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Dear friends and colleagues,

I=92m happy to inform you that ESTUDIOS IRLANDESES, the new electronic, =
open
access, journal of Irish Studies is now available at the website:

http://www.estudiosirlandeses.org/ =20

Happy reading!
best,

Rosa Gonz=E1lez
Editor



FIRST ISSUE
Table of Contents

ASIER ALTUNA-GARC=CDA DE SALAZAR =20
Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Irish Cervantine =09
=09
MARIA AMOR BARROS DEL R=CDO =09

How to Disguise Fairy Tales in 21st Century Ireland.
A Feminist Analysis of Marian Keyes=92 and Cathy Kelly=92s Blockbusters =


MICHAEL B=D6SS =20
=91Belonging without Belonging=92: Colm T=F3ib=EDn=92s Dialogue with the =
Past =09

JOHN BRADLEY
On Becoming European: An Economist=92s Education =09

ROY FOSTER
=91Old Ireland and Himself=92: William Orpen and the Conflicts of Irish =
Identity

=09
LUZ MAR GONZ=C1LEZ ARIAS =20
=91The Famine of the 90s=92: Female Starvation and Religious Thought in =
Leanne
O=92Sullivan=92s Waiting for My Clothes =20

RUI CARVALHO HOMEM=20
Couplings: Agon and Composition in Paul Muldoon=92s Ekphrastic Poetry =20
=09
EAMONN HUGHES =09
=91=85 what=92s far worse, it=92ll have two mothers=92:
Rhetoric and Reproduction in Sean O=92Casey=92s Dublin Quartet

WESLEY HUTCHINSON=20
Engendering Change in the UDA: Gary Mitchell=92s Loyal Women =09

MICHAEL KENNEALLY
Erin Remembered: Place and the Shapings of Identity in Selected Poetry =
of
Thomas D=92Arcy McGee=20
=09
CHRISTIAN MAILHES=20
Northern Ireland in Transition: the Role of Justice =09
=09
ALFRED MARKEY =20
Revisionisms and The Story of Ireland: From Sean O=92Faolain to Roy =
Foster

=09
DAVID PIERCE
The Irish Theme in the Writings of Bill Naughton =09

ANGELA RYAN =20
Tragic Heroines and Wise Women in the Novels of Somerville and Ross

=09
AILBHE SMYTH
A Reading from The Book Of Beginnings or The End of the Line=20

EIBHEAR WALSHE
Several Landscapes: Bowen and the Terrain of North Cork =09
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Llamado a presentaci=F3n de ponencias


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Estimados Colegas:

Les hacemos llegar la siguiente invitaci=F3n pidiendo darle la mayor =
difusi=F3n
posible.

Muchas gracias

Edmundo Murray
Universidad de Zurich- Suiza

Maria Eugenia Cruset
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Sevilla, 17-21 de Julio de 2006
52=B0 Congreso Internacional de Americanistas Simposio "Identidad y
Nacionalismo"

El desarrollo del continente americano se ve influenciado en forma =
decisiva
por los procesos de migraci=F3n. Desde su descubrimiento con la llegada =
de
espa=F1oles, portugueses, ingleses y franceses entre otros. Pasando por =
la
constituci=F3n de las naciones donde los migrantes marcaron buena parte =
de su
identidad cultural. Hasta el d=EDa de hoy donde las migraciones hacia =
pa=EDses
vecinos o la vuelta a Europa se convierten en una problem=E1tica
socio-econ=F3mica preocupante.

La migraci=F3n se relaciona siempre con un proceso de construcci=F3n y
reconstrucci=F3n de identidades. En este contexto el papel del estado es =
de
enorme importancia y el modelo de naci=F3n que quiere formar ayudar=E1 o
dificultar=E1 la integraci=F3n de la poblaci=F3n inmigrante. Por eso =
nacionalismo
e inmigraci=F3n son variables interdependientes de estudio.

Debido a la actualidad y complejidad del proceso es que proponemos un
simposio abierto a un amplio espectro de objetos de estudio y =
metodolog=EDas
que permitan el intercambio enriquecedor. Estudios de casos, aportes
culturales de la inmigraci=F3n, inmigraci=F3n y nacionalismo, la =
situaci=F3n de la
mujer migrante, son solo algunas ideas sobre posibles propuestas. Cuanto =
m=E1s
diversas las ponencias m=E1s interesante ser=E1 el intercambio.

Debido a que se aproxima la fecha de cierre para proponer simposios les
agradeceremos nos hagan llegar antes del 28 de Marzo de 2005 sus =
propuestas
junto a un resumen no mayor a 100 palabras en espa=F1ol, ingl=E9s o =
portugu=E9s.

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This Guardian article, an interview with Joanna Bourke, and a discussion of
her work.

I have seen Joanna's papers go down not well at Irish Studies conferences -
one esteemed colleague muttered to me, 'Is she making fun of us'. And she
has a very specific delivery style. I do respect her earlier work - it may
be about chickens and cows... And the Irish sections of An Intimate History
of Killing, 1999, are a good summary of that nest of images, to be put
alongside the similar analysis in Bartlett & Jeffery.

Of course she has strayed on to male turf...

P.O'S.


Joanna Bourke: it's been emotional

Joanna Bourke is not afraid to deal with the so-called irrationality of
human behaviour. By John Crace

Tuesday March 15, 2005
The Guardian

'Historians tend to come in two sizes: the micro-specialists and those who
prefer a broader canvas. Joanna Bourke leaves you in no doubt where her
sympathies lie. "I'm not one for writing the same book over and over again,"
she says breezily. "Others can correct any mistakes I've made. Life's too
short for second editions."...'

'The more obvious thematic links between her books is that they are all -
well, nearly all; the first one was about Irish working-class women in the
19th century "full of chickens, cows and housework; very sweet and very
boring" - about what Bourke herself calls the "yukky side of life". So how
come?...'

Full text....

http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,1437200,00.html

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We cannot, of course, follow EVERY twist and turn of events in Northern
Ireland...

