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From: WallsAMP[at]aol.com

People may be interested in a reference on Irish women in Scotland re.
tattie howking...

HOLMES, H (1999-2000) 'An abject and deplorable existence': problems faced
by Irish Women Migratory Potato Workers in Scotland in the Early Twentieth
Century Folk Life, 38 42-55

Paddy Walls

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I would agree about the sparse body of work on the AOH, especially after
O'Dea's volumes from the early 1920s. I have also looked through Ridge's
1986 history and it reads like as account of state membership statistics
rather than a comprehensive history.

There are a few good primary sources out there for the Hibernians in the
early 20th century- a few annual meetings from the 1920s and a very
interesting membership manual ("Hibernians on the March") published in 1948,
when the Hibernians were refashioning themselves to champion Cold War
patriotism. (I've got a forthcoming article on this topic for
Eire-Ireland.) I recommend a WorldCat search for the Hibernians- there's a
lot of non-circulating material at state historican societies, but the items
mentioned above might be of use.

Matt O'Brien

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From: Sean Campbell
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Thanks to Paddy Walls for this. The point of Dymphna's question, however,
was why Bono had adapted 'quatro' to 'cacorte' (i.e. 'four' to 'fourteen').
The explanation, at least from within the U2 camp, is the one that I passed
on last week.

Best,
Sean.

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> From: WallsAMP[at]aol.com
>
> In reference to Sean Campbell's comments about U2's intro to Vertigo the
> other day - Bono is evidently copying the intro to the 1964 hit Wooly
> Bully
> by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs which is counted in - uno dos one two
> tres
> cuatro - the song's intro is legendary and is replicated in both of the
> cover versions that I know - one by ex Eddie and the Hotrods harmonica
> player Lew Lewis recorded in 1979, and the second by ex Dr Feelgood
> guitarist Wilko Johnson in 1987. I'm suggesting that Bono is having fun
> with
> a well-known song intro and not referring to his fourteenth album.
>
> Paddy Walls
>

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From: William Mulligan Jr.
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This -- the proposed LUP journal is welcome news -- but I am not sure it
will do all that I think can be done by a journal dedicated to the Irish
Diaspora. It would be another case of a journal that MIGHT include Irish
Diaspora material, there are many such journals. I suspect that might be
part of the reason why the special issues Michael Curran referred to have
not attracted more attention. They have their niche and it generally does
not include the Diaspora. I'd be happy to buy both special issues -- but
have never seen an ad or a notice offering them. I can try to track them
down -- and will now. Another reason it would be good to have a journal that
did not need to be tracked down for the occasional special issue or the odd
article on the Diaspora, but was focused on it.

I am happy to see such a positive response to the trial balloon we floated.
The response has been good both on list and off. Sincere thanks to everyone
who has taken the time to think about this and respond. There are, as Paddy
pointed out, about 200 people on the list.

Roughly 20 have responded or are involved. 10% is a very good response rate
for direct mail, but is silence support or indifference?

Bill Mulligan

William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
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From: "J.C. Belchem"
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Could I point out that Liverpool University Press is currently drawing up a
business plan for a new journal , 'Diasporas, Migration and Identities', an
initiative designed to run in parallel with (and beyond) the pioneer
strategic research programme launched by the AHRB (Paddy has already posted
details of this). LUP already has a strong interest in publishing books on
the Irish diaspora (note recent publications by Enda Delaney, Paul O'Leary
et al and Don MacRaild's forthcoming magnum opus on Orangeism). I am sure
the Irish diaspora would find appropriate space within the new journal.
However, this is still in the early planning stages - I am sure LUP would
appreciate comments - and support!

Thanks, John Belchem


Professor John Belchem
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9 Abercromby Square
Liverpool L69 7WZ
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I had an informal talk about this issue with Alan Ward, at a conference some
years ago - it must have been many years ago, because it was before the
publication of his book...

Alan J. Ward, The Irish Constitutional Tradition: Responsible Government and
Modern Ireland, 1782-1992, Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of
America Press/Irish Academic Press, 1994...

