Thread-Topic: Ir-D Encyclopaedia of Ireland
From: "Murray, Edmundo"

I wonder if some of those fortunate who already have the Encyclopaedia can
tell me if there is an entry on South America (or 'Latin' America, as the
Oxford Companion to Irish History preferred to simplify geographic
nuances... and to complicate identities). Also, for the sake of curiosity,
is the 'Opus Dei' also present?

Edmundo Murray
Irish Argentine Historical Society
Maison Rouge
1261 Burtigny Switzerland
+41 22 739 5049
edmundo.murray[at]irishargentine.org
Irish Diaspora Studies in Argentina:
http://mypage.bluewin.ch/emurray

From: "MacEinri, Piaras"
To: "'irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk'"
Subject: RE: Ir-D More on Bretons 4

My last text was unclear - the point I meant to make was that the interview
was intended to be in Welsh, not Breton. I would infer that Alan probably
had a good comprehension of Welsh but may not have spoken it so well. Sorry
for the confusion.

Piaras

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of Brian Hanley

Please distribute...

P.O'S.


FROM Brian.Hanley[at]may.ie

Ireland and Irish America in the Twentieth Century

Call for papers

Papers are requested for a conference to be held at the National University
of Ireland, Maynooth on 28-29 May 2004. The keynote speaker will be
Professor Kevin Kenny of Boston College, author of The American Irish- A
History (2000) and Making Sense of the Molly Maguires (1998).

The aftermath of the Second Gulf War has produced renewed discussion not
only of the relationship between Ireland and the United States, but also of
that between the Irish and Irish America. In May 2004 the Department of
History at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, will host a
conference which aims to discuss aspects of these relationships throughout
the twentieth century. We are particularly interested in papers dealing with


. Irish America and America's Wars
. Irish republicanism in the US
. Irish perceptions of Irish America
. The Irish and Irish America - questions of ethnicity, race, labour,
economics, gender, and political activity.

Proposals should not be longer than 300 words long and should be forwarded
to

Dr. Brian Hanley, Department of Modern History, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare,
Ireland.
E-mail Brian.Hanley[at]may.ie

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I started the first of the winter colds at the weekend and spent most of
Monday dozing on the couch. Which meant that I saw some day time
television. Including most of a 1956 movie, Jacqueline. Not all of it - it
was that kind of cold.

Ostensibly set in 1950s Belfast, the film seems to be based on a Catherine
Cookson novel, A Grand Man. An extraordinary line up of writers. Mostly
filmed in the studio but there were some location shots of Belfast,
including a long shot of workers streaming out of Harland and Wolff. These
time travel moments are always interesting.

As ever in these British 'Irish' movies part of the fun is disentangling the
different elements of this British 'Irish' world. The director was the hard
working Roy Baker, the lead the hard working, limited and wooden British
actor John Gregson. Very little attempt at accents - the (as ever)
wonderful Cyril Cusack did give his own accent a Belfast touch, but
otherwise generalised Irish, or 'Irish'. These people are clearly
Protestant, the man works in Harland and Wolff, they celebrate the
coronation of The Queen - but with Irish music and dance. The clergyman is
called 'Mr. Owen', but is dressed like a Catholic priest, and does all that
stuff that Catholic priests do in these movies.

Catherine Cookson tends not to be taken seriously by the critics - but often
her work touches on Irish migrant themes, and she gives Irish names to her
staunch, brave heroines. The book, A Grand Man, 1954, introduced one of her
long serving characters, Mary Ann Shaughnessy - in the book the family are
Catholic and the clergyman is 'Father Owen'.

We can only speculate about the film-packaging processes that transposed
this story to Protestant Belfast...

P.O'S.

Director(s):
Roy Ward Baker

Writer(s):
Patrick Campbell
Patrick Kirwan
Liam O'Flaherty
Catherine Cookson

John Gregson - Mike McNeil
Kathleen Ryan - Elizabeth McNeil
Jacqueline Ryan - Jacqueline McNeil
Noel Purcell - Mr. Owen
Cyril Cusack - Mr. Flannagan

An out-of-work Belfast shipyard worker looks for solace in alcohol until his
loving daughter helps him to find a job

See further
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0049377/

From: Jim McAuley
To: irish-diaspora

Paddy,

I didn't see the movie, but some of this may not be as strange as it
sounds. I was born and brought up in the shipyard community of east Belfast
and my father and most of my uncles did indeed work in Harland and Wolff. It
was a strongly unionist and Protestant upbringing, and I was never raised to
think of myself as anything but British. However, the radio was always tuned
to Dublin ( my childhood memory was that it was always on), the records
played were often traditional Irish tunes or ballads and my sister went to
Irish dancing lessons on the Cregagh road! Hence, I suppose it possible that
a shipyard family could celebrate the coronation of The Queen and engage
with 'Irish' music and dance. It was with the troubles that the identities
of 'Britishness' and 'Irishness' became socially constructed as absolute
opposites.

best as always,

Jim

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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I think it worth distributiong the full schedule of the Tyneside Irish
Festival, to be held later this month.

