Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Article, The transatlantic cable - an Irish perspective
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This is a very brief, and limited, look at the impact of the laying of the
cables on remote Irish communities, and of the subsequent impact of having
there a small well-paid, well-housed group.

P.O'S.


The transatlantic cable - an Irish perspective
Connolly, C.
Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Limerick Univ., Ireland;
This paper appears in: Proceedings of the IEEE

Publication Date: April 2002
On page(s): 623 - 625
Volume: 90 , Issue: 4
ISSN: 0018-9219
CODEN: IEEPAD
Inspec Accession Number: 7292789

Abstract:
One of the papers presented at the IEEE History of Telecommunications
Conference in Newfoundland last July looked at the first transatlantic
cables from an Irish perspective. The author has studied the local impact of
the cable as a relatively poor and isolated community suddenly found itself
at a hub in the worldwide telecommunications network. The paper describes
the Valentia community, the cable station staff, and the cable stations at
Valentia, Waterville, and Ballinskelligs

Index Terms:
history submarine cables telecommunication cables Ballinskelligs
Irish perspective Valentia Waterville cable stations local impact
poor isolated community transatlantic cable worldwide telecommunications
network

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Woodstown Viking site
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of
Colman Etchingham
Colman.Etchingham[at]nuim.ie
Subject: Woodstown Viking site

Dear Colleague

The Saving Viking Waterford Action Group has set up an on-line petition,
which can be accessed at our website:

http://www.vikingwaterford.com

If you have a moment to spare, please consult the site, consider signing =
the
petition and pass this message on to anyone who may be interested.

Best wishes

Dr Catherine Swift

Dr Colm=E1n Etchingham

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Articles, Family Therapy With Irish-Americans
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I have listed below 3 items that appeared in the journal
Family Process
Published on behalf of the Family Process Institute
Journal Cover June 1981 - Volume 20 Issue 2 Page 131-258

in June 1981.

The first item fell into our nets in the usual way, as the online databases
expand and pick up more material from the past.

It seemed an item worth pursuing, because there is not all that much on
family therapy specifically with Irish-Americans. The date is interesting -
Scheper-Hughes' book was first published in 1979. And we must wonder what
line these family therapists were pursuing.

I have not been able to find out very much more - but I have established
that there were 2 further items, listed below, in the journal, some Comments
by Nollaig Byrne and a Rejoinder by the original authors. There was (is?) a
psychiatrist called Nollaig Byrne working in Dublin. The quotation from
Samuel Johnson suggests that we might be on familiar ground.

Does any IR-D member have access to the journal, Family Process?

Web searches reveal that this article regularly turns up on reading lists.
And there are articles by Monica McGoldrick at...
http://www.aislingmagazine.com/aislingmagazine/articles/TAM19/Irish%20famili
es.html

http://www.aislingmagazine.com/aislingmagazine/articles/TAM21/Irish%20Famili
es.Html

P.O'S.


1.
Family Therapy With Irish-Americans

Family therapy with Irish-Americans.

McGoldrick M, Pearce JK.

This paper presents a paradigm for understanding the cultural values and
family patterns of Irish-American families and offers suggestions for
clinical intervention. Families' correspondence to the model described will
depend upon their level of acculturation, socioeconomic status, and other
contextual factors. The paradigm suggests a number of issues that may create
difficulties for the therapist and for the family in therapy. In general,
behavioral techniques, Bowen systems therapy, and strategic interventions
may be more useful then techniques emphasizing expression of emotions in
therapy or direct attempts to alter communication or family behavior in
therapy sessions, as used in structural therapy.

MONICA MC GOLDRICK, A.C.S.W.JOHN K. PEARCE, M.D.

Family Process
Volume 20, Issue 2, Page 223-241, June 1981


2.
Family Process
Volume 20 Issue 2 Page 241 - June 1981
doi:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1981.00241.x

COMMENTS
NOLLAIG BYRNE, M.B. CH., F.R.C.P.a

The Irish are not in a conspiracy to cheat the world by the false
representations of the merits of their countrymen.

