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For information...

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STATEMENT BY EMMET STAGG TD
Labour Party Chief Whip


GOV MUST USE BUDGET TO ADDRESS PLIGHT OF EMIGRANTS

The Labour Party Chief Whip, Deputy Emmet Stagg, has called on the
government to use the opportunity presented by next month's budget to
provide a real and substantial increase in the funding allocated for the
support and welfare of Irish emigrants abroad, especially those who
are living in poor economic circumstances.

"While many of those who emigrated have done very well, there are others
who, after a life of hard physical labour, have now fallen on hard times.
These are the same people whose envelopes from London and Birminghan and
Coventry, with their crumpled tenners and fivers, not just saved many
families from poverty, but actually kept the country economically afloat in
earlier decades.

"The two key recommendations of the Task Force on Policy Regarding
Emigrants, published in August 2002, were the establishment of an
Agency for the Irish Abroad and for substantially increased funding
for emigrant welfare. The government has rejected the proposal for the
Agency and has failed to increase funding on the lines set out in the
report. The Task Force suggested funding of ?18m rising to ?34m in 2005.
However, the amount allocated for 2004 was just a miserable ?5m.

"This country has now achieved a level of wealth that those leaving the
country in the 1940s and 1950s could never have imagined. It is now time
that we paid something back to those who, through the financial
contributions, played no small role in making our current success
possible. I am now calling on the government to give a commitment that it
will provide the resources to enable the recommended figure of ?34m to be
achieved in the coming year. If the government could afford to waste ?52m
on a totally useless electronic voting system, then surely it can find the
resources to meet the needs of our emigrants.

"As a former Minister for Foreign Affairs, the current Minister for
Finance, Brian Cowen, should be only too well aware of the plight
of some of our emigrants. Now that he has control of the purse strings,
and an overflowing purse, he should do something about it.

The Labour Party is determined that this country will repay its debt to
our emigrants and we will continue to press the government to provide the
funding required. A delegation from the Parliamentary Labour Party,
consisting of myself, Willie Penrose TD and Katheen Lynch TD, will also be
visiting Britain on December 17th and 18th to meet emigrant organisations,
to assess the situation on the ground and to in what way we can provide
further assistance and support.

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The latest issue of the Journal of the History of Sexuality has an article
of great interest...

Of great interest - and often very disturbing and moving...

If you are at all active in dealing with the consequences of individual
flight from Ireland you will have pondered these issues... In the early
twentieth century the new state in Ireland engaged in what seems - in
retrospect - an extraordinary experiment. Not unique, and maybe not unusual
- but still extraordinary. It put not only its moral authority, and its
priorities, but also the day to day running of its services in the hands of
the Catholic Church - with very little supervision or monitoring of those
services. I suppose it is a naive question, but: What were they thinking?

James Smith has used recently released archives to show the thinking
processes in action - the suppression of the Carrigan Report, in effect the
concealing of crimes against women and children, and the development of a
discourse, and legislation, around 'sexual immorality...'

See...

"The Politics of Sexual Knowledge: The Origins of Ireland's Containment
Culture and the Carrigan Report (1931)," James M. Smith (Boston College).
Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 13, No. 2 (April 2004):208-33

http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/journals/jhs.html

Subscribing institutions will have access to the journal through Project
Muse...

It seems to be the house style of this journal to not have Abstracts.
Whilst searching around for one I found these web sites - which, if you have
the technology, give you access to James Smith's paper as a public lecture
in audio and video. The picture on the WGBH web page is of Professor James
O'Toole, I think - unless James Smith has aged rapidly...

http://forum.wgbh.org/wgbh/forum.php?lecture_id=1447

http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/smith/

In this article James Smith seems to want to present the evidence from the
past in its own terms. But the ghost of Foucault hovers over this article -
the title speaks of 'containment culture'. And we know that Foucault
figures in one of James Smith's ongoing projects... In every other way the
Article is superbly referenced - and provides a good introduction to the
research literature so far... The release of the archives gives new depth
to the research, of course...

P.O'S.


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We have received the following from James Smith himself.

The journal, The Journal of the History of Sexuality, dos not require an
Abstract. However, the piece was also commissioned for a forthcoming
collection on "Ireland, Medicine and the State," and Jim had to prepare both
a short and long abstract for that.

Both are pasted in below...

Our thanks to Jim Smith.

