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There is a Jewish expression 'Next is worse': a pithily cynical and =
pessimistic formula. The diasporic condition must I think find =
expression in either pessimism or optimism, but looking backward to =
hardship implies an advanced position: one is looking at hardship =
overcome, but also perhaps with a regret for past simplicities. The =
French 'nostalgie de la boue' implies a regret at the passing of =
something perhaps perverse or decadent; the Latin 'desiderium' a sense =
of longing for something lost. In the Irish-American case, desiderium =
seems to be focussed on an Ireland that never really existed. Perhaps =
the Irish in Britain are more realistic about a homeland that was so =
near at hand?

Different diasporic communities may have different views: what =
Scandinavia is in the imagination of Swedish Americans? =20

It all sounds like an ACIS call for papers!

I must look again at Fintan O'Toole's 'Exiles of Erin'.

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Ultan, I am not sure if your reply was on list or not, it seems not - =
which
is too bad.=20

I think that when a group of any kind remembers their experience, the
"remembering" is not only directed at their contemporaries but to their
successors and others generally -- and that this is where and when it =
gets
complicated. A sense of triumph over adversity and pride in that =
triumph
can be felt along with anger at having been forced to deal with those
conditions. The two are not mutually exclusive and can be felt at the =
same
time. I probably did not express this well in my earlier post.=20
=20
Bill

William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of History
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA=20
=20
-----Original Message-----
From: ultancowley[at]eircom.net [mailto:ultancowley[at]eircom.net]=20
Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 6:24 AM
To: William Mulligan Jr.
Subject: Re: [IR-D] Launch of Roisin Ban 2

I guess a lot depends on who is doing the remembering/honouring - the
original protagonists, or their successors. When Paddy wrote of this I =
took
it to imply the former...

Anyone who has 'seen the two days', i.e., experienced some degree of
struggle, suffering, and hardhip will react with sympathy and respect to =
the
story of Irish 20th century emigration to Britain.

However there may be more to this commemoration than remembering; I =
suspect
there is also a large element of regret that the struggle, and its
transcendence, was conducted in a foreign country (particularly England =
-
'They taught us to hate England, and then they sent us over here!') and,
sadly, nothing can ever erase that.

Ultan =20














"William Mulligan Jr." wrote:

< =20
< 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 =
=3D <
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 =3D < something < that is better for those who follow. But, =
there
always seems to be a =3D < sense < of loss -- in the hardship and =
adversity
there was a unity and purpose =3D < 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 =3D < 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 =3D < never < actually =
met
one. They could not have been numerous in the South Bronx =3D < when < =
she
lived there or in Flatbush where she moved after my father was =3D < =
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 =
=3D <
in < life. He was quite a pleasant fellow - we had an unspoken =
agreement
not =3D < to < discuss the Troubles, but focused on our mutual regard =
for
Irish whisky, < stamp collecting, and history. His description of =
Hitler
to my then =3D < young < children will always be with me - he was =
evacuated
as a child from =3D < Leeds, < ironically, and had searing memories of =
the
war and its disruption. My < younger son talked about it for years
afterwards. This -- remembering =3D < hard < times is-- one of those =
areas
of history/heritage that can be quite < complicated because there are =
so
many conflicting emotions and ideas. =3D < 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 =3D < face < =
what
they overcame. =3D20 < =20
< I've ordered the book and look forward to reading it and thinking =3D =
<
further
< about these issues. More perhaps once that has been done.=3D20
< =20
< Bill
< =3D20
< William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
< Professor of History
< Murray State University
< Murray KY 42071-3341 USA=3D20
< =3D20
< =3D20
< =20



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From: ultancowley[at]eircom.net
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I guess a lot depends on who is doing the remembering/honouring - the
original protagonists, or their successors. When Paddy wrote of this I =
took
it to imply the former...

Anyone who has 'seen the two days', i.e., experienced some degree of
struggle, suffering, and hardhip will react with sympathy and respect to =
the
story of Irish 20th century emigration to Britain.

However there may be more to this commemoration than remembering; I =
suspect
there is also a large element of regret that the struggle, and its
transcendence, was conducted in a foreign country (particularly England =
-
'They taught us to hate England, and then they sent us over here!') and,
sadly, nothing can ever erase that.

