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European Journal of Criminology, Vol. 2, No. 2, 185-209 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/1477370805050865
=A9 2005 European Society of Criminology, SAGE Publications
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The =91Other=92 Lessons from Ireland?
Policing, Political Violence and Policy Transfer
Aog=E1n Mulcahy

University College Dublin, Ireland, aogan.mulcahy[at]ucd.ie

In a paper entitled =91Lessons from Ireland=92, Paddy Hillyard argued =
that
Northern Ireland essentially served as a testing ground for the =
development
of repressive policy measures that eventually would transfer elsewhere. =
In
this article, I engage with the important thesis advanced by Hillyard =
and
others, and argue that it stands in need of theoretical refinement and
empirical elaboration. First, I highlight some factors that might be
considered in any re-evaluation of this approach. Second, I examine the
impact of the Northern conflict on policing in Britain and the Republic =
of
Ireland, both to demonstrate the salience of these issues and to =
highlight
ways in which the conflict=92s impact was tempered by other factors. =
Finally,
I suggest that a focus on the negative lessons of conflict should be
complemented by attention to positive lessons of conflict and its =
resolution

Key Words: British Policing =95 Irish Policing =95 Northern Ireland =
Conflict =95
Policy Transfer =95 Political Violence

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Media, Culture & Society, Vol. 22, No. 6, 763-785 (2000)
C 2000 SAGE Publications

'Lifting the veil': the arts, broadcasting and Irish Society
Brian O'Neill

Dublin Institute of Technology, Eire

This article examines the role played by broadcasting in Irish artistic and
cultural life from independence in 1922 to 1960 with the onset of formal
modernization. It examines the cultural context for the arts in early
independent Ireland in which a mood of ambivalence and sometimes outright
hostility to high culture prevailed. Rather than a profound disjunction
between pre- and post-modernizing phases of Irish history, however, this
article argues that there were important lines of continuity in cultural
experience, in particular middle-class experience of the arts, which
continue to inform Irish cultural life up to the present. Such cultural
experience may be characterized by its pervasive middlebrow sensibility
which, starved of the traditional institutional supports for culture, made
up in amateur enthusiasm what was missing in cultural capital. Broadcasting,
in fact, was the key institution in the middlebrow process of cultural
development in pre-1960s Ireland which along with the developing arts policy
of the time can be seen to give a different complexion to a period in Irish
history better known for its cultural impoverishment and repressive nature.

Key Words: arts policy . broadcasting . Ireland . social class

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Very interesting addition to the 'secul;arisation of Irishness' discussion -
Terence McBride is to be congratulated...

P.O'S.


Irishness in Glasgow, 1863-70

Author: McBride, Terence

Source: Immigrants & Minorities, Volume 24, Number 1, March 2006, pp.
1-21(21)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:
The purpose of this article is to examine a radically new phase in Irish
popular politics in Glasgow during the 1860s. More precisely, the aim is to
describe and explain how a secular notion of Irishness made a decisive
impact on a key migrant community in Britain. Actively opposed by the local
Catholic hierarchy, this secular Irishness nevertheless allowed for the
emergence not only of Irish `ward politicians' as elsewhere in Victorian
Britain, but also, in the longer term, allowed for the emergence of John
Ferguson and his `fusion' of loyalties to both organised labour and Irish
nationalism.

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Broadly, the conclusion is that the Irish presidency built on a solid
foundation of good will, accumulated in the past...

P.O'S.


What Makes a Good EU Presidency? Italy and Ireland Compared

Authors: QUAGLIA, LUCIA; MOXON-BROWNE, EDWARD

Source: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 44, Number 2, June 2006,
pp. 349-368(20)

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

Abstract:

What makes a `good' EU presidency? A comparison between the two most recent
Italian and Irish experiences in office can be instrumental in evaluating
the crucial factors that affect presidency performance. The argument is
developed in three main stages. Firstly, four key roles are selected in
order to benchmark presidencies. Secondly, these roles are applied to the
empirical record as criteria to devise a score-card of the two presidencies
under consideration. Thirdly, presidency-specific factors are elicited and
analysed, arguing that intangible assets, such as knowledge of EU affairs
(process expertise, content expertise and information); political
credibility and reputation; and general attitudes towards European
integration, are crucial in performing the roles of president-in-office
effectively and legitimately.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5965.2006.00626.x

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This issue contains:

Introduction: The significance of Irishness
p. 163
Aidan Arrowsmith

Migrating Masculinities: The Irish diaspora in Britain
p. 169
Liviu Popoviciu, Chris Haywood, Mairtin Mac an Ghaill

'One Scotland Many Cultures': Knowledge, acknowledgement and invisibility,
Aiden McGeady, and the sports media in a multicultural society
p. 189
Joseph M. Bradley

Curious Hybridities: Transnational negotiations of migrancy through
generation
p. 207
Breda Gray

Migrancy, Performativity And Autobiographical Identity
p. 225
Liam Harte

Curious Streets: Diaspora, displacement and transgression in Desmond Hogan's
London Irish narratives
p. 239
Tony Murray

Memory, Photography, Ireland
p. 255
Timothy O'Grady

Extract From I Could Read The Sky1
p. 263
Timothy O'Grady, Steve Pyke

Reviews
p. 273

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This article does what it sets out to do - compare and contrast what is
actually in the textbooks. So, a useful addition to the scholarship on
textbooks and education. But Jan Germen
Janmaat places his discussion very nicely in wider discussions of
nationalism - eg Kohn v Kuzio. Some mention of the work of Bill Kissane...

