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For those who read Spanish...

The latest issue of=20

Tiempos modernos: revista electronica de historia moderna
No. 13 (2006)

Has an article...

~ Perez Tostado, Igor. ""Tu, Felix Austria, Nube": la
actividad politica bicefala de la comunidad exiliada
irlandesa en la corte de Felipe IV y la visita de Carlos
Estuardo."

Full-Text (HTML):
http://www.tiemposmodernos.org/viewarticle.php?id=3D102&layout=3Dhtml

Full-Text (PDF):
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102&
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Abstract: http://www.tiemposmodernos.org/viewarticle.php?id=3D102

=ABTu, Felix Austria, Nube=BB. La actividad pol=EDtica bic=E9fala de la =
comunidad
exiliada irlandesa en la corte de Felipe IV y la visita de Carlos =
Estuardo

Igor P=E9rez Tostado, National University of Ireland

Resumen

// Resumen // La sombra de las negociaciones de la alianza matrimonial =
entre
Carlos Estuardo y Maria de Austria, la comunidad exiliada irlandesa =
moviliz=F3
todos sus recursos pol=EDticos dentro de la Monarqu=EDa Hisp=E1nica para =
que,
fuese cual fuese el resultado de las negociaciones, los objetivos, =
puntos de
vista y necesidades de esta comunidad fuesen tenidas en cuenta. Estas
negociaciones permiten comprender la actividad en la corte del grupo
exiliado, actor poco conocido del mundo moderno que, sin embargo, jug=F3 =
un
papel propio en la configuraci=F3n pol=EDtica de la =E9poca. Los =
irlandeses fueron
capaces de organizarse como un grupo de presi=F3n para poder actuar en =
la
corte. Sin embargo, este esfuerzo nunca fue unificado ni arm=F3nico =
debido a
las fuertes divergencias y enfrentamientos intra-comunitarios
pre-existentes.

// Abstract // During the negotiations of the match between Charles =
Stuart
and the infanta Maria, the Irish community in exile mobilized all its
political resources within the Spanish Monarchy to ensure that, =
regardless
of the outcome, its needs would be taken into account. These =
negotiations
allow us a closer look at the lobbying activity of the exiled community, =
a
little known actor of the Early Modern world which, nevertheless, played =
a
role in the making of its political configuration. The Irish were able =
to
organise themselves as a pressure group in order to participate in the
Spanish court, but this effort was neither unified nor harmonious due to
strong contemporary disagreements and inherited intra-community =
conflict.

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From: D.C. Rose
musard[at]tiscali.fr
Subject: The Return of THE OSCHOLARS

Dear Colleagues, ch=C3=A8res et chers coll=C3=A8gues, Liebe Kolleginnen =
und Kollegen, Geachte collega's en collegae, Cari colleghi e colleghe, =
Drodzy Koledzy i Kolez=CB=99anki, Queridos colegas, Dragi colegi, =
K=C3=A4ra kolleger:
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We have been away for longer than anticipated, but I am very happy to =
announce that a new website has been found for THE OSCHOLARS and my =
personal circumstances, for a long time somewhat disrupted by the gale =
of the world, seem to have stabilised sufficiently for me to able to =
resume work upon it.

After a number of false dawns, web space has been very generously =
offered by Patrick O=E2=80=99Sullivan of Irish Diaspora Net and I have =
begun transferring the archived issues. This is a very laborious =
business as each has to be reformatted, links re-forged and the =
opportunity taken to improve layout, navigation and design. When all =
the issues are on the site, I will have time for restarting monthly =
publication. =20
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Our web address is now www.irishdiaspora.net with an easy system of =
links to be followed to penetrate the recesses. Issues 1 to 10 are now =
on site. Once all are established there we may be able further to =
simplify access and navigation. The e-mail address is =
Melmoth[at]aliceadsl.fr for THE OSCHOLARS and musard[at]tiscali.fr for me =
personally.
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When the journal has been thus re-established and teething problems =
resolved, I will need very carefully to consider making some small =
charge, in order to permit me to work full time at improving and =
extending the journal, investing in superior software and so on. This =
is because I no longer have institutional financial support. The sum in =
mind is =C2=A310 / 15 =E2=82=AC / $ 15 for a year (twelve issues), which =
is quite a small monthly figure, and a fraction of that charged by the =
scholarly print journals for far fewer issues. We hope that this will =
be acceptable, as guaranteeing the future of the journal. Your views =
will be taken into consideration.
=20
We hope to attract scholarly articles that will be blind peer-reviewed =
before publication.
=20
Melmoth[at]aliceadsl.fr is also the e-mail address of the newly founded =
French branch of The Oscar Wilde Society, Soci=C3=A9t=C3=A9 Oscar Wilde =
(Paris). This is intended to extend the understanding and appreciation =
of Wilde in France, and to act as a forum for French / francophone Wilde =
and fin-de-si=C3=A8cle scholars. It will publish its own newsletter (in =
French and English), rue des beaux arts, and membership is free to all =
who apply, though members will be encouraged to join the parent body, =
details of which may be found at www.oscarwildesociety.co.uk. A =
French-language website is under construction. Wilde scholars who visit =
Paris will be entertained.
=20
With best wishes,
=20
David Rose
=20
1 rue Gutenberg
76005 Paris.
=20
Written on the day after seeing Salom=C3=A9 at the Th=C3=A9=C3=A2tre de =
Nesle, directed by Christine Farenc for the company Th=C3=A9=C3=A2tre du =
Voir.

