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The latest issue of the Bulletin of the German Historical Institute
Washington, D.C.
http://www.ghi-dc.org/
No. 35 (Fall 2004)
has a number of interesting articles, for those who like to stay in touch
with our colleagues in other areas...

The articles are freely available on the web.

Jeffrey Peck, reflecting on Liliane Weissberg's article in the same issue,
uses notions from Diaspora Studies to map the future study of the German
Jewish communities. Kathleen Conzen on German Catholics mentions the Irish
only in passing - she has interesting ideas on Catholicism and emigration.

Peck, Jeffrey M. "New perspectives in German-Jewish studies:
toward a Diasporic and global perspective. Comment on Liliane Weissberg's
lecture, October 16, 2003."
Full-Text: http://www.ghi-dc.org/bulletinF04/35.33.pdf

~ Conzen, Kathleen Neils. "Immigrant religion and the republic:
German catholics in nineteenth-century America. Edmund Spevack Memorial
Lecture, Harvard University, November 7, 2003."
Full-Text: http://www.ghi-dc.org/bulletinF04/35.43.pdf

P.O'S.

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Journal of religion & society
Vol. 6 (2004)

Lord of Lark and Lightning
Reassessing Celtic Christianity's Ecological Emphases

Bruce Martin
Taylor University College

Assessments of Celtic, or 'Celtic', Christianity can be a bit twee. =
This
article by Bruce Martin does not quite escape tweeness, but is free
available on the web, and offers a good summary of recent approaches to
early Irish poetry, quoting - for example - Donnchadh =D3 Corr=E1in, =
Liam
O'Dowd, and Isobel Ryan.

And, in the end, trying ot to lapse into tweeness myself, there is =
something
very interesting, and unusual, about the approach of early Irish poetry =
to
the depiction of the natural world.

The same issue of Journal of religion & society, Vol. 6 (2004), includes =
a
section, Special edition on Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ - but
let's not go there, folks...

P.O'S. =20


Journal of religion & society
Vol. 6 (2004)

Lord of Lark and Lightning

Reassessing Celtic Christianity's Ecological Emphases

Bruce Martin
Taylor University College

The article is freely available on the web, in HTML and in PDF.

http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2004/2004-11.html

http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/pdf/2004-11.pdf


Lord of Lark and Lightning
Reassessing Celtic Christianity's Ecological Emphases

Bruce Martin
Taylor University College

Abstract
A growing literature explores relationships between religion, ecology, =
and
environmental stewardship. In Christian writings, Celtic Christianity =
has
been proposed as exemplary for contemporary Christians seeking =
harmonious
relationships among humanity, God, and nature. The accuracy of =
descriptions
in this recent literature of ecological values perceived in Celtic
Christianity requires critical evaluation against the evidence. This =
paper
aims to investigate the key themes contemporary Christian writers =
identify
as defining characteristics of early Celtic Christianity and evaluates =
these
against primary sources of early Celtic literature. A careful reading of
early Celtic literature reveals an ambiguous understanding of =
relationships
between humanity, nature, and God.

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The following item appeared on the ITER web site. And it is also on the web
site of the The Society of Dance History Scholars
http://www.sdhs.org/awards.html

Does any of OUR Dance History Scholars have something suitable for
Nomination? In effect, published in 2004.

P.O'S.


Call for Nominations: Gertrude Lippincott Award (Dance Studies)

The Gertrude Lippincott Award is an annual prize of five hundred dollars for
the best English-language article on dance history or theory published
during the preceding calendar year. Named in honor of its donor, a devoted
teacher of modern dance in the Midwest and mentor to many students, it was
established to recognize excellence in the field of dance scholarship.

The Gertrude Lippincott Award Committee invites submissions of candidates
for this award for calendar year 2004. Both members and nonmembers of the
Society of Dance History Scholars are eligible to apply. Because dance
history and theory are broadly defined, articles submitted may be focused on
the history, theory, and analysis of any genre of dance from any
methodological perspective.

Articles must have been published between 1 January and 31 December 2004.
Articles may be submitted by their authors or by editors, publishers, and
members of SDHS. Only one entry per author or advocate will be accepted.
Members of the Lippincott Award Committee, the SDHS board of directors and
the SDHS editorial board are not eligible to apply.

