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Book Review from

BookView Ireland :: May 2005 :: Issue No.118

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Irish community
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Your Fondest Annie - ed. Maureen Murphy

Here is a collection of letters, part of UCD Press' Classics of Irish =
History series, that give the reader a vivid insight into the experience =
of emigration, through the eyes of a young woman who left her native =
Galway at the turn of the last century to follow her sisters to America. =
On the boat over, the Adria, she met James Phelan from Kilkenny and the =
friendship they struck up during the crossing was to develop into a =
deeper relationship and, eventually, marriage. "Your Fondest Annie" =
gives a glimpse into the life of a young Irish woman as she strives to =
better both herself and her prospective husband amid the challenges of a =
strange environment.=20

The letters, none of them too long, are evidence of Annie's education; =
the youngest daughter in the family from Spiddal, she was sent to the =
Presentation Sisters in Galway to train as a teacher under the =
monitoring system. Her superior education stood her in good stead when =
she reached the US as she secured a position in Pittsburgh with the =
Mellons, one of the wealthiest families in the country. It was not all =
plain sailing, however, as her letters to James tell us. She seems to =
have had a difficult time settling into her new surroundings and speaks =
often of her lack of friends and the cool welcome she received when she =
arrived in the city. In her letter of October 12, 1902 Annie tells Jim =
how she appreciates every kindness received for "the cool way I was =
treated when I came to Pittsburgh was still fresh in my mind". She found =
it hard to forgive those who had treated her badly, declaring, "I am of =
the type that feels the sting long after the bite". Her loneliness was =
assuaged somewhat by the presence of Ellen, born in England of Irish =
parents, who became her great friend, and the many journeys undertaken =
by the Mellon family and their household as they moved between their =
house, their boat and a number of hotels. All of this movement, of =
course, made the sending and receiving of letters a rather haphazard =
affair and a plea for Jim to write often is included in many of the =
letters.=20

Annie O'Donnell seems to have belonged to the section of the human race =
for whom the cup is always half empty; it cannot have been of much =
comfort to Jim, in Indianapolis, to read "I have never known myself yet =
to try anything without having a certain amount of disappointment in =
connection with it. Of course that's nothing new. It has been my luck so =
far through life". It is fortunate, therefore, that Ms Murphy, in her =
introduction, gives an outline of the married life of Annie and James =
Phelan, their eight children, six of whom survived to adulthood and =
three of whom followed a religious vocation. Ms Murphy has given a =
portrait of the mature Annie O'Donnell and it is then an interesting =
exercise to see how her personality developed in her years looking after =
the Mellon children.=20

(UCD Press, ISBN 1-904558-37-2, pp154, =E2=82=AC18.00)=20

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The Professional Geographer
Volume 57 Issue 2 Page 235 - May 2005
doi:10.1111/j.0033-0124.2005.00475.x

The Geography of Religious Affiliation in Scotland
Michael Pacione1

Academic study of the relationships between geography and religion
constitutes a long-established subfield of cultural geography. The tradition
is particularly strong in the United States where the seminal work of the
Berkeley School stimulated a wealth of research on mapping the religious
landscapes of North America. Religion has received far less attention within
British human geography, due, in part, to the marginal position of religion
within cultural geography and, in particular, to the absence of reliable,
comprehensive data on religious affiliation. The present research overcomes
these ideological and methodological obstacles to advance knowledge of the
geography of religion in the United Kingdom. Employing data from the latest
Census of Population, embedded within an established tradition of mapping
geographies of religion, the research provides detailed analysis of the
geography of religious affiliation in Scotland at the advent of the
twenty-first century.

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interest in the history of Ballymun?

Yet, when it is pointed out, it is all so obvious...

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Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Volume 95 Issue 1 Page 181 - March 2005
doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.2005.00455.x

Sartre's Circular Dialectic and the Empires of Abstract Space: A History of
Space and Place in Ballymun, Dublin
Mark Boyle*

Ballymun in Dublin, one of the most famous of Europe's grandiose housing
estates, has had an especially dramatic history since it was first built in
1965. At the heart of the unfolding drama has been a series of conflicts
between the spatial imaginations of the state officials and planners who
designed, built, and managed the initial estate and who are currently
undertaking its wholesale regeneration, and the place-making activities of
the local residents who have inhabited, endured, and occasionally sought to
reclaim this space. Concerned to prise open some fresh ways of thinking
about the hyperextension of "abstract space" into everyday life, this
article presents a reconstruction of the history of space and place in
Ballymun. In their exploration of the onslaught of abstract space, critical
human geographers have drawn upon a wide range of social theorists including
Benjamin, De Certeau, Debord, Deluze, Foucault, Giddens, Habermas,
Heidegger, Jameson, Weber, and, of course, Henri Lefebvre. Strangely absent
from this list, however, has been the work of Jean-Paul Sartre. And yet,
contained within Sartre's Critique de la raison dialectique (Critique of
Dialectical Reason) resides a tremendously powerful account of the
ever-growing occupation, dispossession, and reterritorialization of everyday
life by the abstract grids and geometries imprinted on the Earth's surface
by capitalism and the capitalist state. It will be the central task of this
article to read the history of Ballymun through the lens of Sartre's
Critique of Dialectical Reason, and, in so doing, to rework the Critique so
that it speaks to the concerns of contemporary critical human geography.