P.O'S.

History and National Identity Construction: The Great Famine in Irish and
Ukrainian History Textbooks

Author: Janmaat, Jan Germen

Source: History of Education, Volume 35, Number 3, May 2006, pp. 345-368(24)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:
This paper compares the narratives on the Famine in Irish and Ukrainian
history textbooks and examines to what extent these narratives are coloured
by a nationalist discourse. It argues that the story of the Famine in Irish
history textbooks has changed from nationalist propaganda to a more balanced
narrative, and that this change was brought about by the social
transformations in the 1960s. The paper further observes that the current
Ukrainian textbooks display quite a variation in the selection and
interpretation of events relating to the Famine. Whereas some show a
considerable nationalist bias, others present more moderate views. The
trajectory of Irish narratives lends support to a theory that relates
politicized historiography to the age of a state and to the consolidation of
democracy. The diverse pattern of Ukrainian narratives, however, is
difficult to reconcile with theories linking historiography to the wider
social and political context. This pattern suggests that young states and/or
states emerging from authoritarian rule need not automatically entertain
uniformly nationalist or otherwise ideologically coloured discourses in the
immediate post independence period.

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Can you supply the ref. to Hillyard's original article?
Thanks,
Kerby


>Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
>European Journal of Criminology, Vol. 2, No. 2, 185-209 (2005)
>DOI: 10.1177/1477370805050865
>=A9 2005 European Society of Criminology, SAGE Publications
>
>The =91Other=92 Lessons from Ireland?
>Policing, Political Violence and Policy Transfer
>Aog=E1n Mulcahy
>
>University College Dublin, Ireland, aogan.mulcahy[at]ucd.ie
>
>In a paper entitled =91Lessons from Ireland=92, Paddy Hillyard argued =
that
>Northern Ireland essentially served as a testing ground for the =
development
>of repressive policy measures that eventually would transfer elsewhere. =
In
>this article, I engage with the important thesis advanced by Hillyard =
and
>others, and argue that it stands in need of theoretical refinement and
>empirical elaboration. First, I highlight some factors that might be
>considered in any re-evaluation of this approach. Second, I examine the
>impact of the Northern conflict on policing in Britain and the Republic =
of
>Ireland, both to demonstrate the salience of these issues and to =
highlight
>ways in which the conflict=92s impact was tempered by other factors. =
Finally,
>I suggest that a focus on the negative lessons of conflict should be
>complemented by attention to positive lessons of conflict and its
resolution
>
>Key Words: British Policing =95 Irish Policing =95 Northern Ireland =
Conflict =95
>Policy Transfer =95 Political Violence

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Kerby,

Aog=E1n Mulcahy list 4 Paddy Hillyard items...

# Hillyard, P. (1985). Lessons from Ireland. In B. Fine and R. Millar =
(eds)
Policing the miners=92 strike, 177-187. London: Lawrence & Wishart .
# Hillyard, P. (1987). The normalization of special powers: From =
Northern
Ireland to Britain. In P. Scraton (ed.) Law, order and the authoritarian
state, 279-312. Milton Keynes: Open University Press .
# Hillyard, P. (1993). Suspect community. London: Pluto .
# Hillyard, P. (1997). Policing divided societies: Trends and prospects =
in
Northern Ireland and Britain. In P. Francis, P. Davies and V. Jupp (eds)
Policing futures, 163-185. London: Macmillan.

And cites them all at various times. The 1985 gives the title quote, =
but I
would guess that the 1987 is the most cited. Paddy H.=92s recurring =
theme is
that special, emergency powers easily, and usually, become =
=91normalized=92...
What Mulcahy calls the =91contagion thesis=92... This article questions =
the
contagion thesis, and is part of Mulcahy=92s continuing work on the =
histories
of policing in Ireland and in Britain =96 one of his aims is to stress =
the
amount of continuing co-operation between the police forces in the two
administrations.

P.O=92S.


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Can you supply the ref. to Hillyard's original article?
Thanks,
Kerby

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Volume 10, number 1 of New Hibernia Review has been launched into the =
world,
in time to brighten your summer reading.

Here is a TOC and abbreviated editors' notes:

Maureen O'Connor, Fearful Symmetry: An Emigrant's Return to Celtic =
Tiger
Ireland, pp. 9-16

In a memoir of her father's return to County Roscommon, Maureen =
O'Connor of
National University of Ireland, Galway, recounts a contemporary =
iteration of
the familiar "returned Yank" trope --discovering there an uneasy mix of =
both
continuities and disruptions.=20

Eric G. E Zuelow, "Ingredients for Cooperation": Irish Tourism in
North-South Relations, 1924-1998, pp. 17-39.

