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=91The best banned in the land=92: Censorship and Irish Writing since =
1950

Author: Drisceoil Donal =D31

Source: The Yearbook of English Studies, Volume 35, Number 1, 1 January
2005, pp. 146-160(15)

Publisher:Modern Humanities Research Association

Abstract:
This article examines the censorship of Irish writing since 1950. It =
gives
an historical overview of the evolution of literary censorship in
twentieth-century Ireland, with particular reference to the operations =
of
the Censorship of Publications Acts, 1929 and 1946. It includes a list =
of
books by Irish authors that were banned since 1950; an account of the
supplanting of the Catholic activists who had controlled the Censorship =
of
Publications Board since its inception; the fundamental reforms =
introduced
in 1967; and an account and analysis of the impact of censorship on =
Irish
writing and Irish writers, and the variety of their responses.

Keywords: Censorship; Irish writing; Censorship of Publications Acts;
Censorship of Publications Board

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: University College Cork

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Since Ellis Island has been discussed...

I happen to have this reference to hand - the study of museums and heritage
sites is such an important issue within Irish Diaspora Studies.

P.O'S.


Social & Cultural Geography

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
Issue: Volume 5, Number 3 / September 2004
Pages: 437 - 457
URL: Linking Options
DOI: 10.1080/1464936042000252813

Front doors to freedom, portal to the past: history at the Ellis Island
immigration museum, New York

Luke Desforges A1 and Joanne Maddern A1

A1 Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Wales,
Aberystwyth, SY23 3DB, UK

Abstract:

Heritage sites and museums play a significant role in the production and
legitimization of historical knowledges and social identities. The potential
for these institutions to act in ways that maintain deep-rooted inequalities
in the relative power of social groups has long been noted by academic
commentators. A critique of the role of museums in reproducing 'official'
histories is now well established. In this paper we explore new ways of
conceptualizing and empirically exploring the production and politics of
museum histories. By tracing the historical development of museums, we
explore the power play between individual actors and institutions involved
in production of the museum, and the multi-vocal histories and landscapes
which result from the interaction between these actors. We illustrate these
arguments through a case study of Ellis Island Immigration Museum in New
York Harbor.

Keywords:

museums, heritage, social identity, multicultural diversity, immigration,
New York

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Local Histories in Northern Ireland
Catherine Nash

History Workshop Journal 2005 60(1):45-68; doi:10.1093/hwj/dbi010

C The Author 2005.

Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of History Workshop Journal,
all rights reserved.

Correspondence: c.nash[at]qmul.ac.uk

This essay explores the ways in which local history is presented, practiced
and promoted in relation to the politics of culture, history and identity in
Northern Ireland. Though the politicization of history inevitably frames the
practice of local history in Northern Ireland, the level of interest in
local history does not support the common argument that Northern Irish
society is marked by a uniquely obsessive focus on the past. Instead it
suggests a more complex picture of historical knowledge, interest and
practice than that contained within the image of two violently destructive,
intense and permanently irreconcilable historical perspectives. This essay
discusses the ways in which ideas of history and the local are imagined and
mobilised, conflicting arguments about approaches to the past and the
practical ways in which local historical societies and other organisations
engage with the past, and in doing so, rework the meaning of the local. It
highlights innovative attempts to explore a shared history of conflict,
shared histories of common experience, and the distinctive experiences of
those patterns of commonality and division for specific localities in
Northern Ireland and for Northern Ireland as a whole.

Catherine Nash (c.nash[at]qmul.ac.uk) is a feminist cultural geographer and
Reader in Human Geography in the Department of Geography, Queen Mary,
University of London. Her research interests are in geographies of national
and other forms of belonging and identity. Much of her work has focused on
these themes in Ireland and Northern Ireland. She is currently exploring
ideas of ancestry, origins and descent in relation to gender, ethnicity,
'race' and nationhood in popular genealogy and its newly geneticized forms
with the support of an Economic and Social Research Council Research
Fellowship. Her recent publications include 'Genealogical Identities',
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 20: 1, 2002, and 'Genetic
Kinship', Cultural Studies 18: 1, 2004.