But this item will interest... Danny Morrison is talking up his play - but
some of his problems seem simply to reflect the problems of every new or
would-be playwright... But of course I have not seen, or read, the play...

P.O'S.


Too hot to handle

Danny Morrison thought his play - a thriller about IRA informers - was
perfect for Northern Ireland's theatres. But were they too afraid to produce
it? Karen Fricker investigates

Wednesday March 16, 2005
The Guardian

'Danny Morrison might be that rare thing: a first-time playwright who can't
wait to face the critics. "I consider myself a 52-year-old apprentice," he
says. "I want to learn from critical reviews. I would like to be judged by
the work itself." Instead the political commentator and novelist feels he is
being judged by his past life: a former republican prisoner, he was Sinn
Fein's director of publicity from 1987 until 1998. As a result, he says, it
has taken several years for his first play, The Wrong Man, based on his 1997
novel of the same name, to be staged - and its opening this week is in
London, not Northern Ireland...'

Full text at
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I know what Patrick means on both counts - on her reception and 'respecting
her early work'. I just wanted to add my bit on the latter, which JB sadly
seems to belittle in the interview.

The OUP book 'From Husbandry to Housewifery' did indeed get weak/poor
reviews, and a cold reception (my impression) from historians of women and
gender. However, I thought it a really amazing book - fantastic research.
It seemed to me she brought a very fresh and powerful perspective to the
whole field of modern Irish history and created a topic where none had
existed before, and where no researcher had gone before. A remarkable
achievement, I thought, and fascinating. Other such works have been ignored
by Irish historians before as inconvenient, only to be redicovered later on
(or not, of course).

It's a sad fact that milestones in research, reconstruction and analysis can
be seen as publishing and professional failures (or at least
embarrassments), while much less original, less researched books on giant
unproveable themes can be enormous successes.

Peter Hart


At 09:05 PM 16/03/2005 -0000, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:
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>
>This Guardian article, an interview with Joanna Bourke, and a
>discussion of her work.
>
>I have seen Joanna's papers go down not well at Irish Studies
>conferences - one esteemed colleague muttered to me, 'Is she making fun
>of us'. And she has a very specific delivery style. I do respect her
>earlier work - it may be about chickens and cows... And the Irish
>sections of An Intimate History of Killing, 1999, are a good summary of
>that nest of images, to be put alongside the similar analysis in Bartlett &
Jeffery.
>
>Of course she has strayed on to male turf...
>
>P.O'S.

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Forwarded on behalf of
Mary McAleese
President of Ireland


St Patrick's Day is a day of national joyful celebration treasured by the
people of Ireland both at home and in their many adopted homelands
throughout our world. Wherever we are, this day reminds us of our shared
heritage and our membership of a remarkable global family.

We are the adopted children of St Patrick, the outsider whose great gift to
Ireland and her people was his exhortation to love one another. Each
generation has interpreted his message in very different circumstances.
Many left Ireland with very little; yet no matter how poor or oppressed they
were, they remembered those who were even worse-off at home and they created
vital networks of care for each other.

Today we honour our patron saint in very exciting times. Modern Ireland is
economically successful and culturally vibrant as never before. It has made
a huge contribution to the ongoing Peace Process and is a respected, dynamic
partner in the European Union. It is a home to newcomers of many cultures,
faiths, nationalities and identities. A land of opportunity now, the
changing face of Ireland grows more fascinating each day. Behind this
welcome, peace and progress is a traditional value system which links us to
St Patrick. It continues to infuse our restless ambition for a fully
inclusive society where all participate in life's banquet and none are mere
spectators. Wherever Irishmen and women gather this day I know they share
that ambition and take pride in it.

As our global Irish family and friends celebrate this day through the
expression of our culture and heritage in our language, literature, games,
poetry, music and dance, I hope that the legacy of St Patrick will long
encourage us to treasure our strong community spirit and tradition of
welcome and care for one another. Enjoy St Patrick's Day 2005.

Mary McAleese
President of Ireland

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Dear Michael

Yes, I would be interested in reviewing. My area of interest is in Irish and
Scottish migrations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as
the use of personal testimonies in history.

Best wishes
Angela


>From: mdenie[at]westga.edu
>Subject: Irish History Book Reviews on H-Albion
>
>
>Colleagues,
>
>I have recently joined the H-Albion team as book review editor for
>modern Irish History, and I plan to significantly increase the number
>of Irish reviews appearing on that list. So, I invite anyone who has
>recently published or has a forthcoming book to please consider
>submitting a copy to H-Net. I would also like to hear from anyone who
>is interested in reviewing for H-Albion. Please contact me at the email
>address listed below and indicate your area of interest. Many thanks.
>
>
>Michael de Nie
>Department of History
>University of West Georgia
>mdenie[at]westga.edu

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I have picked up this message and I am forwarding it to the IR-D list.

Chris Gilligan is a very able observer and commentator on the fine detail of
events in Northern Ireland. He is also a kindly and generous scholar - I
ofen turn to him when I need clarification of that detail. He is going to
be in New York between the 11th & 18th of April, for a conference 14-16th.

P.O'S.


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

Dr Chris Gilligan is a lecturer in sociology at the University of Ulster and
a Research Associate of INCORE ().

He is currently researching aspects of the peace process in Northern Ireland
and would like to deliver talks to interested audiences in New York on the
12th, 13th or 17th of April 2005.

