From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I have been looking for ways to give the work of Kerby Miller and his
colleagues something approaching the recognitioon that it deserves.

Now, through the courtesy of Oxford University Press we have here a spare
copy of...

Kerby A. Miller, Arnold Schrier, Bruce D. Boling, and David N. Doyle, eds.
Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from Colonial
and Revolutionary America, 1675-1815. New York: Oxford University Press,
2003. xxvii + 788 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, appendices, index. $74.00
(cloth), ISBN 0-19-504513-0; $35.00 (paper), ISBN 0-19-515489-4.

Would any member of the Ir-D list like to receive this book? What I have in
mind is that a member of the Irish-Diaspora list agree to write a review of
the book. This review would be published here on the list, and on our web
site. I would like to see the review written and sent to me in quite a
short period of time, a month or so - whilst recognising that this is a
substantial book of over 700 pages.

And, of course, the reviewer gets to keep the book...

In the back of my mind there is a further thought, which might influence
decisions... I guess the big organisations and the well-funded courses will
already have ordered this book. But on the Ir-D list we often think of the
more isolated scholar and the less well funded centre. Note that in these
circumstances it has long been my practice to offer advice and editorial
support to inexperienced reviewers - if they want it.

Anyway... Would anyone who would like to review this book for the
Irish-Diaspora list please contact me at
Patrick O'Sullivan

Paddy


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From: Angela McCarthy
Subject: Scottish Parliament Congratulates the University of Aberdeen
on $1.85 million Gift


The University of Aberdeen's success in securing $1.85million funding has
been highlighted in the Scottish Parliament. North-east MSP Dr Nanette
Milne has put forward the following motion:

S2M-1067 Mrs Nanette Milne: Congratulations to the University of Aberdeen
on $1.85 million Gift "That the Parliament congratulates the University of
Aberdeen on securing what is believed to be the single largest gift
committed by an American fund to the study of humanities within a Scottish
institution; notes that the $1.85 million gift will fund what is to be
known as the Glucksman Chair of Irish and Scottish Studies; recognises
that the university's Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies is
the first of its kind in the world for graduate study and research on the
history, language, literature and culture of Ireland and Scotland and one
of the largest concentrations of Scottish or Irish expertise in any
European university, and notes that the first holder of the new chair will
be Professor Tom Devine, University Research Professor in Scottish history
and Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Board Centre for Irish
and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen.



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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I am grateful to all those who contacted me - and in the Easter holiday
period - offering to review for the Irish-Diaspora list...

Kerby A. Miller, Arnold Schrier, Bruce D. Boling, and David N. Doyle, eds.
Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from Colonial
and Revolutionary America, 1675-1815. New York: Oxford University Press,
2003. xxvii + 788 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, appendices, index. $74.00
(cloth), ISBN 0-19-504513-0; $35.00 (paper), ISBN 0-19-515489-4.

The task has now been assigned, and the book has been posted to the
reviewer...

I am, as I say, grateful - and I am gratified that there was so much
interest... Good sign.

Paddy


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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

'Celtic Minded'...? Oh no! - not twilight and mysticism! But this book is
about FOOTBALL, folks...

P.O'S.


FROM THE PUBLISHER...

Celtic Minded:
essays on religion, politics, society, identity?and football

NEW BOOK ON

CELTIC FOOTBALL CLUB
AND THE IRISH DIASPORA IN SCOTLAND

On sale at all good bookshops including Celtic retail outlets in Ireland and
Scotland from late April 2004. The profit from books bought at official
Celtic shops will be donated by Celtic Football Club to the Brother Walfrid
Memorial Fund for the erection of a statue of Celtic?s main founder at the
entrance to Celtic Park.


Celtic Minded:
essays on religion, politics, society, identity?and football

Editor Dr Joseph M Bradley, Department of Sports Studies, University of
Stirling

Argyll Publishing, Scotland, April 2004
£10.99


What makes the story of football in Scotland fascinating?

The fact that football isn?t simply about kicking a ball is one major
reason. Football in Scotland, as in many other countries, involves finance,
politics, religion, community, humour, popular culture, identity, as well as
kicking a ball from one end to the other. Every club has contributed to the
meaningfulness of football in Scotland and each club also has its own
uniqueness. Around each club revolves a story. This book tells one of
them.