Ultan =20














"William Mulligan Jr." wrote:

< =20
< 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 =
=3D <
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 =3D < something < that is better for those who follow. But, =
there
always seems to be a =3D < sense < of loss -- in the hardship and =
adversity
there was a unity and purpose =3D < 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 =3D < 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 =3D < never < actually =
met
one. They could not have been numerous in the South Bronx =3D < when < =
she
lived there or in Flatbush where she moved after my father was =3D < =
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 =
=3D <
in < life. He was quite a pleasant fellow - we had an unspoken =
agreement
not =3D < to < discuss the Troubles, but focused on our mutual regard =
for
Irish whisky, < stamp collecting, and history. His description of =
Hitler
to my then =3D < young < children will always be with me - he was =
evacuated
as a child from =3D < Leeds, < ironically, and had searing memories of =
the
war and its disruption. My < younger son talked about it for years
afterwards. This -- remembering =3D < hard < times is-- one of those =
areas
of history/heritage that can be quite < complicated because there are =
so
many conflicting emotions and ideas. =3D < 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 =3D < face < =
what
they overcame. =3D20 < =20
< I've ordered the book and look forward to reading it and thinking =3D =
<
further
< about these issues. More perhaps once that has been done.=3D20
< =20
< Bill
< =3D20
< William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
< Professor of History
< Murray State University
< Murray KY 42071-3341 USA=3D20
< =3D20
< =3D20
< =20



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This will be of interest to the list. Another use of the Irish as =
"models"
of a sort for how immigrants have been received. David Gleeson can =
probably
comment more fully, but the Irish presence in Savannah - and its =
observance
of St. Patrick's Day -- predate the Famine by several generations. =
Thanks
to Edmundo Murray for calling this to my attention.=20
=20
Bill

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


From the New York Times=20
March 6, 2006
Editorial Observer
In Immigrant Georgia, New Echoes of an Old History=20
By LAWRENCE DOWNES
Savannah, Ga.

The Coke-bottle glasses of hindsight can leave even profound historical
miseries all blurry with sentimentality. That's one way to explain the
Savannah Irish Festival, a two-day celebration of the Great Famine's =
great
contribution to this lovely Southern city - the migration of thousands =
of
starving laborers who toted barges, lifted bales, dug ditches and =
cellars,
and put down roots here in the mid-1800's.

Their descendants crowded the Savannah Civic Center for the festival, =
eating
corned-beef sandwiches, drinking Guinness and applauding the young step
dancers who thundered across the stage, tossing their auburn ringlets.
Vendors sold teapots and cookbooks and those itchy, kitschy sweaters and
scarves that have become the worldwide uniform of warm, fuzzy Irishness.

It is hard to imagine a tubercular immigrant, knee deep in cellar muck,
dreaming that his adopted city would one day commemorate his sacrifice =
with
a party. Unskilled Irish immigrants were abused and despised back then,
chained to a life of poverty and hard labor that bonded them - at least =
for
a little while - with enslaved African-Americans.

The parallels with the present day are too obvious to ignore. Georgia is
undergoing another demographic shift, as Mexican immigrants flock to its
farms, mills, processing plants and cities. The Latino immigrant =
population
has soared in the last 10 years and exploded in the last 5, to an =
estimated
650,000 in a state of nine million. Some experts say the real immigrant
number is double that. At least half of the newcomers are illegal, =
unskilled
laborers who, like their Irish predecessors, want "any job, but now."=20

Anti-immigrant groups have taken to calling the state "Georgiafornia," =
and
have vowed to fight the Latino influx. As Congress takes up immigration
legislation in coming weeks, the Republicans who control the Georgia
Legislature have been way ahead of them, having already put the issue at =
the
top of their agenda. The leader of the effort, Senator Chip Rogers, has
sponsored a bill he calls "the most comprehensive illegal-immigration
legislation in America." State Senate Bill 529, the Georgia Security and
Immigration Compliance Act, seeks to cut off illegal immigrants from =
what
its backers perceive to be a vast plundering of taxpayer-financed =
benefits,
like medical care and schooling.=20

The bill is less ham-fisted than a measure recently passed by the =
Georgia
House, which would impose a 5 percent surcharge on people wiring money
abroad who could not prove they are here legally. The Senate bill =
proposes a
strategy of deterrence by bureaucracy. Anyone who hires someone at more =
than
$600 a year, for example, would not be able to take a business deduction =
on
a state tax return without verifying the employee's legal status.=20

The Republicans who control the Georgia Legislature say that public
sentiment is with them and that the time to strike is now. The bill's
opponents acknowledge that S.B. 529 is likely to pass and have =
concentrated
their efforts on trying to pull as many of its teeth as possible.=20

Yet, while Georgia is not about to break out the "Kiss Me, I'm Mexican"
buttons, the current political climate is far different from the one the
Irish newcomers banged up against a century and a half ago. Much of the
state is struggling to find a sensible and humane way to handle the =
rising
tide of newcomers. Even Senator Rogers's most vocal opponents admit that =
on
balance, things could be worse. Senator Sam Zamarripa, an Atlanta =
Democrat,
was able to negotiate with Mr. Rogers to exempt those under 18 from S.B. =
529
and to protect access to prenatal care and higher education.

