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Eithne Luibheid was last heard of at Bowling Green State University which
is, I think, in Ohio.

There is a H-Net review of her book, Entry Denied, at...

http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=201351065927378

Eithne Luibheid. Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border.
Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. xxvii + 253 pp.
Appendix, notes, index. $54.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8166-3804-7.

Entry Denied has very quickly become something of a standard work, on many
courses and reading lists. I do not know the present state of Eithne
Luibheid's proposed work on Irish lesbian and gay migration...

P.O'S.

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Justice in Ethnically Diverse Societies: A Critique of Political Alienation

Ethnicities, September 2003, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 369-392(24)

O'NEILL S.[1]

[1] Queen's University, Northern Ireland, Email:
s.oneill[at]Queens-Belfast.ac.uk

Abstract:
The article presents a normative principle of constitutional justice that
acknowledges ethnocultural and ethnonational diversity by addressing the
injustice of political alienation. It is suggested that this principle could
be the subject of a methodological overlapping consensus among several
comprehensive normative-theoretical frameworks that are influential in
current debates. The main implication of the principle for ethnically
diverse societies is that it demands a deconstruction of hierarchical group
relations among citizens along with the simultaneous achievement of an
inclusive political culture. I apply this normative framework to the
struggle for constitutional justice in the ethnonationally divided context
of Northern Ireland. The principle would seem to demand a binational
egalitarian arrangement and it is argued that this would be most effectively
achieved under joint British-Irish sovereignty. I conclude by considering
how to minimize the risk that such institutional recognition of national
identities could further alienate citizens who do not belong to either of
the main national groups.

Keywords: constitutions; diversity; hierarchies; Northern Ireland;
sovereignty

Document Type: Journal article ISSN: 1468-7968

DOI (article): 10.1177/14687968030033005
SICI (online): 1468-7968(20030901)3:3L.369;1-

Publisher: Sage Publications

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Young (Male) Irelanders: Postcolonial Ethnicities - Expanding the Nation and
Irishness

European Journal of Cultural Studies, August 2003, vol. 6, no. 3, pp.
386-403(18)

Mac an Ghaill M.[1]; Haywood C.[2]

[1] University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Email:
Mairtin.Mac-An-Ghaill[at]ncl.ac.uk [2] University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Abstract:
This article explores the experiences of second generation Irish young men
living in Britain. Drawing upon theories of globalization, diaspora and
subjectivity, it considers how ethnic invisibility (in Britain) and national
exclusion (in Ireland) are shaping young people's specific experience of
cultural peripheries. At the same time, such a position provides an insight
into the centrality of the black/white dualism on a lived-out level, while
also highlighting the continuing salience of the racial dualism as a
dominant explanatory framework. More specifically, it examines young
people's reclamation and rearticulation of being and belonging, the cultural
politics of Irishness and the visibility of Irish ethnicity. It concludes by
bringing together some of the empirical, theoretical and methodological
complexities involved in working in this area.

Keywords: cultural invisibility; diaspora; emigration; hybridity; national
belonging; plastic Paddies; postnationalist; second generation; syncretism;
youth

Document Type: Journal article ISSN: 1367-5494

DOI (article): 10.1177/13675494030063007
SICI (online): 1367-5494(20030801)6:3L.386;1-

Publisher: Sage Publications

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I have a wicked trick which has worked well on my own children. If a child
says 'I'm bored', I launch forth: 'Boredom is a very precious gift.
Without boredom there would be no human creativity... ' Etc, etc. They
soon get tired of being bored and find something else to do.

P.O'S.

Burke, Boredom, and the Theater of Counterrevolution

PMLA, 1 March 2003, vol. 118, no. 2, pp. 224-238(15)

Mallory A.

Abstract:
A rich critical literature explores the relation between Edmund Burke's
theatrical style and his counterrevolutionary argument. Redirecting this
line of inquiry, the essay treats Reflections on the Revolution in France
(1790) as a histrionic literary performance, arguing that to appreciate its
significance we must recover a neglected subtext: a preoccupation with
boredom and restlessness. Burke's loyalties are divided: defending England,
he counsels against extremes of torpor and excitement. He works to preserve
England in a state of settled "repose," yet his rhetoric reveals a baseline
of boredom. Indulging in fantasies of reform and utopia and deploying
strategies of tragic hyperbole and self-parody, he mobilizes conventional
associations of boredom and revolution to negotiate a new position from
which to exercise cultural authority. Textual histrionics do more than
contain a revolutionary threat; they establish an alternative theater of
boredom. (AM)

Keywords: Irish literature; 1700-1799; Eighteenth Century; Burke, Edmund;
Reflections on the Revolution in France; prose; rhetoric; boredom; political
reform; theatricality; revolution

Document Type: Research article ISSN: 0030-8129

SICI (online): 0030-8129(20030301)118:2L.224;1-

Publisher: Modern Language Association of America

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This would seem to build on Mary Hickman's work...