Current research is in the following areas:
- children and conflict related trauma
- why the peace process is prone to crisis
- the peace process and the politics of victimhood
- the protests at the Holy Cross School in Belfast

Samples of his published work are available online at:

'Constant crisis/permanent process: Diminished agency and weak structures in
the Northern Ireland peace process', Global Review of Ethnopolitics, Vol. 3,
No. 1 (September 2003), pp. 22-37
http://www.ethnopolitics.org/archive/volume_III/issue_1/gilligan.pdf

'Peace or Pacification Process?', in Gilligan & Tonge, (eds), (1997), War or
Peace? Understanding the Peace Process in Northern Ireland, Ashgate,
Aldershot, pp. 19-34.
http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/peace/gilligan.htm

'All process and no politics' - 23 October 2003,
http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000006DF93.htm


'Scared - or "scarred for life"?' - 7 September 2001,
http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000002D226.htm

My work on trauma and the peace process has been recognised in the British
and Irish press. See e.g.:

'Victims demand justice and truth, not tea and sympathy'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2091-1337624_1,00.html

'Truth, not self-pity is the way ahead'
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1340161,00.html

Chris


Chris Gilligan (PhD)
Subject Director in Sociology (Magee Campus)
Faculty of Social Sciences
Magee College
University of Ulster
Northland Road
Derry/Londonderry
Northern Ireland
BT48 7JL
UNITED KINGDOM

Research Associate INCORE
http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/

Reviews Editor
Ethnopolitics
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17449057.asp

0044 (0)28 7137 5241
c.gilligan[at]ulster.ac.uk

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News from Boston College, today, March 17...

Information Wanted Site Launch

In the Burns Library Thompson Room 1:00 p.m. today there will be the launch
of Missing Friends/Information Wanted online database

This is/will be a searchable database of newspaper advertisements placed by
Irish immigrants from 1831-1921 seeking news of friends and family.

Remarks by Father Leahy, University President; Thomas O'Connor, University
Historian; and Ruth-Ann Harris, Irish Studies Program.

This database was developed by the Office of Marketing Communications, BC,
who are sponsoring the event.

As yet there is actually nothing to see on the web site...

http://www.bc.edu/centers/irish/studies/

But maybe later today there will be...?

Congratulations to all involved - but especially, of course, to Ruth-Ann
Harris who has seen through this interesting development of a historian's
work.

Patrick o'Sullivan


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Further to my earlier message...

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

The web site for the Information Wanted/Missing Friends database is
http://infowanted.bc.edu/

P.O'S.



The Boston Globe
The Irish immigrant past gets tie to today

By Kevin Cullen, Boston Globe Staff | March 17, 2005
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/03/17/the_irish_immigrant_pas
t_gets_tie_to_today/

Susan Reynolds was looking for her daughters; Mary had disappeared while
searching for Rose in East Boston.

Margaret Finneron Dolan was looking for her husband, John, who had last been
seen in Canada.

Patrick Flynn's roommates were looking for him because he took off with
their money from the room they shared in Salem, N.H.

Professor Ruth-Ann M. Harris found them all, at least all their stories, in
the 'Missing Friends" column that ran in The Boston Pilot, the Roman
Catholic newspaper in the city, from 1831 to 1921.
Today, on St. Patrick's Day, Boston College is placing online the first
database that will allow anybody, from scholars doing research to those
interested in their ancestors, to track Irish immigrants who lost contact
with their families in a 90-year stretch spanning two centuries.

The website -- 'Information Wanted," after the title under which most of
the ads ran -- can be found at infowanted.bc.edu

The database is an electronic version of an eight-volume set called 'The
Search for Missing Friends: Irish Immigrant Advertisements Placed in the
Boston Pilot," which Harris researched and edited for the New England
Historic Genealogical Society.

She said the information provides a window on the immigrant experience,
especially the families' determination to remain intact despite logistical
difficulties that seem unimaginable today.

After the city's emigrant commissioner placed an ad in The Boston Pilot on
Oct. 1, 1831, looking for a Patrick McDermott to claim his wife and four
children after they had arrived from Ireland, the 'Missing Friends" column
became a must read for Irish expatriates, not just in the United States, but
in England and Australia, common landing spots for those fleeing poverty
and, by the 1840s, a potato blight that devastated the island.

'This put the Pilot on the map," Harris said. 'Up until that time, it was
a newspaper that reflected the French intellectual thought that was
prevalent in the Catholic church in Boston in the early 19th century."

'Missing Friends" gave the paper a more populist appeal, and the sparse
words told poignant stories between the lines. In the 1840s, the ads cost
about $3, extraordinary when immigrant women were making
$4 a week and immigrant tradesmen about $6, Harris said.

'People pooled resources to take out an ad," she said.

Harris said there are no records to determine how often the ads led to
reunions. But 'they had to be fairly successful, or people would not have
kept taking the ads out, especially over such a long period of time," she
said.

Some of the most heartbreaking ads, she said, were from parents who, after
settling in Boston and other places along the Eastern seaboard, had sent for
their children in Ireland, only to lose contact after the children arrived
in Canada or other ports. For much of the 19th century, Harris said,
captains sailing to Boston paid a $10 duty per head that did not apply to
other ports, so many of the Irish who settled in Boston came via other entry
spots. Those logistics created massive confusion and separated families.

Among the most common ads were those placed by wives looking for husbands
who had boarded ships, promising to find work and send money home, only to
disappear in the New World. Occasionally, however, husbands were seeking
women who did what the Irish call a runner on them. In 1846, when Mary Burns
Fitzpatrick fled Tipperary for America with her lover, Bryan Laihy, a
blacksmith, her jilted husband, Patrick, placed an ad offering a $50 reward
to find her. Patrick Fitzpatrick suggested that she might have gone to
Worcester, where she had a brother and two sisters, and that her leaving him
was a scandal worthy of shunning.

'The above reward will be paid for detection and her apprehension,"
Patrick Fitzpatrick wrote. 'The much afflicted husband would feel obliged
to the public by not employing her."

But the majority of ads were placed by people heartbroken over losing touch
with a loved one who had left Ireland for life in a new land and simply
disappeared. The 'Missing Friends" column stopped in 1921, as the wave of
Irish immigration slowed and international postal service improved.

For Harris, 'this is my thank you to BC." As professor of Irish history
since 1993, she has been allowed to pursue the sort of genealogical research
that she says is not valued at other academic institutions. 'It's always
been my dream to get this sort of information into the hands of the public,"
Harris said.

The Rev. William P. Leahy, the president of Boston College, said the
institution 'honors its own heritage" by backing the research and by making
it available to a wider audience. The school was founded in 1863 by Irish
immigrants, whose arrival in the post-famine years transformed Boston from
an overwhelmingly Protestant city to a heavily Catholic one in a single
generation.

