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Further to my notice about the publication of the latest volume of Chris
Arthur essays...

Irish Haiku, Chris Arthur's third essay collection, published June 15, by
the Davies Group (Colorado). ISBN 1-888570-78-4. 234 + xxiv pp.
$20. Illustrations by Jeff Hall III.

Irish Haiku follows Irish Nocturnes (1999) and Irish Willow (2002).
I have placed the publisher's press release on http://www.irishdiaspora.net

We have now become aware of some reviews of Chris Arthur, Irish Haiku...

These reviews have appeared very quickly - and this is in itself an unusual
development. There is an interesting case study here in the sociology of
authorship - there is now a bit of a track record and an awareness, an
appreciation, amongst some members of the literati of what it is that Chris
Arthur is trying to do...

The Irish Emigrant newsletter and web site has loyally reviewed...

http://www.emigrant.ie/article.asp?iCategoryID=49&iArticleID=45384

'Over the past ten years I have had, perforce, to learn the art of speed
reading but there are some books that cry out for a more measured response,
and the works of Chris Arthur are an example. This collection of essays
completes the trilogy begun with "Irish Nocturnes" and "Irish Willow",
reviewed in these pages in May, 1999 and April 2002 respectively, and once
again explores our place in the immensity of the universe, the way in which
perspective changes and the impossibility of ever knowing exactly what has
taken place at any given time in history...'

And the IASIL Newsletter has noted...

http://www.iasil.org/newsletter/pub.html#irishhaiku

The Times Literary Supplement, September 16 2005, gives a full page to a
review by Patricia Craig - very appreciative...

'Chris Arthur's marvellous essays get to grips, evocatively and obliquely,
with ideas of ancestry, continuity, attitudes and allegiances - all in a
volatile Irish context...' 'civilized, idiosyncratic and rare...'

There is a more critical review by Liam Hynds in The Vacuum - the reviewer
begins to yearn for 'a little less fathomless obscurantism...' It is true
that at times Carrie Bradshaw and Chris Arthur quarrel for the same space.
But that is a compliment to Carrie... At times in a Chris Arthur essay an
idea is worried at rather than elucidated. But that is the author's method.


The Scotsman, 20 August 2005, has a review by David Robinson - which looks,
like Patricia Craig, at the marginal place of the essay in contemprary
culture... 'Arthur uses language that pares away at the core of experience
with a care and precision we have grown unused to... Even in a rare genre,
he's a rare writer indeed...'

I think a common thread here is this appreciation of the exploration - and
maybe the rescue - of the genre. The antecedents are, in Ireland, Hubert
Butler or, in England, Hazlitt... Worth having...

P.O'S.


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IRISH HISTORICAL STUDIES
NUMB 133; 2004
ISSN 0021-1214

pp. 1-15
The social and economic consequences of the Desmond rebellion of 1579-83
McCormack, A. M.

pp. 16-41
The Remonstrance of December 1661 and Catholic politics in Restoration
Ireland Creighton, A.

pp. 42-64
`Fenians at Westminster': the Edwardian Irish Parliamentary Party and the
legacy of the New Departure McConnel, J.

pp. 65-78
Accounting for the early success of the Gaelic Athletic Association Garnham,
N.

pp. 79-92
A parallel much closer': the 1918 act of union between Iceland and Denmark
and Ireland's relations with Britain Sigurdsson, D. L.

pp. 93-94
Major accessions to repositories relating to Irish history, 2003

pp. 95-96
Jackson, Ireland 1798-1998 and Jackson, Home rule: an Irish history:
1800-2000 Garvin, T.

p. 97
Marix Evans, A terrible beauty: an illustrated history of Irish battles
McGrath, C. I.

pp. 98-99
Lyons, Church and society in County Kildare c. 1470-1547 Tait, C.

p. 100
Connolly (ed.), Statute rolls of the Irish parliament: Richard III-Henry
VIII Cosgrove, A.

pp. 100-102
Barnard, Irish Protestant ascents and descents 1641-1770 McGrath, C. I.

p. 103
McConville, Irish political prisoners, 1848-1922 Murphy, W.

p. 104
Martin, The Cambridge Union and Ireland 1815-1914 Jeffery, K.

pp. 105-106
Hopkinson, The Irish War of Independence Hawkins, R.

p. 107
Dolan, Commemorating the Irish Civil War: history and memory 1923-2000 Daly,
M. E.

p. 108
Cousins, The birth of social welfare in Ireland, 1922-1952 Riordan, S.

pp. 109-109
Cox, The Gaelic place-names of Carloway, Isle of Lewis Bhreathnach, E.