No, sir; the Irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Boswell's Life Johnson


3.
Family Process
Volume 20 Issue 2 Page 244 - June 1981
doi:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1981.00244.x

REJOINDER
McGOLDRICK
PEARCE

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Journals, Irish Studies and Diaspora Studies 2
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

From: gmacloughlin
gmacloughlin[at]ciudad.com.ar
Subject: RE: [IR-D] Journals, Irish Studies and Diaspora Studies

Dear Paddy,

You must all be aware of the existance of "The Southern Cross", the oldest
Irish newspaper of the diapora, who yesterday celebrated its 130 th.
anniversary. It was founded in Buenos Aires by Monsignor Patrick Dillon on
January 16, 1875.

More information: www.thesoutherncross.com.ar

Best regards and happy New Year to you all.

Guillermo MacLoughlin

Buenos Aires, Argentina
gmacloughlin[at]ciudad.com.ar

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Priests and sunglasses
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

From: Linda Dowling Almeida
lindaalmeida[at]hotmail.com
Subject: priests and sunglasses

This is a very strange request, but has any member of the list heard about
or know anything about Catholic priests who left the priesthood and then
wore sunglasses into Church everytime they went to to Mass? I was speaking
to a friend of mine whose 75 year old uncle recently passed away and my
friend was remembering that the uncle was a former priest who left the
priesthood in the late 60s and from that point on always wore the shades to
Mass. And, according to my friend, his uncle was not the only former priest
with this habit. I have never heard about it nor noticed anyone wearing
sunglasses when I have been in Church.
Any thoughts?
Linda Dowling Almeida

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Priests and sunglasses 2
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

From: jamesam[at]si.rr.com
Subject: Re: [IR-D] Priests and sunglasses

Linda,

I once knew a former priest who was very embarrassed at leaving the
priesthood(this after ten years of marriage, no less)...but glasses? That's
a new one, unless someone's pulling a metaphor on you.

Best,

Patricia Jameson-Sammartano

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Priests and sunglasses 3
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

From: Kerby Miller
MillerK[at]missouri.edu
Subject: Re: [IR-D] Priests and sunglasses

Blinded by "The Light"?
Sorry,
Kerby

(Moderator's Note: This message forwarded to the Ir-D list in the belief
that No Information is Information...)



>From: Linda Dowling Almeida
>lindaalmeida[at]hotmail.com
>Subject: priests and sunglasses
>
>This is a very strange request, but has any member of the list heard
>about or know anything about Catholic priests who left the priesthood
>and then wore sunglasses into Church everytime they went to to Mass? I
>was speaking to a friend of mine whose 75 year old uncle recently
>passed away and my friend was remembering that the uncle was a former
>priest who left the priesthood in the late 60s and from that point on
>always wore the shades to Mass. And, according to my friend, his uncle
>was not the only former priest with this habit. I have never heard
>about it nor noticed anyone wearing sunglasses when I have been in Church.
>Any thoughts?
>Linda Dowling Almeida

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Articles, Family Therapy With Irish-Americans 2
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

From: William Mulligan Jr.
billmulligan[at]murray-ky.net
Subject: RE: [IR-D] Articles, Family Therapy With Irish-Americans

It appears that MSU Library has the this journal for 1981. I say "appears"
because I have become cautious about assuming that what shows up in the
catalog is on the shelf. I'll check it out tomorrow or Wednesday and report
back.

Bill
William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of History
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA




-----Original Message-----
Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I have listed below 3 items that appeared in the journal Family Process
Published on behalf of the Family Process Institute Journal Cover June 1981
- Volume 20 Issue 2 Page 131-258
in June 1981.

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Articles, Globalisation + Irish Art = ?
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Email Patrick O'Sullivan

A little while ago I was asked for an opinion on some present day Irish
works of art - and I said that it seemed to be art specifically designed to
be sold to Saatchis... Which was NOT what was wanted...

But I have been following with interest the work of art critic, Lucy Cotter.
There is an article on the CIRCA Art Magazine web site, and a further
article has just appeared in THIRD TEXT...

P.O'S.

1.
Globalisation, Cultural Baggage and the Critical Direction of Irish Art
Practice

Has the cultural sector in the Republic of Ireland jettisoned the past in
favour of an uneasy foothold in the present? Lucy Cotter looks here at the
conflicts and contradictions that may lurk beneath the surface.

http://www.recirca.com/articles/cotter/index.shtml


2.
Globalisation + Irish Art = ?

Author: Lucy Cotter

Source: Third Text, January 2005, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 15-26(12)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Language: Unknown

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/09528820412331318523

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: TOC Yearbook of English Studies Volume 35, Issue 1, January 2005
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The latest issue of The Yearbook of English Studies January 2005 is an =
Irish
literature special...

