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IRISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY
VOL 13; NUMB 1; 2004
ISSN 0791-6035

pp. 5-28
Social Capital: Old Hat or New Insight?
Healy, T.

pp. 29-43
Reign of Error; or, The Case against Cognitive Cultural Relativism Aya, R.

pp. 44-47
Once were Positivists: A Reply to Aya
Saris, J.

pp. 48-50
Pomo Blues: A Rejoinder to Saris
Aya, R.

pp. 51-72
Accounting for the Diversity of Policing in Ireland Vaughan, B.

pp. 73-87
Teenage Girls and Housework in Irish Society Leonard, M.

pp. 88-108
Ireland's Rurban Horizon: New Identities from Home Development Markets in
Rural Ireland Collier, P.

pp. 109-125
Protestant Disillusionment with the Northern Ireland Peace Agreement Hayes,
B. C.; McAllister, I.

pp. 126-128
Reading Lists or a Critique: A Reply to Munck Allen, K.

pp. 129-130
Colin Irwin, The People's Peace process in Northern Ireland Todd, J.

pp. 131-132
Steven Loyal, The Sociology of Anthony Giddens Torode, B.

pp. 133-135
Steve Garner, Racism in the Irish Experience Moffat, J.

pp. 136-137
Tom Inglis, Truth, Power and Lies: Irish Society and the Case of the Kerry
Babies Corcoran, M.

pp. 138-139
Ardoyne Commemoration Project, Ardoyne: The Untold Truth Bowden, M.

pp. 140-141
Bryan Fanning, Racism and Social Change in the Republic of Ireland Allen, K.

pp. 142-143
Jose Lopez, Society and its Metaphors: Language, Social Theory and Social
Structure Benta, M.

pp. 144-145
Ronaldo Munck, Globalisation and Labour: the new `Great Transformation'
hUltachain, C. O.

p. 146
Peadar Kirby, Introduction to Latin America: Twenty-First Century Challenges
Liddy, M.

pp. 147-149
Barbara Hudson, Justice in the Risk Society: Challenging and Reaffirming
Justice in Late Modernity O Halloran, A.

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I do know that the British Association for Irish Studies was planning to
support a Public Lecture to mark this important Exhibition and Book...

But details have not reached me...

Meanwhile...

Below, information from the National Portrait Gallery web site...

P.O'S.


National Portrait Gallery, London
=20
http://www.npg.org.uk/live/index.asp

'England had conquered Ireland, so there was nothing for it but to come =
over
and conquer England' G.B. Shaw

This exhibition examines the Irish presence in London during the =
Victorian
period, following the Union between Great Britain and Ireland in 1801, =
and,
through it, changing perspectives on Ireland. It focuses on artists such =
as
Daniel Maclise, charismatic politicians like Charles Stewart Parnell,
populist journalists like T.P. O'Connor and important theatrical =
impresarios
such as Dion Boucicault and Bram Stoker. The exhibition also explores =
the
lives and work of Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw and W.B. Yeats. Works =
in
a wide range of media are featured, from oil paintings, drawings and =
prints
to contemporary magazines, books and manuscripts.

Publication
- Conquering Ireland: Ireland in Victorian London

National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London WC2H OHE. Tel: 020 =
7306
0055

'Conquering England'
Ireland in Victorian London
Fintan Cullen and R.F. Foster
Foreword by Fiona Shaw

'England had conquered Ireland, so there was nothing for it but to come =
over
and conquer England.'
G.B. Shaw

Ireland's artistic giants - Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats and G.B. Shaw - made
their name in London in the nineteenth century. They were part of a
generation of men and women who came to the city to find fame and =
fortune on
an international stage. Yet by the turn of the twentieth century such =
men
and women including theatrical impresario Bram Stoker, history painter
Daniel Maclise, charismatic politician Charles Stewart Parnell and the
colourful journalist T.P. O'Connor were being drawn back to an Ireland
undergoing political radicalisation and cultural renaissance.

This book explores through these influential individuals, the changing
perspectives on Ireland that developed during the second half of the
nineteenth century are revealed.

Published to accompany an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery,
London from 9 March to 19 June 2005.

Fintan Cullen is Professor of Art History at the University of =
Nottingham
and is the author of Visual Politics: The Representation of Ireland
1750-1930, Sources in Irish Art: A Reader and The Irish Face: Redefining =
the
Irish Portrait published by the National Portrait Gallery.

R.F. Foster is Carroll Professor of Irish History at the University of
Oxford and is a Fellow of Hertford College. He has written widely on =
Irish
history, society and politics in the modern period, as well as on =
Victorian
high politics and culture. His second volume of the authorised biography =
of
W.B. Yeats was published in 2003 to great acclaim.

240 x 180mm, 80 pages
50 illustrations
ISBN 1 85514 348 8
=A312.99 (paperback)
Special Gallery price: =A310.99
Published March 2005

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2005

Unfortunately, the titles of Burton's, Lonergan's, and even Warner's article
(which O'Neill?--Hugh, Eoghan Ruagh, Terence?) are so cryptic that it's
impossible to tell whether they're of interest. The web site isn't helpful,
because there are no article abstracts.

Any clues?

Thanks,

Kerby.



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Kerby,

You raise an important point...

In general, I now push out to IR-D Tables of Contents, and the like, as soon
as they reach me. Waiting for clarification of detail just creates clutter
at my end - and there is no way of knowing when such clarification might
reach me.

Sometimes I find that the TOCs reach me before the journal and its web site
are quite prepared - and when you look at the web site you see the
message...
'This article does not have an abstract'.

However when you look at the web site at a later date an Abstract might well
have appeared...

Moving on to the particular...

Looking at Irish Studies Review I see that somewhere along the line it began
printing articles with NO ABSTRACTS. I am supposed to be on the ISR
committee - I will raise the question with them.

I have a general impression of this happening more and more. But have not
thought of looking at the question systematically.

But you are absolutely right - there is no way of telling what some of these
articles are about. My own preference is for plain-spoken, not cryptic, not
gnomic titles, without puns (or brackets).

The archaeologists are the worse offenders...

As for the post-modernists...

