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Endowed Chair/Catholic Studies
California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA

The Department of Religious Studies at the University of California at Santa
Barbara invites applications and nominations for a distinguished senior
scholar and teacher to fill an endowed chair that currently is being
established in the field of Catholic studies. The chair holder will have the
opportunity to develop undergraduate and graduate curricula in a department
that values interdisciplinary and comparative approaches and to do some
public and community programming. Submit statement of scholarly interests
and plans along with a c.v., a significant publication, and three letters of
recommendation to Chair, Catholic Studies Search Committee, Dept. of
Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106. To
ensure full consideration, please submit materials by January 7, 2005;
position open until filled. See www.religion.ucsb.edu. The department is
especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and
excellence of the academic community through research, teaching, and
service. The University of California is an AA/EOE.

Application deadline: January 07, 2005
Related URL 1: http://www.religion.ucsb.edu

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Booming Ireland sees population swell to 130-year high

Mon Dec 6, 9:40 AM ET

Top Stories - Chicago Tribune

By Tom Hundley Tribune foreign correspondent

Ireland's population has climbed above the 4 million mark for the first time
since the 19th Century, when famine and widespread economic hardship
triggered a vast wave of immigration to the United States.

According to newly released figures from the Irish government's Central
Statistics Office, Ireland's population stands at 4.04 million, the highest
figure since 1871, when the census reported a population of 4.05 million in
the 26 counties that make up the Republic of Ireland.

Full text at...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2027&ncid=2027&e=5&u=/chitri
bts/20041206/ts_chicagotrib/boomingirelandseespopulationswellto130yearhigh

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This is the time of year when we note - and maybe even celebrate - the
anniversary of the starting of the Irish Diaspora list.

After a few test messages my first formal message to the IR-D list referred
to the planetary alignment of December 1997 - then visible from our front
door and the front attic window...

We now have over 7 years of Irish Diaspora list discussion stored in our
database, codename DIRDA, now pretty secure in the Special Access area of
www.irishdiaspora.net, and backed up in various places...

The past year saw the move of www.irishdiaspora.net to a commercial host,
Fresh Look Hosting http://www.freshlookhosting.com/ - which looks stable,
and where irishdiaspora.net has plenty of room to expand. Do note that we
do have to find a sum of money each year to pay for this commercial service
- but it's not a huge sum of money.

As ever, I must thank Dr. Stephen Sobol and his colleagues for help with the
technical background to the web site.
See...
http://www.sobolstones.com/
If you look at the DMASC section you will see some of the ways in which we,
in turn, have been useful to Spehen Sobol...
http://www.dmasc.com/

During the past year, also, we finally abandoned the list software
Majordomo, at the University of Bradford, and successfully moved the day to
day management of the Irish Diaspora list to Listserv, at Jiscmail...
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/

For background see...
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/

IR-D list members can manage their own membership through the Jiscmail web
page, or through email instructions. Jiscmail now automatically creates its
own Irish Diaspora list archive, accessible to members - so recent IR-D
messages are stored there, as well as in DIRDA at irishdiaspora.net. I tend
to use the DIRDA database when I need a 7 year overview of discussion about
a theme or topic.

Do note that, with our own stable set-ups at at www.irishdiaspora.net and at
Jiscmail, volunteers from any part of the world can be involved in the
running of the Irish Diaspora list and our web site.

I am always happy to receive offers of help... Happy, happy, happy...

Paddy O'Sullivan


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My usual reminder... Please do not create problems for us over the holiday
period...

Remember that you can easily manage your membership of IR-D via the Jiscmail
Web interface.

Jiscmail knows you by your email address.

For those wanting to use the Web interface...

Go to...

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/

On the left hand side you can click on
Register Password
And go to the Register Password screen.

Follow the instructions there. Put in your email address, the email address
by which you are known to the IR-D list.
Choose your Password

Your chosen Password is then confirmed by email in the usual way.

When you have registered your Password and received confirmation by email
you can go BACK to Jiscmail's web site, and, again on the left hand side,
you can click on Subscriber's Corner and get to a new screen. There, using
your email address and your Password, you can enter your Subscriber's
Corner, and set up various IR-D list options...

You can suspend your membership for a time, and so on...

Such changes can also be done by email - see the instructions in the
Jiscmail Welcome email...

P.O'S.

