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14 February 2005 14:41  
  
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:41:26 -0000 Reply-To: Patrick O'Sullivan [IR-DLOG0502.txt]
  
Irish Elders Now - films and oral history, London
  
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Forwarded on behalf of=20
Tony Murray
Irish Studies Centre
London


Dear Friend of the Irish Studies Centre,

Please find copied below information about a forthcoming series of film
screenings about Irish elders in Britain. I would be very grateful if =
you
would publicise the programme through your organisation.

Booking forms for the screenings are available from my colleague Kathy
O'Regan at k.elsner[at]londonmet.ac.uk or on 020 7133 2913

I hope you can join us.

Best wishes.

Tony Murray
Irish Studies Centre



Irish Elders Now

A series of film screenings about
the elderly Irish in Britain
6 March =96 21 April 2005


Irish Studies Centre
Cultural Programme 2004-05

Programme of Screenings

Premiere
Sunday 6th March: 1.30
Tricycle Cinema
Kilburn High Rd, London NW6 =A38
Both films will be introduced at this screening by their respective
producers David Kelly and Paul Rouse along with the Director of the =
Irish
Studies Centre, Prof. Mary Hickman


Tuesday 15th March: 7.30pm
Lewisham Irish Centre
Davenport Rd, SE6 =A36


Thursday 7th April: 7.30pm
Harringey Irish Centre
Pretoria Rd, N17 =A36


Thursday 14th April: 7.30pm
London Metropolitan University
Tower Building, Holloway Rd, N7 =A36


Saturday 21st April: 7.30pm
Hammersmith & Fulham Irish Centre
Blacks Rd, Hammersmith, W9(?) =A36

N.B. Where possible refreshments will be available before and after the
screenings



I Only Came Over for a Couple of Years=85
(2003, producer David Kelly, 31 mins)
Interviews with elderly Irish men and women in London intercut with =
footage
of the 2003 London St. Patrick=3Ds Day Parade. These testimonies of =
coming to
London between the 1930s and 1960s constitute a moving and valuable =
record
of a rapidly disappearing section of the London population.

Lost Generation
(2003, producer Paul Rouse, 55 mins)
An RT=C9 documentary screened in Ireland in December 2003 but never =
shown in
Britain. The programme which depicts the plight of elderly Irish men in
Britain is a serious indictment of Irish government policy towards the =
Irish
in Britain and after heated debates in the Dail, has resulted in a =
recent
reassessment of the level of grant-aid to Irish welfare organisations.



Further details and booking forms available by telephone on 020 7133
2913 or by email from Kathy O'Regan
at k.elsner[at]londonmet.ac.uk


Irish Elders Now oral history project

The aim of this project is to build a substantial video and oral record =
of a
generation of Irish migrants in Britain (the over-60s). The first stage =
of
the project was completed in 2003 with the production of I Only Came =
Over
for a Couple of Years....=92

Copies of the complete interviews recorded for the film are now =
deposited in
the Archive of the Irish in Britain in the university. As the =
experience of
Irish people of this generation in Britain is not well documented in the
official records, these tapes will provide an important historical =
resource
for scholars of the Irish in Britain now and in years to come. The aim =
of
the Irish Elders Now project over coming years is to expand its =
programme to
include oral history interviews with elderly Irish people from other =
parts
of Britain. We are grateful to the following organisations for their =
support
of the project:

Smurfit Foundation
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Ireland Fund of G.B.
Fyffes plc
Irish Post

If you think you can help in any way, please contact Tony Murray:
(44) 20 7133 2593 t.murray[at]londonmet.ac.uk

Archive of the Irish in Britain
Founded in 1984, this unique collection of documents, audio and video
recordings, books, photographs and ephemera catalogues the history of =
the
Irish in Britain from the late nineteenth century to the present day. =
The
Archive is regularly consulted by researchers, students, academics and
journalists from Britain, Ireland and further afield. Its primary =
objectives
are acquisition, cataloguing and indexing of new materials; preservation =
and
safe storage of the collections; dissemination and widening of access to =
the
archive. By achieving this, the Archive of the Irish in Britain aims to
secure and safeguard the historical records of the Irish in Britain and =
to
enhance understanding of the Irish community for British, Irish and =
other
peoples alike. We are keen to encourage participation in its development
through donation of materials, interviews, exhibitions, talks and
collaborative projects.
The Irish Studies Centre is grateful to the Smurfit Foundation for its
continuing support of the Archive of the Irish in Britain.

The Irish Studies Centre
The main purpose of the Irish Studies Centre is the promotion of Irish
Studies through teaching, research, documentation and community liaison.
Founded by Professor Mary Hickman in 1986, the Irish Studies Centre is =
based
in the Institute for the Study of European Transformations and aims to
increase the understanding and appreciation of the Irish contribution to =
all
aspects of economic, cultural, political and social life. As well as
teaching and research, it achieves this through a number of other =
activities
including an annual Cultural Programme, its holding of the Archive of =
the
Irish in Britain, its publications and its international links with =
Irish
academics, researchers and politicians.

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5542  
14 February 2005 14:58  
  
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:58:37 -0000 Reply-To: Patrick O'Sullivan [IR-DLOG0502.txt]
  
TOC Journal of British Studies v44 n1
  
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This has been flagged up by our systems...

I just want to call attention to the section on 'Whiteness' and the Irish.

The Whiteness of Ireland Under and After the Union, G. K. Peatling

ROUNDTABLE
Comment: The Return of Revisionism, L. Perry Curtis, Jr.
Comment: Whiteness and the Liverpool-Irish, John Belchem
Comment: Whiteness and Irish Experience in North America, David A. Wilson
A Response to the Commentators, G. K. Peatling

When more information is available I will distribute it.

P.O'S.