Alan Ward then - if I recall correctly - regarded the franchise issue, who
could and could not vote, as a matter for executive decision or specific
laws. Not essentially a constitutional matter. I don't recall there being
any mention of the issue in his book - nor, for that matter, much mention of
emigration as an issue affecting the politics of Ireland.

There was the Irish Emigrant Vote Campaign in the USA, and similar
organisations elsewhere. But I have heard nothing from them recently, and
the web site seems to no longer exist.

There is an Irish Post article, which makes comparisons with a number of
countries - describing Israel's position as 'almost identical' to that of
the Republic of Ireland. This article is - annoyingly - undated...
http://www.irishabroad.com/news/irishpost/news/rights.asp

A web search turned up a number of countries, where similar debates are
taking place...

One that I knew about already - because of recent contacts - is Armenia.
Looking in the Global Policy Forum...
http://www.globalpolicy.org/visitctr/about.htm
I found this article
http://www.globalpolicy.org/nations/sovereign/sover/emerg/2004/1013armenia.h
tm

'With parliament soon likely to remove the clause from the Armenian
constitution banning dual citizenship, people here are debating what its
introduction would mean for the country and the millions of Armenians
worldwide. The introduction of dual citizenship could potentially lead to a
radical change in the relationship between the Armenian state and the
millions of Armenians who live outside it, from Georgia and Russia to the
USA and Uruguay. On different calculations, the official population of
Armenia is no more than three million, while between seven and ten million
Armenians live elsewhere in the world. The issue of what sort of status
diaspora Armenians should be given has divided the country since it regained
independence in 1991. The constitution of 1995 explicitly outlawed the idea
of dual citizenship but the administration of Robert Kocharian, president
since 1998, is much warmer towards the concept.'

There is a similar article about Mexico, where a similar debate is taking
place...

There is also a rumbling debate within the European Union, sparked off by
Hungary - which wants to somehow involve or care about Hungarians outside
the present day Hungarian state borders.

See also...

Mexico
http://www.jorgeramos.com/english/english122004.htm
'...Once again, the Mexican Congress missed an opportunity to approve the
vote for Mexicans living abroad...
...This is not a new idea; 69 of the world's nations allow their expatriates
to vote outside the country. Why not Mexico? Because its lawmakers have
been putting it off and avioding their responsibility for 12 years...'
Zimbabwe
http://www.lexisnexis.com/about/releases/0729.asp

Zimbabwe
http://www.suntimes.co.za/zones/sundaytimesNEW/basket6st/basket6st1107251482
.aspx
Expatriate Zimbabweans to fight voting ban
'HARARE - Zimbabweans living abroad are asking the Supreme Court to overturn
a decision by President Robert Mugabe's government to bar them from voting
in parliamentary elections in March, newspapers said.'

United Kingdom
http://www.expat.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml?xml=/global/2003/09/11/ex
patvote4.xml
We want to cast our votes, too
By Dick Pantlin

'You may not realise that your rights as a British expatriate to vote in UK
elections or referendums have been seriously compromised by two
constitutional bills which became law last December.

Where expats were entitled to vote for up to 20 years after leaving the UK,
the limit is now to be 15 years after the forthcoming general election.
(Some Government ministers advocated a five-year limit.) And the annual
October deadline for registering has been scrapped in favor of a rolling
register...

Your opinion of these changes may depend largely on whether you consider
yourself more an emigrant (with little or no intention to return to the UK
and with no domicile there) than an expatriate (planning to return after a
short or medium-length term spent abroad). If you are a long-term expatriate
or emigrant your view may be influenced by the fact that your children may
return to live in the UK...'

Australia
http://www.southern-cross-group.org/overseasvoting/extendrightvote.html
Help us Extend the Right to Vote

The Australian debate is very interesting, because of the very time-limited
voting rights expatriates are allowed.

So, there does seem to be some sort of spectrum in these things. If, as one
article above says, 69 countries of the world allow an expatriate vote, that
means that the other 200 or so do not.

