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Further to my mention of the latest issue of Journal of Urban History,
below...

I now have the text of Ellen Skerrett's Review Essay...

Ellen Skerrett
Reconsidering Place and The Irish Experience
Journal of Urban History 2005 32: 160-168.

reviews 4 books of interest...

Linda Dowling Almeida. Irish Immigrants in New York City, 1945-1995.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2001. Pp. x, 211.

DAVID T. GLEESON, The Irish in the South, 1815-1877 (Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press, 2001).

Timothy Meagher. Inventing Irish America: Generation, Class, and Ethnic
Identity in a New England City, 1880-1928. (The Irish in America.) Notre
Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press. 2001. Pp. xi, 523.

Marilyn Silverman, An Irish Working Class: Explorations in Political Economy
and Hegemony, 1800-1950 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001)

Very favourable comments... 'Gleeson's beautifully written case study...'
'Meagher's finely detailed study...' 'Almeida's valuable study...'
'Silverman's monumental ethographic study...' of Thomastown, Kilkenny -
which is used to comment on class and status re-formation after the Famine.

The theme that Ellen Skerrett has found to link the 4 books is the
importance of place - and photographs. She calls on her own work to show
how photographs can challenge text-based evidence.

Marilyn Silverman, An Irish Working Class is reviewed by Fintan Lane in
Labour/Le Travail ISSUE 50 FALL 2002, available at...
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/llt/50/br_25.html

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Three little Review Essays of over-lapping interest in the latest Journal of
Urban History...

The Finan essay includes a review of Slayton's life of Al Smith...

P.O'S.


Journal of Urban History
November 1 2005, Volume 32, No. 1

Edward T. O'Donnell
The Ethnic Crucible: New York City's Lower East Side and How It Got That
Way
Journal of Urban History 2005 32: 138-146.

Christopher M. Finan
We are All New Yorkers Now
Journal of Urban History 2005 32: 152-159.

Ellen Skerrett
Reconsidering Place and The Irish Experience
Journal of Urban History 2005 32: 160-168.

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The journal Labour/Le Travail is now available at the History Cooperative
site...

Always worth a browse...

For example, very interesting and quite brave historiographic essay by Emmet
O'Connor...

ISSUE 50 FALL 2002
included a series of 3

PRESENTATIONS: LABOUR HISTORY IN OTHER LANDS

Ireland / 243
By Emmet O'Connor
Brazil / 249
By Alexandre Fortes
Australia / 255
By Greg Patmore

Presentations 2: Labour History in Other Lands

Ireland
Emmet O'Connor

EXTRACT BEGINS...

MODERN WRITING IN IRISH LABOUR HISTORY dates from the mid 1970s, years that
saw the foundation of the Irish Labour History Society (ILHS) in 1973, the
launch of its annual journal Saothar in 1975, and the publication of two
surveys that did much to redefine the subject: Arthur Mitchell, Labour in
Irish Politics, 1890-1930 (1974), and Charles McCarthy, Trade Unions in
Ireland, 1894-1960 (1977). Before considering the ILHS and the current state
of labour historiography, it is worth noting four main contextual problems.
1

A Partial Popular Memory

The first problem is what might be called a limited and broken popular
memory of labour history, and a narrow conception of the subject. In the
1970s there was a consensus that Ireland had "little labour history," and
less of any importance. Most people understood "history" to mean political
history; and politically, the left in Ireland was marginal.1 Since
independence, successive generations have been schooled in the nationalist
orthodoxy, which presented the past as a series of struggles against foreign
occupation. Labour intruded into the story in only two respects; the Dublin
lock-out of 1913, and the Easter Rising of 1916, in which James Connolly and
his Citizen Army fought alongside the Irish Volunteers.2 2


Trade Unions and History: A Willful Amnesia?

The impression that labour relapsed into insignificance after 1916 was not
due simply to neglect. Trade unions have been a vibrant feature of Irish
life since the early 20th century. In the Republic, almost 50 per cent of
employees belonged to unions in 2001, a high level of density by European
standards. In Northern Ireland density was 36 per cent, reflecting the more
hostile climate for unions in the United Kingdom. Workers are often aware of
their own trade union's history, but lack a general narrative. One reason
for this is that the contintental European concern with the creation of
research institutes, libraries, museums, and archives, has never been a
serious influence on Irish labour...