Paddy



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Subject: Re: [IR-D] TOC Irish Studies Review, Volume 13 Number 1/February,
2005

Unfortunately, the titles of Burton's, Lonergan's, and even Warner's article
(which O'Neill?--Hugh, Eoghan Ruagh, Terence?) are so cryptic that it's
impossible to tell whether they're of interest. The web site isn't helpful,
because there are no article abstracts.

Any clues?

Thanks,

Kerby.

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From: Patrick Maume

There is an article by Foster on this in the new issue of HISTORY TODAY.


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The latest issue of Journal of the Association for History and Computing is
now available online...
http://mcel.pacificu.edu/JAHC/jahcindex.htm
Vol. 7.3 (December 2004)

The Journal is always worth reading, if only as a way of tracking the
effects of computers on the academic study and teaching of the humanities.

But this issue is an Irish History special.

I have pasted in, below, the URLs and the first paragraphs of the 3 relevant
articles...

Note that these articles are freely available, on the web, now...

P.O'S.



Editorial:
~ "Editorial: Ireland's past?"
Full-Text: http://mcel.pacificu.edu/JAHC/JAHCVII3/edit.HTML

Articles:
~ Stewart, Bruce. "Medium and message: reflections on Irish studies in the
informatics age."
Full-Text: http://mcel.pacificu.edu/JAHC/JAHCVII3/ARTICLES/stewart.html

'...This essay aims to trace the history and development of the electronic
book in Ireland with some consideration of wider cultural issues involved in
the very notion of digitising literature for the computer-based reader. In
regard to digitising, the Irish book is subject to precisely the same
conditions as any other literary product, so considered; that is to say, the
processes applied by computers are precisely the same, be the books Irish or
otherwise. In consequence the subject of this essay properly concerns
textual archives and collections rather than discrete texts, whether held on
national servers or linked together in cyberspace in such a way as to
constitute a definite cultural topography for the internet user. The
electronic Irish book is, then, less the name for a new way of producing
literature than a new medium for the 'Irish anthology'-that is, a library of
digital texts, however extensive, which has been created to represent (in
sample or totality) the Irish literary tradition. In prevailing cultural
conditions, each item in such a library is likely to be a digital copy of a
formerly printed work of the kind in question rather than a new cultural
entity generated ab initio within a new cultural medium...'

~ Gray, Peter. "EPPI: enhanced British parliamentary papers on Ireland,
1801-1922."
Full-Text: http://mcel.pacificu.edu/JAHC/JAHCVII3/ARTICLES/gray.html

'...The British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland (BPPI) are an indispensable
primary source for virtually every historian (and many non-historians)
working in most fields of Irish history, and the history of Anglo-Irish
relations, during the period of the Union (1801-1922). We have identified
some 13,700 official publications relating to Ireland from the House of
Commons[1] Sessional Indexes for this period, ranging in scale from short
bills of a few pages and reports, to the massive social inquiries with
volumes of minutes of evidence exemplified by the decennial censuses, the
Poor Inquiry Commission (1836) and Devon Commission (1845) reports, each of
which were multi-volume documents covering thousands of pages...'


~ Tennant, Lorraine. "The development of the Centre for Migration Studies'
Irish emigrations database."
Full-Text: http://mcel.pacificu.edu/JAHC/JAHCVII3/ARTICLES/tennant.html

'...In 1988 the Ulster American Folk Park (UAFP) near Omagh in Co Tyrone,
Northern Ireland began to set up a computerised Irish Emigration Database
(IED) in its library. This was a ground-breaking project at that time and
was immediately beset by problems of all kinds, the details of which will be
explained later. By 1997 the Folk Park's library had expanded to become the
Centre for Emigration Studies and eventually the Centre for Migration
Studies (CMS). The latter is now funded jointly by the Scotch-Irish Trust of
Ulster in partnership with DCAL (Department of Culture, Arts & Leisure) and
the five Education and Library Boards of Northern Ireland. In this paper I
recount the experiences we had and the positive results that arose from them
in the hope that this will help others who are planning to set up similar
databases (1)...'

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The elections for executive committee, 2005, of The American Conference =
for
Irish Studies are now underway.

All voting is now done through the web site - so that us far flung =
members
of ACIS have no excuse.

Details at
http://www.acisweb.com/main/members.html
with full Candidate Bios...

Candidates listed below...

Looking down the list of candidates I see many familiar names - indeed =
some
members of the IR-D list...

Not endorsing, of course... No, no...

Paddy



CANDIDATES FOR ACIS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2005-2007

CANDIDATE FOR VICE PRESIDENT

Jos=E9 Lanters is professor of English at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she also serves on the advisory and =
curriculum
committees of the Center for Celtic Studies, and on the editorial board =
of
the electronic interdisciplinary journal e-Keltoi.=20

CANDIDATE FOR VICE PRESIDENT

Rob Savage is co-director of the Boston College Irish Studies program =
and
has been a member of the A.C.I.S. since being a graduate student in =
1986.=20

CANDIDATE FOR ARTS REPRESENTATIVE

Christopher Berchild is an assistant professor of theatre at Indiana =
State
University in Terre Haute, Indiana, where he teaches theatre history,
theatre theory, play analysis, and directing.=20

CANDIDATE FOR ARTS REPRESENTATIVE

Joan FitzPatrick Dean: Teaching: graduate seminars in Modern Irish Drama =
and
Introduction to Graduate Studies; interdisciplinary classes on Radical
Change since 1945 and American Social Film; undergraduate classes in
Shakespeare, dramatic lit, and film.

CANDIDATE FOR ARTS REPRESENTATIVE

Sebastian B. Knowles, The Ohio State University, Professor =
Twentieth-century
literature.=20

CANDIDATE FOR CELTIC STUDIES REPRESENTATIVE

Colin Ireland has been active in ACIS since 1992 and has served as =
Celtic
Studies Representative from 1997-1999. He is full-time resident director =
of
programs in Ireland for the Center for Education Abroad of Arcadia
University (Glenside, Pennsylvania), and he lectures part-time in Old =
and
Middle English at University College Dublin.=20

CANDIDATE FOR CELTIC STUDIES REPRESENTATIVE

Laura O'Connor teaches Irish and postcolonial literature, Irish =
language,
and poetry at UC, Irvine.

