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William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of History
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA=20
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From: donald mcnamara [mailto:donjmac34[at]hotmail.com]=20
Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 11:43 AM
To: bill.mulligan[at]murraystate.edu
Subject: ACIS MidAtlantic


B,

I'm not sure if you received the updated CFP.

D


Deadline Extended

American Conference for Irish Studies Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting, =
October
27-28, 2006, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA.

=93Which Direction Ireland?=94

Papers are sought touching on any aspect of the idea of direction and=20
Ireland...
Especially welcome are presentations addressing questions of =
modernization=20
and technology, Ireland in the international sphere, immigration and=20
emigration past and present, even projections for the future. These =
areas=20
can be considered in light of literature, history, language, social =
science,

geography, or any other heading appropriate to the topic of Ireland and=20
direction. In addition, any paper proposal relevant to Irish studies =
will=20
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,=20
PA 19530, or mcnamara[at]kutztown.edu no later than August 20, 2006.

The ACIS Mid-Atlantic Region is pleased to announce that Dr. Catherine =
Nash=20
and Dr. Niall
=D3 Cios=E1in will be featured as plenary speakers at the 2006 meeting. =
Dr.=20
Nash is a Reader in Cultural Geography in the Department of Geography, =
Queen

Mary, University of London. Dr. Nash=92s research explores questions of =

identity , embodiment, and belonging in Ireland and Northern Ireland and =
in=20
the Irish diaspora. She has addressed these themes in early twentieth=20
century imaginative geographies of the nation and in late twentieth =
century=20
cultural practices and cultural policy. Most recently her work has =
focused=20
on the meanings of ancestry and origins in popular genealogy, in =
population=20
genetics and in new applications of genetics in Irish clan and surname=20
studies, and on the practice and politics of local history in Northern=20
Ireland. She is currently working on a collaborative project on the=20
material and social geographies of the Irish border. Her work has been=20
published in journals such as Cultural Studies, Antipode, Political=20
Geography, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers and =
History=20
Workshop Journal and is forthcoming as Of Irish Descent: Origin Stories, =

Genealogy and Diasporic Imaginaries.

Dr. =D3 Cios=E1in teaches in the Department of History, National =
University of=20
Ireland, Galway. He studied at Trinity College Dublin and at the =
European=20
University Institute Florence, and has published Print and Popular =
Culture=20
in Ireland, 1750-1850, as well as articles on book history, printing in =
the=20
Celtic languages, the Irish Famine, folklore, and memory.

To learn more about the 2006 ACIS Mid-Atlantic Regional and to register, =
go=20
to http://faculty.kutztown.edu/mcnamara/


To learn more about Kutztown University, check www.kutztown.edu

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This programme was broadcast on Friday 28th July and Sunday 30th July on
BBC radio four and included a contribution from regular Diaspora
contributor Ultan Cowley. As well as giving a good historical context,
it draws attention to the current plight of the many Irishmen who have
ended their days both penniless and homeless; often suffering from years
of neglect and alcoholism. Accidents and injury to men are not
compensated and there is no sick pay (many never returning home as they
often could not afford the loss of pay). The programme makes clear that
the biggest culprits in operating 'the lump', a system of being paid
cash-in-hand on a daily basis were the small and medium sized
subcontractors and that, all-too-frequently, were owned by Irishmen who
made small fortunes. As Ultan described in his book The Men Who Built
Britain this was a 'tradition' that goes back to the great navigation
boom of canals and railways. Significantly, it seems that the lump still
thrives today and whilst the Irish are still involved as either
employers or labourers, Eastern Europeans have become the group that
provides casualised labour in British construction. I would strongly
suspect that this system is used in construction in Ireland and, like
the dispute on Irish Ferries last year, migrant labour is seen by
employers as a good way to reduce overall costs.

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The website is:=20

=20

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/facethefacts/

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and click on listen again.

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Steven McCabe

Faculty of Law, Humanities Society and Development

University of Central England in Birmingham, UK

B42 2SU =20

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Many thanks for this Steven; will listen to the programme.

