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Greetings, Irish Studies colleagues -

But a quick word to alert you to my multimedia webpage -- text, image,
sound -- on "Coole Lady," the new play on Lady Gregory by Sam McCready, with
Joan McCready in the starring role, music by Richard McCready. I saw the New
York City production this past April; all reviews were raves.

My webpage on the play is now linked to the principal Yeats websites (NYC,
Australia, Sligo); see www.yeatssociety.org/coole.html.

'Happy Summer' to all (and with apologies for cross-posting),

Maureen E. Mulvihill
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A research studentship, attached to the Chair of Comparative Ethnology
and Folk Life (Prof. Ullrich Kockel), is available at the
Universityb's Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages. Applications are
invited from UK, European Union and overseas students. Applicants must
have or expect to obtain in summer 2005 the minimum of an upper second
class honours degree (or equivalent) including an appropriate
discipline, such as European ethnology, cultural/social anthropology,
folkloristics, or cultural studies, and should be able to demonstrate
skills and experience in field and/or archival work at or above the
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Successful candidates will enrol in September 2005, on a full-time
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religious heritages in Ireland, and among the Irish Diaspora

heritage, tradition and identity in border regions and other
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alternative lifestyles, including the cultural impact of
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STUDIES -DUBLIN-
VOL 94; NUMB 374; 2005
ISSN 0039-3495

pp. 121-122
Editorial

pp. 123-132
Irish Media and Irish Religion
O Brien, B.

pp. 133-139
Marketing Youth Culture
MacGabhann, B.

p. 140
Trying to preserve Brian Moore's House Clifton Street, Belfast, 1998 - A
Poem Hicks, P.

pp. 141-150
Religious Readings of Our Culture
Gallagher, M. P.

pp. 151-158
The Poverty of Multiculturalism
West, P.

pp. 159-169
Benedict XVI and Some Current Theology
Oakes, E. T.

p. 170
Thespian - A Poem
Smyth, G.

pp. 171-180
Fathers and Family Policy in Ireland
Rush, M.

pp. 181-187
Machiavelli at the Abbey Theatre: Reflections on WB Yeats Jordan, T.

p. 188
Passing Sun - A Poem
Guckian, M.

pp. 189-194
My Family Connections in Ulysses
O Connell, P.

pp. 195-200
France-Ireland: Anatomy of a Relationship - Studies in History, Literature
and Politics edited by Eamon Maher and Grace Neville Charon, M.-C. C.

p. 201
Ulysses, by Margot Norris
Elwell, S.

pp. 201-203
Louis D'Alton and the Abbey Theatre, by Ciara O'Farrell Granger, C.

pp. 204-205
Differently Irish: a Cultural history exploring 25 years of Vietnamese-Irish
identity, by Mark Maguire Langan, M. D.

p. 206
Nora, by Geraldine Meaney
Podlesney, K.

pp. 207-208
Maria Edgeworth and Romance, by Sharon Murphy McDonagh, J.

pp. 209-210
The Island of St. Patrick - Church and ruling dynasties in Fingal and Meath,
400-1148, edited by Ailbhe MacShamhrain Mullins, E.

pp. 211-212
Making the Grand Figure: lives and possessions in Ireland, 1641-1770, by
Toby Barnard Murphy, D.

pp. 213-214
The Gore-Booths of Lissadell, by Dermot James Gaughan, J. A.

pp. 215-216
Sending out Ireland's poor: Assisted emigration to North America in the
Nineteenth Century, by Gerard Moran Kenny, M.

pp. 217-219
The Irish Ordnance Survey: History, culture and memory, by Gillian M.
Doherty Roantree, D.

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Greetings, all:

Has anyone with knowledge of Clan na Gael in the US or the Irish in Missouri in
particular come across a judge by the name of O'Neill Ryan of St. Louis?
Francis Carroll's 1978 book on Irish America in the early 20th century
identifies Ryan as a Clan na Gaeler, but I am wondering if he has cropped up in
any other literature.

My own interest in Ryan stems from the fact that he gave speeches in Buffalo
and Toronto in 1903 and 1905 respectively, and the reactions of the audiences
were markedly different. In 1903, he indulged in the usual Anglophobia at the
Emmet centennial in Buffalo (organized not by the AOH but by the city's "Irish
Nationalists"). This rhetoric did not go down well in Toronto eighteen months
or so later - unsurprisingly, in many ways, given the prevailing sentiments of
the Irish there (see Mark McGowan's "The Waning og the Green"). These are
interesting moments for me as I am interested in the way such personalities and
particularly their speeches 'travel' around the Irish diaspora in N America.

If anyone has information about Ryan, or useful references, I will be grateful
as always.

Finally, I am assuming that Ryan was American-born, since it was rarely if ever
the case that "O'Neill" would be a first name in Ireland.....right? I had a
student two years ago whose first name was "O'Neill" and he was Jamaican!

That's it. Hope everyone is having a good summer.

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It might be recalled that I suggested - after Jim Rogers' initial query -
that there were a number of questions to ask and answer here... Before we
are required to take these images seriously, as anything to do with Ireland.

I have exchanged notes with Jim, and have seen the images. The web can
nowadays be very good at allowing us to put such images in a context...

1.
The first image is a basic 'Bridget', servant gag - of the sort analysed in
my chapter, 'The Irish joke' - posed for the camera.

Here is an example of the very stereoview brought to Jim Rogers' attention -
third image from the top...

http://www.georgeglazer.com/prints/americana/stereohumor.html

There are a number of versions of the same gag on the Jenny and Ray Norman
worldofstereoviews web site. They describe it thus... 'Biddy serving the
tomatoes undressed. Probably the most widely produced humor view...'

Potatoes, tomatoes...? Hard to make out.

http://www.worldofstereoviews.com/humorpage1.htm

And another...

http://www.worldofstereoviews.com/humorpage5.htm

Fairly clear that this is a standard 'Bridget' gag turned into a (semi)
pornographic image. Chance to show female legs and undergarments...

There is a little bit of discussion of this on Jenny and Ray Norman
worldofstereoviews web site.

2.
McCarthay's Wake/McCarthy's Wake.

Here is a later one in the McCarthy's Wake series.

http://www.worldofstereoviews.com/humorpage3.htm

towards the end.

Note that the text on the image seems to be 'McCarthay's Wake'. But the web
site says 'McCarthy's Wake'.

