From: "Anne-Maree Whitaker"
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: RE: Ir-D Patrick O'Farrell, Obituary

This is the text of the Irish Times obit from the Cathnews website.

Death of eminent Australian Catholic historian, Patrick O'Farrell CathNews
is indebted to Dr John Carmody for drawing our attention to the death of
Emeritus Professor Patrick O'Farrell on Christmas Day. Professor O'Farrell
is worthy of special distinction in this news service because of his
contribution to the writing of Australian Catholic history. We publish in
full the obituary prepared by Dr Carmody for the Irish Times newspaper.

Patrick O'Farrell, historian, born, Greymouth (New Zealand), 17 September
1933; died Sydney (Australia), 25 December 2003.
Few scholars manage to create a new field of thinking, yet Patrick
O'Farrell, the eminent Australian historian who died in Sydney on Christmas
Day, achieved that twice. He revivified and transformed the study of
Australian Catholicism (taking it, essentially, from the hands of priests
and giving it a scholarly rigour) and he created the rich panorama of
Irish-Australian history. Furthermore, he did it all with an enchanting
blend of wit, lucid scrutiny and stylistic elegance.
He was born in 1933 in Greymouth on the west coast of the South Island of
New Zealand, the second son (after Timothy, later a Dominican priest) of
Patrick and Mai Farrell (née Sullivan) both of whom had been born in
Borrisokane (Tipperary). After education at the Marist Brothers' High School
in his native town (a port for coal, gold, timber and dairy produce), he
attended the University of Canterbury in Christchurch (BA 1954, MA 1956).

Despite what his background might suggest, his later historical eminence was
not culturally predetermined: his earliest speciality was labour history and
his PhD work, undertaken at the Australian National University, was later
published as Harry Holland, militant socialist (1964). Indeed, one of his
fellow graduate students in Canberra was Bob Hawke, later Prime Minister of
Australia.

Those early studies led, through his examination of antipodean links with
the international socialist movement, to an expertise in modern Russian
history, but a conference encounter with Dr Eoin MacWhite, the first Irish
Ambassador to Australia and himself a Soviet historian, steered O'Farrell
towards Irish history ("of which I was then totally ignorant," he later
wrote) and a year's Fellowship at University College, Dublin in 1965-66.
(MacWhite had persuaded the young Australian that to progress significantly
in his field would require the daunting challenge of achieving proficiency
in the Russian language and that Irish questions would be altogether more
congenial.)

Patrick O'Farrell had, in the meantime, been appointed Lecturer in History
at the fledgling University of Technology in Sydney (now the University of
New South Wales) and promotion followed rapidly: Senior Lecturer (1964),
Associate Professor (1969), Personal Chair (1972), then Fellow of the
Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1976. Over this stellar career he
made several visits to Ireland, one in 1972 when he taught at both UCD and
Trinity College.
The research plan of that first trip to Ireland, involving document
collection for a ground-breaking study of the Irish in Australia, was to
have centred upon the redoubtable Daniel Mannix, Archbishop of Melbourne
from 1912 to 1963, but he refused permission for O'Farrell to write his
biography. The historian later wrote, "I did get to interview the
Archbishop, the first occasion on which I had encountered a person who
ignored my questions and answered his own. The second experience came in
1966 when I interviewed (?) De Valera".

The life-changing event -- for the author and for his readers -- was the
writing and publication in 1968 of The Catholic Church in Australia: a short
history 1788-1967. The religious historian, Fr Edmund Campion, said of it,
"To him more than any other individual, we owe the fact that Catholic
intellectual life in Australia is noticeably historical, rather than
theological, philosophical or biblical". The great Australian historian,
Manning Clark, thought that, "O'Farrell has written with a becoming dignity,
reverence and charity for all men", though some critics (then and since)
have seen him as a bishops' and priests' man. Reading his Australian
Dictionary of Biography account of Michael Kelly, Archbishop of Sydney from
1911-1940 (Coadjutor from 1901), would instantly dispel that impression.

"Kelly," he wrote, "had nothing original to offer by way of church
policy.....his position was invariably conservative and
hierarchical.....often uncomprehending". He summarised Kelly as "a strident,
uncompromising but often inept and unnecessarily narrow Catholic leader".