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Historical Research
Volume 78 Issue 199 Page 113 - February 2005
doi:10.1111/j.1468-2281.2005.00240.x

The role of the historical adviser and the Bloody Sunday Tribunal*
Paul Bew

Abstract

On 30 January 1972 thirteen apparently unarmed citizens of the United
Kingdom were shot dead by the British army in Derry. The army's conduct on
that day has been the subject of bitter controversy in nationalist Ireland
ever since. There have also been many allegations of a high level political
conspiracy. In 1998 the prime minister, Tony Blair, decided to establish a
new tribunal of inquiry. The rich array of documents released by the Bloody
Sunday Tribunal does not support the idea of either a British government or
Ulster Unionist conspiracy to bring about loss of life. But the same
documents do raise questions about the mentality of the British army. As for
the role of the I.R.A. - both Provisional and Official - the inquiry heard
much conflicting evidence and we will have to await Lord Saville's final
verdict in 2005.

Concluding paragraph...

The Bloody Sunday Tribunal is part of a struggle for the 'verdict of
history'- and the only people who can give you the 'verdict of history' with
any remote authority are historians. Historians themselves differ about this
verdict but it is their argument which matters, not the confident yet
ephemeral rhetoric of barristers. The government has a legacy from the
Bloody Sunday Tribunal - not just the heavy financial cost - but also the
claims of other victims of the 'Troubles' to have their stories respected by
the state. It has unfinished business here, and it needs to reflect on the
way it has gone about its work thus far. A certain humility is necessary. A
consensus now rules, which stretches from the anti-revisionist History
Ireland journal to the most arch-revisionist, that in the original Bloody
Sunday of November 1920 British armoured cars did not invade the Croke Park
stadium as shown in the recent Michael Collins movie directed by Neil
Jordan. Does anyone really believe that a tribunal of inquiry which
established this fact would actually have changed the intention of the
film-maker?

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The Irish Review: Issue 33

http://www.corkuniversitypress.com=20

General Editors: Michael Cronin, Colin Graham and Clare =
O=E2=80=99Halloran
July 2005, ISBN 1 85918 383 2, =E2=82=AC16/=C2=A311, Paperback,ISSN =
0790 =E2=80=93 7850

Contents
Global Ireland/Local Worlds
Black bodies and =E2=80=98headless hookers=E2=80=99: Alternative global =
narratives for 21st
century Ireland,Ronit Lentin; Irish Political Community in Transition,
Gerard Delanty;Interculturalism and Irish Theatre: The Portrayal of
Immigrants on the Irish Stage, Jason King; In the Wake of the Tiger: =
Mapping
Anew the Social Terrain, Peadar Kirby; Authenticity to Classicisation - =
the
course of revival in Irish Traditional music, Fintan Valleley;
Multiculturalism in Ireland,Chinedu Onyejelem; Guests of the Nation, =
Steve
Garner.=20

Global concerns/local reputations=20
Re-viewing Casement,Barra =C3=93 S=C3=A9aghdha;=E2=80=98A lack of =
invention=E2=80=99: Corkery,
criticism and minor fatigue,Paul Delaney

Review articles
Ambiguous Allegiances: Early Modern Ireland,Brendan Bradshaw;Edmund =
Burke=E2=80=99s
Gothic Imagination,Siobh=C3=A1n Kilfeather;Essentialist Agendas: the =
Irish
Revival, Matthew Kelly

Reviews
John A. Murphy,Dermot Keogh, Finbarr O=E2=80=99Shea and Carmel Quinlan =
(eds.), The
Lost Decade. Ireland in the 1950s; Louise Fuller, Irish Catholicism =
since
1950. The Undoing of a Culture. Marie Coleman, Peter Hart, The I.R.A. =
at
War, 1916-1923 Oxford: Oxford University Press.Eamonn Hughes, Glenn
Patterson, That Which Was. Eoin McNamee, The Ultras. Peter Denman, =
Michael
Longley, Snow Water. Leontia Flynn,These Days.
Tadhg Foley, Gordon Bigelow. Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics =
in
Victorian Britain and Ireland. Peter Gray (ed.). Victoria=E2=80=99s =
Ireland?
Irishness and Britishness, 1837-1901. Anne Oakman, Elizabeth Grubgeld,
Anglo-Irish Autobiography. Class, Gender, and the Forms of Narrative. =
Lance
Pettitt, Farrell Corcoran, RTE and the Globalisation of Irish =
Television.
Neil Fleming, Eberhard Bort (ed.), Commemorating Ireland: History, =
Politics,
Culture. Gerald Dawe, Selina Guinness, The New Irish Poets.=20
Tony Crowley, Maria Tymoczko and Colin Ireland (eds.), Language and
Tradition in Ireland:Continuities and Displacements. Liam Mac =
C=C3=B3il, Cathal =C3=93
Searcaigh, Seal i Neipeal. Gabriel Rosenstock, =C3=93lann mo =
Mhi=C3=BAil as an
nGains=C3=A9is. Neal Alexander,
Linden Peach, The Contemporary Irish Novel: Critical Readings. Eamon =
Maher,
John McGahern: From the Local to the Universal.=20

