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'Murmurs in the Cathedral': The Impact of Translations from Greek Poetry and
Drama on Modern Work in English by Michael Longley and Seamus Heaney

Author: Hardwick, Lorna1

Source: The Yearbook of English Studies, Volume 36, Number 1, 1 January
2006, pp. 204-215(12)

Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association


Abstract:
This article analyses the embedding of translation and adaptation of Greek
poetry and drama in the new work of two writers from Northern Ireland,
Michael Longley and Seamus Heaney, who are associated with different
traditions within Irish cultural politics. The discussion reviews different
aspects of 'translation' and relates them to the literary, cultural, and
political contexts of the reception and refiguration of the ancient texts.
It is argued that these multifaceted 'translations' also serve to map the
porous borders between cultural traditions in Irish literature in English
and to indicate the trajectories of intracultural convergences, divergences,
and shifts.

Keywords: translation; adaptation; Michael Longley; Seamus Heaney;
traditions; cultural politics; contexts; reception; refiguration;
intracultural

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Affiliations: 1: The Open University

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H-NET BOOK REVIEW

Published by H-Albion[at]h-net.msu.edu (January 2006)

Joseph Lennon. _Irish Orientalism: A Literary and Intellectual History_.
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2004. xxxi + 378 pp. Illustrations,
notes, bibliography, index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8156-3044-1.

Reviewed for H-Albion by Michael Silvestri, History Department, Clemson
University

A Celtic Orient?

In 1975, the Indian Institute of Advanced Study published a posthumous =
work
by the eminent Irish scholar of Celtic studies, Miles Dillon, entitled
_Celts and Aryans_. In it, Dillon detailed the similarities between =
ancient
India and Ireland, ranging from linguistics to epic poetry to social
customs. Dillon (the son of John Dillon, the last leader of the Irish
parliamentary party) also expressed the hope that Ireland and India's =
shared
modern legacy of British imperial rule would lead scholars to explore
further the similarities between their cultures and histories. "The =
common
heritage that India and Ireland share should be a bond between them," =
Dillon
concluded.[1]

Dillon's comparisons of druids and Brahmins, and Irish and Sanskrit =
would
seem to suggest a scholar plowing a lonely and slightly eccentric path. =
In
actuality, Dillon was working within a tradition of Irish intellectual =
and
cultural thought that extends back to the early Middle Ages. This =
discourse
on the relationship between Irish and various Asian cultures is the =
subject
of Joseph Lennon's important new study, _Irish Orientalism: A Literary =
and
Intellectual History_.

Many scholars have noted the affinity of members of the Irish Literary
Revival for the culture and philosophy of "the Orient," and analyzed how
this related to their views on Irish culture. Much has been written, =
for
example, on how W. B. Yeats's wide-ranging interests in Indian =
literature
and philosophy, ancient China and the "aristocratic" cultural traditions =
of
the Japanese helped to shape his conception of a vanishing Celtic =
Ireland
desperately in need of cultural revival (p. 247). Yet Lennon observes,
"Long before it was treated as Celtic, Irish culture was linked to the
"Orient" (p. xv). For centuries, a tradition of textual links between =
Irish
and "Oriental" cultures "served as an important imaginative and =
allegorical
realm for Irish writers and intellectuals" (p. 1). In an insightful and
wide-ranging analysis, Lennon examines the trajectory of various strands =
of
Irish Orientalist writings from ancient times to the twentieth century.

The first part of _Irish Orientalism_ probes the historical origins of =
the
idea of Irish affinity with the East, from classical and Irish medieval
writings to the work of late-eighteenth-century antiquarians,
early-nineteenth-century romantic writers and, later, Irish academic
Orientalists. The second half examines how this legacy was deployed and
reshaped in the writings of members of the Irish Literary Revival, =
notably
Yeats, George Russell, James Stephens and James Cousins. Along the way,
Lennon also examines how Irish nationalists utilized this tradition of =
Irish
Orientalism in order to make "cross-colony" analogies with Asian
nationalists, particularly those from India.

While Lennon's intellectual debt to and engagement with the work of =
Edward
Said is clearly acknowledged, _Irish Orientalism_ also builds upon--and
considerably expands--the work of scholars such as Javed Majeed, who =
have
demonstrated how Orientalism was far from a unitary discourse.[2] =
Lennon
demonstrates that Irish Orientalism did not simply replicate =
Anglo-French or
German constructions of the East, but also drew on a centuries-old =
tradition
of Irish writings about the Orient. In the Middle Ages, this took the =
form
of legendary accounts of the origins of the Irish. The collection of
medieval texts known as the _Lebor Gab=E1la =C9renn_, for example, =
chronicles
successive migrations of Eastern peoples to Ireland, culminating in the
Milesians, whose origins were traced to Egypt, and who, for medieval
chroniclers, were "the personifications of the most recent and =
identifiable
Gaelic ancestors of the medieval Irish" (p. 35).

The idea of the Eastern origins of the Irish also found much support in =
the
works of eighteenth-century antiquarians, who debated the =
"Scytho-Celtic"
and "Phoenician" theories of Irish origins (p. 84). The British Army
officer Charles Vallancey, chief surveyor of Ireland and one of the
founders of the Royal Irish Academy, for three decades argued =
passionately
for the Phoenician origins of the Irish; he also posited similarities
between the round towers of Ireland and Hindu temples in India. Many of
Vallancey's conjectures were, however, constructed on the shallowest of
archaelogical and linguistic foundations, and met with a skeptical =
response
from contemporary scholars. Indeed, beginning in the early-nineteenth
century, these Eastern origin legends of the Irish were disproved as
authentic historical accounts of Ireland's past, yet they continued to
resonate in Irish culture. The reason, as Lennon suggests, was that the
work of writers like Vallancey "confirmed a vision of Ireland as an
independent, ancient, remote and non-European culture" that accorded =
with
the beliefs of nationalists seeking to assert cultural as well as =
political
independence from Britain (pp. 90-91).