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There is (what I found to be) a curiously uninformative review of =
Charles
Townshend's new book on The Guardian web site...

P.O'S.
=20

On the road to revolution

Charles Townshend's Easter 1916 is an even-handed account of the =
uprising
that changed Ireland for ever, says John Banville

Saturday September 24, 2005
The Guardian
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Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion
by Charles Townshend
360pp, Penguin, =A320

'It is the fate of great poets that many of their most resonant lines
degenerate into clich=E9 through over-use. Yeats in his grave must be =
bitterly
regretting that ringing declaration in his poem "Easter 1916" that out =
of
the up rising a "terrible beauty" was born. In fact, although there was =
much
terror, precious little of beauty stalked through the General Post =
Office
that April week in the middle of the first world war. The Rising, or the
Rebellion, as Charles Townshend, after some deliberation, has decided to
call it, was a muddled, even a botched, affair, and would probably have =
been
no more successful than the numerous violent attempts at securing =
Ireland's
independence that had preceded it over the centuries, had not the =
British
authorities rushed to execute the leaders. What the rebels could not =
win,
the British authorities won for them...'

Full text at...

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1576218,00.html

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IR-D list members might be interested in this letter I have written to The
Guardian...

Always a sign that I should be busy with other things when I start writing
letters to newspapers...

The reviews mentioned will be found on the Guardian's web site...

P.O'S.


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Here's a new game...

Demonstrate the (unknowing) influence of one item in The Guardian upon
another...

Thus on page 18 of the Review section, Guardian, 24.09.05, the _Instructions
for American Servicemen in Britain 1942_ advises us to 'forget the
persecution of the Irish...' And on the same page the Nicholas Lezard
review of Mike Jay's life of Colonel Despard omits ANY mention of Despard's
Irish origins, his membership of the revolutionary organisation the United
Irishmen, and the Irish and English plots which attracted government
interest and led to Despard's execution.

Patrick O'Sullivan

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From: Carmel McCaffrey
cmcc[at]qis.net
Subject: Re: [IR-D] Review, Charles Townshend, Easter 1916: The Irish
Rebellion

Not only an uninformative review but an "uninformed" one as regards many
points not the least of which is what Yeats was actually saying.

Carmel McC

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Note especially
Part IV: Irish Remembrances and Representations

P.O'S.

________________________________


HISTORIES AND MEMORIES: MIGRANTS AND THEIR HISTORY IN BRITAIN
Edited by Kathy Burrell and Panikos Panayi Tauris
Academic Studies (Published December 2005) ISBN 1 84511 042 0

TOC:

Part I: Introduction: Immigration and British History

Immigration, History and Memory in Britain

Kathy Burrell and Panikos Panayi

Great Britons: Immigration, History and Memory

Tony Kushner

Historical Practice in the Age of Pluralism: Educating and Celebrating
Identities

Kevin Myers

Part II: Histories and Narratives

Italian Immigrants in Britain: Perceptions and Self-Perceptions Lucio Sponza


Narratives of Settlement: East Europeans in Post-War Britain

Inge Weber-Newth

The Migrant at Home in Spitalfields: Memory, Myth and Reality Anne J.
Kershen

Reinventing the Myth of Return: Older Italians in Nottingham Deianira Ganga

Part III: Memory, Metaphor and Material Culture

Migration, Memory and Metaphor: Life Stories of South Asians in Leicester
Joanna Herbert

A Journey Through the Material Geographies of Diaspora Cultures: Four Modes
of Environmental Memory Divya P. Tolia-Kelly

Hidden Objects in the World of Cultural Migrants: Significant Objects Used
by European Migrants to Layer Thoughts and Memories

Caroline Attan

Part IV: Irish Remembrances and Representations

Passing Time: Irish Women Remembering and Re-telling Stories of Migration to
Britain Louise Ryan

Family History and Memory in Irish Immigrant Families

John Herson

Marginal Voices: Football and Identity in a Contested Space Joseph M.
Bradley

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

P.O'S.

