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Patterns of alcohol consumption and problems among the Irish in London: A
preliminary comparison of pub drinkers in London and Dublin

Authors: Jim McCambridge; Paul Conlon; Francis Keaney; Shamil Wanigaratne;
John Strang

Source: Addiction Research and Theory, August 2004, vol. 12, no. 4, pp.
373-384(12)

Publisher: Brunner-Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Alcohol-related morbidity and mortality rates among the Irish in England and
Wales are higher than both other ethnic minorities and the general
population. Higher consumption per episode of drinking is responsible for
higher overall mean consumption levels among the Irish. Patterns of
consumption and problems among the Irish were investigated in two samples
recruited in pubs in London and Dublin. Mean weekly alcohol consumption was
found to be higher - by approximately 50% - in the London sample with more
high-risk drinking a result of more frequent drinking patterns. Hazardous
drinking was strongly normative among young Irish people in both London and
Dublin. The distinct Irish style of drinking - greater quantities per
episode - and the English pattern of more frequent drinking combine to
produce elevated risk among the Irish in London. Irish drinking patterns in
general, and the alcohol-related needs of the young Irish in Britain in
particular, require further study to better understand the nature of risk
and to prevent harm.

Keywords: Patterns of alcohol consumption; Morbidity and mortality rates;
Pub drinkers

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/16066350410001713222

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The June 2004 issue of the International Journal of Historical Archaeology
seems to have been an Irish special - with items of interest to members of
the IR-D list.

I am trying to find out more about this special issue.

Meanwhile, I have pasted in below the Table of Contents, plus selected
Abstracts...

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International Journal of Historical Archaeology
Katherine L. Hull
Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, 100 St. George Street,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3G3; hidden.ireland[at]sympatico.ca


Introduction to the Volume
pp. 81-84 Katherine L. Hull

Lest the Lowliest Be Forgotten: Locating the Impoverished in Early Medieval
Ireland
pp. 85-99 James W. Boyle

"A Solitary Place of Retreat": Renaissance Privacy and Irish Architecture
pp. 101-117 Hanneke Ronnes

Masshouses and Meetinghouses: The Archaeology of the Penal Laws in Early
Modern Ireland
pp. 119-132 Colm J. Donnelly

The Politics of the Pipe: Clay Pipes and Tobacco Consumption in Galway,
Ireland
pp. 133-147 Alexandra Hartnett

Symbols, Myth-Making, and Identity: The Red Hand of Ulster in Late
Nineteenth-Century Paterson, New Jersey
pp. 149-164 Stephen A. Brighton


Selected Abstracts...

International Journal of Historical Archaeology
8 (2): 119-132, June 2004
Copyright C 2004 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc.
All rights reserved
Masshouses and Meetinghouses: The Archaeology of the Penal Laws in Early
Modern Ireland

Colm J. Donnelly
Centre for Archaeological Fieldwork, School of Archaeology and
Palaeoecology, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland

Abstract
Archaeology has demonstrated that it can provide added insight into the
study of early modern Ireland, although there has been a notable tendency
for research to concentrate on secular aspects of society. Investigations
into the period, however, would benefit from a greater awareness of
contemporary religion, since this was a factor that played a major role in
political, social, and economic life. An example of this is the introduction
of Penal legislation by the Protestant-dominated Irish parliament in the
early eighteenth century, directed at those whose religious outlook did not
correspond to that of the Established Church.

Keywords
eighteenth-century Ireland, Penal laws, Catholicism, Presbyterianism

Article ID: 490083

International Journal of Historical Archaeology
8 (2): 133-147, June 2004
Copyright C 2004 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc.
All rights reserved
The Politics of the Pipe: Clay Pipes and Tobacco Consumption in Galway,
Ireland

Alexandra Hartnett
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1126 E. 59th Street,
Chicago, Illinois, 60637; a-hartnett[at]uchicago.edu

Abstract
In this paper, clay pipes and the historical record are used to explore the
illicit importation of tobacco in seventeenth-century Galway, Ireland. This
is part of a wider tradition of the politics of smoking, including the
proliferation of the clay pipe, the widespread smuggling of tobacco, and the
overtly political nineteenth-century pipes that touted nationalist emblems.
Here, the juxtaposition of the archaeological and historical records locates
subversive local agency in the face of overarching colonial mandates.
Colonialism, trade, consumption, and identity are linked in an examination
of a merchant community's maneuvers through the expanding Atlantic economy
and the restricted colonial mandates that marked the world around them.

Keywords
clay pipes, Galway, tobacco, consumption

Article ID: 490084

International Journal of Historical Archaeology
8 (2): 149-164, June 2004
Copyright C 2004 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc.
All rights reserved
Symbols, Myth-Making, and Identity: The Red Hand of Ulster in Late
Nineteenth-Century Paterson, New Jersey

Stephen A. Brighton
Department of Archaeology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts;
sbright[at]bu.edu

Abstract
Symbols are manipulated to express social identity and to reaffirm or create
a sense of place. Smoking pipes recovered from late nineteenth-century
privies in the Dublin Section of Paterson, New Jersey, bear the symbol of
the Red Hand of Ulster. Today, the Red Hand of Ulster is ubiquitous on
Unionist murals throughout Northern Ireland symbolizing Northern Irish
Protestant identity. Originally, the Red Hand symbolized the dawn of the
Irish High King of Ulster. In late-nineteenth-century Paterson, it is argued
here, the symbol was embedded in ethnic politics involving the Irish
Diaspora and Irish-American identity developed through the Gaelic revival
and Irish-American organizations and labor unions.

Keywords
symbolism, social identity, diaspora, ethnic politics

Article ID: 490085

C2004 Kluwer. All rights reserved.

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The following item has fallen into our nets...

I do not have access to this journal. So I do not know if Mary Malone
included items of Irish interest in her search for 'a sense of social
identity'. If she did, that would be interesting... If she did not, that
would be interesting too.

Sometimes, I have found, in these developments within the British Empire
there is a tacit conspiracy, 'Don't mention Ireland...'

P.O'S.

Mary Malone's Lessons: A Narrative of Citizenship in Federation Australia

Author: Mark Hearn1

Source: Gender & History, August 2004, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 376-396(21)

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

Between 1886 and 1896 Mary Malone, a young Australian woman of Irish
Catholic background, selected eighty-two articles and fifty-nine poems to
preserve in an old school exercise book. This article argues that the
clippings Mary assembled in her exercise book formed a narrative designed to
secure a sense of social identity as the Australian colonies moved towards
Federation in 1901. The exercise book reflects Mary's meditation on the
stories of the colonial public sphere, a meditation that in turn faciliated
her participation in community, work and as a citizen. Mary's exercise book
reveals the mutual dependence of public and private realms of knowledge and
experience, and the subjective assimilation of public discourse required to
take a place in the social world.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1111/j.0953-5233.2004.00345.x

Affiliations: 1: School of Business, University of Sydney

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Patrick - for information

PR130-04
Tuesday 23 November

Sean Kelly comes to Stirling

President of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), Sean Kelly, will give a
seminar on The GAA and the challenge of soccer and professionalism in
Ireland at the University of Stirling on Thursday 25 November.

The seminar is part of the Department of Sports Studies 'Research Seminars
in Sport Series' and takes place in the Tennis Centre Meeting Room, Gannochy
Sports Centre at 5.30pm.

The organiser of the Seminar is Sports Studies lecturer Dr Joe Bradley who
said: "Many will remember the furore regarding Scottish and Irish football's
bid to host the 2008 European Football Championships.
Although the reason for Scotland's failure lies in both the strength of the
other bids as well as the weakness of the Scottish-Irish attempt, much of
the Scottish media's attention revolved around the problematic nature of the
GAA offering its multi-million pound facilities at Croke Park in Dublin to
enhance the joint effort. The media's portrayal generally focused on the
traditional antagonism of the GAA towards non-gaelic sports, particularly
soccer. This often misunderstood and misrepresented policy of the GAA will
be addressed by Sean Kelly in his talk. The President will also explore the
striking nature of the GAA as an amateur sporting body amidst a sea of
professionalism"

Lesley Pollock
Media Relations Manager
(01786) 467058

For further information:
Dr Joe Bradley
(01786) 466493

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The Journal of the Oxford University History Society is a bi-annual online
peer-reviewed scholarly journal run by postgraduate students under the aegis
of the Oxford University History Society.

