From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of Colman Etchingham...

P.O'S.

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From: Colman Etchingham [mailto:Colman.Etchingham[at]may.ie]
Sent: 07 November 2003 08:57
To: P.OSullivan[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: ICM

EIGHTEENTH IRISH CONFERENCE OF MEDIEVALISTS
ST KIERAN'S COLLEGE KILKENNY THURSDAY 24 TO SATURDAY 26 JUNE 2004

Chair: MÁIRE HERBERT

Organising Secretary: CATHERINE SWIFT Programme Secretary: COLMÁN ETCHINGHAM

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

CALL FOR PAPERS

Offers of papers are invited on medieval archaeology, art, history,
language, learning and literature in both Latin and the vernaculars.
Preference will be given to papers with a bearing on Irish and Insular
medieval studies, but all offers will be considered.

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

Responses to DR COLMÁN ETCHINGHAM, DEPT OF HISTORY, NUI MAYNOOTH, CO.
KILDARE, IRELAND by the deadline of 28 FEBRUARY 2004.
Phone: (353 1) 7083816; Fax: (353 1) 7086169; e-mail:
colman.etchingham[at]may.ie

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

(2) TITLE and LENGTH OF PROPOSED PAPER

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

(4) PROJECTOR(S) REQUIRED

Details of FEES FOR REGISTRATION, ON-CAMPUS MEALS AND ACCOMMODATION will be
circulated, together with the CONFERENCE PROGRAMME, in March 2004. For
advance information on these details, contact DR CATHERINE SWIFT, DEPT OF
HISTORY, NUI MAYNOOTH, CO. KILDARE, IRELAND (e-mail:
catherine.swift[at]may.ie).

YOU CAN ACCESS OUR WEBSITE AT www.geocities.com/irishmedievalists, where
these and other details will be posted presently.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The works of George Moore are increasingly appearing on the Irish Studies
reading lists, and on other literature and culture reading lists. Cultural
trends - including Simone Benmussa's play - have made 'Albert Nobbs' very
visible. An example, below, from the latest issue of Women: a Cultural
Review...

P.O'S.


Women: a Cultural Review

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
Issue: Volume 14, Number 3 / December 2003
Pages: 248 - 263

'Neither man nor woman'? Female Transvestism, Object Relations and Mourning
in George Moore's 'Albert Nobbs'

Ann Heilmann

Abstract:

Heilmann offers a psychoanalytic reading of Moore's narrative of
cross-gender impersonation 'Albert Nobbs'. First published in A
Story-Teller's Holiday (1918) and later transferred to Celibate Lives
(1927), the story features a woman who passes herself off as a man, until a
chance meeting with another male impersonator happily equipped with a wife
galvanizes her desire for a companion. Her inability to reveal the secret of
her body to her prospective bride, however, coupled with the marked absence
of any expression of sexual passion, leads to the break-up of the
relationship, and Albert dies, a loner hoarding money in order to sublimate
her thwarted longing for love. In this text the no (wo)man's land of
cross-gender masquerade operates as a psychological marker of Albert's
social (hence internal) lack of identity. An illegitimate child brought up
by a nurse, she never knew her parents, whose absent presence was embodied
by an allowance discontinued after their death. Drawing on Kleinian
object-relations theory, Heilmann argues that Albert's (mis)performance of
'manhood' constitutes a subliminal quest for her missing parents, a desire
always frustrated and ultimately displaced into the hard currency of
material commodities. If Moore's story represents the female tranvestite as
a castrated, sexless and depressed 'perhapser', an 'outcast from both
sexes', fatherless and yet forever locked into a male-authored, patronymic
text, Simone Benmussa, who in 1977 adapted the story for the stage (The
Singular Life of Albert Nobbs), offers a more subversive reading of the
female cross-dresser as a 'figure that disrupts' (Marjorie Garber) cultural
categories and binary oppositions. The article ends with a consideration of
Benmussa's revisionary strategies.

Keywords:

Albert Nobbs, cross-dressing, gender impersonation, gender masquerade,
George Moore, infantile depressive position, Melanie Klein, mourning, object
relations, transvestism

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The Irish-Diaspora list is 6 years old this month...

And we have quite a few new members...

To remind people that it is possible to consult nearly 6 years of
Irish-Diaspora list archives...

