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Just to bring you up to date...

I had some teaching commitments at Ireland House, New York, in March. We
decided to turn this into a little family holiday - which meant that the
entire O'Sullivan family encountered a devastating flu virus.

This virus had already caused mayhem amongst our colleagues at NYU. Our
sympathy for them is only a little lessened by our own experiences - it
really is a most horrible flu. One weird symptom is that the victim moans,
loudly, in his or her sleep - which is in fact even more perturbing for the
carers than it is for the victim.

Apart from that, Mr. O'Sullivan, did things go well in New York? I really
have no idea.

Gradually getting back on top of things here...

Paddy O'Sullivan


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This article, freely available on the web, does not, I think, add much to
the discussion - but its main point, the gap in analysis, is a good one.
And the references are thorough.

P.O'S.


Journal of religion & society
Vol. 7 (2005)

Anti-Catholicism in mid-Victorian Britain has had numerous historians, but
none have posited a theory of religious prejudice to help explain it. This
article argues that anti-Catholicism in mid-Victorian Britain can be
interpreted as an example of prejudice rather than as a problem of
differences over competing theologies on true religion. It suggests ways in
which behavioral theory can help explain the nature of religious prejudice
in an interdisciplinary framework, and posits a theory of religious
prejudice in society. The chronological limits are 1850-53, a time of
critical importance in Catholic/Protestant relations in Britain.

~ Frank Wallis, Monroe. "Anti-catholicism in mid-Victorian Britain: theory
and discipline."

Full-Text (HTML): http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2005/2005-6.html
Full-Text (PDF): http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/pdf/2005-6.pdf
Abstract: http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2005/2005-6abs.html
...........................................................

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At first sight an odd journal for this piece of work to turn up in...

But there it is.

P.O'S.


American Journal Of Public Health
Volume 95, Issue 3 , March 2005, Pages 496-501
ISSN: 0090-0036


MEDLINER
Racial/ethnic discrimination and common mental disorders among workers:
findings from the EMPIRIC Study of Ethnic Minority Groups in the United
Kingdom

Bhui, Kamaldeep; Stansfeld, Stephen; McKenzie, Kwame; Karlsen, Saffron;
Nazroo, James; Weich, Scott

Centre for Psychiatry, Barts, and London School of Medicine, Queen Mary,
London E1 4NS, United Kingdom; e-mail k.s.bhui[at]qmul.ac.uk

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: We measured perceived discrimination and its association with
common mental disorders among workers in the United Kingdom. METHODS: We
conducted a secondary analysis of a national sample of 6 ethnic groups
(n=2054). Discrimination was measured as reports of insults; unfair
treatment at work; or job denial stemming from race, religion, or language.
The outcome assessed was presence of common mental disorders. RESULTS: The
risk of mental disorders was highest among ethnic minority individuals
reporting unfair treatment (odds ratio [OR]=2.0; 95% confidence interval
[CI]=1.2, 3.2) and racial insults (OR=2.3; 95% CI=1.4, 3.6). The overall
greatest risks were observed among Black Caribbeans exposed to unfair
treatment at work (OR=2.9; 95% CI=1.2, 7.3) and Indian (OR=3.1; 95% CI=1.4,
7.2), Bangladeshi (OR=32.9; 95% CI=2.5, 436.0), and Irish (OR=2.9; 95%
CI=1.1, 7.6) individuals reporting insults. CONCLUSIONS: Racial/ethnic
discrimination shows strong associations with common mental disorders.
[Journal Article; In English; United States]

Citation Subset Indicators: Core clinical journal; Health administration
journal; Index Medicus

MeSH Terms: Adult; African Continental Ancestry Group, ethnology (EH);
Attitude to Health, * ethnology (EH); Bangladesh, ethnology (EH); Caribbean
Region, ethnology (EH); Educational Status; European Continental Ancestry
Group, ethnology (EH); Female; Great Britain, epidemiology (EP); Humans;
India, ethnology (EH); Interview, Psychological; Ireland, ethnology (EH);
Logistic Models; Male; Marital Status, statistics & numerical data (SN);
Mental Disorders, diagnosis (DI), epidemiology (EP), * ethnology (EH);
Minority Groups, education (ED), psychology (PX), * statistics & numerical
data (SN); Morbidity; Pakistan, ethnology (EH); Population Surveillance; *
Prejudice; Prevalence; Questionnaires; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't;
Risk Factors; Social Class; Workplace, psychology (PX)


American Journal Of Public Health
Volume 95, Issue 3 , March 2005, Pages 496-501
ISSN: 0090-0036

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Atlantic Studies: Literary, Cultural and Historical perspectives on =
Europe,
Africa and the Americas
Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
Issue: Volume 2, Number 1 / April 2005
Pages: 65 - 92
=09

=93Our Irish copper-farthen dean=94: Swift's Drapier's letters, the =
=93forging=94 of
a modernist Anglo-Irish literature, and the Atlantic world of paper =
credit

Se=E1n Moore A1

A1 Department of English University of New Hampshire Hamilton Smith =
Hall, 95
Main St Durham NH 03824 USA

The abstract of this article is secured to subscribers.

