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This interesting article by Janet Nolan has been flagged up by our
systems...

There does not seem to be an Abstract...

But I have pasted in below the material that is available at the Project
Muse web site...

Some IR-D members might have access to the text through Project Muse...

In which case nudge-wink-know what I mean...

P.O'S.


Nolan, Janet "Silent Generations: New Voices of Irish America"
American Literary History - Volume 17, Number 3, Fall 2005, pp. 595-603
Oxford University Press

Excerpt

American Literary History 17.3 (2005) 595-603
New Voices of Irish America
Janet Nolan

The Irish are everywhere and in large numbers, and at least 45 million
Americans today have Irish ancestry. Nevertheless, until recently, three
major components of the diverse Irish population in the US have been
overlooked by most historians: Protestants, antebellum (or pre-Famine)
immigrants, and women. In fact, the history of American-Irish immigration
has focused almost exclusively on the experience of Catholic post-Famine-era
working-class men as representative of all the Irish who left their homeland
for the New World. Generations of other Irish who journeyed across the
Atlantic have been silent in the histories of the Irish in the US.

This circumscribed view of the American Irish stemmed from Irish as much as
American circumstances. Beginning with Henry VIII's break with Rome, the
English Crown's subsequent centuries-long struggle to impose its sovereignty
made Catholicism a political and social liability in Ireland and in
England's (later, Great Britain's) US colonies. Except for the short-lived
attempt of the United Irishmen of the late eighteenth century to bring them
together, Catholics and Protestants remained politically, culturally, and
economically segregated. After the Act of Union in 1801, which subordinated
Ireland to Great Britain in a United Kingdom, Protestants tied themselves
even more to an Anglo-Irish Ascendancy, leaving Irish national identity to
Catholics alone. In the New World, Irish Protestants likewise abandoned
their ties to an Irish ethnicity that was increasingly tied to Catholicism
and social pathology. Nevertheless, before...
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* Miller, Kerby A. Irish immigrants in the land of Canaan: letters and
memoirs from colonial and revolutionary America, 1675-1815.
* Dunne, Robert, 1964- Antebellum Irish immigration and emerging
ideologies of "America".
* Waters, Maureen, 1939- Crossing Highbridge: a memoir of Irish America.
* Irish Americans -- History -- Sources.
* Irish Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century.

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Cambridge Journal Online

* Volume 21
* Issue 03 - Aug 2005

New Theatre Quarterly (2005), 21: 241-254 Cambridge University Press
Copyright 2005 Cambridge University Press
doi 10.1017/S0266464X0500014X
Published Online 18 Jul 2005


Irish Rioters, Latin American Dictators, and Desperate Optimists' Play-boy
Neal Swettenham


Abstract

The narrative process is inherently selective and consequently open to
distortion and falsification. J. M. Synge humorously illustrated this in The
Playboy of the Western World, in which his central character, Christy Mahon,
reinvents himself through the telling and retelling of his own story.
Play-boy, a much more recent performance work created by Desperate
Optimists, takes as its opening gambit the riots that accompanied the first
performances of this controversial Irish classic and adds a bewildering
variety of other narrative materials to the mix-providing, as it does so, a
tongue-in-cheek commentary on this story about stories. A detailed account
of the show in performance and the manner in which the company construct
their own tall tales initiates an investigation into how fact becomes
fiction in the creation of new narrative accounts, narrative being
considered as a participatory event that is both a psychological imperative
and a ludic pleasure. Neal Swettenham lectures in drama at Loughborough
University. His research into the role and status of narrative in
contemporary theatre has led him to fresh examinations of both traditional
story-based drama and avant-garde performance work. In particular, he has
written about the plays of American dramatist Richard Foreman and is
currently exploring the challenges presented to both actor and director by
these texts.

