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From: Rogers, James [mailto:JROGERS[at]stthomas.edu]
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Subject: RE: [IR-D] 'Emigrant plight'

Bryan Giemza at Wake Forest is working on a book about Fr Abraham Ryan,
which I'm sure will be excellent. I don't know if it has a literary or a
biographical focus.

JSR

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From: Patrick Maume
As a matter of fact I believe the first Grand Chaplain of the original KKK
was Fr. Abram Ryan, the pro-Confederate Irish-American versifier whose
effusions got quite widely reprinted in early C20 anthologies. I even
believe there are some people who claim he and not Nathan Bedford Forrest
was the original Grand Wizard. I doubt if Eilis O'Hanlon knows this
however.
Kerby presumably means that O'Hanlon is identifying Southern "Ulster
Scots" as Irish lies behind her claim that the KKK was founded by
Irish-Americans, but I wonder if there was much in the way of Irish Catholic

involvement in the first KKK apart from Fr. Ryan. After all, quite a lot of

Irish Catholic immigrants fought for the Confederacy. (The second Klan
which was explicitly anti-Catholic is a different matter.)
Fr. Ryan was pretty well-known in his day to judge from the number of
references to him I've come across in early C20 Irish papers (usually in the

context of listing "Great Irish-Americans"). I wonder is there a modern
biography? He was American-born; his parents were Irish immigrants.
Best wishes,
Patrick

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I note that sport has been mentioned once or twice on the Diaspora list
recently, and, considering the interest in star footballer Wayne Rooney at
the moment, it led me to consider England players of Irish extraction.
Turns out there's quite an impressive list.

In an idle moment, I composed an England Dream Team of players with a known
Irish ancestry. I wonder if any of them ever experienced a pang of
conscience as they pulled on the white English jersey rather than an emerald
one.

The author Pete McCarthy once amusingly discussed the turmoil he experienced
as a boy whenever England - the land that nurtured and educated him - played
Ireland, his ancestral homeland. Who to support? I get a similar twinge
whenever Ireland line up at Twickenham, or England at Lansdowne Road (Rugby
clashes are more frequent than soccer).

Of course this dilemma was noted by the reactionary British politician
Norman Tebbitt who came up with the 'cricket test' - i.e. who would you
cheer for in a sporting clash between England and India/Pakistan/West
Indies? Emigrants from 'down under' were probably still allowed to support
Australia though ...

Anyway, here's the team and I look forward to Don MacRaild's comments!

1. Joe Corrigan
2. Alan Kennedy
3. Nobby Stiles
4. Martin Keown
5. Jamie Carragher
6. Terry McDermott
7. (Sir) Tom Finney
8. Kevin Keegan
9. Wayne Rooney
10. Steve McManaman
11. Ray Kennedy


Cheers,
Dan Jackson
University of Northumbria


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On a train of thought...

The current free sample, TOC below, of the journal Cultural and Social
History includes a number of items of interest...

In particular some free G. Peatling, on the academic study of sport...
Abstract below...=20

Also Leanne McCormick, on The Portrayal of Ireland's Magdalene Asylums =
in
Popular Culture...

The way in to the free stuff is through Ingenta
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Where CASH stands for 'Cultural and Social History'...

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Rethinking the History of Criticism of Organized Sport
Author: Peatling, G.K.1

Source: Cultural and Social History, Volume 2, Number 3, September 2005, =
pp.
353-371(19)

Abstract:
Rigorous academic work in the field of the history of sport is =
increasingly
correcting academics' previous unwarranted contemptuous neglect of the
subject. As a consequence of this prior neglect and of structural and
theoretical influences on the field, however, historians of sport still =
have
some difficulty in dealing with the history of critical responses to =
sport,
a problem which may exacerbate the residual condescension of the =
academic
mainstream. This paper offers a modest contribution to correcting the =
errors
of both sets of scholars, by tracing and interpreting one small but
historically significant and resilient strain within such critical =
responses
to sport in Britain, and linking its initial appearance to politically
progressive critiques of imperialism and nationalism from the early
twentieth century.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1191/1478003805cs050oa

Affiliations: 1: Department of History, University of Guelph



Cultural and Social History

Volume 2, Number 3, September 2005

Articles

Free Content Myth, Ritual and Orthodoxy: Cosimo de' Medici and St Peter
Martyr
pp. 273-300(28)
Author: Lawless, Catherine

Free Content Spiritual Bonds, Social Bonds: Baptism and Godparenthood in
Ireland, 1530=961690
pp. 301-327(27)
Author: Tait, Clodagh

Free Content 'Such a Splendid Tale': The Late Nineteenth-Century World =
of a
Young Female Reader
pp. 329-351(23)
Authors: Pooley, Si=E2n K.; Pooley, Colin G.

Free Content Rethinking the History of Criticism of Organized Sport
pp. 353-371(19)
Author: Peatling, G.K.

Review Essay

Free Content Sinister Sisters? The Portrayal of Ireland's Magdalene =
Asylums
in Popular Culture
pp. 373-379(7)
Author: McCormick, Leanne

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Forwarded on behalf of
Dr Dorothy Rowe, d.rowe[at]roehampton.ac.uk

Call for Papers
Diasporic Futures: Women, the Arts and Globalization

A one day conference to be held at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Monday 3rd July 2006=20

Diasporic Futures: Women, the Arts and Globalization is a one day =
conference
designed to assess and evaluate the specific relationship between women, =
the
arts and the impact of globalization on the articulation of diasporic =
and
migrant identities, past, present and future.