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Women's Studies International Forum
Copyright =A9 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved

Volume 27, Issue 4, Pages 293-429 (October-November 2004)

Representing Migrant Women in Ireland and the E.U.
Edited by Ronit Lentin, Eithne Luibheid
=09
=09
1. =09
Editorial Board =95 EDITORIAL BOARD

2. =09
Introduction =95 EDITORIAL
Eithne Luibh=E9id and Ronit Lentin

3. =09
Strangers and strollers: feminist notes on researching migrant
m/others =95 ARTICLE
Pages 301-314
Ronit Lentin

4. =09
=91I remember when years ago in Italy=92: Nine Italian women in Dublin
tell the diaspora =95 ARTICLE
Pages 315-334
Carla De Tona

5. =09
Childbearing against the state? Asylum seeker women in the Irish
republic =95 ARTICLE
Pages 335-349
Eithne Luibh=E9id

6.
Responses by health care providers in Ireland to the experiences of
women refugees who have survived gender- and ethnic-based torture =95 =
ARTICLE
Pages 351-367
Inbal Sansani

7. =09
Irish women in the diaspora: Exclusions and inclusions =95 ARTICLE
Pages 369-384
Bronwen Walter

8. =09
Irish and white-ish mixed =93race=94 identity and the scopic regime of
whiteness =95 ARTICLE
Pages 385-396
Angeline D. Morrison

9. =09
Recasting =91Black Venus=92 in the new African Diaspora =95 ARTICLE
Pages 397-412
Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe

10. =09
Remembering a 'multicultural' future through a history of
emigration: Towards a feminist politics of solidarity across difference =
=95
ARTICLE
Pages 413-429
Breda Gray

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American Journal Of Public Health
Volume 94, Issue 12 , December 2004, Pages 2162-2169
ISSN: 0090-0036

MEDLINER
Hurling alone? How social capital failed to save the Irish from
cardiovascular disease in the United States

Kelleher, C Cecily; Lynch, John; Harper, Sam; Tay, Joseph B; Nolan,
Geraldine

Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine, Earlsfort Terr,
University College Dublin, Dublin 2, Republic of Ireland; e-mail
cecily.kelleher[at]ucd.ie.

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: We performed a historical review of cardiovascular risk profiles
of previous termIrishnext term immigrants to the United States, 1850-1970,
in regard to lifestyle, socio-economic circumstances, and social capital.
METHODS: We analyzed US Census data from 1850-1970, area-based social and
epidemiological data from Boston, data from Ireland's National Nutrition
Surveillance Centre, and literature on previous termIrishnext term
migration. RESULTS: The Irish were consistently at increased risk of
cardiovascular diseases, a risk that related initially to material
deprivation, across the life course of at least 2 generations. CONCLUSIONS:
The principal difference between the Irish and other disadvantaged immigrant
groups, such as the Italians, was dietary habits influenced by experiences
during the Irish famine. Although there was a psychosocial component to the
disadvantage and discrimination they experienced as an ethnic group, the
Irish also exhibited strong community networks and support structures that
might have been expected to counteract discrimination's negative effects.
However, the Irish high levels of social capital were not protective for
cardiovascular disease. [Journal Article; In English; United States]

Citation Subset Indicators: Core clinical journal; Health administration
journal; Index Medicus

American Journal Of Public Health
Volume 94, Issue 12 , December 2004, Pages 2162-2169
ISSN: 0090-0036

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Studies In History and Philosophy of Science Part A
Volume 35, Issue 4 , December 2004, Pages 729-758

Copyright C 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

'Physics and fashion': John Tyndall and his audiences in mid-Victorian
Britain

Jill Howard

Corresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author

54 Rushmore Drive, Sandringham Gardens, Widnes, Cheshire WA8 9QB, UK

Received 30 June 2003. Available online 17 November 2004.


Abstract

This paper explores how the physicist John Tyndall transformed himself from
humble surveyor and schoolmaster into an internationally applauded icon of
science. Beginning with his appointment as Professor of Natural Philosophy
at the Royal Institution in 1853, I show how Tyndall's worries about his
social class and Irish origins, his painstaking attention to his lecturing
performance and skilled use of the material and architectural resources of
the Royal Institution were vital to his eventual success as a popular
expositor and ambassador for science. Secondly I explore the implications of
Tyndall's 'popularity' with respect to debates over the meaning and value of
scientific 'popularisation'. In support of recent work challenging
diffusionist models of science communication, I show how Tyndall's
interactions with his audiences illustrate the symbiotic relationship
between producer and consumer of 'popular' science. By examining the views
of Tyndall's critics-notably the 'North British' group of physicists-and his
defenders and rivals in the domain of popular scientific lecturing, I show
that disputes over Tyndall's authority reflected anxieties about what
constituted popular science and the transient boundaries between instruction
and entertainment. The term 'popularisation' enjoyed many different uses in
these debates, not least of all as a rheorical device with which to either
exalt or destroy a scientist's credibility.