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Cambridge Journals Online

* Volume 39
* Issue 02 - Aug 2005
* Add to basket 8.00 / $12.00

Journal of American Studies (2005), 39: 257-296 Cambridge University Press
Copyright 2005 Cambridge University Press
doi 10.1017/S0021875805009710
Published Online 23 Aug 2005


From Swarthy Ape to Sympathetic Everyman and Subversive Trickster: The
Development of Irish Caricature in American Comic Strips between 1890 and
1920
KERRY SOPER a1
a1 Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA 84602-6702.


Observed from a distance, the prevalence of ethnic stereotyping in late
nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century cartooning in the United
States is disturbing. All one can see, initially, is that
turn-of-the-century readers seemed to enjoy seeing blacks, Native Americans,
and non-Anglo immigrants reduced to simplistic caricatures and made to say
and do outrageously stupid things. The Distorted Image, the Balch
Institute's expos on the evils of ethnic caricature, agrees with this
assessment, suggesting that "the strips from the early years of this century
[the twentieth] are inevitably suffused with crude, even gross stereotypes"
in which blacks and ethnic immigrants are "maligned and mistreated with
blithe insouciance." However, a closer inspection of particular characters,
mediums, and creators, reveals that there was greater complexity to these
"crude" images - a rich history, in fact, of shifting meanings and uses.
There were, of course, some blatantly racist depictions of ethnic minorities
in cartoons and comic strips during this period, but there was also a
complex spectrum of ethnic characters who played out shifting comedic and
social roles. By properly contextualizing some of these cartoons -
considering how meanings and uses changed according to where the cartoons
appeared, who created them, and who read them - many images that initially
seem just like more entries in a long line of gross stereotypes begin to
reveal layered, ambivalent, and even sympathetic codings.

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The Journal of Ecclesiastical History
* Volume 56
* Issue 03 - Jul 2005

The Journal of Ecclesiastical History (2005), 56: 473-495 Cambridge
University Press
Copyright 2005 Cambridge University Press
doi 10.1017/S0022046905004276
Published Online 23 Aug 2005

Review Article

An Irish Dimension to a British Kulturkampf?
COLIN BARR a1
a1 Ave Maria University, 1025 Commons Circle, Naples, Florida 34119, USA;
e-mail: colbarr[at]avemaria.edu

Abstract

In the second half of the nineteenth century, most European nations
experienced a period of state-sponsored anti-Catholic legislation that has
come to be known by the German term Kulturkampf. The question that this
article seeks to address is whether or not the United Kingdom, and
specifically Ireland, can be said to have experienced such a phenomenon. By
examining the case of Robert O'Keeffe, a Roman Catholic parish priest who
sued the cardinal archbishop of Dublin in the civil courts, it is possible
to determine both whether Britain experienced a Kulturkampf, and to offer
some suggestions as to why the United Kingdom appears to have been different
in this regard from its European neighbours.

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Women's Studies International Forum
Volume 28, Issue 4 , July-August 2005, Pages 328-342

Copyright C 2005 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.

More than 'just a little hobby': Women and textile art in Ireland

Nancy J. Nelson a, Karen L. LaBat b and Gloria M. Williams b

aUniversity of North Carolina, Greensboro, 210 Stone Building, P.O. Box
26170, Greensboro, NC 27402, USA
bUniversity of Minnesota, United States

Available online 14 June 2005.


Synopsis

In this article, interviews with 25 contemporary Irish women textile artists
form the basis of an exploration of women's experiences with creative
expression. An interpretive framework that highlights key socio-cultural and
gender issues is used to critically examine the experiences of these 25
artists and situate their lives and work at the center of expression in the
textile medium in Ireland today. Their experiences with making textile art,
as well as sharing it, are explored, as are the challenges they face in
dealing with a public largely unaware of the social and economic value of
the textile medium. As the interpretation illustrates, these women artists
find themselves taking on the role of educators in order to build visibility
for their work, and ultimately, what they hope will be support for and
acceptance of their particular brand of creative expression.