CANDIDATE FOR HISTORY REPRESENTATIVE

Tim McMahon is assistant professor of modern Irish and British history =
at
Marquette University.

CANDIDATE FOR HISTORY REPRESENTATIVE

William H. Mulligan, Jr..Professor of History at Murray State University =
in
Murray, Kentucky, where I have taught since 1993. Until recently, I =
directed
the Public History program at MSU.

CANDIDATE FOR IRISH LANGUAGE REPRESENTATIVE

Thomas W. Ihde, Ph.D. Length of ACIS Membership: 12 Years. Current
Professional Position: Director & Associate Professor, CUNY Institute =
for
Irish-American Studies.

CANDIDATE FOR LITERATURE REPRESENTATIVE

Richard Haslam received his undergraduate degree from Saint Catharine's
College, University of Cambridge, and his doctorate from Trinity =
College,
University of Dublin.=20

Joseph Lennon teaches Irish, British, and postcolonial literature as =
well as
creative writing as an Assistant Professor in the English Department at
Manhattan College.=20

CANDIDATE FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE REPRESENTATIVE

Anthropologist E. Moore Quinn is Assistant Professor of Linguistic
Anthropology at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina,
where she teaches anthropological linguistics, Irish folklore, =
psychological
anthropology, the anthropology of Europe, and women's studies.

CANDIDATE FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE REPRESENTATIVE

Timothy J. White is a Professor in the Department of Political Science =
and
Sociology at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.=20

CANDIDATE FOR GRADUATE STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE

Kelly J.S. McGovern first became interested in Irish literature at =
Creighton
University, where she received her B.A. in English in 2002.=20

Mary Ann Ryan. In 2001, began work on my doctorate in English, with an
emphasis on 20th c. Irish literature at UW-Milwaukee. I have recently
completed my comprehensive exams and am in the planning stages of my
dissertation.

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Thomas Moore Hypermedia Archive

IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES PROJECT =
GRANTS THE THOMAS MOORE HYPERMEDIA ARCHIVE

Positions available (2) for Doctoral Researchers at the National =
University of Ireland, Galway (2005-2008) This project is funded by the =
Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. It is =
seeking to recruit two researchers, each to undertake research leading =
to the award of a PhD degree under the supervision of the Project =
Director. Assigned research tasks must begin in September 2005, and be =
completed by September 2008. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE THOMAS MOORE =
HYPERMEDIA ARCHIVE PROJECT The aim of this project is to collect the =
complete poetical, musical and prose works of Thomas Moore (1779-1852) =
in the form of an electronic hypermedia archive, publishable in a pilot =
form on the World Wide Web at the end of three years. The archive will =
be similar in design to existing projects such as the Walt Whitman =
Archive (www.whitmanarchive.org) or the William Blake Archive =
(www.blakearchive.org). Like a scholarly printed edition, the archive =
will establish reliable texts and annotation based on principles of =
sound scholarly editing, but unlike a print edition it will also provide =
a rich network of interconnected electronic materials: texts of the =
poetry and prose, digital music files that reproduce the musical =
accompaniments to Moore=E2=80=99s songs, image files of manuscripts and =
of illustrations that were published in various editions, portraits of =
Moore, commentary on Moore=E2=80=99s work and life, and a bibliography =
of Moore=E2=80=99s work and secondary criticism. Users of the archive =
will be able to gain rapid access to elements of Moore=E2=80=99s work at =
different levels of specificity. Full texts, particular lines or =
individual words can be easily retrieved according the needs of the =
student or scholar, and powerful searches and concordances can be =
conducted of a sort effectively impossible in the case of print =
editions. Visual and aural material hitherto difficult to access can be =
made easily available to users from almost anywhere in the world. Such =
research would enable closer study of Moore=E2=80=99s sources, =
influences and relationships to other writers, and would be a valuable =
teaching tool. The use of hypermedia is particularly appropriate for the =
editing of Moore=E2=80=99s work, since a large part of his achievement =
and appeal lies in the performative, musical and oral dimensions of his =
work, all of which can be more effectively reproduced through the use of =
hypermedia than through printed media alone. Such an archive represents =
a type of ongoing edition, easily modified and updated. At the same =
time, readers, scholars and libraries will continue to need reliable and =
annotated printed versions of Moore=E2=80=99s texts, and for this =
reason, the materials assembled for the Thomas Moore Archive will be =
used eventually to produce printed scholarly editions of Moore=E2=80=99s =
work. There is at present no complete scholarly edition of =
Moore=E2=80=99s work, in spite of the fact that Moore was a major figure =
within European romanticism, and the most popular and influential Irish =
poet of the nineteenth-century. He was admired internationally as a =
poet, biographer, translator, satirist, musician, singer, orientalist =
and polemicist. His Irish Melodies had a profound impact on the Irish, =
English and American public, are still a vital part of the =
English-speaking popular song tradition. Moore was a close friend and =
confidant of Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Robert Emmet, John Murray, Lord =
John Russell, Sir Walter Scott and other notable political and literary =
figures. His Irish Melodies have been popular for nearly two centuries, =
and his long =E2=80=98Eastern=E2=80=99 poem Lalla Rookh (1817) was an =
international bestseller and a major contribution to European =
orientalism. Beethoven and Berlioz admired Moore=E2=80=99s songs and =
wrote musical arrangements for them, while Moore=E2=80=99s cultural =
nationalism inspired like-minded writers in many countries, including =
France, Poland, Italy, Germany, Russia and Hungary. Moore=E2=80=99s =
works were frequently reprinted in Britain, France and the US throughout =
the nineteenth century. The corpus of Moore=E2=80=99s manuscript =
material is large, and scattered in various libraries and archives. =
Among his published works are over a thousand poems, three biographies, =
polemical prose works, a history of Ireland and a number of periodical =
reviews. Much of the work of the project during the three years of =
funding will involve locating, transcribing and digitising this =
material. The Project Director has responsibility for managing the =
project, making major editorial decisions, and undertaking digitisation =
and editing tasks. The project will also recruit two Doctoral =
Researchers for three years, who will undertake bibliographical and =
historical research, critically edit a selection of texts, and construct =
pilot hypermedia archives. The project will be hosted at the Centre for =
the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change in NUI, Galway.