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We are all, in some measure, 'more isolated scholars' of the Irish =
Diaspora
- as it says in our rubric...

And I do get appreciative thanks when I note some free stuff...

As a member of the BAIS I get paper copies of Irish Studies Review - but
have no access to the online issues. And sometimes - as we known on =
IR-D -
it is useful to have articles in electronic format.

Currently 4 issues of Irish Studies Review seem to be freely available =
on
the web site...

Go to

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09670882.asp

Don't go down the Free Sample route.

Click on Online Contents...

Some Contents are given in bold. These are currently freely available,
usually after negotiating some hurdles...=20

Volume 13, Number 4 / November 2005
Which includes, for example,=20

A Swiss Soldier in Ireland, 1689=9690=20
P=E1draig Lenihan and Geraldine Sheridan

Issue: Volume 12, Number 3 / December 2004

Issue: Volume 12, Number 1 / 2004
Gerry Smyth's music special
Very useful - not just to those interested in music and dance...

Issue: Volume 11, Number 1 / April 2003
Much on Oscar Wilde. And some free Bill Rolston...

The substantial Reviews section of ISR - sometimes mis-labelled on the =
web
site - is always worth reading.=20

P.O'S.

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Only 1000 copies of the catalogue of the Reading Wilde, Querying Spaces
exhibition, first mounted in the Fales Collection of NYU's Elmer Holmes
Bobst Library, were printed.

My own copy is number 6.

The catalogue has now been adapted for the World Wide Web, and is displayed
at the Bobst Library web site.

http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/fales/exhibits/wilde/00main.htm

So, come in Number 6 - your time is up.

P.O'S.

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About a month ago I floated a query on this list about Irish-American
over-representation in the FBI. So far I've found nothing beyond anecdote,
but the anecdotes are myriad. Someone has pointed out this interview with
Maura Conlon-McIvor, author of "She's All Eyes: Memoirs of an Irish-American
Daughter" http://www.mauraconlon.com/q_and_a.htm

Especially this question:

6. Why did your father become an FBI agent?
There were many appealing aspects to becoming an FBI agent in the early
1950s, not the least of which was job security for men who grew up in the
Great Depression. He also felt a sense of service to the country as did
others of his era who also served in WWII. My father attended Brooklyn Law
School on the GI Bill, passed the New York Bar, and couldn't find work with
Manhattan law firms, perhaps due to residual prejudice of his Irish
ethnicity. So he joined the FBI as did many other Irish-American men. It's
interesting that historically speaking many (traditionally) men working in
law enforcement came from Irish backgrounds. We expect these people to be
invincible, strong, our protectors -- yet so many came from such
beleaugered, underdog histories.

Jim Rogers
NEW HIBERNIA REVIEW

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Please Distribute...

I have put the pretty version of the invitation on irishdiaspora.net, as =
an
Exhibit, under NOTICES...

I will not be able to get to London for the opening. Would people who =
can
get to the opening please regard themselves as representatives of IR-D. =
And
give Bernard my good wishes...

Paddy O'Sullivan

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Subject: INVITE and PRESS RELEASE CANAVAN EXHIBTION

=A0
YOU ARE INVITED TO
OVER THE WATER
AN EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BY
BERNARD CANAVAN
OPENING NIGHT MARCH 8TH 7 - 9:30 PM
The exhibition runs from March 9th-March 31st 2006 12pm-6pm daily
Willesden Green Library Centre, 95 High Road, London NW10 2ST.=20

=A0
"One of the best unsung Irish artists in Britain." The Irish post=A0
=A0
For appointment please call: 020 8955 1665=20
or see www.bernardcanavan.com. or e-mail=A0jlucitt[at]btopenworld.com =A0=20
Underground: Willesden Green.=20
Buses: 52,98,460,260 & 266=20
=A0
Press Release for Irish Art Exhibition 'Over The Water'=20
After two sell out shows Bernard Canavan offers us memories of life in
Ireland and London in the 1950s and 60s. The people represented range =
from
powerful working men in trucks to lovely lassies in high heels in Camden
Town who tell us about bravery, perseverance, passion and lots more.
=20
This exhibition will appeal not only to Irish people but to anyone who =
has
left their homeland. Canavan himself is one of these migrants who first =
came
to London in the 1960s, where he worked as an illustrator in many of the
'underground' papers of 'swinging' London and his paintings are a
contribution both to the history of the Irish diaspora and to the =
history of
the city.
=A0
The Ireland of the 1950s that these men and women left was close-knit =
and
traditional and Canavan depicts it with religious symbolism. His symbols
convey meaning: an aeroplane in 'The Supper' representing an Ireland to
where there is no going back.'The Long Straight Road' is a parable about
life. We see the serenity of the monumental masons as they gossip while
chiselling out names on headstones in their organised and desolate
workshop. Canavan's paintings are figurative- expressionist and are
influenced by Hopper, Rego and Howson, among others.=20
=A0
In the tongue-in-cheek 'Escapologist' a travelling street entertainer
busily tries to free himself from his strait jacket as a middle-aged =
man,
passing a statue to the 1798 rebellion, leaves for the ferry, suitcase =
in
hand. This is a bitter-sweet reminder of the link between what we flee =
and
what has helped to shape us.
=A0
The foreboding of 'Sligo Boat Train' and 'Sunset Over The Irish Sea'
metamorphose into the brilliance of 1960's London: the gruelling work, =
the
digging and the dances. Here the 'King of Camden Town' stands on a =
mound of
gravel like King Cong on the Empire State building! =20
=A0
Canavan brings the journey to a full circle with 'Bringing Back the
Future': a painting of a young Irish woman, transistor radio in hand, =
home
on holidays in the 1970's. A photograph of the Sacred Heart sticks out =
from
behind the cab mirror in which we see her reflection. Here the emigrant =
is
depicted as harbinger of the future and in Canavan's paintings the =
Celtic
Tiger owes much to these displaced souls.=20
=A0
Marion Dwyer=20
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Forwarded on behalf of=20

