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I think this will be of interest to the Dispersed.
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The following review may be found on the H-France web page at:

H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 56.
=A0
Luigi Lorenzetti, Anne-Lise Head-K=F6nig, and Joseph Goy., eds., =
March=E9s,
migrations et logiques familiales dans les espaces fran=E7ais, canadien =
et
suisse, 18e-20e si=E8cles (Bern, Switz.: Peter Lang, 2005). 321 pp. +
illustrations, graphs, and tables. $59.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 3-03910-497-7
=A0
=A0
Review by Mary Dewhurst Lewis, Harvard University.
=A0
At least since Louis Chevalier published his Formation de la Population
Parisienne and Classes Laborieuses et Classes Dangereuses =E0 Paris,[1]
scholars of France have been interested in the connections between urban =
and
rural life in the modern era.=A0 Did economic development =93uproot=94 =
rural
peasants, force them to shed their rural superstitions, and transform =
them
into an urban proletariat?=A0 Did Paris, the quintessential =93capital =
of the
nineteenth century=94 owe its form and character to the culture and =
conflicts
brought there by rural migrants?=A0 Every generation or so, these =
debates get
renewed; each time, new methods are brought to bear on the question and =
new
insights are gained.=A0=20
=A0
In 1977, Yves Lequin=92s monumental Les Ouvriers de la r=E9gion =
lyonnaise
exploded the urban worker/rural peasant dichotomy that lay at the heart =
of
many analyses of working-class development.=A0 A few years later, Leslie =
Page
Moch=92s Paths to the City uncovered the intense activity of rural =
France in
the long nineteenth century, where temporary moves between city and
countryside testified to a system of constant population exchange within =
a
region.[2]=A0 Unlike Eugen Weber, whose 1976 Peasants into Frenchmen had
depicted a static, backward and inward-looking peasantry which was =
forced to
become modern by =93roads, roads, and still more roads,=94[3] Lequin and =
Moch
both showed that nineteenth-century urban and rural life were not so =
much
opposed to one another as they were integrated into regional =
economies.=A0
Unlike Lequin, Weber was not interested in proletarianization as such, =
but
he shared with the objects of Lequin=92s critique the sense that =
economic
development led to an =93uprooting=94 that was both dramatic and =
permanent.=A0
While Weber=92s peasants were =93ill at ease in urban dwellings=94 and =
his city
dwellers =93did not understand the rural language,=94[4] Moch showed =
that
regional dialects may have united new arrivals in the city with those
already present.=A0=20
=A0
The latest round of polemics surrounding what is often called France=92s
=93rural exodus=94 resurfaced in the 1990s, thanks in part to new =
technologies
that allowed scholars to create enormous databases tracing the =
trajectories
of individuals and families over several generations.=A0 Paul-Andr=E9 =
Rosental=92s
important Sentiers invisibles (invisible paths), for instance, combined =
a
quantitative study of 3,000 families with a qualitative analysis of
ninety-seven =93lignes=94 to show the intensity of migration in
nineteenth-century France.=A0 Studies that concentrate on urban arrival =
rather
migrants=92 own departure points, Rosental contended, render this =
migration
=93invisible.=94=A0 Focusing on family lines, by contrast, highlighted =
both the
importance of intra-regional migration and the slow widening of =
migratory
circles to include further destinations.[5]=A0=A0=20
=A0
The anthology of articles under review here, March=E9s, migrations et =
logiques
familiales dans les espaces fran=E7ais, canadien et suisse, 18e-20e =
si=E8cles,
although about towns and farms, rather than large cities, is situated =
within
these debates.=A0 Eight of the collection=92s twenty articles, including =
the
overall introduction, explicitly reference Rosental=92s work.=A0 =
Alluding to the
debate elicited by the publication of Sentiers invisibles, G=E9rard =
B=E9aur sums
up the central question of the conference that led to this =
publication:=A0
=93Yes or no, were preindustrial populations set in their sedentary ways =
or
frenetically mobile?=A0 The question is not innocent and it has even =
become
central for historians of society, given how ideologically charged it =
is=94
(p. 263).=A0 This apt remark could have come earlier in the collection; =
it
helps establish the importance of the research in the entire volume.=A0 =
The
book=92s major contribution to these debates is to deepen the inquiry in =
time
(to the eighteenth century) and broaden its geographic scope (to =
Switzerland
and the Americas, with some articles also making an occasional foray =
into
Italy and Spain).=A0=20
=A0
Unlike some of the work done in the 1990s on this subject, the twenty
authors featured here do not deploy fancy computerized databases to
illustrate their collective point that migrants are not an =
=93independent
variable=94 (p. 9) in the history of social mobility, as reductionist =
economic
approaches might have it.=A0 Rather, migrants=92 choices--and =
particularly their
=93strategies=94 or =93tactics=94 of family reproduction (pp. =
17-18)--are crucial to
understanding migration over the long nineteenth century, whether short =
or
long in distance or term.=A0=A0 To demonstrate this, the authors use
social-historical methods of the most traditional sort; their =
conclusions
are based on painstaking research in census and marriage records, =
probate
files, property transactions, agricultural surveys, notarial records,
electoral registers, and so on.=A0=20
=A0
In his contribution to the volume, Luigi Lorenzetti, like many of the
authors, overturns received ideas about the relationship between =
economic
development, migration, and family life.=A0 According to Lorenzetti,
industrialization in Lombardy =93preserved more than it destroyed the =
family
model=85.=94 (p. 43).=A0 In particular, women=92s employment in =
industries such as
in clock making, =93likely put a brake on permanent departures while =
favoring
the perpetuation of their husbands=92 periodic migrations=94 (p. 53). So =
much
for the myth that women=92s employment destroys family values.=A0=20
=A0
The articles that draw on nineteenth-century agricultural studies reach
similarly nuanced conclusions.=A0 Revisiting the 1866 agricultural =
survey, an
important source chronicling the =93rural exodus,=94 Bernard Derouet
deconstructs the report, exposing not only its biases but also the rich
details it provides of the variety of circumstances in which this =
alleged
=93exodus=94 occurred.=A0 As Derouet demonstrates, the =93scarcity=94 of =
agricultural
labor, whose origins the survey endeavored to uncover, lay not only in
migration to cities but also in the fact that many former agricultural
laborers were becoming small landowners (p. 91).=A0 What got cast as an =
exodus
of a desperate underclass, in fact, was at least in part a =