While Irish Orientalist thought was well established by the twentieth
century, not surprisingly, it was never a unitary field of knowledge. =
To be
sure, little that Irish academic Orientalists produced "contradicted the
general idioms and doctrines of Anglo-French Orientalism, or the =
tendencies
of European colonialism" (p. 188). But the Irish poet James Cousins, =
who
receives an extended and insightful treatment from Lennon, represents a
different model of Irish Orientalism. Originally drawn to India through =
his
involvement with the Theosophical Society, Cousins converted to a =
reformist
sect of Hinduism, was involved in Indian educational and cultural =
movements,
and wrote poetry and plays in which Indian and Irish mythology was =
blended.
At the core of Cousins's engagement with Indian culture was a firm =
belief in
the "shared sensibilities between Celtic and Oriental peoples" (p. 352). =
As
Lennon observes, "Historically ... Irish Orientalism was both a way to
participate in imperialism and a way to deny it. It offered a path of
resistance (disguised or obvious) as well as, at times, a path of =
collusion"
(p. xxxi).

Irish Orientalism was, however, rarely characterized by stark divisions
between anti-colonial and pro-imperial strands, and Lennon resists the
temptation to divide Irish Orientalist texts "into binary camps of =
imperial
or anticolonial, nationalist or unionist, Protestant or Catholic,
Anglo-Irish or Gaelic Irish" (p. 372). Instead, Lennon shows how =
tightly
linked these different elements of Irish Orientalism often could be. =
The
Irish modernist writer James Stephens, for example, in spite of his
nationalist, socialist and generally anti-colonialist sympathies =
absorbed
and reproduced stereotypically Orientalist ideas about Indian society =
based
on ancient conceptions of caste _varnas_ (p. 310). As Lennon notes, =
Irish
Orientalists at times "perpetuated stereotypical understandings of India
promoted by Indians and romantic Orietalists, believing such =
understandings
to be part of an anticolonial and antimodernist aesthetic or =
philosophy."
Thus, the construction of the "mystical Hindu" had great appeal to =
Celtic
Revivalists in the early-twentieth century, who correlated it with an
equally ahistorical vision of the "dreamy, mystical Celt" (p. 311).

In general, Lennon has more to say about anti-colonial deployments of =
Irish
writings on the East than on Irish contributions to imperial visions of =
the
Orient. Certainly, Irish imperial servants such as the Calcutta judge
Whitley Stokes and Indian Civil Service member George Grierson (both of =
whom
wrote about Irish as well as Indian society) get much less attention =
than
the writers of the Irish Literary Revival.

This is not, however, meant to underplay the depth and richness of the
material that Lennon provides. His notes and bibliography acknowledge =
not
only research in primary sources, such as rare Indian nationalist =
newspapers
and the unpublished correspondence between the Bengali poet Rabindranath
Tagore and the Irish poet James Cousins, but also wide reading of the =
works
of both historians and literary scholars who have analyzed the issue of
Irish involvement with the British Empire on various levels.

In another sense, Lennon's focus on the imaginative dimensions of Irish
Orientalism is entirely appropriate. On a personal level, as Lennon =
notes,
Yeats and Tagore's relationship was often marked by tension and cultural
misunderstanding. In spite of his respect for Yeats, Tagore was not an
admirer of his poetry. Yeats in turn had little understanding of modern
India and imagined Bengal as a land free from Sinn Feiners, an ironic =
remark
when revolutionary nationalists there were avidly reading Irish =
nationalist
texts such as Dan Breen's _My Fight for Irish Freedom_ (1924) (p. xxx). =
Yet
Yeats's linkage of "the Celtic" with "the Oriental" was a powerful and
consistent element in his work.

On the whole, Lennon succeeds admirably in mapping the different strands =
of
Irish Orientalism and their influences. _Irish Orientalism_ will be
essential reading for scholars seeking to understand the cultural =
dimensions
of Ireland's involvement with empire in the modern period and the =
persistent
identification of Ireland with "the East" as well as the West. As =
Lennon
notes in his conclusion, "At the center of the Irish diaspora, and in =
the
bones of an international Irish identity, has lain the unspoken =
suggestion
that to be Irish is to differ from the norm" (p. 371). _Irish =
Orientalism_
is an important window on this sense of Irish "difference."

Notes

[1]. Myles Dillon, _Celts and Aryans: Survivals of Indo-European =
Speech
and Society_ (Simla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1975), p. 146.

[2]. Javed Majeed, _Ungoverned Imaginings: James Mill's _The History =
of
British India and Orientalism_ (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), =
especially
pp. 87-122.

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Cornelius O'Leary and Patrick Maume. _Controversial Issues in =
Anglo-Irish
Relations, 1910-1921_. Dublin and Portland: Four Courts Press, 2004. 179 =
pp.
Notes, bibliography, index. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 1-85182-657-2.

