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European ethnic scripts and the translation and switching of jokes
Author(s): Christie Davies1

Humor - International Journal of Humor Research

Print ISSN: 0933-1719 | Electronic ISSN: 1613-3722
Volume: 18 | Issue: 2
Cover date: June 2005
Page(s): 147-160


Keywords

French, Jews, jokes, scripts, Swiss, translation, Welsh

Abstract text

Many European jokes depend on local ethnic scripts that by convention pin a
comic characteristic on a particular ethnic group such as the canny Cardi in
Wales, the slow Swiss in France, the stupid Belgian incessantly eating
freedom fries in the Netherlands. How are such jokes to be translated into
the language of another country with a different culture and comic
conventions? Sometimes it is straightforward because similar jokes about the
same group exist throughout Europe as with, say, jokes about cowardly
Italians. In other cases there exists a similar set of jokes told about a
local group so that, say, British jokes about the stupid Irish can easily be
turned into jokes about Belgians, Ostfrieslanders, Gallegos, Pontians in the
appropriate country. Problems arise only if a script is unique to one group
or country, in which case the device of indirect explanation by internal
conversation is used. One of the people in the joke reveals to another the
nature of the script on which the joke depends, and thus the joke teller
conveys the information to his audience without appearing didactic or giving
too much away. It is fairly easy to convey implicit cultural assumptions in
this way, far easier than it is translate a complex play on words. Language
is far more idiosyncratic and arbitrary than culture.

Author(s): Christie Davies1

Author(s) affiliations

1. University of Reading.
Correspondence address: J.c.h.Davies[at]rdg.ac.uk

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Literary and Linguistic Computing Advance Access published online on April
13, 2005
Literary and Linguistic Computing, doi:10.1093/llc/fqh050

C The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of ALLC
and ACH. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email:
journals.permissions[at]oupjournals.org

Original Papers

Digitizing a Dictionary of Medieval Irish: the eDIL Project
Maxim Fomin 1 and Gregory Toner 1*

1 Centre for Irish and Celtic Studies, University of Ulster

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Gregory Toner, E-mail: gj.toner[at]ulster.ac.uk

Abstract

The Centre for Irish and Celtic Studies at the University of Ulster is
currently producing a digital dictionary of medieval Irish (eDIL) based on
the standard Dictionary of the Irish Language published by the Royal Irish
Academy, Dublin. This paper addresses some of the problems encountered in
the digitization process, including data capture, processing non-standard
characters, modifications to the TEI guidelines, automatic generation of
tags, and the establishment of a lexical view while preserving the original
format of the paper dictionary.

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Journal of Design History 2001 14(3):167-186; doi:10.1093/jdh/14.3.167
C 2001 by Design History Society

Rags and rushes: Art and the Irish artefact, c. 1900
C Kinmonth

Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College

This paper examines aspects of the lives and material culture of the Irish
peasantry between 1880 and 1920. Within an interdisciplinary framework,
based on a foundation of work on Irish vernacular furniture, it combines a
variety of sources from art history, photography, ethnography and travel
writing to postcards and poetry. The relative reliability of evidence from
foreign visitors versus the native Irish is assessed. Areas of social and
material culture, such as the 'stage Irishman', racism, why women didn't
wear shoes, why boys were dressed as girls and the pre-arrangement of rural
marriage, become touchstones for the analysis of myths and realities
perpetuated through contemporary sources.

Key Words: Ireland; vernacular; furniture; dress; postcards; marriage,
arranged

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*Call For Papers*

*Canadian Association for Irish Studies /**Association canadienne =
d=92=E9tudes
irlandaises***

The /Canadian Association for Irish Studies (CAIS) /invites proposals =
for
presentations of twenty minutes in length =96 as well as full panel
discussions =96 for its annual conference, to be held this year at the
University of Ottawa from June 14-17, 2006. The theme of the CAIS =
conference
this year is =93*Urban Ireland.=94 *Possible topics, very broadly =
defined,
include (but are not limited to):