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~jouhs/

Its articles are freely available on the web.

The second issue contains an article of interest - available at
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~jouhs/michaelmas2004/maguire02.pdf

Abstract pasted in below...

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Journal of the Oxford University History Society
ISSUE 2
(Michaelmas 2004)


Research Paper

Internment, the IRA and the Lawless Case in Ireland: 1957-61.

John Maguire (University of Limerick)


Abstract

In 1957, in response to the outbreak of an IRA campaign of violence in
Northern Ireland, the Irish government embarked on a policy of interning
suspected republicans without trial. The case of Gerard Lawless, one of the
internees in this affair, is significant, as he was to take a landmark
action against the Irish government to the European Court of Human Rights.
Lawless, a member of an IRA splinter group, was arrested on 11 July 1957, as
he was about to embark for Britain. Represented by Sean MacBride, Lawless
made a habeas corpus application to the Irish High Court on 11 October 1957,
before appealing unsuccessfully to the Supreme Court. Simultaneously,
Lawless had also applied, on 8 November 1957, to the European Commission of
Human Rights. He alleged that the Irish government had violated the European
Convention of Human Rights by detaining him without charge or trial. His
case was deemed admissible and was ultimately heard by the European Court of
Human Rights in 1961. This case was significant because it was the first
case to be heard by the European Court, and the first to be taken by an
individual against a state. Lawless ultimately lost the action, but the
European Court's ruling was a landmark one, laying down important legal
precedents which were to have an effect on Irish domestic law by restricting
the government's right to use internment against illegal organizations in
the future.





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Copyright C John Maguire, 2004.

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Forwarded on behalf of=20
Dr. Laura Izarra
Universidade de S=E3o Paulo

As ever much to interest us in the ABEI...

Note especially two articles on the Irish in South America, one by Juan =
Jos=E9
Delaney on William Bulfin, and the other by Edmundo Murray, developing =
his
=93Gauchos Ingleses=94 approach to diaspora studies.

Our congratulations to Munira Mutran & Laura Izarra, the editors - with
issue number 6 the ABEI is well established, offering always welcome and
thought-provoking contributions to our fields...

P.O'S.


From: Laura Izarra
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Subject: ABEI Journal No. 6


Dear Patrick,

Herewith the content of ABEI Journal, issue No. 6...

Laura
=20
Dr. Laura Izarra
Universidade de S=E3o Paulo
Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ci=EAncias Humanas
lizarra[at]usp.br =20
=20

=20

ABEI JOURNAL - THE BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF IRISH STUDIES, Issue No. 6, June
2004

Munira H. Mutran & Laura P.Z. Izarra (editors)

=20

Contents

Introduction ........... 7

Bloomsday Centenary=20

Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake by Carol Loeb Shloss ................. =
11
John Banville

Thinking about Brazil and Bloomsday
............................................ 19
Colin McCabe

Joyce=92s Ulysses: The Music of Chapter 11 ......................23
Aila de Oliveira Gomes

C=FA Chulainn, Finn, and the Mythic Strands in Ulysses =
.................. 41
Maria Tymoczko

=20

The Critic and Author=20

=93Endless Beginnings=94 in the Criticism of Banville=92s
writings................. 61=20
Laura P. Zuntini de Izarra

Reply to =93Endless Beginnings=94 by Laura P. Zuntini de Izarra =
..............
67
Derek Hand=20


Drama=20

Whistling
Psyche...................................................................=
...
73
Sebastian Barry=20


Fiction=20

=93The Problematics of Authenticity=94: John Banville=92s Shroud =
............. 105
R=FCdiger Imhof

The postmodern folktales of =C9il=EDs N=ED Dhuibhne
.................................. 129
Elke D=92hoker=20

Swift=92s Gentle Yahoo and the Arts in Our Time
............................... 141
Marshall Walker=20


History
The Other Irish Revolution: the Writing of History
............................. 153
David Harkness=20


The Irish in South America
=20
Linguistic and Cultural Aspects of the Irish Settlers in Buenos Aires
as Seen in Tales of the Pampas, by William Bulfin =
..........................
167
Juan Jos=E9 Delaney

How the Irish became =93Gauchos Ingleses=94: Diasporic Models in
Irish-Argentine Literature
................................................................ 179
Edmundo Murray=20

=20

Interview=20

Interview with John Banville
........................................................ 203
Luiz Marcello Bittencourt=20

Interview with Christina
Reid........................................................ 207
M=E1ria Kurdi=20

=20
Books Review
=20
Colm T=F3ib=EDn
.........................................................................=
...
....... 219
R=FCdiger Imhof

The Crooked Cross
...................................................................... =
223
Aurora F. Bernardini

=C1lbum de Retratos
........................................................................ =
227
Carlos Daghlian

Who are you?=94 =93I am Ireland=94 =96 Mise Eire=94 =96 (in the 21st =
century).. 233
Cielo G. Festino

The Art of Lennox Robinson
........................................................... 229
Peter James Harris

The Representation of Ireland/s
...................................................... 237
Luci Collin Lavalle

Going after the Wish for Silence: Understanding Some of Beckett=92s
Voices...............241
Ana Helena Souza=20

=20

President Mary McAleese at the University of S=E3o Paulo (USP)=20
EU enlargement and Ireland=92s experience in the EU, focusing on
the implications for political culture and sense of national identity
...................................................................... =
245

=20

Voices from Brazil=20

Guimar=E3es Rosa=92s poetics and the sert=E3o =
.................................
251
Sandra Guardini T. Vasconcelos

=20

Books
Received.................................................................=
...
.... 261


Remembering=20

In memoriam=20
Haroldo de Campos
...........................................,......................... =
263

Contributors
.........................................................................=
...
.... 267

=20

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The journal, Terrorism and Political Violence, Volume 16, Number 3 / Autumn
2004, is a Northern Ireland special, '10 years after cease fire', edited by
Rachel Monaghan and Peter Shirlow.

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Terrorism and Political Violence
Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
Issue: Volume 16, Number 3 / Autumn 2004

Introduction pp. 397 - 400

Has it made any difference?: the geographical impact of the 1994 cease-fire
in Northern Ireland pp. 401 - 419
Michael Poole

From War to Peace? Changing Patterns of Violence in Northern Ireland,
1990-2003 pp. 420 - 438
Neil Jarman

'An Imperfect Peace': Paramilitary 'Punishments' in Northern Ireland pp.
439 - 461
Rachel Monaghan

'Peace within the Realms of the Possible'? David Trimble, unionist Ideology
and Theatrical Politics pp. 462 - 482
Paul Dixon

The Past in the Present: The Shaping of Identity in Loyalist Ulster pp.
483 - 500
Brian Graham

Turf war and Peace: Loyalist Paramilitaries Since 1994 pp. 501 - 521
Steve Bruce

'Just Fighting to Survive': Loyalist paramilitary politics and the
Progressive Unionist Party pp. 522 - 543
James McAuley

The process of demilitarization and the reversibility of the peace process
in Northern Ireland pp. 544 - 566
Marie Smyth

Attitudes to Community Relations in Northern Ireland: Signs of Optimism in
the Post Cease-Fire Period? pp. 567 - 592
Joanne Hughes and Caitlin Donnelly

Devolution, Governance and the Peace Process pp. 593 - 621
Paul Carmichael and Colin Knox

'The old days are over':1 Irish Republicanism, the peace process and the
discourse of equality pp. 622 - 645
Mark McGovern

Resistance, Transition and Exclusion: Politically Motivated Ex-Prisoners and
Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland pp. 646 - 670
Kieran McEvoy, Peter Shirlow, Karen McElrath

'They haven't gone away, you know'. Irish Republican 'dissidents' and 'armed
struggle' pp. 671 - 693
Jonathan Tonge

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-----Original Message-----
H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by H-Albion[at]h-net.msu.edu (November 2004)

D. W. Hayton. _Ruling Ireland, 1685-1742: Politics, Politicians and
Parties_. Irish Historical Monographs Series. Woodbridge: The Boydell =
Press,
2004. xiv + 304 pp. Notes, manuscript bibliography, index. $75.00 =
(cloth),
ISBN 1-84383-0582.