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Anglo-Irish Relations, 1939-41: A Study in Multilateral Diplomacy and
Military Restraint

Author: Baker, Andrew

Source: Twentieth Century British History, Volume 16, Number 4, 2005, pp.
359-381(23)

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Abstract:
'This study bridges two gaps, one in the historiography of Anglo-Irish
relations between 1939 and 1941 and the other in International Relations
(IR) theory. Anglo-Irish relations during the Second World War have been the
subject of numerous studies focusing upon the bilateral nature of that
relationship, but it was subject to serious multilateral considerations-the
Commonwealth and the US. At moments of danger between the two states, it was
not the balance of a bilateral relationship, but rather of a broad
multilateral structure which set the pace of British policy-making. This
restrained British military planning against Eire. The history of
Anglo-Irish relations in this period positively links the conduct of
multilateral diplomacy with the absence of the use of force. From the
standpoint of IR theory, this provides a useful 'hard' case for how/why
multilateralism may matter. It also illustrates several of the deficiencies
in IR theory, not least the Whiggish assumption that integration or
globalization follow a linear progression (against which stands the equally
Whiggish notion that interstate relations are eternally cast). This article
seeks to demonstrate that a somewhat wider appreciation of history makes it
possible to reconcile multilateral diplomacy with many more traditional
'realist' concerns.'

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwi051

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Irish Tourism Image Culture and Identity

Author: Hegarty, Cecilia1

Source: Tourism Geographies, Volume 7, Number 4, September 14, 2005, pp.
444-452(9)

Publisher:Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/14616680500291220

Affiliations: 1: Northern Ireland Centre for Entrepreneurship Faculty of
Business and Management University of Ulster

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"EVERYBODY IS IRISH ON ST. PADDY'S": AMBIVALENCE AND ALTERITY AT LONDON'S
ST. PATRICK'S DAY 2002

Author: Nagle, John1

Source: Identities: Global Studies in Power and Culture, Volume 12, Number
4, October-December 2005, pp. 563-583(21)

Publisher:Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:
This article gives an account of the first major St. Patrick's Day parade in
London, highlighting the way the parade was used by the Irish community to
increase the visibility and profile of the Irish in London by creating a
positive Irish identity through the articulation of an inclusive experience
of Irishness. Such prominent visibility of the Irish represents for many
within the Irish community a formal acceptance of the contribution the Irish
endow multicultural London, when for many years the Irish have been rendered
invisible by being represented as a pariah community. I suggest that such a
project is fraught with ambivalence, lying uneasily as it does in between an
important politics of recognition and a dangerous reification of culture and
ethnicity and the reduction of identities to a fetishized surplus value.
Rather than viewing such spectacles as either radically liminal and
progressive or co-opted by the "dominant power," the organisers and sponsors
are more seen as a "new social movement," believing their mission is to
pluralize society and provide new models of intercultural interaction.

Keywords: visibility; ambivalence; parades; multiculturalism; inclusivity;
stereotypes

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/10702890500332733

Affiliations: 1: Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University Belfast,
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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A number of IR-D members will find interesting the web site of Esras =
Films =96
particularly their custodianship of the archives of the Radharc series.

They have made a specific package of the Ireland/Newfoundland films. =
And an
exploration of the lists in the archives will show many more items of =
Irish
Diaspora Studies interest. It is a very, very long time since I saw any =
of
the Radharc films =96 and I do remember an approach that was celebratory
rather than questioning. But the films will no doubt act =96 as all =
films do
now =96 as time machines...

P.O=92S.

http://www.esras.com/index.html

http://www.esras.com/newfoundland/index.html

http://www.radharcfilms.com/

RADHARC was the name of a popular religious affairs documentary series =
on
RTE, Ireland's National TV service between 1961 and 1996. The name =
RADHARC
means view or vision, and the programme logo (the Radharc man) comes =
from
one of the panels representing the 12 Apostles on the High Cross of =
Moone.

