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International Journal of Tourism Research
Volume 7, Issue 2, Pages 63 - 77

Special Issue: Tourism and EU Enlargement . Issue Edited by Tim Coles, Derek
Hall.

Published Online: 1 Mar 2005

Copyright C 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Research Article

Rural and agri-tourism as a tool for reorganising rural areas in old and new
member states - a comparison study of Ireland and Poland

Cecilia Hegarty 1 *, Lucyna Przezborska 2
1Northern Ireland Centre for Entrepreneurship, NICENT, University of Ulster,
Jordanstown campus, Newtownabbey, County Antrim BT37 0QB, UK
2Department of Economics in the Agri-Food Industry, Agricultural University
of Poznan, 28 Wojska Polskiego St. 60-637 Poznan, Poland
email: Cecilia Hegarty (cb.hegarty[at]ulster.ac.uk)

*Correspondence to Cecilia Hegarty, Northern Ireland Centre for
Entrepreneurship, NICENT, University of Ulster, Jordanstown campus,
Newtownabbey, County Antrim BT37 0QB, UK.

Keywords
Rural tourism . agri-tourism . development . funds . policy . small
enterprises

Abstract
Both assessment of the physical, economic and social impacts of enlargement
and monitoring the implementation of policy directives are vital to future
European Union operation. This paper investigates tourism development within
relatively underdeveloped regions within Ireland and Poland, and it suggests
implications for tourism operations. Comparison is made between product and
service offerings in both regions. Strong similarities exist between the
profiles of operators, operator motivations differ, and business
diversification depends on regional resources and dependency on tourism
markets. The level of diversification ultimately determines rural tourism
development. The value of using Ireland as a reference model for Polish
development and critical issues for tourism advisors and policy makers are
discussed. Copyright C 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Received: 17 November 2003; Revised: 7 March 2004; Accepted: 2 July 2004

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1002/jtr.513 About DOI

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Geoarchaeology
Volume 21, Issue 2, Pages 155 - 170
Published Online: 24 Jan 2006
Copyright C 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc., A Wiley Company

Research Article

Prehistoric gold markers and environmental change: A two-age system for
standing stones in western Ireland

K.R. Moore
Department of Earth and Ocean Science, National University of Ireland Galway
email: K.R. Moore (kathryn.moore[at]nuigalway.ie.)

Abstract
The Murrisk Peninsula in southwest County Mayo is a major target for gold
exploration in Ireland. The most productive areas include the Cregganbaun
Shear Zone and Cregganbaun Quartzite Belt on Croagh Patrick, both
geologically related to Iapetus closure, and gold is concentrated in
alluvial deposits of river systems draining these areas. A comparison of
gold occurrences with the location of prehistoric stone monuments reveals
that simple standing-stone monuments, though isolated from other monument
types, correlate with alluvial gold. South of the Murrisk Peninsula in
Connemara, isolated standing stones are associated with a wide range of
mineral resources and with other monuments. Dating of the stones relative to
blanket-bog expansion and coastal landform changes indicates that standing
stones were raised as markers of gold placer deposits before a climatic
deterioration at 1200 B.C. Late Bronze Age monuments with a ceremonial
purpose are more complex and include stone alignments. C 2006 Wiley
Periodicals, Inc.
Received: 23 April 2004; Accepted: 21 December 2005

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10.1002/gea.20095 About DOI

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This does look interesting. I'll have to check on my access. Here's a
guess for the moment. Many Arabs in the US are Christians (often Catholic
or other non-Protestant Christians) here from early in the 20th century.
Iraqis, Lebanese, Syrians, and some Post WWII Palestinians. For them to see
themselves as "like the Irish" would be very reasonable. I'm sure that
Muslim Arabs of post-1965 immigration vintage will soon outnumber them, if
they do not already. I doubt they have much reason to see themselves as
Irish, unless perhaps they came to US via England. I wonder who the study
group was.

Tom

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Does anyone have access to this?

Looks very interesting.

Wonder what their sources for the Irish are?