For access to the RESTRICTED area of irishdiaspora.net...

Go to
Irish Diaspora Net Archive http://www.irishdiaspora.net

Click on Special Access, at the top of the screen.

Username irdmember
Current Password tracy

Note the change of password. This password is changed regularly.

That gets you into our RESTRICTED area.

Click on RESTRICTED, and you have access to our two databases...

DIRDA - the Database of the Ir-D Archive...
DIDI - the Database of Irish-Diaspora Interests (still under development -
and needs reviving)...

Log out by clicking on the small irishdiaspora.net words at the top of the
screen.

Note that recent technical changes mean that for these facilities to work
your web browser must have cookies enabled.

People who are using the guest log-in need to contact me directly, for that
password has also changed.

P.O'S.

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BD7 1DP Yorkshire England

First of all, my thanks to Russell Murray for looking after the Ir-D list
whilst I have been travelling. Russell sets off on his own travels tomorrow
and we wish him Bon Voyage...

At a recent meeting in London Mervyn Busteed reminded everyone of the
forthcoming joint American Conference for Irish Studies, British Association
for Irish Studies, Canadian Association for Irish Studies and EFACIS
Conference, Liverpool 2004. And I was able to tell him that on the
Irish-Diaspora list we are already very excited. Generally.

I am in touch with Eamonn Wall, the Conference organiser, on acis[at]umsl.edu.
See
http://www.acisweb.com/News/acis04.html
The deadline is December 1 2003, and Eamonn hopes to have his schedule ready
in January.

I have sent in an outline of my own paper on John Denvir and the Invention
of the Irish. And I have sent in a suggestion for an Irish-Diaspora list
'Open House', for Irish-Diaspora list members, friends and guests - either
in the early evening, or the late evening... There would be a brief
presentation about the experience of running the Irish-Diaspora list and
about the technology that supports our archives. I hope to persuade one of
our corporate sponsors to provide some hospitality. If the worst comes to
the worst (or best) we can all just meet in a pub...

Eamonn Wall tells me that he is responsible only for the 9 to 5 conference
schedule, and that I will have to negotiate directly with the University of
Liverpool about scheduling our Ir-D Open House. Eamonn says that his 9 to 5
schedule could accommodate a session/roundtable discussion devoted to the
Ir-D list, its works and preoccupations. But I do know that some of you
have already offered papers and sessions, and I think I would prefer -
unless there is overwhelming demand - not to have to think about a specific
Ir-D session in the 9 to 5 part of the Conference.

Any thoughts, comments?

Paddy


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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Maureen E. Mulvihill (Princeton Research Forum, Princeton, New Jersey)
shares with the Irish Diaspora List her recent piece on Trisha Ziff's
celebrated "Bloody Sunday" (global) photographic exhibition. Dr Mulvihill's
essay, available in its published form on the Project Muse website, ran in
the Winter, 2002, issue of the New Hibernia Review, with two dramatic B&W
photos. What follows is the text of her original submission, which saw
slight abridgements in the published version

P.O'S.
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Léirmheasanna - Reviews Section

"THE CAMERA DOES NOT LIE

REVISITING BLOODY SUNDAY (1972, 2002)"

By Maureen E. Mulvihill
Copyright Maureen E. Mulvihill
Princeton Research Forum, Princeton, NJ

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for Pedro Meyer, a photographer of rare talent & courage


"Hidden Truths: Bloody Sunday 1972"
Photography Exhibition - Trisha Ziff, Curator International Center for
Photography, New York City
11 January 2002 - 17 March 2002
Exhibition Catalogue edited by Trisha Ziff (Santa Monica: CA.: Smart Art
Press, 1998), 200 pp. Ills.
ISBN 1-889195-18-9. $25


Trisha Ziff, the distinguished Independent Curator of "Hidden Truths: Bloody
Sunday 1972," has achieved something important for Irish history. Her
compelling exhibition on the tragic events of 30 January 1972 in the
Catholic Bogside section of County Derry, Northern Ireland, lays bare the
essential facts of those horrific 15 minutes, but it does something even
more valuable: it supplies evidentiary documents and forensic material to
the legal specialists and witnesses at the new Saville Inquiry as they now
sort out the truth of that day from a dense accretion of lies, rumour, and
the muddled memories of thirty years ago.