Football also reflects the issues, controversies, identities and experiences
that help form the larger mosaic that makes up Scottish society. Scotland?s
largest immigrant group is Irish Catholic in origin. Just over 100 years
ago, from within this community emerged Celtic Football Club, one of the
great success stories of Scottish football.

A new book exploring the culture, identity and community that has
traditionally formed the backbone of support for Celtic, has been written by
an impressive list of contributors. This attractive and illustrated book
has come out of a series of wider ?football and society studies? by Dr
Joseph Bradley, a lecturer in Sports Studies at the University of Stirling.
Dr Bradley has also written an extensive thesis in the book while each of
the twenty-two contributors provides an essay exploring aspects of the
culture and identity that is Celtic fandom.

Following an appreciative forward by Professor of Scottish and Irish History
at the University of Aberdeen, Tom Devine, Professor Patrick Reilly,
Professor Willy Maley, Dr Aidan Donaldson, composer James MacMillan, singer
and musician Patricia Ferns, novelist Des Dillon, Celtic supporters
representatives Eddie Toner, Brendan Sweeney and Jim Greenan and ex-Celtic
players Tommy Gemmell and Andy Walker, articulate a wonderful examination of
what a football club can mean and represent to a community. Included also
are contributions from Ireland, Canada as well as from Germany: from members
of the world-wide Irish diaspora and from those attracted to the richness
and meaningfulness of Celtic fan culture. In all, twenty-four contributors
complemented with a series of outstanding photographs. .

The context for the birth and growth of Celtic FC, the main founder of the
club Brother Walfrid, Celtic?s charitable ethos, the sense of community
within the section of the Scottish population that derives from Ireland,
social and cultural consciousness and religious identity in Scottish
football are all absorbingly and spellbindingly reflected upon in an
innovative and knowledgeable fashion. This is a first for Scottish
football. It is a book that educates. It is a book that reflects upon the
Irish and their descendants in Scotland who in turn contribute to Scotland
being a multi-cultured society.

This book shows how football is embedded in people?s lives, how its
symbolism can mean so much and how it can inform us about the place and
significance of football in Scotland. This book is stimulating, thought
provoking and a significant contribution towards Scotland holding up a
mirror and understanding itself better.

Professor Tom Devine, Director of Irish and Scottish Studies at the
University of Aberdeen says

?this is a football book with a difference?Celtic Minded deserves a wide
readership as a fascinating and intriguing examination of one of Scotland?s
great sporting institutions and also as a contribution to understanding key
aspects of modern Scottish society?.

Editor

Dr Joseph M Bradley
Author of ?Ethnic and Religious Identity in modern Scotland? (1995), ?Sport,
Culture, Politics and Scottish Society: Irish Immigrants and the Gaelic
Athletic Association? (1998) and joint author of ?Sport Worlds: a
sociological perspective? (2002), Dr Bradley has published widely on
sporting matters in relation to religion, ethnicity, diaspora and politics.
He is currently writing a book on the culture of football in Scotland. Dr
Bradley is lecturer in Sports Studies at the University of Stirling.


Celtic Minded:
essays on religion, politics, society, identity?and football

To obtain your copy by same day mail order service direct from the
publisher, complete your details and send your cheque for £10.99 (?15, $20
US, $25 Can, A$25); add £3, $5 US, $7 Can, A$7 (for addresses outside
Europe) to:
Argyll Publishing, Glendaruel, Argyll PA22 3AE Scotland
For credit card sales (VISA, Mastercard, Delta and Eurocard) phone 00 44
(0)1369 820229 fax 00 44 (0)1369 820372 email argyll.publishing[at]virgin.net
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From: Kerby Miller
Subject: review of "re-imagining" conference

If anyone has access to a copy of Cheryl Herr's "'Re-Imagining
Ireland' rethinking Irish studies," New Hibernia Review, vol. 7, no.
4 (Winter 2003), and could post it on the list or even send it to me
by mail or fax, I'd be grateful--as would Andrew Wyndham and the
other organizers of the "Re-imagining Ireland" conference that was
held in Charlottesville, Va., last May. We're all interested in
seeing what Herr has to say, but none of us has yet been able to do
so.

