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On a train of thought...

I think we should note, and praise, the launch of the Journal of the Society
for Musicology in Ireland. The Journal is web based, in nicely presented
Open Journal Systems (OJS). Musicology is, maybe, one of the more academic
of the academic disciplines interested in music - but it always has its feet
firmly planted in music's ground. And since music is always contested
ground in Ireland I think that Harry White and his colleagues are to be
congratulated on seeing this venture launched.

P.O'S.

Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland
JSMI is a peer-reviewed journal established in 2005, published exclusively
online. Its full-text articles and other content are free to access by all
persons who register as users. If you have not yet registered as a user,
click here.

http://www.music.ucc.ie/jsmi/index.php/jsmi

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For those interested in food ways...

A recent Council of Europe publication included this chapter...

Ireland: Simplicity and integration, continuity and change by Regina =
Sexton
in
Culinary Cultures of Europe - Identity, Diversity and Dialogue (2005)
Author(s) : =09
Edited by Darra Goldstein and Kathrin Merkle
ISBN 92-871-5744-8
Format : A 4
No. of pages : 500
Price : =E2=82=AC 49 / US$ 75
To be published 19/09/2005

There is a paper, 'Authentic Irish Ingredients' by Regina Sexton, at...

http://www.bordbia.ie/Corporate/Publications/Miscellaneous/REGINASEXTON.P=
DF

She is also the author of Little History of Irish Food

There is a radio item which can be played at...

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/story/1048215.html

with some very sensible remarks on the ways that the export business =
shapes food ways and diet.

Regina Sexton won The Sophie Coe Prize in Food History 1995 (The first =
year the Prize was awarded)
for Regina Sexton =E2=80=93 I'd Ate it like Chocolate: the disappearing =
offal food traditions of Cork City.

P.O'S.

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I am now off to the Irish Protestant Identities Conference, at the
University of Salford...

It is a packed conference programme - with substantial sections on the
overseas dimension. We have come a long way since the day I seized Jim
McAuley by the lapels (my favourite mode of negotiation) and said, You are
writing a chapter on Irish Protestants and migration. This became Chapter 2
of Religion and Identity, Volume 5 of my series, The Irish World Wide. It
was part of the task of The Irish World wide series to point out gaps, and
maybe sketch their dimensions...

Congratulations to the EUROPEAN STUDIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE, the Irish
Studies Centre, University of Salford and the
British Association for Irish Studies, and to the Conference Organisers:
Prof. Frank Neal, Dr Chris Boyle, Mervyn Busteed, Prof. Jon Tonge. I think
this is a very significant conference, and will change the map... I am
looking forward to it.

By the way... I am bringing with me in my car some spare copies of the
volumes of The Irish World Wide to sell for beer money... I need the shelf
space...

Back here Sunday evening...

Patrick O'Sullivan


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'Emigration project shines light on exiles...'

Or does it?

The following item has been brought to our attention...

P.O'S.=20

-----Original Message-----
Subject: From Monday 19 Sep Irish Times

Emigration project shines light on exiles

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A proposal to establish a centre for emigration studies in Co Mayo was =
mooted by council cathaoirleach Henry Kenny (FG) at the weekend.

Cllr Kenny, a brother of the Fine Gael leader, was officiating at the =
launch in Castlebar of Emile - a Culture 2000 project involving Sweden, =
Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic and Ireland.

The US ambassador to Ireland, James C Kenny, whose grandparents =
emigrated from Mayo in 1907, was a special guest. The project was =
simultaneously launched in the five participating countries. Emile has =
redressed a serious vacuum in the Republic's knowledge-base of =
emigration to America, and also informs contemporary issues around =
immigration and integration, according to Irish co-ordinator Austin =
Vaughan, who is Mayo county librarian.

To date, the main collections of emigrant letters have been held in the =
Public Records Office, Northern Ireland and the Centre for Migration =
Studies, Omagh.

