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From: Scott B Spencer [mailto:scott.spencer[at]nyu.edu]=20
Subject: Booklaunch of Making the Irish American - Invitation, TOC and =
links
to a full description=20

On Thursday, March 9th at 7 pm,=A0Glucksman Ireland House and NYU =
Press=A0will
officially launch=20
Making the Irish American: History and Heritage of the Irish in the =
United
States.=A0=20
We would love to have members of the IR-D in attendance.=A0 In fact, =
many
members of the listserve are contributors to this vast work.=A0

Full details of the book can be found at:
http://irelandhouse.fas.nyu.edu/object/makingirishamerican.html

In the spirit of the [IR-D], here is a [TO-C], which can also be found =
at:
http://irelandhouse.fas.nyu.edu/object/miatoc.html

Making the Irish American: History and Heritage of the Irish in the =
United
States
Edited by J. J. Lee and Marion R. Casey
Glucksman Ireland House and NYU Press

List of Illustrations
=A0xiii
Preface
=A0xv
Acknowledgements
=A0xvii
1. Introduction: Interpreting Irish America
J.J. Lee
=A0
1
The Irish Background

2. Modern Ireland: An Introductory Survey
Eileen Reilly
=A0
63
Foundations

3. Scots Irish or Scotch-Irish
David N. Doyle
151
4. The Irish in North America, 1776-1845
David N. Doyle
171
5. The Remaking of Irish-America, 1845-1880
David N. Doyle
=A0
213
Conflicts of Identity

6. Ulster Presbyterians and the =91Two Traditions=92 in Ireland and =
America
Kerby A. Miller
255

7. Religious Rivalry and the Making of Irish-American Identity
Irene Whelan
271

8. Address to the Ulster-Irish Society of New York, 1939
Henry Noble MacCracken
286

9. American-Irish Nationalism
Kevin Kenny
289
10. Refractive History: Memory and the Founders of the Emigrant Savings =
Bank
Marion R. Casey
302
11. Ubiquitous Bridget: Irish Immigrant Women in Domestic Service in
America, 1840-1930
Margaret Lynch-Brennan
352
12. Labor and Labor Organizations
Kevin Kenny
354
13. Race, Violence, and anti-Irish Sentiment in the Nineteenth Century
Kevin Kenny
=A0
364
Popular Expressions of Identity

14. Irish American Popular Music
Mick Moloney
381
15. The Irish and Vaudeville
Robert W. Snyder
406
16. Irish Traditional Music in the United States
Rebecca S. Miller
411
17. Before Riverdance: A Brief History of Irish Step Dancing in America
Marion R. Casey
417
18. Irish American Festivals
Mick Moloney
426
19. Irish Americans in Sports: The Nineteenth Century
Ralph Wilcox
443
20. Irish Americans in Sports: The Twentieth Century
Larry McCarthy
=A0
457
Reflections

21. The Irish (1963, 1970)
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
475
22. Once We Were Kings (1999)
Pete Hamill
526
23. Democracy in Action (1988)
Calvin Trillin
535
24. Irish America, 1940-2000
Linda Dowling Almeida
548
25. Twentieth-Century American Catholicism and Irish Americans
Thomas J. Shelley
574
26. The Fireman on the Stairs: Communal Loyalties in the Making of Irish
America
Timothy J. Meagher
609
27. The Tradition of Irish American Writers: The Twentieth Century
Daniel J. Casey and Robert E. Rhodes
649
28. Looking for Jimmy (1999)
Peter Quinn
663
29. The Future of Irish America (2000)
Peter Quinn
=A0
680
Appendix: The Irish in the U.S. Census: An Explanatory Note
687
Contributors
693
Permissions
697
Index
699

Scott Spencer=20
Glucksman Ireland House=20
New York University=20
212 998 3955=20
scott.spencer[at]nyu.edu=20
www.irelandhouse.fas.nyu.edu=20

Ireland House Listserve: to join send a blank email to
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From: Carmel McCaffrey [mailto:cmc[at]jhu.edu]
Subject: Irish Travellers in England

BBC America just aired an episode of "The Night Detective" which featured
a group of Irish travellers taking over a site close to a middle class
community in the Newcastle area of England. The travellers were
immediately subjected to violence from the local community and ordered
off the site with bulldozers. When it was discovered that the
travellers had in fact bought the field and intended to live there - and
build homes - the situation did not change and the local court on the
application of the residents ordered the travellers off under a
"anti-social behaviour" law.