The Tyneside model combines the usual festival with a scholarly conference
and scholarly lectures - and the full list gives us some ideas about works
in progress, including some Irish Diasporta Studies themes.

Our thanks to Alison O'Malley-Younger for making this information available.

The illustrated Conference programme is also available as a Word document
attachment - contact irishfest[at]artsociety.net.

P.O'S.


- -----Original Message-----
From: Alisonyounger[at]aol.com
Subject: Re: Tyneside Irish Festival

Representing Ireland: Past, Present and Future.

A Conference/Cultural event to be hosted by the University of Sunderland and
Tyneside Irish Festival 24th to 26th October 2003

St Peter's Campus - University of Sunderland

Conference Coordinators: Dr A O'Malley-Younger - alisonyounger[at]aol.com
and Dr John Strachan - john.strachan[at]sunderland.ac.uk

Cead Mile Failte.


Programme:

Friday 24th October

Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society 1.00pm Dr Stephen Regan - Royal
Holloway, University of London TITLE - W.B Yeats: Irish Politics and
Postcolonial Theory

2.30pm
Dr. John Mc Donagh - Mary Immaculate College - University of Limerick Title
- - 'The Great Pyramids of Carlingford Lough: John Hinde and the De Valerian
Utopia'

St Peter's Campus, University of Sunderland

from 1.00pm
Registration - Foyer - Arts, Design, Media and Culture Building


An Exhibition of Traditional Celtic/Pictish Art by Kathleen NicMhuirich
Prints and Originals on sale from the artist.

Welcome from: Dr Peter Durrans, and Mr Tony Corcoran, Director of Tyneside
Irish Festival - 5.00pm - Cinema - Lecture Theatre

Poetry Reading by Bernard O'Donoghue - 6.30pm - Cinema/Lecture Theatre


BEDE THEATRE UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND

Welcome Night with Seamus Whelan and Vedre Eire - Address from Father Tom
Kearns - Buffet provided - 8.00pm

Saturday 25th October

St Peter's Campus - Arts, Design, Media and Culture Building, University of

Sunderland

Book Stall throughout in foyer.

9.00am - Cinema/ Lecture Theatre
Plenary Lecture - Professor Terry Eagleton - University of Manchester -
'The
Irish Sublime'

10.30am - 12.00pm (PARALLEL SESSIONS)

PANEL 1 - Irish Drama / Irish Memoir (Venue TBA)

Chair : Professor Shaun Richards (Staffs)

Professor Michael Earley - University of Lincoln -At play with the Past,
Present and Future: The New Irish Drama

Dr Christopher Malone - Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, USA - "If
I
go on long enough calling that my life I'll end up by believing it";
Beckett
and Contemporary Irish Memoir

Una Kealy - University of Ulster, Coleraine - George Fitzmaurice: Ireland's
First Expressionist

PANEL 2 - Irish Gothic / Irish Satire Venue TBA

Chair: Dr Michael Rossington (University of Newcastle)

Dr Claire Connolly - University of Cardiff - Title TBC
Dr John Strachan - University of Sunderland - Title TBC
Dr Jane Moore - University of Cardiff - 'Regency Feasts, French Food and
Irish Famine in the Satires of Thomas Moore'.

PANEL 3 - Medbh McGuckian's Poetry Venue TBA

Chair: Professor Daniel W. Ross (Columbus State University)

Claire McEwen - Research Institute of Irish & Scottish Studies, University
of
Aberdeen - Because We Talk / Nothing Meaningful Gets Said': Negotiating
Voice
in Medbh McGuckian's Poetry

Professor Mary-Lynne Broe - Rochester Institute of Technology, New York
"Beyond 'artful voyeurism': Celebrating the Radical Poetics of Medbh
McGuckian."