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Research Article
Air temperatures at Armagh Observatory, Northern Ireland, from 1796 to =
2002

C. J. Butler *, A. M. Garc=EDa Su=E1rez, A. D. S. Coughlin, C. Morrell
Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, Northern Ireland, UK
email: C. J. Butler (cjb[at]arm.ac.uk)

*Correspondence to C. J. Butler, Armagh Observatory, College Hill, =
Armagh
BT61 9DG, Northern Ireland, UK

Funded by:
UK Heritage Lottery Fund; Grant Number: RF-98-01507
Soldiers and Sailors Land Trust Fund; Grant Number: RF 46 AG 152

Keywords
temperature =95 Northern Ireland =95 climate change =95 North Atlantic =
oscillation

Abstract
Three independent mean temperature series for Armagh Observatory, =
covering
the period 1796-2002 have been calibrated and corrected for the time of
reading and exposure. Agreement between the three series is good in =
regions
of overlap. With a short gap in the Armagh data from 1825 to 1833 filled =
by
data from two stations in Dublin, the resulting series is the longest =
for
the island of Ireland and one of the longest for any single site in the
British Isles.
Over the past 207 years, we note that temperatures in Armagh, in all
seasons, show a gradual overall trend upwards. However, there are =
seasonal
differences: summer and spring temperatures have increased by only half =
as
much as those in autumn and winter. This is partly due to the =
exceptionally
cold winters and autumns experienced prior to 1820. Relative to the =
overall
trend, warm periods occurred in Ireland, as in other parts of Europe, in =
the
mid-19th century, in the mid-20th century and at the end of the 20th
century. Relatively cool temperatures prevailed in the early 19th =
century,
in the 1880s and in the 1970s. Thus, if the baseline against which =
current
temperatures are compared were moved from the late 19th century to =
include
the earlier warm period, the apparent warming at the end of the late =
20th
century would be correspondingly reduced.
A gradual decline in the daily temperature range at Armagh since 1844 =
may
have resulted from higher minimum temperatures associated with increased
cloudiness.
A 7.8 year periodicity is identified in winter and spring mean =
temperatures
at Armagh, which is probably a consequence of the North Atlantic
oscillation. Copyright =A9 2005 Royal Meteorological Society
Received: 5 May 2004; Revised: 15 November 2004; Accepted: 15 November =
2004

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

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The online journal Museum and Sciety is based within the Department of
Museum Studies at Leicester University. It has just published/displayed its
latest issue, which is a special, looking at 'museums and national
identity', edited by Fiona McLean, of Glasgow Caledonian University, the
author of Marketing the Museum.

Ireland and the Irish are only mentioned in passing, in the usual way, in
the online papers. But I think that the broad discussions - and the
references - will be of interest to quite a few Ir-D members. I have been
asked a number of times recently to comment on museum or museum-like
projects - I don't know why. But this was one of the issues I looked at in
a recent talk in New York. And I find these articles useful.

P.O'S.

http://www.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/

Museum and society

Vol. 3.1 (March 2005) [Published in June 2005]

~ McLean, Fiona. "Guest editorial: museums and national identity."
Full-Text: http://www.le.ac.uk/ms/m&s/guestedit.pdf

~ Ashley, Susan. "State authority and the public sphere:
ideas on the changing role of the museum as a Canadian social institution."
Full-Text: http://www.le.ac.uk/ms/m&s/ashley.pdf

~ Mason, Rhiannon. "Nation building at the Museum of Welsh Life."
Full-Text: http://www.le.ac.uk/ms/m&s/mason.pdf

~ Dean, David, and Peter E. Rider. "Museums, nation and political history in
the Australian National Museum and the Canadian Museum of Civilization."
Full-Text: http://www.le.ac.uk/ms/m&s/deanrider.pdf

~ dos Santos, Myrian Sepulveda. "Representations of black people in
Brazilian museums."
Full-Text: http://www.le.ac.uk/ms/m&s/santos.pdf

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Dear Paddy,

I thought this followup column might be of interest to the list.