Article Outline

Background
Making textile art

Learning the medium
The creative process
Merging work and family

Sharing textile art

Identity issues
Exhibiting textiles: opportunities
Exhibiting textiles: challenges

Educating for change

Increasing exposure
Social and economic value

Discussion and conclusions
References

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Dear Paddy,

Would it be OK to draw this publication to the attention of list =
members? It
appeared this summer.

=20

Best wishes

=20

Paul

=20

=20

Joseph Keating, My Struggle for Life. First published 1916, republished =
2005
by University College Dublin Press in the =91Classics in Irish =
History=92
series, with an Introduction by Paul O=92Leary.

=20

ISBN 1-904558-44-5; 352 pp, =8025, =A317.50.

General editor: Tom Garvin.

=20

Description:

An unrivalled insight into the life of a child reared in a working-class
Irish Catholic community in late nineteenth-century Britain. No other =
author
succeeds in depicting so vividly the texture of a life delimited by =
manual
work, home and community ties as experienced by Irish migrants of the
period. It charts the tortuous route by which a young man struggled to =
free
himself from a life of manual labour by using his literary talents to =
become
a journalist and a popular novelist. Published in 1916, it reflects the
world and assumptions of an =E9migr=E9 community between the failure of =
the
Fenian movement and the Easter Rising, and it includes a telling =
vignette of
the aged Fenian Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa.

* Joseph Keating (1871-1934) was the son of Irish migrants to south =
Wales.
He received a rudimentary schooling before working in the coalmines.
Subsequently, he educated himself sufficiently to embark on a career in
journalism. He wrote short stories and popular novels, and some of his =
work
achieved a degree of acclaim in the decade before the First World War.

=20

=20

=20

Dr Paul O'Leary

Dept. of History and Welsh History

University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Aberystwyth

Ceredigion, SY23 3DY

UK

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Tel: 01970 622662

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There has been some discussion here in England of the Institute for =
Public
Policy Research (ippr) Report... Beyond Black and White: Mapping New
Immigrant Communities.

Information and contact points below...

As ever, when you collect information on the 'Born Abroad' in Britain, =
the
Irish from the Republic of Ireland form the largest group, nearly =
500,000.
This group would be even larger, of course, if you included people born =
in
Northern Ireland.

As ever this fact is completely ignored in subsequent discussion. In =
fact
often the narrative seamlessly moves from discussion of the 'Born =
Abroad' to
discussion of those 'born outside the British Isles'. It is partly a
technical problem of data collection - but curiously unacknowledged.

P.O'S.
=20
=20
Beyond Black and White: Mapping New Immigrant Communities
ISBN: 186030284X

Author: Sarah Kyambi
Price: =A310.00
Publication Date: 07 September 2005

There is a press release and outline on the IPPR web site...

http://www.ippr.org.uk/

An outline with maps on the BBC web site...

Introduction and figures for Britain
7.5% of people living in Britain were born abroad.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/uk/05/born_abroad/html/overview.stm=



There is coverage on the Guardian web site

Migrant map of UK reveals surprises

Alan Travis, home affairs editor
Thursday September 8, 2005

There are more American migrants living in Britain than Bangladeshis,
according to a new demographic analysis which shows that the country's
immigrant population grew by 1.1 million between 1991 and 2001.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/immigration/story/0,15729,1564960,00.html

'Migrants from the Irish Republic still top the list of people living in
Britain but born abroad, with nearly 500,000 residents, then India =
(466,416)
and Pakistan (320,767)...'

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The following item turned up in our nets...

The Philosophical Forum
Volume 36 Issue 3 Page 243 - Fall 2005
doi:10.1111/j.1467-9191.2005.00203.x

TOWARD A CLEANER WHITE(NESS): NEW RACIAL IDENTITIES
DAVID INGRAM

There is no Abstract... So I contacted David Ingram to see if he had
something sensible to say about 'whiteness' and the Irish. Or even
whiteness and the 'Irish'. David Ingram has kindly let me see an earlier
version of the article.

