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...which brings us to the question of pronunciation as assimilation: =
yes? no? How do the Mahoneys, Flahives and Horans of home become the =
m'HOWNies, Flay-Hives and Horans of the USA? They don't in England. Do =
they in the rest of the anglophone world? I take Kearney to be the San =
Francisco Kearney (was he Denis?) who was notable for his opposition to =
Chinese immigration. And Denis (but not the English form Dennis) is the =
anglicisation of Donnachadha.

To add an omission from my last note: Patrice MacMahon (pronounced =
MacM=E1-hon) became duc de Magenta, Marshal of France, and President of =
the Republic. Unlike the Irish Presidents of America and Israel, he =
could not speak English (I don't suppose he spoke Irish either). =20

David Rose
Paris Xve.
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Subject: Irishtown


From: Morgan, John Matthew [mailto:jmorgan[at]umr.edu]=20
Subject: RE: [IR-D] Irishtown


I've been struck by the fact that Kearney Ave in Springfield, =
Missouri,
like the town of Kearney, Nebraska, is pronounced the Irish way,
"Carney", not, as you would expect Kearney to be pronounced in the
US--first syllable rhyming with "ear."

Jack Morgan

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And so to bed...

After what was - I think - the busiest day in the history of the Irish
Diaspora list...

There were some items left over from our Spam Cop problems yesterday. But I
think I ushered everything through. If I did not, please let me know...

The day should not end without our congratulating Piaras and his colleagues
at Cork. The launch of the MA in contemporary migration and diaspora
studies is an achievement. These things are not easy. Our good wishes to
them, and we look forward to hearing from their students in due course.

Patrick O'Sullivan

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From: MacEinri, Piaras
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Sent: 26 January 2006 12:10
To: Patrick O'Sullivan
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Dear Paddy

Members of the IR-D list may be interested to know that UCC will launch, in
2006, a new taught MA programme in contemporary migration and diaspora
studies.

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From: Gerard Moran [mailto:gerard.moran[at]gmail.com]=20
Subject: Re: [IR-D] Taught MA in contemporary migration and diaspora =
studies
in Cork 2

Might I add my best wishes to Patrick's, regarding the new M.A. course =
in
Cork.=A0 Perhaps it will make Irish people in general more aware of the
problems of current migration for both the host and recipient =
country.=A0 This
is especially significant at a time when Irish politicians are following
rather than leading in the migration debate.=A0=20
=A0
Gerard Moran,
Brussels
=A0
On 1/26/06, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:=20

The day should not end without our congratulating Piaras and his =
colleagues
at Cork.=A0=A0The launch of the MA in contemporary migration and =
diaspora
studies is an achievement.=A0=A0These things are not easy.=A0=A0Our good =
wishes to=20
them, and we look forward to hearing from their students in due course.

Patrick O'Sullivan

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From: Dymphna.Lonergan[at]flinders.edu.au Subject: Re: [IR-D] Naming =
patterns
in the Irish diaspora

Taking up Kerby Miller's mention of "gaelic' names, it probably goes=20
without saying that official records will probably show only English =
names.=20
During my search for 'sheila', I looked at the names on the eighteenth =
and=20
nineteenth century convict ships coming from Ireland (available online). =

There were no Irish language names


le gach dea ghu=ED
Dymphna


Dr Dymphna Lonergan
Professional English Convener
Room 282, Humanities, Flinders University
(08) 8201 2079

1966-2006
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Research interests: Business English, Plain English, Australian English, =

Hiberno English, Irish language words in English, Anglo-Irish =
literature,=20
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From: Breen X [mailto:brianoconchubhair[at]yahoo.com]
Subject: Re: [IR-D] CELTIC Football Club and Sam Maguire Cup

Paddy,

Mike Cronin's essay 'Sam Maguire: Forgotten Hero and
National Icon' in Sport in History, Vol. 25, No. 2
(August 2005) pp. 189-205 may be of use to those
interested in Maguire and the idea of the trophy as
material culture.

Yours,
Brian

> From: Joe Bradley
> j.m.bradley[at]stir.ac
>
> Thought this might interest diaspora members. There
> were some other
> comments in a couple of other newspapers - regarding
> the Sam Maguire/IRA
> Trophy story - but I only have the hard copies.
>
> Joe Bradley

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There were 2 TG4 documentaries on the man and the cup broadcast in Dec/Jan
2005-6. A bit late for notice but no doubt they'll be seen again.

