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For information...

The latest article in the series based on her Glasgow research by IR-D
member Paddy Walls...

This one is of special interest because she and her colleague, Rory
Williams, begin to observe mechanisms whereby this prejudice affects middle
class men...

P.O'S.


Accounting for Irish Catholic ill health in Scotland: a qualitative
exploration of some links between 'religion', class and health

Sociology of Health & Illness July 2004, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 527-556(30)

Patricia Walls[1]; Rory Williams[1]

[1] MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow

Abstract:

This paper considers the ways in which accounts from Glasgow Catholics
diverge from those of Protestants and explores the reasons why people leave
jobs, including health grounds. Accounts reveal experiences distinctive to
Catholics, of health-threatening stress, obstacles to career progression
within (mainly) private-sector organisations, and interactional difficulties
which create particular problems for (mainly) middle class men. This narrows
the employment options for upwardly mobile Catholics, who may then resort to
self-employment or other similarly stressful options. The paper considers
whether the competence of Catholics or Catholic cultural factors are
implicated in thwarting social mobility among Catholics or, alternatively,
whether institutional sectarianism is involved. We conclude that, of these
options, theories of institutional sectarianism provide the hypothesis which
currently best fits these data. In Glasgow, people of indigenous Irish
descent are recognisable from their names and Catholic background and are
identified as Catholic by others. Overt historical exclusion of Catholics
from middle class employment options now seems to take unrecognised forms in
routine assumptions and practices which restrict Catholic employment
opportunities. It is argued that younger Catholics use education to overcome
the obstacles to mobility faced by older people and circumvent exclusions by
recourse to middle class public-sector employment. This paper aims to link
historical, structural and sectarian patterns of employment experience to
accounts of health and work, and in so doing to contribute to an explanation
for the relatively poor health of Catholic Glaswegians with Irish roots.

Keywords: Irish Catholic; ethnic health; sectarian; stress; white

Document Type: Research article ISSN: 0141-9889

DOI (article): 10.1111/j.0141-9889.2004.00404.x
SICI (online): 0141-9889(20040701)26:5L.527;1-

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

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Much to interest the IR-D list here...

Indeed much BY the IR-D list...

The pattern recently has been that - after a gap - the texts of
Eire-Ireland's articles become freely available on
http://www.findarticles.com/

But this new isue is not there yet...

P.O'S.

EIRE IRELAND
VOL 39; Part 1/2; 2004
ISSN 0013-2683

pp. 11-35
Standish James O'Grady: Between Imperial Romance and Irish Revival
Maume, P.

pp. 36-58
An Open National Identity: Rutherford Mayne, Gerald McNamara, and the Plays
of the Ulster Literary Theatre
Vandevelde, K.

pp. 59-80
Richard Moynan: Irish Artist and Unionist Propagandist
O Regan, M.

pp. 81-109
The Mild Irish Girl: Domesticating the National Tale
Tracy, T.

pp. 110-135
Sitting on the "Outer Skin": Somerville and Ross's Through Connemara in a
Governess Cart as a Coded Stratum of Linguistic/Feminist "Union" Ideals
Oakman, A.

pp. 136-162
Dead Men Talking: Frank McGuinness's Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching
Towards the Somme
Herron, T.

pp. 163-188
The Limits of "New Unionism": David Trimble and the Ulster Unionist Party
Patterson, H.

pp. 189-214
Fantasy Politics? Restructuring Unionism after the Good Friday Agreement
McAuley, J. W.

pp. 215-236
Unionist Identity, External Perceptions of Northern Ireland, and the Problem
of Unionist Legitimacy
Peatling, G. K.

pp. 237-261
Orangeism in Scotland: Unionism, Politics, Identity, and Football
Bradley, J. M.

pp. 262-280
Belfast's First Bomb, 28 February 1816: Class Conflict and the Origins of
Unionist Hegemony
Miller, K. A.

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Kathy Burrell
KBurrell[at]dmu.ac.uk

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Sent: 06 August 2004 09:43
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Hello,

I thought you might all be interested in IMMIGRATION-HISTORY-UK - the
new JISCMAIL list I have set up to provide a forum for information
about research, events and publications on immigration to and migrant
communities in the UK.

I would be really grateful if you could pass this on to anybody you
know who might be interested in joining - colleagues, students etc.