Keywords:

Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish literature, Wood's halfpence, Irish studies,
Ireland, American studies, public sphere, paper money, coinage, =
counterfeit
money, eighteenth-century economics, political economy, Irish history,
colonialism, subaltern studies, postcolonial theory, colonial America,
Barbados, South Carolina, Massachusetts, Boston, Caribbean history, West
Indies history, slavery, Aphra Behn, Cotton Mather, Drapier's Letters

The references of this article are secured to subscribers.=20

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This TOC has reached us in this rather bald version.

A better version might turn up later.

P.O'S.



ARCHAEOLOGY IRELAND
VOL 19; NUMB 1; 2005
ISSN 0790-892X

pp. 09-11
`Many a vanished sight': fear and loathing of change in the landscape

pp. 12-13
Protecting the architectural heritage

pp. 14-17
Interview with Con Manning

pp. 18-21
The Cross of Cong-some recent discoveries

pp. 22-25
What can archaeology tell us about the Maze site?

pp. 26-30
Continuing the tradition: roadside memorials in Ireland

pp. 31-33
3D laser scanning: this used to be the future

pp. 34-37
A flying visit to Bishop's Island, Co. Clare

pp. 38-39
Know your monuments: Middens

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Dear IR-D List Members,

I should be most grateful if you would pass this message on to anyone living
in or around NYC who might be interested in a show about Lady Gregory.

The show opens on Wed. 20 April and runs for two weeks. It's not easy
getting publicity in NYC unless you have money. Already we are getting a
lot of support from friends and colleagues and if you can help, it would be
much appreciated. If you come to the show, please introduce yourself!

Many thanks,

Sam-

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Handcart Ensemble presents

COOLE LADY

Written & directed by Sam McCready, with Joan McCready as Lady Gregory

April 20 - 30, 2005 [at] Theatre 315

315 W 47th St / New York NY 10036

Handcart Ensemble invites you to COOLE LADY, a one-woman play
performed by the celebrated Joan McCready of the Belfast Lyric Theatre.
COOLE LADY is an entrancingly human portrait of larger-than-life Lady
Gregory, the Irish playwright, folklorist, and political firebrand whose
patronage of Yeats and founding of the Abbey Theatre launched a literary
renaissance in Ireland. Lady Gregory's public confrontations, numerous
setbacks, and triumphant role in renewing a vanishing culture embody the
sacrifice and indefatigable will that underlie all great art. Her story is
that of Ireland itself in its struggle to preserve a national identity.

COOLE LADY opens Wednesday, April 20. For a detailed calendar of
performances, visit our web site: http://www.handcartensemble.org

All tickets are general seating and cost $20 each, $15 for seniors and
students. We recommend buying tickets in advance through
SmartTix* at 212-868-2224 or smarttix.com.

Looking for something early in the week? Underemployed or otherwise
feeling the pinch? Then please note that there is a special $10 performance
on Monday, April 25, at 7:30 p.m.

See you at the theater!

*SmartTix is the only method of purchasing advance tickets or of
buying tickets with a credit card. We will also accept cash at the door.
Please purchase advance tickets. There is no service charge for using
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________________________________

From: Colman Etchingham
Colman.Etchingham[at]nuim.ie
Subject: ICM


Dear Colleague

Below.... Programme for the Nineteenth Irish Conference of Medievalists,
23-26 June, at St Kieran's College Kilkenny. Also attached are details =
of
the Summer School in Old Irish, to be held at the same venue, 13-22 =
June.=20
Best wishes

Dr Colm=E1n Etchingham

Dept of History
NUI Maynooth

NINETEENTH IRISH CONFERENCE OF MEDIEVALISTS PROGRAMME

THURSDAY 23 JUNE

12.00 -2.00 pm Registration

2.00 pm Formal Conference opening

Session A=20
2.15 pm C=F3il=EDn =D3 Drisceoil Recent work on St Canice's Cathedral, =
Kilkenny
2.45 pm John Bradley The layout of St John's Augustinian Priory, =
Kilkenny,
at the close of the Middle Ages
3.15 pm Peter Davey Manx ringforts: British or Irish?

