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Professor Charles Fanning, Irish Studies Search, Department of English,
Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 62901-4503.

Please distribute widely...

P.O'S.

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Subject: Irish studies job at Carbondale

Southern Illinois University
English, Carbondale, Illinois 62901-4503

Assistant Professor of Irish literature and culture

The English Department at SIUC seeks applicants for a full-time,
tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Irish literature
and culture. Completion of the PhD in English is required.

The successful candidate will have a record of scholarly research and
evidence of relevant teaching experience. Principal responsibilities will
include teaching undergraduate and graduate level courses, maintaining a
successful research record in the area of expertise, and serving on
departmental, college, and/or university committees.

Send letter of application and current c.v. to Professor Charles Fanning,
Irish Studies Search, Department of English, Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 62901-4503.

Postmark deadline for applications is December 1, 2004, or until position is
filled. Appointment will begin August 16, 2005. SIUC is an affirmative
action/equal opportunity employer that strives to enhance its ability to
develop a diverse faculty and staff and to increase its potential to serve a
diverse student population. All applications are welcomed and encouraged and
will receive consideration. Women and minorities are especially encouraged
to apply.

http://www.siu.edu/departments/english

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Dr Larry Geary,
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University College Cork,
Ireland


Subject: 14th Irish-Australian Conference: Cork, 2005



Call For Papers

14th Irish-Australian Conference

Cork, 22-24 June 2005



Cultural Identities and Cultural Transmission

This international Irish Studies conference invites papers relating to
Ireland and to the Irish abroad, with particular emphasis on the Irish in
Australia and New Zealand. Culture will be one of the key conference themes.
Cork is the designated European Capital of Culture for 2005, a circumstance
that provides both an opportunity and an environment to focus on this
important area of human contact.



Topics that might be addressed include:

Material culture; folk culture; literature; music; dance; fine art; film;
architecture; written and oral cultural transmission; cultural influences;
intercommunal cultural transference; cultural assimilation and dissemination
within host communities; cultural retention or dilution within these
societies.

The cultural theme is apposite, given Cork's 2005 European role, but the
conference also welcomes papers on history, politics, religion, gender,
migration, geography and economics as they relate to Ireland, Australia and
New Zealand, and to the links between these countries.

The conference will be based at University College Cork. A website
containing a programme and registration form, together with information on
accommodation will be set up later this year.

Inquiries and offers of papers, with a title and a 100-word abstract, should
be sent before 1 May 2005 to:

Dr Larry Geary,

History Department,

University College Cork,

Ireland



Phone: +353 21 4903047

Fax: +353 21 4273369

Email: l.geary[at]ucc.ie





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Dr Leon Litvack

Reader in Victorian Studies

School of English

Queen's University of Belfast

Belfast BT7 1NN

Northern Ireland, UK



L.Litvack[at]qub.ac.uk

www.qub.ac.uk/en

Tel. +44-2890-335103

Fax +44-2890-314615

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P.O'S.

Subject: ICM


Dear Colleague

Herewith the annual paper-call for the Irish Conference of Medievalists. =
May
we draw your attention first of all to a new initiative on the part of =
the
Conference organisers.

A SUMMER SCHOOL for BEGINNERS in OLD IRISH will be offered at ST =
KIERAN'S
COLLEGE KILKENNY, MONDAY 13 to WEDNESDAY 22 JUNE 2005, immediately =
preceding
the Irish Conference of Medievalists. Students seeking further =
information
are asked to contact:

Dr Catherine Swift, c/o Department of History, NUI Maynooth
Catherine.Swift[at]may.ie

Places on the course will be limited, so early contact is advisable.


NINETEENTH IRISH CONFERENCE OF MEDIEVALISTS
ST KIERAN'S COLLEGE KILKENNY THURSDAY 23 TO SUNDAY 26 JUNE 2005

Chair: M=C1IRE HERBERT

Organising Secretary: CATHERINE SWIFT Programme Secretary: COLM=C1N =
ETCHINGHAM

The Nineteenth Irish Conference of Medievalists will be held at St =
Kieran's
College, located in Kilkenny, a compact city which boasts an unusually
impressive - by Irish standards - surviving medieval fabric and =
ambience.
The surrounding countryside is also replete with relics of the Middle =
Ages,
from ogam stones to tower houses.=20

CALL FOR PAPERS

Offers of papers are invited on medieval archaeology, art, history,
language, learning and literature in both Latin and the vernaculars.
Preference will be given to papers with a bearing on Irish and Insular
medieval studies, but all offers will be considered.

Length of papers: Either 45-50 mins or 20-25 mins (plus 10-15/5-10 mins
discussion).