EXTRACT ENDS...

FULL TEXT AT...

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I now have more information about Janet Nolan's Grand Tour... three major
speaking engagements around the US this fall/autumn...

The Smurfit Stone Corporation Endowed Professorship in Irish Studies Lecture
for the Center for Irish Studies, University of Missouri-St. Louis on
October 11

The Ernie O'Malley Memorial Lecture at New York University this Thursday,
November 3. See earlier email from Scott Spencer - thank you, Scott...

an invited lecture at Creighton University in Omaha on November 10.

Janet Nolan discusses the attempts by Chicago school authorities in the
early decades of the twentieth century to curtail the efforts made by
largely Irish-American teachers to professionalize. By the early 1930s,
school board efforts plus economic depression had eroded the gains
Irish-American leaders like Margaret Haley and Sr. Justitia Coffey, BVM, had
made in Chicago in terms of securing professional autonomy for the city's
overwhelmingly Irish-American teachers. Title... "'The Nun Who Stopped
Traffic' and the 'Patrick Henry of the Classroom': Justitia Coffey, Margaret
Haley, and Chicago's School Wars."

This will hopefully become an opening chapter of a work in progess, Minds to
Hands: The End of a Golden Age of Teaching, 1920-1935, which will be the
third and final volume in a trilogy on Irish and Irish-American women's
mobility that began with Ourselves Alone: Women's Emigration from Ireland,
1885-1920 (1989) and the recent book, Servants of the Poor: Teachers and
Mobility in Ireland and Irish America, published by Notre Dame UP.

As to the size of Professor Nolan's entourage I have no information...

P.O'S.

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Culture Ireland

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organisations, the funding and facilitation of Irish participation at =
strategic international arts events and the management of emblematic =
cultural events either in Ireland or abroad. It is also expected to =
advise the Minister on international arts and cultural affairs.

Culture Ireland will support artists right across the creative spectrum =
including visual art, theatre, literature, music, dance, opera and film.

Culture Ireland will meet to consider applications 3 times a year at the =
beginning of January, beginning of May and beginning of September. The =
deadline for receipt of applications is the 15th of the previous month.

In all cases, applications must be received at least eight weeks before =
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A former student who is not a member of the list is working on
Irish-Australian diplomatic relations. Quite outside anything I know =
much
about. Neither she nor I have been able find anything published on the
exchange of ambassadors between Ireland and Australia from 1945 to 1975. =
Is
anyone aware of a book or an article on this topic? If so, please let =
me
know and I'll pass it on.

Bill Mulligan

William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of History
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Paddy,

Of course, I have all volumes of: Patrick O'Sullivan, ed., The Irish World
Wide, Leicester University Press, London & Washington First ...and they are
all very well thumbed, but I just can't find O'Donoghue's date of death for
looking...

Jx

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Thomas M. Wilson

Drinking Cultures
Alcohol and Identity
=09
May 2005
304pp
bibliog, index

Hardback
=A355.00
ISBN 1859738680

Paperback
=A318.99
ISBN 1859738737

Berg Publishers

TOC and note on publisher's web site...

http://www.bergpublishers.com/uk/book_page.asp?BKTitle=3DDrinking%20Cultu=
res

Notice especially...
Chapter 3
'Cold Beer, Warm Hearts': Community, Belonging and Desire in Irish Pubs =
in
Berlin
Cliona O'Carroll, National University of Ireland-Cork

See also Laurie Taylor's BBC radio programme...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/thinkingallowed_20050713.shtml

DRINKING CULTURES
Drinking, especially drinking alcohol has been a significant part of
different cultures across the world. From the sake drinking salarymen =
of
Tokyo to the burgundy sipping flaneurs of Paris, alcohol fulfills a wide
range of functions. It has religious, familial, social and political
meaning and it has always played a key role in the production and =
expression
of identity.