DESCRIPTION OF TASKS FOR DOCTORAL RESEARCHERS Doctoral Researcher 1: The =
poetical works of Thomas Moore: a bibliographical study and pilot =
hypermedia edition. The researcher will undertake the following tasks, =
the results of which will be submitted for the award of PhD: =E2=80=A2 =
researching and compiling a complete bibliography of Thomas =
Moore=E2=80=99s poetical works, including songs and music; =E2=80=A2 =
researching and writing a 20,000-word essay on the textual history and =
reception of Moore=E2=80=99s poetry; =E2=80=A2 creating a pilot =
hypermedia archive of edited poems, songs, music, illustrations, =
commentary and bibliographical resources. Doctoral Researcher 2: The =
prose works of Thomas Moore: a bibliographical study and pilot =
hypermedia edition. The researcher will undertake the following tasks, =
the results of which will be submitted for the award of PhD: =E2=80=A2 =
researching and compiling a complete bibliography of Thomas =
Moore=E2=80=99s prose, including fiction, political writings and essays; =
=E2=80=A2 editing a selection of Moore=E2=80=99s uncollected letters; =
=E2=80=A2 researching and writing a 20,000-word essay on the textual =
history and reception of Moore=E2=80=99s prose writings; =E2=80=A2 =
creating a pilot hypermedia archive of edited prose texts, with =
illustrations, commentary and bibliographical resources.=20

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED A minimum of a Second Class Honours, Grade 1 =
primary degree (3.75 GPA) in a relevant field. A Master's degree or =
other postgraduate qualification is desirable. Proven expertise in at =
least two of the following areas is desirable for both positions: =
Bibliographical studies Critical editing Romanticism Nineteenth-century =
Irish culture Use of electronic mark-up languages Digitisation of texts =
Web-authoring and design Some musical knowledge would also be an =
advantage in the case of Doctoral Researcher 1.=20

FUNDING Each doctoral researcher will be provided with a stipend of =
=E2=82=AC12,700 annually for three years, subject to terms and =
conditions. PhD tuition fees for three years will be paid by the =
project. Research facilities will be provided by the Centre for the =
Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change, NUI, Galway. Doctoral =
researchers will be expected to participate in and contribute to the =
activities of the Centre during the course of their funding. APPLICATION =
To apply for one of the positions, please send an academic CV detailing =
your qualifications to the Project Director before 1 April 2005, =
including the names of two academic referees. An interview may form part =
of the assessment process. For further information or discussion contact =
the Project Director: Dr Sean Ryder Department of English National =
University of Ireland, Galway Tel. +353-(0)91-493009 email =
sean.ryder[at]nuigalway.ie

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I must note the death, and celebrate the life, of Daniel O'Herlihy, =
actor,
born May 1 1919; died February 17 2005 - whom I have always thought of =
as a
diasporic professional... And I always loved to see him, in the cinema =
and
on television. I will watch a real bad movie, just to see O'Herlihy.

It was a graceful, intelligent, gentle style of acting - always with =
(the
same was said of Boucicault) a gentle Irish accent. Even when playing =
the
lizard-faced alien in The Last Starfighter. And (showing a fine pair of
legs) as Prince Hal in The Black Shield Of Falworth'=20

O'Herlihy's acting style made sense to Luis Bu=F1uel, who chose him for =
his
Robinson Crusoe. Otherwise, I am not sure he ever really got the roles.
But... He was a working professional until very recently.

Like practically all Irish actors O'Herlihy had to do the terrorist =
roles,
in Carol Reed's Odd Man Out (from which so much flows...) and A Terrible
Beauty. =20

The Guardian's obituary is quite thorough
http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1419052,00.html

A web search will turn up more...

P.O'S.


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There was an interesting - and in some ways very odd - article in the
Guardian earlier in the week, on the difficulties facting dancers and
choreographers in Ireland...

Ballet in the bog

Ireland finally has a modern dance scene - thanks to one anarchic
choreographer. John O'Mahony reports

Wednesday February 23, 2005
The Guardian

'...On a bleak hill in the Irish midlands, Michael Keegan-Dolan, one of the
most talented choreographers ever to emerge from Ireland, has spent the past
six months building a house with his bare hands...'

'...The main reason for Ireland's historical disregard for dance is that
this is a country where literature, poetry and theatre maintain an absolute
hegemony at the expense of non-verbal art forms. But equally to blame is
Catholicism, which led to dance being regarded as immoral, sinful and
degenerate. "There was a potent cocktail of puritan Catholicism and fanatic
nationalism," says dance historian Deirdre Mulrooney. "Only after all the
scandals, and an erosion of the church, are we now becoming a little more
comfortable with the idea of dance."

The final impediment was Irish folk dance, enshrined as the only public form
permissible by the Dance Halls Act of 1935. This was a form of dance bondage
where the arms are immobile; dancers have been known to stitch down the
sleeves of their costumes to radically strip away expression above the
waist. "The whole technique of step dance is down in the feet," says Colin
Dunne, former lead dancer with Riverdance, now a student of modern dance.
"The more emotional or intelligent parts of the body - your gut, your
stomach, your heart, your lungs, your head, your brain, even the face - were
just disconnected from the dance form."...'

Full text at

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,,1423368,00.html

P.O'S.


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Dear Patrick,

The discussion on the "Chinese in Ireland" is exciting and of personal
interest to me as the daughter of an Irish mother, and Chinese father who
arrived in Cork in the mid 1960s. I want to address claims the restauranteur
Wing Tang makes regarding "the Chinese community" in Ireland, in the
"Stories from Chinatown" article from the Irish Times, recently posted. The
Chinese presence in Ireland is not as recent as he suggests and his claim
that the majority of Ireland's Chinese are from the Northern Provinces is
most probably incorrect. Those who established themselves in the catering
trade in the 1960s, including my father, came from Hong Kong and the New
Territories, speaking Hakka or/and Cantonese. The first European port of
call was often Britain, sometimes for the purposes of study, from where
people came to Ireland to establish new outlets or work in existing ones. In
the 1970s, my cousins came to Cork directly from Hong Kong. Having said
that, an earlier (now defunct) Chinese restaurant in Cork predated the 1960s
and not every Chinese person worked in catering. I also know individuals
from South America, indicating a worldwide historical Chinese diaspora.