Jack Dunn, a BC spokesman, said the university's information and technology
department took precautions for launching the website on St. Patrick's Day,
in a place like Boston, knowing it would provoke an extraordinary number of
hits.

--

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Hi Paddy,
While Chris Gilligan is in New York he should touch base or at least go to
see Geraldine Hughes in Belfast Blues. It is a one woman performance based
on her life growing up a Catholic in Belfast. It is quite powerful and with
his interest in childhood trauma and war he will want to see it and perhaps
speak with Ms. Hughes.
Looking forward to seeing you in New York next week.
Linda
The show is performed at The Culture Project on Bleeker Street,
212/253-9983.

>
>Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
>I have picked up this message and I am forwarding it to the IR-D list.
>
>Chris Gilligan is a very able observer and commentator on the fine
>detail of events in Northern Ireland. He is also a kindly and generous
>scholar - I ofen turn to him when I need clarification of that detail.
>He is going to be in New York between the 11th & 18th of April, for a
>conference 14-16th.
>
>P.O'S.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>
>Dr Chris Gilligan is a lecturer in sociology at the University of
>Ulster and a Research Associate of INCORE ().
>
>He is currently researching aspects of the peace process in Northern
>Ireland and would like to deliver talks to interested audiences in New
>York on the 12th, 13th or 17th of April 2005.
>
>c.gilligan[at]ulster.ac.uk

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Carmel

Without going into exhaustive psycho-social analyses, I think the
popularity and prevalent usage of the American term 'Loser', in contemporary
Ireland explains a lot...

Ultan

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I must close down the Irish Diaspora list for two weeks, until the beginning
of April.

Those of us who are involved in running the IR-D list will be travelling, or
otherwise pre-occupied. We might have access to computers and the internet
- but the key word there is 'might'.

Even if we were able to monitor the IR-D list from afar we would not be able
to resolve any technical problems that arose. In fact some technical
problems are working their way through the systems even now.

The option to temporarily make the IR-D list a non-moderated list is not
really available. Our list email address
IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK already attracts spam and virus email - we usually bang
these on the head so that they do not get through, but if we are not here
they will get through.

In any case I do not trust you lot to behave yourselves.

(By the way, anyone who has ever used the email address
should please do a thorough check of your
computer - you might have a virus or some other email generating nasty.)

If you have messages for the Irish Diaspora list send them to me personally
- clearly marked as FOR THE IR-D LIST. I will deal with everything in
April.

There will now be a flurry of IR-D messages, as the above mentioned
technical problems sort themselves out.

I am sorry about this. I think this is the first time we have had such a
long period off air. But it is the holiday period anyway - and the IR-D
list would not have been busy. It is just that when we compared diaries we
found that we were - as the man said - spread thin. It shows that we could
do with a few more volunteers, now that the IR-D list can be run, through
JISCMAIL, from anywhere in the world.

P.O'S.

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anyone can search

This came across in a genealogy list I'm on. It is probably of interest to
IR-D members.

Bill

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


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BOSTON -- The luck of the Irish isn't apparent in many of the ads in the
"Missing Friends" column that ran in The Boston Pilot, the Roman
Catholic newspaper in the city, from 1831 to 1921.

Irish immigrants used the ads to locate loved ones after they became
separated in their journeys to America. Some were looking for a spouse
who skipped town, while others sought to unite families. All of them
shed light on the immigrant experience.

On Thursday -- St. Patrick's Day -- Boston College is posting online a
database of 31,000 ads that anyone can search.


The Web site is called Information Wanted, named after the column under
which the ads ran. It can be accessed after 1 p.m. Thursday at
http://www.bc.edu/centers/irish/studies/

The database is an electronic version of BC professor Ruth-Ann M.
Harris' eight-volume set called "The Search for Missing Friends: Irish
Immigrant Advertisements Placed in the Boston Pilot." Harris researched
and edited the set for the New England Historic Genealogical Society.

"What they're doing is arriving in Boston, and I think they had no
comprehension how large North America was," said Harris, a professor of
Irish history.

The first ad appeared in October 1831. It sought Patrick McDermott,
whose newly emigrated wife and family were going to be sent back to
Ireland if he didn't show up.

There are no records to show how often the ads led to reunions, but
Harris suspects many did because of the volume of the ads over many
years.

Harris said the popularity of the ads "put the Pilot on the map." Until
then, it "reflected the French intellectual thought that was prevalent
in the Catholic church in Boston in the early 19th century."

Most of the ads stopped after 1915, when the Archdiocese of Boston
bought the Pilot. Also by then, postal service had greatly improved,
allowing better communication among families and friends.


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Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This Conference is turning into a very interesting one indeed, and something
of a turning point in our fields...

The organisers are to be congratulated...

I will distribute further information when it reaches me.

For now, contact person in Salford is
Debbie Hughes
D.Hughes1[at]salford.ac.uk

P.O'S.


EUROPEAN STUDIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Irish Studies Centre, University of Salford and the
British Association for Irish Studies


Conference Organisers: Prof. Frank Neal, Dr Chris Boyle, Mervyn Busteed,
Prof. Jon Tonge,


IRISH PROTESTANT IDENTITIES

Provisional Programme
Research & Graduate College, Faraday House, University of Salford

Friday 16 September 2005

2.00pm - 3.50pm Registration and Refreshments (Conference Reception Area)

3.50pm - 4.00pm Opening Address (Rayleigh Room)
The Irish Ambassador to the United Kingdom,
His Excellency Daithi O'Ceallaigh