It looks to me as if there was a narrative to go with this sequence of
images - you can see examples of other narratives on Jenny and Ray Norman's
web site.

Just from the images I would suggest that McCarthay has faked his death to
test his relatives. They celebrate his death - see bottles of champagne on
the floor. He reveals his trick - ructions.

This, of course, has little 'really' to do with Ireland. Though what IS
interesting is that there has been some attempt to 'dress the set...' The
pictures... The Sacred Heart, which is actually in a frame - suggesting a
Catholic family. A picture of Lincoln, is that George Washington in the
corner? Others might be some Irish politicians? Hard to see. But the
pictures are just stuck up on the wall...

As ever with these sort of photographs you look for internal evidence. I
think I have seen that same fleur de lys wallpaper in a number of images.
But hard to see on the computer screen...

3.
The third picture, 'McGinty's Wake' is very odd indeed. The masks are very
odd. There might be, as I suggested earlier., some connection with a Quack
Doctor mummer play, somewhere. But it looks very contrived...

I have found this image on the web, though it is quite hard to get at...

It is at...
http://pages.teardropmemories.com/11601/InventoryPage/1744194/2.html

Though this route might work better...
http://pages.teardropmemories.com/
Which is a portal page for a very large number of antique shop. And search
for McGinty.

The seller says... 'This antique stereoview photo gives me the willies. This
is the second in a series of stereo photos showing Irish waking a fellow
homelander surounded by whiskey bottles and jugs... A stereo view of a
stereotype, that cashes in on the late Victorian era anti imigrant
sentiments of the day. H L Roberts and Company Philadelphia. Griffith and
Griffith...' Griffith & Griffith were a well known publisher of landdscape
stereoviews - Yellowstone, San Francisco earthquake.

Paddy


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

Peter Hart. _The I.R.A. at War, 1916-1923_. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2003. xvi + 274 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00
(cloth), ISBN 0-1992-5258-0.

Reviewed for H-War by William Kautt, U.S. Army Command and General Staff
College.

Revisiting the Irish Revolution

For almost seven years, between 1916 and 1923, Ireland endured major changes
in its political and social fabric. These changes were brought about
primarily through violence and, to a certain extent, are still felt today.
This upheaval wrenched most of Ireland from the United Kingdom and
inexorably changed its political landscape. In the last thirty-five years,
there has been a re-examination of this conflict with a view toward ridding
the field of politically flavored accounts. Most recently, a new generation
of historians has taken the lead in this re-evaluation. Foremost among them
is Peter Hart, who burst onto the scene with his masterful work, _The I.R.A.
and its Enemies_ (1998), on the social makeup of the I.R.A. conflict in
County Cork. Since the publication of his first text, Hart has become the
standard-bearer for the empirical study of the conflict and has made major
contributions in the field.

Almost anticlimactically, Hart's latest book is an anthology of his
previously published articles, albeit with critical updates and additions.
The major strength of this compilation is that it brings together his best
ideas, mostly using statistical methodology, on the war. He does this in the
hopes of sparking a new debate about the nature of the conflict. Indeed, in
the title of his introductory chapter he calls this "A New Revolutionary
History." Here, Hart explains that Ireland's fight for independence is
important in a wider context because, in a very real way, the I.R.A.
"invented modern revolutionary warfare" (p. 3). He continues, arguing
further that its relevance is firmly rooted in the fact that it was one of
the best-documented wars of its kind in history.

However, before proceeding, it is important to note that this work is not
military, but rather, social history. In some respects, this hurts his
analysis when he delves into more military topics. In fact, Hart, in
questioning the usefulness of guerrilla theory, appeals to a social
scientific approach. Importantly, he says, "if nationalist explanations for
the course of events fail to meet empirical and logical tests, they should
be discarded" (p. 5). Yet what he does not recognize is that by divorcing
theory--partly the explanation of actions--from guerrilla warfare, one loses
the meaning and intent of sometimes obscure or seemingly indefensible
actions by the insurgents. Still more importantly, the symbolic nature of
actions is lost. With this slightly narrow-minded view, Hart then proceeds
to describe his vision of revolution, which actually differs little from
commonly accepted definitions.

Despite this shortcoming, Hart's introduction rightly points out that the
war has no proper name--it is variously known as the "Anglo-Irish War"
(which is unacceptable because it implies that it was a war solely against
the English); the "War of Independence" (objectionable because it implies
that the republicans won the war); and the "Tan War" (which is too specific,
being the name of only one group of combatants) (p. 4). Such confusion and
contradiction in terms perfectly and appropriately captures the perplexing
and often controversial nature of the conflict. Hart makes the case for
using "Irish Revolution" because of the tremendous change in Irish society
and politics resulting from the conflict. Perhaps it is reasonable to use
this general term because there were multiple phases of the
conflict--specifically the 1916 Easter Rising, the 1919-1921 "Tan War," and
the Irish Civil War (1922-23) to name a few.

One of Hart's greatest contributions to Irish historiography has been his
judicious use of statistical analysis. The second chapter, "Geography of
Revolution," is a revision and expansion of his May 1998 _Past and Present_
article of the same name. The original article was hailed as groundbreaking
in its use of statistics to track and map violence in Ireland during the
war. It confirmed what was popularly known from the time of the war, that
violence and its manifestations were quite varied by location throughout
Ireland in terms of number and frequency. There was, however, a flaw in the
original statistical methodology; Hart chose his sample of locations for
deliberate, and therefore biased, reasons. By doing this, rather than
selecting randomly or examining the entire population, he introduced sample
selection bias into his results. In his newly revised chapter 2, Hart
corrects this deficiency by examining all thirty-two counties in Ireland. In
the process, he confirms his earlier findings.

Unfortunately, Hart's methodology is still not completely sound, because he
only examines 1917 to 1923, thus ignoring the critical 1916 Easter Rising,
despite acknowledging the Rising as the beginning of the revolution. Hart
also errs by using problematic sources such as the monthly police reports
from 1917 to 1921 (they ceased in 1922); the _Irish Times_, the _Cork
Examiner_, and the _Times_, all from 1917 to 1923; and the _Freeman's
Journal_ for 1921-23. These sources not only cover different times, but also
are disparately biased. For example, using only one regional newspaper (the
_Cork Examiner_), which covered only some of the six counties of the
province of Munster cannot possibly capture what Hart purports to be
measuring. He should either have eliminated that source or found its
equivalent in the three other provinces. Thus, his data are not a
representative sample and, as a result, he reintroduces sample selection
bias into the study. From this also stems concerns about content validity.
Clearly, his claim of 90 percent accuracy is impossible to substantiate
empirically or otherwise.