Many thanks,

Kerby Miller
History Dept.
101 Read Hall
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
fax 573-884-5151






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From: "jamesam"
To:
Subject: Re: Ir-D Homeless boys of New York
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 11:51:45 -0400

Hello Bruce,

You might look at Tyler Anbinder's excellent _Five Points_; he mentions
newsboys,and while he gives no tables or other graphic documentation, it
might be helpful.

Slan,

Patricia Jameson-Sammartano


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From: Allanhronald[at]aol.com
Message-ID:
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:47:27 EDT
Subject: irish diaspora in n france 1714

I am trying to find material to provide background to [and possibly identify]
several Irish merchants, clergy and scholars mentioned in a manuscript
journal on an edition of which I am working. They are met with by the writer
on a
tour of north west France, principally Normandy and Britanny but also Orleans,
in spring 1714. One, the mayor of St Malo, I have identified and I am
wondering
whether you can suggest sources to help with the others? I'd be happy to let
you have the material already garnered by me if it would be of use to you.

Best wishes,

Allan H Ronald



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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I am back at my desk - back from travails in Spain... Meanwhile Russell
Murray is in Canada. Our thanks to Russell for looking after the
Irish-Diaspora list over the past month or so...

I will be going through my To Do list over the next few days, and will deal
with the queries that have arisen.

P.O'S.


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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

We have sometimes complained that entities like 'British Studies' or
'Atlantic Studies' somehow seem to exclude Ireland - but the first answer to
the problem is that we must put ourselves out, and put ourselves about...

So this joint event sponsored by the North American Conference on British
Studies, the Royal Historical Society, and the British Association for North
American Studies, is of interest. Welcome efforts by Irish-Diaspora list
members, who have Put Themselves Out and About, and a specific 'Celtic
Diasporas' section...

I have drawn attention to a number of items, below, which link with a number
of Irish Diaspora themes... On the film, Mrs. Miniver, and Greer Garsom's
portrayal of quintessential Englishness: some works of reference give the
birthplace of Greer Garson as Ireland, but A Rose for Mrs. Miniver by
Michael Troyan has her born in London, saying her Irish birth was publicity
agent's whimsy...

P.O'S.


Emerald Minstrels and Cunard Yanks:
US Popular Culture and the Liverpool Landfall
John Belchem (University of Liverpool)

Blacking up in Britain:
Cross-cultural Influences on Blackface Performance
Kathryn Castle (London Metropolitan University)

CELTIC DIASPORAS

Transnational Protestant Culture:
Orangeism and Irish Migrants in Britain and North America, c.1865-1914
Donald M. MacRaild (Northumbria University)

Welcoming Home the Diaspora at the Eisteddfod
Kimberly J. Bernard (University of Wales Swansea)

'The True Story of Britain at War':
Mrs. Miniver and Anglo-American Representations of the 'Home Front',
1938-1942
Susan R. Grayzel (University of Mississippi)



- -----Original Message-----
From: Chris Waters
Subject: CONF: Crosstown Traffic

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT:

'Crosstown Traffic' is an interdisciplinary conference that will consider
the cross-fertilization between British and American cultures that underpins
(and sometimes undermines) the 'special relationship' between Britain and
the United States. It will offer a wide-ranging inquiry into the
transatlantic traffic in cultural styles, attitudes and motifs since 1865.

The conference is co-sponsored by the North American Conference on British
Studies, the Royal Historical Society, and the British Association for North
American Studies.

It will take place at the University of Warwick from the 4th to the 6th of
July 2004 -- just before this year's Anglo-Americans Conference of
Historians at the Institute of Historical Research.

For further details -- including the draft programme and a registration form
- -- please see the website of the Royal Historical Society:

http://www.rhs.ac.uk/crosstown.htm

Chris Waters

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.