Reviewed for H-Albion by Jason Knirck, Department of History, Central
Washington University

Home Rule as Seen from Westminster

_Controversial Issues in Anglo-Irish Relations_ is a well-researched and
intriguing addition to the ever-growing literature on the Home Rule =
crisis
in Ireland after 1912. The book's somewhat stilted title does not
adequately convey its contents, which focus squarely on the negotiations
over Home Rule (and eventually the Anglo-Irish Treaty) between the =
British
government and Irish representatives after 1910. This is not an =
examination
of the totality of the Anglo-Irish relationship between 1910 and 1921, =
as
cultural or economic matters are not really discussed at all. Instead, =
the
emphasis is placed on Westminster, and the changing attitudes held and
policies advocated by various members of the British government. The =
book,
as a whole, is organized chronologically, with each individual chapter
following a broadly chronological structure as well. The period from
1910-14 is collected into a single chapter, while each year from 1916
through 1921 receives its own chapter. For source material, the authors
draw heavily upon British Cabinet papers, letters and memoirs, as is
suitable for a work of this kind. They also make significant use of the
various documents produced by the Irish delegation during the =
negotiations
leading up to the Anglo-Irish Treaty. The book does not recapitulate
various aspects of the period that have been well-covered elsewhere, =
such as
the Easter Rising or the acceleration of IRA violence after 1919, but
instead hones in on high politics, arguing that this aspect of the Home =
Rule
crisis often gets short shrift.

Despite the misleading title, this focus works well, and _Controversial
Issues in Anglo-Irish Relations_ fills a gap by emphasizing some aspects =
of
the Anglo-Irish relationship that often get underplayed in standard =
Irish
historiography. The book makes two major assertions, each of which are
thought-provoking and contentious. First of all, Westminster is =
presented
as the main locus of negotiations over Home Rule. As stated on the dust
jacket, "the book draws on archival research to argue that the =
contingencies
of high politics were as important as ethnic divisions" in explaining =
the
failure of various attempts to grant Home Rule. The perceived cultural =
and
religious differences between Ulster and the rest of Ireland, as a =
result,
are mentioned barely at all, and instead the authors explain the =
political
stakes involved in the negotiations, the divisions within the British
establishment, and the shifting positions of the Ulster Unionists.
Particular emphasis is given to Edward Carson's role, as he personally
favored compromise at various junctures, but had difficulty persuading =
the
more hard-line rank and file Unionists to follow his lead. Carson and =
John
Redmond even came to an agreement on Home Rule in 1916, which was then
scuttled by "diehards among the southern Unionists and British
Conservatives" (pg. 54).

Concentrating on Westminster also serves to call attention to the wider
context of Irish affairs during this period. Several times, the authors
note that Home Rule was not the most critical issue on the British =
horizon,
as Lloyd George's primary goal by 1917 was to successfully prosecute the
European war. Similarly, the crisis of 1909-11 in England was first and
foremost about Lloyd George's "People's Budget," and, as Conservatives =
later
claimed, Home Rule was not really central to these discussions. =
Although
much Irish attention has been focused on Andrew Bonar Law's perceived
support for Ulster resistance, however violent, O'Leary and Maume note =
that
the major issue convulsing the Conservative Party in 1912 was tariff =
reform,
not Ulster (p. 26). These reminders of the broader context of Irish =
issues
are much-needed, especially since a fair portion of Irish historiography =
is,
as O'Leary and Maume observe, "Hibernocentric" (p. 13).

The effect of this emphasis on Westminster is often to render Irish
nationalists voiceless, as British politicians and Ulster Unionists are
clearly presented as the driving forces behind most, if not all, of the
specific policies and initiatives that arose during this decade. The
majority of the Irish voices in the text are Unionists, and when Irish
nationalists appear, they are usually reacting to British governmental
decisions or proposals. While this reactive characterization may be =
valid
for John Redmond's Irish Parliamentary Party, it probably does some
injustice to Sinn F=E9in. However, one suspects this one-sided emphasis =
is
deliberate, as the authors believe that the Irish side has been covered
excessively by Irish historians. This assertion is undoubtedly true, as
there are a variety of works that analyze the Irish actors in this =
drama,
including Patrick Maume's own excellent _The Long Gestation: Irish
Nationalist Life 1890-1918_ (1999). In fact, minimizing the Irish =
context
of the events covered in _Controversial Issues in Anglo-Irish Relations_ =
is
not really problematic because that context has been covered so well
elsewhere.

The second major, and very original, contribution of this book is its
emphasis on Ulster. For O'Leary and Maume, the Ulster question was the =
most
important stumbling block to a settlement of the Home Rule issue, and =
this
was as true in 1912 as it was in 1921. The Ulster dimension of the =
1912-14
crisis is well known, but the centrality given to Ulster during the =
Treaty
negotiations is original and stimulating. It flies in the face of much =
Sinn
F=E9in rhetoric at the time--the D=E1il debates over the Anglo-Irish =
Treaty
focused far more heavily on the Oath and the Crown than on =
partition--and
also flies in the face of much of the historiography on the Treaty, =
which
also tends to emphasize imperial issues. Many historians of this =
period,
myself included, spend a lot of time discussing the novelty of Irish
proposals for external association, and the infighting between the Irish
plenipotentiaries in London and the rest of the Cabinet in Dublin. =
Those
subjects are glossed over rapidly in _Controversial Issues in =
Anglo-Irish
Relations_ , and instead the refusal of James Craig and other Ulster
Unionists to consider inclusion in any Irish state is made the primary
determinative factor in the ultimate Treaty settlement. In fact, the
negotiations between Craig and Lloyd George in late 1921, according to
O'Leary and Maume, "determined the future course of Irish history" (p. =
132).
Moving away from the now-standard Irish depiction of Lloyd George as an
inveterate liar and double-crosser (the "Welsh Wizard" upon whom so much
ignominy was heaped during the Treaty debates), O'Leary and Maume =
instead
portray the Prime Minister as genuinely seeking an agreement that would
include both Ulster Unionists and Irish nationalists. It was only when
Craig repeatedly rebuffed Lloyd George's attempts at compromise that the
Prime Minister turned his attention toward reaching a settlement solely =
with
Sinn F=E9in. As a result, it was Craig's position, rather than the =
divisions
within the Irish delegation or the tactical mistakes of individual
plenipotentiaries, that prevented a more comprehensive settlement from =
being
reached, and that left the northern issue essentially unresolved for the
next eighty years. There is a question of whether the book's sources =
may
have unduly shaped this conclusion, however. When viewed in terms of
differences of opinion within British and Unionist elites, partition =
does
emerge as the determinative issue, if only because there was, generally
speaking, much broader agreement on the role of the Crown. From the
perspective of later Irish nationalists, on the other hand, partition =
was
certainly a major stumbling block, but so was the relationship between
Ireland and the Crown.