The article reflects a revision of the view Ingram defended in Group Rights:
Reconciling Equality and Difference (Lawrence, KA: Kansas UP, 2000) - in
particular it argues against Henry Giroux's suggestion of the possibility of
constructing a "progressive" white identity. It is a closely argued piece,
within the traditions and procedures of academic philosophy - in effect a
philosophical examination of research in sociology and cognitive psychology.
It quotes some Irish material and cites Roediger and Ignatiev.

One of Ingram's hypotheticals involves an Irish American adopted by Polish
parents. As always with such hypotheticals real historical details untidily
intrude into the reader's mind. Was this Irish American placed with Polish
parents by a CATHOLIC adoption agency? And, of course, remember Al Smith.

IR-D members with access to the journal, and interest in the debates, will
find this an interesting read.

Patrick O'Sullivan


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EIRE IRELAND
VOL 40; NUMB 1/2; 2005
ISSN 0013-2683

pp. 11-41
Revisiting the Holy Well
Giollain, D. O.

pp. 42-59
The Christian Brothers and the Second Reformation in Ireland Keogh, D.

pp. 60-89
Daniel O'Connell in Comparative Perspective, 1800-50 McGraw, S.; Whelan, K.

pp. 90-106
Landscape and Religious Practice: A Study of Mass Attendance in Pre-Famine
Ireland Miller, D. W.

pp. 107-125
Confidantes or Competitors? Women, Priests, and Conflict in Post-Famine
Ireland Delay, C.

pp. 126-139
Mass in a Connemara Cabin: Religion and the Politics of Painting O Sullivan,
N.

pp. 140-169
Discipline, Sentiment, and the Irish-American Public: Mary Ann Sadlier's
Popular Fiction Howes, M.

pp. 170-182
"Hibernians on the March": Irish America and Ethnic Patriotism in the
Mid-Twentieth Century O Brien, M.

pp. 183-245
Opposing the "Modern World": The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Ireland, 1965-85
Donnelly, J. S.

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NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT

Sean Campbell and Gerry Smyth (2005)
BEAUTIFUL DAY: FORTY YEARS OF IRISH ROCK
Cork University Press
ISBN: 0953535355

Music has played an important role throughout the island of Ireland since
ancient times, and it continues to represent one of the principal cultura=
l
avenues for the expression and exploration of contemporary Irish identiti=
es.
Beautiful Day tells the story of modern Ireland from the perspective of t=
he
music produced across the island during a period of rapid, decisive chang=
e.
The volume is made up of an introductory essay (4,000 words) followed by
short essays (ca. 1,200 words) on forty-one songs (one from each year
between 1964 and 2004) interspersed with photographic images relating to
individual performers, songs and / or cultural context.

This book will place representative material by a variety of artists -
including U2, The Corrs, Thin Lizzy, Van Morrison, and Sin=E9ad O'Connor =
- in
their musical, cultural and historical contexts, while also introducing a
range of less well known, but no less interesting, Irish popular musician=
s
from the 1960s down to the present. Although the style is accessible, the
research is thorough, and is intended to challenge many received ideas
relating to the development of Ireland during this key stage of its
political and cultural history. The overall intention is to combine writt=
en
text with photographs to produce an attractive book that is evocative,
informative, and controversial, and that has widespread, cross-demographi=
c
appeal.

http://www.corkuniversitypress.com/epages/corkuniversitypress.storefront

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Dear IR-D members,

The case of three Irishmen accused of training guerrillas in Colombia
presents many interesting aspects. I wonder if someone in this list can
help to interpret what a "republican source" said in a recent newspaper
article, "Some of the attempts to stir it [the extradition] up have been
bizarre, like digging out legislation from the 1800s."=20

Edmundo Murray

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From: Patrick Maume
The SUNDAY TIMES reported that the Colombian government had suggested
that a C19 Colombian-British treaty about the extradition of pirates still
applied to the Republic of Ireland, because Ireland was part of the UK when
the treaty was signed.
Best wishes,
Patrick
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To:
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Dear IR-D members,

The case of three Irishmen accused of training guerrillas in Colombia
presents many interesting aspects. I wonder if someone in this list can
help to interpret what a "republican source" said in a recent newspaper
article, "Some of the attempts to stir it [the extradition] up have been
bizarre, like digging out legislation from the 1800s."