I.

"Hidden Truths" was organized by the Centro de la Imagen and originated by
Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, California, in collaboration with the Bloody
Sunday Trust in Derry and Irish Ethos. The UCR Center for Ideas & Society
(University of California at Riverside) provided additional support. The New
York City show was expertly installed by Brian Wallis and Kristen Lubben.

And how remarkable that the curator of this Irish show is not Irish at all,
but English! Trisha Ziff (US Guggenheim Fellow, 1998), now resident in
Mexico City, is presently completing her PhD dissertation, on Irish in
Mexico in the 1840s, with Northern London University. In addition to "Hidden
Truths," she has curated several international shows, such as "Distant
Relations: Irish Mexican and Chicano Art"; and she presently is at work on
two upcoming shows: "Salon," an exhibition of artists working with human
hair; and "250th of a Second: The Image that Killed Me," on Alberto Korda's
famous portrait photograph of Ché Guevera.

A longstanding friend of Ireland, Ziff lived for five years in the 1980s in
County Derry, where she founded Derry CameraWork and did photo editing for
"Still War: Photographs from the North of Ireland" by Mike Abrahams and
Laurie Sparham (2000). Her sympathetic connection to the ongoing Irish
Troubles was audible to a capacity audience last February, at the Bloody
Sunday Panel hosted by Ireland House (New York University),* when she
reverently named the 14 victims of Bloody Sunday: "And we shall remember all
of these: Patrick Doherty, Gerald Donaghy, Jackie Duddy, Hugh Gilmore, John
Johnston, Michael Kelly, Michael McDaid, Kevin McElhinney, Bernard McGuigan,
Gerald McKinney, William McKinney, William Nash, John Young, Jim Wray." The
oldest victim was 59 years of age, the youngest but 17 (five victims, in
fact, were 17). The show's handsome and profusely illustrated exhibition
catalogue, edited by Trisha Ziff, is essential reading for the variety of
opinions and accounts it offers. Here are the collected voices of scholars,
photographers, peace activists, family members, eye-and-ear witnesses,
English journalists, and others.

Equally remarkable is the unusual character of the show's funding. This
ambitious project was funded not by government nor corporate monies, but
rather by the people of Ireland. "Yes, we had the occasional check and
handout, now and again," Ziff explained, "but this was very much a
grass-roots, community project; and that lent an enviable measure of
artistic freedom to all that we did, from writing caption copy for the
exhibits to planning the show's catalogue. Most of the materials and support
emanated from the community. So did the sustaining faith and energy which I
personally needed. Elaine Brotherton, a representative of the Bloody Sunday
Trust and of the Families of Bloody Sunday, was my angel. This display is
about families, ultimately. I curated the whole installation, yes, but it's
their show. It's my homage to their loss. But it's their appeal for truth
and justice."

___________
*The panel (7 February 2002, New York University Law School, Vanderbilt
Hall) was introduced by Eileen Reilly, Associate Director, Ireland House,
NYU, and moderated by Trisha Ziff. The speakers included Richard Harvey,
legal representative for the Wray family, Saville Inquiry; Professor Mary
Hickman, University of Northern London; Martin McGuinness, Master for
Education, Northern Ireland; Peter Pringle, investigative journalist, The
Times (London); and Brian Wallis, Chief Curator, International Center of
Photography, NYC.



II.

"Hidden Truths" is an articulate show: eloquently articulate. Indeed, its
impact is so forceful and authentic that it borders on the macabre. Stepping
into this large, minimalist exhibition space on West 43rd Street in New York
City, with its high ceilings and stark white walls, the viewer is enveloped
in a whole new sensory zone. "Every atrocity must have its images," wrote
Ziff to this reviewer on 8 March 2002, "otherwise, the world does not
respond. Atrocities without photographs tend to be forgotten in our
image-laden reality. The photographer's role remains crucial in making sure
we bear witness, in making sure we don't forget."