Reviewed for H-Albion by James Kelly, History Department, St Patrick's
College, Dublin City University

A Masterly Account of Early-Eighteenth-Century Irish Politics

Twenty-five years ago, when, after many decades of neglect,
eighteenth-century Irish political history attracted a new generation of
able research students, David Hayton co-edited (with Thomas Bartlett) a
seminal volume of essays that represented a digest of the most exciting
research currently taking place. Entitled _Penal Era and Golden Age: =
Essays
in Irish History, 1690-1800_ (1979), it has survived the test of time so
well that most of the essays in the volume are still essential reading =
for
students of eighteenth-century Irish history, though much additional new
information and new perspectives have been brought to bear on the =
subjects
addressed in that volume in the mean time. Credit for this new work =
rests
with many scholars, but some of the best work has been completed by the
contributors to the 1979 volume, among whom Hayton deserves especial
mention. Building on the foundations he laid with his definitive =
doctoral
examination of the policies and attitudes of English ministers to =
Ireland
between 1707 and 1716, he has in the interval produced a sequence of =
papers
on a wide range of aspects of domestic Irish politics and Anglo-Irish
relations that have refashioned our understanding of the operation of =
the
Anglo-Irish nexus and the dynamic of domestic Irish politics in the =
period
spanning the late seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries.

The current volume, which comprises eight interlinked chapters, brings
together seven of those papers which have the "government of Ireland"
between the reign of James II and the fall of Robert Walpole as their =
focus;
all have been revised and updated, though in one case the reconstruction =
has
been so extensive that it is in effect a new work. They have been
supplemented by one new chapter--the longest in this collection--which
serves both to link the earlier chapters and to engage with one of the =
major
unresolved questions in the field of political history. In the preface,
Hayton modestly states his hope that the essays in the collection will
provide the reader with "something approaching a coherent account of
political developments in Ireland" (p. vii). This certainly has been
achieved. Indeed, the collection as a whole constitutes a historical =
_tour
de force_, which combines exhaustive primary research with a =
sophisticated
ability to place local events in their Anglo-Irish context. The result =
is
the most persuasive account produced to date of the changing character =
of
the government of Ireland between the accession of James II to the =
throne
and the eclipse of Walpole. This was, as Hayton observes, long an
unfashionable period in Irish history, but it has been analyzed from =
such a
variety of vantage points over the past decade that it can now =
legitimately
be described as one of the most exciting. At first glance, Hayton's =
focus
"on political thought and practice, and the development of English =
policy"
(p. 1) may not seem to possess quite the same appeal as Toby Barnard's
encyclopedic studies of Protestant _mentalit=E9_ or Sean Connolly's =
dissection
of social relations, but this volume is no less stimulating in its =
analysis
of the less fashionable, but undeniably important, realm of high
politics.[1]

One of the main achievements of Hayton's work over many years, and one =
that
this collection highlights, has been his exceptional capacity to locate
Irish events in their wider British context. Born, in the first =
instance,
out of his mastery of British high politics, this quality is amply =
manifest
throughout, beginning with the opening analysis of the "Glorious =
Revolution"
where as well as teasing out the particular trajectory of events and =
their
long term implications for the political and economic influence of the =
main
interests in Ireland, he places them securely on the larger stage that =
was
the focus of James II and William III. This is an important =
consideration,
and one that transcends the so-called "New British History," which seems =
in
any case to have lost its momentum, because the pattern of protestant
politics in Ireland in this era is more comprehensible if it is placed =
in
its wider British and European context.
This is true particularly of the unresolved issues of the impact of the =
rise
of party in Britain upon the same process in Ireland and of the =
implications
of the interaction of British and Irish party personnel. These matters =
have
long withstood definitive explication, and rather than embrace the
traditional explanations that party arrived "suddenly" and fully formed =
with
the whig Earl of Rochester in 1701 or the tory Duke of Ormond in 1703,
Hayton locates its origins in the "tortuous course of Irish politics" =
(p.
94) in the 1690s. Moreover, though it can be detected in embryo in the
crucial 1695 parliament, it was not inevitable that it should come into
being; rather it was the impact of personality (of the Brodrick =
brothers,
most notably), the formation of Anglo-Irish political alliances arising =
out
of differences over forfeitures, the ratification in 1698-9 of the =
Woollen
Act, as well as the early phase of Ormond's viceroyalty that was
cumulatively crucial. This is traced in detail in the book's longest and
only previously unpublished chapter. It is a difficult and demanding
subject, as the author acknowledges, but it is essential reading because =
it
not only provides a convincing answer to a question that has not =
previously
been addressed in a satisfactory manner, it also sets the context for =
what
follows.

What follows is more familiar terrain, as the reader is invited in
successive chapters to follow Hayton through slightly revised versions =
of
his account of the "beginnings" of the undertaker system, his analysis =
of
the party crisis in Ireland during the final years of Queen Anne's =
reign,
and his reconstruction of the efforts of high churchmen to advance their
tory vision in the Irish convocation. Most scholars will be familiar =
with
these essays, but what is striking reading Hayton's seminal account of =
the
beginnings of the undertaker system is that it is more persuasive now =
than
it was when originally published arising out of the elucidation of the
origins of party provided in the earlier chapter. By comparison, the
exploration of the impact of the sacramental test on dissenting politics
sits less comfortably in the volume. This is not a reservation that can =
be
expressed with respect of succeeding chapters, which have as their =
subject
the approach of successive whig ministers between 1714 and 1742 to the
government of Ireland. Guided in their decision making by pragmatism =
rather
than by principle, ministers felt no need either to devise or to =
initiate
bold policies. Their priority as far as Ireland was concerned was to
maintain order, to secure the country from foreign invasion, and to =
ensure
political stability. These seemed most at risk during the late 1710s =
when,
consistent with the shift in Ireland from the politics of party =
attributable
to the disintegration of the tory party following the Hanoverian =
succession
to a "court" versus "country" dynamic (which hastened the emergence of a
strong patriot voice), it seemed for a moment that the executive might =
be
unable to control the legislature. This did not come to pass largely =
because
of developments in the political management of the House of Commons that =
led
ultimately to emergence of "undertakers." This was less straightforward =
than
it might have been because of the regressive impact of domestic British
politics on the selection of lords lieutenant by successive governments, =
not
least that of Robert Walpole. However, the implications of the =
realization
that lords lieutenant required the assistance of powerful Irish figures =
to
ensure the smooth administration of the kingdom, could not be evaded, =
and
the decision of Lord Cartaret to opt for William Conolly paved they way =
not
only for the era of the undertakers but also allowed the British =
government
to adopt the crisis management approach to Ireland that was the norm =
after
1730.

Hayton relates this, and the changes in personnel and style that give =
early
eighteenth-century Irish politics its unique character, with insight and
incisiveness. In keeping with their origins as separate papers, there is
some repetition between chapters in respect of a number of matters, =
though
this rarely has a distracting effect. Indeed, the skill with which the =
many
individuals that populate the pages of this book are drawn equals the =
acuity
of the perspectives offered on political and administrative =
developments.
This is a superbly researched and important work by a master of his =
craft
that amply justifies the author's and the publisher's investment in its
generation. With its publication, it is possible at last to address and =
to
offer convincing answers to many of the outstanding questions regarding =
the
government and administration of Ireland in the late seventeenth and =
early
eighteenth centuries.

Notes

[1]. See, for example, Toby Barnard, _Irish Protestants: Ascents and
Descents, 1641-1779_ (Dublin: Four Courts, 2004); and Sean Connolly,
_Religion, Law and Power: The Making of Protestant Ireland, 1660-1760_
(Oxford, 1992).



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Edward Corp. _A Court in Exile: The Stuarts in France, 1689-1718_. With
contributions by Edward Gregg, Howard Erskine Hill and Geoffrey Scott.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xvi + 386 pp. Illustrations,
notes, bibliography, index. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 0 521 58462 0.

Reviewed for H-Albion by Paul Monod , Department of
History, Middlebury College

The Court over the Water

A few years ago, no sensible member of the profession would have dared use
the designation "court historian." It would have evoked the image of a
reactionary snob chronicling the empty titles of sycophantic aristocrats.
Today, court history is not just acceptable, it is thriving. Court
historians hold conferences and have their own journal. The appearance in
1999 of a beautiful volume of essays entitled _The Princely Courts of
Europe: Ritual, Politics and Culture under the Ancien Regime, 1500 1789_,
brought the latest research in court history to a wide audience.[1]

This is all to the good, but court history still has intellectual problems
to overcome. Most of its practitioners do not like models or theories.
They prefer to study the individual structures and functions of courts,
their rituals, ceremonies, entertainments, and the money that was spent on
it all. Admittedly, the material is fairly intoxicating to any researcher,
but the basic question that has not always been addressed is why courts
mattered. To press the question further: did some courts matter more than
others? And when exactly did they cease to matter: early in the eighteenth
century; during the French Revolution; or as late as 1918?