As for the situation in Ireland, about an eighth of the entire workforce is
employed in construction here at present (the figure is just over 242,000
and the CSO has just published a comprehensive report). This is the highest
ratio in the EU and is arguably unsustainable - a disproportionate level of
economic activity in the State is dependent on construction, as opposed to
export-led growth. It is accompanied by a relentless growth in property
prices. House prices are again increasing in leaps and bounds and figures
published today show that the average price of a house in Ireland is
approaching EUR400k (much more in Dublin and Galway). The people who can
least afford these prices are migrant workers. Maybe the cultural
stereotypes are true to some extent: Irish people with money want to put it
into property rather than other forms of economic activity. It seems we are
also major investors in property all over the rest of Europe.

There has been a debate in Ireland, behind the scenes and to a lesser extent
in media and political circles, about the extent to which the arrival of
workers from the new accession states has created a phenomenon of
displacement of Irish workers. The Economic and Social Research Institute
(ESRI), with their Swedish partners the Swedish Institute for European
Policy Studies (SIEPS), recently produced an excellent report "Freedom of
Movement for Workers in Central and Eastern Europe. Experiences in Ireland
and Sweden". It's online at
http://www.sieps.se/publ/rapporter/bilagor/20065.pdf. It clearly states that
there is no displacement and this is supported by Quarterly National
Household Survey (QNHS) figures from the CSO which show that Irish
unemployment figures have, if anything, dropped since accession of the new
EU10 in 2004. At about 4.3% Ireland has the lowest unemployment rate in the
EU.

However, this is only part of the picture. The ESRI/SIEPS report does cover
some of the more scandalous cases of abuse such as Gama and Irish Ferries.
But there is a strong tendency within neoliberal economic circles and
politicians to talk dismiss other allegations of abuse of migrant workers as
'anecdotal'.

The issue is not simply one of displacement of Irish workers by migrant
workers. Government spin says it's a win/win situation - Irish people move
to better quality jobs and migrant workers do the rest. The reality is much
more complex. For one thing, there is a growing danger of conflict between
marginalised members of local society - those who do not have the skills and
qualifications to compete in the knowledge economy - and migrants who,
although stacking shelves in supermarkets or working on building sites,
often have third level degrees. Secondly, there is strong evidence that once
a particular employment sector has largely been populated by migrant
workers, there is a once for all effect of a diminution of the terms and
conditions of employment such that indigenous workers will not willingly
take jobs in that sector. What will happen if there is a downturn in the
economy and Irish workers find themselves having to compete for jobs in
sectors where the terms and conditions have already been forced downwards in
a radically unattractive way? It is disturbing that there is alreadhy
evidence of quite vicious levels of racist abuse of migrants even though we
have an economy where almost everyone who wants work can get it. What will
happen if there is a change?

In the construction industry there is already significant evidence of
widespread exploitation. One of the main methods used is the designation of
migrant workers (and workers in general) as 'self-employed contractors'.
This gets the employer off the hook of pension and other programmes. Many if
not most construction workers here are employed on a casual basis, with
little respect for maximum hours, pension, health, holiday and other rights
and entitlements.

The real problem at present, in terms of national policy, is that the
Government tends to present their current immigration policy as being good
for all of us, whereas in fact it is market-led and good for employers. This
is not good for Irish society in general or for migrants.

Piaras Mac Einri

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The Society for Irish Latin American Studies has announced its third =
completed cycle of Irish Latin American Research Fund grants awarded to =
the following candidates:=20

* Andres Bisso and Paula L. Migo (Universidad de La Plata, Buenos =
Aires). 1,000 Euros. "Los procesos de construccion de la identidad en =
las asociaciones irlandesas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires durante el =
siglo XX"

* Igor Perez Tostado (Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville). 1,000 =
Euros. "The Irish Experience in the Spanish Caribbean Frontier: =
migration, identity formation and political participation in the island =
of Hispaniola" (c.1640-1660).=20

* Fiona Clark (St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin). 700 Euros. =
"Daniel O'Sullivan: an Irish military physician in the Spanish colonial =
world (late eighteenth century)".=20

Three prestigious scholars sat on this year's Selection Committee: Laura =
P.Z. Izarra, Chair (University of S=E3o Paulo), Kerby Miller (University =
of Missouri-Columbia) and Angus Mitchell (University of Limerick). They =
assessed the research proposals and awarded grants to the best projects.