I found it interesting that the police lawyer was played by an Irish
actress, Dervla Kirwan, who showed absolutely no sympathy for the Irish
travellers and that the English community in the area acted with
violence towards the travellers and threats against the police
apparently without prosecution or charges against them. The only
sympathetic character was the black detective. The writers were
obviously making a point.

We have talked about the situation in Ireland regarding travellers but
the English situation might be no better and even worse? Does the fact
that the Irish travellers are IRISH in England make them even worse
targets of attack?

Carmel

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At the risk of attracting the ire of a moderator who does not want this list
to turn into another political discussion (quite right too!) the question
'what had the IRA killings got to do with the Dublin government?' rather
misses the point. I think that the agenda of some of those involved in
promoting the march was suspect and a few of them are uncomfortably close to
militant loyalism, no less vicious or sectarian than the excesses of those
they profess to oppose. Do I agree with them? Mostly no. Do I think they
have a right to put their point of view across in a political rally in
Dublin? Absolutely. Note that all parties, including SF, have condemned the
incidents.

I don't quite understand Joe Bradley's comment that 'it certainly does
provoke one's thoughts that someone could believe that Saturday's riots were
a result of the growth of an underclass?'. We have had more than a decade
and a half of brutally neoliberal government here, in which those living in
disadvantaged and socially excluded communities have seen their areas
starved of investment and support and an ever-widening gulf between affluent
and imporoverished parts of the major cities. To take the current serious
problems concerning drugs in Dublin as an example, it has been evident that
the main concern of official policy has been to contain the issue within the
less well-off areas. A couple of recent gangland murders in more upmarket
parts of Dublin were greeted with horror by the middle classes, as if they
themselves were not the key driver, for instance, of the cocaine market. Yet
funding for anti-drugs programmes at the sharp end, and in the prison
system, is derisory. The education system is bearing the brunt of the new
apartheid, with places falling in state schools in inner city Dublin and a
rich white flight to private schools. Don't tell me it's not a familiar
scenario. Whether one likes McWilliams' tone or perspective I think it is
undeniable that there is an emerging underclass in Ireland.

There were looters in 1916 as well, and for the same reasons. It's hard to
think about higher causes on an empty stomach.

Piaras

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From: "Joe Bradley"
Cc:

I agree Piaras on all you say - including your analysis of aspects of
today's Ireland. In terms of the journalist who wrote the original
piece I thought it was far too vague and lacked rigour and evidence. I
suppose the core of my point was that to take history, 'the Troubles',
identity and politics out of the equation in terms of Saturday's 'riot'
amounts to a writer using the opportunity to have a go but adding
nothing to our understanding far less a suggestion as to a way forward.


Joe

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Subject: Re: [IR-D] Dublin riot 3


At the risk of attracting the ire of a moderator who does not want this
list to turn into another political discussion (quite right too!) the
question 'what had the IRA killings got to do with the Dublin
government?' rather misses the point. I think that the agenda of some of
those involved in promoting the march was suspect and a few of them are
uncomfortably close to militant loyalism, no less vicious or sectarian
than the excesses of those they profess to oppose. Do I agree with them?
Mostly no. Do I think they have a right to put their point of view
across in a political rally in Dublin? Absolutely. Note that all
parties, including SF, have condemned the incidents.=20

