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This article is actually of greater use and interest that the Abstract might
suggest. There are useful references for the history of Irish language
learning in Belfast, and the political dimensions are not glossed over but
are handled sensitively...

P.O'S.


publication
Educational Research

publisher
Brunner Routledge - Part of Taylor & Francis

year - volume - issue - page
2005 - 47 - 2 - 191

pages
191



article

Motivation and the adult Irish language learner

Wright, Margaret - McGrory, Orla


abstract

What motivates adult language learners in the city of Belfast to enrol and
remain in an Irish class in the first years of the twenty-first century is
the subject of the research study reported here. The research is placed
within the context of the long history of interest in Irish revival in the
city as far back as the eighteenth century and is related to relevant
literature on motivation and language learning. The paper provides results
from quantitative data collected by means of questionnaires issued to
learners throughout the city. An overwhelming interest in culture is what
primarily motivates these learners to enrol in an Irish class. Learners are
also motivated by a strong sense of identity and by a felt obligation to
help preserve the language. The paper illuminates issues of language
restoration and the links between identity and language preservation. The
research reported here contributes to the literatures on motivation, on
adult learning and on language survival.

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Subject: AN SIONNACH: NEW IRISH STUDIES JOURNAL, CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY =
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David Gardiner, editor of An Sionnach, editor has asked me to forward =
this
note to the the Diaspora listers (who, I have assured him, are the true
cognoscenti of Irish Studies)

James Rogers=20

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UNIVERSITY PRESS


Dear Jim,

Thanks for forwarding the list queries. We're deep into Volume 1.2 right =
now
which will feature, among others, work from Joep Leersen. We were all
delighted to see the very kind review our inaugural issue which featured
James Liddy, John F. Deane, our arts editor S=EDghle Bhreathnach-Lynch, =
Thomas
Dillon Redshaw, Eamonn Wall, Brian Arkins, and others. The remaining
(non-figurehead) editors are Profs. Nicholas Allen, Kathryn Conrad, =
Gerald
Dawe, John F. Deane, Michael Patrick Gillespie, Paul Kilcullen, Thomas
Dillon Redshaw, and Eamonn Wall.

As we were fortunate enough to have been accepted by EBSCOHost even =
before
we went to Press in April, we had to pulled down our initial website as =
we
worked out contractual agreements regarding full-text access to our =
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through their library databases.=20

All interested contributors and readers may contact me, or submit =
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those
who assisted with our launch at Notre Dame. =20

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Second Call for Papers


The fifth conference of EFACIS - European Federation of Associations and
Centres of Irish Studies 8-10 December 2005 at Gothenburg University, =
Sweden


PLACE AND MEMORY IN THE NEW IRELAND
Irish studies are to a large extent defined by the country=92s geography
and/or history. Place and memory are thus dimensions that have always =
been
of specific importance in an Irish context. What role do these =
dimensions
play in the new paradigm of Irish society in its direction towards a
postnational state? Contributions on traditional areas of politics, =
social
conditions, history, music, theatre, film, other media and literature as
well as new perspectives on them are invited.

GUEST SPEAKERS include:

Patricia Coughlan (literary scholar)
Brian Graham (historical geographer)
Deirdre Madden (writer)
Kerby Miller (historian)

Abstracts of no more than 200 words for 20-minute papers should be =
submitted
no later than 1 August 2005.

All correspondence should be addressed to Britta Olinder, English
Department, G=F6teborg University, Box 200, SE-405 30 G=F6teborg=20

Tel.: +46 (0)31 773 43 75
Fax: +46 (0)31 773 47 26
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Forwarded on behalf of Padraig Kirwan...

AFFECTING 'IRISHNESS':
MUTABILITY, NATIONALITY & WRITING 'THE GREEN'

The aim of this interdisciplinary conference in the Humanities is to
interrogate notions of Irishness. This examination will question
Irishness as it is expressed within contemporary literary, cultural and
academic contexts. Those contexts will include national and
international discursive arenas, particularly the Irish and American
academies.

