does NOT work.

This web address does work.

http://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/corvey/articles/printer/cc10_n02.html

P.O'S.

Cardiff Corvey. Reading the Romantic Text No. 10 (June 2003)

R. LOEBER and M. STOUTHAMER-LOEBER. 'The Publication of Irish Novels and
Novelettes, 1750-1829: A Footnote on Irish Gothic Fiction', Cardiff
Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text 10 (June 2003).

'Among all forces that affected the decline of the Irish publishing and
printing industry at the beginning of the nineteenth century, two
pivotal events stand out: the 1798 rebellion, and the Act of the Union
between England and Ireland three years later. The rebellion directly or
indirectly involved Dublin printers and publishers, and resulted in the
banishment of many individuals working in these professions. One of the
consequences of the Union was the extension of English copyright law to
Ireland, thereby curtailing Irish printers' and publishers' profitable
pirating of English books...'

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of
Sara Ellen Brady
seb213[at]nyu.edu

Please distribute...

P.O'S.


Subject: Call for Paper 6th Annual GRIAN Conference

*************************************************
The 6th Annual GRIAN Conference on Irish Studies

Friday, February 27 ? Sunday, February 29, 2004
Glucksman Ireland House, New York University

?Anthologizing Ireland?
Collection, Curation, Dissemination


?Canons, which negate the distinction between knowledge and opinion,
which are instruments of survival built to be time-proof, not
reason-proof, are of course deconstructible; if people think there
should not be such things, they may very well find the means to destroy
them. Their defense cannot any longer be undertaken by central
institutional power; they cannot any longer be compulsory, though it is
hard to see how the normal operation of learned institutions?can manage
without them.?

~Frank Kermode, Forms of Attention (1985)


How is Ireland being collected, exhibited, re-presented? And for whom?
What of collection itself? If ?everything is a text,? then what
formations other than the canonizing book can be understood as
?anthology?: the syllabus, the gallery, the department curriculum (or
even its mission statement)? Furthermore, is this multiplicity
generative or does it actually perpetuate the delimiting power of
discourse? Is the anthology or the exhibition, inevitably, an enterprise
of closure? And, if so, why do we continue anthologizing at all?

For Ireland and Irish studies?for culture and academia in general?how
representations are packaged and disseminated is of the utmost
importance, yet the focus often remains with the objects represented.
Hence, we ask that for this conference, we step back and consider the
enterprises of anthologizing and curation themselves.

Indeed, the conference medium itself is an act of anthologizing, and
this meeting will critically engage the familiar structures of the
anthology as possible presentation topics. For example:

? ?Forward,? ?introduction,? or ?conceptualization?: How and what
do we identify in Irish studies to examine? (e.g., ?What is this ?Irish
studies? we are collecting and exhibiting under the aegis of??)
? ?Sources,? ?archives,? and ?collections?: How do we analyze the
repositories of our sources, such as libraries and archives? What and
where are these receptacles? What gets included/excluded? Who makes
those decisions? How do we know what ?good? sources are/can be, and how
do we face the often troublesome idea of ?source-ness? itself?
? ?Approaches,? ?narratives,? and ?curation?: What are our
various methodologies?structural, thematic or otherwise?and how do they
produce new ways of seeing the same material ? or reproduce the same
ways of seeing the same material?
? ?Conclusion,? ?afterword,? and ?deconstruction?: What have we
done? Also, where do we go from here? What are the limitations of our
current investigations? How might our contents or our approaches limit
our investigations in ways we had not anticipated?
? ?Dissemination,? ?distribution,? and ?pedagogy?: Where does the
material go? How do we approach classroom practice and program
curricula? What gets reviewed, screened, exhibited, critiqued?

?Anthologizing Ireland? invites work from all areas and disciplines,
focusing on texts, objects, as well as methodological and theoretical
approaches. We also encourage prospective presenters to submit other
types of documents in addition to paper abstracts, such as: innovative
curricular documents or interesting departmental policies, syllabi of
adventurous courses either taught or proposed, important archival
management documents, experimental treatises or manifestoes, etc. for
posting on our website prior to the conference. Anonymity can be
preserved where tact proves the better part of valour.

Email submissions to Will Hatheway at grianconference[at]hotmail.com, by
December 1st. All selected presentations will be considered for
publication in Foilsiú.

GRIAN is a New York-based nonprofit organization devoted to
collaboration between academia and the arts.

The GRIAN Association
131 Riverside Drive, #12C
New York, NY 10024
For more information about GRIAN, visit www.grian.org.

GRIAN is a nonprofit organization with 501(c)3 status tax ID #13-4143147

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

Please distribute...

P.O'S.

CHESTER COLLEGE
CENTRE FOR VICTORIAN STUDIES


IRELAND AND THE VICTORIANS
An International Conference
2-4 July 2004

Call for Papers

This broad-based interdisciplinary conference, commencing on the evening
of Friday 2 July and concluding after lunch on Sunday 4 July, seeks to
explore aspects of the complex relationship between Britain and Ireland
during the long nineteenth century. Speakers include Roy Foster, John
Belchem, D. George Boyce, Virginia Crossman, Fintan Cullen, Melissa
Fegan, Christine Kinealy, Don MacRaild, Alan O?Day, Roland Quinault,
Jeremy Smith, Roger Swift and Diane Urquhart.