redistribution of
property ownership within a rural community.=A0 The survey also suggests =
that,
despite subsequent assumptions to the contrary, the advent of farm =
machinery
did not displace peasants; rather, farmers began using machinery in =
response
to the departure of agricultural workers (p. 94).=A0 Nadine Vivier, =
working
with similar data, insists that interpretations of the =93rural =
exodus=94 should
depend on their chronological reference points.=A0 If responses to
parliamentary inquiries in 1848 indicated bad harvests as one reason for
departures to cities, by the 1850s, after a return to more prosperous =
times,
records indicate that cultivated areas expanded, agricultural methods
intensified, and the need for labor grew (p. 110).=A0 From the 1860s to =
the
First World War, the demand for agricultural workers continued to =
outstrip
supply, despite increases in salaries.=A0 To the extent there was a =
rural
exodus in this period, then, it was not due to lack of work or depressed
wages in agricultural regions (p. 112).=A0=A0=A0=20
=A0
Anne-Lise Head-K=F6nig offers still another motivation for migration.=A0 =
In her
study of the Lucerne valley in the second half of the nineteenth =
century,
she shows how changing marriage laws, which had the effect of lowering =
the
age of marriage, combined with declining infant-mortality rates to put
increased pressure on land in an area where small-parcel ownership =
already
prevailed.=A0 This led those who could not acquire land or whose land =
was too
small to provide for their families to supplement their incomes, often
through economic activity that involved short-distance migration, =
especially
of young women.=A0 Head-K=F6nig=92s contribution is important for the =
emphasis it
places on what she calls =93micro-mobility,=94 including several moves =
within a
single village or area in one=92s life.=A0 As per the theme of all the =
articles
in this collection, Head-K=F6nig thus dispels the myth of the quiet
countryside.=A0 The connection between family reproduction and migration
patterns was, however, contingent on context:=A0 For Antoinette =
Fauve-Chamoux,
a Pyrenean family=92s strategies for avoiding partible inheritance and
maintaining the family property intact affected the mobility and =
marriage
prospects of all the children.=A0=A0 While Fauve-Chamoux shows how =
property
maintenance affected intrafamilial relations, Marc St-Hilaire =
demonstrates
the inverse:=A0 that marriage affected property acquisition.=A0 =
Examining
Qu=E9becois migration patterns in the nineteenth and twentieth =
centuries, he
finds that couples were more likely to be willing =93pioneers=94 in =
Canada=92s
rural hinterlands than were single persons, for whom the structure of =
cities
was more attractive (p. 245).
=A0
By examining the trajectories of individuals from such a wide range of
socio-economic backgrounds, the authors show that family mattered for =
the
propertyless often as much as it did for the propertied.=A0 For =
instance, not
only do the authors demonstrate that industrialization was not =
accompanied
by a decline in kinship relations, but also a number of them find that
working-class men--those so often depicted as pulled inexorably away =
from
rural life by the laws of the market--were often more sedentary than =
their
wealthier counterparts.=A0 As Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga shows in her =
article
on Basque families, sons of renters tended to move short distances, and
their =93homogamous=94 marriage patterns helped them acquire work in =
agriculture
or as artisans (p. 187).=A0 By contrast, sons of property owners tended =
to
stay single longer and remain unmarried as they traveled to the Americas
hoping one day to return and buy a farm.=A0 Only when emigration =
agencies
started providing the means for people with more modest incomes to cross =
the
Atlantic, did children of renters start to migrate longer distances.=A0 =
For
Arrizabalaga, this finding destroys the Basque myth of migration as =
driven
by poverty (p. 185).=A0 By contrast, John A. Dickinson finds that, in
Normandy, sons who were likely to inherit property were more sedentary =
as
well as more likely to marry late than were day workers who were
propertyless and more exogamous (pp. 199-202).=A0=20
=A0
One of the freshest pieces in the collection is G=E9rard B=E9aur=92s =
examination
of probate records in Lower Normandy.=A0 B=E9aur finds that the =
admittedly
=93snapshot=94 image (p. 266) provided by probate records shows that 41 =
percent
of a deceased=92s descendants had already left their parents=92 property =
by the
time of the death, mostly (for two-third of them) for very nearby =
areas.=A0
B=E9aur=92s piece is especially salutary for its lucid discussion of
methodological concerns and his willingness to ask questions that some =
of
the other authors take for granted.=A0 Faced with his finding of 41 =
percent,
for instance, he asks =93Is that a little?=A0 Is that a lot?=94 (p. =
269).=A0 Either
way, he acknowledges that the goals of the migration often remain
mysterious.=A0 =93Does one go far away in order to never return, in =
transition
until things settle down, or in order to come back?=94 (p. 277) =
B=E9aur=92s
willingness to question the meaning of his conclusions only makes his
reflections all the more compelling.=A0=20
=A0
These few examples should give a glimpse into the rich panoply of family =
and
migration histories that await readers in this volume.=A0 Other articles
address such varied cases as Auvergnat bakers in Madrid, French gold
prospectors in California, stock-breeders in the Morvan, herders in the
Tarentaise, Bigourdans in Paris, fur salesmen in Canada, the decline of
=93co-inheritance=94 in the Languedoc between the sixteenth and =
eighteenth
centuries, the impact of voluntary cessions of property on kinship =
relations
in Burgundy, chain-migration patterns in Qu=E9bec=92s St. Lawrence River =
valley,
and the impact that liens on property had on mobility in this region.=A0 =

=A0
With each case study being so highly specific, the collection will =
probably
be of greatest use to scholars whose work intersects with any of the =
many
regions, kinship systems, or types of property-holding that the =
individual
articles address.=A0 Taken as a whole, the articles make a welcome
contribution to studying migration in its totality--as emigration and as
immigration.=A0 In so doing, the authors collectively undermine =
countless
stereotypes, not only about the classed and gendered character of =
migration,
but also about the nature of social life in the long nineteenth =
century.=A0
Because this is a collected volume, these stereotypes are mentioned not =
just
once, but many times.=A0 This left me to wonder:=A0 this being at least =
the
third generation of scholars to debunk the received ideas of
nineteenth-century life in France, why are these stereotypes so =
enduring?=A0
To answer this question would, I suspect, require broadening one=92s =
scope
from the methods used here.