O'Farrell had a noteworthy ability to blend the historical with the
philosophical and then write with clarity, grace and perspicacity. The Irish
in Australia won him the New South Wales Premier's Literary Award for
non-fiction in 1987 and Vanished Kingdoms -- an extraordinary amalgam of a
highly personal family history and a wider scholar's view of historical
currents -- was short-listed for the Australian National Book Council's
non-fiction award in 1991. All of these had been researched and written
under immense physical difficulty: in 1977 he woke with a right-sided stroke
after cardiac surgery but, undaunted, he underwent intense physical
rehabilitation and taught himself to write left-handed.

In 1999 he produced UNSW -- a portrait, a history of his own 50-year-old
university. Quirky, lively, full of insights and surprises -- like its
chameleon author -- it has been characterised by fellow historians as the
model for such institutional histories. It does not have a dull page. When I
protested (mildly) at my own description as "that constant university
gadfly" Patrick had a swift and gentle answer: "It's not a disparaging term,
Jack; they called Socrates a 'gadfly'" I was, of course, mollified! Several
of his books had titles which opened eyes and minds in comparable ways,
Ireland's English Question: Anglo-Irish relations 1534-1970 being a telling
instance.

Patrick O'Farrell and his wife Deirdre -- his intellectual and spiritual
companion and colleague whom he married in New Zealand in 1956 -- had five
children and an enormous family of students and colleagues many of whom were
at his funeral in his parish church in Sydney on December 31. That mass,
concelebrated by eight priests and a bishop, was attended by the Irish
Ambassador, Dr Declan Kelly, and the Consul-General (Sydney), Ms Ann
Webster; a message of condolence from the Taoiseach, Mr Bertie Ahern, was
read during the ceremony. The congregation was reminded of how he challenged
and chided us all, to achieve our very finest, never (at least in my
experience) allowing the most vigorous -- even fiery -- argument to damage
enduring mutual regard and respect. His intellectual and personal life was
(like his own description of The Catholic Church in Australia) "part of a
constructive social process creating a more open and mature Australian
society". ?John Carmody

Dr John Carmody is in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of New South
Wales and an elected academic member of its governing Council. For many
years he was one of Patrick O'Farrell's colleagues.
SOURCE: Dr John Carmody

6 Jan 2004




Dr Anne-Maree Whitaker FRHistS
P O Box 63
Edgecliff NSW 2027
Australia
ph (+61-2) 9356 4929 fax (+61-2) 9356 2065 mobile 0408 405 025 email
ahcwhitaker[at]hotmail.com website http://www.geocities.com/joseph_foveaux

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded for information...

P.O'S.


Electoral Studies
Volume 23, Issue 1 , March 2004, Pages 123-142

`The Armalite and the ballot box': Sinn Fein's electoral strategy in
Northern Ireland*1

Ian McAllister,

Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University,
Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia

Available online 9 December 2003.

Abstract
Since the start of the Northern Ireland conflict in 1969, the Irish
Republican Army (IRA) has been committed to a military campaign to achieve a
British withdrawal from the province. The adoption of a parallel electoral
strategy in the 1980s and 1990s represents a fundamental change of tactics.
This article outlines the background to this change, and analyses the
electoral success of the IRA's political wing, Sinn Fein. Using survey data
collected over four decades, the results show that Sinn Fein's electoral
support has come mainly from previous non-voters and new voters, at a time
when the Catholic proportion of younger voters has been increasing. The net
effect has been to increase the overall nationalist and republican vote,
with no decrease in the Social Democratic Labour Party vote. The personal
influence of Gerry Adams, the Sinn Fein president, together with public
support for the IRA's military campaign, helps to account for Sinn Fein's
mobilization of these voters. The strategy of pursuing parallel military and
electoral campaigns has paid major political dividends for Irish
republicans.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The first part of the Irish Playography Project is now available...

A database... Obviously interesting, potentially useful - but difficult to
use as an Irish Diaspora Studies resource. You can track the performance
history of an individual play, but it is hard to step back and see patterns.

P.O'S.


http://www.irishplayography.com/index.html

From the web site...

'Irish Playography Project
The Irish Playography is defined as a comprehensive catalogue of new Irish
plays produced since the formation of the National Theatre. It will be
presented in three stages: 1975-present (now available); 1950-1974 and
1904-1949 (launch dates to be confirmed).
The playography not only defines the Irish theatrical repertoire for the
first time but is envisaged as a means of revitalising that repertoire by
reintroducing many lost scripts and providing a gateway for locating and
clearing rights for all existing scripts. As the Playography allows writers
to attach downloadable versions of their plays to the database, it is also
acts as an online script repository as we move forward.