To the show's special credit, it is much more than a photography exhibition:
it is a skilled multimedia display. Though large-scale (mostly)
black-and-white photographs by eighteen on-site photographers -- Fulvio
Grimaldi, William L. Rukeyser, Colman Doyle, Gilles Peress, and others --
comprise the show's primary content, Ziff wisely includes exhibits in other
media, as well. In four large exhibit vitrines, viewers see personal effects
and mementos of some of the victims. Other material objects include several
floor-to-ceiling commemorative portrait-banners of some of the victims, as
well as front-page newspaper accounts of Bloody Sunday in The New York
Times, The Times of London, The Sun, The Daily Express, and The Derry
Journal. Exploiting the advantages of the electronic medium, the show
includes an interactive digital reconstruction of the original Bloody Sunday
site, created by Malachy McDaid, a computer program specialist and Derry
resident. And not overlooking the horrible sounds of Bloody Sunday, the show
presents the oral culture of the event in selections from a full four-hour
radio tape made by radio ham operator, Brendan Porter. The show's soundtrack
records gunfire, shouts and cries, police calls, fast steps and fleeing
feet, the words of traumatized citizens, and the shocking inside chat of
armed British soldiers (".we want some kills here"). When Alice Long, an
18-year-old First Aid assistant, asked the British soldiers to promptly ring
for ambulances, she was told, "Ambulances? You don't need ambulances here.
These paratroopers shoot to kill, not maim." Finally, there is a video tape
of a good many minutes of those 15 minutes, made by William McKinney, aged
26, a Bloody Sunday victim. He was shot dead while filming. The truth was
censored and stopped by more than rubber bullets. Ziff's multimedia approach
to this big, complex subject is masterful. The viewer, be he skeptic or
believer, is given choices. Decisions, judgments, and impressions can be
made from a range of material in several media.

An unqualified success, "Hidden Truths" has traveled throughout the world
these five years; and its critical reception by photographers and reviewers
has been uniformly affirmative. (Listings of numerous reviews and features
are now posted on the Internet.) Sitting down with Trisha Ziff at Ireland
House last February, this reviewer was given the following context: "Getting
this show up was a stupendous challenge, for any curator, as there was such
a quantity of material to choose from. This is possibly the most visually
documented massacre of our times: over 10,000 images exist from that day, in
various archives. My goal was to present an accessible, clear narrative of
the afternoon. This is why we also put up a large, formatted Timeline of the
event and also included the computerized walk-through of the site: these
were helpful adjuncts to the pictorial and material exhibits. Viewers can
see the sequence of the event directly in the photographic images. First,
the peaceful beginnings of the Civil Rights march in County Derry, with the
marchers - some 20,000 men, women, children -- in their Sunday best, hardly
got up for a confrontation. Then, at William Street, they are fired upon
with gushes of purple dye and gas by this special élite regiment of British
paratroopers, some 405 armed soldiers. Then we see the shootings and the
pathetic images of men and boys crawling on the streets -- some are reaching
out for help, others are trying to reach the victims. The stunned and
panicked faces of common citizens are exquisite for the truths they tell us.
And the camera eye caught it all. There's also a videotape, and a radio tape
by an amateur ham radio operator. To vindicate these soldiers, as did the
Widgery Tribunal in 1972, is to deny this compelling evidence. So, with
thanks to the English -Prime Minister Tony Blair, it was high time to reopen
the case in 1998 -- and to do so, in my view, in this very special medium.
Books and newspaper accounts, even testimonials, were not incriminating
enough: people needed to see Bloody Sunday. All of it. Here it is. Truths no
longer hidden." (For the Widgery Report of 1972, with color facsimiles, see
any number of matches on the web.)


______

"Bloody Sunday is the longest inquiry, to date, in British history," wrote
Warren Hoge, current London Bureau Chief for The New York Times (30 January
2002, p. A4). And so we now await the official report of the Saville
Inquiry. Coming in at an estimated cost to the United Kingdom of 200 million
pounds, this is indeed a small price to pay, all things considered. It is
hoped that the conclusions of the report will accord some measure of justice
and, yes, financial reparation to the victims' families in County Derry. But
money, blame, and a new assessment of the case shall never remove this
disgraceful blot on British history.


______

For further reading, see numerous matches for Bloody Sunday on the Internet,
including Paul Greengrass's television documentary, "Bloody Sunday" (2002);
Joanne O'Brien's "A Matter of Minutes" (2002); Peter Pringle & Philip
Jacobson's "These Are Real Bullets, Aren't They?" (2000); and Brian Friel's
"Freedom of the City" website, now a popular classroom e-text for
undergraduate classes at the University of St Thomas, St Paul, Minnesota,
and elsewhere.