Recent postcolonial re-imaginings of Ireland have initiated the
consideration of images of Irish nationality that were formed beyond
the parameters of the island itself. In these discursive spaces,
representations of Irish identity are often discussed as being liminal,
hybrid and neutral. The focus of this conference is to interrogate and
question these representations, as well as the discourses to which they
give rise. As a means to do so, the conference will investigate
contemporary notions of Irishness, asking whether the indeterminacy
that currently surrounds Irish national and cultural identity is
limiting and/or limited. Affecting 'Irishness' intends to re-imagine
the possibilities surrounding Irishness by re-appraising the many
attributions accorded to Irish distinctiveness, by re-assessing
international conversations concerning Irish cultural presences, and by
re-asserting indigenous presence within the contemporary context.

We welcome papers and/or panel proposals that examine all aspects of
identity, culture and Diaspora as they inform the dialogue surrounding
Irishness. The following areas of study, or any related areas, shall be
considered:

- Twenty-first century Irishness
- Irish-American Identities
- Pandemic Irishness
- Cultural constructions of race and nationality
- Images of the Diaspora
- Representations of Irishness: Past/Present/Future
- Irish notions of Place and Identity in a New World Order
- Post-colonial Theory and Irishness
- Irishness and the Body

Papers should be of 20 minutes duration. Abstracts should not be of
more than 200 words to reach us by August 31, 2005. Please include full
postal and email addresses. The conference will take place January 13 &
14 2006 in University of Dublin, Trinity College.
Proposals should be addressed to:

Dr Jim Byrne c/o School of English,
Dr Padraig Kirwan John Henry Newman Building,
Dr Michael O'Sullivan University College Dublin,
Belfield,
Dublin 4, Ireland

Electronic Submissions:

padraig.kirwan_at_ucd.ie, nyhanbyrne_at_yahoo.com,
michaelosullivans_at_yahoo.com

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Hello Patrick - Not sure if this has made it on to the IR-D list; from
yesterday's Irish Times,

Paul

President calls on emigrants to return home

Conor O'Clery in Seattle



"We need immigrants. We need emigrants to return. Anybody who is thinking
of coming back, we need you." This was the plea made by President Mary
McAleese to a business breakfast for Irish and US executives in Seattle
yesterday morning.

Because of the fast growth of the Irish economy, the President said, "more
people from the United States are emigrating to Ireland than emigrating from
Ireland to the United States, for the first time in our history.

"Ireland is one of the few countries in the EU that said it would
immediately take new workers" from the 10 new member states, Mrs McAleese
said.

The President is leading a trade mission to the North West of the US which
is emphasising the need to attract Irish emigrants back to Ireland,
especially in the high tech industries typical of Seattle, to sustain the
country's high growth rate.

"We're changing, becoming a multicultural country," she said, noting that
there were children in Irish school classes from countries as diverse as
Estonia and Nigeria.

"We hope it will make a rich mix for the future, this is an enriching
process, not a losing process."

In a speech to students at the University of Washington on Tuesday evening,
Mrs McAleese attributed the high growth rate in Ireland to EU membership and
US investment.

Ireland was a "basket-case" before joining the EU, she said, but was now a
"showcase of the Union's huge potential.

Referring to strains in Europe-US relations over Iraq and other issues, Mrs
McAleese said "those who predict the demise of the co-operative and
collaberative relationship between Europe and America should look more
closely at what binds us together rather than what separates us."

Both were robust and opinionated centres of democratic gravity.

"In democracies based on free speech we expect noise and noise makes news,
but we are more than strangers who happen to live side by side, we are
family and friends

The Dublin based software firm Arantech, one of 29 companies on the
Enterprise Ireland trade mission headed by Mrs McAleese, announced in
Seattle that it had secured a $10 million round of financing to expand
further into the global market with an office in Boston. Arantech provides
management software for mobile phones.

In other agreements, Aircraft Management Technologies of Dublin announced a
collaboration with Lean Aerospace Initiative of the US on facilitating
airline operations, and Irish company Valista said it was joining IBM to
deliver on-demand solutions for telecommunications customers.

Acquis a leading company in spatial data editing announced that a unit of
the Michael Baker Corporation had chosen it as a spatial date editor for a
maping project in West Virginia.

President McAleese travels to Canada today for a two-day visit to Vancouver.

C The Irish Times

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For information...