-- literary and visual representations of Irish cities
-- representations of city life in mass media
-- the role of specifically /urban /concerns in shaping /national/ =
policy or
culture
-- Canadian comparisons: Dublin/Ottawa, Galway/Vancouver, =
Derry/Iqualuit,
etc.
-- immigration and its impact on urban planning, or on urban culture
-- discussions of the rural/urban divide
-- historical accounts of the changing nature of Irish cities
-- cultural geographies of Irish cityscapes
-- discussion of architectural history, or of the future of Irish urban
architecture

The deadline for paper proposals is 15 January 15 2006. Paper proposals
should be 250-500 words in length, in English or French, and sent either
electronically or by post to:

Jerry White
President, Canadian Association for Irish Studies Department of English =
and
Film Studies
3-5 Humanities Centre
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E5
Canada

Phone: 780.492.0121 Fax: 780.492.8142
Email: Jerry.White[at]ualberta.ca

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I have received a grant from one of Murray State's teaching improvement
programs to bring speakers to campus who have written about the Diaspora =
--
and whose works will be included in the course. There is not enough =
money
to bring people in from far away - and Murray is far away from many =
places
-- but if any list member will be in the middle of the US and is =
interested,
please let me know. We can offer hospitality, lodging, and good =
company.
Edmundo Murray was here in the fall and, I hope, can vouch for all of =
that.
I am still hearing positive comments from those who attended his
presentation here.=20

If anyone is planning to attend the ACIS meeting in St. Louis -- we are
about 3 hours from St. Louis and I am sure we can work out =
transportation.=20

Bill Mulligan

William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of History
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA=20
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Let me add - there is funding for travel costs and an honorarium within the
budget.


Bill Mulligan

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

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International Journal of Drug Policy
Article in Press, Corrected Proof

doi:10.1016/j.drugpo.2005.07.002
Copyright C 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

'An Irish solution to an Irish problem': Harm reduction and ambiguity in the
drug policy of the Republic of Ireland

Shane Butler a, Corresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The
Corresponding Author and Paula Mayockb

aAddiction Research Centre, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
bChildren's Research Centre, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

Received 12 July 2005; accepted 17 July 2005. Available online 16 November
2005.


Abstract

While policy makers in the Republic of Ireland had been concerned with
illicit drug use since the late-1960s, it was only from 1980 onwards that
the emergence of a culture of intravenous heroin use in areas of generalised
social deprivation in Dublin gave urgency to this policy process. This paper
traces the gradual introduction, on public health grounds, of harm reduction
practices and services - such as methadone maintenance, needle exchange and
the creation of outreach and locally-based services - following the
identification in the mid-1980s of needle-sharing amongst injecting drug
users as one of the key routes for the transmission of HIV in this country.
It is argued that harm reduction in the Republic of Ireland has been largely
implicit, in the sense that political leaders have generally not encouraged
or participated in explicit public debate on this topic, nor have they ever
publicly announced that this concept now underpins much of the healthcare
system's responses to illicit drug use. It is also argued that this covert
style of policy making has persisted, despite the more recent proliferation
of formal policy-making structures and the dominance of a rhetoric which
emphasises strategic management and the allegedly transparent and
evidence-based nature of drug policy. This tactic of shrouding drug policy
in ambiguity is discussed in the context of the wider tendency within Irish
political culture to manage sensitive and potentially divisive social issues
in such a manner. It is concluded that the ambiguity which surrounds harm
reduction in Ireland has been functional in that it has confused and
frustrated ideological opponents of this concept, but dysfunctional in that
it has not facilitated the emergence of more tolerant or respectful
attitudes towards drug users and may have delayed the introduction of a
wider range of harm reduction practices.

Keywords: Harm reduction; Ambiguity; Roman Catholic Church and Irish Social
Policy; Strategic management


Corresponding Author Contact InformationCorresponding author. Present
address: Department of Social Studies, Trinity College, Arts Building,
Dublin 2, Ireland. Tel.: +353 1 608 2009; fax: +353 1 671 2262.

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From: Barbara Taylor
Subject: symposia
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:23:14 -0000

Conversations and Disputations: Discussions among Historians

A series of public discussions sponsored by the Institute of Historical
Research, University of London, and the Raphael Samuel History Centre,
University of East London.