I don't quite understand Joe Bradley's comment that 'it certainly does
provoke one's thoughts that someone could believe that Saturday's riots
were a result of the growth of an underclass?'. We have had more than a
decade and a half of brutally neoliberal government here, in which those
living in disadvantaged and socially excluded communities have seen
their areas starved of investment and support and an ever-widening gulf
between affluent and imporoverished parts of the major cities. To take
the current serious problems concerning drugs in Dublin as an example,
it has been evident that the main concern of official policy has been to
contain the issue within the less well-off areas. A couple of recent
gangland murders in more upmarket parts of Dublin were greeted with
horror by the middle classes, as if they themselves were not the key
driver, for instance, of the cocaine market. Yet funding for anti-drugs
programmes at the sharp end, and in the prison system, is derisory. The
education system is bearing the brunt of the new apartheid, with places
falling in state schools in inner city Dublin and a rich white flight to
private schools. Don't tell me it's not a familiar scenario. Whether one
likes McWilliams' tone or perspective I think it is undeniable that
there is an emerging underclass in Ireland.=20

There were looters in 1916 as well, and for the same reasons. It's hard
to think about higher causes on an empty stomach.

Piaras

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Dear Ir-D Members and friends,

We are happy to announce a new issue of "Irish Migration Studies in =
Latin America": www.irlandeses.org ISSN 1661-6065

Volume 4, Number 2 (March 2006)
TABLE OF CONTENTS

> "The Irish in Colombia", p. 35

> "Crusaders for Liberty or Vile Mercenaries? The Irish Legion in =
Colombia", by Matthew Brown, p. 37

> "Rum, Recruitment and Revolution: Alcohol and the Irish Recruits in =
the Colombian Wars of Independence", by Karen Racine, p. 45

> "William Duane and his 'Visit to Colombia' of 1823", by David =
Barnwell, p. 54

> "Glimpses of the Irish in 19th Century Bogot=E1", by Edward Walsh, p. =
59

> "Explosive Journey: Perceptions of Latin America in the FARC-IRA =
Affair (2001-2005)", by Edmundo Murray, p. 68

> Sources: William Ferguson's 'Journal from Lima to Caracas', p. 80

> New Biographies: John Devereux (1778-1854), army officer and recruiter =
for the Irish Legion in Simon Bolivar's army (p. 93), O'Leary, Daniel =
Florence (1801-1854), army officer in the South American Wars of =
Independence (p. 95), William Owens Ferguson (1800-1828), army officer =
in the South American Wars of Independence (p. 97).


Contact information:
Edmundo Murray
Society for Irish Latin American Studies=20
edmundo.murray[at]irlandeses.org=20
www.irlandeses.org

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A number of new items of interest have appeared at the RIA web site
In
Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C
ISSN: 0035-8991

The alerts have not come through to us in the usual way - I don't know why.
I'll look into it.

Anyway...
It is worth looking at
http://www.ria.ie/publications/journals/procci/

I'll flag up the obvious items - beginning with Marie Coleman's exploration
of an intriguing dimension to British/Irish relations...

P.O'S.

Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C
ISSN: 0035-8991

Volume 105, Issue 5

Publication Date: 2005

The Irish hospitals sweepstake in Great Britain, 1930-87

Marie Coleman. 'A terrible danger to the morals of the country': the Irish
hospitals sweepstake in Great Britain, 1930-87.

Abstract
The principal focus of this paper is to examine the importance of British
contributions to the success of the Irish hospitals' sweepstake. In its
early years, up to three quarters of Irish sweepstake tickets were sold in
Britain, bringing millions of pounds into Ireland annually for expenditure
on improving the state's hospital services. The vast amount of money leaving
Britain in this way angered the British government and forced them to
introduce new legislation to curtail the activities of the sweep. The paper
will highlight the extent to which the success of the Irish sweepstake
depended on the market for tickets in Britain; the danger posed to the
survival of the sweep by the restriction of its activities in Britain after
1935; the role of the sweepstake controversy in further exacerbating already
strained relations between the governments of Great Britain and the Irish
Free State in the 1930s; how the success of the sweep in Britain raised the
issue of legalising a British lottery; and the eventual decline of the Irish
sweepstake as a force in British gambling circles in the post-war years.

http://www.ria.ie/publications/journals/journaldb/index.asp?select=abstract&
id=100547

Full Text (PDF)
Freely available at
http://www.ria.ie/cgi-bin/ria/papers/100547.pdf

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Of special interest to those who want to build a Big House...

P.O'S.