P.O'S.


publication
Historical Journal - London

publisher
Cambridge University Press

year - volume - issue - page
2005 - 48 - 1 - 101

article

THE POLITICS OF PROTESTANT STREET PREACHING IN 1890s IRELAND

KELLY, MATTHEW

table of content - full text

abstract

During the 1890s evangelical Protestants took to preaching on the streets in
southern Irish towns and cities. They provoked an angry response, with large
Catholic crowds gathering to protest at their activities. This created a
difficult situation for the authorities. Obliged, on the one hand, to
protect the rights and liberties of the preachers, they also looked to
nurture behaviour appropriate to the sectarian realities in Ireland. At
stake was the extent to which Ireland could be treated as an
undifferentiated part of the United Kingdom, with W. E. H. Lecky
increasingly recognizing the need for a different legal basis in Ireland.
These events formed part of the wider evolution of 'constructive unionism'.
More broadly, respectable Irish Protestant and Catholic disapproval of
preachers and the 'mob' revealed the way in which class attitudes cut across
sectarian identities, suggesting that the political dividends paid the wider
unionist movement by this exposure of the apparent realities of 'Rome rule'
were little valued in the locale. Similarly, interventions by home rule
politicians reinforced the sense that conciliating British public opinion
was a central concern. Here was an example of how locally orientated
sectarianism helped shape national political agendas.

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Another conference on the Atlantic World. The list of speakers includes
several speaking on Scots, but non specifically on the Irish.

Colston Research Society Symposium
Supported by Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts
(BIRTHA)

Pioneers, Adventurers, and the Creation of the 'Atlantic World' an
interdisciplinary conference on the emergence of the 'Atlantic World'

Organised by the Departments of Hispanic, Portuguese, and Latin American
Studies, and Archaeology and Anthropology

University of Bristol
23rd-25th September 2005

For more details see:
http://www.bris.ac.uk/arts/birtha/conferences/pioneers.html

Registration and other enquiries to:
Dr Mark Horton - Mark.Horton[at]bristol.ac.uk
Dr Caroline Williams - Caroline.Williams[at]bristol.ac.uk


Bill

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

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For information.

Several of the speakers will address topics of potential interest to the
list.

CONSECRATED WOMEN:
TOWARDS A HISTORY OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND
September 16-17 2005, Cambridge

in the Divinity Faculty, Cambridge University and Margaret Beaufort
Institute

supported by the Economic History Society and the Royal Historical
Society

Exploring the history of consecrated women from medieval to modern times
papers will focus on four themes:
material culture in the convent
missionary ministry
oral history methodology
the authorial voice of consecrated women

Guest speakers: Dr Barbra Mann Wall (Purdue University) and Dr Ann
Matthews (University of Ireland, Maynooth)

Liz Jacobs
Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology
12 Grange Road
Cambridge CB3 9DU
(+44) 01223 741766

Email: ecj27[at]cam.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www.margaretbeaufort.cam.ac.uk

Dr Andrea Knox, ( University of Northumbria )
Mary Magdelene and La Divina Pastora: Irish Migrant Nuns in early modern
Spain and their art collections

Elaine McDonald IBVM (Mater Dei, Dublin City University )
Those dark days: the letters of Mother Michael Corcoran (1900-1913) on
the subject of the union of Mary Ward's Institute

Dr Ann Matthews ( University of Ireland , Maynooth)
The Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary and their work with
unwed mothers in England and Ireland .

Dr Yvonne McKenna ( university of Limerick )
Putting theory into practice: the experience of Irish sisters in England
and India

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

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Piaras--

No, the Irish Farmer's Journal does not make it to Murray, KY to my
knowledge -- although I don't think it is due to our being especially
cosmopolitan, here. It would probably do well on the news stand - if we
had one.

These numbers are startling - even without comparing them with US - and
clearly require some careful consideration. Simple space to house
people has got to become an issue fairly soon, if not already. The lack
of any coherent policy or overall plan will surely make it worse.
Increasing population does create jobs, etc., but surely there is a
limit or a ceiling.

I hope we can get together when I am in Ireland in June.

Bill

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

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The following item has been drawn to our attention.

I suppose it is another example of that peculiar privileged position that
Irish literature and writing has in the world - that the first Aspen
Literary Festival with a 'global focus' should focus on Ireland.

P.O'S.