In haste,

Patricia

=20

July 1, 2005
Follow the Leapin' Leprechaun
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN=20
Dublin

There is a huge debate roiling in Europe today over which economic model =
to follow: the Franco-German =
shorter-workweek-six-weeks'-vacation-never-fire-anyone-but-high-unemploym=
ent social model or the less protected but more innovative, =
high-employment Anglo-Saxon model preferred by Britain, Ireland and =
Eastern Europe. It is obvious to me that the Irish-British model is the =
way of the future, and the only question is when Germany and France will =
face reality: either they become Ireland or they become museums. That is =
their real choice over the next few years - it's either the leprechaun =
way or the Louvre.

Because I am convinced of that, I am also convinced that the German and =
French political systems will experience real shocks in the coming years =
as both nations are asked to work harder and embrace either more =
outsourcing or more young Muslim and Eastern European immigrants to =
remain competitive.=20

As an Irish public relations executive in Dublin remarked to me: "How =
would you like to be the French leader who tells the French people they =
have to follow Ireland?" Or even worse, Tony Blair!

Just how ugly things could get was demonstrated the other day when Mr. =
Blair told his E.U. colleagues at the European Parliament that they had =
to modernize or perish.=20

"Pro-Chirac French [parliamentarians] skulked at the back of the hall," =
The Times of London reported. But Jean Quatremer, the veteran Brussels =
correspondent for the French left-wing newspaper Lib=E9ration, was =
quoted by The Times as saying: "For a long time we have been talking =
about the French social model, as opposed to the horrible Anglo-Saxon =
model, but we now see that it is our model that is a horror."

Given that Ireland received more foreign direct investment from the U.S. =
in 2003 than China received from the U.S., the Germans and French may =
want to take a few tips from the Celtic Tiger. One of the first reforms =
Ireland instituted was to make it easier to fire people, without having =
to pay years of severance. Sounds brutal, I know. But the easier it is =
to fire people, the more willing companies are to hire people.

Harry Kraemer Jr., the former C.E.O. of Baxter International, a medical =
equipment maker that has made several investments in Ireland, explained =
that "the energy level, the work ethic, the tax optimization and the =
flexibility of the labor supply" all made Ireland infinitely more =
attractive to invest in than France or Germany, where it was enormously =
costly to let go even one worker. The Irish, he added, had the =
self-confidence that if they kept their labor laws flexible some jobs =
would go, but new jobs would keep coming - and that is exactly what has =
happened.=20

Ireland is "playing offense," Mr. Kraemer said, while Germany and France =
are "playing defense," and the more they try to protect every old job, =
the fewer new ones they attract.

But Ireland has started to play offense in a lot of other ways as well. =
It initially focused on attracting investments from U.S. high-tech =
companies by offering them a flexible, educated work force and low =
corporate taxes. But now, explained Ireland's minister of education, =
Mary Hanafin, the country has started a campaign to double the number of =
Ph.D.'s it graduates in science and engineering by 2010, and it has set =
up various funds to get global companies, and just brainy people, to =
come to Ireland to do research. Ireland is now actively recruiting =
Chinese scientists in particular.=20

"It is good for our own quality students to be mixing with quality =
students from abroad," Ms. Hanafin said. "Industry will go where the =
major research goes."

The goal, added the minister for enterprise and trade, Micheal Martin, =
is to generate more homegrown Irish companies and not just work for =
others. His ministry recently set up an Enterprise Ireland fund to =
identify "high-potential Irish start-up companies and give them =
mentoring and support," and to also nurture mid-size Irish companies =
into multinationals.=20

And by the way, because of all the tax revenue and employment the global =
companies are generating in Ireland, Dublin has been able to increase =
spending on health care, schools and infrastructure. "You can only do =
this if you have the income to do it," Deputy Prime Minister Mary Harney =
said. "You can't have social inclusion without economic success. ... =
This is how you create the real social Europe."

Germany and France are trying to protect their welfare capitalism with =
defense. Ireland is generating its own sustainable model of social =
capitalism by playing offense. I'll bet on the offense.=20

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Piaras,

Thank you so much for this excellent and comprehensive reply to what I
also consider to be a dreadful article. I read it a few days ago when it
first appeared in the NY Times and it turned my stomach also. When it
popped into my mail box this morning I was considering how to reply
when your not to be topped response came in.

Friedman is not the only right winger in the US to use Ireland as a
model of pure Capitalism. I have head this elsewhere most especially
from Larry Kudlow and it greatly disturbs me. What has been lost - and
the real social price of it all - is beyond their understanding or care.

