Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Research Seminar in Contemporary Irish History, Dublin,
OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2005
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.


-----Original Message-----
From: Deirdre McMahon
Subject: Research Seminar in Contemporary Irish History
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 15:00:24 +0100

RESEARCH SEMINAR IN CONTEMPORARY IRISH HISTORY: OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2005

This seminar is a forum where those engaged in research in Contemporary
Irish History can discuss their work. It is open to all willing to
participate, including researchers visiting Dublin to use the National
Archives, National Library and other repositories.
Proposals for papers can be directed to any of the three convenors: Dr
Michael Kennedy (Royal Irish Academy, difp[at]iol.ie); Dr Deirdre McMahon (Mary
Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Deirdre.McMahon[at]mic.ul.ie); and
Professor Eunan O'Halpin (Trinity College Dublin, eunan.ohalpin[at]tcd.ie)
Seminars take place at 16.00 each Wednesday in the IIIS Seminar Room C6002,
Sutherland Centre, Level 6, Block C, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin.

12 OCTOBER: Oral History of Irish Catholic Missionaries in India:
Dr Deirdre McMahon, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick.
19 OCTOBER: 'Officialdom will never reign in Ireland': The World War II Mass
Observation Diary of Belfast woman Moya Woodside.
Mary Muldowney TCD.
26 OCTOBER: Opening up to the International Economy: Ireland from the 1950s.

WITNESS SEMINAR ON SEMI-STATE INDUSTRY in conjunction with IIIS.
2 NOVEMBER: The failure of progressive unionism: Lord Londonderry and the
government of Northern Ireland, 1921-26.
Dr Neil Fleming, QUB.
9 NOVEMBER: In pursuit of Arthur Peachum: the origins and history of
joyriding in Belfast Dr Sean O'Connell, QUB
16 NOVEMBER: Opening up to the International Economy: Ireland from the
1950s. WITNESS SEMINAR ON AGRICULTURE in conjunction with IIIS.
23 NOVEMBER: Influences on Ireland's Palestine Policy, 1948-2004.
Dr Rory Miller, King's College, London
30 NOVEMBER: The Construction of National Identity during the early 20th
century Irish Cultural Revival.
Dr Nicola Gordon Bowe, NCAD
7 DECEMBER: WITNESS SEMINAR ON THE LAST YEARS OF THE IRISH PRESS.

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Oidhreacht an Chlair (Clare College for Traditional Studies)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.=20

-----Original Message-----
Message sent on behalf of Anne Clune


'Oidhreacht an Chlair (Clare College for Traditional Studies) is a new
institute for higher education, catering for students of all aspects of
Irish tradition, history and literature. Initially, OaC, which is based =
in
Miltown Malbay, the birthplace of the renowned uileann piper Willie =
Clancy
and home to the Willie Clancy Summer School, will be offering three =
weekend
courses, which chart the development of traditional music, dance and =
song
from the era of the country house dance to the contemporary musical
environment.

Course Programme:

Weekend 1 November 11 to 13 2005
The Heritage of the Country-House Dance
Session 1 The Country House Dance
Session 2 Dances and Dancing Masters
Session 3 Music and Musicians of West Clare (i) Session 4 A World of =
Songs

Weekend 2 February 3 to 5 2006
From Flag Floor to Concert Hall
Session 1 Gaelic Revival to Nation State S ession 2 Decline of the =
Country
House Dance Session 3 Irish Music Abroad Session 4 The Irish Music
Renaissance

Weekend 3 May 5 to 7 2006
Irish Music: A Sustainable Resource?
Session 1 Our Mucical Heritage
Session 2 Music and Musicians of West Clare (ii) Session 3 The Willie =
Clancy
Summer School Session 4 Irish Music: A Susta inable Resource?

The Course leaders are:
1. Tom Munnelly of UCD who has conducted extensive fieldwork in county =
Clare
over many years. He is a recoognised authority on traditional song, a
prodigious writer and has produced a number of audio publications.
2. Uileann piper Terry Moylan is the archivist of Na P obair=ED =
Uilleann. He
is one of the founders of Brooks Academy, which was instrumental in the
revival of set dancing. His publications include a collection of the =
music
of Johnny O'Leary and The Age of Revolution in the Irish Song Tradition,
1776-1815.
3. Desi Wilkinson plays concert flute and sings. He is a =
widely-published
ethnomusicologist and lecturer with many recordings to his credit.
The Course Direct or is Barry Taylor who has completed many studies of =
irish
music, specialising in his adopted county Clare and the Irish c=E9il=ED =
band.=20
His published works include A Touchstone for the Tradition: The Willie
Clancy Summer School. Barry also pla ys fiddle and concertina.

Course fees for 2005-2006 are e120 per student per weekend or e300 for =
three
modules taken together. The course fees do not include meals, travel or
accommodation but Oac will be happy to advise on these. Alternatively, =
this
may be done directly by visiting www.ibrickane.ie.
=20
Competence in musical performance is not necessary for students but
practising musicians, dancers and singers may avail of tuition outside =
of
formal class time.

For further information and booking form please see www.oac.ie or =
contact us
at eolas[at]oac.ie.

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Reviews, Fitzpatrick, _Harry Boland_, and Magill (ed),
_Dublin Castle to Stormont_
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.

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

H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by H-Albion[at]h-net.msu.edu (August 2005)

David Fitzpatrick. _Harry Boland's Irish Revolution_. Cork: Cork University
Press, 2003. xi + 450 pp. Illustrations, abbreviations, notes, chronology,
index. EUR 39.00 (cloth), ISBN 1-8591-8222-4.

Charles W. Magill, ed. _From Dublin Castle to Stormont: The Memoirs of
Andrew Philip Magill, 1913-1925_. Cork: Cork University Press, 2003. vi + 93
pp. Notes, bibliography, index. EUR 10.00 (paper), ISBN 1-8591-8344-1.

Reviewed for H-Albion by Kevin Matthews, Department of History and Art
History, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia

Two Tales of Ireland

During a recent visit to the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice made clear that the Bush administration's support for
democracy has limits. Some organizations, some political parties are beyond
the pale. So, in Egypt, for example, while Rice was willing to talk to
secular opponents of Hosni Mubarak she would have nothing to do with the
Muslim Brotherhood. This is despite the fact that most experts agree that in
any genuinely free election the Brotherhood would replace Mubarak's regime.

The story is much the same in Iraq. Shortly after Rice's trip, Secretary of
Defense Donald Rumsfeld acknowledged that U.S. officials have had contacts
with some Iraqi insurgents. The operative word here is "some." In effect,
Rumsfeld, like Rice, has claimed that they have the option of choosing their
negotiating partners. If this is the Bush administration's idea of a
"roadmap to peace," to borrow one of its favored slogans, it is likely a
roadmap to nowhere. Sooner or later, Rice and Rumsfeld or their successors
will, in the words of one long dead British politician, "shake hands with
murder."
Successive governments in London had to learn that lesson several times over
in Africa and Asia. But they learned it first in Ireland.

This lesson also echoes in both David Fitzpatrick's new biography of Harry
Boland and in the memoirs of Andrew Philip Magill, a civil servant who
worked for the last British administration in Ireland as well as for the
first government in the partitioned six counties of Northern Ireland. Both
men were Irish, but their feelings about their country's relationship with
its larger neighbor and about the use of violence in politics could not have
been further apart.

The more slender of these two books is drawn from a 120,000-word typescript
composed by Magill toward the end of his life and includes an introduction
that sets the memoirs in context. Some readers will be taken aback by his
strident comments; Magill was very much a man of his times. Fitzpatrick's
far larger study of Boland is based on a wealth of primary sources, not
least his subject's own, invaluable diary. There is no bibliography,
unfortunately, and there are a few minor errors here and there. Germany and
its allies during World War I, for instance, were known as the Central
Powers, not the "Axis Powers" (p. 35). However, such missteps are rare.

There is, though, a tendency in Irish biography to place the subject, the
men at any rate, into one of two categories. As Tom Garvin once pointed out
to the BBC, Irish political heroes are held either to be sexually abstinent,
"political priests if you like," or they are "heroically fertile."
Fitzpatrick avoids either of these pitfalls, only to fall into a third. This
is the portrayal of the happy-go-lucky, cheeky-chappie always "full of life
and vitality" (p.
45). A biographer cannot help it if these are the recollections of his
subject's contemporaries. Even so, this seems to be a phenomenon that occurs
in Irish political biography more than anywhere else and, after a time, the
stories begin to wear a bit thin.

While Boland may not have been born with a smile on his face and a song in
his heart, his republicanism was almost genetic. Both his father and uncle
were members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the secret society
committed to the violent overthrow of British rule in Ireland and the
creation of an independent republic. According to family lore, his mother
was a descendant of a "James Woods" who took part in "The '98," the 1798
rising inspired by the French Revolution.
As a young man, Boland was caught up in the revival of Gaelic culture,
becoming an active member of the Gaelic Athletic Association--though not,
curiously, of the Gaelic League, which promoted use of the Irish language.
While still a teenager he was inducted into the IRB.

Like Boland, Magill was born in Dublin. But there any similarities end. The
descendant of Scottish Presbyterians who originally had settled in
seventeenth-century Ulster, Magill worked his way up through Britain's Irish
civil service while, at the same time, earning a degree in history and
political science from Trinity College. Even though Magill, like other
Trinity students, was required to learn Greek, he found it "strange" that
this, "the leading university in Ireland" offered no courses in Irish
history or culture (p. 6).

The two worlds represented by these men clashed over Home Rule, the promise
of self-government for Ireland first made by Liberal Party leader William
Gladstone in 1885. Although strictly limited (Home Rule was roughly akin to
state government in the United States or provincial government in Canada),
it was twice blocked by British Conservatives and their Irish Unionist
allies centered in the northeastern province of Ulster. Only in 1912 was the
Irish Parliamentary Party at last poised to redeem the pledge from a Liberal
government headed by H.H. Asquith.

