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Micael Kenneally has brought this to our attention.


THE FIRST GERMAN-JAPANESE CONFERENCE ON JONATHAN SWIFT

At Rissho University, Tokyo
29th and 30th of October, 2005.
Speakers and Provisional Topics have been selected.

Further information is available from Prof. Noriyuki Harada, Kyorin
University. Email: nnharada[at]bd5.so-net.ne.jp

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White Savage: William Johnson and the invention of America
Speaker: Fintan O'Toole
Thursday 8 September, 18.30
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Fintan O'Toole speaks about his latest publication at the British =
Museum.
Please forward this onto colleagues and friends who might be interested.
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White Savage: William Johnson and the invention of America

Fintan O=92Toole

Thursday 8 September, 18.30

Fintan O'Toole is one of Ireland=92s most influential and interesting
contemporary writers. White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of
America, his latest publication, is the dramatic, exciting and tragic =
story
about the Irish fur trapper who held the fate of America and the British
Empire in his hands. In discussion with Jonathan King, Keeper of Africa,
Oceania and the Americas at the British Museum, who also traces the
connections with the Museum.=20

In collaboration with Faber and Faber.

Clore Education Centre,
BP Lecture Theatre
=A35, concessions =A33

To book, contact the British Museum Box Office
Telephone +44 (0)20 7323 8181
Facsimile +44 (0)20 7323 8616
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From: Heidi Murphy
Subject: 'The New World of Work: Labour Markets in Contemporary Ireland'
edited by Grainne Collins and Gerry Boucher

The New World of Work: Labour Markets in Contemporary Ireland edited by
Grainne Collins and Gerry Boucher

. Working in Ireland has changed dramatically over the last two
decades.

. Today more people are at work in Ireland than for over a hundred
years

. Mass immigration has replaced mass emigration as a defining
characteristic of our population structure.

. Although pockets of unemployment remain, in most of the country the
normal experience is of full employment.

. Not only are more people working, but the experience of work
appears to have changed.

Work fundamentally shapes our lives, defining who we are, how wealthy we are
and how much free time we have to spend with our family and friends and in
our communities. Yet work itself - arguably still the most important aspect
of people's lives - remains intellectually marginalised. This book fills
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The New World of Work is a revealing and timely study which follows workers
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Copies are available to order via our secure website www.theliffeypress.com.
If you would like to place an order direct please contact me, either via
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IRISH GEOGRAPHY
VOL 38; PART 1; 2005
ISSN 0075-0778

pp. 1-22
Rainfall-triggered slope failures in eastern Ireland Bourke, M.; Thorp, M.

pp. 23-43
The Porchfield of Trim - A medieval `open-field'
Kelly, D.

pp. 44-56
Experiences and perceptions of rural women in the Republic of Ireland:
studies in the Border Region McNerney, C.; Gillmor, D.

pp. 57-71
Unsaturated zone travel time to groundwater on a vulnerable site Richards,
K.; Coxon, C. E.; Ryan, M.

pp. 72-83
Representing multiple Irish heritage(s): a case study of the Ulster-American
Folk Park Kelly, C.; Laoire, C. N.

pp. 84-95
The reclamation of the Shannon Estuary inter-tidal flats: A case study of
the Clare Slobland Reclamation Company Hickey, K.; Healy, M.

pp. 96-106
Hiding the evidence: the State and spatial inequalities in health in Ireland
Houghton, F.

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REPRESENTING IRELAND: PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE
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so included is some previously unpublished work by the poet Bernard O=92D=
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IRISH GEOGRAPHY
VOL 37; PART 2; 2004
ISSN 0075-0778

pp. 121-144
Geography in Ireland in transition- some comments Gilmartin, M.

pp. 145-165
Submerged ice marginal forms in the Celtic Sea off Waterford Harbour,
Ireland Gallagher, C.; Sutton, G.; Bell, T.

pp. 166-176
Geography militant: resistance and the essentialisation of identity in
colonial Ireland Morrissey, J.

pp. 177-186
The geography of Irish voter turnout: A case study of the 2002 General
Election Kavanagh, A.; Mills, G.; Sinnott, R.

pp. 187-201
Relict periglacial boulder sheets and lobes on Slieve Donard, Mountains of
Mourne, Northern Ireland Cunningham, A.; Wilson, P.

pp. 202-222
What is worth conserving in the urban environment?
Negussie, E.

pp. 223-235
Ecological Footprint analysis- an Irish rural study Ryan, B.