I'd wonder according to what criteria Wing Tang considers Hong Kong Chinese
to be "better educated" than Northern Chinese. These distinct locations do
signal more important differences than similarities and it's necessary to
counter misconceptions of homogeneity. But might this claim also signal in
some way a desire to distinguish himself from recent migrants in response to
current anti-immigrant discourses and negative media representations in
Ireland and Britain? I knew postgraduate students in Cork from both
northerly Harbin and Hong Kong years ago. Zhao Liu Tao, who was murdered by
racist youths in Dublin in 2002 was a student.

Still, these are my own observations, and not based on research. One text I
can suggest is "Race and Ethnicity in Northern Ireland: The Chinese
Community", by Anna Manwah Watson and Eleanor McKnight, published in
"Divided Societies: Ethnic Minorities and Racism in Northern Ireland",
edited by Paul Hainsworth (1998), and I'd be interested to hear of any
others.
Wishing you a Happy Year of the Rooster!

Suzanna Chan


Dr Suzanna Chan
Research Associate
School of Art And Design

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From: "Brian McGinn"

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

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The following item has been brought to our attention...

P.O'S.

Ireland: Tourism and Marketing
by Angela Wright and Margaret Linehan

ISBN 1 842180 78 9 - =E2=82=AC14.99 - PB - 234x156mm - October 2004

Ireland: Tourism and Marketing provides a comprehensive assessment of =
the tourism industry in Ireland, incorporating many factors affecting =
the destination marketing of Ireland.=20

The authors examine the views and perceptions from in-depth interviews =
with leading figures in this key industry within the Irish economy. =
Direct quotations from the interviewees provide exclusive insights into =
the variety of issues discussed.

Located within the marketing and tourism literatures, it covers a wide =
range of topics including:

=C2=B7 Brand marketing of Ireland and marketing strategies used =
for Irish tourism

=C2=B7 Decline of the traditional welcome/c=C3=A9ad m=C3=ADle =
f=C3=A1ilte

=C2=B7 Factors influencing the choice of Ireland as a holiday =
destination

=C2=B7 Changing landscapes and the effect of limitations of access =
on tourist expectations

=C2=B7 Residual effects of the troubles in Northern Ireland on the =
Irish tourism industry

=C2=B7 Foot-and-mouth epidemic

=C2=B7 Impact of September 11, 2001

=C2=B7 Outlook for Irish tourism.

Ireland: Tourism and Marketing is an essential text for marketing and =
tourism students, academics and stakeholders in the tourism industry.

Angela Wright lectures in Marketing in the Department of Adult & =
Continuing Education, Cork Institute of Technology.

Dr Margaret Linehan is a lecturer in Human Resource Management in the =
Department of Adult & Continuing Education, Cork Institute of =
Technology.

Publisher web site...
http://www.blackhallpublishing.com/

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This year they seem to be managing without me...

P.O'S.

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Subject: Crossroads 2005


To Friends, Family and Colleagues:

Mark your calendars for CROSSROADS, 2005. It's a full week of engaging,
fun, and entertaining programming in San Francisco. Log on to www.iaf.org
for more information about the specifics.

For those folks with little kids, note that the children's story hour on the
morning of March 5th will have dancing and song, as well, at the SF Main
Public Library.

See you at the CROSSROADS!

- Hillary Flynn



CROSSROADS
Irish American Festival
San Francisco

March 5th - 12th 2005

The Irish have been meeting at the American crossroads for five hundred
years. The Crossroads Irish American Festival explores and celebrates the
culture, experience and identity of the Irish in America. Crossroads 2005
will showcase the San Francisco Bay Area as a cultural crossroads of Ireland
and America, both past and present. Join us to uncover the strands of the
Irish American story, through poetry, song, theatre, film and conversation.

From Blue Grass/Green Grass to the music of Eugene O'Neill, from the
underworld to the bench and bar of Justice, from the Mission Irish to the
Irish in the Bronx, Crossroads, 2005 showcases the Irish American journey.

Complete program details at:

http://www.iaf.org

All are welcome at the Crossroads!

All events are FREE and open to the public
unless otherwise indicated

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From: Colman Etchingham=20
Colman.Etchingham[at]nuim.ie
Subject: Woodstown


Dear Colleagues

It gives us great pleasure to announce a major positive development in =
the
campaign of the Save Viking Waterford Action Group to save, excavate,
publish and display the Viking site at Woodstown, Waterford. On Monday =
last,
21 February, the Minister for the Environment, Mr Dick Roche, announced =
his
intention to order the preservation of the site. The planned roadway =
through
the site will not now go ahead and is likely to be re-routed. What this
means for the prospect of future excavation of the site is unclear. The
minister has indicated his openness to this, but in vague terms, =
especially
in regard to finance. However, the first objective for which the Group =
has
been campaigning since September of last year, namely to save the site, =
has
been achieved.=20

When we embarked on this campaign, agents of the National Roads =
Authority
(NRA) were seriously canvassing the option of concreting over the site =
and
pushing the road through without any regard for the archaeology. In that
context, we opted to pitch for what seemed the most realistically =
achievable
of the acceptable options, namely, to excavate to research standard in
advance of road-construction. We were motivated in particular by the =
fact
that the Director of the National Museum of Ireland, Dr Patrick Wallace, =
had
already placed on record his preference for this option. Had this been =
the
option chosen by the authorities, there would have been an excavation of
this vast and apparently unprecedented site, but one can well imagine =
how
this would have ben constrained by the priorities of the road-builders. =
In
our view, what has been decided, after nine months of dithering, offers =
a
better opportunity to exploit the archaeological potential of the site.