P.O'S.
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From: James Smith
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To: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Re: article in The Journal of the History of Sexuality

***

"The Politics of Sexual Knowledge: The Origins of Ireland's Containment
Culture and the Carrigan Report (1931)," James M. Smith (Boston College).
Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 13, No. 2 (April 2004):208-33

In this article, I retell the history of the Carrigan Report and the
Criminal Law Amendment Act (1935) to expose the State's willing abdication
of responsibility for matters of sexuality and sexual education to the
Catholic Church. First, the article incorporates into the historical record
an analysis of the minutes of meetings and the files relating to persons and
organizations giving evidence before the Carrigan Committee, released by the
National Archives in September 1999. Second, by focusing on the testimony of
a number of Catholic clerics and Gen. Eoin O'Duffy, I establish how the
discourse of "sexual immorality" marginalized the real-life sexual practice
that resulted in single motherhood and illegitimacy while it simultaneously
elided the pervasive reality of rape, incest, and pedophilia. By suppressing
the compromising realities of sexual abuse within the broader discourse of
"sexual immorality," the politics of abstraction helped constitute a fiction
of Irish cultural purity upon which the national imaginary depended. Third,
the article explores the discursive claims of the Carrigan Report by
examining the testimony of the large number of women who participated in the
committee's proceedings, but whose expertise was conveniently edited out
from the final report and the ensuing deliberations leading to the ultimate
legislation. In this section, I examine the extent to which a subversive
challenge to the Church-state conception of "sexual immorality" was possible
during the early decades of the Free State. Ultimately, I argue, the women's
testimony underscores how political discourses legitimized state practices
of institutionalizing many of its most vulnerable citizens in mother and
baby homes, Magdalen asylums, and Industrial and Reformatory Schools. The
origins of Ireland's containment culture, in short, are rooted in the
Carrigan Report and the Criminal Law Amendment Act.


The Politics of Sexual Knowledge: The Origins of Ireland's Containment
Culture and "The Carrigan Report (1931)"

This article examines the historical contexts of "The Carrigan Report
(1931)" and the subsequent Criminal Law Amendment Act (1935), in light of
recently released archival material. I suggest that the report is best
understood as a formative moment in establishing an official State attitude
towards "sexual immorality," and the subsequent legislation, I argue,
authorized Ireland's containment culture. Examining the Carrigan report and
its political reception in this context underscores how "sexual immorality"
enabled, even as it was perceived to threaten, post-independent Ireland's
national imaginary. Retelling this history exposes the State's willing
abdication of responsibility on matters of sexual knowledge to the Catholic
Church.

The political reception of the Carrigan Report -suppression of the report
followed by a legislative response - reveals how the term "sexual
immorality" depended on perceptions of sexual behavior that were necessarily
disembodied. Consequently, the discourse of "sexual immorality" marginalized
the real-life sexual practice that resulted in single-motherhood and
illegitimacy, while simultaneously eliding the pervasive reality of rape,
incest, and pedophilia. Both the report and the ensuing legislation, in this
sense, demonstrate a significant discursive distortion, and this distortion
was to prove doubly enabling for Ireland's hegemonic partnership. Church and
State deployed representations of "sexual immorality" to effectively
criminalize extra-marital sexual relations. In this way, representations of
"immorality" buttressed their collusive relationship and inscribed moral
purity into the project of national identity formation. Concurrently, in
concealing actual crimes, this distortion neatly collapsed sexual abuse into
the disembodied concept of "sexual immorality." By suppressing the
compromising realities of sexual abuse within the broader discourse of
"sexual immorality," the politics of abstraction helped constitute a fiction
of Irish cultural purity upon which the national imaginary depended.

This essay challenges the discursive claims of the Carrigan Report and
thereby reveals the distortion's inherent instability. By focusing, in part,
on female witnesses who presented testimony before the committee, I examine
the extent to which a subversive challenge to the Church-State conception of
"sexual immorality" was possible at this particular time. This testimony
certainly proposes a different model of social welfare, for example, and
therefore implicitly critiques the State's incapacity to address the social
realities confronting Irish women and children. In the final analysis,
however, the question remains as to whether the women's testimony represents
a moment of potential dissent from hegemonic practice, or whether, as
ultimately seems more likely, the female witnesses were powerless to imagine
an alternative to the regulation, prosecution and incarceration of so-called
aberrant social behavior. In the absence of such overt contestation, the
Report and subsequent legislation licensed the State's abstract, secretive
and punitive response to "sexual immorality." The origins of Ireland's
containment culture, I conclude, are rooted in the Carrigan Report and The
Criminal Law Amendment Act (1935).