To enter an essay in the competition, send four copies of the published
article and a cover letter with the name, postal address, telephone number,
and e-mail address (if available) of the author to Lizbeth Langston, SDHS
Corresponding Secretary, Information Services, Science Library, University
of California, Riverside, CA 92517-5900 email: langston[at]ucr.edu.

*All submissions must be received by 31 January 2005*. No submissions will
be accepted via fax or e-mail. Inquiries may be addressed to the chair of
the award committee, Theresa Buckland, School of English and Performance
Studies, Faculty of Humanities, De Montfort University, Leicester LE 1 9BH,
United Kingdom. Professor Buckland's email is: tbuckland[at]dmu.ac.uk. The
announcement is also available on the web at:
http://www.sdhs.org/awards.html

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I thought this Book Review by Katherine E. Hoffman worth sharing - since,
though it is critical of the volume under review, a study of Moroccan
Migrant Women, it touches on themes that are becoming more clear within
Irish Diaspora Studies.

Katherine Hoffman herself has done some interesting work on the political
economy of rural music-making - again based on work in Morocco.

P.O'S.

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Subject: book review: Ruba Salih. _Gender in Transnationalism

H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by H-Gender-MidEast[at]h-net.msu.edu (November, 2004)

Ruba Salih. _Gender in Transnationalism: Home, Longing and Belonging Among
Moroccan Migrant Women_. Routledge Research in Transnationalism Series.
New York: Routledge, 2003. xi + 192 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index.
$114.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-4152-6703-X.

Reviewed for H-Gender-MidEast by Katherine E. Hoffman, Department of
Anthropology, Northwestern University.

Solitude, Isolation, and Marginalization

Scholarship on migrants and diaspora populations increasingly has been
concerned with the issue of simultaneous participation in home and host
countries, as people find themselves neither fully assimilated into their
adopted country nor at home in their country of origin. A recent push to
replace the concepts of emigration/immigration (implying a break from
origins and settling in the host country) and diaporas (stressing the
displacement from one's home country) has led to the spread of the concept
of transnationalism. Transnationalism is not just a new word for an old
phenomenon; it emphasizes the dynamic process of nation-making as anchored
across nations (and states), privileging neither place of origin nor adopted
land, and collapsing time and space into a single social field (Glick
Schiller et al 1992: 1 in Salih 5). Salih raises the important theoretical
issue of the role of gender in transnationalism, a neglected domain of
research. Her ethnographic focus is on Moroccan women in Italy, however,
more than the mutual construction of maleness and femaleness through
interaction. In this and other respects, the book seems partitioned into
thoroughly researched theoretical passages and sparser interview-informed
sections. From an ethnographer's perspective, the book suffers from a lack
of integration between theoretical foci and ethnographic data. Nevertheless,
there remains much to recommend this text.

Salih takes up such questions as Moroccan women's relations with the new
places they inhabit and their changing conceptualizations of home. How are
women's identities and cultural practices shaped by the transnational
dimension of their lives and by living in a world supposedly increasingly
interconnected? What are the relations between marginalization and lack of
recognition in Italy and transnationalism? How are migrants represented by
the Italian state and how in turn do they respond to these representations
(p. 3)? Despite the ample literature on Moroccans and other North Africans
in France, little has been written about these emigrants to Italy, in part
because their arrival began in earnest only in the late 1980s, and in part
because, as Salih notes, Italians are more accustomed to considering their
country an exporter of labor rather than a draw for emigrants. The dominant
themes that emerge from the accounts of women Salih interviewed are
solitude, isolation, and marginalization. Structurally this makes sense, as
there are few conglomerations of Moroccan emigrants sufficient to be
considered a community in its conventional sense in the region of Emilia
Romagna, where research was based. But even those emigrant women familiar
with other Moroccans tended to avoid them, critical of the ways in which
other emigrants adhered to competing discourses of secularism and Islamic
piety. The state and Italian society, for their part, put up obstacles to
women's integration, simultaneously endorsing discriminatory discourse
against Moroccans as a whole and embracing an essentialist image of Moroccan
female personhood that revolved around her honor, restraint, and modesty in
the service of her husband's reputation, qualities inherently compromised by
her immigrant status. Salih's Moroccan informants longed for the food,
clothes, and companionship they knew growing up in Morocco, yet many felt
isolated by their domestic and public lives that offered neither the
benefits of European citizenry nor the familiarity of Moroccan residence. In
an effort to stress the dissimilarity between emigrant women, Salih refuses
to characterize them as a type of community. This makes it difficult,
however, to assess the ways in which her informants' experiences are
particular to Moroccan emigrants, shared by other emigrants in Italy, or
shared by Moroccans in other diasporic locales. However, one argument that
emerges from the particularities is that discrimination in social service
contexts is gendered: headscarved women complained of being denied
acknowledgement of their personhood apart from male protectors, especially
husbands. More analysis of the women's profiles--indeed, more people in the
text in general--would better flesh out this and other arguments in the
book.

