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Please circulate...

Dave Featherstone (djfeath[at]liverpool.ac.uk)


Call for Papers

'Geographies of Trans-National Networks'

May 26-27, 2005, Department of Geography, University of Liverpool

Sponsored by the Social and Cultural Geography Research Group of the
Institute of British Geographers/ RGS

Abstracts are invited for a two-day conference which will explore
trans-national political networks drawing together perspectives from
geography and cognate disciplines. It will address the ways in which
trans-national networks are generative of new politics of culture and
cultures of politics and the challenges of movements such as trans-Atlantic
political radicalisms and contemporary counter-globalisation politics. The
conference seeks to encourage rich and theoretically inventive work grounded
in empirical research on particular places/ networks and forms of political
activity.


Themes include:
. How the trans-national challenges existing ways of thinking about
space
and politics.
. The relations between trans-national political networks and
understandings of nations and nationalisms.
. The forms of agency and identity crafted through trans-national
political
networks.
. The commonalities and differences between contemporary and
historical
forms of the trans-national.
. The relations between place and the trans-national.
. How trans-national political networks are produced and reproduced.
. Tracing the emotive and affective trajectories of trans-national
(im)mobility


Speakers include: John Urry, Miles Ogborn, Angela Hale: director, Women
Working Worldwide, Noel Castree, Alison Blunt, Katie Willis, Tim Bunnell and
David Lambert

For further details and updates about the conference, including details of
3 post-graduate bursaries see:

http://www.liv.ac.uk/geography/GTNC

Abstracts for 20 minute presentations should be sent by Friday, 18th March.
If you would like to submit an abstract or request further information on
the conference, please contact either Dave Featherstone
(djfeath[at]liverpool.ac.uk), Richard Phillips (Richard.Phillips[at]liv.ac.uk) and
Joanna Waters (J.L.Waters[at]liv.ac.uk) at: Department of Geography, Roxby
Building, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZT

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I should have established quite what Joe Bradley wanted, and what for...

I took it to mean an image for a piece of design...

On Fontenoy
There is the usual print - but a very poor quality image...
http://www.doyle.com.au/wild_geese.htm

On the same site is a picture labelled '"Wild Geese" Soldier of Dillon's
Regiment in the French Army, 1735'. The soldier is wearing a red coat, of
course...

I had a look at Alain Tripnaux Le Tricorne site...
http://users.skynet.be/letricorne/
There is a small IRELAND AND FONTENOY section, and a few other odds and
ends. Including an image that is new to me...
A SOLDIER OF THE IRISH REGIMENT OF DILLON HELPING A WOUNDED BROTHER IN ARMS
Again, poor quality image - but could be tweaked. No source given...

A Google search under Images produces, of course, many geese, wild and tame
- but very few images of soldiery... Mostly people trying to sell you
things... Much about the American Civil War...

TASI, The Technical Advisory Service for Images ought to be more helpful -
but isn't...
- Overview - http://www.tasi.ac.uk/advice/using/finding.html
- Short guides - http://www.tasi.ac.uk/advice/using/using.html

But you might get more out of it than I did...

One strategy is to pick a well known painting or painter, and search for it,
him or her... Mention has been made of Bartlett & Jeffery - the
illustration on the dust jacket is taken from Elizabeth Thompson, Lady
Butler, Listed for the Connaught Rangers (the painting is in the Bury Art
Gallery, Lanashire - do note that the image has been much cropped by the
book designer)...

A search for that painting by name finds it in a number of places...
For example...
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sh.keays/88new.html

http://www.emmedici.com/journeys/eire/cultura/arte/sala3/lbutler.htm

But of course a Search for 'Irish' would never have found it...