Dr Shane Murphy - University of Aberdeen -"Re-reading Five, Ten Times, the
Simplest Letters": Detecting Voices in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian


PANEL 4 - Irish Poetry Venue TBA

Chair : Dr Jason David Hall (Birkbeck, University of London)

Dr. John Mc Donagh, - Mary Immaculate College, Limerick - 'The best way to
serve the age is to betray it!' - Brendan Kennelly, Judas Iscariot and the
Art
of Speaking Back

Dr Lucy Collins - St Martin's College Carlisle - "We Might be Anywhere":
Place and Displacement in the Poetry of Derek Mahon


Helen Blakeman - University of Sheffield - "Through the crimson shells of
time": the temporality of loss in Medbh McGuckian's Poetry

12.00pm to 1.00pm Lunch

1.00pm - Plenary Lecture - Dr Stephen Regan, Royal Holloway, University of
London, 'Northern Irish Poetry: Before and After the Ceasefire'
Venue: Cinema/ Lecture Theatre

2.30pm to 4.00pm
PARALLEL SESSIONS

PANEL 5 - Writing the North (Venue TBA)

Chair: Dr Stephen Regan (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Professor Daniel W. Ross - Columbus State University - "Now I had become the

shadow": Shadows on the Staircase: Silence and Shame in Seamus Deane's
Reading in the Dark.

Dr Jason David Hall - Birkbeck College - University of London - The Shaping
Spirit: Reconsidering Seamus Heaney's 'Movement Credentials'

Dr Alison O'Malley-Younger - University of Sunderland - " Liminal States:
Ethnic Performativities in the Possible Worlds of Brian Friel's drama"

PANEL 6 - Irish Fictions (Venue TBA)


Chair: Dr Ruth Barton - (University College Dublin)

Neil Alexander - Queens University Belfast - The Carceral City and the City
of Refuge: Belfast Fiction and Urban Form

Dr Deirdre O'Byrne - Loughborough University - Irish Women's Relationship
with the Land, as seen in the fiction of Leland Bardwell and Maeve Kelly

Dr Eibhlin Evans - St Mary College, Twickenham, University of Surrey - 'A
lacuna in the palimpsest': A Re-Reading of Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two
Birds'.

PANEL 7 - Writing Irelands - Venue TBC

Chair - Dr Richard Terry - University of Sunderland

Helen McLaughlin - Queens University, Belfast "Imagining Ireland:
Representations of Ireland in the Middle English Brut"

Anna Noice - Occidental College, Los Angeles - "Colonized Unconscious: A
post-colonial exploration of the incest narrative in Edna O'Brien's Down by
the
River"

Dr Conor Carville - Director of Irish Studies, St Mary's College,
Twickenham,
University of Surrey, John McElheran's Celt and Saxon: Race, time and The
Times'.

4.00pm Coffee and Break.

7.00pm BEDE THEATRE UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND

Conference Ceilidh, with Donal de Barra, former President of 'Comhaltas
Ceoltoiri Eireann', Exhibition Dancing from the 'Comhaltas Ceoltoiri
Eireann' and
Buffet

Sunday 26th October

9.00am

Plenary Lecture : Professor Shaun Richards - University of Staffordshire
From Inish Meain to Craggy Island: Traces of Irish Authenticity
Venue: Cinema/ Lecture Theatre

10.30am to 12.30pm

PARALLEL SESSIONS

PANEL 8 - Irish Narrative (Venue TBA)

Chair : Professor Mary Lynn Broe (Rochester Institute of Technology, New
York)

James Ward - University of Leeds - Brother Protestants': Jonathan Swift
representing Ulster Presbyterians

Dr Richard Mills - St Mary's University College, University of Surrey, 'A
Strange Sense of Dreaming: Forrest Reid's Apolitical Fiction'.

Dr Christopher Smith, Texas Tech University - "Between Green Hedges and
Ditches:" Narrative, Allusion, and Musicality in a Folk-Recitation by Séamus
Ennis

Julie Donovan -George Washington University, Washington DC, USA - Mrs Sweeny

Goes to Brussels: Feast and Famine in Charlotte Bronte's Villette

PANEL 9 - Past Irelands (Venue TBA)

Chair: Dr Alison O'Malley-Younger (University of Sunderland)

Anthea Cordner - University of Newcastle - "The Self Divided: Deirdre
Madden's The Birds of the Innocent Woods."

Ms. Diana Dominguez -The University of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost
College - "At mora glonda Medbæ" [Mighty are the deeds of Medb]:
Re-Examining
Medb's role as instigator of the Táin Bó Cuailnge

Dr. Adrian Otoiu, North University, Romania, "Stars in A Sea of Historical
Amnesia: Roddy Doyle's and Joseph O'Connor's Rewriting of Irish History"

PANEL 10 - Ireland: Past, Present and Future (Venue TBA)

Chair: Dr. John Mc Donagh, (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick)

Susan A. Schuyler - Stanford University : Inventing Ireland on the Streets
of
New York: Dion Boucicault and 19th Century Representation of Ireland

Mr Peter Dempsey - University of Sunderland - Frames of Reference:
Representing Ireland in John Banville's The Newton Letter'

Anne Oakman - Queens University Belfast - "Theatricality and the Irish R.M.:

Comic Castletownshend Dramatics versus Abbey Theatre Ideology."


