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This article will be of interest to a number of IR-D members who are using
online versions of Irish newspapers to travk events and patterns.

P.O'S.

Gazette, Vol. 67, No. 1, 45-68 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0016549205049178
C 2005 SAGE Publications

Delivering Ireland
Journalism's Search for a Role Online
John O'Sullivan

School of Communications, Dublin City University, john.osullivan[at]dcu.ie

Much of the rhetoric surrounding new media has centred on their potential
democratically to reform public communications through more diverse, more
open and more accountable journalism and debate. This article details a
study of Irish online news, based on observation of a variety of websites
and on a series of interviews with journalists, to test whether this
potential has begun to be realized and whether practitioners share such a
vision. Enhancement of content, interactivity, immediacy, increased depth
and new ways of telling stories are some of the possibilities that are
present, or at least latent, in online news. But these possibilities are
seldom or only partially brought to fruit. What emerges from observation of
online news in action, and from discussions with those providing its
content, is far from a revolution in media, but an expression of the
cautious continuity, if not inertia, of media content and practice.

Key Words: content . interactivity . journalism . new media . online
newspapers

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I was just doing some work on our web site, irishdiaspora.net. And this
item popped up on the little screens that feed from the Amazon databases...

Which just goes to show...

P.O'S.

The Slow Failure: Population Decline and Independent Ireland, 1920-1973
(History of Ireland & the Irish Diaspora S.)
Mary E. Daly
The Slow Failure: Population Decline and Independent Ireland, 1920-1973

Product Details:
# Hardcover 456 pages (March 15, 2006)
# Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
# Language: English
# ISBN: 0299212904
# Category(ies): Science & Nature , Society, Politics & Philosophy , History

Synopsis
Today Ireland's population is rising, immigration outpaces emigration, most
families have two or at most three children, and full-time farmers are in
steady decline. But the opposite was true for more than a century, from the
great famine of the 1840s until the 1960s. Between 1922 and 1966 - most of
the first fifty years after independence - the population of Ireland was
falling, in the 1950s as rapidly as in the 1880s. Mary Daly's "The Slow
Failure" examines not just the reasons for the decline, but the responses to
it by politicians, academics, journalists, churchmen, and others who
publicly agonized over their nation's "slow failure." Eager to reverse
population decline but fearful that economic development would undermine
Irish national identity, they fashioned statistical evidence to support
ultimately fruitless policies that encouraged large, rural farm families.
Focusing on both Irish government and society, Daly places Ireland's
population history in the mainstream history of independent Ireland. Daly's
research reveals how pastoral visions of an ideal Ireland made it virtually
impossible to reverse the fall in population. Promoting large families, for
example, contributed to late marriages, actually slowing population growth
further. The crucial issue of emigration failed to attract serious
government attention except during World War II; successive Irish
governments refused to provide welfare services for emigrants, leaving that
role to the Catholic Church. Daly takes these and other elements of an
often-sad story, weaving them into essential reading for understanding
modern Irish history.

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Maybe I should have thought this through a bit better...

If I give out public scores then that helps late arrivals - but that is =
the
nature of scholarship.

It is a bit like the game Battleships. Remember, this is not a quiz =
about a
possible, ideal library - but about my real book collection, on the wall
behind me now...

Anyway, the competition will go on until I get bored...

Or the IR-D membership gets bored...

Paddy


Bill Mulligan's Scores....

1.
The A section of my collection is very small.
Name one book, NOT by Donald Akenson, author and title, from the A =
section.