The conference seeks to test the limits of extant maps of globalization,
contemporary art practices and migration by exploring how women artists =
and
practitioners and women=B9s creative practice operates within the =
dominant
patterns of the marketplace and/or how it maps the world against the =
grain,
developing alternative networks and new meanings. The emphasis upon
=8Cfutures=B9 in the project=B9s title is strategic; the conference =
seeks to
develop the theoretical and methodological tools needed to move debates
concerning diasporas, migration and identities forward, rather than to =
fix
them in the historical past.=20

Papers/presentations are invited which acknowledge and develop current
theoretical work in the field, contribute to new dialogues and
understandings of transnational and transcultural practices and/or =
encourage
collaborative strategies for the negotiation of globalized networks in
gendered terms.

Please submit enquiries and/or 300 word abstracts to Dr Dorothy Rowe,
d.rowe[at]roehampton.ac.uk, Dr Marsha Meskimmon, m.g.meskimmon[at]lboro.ac.uk =
or
Professor Fran Lloyd, F.Lloyd[at]kingston.ac.uk =A0by Friday 21 April 2006.
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Sylvie Mikowski sylvie.mikowski[at]noos.fr

Ah, lunch in Reims...

P.O'S.

From: Sylvie Mikowski To: Subject: [Sofeir] Memoir de McGahern
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:42:02 -0800

Le CIRLLLEP (Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherches sur les Langues les
Litt=E9ratures la Lecture et l'Elaboration de la Pens=E9e) EA 3794=A0 de
l'Universit=E9 de Reims-Champagne-Ardenne a le plaisir de vous convier =
=E0 une
journ=E9e d'=E9tudes intitul=E9e :

=A0"Autour de Memoir de John McGahern : autobiographie et =
interpr=E9tation"

le vendredi 2 juin 2006 =E0 partir de 10h, B=E2timent recherches, Campus
Croix-Rouge

=A0Interventions de :
-Cornelius Crowley (ParisX-Nanterre) : "The Memorial Turn in Recent =
Irish
Fiction: McGahern and Others"
=A0 -Anne Goarzin (Rennes 2) : "Territoires hant=E9s du familier : =
Memoir de=20
John McGahern"
=A0 -Vanina Jobert-Martini (Lyon 2) : =B3Memoir, pacte autobiographique =
ou=20
retour aux origines de la fiction ?=B2
=A0 -Eamon Maher (National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies, IT Tallaght,
Dublin): "Interpreting Rural Ireland through the Prism of John =
McGahern's
Memoir=B2
-Raymond Mullen(Research Fellow, National Centre for Franco-Irish =
Studies)=20
: "'The soil in Leitrim is poor' : Death and Location in McGahern's =
Memoir=B2

Il n=B9y a pas de frais d=B9inscription, mais il est imp=E9ratif de =
r=E9server pour
le d=E9jeuner (23 euros) qui aura lieu sur place, avant le 10 mai, =
aupr=E8s de
Patricia Oudinet, CIRLLLEP, B=E2timent Recherches, Facult=E9 des =
Lettres, 57
rue Pierre Taittinger 51100 Reims ou par mail
patricia.oudinet[at]univ-reims.fr.

Pour tout renseignement s=B9adresser =E0 Sylvie Mikowski =
sylvie.mikowski[at]noos.fr

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From The Guardian web site, 2 hours ago...

P.O'S.


Novelist John McGahern dies at 71

Sarah Crown and agencies
Thursday March 30, 2006

John McGahern

The celebrated novelist John McGahern, whose semi-autobiographical =
portraits
of rural life in Ireland won him great praise in his home country and
beyond, died today in hospital in Dublin after a lengthy battle with =
cancer.
He was 71.

Born in Dublin in 1934, McGahern's early life was dominated by the death =
of
his mother from cancer when he was just eight years old, and the twin
influences of his violent father and his strict Roman Catholic =
upbringing.
His first career was in teaching, but he resigned from the profession =
and
was forced to leave the country in the wake of the controversy over his =
1965
novel, The Dark, an exploration of adolescence which was denounced as
pornographic and banned in Ireland. The Dark was the second of his six
novels, of which Amongst Women, the story of Irish civil war veteran =
Michael
Moran which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1990, and That They =
May
Face the Rising Sun (nominated for the IMPAC award in 2002) were the
best-known. He was also the author of four highly praised short story
collections and, most recently in 2005, his account of his childhood,
Memoir.

During his career, McGahern won many awards (including the Macaulay
Fellowship; The Arts Council of Great Britain Awards in four different
years, and the Prix =C9tranger Ecureuil). He taught at universities in
Ireland, England, Canada and the US, was a member of Aosd=E1na, the
affiliation of creative artists in Ireland, and was appointed to the =
Arts
Council of Ireland in 2003. His work is credited with having had a
tremendous influence on the writing of a younger generation of authors, =
such
as Colm T=F3ib=EDn.