TOC pasted in below...

I have removed from the TOC a long list of book reviews, not relevant to =
our
immediate needs...

Some of these articles do seem to chime with IR-D interests.

P.O'S.


The Yearbook of English Studies

ISSN 0306-2473
The Yearbook of English Studies=20
Modern Humanities Research Association=20

Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association

=20
Volume 35, Issue 1, 1 January 2005

=91Altering the past=92: Northern Irish Poetry and Modern Canons
pp. 1-17(17)
Author: Edna Longley

Thomas Kinsella: Jousting with Evil
pp. 18-30(13)
Author: Maurice Harmon

The Difficulty of We: The Epistolary Poems of Michael Longley and Derek
Mahon
pp. 31-42(12)
Author: Gavin Drummond

=91A brief glow in the dark=92: Samuel Beckett's Presence in Modern =
Irish Poetry
pp. 43-57(15)
Author: Mark Nixon

=91Friendship's Garland=92 and the Manuscripts of Seamus Heaney's =
=91Fosterage=92
pp. 58-71(14)
Author: Jonathan Allison

14 days Eavan Boland and the Politics of Authority in Irish Poetry
pp. 72-90(19)
Author: Catriona Clutterbuck

Considering Classroom Communities: Ciaran Carson and Paul Muldoon
pp. 91-106(16)
Author: Carol Tell

From Inis Fraoigh to Innisfree =85 and Back Again? Sense of Place in =
Poetry in
Irish since 1950
pp. 107-130(24)
Author: Gearoid Denvir

Yeats's Politics Since 1943: Approaches and Reproaches
pp. 131-145(15)
Author: W. J. McCormack

=91The best banned in the land=92: Censorship and Irish Writing since =
1950
pp. 146-160(15)
Authors: Donal =D3 Drisceoil

The Struggle for Form: Se=E1n O'Faol=E1in's Autobiographies
pp. 161-170(10)
Author: Frank Shovlin

=91Tracing Again the Tiny Snail Track=92: Southern Protestant Memoir =
Since 1950
pp. 171-185(15)
Author: Robert Tobin

Marvellous Fathers in the Fiction of John McGahern
pp. 186-198(13)
Authors: Siobh=E1n Holland

=91Not a son but a survivor=92: Beckett =85 Joyce =85 Banville
pp. 199-211(13)
Author: Kersti Tarien Powell

The Novel in Irish Since 1950: From National Narrative to =
Counter-Narrative
pp. 212-231(20)
Authors: Brian =D3 Conchubhair

Seamus Deane: Between Burke and Adorno
pp. 232-248(17)
Author: Conor McCarthy

Strategies of Silence: Colonial Strains in Short Stories of the Troubles
pp. 249-263(15)
Author: Ronan McDonald

Irish Studies and the Adequacy of Theory: The Case of Brian Friel
pp. 264-278(15)
Author: Shaun Richards

Frank McGuinness and the Sons of Ulster
pp. 279-297(19)
Author: Declan Kiberd

Ireland in Two Minds: Martin McDonagh and Conor McPherson
pp. 298-311(14)
Author: Nicholas Grene

Turning Inside and Out: Translating and Irish 1950=962000
pp. 312-322(11)
Author: Alan Titley

Irish and Postcolonial Writing: History, Theory, Practice.
pp. 323-324(2)
Author: David Dwan

Riotous Performances: The Struggle for Hegemony in the Irish Theater,
1712=961784.
pp. 324-325(2)
Author: John Greene

The Theatre of Nation: Irish Drama and Cultural Nationalism 1890=961916.
pp. 325-330(6)
Author: Mary C. King

Theatre and the State in Twentieth-Century Ireland: Cultivating the =
People.
pp. 325-330(6)
Author: Mary C. King

A History of the Irish Theatre 1601=962000.
pp. 325-330(6)
Author: Mary C. King

Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Colonial =
Sublime.
pp. 330-331(2)
Authors: Tadhg O'Sullivan

Hopkins in Ireland.
pp. 331-332(2)
Author: Joseph J. Feeney S.J.

