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A number of us have been keeping track of these AHRB New Initiatives,
especially of course the New Intiative, Diasporas, Migration and
Identities...

The AHRB, Arts and Humanities Research Board, is a major funder of =
research
in the UK.

I won't go into the politics of all this, but the appearance of this New
Intiative, Diasporas, Migration and Identities, does mark something of =
an
agenda change...

At the moment it is very difficult for me to free up space and time to
travel to meetings. Perhaps IR-D members who have been able to get to
meetings could report further...

Do note that this is an ARTS and HUMANITIES research intiative, so maybe
there is space for scholars in those fields to develop something. At =
this
stage I am not clear how much scope there is in the programme for
international contact and research...

Though you would think...

Patrick O'Sullivan

=20

The AHRB has identified two strategically important research areas to be
addressed through a concentrated programme of research over five years:

* Diasporas, migration and identities: this programme will explore
issues relating to diasporas and migration and their impact on =
identities
and cultures, in order to contribute to a deeper understanding of these
critical contemporary themes. The programme will investigate =
contemporary
and past experience, and a diverse range of issues that will include
language, religion and culture, and the interrogation of creative and =
other
texts and objects

* Landscape and environment: this programme will investigate human
relationships with the natural and built environment, and its =
construction
and representation through the many ways in which landscape is =
visualised,
understood and expressed. The programme will aim through an arts and
humanities perspective to bring new dimensions to our understanding of
critical questions of humanity's relationship to its environment and the =
way
its construction and meaning are shaped by human activity.

These programmes, to which the AHRB expects to devote =A34 million each, =
are
at an early stage of their development. Information on any activities
arising from the development of these programmes will be posted on this
website as soon as it is available.

http://www.ahrb.ac.uk/apply/research/strategicinitiatives/newinitiatives/=
dia
sporas_migration_identities.asp

(Note that your own email line breaks will probably fracture that long =
web
address. You will need to reconstruct the web address...

From the web site...
Diasporas, Migration and Identities

The programme will explore issues relating to diasporas and migration =
and
their impact on identities and cultures, in order to contribute to a =
deeper
understanding of these critical contemporary themes. It will investigate
contemporary and past experience, and a diverse range of issues that =
will
include language, religion and culture, and the interrogation of =
creative
and other texts and objects.

Developments so far

At the end of 2003 the AHRB brought together a focus group of =
researchers
from across the arts and humanities to explore the potential of a =
research
programme in this area. The group produced an outline specification for =
a
programme. The AHRB then invited a number of researchers working in =
relevant
disciplines to comment on the outline. A small working group was
subsequently established to develop the outline further, with the help =
of
the comments received. The revised outline specification which emerged =
will
form the focus of four seminars to be held around the country this =
Autumn.
The seminars will provide opportunities for the research community to
exchange and develop ideas. The discussions will help the AHRB and the
Programme Director once appointed to finalise the intellectual framework =
and
thematic priorities for the programme early in 2005. The first call for
proposals should follow shortly afterwards.

If you would like to be added to our mailing list for information about =
the
programme, including the seminars, please email Carl Dolan, Programme
Development Officer at c.dolan[at]ahrb.ac.uk.

For further information about the AHRB's development of strategic
programmes, please contact: Alison Henry, Senior Programme Manager,
a.henry[at]ahrb.ac.uk, telephone 0117 987 6664 or Carl Dolan, Programme
Development Officer, c.dolan[at]ahrb.ac.uk, telephone 0117 987 6682.

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Gmail is Google's web mail service...

As everyone says, like Hotmail but better...

At the moment it is free, and offers buckets of storage. It does inhabit a
strange, Google version of the world - it looks at your emails and puts
targeted advertisements in the margins. So, if you discuss Irish stuff you
get adverts for Irish stuff.

If you can cope with that it is a useful, web-based service. Certainly
better than Hotmail - though the competition seems to have made Hotmail
improve a little.

Gmail expands through invitation.

I have been given 6 Gmail invitations to distribute.

If you want a Gmail account contact me. First come, first served.

P.O'S.



Information at...

http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/about.html

From the web site...

'As part of Google's mission to organize the world's information and make it
universally accessible and useful, we're testing an email service called
Gmail.