In focusing on British politics and on Ulster, the authors shed new =
light on
issues that often get under-analyzed in most works about the Irish
revolution. The fact that most Irish nationalists themselves frequently
ignored Ulster and the vagaries of contemporary British politics does =
not
mean that later historians should replicate these omissions, and
_Controversial Issues in Anglo-Irish Relations_ is an excellent reminder
that these issues need to be addressed by historians of the period.
Overall, the book represents excellent research and command of the =
subject.
There are only a few questionable assertions of fact, such as claiming =
that
Sinn F=E9in and the Irish Volunteers "merged" in the fall of 1917, a
construction that would probably not have been accepted by most =
Volunteers
at the time (pg. 62). My only serious criticisms of the book are =
structural
and stylistic. The book's chronological structure probably impedes more
than it illuminates, as the twin themes of Ulster and Westminster could =
have
been brought out even more strongly by a thematic or topical approach. =
The
rigid adherence to chronology also led to some fairly rough transitions
between subjects which were not related to each other in any way except =
time
frame (see, e.g., p. 99). The repeated use of short paragraphs--there =
are
too many brief one-sentence paragraphs--also makes the prose seem =
choppy,
and at times prevents the book from gaining momentum behind its =
arguments.
But the arguments themselves are challenging and refreshing, and for =
those
reasons alone the book should be read by all scholars interested in the
Irish Revolution.




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Patrick Mitchel. _Evangelicalism and National Identity in Ulster,
1921-1998_. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 362 pp.
Figures, tables, index. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-19-925615-2.

Reviewed for H-Albion by Sean Farrell, Department of History, Northern
Illinois University

Religious Nationalism?

The last decade has seen a dramatic surge of scholarly interest in the
history of Irish Protestantism, a positive trend that has helped forge a
much more nuanced portrait of the evolution of Irish and Northern Irish
identities. Patrick Mitchel's new work is a welcome addition to this
growing field. Arguing that commentators too often focus on the extremist
voices of Ulster Protestantism, like the Reverend Dr. Ian Paisley, Mitchel
emphasizes the broad diversity of Ulster Evangelical Protestantism,
examining evangelicalism within the Irish Presbyterian Church and the
Evangelical Contribution of Northern Ireland (ECONI), as well as the Orange
Order and Paisley's Free Presbyterian Church. Indeed, one of the chief
virtues of Mitchel's book is that it does give voice to Protestant
perspectives often submerged by louder voices within the voluminous
literature on Northern Ireland.

In many ways, _Evangelicalism and National Identity in Ulster, 1921-1998_
can be viewed as two interesting but rather awkwardly linked studies. The
first part of the book is an extended mediation on how Ulster Unionism fits
into scholarly understandings of nationalism and religion. This is the
weakest part of the book. After finding fault with what he terms the four
dominant explanations of Ulster Unionist identity (his analysis of David
Miller's influential work is particularly brief and unsatisfying), Mitchel
argues that unionist identities are best understood using a broad and
elastic conception of national identity--the problem here is that his
umbrella is so inclusive that it holds very little water. While Mitchel's
theoretically framed discussion is well crafted and stimulating, his
argument that Ulster Unionism must be viewed as a form of national identity
ultimately fails to convince.

Mitchel is at his best in the second part of the book, when he uses four
case studies (the Orange Order, Paisleyism, the Irish Presbyterianism and
ECONI) to examine the relationship between evangelical Protestantism and
nationalism. Using the influential theologian Miroslav Volf's notion of
distance and belonging, Mitchel characterizes both the Orange Order and
Paisleyism as examples of religious nationalism. In other words, while
evangelicalism may be central to individuals within both of these
overlapping groups, spiritual concerns do not lie at the heart of either
movement. While the examples here are hardly new (his historical examples
are stock and rather reductionist at times), the case studies nicely ground
a discussion that is rather abstract in the first half of the book.

In many ways, the closing sections on Irish Presbyterianism and ECONI are
both the strongest and most frustrating parts of the book. On the one hand,
it is refreshingly clear where Mitchel's own views and interests lie; he
clearly supports the effort to disentangle political ideology from religion.
Indeed, he offers his book as a resource for Northern Irish Protestants
looking to find a new balance between distance and belonging, and is a clear
advocate of ECONI's attempt to make a third way between fundamentalist
fuming and evangelical silence. But, while his attention to these voices is
both important and welcome, one wonders if he has not overemphasized their
importance.