LIST OF ESSAYS

Luigi Lorenzetti, =93Migrations, march=E9s et reproduction: bilan
historiographique et nouvelles perspectives=94=20

Francine Rolley, =93Reproduction familiale et changements =E9conomiques =
dans le
Morvan du nord au XIXe si=E8cle. Les familles morvandelles confront=E9es =
=E0 la
migration=94

Luigi Lorenzetti, =93Emplois industriels, pluriactivit=E9, migrations. =
Une
exp=E9rience tessinoise parmi les mod=E8les sudalpins lombards, =
1850-1914=94=20

Jacques R=E9my, =93Une vie de remues m=E9nages. Mobilit=E9s =
agropastorales en
Tarentaise=94=20

Rolande Bonnain-Dulon, =93Les Bigourdans =E0 Paris en 1900. Migrations
individuelles ou trajectoires familiales=94=20

Bernard Derouet, =93Migrations, famille et march=E9 du travail au miroir =
de
l=92Enqu=EAte de 1866=94=20

Nadine Vivier, =93Migrations, familles et march=E9s dans la France des =
ann=E9es
1848-1914. Quelques =E9l=E9ments de r=E9flexion=94

Annick Foucrier, =93Origines familiales, migrations et financements. Les
Fran=E7ais et la ru=E9e vers l=92or de Californie (1849-1860)=94

Thomas Wien, =93Carri=E8res d'engag=E9s du commerce des fourrures =
canadien au
XVIIIe si=E8cle=94=20

Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux, =93Strat=E9gies individuelles et politiques de
reproduction familiale. Le perp=E9tuel ajustement interg=E9n=E9rationnel =
des
destins migratoires =E0 Esparros (XVIIe-XXe si=E8cles)=94

Anne-Lise Head-K=F6nig, =93Saturation de l=92espace foncier et logiques
migratoires dans la campagne lucernoise, 1850-1914=94
Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga, =93Migrations f=E9minines--migrations =
masculines: des
comportements diff=E9renci=E9s au sein des familles basques au XIXe =
si=E8cle=94=20

John A. Dickinson, =93Capital d=92exploitation, =E2ge et mobilit=E9 au =
mariage en
Normandie au XVIIIe si=E8cle=94=20

Rose Duroux, =93Compagnies commerciales de migrants fran=E7ais en =
Espagne
(XVIIIe-XIXe si=E8cles)=94

Marc St-Hilaire. =93Familles et migrations: le r=F4le de la famille =
selon les
contextes de d=E9part et de destination des migrants dans le Qu=E9bec =
des XIXe
et XXe si=E8cles=94

Christian Dessureault, =93Famille, structure sociale et migration dans =
une
paroisse rurale de la vall=E9e du Saint-Laurent: le cas de Saint-Antoine =
de
Lavaltrie 1861-1871=94

G=E9rard B=E9aur, =93Mobiles ou s=E9dentaires? Les familles rurales =
normandes face
au probl=E8me de la migration au XIXe si=E8cle (Bayeux, 1871-74)=94

Jean-Paul Desaive, =93Etre vieux et survivre: la d=E9mission de biens en
Basse-Bourgogne (XVIIe-XVIIIe si=E8cles)=94

Elie P=E9laquier, =93Famille, terre et march=E9s en Languedoc rural: la =
mutation
du syst=E8me successoral du XVIe au XVIIe si=E8cle=94=20

Jean Lafleur/Gilles Paquet/Jean-Pierre Wallot, =93Quelques propos sur la
variance du prix de la terre dans la r=E9gion de l=92Assomption =
(1792-1835)=94

Joseph Goy, =93Postface=94
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NOTES
=A0
[1] Louis Chevalier, Formation de la Population Parisienne au XIXe =
Si=E8cle
(Paris:=A0 Publications Universitaires de France, 1950); idem, Classes
Laborieuses et Classes Dangereuses =E0 Paris, pendant la premi=E8re =
moiti=E9 du
XIXe si=E8cle (Paris:=A0 Plon, 1958).
=A0
[2] Yves Lequin, Les ouvriers de la r=E9gion lyonnaise (1848-1914), 2 =
vols.
(Lyon:=A0 Presses universitaires de Lyon, n.d. [1977]); Leslie Page =
Moch,
Paths to the City:=A0 Regional Migration in Nineteenth-Century France =
(Beverly
Hills, CA:=A0 Sage Publications, 1983).=A0=20
=A0
[3] This is the title of Weber=92s chapter twelve.=A0 Eugen Weber, =
Peasants into
Frenchmen:=A0 The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914 (Stanford, =
CA:=A0
Stanford University Press, 1976).=A0=20
=A0
[4] Weber, Peasants, 6.
=A0
[5] Paul-Andr=E9 Rosental, Les Sentiers invisibles:=A0 Espace, familles =
et
migrations dans la France du 19e si=E8cle (Paris:=A0 =C9ditions de =
l=92Ecole des
hautes =E9tudes en sciences sociales, 1999); See also Jacques =
Dup=E2quier, et
al., La Soci=E9t=E9 fran=E7aise au XIXe si=E8cle:=A0 tradition, =
transition,
transformation (Paris: Fayard, 1992); Jean-Luc Pinol, Les mobilit=E9s de =
la
grande ville:=A0 Lyon, fin XIXe - d=E9but XXe (Paris: Presses de la =
Fondation
nationale des sciences politiques, 1991).
=A0
=A0
Mary Dewhurst Lewis
Harvard University
mdlewis[at]fas.harvard.edu=20

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On a train of thought...

