From Patrick O'Sullivan

Quite a few members of the Ir-D list will not have received my earlier
message about free access to Sage journals - because their spam prevention
systems rejected that message. Because the subject line included the word
'free'...

Heigh-ho...

Making use of this free access I came across this Review Essay - 3 of the 4
books considered are of Irish Diaspora interest, Fitzpatrick, Gallman and
White. Since I have written and published reviews of those 3 books I was
able to read Hans Krabbendam's Review Essay as an outsider's critique of my
own work.

P.O'S.


Title: Strategies Of Memory: Immigrants Creating a New Home
Author(s): Hans Krabbendam
Source: Journal of Urban History Volume: 28 Number: 6 Page: 802 -- 812

DOI: 10.1177/0096144202028006008
Publisher: SAGE Publications

From Patrick O'Sullivan

Continuing my use of the free Sage journals...

This item will be of use to those interested in translation, minority
languages, influence of Joyce (see especially Carmen Millán-Varela's Note
3...) Since the language in question is Galician I will be sharing this
item with our colleagues in Galicia.

An obvious train of thought, and an obvious question, and I don't know the
answer - has Joyce ever been translated into the Irish language?

P.O'S.


Title: Hearing voices: James Joyce, narrative voice and minority translation

Author(s): Carmen Millán-Varela
Source: Language and Literature Volume: 13 Number: 1 Page: [37]
DOI: 10.1177/0963947004039486
Publisher: SAGE Publications

Abstract: This article explores the question of voice in translated texts,
more specifically in the case of literary texts translated into a minority
language. Drawing on Bakhtinian concepts, and focusing on the Galician
translation of James Joyce's 'The Dead', this study traces back the
translators' voice and its interaction with other voices already present in
the source text. This type of qualitative study shows, I would like to
argue, how texts translated into minoritized languages become an ideal arena
in which to explore not only translating processes, but also issues of
language, ideology and identity in the target context.

© 2004 Sage Publications
Keywords: 'The Dead'; Galician; Joyce, James; literary translation; minority
language; narrative voice Language and Literature

From Patrick O'Sullivan

Continuing to make use of the free access to Sage journals - and no, I am
not going to re-send my earlier message, for the benefit of all those whose
spam prevention systems rejected that message...

This Review Article by Timothy Gilfoyle puts on the record the much
discussed, here and elsewhere, qualms of historians about the movie, Gangs
of New Yor.

P.O'S.


Title: Scorsese's Gangs of New York: Why Myth Matters
Author(s): Timothy J. Gilfoyle
Source: Journal of Urban History Volume: 29 Number: 5 Page: 620 -- 630

DOI: 10.1177/0096144203029005006
Publisher: SAGE Publications

From: patrick maume
Sender: P.Maume[at]Queens-Belfast.AC.UK
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Ir-D Article, Thackeray as Travel-Writer

From: Patrick Maume
There is an Irish connection to this item which may be overlooked. During
the voyage which Thackeray describes in FROM CORNHILL TO CAIRO his travel
companion was the Belfast Conservative MP James Emerson Tennent (who had
fought in the Greek War of Independence and maintained a certain interest in
the East).
Best wishes,
Patrick
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> Title: From Cornhill to Cairo: Thackeray as Travel-Writer
> Author(s): Robert Hampson
> Source: The Yearbook of English Studies Volume: 34 Number: 1 Page:
214
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> Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association

From Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.



Title: From Cornhill to Cairo: Thackeray as Travel-Writer
Author(s): Robert Hampson
Source: The Yearbook of English Studies Volume: 34 Number: 1 Page: 214
- -- 229
Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association

Abstract: This essay examines Thackeray's travel-writing through close
attention to his book Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Cairo (1846). It
approaches it through Thackeray's other extended piece of travel-writing,
The Irish Sketch Book (1843), and through W. A. Kinglake's Eothen (1844),
which Thackeray read during his journey to Cairo. The essay explores
Thackeray's deployment of an urban, unheroic narrator; his representation of
'the foreign' as 'pictorial spectacle'; and his engagement with the problem
of representing places already represented, already textualized. It
considers recurrent tropes in the writing and the problem posed by
Thackeray's commercial sponsorship.

C 2004 The Modern Humanities Research Association
Keywords: Thackeray; Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Cairo; The Irish
Sketch Book; W. A. Kinglake; Eothen

From Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.