The five Emile participants experienced the highest European emigration =
rates throughout the study period, 1840-1920. A sub-project, Young =
Emile, compares the experiences of contemporary immigrants to Europe =
with those described in old letters

"It has been estimated that round =E2=82=AC260 million was sent home to =
Ireland by our 19th century emigrants.
These letters and parcels were also accompanied by liner-tickets, =
clothes and photos of life in the new world. Not surprisingly, it was =
mainly women who sent home the remittances," said Mr Vaughan.

Some 50 per cent of these emigrants were young, single women, the =
majority of whom went into domestic service.

Citing a particular example, Mr Vaughan said the Titanic had collected =
1,385 bags of letters at Cobh as it set off on its doomed maiden voyage.

According to historian James Charles Roy, the process was effectively =
"chain-letters" leading to "chain emigration".

"The written letter was an indispensable tool for the entire emigrative =
process: it informed the ignorant, reassured the hesitant and often =
contained the ultimate inducement to seal a person's resolve - passage =
money."

One 19th century middle-class emigrant observed the harsh realities of =
life: "How often do we see such paragraphs in the papers as an Irishman =
drowned - an Irishman suffocated in a pit - an Irishman blown to atoms =
by a steam engine - ten, 20 Irishmen buried alive in the sinking of a =
bank - and other like casualties and perils to which Pat is constantly =
exposed, in the hard toils for his daily bread".

Letters were also dominated by the search for romance.
One girl, who had broken off her courtship and left for Philadelphia, =
later wrote to her former lover:
"Over in Ireland people marry for riches [ dowries], but here in America =
we marry for love and work for riches."

"In Ireland's case, it was mainly single people and it was a life =
sentence . . . Whereas In Sweden, for example, entire families emigrated =
and then returned as soon as they had accumulated enough money to =
re-establish a better quality of life at home," Mr Vaughan said.

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Volume 13 Number 3/August 2005 of Irish Studies Review is an Oscar Wilde
special, edited by Peter Kuch...

Is anybody in touch with David Rose? - he should be told...

Plus the usual Irish Studies extensive collection of book reviews, now
better organised... Many of interest...

P.O'S.


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

Volume 13 Number 3/August 2005 of Irish Studies Review is now available on
the Taylor & Francis web site at http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk.

The following URL will take you directly to the issue:

http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=RN3584432850

This issue contains:

Miscellaneous: Locating Wilde in 2004
p. 277
Peter Kuch

Wickedness in the Family
p. 283
Peter Kuch

Visibly Wild(e): A Re-evaluation of Oscar Wilde's Homosexual Image
p. 291
Eva Thienpont

Locating Wilde In 2004 And In The Fourth Century Bce: Platonic Love and
Closet Eros in The Picture of Dorian Gray
p. 303
Nikolai Endres

The Ethics Of Man Under Aestheticism
p. 317
Benjamin Smith

Acquiescing into a facile Orthodoxy?: Wilde, Pater and the Politics of
Cultural Parallax
p. 325
Alex Murray

'A Malady Of Dreaming': Aesthetics and Criminality In The Picture of Dorian
Gray
p. 333
Paul Sheehan

AN Earnest For Our Time: KAOS, Handbag and Lady Bracknell's Confinement1

p. 341
Joel Kaplan

'Taken Bodily': Oscar Wilde and Intertextuality
p. 353
Julie-Ann Robson

Oscar Wilde As An Object Of The English Heritage Industry
p. 359
Lucia Kraemer

Wildean Politics-'or Whatever One Wants To Call It'
p. 369
Peter Kuch

New Ways With The Last Days
p. 379
John Stokes

A Little Oscar Wilde: Houston, Texas, 1911
p. 397
Neil Sammells

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Subject: CFP: Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland

ACROSS THE WATER: IRELAND AND SCOTLAND IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY University
of Ulster, MageeJune 16-17, 2006