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An evaluation of pupil perceptions of Ireland, Irish history and its
contribution to history teaching in our multicultural society

The Curriculum Journal, July 2003, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 201-215(15)

Bracey P.[1]; Gove-Humphries A.[2]

[1] School of Education, University College, Northampton [2] School of
Education, University of Birmingham and Birmingham Advisory and Support
Service

Abstract:
This article uses case-study research to explore pupil perceptions of
Ireland and its impact on learning an aspect of Irish history. The topic is
linked to multicultural perspectives within both history and citizenship.
Survey data is used to provide an insight into pupil knowledge and
perceptions of Ireland by comparing it with their perceptions of England,
Scotland and Wales. This is related to diary and focus study responses given
by the children when studying a unit of work. The research suggests that the
historical knowledge of the pupils registered poorly against other forms of
knowledge, and is often related to recent events reported in the media;
also, that family influences are as important as school. This does not
appear to have adversely affected the children's response to studying about
Ireland's past with respect to this particular study, although it is
possible that family links could have some impact on pupil discourses. The
overall conclusion is that the study of Ireland's past has the potential to
enhance the quality of history and citizenship education in the context of
our multicultural society.

Keywords: Ireland; history; multicultural; citizenship

Document Type: Research article ISSN: 0958-5176

DOI (article): NO_DOI
SICI (online): 0958-5176(20030701)14:2L.201;1-

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Regular readers of The Irish Emigrant email newsletter will know that Cormac
MacConnell is the poor man who has to be funny every week. This week's
article was a good one... He meets the man who invented 'craic' - it is all
very plausible...

'..."There is all this talk nowadays about Craic and the pub culture, thank
God for it, but you know, as I know, that thirty-five years ago there was no
pub culture like that at all. Pubs were serious places without any women for
a start, and very little music, bare and bleak enough, places just for
drinking. There was no Craic at all in the pubs thirty-five years ago, was
there?" With real shock I had to agree. The man was telling the truth. Think
about it yourself!'

The word 'craic' or crack was required for a rhyme - this is entirely
convincing, for we all know that rhyme shapes thought. And the song
requiring a rhyme was - here's the Irish Diaspora bit - 'McAlpine's
Fusiliers.....the ballad which acclaims the exploits of the brawny Irishmen
who could properly claim to have rebuilt all of England after the war.'
(Homage to Ultan Cowley there, I think...)

Oh Mother dear, I'm over here/I'm Never coming back/What keeps me here is
the price of beer/The women and the CRACK!"

Note too that the crack is not in Ireland - it is in London, England...

For further see...
Meanwhile...back in Ireland: What would Ireland be without the laughing and
the singing and a bit of madness here and there? Cormac talks to someone who
knows - the man who invented craic.
http://www.emigrant.ie/summary.asp?iCategoryID=22

THE IRISH EMIGRANT
Editor: Liam Ferrie - October 20, 2003 - Issue No.872

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On the web site of the Learning & Teaching Support Network (LTSN), there is
now up to date information on the symposium, Irish Studies in the
Curriculum.

I will give the first, keynote paper - Roy Foster will respond.

Please distribute the following information...

P.O'S.


http://www.english.ltsn.ac.uk/events/future/irish.htm

Irish Studies in the Curriculum
Location: Room 248 , Senate House, Malet Street, University of London
Date: Friday 7 November 2003
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: Free, but we reserve the right to levy a £15.00 non-attendance fee.
Description: This symposium is being co-hosted with The British Association
for Irish Studies, and the Institute for English Studies.

In the last 20 years, Irish Studies has established an identity not just as
a research specialism but as a focus for teaching. The term ?Irish Studies?
serves to describe curricula which draw on a range of discourses which in
turn are inflected by debates within and between academic disciplines.

Irish Studies is delivered through individual modules on traditional ?single
discipline? programmes in Higher Education; it is available in single, joint
and combined honours programmes and it has a profile at Masters and PhD
levels. Different modes of delivery and diversity in curricula are
reflected, as well, in courses or course elements offered in secondary
schools and in Further Education.

This symposium on ?Irish Studies in the Curriculum? will give delegates the
opportunity to reflect on approaches to, and strategies for, the delivery of
curricula or elements of curricula which focus on representations of Ireland
and Irishness.