You also get a chapter by John Morrissey...
http://www.nuigalway.ie/geography/HeritageChapter.doc
Chapter 3
A Lost Heritage: The Connaught Rangers and Multivocal Irishness
John Morrissey1

This is his home page...
http://www.nuigalway.ie/geography/morr.html

We do have here in Bradford a full set of THE IRISH SWORD, which is full of
properly sourced images... Though I have to say that one picture of an
eighteenth century man in a tricorne hat looks very like another... It is
like nineteenth century men with beards...

Paddy

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From: Joe Bradley
j.m.bradley[at]stir.ac.uk
Patrick

Can you (or anyone else) point me towards a visual image of the 'Wild Geese'
that might be used to signify the Irish diaspora?

Thanks

Joe

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Is that the episode with the - what else - Irish gun-runner? Patrick
McGoohan?

There is also - has this been mentioned before? - a similar episode of early
Law and order. A more recent and quite interesting episode of the spin-off
with the Columbo-like character locates murder and mystery amongst some
feuding clans of Irish-American travellers.

Will the peace process kill off the gun-runner cliche? A sad loss if so.
It did provide a slight twist on it for Ronin though - albeit completely
unnecessarily and, I gather, tacked on at the last minute to make Robert de
Niro's character look less mercenary or whatever.

This makes me think of another movie and the worst-Irish-accent-ever
question. My candidate would be Richard Gere in the Jackal remake. Even
funnier though was Bruce Willis' Canadian 'accent' and `disguise', used to
slip into the U.S. undetected.

Peter Hart

>From: jamesam[at]si.rr.com
>Subject: Re: [IR-D] Irish on US TV 2
>
>Not to forget these lines on Columbo in the '70's in the episode A Game
>of
>Darts:
>
>As always, Columbo rises to the occasion and beats the killer at his
>own game. Squinting and wobbling, Columbo tosses three winning throws,
>declaring:
>
>"This is for taking on an Irishman in his own back yard........This is
>for being an Italian in an Irish pub.......and this...is for the
>sainted memory of Sergeant Gilhooley!"
>
>...and there was also an episode of Hawaii 5-0 the same year entitled
>"Up the Rebels" - as you can imagine, the stereotypical Irish gun
>runner from an IRA splinter group. I believe both were 1977.
>

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Speaking of books, has anyone seen (or even heard of) . . .

Joan Vincent. SEEDS OF REVOLUTION: THE CULTURE AND POLITICS OF THE GREAT
FAMINE IN THE IRISH NORTHWEST (Palgrave Macmillan). ISBN:
0312239963.

According to Palgrave's own website, the book was published in Dec.
2003, and can be purchased from the publisher for a whopping $132 US.

But according to Amazon.com.UK, it was published in Dec. 2002, and can be
purchased for 40 pounds sterling.

And according to Amazon.com in the US, it won't be published until Nov.
2005.

Finally, my university's interlibrary borrowing service has tried for the
past six months to find a copy anywhere in the U.S. or Canada, without
success.

It looks like it might be a very interesting and important book, but not
even my Irish friends who are 19th-century social historians have ever heard
of it!

Information welcome.

Many thanks,

Kerby.

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Dear Colleagues,
Just a quick line to inform you of the dates of the Irish Studies conference
we are hosting at Sunderland for the third time in November of this year -
some details below. We are still in the early planning stages, and a formal
call for papers will, of course be going out, but I thought I'd contact you
to see if any of you were interested in speaking.
I hope to see you then...if not before!
Slainte
Alison


Slan agus beannacht

Alison O'Malley-Younger [Dr]
Department of English
University of Sunderland


The University of Sunderland Third Annual Irish Studies Conference

11th to 13th November, 2005

The Word, The Icon and The Ritual [ii] - Lands of Saints and Scholars

Following the success of our last two international conference: Representing
Ireland: Past, present and Future, [2003] and The Word,The Icon and The
Ritual, [2004] the University of Sunderland are soliciting papers for an
interdisciplinary conference which will run from 11th to 13th November,
2005. The conference organisers hope to represent a wide range of approaches
to Irish culture from academics and non-academics alike. Performances,
roundtables, collaborative projects, and other non-traditional presentations
are encouraged in addition to conference papers. As last year we welcome
submissions for panels and papers under the thematic headings of: The Word,
The Icon, The Ritual in the following areas: Literature, Performing Arts
History, Politics, Folklore and Mythology, Ireland in Theory, Anthropology,
Sociology, Art and Art history, Music, Dance, Media and Film Studies,
Cultural studies and the Diaspora.