This seems especially true with regard to the Presbyterian Church of
Ireland, which Mitchel portrays as moving away from what he terms closed
evangelicalism. But his exclusive focus on the theoretical literature
certainly begs a rather critical question: to what extent does official
rhetoric reflect real attitudinal shifts? Do these thoughtful and
well-crafted pamphlets have any impact at a popular level? While there is
no doubt that Mitchel's analysis holds true for the writings and stated
beliefs of Presbyterian moderators like Dr. Trevor Morrow and Dr. Ken
Newell, the degree to which these sentiments pervade their congregations is
problematic at best. Newell, the current moderator, has been quite eloquent
on this subject in recent interviews, particularly when describing the
difficulties involved in disentangling religion from politics in Northern
Ireland.[1] Moreover, the recent political fortunes of the "new Unionists"
in the last elections would not seem to hold out much hope for this more
spiritually focused project, in the short term. At the very least,
Paisleyism's current ascendancy would seem to speak to the continued power
of religious nationalism quite nicely.

It would be wrong to end on such a sceptical note, for _Evangelicalism and
National Identity in Ulster, 1921-1998_ is a good book, and a must read for
scholars and graduate students interested in the relationships between
religion and politics in twentieth-century Northern Ireland. Mitchel's
determination to highlight the diversity of evangelical Protestantism in
Northern Ireland is a welcome one, bringing to light the efforts of groups
like ECONI. As the recent elections have shown, there are reasons that the
Reverend Dr. Ian Paisley has dominated the academic stage, but one could
argue that Mitchel's efforts to broaden that stage are all the more
important for that.

Notes

[1]. David Rutledge, "The Religion Report: Presbyterian Moderator Ken Newell
on Northern Ireland." (27 April 2005.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/relrpt/stories/s1365024.htm (Accessed 3
October 2005).



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Cooking for Michael Collins
Monday 9 January 2006 19:45-20:00 (Radio 4 FM)
By Jane Purcell

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshourdrama/pip/5ga5n/

The recording of the play can be picked up from the BBC web site - follow
the link from the above url or go to...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/progs/listenagain.shtml
and see under Woman's Hour Drama.

Guardian Review pasted in below...
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Elisabeth Mahoney
Friday January 13, 2006
The Guardian

This week's Woman's Hour Drama - Cooking for Michael Collins (Radio 4) has
been quite a gripping thing. Jane Purcell's drama based on the real-life
story of Pidgie Rigney - spy, gunrunner and cook for IRA leader Michael
Collins - told this turbulent chapter in Irish history through a female
perspective. This meant the standard story plus cooking and shoes.

Here is Pidgie, facing interrogation by British soldiers: "I was also
unfortunate in having a new pair of shoes on - they were too tight." You
can't imagine Collins dropping the same detail into the historical record.
"Everything the men did, and cooking" is how Pidgie describes women's
contribution to the fight for independence.

Niamh Cusack played Pidgie with plucky vigour, and she was good, too, as
grumpy Pidgie, returning to Ireland and disappointed by it ("nothing but
rain and mouldy old priests"). She ends up sharing a prison cell with the
Countess Markievicz, who had the drama's best lines. "Oh let's not be
formal," she tells Pidgie, when she calls her Countess, "call me Madam".

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Patrick,

New Year's greetings to our members.

We are carrying out a pilot study on returnees or potential returnees to
Ireland.

Respondents are urgently needed, so I would be pleased if you could
encourage those on your list, including their friends, to participate.

As you are aware the 'tide has turned' with regard to Irish migration in
recent years (similar to Portugal and Italy with a wave of in-migration). A
large percentage of those coming to the island are Irish nationals, and
while many do adjust, some are finding the re-adaptation difficult.

We therefore want to learn from the experiences of individuals, families, or
groups who have taken, or are thinking of taking, this step.

A Questionnaire can be filled in on our web site, or downloaded as a Word
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Slan agus beannacht

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A new - new to us - journal has begun to appear in our alerts...

Quite suddenly material from Irish Educational Studies has begun to turn up
in our nets.

I have shared notes with Ciaran Sugrue
Ciaran.Sugrue[at]spd.dcu.ie
The editor of Irish Educational Studies.

Irish Educational Studies is the journal of the Educational Studies
Association of Ireland

http://www.esai.ie/Journal.htm

They have moved the journal to Routledge/Taylor & Francis, giving a web
presence, starting with Volume 24...

http://www.journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=113310

It seems they went through all the discussions we know about - Irish Studies
Review made the same move some years ago...

So, Irish Educational Studies is now visible and available on the web. This
will be of interest to the educationalists on the IR-D list. I will post to
the IR-D list the 2 TOCs that are now readily available - this will give an
idea of the scope and approach of the journal. There are often articles to
do with the history and consequences of education, and we will keep an eye
open for matter of Irish Diaspora Studiews interest.

P.O'S.

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Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
Issue: Volume 24, Number 1 / March 2005

EDITORIAL pp. 3 - 4
=09
The Chilver Report: unity and diversity pp. 5 - 19
Richard McMinn and =C9amon Phoenix
=20
Teachers=92 craft knowledge: a constant in times of change? pp. 21 - 30
Th=E9r=E8se Day
=09
What we talk about when we talk about education: the private and public
educational talk of teachers in schools pp. 31 - 39
Kevin McDermott and Fiona Richardson
=09
Preparation for the leadership of professional staff: a critique of the
Misneach programme pp. 41 - 53
Joseph Travers and Penny McKeown
=09
Maxine Greene and the democratic project in education: signposts for the
Irish educational system pp. 55 - 64
Timothy Murphy
=20
Bringing in Bourdieu's theory of social capital: renewing learning
partnership approaches to social inclusion pp. 65 - 76
Stephen O'Brien and Mairtin =D3 Fathaigh
DOI: 10.1080/03323310500184509
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The constraints on school provision of post-primary physical education =
in
Ireland: principals=92 and teachers=92 views and experiences pp. 77 - =
91
Ann MacPhail, John Halbert, Nollaig McEvilly, Caroline Hutchinson,
Ciaran MacDonncha
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The challenges of partnership: an examination of parent=96teacher =
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school reports in the context of partnership pp. 93 - 104
Brian Macgiolla Ph=E1draig
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Student teachers=92 use of laptops in schools pp. 105 - 118
Lesley Abbott, Linda Clarke, Roger Austin
DOI: 10.1080/03323310500184574
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BOOK REVIEW pp. 119 - 122
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Volume 24 Number 2-3/September 2005