Indeed, while the theoretical arguments and scholarly literature on
modernity, globalization, migration, diaspora, and transnationalism are
amply discussed in this book, the ethnographic portions are limited to
interview excerpts and sparse descriptions. One facet of women's experience
is clear: the respects in which emigration, even when first perceived by
women as emancipation, turns out not to be liberating because of the ways in
which the nation-state is an extension of male domination (p. 50). Thus
whether the women migrated to Italy to join husbands, or instead to free
themselves from men and restrictions, they faced many of the same
constraints once settled in Italy. Yet their sense of home while living in
Italy, and during return visits to Morocco, was rooted less in their
structural position in a family network, as female head of household, and
more in their engagement with commodities that reminded them of the other
home (p. 78). Despite such insights, the areas of most interest to North
Africanists and anthropologists are not adequately addressed. Some of this
is a problem of sloppy editing and awkward phrasing. For instance, in the
first profile introduced on p. 40, the reader learns that Samia's mother
basically lives between Casablanca and Reggio Emilia. What does this mean,
exactly? In a book on this kind of transnational practice, the reader
expects more probing into the texture of transnational lives. Ultimately,
however, the reader is left yearning for more about the women and their
lives, and less about the scholarly literature.

Salihs book may interest scholars of transnationalism, gender studies,
Italy, and North Africa, but ultimately it falls short of contributing
significantly to regional studies or social anthropology. There are many
threads that may interest specialists even if they are not tightly woven
into a neat whole. Its most valuable contribution may be in raising
questions about the ways in which subjectivities are shaped by belonging to
multiple locales that are collapsed in time and space, and the ways in which
our conventional models for understanding personhood and place-making are
inadequate to capture the complexity of contemporary migrations.


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A potentially very useful web resource is outlined in this article,
'An ontological application for archaeological narratives'
- Abstract pasted in below...

There is what I take to be a version of this paper at...
http://www.ichim.org/ichim03/PDF/061C.pdf

The relevant web sites are
The CIPHER Cultural Heritage Forums
http://cipherweb.open.ac.uk/app_domain/D5_main.htm

The Irish Cultural and Natural Heritage Forum
http://cipherweb.open.ac.uk/app_domain/D5_explorer_ie.htm

explorer.ie is, of course, an extraordinarily bad choice of name for the
proposed web site. Microsoft's internet/web browser is called Internet
Explorer, and is often refered to as IE. So - what happens if you do a web
search for 'explorer.ie'?

Is it too late to change the name?

P.O'S.


An ontological application for archaeological narratives
Kilfeather, E. McAuley, J. Corns, A. McHugh, O.
Digital Media Centre, Dublin Inst. of Technol., Ireland
This paper appears in: Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2003.
Proceedings. 14th International Workshop on

Publication Date: 1-5 Sept. 2003
On page(s): 110 - 114
ISSN: 1529-4188
Number of Pages: xxi+987
Abstract:
The CIPHER project was set up in April 2002 as a thirty month project
supported by the European Union. The project aims to give the public new
ways of accessing cultural heritage information from around Europe using new
technologies. These technologies are intended to help organise knowledge and
cultural heritage narratives. The technology helps to present these
narratives on the Internet and provides editing, communication and
discussion tools. Visitors are able to customise and add to these narratives
using tools provided by the partners. This paper is concerned with the
development of the Irish Cultural Heritage Forum - explorer, ie. This forum
was developed by The Dublin Institute of Technology and The Discovery
Programme and gives online access to a database of Irish archaeology held by
the Discovery Programme. This includes the complete National Monuments
Record (NMR). The NMR is a list of categorised and detailed monument data
for Ireland and Northern Ireland showing, for example, a monument's
geographical position. Importantly the forum provides access to a large set
of "lessons" explaining and putting into context these monuments and
artefacts. These lessons are primarily short texts which explain some aspect
of Irish archaeology. The CH forum uses knowledge management techniques
developed by the CIPHER partners including a specially adapted ontology of
archaeological objects and concepts. This paper describes the process of
adapting the Archaeological Monuments and Objects ontology developed by
English Heritage to the objects in the Irish NMR. It describes how the FISH
data standardization effort was used to guide this process and how the
resulting ontology complies with the MIDAS collections guidelines. The paper
outlines the architecture of the prototype application which allows authors
and ordinary users of the site to relate their own lessons to this ontology
and in this way to construct a broad ranging but structured description of
the domain of Irish archaeology.