Aspen Summer Words

LITERARY FESTIVAL

Sit back, relax and travel the world of words while comfortably cruising at
8,000 feet in breathtaking Aspen, Colorado. Led by your literary tour guides
- some of today's most gifted and engaging authors, editors, agents and
publishing insiders - we will explore new cultures through the binoculars of
literature.

A book lover's paradise awaits. Your afternoons and evenings will be filled
with author readings and talks, interviews and Q&As, publishing industry
panels, private consultations, awards, and social gatherings, leaving your
mornings free for independent pursuits or writing workshops.

Since 1976 our conference has been the ideal venue for anyone with a passion
for words. This year, with the support of the Bedell World Citizenship Fund,
the Literary Festival embraces a global focus, embarking on a new cultural
itinerary annually. In 2005, readers and writers will delight as we discover
the vast literary heritage of Ireland.
As go brach libh! (Gaelic for Off you go!)

(The Irish authors who are headlining include Edna O'Brien, Paul Muldoon,
Patrick McCabe, Colum McCann, Frank McCourt, Polly Devlin, Hugo Hamilton,
Jamie O'Neill, Nuala O'Faolain, and Gerard Donovan. The first annual Aspen
Prize for Literature is being presented to Edna O'Brien (fiction) and Paul
Muldoon (poetry).)

For more information check the website:
http://www.aspenwriters.org/festival.html

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The following item has been drawn to our attention.

I have been making a quiet survey of the types of explanation offered for
the Republic of Ireland's recent economic success. Broadly - and obviously
- the explanations offered tends to be shaped by various political agendas
and views, and often by the perceived views of the explanation's recipients.

Ireland's investment in education is often unremarked in these explanations
- or subsumed into an abstraction, 'human capital'. In fact, that
investment was often very brave, with no obvious immediate economic or
political rewards - remember 'educate to emigrate'? This Seattle Times
comment stresses the importance of education - 'The U.S. dawdles, hesitates
and meanders at its own peril. A failure to nurture and promote education is
a mistake others are waiting to exploit.'

P.O'S.



Seattle Times Editorial.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Eyeing a smiling Irish economy
Full story:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/2002289909_irished27
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Last year, President Mary McAleese of Ireland won a second, seven-year term
without opposition. It is easy to see why. Her nation could hardly have a
better advocate or more energetic sales rep.

McAleese is a powerful spokesperson for the role of education in redeeming a
recumbent economy and self-absorbed culture from generations of stagnation.
In a meeting with The Seattle Times editorial board Wednesday, she traced
the birth of modern Ireland to the adoption of free, secondary education a
scant 36 years ago.

Further, the schooling was rigorously focused on math and science as part of
a broad, national effort to retrain and retool its work force. An
agricultural economy of barely a generation ago is now a center of
information technology, aerospace, communications and financial services.

Last year, Ireland's population topped 4 million for the first time since
1871. For too long, a leading Irish export was its young people, who took
their talents and futures elsewhere.

Ireland's dramatic reversal of fortunes has led to a net inward migration
and helped showcase the European Union's huge potential, as McAleese noted
in a speech at the University of Washington:

"Our future is linked to the future of half a billion men and women from
Estonia in the Baltic to Malta in the Mediterranean and we are part of an
extraordinary adventure in democratic partnership that some might see as
nothing short of miraculous."

Ireland's success was fueled in part by U.S. investment that found an open,
willing partner. That working relationship, which includes 1,200 Microsoft
employees, has made the isle a leading exporter on a per-capita basis.

Those early U.S. investors nurtured an entrepreneurial class that now
invests in this country, and employs 65,000 American workers. The Irish are
on a real-estate buying spree across Europe.

McAleese, a former lawyer, journalist and academic before she entered
politics, was on a trade mission that included Michael Ahern, minister for
trade; Noel Fahey, ambassador of Ireland to the U.S.; and Donal Denham,
consul general of Ireland. More than two dozen high-tech companies were
represented as well.

The underlying message of this top-level delegation and the energy of
McAleese's presentation was simply, game on. Ireland plays at the
championship level.

The U.S. dawdles, hesitates and meanders at its own peril. A failure to
nurture and promote education is a mistake others are waiting to exploit.

Ireland's success stands as both a tribute to hard work and dedication, and
as fair warning about insularity and, worse, smug complacency.