The first phase of the Playography research was launched in December 2003,
following two and half years of extensive research. A list of all
Playography staff and contributors is included on the Credits page.'

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.

1996:06516 Stopover at Shannon: origins of the policy Joseph P O'Grady
Air Power History
Details the Irish political machinations which (1) led to the adoption of
Shannon International Airport as the stop-over point for all trans-Atlantic
commercial flights in 1935, to the great benefit of Ireland's economy (2)
sought to resist the abolition of that status during the 1990s. "The Irish
were determined to use their geography to their advantage, but they quickly
became just as determined to ignore technological change" (p45).
Professor of American history at LaSalle University.

Category Codes: P5.01, P4.1
Keywords: SHANNON
Geographical Index: IRELAND

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I thought this call for papers might interest Ir-D members, especially those
who write in Spanish, Portuguese, or English...

P.O'S.


CALL FOR PAPERS:
Mester Literary Journal, Vol. XXXIII, 2004

TOPIC:
Transformations: Re-imagining Identity.

The centennial celebrations of Alejo Carpentier and Pablo Neruda, whose
works contributed to new representations of Latin American identity, serve
to highlight how this concept has been re-imagined over the years. In this
Special Issue we seek to explore the topic of identity from a wide range of
scholarly points of view.

We welcome submissions related to identity including, but not limited to =
the following:

Memory, Exile, Migration, Nationalism, Community, Ethnicity, Gender and
Sexuality, Visual and Textual Representations, Language and Language contact


Mester publishes scholarly articles, interviews, and book reviews in the
fields of Spanish, Portuguese, Spanish-American, Brazilian and Chicano
literatures and linguistics. Mester also welcomes articles in Comparative
Literature, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies. Articles may be written in

Spanish, Portuguese, or English.

Further information, including editorial norms, and more about the process
the submitted manuscripts go through
and the confidentiality of the procedure, from...

Iliana Alc=E1ntar
Editor-in-Chief
Mester Literary Journal
mester[at]ucla.edu
(310) 825-6014

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

A while ago Mark Hall drew our attention to two interesting articles in a
recent issue of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial
Studies. Our thanks to Mark.

On investigation, and when a number of other articles turned up, it turns
out that this was a special issue, led by David Lloyd, with a cluster of
articles of interest. I have pasted in, below, the full TOC of that issue,
plus another article of interest from an earlier issue of Interventions. I
was not previously familiar with this journal. So, again, thanks to Mark.

P.O'S.

Interventions: international journal of postcolonial studies, August 2003,
vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 317-321(5)
Routledge

1. Ireland's modernities
Lloyd D.

2. A state of permanent exception
Williams R.

3. Rethinking national marxism
Lloyd D.

4. Gramsci and James Connolly
Thompson S.

5. Modernity's edge
Quigley M.

6. Hand-to-hand history
Lyons L.

7. Footbinding in the museum
Ko D.

8. the ends of Zionism
Massad J.


Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies
Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
Issue: Volume 5, Number 1 / April 2003
Pages: 101 - 112


THE NEWSPAPERS WERE RIGHT
Cosmopolitanism, Forgetting, and 'The Dead'

Bruce Robbins Columbia University, USA

The recent critical backlash against the picture of Joyce as a severe critic
of Irish nationalism has enriched our understanding of the complex
anticolonial dimension of his modernism. But today, this essay suggests, the
anticolonial paradigm no longer offers the most pertinent perspective on
actually existing nationalism or on the kinds of action necessary to
confront global injustice. Thus the conflictual couplet of nationalism and
cosmopolitanism, so dramatically at issue in Joyce's 'The Dead', has to be
reinterpreted. It is necessary to ask, for example, whether political
solidarity must be founded on shared remembrance, as Luke Gibbons
suggests, or rather on that mysterious mixture of memory and
forgetting, consciousness and unconsciousness, that gives 'The Dead' its
famous and powerful conclusion. The forgetting of past injustice: could
there be a more dangerous political slogan? And yet the proposition
comes to the fore in Assia Djebar, Slavoj Zizek, and the daily
newspapers. It appears to be time for an as yet unconceptualized politics of
time.

From: Robert Grace
re: Louis Riel's ancestors

In response to Patrick Maume's message concerning Louis Riel's Irish
ancestors, it is not a rumour. According to the parish registers of New
France, in 1704 Jean-Baptiste Reel dit l'Irlande from Limerick married in
Boucherville. Later in 1736, records exist of a contract involving a certain
Antoine l'Irlande dit Rielle. The family eventually became known as Riel and
there are still many familes of that name in Quebec.