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"We're Just Like the Irish": Narratives of Assimilation, Belonging and
Citizenship Amongst Arab-American Activists

Authors: Nagel, Caroline R.1; Staeheli, Lynn A.2

Source: Citizenship Studies, Volume 9, Number 5, November 2005, pp.
485-498(14)

Publisher:Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:
This paper examines narratives of assimilation and belonging as activists
attempt to position Arab-Americans as citizens and full members of the
American polity. In interviews with activists, the experience of the Irish
as immigrants and citizens was often invoked as the paradigmatic example of
how immigrants are incorporated as citizens-an example that activists
promoted as one that Arabs would follow. By invoking the Irish experience,
activists hope to remind Americans that immigration history is not one of
effortless assimilation, but is rather characterized by systematic exclusion
and marginalization. In so doing, they articulate narratives of assimilation
and belonging that draw attention to (1) a shared history of immigration,
marginalization, and acceptance, (2) the importance of civil rights
movements that may seem to distinguish immigrants from a mythic mainstream
whose race and ethnicity go unmarked, and (3) the ways in which the American
experience is based on the acceptance of cultural differences predicated on
shared political values of community. We argue that these strands of the
narrative draw on themes in the national myth of immigration, belonging and
citizenship, but that they are braided in ways that challenge many
Americans' views of their history.

Keywords: Citizenship; assimilation; Arab-Americans

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/13621020500301262

Affiliations: 1: Loughborough University, Department of Geography, UK 2:
University of Colorado, Program on Political and Economic Change, Institute
of Behavioral Science, USA

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Every dedicated scholarly hunter, Pangur Ban, will know that some of the
online academic journals have 'free sample' issues. Sometimes you have to
jump through a few hoops to get at them - but they are free.

I notice that the current 'free sample' issue of

Patterns of Prejudice
Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
is Issue: Volume 38, Number 4 / December 2004

Which contains Bill Rolston's very useful article

'Ireland of the welcomes'? racism and anti-racism in nineteenth-century
Ireland
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/0031322X.asp

Also, notice

The Irish Linen Trade, 1852-1914
pp. 46-68(23)
Author: Solar, Peter

Free at
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/tex


And at
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/rgs/tibg

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Many older issues are now free. You will find there Brian Graham's article
on Estyn Evans, which I found very helpful indeed...

The search for the common ground: Estyn Evans's Ireland
Author: Graham B.J.
Source: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 19,
Number 2, June 1994, pp. 183-201(19)
Publisher:Royal Geographical Society

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One of our alerts - which happens to come to us through a German web site -
has flagged up this forthcoming book...

Nothing as yet that I can see on the publisher's web site - but individual
contributors are already flagging up stuff.

And it all looks very interesting...

P.O'S.


Titel des Buches
Ireland-India

Untertitel des Buches
Colonies, Culture and Empire

Autor(en) des Buches
Foley, TadghNew search by author Foley, Tadgh; OConnor, Maureen [Ed.]

Irish Academic Press Ltd

Erscheinungsdatum des Buches 2006
ISBN des Buches 0716528371

Auflage des Buches 320 pp. hardback

Beschreibung Includes essays on a number of distinguished civil
servants as well as chapters on such topics as law, religion, education,
folk tale collecting, and literary connections between India and Ireland.
There are essays on the career of Margaret Noble who is unknown in her
native Ireland, but who is a legendary figure in India.

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the Great Irish Famine and the geopolitics of travel
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Journal of Historical Geography
Article in Press, Corrected Proof - Note to users

Copyright C 2005 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.

'Eternity's commissioner': Thomas Carlyle, the Great Irish Famine and the
geopolitics of travel

David Nally

Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, 1984 West Mall,
Vancouver, B.C., Canada, V6T 1Z2

Available online 19 January 2006.

Abstract

In 1846 and again in 1849 the Scottish born historian and social critic,
Thomas Carlyle, travelled Ireland accompanied by the Irish nationalist
Charles Gavan Duffy. Significantly, these dates profile the beginning and
the deadly culmination of the Great Irish Famine. It is somewhat surprising,
therefore, that Carlyle's published memoirs of his travels and his various
pamphlets on Ireland have merited little scholarly attention. As well as
addressing this oversight this paper attempts to place Carlyle's travel
writing within the ideological contours of the Great Famine and, to this
end, I outline a specific example of what I call the 'geopolitics of
travel'. Principally this paper offers an empirical and theoretical analysis
of how powerful political rationalities are produced at the 'contact zone'
of two cultures. I consider Carlyle's shift from being a critic of
laissez-faire to being a defender of property and argue that this parallels
his propensity to qualify what amounts to human value through environmental
and racial readings of the Famine. Finally, I briefly suggest that such
calculations take us into the domain of 'governmentality' and capitalist
political economy, perhaps the two most powerful forces directing the course
of the Irish Famine.

