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"Sailing to the Land of Opportunity: the Irish in Latin America" at 4:00
p.m. September 5 in Faculty Hall 208 and/or a dinner at my apartment on
Monday September 4 at 6:00. Contact me for directions.

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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.

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The Sociological Review
Volume 53 Issue 3 Page 476 - August 2005
doi:10.1111/j.1467-954X.2005.00562.x

The genealogical imagination: the inheritance of interracial identities
Katharine Tyler1

Abstract

The aim of this article is to examine ethnographically how ideas of descent,
biology and culture mediate ideas about the inheritance of racial
identities. To do this, the article draws upon interviews with the members
of interracial families from Leicester, a city situated in the East Midlands
region of England. The article focuses upon the genealogical narratives of
the female members of interracial families who live in an ethnically diverse
inner-city area of Leicester. Attention is paid to the ways in which the
women mobilise and intersect ideas about kinship, ancestry, descent,
belonging, place, biology and culture when they think about the inheritance
of their own and/or their children's interracial identities. The article's
emphasis upon the constitution of interracial identities contributes to the
sociological study of race and genealogy by exploring the racialised
fragmentation of ideas of inheritance and descent across racial categories
and generations.

EXTRACT BEGINS...

Clare

Clare is twenty-six years old and works as a youth worker at the African
Caribbean women's centre in Highfields, the place where she grew up. The
manager of the centre introduced Clare to me. Clare explained what she terms
her 'heritage' thus: 'My father is African Caribbean Antigun heritage and my
mum is white Irish heritage'. She described herself physically as: 'Very
fair - people think that I am Irish because I have got bits of red hair and
freckles. I would work quite well over in Ireland'. Clare has never visited
Ireland, nor has she met her white Irish grandparents. She told me: 'They
weren't too pleased that we were black. They weren't accepting of us'.
Clare's parents divorced when she was four years of age and her Antigun
grandmother and Irish mother brought her up.

Throughout our conservation Clare draws upon the idioms and metaphors of
'culture', 'environment' and 'upbringing' to narrate what she perceives to
be the sensual, tactic, cultural, psychological and physical characteristics
that constitute her inheritance of a 'black' identity. She says:

I have been lucky enough to have been brought up as a black person, in a
black environment, growing up with a black grandma. Although my mum is
white, I have always been pushed to the forefront of being black. . . .
Although I'm very fair . . . that is my heritage . . . part of who I am. . .
. And to be able to talk about food and the characteristics, like the way I
speak. I was told by a couple of women in the centre [the African Caribbean
women's centre where she works] that they don't see my colour. . . . They
just see Clare as being black. And they say, 'That's because of your whole
make-up'. . . . In some ways I'm more black than some black people. I am
very aware of my roots.

The food, the way that she speaks, thinks and sees blend together to
'make-up' her 'black'heritage', 'roots' and identity. It makes no sense for
Clare to make a distinction or to perceive a contradiction between her
upbringing in a black cultural milieu, her white genetic ancestry marked by
her skin colour, and her embodiment and internalisation of a 'black'
identity. In fact, Clare insists that her cultural upbringing is as
important in creating and fixing her blackness as any physical inheritance.
In this way, she contests and destabilises a naturalised definition of
blackness grounded upon inherited characteristics associated with phenotype.
Like Nazmai's ideas on the inheritance of her children's Muslim identities,
this does not mean that Clare simply naturalises culture by turning ideas of
culture into nature. Rather, she intersects and blurs the metaphoric domains
of 'nature' and 'culture' disrupting the boundaries between the racial folk
categories of 'black' and 'white'.

Clare's narration of her inheritance of a 'black' identity is interwoven and
entwined with her reflection upon her black friends' and neighbours'
reactions to her white physical appearance. Like Nazmai and her family's
experience of rejection by Asian Muslim members of the community, Clare's
claim to belong to members of the African Caribbean community from
Highfields is contested by others. In this regard, she has to negotiate the
folk conception of race that defines an individual's racial identity,
biological parentage and ancestry by their physical appearance.