4.00pm - 5.30pm Paper Sessions

Session A (Room TBC)
Identities (1) Evolution and Absorption
Tom Hennessey (Canterbury Christ Church College)
The evolution of national identity amongst Ulster Protestants during the
twentieth century
Harvey Cox (Institute of Irish Studies, University
of Liverpool)
A sense of Britishness: political socialisation in
the Troubles era
Bernadette Hayes (University of Aberdeen) & Tony Fahey (ESRI Dublin)
Values and attitudes of Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland and
the Republic of Ireland

or

Session B (Room TBC)
A Gender Dimension
Myrtle Hill (Queens University, Belfast)
Negotiating identities: gender, culture and the
spiritual empire
James McPherson (University of Sunderland)
'Sisters of the brotherhood': female Orange lodges in the north of England,
c. 1900-1970
Catherine O'Connor (NUI Limerick)
The Church of Ireland diocese of Ferns, 1945-65: a female perspective

or




Session C (Room TBC)
The Religious Dimension (1) Finding a Place
David Butler (University College, Cork)
'Survival of the fittest': Protestant dissenting congregations of Munster,
1660-1861
Martin Maguire (Dundalk Institute of Technology)
'Our people': middle and working class Protestants in Dublin - the Church of
Ireland experience, 1870-1970
Daithi O'Corrain (Trinity College, Dublin)
'If a house be divided against itself that house cannot stand': the Church
of Ireland and the political border, 1949-73

or

Session D (Room TBC)
Aspects of History
Sean Stitt (Bolton Institute)
The Great Hunger and the role and attitudes of Irish Protestants
Olivier Coquelin (Quimpier University, France)
'Native Nationalism' and Unionism: towards the advent of two antithetical
nationalisms in 19th century Ireland
Roy Johnston (Techne Associates, Dublin)
All Ireland politics - 1950 to the present day
Charles Callan (Independent Scholar, Dublin)
Irish Protestant house painters in Dublin - an analysis of the 1911 Census

6.00pm Plenary Address (Room TBC)
Speaker TBC Whatever happened to Protestantism
in Ireland?

Dinner in Manchester
Venue TBC (nb: not included in price)




Saturday 17 September 2005

9.00am - 10.30am Paper Sessions

Session A (Room TBC)
Identities (2) Aspects of Loyalism
Zouhain Abassi (Societe Francaise d'etudes Irlandaises)
Unionism in Northern Ireland: the loyalist case: political identity and the
possibilities of change
Lydnsey Harris (University of Ulster)
Duck or Rabbit? The strategic tradition of loyalism
Peter Shirlow & Brian Graham (University of Ulster)
Loyalist prisoner identities

or

Session B (Room TBC)
Ascendancy (1) Fears and Insecurities
John Gibney (Trinity College, Dublin)
The memory of 1641 and Protestant identity in Ireland

Karine Bigand (Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris)
Crisis as an identity enhancing factor: the evidence of the 1641 depositions
Mervyn Busteed (University of Manchester)
Ascendancy insecurities: cross pressures on an 18th century improving
landlord
Caroline Baraniuk (Stranmillis University College)
James Orr: Presbyterian, Patriot and Poet of 1798

or

Session C (Room TBC)
The Overseas Dimension (1) Migration & Identity
Geraldine Vaughan (Sorbonne, Paris)
A hidden community? Irish Protestant immigrants in the west of Scotland,
1851-1914
Gary Peatling (Guelph University, Canada)
The fall of Unionism: crisis in Unionism and Ulster-Scots identity,
1869-1985
Joe Bradley (Strathclyde University)
'British is Best': Protestant identity and Ulster Scots in Scotland
L. M. Hagan (Stranmillis University College)
Ulster-Scots Cultural Identity and the Dialogue of Peace

or

Session D (Room TBC)
The Religious Dimension (2) Identities
Mark Doyle (Boston College, U.S.A.)
A primary visible movement: the 1859 revival and communal identity in
Belfast
Patrick Mitchel (Dublin Bible Institute)
Evangelical Christians and Irish identities - a case study
Claire Mitchell (Queens University, Belfast)
The oscillating religious content of Protestant ethnic identity

10.30am - 11.00am Refreshments (Conference Reception Area)

11.00am - 12.30pm Panel Discusssion (Room TBC)
A Community Under Siege?

12.30pm - 2.00pm Buffet Lunch (Conference Reception Area)

2.00pm - 3.30pm Paper Sessions

Session A (Room TBC)
Identities (3) Tensions and Divisions
Neil Ferguson (Liverpool Hope University College)
A divided people
Graham Walker (Queens University, Belfast)
The Protestant working class and the fragmentation
of Ulster Unionism
Aaron Edwards (Queens University, Belfast)
Between the devil and the deep blue sea: the NILP, the Protestant working
class and the British Labour Party policy towards Northern Ireland, 1958-75

or

Session B (Room TBC)
Ascendancy (2) Adjusting to a Changing Ireland
Adeline Tissier (Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris)
From disillusionment to disestablishment: the Protestant community and Irish
National Schools, 1831-69
Sean Kennedy (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Performing ascendancy: Irish Protestantism after the Treaty
Jennifer Redmond (Trinity College, Dublin)
Protestant identity, Protestant emigration: new formulations in the New Free
State
Johanne B. Trew (Queens University, Belfast)
Irish Protestant migration in the late 20th century

or

Session C (Room TBC)
The Overseas Dimension (2) Another Context
James Doan (Nova Southeastern University, U.S.A.)
Eighteenth century radical thought in America: Ulster Presbyterian
influences
Patrick McKenna (AAIU?)
The Economic Strategy underlying Religious Difference among the Nineteenth
Century Irish Community in Argentina
Ian McKeane (Institute of Irish Studies)
What satire could be more eloquent than reality? Reporting the Northern
Unionists in the French press, 1919-22
Wm. Jenkins (York University, Toronto)
'If I forget thee O Ireland, may my right hand lose its cunning': Irish
Protestant identities in Toronto, 1870-1920

or

Session D (Room TBC)
Identities (4) Literary Loyalism
Stephen Hopkins (University of Leicester)
'A Weapon in the Struggle'? Loyalist paramilitaries and the politics of
auto/biography in contemporary Northern Ireland
Wesley Hutchinson (Institut du Monde Anglophone-University of Paris 111)
Change through dialogue: the U.D.A. on stage

3.30pm - 4.00pm Refreshments (Conference Reception Area)

4.00pm - 5.30pm Panel Discussion (Room TBC)
What About The Workers?