Jackie Fulmer
UC Berkeley

Do note that submissions are needed by March 15.

P.O'S.


From: Jackie Fulmer
Subject: MLA Call for Papers--Old and New Stories of the Celtic Diaspora


Dear colleagues in the study of Irish cultures, languages, and =
literature,

I would greatly appreciate it if everyone could forward this to =
interested
individuals.

Thank you in advance for your assistance and interest. I look forward to
reading your submissions.

Yours,

Jackie Fulmer
UC Berkeley


Celtic Languages and Literature--Modern Languages Association Annual
Meeting, December 2006, Philadelphia, PA
"Into the West Redux: Old and New Stories of the Celtic Diaspora"

Invitation to submit papers comparing earlier (the Classical, Late =
Antique,
or the medieval period) and/or later (i.e., late 20th-early 21st =
century)
periods of the Celtic Diaspora as depicted in historical writing, =
fiction,
films, or memoirs. 300 word abstracts due via e-mail by 15 March; =
Jacqueline
Fulmer (fulmerjk[at]berkeley.edu).

Dr. Jacqueline Fulmer
Celtic Studies Program
6303 Dwinelle Hall, M.C. # 2690
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA=A0 94720-2690
fulmerjk[at]berkeley.edu

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I have no sympathy for the officials who allowed this march to go ahead
in the first place. What had the IRA killings got to do with the
Dublin government? This was a crazy decision and the issue addressed
should be why this was allowed in the first place.

Carmel

Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:

>From: Joe Bradley [mailto:j.m.bradley[at]stir.ac.uk]
>Subject: RE: [IR-D] Dublin riot 2
>
>According to a number of interviews I have conducted in Ireland the
>references to Celtic are symptomatic of a number of media people who can't
>work out and resent the re-birth and growth of support for Celtic Football
>Club in modern Ireland. This often comes from people who prefer Manchester
>Utd, Liverpool et al. Two observations might be relevant. One, that
>sportswear is a modern phenomenon across the globe and is worn wherever
>people live and march or protest or riot (or vote, or sit and eat their
>dinner, etc). Two, it certainly does provoke one's thoughts that someone
>could believe that Saturday's riots were a result of the growth of an
>underclass?
>
>Joe Bradley
>
>.
>
>
>

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A number of items of interest to IR-D members are turning up on the Journal
of Medieval History web site at Science Direct. So far they are not
assigned to a specific issue of the journal - I don't know if a special
issue is planned?

I find it best not to wait to distribute information about these unassigned
journal articles... Thus gives an extra task to potential users of the
articles, but...

In this one, present day social scientists will blink at the use of the word
'race' in the Abstract. But that word has for some time been used by
medievalists in discussion of the conflicts within the religious orders -
you see the word used also in (translations of) the original sources.
Perhaps medievalists could tell us if there has been much discussion of
this?

P.O'S.


Journal of Medieval History
Article in Press, Corrected Proof - Note to users

Copyright C 2006 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.

The Franciscans and the Scottish Wars of Independence: an Irish perspective

Niav Gallagher

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Department of Medieval History, Trinity College Dublin, College Green,
Dublin, Ireland

Available online 28 February 2006.


Abstract

The intention of this paper is to examine the role of the Franciscans in the
Scottish Wars of Independence. Many of the studies relating to this period
have been confined to either the political or ecclesiastical arena. They
also choose to treat the individual countries of the British Isles in an
unconnected fashion. This paper is intended to redress the balance, using
the involvement of the Franciscan friars in Ireland and Scotland to study
political events on either side of the Irish Sea. By examining the actions
of diverse nationalities belonging to a single order I hope to establish why
the Franciscans saw fit to involve themselves in either the nativist or
royalist causes and to determine it was purely race that dictated their
actions when their countrymen went to war.

Keywords: Franciscans; Ireland; Scotland

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Journal of Medieval History
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Anglo-Irish and Gaelic marriage laws and traditions in late medieval Ireland

Gillian Kenny

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Lannet, Corcreaghy, Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan, Eire, Ireland

Available online 28 February 2006.


Abstract

This paper is intended to draw attention to the very different rights and
restrictions accorded to Anglo-Irish and Gaelic women in late medieval
Ireland. These differing traditions concerning marriage and women's rights
within it led to conflicting marital experiences for Anglo-Irish and Gaelic
women during this period. Fundamentally the Anglo-Irish idea of marriage was
opposed to the Gaelic one which led to clashes especially where
intermarriage between the two cultures took place.