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I'm not sure if this would turn up through the usual channels. I've not
seen the journal yet.

http://www.tipperarylibraries.ie/ths/thj2004.htm

http://www.tipperarylibraries.ie/ths/index.htm

Bill Mulligan


Tipperary Historical Journal 2004
Editor: Carmel Quinlan

276 Pages; 15 Articles
=20

* Excavations at Friar Street Cashel: A Story of Urban Settlement
O'Donovan et al
* The Fennells of Cahir
Michael Ahern
* Kilnamanagh and the Frontier: Surviving the New English of the =
early
Seventeenth Century
Dr. John Morrissey
* Dorn=E1n =E1itainmneacha as Foras Feasa ar =C9irinn
Diarmuid =D3 Murchadha
* Lieutenant-Colonel John Ryan of Glinogally: A Tipperary Wild Geese
Officer's Monument at Aire-sur-la-Lys

* Eoghan =D3 hAnnrach=E1in Parliamentary Representation for County
Tipperary, 1560-1800 (Part V)
Michael O'Donnell
* The Merchant Prince of the Copper Country: One Immigrant's =
American
Success Story
William Mulligan, Jr.
* Commemorating Croke: Ethnic Nationalism as Spectacle
Mary =D3 Drisceoil
* John Davis White's Sixty Years in Cashel (Part IV): Night Of The =
Big
Wind
Denis G. Marnane
* The 1832 Clergy Relief Fund for Co. Tipperary
Noreen Higgins
* Prelude to a Clonmel Labour Movement 1830 - 1900
Se=E1n O'Donnell
* Such A Treacherous County: A Land Agent in Cappawhite, 1847 - =
1852
Denis G. Marnane
* Life with a Flying Column, 1919 - 1921
Tadhg Crowe
* A Labourer's Life in Mid-Twentieth Century County Tipperary
Derbhile Dromey
* J.K. Bracken Centenary: A Reflection
Marcus de B=FArca

=20
BOOKS REVIEWED:

* The Legacy of History; Martin Mansergh [Reviewed by Marcus Bourke]
* Land and Settlement: A History of West Tipperary to 1660; Denis G.
Marnane [Reviewed by Diarmuid =D3 Murchadha]
* Memoirs of a Tipperary Family: The Gaynors of Tyone, 1887 - 2000;
Eamonn Gaynor [Reviewed by Brendan =D3 Cathaoir]
* Towers, Spires and Pinnacles; S. Hutchinson [Reviewed by David J.
Butler]
* The Tipperary Gentry, Volume 1; William Hayes & Art Kavanagh =
[Reviewed
by Denis G. Marnane]
* Hardship and High Living: Irish Women's Lives 1808 - 1923; Nellie =
=D3
Cl=E9irigh [Reviewed by Carmel Quinlan

=20

=20

=20

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This item has turned up in our nets...

Seemed worth putting into the systems...

P.O'S.


Nations and Nationalism
Volume 7 Issue 4 Page 505 - October 2001
doi:10.1111/1469-8219.00030

Archaeology and the Irish rediscovery of the Celtic past
John Hutchinson

This article examines the place of archaeology in the second wave of Irish
cultural nationalism, and how archaeological findings were appropriated by
rival ethno-religious communities in Ireland. In particular, it focuses on
George Petrie, who was the founder of 'scientific' archaeology and was also
one of the leading figures in the nineteenth-century Celtic revival that
sought a moral regeneration of the Irish nation In Ireland, as elsewhere,
archaeology was important in reconstructing an early history of the nation
where few written records existed and in making this visible through
material artefacts. However, archaeology was only significant as part of a
wider cultural revival that presented artefacts and sites as national
symbols to an island undergoing rapid social change. This article will
explore the relationship between archaeology and this national revival, and
how the material objects recovered by archaeologists extended and
transformed the existing repertoires of how the nation was imagined and
felt. It will assess the different reception of these images in the rival
Catholic and Protestant communities. Finally, it will comment on the
capacity of a medieval 'Celtic' repertoire to provide the basis of a dynamic
modern Irish national culture.