And not everyone here is phobic about living in Georgiafornia. Savannah, =
for
example, is home to people like Melody Ortiz, a recruiter at Armstrong
Atlantic State University, who travels the state looking for Hispanic
students to apply for scholarships financed by the Goizueta Foundation,
founded by Roberto Goizueta, the former Coca-Cola chief executive. One =
of
her goals is to get the children of illegal immigrants into higher
education, something an earlier version of Senator Rogers's bill tried
explicitly to deny.=20

Then there is John Newton, editor of La Voz Latina, a free monthly =
newspaper
that circulates in Georgia and South Carolina, part shopper, part =
immigrant
manifesto. Mr. Newton, who is not Hispanic, describes his job as =
something
close to a missionary vocation. "How insane it is," he writes, "for a =
nation
of aging baby-boomers to vilify a work force composed, for the most =
part, of
members of the Christian faith, with strong family values, a willingness =
to
work and a desire to succeed."

Savannah is approaching its biggest celebration of the year, St. =
Patrick's
Day, when hordes descend on the sidewalks and historic squares, and the
grits and fountains turn green. That celebration, like its New York
counterpart, has become a beer-soaked blowout that has little to do with =
any
specific immigrant group. But underneath the happy, vague ethnicity of =
it
all is a rich and tear-soaked history. And anyone who cares to look =
around
can see the telltale signs of that history repeating itself.=20


Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company=20
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The most recent RTE Prime Time documentary on this topic is available at
http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/230-2120549.smil
. It situates the Irish within
the broader debate about immigration into the US.



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...Law Lords have ruled against a family of travellers in a row that could
have stopped evictions around Britain.

The family had argued their human rights were breached when they were forced
to leave a recreation field owned by Leeds City Council.

Last year the Court of Appeal dismissed the case, saying councils were
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Seven Law Lords unanimously backed that decision, saying the land could
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From: Modern Fiction Studies
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:36:52 -0500

Deadline extended:

Modern Fiction Studies announces a call for papers for an upcoming
special issue on
Elizabeth Bowen

Guest Editor: Susan Osborn
Deadline for Submissions: 1 September 2006

Elizabeth Bowen's initial interpreters generally regarded her as a
lesser social or domestic realist, primarily concerned with issues
relating to the demise of Irish Protestant Ascendancy. Yet more recent
readers, including Maud Ellmann, Neil Corcoran, Andrew Bennett, Nicholas
Royle, Robert Caserio, and Julian Moynahan, have recognized her fiction
as being as crucial as Samuel Beckett's to our understanding of
twentieth-century literature. As a result of this new appreciation,
Bowen's controversial and challenging fiction has become a site of
undercharted potentiality and importance.

This special issue is intended to broaden the critical framework of
Bowen scholarship by more clearly mapping her works' position in
relation to contemporary critical concerns and to various
twentieth-century literary, artistic, and intellectual traditions and
movements. How has our understanding of modernism abetted and interfered
with a recognition of the value of Bowen's work? How do Bowen's newly
identified literary geographies relate to shifts in our understanding of
modernism generally? Bowen's narratives have been called pictorial: in
what ways does Bowen adopt a "visual" approach and what are the
aesthetic and ethical implications of such an approach? How does her
work challenge the norms and boundaries of realism? How do the formal
irregularities in her narratives connect to or help reveal changing
ideas about the interrelated questions of sexuality, gender, ethnicity,
nation, race, and war? How does her work estrange the conventionally
conceived dialogic relation of reader and narrative? What are her
narratives' Beckettian affinities? What is the relation of the comic to
Bowen's irregular narratives? How does her work interrogate
conventional notions of literary history? This list of questions is
intended to be suggestive, not exhaustive; any fresh perspective that
produces an insightful and rigorously argued reading is welcome, as are
interdisciplinary approaches.

Essays should range in length from 6,000 to 9,000 words (excluding notes
and works cited) and should follow the current edition of the MLA Style
Manual. Please submit two copies of the essay along with a cover sheet
that lists the author's name, essay title, mailing address, telephone
number, and email address. Mfs does not accept electronic submissions.
Please mail essays and cover letters to the following address:

Editors, Modern Fiction Studies
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Department of English
500 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2038

Queries regarding this issue should be made to Susan Osborn
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Call for Papers
India, Greece, Ireland: Empire and Aftermath

There are just a few places left.!

The Durrell School of Corfu is holding a Symposium (4-10 June2006) on the
subject of Empire and Aftermath, focussing on the cases of India, Greece and
Ireland.

The India seminar will be moderated by Ashis Nandy (Centre for the Study of
Developing Societies, Delhi, India) and the Symposium will also feature as
speakers and seminar leaders: Neil Lazarus (Warwick University, UK), Gautam
Kundu (Georgia Southern University, USA) and Reed Way Dasenbrock (New Mexico
State University, USA).

The DSC invites submission of proposals for short papers (no more than 30
minutes) to be submitted by 17 March 2006.

A selection of papers will be published by the DSC.