Tyler Ambinder, Five Points
MISS

2.
The I section of my collection is very small.
Name one book, author and title, from the I section.

Michael Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White
HIT

3.
Three books have the same title.

Give details, author and title, of these three books.
Peter Gray, The Irish Famine ((Harry Abrams Publishers)
Noel Kissane, The Irish Famine (NLI)
Colm Toibin and Diarmaid Ferriter, The Irish Famine (Palgrave, 2001)

MISS MISS MISS

4.
What fourth book with this title is MISSING from my collection?

MISS

5.
Eight books have the word 'question' in their titles.=A0 Name two of =
them,
author and title.
George Dangerfield, The Damnable Question=A0
Lawrence J. McCaffery, The Irish Question

MISS MISS

(The trap is in thinking that the question in question must be the =
'Irish
Question')

6.
Ten books have the word 'exile' in their titles.=A0 Name two of them, =
author
and title

Kerby Miller, Emigrants and Exiles=A0

HIT (because I have decided that 'Exiles' includes the word 'exile').
MISS

7.
Ten books have the word 'hunger' in their titles.=A0 Name two of them, =
author
and title

Cecil Woodham Smith, The Great Hunger
David A. Valone & Christine Kinealy, Ireland's Great Hunger

HIT MISS


8.
What is the last book in the collection, author and title, on the bottom
shelf, right hand corner, near the window?

MISS

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Patrick,

slightly desperate attempt at the quiz- should get out more-

hope all well,

Dave Featherstone

1.
The A section of my collection is very small.

Name one book, NOT by Donald Akenson, author and title, from the A =
section.

Peter Ackroyd Blake

2.
The I section of my collection is very small.

Name one book, author and title, from the I section.
Noel Ignatiev, How the irish Became White

3.
Three books have the same title.

Give details, author and title, of these three books.

Liberty tree
Tom Paulin

Liberty tree
Peter Beresford ellis

Liberty tree
Archie Reid et al


4.
What fourth book with this title is MISSING from my collection?

kevin Whelan The tree of liberty - blagging desperately at this stage


5.
Eight books have the word 'question' in their titles.=A0 Name two of =
them,
author and title.

Tom Paulin Ireland and the English Question
Marx, K and Engels, F. Ireland and the Irish Question edited by R. Dixon =

London: Lawrence and Wishart

6.
Ten books have the word 'exile' in their titles.=A0 Name two of them, =
author
and title
Kerby Miller, Emigrants and Exiles=A0
Dermot Bolger Ireland in Exile: Irish Writers Abroad


7.
Ten books have the word 'hunger' in their titles.=A0 Name two of them, =
author
and title

Cecil Woodham Smith The Great Hunger
Terry Eagleton Heathcliff and the Great Hunger


8.
What is the last book in the collection, author and title, on the bottom
shelf, right hand corner, near the window?

Robert Young White Mythologies

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From: Angela McCarthy [mailto:Angela.McCarthy[at]vuw.ac.nz]
Subject: Quiz

Hi Paddy

In haste. Here's my efforts:

1. W. F. Adams, Ireland and the Irish Emigration to the New World from 1815
to the Famine

2. N. Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White

3. J.A. Jackson, The Irish in Britain
K. O'Connor, The Irish in Britain
J. Denvir, The Irish in Britain

4. J. A. Kennedy, The Irish in Britain

5. D.G. Boyce, The Irish Question and British Politics, 1868-1996
P. Bull, Land, Politics, and Nationalism: A Study of the Irish Land Question

6. D. Bolger, Ireland in Exile: Irish Writers Abroad
P. Ward, Exile, Emigration, and Irish Writing

7. C. Woodham-Smith, The Great Hunger
C. Kinealy, Death-Dealing Famine: The Great Hunger in Ireland

8. Absolutely no idea whatsoever!

Cheers
Angela

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My impression is that Terry Eagleton's outburst should be read as a riposte
to the somewhat sweetness and light version of Beckett by Edna O'Brien, in
The Guardian earlier...

P.O'S.

Champion of ambiguity

The misinterpretations of Beckett's work on his 100th anniversary would not
have pleased him

Terry Eagleton
Monday March 20, 2006
The Guardian

Samuel Beckett was an artist with so jaundiced a vision of human existence
that he managed to be born not only on Friday the 13th, but on one that
coincided with Good Friday. Later, he would allude to the day of Christ's
death in an immortal quip in Waiting for Godot: "One of the [Calvary]
thieves was saved. It's a reasonable percentage." This year's calendar to
celebrate Beckett's 100th anniversary is crammed with literary events
celebrating the life of the modern age's most lovable pessimist, most of
them, one imagines, awash with talk of the timeless human condition
portrayed in his work.

