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Diatribe later...

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Community Development Journal
Contents: Volume 37 Number 1, January 2002

Editorials:
Rosie Meade and Orla O'Donovan=20
Editorial introduction: Corporatism and the ongoing debate about the
relationship between the state and community development=20

Articles:
J. P. O'Carroll=20
Culture lag and democratic deficit in Ireland: Or, =91Dat's outside de =
terms
of d'agreement=92=20

Tony Varley and Chris Curtin=20
Communitarian populism and the politics of rearguard resistance in rural
Ireland=20

Eilish Rooney=20
Community development in times of trouble: Reflections on the community
women's sector in the north of Ireland=20

Robbie McVeigh=20
Between reconciliation and pacification: the British state and community
relations in the north of Ireland=20

Rebecca Loughry=20
Partnering the state at the local level: the experiences of one =
community
worker=20

Festus C. R. A. Ikeotuonye=20
Lateral shades of social engineering: A critical exploration of =
=91interest
representation=92, =91state=92 and =91development=92=20

Mary Murphy=20
Social partnership =96 is it =91the only game in town=92?=20

Tom Collins=20
Community development and state building: A shared project=20

Sheelagh Broaderick=20
Community development in Ireland =96 a policy review=20


Reviews:

...
Patricia McAllister=20
Left out on their own: young people leaving care in Ireland. Patricia
Kelleher, Carmel Kelleher and Maria Corbett, Oak Tree Press, Dublin, =
2000,
192 pp. ISBN 1860761933, =A314.95=20

Siobh=E1n O'Donoghue=20
The celtic tiger: the myth of social partnership in Ireland. Kieran =
Allen,
Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2000, 216 pp. ISBN 0 7190 5848 =
1,
=A313.99=20

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Abstract
Religion and American Culture
Summer 2004, Vol. 14, No. 2, Pages 213-250
Posted online on July 13, 2004.
(doi:10.1525/rac.2004.14.2.213)

Mugwump Cartoonists, the Papacy, and Tammany Hall in America's Gilded =
Age

Samuel J. Thomas, =E2=80=8B=E2=80=8CProfessor of History
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan

In the Gilded Age of extreme partisan politics, Puck magazine, the =
nation's premier journal of graphic humor and political satire, played =
an important role as a non-partisan crusader for good government and the =
triumph of American constitutional ideals. Its prime targets, however, =
were not just corrupt machine politicians. The magazine included as well =
what it, like the letterpress, condemned as the nefarious political =
agenda of the Catholic church, especially its new pope, Leo XIII. =
Indeed, New York's infamous Tammany Hall, committed to spoils and =
patronage as the means of dominating the body politic, was all the more =
dangerous to Puck because, beginning in the 1870s, Irish Catholics =
dominated it. The hall's Irish Catholic base enabled the magazine to =
rationalize more completely its conviction that the Catholic church, =
ruled by a foreign potentate dressed in the irrational garb of =
infallibility, was a menace not only to the nation's body politic but =
also to its democratic soul. If allowed to proceed unimpeded, the pope =
and his minions, along with Tammany's bosses and supporters, would =
convert the nation into their personal fiefdom. Puck was not about to =
let that happen. In cartoons and editorials spanning two decades, the =
magazine blasted and often conjoined both Tammany and the papacy with =
invidious comparisons that left few readers in doubt as to their =
complicity. Although scholars have noted how the American letterpress =
also alluded to a connection between Tammany and the Catholic church, =
Puck's unparalleled comprehensive strategy to perpetuate and strengthen =
that connection has never been scrutinized. This essay redresses that =
oversight of an age when the public and its politicians reckoned very =
seriously the editorial artistry of great political cartoonists, =
especially those who drew for Puck.

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In the latest issue of the journal, Representations...