Dr. Eric Zuelow of West Liberty State College charts the Irish tourism
industry's long tradition of cross-border cooperation between Northern
Ireland and the Republic. Despite constitutional and ideological
antagonisms, the industry has proven its capacity to trump political
differences; tourism collaboration played an especially prominent role =
in
the historic Lemass-O'Neill meeting of 1965. =20
=20
David Krause, Fil=EDocht Nua/New Poetry, pp. 40-45

David Krause offers a selection of short-limbed, casual sonnets
memorializing the scenes and characters of an Ireland now obscured from =
view
by European prosperity. =20

Elizabeth Grubgeld, Castleleslie.com: Autobiography, Heritage Tourism, =
and
Digital Design, pp 46-64

Elizabeth Grubgeld of Oklahoma State University turns her attention to =
a
contemporary development of the Anlglo-Irish autobiography : the web =
site
created by the Leslie family of County Monaghan, which has, with the =
help of
governmental and European Union funding, turned the family home into a
luxury hotel. =20

Troy D. Davis, Eamon de Val=E9ra's Political Education: The American =
Tour of
1919-20, pp. 65-78

Troy Davis of Stephen F. Austin University examines Eamon de =
Val=E9ra's
eighteen-month American trip to garner political and financial support. =
De
Val=E9ra--who had almost no prior experience of political strife within =
Irish
republicanism-found himself crosswise in a bitter fight over the =
direction
of Irish nationalism.

Violence and Vernacular in Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, pp. 79-99.

Thomas McGuire of the US Air Force Academy scrutinizes Seamus Heaney's
translation of Beowulf (2000) which abounds with Ulster idiom and
vocabulary. These "vernacularized" translations are central to Heaney's
project of describing Ireland's postcolonial present, as they can be =
traced
to a history of violence and conquest.
=20
Paul Delaney, "Nobody Now Knows Which...": Transition and Piety in =
Daniel
Corkery's Short Fiction, pp. 100-110=20

Paul Delaney of Trinity College Dublin considers Daniel Corkery's =
literary
legacy, especially his 1929 collection The Stormy Hills, and finds the
stories "strikingly interrogate his own idea of an 'unchanging idiom.' =
"

=20
Michael Harris Outside History: Edna O'Brien's House of Splendid =
Isolation,
111-22
=20
Harris, of Central College in Iowa, argues that the fragmented =
narrative
strategy of Edna O'Brien's novel A House of Splendid Isolation =
displays the
deeper purposes of the novel, which he finds to be am "unrelenting =
critique
of history."=20

Helen Lojek. Man, Woman, Soldier: Heaney's "In Memoriam Francis =
Ledwidge"
and Boland's "Heroic," pp. 123-38

Helen Lojek of Boise State University examines two poems by prominent =
Irish
poets, each written in response to a war memorial statue. Much divides =
the
individual responses: twenty years, a contested border, differing =
national
traditions of memory, and most prominently, the perspective of gender.


Sheila Phelan, Edward F. Barrett (1869-1936), Abbey Playwright, pp. =
139-46.
=20
A creative writer and student of drama history, Sheila Phelan of NUIG =
calls
our attention to the short career of Edward F. Barrett, a Dublin =
businessman
who tried his hand at drama in his one and only play, The Grabber, in =
1918.
The article features a previously unpublished letter from W. B. Yeats =
to
Barrett, in which the poet advises how best to revise the script. =20



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Managing Editor/New Hibernia Review
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St Paul, MN 55105-1096
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Call for Papers-The Irish in the Atlantic World,
Feb 27-March 2, 2007

The Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World (CLAW) at the
College
of Charleston calls for papers on the Irish in the Atlantic World. The
conference will take place in Charleston, South Carolina, from Feb. 27
to March
2, 2007. It will examine the experience of Irish of all denominations and
traditions around the Atlantic as well as the Irish impact on the Atlantic
World as a whole, from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries; from the
United States and Canada, to the Caribbean, Latin America and Africa. This
interdisciplinary conference welcomes papers on Irish and Irish diaspora
history, folklore, literature, etc. We hope to examine questions such
as: Was
there an Irish Atlantic World? Were Irish migrants a key element in creating
an Atlantic network? What can the Irish experience in the Atlantic World tell
us about the Atlantic economy, Atlantic politicalsystems, race
relations, etc.,
between 1500 and the present? What impact did the Irish in the Atlantic World
have on Ireland? How did the Irish create various diasporic cultures around
the Atlantic? In particular, what influence did Irishmen and women have on the
Carolina lowcountry and American South?