Gmail is a free, search-based webmail service that includes 1,000 megabytes
(1 gigabyte) of storage. The backbone of Gmail is a powerful Google search
engine that quickly finds any message an account owner has ever sent or
received. That means there's no need to file messages in order to find them
again.

When Gmail displays an email, it automatically shows all the replies to that
email as well, so users can view a message in the context of a conversation.
There are no pop-ups or untargeted banner ads in Gmail, which places
relevant text ads and links to related web pages adjacent to email messages.

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From edmundo.murray[at]irishargentine.org

We are happy to announce a Special Edition of the IAHS's website
(www.irishargentine.org): "200th Anniversary of the Birth of Fr. Anthony
Fahy O.P. (11 January 1805 - 20 February 1871)".

- "Fr. Anthony Fahy O.P.", by Edward Walsh
- "Anthony Fahy of Loughrea: Irish Missionary in Argentina", by Michael Fahy
- Dictionary of Irish-Argentine Biography: "Anthony Dominic Fahy"
- "A Chronology of Fr. Fahy: His Life and Work"
- Introducing the Manuscripts and Rare Books Collection with Universidad de
San Andres

Contact:
Edmundo Murray
The Irish Argentine Historical Society
edmundo.murray[at]irishargentine.org
www.irishargentine.org

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Further to my message last month - see below - about this article by Mark
Hearn...

I will let my earlier message stand as an example of the guessing and
confusion that arises from keyword searches that turn up what are, on the
face of it, perfectly reasonable Abstracts. But which don not tell the full
story...

I have now been able to read this article.

It is in fact an Irish Diaspora study - and quite a significant Irish
Diaspora study, which will be of interest to all those who are trying to
preserve and comment on this kind of precious, ephemeral, fragile and all
too rare historical material. I am thinking here perhaps of Brian Lambkin's
forthcoming work...

Mark Hearn deomonstrates - very well - that in her notebook Mary Malone was
actively negotiating the parameters of an Irish Catholic identity in late
nineteenth century Australia. Her lodestar - if I may express it thus - was
evidently Cardinal Patrick Moran, which allows the specialist at once to see
where her journey might take her. Mark Hearn shows that the very first item
in the book contains a hidden jibe at Moran, about a Chinese who 'had found
employment within the Church', from an anti-immigration polemicist. This
detail is in itself a fascinating example of how carefully such material
must be read.

In 1896 Mary Malone, age 25, joined the Sisters of St. Joseph. I have to
hand much information about this order, for - backtracking from the murder
of Sister Irene McCormack - I commissioned a chapter from Janice Tranter,
'The Irish dimension of an Australian Religious Sisterhood: the Sisters of
Saint Joseph' for Patrick O'Sullivan, ed., Religion and Identity, Volume 5
of The Irish World Wide. I wonder if Janice Tranter knows about this
imprtant piece of work by Mark Hearn - who is to be congratulated...

(Usual Between-The-Lines conditions apply...)

P.O'S.


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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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The politics of noraid

Author: Brian Hanley1

Source: Irish Political Studies, Summer 2004, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 1-17(17)

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


This article examines the political thinking of the most important American
support organisation for the Irish republican movement during the course of
the Northern Ireland conflict. Noraid's primary function was fund raising
and in general terms its propaganda differed little from that of the
Provisonal Republican movement in Ireland. However it was also an
organisation founded and rooted in a section of Irish America, subject to
quite different political and cultural pressures than the republican
movement in Ireland. Using the organisation's newspaper the Irish People,
the article explains how Noraid promoted an Irish ethnic identity based on a
history of nativist discrimination against, and class division among, Irish
Americans. Furthermore it appealed to the Irish to emulate the perceived
success of other American ethnic groups. The article concludes that it is
too simplistic to consider Noraid a 'right wing' or 'conservative'
organisation as its politics could appeal to diverse constituencies.

Language: Unknown

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: Department of History NUI Maynooth

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Diogenes, Vol. 51, No. 1, 27-33 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0392192104041689
=A9 2004 International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies

Migrant Memories and Temporality
Luiz Felipe Ba=EAta Neves

State University of Rio de Janeiro

The text analyses rituals as endeavours to preserve the identity of a =
people
or a portion of a people. Rituals present or re-present the supposed =
common
history of all the migrants. Social memory and history then tend to =
merge
and to forget... forgetfulness is the driving force behind the writing =
of
history. Particularly critical is the moment when the migration starts,
because the need to adapt to new conditions as well as to maintain what =
is
represented as their social identity makes dual =96 and at times =
contradictory
=96 demands on the migrants=92 imagination. Examples taken from =
Portuguese
migrations are offered as expressions of the conceptual issues raised.