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Abstract
Representations
Fall 2005, Number 92, Pages 152-185
Posted online on March 7, 2006.
(doi:10.1525/rep.2005.92.1.152)

The Indigent Sublime: Specters of Irish Hunger

DAVID LLOYD=E2=80=8B=E2=80=8C

ABSTRACT This essay shows how the Irish Famine =
(1845=E2=80=931851)constituted a crisis of representation and memory not =
only for those who underwent and witnessed it but also for those who =
live in its wake. The Famine and its untold victims project specters =
that haunt the processes of modernization and progressive =
rationalization that catastrophe is often held to have enabled. For =
contemporary observers, the scenes of mass starvation produce the effect =
of an "indigent sublime"; the spectacle on a vast scale of humanity =
reduced to "bare life" exceeds the possibility of realistic =
representation, but the excess of representation is not accompanied by =
an enhancement of the powers of the subject.

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The medical journals and databases are making a determined effort to be more
freely available. One example is the journal, Medical History. Some
classic articles are now just there, freely available - for example much on
William Wilde...

Also - as examples - listed below, Wilson's articles on Swift and the
medical profession. Much cited... and there they are. I have pasted in
some web links, below - though the actual web sites can be a bit
overcrowded, taxing late night searching brains. Or... Just doing a web
search for the specific article titles will take you straight to the texts.

P.O'S.


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Literature/

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed/publications/medical-history/index.html

http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/tocrender.fcgi?action=archive&journal=228


1:
THE DEATH-MASKS OF DEAN SWIFT.
Wilson TG.
Med Hist. 1960 Jan; 4(1): 49-58.
PMCID: 1034528

2:
SWIFT AND THE DOCTORS.
Wilson TG.
Med Hist. 1964 Jul; 8(3): 199-216.
PMCID: 1033387

3:
THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH OF DEAN SWIFT.
Wilson TG.
Med Hist. 1958 Jul; 2(3): 175-190.
PMCID: 1034391

4:
Swift and the physicians: aspects of satire and status.
Probyn CT.
Med Hist. 1974 Jul; 18(3): 249-261.
PMCID: 1081578

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Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
March 2005, Vol. 35, No. 2, Pages 341-370
Posted online on October 3, 2005.
(doi:10.1525/hsps.2005.35.2.341)

After the famine: Plant pathology, Phytophthora infestans, and the late =
blight of potatoes, 1845=E2=80=931960

R. STEVEN TURNER=E2=80=8B=E2=80=8C
Department of History, the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, =
N.B., E3B 5A3, Canada; turner[at]unb.ca.

Abstract

The late blight disease of potatoes, which triggered the great Irish =
famine of 1845-1849, remains one of the most feared and intractable =
plant diseases today. Decades of dispute about the cause of the disease =
followed the outbreak of 1845, and the scientifi c controversy =
illustrates the uneasy historical relationship among farmers, scientifi =
c agronomists, and plant pathologists. Consensus fi nally emerged that =
the fungus Phytophthora infestans was the true cause of the disease, but =
that organism's full life cycle remained obscure. Its sexual oospores =
could not be readily obtained by mycologists, despite sporadic reports =
that had been observed. The 20th century opened with great optimism that =
resistant varieties could be developed using dominant R-genes obtainable =
from some wild species, and this optimism led to a proliferation of =
public breeding programs between 1925 and 1935. But these hopes had =
foundered by the early 1950s with the inexplicable appearance of new =
fungal races that could overwhelm the most blight-resistant germplasm. =
The Rockefeller Foundation's postwar agricultural initiative in Mexico =
led during the 1950s to dramatic and unexpected solutions to some of the =
late blight puzzles. But even then the fungus remained obscure, and =
effective, non-chemical control methods have never been forthcoming. =
This article examines the historical frustrations of late-blight science =
and advances that history as a case study illustrating the rise and fall =
of an "heroic age" of resistance breeding and plant pathology in the =
first half of the 20th century.