Author Keywords: John Tyndall; Audiences; Popularisation; Popular; Physics;
Royal Institution

Article Outline

1. Introduction
2. The rocky road to fame
3. The importance of space
4. Audiences
5. Self-criticism
6. Competition and boundary-work
7. Ideals of scientific lecturing
8. Tyndall and his scientific critics
9. A danger or an inspiration?
10. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Further Reading

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Note that this Article is flagged as 'Article in Press, Corrected Proof' -
and has not yet been assigned to a specific issue of WSIF.

P.O'S.


Women's Studies International Forum
Article in Press, Corrected Proof - Note to users


Copyright C 2004 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.

The Cuala Press: Women, publishing, and the conflicted genealogies of
'feminist publishing'

Simone Murray

E-mail The Corresponding Author, E-mail The Corresponding Author

School of English, Media Studies and Art History, University of Queensland,
Brisbane Qld 4072, Australia

Available online 1 December 2004.


Synopsis

The Cuala Press, a fine art press run by Elizabeth Yeats around Dublin
during the first half of the twentieth century, has long been recognised
amongst scholars of Irish literature and history. But the press has been
analysed almost exclusively through the interpretative lenses of poet W.B.
Yeats, the Yeats family, and the Irish Renaissance. The article challenges
such received understandings of Cuala by considering the press as a gendered
publishing enterprise: one run by a woman, employing only women, and
designed to create work and economic independence for previous termIrishnext
term working girls. Through examining the origins of Cuala, the locus of
editorial power within the press, and Cuala's complexly ambivalent
relationship with modernist previous termIrishnext term suffrage and
nationalist women's networks, the article situates the post-1970 feminist
publishing boom within a historical trajectory. It suggests that scholarly
knowledge of women's publishing history may be crucially dependent upon the
health of contemporary feminist presses.

Article Outline

'Willy did all that': when is a women's press a Feminist Press?
'Work for Irish hands in the making of beautiful things': the origins and
purpose of Dun Emer

'Your hands will always be covered with Ink': women and the printing trades

The power to publish: editorial Autonomy and familial conflict
'Aught women may do': culture, politics, and irish feminism

Contingent sympathy: Cuala and the battle for Irish womanhood

Conclusion: the implications of revivalism
Further Reading
References

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For information...

From the University of Melbourne web site...

http://www.history.unimelb.edu.au/dept_hist/scholarships.html

P.O'S.


1.
Gerry Higgins Postgraduate Scholarship in Irish Studies

Applications are invited from suitably qualified persons for a PhD
scholarship on an aspect of THE HISTORY OF IRELAND OR OF THE IRISH DIASPORA.

Topics on all periods and areas of Irish history and all countries of the
Irish Diaspora will be considered.

The scholarship, which carries a current stipend of AUS$23,886 p.a., is
available for three years, from a date to be negotiated in early 2005.

The successful applicant must have a good honours degree in History, or a
related discipline, and meet the entry requirements for PhD study in the
Department of History at the University of Melbourne (see
http://www.history.unimelb.edu.au for details).

A letter of application, with 1) a curriculum vitae, 2) the names and
addresses of two referees, 3) a detailed research proposal, and 4) a sample
of academic writing (at least 3,000 words in length) should be sent to:
Professor Elizabeth Malcolm, Gerry Higgins Chair of Irish Studies,
Department of History, University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3010, Australia,

by Friday, 14 January 2004.

Further information can be obtained from Professor Elizabeth Malcolm:
e.malcolm[at]unimelb.edu.au; phone +61-3-8344 3924; fax +61-3-8344 7894



2.
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL funded PhD scholarship

GENDER, VIOLENCE AND THE IRISH IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AUSTRALIA

Applications are invited from suitably qualified persons for an Australian
Research Council funded PhD scholarship on the above topic to commence in
early 2005.

This scholarship arises from an ARC Discovery Grant awarded to Professor
Elizabeth Malcolm and Dr Dianne Hall, entitled 'Scalded Memory: Gender,
Violence and the Irish, 1169-1921'. Combining analysis of gender and
violence, the project aims to research changes in types and meanings of
violence both in Ireland and among the Irish abroad.

As a member of the research team, the PhD student will examine an aspect of
gender, violence and the Irish in nineteenth-century Australia.

The scholarship is available for three years, from a date to be negotiated
in early 2005, and will be pegged to the ARC's Postgraduate Scholar Stipend
(currently AUS$23,886 p.a.).

The successful applicant must have a good honours degree in History, or
another relevant discipline, and meet the entry requirements for PhD study
in the Department of History at the University of Melbourne (see
http://www.history.unimelb.edu.au for details).