Laurie Taylor discovers how the act of consuming or indeed abstaining =
from
alcohol ties in with self-presentation, ethnicity, class and culture =
when he
talks to Tom Wilson, Professor of Anthropology at the Department of
Anthropology, Binghamton University, State University of New York and =
Dick
Hobbs, Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Social
Policy, University of Durham

See also...

Thomas M. Wilson
GLOBALIZATION, DIFFERENTIATION AND DRINKING CULTURES, AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL
PERSPECTIVE

http://www.aofood.org/JournalIssues/03/wilson.pdf

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Just to add a little from the other side to Justin Corfield's helpful
email...

From my own notes...

1.=09
Australia and Ireland, 1788-1988 : bicentenary essays / edited by Colm
Kiernan.
Dublin : Gill and Macmillan, c1986.

Notes: =09
"This book arose out of an international conference, 'Australia and =
Ireland
1788-1988', held in Kilkenny, Ireland, during October 1983"--Pref.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [278]-303) and index.

2.=09
Ireland and Australia / edited by Colm Kiernan.
Dublin : Published in collaboration with Radio Telef=EDs =C9ireann by =
the
Mercier Press, 1984.

Series: =09
Thomas Davis lecture series

Contents: =09
The convicts / by Con Costello -- The settlers / by David Fitzpatrick -- =
The
gold discovery, 1851-1880, and Ireland / by Geoffrey Bolton -- Daniel
Mannix, Ireland, and Australia / by Colm Kiernan -- Ireland, Australia, =
and
the Commonwealth / by Brian Murphy -- The Irish in Australia, 1945-1968 =
/ by
John O'Brien.

3.
Daniel Mannix and Ireland / Colm Kiernan.
by Kiernan, Colm.
Morwell, Vic., Australia : Alella Books ; Dublin : Gill and Macmillan, =
1984.

4.
From the IR-D archive...

Michael Kennedy and Joseph Morrison Skelly (eds) Irish Foreign Policy
1919-1966: From
Independence to Internationalism...

Owen Dudley Edwards review of Kennedy & Skelly, plus their reply are on
the Reviews in History web site...

http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/paper/edwardsOwen.html

http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/paper/skellyJoseph.html


5.
Previously discussed on the IR-D list...

I was struck by a sentence at the end of Gerard Keown, 'The Irish Race
Conference, 1922, reconsidered', in Irish Historical Studies, XXXII,
127, May 2001, p. 376.

'Reflecting on his career as ambassador to Australia in the 1950s,
Timothy Kiernan observed that the most the Irish state should expect of
the diaspora was indifference; anything more would be a bonus.'

The source is given as T.J. Kiernan, 'On representing Ireland abroad',
_Administration_, ii, 3 (Autumn 1954), p. 31.


6.
And a good place to look is in the journal, Administration...

Administration
Institute of Public Administration
1953-
Dublin=20

http://www.ipa.ie/?id=3D62&categoryID=3D11&sc=3D1

'Administration is the quarterly journal of the Institute of Public
Administration. It has a circulation of approximately 2,500. Because it =
is
the only learned journal dealing exclusively with the Irish public =
sector,
it is an important source for all students of Irish affairs. Fifteen per
cent of subscribers are outside Ireland: university libraries and those =
with
a special interest in Irish studies. Its authors are usually senior =
public
officials and Irish academics...'

Irish public servants have been quietly letting their hair down within =
the
pages of Administration for over half a century...

P.O'S.


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Subject: FW: Wild Irish Girls - Call for Papers

Call for Papers

'Wild Irish Girls': A bicentenary conference to mark the publication of
Sydney Owenson's (Lady Morgan) The Wild Irish Girl and Maria Edgeworth's
Leonora

Keynote speakers: James Chandler (University of Chicago) and Claire Connolly
(Cardiff University)

To commemorate the publication of these texts in 1806, proposals are invited
for papers for a conference to be held on the 20th and 21st of July 2006.
The event will be take place at Chawton House Library (note: it is near
Southhampton) the centre for the study of early women's writing, which holds
first editions of both novels, as well as many other editions of works by
Edgeworth and Owenson. It is jointly organised by Chawton House Library and
the English Department at the University of Southampton.