Keywords: Marriage; Ireland; Anglo-Irish; Gaelic-Irish

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Journal of Medieval History
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Copyright C 2006 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.

Reasons for leaving: The effect of conflict on English landholding in late
thirteenth-century Leinster

Beth Hartland
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Department of History, University of Durham, 43 North Bailey, Durham, DH1
3EX, United Kingdom

Available online 28 February 2006.


Abstract

In 1297 a parliament was convened at Dublin one of the main purposes of
which was to defend more effectively the borders of the English lordship of
Ireland. The conquest of Ireland had never been complete. Several of the
pre-conquest kingdoms survived beyond the effective edge of the English
lordship and elsewhere the actions of conquistador and settler had pushed
the native Irish up into the hills. Consequently, the settler population in
many parts of Ireland lived in close proximity to areas under Gaelic
control. This was not a particular problem in the eastern province of
Leinster until the 1270s when the Irish of the Wicklow mountains began to
raid settler manors. It has recently been suggested that the effects of this
'Gaelic revival' and the legislation passed at the Dublin parliament to deal
with its effects led several English lords to cut their landholding ties
with Ireland. This article questions how important a factor conflict
actually was in the decision-making processes of such English lords by
examining their withdrawal from Ireland in a wider context. It concludes by
pointing out that withdrawals from a landholding community were not
necessarily negative in their effect or cause.

Keywords: Ireland; Dublin parliament; Landholding; Conflict

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Social Science & Medicine
Volume 62, Issue 8, April 2006, Pages 1978-1990

Copyright C 2005 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.

".it's all the same no matter how much fruit or vegetables or fresh air we
get": Traveller women's perceptions of illness causation and health
inequalities

Margaret Hodginsa, Corresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The
Corresponding Author, Michelle Millarb and Margaret M Barrya

aDepartment of Health Promotion, National University of Ireland, Galway,
Ireland
bDepartment of Sociology and Political Studies, National University of
Ireland, Galway, Ireland

Available online 6 October 2005.


Abstract

This paper explores the perceptions of illness causation and health
inequalities of Travellers, an ethnic minority group who experience
considerable social and health disadvantages in Ireland.

In order to allow for subjective meanings to emerge, a qualitative
methodology with purposive sampling was employed. Participants in the study
were invited to respond to a vignette in a focus group setting. Forty-one
Traveller women were recruited to the focus groups through community
projects or adult education initiatives. The study not only illustrates the
complexity of lay perceptions of ill-health and health inequalities, but
raises important questions about the prevalence of depression and of
domestic violence in the Travelling community. These Traveller women were
very willing to discuss the structural factors that contributed to their
health status, attributing ill-health to social and environmental factors,
such as accommodation, hardship and discrimination. Further, they broadly
rejected behavioural explanations of the heart disease described in the
vignette. Traveller women's understandings of health and the factors that
determine it are deeply embedded in the social context of their lives and
their ethnic identity. These findings are discussed in the context of social
identity and ethnicity, and contribute to theoretical debates about the role
of that identity in recognising inequality. The study revealed that
Traveller women see many shortcomings in health service provision. They need
service provision to be culturally sensitive and responsive to their needs.

Keywords: Health inequalities; Lay perceptions; Irish travellers; Ireland;
Women

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Readers of the list may be interested in the following analysis of last
weekend's Dublin riot offered by David McWilliams and published in today's
Irish Independent. McWilliams is a media poster-child here in Ireland - an
economist and broadcaster who has a snap phrase or caption for everything
(his recent book is called the Pope's Children, after the 1979 visit). The
commentary can be glib and sometime simplistic or even repulsive but I think
he provides some provocative ideas below.



The only comment I would make on his figures is that the level of
immigration into Ireland at the moment does not tell the whole story. We
only count people in but the little evidence to hand suggests that high
numbers remain for a relatively short period.



Piaras



The Celtic Tiger is famous for its millionaires; but as Saturday's riots
revealed, not everyone has been swept up in the slipstream of success. DAVID
McWILLIAMS on the rise and rise of the new hopeless.

THE blame for Saturday's riot seems now to rest with local football
hooligans drawn from what has been described as a feral, aggrieved
underclass which has, in the economic effervescence of the past few years,
been ignored.

If this is the case, we had better get used to them because this
track-suited, white Irish underclass will grow significantly.

And this growing-suburban underclass - mirroring developments in the US and
the UK - is likely to remain firmly beyond mainstream politics.

You may have caught a glimpse of these looters in Celtic shirts, stoking the
riot on their pre-paid mobiles; if not, just watch any Eminem video.

In the US, this class is referred to as "white trailer-trash" - people
living in trailer parks at the wrong end of US cities, defined by a weakness
for tracksuits, sovereign rings and lotto scratch cards.

Eminem is their Elvis, rapping about alienation, anger, destitution,
alcoholism, family break-ups, teenage pregnancies and welfare dependency.

If they are working, it is for the minimum wage at KFC, McDonald's or Wal
Mart.

They feature strongly in the Army casualties in Iraq.

Despite having little or no stake in US society, they, like the rioters on
Saturday, display warped patriotism for flag, country and tribe, defined
more by what they are against than what they are for.

The US has a long history of well-paid blue collar workers, so how did these
people slip down the social pecking order in the past 20 years? And will it
happen here? Three major global factors have created the "trailer-trash
underclass" in the US and, arguably, they are at work here. More worryingly,
the pace of change here is faster.

