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IRELAND's INCOME DISTRIBUTION IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

Authors: Nolan, Brian1; Smeeding, TimothyM.

Source: The Review of Income and Wealth, Volume 51, Number 4, December 2005,
pp. 537-560(24)

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

Abstract:
There are concerns that the unprecedented economic boom which Ireland
experienced in the second half of the 1990s has raised only some living
standards and has widened income gaps. This paper analyzes Ireland's income
distribution in comparative perspective, to understand how Ireland's
distribution changed and how it compares to other rich countries. We begin
with OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) and the
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) data to compare Ireland's degree of well-being
and inequality with other advanced countries. We also look in some detail at
alternative sources of Irish income and their implications for the trends in
income inequality in Ireland from 1994 to 2000. For instance, we examine the
top of the distribution using data from the administration of the income tax
system. We conclude that the spectacular economic growth in the past decade
has seen the gap in average income between Ireland and the richer OECD
countries narrow dramatically. However, this growth has not greatly affected
the Irish ranking in terms of income inequality. Ireland remains an outlier
among rich European nations in its high degree of income inequality, though
still falling well short of the level seen in the United States. In the end,
we find that Ireland's new-found prosperity provides a "social dividend,"
and choices about how it is used will fundamentally affect whether the
current high level of income inequality persists into the future.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4991.2005.00167.x

Affiliations: 1: Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin

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interest we might have missed over the past year...

This one is in Kenny's 'Massive Relocation Sale...'

And seems to deal with a recurring theme...

P.O'S.


Irish: A Dictionary of Phrases, Terms and Epithets
By: Thornton B. Edwards
Published: Mercier P. June, 2003


Irish; phrases, terms, and epithets beginning with the word "Irish"

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Irish; phrases, terms, and epithets beginning with the word "Irish".

Edwards, Thornton B.

Mercier Press, [c]2004

232 p.

$19.95 (pa)

Edwards, a Welsh native now living in Greece, has compiled hundreds of terms
and phrases that begin with the word Irish. Being in English, most of them
are derogatory, of course, but not all. Many he says, are flattering and
even poetic. They relate to such matters as food, drink, folklore,
mythology, crafts, music, tools, flora and fauna, weapons, and religion.
Some of the entries are simple identifications, but others explain at some
length the context of the usage. The arrangement is alphabetical.

COPYRIGHT 2005 Book News, Inc.
COPYRIGHT 2005 Gale Group

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That reference...

Neal, F., 'English-Irish Conflict in the north-east of England', Buckland,
P., and Belchem, J. C., eds, The Irish in British Labour History (Conference
Proceedings in Irish Studies, i, Liverpool, 1993)


We distributed this through the Institute of Irish Studies here at the
University of Liverpool - they might still have a few copies.


John Belchem

--On 15 December 2005 08:43 -0600 "William Mulligan Jr."
wrote:

> This exchange about the Cooter thesis raises something I am trying to
> do more of with my students, not only in my Irish History and Diaspora
> courses, but in the Introduction to Historical Studies course I teach
> - expose them to the debates that occur so that they understand that
> history is an on-going process of discovery not just remembering facts
> from books. I've been using the article by Ambinder and Desmond
> Norton's response on the question of emigration for Palmerston's
> estates and it has worked well. The Cooter thesis and the Neal
> article seem perfect for this. Is the volume Frank's essay appears in
> still available? If anyone has purchase details let me know. I'll
> buy several copies for reserve reading.
>
> Bill
>
> William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
> Professor of History
> Murray State University
> Murray KY 42071-3341 USA
>




Professor John Belchem
School of History
University of Liverpool
9 Abercromby Square
Liverpool L69 7WZ
email: j.c.belchem[at]liv.ac.uk
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Subject: More on Latvia and Ireland...

The gombeens are still fumbling in their greasy tills in these parts... But
it's not all bad news

Piaras


East-to-West Migration Remaking Europe

By Kevin Sullivan

RIGA, Latvia -- The Aurora Hotel, Room 307. Toilet in the hall, shower
downstairs. Cracks in the walls and sweat in the air. Janis Neulans sits on
a creaky little bed, talking about the work and weather in Ireland.

"They have warm winters," he says in Russian, his powder-blue eyes
sparkling at the thought.

Neulans has never heard of Galway or Guinness. In his little home town -- a
snowy village of eight people way out east on Latvia's Russian border -- he
learned truck-driving, not Yeats. He doesn't know what the Irish minimum
wage is, but he dreams of it.

"I have to leave Latvia," he says. "There are no possibilities here. We
have nothing."