Title: The Carrickshock Incident, 1831: Social Memory and an Irish cause
célèbre
Author(s): Gary Owens1
Source: Cultural and Social History Volume: 1 Number: 1 Page: 36 -- 64

DOI: 10.1191/1478003804cs0004oa
Publisher: Arnold

Abstract: This article examines the ways that a violent incident in Irish
history has been remembered and interpreted over the past 170 years. The
event occurred on an isolated road in south Kilkenny in December 1831 when
an armed police column clashed with a large crowd, resulting in the deaths
of 17 people. Unlike most incidents of this kind, the majority of the
victims (13) were constables. The uniqueness of the occurrence made it a
cause célèbre at the time and has helped to perpetuate its memory in the
locality ever since. As with larger, more familiar sites of memory,
successive generations of local people have remembered the incident in
various ways since the early nineteenth century. Their objects of
remembrance and their understanding of the event have also shifted
dramatically over time, suggesting that the process of collective memory at
the micro level can be as varied and complex as on the national stage.
© Arnold 2004

Reference Links: 7
Affiliations: 1: Huron University College, University of Western Ontario,
1349 Western Road, London, Ontario, N6G 1H3, Canada

From Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.

Forwarded on behalf of...
Liz Jeffrey
Centre for Trauma Studies/Traumatic Stress Service,
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
E-mail liz.jeffrey[at]nottshc.nhs.uk -

Moving Memories ? Psychosocial Support for Children and Families Affected by
Armed Conflict

A One Day Conference hosted by Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (Centre
for Trauma Studies) & the Reference Centre for Psychological Support,
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)


Date: Wednesday, 31st March 2004, 09.45 ? 16.30,
Rutland Square Hotel, Nottingham
Cost: £95
The number of participants will be limited, as over 30 places have already
been allocated for International Red Cross and other delegates

The past decade has seen a proliferation of armed conflict across the globe.
Inevitably it is the most vulnerable populations, such as children who are
affected by forced migration, displacement or being coerced into armed
conflict. This one-day conference will bring together an international group
of practitioners who have extensive experience in working in conflict
affected areas and developing psychosocial support programmes to address
mental health needs by placing an emphasis on the social as well as
psychological aspects of well being. It will aim to address a range of
issues of relevance and importance to practitioners and policy makers, raise
awareness of creative and culturally appropriate practice. It will provide
an insight into different working practices which seek to integrate both
conventional and traditional methods. There has also been a significant
increase in refugees to the UK and other European countries, many of whom
are children and families. Statutory and voluntary services are often faced
with a range of challenges in terms of meeting the complex and multifaceted
needs of this vulnerable group and this conference will attempt to address
some of these complex issues as well as expose participants to a diversity
of approaches used with this population.

This conference precedes the annual meeting of IFRC?s Reference Centre for
Psychological Support Roster Group, an international group of consultants
conducting assessments and training in psychological support. The meeting is
being hosted jointly by Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (Centre for
Trauma Studies) & the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent
Societies (IFRC).


Provisional Programme

Speakers will include:

Keynote Address:
Dr Janet Rodenburg, Director, Reference Centre for Psychological Support,
International Federation of Red Cross, Denmark
Dr Rodenburg is currently head of the Reference Centre for Psychological
Support for the IFRC, hosted by the Danish Red Cross. One of her main roles
is to head and co-ordinate the work of the IFRC Psychological Support Roster
group. Between1998 ? 2000, she held research posts at the International
Council for the Rehabilitation for Torture Victims in Copenhagen. Dr
Rodenburg is a social anthropologist and conducted her doctoral studies in
Indonesia on gender and migration.

Dr Anica Kos, Program Director, ?Together? ? Regional Centre for the
Psychosocial Wellbeing of Children, Lubjana, Slovenia
Dr Kos is a Consultant Child Psychiatrist who has been extensively involved
in the development of psychosocial mental health programmes in Bosnia and
Herzegovina and Kosovo. She has acted as consultant to the WHO, UNICEF and
the UNHCR and published a series of papers and books on the mental heath of
children affected by war

Ibrahim Masri, Save the Children, Palestine
Ibrahim has been leading their work in implementing a schools based
programme of support for children in Gaza and the West bank

Arlene Healey, Director, Family Trauma Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland
In 1999 she was appointed as the Consultant Family Therapist and Director of
the Family Trauma Centre, a regional service set up as a result of the
recommendations of both the Bloomfield Report and the Social Services
Inspectorate's Report into the needs of children and families affected by
the Troubles. She is also Chair of the board of the Institute for Conflict
Research (University of Ulster) and a Consultant/visiting therapist to the
Centre for Trauma Studies/Traumatic Stress Service Nottinghamshire
Healthcare NHS Trust.