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IRISH EDUCATIONAL STUDIES
VOL 25; NUMB 1; 2006
ISSN 0032-3315

pp. 3-34
Adapting science performance tasks developed in different countries for use
in Irish primary schools.
Kilfeather, P.; O Leary, M.; Varley, J.

pp. 35-52
`Sending gossoons to be made oul' mollies of': Rule 127(b) and the
feminisation of teaching in Ireland.
Bhroimeil, U. N.

pp. 53-62
Inclusive education: Ireland's education provision for children with special
educational needs.
Meegan, S.; MacPhail, A.

pp. 63-74
Education as a means of effecting life change and achieving a state of
self-autonomy.
O Shea, M.

pp. 75-92
Irish primary school children's definitions of `geography'.
Pike, S.


pp. 93-106
Precision teaching and education: is fluency the missing link between
success and failure?.
Gallagher, E.

pp. 107-120
The post-primary computing experiences of Institute of Technology computing
students.
Shea, C. O.; Shea, S. O.; Killeavy, M.

pp. 121-134
An introduction to computerised analysis of qualitative data.
Darmody, M.; Byrne, D.

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JOYCE IN AUSTIN, June 13-17, 2007
"Bring a stranger within thy tower." (Ulysses 14.365)

The 2007 North American Joyce Conference
Endorsed by the International James Joyce Foundation

The University of Texas at Austin:
The Department of English
The College of Liberal Arts
The Harry Ransom Center
The University Co-op Society

To honor the lifetime achievement of Tom Staley, the 2007 Joyce Conference
will be hosted by the English Department of The University of Texas at
Austin. The event will feature plenary presentations and readings by Vicki
Mahaffey, Paul Muldoon, Tom Staley, and Sean Walsh; a round-table discussion
with all the plenary speakers; academic panels on Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth
Bowen, Tom Stoppard, contemporary Irish poetry, and such other Joyce-related
topics as film, the Harry Ransom Center, music, race, Shakespeare, "the wake
of the Wake," and gender; a performance of Stoppard's Travesties by the
Austin Shakespeare Festival; Joycean music and film; an exhibit of Joyce and
Stoppard holdings at the Harry Ransom Center; a bat cruise on Town Lake.

We welcome proposals and abstracts for both additional panels and individual
papers, and especially encourage submissions of work linked in some way to
the Harry Ransom Center holdings.

Please send inquiries concerning the conference, requests to be added to the
mailing list, and proposals for papers and panels to:

Alan Friedman, friedman[at]uts.cc.utexas.edu
OR
Charles Rossman, rossman[at]mail.utexas.edu

The University of Texas
Department of English
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Austin, TX 787812

We anticipate publishing a special issue of TSLL on carefully selected
conference papers.

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Dear Paddy

I would be grateful if the reminder below could be circulated to the =
list.

Best

Piaras=20

MA in Contemporary Migration and Diaspora Studies=20

University College Cork

The MA in Contemporary Migration and Diaspora Studies is an exciting =
new,
inter-disciplinary taught programme addressing all aspects of =
migration,
integration and diaspora studies in Ireland.=20

The programme will aim to:

* equip students with a thorough knowledge of the major theoretical and
empirical issues in migration and diaspora studies today
* equip students with an understanding of the significance of migration =
and
diaspora debates for Irish and European society today, with reference =
to
policy and legal perspectives, geographical and social science debates,
diaspora and Irish identity, new communities, and a range of specific
applied issues in connection with rights, identities, citizenship, =
status
and welfare=20
* train students in a range of specific skills-based social science =
research
methodologies
* enable students to deploy these skills by means of a dissertation =
using a
range of theoretical, empirical, policy and action research =
perspectives

Multi-disciplinary Teaching Staff=20

Piaras Mac =C9inr=ED (Programme Co-ordinator)
Dr. Jim Mac Laughlin, Dr. Caitr=EDona N=ED Laoire, Dr. Naomi Bushin, =
Dr. Allen
White, Prof. Patrick O'Flanagan, Prof. W. Smyth, Dr. Denis Linehan
(Department of Geography)
Dr. Siobh=E1n Mullally (Faculty of Law)
Dr. Angela Veale (Dept. of Applied Psychology)
Visiting academic, NGO and Government speakers