THE MOVEMENT OF PEOPLES
17th to 21st century

3 FEBRUARY 2006. 4:30 to 7:30 pm
Capitalism and Migration Histories.
Speakers:
Tom Holt (University of Chicago); Saskia Sassen (University of Chicago);
Enda Delaney (University of Aberdeen)

Venue: Wolfson Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet
St, London WC2.

9 JUNE 2006. 4:30 to 7 pm.
Migration and the State.
Speakers:
David Feldman (Birkbeck College); Mary Hickman (London Metropolitan
University); Andrew Geddes (University of Liverpool); David Glover
(University of Southampton).

Venue: Room 269 Senate House (Stewart House), University of London, Malet
St, London WC2.

20 OCTOBER 2006. 4:30 to 7 pm.
Asylum Histories.
Speakers:
Liza Schuster (Compass, Oxford); Anita F=E1bos (Refugee Studies, Universit=
y
of East London); Peter Fitzpatrick (Birkbeck College); Stephen Castles
(Refugees Study Centre, Oxford).

Venue: Wolfson Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet
St, London WC2.

All symposia open to all, free of charge. No advance booking required. For
further information, email b.taylor[at]uel.ac.uk


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Murray State University

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Call for papers/abstracts:

2006 annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of
Socio-Economics (SASE)
to be held on June 30-July 2, 2006 in Trier, Germany.

The Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration network invites paper/abstract
submissions to next year's SASE meeting. The theme for 2006 is
"Constituting Globalization: Actors, Arenas, and Outcomes," and the
deadline is January 15, 2006. You will find instructions on how to
propose a session or paper on the website, www.sase.org, as well as a
description of the Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration network under the
"research networks" link. Please also feel free to circulate the call
for papers to your colleagues and graduate students.

SASE meetings are unique and satisfying in many ways. They attract a
high level of scholarship in close settings that encourage substantive
interaction across disciplines. They are very international meetings,
which provide great opportunities to meet other scholars from around the
world. Whether you are a regular participant or have never been to a
SASE meeting, please consider this invitation to next year's meeting in
the wonderful small city of Trier (the oldest city in Germany) near
Luxembourg. See http://www.trier.de/

Tentative panels for next year include themes such as multiculturalism,
migration in southern Europe, and migration and human rights. For more
information, contact Maritsa Poros at poros[at]iit.edu.

Maritsa V. Poros
Assistant Professor
Department of Social Sciences
Illinois Institute of Technology
3301 S. Dearborn Street
Chicago, IL 60616
USA
312 567 7985
poros[at]iit.edu


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Murray State University

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Yes, I was treated like fighting cocks, and I was delighted to meet
Bill's place and his fantastic team of colleagues.

Edmundo Murray

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I have received a grant from one of Murray State's teaching improvement
programs to bring speakers to campus who have written about the Diaspora
-- and whose works will be included in the course. There is not enough
money to bring people in from far away - and Murray is far away from
many places
-- but if any list member will be in the middle of the US and is
interested, please let me know. We can offer hospitality, lodging, and
good company. Edmundo Murray was here in the fall and, I hope, can vouch
for all of that. I am still hearing positive comments from those who
attended his presentation here.=20

If anyone is planning to attend the ACIS meeting in St. Louis -- we are
about 3 hours from St. Louis and I am sure we can work out
transportation.=20

Bill Mulligan

William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of History
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA=20
=20
=20

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The attached link from yesterday's Guardian provides extremely
interesting insights into the current dispute and the motivation of
management at Irish Ferries; what amounts to very poorly paid slave
labour.

=20

http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1655146,00.html

=20

Dr. Steven McCabe

Faculty of Law, Humanities, Development and Society=20

University of Central England

B42 2SU

Tel 0121 331 5178

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Crosscurrents: Irish and Scottish Studies Postgraduate Conference
7th-9th April, 2005.
Queen's University, Belfast
Contact: Caroline Magennis and Eadaoin Agnew

The 5th Crosscurrents conference for postgraduate students and doctoral
fellows takes place at Queen's University, Belfast from 7th-9th April,
2006.