The pre-war Home Rule Crisis erupted just as Magill reached the pinnacle of
his career. In 1913, he was appointed private secretary to Augustine
Birrell, then head of the Irish Office. Like other Irish chief secretaries,
Birrell was also a member of the British Cabinet and a member of Parliament.
This meant that, although he was responsible for Ireland's day-to-day
governing, Birrell, and Magill along with him, spent most of his time in
London. None of this background is to be found in Magill's memoir. However,
he does provide a glimpse of life in the British Parliament at a time when a
mere handful of unarmed police officers protected the House of Commons.
These officers seemed to know not just the MPs; they could at the same time
differentiate the "army of private secretaries and officials" from
"unauthorized" visitors--and they "never made a mistake" (p. 20). Contrast
that with the armed guards and the security cordon that now surrounds
Westminster, and Magill's world seems a thousand years away instead of less
than a hundred. In his portrait of Birrell there is affection as well as
respect, but also exasperation with a man whose "heart was not in his
political work"
and who "took his duties very lightly" (pp. 40-41). In other words, Birrell
was not the sort of politician who should have been in charge of Ireland as
it slid toward civil war.

If any one man was responsible for taking Ireland to the brink of that
catastrophe, it was Sir Edward Carson, whom Magill calls "the heart and soul
of the opposition" to Home Rule (p. 23). Determined to prevent even this
limited form of self-government, Carson and his followers created a private
army, the Ulster Volunteers, and threatened rebellion if Home Rule was put
on the Statute Book. Their example was not lost on Home Rule supporters who
responded with the creation of their own force, the Irish Volunteers. Much
as they despised Home Rule for not going far enough, members of the IRB like
Boland quickly infiltrated the Volunteers seeing it as a vehicle for an
eventual republican revolution.

While most Irish Volunteers, like their counterparts in Ulster, joined the
British Army at the beginning of World War I, a nationalist rump refused to
sign up. Instead they mounted what came to be known as the Easter Rising of
1916 which, as it emerges in Fitzpatrick's account, was not so much a
tragedy as a very uncomical farce. This book does nothing to enhance the
reputation of the Rising's leaders, which is just as well. As for Boland, an
often contradictory not to say confusing picture emerges of the part he
played in the rebellion (pp. 38-43). After capturing a British Army drill
instructor on the north side of Dublin, Boland and his fellow Volunteers
were ordered to assist the already beleaguered main force concentrated at
the General Post Office. To get there, according to one account, Boland
"cheekily traveled across the battlefield by cab," his prisoner at his side
(p. 41). The stunt almost cost him his life. Later, his former prisoner was
able to pick out Boland as one of his captors. Unlike most rebels who were
interned after their surrender at the end of Easter week, Boland was
court-martialed. He was spared the firing squad only because, as Fitzpatrick
puts it, while he had taken part in the rebellion, he had done so "without
emerging unmistakably as a leader." Ironically, the fact that Boland had
been court-martialed and yet survived assisted his "revolutionary promotion"
(pp. 44-45).

Magill, who was also on the north side of Dublin when the Rising began, has
left behind a highly colored, not to say colorful account of that week.
Instead of stories of rebel heroics, Magill recalled the terror experienced
by Dubliners, both nationalist and Unionist, who had to depend on
word-of-mouth stories for news of what was going on in their city. "The most
extraordinary thing," he later wrote, "was the way in which all the laborers
and working men in the district welcomed the troops, and the savage way in
which they denounced the rebels." Magill blamed the later, sudden shift in
public opinion on the "damned English sense of fair play" (p. 31).
Had the British Army summarily executed the insurrection's ringleaders,
instead of doing so over several weeks, he was sure that the rebels soon
would have been forgotten. True or not, the Easter Rising created a divide
in Ireland between those who viewed the men as martyrs and those, like
Magill, who could never forgive this stab in the back at time when Britain
was fighting for its survival on the Western Front (p. 32).

By the time Boland was released from prison in June 1917, the independence
movement generally and the IRB specifically were again up and running, and
it is here that Fitzpatrick runs into trouble.
The overarching aim of his work is to place Boland in the first rank of
Ireland's republican leaders. So, throughout this book the reader is told
that Boland was "indispensable in every organization or enterprise which
engaged his interest" (p. vii); that he was "one of the foremost spokesman
for a great popular movement" (p. 37); that he was "a key member of the
inner revolutionary circle" (p. 223).

Fitzpatrick's problem is that Boland keeps letting him down. While it would
be unfair to fault Boland for all of the mishaps that occurred during his
career, it is impossible to ignore the fact that he was so wrong so many
times about so many of the important issues that confronted Ireland's
independence movement. Aside from that, for a "secret society man" (p. 326)
whose work depended on the ability to keep quiet, Boland could be
astonishingly "indiscreet" with those outside that inner revolutionary
circle (pp. 232, 238). More importantly, after his release from prison, the
last five years of Boland's life were played out in the shadow of two other
men and their competition to control Irish republicanism. Although Boland
ultimately allied himself with Eamon de Valera, it is Michael Collins, his
"closest friend and chief antagonist" (p. 8), who dominates this book. Hard
as he tries, whenever Fitzpatrick puts Boland at center stage he can never
quite keep him in the spotlight.

It was only natural that Boland initially was pulled into Collins's orbit.
While all three men had taken part in the Easter Rising, both Collins and
Boland were also members of the IRB. De Valera was not.
While Fitzpatrick implausibly credits Boland with being responsible for
Collins's induction into the IRB, it is true that for many their "friendship
became a symbol of republican brotherhood in practice"
(pp. 34, 92). The IRB represented to Boland, perhaps even more than to
Collins, "the mystical unity of initiated brethren"--a bond that could never
be broken (p. 249). More broadly, the survivors of the Easter Rising were,
Boland later told the _New York Times_, carrying on their country's
tradition where "the fight for freedom is handed down in Ireland as if by
apostolic succession" (p. 263).

Leave aside the uniquely Irish religious overtones, and Boland's formulation
is little different from Lenin's idea of a "revolutionary vanguard." "The
proper function of the brethren," Fitzpatrick writes when explaining
Boland's outlook, "was not to subjugate the people, but to organize and
educate them until they qualified for full citizenship of the Republic" (p.
327). Yet this notion is fundamentally anti-democratic. For what if, after
all that organizing and educating, the people came to conclusions that
fundamentally differed from those of the "brethren"? What then? Boland never
confronted those questions, and that is the ultimate tragedy of his life.

As well as rebuilding the IRB, both Collins and Boland also threw themselves
into winning parliamentary by-elections for the candidates of Sinn Fein, the
republican political party. When British authorities arrested most Sinn Fein
leaders during the so-called May Plot of 1918, Collins and Boland went "on
the run." They would remain outside the law for the next three years.

The Anglo-Irish War of 1919-1921 was a harbinger of many of the "wars of
national liberation" that were to erupt throughout the rest of the twentieth
century. Not only that, but the British government's reaction to this
challenge--first, denial that there was a problem; then, ill-considered
measures to quell the violence; the institution of "reforms" that pleased no
one; the search for "moderates" with whom to negotiate; strenuous denials
that the government would ever deal with "murder-gangs" (today, read:
terrorists); and, eventually, negotiations with the leaders of these very
same groups--also prefigured the ways in which most of these wars would be
fought and, eventually, settled. To men like Magill, the war plunged Ireland
into "an orgy of assassination and violence which was worse in many ways
than the Great War" (p. 76). The man most responsible for the success of
that campaign was Collins, who, for all practical purposes, directed the
operations of the Irish Volunteers, soon known as the Irish Republican Army
or, more simply, the IRA.

Collins remained in Ireland throughout the war. Boland and de Valera, on the
other hand, spent most of this time in the United States.
Their mission was to gain official recognition of the Irish republic and, at
the same time, "reassert 'home' control" over Irish-American organizations
that funneled both money and weapons to the republican cause (p. 120). In
both instances, they failed. For this, de Valera largely was responsible,
especially for the way in which his dictatorial manner alienated the leaders
of Clan na Gael, the movement's principle American link. Yet even after de
Valera's return to Dublin, Boland, far from patching up relations with the
Clan, widened the rift even further by setting up a rival organization.

Boland showed equally poor judgment when, at a rally at New York's Madison
Square Gardens in January 1921, he delivered what became known as his "race
vendetta" speech. Boland, now the Irish republic's "ambassador" to the
United States, called on Irish men and women "all over the world to take up
the fight" against Great Britain.
Addressing himself specifically to Irish-Americans, he declared: "If I had
my way, I would tell them to rise up and tear down everything British in
America." Fitzpatrick's characterization of the speech as "predictably
counter-productive" is an understatement (p. 194). Far from rousing
Irish-Americans to action, Boland's intemperate call to arms produced a
backlash. The _New York Times_, among others, denounced what it called
"Bolandism," while American liberals backed away from their support of the
Irish cause. The speech also brought Boland to the attention of J. Edgar
Hoover, soon be head of the FBI (p. 195).

Boland's return to Ireland in August 1921, a month after the truce ending
the Anglo-Irish War, did nothing to restore his reputation, which "had been
damaged by repeated setbacks and miscalculations" in America (p. 224). On
the contrary, despite Boland's expectation that he would accompany Collins
to London for the negotiations that led to Ireland's independence, he was
instead sent back to the United States. This meant that he spent the crucial
months of October-December 1921 literally an ocean away from the scene of
action. "Once again", Fitzpatrick observes, "the vital decision would be
taken by Collins," leaving Boland to defend the agreement to already
suspicious supporters in the Irish-American community (p.
255).