Acknowledgements: For supportive interest and coordination of this essay,
the author thanks curator Trisha Ziff, Jim Rogers (New Hibernia Review),
Eileen Reilly and Robert Scally (Ireland House), Martin McGuinness (Minister
for Education, Northern Ireland), and David Appel and Kristen Lubben
(International Center of Photography, NYC).


______


Caption copy for the two slides which appeared both in the printed version
of this essay in the New Hibernia Review and also in the digital version of
the essay hosted by Project Muse:

Image 1. Fulvio Grimaldi, Photographer. Courtesy of the Bloody Sunday Trust
British Army confronted by demonstrators on William Street, Derry, Northern
Ireland, Bloody Sunday, 30 January 1972.

Image 2. Fulvio Grimaldi, Photographer. Courtesy of the Bloody Sunday Trust
Father Daly leads a group of men carrying the body of Jackie Duddy, Derry,
Northern Ireland, Bloody Sunday, 30 January 1972.


[end]

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The following item has been brought to our attention...

Further information at...

http://www.siu.edu/~crborchd/exile.html

P.O'S.


A Call for Submissions
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Special Issue: Wander This World ~
Immigration, Migration, & Exile

CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW is seeking submissions for our Summer/Fall 2004 issue
focusing on writing inspired or informed by the experiences, observations,
and/or cultural possibilities of the following topic: Wander This World ~
Immigration, Migration, & Exile. We are open to work that covers any of the
multitude of ways that our world and ourselves are shaped by the history and
experiences of immigration, migration, and exile across any and all
continents, oceans, nations, and communities.

All submissions should be original, unpublished poetry, fiction, or literary
nonfiction in English or unpublished translations in English (we do run
bilingual, facing-page translations whenever possible). Please query before
submitting any interview.

CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW
Immigration, Migration, & Exile issue
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL 62901-4503
USA

The deadline for this issue is November 30, 2003.


Allison Joseph, Editor & Poetry Editor
Carolyn Alessio, Prose Editor
Jon Tribble, Managing Editor

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Journal of Medieval History
Volume 5, Issue 2 , 2 June 1979 , Pages 97-113

The British Isles and Great Moravia in the early middle ages
With gratitude dedicated to Professor Richard Vaughan

Adolf Provazník

Available online 12 July 2002.

Abstract
The work of the Irish or Iro-Scottish missioneries on the continent of
Europe in the sixth to eighth centuries is well known. An attempt is made
here to show how the characteristic design of early Celtic churches found
its way partly via Bavaria, where for example the Irishman Virgil became
bishop of Salzburg in the mid-eight century, into Moravia, along with other
Iro-Scottish cultural influences, a century or so before the well-known
Christianizing mission launched into that area from Byzantium by the two
brothers SS Cyril and Methodius, in 863.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Language & Communication
Volume 9, Issues 2-3 , 1989 , Pages 143-158

Representations of oral tradition in medieval Irish literature

Joseph Falaky Nagy

Available online 20 June 2002.

Abstract
Already in Caesar's account of the Gaulish druids we see evidence for a
Celtic ideology of utterance, which accords the highest authority to the
spoken word, even in the presence of the written. The struggle for authority
between oral and literary tradition is a theme extensively featured in
medieval Irish literature, in which depictions of the relationship between
the two modes of communication alternate between rivalry and
complementarity. In this paper some of these depictions are explored.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Language & Communication
Volume 9, Issues 2-3 , 1989 , Pages 143-158

Representations of oral tradition in medieval Irish literature

Joseph Falaky Nagy

Available online 20 June 2002.

Abstract
Already in Caesar's account of the Gaulish druids we see evidence for a
Celtic ideology of utterance, which accords the highest authority to the
spoken word, even in the presence of the written. The struggle for authority
between oral and literary tradition is a theme extensively featured in
medieval Irish literature, in which depictions of the relationship between
the two modes of communication alternate between rivalry and
complementarity. In this paper some of these depictions are explored.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan


Journal of Medieval History
Volume 5, Issue 2 , 2 June 1979 , Pages 97-113

The British Isles and Great Moravia in the early middle ages
With gratitude dedicated to Professor Richard Vaughan

Adolf Provazník

Available online 12 July 2002.