Subject: TOC: Journal of British Studies v44 n1

Journal of British Studies incorporating Albion Volume 44. Number 1. January
2005

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JBS

ARTICLES
Introduction
James Epstein and Nicholas Rogers

Order and Place in England, 1580-1640: The View from the Pew Christopher
Marsh

The Faith of Unbelief: Rochester's Satyre,Deism, and Religious Freethinking
in Seventeenth-Century England, Sarah Ellenzweig

History and Narrative Identity: Religious Dissent and the Politics of Memory
in Eighteenth-Century England, John Seed

"Let But One of Them Come before Me, and I'll Commit Him": Trade Unions,
Magistrates, and the Law in Mid-

Nineteenth Century Staffordshire, Christopher Frank

"Appeal from this fiery bed" . . .The Colonial Politics of Gandhi's Fasts
and Their Metropolitan Reception, Tim Pratt and James Vernon

The Whiteness of Ireland Under and After the Union, G. K. Peatling

ROUNDTABLE
Comment: The Return of Revisionism, L. Perry Curtis, Jr.
Comment: Whiteness and the Liverpool-Irish, John Belchem
Comment: Whiteness and Irish Experience in North America, David A. Wilson A
Response to the Commentators, G. K. Peatling

REVIEW ESSAYS
Dealing with the Early Modern Dead, Lee Beier The Religious Cultures of
Early Modern Britain, Lori Anne Ferrell Sex and the Archives: Current Work
on Subordinate Identities and Early Modern Cultural Formation, Melissa Mowry
Putting the British into the Empire, Richard Drayton Going Global: Empire,
Identity, and the Politics of Performance, Kathleen Wilson Women, Men, and
Empires of Law, Douglas Hay
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5543  
14 February 2005 18:18  
  
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:18:54 -0000 Reply-To: Patrick O'Sullivan [IR-DLOG0502.txt]
  
Alert, New Hibernia Review issue 8:4
  
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=20
From: Rogers, James=20
JROGERS[at]stthomas.edu


New Hibernia Review's issue 8:4 is on the printing presses today, and in =
a
week or so (once the on-line version is posted on the Project Muse =A9 =
web
site) I'll be sending along the usual rundown of contents etc to the =
list.=20

In the meantime, though, I want to mention that one of the pieces we're
especially proud of is the "Radharc ar gC=FAl / A Backward Glance," a =
periodic
feature of NHR that gathers together three or four short essays (usually
1,000 to 2,000 words) on an Irish book deserving of renewed attention. =
For
the upcoming issue, Jim Cahalan shepherded together four wonderful
reconsiderations of Vivian Mercier's 1962 The Irish Comic Tradition. The
essays come from Jim Cahalan himself , Eil=E9an N=ED Chuillean=E1in, =
Anthony
Roche, and Paddy O'Sullivan.

In earlier numbers, "The Backward Glance" feature has looked at Davitt's
Fall of Feudalism; Kenner's Dublin's Joyce; the 1941 portfolio Twelve =
Irish
Artists; and Keating's Foras Feasa ar =C9irinn.

If anyone would like to propose another work (whether a classic, or an
undiscovered jewel) that might be helpfully re-examined from the =
perspective
of 2005, Editor Thomas Dillon Redshaw and I would be interested in =
hearing
your suggestions--especially if you might also suggest a few potential
contributors to such a feature. The work need not necessarily be a book, =
I
might add: films, articles, art works, etc, could also be treated in the
"Backward Glance" feature. And if I might suggest one, we would be
particularly interested in seeing someone gather together some pieces on
Sean O'Faolain's 1942 book, The Great O'Neill: A biography of Hugh =
O'Neill,
Early of Tyrone, 1550-1616.

Thanks
Jim Rogers

jrogers[at]stthomas.edu

Tom Redshaw
tdredshaw[at]stthomas.edu=20
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5544  
14 February 2005 20:13  
  
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:13:02 -0000 Reply-To: Patrick O'Sullivan [IR-DLOG0502.txt]
  
Irish Society in Tanzania
  
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From: billmulligan[at]murray-ky.net
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Irish Society in Tanzania


I came across this in today's Irish Examiner.

The Irish Society in Tanzania is celebrating its 75th Aniversary. Another
outpost of the Diaspora.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/pport/web/opinion/Full_Story/did-sgyzBHenqkVjQs
gdq-nXlDAyFE.asp

Bill Mulligan
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5545  
15 February 2005 14:59  
  
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:59:32 -0000 Reply-To: Patrick O'Sullivan [IR-DLOG0502.txt]
  
P.O'S in NY NY 2
  
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From: "Sarah Morgan"
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re PO'S in NY NY

Paddy,

Perhaps you might reflect on the movement of Irish-born people back to
Ireland in the last few years and what implications arise from this in terms
of the position(s) of and understandings of the Irish in Britain.

In my view, Irishness in Britain (and in Ireland, for that matter) remains
all too frequently linked with birth in Ireland - so the return of so many
emigrants raises key issues about the 'health' of the community itself (for
example, the future of many Irish community centres) and the understanding
of what an 'Irish community' is in the absence of emigration. You will be
aware, for example, that in an article some time ago on the Irish in
Coventry, Russell King (et al) argued that without the refreshment of
emigrants from Ireland, the Irish community in Coventry was a 'relict' one.
Although I would argue that this is not necessarily the case (and Coventry
Irish Society would not exist without its second generation employees and
supporters), I do think it is a widely held view (so ONS is proposing to
move towards monitoring Irish people in a national rather than ethnic
category).

It might spark some interesting debate/conversations in NY.

Sarah Morgan
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5546  
15 February 2005 17:54  
  
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:54:22 -0000 Reply-To: Patrick O'Sullivan [IR-DLOG0502.txt]
  
P.O'S. in NY NY 3
  
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From: MOBrien[at]franciscan.edu
Subject: Suggestions for your talk in NYC


Hello Patrick,

I think that Sarah's question about the effect of New Irish return to Eire
could also be applied in particular to the U.S., where the return of many
Donnelly and Kennedy visa holders seems to have widened the division between
the New Irish and Irish America. I know that Linda Dowling Almeida has
explored this in her recent book (which came out a couple of years ago), and
I wrote an article for Etudes-Irlandaises on the effect of return migration
itself last year.

The matter might be a little contentious, considering the role that Irish
America plays at NYU, but I saw just the other day that one of the leaders
of the Irish Immigration Reform Movement (who fought for the visa programs
of the late 1980s/early 90s) was back in town to speak at the City
University of New York.