Nothing could be further from the truth. For one thing, Beckett treated such
portentous interpretations of his work with typical Irish debunkery. "No
symbol where none intended," he once reminded the critics. For another, he
was not some timeless spirit but a southern Irish Protestant, part of a
besieged minority of cultural aliens caught uneasily within a triumphalistic
Catholic Free State. As Anglo-Irish Big Houses were burnt by Republicans
during the war of independence, many Protestants fled to the Home Counties.
The paranoia, chronic insecurity and self-conscious marginality of Beckett's
work make a good deal more sense in this light. So does the stark, stripped
quality of his writing, with its Protestant aversion to frippery and excess.
If he abandoned Ireland soon enough for Paris, it was partly because one
might as well be homeless abroad as at home...

Full text at...

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1735248,00.html

See also

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1728349,00.html

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The defiant self

WB Yeats has always had detractors, not least for his fascist sympathies.
But, Seamus Heaney argues, his poetic gifts, his energy and his role in
shaping modern Ireland have been a powerful force for good

Saturday March 18, 2006
The Guardian

WB Yeats managed to create a heroic role for the poet in the modern world,
so much so that TS Eliot's evocation of "the shade of some dead master" in
"Little Gidding" (1943) is commonly taken to be a tribute to the recently
dead Irishman. And the canonisation continues. Nowadays, whether he is
thought of as a national bard or a world poet, Yeats figures in the mind as
a translated force, an energy released and a destiny fulfilled...

... When all the objections have been lodged, Yeats's work survives as a
purely motivated, greatly active power for good. What Andrew Marvell
presented as a challenging fantasy - "roll all our strength, and all / Our
sweetness, up into one ball" - Yeats actually achieved. To encounter an
oeuvre that embodies "thoughts long knitted into a single thought" is to
experience the force of what he called "the spiritual intellect's great
work". This force transmits itself, of course, by poetic means: Yeats's
essential gift is his ability to raise a temple in the ear, to make a
vaulted space in language through the firmness, in-placeness and
undislodgeableness of stanzaic form. But the force is also present in his
persistent drive to "teach the free man how to praise".

Full text at...

http://books.guardian.co.uk/poetry/features/0,,1733381,00.html

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Hi Paddy,

Thanks for posting Terry Eagleton's piece on Beckett.

It's curious that Eagleton doesn't refer to Beckett's wartime sojourn in
Roussillon in the deep south. He does say 'They finally took refuge in a
small village near Paris, where Beckett worked in the fields and took up
weonce again with the Resistance.'. I wonder if this is correct?

My partner Pat Coughlan (who has written a lot about Beckett) and I spent
time in Roussillon a few years ago and met and talked to a few people who
remembered him well. He worked for a local vineyard (still there; I think
the name was Bonelli. We bought a few bottles: not vintage wine!). I wonder
if this is the period Eagleton refers to. Locals said he wasn't a great
worker in the fields, but it wasn't said in a nasty way. They remember him
taking long lone walks at sunset, with a dog, over the fields.

There were references in what we heard to two local eccentric (and from the
description, lesbian) English ladies with whom he and his wife were friendly
and who made have played some part in resistance activities as well. The
Germans notoriously massacred a number of villagers in the immediate
neighbourhood (Gordes, I think).

We saw the house he lived in, derelict at the time - happily, this seems to
have changed http://www.luberon-news.com/samuel-beckett/index2.htm.

In a previous life I was cultural attache in the Irish Embassy in Paris in
1986 and helped organise a few events to commemorate Beckett's 80th
anniversary. The highlight was a performance by Barry McGovern of some
Beckett texts; I think the title was I'll go on. Beckett himself was invited
but declined, but I think it was a principled and good-humoured and polite
refusal.

His attitudes to the question of Irishness were sometimese both complex and
comical. I believe that on one occasion he met some Christian Brothers in
the streets of Paris and spent some time with them discussing... hurling.
Why not, for a cricketer? He was delighted to work with volunteers from the
Irish Red Cross in Saint-Lo at war's end.