Belfast Telegraph

Quiet man conference in Galway 53 years on

By Linda McKee

29 September 2005

Fifty-three years after its release, Irish movie The Quiet Man, which
starred John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara is going under the academic
spotlight at an international conference in Galway.

This weekend, fans and academics will examine the cult John Ford movie
at the New Perspectives on the Quiet Man conference, at the Houston
School of Film and Digital Media at the National University of Ireland.

Conference co-ordinator Sean Crosson explains: "Looking at the film
today half a century after it was made still provides much food for
thought and leading students of the cinema will be discussing, among
other things, why it has enjoyed such enduring success."

The conference will be treated to the screening of a rare 35mm print of
The Quiet Man, brought from an archive in Los Angeles.

"This will give the audience a chance to view the film as they might
have done when it was first released in 1962," Mr Crosson says.

"And we will also be showing rare footage of the making of the movie in
Connemara and Ashford Castle. On Sunday there will be a guided tour of
Quiet Man locations in the village of Cong on the Galway/Mayo border.

"The village of Cong is really a living museum - themed on the film -
and, as a must-see for tourists, has benefited greatly from the
connection down the years.

"I suppose you could say this conference is trying to appeal to
everyone, from people who just find the film enchanting to serious
academic students who probe for more profound issues underneath the
surface."

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For information...

P.O'S.


Volume 13 Number 4/November 2005 of Irish Studies Review is now available on
the journalsonline.tandf.co.uk 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=K57082770571

This issue contains:

The Treachery Of Wetness: Irish Studies, Seamus Heaney and the politics of
parturition1
p. 451
Moynagh Sullivan

Edna O'brien, Irish Dandy
p. 469
Maureen O'Connor

A Swiss Soldier In Ireland, 1689?90
p. 479
Padraig Lenihan, Geraldine Sheridan

The Politics Of Delight: A revolutionary reading of Burke's Reflections
p. 499
Thomas Duddy

Translating Nationalism: Ireland, France and Military History in
Beckett'sMercier Et Camier
p. 505
Elizabeth Barry

Nature, Gender And Nation: An ecofeminist reading of two novels by Irish
women
p. 517
Heather Ingman

History and Politics
p. 531
Terence Dooley

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From today's Irish Times.

Sarah Morgan.

Irish Studies under the microscope=20
Sadbh
01/10/2005=20


Loose Leaves: Irish Studies will come under scrutiny in Italy at the =
Irish Florence Forum 2005, which runs from October 26th to 28th. The =
round-table think-tank type event will look at how the Irish Studies =
area should go forward in the 21st century.


Convenor Christina Hunt Mahony, of the Centre for Irish Studies at the =
Catholic University of America, says the subject needs redefining. =
"Sometimes special interest studies can be seen by universities as =
expendable when fashions change. We don't want Irish Studies to lose its =
individual identity in universities outside Ireland when rationalisation =
might tend to combine it into, say, European Studies."

The forum will also make recommendations to Culture Ireland, the new arm =
of the Department of Arts, Sports and Tourism aimed at promoting Ireland =
abroad.

More than 50 delegates from 17 countries will be in Florence. While many =
are academics, there will also be librarians, archivists and =
representatives of arts agencies, publishing houses and other bodies. R. =
F. Foster, Luke Gibbons, Catriona Crowe, Marianne Elliot, Robert Savage, =
Nicholas Grene, Mary Cloake and J. J. Lee are among those heading to the =
European University, in Fiesole outside Florence, for the deliberations. =
The forum's main sponsor, the Cultural Division of the Department of =
Foreign Affairs, will also be represented and a Department spokesperson =
said the event would provide an overall sense of what's out there in the =
discipline at the moment as Irish Studies programmes varied widely in =
content and scope in different territories; some focusing on language, =
others more on politics, literature or history.