Carmel

MacEinri, Piaras wrote:

>Friedman is an apostle of globalisation whio seems to take little or no
>account of the downsides. Many of us who actually live in Ireland would have
>difficulty in recognising the country he describes but we recognise the
>discourse alright;
>
>

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IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW
VOL 35; NUMB 1; 2005
ISSN 0021-1427

p. vii
Introduction: The `Whole World' of John McGahern Brannigan, J.

pp. 1-12
What Is My Language?
McGahern, J.

pp. 13-27
`Only What Happens': Mulling Over McGahern Grennan, E.

pp. 28-41
`A Crack in the Concrete': Objects in the Works of John McGahern Goarzin, A.

pp. 42-57
`All Toppers': Children in the Fiction of John McGahern Crotty, P.

pp. 58-71
The Irish Novel in Crisis? The Example of John McGahern Maher, E.

pp. 72-89
`Robins Feeding With the Sparrows': The Protestant `Big House' in the
Fiction of John McGahern McKeon, B.

pp. 90-103
Death in Marriage: The Tragedy of Elizabeth Reegan in The Barracks Ledwidge,
G. T.

pp. 104-120
`All This Talk and Struggle': John McGahern's The Dark van der Ziel, S.

pp. 121-135
John McGahern's Amongst Women: Representation, Memory, and Trauma Garratt,
R. F.

pp. 136-146
`Open to the World': A Reading of John McGahern's That They May Face the
Rising Sun Sampson, D.

pp. 147-163
`All That Surrounds Our Life': Time, Sex, and Death in That They May Face
the Rising Sun Hughes, E.

pp. 164-174
Fallen Nobility: The World of John McGahern Kiberd, D.

pp. 175-202
John McGahern: An Annotated Bibliography van der Ziel, S.

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College of Arts & Celtic Studies
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The Global Irish Institute (GII) seeks to appoint a Director with the vision
and drive to establish the Institute as the leading centre for the study of
the global Irish community.

The GII will study and celebrate the achievements of the global Irish
community, foster a greater understanding of the different facets of
Irishness and seek solutions for contemporary challenges facing Irish
communities worldwide.

The Director will be responsible for representing the GII within both the
academic and global Irish communities, driving the GII's academic and public
outreach programmes, fostering new collaborations both within UCD and with
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Salary will be by agreement but may be up to the range of Professorial
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CFP: Eat, Drink, and Be Hungry: Ireland and Consumption

Eighth Annual Grian Conference

3-5 March 2006

Glucksman Ireland House

New York University



Bless us, O Cleric, famous pillar of learning,

Son of honey-bag, son of juice, son of lard,

Son of stirabout, son of porridge, son of fair-speckled clusters of fruit,

Son of smooth clustering cream, son of buttermilk, son of curds[.] (trans.
Kuno Meyer)



In the Aisling meic Conglinne, meic Conglinne's vision involves
a land of gluttony, filled with lakes of new cream and butter, bridges of
beef and loaves of bread. This prayer, which satirizes early Irish
genealogies, taken from the work provides an image of excess consumption
found in early Irish culture, when complex rituals and codes conduct
regulated the offer of food and hospitality. Throughout Ireland's history,
the rituals of food, drink and consumption have continued to play important,
yet protean roles as Ireland's social fabric has changed. The spectrum
between comestible scarcity and abundance at distinctive and extreme points
in Ireland's history manifests itself through complicated cultural attitudes
towards food. If a pint in Ireland is "the drink," Grian is interested in
exploring the social rituals, cultural practices and enduring aspects of
Ireland's comestible cultures at all points of its history. Papers that
address the broad relation of food and consumption in Ireland and its
diaspora may consider the following topics.



Food as emotion: comfort, desire, sex, nostalgia.

Food rituals and foodways: the Irish wake, pub
culture, 'the drink,' tea

drinking, Bewley's, Barry's.

Food scarcity and abundance: famine, trauma, economy.

Food extremes and health: eating disorders, overeating, well-being.

Food and prosperity: Darina Allen, haute cuisine in Ireland, authenticity

Food as business and commodity: from market to supermarket,

Superquinn's, Guinness, Bachelor's beans.

Food from home: immigrants and Club Orange, Mi Wadi,
Jacobs,

Galtee sausage and bacon.

Food and home: the hearth, dwellings.

Food and geography: landscapes and seascapes,
farming and fishing.

Food and gender: providers of food; breastfeeding.

Food and the arts: literature, song, visual arts.

Oral fixation: Oral/Orality/Oral desire/Orature.

Consumption and class: commodification of consumption, Waterford,

Belleek, consumerism, transnationalism, Celtic Tiger economy.

One page abstracts for 20 minute papers are invited from scholars in any
field including history, literature, cultural studies, business,
anthropology, etc., by October 15, 2005. Cross-disciplinary and
cross-cultural approaches are encouraged. Send abstracts to
Ireland.grian[at]nyu.edu . Queries may be
addressed to Elizabeth Gilmartin: egilmart[at]monmouth.edu
or Kerri Anne Burke: kab350[at]yahoo.com.