If I was darker then I would have been more accepted by black friends. . .
. When I spoke Patwa [a language spoken in the Caribbean] . . . or when I
talk about back home - that is how I was always taught, Antigua was always
back home - and I think people would think, who is she?

Like Sandra's sense of affiliation to Antigua, Clare's feeling of
relatedness to the wider African Caribbean diaspora spreads beyond the
family and Highfields to Antigua, a place that she calls 'home'. However, in
contrast to Sandra who describes herself as having 'brown skin', Clare's
white physical appearance means that her claim to belong to Antigua is
questioned and truncated by others.

In a similar vein, Clare spoke about an emotional and defining episode in
her life, when her neighbours objected to her becoming the Carnival Queen at
Leicester's annual African Caribbean Carnival. In so doing, she mobilises
knowledge about her African Caribbean 'roots' and white ancestry to
reinterpret and transform her experience of rejection by some people in the
place where she was brought up.

That experience was very hard for me - living in Highfields all my life -
being very active in the black community. . . . It wasn't nice, I mean, to
be called, 'the white witch'. . . . That [reaction] goes back to the
fair-skinned one being able to work in the house in the slave trade, and the
darker you were, you were out in the fields.

Like Hall's (1992) 'new ethnicities', Clare's return to and remembrance of
the past does not signal a 'simple return' to ideas of 'origins' associated
with the fixity of cultural and ancestral purity. Yet in contrast to Hall's
emphasis upon the formation of black British identities that becomes
interpellated with a skin colour, Clare's identification with the
experiences of interracial 'fair-skinned' slave ancestors neither negates
nor celebrates her white physical appearance. Clare thus constructs a model
of solidarity based upon a shared sense of ancestry that affiliates her to
members of the black African Caribbean descent community in Highfields and
Antigua without denying her white physical appearance and ancestry.

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Oxford Journal of Archaeology
Volume 24 Issue 3 Page 255 - August 2005
doi:10.1111/j.1468-0092.2005.00235.x

MASTER AND APPRENTICE, KNIGHT AND SQUIRE: EDUCATION IN THE 'CELTIC' IRON AGE
RAIMUND KARL1

Summary. The role of education and agency of children as factors in the
formation of Iron Age culture is addressed. Historical sources on education
from Iron Age Gaul are compared with later 'medieval Celtic' practices.
Fosterage, common Celtic *altros, may have been the evolutionary precursor
of apprenticeships and knight-squire relationships, as developed in the
feudal states of medieval Europe. Fosterage establishes artificial kinship,
strengthens kinship alliances by providing hostages, helps to forge strong
emotional bonds between foster parents, children and siblings, and helps to
confirm social hierarchies, while providing specialized education.
Professional specialists gain increased security outside their own group. It
gives children a role in the tradition of culture, and allows them to blend
artistic styles and create unique adaptations combining 'local' traditions
with 'external' innovations. Fosterage can thus be established as an
important method of peer polity interaction in Iron Age and medieval
'Celtic' societies.

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Women's Studies International Forum
Volume 28, Issue 4 , July-August 2005, Pages 315-327

Copyright C 2005 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.

Snapshot on Identity: Women's contributions addressing community relations
in a rural Northern Irish district

Katherine SideE-mail The Corresponding Author

Department of Women's Studies, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova
Scotia, Canada, B3M 2J6

Available online 1 June 2005.


Synopsis

In this article, I examine the efforts of The Moyle Women's Forum, a
community-based, voluntary women's organization in Northern Ireland, to
undertake a photo-voice project. The project, titled Snapshot on Identity,
is intended to contribute to their rural community by challenging
cross-community relations between, and gendered ideologies associated with,
Protestant and Catholic women. Feminist scholars have long demonstrated that
unpaid work done mostly by women in households is productive and makes
economic and social contributions. This scholarly literature has tended to
concentrate on analyses of states, markets and households and overlooks
women's contributions to their communities. Using the concept of social
profitability, I argue that women's efforts, through the cross-community
Snapshot on Identity project, developed personal skills, enriched the social
environment and enhanced civic participation in their rural district.
Drawing on semi-structured interview data with women, I illustrate how this
project shaped their perceptions about the ability to change community
relations and offered optimism about community relations in the rural
district of Moyle in the future. Using this example from Northern Ireland, I
demonstrate that while social profitability is a useful concept for
recognizing the full extent of women's unpaid contributions in communities,
it must be considered in ways that account for the specificity of social,
historical and political contexts.