A letter of application, with 1) a curriculum vitae, 2) the names and
addresses of two referees, 3) a detailed research proposal and 4) a sample
of academic writing (at least 3,000 words in length), should be submitted
to:
Professor Elizabeth Malcolm, Department of History, University of Melbourne,
Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia,

by Friday, 14 January 2005.

Further information can be obtained from Professor Elizabeth Malcolm:
e.malcolm[at]unimelb.edu.au, ph. +61-3-8344 3924; or Dr Dianne Hall:
dhall[at]unimelb.edu.au, ph. +61-3-8344 5971

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Time for my usual Database update and Password change message...

It is possible to consult 7 years of Irish Diaspora list discussion and
references in our archives...

For access to the RESTRICTED area of irishdiaspora.net...

Go to
Irish Diaspora Net Archive http://www.irishdiaspora.net

Click on Special Access, at the top of the screen.

Username irdmember
Current Password heenan

This password is changed regularly.

That gets you into our RESTRICTED area.

Click on RESTRICTED, and you have access to our two databases...

DIRDA - the Database of the Ir-D Archive...
DIDI - the Database of Irish-Diaspora Interests

Click on DIRDA and search or browse...

Log out by clicking on the small irishdiaspora.net words at the top of the
screen.

Note that for these facilities to work your web browser must have cookies
enabled.

Further notes...

1.
People who are using the Username guest will need to contact me directly,
for that password too has changed.

2.
DIRDA, the Database of the Ir-D Archive does seem a bit slow to upload - we
are looking into reasons for this. It does now contain a lot of stuff. 7
years...

3.
DIDI, the Database of Irish-Diaspora Interests, is an IR-D members only
facility.

The tradition of the Irish-Diaspora list is that new members do NOT post to
the list messages about projects and interests. This is partly because of
the way we grew, from a core group who knew each others work. And partly
because, in my experience, it is the people who send the most fulsome and
enthusiastic greetings who drop out in disgust within a few weeks.

IR-D members who want to place an entry in the DIDI database, or who want to
update their entries, should contact me at Patrick O'Sullivan
I will then make sure that DIDI knows your
current email address, and I will send you the DIDI user instructions.

P.O'S.

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Dear Paddy,

Thank you for circulating the ads for the 2 PhD scholarships that are being
offered here. I'd welcome applications or inquiries.

But there's just one small error in the ad for the first scholarship.
It's pretty obvious: the closing date for applications is 14 January
2005 - not 2004!

If anyone is interested and has questions, please do contact me separately.

Elizabeth
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Professor Elizabeth Malcolm
Gerry Higgins Professor of Irish Studies

Department of History
University of Melbourne
Parkville, Victoria, 3010
AUSTRALIA

Telephone: +61-3-8344 3924
Fax: +61-3-8344 7894
Email: e.malcolm[at]unimelb.edu.au

Chair of Irish Studies Website:
http://www.history.unimelb.edu.au/irish/index.htm


(Moderator's Note:
'by Friday, 14 January 2004...' it says on the web site...
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Forwarded in behalf of
Heather Edwards

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-----Original Message-----
From: hedward1[at]nd.edu=20
Subject: Re: Field Day Review

Patrick,

Thank you for your interest in our venture. We appreciate any help
advertising the Field Day Review that we can muster. I have included an
announcement concerning the journal below. I will send a table of =
contents
for the first issue in shortly.

Best,

Heather Edwards


KEOUGH INSTITUTE FOR IRISH STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME

The first issue of the FIELD DAY REVIEW, a new annual journal edited by
Seamus Deane and Breand=E1n Mac Suibhne, will be published in Spring =
2005. It
will contain an outstanding range of essays, essay-reviews, reviews,
photo-essays and other features, almost all centred on various aspects =
of
Irish political and literary culture, past and present. Subscription
information will be available early in the New Year.

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Forwarded in behalf of
Heather Edwards

P.O'S.


-----Original Message-----
From: hedward1[at]nd.edu
Subject: Re: Field Day Review

Just spoke to the managing editor and he informed me that the table of
contents would be available after the first of the year.

Best,

Heather

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

The attachments, Waterfront Hall Statewment, etc, are NOT attached here.