Given the popularity of Irish culture in many parts of the world one =
wonders if the time has come to capitalise on this in a major way by =
forming a network of Irish cultural centres in carefully chosen =
destinations abroad; a network similar to France's Alliance Fran=E7aise =
organisation, Britain's British Council and Germany's Goethe institutes. =
No doubt this and many other innovative concepts will crop up in =
Fiesole. See www.irishforumflorence2005.com

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

Note that the full text of Georgia Macbeth's thesis is available at the
University of New South Wales web site...
...a pdf file at...

http://www.library.unsw.edu.au/~thesis/adt-NUN/public/adt-NUN20010622.113533
/

That's the way to do it...

P.O'S.


Australian Digital Theses Program

Thesis Details
Title A Plurality of Identities: Ulster Protestantism in Contemporary
Northern Irish Drama

Author Macbeth, Georgia

Institution University of New South Wales

Date 1999
Abstract This thesis examines the ways in which Ulster Protestant
identity has been explored in contemporary Northern Irish drama. The
insecurity of the political and cultural status of Ulster Protestants from
the Home Rule Crises up until Partition led to the construction and
maintenance of a distinct and unified Ulster Protestant identity. This
identity was defined by concepts such as loyalty, industriousness and
'Britishness'. It was also defined by a perceived opposite - the
Catholicism, disloyalty and 'Irishness' of the Republic. When the Orange
State began to fragment in the late 1960s and early 1970s, so did notions of
this singular Ulster Protestant identity. With the onset of the Troubles in
1969 came a parallel questioning and subversion of this identity in Northern
Irish drama. This was a process which started with Sam Thompson's Over the
Bridge in 1960, but which began in earnest with Stewart Parker's Spokesong
in 1975. This thesis examines Parker's approach and subsequent approaches by
other dramatists to the question of Ulster Protestant identity. It begins
with the antithetical pronouncements of Field Day Theatre Company, which
were based in an inherently Northern Nationalist ideology. Here, the Ulster
Protestant community was largely ignored or essentialised. Against this
Northern Nationalist ideology represented by Field Day have come broadly
revisionist approaches, reflecting the broader cultural context of this
thesis. Ulster Protestant identity has been explored through issues of
history and myth, ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality. More recent
explorations of Ulster Protestantism have also added to this diversity by
presenting the little acknowledged viewpoint of extreme loyalism. Dramatists
examined in this thesis include Stewart Parker, Christina Reid, Frank
McGuinness, Bill Morrison, Ron Hutchinson, Marie Jones, Graham Reid, Robin
Glendinning and Gary Mitchell. The work of Charabanc Theatre Company is also
discussed. What results from their efforts is a diverse and complex Ulster
Protestant community. This thesis argues that the concept of a singular
Ulster Protestant identity, defined by its loyalty and Britishness, is
fragmented, leading to a plurality of Ulster Protestant identities.
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Further to my listing of the TOC of the latest issue of IRISH GEOGRAPHY,
below...

Note that there is now even more material available at the journal's web
site...

Including the article about the UAFP, that I flagged as of interest....

http://www.ucd.ie/gsi/journal.html

Abstract pasted in here...

P.O'S.

Representing multiple Irish heritage(s): a case study of the
Ulster-American Folk Park
Catherine Kelly, Heritage, Arts & Tourism, University of Greenwich
Caitr=EDona N=ED Laoire,Department of Geography, University College =
Cork

An important element of cultural identity is its [re]presentation in =
the
public realm. Museums and heritage centres are concerned with presenting
elements of national/regional/local cultures to their audiences and,
therefore, make value judgements concerning the interpretation and
representation of the past. This in itself is a complex process, which
becomes even more difficult in spaces of contested heritage and multiple
possible representations. This research addresses the above issues and
utilises a unique case study within Northern Ireland to examine issues =
of
heritage and representation. A critical analysis of the Ulster American =
Folk
Park (UAFP) was undertaken by bringing together a heterogeneous group of
visitors at the site (in this instance final year students from =
universities
north and south of the border). This paper outlines the ways in which =
this
mixed visitor group reacted to the UAFP=92s representation of migration
histories and the ways in which they dealt with the issues of =
nationality,
cultural identity, and authenticity that were raised. The approach was =
both
useful and innovative, facilitating an open discourse on often =
difficult,
politically and geographically sensitive issues. Linking theoretically
complex themes concerning cultural identities with pedagogic good =
practice,
informed curatorship and applied policy formulation would be enormously
beneficial to cultural sector research.




