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Thanks, Paddy, for those remarks on publishers as cultural "players." A fine
article that raises the question of how publishers, too, play a role in
creating a national literature is David M Gardiner's "The Other Irish
Renaissance: The Maunsel Poets" in NEW HIBERNIA REVIEW, volume 8, number 1
(Spring 2004), pp. 54-79.

Another question: Does anyone know if P J Kenedy functioned as what we would
today call a vanity Press? I have been looking at an odd little six-page
autobiography of Patrick Cudmore, a Limerick-born civil war vet who lived in
Minnesota 1852-1916. Kenedy published it in 1898, and though it is hard to
imagine who would have bought a copy it went through several editions.

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This query by Jim Rogers has been nagging at me...

I do not know of any specific studies - or rather, my memory has not yet
been able to give me a specific reference...

But the general point, about such publishers as cultural entrepreneurs and
intermediaries, was raised in discussion of my paper on John Denvir at the
ACIS Liverpool Conference - my paper was about John Denvir as a publisher...

And there was much discussion, following my own cautionary tales, about the
difficulty of identifying publishers in library catalogues...

Two catalogues that I know give the publisher are the British Library
http://www.bl.uk/

For these purposes I find the new BL Integrated Catalogue not as useful as
the old system...

and Harvard
http://lib.harvard.edu/

The Harvard catalogue gives 300+ Devin-Adair items, and it is easy to see
the Irish and Irish-American, and the Catholic, parts of their output.

On a train of thought... A search for Kenedy - another significant NY
publisher - gives 293 entries, and again you can see the Irish,
Irish-American, and Catholic items. Such publishers certainly did see
themselves as cultural intermediaries. O'Donovan Rossa recalled that P. J.
Kenedy, born in Manhattan in 1843, knew Irish...

OK, right... memory working... Shea & Casey Bibliography, The Irish
Experience in New York City, gives one unpublished thesis, p. 12, McGinley,
New York Catholic Publishers, 1947 - described by S & C as 'simplistic,
brief histories...' Ooh, they're sharp...

I do think this is an important and neglected area of study.

Paddy

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Dear Paddy,
Thank you for posting the note bring the Boston College exhibit on An Gum
and the Free State to the attention of IR-D list-serve members. There are
tentative plans to expand the exhibit, but we welcome any comments or
suggestions. We would like to hear from anyone who may have a dust-jacket
of the original An tOileanach/Islandman.

Thanks,
Brian

Dr. Brian O Conchubhair,
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Difficult to believe that everyone in Roscommon was wearing used clothing,
or footwear. There were there still 710 boot and shoemakers and 260
brogue-makers in the county in the 1841 census.

Ruth-Ann Harris

>From: William Jenkins
>wjenkins[at]yorku.ca
>Subject: Re: [IR-D] 1850s Irish dress 5
>
>A useful contribution to this topic, in my view, is Robert Scally's
>comments about townland life in the rural districts around Strokestown, Co.
>Roscommon, in the decades preceding the Famine.
>
>"Shoes and hats were present in the townland, but they were rare - none
>for women and children and not more than a dozen or two worn by adult men.
>Almost certainly, the hats were signs of status in the townland, as
>they became among many "pacified" native Americans or Polynesians. The
>manufactured brimmed or high crowned hats of felt, battered shapeless,
>sweat-stained, and drooping from rain, that clearly marked the "Paddy"
>in caricature and in the earliest photographs, had not been long in
>rural Ireland. This haberdashery had never been manufactured
>locally...they were part of the flotsam and jetsam of the rag trade
>flowing from east to west circuitously seeking its lowest market, where
>the final drops of profit could be wrung out.....shoes traveled the
>same silent routes, along with sundry other manufactured and processed
>items from within the industrial core of western Europe....."
>
>Robert J. Scally, The End of Hidden Ireland (Oxford UP, 1995) p. 32
>
>It's great writing, though there is no footnote to this particular
>paragraph.
>
>All the best,
>Willie Jenkins

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"The Encyclopedia of Ireland"
Brian Lalor, General Editor
With a Foreword by Frank McCourt
New Haven & London: Yale UP, in association with Gill & Macmillan, 2003
1218 pp., 477 color images. Dust jacket. ISBN 0-300-09442-6. $65

Published in "The Irish Literary Supplement" (Fall, 2004)

Our thanks to Maureen E. Mulvihill=20
and to Robert G. Lowery, the publisher of The Irish Literary Supplement.