The incidence and repetition of attempted suicide in Ireland

European Journal of Public Health March 2004, vol. 14, no. 1, pp.
19-23(5)

Corcoran P.[1]; Keeley H.S.[2]; O'Sullivan M.[3]; Perry I.J.[4]

[1] National Suicide Research Foundation, Cork, Ireland [2] Child and
Adolescent Psychiatric Services, Southern Health Board, Cork, Ireland [3]
Regional Development Unit, Mid-Western Health Board, St Camillus' Hospital,
Limerick, Ireland [4] Department of Epidemiology and Public Health,
University College, Cork, Ireland

Abstract:
Background: Suicidal behaviour has increasingly become recognized as a major
public health problem. This study aimed to establish the extent of
hospital-treated attempted suicide in South-west Ireland. Methods: Between
1995 and 1997, routine data collection, based on the standardized
methodology of the WHO/Euro Multicentre Study on Suicidal Behaviour, took
place in all general and psychiatric hospitals and prisons in the Southern
and Mid-western Health Boards covering one-quarter (863,709) of the Irish
population. Results: The annual person-based (aged over 15 years) male and
female European age-standardized attempted suicide rates were 163 and 190
per 100,000, respectively. Female rates far exceeded male rates in under
20-year-olds. The peak rates for men and women were in the age range 20-24
(374 per 100,000) and 15-19 (433 per 100,000) years, respectively. One in
six (16%) made a repeat attempt within the study period. Adjusting for age,
repetition was marginally less common in women. Multivariate analysis
investigating the risk of repetition associated with age, method and
previous attempts found no age effect for women but an increased risk of
repetition among men in their thirties (OR=1.7, 95% CI: 1.2-2.4). An attempt
in the preceding 12 months greatly elevated the risk of repetition,
particularly for women (female OR=13.7, 95% CI: 9.3-20.4; male OR=5.6, 95%
CI: 4.1-7.8). Conclusion: Attempted suicide is a significant public health
problem in Ireland. Rates are higher in women and highest among the young.
An attempt in the past year greatly increases the risk of repetition,
especially in women.

Keywords: attempted suicide; incidence; Ireland

Document Type: Research article ISSN: 1101-1262

DOI (article): NO_DOI
SICI (online): 1101-1262(20040301)14:1L.19;1-




Publisher: Oxford University Press

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I thought that Ir-D members might like to see this brief review from today's
Guardian...

P.O'S.


The Quare Fellow

Tricycle Theatre, London

Michael Billington
Tuesday April 20, 2004
The Guardian

"Miss Littlewood's company has performed a better play than I wrote." So
Brendan Behan famously said in a first-night curtain speech at the Theatre
Royal, Stratford East in 1956. Nearly 50 years on, Behan's play survives
magnificently in its own right as a work in which moral anger at the
obscenity of capital punishment is masked by a desperate gallows humour.

The setting is Dublin's Mountjoy Prison in 1949 on the eve of a hanging;
and, while reminding us of the grisly rituals surrounding a state killing,
Behan unsentimentally shows how it leaves no one untainted. The victim's
fellow prisoners may bang the hot water pipes in sympathy but they also bet
their Sunday bacon on whether or not he'll get a reprieve. The public
executioner, while doing his professional best, goes on a piss-up the night
before the hanging. And a warder suggests the show should be put on in Croke
Park. "After all," he says, "it's at the public expense and they let it go
on."

What I admire about Kathy Burke's production for the Oxford Stage Company is
that it captures both Behan's ribald wit and deep humanity. The jokes come
thick and fast. "Did you never hear of the screw married the prostitute?"
runs one. "No, what happened to him?" "He dragged her down to his own
level."

But Burke never lets you forget that the wild humour camouflages Behan's
moral outrage or that, a hundred yards away over the prison wall, life goes
on.

In a vast all-male cast of 17 there is outstanding work from Tony Rohr and
Ciaran McIntyre as a pair of bickering, meths-drinking old lags and from
Sean Campion as a sympathetic warder sickened by the vengeful hypocrisy of
state murder. Behan's play first appeared two weeks after Osborne's Look
Back in Anger. In Burke's superb revival it appears no less seminal a work.

. Until May 8. Box office: 020-7328 1000.

From web site
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/reviews/story/0,11712,1195484,00.html

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

boundary 2 - yes, in lower case - is an international journal of literature
and culture, published by Duke University Press...

http://www.dukeupress.edu/boundary2/

It is also available through JSTOR and INGENTA to participating
organisations.