Responses to DR COLM=C1N ETCHINGHAM, DEPT OF HISTORY, NUI MAYNOOTH, CO.
KILDARE, IRELAND by the deadline of 28 FEBRUARY 2005.
Phone: (353 1) 7083816; Fax: (353 1) 7086169; e-mail:
colman.etchingham[at]may.ie

Responses should indicate: (1) YOUR NAME, ADDRESS, PHONE OR E-MAIL

(2) TITLE and LENGTH OF PROPOSED PAPER

(3) BRIEF ABSTRACT OF PAPER (max. 100 words)

(4) PROJECTOR(S) REQUIRED

Details of FEES FOR REGISTRATION, ON-CAMPUS MEALS AND ACCOMMODATION will =
be
circulated, together with the CONFERENCE PROGRAMME, in March 2005. For
advance information on these details, contact DR CATHERINE SWIFT, CENTRE =
FOR
THE STUDY OF HUMAN SETTLEMENT AND HISTORICAL CHANGE, NUI GALWAY, IRELAND
(e-mail: catherine.swift[at]may.ie).

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To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] St. John, New Brunswick, & on.....

At Patrick O'Sullivan's suggestion, I have appended academic-style notes to
my popular-style article, "Newfoundland: The Most Irish Place Outside of
Ireland".
The article originally appeared in Duchas, the quarterly newsletter of the
Irish American Cultural Institute.
The article is posted at
http://www.irishdiaspora.net/vf01.cfm?folder=158&outfit=ids
See esp. Notes 45-49 for onward migration from Newfoundland to the Canadian
mainland and the 'Boston States'.

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

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The following message has been brought to our attention...

The web site of Sulis Press is...

http://users.bathspa.ac.uk/sulis/

But this new book edited by Neil Sammells does not as yet seem to be =
listed
there...

P.O'S.


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

Beyond Borders: IASIL Essays in Modern Irish Writing

Edited by Neil Sammells

Sulis Press

These sixteen essays on modern Irish prose, poems and plays have been
developed from papers delivered at the conference of the International
Association for the Study of Irish Literatures=92, held at Bath Spa
University College in 2004. Beyond Borders offers an international
perspective by bringing together voices from different national =
cultures
and scholarly contexts. Each essay explores borders both literal and
metaphorical in Irish writing, showing, for instance, how Irish authors =
look
beyond national borders for influences and analogues, and how much Irish
writing is corrosive and transformative of partition in its manifold =
forms.
Among the writers discussed are W.B Yeats, James Joyce, Patrick Pearse, =
John
Banville, Bernard Mac Laverty, Dermot Healy, Patrick McCabe, Matthew =
Sweeny,
Paul Muldoon, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Eavan Boland, Chris Lee, Sebastian =
Barry,
Martin McDonagh. Contributors: Louis Armand, Michall Faherty, Rui =
Carvalho
Homem, Ellen Carol Jones, John Kenny, Marisol Morales Ladron, Vivian =
Valvano
Lynch, Donald E. Morse, Paul Murphy, Erin V. Obermueller, Monica =
Randaccio,
Maryna Romanets, Robert Tracy, Simon Tresize, Clare Wallace, Kim =
Wallace.


For orders, please contact n.sammells[at]bathspa.ac.uk or visit the Sulis =
Press
website. Cheques should be made payable to Bath Spa University College

Hardback ISBN 0-9545648-2-0 =A345

Paperback ISBN 0-9545648-1-2 =A315.99

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I am sending this out as a standard IR-D Article alert...

But this Article, by Steve Bruce and colleagues, is unusual... It is in
fact a detailed critique of - you might say, attack on - another Article...
WALLS, P AND WILLIAMS, R. 2003 'Sectarianism at work: accounts of employment
discrimination against Irish Catholics in Scotland', Ethnic and Racial
Studies, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 632-62.

...previously mentioned on the Irish Diaspora list...

I've pasted in the Article information, below, in the usual way... I will
follow up with a separate message, Bigotry experts, Scotland 2...

P.O'S.


Ethnic and Racial Studies
Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
Issue: Volume 28, Number 1 / January 2005
Pages: 151 - 168
URL: Linking Options
DOI: 10.1080/0141987042000280058

Religious discrimination in Scotland: Fact or myth?

Steve Bruce , Tony Glendinning , Iain Paterson , Michael Rosie

Abstract:
A article in Ethinic and Racial Studies by Walls and Williams makes
inferences about religious discrimination in employment from interview data.
We question the validity of treating lay people as experts and present
large-scale data from two recent surveys and the 2001 Census which suggest
that sectarianism is more a social myth than a social reality.

Keywords:
Scotland, sectarianism, discrimination, 2001 Census

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The following item seems to connect, in ways not fully understood, with an
earlier IR-D item, 'Bigotry experts, Scotland'...

I have sent, as a separate email - in the usual way - information about an
Article by Steve Bruce and colleagues which will asppear in the journal,
Ethnic and Racial Studies, in January 2005. The article is already
available to subscribers on the journal's web site...

http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=101481

Ethnic and Racial Studies
Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
Issue: Volume 28, Number 1 / January 2005
Pages: 151 - 168

Religious discrimination in Scotland: Fact or myth?
Steve Bruce , Tony Glendinning , Iain Paterson , Michael Rosie

That Article is unusual in that it is a sustained attack on another
Article...

