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Jim

I met mine for the first time - well, I was in the same room as him 30
years ago but didn't speak - about a year ago and we talked for a
couple of hours (he's in his eighties now)=20



Didn't like him much


God luck on your quest


Liam Clarke


Eastbourne=20

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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.=20

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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Fatherliness and its relations to homesickness are a constant line in
Nevin, Kathleen, _You'll Never Go Back_ (Maynooth: The Cardinal Press,
1999). Original edition by Bruce Humphries (Boston, 1946).=20

Edmundo Murray

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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.=20

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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Jim,

I've recently published a book about Irish policemen, and in the
latter part of that I discussed relations between policemen and their
children, especially sons. I used 3 autobiographies in particular:
Sean O Faolain's 'Viva Moi' (1963; rev. ed.,1993), Patrick Shea's
'Voices and the Sound of Drums' (1981) and Denis Donoghue's
'Warrenpoint' (1991). I'd also recommend Noel Browne's 'Against the
Tide' (1986), although, for reasons that I explain, Browne did not
acknowledge the fact that his father had been a policeman. All were
decent and responsible fathers, not 'toxic', nevertheless they
certainly had their shortcomings.

Elizabeth
--
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Department of History * University of Melbourne * Victoria 3010 * AUSTRALIA
Phone: +61-3-8344 3924 * Fax: +61-3-8344 7894 * Email: e.malcolm[at]unimelb.edu.au
Website: http://www.history.unimelb.edu.au/irish/index.htm

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Dear Jim et al

But isn't every father and mother toxic as in that Philip Larkin poem
about them:=20

best

Liam Clarke=20

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Jim,

I've recently published a book about Irish policemen, and in the latter
part of that I discussed relations between policemen and their children,
especially sons. I used 3 autobiographies in particular:=20
Sean O Faolain's 'Viva Moi' (1963; rev. ed.,1993), Patrick Shea's
'Voices and the Sound of Drums' (1981) and Denis Donoghue's
'Warrenpoint' (1991). I'd also recommend Noel Browne's 'Against the
Tide' (1986), although, for reasons that I explain, Browne did not
acknowledge the fact that his father had been a policeman. All were
decent and responsible fathers, not 'toxic', nevertheless they certainly
had their shortcomings.

Elizabeth
--
Professor Elizabeth Malcolm * Gerry Higgins Chair of Irish Studies
Department of History * University of Melbourne * Victoria 3010 *
AUSTRALIA
Phone: +61-3-8344 3924 * Fax: +61-3-8344 7894 * Email:
e.malcolm[at]unimelb.edu.au
Website: http://www.history.unimelb.edu.au/irish/index.htm

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The Influence of the Palestine Police upon Colonial Policing
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For information...

P.O'S.


`Get into a Crack Force and earn =A320 a Month and all found=85': The =
Influence
of the Palestine Police upon Colonial Policing 1922=9619481

Author: Sinclair, Georgina

Source: European Review of History, Volume 13, Number 1, March 2006, pp.
49-65(17)

Abstract:
The development of a `colonial' police model has typically been linked =
to
the Irish Constabularies. Little consideration has been given to the
influences of the Palestine Police. The British section of the Palestine
Gendarmerie was created in 1920 with the recruitment of former members =
of
the Royal Irish Constabulary and Black and Tans. Meanwhile training for
colonial police officers continued in Northern Ireland until 1932. At =
this
point it was the Palestine Police that provided the recruiting and =
training
ground for senior colonial policemen until its disbandment in 1948.
Thereafter, its `colonial' policing practices and traditions were =
carried
throughout the British Empire and Commonwealth by its former members.

Articles that cite this article?

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/13507480600586734

PS

Rand, Gavin. "=91Martial Races=92 and =91Imperial Subjects=92: Violence =
and
Governance in Colonial India, 1857=961914." European Review of History =
13.1
(2006): 1 - 20.

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Thanks for the many suggestions regarding my query on fathers in Irish
memoir, which reassures me that at least some Irish dads have been written
about for reasons other than their monstrousness.

One could probably make the case that many of the Irish nightmare memoirs
are not so much a contribution to a literature of bad fathers as they are
a contribution to a literature of alcoholism.