Programme: The Preliminary Programme for the day is as follows:

10:00 ? 10:30 Registration & Tea/Coffee
10:30 ? 11:30 Patrick O'Sullivan, University of Bradford
Title: 'The Study of Irish Studies'
Chair: Dr Siobhan Holland (English Subject Centre)
Respondent Professor Roy Foster (University of Oxford)

11:30 ? 11:45 Tea/Coffee

11:45? 13:00 Irish Studies in the Curriculum
Chair: Dr Scott Brewster (University of Central Lancashire)

In the Dark ?... Students Reading Joyce and Beckett
Lucia Boldrini and Derval Tubridy, Goldsmiths, University of London

Troubled Relations: Irish Texts and English Students
Siobhán Holland (English Subject Centre)
and Dr Matthew Campbell (University of Sheffield)


13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:30 Irish Studies in the Academy
Chair: Mervyn Busteed (Chair, British Association of Irish Studies)

Irish Studies and Disciplinary Boundaries
Jayne Steel (University of Lancaster)

Lessons from an Irish Studies Programme
Daragh Minogue and Conor Carville (Saint Mary's College)

Irish Studies and (Non-British)European Syllabuses
Dr Paddy Lyons (University of Glasgow)


15:30 - 16:00 Tea and Closing Discussion

Contact: esc[at]rhul.ac.uk
Register: If you wish to attend, please complete the online registration
form.
Event Flyer: Download a Flyer for this event for your staff
noticeboard.(Requires Adobe Acrobat reader)

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http://www.english.ltsn.ac.uk/events/future/irish.htm

I suppose I should explain myself... Since, as all the world knows, I do
not DO Irish Studies, and can be quite critical of 'Irish Studies' as it has
manifested itself.

But, for that very reason, it seems, people keep asking me to comment on
'Irish Studies'. One of my themes, for which I have been collecting notes,
is 'Irish Studies as a diasporic phenomenon'. Recent publications of mine -
for example my article in New Hibernia Review, earlier in the year - are
being read as programmes or critiques of Irish Studies...

I am taking part in this Symposium because Mervyn Busteed, on behalf of the
British Association for Irish Studies, asked me to - and I always feel that
I should do more for the BAIS. I can at least turn up and give a paper.

I have been discussing the Symposium with its organiser, Siobhán Holland -
and I have been discussing my paper. I don't think I should cover in too
much detail themes already being dealt with by other speakers. For example,
it does seem to me that there is a visible difference between 'Irish
Studies' in the English-speaking countries of settlement and 'Irish Studies'
elsewhere - but Paddy Lyons is going to look at that, based on experiences
in Warsaw and Glasgow. One of my themes is the notion of
interdisciplinarity - but Jayne Steel is going to tackle that.

It has not been possible to find speakers on 'Women and Irish Studies' -
where it seems to me there is a knot of issues - or 'The Irish language and
Irish Studies'. The issue of Northern Ireland looms large over world-wide
Irish Studies - we all hope for a 'peace dividend', but is there a 'peace
penalty' - as headline interest wanes and student numbers fall? I am also
reviewing other people's comments on 'Irish Studies' - there have been quite
a few since Nessan Danaher in The Irish World Wide series... So, I have a
list of themes that I want to give little sections to. I am worried that my
paper might be a bit bitty - but I'll work on it over the coming week, and
see what happens...

I don't know what Roy Foster is going to say. I think he might mention
Yeats...

Paddy


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From: WallsAMP[at]aol.com

Terence Patrick Dolan in A Dictionary of Hiberno-English says this about
'crack'

'Crack n., entertaining conversation. Ir craic is the ModE (Modern English)
loanword crack from ME (Middle English) crak, loud conversation, bragging
talk; recently reintroduced into HE (Hiberno-English) (usually in its Ir
spelling) in the belief that it means high-spirited entertainment.....'

examples from Spenser (Faerie Queene), Friel (Translations), Johnston
(Shadows on Our Skin) Doyle (The Van).

Disputes origins in a Dublin pub of a Clare man?


Paddy Walls

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Forwarded on behalf of...

Janice Holmes"
Subject: ESHSI Conference

Economic and Social History Society of Ireland Annual Conference 2003

CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF IRISH ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY

14-15 November 2003
University of Ulster
Coleraine

In 1974 the Economic and Social History Society of Ireland published its
first issue of Irish Economic and Social History. In over 90 articles, and
under the leadership of 9 editors, the Journal has consistently represented
the study of economic and social history on the island of Ireland in all its
forms.