In light of increasing interest in both these writers' works, and in the
rise of the national novel more generally, this timely conference seeks to
unite scholars working on any aspect of Edgeworth or Owenson's writing.
Paper and panel proposals (for presentations of no more than 20 minutes) are
therefore invited and should be sent for the attention of Emma Clery,
Gillian Dow and Sandy White at the following email address -
sw17[at]soton.ac.uk or by post to Sandy White: English Discipline, School of
Humanities, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK.


Please note deadline for abstracts: 13th of February 2006

Chawton House Library
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A list of Ambassadors (from Ireland to Australia and vice-versa) can be com=
piled from Who's Who in Australia - it will involve looking at each volume =
but it is not as tedious as it sounds because it was not an annual publicat=
ion until 1988. An alternative way of searching is through the Vatican year=
book because Australian Ambassadors to Ireland are usually accredited to th=
e Holy See.

As to books on Australian Foreign Policy, the standard work is 'Australia's=
Foreign Relations' by Gareth Evans and Bruce Grant - but it has only one r=
eference to Ireland in it !=20=20

The next best reference is Australian Outlook (magazine) which covers Austr=
alian foreign policy. They should have some articles on A-Irish relations.

I assume (from the dates covered) that your student will be well-versed wit=
h the appointment of Vince Gair. There are some books on his appointment as=
Australia's ambassador - there is a biography of him by Frank Mines, "Gair=
" (Canberra, 1975), and a booklet "From the 'Gair affair' to double dissolu=
tion" published by The Age. During his appointment there is bound to be cov=
erage of the history of Australian-Irish relations in The Bulletin (Austral=
ia's weekly political magazine).

With best wishes,

Justin Corfield
Geelong, Australia


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Dear Bill,

There are articles about Irish-Australian diplomatic and political
relations in various of the volumes produced by the Irish-Australian
conference series, which began in 1980. I don't have all the books to
hand, but, for instance, there's:

Noel Quirke on Australia's reaction to the declaration of the
Republic, in O. MacDonagh & W. Mandle (eds), Irish-Australian
Studies, Canberra, 1989 (papers of the 5th conference)

Also Patrick O'Farrell wrote a bit on the subject. See:
P.O'Farrell, 'Irish-Australian Diplomatic Relations', Quadrant, 24:3 (1980);
and he discusses many of the post-war ambassadors in his, The Irish
in Australia, Sydney, 3rd ed. 2000. I think O'Farrell knew all the
ones appointed from about 1960 onwards and was friends with several.

See also:
B. Murphy, 'Ireland, Australia and the Commonwealth' in Colm Kiernan
(ed), Ireland and Australia, 1788-1988, Dublin, 1986, pp 267-77; and
in the same book there's an article by John O'Brien on Australia and
the repeal of the External Relations Act, 1948, pp 252-66.

T.J. Kiernan, who was appointed Irish ambassador to Australia in
1946, later wrote a book about the Irish convicts: Irish Exiles in
Australia, Melbourne, 1954. I believe Colm Kiernan is his son.

Australian ambassadors to Ireland have on occasion been
controversial, sometimes being professional diplomats and sometimes
ex-politicians of Irish descent and dubious reputations. The
appointment in 1974 of Senator Vince Gair by Gough Whitlam as
ambassador to Ireland was highly political and produced a storm of
protest. It would be covered in books about the Whitlam government
and its dismissal in 1975.

I am not aware of a book on Irish-Australian diplomatic relations,
but there are certainly a number of articles scattered around and I
suspect there are also probably theses in this country. If anything
else comes to mind, I'll let you know.

Best wishes,

Elizabeth


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This review will soon appear in the New Hibernia Review. It appears here on
the Irish Diaspora list with the permission of the editor and the publisher
of NHR, and with the permission of its writer, William H. Mulligan, Jr.

Our thanks.

P.O'S.



Review for New Hibernia Review - forthcoming.
By
William H. Mulligan, Jr.