Speaking today, chairwoman of the Arts Council Olive Braiden described
McGahern as "without question, one of Ireland's most gifted and =
outstanding
storytellers" and expressed the Council's "deep sadness" at his death. =
"His
brilliant, touching and often witty prose never failed to move readers," =
she
said. "He only spoke when he had something to say and what he said was
always important. He was wise and kind, ever sensitive to the needs of
artists and dogged in his determination at the Council table to improve =
the
situation for artists in the country. We are devastated. Our heartfelt
thoughts are with his wife Madeline and sisters at this time".

http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,1743320,00.html

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From: D.C. Rose [mailto:musard[at]tiscali.fr]=20
Subject: Fw: [doc-irl-paris3] Celebrated Irish writer John McGahern dies

As you see, the news was being circulated here almost at once (given the
time difference).=A0 Mc G was to be guest of honour at the Nantes =
conference
mentioned earlier.
=A0
David
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Breaking News Irish Times 14h00

Celebrated Irish writer John McGahern dies=20
John McGahern died suddenly today in Dublin's Mater Hospital.=20

The writer John McGahern in the studio. Photo: Matt Kavanagh
The award-winning writer - who was born in Dublin in 1934 but brought up =
in
Cootehall, County Roscommon - is famed for chronicling rural life in
Ireland.
His most famous novel Amongst Women won The Irish Times/Aer Lingus =
Literary
Award in 1991 and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It was also =
adapted
for television by the BBC in 1998.
His first novel The Dark was banned in the Republic in 1965. After its
publication he was dismissed from his job as a national school teacher =
in
Clontarf in Dublin.
For more than 30 years, he has lived in Co Leitrim with his wife.
Irish Times literary correspondent Eileen Battersby said McGahern's
relevance as a writer cannot be underestimated.
"His books chronicle Irish society and provide an important social =
history."
She described him as hugely sophisticated Irish countryman who was =
"never
embittered".
She said he was an Irish writer who never ran away and=A0his writing was
informed by a personal courage.

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David,
Add me to the minority. Finch WAS far better - I found Fry far too=20
"British" in his version - but also surprisingly excellent was Liam=20
Neeson who did a wonderful Wilde on stage in "The Judas Kiss".

Carmel


D.C. Rose wrote:

>Anyone puzzled by the reference to 'The Green Carnation' will need to kn=
ow that this was the American title of the film 'The Trials of Oscar Wild=
e' with Peter Finch as Wilde, John Fraser as Bosie Douglas, Lionel Jeffer=
ies as Queensberry, Nigel Patrick as Sir Edward Clarke and James Mason as=
Carson. I seem to be a minority of one in preferring Finch to Stephen F=
ry.
>
>Anything by Margaret Stetz is worth reading.
>
>David
> ----- Original Message -----=20
> From: Patrick O'Sullivan=20
> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK=20
> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 1:15 PM
> Subject: Article, Oscar Wilde at the Movies
>
>
> Email Patrick O'Sullivan
> The current free sample of the journal Biography at the Project Muse w=
eb
> site includes Margaret Stetz's study of movies of the life of Wilde...
> Which a number of IR-D members will find useful.
>
> No especially difficult hoops to jump through to get free access.
>
> Go to=20
> http://muse.jhu.edu/about/index.html
>
> and follow the link to the journal through
> Sample Issues and Journal Descriptions
>
> P.O'S.
>
>
> Stetz, Margaret D. "Oscar Wilde at the Movies: British Sexual Politics=
and
> The Green Carnation (1960)." Biography 23.1 (2000): 90-107.
>
>
> In her 1990 study Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Si=E8=
cle,
> Elaine Showalter notes,
>
> The 1980s and 1990s . . . compulsively tell and retell the stories=
of
> the 1880s and 1890s, in contemporary versions of Victorian novels, in =
film
> and TV adaptations, in ballets and musicals, and in all the myriad for=
ms of
> popular culture. . . . Yet in retelling these stories we transmit our =
own
> narratives, construct our own case histories, and shape our own future=
s.
> (18)=20
>
> But this phenomenon is in fact nothing new. For the whole of the twent=
ieth
> century, popular culture in general, and film in particular, has repea=
tedly
> turned to the creations of the late-Victorian literary imagination--to
> Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde, to Conan Doyle's Sherlock Ho=
lmes,
> to Bram Stoker's Dracula, to Oscar Wilde's Salome--and embodied these
> characters in ways that have both reflected and furthered particular s=
ocial
> or political agendas of the present day, far more than those of the pa=
st.
> Often, these characters have been appropriated, animated, and reimagin=
ed as
> what Wilde would have called "masks"--personae through which different
> movements and moments have spoken.
>
> No fictional creation of the British fin de si=E8cle--no character out=
of any
> play, novel, or narrative poem of the nineteenth century--has proved s=
o
> useful or durable a mask as the figure of Oscar Wilde himself. The num=
ber of
> British, American, and Irish novels, poems, plays, performance pieces,=
TV
> productions, and films in which Wilde has appeared as a central or
> peripheral presence is nothing short of astonishing. 1 Anne Varty scar=
cely
> exaggerates in describing this as "a kind of industry," dedicated to
> generating and increasing "Wilde's legendary reputation"
>
>.
>
> =20
>

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The current free sample of the journal Biography at the Project Muse web
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Which a number of IR-D members will find useful.

No especially difficult hoops to jump through to get free access.

Go to=20
http://muse.jhu.edu/about/index.html

and follow the link to the journal through
Sample Issues and Journal Descriptions

P.O'S.