I have had a number of contacts with the newly emerging small countries of
Europe, particularly in 'former Yugoslavia'. I think that some of the small
countries of Europe who have allowed expatriate voting now bitterly regret
it. In a small country the expatriate vote can completely distort an
election. It is power without responsibility... And countries have found
themselves saddled with ideological governments with little sympathy for
recent traditions.

Other people will know more, as Irish government archives become available -
but my impression is that successive Irish administrators have looked at the
expatriate vote issue and thought, Nah!

Paddy


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From: Kerby Miller
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Very informative--thank you,
Kerby


>From: Oliver Marshall
>oliver.marshall[at]brazilian-studies.oxford.ac.uk
>Subject: Re: [IR-D] Votes for expatriate citizens
>
>Kerby,
>
>It may well be that Ireland is the only European country that doesn't
>permit expatriate citizens to vote in national elections - although I
>seem to remember reading somewhere that expatriates can only vote in
>the first round of a Polish presidential election. Some countries
>impose a time limit on how after emigrating long citizens retain such a
right.
>
>Like Ireland, San Marino didn't permit its expatriate citizens to vote.
>But in the late 1940s and 1950s, elections in the tiny republic were
>closely fought and the country used to pay 75 percent of the costs to
>its overseas citizens to return to the San Marino and re-establish the
>country as their place of domicile. Bus fares from Rimini were not a
>problem, but there's a large (well, for San Marino!) expatriate
>population in Argentina and this rather nice electoral practice was
>abandoned in the late 1990s due to its huge cost. I'm pretty sure that
>citizens abroad can now vote by post, San Marino's diplomatic network
>presumably being too limited to allow for voting in consulates.
>
>Certainly the global trend is to allow expatriate citizens to vote in
>national elections -- Turkey, Mexico and the Philippines are amongst
>those countries with huge overseas populations that are in the process
>of changing electoral rules (or maybe by now they've made the change).
>But in reality very few expatriates actually bother to exercise voting
>rights (and it can be complicated to do so or the right is denied -- as
>is likely to be the case with the forthcoming Zimbabwean elections).
>Despite the fears or hopes of politicians, expatriate voting rights tend to
be largely symbolic.
>
>Oliver Marshall

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3. Almost any format works for group 1 as long as the journal is
refereed. (Flagship high prestige journals are even better, but that is
not what is being proposed.)

Is there any reason to assume, as this comment seems to, that a refereed
journal focused on the Irish Diaspora could not, in time, become a
"Flagship high prestige"journal? Studying the Diaspora cuts across
national lines, raises large issues involving migration, accommodation,
acculturation, etc. These all seem timely both in academia and in the
larger society world wide. Why is this not sufficient to justify ONE
dedicated journal? Can No Irish Apply for a high prestige journal?

4. For group 2 by far the best format is an online journal. that's
because apart from a few major membership journals, the only items that
98% of students and 75% of scholars can find are online articles.

I am not sure about Prof. Jensen's students, but these numbers seem very
inflated, somewhat hyperbolic. Historical Abstracts and America:
History and Life are both available on-line. A Diaspora journal could
be indexed and included in either or both. My students do a pretty good
job finding journal articles in print form because I push them to do so
and I have much more faith in my colleagues ability to do the same than
Prof. Jensen. There are advantages in the modern world to an on-line
format, but not those mentioned.



7. Commercial publishers make up packages of hundreds or thousands of
online journals they sell to library consortia. The librarians have
usually gotten guarantees of some sort that the material will be
available somewhere in the distant future. That makes them attractive
for this project.

Most of the librarians I talk to, and as a former research library
director there are more than a few, would disagree with this --
long-term availability is a serious concern for on-line journals. No one
really knows what happens if a library drops its subscription to an
on-line service. With individual print journals you have the back
issues; they are on the shelf. Long-term availability, at this point in
time, is a plus for a paper format.

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

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Here, we need some rest... And an opportunity has presented itself.

We have gone to Amsterdam for the rest of the week...