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ACIS NATIONAL CONFERENCE 2006

The University of Missouri-St. Louis will serve as host for the 2006
American Conference for Irish Studies national conference. The
conference will begin with a plenary lecture and reception on the
evening of Wednesday, April 19, and conclude with a banquet on the
evening of Saturday, April 22. The conference site will be the Sheraton
Hotel in Clayton, Missouri, convenient to St. Louis Airport and midtown
and downtown St. Louis. A feature of the conference will be a =93Blues
Cruise & Dinner on the Mississippi=94 on April 21. Michael Coady will be
the featured conference writer and plenary speakers will include
Marianne Elliott (University of Liverpool), R=EDonach U=ED =D3g=E1in =
(University
College, Dublin), Joan FitzPatrick Dean (University of Missouri-Kansas
City). St Louis Irish Arts will be the conference=92s special guest
performers. The conference=92s unifying them will be =93Old Age Pipers =
to
New Age Punters: Ireland Through the Ages.=94 The organizers will be
delighted to receive panel proposals, roundtable proposals, and
individual paper abstracts on the conference theme or any other aspect
of Irish Studies. Graduate students are encouraged to submit abstracts.
Send completed abstracts of no more than 200 words by mail to Eamonn
Wall, Center for International Studies, University of Missouri-St.
Louis, One University Boulevard, St. Louis, MO 63121 or by email to
walle[at]umsl.edu. Deadline November 15, 2005. To present a paper or
participate on a panel, you must be a member of ACIS. Membership forms
can be downloaded from the ACIS website www.acisweb.com or requested by
mail from Kristine Byron, ACIS Treasurer, Dept. Of Spanish and
Portuguese, Michigan State University, 329 Old Horticulture Building,
East Lansing, MI 48824-1112.



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Subject: EFACIS - Call for Papers

*Second Call for Papers*

* *

The fifth conference of

*EFACIS*

* European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies*

* *

*8-10 December 2005*

*at Gothenburg University, Sweden*

*
*

*PLACE AND MEMORY IN THE NEW IRELAND*

* *

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

*GUEST SPEAKERS *include:

Patricia Coughlan (literary scholar)

Brian Graham (historical geographer)

Deirdre Madden (writer)

Kerby Miller (historian)

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

*31 August 2005*.

All correspondence should be addressed to

Britta Olinder britta.olinder[at]eng.gu.se =


English Department

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

John F. Quinn. _Father Mathew's Crusade: Temperance in
Nineteenth-Century Ireland and Irish America_. Amherst: University of
Massachusetts Press, 2002. viii + 262 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes,
bibliography, index. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 1-5584-9339-5; $20.95 (paper),
ISBN 1-5584-9340-9.

Reviewed for H-Catholic by Bryan P. McGovern, Department
of History, Quincy University.

Father Matthew: First among Equals in the Irish Temperance Movement

As Dr. Quinn asserts in the introduction of _Father Mathew's
Crusade_, his work is not a biography of Fr. Mathew but rather the
story of the mid-nineteenth-century temperance movement that the
Capuchin friar headed in Ireland and spread abroad among the Irish in
America. As a result of Dr. Quinn's methodology, the reader is able
to examine the rise and fall of a movement that inspired millions of
Irishmen and women throughout the world to become teetotalers.
Quinn's work is a fresh and interesting approach that allows the
reader to better understand how and why millions of Irishmen and
women took the pledge to abstain from drinking alcohol. However, by
focusing almost strictly on the movement itself, rather than Father
Mathew the person, the reader never fully understands how one man
made such a dramatic impact on the Irish people.