Edmundo Murray

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Patrick,

Yes, I believe it refers to a pre-independence treaty about pirates
signed by Spanish consul San Carlos in London 1817. Thank you very much,

Edmundo Murray

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From: Patrick Maume
The SUNDAY TIMES reported that the Colombian government had suggested

that a C19 Colombian-British treaty about the extradition of pirates
still=20
applied to the Republic of Ireland, because Ireland was part of the UK
when=20
the treaty was signed.
Best wishes,
Patrick
----- Original Message -----=20
From: "Murray, Edmundo"
To:
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 12:38 PM
Subject: [IR-D] Colombia-3 query


Dear IR-D members,

The case of three Irishmen accused of training guerrillas in Colombia
presents many interesting aspects. I wonder if someone in this list can
help to interpret what a "republican source" said in a recent newspaper
article, "Some of the attempts to stir it [the extradition] up have been
bizarre, like digging out legislation from the 1800s."

Edmundo Murray

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new book onGender and Migration into and out of Britain
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We are seeking contributions to an edited collection on gender and migrat=
ion (including enforced migration) focusing on movements into and out of =
Britain in the post-1945 period. This would include, for example, migrati=
on from Eastern Europe, Caribbean, Asia to Britain, and migration from Br=
itain to Canada, Australia, etc.
The aims of the collection are set out below. We hope that you will be in=
terested in contributing a chapter of c 8,000 words. If so, please send u=
s a brief outline (200 words) focusing on how you see your piece relating=
to the aims of the collection. The deadline for this is: 30 October to t=
he e-mail addresses below

We shall be approaching Manchester University Press in due course with a =
proposal and, when we get to that stage, will be asking for a more formal=
abstract (400 words). If we are successful in getting a contract, we hop=
e to be able to arrange a workshop in London where contributors can discu=
ss areas of common interest and exchange ideas on major questions for fut=
ure development. Since much of the work on gender and migration has focus=
ed on female migration, we would be particularly interested in research e=
xploring questions of masculinity. If you know of anybody who is working =
in this area, please let us know.=20

Aims

Over the past fifteen years, there has been increasing attention to quest=
ions of gender in literatures on migration which has served to make femal=
e migration far more visible and to generate debates about the distinctiv=
e roles that women have played in transnational movements. Much of this w=
ork explores relationships between migration and individual and collectiv=
e identity.

The aims of this collection are to:

=95 highlight the contribution that such work has made to cultural and so=
cial history and geography by bringing together pieces that draw on a ran=
ge of disciplinary and interdisciplinary methodologies

=95 explore the importance of intersections between gender and other iden=
tities =96 ethnic, national, familial, sexual, generational =96 to an und=
erstanding of major social and cultural issues eg. globalisation, the tra=
nsnational family, the legacies of colonialism.

=95 Identify major questions for future enquiry in this area.

Louise Ryan, Middlesex University, l.ryan[at]mdx.ac.uk
Wendy Webster, University of Central Lancashire, wwebster[at]uclan.ac.uk

Please circulate this call to any other relevant e-mail lists.

--=20
Dr. Louise Ryan, Research Fellow, Social Policy Research Unit
Middlesex University,
l.ryan[at]mdx.ac.uk

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Subject: A.E. Lecture, New York City, Sept 19th

UPCOMING PUBLIC EVENT ON IRISH WRITER, A.E.

On Monday evening, 7 P.M., September 19th, 2005, at the CUNY Graduate
Center, 365 Fifth Ave [at] 34th St., Room C202-203, the WB Yeats Society of New
York and the Institute for Irish-American Studies of the City University of
New York will co-sponsor a public talk on Irish poet, painter, journalist,
editor, and practical rural economist, A.E.
(George William Russell, 1867-1935).