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The latest issue of Irish Studies Review will soon be distributed to
subscribers - including all members of the BAIS.

TOC pasted in below...

P.O'S.


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Volume 12 Number 3/December 2004 of Irish Studies Review is now available on
the Taylor & Francis web site at http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk.

The following URL will take you directly to the issue:

http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=P6P129F6HFT3

This issue contains:

Irish myth and Irish national consciousness
p. 271
Stephen Sayers

Sean O'casey, Larkinism and literature
p. 283
John Newsinger

The visionary affinities of W. B. Yeats and Sean O'Casey
p. 293
Brendan MacNamee

'Melmoth' (OW): gothic modes in the picture of Dorian Gray
p. 303
Richard Haslam

Digging for Darwin: bitter wisdom in the picture of Dorian Gray and 'the
critic as artist'
p. 315
Mary C. King

The spectre of genre in 'the Canterville ghost'
p. 329
Maureen O'Connor

Remember Emmet
p. 339

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The concept of the 'global care chain' is around - I think it was launched
by Arlie Russell Hochschild's chapter in On the Edge: Living with Global
Capitalism, edited by Will Hutton and Anthony Giddens, published by Jonathan
Cape. 2000.

See....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/parents/story/0,3605,231597,00.html

See also...
The Globalisation of Care Service Provision: A Value Chain Approach
Rachel Kurian
http://www.sgir.org/conference2004/papers/Kurian%20-%20The%20globalisation%2
0of%20care%20service%20provision.pdf

But this article by Nicola Yeates is the first time I have seen the concept
applied to Irish material. The concept might have retrospective, historic
uses - but maybe then gets spread a bit thin.

P.O'S.


Feminist Review
2004, Volume 77, Number 1, Pages 79-95

Article
a dialogue with 'global care chain' analysis: nurse migration in the Irish
context
Nicola Yeates

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

Feminist Review (2004) 77, 79-95. doi:10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400157
Keywords
global care chain; migration; care; labour; nurses; Ireland

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A little while ago Jim Rogers asked the Irish Studies list for =
references
about the Irish tourism industry.

A number of IR-D members are interested in this topic, and it is =
therefore
one of the research areas we keep an eye on.

A keyword search of our database turns up 30 or so mentions - not all to =
do
with tourism in Ireland, but a good few recent articles.

One of the articles so found was by Gear=F3id Denvir and appeared in a =
journal
called Hew Hibernia Review, whose publisher describes the article =
thus...
'Gear=F3id Denvir surveys - with no small alarm - the mixed blessings of
mass tourism on Ireland's Gaeltacht regions. Denvir draws on the work of
such theorists of tourism, the blithe projections of tourism planners, =
his
own experiences as a resident of the Connemara Gaeltacht, and the =
insights
of poets to describe high psychic costs of pursuing, or being pursued =
by,
the (usually English-speaking) tourist dollar.' =20

Bill Williams supplied Jim Rogers with some book references, which I =
have
pasted in below - for completeness...

There have also been some anecdotes about tourist/native tensions - =
which I
would regard as part of the diaspora/homeland tensions - so LITTLE =
studied
within Irish Diaspora Studies, but a strong feature of diaspora studies
elsewhere...

P.O'S.

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From: Williams, Bill=20
Subject: [irishstudies] RE: tourism history

Here are a few suggestions for literature on Irish tourism industry.=20

Kockel, Ullrich, ed. (1994), Culture, Tourism and Development: The Case =
of
Ireland, Liverpool: Liverpool Univeristy Press.

Buttimer, Neil, Colin Rynne and Helen Guerin, ed., (2000), The Heritage =
of
Ireland, Cork: Collins Press. Nothing on tourism as such, but it does =
deal
with a lot of tourism related issues.=20

O'Connor, Barbara, and Michael Cronin, eds. (1993), Tourism in Ireland:
A Critical Analysis. Cork: Cork University Press.

Ryle, Martin (1999), Journeys in Ireland: Literary Travellers, Rural
Landscapes, Cultural Relations, Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate Press.