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Interacting sojourners: A study of students studying abroad
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I thought that this article might be of interest, especially to colleagues
who offer or plan to offer a 'study abroad' programme in Ireland. There is
oddly little research on these study abroad programmes. And, at the
immediate level, we have here comments by US students on their perceptions
and experience of Irish ways.

Further - and in the background - there is the oft repeated observation that
the sojourner or the migrant must act like an ethnographer or anthropologist
in the new land, observing and learning how to use this new knowledge. The
source for that observation is most probably J. P. Spradley - and Spradley
appears here as a source.

Usual between the lines conditions apply here.

P.O'S.


The Social Science Journal
Volume 42, Issue 2 , 2005, Pages 313-321


Interacting sojourners: A study of students studying abroad

Crolyn S. Langleya and Jeffrey R. Breeseb, Corresponding Author Contact
Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author

aSaint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN, USA
bUniversity of Tampa, Tampa, FL, USA

Available online 24 May 2005.


Abstract

This research note describes the out-of-class experiences of students who
took part in a yearlong study-abroad program in Maynooth, Ireland. The study
examines how the program influenced students' desire to become involved in
out-of-class activities, how out-of-class experiences fostered students'
learning of the Irish culture, and how the experiences influenced students'
attitudes toward cultures other than their own. The study employed a
descriptive qualitative approach using both long interviews and focus groups
for gathering data. Results of the study suggest that the students used
ethnographic discovery methods, as demonstrated through Spradley's
[Spradley, J. P. (1980). Participant observation. New York: Holt, Rinehart,
and Winston] means-end domain of semantic relationships.

Article Outline

1. Introduction
2. Theory
3. Method
4. Results
4.1. Focus Groups, 1997-1998 sojourners
4.2. Interviews, 1998-1999 sojourners
5. Discussion
References

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The following information about an article has fallen into our nets. The
article does not seem to have an Abstract, and I do not have access to it.

Stage-Irish, or the National in Irish Opera, 1780-1925
Author: Klein, Axel
Source: Opera Quarterly, 2005, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 27-67(41)
Publisher: Oxford University Press

The name of Axel Klein is familiar because he is one of the co-editors of a
significant book...

Irish Music in the Twentieth Century
March 2003
Four Courts Press
GARETH COX & AXEL KLEIN editors

There is another Axel Klein article, freely available at

http://www.cmc.ie/articles/article851.html
Axel Klein
"The distant music mournfully murmereth..."
The Influence of James Joyce on Irish Composers

P.O'S.

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Forwarded on behalf of IASIL.

P.O'S.

Subject: IASIL Debrecen Proceedings Available

http://www.iasil.org/conferences/debrecen/index.html

Selected proceedings from the 2003 conference are now available for =
purchase
from the conference organisers. You can download an order form in Word
format by clicking on this link:
http://www.iasil.org/downloads/debrecenorderform.doc

Please support IASIL conferences by purchasing the proceedings, and by
encouraging colleagues and librarians to do so as well.=20

Details of all other IASIL Conferences may be found on
http://www.iasil.org/conferences/

Papers included in the 2003 proceedings are:

Anthony Roche
Synge, Brecht, and the Hiberno-German Connection

Joan FitzPatrick Dean
Bringing the Abbey into Contact: The Ibsenite Theatre of Ireland

Heinz Kosok
Translation - Adaptation - Translocation - Acculturation - =
Appropriation:
Contemporary Irish Playwrights and Continental Drama

Peter Harris
Sex and Violence: The Shift from Synge to McDonagh

Michal Lachman
=91From Both Sides of the Irish Sea=92: The Grotesque, Parody, and =
Satire in
Martin McDonagh=92s The Leenane Trilogy

John L. Murphy
Nem arr=F3l hajnallik: Searching for Dawn in Shyllag and Treehouses

Frank Molloy
The Director versus the Playwright: Samuel Beckett goes =93Down Under=94

Chiaki Kojima
J. M. Synge and Kan Kikuchi: From Irish Drama to Japanese New Drama


Carla de Petris
Desmond O=92Grady: The Wandering Celt=85in Search of Europe

Istv=E1n R=E1cz
Heaneys of the Mind

John Montague
=93A Holy Show=94

P=E9ter Dolmanyos
Journeys of John Montague

Patricia A. Lynch
The Stylistics of Time and Tense in John Montague=92s =93Home Again=94