The latest issue, Volume 31 Number 1 March 2004, is a special, on
Contemporary Irish Culture and Politics (31:1)
- --Seamus Deane and Kevin Whelan, special issue editors.

TOC pasted in below...

P.O'S.


boundary 2
Volume 31 Number 1 March 2004

Contemporary Irish Culture and Politics Edited by Seamus Deane and Kevin
Whelan

Burke and Tocqueville: New Worlds, New Beings
1
Seamus Deane

Ireland, America, and Gothic Memory: Transatlantic Terror in the Early
Republic
25
Luke Gibbons

Terrific Register: The Gothicization of Atrocity in Irish Romanticism
49
Siobhán Kilfeather

Newman, Ireland, and Universality
73
Thomas Docherty

?Imperialism? and ?Democracy? in Modern Ireland, 1898-2002
93
Richard Bourke

The Aesthetics of Irish Neutrality during the Second World War
119
Clair Wills

Irish Americans, Irish Nationalism, and the ?Social? Question, 1916-1923
147
Bruce Nelson

The Revisionist Debate in Ireland
179
Kevin Whelan

Toward a Materialist-Formalist History of Twentieth-Century Irish
Literature
207
Joe Cleary

Sighting an Irish Avant-Garde in the Intersection of Local and
International Film Cultures
243
Maeve Connolly

Books Received
267

Contributors

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

Key quotes...

'The Irish mother has a lot to answer for...'

'The nuns just didn't have a clue what to do with us...'

The article might seem slight - but well referenced, and therefore useful as
an overview of current thought about personal narratives, or narratives of
the self.

P.O'S.



Gender, Nationality and Identity: A Discursive Study

The European Journal of Women's Studies February 2004, vol. 11, no. 1,
pp. 45-60(16)

Stapleton K.; Wilson J.[1]

[1] UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER AT JORDANSTOWN

Abstract:
Personal identity requires agentic mediation of overlapping social
structures and categories; and further the maintenance of a coherent self
across different life contexts. A central means of achieving/maintaining
identity is through self-narratives and modes of discursive positioning. In
this article, we examine the intersection of two key identity categories,
gender and nationality, in the biographical accounts of two female friends
(one English and one Irish). Both categories can be seen to structure the
speakers' identities as particular types of people, and to interact in
mutually defining ways. However, the speakers actively negotiate these
structures and constraints to produce specific versions of themselves.
While, on occasion, they invoke national (gender) stereotypes in
constructing their identities, they both counter-position themselves in
relation to gendered expectations within their respective national contexts.
Drawing on selected extracts, we examine the discursive strategies through
which they construct and maintain such identities across different
biographical contexts.

Keywords: discourse; gender; identity; narrative; nationality;
positioning/counter-positioning

Document Type: Journal article ISSN: 1350-5068

DOI (article): 10.1177/1350506804036962
SICI (online): 1350-5068(20040201)11:1L.45;1-

Publisher: SAGE Publications

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

I haven't actually seen this article - I haven't found a way of accessing it
- - but Myles Himself on the Irish Constitution seems worth pursuing...

P.O'S.


Estopped by Grand Playsaunce: Flann O'Brien's Post-colonial Lore

Journal of Law and Society March 2004, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 15-37(23)

Brooker J.[1]

[1] University of London, England

Abstract:
This article seeks to extend our understanding of the Irish writer Flann
O'Brien (Myles na gCopaleen, Brian O'Nolan) by reading him from a Law and
Literature perspective. I suggest that O'Nolan's painstaking and picky mind,
with its attention to linguistic nuance, was logically drawn to the
languages of law. In this he confirmed the character that he showed as a
civil servant of the cautious, book-keeping Irish Free State. The Free
State, like other post-colonial entities, was marked at once by a rhetoric
of rupture from the colonial dispensation and by a degree of legal and
political continuity. I suggest that O'Nolan's writing works away at both
these aspects of the state, alternating between critical and utopian
perspectives.