Abstract
The work of the Irish or Iro-Scottish missioneries on the continent of
Europe in the sixth to eighth centuries is well known. An attempt is made
here to show how the characteristic design of early Celtic churches found
its way partly via Bavaria, where for example the Irishman Virgil became
bishop of Salzburg in the mid-eight century, into Moravia, along with other
Iro-Scottish cultural influences, a century or so before the well-known
Christianizing mission launched into that area from Byzantium by the two
brothers SS Cyril and Methodius, in 863.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Two little Ir-D housekeeping items... Both have to do with Dates.

1.
There has been an odd little glitch in Ir-D messages for some time, whereby
some email systems were misinterpreting the Date in our messages, and giving
individual messages a wrong and sometimes weird Date line. I did not regard
this as an urgent problem - for the messages going through to our archives
had the correct dates. I have at last had the time to look at the problem
this morning, and I think I've fixed it.

So, just to alert people who save and use individual messages - the Date
line might be wrong. I have not bothered to work out when this problem
started - but if anyone really, really, really wants to know...

As I say, Dates in archived messages are correct.

2.
The standard databases continue to list new stuff - of course - but some of
them are moving further and further back into the past, sometimes with
Abstracts only, sometimes with Full Text. It is rather extraordinary to
watch material about Articles from the 1980s - and earlier - appear on the
computer screen. And recall how long it would have taken to track down such
material in those days...

In line with policy, if this older material looks interesting I will
distribute it via Ir-D. But watch out for those Dates. The original
article might be dated 1979 - but available online 2002. So, we are not
hearing about new material... But it might be material we had never heard
of.

P.O'S.


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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

New article - the phrase 'island of England' in the title maybe should, but
doesn't, have quotation marks around it... It is a quotation from one of
those inevitable Venetians.

P.O'S.

Journal of Medieval History, Volume 29, Issue 3, September 2003, Pages
177-200

The island of England in the fifteenth century: perceptions of the peoples
of the British Isles,
Ralph Griffiths

Abstract
This article considers the perceptions which the peoples of the `British'
islands had of one another, as well as the perceptions which visitors from
mainland Europe formed of those they encountered in `the island named
Britain'. It focuses on the fifteenth century, and shows how regional
variations in matters such as language, dress and social customs were
described and judged. It emphasises the tensions and prejudices between the
different peoples of Britain, fostered in part by issues of English
overlordship and of international politics. It also discusses the rising
interest of governments during the nineteenth century in archival
collections relating to their history which were housed overseas, and shows
how this affected British historical attitudes and interests.

Author Keywords: National identity; Britain; Ireland; Scotland; Wales;
Travel writing

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This one has a fun Abstract.

P.O'S.


History of European Ideas
Volume 15, Issues 1-3 , August 1992 , Pages 93-103

The psychodynamics of nationalism

Peter Loewenberga

a Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024,
U.S.A.

Available online 12 July 2002.

Abstract
To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to
in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public
affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed toward a
love to our country and to mankind. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the
Revolution in France (1790) Nothing said or done can reach My fanatic heart.
Out of Ireland have we come. Great hatred, little room, Maimed us at the
start. I carry from my mother's womb A fanatic heart. W.B. Yeats, `Remorse
for Intemperate Speech' (1932)
A nation is a people united by a common dislike of its neighbors and by a
common mistake about its origins. George Brock (1990)

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

News of Mary Ann Lyons new book has reached us - I had no idea her work had
progressed so far... It looks like a very interesting and rewarding study
of the inter-connections between population movement and politics in
sixteenth century Ireland and mainland Europe.

Below material from the publisher's web site - though the imprint is listed
as Royal Historical Society the book is handled by Boydell & Brewer.

Further information at...

http://www.boydell.co.uk/4749.HTM


P.O'S.