Session B=20
2.15 pm Niamh Whitfield Finery in fact and fiction: an archaeologist =
looks
at descriptions of clothing and accessories in the early Irish tale =
Tocmarc
Becfola
3.15 pm Harriet Thomsett Re-assessing the poem of the Caillech B=E9rre

4.15 pm Tea/Coffee

Session A
4.45 pm Melanie Madox The paradigm of ciuitas in early Irish sources
5.15 pm Michael Gibbons The Viking longphort at Linn Duachaill: its =
location
and likely nature
5.45 pm Paula Geraghty Conservation and museums

Session B
4.45 pm Geraldine Parsons Acallam na Sen=F3rach, Dinnshenchas =C9renn =
and
dinnshenchas
5.15 pm Stuart Rutten Displacement and replacement: the Comrac Fir Diad
within and without T=E1in B=F3 C=FAailgne
5.45 pm Riita Latvio On the semantics of nemed

6.30 pm Reception=20

FRIDAY 24 JUNE
Session A=20
9.30 am James Fraser Cumm=E9ne Find and the Convention at Druimm Cete

10.00 am Roy Flechner Bishop Dag=E1n and the Gregorian mission
Session B
9.30 am Katja Ritari The representation of virtues in the earliest Lives =
of
Brigit
10.00 am Joseph Flahive Manann=E1n and the bards

11.00 am Tea/Coffee

11.30 am=20
Session A Graham Isaac The interpretation of the "Pictish" inscriptions: =
one
step forward and two steps back
Session B Donnchadh =D3 Corr=E1in The Council of Cashel, or how the =
Irish
bishops gave up

12.30 pm Lunch

Session A
2.00 pm Thomas Charles-Edwards Submission to an Irish over-king c. =
700-1210:
continuity and change=20
3.00 pm Nicholas Evans The chronology of Irish and Scottish history, =
431-730

Session B
2.00 pm Laura Peelen Vita theorica and vita actualis: indication of =
Irish
origin?
3.00 pm J=FCrgen Ziedler Further thoughts on the origins of ogam

4.00 pm Tea/Coffee

4.30 pm Catherine Swift Towns and troublemakers: what do we do with
Woodstown?

5.30 pm Recess

7.30 pm Tour of St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny

SATURDAY 25 JUNE
Session A=20
9.30 am Michael Brennan Searching for symmetry in the Ardagh Brooch
10.00 am Robert Stevick An Irish high cross and a La T=E8ne bronze disc

Session B=20
9.30 am Ian Beuermann Dublin, Argyle and Man: the Irish Sea triangle in =
the
1150s and 1160s
10.00 am Alex Woolf Two kingdoms or one? Northumbria and the U=ED =
=CDmair
imperium

11.00 am Tea/Coffee

11.30 am=20
Session A Simon Taylor Kirkness and the Rock of the Hibernians: a =
toponymic
tale from 11th-century Fife=20
Session B Ann Buckley Music for the liturgical veneration of Irish =
saints:
the current state of research=20

12.30pm Lunch

Session A
2.00 pm Pamela O'Neill When onomastics met archaeology: a tale of two =
Hinbas
3.00 pm Brian Lacey The battle of C=FAl Dreimne: a wholly speculative
re-interpretation

Session B
2.00 pm Colm=E1n Etchingham Clann Cholm=E1in propaganda in Cogad =
G=E1edel re
Gallaib?
3.00 pm Fiona Edmunds Early medieval connections between Whithorn, the
Solway region and Ireland

3.30 pm Tea/Coffee

4.00 pm ICM agm

7.30 ICM dinner


SUNDAY 26 JUNE 9.15 am Field trip to medieval Waterford


SUMMER SCHOOL FOR BEGINNERS IN OLD IRISH

13th June - 22nd June 2005
St Kieran's College Kilkenny

The aim of the summer school is to introduce students with little or no
previous knowledge of Old Irish to the basic grammatical structure of =
the
language and some essential vocabulary. It will also provide students =
with
an opportunity of translating a variety of Old Irish texts, =
concentrating on
those which have historical implications. Experience in learning at =
least
one language other than one's mother tongue would be helpful but is not
essential.

The course is designed around the Old Irish Workbook by E.G. Quin. =
Further
grammatical notes, texts for translation and vocabulary lists will be
provided to students on disk and they will have access to the computers
(including the Internet) in the library of the Kilkenny campus. Printing
costs will not be covered by the course but are minimal.