We particularly encourage new scholars and graduate students to submit
proposals. Major scholars in the field have committed to comment on papers,
including Kerby Miller, Janet Nolan, Bernadette Whelan, John Waters, Patrick
Griffin, Eamonn Wall, Edmundo Murray, and Kieran Quinlan. A volume of
selected
papers from the conference will be published in our Carolina Atlantic World
Series by the University of South Carolina Press (For more info. see
www.sc.edu/uscpress )

Charleston is a prime location for this conference. It was a major
city in the
Atlantic World with strong connections to Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean as
well as other parts of North America. It was also a major entrepot for Ulster
immigrants and boasted a sizable Irish Catholic population in the nineteenth
century. Among its famous Irish-Americans were John and Edward Rutledge,
signers of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, Pierce Butler
(South Carolina's first U.S. Senator), John England (first bishop of
Charleston
and founder of the first Catholic newspaper in the United State), noted etcher
and artist Elizabeth O'Neill Verner and James "Jimmy" Byrnes (Secretary of
State under President Harry Truman). The city boasts an active Hibernian
society, founded in 1799, as well as other Irish ethnic organizations.

Please submit one-page proposals and one-page c.v. to Dr. David T. Gleeson,
Dept. of History, College of Charleston, 66 George St., Charleston, South
Carolina 29424 or as an attachment to gleesond[at]cofc.edu by August 15,
2006. For more info. on the CLAW program visit
www.cofc.edu/atlanticworld/





Michael de Nie
Department of History
University of West Georgia
mdenie[at]westga.edu

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Volume 21 Number 2/June 2006 of Irish Political Studies is now available...

This issue contains:

Peter Hain, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland: Valuing the Union?
p. 113
Paul Dixon

Ulster Says Maybe: The Restructuring of Evangelical Politics in Northern
Ireland
p. 137
Gladys Ganiel

'.it's a United Ireland or Nothing'? John Hume and the Idea of Irish Unity,
1964-72
p. 157
P. J. McLoughlin

Social Inclusion and the Limits of Pragmatic Liberalism: The Irish Case
p. 181
Marie Moran

The Northern Ireland Government, the 'Paisleyite Movement' and Ulster
Unionism in 1966
p. 203
Margaret O'Callaghan, Catherine O'Donnell

Conor Cruise O'Brien and the Legitimation of Violence
p. 223
Diarmuid Whelan

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The end of the Endgame of the Traditional Irish Diaspora list St.
Patrick's Day Competition 2006...

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

Answer...
Zimmermann, G.D. (2002). Songs of Irish rebellion. Dublin: Four Courts
Press.

Throughout the world a collective cry of, Of Course...

But no one got it. People worked down through V, W and Y - but no one got
to Z. Strange...

I will be contacting the prize-winners to discuss possible prizes from my
spare books collection...

Paddy

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and appears here on the Irish Diaspora list with the permission of the
editors of Field Day Review...

P.O'S,

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An Irish Revolution in Eighteenth-Century America?
T. H. Breen

Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan:
Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675-1815
Written and edited by Kerby A. Miller, Arnold Schrier, Bruce D. Boling, and
David N. Doyle
New York: Oxford University Press, 2003
xxvii + 788 pages. ISBN 0-19-504513-0

Occasionally, one encounters a new book that radically revises how one
thinks
about familiar historical events. Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan
strikes me as just such a volume. To be sure, it seems highly unlikely that
the scholars who so painstakingly collected and annotated these materials
intended the project to be provocative. They reproduce hundreds of letters
and
memoirs written by Irish migrants spanning the entire eighteenth century,
and
then in marvellously detailed introductory essays, they explore the specific
social contexts in which these documents were produced. The entire project
was
clearly a labour of love. Almost eight hundred pages long and containing
thousands of notes on genealogy, linguistics, and bibliography, Irish
Immigrants is an extraordinary accomplishment.

For the most part the modern reader meets in this volume ordinary men and
women,
in other words, the sorts of people who most often go missing from standard
accounts of the period. What makes this collection so provocative, at least
for
me, is that once we have learned so much about the Irish in Early America,
we
discover that we no longer quite know where they fit in the stories we tell
ourselves about popular politics on the eve of the American Revolution.
These
obscure travellers raise new questions that take us far beyond particular
letters and memoirs.

A single example from Philadelphia in 1774 reveals how the Irish migrants
might
destabilize traditional narratives about colonial resistance to the British
Empire. Christopher Marshall, a modestly prosperous Quaker, kept a wonderful
diary, which recounted, among other things, the opening of the First
Continental Congress. The diary does not appear in Irish Immigrants; it is a
source I used for other purposes. During the last days of August, Marshall
noted the arrival of each colonial delegation. Some representatives had
journeyed from as far away as South Carolina and Massachusetts; others came
from New York and Maryland. Marshall seemed acutely conscious of the
historical significance of the gathering. On 29 August, he observed, 'Came
to
town, Hon. Thomas Cushing, Samuel Adams, Robert Treat Paine, and John Adams,
delegates from the Province of Massachusetts, with whom came in company,
from
New York, John Rutledge, delegate from South Carolina, who took his passage
to
New York.' Two days later the representatives from New York, New Hampshire,
Connecticut, and Maryland showed up in Philadelphia. It was an impressive
assemblage of talent, and whether we call them American Patriots or Founding
Fathers, we have no trouble interpreting their presence in Marshall's diary.
He
helps us document a traditional narrative of national independence, one that
awards primacy to the achievements of a political elite.