_____________
James M. Smith
Assistant Professor
Department of English and Irish Studies Program
Boston College
Connolly House
300 Hammond Street
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
617-552-1596
smithbt[at]bc.edu

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It's that man again - James Rogers...

Early this month Jim Rogers sent a message to Thomas Archdeacon's Irish
Studies list, asking for critiques of Irish Studies.

He brought this message to my attention, asking me to pass it on to the IR-D
list, if I thought fit...

I did think fit. The fit was good. But I get confused when the Irish
Studies folk and we on IR-D discuss the same things - and I thought it best
to let the Irish Studies folk have their say before bringing Jim's message
to the attention of the IR-D list. The Irish Studies list discussion did
provoke a powerful intervention from Desmond Fennell, who drew attention to
his web site
http://www.desmondfennell.com/html/links.htm

I have pasted in below Jim Rogers' original message, plus his summing up of
the debates.

I'll follow on with some of my own notes on this issue.

P.O'S.


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Here's an interesting query that may take our minds off the election ...
this is in from a doctoral candidate at a small midwestern university. Any
leads for him? I believe Denis Donoghue had something in the CHRONICLE a few
years back.

Jim Rogers
New Hibernia Review

"I'm e-mailing you because I am in need of picking the brain of an Irish
Studies scholar. I am currently taking a course in Multiculturalism, and my
professor wants us to do presentations on multiculturalism in the United
States. Luckily. I was able to get the Irish in America. I'm able to find a
lot of works which are pro-Irish studies, but I am wondering if you may be
familiar with any texts which are anti-Irish studies. I'm assuming that
there must be some kind of backlash out there against Irish Studies --
perhaps views that state Irish studies programs are ways for white Americans
to feel ethnic, Irish-Americans are too far removed from the reasons behind
their ancestors' immigration, etc. Our library is quite limited here ...
Fortunately, we now have access to larger state university libraries, but we
need to be specific with author and/or text names. Are you familiar with any
texts with negative views of Irish Studies programs? "


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Thanks to all for the thoughtful responses to the query about critiques of
Irish Studies, which I've dutifully forwarded on to the student.

I am not particularly impressed by the theory that the rise of Irish Studies
was linked to the changing racial and class backgrounds of the academy. A
much more important spur, I suspect, was the outbreak of the Troubles in the
late 1960s.

Nonetheless, I do find one of the most troubling developments -- not in the
Irish Studies community, I hasten to say, but within a certain segment of
Irish America a la the AOH -- is the "our sufferings are just as good as
their sufferings" approach to Irish identity. You know what I'm talking
about: the leprechaun on the Lucky Charms box is a defamation equivalent to
the Jim Crow laws, and
by-God-we-never-needed-any-welfare-handouts-to-make-it-in-America-did-we?...
Perhaps the popularity of unhappy Irish childhood memoirs (Angelas Ashes )
is in some way symptomatic of this mindset; perhaps, too, the Scots-Irish
fantasy theme proposed by James Webb is somehow in there as well.

Jim Rogers

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I flagged this up as an issue in The Irish World Wide by publishing a
chapter by Nessan Danaher...

Irish studies: a historical survey across the Irish diaspora
Nessan Danaher
in Patrick O'Sullivan, ed., The Irish in the New Communities
Volume 2 of The Irish World Wide
Leicester University Press, London & Washington, 1992, 1997

This was one of my lapel-grabbing commissions - I grabbed Nessan (by the
lapels) and made him an offer he could not refuse. Nessan brought into the
research record some interesting themes - like the work of early pioneers
like John Denvir, Francis Fahy. And - maybe at the level of gossip - the
resistance that Irish Studies had encountered at British universities.

But... Irish Studieds has a history. And it is a long history.

There have by now been quite a few critiques of Irish Studies, articles and
chapters. Maybe we could put our minds together and compile a list...

Two that immediately spring to mind are

Why is there no Archaeology in Irish Studies?
Charles Orser
Irish Studies Review
Issue: Volume 8, Number 2 / August 1, 2000
Pages: 157 - 165

The limits of 'Irish Studies': historicism, culturalism, paternalism
Linda Connolly
Irish Studies Review
Issue: Volume 12, Number 2 / August 2004
Pages: 139 - 162

Charles' article is more of a plea for the inclusion of archaeology within
Irish Studies programmes - I don't think it really answers its title
question. What is it about Irish Studies that excludes certain material and
disciplines? Linda Connolly's recent article is more wide-ranging, and
referenced - but oddly selective in its references. Cumulatively giving the
impression that debates about Irish Studies have mostly taken place within
Ireland. I think the very notion of Irish Studies is very undeveloped
within the Republic of Ireland...