The Radharc Team produced over 400 Religious Films in every corner of =
the
globe between 1961 and 1996. Radharc documentaries have won =
interantional
awards and an international reputation, and became, in the words of a =
former
RT=C9 director general "part of the fabric of Irish broadcasting in a =
way that
is unusual for a Relgious programme."

Radharc Films ceased production in 1996 following the death of
founder-director Fr. Joseph Dunn. The substantial Archive of over 400 =
films
is currently deposited with the Irish Film Archive, with copyright of =
the
programme material jointly held between the Radharc Trust and RT=C9. The
Archive is managed by Esras Films on behalf of the Radharc Trust.

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REPLY TO clmc[at]gofree.indigo.ie


Dear Friends and Colleagues:

I would like to draw your attention to the inaugural meeting of the
Twentieth Century Irish Studies Society, next Thursday February 9th, 2006,
at NUI Maynooth. The venue is to be the John Hume Building, the room is
to be Lecture Theatre 2, and the time is to be 7.30pm. Keynote speakers
will be Professor Kevin Whelan of the Keough-Notre Dame Centre, and
Professor Michael Cronin of Dublin City University.

Please come, bring your friends, and pass this message on to all you think
might be interested.

Best wishes,

Conor McCarthy

TWENTIETH CENTURY IRISH STUDIES SOCIETY

The Twentieth-Century Irish Studies Society aims to promote new research on
all aspects of twentieth-century Irish society, and especially on
twentieth-century Irish culture. For its inaugural event, the Society will
host a discussion evening on the future of Irish Studies, to which all are
very welcome to attend. We would greatly appreciate your support and look
forward to seeing you there.

Irish Studies in the Decade Ahead, Challenges and Opportunities


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

PROFESSOR KEVIN WHELAN
Director, Keough-Notre Dame University Centre for Irish Studies, Dublin

And

PROFESSOR MICHAEL CRONIN
Dublin City University



Venue: John Hume Lecture Theatre 2, NUI Maynooth
Time: 7: 30 pm
Thursday, February 9th, 2006

MICHAEL CRONIN is the author of numerous books including Translation and
Globalisation (2003); Irish Tourism: Image, Culture and Identity (2003),
Time Tracks: Scenes from the Irish Everyday (2003), The Languages of Ireland
(2002), Across the Lines: Travel, Language, Translation (2000) and
Translating Ireland (2006)
KEVIN WHELAN is author and editor of many works including The Tree of
Liberty (1996), The Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape (1997) and 1798: A
Bicentenary Perspective (2003)

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Subject: Article in Community, Work & Family - New Issue Alert

Apologies for cross posting but this was brought to my attention =
recently.

Liam


Community, Work & Family
Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
Issue: Volume 9, Number 1 / February 2006
URL: Linking Options
DOI: 10.1080/13668800500420947

=91DWELLING IN DISPLACEMENT=92
Meanings of =91community=92 and sense of community for two generations =
of Irish
people living in North-West London

Mary E. Malone and John P. Dooley

Abstract:

This paper is a successor to an earlier one (Malone, Community, Work &
Family, 4(2), 195=96213, 2001) which described the development of a =
=91community
saved=92 among first-generation Irish immigrants in North-West London, =
UK. A
distinct and health-enhancing =91sense=92 of community founded on mutual =
helping
networks, a belief in family ties, the importance of paid work and the =
Roman
Catholic Church was identified within this Irish immigrant group. For =
the
second generation or London Irish, upon whom this paper focuses, =
=91community=92
and =91sense=92 of community have meanings which differ significantly =
from those
of their first-generation forebears. The London Irish describe the =
anonymity
they experience within their contemporary urban =91home=92 and yearn, =
instead,
for an idyllic but mythical =91homeland=92 =97 the rural Ireland of long =
ago.
Disparities between the two groups yield insights into those elements =
which
truly shape experience of =91community=92 and =91sense=92 of community =
and which can
only be understood within the conceptual, geographical and intellectual
boundaries of what has been called the =91diasporic space=92.