Another element runs through the diary. It provides a kind of backdrop to
the
activities of the members of the Continental Congress. Marshall repeatedly
provided news of ships carrying large numbers of Irish migrants. On 15 July,
for example, he wrote, 'Arrived this day at New Castle, the ship Peace and
Plenty, Captain McKinzey, with four hundred passengers, from Belfast.' A few
days later 110 people from Waterford landed, followed almost immediately by
220
from Newry. On 10 August, Marshall noted the arrival of 'the ship Hannah,
Captain Mitchell, from Londonderry, with four hundred passengers.' On 20
August, 600 Irish from Londonderry appeared in Philadelphia. Day after day,
as
Marshall's list of Irish newcomers expanded, we find ourselves asking what
possible relation these anonymous people could have had to the dominant
interpretation of colonial resistance and rebellion. Were the migrants
simply
impoverished peasants in search of economic opportunity and not particularly
concerned with the growing protest and popular mobilization then sweeping
through Provincial America? Were the Irish merely bit players in a larger
story
of the creation of a new republican government? Was it possible that they
figured centrally in the popular demand for political liberty and
eventually,
for national independence?

Answers for such questions are hard to come by. The literature of Atlantic
History certainly provides little help. Scholars working within this
currently
popular field focus attention on the broad flow of people, commerce and
ideas
throughout a huge area, which they call the Atlantic World. Whatever the
merits
of this approach, Atlantic History generally shows only passing interest in
political resistance to the exercise of imperial power. Within the context
of
Early Modern Irish history, however, the issues of power have been more
clearly
drawn. Nicholas Canny and others, for example, have analyzed the seventeenth
century when English plantations in Ireland provided American adventurers
with
harsh models for settlement and pacification. But for us Canny's work serves
largely to highlight another major problem. As Patrick Griffin has shown in
his
aptly titled The People with No Name (2001), it was during the eighteenth
century when so many thousands of people transferred from Ireland,
particularly
Ulster, to North America that the connection between Irish migrants and
imperial
power becomes increasingly murky.

In fact, the Irish seem to go missing almost entirely from general histories
of
the period at precisely the moment when their numbers begin to expand at
extraordinary rates. It is curious that American historians of the
eighteenth
century profess to know more about English and Germany migrants during the
run
up to independence than they do about the Irish. Between 1763 and 1775 over
55,000 Protestant Irish - most of them people whom American historians
conventionally call Scotch-Irish - moved to America. During that same
period
Scotland accounted for some 40,000 immigrants, England 30,000, and the
German-speaking areas of the Continent another 12,000, and yet, to cite just
one example, Jon Butler's survey of eighteenth-century colonial American
history published in 2000 mentions only in passing the huge flood of men and
women who traded ancestral homes in the counties of Antrim, Armagh, and Down
for an uncertain future in a distant land. These people not only have no
name,
they also threaten to disappear from the pages of history altogether.

Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan describes the general character of
the
eighteenth-century Irish migration to America. On this level of analysis the
editors offer no surprises. An overwhelming percentage of the settlers came
from Ulster; most identified themselves as Presbyterian. A much smaller
number
were Quakers or members of the Church of Ireland, but before the 1790s the
Catholics knew that a hostile reception awaited them in the fiercely
Protestant
culture of colonial America. Like other migrations to the New World, the
Irish
transfer involved more males than females. It favoured the young; many
immigrants travelled as indentured servants, trusting that they would
survive
long enough to gain freedom and then, if all went well, a farm of their own.

Between the late 1600s and 1815 - the period covered in this book - about
400,000 men and women took a chance on America. Although a great many
Scotch-Irish settled in Pennsylvania, large groups could be found in New
Hampshire, the Carolinas, and Georgia. The fact that they did not hive
together may help explain why they seemed to disappear in America. They
generally lived in small frontier communities; many simply blended into the
local society. But wherever they resided, the eighteenth-century Irish
tended
both to frighten and annoy their non-Irish neighbours. In 1767 Rev. Charles
Woodmason, an Anglican minister, warned that the upland regions of the South
were drawing 'a Sett of the most lowest vilest Crew breathing - Scotch-Irish
Presbyterians from the North of Ireland.' Irish farms never appeared to
contemporaries to be as neat or productive as those owned by the Germans.
The
Scotch Irish went about their lives as they saw fit, showing distressingly
little deference for established ecclesiastical or civil authorities, and
perhaps to the discomfort of modern American historians, expressing few
qualms
about purchasing African American slaves or slaughtering Indians in the Ohio
Valley.

Kerby Miller and his co-editors try to explain why so many Irish people
elected
to migrate. Although they recognize that it is impossible ever to know for
certain why individuals behaved in certain ways, they reject the dichotomous
proposition that men and women leave their homelands for either economic or
religious reasons. These two considerations often worked in tandem so that
individuals who were unhappy about the state of religion in their local
communities were also likely to be under-employed and fearful that they
would
fall to the bottom of the social ladder. For much of the eighteenth century
Ulster Protestants complained loudly about declining prosperity; British
restrictions on the linen trade hit them particularly hard. The same people
also protested how they were treated by the Church of Ireland and protested
the
unfairness of having to pay hard-earned money to a sect that showed them
little
respect.