Franco-Irish Relations, 1500-1610
Politics, Migration and Trade

Mary Ann Lyons

The period 1500 to 1610 witnessed a fundamental transformation in the nature
of Franco-Irish relations. In 1500 contact was exclusively based on trade
and small-scale migration. However, from the early 1520s to the early 1580s,
the dynamics of 'normal' relations were significantly altered as
unprecedented political contacts between Ireland and France were cultivated.
These ties were abandoned when, after decades of unsuccessful approaches to
the French crown for military and financial support for their opposition to
the Tudor regime in Ireland, Irish dissidents redirected their pleas to the
court of Philip II of Spain. Trade and migration, which had continued at a
modest level throughout the sixteenth century, re-emerged in the early 1600s
as the most important and enduring channels of contact between the France
and Ireland, though the scale of both had increased dramatically since the
early sixteenth century. In particular, the unprecedented influx of several
thousand Irish migrants into France in the later stages and in the aftermath
of the Nine Years' War in Ireland (1594-1603) represented a watershed in
Franco-Irish relations in the early modern period.

By 1610 Ireland and Irish people were known to a significantly larger
section of French society than had been the case 100 years before. The
intensification of their contacts notwithstanding, the intricacies of Irish
domestic political, religious and ideological conflicts continued to elude
the vast majority of educated Frenchmen, including those at the highest rank
in government and diplomatic circles. In their minds, Ireland remained an
exotic country whose people they judged to be as offensive, slothful, dirty,
prolific and uncouth in the streets of their cities and towns as they were
depicted in the French scholarly tracts read by the French elite. This study
explores the various dimensions to this important chapter in the evolution
of Franco-Irish relations in the early modern period.

MARY ANN LYONS lectures in the Department of History, St Patrick's College,
Drumcondra, Dublin City University.


Contents
1 'Vain imagination': the French dimension to Geraldine intrigue,
1523-1539
2 Gerald Fitzgerald's sojourn in France, 1540
3 Irish dimensions to the Anglo-French war, 1543-1546
4 The French diplomatic mission to Ulster and its aftermath, 1548-1551
5 French conspiracy at rival courts and Shane O'Neill's triangular
intrigue, 1552-1567
6 French reaction to Catholic Counter-Reformation campaigns in Ireland,
1570-1584
7 France and the fall-out from the Nine Years' War in Ireland, 1603-1610


2 b/w illustrations
256 pages
Size: 23 x 15 cm
ISBN: 0861932668
Binding: Hardback
First published: 2003
Price: 70.00 USD / 40.00 GBP
Imprint: Royal Historical Society
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series

From: "William Mulligan Jr."
To:
Subject: RE: Ir-D ACIS, Liverpool, General excitement 6

I think an evening social event would be best.

Bill Mulligan

From: Eileen A Sullivan

Paddy

More fun, fewer problems with an evening social. If you do not get a
sponsor, I will save enough Euros for a wine or two.

Eileen

Dr. Eileen A. Sullivan, Director
The Irish Educational Association, Inc.
Tel # (352) 3323690
6412 NW 128th Street
E-Mail :
eolas1[at]juno.com
Gainesville, FL 32653

(Moderator's Note: Will you tell her? Or should I?)

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I know that a number of us find that one of the useful things about the Ir-D
list is the listing of the Table of Contents of journals whose interests
overlap with ours.

As is the way... I find, on reflection, that I have changed my policy as
regards the Table of Contents... My policy used to be - when I became aware
of a new issue of a journal - to make great effort to get hold of the Table
of Contents. I find it increasingly daft that I have to make so much effort
to get hold of material that it is in the journal's interest to
distribute...

On that querulous note...

There is New Issue of Irish Economic & Social History, XXX 2003, edited by
Bernadette Cunningham and Carla King. As ever, a substantial and useful
volume.

Of special interest to us...

Lindsey Earner-Byrne, 'The Boat to England: an Analysis of the Official
Reactions to the Emigration of Single Expectant Irishwomen to Britain,
1922-1972', pp 71-78. This continues the work of mining the Irish archives
for information about the patterns of migration - cf the work of Enda
Delaney... A thought-provoking piece of work, nicely put together by
Lindsey E-B. Chew on this bit - about a senior Irish civil servant who
'displayed an aptitude for manipulating the moral sensibilities of the
hierarchy by exploiting the connection between morality and health in a bid
to avoid state responsibility...'

This is the view from the Irish archives but Lindsey E-B does make some
connections with the material in Britain - eg Paul Michael Garrett.

Also of interest is the piece by Guy Beiner and Anna Bryson, on Oral History
in Ireland - the 'paradox' that Oral History has not taken off in Ireland.
But they have hopes - mentioning the 'Breaking the Silence' project at the
Centre for Migration Studies, UCC.