Ce papier suit =E0 un pr=E9c=E9dent (Malone, Community, Work & Family, =
4(2),
195=96213, 2001) qui a d=E9peint le d=E9veloppement d'une =
=91communaut=E9 sauv=E9=92 parmi
les immigrants irlandais de la premi=E8re g=E9n=E9ration au nord-ouest =
de Londres.
Un =91sentiment de communaut=E9=92, =E0 la fois marqu=E9 et assanisant, =
et fond=E9 sur
des r=E9saux d'assistance r=E9ciproque, le croyance dans les liens =
familiaux,
l'importance du travail salari=E9, et l'Eglise Catholique, a =E9t=E9 =
identifi=E9
parmi ce groupe immigrant irlandais. Pour les immigrants de la =
deuzi=E8me
g=E9n=E9ration, ainsi nomm=E9 les =91London Irish=92, et sujet de ce =
papier-ci, =91la
communaut=E9=92 et =91le sentiment de communaut=E9=92 ont des =
significations tr=E8s
diff=E9rentes de la premi=E8re g=E9n=E9ration. Les London Irish parle de =
l'anonyme
de leur exp=E9rience dans le domicile urbain, ils br=FBlent de revoir le =
=91terre
patrie=92, idylle mythique d'un Irlande rural du bon vieux temps. Ces
diff=E9rences fournissent des aper=E7us des =E9l=E9ments qui forment =
l'exp=E9rience de
=91la communaut=E9=92 et du =91sentiment de communaut=E9=92, =
=E9l=E9ments qui ne sont
compris que dans les bornes de la conception, de la g=E9ographie et de
l'intellect, bornes de ce qui a =E9t=E9 d=E9sign=E9 =91l'espace =
diasporique=92.

Keywords:

London Irish, sense of community, diaspora, transgenerational, homeland

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Fail better! Samuel Beckett's secrets of business and branding
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As Beckett might say, You've got to laugh...

But the conclusion of this article is an astonishing plain statement of the
Celtic/Anglo-Saxon contrast...

'...There is an overarching takeaway from Samuel Beckett's business
philosophy; namely, that the individual components of the Nobel
prizewinner's conceptual cosmology (tenacity, brevity, contingency,
ambiguity, memory, narrativity, and author-ity) together comprise a
characteristically Celtic worldview which is antithetical to the essentially
Anglo-Saxon ethos that dominates contemporary management thought. Whereas
the Saxon perspective foregrounds facts, figures, order, rigor, and
incredible attention to detail (all laudable and necessary traits),
Celticity relies on imaginative leaps, compelling storytelling, irreverent
iconoclasm, eloquent silences, indomitable obduracy, wellsprings of memory,
and the crock of good fortune at the end of chimerical commercial rainbows
(Aherne, 2000). Both are needed in business.

Admittedly, Samuel Beckett was as reluctant a Celt as he was everything
else. Nevertheless, he epitomizes the irrepressibly irreverent spirit of
today's post-Saxon entertainment economy. If nothing else, his fifty year
old theatrical masterpiece reminds us that "habit is a great deadener." It
is time, is it not, to break our Saxon habits and resurrect the inner Celt.
It is time, is it not, to be like Beckett. It is time, is it not, to "Try
again. Fail again. Fail better" (Beckett, 1983, p. 7)...'

Matthew Arnold is not sourced... Michael de Nie is not sourced...

P.O'S.

Business Horizons
Volume 49, Issue 2, March-April 2006, Pages 161-169

Copyright C 2005 Kelley School of Business, Indiana University Published by
Elsevier Inc.