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Scale, the new impulse in Irish Studies


A PORTABLE IRELAND



BRIAN LALOR, General Editor
The Encyclopedia of Ireland
Foreword by Frank McCourt
New Haven & London: Yale UP, in association with Gill & Macmillan, 2003
1218 pp., 477 color images. Dust jacket. ISBN 0-300-09442-6. $65



Reviewed by
MAUREEN E. MULVIHILL
Princeton Research Forum
Princeton, New Jersey



Though it may take two men and a mule to lift the thing, Brian Lalor's
Encyclopedia of Ireland is surely going places. This one-volume =
omnigatherum
of all things Irish - from the Irish economy to Ireland's contribution =
to
Big Science -- is a huge credit for Lalor and his standing army of =
editorial
consultants and contributors. Lalor's new reference work, the =
culmination of
nearly five years' collaboration, is the happy result of ongoing
negotiations - on four different continents, no less -- with sixteen =
senior
consultant editors, fifty consultant contributors, and nearly 1000
contributors. The idea of such a colossal project, writes Lalor in his
Preface, originated with Lalor's muse, Fergal Tobin, Publishing Director =
of
Gill & Macmillan, who never lost the vision of publishing such a work at =
the
opening of the new millennium; let this be, sayeth Tobin, a "testament =
to
Irish achievement, and a calling card to the new century."

But even more than this, Lalor's majestic volume of some 5,000 entries
brings attention to an important new impulse in Irish Studies: the =
launching
of reliable reference works of serious scale and ambition, works which
consider Ireland as one, single nation, not as a country divided by
everlasting, bloody rancor. Thus, Lalor's volume may duly take its place =
in
a class of Irish publishing which includes such impressive new products =
as
the nine-volume New History of Ireland, General Editors T. W. Moody, F. =
X.
Martin, and F. J. Byrne (Oxford UP, 1976-); the much-heralded, =
two-volume
Field Day Anthology of.Irish Women's Writing and Traditions (Cork UP, =
2002)
edited by Angela Bourke, Margaret McCurtain, Siobh=E1n Kilfeather, et =
al.; and
the six-volume Dictionary of Irish Biography launched by James McGuire =
and
James Quinn (Cambridge University Press, c. 2006). These are not merely =
big
books about a small island; these are volumes of long-term dedication. =
Above
all else, they place Ireland as a nation in the optimal historical =
context.
Scholars, students, and the common reader will all benefit from the =
wider
view.

The rather luckluster critical reception of Lalor's Encyclopedia in some
circles emanates not from the book, surely, but rather from the feeble =
grasp
of reviewers who simply do not know how to review such a daunting =
compendium
of information. And if Irish Studies scholars are a bit unappreciative, =
it
is that they fail to grasp the book's overarching goal. This is not an
authoritative text. This is not a book for scholarly research and =
polemic.
This is not a book to settle disputes and academic arguments. This is a
broadly descriptive, one-volume overview of Irish history and culture,
presented in the mediums of text, statistics, maps, facsimiles, and over =
700
images, being paintings, sketches, and photographs, 477 of these in =
color.
This is a reliable reference book, first and last, with all the generic
strengths and shortcomings of any reference work. Though not without a =
few
quibbles, this reviewer happily accords Lalor's project the praise it =
has
earned. And so do others. In May, 2004, Yale University Press announced =
that
Lalor's Encyclopedia received two academic awards, stateside: Best
Single-volume Reference in the Humanities, 2003 (Association of American
University Presses) and Best Reference Resource for 2003 (Library =
Journal).

Editorial principles, the essential foundation of any successful =
reference
work, have been thoughtfully adopted by Lalor and his editorial team; =
their
reverent regard for the volume's coverage, coherence, organization, and
presentation is fully patent. It is this overarching respect for guiding
editorial principles, from the very outset, which assured the volume its
success and, one might predict, its long-term use. Lalor and his team =
had to
make many difficult choices in the evolution of this project; and it was
their editorial principles which guided their decisions, disciplined =
their
enthusiasm, and shaped their final typescript into a responsible
end-product.

The most critical of all editorial considerations in any reference work =
is
coverage; and second only to the book's illustrative matter it is =
coverage
which takes pride of place in the achievements of this work. For what is =
not
here? The volume's content is an epic catalogue of subjects: Irish =
language,
mythology, medicine, history, broadcasting and media, printing and
publishing, politics, rebellions and risings, the IRA, women, music, =
food,
celebrated Irish figures from all walks of life, education, the Great
Hunger, emigration and the Diaspora, science, sport, etc. Most of these
major subjects are extended entries, of course, though one might wonder =
why
coverage on "Bloody Sunday, Derry (1972)" (its compelling color =
photograph
notwithstanding) is not given more weight. Other controversial subjects,
such as the Travellers, receives quite a generous overview; and let us =
give
a nod to Patrick O'Sullivan, Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit,
University of Bradford, Yorkshire UK, and moderator of the online Irish
Diaspora List, who encouraged Sin=E9ad Ni Sh=FAin=E9ar to develop the =
piece at
some length for this project.