Servants of the Poor: Teachers and Mobility in Ireland and Irish America, by
Janet Nolan, pp. 191. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004.
$45 cloth, $18 paper.

Janet Nolan's Servants of the Poor is a significant addition to the
growing literature on the important role women played in Irish assimilation
and social mobility in the United States and an important contribution to
the history of women in Ireland as well.

Professor Nolan, and others, has made the important point that women's
experiences need to be included centrally in the study of the Irish Catholic
experience in America be-fore, but it is good to have this important point
brought, once again, to the fore in such an effective way. Nolan's work on
Irish American women public school teachers offers a great deal of
information both on women's lives and on the dynamics of the assimilation of
the Irish. Focusing on the experience of Irish women as National School
teachers in Ireland and in three cities with significant Irish populations -
Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco -- she is able to develop a series of
in-depth accounts that support her interpretation well.

Her thesis, that women, especially those who became public school teachers,
played a critical role in the movement of Irish Catholics into the American
middle class is a provocative one in the sense that it offers an agenda for
research for other scholars as well as shaping this book. I say that as
high praise - to suggest a broad area for future research and show clearly
its potential benefit is a major accomplishment. Nolan also, significantly,
argues persuasively for shifting the focus of investigation from male
education, employment, and career paths to those of Irish immigrant females
when studying mobility in both Ireland and the United States. Another very
important aspect of this book is that Nolan has looked at the experience of
women as National School teachers in Ireland, as well as in the United
States. She does a very good job of establishing that teaching school was
an avenue of upward mobility open to, and used by, women in Ire-land prior
to emigration to the United States both. In fact, she demonstrates quite
effectively that individuals who began preparing to be National School
teachers in Ireland sometimes pursued the same career in the United States,
or that their daughters did. Historians have not frequently explored the
continuities between emigrants' experiences in Ireland and in their new
homes in the United States. Nolan demonstrates the great value in doing just
that. Nolan has studied the Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco public
school districts in considerable depth and does a good job of showing the
significance of Irish American women in the development of those school
districts and how the opportunities available to women as schoolteachers
affected the Irish in those three important communities.

The narrative Nolan develops and the evidence provided is very supportive of
her thesis, but somewhat limited because only three United States
communities are studied. The evidence presented, however, is so powerful
that this is more a challenge for others to follow up on than a real
weakness. I hope other scholars will do so.

As in her earlier book, Ourselves Alone: Women's Emigration from Ireland
1885-1920 Professor Nolan brings significant personal connection and
commitment to her work. As the daughter of Irish American teachers and a
former secondary school teacher herself, Nolan brings special insight and
experience to her research which enriches this book.

One small point regarding the title, I am not sure that 'servants of the
poor' accurately describes the work of the teachers discussed in the book.
When one takes into ac-count the literature on high school attendance during
the period covered, especially the early years, it may be more accurate to
describe these women as servants of other young women who aspired to upward
mobility and middle class status. In no way does that di-minish the
importance or the contribution Servants of the Poor makes. This is an
impor-tant contribution to the literature on women in Irlenad and on the
role women played in Irish social mobility in the United States.

William H. Mulligan, Jr.

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Katherine has also sent out a little A4 poster, as an attachment. If you
want this, contact me - or Katherine...

I have to say - in my experience of researching Irish women, they have to be
hunted or coaxed, one by one...

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Research on Maternity Experiences of UK-born Women from Ethnic Minorities

. Have you recently given birth?
. Are you of Irish descent?
. Were you born in the UK?


If yes, we would like to ask you to help us with a research study.

The study is being done to find out the needs and experiences of first-time
mothers from
different ethnic groups including Irish women who were born in the UK. The
information collected will be used to help maternity services respond to the
needs and wishes of mothers from all ethnic backgrounds.

The research process involves taking part in a group discussion or an
individual interview,
likely to last about an hour and a half. Discussions and interviews with
women will normally
happen 12-14 weeks after delivery, at a convenient local venue with
facilities for you and
your baby, or another place of convenience to you, where you can give your
views in
private. During discussions and interviews we shall tape record and take
notes, but we will
not identify any individual person's views in any way in our reports on the
discussions. We will reimburse standard expenses incurred in taking part in
the study.