A retrospective and prospective look at the 'happy English child'1-the
applicability of postcolonial theory to the British government's education
policy in Ireland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
p. 123
Martina Relihan

Teaching for enjoyment: David Manson and his 'play school' of Belfast
p. 133
Sean Griffin

Jewish education in Dublin: organizational development and conflicts
p. 145
David Taub

'When I meet them I talk to them': the challenges of diversity for
preservice teacher education
p. 159
Aisling Leavy

Teacher development and educational change: empowerment through structured
reflection
p. 179
Anne Ryan

Prospects for the future: the use of participatory action research to study
educational disadvantage
p. 199
Emily Alana James

The effects of increasing numbers of mature students on the pedagogical
practices of lecturers in the institutes of technology
p. 207
Marie Kelly

Mothers as educational workers: mothers' emotional work at their children's
transfer to second-level education
p. 223
Maeve O'Brien

The Pushkin Trust: experiential learning and children with special
educational needs. An investigation
p. 243
Brian Hanratty, Dympna Taggart

Where is the discourse of desire? Deconstructing the Irish Relationships and
Sexuality Education (RSE) resource materials
p. 253
Elizabeth Kiely

BOOK REVIEW p. 267
Frank M. Flanagan, Tony Lyons

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Imperial Circuits and Networks: Geographies of the British Empire1
Alan Lester1=20

Sussex University

Abstract

How to write about the many, diverse places that constituted the British
Empire in the same text; how to conceive of both the differences and the
connections between Britain and its various colonies? These have been
perennial problems for imperial historians. This article begins by =
examining
the concept of 'core' and 'periphery', and the various ways that it has =
been
employed within the tradition of British imperial history. It then turns =
to
concepts such as networks, webs and circuits, which are characteristic =
of
the 'new' imperial history. It suggests that these newer concepts are =
useful
in allowing the social and cultural, as well as the economic, histories =
of
Britain and its colonies to be conceived as more fluidly and =
reciprocally
interrelated. The article concludes by suggesting that these spatial
concepts could usefully be taken further, through an explicit =
recognition of
the multiple trajectories that define any space and place.




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But I find that, if I wait for all to become clear, I forget...

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Historical Research
Online Early
doi:10.1111/j.1468-2281.2005.00366.x
Volume 0 Issue 0


The Long Parliament goes to war: the Irish campaigns, 1641-3*
Robert Armstrong1

Abstract

As England lurched towards war in 1642, the Westminster parliament had
already become embroiled in a lengthy and costly war of reconquest in
Ireland. An examination of the war effort in Ireland reveals the scale of
parliament's commitment to sustained long-distance warfare, the range of
initiatives developed to harness the necessary political and material
resources, and its increasing reliance upon an emerging war interest of
investors and suppliers. The outbreak of civil war in England saw parliament
deploy a similar gamut of initiatives, nationally and locally, to those used
in Ireland, but in very different strategic and political contexts.
Parliament was engaged in a smaller-scale version of the multiple-front
conflicts of the great European powers and disengagement from Ireland,
England's Flanders, was not an option.

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A retrospective and prospective look at the 'happy English child'1-the
applicability of postcolonial theory to the British government's education
policy in Ireland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Author: Relihan, Martina1

Source: Irish Educational Studies, Volume 24, Numbers 2-3, Number
2-3/September 2005, pp. 123-131(9)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group


Abstract:
This paper looks at traditional nationalist and revisionist schools of
historiography in relation to the British government's educational policy in
Ireland following the establishment of the national school system in 1831
until the beginning of the twentieth century. It contrasts this with the
postcolonial historiographical approach. It also looks at concepts of
'internal colonialisation' and the concept of the 'celtic fringe'. It
relates these various approaches particularly to the effect of the
government's educational policy on the position of the Irish language at
that time.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/03323310500435323

Affiliations: 1: Corbollis, Laytown, Co. Meath

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A number of newspapers have picked up on the follow on story from this
research report in The American Journal of Human Genetics - did the
researchers put out a press release?

And a number of IR-D members have brought newspaper articles to our
attention...

Original source at...
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJHG/index.html

Some brief newspaper articles follow. A search in Google News will find
many, many more. Anyone want to do a little study of diasporic spin?

P.O'S.


Am. J. Hum. Genet., 78:334-338, 2006
0002-9297/2006/7802-0014$15.00
=A9 2005 by The American Society of Human Genetics. All rights reserved.

Report

A Y-Chromosome Signature of Hegemony in Gaelic Ireland

Laoise T. Moore,1,* Brian McEvoy,1,* Eleanor Cape,1 Katharine Simms,2 =
and
Daniel G. Bradley1

1Smurfit Institute of Genetics and 2School of Histories and Humanities,
Trinity College, Dublin

Received September 29, 2005; accepted for publication November 18, 2005;
electronically published December 8, 2005.