Elizabeth Gilmartin
Department of English
Monmouth University
W. Long Branch, NJ 07764
732-263-5695

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Friedman is an apostle of globalisation whio seems to take little or no
account of the downsides. Many of us who actually live in Ireland would have
difficulty in recognising the country he describes but we recognise the
discourse alright; it is the pitiless neoliberal cant peddled by the right
wing of the present Government, notably the Progressive Democrats. We now
have the greatest levels of inequality in the OECD area after the USA, which
is number one. In this corrupt little country connections and money will buy
you anything. Everything is for sale: you can build a golf course where
people used to walk (Old Head of Kinsale), you can destroy the heritage of
Tara, you can buy a politician for a few million (Haughey, and a few more
besides).

In a nasty and revealing little dispute last week Shell, the people who
devastated the lands of the Ogoni people in Nigeria, had five small farmers
from Mayo committed to prison for the crime of opposing their attempts to
use an untested technology to bring a high-pressure offshore gas pipe
through their lands in north-west Mayo. A previous Government minister (Ray
Burke, who has actually done time in prison for tax fraud) sold the
concessionary rights to Shell on extraordinary terms and no royalties will
accrue to the Irish Government. The farmers of north-west Mayo take all of
the risk, but even the country as a whole will get virtually none of the
benefit.

Friedman's patronising and stereotypical leapin' leprechuan ignores a few
harsh realities. We have a health system which can keep the poor waiting
literally years for an appointment and an education system which sees
children being taught in leaking prefabricated buildings erected on a
temporary basis in in the 1960s and 1970s. Due to corruption in planning and
land development, and a failure to counter the hegemony of the private car,
tens of thousands of Irish people spend up to four hours a day commuting.
Huge amounts of waste go into illegal dumps; at least one of the largest
turned out to be owned by one of the top five Irish multinationals. We have
tolerated and ignored child abuse, including sexual abuse, for decades, and
systematically supported the efforts of the Catholic Church to sweep their
misdoings in this area under th carpet. When the court awards started to
pile up, a Fianna Fail Government minister responded by indemnifying the
Catholic Church for all but an insignificant portion of the costs.

We have good laws to protect workers but no-one enforces them - there are
only a handful of labour market inspectors in the country. Immigrant workers
are ruthlessly exploited by gombeen Irish employers. Some of the very
nastiest employers, Ryanair for instance, are seen as flagship enterprises
of the new Ireland. In some respects they are - they represent the new
values of this country. Like getting on a Ryanair plane (there is no seat
allocation) the fittest get there first, and to hell with the aged, the
infirm and anyone who can't sprint to the front. It's an appropriate
metaphor for a soulless economy.

We could use a little of the French social model here. We could use proper
health, transport and education systems, a State which appreciates the
importance of public amenities, art, and respect for the public domain. We
could use a Government which does not slavishly provide George Bushe's
murderous foreign policy with every form of support and succour which it
asks for.

We haven't got it all wrong, but neither have the French. Right now, in our
university system, the drive is on to destroy any notion of an independent
academy. The talk is all of universities which are 'relevant to the needs of
the market place'. In a campus such as this those who articulate a different
viewpoint are derided as reactionaries and have on a number of occasions
been the victims of more direct forms of intimidation. We can find funding
for biotech and ICT, but research to investigate the social consequences of
globalisation and changed is discourage, as we saw with the closure in 2003
of the Centre for Migration Studies. Yet war criminal Henry Kissinger was
welcomed in person by the president of this university in the same year.

France and Germany do need to reform. No-one can ignore the changing balance
in economic forces in the world, but that does not mean encouraging a race
to the bottom. There is much to be proud of in the European social model. It
turns my stomach to read Friedman's reference to Harney, one of the most
brutal neoliberal politicians in the Irish political firmament, saying that
'you can't have social inclusion without economic success' when the reality
is that she and those who support her have no interest in social inclusion
and have become little more than mouthpieces for big business and corporate
cronyism.

Piaras Mac Einri
Cork

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Can I just add that I agree with every sentence of this email.

The role of the intellectual in such a climate is to make these very points
and to continue to apply the techniques of critique to social, economic and
cultural texts as well as written ones.

All the best,

Eugene.

Dr Eugene O'Brien
Head, Department of English Language and Literature
Mary Immaculate College
University of Limerick
South Circular Road
Limerick
Ireland
353 61 204989 (phone)
353 61 313632 (fax)
Eugene.OBrien[at]mic.ul.ie (email)
Homepage: http://www.mic.ul.ie/english/Eugene%20Home%20Page.htm

Assistant Dean Research
College of Humanities
University of Limerick
Ireland
353 61 202726 (phone)
353 61 338170 (fax)
Eugene.OBrien[at]ul.ie (email)



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From: MacEinri, Piaras [mailto:p.maceinri[at]UCC.IE]
Sent: 05 July 2005 11:15
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Friedman is an apostle of globalisation whio seems to take little or no
account of the downsides. Many of us who actually live in Ireland would have
difficulty in recognising the country he describes but we recognise the
discourse alright; it is the pitiless neoliberal cant peddled by the right
wing of the present Government, notably the Progressive Democrats. We now
have the greatest levels of inequality in the OECD area after the USA, which
is number one. In this corrupt little country connections and money will buy
you anything. Everything is for sale: you can build a golf course where
people used to walk (Old Head of Kinsale), you can destroy the heritage of
Tara, you can buy a politician for a few million (Haughey, and a few more
besides).