That said, this does not mean that Hart's conclusions are wrong. Based on
the available qualitative evidence (of which there is a great quantity,
hence the need for statistical means to examine it), his original article
and his new evidence are likely correct. Therefore, one cannot, nor should
one attempt, to dismiss the study. Rather, Hart deserves great credit for
introducing statistical methods into recent Irish historiography.

Hart's general weakness in military history resurfaces in chapter 3 with a
flaw that touches on a question about when the middle conflict (generally
1919-1921) actually began. Hart states that by measuring levels of violence,
one could argue that the war really began only in January 1920, rather than
January 1919. Here he makes the error of equating a low level of violence
with an absence of war. Simply put, causing a stone bridge to collapse by
removing the keystone is not directly violent, but if it blocks an avenue of
approach and secures the I.R.A.'s flank in an arms raid on a police
barracks, it is no less offensive than blowing it up; or indeed leaving a
blocking force to attack a relief party. Hart misses the concept of
preemptive or preventative action in guerrilla war, which is a critical
omission because much in this type of warfare is preparatory or symbolic.
His later description of guerrilla war as "mass homicide" (p.
89)--referring to the numerous assassinations and executions--only serves to
amplify this point.
Obviously, one need _not_ be a military historian to write about war, but
clearly one should demonstrate a sound knowledge and understanding of it
when addressing a military topic.

Although Hart's misunderstanding of the nature of military strategy in
general and guerrilla warfare specifically is present throughout his work,
it only hampers analysis in specific cases. For instance, by questioning the
war's starting date, one would have to accept that the British Cabinet, in
late 1919, radically altered long-standing policy by reinforcing the greatly
beleaguered Royal Irish Constabulary (R.I.C.) with non-Irishmen without a
sufficient reason.
Yet even these reinforcements, arriving in early spring 1920, were
insufficient to stem the tide of the on-going R.I.C. general withdrawal
(they themselves sometimes referred to it as a "retreat") from the
countryside and smaller towns to cities, which began in January 1920. Thus,
his claim defies logic, for why would the police retreat unless they were
already losing forces in the war? It is highly unlikely that the R.I.C.,
experiencing less than a month at war (going by a January 1920 start date)
were so demoralized as to require a general withdrawal. Further, the
Inspector-General of the R.I.C., Brigadier-General Byrne, was so depressed
by the conflict that he was relieved in March 1920 after having held the
position for four years. These are, perhaps, minor points, but are
indicative and are actually made more apparent by Hart's outstanding prose
and otherwise flawless logic.

A less problematic issue, which is also reflective of this general weakness
in Hart's work, is that he only counts those wounded or killed by bombs and
firearms as casualties of the conflict. Yet there were several
well-documented instances of I.R.A. members and police being burned when the
latter used arson against R.I.C. barracks during raids. Were these injuries
not wounds received in action? There are many ways to wound or kill, but
Hart's justification that gunshot wounds and bombings are almost always
reported is well taken, if not entirely correct. It is important not to
overstate the case, but methodology is still important.

Another statistically based chapter on I.R.A. violence follows and
compliments the previous geographical one. Likewise, Hart's chapter 5 on
Irish republicans and their activities in Britain is a very good survey of
the subject, but adds little to his earlier article of the same name
("Operations Abroad," _English Historical Review_, 115 (2000): pp. 71-102).

However, one chapter that stands out is his demographic survey of the IRA
rank and file. By charting their social background, including economic
activities and employment, familial connections, and religion, Hart gives
the reader an excellent view of these men. Indeed, a general work on this
topic is much needed. He goes into greater detail than his original and
excellent exposition in his _I.R.A. and its Enemies_, which contained a
great deal of such information, but was limited to County Cork.

At first, chapter 8, on the long-standing question of whether Michael
Collins ordered the murder of Northern Irish loyalist Field Marshal Sir
Henry Wilson in 1922 seems out of place because it reads more like "true
crime" than history. But his excellently written discussion, almost in the
form of a crime report, takes the reader through the competing theories, and
in so doing, bridges the gap between the end of the I.R.A. war against
British rule and the beginning of the Irish Civil War in 1922.

This chapter on the murder of this champion of the loyalist north leads
naturally to his last two chapters on the experience of Protestants, who
were mostly loyalist, in the heavily republican south. In detailing this, he
brings the ugly past of republican-initiated violence to the fore. Although
not officially sanctioned by the provisional government, this is a topic
that most researchers have avoided. Hart addresses it head-on and brings his
impressive statistical skills soundly to bear once again, demonstrating the
magnitude of the situation and juxtaposing it briefly with the plight of
Catholics in the north.

In the final chapter, Hart examines these northern Catholics and their
response to violence, privation, and harassment. He places both the southern
Protestant and the northern Catholic persecutions into context by comparing
them. His treatment of these two related topics is impressive and completely
objective--a rare quality on such a sensitive issue. This is, no doubt, due
to his statistical basis for the evidence.

Hart's book suffers somewhat from the disjointedness of seemingly disparate
topics that, in reality, should be joined together by the common thread of
the Irish Revolution. Several chapters are repetitive, an issue that would
not be present if written or edited in a more complementary fashion. Adding
to this problem is the complete lack of a concluding chapter, which causes
an untimely end that squanders the opportunity to unite the various factors.

Hart wanted to start a new discussion of the era of the revolution as a
whole. Instead, he simply brings some of his best work together into one
volume. Whether his work will spark debate depends largely on how his
results are received.
I cannot fault his demographic work, nor his discussion and treatment of the
southern Protestants and northern Catholics. Also, I accept his explanation
of the geography of violence with the provisos already stated. Nor can I
find fault with his chapter on the "operations abroad," except to say that
much remains to be done in that area, but his introduction of the topic is
very good. Finally, I agree with his argument in choosing "Irish Revolution"
as the appropriate name for the conflict. In the end, I see little to debate
because Hart has basically gotten it right.