The strength of Quinn's work is undoubtedly his ability to relate
the Irish temperance movement to larger political, religious, and
social events in Ireland. He convincingly argues that Mathew utilized
the process of anglicization in Ireland in the early
nineteenth-century along with Catholic ritualism to attract different
groups of people to his movement. To interest those Irish most
affected by the process of modernization or anglicization, he
convinced the Irish people that temperance would further prosperity.
However, he also used symbolism and ritual (an oral promise, a
blessing from Mathew, and a temperance medal were all part of the
pledge) to attract the more conservative Catholics. Despite his
assertion that Mathew utilized modernization to further the
temperance movement, Quinn differs from the historian Hugh Kearney,
who maintained that the friar was an agent of progress. Rather, Quinn
contends that the temperance leader "should be seen as a man behind
his times'

A dedicated anglophile and ecumenist" who "resembled a
cleric of the ancien regime in some respects" (p. 7). Mathew hoped to
use the movement to promote better relations between Catholics and
Protestants. However, Mathew's willingness to accede to Protestants
and the British government, together with financial problems and an
unwillingness to relinquish any control of the movement, helped
result in the downfall of temperance. The fusion of Catholicism with
a fervent nationalism in the nineteenth century resulted in a clergy
suspicious of any tie to Protestantism. Some Irish clergy members
became very hostile towards Father Mathew and his movement, causing
him great consternation.

Interestingly, Daniel O'Connell, who did for a short period abstain
from alcohol and attempted to associate Mathew's movement with his
endeavor to repeal the Act of Union (1800), is almost as much the
emphasis of Quinn's work as is Mathew. There is little doubt that
O'Connell was the dominant political figure in Ireland during the
first half of the nineteenth century. And Quinn does an excellent job
demonstrating O'Connell's relevance to Ireland during this
period, especially as it relates to temperance. However, O'Connell's
relevance to the movement may not be so great that he deserves such
emphasis

Quinn does valiantly demonstrate the importance of the Famine to
weakening Matthew's movement. Obviously, the Famine's effect on
Irish society was devastating and no doubt caused people to place
their priorities elsewhere. The quest to survive became primary for
many. Mathew's response to the horrors of the Famine also
demonstrated the British influence on Matthew's political and
theological philosophy. This aligned him with, among other Britains,
Charles Trevelyan, who deemed the Famine an act of God to punish the
primitive Catholics. Although more sympathetic, Mathew also
maintained a providential interpretation of the Famine. This is where
a more thorough analysis of Mathew's life experiences and personal,
theological, and political philosophy would help elucidate much of
the mystery of this man. Why was Mathew so willing to see the Famine
as an act of God? Historians such as Peter Gray have recently
asserted that most British people believed the Famine was an act of
divine vengeance. Quinn informs us that Mathew had been influenced by
British culture (as was much of Ireland), but he never explains the
cause and effect of this anglicization of Mathew. What in his past
allowed him to become even more anglicized than other Irish clergy?
Why, other than being an ecumenicist and anglophile, did he eschew
nationalism. A more thorough exploration of his past should help
explain many of his actions as leader of the temperance movement.

Mathew traveled to the United States in 1849 to disseminate his
message of temperance. As Quinn explains, temperance had originated
in the States. Although the author asserts that Mathew led
Irish-Americans to become more involved in the temperance movement
despite its Protestant influence, he does not explore the origins of
temperance in America and its link to evangelical Protestantism.
American sectarianism, while not as obvious as its Irish counterpart,
was at its zenith in the mid-nineteenth century. Irish-Americans,
while trying to fit in with mainstream America, were also cautious
about joining Protestant-affiliated movements. How did Mathew
convince them? Did an emphasis on prosperity and acculturation
persuade many Irish-Americans to retain their Irish identity while
also adapting to an alien society? Quinn maintains that Germans
ignored abstinence because they drank beer rather than whiskey,
precluding them from experiencing problems with alcohol, and because
brewing and drinking beer were part of their culture. It is unclear
how beer is less dangerous than whiskey, and Quinn ignores his
previous assertions that brewing and drinking were also part of the
Irish culture (the pub culture in Ireland in some ways parallels the
beer hall culture in Germany) but, more importantly, Quinn does not
explore what was most likely the Irish identity that had become an
integral part of Mathew's movement.

Quinn's book brings to light an often overshadowed figure in Irish
history. He effectively relates temperance to a broader historical
context, especially in nineteenth-century Ireland. Studies of
movements or groups, such as the one Quinn provides here, are
extremely valuable to the historical field. Unfortunately, the reader
never gets a true sense who Mathew was and how he was personally able
to exert such influence over so many Irishmen and women.