Courts seem to have mattered because they provided rulers with the
opportunity to express power, both political and cultural. When that power
was lacking, or when princes and monarchs chose to express it in other ways,
the court could quickly lose much of its importance. This suggests that
courts were less institutional than episodic; their political and cultural
significance depended largely on how the ruler was able, or willing, to use
them. It also suggests that the success of courts depended on an audience,
since power has to be projected towards somebody. Unfortunately, in many
cases historians seem to have little idea of who composed that audience,
apart from those who were physically present at the court.

Courts do not seem to have declined in a linear or progressive fashion.
Some of them were rarely of much importance; others had flashes of
brilliance between periods of relative obscurity. In western and central
Europe, however, something seems to have happened to courts in the
eighteenth century that diminished almost everything about them, except
their snob appeal and impact on fashion. Why this occurred is a complicated
problem. The growth of administrative bodies that were not dependent on the
court was one factor; another was the tendency of eighteenth century
monarchs to represent themselves within the setting of the family rather
than among courtiers. Artistic patronage had become more diffuse, and there
were many more public venues in which entertainments were offered to the
elite. It may also be the case that the audience for the court had become
more skeptical about its rituals, due to the spread of enlightened ideas.

In Great Britain, partisan politics appear to have been a main factor in the
decline of the court. Once political groups developed outside the court,
they tended to undermine the effectiveness of the court in projecting its
power, and shifted the focus of politics towards other bodies. The conflict
between Whigs and Tories after 1679 seriously weakened the English court,
and it seems never to have fully recovered.

Edward Corp's fascinating, well written, and thorough examination of the
Stuart court in exile after the Glorious Revolution of 1688 presents a
special case that casts light on many of the issues raised above. Corp is
the majordomo of studies of the later Stuarts at the palace of St. Germain
en Laye. An Englishman who lives and teaches in France, Corp has been
writing on this subject for more than a decade, and he has an unrivaled
knowledge of both French and English sources. In 1992, he edited the
catalog for a major exhibition on the exiled court, held in conjunction with
an international conference. The catalog contained a vast quantity of
previously neglected information on the Stuarts at St. Germain. The book
under review here surpasses the catalog in most respects (except perhaps in
the lavishness of its illustrations, which are fewer and only in black and
white). It contains detailed discussions of the structure and personnel of
the court, its finances, its musical and artistic patronage, its poetic
productions, and its Catholic piety. The history of James III's courts
after 1712, at Bar le Duc, Avignon and Urbino, is briefly considered in
later chapters. Without doubt, _A Court in Exile_ will be the standard work
on the subject for years to come.

Facing the advance of a Dutch army under William of Orange, James II went
into exile in December 1688. Louis XIV obligingly loaned him the palace at
St. Germain en Laye where the French king had spent much of his childhood,
and gave him an annual pension to support his entourage. James brought with
him a surprising number of members of his household, who were soon joined by
other servants and pensioners. By the mid 1690s, about 1000 people were
attached in some way to the court at St. Germain. Although the king's own
household had been reduced to eighty eight individuals, less than one sixth
of its size in England before 1689, it retained its structure. This was a
court with real importance, both politically and culturally. James and his
queen, Mary of Modena, socialized on a regular basis with Louis XIV and
members of the French royal family. Balls were held and operas performed at
St. Germain, which became a center of Italian music and a lively place for
young aristocrats to socialize, especially after the accession of James III
in 1701. The Stuart court inspired the novelist Jane Barker and poets like
Anthony Hamilton and John, Lord Caryll. Everything collapsed, however,
after James III was sent to Bar le Duc in 1712, under the terms of the
Treaty of Utrecht. Although his mother remained at St. Germain with her
household, the wandering Pretender maintained only a diminished retinue,
which grew smaller as he traveled on to Avignon and Urbino. After the
rebellion of 1715, moreover, Tory political leaders became dominant at
James's little court, and began to drive out the Catholics who had remained
loyal to his family for so many years. His English Catholic servants were
gradually replaced by Scots and Irish exiles. This story is told by Corp
clearly and with remarkable documentation.

The book is a collaborative effort, however, which creates some
difficulties. The essay by Edward Gregg on the relations between France,
Rome, and the exiled Stuarts is highly skeptical about the good intentions
of Louis XIV towards James II and his successor. The chapters by Edward
Corp, however, emphasize Louis's deep attachment to his Stuart cousins,
which was based on their shared Catholicism. Corp may carry this
interpretation too far when he assumes that the exile to Bar le Duc was
engineered by Louis XIV in order to keep James III near the Channel ports.
Geoffrey Scott has contributed a very fine chapter on James II's personal
piety, but it would be interesting to know more about the religious
observance of other members of the court. Did Catholicism at St.
Germain remain "English," that is, focused on the household and hostile to
the religious orders, or did it follow James II towards the new Catholic
piety? The excellent chapter by Howard Erskine Hill on poetry at St.
Germain opens up considerable new territory. It might have been paired,
however, with a chapter on the novelist Jane Barker, whose works have
recently gained a great deal of attention from literary scholars.

Nobody who reads this book will continue to think that the court at St.
Germain was impoverished, boring, or full of spies. It remained important,
politically and culturally, because some power still emanated from it. Its
audience is not hard to identify: they were the Jacobite sympathizers of
Great Britain and Ireland, about whom we hear too little in this volume.
They still looked to the court of St. Germain as the household of the king,
_de jure_ if not _de facto_. Without its sympathizers back home, the Stuart
court might have fallen quickly into irrelevance. Like all courts, however,
St. Germain had to keep a distance between itself and its audience in order
to preserve the illusion of royal power. When the Tory politicians arrived
after 1715, they wrecked the exiled court, because they were used to more
partisan ways of projecting authority. Through Edward Corp's beautifully
produced book, however, we can appreciate once again just how impressive St.
Germain was in its heyday.

Note

[1]. John Adamson, ed., _The Princely Courts of Europe: Ritual, Politics
and Culture under the Ancien Regime, 1500 1789_ (London: Weidenfeld &
Nicolson, 1999).



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Julian Hoppit, ed. _Parliaments, Nations and Identities in Britain and
Ireland, 1650-1850_. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003. xii +
255 pp. Notes, index. $74.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-7190-6246-2; $24.95 (paper),
ISBN 0-7190-6247-0.

Reviewed for H-Albion by Jeremy Black, Department of History, University of
Exeter

Based on a colloquium held in London in 2001 following Joanna Innes's Neale
lecture, "Legislating for Three Kingdoms: How the Westminster Parliament
Legislated for England, Scotland and Ireland, 1707-1830," this interesting
book includes, beside the editorial introduction and the lecture by Rosemary
Sweet on "Local Identities and a National Parliament, c.
1688-1835," Grayson Ditchfield on "Church, Parliament and National Identity,
c. 1770-c. 1830," Hoppit on "The Landed Interest and the National Interest,
1660-1800," David Hayton on "Patriots and Legislators: Irishmen and their
Parliaments, c. 1689-1740," Bob Harris on "The Scots, the Westminster
Parliament, and the British State in the Eighteenth Century,"
Peter Jupp on "Government, Parliament and Politics in Ireland, 1801-14,"
David Armitage on "Parliament and International Law in the Eighteenth
Century," Joshua Civin on "Constructing Imperial Identity through Liverpool
Petition Struggles," and Miles Taylor on "Colonial Representation at
Westminster, c. 1800-65." All the essays are of a high quality and several
of them are innovative in topic and/or method. Innes's statistical work is
particularly impressive, while Armitage, Civin, and Taylor valuably advance
the parameters, and Sweet offers an instructive English dimension. She
points out that Parliament had a duty to protect local interests: not
because of any perceived virtue in such interests in themselves, but because
such chartered rights and local liberties were fundamental to the British
constitution as then understood. She suggests that, whatever influence
Benthamite notions of the greatest good for the greatest number may have had
over MPs in the first decades of the nineteenth century, such ideologies had
still to compete with firmly entrenched particularist views of rights and
interests. The latter frequently led to an emphasis on the antiquity and
historical status of individual towns.