Especially remarkable in the book's coverage is the editorial principle =
at
play which honors multimedia and interdisciplinary contexts for a number =
of
the major entries. The detailed Travellers article, for example, is both
text and image; and the article is followed by a complementary, shorter
piece, with photograph, on the music of this interesting Irish =
subculture.
Coverage of the Rebellion of 1798 includes not only a comprehensive =
article
on the rising, but also a complementary article on the regional music it
inspired. The lengthy piece on Irish education, a subject of serious
scrutiny these days, is accompanied by a statistical table reflecting
teacher-to-student ratios in Irish schools, 1987-1998. And literary =
scholars
will be impressed that the article on Hibernia's 18th-century patriot,
Jonathan Swift, includes a complementary short piece on the very =
hospital
which the Dean founded, St Patrick's Hospital, Dublin (1758), now the =
Dean
Swift Centre, Dublin. The large color images of maps, presented in
conjunction with the lengthy, multi-entry coverage on Land and Land =
Acts,
for example, are stunning and indispensable adjuncts to contributors'
commentaries. Cross-referencing is richly observed throughout the =
entries,
as one would expect; the multi-article entry on the Famine, for example,
directs readers to related pieces on the Potato crop, Dairy products, =
etc.
Similarly, the important long article on Unionism cross-references such
related articles as Home Rule, Ulster Unionists, etc.

Now and again, however, coverage is a bit uneven, something that could =
have
been rectified in the editing stages. The "Bloody Sunday, Derry" entry, =
for
example, is so brief as to appear indifferent; similarly, "Robert =
Emmet,"
whose brevity will startle Ru=E1n O'Donnell. Why were these important =
and very
current subjects not assigned more space by Lalor and his editorial =
team?
Likewise, some notable American figures merited more coverage; the =
Eugene
O'Neill and Richard Ellmann articles, their excellent photographs
notwithstanding, are wincingly brief.

Structurally, the entries would have benefited from a two-or-three line
Recommended Readings section at the close of each piece, especially =
since
the volume's apparatus does not include a Selected Bibliography of =
Essential
Readings. The editors might have listed, for example, Maureen Murphy's =
work
at the close of the Famine article; Roy Foster's work at the end of the
Yeats piece; a short list of Gerry Adams's political writings at the
conclusion of the Adams essay; etc. In spite of these small lapses and
omissions, the volume's overall coverage is staggering, all the same.

Assemblage and presentation may be for many the premier strength of the
volume, for the book exploits both printed text and the pictorial. Its
700-odd images, located by Sin=E9ad McCoole and Carla Briggs, who =
evidently
scoured the museums and picture archives of the world, is enough alone =
to
carry the volume. And it is precisely this feature of the book which =
will
win the attention of students and non-specialists. The facsimiles of
l8th-century broadsheets, old musical scores, candid photographs of
political meetings, paintings by Sir John Lavery and by John B. Yeats - =
all
superbly selected and reproduced by Yale University Press. And the =
design of
the book, being its large, commodious format, its smart page layouts, as
well as its image captions, typography, paperstock, and dustjacket - =
first
class, all around. Lalor and his editorial team wisely included, as
apparatus, a reliable General Index and also a Subject Index, though =
(oddly)
the Subject Index does not include page references, at least not in this
reviewer's copy, and thus it cannot stand as an index, per se. Finally,
saluting his many contributors and editors, Lalor acknowledges each of =
them
by name, not only in the book's signed entries, but also in annotated =
lists
of his Consultant Editors, Consultant Contributors, and Contributors &
Readers.

But the Lalor team is not quite done with this project. To maximize its =
full
potential in the current century, a meeting must soon be planned among
Lalor, Tobin, and Yale University Press to digitize the entire book into =
a
convenient CD-ROM format. Representing the book in this medium would =
also
allow the editorial team to further enhance the volume's content with =
Irish
sounds: settings of the music of the 1798 Rebellion, music of the
Travellers, an audio clip of a speech of De Valera's, etc. The choices =
are
broad and colorful. It seems only inevitable that the mechanics for such =
a
conversion will soon be put in place. Traditionalists may regard such a
suggestion as crass commercialism. Those of us with an eye to the future
know
that the medium is the message.

Princeton Research Forum
Princeton, New Jersey

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Please find below the final call for papers for the conference, Songs of
Experience: Music and Irish Political Traditions. I would be grateful if
you could circulate this to members of the IR-D list.

I will email the full conference programme and attendance details in Early
November.

Thank you,

William Sheehan


Department of History
Mary Immaculate College
Limerick

Songs Of Experience: Music and Irish Political Traditions

Final Call for Papers

A one-day inter-disciplinary conference to be held in Mary Immaculate
College, South Circular Road, Limerick.