This conference will be held at the Institute of Irish Studies , in conjunction with the School of English:

The disciplines covered in this conference are Literature, Linguistics,
History, Film Studies and the Visual Arts, and Celtic Studies. 20-minute
papers and panels are welcome on a range of topics, including:

Identities - The Politics of the Diaspora - Spatial Tensions - The
Literatures of Ireland and Scotland - Irish/Scottish Studies in the New
Millennium - Ireland/Scotland in Theory - The Postmodern Construction of =
the
Nation

Abstracts of approximately 250 words are due by Friday 20th January and
should be emailed to: crosscurrents[at]hotmail.co.uk

There is no conference fee and delegates who are giving papers will have
accommodation in Belfast for the duration of the conference.

Proceedings of the first two conferences are available from Cl=F3 =
Ollscoil na
Banr=EDona (Queen's University Press). The proceedings for the last two
conferences is also forthcoming from this press:
http://www.bslcp.com/vol12/index.html

CFP
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Once again it is the time of year when we note - and celebrate - the
anniversary of the starting of the Irish Diaspora list.

After a few test messages my first formal message to the IR-D list referred
to the planetary alignment of December 1997 - then visible from our front
door and the front attic window...

We now have over 8 years of Irish Diaspora list discussion stored in our
database, codename DIRDA, in the Special Access area of
www.irishdiaspora.net
and backed up in various places...

Last year I noted that we had moved www.irishdiaspora.net to a commercial
host. Sadly this proved not as stable as I had hoped. The commercial host
began to make what I thought were unreasonable demands. In the background
there is a problem of time and money...

We are now again nesting under the capacious wing of Dr. Stephen Sobol and
his colleagues. See...
http://www.sobolstones.com/
If you look at the DMASC section you will see some of the ways in which we,
in turn, have been useful to Stephen Sobol...
http://www.dmasc.com/

As ever, our thanks to Stephen...

Last year I reported on the successful move of the the day to day email
management of the Irish Diaspora list to the Listserv software, at
Jiscmail...
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/

For background see...
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/

IR-D list members can manage their own membership through the Jiscmail web
page, or through email instructions.

Note that Jiscmail now automatically creates its own Irish Diaspora list
archive, accessible to members - so recent IR-D
messages are stored there, as well as in DIRDA at irishdiaspora.net. I tend
to use the DIRDA database when I need a 8 year overview of discussion about
a theme or topic.

Do note that, with the set-ups at www.irishdiaspora.net and at Jiscmail,
volunteers from any part of the world can be involved in the running of the
Irish Diaspora list and our web site.

On that note I want to especially thank Bill Mulligan for all his help
during the past year.

Paddy O'Sullivan


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The following message, pasted in below, has been placed on
www.irishdiaspora.net in the 'Teaching the Irish Diaspora' folder...

This Special Essay by Kevin Kenny has become important in the teaching of
Irish Diaspora Studies and has been much cited. And it seemed important to
us that it become more easily available.

Our thanks to Kevin, and to the Journal of American History.

P.O'S.


Kevin Kenny, Special Essay, Diaspora and Comparison
Patrick O'Sullivan

Journal of American History
June 2003
Volume 90, No. 1

Kevin Kenny
Special Essay
Diaspora and Comparison: The Global Irish as a Case Study

ABSTRACT
How do immigration and ethnicity fit into the recent efforts of American
historians to write transnational history? Surveying studies of Irish
immigration, Kevin Kenny evaluates current scholarly efforts to put
migration in global context. Diasporic approaches examine the movement of
people, capital, and ideas across national and regional boundaries, and they
highlight reciprocal interactions and a common sensibility in a globally
scattered population. But the concept of diaspora obscures the emergence in
countries of settlement of nationally specific ethnicities that
differentiate an ostensibly unitary people, be they Irish, Italian, or
African. Understanding American immigration and ethnicity in global context
thus requires a powerful and flexible framework of inquiry that combines
both cross-national comparison and diasporic history.

NOTE
With the permission, and through the kindness, of...