Last year I made some notes for a presentation at a BAIS symposium - I think
it right to report that my presentation was greeted with less than
enthusiasm. I think of my own reaction when Cliff the cat brings me a
mangled mouse...

Some of my remarks appeared in my own article in New Hibernia Review - which
might be subtitled 'Why I don't do Irish Studies...'

O'Sullivan, Patrick.
Developing Irish Diaspora Studies: A Personal View
New Hibernia Review
Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 2003

(This article is available as a pdf file for anyone who wants it...)

Here are some more of the mangled mouse notes...

Some thoughts about the history and development of Irish Studies...
The tramlines of the academic disciplines...
The notion of interdisciplinarity...

Some ideas that were floated in The Irish World Wide, but not developed
there. Irish Studies as a phenomenon of the Irish Diaspora...

The literary canon as a problem.

Search for personal history - family history, genealogy. Academia's
problems with.

Research methodologies. The interview...

The conflicts in Northern Ireland, and their shaping of the international
'discourse of Ireland'. The peace dividend.

And the peace penalty? - a decreasing interest in Irish Studies?

Case study of Irish Studies in Leeds?

Generations - the '1950's generation' dying. The new young Ireland.

Contrast 'Irish Studies' in mainland Europe, the 'filologia' tradition, with
'Irish Studies' in the English-speaking countries of settlement.

The generations - the '1950's generation'. The new young Ireland.

List still being added to.

Irish language and the Diaspora? Women and Irish Studies - I think there is
a nest of issues there.
(Further note - Linda Connolly's article in ISR does deal with this...)

People of Irish heritage do not want to know how to perne in a gyre - they
do want to know if they are more likely to be susceptible to coeliac
disease. Unpack this - use IR-D notes.

Academics who eventually look at own background. Richard White, Remembering
Ahanagran.

Politics of Irish Studies.
Woodham-Smith
The Famine in NY and New Jersey
US Congress attack on post-colonial studies, specifically the work of Edward
Said.
Northern Ireland...

P.O'S.


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Dear Paddy,
My ignorance is not worth sharing with the Irish Diaspora list, but,
surprisingly, I'm not familiar with Tom Archdeacon's Irish Studies list.
Can you tell me how to contact and subscribe?
Thanks,
Kerby

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Dear Paddy,
In addition to the topics covered in the cited articles, the following topic
is a perennial
jaw-breaker(!):

"Can there be an Irish Studies Discipline without Irish Language Studies?"

Yours,
Brian

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Donald MacRaild (donald.macraild[at]vuw.ac.nz) has emailed us from his new base
at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand...

To tell us that he has updated his Orange Order bibliography on

http://www.irishdiaspora.net/

'The Orange Order, Militant Protestantism and anti-Catholicism: A
Bibliographical Essay'
by Donald MacRaild

I would call especial attention to the first part of the opening note...

'Note: Donald MacRaild has just completed a book on the Orange Order in the
north of England, partially funded by the Leverhulme Trust funded; it will
appear in 2005 with Liverpool University Press. The Order now has a Lodge of
Education and Research, dedicated to opening up the movement to academic
scrutiny. Donald MacRaild is able to use complete runs of records for about
five lodges in the Tyneside area (Hebburn, Jarrow, Consett). With the
Lodge's permission, after research has been completed, these records will be
made available to researchers.'

I think that Don can report that this Bibliographic Essay on
irishdiaspora.net is one of the most useful, and cited, things he has done.
And when I report on the uses of irishdiaspora.net I always cite Don's
Bibliographic Essay, and the similar works, on Irish Military History, by
Paul V. Walsh, and, The Irish in South America, by Brian McGinn. Just by
making such resources available we have changed the world-wide shape of
Irish Diaspora Studies. Other similar projects are in development.

And of course, because of the web, Don, or anyone, can develop his project
on irishdiaspora.net, from New Zealand, or anywhere...

I should report too that with our new set up at FreshLook hosting we have
buckets (I use a computer geek's technical term), simply buckets of spare
capacity. Anyone who wants to run a similar project on irishdiaspora.net
should contact me to discuss it. I think that Don and Brian can confirm
that the system is very easy to run - you just have to know how to Copy &
Paste...