Ethnic and Racial Studies
Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
Issue: Volume 26, Number 4 / July 2003
Pages: 632 - 661

Sectarianism at work: Accounts of employment discrimination against Irish
Catholics in Scotland
Patricia Walls A1 and Rory Williams A1

A1 MRC, Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow

Abstract:
This article examines accounts of discrimination in employment against Irish
Catholics in Glasgow from both majority and minority ethnic and -religious
perspectives. It reveals evidence of continuing experience of sectarian
discrimination in work. Of particular note is the existence of
discriminatory practice affecting Catholic (Irish-descended) attempts to
move up the social scale. This evidence disputes the thoroughness of
analyses which ignore discrimination experience as relevant to the current
social-class position of Glasgow's Irish Catholic community. The analysis
presented here also questions the practice of excluding 'white' ethnic
groups from most studies of ethnicity in Britain and considers whether
sectarianism or racism might most aptly describe experiences marked out by
religious belonging but clearly denoting ethnic origin. As part of a wider
study of prolonged and continuing health disadvantage among the Irish in
Britain, it is suggested that discrimination is one component in any
explanation of the health of the Irish or Irish Catholic minority, whose
minority experience is usually overlooked by researchers of ethnicity.

Keywords:
Catholic, Irish, discrimination, racism, sectarianism, whiteness

This Article was previously mentioned on the IR-D list. As can be seen from
the Abstract this Article by Ward and Williams addresses issues long of
interest to the IR-D list - and particularly to those who study the
experiences of the Irish in Britain. And, amongst that sub-group, those
interested in health issues... But I think that the methodological issues
are of interest to all...

I now have pdf files of both articles, Walls & Williams, Bruce & colleagues,
here in my computer, and I am settling down to read them carefully... Ir-D
members who have the ability to read between the lines might try sending me
importunate emails...

I have respect for the work of Steve Bruce - I buy his books... But I have
to say that, looking at this new Article by Bruce & colleagues... I have
never seen anything like it... Every now and again we do have situations
where one scholarly article is attacked or corrected by another. A recent
example in our field was in the Historical Journal - London, where Desmond
Norton published a 'rejoinder' to Tyler Anbinder's article 'Lord Palmerston
and the Irish famine emigration'... But the tone of the Article by Bruce &
colleagues seems disproportionately fierce... As I say, for reasons not
fully understood...

P.O'S.


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IR-D members might be interested in a this inter-disciplinary dust-up, in
Aberdeen, Scotland, between Steve Bruce and Tom Devine... Tom Devine is
quoted as saying "My principal view is that Professor Bruce's discipline is
not capable of understanding the subtleties of this debate."...

An extract from Scotland on Sunday below...

P.O'S.

FULL TEXT AT...
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1179822004

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I have established that Martin Bulmer (University of Surrey, UK), the Editor
of Ethnic and Racial Studies, has allowed Patricia Walls and Rory Williams
the Right of Reply to the critical article by Steve Bruce and colleagues.
This is only right in the circumstances. Though of course - since the
issue, Volume 28, Number 1 / January 2005, is in effect already published on
the web - the Reply or Rebuttal will not actually appear alongside the
critical article.

As more information becomes available I will share it with the IR-D list...

P.O'S.

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The following item seems to connect, in ways not fully understood, with an
earlier IR-D item, 'Bigotry experts, Scotland'...

I have sent, as a separate email - in the usual way - information about an
Article by Steve Bruce and colleagues which will asppear in the journal,
Ethnic and Racial Studies, in January 2005. The article is already
available to subscribers on the journal's web site...

http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=101481

Ethnic and Racial Studies
Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
Issue: Volume 28, Number 1 / January 2005
Pages: 151 - 168

Religious discrimination in Scotland: Fact or myth?
Steve Bruce , Tony Glendinning , Iain Paterson , Michael Rosie

That Article is unusual in that it is a sustained attack on another
Article...

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The Irish in Britain - 3 newspaper items...

P.O'S.


1.
Ireland wakens to plight of the forgotten million

Angelique Chrisafis, Ireland correspondent
Saturday November 6, 2004
The Guardian

'Con Scully lit a candle in the gloom of his decaying house in Coventry.
There was no heating, electricity or natural light. The windows were =
boarded
up against vandals and drug addicts.

Since his wife died, Mr Scully, 71, had lived alone. At night, he =
crawled on
top of piles of hoarded debris to sleep with his dog and a stray cat, =
ready
to defend himself against feared intruders.

He arrived in the UK from Ireland in the 50s, part of a generation of =
almost
a million men and women who came to rebuild Britain after the war. They =
had
no choice but to leave the poverty of the west of Ireland and send their
wages back to keep communities alive.

But many of the elderly men who built London's underground, the =
motorways,
the railways and the women who served as "domestics" sending home an
estimated =803.5bn (=A32.4bn) during Ireland's darkest days - are =
growing old in
subhuman conditions in the UK.