Harris argues that Scots fully recognized the importance of having their
interests and views fully represented in Parliament, especially because, in
the first half of the century, the Scottish economy was in a precarious
state. He suggests that this representation, and the ability of the Scots
from the 1720s to shape ministerial policy and parliamentary legislation (at
least on occasion), were factors that helped facilitate Scotland's
integration into the British state. In contrast, Hayton shows that the Irish
parliamentary constitution eventually proved inadequate to bear the weight
of expectations. He notes that the cumbersome method necessary to circumvent
Poynings' Law placed a premium on the time available for legislating and
restricted the number of bills that could be debated and passed. This is
seen as a problem from the mid-eighteenth century, and led some to press for
full independence.

Ditchfield argues that political discourse suggested that the parliamentary
elite still perceived the country as fundamentally Christian, but that this
proved divisive, especially as the increase in non-Anglican numbers led not
to a consensual pluralism but to an aggressive denominationalism and to
parliamentary battles, particularly over education. Hoppit claims that
although the landed interest often claimed to represent and embody the
national interest, its ability to do so was vitiated by its tensions and
contradictions. As editor, he writes that "Superficially, the parliamentary
unification of the British Isles in this period created a unitary state.
What this volume shows is how conditional and uncertain that unity was.
Unification produced a highly complex state which was difficult to use and
hard to imagine as a whole" (p. 11). Maybe so, but the absence of an
international comparative dimension is a major problem with this judgment.
There is a wealth of scholarship on composite states, but this has not been
probed in this volume. This indeed is a major problem with the "discovery"
of the British dimension approach to the history of the period. Aside from
the misguided emphasis on discourse, which it shares with so much
contemporary scholarship, this approach is apt to ignore, or at least
underrate and misunderstand, the European context, a fault that
contemporaries would not have shared. So, this is a good book, containing
important essays, but it suffers from the fault of the dominant school of
British scholarship on the period. As they are the orthodoxy and control the
levers of patronage and power, it is difficult to see this changing.



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for Irish Studies

Conference Organisers: Frank Neal, Jon Tonge & Mervyn Busteed

CALL FOR PAPERS

Irish Protestant Identities

University of Salford
Friday 16 - Sunday 18 September 2005

This multi-disciplinary international conference will examine aspects of
past and present Protestant identities in Ireland, north and south, and in
the Irish diaspora.

Offers of contributions are invited from people with an interest in the
topic working in any part of the humanities, literary disciplines, cultural
studies, social sciences, and any other relevant discipline or from those
involved in activities which have brought them into contact with this topic.
Aspects of historical, contemporary and possible future developments within
the Protestant population of Ireland and amongst Irish migrant populations,
relations with Irish nationalism, the Catholic Church, the United Kingdom,
the Commonwealth and Empire, the E.U. and North America may be covered. The
religious, class, gender and political cleavages within Irish Protestantism
may also be analysed. Offers of contributions which do not quite fit within
any of these parameters will also be sympathetically considered.
Amongst the features of the conference it is intended there will be panel
discussions on 'A Community under Siege' and 'What about the Workers?'

It is intended to publish a selection of papers in a volume of conference
proceedings.

Paper Abstracts (3 copies) not exceeding 300 words should be submitted to
Prof. Frank Neal by January 31 2005

Individuals who have offered papers will receive a response by 1 March 2005

Offers of papers should be sent to
Prof. Frank Neal, European Studies Research Institute, University of
Salford, Salford M5 4WT
frank32[at]tiscali.co.uk

Prof. John Tonge, European Studies Research Institute, University of
Salford, Salford M5 4WT
j.tonge[at]salford.ac.uk

Mervyn Busteed, School of Geography, University of Manchester, Manchester
M13 9PL
mervyn.busteed[at]man.ac.uk

Further details including costs, accommodation, registration forms, guest
speakers and programme will be posted regularly on the website detailed
below

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Some Housekeeping items...

1.
virus activity (a)
November was the cruellest month in Schloss O'Sullivan. We have been
devastated by colds and flu - taking it in turns to look after each other.
Coughing and wheezing, we enter December - trying to get back on track...

Anyone who was expecting a messge or product from me - on its way...

Being forced to take things easy did have some advantages - and I was able
to monitor some recurring problems.

2.
virus activity (b)
Some IR-D members have noticed that we seem to be having a flury of computer
virus activity. It is always difficult to make deductions about these
things. But - from what I have seen - there is not a fit between the actual
IR-D list of email addresses and the virus activity.

One of the email addresses being forged in the FROM line is
irish-diaspora[at]bradford.ac.uk - or variants thereof. Of course, since our
move to Jiscmail earlier this year, that email address is obsolete.

I suspect that there is, somewhere, an infected computer with my email
addresses on it, plus those of some of our network, plus other email
addresses. Looking at those other email addresses I suspect that the
infected computer may be in Ireland, or is the computer of someone with many
academic and media contacts in Ireland.

It is annoying... And I do hope all IR-D members have checked their
computers for viruses, and have some sort of virus protection in place.

Just to remind you... Irish Diaspora list messages will ALWAYS have our tag
[IR-D] at the beginning of the SUBJECT line. And IR-D messages will NEVER
have an attachment.

3.
spam/spam prevention activity
Every solution creates its own problems of course, of course... Most large
organisations and ISPs now have some sort of spam blocking system in place.
Little stand-alones, like irishdiaspora.net, remain vulnerable - but we now
have that under control, I think. For the moment...

But Irish Diaspora list messages remain vulnerable to spam blocking systems.
During November a number of Hotmail accounts took against IR-D messages. We
would receive a stream of error messages from these Hotmail account - first
telling us that IR-D messages have been delayed, then telling us that they
have failed. Obvious solutions, like making IR-D[at]jiscmail.ac.uk one of the
trusted email addresses, did not work. I have reluctantly had to delete
that bunch of Hotmail addresses from the Irish Diaspora list.

Oddly, only some Hotmail addresses - not all Hotmail addresses - caused
these problems. I now run a Hotmail account myself, just to try and
understand the problems. But I don't understand these particular problems.
And I don't think I can promise to spend any more time sorting them out. By
the way, Google's Gmail is much better - if you can get hold of a Gmail
account.

It is not just Hotmail that causes problems, of course. Every now and again
an ISP will decide that one particular IR-D message is spam, and will reject
it. Every now and again an ISP will decide that ALL IR-D messages are spam.
Again, I cannot promise to look into every case in detail - sometimes the
only obvious solution is to delete that problematic email address from the
Irish Diaspora list. As some IR-D members have already found...

So... We stagger on...

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Returning to that issue of the journal, Ethnic and Racial Studies, that
included the extraordinary attack by Steve Bruce and colleagues on the Walls
& Williams study of Irish Catholics in Scotland (and I know that some Ir-D
members have been reading those two articles)...

In the same issue were two discursive articles of interest, one on the
notion of 'diaspora', the other on 'hybridity'...

As friends know I have limited patience with 'meaning of words' approaches
to such issues. At a talk for Brian Lambkin and the UAFP a while ago I
developed an elaborate analogy betwen our use of the concept, 'diaspora',
and the off-side rule in football (soccer).

In some discussions of the use of 'diaspora' I have noticed - I do not put
this strongly - a certain diminishing of the range of references. The
references tend to stay within the core discipline - the sociologists tend
to quote other sociologists who have used the term 'diaspora', the
anthropologists quote anthroplogists. Not theologians or historians of
religion.

Note that Martin Baumann's essay on '...that word "Diaspora" is displayed on
http://www.irishdiaspora.net/
in the DEBATES folder.

P.O'S.

1.
Ethnic and Racial Studies
Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
Issue: Volume 28, Number 1 / January 2005
Pages: 1 - 19
DOI: 10.1080/0141987042000289997

The 'diaspora' diaspora

Rogers Brubaker

Abstract:
As the use of 'diaspora' has proliferated in the last decade, its meaning
has been stretched in various directions. This article traces the dispersion
of the term in semantic, conceptual and disciplinary space; analyses three
core elements that continue to be understood as constitutive of diaspora;
assesses claims made by theorists of diaspora about a radical shift in
perspective and a fundamental change in the social world; and proposes to
treat diaspora not as a bounded entity but as an idiom, stance and claim.