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Paddy, an intriguing-sounding CFP for a taphophile (cemetery lover) like me.
No need to say it was forwarded at my request .

If I win the lottery, I'll attend. Otherwise, it's November in Minnesota...
_____


Living each other's death / Dying each other's life: Ireland's Diaspora of
the Dead

The University of Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 is organizing a conference on
18-19 November 2005, with the following title: 'Living each other's death /
Dying each other's life: Ireland's Diaspora of the Dead'.

Call for papers

As a result of the appalling scale of the losses involved, events such as
the Great Famine, the First World War and the Troubles have left an
indelible mark on the way death is imagined in Ireland. Some of these events
have taken place in the island of Ireland, others on the battlefields of
Europe, while stil others have played themselves out across the continent of
America. Whatever the context, all have had a considerable impact on Irish
communities both overseas and at home. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach
to the analysis of how death is perceived,commemorated and filtered through
the process of mourning, this conference will seek to explore the traces of
the dead of Ireland scattered throughout the world--monuments, cemeteries,
photographs, writings, etc.--and the way in which a veritable diaspora of
the Irish dead has gradually taken form. We will try to see if it is
possible to construct shared, trans-national representations of death, by
looking, for example, at such areas as funeral art or poetry: how can the
death of the Irish be translated from one country to another, from one
continent to another? Is it possible to re-take possession of that death, to
repatriate it, to export it? Is it possible to identify patterns in the way
the Irish imagine death? This conference, which will bring together
contributors from France and from overseas, will seek to answer questions of
this sort.

The venue will be the Institut du Monde Anglophone, located at the heart of
the Latin Quarter. Proposals--not exceeding 250 words--fo a 30-minute paper
must be sent by 30 September 2005 to Pr. Wesley Hutchinson
(Wesley.Hutchinson[at]wanadoo.fr) or Pr. Carle Bonafous-Murat
(cbmurat[at]aol.com).

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We are happy to announce the posting of new contents to the web site of
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- "Beneath an Emerald Green Flag", by Michael G. Connaughton

- "The St. Patricio Battalion", by Jaime Fogarty

- "Irish-Mexican Brothers: Edmundo and Juan O'Gorman", by Edmundo Murray

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'This exhibition details how famine has been historically pictured in the
print media, from the nineteenth century to the present day. It aims to
raise questions about compassion fatigue, iconic and stereotypical images,
and the political effect of such photographs...'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/newsroom/story/0,11718,1485800,00.html#article_con
tinue


Article by Luke Dodd...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,1542391,00.html

'...Photographs of starving victims operate within the recognisable canon of
Christian iconography. The direct address, the concentration on one or two
individuals, the supplicating look, the outstretched hand, the minimal
settings are pictorial devices well known to any figurative artist from the
late-medieval period onwards. Why is this method of picturing so dominant in
our culture? Is there an alternative that is not so abstracted
oraestheticised as to defeat the purpose?...'

Imaging Famine web site...
http://www.nextnorth.com/famine/

Notes: The original Guardian notice began with mention of the Irish Famine
and used 'Bridget O'Donnel and her children' as an example. But I do not
know if the actual exhibition makes further use of Irish Famine images.

And in one item the Guardian described Luke Dodd as curator of the
exhibition. This is incorrect - the curators are David Campbell, DJ Clark,
Kate Manzo and Caitlin Patrick.

P.O'S.


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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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P.O'S.

Please Forward:

The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe
(http://www.heroicage.org) is inviting paper submissions for the 41st
International Congress on Medieval Studies. Our first session is:

The Spread of Christianity in Early Medieval Northern Europe

This is a panel on the spread of Christianity in Northern Europe
(including the British Isles, Gaul, Germany and Scandinavia) between the
3rd century and the 8th century AD. Any topic related to the spread of
Christianity to non-Christian areas (some examples could include the
spread of Christian thought among elite, the adoption of Christianity
within urban spaces, and the conversion of the rural pagan countryside)
will be considered. Preference will be given to papers which emphasize
aspects of the Christianization process which have not received a great
deal of scholarly attention.