Ireland and Scotland have a shared ethnic, linguistic, and cultural heritage
which stretches back over millennia. Their physical and cultural proximity
have witnessed countless migrations, transferences, and inheritances of
peoples and ideas as well as numerous forms of conquest and territorial
appropriations. The nineteenth century, with its processes of modernisation
and imperial and national projects, facilitated the proliferation of new
linkages and divergences. Far from being marginal factors in the
meta-narrative of the "United Kingdom" of Great Britain and Ireland in the
nineteenth century, Ireland and Scotland, with their continuing exchanges of
peoples and cultures, existed as dynamic and important entities. The
conference seeks to re-examine the connections between Ireland and Scotland
in the light of growing academic interest in their intranational, and
indeed, transperipheral relationships. We welcome submissions from scholars
working on the long nineteenth century, and which examine Ireland and
Scotland in a comparative framework. Topics might include migration,
emigration, and diaspora, faith and confessional tensions, nationalism,
devolution, and the Union, "Celtic" identities, the writing of national
histories, literatures, art, and music, labour and working class culture,
sport and leisure, language and the politics of culture, Ulster, Scotland,
"northern" Irishness, and the Ulster Scots.

For more information, contact Dr James McConnel j.mcconnel[at]ulster.ac.uk

Institute of Ulster Scots Studies, Aberfoyle House, University of Ulster,
Londonderry. BT48 7JL 00 44 (0)28 713 75569

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Forwarded in line with standard policy...

Reviewed for H-German by Kathryn A. Edwards
Lara Apps and Andrew Gow. _Male Witches in Early Modern Europe_.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003. ix + 190 pp.
$64.95 (cloth),$24.95 (paper), ISBN 0-7190-5708-6,0-7190-5709-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=38671126882343

Reviewed for H-German by Kathryn A. Edwards
Alison Rowlands. _Witchcraft Narratives in Germany, Rothenburg,
1561-1652_. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003. ii +
248 pp. $74.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-7190-5259-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=41081126882419

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David,

Contacts...

This CFP below might be a good starting point...

I am tempted to put in a proposal myself - I quickly sketched a few notes,
starting with Kazantzakis Freedom and Death, ownership of the dead, the
voices of the dead, death as a negotiating ploy...

In fact, if money presents itself, I might fit in a trip to Paris...

Presumably it would be possible to do a quick thing on Wilde and Death?

Paddy



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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Citizenship and the Biopolitics of Post-nationalist Ireland
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Citizenship and the Biopolitics of Post-nationalist Ireland

Author: Harrington, John A. 1

Source: Journal of Law and Society, Volume 32, Number 3, September 2005, pp.
424-449(26)

Abstract:
In June 2004 voters in the Republic of Ireland endorsed a constitutional
amendment to deprive children born on the island of Ireland of their
previously automatic right to Irish citizenship. This change came amid
increasing immigration and so-called 'baby tourism', whereby non-national
mothers were alleged to be coming to Ireland to give birth for the sole
purpose of bestowing Irish citizenship on their children. This article sets
the referendum in its historical and contemporary context. Along with recent
jurisprudence of the Irish Supreme Court, the amendment betokens a
distinctive biopolitics orchestrated according to neo-liberal themes
consonant with Ireland's membership of the European Union and its foreign
direct investment strategy. As such, the amendment confirms the shift in
Irish constitutional history from autarkic nationalism to cosmopolitan
post-nationalism embodied in the Belfast Agreement of 1998.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6478.2005.00331.x

Affiliations: 1: Liverpool Law School, University of Liverpool, Liverpool
L69 7ZS, England, Email: John.harrington[at]liverpool.ac.uk

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Irish Rural Industrial Labour and Scottish Anti-Sweating Campaigns
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'Unregulated and Suicidal Competition': Irish Rural Industrial Labour and
Scottish Anti-Sweating Campaigns in the Early Twentieth Century

Author: James, Kevin

Source: Labour History Review, Volume 70, Number 2, August 2005, pp.
215-229(15)

Publisher: Maney Publishing

Abstract:
In the first years of the twentieth century, Scottish social and industrial
investigators turned a worried eye toward Ireland as they sought to explain,
and propose improvements to, the condition of female outworkers in the
garment trades. This research examines the activities of the Scottish
Council for Women's Trades and its perspectives on the problem of
inter-regional workforce competition, especially between Scottish and Irish
workers. The Council identified this competition as a cause of 'sweated'
labour in Glasgow and advocated measures to mitigate its impact. This
article emphasizes that contemporaries cast their eyes beyond workers in the
local labour market as they identified causes and victims of 'sweated
labour'.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1179/096156505X54293