This year the Society would like to celebrate that achievement and invite
you to join us at our annual conference. In keeping with the theme, we have
invited former editors and founding members to speak about their current
research interests. The conference, however, is not meant to be simply a
walk down memory lane. For many years, it has featured the work of the next
generation of social and economic historians. This year is no different;
newly appointed academics and postgraduates feature prominently in the
programme.

The annual K.H. Connell Memorial Lecture will be given by Professor Sheridan
Gilley (Durham). Speakers include Mary Daly, David Dickson, Sean Connolly
and Trevor Parkhill. The papers include the evolution of the linen
industry, Protestant millennialism and the history of Queen's University.

Postgraduates will be talking about the Belfast Fire Brigade, Irish
political prisoners and the Irish railway network.

For more information and a registration form please contact:

Dr. Janice Holmes
School of History and International Affairs University of Ulster
Coleraine BT52 1SA
Northern Ireland
je.holmes[at]ulster.ac.uk

Programme details and registration forms can be found at:
www.arts.ulst.ac.uk/history

From: "Steven Mccabe"

I remember reading an article in the Sunday Times Magazine in the 1980s
which described the Matchmaking festival. As was clear from reading the
article, everyone interviewed talked of the craic. Lest any reader not be
sure what this word meant, a helpful definition was provided ("mischief and
merriment"). I wonder if anyone has come across a more encompassing and
better definition?

Steve McCabe
UCE Birmingham

- -----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Maume
If I remember correctly, Sally Belfrage's book CRACK, about spending a year
in 1980s Belfast, had to be re-titled for the American market to avoid
misunderstandings. I believe references to "Galway hookers" also tend to be
misunderstood in transit...
Best wishes,
Patrick

From: patrick maume
Sender: P.Maume[at]Queens-Belfast.AC.UK
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Ir-D The Invention of 'craic'

From: Patrick Maume
If I remember correctly, Sally Belfrage's book CRACK, about spending a year
in 1980s Belfast, had to be re-titled for the American market to avoid
misunderstandings. I believe references to "Galway hookers" also tend to be
misunderstood in transit...
Best wishes,
Patrick

>
> For further see...
> Meanwhile...back in Ireland: What would Ireland be without the
> laughing and the singing and a bit of madness here and there? Cormac
> talks to someone who knows - the man who invented craic.
> http://www.emigrant.ie/summary.asp?iCategoryID=22
>
> THE IRISH EMIGRANT
> Editor: Liam Ferrie - October 20, 2003 - Issue No.872
>
> P.O'S.
>
>

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I now have, as an Adobe Acrobat pdf file, my article - the one that appeared
in New Hibernia Review volume 7:1...

O'Sullivan, Patrick.
Developing Irish Diaspora Studies: A Personal View

This is the article as published. I am happy to send this pdf file - 443 kb
- - to any member of the Irish-Diaspora list who wants it, and whose email
system can cope with it.

Just send me an email saying you want the article, I will simply hit Reply,
attach the file - and Send.

P.O'S.

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From: billmulligan[at]murray-ky.net
To: "irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk"
Subject: Re: Ir-D ACIS, Liverpool, General excitement 2

I second the idea of a gathering of the Ir-D list memebers.

From: "Nieciecki, Daniel"
To: "'irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk'"
Subject: RE: Ir-D The Invention of 'craic' 3


Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, ed. Niall Ó Dónaill

Craic, f. (gs. ~e, pl. ~eanna) 1. Crack 2. Conversation, chat 3. Cracked,
crazy person. Diarmaid ~, crazy Diarmaid

Daniel Nieciecki

> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: "Steven Mccabe"
>
> I remember reading an article in the Sunday Times Magazine in the
> 1980s which described the Matchmaking festival. As was clear from
> reading the article, everyone interviewed talked of the craic. Lest
> any reader not be sure what this word meant, a helpful definition was
> provided ("mischief and merriment"). I wonder if anyone has come
> across a more encompassing and better definition?
>
> Steve McCabe
> UCE Birmingham
>

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Oh...

RATS!

On closer inspection the version of this article that I have here, in an
Adobe Acrobat pdf file, is NOT exactly the version that appeared in New
Hibernia Review - this version here contains some errors and typos, which
were corrected in proof.

I will try again to get hold of the pdf of the article as published.
Assuming I am successful... I will keep a note of Ir-D members who have
asked to see the article, and will contact them at a later date...

Paddy


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Jim Sheridan's new movie, In America, has been well receieved at the
festivals - and opens over here, in 'selected cinemas' next week.

Reviews are now appearing on the web...

http://www.indiewire.com/movies/movies_030505america.html

http://www.futuremovies.co.uk/review.asp?ID=76

And many more...