Peter Hart

>From: Breen X [mailto:brianoconchubhair[at]yahoo.com]
>Subject: Re: [IR-D] CELTIC Football Club and Sam Maguire Cup
>
>Paddy,
>
>Mike Cronin's essay 'Sam Maguire: Forgotten Hero and
>National Icon' in Sport in History, Vol. 25, No. 2
>(August 2005) pp. 189-205 may be of use to those
>interested in Maguire and the idea of the trophy as
>material culture.
>
>Yours,
>Brian
>

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From: Carmel McCaffrey [mailto:cmcc[at]qis.net]
Subject: Re: [IR-D] origin of culchie]

Unwise to expect much Hiberno-English from OED. According to
Terence Dolan {A Dictionary of Hiberno-English} the word is derived from
a place /Coillte Mach/ and was used to describe someone from that place
or someone from a rural area. In very common usage in Dublin when I was
growing up but, as with so much that was in the Irish vernacular, had no
place in any "English" dictionary.

Carmel Mc

Gillespie, Michael wrote:

>Dear Friends,
>

>Can anyone point me toward a reference that would give the origin of the
term "culchie"? My edition of the OED does not list it, and an online
search has not been helpful. Thanks very much.
>
>Michael
>
>Michael Patrick Gillespie
>Louise Edna Goeden Professor of English
>Marquette University
>

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Dear Paddy,

Could you please circulate this programme. Anyone wishing to attend
these lectures and wanting more information should contact Dr Maria
O'Brien at the Ulster Scots Institute at Magee in Derry:
m.obrien[at]ulster.ac.uk.

ELM

Australia Week 6-10 February 2006
Institute of Ulster Scots Studies
UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER

Date: 7th February 2006
Venue: MI022, Aberfoyle House, Magee Campus, University of Ulster
Time: 1.30pm
Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Harrison, University of Queensland
Lecture Topic:
'Eden could yield no more: Ulster-Scots migrants in Moreton Bay, 1848-59'


Date: 8th February 2006
Venue: C001, Courtroom, Coleraine Campus, University of Ulster
Time: 1.30pm
Speaker: Professor Elizabeth Malcolm, Gerry Higgins Chair of Irish
History, University of Melbourne
Lecture Topic:
'Searching for a Forgotten People: The Ulster Scots in Australia'


Date: 9th February 2006
Venue: 2F06, Jordanstown Campus, University of Ulster
Time: 1.30pm
Speakers: Dr. Dianne Hall, University of Melbourne and Dr. Lindsay
Proudfoot, Queens University, Belfast
Lecture Topic:
'Routes of Memory: Placing the Ulster-Scots in New South Wales'



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Department of History * University of Melbourne * Victoria 3010 * AUSTRALIA
Phone: +61-3-8344 3924 * Fax: +61-3-8344 7894 * Email: e.malcolm[at]unimelb.edu.au
Website: http://www.history.unimelb.edu.au/irish/index.htm

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From: "James A. Lundon"
To:
Subject: RE: [IR-D] origin of culchie 2

More specifically Kiltimagh in Co. Mayo, as I understand it.

http://www.kiltimagh.net

(which mentions 'a new entry in the Oxford Dictionary').

http://kiltimagh.mayo-ireland.ie


James.

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From: Carmel McCaffrey [mailto:cmcc[at]qis.net]
Subject: Re: [IR-D] origin of culchie]

Unwise to expect much Hiberno-English from OED. According to
Terence Dolan {A Dictionary of Hiberno-English} the word is derived from
a place /Coillte Mach/ and was used to describe someone from that place
or someone from a rural area. In very common usage in Dublin when I was
growing up but, as with so much that was in the Irish vernacular, had no
place in any "English" dictionary.

Carmel Mc

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From: John FitzGerald [mailto:jfitz[at]mun.ca]
Subject: Re: [IR-D] Irishtown

Hello Paddy,

Peter Hart is correct in noting that the town of St. John's here on
the island of Newfoundland didn't have an Irishtown. According to the
census of 1836, about 11,500 of the town's almost 15,000 inhabitants
were Irish - and recorded by the British colonial officials in
Newfoundland as "Catholic". Those unfamiliar with Newfoundland might
note that over 95% of the Irish who came to Newfoundland between the
1680s and 1830s were Irish - and that there were only a handful of
non-Roman Catholic Irish resident in St. John's or on the east coast
of the Island of Newfoundland during this period.

Outside St. John's, however, to the west of the city in Conception
Bay, the community of Brigus contained mixed English and Irish
settlers, and had (and still has) an Irishtown. I will also have to
check further to find whether Harbour Grace or Carbonear did, too -
but during the 19th century, St. John's, Harbour Grace, and the
fishing village of St. Mary's, St. Mary's Bay, Newfoundland had
"Riverhead" neighborhoods, which were almost exclusively Irish and Catholic.