Yoko Chiba
W. B. Yeats=92s Occultism as a Symbolic Link to Other Cultures


Daithi OhOgan
Poetry in Social Life: Survival in Ireland of Old European Ideas

Robert Tracy
Re-inventing St Patrick: the Politics and Poetics of Vita ripartita

Irene Lucchitti
Tom=E1s =D3 Crohan: In Contact with the Ancients

Norman Vance
Dark and Bright Fathers: Tracing Intellectual Aristocracy in Ireland

M=E1ir=EDn Nic Eoin
=91Severed heads and grafted tongues=92: The Language Question in Modern =
and
Contemporary Writing in Irish

Julie-Ann Robson
=91The Time of Opening Manhood=92: Mahaffy, Wilde, and Pater

Giovanna Tallone
Elsewhere is a Negative Mirror: the =93Sally Gap=94 Stories of =C9il=EDs =
N=ED Dhuibhne
and Mary Lavin


Maureen Murphy
The Flowering of Field Day: Women=92s Writing and the Wild Geese

Borb=E1la Farag=F3
=91The Meeting of Two Tidal Roads=92: Tradition and Identity in Medbh
McGuckian=92s The Face of the Earth and Eil=E9an N=ED Chuillean=E1in=92s =
The Girl Who
Married the Reindeer

Laura P. Z. Izarra
Locations and Identities in Irish Diasporic Narratives

Patricia Coughlan
Irish Literature and Feminism in Postmodernity


Making Contact

Peter Kuch
Seumas O=92Sullivan - Getting into and Out of Contact

Malcolm Ballin
Contacting Europe: Ireland To-day: 1936-3

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Dr Patrick Lonergan
Room 514
English Department
NUI Galway
Co Galway
Ireland

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My thanks to Bill Mulligan, who has been acting as Irish Diaspora list
moderator for the past few weeks...

Bill Mulligan is now free to go on his travels- which will take him to,
oooh, all sorts of exciting places...

Whilst Bill has been acting as Moderator I have found myself acting as Third
Man - this is a cricketing reference, not a Graham Greene reference...
Cricketers should now explain to non-cricketers... So, Third Man, or
perhaps Fine Leg, me...

For - Bill and I have noticed - IR-D members still send to me personally
items really meant for IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK.

Please - if you are quite sure that an item is meant for IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
and onward distribution to the IR-D list - then send it to
IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK.

Get in the habit...

Paddy


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I have not yet seen the paper version of the latest ISR. But, =
evidently,
stuff of interest tospecific IR-D members here - Glasgow Celtic, =
tourism,
Carleton, Yeats as a dramaturge...

P.O'S.


Irish Studies Review =09
Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
Issue: Volume 13, Number 2 / May, 2005

An Identity of Two Halves?: Glasgow Celtic Supporters, Identity, and
Scottish Society pp. 139 - 150
David McMenemy and Alan Poulter
=09
=20
FRENCH TOURIST IMAGES OF IRELAND ANDL'IMAGINAIRE IRLANDAIS pp. 151 -
162
Geraldine Sheridan and Sin=E9ad O'Leary
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=20
Rednecks and Southsiders Need Not Apply: Subalternity and soul in Roddy
Doyle's The Commitments pp. 163 - 173
Lisa McGonigle
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Making it National; Or, the Art of the Tale: Correspondence between =
William
Carleton and his Publisher pp. 175 - 187
Jackie Turton
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Slippery Sam and Tomtinker Tim: Beckett and MacGreevy's Urban Poetics =
pp.
189 - 202
David Wheatley
=09

Turning and Turning in the Narrowing Gyre: The shaping of W. B. Yeats's
dramaturgy and its sense of Irish performance history pp. 203 - 220
Alan J. Fletcher
=09
=20
Twilight Zones: On the Holocaust and poetic remembering. An interview =
with
Gerald Dawe pp. 221 - 226
Katrina Goldstone and Gerald Dawe
=09
Review Article pp. 227 - 232
Matthew Campbell
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Reviews pp. 233 - 276
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SUMMER...

As Bill Mulligan sets off on his travels...

And...