Please send proposals of up to 500 words and any further enquiries to:
durrells[at]otenet.gr

Focus
The purpose of the seminar is to examine:

. the relations between the centre of empire and the subjects of its rule at
its periphery, both during the imperial period and after
withdrawal/independence;
. discourse (or the lack of it) between core and periphery, particularly
through the lenses of literature;
. the effects of the aftermath of empire in former imperial subjects.

TOPICS (the following topics are not exclusive)

. post-nationalism vs. postcolonialism
. diaspora
. interaction between imperial and indigenous cultures
. the symbiosis of 'coloniser' and 'colonised'
. the imperial subject as 'other' or 'different': can the 'other' ever
become 'the same'?
. critiques of 'orientalism'
. the transition of societies under imperial rule
. Eurocentrism and the rhetoric of map-making
. the meaning of 'subaltern'
. real and imaginary perceptions of landscape from the imperial and
indigenous perspectives
. 'allochronism': linear time and circular or periodic time
. suppression of, or revolt or collaboration by, imperial subjects
. nationalist and independence/resistance movements: emphasis may be placed
on cultural nationalism and questions of emergent identity
. post-imperial or post-colonial literatures, especially 'varieties of
english', including Africa, Australia and New Zealand, Canada, the
Caribbean: is there such a genre as 'Commonwealth literature'?
. the literature(s) of Latin America
. post-imperial literature(s) re-writing the 'Western canon': 'the empire
writes back'
. the role of narrative in post-imperial society: memory and re-membering
. departure and arrival in the moment of freedom/independence
. revisionism in post-imperial historiography

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ETUDES IRLANDAISES : CALL FOR PAPERS

The editorial board of Etudes Irlandaises is now seeking
submissions for volume 32.1 to be published in Spring 2007.

Etudes Irlandaises is a peer-reviewed journal publishing
articles in English and French which explore all aspects of Irish
literature, history, culture and arts from ancient times to the
present. Etudes Irlandaises publishes twice a year on a wide range of
interdisciplinary subjects including : poetry / fiction / drama /
film / music / politics / economy / social studies, etc. General
issues published in Spring alternate with special issues in Autumn.
The Journal is aimed at scholars, postgraduate students, institutions
specializing in Irish studies as well as people who have an informed
interest in the subject.
Articles in English or French should be no more than 12 pages
(7000 words or 36000 signs) in length. Submissions (4 paper copies
and disk PC or Mac) must be sent to :

Carle BONAFOUS-MURAT (Literature)
Universit=EF=BF=BD de Paris 3
5, Rue de l'Ecole de M=EF=BF=BDdecine
75006 PARIS
mailto:CBMurat_at_aol.com

Christophe GILLISSEN (History, Politics and Society)
Universit=EF=BF=BD de Paris 4
1, rue Victor Cousin
75230 PARIS CEDEX O5
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Wesley HUTCHINSON (Arts)
Universit=EF=BF=BD de Paris 3
5, Rue de l'Ecole de M=EF=BF=BDdecine
75006 PARIS
mailto:hutchinson_at_univ-paris3.fr

For technical information regarding the journal stylesheet, go to :
http://etudes-irlandaises.septentrion.com.

For further information, please contact Pr. Bonafous-Murat :
mailto:cbmurat_at_aol.com or Pascale Amiot :
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1,000 from Boston lobby at the Capitol
By Rick Klein, Globe Staff | March 9, 2006