When Ireland's state broadcaster, RTE, showed footage of Mr Scully and =
other
destitute Irish with no running water, no sanitation and no hope, the
country was horrified.

A debate is raging about the Irish government's "moral debt" to a =
"forgotten
generation" ignored during the Celtic Tiger boom years.

Last month the government set up a unit in its foreign ministry for the
Irish emigrants in the UK, with =A32.37m awarded to more than 50 groups
working with Irish people in Britain this year.

The sum was short of recommendations from a taskforce on emigrants, but =
many
say Britain should bear its share of the burden and recognise the Irish =
as a
distinct ethnic minority instead of putting them together with the white
British population...'=20

Full Text at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1344903,00.html


2.
'We worked from 4am to 9pm, sending all our wages home'

Angelique Chrisafis
Saturday November 6, 2004
The Guardian

Mary Caffrey, 83, from Achill Island, Mayo, recently returned to Ireland
from a high-rise in Manchester:

"I left when I was 13 to go into domestic service in Hampstead, London. =
I
had never been out of the village, and never left Achill Island. My =
parents
and six children lived in a two-room thatched house with two beds.=20
Full Text at...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1344904,00.html


3.
Irish investors carve up prime cuts of London

Nick Mathiason
Sunday November 7, 2004
The Observer

'Irish investors have spent close to =A3200 million in the last seven =
days on
prime central London property.

The latest flurry of hefty deals means that traders from both Northern
Ireland and the republic have spent =A31.5 billion this year on property =
in
the heart of the capital.'=20

Full Text at...
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1345216,00.html

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From: Brian McGinn
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Subject: RE: [IR-D] Patrick Kavanagh centenary

From New York's weekly THE IRISH ECHO, dated October 20-26, 2004, an excerpt
from the article "Favorite Son", by staff writer Peter McDermott:
(unfortunately not available in the Echo's online edition)

BEGIN QUOTE
She (Antoinette Quinn) "was already a noted Kavanagh scholar and author
before she was commissioned to write his biography. She's the editor also of
the centenary edition of his 'Collected Poems," issued by Penguin Press in
London three weeks ago.

"Once again it cannot be distributed in the United States, because (his
younger brother) Peter Kavanagh still claims copyright to 20 of the finest
poems," she said.

Quinn's "Patrick Kavanagh: A Biography" challenged the view long advanced by
the younger Kavanagh that his brother was rejected during his lifetime by
Ireland's literary establishment. Indeed, she said, if her book has a hero
aside from its subject, it's Dublin's middle class, who realized it had a
'wayward genius' in its midst and supported him in every way it could."
END QUOTE

As to the "ban" on US distribution of "Collected Poems" (2004), this can be
overcome by ordering via Amazon.UK:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/026-1194215-0122067

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


> [Original Message]
> Subject: [IR-D] Patrick Kavanagh centenary
>
> Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> The Patrick Kavanagh centenary has been marked by events throughout
> Ireland...
> http://www.patrickkavanaghcountry.com/html/pkcentenary_events.htm
>
> Here in England we have had complaints from Penguin/Allen Lane that
> their Patrick Kavanagh Collected Poems, edited by Antoinette Quinn,
> has been practically ignored...
>
> But I have made a note on my Christmas list...
>
> Patrick Kavanagh Conference
> A CENTENARY CONFERENCE AND CELEBRATION in Boston
>
> should be praised. Details pasted in below...
>
> Are there any other events that we should be aware of?
>
> P.O'S.

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Subject: IASIL 2005 conference

IASIL 2005 Charles University, Prague
Ireland =96 A Global Village?
25-28 July 2005
http://www.iasil.org/prague


The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures invites =
you
to attend its 2005 conference at Charles University, Prague, in the =
Czech
Republic.

Papers and panels are welcome on a broad range of topics including:
Ireland in the media age; relations between the local and the global;
national and post-national identities; Ireland in translation, =
translation
in Ireland; modern and postmodern tendencies in Irish literature and
performance; alterity and ethnicity; cultural flows, influence and
intertexts in a =93Globalised Ireland.=94

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
Proposals for papers of 20 minutes duration are welcome on any aspect of =
the
literatures of Ireland, especially those that focus on the conference =
theme.
Proposals for panels and nominations for panel chairs are strongly
encouraged. Deadline for abstracts (of approximately 200 words) and =
panel
proposals: 15th December 2004.

Proposals are now being accepted at conference[at]iasil.org

VENUE
Founded by Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia, in 1348,
Charles University is among the oldest universities in Europe. IASIL
2005 will take place in the centrally located Faculty of Arts and =
Philosophy
building. Situated on Jan Palach square on the bank of the river Vltava =
and
facing Prague Castle, the Faculty building is in the heart of the Old =
Town
(Stare Mesto) beside the historical Jewish quarter, and just a minutes =
walk
from Charles Bridge. The area is plentifully supplied with restaurants =
and
caf=E9s. Wenceslas square, the National Theatre, the National Library, =
Franz
Kafka=92s birthplace are all within short walking distance. The venue is
immediately accessed by metro, tram and bus.