Dr Alcinda Honwana, Programme Director, Social Science Research Council, New
York
Dr Honwana has held various academic appointments and has previously worked
at the United Nations in the Office of the Special Representative of the
Secretary General for Children and armed Conflict in New York and as a
consultant for Christian Children?s Fund. Her work has given particular
attention to the role played by local communities in processes of post
conflict healing, reconciliation and social reintegration of war affected
children, especially child soldiers and abused girls

For details and further information please contact Centre Administrator, Liz
Jeffrey, Centre for Trauma Studies/Traumatic Stress Service, Nottinghamshire
Healthcare NHS Trust, Westminster House, 598 The Wells Rd, Nottingham NG3
3AA, United Kingdom E-mail liz.jeffrey[at]nottshc.nhs.uk -
Tel: +44 (0)115 952 9436. Fax: +44 (0)115 952 9487

From Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.


Title: Poverty and Social Exclusion in Rural Areas: Characteristics,
Processes and Research Issues
Author(s): Patrick Commins
Source: Sociologia Ruralis Volume: 44 Number: 1 Page: 60 -- 75
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9523.2004.00262.x
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

Abstract: Against a background of limited research on rural poverty and
social exclusion in Europe, this article draws mainly, but not exclusively,
on Irish studies to discuss three related themes. The first identifies
distinctive characteristics of poverty in rural areas on the basis that
specifically rural features restrict the applicability of rural - urban
comparisons. The second elaborates on this point in reviewing the problems
of finding appropriate indicators of poverty and deprivation in farm
households and in rural areas. The third theme moves the discussion from
poverty and deprivation as outcomes or static states to social exclusion as
a set of dynamic processes which generate and reproduce rural poverty. A
number of generic exclusionary processes are posited and their specific
rural manifestations illustrated. The review of Irish experience suggests
that studies of rural poverty and social exclusion require sensitivity to
the specifics of rurality, a theoretical understanding of
multidimensionality in processes and outcomes, and an eclectic set of
research approaches.
C 2004 Blackwell Publishers

From Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.

Forwarded on behalf of...

Ellen Skerrett

James T. Farrell Celebration at Chicago's Irish American Heritage Center

On February 29, the Irish American Heritage Center, 4626 N. Knox Ave., will
mark the centennial of the birth of James T. Farrell, the great American
writer who grew up in Chicago and used the city as the setting for so many
of his novels.

In fifty works of fiction, criticism, and memoir, Farrell created one of the
most valuable bodies of literary work of the twentieth century and inspired
generations of young writers. In a recent Chicago Tribune interview, Tom
Wolfe acknowledged that, "My whole picture of writing comes from Chicago,
from Farrell."

The Irish American Heritage Center program in honor of Farrell's birth in
Chicago in 1904 will begin at 2 p.m. February 29th with a lecture by Charles
Fanning, director of Irish Studies at Southern Illinois University
Carbondale. Fanning is author and editor of many essays and books about
James T. Farrell, including editions of Studs Lonigan and Farrell's Chicago
Stories.

Ellen Skerrett, editor of At the Crossroads: Old Saint Patrick's and the
Chicago Irish and other books about Chicago and its neighborhoods, will
present an illustrated slide lecture on "The Catholic world of James T.
Farrell."

And for the first time in a public setting, author and playwright William
Lederer will discuss his family's reaction to being immortalized by Farrell
in a talk entitled, "Studs Lonigan was my uncle."

The Farrell celebration at the Irish American Heritage Center will conclude
with a birthday party at 5 p.m. For driving directions to the February 29
event, contact the Irish American Heritage Center website,
http://www.irishamhc.com

Ellen Skerrett

Subject: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Irish Argentine Research Fund out today
From: "Murray, Edmundo"

The Irish Argentine Historical Society (IAHS) is pleased to announce the
introduction of the "Irish Argentine Research Fund" for its first academic
year (2004-2005). The objective of the Irish Argentine Research Fund is to
support innovative and significant research in the different aspects of
migrations between Ireland and South America.