7.00pm Drinks Reception (University House)

8.00pm Conference Dinner (University House)
After Dinner Speaker:
Dr Arthur Aughey, University of Ulster



Sunday 18 September 2005

9.00am - 10.30am Paper Sessions

Session A (Room TBC)
Identities (5) Edgy Relationships

Anna Bryson (Queen Mary College, London)
Protestant Identity in mid Ulster, 1945-69
K Simpson & H Donnan (Queens University, Belfast)
Power, identity and northern Irish border
Protestants
Kevin Bean (Institute for Irish Studies, University
of Liverpool)
Being nice to Protestants? The Provisionals, the 'Protestant community' and
identity politics in Northern Ireland
Fintan Vallely (Dundalk Institute of Technology)
Fiddlesticks in the closet: Ulster Protestant suspicions of traditional
music

or

Session B (Room TBC)
Ascendancy (3) Literary Representations of Doubt, Decline & Disappearance
Christina Morin (Trinity College, Dublin)
There are two gods: religion and the search for identity in Charles Robert
Maturin's 'The Wanderer'
Clare Nally (University of Manchester)
Anglo-Irish Protestantism and Leo Africanus: cultural politics and the
discarnate states of W.B. Yeats' 'A Vision'
Deirdre O'Byrne (Loughborough University)
Last of their Line? The disappearing Anglo-Irish in 20th century fictions &
autobiographies
Robert Tobin (University of Cambridge)
Southern Protestant commemoration in Ireland since 1932
R McDonald (University of Reading)
Darwinism and Natural History in the Protestant Literature of the Irish
Revival

or

Session C (Room TBC)
The Orange Order
Peter Day (Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool)
Pride before a fall? Orangeism in Liverpool since 1945
Eric Kaufman (Birkbeck College)
From deference to defiance: the transformation of the Orange Order in
Northern Ireland from 1950 to the present
Jim MacAuley (University of Huddersfield) & Jon Tonge (University of
Salford)
The contemporary Orange Order in Northern Ireland

10.30am Refreshments (Conference Reception Area)

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Subject: Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
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From: "Brian McGinn"
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Subject: Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

No anniversary, it seems, can be allowed to pass without paying tribute to
Che Guevara's Irish roots:

See Peter McDermott's recent Irish Echo (NY) piece:

http://www.irishecho.com/newspaper/story.cfm?id=16187

The ironic thing, according to a childhood friend whom I interviewed at the
Library of Congress some years ago, is that any such lineage meant little to
Che.

It was his father Ernesto Guevara who, some years after Che's death in
Bolivia, started the whole 'Celtic' connection to Che's revolutionary ideas.

I'm also highly dubious about assertions by some members of the current
Irish press corps who claim to have interviewed Che during his Shannon
Airport stopover in 1965, but have never produced any evidence of same by
way of contemporary articles.

One useful service provided by McDermott is to clarify Che's alleged close
connections to Ireland.

According to some fanciful accounts making the Internet rounds, he was the
grandson of a Famine-era immigrant from Co. Galway.

In fact, his paternal grandmother, Ana Lynch y Ortiz, was born in San
Francisco, the daughter of Argentine parents seeking their fortune during
the California Gold Rush.

And her Irish lineage was via a great-great grandfather, Patricio Lynch, who
left Lydacan, Co. Galway for Spain in the early C18th and then followed the
well-trod path to colonial service--and success--in Buenos Aires.

Brian McGinn
Alexandria, Virginia
bmcginn2[at]earthlink.net

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Normal list activity will resume now. Paddy is a bit under the weather, so I
will fill in as moderator. Please send posts tohe IR-D address.

Bill Mulligan

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Amongst Empires:

=C9ire-Ireland welcomes submissions for a spring 2007 special issue that =
will
consider Ireland=92s involvements in the modern imperial world system. =
The
editors are interested in receiving essays that explore the =
understanding,
consumption, and/or contestation of empire in modern Irish society and
culture as well as articles that examine the role of Ireland and the =
Irish
within the world of empire or explore Ireland=92s colonial/imperial =
experience
in a comparative context. While Ireland=92s relationship to the British =
Empire
is clearly of central importance, Irish responses to or involvements in
other modern empires (Spanish, French, American, and others) are also of
interest, as are essays that deal with how other colonial peoples or =
other
imperial powers viewed issues such as Irish resistance to British rule =
and
struggles for self-determination, the development of Irish national
literature and culture, or Irish military, religious, economic or other
investments in Empire.

Deadline for submissions: 1 April 2006: Typed manuscripts, two copies,
should be sent to:=20

Michael de Nie, Department of History, TLC 3200, University of West =
Georgia,
Carrollton, GA 30118 (mdenie[at]westga.edu) or=20

Joe Cleary, Department of English, Arts Building, NUI
Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland (jncleary[at]may.ie). =20

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From: Murray, Edmundo=20
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 11:34 AM
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: The Other Irish Argentines: the Dresden Affair


I would like to comment on the article + poem in Spanish that follows, =
by Santiago Boland in "La Nueva Provincia" of Bahia Blanca, Argentina =
(17 March 2005). Parallels can be possibly identified in other parts of =
the Irish Diaspora.