First, with the opening of China, India and Russia over the past 15 years,
the world's labour force has doubled.

This is a once-in-a-century development and has enormous repercussions for
politics and society.

This means that low-skilled jobs have migrated to China and India in
particular - and we have only seen the beginning.

A good example of what happens when the world is hit with an economic shock
of this magnitude is the impact of the American prairies on global food
markets of the 1860s.

The push of the American settlers to the West opened up enormous tracts of
land that were immediately mechanised.

In no time, American farms, unencumbered by small peasant holdings and petty
European familial jealousies, became considerably more efficient than the
farms of Europe.

This huge increase in supply from the American mid-West pushed down world
prices for crops.

The peasantry, which had been the backbone of European society for years,
suddenly found itself facing considerably lower prices at market.

Their already meagre incomes fell further.

From 1870 to 1900, world agricultural prices fell progressively.

This decimated Europe's small farmers and thousands left the land, choosing
to emigrate to the US and Argentina or migrate into Europe's rapidly
expanding industrial cities.

Lower food prices also helped industrialisation as it was now cheaper to
feed the urbanised masses.

So the first victims of globalisation were Europe's peasant farmers.

However, back then, millions availed of the safety valve of emigration.

Ireland's post-famine emigration trends also reflect this.

Indeed, the political ramifications of the US-inspired, agricultural
recessions of the 1870s included the Land League, the Home Rule movement and
continued agrarian unrest.

Fast-forward to today and similar global rebalancing is occurring.

Low-skilled industrial/service workers today are the 21st-century equivalent
of the 19th century's peasant labourers.

These jobs have no future in high-cost, high-income countries like Ireland.

To make matters worse, unlike our ancestors, today's displaced low-skilled
workers have nowhere to migrate to - even if they wanted to.

Equally, there is not much incentive to emigrate - the welfare state sees to
that.

However, the Chinese and others will continue to come here and so
demographic competition will sharpen.

Thus, the second squeeze on the underclass comes from immigration.

The history of immigration is the history of social fluidity and of winners
and losers.

Again the history of the Irish in America is instructive.

Whenever there is net immigration, competition for jobs increases
dramatically as the immigrants do whatever it takes to get by.

The experience of black manual workers in the US faced with thousands of
Irish workers coming into the major cities of the US in the 1840s and 1850s
gives us a fascinating glimpse of what is likely to happen to our unskilled
workers over the next five years.

Initially, the Catholic Irish were seen as untermensch by the Wasp (white
Anglo-Saxon Protestant) establishment, but that changed in the late 19th
century.

Going back to the Famine, it has been pointed out waves of immigrants from
Ireland displaced the American black labourers with alarming speed, by
undercutting them in a classic example of 19th-century outsourcing.

As is the case today, displacement and outsourcing created much discussion
in the editorial pages.

Here is an extract from a letter published in the 'Philadelphia Daily Sun'
in 1849: "There is direct competition between the blacks and the Irish, as
we all know. The wharfs and new building attest to this fact; when a few
years ago we saw none but blacks, we now see nothing but Irish."

Not only did the Irish replace the blacks but, having replaced them, we set
up a powerful trade union movement based on race to make sure that we kept
them out.

Economic history is replete with other examples of the dislocating nature of
immigration.

Let's get back to our own looters, whom we saw on Saturday.

What is likely to happen to them as our economy changes with globalisation?

History and recent UK and US experience suggest that the growth of an
indigenous white Irish underclass is not in doubt but two other factors will
determine the pace of events.

The first is the scale of immigration and the second is the skill level of
the Irish workers.

If immigration remains at its present rate, we will see another 60,000
workers enter the country in the next 12 months.

This rate is likely to taper off but it still puts us top of the European
league for immigration.

Just to put the figure in context, we are now accepting eight times more
immigrants per head than France.

Perhaps the more striking issue is not the influx of foreigners, but the
educational underachievement of our own people.

For all our talk about our great education system, new figures reveal that
the indigenous Irish are the least skilled people in the workforce.

According to the ESRI, 32.9pc of Irish workers in the labour force are
unskilled and uneducated. (This figure measures the amount of our workers
who have left school at or before Junior Cert.)

This compares to only 3pc of our new immigrants from the EU.

As a group, these largely eastern Europeans are 10 times better educated
than we are.

According to the ESRI, 87pc of other (non-EU) immigrants - mainly Chinese
and Africans - are skilled, as opposed to only 67pc of us.

These are truly shocking comparisons, implying that, when the going gets
tough, the greater skill level of the foreigners will ensure that they will
be the ones who will weather the storm.

We have already seen the first signs of trouble as new figures reveal an
alarming rise in unemployment among Irish school leavers in the past year or
two.

Think about the following choice.

You are faced with two candidates for a basic manual job. One is an
enthusiastic, well-turned out, numerate, multi-lingual Polish graduate; the
other is a snarling, barely-literate local in full-tracksuit mufti, who left
school before the Junior Cert.

Unskilled

Which one would you pick?

The fact that so many of our workers are unskilled and so many are leaving
school early means that what the Americans would describe as the
"trailer-trash" underclass is likely to grow rapidly in the years ahead.

There will be fewer jobs for the unskilled and more competition for these
jobs.

If house prices continue to rise and local authority houses continues to
fail to keep up with demand, trailer parks will become a reality.