Bill Mulligan
has kindly agreed to act as Moderator of the Irish Diaspora list in my
absence.

Send messages for the IR-D list to
IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
in the usual way...
and they will be automatically forwarded to Bill Mulligan for consideration.

Do note that if a message is intended for the IR-D list it must be sent to
IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK...

Do be careful about simply hitting REPLY - your own emailer might not sent
the message to the required address. Check, look, see, think.

I have been pretty easy-going about messages intended for IR-D but sent to
my own personal email address - but, if I am not here to read the messages
and deal with them, they will not make it through to the Irish Diaspora
list.

If anybody happens to be in Amsterdam, we will be staying at...
Hotel Doelen
Nieuwe Doelenstraat 24, Amsterdam
http://www.amsterdamby.com/doelen/index.html

And we are very sociable people.

My thanks to Bill Mulligan - especially my thanks to him for stepping in at
very short notice.

Paddy O'Sullivan

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From: Donald MacRaild
Donald.MacRaild[at]vuw.ac.nz
Subject: Irish Diaspora Journal

Dear All,

This is a message to follow up Bill's challenge to the silent majority. My
view is this: whilst the idea is fine in principle, I'm concerned that to
develop such a journal might create a ghetto. I see my task as taking what
little I know about the Diaspora to a wider audience, not merely pushing my
views to a small crowd who are conversant with them anyway. You will also
find this view accords (by accident) with those of us who, in NZ and the UK,
have to hit certain sorts of journals - i.e. established, refereed,
international journals -- in order to make a splash in the various research
assessment exercises. I know this sounds almost actuarial and very
unintellectual, but there are realities to address.

On a more positive note, I rather like the new Irish History Research
Yearbook which Four Courts are producing. It contains the products of
dissertation/thesis work by honours, MA and PhD students and offers a nice
insight into how the next generation is shaping up. This could also be done
for the Diaspora to the benefit of the younger scholars, thus crushing my
own argument in paragraph 1 by absolving the established people -- who, in
any case, can find outlets elsewhere.

Don't let this put you off if you remain committed. I'll subscribe to any
journal produced and I'll support it in other ways, if I can.

Best


Don MacRaild
Victoria University of Wellington

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From: Richard Jensen
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Subject: Re: [IR-D] Proposal, Journal of Irish Diaspora Studies 15, Comment
from DMacR


from Richard Jensen rjensen[at]uic.edu

Some personal thoughts:
1. One main purpose of a scholarly refereed journal is to benefit the
authors.
They need published articles to demonstrate their scholarly stature.

2. The second to benefit are readers--scholars and students

3. Almost any format works for group 1 as long as the journal is refereed.
(Flagship high prestige journals are even better, but that is not what is
being proposed.)

4. For group 2 by far the best format is an online journal.

that's because apart from a few major membership journals, the only items
that 98% of students and 75% of scholars can find are online articles.

6. Locally published online articles probably will not be available in 5
years. For some fields (science for example) that hardly matters.
In this case it does matter. The content will be of interest for
50+ years.

7. Commercial publishers make up packages of hundreds or thousands of online
journals they sell to library consortia. The librarians have usually gotten
guarantees of some sort that the material will be available somewhere in the
distant future. That makes them attractive for this project.

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Mbae mi lukem yu

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From: john mcgurk
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Subject: Contemporary Review art. 'From Ireland to Norway'


Dear Paddy, Perhaps the Contemprary Review is not much read by members of
the Ir-D list. The Jan.issue 2005 has a brief but relevant art.by Nicholas
Emmett of his personal experiences of his odyssey from Dublin, London to
Norway - illustrative of the plight of the Irish in Britian in the 'fifties
- but uncharacteristically its somehow lacks the native wit

Yes, many thanks for airing your views on a possible Journal of Irish
D.Studies and I hope you will - but 'the glory and honour of Ireland' won't
pay for the paper.