As the (northern hemisphere's) summer holiday period begins, please do not
make problems for us over the holiday. We have decreasing patience with
people who do not properly manage their email accounts and addresses.

Remember that you can easily manage your membership of IR-D via the Jiscmail
Web interface.

Jiscmail knows you by your email address.

For those wanting to use the Web interface...

Go to...

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/

On the left hand side you can click on
Register Password
And go to the Register Password screen.

Follow the instructions there. Put in your email address, the email address
by which you are known to the IR-D list.
Choose your Password

Your chosen Password is then confirmed by email in the usual way.

When you have registered your Password and received confirmation by email
you can go BACK to Jiscmail's web site, and, again on the left hand side,
you can click on Subscriber's Corner and get to a new screen. There, using
your email address and your Password, you can enter your very own
Subscriber's Corner, and set up various IR-D list options...

You can suspend your membership for a time, and so on...

Such changes can also be done by email - see the instructions in the
Jiscmail Welcome email...

P.O'S.


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I thought it worth sharing this review with the IR-D list.

There is a further review of the same volume at...
http://www.csaa.ca/BookReview/Reviews/200505MESSAMORE.htm

This is the book of the 1998 Migration Conference at the Centre of Canadian
Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

The chapter of specific interest to Irish Diaspora Studies is "Irish
Emigration to Canada in the 1950s", by Tracey Connolly, University College
Cork.

P.O'S.

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H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by H-Canada[at]h-net.msu.edu (March, 2005)

Barbara J. Messamore, ed. _Canadian Migration Patterns: From Britain and
North America_. International Canadian Studies Series/Collection
internationale d'etudes canadiennes. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press,
2004. viii + 294 pp. Illustrations, notes, list of contributors. $29.95
(paper), ISBN 0-7766-0543-7.

Reviewed for H-Canada by John Matthew Barlow, Department of History,
Concordia University.

_Canadian Migration Patterns_ represents a selection of the papers presented
at the 1998 Migration conference held at the Centre of Canadian Studies at
the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland. For the most part, these papers
can be categorized as being revisionist in nature, as they examine and
recast the history of migration to, from, and within Canada, both
historically and more contemporaneously, though the result is a somewhat
uneven and even disjointed series of articles on the experiences of
immigrants and migrants in Canada.

In his contribution, "Americans in Upper Canada, 1791-1812: 'Late Loyalists'
or Early Emmigrants," Peter Marshall effectively debunks the question of
loyalty amongst these American emigrants to Canada. It was not some
ephemeral loyalty to the Crown that brought them north, it was land.
Ronald Stagg, for his part, tackles the apparent myth of a massive outflux
of emigrants from Upper Canada following Mackenzie's rebellion there in
1837. Stagg finds scant evidence in the sources for this alleged outpouring,
concluding rather, that while there was indeed some migration south into the
northern United States, it was hardly an outflux. And Bruce Elliott, perhaps
the dean of nineteenth-century Canadian immigration history, offers us a
glimpse of his current work on pre-Confederation English emigration to
Canada. In the most comprehensive article of this publication, Elliott
examines the "Regional Patterns of English Immigration and Settlement in
Upper Canada." Elliott, like many historians of today, expresses an interest
in rescuing the English in Canada from, to borrow from E. P. Thompson, the
"enormous condesension of posterity."[1] To this end, Elliott painstakingly
examines reasons for emigration from England to British North America in
order to understand from whence the emigrants came and why. Most of them
came from the north of England, a part of that country with extant
trans-Atlantic migratory connections, and emigrated for what could probably
be termed economic reasons: land. He also found that they tended to settle
in either the traditional Yorkshire settlements around the New
Brunswick/Nova Scotia border, or in southern and southwestern Ontario.

Unfortunately, however, the vast majority of the articles in this book are
not as clearly written or as cogently argued as Elliott's. Too many of the
papers fail to overcome their conference-paper origins. Most conferences,
however, that intend to publish proceedings, tend to allow their authors to
submit a full-length article for publication purposes. This does not seem to
have been the case here. The result is an uneven collection of short
articles (six of the seventeen articles are less than fifteen pages
long) that either lack depth or fail to connect the topic to any larger
historiographical trends.