Bill Williams

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Subject: [irishstudies] tourism history

Listers:

What are good books/articles of the history of the modern Irish tourism
industry? =20

Thanks in advance

Jim Rogers
New Hibernia Review

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Ireland's Creative Development: Local Authority Strategies for
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On a train of thought...

For information...

P.O'S.

publication
Regional Studies - Abingdon

ISSN
0034-3404 electronic: 1360-0591

publisher
=09

Carfax Publishing - Part of Taylor & Francis
year - volume - issue - page
=09

2004 - 38 - 7 - 817


article

Ireland's Creative Development: Local Authority Strategies for =
Culture-led
Development

Bayliss, Darrin

table of content - full text

abstract

Bayliss D. (2004)=20
Ireland's creative development: local authority strategies for =
culture-led
development, Regional Studies 38 , 817-831. This paper addresses =
specific
gaps in our understanding of practice and policy concerning culture and
local and regional development in Ireland. It is a country in which the
development impacts of cultural policy are of increasing importance, yet =
the
state of knowledge and policy in terms of the arts and culture remains
underdeveloped. The paper provides an overview of European strategies =
for
culture-led development, and reviews the increasing importance of =
culture
and creativity within strategies for development in Ireland. It then
presents an analysis of a questionnaire survey of Irish local =
authorities
concerning their use of culture as a tool of development. This analysis
identifies a marked enthusiasm for cultural development in Ireland,
especially in a rural context, but also suggests a neglect of economic
development objectives and the need for a more refined approach to =
social
development.=20

Bayliss D. (2004)
L'esprit cr=E9atif irlandais: la strat=E9gie des adminstrations locales =
quant au
d=E9veloppement fond=E9 sur la culture, Regional Studies 38 , 817-831. =
Cet
article cherche =E0 aborder la question des insuffisances en mati=E8re =
des
connaissances de la pratique et de la politique concernant la culture et =
le
d=E9veloppement r=E9gional en Irlande. C'est un pays o=F9 l'impact de la =
politique
culturelle sur le d=E9veloppement est d'une importance accrue, tandis =
que les
connaissances et la politique en faveur de la promotion des arts restent =
=E0
d=E9velopper. Cet article donne une vue d'ensemble des strat=E9gies =
europ=E9ennes
quant au d=E9veloppement fond=E9 sur la culture et fait la critique de
l'importance accrue de la culture et de l'esprit cr=E9atif au coeur des
strat=E9gies en faveur du d=E9veloppement de l'Irlande. Il s'ensuit une =
analyse
d'une =E9tude =E9tablie =E0 partir d'un questionnaire aupr=E8s des =
administrations
locales en Irlande concernant l'emploi de la culture en tant qu'outil de
d=E9veloppement. L'analyse fait non seulement preuve d'un enthousiasme =
marqu=E9
en faveur du d=E9veloppement culturel en Irlande, surtout en milieu =
rural,
mais aussi laisse supposer une certaine indiff=E9rence =E0 l'=E9gard des =
objectifs
de d=E9veloppement =E9conomique et la n=E9cessit=E9 d'une fa=E7on plus =
peaufin=E9e
d'aborder le d=E9veloppement social.=20

Bayliss D. (2004)=20
Irlands kreative Entwicklung: Strategien der Ortsverwaltungen f=FCr
Entwicklung mit Kultur als Antriebskraft, Regional Studies 38 , 817-831.
Dieser Aufsatz wendet sich an gewisse L=FCcken in unserem Verst=E4ndnis =
der
Bestrebungen und praktischen Handhabung bez=FCglich Kultur und =
=F6rtlicher bz.w.
regionaler Entwicklung in Irland. Es ist ein Land, in dem die
Entwicklungsauswirkungen der Kulturpolitik zunehmend von Bedeutung sind,
doch Wissensstand und Bestrebungen betreff der sch=F6nen K=FCnste und =
Kultur
unterentwickelt bleiben. Dieser Aufsatz gibt einen =DCberblick =FCber
europ=E4ische Entwicklungsstrategien, bei denen Kultur die Antriebskraft
darstellt, und bespricht die zunehmende Bedeutung von Kultur und
sch=F6pferischer Bet=E4tigung im Zusammenhang mit Strategien f=FCr die =
Enwicklung
in Irland. Anschlie=DFend legt er eine Analyse einer Feagebogenumfrage =
unter
irischen Ortsverwaltungen vor, die sich auf deren Verwendung von Kultur =
als
Werkzeug f=FCr Entwicklungsarbeit bezieht. Diese Analyse stellt eine =
deutliche
Begeisterung f=FCr kulturelle Entwicklung in Irland fest, besonders auf =
dem
Lande, weist aber auch auf die Vernachl=E4ssigung wirtschaftlicher
Entwicklungsziele hin, und auf die Notwendigkeit eines verfeinerten =
Angehens
der sozialen Enwicklung.=20