The First World War in Irish Poetry.
pp. 332-334(3)
Author: Alan Gillis

W. B. Yeats: A Life; II: The Arch Poet 1915=961939.
pp. 334-336(3)
Author: Ronan McDonald

Suspicious Readings of Joyce's =91Dubliners=92.
pp. 336-337(2)
Author: Thomas Docherty

Joyce and the Early Freudians: A Synchronic Dialogue of Texts.
pp. 337-338(2)
Author: Craig Monk

Modernism and Music: An Anthology of Sources.
pp. 338-340(3)
Author: Thomas Mansell

Beckett and Aesthetics.
pp. 338-340(3)
Author: Thomas Mansell

The Contemporary Irish Novel: Critical Readings.
pp. 340-341(2)
Author: Thomas Mansell

Seamus Heaney: The Crisis of Identity.
pp. 341-342(2)
Author: Rachel Buxton

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Article, Englishmen in New York: The SIS American Station, 1915-21
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.


Englishmen in New York: The SIS American Station, 1915-21

Author: Richard Spence

Source: Intelligence and National Security, September 2004, vol. 19, no. 3,
pp. 511-537(27)

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

Abstract:
This article examines the organization, personnel and selected operations of
the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in New York during and
immediately after the First World War. Under the leadership of Sir William
Wiseman, SIS agents successfully combated German intrigues as well as Irish
and Indian nationalists. The greatest challenges, however, were managing the
shifting relationship with American authorities and the encroachments of
rival British agencies such as MI5. The roles of Guy Gaunt, Robert Nathan
and Norman Thwaites are given particular attention.

Language: Unknown

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/0268452042000316269

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Article,
'Ireland of the welcomes'? racism and anti-racism in
nineteenth-century Ireland
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.



'Ireland of the welcomes'? racism and anti-racism in nineteenth-century
Ireland

Author: Bill Rolston

Source: Patterns of Prejudice, December 2004, vol. 38, no. 4, pp.
355-370(16)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:
Irish society, North and South, has been slow to develop a social awareness
and legal framework in relation to racism. This has resulted, in the main,
from an unwillingness to admit to the presence of racism in Irish history
and culture. Yet an examination of Irish society at the time of the visits
of two black abolitionists to the country Olaudah Equiano in 1791 and
Frederick Douglass in 1845--reveals deep currents of racism in both
instances. The attempt by Belfast merchant Waddell Cunningham, who had made
his fortune through the provisioning of slave plantations in the Caribbean,
to establish a slave-trading company in Belfast in 1786 is a case in point.
And, in the mid-nineteenth century, the Young Irelanders, a radical and
militant nationalist movement, viewed national liberation as more pressing
than the abolition of slavery. At the same time, both Equiano and Douglass
noted the warm welcome they received, the former from anti-slavery
activists, and the latter from such global players in the international
abolitionist scene as Daniel O'Connell. Rolston concludes that there is
nothing mysterious in contemporary Irish racism and anti-racism. Both have
deep historical roots and are ultimately explained by Ireland's complex
relationship to colonization: colonized itself, while at the same time
intimately involved in colonizing others through the key roles played by
Irish people throughout the British empire.

Keywords: anti-racism; Frederick Douglass; Ireland; Olaudah Equiano; racism

Language: Unknown

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/0031322042000298437

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Article, Development Theory and the Celtic Tiger
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.



Development Theory and the Celtic Tiger

Author: Peadar Kirby

Source: The European Journal of Development Research, Summer, 2004, vol. =
16,
no. 2, pp. 301-328(28)

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

Abstract:
The economic boom in Ireland between 1994 and 2000, known as the 'Celtic
Tiger', has been widely interpreted as a period of economic and social
development and as offering lessons for developmental success under the
conditions of globalisation. This study critically examines these claims =
in
the light of development theory. It first examines the validity of =
applying
development theory to the Irish case through outlining Ireland's =
development
trajectory. It then surveys the principal interpretative frameworks used =
in
the social science literature to understand Ireland's development,
particularly over the Celtic Tiger period. The next section draws on
development theory to examine the nature and sustainability of the =
economic
and social changes associated with the Celtic Tiger, and to identify key
structural features of the Irish development model over this period. The
study concludes that the Celtic Tiger boom has camouflaged rather than
resolved Ireland's development problems and that it stands as a =
cautionary
tale of the social costs of economic success under the conditions of =
real
existing globalisation.