Interestingly, all three Newfoundland Riverheads were Irish and were
geographic sites at which Irish power and/or legitimacy was asserted.
At the village of St. Mary's, St. Mary's Bay, Newfoundland in 1834,
J.H. Martin, agent for the merchant house of Slade and Elson,
constructed a fish flake on a beach which impeded access to a
newly-built Irish Catholic church as well as the path to the
village's neighborhood of Riverhead. In response, in early 1835, the
Catholic parish priest Fr. James Duffy and his Irish congregation
burnt down the fish flake, which provoked the British governor of
Newfoundland to send British troops and a magistrate and lay charges.
Following the Newfoundland national election in 1869, in which the
proposal that Newfoundland confederate with Canada was defeated, a
mock funeral was held by the Irish Catholics of St. John's to
celebrate the defeat of this "act of union". The procession passed
through the St. John's neighborhood of Riverhead and the coffin was
dumped into the Waterford River (which flows into St. John's
harbour). Victory was celebrated by Irish anti-confederates in song,
part of the verse of which is as follows: "So now Confederation / A
shameful death has died. / 'Tis buried up at Riverhead / Beneath the
flowing tide." And on St. Stephen's Day 1883, the Irish Roman
Catholics of Riverhead, Harbour Grace, refused to permit an Orange
Parade to pass in front of the newly-built Catholic Church in order
to get to the Orange Lodge. (Interestingly, very few Protestants or
Orangemen at this time in Newfoundland were Irish; most were of
English heritage.) Fighting broke out and three Orangemen and one
Catholic were shot dead.

Best,

John FitzGerald
Memorial University


At 12:21 PM 1/26/2006, you wrote:

>I was just reading Tom Dunne's work on the Battle of New Ross, in which its
>Irishtown was a prominent feature.
>
>I have a feeling I've mentioned this before, but Toronto had a post-famine
>'Corktown' - a story about it appeared in the Toronto Star c. 1998, as
>there was still a house standing from the period. I don't think the name
>has survived.
>
>I don't think St. John's, here in Newfoundland, had an Irishtown, although
>John Fitzgerald may correct me. Unusual? There is a Monkstown,
>Georgestown, Rabbittown, but I don't think any ethnic designations.
>Perhaps a result of Irish Catholic settlers being in the majority?
>
>It is indeed a very interesting topic.
>
>Peter Hart

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Note that this is one of the Journal's Special Issues - this one on
'Masculinities'. And there are a number of items here of interest to IR-D
members.

P.O'S.


IRISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY
VOL 14; NUMB 2 MASCULINITIES; 2005
ISSN 0791-6035

pp. 11-28
Growing up masculine: rethinking the significance of adolescence in the
making of masculinities
Connell, R. W.

pp. 29-52
A `Manual on Masculinity'? The consumption and use of mediated images of
masculinity among teenage boys in Ireland
Ging, D.

pp. 53-65
Fallen heroes? All about men
Weeks, J.

pp. 66-93
Autobiography, nation, postcolonialism and gender relations: reflecting on
men in England, Finland and Ireland
Hearn, J.

pp. 94-114
`You're not a man at all!': masculinity, responsibility, and staying on the
land in contemporary Ireland
Laoire, C. N.

pp. 115-133
`WARSAW 2': gendered negotations in a fearful landscape
Lysaght, K.

pp. 134-154
Portrait of the `absent' father: the impact of non-residency on developing
and maintaining a fathering role
Corcoran, M. P.

pp. 155-176
Death rather than disclosure: struggling to be a real man
Cleary, A.

pp. 177-192
Gender and children's social world: esteemed and marginalised masculinities
in the primary school playground
Lodge, A.

pp. 193-212
Feminisation and schooling: re-masculinisation, gendered reflexivity and
boyness
Haywood, C.; Popoviciu, L.; Ghaill, M. M. a.

pp. 213-230
Mentoring masculinities: race and class in the (re-) construction of gender
in the USA and the UK
Kimmel, M.; Traver, A.

pp. 231-252
`Speak and act in a manly fashion': the role of the body in the construction
of men and masculinity in primary teacher education in Ireland
O Donoghue, D.

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On a train of thought...

This is a Research Note I wrote for a friend and colleague last year...

This list is not meant to be exhaustive...

Just to confirm my earlier message...

Most of the things that have come to my attention tend to be about
masculinities as a problem for women, or causing problems for women, or
about problematised masculinities, from people with a gay or queer =
agenda...