It is not surprising, therefore, that many letters appearing in this
collection
express anger and frustration about conditions in the northern counties. And
like other migrants to America over the centuries, once they had established
themselves across the Atlantic, purchasing or taking land, the Irish pined
for
the world they had left behind. John Rea, who settled near Savannah informed
his brother in county Down, 'I do not expect to have the Pleasure of seeing
you
in this Country, nor would I advise any Person to come here that lives well
in
Ireland; because there is not the Pleasure of Society that there is there,
and
the Comfort of the Gospel preached; no Fair nor Market to go to; but we have
greater Plenty of good Eating and Drinking.' In the mid-1760s Thomas Burke,
who
came originally from county Galway, capped a long series of personal
successes
in America by telling someone in Ireland, 'I want the Bosom of my Friends
and
my Native Country. Could I carry America to Ireland or bring Ireland hither
I
should be completely blest.' For all the nostalgia about lost Old World
conviviality, however, migrants like Burke and Rea knew full well that 'good
Eating' in America always trumped chronic Irish poverty.

On two topics Irish Immigrants stakes out more complex interpretive ground.
The
editors believe that they have something significant to say about
'identity,' a
slippery concept that seems endlessly to fascinate contemporary cultural
historians. In Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837 (1992) historian Linda
Colley placed religious identity at the centre of her analysis of British
nationalism. Scholars working in other regions - David A. Bell's The Cult of
the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800 (2001), for example -
have followed Colley's lead and have argued persuasively that the
intensification of political identity which inspires patriotic sacrifice is
culturally constructed, in other words, a product of particular conditions,
some internal, some external, but in the aggregate a shared sense of self
that
powerfully sets some people off from others.

Irish Immigrants makes a good case for the invention of an Irish identity in
America. The great majority of migrants originated in Ulster; they were
Scotch-Irish Presbyterians who had no affection for Catholics. But once in
the
colonies they found themselves in an entirely different cultural
environment.
Many Americans of English stock regarded the Scotch-Irish as bunch of
hard-drinking, lazy, irresponsible, potentially violent individuals. In this
setting people from Ulster, especially those who aspired to be upwardly
mobile
in the New World, wanted to distance themselves from their own regional and
religious identity and to claim instead that they were really Irish, a
generic
label that served to liberate these people from a narrowly Scotch-Irish
heritage.

The editors of this volume describe this invented eighteenth-century
Irishness
in almost nostalgic terms. They suggest that perhaps - if only for a few
decades - it was possible to imagine that Irish people of different
backgrounds
and religious affiliations might have overcome their own separate histories
and
formed a positive sense of self so compelling that it could incorporate even
Irish Catholics. 'By the last third of the eighteenth century,' the editors
explain, 'Ireland's immigrants in America . were forging more inclusive
'ideal'
communities and 'Irish' identities that were neither entirely confined
within
the homeland's traditional ethno-religious boundaries nor completely
subsumed
in an homogenous 'American' nationalism.' As the letters and memoirs make
clear, almost no one who migrated to the colonies before the Revolution
adopted
the term 'Scotch Irish.'

The vocabulary of ethnic identity shifted dramatically after the Americans
won
their independence. Irish Protestants - a group that contained Anglicans as
well as Presbyterians - began championing a Scotch-Irish label in part to
distinguish themselves from the ever larger numbers of Catholics who were
now
moving to the United States and who felt no special bond of ethnicity with
people long associated with religious oppression in Ireland. The editors
refuse
to lay the blame for the breakdown of Irish unity solely on the fiery
rhetoric
of Daniel O'Connell and the Irish-Catholic clergy in the United States. They
argue that a positive assertion of Scotch-Irishness may have actually
pre-dated
the surge of Catholic emigration, but the evidence for this point frankly
seems
too thin to sustain a claim that a shared sense of Irishness might have
taken
root in America had it not been 'at length overwhelmed and submerged by new
waves of Protestant and Catholic immigrants who espoused the religious
tribalism and confessional politics that produced such bitter strife on both
sides of the ocean.'

Beyond the politics of ethnic identity, the Miller volume raises another
issue
of profound significance. This is the aspect of the book that forces us to
re-think the character of popular mobilization during the last years of
British
rule in America. As Marshall's diary reminds us, the number of Ulster
Presbyterians arriving in colonial ports, but especially in Philadelphia,
was
huge. The editors observe in passing that 'Scots-Irish and other Ulster
emigration prior to the American Revolution peaked in 1770-1775, when
perhaps
30,000 departed for the colonies, primarily from the east and mid-Ulster
counties of Antrim, Down, and Armagh.' These people seem to have been poorer
than early Irish migrants; they were deeply antagonistic to British rule
even
before they embarked for the New World. In a letter written in April 1773
and
reproduced in this collection, Henry Johnson of county Down congratulated
his
brother Moses on his safe arrival 'with your Family out of A Land of Slavery
into A Land of Liberty and freedom.' Perhaps Johnson went a little over the
top. Other commentators, however, believed that these people migrated not
only
for religious and economic reasons, but for political imperatives. As the
English diarist Sylas Neville scribbled in 1767, 'the Gazette says 10,000
people a year go from the North of Ireland to America and 40,000 in all. May
they flourish and set up in due time a glorious free government in that
country
which may serve as a retreat to those Free men who may survive the final
ruin of
liberty in this country.'