COURSE CONTENT
Core Modules:=20
Introduction to Migration and Diaspora Studies
Research Methods and Sources in Migration and Diaspora Studies
Case Studies and Current Issues in Migration and Diaspora Studies
Dissertation (15,000 words)

Electives Modules (2 to be taken):
Immigration and Asylum Law
Historical Geographies and Sociologies of Irish Migration
Work Placement in NGO or other migration-related agency

Duration: 1 year full-time


APPLICATIONS and FURTHER INFORMATION
Eligibility: A 2H2 degree in a relevant discipline (Applied Social =
Studies,
Applied Psychology, History, Geography, Law, Politics, Sociology, or =
cognate
disciplines e.g. Anthropology) or such other qualifications as may be =
deemed
suitable by the Head of Department/Chair of Board of Studies, following
consultation with the Departmental Graduate Studies Committee or Board =
of
Studies. In exceptional cases and especially where an applicant has =
direct
experience in a relevant voluntary or statutory capacity, an =
application
will be considered from an individual without a relevant undergraduate
degree. All applications must also be approved by the College of Arts,
Celtic Studies and Social Sciences.

How to apply?

See http://www.ucc.ie/en/cke72/ for full details
Closing Date for applications: 30 June 2006

For further information contact:
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Telephone 00353 21 4902889; Email: p.maceinri[at]ucc.ie

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Something for summer reading perhaps...

P.O'S.

Book:
Sir Henry Docwra, 1564-1631: Derry's Second Founder
John McGurk
Trinity College, Dublin
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005
ISBN: 1851829482

Reviewer: Toby Barnard
Hertford College, Oxford
Citation: Barnard, T, review of Sir Henry Docwra, 1564-1631: Derry's
Second Founder by John McGurk (review no. 505)
URL: http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/ paper/ barnard.html
Date accessed: 25 May 2006

http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/paper/barnard.html

Sir Henry Docwra, first baron Docwra of Culmore (in the Irish peerage),
personified those who rose thanks to the opportunities offered by Ireland in
the later sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Docwra shows how minor
gentlemen of obscure but solid backgrounds prospered thanks particularly to
soldiering. Less attractively, Docwra also belonged to the band of English,
Welsh and Scots who struggled to subdue Ireland and bring it firmly under
English rule. In historical writing, Docwra has been overshadowed by
contemporaries less bashful about self-promotion and enrichment. Where
others, such as Perrot, Mountjoy, Sir George Carew and Chichester, attracted
contemporary memorialists, Docwra had to act as his own. He compiled a
self-justificatory Narration, first edited and published by John O'Donovan
in 1849 and recently reissued with a new introduction by Dr William Kelly
(Ulster Historical Foundation, Belfast, 2003). But he also wearied superiors
with verbose despatches...

...The author comes to his subject with an unrivalled mastery of the
technical history of Elizabeth's Irish wars. He can also utilise the
researches, both published and unpublished, of other investigators of the
period. He generously acknowledges his dependence on the interpretative
structures supplied by Ciaran Brady on the Elizabethan administration in
Ireland, by Hiram Morgan on the dynamics and course of the war in the 1590s,
by John McCavitt on the activities of Sir Arthur Chichester in Ulster (and
elsewhere), and by Victor Treadwell on the first duke of Buckingham's
incorporation of Ireland into his patronage empire by the 1620s. Newer
findings, such as the doctoral theses of Jason Dorsett and Rory Rapple,
which set the military adventurers in Ireland in larger contexts, both
physical (European) and intellectual, are not used. Nevertheless, the result
of Dr McGurk's considerable labour is a methodical and convincing analysis
of Docwra's career, the climax of which was the securing of the Foyle
estuary and the re-founding of what would grow into the city of Derry.