Let no one be under any illusion, however, that this consideration was
uppermost in the minds of the authorities in making their decision. It =
has
been clear since late last year, in fact, that senior figures in the NRA =
had
come to favour re-routing, simply to avoid the cost of a major =
excavation,
the time-scale of which, they realised, could not, in the circumstances, =
be
readily circumscribed. For several years now, the NRA has sought to =
portray
itself as a parallel heritage body, whose road-building projects have =
had
the benign side-effect of contributing more than any one else to
archaeological knowledge. The hollowness of this claim can be gauged by =
the
absence of any systematic publication-programme in respect of the =
numerous
sites excavated. The claim is now comprehensively exploded by the =
Woodstown
Viking site. Confronted by what is by far the largest and most important
single site uncovered by its endeavours, the NRA's reaction is to =
abandon
the site and the opportunity to fund fully a proper excavation to =
academic
standard, in conformity with its purported concern with heritage.=20

It remains to be seen by what alternative means the state will now =
fulfil
its remaining obligations to our archaeological heritage in respect of
Woodstown. In particular, it will be interesting to see how the Minister =
for
the Environment, who has exclusive authority to order an excavation, =
will
perform this part of his brief. The Save Viking Waterford Action Group,
while taking heart from the successful outcome to the first phase of its
campaign, intends to be vigilant and active in pressing for its other
objectives. These are funded excavation to a world-class standard, the =
pace
of which should be determined by the archaeological research agendas of
international Viking scholarship, scholarly publication, and a =
purpose-built
museum and heritage centre to present the results to the scholarly and =
wider
communities alike. In this way, the cultural and economic benefits of
Woodstown can be fully exploited for Waterford, Ireland and the world. =
We
have learned much from the first phase of this campaign and we hope that =
we
and others can benefit from this experience in the future. Perhaps the =
most
important lesson is that academics and heritage campaigners must engage =
the
wider public, by way of consultation and involvement, if the forces of
utilitarianism, unaccountable decision-making and private greed are to =
be
countered effectively in a modern democracy.

We would like to thank those in the academic and wider communities in
Waterford, Ireland and beyond for the support they have offered, =
including
the thousands who have signed electronic and paper versions of our =
petition,
when others were content with, or even counselled inaction. There is no
inevitability of success in such matters, but if one doesn't try...

Best wishes

Dr Catherine Swift
Scoil na Gaeilge, National University of Ireland Galway

Dr Colm=E1n Etchingham
Department of History, National University of Ireland Maynooth

PS We append for your further information the Irish Times editorial of
Tuesday 22 February

Saving Woodstown

Yesterday's announcement by the Minister for the Environment, Mr Roche, =
that
he intends to make a preservation order for the Woodstown Viking site in
Waterford will be welcomed by everyone with an interest in safeguarding =
our
heritage. For Woodstown is truly a site of international significance as =
the
only Viking longphort (ship fortress) to be unearthed in Western Europe,
predating the foundation of Waterford itself. It was from here, in the =
9th
century, that raiding parties travelled up the Suir, Barrow and Nore. To
have rolled over it for the city's =A4300 million bypass would have =
been, in
this instance, an act of monumental folly and would have deprived future
generations of a valuable part of their heritage.
The mystery is why it has taken so long to make a decision. After all, =
the
site was discovered 18 months ago, during preliminary archaeological
investigations along the route of the bypass. Surely it should have been
self-evident to all, including Mr Roche's predecessor, Mr Martin Cullen, =
who
represents Waterford in the D=E1il, that Woodstown was immensely more
important than sites such as Carrickmines Castle in Co Dublin? Yet it =
took a
determined campaign by the Save Viking Waterford Action Group to =
convince
the National Roads Authority and its political overlords that an =
alternative
route would have to be found to protect the site - or, more likely, to =
avoid
the expense of having to deal with it.
There is still some doubt as to whether Woodstown will be excavated
archaeologically. That should be dispelled by Mr Roche and funds should =
be
made available to the National Museum to carry out a proper 'dig'. One =
of
the intriguing questions this might answer is why Woodstown did not =
become
Waterford. As the museum's director, Dr Patrick Wallace, has said,
excavation of the site, rather than mere preservation, would 'throw =
light on
the probable [sic] different nature of the two settlements...and on why =
this
settlement at Woodstown was established in the first place'.
The minister is still considering what to do about the M3 motorway and, =
in
particular, its impact on the Tara-Skryne valley. Although there are
archaeological sites in its path, none of them are as significant as
Woodstown. What is of crucial importance, however, is the landscape
surrounding the Hill of Tara.
It should be evident to Mr Roche that any decision by him in favour of =
the
chosen route for the M3 will face protracted and costly legal actions. =
Even
in the heated atmosphere of a by-election campaign, with calls on him =
not to
stand in the way of 'progress', the sensible option would be to avoid =
the
most sensitive archaeological zone - as has now been done, belatedly, at
Woodstown.=20

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Kerri Anne Burke
[kab350[at]yahoo.com]
=20
http://www.nyu.edu/pages/irelandhouse/grian.html

7th Annual GRIAN Conference on Irish Studies

Ireland and Race

March 4-6, 2005

Glucksman Ireland House
1 Washington Mews
New York, New York

All events are held at Glucksman Ireland House unless otherwise =
indicated

FRIDAY March 4
5:00-7:00p.m. Registration=20
7:00p.m. TALK: James Hunter, Professor Emeritus
(University of Ulster at Coleraine)=20
Ireland and Its Islands

Reception to follow

SATURDAY March 5

9:00a.m. Breakfast/Registration
9:30-11:00a.m. PANEL: The Governance and Practice of the Irish Body
Moderator: Sophie Sweetman McConnell (Grian)
Elaine Moriarty (Trinity College Dublin) =93Dialectical Interrelations =
of
Knowledge, Power and Subjectivity in the Representational Struggle for
Irishness and Otherness=94
Patrick O=92Callaghan (University of Bremen, Germany) =93Law and =
Identity: The
Question of Citizenship in Irish Constitutional Law=94
Deirdre Egan (University of Iowa) =93Irishness as White Bodily =
Practice=94
Cassie Farrelly (Trinity College Dublin) =93Writing Refugees Onto the =
National
Stage: Asylum! Asylum! and the Abbey National Theatre=94

11:00-12:30p.m. Keynote Speech: Bill Rolston, Professor of Sociology
(University of Ulster at Jordanstown) =93Ireland of the Welcomes: =
Equiano and
Douglass in Ireland=94