All the best,
Matt O'Brien

PS I strongly recommend a stroll around Greenwich Village if time permits-
it's one of my favorite things to do in New York City! And there's a great
deli there called Kazansky's (sp?) for the authentic NYC deli experience!


(Moderator's Note:
See
Ethnic Legacy and Immigrant Mobility: the New Irish and Irish America in the
1990s / O Brien, M. J.
ETUDES IRLANDAISES - 2003 ; VOL 28; PART 2 ; Pages: 119-134
P.O'S.)
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5547  
15 February 2005 20:34  
  
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:34:56 -0000 Reply-To: Patrick O'Sullivan [IR-DLOG0502.txt]
  
RETURNING HOME
  
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From: "john mcgurk"
To:
Subject: RETURNING HOME

PADDY,

SARAH MORGAN'S COMMENT INVITES ME TO WRITE AND SAY THAT SINCE MY OWN RETURN
THESE PAST FIVE YEARS I HAVE MET WITH NOTHING BUT WELCOME FROM THE IRISH
ACADEMIC COMMUNITY - THOUGH RETIRED I HAVE BEEN GIVING CROSS BORDER TALKS TO
LOCAL HISTORY SOCS. IN ULSTER AND ELSEWHERE - UNIVERSITIES OF GALWAY, CORK,
TCD,LIMERICK - TO CONFERENCES THERE AND INVITED TO CONTRIBUTE ARTICLES TO
JOURNALS. MY VILLAGE OF TOURMAKEADAY HAS A WEB SITE WHICH IS MUCH USED BY
GENEALOGICAL RESEARCHERS - AND INCIDENTALLY I AM V.GRATEFUL TO YOU PADDY FOR
YOUR STOCK REPLY TO INQUIRERS WHICH I HAVE USED. SORRY WE DID NOT HAVE THE
CHANCE OF A LONGER CHAT WHEN IN LIVERPOOL. I CAN'T DO WITHOUT MY DAILY FIX
OF IR-D!

JOHN MC GURK
JJNMCG[at]EIRCOM.NET
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5548  
15 February 2005 20:55  
  
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:55:11 -0000 Reply-To: Patrick O'Sullivan [IR-DLOG0502.txt]
  
Technical Problems at irishdiaspora.net
  
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Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Just to alert everyone that there might be technical problems at
www.irishdiaspora.net from now on and maybe for a few days.

The hosting company, FreshLook Hosting, has sprung some surprises on us -
which is a bit annoying, but there you are... New systems at their end mean
that we must make changes, re-locate stuff, re-direct stuff at our end... I
don't want to blind you with science.

When it is all finished, it will look no different and work just the same...
But there may be times when things do not work or connect quite as they
should...

This does not affect the actual IR-D list, which works through a quite
separate system at Jiscmail.

So continue to send messages... I am really enjoying the Tell Paddy What to
Say in New York thread... Though I do wish that people would not be so shy,
and simply sent messages to IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.CO.UK for sharing. Anything to do
with New York delis I am forwarding to my son, Dan...

Paddy

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5549  
16 February 2005 10:04  
  
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:04:22 -0000 Reply-To: Patrick O'Sullivan [IR-DLOG0502.txt]
  
Technical Problems at irishdiaspora.net 2
  
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Remember, patience of Job; cunning of Ulysses -- persistence of Sisyphus?

Bill


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5550  
16 February 2005 11:04  
  
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:04:43 -0000 Reply-To: Patrick O'Sullivan [IR-DLOG0502.txt]
  
Fiona Shaw introduces Conquering England: Ireland in Victorian
  
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For information...

P.O'S.

Pluck of the Irish

Fiona Shaw
Wednesday February 16, 2005
The Guardian

When I arrived as a student in London in 1980, I carried some of Ireland's
artistic giants with me. I walked the streets of Oscar Wilde's Chelsea; I
passed the bust of George Bernard Shaw every day as I ran between classes at
Rada; eventually, I even bought a flat on the same street as William Butler
Yeats's house in Fitzroy Road. Unlike them, however, I was female and
Catholic.

But I was treated kindly, and so I struggled through, barely keeping up with
the modern writers in the first years and only coming into my own when we
hit anything before 1900. In the theatre it was Shakespeare that devastated
me - the brilliant Hamlet of Jonathan Pryce, Harriet Walter at the Royal
Court and Paul Scofield in Othello at the National. English National Opera
was a revelation, as was the National Gallery. We had nothing like them in
Ireland.

The joy for the outsider is that you can be anything. Oscar Wilde affected
the room when he entered; so did Yeats, Parnell and Shaw. They were
"flamboyant with attitude" and tested the boundaries of the tolerance of the
city. These artists came because "home" was too small for them and London,
with its great addictive charm and size, was in turn shrunk into a Dublin by
their swagger and anarchy. But they, too, were conquered: Shaw living his
whole long life there; Yeats staying a considerable time (despite wishing to
go to Innisfree); and Wilde tragically crumbling under the weight of the
establishment's wrath.

Wilde, Shaw and Yeats charmed their way with an eccentric confidence that
stemmed from their individuality more than their national identity. They
declared their genius with an ironic twist. There are signs of this trait
still in today's resident Irish artists in London. Their presence in Britain
gives inspiration to those who follow them from Ireland. I learned the
English ways and, like my predecessors, used humour as my tool of entry,
making my debut in the Irish playwright Sheridan's The Rivals at the
National Theatre in 1983.

. This is an edited extract from the catalogue for Conquering England:
Ireland in Victorian London at the National Portrait Gallery, London, WC2,
from March 9.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,,1415413,00.html
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16 February 2005 11:32  
  
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:32:04 -0000 Reply-To: Patrick O'Sullivan [IR-DLOG0502.txt]
  
P.O'S. in NY NY 4
  
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From: MacEinri, Piaras
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Readers of the list might wish to know that we (UC Cork and QUB/Centre for
Migration Studies Omagh) are conducting a two year all-Ireland life
narrative project on return migration, looking at it from an Ireland-based
perspective. Caitriona Ni Laoire (Cork) and Johanne Trew (Omagh) are
responsible for the bulk of the project design and fieldwork, with inputs
from Brian Lambkin, Piaras Mac Einri, Liam Coakley and advice from Breda
Gray and Liam Kennedy. The end product will be a 75 interview archive; much
of the material (although not the full interview archive) will be available
on the internet.