Aside from the issues about the nature of guerrilla war and the sampling
methodology, this is an excellent work. And although not a military history,
nor really meant to be, it is absolutely essential for any serious student
of the war or of the era in Ireland.

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Good wishes to the CAIS Conference now in progress at Maynooth.

I have pasted in the programme, below...

P.O'S.


________________________________

The Canadian Association for Irish Studies (CAIS) announces the =
programme
for its annual conference, entitled =93Ireland and the Atlantic: =
Intercultural
Contact and Conflict=94, being held at the National University of =
Ireland,
Maynooth, June 22-25.

Over fifty scholars from Canada, Ireland, the United States, England,
Scotland, continental Europe, India, and Latin America will participate =
in
the conference, and it will feature five plenary presentations by =
prominent
Canadian academics and theatre practitioners who have strong links with
Ireland. =20

Conference highlights include:

=96 A plenary panel round table discussion of Canada and the =
Irish
Theatrical Diaspora/Diasporic Theatre in Ireland.

=96 Christopher Fitz-simon will launch Christopher Morash=92s and
Nicholas Grene=92s book Irish Theatre on Tour, Irish Theatrical Diaspora
series. Carysfort Press.

=96 A Plenary Public Interview at the Abbey Theatre with its =
former
artistic director Ben Barnes about Irish, Qu=E9becois, and Canadian =
Theatre
Links.

=96 A Special Performance of the award winning Ugandan-Canadian
playwright and Irish Theatre Practitioner George Seremba=92s =
autobiographical
play Come Good Rain.

=96 Plenary lectures by Professor David Wilson (University of =
Toronto),
Professor Michael Kenneally (Centre for Canadian Irish Studies, =
Concordia
University, Montreal), and Professor William J. Smyth (Emeritus =
President,
Maynooth) and Professor Cecil Houston (University of Windsor)

=96 Special Plenary Panels on the Irish in Latin America,
Irish-Canadian Womens=92 Connections, Ireland and Atlantic Canada, and =
an
Ireland Fund Scholars' panel on New Directions in Irish-Canadian =
Research.=20

=96 A Qu=E9bec National Day Wine and Cheese Reception hosted by =
Pierre
Boyer, Institutional Affairs Attach=E9, Qu=E9bec Government Office in =
London. =20

=96 See the full conference programme at www.irishstudies.ca
.

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This article by Matthew Brown, University of Bristol, turned up in our nets
simply because of that one use of the word 'Irish' in the Abstract.

In fact the article makes much use of Irish material and Irish Hispanic
American material, including letter collections. And material about
specific Irish women loom large in this discursive exploration of Hispanic
American notions of masculinity.

So that this article adds to Irish Diaspora Studies, Irish Latin American
Studies, and the historiography of Irish women.

I suppose that it is worth ponderously making the point that the Irish
Diaspora material used here would not have been used if Irish Diaspora
scholars had not made it available...

Do note that this is the Palgrave MacMillan journal, Feminist Review...

http://www.palgrave-journals.com/fr/

(A number of journals have that same title.)

This issue
March 2005, Volume 79, Number 1
is a veryinteresting special issue linking feminist studies with 'Latin
America: history, war and independence'
guest editor, Catherine Davies

And this very issue is currently the Free Sample at the Palgrave MacMillan
web site...

http://www.palgrave-journals.com/fr/journal/v79/n1/index.html

So that the Matthew Brown article, and all the other interesting articles,
are freely available to everyone.

P.O'S.


Adventurers, foreign women and masculinity in the Colombian Wars of
Independence

Author: Brown Matthew

Source: Feminist Review, March 2005, vol. 79, no. 1, pp. 36-51(16)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract:
This paper examines changing conceptions of honour and masculinity during
the Colombian Wars of Independence in the early 19th century. It explores
the position of the foreign women who accompanied British and Irish
expeditions to join the war against Spanish rule, and shows how colonial,
imperial and republican conceptions of masculinity were affected by the role
that women played in these volunteer expeditions and in the wars in general.
The paper considers women's experiences during war and peace, and examines
their experiences in the light of changing conceptions of masculinity at
home, in the British empire and in Hispanic America in the early nineteenth
century. The social mobility of the Wars of Independence shifted the ground
on which these concepts rested for all groups involved. The participation of
foreign women alongside male adventurers was a further ingredient in this
disorientating period.Feminist Review (2005) 79, 36-51.
doi:10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400198

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400198

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Further to my earlier note on stereoviews - I came across this web site,
selling and displaying material of interest...

Jeffrey Kraus Photographic Antiques
www.antiquephotographics.com

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From the web site...

'This lot consists of 6 scarce Stereoviews and 5 exceedingly rare CDVs by
T.G. Richardson of St. Albans, Vt. taken in May 1870 during the
Fenian/Canadian conflict. Here is some background on the Fenians. The images
are shown below this text.'

http://www.antiquephotographics.com/fenian.htm

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The Irish Book Review

The first issue of an exciting new quarterly journal, The Irish Book =
Review has just been published. The aim of the journal is to provide =
high-quality reviews by independent reviewers of important books of =
Irish interest published by Irish, UK and US publishers.=20

The Irish Book Review will include ten major reviews in each issue, as =
well as a number of shorter reviews. All reviews will be done by well =
known, independent reviewers including authors, journalists, academics =
and others. The inaugural issue will include reviews of new and =
forthcoming titles from John Banville, Carlo Gebler, Jennifer Johnston, =
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high quality reviews of some of the best books published in Ireland and =
abroad. Reviewers for The Irish Book Review will include leading =
journalists, academics, authors and others who will provide their own =
lively interpretation and expert opinion on some of the key titles =
recently released. Published four times a year, The Irish Book Review =
will concentrate in the areas of literature, current events, arts and =
culture, history and biography, politics and contemporary Ireland. The =
aim of the journal will be to keep Irish readers well informed about the =
many notable books written in Ireland and abroad =E2=80=94 books that =
can often be difficult to find in bookshops today. The inaugural issue =
(Summer 2005) will be published on June 10.

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IRISH SEMINAR 2005
SCHEDULE
Genealogies of Culture: Ireland
Seventh Annual Session
Directed by Seamus Deane, Luke Gibbons & Kevin Whelan

27 June - 15 July 2005

THE IRISH SEMINAR 2005

invites you to the Madden-Rooney Public Lecture

by

Homi Bhabha

on

International nationalism and
The genealogy of minoritisation.