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Bill,

Thank you for bringing this journal and its web site to our attention...

No, it would not have turned up 'through the usual channels...'

I see that the Tipperary Historical Journal now has TOCs on its web site
going back to 1988. And an outline comment on recent issues, much in the
manner of Jim Rogers...
http://www.tipperarylibraries.ie/ths/journals.htm

More of these local and county journals seem to be developing their own web
sites. They are of variable quality.

I am not sure how to handle this. I did have a plan to work on the LINKS
section of irishdiaspora.net, and maybe make all these journal web sites
more visible. But I wonder if this is not being done elsewhere already?
Noel Gilzean? Searc?

Paddy

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From: William Mulligan Jr.
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Subject: Tipperary Historical Journal 2004


I'm not sure if this would turn up through the usual channels. I've not
seen the journal yet.

http://www.tipperarylibraries.ie/ths/thj2004.htm

http://www.tipperarylibraries.ie/ths/index.htm

Bill Mulligan


Tipperary Historical Journal 2004
Editor: Carmel Quinlan

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Further to my question, below...

I have now heard from Eoin Kilfeather, the lead author of the article and
one of the main contacts within Ireland for the CIPHER project.

Eoin writes...

'We used the explorer.ie website address primarily during development of the
content management system. It is intended to use the system to 'power' other
(potentially less ambitious) sites.
Initially we are using the software to run the Discovery Programme website
- and this is in fact where www.explorer.ie will send you at the moment. I
don't anticipate that explorer.ie will be used in the long run. Thanks for
your interest.
Best regards.
Eoin.'

P.O'S.


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A potentially very useful web resource is outlined in this article, 'An
ontological application for archaeological narratives'
- Abstract pasted in below...

There is what I take to be a version of this paper at...
http://www.ichim.org/ichim03/PDF/061C.pdf

The relevant web sites are
The CIPHER Cultural Heritage Forums
http://cipherweb.open.ac.uk/app_domain/D5_main.htm

The Irish Cultural and Natural Heritage Forum
http://cipherweb.open.ac.uk/app_domain/D5_explorer_ie.htm

explorer.ie is, of course, an extraordinarily bad choice of name for the
proposed web site. Microsoft's internet/web browser is called Internet
Explorer, and is often refered to as IE. So - what happens if you do a web
search for 'explorer.ie'?

Is it too late to change the name?

P.O'S.

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Subject: Bursaries and Scholarships for MLitt in Irish and Scottish Studies


University of Aberdeen


MLitt in Irish and Scottish Studies

The Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies (RIISS) recently
celebrated its fifth anniversary and to mark this occasion is offering at
least five scholarships and bursaries for suitably qualified candidates to
pursue interdisciplinary research and graduate training on the history,
literatures, languages and cultures of the two countries.
Graduate students accepted into this programme may focus on either Irish or
Scottish Studies, or both.

The Institute offers a taught MLitt programme that addresses the specific
research interests of individual students while educating them about
resources outside their proposed area of interest, thus helping them to
conceptualise their scholarship and set it within a wider, historical,
literary, linguistic or ethnological framework.


Further information at www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/mlitt or from Dr Shane Murphy
(MLitt Programme Co-ordinator), email: sam[at]abdn.ac.uk

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CHRISTMAS GREETINGS FROM PRESIDENT McALEESE

A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to one and all.

As I begin a new term of office, it is my special privilege to extend
heartfelt Christmas and New Year greetings to the great Irish family at home
and abroad and to all Ireland's friends.

The past year was an exceptional one in Ireland, when history placed us at
the centre of the enlargement of the European Union, as hosts of that
wonderful Day of Welcomes for the ten new member states. Now the citizens of
the twenty-five partner states set out on a shared journey to a peaceful and
prosperous future. And we in Ireland know more about peace and prosperity
today than at any time in our past. This is a successful and achieving
nation with a thriving economy and a vibrant culture. It is a growing
nation, young, multicultural, a place of opportunity and real hope. The
backbone of our strong civic society is and has always been a unique
tradition of robust, energetic, caring communities built and sustained by
voluntary effort. We are a people whose innate decency has inspired us
always to look out for one another and to work to make sure no-one is left
out or left behind.