Article Outline

Introduction
Community relations in Northern Ireland

Research methodology
Snapshot on Identity photo-voice project
Enhancing social profitability

Recognizing some limitations
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Vitae

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Performing identities: music and dance in the Irishcommunities of =
Coventry
and Liverpool

Author: Leonard, Marion 1

Source: Social & Cultural Geography, Volume 6, Number 4, August 2005, =
pp.
515-529(15)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:
This article will examine how British-born second- and third-generation
Irish people use Irish music and dance in the production of an Irish
cultural identity. The article draws on research undertaken with members =
of
the Irish communities in the English cities of Coventry and Liverpool. =
The
research was conducted with music and dance practitioners in Liverpool =
who
strongly identify as Irish and also with schoolchildren in Coventry =
whose
parents or grandparents were born in Ireland. The paper first explores =
the
comments of the Liverpool respondents and points to how music and dance =
can
offer a space in which different generations can mark out their =
affiliation
or embody their Irishness. Secondly, the paper considers interview work =
with
schoolchildren in Coventry, concentrating on their responses as =
listeners to
Irish traditional music. Their comments point to the capacity of this =
music
to resonate with multiple, even conflicting, productions of Irishness. =
The
comments of all the respondents raise key debates about authenticity and =
the
construction of identity.

Articles that cite this article?

Keywords: Irish community; ethnicity; identity; authenticity; music; =
dance;
communaut=E9 irlandaise; ethnicit=E9; identit=E9; authenticit=E9; =
musique; danse;
Palabras claves: comunidad irlandesa; etnicidad; identidad; =
autenticidad;
m=FAsica; baile

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/14649360500200239

Affiliations: 1: School of Music, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, =
L69
7ZT, UK

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Presbyterian Social Ties and Mobility in the Iris h Sea Culture
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Presbyterian Social Ties and Mobility in the Irish Sea Culture Area,
1610-1690

Author: VANN, BARRY

Source: The Journal of Historical Sociology, Volume 18, Number 3, September
2005, pp. 227-254(28)

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

Abstract:

While most scholars recognize the relationship between the Scottish Kirk and
the establishment of Ulster and Irish Presbyterianism in the
seventeenth-century, few studies have examined the specific institutional
and social ties, including the communities of the imagination, of the
ministers who served in Ireland during that time. Moreover, few studies have
considered the reverse flow of ministers to Scotland from Ireland and how
their experiences in Ulster (the nine northern-most counties in Ireland)
impacted the political landscape in south-western Scotland. This study
addresses those voids in the literature.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6443.2005.00256.x

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Interesting discussion of 'bitterness' which, at times, seems to strive to
become an explanatory term in its own right.

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publication
Gender and Education

ISSN
0954-0253 electronic: 1360-0516

publisher
Carfax Publishing - Part of Taylor & Francis

year - volume - issue - page
2005 - 17 - 5 - 515

pages

article

Pure and bitter spaces: gender, identity and territory in Northern Irish
youth transitions

McGrellis, Sheena

abstract

This paper examines young people's narratives of space and territory and the
ways in which they are gender specific. Drawing upon data from two ESRC
funded research projects beginning in 1996, the paper focuses upon the ways
in which boundaries are perceived, constructed and managed in the everyday
lives of young women and men growing up in one area of Northern Ireland. The
paper considers how the territorial boundaries that young people adhere to
create 'pure' and 'bitter' spaces which serve to reinforce their own sense
of cultural and ethnic differences. It also looks at the experiences of
those who travel beyond these boundaries, the impact of gender and the
implications that traversing boundaries has on young people's lives.
Finally, the paper suggests that young women appear more willing and able to
cross boundaries by seizing opportunities presented by cosmopolitanism and
changing patterns of leisure. In so doing, young women challenge the legacy
of 'bitterness' inherent in pure spaces.