Tuesday 28 June 2004

8:00 - 9:30pm

Room G 32 Earlsfort Terrace

Admission is free and open to all.

Homi Bhabha is Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American
Literature at Harvard University.
Among his books are Nation and Narration (1990), The Location of Culture
(1994) and Negotiating Rapture (1996).

Full schedule and contact point...

http://www.nd.edu/~irishsem/semschedule.shtml

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Historic Guardian series recalled

Angelique Chrisafis, Ireland correspondent
Saturday June 25, 2005
The Guardian

"It is part of the misfortune of Ireland that nearly all the characteristics
which give attractiveness to Irish life are bound up with a social condition
that is near to penury."
John Millington Synge,
Manchester Guardian, 1905

It was a typically prescient Guardian stroke, catching two huge talents at
just the right moment.

John Millington Synge was a promising young Dubliner who would become one of
the 20th century's best playwrights, scandalising Ireland with The Playboy
of the Western World. Jack Butler Yeats was a black and white illustrator
living in Devon who would mature into Ireland's foremost painter of the
modern age.

Article continues
CP Scott, editor of the Manchester Guardian, created a dream team when he
commissioned them to travel around the west of Ireland together in 1905,
reporting on the poverty still rampant decades after the Great Famine.

Connemara and Mayo were then the most densely populated rural areas of
Europe. The newspaper had already raised funds for the destitute of
Ireland's "congested districts", where people still starved to death if the
meagre potato crop failed.

Now Yeats's illustrations and sketchbooks from the trip have been gathered
together for the first time in an exhibition in Sligo tracing the impact the
commission had on his later career.

Synge and Yeats were paid peanuts for the series of 12 articles. Synge
complained that the "dirty skunks" in Manchester paid him far less than
Yeats got for his illustrations. Yeats, brother of the poet WB Yeats, was at
the time the best-paid black and white illustrator in Britain or Ireland.

"This trip was the turning point in Yeats's career," said Emer McGarry,
curator of the exhibition, Yeats and Synge in the Congested Districts, at
the Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo, until September 4.

From The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1514198,00.html

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College of William and Mary - Assistant Professor, History of Modern Britain
or Modern Ireland

Location: Virginia, United States
Institution Type: College/University
Position Type: Assistant Professor
Submitted: Tuesday, June 21st, 2005
Main Category: European History
Secondary Categories: None

Modern Britain or Modern Ireland. The College of William and Mary invites
applications for a tenure-eligible position at the assistant professor level
in modern British or modern Irish history (from the eighteenth century
forward). Field of specialization open. The successful candidate will teach
a rotation of European survey and upper-division courses in British and/or
Irish history, freshman and senior seminars, and an occasional tutorial or
class at the graduate level. Ph.D. by August 2006 required; publications and
teaching experience desirable. Review of credentials will begin in
mid-October 2005 and will continue until position is filled. Applicants
should forward a c.v., letter of application, and three letters of
recommendation to James P. Whittenburg, Chair, Department of History,
College of William and Mary, P.O. Box 8795, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795. The
College is an EEO/AA employer.

Contact Info:
James P. Whittenburg, Department Chair
College of William & Mary
Lyon Gardiner Tyler Department of History
via courier service:
James Blair Hall 330
James Blair Drive
Williamsburg, VA 23185
or via US Mail:
P.O. Box 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Phone: 757/221-3720
Fax: 757/221-2111
Email: history[at]wm.edu

Website: http://www.wm.edu/history

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FYI. This may be of interest to many on the list.

Bill Mulligan

Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:02:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Montgomery Michael

Sixteenth Biennial Ulster-American Heritage Symposium
Conference Theme: Three Centuries of Ulster-American
History, Tradition, and Shared Experience

Wednesday, June 28 - Saturday, July 1, 2006

The East Tennessee History Center is pleased to
announce that it will host the Sixteenth
Ulster-American Heritage Symposium in Knoxville,
Tennessee. Since 1976 the Symposium has met every two
years at a university or museum in Northern Ireland or
the United States in order to encourage and promote
the scholarly study and public awareness of
connections between Ulster and North America in all
their dimensions.

While programs in the past have provided the premier
forum for historians to discuss the colonial-era
immigration from Ulster and the settlement of the
American interior and Southeast, the Ulster-American
Heritage Symposium is by tradition and design
inter-disciplinary, featuring papers on history,
language and literature, folklore and folklife,
archaeology, economics, religion, social and political
relations, and music. This year's Symposium seeks to
broaden the program offerings further by seeking
scholarly papers on artistic traditions of all kinds,
travel and tourism, and the American GI experience in
Northern Ireland in the World War Two, among other
topics. Original papers from any field that concern
relations, links, and parallels between Ulster and
North America over the past three hundred years are
invited for presentation.

Knoxville promises to be an excellent venue for the
Symposium. In the Scotch-Irish/Scots-Irish heartland
of the country, it lies less than an hour from the
Great Smoky Mountains National Park and other major
attractions. Comprising the East Tennessee Historical
Society, the East Tennessee History Museum, and the
McClung Historical Collection (a major genealogical
library), the East Tennessee History Center has
recently opened a new twenty-million-dollar facility
in downtown Knoxville. The Museum's signature exhibit
"Voices of the Land: The People of East Tennessee"
will open in January 2006.

Special events planned for the Symposium will include

=3D> Plenary address "Ulster Immigrants and the
Settlement of Tennessee," by Walter Durham, Tennessee
State Historian

=3D> Tour and banquet at Ramsey House, a
late-18th-century historic home and grounds in
Marbledale, Tennessee

=3D> Plenary address on early architecture: "Stone
Houses of Bluegrass Kentucky: Dwellings of the Ulster
Gentry, 1780-1830" by Carolyn Murray-Wooley

=3D> Plenary session on the American GI experience in
Northern Ireland in World War Two

=3D> Bluegrass concert at Jubilee Community Arts Center
in Knoxville

To propose a paper at the conference, please send by
DECEMBER 1, 2005 three copies of a 250-word abstract
with a cover letter indicating your name, postal and
email addresses, institutional affiliation (if any),
equipment needs, and a one-sentence biographical
note, to

Program Committee, 16th Ulster-American Heritage
Symposium
c/o East Tennessee Historical Society
PO Box 1629
Knoxville, TN 37901-1629

Address inquiries to the Co-Chairs of the Program
Committee: Michael Montgomery (ullans[at]yahoo.com) or
Michael Toomey (toomey[at]east-tennessee-history.org).
Notice of acceptance will be made no later than
January 15, 2006, at which time precentors will also
receive information on hotels and local
arrangements.
Conference updates will be posted at
www.east-tennessee-history.orl


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Murray State University

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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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From this morning's New York Times:



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June 29, 2005
The End of the Rainbow
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN=20
Dublin

Here's something you probably didn't know: Ireland today is the richest =
country in the European Union after Luxembourg.