At the same time, both men were caught up in a personal crisis they no
longer could avoid. Shortly before going "on the run" Boland and Collins met
Kitty Kiernan, a young woman with whom they both fell in love. The triangle
that developed between the three was at the center of Neil Jordan's 1996
film, "Michael Collins," with the spectacularly miscast Julia Roberts
playing the love interest of Liam Neeson's Collins and Aidan Quinn's Boland.
Here, Fitzpatrick takes several gratuitous swipes at Boland's rival, the
"characteristically fork-tongue[d] Collins" (p. 226). But if anyone comes
out of this three-sided relationship not looking very good, it is Kiernan.
As Fitzpatrick points out, her "letters indicate that the contest was
unequal from the start" (p. 253). The ever attentive Boland "seemed tame and
dependable by comparison with the elusive Collins" (p. 254).
Kiernan's refusal to make a clean break with Boland seemed designed to
remind Collins that an "alternative" prospect was at hand if he was
unwilling to marry her (p. 304). Even the prospect of a trip to the States
could not entice Kiernan to join Boland, and his letters--by turns
confident, demanding, pleading--are almost painful to read (pp. 249-254).

Despite Boland's assurance that however "our Triangle may work out,"
he and Collins "shall be always friends" (p. 237), it is hard to believe
that this romantic duel was not a factor in their eventual estrangement. The
more immediate cause of the disintegrating friendship, however, was the
Anglo-Irish Treaty. Embittered Unionists like Magill condemned the agreement
for giving Sinn Fein and the IRA "everything for which they had asked, and a
great deal more than would have satisfied them" (p. 64). That was hardly the
case. The coalition government led by David Lloyd George had spent the
better part of two years vowing never to give into the demands of IRA
"extremists." Instead, Lloyd George along with his Conservative and Liberal
colleagues finally enacted a Home Rule Bill--albeit at the price of
partitioning six counties of Ulster from the rest of Ireland. But by then
Home Rule had passed its "sell-by" date. There was no one, not in the south
anyway, who was any longer willing to accept Home Rule as a solution.

Much as they wished to end the Anglo-Irish War, the one thing that Lloyd
George and his colleagues would never accept was a separate Irish republic.
The Irish Free State agreed to by Collins, Arthur Griffith, and the other
Sinn Fein negotiators was instead a dominion:
Ireland was independent--like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South
Africa - but it was still linked to Britain through an oath of allegiance to
the crown. Boland and other Treaty opponents focused their attacks solely on
this part of the agreement--"there's nothing else, nothing but the oath," he
told erstwhile friends in the IRB (p.
275). Although Fitzpatrick does not deal with the matter directly, Boland's
words confirm that the Treaty split had nothing to do with the partition of
Ulster and the creation of the Protestant- and Unionist-dominated state of
Northern Ireland.

For southern Unionists like Magill, the Treaty was also a nightmare.
Nothing, he wrote, "would induce me to remain under the men responsible for
murdering so many of my colleagues" (p. 61). Magill and his family moved
north, where he helped establish the Belfast government. The rest of his
memoir is devoted to this phase of his career, a wholly partisan account of
the pogroms and murders that occurred while men like Magill too often looked
the other way. In these pages it is possible to discern the origins of the
conflict that finally erupted in Northern Ireland in 1969. Strangely, Magill
sensed that partition would not solve his country's ethnic conflict and that
the most the British had "obtained was temporary liberation from the eternal
Irish question" (p. 64).

More immediately, de Valera's opposition to the Treaty all but guaranteed a
civil war in the south. When the shooting finally erupted in June 1922,
Fitzpatrick writes that it "brought much needed relief to opponents of the
Treaty, like Harry, whose republican principles had been compromised through
the search for a settlement"
(p. 306). In fact Boland, as well as de Valera, had abandoned their
"republican principles" before the Treaty was even negotiated.
Although some in the independence movement would settle for nothing less
than a republic, de Valera had long since realized that this goal was
unattainable. Instead he proposed what he called "external association," a
form of independence that differed little from dominion status except that
the British connection was implicit rather than explicit. Boland had even
entertained the idea of a "dual monarchy" (p. 231): the creation of two
independent governments, one Irish the other British, linked by the same
king as head of state.
The difference between this arrangement and the one achieved by the Treaty
was that the British king would have been formally crowned in Dublin as an
Irish "king." Whatever the merits of this idea, it certainly was not
"republican."

Boland quickly abandoned this proposal when it ran into opposition (pp.
231-232). But the question remains: If he could have lived with a dual
monarchy, why did he become such a bitter opponent of the Treaty?
Fitzpatrick, perhaps, comes closest to the answer when he writes that as
Boland's "two closest mentors became the chief protagonists in the bitter
dispute over approval of the agreement, Harry's alignment was affected not
only by his admiration for de Valera's intellect and Collins's
organizational genius, but by the grievances which had tainted both
relationships" (p. 256).

Put another way, the battle over the Treaty was as personal as it was
political. Boland's own diary refutes the allegation that de Valera "owned
his soul" (p. 10) and that he opposed the agreement simply out of loyalty to
"the Chief." But Fitzpatrick is far less convincing when he argues that
Boland's opposition to the Treaty had nothing to do with his "romantic
rivalry with Collins" (p. 262). In fact, during the debate on the
agreement's ratification by Ireland's parliament, Dail Eireann, Boland's
eleventh-hour interventions were laced with increasingly bitter
recriminations, most of them directed at his former friend (pp. 266-267).

Boland's last decisive act in Irish politics, negotiating the abortive de
Valera-Collins Pact, could do nothing to avert an armed struggle, and after
voters sharply rebuffed the anti-Treatyites in June, civil war was all but
inevitable. Throughout these last months of his life, Boland continually
miscalculated the mood the country and the course of events. He predicted
that the Dail would never ratify the Treaty (p. 259). It did. He was
confident that the IRB would back the Treaty's opponents. "Once again,"
Fitzpatrick concedes, "Harry's optimism proved groundless" (p. 285). He was
sure that half the members of the Free State Army were "disaffected" and
would never fight the anti-Treaty members of the IRA (p. 301). They did. He
was certain that the Treaty's opponents could not lose the civil war (p.
316). They were routed--though not before devastating much of the country
and leaving a legacy of bitterness to last generations.

Boland's death and subsequent "canonization" by other anti-Treatyites
contributed to that bitterness. Shot in a struggle with Free State soldiers
attempting to arrest him, his death was soon blamed on Collins, though, as
Fitzpatrick points out, there is no evidence to support the accusation.
Within a month, Collins himself was killed in an ambush not far from his
home in County Cork. Both men are buried in Dublin's Glasnevin Cemetery, as
is Kitty Kiernan. So, too, is de Valera, although five decades passed before
he went to his reward.
Magill, who had a better claim than most to being called a "Dubliner," never
saw his city again once he fled to Ulster.

In a letter written to Magill a decade after the Irish Civil War, his old
chief Birrell ruminated on the troubled relationship between their two
countries. "We English will never understand the Irish,"
Birrell concluded, "and the sooner we part company the better. It is a
thousand pities that the two islands are so near one another" (p.
47). Altering geography is, of course, beyond the power of any man.
But Birrell and his colleagues had not been entirely helpless. Had they
faced down the Ulster Unionists during the Home Rule Crisis, they could have
settled the Irish Question with moderates when they had the chance. Instead,
it fell to their successors to negotiate in conditions far less favorable
and with the far more militant Sinn Fein and IRA. The lesson is instructive
to any politician confronting nationalist movements, but only if he--or
she--is prepared to heed it.



Copyright (c) 2005 by H-Net, all rights reserved. H-Net permits
the redistribution and reprinting of this work for nonprofit,
educational purposes, with full and accurate attribution to the
author, web location, date of publication, originating list, and
H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online. For other uses
contact the Reviews editorial staff: hbooks[at]mail.h-net.msu.edu.

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Ulster's oldest exile dies just days after his arrival in US
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

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

P.O'S.


Belfast Telegraph

Ulster's oldest exile dies just days after his arrival in US

By Nevin Farrell

10 October 2005

A man believed to have been one of the oldest people ever to emigrate
from Ireland has died just four days after leaving for the United States
where he had gone to make a new life.

Eighty-six-year-old Joe McAuley left Ballymena last Wednesday to live
with his son Charles in Portland, Oregon, but he passed away on Saturday.

Close friend Maureen Gilmore (74), from Ballymena, said: "Joe was
looking forward to new experiences and we are all shocked he has passed
away so soon after reaching America."

A tearful Maureen said: "He was a great character and he crammed a lot
into his life but he passed away very suddenly.

"The story about him being one of the oldest people to emigrate was in a
few newspapers during the week and I had been on the phone to him joking
that he did better than me because recently I had been in the papers
myself for being the oldest person ever to take part in a charity abseil
down the Europa Hotel in Belfast."

She said Joe should be an inspiration to anyone on how to enjoy a long
and full life.

Maureen said it was Joe's wish that he is cremated and his ashes brought
back home to Ireland.

Just last Tuesday, Joe, who was set to turn 87 next month, had told of
his hopes for the future.

Speaking before he set off for Tigard near Portland, he had said: "It is
a beautiful area and I am looking forward to it immensely as the next
phase of my life but I will miss Ballymena and my friends here too."

Joe was born above a pub in Carnlough on the County Antrim coast in 1918
and he grew up to become a radio officer on Merchant Navy ships.

He had a lucky escape when his vessel was torpedoed in the south
Atlantic off Brazil during the Second World War.

He then worked as a radio operator with airways flying around Scottish
islands before clocking up thousands of more miles by flying as a radio
man with British South American Airways.

Joe had said last Tuesday: "I have been all around the world and a few
other places as well. I have had a good life but by Thursday I will be
in new surroundings. You are never too old to emigrate."

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Review, CHRIS ARTHUR, MEDITATIVE ESSAYS TRILOGY
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The following review appeared in ABEI JOURNAL - THE BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF
IRISH STUDIES ABEI Journal No.7. S=E3o Paulo: Humanitas/ FFLCH, 2005. =
281-286)

It appears here with the permission of the Editors of ABEI and with the
permission of the author, Luci Collin Lavalle...