Grants of up to 1,000 Euros will be awarded to exceptionally promising
students, faculty members or independent scholars to help support their
research and writing leading to publication or other types of communication
of their projects. Awards will be selected on the basis of a well-developed
research plan that promises to make a significant contribution to a
particular area of study about the Irish in South America. These grants are
offered thanks to the generosity of IAHS members and friends.

To apply, obtain an application form and follow the instructions included in
the IAHS website:
www.irishargentine.org
Applications must be received or postmarked by 14 June 2004. Awards will be
announced on 2 August 2004.

Other new contents of the "Irish Migration Studies in South America"
website are:
- - 2004 Conferences & Activities
- - New Bios: Eamon Bulfin, Eduardo Coghlan, Matthew Gaughren, Patrick
Fitzsimons, Rodolfo Walsh, &c.
- - 1895 Census Returns and other Databases
- - Additions to Burial Records: Marcos Paz and Moreno graveyards

For more information please contact:

Edmundo Murray
edmundo.murray[at]irishargentine.org
Irish Argentine Historical Society
Maison Rouge
1261 Burtigny Switzerland
+41 22 739 5049
www.irishargentine.org

From Patrick O'Sullivan

This is an interesting continuation of the thinking about 'whiteness', using
Ignatiev and using other work on anti-Irish sentiment, placing that in the
discourse around 'White Trash' and 'rednecks' - by a scholar who has also
written about Ned Kelly's mother...

Notice that this is a Sage publication - and the free access to Sage
journals is still in place.

P.O'S.


Title: Invisible Racism: The Language and Ontology of 'White Trash'
Author(s): Jacqueline Zara Wilson
Source: Critique of Anthropology Volume: 22 Number: 4 Page: 387 -- 401

DOI: 10.1177/0308275X02022004004

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Abstract: This article examines the uses of the term 'White Trash', as a
descriptor for identifiable sectors in the United States and Australia.
Through consideration of those sectors' history, status and culture,
questions of race are addressed with a view to determining to what extent
and in what way(s) the term stands as a form of racism. An anecdotal
Australian example is employed to introduce the concept and outline the
social and linguistic parameters of the discussion, before examining the
history and social geography of the term itself and those whom it is used to
define, concentrating on those aspects that pertain to questions of race and
racism, first in the United States, then Australia. Certain of the
socio-political ramifications of 'Whiteness' are touched upon, in the course
of arguing that usage of the term 'White Trash' constitutes a form of
'hidden', albeit consequential, racism.

C 2004 Sage Publications
Keywords: Australia, class, race, racism, underclass, White Trash, Whiteness

From Patrick O'Sullivan

Has anyone seen this item? We have not been able to get hold of an
Abstract. It is not very long - especially for something that covers 150
years - and I am not sure that Gabriel Scally is still active in this field.

P.O'S.

Title: 'The very pests of society': the Irish and 150 years of public health
in England
Author(s): Gabriel Scally
Source: Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians
Volume: 4 Number: 1 Page: 77 -- 81
Publisher: Royal College of Physicians
C Clinical Medicine 2002

From: "Richard Jensen"
To:
Subject: Re: Ir-D Article, Language and Ontology of 'White Trash'

A scholarly literary approach "white trash" is at
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CLASS/trash/trash.html

White Trash: Transit of an American Icon
Laura Provosty and Douglas Donovan

From Patrick O'Sullivan

A train of thought, following Brad Kent's recent post to the Ir-D list, and
other items...

On the web site of the Getty Conservation Institute, in the PDF Publications
section, there are a number of Reports that might be of interest...

http://www.getty.edu/conservation/resources/reports.html

Reports

Port Arthur Historic Site, August 2003 (76pp., PDF format, 1.4MB) A Case
Study, The Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles

Grosse Île and the Irish Memorial National Historic Site, July 2003 (49pp.,
PDF format, 1.6MB) A Case Study, The Getty Conservation Institute, Los
Angeles

(And of local interest to me...
Hadrian's Wall World Heritage Site, September 2003 (53pp., PDF format,
1.3MB) English Heritage, A Case Study, The Getty Conservation Institute, Los
Angeles.)

The Reports are written in a sub-dialect of the English language,
Heritage-Management-Speak - but we are all having to learn to understand
this dialect. And every now and again the Reports bring you up short -
like, is the murder of 20 people at the Broad Arrow Café by a gunman in 1998
now part of the Port Arthur heritage?

These are substantial pieces of text in PDF format - so go carefully. But
useful bibliographies, diagrams and discussion.

P.O'S.