Among other matters, we expect the project to throw light on people's
reasons for returning and their experiences of life within various diasporic
communities. It would be interesting at some future point to look at these
questions in the round, with inputs from both ends.

Piaras
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5552  
16 February 2005 21:29  
  
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:29:21 -0000 Reply-To: Patrick O'Sullivan [IR-DLOG0502.txt]
  
QUB Irish Studies, Spring Seminar Programme
  
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From: QUB Irish Studies General Office
Subject: Spring Seminar Programme

Dear Colleagues

The Institute of Irish Studies at Queen's launched its Spring Seminar
programme on 15 February. The theme is 'Memory and Representation in
Ireland'.

The full programme has now been published and can be viewed on our website
at:
http://www.qub.ac.uk/iis/for-researchers/for-researchers-seminarprog.htm

The next paper is 'Remembering (and forgetting) the Solemn League and
Covenant, 1912-2000.' by Dr Gillian McIntosh, Research Fellow of the
Institute. More information on Dr McIntosh and on other fellows of the
Institute can be found at:
http://www.qub.ac.uk/iis/staff/res-fellows.htm

This series is free of charge and open to the Public.

Best wishes

Catherine Boone
Administrator
Institute of Irish Studies
Queen's University Belfast
University Road
Belfast BT7 1NN
Tel: 44 (0) 28 9097 3386
Email: irish.studies[at]qub.ac.uk
Website: www.qub.ac.uk/iis
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5553  
21 February 2005 11:08  
  
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:08:19 -0000 Reply-To: Patrick O'Sullivan [IR-DLOG0502.txt]
  
Technical Problems at irishdiaspora.net 3
  
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Well... add to the list the determination of Rasputin to survive, despite
everything...

The technical problems created for us by technical changes made by our hosts
have been more difficult than first thought - and quite beyond my abilities
to resolve...

They seem to have switched off some services at the beginning of this month,
without telling anyone - and there has been an accumulation of errors...

Once again Dr. Stephen Sobol, of the University of Leeds, has stepped
forward with a solution, and once again we are under his wing in a
web-hosting facility he has developed. www.irishdiaspora.net has been moved
to this new home, throughout the world the DNS numbers have resolved, and
clicking on our web address takes us to that new place without fuss. Where
everything looks as it did before.

However there are still some problems in the Special Access part of the web
site - where our databases live. I think I am going to have to do some work
repairing the datasbases. This should not be too hard - we have automatic
back-ups. Plus of course, as far as the IR-D list is concerned, Jiscmail
automatically creates a database of the more recent IR-D entries in its own
files.

Sorry about this... I had thought all these issues were resolved. And, as
I say, this turned into a bigger problem than I had anticipated...

Of course, we must thank Stephen Sobol for his help... I should add that at
one point even HE was baffled... I am not a lemon... Felt like one,
though.

Paddy


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Remember, patience of Job; cunning of Ulysses -- persistence of Sisyphus?

Bill


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5554  
21 February 2005 20:06  
  
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 20:06:09 -0000 Reply-To: Patrick O'Sullivan [IR-DLOG0502.txt]
  
Chinese in Ireland
  
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From: Maria Mcgarrity
mmcgarrity[at]earthlink.net
Subject: Chinese in Ireland

Hi Paddy,

I'm sending in this query for a colleague who is interested in the Chinese
communities in Ireland.
Can anyone recommend a few standard works on that community in Ireland or
wider Irish History works that reference the Chinese community in a
substantive way?

Many thanks.

Maria McGarrity
Long Island University
Brooklyn, NY
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From: Rogers, James=20
JROGERS[at]stthomas.edu
Subject: New Hibernia Review 8:4



IR-D Listers,=20

=20

New Hibernia Review=92s winter 2004 issue has been turned over to the =
tender
mercies of the US Postal Service, and, indeed, already races ahead of =
the
mail in cyberspace for those who have access to Project Muse =AE



Here is a rundown of the table of contents, followed by slightly more
expansive descriptors of the articles and features.=20

TABLE OF CONTENTS

NEW HIBERNIA REVIEW 8:4

Michael Cronin, Babel =C1tha Cliath: The Languages of Dublin



Albert J. De Giacomo and Jonas Friddle, Ireland=92s "Proclaimed" =
Dramatist:
Frank J. Hugh O'Donnell (1894=961976)



Maura Stanton Fil=EDocht Nua: New Poetry
=20

Charles Fanning, Robert Emmet and Nineteenth-Century Irish America=20

=20

Leeann Lane, Female Emigration and the Cooperative Movement in the =
Writings
of George Russell
=20

Kathleen A. Heininge "Untiring Joys and Sorrows": Yeats and the Sidhe
=20

Rui Manuel G. de Carvalho Homem Of Furies and Forgers: Ekphrasis, =
Re-vision,
and Translation in Derek Mahon=20

=93A Backward Glance: Radharc ar gC=FAl=94

1. James M. Cahalan, Mercier's Irish Comic Tradition as a Touchstone of
Irish Studies=20
2. Eil=E9an N=ED Chuillean=E1in, Vivian Mercier=20
3. Anthony Roche, Vivian Mercier=92s Irish Comic Tradition: The Man and =
the
Book=20
4. Patrick O=92Sullivan,On First Looking into Mercier's The Irish Comic
Tradition
=20
In greater detail :

=20

The issue opens with a survey of polyglot modern Dublin, wriiten by =
Michael
Cronin, director of Dublin City University=92s Centre for Translation =
and
Textual Studies, Ireland,=94 Asylum seekers and economic immigrants from =
Asia,
Africa, and the former Eastern bloc--as well as from immigrants from =
within
the EU--have begun to restructure the Irish demographic, and in the =
process,
have created a radical new language environment Cronin notes that a
multilingual Ireland will necessarily invite a rethinking of the =
state=92s
official bilingualism. =20