Article Outline

The Great Irish Famine and the geopolitics of travel
Carlyle's 'Irish question'
'Eternity's commissioner'
'The destructive character' and governing starvation
Conclusion: the language of legitimation
Acknowledgements
References

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Looks very interesting.

Wonder what their sources for the Irish are?

P.O'S.

"We're Just Like the Irish": Narratives of Assimilation, Belonging and
Citizenship Amongst Arab-American Activists

Authors: Nagel, Caroline R.1; Staeheli, Lynn A.2

Source: Citizenship Studies, Volume 9, Number 5, November 2005, pp.
485-498(14)

Publisher:Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:
This paper examines narratives of assimilation and belonging as activists
attempt to position Arab-Americans as citizens and full members of the
American polity. In interviews with activists, the experience of the Irish
as immigrants and citizens was often invoked as the paradigmatic example of
how immigrants are incorporated as citizens-an example that activists
promoted as one that Arabs would follow. By invoking the Irish experience,
activists hope to remind Americans that immigration history is not one of
effortless assimilation, but is rather characterized by systematic exclusion
and marginalization. In so doing, they articulate narratives of assimilation
and belonging that draw attention to (1) a shared history of immigration,
marginalization, and acceptance, (2) the importance of civil rights
movements that may seem to distinguish immigrants from a mythic mainstream
whose race and ethnicity go unmarked, and (3) the ways in which the American
experience is based on the acceptance of cultural differences predicated on
shared political values of community. We argue that these strands of the
narrative draw on themes in the national myth of immigration, belonging and
citizenship, but that they are braided in ways that challenge many
Americans' views of their history.

Keywords: Citizenship; assimilation; Arab-Americans

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/13621020500301262

Affiliations: 1: Loughborough University, Department of Geography, UK 2:
University of Colorado, Program on Political and Economic Change, Institute
of Behavioral Science, USA

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And there we are...

I have the article here...

Usual between the lines conditions...

P.O'S.

"We're Just Like the Irish": Narratives of Assimilation, Belonging and
Citizenship Amongst Arab-American Activists

Authors: Nagel, Caroline R.1; Staeheli, Lynn A.2

Source: Citizenship Studies, Volume 9, Number 5, November 2005, pp.
485-498(14)

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I suspect this is the proceedings of a conference at UCG a few years ago.

FOURTH GALWAY CONFERENCE ON COLONIALISM
INDIA and IRELAND
2-5 JUNE 2004

Bill

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




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One of our alerts - which happens to come to us through a German web site -
has flagged up this forthcoming book...

Nothing as yet that I can see on the publisher's web site - but individual
contributors are already flagging up stuff.

And it all looks very interesting...

P.O'S.


Titel des Buches
Ireland-India

Untertitel des Buches
Colonies, Culture and Empire

Autor(en) des Buches
Foley, TadghNew search by author Foley, Tadgh; OConnor, Maureen [Ed.]

Irish Academic Press Ltd

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Subject: Irish language and Ellis island

On a recent visit to Ellis Island, New York, I noticed a 'language tree' =

set up depicting words from a variety of languages that had come into=20
American English as a result of immigration. There was no mention of =
Irish.=20
Perhaps it's because most known Irish words in US English are considered =
to=20
be slang, e.g. slew from Ir, slua 'crowd', spree from Ir. 'spraoi, 'fun, =

sport', and Shamus (a detective) from the Ir name for James. =
Nevertheless,=20
do any members think, as I do, that this is a significant omission?

le gach dea ghu=ED
Dymphna


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On the one hand, it's probably an oversight, made more likely because
Americans don't think of Irish as a live language at the time of immigration
to the U.S. On the other hand, it's probably a pretty accurate reflection
of Ellis Island's history. It opened in 1892, and the penetration of
English into Ireland by that time would have been pretty complete, even in
the West. There were undoubtedly a goodly number of Irish immigrants at the
time who knew Irish, but most of them would have probably been able to get
by (at least) in English.