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From Patrick O'Sullivan

Our thanks to Paul Michael Garrett, who has forwarded the following Abstract
to us...

Title: 'The very pests of society': the Irish and 150 years of public health
in England
Author(s): Gabriel Scally

Abstract: In the context of efforts to reduce health inequalities, the
health status of the Irish in England should be a major subject for concern.
As England's longest standing and most numerous ethnic minority, the Irish
have at times been regarded as a public health threat and have repeatedly
been stereotyped in literature and image. There has also been a failure to
recognise and celebrate the contributions to the improvement of public
health made by members of the Irish community such as Kitty Wilkinson. In
recent years alarming evidence has emerged that the mortality of Irish
people living in England appears to have worsened in successive generations.
Comparison of available data on some of the key determinants of ill health
shows that the Irish in England have a worse profile than the Irish living
in Ireland. A concerted programme of action is needed to investigate why the
Irish should have such poor health status and to develop a programme to
address it.

Title: 'The very pests of society': the Irish and 150 years of public health
in England
Author(s): Gabriel Scally
Source: Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians
Volume: 4 Number: 1 Page: 77 -- 81
Publisher: Royal College of Physicians
C Clinical Medicine 2002

From Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded On Behalf Of Jean Talman

Subject: CAIS 2004 Annual Conference

Dear CAIS members and friends:

Mother Tongues: The Languages of Ireland," St. Mary's University, Halifax,
Nova Scotia, 26-29 May 2004.

Padraig O Siadhail is doing great work on organizing our Annual Conference
on The Languages of Ireland to be held at Saint Mary's University, Halifax,
May 26-29, 2004, and thanks to the excellent website skills of Julia Wright,
information is now available on the academic and cultural highlights of the
programme.
The link is
http://www.irishstudies.ca
click on CAIS Conferences

Conference and accommodation registration forms plus other useful
information on CAIS 2004 can also be found at this link.

From Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.

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

H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published bv H-Albion[at]h-net.msu.edu (February 2004)

David J. Baker and Willy Maley, eds. _British Identities and English
Renaissance Literature_. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press,
2002. xvi + 297 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.
$55.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-521-78200-7.

Reviewed for H-Albion by Krishan Kumar , Department of
Sociology, University of Virginia

Literature and History in the Study of Early-Modern British Identities

This timely and important collection of essays, mainly by students of
literature, is placed squarely within the "new British history" pioneered by
John Pocock in the 1970s and 1980s. Pocock argued that the history of
Britain, or of the United Kingdom, had largely been English history writ
large. This had led not just to the neglect of the parts played by the
other peoples of the British Isles but to a fundamental misunderstanding of
the nature of the United Kingdom itself, as a culture and a polity. One had
to consider the mutual and reciprocal relations between the different parts
of the British Isles, and to see that those parts not only created "the
conditions of their several existences but have also interacted so as to
modify the conditions of one another's existence."[1]

Properly understood, such a perspective should have made one cautious of the
"four nations" approach to British history that has become popular in recent
years (see, for instance, Hugh Kearney's _The British Isles: A History of
Four Nations _ (1989). This runs the risk of merely adding Scottish, Irish,
or Welsh developments to the traditional English ones, thus ignoring the
extent to which each is reciprocally the product of the other. More
seriously, it can impose a spurious uniformity and equality on the
contributions of the various parts, thus distorting the fundamental
unevenness and asymmetry of the actual history of the British Isles.
Indeed one somewhat unexpected effect of the new British history has been to
open up the peripheries--Wales, Scotland, and Ireland--but to leave the
center England, as something of a black box. In their zeal to avoid
Anglocentrism, new British historians have vigorously explored the
multinational character of the "the Atlantic archipelago"--i.e., the British
Isles--but have largely ignored the character of the Englishness that was
the largely unexamined center of traditional accounts.

And yet, as the editors of this volume insist, "it is precisely English
dominance that makes of British history a 'British problem'" (p. 6).
Anglocentrism is best tackled by focusing on England, not by ignoring it and
shifting attention to the peripheries. English identity must be as much the
concern of scholars as the more frequently interrogated Scottish, Irish, and
Welsh identities. This is not simply a matter of evenhandedness; it
reflects the obvious though sometimes unpalatable fact that the English were
not simply one group among others but the dominant political, economic, and
cultural force. This volume therefore, claim the editors, "places
'Englishness' at centre stage, without apology but with a thorough
examination of the implications of its dominance, however unevenly construed
and constructed" (p. 7).