WASHINGTON -- Capitol Hill turned green yesterday as more than 2,400
Irish-American immigrants, including about 1,000 from the Boston area,
stormed the halls of Congress and lent their voices to the rollicking debate
over the nation's immigration laws.
In distinctive white-and-green T-shirts, the immigrants -- most of them
undocumented, according to event organizers -- fanned out in teams of 30 to
knock on doors throughout the Capitol complex. They pressed senators and
House members to help them earn legal status.
One group camped outside the hearing room in which the Senate Judiciary
Committee was considering an overhaul to the nation's immigration laws.
Later, they planted an Irish flag in the middle of a Holiday Inn ballroom,
and gave raucous ovations to a procession of politicians who bragged about
their Irish heritage.
'If there was any trouble at all with Irish immigration in 1848, my
great-great-grandparents never would have gotten to arrive in Boston,
Massachusetts," said Senator Edward M. Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat.
'Thank God they did, and we're going to do the same for each and every one
of you."
Of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United
States, just 20,000 to 50,000 are from Ireland. But Irish leaders and
lawmakers hope that those immigrants, and the nation's 40 million Americans
of Irish descent, can play an outsize role in lobbying on behalf of the
issue.
That involvement reflects lawmakers' attempts to reframe the immigration
debate at a critical time. Though the issue has been broadly perceived as
one mainly affecting Hispanic immigrants who enter the country via the
porous border with Mexico, the Irish community wants to remind lawmakers
that the national economy also depends on the large number of undocumented
Irish immigrants who fill jobs in Boston and cities across the country.
The jockeying comes as some in Congress want to crack down on illegal
immigration without providing alternatives to foster legal immigration.
'People aren't going to wait to pack their bags" if a policy like that were
adopted, said Edmund Carr, an organizer of yesterday's lobbying push.
'They'll be on the next planes from Logan Airport." Carr, a 30-year-old
tile layer from Holbrook, said he moved from Ireland in 1998 but became a
legal US resident only when he married an American woman last year. He
helped organize the busloads of Irish immigrants who came to Washington from
meeting points in Brighton and Dorchester on Tuesday.
'Without the Irish, the bars in Boston are going to have to sell out and
change their names," he said.
This week, senators began writing a bill that would beef up border
enforcement and create new legal channels for immigrants to work in the
United States. The latest draft would allow undocumented immigrants who come
forward to stay in the United States for as long as they have jobs, but
would not provide them a ready path to become citizens.
Many immigrant groups favor a proposal that would give undocumented
immigrants a new way to obtain legal status on a permanent basis. Under that
proposal, crafted by Kennedy and Arizona Senator John McCain, a Republican,
undocumented immigrants who pay back taxes and $2,000 in fines could get a
green card after six years of good behavior, during which time they could
work legally in the United States under a special visa.
The concept is so intriguing to many Irish that Ireland's government has
taken the unusual step of endorsing the proposal, in part because it would
allow undocumented immigrants to visit family and friends back home in
Ireland.
Prime Minister Bertie Ahern of Ireland plans to lobby for the Kennedy-McCain
proposal in his meetings with President Bush and top congressional leaders
next week, said Joe Hackett, a spokesman for the Irish Embassy in
Washington.
'The government has thrown its full weight behind the Kennedy-McCain
proposal," Hackett said. 'Because of immigration law, the people who are
here are not able to travel back and forth for family events and weddings.
This provides the undocumenteds who are here a path to permanent residency,
without them having to leave the country."
Yet any proposal that involves leniency or special treatment for
undocumented immigrants is controversial. Critics of illegal immigration
argue that any 'amnesty" plan essentially rewards people for entering the
country illegally or staying beyond the limits of their visas.
On Tuesday, a far larger rally in Washington featured thousands of
immigrants of Hispanic descent.

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I am very pleased to see published Peter Gray's article about James Caird.

It opens up new areas in the discussion of famine policy and famine theory
in the nineteenth century. One starting point is one of my own chapters in
The Irish World Wide series - which Peter acknowledges with courtesy. He
says, '... serious scholars of famine have tended to register an awareness
of possible Irish - Indian parallels without investigating them in depth.
The one extant article-length study directly dedicated to the study of
famine through an Irish - Indian comparative lens criticizes this neglect,
offers a useful literature survey, and suggests some stimulating lines of
critical inquiry, without pursuing any at length.'

This is fair enough. The reference is to Patrick O'Sullivan and Richard
Lucking, 'The famine world wide: the Irish famine and the development of
famine policy and famine theory', in Patrick O'Sullivan, ed., The Irish
world wide: history, heritage, identity, VI: The meaning of the famine
(London, 1997), pp. 195-232. At that stage the aim in the IWW series was to
map the gaps. And it is really good to see that gap being filled.

By the way, usual between the lines conditions as regards Peter Gray's
article...

I have long thought that the Famine Commission in India, 1878-1880, would be
a great subject for a play - a turning point in world history - and did an
outline some years ago, with Caird and Sullivan as heroes...

P.O'S.

publication
Historical Journal - London

ISSN
0018-246X electronic: 1469-5103

publisher
Cambridge University Press

year - volume - issue - page
2006 - 49 - 1 - 193


article

FAMINE AND LAND IN IRELAND AND INDIA, 1845-1880: JAMES CAIRD AND THE
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF HUNGER

GRAY, PETER

table of content - full text

abstract

The perception of Ireland and India as 'zones of famine' led many
nineteenth-century observers to draw analogies between these two troublesome
parts of the British empire. This article investigates this parallel through
the career of James Caird (1816-92), and specifically his interventions in
the latter stages of both the Great Irish Famine of 1845-50, and the Indian
famines of 1876-9. Caird is best remembered as the joint author of the
controversial dissenting minute in the Indian famine commission report of
1880; this article locates the roots of his stance in his previous
engagements with Irish policy. Caird's interventions are used to track the
trajectory of an evolving 'Peelite' position on famine relief, agricultural
reconstruction, and land reform between the 1840s and 1880s. Despite some
divergences, strong continuities exist between the two interventions - not
least concern for the promotion of agricultural entrepreneurship, for
actively assisting economic development in 'backward' economies, and an
acknowledgement of state responsibility for preserving life as an end in
itself. Above all in both cases it involved a critique of a laissez-faire
dogmatism - whether manifest in the 'Trevelyanism' of 1846-50 or the
Lytton-Temple system of 1876-9.