=20

Frank J. Hugh O=92Donnell (1894-1976), whose scripts were mainstays of =
the
Irish amateur repertoire during his lifetime, and whose 1919 play The =
Dawn
Mist gained special notoriety for attracting political censorship is the
subject of the next article, from. Albert De Giacomo and Joas Friddle of
Berea College. They examine O=92Donnell=92s dramatic apprenticeship, a =
period in
which his ambitions ran somewhat ahead of his talents=97but which still =
ca
caught the attention of Yeats, Lennox Robinson, and other theatrical
luminaries.=20

=20

Irish-American poetry can claim a long heritage in American letters;
continuing this tradition today is Maura Stanton, who presents a suite =
of
poems that display her characteristic range and subtlety. =20


The memory of the youthful patriot Robert Emmet wove its way into the
imaginations of Irish America for a full century after his execution, =
and
Dr. Charles Fanning of SIU-Carbondale tracks the development of the =
Emmet
cult in the United States. Though extreme at times, overall the =
invocation
of Emmet was positive: by providing both personal and community links to =
an
heroic, thrilling figure, the patriot=92s memory proved deeply ennobling =
to
the immigrant community and its heirs. =20


From the Mater Dei Institute at DCU, Dr Leeann Lane scrutinizes George
Russell=92s views in The Irish Homestead on improving the lives of rural =
women
in Ireland by means of the Irish Country Woman=92s Association, which =
espoused
what seem today to be conventional, limited roles for women living on =
the
land. =20
=20

Writing from Portugal, Rui Carvalho Homem teases out the associations =
and
connotations lying behind Derek Mahon=92s exemplary poem =93Courtyards =
in
Delft=94 (1981) by exploring the pictorial and moral relations between =
the
Delft genre paintings of the seventeenth-century Dutch painters de =
Hooch,
van Baburen, and Vermeer. Prof. Homem displays a fine eye for detail, a =
true
ear for tone, and patience for the Calvinist history of Northern
Europe=97including Delft and, of course, Mahon=92s Belfast. =20

=20
Next Dr. Kathleen Heininge of George Fox University surveys Yeats=92s
on-again, off-again fascination with the Sidhe, particularly during the
1890s, the years of The Celtic Twilight and such poems as =93Song of the
Wandering Aengus.=94 Heininge finds that postcolonial theory proves =
useful in
describing Yeat=92s stance toward the fairies, which was one of--in Homi
Bhabha=92s phrase=97=93intertstitial intimacy.=94=20


We close this issue with "Radharc ar gC=FAl / A Backward Glance," in =
which we
welcome four thankful reconsiderations of Vivian Mercier=92s 1962 =
intertwining
of Gaelic and Anglo-Irish literatures, The Irish Comic Tradition. James =
M.
Cahalan introduces these short essays by noting Mercier=92s role in =
creating
Irish Studies as we know it. Mercier=92s study, he finds, =93is a =
=91secondary=92
source that became primary.=94 Three accounts of Mercier=92s lasting =
influence
follow. The poet Eil=E9an N=ED Chuillean=E1in recalls the polymath =
Mercier=97her
stepfather=97both as an intellectual presence and as a loving member of =
her
family. continually surrounded by books-- volumes that bore witness not =
only
to his scholarship, but also to his gracious, expansive nature. Anthony
Roche=97who, before he was the author of such influential theater =
criticism as
Contemporary Irish Drama from Beckett to McGuinness (1995), was =
Mercier=92s
doctoral student in California--notes the refreshing interdisciplinarity
that The Irish Comic Tradition introduced to the study of Irish =
literature.
Finally, Patrick O=92Sullivan, that tireless scholar who moderates the =
Irish
Diaspora List, gives a far-ranging autobiographical account of his own
relationship to Mercier=92s text--gratefully concluding that Mercier=92s =
book
taught him =93that there were ways of being Irish that were intelligent,
secular, nonsectarian, kindly, warm, human, and fun.=94


For subscription information, contributor guidelines, etc., please =
visit
the web site below, or contact editor Thomas Dillon Redshaw at
tdredshaw[at]stthomas.edu or managing editor Jim Rogers.=20


Thanks


Jim Rogers

Managing director, Center for Irish Studies

Managing editor, NEW HIBERNIA REVIEW

University of St Thomas #5008

2115 Summit Avenue

St Paul MN 55105-1096

jrogers[at]stthomas.edu

www.stthomas.edu/irishstudies =20

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Subject: Chinese in Ireland

For information...


Stories from Chinatown
(The Irish Times)
Rosita Boland
05/02/2005
As they prepare to celebrate the Year of the Rooster, Rosita Boland asks
members of the Chinese community about their lives in Ireland The Year of
the Rooster The Chinese new year begins on February 9th. The word for
"rooster" has the same pronunciation as "luck" in the Chinese language and
is the 10th in a 12-year rotation on the Chinese lunar calendar that begins
with rat and ends with pig.
Festival Fever
The Dublin Chinatown Festival runs from February 9th to 13th at the National
Museum, Collins Barracks. Among the events will be a crafts and clothes
market; a food market will feature Beijing and north-eastern Chinese food.
There will also be dragon dancing, the Red Poppy Precussion group from
Beijing, a lion dance, craft workshops for children, and talks on Chinese
culture. www.chinatown.ie