Robert J. Grace

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For Information...

P.O'S.


Inclusion or Exploitation? Irish Women Enter the Labour Force

Gender, Work and Organization, January 2004, vol. 11, no. 1, pp.
26-46(21)

Collins G.[1]; Wickham J.

[1] Employment Research Centre, Department of Sociology, Trinity College
Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland, Email: Collinsg[at]tcd.ie

Abstract:
This article seeks to examine the division of women into committed and
uncommitted workers by gender theorists. The article uses interview data
from a study of women in service sector employment in Ireland to ask how (or
even if) women actually make the decision to enter the workforce and why
they stay there. Moreover, we explore how some Irish women themselves
experience these changes.

Keywords: Ireland; labour force participation; qualitative methodology;
retail; financial services

Document Type: Research article ISSN: 0968-6673

DOI (article): 10.1111/j.1468-0432.2004.00219.x
SICI (online): 0968-6673(20040101)11:1L.26;1-

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For Information...

P.O'S.


'Isn't it your own country?': The Stranger in Nineteenth-Century Irish
Literature

The Yearbook of English Studies, 1 January 2004, vol. 34, no. 1, pp.
31-45(15)

Fegan M.[1]

[1] Chester

Abstract:
This essay examines the nineteenth-century British obsession with travel in
Ireland, and the representation of the stranger in three novels soon after
the Union: Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl, Edgeworth's The Absentee, and
Banim's The Anglo-Irish of the Nineteenth Century. These Irish writers use
the stranger to expose misconception and urge reconciliation, but the
stranger undergoes an evolution in their works, from English, to
Anglo-Irish, to Irish - from colonizer coming to terms with the actions of
his ancestors, to Anglo-Irish landlord taking responsibility for his land
and tenants, to Irishman embracing his national identity and forging his own
destiny.

Keywords: Travel; Ireland; stranger; Union: Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl;
Edgeworth's The Absentee; Banim's The Anglo-Irish of the Nineteenth Century;
stranger; English; Anglo-Irish; Irish; colonizer; landlord; national
identity

Document Type: Research article ISSN: 0306-2473

DOI (article): NO_DOI
SICI (online): 0306-2473(20040101)34:1L.31;1-

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Congratulations and best wishes to Jim McAuley, who gives his Inauural
Lecture at Huddersfield next month.

Information about the Lecture, below, plus contact information for Jim and
his projects.

Paddy


INAUGURAL LECTURE
Professor Jim McAuley from the Division of Psychology and Sociology will be
delivering his inaugural lecture on Wednesday the 18th February 2004 in
HWG/04 of the Harold Wilson Building, University of Huddersfield.

The title is:

'May the troubles of Erin be over': towards an understanding of the peace
process in Northern Ireland.

The lecture will start at 6 pm and refreshments will be served after the
lecture.

All welcome, but please inform Shirley Murray s.a.e.murray[at]hud.ac.uk if you
intend to come.


CONTACT INFORMATION
Jim McAuley
Professor of Political Sociology and Irish Studies School of Human & Health
Sciences The University of Huddersfield West Yorkshire
HD1 3DH
England
Telephone: +44(0)1484 - 472691

For information about:
The Huddersfield Irish Project, see:
http://www.hud.ac.uk/hip/
The Social Science Shop, see:
http://www.hud.ac.uk/schools/human+health/research/sss/sss.html

From: "Brian McGinn"
To: "Irish Diaspora Studies"
Subject: Louis Riel

More on Louis Riel's Irish ancestry (based on Robert Grace's contribution,
he was the grandson of a Limerickman) and his integration of Irish symbols
and references into his political struggle:

Biography of Louis Riel
(claims that his ancestry was "seven eights white", which photo posted here
appears to back up):
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/riel/rielbio.html

http://www.mts.net/~pb998156/Riel/eparents.htm
Louis, the first child of Louis Riel père and Julie Lagimodière, was born
October 22, 1844 in St. Boniface. His mother was the seventh child of
Jean-Baptiste Lagimodière and Marie-Anne Gaboury, who came from Québec to
settle in the North-West in 1806. Louis père had been born at
Ile-à-la-Crosse in 1817, the son of Jean-Baptiste Riel dit l?Irlande and
Marguerite Boucher, a Franco-Déné Métisse whom he married in 1798, ?à la
façon du pays?.