There are some, an increasing number, of pieces offering a general
problematising of masculinity, as part of a world-wide trend. But it is
hard to see a specific Irish dimension in these...

Deep within this I think there is the possibility of an exploration of =
Irish
masculinity as a dreadful trap into which lads must fall... That would =
be a
fairly straightforward piece, without new research. It would include
something about alcohol, and masculinity as a political response...

The following writers have touched on, to some extent, some issues =
around
Irish men and Diaspora...=20

Harry Ferguson
Marilyn Cohen
Nancy J. Curtin
Mairtin Mac an Ghaill,
John Goodwin,
Caitr=EDona N=ED Laoire
Denis Linehan=20
Pat O'Connor
Colleen McDannell,=20
Patrick F. McDevitt
Louise Ryan,
Joanna Bourke =20
and maybe add
Richard Stivers,
plus a few others...

I did a quick web search to see what might be picked up...

Key texts...

1.
Marilyn Cohen and Nancy J. Curtin, editors. Reclaiming Gender: =
Transgressive
Identities in Modern Ireland. New York: St. Martin's. 1999. Pp. 298.=20

includes
Curtin, Nancy J.
* "'A Nation of Abortive Men': The United Irishmen and the =
Construction
of Republican Masculinity,
Joanna Bourke=20
=93The Ideal Man: Irish Masculinity and the Home, 1880-1914=94,

See also...
American Ethnologist
May 2001, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 466-467
Posted online on October 29, 2004.
Reclaiming Gender: Transgressive Identities in Modern Ireland
Review by Stuart McLean
Columbia University
American Ethnologist
May 2001, Vol. 28, No. 2: pp. 466-467
REVIEW OF=20
Reclaiming Gender: Transgressive Identities in Modern Ireland Reclaiming
Gender: Transgressive Identities in Modern Ireland. Marilyn Cohen and =
Nancy
J. Curtin,


2.
Critical Studies on Men in Ten European Countries: (4) Newspaper and =
Media
Representations
Hearn et al. Men and Masculinities.2003; 6: 173-201.=20
This article is on the work of the European Research Network on Men in
Europe project, "The Social Problem and Societal Problematization of Men =
and
Masculinities" (2000-2003), funded by the European Commission. The =
Network
comprises women and men researchers with a range of disciplinary =
backgrounds
from Estonia, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Poland, =
the
Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom. The Network's initial focus =
is
on men's relations to home and work, social exclusion, violence, and =
health.
Some of the findings on the Network's fourth phase of work, namely the
review of newspaper and media representations of men's practices in the =
ten
countries, are presented. This is the last of four articles reviewing
critical studies on men in the ten countries through different methods =
and
approaches.

(Harry Ferguson is a member of this group...)

3.
You will be familiar with the work of Louise Ryan...

EG
Ryan, Louise
Gender, Identity, and the Irish Press, 1922-37: Embodying the Nation.
Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press, 2002.
Sexualising Emigration: Discourses of Irish Female Emigration in the =
1930s,"
in: Women's Studies International Forum 25:1 (2002): 51-65.

4.
You will be familiar with the work of Joanna Bourke - which has taken a
strange turn...

EG
Joanna Bourke=20
"=92Irish Tommies=92: The Construction of a Martial Manhood 1914-1918", =
Bullan,
6 (February 1998), 13-30
=93The Ideal Man: Irish Masculinity and the Home, 1880-1914=94, in =
Marilyn Cohen
and Nancy Curtin (eds.), Reclaiming Gender: Transgressive Identities in
Modern Ireland (New York: St. Martin=92s Press, March 1999), 93-106

5.
Mairtin Mac an Ghaill has been prowling around the issues for some =
years...

Mac an Ghaill, Mairtin. (1994). The Making of Men: Masculinities,
Sexualities and Schooling. Buckingham: Open University Press.

Mac an Ghaill, Mairtin. (1996). Irish Masculinities and Sexualities in
England. In Adkins, Lisa and Mercant, Vicki. (eds). Sexualizing the =
Social:
Power and the Organization of Sexuality, Hampshire & London: Macmillan.

See also...
Gender politics and Exploring Masculinities in Irish Education=20
M=E1irt=EDn Mac an Ghaill, Joan Hanafin, Paul F Conway
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat=20
www.education.ie/servlet/blobservlet/ncca_exp_masc.pdf?language=3DEN -=20

6.
Caitr=EDona N=ED Laoire...

The special issue of Irish Geography is available online...