They are freely available elsewher on the web.=20


P.O'S.=20


-----Original Message-----
=20
EMBASSY OF IRELAND
2234 MASSACHUSETTS AVE, NW
WASHINGTON DC 2008

PRESS CONTACT:JOE HACKETT
TEL. (202) 3492043
MAILTO:joseph.hackett[at]dfa.ie

PRESS RELEASE- 8 DECEMBER 2004

Irish and British Governments Publish Proposals on Northern Ireland=20
Peace Process
=20
The Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister), Mr Bertie Ahern T.D. and the =
British
Prime Minister, Mr Tony Blair, today released their proposals for a =
final
and comprehensive agreement on all outstanding issues relating to the =
peace
process in Northern Ireland. The documents were presented by both
governments to Sinn F=E9in and the Democratic Unionist Party in recent =
weeks.
Despite intensive efforts over a number of months and very considerable
progress, not all elements were agreed.
=20
Speaking at a joint press conference in Belfast today, the two Prime
Ministers expressed the firm hope that the people of Northern Ireland =
will
reflect on what has been achieved and on the opportunity which this
agreement, if accepted in its entirety, represents. They also made =
clear
their intention to press ahead to find ways of bridging the remaining =
gaps.
=20
The Taoiseach's statement at the Belfast press conference and the full
package of proposals are attached to this release.

ENDS

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In the latest issue of the journal, Historical Research, there is an article
by Becky Taylor, 'Travellers in Britain: a minority and the state'. As the
journal title indicates, it is a work of historical research, looking at the
conbsequences of legislation and local practices. It ends: 'In conclusion,
the British state simultaneously asserted a separate identity for Travellers
and subsumed them within a system that refused to recognize difference. The
outcome of this position was the continued physical, social and ideological
marginalization of Travellers, intensified by the complacency of a state and
society which blamed their continuing exclusion on the Travellers themselves
and nomadism. Society neither removed Travellers from the British social
map, successfully assimilated them, nor came to terms with the continuing
vitality of nomadism in the modern world...'



Historical Research
Volume 77 Issue 198 Page 575 - November 2004
doi:10.1111/j.1468-2281.2004.00223.x

Travellers in Britain: a minority and the state
Becky Taylor1

Abstract

This article explores the developing relations between Travellers and the
British state in the context of the expansion of welfare provision. Using
four case studies it highlights the key characteristics of Traveller-state
relations: the lack of a unified response to Travellers by the state; how
Travellers were simultaneously seen as an important target for welfare
provision and less entitled to its benefits; and that settlement and
assimilation were the motivating factors for schemes. It goes on to show
that these trends were the result of three factors: the dominance of
stereotypes surrounding Travellers; the structure of the state; and the
agency of Travellers themselves.

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Irlandaises...

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Etudes Irlandaises

"Ireland and Europe in the 20th century"

The interdisciplinary peer-reviewed French journal Etudes Irlandaises
invites submissions for a special issue, "Ireland and Europe in the
20th century", to be published at the end of 2005. The guest editors
are Christophe Gillissen (Paris, Sorbonne) and St phane Jousni
(University of Rennes 2, France).

The links between Ireland and Europe can be studied from various
angles, be they literary, historical, political, linguistic or
cultural. Possible topics, very broadly defined, include (but are not
limited to) :

- the historical dimension : the two world wars, diplomatic alliances,

- organisations: European integration, the Council of Europe, the
League of Nations,

- cultural, migratory, economic and other exchanges,

- a comparative approach:convergence and divergence (politics,
economics, society),

- the European city in 20th century Irish literature,

- the classical heritage in 20th century Irish thought,

- Europe as the crucible of modernism,

- the Irish specificity within European modernism,

- theoretical interactions between Ireland and the Continent,
especially in the field of historiography.

Articles including photographs will be particularly welcome.

Submitted articles should be sent in four paper copies and one
electronic copy by 31 March 2005 to:

Dr Christophe Gillissen
27, rue de la Fraternit
92700 Colombes
FRANCE
christophe.gillissen_at_paris4.sorbonne.fr

Please ask Christophe Gillissen for the style-sheet of the journal.

Etudes Irlandaises is a peer-reviewed journal publishing
articles in English and French which explore all aspects of Irish
literature, history, culture and arts from ancient times to the
present. Etudes Irlandaises publishes twice a year on a wide range of
interdisciplinary subjects including : poetry / fiction / drama /
film / music / politics / economy / social studies, etc. General
issues published in Spring alternate with special issues in Autumn -
recent topics include the Peace Process (1999) and the Irish Language
(2001), Early Medieval Ireland (2002), Ireland and the United States
(2003), and "Irish space(s): zones and margins" (2004).
Etudes Irlandaises is aimed at scholars, postgraduate
students, institutions specializing in Irish studies as well as
people who have an informed interest in the subject. Each number ha a
comprehensive section devoted to recently published material on
Ireland.