John McGurk. jjnmcg[at]eircom.net

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Professor Jane Ohlmeyer

Subject: Masters Degrees at TCD

Dear Colleague,

I would be grateful if you could forward details of our Masters programmes
to staff and students in your department who may be interested in them. If
you, your colleagues or your students have any queries about these Masters
programmes, they should feel free to contact me.

Yours ever
Jane Ohlmeyer

Professor Jane Ohlmeyer
Department of Modern History
Trinity College, Dublin
Tel: +353-1-6081572 or 6081020

MODERN IRISH HISTORY
The course is intended as an introduction for well-qualified Humanities or
Social Sciences graduates to research in Modern Irish History. The emphasis
in the M. Phil. in Modern Irish History will be on the study of problems,
issues and epochs in a broadly comparative context, rather than treating
Irish history as somehow 'exceptional'. As well as taking subject specific
modules in various aspects of the political, military, social, economic,
religious and cultural history of modern Ireland, students will be exposed
to a rigorous research training programme. Drawing on the current interests
of the staff in the Department of Modern History, it will be based on the
rich resources of Trinity College Dublin's library and of the adjacent
Dublin libraries (the National Library of Ireland, the National Archives and
Marsh's Library). The course may also serve as an introduction to graduate
research for students wishing to go on to pursue a doctorate in Modern Irish
History. For further details see
http://www.tcd.ie/Modern_History/ireland.php or contact Prof. Eunan O'
Halpin, Department of Modern History, Trinity College, Dublin 2, phone:
00-353-1-6081020.

REFORMATION AND ENLIGHTENMENT STUDIES
This interdisciplinary M.Phil course introduces well-qualified Arts
Graduates to research into problems and methods in the intellectual and
religious history of the early modern period. It draws on the resources of
the Dublin libraries, especially Trinity College and Marsh's Libraries.
Subject specific modules include 'Reform and Reformation in Central Europe',
'European Science in the seventeenth century', 'The Scottish Enlightenment'
and 'War and Society in early modern Europe'. Throughout the course
students develop analytical and historiographical skills and write a brief
dissertation. The course lasts for 12 months from the beginning of October,
and requires full-time study. The course may also serve as an introduction
to graduate research for candidates wishing to pursue a doctorate in Early
Modern History. The award of the M. Phil. degree entitles the applicant to
be placed on the Ph.D. register without any further transfer procedure. For
further details see or
contact Dr Helga Robinson-Hammerstein (hhmmrstn[at]tcd.ie
), Department of Modern History, Trinity College,
Dublin 2, phone: 00-353-1-6081045 or 6081020.

Department of Modern History:
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For details of our new M.Phil in Modern Irish History see

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Don't know what to make of this, but I thought you and others on the
list might find it of interest, in one way or another.
Kerby




>
>
>
>
>
>I thought the following story would be of interest to you.
>
>Atlantis in Ireland Theory Gaining Strength; Invitation to Debate
>
>To read the entire story, visit
>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/12/prweb184902.php.
>
>
>

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Thanks to John for pointing this out. As he says, we are at an early planning
stage, but we are keen to press ahead with the journal on the lines he has
indicated. I am sure the Irish diaspora would have a major place in the journal
we hope to launch, but I am not sure that a journal devoted solely to the Irish
diaspora would be viable. I'd be glad to receive comments on this view as well
as on the scope and value of our proposed DMI journal.

Robin Bloxsidge
robblo[at]liv.ac.uk

Quoting "J.C. Belchem" :

> Could I point out that Liverpool University press is currently drawing up a
> business plan for a new journal , 'Diasporas, Migration and Identities', an
> initiative designed to run in parallel with (and beyond) the pioneer
> strategic research programme launched by the AHRB (Paddy has already posted
> details of this). LUP already has a strong interest in publishing books on
> the Irish diaspora (note recent publications by Enda Delaney, Paul O'Leary
> et al and Don MacRaild's forthcoming magnum opus on Orangeism). I am sure
> the Irish diaspora would find appropriate space within the new journal.
> However, this is still in the early planning stages - I am sure LUP would
> appreciate comments - and support!
>
> Thanks, John Belchem
>
>
> Professor John Belchem
> School of History
> University of Liverpool
> 9 Abercromby Square
> Liverpool L69 7WZ
> email: j.c.belchem[at]liv.ac.uk
> phone: (0)151-794-2370
> fax: (0)151-794-2366
>