PANEL 11 - Representing Irishness(es)

Chair : Dr Barry Lewis - University of Sunderland

Dr Ruth Barton - University College Dublin - 'Mick or Myth': the Cinematic
life of the Leprechaun.

Dr Lance Pettitt, Leeds Metropolitan University. Funny Business: Jimmie
Young
and Cross-dressing Comedy in Northern Ireland"

Emilie Pine - Trinity College Dublin - Church and State: Paul Vincent
Carroll's Shadow and Substance (1938)

PANEL 12 - Irelands Abroad

Chair Professor Tony Hepburn (University of Sunderland)

Dr Joan Allen - University of Newcastle - 'Keeping the Faith': The Catholic
press and the preservation of Celtic identity in Britain in the late
Nineteenth
Century'

Dr Jim McPherson - University of Sunderland - 'A sturdy little group of
patriots': the United Irishwomen, domesticity and Irish identity in the
Irish
Homestead, c. 1895-1912

Dr Claire Norris - Indiana University of Pennsylvania - The Evolving Face
of
Ireland: From Cathleen ni Houlihan to Football, the Celtic Tiger, and Beyond


Buffet Lunch

Poetry Reading by Medbh McGuckian
introduced by Professor Mary Lynn Broe

End of Conference
Enjoy the craic - live music session and singing with Donal de Barra and
Mick
Henry (venue TBC)

5.30 pm
St Dominic's Priory
New Bridge Street
Newcastle Upon Tyne

Memorial Mass celebrated by Father Tom Kearns OP, for the late Father
Herbert McCabe, followed by reception at St Dominic's Club with live music
from
Donal de Barra and Mick Henry and traditional Irish music session with 'The
Rambling Boys of Pleasure'.


Father Herbert McCabe
August 2nd- 1926 June 28th- 2001

Tyneside Irish Festival and the University of Sunderland invite you to a
Memorial Mass for the late Father Herbert McCabe on

October 26th, 2003

at

5.30 pm

at

St Dominic's Priory
New Bridge Street
Newcastle Upon Tyne

Followed by reception at St Dominic's Club with live music from Donal de
Barra and Mick Henry and traditional Irish music session.

Father Herbert McCabe, one of the most influential and original Catholic
English theologists and philosophers of the last century: a brilliant and
controversial Dominican philosopher and theologian. His philosophical
thought greatly
influenced numerous intellectuals such as Anthony Kenny, Terry Eagleton,
Alasdair MacIntyre and the Irish author Seamus Heaney, Nobel winner for
Literature
in 1995. McCabe was an international authority on the thoughts of Saint
Thomas
Aquinas on whom he had written important essays. A monumental critical
edition in English of the "Summa Theologiae" by Aquinas is also due to him,
a text
that is now considered a reference point.

Tyneside Irish Centre

9.00pm
Tyneside Irish Centre
The Final Fling - Live Music and Ceilidh band
All Welcome!

Cead Mile Failte!

With thanks to Guinness for their support of this event. Also thanks to the
following for their support and assistance:

Mr David Peat - University of Sunderland
Ms Carol-Anne Dodds - Tyneside Irish Cultural Society
John Smith's Book Shop
Mr Andy Fitzpatrick - Sunderland Students' Union
Oxford University Press.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of
Pascale Amiot

Subject: Etudes Irlandaises, call for submissions

Etudes Irlandaises

Special issue : "Irish space(s) : zones and margins"

Call for submissions

The interdisciplinary French journal "Etudes irlandaises" invites
submissions for a special issue, "Irish space(s) : zones and margins", to be
issued at the end of 2004. Guest editors : Claude Fierobe, University of
Reims, and Sylvie Mikowski, University of Reims.

Possible topics, very broadly defined, include (but are not limited to) :
- - The Pale and beyond : civilisation versus the wilderness
- - In-between space(s), no-man's lands, marginal space(s) (e.g. : satellite
towns, the center and the periphery, etc)
- - Border-crossings, gaps and borders
- - Passages and passengers (e.g. : travellers, holding centers,etc)
- - Space(s) : reality and fantasy
- - Cultural space(s) : perception/reception of another's space.