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Irish social partnership and the community/voluntary sector
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P.O'S.


publication
Critical Social Policy

ISSN
0261-0183 electronic: 1461-703X

publisher
SAGE Publications

year - volume - issue - page
2005 - 25 - 3 - 349

article

We hate it here, please let us stay! Irish social partnership and the
community/voluntary sector's conflicted experiences of recognition

Meade, Rosie


abstract

This article critically assesses the outcomes of community and voluntary
sector participation in the partnership processes that have dominated the
Irish social policy scene for the last decade. As community organizations
have embraced the state sponsored corporatist project in both its local and
national manifestations, they have been given official recognition by
government as de facto representatives of the socially excluded. State
policy discourses have celebrated this development as evidence of its own
enablement of civil society and as reflective of participatory democracy in
action. However, because the state has taken such an instrumental role in
the initiation, funding and direction of community organizations at the
local level, the actual autonomy and independence of the community sector
has been grievously undermined. At a national level, community and voluntary
organizations have found that because they lack economic clout - the basis
of political influence in Ireland's neo-liberal climate - they have been
granted only a marginal influence over the substance of policy decisions.
The article concludes by urging that community organizations begin to
cultivate alternative alliances outside the state controlled sphere of
social partnership, in order to challenge neo-liberalism's hegemony and to
promote the political interests of those they claim to represent.

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The Irish Presidency: A Diplomatic Triumph

author

REES, NICHOLAS

year - volume - issue - page
2005 - 43 - 0/1 - 55

publication
Journal of Common Market Studies

ISSN
0021-9886 electronic: 1468-5965

publisher
Blackwell Publishing

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Subject: WEB RESOURCE Oxford DNB: Free Online Access Weekend 23-25
September
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I thought I should get this information out pretty quickly to the list,
especially the impoverished scholars amongst us...

Search under the key word 'Irish' turns up over 300 items...

P.O'S.


Free access weekend

Free access to 'the greatest reference work on earth.' (Daily Telegraph)

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography celebrates its first birthday
with three days' free online access from 23 to 25 September 2005. The Oxford
DNB is usually only available to subscribers, but for these three days,
anyone can read it-for free!

How do I get the free access?

You simply need to register.

1. Enter your name and email address on our registration page.
2. Click Accept to confirm that you accept our terms and conditions.
3. We'll send you an email, with a link in it. Click on the link to
confirm your registration.

Then you'll be able to access the Oxford DNB all weekend!

You can come back as many times as you like in the free access period, using
your email address to sign in.

For full details of the free access weekend go to: www.oxforddnb.com

http://www.oup.com/oxforddnb/info/openaccess/

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Subject: WEB RESOURCE 75 years of The Political Quarterly now available
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This too seems worth noting...

A search for 'Irish and 'Ireland' turns up slightly diffeent results - what
is particularly notable is the way in which the 'Northern Ireland problem'
enters British political discourses...

P.O'S.



Subject: 75 years of The Political Quarterly now available online

The Political Quarterly
75th Anniversary, 1930-2005
Free online archive

Articles published between 1930 and 1996 can be accessed without charge
during 2005. To read articles in these issues, simply visit
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/poqu and click on the corresponding
year and issue number.

"The function of The Political Quarterly will be to discuss social and
political questions from a progressive point of view. It will act as a
clearing-house of ideas and a medium of constructive thought. It will not be
tied to any party and will publish contributions from persons of various
political affiliations. It will be a journal of opinion, not of propaganda.
But it has been planned by a group of writers who hold certain general
political ideas in common and it will not be a mere collection of unrelated
articles..."
The Political Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 1, 1930

Past contributors include:
Bertrand Russell William Beveridge
A. L. Rowse H. A. Marquand
M. Kalecki J. M. Keynes
Stafford Cripps Elie Kedourie
Robert Boothby Harold D. Lasswell
G. D. H. Cole Leon Trotsky
R. H. Tawney C. P. Scott
Shirley Williams Leonard Schapiro
Noel Annan Denis Healey
Douglas Jay C. E. M. Joad
Ernest Gellner Richard Crossman
Arthur Koestler Anthony Crosland
Rudolf Klein William A. Robson
J. P. Mackintosh Tom Driberg
Samuel Brittan Hugh Gaitskell
Kingsley Martin Barbara Wootton
Leonard Woolf Michael Polanyi
Max Beloff Hugh Dalton
Harold Nicolson Michael Young
James Cornford Vernon Bogdanor
Ben Pimlott Richard Hoggart
Raymond Williams David Butler
Paul Hirst Harold Laski
Bernard Crick

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/poqu

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This item turned up in that free search of The Political Quarterly...