Seventeen-marker simple tandem repeat genetic analysis of Irish Y
chromosomes reveals a previously unnoted modal haplotype that peaks in
frequency in the northwestern part of the island. It shows a significant
association with surnames purported to have descended from the most
important and enduring dynasty of early medieval Ireland, the U=ED =
N=E9ill. This
suggests that such phylogenetic predominance is a biological record of =
past
hegemony and supports the veracity of semimythological early =
genealogies.
The fact that about one in five males sampled in northwestern Ireland is
likely a patrilineal descendent of a single early medieval ancestor is a
powerful illustration of the potential link between prolificacy and =
power
and of how Y-chromosome phylogeography can be influenced by social
selection.

* These two authors contributed equally to this work.

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-----Original Message-----
From today's New York Times

January 18, 2006
If New York's Irish Claim Nobility, Science May Back Up the Blarney
By NICHOLAS WADE

Listen more kindly to the New York Irishmen who assure you that the blood of
early Irish kings flows in their veins. At least 2 percent of the time, they
are telling the truth, according to a new genetic survey.

The survey not only bolsters the bragging rights of some Irishmen claiming a
proud heritage but also provides evidence of the existence of Niall of the
Nine Hostages, an Irish high king of the fifth century A.D. regarded by some
historians as more legend than real.

The survey shows that 20 percent of men in northwestern Ireland carry a
distinctive genetic signature on their Y chromosomes, possibly inherited
from Niall, who was said to have had numerous sons, or some other leader in
a position to have had many descendants.

About one in 50 New Yorkers of European origin - including men with names
like O'Connor, Flynn, Egan, Hynes, O'Reilly and Quinn - carry the genetic
signature linked with Niall and northwestern Ireland, writes Daniel Bradley,
the geneticist who conducted the survey with colleagues at Trinity College
in Dublin. He arrived at that estimate after surveying the Y chromosomes in
a genetic database that included New Yorkers.

About 400,000 city residents say they are of Irish ancestry, according to a
2004 Census Bureau survey.

"I hope this means that I inherit a castle in Ireland," the novelist Peter
Quinn said by phone from the Peter McManus cafe in Chelsea. Some McManuses
also have the genetic signature. ("I hang out with kings," Mr. Quinn said.)

He said his father used to tell him that all the Quinn men were bald from
wearing a crown. But he added, "We spent 150 years in the Bronx, and I think
we wiped out all the royal genes in the process."

The report appears in the January issue of The American Journal of Human
Genetics.

Dr. Bradley said he was as surprised at finding evidence that Niall existed
as he would have been to learn that King Arthur had been real. Niall of the
Nine Hostages was so named because in his early reign he consolidated his
power by taking hostages from opposing royal families.

He estimated that two million to three million men worldwide carry the
distinctive Y chromosome signature, which he named the I.M.H., for Irish
modal haplotype. A haplotype is a set of genetic mutations.

If he was indeed the patriarch, Niall of the Nine Hostages would rank among
the most prolific males in history, behind Genghis Khan, ancestor of 16
million men in Asia, but ahead of Giocangga, founder of China's Manchu
dynasty and forefather of some 1.6 million. This calculation, and the
estimate of the I.M.H. signature's frequency in New York, were derived from
a database of Y chromosome mutations.

The writer and actor Malachy McCourt said he was not surprised, since every
Irish person is related to a king.

"They didn't mind who they slept with, and they had first dibs," he said.
"It's so boring. It's not like the house of Windsor; every tribe had its own
king."

He said Niall was "a highwayman. He was a slave trader, nothing noble about
him. He was a pirate."

The link between the Niall Y chromosome and social power, which would have
enabled the king to leave many descendants, "stretches back to the fifth
century, which is a long time in Western European terms," Dr. Bradley said.

Asked if he himself carried the Niall signature, Dr. Bradley said he did and
was "quite pleased," even though tradition holds that Niall captured and
enslaved St. Patrick, who brought Christianity to Ireland.

Niall is said to have obtained hostages from each of the five provinces that
then constituted Ireland, as well as from Scotland, the Saxons, the Britons
and the Franks. He is thought to be the patriarch of the Ui Neill, meaning
"the descendants of Niall," a group of dynasties that claimed the high
kingship and ruled the northwest and other parts of Ireland from about A.D.
600 to 900.

But historians have tended to view the Ui Neill as a political construct,
doubting their genealogical claims of descent from Niall and even whether
Niall existed at all.

When the Irish took surnames, however, around A.D. 1000, some chose names
associated with the Ui Neill dynasties. Dr. Bradley tested Irishmen with Ui
Neill surnames and found the I.M.H. signature was much more common among
them than among Irishmen as a whole.

The men with Ui Neill surnames tested by Dr. Bradley included those with the
names, in anglicized form, O'Gallagher, O'Boyle, O'Doherty, O'Donnell,
O'Connor, Cannon, Bradley, O'Reilly, Flynn, McKee, Campbell, Devlin,
Donnelly, Egan, Gormley, Hynes, McCaul, McGovern, McLoughlin, McManus,
McMenamin, Molloy, O'Kane, O'Rourke and Quinn. (The prefix "O" is sometimes
dropped.)

Dr. Katherine Simms, a Celtic historian at Trinity College who advised the
geneticists and was a co-author of their report, said some historians had
assumed that the common ancestor of the Ui Neill was "merely a mythical
divine ancestor figure, imagined in order to explain the political links
that existed between the dynasties themselves in the later period."

But Dr. Bradley's findings, she said, "appear to confirm that the Ui Neill
really did come from a common ancestor," and perhaps that the mythical
narrative of Niall's birth and ascent to kingship "had a genetic basis."