Dr McGurk's particular strengths, like Docwra's, lie in the minutiae of
military recruitment, supply, campaigning and tactics. These have been
demonstrated already in his earlier work The Elizabethan Conquest of
Ireland: the 1590s Crisis (Manchester, 1997). He is also at home in the
tricky terrain of north-west Ulster, which, bit by bit and at terrible cost,
Docwra secured. Painstakingly, belated justice is done to Docwra's often
underestimated contribution to the war against Tyrone and Tyrconnell.
Docwra's willingness to use the often controversial policy of making deals
with locals is investigated fully. From this meticulous appraisal, the
commander emerges as effective, personally courageous and yet wily. He is
adjudged to have been less rapacious and corrupt than many of his colleagues
in the English armies and administration in Ireland. This conclusion seems
tenable: it is not simply that Docwra was better at covering his tracks than
those now reputed to have been repulsively mercenary....

... The study carries greater conviction by avoiding a strident tone.
Thereby it succeeds in reintroducing the trauma into the history of the
Irish past, as Father Brendan Bradshaw pleaded back in 1989. Less gory are
the illustrations. Often they show unfamiliar details of fortifications and
strongholds taken from manuscript surveys and maps...

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Time to bring to an end the IR-D list Traditional Irish Diaspora list St.
Patrick's Day Competition for 2006...

Three entries have been received...

All 3 have done well and all shall have prizes...

Below is the original Competition outline...

Think about it over the weekend - and I will close down the Competition on
June 1.

Paddy


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This year the Traditional Irish Diaspora list St. Patrick's Day Competition
ask a series of questions about my own personal Irish Diaspora and Irish
Studies research library, here in my attic in Bradford.

With the help of some new bibliographic/citation software my books are now
shelved in alphabetical order by AUTHOR.

I can now set this quiz...

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

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

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

Name one book, author and title, from the I section.

3.
Three books have the same title.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Send the answers to me at
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Three lucky winners can chose from my collection of duplicate copies - these
duplicates having been identified by that same bibliographic/citation
software.

Paddy O'Sullivan

--
Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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Dear Paddy,

I would be grateful if you could alert list members to the following cour=
se.

Thanks,

Tony

Tony Murray
Irish Studies Centre
London Metropolitan University


Fergal Keane will be appearing at this year's Irish Writers in London
Summer School. The award-winning foreign correspondent for the BBC will
be discussing his recent memoir 'All of These People' in which he
addresses his experience of wars of different kinds, some very public
and others acutely personal.

First established by the Irish Studies Centre in 1996, this unique
course runs for two nights per week for six weeks and aims to provide an
informal but informative setting for students wishing to study Irish
literature over the summer. The course consists of a mixture of
lectures, seminars, readings and cultural activities. Each week an
established Irish writer living in London comes to read and speak about
their work to students. Two evenings prior to this, students read,
discuss and analyse extracts of the writer=92s work with the course tutor.
This provides time for students to digest and reflect on their reactions
and discussion about the set texts. Each writer talks about their family
background and discusses their motivations and experience of emigration
to and/or life in London in the context of their work. Students read and
learn about a broad spectrum of Irish writing and gain valuable insights
into the different approaches such writing involves. Other writers
appearing at this year=92s Summer School include:

Paul Burke; Siobhan Campbell; Laurence McDonald; Bridget Whelan

N.B. Whilst this is not a creative writing course it will compliment
such a course of study at London Metropolitan University or elsewhere.
No prior qualifications are required to attend.

Dates: 15th June - 25th July, 2006
Times: Tuesday and Thursday evenings 6 - 8.30pm
Fee: =A395 (=A375 Concessions)

Venue: London Metropolitan University
Holloway Rd, London N7 8DB (Nearest tube Holloway Road)

Further details:
Tony Murray on 0207 133 2593 or t.murray[at]londonmet.ac.uk
Kathy O=92Regan on 0207 133 2913 or k.elsner[at]londonmet.ac.uk

Website:
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre/


Feedback from Writers and Students about the Summer School

"Having the opportunity to hear famous writers read from their own work
and talk with them afterwards is inspirational. And the atmosphere is
so supportive and encouraging. It is unmissable" (Bridget Whelan,
former student, now a writer)