Saturday 4 December, 2004


Music and politics have often been deeply interlinked throughout Irish
history. Politics has provided a rich subject material for musicians and
music has been a valuable tool for different communities in supporting
various competing traditions, and as a display of cultural and local
identities.

This conference hopes to provide a forum for open debate concerning the role
of music and political experience in Ireland.

Papers should focus on the role of music and musical institutions in Irish
political life. A wide variety of topics will be considered. However, the
focus of all papers should be on the interplay between music, political life
and tradition.

Abstracts should be no more than 300 words. (Presentation time 20 minutes)
Abstracts should be emailed to the following addresses. The final date for
the submission of abstracts is 15 October 2004.

William.Sheehan[at]mic.ul.ie or Maura.Cronin[at]mic.ul.ie

A full programme and conference details will be emailed at a later date.

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Gerry Molumby
Triskellion Irish Theatre and Concert Productions=20

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From: FMolumby[at]aol.com=20
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www.irishsocieties.org
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Tribute to the Men who built Britain
Triskellion Irish Theatre and Concert Productions ~=20
Tribute Concert and Multimedia Presentation ~

We at Triskellion pride ourselves in bringing the best of Irish Theatre =
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Music to our audiences. Our next production is still theatre =96 but =
using all
the modern mediums of the multi media age and combining this with live =
and
background music to tell the story of =91The Men Who Built Brtitain=92.

The Men Who built Britain
A History of the Irish Navvy
- By Ultan Cowley
Published by Wolfhound Press.

Ultan Cowley is coming to north London to tell again the =93riches =
unearthed
in a labour of love=94 Using slides interspersed with live music =
performed by
=91Murphy=92s Marbles=92 we will be told the varied and proud story of =
Irish
labour in Britain. The book is the read; the concert and media =
presentation
is the SHOW.

The Salvatorian College,
Harrow Weald
Saturday October 2nd [at] 730.
Tickets ~ =A37
Box Office =96 0208 863 0059
~ Licensed Bar ~

At long last, someone has tackled the fascinating but neglected history =
of
the Irish navvy in Britain and produced a book and presentation that =
digs
away decades of ignorance and constructs a fitting memorial to a race of =
men
whose contribution to society has long been undervalued. Ultan has =
unearthed
untold riches amid the muck in this labour of love. The tragedies of =
Irish
emigration and the triumphs of British civil engineering are both well
documented but until now the navvy has been but a footnote of both. =
Here, he
becomes the cornerstone. He quotes from Paul Ricour: "To be forgotten, =
and
written out of history, is to die again". Crowley=92s honourable =
intention,
and his proud achievement, is to ensure the immortality of the Irish =
navvy.
The Tribute at the Salvatorian College, Harrow Weald on October 2nd will
keep that memory alive. Ultan will be available to sign copies of =91The =
Men
Who Built Britain=92 on the night.

The author's method is to go back to the original sources, limited =
though
they are, and to supplement this with interviews with labourers,
subcontractors, and senior executives of British construction companies. =
He
also draws extensively on newspapers such as The Irish Post, The Irish
World, The Irish Democrat and the writings of literary figures such as
Patrick MacGill and Donall MacAmhlaigh, who unlike Seamus Heaney were as
comfortable with a shovel as a nib in their hands.

The evening will be peppered with extracts of ballads such as =
McAlpine=92s
Fusiliers. We are delighted to have as part of this concert one of the =
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Irish Ballad Groups form the Midlands =91Murphy=92s Marbles=92. The lads =
are the
resident band for the Cheltenham Festival and have recorded a cd in
conjunction with this greatest horse racing festival in Britain =96 the =
world.
A festival that has a great association with Ireland and the Irish in
Britain.
Playing a =91mean fiddle=92 =96 whistle =96 guitar X2 - bodhran this =
band hit the
stage running =96 literally and yet can have the audience in the =91palm =
of
their hand=92 with a slow air or gentle ballad. CD=92 will be available =
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purchase on October 2nd. For further details ~ pictures ~ interviews =
etc:
Contact: Gerry Molumby. 01773 863217
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For those who enjoy that sort of thing - and who does not?...

The Journal of Narrative Theory is a fun journal based at Eastern Michigan
University

http://www.emich.edu/public/english/literature/JNT/clark.pdf

There have been a number of Benjamin and Bakhtin special issues...

If you go to the web site in the 'Recent Essays' section you will find -
freely available -
Katerina Clark
M. M. Bakhtin and "World Literature"
JNT 32.3 (Fall 2002)

http://www.emich.edu/public/english/literature/JNT/JNT.html

It is an exploration of Bakhtin's life and work, in the light of recent
interest in diaspora, exile and 'world literature' - beginning with our hero
Auerbach... Clark's references there are Edward Said and Emily Apter.