Journal of American History
http://www.indiana.edu/~jah/

Kevin Kenny's Special Essay
Diaspora and Comparison: The Global Irish as a Case Study
is now available to all irishdiaspora.net users at the following URL:

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Call for Papers

VI International Conference of

The Spanish Association for Irish Studies (AEDEI)

University of Valladolid (Spain)

25-27 May 2006

=20
Imaginary/Real Ireland

The theme of the 2006 AEDEI Conference is Imaginary/Real Ireland. Few =
places
have been imagined and dreamed of as Ireland has. Ireland's =
multi-faceted,
shifting reality down through history can be viewed from a variety of
angles: the magical and visionary traditions, the nostalgic Ireland(s) =
of
the diasporic memory, the sense of bilocation derived from imagined/real
frontiers, the post-colonial reversal of stereotypical roles or the
preference of story-telling to history. Where does the real Ireland lie
hidden in the new hybrid, multicultural Irish society, both north and =
south
of the Border? Is there a real Ireland at all? Contributions are invited =
to
explore these two separate yet intermixed levels of the real and the
imaginary in Ireland from an interdisciplinary point of view, involving =
the
social sciences, the media, the visual arts, music, history or literary =
and
film studies.

Official language: English is the official language of the Conference, =
but
papers in Spanish will also be accepted.

Length: Papers should not exceed 2,500-3,000 words / 20 minutes=92 =
delivery.

Publication: Complete texts must be submitted before the conference. Two
hard copies of your contribution =97which must conform to the AEDEI =
style
sheet (http://aedei.en.eresmas.com/aedei1024/home.htm)=97 and a disk in =
Word
format should be sent to the address below. A selection of papers will =
be
considered for publication.

Please send your paper proposal (300-500 words) as a Word attachment to
aedei06[at]fyl.uva.es by 10 February 2006.

Looking forward to seeing you in Valladolid,

Mar=EDa Jos=E9 Carrera de la Red

On behalf of the Organizing Committee

VI International Conference of AEDEI
Departamento de Filolog=EDa Inglesa
Fac. Filosof=EDa y Letras, Universidad de Valladolid
Plaza del Campus s/n
47011 Valladolid
Spain

Fax: +34 983 423774 Tel.: +34 983 423000 # 6746

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Dear Members,
I'd like to take this opportunity (the anniversary of the Irish Diaspora list) to send this message of many thanks to all of you who answered my queries during the last few years and to Patrick O'Sullivan for all the time and effort he puts into the running of the list. I recently completed my PhD on the Irish in Britain based at the University of Le Havre, France. It was wonderful to be able to be kept up-to-date with debates and developments in the area of Irish Studies during my PhD and to be able to call on you all whenever I needed help. I think the Irish Diaspora list is invaluable, especially for 'young' researchers.
I would also like to give a special thanks to a few very generous academics who are part of this list and who have been major contributors to the completion of my PhD : Piaras MacEinri, Bronwen Walter and Sarah Morgan. Not forgetting all the help that I got from Tony Murray at the Irish in Britain archives and Mary Hickman who gave me access to documents which were crucial for my research.
Thank you to you all and wishing you a very happy Christmas,
Grainne O'Keeffe

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The weekly magazine New Scientist last week had a 2 page spread on Science
in Ireland - linked of course to some pages of job adverts.

There is some material on the web site...

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18825282.100

From issue 2528 of New Scientist magazine, 03 December 2005, page 59.

But that does not do justice to the 2 pages in the magazine - a real
impression of priorities chosen...

P.O'S.

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A number of IR-D members will find interesting these new articles, freely
available on the web journals...

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E-Keltoi: journal of interdisciplinary Celtic studies
Vol. 6: The Celts in the Iberian Peninsula

~ Garcia Quintela, Marco V. "Celtic elements in northwestern
Spain in pre-Roman times." In: E-Keltoi 6 (August 10, 2005):
pp. 497-569.
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~ Gamito, Teresa Judice. "The Celts in Portugal." In: E-Keltoi
6 (September 10, 2005): pp. 571-605.
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~ Olivares Pedreno, Juan Carlos. "Celtic gods of the Iberian
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North American journal of Welsh studies
Vol. 5.2 (Summer 2005) [Published in Fall 2005]

~ Martell, Owen. "from, The Other Man."
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~ Matthews, Gethin. "Gold fever: the stampede from South
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Also of interest...

University of Sussex journal of contemporary history
URL: http://www.history-journals.de/articles/hjg-eartic-j00019.html

~ Graham-Dixon, Francis. "The albatross of the past: Colley's
Britons and early twenty-first century Britain."
Full-Text:
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/history/documents/9._grahamdixon._the_albatross.pdf

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When Paddy Met Geordie: The Irish in County Durham and Newcastle
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Our attention has been drawn to 2 new books from the Sunderland =
University
Press...