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Subject: UCD Press Classics of Irish History series; titles of diaspora
interest

From: Patrick Maume

Some of you may be familiar with the UCD Press Classics of Irish History
series. A new batch is just out and I thought I'd highlight a few elements
of diaspora interest:

John Sarsfield Casey THE GALTEE BOY: A FENIAN PRISON NARRATIVE
co-edited by Mairead Maume, Patrick Maume and Mary Casey.
Readers of Thomas Keneally's THE GREAT SHAME may already be familiar with
the name of John Sarsfield Casey; he was a Fenian on the last convict ship
ever sent from BRitain to Australia and wrote one of the three surviving
diary-memoirs of the voyage (privately published in 1988). This previously
unpublished memoir (the manuscript survived among his descendants) describes
his arrest, trial and experiences in Irish and British jails. As with all
texts in the series there is a biographical introduction and analysis of the
text (with notes).

There is a book launch at the Cork Gaol Heritage Centre in Sunday's Well,
Cork City (the gaol is extensively described in the book) if anyone from the
IR-D list is in the vicinity and cares to come along. The title is being
launched by the Cork GAA legend Jimmy Barry Murphy, whose ancestor was
governor of the gaol in the 1860s and gets favourable mention in the book.

William Cooke Taylor REMINISCENCES OF DANIEL O'CONNELL edited by Patrick
Maume. The diaspora element here lies in the author; Taylor was an Irish
liberal Unionist (born in Youghal in 1800) who made a career in London as a
journalist, political economist and social commentator (he edited the
Anti-Corn Law League journal and corresponded with Cobden). HE died in
Dublin in 1849, where he had been employed as a spin-doctor to defend Whig
famine policy. His associates included RR Madden, Thomas Davis, and
Archbishop Whately.

William and Mary Hanbidge MEMORIES OF WEST WICKLOW edited by W.J. McCormack.
William Hanbidge came from a Protestant small-farmer background in the Glen
of Imaal and became an Evangelical missionary in the East End of London; his
recollections are extracted from a larger family history privately produced
in 1939 by his daughter Mary (former headmistress of Cheltenham Ladies'
College). The larger book might be an useful source for diaspora history.

THE GREEN REPUBLIC by "A.P.A. O'Gara" (W.R. MacDermott) edited by Ed Hagan.
MacDermott was a Poyntzpass doctor and independent thinker influenced by
Herbert Spencer and associated with Standish O'Grady. The book discusses
the problems of rural Ulster, supposedly as seen through the eyes of a
visiting Irish-American doctor (MacDermott had been an army surgeon during
the American Civil War) and advocates his view that Irish agricutlre should
be run on a joint-stock company basis rather than by peasant proprietors.

The batch also includes an abridged edition by John Bew (son of Paul, now
doing a Ph.D. at Cambridge) of BELFAST POLITICS by Henry Joy and William
Bruce, the major statement of a "moderate"
northern Whig position in opposition to both Toryism & the United Irishmen
during the 1790s.

For further details and a list of all the titles in the series, see the
publisher's website at www.ucdpress.ie. Before you ask, Mairead Maume is my
mother.
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patrick maume

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Maureen E. Mulvihill has kindly made available to the IR-D list her =
review
of The Flight Of The Earls by Dr. John McCavitt. The review is also
displayed on John McCavitt's Flight Of The Earls web site...=20

http://www.theflightoftheearls.net/book_summary_and_reviews.html

Our thanks to Maureen E. Mulvihill...

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The Flight Of The Earls, By Dr. John McCavitt
Gill & Macmillan, 2002

Review by Dr Maureen E. Mulvihill
Posted 3rd December 2004

Often it is said that a subject summons its author, that a subject owns =
its
author, that the author is but steward and keeper of a legacy =85 that =
the
author is fingered for the job.*

Surely a case in point is Dr John McCavitt of Rostrevor, County Down, a
teacher at the Abbey Grammar School, Newry, County Down, and =
newly-elected
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (London). Over some twenty years,
dating from his doctoral studies at Queen=92s University, Belfast, under =
the
direction of Dr Mary O=92Dowd, McCavitt has probed the immediate causes =
and
long-term ramifications attending the dramatic Flight of the Earls, a =
flight
which left Gaelic Ireland bereft of its mighty chieftains and thus
vulnerable to the exploitive Plantation of Ulster by Ireland=92s =
implacable
foreign enemy, England.