It is an unsigned editorial introduction - and I am afraid that the names of
the editors of The Political Quarterly in that period do not come instantly
to mind...

That issue, Volume 39 Issue 1 January 1968 - is a special, looking at
questions around immigration and race relations. All of it is worth reading
- particularly worth noting is the way that the Irish are constantly
present, as a point of comparison.

And that is the starting point of the editors' introduction - apparently one
racist way of insulting the new arrivals was to call them 'Black Irish'...
Worth a footnote in anyone's book....

Abstract

The Political Quarterly
Volume 39 Issue 1 Page 1 - January 1968
doi:10.1111/j.1467-923X.1968.tb00243.x

"BLACK IRISH"

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Subject: CFP American Conference for Irish Studies,
2006 Southern Regional Conference, South Carolina
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________________________________

IRISH STUDIES:

GEOGRAPHIES AND GENDERS

American Conference for Irish Studies
2006 Southern Regional Conference
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
February 23-26, 2006

Deadline for proposals: November 15, 2005.

The University of South Carolina will host the 2006 Southern Regional
Conference of the American Conference for Irish Studies in Columbia, SC,
February 23-26, 2006. Special guests will include poets Eavan Boland and
Vona Groarke. Some sessions will be held in conjunction with the USC Women's
Studies conference on "Transnational Feminisms."

The organizers welcome proposals for papers and panels that explore any
dimension of Irish Studies (multi-genre, multi-disciplinary, and multi-media
presentations encouraged), but particularly on topics addressing the
conference theme "Geographies and Genders." How does geography inform our
perceptions of Irish identity in politics, literature, and popular culture?
How does gender inform our perceptions of Irish identity in politics,
literature, and popular culture? How do geography and gender intersect in
Irish culture and history?

Possible topics may include:

* geographical and/or gendered representations of identity and nation
* borders, separation, border crossings: north/south, rural/urban,
Protestant/Catholic, public private, modernity/post-modernity, male/female
* maps, cartography, topography, borders, surveys, passports, rites of
passage
* portrayals of gender in popular culture, media, and/or literature;
Ireland as mother or lover, land as female; Acts of Union and acts of union,
marriage, divorce; partition and parturition, reproduction, laws governing
sexual expression or reproduction
* geographies of gender and sexual identity, gender and space; hedge
schools, laundries, camps, train stations, cottages, confessionals, bogs,
wells, noises from the woodshed
* geographies of cultural and identity, diasporas, immigration,
emigration, Gaeltachts; landscapes of famine, memorials, graveyards, memory
and social space

Please send queries and abstracts (no more than 250 words) by email to:

emadden[at]sc.edu or
leemj[at]mailbox.sc.edu.


For additional information or to send abstracts via mail:

Ed Madden
Department of English
University of South Carolina
Columbia SC 29208
(803) 777-2171

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When I was a boy in Dundalk in the fifties we used to unearth a plant with a
long stalk and which had a black furry surround at the top which burned if
dipped - I think - in kerosene: we called the plants 'blackpaddies'. I have
vague memories of living in Leeds in the mid Sixties and hearing 'black
paddy' used, whether as a form of abuse, endearment or both by Irish people
referring to black people. Whtyher this was something peculiar to Co louth
men/women or wider still I don't know.

Liam Clarke
Brighton University

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Of Patrick O'Sullivan
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 2:56 PM
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Subject: [IR-D] Political Quarterly Editorial 1968 'BLACK IRISH'

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This item turned up in that free search of The Political Quarterly...