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To subscribe via the list homepage:

From the list homepage
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/IMMIGRATION-HISTORY-UK.html
follow the link
"Join or leave the list (or change settings)". Fill in your email
address, name, and select which options you want to set for your
subscription. Click on the 'Join...' button.

To subscribe via email:

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subject field blank,
with the following text in the body of the message: SUBSCRIBE
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e.g. SUBSCRIBE immigration-history-uk Joe Bloggs

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Welcome to the IMMIGRATION-HISTORY-UK jiscmail list. Both myself - Kathy
Burrell - and my co-moderator Fiona Frank have established this list to help
disseminate information about research being carried out on the history of
immigration to and migrant communities in the UK. We hope that you will use
the list to post and share information about forthcoming events and
publications, and for general research-related questions and discussion.
Although postings to the list will be moderated we are not seeking to impose
any chronological or disciplinary restrictions so feel free to send your
messages, and perhaps provide a short biographical introduction when you
join the list. Personally, my own research is on Polish, Italian and
Greek-Cypriot migration to Britain since World War Two, and I am
particularly interested in: narratives and oral history; migration, memory
and postmemory; national identity; transnationalism; community and social
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The latest issue of the journal, Religion, contained 4 articles marking the
Twenty-fifth anniversary of Edward Said's Orientalism...

Not all pro-Said - Mellor thinks 'Said's claims about 'Orientalism' are
actually incoherent...'
Ghazoul says 'The most striking achievement of Orientalism has been the
undoing of racist dualisms.'

Some details pasted in below...

P.O'S.


Religion
Copyright C 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved

Volume 34, Issue 2, Pages 93-162 (April 2004)

1.
Twenty-fifth anniversary of Edward Said's Orientalism . ARTICLE
Michel Gardaz

2.
Orientalism, representation and religion: the reality behind the myth .
ARTICLE
Pages 99-112
Philip A. Mellor
Abstract | Full Text + Links | PDF (205 K)

3.
Representation and its discontents: Orientalism, Islam and the Palestinian
crisis . ARTICLE
Pages 113-121
Bill Ashcroft

4.
Orientalism: clearing the way for cultural dialogue . ARTICLE
Pages 123-127
Ferial J. Ghazoul
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I was puzzled at first when this article was flagged up by our systems...
Having read it, I find it very interesting - Lionel Wee analyses a series of
what he calls 'Extreme communicative acts', IRA hunger strikes, Kurds
setting themselves alight, Koreans mutilating their own hands...

Strange the places that linguistic analysis can lead you... I looked up
Lionel Wee's other work - an earlier article is about the discourse marker
'you know', which has become simply 'know' in Singaporean English. A less
contentious work, perhaps...

P.O'S.


Journal of Pragmatics
Article in Press, Corrected Proof - Note to users

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2004.01.001
Copyright C 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

'Extreme communicative acts' and the boosting of illocutionary force

Lionel Wee

Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts and Social
Sciences, National University of Singapore, Block AS5, 7 Arts Link,
Singapore 117570, Singapore

Received 4 March 2003; Revised 11 December 2003; accepted 20 January 2004.
Available online 28 May 2004.


Abstract

The modification of illocutionary force has been the focus of a number of
studies. Such studies, however, have tended to deal more with the
attenuation than the boosting of illocutionary force. And it is also the
case that in these discussions, linguistic devices for modifying
illocutionary force are often given much more attention than non-linguistic
ones. This paper aims to provide a balance to the discussion by looking at a
set of non-linguistic communicative acts, which, for want of a better term,
I refer to as extreme communicative acts (ECAs). Examples of ECAs include
hunger strikes, self-immolation, and the chopping off of one's fingers. In
this paper, I show that these acts are all non-linguistic devices by which
illocutionary force is boosted, never attenuated. I compare various ECAs
with the linguistic devices discussed by Holmes [J. Pragmatics 8 (1984) 345]
and show that they lack the properties of contrastiveness and contextual
flexibility. I also ask how the properties that ECAs do in fact possess
(such as self-inflicted harm) are related to the communicative task of
boosting the illocutionary force of protesting. I end by discussing how ECAs
point towards the need for a more socially oriented theory of speech acts.