The speaker will be Declan Foley, Manager of the Australian Yeats Society
website, Under Ben Bulben (www.benbulben.net/), and (default) Moderator of
the Yeats List (Yeats-Discussion[at]yahoogroups.com).

Mr Foley's presentation is titled, George William Russell: A.E. and the
American Farmer Lecture Tour. Mr Foley will discuss A.E.'s lecture tour
among American farmers in 1933, at the invitation of Henry Wallace, FDR's
Secretary of Agriculture, as well as other milestones in A.E.'s life. Mr
Foley will be introduced by Andy McGowan, President of the WB Yeats Society
of New York. For further details, see
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/cepp/courses/Irish_studies.html#2.

Mr Foley resided in Sligo, Ireland from 1950 to 1987, at which time he and
his family relocated to Berwick, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. An
energetic student of the Irish Literary Renaissance, he currently is at work
on a first-ever edition of John Butler Yeats's letters to his son, Jack. He
hopes to have the project ready for publication, circa 2007.

In 2001, Mr Foley initiated the first John Butler Yeats Seminar
(Chestertown, NY). In 2002, with Doug Saum and Sam & Joan McCready, Mr Foley
held a Yeats / Joyce event in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. In June, 2003, he
delivered a paper to the Chester Historical Society of New York, titled,
Sligo's Stone Monuments. In 2004, he contributed to the organization of the
second John Butler Yeats Seminar, also in Chestertown. Later this month, Mr
Foley will speak to the Yeats Society of Austin, Minnesota.

He may be reached for future bookings and Irish literary chat at
declanfoley[at]ireland.com.

Declan Foley's talk will include readings from A.E.'s poetry and letters by
two of Mr Foley's New York friends: Cathy E. Fagan (Nassau Community
College, Garden City, NY; and Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY) and Maureen
E. Mulvihill (Princeton Research Forum, Princeton, NJ; and Visiting
Professor, St John's University, Manhattan, Autumn '05). Dr Fagan, who
chaired the 2004 Yeats Seminar in Chestertown, New York, is working on a
collaborative edition of the John Quinn letters with Janis Londraville,
biographer of Jeanne Robert Foster. In Chicago this November, at the
Modernist Studies Association Conference, Dr Fagan will speak on Foster's
role in the Armory and Chicago Modern Arts Exhibitions of 1913. Dr Mulvihill
is an Advisory Editor, Encyclopedia of Irish-American Relations, 3 vols
(Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio, 2006). Her essay on Mary Tighe (late-18thC Co.
Wicklow) is in the Fall '05 Irish Literary Supplement. Her multimedia
webpage on Lady Gregory is at www.yeatssociety.org/coole.html. She currently
is working on Irish women's political texts (pre-1800).

[with apologies for cross-posting]

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Subject: 6th Literature of Irish Exile Autumn School

The Sixth Literature of Irish Exile

Autumn School


Centre for Migration Studies at the Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh
Saturday, 15 October 2005

The focus of the Literature of Irish Exile Autumn School, now in its =
sixth
year, remains on how emigrants from Ireland have given expression in =
words
to feelings of exile. Part of the programme will take place in the
stimulating setting of the Outdoor Museum of the Ulster-American Folk =
Park.
The rest will be in the warmth of the library of the Centre for =
Migration
Studies. The aim is to give members of the public a friendly opportunity =
to
meet and mix with experts on some of the less well-known aspects of =
'exile'
in Irish literature.

It was planned that Frank Harte, the famous traditional singer and one =
of
Ireland=92s leading experts on songs of emigration, should perform at =
this
year=92s Autumn School. Sadly, Frank died in June. In his place we have
another leading singer, Len Graham, who will take The Hungry Voice, =
Frank
Harte=92s major collection of emigration songs, as the main focus of his
performance.