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For information...

Note the case study of the Ulster-American Folk Park...

P.O'S.=20


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IRISH GEOGRAPHY
VOL 38; PART 1; 2005
ISSN 0075-0778

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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This article has just come to our attention...

P.O'S.



Journal of Social History
Volume 36, Number 2, Winter 2002


# Maguire, Moira J.
Foreign Adoptions and the Evolution of Irish Adoption Policy, 1945-52

Subjects:

* Intercountry adoption -- Government policy -- Ireland -- History --
20th century.
* Adoption -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
* Children -- Ireland -- Social conditions -- 1922-1973.

Abstract:

In recent years it has become increasingly common for childless
couples from the U.S. and Western Europe to look overseas--to Eastern Europe
and Asia--to adopt the "unwanted" children that are no longer so readily
available for adoption at home. In Ireland at the turn of the twenty-first
century the fact that Irish couples are enthusiastic participants in this
"trade" has been juxtaposed with the stark and unpalatable reality that, as
late as the 1960s, thousands of healthy Irish children were sent to the
United States for adoption because they were illegitimate and thus
"unwanted" at home. Until the 1952 Adoption Act provided for the legal
transfer of parental rights from biological to adoptive parents, the only
alternative to an institutional existence or an insecure boarding-out
arrangement for these unwanted children was adoption by foreign, primarily
American, families. From the early 1940s to the mid-1960s thousands of Irish
children were sent abroad under an informal (and probably illegal and
unconstitutional) adoption scheme. This article examines the story of
Ireland's overseas adoption scheme, and the evolution of Ireland's adoption
policy in the 1940s and 1950s, and is part of a twentieth-century Irish
social history that has for the most part been neglected by historians.

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It is unclear from the program and the list of participants just how the
study of the Diaspora will factor in to this discussion., Perhaps a list
member who has been included will share a summary of the discussion with
the list after the conference.

Bill
William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of History
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA

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This is a very interesting development. Access to dissertations can be
difficult and time consuming. I can remember having to get written
permission from the author and then, with letter in hand, traveling to
Cambridge, Massachusetts to read a thesis at Harvard when I was sorting
through topics for my dissertation. I now have this on my computer to read
at my leisure. E-publishing is clearly going to change a great deal about
how we communicate. It would appear to eliminate the need for a threshold
number of subscribers. Of course, it also raises serious questions about
compensation for authors.

This leads me to wonder if anyone has put together a bibliography of
Diaspora-related dissertations?

This is also timely because I have recently returned from the Irish
Protestant Identities conference at the University of Salford. First,
congratulations to the conference organizers -- Frank Neal, Mervyn Busteed,
John Tonge, and Chris Boyle -- for putting together a very interesting and
illuminating programme of papers and a schedule that allowed plenty of time
for discussion and interaction with other participants. In addition to
academics there were a number of participants who are closely involved with
the events in the North ( I am not sure quite how to characterize the
current situation). Their perspectives were presented candidly and led me,
at least, to a new level of understanding for the loyalist perspective.
Another interesting aspect of the conference was the participation of a
number of young French scholars working on Irish Protestant identities
historically and in literature.

Bill Mulligan

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Paddy, I think your question, 'Or does it?' is well taken.=20

There is certainly a need for a centre for the study of emigration in =
the
Republic of Ireland. The Centre for Migration Studies at UCC was doing =
an
outstanding job, but it is no more. Maybe the ambassador should throw =
his
influence behind a revival of that very successful effort. There is a =
real
need. Based on the various Heritage Centres I have visited in Ireland,
however, I think caution is needed before seeing this as a necessarily
positive development. If this is to make any significant contribution it
cannot follow the model for Heritage Centres as they exist. =20