Many IR-D members will remember Roger Cooter's excellent unpublished =
thesis
on the Irish in County Durham and Newcastle. It has finally been =
published.
The text has not been updated; it has been left as a classic statement =
of
the early 1970s scholarship, thus giving new scholars access to this
important study of the Irish in the NE of England.

Don MacRaild has written a foreword to connect Cooter's work to to more
recent scholarship.

I don't know who chose the title...

P.O'S.


When Paddy Met Geordie: The Irish in County Durham and Newcastle =
1840-1880 -
New Release
By Roger Cooter

North East England was the fourth largest centre of Irish migration to
England in the nineteenth century. When paddy Met Geordie is a =
pioneering
study of this important migration. Comparative in outlook, it examines =
the
social, economic, political and religious context of Irish settlement in =
the
region, from the bitter poverty of the post-famine years to the =
emergence of
the Irish community in political, business and religious life. It =
explains
why the arrival of the Irish in large numbers did not provoke the same =
level
of conflict that arose in other major centres such as London, Manchester =
and
Liverpool. Contrary to popular academic belief, Irish blacklegging in =
the
coal industry was not only rare, but was opposed by the Irish =
themselves.
Furthermore, the strength of the old-established English Catholic =
community
in the region militated against overt hostility towards their
fellow-Catholic immigrants, while the region=92s Liberal tradition =
enabled the
Irish to soon take a prominent place in public life. The Author Roger J.
Cooter is Professorial Fellow, Wellcome Centre for the History of =
Medicine,
University College, London. Canadian by birth, his previous posts =
include a
Chair of History at the University of East Anglia.

The Foreword is by Donald M. MacRaild, Professor of History, Victoria
University of Wellington, New Zealand.

ISBN : 1 873 757 65 4
RRP : =A312.95 Buy on-line=20

http://www.grs.sund.ac.uk/sup/new.asp

http://www.grs.sund.ac.uk/sup/home.asp

New Proposals:
The University of Sunderland Press welcomes suggestions for new =
book-length
publications. In the first instance please contact the Press =
Administrator,
Carole Batey (carole.batey[at]sunderland.ac.uk), or the Commissioning =
Editor,
Professor Tony Hepburn (tony.hepburn[at]sunderland.ac.uk), for further
information.

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on
their conference building to see this project through to completion...

TOC in due course please...

P.O'S.

Representing Ireland: Past Present and Future=20
Edited by Frank Beardow and Alison O'Malley-Younger

This collection of essays tackles one of the most fascinating phenomena =
in
Irish culture: the representation of the =91concept=92 of Ireland. The
individual essays, which examine texts from the North and South of the
country, together comprise a broad chronological, generic and =
theoretical
scope that ranges from the sixteenth century to the present day. The =
volume
is a wide-ranging and important contribution to current debates on =
identity
and representation in an Irish context; it tackles relevant issues from =
the
perspectives of New Historicism, comparative analysis, =
post-structuralism,
post-colonialism and gender, and it covers a variety of literary genres,
including poetry, fiction, drama and journalism. Writers discussed here
include Edmund Spenser, Oscar Wilde, Robert Lynd, Patrick Kavanagh, =
Brian
Friel, Seamus Heaney, Neil Jordan, Paul Muldoon and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill.
Also included here are eight poems by Bernard O=92Donoghue, including
previously unpublished work. Overall, this book is a new instalment in
discussions of the vigour and originality of literary representations of
Ireland in the past, in the present, and in the future.

ISBN : 1 873 757 70 0
RRP : =A312.95 Buy on-line=20

http://www.grs.sund.ac.uk/sup/new.asp

http://www.grs.sund.ac.uk/sup/home.asp

New Proposals:
The University of Sunderland Press welcomes suggestions for new =
book-length
publications. In the first instance please contact the Press =
Administrator,
Carole Batey (carole.batey[at]sunderland.ac.uk), or the Commissioning =
Editor,
Professor Tony Hepburn (tony.hepburn[at]sunderland.ac.uk), for further
information.