Le boom =E9conomique qui a eu lieu entre 1994 et 2000 en Irlande, alors =
connue
sous le nom de =AB Tigre Celtique =BB, a largement =E9t=E9 =
interpr=E9t=E9 comme une
phase de d=E9veloppement =E9conomique et social et comme une le=E7on de =
succ=E8s
=E9conomique dans un contexte de mondialisation. Ce travail de recherche =
remet
en cause ces affirmations en se basant sur la th=E9orie du =
d=E9veloppement. Il
examine tout d'abord dans quelle mesure il est valable d'appliquer la
th=E9orie du d=E9veloppement au cas irlandais en donnant un bref =
aper=E7u de
l'histoire du d=E9veloppement de l'Irlande. Il passe ensuite aux =
principaux
sch=E9mas d'interpr=E9tation utilis=E9s dans la litt=E9rature des =
sciences sociales
pour comprendre le d=E9veloppement de l'Irlande, en particulier durant =
la
p=E9riode du =AB Tigre Celtique =BB. La section suivante part de la =
th=E9orie du
d=E9veloppement pour analyser la nature et le caract=E8re durable des
changements =E9conomiques et sociaux associ=E9s au =AB Tigre Celtique =
=BB. Ce
travail tente =E9galement d'identifier les sp=E9cificit=E9s =
structurelles du
mod=E8le de d=E9veloppement irlandais durant cette p=E9riode. La =
recherche conclut
que le boom du =AB Tigre Celtique =BB a =AB camoufl=E9 =BB, plut=F4t que =
r=E9solu les
probl=E8mes de d=E9veloppement de l'Irlande et devrait servir de mise en =
garde
contre les co=FBts sociaux du succ=E8s =E9conomique dans le cadre d'une
mondialisation bien r=E9elle.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/0957881042000220831

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Article, The Gaelic Athletic Association, Rule 21,
and Police Reform in Northern Ireland
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.



The Gaelic Athletic Association, Rule 21, and Police Reform in Northern
Ireland

Author: David Hassan 1

Source: Journal of Sport & Social Issues, February 2005, vol. 29, no. 1, pp.
60-78(19)

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Abstract:
Society in Northern Ireland has undergone substantial change in recent
years, the most controversial aspect of this being the reform of policing
following the report of the Independent Commission for Policing in Northern
Ireland in 1999. Section 15.2 of the report's recommendations called on the
Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), Ireland's largest sporting body, to
repeal Rule 21. This rule prevented security force personnel in Northern
Ireland from joining the GAA. Utilizing Mawby's models on policing, this
article examines a range of views expressed by GAA members concerning the
rule's eventual removal. Those advocating the retention of Rule 21 cited
decades of alleged maltreatment at the hands of state security forces. In
contrast, a growing body of opinion within the wider nationalist community
favored a more enlightened approach on the issue. The resulting discourse
reflected the symbolic importance of Rule 21 in the construction of Irish
Nationalism as a whole.

Keywords: politics; Irish sport; police reform; Rule 21; Northern
Nationalism

Document Type: Journal article

DOI: 10.1177/0193723504268731

Affiliations: 1: University of Ulster, Jordanstown, in Northern Ireland

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Article, Apologies in Irish Politics: A Commentary and Critique
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.


Apologies in Irish Politics: A Commentary and Critique

Author: Michael Cunningham

Source: Contemporary British History, Winter, 2004, vol. 18, no. 4, pp.
80-92(13)

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

Abstract:
This article considers the reasons for, and the responses to, two recent
apologies in Irish Politics. These are Tony Blair's statement in 1997
concerning the Famine of the 1840s and the IRA apology of 2002. A set of
criteria are developed by which to judge the validity of these apologies. It
is argued that Blair's statement did not formally constitute an apology
although one would be valid if British policy of the period were to be
considered unjust. The case of the IRA apology is more clear cut, as unjust
actions were committed and responsibility can be clearly demonstrated.

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: =?us-ascii?Q?Article=2C_'Tracing_Again_the_Tiny_Snail_Track':_Southern_Pr?=
=?us-ascii?Q?otestant_Memoir_Since_1950?=
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This article from The Yearbook of English Studies, January 2005 (see earlier
email containing TOC), seems of special interest.

P.O'S.