The current free sample of the journal Global Networks includes a review
article by Michael Collyer, which explores the ways in which the word
'diaspora' is used in the French literature...

P.O'S.

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Global Networks
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Volume 6 Issue 1
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Diasporas =E0 la fran=E7aise: recent francophone contributions to the =
literature
MICHAEL COLLYER

Books reviewed in this article

S. Dufoix, Les Diasporas

C. Chivallon, La diaspora noire des Am=E9riques: exp=E9riences et =
th=E9ories =E0
partir de la Cara=EFbe

M. Bruneau, Diasporas et espaces transnationaux

L. Anteby-Yemini, W. Berthomi=E8re and G. Sheffer (eds) Les Diasporas: =
2,000
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Is There a Duty to Legislate for Linguistic Minorities?

Author: Dunbar, Robert1

Source: Journal of Law and Society, Volume 33, Number 1, March 2006, pp.
181-198(18)

Publisher:Blackwell Publishing

Abstract:
In April 2005, the Scottish Parliament passed the Gaelic Language (Scotland)
Act 2005, requiring certain public bodies in Scotland to provide some
services through the medium of Gaelic. This Act was modelled to a certain
degree on similar legislation for Welsh, the Welsh Language Act 1993. Both
Welsh and Gaelic, and to a lesser extent Irish in Northern Ireland, benefit
from a range of other measures of legislative support. Many other languages
are, however, spoken in the United Kingdom, and their speakers have needs
and expectations. In this article, the extent to which a state is obliged to
legislate for these is assessed. Fundamental principles such as the right to
freedom from discrimination, equal protection of the law, substantive
equality, and the protection and promotion of cultural and linguistic
diversity may argue for legislative intervention and support, and the
provision of such support to linguistic minorities must itself be
non-discriminatory.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6478.2006.00354.x

Affiliations: 1: School of Law, University of Aberdeen, Taylor Building, Old
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Listers,

I send along this query from Tom Redshaw, who's not on this list. I am
always boasting to him of the collective wisdom of the diaspora list, so let
us prove to him -- ring any bells

Dear Folks,

I make this enquiry of you all on behalf of a colleague whose
interests I have been unable to satisfy because of a faulty memory. Even so,
I have a hunch that what she is looking for exists in Irish fiction of the
first half of the 20th century, particularly the 1920s and 1930s.

Do any of you out there know of a novel or short story having a
plot similar to this: a poacher or other intruder on an estate fatally
shoots (unbeknownst to him) his best friend, is then pursued by the police,
seeks shelter in the house of the best friend, is hidden by the family (not
knowing that he has hurt the best friend) from the law, but then is somehow
punished by the family (mother or wife) when the deed is revealed?

Can you give me author and title?

Thanks,

Thomas Dillon Redshaw, Ph. D.
Professor of English
Director, Center for Irish Studies
Editor, New Hibernia Review

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Dr. Daniel Williams, CREW (Centre for Research into the English Literature
and Language of Wales), Department of English, University of Wales Swansea,
Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, Wales UK.
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CFP: Transatlantic Exchange: African Americans and the Celtic Nations
University of Wales Swansea
March 28 - 30 2007.
Deadline for panels/ papers: 29/9/2006.


Conference website:
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In his introduction to the thirtieth anniversary edition of Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison described the gestation of his seminal novel and recalled
publishing a story entitled 'In a Strange Country' 'in which a young
African American seaman, ashore in Swansea, South Wales, was forced to
grapple with the troublesome 'American' aspects of his identity.' This
conference - taking place in Ellison's 'strange country' and in the town
where he was stationed during the Second World War - aims to grapple with
some of the 'troublesome' aspects of African American and Celtic identities,
and to explore moments of interaction, of correspondence, of hostility and
of attraction between cultural traditions. To evoke the idea of a 'Celtic'
or 'African American' identity is already to invite controversy. The
conference seeks, however, to encourage transatlantic approaches that move
out of self-enclosed, exceptionalist, models in exploring specific moments
of interaction that are often completely ignored when a merely 'British' or
'American' perspective is brought to bear.


The Keynote Speakers are:
Professor John F. Callahan, Lewis and Clark College, Oregon, USA.
Dr. Glenn Jordan, University of Glamorgan, Wales
Professor Werner Sollors, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA.
(provisional).
Professor Jeffrey C. Stewart, George Mason University, Virginia, USA.

Possible topics for paper or panel proposals might include, but are no means
limited to:
The role of the Celts in the slave trade
African American abolitionists in Ireland, Wales and Scotland.
Pan-Africanism and Pan-Celticism
The use of 'Celtic' identities in the American South
The Harlem and Celtic Renaissances
Responses by Ida B. Wells, Paul Robeson, Ralph Ellison and others to their
visits to Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
The idea of the 'folk' in Black and Celtic cultural and political thought.
Gender, Ethnicity and Nationalism
Boxing and Sport.
African Americans and the making of Black Celtic, or Afro-Celtic,
identities.
Black and Celtic Marxisms / Nationalisms / Feminisms / Religious Traditions.
Influences and correspondences between literary and political traditions.
African American texts in Welsh and Gaelic translations.
The case for comparative and transatlantic models in relation to Celtic and
African American studies.