There, cut off from the rest of us, wrapped in their Celtic scarves, an
underclass will fester.

Is that the future we want for our society?

It's time to answer a few hard questions.

Saturday's riot should force us to wake up.




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From: "Rogers, James"
Subject: New Hibernia Review 9:4 (Winter 2005) TOC
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Volume 9, number 4, of New Hibernia Review is now in the mail, or-for =
those
who have access to Project Muse=A9 -- hovering tantalizingly close in
cyberspace.

Her is a TOC combined with thumbnail description of the contents:

Gear=F3id =D3 hAllmhur=E1in, "Dancing on the Hobs of Hell: Rural =
Communities in
Clare and the Dance Halls Act of 1935" pp 9-18
Though the ideals behind government policy and rhetoric of 1930s =
Ireland
claimed to esteem traditional life, government policy often assaulted =
the
old ways, e.g., in the Public Dance Halls Act of 1935 that required =
that
dancing occur only on licensed premises. Using newly available =
government
files, =D3 hAllmhur=E1in shows that the Act was never intended to =
destroy the
communitarian traditions of the crossroads; but once enacted, the
legislation was seized on by zealous Catholic clerics, and the folk =
dance
tradition withered before the regulated fare of the showband and the =
parish
hall.

Pauline M. Prior "Murder and Madness: Gender and the Insanity =
Defense in
Nineteenth-century Ireland" pp. 19-36
In the archives of institutions like the Central Criminal Lunatic =
Asylum for
Ireland at Dundrum, which opened in 1850, Prior finds striking gender
differences in the application of the insanity defense. For women, a =
plea
of insanity was more readily believed if they had murdered a child, =
while
women who had murdered men were likely to be treated as criminals. For =
men,
insanity was more easily invoked if their victim had been female. =20

Michael Coady, "Fil=F3cht Nua: New Poems" pp 37-47
A selection of new poems that show well the preoccupations of poet =
Michael
Coady of Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary: the enigmas of human nature =
and
of human destinies; gratitude; and the dignity of humble lives. =20

Christopher Shannon, "Public Enemies, Local Heroes: The Irish-American
Gangster Film in Classic Hollywood Cinema" pp. 48-64.
Shannon considers two familiar Cagney vehicles, Public Enemy (1931) and
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938). Superficially, these films display =
Irish
America in their enduring images of the urban world of the immigrants =
and
their children: a world of stock characters--politicians, cops, and
saloon-keepers--as well as a parish-based Catholicism and a vibrant =
street
life. The Cagney characters in these films also enact a foundational
immigrant myth, that of "the gangster-as-urban-villager story, in which
communal obligations trump individual glory." =20

Danine Farquharson, "The Language of Violence in Robert McLiam Wilson's
Eureka Street" pp 65-78
Prominent among contemporary writers who have depicted the "Troubles" =
is
Robert McLiam Wilson. Farquharson examines his 1996 novel Eureka =
Street, and
especially its central chapters in which a random terrorist attack is
recounted with chilling accuracy, to discern the ethical motivations =
that
drive McLiam Wilson's literally exploded narrative. Drawing on Kant and
Richard Kearney, and on the literary theorist Wayne Booth, Farquharson =
finds
that the author's "language of violence" evokes both imagination and
empathy.
=20
Patrick Maume, "A Pastoral Vision: The Novels of Canon Joseph Guinan" =
pp.
79-98
Maume introduces us to the literary career of Canon Joseph Guinan
(1863-1932), a priest and novelist whose fictions portrayed life in the
countryside and villages of Longford and Leitrim as an unsullied =
paradise.
Didactic in their Catholic theology and unapologetic in their =
sectarianism,
such novels as The Island Parish (1908) or The Curate of Kildoon (1912)
testify to how fully the clergy embraced the Gaelic Revival ideals of =
Irish
virtue.=20

Susan Johnston Graf, "An Infant Avatar: The Mature Occultism of W. B. =
Yeats"
pp 99-112
Among the less appealing aspects of W.B Yeats's long career was the =
great
poet's attraction to reactionary politics late in life--sentiments that
Yeats advanced with heroic hauteur in his play Purgatory (1938) and in =
On
the Boiler (1939). Yeats further wed these beliefs to his interest in =
the
occult. Convinced that the birth of an avatar who would save humanity =
was
imminent, Yeats and his wife George practiced sexual magic and =
astrological
prescriptions in the belief that they might conceive the avatar in =
Ireland.


Tyler Farrell "Austin Clarke and the Consolations of Irish Catholicism" =
pp.
113-129.
Farrell tracks the poet's lifelong ambivalence toward the religion in =
which
he was raised. With withering satire, Clarke attacked church hypocrisy =
in
such poems as "Marriage," "Penal Laws," and "Celebrations," which was
occasioned by the Dublin Eucharistic Congress of 1932. At the same =
time,
Clarke's religion provided a point of departure for his thought and
reflection on the larger questions of life with which all serious =
writers
must engage.=20

Charlotte Jacklein, "Rebel Songs and Hero Pawns: Music in A Star Called
Henry" pp 129-143.=20
The links between music and Irish identity are deep, but also =
susceptible to
being ironized and exploded. After considering Roddy Doyle's =
"playlists" in
his other works, Jacklein focuses on Henry Smart, the title character =
of
Doyle's 1999 novel of the Easter Rising, A Star Called Henry .Henry is =
first
seduced, and then manipulated, by a spurious ballad bearing his name =
and
composed by an IRA recruiter..=20

Lawrence J. McCaffrey, "Sean O'Faolain and Irish Identity," pp. =
144-156.
Conceding that the reputation of Sean O'Faolain will probably always =
rest
upon his artful short stories, the historian Dr. Lawrence =
McCaffrey--who
knew O'Faolain as both an intellectual colleague and as a =
friend--contends
that is actually O'Faolain's nonfiction that best discloses both the =
inner
and the public man. In appreciative survey, McCaffrey notes the =
prescience
and courage that distinguishes O'Faolain's essays, especially those in =
the
The Bell.