The UCC Centre was a research centre, so it may be an unfair comparison =
--
but the subject of emigration is dealt with at the Cobh Heritage Centre.
Cobh is certainly as good a place as any to site a heritage centre =
focused
on emigration. But what is it? A once off and done exhibit, clearly =
aimed at
tourists. As much if not more space is given to the Titanic's connection =
to
Cobh as to emigration. No depth of interpretation (or maintenance -- on =
my
last visit a high percentage of labels were unreadable due to wear). =
The
"production values" to be fair are quite good -- it is a professionally =
done
exhibit as far as what has been produced. But-- no guides or docents to
answer questions, no space for temporary exhibits, a very simple =
brochure,
and after visiting three times over several years -- I like visiting =
Cobh --
the only change is negative. In the initial gallery dealing with =
steerage
passage the light levels were once so low that you had to adjust, listen =
to
the sounds of wind and wave, and only slowly see the exhibit - now it is =
so
bright you see it all at once and it has lost any emotional impact. =20

Then there is Ballincollig. I was excited about this because I worked =
for
five years at the Hagley Foundation in Delaware which interprets the
beginnings of the Du Pont Company. Many of whose workers in the early
nineteenth century were Irish from Ballincollig's gunpowder mill and I =
got
to know their descendants who were largely support staff at the =
foundation
and thought it was "nice" that someone of Irish ancestry was on the
"professional staff." (See- Margaret M. Mulrooney, Black Powder White =
Lace:
The du Pont Irish and Cultural Identity in Nineteenth Century America). =
What
has been done is well done - but what is not being done is more =
critical. I
was given a tour by a very nice young man who had learned his script =
well.
He could not answer a single question or engage in a conversation about =
the
connections between Ballincollig and Du Pont - nor could be refer me to
anyone who could. More structures related to the black powder mill are
outside the heritage center and unmarked and uninterrupted than are =
inside
it and interpreted. This is a tremendous opportunity lost.

Other Heritage Centres I have visited are the same - static - there is =
no
on-going programme, no research component. Just, nicely produced panels =
and
exhibits for tourists. Irish school children may benefit as well but I =
am
not in Ireland when school is in session so I don=92t know.

What is needed is a real museum that combines permanent and changing
exhibits and a professional staff committed to research. =20

Bill Mulligan =20

William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of History
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA=20
=20
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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 =88260 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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ABEI JOURNAL - THE BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF IRISH STUDIES No.7 - June 2005.
Eds. Munira H. Mutran & Laura Izarra



Contents

Introduction ....7

Biography

Iseult.....................11

A. Norman Jeffares


Drama

Denis Johnston's Nine Rivers from Jordan:A Centenary View .....25

Beatriz Kopschitz Bastos


The Concepts of Time, Memory and Identity in Beckett's Essay on Proust =
...33

Anna Stegh Camati


Bernard Shaw's Novels: a Critical View ...........41

Rosalie Rahal Haddad


Shadows from the Past: Sean O'Casey and the Abbey...51

Peter James Harris


Theatre Links - Ireland and Australia: The Early Years.....63

Peter Kuch


Cats and Comedy: The Lieutenant of Inishmore Comes to Sydney ..75

Frank Molloy


Death and the Playwright:Chris Lee's The Electrocution of Children

(1998) and The Map Maker's Sorrow (1999) ............83

Donald E. Morse


Conjuring and Conjecturing: Friel's Performances .......97

Hedwig Schwall


Darkness Visible. Insight and Visual Impairment in Brian Friel's

The Enemy Within... ....113

Giovanna Tallone



Fiction


Demystifying Irish History in Roddy Doyle's A Star Called Henry ...125

Juan Francisco Elices Agudo



Sexuality and Eroticism in Kate O'Brien's Novels: Mary Lavelle,


That Lady and As Music and Splendour.................135

No=E9lia Borges


Elizabeth Bowen's Suburbia: Life After the Big House........143

Derek Hand


The "Tinker" Figure in the Children's Fiction of Patricia Lynch .....151

Jos=E9 Lanters


On Local Disturbances: Reflections on Joyce's Use of Language in =
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..163

David Pierce


Cultural Intersections


Banshee, a Feminist Irish Paper (March 1976 - October 1978): Style and
Themes...........185