What was the allure of this historical moment for McCavitt? What =
beckoned
this scholar to parse, deconstruct, and reassemble the complex back =
story
which led to that momentous day in September, 1607, when Hugh O=92Neill, =
Earl
of Tyrone, and Rory O=92Donnell, Earl of Tyrconnell, sadly departed =
their
nation for sanctuary in a foreign land? What riveted McCavitt=92s =
interest
these many years on that precarious boatload of ninety-nine patriot =
Irish
who departed the northern harbor of Rathmullan in Lough Swilly, Donegal, =
on
the Feast of the Holy Cross, regretful exiles en route to France and =
then on
to Rome?

As he explains in his book=92s introduction, McCavitt was beckoned to =
this
defining moment in Irish history by the complexity and importance of its
rich historical material, not to mention the charisma of its oversize,
colorful players. But, above all, the time was ripe indeed in these =
opening
years of the 21st century for a thoroughgoing reassessment of the entire
subject against new historical findings. Thus, standing on the shoulders =
of
earlier historians, primarily the Reverend Charles Patrick Meehan, =
Member of
the Royal Irish Academy (The Fate and Fortunes of Hugh O=92Neill=85and =
Rory
O=92Donel, 1868; 3d ed., 1886) and Sean O=92Faolain (The Great =
O=92Neill, 1942),
McCavitt engages in far more than a stylish exercise in modern-day =
=91new
historicism=92 or revisionist history; he applies old-style, =
time-honored
classical methods of measured and even-handed historical inquiry to a
daunting subject whose long-term repercussions continue to resonate. =
Over
ten closely argued chapters, each finely documented with archival =
sources
and other reliable commentary (Chapter 8, =93Plantation and =
Transportation,=94
e.g., is supported by 146 endnotes), McCavitt negotiates past and =
present,
Irish and English, monarchy and clan, rumor and fact, all with an eye to =
a
fresh reconfiguration of this critical event of 1607. His detailed =
canvas is
comprised of three linked subjects: (i) the long-term causes which
precipitated the Flight of the Earls, being the Nine Years War, 1594 to
1603, during which England=92s bloody oppression of the Irish had become
patent; (ii) the immediate or short-term causes of the Flight and the
circumstances of the earls=92 departure, and it is at this juncture that
McCavitt brings to bear the fruits of his impressive first book, Sir =
Arthur
Chichester, Lord Deputy of Ireland, 1605-1616 (Belfast: Institute of =
Irish
Stds., 1998), one of few scholarly reconstructions of any lord =
deputyship;
and (iii) the situation of the exiled Irish earls, 1607-1616, showing =
that
the Flight was never intended to be a final, irrevocable step, but that =
a
glorious return and restoration of Irish power had been planned, though
negotiations between Hugh O=92Neill and the English crown (James I) =
floundered
badly. =20

McCavitt=92s achievement is especially apparent when compared to a
parallel product, Jerome Griffin=92s Flight of the Earls (Upfront =
Publishing
UK, 2002; 192 pp). Griffin=92s is not a scholarly treatment, but rather =
an
historical novel, written in the narrative voice of Hugh O=92Neill. =
Griffin=92s
principal concern is historical contextualization; indeed, most of the =
novel
(pages 13-187) centers on the period preceding and precipitating the =
Flight,
the years 1587 to 1603. The actual Flight of 1607 receives but a few
concluding pages. While surely a worthy piece of work in its own right =
---
indeed, some readers may prefer Griffin=92s romanticized approach to
McCavitt=92s scholarly rigor --- Griffin=92s book fails to take in the =
total
picture, especially the consequences of the Flight for Irish history, =
one of
McCavitt=92s chief concerns as in his book=92s concluding chapter, =
=93The Sword
Passes On=94 (pages 200-222).=20

In the judgment of this reviewer, there is but one weakness in =
McCavitt=92s
book: its conspicuous absence of essential illustrations. Readers hope =
to
see contemporary renderings (all fully available) of Hugh O=92Neill, =
Lord
Mountjoy, James I, and Sir Arthur Chichester, as well as contemporary =
maps
of Ireland during the Nine Years War and the Ulster Plantation. And =
surely
missed are facsimiles of selected 17th-century documents, such as James =
I=92s
proclamation against the earls, important Public Record Office data, and
letters --- all or any of these would have served as a desirable =
complement
to the book=92s (dense) text. But this omission was doubtless a decision =
at
the publisher=92s end, not McCavitt=92s, whose scholarly methods =
certainly
acknowledge the power of the pictorial. His first book, on Sir Arthur
Chichester, mentioned above, includes as many as eleven archival images
(portraits, maps, manuscript records). =20

McCavitt=92s abiding interest in the 1607 Flight of the Earls has not =
come
full circle with his book of 2002, by no means. With admirable =
commitment,
he and his talented Irish circle =96 Maura Erskine, Cecile la Rochelle, =
Miles
Jones, Billy Finnegan, Mark Hughes, and McCavitt=92s quiet collaborator, =
his
wife Siobh=E1nn =96 have produced several new products on the Flight =
saga, each
in varying stages of development: there is a scripted play, with =
interludes
of original music; there is an audio book, with incidental music, =
narrated
by McCavitt himself and recorded at Annahaia Records, Newry, County Down
(http://www.annahaiarecords.com/); and there is an online multimedia =
archive
on the subject, complete with music, maps, images, and text
(http://www.theflightoftheearls.net).