Submitted essays should be sent in four hard copies and one electronic copy
(Mac compatible) by April 30 th to:
Sylvie Mikowski
2, square des bouleaux
75019 Paris
France
sylvie.mikowski[at]noos.fr

Contributors should follow the style-sheet of the journal to be found on the
following website :
http://etudes-irlandaises.septentrion.com

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I have pasted in, below, a review of the Encyclopaedia of Ireland which
appeared in the latest issue of Irish Emigrant's BookView newsletter...

P.O'S.

_________________________________________________________________
BookView Ireland :: September, 2003 :: Issue No.98

From Irish Emigrant Publications,
the free news service for the global Irish community
http://www.IrishEmigrant.com

Editor: Pauline Ferrie :: Copyright 2003 Irish Emigrant Ltd
_________________________________________________________________


_________________________________________________________
The Encyclopaedia of Ireland - General Editor Brian Lalor

In the preface to this massive publication the editor asserts that
the Encyclopaedia "seeks to present the best of current consensual thought
on the wide span of Irish experience" and the contents certainly cover an
enormous range of subjects. Each entry, from more than nine hundred
contributors, is completely original, and the text is accompanied by some
eight hundred illustrations, one a sketch by Queen Victoria of a performance
of Dion Boucicault's "The Corsican Brothers".

Where does one begin in reviewing such a work? I decided to search
for a group of sportsmen who would probably be unfamiliar to the present
generation but who were renowned in the earlier years of the last century.
And the encyclopaedia passed its first test when I found an entry for the
Casey Family by James Doherty. Meriting half a page, the feats in rowing,
boxing and wrestling of the Kerry brothers were written in detail. Many of
the entries were totally unfamiliar but nonetheless fascinating, for example
the account by John Wakeman of the Altar Controversy of 1847, during which
the rector of the Church of Ireland in the Cork townland employed Catholics
in the construction of a new church on the condition that they convert to
Protestantism. Interesting but little-known personalities earn their place;
Susan O'Hagan of Lisburn, Co. Antrim, worked for the Hall family for a total
of ninety-seven years, living from 1802 to 1909.

Broader subjects are covered under a number of different headings,
with Catholicism being dealt with over eight pages under such headings as
Catholic Relief Acts, Catholicism and the Irish Diaspora and Catholic
Emancipation. An inordinate amount of space seems to have been dedicated to
the subject of food, examining the Irish diet at a number of different
points in history and giving an entire page to the humble potato, while the
Church of Ireland has a relatively short entry. There are, of course, some
omissions, I do believe that tenor Ronan Tynan deserved a place, and I was
disappointed that our own Cormac MacConnell wasn't included along with his
brothers Cathal and Mickey. Similarly, the entry for the stone circle at
Beltany places it simply in Donegal, with no clue to its actual location.
However overall the encyclopaedia is a useful resource for detailed
information on aspects of Irish history, politics and religion, as well as a
biographical source of Irishmen and women at home and abroad. In addition
it reveals gems of trivia, such as the presence in Ireland in the 1920s and
1930s of some of the Russian Crown Jewels, the prevalence of ether-drinking
in Counties Derry and Tyrone in the 1840s and the fact that George IV's
footprints can be seen on a granite boulder at Howth.

The standing of the consultant editors in their chosen fields is
well illustrated by the fact that three, Susan McKenna-Lawlor, Harry White
and Fintan Vallely, have their own entries as well as having a number of
contributions included. While I would not go along completely with the
publisher's claim that "It is the only reference book about Ireland that you
will ever need", certainly this attractively produced "Encyclopaedia of
Ireland" would be a useful and welcome addition to any library, personal or
institutional.
(Gill & Macmillan, ISBN 0-7171-3000-2, pp1,216, ?65.00)

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan


Below, details from the OUP web site of Foster, Yeats, Volume 2 - published
today...

W. B. Yeats: A Life - II: The Arch-Poet, 1915-1939

R. F. Foster, Carroll Professor of Irish History, University of Oxford

Price: £30.00 (Hardback)
0-19-818465-4
Publication date: 2 October 2003
822 pages, 16pp halftone plates, 234mm x 156mm

http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-818465-4

From that web site you have access to a sample chapter, in pdf format -
Chapter 2, 'Shades and Angels, 1916-1917'.

P.O'S.


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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I have not yet been able to get hold of an abstract of Bill Rolston's
article - it is a very wide ranging piece, making the to be expected points
with the to be expected quotes - eg Olmsted. And perhaps useful for that
very reason. Its main point seems to be that the migrating Irish had to
negotiate the various kinds of racism they met, in different times and
places, and suffer from or take advantage of them.

P.O'S.