If you are interested in taking part or require more information:

Call Katherine on 020 7040 5314

or email at Katherine.twamley.1[at]city.ac.uk

City University, St Bartholomew School of Nursing and Midwifery,
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'From motives of generosity, as well as self-preservation': Thomas
Branagan, Colonization, and the Gradual Emancipation Movement

Author: Tomek, Beverly

Source: American Nineteenth Century History, Volume 6, Number 2, June 2005,
pp. 121-147(27)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group


Abstract:
The idea of colonizing free blacks in areas distant from white settlement
has had a long history in the American antislavery movement. A decade before
the American Colonization Society formed in 1817, an Irish immigrant in
Philadelphia, Thomas Branagan, argued that creating a black settlement in
the newly-acquired Louisiana Purchase territories would encourage
slaveholders to emancipate their bondspersons while also saving white
society from a number of ills he associated with a biracial society, most
notably racial mixing, poverty and violence. Branagan's plan never gained
acceptance, but the idea of sending free blacks to the American West to
encourage emancipation did catch the attention of gradual emancipationists
associated with the American Convention of Abolitionists. This group
considered a similar scheme as the lesser of two evils once the Colonization
Society began its campaign to send America's blacks "back" to Africa.
Neither plan met with success, but their existence reveals an important link
between colonization and the early antislavery movement.

Keywords: colonization; gradual emancipation; abolition; free blacks;
Philadelphia; Thomas Branagan

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/14664650500314505

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The movement for the higher education of women in Ireland: gender equality
or denominational rivalry?

Author: Harford, Judith1

Source: History of Education, Volume 34, Number 5, September 2005, pp.
497-516(20)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:
The movement for the higher education of women in Ireland in the nineteenth
century has traditionally been viewed as a Protestant initiative.
Scholarship suggests that the Irish campaign developed along the same lines
as the English movement, gaining from and growing out of the English
advances. Leading Protestant schools for girls have been viewed as the
driving force behind the concessions afforded Irish women. This paper
challenges this assumption, suggesting that contemporaneous developments in
Ireland were driven not by neighbouring reforms but by denominational
tensions. The role played by the Catholic teaching orders during the
nineteenth century cannot be overlooked. Although initially conservative in
their approach to educational provision for girls, the Catholic teaching
orders - the Dominican, Loreto and Ursuline orders in particular - were key
players and stakeholders in women's higher education in the latter half of
the nineteenth century. This paper explores the objectives of the pioneers
of Protestant and Catholic female education, examining the relative
influence of the Church of Ireland and the Catholic Church. It explores the
possibility that the movement for the higher education of Irish women found
its impetus not in gender equality, but in denominational rivalry.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/00467600500220713

Affiliations: 1: Education Department, University College Dublin, Belfield,
Dublin 4

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The Irish drinking habits of 2002-Drinking and dr inking-related
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The Irish drinking habits of 2002-Drinking and drinking-related harm in a
European comparative perspective

Authors: Ramstedt, Mats1; Hope, Ann2

Source: Journal of Substance Use, 01Oct2005 , vol. 10, no. 5, pp.
273-283(11)

Publisher: Taylor & Francis


Abstract:
Aims : To examine drinking habits and experiences of adverse consequences of
drinking among men and women in Ireland 2002 and to compare some results
with earlier European studies using similar data and methods.

Methods : Data on self-reported drinking habits and experiences of
alcohol-related problems were obtained from a general population survey
undertaken in 2002. Two approaches were used: (1) cross-tabulations of
drinking habits and the experience of adverse consequences in various
demographic groups (2) logistic regressions predicting the likelihood of
experiencing problems.