Irish Geography
access available via=20
http://www.ucd.ie/gsi/journal.html
Engendering the human geographies of Ireland

A thematic section edited by=20
Caitr=EDona N=ED Laoire and Denis Linehan

Editorial 1-5 =09
Gender and Irishness- how Irish women in Coventry make home Moya
Kneafesy and Rosie Cox 6-15 =09
Young farmers, masculinities and change in rural ireland Caitr=EDona =
N=ED Laoire
16-27 =09
Female Employment in the multinational electronics industry in Ireland's
south-west planning region Almar Barry and Barry Brunt 28-39 =09
All over the place, in towns, in the pub, everywhere - a social =
geography of
women's friendship in Cork Liam Coakley 40-50=20
Dangerous friends and deadly foes - performances of maculinity in =
Belfast
Karen Lysaght 51-62 =09
Where the boys are - teenagers, masculinity and a sense of place
Aoife Curtin and Denis Linehan 63-74 =09
Entire thematic section 1-74

See also...

Sociologia Ruralis
Volume 41 Issue 2 Page 220 - April 2001
doi:10.1111/1467-9523.00179
=20
The miserable countryside
A Matter of Life and Death? Men, Masculinities and Staying 'Behind' in =
Rural
Ireland
Caitr=EDona N=ED Laoire

This paper is set within the context of a growing interest in the =
gendered
nature of rurality and of rural life, and in particular in the context =
of an
emerging literature on rural masculinities. It focuses on rural men and =
in
particular on the phenomenon of rising male rural suicide rates. The =
paper
reviews existing research in order to ascertain the validity of popular
claims of high and rising suicide rates among young men in rural =
Ireland,
and explores possible explanations for this phenomenon. It draws on =
medical
and psychological literature but sets this material in a wider =
geographical
context, focusing on processes of contemporary rural restructuring and =
the
oft-cited masculinity crisis. The paper concludes that in order to
understand the processes behind rising male suicide rates, we need to
understand the struggles for power and identity that are going on in =
places,
and the movements of people in and out of places. Therefore geography =
and
gender studies can contribute to a greater understanding of the =
phenomenon,
suggesting that this is an area that merits further interdisciplinary
research.
=20
7.
You would have to think about alcohol...

See my research note on mental health, on irishdiaspora.net.
and
Richard Stivers, Hair of the Dog: Irish Drinking and Its American
Stereotype, 1976, re-published 2000.

8.
And of course stereotypes and representations...

I came across this...

REVIEW ARTICLE
Walt Whitman and New Biographical Criticism
Randall Knoper
Pollak, Vivian R. 2000. The Erotic Whitman. Berkeley: University of
California Press. $50.00 hc, $18.95 sc; xxiv + 261 pp.=20

Krieg, Joann P. 2000. Whitman and the Irish. Iowa City: University of =
Iowa
Press. $39.95 hc, $19.95 sc; xvii + 273 pp.
http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/college_literature/v030/30.1knoper.html

...Krieg, of course, cannot write about Whitman and the Irish and =
totally
avoid critical generalizations about Whitman's conceptions of ethnicity. =
The
most basic one, she notes, is that Whitman, like so many other non-Irish
Americans of the time, thought of the Irish in highly stereotypical =
ways,
based on conceptions of "blood," "stock," and national character. So, =
for
Whitman, Irish character, at least in its "higher samples" (ix), was =
noble,
tenacious, loyal, humorous, courageous, warm, combative, fiery, frank,
virile, emotional, and so on. More particularly, Krieg suggests on =
several
occasions a kind of narrative arc in Whitman's attitudes about the =
Irish. It
begins with his nativist denunciations of the Irish in the 1840s; moves
through his poetic identifications with immigrants, the Irish included, =
in
the 1850s; and ends with the belief, strong at least by 1871, that even =
the
Catholic Irish could absorb the principles and practices of democracy =
and
could learn to become independent and free. What one notices immediately =
in
this story, however, is the way it is crossed, and therefore =
complicated, by
questions of class and religion.=20

9.
Odds and Ends

'Male Breadwinner: A Case Study of Gender and Social Security in the
Republic of Ireland', pp. 167 - 180 in A. Byrne and M. Leonard (eds.) =
Women
and Irish Society - A Sociological Reader, Belfast: Beyond the Pale
Publications, 1997 (Anthony McCashin and Geoffrey Cook)=20

Formations and Transformations of Masculinity in the North of Ireland =
and in
Israel-Palestine
Laurence McKeown & Simona Sharoni
Unpublished paper, 2002
http://www.oly-wa.us/simona/MasculinityUnpublished.pdf