Bringing it all Back Home: Irish Emigration and Racism

Race & Class, October 2003, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 39-53(15)

ROLSTON B.[1]

[1] University of Ulster, Jordans town

Document Type: Journal article ISSN: 0306-3968

DOI (article): 10.1177/03063968030452003
SICI (online): 0306-3968(20031001)45:2L.39;1-

Publisher: Sage Publications

From: "MacEinri, Piaras"
Subject: postgraduate fellowship for return migration project, NUI Cork

Dear Paddy

I would be grateful if the notice below could be distributed via the list. I
realise that telephoning an Irish mobile number may not be practicable from
other parts of the world; interested candidates can also feel free to email
migration[at]ucc.ie.

Regards

Piaras

Piaras Mac Éinrí
Department of Geography/Roinn an Tíreolais National University of Ireland,
Cork/Coláiste na hOllscoile, Corcaigh email/post leictreonach
migration[at]ucc.ie web/idirlíon http://migration.ucc.ie


MPhil studentship
Department of Geography, University College Cork

Applications are invited for a two-year funded MPhil studentship to pursue
research as part of a wider collaborative all-island project entitled
'Narratives of migration and return in contemporary Ireland: an all-island
research resource.' The project aims are to produce an oral archive of life
narratives of recent return migrants to Ireland and to produce related
teaching and research resources. It will build on the approach followed in a
previous project 'Breaking the Silence: staying 'at home' in an emigrant
society' (http://migration.ucc.ie/oralarchive/testing/breaking/index.html)

Applicants should have a good primary degree and/or MA in Geography,
Anthropology, Sociology, Folklore, History or a commensurate discipline, and
some of the following:

- - Interest in the use of qualitative research methods, in particular life
narrative or oral history techniques
- - Familiarity with current debates in the field of migration studies, in
particular contemporary migration, and/or, in the study of contemporary
society and culture

The successful candidate will conduct one case-study as part of the larger
research project documenting life narratives of Ireland's recent return
migrants.

The studentship includes payment of postgraduate fees and a bursary of
EUR13,000 p.a.

For informal enquiries, contact Caitríona Ní Laoire at (353)(0) 86-3592904.

Applications in the form of a CV (including names and contact details of two
referees) and covering letter to:
Piaras Mac Éinrí, Department of Geography, University College Cork, Cork.

Closing date for applications: 13th October 2003

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Please distribute...

P.O'S.


- ------ Forwarded Message

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME
Indiana, U.S.A.

Irish Language and Literature


The Keough Institute for Irish Studies and the College of Arts and Letters
invite applications for a tenure track position at the assistant professor
level in Irish language and literature.  Applicants should already hold, or
be completing a PhD in a relevant subject area.  The successful applicant
will join the faculty of both the College of Arts and Letters and the Keough
Institute for Irish Studies in which there are three professors (Sarah
McKibben, Peter McQuillan and Breandán Ó Buachalla) providing graduate and
undergraduate instruction in Irish language and Literature; they will also
participate in an exciting new PhD in Literature program. Responsibilities
for this position include undergraduate and graduate instruction in Irish
language and literature.  A high level of competence in Irish is a
prerequisite.

A résumé and three letters of reference should be sent to:  Prof. Breandán Ó
Buachalla, O'Donnell Chair in Irish Studies, Keough Institute for Irish
Studies, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA by October
31, 2003.

The University of Notre Dame is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action
Educator and Employer with a strong institutional commitment to racial,
cultural and gender diversity.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This article by Colm Power is in the latest issue of Probation Journal...

As well as addressing the main theme of the article, Irish Travellers in the
pre-sentence reports prepared for the courts by the Probation Service, there
is background information on the present state of knowledge about Irish
Travellers in Britain.

P.O'S.


Irish Travellers: Ethnicity, Racism and Pre-Sentence Reports

Probation Journal, September 2003, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 252-266(15)

Power C.[1]

[1] St. Mary's College, Strawberry Hill, Email: powerc[at]smuc.ac.uk

Abstract:
This article examines the treatment of Irish Travellers in the criminal
justice system. It provides a brief background to Irish Traveller ethnicity
and then outlines the causes, extent and consequences of social
marginalization, ethnic disqualification and criminalization in Britain's
Irish Traveller population. This leads to a discussion of criminal justice
concerns through the examination of existing research on pre-sentence
reports (PSRs) concerning Irish Travellers, and interviews with probation
officers and others which helped to explore overt and embedded prejudice and
racism in the language and construction of PSRs. The article finishes by
assessing possible ways to ameliorate these injustices in the sentencing
process.