The main language of the conference will be English, but proposals for
papers/panels in Welsh are also welcome.
Please submit abstracts of not more than 250 words by Friday 29th of
September 2006 to


Dr. Daniel Williams, CREW (Centre for Research into the English Literature
and Language of Wales), Department of English, University of Wales Swansea,
Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, Wales UK.
daniel.g.williams[at]swansea.ac.uk

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You heard it here first - about Roisin Ban, the photo essay/book about the
Irish in Leeds...
http://www.roisinban.com/

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

And now the Guardian newspaper has noticed it... In The Guardian, 10-05-06,
in the G2 section, p 16 and p 17, a 2 page spread, with photosd and an
appreciative review by Martin Wainwright. He is a journalist/reviewer who
writes about the North of England...

However... I cannot find Martin Wainwright's review on the Guardian web
site. Sometimes the Guardian puts stuff in its northern editions that does
not appear in its London issues... I wonder if something similar is going
on here...

Anyway...

I have made jpg files of the relevant Guardian pages. Which I am happy to
send, as email attachments, to anyone who wants them.

P.O'S.

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So... The Sotheby's Irish catalogues are very useful resource in their =
own
right - so, another one to add to my collection...

P.O'S.


Renaissance for Irish art as economy booms

=B7 Dublin urged to buy more works as sale raises =A35m
=B7 WB Yeats' brother among painters rediscovered

Owen Bowcott, Ireland correspondent
Friday May 12, 2006
The Guardian

Sales of Irish art surged ahead yesterday, reflecting the Republic of
Ireland's booming economy and growing international demand for works by
established painters such as Jack Yeats, Sir John Lavery and Paul Henry.

The 11th annual auction of Irish works by Sotheby's in London raised =
nearly
=A35m. The rapid rise in prices has triggered demands for the government =
in
Dublin to make more funds available to buy works for public galleries =
and
prevent them being exported. The National Gallery of Ireland yesterday =
spent
=A3108,000 to put on display an unusual Futurist-style painting, titled
Propellers, by Mary Swanzy, who studied in Paris in the 1900s...

.... "The thing about the Irish art market is that the economy continues =
to
strengthen," said Grant Ford, Sotheby's head of Irish art. "There's a =
new
generation of [property] developers and IT manufacturers showing =
interest
and buyers from the states.

"A lot of the paintings we sold will go back to Ireland. The Irish are =
very
passionate about their pictures and once they have made money want to =
invest
in canvases. A lot of important works have come up recently and it's =
harder
to find the best paintings these days."

To meet rising demand, the auction house is holding its first sale of
contemporary Irish art in October.

The most highly valued painting yesterday was an 18th-century work by =
James
Barry, King Lear Weeping Over the Body of Cordelia, which sold for =
=A3982,000.

Full text at...
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Policy briefing papers from University of Ulster

The Centre for Media Research (CMR) at the University of Ulster has=20
published the latest in its policy briefing documents series:=20

White, A. and Murphy, K. Media policy briefing paper number 3: =
Broadcasting
rights for sporting events in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. Centre =
for
Media Research, 2006. ISSN 1748-0175

Media policy briefing paper number 4: Children, media and conflict: the=20
experience of divided communities - Ireland, Israel, Palestine. Centre =
for
Media Research, 2006. ISSN 1748-0175

The first two briefing papers were published last year and include one
specifically addressing the future direction of the BBC:

White, A., Messenger Davies, M., Hill, A. and Kerr, A. Media policy =
briefing
paper number 1: The future of the BBC. Centre for Media Research, 2005. =
ISSN

1748-0175

There is also:
Kerr, A. Media policy briefing paper number 2: Media literacy in =
Northern
Ireland. Centre for Media Research, 2005. ISSN 1748-0175

Free paper versions can be obtained from Barbara Butcher at=20
ba.butcher[at]ulster.ac.uk, while PDF versions can be accessed online via =
the
'Media Policy Papers' section on the CMR's home page:

http://www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/media/cmr.html

All editorial enquiries should be directed to Andy White at=20
ap.white[at]ulster.ac.uk.

Professor M=E1ire Messenger Davies
Director, Centre for Media Research
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Director, Media Studies Research Institute
School of Media & Performing Arts
University of Ulster at Coleraine
Cromore Rd
Coleraine BT52 1SA
Northern Ireland

Telephone: + 44(0)28 70324069
Fax: +44(0)28 70324964
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Dear Paddy,

Could you please forward our TOC for the new issue of Foilsi=FA to IRD?=20
Many thanks -Sara Brady

Foilsi=FA

Volume 5, Number 1
Spring 2006

De Valera, Du Bois, and the Ethiopian Crisis
DAMIEN KEANE

The Representational Struggle for Irishness Dialectical Interrelations=20
of Knowledge, Power, and Subjectivity
ELAINE MORIARTY

Race and Religion: The Irish Encounter with the Pagan in Africa=09
FIONA BATEMAN

Frederick Douglass and the Irish
PETER O=92NEILL

Ireland and Race: The Situation of German-Speaking Refugees in=20
Ireland, 1933-1945
SIOBH=C1N O=92CONNOR

Forming a National Consciousness: The Irish-Argentine Experience in=20
the 19th Century
HELEN KELLY

POETRY by NATHAN WALLACE
Questions for a San Patricio
Outside the Mar-Main Arms

=93Taken for a Turkish Woman=94: Paula Meehan, the East, and the=20
Globalization of Irish Culture
OMAAR HENA

A Feast of Satire
GREGORY J. DARLING

REVIEWS

The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh
ELIZABETH GILMARTIN

Irish Orientalism: A Literary and Intellectual History
by Joseph Lennon
OMAAR HENA

Foilsi=FA is the interdisciplinary journal of Irish studies published by =

The GRIAN Association with the support of Glucksman Ireland House, New=20
York University. In addition to conference proceedings, Foilsi=FA=20
presents new scholarship, essays, fiction, poetry, book and=20
performance reviews and visual arts. Foilsi=FA means =93revelation=94 in =

Irish, and through this medium we aim to foster collaboration between=20
the Irish Studies academic community and the rich cultural activity of=20
Irish America.