Plenaries tbc.

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It is in WorldCat with the 2002 publication date. Only four libraries are
shown with copies - odd for a recent book on a topic like the Famine.

One is the British Library and the second is NUI-Maynooth. The third is in
the Persian Gulf and the fourth I can't tell - the name appears to be German
or Dutch -- and I don't recognize it.

Anyone on the list going to be in the Library at Maynooth and able to see if

the book actually exists?


> From: Kerby Miller
> MillerK[at]missouri.edu
> Subject: another book query
>
> Speaking of books, has anyone seen (or even heard of) . . .
>
> Joan Vincent. SEEDS OF REVOLUTION: THE CULTURE AND POLITICS OF THE
> GREAT FAMINE IN THE IRISH NORTHWEST (Palgrave Macmillan). ISBN:
> 0312239963.
>
> According to Palgrave's own website, the book was published in Dec.
> 2003, and can be purchased from the publisher for a whopping $132 US.
>
> But according to Amazon.com.UK, it was published in Dec. 2002, and can
> be purchased for 40 pounds sterling.
>
> And according to Amazon.com in the US, it won't be published until Nov.
> 2005.
>
> Finally, my university's interlibrary borrowing service has tried for
> the past six months to find a copy anywhere in the U.S. or Canada,
> without success.
>
> It looks like it might be a very interesting and important book, but
> not even my Irish friends who are 19th-century social historians have
> ever heard of it!
>
> Information welcome.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Kerby.
>

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Oral History
Ther Journal of the Oral History Society
Volume 32, No 2 (2004)

CURE, SUPERSTITION, INFECTION AND REACTION: TUBERCULOSIS IN IRELAND, 1932 -
1957
by Simon Guest

Keywords: tuberculosis; Ireland; stigma; Noel Browne; health service

Abstract: In 1932, Ireland had one of the worst tuberculosis death rates in
the world. Many people, particularly in country districts, were frightened
to even talk about the disease and the government was reluctant either to
admit there was a problem or to take any action. This article looks at how
people coped with a disease with no real cure in a developing country with
an inadequate health service. It assesses the importance of oral history as
a medium for research and attempts to establish whether the stigma of the
disease was a major factor in people's perceptions and attitudes towards it.
From this sample it seems the people who were least stigmatized by
tuberculosis are those most likely to speak of their experiences.

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The Irish S=ED Tradition: Connections Between the Disciplines, and =
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Author: Tok Thompson1

Source: Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, December 2004, vol. =
16,
no. 4, pp. 335-368(34)

Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Abstract:
One of the most prominent features of the Irish landscape is the great
multitude of megalithic sites which date back to the Neolithic. In this
paper, I will attempt to demonstrate that the understanding of these =
sites
in Ireland can be enhanced by referencing the native tradition, =
including
the Irish word for the sites, s=ED, and the s=ED=92s powerful cultural =
tradition
attested to throughout native Irish folklore, literature, onomastics, =
and
traditional knowledge. In doing so, I will explore the difficulties and =
the
potentials of interdisciplinary communication between archaeology and
folkloristics, and the related issues regarding communication between
official and unofficial discourses.

Keywords: megaliths; Ireland; s=ED; folklore; longue dur=E9; e

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1007/s10816-004-1418-0

Affiliations: 1: Centre for Irish-Scottish Studies, Trinity College, =
Dublin
University, Dublin, Ireland, Email: thompst[at]earthlink.net

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Reversing Language Shift: Celtic Languages Today - Any Evidence?