Our thanks to them.

P.O'S.=20



(ABEI Journal No.7. S=E3o Paulo: Humanitas/ FFLCH, 2005. 281-286)

REVIEW BY Luci Collin Lavalle

VISTAS WITHIN VISTAS - THE MEDITATIVE ESSAYS TRILOGY BY CHRIS ARTHUR

Irish Nocturnes, US: The Davies Group, 1999, ISBN 1-888570-49-0.
Irish Willow, US: The Davies Group, 2002, ISBN 1-888570-46-6.
Irish Haiku, US: The Davies Group, 2005, ISBN 1-888570-78-4.



A good literary essay presents not only an interesting thesis, but
also an effective organization of subtexts which assure a fluent =
reading. In
this sense, regarding the process of essay writing, the reputation of =
Chris
Arthur (Belfast, 1955) is notably increasing, for he is an essayist =
whose
fine perception of essential things and ability to expose these things =
in a
vibrant way combine in the production of beautiful pieces of literature.
Arthur has just completed his Irish-themed trilogy of essays composed by =
the
volumes entitled Irish Nocturnes (illustrated by Gigi Bayliss), Irish =
Willow
(illustrated by Jeff Hall, III) and Irish Haiku (illustrated by Jeff =
Hall
III).=20
In Irish Nocturnes the essay topics range from history to death to fear =
to
memory in an attempt to capture things lost in the passage of time. =
Even
though Arthur acknowledges the fickle, ephemeral nature of life and =
time, he
still makes attempts to preserve Ireland=92s past, with observations and
thoughtful, meandering ruminations culled from his own life. As he =
explains
it: =93Writing is one of the ways to make a chink in the dark armor with =
which
history is so impenetrably clad, allowing an occasional glimmer of light =
to
illuminate the human story for a moment before it flickers out again=94
(1999:55). In a way, he also manages to write semi-autobiographical
treatises - memoirs without the pretension of self-aggrandizement. =20
This first book explores living memories, longing, and
more-than-fond remembrances of someplace, something or someone =96 often
pervaded by a feeling of displacement. In speaking of the Irish =
Diaspora,
Arthur comments, =93We are an adaptable species. We can uproot =
ourselves if
need or opportunity dictates, colonize some new patch of earth (=85) But =
can
you ever really feel at home except in the country where you were =
born?=94
(1999:239). Indeed, Arthur seems to long for Ireland and his subsequent
commentary in whichever nocturne similarly touches upon threads of =
memory
and personal histories, all of which fit in the realm of nostalgia.
=93Ferrule=94, Arthur=92s nocturne about the potency and mystery of
language, spotlights the highly-specific name for the metal cover on the
tips of wooden canes. It is an obscure and even archaic reference, but =
it
highlights his point well: =93Language clings to us unshakably, sending =
its
tendrils to creep through us like ivy, finding some purchase in even the
most intimate interstices of silence=94 (1999:21). In =93Facing the =
Family,=94
Arthur writes of the modern societal trend of knowing little about =
one=92s
ancestors; according to a Japanese monk Arthur meets, this shows =93a =
failure
to properly confront our own mortality and the essential fact of =
life=92s
impermanence=94 (1999:179). Such an insight increases the number of =
questions
Arthur asks regarding family and family histories, but he never claims =
to
have all the answers - he is content to simply ask questions and leave =
them
unanswered being the reader=92s duty to carry his thoughts further.=20
Even with the occasional misfire or spotty conclusion, Arthur never =
fails to
make his reader think, and think deeply at that. He is best at =
addressing
important issues and then making fascinating and enlightened =
observations.
On one hand, he is honest: =93As we grew older . . . we lost heart and
entered that dispirited state of mind which comes to believe that there =
is
only one mundane and bounded world to live in=94 (1999:107). On the =
other, he
is perceptive: =93One of the pleasures of adult intimacy involves a =
swapping
of significant places; introducing one=92s partner to that secret =
mapping of
the world which holds so much of your story, and being introduced in =
turn to
theirs=94 (1999:200). It is such commentary and small statements like =
these
that keep the reader interested and impressed. =20
In Irish Willow, Arthur revisits those aspects of existence and
humanity that have always fascinated him: time, memory, language and
interpersonal connections. In this second round of essays, though, he
focuses less on providing social commentary about the religious violence =
in
Northern Ireland than he did in Irish Nocturnes. While Arthur can=92t =
avoid
speaking about that strife which has so indelibly left its mark on his =
life,
he now seems more interested in existential issues and contents himself =
to
remain in that heady realm of abstract musings and questionings. As he
writes, =93Patterns. Stories. Meanings. These are what I search for =
(=85). I
try different ways to weave them together, follow different narrative
imaginings that might extend their fragmentariness into something more
closely approaching a sense-bestowing whole=94 (2002:14). Irish Willow, =
the
final result, is at once more unified and focused than Arthur=92s =
previous
anthology=20
This second book of the trilogy is at its best in those moments that =
reveal
Arthur=92s uncanny knack of producing lovely observations, which =
sometimes are
off-topic, but nevertheless potent in their imagery or insight. Arthur
ponders the wonders of photography in various essays and deftly captures =
the
simultaneous permanence and transience of the medium: =93I can picture
pictures easily enough (=85) but to summon a likeness of the living, =
moving
face, animated by that particular vitality that was so appealing . . . =
seems
beyond the power of recall=94 (2002:35). Arthur not only captures the
paradoxical nature of memory, but goes one step further arguing that a
picture is more than just a snapshot, more than just an interruption of
light; it=92s a slice of time, preserved for our pleasure and =
wonderment. =20
Unlike his first collection, Irish Willow displays moments of
Arthur=92s underlying humanity which sometimes veer off-track from the =
point
of his essay to reveal a man beneath the writing. In one tortured =
thought,
Arthur reminisces about an old ex-girlfriend of his, lamenting the
instability and incapability of his mind to cement his memories of her:
=93It=92s sad that a face [my girlfriend=92s face] once explored so =
ravenously by
my gaze, once traced so lovingly by my fingers, should have vanished =
...=94
(2002:35). Usually open, Arthur reveals in another moment just how
ridiculous he finds the sectarian violence in Northern Ireland, which he
believes originates from fundamental intolerance and deep-seated =
prejudices:
=93 (=85) I realised how many people are trapped in a sarcophagus of =
rigid
beliefs, a terrible caricature of living faith in which the heart and =
other
vitals are ripped out and the semblance of life is only maintained by =
the
embalming fluid of empty ritual motions: church-going, hymn-singing, =
and
other public rites=94 (2002:84). Here he clearly sheds any academic
impartiality and shows rancour and frustration, revealing the depths of =
his
feeling. No longer is the bloodshed of Northern Ireland a topic for =
essays
and musings; now it is a personal matter that continues to plague him
without end.
Arthur=92s style in Irish Willow can be characterized by a more ornate
diction and by some intense metaphors, a special ability to manipulate
language in neatly-packaged phrases such as the =93dull ache of =
finitude=94
(2002:24) or =93dry stone of mortality=94 (2002:25). In one case, =
speaking of
his father=92s fondness for the piano, Arthur calls the tragedy of his
father=92s arthritis, =93a dissonant duet of suffering=94 (2002:130). =
In one
other example, we see some of his custom, metaphorical flourishes: =
=93For a
while we mark out our little boundaries, till our fields, life comes =
gently
to fruition, we forget the massive seas surrounding every moment, the =
cold
waters of oblivion, the endless duration of space and time that dwarf =
all
our endeavours, swamping them in the end as finitude overwhelms us and =
our
patchwork fields of friends and family, jewel-bright and previous, are
engulfed=94 (2002:105). His imagery, in this case, was a little bit =
excessive
and Arthur himself seems to recognize his excesses, saying essayists try =
to
=93[tie] up loose threads more neatly than they=92re ever tied up in =
real life=94
(2002:106).
The final two essays in this collection are the best of the entire
lot. =93Atomic Education=94 is clear and more descriptive than =
questioning.
The essay, which comes across as a character study of a social outcast -
Arthur=92s Uncle Cyril - who was nonetheless a misunderstood visionary,
provides us with details that let us construct the setting in our minds:
Arthur describes his uncle=92s house and the neighbourhood, thereby =
giving us
a vivid idea of the grimness and uncertainty in Northern Ireland. As a
whole, this essay paints a portrait of a remarkable man living among
unremarkable people in a time of violence and grief. Arthur then =
maintains
this subtle tone and embarks upon an ambitious, sprawling coda about his
father. =93A Tinchel Round my Father=94 holds up well and raises many =
questions
about the mystery of photographs or, more specifically, life itself. =
Arthur
weaves fragmentary stories about his father (which he assembles based =
upon
compelling photographs of his father as a young man), along with those =
of
himself and even a pair of WWII refugees. The end result makes us =
question
our knowledge of our parents and of the lives that intersect with ours,
either with our recognition or without. Arthur effectively preserves =
time
with these final two essays and arguably succeeds in his goal of
=93approaching a sense-bestowing whole=94 to the fragments of his life =
and our
own.
At last, in regard to Irish Haiku, the third collection written by
Chris Arthur, the reading reveals it as the best of the trilogy. In =
Irish
Haiku Arthur recovers the tradition of the meditative essay, brilliantly
developed by the North-American Transcendentalists before =96 and it is =
no
coincidence that the book=92s epigraph is from H. D. Thoreau. As for the =
title
of the book, it is very suggestive of the extended meditation or
contemplation brought by those brief perceptions, those glimpses on the
uncatchable, revealed by haikus. The metaphysical quality of Irish Haiku =
is
soon revealed in the book=92s Foreword: =93Instead of any words at all, =
I would
rather start with a blackbird singing in a County Antrim garden.=94 =
(2005:xi).
After that statement, Arthur (addressing the critical reader?) modestly
advances a possible interpretative consideration of his own position as =
a
writer: =93A blackbird solitary singing should not create any =
expectations of
what comes next, what went before. Like a clear bell in a meditation =
hall,
it just punctuates the silence, focusing the mind on what passes before =
it
now, this moment that will never come again.=94 (xi).
The whole book is indeed embedded in a Zen Buddhist atmosphere =96 or
Zen aesthetics; it is impregnated by a poetic vision similar to that of
haiku-master Matsuo Bash=F4. Like in haikus, Arthur=92s essays try to =
catch deep
and revealing moments, always with a striking directness =96 a process =
of
clear seeing that triggers a temporary enlightenment.
=93Obelisk=94, the first essay of the book, is divided into ten
interconnected observations that, =93in the form of a verbal obelisk=94,
elaborate a dynamic speculation on Henderson Ritchie=92s death; the =
narrative
is sustained by different settings, angles, viewpoints (even movable =
ones in
terms of chronological order). As Arthur remarks: =93Beginning at the
beginning =96 the place we=92re always urged to start =96 is, of course,
impossible, unless you are content to operate with the most =
simplistically
constricted notion of origins.=94 (2005:07).
Other remarkable essays of the collection are =93Miracles=94 and =
=93Water
Glass=94. The first evolves from the tracing back the origins of some =
words
(=93otolith=94 and =93begin=94, for instance) to show the miracle of =
meanings
fossilized in mysterious words. As Arthur argues: =93Within the literal,
another voice is always singing. Why are we so deaf to it?=94 (2005:66). =
In
=93Water Glass=94, a detailed description of the city of Lisburn, Arthur
recreates the ambience of the streets, the history and the gradual
transformation of the place and the religious conflicts to which the =
place
has served as a stage. The essay discusses the Zen practice of walking
meditation and even ends by commenting on meditation: =93But if =
meditation
teaches us anything it is that first sight conceals within its
picture-postcard simplicities views within views, vistas within vistas, =
of a
richness and complexity that are utterly remarkable.=94 (2005: 188).
Arthur=92s essays excel at many levels, principally because they draw
from eclectic sources. Many of his essays cite stories or beliefs from
Buddhism and Hinduism, creating an interesting mixture of Europe and =
Asia.
The only critical remark I would add regarding Irish Haiku is that =
sometimes
in the book Arthur indulges in clich=E9d sentences: =93Every life is =
embedded in
a web of contexts=94 (33), =93We can often learn a lot from errors=94 =
(79), =93A
great deal of our perception, consciousness and communication depends on
selection not storage.=94 (91). Anyhow, Arthur=92s focus on interweaving =
his own
memories and knowledge of Ireland prevents any slippage into banality.
Arthur, whose prose has been compared to Seamus Heaney=92s poetry, =
beautifully
transforms individual experiences into universal ones; in his texts, as
this trilogy proves, the specific cultural milieu of a specific =
experience
opens itself up to acquire extraordinary =96 metaphysical, critical and
historical =96 dimensions.=20