Keywords: criminal justice; criminalization; ethnicity; Irish; Manchester;
nomadism; pre-sentence reports; probation; PSRs; Traveller

Document Type: Journal article ISSN: 0264-5505

DOI (article): 10.1177/02645505030503006
SICI (online): 0264-5505(20030901)50:3L.252;1-

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

First of all, let me apologise to Steve McCabe for seeming to ignore his
email about Richard Bourke's new book.

I had not ignored you, Steve - I have been having a dialogue with you in my
head. In the midst of other business.

I have noticed some reviews - and have some sympathy with Ruth Dudley
Edwards' typically bad-tempered, but honest, response.

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/story.jsp?story=442478
Stephen Howe
12 September 2003

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/09/14/bobou14.xml
A noble but doomed attempt to lift the debate on Northern Ireland
(Filed: 14/09/2003)
Ruth Dudley Edwards reviews Peace in Ireland by Richard Bourke

Generally the Irish-Diaspora list does not follow the twists and turns of
events in Northern Ireland - there are other forums for that. And we do
what we do.

I have not read the Bourke book, and most probably will not read it. The
notion is around that Northern Ireland is a problem specifically designed so
that it cannot be solved by normal democratic processes - which is
dispiriting for those of us who value democracy.

Paddy


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For information...

P.O'S.

publication
European Journal of Communication

ISSN
0267-3231 electronic: 0267-3231

publisher
SAGE Publications

year - volume - issue - page
2003 - 18 - 1 - 55

article


Pushing for Peace: The Irish Government, Television News and the Northern
Ireland Peace Process

Spencer, Graham

abstract

Although much has been written about the role of the news media within
conflict situations, far less is known about the part played by reporting
during a period of developing peace. This article approaches this question
by looking at how the Irish government dealt with television news during the
initial phases of the Northern Ireland peace process. In drawing from
interviews carried out with key government representatives, it presents a
picture of diverse strategies applied by the Irish in their efforts to push
for peace and indicates how different communicative priorities came into
play to meet varying problems and opportunities afforded by television news
coverage.


keyword(s)

communications, Irish government, Northern Ireland, peace process,
television news,

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.

publication
Child Abuse Review

ISSN
0952-9136 electronic: 1099-0852

publisher
John Wiley & Sons

year - volume - issue - page
2003 - 12 - 3 - 190

article

Irish child sexual abuse victims attending a specialist centre

O'Riordan, Beth - Carr, Alan - Turner, Rhonda

abstract

We profiled a cohort of CSA cases referred for assessment to a specialist
child sexual abuse (CSA) centre in a national paediatric hospital in
Ireland. Historical and clinical data were drawn from records of 171 cases.
The majority of cases were referred by social workers following purposeful
disclosure of CSA. Three quarters of the cases were female with a mean age
of 9 years. They were from a wide spectrum of socioeconomic groups and many
had suffered a range of family adversities. In most cases, the abuse
involved masturbation of the child by the abuser. Almost all of the
perpetrators were male with a mean age of 28 years and in 60% of cases extra
familial abuse had occurred. In 23% of cases, the perpetrator had a history
of previous sexual offending. Anxiety was the most common emotional problem
before disclosure and after disclosure the most common emotional problem was
guilt. Before disclosure school refusal was the most common behavioural
problem and after disclosure fighting was the most prevalent behavioural
difficulty. The most common factors supporting the credibility of CSA
allegations were labile mood, the child's ability to differentiate fact from
fantasy and a detailed disclosure of contextual details. More adolescents
showed deterioration in schoolwork after disclosure and for more pre school
children clinginess following disclosure was a significant emotional
problem. More primary school aged children were abused by perpetrators who
had abused a number of children. For children abused by such perpetrators,
vaginal intercourse was less common. Vaginal intercourse was more common in
6-11-year-old victims and those who were abused on a daily basis. The threat
that disclosure posed to the integrity of the family structure was more
often a factor hindering disclosure in victims abused by father figures and
abused very frequently. Copyright C 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


keyword(s)
CSA victims' psychosocial characteristics,

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Interesting article - part of a series, I think, by these researchers -
looking at the importance of tourism in Irelasnd's recent economic success.
Relevant to our work - since so much of the Irish tourism industries is
aimed (badly) at the Irish Diaspora.