In a nasty and revealing little dispute last week Shell, the people who
devastated the lands of the Ogoni people in Nigeria, had five small farmers
from Mayo committed to prison for the crime of opposing their attempts to
use an untested technology to bring a high-pressure offshore gas pipe
through their lands in north-west Mayo. A previous Government minister (Ray
Burke, who has actually done time in prison for tax fraud) sold the
concessionary rights to Shell on extraordinary terms and no royalties will
accrue to the Irish Government. The farmers of north-west Mayo take all of
the risk, but even the country as a whole will get virtually none of the
benefit.

Friedman's patronising and stereotypical leapin' leprechuan ignores a few
harsh realities. We have a health system which can keep the poor waiting
literally years for an appointment and an education system which sees
children being taught in leaking prefabricated buildings erected on a
temporary basis in in the 1960s and 1970s. Due to corruption in planning and
land development, and a failure to counter the hegemony of the private car,
tens of thousands of Irish people spend up to four hours a day commuting.
Huge amounts of waste go into illegal dumps; at least one of the largest
turned out to be owned by one of the top five Irish multinationals. We have
tolerated and ignored child abuse, including sexual abuse, for decades, and
systematically supported the efforts of the Catholic Church to sweep their
misdoings in this area under th carpet. When the court awards started to
pile up, a Fianna Fail Government minister responded by indemnifying the
Catholic Church for all but an insignificant portion of the costs.

We have good laws to protect workers but no-one enforces them - there are
only a handful of labour market inspectors in the country. Immigrant workers
are ruthlessly exploited by gombeen Irish employers. Some of the very
nastiest employers, Ryanair for instance, are seen as flagship enterprises
of the new Ireland. In some respects they are - they represent the new
values of this country. Like getting on a Ryanair plane (there is no seat
allocation) the fittest get there first, and to hell with the aged, the
infirm and anyone who can't sprint to the front. It's an appropriate
metaphor for a soulless economy.

We could use a little of the French social model here. We could use proper
health, transport and education systems, a State which appreciates the
importance of public amenities, art, and respect for the public domain. We
could use a Government which does not slavishly provide George Bushe's
murderous foreign policy with every form of support and succour which it
asks for.

We haven't got it all wrong, but neither have the French. Right now, in our
university system, the drive is on to destroy any notion of an independent
academy. The talk is all of universities which are 'relevant to the needs of
the market place'. In a campus such as this those who articulate a different
viewpoint are derided as reactionaries and have on a number of occasions
been the victims of more direct forms of intimidation. We can find funding
for biotech and ICT, but research to investigate the social consequences of
globalisation and changed is discourage, as we saw with the closure in 2003
of the Centre for Migration Studies. Yet war criminal Henry Kissinger was
welcomed in person by the president of this university in the same year.

France and Germany do need to reform. No-one can ignore the changing balance
in economic forces in the world, but that does not mean encouraging a race
to the bottom. There is much to be proud of in the European social model. It
turns my stomach to read Friedman's reference to Harney, one of the most
brutal neoliberal politicians in the Irish political firmament, saying that
'you can't have social inclusion without economic success' when the reality
is that she and those who support her have no interest in social inclusion
and have become little more than mouthpieces for big business and corporate
cronyism.

Piaras Mac Einri
Cork

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I had to go to France at the weekend, to a family wedding in
Bretagne/Brittany.

Normally I try to avoid travelling on Ryanair - but this was the only air
line that could get me near to my destination. I can report - in the
interests of accuracy, I must report - that Ryanair allows the disabled and
families with small children to board the plane first. And the staff hold
back the ablebodied hordes whilst this happens.

So, Piaras is wrong on that point...

This might be a recent change of policy?

I should also report, on the level of holiday anecdote, that when I
explained to the waiter in a posh restaurant in Cancale that I was allergic,
dangeureusement allergique, to shellfish he said, Well you've come to the
wrong place, haven't you?

Paddy

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One is tempted to say that this may just be good PR by the company.
Let's face it, after some of the proclamations of O'Leary in recent years
(e.g. why do people need luggage when, because they travel cheap, they can
buy their clothes on arrival), they need to demonstrate a more humane
approach.

On the issue of Friedman, I remember coming across a copy of the republican
newspaper An Phoblact (I doubt if that is the correct
spelling) in the mid 1970s which showed an Irish Development Agency
advertisement for inward investors to avail of grants. The headline that was
used went something along the lines of 'Look, a licence to rob Ireland'. It
appears in the almost thirty years that have passed, Ireland has been robbed
of many things; most especially its soul. What, I wonder will Ireland be
like when the footloose inward investors move on, which surely they will,
and the EU decides to use the huge subsidies to create economic wealth
elsewhere. I wonder if Irish people will reconsider their attitude to
migration (especially if their own children need to travel) and, more
especially, to looking after their own.