Next week I'll be in Paris with 36 geography students where we will visit,
among other things, the Arenes de Lutece, a genuine Roman amphitheatre in
the 5eme arrondissement, about which Becket wrote a beautiful poem

Piaras

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My impression is that Terry Eagleton's outburst should be read as a
riposte
to the somewhat sweetness and light version of Beckett by Edna O'Brien,
in
The Guardian earlier...

P.O'S.

Champion of ambiguity

The misinterpretations of Beckett's work on his 100th anniversary would
not
have pleased him

Terry Eagleton
Monday March 20, 2006
The Guardian

Full text at...

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1735248,00.html

See also

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1728349,00.html

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From: Thomas J. Archdeacon [mailto:tjarchde[at]wisc.edu]
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I'll have to re-read Beckett. I knew there was something I instinctively
liked about him, even though I am not a Protestant and cannot empathize with
his displacement. (I thought his departure for France, like everything else
in Irish history that wasn't the fault of the English, was all the fault of
the Catholic Church). Then again, maybe I am a Protestant in the recesses
of my soul. When I visited the back-of-beyond area of Co. Cork from which
my parents separately migrated, another Archdeacon -- of possible but
unknown kinship -- explained to me that the Archdeacons were originally
Englishmen who went native. The downward mobility seemed fitting, and being
Irish history, the quality of the story outstripped any demands for truth.
So, I am able to tell people I went to Ireland thinking I was a clerically
spawned bastard (however remotely), and came back thinking I was a
Protestant (however remotely). Praise the transformative powers of travel
and jaundiced visions of human existence at which Catholic and well as
Protestant Irish can excel!

Tom

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Dave Featherstone's scores....

1.
The A section of my collection is very small.

Name one book, NOT by Donald Akenson, author and title, from the A =
section.

Peter Ackroyd Blake
(On the Yeats' theory that Blake's father was Irish... I suppose...)

MISS

2.
The I section of my collection is very small.

Name one book, author and title, from the I section.
Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White

HIT

3.
Three books have the same title.

Give details, author and title, of these three books.

Liberty tree
Tom Paulin

Liberty tree
Peter Beresford ellis

Liberty tree
Archie Reid et al

(Good try... But...)

MISS MISS MISS

4.
What fourth book with this title is MISSING from my collection?

kevin Whelan The tree of liberty - blagging desperately at this stage

MISS


5.
Eight books have the word 'question' in their titles.=A0 Name two of =
them,
author and title.

Tom Paulin Ireland and the English Question
Marx, K and Engels, F. Ireland and the Irish Question edited by R. Dixon =

London: Lawrence and Wishart

(Alas, the copy of M & E that I use is in the U of Bradford's library. =
When
I first read that copy I was, apparently, the first person ever to have
noticed that it had in the middle a substantial section in =
Vietnamese...) =20

MISS MISS

6.
Ten books have the word 'exile' in their titles.=A0 Name two of them, =
author
and title
Kerby Miller, Emigrants and Exiles=A0
Dermot Bolger Ireland in Exile: Irish Writers Abroad

HIT HIT


7.
Ten books have the word 'hunger' in their titles.=A0 Name two of them, =
author
and title

Cecil Woodham Smith The Great Hunger
Terry Eagleton Heathcliff and the Great Hunger

HIT HIT


8.
What is the last book in the collection, author and title, on the bottom
shelf, right hand corner, near the window?

Robert Young White Mythologies

MISS

SCORE 5 HITS

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Angela McCarthy's Scores... [mailto:Angela.McCarthy[at]vuw.ac.nz]

1. W. F. Adams, Ireland and the Irish Emigration to the New World from 1815
to the Famine
Alas...
MISS

2. N. Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White
HIT

3. J.A. Jackson, The Irish in Britain
K. O'Connor, The Irish in Britain
J. Denvir, The Irish in Britain
HIT HIT MISS

4. J. A. Kennedy, The Irish in Britain
MISS

5. D.G. Boyce, The Irish Question and British Politics, 1868-1996
P. Bull, Land, Politics, and Nationalism: A Study of the Irish Land Question
Alas...
MISS MISS