The organisers are particularly keen to provide a platform for new
researchers in the field as well as for established scholars. Offers of
suitable papers (to read for approximately 20 minutes) within the study
of Victorian art, culture, history, literature, politics and religion
will be particularly welcome. Abstracts (no more than 300 words) should
be submitted no later than Friday 31 October 2003 to Professor Roger
Swift, Director, Centre for Victorian Studies, Chester College, Parkgate
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From: Elizabeth Malcolm
Subject: Hoaxes in Australian Literature

Like Patrick Maume, I too have felt that there might be a connection
between the 'mythical' Australian poet, Ern Malley, and the Irish
revolutionary/writer, Ernie O'Malley, especially as O'Malley's first
book was published in 1936 and Malley's poems emerged in 1943. One of
the Australian poets behind the Malley hoax was James McAuley, who
was proud of his Irish convict ancestry and was very familiar with
recent Irish literature.

But Michael Heyward in his book 'The Ern Malley Affair' (p.89) claims
that the use of the name 'Ernest' was a joke and Malley, while a
'good Celtic name', also could have connections with the Mallee, a
district in Victoria, and perhaps French literature in terms of
Mallarme and Baudelaire's 'Les Fleurs du Mal'. But I think these
suggestions are a bit strained and it appears that Heyward has never
heard of Ernie O'Malley. Also the middle name given Malley was
'Lalor', which only underlines the Irish link. In their fictional
biography of the poet, the hoaxers claimed Malley was born in
Liverpool in 1918 - and presumably a Malley from Liverpool would be
of Irish extraction.

The Ern Malley hoax is attracting attention here at present as Peter
Carey's new novel, 'My Life as a Fake', draws upon it. The 'Sydney
Morning Herald' and the Melbourne 'Age' reported on 26 July that
plans are afoot to re-publish the 16 Malley poems. But there are
problems over who owns the copyright to them!!! However, they do
appear in an appendix to Heyward's 1993 book. I'm no literary critic
and maybe shouldn't quote, given the copyright controversy, but on
reading some of them the word 'pretentious' came to mind - even the
titles almost all contain highly literary or exotic references. TS
Eliot is an obvious influence.

Elizabeth Malcolm



Professor Elizabeth Malcolm
Deputy Head
Department of History
University of Melbourne
Parkville, Victoria
Australia 3010

Tel: +61-3-8344 3924
Fax: +61-3-8344 7894
email: e.malcolm[at]unimelb.edu.au

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Ireland and Post-Colonial Theory
Clare Carroll and Patricia King [ City University in New York ]
Cork University Press
Hardback edition - 2003
Price: ?57.00 ( £35.00* $57.00* )
Printed Pages: 256pp
Size: 234 x 156mm
ISBN: 1859183506

Oddly the Cork UP web site does not seem able to find this book through
its own Search facility... This web address seems to work
http://www.corkuniversitypress.com/cgi-bin/corkuniversitypress.storefron
t/EN/product/1859183506

(And, remember, your own line breaks might fracture that web address -
you will have to rebuild it.)

P.O'S.


Forwarded on behalf of

- -----Original Message-----
From: "Collins, Mike"

Ireland and Post-Colonial Theory
Clare Carroll and Patricia King [ City University in New York ]

Ireland and Postcolonial Theory (Cork University Press) is the first
book of its kind. This collection gathers together twelve new essays by
leading Irish intellectuals and international postcolonial critics as
they engage in the debate over how postcolonial Ireland was and is.

The approach in all the essays is theoretical, historical and
comparative. The first two essays by Joe Cleary and David Lloyd focus on
debates over how theories developed to explain the emergence of
cultures, how colonialism relates to Ireland and how Irish Studies has
influenced the development of postcolonial critique internationally.

The next six essays apply postcolonial perspectives to Irish cultural
history, and ask how and why decolonising criticism emerged in Ireland
from the time of the Renaissance, and the context of cross colonial
identifications between native Irish and Amerindian cultures that
developed during the Enlightenments of the Eighteenth Century.

Essays by Kevin Whelan and Seamus Deane explore the after life of the
famine in its effects upon Irish politics, writing and art, and the
final selection of essays is devoted to the comparative study of
postcolonial interactions between Ireland and India.

Edward Said, the founder of postcolonial studies and still one of the
leading oppositional voices against imperialism, has the last word on
these essays. His afterword reflects on the place of Ireland in relation
to postcolonial struggles around the world.

Mike Collins

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

From time to time we get queries about the possible connection between
being Irish and having coeliac disease (broadly, intolerance to gluten).

Helpfully, Dr. Peter Watson has recently prepared a brief paper on the
current state of research. It is posted on the web at...

The Coeliac Forum

'Ireland: The coeliac capital'

Reference
Dr Peter Watson, Senior Lecturer Queen's University Belfast and
Consultant Gastroenterologist Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast

http://www.cdrc.org.uk/en/article.asp?chco_id=365

It will be seen that we have here almost a case study in the sociology
of knowledge. The connection between Ireland and coeliac disease begins
with Mylotte's paper in 1973 - when higher that expected prevalence in
the west of Ireland was discovered.

The important point is that since then further studies in other parts of
the world have discovered similar high rates. The Irish rates do not
now seem extraordinary or unusual. In the intervening decades we have,
of course, seen many elaborate explanations of a specifically Irish
'predisposition' to coeliac disease.

In the Republic of Ireland there emerged greater awareness of the
condition, self-help groups and so on. I recently heard that the
catering manager for the Dublin-Galway rail line is himself a coeliac
sufferer - and he makes sure that gluten-free products are available on
his trains.

Some of the international Coeliac Symposiums have been held in Ireland -
the 2004 Symposium will be held in Belfast. (I say Symposiums rather
than Symposia - I like to give English plurals to English words...)

Peter Watson concludes...
'Ireland is no longer alone in having a high prevalence of coeliac
disease but it can reasonably be said that the experience of the disease
has helped to raise awareness of the condition elsewhere.'

P.O'S.


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