Yes, the country that for hundreds of years was best known for =
emigration, tragic poets, famines, civil wars and leprechauns today has =
a per capita G.D.P. higher than that of Germany, France and Britain. How =
Ireland went from the sick man of Europe to the rich man in less than a =
generation is an amazing story. It tells you a lot about Europe today: =
all the innovation is happening on the periphery by those countries =
embracing globalization in their own ways - Ireland, Britain, =
Scandinavia and Eastern Europe - while those following the French-German =
social model are suffering high unemployment and low growth.

Ireland's turnaround began in the late 1960's when the government made =
secondary education free, enabling a lot more working-class kids to get =
a high school or technical degree. As a result, when Ireland joined the =
E.U. in 1973, it was able to draw on a much more educated work force.=20

By the mid-1980's, though, Ireland had reaped the initial benefits of =
E.U. membership - subsidies to build better infrastructure and a big =
market to sell into. But it still did not have enough competitive =
products to sell, because of years of protectionism and fiscal =
mismanagement. The country was going broke, and most college grads were =
emigrating.=20

"We went on a borrowing, spending and taxing spree, and that nearly =
drove us under," said Deputy Prime Minister Mary Harney. "It was because =
we nearly went under that we got the courage to change."

And change Ireland did. In a quite unusual development, the government, =
the main trade unions, farmers and industrialists came together and =
agreed on a program of fiscal austerity, slashing corporate taxes to =
12.5 percent, far below the rest of Europe, moderating wages and prices, =
and aggressively courting foreign investment. In 1996, Ireland made =
college education basically free, creating an even more educated work =
force.

The results have been phenomenal. Today, 9 out of 10 of the world's top =
pharmaceutical companies have operations here, as do 16 of the top 20 =
medical device companies and 7 out of the top 10 software designers. =
Last year, Ireland got more foreign direct investment from America than =
from China. And overall government tax receipts are way up.

"We set up in Ireland in 1990," Michael Dell, founder of Dell Computer, =
explained to me via e-mail. "What attracted us? [A] well-educated work =
force - and good universities close by. [Also,] Ireland has an =
industrial and tax policy which is consistently very supportive of =
businesses, independent of which political party is in power. I believe =
this is because there are enough people who remember the very bad times =
to de-politicize economic development. [Ireland also has] very good =
transportation and logistics and a good location - easy to move products =
to major markets in Europe quickly."

Finally, added Mr. Dell, "they're competitive, want to succeed, hungry =
and know how to win. ... Our factory is in Limerick, but we also have =
several thousand sales and technical people outside of Dublin. The =
talent in Ireland has proven to be a wonderful resource for us. ... Fun =
fact: We are Ireland's largest exporter."

Intel opened its first chip factory in Ireland in 1993. James Jarrett, =
an Intel vice president, said Intel was attracted by Ireland's large =
pool of young educated men and women, low corporate taxes and other =
incentives that saved Intel roughly a billion dollars over 10 years. =
National health care didn't hurt, either. "We have 4,700 employees there =
now in four factories, and we are even doing some high-end chip =
designing in Shannon with Irish engineers," he said.

In 1990, Ireland's total work force was 1.1 million. This year it will =
hit two million, with no unemployment and 200,000 foreign workers =
(including 50,000 Chinese). Others are taking notes. Prime Minister =
Bertie Ahern said: "I've met the premier of China five times in the last =
two years."

Ireland's advice is very simple: Make high school and college education =
free; make your corporate taxes low, simple and transparent; actively =
seek out global companies; open your economy to competition; speak =
English; keep your fiscal house in order; and build a consensus around =
the whole package with labor and management - then hang in there, =
because there will be bumps in the road - and you, too, can become one =
of the richest countries in Europe.

"It wasn't a miracle, we didn't find gold," said Mary Harney. "It was =
the right domestic policies and embracing globalization."=20

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Miche=E1l Martin TD, Minister for Enterprise, Trade & Employment =
publishes

the Employment Permits Bill 2005



The Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Miche=E1l Martin, =
today,

29 June 2005, published the Employment Permits Bill 2005.



Commenting on the Bill's publication, Minister Martin said, "The aim =
is

that Ireland will have a flexible and responsive employment permit =
system,

which will ensure that the economy's skills and labour needs can =
be

addressed in a pragmatic and speedy manner, while ensuring the rights =
of

all workers are protected. In short, Ireland's economic advance will =
not

be impeded by the absence of the requisite skills and experience".



The new Bill will do three things:


Firstly, it will clearly and comprehensively set out in legislation =
the

procedures relating to the application, grant and refusal of work =
permits.



Secondly, the Bill allows the Minister introduce a "green-card" type =
system

for highly skilled migrant workers and enables the Minister to =
establish

the number of employment permits in total and by sector, and to =
identify

the skills and employment categories in respect of which employment =
permits

may be granted.


Thirdly, it will provide a number of new important protections for =
migrant

employees.


Migrant Worker Protections

The Bill contains a number of new important protections for =
migrant

employees, principal of which will be the granting of the work permit =
to

the employee. However, the practice of the employer applying for =
the

permit will continue.



The Bill also provides that the employment permit will contain a =
statement

of the rights and entitlements of the employee, including that the =
employee

may change employment through the application for another work permit =
by a

new employer. These new arrangements will offer greater protection =
and

mobility to the employee.



In addition, the Bill prohibits employers from deducting =
expenses

associated with recruitment from the employee's remuneration and =
from

retention of personal documents belonging to the employee. There will =
be

significant penalties for breaches of the legislation, comprising fines =
to

a maximum of EUR50,000 or terms of imprisonment not exceeding 5 years.