Our second session is:

Those Who Stayed Behind: The Norse in Scandinavia during the Viking Age

This is a panel on the Scandinavian countries themselves in the Viking
Age, rather than focusing on the Vikings themselves. Papers are invited
to address the archaeology, literature, linguistics and languages,
religion(s), history, and other related fields that touch on those
nations from the late eighth century through the end of the eleventh
century. Preference will be given to papers emphasizing aspects of the
field that have not received a great deal of scholarly attention.


All abstracts are due Sept. 10, 2005. Please send submissions to Larry
Swain at haediting[at]yahoo.com.

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ANNA PARNELL'S POLITICAL JOURNALISM : CONTEXTS AND TEXTS
Beverly Schneller

This work presents Anna Parnell, the founder of the Irish branch of the
Ladies' Land League as Irish-Americans knew her in the 1880s at the height
of her political career. Drawing from contemporary newspapers including
The Boston Pilot and The Irish World as well as periodicals such as The
Celtic Monthly, Anna Parnell's political activities are faithfully
reconstructed through her own writings and through an analysis of the news
generated by her efforts on behalf of the Irish tenantry. Known as
C.S.Parnell's "radical sister" Anna was recognized by the Irish immigrant
community as possessing "a Yankee head and an Irish heart." Anna Parnell's
Political Journalism is an interdisciplinary work combining original
research in Irish, American and Irish- American history with women's
studies, publishing history and cultural studies to underscore how Anna
Parnell used the Irish-American presses to raise funds and garner support
for the epic cause of Irish land reform. This is the first work to take a
singularly American approach to this extraordinary woman who had American as
well as Anglo-Irish ancestors. A number of her pieces are included and her
importance carefully evaluated. This work should prove a major addition to
research libraries and libraries of individual scholars.


Beverly E.Schneller is Professor and Chair of the English Department at
Millersville University in Pennsylvania. She earned her Ph.D. at CUA with
the first American dissertation on publishing history.

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A year of living dangerously

Mark Lawson
Monday August 29, 2005
The Guardian

'...Two of the obsessions of this column are timing and titles: how the fate
of a programme can depend on when it goes out and what it's called. This
week's Channel 4 documentary about the IRA blitz on London in 1974 must have
been in production long before the recent terrorism but - where some
programmes featuring extremists became untransmittable after July 7 - this
one benefits from the tragic coincidence. The name, though, now needs to
carry a footnote to establish it as history rather than current affairs: The
Year London Blew Up: 1974.

In that year, an Irish Republican cell in London mounted what was planned as
a last push to horrify the British government out of Ireland. The Guildford
and Woolwich pub bombings survive in most minds as shorthand for these
atrocities but the squad of four terrorists carried out a total of 40
attacks in 12 months. They were caught after taking a couple hostage in what
became known, in another surviving headline tag, as the Balcombe Street
Siege...'

'...The notable balance of the film is shown by the fact that both liberals
and conservatives are offered a harrumph-moment: the former when we note
that the Guildford Four were locked up for these bombings rather than the
people who actually did it, the latter when we learn that those who actually
did it were freed from jail as part of the Good Friday Agreement...'

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The Year London Blew Up: 1974, Thursday, 9pm, Channel 4

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What is particularly interesting about this article is the way it places =
the
Irish experience in a wider European context, where of course
multilingualism is a common need or solution.

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publication
International Journal of the Sociology of Language
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ISSN
0165-2516 electronic: 1613-3668

publisher
Walter de Gruyter & Co

year - volume - page
2005 - 171 - 95
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article

Three Languages in the Schools in Ireland

=D3 Laoire, Muiris

abstract

Ireland has a long tradition of bilingual education. The introduction of =
a
third language at primary level is more recent. Research found that =
students
who study Irish as a second language do not perceive such study as =
learning
a new language in the same or similar way as they perceive the learning =
of a
third language. There has been a compartmentalization between English,
Irish, and other languages. Recent studies of L3 learning in Ireland =
have
focused on metalinguistic awareness. Findings corroborate the assumption
that the positive effects of metalinguistic awareness are increased if
linkages are forged between learners' existing language-learning =
experiences
and the experience of learning the third language. The study of Irish as =
a
second language had no recognizable influence on the foreign language =
since
Irish was not perceived as a potential aid to foreign-language learning. =
A
more dynamic view of multilingualism becomes more common in the =
classrooms.