His last job was sandblasting the hulls of huge freighters in a Riga dry
dock, enduring icy winds off the Baltic Sea for $50 a week. So at 39, never
married, with nothing to lose, Neulans sits in the lonely dullness of the
Aurora Hotel with a black nylon athletic bag at his feet. He has packed one
pair of pants, a shirt, a pair of no-name sneakers, three packets of instant
mashed potatoes and eight cans of processed meat.

It's late October. He has a $190 plane ticket for the next night on
airBaltic's midnight flight from Riga to Dublin. It will be the first plane
ride of his life, a simple three-hour hop but a journey that illustrates a
historic flow of people that is changing the face of Europe.

Since Latvia and nine other countries joined the European Union in May
2004, almost 450,000 people, most of them from the poorest fringes of the
formerly communist east, have legally migrated west to the job-rich
economies of Ireland, Britain and Sweden. Germany, France and other longtime
E.U. members have kept the doors closed for now but promise to open them in
coming years to satisfy the bloc's principle that citizens of all member
states share the right to move to any other.

Perhaps nowhere is this feeling stronger than in Ireland, a country of 4
million people with one of Europe's fastest-growing economies and memories
of how the world took in destitute Irish migrants in generations past. About
150,000 new workers -- mostly Poles, Lithuanians and Latvians -- have
registered with the Irish government in the past 18 months, statistics show,
although officials say that some may have already been there.

Citizens of E.U. countries do not need Irish visas or work permits, and
there are no restrictions on how long they can stay or what work they can
do. They are generally eligible for government health care and other
services. There is no special system for them to seek citizenship.

From Dublin to Donegal, it is now difficult to find a construction site,
factory, hotel or pub where some of the workers are not speaking Polish,
Russian, Latvian or Lithuanian. They are changing the country's ethnic
character. Multi-language newspapers cater to the job-seekers. Banks have
hired tellers who speak their languages. East European grocery stores sell
meats and cheeses from home, and phone companies post flyers in Internet
cafes listing cheap calls to Warsaw, Vilnius, Riga, Tallinn.

Immigration, of course, also brings social friction and occasional
violence. In Ireland, as in other once-homogenous European societies, people
are struggling to accommodate newcomers with different cultures, languages
and religions, and make room in already strained welfare and school systems.

But many here see the movement of workers as pure opportunity, for
themselves and for the immigrants.

"Our young Irish don't want to do these jobs anymore," said Alfie Lambert,
who runs a fast-growing business in County Wexford, in southeastern Ireland,
that makes door frames for the booming Irish building trade.

Lambert said only two of his 40 factory employees were Irish, and about
half were Latvian. "Out of 10 Latvians, you'd have 10 good workers," he
said. Lambert hired a Latvian woman to help him recruit more by placing ads
in newspapers in Riga. Latvia, with 2.2 million people and a 10 percent
jobless rate, has responded eagerly, sending 14,000 workers to Ireland in
the past 18 months.

"We can't live without the Latvians," Lambert said. "We can't grow without
them."

It's a bitter cold Riga morning when Neulans steps out of the Aurora Hotel,
his black cowboy boots clicking sharply on the wet concrete sidewalk. He has
a floppy mop of blond hair, a blond mustache and a gap in his smile where a
couple of teeth are missing. A thick-shouldered country boy and former
Soviet army soldier, he speaks only when necessary. He agreed to let a
Washington Post reporter accompany him on his quest to Ireland.

He climbs into his car, a pea-green 1984 Volvo with a leaky roof, and pulls
into midday traffic in Riga, a beautiful old riverfront city of cobblestones
and red-tiled roofs and the tall onion spires of Russian Orthodox churches.
Now, as an E.U. capital, it also has foreign biotech and information
technology firms giving jobs to better-educated Latvians.

But not Neulans, whose schooling focused on operation of heavy machinery.
He drives by the vast shipyard where he used to scrape rust. He talks about
his home village, Asishova, a tiny clutch of houses in the distant
countryside. His mother is in the hospital with eye problems. His father
died long ago. His two brothers, one of whom lost a leg to diabetes, tend a
few pigs and cows.

His life's savings have dipped below $250. So he steers toward a used car
dealership, where he hopes to get $350 for his car. A bored-looking salesman
in a baseball cap smushes out a cigarette, kicks the Volvo's tires and looks
under the hood.

"I couldn't drive this any farther than the nearest junkyard," he says. He
offers $170. Neulans takes it. There's no time to bargain.

"When I come back from Ireland, I'll buy a brand-new Volvo," he says.