Keywords:

Diaspora, Migration, Ethnicity, Nation-state


2.
Ethnic and Racial Studies
Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
Issue: Volume 28, Number 1 / January 2005
Pages: 79 - 102
DOI: 10.1080/0141987042000280021

Hybridity

John Hutnyk

Abstract:
This exploration of hybridity begins by offering a description of the term
and its uses in divergent and related fields, then a critique of assumptions
(those of purity, of marginality and identity). A discussion of cultural
creativity, syncretism, diffusion, race and biology (the history of
migration, language, culture, and 'blood') leads on to consideration of how
syncretism and hybridity seem to do duty as terms for the management of the
more esoteric cultural aspects of colonialism and the global market. The
argument focuses on cultural creativity - innovation and authenticity,
ownership of cultural forms, and of technological modes of cultural mix
(science fiction film as example) - to underscore how lack of attention to
political and economic difference makes possible celebrations of hybridity
as the fruit of late capitalist globalization. This links hybridity to more
explicit political terminologies and construes hybrid artefacts as
commodities of difference in the context of transition - urbanization,
privatization, trinketization.

Keywords:

Hybridity, Diaspora, Syncretism, Cyborg, Urbanization, Mixture

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IR-D members will be interested in this new book:

Irish Women and Nationalism: Soldiers, New Women and Wicked Hags
edited by Louise Ryan and Margaret Ward,
newly published by Irish Academic Press (Dublin 2004)
ISBN :0-7165-2766-9

If anyone is interested in getting an inspection copy contact the publishers
on info[at]iap.ie or check out the publishers website www.iap.ie

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Jim Rogers has distributed the following outline of the latest issue of
New Hibernia Review, Autumn 2004 (volume 8, number 3)

When the Table of Contents becomes available I will distribute it...

Note that this is a special themed issue of NHR, the first ever - and of
special interest to us, since the theme is neglected works of =
Irish-American
literature. A very welcome intervention...

Our congratulations to the New Hibernia Review team.

P.O'S.

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Subject: [irishstudies] The latest New Hibernia Review


Listers,

Slowly, surely, inevitably, the semester is winding down =96 and with =
it, your
good intentions to catch up on your reading will be put to the test.
Providentially, the latest issue of New Hibernia Review is there to =
help=85

Here=92s what subscribers will shortly be plunging into when the Autumn =
issue
(volume 8, number 3) turns up in their mailbox this week -- or what the
cybersurfers with access to Project Muse=AE will find on their screens:

For the first time in its eight-year history, NHR offers a themed issue; =
the
articles in this issue all treat neglected works of Irish-American
literature. We open, however, with a short memoir from Dr. James Murphy =
of
Villanova. =93Finding Home: Aughkiltubred, 1969,=94 recalls its =
author=92s first
trip to Ireland in the company of his immigrant father. The journey =
began
worriedly; but in the end, the journey that began so uncertainly was
gratifying for all =96 though, as befits a memoir, in unforeseen ways. =


Next, Dr. E. Moore Quinn, a folklorist at the College of Charleston, =
draws
our attention to the 1902 collection St. Patrick=92s Day: Its =
Celebration in
New York and Other American Places, 1737-1845, compiled by John D. =
Crimmins.
In particular, Quinn probes the cultural significance of the many toasts =
of
St. Patrick=92s Day celebrations in that period . =20

Then, Dr. Joanna Brooks (U of Texas-Austin) explores a particular subset =
of
American captivity narratives from the Pennsylvania backcountry in which
Quakers depicted themselves as surrounded by a savage Scots-Irish =
minority.
Examining this little-studied literary genre, Brooks finds that these
narratives reflect the Quakers=92 wish to portray the frontier =
realpolitik to
their own advantage. =20

The Filiocht Nua: New Poetry section is, technically speaking, an =93old
poetry=94 section in this issue, as we offer a suite of works by Louise =
Imogen
Guiney (1861-1920). Associated with the aesthetic revival school of New
England poets that included John Boyle O=92Reilly, John Jeffrey Roche, =
and
other writers at the Catholic Boston Pilot, Guiney looked to the =
Romantics
and earlier for her forms. But she cast her nets wide, and in later life =
was
celebrated for discovering Kahlil Gibran. =20

Henry David Thoreau=92s 1855 essay =93The Shipwreck=94 opens a window on =
Thoreau=92s
particular perceptions of the immigrant Irish. Professor Jack Morgan =
of
the University of Missouri-Rolla notes that the presence of famine
immigrants was an inescapable fact of life in the New England of =
Thoreau=92s
day, and his essay explores the several levels at which the essay =
functions.

Daniel Tobin of Emerson College -- editor of the Book of Irish-American
Poetry from the Eighteenth Century to the Present, due from the =
University
of Notre Dame Press in 2005 -- next considers the career of Dublin-born
Lola Ridge, and especially her 1918 book The Ghetto, written out of her
experience of the Jewish immigrant slums in New York City. =20

The name of Philadephia=92s John T. McIntyre (1871-1951) may not ring =
many
bells today, which, Dr. Ron Ebest of Florrisant Community College =
argues, is
all the more reason that he should now be reconsidered. Over a =
sixty-year
span, the eccentric McIntyre cranked out dozens of books, most without =
the
slightest literary merit. In 1936, however, he produced a masterpiece in
Steps Going Down -- an unprecedented amalgam of urban realism and the
supernatural that Ebest introduces here.=20

Next, Dr Matthew Jockers of Stanford calls our attention to the life and
work of journalist Charles Driscoll and his 1943 autobiography Kansas =
Irish.
Central to Driscoll=92s tale is the figure of his father, Big Flurry =96 =
a
tragicomic figure who may have tamed the land, but who never conquered =
his
own restlessness and dissatisfaction with life. =20

Edwin O=92Connor=92s last novel All in the Family (1966), is usually =
dismissed
as a roman =E0 clef about the Kennedys -- which Dr. Charles Duffy of
Providence College argues is unfair to what is, in fact, a surprisingly
subtle novel that stands apart from O=92Connor=92s other work. =20

From University College Cork, Dr Grace Neville turns her focus on John
Healy=92s Nineteen Acres (1978), a memoir of farming in the 1930s on a =
small
holding near the Mayo-Sligo border. Neville shows that Healy=92s memoir =
is, in
fact saturated with a consciousness of America. =20

Finally, Jack Dunphy=92s autobiographical novel The Murderous =
McLaughlins
(1988) is examined by Dr Mary Bogumil of SIU-Carbondale. Bogumil finds =
it a
thoughtful narrative framed by unspoken tensions between the Old World =
and
the New, and by the clash of the present with an imagined past. =20

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on New Hibernia Review, please contact the address or numbers below.=20
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TOC from IRISH GEOGRAPHY...

Forwarded for information...

Not getting excited about rocks, looking for items of interest to the Irish
Diaspora list...

Maps and chaps...

Note that John Morrissey's article on colonialism and Gaelic Ireland is
freely available as a PDF file on
http://www.ucd.ie/gsi/pdf/37-1/colonial.pdf

Likewise Bryonie Reid's article on place and identity in Northern Ireland...
http://www.ucd.ie/gsi/pdf/37-1/place.pdf

Bryonie begins with a nice quote from Michel de Certeau: 'To walk is to lack
a place...

Though the quote seems incomplete... On purpose? Don't know... Can't
tell.

P.O'S.



IRISH GEOGRAPHY
VOL 37; PART 1; 2004
ISSN 0075-0778

pp. 15-19
Geography in Ireland in transition
Kitchin, R.

pp. 20-36
A summer outbreak of whirlwind phenomena from Dublin Bay to the Shannon
Estuary Tyrrell, J.

pp. 37-59
Windows on a hidden world: urban and social evolution as seen from the mews
McManus, R.

pp. 60-76
Limits of Midlandian glaciation in south-eastern Ireland Hegarty, S.

pp. 77-87
Relict rock glaciers, slope failure deposits, or polygenetic features? A
re-assessment of some Donegal debris landforms Wilson, P.

pp. 88-102
Contours of colonialism: Gaelic Ireland and the early colonial subject
Morrissey, J.

pp. 103-113
Labouring towards the space to belong: place and identity in Northern
Ireland Reid, B.