12:30-1:30p.m. Lunch at Glucksman Ireland House

1:30-3:00p.m. PANEL: Divergent Perspectives: Ireland and the New World
Moderator: Maria McGarrity (Long Island University)=20
Claire Norris (Bryant and Stratton College) =93A Nation of Brilliant =
Failures:
Learning How to Deal with the Irish Double Consciousness=94
John Brannigan (University College Dublin) =93Ireland and Black: Reading =
Race
in Irish Literature and Culture=94
Jennifer Keating (University of Pittsburgh) =93Explorations of =
Affiliation:
Representatives of Irish Indentured Servitude in English West Indies=94
Eileen Anderson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) =
=93Depictions of
the Other in Irish and Puerto Rican Narratives=94

3:00-4:00p.m. PANEL: =93Others=94 at Home: The Travellers of Ireland
Moderator: Laheny Preston-Matto (Adelphi University/ Grian)
Christine Walsh (Concordia University) =93The Representation of the =
Traveller
as =91Outsider=92 in Marina Carr=92s By the Bog of Cats: Archetype or =
Stereotype=94
Mary Burke (University of Connecticut) =93The Irish Traveller Figure in
American Popular Culture=94

4:00-4:30p.m. Coffee Break

4:30-6:00p.m. PANEL: Globalizing Gailige/ Gaelicizing Globalism
Moderator: Beth Gilmartin (Monmouth University)
Siobhan O=92Connor (University of Limerick) =93The Situation and History =
of
German-speaking Exiles in Ireland 1933-1945=94
Michelle Woods (Dublin City University) =93Transluding the Otherman:
Transnational Identity in Irish-Czech Literary Discourse=94
Brian =D3 Broin (William Patterson University) =93The Unusual Racism and =
Racial
Tolerance of the Graveyard Residents in M=E1irt=EDn =D3 Cadhain=92s =
Cr=E9 na Cille=94
6:00-8:00p.m. Dinner Break

8:00p.m. CONCERT: Mick Moloney=92s Irish American Music and Dance
Festival (gathering at the Four-Faced Liar pub to follow)


SUNDAY March 6
9:00a.m. Breakfast

9:30-10:45 a.m. PANEL: Identifying Ethnicity: Prominent Voices from =
Ireland,
Africa, and America
Moderator: Eileen Reilly (New York University)
Angus Mitchell (St. Lawrence University) =93Mapping Roger Casement =
Inside the
African Space Race=94
Charles Strauss (University of Notre Dame) "Shall We Trust in Liberty: =
Irish
Americans and the Boer War"=20
Damien Keane (University of Pennsylvania) =93De Valera, du Bois, and the
Ethiopia Crisis=94

10:45-12:00 PANEL: Identifying Ethnicity Within and Without Ireland
Moderator: Will Hatheway (CUNY/ Grian)
Irene Furlong (NUI Maynooth) =93A Renegade Irishman and a Racist in His =
Own
Land- Frank O=92Connor and the Non-promotion of Irish Tourism=94
Peter O=92Neill (University of Southern California) =93Ships That Pass =
in the
Night: The Contrasting Transatlantic Journeys of Frederick Douglass and =
the
Irish=94
Suzanna Chan (University of Ulster) "Masquerade, Marching and =
Minstrelsy:
Performing "Whiteness" as "Blackness" in Northern Ireland"

12:00-12:15 Coffee Break

12:15-1:30 PANEL: Holy Catholic Ireland: At Home and Abroad =20
Moderator: Claire Culleton (Kent State University)
Ciaran O=92Carroll (St. Patrick=92s College, Maynooth) =93The Ethnic,
Religious, Educational and Social Contribution of Irish Catholic
religious and clergy to Western Canadian culture and Identity
from 1850 to 1914=94
Fiona Bateman (NUI Galway) =93Race and Religion: The Irish Encounter =
with the
Pagan in Africa=94
Helen Kelly (Trinity College Dublin) =93Irish Nationalism and the =
Formation of
the Argentine Nation-State in the Nineteenth Century: Compatible =
Movements
or Conflicting Identities?=94

1:30-2:30p.m. Lunch at Glucksman Ireland House

2:30-3:30 p.m. TALK: John Waters, Assistant Professor of Irish =
Literature
(New York University) Race in Discipline: Irish Studies and Its Others

3:30-3:45 Coffee Break

3:45-5:15 p.m. PANEL: Imagining the East: Irishwomen in Asia
Moderator: Kerri Anne Burke (Grian)
Omaar Hena (University of Virginia) =93Taken for a Turkish Woman: Paula =
Meehan
and the Middle East=94
Sealy Gilles/ Allison Gilles (Long Island University, Brooklyn / World
Monitors) =93Emily Lucy French de Burgh Daly: An Irishwoman in China=94
Coilin Parsons (Columbia University) =93From Romance to Realism: the =
Life of
Sydney Owenson=92s The Missionary: An Indian Tale=94

5:15p.m. Closing Remarks
Reception to follow

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To:


Dear Ir-D members and friends,

We are happy to announce the posting of new contents to the web site of the
Irish Argentine Historical Society: www.irishargentine.org

- "St. Patrick's Day in Peru, 1824" by Brian McGinn
- "St. Patrick's Day, Buenos Aires, 1905" by Edward Walsh
- Dictionary of Irish-Argentine Biography. William Brown, Edelmiro Farrell.
- Manuscripts and Rare Books Collection at Universidad de San Andres's Max
von Buch Library

Contact information:
Edmundo Murray
The Irish Argentine Historical Society=20 edmundo.murray[at]irishargentine.org
www.irishargentine.org

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Dear Ir-D members and friends,

The Irish Argentine Historical Society is pleased to announce the launch of
a new edition of its grants programme "Irish Latin American Research Fund".
The objective of the Irish Latin American Research Fund is to support
innovative and significant research in the different aspects of migrations
between Ireland and Latin America.

Grants up to 1,000 Euros will be awarded to exceptionally promising
students, faculty members or independent scholars to help support their
research and writing leading to the publication or other types of
communication of their projects. Awards will be selected on the basis of a
well-developed research plan that promises to make a significant
contribution to a particular area of study about the Irish in Latin America.