Robin Bloxsidge
PUBLISHER, LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY PRESS
4 Cambridge Street, Liverpool, L69 7ZU, UK
Tel +44-[0]151-794-2231, Fax +44-[0]151-794-2235
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Well, I can't judge the geology either -- but I have to beile that Ignatius
Donnelly would be proud. Donnelly, who was the son an Irish physician, was
elected Lt. Governor of Minnesota at age 28. Donnelly wrote a wildly
successful book on the Atlantis myth, that is till in print today. He also
wrote about Shakespeare's true identity, as well as about the perils of
Chinese immigration. His last book -- a utopian fantasy called The Golden
Bottle -- predicted a rousing liberation of Ireland from British rule.

Jim Rogers
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Subject: [IR-D] Fwd: Atlantis in Ireland Theory Gaining Strength;
Invitation to Debate...


Don't know what to make of this, but I thought you and others on the
list might find it of interest, in one way or another.
Kerby




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>Atlantis in Ireland Theory Gaining Strength; Invitation to Debate
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My thanks to Bill Mulligan for looking after the IR-D list whilst I was away
- a restful and cultutal few days in Amsterdam...

A few technical problems arose - which I will need to look at. But the man
coped well. This, by the way, was something of a symbolic first: the first
time, ever in its history, that the IR-D list was managed by someone outside
Bradford.

Our new home at Jiscmail means that the IR-D list can be run from anywhere
in the world, by anyone... Who has the patience of Job and the cunning of
Ulysses...

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It turns out that I have committed myself to speak, on a number of occasions
next month, at the Glucksman Ireland House, University of New York. The key
date is Thursday March 24.

Any thoughts about what I might say?

Paddy

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Subject: Traditional Dance and Irish Festival [at] RFH

ISET and the Irish Studies Centre are pleased to inform you of the =
following
event organised by the Royal Festival Hall:

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Subject: Traditional Dance and Irish Festival [at] RFH
From: "Promassist"

The Royal Festival Hall are hosting a series of Irish music and dance
performances on 24-26 February 2005. Barr Go S=E1il (Heel to Toe) =
features a
host of Ireland's leading traditional dancers, musicians and singers in
celebration of the rich cultures of Kerry, Donegal, and Connemarra.

Further details can be found on:
http://www.hayward.org.uk/main/series/251.html?section=3Ddance&file

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Subject: ISET Public Seminar Series

THE INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF EUROPEAN TRANSFORMATIONS LONDON METROPOLITAN
UNIVERSITY PUBLIC SEMINAR SERIES 2005

Please find below information about a series of Public Seminars that the
Institute for the Study of European Transformations(ISET)is holding this
spring. The purpose of the seminars is either to invite individuals who we
are working with or people whose work we are particularly interested in to
give a presentation. We would be delighted if you could join us to ensure
the widest possible discussion.

Further details about ISET are available at www.londonmet.ac.uk/iset.

GOVERNING THE GLOBAL LABOUR MARKETS
By Paul Teague (Queens University Belfast)
On: 10 March 2005
At: 6.00 p.m.
Venue:
Room GC108, Tower Building,
London Metropolitan University,
166-220 Holloway Road
London N7 8DB


COUNTRIES WITHOUT BORDERS? FROM THE COMMON TRAVEL AREA TO THE SCHENGEN
AGREEMENT: BRITISH AND IRISH PERSPECTIVES ON EU IMMIGRATION POLICY By Piaras
MacEinri (National University of Ireland)
On: 27 April 2005
At: 6.00 p.m.
Venue:
Room tbc, Tower Building,
London Metropolitan University,
166-220 Holloway Road
London N7 8DB


To be confirmed:
Ahdef Soueif on the Relationship between her writing and politics.
Possibly in May

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