After establishing an initial context, I undertake a close reading of
O'Nolan's parodies of actual legal procedure, focusing on questions of
language and censorship. I then consider his critical work on the issue of
Irish sovereignty, placing this in its post-colonial historical context.
Finally I describe O'Nolan's treatment of Eamon de Valera's 1937
Constitution. I propose that his attention to textual detail prefigures in
comic form the substantial rereadings of the Constitution that have been
made in the last half-century.

Document Type: Research article ISSN: 0263-323X

DOI (article): 10.1111/j.1467-6478.2004.00277.x
SICI (online): 0263-323X(20040301)31:1L.15;1-

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.


Regendering modernism: the woman artist in Irish women's fiction

Women: a Cultural Review March 2004, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 67-82(16)

Meaney G.[1]

[1] University College Dublin

Abstract:
The period between 1922 and 1960 is often characterized as one of social and
cultural stagnation in Ireland. Irish fiction was dominated by an
avant-garde writing in exile and the local dominance of the short story.
Attention to the non-canonical fiction of women during the period, however,
reveals a literature that exceeds this paradigm. Meaney focuses on two
novels, The Troubled House by Rosamond Jacob and As Music and Splendour by
Kate O'Brien, which both feature women as artists. This figure provides in
both cases a mode of combining a commitment to narrative realism with a
self-reflexive exploration of the role of art, thus evading the fictional
polarities of the period. The woman artist as fictional character also
offers an opportunity to explore the relationship between gender, sexuality,
politics and art. The linkage between sexual dissidence and aesthetic
freedom is a persistent trope of modernism in the Irish context, even if it
is often critically submerged under the figure of exile. Both The Troubled
House and As Music and Splendour might be considered to be supplements to
Irish modernism in the Derridean sense, 'an originary necessity and an
essential accident'. Through the figure of the woman artist, both of these
marginal novels transgress the configurations of gender at the heart of that
modernism's aesthetic project. Both link transgressive sexuality with
artistic production. In doing so they posit a very different relationship
between sexuality, aesthetics and politics.

Keywords: Ireland; Kate O'Brien; modernism; Rosamond Jacob; women; women
artists; writing

Document Type: Research article ISSN: 0957-4042

DOI (article): 10.1080/0957404042000197198
SICI (online): 0957-4042(20040101)15:1L.67;1-

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Information about a recent article by Carles Salazar, Universitat de Lleida,
Spain, has fallen into our nets - and has reminded me of another one, some
years back. Examples, perhaps, of the ways in which Ireland is read and
used within European academic traditions...

P.O'S.


1.
Demographic growth and the "cultural factor" in ireland: rethinking the
relationship between structure and event

History and Anthropology September 2003, vol. 14, no. 3, pp.
271-281(11)

Salazar C.[1]

[1] Lleida University, Spain

Abstract:
The structure/event dichotomy has been a bone of contention in anthropology
for many decades. The so-called "synchronic paradigms" such as functionalism
and structuralism saw "structure" (defined in various ways) as the object of
anthropological analysis, whereas "events" were left to historians. Recent
trends in anthropological thought are eager to dismiss the ahistoricity of
traditional approaches as they attempt to include the diachronic perspective
within anthropological research. Very often, this re-historization of
anthropology has entailed the criticism of the structure/event dichotomy. By
using data from Irish demographic history, in this article I postulate the
need to recover this dichotomy as a fundamental component of the
anthropological approach to human affairs.

Keywords: Demography; Ireland; History; Anthropological theory;
Structuralism

Document Type: Research article ISSN: 0275-7206

DOI (article): 10.1080/0275720032000154561
SICI (online): 0275-7206(20030901)14:3L.271;1-

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

2.
European Journal of Cultural Studies

Volume 01 Issue 03 - Publication Date: 09/1998

Identities in Ireland
Carles Salazar , Universitat de Lleida, Spain
The troubles in Northern Ireland have been for a very long time a marker and
a symbol of Irish national identity. Behind them there is a complex history
of colonization and abuse that has divided the Northern Irish population and
has given rise to one of the oldest ethnic conflicts in western Europe. This
article seeks to integrate three different perspectives in its analysis.
There is first the historical perspective, in which history is understood
both as an objective process and as an idiom for the textualization of
specific world-views. Secondly, there is the perspective provided by the
perceived identities, stereotypes and attitudes that seem to originate in
that historical process. Finally, a third perspective comes from the
constitution of both Irish and British nations and nation-states and the
complex dialectics between their beliefs of legitimacy and a population
divided along ethnic lines.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

Looking at our database, there is now a little nest of these articles on the
image of Ireland and tourism...