"It was one of the most vital and energising sessions I have
participated in and I know it will contribute to how I reflect on my
work in future" (Deirdre Shanahan, writer)

"It was so great to meet with and hear Irish writers discuss their work
as well as share their experience of other Irish people like myself
living in London and trying to define our own voices in this great
melting pot" (Alice Wickham, student)

=93I enjoyed myself immensely, the students seemed like the perfect
readers of my mother =96 subtle, discerning and appreciative of the
complexities of her situation=94
(Blake Morrison, writer)

"Many thanks for a splendid evening, the whole experience was thoroughly
rewarding for me." (Gerry McKee, writer)

"As a person who has lectured in further and higher education, I would
like to congratulate the Irish Studies department for running this most
interesting and stimulating course" (Kathy Neeson, student)

"Thank you so much for the invitation and the chance to participate in
the Summer School - it was a real pleasure to do it" (Rosalind Scanlan,
writer)

"I thoroughly enjoyed the evening and found the students very welcoming
and the responses very refreshing" (Colette Bryce, writer)

=93I really enjoyed the summer school and hope that one day my second
generation children can attend as one means of keeping in touch with
their roots=94 (Nora Holder, student)

"I very much enjoyed the visit to your Summer School. For me it was a
lovely occasion altogether and thought-provoking in quite a profound
way" (Maura Dooley, writer)

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Report so far...

Entries have been received from Bill Mulligan, Dave Featherstone and Angela
McCarthy... (USA, UK, NZ...)

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

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

NO HITS so far...

And I wish I did have a copy of Anbinder...


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

Name one book, author and title, from the I section.

Yes, the obvious answer is Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White.
All 3 entries got that one.

Can anyone think of another I?

3.
Three books have the same title.

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

Ingenuity from the other 2, but only Angela zoomed in on the right title,
The Irish in Britain.

But did not get quite the right combination...

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

See Question 3. NO HIT so far...

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

Bit hard this one. As I say, the trap is in thinking that the
question in question must be the 'Irish Question'.

NO HITS so far...

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

I have accepted that the word 'exiles' contains the word 'exile. We
have had Kerby Miller and Dermot Bolger. I don't have Ward... So... This
question is effectively closed. Unless someone wants to add some more
ideas.

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

We have had Cecil Woodham Smith and Terry Eagleton. But of course I
have a general interest in famine theory and famine history.

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

NO HITS so far... O, you'll kick yourselves...

Paddy O'Sullivan

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There are two pieces of interest to the list in the current issue of An
Sionnach, Vol. 1, no. 2 edited by David Gardner at Creighton University (
Omaha, Nebraska, USA).

Joep Leersen, Letter to the New Ireland "Closer than They Appear: Europe in
the Rear View Mirror." There is no abstract, but it deals with the cultural
affinity of Ireland to the US and the ways in which contemporary Ireland is
more like the US than Europe.

A review of Chris Arthur, Irish Haiku by Denis Sampson.

Bill Mulligan

William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
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Murray State University
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Sport in History
Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
Issue: Volume 25, Number 2 / August 2005
Pages: 265 - 288


Keeping Them Under Pressure: Masculinity, Narratives of National
Regeneration and the Republic of Ireland Soccer Team

Marcus Free A1

A1 Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick

Abstract:

Since 1988 the Republic of Ireland soccer team has been cast, in Irish
media, as both symbol and material example of social, economic and cultural
regeneration in Ireland. This paper argues that such claims are narrative
discursive constructions, ways of collectively imagining national identity
and interpreting recent social change by elevating individuals within the
national team to the status of heroic national representatives and
conjunctural markers of the tension between tradition and modernity. Two
versions of this narrative are identified. The first is the construction of
the team in terms of a narrative of postcolonial national 'becoming', which
characterised the early years of Jack Charlton's managerial reign, Charlton
himself being the key symbolic figure. The second is the more recent
figuring of the team as symbol and example of the recent 'Celtic Tiger'
economic boom, the key player in which was Roy Keane. In both narratives,
aggressively competitive masculinity is romanticised as a gauge of national
achievement, and narrative progression is figured as the progressive
displacement of outmoded masculinities by new forms. The interplay of
constructions of national identity and masculinity reflects the
interdependency and contingency of both forms of collective identity.