Green- cards & Employment Permits

In relation to Green-cards, the legislation will empower the Minister =
to

formulate a framework within which an active economic migration policy =
can

be implemented. In particular, the Bill allows the Minister to =
introduce a

"green-card" type system for highly skilled migrant workers. The =
Bill

specifically gives the Minister the power to make regulations to =
grant

permission for non-European Economic Area (EU-25 plus Norway, =
Iceland,

Lichtenstein and Switzerland) nationals with specified skills to reside =
and

work here for a defined period of time..



In relation to Work Permits the legislation will enable the Minister, =
every

two years,

=A7 to set the maximum number of employment permits to be issued =
both in
total and by sector,
=A7 to identify the skills and qualifications required for the grant =
of a
permit, and
=A7 to identify the categories of employment that may or may not be =
the
subject of granting employment permits.


Forf=E1s and the Expert Group for Future Skills Needs are currently =
engaged

in research and consultations on the detailed issues entailed in =
the

implementation of this policy, including the types of skills for =
which

permits should be granted. This work will form the basis for a =
policy

paper to be published by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and =
Employment

in the Autumn. On foot of this paper new "green-card" type =
employment

permit arrangements will be implemented.



The aim is that Ireland will have a flexible and responsive =
employment

permit system, which will ensure that the economy's skills and labour =
needs

can be addressed in a pragmatic and speedy manner. We already have =
137,000

non-nationals working in Ireland, which represents 7 per cent of our =
labour

force. However, we will need to attract even more highly skilled =
workers

in order to ensure that Ireland's economic advance is not hindered.



Concluding Minister Martin said "The success of Ireland's economy =
in

recent years has been underpinned by the attraction to Ireland =
of

significant numbers of non-EEA workers. In order to sustain this =
economic

success, we must ensure that labour and skill shortages in the economy =
are

met. The Employment Permits Bill 2005 aims to achieve this end, by =
placing

the policy and administration of Ireland's economic migration policy =
on a

legislative basis, providing for a more effective system of migration, =
and

by providing greater protection for migrant workers."

(Copy of this Press Release also available on the Departments website at
www.entemp.ie)



ENDS

ETE 1384



Press Office
Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment Kildare Street, Dublin 2
Ph: 631 2200 Fax: 6312828
www.entemp.ie

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Forwarded on behalf of...

Gerry Molumby
01773 863217 (UK)
07800 775460
fmolumby[at]aol.com
________________________________

From: FMolumby[at]aol.com=20
Subject: Triskellion ~ New Website ~ www.triskellion.inuk.com
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I am delighted to announce access to our new and fully updated =
website...

Since 1996 we have maintained our mission statement to :
"platform the quality and diversity of Irish theatre, music, song, =
dance
and comedy"
=20
Please accept our permission to link our site to yours.
=20
'Celtic Strands' Gala Irish Showcase - featuring (for example) Se=E1n =
Cannon
from the famous ' Dubliners' and many more . We can devise a show to =
meet
your festival / club / cabaret needs, just ask !. There are some =
samples of
posters of past and current shows to view on the 'concert page'
=20
' The Rare Oul Times ' . Our current theatre promotion - this is =
'Irish
Drama At Its Best' - meet Brendan Behan and Patrick Kavanagh !.
=20
We also welcome new members to join our theatre company . If you are =
living
in around the East Midlands of the UK and would like to be involved in =
an
Irish Community Theatre program - from page to stage - get in touch
=20
' Irish Entertainer' - As well as the artistic director at Triskellion =
I am
also a singer and storyteller (Seanchai). See details on website
=20
Nottingham Irish - We have also added a page on 'Nottingham Irish ' and
'free' subscription to the Triskellion Newsletter.
=20
What more could you want !!
=20
I would like to thank James Webb - appropriate! who was very patient in
designing and advising us on the site construction.
See www.shootingpanda.co.uk
=20
Contact us to discuss any aspect of
=20
Triskellion ~ Irish Theatre - Concert/Cabaret Productions.
=20
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Sl=E1n,
=20
Gerry Molumby
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From The Christian Science Monitor Thu Jun 30, 2005

In Ireland, few safe havens for an ancient tongue By Ron DePasquale The
Christian Science Monitor Thu Jun 30, 2005
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On this tiny, wind-swept island at Europe's western edge, a shopkeeper =
makes
a proud gesture toward the radio, which blares the midday news in an
ancient, dying language.

Irish Gaelic is still the native tongue of some 55,000 people who live
mostly along the west coast. But it is under siege. Even Inis Me=E1in, =
one of
three Aran Islands off the coast of County Galway famed for =
old-fashioned
ways, is no longer a safe haven.

"Irish is in trouble," says Cuomh=E1n =D3 F=E1tharta, Inis Me=E1in's =
sole
shopkeeper. "When I was young, you had to learn English in school =
because
there was no TV. I couldn't really speak English until I was 12, but now =
the
kids are all picking it up young."

As Ireland's mother tongue struggles to survive, the government has =
stepped
up its contentious efforts to save the language, known here simply as =
Irish.

The European Union (EU) gave Irish a symbolic boost when it recognized =
it as
an official language on June 13, three decades after Ireland joined the
union. Road signs in the scattered Irish-speaking towns and islands - =
known
collectively as the Gaeltacht - have posted place names exclusively in =
Irish
since April.
And new Gaeltacht housing developments must reserve homes for Irish
speakers.

Critics call these tactics costly shenanigans that only engender =
resentment
against a language that schoolchildren must study for 13 years. The =
minority
who become fluent have little chance to speak Irish outside the =
Gaeltacht.

"For the majority of students, the Irish language now exists for the =
sake of
perpetuating its own death grip on the school system," columnist Louise
Holden wrote recently in The Irish Times.

Yet on Inis Me=E1in, Mr. =D3 F=E1tharta says the road sign kerfuffle =
won't last.
Tourists will adapt, he says, and such forceful government action is
essential to sustain the language. He points to the success of
state-supported Irish-language radio and TV, which have grown in =
popularity,
and the invasion of students who come to County Galway to study Irish =
every
summer.

"People want to learn the language," he says. "That's why they keep =
coming."

In mostly English-speaking Galway City, pubs serve as a place for people =
to
speak Irish. At Taffees, where traditional Irish bands play every night, =
an
encouraging sign at the bar says, "Irish spoken here."
Yet many native Irish speakers feel uncomfortable speaking their =
language
outside their hometowns, a
self- consciousness that experts say prevents the spread of Irish as a
spoken language.