This Christmas as many of us enjoy the benefits of our remarkable progress
let us renew our commitment to one another and especially to those who are
still struggling and for whom a helping hand could make the difference
between enduring life and enjoying life in all its fullness. We owe a lot to
those who continue to build peace on this island and whose efforts have
transformed hearts and minds. The central message of Christmas has for two
thousand years been a message of peace and goodwill to all humankind and so
it is my fervent prayer that reflecting deeply on that message at this
crucial time in the Peace Process, we may find the trust and the faith to
complete this journey of healing and reconciliation.

I wish for each one of you, a season of hospitality and of love both given
and received. For those carrying burdens that threaten to overwhelm the joy
of this season I hope that with courage and the support of friends you will
find a space to let happiness in. I have no doubt that Santa Claus will be
good to our marvellous children and that they in turn will be good to each
other. And isn't that the simple essence of this great Feast, the
exhortation to be good to one another, to fill the world with generosity
instead of greed. The Irish have a legendary capacity for generosity - may
each of us wherever we are honour that tradition this Christmastide and make
it a time of lasting peace and goodwill, a beacon of hope in a very unequal
world.

MARY McALEESE
PRESIDENT OF IRELAND

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In June 2004, at the Liverpool meeting, Paddy and I discussed setting up a
folder on the irishdiaspora.net website to address teaching the Diaspora.
Because I spent the fall semester teaching in Germany this project was
placed on hold.

It is now up and running. At www.irishdiaspora.net

We have posted Paddy's article from New Hibernia Review on the state of
Diaspora studies; a paper I presented at the Liverpool meeting on the
course I teach; and the syllabus from that course. These are simply to get
started.

I see the folder as a site for essays, both formal and informal, on teaching
the Diaspora generally or on the Irish in specific countries; for posting
course syllabi; and facilitating discussion of this aspect of our work.

Please share any comment about the folder with me AND please consider
sending items to post.

Bill Mulligan
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Murray State University
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Clerical child sex abuse: the response of the Roman Catholic
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P.O'S.

publication
Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology

ISSN
1052-9284 electronic: 1099-1298

publisher
John Wiley & Sons

year - volume - issue - page
2004 - 14 - 6 - 490


article

Clerical child sex abuse: the response of the Roman Catholic Church

Dunne, Elizabeth A.

abstract

The response of the Roman Catholic Church (RCC) to the clergy child sex
abuse crisis is examined in the context of six cases in an Irish
archdiocese. The RCC was not proactive in engaging with complainants and did
not accept organizational responsibility for its personnel. Its statements
on the crisis were abstract and sometimes transcendent in tone and its
attempts to account for its inaction used apologia rather than apology. The
Church's reliance on apologia is similar to that found in secular
bureaucracies that believe themselves to be 'client-independent'. It is
argued the Church needs to implement a 'client complaint' procedure similar
to that found in 'client-dependent' commercial enterprises and that it must
also reconnect with its own core values.

Copyright C 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

keyword(s)

clergy, sex abuse, children,

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'I would like my books to be a kind of tool-box which others can rummage
through to find a tool which they can use however they wish in their own
area... I would like the little volume that I want to write on =
disciplinary
systems to be useful to an educator, a warden, a magistrate, a =
conscientious
objector. I don't write for an audience, I write for users, not =
readers.'

Michel Foucault, (1974) 'Prisons et asiles dans le m=E9canisme du =
pouvoir' in
Dits et Ecrits, t. II. Paris: Gallimard, 1994, pp. 523-4.=20

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We are very pleased to announce the launch of a new, peer-reviewed,
web-journal

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Submissions are invited for future issues

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STUDIES -DUBLIN-
VOL 93; NUMB 372; 2004
ISSN 0039-3495

pp. 397-408
The Irish Canon: Thoughts on Breandan O Doibhlin's Manuail de Lifriocht na
Gaeilge Gormaile, P. O.


pp. 409-413
Mary Lavin in 1973
Ostermann, R.

p. 414
Post-Christmas Waysides - A Poem
Woods, M.