The takeaway delivery driver
'Five times the windows were broken'
Every night when Li Dan (24) goes out to work as a delivery driver for an
inner-city Dublin Chinese takeaway, three or four of her friends come with
her in the car. They're not there because they'll be getting paid. Or
because they like spending their nights sitting in a car, driving round
Dublin. They come with Dan, on nights they're not working, to offer her
company - and protection.
"Five times the windows were broken when I was in the car on a delivery,"
she says. The last time was a fortnight ago. When attempting to deliver a
takeaway to an inner-city flats complex, the passenger window was smashed
with a golf ball. The golf ball hit Dan on the back of the neck and the
glass shattered all over her terrified friends. "My neck still hurts," she
admits. "I was angry, angry."
The owner of the take-away warned her that if anything happened to the car
on the job, she would have to pay for the damage. The last window cost ?60
to replace. "It's always teenagers, usually boys." She's also had money and
takeaways stolen.
Dan is from Shen Yang, in the north-east of China, and has been in Dublin
for five years. She came here to study English in a central Dublin language
school. In 2000, the fee of ?8,000 was for the airfare from Beijing, 24
weeks' tuition and one month's accommodation. "It was a lot of money, and
the classes were not so good. I didn't learn much there, because everyone
was speaking Chinese."
After tuition, Dan worked in the kitchens in Fad? at the Mansion House and
then in Kelly and Ping, at Smithfield. The hours wore her out eventually.
She took some more English classes after her restaurant work. Even now,
after five years in Ireland, we both have to work hard to understand each
other.
Home is a shared house with four Chinese friends. "We mostly cook Chinese
food, it's cheaper. The friends I live with only stay around other Chinese
people, but I know some Irish people. Except for the teenagers and the small
children, Irish people are nice." The small children? "They say Ni Hao to me
to get attention, and then very bad dirty words in Chinese. Terrible words!
I suppose Chinese people must have taught them." She is too embarrassed to
tell me what the bad words are.
None of her friends will be getting a day off for Chinese New Year. "Irish
bosses don't know about it."
Dan has travelled all around Ireland. Her favourite part is the Aran
Islands. "Oh, I would love to live there," she confesses, looking out on to
the Westmoreland Street traffic.
The software developer
'I'm more Irish than Chinese'
Raymond Cheung (32) came to Ireland from Hong Kong when he was five. His
father had a relative working in one of the first Chinese restaurants in
Dublin, the Lotus House. His father came to Ireland first, followed by his
mother. Cheung and his younger sister stayed in Hong Kong, being cared for
by their grandmother. When his parents had put some money together and
organised somewhere to live, they sent for the three of them.
"I remember vaguely stuff from Hong Kong, but being Chinese is only half of
my life. There is a lot of things I don't understand about the Chinese
culture. I grew up in D?n Laoghaire, so I feel more Irish than Chinese."
There was an Indian family living close by and the Cheungs spent some time
with them as children, as they were the only other Asian family in the area.
"Most of my friends were Irish. I had the usual taunts, but was never really
exposed to anything bad. Our house was never attacked, for example."
Cheung works as a software developer. Three years ago, on a holiday to Hong
Kong, he met Lucy. They got married and she moved over to Ireland. Their
son, Alex, is seven weeks old. Was it important for him to marry someone
within his own culture? He laughs. "If you ask my parents, they would say it
was important. It wasn't in my own mind. I was dating Irish girls before I
met Lucy. I think I was just lucky. She has adjusted very nicely to
Ireland."
Virtually all Cheung's friends are Irish. He rarely socialises with the
Chinese community here. He thinks it's a combination of not making the
effort and that the newly arrived Chinese keep to themselves. "It's a pity I
don't know more Chinese people. Since Lucy arrived, I've been meeting a few
more people, because she has made contacts here." Home is a house in Bray,
where the entire family lives: his grandmother, father, mother, sister, wife
and baby. "It is the Chinese way; families live together. So I am keeping
some of my culture.It is a very good way of living."
The student learning English
'The younger people are very bad here'
Wang Yuan (21) arrives panting and out of breath, her pony-tail swinging.
She has been rehearsing Chinese dances at DIT for the Chinese New Year
celebrations there, and has run all the way from Aungier Street to St
Stephen's Green, where her language school is. Yuan is from Harbin and has
been in Ireland for four months. She came here to learn English.
"English is very, very important to learn in China for a good job," she
explains over coffee. She is studying English 20 hours a week. "But in
school English is narrow so I must be seeking work so I can improve."
Yuan is an only child; one of the single-child policy generation. Her
parents paid for her flight, fees, and accommodation. She is currently
sharing a house in Ballinteer with seven Chinese friends, which they rent
between them for ?2,000 a month, and which the school helped them to
organise.
"I pay for my living, for my food and my bus ticket. The bus is very
expensive; ?15 a week! In China is very cheap." Yuan had a job as a
chambermaid in a hotel, for which she got ?7 an hour; the minimum wage. "It
was very tiring," she says. Yuan is tiny.
She now works in a health club, where she looks after the towels and
distributes fresh ones to the members. For this, she gets ?7.50 an hour.
"And sometimes people give me ?1 when they bring their towel back."
Yuan and her friends speak only Chinese at home together. She knows this
isn't the best way of learning English, but so far, none of them has any
friends outside the Chinese community. "Sometimes I watch TV in English and
that helps." She hasn't been out of Dublin yet.
Yuan misses her friends in China. And her parents, her mother in particular.
She talks and e-mails regularly, but there is no immediate money or plan to
go home for a visit. "I will be away three years." She misses the food too.
"Dumplings. Noodles. Beef noodles . . ." She does cook Chinese food at home
in Ballinteer, "but not very well." Her mother had done all the cooking in
Harbin.
She likes the sea at Dublin Bay and the weather. "The wet is good for the
skin." And she is very fond of Temple Bar.
"Irish people are very hospitable, especially the elders. Nothing bad has
happened me yet, but Chinese people living here told me when I came that the
younger people are very bad here."
What does she mean by bad? She tries hard to think of the right word in
English and can't. She fishes out an electronic device from her bag, which
is a Chinese-English dictionary. You type in a word and the simultaneous
translation appears on the miniature screen. Yuan types a word and shows the
translation to me. It's "abusive".
Why does she think younger people are abusive to Chinese? Yuan shakes her
head and laughs, embarrassed. "I don't know why. I don't think they like
Chinese people."
The university lecturer
'There's more to China than human rights'
"I wish Irish people would realise there is more to China than human rights
stories. It's like when Irish people went abroad for years and all anyone
knew about was the fighting in the North. China is so big and yet people
here know so little about it."
Sun Wei (33) has come from teaching her regular Chinese class to MBA
students at the Smurfit Business School in Dublin's Blackrock. She also
teaches Chinese to first and third-year science, engineering and commerce
students at UCD.
Wei is from Jiaxing in China. She met her Irish husband, Lorcan O'Neill,
eight years ago in Hanzhou, where he was working for Ericsson, and he
brought her home to Wexford for Christmas in 1997. It was her first time out
of China.
What were her first impressions of Ireland? "It was very, very quiet. Very
few people. The whole population of Ireland would be just one small district
in China. And there were almost no Asian faces on the streets even a few
years ago."
Wei has been living in Dublin for six years. "For me it was not a big
problem to move. I can be happy anywhere, but I do miss my family and
friends. And I missed the food, especially at the beginning! I thought Irish
food was so boring and that brown bread was horse food. Now I love brown
bread." At home, they now cook half Chinese food and half western food.
Wei loves the fresh air in Ireland and open spaces. "China is so polluted.
You rarely see a blue sky." Has she found Irish people racist? "At the
beginning, people were extremely friendly. In the last three years, there
have been a few incidents." Teenagers shouting explicit sexual insults.
A month ago, at a Blackrock bus-stop, the driver refused to let her on. "I
was at the front of the queue and he let people behind me on, but wouldn't
let me on." I asked him: 'What are your criteria for letting people on the
bus?' but he closed the doors and drove off."
As her husband is Irish, Wei has lots of Irish friends and family. But she
has noticed that it is a lot harder for her Chinese friends without personal
contacts to break into Irish society. "When Irish people meet each other,
they nearly always know someone in common. That starts the conversation. But
with someone from another country, there is no 'in' like that . . . and they
don't know what to ask you about your country, because they usually know
nothing about it. The knowledge here of foreign countries is very limited .
. . I think Irish people have culture shock the other way around: they are
culture-shocked about the foreigners who are coming to Ireland."
The restaurant owner
'People know little about our cusine'
Win Tang (47) commutes between London and Dublin every week. He owns three
Chinese restaurants; one in Bromley, London and the others in Clonee and
Ashbourne in Co Meath. From Hong Kong, he went to London to be educated and
has lived there since 1968.
"The Chinese community in London is long established; they have been there
since the 1950s and 1960s," he explains. "In Ireland, it is very new."
Three years ago, Tang decided to open two restaurants in Ireland because "it
seemed like a good business opportunity". How did he fare? "Dealing with
buying property is fine. Dealing with builders is horrendous," he says
drily.
The restaurant in Clonee serves standard fare, but the Ashbourne restaurant
is "cuisine", and four of the chefs were brought over from Hong Kong. The
manager previously worked on the QE2. The restaurant is called Eatzen -
"healthy eating". "I don't think Irish people know much about Chinese
cuisine. They seem to know about politics in China, but they know very
little about our food."
Does he know much about the Chinese community in Ireland? "There are
different kinds of Chinese people in Ireland than England. The majority of
Chinese in Ireland come mostly from the northern part of China, and they
come here to study. They are all young. In London, the majority of Chinese
are from Hong Kong. People from Hong Kong speak Cantonese. Let me put it
this way - they are better educated."
A lot of Chinese people visit Eatzen. The Chinese Ambassador to Ireland has
been twice. "Professional Chinese. Restaurateurs, shop-owners,
computer-operators." Tang's wife and two children live in London and have
been to Ireland only once, when Eatzen opened.
From what he has seen in the last three years, how would he describe the
Chinese community in Ireland? "They are very hard-working and they keep to
themselves."
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Thanks to Jim Rogers for his comments, below...