Occasionally, over the years, there have been odd items of Irish Diaspora
interest in the JNT...

For example...

JNT Volume 28, Number 3 (Fall 1998)

Special Issue:
Feminist Historicism and British Narrative, ed. Devoney Looser

Schorn, Susan. "Punish Her Body to Save Her Soul: Echoes of the Irish
Famine in Jane Eyre"

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British Association for Irish Studies Postgraduate Essay Prize

The British Association for Irish Studies, in association with Irish =
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Entries are invited for an essay on any aspect of Irish Studies:
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From: Patrick Maume
FROM - THE STORY OF A TOILER'S LIFE by James Mullin (UCD Press reprint,
2000) pp19-20. The author describes his childhood in 1850s Tyrone as only
child of a widow with a quarter-acre of land:

'During all my school days I was never once guilty of wearing shoes and
stockings, but I can hardly boast of this as a merit, for it was a matter of
necessity, not choice... As for the rest of my schoolday attire, it
consisted of "hand-me-downs" picked up by second-hand clothes dealers in the
slums of Glasgow; I remember wearing for a time an old uniform jacket given
me by a revenue policeman, and at another time a pair of corduroy
knee-breeches, the cast-offs of an overgrown butcher, and big enough to
cover my whole body, let alone my poor, wee legs. Although I have worn
heaps of outlandish toggery, these are the only two articles I have ever
felt ashamed of, although the row of brass buttons on the front of the
jacket made me the envy of all my schoolmates.'

Best wishes,
Patrick


> From: Ruth-Ann M. Harris
> harrisrd[at]bc.edu
> Subject: Re: [IR-D] 1850s Irish dress 7
>
> Difficult to believe that everyone in Roscommon was wearing used
> clothing, or footwear. There were there still 710 boot and shoemakers
> and 260 brogue-makers in the county in the 1841 census.
>
> Ruth-Ann Harris
>

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publication
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

ISSN
0143-4632

publisher
Multilingual Matters Ltd

year - volume - issue - page
2004 - 25 - 1 - 62

pages
62

article

Protestants and the Irish Language: Historical Heritage and Current
Attitudes in Northern Ireland

Pritchard, Rosalind M.O.

table of content - full text

abstract

The Irish language has long been regarded in the popular mind as a correlate
of Irish nationalism. A model expounded by the sociolinguist, Joshua
Fishman, is applied to the evolution of Irish as a nationalist icon, and it
is demonstrated that its divisive potential developed only gradually. In
fact, it was an object of affection and admiration for many influential 19th
century Protestants and unionists. In the 20th century, the language became
increasingly polarised for political ends, and after Partition was largely
rejected in the education system as experienced by unionist children in
Northern Ireland. It is argued that such an overwhelmingly anglocentric
orientation, not just in language, but also in history and geography, has
paradoxically served to exacerbate the Troubles. It has alienated unionists
from cultural capital which rightfully and historically belongs to both
traditions, and in so doing has promoted a 'frontier mentality' among them.
Somewhat in a spirit of definition by opposition, they are currently turning
to Ulster-Scots; yet by adopting a more positive attitude towards Irish,
unionists would simultaneously reconnect with their historical roots, and
might deprive the language of its potential as a political weapon to be used
against them.

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Feminist Review

ISSN
0141-7789 electronic: 1466-4380

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Palgrave Journals

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2004 - 77 - 1 - 26

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26

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Florence Nightingale and the Irish uncanny

Nagai, Kaori

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This article characterizes Florence Nightingale's nursing reform as the
cleaning of the Victorian home which she found unheimlich. She laid strong
emphasis on an improvement in the hygiene of the house as a significant part
of nursing, and, by establishing the nurse as a new occupation, gave the
surplus of unmarried women a decent means of escape from the stifling
domesticity in which they had been helplessly trapped. Her nursing at once
reformed and reinforced the traditional role of woman as a domestic figure,
for she created the nurse as a mother figure in charge of the home space. In
the Crimean War, Nightingale successfully nursed the idea of England as Home
by attending to the dying soldiers at the front. Her crusade to nurse the
unhomely space into a home, however, dismissed one uncanny place inside the
imperial Home that needed urgent nursing, that is, Ireland, which had been
suffering from the Great Famine and its aftermath. Nightingale confronted
Irish Sisters of Mercy, who came to the Crimea to save the lives and souls
of the Irish soldiers. These Irish nuns not only embodied the memories of
the Famine which they had recently relieved, but also threatened
Nightingale's single female authority by representing Ireland as a nation
through their equally motherly presence. The service of the Irish nuns in
the Crimean War was erased from the myth of the Lady with the Lamp.
Nightingale could establish herself as an authoritative female subject and
assumed the voice of England only by suppressing another female voice which
challenged England's competence in Home management.Feminist Review (2004)
77, 26?45. doi:10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400155