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/4832/flag.html
During the time of the rebellions in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, Louis David
Riel proposed many different flags to represent the new Nation. Many of
these flags had religious overtones to them because not only was Louis Riel
a very religious man, but the Metis People were also greatly influenced by
the Roman Catholic Missionaries of the time. As well Louis Riel wanted to
have an Irish influence in the flag, as a further symbol of the roots of
many Metis to Ireland. This Irish influence was also a representation of
Louis Riel's close affiliation with the Fenian movement of the day. Riel
designed many flags, some with buffalos, some with clover-leafs and many
with religious icons.

(Those "clover-leafs" are probably shamrocks, esp. when dispayed next to
fleur-de-lis--BMc).

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/4832/metis/flagriel.gif
None of the proposed flags of Riel have carried through to this day as a
representative of the Metis People. Click here to see a rendition of the
flag that was flown under Riel's Provisional government

"Fenian Raids of Upper and Lower Canada" (sic):
http://www.doyle.com.au/fenian_raids.htm
"O'Neill, the hero of the Battle of Ridgeway, was later elected President of
the Senate of the IRB and attempted yet another crossing at Prescott in 1870
but failed. Yet again he made an offer to Louis Riel (fighter for the rights
of the Metis in Manitoba and descendant of an Irishman (O')Rielly) at Red
River and this failed also. O'Neill retired to a town on Elkhorn River which
was named after him: O'Neill, Nebraska. "

http://www.uwo.ca/english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol31/drew.htm
A more curious discrepancy occurs among various editions of the Riel trial
transcripts. Faithful to the 1886 version, Colombo records Riel's
immigration plan:
I say my heart will never abandon
the idea of having a new island in the North-West,
by constitutional means,
inviting the Irish of the other side of the sea
to come and have a share here. (166-70)
Two subsequently published transcripts, The Queen v. Louis Riel (University
of Toronto, 1974) and the passages "Address to the Jury" and "Address to the
Court" in The Collected Writings of Louis Riel (University of Alberta,
1985), both refer to "a new Ireland in the North-West" (Queen v. Riel 367;
Collected Writings 556). Again, the difference is perhaps due to
misunderstanding of Riel's pronunciation, but in this case, the implications
of each word are markedly distinct. Did he indeed hope for an island, an
isolated, self-contained, self-sufficient pocket of settlers? Probably
not. Judging from the structure of the passage, in which Riel identifies
several nationalities to be invited to settle in the West, Riel said
"Ireland" intending to specify it as one of seven countries he foresaw
sharing land in the Canadian West.


Brian McGinn
Alexandria, Virginia
bmcginn2[at]earthlink.net

From: "aifric o grada"
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Forthcoming SAI Conference

Firstly, could I wish all list members a happy new year!

On behalf of the Sociological Association of Ireland (SAI) I would like to
inform list members of membership renewal for the SAI and also of the SAI's
forthcoming 2004 Annual Conference.

Titled: "LOCATIONS: SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIETY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY" the
conference will include a range of papers on many variations of the theme
'locations'.

The conference will be held in April in Athlone which is well serviced by
public transport and offers many accomodation options in addition to the
hotel hosting the conference.

The deadline for abstract submissions is relatively near- 16th January.

In addition to membership renewal new membership is also invited. Membership
includes a reduced conference package, copies of the Irish Journal of
Sociology and the opportunity to contribute to SOCIAL CIRCUITS, the exciting
newsletter being launched over the next few weeks.

Please find the details below and I hope to see you there. If you have any
further queries please feel free to contact me at the email below,


Aifric O' Grada
University College Cork
aifricog[at]hotmail.com






Call for Papers - Call for Papers - Call for Papers

31st Annual Conference of
Sociological Association of Ireland

"Locations:
Sociology and Society in the 21st century"

23-25 April 2004

Hodson Bay Hotel, Athlone


There are questions to be asked about the relationship between recent
changes in Irish society and those that were initiated in the 1960s. There
is no denying, however, that the society in which we live today, is
radically different to that of early independence Ireland, more than four
score years ago. From a largely agricultural economy and rural society
Ireland has moved to a post-industrial economy and urban society, located in

an ever-globalising context. At the same time there have been profound
changes in the moral and cultural climate and the expectations of Irish
people about the nature of the welfare state. We invite sociologists to
submit abstracts to the conference on topics related to the theme in areas,
such as, for example, power and politics, social inequality, health and
illness, social institutions, education, migration, gender, rural
development, urbanisation, religion, the media and visual sociology, social
theory and methodologies, sexuality, popular culture, work and
organisations, ethnicity.