It is an unsigned editorial introduction - and I am afraid that the names of
the editors of The Political Quarterly in that period do not come instantly
to mind...

That issue, Volume 39 Issue 1 January 1968 - is a special, looking at
questions around immigration and race relations. All of it is worth reading
- particularly worth noting is the way that the Irish are constantly
present, as a point of comparison.

And that is the starting point of the editors' introduction - apparently one
racist way of insulting the new arrivals was to call them 'Black Irish'...
Worth a footnote in anyone's book....

Abstract

The Political Quarterly
Volume 39 Issue 1 Page 1 - January 1968
doi:10.1111/j.1467-923X.1968.tb00243.x

"BLACK IRISH"

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/poqu

P.O'S.


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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: RECENT VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF CONFLICT IN NORTHERN IRELAND
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The following item has been brought to our attention...

P.O'S.


HANKY DAY: RECENT VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF CONFLICT IN NORTHERN IRELAND

A one day symposium presenting interdisciplinary approaches to the =
visual representation of the conflict in Northern Ireland on the =
occasion of Amanda Dunsmore's solo show Keeper.

Saturday 26 November 2005
Faculty of Art and Design, Manchester Metropolitan University

In 1972, on Bloody Sunday in Derry, thirteen people were killed by the =
British Army during what had originally been a peaceful protest. As =
people tried to help the dying they were themselves fired on and killed. =
The image of Father Edward Daly holding aloft a white handkerchief as he =
tried to bring the seventeen year old Jackie Duddy to safety has become =
one of the most pervasive icons of over thirty years of conflict. Hanky =
Day brings together artists, filmmakers and critical commentators who =
have made a significant contribution to the recent representation of =
political conflict in Northern Ireland.=20

Speakers include:

Graham Dawson, cultural historian, University of Brighton. He is =
currently completing a book on cultural memory, the Irish Troubles and =
the peace process for Manchester University Press, and has published =
several articles on this theme.

Rita Duffy, visual artist, Belfast, whose work since 1988 has been =
closely engaged with issues of political conflict in Northern Ireland.

Amanda Dunsmore, visual artist, Limerick. Her work explores concepts =
linked to social & historical issues using installation, photography, =
sound and video.=20

Margo Harkin, filmmaker, Derry. Her current projects include a feature =
documentary on the Bloody Sunday Inquiry and she is also co-developing a =
drama on the 1980-81 Hunger Strikes in Long Kesh Prison.

Cahal McLaughlin, Media Arts, Royal Holloway College, is a documentary =
filmmaker whose work has been shown on C4, BBC and RTE. His current =
research is on recording testimonies from political conflict in Northern =
Ireland.

Louise Purbrick, History of Art and Design, University of Brighton, and =
author of 'The Architecture of Containment' in Donovan Wylie, The Maze, =
Granta, 2004.=20

The symposium will take place on Saturday 26 November 2005 between 1.30 =
and 6.00pm in the Performance Space, Grosvenor Building, Faculty of Art =
and Design, Manchester Metropolitan University. This will be followed by =
an opening reception for Amanda Dunsmore's exhibition Keeper at the John =
Holden Gallery.

Tickets: =A320 / =A35 students
To reserve a place or for further details please contact Fionna Barber, =
f.barber[at]mmu.ac.uk , School of Art and Design History, Manchester =
Metropolitan University, Righton Building, Cavendish St, Manchester M15 =
6BG=20

EXHIBITION:
AMANDA DUNSMORE: KEEPER, John Holden Gallery, Grosvenor Building, MMU, =
28 November - 16 December.=20

Amanda Dunsmore's recent work draws on the archive of material collected =
by the artist during a residency at HMP Long Kesh / The Maze during the =
late 1990s. A central work in this exhibition, Billy's Museum, documents =
a secret collection of confiscated objects assembled over many years by =
Billy Hull, a long-serving warder at the prison. Dunsmore's film is the =
only record of the collection which has now been destroyed.=20

Keeper has also been shown at Triskel Art Gallery, Cork as part of the =
Visual Arts Program of the European City of Culture 2005 and at the =
Mus*e Internationale de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge in Geneva. =


Further details of Keeper and Amanda Dunsmore's work can be found at =
http://www.lit.ie/dunsmore/longk/keepermain.htm=20


Fionna Barber
Senior Lecturer in History of Art
School of Art and Design History
Manchester Metropolitan University
Righton Building
Cavendish St
Manchester
M15 6BG
0161 247 1943

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Subject: Review, Eugene O'Neill 'Long Day's Journey Into Night"
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The following item has been brought to our attention...