Paddy


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Dear Paddy and IR-D list members generally,

Just one thing about ease of use ... I think I actually added html code
myself for italicised titles.
I don't know how many out there are au fait with this, but it may be worth
explaining how it is done. (Roy Johnstone once pointed out to me that the
first version was uneasy on the eye because in it the texts sometimes bled
into each other and because the titles weren't immediately obvious.) So,
Senior, Orange Order, becomes Senior Orange Order -- and the rest is
easy enough. If anyone does, indeed, follow your prompt and produce one of
these listings, I'd be happy to help them get the text into
visually-appealing form. And yes, Paddy is right -- I think these essays get
more citation hits than your average article.

One aside: if anyone has recently contacted me via email and hasn't had a
response it is due to gremlins in our new email system not rudeness. So, do
try again!

Don



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Donald MacRaild (donald.macraild[at]vuw.ac.nz) has emailed us from his
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To tell us that he has updated his Orange Order bibliography on

http://www.irishdiaspora.net/

'The Orange Order, Militant Protestantism and anti-Catholicism: A
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by Donald MacRaild

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Roy Foster's review of Diarmaid Ferriter's new book, in The Guardian at the
weekend, was an interesting read - and lnkls with some recent Ir-D
discussion...

P.O'S.

A tale of two halves

Roy Foster acclaims Diarmaid Ferriter's gripping account of the making of
the Celtic Tiger, The Transformation of Ireland

Saturday November 13, 2004
The Guardian

The Transformation of Ireland: 1900-2000 by Diarmaid Ferriter

'Packing houses in the recent Dublin Theatre festival was a satirical
musical by one of Ireland's comic geniuses, Arthur Riordan. Improbable
Frequency deals with neutrality, spies, postmodernism, republicanism and
much else. It opens with a large-scale production number wherein the staff
of the British embassy in Dublin, led by John Betjeman, sing a song called
"Please, Don't Patronise the Irish". Nowadays, few would dare: Irish
achievement is on the front line everywhere, from economics to sport to
music, as the country enters the 21st century on a wave of prosperity and
apparent self-confidence. The achievement of Diarmaid Ferriter's massive new
history is to show just how hard-won this success has been...'

'...If there is one recurring theme, it is class - often thought not to be
applicable to Irish history, an approach which suited various interests.
Thus Charles Haughey in 1987: "Socialism, an alien gospel of class warfare,
envy and strife, is also inherently unIrish and therefore unworthy of a
serious place in the language of Irish political debate." But you did not
have to be a socialist to intuit the complex structures of class
discrimination of Irish life; you just had to grow up in a provincial Irish
town in the mid-20th century. Ferriter has trawled deeply in the memoirs
written by such people, and some of his most penetrating sections concern
the experience of the excluded and rejected - migrants, orphans, and
unmarried mothers...'

Full text at...


http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/history/0,6121,1349819,00.html

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This call for papers will interest some IR-D members, I think...

P.O'S.


From: Bridget Kevane
Call for Papers: Flannery O'Connor and the Religious Dimension in Latino/a
Fiction and/or Autobiography

The Flannery O'Connor Review, in seeking to expand the scope of its
journal, invites scholars to submit articles that address connections
between Flannery O'Connor and Latino/a & Chicano/a writers and their
literature. The Review plans a special feature (Volume 4, June 2006)
focusing on the religious dimension in Latino/a and Chicano/a fiction and
autobiography as it relates to themes present in O'Connor's work. Possible
topics may include but are not restricted to the influence of O'Connor on
Latino & Chicano writers, comparative approaches between O'Connor's work
and that of Latino/a authors, and religious themes (good and evil, sin and
redemption) that emerge in Latino/a Chicano fiction that are predominant
in O'Connor's work. Creative approaches welcome.

The deadline for abstracts is February 28, 2005.
The deadline for accepted completed papers is June 30th, 2005.

Please send inquiries or abstracts to:

Bridget Kevane
Department of Modern Languages & Literatures
Montana State University
Bozeman, MT 59717
umlbk_at_montana.edu
(406) 994-6443

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News that the Republic of Ireland leads the world in a 'quality of life'
survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit has been greeted with astonishment
within Ireland itself - where it has been pointed out that the survey did
not mention escalating house prices, Dublin's urban sprawl, and dangerous
traffic...

But, on the other hand...

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Ireland leads world for quality of life

UK comes 29th in global happiness survey

Owen Bowcott
Thursday November 18, 2004
The Guardian

Ireland is easily the best country in the world to inhabit, according to a
quality of life survey which relegates the United Kingdom to a
second-division ranking.