Bayliss D. (2004)
El desarrollo creativo de Irlanda: las estrategias de los ayuntamientos =
para
un desarrollo basado en la cultura, Regional Studies 38 , 817-831. Este
art=EDculo aborda lagunas espec=EDficas en nuestro entendimiento de las
pr=E1cticas y las pol=EDticas en torno al desarrollo regional, local y =
cultural
en Irlanda. =C9ste es un pa=EDs en el que el impacto en el desarrollo de
pol=EDticas culturales es de creciente importancia, a=FAn as=ED el =
estado del
conocimiento y de pol=EDtica en lo que se refiere a las artes y a la =
cultura
permanece subdesarrollado. El art=EDculo ofrece una revisi=F3n =
panor=E1mica de las
estrategias europeas para el desarrollo basado en la cultura, y revisa =
la
creciente importancia de la cultura y la creatividad dentro de las
estrategias para el desarrollo en Irlanda. Luego se presenta un =
an=E1lisis de
una encuesta de los ayuntamientos irlandeses en lo que respecta al uso =
que
hacen de la cultura como herramienta de desarrollo. Este an=E1lisis =
idenfica
un marcado entusiasmo por el desarrollo cultural en Irlanda, =
especialmente
en un contexto rural, pero tambi=E9n sugiere un descuido de los =
objetivos de
desarrollo econ=F3mico y la necesidad de un enfoque de cara al =
desarrollo
social m=E1s refinado.

keyword(s)

Ireland, Culture, Planning, Development,
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Further on the AHRB New Initiative on Diasporas, Migration and Identities...

1.
First my apologies for my difficulties in typing 'Initiative' - the brain
knows but the fingers don't...

2.
I have now got some clarification from the AHRB...

The key sections of that clarification are...

'The next phase will involve the programme director and the steering
committee drafting a final call for proposals and we expect that to be
publicised in March or April 2005. The commissioning process will take place
over the Summer and we would expect the decisions to be announced in
September or October 2005 with the first projects beginning hopefully later
in the year.'

'We would be happy for any information to be posted on the Irish Diaspora
mailing list. As the Irish Diaspora list is an international list, it should
be pointed out that the eligibility criteria will be the same as for current
AHRB funding schemes, in that we will be constrained to fund research that
is based in UK HEIs.'

For further information see...

http://www.ahrb.ac.uk/apply/research/strategicinitiatives/new_initiatives.as
p

HEIs = Higher Education Institutions - I think. I should immediately point
out that Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom.

3.
More usefully, IR-D member Karen Corrigan has sent us her own Briefing
Paper...

BRIEFING PAPER
AHRB Diasporas, Migration and Identities
Framework Seminar
Royal Society of Edinburgh
Monday 20 December 2004
Briefing paper by Karen Corrigan

Dr Karen Corrigan
Reader of Linguistics & English Language University of Newcasdtle upon Tyne

This is very kind and helpful of Karen, who has made it clear that the
Briefing Paper is available to any IR-D member who would like to see it.

The Briefing Paper is thorough, interesting - in fact of interest to anyone
who wants to see how these funding organisations progress. It is 6 pages
long, so perhaps too long to send out as an IR-D email.

I am happy to send out Karen's Briefing Paper as an email attachment to any
IR-D member who wants it- contact me directly with your request at
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And of course we must thank Karen Corrigan...

Paddy O'Sullivan


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From: Collins, Neil
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Patrick

The Buttimer book does have a chapter on tourism in Northern Ireland that
might be useful.

Best wishes

Neil

Professor Neil Collins
Department of Government
University College Cork
Cork
Ireland

Buttimer, Neil, Colin Rynne and Helen Guerin, ed., (2000), The Heritage of
Ireland, Cork: Collins Press.