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Aife Murray

From: aife murray
aife[at]radray.us
Subject: Emily Dickinson's Irish Maid & Muse: Tour "Margaret Maher's
Amherst"

Mr. O'Sullivan,

Jim Rogers of Minnesota & the UST Center for Irish Studies suggested I =
send
you the enclosed info for your IR-D listserv about an event coming up in
that puts Ireland smack dab in the narrative of Emily Dickinson.=20

Known all over the world as a recluse Dickinson was in fact closely
surrounded and affected by a retinue of Irish laundry workers, maids,
stablemen and laborers.=20

I hope you'll let folks know about this walking tour of Amherst, MA from =
the
perspective of these Irish servants.=20

Those outside the Northeast US may take the virtual tour:=20
http://www.emilydickinson.org/maher/mappage.htm (this URL repeated at =
end of
release)

Please find the release below. thanks so much for your time and =
attention.

Sincerely, Ai'fe Murray

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Emily Dickinson's Irish Maid and Muse at Museum

Contact: Paul Statt
Director of Media Relations
413/542-8417

Amherst, Mass. -- The Emily Dickinson Museum presents "Margaret Maher's
Amherst -- Emily Dickinson's Maid and Muse," a walking tour led by =
A=EDfe
Murray, scholar and artist. The tour will explore the town of Amherst =
from
the perspective of Irish immigrant Margaret Maher who was a longtime
employee of the Dickinson family. The tour will take place on Saturday,
October 23, at 1:30 p.m. and is free and=20

open to the public. Participants should meet on the lawn of the Museum. =
The
walk route is about a mile and a half in length and does include some
moderate uphill walking. In case of inclement weather, the walk will =
take
place on Sunday, October 24, at 1:30 p.m. The tour=20

will take approximately 1.5 hours.

Emily Dickinson met her match in the formidable Margaret Maher - a maid =
whom
the poet described as "brave - faithful - punctual - and courageous." A
post-famine immigrant from County Tipperary, Maher was=20

headed to California to strike a new claim on life when a Dickinson
power-play landed this young and competent woman in the Homestead =
kitchen.
She remained there for 30 years as domestic servant to several =
generations
of Dickinsons. Baking loaf cakes together or washing dishes, these two =
women
shared much of the day - and they shared a respect for the power of =
poetry.
Maher herself came from a family of writers and scholars in South =
Tipperary.
When the poet died=20

she chose six Irish laborers as pallbearers including Maher's brother-

in-law Tom Kelley as her chief pallbearer. =20

Join us for a walking-story about the Homestead's "downstairs" and a =
bond
between the poor Irish Catholic Margaret Maher and wealthy Yankee =
Protestant
Emily Dickinson that forever changed American literary history. Stopping =
at
five sites in Amherst, this tour will re-draw what we think we know =
about an
American icon -- and opens up a rich vein in the history of the Irish in
America.

Writer and scholar A=EDfe Murray is based in San Francisco and has =
presented
her work in the US and abroad including the American Conference for =
Irish
Studies and in Thurles, Ireland. Her research has been supported by the
Irish American Cultural Institute. She has published in New Hibernia =
Review
-- "A Yankee Poet's Irish Headwaters" -- as well as an entry on Margaret
Maher in the Encyclopedia of the Irish in America. Murray studied at the
University of Florence (Italy), is a graduate of Hampshire College =
(Amherst,
MA), and has an M.A. in English - Creative Writing from San=20

Francisco State University. Her forthcoming book, Maid as Muse -- =
Margaret
Maher and Her Poet Emily Dickinson, will look at how Margaret Maher and
other poor servants altered the language and life course of a major =
American
poet.

The Emily Dickinson Museum consists of two historic houses, the =
Homestead
and The Evergreens. In October the Museum is open Wednesday=20

through Saturday from 1-5 p.m. For more information about this program,
please contact Cindy Dickinson, director of interpretation and =
programming,
at (413) 542-8429.=20


http://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/
http://www.emilydickinson.org/maher/mappage.htm
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Earlier in the week, on the school run, we found ourselves listening to the
Laurie Taylor radio programme - which looked at the work of the late Paul
Hirst - best known now, I think, for being sceptical about notions like
'globalisation' and 'otherness'...

See Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson, Globalisation in Question...

I have pasted in below material from BBC radio's web page.

There is a LISTEN AGAIN button on that page...

P.O'S.