Stetz, Margaret D. "Oscar Wilde at the Movies: British Sexual Politics =
and
The Green Carnation (1960)." Biography 23.1 (2000): 90-107.


In her 1990 study Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de =
Si=E8cle,
Elaine Showalter notes,

The 1980s and 1990s . . . compulsively tell and retell the stories =
of
the 1880s and 1890s, in contemporary versions of Victorian novels, in =
film
and TV adaptations, in ballets and musicals, and in all the myriad forms =
of
popular culture. . . . Yet in retelling these stories we transmit our =
own
narratives, construct our own case histories, and shape our own futures.
(18)=20

But this phenomenon is in fact nothing new. For the whole of the =
twentieth
century, popular culture in general, and film in particular, has =
repeatedly
turned to the creations of the late-Victorian literary imagination--to
Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde, to Conan Doyle's Sherlock =
Holmes,
to Bram Stoker's Dracula, to Oscar Wilde's Salome--and embodied these
characters in ways that have both reflected and furthered particular =
social
or political agendas of the present day, far more than those of the =
past.
Often, these characters have been appropriated, animated, and reimagined =
as
what Wilde would have called "masks"--personae through which different
movements and moments have spoken.

No fictional creation of the British fin de si=E8cle--no character out =
of any
play, novel, or narrative poem of the nineteenth century--has proved so
useful or durable a mask as the figure of Oscar Wilde himself. The =
number of
British, American, and Irish novels, poems, plays, performance pieces, =
TV
productions, and films in which Wilde has appeared as a central or
peripheral presence is nothing short of astonishing. 1 Anne Varty =
scarcely
exaggerates in describing this as "a kind of industry," dedicated to
generating and increasing "Wilde's legendary reputation"

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Please forward the announcement below to any students who might be
interested.

Doctoral fellowships, department of English, NUI Galway

The Department of English at the National University of Ireland, Galway has
an active research staff engaged in projects across the full range of
literary history, from medieval and early modern to contemporary. The
Department is offering up to six DOCTORAL TEACHING FELLOWSHIPS, to the
amount of EUR12,700 per annum for the duration of three years, subject to
satisfactory progress. Teaching experience will form part of the fellows'
training in their second and third years.

Candidates are advised to consult the department's website, where details of

particular staff expertise and research interests can be found. Applications

are particularly encouraged in the areas of MEDIEVAL LITERATURE, EARLY
MODERN LITERATURE, THEATRE, and NINETEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES. Applications in
other appropriate areas are also welcome.

Applications should include a research proposal, writing sample, two
academic references, and a completed Faculty of Arts Research application
form (see http://www.nuigalway.ie/faculties_departments/english/phd.htm for
details). The closing date for receipt of applications is Friday 26 May
2006. It is anticipated that candidates will be informed of decisions before

the end of June.

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Anyone puzzled by the reference to 'The Green Carnation' will need to =
know that this was the American title of the film 'The Trials of Oscar =
Wilde' with Peter Finch as Wilde, John Fraser as Bosie Douglas, Lionel =
Jefferies as Queensberry, Nigel Patrick as Sir Edward Clarke and James =
Mason as Carson. I seem to be a minority of one in preferring Finch to =
Stephen Fry.

Anything by Margaret Stetz is worth reading.

David
----- Original Message -----=20
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Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 1:15 PM
Subject: Article, Oscar Wilde at the Movies


Email Patrick O'Sullivan
The current free sample of the journal Biography at the Project Muse =
web
site includes Margaret Stetz's study of movies of the life of Wilde...
Which a number of IR-D members will find useful.

No especially difficult hoops to jump through to get free access.

Go to=20
http://muse.jhu.edu/about/index.html

and follow the link to the journal through
Sample Issues and Journal Descriptions

P.O'S.


Stetz, Margaret D. "Oscar Wilde at the Movies: British Sexual Politics =
and
The Green Carnation (1960)." Biography 23.1 (2000): 90-107.


In her 1990 study Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de =
Si=E8cle,
Elaine Showalter notes,

The 1980s and 1990s . . . compulsively tell and retell the stories =
of
the 1880s and 1890s, in contemporary versions of Victorian novels, in =
film
and TV adaptations, in ballets and musicals, and in all the myriad =
forms of
popular culture. . . . Yet in retelling these stories we transmit our =
own
narratives, construct our own case histories, and shape our own =
futures.
(18)=20

But this phenomenon is in fact nothing new. For the whole of the =
twentieth
century, popular culture in general, and film in particular, has =
repeatedly
turned to the creations of the late-Victorian literary imagination--to
Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde, to Conan Doyle's Sherlock =
Holmes,
to Bram Stoker's Dracula, to Oscar Wilde's Salome--and embodied these
characters in ways that have both reflected and furthered particular =
social
or political agendas of the present day, far more than those of the =
past.
Often, these characters have been appropriated, animated, and =
reimagined as
what Wilde would have called "masks"--personae through which different
movements and moments have spoken.

No fictional creation of the British fin de si=E8cle--no character out =
of any
play, novel, or narrative poem of the nineteenth century--has proved =
so
useful or durable a mask as the figure of Oscar Wilde himself. The =
number of
British, American, and Irish novels, poems, plays, performance pieces, =
TV
productions, and films in which Wilde has appeared as a central or
peripheral presence is nothing short of astonishing. 1 Anne Varty =
scarcely
exaggerates in describing this as "a kind of industry," dedicated to
generating and increasing "Wilde's legendary reputation"

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On a train of thought, and at the level of gossip, I think I can announce
that Donald MacRaild is to be Professor of History, University of Ulster at
Coleraine.