The teaching schedule for the ten days will be as follows:
9:30 - 10:30 - Class
10:30-11:00 - Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 Class
12:00 - 1:00 - Homework session in library - grammar exercises

1:00-2:30 - Lunch

2:30 - 3:30 - Class
3:30-4:00 - Coffee Break
4:00 - 5:00 - Class
5:00-6:00 - Homework session in library - translation exercises

Accommodation is provided at the campus in single rooms with communal
washing and toilet facilities. Breakfast and lunch as well as coffee =
breaks
are provided for those who have booked accommodation. Students will be
expected to find their own dinner in one of the multitude of eating =
places
in Kilkenny and maps and guidelines will be provided. (For those who are =
not
staying at the campus, coffee breaks are included in the 250 E fee.)

Cost of beginners course in Old Irish: 250 euros/ =A3180 sterling / $ =
330 USA
Cost of accommodation + meals: 250 euros /=A3180 /$330

Students wishing to register for the Summer School are asked to send =
cheques
to Dr Catherine Swift c/o Dept. of History, NUI Maynooth, Maynooth Co.
Kildare by the 23rd May 2005. Queries will be answered via the email
address: Catherine.Swift[at]may.ie=20

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News has reached us of a forthcoming book... Frank Molloy's biography of
the Irish Australian poet, Victor Daley, has just been published by Crossing
Press in Sydney. There aren't that many stand alone biographies of writers
who could be termed Irish Australian, so that in itself is worth noting.

Indeed, I think this is going to be one of the growth areas of Irish
Diaspora Studies - we need to engage with the works of writers and artists
who themselves engaged with their Irish heritage and background, and with
that Ireland of the mind that is such a problematic part of that
inheritance.

P.O'S.


The following is adapted from the blurb on the book:

Born and bred in rural Ireland, near the city of Armagh, Victor Daley was
English clerk, Australian tramp, 'Bulletin' journalist and satirist before
he turned out to be Australia's best selling serious poet by 1900. Like the
poems of the populist balladeers, 'Banjo' Paterson and Henry Lawson, his
best known pieces were regularly recited in pubs everywhere.

He wrote in narrative and lyric modes, in the tradition of the great
Romantic poets of the nineteenth century, and late in life was considered
Australia's leading exponent of the Celtic Twilight. Some of his topical
work still strikes a chord with Australians' anti-imperialist feelings.

For much of his life he was a popular figure around Sydney and Melbourne.
He followed a Bohemian lifestyle which in the end proved fatal. Fifty years
ago, a biography was considered 'long overdue'. Here it is: the poetry and
the life side by side for the first time.

Author: Frank Molloy
Title: Victor J. Daley: A Life
Publisher: Crossing Press
ISBN: 0 9578291 75
Price: 15 euros
Contact: sales[at]crossingpress.com.au

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I will be attending a conference in Manchester in mid-September and
because of my flight schedule I am available for a lecture or seminar on
September 14, 19 or 20. I know that is not during the normal academic
term , but thought I'd mention it to the list throw in case there is any
interest.

Bill

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

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In way of winding up - or reviving - the discussion. I want to thank
everyone who responded to my post some months back about the possibility
of a journal devoted to the Irish Diaspora. The enthusiasm with which
so many of you greeted the idea was encouraging. The challenges that
others brought up are quite real and I am investigating them to see just
how substantial they are. Several appear to be quite daunting. I still
think this is, on the whole, a good idea and would be good for Irish
Diaspora studies. Whether it is feasible in the current climate for
academic journals is another question entirely.

Additional comments are welcome - both on and off list. I will be at
the SSNCI Conference in Limerick and the Irish Australia Conference in
Cork in June, if anyone would like to pursue the discussion.

Bill

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

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Subject: Invitation to Book Launch at the Institute of Irish Studies