It's snowing when Neulans arrives at the Riga airport the next night. He is
traveling with a new acquaintance, Vladimir Novikov, who called ahead to a
Latvian friend in Dublin who might meet them at the airport. Or he might
not. Beyond that, Neulans has no strategy.

The gate area for airBaltic Flight 661 is filled with a few businessmen in
suits, a couple of families with small children and a lot of young
job-seekers. Neulans shuffles down the jetway to the waiting 737. "What's it
like when we take off?" he asks, settling into his aisle seat.

His eyes widen on takeoff; he smiles at the smoothness. He turns down the
$5 sandwiches and soft drinks on the passing cart. Eventually he falls
asleep, but wakes in time to see the lights of Dublin glowing out the
windows.

The Latvian contact, Oleg Ribakov, 38, who works as a truck driver, does
show up. It's 2:30 in the morning when he meets Neulans and Novikov by the
baggage carousel. He drives them to a four-bedroom house shared by 10 new
immigrants, mostly Latvians. The tidy brick townhouse is in the western
Dublin suburb of Lucan, a numbing sprawl of nearly identical new housing
developments -- dull prose in a city of poetry, the back office of Ireland's
economic boom.

Ribakov shows them to their room upstairs. It has two mattresses and no
sheets or pillows, but it's clean and warm. Neulans's blue eyes are ringed
with red. He's asleep in minutes.

He's up by 8 a.m. and chats with the other Latvians in the house as they
head to jobs as drivers and construction workers. No one knows of any job
openings.

Tatjana Belova, a cheerful Latvian woman who arrived three months ago,
hands him a copy of the Dublin Infocenter newspaper, which is filled with
want ads in Russian, Polish, Latvian and Lithuanian: Driver. Mechanic.
Carpenter. Halal butcher.

Neulans sits on a torn green leather couch in the living room and scribbles
numbers. He'll settle for anything decent. Belova helps the two newcomers
write their own ad: "Latvian men, 39 and 47, willing to work construction
jobs. Urgent." She punches the ad into her cell phone and texts it to the
newspaper.

There's a knock at the door. The Russian-speaking property manager wants
the first week's rent, about $78 per person. Neulans hands over the cash.

They walk half an hour to Lidl, the closest grocery store. Neulans looks
quizzically at free-range eggs and sunscreen. He thumbs a pack of chicken.
Too expensive. He buys a loaf of bread, some cheddar cheese and a bottle of
diet cola.

Neulans wants a cigarette but can't afford them until he finds work. "If
you don't have a job, you don't have any fun," he says.

Over the next week, Neulans makes dozens of calls answering want ads. He
walks endlessly through industrial parks knocking on doors. He goes to a
private employment agency, but it demands a fee of $1,100. He keeps trying
on his own but everywhere he goes, employers want his curriculum vitae, or
CV -- his rsum. So he tries to write one: "I some speak English. I very want
work at you."

He shows it to Belova. She frowns, then helps him write one that describes
him as "accurate, reliable, hard-working." Neulans wants it typed up to
impress the document-happy Irish, so he hops onto a double-decker 25A bus
for the 45-minute ride into the city center. He gazes out at the River
Liffey as the bus rolls past the Guinness brewery and onto O'Connell Street,
the heart of Dublin.

At the Access Internet Cafe, a clerk named Michael Martin types up
Neulans's rsum and, without being asked, spruces up the English and
embellishes a bit -- Neulans is now "enthusiastic" and a "team player."

"The Irish have been all over the world looking for work," Martin says. "We
know what it's like."

Neulans needs 100 copies. But at 30 cents each, he buys only 10.

He had a cheese sandwich and tea for breakfast. He will have instant mashed
potatoes and bread for dinner. Lunch is out of the question.

He walks into a government employment agency with a row of touch-screen
computers listing hundreds of jobs, from farm laborer to an opening for a
Santa Claus at a local mall. Neulans taps and tries to work out the English,
slowly and phonetically. He locates a notice for a warehouse worker's job,
which says to call a man named Jason. He picks up the office's free phone
and dials.

"Can I talk Jason?" he says. "I call you about job . . . Sorry? CV? I you
now to send, yes? Yes? . . . Thank you."

A cheery clerk takes his rsum and faxes it to the number in the ad. She
says she's sure he'll get a job.

"Your words in God's ear," he tells her in Russian, quoting an old proverb.

Neulans and Novikov walk to the Station Road Business Park, a collection of
new-looking warehouses with forklifts buzzing about. They start knocking on
doors. Three Polish men are doing the same thing just ahead of them.