Results : Self-reported alcohol consumption confirms statistics on alcohol
sales; a lot of alcohol is consumed in Ireland today despite a large
fraction of abstainers in the population. Binge drinking is very common,
and, out of 100 drinking events, 58 end up in binge drinking for men and 30
for women. Irish drinkers also experience harmful drinking-related
consequences to a larger extent than in other western European countries.
Both volume of drinking and binge drinking affect the likelihood of
experiencing most alcohol-related harms. Conclusions : Drinkers in Ireland
drink more than in other western European countries and many have risky
drinking habits that lead to adverse consequences. It will be an important
challenge to find preventive measures that can reduce these problems in
Ireland.

Keywords: Drinking habits; alcohol-related problems; Ireland

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/14659890412331319443

Affiliations: 1: Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs (SoRAD),
Stockholm University, Sweden 2: National Alcohol Policy Advisor, Department
of Health and Children, Dublin, Ireland

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I am unaware of anyone engaged in research on diplomatic relations between Ireland and Australia..I believe that it would be a fruitful area of research.

Prof Jarlath Ronayne
Hon Consul for Ireland in Victoria

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Departures of the Forgotten Bishop: Thomas Franci s Brennan
(1855-1916) of Dallas and St. John's
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I noticed this article in Volume 71 (2004) of the Canadian Catholic
Historical Association's journal, Historical Studies.

John FitzGerald
"Departures of the Forgotten Bishop: Thomas Francis Brennan (1855-1916) of
Dallas and St. John's"

OPENING PARAGRAPH...
'Virtually unknown to Canadian and American Catholic historiography, at age
thirty-seven Thomas Francis Brennan was a highly acclaimed choice to be the
first Bishop of Dallas, Texas. Not long afterward, he subsequently was
appointed Auxiliary Bishop of St. John's, Newfoundland, but without right of
future succession. Until now, the reasons for his short episcopal career
have remained somewhat of a mystery. This essay provides a preliminary
examination of Brennan's life and career in Dallas. It explores the reasons
for his sudden departure from Dallas and his unlikely appointment to St.
John's. It seeks to cast light on the state of Newfoundland Catholicism in
the early 1890s, and examine the Vatican's responses to what became an
embarrassing...'

There is an entry on Brennan in the Handbook of Texas Online at
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/BB/fbr42.html

P.O'S.

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

Migrant Children: Children' and young people' experiences of immigration and
integration in contemporary Irish society;

A Marie Curie Excellence Team project, Department of Geography, University
College Cork

Three postdoctoral research posts available

Duration: April 2006-September 2009 (42 months)

Salary: 40,440 per annum (plus EU mobility allowances where applicable)

Three postdoctoral researchers are sought to work as part of a team in the
Department of Geography UCC, on a Marie Curie funded research programme
exploring the immigration and integration experiences of children and young
people in contemporary Ireland. Each researcher will have responsibility for
designing and conducting a research project which will contribute to the
overall coherence of the programme as a whole. The methodology will be
primarily qualitative, with particular emphasis on child-centred
methodological approaches. The research team will be interdisciplinary and
international. The likely structure is that Post A will focus on
children/young people in African/refugee/asylum-seeker migrant communities
in Ireland, Post B on migrant children/young people from eastern Europe and
Post C on migrant children/young people from other parts of the world (eg.,
Chinese, Philipinne, Indian, Brazilian, or others).

All three successful candidates will have a PhD or a minimum of four years
full-time postgraduate research experience, and will have experience in
conducting research on migration/ethnicity/migrant communities, and/or
childhood/youth studies. They will have the ability to design and manage
their own research projects, while working within a team. Appropriate
language skills and empirical research skills would be an advantage.

Nationals of EU Member States and Associated States are eligible to apply.
Non-EU (or non-Associated State) nationals can apply, but a maximum of one
post can be filled be a non-EU (or Associated State) national.

Application by way of CV, cover letter and one/two page outline research
proposal to:

Dr. Caitriona Ni Laoire, Department of Geography, University College Cork,
Ireland. c.nilaoire[at]ucc.ie / Tel: + 353 21 4903656, including the names and
email addresses of three academic referees. Informal enquiries to same.

Please specify for which post(s) you are applying.

Further details:
http://hr.ucc.ie/docs/Marie_Curie_Posts_further_info.docGeography.doc

Closing date for applications: 18th November 2005