*** SINN F=C9IN AND THE SDLP Book Launch ***

The O'Brien Press are pleased to announce the publication of

SINN F=C9IN AND THE SDLP
From Alienation to Particpation

by Gerard Murray & Jonathon Tonge

April 2005

This book is a political history of the SDLP and Sinn F=E9in, from the =
onset
of =91the Troubles=92 in 1970 to the present day. It outlines the =
ideological
and electoral rivalry between the two parties and assesses the =
contribution
of both to the reshaping of modern nationalist politics in Northern
Ireland.The Anglo-Irish Agreement of November 1985 and the 1998 Good =
Friday
Agreement were a major coups for the SDLP over the Republican movement. =
It
was the SDLP=92s analysis of the Northern Ireland conflict that was =
accepted
by the British and Irish governments, along with the White House. Yet =
three
years after the Good Friday Agreement, Sinn F=E9in overtook the SDLP as =
the
largest nationalist party. What explains this dramatic reversal of =
fortunes?
Drawing on interviews with prominent Sinn F=E9in members (including =
Mitchell
McLaughlin, Pat Doherty and Alex Maskey), the authors examine the =
dynamics
of Republican politics since 1970, explaining why armed struggle was
replaced by electoral politics, and why Sinn F=E9in is likely to =
consolidate
its position as the primary representative of Northern Ireland=92s
nationalists. The book also explores the Republican balance sheet: What =
were
its gains and losses in the Good Friday Agreement? To what extent has =
Sinn
F=E9in maintained fidelity to Republican principles?

Gerard Murray is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Irish
Studies, Queen=92s University, Belfast, and author of John Hume and the =
SDLP:
Impact and Survival in Northern Ireland (1998).

Jonathan Tonge is Professor of Politics and Director of the Centre for =
Irish
Studies at the University of Salford. His previous books include =
Northern
Ireland: Conflict and Change (2002) and Peace or War? Understanding the
Peace Process in Northern Ireland (edited with Chris Gilligan, 1997). He =
has
recently completed three Economic and Social Research Council projects =
on
political parties in Northern Ireland.

To celebrate the publication, The O'Brien Press invites you to a launch =
of
the book on Tuesday 19th April at 5.30pm at:

The Institute of Irish Studies
Queen's University Belfast
53-67 University Road
Belfast BT7 1NF

Guest speaker: Eoin O'Broin, Director of European Affairs, Sinn F=E9in

RSVP Ruth Heneghan, The O'Brien Press
Tel: 353 1 492 3333; E-mail: ruth[at]obrien.ie

Best wishes
Catherine Boone
Administrator
Institute of Irish Studies
Queen's University Belfast
University Road
Belfast BT7 1NN
Tel: 44 (0) 28 9097 3386
Email: irish.studies[at]qub.ac.uk
Website: www.qub.ac.uk/iis

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Professor John Kelly
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IRELAND CANADA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
in partnership with
THE IRELAND FUND OF CANADA

Short term Visiting Scholarships 2005

*The Ireland Canada University Foundation, founded in 1994 by Dr. Craig
Dobbin from Newfoundland and Dr. Patrick Hillery, former President of
Ireland, has a programme to assist young Irish and Canadian scholars to make
short term visits to a university or institution in the other country in
order to support their research in a topic that relates to both countries.
The Foundation is generously sponsored by:

CHC Helicopter Corporation
GMP Griffiths McBurney
Ogilvy Renault
Scotiabank Group
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Scholarships are funded at $8,000 each
All information and application form at www.icuf.ie Foundation contact:
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Closing date for applications: May 31, 2005

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Forwarded on behalf of Nicholas Canny and Martha Shaughnessy...

Note especially Fellowship 2, To identify and study the endeavours of =
Irish planters on West Indies islands dominated by the English, the =
French and the Spanish.

P.O'S.


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From: martha shaughnessy [mailto:martha.shaughnessy[at]NUIGALWAY.IE]

Fellowships: Colonization And Globalization Project, National University =
of Ireland, Galway

PROJECT TITLE:

Colonization And Globalization, Circa 1500-Circa 1800=20

No. of Fellowships Available: 3
Duration: 3 Year=E2=80=99s each
Stipend: =E2=82=AC12,700 + Fees

Each successful candidate will proceed to a doctoral degree on one of =
the following topics: candidates should hold or be about to acquire a =
primary degree with at least second-class honours grade 1 and should =
have appropriate linguistic attainments. =20

(Fellowship 1) To study a range of European literatures and =
cartographies promoting and describing overseas enterprise.
(Fellowship 2) To identify and study the endeavours of Irish planters =
on West Indies islands dominated by the English, the French and the =
Spanish.
(Fellowship 3) A study of the inter-relationships between recruitment =
of white labour for European settlements overseas and military and naval =
recruitment within Europe, during these same centuries.=20

Contact: Professor Nicholas Canny, Centre for the Study of Human =
Settlement & Historical Change (T: 091 512323, E:
nicholas.canny[at]nuigalway.ie)

CLOSING DATE for all applications: MAY 20, 2005.