He is expected to be post January 2007. I won't comment further. This is
New Zealand's loss - but, speaking selfishly, it will certainly be useful to
have him back in this archipelago...

P.O'S.

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Arsenal guru with an elegant foot in both camps
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On a footballish train of thought...

There was an interview with Liam Brady in the Guardian a little while =
ago...

If he was a wandering scholar he would have appeared in Duddy, A history =
of
Irish thought. He is certainly a wandering, thoughtful professional... =
And
see how he clearly predicted the Francesc F=E1bregas goal...

By the way, this sports journalist writing in the Guardian, Donald =
McRae, is
not the same person as the Donald MacRaild who is to be new Professor of
History, University of Ulster at Coleraine. Easy mistake to make, so I
thought I had better step in there...

P.O'S.


Arsenal guru with an elegant foot in both camps

Donald McRae
Tuesday March 28, 2006
The Guardian

"It's one of those football matches that just seemed destined to =
happen,"
Liam Brady says with a laugh, before knocking back another hit of =
caffeine
to keep pace with the intense expectation surrounding tonight's =
Champions
League quarter-final between the two clubs that mean most to him. Brady
might have spent almost 20 years of his life at Highbury, first as one =
of
the most supremely gifted players in Arsenal history and since 1996 as =
the
club's head of youth development, but his two championship-winning =
seasons
at Juventus in the early 1980s still resonate deeply inside him....

... That conviction suggests that, far from stagnating in the supposed
backwaters of development football, Brady remains fulfilled. Yet does =
such a
great former player not miss a high-profile stage on which to display =
his
thoughtful gifts? He might have failed at Celtic and Brighton but does
Brady, having just turned 50, not yearn for another crack at management?

"I was too wet behind the ears when I went to Celtic [in 1991] - where =
the
situation then would've tested highly experienced managers...

Full text...

http://football.guardian.co.uk/championsleague200506/story/0,,1740981,00.=
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From: Sarah Morgan
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Fintan O'Toole has an interesting piece in today's Irish Times on the
ethnicity question in the 2006 Census, currently taking place in the
Republic of Ireland (see below for text)

It seems that the development of categories, and especially the 'white'
category draws on the Census forms in the UK (there are 3: one for England &
Wales, one for Scotland and one for Northern Ireland). In England and Wales,
the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has always refused - and still does
- to countenance getting rid of the colour coded headings under which ethnic
categories are place - so 'Irish' appeared as a category under the heading
'white' in the 2001 Census in England and Wales, for example. 'Irish' will
probably appear under this heading in the 2011 Census, unless 'Irish' is
used under a proposed nationality question only (as I understand it, this
proposal is still on the table, and could result in 'Irish' being removed
from the ethnicity question). Will this end up being 'how the Irish became
white and stopped being ethnic'? (to pose a rather rude question - with
apologies to Ignatiev).

I don't think O'Toole has the right answer - after all, ethnicity, like
race, is a social rather than scientific construct so dismissing race on
this basis brings us full circle to removing questions on ethnicity and
cultural background. But I do think it's disappointing that the Irish Census
is mimicing the UK's need to count by colour. It sends a very strong message
- that to be really Irish, you have to be white. Not a new message, true,
but this time its issued by the Irish state in a blunt way for everyone to
see.