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Creative entrepreneurship in the arts: transforming 'old' into 'new': =
Irish
dance and music test cases such as Riverdance and Lord of the Dance

Authors: Cinn=E9ide, Barra =D3.

Source: The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, =
Volume
6, Number 3, August 2005, pp. 151-158(8)

Publisher: IP Publishing Ltd
=20

Abstract:
The emergence of an unparalleled national economic performance, labelled =
the
Celtic Tiger, has given Irish business educators the challenging task of
analysing and recording their country's burgeoning growth over the past
decade. As part of this development, Riverdance =96 an upbeat =
combination of
Irish music and dance =96 hit the world stage, demonstrating that
entrepreneurship and innovation are as much part of the success process
within the creative industries as is the case in any other sector of the
economy. By researching the advent and ongoing development of Riverdance =
and
the follow-on show, Lord of the Dance, it is believed that invaluable
insights can be gained into the creative entrepreneurial process, =
including
the shows' particular characteristics, their development needs, how
innovative entrepreneurs work, and the particular barriers they face. =
This
paper shows how, through publishing a series of studies on Riverdance =
and
Lord of the Dance, it has been possible to demonstrate that the =
evolution of
'New Age' Irish dance, with its unprecedented success abroad, can =
provide an
important role model for both the arts/culture sector and the Irish =
business
community in general. Additionally, these entertainment industry cases,
among others, provide an opportunity for considering the confluence =
within
Irish music in terms of its traditional, classical and contemporary =
forms,
within the rapidly changing educational, social and cultural landscape =
of a
burgeoning economy that has earned the title, the Celtic Tiger.

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Very interesting one for Charles Orser fans - continues the meditation on
Ballykilcline. Orser embraces Bourdieu, or maybe vice versa.

A web search for Bourdieu will turn up much, but the Wikipedia entry is
nicely crisp...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Bourdieu

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publication
World Archaeology - Andover

ISSN
0043-8243 electronic: 0043-8243

publisher
Routledge - Part of Taylor and Francis

year - volume - issue - page
2005 - 37 - 3 - 392


article

Symbolic violence, resistance and the vectors of improvement in early
nineteenth-century Ireland

Orser, Charles, Jr

table of content - full text

abstract

Capitalism remains an important subject for modern-world archaeologists.
Symbolic violence offers an insightful avenue of inquiry into the capitalist
project because it allows for a further understanding of dominant power and
its effects. A case study of two early nineteenth-century Irish
tenant-farmer cabins, in light of the Enlightenment theory of improvement,
offers insights on the archaeological dimensions of symbolic violence and
its resistance.

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-----Original Message-----
Subject: Research Assistant Position - Institute of Irish Studies

Research Assistant =96 =91Healing Through Remembering=92
Institute of Irish Studies (Ref: 05/W360B)
=20
Available for two years, to prepare an audit of the artefacts (e.g. =
objects,
artworks, letters, audio and film recordings, ephemera) relating to the
conflict in and about Northern Ireland. This research will inform the =
work
of the Living Memorial Museum Sub Group which is addressing the Healing
Through Remembering Project=92s recommendation on a Living Memorial =
Museum of
this conflict.

Salary scale: =A319,460 per annum

Closing date: 4.00 pm, Friday 23 September 2005

Further details and an online application pack may be downloaded from =
the
Queen's University website: www.qub.ac.uk/jobs

Please note that application materials are not available directly from =
the
Institute of Irish Studies.