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Reactions to Irish Land Agitation and Legislation in the
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I think that a number of IR-D members will find this article of interest -
it includes a very able summary of the existing literature on
Scotland/Ireland similarities/differences.

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publication
English Historical Review

ISSN
0013-8266 electronic: 1477-4534

publisher
Oxford University Press

year - volume - issue - page
2005 - 120 - 487 - 633


article

Communication or Separation? Reactions to Irish Land Agitation and
Legislation in the Highlands of Scotland, c.1870-1910

Cameron, Ewen A.


abstract

The Scottish Highlands, in stark contrast to Ireland, were drawn into an
anglicised world centred on the powerful economy of Lowland Scotland.
Existing historiography emphasises the similarities between the experiences
in Highland Scotland and Ireland in the period under consideration here. The
aim of this article is to suggest that it is the contrasts and increasing
distance between the two areas that are more evident. An introduction will
briefly examine the comparative history of the two societies in the years
before c.1870 as well as political perceptions of Scotland and Ireland
evident in the statements of those involved in the Irish Land War and the
Crofters' War of the 1880s. The first section will examine the nature of
these agitations and the response of the state in dealing with the
challenges they presented. The second section will analyse one such response
in greater detail, namely land legislation in the shape of the Irish Land
Act of 1881 and the Crofters' Holdings (Scotland) Act of 1886. The
penultimate section will scrutinise the Conservative response to the Irish
and Highland land questions, which attempted to develop the rural economy
and deal with the mal-distribution of the population compared with landed
resources and the preponderance of small holdings and part-time agriculture,
or 'congestion'. The final section will deal with the contrasts relating to
the divergent approaches to the United Kingdom in Ireland and Highland
Scotland.

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publication
Social Policy and Society

ISSN
1474-7464 electronic: 1475-3073

publisher
Cambridge University Press

year - volume - issue - page
2005 - 4 - 3 - 303


article

Land, Labour and Politics: Social Insurance in Post-War Ireland

Carey, Sophia

abstract

This paper argues that agrarianism was a central force in shaping outcomes
in Irish social insurance in the post-war period, as Irish policy makers
sought to balance the needs of urban and rural Ireland, and the interests of
diverse groups in the agricultural sector. Using the Beveridge Report as a
policy template, Irish policy makers struggled to apply this model to very
different Irish conditions, where the agricultural sector had a profound
economic and ideological weight. The paper points to the need for political
theories of the welfare state to encompass variation in the way in which
agrarian interests are structured.

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This is worth noting, though it is a quite brief item. A 3 page Research
Report by Sam Lewis, University of Leeds, and colleagues, looking at the
experiences of Irish people on probation (that is, sentenced by a court to a
period of non-custodial supervision) in a part of the north of England.
There were connections with a wider research project looking at the needs of
Black and Asian people on probation. This Research Report is based on study
of 48 self-identified Irish. A full account of the research and its
findings is promised in Lewis, Irish Probation Journal, forthcoming - and
full research reports have been delivered to the Probation services in the
area.

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The Irish on probation in the North-West of England

author
Lewis, Sam - Lobley, David - Raynor, Peter - Smith, David

year - volume - issue - page
2005 - 52 - 3 - 293

publication
Probation Journal

ISSN
0264-5505

publisher
SAGE Publications

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publication
Ethnic and Racial Studies

ISSN
0141-9870 electronic: 1466-4356

publisher
Routledge - Part of Taylor and Francis

year - volume - issue - page
2005 - 28 - 1 - 1

pages

article

The 'diaspora' diaspora

Brubaker, Rogers

table of content - full text

abstract

As the use of 'diaspora' has proliferated in the last decade, its meaning
has been stretched in various directions. This article traces the dispersion
of the term in semantic, conceptual and disciplinary space; analyses three
core elements that continue to be understood as constitutive of diaspora;
assesses claims made by theorists of diaspora about a radical shift in
perspective and a fundamental change in the social world; and proposes to
treat diaspora not as a bounded entity but as an idiom, stance and claim.

keyword(s)

Diaspora, migration, ethnicity, nation-state,