"Sorry, no jobs," says a man in a food warehouse stacked high with drums of
olive oil.

"We've nothing at the moment," says a sympathetic woman in a rope factory.

Over and over. It's getting dark.

On Neulans's 11th day in Ireland, a job broker shows up at the Lucan house.
Neulans later recounts that the broker says he has a farm laborer's job for
him. Nice 8-to-5 deal out in Kinnegad in County West Meath, 40 miles west of
Dublin. Neulans packs his bag and gets in the broker's car, and hours later
he realizes he's been stung by a darker aspect of Europe's new immigration:
an underworld that knows there's good money to be made preying on
immigrants.

The middleman demands $500 for finding the job. Neulans is down to his last
$8, so he agrees to pay the fee out of his future wages.

Neulans says he started work at 5:30 a.m. and didn't finish until after 8
p.m. He milked cows all day with a half-hour break. The farmer yelled
endlessly at him and two other immigrant workers. "It's like slavery,"
Neulans says.

But while he is there, he gets a phone call. It is the Latvian recruiter
who works for Alfie Lambert at the door-frame factory. Neulans had seen an
ad for the company in a newspaper in Latvia and applied before he left for
Ireland. Now she says there's an unexpected opening. Neulans says the call
is like the song of an angel.

"It's a big relief," he recalls thinking. "I can get out of here."

Neulans begs the farmer for some pay; he gives him half of what he's owed.
After sunset, Neulans walks an hour down pitch-black country roads until he
comes to a town. He takes a late-night bus back to Dublin, hops another bus
and by noon the next day he's sitting in front of Lambert's desk.

Lambert hires Neulans, who has one thought racing around his head: "In a
week, I'll have a paycheck."

Two weeks after arriving in Ireland, Neulans stands along the back wall of
a vast, brightly lit factory filled with the screeching of industrial saws
and drills and the sweet smell of fresh-cut lumber. He works at an enormous
drill press, wearing a new blue canvas jacket with "Quick Fit Frames &
Doors" on the back, blue work pants, steel-toed work boots and safety
goggles.

He mans Station 16, where he takes a seven-foot piece of door jamb from a
pile, drills two quick holes, lays in a piece of brass hardware, screws it
down, checks the piece for flaws, then stacks it behind him, ready for
Station 17. He will do this hundreds of times a day, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.,
earning the Irish minimum wage, about $9.20 an hour -- more than three times
what he earned in Latvia. He can work Saturdays if he wants extra money. In
a year, Lambert says, his wages will be upped to $12 an hour.

At 6 p.m., Neulans shuts down his machine, brushes the sawdust off his
clothes and walks across an empty lot to a three-bedroom mobile home. It has
a tiny kitchen, no TV, no radio, no books. Lambert has given him use of the
place in exchange for keeping an eye on the factory at night.

Neulans sits on a beige couch in the otherwise empty living room. He is
unshaven, exhausted, satisfied. "I think I'm going to work here a long
time," he says. Someday he hopes to have enough money saved to buy some
calves. He wants to raise them on a little piece of land in the Latvian
village where he was born.

"It's where my heart is," he says.


(c) 2004 The Washington Post Company

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This may be of interest to some on the list.

Dear Colleges,



On our website please find the program of our international conference
Documented and Undocumented Migration within Europe taking place at the
University of Dortmund 12th to 14th of January 2006.

http://www.geschlechterdynamik.uni-dortmund.de/aktuelles.htm

If you are interested in participating please register until the 5th of
January 2006 by sending an e-mail to Bea Schwarz (
BSchwarz[at]fb12.uni-dortmund.de ).

We thank you also for sending the program to colleges working in the field.

With regards from



Prof. Dr. Sigrid Metz-G=F6ckel and Dr. A. Senganata M=FCnst



Universit=E4t Dortmund
Interdisziplin=E4rer Forschungsschwerpunkt:
Dynamik der Geschlechterkonstellationen
Emil-Figge-Str. 50 (Raum 0.110)

44227 Dortmund

Tel.: (0049) 0231 - 755 45 92

SMuenst[at]fb12.uni-dortmund.de




--
Bill Mulligan
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Murray State University

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This book will interest a number of specialists on the IR-D list, and
represents an intriguing turn in the study of Scottish and Canadian music
traditions...

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Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945

John G. Gibson

The definitive history of traditional Scottish Gaelic bagpiping.

Paper 0773521348
Cloth 0773515410

UK rights held by: National Museums of Scotland

406pp
illus.