REGISTRATION AND ACCOMMODATION
Registration will be processed online after proposals and panels have =
been
finalised. Accommodation will include a wide range of options from major
hotels to student residences. Details will be announced by email and on =
the
conference website at www.iasil.org.

All speakers at IASIL conferences must be IASIL members for the year in
which the conference takes place. Full details are on
http://www.iasil.org/membership/

SOCIAL PROGRAMME
We are currently arranging a social programme which will include several
formal receptions, a fully catered river cruise and a final banquet.
Walking tours of Prague will also be available.

POST-CONFERENCE TOUR
A Post-Conference tour to South Bohemia will depart on the 29th July,
returning to Prague on the evening of the 30th. The itinerary will =
include a
visit to the city of Ceske Budejovic, home of the original and only
Budweiser (aka Budvar), the UNESCO protected medieval city of Cesky =
Krumlov
and its 13th century castle, and on the following day a trip to the
picturesque town of Trebon and the Cervena Lhota chateau.

WEBSITE
Information about all aspects of IASIL 2005 is available on the IASIL
website - http://www.iasil.org/prague

ORGANISERS
IASIL 2005 is organised by the Centre for Irish Studies within the
Department of English and American Studies at Charles University. =
Organising
committee: Louis Armand, Ondrej Pilny, Clare Wallace.

The conference is organised under the aegis of the Dean of the Faculty =
of
Arts and Philosophy, Charles University, and the Mayor of Prague, the
Capital of the Czech Republic



_________________________
IASIL 2005 Conference
Charles University Prague
25-28 July 2005
_________________________
http://www.iasil.org/prague/

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From: Bruce Stewart
bsg.stewart[at]ulster.ac.uk

Patrick

In case the book has not been properly noticed - Gerry Harrison, The
Scattering, on London Irish Centre.

Received the information from the author.=20

Best, Bruce

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

Officially the publishers are the London Irish Centre themselves -
Historical Publications just produced it for them. However, sales are =
being
made through distributors, Phillimore & Co, Shopwyke Manor Barn, =
Chichester,
W Sussex PO 20 2BG Tel 01243 787636. They have a website
www.phillimore.co.uk and details of the book are listed there.

It is on sale at many of the north London bookshops and is gradually =
being
sold elsewhere.

Its ISBN is 0 94866 799 0. 248pp, paperback, price =A312.95. 78 ills.

From the Phillimore web site...

The Scattering
A History of the London Irish Centre, 1954-2004
Gerry Harrison =20

RRP: =A312.95 Online Price: =A311.65=20


From
http://www.camdennet.org.uk/groups/chs/news/item?item_id=3D16766

New book on the post-WW II Irish diaspora and the work of the Irish =
Centre

There follows a press release on the book, authored by Councillor Gerry
Harrison and published by Historical Publications.

THE SCATTERING
A History of the London Irish Centre
by GERRY HARRISON

THE SCATTERING tells the story of the Irish diaspora into London after =
the
Second World War. There was then a desperate need for the incoming =
British
government to reconstruct the country. Many cities were devastated and =
its
industry and infrastructure had also to be rebuilt. A new source of =
labour
was vital.

With the Irish economy in a slump and employment opportunities beckoning
from across the Irish Sea, hundreds of thousands of Irish men and women
=93took the boat=94. Many who arrived on the trains into Euston Station =
and
elsewhere were bewildered by the turmoil around them and ill-prepared =
for
what confronted them. They soon learned the streets were not paved with
gold. Those that had entered the building industry became victims of =
=93the
lump=94. In other industries Irish people were regarded as cheap =
immigrant
labour. It was also believed that the Irish government was exporting =
its
=93inadequates=94.

The Catholic Hierarchy in Ireland was alarmed at this departure of =
Catholics
to =93pagan=94 England, and the London Irish Centre was first conceived =
in 1947
to save their souls. Soon its priorities had to shift more towards =
offering
them a refuge, a centre for advice and a place for hostel accommodation.
Often through anecdote, THE SCATTERING recounts the story of those who
required the support of the Centre and its staff. Although often =
harrowing,
it does not ignore the self-reliance of many Irish people and the charm =
and
wit with which they sometimes faced adversity.

This history includes constant and returning themes: the refusal until
recently of the Irish government to assist its =93exiles=94 abroad; the
deepening debt into which the Centre fell as a result of the extensions =
of
its service and to its building, and how it saved itself from near-
bankruptcy; the context of the community and politics of Camden and =
north
London; the role it has played in reacting to the impact of the =
=93Troubles=94
on Irish people in Britain, in various miscarriage of justice campaigns =
and
in the Peace Process; and its commitment to the best of Irish music and
culture.

Formally opened in September 1955, during the last fifty years the =
Centre
has gained in both Ireland and England a considerable reputation for
service, and has influenced the thinking of both governments in how they
respond to the needs of such communities.