Author Keywords: Illocutionary force; Mitigation; Politics; Reinforcement;
Speech acts; Extreme communicative acts (ECAs)

Article Outline

1. Introduction
2. Speech act theory
3. Contrastiveness, contextual flexibility, and the modification of
illocutionary force
4. Contrastiveness, contextual flexibility, and their absence in ECAs
5. Properties of ECAs
6. Socializing speech act theory
Acknowledgements
References
Vitae

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Something of interest for the list might be coming up on RTE later this
year. According to today's Irish Times, 'RTE said it would also be =
catching up with those who qualified for Morrison visas to America over a
decade ago and see how they were faring'.

Sarah Morgan.

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Captain's journal describes convict voyage

Maev Kennedy, arts and heritage correspondent
Tuesday August 10, 2004
The Guardian

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of
all orders of human beings'. '
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carrying the worst of all orders of human beings, Irish convicts".

He spoke with authority, being an Irishman himself. He had been hired to
transport hundreds of his countrymen to Australia - and the cargo had
responded by mutinying and trying to sail to America instead.'

Full story at...=20

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There has been some discussion in the pages of The Guardian about Robert
Tressell (Robert Noonan) and his book, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.

The discussion was sparked by a not very subtle piece by Tristram Hunt -
evidently a version of an Introduction to a new edition of The Ragged
Trousered Philanthropists, published by Penguin Classics.

As some correspondents pointed out it is not clear which version of the text
Hunt and Penguin are using... Which would certainly affect a reading...

Some quotes and links pasted in below...

P.O'S.

1.
A ragged trousered elite who preached secular salvation

The working-class classic with an ambivalence about real workers

Tristram Hunt
Saturday August 7, 2004
The Guardian

'Fresh from the battle-front of Britain's privatised rail system, leaders of
the RMT union have recently circulated a reading list to bolster socialist
morale among its frontline troops. Naturally, top of the list of recommended
books is Robert Tressell's The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.

For, almost one hundred years after it was written, this labour classic
still retains a remarkable hold on the socialist imagination. Yet a more
circumspect reading reveals a far less heroic portrayal of working-class
solidarity than the rail union stalwarts might imagine.'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1278219,00.html

2.
'Why sneer when trade unionists involved in today's bread-and-butter issues
want to read about and discuss our movement's rich history and literature?'
Tony Donaghey
President, RMT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,1279593,00.html

3.
'In Hastings today, the Ragged Trousered Philanthropists creates the
strongest emotions, for here the book is fact rather than fiction. One can
see many of its settings and most of the buildings in which Tressell worked
and lived. And the town itself is still comparatively rundown and poor, as
the ever-craftier ruling class has learned how to mitigate the worst
inequalities depicted in the book, while retaining control of society. Our
trousers are now OK, it's anti-capitalism that is ragged.'
Steve Peak
Robert Tressell Centre
www.1066.net/tressell

'It is interesting that Tristram Hunt mentions the 1914 edition of this
classic, but makes no mention of the way in which this first edition was
"butchered" by the publisher in such a way as to give a very pessimistic
view of the ability of the working-class to develop a revolutionary
consciousness. When the full version as intended by the author, which he
doesn't mention, was eventually published by Lawrence and Wishart, the much
more optimistic last chapter was reinstated. It is a chapter that, as
Tressell intended, gives hope to socialists everywhere that the
working-class themselves have the potential to throw off the ideological as
well as the economic shackles that bind them.'
Jack Fawbert
Senior lecturer in sociology, Leeds Metropolitan University

http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,1280289,00.html

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Dear Paddy

I wonder whether members of the IR-D list can help me to trace some
information on the Igoe Gang or Gangs?

A friend is researching his grandfather's life and career in the RIC between
1910-1922. There are mentions of Head Constable Igoe and his activities in
"Michael Collins" by Tim Pat Coogan and "Michael Collins and the Troubles"
by Ulick O'Connor. My friend writes 'The Igoe Gangs appear to be members of
the RIC or the Auxiliaries who moved into the cities from the countryside,
when things became too bad. They operated undercover to identify and then
assassinate known "trouble makers" who had also moved to the cities.'

Naturally, I am now intrigued to know more. Has there been further
research?

best,
Joan

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I think the current expert, based on his recent Ph.D on the Black and Tans,
is David Leeson. From his work (if I recall correctly) I gather that the
Igoe gang was made up of old school R.I.C. men from country posts, sent to
Dublin. Not Tans, in other words. I once came across a newspaper reference
- a court case I think - accusing policemen of robbery. Igoe's name came
up.