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Lindsay Clutterbuck is an officer of the Metropolitan Police, London - the
contact address is New Scotland Yard. He has a Phd, and is also associated
with Kings College London. On IR-D we noted an earlier Clutterbuck article

Clutterbuck, L. 2004, ' THE PROGENITORS OF TERRORISM: RUSSIAN
REVOLUTIONARIES OR EXTREME IRISH REPUBLICANS?', Terrorism and Political
Violence, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 154-181.

And this latest one is, in some ways, a more straightforward piece of
historical research, mining the increasingly available British archives to
throw new light on the history of the Fenians.

P.O'S.

publication
Terrorism and Political Violence

ISSN
0954-6553 electronic: 1556-1836

publisher
Taylor & Francis Group

year - volume - issue - page
2006 - 18 - 1 - 95

article

Countering Irish Republican Terrorism in Britain: Its Origin as a Police
Function

Clutterbuck, Lindsay

abstract

This article examines how the gathering and utilising of intelligence and
evidence concerning acts of terrorism by extreme Irish republicans on the
mainland of Britain in the 1880s became formalised as a police function. The
gathering of intelligence concerning potentially violent political groups
became a police function in the UK almost from the establishment of the
first organised police force in 1829. It was used to pre-empt violent public
disorder and to inform the government of the alleged ?revolutionary?
activities of exiled foreign nationals. From the 1860s onward it was also
used to counteract potential terrorist activity by extreme Irish republican
groups. A succession of bomb attacks launched by extreme Irish republican
groups from 1881 onward prompted the Secretary of State for the Home Office
to introduce in 1883 an additional, de facto ?Secret Service? to assist the
detectives of the already extant Metropolitan Police ?Irish Bureau? to deal
with them. This action forced a resolution to the question of whether the
police or the new civilian ?Secret Service? had the authority to take action
to counter these groups. The decision came down firmly on the side of the
police, thus establishing a domestic counter terrorism framework that would
not be revised radically for over a hundred years. The police lead in the
intelligence and investigative structures and systems on the British
mainland was therefore a consequence of government policy and did not occur
arbitrarily.

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For information...

P.O'S.

The Historical Journal (2005), 48: 905-932 Cambridge University Press
Copyright =A9 2005 Cambridge University Press
doi:10.1017/S0018246X05004851
Published Online 06Jan2006=20

THE DUKE OF LORRAINE AND THE INTERNATIONAL STRUGGLE FOR IRELAND, =
1649=961653 1
MICHE=C1L =D3 SIOCHR=DA=20
a1c1
a1 University of Aberdeen

Abstract

Ireland's status as a kingdom or as a colony continues to influence the
historiographical debate about the country's relationship with the wider
world during the early modern period. Interest in the continent is =
almost
exclusively focused on exiles and migrants, rather than on diplomatic
developments. Yet during the 1640s confederate Catholics in Ireland =
pursued
an independent foreign policy, maintaining resident agents abroad, and
receiving diplomats in Kilkenny. Following the execution of Charles I in
1649, they sought foreign assistance in their struggle against Oliver
Cromwell. In alliance with the exiled House of Stuart, Irish Catholics
looked to Charles IV, duke of Lorraine, as a potential saviour. For =
three
years the duke encouraged negotiations in Galway, Paris, and Brussels. =
He
despatched vital military supplies to Ireland, and attempted on at least =
one
occasion to transport troops there from the Low Countries. Although his
intervention ultimately failed to turn the tide of the war in Ireland, =
the
English parliamentarians nevertheless believed he posed a serious =
threat.
This detailed study of the duke's role, in the international struggle =
for
Ireland during the early 1650s, largely ignored until now, helps to =
place
the crises of the three Stuart kingdoms in their broader European =
context.

Correspondence:
c1 School of Divinity, History, and Philosophy, University of Aberdeen,
Aberdeen, AB24 3FX m.osiochru[at]abdn.ac.uk

Footnotes

1 I would like to thank the Leverhulme Trust for the two-year research
fellowship which enabled me to complete the work on this article. I am =
also
extremely grateful to Jane Ohlmeyer, Aidan Clarke, and David Ditchburn =
for
their detailed comments on earlier drafts.

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A number of people have shown interest in my account of my trip to Leeds =
-
oh the miles, the endless miles...

And the launch of the Roisin Ban volume...

The citation information can be picked up from the Amazon page...

Roisin Ban: The Irish Diaspora in Leeds =20
Dermot Bolger (Foreword), Corinne Silva, Brendan McGowan (Introduction)

# Hardcover 164 pages (March 2, 2006)
# Publisher: Leeds Irish Health and Homes
# Language: English
# ISBN: 0955252903

So, it is another one of these small Irish organisation published things =
-
which are the bane of my life.

But at least these people have got an ISBN and an Amazon link...

However...