PROCEEDINGS- ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SECTION C ARCHAEOLOGY CELTIC STUDIES
HISTORY LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE
VOL 105; NUMB 6; 2005
ISSN 0035-8991

p. ALL
AN INVESTIGATION INTO IRISH HISTORICAL CERAMICS: THE BRICK OF ARCH HALL,
WILKINSTOWN, CO. MEATH.
Pavia, S.; Roundtree, S.

ABSTRACT
A letter written in 1710 by Robert, first Viscount Molesworth, to his =
wife
describes ongoing work to the garden of their estate in Co. Dublin and =
to
the digging of ponds and the subsequent making of bricks. This =
connection
between the formation of designed landscape and the production of brick =
for
building purposes has prompted the following scientific investigation. =
The
paper applies physical science to the study of eighteenth-century Irish
brick in order to gather information about its provenance and the source =
of
its constituent materials. Analytical techniques were employed to study =
the
bricks used to build Arch Hall, a mansion house dating from the first =
half
of the eighteenth century with an extensive demesne in Co. Meath. Clay
samples were collected from the demesne, fired in the laboratory and
analysed for comparative purposes. The results indicate that the bricks =
are
hand-made with silica-based, predominantly non-calcareous clay of
glacio-fluvial origin. Firing temperatures ranging between 700=B0C and =
1000=B0C
were deduced based on mineralogical and colour changes during firing. =
The
colour of both the original brick and the fired samples is consistently
orange-red. This is due to the presence of dispersed hematite formed =
during
firing in an oxidising atmosphere from the iron-bearing minerals in the
clay. The petrography of the pointing mortar was used as an additional
resource to gather evidence for provenance. The brick temper and mortar
aggregate are consistent with each other and with the geology of the =
area,
suggesting a local source for both the brick-making sediment and the =
mortar
aggregate.

This article by Sara Pavia and Susan Roundtree is freely available at...

http://www.ria.ie/cgi-bin/ria/papers/100549.pdf

http://www.ria.ie/publications/journals/journaldb/index.asp?select=3Dabst=
ract&
id=3D100549

See also
http://www.antaisce.org/yourarea/bar2.html?id=3D621

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Do note that this is a very long 100 page pdf document...

P.O'S.

Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C
ISSN: 0035-8991

Volume 104, Issue 4

Publication Date: 2004

The United Irishmen, International Republicanism and the definition of the
Polity in the United States

Maurice J. Bric. The United Irishmen, International Republicanism and
the definition of the Polity in the United States of America, 1791-1800.
104C(4):4-106.

Abstract
This paper focuses on the American Society of United Irishmen and how it
interacted with both the society's international networks and the evolution
of Jeffersonian Republicanism in Philadelphia. To Federalist eyes, the
society presented a challenge to the presidency of John Adams, especially
after many of its Irish leaders settled in Philadelphia. These leaders drew
on their political experience in Ireland as well as on their status within
the city's Irish community to strengthen the emerging Republican coalition
in Philadelphia. The city's contested elections to the state senate in
1797-8 were an important catalyst for these activities and influenced the
decision to review the naturalisation law in 1798. The passage of the alien
and sedition acts in 1798, although informed by the unfolding war in Europe
and the dangers which this posed to America, is also examined in this
context.

[Full Text (PDF)]
http://www.ria.ie/publications/journals/journaldb/index.asp?select=abstract&
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From: Thomas J. Archdeacon
[mailto:tjarchde[at]wisc.edu]
Subject: RE: [IR-D] Article, The Irish hospitals sweepstake in Great
Britain, 1930-87

Do any of the list members -- on the American side especially -- remember
the Irish Sweepstakes? I remember my father selling the tickets when I was
just a tyke after WWII. I doubt he had more than a book or two available,
and I'm not quite sure where he got them. Each year, however, they would
come, and my family would buy a few tickets, and he'd take the rest to his
work. I remember colored pictures of horses on the tickets, which seemed
rather romantic in that black and white world. There was a hint of
illegality about the whole thing, which was astonishing to me because my dad
was a sincerely law-abiding man, about as straight a shooter as they came.
(Indeed, my parents' capacity for being law abiding was a great inhibition
to me, given the penchant of some of my friends in our quasi-tough
neighborhood for petty criminality. How left out I felt). My folks assured
me we need not fear a visit from J. Edgar Hoover, because the American
government and the NYC police didn't care, and they'd probably take a few
tickets themselves. And didn't they often show a picture of the winner in
the paper? Of course, I could rationalize the whole thing because the nuns
had us hustling raffle tickets for the church bazaar each spring. As my
friends and I got older (10-13), that meant we spent a few spring afternoons
sneaking into the bars along Third Avenue in Manhattan to sell the raffle
tickets to the men who were getting a head start on the evening's rounds. I
never was able to put my heart into the game; perhaps I secretly yearned to
be selling the sweepstakes. In any case, our strategy was not the best
because the girls in the class always seem to outdo us in sales. Ah, youth!