Jim Sheridan
On writing In America
"A lot of it's based on my own life...I never thought of setting it anywhere
else than Manhattan - some people said Los Angeles because its more modern
and it's where an aspiring film actor might go but I spent eight years
living in New York and we loved it there. It's a tough city but its really
fundamental to this story - this is a hopeful, loving story about New York."

Interview at

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/screen/story/0,6903,1061113,00.html

P.O'S.

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This is a useful web resource - I am not clear who is in charge but it is
hosted by Boston Arts, Sciences & Technologies...

http://www.irishfilm.net/index.html

P.O'S.

From the web site...

The Irish in Film
An Annotated Database
the Irish and their descendents, the Irish-Americans, are the subjects of
many films. Irish themes, characters and stories appear in films made in
England, Australia and The United States. Ireland, of course, produces films
as well. When it comes to groups, the perspective of some filmmakers may be
somewhat different from the perspectives of the subjects of the film. The
Irish image has fared far better than some, especially in recent years. Yet,
the depiction of things Irish remains somewhat narrow. In fact, the Irish in
film can fit neatly into the categories listed below.

Biography History Documentary Irish Americans Irish Immigrants
IRA Irish Mob Irish Folklore The Old Country Boxing Bibliography

From: Carmel McCaffrey
Subject: Re: Ir-D The Invention of 'craic' 6


I agree that Terry Eagleton resorts to stereotypes and worse - that is his
patronizing attitude to the Irish so I would not take his definition as
meaning anything. He can be downright insulting at times and I really do not
think him an expert in any way on the Irish or Irish speech patterns.

As a Dubliner let me jump in here and say that I remember in the early
seventies hearing the word from a rural friend from the west - we did not
have the word in Dublin English - and she used it precisely to describe
the fun derived from a social gathering and the talk and conversation that a
group of people have when they get together. I never associated it with
entertainment.

The definition given for Craic in the Gearrfhoclóir Gaeilge-Béarla published
by An Roinn Oideachais in 1979 is "Conversation, chat".

Carmel



irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk wrote:

>From: Elizabeth Malcolm
>Subject: Craic
>
>In his book 'The Truth about the Irish', Terry Eagleton defines craic
>as 'Irish for "fun", "having a good time", usually a mixture of music,
>drink and talk. An over-used term, now rapidly approaching the status
>of "begorrah"'. But then, resorting to stereotypes - which he does to
>an alarming extent throughout the book - he goes on to claim that the
>Irish really know how to enjoy themselves and are not given to
>puritanism, 'unlike Anglo-Saxon types', among whom he includes the
protestants of the North.
>(46)
>

From: Elizabeth Malcolm
Subject: Craic

In his book 'The Truth about the Irish', Terry Eagleton defines craic as
'Irish for "fun", "having a good time", usually a mixture of music, drink
and talk. An over-used term, now rapidly approaching the status of
"begorrah"'. But then, resorting to stereotypes - which he does to an
alarming extent throughout the book - he goes on to claim that the Irish
really know how to enjoy themselves and are not given to puritanism, 'unlike
Anglo-Saxon types', among whom he includes the protestants of the North.
(46)

I was a student in Dublin in the mid and late 1970s and I don't recollect
ever hearing the word craic. And I went to lots of pubs, partly because I
was studying drink, but also because I belonged to women's groups which were
trying to break down restrictions on women in Irish pubs. By 1975 most
central Dublin pubs did allow women into the bar, although some didn't, but
we did not receive a very warm welcome and craic was in rather short supply.
Often it was very hard to get served - barmen scrupulously ignored you - or
they would only serve women glasses (half-pints) and not pints. I well
remember on a number of occasions ordering a pint, after a long wait at the
bar, and being served 2 glasses by a very surly barman - which of course
meant I had to pay more.

I also clearly remember first hearing the word craic when I moved to Belfast
at the beginning of the 1980s. When Sally Belfrage used the word in the
title of her book about Belfast, which came out in the early '80s, that
confirmed my impression that it was more of the northern term - or at least
not a common Dublin one.

Elizabeth Malcolm

PS. Re. Eagleton: he claims to be dispelling stereotypes and searching for
the 'truth' about 'familiar images' in a humorous manner. But I must say it
was a book that jarred with me.



Professor Elizabeth Malcolm
Gerry Higgins Professor of Irish Studies Deputy Head Department of History
University of Melbourne Parkville, Victoria AUSTRALIA, 3010

Telephone: +61-3-8344 3924
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Email: e.malcolm[at]unimelb.edu.au
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