Abstracts should be submitted by Monday 16 January to:

E-mail: Sociology.Assoc.Ireland[at]tcd.ie

Postal Address: Abstract Submissions, SAI,
P.O. Box 8775, Rutland Place,
Dublin 1.

Further information on conference and
registration available online at:

www.ucd.ie/~sai

Call for Papers - Call for Papers - Call for Papers

Abstracts
Abstracts are now invited for papers that address the general conference
theme and may be submitted for consideration as plenary, twenty-minute, or
research-in-progress (15 minute) papers. The following are details of the
length of abstract required for the different presentations:
Plenary paper: 750 words
Twenty-minute paper: 250 words
Research-in-progress: 250 words
Submission/distribution of papers
Plenary papers
Presenters will be required to submit their papers by April 12th to
facilitate distribution to respondents and conference participants. Submit
by
e-mail: Sociology.Assoc.Ireland[at]tcd.ie or
post:SAI, P.O. Box 8775, Rutland Place, Dublin 1.
Twenty-minute paper
Presenters will be required to bring copies of their papers to the
conference for distribution to participants.
Research-in-progress
While presenters will not be required to provide copies of their papers you
do have the option to do so.
Abstract content - all presentations
If you propose to use empirical data in your paper, your abstract must
include a clear outline of the data and its sources.
Abstracts for all papers must be received on or before 16 January 2004.
Abstracts may be submitted, on disk, in hard copy or by e-mail as follows:
Postal address: Abstract Submissions, SAI, P.O. Box 8775, Rutland Place,
Dublin 1.
E-mail: Sociology.Assoc.Ireland[at]tcd.ie
(Abstracts must include name and full contact details).

The SAI's journal, Irish Journal of Sociology, has claims of first refusal
on papers presented at the conference.

From: "William Mulligan Jr."
To:
Subject: RE: Metis

Those interested in the Métis should look at Kerry A. Trask, "Settlement in
a Half-Savage Land: Life and Loss in the Métis Community of La Baye,"
Michigan Historical Review Vol. 15, no. 1 (1989), pp. 1-27.

William H. Mulligan, Jr.
Professor of History
Murray State University

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of
Conference Organisers
Louis de Paor, Heather Laird, Centre for Irish Studies; Fiona Bateman, Tadhg
Foley, Lionel Pilkington
Department of English, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland


FOURTH GALWAY CONFERENCE ON COLONIALISM

INDIA and IRELAND

2-5 JUNE 2004

CALL FOR PAPERS
In the nineteenth century Ireland and India, though not technically defined
as colonies, were both treated as such by Britain. Ireland,
constitutionally a part of the imperial power, was both colonized and
colonizer. Irish soldiers contributed massively to the building of the Raj
and were at least as enthusiastically brutal as other colonizers; Irish
doctors, engineers, lawyers, administrators, missionaries serviced the
empire in India, while the Anglo-Irish aristocracy and gentry provided
several viceroys and governors-general. The substantial Irish involvement
in the Indian Civil Service has scarcely been studied, not to mention the
extraordinary contribution (for better and worse) of Irish scholars to
orientalism, in such areas as philology, lexicography, history, religion,
law. For instance, Grierson?s monumental Linguistic Survey of India has
been described as ?one of the most unquestioned glories of British Rule?.
The concept, developed in the 1860s, of ?governing Ireland according to
Irish ideas? was influenced by Indian practice. One aspect of this
programme, translation of the ancient Irish Brehon Laws, was in accordance
with earlier Indian practice. The supposed affinities between Celticism and
Orientalism were frequently highlighted from the eighteenth century onwards.
As Arnold was successfully marketing the gendered difference between Celt
and Saxon, Max Müller was popularizing a related distinction in India
between the Aryan north and Dravidian south.

Papers might address such issues as differing imperial modes of governance
in India and Ireland, land ownership and tenancy, custom and law, status and
contract, the ?Irish Raj?, missions and an Irish ?Spiritual Empire?,
nationalism and imperialism, Irish nationalism and India, borders and
partition, modes of resistance, neutrality and non-alignment, the suffrage
movement, race and colour, caste and class, religion, theosophy oriental and
occidental, sport and empire, literacy and education, novel and nation,
utilitarianism and empire, ordnance surveys, the production of knowledge,
Indian and Irish historiography, postcolonial critical perspectives, the
?non-modern?, ideology and masks of conquest, strategies of ?divide and
conquer?, meat-eating and monotheism, famines, hunger strikes, boycotting,
Burke and Warren Hastings, Nivedita (Margaret Noble), Annie Besant, Ram
Mohun Roy, Yeats and Tagore, Margaret and James Cousins, Max Arthur
Macauliffe and Sikhism.