Curriculum Vitae should be sent by email or hardcopy to:

Ms. Martha Shaughnessy
Development Manager
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CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR IRISH STUDIES CONFERENCE - Maynooth June 22-25

ANNOUNCEMENT - Special Funding for the Maynooth Conference: The Ireland Fund
Scholars

Because of a most generous grant from the Ireland Fund of Canada, CAIS will
be able to offer $1250 scholarships to six graduate students from Canadian
universities presenting papers at the Conference. Those selected for the
scholarships will be designated "Ireland Fund Scholars," and identified as
such in the programme. Graduate students should indicate their interest in
the scholarships when they submit their abstracts to the conference.

More information can be obtained from CAIS President Jerry White at
jerry.white[at]ualberta.ca or 780.492.0121.

Note there will also be (limited) SSHRC funding to help members who attend
the AGM with their travel costs.

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no.4 Winter 2004 - Special Issue on Irish Drama
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The latest issue of the journal Modern Drama is a special edition on Irish
Drama.

Table of contents pasted below.

Full information is available from the journal website -
http://www.utpjournals.com/jour.ihtml?lp=md/md.html

Volume 47, no.4 Winter 2004
Guest Co-Editors:
Karen Fricker and Brian Singleton


Articles

Irish Theatre: Conditions of Criticism
Karen Fricker and Brian Singleton

Mirror up to Nurture: J. M. Synge and His Critics
Ben Levitas

Violence on the Abbey Theatre Stage: The National Project and the Critic;
Two Case Studies
Cathy Leeney

The Critical "Gap of the North": Nationalism, National Theatre, and the
North
Mark Phelan

Throwing Theory at Ireland? The Field Day Theatre Company and
Postcolonial Theatre Criticism
Shaun Richards

"Besides the Obvious": Postcolonial Criticism, Drama, and Civil
Society
Victor Merriman

"The Laughter Will Come of Itself. The Tears Are Inevitable": Martin
McDonagh and the Impact of Globalization on Irish Theatre Criticism
Patrick Lonergan

Irish Theatre Criticism: De-territorialisation and Integration
Clare Wallace

Irish Theatrical Celebrity and the Critical Subjugation of Difference
in the Work of Frank McGuinness
David Cregan

Wordmadeflesh: Writing the Body in Irish theatre
Bernadette Sweeney

Listening Differently: Johnny Hanrahan, Daphne Wright, and Croon
Jools Gilson-Ellis

Contributors

Index to Volume 45, 2002

Index to Volume 46, 2003

Index to Volume 47, 2004

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A backburner project of mine involves seeing if there are rewards to a
diaspora studies approach to very early Irish history and early Irish
studies... This involves much fun reading - like this latest issue of the
journal, Peritia,

In fact, of course, a diaspora approach is built in - and the early Ireland
specialists have even begun to use the word 'diaspora'.

So, the question might be put the other way round - at what point does a
diaspora approach start being phased out, so that we have to work to bring
it back in again?

P.O'S.


PERITIA -GALWAY THEN CORK THEN TURNHOUT- VOL 17/18; 2004 ISSN 0332-1592

pp. 1-39
The date and origin of Liber de ordine creaturarum Smyth, M.

pp. 40-60
The obscurantists and the sea-monster: reflections on the Hisperica famina
Carey, J.

pp. 61-109
Early Insular Latin poetry
Howlett, D.

pp. 110-120
Searching for St Benedict in the legacy of St Gregory the Great Clark, F.

pp. 121-143
The making of the Canons of Theodore
Flechner, R.

pp. 144-149
The prologue to the Collectio canonum hibernensis Howlett, D.

pp. 150-153
Numerical punctilio in Patrick's Confessio Howlett, D.

pp. 154-182
The composition of Adomnan's Vita Columbae Stansbury, M.

pp. 183-198
Adomnan, Cummene Ailbe, and the Picts
Fraser, J. E.

pp. 199-214
Iona and the kingship of Dal Riata in Adomnan's Vita Columbae Tanaka, M.

pp. 215-232
Diarmait sapientissimus: the career of Diarmait, dalta Daigre, abbot of Iona
Clancy, T. O.

pp. 233-255
The Vikings in Southern Ui Neill until 1014 Downham, C.

pp. 256-275
Vikings and saints-encounters vestan um haf Rekdal, J. E.

pp. 276-294
The expulsion of the Ostmen, 1169-71: the documentary evidence Purcell, E.

pp. 295-337
The genealogical section of the Psalter of Cashel Jaski, B.

pp. 338-356
Co nomad n-o: an early Irish socio-legal timescale Baumgarten, R.

pp. 357-381
Royal succession in earlier medieval Ireland: the fiction of tanistry
McGowan, M.

pp. 382-393
The marriage of Childeric II and Bilichild in the context of the Grimoald
coup Hofman, J.