CURRENT RESEARCH STUDENT PROJECTS:
Men=92s Health Practices and the Construction of Masculinities
Funding body: South-eastern Health Board, Lacken, Kilkenny, Ireland
Contact: Noel Richardson - email icon Richardsonn[at]sehb.ie
Collaborator: Waterford Institute of Technology, Cork Road, Waterford,
Ireland

To investigate how patterns of ill health, health behaviours and risk
behaviours are associated with the construction of masculinities among =
Irish
men.
Men in Ireland die, on average nearly 6 years younger than women do, and
have higher death rates at all ages, and for all leading causes of =
death. It
has also been reported that the uptake of primary health care services =
and
preventative health opportunities is much lower in men compared to =
women.
This study seeks to problematise masculinities and men=92s health in =
Ireland,
and to identify the health practices that form part of the construction =
of
different masculinities amongst Irish men.
Ethical approval for the study was sought and obtained from both UWE =
Ethical
Committee and from Waterford Regional Hospital Ethical Committee, =
Ireland.
The study comprises both quantitative and qualitative methodologies:
A =91Men=92s Health Questionnaire=92 was designed to elicit quantitative =
data on
the following areas: (i) perceived barriers for men in terms of =
accessing
primary care; (ii) men=92s knowledge and awareness of health; (iii) =
men=92s
health behaviours (iv) men=92s emotional and relational health. A random
sample of 900 male patients was selected from 25 General Practices =
within
the region.
The response rate was 62%. The data will be analysed using SPSS
A qualitative element to the project aims to explore (i) men=92s concept =
of
health; (ii) how men cope with illness; (iii) men=92s health behaviours =
and
risk behaviours; and (iv) men=92s self-care practices. It is proposed to =
use
semi-structured, open-ended interviews, using a grounded theory approach =
for
data analyses.=20

Young Men as Victims and Perpetrators of Violence in Northern ...
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terms of the masculinity of young, unemployed, working class men living =
on
...
Masculinities and crime critique and reconceptualization of theory. ...
www.psych.qub.ac.uk/staff/teaching/muldoon/profile/youngmen.pdf -=20

Garry Martin Leonard
"Boys Will Be Men: Masculinity in Joyce", Joyce and Masculinity, eds.
Colleen Lamos and Christine van Boheemen (Cambridge University Press,
forthcoming).

Garry Martin Leonard
Professor, Division of Humanities (English)
E-mail : leonard[at]scar.utoronto.ca; leonardgarry[at]hotmail.com

PAT O=92CONNOR*
University of Limerick
Ireland: A Man=92s World?
The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 31, No. 1, January, 2000, pp. =
81-102
http://www.esr.ie/vol31_1/4_OConnor.pdf

McDannell, Colleen. 1986 "True Men as We Need Them: Catholicism and the
Irish-American Male." American Studies (Fall):19-36.
This article explains the didactic relationship between Catholic =
reformers
and the nineteenth-century masculinities of Irish-American Males.

EU FPV Thematic Network: The Social Problem and Societal =
Problematisation of
Men and Masculinities
IRELAND NATIONAL REPORT ON RESEARCH ON MEN=92S PRACTICES WORK PACKAGE 1=20
Harry Ferguson
National Report on Ireland
www.cromenet.org/crome/crome.nsf/publications/F63718CBF67DD401C22569D2002=
F87
B9/$file/Ireland.doc=20
PDF Printable Version=20

Bruce Dorsey. Reforming Men and Women: Gender in the Antebellum City.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. xi + 299 pp. Illustrations, =
notes,
index. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8014-3897-7.
Reviewed by: Kathryn Tomasek, Department of History, Wheaton College,
Norton, Massachusetts.
Published by: H-Shear (September, 2004)
Gendered History

http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D257581097152142

May the Best Man Win
Sport, Masculinity, and Nationalism in Great Britain and the Empire,
1880-1935
P.F. McDevitt
ISBN: 1-4039-6552-8
Binding: hardback
Published: April, 2004
Pages: 192
List Price: $55.00
Gender and Imperial Sport * Strong Men, Free Men: Gaelic Team Sports and
Irish Masculinity * The King of Sports: Polo in Late Victorian and =
Edwardian
India * May the Best White Man Win: Boxing, Race, and Masculinity *
Defending White Manhood: The Bodyline Affair in England and Australia *
Black Skin in White Flannel: The West Indies Join The Bodyline Fray *
Conclusion
Author Biography
Patrick F. McDevitt is an assistant professor of history at the =
University
at Buffalo (SUNY).