I think I should stress that this volume is, as I said, a shrine - a =
photo
essay, homage... There are Irish Diaspora scholars who are interested =
in
that sort of thing, and collections that will want it... It is an =
example
of the sort of thing that gets done. In this case, a good example... It
does contain a little introduction, a few pages, by Brendan McGowan.

There IS a very good scholarly work about the Irish in Leeds...

THE IRISH IN LEEDS, 1931-81:
ASPECTS OF EMIGRATION
by
Brendan McGowan

This thesis was submitted in part=20
fulfilment of the requirements for
the Master of Arts Degree in Humanities (Heritage Studies),
at the
Renmore Campus
of the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology,
Galway
2004

This thesis is an unusually good marriage of the general information =
about
the Irish in Britain, an examination of the existing material on the =
Irish
of Leeds, and a local study, based on interviews. Caitr=EDona Clear was =
the
external examiner...

I have delayed giving Brendan McGowan's thesis any public notice - =
partly
because he has long had publication plans, which he wanted to pursue. I
think in part as fulfilling his duty to his interviewees.

I have contacted Brendan again - anyone who would like to know more =
about
his thesis should contact him directly at...

Brendan James Conal McGowan [nadnerbmcg[at]hotmail.com]

...and come to some arrangement. And no doubt you will want to do the
decent thing, if he does manage to get the work published.

Paddy

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Maybe I missed it, Paddy, but could you please send citation data for=20
the book itself?
Thanks,
Kerby

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Dear Colleagues,

I don't think this has been scooped up in the Irish Diaspora Net:

Chantal Bordes-Benayoun & Dominique Schnapper: Diasporas et Nations. =20
ISBN 2-7381-1664-7, January 2006, 145 x 220, 256 pages. (23 =E2=82=AC). =
Publisher: Odile Jacob.

http://www.odilejacob.fr/catalogue/index.php?op=3Dlivre&article=3D2176&ca=
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Best wishes,

D.C. Rose

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Forwarded on behalf of John McCourt...

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From: john mccourt [mailto:mccourt[at]univ.trieste.it]=20

The Tenth Annual

Trieste Joyce School

25 June - 1 July 2006

University of Trieste

"I cannot begin to give you the flavour of the old Austrian Empire. It =
was a
ramshackle affair but it was charming, gay, and I experienced more
kindnesses in Trieste than ever before or since in my life."

The Tenth edition of the Trieste Joyce School will take place from 25 =
June
to 1 July 2006. Following the tradition established in previous years, =
this
year's school hopes to satisfy the needs both of seasoned Joyceans and =
of
newcomers to the world of Joyce studies. The School draws inspiration =
from
Trieste itself - its history, its culture, its architecture, its
institutions - and leaves participants with a sense of why Joyce came to
describe the city as his "second country".

Director: Renzo S. Crivelli, Vice Director: John McCourt

Speakers include

Eric Bulson, Columbia University,
Brian Caraher, Queen's University Belfast,
Claudia Corti, University of Florence,
Luca Crispi, National Library of Ireland,
Renzo S. Crivelli, University of Trieste,
Ron Ewart, Zurich James Joyce Foundation,
Kalina Filipova, University of Sofia,
Marta Goldmann, Berzseny Daniel College, Szombathely,
Irene Grubica, University of Rijeka,
Stacey Herbert, National Library of Ireland,
John McCourt, Trieste Joyce School,
Margot Norris, University of California,
Cormac O'Grada, University College Dublin,
Jean-Michel Rabat=E9, Princeton University,
Franca Ruggieri, Universit=E0 di Roma, Tre,
Erik Schneider, James Joyce Museum,Trieste,
Fritz Senn, Zurich James Joyce Foundation,
Dirk Von Hulle, JamesJoyceCentre, University of Antwerp.

SPECIAL GUEST WRITER to be announced

For further information email: mccourt[at]units.it
Internet: http//www.univ.trieste.it/nirdange/school/index.html
(the updated site will be available from 20 March)

SCHOLARHIPS AVAILABLE (to apply send CV, letter of Application, letter =
of
reference via email to mccourt[at]units.it by 15 April 2006)
Accommodation from 30 Euro per night

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Oxford Journal of Legal Studies Advance Access published online on =
November
29, 2005
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, doi:10.1093/ojls/gqi038

=A9 The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press.=20


Article
Freedom of Assembly, Consequential Harms and the Rule of Law:
Liberty-limiting Principles in the Context of Transition

Michael Hamilton 1 * *

1 Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Michael Hamilton, E-mail: mj.hamilton[at]ulster.ac.uk

Abstract

The consequences of restricting or not restricting the right to freedom =
of
assembly are potentially magnified in transitional societies. Yet
determining whether such consequences are indeed =91harmful=92, and =
whether
their cost should be borne despite the harms caused, requires the
elaboration of criteria which define what are valid and relevant harms.
While a human rights framework can perform this task, open-textured =
rights
standards prescribe neither the threshold of legal intervention nor the
goals of transition. By extension, the rule of law--underpinned by this
rights discourse--is silent about whether liberal or communitarian =
ideals
should inform the reconstruction of public space in conflicted or =
nascent
democracies. Illustrated by analysis of legal interventions in parade
disputes in Northern Ireland, this article argues that the rule of law =
is
necessarily orientated by ethical consensus about its scope. =
Furthermore,
this consensus operates as a restraint upon the degree of normative
discontinuity permitted during transitional compromises. The article =
frames
the ethical options in terms of three liberty-limiting principles--the
argument from democracy, the argument for toleration, and the argument =
for
recognition. Each suggests different parameters for the transitional =
project
and for the role of law within it.