P.O'S.


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Subject: review of greatest of Irish-American plays


STAGE REVIEW
'Journey' is only half complete
By Thomas Garvey, Globe Correspondent
Boston GLOBE September 7, 2005

Eugene O'Neill's 'Long Day's Journey Into Night" is famously what its title
promises: a slow descent into darkness as deep as anything limned by
Shakespeare or Sophocles. With great actors leading the way, the trip is as
moving an experience as the theater has to offer. In lesser hands, however,
the voyage easily slows into a limbo of decay and delay.

The current ensemble at Gloucester Stage, alas, is sharply divided in terms
of talent. When the terrific Sandra Shipley and the gifted Joe Pacheco take
the stage, the landscape of this familial hell is illuminated as if by a
beacon. But the rest of the cast leaves us stranded in a fog as thick as
that enveloping the house of O'Neill's doomed dynasty, the Tyrones.

The playwright modeled this tortured clan so closely on his own family that
he hardly bothered to change the first names, perhaps because protecting the
innocent was impossible, as there weren't any. Over time, the sordidness of
the story -- the whoring and drinking of the two brothers, the cheapness of
their matinee-idol father, and the morphine addiction of their mother -- has
lost much of its air of scandal but none of its pathos, and O'Neill's
endless roundelay of recrimination is all the more harrowing for being
driven by a fierce and undeniable love.

The challenge for any production is that 'Journey" hardly has a plot.
From the opening scene we can clearly see the looming disaster: Mother Mary
is slipping into her addiction, and haunted young Edmund has contracted
tuberculosis. The rest of the play simply deepens O'Neill's diagnosis of
this double crisis. The playwright's genius, however, lies in the
dysfunctional braid with which he binds the family; by the final curtain,
their mutual guilt has achieved the resonance and inevitability of fate.

In the showstopper role of Mary Tyrone, local legend Shipley distinguishes
herself yet again with a luminous performance. As she drifts into Mary's
drug-induced dreams, Shipley delineates O'Neill's themes even as she reveals
the cold, needy self hidden in Mary's gentility. It's an almost definitive
performance, and certainly one of the best of the year.

Meanwhile, as elder son Jamie, Pacheco works something close to the same
miracle in his own final scene, which crackles with emotional commitment.
But the full arc of his character -- from likable wreck to something far
more sinister -- remains obscured, due partly to his fellow actors and
partly to Eric C. Engel's lackluster direction.

Engel has given the play a solid, traditional shape, but he hasn't found a
full cast up to its demands, and he seems to have let the actors fend
largely for themselves. Without sufficient direction, Gloucester mainstay
Paul O'Brien is far too placid to capture the darkness in patriarch James
Tyrone, and young Michael Tennant is even more at sea as the dying Edmund.

Hale and hearty (despite the occasional cough), with the looks of Matthew
Perry and a demeanor to match, Tennant comes off as a distressed Chandler
Bing lost in a sitcom gone terribly, terribly wrong. And at such moments
this 'Journey" seems very long indeed.

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http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2005/09/07/journey_is_only_
half_complete/