With 248 pages, including an index and 80 photographs, THE SCATTERING is
published by Historical Publications Ltd. It will be launched on 1 =
October,
and subsequently will be on sale at =A312.95. To purchase contact local
bookshops or John Richardson, Richardson[at]Historicalpublications.co.uk.

David A Hayes

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Catherine Boone
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Institute of Irish Studies=20

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Subject: NEWS UPDATE - Institute of Irish Studies, Queen=92s University
Belfast

Institute of Irish Studies, Queen=92s University Belfast =96 NEWS UPDATE

The Institute is delighted to announce the award of a major ESRC =
project, to
be held jointly with the School of History at Queen=92s. This project =
will
commence in June/July 05 and is titled =91Imagining Belfast:
Political Ritual, Symbol and Crowds. More details about this project on =
the
Institute=92s website at: www.qub.ac.uk/iis/for-researchers/index.htm

We have recently appointed three new research fellowships to Drs John =
Nagle,
Oona Frawley and Anne Oakman. Dr Nagle is working on the St.Patrick=92s =
Day
research which seeks to provide an anthropological cross-cultural =
comparison
of global St. Patrick=92s Day celebrations.=20

Dr Frawley is writing a book entitled Spenser=92s Ghosts, an exploration =
of
the influence of Edmund Spenser on Irish writers and writing and Dr =
Oakman
is currently working on the E. =8C. Somerville and Martin Ross archive =
at
Queen=92s. She is editing a selection of letters from the =
Somerville-Ethel
Smyth correspondence for publication and is further planning to have the
correspondence digitized in its entirety and made accessible on a =
dedicated
searchable Somerville-Smyth archive website.

More information on this research is available on our website at:
www.qub.ac.uk/iis/staff/res-fellows.htm

Our Joint Seminar Series with Save the Children (RIGHTING THE WRONGS:
Northern Ireland and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the
Child) is currently receiving a lot of publicity from local media and
excellent attendance by academics, community workers and members of the
public. This series commenced on 4 October is due to end on Monday 22
November. Full details of the programme can be seen on our website at:
www.qub.ac.uk/iis/for-researchers/for-researchers-seminarprog.htm


Best wishes

Catherine Boone
Administrator
Institute of Irish Studies
Queen's University Belfast
University Road
Belfast BT7 1NN
Tel: 44 (0) 28 9097 3386
Email: irish.studies[at]qub.ac.uk
Website: www.qub.ac.uk/iis

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There are two sorts of people in the world...

There are those who believe that there are two sorts of people in the world.
And there are those who do not.

I am a member of the second group.

Amongst the sub-groups of people in the world are those who CAN read between
the lines, email a request, and might now be receiving two pdf files. And
there are those who can not read between the lines, and email me saying,
What do you mean?Eh? What?

I can say no more...

P.O'S.


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Subject: Re: [IR-D] Book Review, Brettell, Anthropology and Migration:
Essays on Transnationalism, Ethnicity and Identity

On the subject of transnationalism, ethnicity and identity you might be
interested in my latest attempts to come to terms with these concepts in
relation to Irish women migrants in Britain> 'Family matters: emigration,
familial networks and Irish women in Britain' in Sociological Review, 52,
(3) August 2004, pp.351-370.

Louise

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Family Matters: (e)migration, familial networks and Irish women in Britain
Author: Louise Ryan1

Source: The Sociological Review, August 2004, vol. 52, no. 3, pp.
351-370(20)

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

The recent increase in transnational migration among women has lead to a
reappraisal of theoretical explanations of migratory movement ( Castles and
Miller, 2003; Fortier, 2000; Zulauf, 2001). This paper reviews a number of
theoretical explanations of transnational migration and then applies these
theories to a qualitative study of women who migrated from Ireland to
Britain in the 1930s. I explore the women's reasons for leaving Ireland and
their experiences as young economic migrants in Britain in the inter-war
years. Women have made up the majority of Irish migrants to Britain for much
of the twentieth century yet the dominant stereotype of the Irish migrant
has been the Mick or Paddy image ( Walter, 2001). Through an analysis of
these twelve women's narratives of migration, I explore themes such as
household strategies and familial networks. I am interested in the
interwoven explanations of migration as both a form of escape ( O'Carroll,
1990) and a rational family strategy and, hence, the ways in which women's
decision to migrate can be seen as a combination of both active agency and
family obligation. Drawing on the work of Phizacklea (1999) as well as
Walter (2001) and Gray (1996, 1997), I will analyse the ways in which family
connections may transcend migration and engage with the concept of
'transnational family' ( Chamberlain, 1995). In so doing, I raise questions
about the complex nature of migration and the extent to which it could be
described in terms of empowerment.

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on Transnationalism, Ethnicity and Identity

> Email Patrick O'Sullivan patrickos[at]irishdiaspora.net>
>
> It seemed worth sharing this H-Migration book review with the IR-D list.
> The reviewer, Steve Garner of the University of the West of England,
> Bristol, makes connections between Caroline Brettell's book on the
> Portuguese diaspora, and a number of things of interest to IR-D - like
> the work of Breda Gray... He also mentions the ESRC research programme
> on 'transnationalism' - see my earlier IR-D messages about this
> programme over the years...
>
> Without going over old ground, I have looked at that Special Edition
> of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 27 [4] 2001... Surely
> there must be more to research that the generating of new combinations
> of abstract nouns...
>
> P.O'S.