'Tracing Again the Tiny Snail Track': Southern Protestant Memoir Since 1950

Author: Robert Tobin 1

Source: The Yearbook of English Studies, 1 January 2005, vol. 35, no. 1, pp.
171-185(15)

Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association

Abstract:
This essay seeks to survey the range of themes and approaches taken by
Southern Irish Protestant memoirists writing since 1950. It argues that
their testimony as descendants of the former Protestant Ascendancy and as
members of a small religious minority adapting to life in independent
Ireland provides a unique perspective on Irish social life in the twentieth
century demanding closer scrutiny. Far from the homogenous and moribund
community it is generally assumed to be, Southern Irish Protestantism is
depicted by its memoirists as a diverse and evolving part of the larger
society. Particular attention is paid here to the writers' treatment of such
questions as genealogical inheritance, relationship to the land, and
participation in civic life.

Keywords: Memoirists; Protestant Ascendancy; Southern Irish Protestantism

Language: Unknown

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: Merton College, Oxford

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Priests and sunglasses 4
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

From: Rogers, James
JROGERS[at]stthomas.edu
Subject: RE: [IR-D] Priests and sunglasses

Linda,

You're right, that is a strange question -- but an interesting one. I have
to believe that there is a vast anecdotal deposit of such stories somewhere,
or maybe it's one that is waiting to be called into existence in some sort
of oral history project. There are a number of advocacy groups of places for
ex-priests; two of the more prominent are the very progressive CORPUS
(Coalition of retred Priests United for Service) and CITI (Celibacy is the
Issue), which offers a "rent-a-priest" service for ex-priests to perform
unsanctioned marriages etc. I assume there are supoort groups and the like,
too

I think this raises an interesting question about unexplored areas in
Irish-American literature (and presumbably elsewhere). Given the vast
numbers of bright men and women who bailed on their religious vocations over
the past decades, why is the memoir literature so puny? Most of what I have
read is preoccupied with the institutional failings of the Catholic Church,
and astonishingly diffident about the personal story. Wilfred Sheed said
once that "humility was drilled a little too severely" into young Catholic
minds, and the result is a massive deficit in personal testimony...

I've always thought that the story of the priest whose vocation was not his
own ought to have been one of the great tragedies of Irish-American lit --
but except for hints of this in Edwin O'Connor's EDGE OF SADNESS and in J F
Powers's Fr Burner stories, I don't know of any good fictional treatment of
the theme.

Incidentally, this is not an autobiographical interest on my part -- I never
was a "person of collar."

Jim Rogers

PS -- I speculate the sunglass wearing uncle might have been engaged in one
of those great Irish games of faux secrecy, sort of like the traditions of
watering the whiskey after stealing a drink: if he was not properly laicized
but wanted to receive the sacraments, he may have been giving the priest on
the altar a way out of denying him the host. The jesuitical mind at work...


-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Dowling Almeida
lindaalmeida[at]hotmail.com
Subject: priests and sunglasses

This is a very strange request, but has any member of the list heard about
or know anything about Catholic priests who left the priesthood and then
wore sunglasses into Church everytime they went to to Mass? I was speaking
to a friend of mine whose 75 year old uncle recently passed away and my
friend was remembering that the uncle was a former priest who left the
priesthood in the late 60s and from that point on always wore the shades to
Mass. And, according to my friend, his uncle was not the only former priest
with this habit. I have never heard about it nor noticed anyone wearing
sunglasses when I have been in Church.
Any thoughts?
Linda Dowling Almeida

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Priests and sunglasses 5
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

From: ultancowley[at]eircom.net
Subject: Re: [IR-D] Priests and sunglasses 4


Jim
I don't know about Irish-American literature but in Irish drama 'the
story of the priest whose vocation was not his own' was tellingly told in a
play (written I think by Paul Vincent Carroll) titled, 'A Priest in the
Family'.

My parents had a touring repertory company in the 1940s & 1950's called 'The
Irish Players' and this play was one of their more controversial offerings.

Its central character was a young priest whose father was a country
publican. His brother was given the pub while he was sent for the
priesthood. Unfortunately, the father got it wrong; the publican was the one
who actually had the vocation, whereas the priest became an alcoholic!

This play was not popular with the Catholic clergy in rural Ireland and one
priest so riled up his local sodality members against it that they proceeded
to burn out the company (in County Limerick -where else?).

My mother responded by borrowing from friends to replace her lost costumes
and scenery, hiring another hall, and
putting on the play in front of an audience of national critics invited down
at her expense from Dublin.

The resulting publicity so embarrassed the bishop that he compensated the
company and compelled the priest to issue a public apology. However I can
still recall the distinct impression of unease and embarrassment which, even
as a child, I got from audiences in Irish country towns in the 1950s
whenever I attended a performance of this play.