The culmination of Dr John McCavitt=92s heroic investment in this =
subject will
be the 400th year commemoration of the Flight of the Earls in 2007, a =
series
of events on both sides of the Atlantic, currently in the planning =
stages.
To date, response and especially funding have been encouraging. For =
details
on this festive enterprise, interested parties may contact McCavitt via =
his
website.

By Maureen E. Mulvihill, PhD
Princeton Research Forum
Princeton, New Jersey

_________________________________________________________________________=
___
__
*Reviewer=92s Note
An abridged version of this review was published in the Autumn 2004 =
edition
of The Recorder, the publication arm of the American Irish Historical
Society, New York City. Unfortunately, a typesetting and editorial
oversight resulted in the misrepresentation of the review's important =
lead
sentence. I am grateful to Dr John McCavitt for rectifying this error by
restoring my original wording, as it now appears here. MEM

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Subject: call for papers


The Nicholson Center for British Studies is pleased to announce:

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Irish World: Internationalism and Irish Studies

Conference date: March 5, 2005
Deadline for proposals: January 15, 2005
Papers due: Friday, February 18, 2005.
Submit to: Jenny Ludwig at janne[at]uchicago.edu or Emily Brunner at
esbrunne[at]uchicago.edu. Call 834-3403 with questions, or visit
http://british.uchicago.edu .

In 1973, both the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland officially
entered the European Union. During the thirty years since, the face of
Ireland and Irish identity have been drastically altered: Between 1970 and
1980, the population of the Republic rose from 3 million to 3.5 million;
Between 1996 and 2000, 200,000 foreigners entered the country, half
returning Irish emigrants and half other foreign nationals and asylum
seekers. Since 1996, over a quarter of the 160,000 immigrants has come from
countries outside of Europe and America. International scholarship tends to
view Ireland as a mythic tourist spot, the locus of a nationalist struggle,
or a forum for rethinking the changes wrought in the move from modernity to
postmodernity; but new problems come with the social complexities of
involvement in the world economy and a newly diverse citizenship, and
Ireland's new face demands a long-overdue change in the scope of Irish
Studies.

This conference examines the recent changes wrought by Ireland's rapid
modernization and entrance into a world economy, as well as the neglected
story of Irish internationalism throughout history, and the history of Irish

diasporas. We want additionally to challenge the traditional limits of the
discipline of Irish studies beyond the interest with nationhood and identity

politics.

Our keynote speakers are Professor David Lloyd and Professor Harry White.
David Lloyd, Professor of English at the University of Southern California,
is the author of Anomalous States: Irish Writing and the Postcolonial Moment

(Duke, 1993), Culture and the State (Routledge, 1993, with Paul Thomas) and
Ireland after History (UNDP, 1999). Professor Lloyd will be speaking on
nineteenth-century Ireland and the emergence of developmental theories of
political economy political economy; Harry White, Professor of Music at
University College Dublin, is the author of The Keeper's Recital: Music and
Cultural History in Ireland, 1770-1970 (Cork and UNDP, 1998) and the editor
of Musical Constructions of Nationalism: Essays on the History and Ideology
of European Musical Culture, 1800-1940, (Cork, 2001). Professor White will
speak on a subject to be announced.

We welcome 200 word proposals for twenty-minute papers from graduate
students from all disciplines that address questions of Irish
internationalism, globalization and cosmopolitanism. Specific panel topics
will be determined according to the papers we receive. We welcome papers
from all individual disciplines within the social sciences and the
humanities as well as papers that are positioned interdisciplinarily.

Please submit a proposal for a twenty minute paper, a copy of your CV, and a

cover letter that specifies your disciplinary and institutional
affiliation(s) to Jenny Ludwig at janne[at]uchicago.edu or Emily Brunner at
esbrunne[at]uchicago.edu by January 15, 2005. Papers will be due by Friday,
February 18, 2005. The date of the conference is March 5, 2005.

This conference is being generously co-sponsored by: the Poetry and Poetics
Program, the English Department, the Anthropology of Europe workshop,
Ethnoise! Ethnomusicology workshop, the Mass Culture workshop, and the
Social History workshop