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The following book review has appeared on the Cerceles web site...

Fatal Influence: The Impact of Ireland on British Politics, 1920-1925
Kevin Matthews
Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2004.
=A339.95, xvi-317 pages, ISBN 1-904558-06-2 (hardback).
=A318.95, xvi-317 pages, ISBN 1-904558-05-4 (paperback).

Review by
John P. McCarthy
Fordham University

'...Both sides in the debate among nationalists about the treaty, as =
well as
in the civil war, assumed the commission award would substantially =
reduce
the size of Northern Ireland and thereby make it unviable as a political
entity and be ultimately absorbed into a single Ireland. Naturally, the
unionist majority in Northern Ireland, who were not part of the treaty
negotiations, were determined that they not lose an inch of territory =
and
opposed the very idea of the commission. It remains an issue as to what =
the
British signatories to the treaty expected the commission would do or =
what
its mandate was.

Until the present little attention has been paid by historians to the =
last
question, or for that matter, to the effect the Irish question had on
British politics in general in the period around and after the treaty.
Historians have tended to concern themselves with the political =
evolution of
the Irish Free State from its painful birth amidst civil war through its
constitutional rather than revolutionary evolution to increased autonomy =
and
ultimately absolute separation from Britain. They have also examined the
position of the Northern Irish Unionists in resisting absorption into =
the
rest of Ireland and their harsh and inequitable treatment of the =
province=92s
disappointed nationalist minority. But few until Kevin Matthews had =
actually
examined the impact of the Irish question, especially the boundary =
question,
on domestic British politics. His very well written and carefully =
researched
study suggests a great amount of duplicity on the part of the British, a
remarkable hardheaded but successful positioning by the Northern Irish
Unionists, and a mixture of gullibility and impracticality by the Irish =
Free
State...'

Full text at
http://www.cercles.com/review/r19/matthews.htm

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The following Press Release has appeared on the UK National Archives web
site...

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/default.htm

'More than 5 million First World War campaign medal records go online
8 November 04

Want to find out how your grandfather was honoured in the Great War? For the
first time the medal records of more than 5 million men and women who served
in the First World War are available online at DocumentsOnline

The records of the future King Edward VIII, Sir Winston Churchill, composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams and war poet Wilfred Owen all appear along with many
well known names from the world of entertainment and sport.

The medal index cards, held at The National Archives, Kew, provide the
closest thing there is to a 'roll-call' of all those who served in the army
and Royal Flying Corps in the Great War, as every individual who served
abroad in the army or Royal Flying Corps was entitled to one or more
campaign medals.

People from all walks of life are represented: officers and soldiers,
civilians whose jobs took them into the War, and thousands of people from
commonwealth countries...'

'...You can see the medal record of Sidney Godley, the first private to be
awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry. After the war
he worked as a school caretaker in east London. Tower Hamlets council later
named a block of flats in his honour. Find out about Walter Tull, one of the
first black professional footballers, who played for Tottenham Hotspur FC.
He was also the army's first black officer. Despite military regulations,
which forbade "any Negro or person of colour" being made an officer, he was
commissioned in May 1917, and mentioned in despatches for his "gallantry and
coolness under fire"...'

These medal records will be of interest to many scholars of Irish history
and literature and scholars of the Irish Diaspora... But again the National
Archives are overwhelmed by the level of interest. Access to the records is
through the Documents Online section - and there you meet the familiar
notice...

'We are currently experiencing high levels of demand, and you may find that
the site is busy. We apologise for any inconvenience caused and encourage
you to try again later.'

I'll try again during one of my insomniac periods...

P.O'S.

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For information...

P.O'S.



Ethnicity & Health
Volume 9, Issue 2 , May 2004, Pages 107-137
ISSN: 1355-7858


MEDLINER
'Black like Beckham'? Moving beyond definitions of ethnicity based on skin
colour and ancestry

Karlsen, Saffron

Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London,
1-19 Torrington Place, London, UK; e-mail s.karlsen[at]ucl.ac.uk

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: The definitions of ethnic status currently employed in,
particularly, epidemiological research, tend to focus on skin colour or on
perceived historical or ancestral links with certain geographical locations.
Neither of these classificatory systems stem from any widely supported
theoretical standpoint and their usefulness in terms of explaining any
ethnic variation is therefore questionable. In order to enable more
informative exploration of ethnicity and its relationship with health and
other indicators, a clearer understanding of the processes involved in
ethnic identification is required. This paper sets out to explore underlying
dimensions which could constitute an ethnic identity across different ethnic
groups in England.