Author: Kenneth MacKinnon

Source: Journal of Celtic Linguistics, 2004, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 109-132(24)

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Abstract:
Recently released census data on Irish in Northern Ireland, Manx, Welsh and
Gaelic indicate very different progress in reversing language shift. Irish
is fairly steadily maintained, Manx has shown vigorous revival, Gaelic is in
scarcely retarded free-fall, and Welsh shows strong evidence of genuine
recovery.

Original conceptual tools of intergenerational ratio and intergenerational
gain/loss have been developed which enable RLS to be assessed. Welsh is
highly positive both nationally and in every local education authority area.
Gaelic has, however, some local strengths. Manx RLS can be linked to
Manxmedium schooling, and the effects of Irish-medium schooling in Northern
Ireland can also be seen.

These results indicate different language-function in these societies, its
symbolization and re-symbolization. A dynamic picture of different social
processes, and their outcomes, can inform language policy. A review of
policies is required, especially for Gaelic.

Document Type: Research article

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Exploring rhyming slang in Ireland

Author: Antonio Lillo 1

Source: English World-Wide, 2004, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 273-285(13)

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Abstract:
There are several varieties of English where rhyming slang is or has been a
productive source of new words. However, its incidence in some Englishes
still remains, by and large, terra incognita for slang lexicographers and
linguists alike. Based on a number of written sources and oral transcripts,
this article surveys the origins and development of rhyming slang in
Ireland, its most outstanding characteristics and its productivity
throughout the 20th century down to the present. In order to illustrate the
significance and creative potential of this category of word-formation in
Irish English, the final part of the article offers a glossary of Irish
rhyming slang, including many terms which are not recorded in the standard
slang dictionaries.

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: University of Alicante

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Pathways Out of Terrorism in Northern Ireland and the Basque Country: =
The
Misrepresentation of the Irish Model

Author: ROGELIO ALONSO1

Source: Terrorism and Political Violence, October=96December 2004, vol. =
16,
no. 4, pp. 695-713(19)

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

Abstract:
This article focuses on the reasons why the attempt to achieve the end =
of
ETA's violence in the Basque Country during the mid- to late-1990s was
unsuccessful when compared to the IRA's case in Northern Ireland. It =
argues
that the different roles played by Basque and Irish nationalism in that
decade and the distortion of the Irish model by Basque nationalist =
parties
and the terrorist organization ETA were decisive in this outcome. The
radicalisation of constitutional nationalism in the Basque region, as
opposed to the constitutionalisation of radical nationalism that was a =
key
factor in the achievement of the consensus enshrined in the 1998 Belfast
Agreement, contributed to the continuation of terrorism. Contrary to the
spirit of this Agreement, Basque nationalists moved away from an =
existing
consensus with non nationalist parties around the principle of full
development of the Basque autonomy strengthening ETA's will to carry on =
with
their campaign.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/095465590898651

Affiliations: 1: Departamento de Derecho P=FAblico I y Ciencia =
Pol=EDtica,
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain

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Isn't it great that someone is able to study vague categorisation?

Makes you almost want to listen to radio phone-ins...

Almost...

P.O'S.


'Like the Wise Virgins and All that Jazz': Using a Corpus to Examine Vague
Categorisation and Shared Knowledge

Authors: Anne O'Keeffe

Source: Language and Computers, 2 October 2004, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 1-20(20)

Publisher: Rodopi

This paper will use a corpus to explore vague categorisation (e.g.,
prostitutes, sailors and the like) in a specific context where the
participants are strangers, but where they share the same socio-cultural
reference points and so can assume a critical level of shared socio-cultural
knowledge when they use vague language. Unlike most work on vague language,
this study looks at vague items which are not necessarily pre-textual or
prototypical, but which emerge from shared knowledge. The corpus comprises
55,000 words of calls to an Irish radio phone-in show. Vague category
markers are isolated and described in terms of form and domain of reference.
It is argued that the shared knowledge required in order to construct vague
categories has a common core of socio-culturally ratified 'understandings'
and that the range of domains of reference of these categories is relative
to the depth of shared knowledge of the participants and relative to their
social relationship.