P.O'S.

publication
Tourism Economics

ISSN
1354-8166

publisher
Extenza-Turpin

year - volume - issue - page
2003 - 9 - 2 - 147

article

The changing contribution of tourism in a dynamic economy: the case of
Ireland

Deegan, Jim - Dineen, Declan J.

abstract

The performance of the Irish economy has received considerable international
commentary in recent years. The focus of this attention has generally been
on how an economy with severe fiscal imbalances and endemic unemployment in
the 1980s was transformed in the 1990s so that it exhibited phenomenal
economic growth and employment gains. This paper argues that the turnaround
in the fortunes of the Irish economy was due to the confluence of a number
of endogenous and exogenous factors and explains that tourism, often
overlooked by commentators, played an important role in the transformation.
The paper focuses on the performance of tourism since the mid-1980s,
outlines the sector's contribution in the macroeconomy and details some
emerging concerns that must be addressed if the tourism industry is to
continue to play an important role in the economy of Ireland.

keyword(s)

tourism policy, Ireland', s economic transformation, Irish tourism
performance, tourism in the Irish economy,

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The Anthropology Review Database of the American Anthropological Association
is worth a browse. Anthropologists are not always evil.

I found Manish Thakur's review of Brian Keith Axel thought-provoking and
disturbing.

P.O'S.


Thakur, Manish
2003 Review of The Nation's Tortured Body: Violence, Representation, and the
Formation of a Sikh.
Anthropology Review Database. March 11. Electronic document.
http://wings.buffalo.edu/ARD/showme.cgi?keycode=1851 .

Wang, Jian Min
2001 Review of May the Road Rise to Meet You.
Anthropology Review Database. August 14. Electronic document.
http://wings.buffalo.edu/ARD/showme.cgi?keycode=1646 .

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This is a very interesting Call for Papers...

When we were discussing the fictional literature of the Irish Famine a while
ago we noted a little knot there of books for children.

One of the little sections on my own shelves is my collection of books
looking at writing for children - there is a great deal of such writing in
Ireland, but it is not much studied.

And note the homage to Eilís Dillon. I am currently writing a little piece
about her husband Vivian Mercier. What a team...

P.O'S.

Forwarded on behalf of Dr Mary Shine Thompson...


- -----Original Message-----
Subject: IRISH SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF CHILDREN¹S LITERATURE: Call for
Papers

IRISH SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF CHILDREN¹S LITERATURE: ANNUAL CONFERENCE

TREASURE ISLANDS: REAL AND IMAGINED

21-23 FEBRUARY 2004

Venue: St. Patrick¹s College, Drumcondra, Dublin 9

Call for Papers

Proposals are welcome on the following and related topics in children¹s
literature:

The works of Eilís Dillon

Island Stories

Adventure and Exploration

Encounters with the Other

Theorizing the Island

The contribution of the late Eilís Dillon to children¹s literature will be
commemorated this conference held in the year of the 10th anniversary of her
death


Proposals should be sent to:

Dr Mary Shine Thompson, St Patrick¹s College,

Dublin City University, Drumcondra, Dublin 9

Mary.Thompson[at] spd.dcu.ie to arrive no later than 3 Dec 2003

From: Michael Cronin
Subject: Irish heroes

THE IRISH HERO

A MULTIDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE IN IRISH STUDIES

2-3 APRIL 2004

Centre for Irish Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway

PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

Many different men and women have been thought of, talked about, written
about and memorialized as representing the heroic values in Irish society.
Such ?heroes? have been drawn from many disparate areas of Irish life, such
as the military, politics, literature and sport. The aim of this conference
is to bring together experts from across the spectrum of Irish Studies to
consider such themes as:

*

Changing definitions of the hero in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
*

The memorialization of the hero in Irish life
*

Biographies of individual Irish heroes
*

The often temporary nature of hero status
*

Whether there is something specifically ?Irish? about the nation?s heroes
*

Moral victories and heroic failures
*

The problematic nature of ?heroism?
*

Heroism and gender
*

The anti-hero


Papers are encouraged from across the different disciplines within Irish
Studies, and focus should be restricted to a consideration of the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries. The concept of the ?hero? is not fixed, and
contributors may define the term in a variety of ways to include fictional
or legendary figures as well as actual or ?real? heroes. It is not necessary
that the heroes considered should have lived during the period under review,
only that they were revered during that time.

The conference will feature plenary sessions on the following topics:

*

The idea of the hero
*

Artistic heroes
*

Literary heroes
*

Sporting heroes
*

Political heroes
*

The hero in Irish-language writing and culture
*

 Filmic heroes
*

The contemporary use of the hero

*
Disasporic heroes


Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes. Please send an abstract of not
more than 300 words to

irishstudies[at]nuigalway.ie before 8 December 2003

Conference Convenor

Dr Michael Cronin (Leverhulme Research Fellow, Centre for Irish Studies,
NUI, Galway)
mjcronin[at]dmu.ac.uk

Conference Administrator

Ms Samantha Williams (Centre for Irish Studies, NUI, Galway)
samantha.williams[at]nuigalway.ie