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Scholarships for International Summer School in Irish Studies, 18 July - 5
August 2005

This three-week programme is now in its fifth year and attracts students
from the US, Canada, Europe and South America, Australia and Japan.

The programme offers a unique opportunity to examine Irish history,
politics, anthropology, literature, drama, film, archaeology and art.

Teaching is combined with fieldtrips to sites of historic, political,
scientific and cultural interest in Northern Ireland. Aspects of the
conflict are also explored through meetings and dialogue with community
group leaders, local think-tank organisations, politicians and the Police
Service. The closing date is 31 May.

There are two scholarships available for this programme: the Estyn Evans and
John Fairleigh Scholarships (closing date 31 March).

Full details of this programme and application forms are available on our
website at:
http://www.qub.ac.uk/iis/courses/ss-about.htm

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Dr Dominic Bryan
Director

Catherine Boone
Administrator

Institute of Irish Studies
Queen's University Belfast
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From: john hearne
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Patrick
Re query from Jim Rogers on Irish tourist industry.
See Irene Furlong's article, 'Frederick W. Crossley, Irish
turn-of-the-century pioneer', in Irish History: Research Yearbook 2 (Irish
Academic Press, 2003).
Regards, John

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Patrick

I am preparing a paper on national anthems which looks at their political,
musical and linguistic features. In particular, my co-authors and I wish to
examine historical trends, political patterns and other influences. Would
members of your list be aware of literature on the influences on Amhran na
bhFiann or, more interestingly, on its influence on other anthems?

I appreciate that the basic details are readily available but the thoughts
behind its adoption would be interesting.

Thanks

Neil

Professor Neil Collins
Department of Government
University College Cork
Cork
Ireland

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Another citation on Irish tourism:

Eric Zuelow, "The Tourism Nexus: Tourism and Identity since the Irish Civil
War" (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004).

List members might also be interested in Zuelow's website: The Nationalism
Project (http://www.nationalismproject.org/)


Michael de Nie
Department of History
University of West Georgia

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Forwarded on behalf of Mervyn Busteed...

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Dear Member,

On behalf of Mervyn Busteed, I now attach the Agenda for the Annual General
Meeting of the BAIS to be held on Saturday 29th January 2005 at 12.15 pm in
Room 329/30 of the Institute of English Studies, Senate House, University
of London, Malet Street. We do hope that you will be able to attend.

Linda Christiansen
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British Association for Irish Studies


Dear Member,
You are invited to the Annual General Meeting of the BAIS to
be held on Saturday 29 January 2005 at 12.15 p.m. in Room 329/30 of the
Institute of English Studies, Senate House, University of London, Malet
Street, London.

All fully paid up members are entitled to attend. Thank you

Agenda

Chair's Welcome and Opening Remarks

Minutes of AGM of Saturday 17th January 2004

Matters Arising

Chair's Report

Treasurer's Report

Honorary Secretary's Report

Reports on:
1) Education
a) Bursaries
b) Postgraduate Essay Competition
2) Publications:
a) Irish Studies Review
b) Bulletin
c) Website
3) Conference & Cultural Matters
4) Irish Language
5) Membership

A.O.B.

P.S. This meeting is followed by an Irish Studies seminar at 2.00 p.m. in
Room 331. BAIS is associated with this series and we encourage as many as
possible to attend. Thank you.


Dr Mervyn Busteed
Department of Geography
University of Manchester
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Neil,

What an interesting project...

The IR-D list has discussed the Irish National Anthem a few times - most
recently in 2003, I think.

A search in our archive for Anthem or Kearney should find stuff - including
a nice note from Daniel Nieciecki demonstrating from internal evidence the
limits of Peadar Kearney's knowledge of the Irish language.

Then, of course, there is the previous front runner, the 'Fenian Anthem',
God Save Ireland - by Timothy Daniel Sullivan.

If you spend a lot of time in nineteeth century anthologies, like Patrick
Maume and I have done, you always breathe a sigh of relief when you come
across something by Timothy Daniel Sullivan or by Alexander Martin Sullivan
- because it will be well written. In fact often when I read an unsigned
something, and I think, This is well done, and hunt down the source - it
will be by one of the Sullivans.