Incidentally, I have in my possession letters from Sean O'Casey to my mother
giving her express permission to tour his plays at a time when he habitually
refused this to the established theatres in Ireland because of his treatment
at their hands.

Only today, working on a reminiscence project with an Active Eldery group in
South Wexford, I was told many stories of the visiting 'Fit-Ups' who
provided rural communities with one of the few available forms of live
public entertainment and almost their only means of accessing the performing
arts in the early to mid-twentieth century. Their influence was, it seems,
far-reaching and the clergy had reason to fear it.

Ultan Cowley

< From: Rogers, James
< JROGERS[at]stthomas.edu
< Subject: RE: [IR-D] Priests and sunglasses < < Linda, < < You're right,
that is a strange question -- but an interesting one. I have < to believe
that there is a vast anecdotal deposit of such stories somewhere, < or
maybe it's one that is waiting to be called into existence in some sort <
of oral history project. There are a number of advocacy groups of places for
< ex-priests; two of the more prominent are the very progressive CORPUS <
(Coalition of retred Priests United for Service) and CITI (Celibacy is the <
Issue), which offers a "rent-a-priest" service for ex-priests to perform <
unsanctioned marriages etc. I assume there are supoort groups and the like,
< too < < I think this raises an interesting question about unexplored
areas in < Irish-American literature (and presumbably elsewhere). Given the
vast < numbers of bright men and women who bailed on their religious
vocations over < the past decades, why is the memoir literature so puny?
Most of what I have < read is preoccupied with the institutional failings
of the Catholic Church, < and astonishingly diffident about the personal
story. Wilfred Sheed said < once that "humility was drilled a little too
severely" into young Catholic < minds, and the result is a massive deficit
in personal testimony...
<
< I've always thought that the story of the priest whose vocation was not
his < own ought to have been one of the great tragedies of Irish-American
lit -- < but except for hints of this in Edwin O'Connor's EDGE OF SADNESS
and in J F < Powers's Fr Burner stories, I don't know of any good fictional
treatment of < the theme.
<
< Incidentally, this is not an autobiographical interest on my part -- I
never < was a "person of collar."
<
< Jim Rogers
<
< PS -- I speculate the sunglass wearing uncle might have been engaged in
one < of those great Irish games of faux secrecy, sort of like the
traditions of < watering the whiskey after stealing a drink: if he was not
properly laicized < but wanted to receive the sacraments, he may have been
giving the priest on < the altar a way out of denying him the host. The
jesuitical mind at work...
<

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Priests and sunglasses 6
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

From: Linda Dowling Almeida
lindaalmeida[at]hotmail.com
Subject: RE: [IR-D] Priests and sunglasses 2

I was hesitant to even post the query for fear that it was a joke, but the
person who told the story was pretty sincere and I was so intrigued by the
image I just decided to put it out there. No harm, no foul.
Linda


>From: jamesam[at]si.rr.com
>Subject: Re: [IR-D] Priests and sunglasses
>
>Linda,
>
>I once knew a former priest who was very embarrassed at leaving the
>priesthood(this after ten years of marriage, no less)...but glasses?
>That's a new one, unless someone's pulling a metaphor on you.
>
>Best,
>
>Patricia Jameson-Sammartano

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: TOC Irish Political Studies, Volume 19, Number 2 / Winter 2004
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.



Irish Political Studies =20
Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
Issue: Volume 19, Number 2 / Winter 2004

Gender issues and the representation of women in Northern
Ireland pp. 1 - 20
Rachel Ward
=20
Exploring eurovisions: awareness and knowledge of the
European Union in Northern Ireland pp. 21 - 42
Lee McGowan and Julia S. O'Connor
=20
'Squaring the circle': the foreign policy of Sinn F=E9in,
1983-1989 pp. 43 - 63
Martyn Frampton
=20
The 2004 local elections in the Republic of Ireland pp.
64 - 84
Adrian Kavanagh
=20
THE 2004 EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ELECTION IN THE REPUBLIC OF
IRELAND pp. 85 - 95
Aodh Quinlivan and Emmanuelle Sch=F6n-Quinlivan
=20
CHANGE AT LAST: THE 2004 EUROPEAN ELECTION IN NORTHERN
IRELAND pp. 96 - 111
Paul Hainsworth and Gerard McCann
=20
Book reviews pp. 112 - 122
=09
=09