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New Hibernia Review
Volume 8, Number 3, Autumn 2004
CONTENTS

* Redshaw, Thomas Dillon, 1944- Editors' Notes: N=F3ta=ED na =
nEagarth=F3ir=ED
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* A Monument More Lasting Than Bronze: Eoin McKiernan, 1915-2004
Subjects:
o McKiernan, Eoin.

* Murphy, James. Finding Home: Aughkiltubred, 1969
Subjects:
o Murphy, James.
o Murphy family.

* Quinn, E. Moore. Toasters and Boasters: John D. Crimmins=92s St.
Patrick=92s Day (1902)
Subjects:
o Crimmins, John D. (John Daniel), 1844-1917. St. Patrick's =
day.
o Irish -- United States -- History.
o Toasts -- United States -- History.

* Brooks, Joanna, 1971- Held Captive by the Irish: Quaker Captivity
Narratives in Frontier Pennsylvania
Subjects:
o American literature -- Quaker authors -- History and =
criticism.
o Captivity narratives -- Pennsylvania -- History and =
criticism.
o Scots-Irish in literature.
o Scots-Irish -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century.

* Morgan, Jack, 1939- Thoreau's "The Shipwreck" (1855): Famine
Narratives and the Female Embodiment of Catastrophe
Subjects:
o Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862. Shipwreck.
o Irish in literature.
o Victims of famine in literature.
o Shipwreck victims in literature.
o Gaze in literature.

* Guiney, Louise Imogen, 1861-1920. Fil=EDocht Nua: New Poetry
Subjects:
o Poetry.

* Tobin, Daniel. Modernism, Leftism, and the Spirit: The Poetry of =
Lola
Ridge
Subjects:
o Ridge, Lola, 1883-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation.

* Ebest, Ron, 1956- Uncanny Realist: John T. McIntyre and Steps =
Going
Down (1936)
Subjects:
o McIntyre, John Thomas, 1871-1951. Steps going down.
o Philadelphia (Pa.) -- In literature.

* Jockers, Matthew L. A Window Facing West: Charles Driscoll's =
Kansas
Irish
Subjects:
o Driscoll, Charles B. (Charles Benedict), 1885-1951. Kansas
Irish.
o Irish Americans -- Kansas -- Biography.

* Duffy, Charles F., 1940- Family, Ireland, and Politics in Edwin
O'Connor's All in the Family
Subjects:
o O'Connor, Edwin. All in the family.
o Irish Americans in literature.
o Family in literature.

* Neville, Grace. John Healy's Nineteen Acres: Mayo, America, and
History from Below
Subjects:
o Healy, John, 1930- Nineteen acres.
o Mayo (Ireland : County) -- Social life and customs.
o Irish -- United States -- Social life and customs.

* Bogumil, Mary L., 1955- "Nothing Worse Than a Traveler Who Keeps
Looking Backwards": The Murderous McLaughlins
Subjects:
o Dunphy, Jack. Murderous McLaughlins.
o Irish Americans in literature.

Reviews: L=E9irmheasanna

* Cronin, Nessa. Ireland and Postcolonial Theory (review)
Subjects:
o Carroll, Clare, 1955-, ed. Ireland and postcolonial theory.
o King, Patricia, 1940-, ed.
o Ireland -- Historiography.

* Cliff, Brian. Contexts for Frank McGuinness's Drama (review)
Subjects:
o Lojek, Helen, 1944- Contexts for Frank McGuinness's drama.
o McGuinness, Frank -- Criticism and interpretation.

* Arant, Darby. Reinventing Modern Dublin: Streetscape, Iconography =
and
the Politics of Identity (review)
Subjects:
o Whelan, Yvonne. Reinventing modern Dublin: streetscape,
iconography and the politics of identity.
o Public art -- Political aspects -- Ireland -- Dublin.

* Davenport, John B. Evangelicalism and National Identity in Ulster,
1921-1998 (review)
Subjects:
o Mitchel, Patrick. Evangelicalism and national identity in
Ulster, 1921-1998.
o Evangelicalism -- Northern Ireland -- History -- 20th =
century.

* Sanchez, Shillana. Wild Irish Women: Extraordinary Lives from =
History
(review)
Subjects:
o Broderick, Marian. Wild Irish women: extraordinary lives =
from
history.
o Women -- Ireland -- Biography.

* Lawse, Andrea Comiskey. Maud Gonne's Irish Nationalist Writings
1895-1946 (review)
Subjects:
o Gonne, Maud, 1866-1953. Maud Gonne's Irish Nationalist =
writings
1895-1946.
o Steele, Karen Margaret, 1965-, ed.
o Ireland -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- =
Sources.

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Nuacht Faoi =DAdair: News of Authors

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

From: Rogers, James
JROGERS[at]stthomas.edu
Subject: [irishstudies] The latest New Hibernia Review


Listers,

Slowly, surely, inevitably, the semester is winding down =96 and with =
it, your
good intentions to catch up on your reading will be put to the test.
Providentially, the latest issue of New Hibernia Review is there to =
help=85

Here=92s what subscribers will shortly be plunging into when the Autumn =
issue
(volume 8, number 3) turns up in their mailbox this week -- or what the
cybersurfers with access to Project Muse=AE will find on their screens:

For the first time in its eight-year history, NHR offers a themed issue; =
the
articles in this issue all treat neglected works of Irish-American
literature. We open, however, with a short memoir from Dr. James Murphy =
of
Villanova. =93Finding Home: Aughkiltubred, 1969,=94 recalls its =
author=92s first
trip to Ireland in the company of his immigrant father. The journey =
began
worriedly; but in the end, the journey that began so uncertainly was
gratifying for all =96 though, as befits a memoir, in unforeseen ways. =


Next, Dr. E. Moore Quinn, a folklorist at the College of Charleston, =
draws
our attention to the 1902 collection St. Patrick=92s Day: Its =
Celebration in
New York and Other American Places, 1737-1845, compiled by John D. =
Crimmins.
In particular, Quinn probes the cultural significance of the many toasts =
of
St. Patrick=92s Day celebrations in that period . =20

Then, Dr. Joanna Brooks (U of Texas-Austin) explores a particular subset =
of
American captivity narratives from the Pennsylvania backcountry in which
Quakers depicted themselves as surrounded by a savage Scots-Irish =
minority.
Examining this little-studied literary genre, Brooks finds that these
narratives reflect the Quakers=92 wish to portray the frontier =
realpolitik to
their own advantage. =20

The Filiocht Nua: New Poetry section is, technically speaking, an =93old
poetry=94 section in this issue, as we offer a suite of works by Louise =
Imogen
Guiney (1861-1920). Associated with the aesthetic revival school of New
England poets that included John Boyle O=92Reilly, John Jeffrey Roche, =
and
other writers at the Catholic Boston Pilot, Guiney looked to the =
Romantics
and earlier for her forms. But she cast her nets wide, and in later life =
was
celebrated for discovering Kahlil Gibran. =20

Henry David Thoreau=92s 1855 essay =93The Shipwreck=94 opens a window on =
Thoreau=92s
particular perceptions of the immigrant Irish. Professor Jack Morgan =
of
the University of Missouri-Rolla notes that the presence of famine
immigrants was an inescapable fact of life in the New England of =
Thoreau=92s
day, and his essay explores the several levels at which the essay =
functions.