Luci Collin Lavalle

(ABEI Journal No.7. S=E3o Paulo: Humanitas/ FFLCH, 2005. 281-286)

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: David W. Miller, Seminar,
"Ulster Evangelicalism and A merican Culture Wars"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

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

Interesting line of thought...

P.O'S.



________________________________

October 13th, Thursday, 2005 -- 12:30-1:45pm


David_Miller3.JPG


David W. Miller presents a lunchtime seminar:

"Ulster Evangelicalism and American Culture Wars"

Dining room, Glucksman Ireland House NYU

1 Washington Mews [at] Fifth Ave

The distinguished U.S. historian, George Marsden, has pointed out that
Ulster contains the only society outside the United States in which the
evangelicalism that came to characterize the nineteenth-century Protestant
world became deeply and broadly linked with fundamentalism in the twentieth
century. In this talk David W. Miller will explore this observation as a
problem in trans-Atlantic history.

David W. Miller is Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University. He
authored Church, State, and Nation in Ireland, 1898-1921 (1973), Queen's
Rebels: Ulster Loyalism in Historical Perspective (1978), and a number of
essays in modern Irish history. He is the compiler of Peep O'Day Boys and
Defenders: Selected Documents on the Disturbances in County Armagh, 1784-96
(1990), and co-editor (with Stewart J. Brown) of Piety and Power in Ireland,
1760-1960: Essays in Honour of Emmet Larkin (2000), and an associate editor
of Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture (2004). Miller is currently
working on a book on Ulster Presbyterians and Irish Catholics in the famine
era.

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Book Launch, Ulster Gentry Family
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.


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

Institute of Irish Studies
Queen's University of Belfast

Invites you to the launch of

The MacGeough Bonds of The Argory:
An Ulster Gentry Family, 1880-1950
By Olwen Purdue

In The Bookshop at Queen's, 91 University Road, Belfast BT7 1NL

Friday 21 October 2005 5.00 - 6.30 p.m.

R.S.V.P. (028) 9097 3386 email: irish.studies[at]qub.ac.uk

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Book Announced, MacRaild, Faith,
Fraternity and Fighting: The Orange Order and Irish Migrants
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

News has reached us of the publication of Don MacRaild's book on the =
Orange
Order in Northern England...

Publisher information and contact points pasted in below...

Those who attended the recent important conference on Irish Protestant
Identities at Salford will know that the participation of members of the
Orange Order and the display of new research on the Orange Order outside
Ireland added new depth and dimensions. I speak here as someone who,
finding myself chatting with the Grand Master of the Orange Lodge in
Liverpool, led this great man across the room to meet the researcher who =
had
been trying to negotiate access to the Orange Order's Liverpool =
archives...

Again and again the name of Don MacRaild was mentioned as being the =
person
who not only did so much to open up this area of study but who - as it =
were
- established the researcher ground rules...

Our congratulations to Don MacRaild as he sees this important project
through to completion...

P.O'S.



Donald M MacRaild, Faith, Fraternity and Fighting: The Orange Order and
Irish Migrants in the Northern England, c.1850-1920 (Liverpool: =
Liverpool
University Press, 2005).
=20
The web-link to LUP gives details:
http://www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk/html/publication.asp?idProduct=3D3622=


Faith, Fraternity and Fighting: The Orange Order and Irish Migrants in
Northern England, c.1850-1920
MacRaild, Donald M.
Poetry of Saying, The: British Poetry and its Discontents, 1950-2000

price: =A3 50.00
ISBN 0853239398

Synopsis
Despite its prominence, the Orange Order has never been the focus of
significant scholarly attention. With Faith, Fraternity and Fighting, =
Donald
MacRaild provides the first serious full-length study of the Orange =
Order in
northern England. Making extensive use of archival materials - many
previously unavailable to scholars - he reveals the ways in which =
Orangeism
changed as it spread from Ireland into mainland Britain, becoming less a
political movement than a way of life in working-class neighbourhoods.

Faith, Fraternity and Fighting is an important step in rescuing the =
history
of Orangeism from the stigma of violent sectarianism, and as such it =
will be
of great interest to all students of Irish history and English =
working-class
politics.

336pp, 234 x 156mm, cased

Published July 2005
=20
It is distributed in the US and Mexico by Chicago UP, See:
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/154356.ctl
=20

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: bill mulligan
Subject: Fwd: first book in new series Studies of world migrations
In-Reply-To:
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Disposition: inline

I think this may be of interest generally to the list.
Bill Mulligan
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: schrover
Date: Oct 14, 2005 3:49 AM
Subject: first book in new series Studies of world migrations
To: H-MIGRATION[at]h-net.msu.edu

The first book in the new series of University of Illinois Press Series
STUDIES OF WORLD MIGRATIONS has come out.


The purpose of the book series is to publish and to call attention to the
best and most innovative studies of human mobility and migration, whether
written by historians, social scientists or humanists and regardless of
chronological or geographical focus. By casting a wide net, we hope to
encourage a more global, interdisciplinary and integrated understanding of
how human mobility helped knit together the many regions of the world over
time. At the same time we recognize that excellent national and local
studies will continue to provide important building blocks for the
construction of comparative and even global perspectives on how these
interconnections change over the centuries.

The goals of the series are to encourage the study of mobile groups that
are larger or smaller than national groups, the writing of comparative,
transnational and diasporic studies, the study of migrations from
interdisciplinary perspectives, and the creative blending of quantitative
and qualitative methodologies. The series seeks to bring national studies
into dialogue, to encourage world and global histories of migration, to
place national studies of emigration and immigration in comparative
perspective, and to provide a foundation for theoretical work on mobility.

The "Studies in World Migrations" series welcomes case studies, comparative
work, and essay collections. The editors welcome inquiries and requests
for information about the submission of proposals and manuscripts. Please
contact

Donna R. Gabaccia and Leslie Page Moch, editors of this series

Donna R. Gabaccia Leslie Page
Moch
Department of History and Department
ofHistory
Director of the Immigration History Research Center Michigan State
University
University of Minnesota East
Lansing MI 48824 USA
Elmer L. Andersen Library, Suite 311
222 21st Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
drg[at]umn.edu leslie[at]msu.edu



the first book that came out in this new series is:

Leo Lucassen, The Immigrant Threat. The integration of old and new migrants
in Western Europe since 1850 (University of IllinoisPress, Urbana and
Chicago 2005).
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/f05/lucassen.html



DESCRIPTION OF THE BOOK

In contrast to the U.S., migration scholars in Europe have never
systematically explored the differences and similarities between the long
term integration process of migrants in past and present. Focussing on
large groups who were seen as threatening by the native population in
France, Germany and the U.K., this book shows that there are a number of
structural similarities in the way migrants and their descendants integrate
into these nation states. Although the emergence of the welfare state and
the revolutions in transport and communication have had an important impact
on both migration and integration, these developments are not likely to
fundamentally alter the long term intergenerational integration process.
Moreover, the problematization of large and threatening groups of
immigrants in the past, now past into oblivion, has more in common than
most people realize. The old migrants (like the Irish in England, the
Poles in Germany and the Italians in France) may have been from European
stock, they were nevertheless perceived as essentially different and unfit
to integrate. A discourse which echoes most of the fears and anxieties (for
example on Muslim migrants) in present day Western Europe.