Subscription information, contributor guidelines, and contact =
information
can be found on the New Hibernia Review web site at=20
http://www.stthomas.edu/irishstudies/nhr.htm

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I was traveling this weekend and thought I must have missed the news of the
"Dublin Riot" for that reason. So I went to the NYT online, searched on
"Dublin riot," and got 0 hits. Typing in "Dublin," I managed to find the
report below, which was all the Gray Lady had to say on the subject. My
peregrinations were evidently not at fault; the event had virtually no
visibility in the United States.

The story seems to be a wonderful one for commentators in search of bogeymen
(or should that be bogeypersons?). We have unnamed IRA activists, alienated
white trash, and Celtic fans held responsible. There may be some overlap in
those categories (I note, as I adjust my Celtic scarf), but the analysis
hardly seems rigorous.

I'm wondering about the reaction of other list members to Carmel's
statement. Although one might argue that advocates of "loving Ulster"
displayed more b**** than brains in attempting to march down O'Connell
Street, when do authorities have the right to prevent demonstrations in
which the protestors offer no violence except the provocative nature of
their point of view?

Tom Archdeacon




DUBLIN, Feb. 25 - A planned parade by Northern Irish Protestant groups
through the capital of the Irish republic led to violent clashes between
protesters and the police on Saturday, forcing cancellation of the march and
briefly turning a sunny afternoon into a melee, with bricks flying over the
heads of weekend shoppers. Five people were injured.

About 300 Protestants, including several marching bands in uniform, were
stopped by the police before they could begin their planned "Love Ulster"
march along O'Connell Street, Dublin's main thoroughfare. They intended to
walk to the Irish Parliament building to protest what they say is the Irish
government's tolerance of violence by groups like the Irish Republican Army.

Representatives from Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.'s political wing, had encouraged
its supporters to ignore the march, and the Irish public was expected to do
the same. But crowds of Dubliners lined the parade route, shouting
vulgarities and waving homemade banners telling the Northern Irish
demonstrators to go back home.
A group of Dubliners who opposed the march confronted the police and, using
construction equipment that had been left unattended on the street as
weapons, began smashing windows of shops. One policeman was struck by a
homemade gasoline bomb. At least three police officers and two protesters
were injured.
Tensions between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland are at the lowest
point in nearly a decade.

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This may be of interest to many on the list.

Bill Mulligan

Interrogating Diaspora
Call for papers for a workshop at the EASA-Conference, Bristol,
18th-21st September 2006
Convenors: Martin S=F6kefeld (University of Bern) & Erik Olsson
(University of Link=F6ping)
The concept of Diaspora has become very popular within the social and
cultural sciences in recent times. The proliferation of the diaspora
concept, as it has been shaped in contemporary research, has been marked
by its separation from paradigmatic cases of "old diasporas" like those
of Jews and Armenians. The "new" focus is rather on the questioning of
essentialised boundaries of communities, cultures and nations. In the
fields of ethnicity, migration and postcolonial studies, "diaspora" has
been acclaimed as a concept that facilitates the accommodation of
hybridity, movement, permeability of borders and the fluidity of
identification. The initial euphoria of "diaspora" seems to have given
way to certain reservations, however. It has been argued that, contrary
to theoretical intentions, the concept has served to essentialise
communities by attaching them to particular places of origin, and that
the meaning of diaspora has been stretched to such an extent that it has
lost much of its analytical power by largely equating diaspora with
migrant communities.
Against the background of such criticism, the intention of this workshop
is to interrogate the empirical and theoretical usefulness of the
diaspora concept and the specific empirical questions it raises. Three
main issues will be in focus. The first refers to the general conceptual
question of how to conceptualise diaspora in a way that shuns
essentialism and avoids equating it solely with migrant communities, but
at the same time secures its analytical and comparative value. The
second issue refers to questions that arise once we abstain from
essentialising diaspora. We need to ask why and how diaspora communities
are formed and how people are mobilized for diaspora. Why are people
attracted to ideas of diaspora? How are different diasporas maintained
and inter-generationally reproduced? How are diasporas transformed in
the process of reproduction? A third issue of interest refers to the
transnationality that is claimed to be a central feature in diasporic
contexts. What does such transnationality signify, and how does it
manifest itself in diasporic practices?
We cordially invite the submission of 1-page abstracts for theoretically
focused and empirically well-grounded presentations (20 minutes + 10
minutes discussion) that address these particular questions. Please send
your abstract by end of April, 2006, to:
martin.soekefeld[at]anthro.unibe.ch
and
erik.olsson[at]isv.liu.se
For more information on the conference see:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa06/



--
Prof. Dr. Martin S=F6kefeld
Institut f=FCr Sozialanthropologie
Universit=E4t Bern
L=E4nggassstrasse 49a
CH-3000 Bern 9

Tel. +41(0)31-6318963

http://www.anthro.unibe.ch/mitarbeiterinnen/soekefeld.html

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Thanks to Carmel for making me aware of the "Night Detective." I'd =
never
heard of the series, but I do love those gritty British crime dramas. =
I'll
have to be on the lookout for it.