Irish has been declining for centuries, since families hoping to better
their prospects made children speak English instead of Irish. Hoping to
reverse that trend, the nation's founders made Irish the primary =
language
and a core school subject after independence from Britain in 1921.

Yet today, just 43 percent of Irish citizens say they can speak the
language, and only 1.4 percent are native speakers.

Michael Faherty, who rents bicycles to tourists on Inis Me=E1in, says he =
is
realistic about the language's hold on the young. "They're turning to
English now,"
he says as he fixes a bicycle to a background of traditional Irish =
music.
"It's more fashionable."

Irish language activists want a bilingual nation. Some blame a =
curriculum
that focuses on grammar and rote memorization, rather than teaching
conversational Irish. Others say that the complex language must be
modernized, following Israel's success in reviving Hebrew.

The growth of Irish-language schools, or gaelscoileanna, has lifted =
hopes
for the language's survival. Outside Gaeltacht areas, 52 Irish-language
elementary schools have been created since 1993, bringing the number to =
120.
And more books are being translated into Irish; students can now read =
Harry
Potter in the old language.

The lucrative field of official Irish translation is also booming, =
thanks to
a law passed two years ago that requires all government documents and
services to be provided in Irish. The new EU designation created a need =
for
dozens more well-paid Irish speakers to translate EU documents and =
interpret
at parliamentary and ministerial meetings. Yet the government says it =
can't
find enough to keep up with the work.

An elderly woman on Inis Me=E1in, wearing a traditional long dark skirt =
and
shawl, spoke wistfully about her native language.

"I don't know who will speak the Irish after the old people are gone," =
says
the 80-year-old woman, who did not give her name. "The youngsters are =
all
learning English, too much English."

Copyright =A9 2005 The Christian Science Monitor

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Maybe other matters require to be considered before this wonderful
appraisal is accepted at face value. Yesterday Jack McConnell,
Scotland's First Minister, vented a moral perspective on important
current events. With regards Scotland and the forthcoming G8 Summit,
McConnell said, 'the truth is that, despite our advances, ours remains a
wasteful, greedy and materialistic society'. Might similar be applied
to some aspects of the shining Irish example described by Friedman?
There are of course more ways than one to be 'rich'.=20=20=20=20






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Subject: [IR-D] Friedman on Ireland


=46rom this morning's New York Times:



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June 29, 2005
The End of the Rainbow
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN=20
Dublin

Here's something you probably didn't know: Ireland today is the richest
country in the European Union after Luxembourg.

Yes, the country that for hundreds of years was best known for
emigration, tragic poets, famines, civil wars and leprechauns today has
a per capita G.D.P. higher than that of Germany, France and Britain. How
Ireland went from the sick man of Europe to the rich man in less than a
generation is an amazing story. It tells you a lot about Europe today:
all the innovation is happening on the periphery by those countries
embracing globalization in their own ways - Ireland, Britain,
Scandinavia and Eastern Europe - while those following the French-German
social model are suffering high unemployment and low growth.

Ireland's turnaround began in the late 1960's when the government made
secondary education free, enabling a lot more working-class kids to get
a high school or technical degree. As a result, when Ireland joined the
E.U. in 1973, it was able to draw on a much more educated work force.=20

By the mid-1980's, though, Ireland had reaped the initial benefits of
E.U. membership - subsidies to build better infrastructure and a big
market to sell into. But it still did not have enough competitive
products to sell, because of years of protectionism and fiscal
mismanagement. The country was going broke, and most college grads were
emigrating.=20

"We went on a borrowing, spending and taxing spree, and that nearly
drove us under," said Deputy Prime Minister Mary Harney. "It was because
we nearly went under that we got the courage to change."

And change Ireland did. In a quite unusual development, the government,
the main trade unions, farmers and industrialists came together and
agreed on a program of fiscal austerity, slashing corporate taxes to
12.5 percent, far below the rest of Europe, moderating wages and prices,
and aggressively courting foreign investment. In 1996, Ireland made
college education basically free, creating an even more educated work
force.

The results have been phenomenal. Today, 9 out of 10 of the world's top
pharmaceutical companies have operations here, as do 16 of the top 20
medical device companies and 7 out of the top 10 software designers.
Last year, Ireland got more foreign direct investment from America than
from China. And overall government tax receipts are way up.

"We set up in Ireland in 1990," Michael Dell, founder of Dell Computer,
explained to me via e-mail. "What attracted us? [A] well-educated work
force - and good universities close by. [Also,] Ireland has an
industrial and tax policy which is consistently very supportive of
businesses, independent of which political party is in power. I believe
this is because there are enough people who remember the very bad times
to de-politicize economic development. [Ireland also has] very good
transportation and logistics and a good location - easy to move products
to major markets in Europe quickly."

Finally, added Mr. Dell, "they're competitive, want to succeed, hungry
and know how to win. ... Our factory is in Limerick, but we also have
several thousand sales and technical people outside of Dublin. The
talent in Ireland has proven to be a wonderful resource for us. ... Fun
fact: We are Ireland's largest exporter."

Intel opened its first chip factory in Ireland in 1993. James Jarrett,
an Intel vice president, said Intel was attracted by Ireland's large
pool of young educated men and women, low corporate taxes and other
incentives that saved Intel roughly a billion dollars over 10 years.
National health care didn't hurt, either. "We have 4,700 employees there
now in four factories, and we are even doing some high-end chip
designing in Shannon with Irish engineers," he said.

In 1990, Ireland's total work force was 1.1 million. This year it will
hit two million, with no unemployment and 200,000 foreign workers
(including 50,000 Chinese). Others are taking notes. Prime Minister
Bertie Ahern said: "I've met the premier of China five times in the last
two years."

Ireland's advice is very simple: Make high school and college education
free; make your corporate taxes low, simple and transparent; actively
seek out global companies; open your economy to competition; speak
English; keep your fiscal house in order; and build a consensus around
the whole package with labor and management - then hang in there,
because there will be bumps in the road - and you, too, can become one
of the richest countries in Europe.

"It wasn't a miracle, we didn't find gold," said Mary Harney. "It was
the right domestic policies and embracing globalization."=20

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