The ambitious attempt to compare happiness around the world is based on the
principle that wealth is not the only measure of human satisfaction.

The index of 111 states, produced by the Economist Intelligence Unit and
released yesterday, combines data on incomes, health, unemployment, climate,
political stability, job security, gender equality as well as what the
magazine calls "freedom, family and community life".

Displayed on a notional scale of one to 10, rain-washed Ireland emerges with
a gleaming top score of 8.33, well ahead of second-place Switzerland which
manages 8.07.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1353516,00.html

And story covered widely in other places...

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This article is as clear as you are going to get in outlining the =
various
approaches to developing a theory of kingly succession in early medieval
Ireland - it covers Mac Neill, Hogan, Donnchadh =D3 Corr=E1in, Ian =
Whitaker
(usually left out of discussions - he provided the Diaspora twist, by
studying the succession of D=E1l R=EData, in modern-day Scotland), =
Thomas
Charles-Edwards and Bart Jaski. Immo Warntjes supports Jaski - and =
maybe
even manages to convince those among us who suspect that there wasn't =
really
any rule of succession. Nice piece of work.

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Journal of Medieval History
Volume 30, Issue 4 , December 2004, Pages 377-410

Regnal succession in early medieval Ireland

Immo Warntjes
Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change, National
University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

Available online 28 October 2004.

Abstract
Regnal succession in early medieval Ireland has been the centre of =
scholarly
debate for the past eighty-five years. This paper contributes to the =
debate
with an investigation of the early Irishnext term law texts. It is =
argued
that these law texts, especially the tracts on inheritance, reveal a =
certain
pattern of regnal succession, which can be divided into an early and a =
later
phase. Moreover, they allow us to define necessary criteria for =
eligibility
for previous termIrishnext term kingship. The results of this =
examination
are illustrated in the summary by the historical example of the early =
S=EDl
n=C1edo Sl=E1ine.

Keywords: previous termIrishnext term regnal succession; early previous
termIrishnext term law; eligibility for kingship; febas; S=EDl n=C1edo =
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From: Liam Greenslade
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Ah The Economist. The same people who thought Margaret Thatcher was a very
good thing. I wonder what colour the sky is on their home planet. And
before you decide to uproot and settle here I suggest you take a look at
Frank McNally's advice to migrants returning from the US in saturday's Irish
Times.

Ireland is certainly no place to be old sick or poor (unless you happen to
like spending 48 hours on a trolley in a hospital corridor) and with the
smoking ban forcing us onto the streets there'll be a few more people doing
that come January. The suicide rate is at an all time high. This morning a
runaway juggernaut demolished the antique frontage of the Olympia Theatre
and another juggernaut, the Irish Economy, is about to run a motorway
through Tara to make room for more juggernauts. Dublin is now the most
expensive city in Europe and so crowded that standing on the street having a
chat (unless you're a smoker shivering in a pub doorway) has become a
shooting offense. Don't try to buy a house unless you already own one or
earn a salary in the stratosphere and definitely, definitely don't be a
person of colour or speak with a foreign accent (e.g. an English one) if you
want good manners shown. And in the midst of this our Taoiseach is having
delusions of socialism (both Mary Harney and the ghost of Jim Connolly are
splitting their sides at that one).

Sure it's a grand old place and aren't we lucky to be here and not exiled on
some foreign heathen shore.

--
Liam Greenslade
Department of Sociology
Trinity College Dublin

Tel +353 (0)16082621
Mobile +353 (0)87 2847435

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Its just as it always was - for those who are well set up its paradise; for
the rest, its a struggle to survive.

For example, the government today published the Budget Estimates; 'Caring
and Sharing' all round, but fifty per cent of the addition to the education
budget will be swallowed up by increases in teachers' salaries. Likewise in
the Health Service sector. Have a loaf and you'll get a loaf...

Ultan Cowley

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The discussion continues in today's Guardian. The usual journalistic
meanderings - but John Waters, of the Irish Times, pauses to make a
significant point, about what actually is being measured by this survey...
Ireland is aggregating points under 'conflicting headings'...

'Dan O'Brien, an Irish economist, was quoted this week as attributing
Ireland's league-topping position to our having retained "the good parts" of
national godfather Eamon de Valera's vision of a strong community and having
added to it the prosperity that descended, apparently from nowhere, about a
decade ago. Apparently, the Economist found that Ireland, unlike other
wealthy countries, has retained strong "traditional values" rooted in
family, and that, while Ireland is not immune to western lifestyle problems
such as family breakdown and addiction, it is less affected than other
societies. We rank less well, apparently, in areas such as gender equality,
health and climate, but not even the Irish weather was enough to
significantly retard our lead...'