Papers will be particularly welcome which address the relationship between
India and Ireland in the context of other colonies of the British Empire and
other colonial dispensations.

Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes. Please send an abstract, of not
more than 300 words, to: irishstudies[at]nuigalway.ie before 15 January 2004.


Conference Organisers
Louis de Paor, Heather Laird, Centre for Irish Studies; Fiona Bateman, Tadhg
Foley, Lionel Pilkington, Department of English, National University of
Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Tel: 353 [0]91 512198
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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: call for papers

Forwarded on behalf of Peter Kuch
Irish Studies, University of New South Wales, Sydney, AUSTRALIA.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Prism! Where is that baby?
Locating Wilde in 2004:
A conference in honour of the 150th anniversary of his birth Wednesday 22
September to Saturday 25 September 2004


Richard Ellmann, Wilde's most prescient biographer, has written:

'His work [has] survived as he claimed it would. We inherit his struggle to
achieve supreme fictions in art, to associate art with social change, to
bring together individual and social impulse, to save what is eccentric and
singular from being sanitized and standardized, to replace a morality of
severity by one of sympathy. He belongs to our world more than Victoria's.
Now, beyond the reach of scandal, his best writings validated by time, he
comes before us still, a towering figure © with parables and paradoxes, so
generous, so amusing, and so right.'

Papers of 20 to 30 minutes duration addressing any aspect of the above are
warmly invited. Papers on Wilde and Film; Wilde and Politics; Wilde and the
Stage; and Wilde and Popular Culture will be particularly welcome.

Please email or fax title and 200 word synopsis no later than FRIDAY 21 MAY
to Dr Peter Kuch, Convenor, Irish Studies, University of New South Wales,
Sydney, New South Wales, 2052, AUSTRALIA.

Fax +61 2 9385 1047 or email p.kuch[at]unsw.edu.au

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of...
Janet D Hendry

We are specifically asked to note the availability of scholarships.

P.O'S.

MASTERS DEGREE (MLitt) AT THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF IRISH AND SCOTTISH
STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN.

The Institute, located in the University of Aberdeen, one of the oldest and
most prestigious universities in Scotland, is the only centre of higher
learning in Europe or North America to offer a Masters Degree in Irish and
Scottish Studies. Its mission is to explore the history, languages,
literature and culture of Ireland and Scotland at a time when new political
dynamics in both countries have prompted great interest in the diversity of
relationships between the neighbouring islands. Utilising the resources of
experts in Celtic, English and History, the Institute offers a taught
programme which addresses the specific research interests of individual
students. At the same time, it provides a framework which will help to
conceptualise their scholarship and set it in a wider historical, literary,
linguistic or ethnological context. Graduate students accepted into the
programme may focus on either Irish or Scottish Studies, or both. The
academic programme runs from late September to late August, and presents a
great opportunity to study in a vibrant and expanding scholarly community.
The Research Institute has been recognised for its academic strengths by a
grant of nearly £900,000 from the Arts & Humanities Research Board, the UK?s
major funding body, and by an invitation to participate in the Smithsonian
Associates? ?Great Schools? series in Washington in 2004.

Scholarships and bursaries are available to suitably qualified candidates.

Further information:

Dr Shane Murphy (Irish and Scottish Studies Co-ordinator)
School of Language & Literature, University of Aberdeen,
King?s College, Old Aberdeen, AB24 3FX
Telephone: +44 (0) 1224 272630
Facsimile: +44 (0) 1224 272624
Email: sam[at]abdn.ac.uk
Website: www.abdn.ac.uk/riss/

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded On Behalf Of Jose Lanters
Subject: Call for Papers: ACIS at MLA 2004

Call for Papers: ACIS at MLA 2004

The American Conference for Irish Studies will sponsor two sessions at the
2004 MLA Convention in Philadelphia.

Session One: Irish Writing and the Public Sphere.

Session Two: Ourselves Alone? Irish Geographies of Difference.

Please submit abstracts or completed papers to:
Prof. José Lanters, English Department, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
WI 53201,
or electronically
to: lanters[at]uwm.edu. Deadline: 15 March 2004.

Papers should be no more than 15 minutes in length. Presenters must be
members of both organizations.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The following two web sites have been brought to our attention...