Fail better! Samuel Beckett's secrets of business and branding success

Stephen BrownE-mail The Corresponding Author

School of Marketing, Strategy, and Entrepreneurship, University of Ulster,
Jordanstown, Co. Antrim, BT37 0QB Northern Ireland, UK

Available online 2 February 2006.


Abstract

Samuel Beckett, the peerless Irish playwright, is widely regarded as the
epitome of art for art's sake aestheticism. He hated salesmanship of any
kind, famously describing it as "mercantile gehenna." Yet, despite his
anti-business reputation, Samuel Beckett is a perfect role model for our
paradoxical times. His "fail better" philosophy is very much in keeping with
today's creativity-driven, hyper-competitive, warp-speed world of fads,
fashions, and here-today-gone-tomorrow consumer crazes. This article argues
that, in a world where every organization is customer oriented and every
executive is au fait with best textbook practice, Beckett's idiosyncratic
esthetic encapsulates several salient secrets of business and branding
success.

Keywords: Samuel Beckett; Business success; Failing better; Serendipity;
Entertainment economy

Business Horizons
Volume 49, Issue 2 , March-April 2006, Pages 161-169

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On a train of thought...

We do not relentlessly pursue matter in the specialist Joyce, Yeats,
Beckett, etc, journals - and they rarely turn up in our alerts... They =
may
be diasporic figures, but...

Anyway, looking at the latest issue of=20

Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui
ISSN 0927-3131
Publisher: Rodopi

Historicising Beckett/Issues of Perfomance. Beckett dans l'histoire/En
jouant Beckett.=20
Edited by/par Marius Buning, Matthijs Engelberts, Sjef Houppermans Dirk =
Van
Hulle, Daniele de Ruyter

There is a section on "Historicising Beckett" which is of interest to =
Irish
Diaspora Studies...

Part of the TOC, below...

P.O'S.



Introduction to "Historicising Beckett"
pp. 21-27(7)
Authors: Kennedy, Se=E1n

KICKING AGAINST THE THERMOLATERS: Beckett's "Recent Irish Poetry"
pp. 29-42(14)
Authors: Mooney, Sin=E9ad

BECKETT IN TRANSITION: Three Dialogues, Little Magazines, and Post-War
Parisian Aesthetic Debate
pp. 43-56(14)
Author: Hatch, David A.

SEVERING CONNECTIONS WITH IRELAND: Women and the Irish Free State in
Beckett's Writing
pp. 57-69(13)
Author: Kim, Rina

WATT KIND OF MAN ARE YOU?: Beckettian Anthropology, Cultural =
Authenticity,
and Irish Identity
pp. 71-85(15)
Author: Bixby, Patrick

UNNAMING THE SUBJECT: Samuel Beckett and Colonial Alterity
pp. 87-100(14)
Author: Quigley, Mark

BECKETT, GERMAN FASCISM, AND HISTORY: The Futility of Protest
pp. 101-116(16)
Author: McNaughton, James

CULTURAL MEMORY IN MERCIER AND CAMIER: The Fate of Noel Lemass
pp. 117-129(13)
Authors: Kennedy, Se=E1n

THE RESISTANCE OF SEEING IN BECKETT'S DRAMA: Self-Perception and =
Becoming
Imperceptible
pp. 133-145(13)
Author: Kawashima, Takeshi

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/rodopi/sbta/2005/00000015/00000001;=
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ssionid=3D3bmpku5k5j11v.henrietta

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Please distribute widely...

Forwarded on behalf of

Maria Mcgarrity [mailto:mmcgarrity[at]earthlink.net]=20

Subject: Call for Papers: Irish Modernism and the Global Primitive

Call For Papers: Irish Modernism and the Global
Primitive
Maria McGarrity and Claire Culleton, Eds.