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This is from the 'you couldn't make it up' section of today's Irish =
Times
Piaras


Vatican directs its wrath at RT=C9 over actress as the bishop

18/05/2006

The Vatican has lodged an official complaint with RT=C9 after one of =
the State
broadcaster's television crews was questioned by police in Rome while
filming a local actress and model dressed as a bishop close to Vatican
buildings, writes Conor Lally.

The three-man crew of RT=C91's Would You Believe series was shooting =
footage
for a programme on the role of women in the church.

They were taken to a police station in Rome and questioned for three =
hours
as to why their female companion was dressed as a bishop in such a
religiously sensitive area.

Under Italian law it is illegal to wear clerics' clothing if not a =
cleric.

The Vatican has lodged a complaint to RT=C9 claiming the crew had =
broken this
law close to a property owned by the Holy See and in doing so had acted
insensitively.

"It's all a bit Da Vinci Code-esque," said one RT=C9 source.

The crew were also quizzed about their permits to film in the city. As =
a
sanction, their permit to film Pope Benedict's Wednesday audience in St
Peter's Square yesterday was withdrawn.

Vatican authorities became aware of the incident, which took place on
Tuesday, only after Rome police contacted them to inquire if they had =
any
knowledge of the Irish producer, cameraman, sound engineer and Italian
actress.

The crew tried to argue that because the model was female it was clear =
they
were shooting footage rather than trying to genuinely pass her off as a
bishop.

The crew were in transit from Rome to Dublin last night and were not
contactable.

However, a number of informed sources in RT=C9 television confirmed the
details of the bizarre events.

A spokeswoman for RT=C9 denied that the three-man Irish crew and the =
Italian
actress had been arrested.

She said they were questioned by police but were not in custody at any
point.

Other sources said the authorities in Rome are very sensitive about any
filming taking place on the city streets, particularly in areas close =
to the
Vatican or properties owned by it.

"It seems in this case they had particular difficulties with the fact =
that
the woman involved was dressed as a cleric," said one Montrose source.


=A9 The Irish Times

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From: p.maume[at]qub.ac.uk
Sent: 17 May 2006 17:17

From: Patrick Maume


Dear Paddy,
The list may be interested in the "Mad Revisionist" site, established to
parody holocaust deniers (who describe themselves as "revisionists" - the
title does not refer to the Irish usage of critics of nationalist history).
This link takes you to a page which purports to "prove" on the basis of the
same methods of evidence handling used by holocaust deniers, that the Great
Famine never happened. (There is a genuine blunder - he publishes an 1880s
eviction photo as a Famine scene.) The main page contains a series of
exchanges between the "Mad Revisionist" and a Mr. O'Keefe of a
holocaust-denier outfit, about why Mr. O'Keefe's "reputable" journal flatly
refused to publish this article.

http://www.revisionism.nl/Potato/The-Mad-Revisionist.htm

I reiterate that this is a PARODY site and NOT meant to be taken
seriously. Other pages on the same site "prove" that World War II and the
American Civil War did not take place, that the sun and moon do not exist,
that the author himself probably does not exist, and that Jews do not exist
and the belief that they do is perpetrated by a Jewish conspiracy!
I found the link when browsing Wikipedia earlier today.
Best wishes,
Patrick

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I must agree with Piaras on this point. The issue here is not really the
technique used by RTE - which granted sounds daft indeed - but the contex=
t
within which this is being done. Even questioning the Catholic Church wa=
s an
unsupported position in Ireland a generation ago. The media =96 newspap=
ers,=20
radio, TV - would not under any circumstance broadcast such material bec=
ause
if they did they would face censure from the church and a warning to the
"faithful" by church authorities not to read [ buy] the newspapers and
advertisers would be scared silly to buy time during such a documentary. =
Make
no mistake about it the Catholic Church had real power over people lives =
and
livelihoods and flexed its muscles without regard to the consequences to
peoples; lives. The example of Father Cleary is only one of many such
incidents of blatant hypocrisy that later came to light. Our local churc=
h had
one when one of the priests died in a gay club in Dublin and an announcem=
ent
was made from the altar the next morning that Father had died at a =93rec=
eption=94
=96 red faces ensued when a day later the press published the bizarre det=
ails.=20
The =93faithful=94 I can tell you, were not amused.=20

I think those who grew up outside of Ireland have no idea of the bitterne=
ss
these revelations have given rise to.

Carmel









Quoting "d.m.jackson" :

> =20
> Dressing up an actress as a bishop and taking her to her to the Vatican=
(of
> all places), then expecting to be able to film the pope sounds like a p=
retty
> daft idea to me. Hardly "Da Vinci code-esque". Did the programme not h=
ave
> any researchers?
>=20
> Dan Jackson
> University of Northumbria
>=20
>=20
>



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=20
Dressing up an actress as a bishop and taking her to her to the Vatican =
(of
all places), then expecting to be able to film the pope sounds like a =
pretty
daft idea to me. Hardly "Da Vinci code-esque". Did the programme not =
have
any researchers?

Dan Jackson
University of Northumbria


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Subject: [IR-D] Notes from a Priest-Ridden Country

This is from the 'you couldn't make it up' section of today's Irish
Times
Piaras


Vatican directs its wrath at RT=C9 over actress as the bishop

18/05/2006

The Vatican has lodged an official complaint with RT=C9 after one of =
the
State
broadcaster's television crews was questioned by police in Rome while
filming a local actress and model dressed as a bishop close to Vatican
buildings, writes Conor Lally.

The three-man crew of RT=C91's Would You Believe series was shooting
footage
for a programme on the role of women in the church.

They were taken to a police station in Rome and questioned for three
hours
as to why their female companion was dressed as a bishop in such a
religiously sensitive area.

Under Italian law it is illegal to wear clerics' clothing if not a
cleric.

The Vatican has lodged a complaint to RT=C9 claiming the crew had =
broken
this
law close to a property owned by the Holy See and in doing so had acted
insensitively.