The Troubles in Ballybogoin
Memory and Identity in Northern Ireland
William F. Kelleher, Jr.
A fascinating exploration of how social memory serves to hinder
communication and foster disorder in Northern Ireland
Copyright =A9 2003, University of Michigan. All rights reserved. Posted
September 2003.

Boyle, Colm. (1994). A Midwife's Tale. (Being the first male midwife) =
Irish
Reporter, Special Issue: The Irish Male, No. 14.

Goodwin, John (2002) Irish Men and Work in North-County Dublin. Journal =
of
Gender Studies, Volume 11 Number 2, July.

Sayers, William. "Early Irish Attitudes Toward Hair and Beards, Baldness =
and
Tonsure." Zeitschrift fur celtische Philologie 44 (1991), pp.154-89.


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Paddy,

In terms of place names like Irishtown, there's a new one that I've
noticed being used in the last year or two that has puzzled me a good
deal.

I've read in newspapers, as I'm sure have most others on the list, of
how very dangerous the road is out of Baghdad to the airport. Attacks
and kidnappings on that road seem to occur regularly. In a few
accounts of this road in the Australian media, I've seem it mentioned
that the road is known among some of the western troops as 'Irish'
road or street.

Has anyone else seen this name being used?

I've wondered how well-known it is and where it comes from. I don't
have an answer to the first question. Is it only the Australian media
that has mentioned this? As for the second question, could the term
come from British troops who have served in Northern Ireland? But are
the Americans using it as well?

Elizabeth
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From: Bryan Coleborne [mailto:bec86y[at]hotmail.com]=20
Subject: RE: [IR-D] Naming patterns in the Irish diaspora in the 19th
century

Naming patterns in the Irish diaspora, and from there into the use of =
names
in literature ...
A very tricky subject ... I had a preliminary look at some of the =
questions
that arise in literary texts=A0in "Making Meaning out of Irish Names" in =
the
Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. XVI (2001), 42-50 - this is the journal =
of
IASIL-Japan.
The best book I've found on personal names is Donnchadh O Corrain and
Fidelma Maguire's Irish Names (Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1997) (originally
Gaelic Personal Names, Dublin: The Academy Press, 1981). The =
authors=A0have
brief comments on the cultural register of some names, including Patrick =
and
Michael.

Working from there into literary and other usage is difficult, but =
something
of=A0what's in Irish Names and in how I tried to follow the subject into =
some
literary texts from the eighteenth and twentieth centuries=A0may help =
Don.=20
Bryan

Dr Bryan Coleborne=20
Australian Scholarly Editions Centre
University of NSW at ADFA
Canberra ACT 2600
=A0
=A0
________________________________________

>Dear All,
>
>I'm like a London bus. For ages, nothing -- and then, suddenly, two at =
the
>same time! Sorry.
>
>Myself and a couple of colleagues have being doing work on the =
declining
>usage of common Irish forenames in the later 19th century in Britain--
names
>such as Patrick, Michael, Bridget, etc. I feel sure I've read something
>somewhere about the declining usage in the US, particularly of Patrick =
and
>Bridget (because of derogatory uses of 'Paddy' and 'Biddy'). Can anyone =
out
>there steer me toward literature on the subject? Or is just anecdotal?
>
>Cheers,
>
>
>Don MacRaild
>Wellington, NZ

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I had not heard the road to the airport in Baghdad referred to in this way.
I'll have to look more closely in the future.

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

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The wonders of Google, and - insofaras it can be trusted - Wikipedia...

Washington Post...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/03/AR2005110302
600.html

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20051105/news_1n5road.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route_Irish

Route Irish
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Baghdad International Airport and the Green Zone

Route Irish is the nickname of the 12 kilometers stretch of highway in
Baghdad, Iraq linking the Green Zone to Baghdad International Airport. At
the beginning of 2005, the Irish Brigade was given the job of safeguarding
the route, frequently called the most dangerous road in Iraq. The Irish
Brigade, known as the "Fighting 69th," is the modern United States National
Guard unit descended from the 69th New York State Volunteers, formed at the
beginning of the American Civil War.

Route Irish is an East-West road along south Baghdad that runs from the
International Zone (the "Green Zone") in downtown Baghdad to BIAP. The
highway is a four-lane road with a 50 meter wide median. Route Irish has six
major intersections. Each of these has been assigned a corresponding
checkpoint number by Coalition Forces to facilitate command and control.
Entry Control Point 1 (ECP 1) is located at one end of the highway near
Baghdad International Airport. Checkpoints 539-543 follow the road east
going into downtown.