Editors seek contributions to a collection of critical essays that will
examine the intersection of Irish Modernism and the global primitive. =
The
conceptualization of Irish modernism, from the 1880s to the present, =
created
primitives both within and beyond Ireland's immediate borders.
Consequently, the question of the primitive, its position within Irish
modernism and culture, and the representation of global cultures in =
Irish
modern texts must be examined more fully, since the construction of
primitivism functions variously as an idealized nostalgia for the past, =
as a
threat of the foreign, or as a potential representation of difference =
and
connection. With the publication of key texts such as Torgovnick's Gone
Primitive (1990), scholars have probed the methodologies and =
intersections
between modernity and its primitive past, wondering whether alterity =
resides
within the modern inherently, occupies a relational or contingent =
position,
and/or responds to/from afar. While recent scholarship has examined the
primitive within Irish Renaissance literature, located the markings of
Orientalism within Irish culture, or identified the increasing =
importance of
an Irish diasporic imaginary, there remains a striking need to amplify =
the
discussion of Irish modernity=12s use of various primitivist rhetorics. =
We
see this volume reframing the primitive within Irish modernity and
contributing to critical discussions on any of the following topics =
within
Irish modernism: =20

Aesthetics
Celticism
Civilization
Corruption
Diaspora
Displacement
Eroticism
Evolution
Geography
Globalism
Hybridity
Immigration
Indigeneity
Language
Madness
Nostalgia
Performance
Pleasure
Quest for Origins
Race
Ritual
Savagery
Sexual Transgression
Supernaturalism
The Travellers
The Unconscious
Time and Retrospect
Transculturation
Travel Writing
Visual Art
Vulgarity
Whiteness

Contributors should send 2-pg. abstracts and full cvs to both editors by
March 1st, 2006. Decisions will be made by April 1st, and final essays =
(20
pp.) due by June 15, 2006.=20

Professor Maria McGarrity Professor Claire A. Culleton
English Department English Department
Long Island University Kent State University
One University Plaza Kent, OH 44242
Brooklyn, NY 11201 cculleto[at]kent.edu
maria.mcgarrity[at]liu.edu

=A0
Maria McGarrity
mmcgarrity[at]earthlink.net

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To:
Thread-Topic: New Book on Irish America

Before he died in November of 2003, Don Jordan was hard at work editing a
collection of essays dealing with the Irish in the San Francisco Bay Area.
After Don died, Timothy O'Keefe, Professor of history at Santa Clara Univ.
took on the completion of the project.

The book is now out under the title
_The Irish in the San Francisco Bay Area: Essays on Good Fortune_. It was
published by the Irish Literary and Historical Society of San Francisco.
ISBN 0-931180-00-7.

The book is divided into six parts with two - four essays in each section.:

Irish Identity in Literature and the Popular press
Ethnicity and troubled ethnic relations
Irish-American Culture and acculturation
Education and educators
San Francisco, Silicon Valley and Ireland
Irish-American Identity: Personal Experience and Historical Evaluation.

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Definitely worth looking at...

A group of Nordic scholars looking at Irish English-language texts.

The freely available Excerpt on the publisher=92s web site is the =
Editors=92
Introduction =96 the starting point is Kerby Miller, E & E, and Patrick =
Ward,
E, E and Irish Writing. It is one of those Introductions that outlines =
the
subsequent chapters. =20

Michael Boss's own chapter, Theorising Exile, again uses Miller and =
Ward,
but places the Irish literature ('literature' in both senses - scholarly =
and
creative writing) in wider contexts, where discussion of 'exile' is far =
more
subtle, and sensible, than in most Irish stuff.

Then, interesting choice of Irish writers to study... Intriguing the =
way
D'Arcy McGee has become such a key figure in Irish Diaspora Studies...

P.O'S.