Any queries should be directed to the University's Personnel Office =
quoting
the reference number above, Tel: +44 (0) 28 9097 3044

Best wishes

Catherine Boone
Institute of Irish Studies
Queen's University Belfast
Belfast
BT7 1NN
Tel: +44 (0) 289097 3386
Fax: +44 (0) 289097 3388
E-mail: irish.studies[at]qub.ac.uk
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nfouche[at]ehess.fr=20

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-----Original Message-----

History, Gender and Migration. Atlantic world 19th-20th centuries=20

Conference organised by the Centre d=B9histoire sociale (Universit=E9 =
Paris I),
l=B9=E9quipe R=E9seaux-Savoirs-Territoires (=C9cole Normale =
Sup=E9rieure)=20

With the help of Identit=E9s, cultures, territoires l=B9Universit=E9 =
Paris VII,
laboratoire de sciences sociales de l=B9=C9cole Normale Sup=E9rieure =
(ENS-EHESS),
and Centre d=B9enseignement, de Documentation et de Recherches pour les =
Etudes
F=E9ministes (Universit=E9 Paris VII)=20

27-29 March 2006=20

Responsible : Philippe Rygiel, Universit=E9 Paris I=20

Call for paper
Gender history and international migration history have been in recent =
years
two very active and exciting fields of study. Despite some recent works,
they still appear however to produce distinct narratives of history. =
This
conference aims to facilitate cross-fertilisation of gender and =
migration
studies. Gender allows us to take a new look at the concepts used by
historians of migration, and to revise some of the usual themes. The
migrant's experience is structured by gender, so are the memories and =
images
of migration. Migration policies often differ according to gender, as do
migrants' political and social activities. In turn, migration can affect =
the
ways in which gender is defined and acted upon, within the host as well =
as
the home society. Submissions made by doctoral students and recent =
graduates
are especially encouraged as well as proposals addressing more =
specifically
one of the themes below:=20
- Gender and the Migration Experience Life-cycle, work, social and
geographic trajectories
- Images and Memory Gendered tales of migration, representations and =
images
- Social and Political Activities Unions, associations, ethnic =
institutions
- Gender Roles Changed through Migration Host and home society, migrant =
and
non migrant populations
- Administration and Policy Selection of migrants, access to the job =
market,
access to education=20


Proposals should include
- A 6 000 character (1000 word) proposal
- A short cv (1 page)
- Contact information (mail and email)
- If possible a previous paper or references of previous published work=20

Proposals need to be sent before October 1, 2005 to: nfouche[at]ehess.fr,=20

Papers should be sent 1/3/2006=20

Scientific committee=20

Nicole Fouch=E9 (CNRS)
Nancy Green (=C9cole des Hautes =C9tudes en Sciences Sociales) Natacha =
Lillo
(Universit=E9 Paris VII, laboratoire ICT, CEDREF) Manuela Martini =
(Universit=E9
de Paris VII, laboratoire ICT, CEDREF) G=E9rard Noiriel (EHESS) Philippe
Rygiel (Universit=E9 Paris I, CHS, ERST) Natalia Tikhonov (Universit=E9 =
de
Gen=E8ve) Serge Weber (Universit=E9 Aix-Marseille)=20

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-----Original Message-----

Subject: Why Irish?

MESSAGE SENT ON BEHALF OF Brian =D3 Conchubhair.

The Department of Irish Language and Literature, University of Notre =
Dame
will host WHY IRISH? on September 30, 2005. WHY IRISH? is a one-day
international colloquium that explores the position of Irish language =
and
literature in the North American academy. Five outstanding scholars who
incorporate Irish into their research projects will map future trends =
and
directions for scholarly research. The speakers will present on the
contributions of Irish to their research and examine the role of Irish =
in
various disciplines =96 comparative literature, medieval studies, =
linguistics,
contemporary literature, cultural studies and Indo-European poetics.
Minister =C9amon =D3 Cu=EDv, Irish Government Minister for Community, =
Rural and
Gaeltacht Affairs will deliver a plenary address on recent legislation
pertaining to the Irish language.