Paddy


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From: Collins, Neil
N.collins[at]ucc.ie
Patrick

I am preparing a paper on national anthems which looks at their political,
musical and linguistic features. In particular, my co-authors and I wish to
examine historical trends, political patterns and other influences. Would
members of your list be aware of literature on the influences on Amhran na
bhFiann or, more interestingly, on its influence on other anthems?

I appreciate that the basic details are readily available but the thoughts
behind its adoption would be interesting.

Thanks

Neil

Professor Neil Collins
Department of Government
University College Cork
Cork
Ireland

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I am enjoying Irish University Review more than I used to... I don't know
why, and maybe I should analyse why... Maybe I am getting used to its
little ways. Maybe editor Anne Fogarty is finding material that more chimes
with my predilections. The essays seem to be less about introspective
explorations of individual texts - which I am not against and often do
enjoy. And more about the placing of texts within wider debates. So, of
course, diaspora, migration...

Two examples here... Aidan Arrowsmith makes interesting use of the work of
Liam Greenslade and others in his study of Tom Murphy. John Brannigan
offers an exploration of the 'racialization of Irish society' using three
texts, Tom Murphy again, Brendan Behan and James Plunkett. On Murphy, he
quotes Fintan O'Toole, 'Coventry is the Ireland of the future...' (To those
of you who do not know Coventry, a city in the English Midlands, flattened
in World War 11... all I can say is forebode, forebode...) Brannigan makes
a point that has been made before, but takes it further - comparing the 2
texts of Behan's An Giall/The Hostage, Irish/English, the additions in the
English text (Rio Rita and so on) are seen to reflect changes in English
society and prefigure changes in Ireland...

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VOL 34; PART 2; 2004
ISSN 0021-1427

pp. 213-228
Richard Head's The Miss Display'd and Irish Restoration Society Gillespie,
R.

pp. 229-246
Of the Dark Past': The Brittle Magic Nation of Joyce's Poetics Holdridge, J.

pp. 247-260
`Tell Me This, Do You Ever Open A Book At All?': Portraits of the Reader in
Brian O'Nolan's At Swim-Two-Birds Taaffe, C.

pp. 261-276
A Minority of One: Francis Stuart's Black List, Section H and the End of the
Irish Bildungsroman Murphy, R. T.

pp. 277-290
`More Than a Language... No More of a Language': Merriman, Heaney, and the
Metamorphoses of Translation O Brien, E.

pp. 291-314
The Legacy of Yeats in Contemporary Irish Poetry Schuchard, R.

pp. 315-331
`To Fly By Those Nets': Violence and Identity in Tom Murphy's A Whistle in
the Dark Arrowsmith, A.

pp. 332-350
Race, Cosmopolitanism, and Modernity: Irish Writing and Culture in the Late
Nineteen Fifties Brannigan, J.

pp. 351-368
Pastoral Exhibits: Narrating Authenticities in Conor McPherson's The Weir
Jordan, E.

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I thought this article might interest some IR-D members, as an example =
of a
way in which some language patterns might survive or develop in social =
or
cultural isolation...

P.O'S.

Ethnic patterns in the phonetics of Montreal English

Author: Charles Boberg 1

Source: Journal of Sociolinguistics, November 2004, vol. 8, no. 4, pp.
538-568(31)

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
=20
Most North American cities no longer display strong ethnic =
differentiation
of speech within the European-origin population. This is not true in the
English-speaking community of Montreal, Canada, where English is a =
minority
language. Differences in the phonetic realization of vowels by =
Montrealers
of Irish, Italian, and Jewish ethnic origin are investigated by means of
acoustic analysis. A statistical analysis of ethnic differences in =
formant
frequencies shows that ethnicity has a significant effect on several
variables, particularly the phonetic position of /u:/ and /ou/ and the
allophonic conditioning of /=E6/ and /au/ before nasal consonants. The =
unusual
tenacity of ethnophonetic variation in Montreal English is explained in
light of the minority status of English, and the social and residential
segregation of ethnic groups in distinct neighborhoods, which limits =
their
exposure to speakers of Standard Canadian English who might otherwise =
serve
as models for assimilation.

Keywords: Canadian English; Montreal English; ethnolects; English =
vowels;
acoustic analysis; speech communities

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: McGill University, Montreal, Canada