How many Ulster migrants took such an apocalyptic view of imperial politics
is
impossible to know. What is clear is that American radicals - those who
contemplated armed resistance against oppressive parliamentary taxes - saw
the
Irish as allies. The Massachusetts Spy for 17 November 1775 assured readers
who
were busy preparing for war that 'the common people of Ireland were almost
unanimous in favour of the Americans.' Another issue dated 6 September 1775
explained 'Since our last arrived here three vessels from Ireland, with 550
passengers, most of whom will make good soldiers for America.' The British
administrator in South Carolina, Lieutenant Governor William Bull, shared
this
view. Writing in 1775 to the Earl of Dartmouth, Bull worried about arming
recent Irish settlers who faced Indian attack on the colony's frontier. 'It
is
not improbable,' observed Bull, 'but many of the poor Irish may have been
White
Boys, Hearts of Oak or Hearts of Steel, who have been accustomed to oppose
law
and authority in Ireland, may change their disposition with their climate,
and
may think of other objects than Indians.'

One is tempted to take rhetoric of this sort with a grain of salt. After
all,
most Americans did not know much about the state of Irish society. Whatever
misperceptions may have circulated through the colonies the fact remains
that
the Irish did fight. 'Nearly half the Revolutionary War soldiers who fought
in
the Continental Army and state militia units raised in Pennsylvania,' the
editors explain, 'were of Irish birth or descent.' Job Johnson was such a
trooper. Born in south county Londonderry in 1745, Johnson volunteered for
difficult military duty throughout the Revolution. Looking back at these
years
during which he was seriously wounded in battle, Johnson assured his brother
in
Ireland that he had no second thoughts about his sacrifice for liberty;
after
all, he had been blessed by God 'who has at last given us the Victory, and
established our Independency.'

Like Johnson, Matthew Patten did not hesitate to take on the empire. He had
been
born in Ulster in 1719 and moved to Boston with his family nine years later.
Later in life he joined other Presbyterians in Bedford, New Hampshire, a
small
frontier community that the editors of this volume describe as a
'predominantly
Scots-Irish community.' And there he might have lived out his days in
peaceful
obscurity, an ordinary person in a struggling region. The controversy with
parliament, however, dramatically forced the Patten family to look beyond
the
boundaries of Bedford and when the New Englanders stood their ground on
Bunker
Hill, Matthew's son was on the field of battle. The young man sustained an
injury. We will never know whether the Pattens responded so enthusiastically
to
the American cause because they came originally from Ulster and harboured a
deep
sense of grievance against the British.

More certain is the human cost of patriotism. Matthew's son John died while
serving in an ill-fated American campaign against Canada. The final news
sparked a father's cry of anguish. In a diary entry dated 21 May 1776
Matthew
recounts that John 'was shot through his left arm at Bunkers hill fight and
now
was lead after suffering much fategue to the place where he now lyes in
defending the just Rights of America to whose end he came in The prime of
life
by means of that wicked Tyrannical Brute (nea worse than Brute) of Great
Britain. [John] was Twenty four years and 31 days old.'

We can now return to my initial reaction to Irish Immigrants. The book
strikes
me as so provocative because it raises the possibility that the Scotch-Irish
migrants who flooded into America on the eve of independence transformed the
political character of the conflict, forcing other colonists to take more
radical positions and thereby energizing resistance to the British Empire.
Historians generally take the long view of this controversy, recounting the
slow growth of protest. They search for institutional practices and local
political traditions, some dating back to the New England town meetings of
the
seventeenth century that might help us to explain the final burst of
revolutionary discontent. Other scholars have reconstructed the genealogy
of
abstract political ideas, arguing that Americans spoke the ancient language
of
civic humanism or classic republicanism.

All of this may be true. But just when we think we understand the coming of
the
American Revolution, we confront thousands of Ulster Presbyterians - the
very
people who may have passed by Carpenter's Hall, when the First Continental
Congress was in session - and we wonder whether Irish immigrants who were
committed to basic notions of rights and liberty and who had direct
experience
of British oppression may have waged an Irish Revolution against the Empire
in
America. Perhaps, in fact, we should reverse the long-standing assumption
that
the American Revolution accelerated the radicalization of late
eighteenth-century Irish society, and ask instead, how did the Irish
migrants
radicalize American politics.

An Irish Revolution in Eighteenth-Century America?
T. H. Breen

Field Day Review, 2, 2006

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Good to see Donald Akenson become so mellow...

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H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by H-Albion[at]h-net.msu.edu (May 2006)

Alexander Murdoch. _British Emigration, 1603-1914_. Houndsmills:
Palgrave MacMillan, 2005. 176 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $75.00
(cloth), ISBN 0-333-76491-9.