Tom

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From: Ruth Hegarty
R.Hegarty[at]ria.ie


Dear Patrick,

Apologies for the oversight in not sending you alerts about our
publications. We'll do it in the future.

We've just implemented this new system - the abstracts of all our
journals are fully searchable - and the full pdf of the last ten years
or so of Section C is available. Readers may also be interested in the
Irish Studies in International Affairs Journal. We have just put our
most recent issue online in full as a trial.

For this and much more visit www.ria.ie/publications/

We are also publishing a book which showcases Irish scientists today -
we're making a tv documentary which will go out on RTE at 8pm on
Thursday 16 March. Both called 'Flashes of Brilliance - the cutting edge
of Irish science'. All part of our project to promote scientific
creativity and innovation as part of the heritage to be celebrated
around St. Patrick's Day.

All the best,

Ruth

Ruth Hegarty
Managing Editor
Royal Irish Academy
19 Dawson Street,
Dublin 2
www.ria.ie/publications/

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From: Rogers, James
[mailto:JROGERS[at]stthomas.edu]
Subject: RE: [IR-D] The Irish hospitals sweepstake

There was an interesting article on the sweeps in EIRE-IRELAND, 29, 1
(Spring 1994), 24-24: "Horses and Hospitals: The Irish Sweepstakes" by
Rosemarie McDonald.

Though I am uneasy about the introduction of story-swapping to this
wonderfully professional list-serve, I'll wheel out one of my own: I know
for a fact that a prominent person in American small-press publishing (I'd
better not disclose who without asking him) came from a family of poor
farmers in North Dakota; he became the first member of his family to go to
college when they won the Irish sweepstakes. So the project did a lot of
good, even beyond the hospitals it helped to construct or fund.

Jim Rogers


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From: Thomas J. Archdeacon
[mailto:tjarchde[at]wisc.edu]
Subject: RE: [IR-D] Article, The Irish hospitals sweepstake in Great
Britain, 1930-87

Do any of the list members -- on the American side especially -- remember
the Irish Sweepstakes? I remember my father selling the tickets when I was
just a tyke after WWII. I doubt he had more than a book or two available,
and I'm not quite sure where he got them. Each year, however, they would
come, and my family would buy a few tickets, and he'd take the rest to his
work. I remember colored pictures of horses on the tickets, which seemed
rather romantic in that black and white world. There was a hint of
illegality about the whole thing, which was astonishing to me because my dad
was a sincerely law-abiding man, about as straight a shooter as they came.
(Indeed, my parents' capacity for being law abiding was a great inhibition
to me, given the penchant of some of my friends in our quasi-tough
neighborhood for petty criminality. How left out I felt). My folks assured
me we need not fear a visit from J. Edgar Hoover, because the American
government and the NYC police didn't care, and they'd probably take a few
tickets themselves. And didn't they often show a picture of the winner in
the paper? Of course, I could rationalize the whole thing because the nuns
had us hustling raffle tickets for the church bazaar each spring. As my
friends and I got older (10-13), that meant we spent a few spring afternoons
sneaking into the bars along Third Avenue in Manhattan to sell the raffle
tickets to the men who were getting a head start on the evening's rounds. I
never was able to put my heart into the game; perhaps I secretly yearned to
be selling the sweepstakes. In any case, our strategy was not the best
because the girls in the class always seem to outdo us in sales. Ah, youth!