Daniel Tobin of Emerson College -- editor of the Book of Irish-American
Poetry from the Eighteenth Century to the Present, due from the =
University
of Notre Dame Press in 2005 -- next considers the career of Dublin-born
Lola Ridge, and especially her 1918 book The Ghetto, written out of her
experience of the Jewish immigrant slums in New York City. =20

The name of Philadephia=92s John T. McIntyre (1871-1951) may not ring =
many
bells today, which, Dr. Ron Ebest of Florrisant Community College =
argues, is
all the more reason that he should now be reconsidered. Over a =
sixty-year
span, the eccentric McIntyre cranked out dozens of books, most without =
the
slightest literary merit. In 1936, however, he produced a masterpiece in
Steps Going Down -- an unprecedented amalgam of urban realism and the
supernatural that Ebest introduces here.=20

Next, Dr Matthew Jockers of Stanford calls our attention to the life and
work of journalist Charles Driscoll and his 1943 autobiography Kansas =
Irish.
Central to Driscoll=92s tale is the figure of his father, Big Flurry =96 =
a
tragicomic figure who may have tamed the land, but who never conquered =
his
own restlessness and dissatisfaction with life. =20

Edwin O=92Connor=92s last novel All in the Family (1966), is usually =
dismissed
as a roman =E0 clef about the Kennedys -- which Dr. Charles Duffy of
Providence College argues is unfair to what is, in fact, a surprisingly
subtle novel that stands apart from O=92Connor=92s other work. =20

From University College Cork, Dr Grace Neville turns her focus on John
Healy=92s Nineteen Acres (1978), a memoir of farming in the 1930s on a =
small
holding near the Mayo-Sligo border. Neville shows that Healy=92s memoir =
is, in
fact saturated with a consciousness of America. =20

Finally, Jack Dunphy=92s autobiographical novel The Murderous =
McLaughlins
(1988) is examined by Dr Mary Bogumil of SIU-Carbondale. Bogumil finds =
it a
thoughtful narrative framed by unspoken tensions between the Old World =
and
the New, and by the clash of the present with an imagined past. =20

For subscription information, contributor guidelines, and other =
information
on New Hibernia Review, please contact the address or numbers below.=20
=20

Jim Rogers

UST Center for Irish Studies

NEW HIBERNIA REVIEW

University of St Thomas #5008

2115 Summit Avenue

St Paul MN 55105-1096

(651) 962-5662

jrogers[at]stthomas.edu

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The following item has been brought to our attention by a colleague in =
the
USA. Evidently this article is being circulated there...

P.O'S.

The concrete isle

Ireland has become rich. It has also surrendered itself to motorways,
shopping malls, and urban sprawl, stripping peat bogs, demolishing =
monuments
along the way. Mark Lynas reports on one of the world's worst polluters

Saturday December 4, 2004
The Guardian

Ireland is used to violent change. Over the centuries, scores of armies =
of
conquest, from the Danish hordes to Oliver Cromwell, have left their =
brutal
mark on this soft and beautiful land. Today Ireland is threatened again. =
But
this time no armies are massing on its border, nor are foreign fleets
preparing to invade. This threat is an internal one. It comes from home.

Forget what you've seen in the tourist brochures. Do not be deceived by =
the
glossy pages of mist-wreathed mountain vistas, wild open bogland and
friendly, brightly painted little towns. Many of these are stock =
publicity
photographs, already several years old. Today's reality is altogether
different. If you want a tamed landscape dotted with off-the-shelf
mock-Georgian houses, congested with nose-to-tail traffic and suffused =
by an
ugly suburban sprawl, then c=E9ad mile f=E1ilte - welcome to Ireland. =
This is
the land of the bulldozer, where Tarmac, churned-up mud and shopping =
malls
are as likely to greet the visitor as historic castles and windswept =
bays.
This land has been mauled by the Celtic Tiger, chewed up by double-digit
economic growth - and what's left is barely recognisable.

Let's start by opening up a recent map of the republic. Have a look at =
the
miles and miles of dotted blue lines that radiate out from Dublin. They =
are
proposed motorways - 900km of them in total, giving Ireland the biggest
roadbuilding programme in Europe. =801.2bn is sunk into new roads every =
single
year, far more than the government spends on public transport. These are =
not
widening schemes or road improvements but new motorways that will plough
their way through field and forest, hill and dale, bringing the roar of
traffic to parts of the country more used to the chatter of birdsong.

And too bad if anything gets in the bulldozers' way...

Full text at...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,1364782,00.html


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1.
From the University of Otago Web site...

http://www.otago.ac.nz/alumni/advancement/eamon_cleary_chair.html


The Eamon Cleary Chair in Irish Studies
Supported by Mr Eamon Cleary
Professor David Skegg announces the Eamon Cleary Chair in Irish Studies

Established through the University=92s Leading Thinkers Advancement =
programme,
the Eamon Cleary Chair will enable the University of Otago to provide
national leadership in the area of Irish Studies. This Chair will be an
integrated multi-disciplinary programme drawing upon existing expertise =
in
Irish literature, Celtic spirituality, economic history, Irish music, =
and
recognised strengths in studies of community, cultural diversity,
anthropology and issues of national identity.

The last two decades have seen a major resurgence of interest in Irish
culture throughout the Western world, including New Zealand. This =
interest
has been spurred by elements of political and economic devolution in
Ireland, together with a renaissance of Irish culture.

The more recent economic rejuvenation of Ireland, adds a dimension that =
is
of particular relevance to New Zealand and which, indeed, has attracted =
the
attention of the New Zealand government. Ireland=92s recent success as a =
small
resource-based island in a globalised era has particular resonance in =
this
context.

Issues which are fundamental to Irish Studies have a significance beyond =
the
academic world since they raise problems of social exclusion and =
poverty,
community relations, integration and social citizenship, political
independence and devolution, race and inter-culturalism, national =
identity
and the significance to home and host nations of waves of
emigration/immigration. The introduction of Irish Studies will thus be =
able
to focus academic attention on a range of issues that will have =
implications
for and relevance to the future development of New Zealand=92s society =
and its
economy.

Otago has existing networks with Ireland including ongoing collaborative
projects and will further formal linkages with Irish universities will =
be
stimulated by the Chair. It is planned that provision for students to =
study
Irish Gaelic will be made in the form of in-country study through an
exchange agreement with University College Dublin.

Contact

Professor Alistair Fox
Assistant Vice-Chancellor, Humanities
Tel 64 03 479 8672
Email avc.humanities[at]stonebow.otago.ac.nz


2.
From THE IRISH EMIGRANT
Editor: Liam Ferrie - December 6, 2004 - Issue No.931


Irish businessman funds Irish Studies Chair in New Zealand

New Zealand-based Irish businessman =C9amon Cleary is funding the =
=C9amon Cleary
Chair in Irish Studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin. Students =
will
be offered an integrated multi-disciplinary programme drawing upon =
existing
expertise in Irish literature, Celtic spirituality, economic history, =
Irish
music, community, cultural diversity, anthropology and issues of =
national
identity. =C9amon Cleary was born near Ballybay, Co. Monaghan, and =
started a
number of successful companies here. In 1991 he sold his agricultural =
supply
businesses and later moved to New Zealand. He now has substantial =
business
interests in agriculture and property in both the North and South =
Islands
and also has extensive investments in Australia, Eastern Europe and =
Ireland.
His latest ventures are in Argentina and Chile where he is developing
agricultural and telecommunications businesses. He is a regular visitor =
to
this country.=20

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P.O'S.


From the Irish Emigrant web site....

International emigrant aid workers in Dublin for 'historic' meeting

By Noreen Bowden

Ireland's Emigrant Advice Network gathered its members together in =
Dublin
last week for a ground-breaking meeting that drew emigrant advocates =
from
Ireland, Britain, the US, Australia and Germany. It was, as =C9AN =
Chairman and
Director of the Catholic Bishop's Emigrant Agency Father Allan Hilliard =
told
the group, "a tremendous occasion, and an historic one". He explained, =
"It
was the first time people who work with the Irish abroad have met in the =
one
place. Isn't that a tremendous occasion? - and isn't it sad it didn't =
happen
until now?"

The event, held on November 30 and December 1 at All Hallows College in
Drumcondra, attracted over seventy participants, most of whom are =
involved
in the direct support of Irish emigrants. Funded by the Department of
Foreign Affairs, the conference was the latest in a series of moves that
signal a new commitment by the Irish government to ensuring the welfare =
of
the Irish abroad. Ireland has been criticised in the past for offering =
too
little assistance to its most vulnerable citizens abroad, but this is
changing, say emigrant advocates.

The most significant development of the past year has been the =
establishment
of the new Irish Abroad Unit, headed by S=E9an Farrell, who attended the
conference with colleague S=EDle Maguire. The three-person unit has been
warmly welcomed by emigrant advocates, who view the unit as a valuable
direct channel to the Government. Fr Hilliard said, "We in Ireland - =
while
in the past having no formal structure under which we could apply for
funding - now look forward to working closely with the new Unit for the
Irish Abroad in order to develop a healthy and insightful structure =
which
should allow us to walk with confidence into the future.=20

Full text at...

http://www.emigrant.ie/article.asp?iCategoryID=3D456&iArticleID=3D38246