These grants were possible thanks to the generosity of SILAS members and =
friends.

See more information in =
http://www.irlandeses.org/grant_newrecipients.htm

Edmundo Murray
Society for Irish Latin American Studies
Maison Rouge=20
1268 Burtigny, Switzerland=20
+41 22 739 5049
edmundo.murray[at]irlandeses.org=20
www.irlandeses.org

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This may be of interest to the list.=20


Dear Colleagues,

I hope this note finds you surviving the heat and enjoying the last =
weeks of
summer. This note serves as a gentle reminder that the deadline for =
paper
proposals for the 30th Annual Meeting of the Midwest American Conference =
for
Irish Studies is 15 August. Things are progressing nicely for the =
meeting
and I'm looking forward to seeing you here at Northern Illinois =
University
in October. Housing and registration information can be found at the
conference website:

http://www.niu.edu/clasep/acis/

Again, I hope this note finds you well and in good spirits and look =
forward
to seeing you in October.

Sincerely,

Sean

Sean Farrell, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115
(815) 753-6658
sfarrel1[at]niu.edu

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University of Limerick June 20-21, 2007
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The Department of History, University of Limerick will be holding a
conference entitled History of the European Family: continuity and =
change
from June 20-21, 2007.

CFP below...=20

If you need posters with details of the conference contact...

Julie Brazil,
Conference Secretary,
Department of History, University of Limerick,
Julie.Brazil[at]ul.ie

P.O'S.


Call for papers: The history of the European family: continuity and =
change

Department of History, University of Limerick June 20-21, 2007


The University of Limerick will host the first Irish conference devoted
exclusively to the history of the European family in June 2007. This
conference will focus particularly on family structure in the European
context. It seeks to explore the concept of the =91European=92 family =
model to
examine how, if and where it has altered and to provide an insight into =
the
primary factors that have led to changes in family formation. The =
conference
will provide a platform for both established and emerging scholars to =
engage
with new ideas and approaches to interdisciplinary research into the =
History
of the European family.
Panels are being constituted from the medieval to the contemporary, on =
the
following areas:=20
European and non-European models of family formation; demography; =
diaspora;
childhood histories; changes in family structure; ethnic minorities;
marriage; inheritance; kinship; the family and the State; class; family
economics, getting and spending

Papers from Postgraduate students are particularly welcome=20

Confirmed plenary speakers include Professor Eleanor Gordon (University =
of
Glasgow), Professor Cormac =D3 Grada (University College Dublin), =
Professor
David Fitzpatrick (Trinity College, Dublin) and Professor Catherine Hall
(University College London).

Abstracts of 250-300 words should be sent by December 1 2006 to=20
Ciara.Breathnach[at]ul.ie=20

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This message has come to us via the web site at irishdiaspora.net...

There is more information on the JISC Digitisation Programme at

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation_home.html

Feel free to send comments directly to Deirdre Wildy
[mailto:d.wildy[at]qub.ac.uk], or to IR-D.

P.O'S.


________________________________________
From: Deirdre Wildy [mailto:d.wildy[at]qub.ac.uk]=20
Subject: Major Irish Studies resource

I have been working with some colleagues to secure funding to create a =
major
resource for Irish studies including electronic access to full-text
periodical backfiles, an index to contents of Irish journals, =
digitisation
of some manuscripts and also monographs and pamphlets.=20

We have been short-listed for funding in the current JISC Digitisation
Programme.=20

In preparation for the initial submission we looked at resources =
currently
in existence that have Irish related materials included. Some of the
resources available are quite limited in scope =96 discipline or date
specific. We are interested in linking to resources currently available =
to
explore opportunities for interoperability and also to avoid duplication =
of
effort. We are keen to provide access to a joined-up resource with deep
linking which is cross-disciplinary. By exploring interoperability we =
would
develop a major resource for Irish studies which would be to the =
advantage
of all by promoting and exploiting existing electronic materials whilst
developing a full-text resource.=20

Would you be willing to give us a statement of support for the proposal? =


Please feel free to circulate this information =96 we would appreciate =
all
expressions of support for this project. If you need any further =
information
please contact me.