*My thanks to Fionnuala N=ED Aol=E1in, Christine Bell, Mary O=92Rawe, =
Edwin Abuya
and Catherine Turner for their very helpful comments on earlier drafts.

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Shadow play

Sean O'Casey electrified Dublin's stages with his violent scenes of =
Irish
life. Could he repeat the trick when he moved to London? As two of his
little-known late works return to the stage, Colm T=F3ib=EDn finds out

Wednesday March 8, 2006
The Guardian

. In November 1921 Lady Gregory noted in her journal that the Abbey =
Theatre
in Dublin, of which she was a founding director, had just turned down a =
play
called The Crimson and the Tricolour by a man called Sean O'Casey. She =
felt,
however, that the writer had "something in him" and she decided to have =
the
play typed at the theatre's expense and to meet the playwright himself.

O'Casey, at the time, was 41. Having worked as a labourer, he had been
involved for a period in the Irish language movement and the Labour =
movement
in Dublin and had written a history of the Irish Citizen Army...

...Thus O'Casey's legacy and his fame would rest largely on four plays, =
put
on over five years; plays that seem over 80 years later to be immensely
powerful dramatic statements about the pity of war, whose characters
continue to attract great Irish actors and large audiences. He was, in =
the
first three plays, writing about events just a few years after they had
occurred. The Shadow of a Gunman played first in a city in the throes of
civil war, with an armed guard at the door. O'Casey was forcing himself =
to
make his characters larger than his own ideology, but it was the =
combination
- his own sharp and passionate involvement in the politics of his time =
and
his talent for creating memorable characters - that gave the plays their
immediacy and their power. He was also working with the rich language of =
the
Dublin streets.

What was he going to do now in the England of the 1930s, a world that
offered him comfort, but in whose life and language he had no real =
emotional
stake?...=92

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Samuel Beckett is seen by some as the laureate of despair, an enigmatic
hermit who produced dour, difficult work. Edna O'Brien, who knew him, =
marks
the centenary of his birth in April by setting the record straight.

Saturday March 11, 2006
The Guardian

'Sam The Man is the subject of endless myth, disquisition, hearsay,
reverence, mystification and bloated anecdote. It would not be =
unreasonable
to suppose that he is now known on the moon, a region he once ruefully
regarded as being the preserve of Albert Camus. Many people met Beckett =
and
inevitably drank with him. It is true that he drank quite a lot and is
almost certainly truer that he needed to drink, both to vivify a spirit =
that
had "little talent for happiness" and to lessen the barrage of fellow
imbibers. All his works are littered with non-stop talkers, the =
quaquaquas.
It seems somewhat precipitate to broach drink concerning such an exigent
man, but that triptych of Irish geniuses, Joyce, Beckett and Flann =
O'Brien,
were well-known habitu=E9s of the taverns, putting their sojourns to =
sedulous
good use...

... Much is made of Beckett's despairingness, his Cartesian soul nailed =
to
its Cartesian cross, yet he is not a depressing writer, not depressing =
in
the way Henri de Montherlant or Thomas Bernhard can be, because, as with
Shakespeare, his darkest words are shot through with beauty and
astonishment, his impassioned keenings the best witness that there is to =
the
human plaint, his disgusts brimful with exhilaration. He was a maniac =
who
managed with consummate skill to convert that mania into lasting =
poetry...'


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Theatre
A Whistle in the Dark

**** Royal Exchange, Manchester

Alfred Hickling
Wednesday March 8, 2006
The Guardian

A Whistle in the Dark

'Tom Murphy's debut play was turned down by the Abbey Theatre in Dublin
because it showed Irish characters in an unflattering light. It's probably
closer to the truth to say that the young Murphy took a dim view of humanity
in general: 45 years on, the piece still feels brutal and sordid, while
Jacob Murray's revival comes with the impact of a swift punch to the
kidneys.

Pragmatic Midlands lass Betty marries Irish emigre Michael, little realising
that she will be opening her house to his psychotic clan of brothers as
well. They bring with them their braggadocio, their drunkenness and, worst
of all, their father: an intemperate old reprobate who encouraged his sons
to think with their fists...

Full text at...
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