P.O'S.

Incongruity between expression and experience: The role of imagery in
supporting the positioning of a tourism destination brand

The Journal of Brand Management FEBRUARY 2004, vol. 11, no. 3, pp.
209-217(9)

Foley A.; Fahy J.

Abstract:
Branding has a role to play in integrating efforts to promote tourism. The
positioning strategy for the Tourism Brand Ireland initiative is based on
the core values of friendly people and unspoiled beautiful scenery. Images
on the main national tourism promotion websites are examined in the context
of the expectations created for visitors to Ireland. As the nature of
Ireland changes with increasing economic success, the sustainability of the
current positioning for the Irish tourism brand may be questioned. Ongoing
in-depth research into the perceptions and expectations of visitors, as well
as the attitudes of the host population, is critical to guide strategic
marketing planning for destinations.

Keywords: brand; valuation; equity; electronic; management; e-branding;
e-tailing; management; international; Internet; marketing; measurement;
personality; consumers; advertising; fast moving; consumer goods; FMCG;
brand-building; strategy

Document Type: Regular paper ISSN: 1350-231X

DOI (article): NO_DOI
SICI (online): 1350-231X(20040201)11:3L.209;1-




Publisher: Henry Stewart Publications

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

A recent volume of Clio Medica/The Wellcome Series in the History of
Medicine, Volume 73, will be of interest...

Full TOC pasted in below... Plus some abstracts... Note Oonagh Walsh's
chapter.

Some institutions might have access to the full texts, through INGENTA, I
think.

P.O'S.


Sex and Seclusion, Class and Custody:
Perspectives on Gender and Class in the History of British and Irish
Psychiatry.
ANDREWS, Jonathan and Anne DIGBY (Eds.)
Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2003, VI, 338 pp.

Hb: 90-420-1186-6 EUR 80 / US$ 100

Pb: 90-420-1176-9 EUR 39 / US$ 49

http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=clio+73

1 Jonathan ANDREWS and Anne DIGBY: Introduction: Gender and Class in the
Historiography of British and Irish Psychiatry
2 Robert Allan HOUSTON: Class, Gender and Madness in Eighteenth-Century
Scotland
3 Oonagh WALSH: Gender and Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
4 Pamela MICHAEL: Class, Gender and Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Wales
5 Marjorie LEVINE-CLARK: 'Embarrassed Circumstances': Gender, Poverty, and
Insanity in the West Riding of England in the Early-Victorian Years
6 David WRIGHT: Delusions of Gender?: Lay Identification and Clinical
Diagnosis of Insanity in Victorian England
7 Joseph MELLING: Sex and Sensibility in Cultural History: The English
Governess and the Lunatic Asylum, 1845-1914
8 Anne SHEPHERD: The Female Patient Experience in Two
Late-Nineteenth-Century Surrey Asylums
9 Lorraine WALSH: A Class Apart? Admissions to the Dundee Royal Lunatic
Asylum 1890-1910
10 Mark JACKSON: 'A Menace to the Good of Society': Class, Fertility, and
the Feeble-Minded in Edwardian England
11 Joan BUSFIELD: Class and Gender in Twentieth-Century British Psychiatry:
Shell-Shock and Psychopathic Disorder
Index of People and Places
Index of Subjects


Series:
Clio Medica/The Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine 73

Introduction: Gender and Class in the Historiography of British and Irish
Psychiatry

Clio Medica/The Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine 1 January
2004, vol. 73, no. 1, pp. 7-44(38)

Andrews J.; Digby A.

Abstract:
This volume had its origin in a stimulating seminar series devoted to
historical perspectives on gender and class in the history of psychiatry.
The papers presented outlined a number of important perspectives on the
place of gender and class within the history of psychiatry and, more
broadly, medicine and society. There were also considerable
inter-relationships between the various thematic strands developed in the
papers - so much so, that organisers, speakers and participants alike were
keen to see a published outcome.