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This arrived in my mailbox today, 11 days after the putative close of the
deadline -- but perhaps they make exceptions for subscribers panting to go
to Kalamazoo!
>
> As the K'zoo deadline approaches, Lahney Preston-Matto and I are
> seeking =
> one more paper for our panel, "Afterlives and Receptions in Anglo-
> Norman =
> Ireland." If you're interested, please contact me or send us a one-
> page =
> abstract by September 15. Do share this announcement with any
> friends, =
> colleagues or grad students working on Irish/Norman identities.
> Here's =
> our session description:
>
>
> Call for Participants
> 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 4-7 2006
> Kalamazoo, MI
>
> Session Title: "Afterlives and Receptions in Anglo-Norman Ireland"
>
> How did figures and images from the Irish 'past' receive new or
> renewed
> attention in the 12th to 15th centuries? How were legacies
> rewritten and
> reputations manipulated by native artists and writers, by
> colonizers, or =
> by
> emerging 'hybrid' identities such as sean-gaeilge, nua-gaeilge,
> anglo-norman, anglo-irish? This session will address the
> appropriation,
> re-use, revival and re-direction of artistic, literary and historical
> figures and tropes in the contexts of colonization, occupation, =
> opposition
> and uprising.
>
> We seek papers from diverse disciplines (literary studies,
> history, art history, archaeology); interdisciplinary and/or =
> collaborative
> studies are particularly encouraged.
>
> Abstracts (for 20-minute presentations) by email by Sept 15, 2005 to =
> Karen Overbey or Lahney Preston-Matto =
>
>
> please direct any questions to Karen Overbey at the email above.
>
> --keo
> ________________________
> Dr K E Overbey
> Department of Fine Arts
> Seattle University
> 901 12th Avenue
> Seattle, WA 98122
>
> overbeyk[at]seattleu.edu
> office: 206-296-5365
>
>
>
> ________________________
> Dr K E Overbey
> Department of Fine Arts
> Seattle University
> 901 12th Avenue
> Seattle, WA 98122
>
> overbeyk[at]seattleu.edu
> office: 206-296-5365
>
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> Last Call: Afterlives and Receptions at Kalamazoo
>
>
>
>
> Hi C=F3ll=EDn:
> I wonder if you'd be able to forward this announcement to the
> Columbia =
> Irish Studies Seminar folk.... if, of course, that's something the
> list =
> does? (sending out stuff like that to members...) Lahney and I would =
> greatly appreciate it.... Or, if not, perhaps you know of someone
> who =
> might be interested in rounding out our panel?
>
> At any rate, hope you are well and enjoying early fall in NYC. All
> my =
> best, as always, to you and all around the city.
> slan,
> karen
>
> ____________________
>
>
> As the K'zoo deadline approaches, Lahney Preston-Matto and I are
> seeking =
> one more paper for our panel, "Afterlives and Receptions in =
> Anglo-Norman Ireland." If you're interested, please contact me
> or =
> send us a one-page abstract by September 15. Do share this
> announcement =
> with any friends, colleagues or grad students working on Irish/
> Norman =
> identities. Here's our session description:
>
>
> Call for Participants
> 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 4-7 2006
> Kalamazoo, MI
>
> Session Title: "Afterlives and Receptions in Anglo-Norman =
> Ireland"
>
> How did figures and images from the Irish 'past' receive new or =
> renewed
> attention in the 12th to 15th centuries? How were legacies rewritten =
> and
> reputations manipulated by native artists and writers, by
> colonizers, or =
> by
> emerging 'hybrid' identities such as sean-gaeilge, nua-gaeilge,
> anglo-norman, anglo-irish? This session will address the =
> appropriation,
> re-use, revival and re-direction of artistic, literary and =
> historical
> figures and tropes in the contexts of colonization, occupation, =
> opposition
> and uprising.
>
> We seek papers from diverse disciplines (literary studies,
> history, art history, archaeology); interdisciplinary and/or =
> collaborative
> studies are particularly encouraged.
>
> Abstracts (for 20-minute presentations) by email by Sept 15, 2005 to =
> Karen Overbey or Lahney Preston-Matto =
>
>
> please direct any questions to Karen Overbey at the email above.
>
> --keo
> ________________________
> Dr K E Overbey
> Department of Fine Arts
> Seattle University
> 901 12th Avenue
> Seattle, WA 98122
>
> overbeyk[at]seattleu.edu
> office: 206-296-5365
>
>
>
> ________________________
> Dr K E Overbey
> Department of Fine Arts
> Seattle University
> 901 12th Avenue
> Seattle, WA 98122
>
> overbeyk[at]seattleu.edu
> office: 206-296-5365
>
>
>
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