On a serious note, the story described by Carmel is that -- a story. =
The
series, moreover, seems to have a good dose of political correctness (at
least judging from some promotional material I found on line) -- black =
hero,
sympathetic single mom prosecutor, although there may be much more to =
it.
Therefore, I want to ask how realistic the plot described by Carmel is. =
Has
the story line been "ripped from the headlines" as the founding series =
of
the American "Law and Order" stable of shows proclaims? Or was the =
reaction
of the good people of Newcastle just a creation of the imagination of
writers eager to condemn what they see as narrow mindedness in British
society?

Regardless of "realism" of the episode, Carmel's question is a good one.
Was/Is the "Irishness" of the travellers part of the reason for their
hostile reception, or was/is simply the somewhat disordered quality of =
the
travellers' existence the key? In the specific context of the show and =
the
concentration of persons of Irish descent in northern England, what
was/would be the reaction of settled Irish to the event described?=20

Tom

=20
Thomas J. Archdeacon Phone: 608-263-1778
Professor of History Fax: 608-263-5302
U. of Wisconsin -- Madison
4135 Humanities
455 North Park St.
Madison, WI 53706
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From: Peter Hart
Subject: Re: [IR-D] Dublin riot last weekend


Interesting indeed, but the riot is already bearing a huge weight of rival
interpretations. Can one event - probably not to be repeated - really tell
us all that much?

Incidentally, for those who haven't seen them, the 'previously unseen'
photos at Slugger O'Toole are pretty funny and do a nice job of sending up
the overreaction:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sluggerotoole/105831128/

Peter Hart

At 03:33 PM 01/03/2006 -0000, MacEinri, Piaras wrote:
>Readers of the list may be interested in the following analysis of last
>weekend's Dublin riot offered by David McWilliams and published in today's
>Irish Independent. McWilliams is a media poster-child here in Ireland - an
>economist and broadcaster who has a snap phrase or caption for everything
>(his recent book is called the Pope's Children, after the 1979 visit). The
>commentary can be glib and sometime simplistic or even repulsive but I
think
>he provides some provocative ideas below.
>
>The only comment I would make on his figures is that the level of
>immigration into Ireland at the moment does not tell the whole story. We
>only count people in but the little evidence to hand suggests that high
>numbers remain for a relatively short period.
>
>Piaras
>

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25th March
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Forwarded on behalf of
JAMES DINGLEY [mailto:jc.dingley[at]ntlworld.com]=20

Please find attached an invitation to attend the above event. This is =
an
open invitation to apply for a place so please pass it on to any =
colleagues.
However, due to Stormnot restrictions, places are limited and to those =
with
formal invitations. So please register as soon as possible so that =
these
can be arranged.
=A0
Many thanks
=A0
James Dingley,
Chair, NLR

NLR
(Northern Light Review)

Invites you to attend a symposium on=20

Nations, Nationalism and Community Relations in Ireland
At=20
Stormont, Parliament buildings, Belfast
On=20
Saturday, 25th March, 2006, 9-30 for 10 am

At the kind invitation of Margaret Ritchie (MLA)

Speakers and topics to include

Prof Terence Brown (TCD): Culture and Identity in Ireland

Prof Liam Kennedy (QUB): The Economic Partition of Ireland

Prof David Fitzpatrick (TCD): Religion and Ireland: The Role of the =
Orange
Order

Dr Langdon Healy (independent scholar): Lessons From the Balkans:
Comparative=20
Reflections on Ireland and Yugoslavia

James Dingley (Chair NLR, sociologist and author): What Makes a Nation?

Rt Hon David Trimble (MLA): On his British Identity

Margaret Ritchie (MLA): On her Irish Identity

Plenary session

The day will start with tea and coffee, followed by a mid-morning break =
for
tea and coffee with a late lunch at around 2pm after formal proceedings =
have
finished.

Attendance is by invitation only and numbers are limited. Those wishing =
to
attend should fill in the reply slip (below) and send to either address =
or
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sent
out (this is to comply with Stormont regulations). An attendance fee of =
=A315
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costs,
and should be attached to your request for an invitation or when =
registering
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From: Joe Bradley [mailto:j.m.bradley[at]stir.ac.uk]=20
Subject: RE: [IR-D] Dublin riot 2

According to a number of interviews I have conducted in Ireland the
references to Celtic are symptomatic of a number of media people who =
can't
work out and resent the re-birth and growth of support for Celtic =
Football
Club in modern Ireland.=A0 This often comes from people who prefer =
Manchester
Utd, Liverpool et al.=A0 Two observations might be relevant.=A0 One, =
that
sportswear is a modern phenomenon across the globe and is worn wherever
people live and march or protest or riot (or vote, or sit and eat their
dinner,=A0etc).=A0 Two,=A0it certainly does provoke one's thoughts that =
someone
could believe that=A0Saturday's riots were a result of the growth of an
underclass?
=A0
Joe Bradley