Speakers


Lorraine Tennant is Manager of the CMS Irish Emigration Data Collection
Project in Belfast since its inception in 1988

Brian Lambkin is Director of CMS

Pat O=92Donnell is Assistant Curator at the Ulster-American Folk Park =
and has
curated the current Threads of Emigration Exhibition=20

Jennifer Meegan is Associate Lecturer, Open University in Ireland and =
has
been actively involved with her husband, Brendan, in the conservation of =
the
Irish Chiefs Sampler which is now on display in Threads of Emigration=20

Len Graham is a leading singer and collector in the Irish traditional =
song
tradition. He was a friend of the late Frank Harte, who was due to have
performed at this year=92s Autumn School. His collection of songs of
emigration, The Hungry Voice, will be the main focus of Len=92s =
performance=20

Patrick Fitzgerald is Lecturer and Development Officer at CMS

Johanne Devlin Trew is Research Fellow, based at CMS, Omagh, working on =
the
oral history project =91Narratives of Migration and Return=92. She =
previously
taught at Memorial University of Newfoundland



Saturday 15 October, 2005=20

10.45 Registration (CMS Library at Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh)

Tea / Coffee on arrival

11.00 Welcome (CMS Library)

11.05 Lorraine Tennant, =91Exploring the Emigration Letters of James
Alexander Smyth (1873-1955)=92

Chair: Brian Lambkin

11.35 Discussion

12.00 Brian Lambkin, =91Frank Harte, Songs of Emigration and The Irish
Chiefs=92

12.15 Pat O=92Donnell, =91Introducing the new Threads of Emigration
Exhibition=92=20

Round Gallery

Jennifer and Brendan Meegan =91Conserving the Irish Chiefs Sampler=92

12.45 Lunch, Ulster-American Folk Park Visitor Centre

2.00 Len Graham, =91The Hungry Voice: singing songs of emigration=92

Ship Gallery

3.05 Patrick Fitzgerald, =91Publicans as Emigration Agents=92

Reilly=92s Pub, Ulster Street

3.15 Afternoon Tea (CMS Library)

3.30 Johanne Devlin Trew, =91The Narratives of Migration and Return
Project=92, including extracts from the archive of oral history =
interviews

Chair: Piaras Mac =C9inr=ED

4.15 Reception=20

4.45 Close

Fee: =A320.00 stg (=A315.00 concession for students, unwaged and senior
citizens)

This includes: registration, morning tea/coffee, lunch, afternoon =
tea/coffee
and drinks reception.


Contact

Tel: 028 8225 6315; Fax: 028 8224 2241; Email:
Christine.Johnston[at]ni-libraries.net=20

=20
Christine Johnston

Senior Library Assistant

Centre for Migration Studies

Ulster American Folk Park

=20

Tel: 028 8225 6315

Fax: 028 8224 2241

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Subject: Colloquium - Media history in Ireland, Britain, and Canada

Colloquium - Media history in Ireland, Britain, and
Canada: Connections and Comparisons

A One-day Colloquium to be held on 4 November 2005 at the Centre for the
Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change, National University of
Ireland, Galway, Ireland

Speakers:

Martin McLoone, University of Ulster, Coleraine Regional cinemas and
national cultures: film in Ireland, Scotland and Wales

Ged Martin, Shanacoole, West Waterford
The political press in nineteenth-century Canada

Mark O'Brien, Dublin City University
A farewell to empire? The Irish Times and de Valera's constitutional crusade

Simone Pilon, Franklin College, Indiana
Playing with identity: pseudonyms in the nineteenth-century press

Simon Potter, National University of Ireland, Galway The BBC and the origins
of public sector broadcasting in Canada

Mary Vipond, Concordia University, Montreal A breakdown in communications:
the flawed relationship between the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission
and the BBC, 1933-36

For more information and to register please email Dr.
Simon Potter
(simonjpotter[at]yahoo.com)

Organisers - Dr. Simon Potter and Professor Ged Martin

This event is generously supported by the Irish Research Council for the
Humanities and Social Sciences Government of Ireland Projects Fund Grant
scheme, and by the Association of Canadian Studies in Ireland.