Three prestigious scholars will seat on this year's selection committee:
Thomas W. Ihde, Chair (City University of New York), Rosa
Gonzalez-Casademont (University of Barcelona), and Peadar Kirby (Dublin City
University). They will assess the research proposals and = award grants to
the best projects. The Irish Latin American Research Fund is open to
faculty, advanced university students, and independent scholars throughout
the world. Applicants from previous academic years who were not awarded a
grant may apply again and submit the same project (see here Grant Recipients
2004-2005). These grants are possible thanks to the generosity of IAHS
members and friends.

Applications must be received or postmarked by 29 April 2005. Awards will be
announced on 8 July 2005.

For more information please contact:
Edmundo Murray
The Irish Argentine Historical Society
Maison Rouge (1268) Burtigny, Switzerland
+41 22 739 5049
edmundo.murray[at]irishargentine.org
www.irishargentine.org

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From Mercier Press...

Limerick Boycott 1904=20
Anti-Semitism In Ireland=20
Keogh, Dermot & McCarthy, Andrew

=E2=80=A2 Selected documents indicate that even before 1904, concerns =
existed in official circles regarding alleged activities of Jewish =
traders =E2=80=93 supposedly selling recycled tea and getting a lien on =
land and property.

=E2=80=A2 This prompted Dublin Castle to investigate the activities of =
the Jewish community in 1903.

=E2=80=A2 In January 1904, the Jewish community in Limerick experienced =
a backlash in the form of violent assaults, economic boycott and social =
ostracisation.

=E2=80=A2 Keogh and McCarthy explore why this happened, why these events =
in Limerick remained a localised event and the consequences for the =
Jewish community.

Imprint: Mercier Press
Price: =E2=82=AC20.00
ISBN: 1-85635-453-9
Category: history
Type: Paperback
Status: In Print=20

http://www.mercierpress.ie/index.aspx

...where there is this brief extract from the book...

'The majority of Jews who arrived in Ireland between 1800 and 1880 were =
Ashkenazi (Jews from northern or eastern Europe). Before 1800, the =
Sephardi (descendants of the Jews expelled from Spain in 1492), were =
better represented in the tiny Irish Jewish community.5 Most of those =
who arrived up to the 1880s settled in Dublin where the community grew =
slowly, as reflected by the total of only 308 births recorded between =
1838 and 1879.6

In Belfast, there are, according to Bernard Shillman, no records of Jews =
in the city before 1814.7 But by 1891, there were 282 Jews in what is =
now Northern Ireland, with the majority, 205, living in Belfast.8 Credit =
for the founding of the Belfast congregation went to Daniel Joseph =
Jaffe, whose son, Otto, was a distinguished businessman, governor of the =
Royal Hospital, German consul, and twice-elected lord mayor of Belfast.9 =
Otto Jaffe was a life-president of the Belfast congregation and would be =
actively involved in supporting the Jewish community in Limerick in =
1904.'

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Dr. Eamon Maher,
E-mail: eamon.maher[at]it-tallaght.ie

CALL FOR PAPERS

Irish and Catholic? Towards an Understanding of Catholic and Irish =
Identities.

The role played by the Catholic faith in forging a certain view of =
Irishness has been evident to many commentators, historians and literary =
experts for some time. As we enter the third millennium, organised =
religion in general, and Catholicism in particular, are experiencing a =
marked fall-off in interest and practice. It is therefore appropriate =
that the strong links between Irish Catholicism and our notion of =
national identity be discussed in an open and rigorous manner. This is =
the reason why The Priory Institute and IT Tallaght are organising an =
interdisciplinary conference that will take place from the 23-24 June at =
The Priory Institute, Tallaght. Plenary speakers include Patsy McGarry, =
Religious Affairs Correspondent with The Irish Times, John Littleton, =
President of the National Conference of Priests of Ireland, Eamon Maher, =
Director of the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies, IT Tallaght. =
Abstracts of no more than 200 words are invited from a wide range of =
disciplines including philosophy, theology, literature, cultural =
studies, spirituality, sociology, history. They should be sent before =
May 1st 2005 to:

Rev. John Littleton,
The Priory Institute,
Tallaght Village,
Dublin 24.
E-mail: john.littleton[at]prioryinstitute.com
Tel: +353 (0) 4048128
www.prioryinstitute.com

or

Dr. Eamon Maher,
Lecturer in Humanities,
IT Tallaght,
Dublin 24
E-mail: eamon.maher[at]it-tallaght.ie
Tel: +353 (0) 1 4042871

Papers should not exceed 25-30 minutes. A selection of the papers will =
be published in book form. Acceptance of abstracts does not guarantee =
inclusion in the proceedings. Panels could look at the following areas:

=E2=80=A2 What is Catholic Identity?
=E2=80=A2 Towards a historical overview of Irish Catholicism.
=E2=80=A2 Representations of Irish Catholicism in the print media, on =
radio, television and in film.
=E2=80=A2 Catholic practice in Ireland as depicted in literature.
=E2=80=A2 Catholic Identity in Ireland in the wake of modernity.
=E2=80=A2 Irish Identity post Vatican II.
=E2=80=A2 Looking to the future.


Fee: The conference fee will be =E2=82=AC75, including Thursday or =
Friday lunch and conference dinner on the Thursday evening, tea and =
coffee on both days. =E2=82=AC25 for conference pack, tea and coffee =
only. Special student rate: =E2=82=AC35. The registration form can be =
downloaded from The Priory Institute website.

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Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Most of the technical problems have now been solved, and irishdiaspora.net
should look as it was and work as it used to.

There are still some problems in the background, to do with DIRDA, the
database of the IR-D archive.

It has simply got too big to work well in this set-up. So we are going to
have to look at ways of dividing it, but at the same time making it one and
indivisible.

But straightforward use by usernames 'irdmember' and 'guest' is not
affected...

Folder Editors should find they can edit their folders, as before. But
remember that if you want to get into the database you need to log in as
'irdmember'.

This has been a tedious matter of identifying the problems that arose in our
new environment.

If anyone spots a further problem or encounters a difficulty in using
irishdiaspora.net... Please let me know...

P.O'S.


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Email Patrick O'Sullivan

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