6. D. Bolger, Ireland in Exile: Irish Writers Abroad
P. Ward, Exile, Emigration, and Irish Writing
HIT MISS

7. C. Woodham-Smith, The Great Hunger
C. Kinealy, Death-Dealing Famine: The Great Hunger in Ireland
HIT HIT

8. Absolutely no idea whatsoever!
MISS

SCORE 6 HITS

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First of all, apologies for mis-typing Beckett in the original Subject
line... Tired fingers...

Piaras, I too thought that that section of Terry's piece odd. It must refer
to the brief sojourn in Janvry, and then there is no real mention of the
important time in Roussillon.

In fact it looks to me like bad copy editing. I cannot believe that Terry -
who likes a good story - would leave that bit out, or get it wrong. The
Guardian often sneers at the US newspapers fact-checking tradition - but
could itself take more care. There were also in The Guardian some letters
correcting Edna O'Brien's piece about Beckett.

On the substantive point, I am often irritated by the sanitising of great
writers to meet the needs of schools. I have been heard to say that
children should not be allowed to read poetry - it is not good for children
and it harms poetry. Curmudgeon, me...

Enjoy Paris...

Paddy


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Hi Paddy,

Thanks for posting Terry Eagleton's piece on Beckett.

It's curious that Eagleton doesn't refer to Beckett's wartime sojourn in
Roussillon in the deep south. He does say 'They finally took refuge in a
small village near Paris, where Beckett worked in the fields and took up
once again with the Resistance.'. I wonder if this is correct?...

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From: D.C. Rose [mailto:musard[at]tiscali.fr]=20
Subject: Quick Beckett PS.

An Italian production of Happy Days by Giorgio=A0Strehler with
Giulia=A0Lazzarini as Winnie and Franco=A0Sangermano as Willie, Giorni =
felici,
will play at the Ath=E9n=E9e - Th=E9=E2tre Louis Jouvet, Paris IXe, =
5th-9th April;
and Editions de Minuit, who publish all Beckett, have announced a new
edition of Mercier et Camier.
=A0
David

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Forwarded on behalf of...

Katie Roche
AHRC Programme Administrator
Diasporas, Migration and Identities
Address: Theology and Religious Studies, University of Leeds LS2 9JT
Tel: +44 113 3437838
Fax: +44 113 3433654
email: k.a.roche[at]leeds.ac.uk
http://www.diasporas.ac.uk

=A0
Diasporas, Migration and Identities Postgraduate Event at the University =
of
Leeds, 13 and 14 December 2006.=A0=20
=A0
This is the first of two postgraduate events to be run under the =
auspices of
the Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme.=A0 The second will be =
held
in 2008.
=A0
It will provide an opportunity for you to meet other postgraduates from =
many
different disciplines, and will be an occasion when you can present a =
paper
to your peers in an informal seminar, or participate in and even lead a
workshop.
=A0
The programme is likely to follow the following format:
First day:
Coffee and registration
A keynote lecture
Lunch
Afternoon seminars and workshops
Evening reception and meal
Perhaps some form of evening entertainment
Second Day:
Morning seminars and workshops
Lunch
Plenary session
Close
=A0
I would be glad to hear from you if you are interested in principle in
attending the event.=20
=A0
We would also like to have your input into the way the event should be =
run,
including:
=A0
-=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 the format of the seminars and =
workshops.=A0 What would you like to
see included?=A0 Are you keen to have plenty of time for discussion, or =
is the
sharing of papers more important to you? Or would a mixture of both be =
more
appropriate?
=A0
- =A0=A0=A0 would you wish to give a paper or lead a workshop?
=A0
- =A0=A0=A0 do you have anyone in mind who you would like to hear as =
a keynote
speaker?
=A0
We are also looking for other postgraduates in the region to help with =
the
organisation of the event, and would like to hear from you if you want =
to
become involved.=A0 The working group has had its first meeting, but we =
will
be meeting again in May to discuss the next stage.
=A0
Once we have finalised the way the event will be organised, we will =
email
you again with further information.=A0=20
=A0
=A0
Katie Roche
AHRC Programme Administrator
Diasporas, Migration and Identities
Address: Theology and Religious Studies, University of Leeds LS2 9JT
Tel: +44 113 3437838
Fax: +44 113 3433654
email: k.a.roche[at]leeds.ac.uk
http://www.diasporas.ac.uk
=A0
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From: Noreen Bowden [mailto:noreen[at]emigrant.ie]
Sent: 22 March 2006 20:22
Subject: RE: Independent 'emigrant plight' article