P.O'S.



The Irish Unionist Alliance
http://www.irishunionism.org/

'We are a small but growing group of people, organised in the form of an
exploratory committee and based mostly in the Irish Republic. Our aim is to
explore the potential for building a sustainable unionist movement here,
which would help to strengthen the friendship and links between the peoples
of the British Isles. To this end we decided to publish this website, along
with our discussion paper - "A New Union for a New World" - in order to
stimulate debate.'


Reform Movement
http://www.reform.org/

'The Reform Movement is a non-denominational, non-party movement founded in
the Irish Republic to represent those who value Irish and British
traditions. Reform also represents post-nationalist opinion in the Irish
Republic. We believe that true reconciliation within these islands can be
achieved only when the Republic of Ireland accepts that it is closely linked
to the United Kingdom socially, culturally and economically.'

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I think this article might be of interest to Ir-D members - once we have got
over our collective groan at the appearance of the 'word' 'chaordic'.

In fairness it is hard to think of a single word that quite nets the shoal
of meanings sought. I think the word was lauched by the former VISA CEO Dee
Hock - and the VISA credit card system is one of the examples given by Pnina
Werbner in this article.

I often find myself defending the work of Pnina Wrbner - but on reflection
the pattern may be that I find myself defending he work to male members of
the communities she studres... So, usual tensions there. I have said that
we have nothing like her book _The Migration Process_ in Irish Diaspora
Studies.

This article makes some helpful general observations about diasporas - the
point that there is 'no guiding hand, no command structure' is especially
interesting.

P.O'S.


1.
The place which is diaspora: citizenship, religion and gender in the making
of chaordic transnationalism.

by Pnina Werbner

Abstract

The paper argues for a need to analyse the organisational and moral, as well
as the aesthetic dimensions of diasporas in order to understand their
political and mobilising power. Organisationally, diasporas are
characterised by a chaordic structure and by a shared sense of moral
co-responsibility, embodied in material gestures and extended through and
across space. Ultimately, there is no guiding hand, no command structure,
organising the politics, the protests, the philanthropic drives, the
commemoration ceremonies or the aesthetics of diasporas...

The place which is diaspora: citizenship, religion and gender in the making
of chaordic transnationalism
Journal article by
Pnina Werbner
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 28, 2002

2.
There is what seems to be an early draft of this article, freely available
on this web site...
http://les.man.ac.uk/sa/Transnationalism/pwerbner.htm

Draft Paper Presented to the International Workshop on Transnationalism,

16-18 May, 1998. NOT TO BE CITED

THE PLACE WHICH IS DIASPORA: CHAORDIC LEAPFROGGING, REPLICATING AND
TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKING

Pnina Werbner

Keele University

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Patrick Maume has drawn our attention to these 2 articles, in the latest
History Workshop Journal.

P.O'S.


History Workshop Journal

Volume 56, Issue 1, Autumn 2003: pp. 204-209

Article
'The Gangs of New York': the Mean Streets in History

Daniel J. Walkowitz

In "Gangs of New York" Martin Scorcese reimposes his familiar vision of
gritty New York on the nineteenth century. The director documents vividly
the nativist prejudices that divided the city, even as he exaggerates in
melodramatic form the violence of the era which culminated in the New York
draft riot. Drawing on events from a forty-year period, the film condenses
time and eliminates any sense of the changes that convulsed New York's
industrializing society. In reducing working people to caricatures of
unthinking mobs, the film is a missed opportunity to dramatize the political
struggles and class fragility of the era, as well as the divisions that
animated racism.

History Workshop Journal


Volume 56, Issue 1, Autumn 2003: pp. 210-216

Article
How Should Historians Think about 'The Gangs of New York'?

Richard Oestreicher

Although 'Gangs of New York' offers a gritty and remarkable spectacle of
working-class life in New York City before the Civil War, it is likely to
disappoint social historians. Even well-made historical dramas usually do.
If historians want to understand why, they must go beyond critiques of the
inaccuracies of particular films, and analyse how the relations of
production in culture industries make such an outcome probable.

Because cultural products demand novelty and originality, directors,
screenwriters, set designers and other cultural workers have some leverage
with the corporate executives who ultimately control the production process.
Struggles over the production process are often fought on an ideological
terrain of art versus money. Cultural workers thus see their assertion of
superior artistic and aesthetic vision as a weapon in the politics of
production. They do not value the analytical and factual concerns of
historians because to do so potentially undermines their aesthetic claims to
control the product.