Has there ever been a more in-apt blurb than the one on the pb of Angela's
Ashes, where the blurber writes (I'm paraophrasing, but it's close) "Give
Frank McCourt a Pulitzer- give him a Nobel--and while you're at it, give him
another pint!" ?

Thanks everybody

Jim Rogers




James S. Rogers
Managing Director/Center for Irish Studies
Managing Editor/New Hibernia Review
University of St Thomas #5008
2115 Summit Ave
St Paul, MN 55105-1096
(651) 962-5662
www.stthomas.edu/irishstudies

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From: Kerby Miller [mailto:MillerK[at]missouri.edu]
Sent: 09 June 2006 15:36
Subject: citation help

I'd be grateful if anyone could help me complete a citation. My
library's copy of the following book is missing:

Daniel J. Casey and Robert E. Rhodes, eds. VIEWS OF THE IRISH
PEASANTRY, 1800-1916 (Hamden, Ct.: Archon Books, 1977).

If anyone has the book on his/her shelves, could you please tell me
the exact title of the essay therein by E. Estyn Evans?

It may be on pages 37-56. (However, if my page numbers are wrong,
please let me know the correct ones also.)

Many thanks,

Kerby.

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Kerby,

Chapter 2, is "Peasant Beliefs in Nineteenth-Century Ireland" in VIEWS OF
THE IRISH PEASANTRY by Casey and Rhodes , pp 37-56. It was written by
E. Estyn Evans who was Chairman of the Institute of Irish Studies at
Queens Univ in Belfast.

I will be at the Carleton Summer school in August. It has come a long
way since my research in the late '60s over in the Clogher Valley and
relationship with interested parties. Can not even completely describe
Carleton's great reception in Ulster today compared to the former times
when he was ignored.

The Carleton Summer School has expanded in all directions. Seamus Heaney
has been a fine lecturer. I can't ever recall any disagreement with his
evaluation of C's work.

Eileen

Dr. Eileen A. Sullivan, Irish Educational Association, Inc.
6412 NW 128th Street Gainesville, FL 32653
(352) 332-3690
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Kerby,

I have pasted in below the WorldCat entry for this book.

Your page numbers look about right...

Paddy


Views of the Irish peasantry, 1800-1916

by Daniel J Casey; Robert E Rhodes

* Type: English : Book Book
* Publisher: Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books, 1977.
* ISBN: 0208016309
* OCLC: 2542532

* Subjects: Peasantry -- History. -- Ireland | Peasants in literature. |
English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism.

* Document Type: Book
* Contents: Gael and peasant -a case of mistaken identity? / by Alf
MacLochlainn -- Peasant beliefs in nineteenth-century Ireland / by E. Estyn
Evans -- British images of poverty in pre-famine Ireland / by Ned Lebow --
Finn MacCool: the hero and the anti-hero in Irish folk tradition / by James
MacKillop -- Irish traditional narrative songs in English: 1800-1916 / by
D.K. Wilgus -- Cobwebs before the wind: aspects of the peasantry in Irish
literature from 1800 to 1916 / by Maurice Harmon -- Peasants and emigrants:
considerations of the Gaelic League as a social movement / by Martin J.
Waters -- Countryman, peasant, and servant in the poetry of W.B. Yeats / by
John Unterecker -- Jack B. Yeats's picture of the peasant / by Marilyn
Gaddis Rose.

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From: Alison Younger [mailto:alison_younger[at]yahoo.co.uk]=20
Sent: 10 June 2006 16:15

Could I bring the following study day to the attention of members?
Slainte
Alison
=A0
Durham Joyce Reading Group
in association with the
North-East Irish Culture Network
James Joyce Study Day
10th July 2006

Plenary Speaker: Fritz Senn, International Joyce Foundation, Zurich
Round-table featuring Derek Attridge, Richard Brown, Willy Maley, =
Stephen
Regan, Fritz Senn and Patricia Waugh
Panel Speakers: Matthew Bevis, Matthew Creasy, Jim Davies, Katy Mullin, =
Vike
Plock and Conor Wyer=20
=A0
10am =96 6pm
Leech Hall, St John=92s College
3 South Bailey, Durham
Registration fee:=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 =A315 =96 =
Students=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 =A320 =96 Non-students
For further information contact: Professor Stephen Regan
(stephen.regan[at]durham.ac.uk)
Dr Matthew Creasy (matthew.creasy[at]durham.ac.uk)
Dr Vike Plock (v.m.plock[at]durham.ac.uk)