Sarah.
--------------------------

Skin colour query sours the census
Fintan O'Toole
04/04/2006
A fortnight from next Sunday, I will sit down with my census form. The law
says that I have to fill it out, but I would usually do so with great
enthusiasm. The census is a crucial snapshot of Ireland. It gives us our
best map of who we are.
Like anyone else who writes about Ireland, I refer to it regularly. But this
time I will have real trouble in filling out the form.
It contains a question that I don't know how to answer and that, in truth, I
don't want to answer. That question seeks to define me in a way that I find
not merely nonsensical but actively repellent. More seriously, it seeks to
define "us" in a way that the State has never explicitly done before - by
the colour of our skin.
The part of the form that disturbs me is Question 14: "What is your ethnic
or cultural background?" The question itself is absolutely fine, and I don't
have to think for more than a split second about the answer: "Irish". My
ethnic or cultural background is Irish. Next question.
But this is an answer I'm not allowed to give. The form gives me four
mutually exclusive categories to choose from. Three of them are "Black or
Black Irish", "Asian or Asian Irish" and "Other, including mixed
background". The "other" one is the one that is obviously intended for me
and for people like me who were born here of Irish-born parents.
But that category isn't "Irish". It's "white". Within this category there
are three further options: "Irish", "Irish Traveller" and "Any other White
background".
I cannot therefore declare myself to be Irish without first declaring myself
to be white. For the first time ever, the State is now defining Irishness as
a sub-category of whiteness. So this is what I am to be now: a white man of
the Irish variety.
Being white isn't, according to the form, just a matter of skin colour (mine
in fact ranges from a wintry translucence to a mottled pink to an angry,
lobster red). Whiteness is to be my "ethnic or cultural background". It is
to be both a tribal inheritance and, God help us, a culture.
Since none of this makes any sense to me, I looked up the official
Step-by-Step Guide to Filling in the Census 2006 Form. It confuses the issue
even further. Its heading for Question 14 is: "What cultural group do you
feel you belong to?" So now whiteness is not a background but a "cultural
group".
And the question is not about what I am but how I feel. I can answer this
question very clearly in negative terms: I don't feel that I belong to a
cultural group called the White Race. But I don't feel black Irish, Asian
Irish, or part of a "mixed background" that excludes Irishness either. So I
can't tick any of the boxes.
The census form doesn't define "white". It doesn't do so for a very good
reason: the term is absurd. It is useless for any purpose except racism. The
census is a scientific operation, and racial categories have no scientific
meaning. The US census, which uses these categories, actually acknowledges
that "The categories represent a socialpolitical construct designed for
collecting data on the race and ethnicity of broad population groups in this
country, and are not anthropologically or scientifically based."
So what does the socio-political construct "white" mean? Again according to
the US census, it "refers to people having origins in any of the original
peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa". So Arabs, for example,
are white. Except that, presumably, the Irish census expects them to define
themselves not as white but as Asian.
Whiteness is indeed a "social-political construct". It was constructed in
the 19th century for very specific reasons: to define racial superiority.
The Irish, like, at certain stages, the Jews, the Italians, and even the
Germans (Benjamin Franklin wrote in 1751 that "The Germans are generally of
what we call a swarthy Complexion") were, for a long time, non-white.
As the American historian Noel Ignatiev showed in his brilliant book How the
Irish Became White, you got to be white by adopting the dominant values and
by distinguishing yourself from blacks. The Irish abroad largely mastered
this trick. Now the Irish at home are being asked to learn it.
This, I'm sure, is not the intention of the Central Statistics Office, but
it is the import of the bad decisions it has made. And it's not just a
matter of ticking a box in a form. Filling in the census is a key moment of
collective self-definition, and a large majority of the population is being
invited to define itself as white first, Irish second.
This, in turn, is intended to establish categories that will inform public
policy into the distant future. The case for leaving this box blank is that
by collectively refusing to answer a stupid question we might force the CSO
to come up with a more intelligent one.

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From: Donald MacRaild
Subject: Re: Irish Blood English heart?
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Dear List-members,

I missed Dan Jackson's light-hearted rendition of an 'Irish' England
football team. I presume Dan was looking forward to my comments,
because, in keeping with the city's special diasporic place, Liverpool
fielded six of Dan's team -- and Rooney played for Everton (in
Liverpool), and Joe Corrigan is the current Liverpool goal-keeping
coach. Tom Finney (Preston-Irish) also descibed a late-80s Liverpool
demolition of Nottingham Forest (5-0) as the greatest team performance
he'd seen. And I presume he saw Real Madrid demolish Entract Frankfurt
7-3 at Hampden Park in 1960, so this is quite an accolade.

On a more sombre note, but picking up Dan's throw-away comment about
Australia, I noted with some interest the fact that, last summer, when
England were foxing the formidable Aussies with reverse swing, Michael
Slater, the former Oz Test batsmen, describe the motion of the ball on
one occasion as 'Irish swing'. Although Ireland, and individual
Irishman, are suddenly making a bit of a splash in cricket, we would not
normally use 'Irish' to describe a cricketing action. The comment from
Slater came during the first innings in the second Test at Edgbaston.=20

But enough of this: unless John Belchem can use Dan's team for Liverpool
'city of culture' 2008 publicity, we should probably sit back and
recognise that many in our global village (aka the diaspora list) are
interested in neither football nor cricket. Especially the latter.


Don MacRaild



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Behalf Of d.m.jackson
Sent: Tuesday, 28 March 2006 5:23 a.m.
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] Irish Blood English heart?

I note that sport has been mentioned once or twice on the Diaspora list
recently, and, considering the interest in star footballer Wayne Rooney
at the moment, it led me to consider England players of Irish
extraction.
Turns out there's quite an impressive list. =20

In an idle moment, I composed an England Dream Team of players with a
known Irish ancestry. I wonder if any of them ever experienced a pang
of conscience as they pulled on the white English jersey rather than an
emerald one.

The author Pete McCarthy once amusingly discussed the turmoil he
experienced as a boy whenever England - the land that nurtured and
educated him - played Ireland, his ancestral homeland. Who to support?
I get a similar twinge whenever Ireland line up at Twickenham, or
England at Lansdowne Road (Rugby clashes are more frequent than soccer).

Of course this dilemma was noted by the reactionary British politician
Norman Tebbitt who came up with the 'cricket test' - i.e. who would you
cheer for in a sporting clash between England and India/Pakistan/West
Indies? Emigrants from 'down under' were probably still allowed to
support Australia though ...

Anyway, here's the team and I look forward to Don MacRaild's comments!

1. Joe Corrigan
2. Alan Kennedy
3. Nobby Stiles
4. Martin Keown
5. Jamie Carragher
6. Terry McDermott
7. (Sir) Tom Finney
8. Kevin Keegan
9. Wayne Rooney=20
10. Steve McManaman
11. Ray Kennedy


Cheers,
Dan Jackson
University of Northumbria


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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Hommage =?iso-8859-1?Q?=E0?= John McGahern
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Email Patrick O'Sullivan
Sylvie Mikowski's 'Hommage =E0 John McGahern' has been forwarded to us =
from
the SOFEIR list...