pp. 394-432
The alternation of the kingship of Tara 734-944 Warntjes, I.

pp. 433-470
Scribe as artist, not monk: the canon tables of Aileran `the Wise' and the
Book of Kells Lean, D. M.

pp. 471-494
The homily on the epiphany in the Catechesis cracouiensis Krasnodebska-D
Aughton, M.

pp. 495-502
Acorns, the plague, and the `Iona Chronicle'
Woods, D.

pp. 503-505
On the Ballach Damnatan
Bourke, C.

pp. 505-506
In gentibus dispersisti nos: the British diaspora in Patrick and Gildas
Young, S.

p. 507
Old Irish cetemnide, Latin centumgeminus Holford-Strevens, L.

pp. 507-508
A Briton in twelfth-century Santiago de Compostela Young, S.

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I am teaching a course on the Irish in Britain since 1815 through the
Cooperative Center for Study Abroad from Dec. 26, 2005 to January 8,
2006. Graduate and undergraduate credit is available.

I have a website, still being developed, for the course.
http://campus.murraystate.edu/academic/faculty/Bill.mulligan/Mulligan_-_
London-Dublin_2005.html

Tentative plans include trips to Liverpool, the London Irish Centre, and
the ferry port at Dun Laoghaire. If there is any interest, or
questions, feel free to contact me.


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

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Louise Ryan
l.ryan[at]mdx.ac.uk
and Mary Tilki


We are currently preparing a proposal for an edited book on the health
of Irish migrants in Britain.

We would particularly welcome abstracts
for chapters on the following topics:
Young migrants, men, sexuality, travellers, drugs, but any topic will be
considered provided it is research-based and addresses health issues.

Please send abstracts of 200 words to:
Louise Ryan and Mary Tilki at Middlesex University L.ryan[at]mdx.ac.uk To
be received by Friday 6 May.

Dr. Louise Ryan, Social Policy Research Centre, Roberts Building,
Middlesex University, Enfield Campus, EN3 4SA, l.ryan[at]mdx.ac.uk

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Subject: 2004 Roger McHugh Prize

IR-D Listers,

The editors of New Hibernia Review are pleased to announce the Roger =
McHugh
Prize for the outstanding learned essay to have appeared in the past =
year's
volume. The winning article is:=20

"Journey After My Own Heart": Lord Edward FitzGerald in America, =
1788-1790
Volume 8:2 (Summer, 2004) by Daniel Gahan of the University of =
Evansville

The prize is named for the late Roger McHugh, first professor of =
Anglo-Irish
Literature at University College, Dublin (UCD), and includes a $300 cash
award. It is funded in part by the office of Dr. Hugh Brady, president =
of
UCD, and by the generosity of Dr. Maureen Murphy of Hofstra University. =


Previous winners of the Roger McHugh Award have been:

1. "From the Beltway to Belfast: The Clinton Administration,
Sinn F=E9in, and the Northern Ireland Peace Process" by Andrew J. =
Wilson,
Loyola University- Chicago, volume 1:3 (Autumn, 1997).

2. "'Letter by Strange Letter': Yeats, Heaney, and the Aura of
the Book" by Rand Brandes, Lenoir-Rhyne College, volume 2:2 (Summer, =
1998=20

3. "Stained Glass and Censorship: The Suppression of Harry
Clarke's Geneva Window, 1931" by Andrew Haggerty, University of Miami,
volume 3:4 (Winter, 1999)=20

4. "Edward Martyn and the Founding of Dublin's Palestrina
Choir" by J.C.M. Nolan, British Association of Irish Studies, volume 4:1
(Spring, 2000)=20

5. "Homicide in Late-Victorian Ireland and Scotland" by Carolyn
A. Conley, University of Alabama - Birmingham, volume 5:3 (Autumn, 2001)

6. "The Rhetoric and Reality of Irish Neutrality" by Thomas E.
Hachey, Boston College, volume 6:4 (Winter, 2002)

7. "Reading Publics, Theater Audiences, and the Little
Magazines of the Abbey Theatre" by Paige Reynolds, College of the Holy
Cross, volume 7:4 (Winter, 2003)

We're delighted to offer this recognition to our contributors, to all of
whom we extend our gratitude.=20

Jim Rogers
Managing Editor=20

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April 21, 2005
Daley Remembered as Last of the Big-City Bosses
By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM

CHICAGO, April 20 - Outside Chicago, the image of Mayor Richard J. =

Daley that comes to mind is one of a flushed, jowly old man on the floor =
of
the Democratic National Convention in 1968, shaking his finger and =
cursing
at the rostrum while his police force manhandled demonstrators on the
streets.