This is a book about collective identities, though, perhaps wisely, neither
the editors nor contributors attempt anything like a formal analysis or
definition of the term. What they do bring however are the skills and
expertise of literary scholars in an area that has largely been the province
of historians. The editors rightly remind us of "the specificity of
literary culture as a key carrier of national identity" (p.7). Texts, with
their multiplicity of meanings and variety of users, can convey the nuances
and contradictions of identity perhaps better than more conventional
historical documents. While historians, moreover, have sought to redirect
attention to the British dimension of the "English"
state, they have tended to ignore the cultural Englishness that was an
equally important element--in both its positive and its negative effects--in
archipelagic developments. "State formation and canon-formation go hand in
hand" (p. 6).

Like many of the contributions to the new British history--perhaps
reflecting the interests of Pocock himself--this collection focuses on early
modern Britain, the Britain marked crucially by the passing of the crown
from Tudors to Stuarts and so bringing the British question inescapably onto
the agenda. But since the target is Englishness, most of the contributors
concern themselves with texts and authors that touch on this dimension, if
only to show its multifacetedness. This must mean, say the editors, a
concentration on "iconic texts--'Shakespeare'--that were and are implicated
in a hegemonic 'Englishness'" (p. 7). Shakespeare therefore gets pride of
place, with no less than four of the fifteen chapters devoted to him. What
most contributors stress is the need to rethink the use of Shakespeare in
the usual accounts of English national identity, ones that see him as
affirming a strong, almost insular, Englishness against barbaric Celts and
other nations. The key plays here are of course the history plays, which
Derek Hirst rightly says have been "central to the writing of England and
its destiny" (p. 257). Matthew Greenfield on _I Henry IV_ and Pat Parker on
_Henry V_ both show how shaky the sense of English identity is in these
plays, how threatened by a sense both of the internal divisions within
England and of the questionable nature of English ambitions in relation to
its near neighbors (including the French). And though Mary Floyd-Wilson
argues, in her analysis of Shakespeare's "British" play, _Cymbeline_, that
Shakeseare there "helps establish the exclusivity of English history" (p.
113) by disparaging the Celtic peoples and emphasizing Anglo-Saxon roots, a
more persuasive, and more traditional, interpretation sees this play as
presenting the case for an Anglo-Scottish union and the construction of a
British identity.[2] Certainly, as Derek Hirst shows in his account of _The
Tempest_, though Caliban can plausibly be seen as a portrait of the "wild
Irish," with the cannibalistic associations conventionally attributed to
them, Shakespeare does nothing to refute Caliban's great cry for autonomy,
"This island's mine by Sycorax my mother / Which thou tak'st from me" (_The
Tempest_, 1.2.331-2).

Equally welcome, as an antidote to the common understandings of English and
other identities in this period, is the stress in this volume on the
fluidity, incompleteness, and incoherence of national identities. Thus John
Kerrigan illustrates the complexity of British identities in an exemplary
analysis of the life and works of the Restoration dramatist, the Earl of
Orrery. Orrery was a scion of an important "New English" family planted in
Munster under the Tudors. In Irish terms he was thus an "Old Protestant,"
to be distinguished from the (mainly Scottish) "New Protestants" of the
Jacobean Ulster plantation (and both of these distinguished from the
Catholicism of the "Old English" and the native Irish). In a complicated
diplomatic life that took him all over Britain he illustrates the range of
influences that went into the making of identity in this period:
archipelagic within a European context. Orrery's "self-presentation," says
Kerrigan, "as not Irish, not fully British, but as--in a peculiar sense--one
of "the English in Ireland" (p.213) was shaped by life in London and
Somerset, residence in Munster, and service in England, Ireland, and
Scotland--the latter experience giving him a vivid awareness of the global
designs of the French monarchy and strengthening his attachment to the
English crown. Of course Orrery, as a landed gentleman and scholar, was not
representative in any statistical sense. But he was representative of a
time when class, religion, and politics had more to do with identity than
ethnicity or nationhood in the modern sense.

In an incisive comment on the essays in this volume, Jane Ohlmeyer writes
that "clearly identity-formation defies any easy explanation, particularly
in the multi-lingual, religiously diverse, and culturally complex contexts
of early modern Britain and Ireland where 'Englishness,' 'Irishness,'
'Scottishness,' and 'Welshness' meant a variety of things to different
people" (p. 246). It has been too common an assumption that a strong sense
of English identity, in particular, emerged in the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries, as part of a developing English hegemony in the Atlantic
archipelago.[3] This invaluable collection of essays goes a long way towards
questioning that assumption, even if sometimes against the explicit purpose
of the contributors.