P.O'S.


Subject: [Sofeir] Hommage =E0 John McGahern
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:17:42 +0200

C'est avec une grande =E9motion que certains d'entre nous ont appris, =
d=E8s=20
hier, la nouvelle de la disparition de John McGahern. Nous le savions=20
malade, mais nous n'imaginions pas que le fil de sa vie se romprait si=20
brutalement. Pourtant lui qui n'avait rien publi=E9 depuis Amongst Women =
et=20
les Collected Short Stories, avait certainement senti l'approche de la =
mort=20
et mis ses affaires en ordre, =E0 travers la publication en peu de temps =
de=20
deux ouvres tr=E8s autobiographiques, That They May Face the Rising Sun =
et=20
Memoir. La premi=E8re,=A0 =E0 la tonalit=E9=A0 =E9l=E9giaque,=A0 offrait =
le t=E9moignage de=20
la r=E9conciliation de l'=E9crivain avec un pays, l'Irlande, qu'il avait =

auparavant d=E9peint avec noirceur et rancour, dans The Barracks, The =
Dark ou=20
The Leavetaking. La deuxi=E8me, Memoir, est un vibrant hommage =E0 la =
m=E8re de=20
l'=E9crivain, dont toute l'ouvre porte la marque de l'irr=E9parable =
perte,=20
assorti d'un r=E8glement de comptes avec son p=E8re, lui aussi =E0 la =
source de=20
bien des personnages masculins de ses romans et nouvelles.

Les liens de McGahern avec la France =E9taient nombreux et anciens : =
c'est=20
ici qu'il avait trouv=E9 refuge apr=E8s son renvoi de son poste =
d'instituteur=20
et la censure de The Dark ; ici que Samuel Beckett avait voulu lancer =
une=20
p=E9tition pour protester contre cette injustice ; ici qu'il s'=E9tait =
fait de=20
nombreux amis, dont l'actuelle pr=E9sidente de la SAES, Liliane Louvel.=20
Depuis longtemps, la reconnaissance de la valeur litt=E9raire de =
McGahern lui=20
est ici largement=A0 acquise, comme l'atteste non seulement la =
traduction en=20
fran=E7ais de tous ses livres, mais aussi l'inscription de The Barracks =
au=20
programme de l'agr=E9gation d'anglais, =E0 l'instigation de Claude =
Fierobe, et=20
la r=E9daction de pas moins de quatre th=E8ses universitaires =
consacr=E9es =E0 son=20
ouvre, sans compter les nombreux articles, num=E9ros de revue ou=20
monographies, telle celle publi=E9e par Anne Goarzin aux Presses de =
Rennes.=20
La SOFEIR eut l'honneur d'accueillir plusieurs fois John McGahern, =E0 =
Caen,=20
Lille 3 ou Paris 3, mais aussi dans d'autres universit=E9s, toutes =
occasions=20
qui nous permirent d'appr=E9cier la grande simplicit=E9, la bonhomie, et =

l'humour de l'homme.

McGahern se pr=E9sentait volontiers comme un paysan =E0 peine sorti de =
son=20
Leitrim natal, mais une simple conversation avec lui suffisait =E0=20
s'apercevoir de l'=E9tendue de sa culture, de son cosmopolitisme -il =
passait=20
beaucoup de temps aux Etats-Unis et avait v=E9cu dans plusieurs pays=20
europ=E9ens- et de la profondeur de sa r=E9flexion. Cependant, m=EAme =
s'il=20
acceptait volontiers de se laisser interroger, McGahern s'arrangeait=20
toujours pour esquiver les questions pr=E9cises au sujet de son art : =
c'est=20
ainsi le myst=E8re d'une =E9criture transparente, mais apte =E0 susciter =
en=20
chacun d'entre nous l'=E9motion la plus profonde et la plus radicale, =
que=20
McGahern a emport=E9 avec lui hier dans la tombe, la t=EAte =E0 l'Ouest =
afin de=20
pouvoir pour toujours regarder le soleil se lever.

Sylvie Mikowski

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This may be of interest to the list.

Bill Mulligan

Revision in History
Call for Papers for the 2007 Theme Issue of "History and Theory"
Deadline: March 1, 2007

History and Theory will devote its 2007 Theme Issue to an examination
of the nature and role of revision in history. But what constitutes a
revision
in history? What sorts of shifts qualify as revisions? What are the
character, scope, and function of these revisions? These general inquiries
might be
more sharply specified in terms of a number of more precise questions:

Does (or should) revision in history have the same sweep as
"paradigm shifts" in other disciplines apparently do?

Is there more than one kind of revision in history?

What sorts of things stimulate revision in history?

What stimulates the inclusion or exclusion of groups, events or
processes heretofore included or excluded?

Why do historians begin to write about things they have Previously
ignored?

Can we explain the process of revision in terms of the sociology of the
profession?

Does revision appear in greater frequency in ever-shrinking niches as
specialization increases?

Is there a difference between replacing a historical approach or work
and merely revising it?

If there is a difference between revision and replacement, why do
historians generally describe their work as revisions rather than
replacements of earlier works in history?


The journal is looking for essays that ask and attempt to answer these or
cognate questions as a way of exploring the topic of revision in
history.