Tom

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When you consider the words of Irish origin that have entered everyday =
usage like smithereens, shenanigans, shebeen and of course whisky as a =
corruption of uisce beatha, the water of life, then yes it probably is a =
significant ommission. I'm sure there are many other common words which =
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Subject: Irish language and Ellis island

On a recent visit to Ellis Island, New York, I noticed a 'language tree' =

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American English as a result of immigration. There was no mention of =
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'fun, sport', and Shamus (a detective) from the Ir name for James. =
Nevertheless, do any members think, as I do, that this is a significant =
omission?

le gach dea ghu=ED
Dymphna


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

Colin Crawford. _Inside the UDA: Volunteers and Violence_. Foreword by Marie
Smyth. London: Pluto, 2003. xix + 225 pp. Index, bibliography. $70.00
(cloth), ISBN 0-7453-2107-0.

Reviewed for H-Albion by Niall O'Dochartaigh, National University of
Ireland, Galway

In the early 1970s violent paramilitary organizations emerged from
working-class, Protestant communities in the industrial cities and towns as
well as the conservative rural areas of the north of Ireland. In the course
of three decades of conflict, these organizations were responsible for
killing almost a thousand people, the vast majority of them innocent
civilians. In the latter years of the conflict, loyalist paramilitaries
were killing more people than the Irish Republican Army (IRA). In the
current international climate, when the positing of "western," "democratic,"
and "conservative" against the categories of "terror" and "brutality" is so
deeply embedded in public debate, the randomness and often extreme brutality
of Ulster loyalist paramilitary violence is a vital reminder that there is
no necessary contradiction between these frequently opposed categories. The
story of Ulster loyalist paramilitary violence also illustrates the extent
to which the line between terror and counter-insurgency is blurred.

Loyalist paramilitaries have not enjoyed the degree of sympathetic attention
in academia or the media that Irish republican paramilitaries have enjoyed,
a fact of which they are acutely aware. This book is part of a
self-conscious attempt on the part of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA)
to rectify that deficit, to give the UDA's version of events to a wider
public. There have been many journalistic accounts of the main loyalist
paramilitary organisations but there is also a small but strong academic
literature. Richard Jenkins's _Lads, Citizens, and Ordinary Kids_ (1983),
Sarah Nelson's _Ulster's Uncertain Defenders_ (1984), Desmond Bell's _Acts
of Union_ (1990) and James McAuley's _The Politics of Identity: A Loyalist
Community in Belfast_ (1994), have helped to build up a substantial and
sophisticated literature on the politics of the Protestant communities from
which the paramilitaries draw support and recruits, while Steve Bruce's _The
Red Hand_ (1992) and _At the Edge of the Union_ (1994) discuss the politics
of the paramilitary organizations. _Inside the UDA_ contributes much useful
empirical material to the debates on loyalism, but the analysis fails to
engage to any great degree with existing work on loyalism or on political
violence. The themes the author addresses tell us more about the issues
that are important to the UDA than they do about the dynamics of
paramilitary mobilization.

Originating in conversations between the author and senior UDA leader John
White on the need for a book that would act as a kind of history of the
organization, _Inside the UDA_ is an account of the largest, if not the most
coherent, of loyalist paramilitary organisations. The UDA emerged in 1971
as an alliance of local "defence associations" in Protestant working-class
areas of Belfast and other parts of Northern Ireland. The UDA remained
legal until 1992 and UDA members were not barred from membership of the
security forces in Northern Ireland until then, despite the fact that the
UDA was clearly involved in paramilitary violence. The author, Colin
Crawford, began to build relationships with loyalist paramilitaries as a
probation officer in the Long Kesh internment camp outside Belfast, at the
height of the conflict in the mid-1970s. The author is now lecturer in
Applied Social Studies at the University of Ulster; he became involved in
the peace process in the 1990s as a representative for loyalist prisoners.