"It's all a bit Da Vinci Code-esque," said one RT=C9 source.

The crew were also quizzed about their permits to film in the city. As =
a
sanction, their permit to film Pope Benedict's Wednesday audience in St
Peter's Square yesterday was withdrawn.

Vatican authorities became aware of the incident, which took place on
Tuesday, only after Rome police contacted them to inquire if they had
any
knowledge of the Irish producer, cameraman, sound engineer and Italian
actress.

The crew tried to argue that because the model was female it was clear
they
were shooting footage rather than trying to genuinely pass her off as a
bishop.

The crew were in transit from Rome to Dublin last night and were not
contactable.

However, a number of informed sources in RT=C9 television confirmed the
details of the bizarre events.

A spokeswoman for RT=C9 denied that the three-man Irish crew and the
Italian
actress had been arrested.

She said they were questioned by police but were not in custody at any
point.

Other sources said the authorities in Rome are very sensitive about any
filming taking place on the city streets, particularly in areas close =
to
the
Vatican or properties owned by it.

"It seems in this case they had particular difficulties with the fact
that
the woman involved was dressed as a cleric," said one Montrose source.


=A9 The Irish Times

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Fair point Dan. The RT=C9 people, who can make excellent investigative
documentaries, still have (to my mind anyway) an unfortunate and rather
old-fashioned predilection for 'dramatic re-enactments' and the like =
when
presenting controversial issues. I think they should let the issues and =
the
various protaganists speak for themselves. In fairness, they do have
reseachers as well!

I suppose the point that struck me with some force about the reports in
today's media was that a generation ago the notion of an RT=C9 crew =
offending
the Roman Catholic Church would have been unimaginable. A documentary
broadcast on Tuesday 'Rocky Road to Dublin' was made in 1968 by Peter
Lennon, an Irish journalist living in Paris, and French nouvelle vague
cinephotographer Raoul Coutard=20
(see http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-Film/ireland_church_2669.jsp) =
was
suppressed for almost forty years by an intolerant and bigoted =
establishment
- church and officialdom. One of the most riveting sequences in the
documentary shows Dublin priest Fr Michael Cleary talking about sex and
abstinence. He used to preach on Dublin radio programmes about celibacy =
and
abstinence and the unreliability of contraception. After he died it was
revealed that he had had a hidden family with his housekeeper; he was
already living with her (she was 17) when the Rocky Road programme was =
made.

Anyone who wants to understand Ireland in the 1960s (or who wonders why =
some
of us are so bitter about official Catholic hypocrisy) should see this
riveting documentary, a time-warp, but beautifully and faithfully =
captured.

Piaras

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One of only two remaining veterans of the Irish who fought on the Republican
side in the Spanish Civil War, Michael O'Riordan, died today.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0518/oriordanm.html

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I agree Piaras, the cultural sea change is quite remarkable - and the
hyprocisy of some priests was appalling.=20

But the thing is, the result of much of this backlash has been that
"Catholic Church" and "priests" have now become unjustified bywords in =
the
popular imagination for sexual misdemeanors, paedophilia and abuse. =
This is
a tragedy, for in my experience, some of the most heroic and honourable =
men
I have ever met have been catholic priests (and usually Irish).

I used to be agnostic about celibacy, but leaving aside theological
arguments, I really think the absence of family commitments meant that =
they
could undertake vital (and usually unseen) pastoral work in the =
communities
they served.

But I totally accept that one's personal experience is everything!

Dan Jackson





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Sent: 18/05/2006 13:34
Subject: Re: [IR-D] Notes from a Priest-Ridden Country

Fair point Dan. The RT=C9 people, who can make excellent investigative
documentaries, still have (to my mind anyway) an unfortunate and rather
old-fashioned predilection for 'dramatic re-enactments' and the like
when
presenting controversial issues. I think they should let the issues and
the
various protaganists speak for themselves. In fairness, they do have
reseachers as well!

I suppose the point that struck me with some force about the reports in
today's media was that a generation ago the notion of an RT=C9 crew
offending
the Roman Catholic Church would have been unimaginable. A documentary
broadcast on Tuesday 'Rocky Road to Dublin' was made in 1968 by Peter
Lennon, an Irish journalist living in Paris, and French nouvelle vague
cinephotographer Raoul Coutard=20
(see http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-Film/ireland_church_2669.jsp) =
was
suppressed for almost forty years by an intolerant and bigoted
establishment
- church and officialdom. One of the most riveting sequences in the
documentary shows Dublin priest Fr Michael Cleary talking about sex and
abstinence. He used to preach on Dublin radio programmes about celibacy
and
abstinence and the unreliability of contraception. After he died it was
revealed that he had had a hidden family with his housekeeper; he was
already living with her (she was 17) when the Rocky Road programme was
made.

Anyone who wants to understand Ireland in the 1960s (or who wonders why
some
of us are so bitter about official Catholic hypocrisy) should see this
riveting documentary, a time-warp, but beautifully and faithfully
captured.

Piaras

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Subject: Michael Davitt Centenary Conference

Dear Patrick O'Sullivan

I would be very grateful if you could circulate on your mailing list
information of a conference I am holding at St Patrick's College,
Drumcondra, on 26-28 May 2006, to commemorate the centenary of the death =
of
Michael Davitt. The website address is:

http://www.spd.dcu.ie/depts/history/Pages/Davitt.htm

and enquiries can be made either to me, Carla King, tel: 8842103; email
carla.king[at]spd.dcu.ie or bookings to Maura Sheehan, Secretary, History =
Dept,
St Patrick's College,
Drumcondra, tel: 8842239.
Thank you,
Kind regards
Carla King

MICHAEL DAVITT CENTENARY CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Friday 26 May 2006
18:00 Registration and official opening by the President of the College, =
Dr
Pauric Travers: wine reception

20:00 Keynote speech: J. Joseph Lee (New York University), =91Michael =
Davitt
in Historical Perspective=92