We are preparing a website which will give details of the project. I =
will be
sending out an email with details to this effect later this week. Please
feel free to circulate that email to any you think might be interested -
internationally as well as locally.

I look forward to hearing from you

Regards
Deirdre


Deirdre Wildy
Senior Subject Librarian (Arts & Humanities)
Main Library
Queen's University of Belfast
University Square
BELFAST
BT7 1LS
=A0
Email: d.wildy[at]qub.ac.uk=20
=A0
Tel: 0044 (0) 28 9097 3721 / 3607
Fax: 0044 (0) 28 9032 3340
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As will have been gathered I am safely back from a number of travels...

My thanks to Bill Mulligan for looking after IR-D over the past month. Bill
is going to stay in charge for a little while longer, because we are
planning a family holiday in August.

As far as work is concerned, the most significant journey was to Yerevan,
Armenia...

The journey went as well as can be expected...

The conference went very well indeed - one of those occasions where what I
do seemed to make perfect sense to my hosts, and I was quickly and helpfully
able to clear the ground and clarify Irish demographic and constitutional
history, as it relates to the study of the Irish Diaspora...

And for me a very interesting conference - not just the discussion about the
headline issues, but at a deeper level a moving, and sometimes tense,
exploration of diaspora/homeland relationships. At one point in the 1990s,
of course, the infant republic was dependent on the diaspora for its
survival...

Some information about the conference on

www.armpolicyresearch.org

Click on Conferences...

Dual Citizenship: Alternative Arrangements, Economic Implications, and
Social Dimension

http://www.armpolicyresearch.org/ConferencesSeminars/index.htm

Some photos, including me looking tousled...

Informal discussions were interesting too - there were a great number of
government ministers and other politicians at the conference, and of course
academics and theoreticians from the various world organisations. This
seems to be part of the price that small countries pay for international
interest and support... Indeed, I said that it seemed to me that Armenia
was suffering from an excess of analysis.

The contrast with the more prosaic, or realpolitik, Irish approach was
apparent.

I seem to be developing a number of these contacts with newly-emerging or
re-emerging small nations or would-be nations - the question I always ask
is, Why me? Could they not, for example, find someone within Ireland to
come and speak?

I will be writing up my conference paper for the proposed printed
proceedings, and I will try to write a short informal account of the
conference for IR-D.

I have been dealing with emails where and when I could. Anyone who feels
that they are owed a communication from me should feel free to prod. But I
am working my way through the backlog.

Paddy

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

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O'Sullivan Personal Fax 0044 (0) 709 236 9050

Irish-Diaspora list Irish Diaspora Net
http://www.irishdiaspora.net

Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Social Sciences and Humanities University of Bradford Bradford
BD7 1DP Yorkshire England

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Subject: Article,
Irish Women's Networks on the West Coast of New Zealand's South
Island, 1864-1922
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Irish Women's Networks on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island, =
1864-1922

Author: Fraser, Lyndon

Source: Women's History Review, Volume 15, Number 3, July 2006, pp. =
459-475(17)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:
This article explores the ethnic incorporation of Irish women on the =
West Coast of New Zealand's South Island from 1864, when the gold rushes =
began, until the formation of the Irish Free State in 1922. The central =
argument is that these newcomers did not choose ethnic solidarity as a =
means to pursue their goals and, for most, an ethnic or religious =
category sufficed in an environment where local communities, churches, =
trade unions, kinship ties and non=E2=80=90ethnic political parties had =
far more social relevance. The small=E2=80=90scale structure of West =
Coast localities, the relative economic homogeneity of its inhabitants =
and the absence of entrenched anti=E2=80=90Irish elites militated =
against the rise of sectarian animosities and the maturation of =
intensified ethnic consciousness. As a consequence, Irish women did not =
construct and sustain informal social networks based on `principles of =
ethnic categorisation' in which they distributed resources and =
channelled interaction among group members.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/09612020500530323

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Depression in Irish migrants living in London: case-control study
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I have pasted in here the paragraph about the 8 questions about migration -
since I think these will interest the IR-D membership...