The great strength of Colin Crawford's book is his degree of access to key
loyalist paramilitaries, the trust he established, and the amount of candor
with which his interviewees spoke; a candor, however, that is strictly and
carefully limited. The book is based on extensive interviews with a wide
range of UDA members and provides a unique insight into the ways in which
active paramilitaries viewed their involvement in both targeted
assassination and random killings. Recurring themes include the central aim
of "terrorising" Catholic civilians, in order to increase Catholic pressure
on the IRA to end its campaign, and the argument that UDA killings in latter
years were much more targeted and played a crucial role in forcing the IRA
to call a ceasefire.

One of the most important themes of the book is the loyalist view that they
were doing what the security forces wanted to do, but could not, because
they were hampered by red tape. As one former loyalist paramilitary put it:
"I joined the security forces.... But I found out after seven years in the
security forces that it just wasn't working.... our hands were tied at every
turn.... if the cuffs had been taken off the security forces earlier there
would have been no need for me and people like me to become involved in the
paramilitaries" (p. 132). Loyalists took heart from the collusion offered
by some members of the security forces, interpreting this as evidence that
they were in effect acting as auxiliaries to the state.

The security forces in Northern Ireland often have pursued loyalist
paramilitaries vigorously, particularly in recent years. Nonetheless,
loyalist definitions of themselves as unofficial auxiliaries to the state's
counter-insurgency efforts have been met with strong answering echoes from
significant sections of the security forces. This is illustrated most
clearly by the evidence that has emerged in recent years about the role of
British army agent and UDA member Brian Nelson, responsible for UDA
targeting for much of the 1980s. Security force intelligence was regularly
provided to Nelson by his handlers in the British military's "Force Research
Unit" (FRU) to allow him to identify targets for the UDA. The FRU often
steered UDA operations away from Catholic civilians and towards suspected
IRA members. The UDA appears to interpret the Nelson case as evidence that
the UDA was, in effect, acting as an auxiliary to the efforts of the
security services, paradoxically aligning them with the Irish republican
analysis of the relationship between the state and loyalist paramilitaries.
The author explains the UDA's shift to more selective targeting by arguing
that "the leadership [of the UDA] realised that they could not work with
potentially sympathetic sections of the security services until their
killing became more targeted, focused and selective" (p. 33), and that
"elements within the British security services during the mid-1980s and
1990s did have an interest in the increasing military professionalisation of
the UDA/UFF" (p. 44). The loyalist belief that their activities were of
some use to the state in its counter-insurgency efforts is not without
foundation.

The categories and characterizations developed in the vast academic and
popular literature on the dynamics of terrorism, on the motivations of
terrorists, on terrorism as a self-conscious ideology of evil which is the
opposite to popular will and democracy, sit uneasily with the accounts of
former loyalist paramilitaries in Crawford's book. In the accounts here,
"terrorism" is less the product of sinister manipulation and determined
fanaticism than of the kind of networks of neighborhood and friendship as
well as local identity and loyalty which in other circumstances elicit
enthusiastic approval for their contribution to the building of social
capital. In the context of a wider social upheaval, these intimate local
networks decisively shaped the development of political violence. Ulster
loyalists are often characterized as incoherent in their identity because of
the tension between loyalty to Britain on the one hand and to Northern
Ireland on the other. Several of the accounts in this book emphasize the
fact that the prime focus of loyalty for many of those who became involved
was neither Britain nor Northern Ireland, but a local peer group and the
neighborhood in which they grew were raised. In a description echoed by a
number of other accounts in the book, one member describes how he first
joined the UDA:

"The boys I knew were in sort of a gang (the Ulster Boot Boys). We would
get together on a Saturday and go into Belfast and hang around the town....
We knew that the UDA held their meetings on a Sunday night, Sunday teatime,
in the area. About 12 of us went and offered our services.... The entire
membership of the Ulster Boot Boys in the area went and joined the UDA. I
think there were 73 of us who all joined together" (pp. 81-82).

_Inside the UDA_ suffers from weaknesses inherent to the project. The book
emerged from the desire of the UDA to write a kind of official history of
the movement and to get across the views of ordinary members. This ensured
that the author enjoyed unprecedented access, but it also means that
interviewees are often allowed to present very questionable
characterizations of events without challenge. Despite such weaknesses, the
book provides us with first hand accounts that occasionally shine a blinding
light on the darkest corners of paramilitary mobilization and violence.