'...The indicators assure us we are better off than ever, but we just don't
feel it. In the Economist survey, you can see the shadow of an explanation
for this national sense of dislocation. In the survey, Ireland can, for
example, pick up points for both "family life" and "gender equality",
although the two concepts appear to be in mutual conflict, one traditional,
the other modern. What is established by Ireland's aggregating points under
conflicting headings, is that the country is now at the optimal point of
balance between two cultures, gaining high points for the moment from its
old values while chalking up increasing scores for its modernising
achievements. This, like the dawn, is a fleeting moment, which soon must
succumb to the reality of the choices already made...'

Extract from...

What's the crack?

An Economist report states that Ireland is the best country in the world to
live in. But what with the nation's gangsters, high suicide rates and debts,
Irish Times columnist John Waters is sceptical. Meanwhile the novelist
Joseph O'Connor looks on the bright side.

John Waters and Joseph O'Connor
Friday November 19, 2004
The Guardian

Full text at...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1354677,00.html

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these items have fallen into our nets, and together give an impression of
the ways in which the words 'Irish' and 'nurse' are combined in various
discourses...

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1.
International Journal of Nursing Practice
Volume 10 Issue 4 Page 145 - August 2004
doi:10.1111/j.1440-172X.2004.00475.x

RESEARCH PAPER
Journeying to professionalism: The case of Irish nursing and midwifery
research
Sarah L Condell1 RGN RM RNT BNS MA

This paper gives a 'discursive' account of the contemporary development of
nursing and midwifery research in the Republic of Ireland in the context of
advancing professionalism. Initially, the paper views the landscape by
placing research in the current framework of Irish nursing and midwifery. It
then examines the map of our present location by documenting a baseline. It
ascertains the signposts that are in place by exploring the strategic
direction for development. Finally, it uses the compass to orienteer the
route through the various obstacles by examining the challenges of the role
of the joint appointee leading the implementation of the national Research
Strategy for Nursing and Midwifery in Ireland.

2.
Title: 'The good nurse': visions and values in images of the nurse
Author(s): Gerard M. Fealy BNS MEd PhD RGN RPN RNT
Source: Journal of Advanced Nursing Volume: 46 Number: 6 Page: 649 --
656
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2004.03056.x
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

Abstract: fealy g.m. (2004) Journal of Advanced Nursing46(6), 649-656
'The good nurse': visions and values in images of the nurse Background.
The various ways in which the nurse has been publicly portrayed do not
merely reflect the value of nursing in society, but also define the
boundaries of nursing, and reveal the ideologies and systems of
power-brokerage at work in shaping nursing. Therefore, it is of profound
interest to the profession to continue to examine the ways in which the
nurse is and has been portrayed. Aim.
This paper aims to present a historical analysis of the image of the nurse
in public discourses in Ireland. Methods.
Using a framework of critical discourse analysis within the method of
historical research, the paper draws on documentary primary sources to
present an analysis of discourse concerning the 'good nurse'. Findings.
In exposing the diverse ways in which the nurse has been depicted in Irish
public discourses, the origins of the 'good nurse' ideal are identified, the
reasons for its continued promotion are critically examined, and the effects
of the ideal on the development of nursing in Ireland are considered.
Conclusions.
While the ways in which Irish nurses have been depicted in public discourses
have similarities with international nursing imagery, the 'good nurse' ideal
has a uniquely Irish expression, indicating that the image of the nurse is
both culture-specific and changes to reflect the underlying sociocultural
context, and prevailing system of political power and influence.
C 2004 Blackwell Science
Keywords: public image; values; discourse analysis; history; Ireland;
nursing

3.
Title: a dialogue with 'global care chain' analysis: nurse migration in the
Irish context
Author(s): Nicola Yeates
Source: Feminist Review Volume: 77 Number: 1 Page: 79 -- 95
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400157
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: This article examines the relationship between globalization, care
and migration, with specific reference to the 'global care chain' concept.
The utility of this concept is explored in the light of its current and
potential contributions to research on the international division of
reproductive labour and transnational care economies. The article asserts
the validity of global care chain analysis but argues that its present
application to migrant domestic care workers must be broadened in order that
its potential may be fully realized. Accordingly, five ways in which the
concept could be more broadly applied are outlined and applications of this
expanded framework are illustrated through a case study of nurse migration
in the Irish context. Finally, the discussion considers future directions
for empirical and theoretical research into global care chains and suggests
various lines of enquiry.Feminist Review (2004) 77, 79-95.
doi:10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400157
C 2004 Palgrave Macmillan