I would just like to record what a pleasure it was, working with Jim
Cahalan, Thomas Redshaw and Jim Rogers - getting this piece ready for
publication...

When Jim Cahalan first floated the idea of this tribute to, and =
exploration
of, Mercier's The Irish Comic Tradition, I contacted him - because I had
long wanted to find some way to say Thank You to Vivian Mercier. Jim
Cahalan then did something that I thought was cunning - he said he could =
not
write his own contribution or guide the other contributors until he had =
seen
what I had to say... Devilish cunning...

My First Draft was an extended meditation on books and life - I even
contacted an architectural photographer in Liverpool to get pictures of =
the
first public library I had ever used. It is the little one in a street
called Kensington in Liverpool. I covered the history of this building, =
and
described it lovingly... I then went on to describe other libraries, =
the
Picton in Liverpool, Bodley in Oxford... All this, of course, with =
prodding
from the Jims got excised...

I suppose that some day there is an illustrated lecture to be built =
around
the more focussed Fourth Draft that was finally published, putting back =
in
all the illustrations and anecdotes. But the piece as published is more
personal than I usually go in for, outside songs and poems...

I was able to discuss the piece with Jim Cahalan when we met at the ACIS
conference in Liverpool. But unfortunately was not able to hear his =
paper -
the scheduling meant he spoke on Mercier and I spoke on John Denvir in
adjacent rooms at exactly the same time... But Jim Cahalan gave me
important new ways of thinking about Mercier's work. Such insights are =
not
incorporated into my piece - in that I remain the naive reader.

Jim Cahalan is to be congratulated - and certainly the involving of =
Eil=E9an
N=ED Chuillean=E1in and Anthony Roche is something of a coup. I was =
with Jim as
he broached the idea with Eil=E9an at that ghastly dinner at =
Liverpool...

This was certainly worth doing. And certainly the whole is greater than =
the
sum of the parts...