Notes

[1]. J. G. A. Pocock, "The Limits and Divisions of British History: In
Search of the Unknown Subject," _American Historical Review_ 87, no. 2
(1982): p. 317; see also Pocock, "British History: A Plea for a New
Subject," _Journal of Modern History_ 47, no. 4 (1975): pp. 601-628.

[2]. See, for instance, Constance Jordan, _Shakespeare's Monarchies: Ruler
and Subject in the Romances_ (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997); and
Leah Marcus, _Puzzling Shakespeare: Local Reading and Its Discontents_
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988).

[3]. For a criticism of this view, see Krishan Kumar, _The Making of English
National Identity_ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), chapters 5
and 6.

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For information...

P.O'S.

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H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published bv H-Albion[at]h-net.msu.edu (February 2004)

Matthew Glozier. _The Huguenot Soldiers of William of Orange and the
Glorious Revolution of 1688: The Lions of Judah_. Brighton: Sussex Academic
Press, 2002. 228 pp. Notes, bibliography, index, tables, illustrations.
$69.95 (cloth) ISBN 1-9022-1082-4.

Reviewed for H-Albion by David Onnekink ,
Department of History, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

French Protestant Soldiers in Dutch Service

This book by Matthew Glozier on the Huguenot soldiers' role in the Dutch
army of the late-seventeenth century is long called for. Military history
has never been popular in a country that boasts a glorious naval past rather
than successes in continental warfare. The Dutch Republic has thrived
because of her maritime commerce and naval expansion, and, faced with
aggressive monarchies that surrounded her vulnerable territory, considered
military enterprise a necessary evil for defensive purposes only. Still,
the Dutch did make an important contribution to the military revolution
during the late-sixteenth century under Maurice of Nassau. But only
recently have Dutch historians become more interested in military enterprise
in a less glorious age than the Revolt and its aftermath: the University of
Amsterdam started a research project on seventeenth-century Dutch military
enterprise, and the Amsterdam historian Olaf van Nimwegen has already
published two voluminous works on the Dutch army in the eighteenth century.
It is perhaps indicative that it is an Australian historian who has embarked
on a study of perhaps the most successful Dutch military enterprise in the
seventeenth century. Glozier, who lectures at the University of Western
Sydney, wrote his dissertation on Scottish regiments in the Dutch army and
is therefore familiar with Dutch military history.

His book studies the role of Huguenot soldiers in the Dutch invasion of
England in 1688 which preceded and initiated the Glorious Revolution. Many
Huguenots emigrated to England, Brandenburg, and the Dutch Republic during
the seventeenth century, but migration accelerated during the 1680s and
particularly from 1685 after the Edict of Nantes, resulting in an exodus of
refugees fleeing religious persecution. An estimated one hundred thousand
French Protestants came to the Dutch Republic to rebuild their lives and
find new means of existence. In this modest book of less than 150 pages
Glozier focuses on one segment of the immigrants, the soldiers.
Although initially they had difficulty finding work, during the Nine Years
War (1688-97) many were accommodated with posts in the Allied armies. The
experienced Huguenot veterans played an important role during the Glorious
Revolution, but also during the Irish campaigns of 1689-91, when the armies
of the King-Stadholder William III defeated the French-Jacobite enemy.

If historiography on Dutch military history is modest, until recently it was
also rather traditional. The monumental, standard work on the Dutch army by
J. W. Wijn, _Het Staatsche Leger_, focuses on describing rank, size,
battles, and strategy. Only recently have historians began to integrate
purely military with social and economic history. Marjolijn 't Hart studied
the connection between the success of the Dutch financial system and the
strength of the army, whereas her pupil Griet Vermeesch is now working on a
doctoral dissertation on the impact on society of building and maintaining
fortifications. Olaf van Nimwegen located the sophisticated logistics as a
key to understanding the success of the Dutch army as late as during the War
of the Spanish Succession (1702-13).
Glozier's study contributes to the advance of Dutch military historiography
by studying the social stratification of the Dutch army.