Subjects:
History: British History: Canadian Musicology History: Atlantic Canada


Publisher
http://www.mqup.mcgill.ca/book.php?bookid=1409

The bagpipe is one of the cultural icons of Scottish highlanders, but in
the twentieth century traditional Scottish Gaelic piping has all but
disappeared. Few recordings were ever made of traditional pipe music and
there are almost no Gaelic-speaking pipers of the old school left. Recording
an important aspect of Gaelic culture before it disappears, John Gibson
chronicles the decline of traditional Highland Gaelic bagpiping - and Gaelic
culture as a whole - and provides examples of traditional bagpipe music that
have survived in the New World.

Pulling together what is known of eighteenth-century West Highland piping
and pipers and relating this to the effects of changing social conditions on
traditional Scottish Gaelic piping since the suppression of the last
Jacobite rebellion, Gibson presents a new interpretation of the decline of
Gaelic piping and a new view of Gaelic society prior to the Highland
diaspora. Refuting widely accepted opinions that after Culloden pipes and
pipers were effectively banned in Scotland by the Disarming Act (1746),
Gibson reveals that traditional dance bagpiping continued at least to the
mid-nineteenth century. He argues that the dramatic depopulation of the
Highlands in the nineteenth century was one of the main reasons for the
decline of piping.

Following the path of Scottish emigrants, Gibson traces the history of
bagpiping in the New World and uncovers examples of late eighteenth-century
traditional bagpiping and dance in Gaelic Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He
argues that these anachronistic cultural forms provide a vital link to the
vanished folk music and culture of the Scottish highlanders.

This definitive study throws light on the ways pipers and piping contributed
to social integration in the days of the clan system and on the decline in
Scottish Gaelic culture following the abolition of clans. It also
illuminates the cultural problems faced by all ethnic minorities assimilated
into unitary multinational societies.

Reviews
http://www.greenmanreview.com/trad_gaelic_piping.html

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3686/is_200004/ai_n8890592

http://www.indiana.edu/~jofr/bndetail.php?version=&id=20

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Note that the President of the Republic of Ireland now has a web site =
at...
http://www.president.ie/

P.O'S.


CHRISTMAS GREETINGS FROM THE PRESIDENT OF IRELAND

At this Christmas time, I send you warmest greetings and good wishes =
from
=C1ras an Uachtar=E1in.

The spirit of this Yuletide season inspires us to celebrate everything =
that
is good in our lives and in particular in our homes, communities and
neighbourhoods. Families and friends make a special effort to gather
together to show their care for one another and it is very heartening to =
see
that there are many who make it their business to bring hope and comfort =
to
the poor and the vulnerable for whom this can be a particularly =
difficult
time.

In the past year we witnessed the awful suffering caused by natural
disasters, conflict and poverty in many parts of the world and we saw =
how
generously Irish people of all ages responded to the suffering of =
strangers.
Their greatness of heart and their solidarity with those in need are a
source of considerable pride and reassurance. The people of those tragic
countries are in our thoughts and prayers this Christmas time, as are =
all
those working courageously on their behalf, among them our own Defence
Forces and aid workers.

If peace and prosperity are elusive dreams for too many people across =
the
globe, they are now, at last, a precious reality for those who share =
this
island. Last September=92s historic announcement of I.R.A. =
decommissioning was
a crucial step towards creating a climate in which trust and friendship =
can
flourish and grow as never before. I thank everyone who has worked for =
peace
and I pray that your work will be rewarded by the fullest use of the
hard-earned opportunities that now exist to build a future for all to be
part of and proud of.

As the wrapping goes around the last of the presents and the countdown
starts to Santa=92s arrival, please keep each other safe on the roads =
and on
our streets so that this Christmas will bring only happiness and joy =
into
every home.

I wish each one of you a Happy Christmas and a peaceful, contented and
prosperous New Year.=20

Mary McAleese=20
President of Ireland.

http://www.president.ie/

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Dear IR-D members and friends,=20

We are happy to announce a new issue of "Irish Migration Studies in =
Latin America": www.irlandeses.org

ISSN 1661-6065

Volume 4, Number 1 (January-February 2006)
TABLE OF CONTENTS

- The Irish in Uruguay and Paraguay, p. 1

- Carlos Caillabet, "Fernando O'Neill (1924-2005), Revolutionary and =
Historian of Anarchism in Uruguay", p. 7

- Edmundo Murray, "Beauty and the Beast: A Beautiful Irish Courtesan and =
a Beastly Latin American Dictator", p. 14