=09
Re-Mapping Exile
Realities and Metaphors in Irish Literature and History

Edited by Michael B=F6ss, Irene Gilsenan Nordin & Britta Olinder

Other contributions by Michael B=F6ss, Hedda Friberg, Billy Gray, Heidi
Hansson, Ida Klitg=E5rd, Irene Gilsenan Nordin, Britta Olinder, =C5ke =
Persson &
Bent S=F8rensen

EUR 33.95 (includes 25% VAT)
256 p., softbound, 2005
ISBN 87 7934 010 5
Aarhus University Press
=09

The essays in this collection combine historical, cultural, and literary
analyses in their treatment of aspects of exile in Irish writing. Some =
are
'structuralist' in seeing exile as a physical state of being, often
associated with absence, into which an individual willingly or =
unwillingly
enters. Others are 'poststructuralist', considering the narration of =
exile
as a celebration of transgressiveness, hybridity, and otherness. This =
type
of exile moves away from a political, cultural, economic idea of exile =
to an
understanding of exile in a wider existential sense.

The theme of exile is discussed in a wide range of texts including
literature, political writings and song-writing, either in works of =
Irish
writers not normally associated with exile, or in which new aspects of
=91exile=92 can be discerned. The essays cover, among others: Butler, =
D=92Arcy
McGee, Mulholland, Joyce, Hewitt, Van Morrison, N=ED Chuillean=E1in, =
Doyle, and
Banville.

Contents
Excerpt
At

http://www.unipress.dk/en-gb/Item.aspx?sku=3D1224#Toc

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ASEN

Subject: 2006 ASEN Conference, 28th-30th March 2006, LSE

We'd be most thankful if you could circulate this flyer to your members.

Kind regards
ASEN
Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism

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Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism
ASEN

16th Annual Conference
Nations and Their Pasts:
Representing the Past, Building the Future

28th-30th March 2006
London School of Economics (LSE), London

Key Speakers (28th March):

Prof. Stefan Berger

Prof. Terence Ranger

Prof. Yael Zerubavel

Prof. Robert Gildea

Prof. Sebastian Conrad

Prof. David Brading

Second and Third Day Panels include (29th-30th March):

Collective Memory

Museums and the Construction of National Past

Constructing the National Past in Textbooks

Depictions of Trauma in National Narratives

Contested Histories of the Nation

For more information on the full programme and registration, please refer to
www.lse.ac.uk/collections/asen/conference2006.htm

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Currently the free sample issue of NUMEN - the official journal of the
International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR) - is Volume
52, Number 1, 2005.

A special issue on Religion and Violence...

This article by Steve Bruce is there, and other thought-provoking
material...

P.O'S.


Religion and Violence: What can Sociology Offer?

Author: Steve Bruce

Source: Numen, Volume 52, Number 1, 2005, pp. 5-28(24)

Publisher:Brill Academic Publishers

Abstract:
This essay presents a sketch of a sociological approach to the study of
possible links between religion and violence. It aims to avoid two unhelpful
positions: the structural social science that denies religion causal status
and explains everything by circumstance and the popular commentary that
gives too much weight to very specific religious ideas. It suggests that
instead of trying to explain rare and exotic political action we look for
possible links between large abstract features of religious traditions and
key features of the culturally-produced social backgrounds which inform how
large groups of people orient themselves to other groups, to the issue of
individual rights, and to the legitimacy of the state. The example of the
involvement of Protestant fundamentalists in the political violence of
Northern Ireland is used to illustrate this approach. The refusal of such
fundamentalists to engage in holy war is explained by a combination of
circumstances and religious ideas.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1163/1568527053083412

Free content The full text is free.

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Of Guns and Ballots: Attitudes towards Unconventional and Destructive
Political Participation among Sinn F=E9in and Herri Batasuna Supporters

Author: Justice, Jeff1

Source: Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Volume 11, Number 3, Number
3/Autumn 2005, pp. 295-320(26)

Publisher:Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
next article > View Table of Contents

Abstract:
Ireland and Northern Ireland's Sinn F=E9in and the Spanish Basque =
Country's
Herri Batasuna are two radical nationalist parties alleged to be tied to
terrorist organizations. The leaderships of both parties deny being
officially attached to such groups, although their partisan rhetoric
supports their violent activities. Using a series of logistical =
regression
models, I find that the electorates that support these parties have less
confidence in democratic institutions than supporters of more moderate
nationalist parties. True to their postmaterialist leanings, all of the
moderate and radical nationalist parties on Ireland and in the Spanish
Basque region have electorates willing to engage in unconventional =
political
behaviour at some level. However, the radical parties' electorates are
willing to use illegal and even destructive forms, whilst the moderate
nationalists are not.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/13537110591005748

Affiliations: 1: Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA

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How can copies be ordered? Is it available on Amazon or Barnes and =
Noble?