4.
Title: Identifying the Foci of Interest to Nurses in Irish Intellectual
Disability Services
Author(s): Fintan Sheerin
Source: Journal of Learning Disabilities Volume: 8 Number: 2 Page: 159
-- 174
DOI: 10.1177/1469004704042704
Publisher: SAGE Publications

Abstract: The role of nursing in intellectual disability services has not
been constructively debated in the Republic of Ireland. The single report on
such nursing in recent years retained a biomedical bias and was prepared
within the context of staffing shortages. Intellectual disability nursing in
Ireland is at a crucial juncture, with various forces seeking to relegate it
to a postgraduate specialist subject. The specific input of intellectual
disability nursing to the broader profession may be lost, and may be
subsumed within an illness model unrepresentative of the reality of care.
The purpose of this study was to explore this specific input and to identify
foci for nursing intervention within residential intellectual disability
care. This was achieved through a Delphi study; three focus groups held
among Irish intellectual disability nurses working in three service
settings; and personal interviews held with residential service/nurse
managers.
C 2004 Sage Publications
Keywords: intellectual disability; Ireland; residential nursing

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Title: Complications of Interest: Milton, Scotland, Ireland, and National
Identity in 1649
Author(s): Joad Raymond
Source: Review of English Studies Volume: 55 Number: 220 Page: 315 --
345

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Abstract: Milton's first commissioned treatise for the commonwealth,
Articles of Peace Upon all which are added Observations (1649), has
attracted relatively little critical comment and fewer kind words. His
attack on the Irish has been seen as a blueprint for the violence of
Cromwell's reconquest of Ireland. Yet close contextualization in the
politics of the archipelago, comparison among other polemics of this period,
and juxtaposition with his other writings in 1649, suggest that in
Observations Milton's real concerns lie not with the barbaric Irish, but
with Scottish influence on English politics. He expresses misgivings about
the civility of his own people that bring into question his patriotism, and
he articulates anxiety about the stumbling progress of the revolution in
government. The undistinguished work, which Milton never acknowledged,
offers an insight into his republicanism, nationalism, and pragmatism at a
critical moment in his literary career.

C 2004 Oxford University Press

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year 2000 chimes with a number of IR-D members' interests.

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Popular Music (2000), 19:181-199 Cambridge University Press Copyright C 2000
Cambridge University PressResearch Article

Hybridity and national musics: the case of Irish rock music Noel Mclaughlin
and Martin Mcloone

Abstract

Introduction: Irishness and the 'gift of song'

A key element in the range of stereotypes characteristically assigned to the
Irish has been their natural proclivity for music and song, a feature of
colonial discourse that can be traced back even to the Norman invasions of
the twelfth century. However, the powerful link between the Irish and
musicality (along with a host of other, considerably less attractive traits)
was finally consolidated in the Victorian era at the height of the British
imperial project (Curtis 1971; Busteed 1998). Irish music by this stage was
constructed as a specific ethnic category based on the assumption that there
was an identifiably Irish musical style that existed as an expression of the
people, a reflection of their innate feelings and sensibilities. Music,
therefore, became a feature of 'race', taking on properties for the
coloniser that appeared to transcend the passage of time, that remained
fixed and unchanging.
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Popular Music, Volume 19, Issue 02

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Archbishop John Hughes and the New York Schools Controversy of 1840-43

Author: MARTIN MEENAGH

Source: American Nineteenth Century History, Spring 2004, vol. 5, no. 1, pp.
34-65(32)

Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

The New York School controversy of 1840-43 has often been treated as simply
an event in the history of Catholic parochial education with some
ramifications for New York City's antebellum politics. However, a fresh
analysis suggests that it illuminates key themes in Atlantic, American, and
cultural history as well as providing a model of how the Catholic church
responded to sex scandal and media problems by allowing activist bishops and
archbishops to centralize power and to wield community authority. A study of
John Joseph Hughes, first Archbishop of New York during the crisis, also
begins to suggest his importance as an American figure, engaging with
governors, presidents, senators, and mayors. This article revisits the
controversy, details the major events in its development, and seeks to place
it in a context of modern political styles, rhetoric, and Irish-American
assimilation.

Language: Unknown

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/1466465042000222204