Language: Unknown

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I couldn't find it in the BL but a google search turned up this which says
it will be puiblished next month

Seeds of Revolution: The Culture and Politics of the Great Famine in the
Irish Northwest
Author(s): Vincent, Joan

ISBN: 0312239963
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2/28/2005
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan

Our Price $52.11
http://www.ecampus.com/bk_detail.asp?ISBN=0312239963

Joan Vincent provides a micro-historical study and narrative ethnography of
the Irish famine in County Fermanagh. Viewing the famine as a man-made
process, and exploring the voices of the residents of Fermanagh as they
attempt to understand and address the suffering around them, Vincent
emphasizes the creation of cultural knowledge about the 'faminization'
process and explores the interactions of local and national politics which
structured the County experience of the famine and later political unrest.

Throughout the book, Vincent foregrounds the gendered effects of the famine
and provides us with a sensitive analysis of the cultural reaction to
disruption and trauma.

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There's a good reason why this book is not around. I did a search on
amazon.com; it can be pre-ordered for $55. Publication date: Palgrave
Macmillan (November 19, 2008)

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Patrick -

Thanks to all who assisted on my Wild Geese enquiry - most helpful

Joe

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Why doesn't someone just e-mail Joan??
Chuck Orser


>From: jamesam[at]si.rr.com
>Subject: Re: [IR-D] Joan Vincent SEEDS OF REVOLUTION 2
>
>There's a good reason why this book is not around. I did a search on
>amazon.com; it can be pre-ordered for $55. Publication date: Palgrave
>Macmillan (November 19, 2008)

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Subscribers, including all members of the MHSI, have received in quick
succession, 4 issues of Irish Sword...

This is an extraordinary achievement by Editor, Kenneth Ferguson. The
nominal date on Issue 96 is Winter 2004 - which means that Kenneth Ferguson
has accomplished one of the main tasks he gave himself, journal time and
chronological time are at last in sync... And, as far as I can see, without
any drop in standards... I think that Kenneth Ferguson has slightly widened
the research base that Irish Sword calls upon - making use of his own
networks.

But The Irish Sword always took a broadly based attitude to its subject
matter. I have called The Irish Sword an Irish Diaspora Studies journal
"avant la lettre" (I am still trying to find an English expression that
carries the meaning of means of "avant la lettre" - "before the term
existed"?)...

TOCs of Irish Sword - I have said before - are difficult to get hold of...
But the Military History Society of Ireland now has a web presence...
http://www.mhsirl.com/

And it may be that Tables of Contents for these volumes will appear there in
due course. But they're not there yet.
http://www.mhsirl.com/sword.htm

Of special interest to IR-D members...
In Issue 93, Thomas Kinsella on the history of the Army Nursing Service,
1922-24 - for those wanting a footnote or two...
In Issue 94, John Ellis on Black soldiers in the Irish regiments, 18th and
19th centuries.
and Tom Burke on Tom Kettle...
In Issue 95, Yvonne McEwen on Irish volunteers in British forces in World
War II...
And an unsigned note calls attention to ATQ Stewart's discovery of the
origins of Wolfe Tone's favourite quotation, '" 'Tis but in vain/For
soldiers to complain...' The song, sometimes (wrongly) ascribed to General
James Wolfe - and hence, maybe, its interest to Wolfe Toone - had a number
of titles over time. 'Why, Soldiers, Why?' is one. Another is 'The
Soldier's Song'...
In Issue 96, articles on Irish soldiers in Swedish service, on Lally, and a
note on the Fighting 69th...

Our congratulations to the MHSI and to Kenneth Ferguson - perhaps he could
be given a day off. Before going on to prepare issues 97 and 98. And, of
course, symbolic Issue 100 looms...