pp. 415-425
The Language of the Tribes in Brian Moore's Black Robe Hicks, P.

p. 426
Maps and Sand - A Poem
Johnston, F.

pp. 427-435
Irish and Catholic values in the work of Maeve Binchy Kenny, M.

p. 436
In Memoriam - A Poem
Duill, G. O.

pp. 437-447
The God of Patrick Kavanagh
Agnew, U.

p. 448
Human Spirit - A Poem
Guckian, M.

pp. 449-460
Present voices of the past: cultural memory, private recollection and
attitudes towards old age in The Summer of Lily and Esme Piesse, A.

pp. 461-472
Stories from below: Sean Maher and Nan Joyce Delaney, P.

pp. 473-486
The aesthetics of redemption: John McGahern's That they may face the rising
sun van der Ziel, S.

pp. 487-488
John McGahern: From the Local to the Universal, by Eamon Maher Cronin, M.

pp. 489-491
Brendan Kennelly: A Host of Ghosts, by John McDonagh O Malley-Younger, A.

pp. 492-494
Taking Sides? - Colonial and Confessional Mentalities in Early Modern
Ireland, edited by Vincent P. Carey and Ute Lotz-Heumann MacCuarta, B.

pp. 495-497
Century of Endeavour. A Biographical and Autobiographical view of the 20th
Century in Ireland, by Roy H.W. Johnston Morrissey, T. J.

pp. 498-499
Thomas A. Finlay, SJ, 1848-1940: Educationalist, editor, social reformer, by
Thomas J. Morrissey, S.J Fuller, L.

pp. 500-501
The Naked Politician, by Katie Hannon
Gaughan, J. A.

pp. 502-503
Irish Fiction and Postmodern Doubt: An analysis of the Epistemological
Crisis in Modern Fiction, by Neil Murphy Ching, L. L.

pp. 504-505
Sanctuary in Ireland: Perspectives on Asylum Law and Policy, edited by
Ursula Fraser and Colin Harvey Fanning, B.

pp. 506-507
Postcolonial Theory in Irish Drama from 1800-2000, by Dawn Duncan McDonagh,
J.

pp. 508-510
The Jesuit Specter in Imperial Germany, by Roisin Healy O Donoghue, F.

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Our thanks to Bill Mulligan for taking on this task, and for seeing it
forward from such an interesting starting point.

I have had a number of interesting discussions in 2004 with a number of
people, about the pasts and the possible futures of Irish Studies and Irish
Diaspora Studies. Local conditions are always important, and I think that
Bill has got us off to as good start, with a shrewd assessment of the local
and the global.

Do note that we negotiated free access to Kevin Kenny's article, mentioned
and used in teaching by Bill Mulligan. The article is available at...

http://www.indiana.edu/~jah/issues/articles/901_kenny.pdf

It might be better if Kevin's article was also available on
irishdiaspora.net in Bill's folder. I will negotiate further.

Some of Bill Mulligan's questions in his Syllabus filled me with alarm...
'Patrick O'Sullivan, in his article in New Hibernia Review, discusses the
state of Irish Diaspora Studies. What are his two main points?' Well, what
are his two main points? I don't know. Are there only two? I must read
the article again...

By the way, every time IR-D distributed a message over the holiday period we
got back a flood of 'Out of Office' messages and 'Inbox full' mesages, and
other Error messages. It made me reluctant to distribute anything.
Hopefully systems will unclog from now onwards. Any important messages I
will distribute again - because it is clear that quite a few people did not
receive them.

Again, thank you, Bill...

Paddy O'Sullivan


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From: William Mulligan Jr.
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In June 2004, at the Liverpool meeting, Paddy and I discussed setting up a
folder on the irishdiaspora.net website to address teaching the Diaspora.
Because I spent the fall semester teaching in Germany this project was
placed on hold.

It is now up and running. At www.irishdiaspora.net

We have posted Paddy's article from New Hibernia Review on the state of
Diaspora studies; a paper I presented at the Liverpool meeting on the
course I teach; and the syllabus from that course. These are simply to get
started.

I see the folder as a site for essays, both formal and informal, on teaching
the Diaspora generally or on the Irish in specific countries; for posting
course syllabi; and facilitating discussion of this aspect of our work.

Please share any comment about the folder with me AND please consider
sending items to post.