Tom

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From: Gerard Moran [mailto:gerard.moran[at]gmail.com]=20
Subject: Re: [IR-D] The Irish hospitals sweepstake 2

RTE did a very good documentary of the history of the Irish Hospitals
Sweeptake about two years ago.=A0 I cannot remember the name of the =
program
but some of the list members might. It dealt with the founding of the
sweepstake in the 1920s right up to its decline.=A0 One reason given for =
its
demise was the introduction of the lottery in Ireland.=A0 A point in the
program was how the former workers were very badly treated by the owners
regarding pensions etc.=A0 It also goes into many of the points that Tom
brings up regarding the legality of the sweepstake.=A0 Apparently =
Ireland was
the only country where the tickets could be sold and the amount of money
that Irish hospitals got out was small. It is a documentary worth =
seeing.=A0
Does anybody remember the name?=20
=A0
Gerard Moran

=A0
From: Rogers, James
[mailto:JROGERS[at]stthomas.edu]
Subject: RE: [IR-D] The Irish hospitals sweepstake=20

There was an interesting article on the sweeps in EIRE-IRELAND, 29, 1
(Spring 1994), 24-24: "Horses and Hospitals: The Irish Sweepstakes" by
Rosemarie McDonald.

Though I am uneasy about the introduction of story-swapping to this=20
wonderfully professional list-serve, I'll wheel out one of my =
own:=A0=A0I know
for a fact that a=A0=A0prominent person=A0=A0in American small-press =
publishing (I'd
better not disclose who without asking him) came from a family of poor=20
farmers in=A0=A0North Dakota; he became the first member of his family =
to go to
college when they won the Irish sweepstakes. So the project did a lot of
good, even beyond the hospitals it helped to construct or fund.=20

Jim Rogers

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As all the world knows, I do not like to travel... But I ought to be able
to get to Leeds...

I went last night to Leeds, Yorkshire, to the launch of the exhibition and
book, Roisin Ban: The Irish Diaspora in Leeds.

Historians will spot the reference to the White Rose of Yorkshire...

So, Roisin Ban is a hybrid...

This is one of those projects that combine memories and photographs - and of
course we see the strong Mayo/Leeds connections. Some photographs are
found, and the others taken as part of a photographic essay by photographer,
Corinne Silva.

The project came together as part of the culture and memory work of the
Leeds Irish Health & Homes organisation, under its thoughtful Director,
Anthony Hanlon,

http://www.lihh.co.uk/index.asp

There is more on Roisin Ban on that web site...

http://www.lihh.co.uk/roisinban.asp

And the project has its own web site, under construction - and a little bit
confusing...

http://www.roisinban.com/

If you click on the words Roisin Ban on the man's shoulder you can see some
of the photographs. And note that the web site also offers routes to buy
the book of the exhibition, directly or through Amazon. It is a very
handsome piece of book design.

In fact the book is a bit like a shrine. And I think that there was maybe
that sense there, at the exhibition. On a very cold North of England winter
night, in an astonishingly cold exhibition space - the poor harpist had to
have a little heater to keep her toes and fingers moving - some hundreds of
the Leeds Irish community had come out to, maybe, mark the passing of a
vanished way of life that was sombre and hard. Nostalgia is not the right
word for this. I am sure what the right word is...

Patrick O'Sullivan


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Explorations in Economic History
Volume 43, Issue 1, January 2006, Pages 119-152
Financial Revolutions and Economic Growth

Copyright C 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Growth in manufacturing output in Ireland between the Union and the Famine:
Some evidence

Andy Bielenberg and Frank Geary

aDepartment of History, University College Cork, Ireland
bSchool of Economics and Politics, University of Ulster at Jordanstown,
Shore Road, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim BT37 0QB, UK

Received 25 June 2003. Available online 25 January 2005.

Abstract

Pre-Famine Ireland is perceived to have undergone a process of
deindustrialization as a result of trade with Great Britain. This article
presents evidence that manufacturing output growth was positive and
sufficient to keep pace with or exceed population growth. The textile
industry in which the bulk of the manufacturing labour force was employed
performed relatively poorly, though this was largely due to an internal
shock in the form of technical and organisational change in the linen
industry rather than trade with Britain. Concentration on the performance of
the textile sector has distracted attention from the good performance in
other sectors.