Maybe the Marxist posters I have seen in the last few days are
correct...'Make Capitalism history'

Steven McCabe

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Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I had to go to France at the weekend, to a family wedding in
Bretagne/Brittany.

Normally I try to avoid travelling on Ryanair - but this was the only air
line that could get me near to my destination. I can report - in the
interests of accuracy, I must report - that Ryanair allows the disabled and
families with small children to board the plane first. And the staff hold
back the ablebodied hordes whilst this happens.

So, Piaras is wrong on that point...

This might be a recent change of policy?

I should also report, on the level of holiday anecdote, that when I
explained to the waiter in a posh restaurant in Cancale that I was allergic,
dangeureusement allergique, to shellfish he said, Well you've come to the
wrong place, haven't you?

Paddy

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From: MacEinri, Piaras
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Subject: RE: [IR-D] In the interests of accuracy...

Paddy

I am delighted to hear that Ryanair has changed. Because I can assure you it
is a change!! I have witnessed the scrambles in the past on several
occasions. Perhaps even Michael O'Leary is not impervious to public
pressure. Unfortunately for them, Ryanair's own pilots remain firmly under
the thumb: they were told in the last couple of days that if management
heard any more talk of complaints or unionisation (they are, of course,
non-union) that the said pilots would be transferred to Germany...

Piaras

> So, Piaras is wrong on that point...
>
> This might be a recent change of policy?
>
> I should also report, on the level of holiday anecdote, that when I
> explained to the waiter in a posh restaurant in Cancale that I was
> allergic, dangeureusement allergique, to shellfish he said, Well
> you've come to the wrong place, haven't you?
>
> Paddy
>
>
>

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From: Kerby Miller
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Isn't Friedman the NY TIMES or WASHINGTON POST=20 editorial writer who runs
around the world on=20 free trips to "globalizing" countries like India,=20
lauding their neoliberal policies in direct=20 proportion to the degree that
they "Wal-Martize"=20 and devastate local industries, agricultural=20
systems, and cultures--and privatize everything=20 that moves or doesn't?
If so, the joke I've=20 heard is that most people in such countries dread=20
a visit from Friedman like the arrival of bubonic=20 plague, because it's an
inevitable harbinger of=20 human and environmental horrors in the making.

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From: Gerard Moran
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It has been the way with Ryanair for a while. I travel from Brussels South
to Shannon with my children, and those with children are always allowed
first at both Shannon and Charleroi.

Gerard Moran

On 7/5/05, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:
> Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> I had to go to France at the weekend, to a family wedding in
> Bretagne/Brittany.
>
> Normally I try to avoid travelling on Ryanair - but this was the only
> air line that could get me near to my destination. I can report - in
> the interests of accuracy, I must report - that Ryanair allows the
> disabled and families with small children to board the plane first.
> And the staff hold back the ablebodied hordes whilst this happens.
>
> So, Piaras is wrong on that point...
>
> This might be a recent change of policy?
>
> I should also report, on the level of holiday anecdote, that when I
> explained to the waiter in a posh restaurant in Cancale that I was
> allergic, dangeureusement allergique, to shellfish he said, Well
> you've come to the wrong place, haven't you?
>
> Paddy
>
>
>

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From: MacEinri, Piaras
p.maceinri[at]ucc.ie
Subject: RE: [IR-D] In the interests of accuracy... 4

As it happens (I have not been in touch with him for a long time) I knew
Friedman. One of his first journalistic posts was in Beirut in the early
1980s; I was also there, for three years. It wasn't the easiest assignment
for him, as a Jewish journalist in West Beirut, which had just been
devastated by an invading Israeli army, and he had the courage to report the
facts as he saw them. I recall there was a huge row back at the New York
Times because he had used the word 'indiscriminate' to characterise Israeli
bombing and his newspaper seem to feel that this was not an accusation that
could be levelled at the Israelis. He was subsequently posted to Jerusalem
(whence his book From Beirut to Jerusalem) and as far as I and others were
concerned he was never as objective after that time. In more recent years he
has become an engaging but rather soft-centred (it seems to me) commentator
on globalisation. I think he is an excellent communicator but I think his
enthusiasm for the undoubted benefits of some aspects of modernisation and
globalisation, whether in India or in Ireland, sometimes blinds him to such
pertinent issues as power, control and capital accumulation. Ironically,
given that the US itself is now in debt to the rest of the world by a
massive amount, I think globalisation may turn out to be a two-edged sword
from an American point of view as ownership and control of the global
economy is increasingly shared with China and India and the dollar is no
longer the reference currency for everyone else. As a critic but admirer of
the US, I can only hope that the US does not react to its diminishing share
of the world's resources by taking violent action.

Piaras