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We are now in the Endgame of the Traditional Irish Diaspora list St.
Patrick's Day Competition 2006...

Joan Dean (MO) cracked question 1. The obvious answer is
Arensberg, C.M. (1959, c1937). The Irish countryman. Gloucester, Mass: =
Peter
Smith.

I do not have Linda Dowling Almeida, Irish Immigrants in New York City,
1945-1995. I do have books by Chris Arthur and Bruce Arnold...

But Arensberg is the one, really...

Marion Casey (NY) got questions 3 and 4 spot on...

I do have 3 Irish in Britains, by

Kevin O'Connor
Graham Davis
Roger Swift & Sheridan Gilley

And, of course, I do not have John Denvir. Who does?

Marion also scored in question 6, Lees, Exiles of Erin, and in 7, =
Newman,
Hunger in history. And of course I have lots by Dr=E8ze and by Sen...

Really, I think all that is left now is question 8...
What is the last book in the collection, author and title, on the bottom
shelf, right hand corner, near the window?

No, not Richard White, Car Wittke, Carlton Younger, not any Yeats...

Looking at the databases again, I am struck by those odd patterns. =
Exile,
questions and hunger leap out of course - there's a readymade book title =
for
someone. But why is the I section so small, and the A section?

Of course the M and O sections are monstrous, all those Macs, Mcs and =
Os.
Which I must let the database organise according to its own rules - =
because
it would be silly to do anything else. But I see, for example, =
depending
when a book or article was published, and the subtlety of the original
citation system, that the same person is given variously as...

=D3 Gr=E1da, Cormac
O Grada, Cormac
O'Grada, Cormac

So I'll have to check back and see how those variants arose...

Anyway, back to question 8...

Paddy

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I have no sense that the debate within Ireland about the nature of =
emigrant
citizenship and the possibility of votes for emigrants was conducted =
with
any great profundity. I would like to be corrected - but my feeling was
that profundity was actually avoided...

But these discussions are being taken seriously elsewhere in the world, =
with
real discussion about the nature of citizenship. On that note some IR-D
members might find interesting the latest issue of New York University =
Law
Review, Volume 81, Number 1, April 2006...

http://www.law.nyu.edu/journals/lawreview/issues/vol81/no1/index.html

It is a special issue on emigrant citizenship and the emigrant vote. =
All
the articles are freely available on the web site.

P.O'S.

Volume 81, Number 1
SYMPOSIUM

A Tribute to the Work of Kim Barry: The Construction of Citizenship in =
an
Emigration Context
=95 Dedication: For Kim, and Her World
Barry Friedman
=95 Introduction: Kim Barry's Fruitful Provocation
Peter H. Schuck
=95 Home and Away: The Construction of Citizenship in an Emigration
Context
Kim Barry
=95 Homeward Bound
Anupam Chander
=95 Rethinking Emigrant Citizenship
David Fitzgerald
=95 Transnational Politics and the Democratic Nation-State:
Normative Challenges of Expatriate Voting and Nationality Retention of
Emigrants
Ruth Rubio-Mar=EDn
=95 The Race for Talent: Highly Skilled Migrants and Competitive
Immigration Regimes
Ayelet Shachar
=95 Perfecting Political Diaspora
Peter J. Spiro
=95 The Political Economy of Emigration and Immigration
Michael J. Trebilcock & Matthew Sudak

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This web site will be of interest. The key names on the site are DR JAMES
MCCONNEL, DR LINDE LUNNEY, DR WILLIAM ROULSTON, COLIN BROOKS...

http://www.1718migration.org.uk/s_home.asp

P.O'S.

From the web site...

In 1718, the first organized migration of Scots and Irish-born Presbyterian
people left the north of Ireland on their way to a new life in the New
England colonies in north America.