Brigitte Bastiat


An Island Called Brazil: Irish Paradise in Brazilian Past ......193

Geraldo Cantarino


Thomas Moore in Bermuda: Irish and African Liberties ........211

Margaret Mc Peake


The Hindu Celticism Of James Cousins (1873-1956)............219

Jerry Nolan


The Irish in South America


O'Malley's Widow. Dramatic Comedy in Three Acts by Juan Jos=E9 Delaney
.....235

La Viuda de O'Malley. Comedia Dram=E1tica en Tres
Actos.....................237

Juan Jos=E9 Delaney



Book Reviews


Samuel Beckett by C=E9lia Berretini. .............275

Maria Silvia Betti


Strip-Tease by Patricia Nolan .................279

Fred Johnston


Vistas Within Vistas - The Meditative Essays Trilogy by Chris Arthur =
...281

Luci Collin Lavalle


Visions of Alterity by Elke D'hoker ...........287

Hedwig Schwall


Twenty-five Years of Irish Studies at the University of S=E3o Paulo =
....291


Books Received ...............297


Contributors .................299

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publication
British Journal of Criminology

ISSN
0007-0955 electronic: 1464-3529

publisher
Oxford University Press

year - volume - issue - page
2005 - 45 - 5 - 671

pages
671

article

Lethal Violence in Ireland, 1841 to 2003

O'Donnell, Ian

abstract

Examination of recorded homicides in Ireland over a 160-year period reveals
a trend that is in the same direction as found in other European countries:
declining for around 100 years, then rising again. However, when the killing
of babies is disaggregated from other killings, a different pattern emerges
in that the secular decline is not reversed. It is argued that the virtual
disappearance of baby killing is related to increasing respect for infant
life and a marked increase in celibacy after the Famine of 1845-50. Other
killings remained at a relatively high and stable level for the latter half
of the nineteenth century. This is attributed to the persistence of
'recreational' violence. The decline in homicide from the turn of the
twentieth century is related to emigration and the foundation, after 1922,
of an independent Irish state.

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publication
Political Studies - Journal of the Political Studies Association UK

ISSN
0032-3217 electronic: 1467-9248

publisher
Blackwell Publishing

year - volume - issue - page
2005 - 53 - 3 - 457

pages
457

article

Duverger's Law, Penrose's Power Index and the Unity of the UK

McLean, Iain - McMillan, Alistair - Leech, Dennis

abstract

As predicted by Duverger's Law, the UK has had two-party competition for
long periods in most electoral districts. However, there are different
patterns of two-party competition in different districts and more than two
effective parties in the Commons. Since 1874, parliament has always
contained parties wishing to modify the Union and contesting seats only
outside England. By calculating the Penrose power index for all parties in
the House of Commons for all general elections since 1874, we identify when
such parties were pivotal. We explain various legislative changes (for
example the Crofters Act 1886, the first three Irish Home Rule Bills, the
Parliament Act 1911) and non-changes (for example the failure to enact
female suffrage before 1914) by reference to the Penrose index scores. The
scores also explain how and why policy towards Scotland, Wales and Northern
Ireland changed and did not change in the 1970s.

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Message sent on behalf of Bruce Stewart,

Dear Friends,

Members may wish to know that the EIRData site has been created at
www.eirdata.com. A registration form is available on the Home Page.

EIRData is a collection of materials for the study and appreciation of
Anglo-Irish literature and its contexts. It contains biographical
dictionary, an uptodate bibliography of Irish studies, a library of digital
texts, a bulletin and gateway to related websites, and an Irish-studies
gazette. EIRData has been compiled by Bruce Stewart, a member of IASIL and a
former secretary of the Association.

Go now to http://www.eirdata.com to register.

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Subject: CFP: Special 1900-1910 Migration and North West England


The North West Labour History Journal (UK) is dedicated to exploring the
rich labour history of the North West of England.

The next issue in 2006 will be on the Edwardian period 1900-1910. The
journal editor Bob Hayes would like to hear from anyone wishing to
contribute to this issue. Possible topics might include the growth of trade
unionism, the suffrage movement, the Socialist movement, the Co-operative
movement, social, gender and cultural history, immigration and race,
industrial disputes, biographical studies, reprints etc. He can be
contacted via email; journal[at]tesco.net.