Speakers:
Minister =C9amon =D3 Cu=EDv: =93An Ghaeilge =96 Iarsma Staire n=F3 =
Teanga Oibre? / The
Irish Language =96 A Historic Relic or a Working Language?=94
Professor James McCloskey: =93Irish as a World language=94
Professor Philip T. O=92Leary: =93Teanga gan Teorainn =96 The Novels of =
Alan
Titley=94
Professor Clare Carroll: =93Irish Literature, Irish History and =
Comparative
Studies=94
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MESSAGE FORWARDED ON BEHALF OF SEAN KENNEDY
St Mary=92s University, Halifax, NS, Canada =20

In order to mark the centenary of Samuel Beckett=92s birth in 2006, =
essays are
requested for a new volume examining Beckett=92s relationship with =
Ireland.
Entitled Beckett and Ireland: New Perspectives, this volume will offer
readings of Beckett=92s work in a social, political, and cultural =
context.
Although many readings of Beckett=92s work tend to stress his preference =
for a
deterritorialised aesthetic, there have been a number of important =
recent
articles stressing Beckett=92s Irishness, and it is hoped that this =
collection
will build on such work in new and exciting ways. Possible topics might
include:

Beckett, Thomas MacGreevy, Brian Coffey and Denis Devlin: an Irish
Modernism?
Beckett and the Irish revolution, 1916-1922 Beckett and the Irish
counter-revolution, 1923-1936 Beckett and the end of Protestant =
ascendancy
Beckett, the normal and the national Beckett, minorities and minor
literature Beckett and Revival Beckett on Film: Reviving Beckett
Reterritorialising Beckett Postcolonial Beckett?

Essays addressing all aspects of Beckett=92s relationship with Ireland =
will be
considered. Please send abstracts/proposals of 500 words for initial
consideration to Se=E1n Kennedy, Department of English, St Mary=92s =
University,
Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 3C3, or by e-mail to sean.kennedy[at]smu.ca. =
Initial
deadline: October 30th.

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Irish Academic Press
Series: The Irish Abroad

THROUGH AMERICAN AND IRISH WARS=20
The Life and Times of General Thomas W Sweeny
Jack Morgan, University of Missouri-Rolla

- traces Thomas W Sweeny=E2=80=99s life of war and adventure=20
- shows the way in which the Irish became prominently involved in events =
such as the Mexican War, the Indian wars, the settlement of California, =
the Civil War and ultimately in post-Civil War Fenian efforts toward the =
liberation of Ireland

This biography traces the life of Thomas W Sweeny who, born in Cork, =
came to America at the age of twelve with his mother. His life was one =
of war and adventure and also shows the way in which the Irish became =
prominently involved in events such as the Mexican War, the Indian wars, =
the settlement of California, the Civil War and ultimately in post-Civil =
War Fenian efforts toward the liberation of Ireland. Sweeny, who rose =
from a Lieutenant of Volunteers to the rank of General in the US Army, =
was the Fenian Secretary of War and the designer of the 1866 Fenian =
invasion attempt on Canada. The book captures the rugged, spirited =
times during which a large population of Irish settled into American =
geographical and cultural space.

=E2=80=A2 Key Subject Areas: Military History, Irish Social History

October 2005 192 pages illus
0 7165 3323 5 cloth =E2=82=AC55.00/=C2=A345.00 =20
0 7165 3324 3 paper =E2=82=AC25.00/=C2=A319.50

The Irish Abroad
General Editor: Ruan O=E2=80=99Donnell, University of Limerick
This new series aims to publish short biographies of Irish men and women =
who made their mark outside their native country. Accounts of those who =
settled permanently overseas will be published along with the life =
stories of temporary residents and involuntary emigrants. =20

Expatriates of all types will be considered whether explorers, =
travellers, military personnel, colonial pioneers, members of religious =
orders, professionals, politicians, revolutionaries, exiles or convicts. =
While it is envisaged that the majority of the subjects would have gone =
overseas during the early modern and modern period, persons from =
different times may also be deemed appropriate for inclusion. Most =
titles will concern the Irish in North America, the former territories =
of the British Empire (including Australasia) and Great Britain, =
although it is intended that biographies of those who journeyed to =
Spanish America, the West Indies, Africa, Continental Europe and other =
non-English speaking sectors will form part of the series. Men and =
women of Irish extraction will also merit inclusion if it is evident =
that their perceived ethnicity and family origins played a significant =
part in their careers. A number of autobiographies will be selected for =
republication with critical introductions by leading scholars.
