I wonder has anyone seen this article in the Irish Independent - it's quite
a nasty response to the undocumented. I realise we must consider the source,
but it does stoop quite low. I was alerted to it by someone associated with
the Irish Pastoral Center in Boston - they have called for an apology.

Noreen



http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=45&si=1583219&issue_i
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Emigrants' plight we'd gladly share

Eilis O'Hanlon

IMMIGRANTS. Dontcha just love 'em? They come over here and work for a
pittance, doing all the jobs we're too grand for these days, ensuring in the
process that the Celtic Tiger keeps ticking over and that Ireland's a much
more interesting, diverse and cosmopolitan country than it's ever been
before in its history - and all they get in return is an earful of abuse and
the blame for everything from the recent riots in Dublin to our appalling
road safety statistics. Meanwhile, we're all supposed to be getting
sentimental about the "plight" of our own illegal emigrants in the US.

This "plight", presumably, is that they've been living it up in the world's
most dynamic and successful economy for years while paying no tax or
national insurance, either in the country they sneaked into or the one they
buggered off from, and who now have Irish politicians bending over backwards
to help them out. That's the kind of plight we could all do with sharing,
lads. Don't pay your Dirt tax in Ballydehob and you're a national disgrace.
Don't pay any tax in Boston and you're apparently a national hero.

Irish illegals in America deserted the sinking mother ship when times were
hard, and now the vessel's afloat again the rats expect us to help them out.
And though Bertie has said he wants no special deal for the Irish, there are
mutterings from others to say that if the current McCain/Kennedy bill fails
then we should try to do a deal for our own. And to hell with all the poor
Mexicans, Cubans, Chinese, Indians, Africans etc who need much more of a
helping hand than we do. Why should we be a special case? Because we helped
build the railroads?

Yeah, and we also helped build the Ku Klux Klan. You never hear Irish
politicians boasting about that at the White House on Paddy's Day. What's
hilarious is that the Irish illegals are now under pressure because, post
9/11, Americans are more sensitive about security and terrorism.

I bet some of those expats don't feel so blase now about all those years
they spent out there singing rebel songs and drumming up support for the IRA
while the rest of us back here actually had to live with the consequences.
Still, if they're caught, I suppose they can always claim they were only
birdwatching, like the Colombia Three.

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From: "MacEinri, Piaras"
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I wonder if it is worth complaining. The Sunday Independent keeps a stable
of rotweillers who are paid to bark loudly, but they are not journalists in
my understanding of the term at all - they are extremely opinionated but do
not do investigative primary research and seem to be given a free hand to
insult whomsoever they wish. The leaders of the pack include Eoghan Harris,
Eilis O'Hanlon and a certain Irish historian living in Britain who has
written about the Orange Order and Patrick Pearse. There is also a stable of
younger people whose names will probably not be known to people outside
Ireland but whose distinguishing features are the absolute predictability of
their political line and the fact that that there are really no
distingushing characteristics in terms of style or content to enable one to
tell one of them from another. I am probably too revisionist for some people
on this list but if I found myself on a desert island with any of these
people I'd start swimming. I had the misfortune to attend a British Council
event last year in which one of the trio above - those who know the
individual will realise immediately which it was - had a major temper
tantrum and shouted, barracked and insulted several people there, to the
bemusement of our hosts. We were also informed, revealingly, by one of the
younger journalists from this rag that they had a formal instruction to
write at least a dozen negative stories about SF/IRA every week; we were
told that if it has not been for the Indo Ireland would now be in
military-fascist hands. I am not a SF/IRA supporter nor, as it happens, were
any present on the occasion in question.