--
Bill Mulligan
Professor of History
Murray State University

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Call for Proposals, Dance Research Forum Ireland,
1st International Conference, June 2006
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of...=20

Dr Catherine Foley
Chair, Dance Research Forum Ireland
Course Director MA in Ethnochoreology
Course Director MA in Irish Traditional Dance Performance
The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance
University of Limerick
Limerick
Ireland
Tel: 00 353 61 202922
Fax: 00 353 61 202589
email: catherine.e.foley[at]ul.ie
www.iwmc.ul.ie
www.danceresearchforumireland.org

Details are also available on the DRFI website -
www.danceresearchforumireland.org=20

P.O'S.

Thursday 22nd June =96 Sunday 25th June, 2006
hosted by

The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance
University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

Call For Proposals
September 2005

Dance Research Forum Ireland (DRFI) invites proposals for its 1st
International Conference: At a Crossroads? Dance and Irish Culture. The
conference, in keeping with the aims and objectives of DRFI, provides a
platform for both dance academics and dance artists in Ireland and =
abroad.
Included in its programme are academic-based paper presentations,
practice-based research presentations, lecture demonstrations in dance,
dance workshops, a student poster exhibition and artistic contributions.
Please visit DRFI=92s website at: www.danceresearchforumireland.org

Deadline for Submission of Proposals is 1st December, 2005. =20
Notification from DRFI is 20th December, 2005.

Guidelines for Proposals

Dance Research Forum Ireland welcomes proposals from dance academics and
artists. Proposals include any one of six presentation formats listed
below. Only one presentation per applicant is permissible. It is =
essential
that proposals address the theme of the conference and present new =
insights
in the attempt at advancing dance research knowledge and practice. =
Please
submit your proposal form, including your one-page abstract =
(approximately
250-300 words) of your presentation, detailing your presentation format =
and
outlining your proposed research topic and argument together with a =
short
bibliography and/or videography, and forward it electronically to the =
Chair
of the programme committee, Dr Barbara O=92Connor, at =
Barbara.OConnor[at]dcu.ie
or forward a hard copy to Dr Barbara O=92Connor, Dublin City University,
Dublin, Ireland. It is more convenient for the programme committee if =
the
proposals are forwarded electronically both within the body of the email =
and
in an enclosed attachment using a Rich Text Format=20

Please note that the programme committee will only consider proposals =
whose
authors are current members of DRFI. Application forms for membership =
are
available on the DRFI website: www.danceresearchforumireland.org
Application forms are also available from Victoria O=92Brien, Treasurer, =
DRFI,
at Victoria.OBrien[at]ul.ie or at The Irish World Academy of Music and =
Dance,
University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland. =20

Organising Committee: Dr Catherine Foley (Chair of Organising =
Committee),
Olive
Beecher, Orfhlaith N=ED Bhriain and Victoria O=92Brien.

Programme Committee: Dr Barbara O=92Connor (Chair of programme =
committee),
Olive Beecher, Dr Catherine Foley and Dr Deirdre Mulrooney.=20


=20
Presentation Formats:

1. Academic-based and/or Practice-based research presentations=20

These paper presentations will be programmed for the duration of 20 =
minutes,
including any audio-visual material. A ten-minute discussion period =
will be
allotted after each presentation. =20


2. Panels

A panel presentation consisting of three or four presenters is also =
welcome.
Panels are co-ordinated by one of the panelists who co-ordinates a panel =
to
address a particular topic at the conference. This topic may or may =
not
address the theme of the conference. The co-ordinator submits a =
one-page
proposal outlining the selected topic and each of the panelists =
contribution
to this topic. In addition, each panelist is required to write a =
one-page
proposal (as in written research-based presentations above) outlining =
the
particular research focus in relation to this topic. The co-ordinator is
responsible for co-ordinating all proposals for the panel and these are
forwarded together. The panel is assessed as a whole and will be =
allotted
one hour in the programme, including discussion. =20


3. Lecture Demonstrations=20

Lecture-demonstrations relating to the theme of the conference are =
welcome.
These will be programmed for the duration of 45 minutes including a 15
minute discussion.=20


4. Dance Workshops

Proposals for dance workshops concerning any dance genre in Ireland or =
its
diaspora are welcome. These will be programmed for I hour.=20


5. Student Posters=20

Students are encouraged to present their theses or current research on a
poster for a Dance Poster Exhibition which will be programmed at a
particular time during the conference. Posters should be presented on =
one
large sheet, at least A3 size, containing written and illustrative =
material.
Topic of research, theoretical and methodological choices, argument, and
conclusion are required to be outlined. =20

6. Artistic Contributions

Artistic contributions are welcome in the form of dance performances =
which
address the theme of the conference. These will be programmed for 5 to =
10
minutes followed by a 5 minute discussion. =20

=20
=20
=20
=20

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Celtic Studies Annual Conference, Toronto,
THE ORANGE ORDER IN CANADA
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.


Subject: Celtic Studies Annual Conference

Celtic Studies
St. Michael's College
University of Toronto

THE ORANGE ORDER IN CANADA

Saturday, November 5, 2005
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Room 400, Alumni Hall, 121 St. Joseph Street

Registration: $30 (students free but please register)

Speakers include: Don MacRaild (Victoria University, New Zealand), Eric
Kaufman (Birbeck College, University of London), James McConnel (University
of Ulster), Brian Clarke (University of Toronto), William Jenkins (York
University), David A. Wilson (University of Toronto), John FitzGerald
(Memorial University), Ian Radforth (University of Toronto), W. J. Smyth
(National University of Ireland Maynooth), Cecil Houston (University of
Windsor)

Complete program and printable registration form available at:
www.utoronto.ca/stmikes/celticstudies/events.html
or phone: 416-926-7145

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, FORTHCOMING EVENTS
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.


________________________________

ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY
Irelands Academy for the sciences and humanities


FORTHCOMING EVENTS

* Hamilton Day Lecture
Title: Much Ado About Nothing
How the problem of the energy of empty space became a
central concern of today's physics and cosmology, Nobel Laureate, Steven
Weinberg
Date: 17/10/2005,Time: Monday 17th, Venue: TCD, Burke
Theatre


* History Seminar
Title: Royal Historical Society Meeting - please click here
for details
Date: 21/10/2005,Time: Friday 21st - Saturday 22nd, Venue:
Academy House


* John Jackson Memorial Lecture
Title: Circles, arcs and lines: glimpses of prehistoric
Ireland from archaeological geophysics' by Kevin Barton, Applied
Archaeology, Institute of Technology, Sligo.
Date: 25/10/2005,Time: Tuesday 25th, Venue: Library, RDS


* Modern Languages Symposium
Title: The Cause of Cosmopolitanism in Europe and Beyond
Date: 11/11/2005,Time: Friday 11th Saturday 12th, Venue: UCC


* International Affairs Conference
Title: 50th Anniversary of Ireland's accession to the United
Nations
Date: 18/11/2005,Time: Friday 18th, Venue: Academy House


* Third Sector Research Programme Conference
Title: The Voluntary Sector, Civil Society and new Social
Capital
Date: 24/11/2005,Time: Thursday 24th, Venue: NICVA, Belfast

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Wasn't I pretty...
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I am now off to Cork City for a week...

With my younger son, Jake...

Where we hope to experience Culture...

And I hope to experience Guinness in a smoke free environment.

Bill Mulligan will now take over as Moderator of the IR-D list.

Our thanks to Bill...

Emails sent to IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK will be processed and distributed by Bill
in the usual way.

Emails sent to me personally will have to await my return.

Paddy O'Sullivan


--
Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

Email Patrick O'Sullivan
Email Patrick O'Sullivan
Personal Fax 0044 (0) 709 236 9050

Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/
Irish Diaspora Net
http://www.irishdiaspora.net

Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Social Sciences and Humanities
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
Yorkshire
England

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Maria Power
Subject: Call for Papers
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

> Re-defining the Irish Experience:
> An interdisciplinary postgraduate conference
> Call for Papers
>
> The Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool is hosting
an
> AHRC sponsored conference from 16th -18th June 2006. This conference will
> provide an opportunity for postgraduate and recently post-doctoral fellows
> to present their work to an interdisciplinary audience of Irish Studies
> scholars.
>
> The theme of the conference will centre upon cultural expressions of Irish
> identity by asking for example:
> How has Irish identity been defined and expressed in the past?
> How have popular expressions of identity interacted with one another?
> How are contemporary identities being challenged by the rapidly changing
> nature of Irish society?
> How has the experience of the Irish Diaspora affected Irish identity?
>
> Papers addressing these questions or broader themes relating to the
culture
> and identity of the Irish are welcome from all related disciplines
> including history, literature, sociology, social policy, politics,
> economics, religious studies and theology, music, cultural studies,
> archaeology, art etc.
>
> Please send a 300 word proposal to Miss Nicola Morris, at the Institute of
> Irish Studies, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7WY or
> n.k.morris[at]liv.ac.uk by 28th February 2006. Those chosen to present will
> be informed by 31st March 2006.
>
>
>
>

From: Bill Mulligan
Subject: CFP: Galway Conference of Irish Studies
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

This has come to our attention.

From: John Eastlake
Subject: CFP: 1st Galway Conference of Irish Studies
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:07:12 +0000

Please share this with anyone who might be interested!