The earliest Irish genealogies, if true, must have been recorded in oral
form for several generations, since writing did not become common in Ireland
until 600. Dr. Daibhi O'Croinin of the National University of Ireland in
Galway said he was confident that "extensive genealogical material" could
have been memorized and put into writing later, but "whether Niall of the
Nine Hostages ever existed is itself a moot point."

Another Celtic expert, Dr. Catherine McKenna of Harvard University, said in
an e-mail message that "historians will be skeptical about the notion that
all of the Ui Neill descend from the ancestor who seems to be implied by the
genetic evidence, or that this ancestor was Niall Noigiallach (Niall of the
Nine Hostages) himself."

She said the number of Niall's supposed sons grew from 4 to 14 as new
dynasties achieved power and claimed descent from Niall. "The evidence for
the Ui Neill as a political construct is strong enough that historians
wouldn't readily believe in the historical reality of Niall himself," she
said.

Still, the new genetic evidence may convince historians that there was a
common ancestor for at least one of the major branches of the Ui Neill, such
as the Cenel nEogain, which lived in an area of northwest Ireland where the
I.M.H. is most common.

"In fact," Dr. McKenna said, "I find the evidence, from that point of view,
really fascinating."

Michelle O'Donnell contributed reporting for this article.

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Scientists trace Ireland's most fertile man

Reuters
Wednesday January 18, 2006
The Guardian

Scientists in Ireland may have found the country's most fertile male, with
more than three million men worldwide among his offspring.

The scientists, from Trinity College Dublin, have discovered that as many as
one in 12 Irish men could be descended from Niall of the Nine Hostages, a
5th century warlord who headed the most powerful dynasty in ancient Ireland.

His genetic legacy is almost as impressive as that of Genghis Khan, the
Mongol emperor who conquered most of Asia in the 13th century and has nearly
16 million descendants, Dan Bradley, who supervised the research, said.

"It's another link between profligacy and power," Dr Bradley told Reuters.
"We're the first generation on the planet where if you're successful you
don't [always] have more children."

The research was carried out by PhD student Laoise Moore at the Smurfit
institute of genetics at Trinity. Ms Moore, testing the Y chromosome which
is passed on from fathers to sons, examined DNA from 800 males across
Ireland.

The results - published in the American Journal of Human Genetics - showed
the highest concentration of related males in north-west Ireland, where one
in five males had the same Y chromosome.

A similar study in central Asia had found 8% of men with the same Y
chromosome. Subsequent studies found they shared the same chromosome as the
dynasty linked to Genghis Khan.

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STUDIES -DUBLIN-
VOL 94; NUMB 376; 2005
ISSN 0039-3495

pp. 339-345
The Health of Irish Society
Waters, J.

p. 346
Cranes & Crosses - A Poem
Guckian, M.

pp. 347-354
Ireland's Anti-Tobacco Crusade: What's the Point?
Brillet, P.

pp. 355-366
Parasuicide
Casey, P.

pp. 367-374
Quality Hospice Care - A sign of a healthy society
Murray, E.

pp. 375-384
Corporate Sickness and Corporate Health
Kinsella, R.; McNerney, J.

pp. 385-396
"Systemic Corporate Failure of Public Administration" Reflections on the
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pp. 397-406
The Health of Public Broadcasting
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pp. 407-414
Market-Speak and Malaise in our Universities
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pp. 415-417
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, by Robert D.
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pp. 418-420
Dry Stone Wall - A Poem
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pp. 421-422
Patients, Potions and Physicians: a Social History of Medicine in Ireland
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Gaughan, J. A.

pp. 423-424
Conflict and Consensus: A Study of Values and Attitudes in the Republic of
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pp. 425-426
Theorising Irish Social Policy, by B. Fanning, P. Kennedy, G. Kiely, G. and
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pp. 427-429
The "Preferential Option for the Poor" in Catholic Social Thought from John
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pp. 430-431
A Church with a Future; Challenges to Irish Catholicism Today, edited by
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pp. 432-433
Nineteenth-century Ireland: a Guide to Recent Research, edited by Laurence
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pp. 434-435
The Irish Martyrs, edited by Patrick J. Corish and Benignus Millett, OFM
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p. 436
The Outdoor Light, by Desmond Egan
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pp. 437-438
Selected Poems, by Martin Crawford
King, N.

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From: Brian Lambkin [mailto:Brian.Lambkin[at]magni.org.uk]=20
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Hello Paddy

Just prompted by seeing the reference to Irish Educational Studies...

Note the launch of a new journal, Shared Space: a research journal on =
peace,
conflict and community relations in Northern Ireland
www.community-relations.org.uk

first issue September 2005...

best wishes

Brian

Shared Space
13th October 2005

Shared Space

The Community Relations Council has published a new research journal on
peace, conflict and community relations in Northern Ireland. Called =
Shared
Space the journal aims to publish articles based on current and recent
academic research which will add to the process of learning to deal with
conflict in a divided society. Many of the articles are based on =
research
funded by CRC awards. This first issue, launched in September 2005, =
contains
articles by Neil Jarman (ICR) on the development of new interface areas,
David Russell (CRC) on strategies for making Belfast a shared city, =
Patricia
Lundy and Mark McGovern (UU) on a community-based truth-telling process,
Dirk Schubotz and Paula Devine (QUB) on young people's attitudes to
community relations and Helen Lewis (UU) on the role of NGOs in =
assisting
marginalised groups.

Shared Space is edited by Ray Mullan, CRC's Director of Communications, =
and
is available, price =A34.99, from the Community Relations Resources =
Centre.
The next issue is due for publication in Spring 2006.

Email: poneill[at]nicrc.org.uk