October 2005 192 pages illus 0 7165 3323 5 cloth =
=E2=82=AC55.00/=C2=A345.00 =20
0 7165 3324 3 paper =E2=82=AC25.00/=C2=A319.50
_________________________________________________________________________=
_________________________________________________________________________=
________

Trade orders: Gill & Macmillan Book Distributors, Hume Avenue, Park =
West, Dublin 12
Tel: +353 (0)1 500 9500 Fax: +353 (0)1 500 9599

IRISH ACADEMIC PRESS
Northumberland House, 44 Northumberland Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, =
Ireland
Tel: +353 (0)1 668 8244 Fax: +353 (0)1 660 1610 E-mail: info[at]iap.ie
Website: www.iap.ie

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Irish Academic Press
Series: The Irish Abroad


THOMAS FRANCIS MEAGHER
The Making of an Irish American
John M Hearne, Waterford Institute of Technology and=20
Rory T Cornish, Winthrop University, South Carolina (Eds)
Foreword by Roy Foster=20

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______________________
Romantic Young Irelander, republican revolutionary, political exile and =
father of the Irish tricolour, Thomas Francis Meagher became a citizen =
of the United States and a leading ethnic spokesman in his adopted =
republic. The first commanding general of the famed Irish Brigade during =
the American Civil War and post-war de-facto governor of Montana =
Territory until his mysterious death in 1867, Meagher=E2=80=99s career =
remains as controversial today as it was during his own lifetime. One of =
the finest republican orators of his day, Meagher has recently been =
honoured by a new heroic statue in the city of his birth, Waterford, =
Ireland. In this new academic study scholars from three continents fully =
chronicle the various aspects of Meagher=E2=80=99s often colourful and =
mercurial career. In tracing his ancestral origins from the sixteenth =
century Irish midlands to his present day descendants in California, =
this original study vividly portrays the Irish, Australian and American =
influences on Meagher=E2=80=99s career, a career marked by frustrated =
hope and unfilled ambition. If something of a glorious failure, Meagher =
helped shape the destiny of his adopted republic and changed forever the =
perception on the Irish in the New World. This monograph is an important =
addition to nineteenth century trans-Atlantic community studies and =
Irish studies generally.

Key Subject Areas: Irish History, Military Studies

October 2005 304 pages illus
0 7165 2812 6 cloth =E2=82=AC55.00/=C2=A345.00=20
0 7165 2813 4 paper =E2=82=AC25.00/=C2=A319.50


_________________________________________________________________________=
__________

Trade orders: Gill & Macmillan Book Distributors, Hume Avenue, Park =
West, Dublin 12
Tel: +353 (0)1 500 9500 Fax: +353 (0)1 500 9599

IRISH ACADEMIC PRESS
Northumberland House, 44 Northumberland Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, =
Ireland
Tel: +353 (0)1 668 8244 Fax: +353 (0)1 660 1610 E-mail: info[at]iap.ie
Website: www.iap.ie

The Irish Abroad
General Editor: Ruan O=E2=80=99Donnell, University of Limerick=20
This new series aims to publish short biographies of Irish men and women =
who made their mark outside their native country. Accounts of those who =
settled permanently overseas will be published along with the life =
stories of temporary residents and involuntary emigrants. =20

Expatriates of all types will be considered whether explorers, =
travellers, military personnel, colonial pioneers, members of religious =
orders, professionals, politicians, revolutionaries, exiles or convicts. =
While it is envisaged that the majority of the subjects would have gone =
overseas during the early modern and modern period, persons from =
different times may also be deemed appropriate for inclusion. Most =
titles will concern the Irish in North America, the former territories =
of the British Empire (including Australasia) and Great Britain, =
although it is intended that biographies of those who journeyed to =
Spanish America, the West Indies, Africa, Continental Europe and other =
non-English speaking sectors will form part of the series. Men and =
women of Irish extraction will also merit inclusion if it is evident =
that their perceived ethnicity and family origins played a significant =
part in their careers. A number of autobiographies will be selected for =
republication with critical introductions by leading scholars.