PAUL HIRST (1946 - 2003)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/thinkingallowed.shtml

On 2nd October 2004, Birkbeck College will be holding a conference to mark
the work of sociologist Paul Hirst who died last year. A Professor of
Social Theory at the college and one of the founders of its School of
Politics and Sociology, he is perhaps best known for his writing on
globalisation: putting forward the provocative view that the phenomenon is
neither as recent, nor as widespread, as is popularly believed.

Laurie Taylor discusses Paul Hirst's legacy with Samantha Ashenden, a Senior
Lecturer in Sociology at Birkbeck and Grahame Thompson, Professor of
Political Economy at the Open University and co-author with Paul Hirst of
Globalisation in Question.

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From the Murray to the Sea - Jill Blee

Jill Blee has spent the last four years focusing on the Irish Catholic
community in the Australian area of Ballarat and in "From the Murray to the
Sea" she looks at the development of Catholic education in the diocese. The
school system evolved from very small beginnings when Catholic and
Protestant members of the hierarchy fought for control of their own schools,
when teachers were often under-qualified and almost always poorly paid and
when schools had to follow their pupils as old gold fields were abandoned
and new ones opened.

Almost the entire Catholic population of Ballarat was either Irish-born or
the children of immigrants, as were many of the priests and bishops, but
discord also arose between Irish members of the clergy and their English
Archbishop of Sydney, John Bede Polding. The contribution of orders of nuns
and brothers is acknowledged; the Loreto nuns, the Daughters of Charity, the
Sisters of Mercy and the Christian Brothers were prominent among them. The
training and registration of teachers, the fundraising by parishioners to
finance the schools, and the social aspects of education are all covered in
the narrative, as are the changes wrought by the post World War II
immigrants, many of them Catholic but far fewer Irish. Ms Blee concludes her
extensive examination of Catholic education in the diocese of Ballarat by
looking at the changes subsequent to the Vatican Council in 1959 and the
Labour Party victory of 1972.

(Indra Publishing, ISBN 1-92078709, pp181, AUS$49.95)

Forwarded with permission from...

BookView Ireland :: September, 2004 :: Issue No.110

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

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Thanks again to Maureen E. Mulvihill and to Robert G. Lowery for sharing
that review with us.

Maureen Mulvihill tells me that she would like to dedicate this digital
version of the review to David Rose, in these words...

'This digital version is dedicated to David C. Rose (School of English,
University of Exeter, England), who put me on to the Lalor project some time
ago.'

We will make sure that that dedication goes on the web version of the
review. And I am sure that we all share in Maureen's appreciation of the
work of that fine wandering scholar...

Moving on past my own embarassment at seeing my own name in Maureen's
review...

I was not as active as I might have been in the Encylopaedia of Ireland
project - for two reasons, 1. I was very unwell at a key time in the life of
the project, and 2. I do not live in Dublin. But, still, I did what I was
asked to do - worked within the wordage, prepared a list... So, the study
of the Irish Diaspora is there - though still, I think, a little bit the
view from Dublin. And I remain a bit bemused when I read items in the E of
I that might, easily, rightly, have had an Irish Diaspora dimension - but do
not.

In the end, though, I think Maureen's approach is the right one - to be
impressed by the work of Brian Lalor and his team, and to suggest ways
ahead.

P.O'S.


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Did anybody else notice this? The cover story on today's (Oct 3) PARADE
magazine (a newspaper supplement that is delivered to 36 million homes) is
"Why You Need to Know the Scots-Irish " by James Webb. The author is an
ex-marine, novelist, and former military official in the Reagan
administration.

The piece is redolent of 19th-century nativist literature. The closing
paragraph, for instance, asserts that "as America rushes forward to yet
another redefinition of itself ... my culture needs to reclaim itself - stop
letting others define, mock and even use it - and in so doing regain its
power to shape the direction of America." Webb essentially argues that
rednecks - his word - are a) all Scots-Irish, and B) what made America
great. Among the historical assertions he makes is a claim about "the
Scots-Irish tradition of disregarding formal education" (which would
probably have surprised someone like Woodrow Wilson, who's mentioned
elsewhere in the article) and - this seems especially astonishing to me - an
implication that Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus because
of her Scots-Irish great-grandfather.

The article, if you're somehow beyond PARADE magazine's reach, will be
posted on their web site archive on October 11 Am
I missing something, up here on the Northern plains? Is this introduction of
Scots-Irishness into conservative discourse something that's been gaining
steam?

Jim Rogers

PS: My grandma was from Stomping Ground, Kentucky, so I think I'm "clean."