Bill Mulligan
Professor of History
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA

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Might interest, in the light of earlier IR-D discussion - much analysis of
texts of speeches by B. Ahern and T. Blair...

P.O'S.


West European Politics
Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
Issue: Volume 28, Number 1 / January 2005
Pages: 124 - 158

Horses for Courses? The Political Discourse of Globalisation and European
Integration in the UK and Ireland

Colin Hay and Nicola J Smith

A1 University of Birmingham United Kingdom

Abstract:

In recent years there has been growing interest in the role of discourses of
globalisation and European integration in shaping political outcomes. As a
variety of authors have suggested, these discourses may play a powerful
causal role in determining the trajectory of policy change and, as such,
should be treated as objects of enquiry in their own right. Yet, while much
recent scholarship has pointed to the need for systematic empirical analysis
of policy-making discourses, little such analysis has yet been undertaken.
Our aim in this paper is to contribute to this task, by mapping contemporary
appeals to globalisation and European integration in two EU states: Britain
and the Irish Republic. We present findings from the discourse analysis
(using QSR NVivo) of over 100 speeches backed by supplementary interviews in
both cases. Building upon, extending and updating an earlier discussion, we
develop a theoretical schema for the classification and mapping of a range
of different discourses of globalisation and European integration. These we
categorise in terms of the contingent or inevitable character attributed to
the process in question and the positive, open-ended or negative
connotations it is seen to entail. What becomes apparent is the highly
strategic ways in which such discourses are used, the articulation of which
depends greatly upon the context in which they are deployed and the audience
for which they are intended.

References:

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Here in Bradford we used the holiday period to put in place what we hope is
a better version of the software that runs our web site,
www.irishdiaspora.net

As far as users of the web site are concerned there should not be any great
difference - the look and feel remain the same...

Some developments are worth nothing...

1.
Exhibits
It is now possible to make use of what are called 'Exhibits' - an Exhibit
can be available in a Folder and it can be practically any computer file.

So, it can be a word processor document, something in MS Word for example.
Thus preserving the footnote system...

It can be a pdf, Adobe Acrobat, file. Thus preserving the appearance of a
document.

It can be an image, a JPEG or GIF file and so on.

This means that we now have the ability to display and share maps,
photographs and illustrations on irishdiaspora.net. There is also a way of
displaying an image within an irishdiasporta.net document.

2.
DIRDA
There has long been a problem with DIRDA, the IR-D list's archive, over 7
years of IR-D list references and discussion available through the Special
Access part of irishdiaspora.net.

The database was very slow to load. Examination of the processes and
possibilities revealed that the background problem was very much the problem
you first thought of - the database is just very big.

We have solved the problem by offering 3 options to the user...
i. the most recent 100 items are immediately available for browsing,
ii. the entire database can be searched for any search term,
iii. the entire database can be browsed.

We hope this fits in with the ways people use the DIRDA database. Do give
us feedback, and let us know of any new problems that arise.

3.
NEW
When anything new is placed on irishdiaspora.net a little sign saying 'New'
appears in the appropriate place. Well, the facility was there - and I
could not see any point in not switching it on.

I will do a little note for Folder Editors about these technicalities - but
as alaways we have tried to make using the system simple and
straightforward. Folder Editors: Experiment, if you want to...

Generally irishdiaspora.net is now very visible on the web. It receives
between 100 and 200 visitors a day. The search engine robots, like
Googlebot, are regular visitors.

This does mean that I get a lot of junk mail, and a lot of research queries.
Some research queries make more sense than others. Sometimes, recently, I
have allowed myself to simply ignore a research query if I have nothing
helpful to say - just sending a polite email to everyone is proving very
time consuming.

As ever, our thanks to Dr. Stephen Sobol, of the University of Leeds, and
his colleagues at Sobolstones, for advice and assistance.

P.O'S.


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Sorry to alarm you. Your article, of course, has many points, but if you
ask students what the points an article makes are they approach it as if
they were putting together a grocery list -- limiting them to two MAIN
points, tricks them into thinking, especially when they have to defend their
choices in discussion -- at least that is the hope. But, you know all this.

Bill

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Neil Sammells, of Bath Spa University College, the Irish Studies Review, =
and
the not for profit Sulis Press, has contacted us with these offers...

Note that the contact person is Sandra Heward (s.heward[at]bathspa.ac.uk), =
who
can advise on despatch and methods of payment.

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