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From: Paul O'Leary
ppo[at]aber.ac.uk
Subject: RE: [IR-D] Research Note on Irish men and Diaspora


Hello Paddy,

The issue of Irish masculinities and the diaspora is a potentially big
research area that hasn't yet really attracted much attention, so your notes
and references are very useful. As you point out, it's easy to see a rather
predictable outcome to some sorts of approaches to masculine behaviour among
migrants, but the potential for more enlightening research is much greater.

One area that has interested me in recent years is that of the way ideas of
skill in the workplace mesh with ideas of a particular kind of Irish
masculinity to reinforce differentials. This draws on work that emphasises
the social and cultural construction of skill. One of the questions rarely
asked is how prepared were non-Irish rural migrants in nineteenth-century
towns for participation in industry, and were they equally disadvantaged as
Irish men from similar backgrounds. This is probably more relevant in heavy
manual industries, but not exclusively so. Some of my interest in this was
initially stimulated by reading an autobiography by Joseph Keating (a
second-generation working-class Irishman who became a novelist) that was
re-published last year with an Introduction by me:

My Struggle for Life by Joseph Keating [1916], (University College Dublin
Press, 'Classics in Irish History' series, Dublin, 2005)

The book is particularly good on childhood and is unusually clear about the
way a boy was socialised into a particular version of masculinity through
work.

The second area relates to the 'public presentation' of Irishmen, e.g.
through friendly society marches, Orange parades, etc. I've broached some of
the issues with respect to the ideology of respectability in a preliminary
manner in the following:

'Networking Respectability: Class, Gender and Ethnicity among the Irish in
South Wales, 1845-1914', Immigrants and Minorities, Volume 23, Nos 2/3
(2005), 255-75.

In many ways it is the relational aspect of gender - the relationship
between ideas of masculinity and femininity - that offers the most promising
insights.

Best wishes

Paul O'Leary
ppo[at]aber.ac.uk

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Belfast
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We have a number of new members, and some forgetful oldies...

So...

A standard email about Managing IR-D at Jiscmail...

1.
Remember that messages for the IR-D list should be sent to
IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK

I know that, in some email packages, if you hit REPLY to an IR-D message you
are likely to simply see the email address of the original sender in your TO
line. The easy solution is to hit REPLY TO ALL, and delete the email
address you do not need...

Anyway... Remember that messages for the IR-D list should be sent to
IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK

And don't make me have to guess your intentions.

2.
For those wanting to use the Web interface to manage their IR-D
membership...

Jiscmail knows you by your email address.

Go to...
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/

On the left hand side you click on
Register Password
And go to the Register Password screen.

Follow the instructions there. Put in your email address, the email address
by which you are known to the IR-D list.

Choose your Password

Your chosen Password is then confirmed by email in the usual way.

When you have registered your Password and received confirmation by email
you go BACK to Jiscmail's web site, and, again on the left hand side, you
click on Subscriber's Corner and get to a new screen. There, using your
email address and your Password, you enter your Subscriber's Corner, and set
up various IR-D list options...

You can suspend your membership for a time, change your email addrsss,
update information, and so on...

You can decide what Acknowledgements you would like. I would recommend
Number 3...
Receive copy of own postings [NOACK REPRO]

Such changes can also be done by email - see the instructions in the
Jiscmail Welcome email...

We moved the IR-D list to Jiscmail in May 2004, and since then Jiscmail has
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this archive a convenient way of looking at recent IR-D messages.

The cumulative 8 years plus archive continues to collect at
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The Irish Emigrant email newsletter gave a useful summary of the =
immigration debate within Ireland in yesterday's email...

'Immigration debated throughout the week

Some 78% of the Irish public believe that people from the new EU member =
states should be required to apply for work permits, according to the =
final part of the TNS mrbi in the Irish Times on Monday.'

Full text on the web site at...

http://www.irishemigrant.com/files/indexfile.asp?id=3D478#51854

Also in this week's newsletter...

Foreign Affairs funds Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform

'During the week Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern announced =
that he was making available a =E2=82=AC30k grant to the recently =
established Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform. Kelly Fincham, executive =
director of the New York-based body, welcomed the decision saying, "This =
is a fantastic recognition of the work being done by ILIR and we are =
delighted that the Irish government has chosen to fund us at this =
critical time". ILIR has been set up to mobilise grassroots Irish =
American support for immigration reform and to lobby the US Government =
on behalf of undocumented Irish in the US. The ILIR is holding a series =
of town meetings across the US over the coming weeks: Philadelphia on =
February 3 and Boston on February 9.'=20