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Email: rucker.71[at]osu.edu

Encyclopedia of American Race Riots
Location: Ohio, United States

Call for Contributors:

Greenwood Press in association with two scholars, Dr. Walter Rucker and Dr.
James Upton, will publish in 2006 a two-volume encyclopedia of American race
riots, beginning with the 1863 New York Draft Riot and continuing into the
twenty-first century. We are especially interested in essay entries from
various disciplinary approaches that document violent inter-group conflict
(race riots) that arises from causes and conditions associated with
modernization: industrialization, urbanization and migration. While race
riots occurred primarily in urban areas, outside the South, and were
primarily white instigated, this project proceeds from the assumption that
race riots are power struggles between emerging minorities and existing
power holders and governmental agents representing them. Therefore, this
collection of essays will be concerned with the role of government
authorities in fostering and channeling the emergence and development of
racial conflict, and the resistance of minority communities to
state-sponsored, racialized forms of violence.

This two-volume encyclopedia will be aimed at general audiences and entering
college students. The entries will range from succinct 300-word definitions
to in-depth 5,000-word essays and will encompass relevant events, movements
and organizations, intellectual trends, and individuals. In addition to the
300 alphabetically arranged entries, this collection will include primary
documents, timelines, maps, photographs, and an extensive bibliography.

If you are interested in contributing to this project, please send a
three-page c.v. by October 30, 2004 to the e-mail or postal address below.
Once approved we will send, via email attachment, the entry list and writing
guidelines. Completed entries will be due by January 30, 2005. As is usually
the case with reference works, compensation is limited to a very modest
honorarium or a copy of the published encyclopedia, depending on the number
and length of entries.

We sincerely hope that you will join us in this important endeavor.

Dr. Walter Rucker & Dr. James Upton, editors
The Encyclopedia of American Race Riots
Dept. of African & African American Studies
486 University Hall
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio 43210
(614) 292-7613
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From: Ely Janis
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Subject: Query on the Land and Ladies' Land League in the United States

I am beginning research on a national history of the Irish National Land and
Ladies Land Leagues in the United States (roughly 1879-1883). While most of
my research consists of newspapers accounts during this period, I have also
been looking fervently for manuscript sources (letters, documents, etc.)
from participants. While I have had some success, I was hoping to ask
members of the Irish Diaspora List for help in case any of them had come
across manuscript sources pertaining to the Land League or Ladies Land
League in the United States during the course of their own research. Any
feedback on this query would be greatly appreciated. I can be reached
off-list by e-mail at janisel[at]bc.edu. Thank you.

Kind Regards,
Ely M. Janis

Ely Matthew Janis
Ph D Candidate
Department of History
Boston College
janisel[at]bc.edu

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LADY GREGORY FELLOWSHIPS

The Faculty of Arts at National University of Ireland, Galway, is pleased to
announce the establishment of the Lady Gregory Fellowships. These
prestigious fellowships, tenable for a period of three years, are named in
honour of the memory of Lady Gregory, her contribution to the Arts and her
links to the West of Ireland. High-achieving graduates of any university
and nationality will be invited to complete research projects in the
humanities, languages and the social and behavioural sciences leading to the
PhD degree in Arts at NUI, Galway. Three Lady Gregory Fellows in these areas
will be offered beginning September 2005 and are worth ?20,000 per year for
three years. Additional fellowships will be offered in subsequent years.

Applications will be available 1 November, 2004 from the Arts Faculty
Office, National University of Ireland, Galway.

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NEH KEOUGH FELLOWSHIPS IN IRISH STUDIES

Application Deadline January 2, 2005

With the support of a National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge =
Grant,
the Keough Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame
invites applications for its faculty fellowship program. The NEH Keough
Fellowship will enable an outstanding scholar to continue his or her
research while in residence in the Keough Institute during the academic =
year
2005-2006. The Fellowship is open to scholars in any area of Irish =
Studies.

The stipend is $40,000. The NEH Keough Fellow will participate in a
periodic faculty seminar and present a paper on her or his research =
during
the year. Apart from the seminar, the Fellow=B9s only obligation will be =
to
pursue her or his research. The Fellow will be provided an office in the
Keough Institute and will be integrated into the Institute=B9s life, =
with full
library privileges and access to the Institute=B9s research tools. =
Applicants
should submit a double-spaced narrative of no more than five pages
describing their proposed research, indicating how it builds on existing
scholarship, and suggesting how it will benefit from broader
interdisciplinary studies. Applicants should also submit a curriculum =
vitae
and arrange for three letters of reference to be sent to the Keough
Institute by 2 January 2005. Announcement of the successful candidate =
will
be made in February 2005.

Please send applications to this address: NEH Keough Fellowships, Keough
Institute for Irish Studies, 422 Flanner Hall, University of Notre Dame,
Notre Dame, IN 46556 http://www.nd.edu/~irishstu/neh_fellowship.shtml