Much obliged,
John Eastlake
Centre for Irish Studies
NUIG

First Galway Conference of Irish Studies
Orality and Modern Irish Culture
7-10 June 2006

C a l l f o r P a p e r s

The First Galway Conference of Irish Studies will be hosted by the Centre
for Irish Studies at NUI, Galway in June 2006. The conference will provide a
platform for both established and emerging scholars to engage with new ideas
and approaches to interdisciplinary research in Irish Studies. In order to
further discussion and dialogue, the conference programme will include a
number of workshops with leading scholars who will speak on aspects of
theory and method that have informed their work. A select number of
presentations will be included in a publication derived from the conference
proceedings. A feature of the Galway conference will be the provision of a
simultaneous translation facility for those who wish to present their work
in Irish.

Given that so much of the material under consideration in the field of Irish
Studies originates within, or is transmitted by, an oral mode, there has
been a remarkable reluctance to engage with orality in the investigation of
modern and contemporary Irish culture. This conference will attempt to get
beyond the misleading dichotomies that equate orality with the traditional,
the rural, and the communal, while literacy is associated with the urban,
the written, and the individual. The persistence of these distinctions has
tended to elide the extent to which oral and literate modes co-exist in
various forms of cultural production. The conference will investigate the
modes of performance and transmission of orality, and its formative role in
the construction of modern Irish culture. Are there official and unofficial
avenues of transmission of oral culture? What role does audience play in
these processes? How is orality linked to folk culture and an idea of the
authentic, and what are the implications for identity construction in
Ireland? What methodologies are most effective for engaging orality?

Submissions are welcome from all relevant disciplines including literature,
history, social studies, gender studies, ethnography, diaspora studies,
music, and media studies.

Proposals can be submitted in Irish or in English to the Conference
Administrator Angela Roche at irishstudies[at]nuigalway.ie before 1 February
2006.

From: Bill Mulligan
Subject: CFP Extended: GRIAN Conference
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

This has come to our atention.

Please note that the deadline for abstracts has been extended until
November 15, 2005. We would also like to announce that our keynote speake=
r
will be Hasia Diner, professor of Jewish American Studies at NYU and
author of Hungering for America: Jewish, Irish and Italian Foodways in th=
e
New Migration.

CFP: Eat, Drink, and Be Hungry: Ireland and Consumption
Eighth Annual Grian Conference
3-5 March 2006
Glucksman Ireland House
New York University

Bless us, O Cleric, famous pillar of learning,
Son of honey-bag, son of juice, son of lard,
Son of stirabout, son of porridge, son of fair-speckled clusters of fruit=
,
Son of smooth clustering cream, son of buttermilk, son of curds[.] (trans.
Kuno Meyer)

In the Aisling meic Conglinne, meic Conglinne=92s vision involves=
a land=20
of
gluttony, filled with lakes of new cream and butter, bridges of beef and
loaves of bread. This prayer, which satirizes early Irish genealogies,
taken from the work provides an image of excess consumption found in earl=
y
Irish culture, when complex rituals and codes conduct regulated the offer
of food and hospitality. Throughout Ireland=92s history, the rituals of
food, drink and consumption have continued to play important, yet protean
roles as Ireland=92s social fabric has changed. The spectrum between
comestible scarcity and abundance at distinctive and extreme points in
Ireland=92s history manifests itself through complicated cultural attitud=
es
towards food. If a pint in Ireland is =93the drink,=94 Grian is interest=
ed in
exploring the social rituals, cultural practices and enduring aspects of
Ireland=92s comestible cultures at all points of its history. Papers tha=
t
address the broad relation of food and consumption in Ireland and its
diaspora may consider the following topics.

Food as emotion: comfort, desire, sex, nostalgia.
Food rituals and foodways: the Irish wake, pub culture, =91=
the=20
drink,=92 tea
drinking, Bewley=92s, Barry=92s.
Food scarcity and abundance: famine, trauma, economy.
Food extremes and health: eating disorders, overeating, well-being. =20
Food and prosperity: Darina Allen, haute cuisine in Ireland, authenticity
Food as business and commodity: from market to supermarket,
Superquinn=92s, Guinness, Bachelor=92s beans.
Food from home: immigrants and Club Orange, Mi Wadi, Jaco=
bs,
Galtee sausage and bacon.
Food and home: the hearth, dwellings.
Food and geography: landscapes and seascapes,
farming and fishing.
Food and gender: providers of food; breastfeeding.
Food and the arts: literature, song, visual arts.
Oral fixation: Oral/Orality/Oral desire/Orature.
Consumption and class: commodification of consumption, Waterford,=20
Belleek, consumerism, transnationalism, Celtic Tiger economy.=20

The conference will feature Hasia Diner, professor of Jewish American
Studies at NYU and author of Hungering for America: Jewish, Irish and
Italian Foodways in the New Migration, as keynote speaker.

One page abstracts for 20 minute papers are invited from scholars in any
field including history, literature, cultural studies, business,
anthropology, etc., by November 15, 2005. Cross-disciplinary and
cross-cultural approaches are encouraged. Send abstracts to
Ireland.grian[at]nyu.edu. Queries may be addressed to Elizabeth Gilmartin:
egilmart[at]monmouth.edu or Kerri Anne Burke: kab350[at]yahoo.com.

GRIAN is an Irish studies organization, based at Glucksman Ireland House =
at=20
NYU, comprised of emerging and established scholars affiliated with numer=
ous=20
New York area universities.=20

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: "Rogers, James"
Subject: FW: Irish ecocriticism CFP
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain



I am forwarding this Call for Papers on behalf of Christine Cusick, who
lately published an excellent article on Moya Cannon's poetics of place in
NEW HIBERNIA REVIEW. Please do send it along to other list serves or
potentially interested individuals.

-- Jim Rogers

_________________________________________________________________________





A Call for Papers:

"Murmurs that Come out of the Earth":

Ecocritical Readings of Irish Texts, a Collection



Long before there was a theoretical movement that defined
and categorized literary readings of nature, scholars of Irish literature
have understood the importance of the natural world to an Irish cultural
sensibility. An emphasis on place not only pervades Irish writing of the
twentieth century but is also rooted in ancient traditions of Celtic
mythology and place-lore. While critical assessments of Irish place writing
are numerous, few address such representations of the natural world as
politically and culturally informed and scripted texts. Even fewer address
the ecological implications embedded in these ways of knowing place.
Globalization, the expanding European economy, technological growth--all of
which have turned a famine-ridden colonized nation in the "tiger" of
Europe-- necessitate a consideration of place that is committed to its
ecological materiality.

This project will explore the natural world as a record of,
and participant in, the experiences of a place called Ireland. The
theoretical foundations of the project are rooted in critical assumptions
that have more frequently been linked to American studies. Careful and
trenchant work within the field of ecocriticism has effectively articulated
the implicit fallibility of any attempt to isolate nature from culture.
Through a study of the cultural forces that shape and construct an
environmental ethic in Ireland, this project is a gesture to wed the
critical impetus of ecocriticism to environmental concerns in Ireland.

This collection will be grounded in the long tradition of place studies that
carry us through very recent critical contributions, most notably Oona
Frawley's study Irish Pastoral: Nostalgia and Twentieth Century Irish
Literature (2005). The defining characteristic of this new endeavor will
be its contribution to not only the conceptual manifestation of place and
landscape in Irish texts, but also to the complex and concrete reality of
the wellness and sustenance of Ireland's natural resources. This will be
an interdisciplinary collection; thus, the "text" in this study will be
broadly defined. Critical studies of film, photography, and/or such social
phenomenon as ecotourism in Ireland, are welcomed. Possible topics include,
but are not limited to, studies that consider the following influences upon
the conceptualization and treatment of the natural world in Ireland:

emigration

diaspora

tourism

nostalgia

gender

colonization

language

traditional Irish music

storytelling

Celtic mythology

dinndshenchas

deforestation

rural despoiliation



Inquiries should be sent to Christine Cusick at christine.cusick[at]iup.edu




Established scholars in both Irish and Ecocritical Studies have already
agreed to contribute to this collection; however, engaging work from both
established and new scholars alike is welcomed.

All submissions should conform to the MLA Style Sheet.



Please send completed essay length submissions to:



Dr. Christine Cusick

Department of English

110 Leonard Hall

Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Indiana, PA 15705



Deadline for submissions: February 28, 2006

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: The importance of being 'Irish'
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

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

P.O'S.



Lawyer hopes to make name for himself with O'Brien
Se=E1n O'Driscoll in New York
=09
Chicago's two lawyers' associations have criticised a judicial candidate =
who
secretly changed his name to Patrick O'Brien in an effort to win the =
Irish
vote.

The issue has become a hot topic in Chicago legal circles where
"Irishisation" of names with fake fadas and contrived use of the maiden
names of grandmothers has seen judges elected for decades.

However, Fred Rhine has gone one step further, legally changing his name =
to
Patrick Michael O'Brien, even changing the answering machine message at =
the
large legal firm where he works.

Michael Hyman, head of the Chicago Bar Association, said the tactic was
"completely wrong".

"It's like Prince changing his name to the Artist Formerly Known as =
Prince.
This is the lawyer formerly known as Fred Rhine. It didn't work for =
Prince;
it won't work for this guy."

Mr Hyman said Mr Rhine would make a very good judge, but his actions =
would
be detrimental to the reputation of lawyers. "I bet he doesn't even know =
the
words to Danny Boy, and here he is Patrick Michael O'Brien."

According to Carrie K. Huff, president of the Chicago Council of =
Lawyers,
having an Irish name has a significant impact on getting elected.

However, she said Mr Rhine's name change was a gimmick and unhelpful to =
his
cause. "Strategic name changes and other cheap gimmicks strongly =
suggests
that a candidate lacks the character and judgment to be on the bench."

Ms Huff said Mr Rhine would be a competent judge but his tactics were =
all
wrong.

"The system is definitely wrong. The voters don't have enough =
information on
the candidates but this isn't the way to resolve it."

However, yesterday Mr O'Brien, or Mr Rhine, defended his actions but
admitted that he was hoping his name change would not be discovered =
until
after the election.

"The system is a joke; I'm not the problem," he said. "If only my =
father's
father's father's father had an Irish surname, I'd be elected too."