Keywords: Deindustrialization; Trade; Sectoral growth rates; Weights;
Manufacturing growth

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I think in Britain this is a programme called 'Ninety Degrees North' (for
the humourists, one of the 2 central characters is a black police detective,
Nicky Cole, who relocates to Newcastle...). It is not really a gritty police
drama - it's Sunday evening family fare and fairly light and soapy.

Anyway, in part answer to Carmel's question, one issue is how Irish
Travellers in Britain constantly have to struggle for recognition as 'real'.
While legally recognised as an ethnic group, there is a strain of thought
which says that gypsies are authentic and Irish Travellers not. Some gypsies
ascribe to this point of view as do some politicians.

There have also been real life examples of gypsies and travellers being
ordered off their own land, and denied planning permission to halt there.
Even where a land owner gives permission for travellers to halt, they can
still be moved on by the police/courts.

Colm Power recently published a report of original research on Irish
Travellers in England, and it spells out the stark realities of life for
Irish Travellers. A pdf version should be available at www.irish.org.uk

Sarah.


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>From: Carmel McCaffrey [mailto:cmc[at]jhu.edu]
>Subject: Irish Travellers in England
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>BBC America just aired an episode of "The Night Detective" which featured
>a group of Irish travellers taking over a site close to a middle class
>community in the Newcastle area of England. The travellers were
>immediately subjected to violence from the local community and ordered
>off the site with bulldozers. When it was discovered that the
>travellers had in fact bought the field and intended to live there - and
>build homes - the situation did not change and the local court on the
>application of the residents ordered the travellers off under a
>"anti-social behaviour" law.
>
>I found it interesting that the police lawyer was played by an Irish
>actress, Dervla Kirwan, who showed absolutely no sympathy for the Irish
>travellers and that the English community in the area acted with
>violence towards the travellers and threats against the police
>apparently without prosecution or charges against them. The only
>sympathetic character was the black detective. The writers were
>obviously making a point.
>
>We have talked about the situation in Ireland regarding travellers but
>the English situation might be no better and even worse? Does the fact
>that the Irish travellers are IRISH in England make them even worse
>targets of attack?
>
>Carmel

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I, too, am not sure what the right word is when people look back on
hardships overcome. Nostalgia implies a sense of "good" old days and =
often
they were anything but good on balance. There is, I think, an element of
celebration in having survived and pride in having helped create =
something
that is better for those who follow. But, there always seems to be a =
sense
of loss -- in the hardship and adversity there was a unity and purpose =
that
is lost when things get better and that unity and purpose is hard to
transmit to those who inherit the results and don't face the challenges.
People try, I also think, to convey the received wisdom about what =
defines
and shapes the group identity. My grandmother always warned me never to
trust an Englishman. It may be good advice, but I am quite sure she =
never
actually met one. They could not have been numerous in the South Bronx =
when
she lived there or in Flatbush where she moved after my father was =
born.
But, I had to be warned, so I would understand what it was to be Irish -
part of the group. I did not meet an actual Englishman until much later =
in
life. He was quite a pleasant fellow - we had an unspoken agreement not =
to
discuss the Troubles, but focused on our mutual regard for Irish whisky,
stamp collecting, and history. His description of Hitler to my then =
young
children will always be with me - he was evacuated as a child from =
Leeds,
ironically, and had searing memories of the war and its disruption. My
younger son talked about it for years afterwards. This -- remembering =
hard
times is-- one of those areas of history/heritage that can be quite
complicated because there are so many conflicting emotions and ideas. =
How
do we commemorate overcoming prejudice and discrimination? Ultan may be
right - we honor those who did it -- and are grateful we do not have to =
face
what they overcame. =20

I've ordered the book and look forward to reading it and thinking =
further
about these issues. More perhaps once that has been done.=20

Bill
=20
William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of History
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA=20
=20
=20

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Paddy

Sounds, for once, like they got it right this time...Would
'...honour...'(in the way of old comrades) be the right word?