Document Type: Research article ISSN: 0045-7183

SICI (online): 0045-7183(20040101)73:1L.7;1-

Gender and Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Clio Medica/The Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine 1 January
2004, vol. 73, no. 1, pp. 69-93(25)

Walsh O.

Abstract:
The nineteenth century was a period of considerable social, political, and
economic change in Ireland, change that was demonstrated with particular
force in relation to the care of the insane. This chapter seeks to examine
some of the means through which the insane were re-figured in
nineteenth-century Irish society, and looks in particular at popular
conceptions of danger, the gender specificity or otherwise of insanity, and
the question of celibacy as a precipitating factor in mental illness.The
chapter seeks to engage with the ongoing debate in the history of psychiatry
over the relative importance of gender as a factor in the admission,
treatment, and discharge of the insane.

Document Type: Research article ISSN: 0045-7183

SICI (online): 0045-7183(20040101)73:1L.69;1-

Publisher: Rodopi

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Please distribute...

P.O'S.


Forwarded on behalf of
Dr Alison O'Malley-Younger
alison_younger[at]yahoo.co.uk

CALL FOR PAPERS

'Now and in time to be'- Irish Studies Conference at the University of
Sunderland, 2004.

Following the success of out international conference: Representing Ireland:
Past, present and Future, the University of Sunderland are soliciting papers
for an interdisciplinary conference which will run from 12thth to 14thst
November, 2004. The conference organisers hope to represent a wide range of
approaches to Irish culture from academics and non-academics alike.
Performances, roundtables, collaborative projects, and other non-traditional
presentations are encouraged in addition to conference papers. We welcome
submissions for panels and papers under the thematic headings of:
. The Word
. The Icon
. The Ritual
This celebration of Irish culture will include a performance of Brian
Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa, by a professional company on the evening of
Friday 12th November, and a licensed ceilidh with refreshments on Saturday
13th. Most of the event will take place at the University of Sunderland's
Sir Tom Cowie Centre at Saint Peter's Campus.

To propose a paper please send a 300 word abstract, by 6th June
2004, preferably by e-mail or disc to:

Dr Alison O'Malley-Younger
alison_younger[at]yahoo.co.uk
or
Susan Cottam [conference adminstrator]
susan.cottam[at]sunderland.ac.uk

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Further to my Housekeeping item at the beginning of this month...

See relevant section below...

The Irish-Diaspora list is being whittled away by Spam Prevention software
and policies. In one week in April we lost 5 members, and so far this week
perhaps 3 more. I have given up trying to contact the lost 5 - my messages
to them are simply rejected, and their email addresses have been deleted
from the Ir-D list. The number of members of the Ir-D list has now fallen
below 200.

I cannot give detailed advice about every software system. But, if you have
control of your Spam Prevention software, look at the policy on acceptable
Subject lines. Make use of that little identifier Ir-D at the beginning of
our Subject line - no Spam software or virus is going to forge that.

P.O'S.


- -----Original Message-----
Sent: 01 April 2004 05:00
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Ir-D Housekeeping - Majordomo

...the Irish-Diaspora list and the Majordomo software are having problems
with anti-spam software.

Left to their own devices your organisation's anti-spam systems, or your own
anti-spam software, will decide that Irish-Diaspora list messages sent
through Majordomo are spam. The way that Majordomo works is very like the
way that spam distribution works.

The first indication we get of new anti-spam systems in place in some
organisation is when Irish-Diaspora list messages are returned to us, having
failed to reach an Ir-D list member. Very often the anti-spam systems will
also automatically blacklist our own domain names or our internet service
provider. So that email attempts to alert the Ir-D member to the problem
are also rejected.

We then have no option but to delete that Ir-D member's email address from
the Irish-Diaspora list. That person will get no more Irish-Diaspora list
messages. We can only hope that they notice this, and contact us again.

At this stage all I can do is alert Irish-Diaspora list members to the
problem. Please find out how your organisation's anti-spam systems work,
and try to find a route through for Ir-D messages.

P.O'S.


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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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