Slan agus beannacht
=A0
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
W. B. Yeats

Alison O'Malley-Younger [Dr]
Programme Leader: English and Drama
Department of English
University of Sunderland

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From: Kerby Miller [mailto:MillerK[at]missouri.edu]
Sent: 10 June 2006 17:46
Subject: Re: [IR-D] Help with Citation 2

Thank you, Eileen.

Good to hear from you again. I'll be in Belfast in August
(early/mid), too. When/where is the Summer School?--What's the
program this year?

Kerby.


>Kerby,
>
>Chapter 2, is "Peasant Beliefs in Nineteenth-Century Ireland" in VIEWS OF
>THE IRISH PEASANTRY by Casey and Rhodes , pp 37-56. It was written by
>E. Estyn Evans who was Chairman of the Institute of Irish Studies at
>Queens Univ in Belfast.
>
>I will be at the Carleton Summer school in August. It has come a long
>way since my research in the late '60s over in the Clogher Valley and
>relationship with interested parties. Can not even completely describe
>Carleton's great reception in Ulster today compared to the former times
>when he was ignored.
>
>The Carleton Summer School has expanded in all directions. Seamus Heaney
>has been a fine lecturer. I can't ever recall any disagreement with his
>evaluation of C's work.
>
>Eileen
>
>Dr. Eileen A. Sullivan, Irish Educational Association, Inc.
>6412 NW 128th Street Gainesville, FL 32653
>(352) 332-3690
>eolas1[at]juno.com

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From: Eileen A Sullivan [mailto:eolas1[at]juno.com]
Sent: 12 June 2006 03:41
Subject: Re: [IR-D] Help with Citation 4

K

Do hope you will be able to attend the Carleton Summer School: Mon. Aug
7- to Fri morning , Aug 11.
Confirmed speakers are John W. Foster, Maurice Harmon, Owen Dudley
Edwards et al. We also spend a day touring the Carleton country; this
year it will be on Wednesday. the 9th. By this time the program should be
finalized

You will enjoy the event. Contact is Robin Marsh at
Rgmarsh[at]btinternet.com. The lectures are held in the home of Carleton's
father's landlord. Rooms are also available there for the participants
. The last descendent died within our lifetime and lived in that home.
She was a great help to me when I was over there in 1969 researching
data for my doctoral thesis on four of Carleton's novels. The first
thesis was a great study by Andre Boue, a Frenchman. It took a
Frenchman and an American woman to attract the Ulsterites and Dubliners
to Carleton, born Catholic in Tyrone and died Protestant in Dublin.

E

Dr. Eileen A. Sullivan, Irish Educational Association, Inc.
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From: D.C. Rose [mailto:musard[at]tiscali.fr]=20
Sent: 12 June 2006 08:45
Subject: N. Ireland and London in literature

The group might be interested in knowing that at this year's Literary =
London
Conference, there will be a paper by Edward Hagan (Western Connecticut =
State
University) on 'Negotiating Northern Irish Freedom in Contemporary =
London:
Nick Laird=92s Utterly Monkey'.=20
=A0
Details at http://www.literarylondon.org/cfp.html
=A0
David Rose

More on Nick Laird
http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,14754=
34,
00.html

http://www.rte.ie/arts/2005/0622/lairdn.html

=A0

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Subject: Science Ireland - REGISTRATION DEADLINE 19 JUNE + amended programme

Dear All

The BAIS conference 'Science Ireland' is taking place at Queen Mary,
University of London on Saturday 24th June.

I attach the slightly amended programme...

...Please confirm registration by post or email by Monday 19th June.