I wouldn't necessarily trust Coogan, and O'Connor even less. They depend on
mostly erroneous republican reports and myths. British intelligence
gatherings would be just as bad mind you, but the point should be to trust
neither on their own.

Peter Hart

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Patrick Lonergan
patrick.lonergan[at]ireland.com

IASIL 2004 Proceedings

Plans are underway to publish selected proceedings of IASIL 2004. For
information and updates, see:
http://www.iasil.org/conferences/galway/publication.html

Any speaker interested in participating in this project - who has not
already contacted us - is invited to do so BEFORE this Friday, 20 August.


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I pass Noonan's birthplace most days on my way into work. It's commemorated
by an almost invisible wall-plaque over a shop on Camden St/Wexford St.
You'd have to know it was there to see it, it's so discreet. As was his
grave in Liverpool until some members of the Connolly Association decided to
erect a memorial to him in Ford or Walton Cemetary a number of years ago.

Behan quotes the book in Borstal Boy as I recall and somewhere else
describes it as his favourite book. I know I've given away more copies than
is probably healthy for my wallet and I still use the money trick/bread game
section to interest 2nd year sociologists in Marxist theory. It's amazing
how quickly they cop on to the idea even though they struggle emotionally
with the implications. (Another good one for that is the mining camp scene
from Treasure of the Sierra Madre, when Walter Huston (?) explains why gold
is so valuable).

Anyway so, it's good to see a new edition in press, even if the Hunt
introduction is as seemingly po-faced as his Guardian article. It's getting
harder and harder to find in second hand bookshops and should be out there
on the shelves. I just hope it's the version with the happier ending.

Regards to all

Liam

Liam Greenslade
Department of Sociology
Trinity College Dublin

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I am going to have to close down the Irish Diaspora list for the rest of the
month of August 2004...

This problem has been looming ever since our team of volunteers here in
Bradfdord was whittled down to 2, myself and Russell Murray. It was one of
the problems that our move to Jiscmail was supposed to solve - in the longer
term we do need to involve, in the day to day running of the IR-D list,
volunteers from other parts of the world...

So, this month we O'Sullivans had to delay our family holiday because of
family illness. And finally, today, we are able to set off to France.
Meanwhile Russell Murray's responsibilities and workloads mean that he is
not available for the rest of August.

IR-D at Jiscmail is not really in such a settled state that it would be
right to pass it on to someone else. For one thing, there is the usual
flood of holiday error messages - as people change email addresses or go
away without thinking through the consequences for email lists. In any case
the IR-D list, like all lists, is usually very quiet in August.

So, the IR-D list will re-open for business in September.

Here, we need a holiday. We are now off to the Cevennes. I have been
reading up on the history of the area - the persecution of the Huguenots,
the Camisards, Robert Louis Stevenson and his donkey, chestnuts, silk worms,
and so on. After some reflection I have decided that 'Whiteboy' is not a
reasonable translation of 'Camisard'...

By the way...

Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Monologue spoken by Walter Huston, Infected
with Gold Fever, written by John Huston, from the novel by B. Traven - on
the Movie Monologue web site...
http://www.whysanity.net/monos/treasure.html

Paddy

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Paddy, 'Camisard' has a slightly negative connotation in French. I don't
know the best translation in English but Argentine President Juan =
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From: ultancowley[at]eircom.net
Sent: 18 August 2004 10:23
To: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Re: [IR-D] Gone Away



'B. Traven' - Now there's a mystery wrapped inside an enigma!!!! Someone
who REALLY knew how to keep the parasites at a proper distance.

Its a wonder no one has ever claimed he had Irish blood...Did He?

Enjoy the holidays Paddy.