Paddy


--
Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

Email Patrick O'Sullivan
Email Patrick O'Sullivan
Personal Fax 0044 (0) 709 236 9050

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Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Social Sciences and Humanities
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
Yorkshire
England


-----Original Message-----
From: Rogers, James
JROGERS[at]stthomas.edu
Subject: New Hibernia Review 8:4

=93A Backward Glance: Radharc ar gC=FAl=94

1. James M. Cahalan, Mercier's Irish Comic Tradition as a Touchstone of
Irish Studies=20
2. Eil=E9an N=ED Chuillean=E1in, Vivian Mercier=20
3. Anthony Roche, Vivian Mercier=92s Irish Comic Tradition: The Man and =
the
Book=20
4. Patrick O=92Sullivan,On First Looking into Mercier's The Irish Comic
Tradition
=20
... We close this issue with "Radharc ar gC=FAl / A Backward Glance," in =
which
we welcome four thankful reconsiderations of Vivian Mercier=92s 1962
intertwining of Gaelic and Anglo-Irish literatures, The Irish Comic
Tradition. James M. Cahalan introduces these short essays by noting
Mercier=92s role in creating Irish Studies as we know it. Mercier=92s =
study, he
finds, =93is a =91secondary=92 source that became primary.=94 Three =
accounts of
Mercier=92s lasting influence follow. The poet Eil=E9an N=ED =
Chuillean=E1in recalls
the polymath Mercier=97her stepfather=97both as an intellectual presence =
and as
a loving member of her family. continually surrounded by books-- volumes
that bore witness not only to his scholarship, but also to his gracious,
expansive nature. Anthony Roche=97who, before he was the author of such
influential theater criticism as Contemporary Irish Drama from Beckett =
to
McGuinness (1995), was Mercier=92s doctoral student in California--notes =
the
refreshing interdisciplinarity that The Irish Comic Tradition introduced =
to
the study of Irish literature. Finally, Patrick O=92Sullivan, that =
tireless
scholar who moderates the Irish Diaspora List, gives a far-ranging
autobiographical account of his own relationship to Mercier=92s
text--gratefully concluding that Mercier=92s book taught him =93that =
there were
ways of being Irish that were intelligent, secular, nonsectarian, =
kindly,
warm, human, and fun.=94 ...
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Discussion of Journals on H-Albion
  
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A number of people have noticed that H-Albion has been discussing the pros
and the cons of starting and editing an academic journal - in effect
repeating and supplementing discussion here on IR-D... And many other
places...

H-Albion logs are freely available at...
http://www.h-net.org/~albion/
and can be browsed.

The starting point for the discussion was the decision of Mike Moore of
Appalachian State University to step down as Editor of the journal, Albion.
The journal, Albion, has now been consolidated with the J of British
Studies.

I think that practically every point that anyone would wish to make has been
made on H-Albion - I would suggest that people thinking about the journals
issue look at the logs... And if anyone feels like writing a briefing
note...

Paddy


--
Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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Email Patrick O'Sullivan
Personal Fax 0044 (0) 709 236 9050

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Bradford BD7 1DP
Yorkshire
England
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TOC Irish Studies Review, Volume 13 Number 1/February, 2005
  
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For information...

P.O'S.

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Volume 13 Number 1/February, 2005 of Irish Studies Review is now available
on the Taylor & Francis web site at http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk.


http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=J9TB2V378NW4

This issue contains:

Irish Identity in An Age of Globalisation
p. 3
Michael Mays

Putting Pressure on O'Neill
p. 13
Geoffrey Warner

The Seductive Masquerade of the Wild Irish Girl
p. 33
Heather Braun

The Origins and Implications of J. S. Le Fanu's 'Green Tea'
p. 45
William Hughes

The Art of Failure
p. 55
Brian Burton

Too Dangerous to Be Done?
p. 65
Patrick Lonergan


Brian Friel'S Adaptations of Chekhov
p. 79
Zsuzsa Csikai

Reviews
p. 89
Padraig Lenihan
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TOC IRISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY VOL 13; NUMB 2 THE MEDIA; 2006
  
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I have put some question marks after the year of publication...

Some of the TOCs we are receiving through the ZETOC service have contained
errors - thanks to those who spotted them. I am not going to pass on every
tiny correction - some just seem to be keyboarding errors. Be cautious when
you use these TOCs and if you need to quote a source check the real
journal...

P.O'S.


-----Original Message-----

IRISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY
VOL 13; NUMB 2 THE MEDIA; 2006 (??)
ISSN 0791-6035

pp. 3-22
The Role of Education in Irish Public Service Broadcasting Grummell, B.

pp. 23-42
The Political Preferences and Value Orientations of Irish Journalists
Corcoran, M.

pp. 43-65
Reporting Inclusivity: The Northern Ireland Women's Coalition, the News
Media and the Northern Ireland Peace Process Spencer, G.

pp. 66-83
Fair City: A Case Study in the Proletarianisation of Cultural Production
Brennan, E.

pp. 84-103
Has the Informalisation Process Changed Direction? Manners and Emotions in a
Dutch Advice Column 1978-98 Post, A.

pp. 104-114
11 September 2001: Sociological Reflections Tester, K.

pp. 115-128
Intellectual Reactions to 11 September 2001 Hess, A.

pp. 129-141
Consenting to Capital in the Irish Media Browne, H.

pp. 142-143
Farrel Corcoran, RTE and the Globalisation of Irish Television O Shea, B.

pp. 144-145
Iarfhlaith Watson, Broadcasting in Irish: Minority Language, Radio,
Television and Identity O Neill, B.

pp. 146-147
Miller, David (ed.), Tell Me Lies: Propaganda and Media Distortion in the
Attack on Iraq Ryan, S.

p. 148
Niamh Hourigan, Escaping the Global Village: Media, Language and Protest
Watson, I.

pp. 149-152
Eoin Devereux, Understanding the Media, and Ciaran McCullagh, Media Power: A
Sociological Introduction Torode, B.

pp. 153-154
Colin Coulter and Steve Coleman (eds), The End of Irish History: Critical
Reflections on the Celtic Tiger O Carroll, A.

pp. 155-156
Bryan Fields, The Catholic Ethic and Global Capitalism Craven, F.

pp. 157-158
Lloyd, K., P. Devine, A Gray, and D. Heenan (eds), Social Attitudes in
Northern Ireland: The Ninth Report Brennan, M. A.

pp. 159-160
Ronaldo Munck, Marx [at] 2000: Late Marxist Perspectives Fogarty, I.

pp. 161-163
Monique Nuijten, Power, Community and the State: The Political Anthropology
of Organisation in Mexico O Brien, J.
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