- New Biographies: Peter Campbell (1780-c1832), Naval Officer and =
Founder of the Uruguayan Navy, p. 23; Robert Gore (1810-1854), Naval =
Officer and Diplomatist, p. 26; Eliza Lynch (1835-1886), Courtesan and =
Unofficial First Lady of Paraguay, p. 28; Juan Emiliano O'Leary =
(1879-1969), Poet and Historian, p. 32

Contact information:
Edmundo Murray=20
Society for Irish Latin American Studies=20
edmundo.murray[at]irlandeses.org=20
www.irlandeses.org =20

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I have been told repeatedly that the FBI of J. Edgar Hoover was
overwhelmingly Irish Catholic in its ethnic make-up; one person has told me
that Fordham University had more alums in the FBI than any other school, and
another person told me that honor went to Holy Cross.

Does anyone know if the ethnicity of the FBI has been studied -- or have
anything anecdotal about this?

Thanks,

Jim Rogers
New Hibernia Review

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IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW
VOL 35; NUMB 2; 2005
ISSN 0021-1427

pp. 245-258
`She Set Me Writing My First Play': Laura Armstrong and Yeats's Early Drama
Redwine, E. B.

pp. 259-272
Carlo Goldoni in Dublin: Lady Gregory's Translation of La Locandiera
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`Neither Here Nor There': Representing the Liminal in Irish Poetry
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Rites of Defilement: Abjection and the Body Politic in Northern Irish Poetry
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Metanarratives: Anne Devlin, Christina Reid, Marina Carr, and the Irish
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Nation and Gender in Jennifer Johnston: A Kristevan Reading
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`Without a Blink of Her Lovely Eye': The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch and
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Reading and Writing Race in Ireland: Roddy Doyle and Metro Eireann
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A very interesting topic for research. Although I've always understood
from various casual sources that the FBI was disproportionately Mormon -
which in some ways would actually be more interesting.

There's a variation on the buddy-movie in there somewhere.

Peter Hart

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>I have been told repeatedly that the FBI of J. Edgar Hoover was
>overwhelmingly Irish Catholic in its ethnic make-up; one person has told me
>that Fordham University had more alums in the FBI than any other school, and
>another person told me that honor went to Holy Cross.
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>Does anyone know if the ethnicity of the FBI has been studied -- or have
>anything anecdotal about this?
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My guess is that the FBI was more Irish Catholic than random recruitment
would indicate but not so Irish as some people claim. The Irish in the
United States, especially before the final decades of the 20th century, were
prominent in law enforcement. Many probably saw joining a prestigious
federal law enforcement agency as a step up from the local police forces. A
number of FBI agents also had law degrees, although my guess is that they
were not from the nation's foremost schools. Again, various Catholic law
schools as well as secular ones would have been in the second-tier
institutions turning out FBI candidates.

Tales of the FBI being "overwhelmingly Irish" probably are of the same genre
as tales of IBM being overwhelmingly Irish. (IBM HQ was in suburban NY and
I image a fair number of employees were Irish, just given the locale). Both
bodies had the representation of being institutions that highly prized
discipline and fostered conformity of look and dress. Their workers were
seen as intelligent and intelligent but also essentially corporate types
lacking in imagination. People did not doubt their ability, but the
description essentially pegged them as short of the "best and the
brightest." (I think much the same image grew around the first astronauts
-- brave, nice-looking, technically proficient, physically able, but not
intellectually interesting).

The association between the FBI/IBM type and Catholicism may have come from
impressions of the nature of Catholic schooling that were prevalent among
critics in the 1950s. Lamenting the lack of Catholic intellectualism was
standard fare in the late 1950s and 1960s. See, for example, Thomas F.
O'Dea (American Catholic Dilemma) and Gerhard Lenski (The Religious Factor).
Indeed, a student speaker at a Fordham graduation, when I was a student
there, said that Fordham had never produced a Julius Rosenberg but it would
never produce a Jonas Salk either. Andrew Greeley had a stream of research
trying to discount those kinds of arguments.

Although doubtful about the accuracy of "overwhelming," I wouldn't dismiss
the possibility that Catholics (whether or not Irish) were overrepresented
in the FBI, IBM, and similar organizations. My strong impression from three
years active service in the U.S. Army was that Catholics were
overrepresented in the officer ranks. I think it has something to do with
familiarity with hierarchical organizations, a need to prove patriotism (as
well as genuine feelings of it), a kind of social tracking that occurs by
virtue of the kind of education from which one receives advanced education,
and a limited sense of what constitutes social mobility that stems from
growing up as a member of a parochial niche group and possibly also from the
effects of discrimination.