Parts of their story are familiar, but much has been forgotten. This website
sets out what is known of the history of the Scots and Irish of the 1718
migration, and also reminds us of the lives of those who were left behind in
Ireland.

Sons and daughters and grandchildren of some of the people who arrived in
New Hampshire moved on to other parts of America; some of those who were
left behind in Ireland, as well as many thousands of people of later
generations left Ireland to go elsewhere in the New World.

The internet and email may make it possible to pool together knowledge of
distant ancestors, so that people from Ireland, America and elsewhere can
link up to start to re-create connections between people and places that
were sundered almost three hundred years ago.

The website has sections on genealogy, as well as links to further
information on travel and on Ulster and Scots heritage.

This website has been created by the Ulster-Scots Agency in association with
the Ulster Historical Foundation and the Centre for Migration Studies and
the Institute of Ulster-Scots Studies.

http://www.1718migration.org.uk/s_home.asp

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Wickham, J. and Boucher, G. (2004) Training cubs for the Celtic Tiger: the
volume production of technical graduates in the Irish educational system.
Journal of Education and Work, 17, 377 - 395.

This article examines the claim that the Irish educational system was one
cause of Ireland's rapid economic growth in the 1990s. For decades Irish
economic policy has assumed that economic growth depended on foreign direct
investment (FDI). During the 1990s, Irish exports largely comprised
high-technology manufacturing products; foreign-owned firms required a small
but significant stream of qualified technical labour. The overall standard
of Irish education is not impressive: it generates large numbers of
educational failures and has no research tradition. Comparison with the
systems of other 'Tiger' economies, such as South Korea and Taiwan, shows
that it has concentrated on the low-cost production of technical graduates,
often in short-cycle and sub-degree level courses. It was this particular
educational structure, and not the standard of the system as a whole, that
facilitated rapid economic growth based on FDI in high-tech industry.

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Issue: Volume 33, Number 4 / July 2004
Pages: 469 - 481

Researching the lives of Catholic teachers who were members of religious =
orders: historiographical considerations

Tom O'Donoghue A1 and Anthony Potts A2

A1 Graduate School of Education The University of Western Australia =
Nedlands Western Australia 6009 Tom.O'Donoghue[at]uwa.edu.au
A2 School of Education, Bendigo Campus La Trobe University Australia

This article does not have an abstract.

Oh yes it does...

When many of the parents of those currently attending Catholic schools =
throughout much of the English-speaking world were being educated, the =
Catholic teaching force was heavily influenced by the presence of the =
religious orders. Furthermore, this had been the situation for over a =
century. The turning point was the mid-1960s and the opening up of the =
Catholic Church (the Church) to the modern world as a result of the =
Second Vatican Council (1962=EF=BF=BD65). Amongst the related =
developments were large numbers leaving the orders, a major drop off in =
new recruits and a consequent need to employ ever-greater numbers of lay =
teachers. Consequently, young people being educated nowadays in Catholic =
schools are usually taught by lay teachers, the principals in their =
schools are lay men and women, and lay people predominate on their =
school boards. Equally, the presence of nuns, religious brothers and =
priests as teachers and administrators in the schools is minimal. The =
article suggests that more research is needed that examines the =
political, social and economic motivations underlying the actions of the =
religious teaching orders and an effort to understand how their members =
were constructed for their roles.

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Rethinking History
Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
Issue: Volume 10, Number 02 / June 2006
Pages: 239 - 258
URL: Linking Options
DOI: 10.1080/13642520600649481


Time and the study of assimilation

Nancy L. Green

Abstract:

This article seeks to explore the ways in which efforts to classify
assimilation (and its various opposites) are linked to notions of time-the
relative rate of incorporation-and are themselves produced in different
historical periods. The concept of assimilation incorporates different
time-scales and generations into its analysis but the use of the term also
has its own cycles of usage. 'Assimilation' therefore needs to be
re-examined not simply as a description of immigration history per se but as
an analytic category constructed by sociologists and historians over time
and using different time frames.