Best wishes
Catherine Nash

--
Dr Catherine Nash
Reader in Human Geography
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road
London, E1 4NS

Phone: 020 7882 3153
Fax: 020 8981 6276

Email: c.nash[at]qmul.ac.uk

The British Association for Irish Studies
with Queen Mary, University of London

Science Ireland

Lock Keeper's Graduate Centre
Queen Mary, University of London

9.30 - 5.00, Saturday 24th June 2006

Programme:
9.30-10.00 REGISTRATION

10.00-12.00 INTRODUCTION AND PANEL 1

Tadgh O'Sullivan, University of Oxford
'Improving Ireland: the Rev. William Richardson's counter-enlightenment
science, 1800-1820'

Jim Livesey, University of Sussex
'Gentlemen prefer the Groves of Blarney: Scientific Disenchantment and
Culture in Nineteenth-Century Cork'

Elizabeth Neswald, University of Aberdeen
'Of Charlatans and Scientific Gentlemen: Towards a Social History of
Scientific Itineracy in mid-nineteenth century Ireland'

12.00-1.00 LUNCH

1.00-3.00 PANEL 2

Sorcha O'Brien, University of Brighton
'The Shannon Scheme: electricity, technological utopianism and the idea of
progress in the Irish Free State'

Michael Reinsborough, Queen's University, Belfast
'Belfast Water Supply 1923-1932: The Silent Valley Reservoir'

Julie Anderson, University of Manchester
'The Science of Examination: Blindness and Inspection in Ireland 1920-1948'

3.00-3.30 TEA

3.30-5.00 PLENARY PAPER AND DISCUSSION

Greta Jones, University of Ulster
'National Strength and National Ideology: The Debate about Science in
Ireland, 1860-1940'

5.00 CLOSE AND DRINKS

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The following item has started to appear on Irish web sites and in
newspapers...

I am not clear about the implications for Irish Christian Brothers
involvement in schools outside Ireland.

P.O'S.


Christian Brothers to end direct involvement in schools

Friday June 9th 2006

The Christian Brothers are reportedly setting up a new lay establishment to
take over the running of 138 schools currently under the order's control.

Reports this morning said the Brothers were planning to hand over 29 primary
schools and 109 secondary schools to the Edmund Rice Schools Trust, which
will be run by entirely by lay people.

The move ends two centuries of direct involvement by the Christian Brothers
in the Irish education system.

This morning's reports said a charter outlining the education and religious
philosophy of the new trust would be launched in September.

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Dear All

I suppose this a case of better late than never but here is the TOC for t=
he
Diaspora issue of Contexts: Arts and Practice Vol 4 No 4 2006

The Refuge of Return Keri Jones
Not plastic just different Pete Johnson
Elsewhere: Reflections on a creative residency Pauline Agnew
London Ireland Jonathan O=92Dea
Art Project: Silence of the Artists Estibaliz Errazquin
A Complex Kind of Joy Liam Greenslade
Mixed Messages Lucy Cotter
=93Foreigners In their own country=94 :Pavee Lackeen Liam Greens=
lade
Issac Jullen: Amor et Haine Sean Kissane
Art Project 2:The Allotment David Jacques


This edition and previous ones are available from Create 10/11 Earl St So=
uth,
Dublin 8 Ireland. Further details at www.communityartsireland.com


Best

--
Liam Greenslade
Department of Sociology
Trinity College Dublin

Tel +353 (0)16082621

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Dear all

Fascinating thread this for me, I've been tinkering with some papers on I=
rish
cinema for the past 12 month and it's surprising in how many contemporary=
Irish
films, which for my purposes means the last 20 years, the father is compl=
etely
absent. Virtually all the men are fatherless in someway explicit or impli=
cit.
The only exception seems to be certain Irish films by Neil Jordan (as one=
of
his characters says 'daddies can be mummies too')where it is mothers who =
are
absent or obnoxious.

Conversely, in many American films about the Irish in contemporary americ=
a,
fathers are often present but are gently flawed or imperfect in some way =
but
basically decent(invalid, grieving or harmless drunk), while the sons are=
the
truly disturbed ones (e.g 25th Hour, Ash Wednesday, Irish Eyes, Mystic Ri=
ver
etc).