Reviewed for H-Albion by Donald Harman Akenson, Department. of
History, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario

To write a synthesis of the experience of emigration from the British
Isles from 1603 to 1914 requires a magisterial command of an array of
tools: clarity of conceptual apparatus, precision of vocabulary,
mastery of an immense body of secondary literature, and an intimate
knowledge of several sprawling, complex data-sets, plus a more-than-
passing knowledge of the histories of the several countries to which
the British Isles migrants went. And to do this in 140 pages of
expository writing is a task for a master historian.

Alexander Murdoch writes clearly, is manifestly good-hearted, and has
penned one serviceable chapter in this book--on British emigration to
the United States, 1860-1914, which he rightly calls "hidden history."

Murdoch, a former antiquarian book seller, now senior lecturer at
Edinburgh University, has a commendably warm memory of his
grandfather, a Scottish migrant to Philadelphia in 1885, and that
largely explains the strength of his book (the one good chapter) and
the weaknesses. He candidly admits that the history of Scottish
emigration forms the core of his story, and he demonstrates that the
vector from Scotland that counts in his thinking is to the United
States. This is nice family piety, but to conceive of Scottish-U.S.
migration as the spine of an historical exposition of one of the most
complex patterns of diaspora in modern history is silly.

If that were the only problem, one could pass quietly by. But,
sadly, the whole enterprise has other huge flaws. To begin with--
even the title of the book gives away this matter--Murdoch slides
back and forth between "British" and "British and Irish," and cannot
make up his mind what he means. Are we reading a book about
emigration from the British Isles or about emigration from Britain:
England, Wales (which is ignored), and Scotland? This is not a mere
matter of word play. Ireland was the largest single source of
emigration to various parts of the English-speaking world from
1815-1914 and, in total migrants, probably for the entire period of
Murdoch's study. So it cannot be a sometimes-mentioned, sometimes-
elided item, as Murdoch has it. Hence, the least defensible defining
term for the home country is "Britain." A study of English
emigration would be useful (indeed, an update of the usual story is
badly needed) and so too would a conspectus of British Isles out-
migration. But not Murdoch's confused "British" entity, especially
not one with Scotland as its center.

Further, Murdoch, despite a passing reference to New Zealand and half
a chapter on Australia, asserts that the Thirteen Colonies and their
derivative, the United States, are the destination that counted.
True, the United States did count most in the period of his
grandfather's migration, but projecting that back into a long period
of history is bad business. In fact, in the first six decades of
Murdoch's period, emigration to the West Indies was much more
important, both economically and numerically, than to the mainland
colonies. And in the first half of the nineteenth century (from
1815-1845), the chief destination was British North America.

One could go on. Murdoch shows not the slightest acquaintance with
the major data-sets that encompass the British Isles diaspora. More
surprisingly, he has not done his homework in the secondary
historical literature of English and Irish out-migration, the latter
of which is very rich indeed. He deploys essentially no history of
the receptor countries, save the United States. It really is hard to
see how this effort can be much of a tribute to anyone.

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Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: "Rogers, James"
Subject: Fathers in Irish memoir
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I have one of those rather general, conversation-starting questions that I
throw out for the list's collective wisdom.

In the past several months I've read McGahern's MEMOIR, and re-read ANGELA'S
ASHES and Nuala O'Faolain's ARE YOU SOMEBODY, and I just finished a memoir
by the Scottish poet John Burnside A LIE ABOUT MY FATHER.

In other words, I have been up to my nether end in stories about bad
fathers.

Can the list suggest any Irish memoirs and autobiographies wherein the
father is a responsible, decent, supportive presence-- or at least, not a
toxic one?

Thanks

Jim Rogers
NEW HIBERNIA REVIEW

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From: Linda Dowling Almeida
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It is not a memoir from Ireland, but John Walsh's The Falling Angels about
growing up Irish in England after WWII includes a father who may be benign,
but is not toxic.

Linda Dowling Almeida

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From: Marion Casey
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Jim,

Does it have to be Ireland or can you use an example from Irish
America?

My Father's Gun: One Family, Three Badges, One Hundred Years in the
NYPD
by Brian McDonald

Marion

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You didn't mention Hugo Hamilton's A Speckled People. Brilliant memoir, but
it has to be said, another very toxic father..

Piaras

-----Original Message-----
From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Rogers, James
Sent: 06 June 2006 20:39
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] Fathers in Irish memoir

I have one of those rather general, conversation-starting questions that I
throw out for the list's collective wisdom.

In the past several months I've read McGahern's MEMOIR, and re-read ANGELA'S
ASHES and Nuala O'Faolain's ARE YOU SOMEBODY, and I just finished a memoir
by the Scottish poet John Burnside A LIE ABOUT MY FATHER.

In other words, I have been up to my nether end in stories about bad
fathers.

Can the list suggest any Irish memoirs and autobiographies wherein the
father is a responsible, decent, supportive presence-- or at least, not a
toxic one?

Thanks

Jim Rogers
NEW HIBERNIA REVIEW