Saturday 27 May 2006
09:30-11:00
Davitt=92s Youth and Family
John Dunleavy (Historical advisor to the Irish in Haslingden Irish =
Heritage
Committee), =91Davitt=92s Lancashire Apprenticeship=92
Fr Tom Davitt (Vincentian Community, Stillorgan), =91Getting to Know =
Grandad=92

11:00-11:30 Tea/Coffee

11:30-13:00
The Context
Paul Bew (Queen's University Belfast), =91Davitt and the Land =
Question=92
Alan O=92Day (Greyfriars, University of Oxford), =91Three Visions of =
Economics
and Nationality: Butt, Parnell and Davitt=92

13:00-14:30 Lunch

14.30-16:00
Irish Politics
Fintan Lane (Editor, Saothar), =91Michael Davitt and the Irish Working =
Class,
1879-1906=92
Owen McGee (Dictionary of Irish Biography), =91Davitt and the Irish
Revolutionary Movement=92

16:00-16:30 Tea/Coffee

16:30-18:00
Cultural Contexts
W.J. Mc Cormack (Edward Worth Library), =91Davitt and the Literary =
Revival=92
Pauric Travers (St Patrick's College, Drumcondra), =91Davitt and =
Education=92

19:00-20:30 Dinner
20:30 Social evening with Andy Irvine

Sunday 26 May 2006
9:30-11:00
Scottish-Irish Politics
Andrew Newby (University of Edinburgh), =91=93Put not your faith in =
Irish
Parliamentary Politics=94: Davitt and =93loyal opposition=94 in =
Scotland,
1879-1887=92
Elaine McFarland (Glasgow Caledonian University), 'Bravo Benburb!' John
Ferguson and Michael Davitt - Building the Democratic Alliance in =
Scotland=92

11:00-11:30 Tea/Coffee

11:30-13:00
Davitt Abroad
Hasia Diner (New York University), =91Davitt and the Kishinev pogrom, =
1903=92
Laurence Marley (NUI Galway), =91The international Radicalism of Michael
Davitt, 1882-1906=92
Anthony Jordan (Historian and author), =91Davitt, Major John McBride and =
the
Boer War=92

13:00-14:30 Lunch

14:30-16:00
Davitt in Image and Memory
Mairt=EDn O Cath=E1in (University of Ulster), =91Michael Davitt in =
Historical
Memory=92
Laura McNeil (Elms College, Mass.), =91Dissecting Davitt: (Ab)using the =
Memory
of a Great Irishman=92
Brendon Deasy (National College of Art and Design), =91A life in =
relief=92:
illustrated lecture on the exhibition on the life of Michael Davitt

16:00 Closing speech by Mary Robinson (The Ethical Globalisation =
Initiative,
New York)

16.30 Tea/Coffee.

LINKS
St Patrick=92s College: http://www.spd.dcu.ie/main/index.html
Michael Davitt Museum, Straide: http://www.museumsofmayo.com/davitt.htm
Irish Heritage in Haslingden Committee: http://www.ihihc.co.uk
Irish Historical Society: http://www.ucd.ie/history/ihs/ihsoc/ihsoc.html
Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies:
http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofHistory/NewsandEvents/UlsterSocietyf=
orI
rishHistoricalStudies/
Irish Labour History Society: http://www.ilhsonline.org/
Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland:
http://www.qub.ac.uk/en/socs/ssnci.html
Economic and Social History Society of Ireland: http://www.eh.net/eshsi/

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Call for Papers: Amongst Empires

The editors of =C9ire-Ireland=92s Spring/Summer 2007 special issue on Empir=
e seek
articles to supplement their earlier call for papers on Irish engagements w=
ith
the politics of empire in the nineteenth and/or twentieth centuries. We are
especially interested in additional submissions that deal with Irish
engagements with imperialism in Africa, South America, or the West Indies i=
n
this historical period, or with Irish responses to, or involvements in, US =
or
other non-British imperialisms. Papers dealing with Irish women's responses=
to
empire, Irish feminism and imperialism, or literary or other cultural works
dealing with overseas imperial issues are also of particular interest.
Completed manuscripts(5000-6000 words) should be forwarded to the editors
before August 15th, 2006.

Manuscripts (two copies) should be sent to

Michael de Nie, Department of History, TLC 3200,
University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA 30118
(mdenie[at]westga.edu) or

Joe Cleary, Department of English, Arts Building,
NUI-Maynooth, Co. Kildare
(jncleary[at]nuim.ie)



Michael de Nie
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In the latest issue of...

Religion and American Culture
Winter 2006, Vol. 16, No. 1, Pages 25-54
Posted online on February 14, 2006.

(doi:10.1525/rac.2006.16.1.25)

How the Irish Became Protestant in America

Michael P. Carroll, =E2=80=8B=E2=80=8C

Michael P. Carroll is Professor of Sociology at Western Ontario =
University, London, Ontario, Canada.

Abstract

It often comes as a surprise to learn that most contemporary Americans =
who think of themselves as "Irish" are, in fact, Protestant, not =
Catholic. While commentators generally agree that these Protestant =
Irish-Americans are descended mainly from the Irish who settled in the =
United States prior to the Famine, the story of how they became the =
Protestants they are is=E2=80=94this article argues=E2=80=94more =
complicated than first appears. To understand that story, however, one =
must correct for two historiographical biases. The first has to do with =
the presumed religiosity of the so-called "Scotch-Irish" in the =
pre-Famine period; the second involves taking "being Irish" into account =
in the post-Famine period only with dealing with Catholics, not =
Protestants. Once these biases are corrected, however, it becomes =
possible to develop an argument that simultaneously does two things: it =
provides a new perspective on the contribution made by the Irish =
(generally) to the rise of the Methodists and Baptists in the early =
nineteenth century, and it helps us to understand why so many American =
Protestants continue to retain an Irish identity despite the fact that =
their link to Ireland is now almost two centuries in the past.