DESIGN: Principal components factor analyses on the different ethnic groups
included in the Ethnic Minority Psychiatric Illness Rates in the community
study: Bangladeshi, Caribbean, Indian, Irishnext term and Pakistani people
and a 'white majority' group.

RESULTS: In each ethnically specific model, three dimensions of ethnic
identity were determined; related to multiculturalism, or the sustenance of
ethnic difference, racialisation and community participation. In the ethnic
minority group models the 'multiculturalism' dimension formed two factors:
one related to the presentation of oneself as a member of a particular
ethnic group and one exploring attitudes towards cultural assimilation. The
findings suggested that the processes of ethnic identification are similar
across the different ethnic (minority and majority) groups explored, but
that there may be important differences within any particular group.

CONCLUSION: The recognition of these dimensions of ethnic affiliation
provide us with an opportunity to improve our indicators of ethnic status.
Each of these dimensions would appear to be important to the lives of people
from different ethnic groups in England. These findings also highlight the
important role that external attitudes play in the understanding of what it
means to be a member of any ethnic group. This aspect of ethnic affiliation
has been ignored by current definitions of ethnicity and this imbalance
should be redressed. [Journal Article; In English; England]

Citation Subset Indicators: Index Medicus

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The Irish Diaspora list is invited to a Book Launch on Friday 12 November...

Our good wishes to Dymphna Lonergan on this important day...

Patrick O'Sullivan


L y t h r u m P r e s s
is pleased to invite you to the launch of
SOUNDS IRISH
THE IRISH LANGUAGE IN AUSTRALIA
by Dymphna Lonergan

The book will be launched by
Professor Graham Tulloch
at the South Australian Writers' Centre
2nd floor, 187 Rundle Street, Adelaide
on Friday 12 November at 6.00 pm

Light refreshments will be provided.
WINES BY QUERCUS
RSVP Lythrum Press (08) 8415 5150
info[at]lythrumpress.com.au
(for catering purposes)

Lythrum Press, 1st floor, 128 Hindley Street, Adelaide SA 5000
www.lythrumpress.com.au
L y t h r v m


Book information from the Web site...
(On the Web site, Click on Publishing - then Book Publishing...)

Sounds Irish
The Irish Language in Australia
by Dymphna Lonergan

Published 12 November

The Irish language ('Gaelic', as it is often called) has had a greater
influence on Australian English than is usually credited. It is a curious
fact that in Australia there has been an assumption that Irish-speaking
migrants managed to lose their language on their way over on the boat, or
that when they reached Australia they ceased to speak Irish. We know how
long it takes to learn a second language. We take it for granted that
migrants to Australia will continue to use their native languages within
their family group and with friends and acquaintances, even if they acquire
fluency in English. The Irish speaker in Australia was no different.

Sounds Irish traces Irish language words, phrases and references in
Australian newspapers, poetry, novels, and in Australian English. It begins
with a discussion of the written evidence we have of Irish speakers in
Australia, from convicts to priests. Readers will be surprised to learn how
some of the most iconic Australian words, such as 'sheila' and 'brumby', are
revealed to be Irish words in disguise. A detailed glossary of Irish words
in Australian writing shows just how important this contribution to
Australian English has been.

ISBN 1 921013 00 1 Paperback, 160 pages, illus. b&w, glossary,
bibliography & index RRP $30.00

http://www.lythrumpress.com.au/entry01.html

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My thanks to everyone who expressed a view about the usefulness and
propriety of our distributing the Tables of Contents of journals - given
that many more TOCs are now available to us, through the ZETOC service and
various publisher services....

In fact only one view was expressed, many times - that TOCs are useful. I
agree - even just a glance at a sequence of TOCs gives a feeling for the
state of play, names, subject matters. And suggestions for follow-up.

So, TOCs will continue to be distributed through IR-D. I'll try to be
sensible about it - and maybe sometimes just highlight an article of
interest.

I have been nattering with Thaddeus Breen about his plans...

http://www.xs4all.nl/~tbreen/

http://www.xs4all.nl/~tbreen/ireland.html

http://www.xs4all.nl/~tbreen/journals.html

Thaddeus intends to keep on developing, when he can, his web site - adding,
when he can, more TOCs. He grew weary - as I did - of Irish Historical
Studies. He says: 'Believe it or not, it's because of the colour of the
cover! The contents are listed on the green cover of IHS, which is hard to
photocopy, and impossible to OCR, so I've tended to leave that one aside...'
And Irish Sword is also a pain...

Note that the TOC of Irish Historical Studies is now available through
ZETOC. Thaddeus and I have agreed that I will make available to him any
TOCs of interest that I and the IR-D list come across - Thaddeus tends to be
more interested in archaeology and history. I have also given Thaddeus
GUEST access to the IR-D archive - because he will find there many useful
TOCs, maybe helping fill the gaps in his own lists.

Meanwhile I have been working on the LINKS section of irishdiaspora.net. I
am developing a little section on useful journals, where they might be
contacted, TOCs and so on... With, of course, a link to Thaddeus Breen...

Our thanks to Thaddeus...

P.O'S.


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