My comments are speculative, possibly informed speculation but also possibly
blather. As Peter says, research would be interesting.

Tom

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Published by H-Albion[at]h-net.msu.edu (November 2005)

Mary O'Dowd. _A History of Women in Ireland, 1500-1800_. Women and
Men in History Series. Harlow: Pearson/Longman, 2005. xi + 334 pp.
Graph, notes, bibliography, index. $32.00 (paper), ISBN 0-582-40429-0.

Reviewed for H-Albion by L. A. Botelho, Department of History,
Indiana University of Pennsylvania

The Tentative Achievement of an Ambiguous Equality

Raised, as it turns out, on stories promulgated by nineteenth-century
folklorists, I harbored images of fierce Gaelic princesses, such as
Scathach, Nessa, and Maeve fighting to protect their lands from a
host of invaders, with the English being only a later day
manifestation of the same. Mary O'Dowd does much to set the story
straight and, while disabusing us of the early modern incarnations of
such women, sketches the outlines of a much more complex and nuanced
story of the role and place of women in sixteenth- to
eighteenth-century Ireland.

O'Dowd's aims are ambitious in one sense, while being modest in
another. They are to discover what the lives of women were like
between 1500 and 1800; to determine the key moments that transformed
or changed their position; and to begin to explore the ways in which
social and ethnic background shaped women's experiences. These are
modest goals, as O'Dowd herself points out, that have more a shared
spiritual kinship with the desires and aspirations of 1980s women's
history than with today's emphasis on theory and criticism. In fact,
at her most elemental, O'Dowd seeks to prove that women were more
than just "an interesting footnote" to Irish history (p. 5). She
does just that; however, the road traveled must not have been easy,
as our understanding of women in Irish history is beset by a two-fold
problem: one, there is little secondary source literature and, two,
Irish social history--the traditional bedrock upon which women's
history is built--is underdeveloped. It is in single-handedly
addressing these obstacles, by the sheer volume and breadth of her
archival work and by the creation of a scholarly synthesis out of raw
data, that O'Dowd is at her most ambitious and successful.

The story that emerges is of eighteenth-century change, built upon
two centuries of slow and uncertain travel toward women's rights, and
significant improvements for women in politics, inheritance,
religion, marriage, education, and employment. While the eighteenth
century proved to be a springboard for a more fully articulated set
of female freedoms, the century itself was not stable in this regard
and its women were jostled around on uneasy seas for most of it,
before gaining relatively dry land in the nineteenth century. O'Dowd
explores this theme in four parts of unequal length and weight:
"Politics," "The Economy," "Religion and Education," and "Ideas"; in
each section O'Dowd tells versions of this same story.

The political world of Irish women in the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries was primarily played out within the structure of the
household--as providers of hospitality and manipulators of kin
networks--and for the benefit of their husband or sons. Much changed
over the course of the eighteenth century and the repositioning of
women in politics can be tied directly to Parliament's new role as
the center and focus of debate. The printing press and the newly
opened Parliament building (1731), with its clear intent to foster
and facilitate public participation, only served to reinforce the
trend. Politics was the _lingua franca_ of eighteenth-century
Ireland and elite women managed to get more than a word in edge-wise.

Among the lower orders, women were initially vital and keen members
of a whole host of popular--and frequently secret--societies. The
development of the "Wear Irish" and "Free Trade" campaigns that
sought to foster domestic economic independence morphed into an
overtly political, anti-English movement, characterized by the
Volunteers and their female supporters. Female sympathizers wore
"uniforms" to advertise their cause, spinning fashion into politics,
as they found a new form of political expression in public marches.
This hard-fought visual presence did not last and by the 1780s, with
the development of the paramilitaries and their male-dominated
constructs, women found themselves once again confined to traditional
and household-based methods of political expression. While slow in
coming and uneven in its arrival, women's political participation--as
in the other areas covered in the book--was unstable and fleeting.

For much of the period, the economic position of women was tied
directly to the good will of the head of their families. The
eighteenth century, however, witnessed significant urban growth and a
demographic expansion that resulted in a vibrant urban life, fueled
by the expansion of the Irish linen trade and maintained by the
widespread use of single women and widows in the burgeoning service
industry, either as domestic servants, milliners, seamstress, and the
like. Women, for the first time, could now achieve financial
independence and married women could become contributors of cash to
their household economies. The decline in textile manufacture during
the 1780s, coupled with increased population, resulted in the
crashing of many women's economic opportunities and personal
economies. Consequently, their "main economic contribution" was no
longer "through spinning but through begging" (p. 143): the
eighteenth-century economic bust returned most women to economic
precariousness.