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It should not be difficult to compile a list of words, but one perhaps =
should not neglect their point of entry as part of their interest. To =
take Dr Lonergan's examples, 'Shamus' for a detective I think is only =
US, while 'shenanigans', 'slew' and 'spree' are used in England, as they =
are in Ireland, but are they used in the US? Hooligan I think began in =
England. Perhaps Dr Lonergan could tell us if 'larrykin' is Irish, and =
only used in Australia? =20

Are such words direct imports from Ireland or did they come through the =
filter of another anglophone country? Are there words confined to =
certain trades? And did Irish words enter European languages with the =
Wild Geese? What say our Spanish colleagues?=20

A whole linguistic map is perhaps to be made thus.
=20
David Rose

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I don't know of any Spanish loanword from Irish.

Edmundo Murray

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It should not be difficult to compile a list of words, but one perhaps
should not neglect their point of entry as part of their interest. To
take Dr Lonergan's examples, 'Shamus' for a detective I think is only
US, while 'shenanigans', 'slew' and 'spree' are used in England, as they
are in Ireland, but are they used in the US? Hooligan I think began in
England. Perhaps Dr Lonergan could tell us if 'larrykin' is Irish, and
only used in Australia? =20

Are such words direct imports from Ireland or did they come through the
filter of another anglophone country? Are there words confined to
certain trades? And did Irish words enter European languages with the
Wild Geese? What say our Spanish colleagues?=20

A whole linguistic map is perhaps to be made thus.
=20
David Rose

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For information...

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From: "Shannon McSheffrey"
Subject: Senior-level position in early modern Irish history

While also posted on the h-net jobguide, some members of this list may know
of suitable candidates, or themselves be interested in, the following
position:

The Department of History at Concordia University, Montreal, invites
applications for a senior position in Early Modern Irish History
(1500-1800). We are particularly interested in candidates who can advance
our established research strengths in one, or more, of the following areas:
cultural history; transnational history, genocide and human rights; the
history of gender and sexuality; and public history.

The successful candidate should have a strong publication record and
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Applications should include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, research
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Please mail a "hard copy" application to:

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Dear all,=20
Please note that we have extended the deadline for the BAIS Postgraduate
Essay prize to March 10th 2006. The prizewinner's essay will be =
published in
Irish Studies Review and the winner will also receive =A3500 of =
Cambridge
University Press books of their choice.=20
Details of the scheme are available on our website at
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Best wishes,=20
Siobhan Holland

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Dear all,=20
Application forms for the Annual BAIS Postgraduate Bursaries Scheme are =
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Applicants can also review a list of the varied projects which won =
funding
in 2005.=20
We'd be grateful if you would promote the scheme to postgraduates in =
Irish
Studies,=20
Best wishes,
Siobhan Holland

Postgraduate Bursaries Scheme 2006

The British Association for Irish Studies wishes to announce its 2006
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I am curious what others on the list made of Nagel and Staeheli's essay,
"We're Just Like the Irish"? =20

The title intrigued me, but the article didn't. The major problems seem =
to
me to be an uncritical acceptance of Ignatiev's thesis on Irish =
whiteness, a
lack of knowledge of the details of Irish immigration into the US, and =
no
substantive discussion of the differences between the Christian Arab
communities that have been in the US for several generations and the =
more
recent Muslim Arabs immigrants. There seem to be more relevant groups =
to
use - Germans during WWI come to mind.

It might be useful to compare the assimilation of Irish Catholics and
Protestant with the assimilation, or prospects thereof, of Christian and
Muslim Arabs. But, there doesn't seem to be any awareness of Irish
Protestant migration to the US. Also, dating Irish immigration into the =
US
as post-1850 jumped out at me as reflecting a lack of real =
understanding or
familiarity with the literature. =20

What is interesting about the article is that the Irish are seen as the
model for assimilation by groups that are initially seen as different in =
the
US. =20


William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of History
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA=20
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Ditto on Bill Mulligan's comments. A remarkably unimpressive article.

Tom