One of the most repeated stories about the Irish in Argentina is that of =
the poverty-stricken immigrants who after their settlement in the new =
country amassed fortunes out of 19th-century sheep farming, and managed =
to own huge tracts of land in the pampas. These stories seem to have =
gone from Argentina to Ireland (frequently from those emigrants who have =
failed but would not be willing to recognise it), and went back to =
Argentina in the form of hyperbolic narratives (likely from those who =
could perceive themselves successful through their luckier neighbours or =
family members).=20

Of course there were a few thousands who did purchase land, and a =
handful of them actually were among the most important landowners in =
certain periods and places. However, at least 1 out of 2 emigrants to =
Argentina had to re-emigrate to the US and other countries or back home, =
or otherwise resign their dreams of becoming something else than tenant =
farmers in Ireland or middle-classes in Argentina.=20

Among the re-emigrants were several of the 1,774 passengers in the =
steamer "City of Dresden". They arrived in Argentina in 1889 through the =
deceptive promises of Irish-Argentine immigration agents in Dublin and =
Cork. Some could find situations in Buenos Aires as servants or =
labourers, but most of them were to start the "Irish Colony" of =
Napost=E1, near Bah=EDa Blanca. It was another failure, and several =
children died. Santiago Boland's article is one of the first texts =
dealing with this affaire.

http://www.lanuevaprovincia.com.ar/05/03/17/53h063.sht

Published by "La Nueva Provincia" of Bah=EDa Blanca, on 17 March 2005.

QUOTE

"Otras Voces"

Los ni=F1os m=E1rtires de La Vit=EDcola=20


Cada 17 de marzo, celebraci=F3n lit=FArgica de San Patricio, la =
comunidad hiberno-argentina suele festejar con diversos actos el D=EDa =
Nacional de Irlanda. Ultimamente, gracias a la "movida celta" que puso =
de moda los cuentos de hadas, la m=FAsica y el alcoholismo, las noticias =
han girado casi con exclusividad hacia el consumo de cerveza, sobre todo =
en la zona de los irish pubs aleda=F1a a la plaza San Mart=EDn en Buenos =
Aires.


Sin embargo, hay formas m=E1s leg=EDtimas de celebrar a Noamh =
Padraig, el obispo que en el siglo IV subordin=F3 la iglesia celta de =
Irlanda a la de Roma y es s=EDmbolo de la independencia irlandesa. Es =
buena ocasi=F3n para honrar a sus paisanos, sobre todo a los que, junto =
a otros muchos "gringos", fundaron la patria y la regaron con su sangre.


Los bahienses, hasta no hace mucho, ignor=E1bamos que, m=E1s all=E1 =
del papel que jugaron algunos hombres p=FAblicos como Juan Plunket, =
pr=E1ctico del puerto y municipal, o Jorge Moore, el intendente que =
cubri=F3 cinco per=EDodos, que los irlandeses hab=EDan integrado la =
m=E1s numerosa colonia extranjera en la historia de Bah=EDa Blanca.


En efecto, entre febrero de 1889 y marzo de 1891, en el paraje La =
Vit=EDcola, hubo un intento sistem=E1tico de colonizaci=F3n =
protagonizado por unos 700 u 800 irlandeses. Una nota de Michael J. =
Geraghty, publicada por el "Buenos Aires Herald" el 17 de marzo de 1999, =
tras evocar las calamidades sufridas en Buenos Aires por los 1.772 =
irlandeses arribados el 16 de febrero de 1889, rescat=F3 el hecho en =
estos t=E9rminos:
=20
"Esto fue suave comparado con lo que les ocurri=F3 a los colonos =
que arribaron a Napost=E1, al norte de Bah=EDa Blanca. David Gartland, =
un hombre de negocios hiberno-americano que hab=EDa comenzado una =
colonia all=E1, ofreci=F3 a cada familia 40 hect=E1reas, 1.000 pesos al =
9% anual de inter=E9s y 12 a=F1os para pagar el cr=E9dito.


"Cuando los candidatos a colonos llegaron a Napost=E1, no ten=EDan =
equipaje. Lo hab=EDan enviado en forma separada y se hab=EDa 'perdido'. =
La tierra estaba ah=ED para trabajar, pero no hab=EDa casas ni modo de =
construirlas, porque Gartland no ten=EDa dinero suficiente para =
financiar su proyecto. Quienes ten=EDan tiendas viv=EDan en ellas y =
quienes no, debajo de los =E1rboles o en zanjas: ni unas ni otras eran =
adecuadas para una llanura abierta, sacudida por el viento, seca y =
arenosa en verano, fr=EDa y h=FAmeda en invierno".


Los colonos viajaron el martes 26 de febrero, en el tren de la =
tarde, acompa=F1ados por Mr. F. H. Mulhall, propietario del diario "The =
Standard" , Mr. Gartland, a cargo de la colonia, y el padre Gaughren, un =
oblato de Mar=EDa Inmaculada que estaba juntando plata entre sus =
paisanos pudientes para enjugar el d=E9ficit de su convento de Londres, =
pero que se meti=F3 en cuanta empresa no redituable hubo, entre ellas =
este viaje, si serv=EDa para llenar su misi=F3n sacerdotal. Los 790 =
colonos viajaron en tren hasta Napost=E1, por entonces =FAltima =
estaci=F3n antes de Bah=EDa Blanca Sud, y de all=ED en carros hasta los =
campos lindantes con la l=EDnea ferroviaria, propiedad de la Argentine =
Vine Culture Company, La Vit=EDcola. Dos coches dormitorio trasladaban a =
las mujeres y a los ni=F1os enfermos.


El padre Matthew Gaughren escrib=EDa el 2 de abril de 1889 a su =
superior, el padre Tatin:


"La mayor=EDa de la gente est=E1 a=FAn viviendo bajo carpas en la =
pendiente de una colina en la que, en la parte m=E1s alta, hay un =
peque=F1o cobertizo de chapa galvanizada, que alcanza para guarecer el =
altar y que funge de capilla. La gente asiste a misa afuera, bajo del =
dosel del cielo. He tenido una numerosa cantidad de tumbas que bendecir =
porque hubo una gran mortandad de infantes, principalmente de diarrea, =
el resultado del cambio de clima y de comida".


En mayo, el 13, el vicec=F3nsul brit=E1nico en Bah=EDa Blanca, Mr. =
Goodhall, informaba a su jefe, Mr. Jenner:


"Visit=E9 la colonia en una ocasi=F3n, pocos d=EDas despu=E9s del =
arribo, y encontr=E9 a la gente bajo carpas; desde entonces, se ha =
adelantado la construcci=F3n, y pocos est=E1n sin una casa en que vivir. =
Lamento tener que decir que muchos ni=F1os peque=F1os han muerto desde =
el arribo de la poblaci=F3n a Napost=E1. Pienso que probablemente a =
causa del cambio de agua, que es bastante salobre, e induce diarrea. La =
carencia de medicinas desde el comienzo fue una omisi=F3n de la que son =
culpables los gerentes de la Colonia".