Indeed, Glozier's study is most impressive in its reconstruction of the
Huguenot community. His book has a prosopographical approach and contains a
treasury of biographical information, based upon which the author analyses
the social and religious background of the soldiers. Many of them,
especially the officers, were recruited from the lower nobility, for whom
military enterprise was a natural choice of employment. On the other hand,
Glozier concludes that the "Lions of Judah" were also driven by religious
motivation. The victory of William III at the Boyne in 1690 safeguarded
Protestantism in Ireland. Many Huguenot refugees founded settlements and
built churches in Ireland, whereas a stream of Irish-Jacobite migrants fled
to France. The Anglo-Dutch regiments (in Dutch service, mostly consisting
of Scots and English dissenters) had become a breeding place of protestant
sentiments, attracting many Huguenots. At the same time James II was
appointing Catholic officers in the English army. Religious loyalty of
Protestant officers to the Protestant cause of William III appeared an
important factor in the disintegration of James's army when William marched
to London in the winter of 1688.

Glozier mainly concentrates on the organization of the Huguenot regiments.
Using officers' lists, he concludes that immigrants in the Dutch Republic
did not enlist in the Dutch army in 1685, but only during the augmentations
in 1687-88 with the threat of war looming large. Hundreds participated in
the invasion. Only in 1689, however, were separate Huguenot regiments
formed, which participated in the Irish campaign.
After the Nine Years War the regiments were dismantled as a result of the
grand-scale demobilisation. The last Huguenot regiment operated during the
War of the Spanish Succession. William III made an effort to relocate
Huguenot soldiers to Ireland and provide them with land and pensions.

The strength of Glozier's book is it broad approach; the author is not
interested in purely military, but also social and religious aspects, and
adequately analyzes migration streams and the social and religious
stratification of the refugees. Moreover, he balances Dutch, French, and
British literature and archive material. It is a pity, however, that
Glozier mainly uses secondary sources and very few manuscripts. Moreover,
the rich biographical material leads him to insert long descriptive sections
now and then, which, however fascinating, lapse into anecdotal history when
a deeper analysis was sometimes more desirable. Glozier may be forgiven for
not always describing the Dutch political situation very well (the
Stadholder is referred to as "a kind of ... prime minister" [p.
41]). Nevertheless, Glozier's modest but fascinating book is an important
and innovative contribution the Dutch military historiography as well as
Huguenot studies and may prove an important incentive to study this topic in
more depth.

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From Patrick O'Sullivan

Thank you to the people who sent in, not answers, but clues to the answer to
this query - sightings and half memories...

But enough information to begin interrogating the databases. The key name
is Séamas Ó hInnéirghe - which might be Englished as James Henry, I think.
Ó hInnéirghe and colleagues have translated Portrait, The Dead and Ulyssses.

Cinmhiol an chuilb mar ógánach a chum James Joyce 2 Séamas Ó hInnéirghe a
d'aistrigh
by Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
Béal Feirste Foillseacháin Inis Gleoire 1993
ISBN: 1870539133

Na Mairbh. James Joyce, transl. Séamas Ó hInnéirghe. Foillseacháin Inis
Gleoire, Béal Feirste. 76pp. NPG pb 1-870539-24-9. May 1997

Uiliséas Caibidil a trí-déag a chum James Joyce Caibidil a trí-déag Séamas
[at]O hInnéirghe, Breasal Uilsean agus Séamas Ó Mongáin a d'aistrigh
by Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
Béal Feirste Foillseacháin Inis Gleoire 1989

ISBN: 1870539052

There is supposed to be a review by Patrick O'Neill in James Joyce Quarterly
- - but I have not been able to identify the issue...
Patrick O'Neill, A review of Uiliséas, a translation of Ulysses in Irish by
Séamas Ó hInnéirghe, et al., for (Belfast: Foillseacháin Inis Gleoire
1987-92).

P.O'S.


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From Patrick O'Sullivan

I am going to withdraw from the fray for a couple of weeks, and concentrate
on non-Ir-D-List matters. Later this week I go to San Francisco, USA, to
attend...

Crossroads:
Irish American Festival
San Francisco - March 6th - 13th, 2004
http://www.iaf.org/splash.html

I'll keep notes, of course, and maybe post an account of my journey on
irish-diaspora.net. (I was going to say 'adventures' - but I don't want any
actual adventures...)

Messages to irish-diaspora[at]bradford.ac.uk over the next weeks will be
handled by Russell Murray - our thanks to Russell for stepping in to look
after things.

Messages to me personally will wait until my return.

Paddy


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