We buy a few of the English Sunday newspapers because even when one
disagrees with the message it is usually better researched and better
written than anything in an Irish Sunday newspaper. The Indo's crude
anti-intellectualism and cheap style is repulsive. The Irish Times,
especially on Saturday, still manages to achieve a reasonable standard.

Piaras

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From: Noreen Bowden [mailto:noreen[at]emigrant.ie]
Sent: 22 March 2006 20:22
Subject: RE: Independent 'emigrant plight' article

I wonder has anyone seen this article in the Irish Independent - it's
quite
a nasty response to the undocumented. I realise we must consider the
source,
but it does stoop quite low. I was alerted to it by someone associated
with
the Irish Pastoral Center in Boston - they have called for an apology.

Noreen

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From: Kerby Miller [mailto:MillerK[at]missouri.edu]
Sent: 22 March 2006 22:11
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Fascinating combination of right-wing class prejudice and purportedly
"liberal" cultural posturing. I could characterize the blend in
political, journalistic, and even historiographical and cinematic
terms, but, if I did, Paddy probably wouldn't pass this on. The
reference to the KKK is particularly interesting, however, because
it's based on such a bizarre and generic (altho' increasingly common)
distortion of "Irishness" by the sort of people who otherwise are so
scrupulous and insistent on maintaining the partitionist "two
traditions" model. Again, I could write more (and have, for
publication) on these themes, in response to the article, but it
probably wouldn't make it through the "filter." Will this?

KM

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And now for something completely different... and nearly a century after the
Playboy riots!!

Pegeen Mike evokes a blush in Beijing

Clifford Coonan in Beijing
23/03/2006

Two Chinese policemen are due to attend tonight's performance of The Playboy
of the Western World in Beijing after a complaint about the short mini-skirt
worn by one of the actors.

A woman complained about glimpses of knickers and cleavage after seeing the
play which is running at the Beijing Oriental Theatre. Wang Zhaohui, one of
the show's producers, said the arts and culture bureau had approved the
Chinese version of the play.

"But a young woman came up to me and complained about the shortness of Sha
Sha's skirt and said you can see too much of her body - cleavage and a bit
of underwear. I think she complained to the authorities. The theatre says
there will be two policemen in the audience so we might make her skirt a bit
longer."

The play, produced by Ireland's Pan Pan theatre group, uproots the action
from Synge's rural west of Ireland early in the last century and relocates
Pegeen, Christy Mahon and the others to a hairdressers in the Beijing
suburbs in the present day. Instead of shawls, there are boob-tubes.

The scene which has given rise to complaint comes when Chen Junnian as
Christy Mahon is forced into disguise in a blonde wig and mini-skirt by the
hairdressers.

Sha Sha, who plays the Sarah Tansey figure, has to energetically manoeuvre
the tight skirt over Christy's thighs and in the process exposes a certain
amount of cleavage and possibly the merest hint of knicker.

China remains a deeply conservative society and immodest displays are still
frowned upon.

However, the reaction to the play has been extremely positive. It is due to
run until Saturday.

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I am an outsider to this subject, but I had the opportunity to review
almost every recent article in the Irish press when researching
perceptions of Latin America through IRA-FARC links in Colombia
2001-2005 (I'm sorry if this may result in increased uneasiness to the
"filter"...). Compared to Latin American newspapers, eg. Colombian,
Argentine, Brazilian, I find that the journalists writing in all major
Irish national papers are, in general, remarkably ambiguous (at least
regarding the so-called 'Colombia 3'). The following is a broad
generalisation, but comparing to Latin American press I don't think
present-day journalism in Ireland is so biased ideologically but
accommodating to urgent day-to-day political needs, no matter their
ideological colours.

Edmundo Murray