Dr. Simon J. Potter
IRCHSS Government of Ireland Research Fellow Lecturer, Department of
History, National University of Ireland, Galway

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BOOKS IRELAND
NUMB 278; 2005
ISSN 0376-6039

p. 173
The Church - no change: Tony Flannery

pp. 174-176
Doomed of Gallipoli: Philip Orr

pp. 177-178
Welcome to Hell: Colin Martin

pp. 179-179
Pinching herself: Alex Barclay

p. 185
Marriages are made
Leonard, S.

p. 185
What did you do?
Corcoran, C.

p. 186
Traumata
Connolly, M.

pp. 187-188
One man one book
Brennan, R.

p. 189
Seat of pants
Dillon-Malone, A.

pp. 190-191
Free as air
Canavan, T.

p. 192
Civil warrior
Redmond, L.

pp. 193-194
The wonder of it
Power, B.

p. 195
Clean reading
Greacen, R.

pp. 195-196
Out of bottle
Horgan, J.

p. 197
Relics
Johnston, F.

pp. 198-198
Enchantment
Doran, T.

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________________________________

From: Journal of Music in Ireland=20
Subject: Table of Contents: Sept-Oct issue of JMI =96 The Journal of =
Music in
Ireland


JMI Sept-Oct 2005
Vol. 5 No. 5
http://www.thejmi.com

Niche within a Niche within a Niche... =96 John McLachlan
If the car is the new symphony hall, and the most popular use of music =
is as
a mood-changer, then the challenges for the adventurous musician or =
composer
who is exhorted to =91reach out to the public=92 are many. Composer John
McLachlan suggests some new ways of understanding the musical distance
between =91the public=92 and the innovator...

=91Those Who Suffer Write the Songs=92: Frank Harte 1933-2005 =96 Mick =
Moloney
Singer, musician and folklorist Mick Moloney of New York University
remembers the great traditional singer Frank Harte

The Wrong Way to Listen to Music?=20
Patrick Freyne responds to Roger Doyle's article on philistinism in the =
last
issue of JMI

Traditional Music: A First for Roscommon=20
Emer Mayock reviews a new CD of Roscommon flute-playing

Atlantean: Comhth=E9acs Nua do Cheol na h=C9ireann
Breand=E1n =D3 hEaghra previews 'Atleantean =96 The Concert'=20

Music Education: Where Do We Go From Here?
Ita Beausang discusses music schools, the Irish Association of Music =
Schools
and music education in Ireland

New Music: Location =96 Ghetto or Niche?=20
John McLachlan reviews work by Benjamin Dwyer, Brian Boydell and =
Donnacha
Dennehy

Aloys Fleischmann and the Idea of an Irish Composer
Debates about the =91Irishness=92 of a composer=92s music are not new in =
Ireland.
The subject often occuppied Aloys Fleischmann, particularly as a young =
man
in the 1930s. S=E9amas de Barra traces the development of his ideas and =
his
early compositional style...

Obituary: James Wilson 1922-2005
Patrick Zuk

Recent Publications=20
Comprehensive listings of new CDs, DVDs, books, articles, scores and
periodicals =96 provided by the Irish Traditional Music Archive and the
Contemporary Music Centre

Plus Letters (Looking for the Irish Bartok, 'Irish Music' in The =
Cambridge
Companion to Modern Irish Culture, The Progress of Music in Ireland) and
News Items (Traditional Arts News)

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Articles =96 Reviews =96 Debate

JMI =96 The Journal of Music in Ireland
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A Nation Once Again? The Dislocations and Displacements of Irish
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The following item has turned up in our nets...

But no Abstract.

In think that this is the Michael Mays whose forthcoming books is Nation
States: The Cultures of Irish Nationalism.

P.O'S.




A Nation Once Again? The Dislocations and Displacements of Irish National
Memory

Author: Mays, Michael 1

Source: Nineteenth Century Contexts, Volume 27, Number 2, June 2005, pp.
119-138(20)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Affiliations: 1: Department of English, The University of Southern
Mississippi