He said three of the four Chicago lawyers with the surname Rhine had run =
for
election and all three were defeated.

Mr Rhine, who spent $30,000 on his unsuccessful run three years ago, =
said a
merit system should be introduced to select qualified candidates so =
voters
don't simply opt for their own ethnic group.

Asked why he didn't simply change his name from Rhine to the
similar-sounding Irish surname Ryan, Mr Rhine said that that name had =
become
tarnished in Chicago.

"We had the former governor George Ryan on trial for various misdeeds, =
then
we had Jack Ryan who had to drop out of the last senate race because of =
a
sex scandal, then we had Jim Ryan who unsuccessfully ran for governor in
2002. Ryan no longer works."

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: CFP - Eire-Ireland: Amongst Empires
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

From: Michael de Nie
Subject: CFP - Eire-Ireland: Amongst Empires
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:03:56 -0400

Second Call for Papers:

Amongst Empires
=C9ire-Ireland welcomes submissions for a Spring 2007 special issue that =
will
consider Ireland=B9s involvements in the modern imperial world system. =
The
editors are interested in receiving essays that explore the =
understanding,
consumption, and/or contestation of empire in modern Irish society and
culture as well as articles that examine the role of Ireland and the =
Irish
within the world of empire or that explore Ireland=B9s colonial/imperial
experience in a comparative context. While Ireland=B9s relationship to =
the
British Empire is clearly of central importance, Irish responses to or
involvements in other modern empires (Spanish, French, American, and =
others)
are also of interest, as are essays that deal with how other colonial
peoples or other imperial powers viewed issues such as Irish resistance =
to
British rule and struggles for self-determination, the development of =
Irish
national literature and culture, or Irish military, religious or other
investments in Empire.

Deadline for submissions: 1st April 2006: Typed manuscripts, two copies,
should be sent to: Michael de Nie, Department of History, TLC 3200,
University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA 30118 (mdenie[at]westga.edu) or =
Joe
Cleary, Department of English, Arts Building, NUIMaynooth, Co. Kildare,
Ireland (jncleary[at]may.ie).

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Call for contributors. ABC-Clio Encyclopedia of Ireland and the
Americas
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of Jason King...

P.O'S.=20

________________________________

From: Jason King

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS

The editors of the ABC-Clio Encyclopedia of Ireland and the Americas (3
volumes), urgently require experienced authors for the following =
entries.
Word limits are negotiable. Deadline for submission of entries is the =
1st
of December 2005.

For further details and a copy of the Style Sheet, email the editors at
irishamericanrelations[at]yahoo.co.uk

Alabama

American Football

Arizona

Arkansas

Athletics

Baltimore

Begley, Edward James (1901-70), actor

Behan, Brendan (1923-64), playwright, author=20

Belize=20

B=F3rd F=E1ilte


Bourke-White, Margaret (1904-71), photographer=20


Boxing

Boyle, Kay (1903-92), author=20

Brady, Alice (1892-1939), actress

Brady, James (=93Diamond Jim=94) (1856-1917), entrepreneur

Broderick, David Colbreth (1820-59), entrepreneur

Brophy, John (1883-1963), labour organiser=20

Brown, Alexander (1764-1834), merchant

Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925- ), publisher and television personality=20

Bulger, James =93Whitey=94

Byrne, Gabriel (1950), actor=20

Carney, Art (1918- ), actor=20

Clark, Patrick (1850-1915), miner, entrepreneur

Cline, Maggie (1857-1934), Vaudeville performer

Coffey, Brian, poet=20

Columbia

Conn, William David (1917-93), boxer

Connolly, James Brendan (1868-1957), Olympic athlete

Connor, Jerome (1876-1943), sculptor

Corrigan, Archbishop Michael (1839-1902)

Costa Rica=20

Cudahy, Edward Aloysius, Jr. (1885-1966), businessman

Cudahy, Michael (1841-1910), businessman

Cudahy, Patrick (1849-1919), businessman and philanthropist

Daley, Cass (1915-75), comedienne

Daly, John Augustin (1838-99), playwright

Daly, Marcus (1841-1900), miner, copper king =20

Delaware

Dempsey, George (19 ), diplomat, political commentator

Doheny, Edward Laurence (1865-1935), oil magnate

Donahue, Peter (1822-85), entrepreneur

Dongan, Thomas (1634-1713?). Governor of New York

Dugan, Alan (1923- ), poet

Dunne, Dominick (1925- ), journalist, author=20

Dunne, John Gregory (1932- ), novelist=20

El Salvador=20

Farrell, James Augustine (1862-1943), steel executive

Farrell, James T., (writer)

Fay, Francis Anthony (=93Frank=94) (1897-1961), actor

Feeney, Chuck (?), Philanthropist.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896-1940), author=20

Fitzsimmons, James Edward (=93Sunny Jim=94) (1874-1966), racehorse =
trainer

Flannery, John (1835-1910), banker

Fleming, Thomas J. (1927- ), writer

Flood, James Cair (1826-88), entrepreneur =20

Florida

Flynn, Bill (19 ), National Committee on American Foreign Policy

Fogarty, Gerald P. (1939- ), historian

Foreign Policy, Irish, in the early years of the twenty-first century=20

French Guiana

GAA

Gallagher, Tess (1943- ), poet, writer=20

Georgia

Gill, Brendan (1914-97), critic, writer =20

Golf

Grennan, Eamon (1941- ), poet

Guatemala

Haley, Jack (1899-1979), actor

Hawaii=20

Healy, Michael Morris (1796-1850), plantation owner

Heffernan, Michael (1942- ), poet

Henry, George, (), father of the single tax movement

Henry, John (1746-94), actor

Henry, Michael (1864-1910), railroad builder

Heron, Matilda (1830-77), actress

Honduras=20

Horgan, Paul George (1903-95), writer

Hovenden, Thomas (1840-95), painter and etcher

Howard, Maureen (1930- ), writer=20

Howe, Fanny (1940- ), poet =20

Howe, Susan (1937- ), poet=20

IDA (Industrial Development Authority)

Idaho

Illinois=20

Imports/Exports

Indiana=20

Iowa=20

Ireland in American Film

Irish Gays and Lesbians=20

Irish illegals

Irish in Vaudeville=20

Irish-American Nationalism

Irish-Latin American Schools =20

Jackson, Andrew (1767-1845), U.S. President (1829-37) =20

Jones, "Mother" Mary Harris, labour leader =20

Jordan, Kate (1862-1926), novelist

Kane, Helen (1904-66), actress

Kearns, Thomas (1862-1918), entrepreneur

Kelly, =91Honest John=92 (?), politician

Kelly, Emmet L. (1898-1979), performance artist

Kelly, Gene, actor (JG2Burke, Edmund=20

Kennedy, William (), novelist =20

Kentucky=20

Labour Movement (Irish involvement in)

Landlords and Tenants

Liddy, James (1934- ), poet

Louisiana=20

Lynch, Patricia (), writer

Lynch, Thomas, (), poet an author=20

MacDonald, Michael Patrick, social worker, author=20

Maritime Provinces

Marketing Ireland in America

Maryland=20

McCann, Donal (1943-1999), actor

McCarthy, Charles Louis (=93Clem=94) (1882-1962), sports broadcaster

McCarthy, Eugene. J. (1916- ), politician =20

McClenachan, Blair ([?]-1812), merchant

McDonald, Richard (=93Dick=94) (1909-98), fast-food pioneer

McGonigle, Thomas (novelist)

McNutt, Alexander (1725-1811), territorial land promoter

Mellon, Andrew (1855-1937), banker, philanthropist

Mellon, Thomas (1813-1908), banker, philanthropist

Minnesota=20

Missouri

Mitchell, George J., politician and =93The Mitchell Principles=94

Moore, Mick (), Limerick-born musician and folklorist

Morrison, Bruce (?), Politician.

Morrissey, Ruthie (), singer

Mulvany, John (c. 1839-1906), painter

Murphy, George (1902-92), actor

Musicals

Myles, Eileen (b. 1949), poet and writer=20

Nebraska=20

Nevada

New Irish in the United States

New Jersey

New Mexico

New Orleans=20

Nicaragua=20

North Dakota=20

Notre Dame College=20

O=92Brien, William S. (1825-78), entrepreneur

O=92Neill, James (), actor

O=92Reilly, Anthony, Sir (19 ), business executive=20

O=92Shaughnessy, Ignatius Aloysius (1885-1973), hydraulic engineer

O=92Sullivan, Maureen (1911-98), actress

O'Brien, Charlotte Grace (1845-1909), author, activist=20

O'Hara, Frank (1926-66), poet=20

Ohio=20

Oklahoma=20

Orange Order

Panama=20

Passenger Acts

Pennsylvania=20

Poetry, Irish-American

Powderly, Terence (), founder of the Knights of Labor=20

Power, Frederick Tyrone (1869-1931), actor

Presbyterianism

Quinn, Glenn (1970-2002), actor=20

Quinn, John (1870-1924), patron of the arts=20

Redshaw, Thomas Dillon (1944- ), editor

Remittances

Repeal Movement

Rhode Island

Ruznak, John, stock market dealer and rogue trader

Secret Societies

Shackleton, Ernest, Arctic explorer

Shaw, George Bernard (), author=20

Sheridan, Jim, director =20

South Dakota

St. Patrick=92s Cathedral South Carolina

St. Patrick=92s Society

Suriname=20

Tallchief, Marina (1925- ), prima ballerina

Tennessee=20

Theatre and Drama, Irish-American =20

Thornton, Matthew (1714-1803), signatory of the Declaration of =
Independence

Tully, Jim (1888-1947), novelist

Tuohy, Patrick J. (1894-1930), artist

U.S. Foreign Policy and Irish Affairs=20

Ulster Irish League of America

Urbanization and Suburbanization

Utah=20

Virginia W

Washington D.C.=20

Washington State=20

West Virginia=20