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Call for Papers:

The Hidden Ireland - ASSEC 2006
Montreal, Canada
March 30-April 2


Daniel Corkery's study of the literature and society of Irish-speaking
Munster in the eighteenth century (The Hidden Ireland, first published =
in
1924) is an acknowledged classic of Irish literary history. The Keough
Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame, will sponsor a =
panel
at the 2006 ASECS conference at Montreal, March 30-April 2 entitled "The
Hidden Ireland". This panel will examine Irish writing (in both =
languages)
in the light of Corkery's analysis and recent reassessments of that
analysis. We welcome proposals for this panel. Please send electronic
proposals (300-500 words) to:

Professor Brian =D3 Conchubhair
Department of Irish Language and Literature
422 Flanner Hall
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556

Telephone: 574-631-0499
Fax: 574-631-3620
e-mail: boconch1.[at]nd.edu

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IASIL 2006 - First Call for Papers. Reply to irish[at]unsw.edu.au

Proposals are warmly invited on the general conference theme: exploring
'intertextuality' in all its forms in Irish literature and culture. =
Please
submit a title and 200 word abstract to irish[at]unsw.edu.au by 15th =
December,
2005. Papers should not exceed 20 minutes duration. =20

IASIL 2006 - "Those images that yet/ Fresh images beget" (W.B. Yeats
'Byzantium') University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Thursday =
20
July to Sunday 23 July 2006

In writing The Living Stream: Literature and Revisionism in Ireland, =
Edna
Longley says that she found she was often 'tracing a textual web', and =
that
the term 'intertextuality' applied to what she was investigating 'not as =
a
theoretical dead letter, but as a creative dynamic working upon =
mechanisms
of tradition and cultural definitions alike'.

This conference is devoted to exploring 'intertextuality' in all its =
forms
in Irish literature and culture from earliest times to the present.

The creative dynamic that Edna Longley detects is of course even at work =
in
her own formulation with its echoes of Eliot's "Tradition and the =
Individual
Talent", Barthes' "The Death of the Author", and Yeats's "Easter 1916".

And it seems equally true of critic as of creator, though Wilde has
brilliantly collapsed that distinction.

In terms of creativity W.B. Yeats celebrates a 'self-affrighting',
'self-delighting' process by which art generates art-'Those images that
yet/Fresh images beget'.

Others use different metaphors. W.H. Auden writes of his awareness of
'ghostly presences'; Harold Bloom of 'the anxiety of influence'; Richard
Ellmann of 'eminent domain'; M.H. Abrams of exploring 'serviceable
analogues, whose properties were, by metaphorical transfer, predicated =
of a
work of art'; Edna Longley of a 'dispersed collectivity' that is the =
domain
of 'intertextual antagonism'; Seamus Heaney of 'overhearing'; and T.S. =
Eliot
of his belief that 'between the true artists of any one time there is =
=A9 an
unconscious community'.

Not that such 'influences', 'exchanges', 'transactions', 'borrowings' or
'intertextualities'-or whatever one wants to call them-are always as =
benign
as inferred by 'community' or as organic as implied by begetting. They =
might
contaminate, distort, or perhaps render stereotypical.

But if such processes are as powerful and as pervasive as writers and
critics claim, shouldn't we enquire into how they function? and =
shouldn't we
ask what are the implications for Irish Studies-particularly about the =
ways
we research and teach?

IASIL 2006, which will meet in Sydney from Thursday 20 July to Sunday 23
July inclusive, has committed itself to exploring, explicating and =
enjoying
the 'textual web' that is Irish Studies.

http://www.iasil.org/sydney/=20