Women's place and function in organized religion followed a familiar
pattern. For those in the Church of Ireland, their main
responsibility was to provide a religious education for their
children. Roman Catholic and non-mainstream Protestant women,
however, figured prominently in the continuation or development of
their faiths by providing a safe haven for illegal priests or
ministers, by catechizing their children and servants, and
(sometimes) by converting their husbands. Women were in fact the
motivating force and logistical keystone of their legally problematic
beliefs. With the easing of religious sanctions in the eighteenth
century, women outside of the establishment and on both sides of the
confessional divide found their roles becoming more like that of
their Church of Ireland sisters, as men could now legally step
forward into leadership positions. For such women, the eighteenth
century was a period of both progress and loss, of legal recognition
and personal subordination.

The final section of the book, "Ideas," is a sweeping survey of the
underling principles, theology, and medical views that informed and
shaped society's understanding of women. As such it would have best
served the reader's interest as an opening section to the text.

O'Dowd's _A History of Women in Ireland_ should be read on two
levels. First and most obviously, it will be a welcomed addition to
undergraduate courses in Irish history and women's history. Its
prose is clear and direct, and its many examples will go far in
helping students identify with the lived experiences of these early
modern women. Second, more advanced scholars of women or early
modern England will find a number of points thought-provoking. One
is quickly reminded--or taught--that turning points in English
history are not necessarily Irish ones or that, if they are, their
emphasis and meaning were often significantly altered. At a time in
our historiography when we are strongly encouraged to think in
Atlantic terms, this is a strong warning against merely extrapolating
from England to other places in its Atlantic sphere, be it Ireland or
the New World. In a related vein, O'Dowd offers a brief, yet
fascinating, discussion on the "colonial context" of early modern
Ireland and the place of women, as "the antithesis of the ideal
Christian woman" within it (p. 250). This too should cause
historians of England to pause and consider closely the prism through
which we view England's lands and possessions. O'Dowd has written
more about this elsewhere and I wish that she had done so here.[1]

O'Dowd has been remarkably perceptive and forthright about this
book's shortcomings, such as its uneven coverage of topics. For
example, while much was gleaned from inheritance practices, other
subjects, such as women and crime, pass by in silence. She has gone
to great lengths to look at the various constituencies of women in
early modern Ireland (elite and poor, married and single, Anglo-Irish
and Gaelic, Catholic and Protestant), yet all of her women are
ageless, being neither young nor old. How did old age change the
dynamic, say, in family politics? Was their a grand matron as in
English fashion, such as Lady Sarah Cowper, who deliberately played
upon her advanced age and religious piety to assert her will in
eighteenth-century political life?[2] Ultimately, the field is still
too young to expect such a comprehensive review and O'Dowd is to be
applauded for the work that she has done here and for the questions
that her work raises.

Mary O'Dowd has given us a long overdue and valuable look at the
lives of women in early modern Ireland. She has done yeoman service
in the archives and has set us firmly down the correct historical
path. By doing so, she does scholars a service. Her text dovetails
nicely into the work of Sara Mendelson and Patricia Crawford for
England, and Olwen Hufton for France to form a fairly full view of
early modern womanhood in the European North Atlantic.[3]
Consequently, the shape of a shared female culture emerges with some
clarity. O'Dowd does students an equal service by making her work
accessible and by her careful articulation of both problems and
approaches faced by historians of Ireland. Not only will they learn
about early modern Irish women, they will also learn something about
the historians' craft--and that is never a bad thing in an
undergraduate survey text.

Notes

[1]. M. O'Dowd, "Women and the Colonial Experience in Ireland, c.
1550-1650" in _Gendering Scottish History: An International
Approach_, ed. T. Brotherstone, D. Simonton, and O. Walsh (Glasgow:
Cruithne Press, 1999).

[2]. Anne Kugler, _Errant Plagiary: The Life and Writing of Lady
Sarah Cowper: 1644-1720_ (Stanford: Stanford University Press,
2002); see Susan E. Whyman, "Review of Anne Kugler, _Errant Plagiary:
The Life and Writing of Lady Sarah Cowper, 1644-1720_," H-Albion,
June, 2003
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=326741058385140>.

[3]. S. Mendelson and P. Crawford, _Women in Early Modern England_
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998); and O. Hufton, _The Prospect before
Her: A History of Women in Western Europe, 1500-1800_ (New York:
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