Patrick O'Sullivan


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I've tried, without success. Do you have her email address?
Thanks,
KM


>From: Charles E. Orser Jr
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>
>Why doesn't someone just e-mail Joan??
>Chuck Orser
>
>

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Am. J. Hum. Genet., 75:693-702, 2004
0002-9297/2004/7504-0017$15.00
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The Longue Dur=E9e of Genetic Ancestry: Multiple Genetic Marker Systems =
and
Celtic Origins on the Atlantic Facade of Europe

Brian McEvoy,1 Martin Richards,2 Peter Forster,3 and Daniel G. Bradley1

1Department of Genetics, Trinity College, Dublin; 2Schools of Biology =
and
Computing, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; and 3The McDonald
Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, =
Cambridge,
United Kingdom

Received June 17, 2004; accepted for publication July 20, 2004;
electronically published August 12, 2004.

Celtic languages are now spoken only on the Atlantic facade of Europe,
mainly in Britain and Ireland, but were spoken more widely in western =
and
central Europe until the collapse of the Roman Empire in the first
millennium A.D. It has been common to couple archaeological evidence for =
the
expansion of Iron Age elites in central Europe with the dispersal of =
these
languages and of Celtic ethnicity and to posit a central European =
"homeland"
for the Celtic peoples. More recently, however, archaeologists have
questioned this "migrationist" view of Celtic ethnogenesis. The =
proposition
of a central European ancestry should be testable by examining the
distribution of genetic markers; however, although Y-chromosome patterns =
in
Atlantic Europe show little evidence of central European influence, =
there
has hitherto been insufficient data to confirm this by use of =
mitochondrial
DNA (mtDNA). Here, we present both new mtDNA data from Ireland and a =
novel
analysis of a greatly enlarged European mtDNA database. We show that =
mtDNA
lineages, when analyzed in sufficiently large numbers, display patterns
significantly similar to a large fraction of both Y-chromosome and =
autosomal
variation. These multiple genetic marker systems indicate a shared =
ancestry
throughout the Atlantic zone, from northern Iberia to western =
Scandinavia,
that dates back to the end of the last Ice Age.

Abstract taken from the Journal web page
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJHG/home.html

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I would be failing in my duty if I did not report this to the IR-D list...

I happen to be reading George Eliot's last published work, Impressions of
Theophrastus Such, 1879. Theophrastus Such is George Eliot at her most
ponderous and her most playful - more ponderous than playful. She is
writing in the character of Theophrastus. Mostly a series of character
sketches and comments on current preoccupations. Frankly the book is not as
much fun as I thought it was going to be...

But there are some good bits...
'Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us
wordy evidence of the fact...'

There is a review on FindArticles - I think it is a pretty fair review.

Impressions of Theophrastus Such. - book reviews
Criticism, Wntr, 1996 by John R. Reed
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2220/is_n1_v38/ai_18125695

John Reed says, 'Much of what Eliot had to say was commonplace in her day.
The more original elements have been extracted from Impressions and
reprinted - specifically autobiographical reflections and speculations on
Jewishness...'

Amongst these commonplaces are occasional remarks about the Irish, including
this one in the last chapter, which is mostly about 'Jewishness'...

Chapter XVIII.
THE MODERN HEP! HEP! HEP!

'...All which is mirrored in an analogy, namely, that of the Irish, also a
servile race, who have rejected Protestantism though it has been repeatedly
urged on them by fire and sword and penal laws, and whose place in the moral
scale may be judged by our advertisements, where the clause, "No Irish need
apply," parallels the sentence which for many polite persons sums up the
question of Judaism-"I never did like the Jews."...'

p. 146 of my Everyman edition.

So, there you are - another sighting of that 'commonplace' - 'No Irish need
apply...' Make of it what you will...

The complete text can be found on Project Gutenberg

IMPRESSIONS OF THEOPHRASTUS SUCH
GEORGE ELIOT
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10762

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