As for the sequencing of the articles in _Canadian Migration Patterns_, I
found myself somewhat startled by the jump across the twentieth century in
the final third of the book. From an article dealing with European
immigrants in Toronto between 1890 and 1918, we jump to an article dealing
with Irish emigration to Canada in the 1950s (to say nothing about the
inclusion of the Irish in a book about British and American immigration into
Canada), and end with an article about gay and lesbian refugee claimants,
from Mexico, in Canada in the 1990s. Perhaps the editor, Barbara J.
Messamore of the University College of the Fraser Valley in British
Columbia, could have avoided this temporal jump and thus eased this
transition, by moving the final two articles, dealing respectively with
Atlantic Canadian regionalisms in the twentieth century and songs of
migration.

This is not to say that _Canadian Migration Patterns_ is devoid of any
value. A full one third of the articles focus on English emigration to
Canada and in so doing attempt to, at least, recover the experiences of
English immigrants in Canada and to move away from the stereotypes of the
English in Canada. These micro-histories do also tend to provide the reader
with a more personalized account of the hardships and successes of migration
and immigration, even if it is left to the reader to connect these personal
accounts back to any larger historiographical trends.

Note

[1]. E. P. Thompson, _The Making of the English Working Class_ (London:
Vintage, 1966), p. 12.

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I received an interesting E-mail, with images attached, from a collector of
ethnic-themed ephemera. He apparently has quite a collection of
turn-of-the-century stereoviews, and the three that he sent to me date from
1897. If you'd like to see them, reply to me directly and I can forward the
images on to you - but I did not want to forward the attachments.

The most interesting of the three is called "McGinty's Wake" and it shows a
comic scene, a la Tim Finnegan, in which most of the people are wearing what
to my mind look like fairly grotesque masks. I directed him to John Appel's
work, but really, I'm sort out of my waters here. I tell the sender I'd
float this to the list -- Here is part of his query:

" 'McGinty's Wake' shows three women and one seated man wearing masks
with white pipes. There is also what appears to be a priest wearing a mask
and even the corpse is masked. Curiously, the man with the great white
beard pouring from a bottle into the corpse's mouth does not appear to be
wearing a mask.

Behind this figure, you can see the "ghost" of McGinty, visible mostly
as a white cuff and hand. A standard image in this series has the corpse
returning to life, to everyone's superstitious horror. The photographer's
attempt to turn McGinty into a ghost wasn't very successful in this image.

"McGinty's Wake" is from a Popular Series, which is not a major imprint.
This seems to be a second or third generation print, and the quality
drop-off is apparent. Curiously, I have another version of this image, taken
at the same time, with minor variations (the wicker bottle is turned, the
three women's heads are angled differently, the cropping is clumsy and the
contrast severe). I can't see any significant variation between these two
out-takes, but I assume finance played some role in the different series.

This photo is in the same series as the "McCarthay's Wake," with the
same wallpaper on the set walls. But the "McCarthay's Wake" photo was
released by the Universal Photo Art Co. and the photo of Bridget is from a
newer, perhaps costlier series The Art Nouveau (Platino) Stereograph. Both
are copyrighted by C.H.Graves Publisher, and both are first generation
enlargements.

The use of masks is probably just a way of further satirizing the people
at the wake, but I've never run into any other use of masks by Western
people in stereoviews. Have you ever run into similar images caricaturing
immigrants? Or is there some obscure cultural artifact that I don't know
about where people went to wakes and drank through paper-mache masks? It
doesn't sound very comfortable. I'd appreciate any thoughts you might
have about the matter. "

Any ideas?

Jim Rogers
New Hibernia Review
jrogers[at]stthomas.edu

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From: Patrick Maume


> Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> The following item has been drawn to our attention.

> Seattle Times Editorial.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Eyeing a smiling Irish economy
> Full story:
>
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/2002289909_irished27
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>
>
>
>
> Last year, President Mary McAleese of Ireland won a second, seven-year
> term without opposition. It is easy to see why. Her nation could
> hardly have a better advocate or more energetic sales rep.

This particular comment is based on a misunderstanding - she was elected
without opposition because the constitution makes it almost impossible for
candidates to contest the election without the support of a major party.
Several candidates wished to contest but could not get the required number
of nominations from public representatives. she would probably have won but
it is misleading to suggest as this article does that no-one opposed her
re-election.
Best wishes,
Patrick
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