Essays should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words (including notes and a
200-300 word abstract); they should also conform to the History and
Theory style. (Our style sheet is available on our website
at: http://www.historyandtheory.org/stylesht.html.)
Please do not submit via fax. You may submit via email, but please also
mail a matching hard copy. Mail your submissions to:

Julia Perkins
Administrative Editor
History and Theory
287 High Street
Middletown, CT 06459-0507 U.S.A.
jperkins[at]wesleyan.edu

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From: Dymphna.Lonergan[at]flinders.edu.au=20
Subject: Re: [IR-D] Irish Census

I am horrified, saddened, and ashamed that the Irish Census form =
contains
any reference to skin colour. In Australia we are asked which ancestry =
we
identify with, but the range of options is not based on skin colour. =
Here
are some interesting statistics from Census website about the 2001 =
census:

The proportion of people who identified themselves as having an English
ancestry declined by 8% between 2001 and 1986, from 42% to 34%. In the =
same
period, the proportion of people reported having an Irish ancestry =
increased
by 4%, from 6% in 1986 to 10% in 2001.

While our census form avoids overt references to skin colour, our media
likes to follow the American line of identifying suspects as either
Caucasian, Aboriginal or Asian which is pointless, moronic, and =
ultimately
racist.

le gach dea ghu=ED
Dymphna


Dr Dymphna Lonergan
Professional English Convener
Room 282, Humanities, Flinders University
(08) 8201 2079

1966-2006
Flinders 40th Anniversary=20

Research interests: Business English, Plain English, Australian English,
Hiberno English, Irish language words in English, Anglo-Irish =
literature,
Irish Australian literature

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
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From: Thomas J. Archdeacon [mailto:tjarchde[at]wisc.edu]
Subject: RE: [IR-D] Irish Census

I'm not sure why the Irish census would want to count by race. The racist
origins of the practice in the U.S. are clear. At present, however, the
requirement in the U.S. to identify in a series of racial/ethnic backgrounds
(American Indian or Alaska Native; Asian; Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific
Islander; Black or African American; White; Hispanic or Latino -- who may be
of any race) rests on a directive from the General Accounting Office
(GAO-15) intended to make possible the study of discrimination and the
effectiveness of affirmative actions laws. Major resistance to changes in
the policy and in related counting techniques (most notably allowing people
to choose more than one racial identity) has come from civil rights
organizations that fear any dilution in the numbers of minorities,
especially 100% African-Americans.

Maybe the information will prove informative when and if Ireland finds
itself in a situation in which socioeconomic standing becomes closely tied
to ethno/racial background.

Tom

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Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This CFP will interest a number of IR-D members...

And, maybe, the Irish experience will fit neatly into the 'failures'
section...

P.O'S.

Forwarded on behalf of
rainer.ohliger[at]web.de
http://www.network-migration.org/workshop2006

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Subject: Educating for Migrant Integration - Integrating Migration into
Education

Educating for Migrant Integration - Integrating Migration into
Education:
European and North American Comparisons

organized by

Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, University of
Toronto http://www.utoronto.ca

Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research
http://www.gei.de

Network Migration in Europe e. V.
http://www.network-migration.org


Date: September 21-23, 2006

Location: University of Toronto, Toronto/Canada

Migration and integration have become key social phenomena shaping and
reshaping the modern world. Different streams of migration have
contributed considerably to changing (national) populations and
perceptions about immigration, citizenship, and minority incorporation.
One vital area in dealing with the challenges of immigrant integration
is the educational sector. Schools, curricula, educational policies,
teaching materials and public debates centred around questions of
education have thus become important and often controversial topics in
immigration societies.

The conference Educating for Migrant Integration - Integrating Migration
into Education: European and North American Comparisons will address the
interrelated questions of immigrant incorporation and education in a
comparative framework, drawing on European and North American
experiences.
The focus may be contemporary or historical (1945 to the present). The
main areas of interest for the conference will be:

* The analysis of educational systems, policies and practices in
immigration societies

* The attention educational systems give to immigration and diversity

* Ways in which education enhances or limits the integration of migrants

* The adaptation of curricula and textbooks to the needs of immigrant
integration and representation

* Reforms and changes of educational systems and practices to
accommodate to large-scale migration and immigrant incorporation, and
the effects they have had

* The analysis of the successes/failures of immigrants in educational
systems

The workshop is open to scholars in the Humanities and the Social
Sciences in the widest sense (anthropology, education, ethnology,
geography, history, law, political sciences, sociology). Abstracts for
papers will be considered on a competitive basis. The number of speakers
will be limited to 20 (plus external participants/audience). Half of the
places will be reserved for younger scholars (advanced Ph.D. candidates
and recent post-docs). The organizers will cover expenses for
accommodation and food. Financial support to subsidize travel expenses
can be applied for on an individual basis.

Submissions of abstracts (max. of 600 words) and a short biographical
note (not more than two pages) including a list of (selected)
publications are welcomed until May 15 2006. Papers are supposed to be
circulated in advance and have to be received by September 7, 2004.
Publication of the papers in an edited volume is intended.

For further information see under
http://www.network-migration.org/workshop2006. or contact
rainer.ohliger[at]web.de. Send your application to the given email address
by May 15, 2006. The selection committee will choose and notify the
participants by beginning of June 2006.