But here, on the 50th anniversary of his first swearing-in as =
mayor,
many remember him as a powerful leader who single-handedly created, as =
the
slogan went, "the city that works."

They see his legacy as the modern Chicago with the towering
skyscrapers and the Miracle Mile, with the airport that is one of the
busiest in the world, with the restored waterfront, with wide =
expressways,
clean streets and compact neighborhoods, and with a city spirit that =
hardly
exists elsewhere.

And they recall him as the devoted father whose eldest son, =
Richard M.

Daley, has been mayor since 1989, sits in his father's old office on the
fifth floor of City Hall and runs the city with more of a velvet glove =
but
with no less skill than his father had.

It was they - the late mayor's family and friends, his political
sidekicks and prot=E9g=E9s, historians and journalists who have a =
favorable view
of him - who gathered to celebrate the anniversary of his swearing-in =
and to
tell stories about Daley, the last of the big-city bosses and one of the
most powerful local officials in American history, who was 74 when he =
died
in office in 1976. They met and spoke at the Chicago Historical Society =
on
Tuesday night, at a daylong symposium on Wednesday at the University of
Illinois-Chicago and at a banquet on Wednesday night.

There were occasional disparaging words - a fleeting mention of =
the
political graft that the mayor had tolerated, a little talk about how =
his
views on social issues were behind the times.

But those blemishes were quickly covered, and people who saw Daley =
as
an autocrat who controlled a corrupt political system, thwarted =
democracy
and left a city as racially divided as any in the country were excluded =
from
the week's activities and would have to hold their breaths for another
occasion.

Often, said the historian Michael Beschloss, a Chicago native, it
takes 30 years or so of hindsight to judge what is important about a =
public
figure. It can now be seen, Mr. Beschloss said, that Daley's =
shortcomings
were transient and that his main legacy is that he was "the pre-eminent
mayor of the 20th century."

Elizabeth Taylor, who with Adam Cohen wrote "American Pharaoh," =
the
biography of Daley published in 2000, said, "Because of Mayor Daley, =
Chicago
did not become a Detroit or a Cleveland."

When those cities and others were going under in the 1960's and
1970's, said Robert Remini, emeritus professor of history at the =
University
of Illinois-Chicago, "Chicago always had a double-A bond rating."

What is now seen as Daley's greatest public works disaster, the
building of high-rise public housing complexes that turned into =
dangerous,
teeming slums and the sites of flaming urban riots, was the result, the
panelists agreed, of the best motives.

The millions of poor blacks who migrated to Chicago from the South
after World War II were living in squalor, and housing experts at the =
time,
the panelists said, told the mayor that the best solution was to =
bulldoze
the shacks and erect high-rise buildings.

The consensus, this anniversary week, was that Daley's biggest =
mistake
was his mishandling of the 1968 convention, but there was general =
agreement
with former Vice President Walter F. Mondale, who said, "People were so
angry, so resentful of the establishment, there was nothing he could =
do."

But for all the serious talk, it was the stories of Daley's
contemporaries that carried the day. Newton N. Minow, the Chicago lawyer =
who
was the mayor's ally and adviser, told how Daley, in one fell swoop, =
changed
dozens of laws and regulations that were stifling the growth of the =
Adler
Planetarium here, and allowed it to become one of the most prominent in =
the
world.

Former Senator Adlai E. Stevenson III described how Daley showed =
up
uninvited at his home in Libertyville, Ill., when Mr. Stevenson and =
other
political reformers were plotting ways to strangle the Daley machine.

Former Representative Dan Rostenkowski, Daley's man in Congress =
for
years, recalled attending a meeting in the Oval Office in 1966 when =
Daley
implored President Lyndon Johnson to "get out of Vietnam." After the
meeting, Mr. Rostenkowski said, Daley, ever loyal, went outside and told =
the
press he supported the president on Vietnam.

"He respected the presidency," Mr. Rostenkowski said.

There was much talk of how Daley was responsible for John F. =
Kennedy's
carrying Illinois, the crucial swing state, in the 1960 presidential
election. Mr. Rostenkowski said it was "a bunch of baloney" that, as =
legend
has it, the mayor stole the election for Kennedy with votes from the
graveyard.

But the politicians and historians here agreed that the torchlight
parade for Kennedy that the mayor led down Michigan Avenue four days =
before
the election turned the tide in Kennedy's favor.

After the election, Mr. Rostenkowski recalled, Daley was "so proud =
the
buttons popped off his shirt that John F. Kennedy, an Irish Catholic, =
was
president of the United States."

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