Without going too Freudian on you here, it's my own belief that in the ca=
se of
Irish masculinity in Ireland, the father was over the 20th Century render=
ed
gradually absent from the oedipal field, insofar as the socialisation of=
male
children, as Tom Inglis suggests, has been placed in the hands of the mot=
her
and the church. Marginalising fathers from any significant role in the
emotional development of sons would necessary be reflected in the kinds o=
f
genre films (mainly rom-coms) that I've been looking at recently.

Anyway just a thought provoked by an interesting thread

Liam




--
Liam Greenslade
Department of Sociology
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Bill Mulligan has kindly agreed to take on the task of moderator of the
Irish Diaspora list for a period...

I will still be around, but not so tightly welded to my desk. My younger
son takes his last GCSE exam tomorrow, and thereafter I am - if not off duty
- at a less heightened state of readiness...

I have therefore begun to accept invitations to conferences and seminars of
interest. I fly to Yerevan, Armenia, on Friday to take part in a conference
on dual citizenship. As usual I will report back to the Irish Diaspora
list...

There are a number of other possible visits in the planning stages -
generally I find myself attracted to themes or events where Irish Diaspora
Studies has something to contribute, theory, practice, cautionary tale...

And we hope to find some time for holidays...

Can I just remind members that messages for the Irish Diaspora List should
be sent to
IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK

Where they will be picked up by Bill Mulligan, and distributed.

Messages sent to my personal email addresses will be dealt with when I am
here to deal with them.

I am very grateful to Bill Mulligan for his help.

Paddy O'Sullivan

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Which Direction Ireland?


ACIS Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting, October 27-28, 2006, Kutztown
University, Kutztown, PA.


Papers are sought touching on any aspect of the idea of direction and
Ireland... Especially welcome are presentations addressing questions of
modernization and technology, Ireland in the international sphere,
immigration and emigration past and present, even projections for the
future. These areas can be considered in light of literature, history,
language, social science, geography, or any other heading appropriate to =
the
topic of Ireland and direction. In addition, any paper proposal =
relevant to
Irish studies will be considered.

Proposals/abstracts of no more than 200 words may be submitted to Dr. =
Donald
McNamara, Department of English, Lytle Hall, Kutztown University, =
Kutztown,
PA 19530, or mcnamara[at]kutztown.edu no later than August 28, 2006.

Located on the edge of the famed Pennsylvania Dutch country, Kutztown, =
PA,
offers an ideal location, within reasonable distance of metropolitan =
centers
and yet in a tranquil, scenic location perfect for a conference. Fall is =
an
especially pleasant time to visit the area, both for weather and for =
vibrant
colors. Kutztown University, part of the state university system of
Pennsylvania, is experiencing tremendous growth, poised to accommodate =
more
than 10,000 students while remembering its origins as a normal school.

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Eamon Maher has asked me to post this to the list:

Chers Amis,


Following on the organisation of 2 successful conferences in ITT Dublin and
University College Cork by the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies
(http://www.it-tallaght.ie/humanities/languages/francoirishstudies/) it is
considered timely that we establish an Association for Franco-Irish Studies
(AFIS). Dr John McDonagh, currently Treasurer of IASIL, has kindly agreed to
act as Treasurer for this group which you are cordially invited to join.

Details are provided in the attachment or by clicking on the link:
http://www.it-tallaght.ie/humanities/languages/francoirishstudies/afismember
ship/


Those of you wishing to avail of Paypal should send Dr McDonagh an e-mail
(john.mcdonagh[at]mic.ul.ie ) stating the amount you want to pay and then it
will be automatically debited to your account. All other queries can be
addressed to me.

We look forward to a healthy response and a vibrant association.

Best,

Eamon

Dr. Eamon Maher,

Director,
National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies,
ITT Dublin,
Tallaght,
Dublin 24
E-Mail: eamon.maher[at]ittdublin.ie

Phone: + 353 (0)1 4042871

http://www.it-tallaght.ie/humanities/research/eamonmaher/





Dr. Eamon Maher,

Director,

National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies,

ITT Dublin,

Tallaght,

Dublin 24

E-Mail: eamon.maher[at]ittdublin.ie

Phone: + 353 (0)1 4042871

http://www.it-tallaght.ie/humanities/research/eamonmaher/