Regards

Ultan


Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:

<
< By the way...
<
< Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Monologue spoken by Walter Huston, Infected
< with Gold Fever, written by John Huston, from the novel by B. Traven - on
< the Movie Monologue web site...
< http://www.whysanity.net/monos/treasure.html
<
< Paddy

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Website "Irish Migration Studies in South America" September 2004
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Subject: Website "Irish Migration Studies in South America" September 2004
From: "Murray, Edmundo"

Dear Ir-D members and friends,

The Irish Argentine Historical Society is pleased to announce the posting of
new contents to the website "Irish Migrations Studies in South America"
(www.irishargentine.org):

- "An Ireland of the Mind: How Irish Argentines Don't Know and Don't Care
about Irish Politics", by Sergio Kiernan

- "The Bradys of Giles, Areco and Westmeath", by Edward Walsh

- New entries in the Dictionary of Irish-Argentine Biography: Pedro Gannon,
Agustin Dillon, Richard Hardy

Contact:
Edmundo Murray
Irish Argentine Historical Society
Maison Rouge
1268 Burtigny Switzerland
+41 22 739 5049
edmundo.murray[at]irishargentine.org
www.irishargentine.org

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: CONFERENCE ON THE ULSTER CYCLE, 24-27 JUNE 2005
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Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of
Dr Muireann Ni Bhrolchain

P.O'S.


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

A chara, /friends, colleagues,

Below, preliminary notice for the Second Heroic Cycle Conference.

Beannachtai/ Yours sincerely

Dr Muireann Ni Bhrolchain


Preliminary Notice

An R=FAra=EDocht

CONFERENCE ON THE ULSTER CYCLE

24-27 JUNE 2005

National University of Ireland Maynooth

This is the second international conference devoted to the Ulster Cycle =
of
tales and will be held at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, =
Co.
Kildare from 24 to 27 of June 2005. The conference will be hosted by the
University=92s Departments of Modern Irish and Old- and Middle Irish. In
addition to the academic programme, a number of social events are =
planned,
including a tour to some sites associated with the Ulster Cycle.

As with the first international conference on the Ulster Cycle (Belfast
1994), this second conference will provide a forum for papers and =
discussion
on all aspects of the Ulster Cycle of tales. Relevant papers on =
language,
literature, history, mythology and archaeology are invited. A formal =
paper
call together with details of registration and accommodation etc. will =
be
issued in the autumn.

Those wishing to receive further details about the conference can =
register
their interest by contacting the Department of Modern Irish, NUI =
Maynooth,
Co.Kildare, Ireland. E-mail: nua.ghaeilge[at]may.ie.

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Subject: Encylopedia of Irish-American Relations - call for contributors
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From: Jason King
jkingk[at]yahoo.com
and
irishamericanrelations[at]yahoo.co.uk


Subject: Encylopedia of Irish-American Relations call for contributors

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF IRISH-AMERICAN RELATIONS

Edited by PHILIP COLEMAN and JASON KING

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of their Transatlantic Relations Series, the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF IRISH-AMERICAN
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The editors of this two-volume work are currently seeking contributors for a
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waves of Irish emigrants have played in the peopling of both continents. By
the same token, Ireland itself has been substantially transformed by its
engagement with the Americas - through the remittance of vast sums of money
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This encyclopedia is designed to provide comprehensive and readily
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Subject: Review, Confessions of a Corner Boy, Tom O'Brien
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Forwarded with permission...

From...

BookView Ireland :: August, 2004 :: Issue No.109

From Irish Emigrant Publications,
the free news service for the global Irish community
http://www.IrishEmigrant.com

Editor: Pauline Ferrie :: Copyright 2004 Irish Emigrant Ltd


Confessions of a Corner Boy - Tom O'Brien

This account of an emigrant's life in London is a depressing chronicle of a
young man adrift between two countries, feeling totally at ease in neither.
It has to be said, however, that Tom O'Brien imbues his central character
with the minimum of self-pity, even when his friends swindle him out of his
share in their business and his mother proves what he has always suspected,
that he has no place in her affections.

Terry, Larry and Chris inhabit the London of the Lump, of exploitation by
their own, of hard labour assuaged by nights in the pub, and also the London
of petty crime and a kind of dogged optimism that makes the life bearable.
Terry's gradual descent into a gambling-fuelled desperation leads to his
repatriation to Ireland, where his past follows him in the shape of the
subby Bannaher and Terry's former girlfriend, Tessa. In this section we are
given a glimpse of a childhood and youth that was far from idyllic - a
sadistic schoolmaster, a dead end job and a genius for getting into trouble
- which is dominated by the memory of Fergus, Terry's older brother who died
in a road accident.

The author has captured the camaraderie of the London-Irish scene as well as
the ultimate loneliness of the emigrant; the language is authentic if a
little strong, and the overwhelming impression is the futility of trying to
return home, for all but a very few.

( http://www.publishamerica.com, ISBN 1-4137-1179-0, pp190, $16.95)