En esas condiciones, no es extra=F1o que el proyecto fracasara ni =
que costara la onerosa suma de m=E1s de cien ni=F1os muertos. As=ED lo =
cuenta el padre John Gaynor:


"El grueso de los inmigrantes fue embarcado a Napost=E1, donde =
llevaron una existencia miserable por dos a=F1os. Eran casi un millar, =
algunos artesanos, sin previa experiencia en agricultura; el pa=EDs era =
extra=F1o, la lengua, la comida y las costumbres tambi=E9n. Las =
estaciones fueron malas, y la tasa de mortalidad terror=EDfica: m=E1s de =
cien muertos en dos a=F1os. La Napost=E1 Colony, como tantas en la =
=E9poca, no fue un =E9xito. Los recursos de Mr. Gartland eran limitados =
y, por tanto, a principios de 1891, la colonia quebr=F3. En marzo de =
1891, 520 colonos recorrieron su fatigoso camino de regreso a Buenos =
Aires, espiritualmente quebrados y totalmente faltos de recursos".


La Colectividad Hiberno-Argentina no olvid=F3 el Dresden Affair , =
que se=F1al=F3 el fin definitivo de la inmigraci=F3n desde Irlanda a la =
Argentina. "The Southern Cross" , el peri=F3dico de la colectividad, lo =
record=F3 una y otra vez en sus publicaciones. Pero en Bah=EDa Blanca, =
=BFcu=E1ndo? Quiera Dios que estas l=EDneas ayuden a iniciar el merecido =
homenaje a los insepultos ni=F1os m=E1rtires de La Vit=EDcola:


Yo no s=E9 si en La Vit=EDcola podremos rastrear sus restos,
s=F3lo s=E9 que all=ED cayeron, y eran muchos... m=E1s de un ciento.
No s=E9 si en raz=F3n del agua, de los fr=EDos, de los vientos tal vez =
por vivir en carpas, en zanjas, a cielo abierto...


Cuando salieron de Irlanda, buscando mejores puertos creyeron que bien =
podr=EDan, andando el mar y el desierto, cambiar su triste destino de =
pobreza y sufrimiento... y ac=E1: o dejaron sus hijos, o ellos mismos =
yacen muertos...


Quiz=E1s desearon morir para terminar con esta m=E1s que miserable =
historia de ambici=F3n y desaliento, tal vez miraron atr=E1s para volver =
en el tiempo a la esmeralda de Irlanda y all=ED dormir en su seno:


No es lo mismo descansar en la turba y que el rumor del mar del norte y =
sus vientos susurren una oraciones en donde yacen los muertos, que ser =
aqu=ED abandonados bajo la arena que el tiempo abandona una vez m=E1s =
dejando solos los huesos, al duro sol del verano, al fr=EDo invierno del =
yermo...


=BFPor qu=E9 si hab=EDa trabajo, prosperidad, esperanza,=20
si los gringos bien pod=EDan ganar su pan al desierto,
se convirtieron en tumbas esos campos de labranza y ah=ED nom=E1s, a =
pocas leguas, el hambre cobr=F3 cien muertos?


Ellos dejaron su tierra tentados por la promesa de un futuro de trabajo =
que alcanzara la bonanza, y que sus hijos y nietos vieran saciadas las =
ansias tantas veces postergadas de derrotar la pobreza...


=BFQu=E9 valen cien inmigrantes que mueren en el intento de hacer la =
patria so=F1ada, o de alcanzar el progreso? Ocho libras cada uno, =
seg=FAn datos del gobierno, cobraron quienes medraron con el dolor y el =
infierno.


Y los encontr=F3 la muerte, acechante entre las bre=F1as de las pampas =
ondulantes que bajan a la bah=EDa y all=ED llenaron las tumbas que =
cavaron d=EDa a d=EDa, y lloraron sus hijos custodiados por las sierras.


=BFC=F3mo se habr=E1n despedido de los suyos al ir yendo a donde se hace =
la noche y se duermen los recuerdos? =BFHabr=E1n sabido intuir que el =
olvido ser=EDa el due=F1o durante m=E1s de cien a=F1os, de su muerte y =
su silencio?


=BFQu=E9 habr=E1n mirado al final, antes de cerrar los ojos?
=BFLa infinitud de la pampa? =BFLa promesa azul del cielo?
Tal vez el rostro del padre, de la madre, antes que el hielo de la =
muerte destinara sus despojos a enriquecer nuestro suelo.


Congeladas en el tiempo esas muertes ya son nuestras,
no podemos eludirlas...,
el hambre que ellos pasaron, las fiebres no son recuerdos:
nos golpean en el pecho... y sangran el coraz=F3n y reclaman en =
silencio.


=A1Que ese silencio no acalle el reclamo de los muertos de no volver a =
morir ni en la historia ni en el tiempo...!


El licenciado Santiago Boland es vecino de nuestra ciudad.

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From: "Murray, Edmundo"
Subject: Irish Latin American Research Fund /// Deadline
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Dear Ir-D members and friends,

Please distribute this announcement to all individuals, organizations, =
faculty members, students, agencies, and others whom you believe may be =
interested in participating. Thank you!

This email is a reminder that the submissions deadline for the "Irish =
Latin American Research Fund", 29 April 2005, is nearing. More =
information in: www.irishargentine.org

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 =
Gonz=E1lez-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. These grants are possible thanks to the generosity of IAHS =
members and friends.=20

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

More information in: www.irishargentine.org

Contact:=20
Edmundo Murray
The Irish Argentine Historical Society
Maison Rouge (1268) Burtigny, Switzerland
+41 22 739 5049
edmundo.murray[at]irishargentine.org
www.irishargentine.org