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William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of History
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA=20
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From: "Matthew L. Jockers"
To:
Thread-Topic: New Book on Irish America

Before he died in November of 2003, Don Jordan was hard at work editing =
a
collection of essays dealing with the Irish in the San Francisco Bay =
Area.
After Don died, Timothy O'Keefe, Professor of history at Santa Clara =
Univ.
took on the completion of the project.

The book is now out under the title
_The Irish in the San Francisco Bay Area: Essays on Good Fortune_. It =
was
published by the Irish Literary and Historical Society of San Francisco.
ISBN 0-931180-00-7.

The book is divided into six parts with two - four essays in each =
section.:

Irish Identity in Literature and the Popular press
Ethnicity and troubled ethnic relations
Irish-American Culture and acculturation
Education and educators
San Francisco, Silicon Valley and Ireland
Irish-American Identity: Personal Experience and Historical Evaluation.

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Below you can see how ARCHAEOLOGY IRELAND TOCs are coming through to us.

Actually less than useless - because there is no way of working out what
these articles are about. In fairness, I guess 'Brick kilns' might be about
brick kilns...

And I know that this is a popularising journal - but what is it about
archaeologists and puns?

The publisher's web site has no up to date TOCs, and the TOCs there are only
a little more informative...

http://www.wordwellbooks.com/index.php

A cist is still a cist...the fundamental things apply... Indeed...

P.O'S.


ARCHAEOLOGY IRELAND
VOL 19; NUMB 4; 2004
ISSN 0790-892X

p. 08
`Sense from Samples' seminar

pp. 09-12
Run of the mill? Excavation of an early medieval site at Raystown, Co. Meath

p. 13
Hubble, bubble, toil and trouble...Naturally occurring rock art on Valentia
Island

pp. 14-17
Settlement and disease: a plague on all your raths

pp. 18-19
Cultivation ridges in Longford

pp. 20-23
New prehistoric discoveries in the Kesh Corann/Carrowkeel complex, Co. Sligo

pp. 24-25
A spoonful of luck

pp. 26-30
Cuirass to gorget?

pp. 31-33
Brick kilns

pp. 34-37
Know your monuments: Crannogs

pp. 38-41
Archaeology in Ireland's journals

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From: Alison Younger [mailto:alison_younger[at]yahoo.co.uk]=20
Subject: THE NORTH EAST IRISH CULTURE NETWORK

May I alert member to the following visits of Professor Andrew Carpenter
(UCD) to the Universities of Sunderland and Durham? Everyone is welcome.
=A0
=A0
THE NORTH EAST IRISH CULTURE NETWORK

At the Universities of Sunderland and Durham will host Professor Andrew
Carpenter, (University College, Dublin) on 21st and 22nd February, 2006.
Professor Carpenter will speak on the following:
=A0
21st February: =93A Tale of a Tub as an Irish Text=94 =96 The University =
of
Sunderland: The Vardy Gallery, Ashburne House =96 5.00p.m
=A0
22nd February: =93Mrs Harrison=92s Petition: a new look at Swift=92s =
Dublin verse=94
=96The University of Durham - Hallgarth House Seminar Room, 4.30 p.m.
=A0
=A0
Further details can be obtained from:
Professor Stephen Regan =96 stephen.regan[at]durham.ac.uk=20
Dr Alison O=92Malley-Younger =96 alison.younger[at]sunderland.ac.uk