Ultan


< In fact the book is a bit like a shrine. And I think that there was
maybe
< that sense there, at the exhibition. On a very cold North of England
winter
< night, in an astonishingly cold exhibition space - the poor harpist had
to
< have a little heater to keep her toes and fingers moving - some hundreds
of
< the Leeds Irish community had come out to, maybe, mark the passing of a
< vanished way of life that was sombre and hard. Nostalgia is not the
right
< word for this. I am not sure what the right word is...
<
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New on the Irish Geography web site, and freely available...

http://www.ucd.ie/gsi/journal.html

Latest issue 28 2 2005

Liberal rule through non-liberal means: the attempted settlement of Irish
Travellers (1955-1975)

Una M. Crowley

Department of Geography and NIRSA, National University of Ireland, Maynooth

In 1963, after the publication of the Report of the Commission on
Itinerancy, the Irish Government embarked on a national programme for the
'settlement', 'assimilation' and 'rehabilitation' of Irish Travellers. This
paper is concerned with the power effects of discourses both driving and
mobilised by the Report and with how liberal forms of thought and political
rationality have considered the treatment of individuals and groups
considered to be without the 'attributes of juridical and political
responsibility' (Dean, 1999: 134). The paper describes how Traveller society
was 'imagined' and reconstructed during this period through elite discourse
and the use of statistical inscriptions; how these mechanisms of
representation facilitated and legitimated intervention into their everyday
lives, rendered Travellers visible and permitted their characterisation as a
'group', a 'community' in need of reform.

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{decoded}Irish Latin American Research Fund
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The Society for Irish Latin American Studies (SILAS) is pleased to announce the launch of a new edition of its grants programme "Irish Latin American Research Fund". The objective of the Irish Latin American Research Fund is to support innovative and significant research in the different aspects of migrations between Ireland and Latin America.

Grants up to 1,000 Euros will be awarded to exceptionally promising students, faculty members or independent scholars to help support their research and writing leading to the publication or other types of communication of their projects. Awards will be selected on the basis of a well-developed research plan that promises to make a significant contribution to a particular area of study about the Irish and Latin America.

Three prestigious scholars will seat on this year's selection committee: Laura P.Z. Izarra, Chair (University of São Paulo), Kerby Miller (University of Missouri-Columbia), and Angus Mitchell (University of Limerick). They will assess the research proposals and award grants to the best projects. The Irish Latin American Research Fund is open to faculty, advanced university students, and independent scholars throughout the world. Applicants from previous academic years who were not awarded a grant may apply again and submit the same project.

These grants are possible thanks to the generosity of IAHS members and friends.

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Journal of Gender Studies
Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
Issue: Volume 15, Number 1 / March 2006
Pages: 1 - 17

'Kiss My Royal Irish Ass.' Contesting Identity: Visual Culture, Gender,
Whiteness and Diaspora

Suzanna Chan A1

A1 School of Art & Design, University of Ulster, York Street, Belfast, BT13
1ED, UK

Abstract:

Feminist artists and critics have located postcolonial 'Irish woman' as
'other' to a dominant construct of 'Irish manhood', or to British
colonialism. But what are the limits of a paradigm of woman as 'other' that
privileges 'gender' and misses its intersections with 'race'; or favours
simplistic analogies between postcolonial Irish women and black and Third
World women? Ireland's 2004 Referendum on Citizenship, which sought to
exclude Ireland's non-white immigrants and reproduced national identity
through gendered discourses of whiteness, highlights the need for feminist
cultural critics to interrogate the hegemonic conflation of the categories
'white' and Irish.

The referendum redefined the basis of citizenship as jus sanguinis -
transmitted through bloodline - threatening many immigrants with deportation
while affirming the belonging of the 'Irish diaspora' as a 'blood'
inheritance. Influenced by Jacques Derrida's deconstructive methods, this
essay shows that ironically, in works by women artists of the 'Irish
diaspora', such essentialist notions of 'Irishness' are rebuked. It looks to
visual culture to explore how Irish national identity has been construed
through gendered discourses of 'race' and whiteness, and then turns to the
symbolic practices of women to theorise whiteness as a historical and
cultural construct, and a performed social location.

Keywords:

Irish women artists, Ireland 'race', gender, whiteness, diaspora