P.O'S.


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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Jim Rogers has asked that the following message be posted to the
Irish-Diaspora list...

I am going with the flowing...

P.O'S.


Forwarded on behalf of
From: Rogers, James
JROGERS[at]stthomas.edu


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

Could you please post this on the diaspora List if you have not done so
already?

ACIS 2004

The next ACIS annual conference will be hosted by the Institute of Irish
Studies at the University of Liverpool and its Director, Marianne Elliott.

The dates of the conference are July 12-16, 2004. The university is situated
in the center of a city with great historical links to Irish culture, and
the Institute, founded in 1988, is unique as the national center for the
study of Ireland in Britain. Liverpool has been nominated as a future
European City of Culture, and many of its institutions, such as the Maritime
Museum and the Everyman Theatre, will be developing new programs and
activities available for our visit. A broad range of housing options from
university accommodations to nearby hotels will be available. The
conference, opening with a reception on Monday, July 12 and closing with a
banquet on Friday, July 16, will allow time for field trips of Irish
interest in the city and the region.

In keeping with the international setting, and at the invitation of the
Institute, ACIS has extended its invitation and call for papers to the
British Association for Irish Studies, the Canadian Association for Irish
Studies, and the European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish
Studies. Membership in any one organization will suffices for participation.

Registration fees will be collected by the Institute of Irish Studies.

A draft program to be processed by all participating organizations in
according to their own governance will be prepared by ACIS Vice President
Eamonn Wall, Center for International Studies, University of Missouri-St.
Louis, St. Louis, MO 63121 USA (acis[at]umsl.edu ).

Given the diversity of participants, no single theme has been selected for
the conference. Papers on all dimensions of Irish studies are solicited.
However, the setting will provide a unique opportunity to examine different
conceptualizations of Irish Studies, different institutional histories
associated with Irish Studies, and differing relations of Irish Studies and
Internationalism. One-page abstracts for twenty-minute papers and proposals
for complete panels of three to four papers must be submitted to Eamonn Wall
at his conference address by December 1, 2003. Further details about the
conference will be forthcoming.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

You have to wonder why this Abstract suddenly talks about 'her decision' at
the end - is it a thoughtless example of what is sometimes called 'poltical
correctness'? It gives an odd spin to the item - as we begin to think about
professional women footballers. Fans of that charming movie, Bend it Like
Beckham (with its interesting Irish sub-plot), will recall that resolution
came, as so often in nineteenth century novels, with emigration. To join
the women's socer circuit in the USA. Ah, but the Women's United Soccer
Association (WUSA) has just folded...

Of course, the article is about young men...

P.O'S.


The dream of being a professional soccer player - Insights on career
development options of young Irish players
Bourke A
JOURNAL OF SPORT & SOCIAL ISSUES
27 (4): 399-419 NOV 2003

Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 50
Times Cited: 0

Abstract:
Because of the improved fortunes in international competition of the
Republic of Ireland soccer team and increased media interest in the game,
many youngsters embark on their dream to be a full-time professional player.
Soccer in Ireland is mostly played on a part-time basis, with few openings
for full-time professionals. English clubs are now recruiting youngsters at
an early age through their football academies, and competition for playing
positions is intense. This article outlines the implications for youngsters
in Ireland of recent market developments in England and draws on theory and
evidence to shed light on the nature of career planning undertaken by
aspiring professional players. Details are also provided on the social
networks that best facilitate a youth's career development given her
decision to "go international" (to England).

Author Keywords:
career in sport, professional soccer, preelite players

KeyWords Plus:
DECISION-MAKING

Addresses:
Bourke A, Univ Coll Dublin, Quinn Sch Business, Dept Business Adm, Dublin 2,
Ireland
Univ Coll Dublin, Quinn Sch Business, Dept Business Adm, Dublin 2, Ireland

Publisher:
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, THOUSAND OAKS

IDS Number:
734CE

ISSN:
0193-7235

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

We have not been able to find an Abstract of this article.

P.O'S.

Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Company, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
Issue: Volume 23, Number 4 / October 2003
Pages: 311 - 328

Marshall plan publicity and propaganda in Italy and Ireland, 1947-1951

Bernadette Whelan A1

A1 University of Limerick