EXTRACT
To assess preparation for migration, we asked eight questions that tapped
the central components of this factor. These questions were derived from our
review of the relevant literature, discussions with experts in the field and
our own knowledge of migration. We asked whether respondents had: (1)
discussed their migration with family members in Ireland; (2) obtained
family agreement with their decision; (3) pre-arranged employment in
England; (4) considered their length of stay; (5) a network of friends or
family available upon arrival; (6) pre-arranged accommodation; (7) prepared
to any extent for their migration; and (8) a principal reason for leaving
Ireland (the questions are published as a data supplement to the online
version of this paper).
EXTRACT

Interesting use of the research literature - including Michael Curran's
work... Maybe the word is 'delicate' - delicate use of the research
literature. Certainly opens up the arguments...

P.O'S.


TY - JOUR
A1 - RYAN, LOUISE
A1 - LEAVEY, GERARD
A1 - GOLDEN, ANNE
A1 - BLIZARD, ROBERT
A1 - KING, MICHAEL
T1 - Depression in Irish migrants living in London: case-control study
Y1 - 2006/6/1
JF - The British Journal of Psychiatry
JO - Br J Psychiatry
SP - 560
EP - 566
VL - 188
IS - 6
UR - http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/abstract/188/6/560
N2 - Background There is evidence that Irish migrants in Britain have
higher rates of depression and suicide than other minority ethnic groups.
Aims To examine the association between poorly planned migration and
depression in Irish-born people living in London. Method A sample of 360
Irish-born people was recruited from 11 general practices into a
case-control study. Participants were interviewed using standardised
measures, including the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). We calculated the
odds ratio for any association between depression and eight questions on
preparation for migration. Results Poorly planned migration was associated
with subsequent depression in Irish-born people living in London (OR=1.20,
95% CI1.06-1.35). The odds of depression were increased by a factor of 20%
for each additional negative answer to eight questions on preparation for
migration. Positive post-migration influences such as adequate social
support protected some against depression. Conclusions Depression in
Irish-born people living in London is associated with poorly planned
migration. However, this effect can be modified by experiences following
migration.

N1 - 10.1192/bjp.188.6.560
ER -

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You think you know something...

How many times have I read or seen quoted the words at the base of the
Statue of Liberty, New York Harbour? I have even photographed them, last
year on a visit to New York.

But I had never taken on board - as a sonneteer I should have noticed - that
the lines are from the second part of a sonnet, the six lines after the
turn, the twisting tale of the sonnet.

Mother of exiles...

Reference to Max Cavitch's interesting article, and extract below...

P.O'S.


American Literary History 2006 18(1):1-28; doi:10.1093/alh/ajj001

Emma Lazarus and the Golem of Liberty
Max Cavitch

Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

No poet bears so monumental a relation to Atlantic liberalism as Emma
Lazarus, who is known chiefly as the author of the famous lines of
"world-wide welcome" inscribed in bronze within the massive pedestal of the
Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Her 1883 sonnet "The New Colossus" is
one of the most frequently quoted poems of the nineteenth century:
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

With conquering limbs astride from land to land,

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman, with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin-cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she,

With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free;

The wretched refuse of your teaming shore-

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me-

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Everyone knows at least a few phrases from the sestet-the part spoken by the
statue-because they have become part of the lingua franca of an American
integrationist fantasy. This fantasy of an open and welcoming yet coherent
and unified nation has long continued to draw currency from Lazarus's poem
through selective citation of these lines. They are commonly invoked, for
instance, whenever anyone feels that our government is acting
inhospitably-thus their frequent citation in contemporary debates over
post-9/11 immigration policy. But the assimilation of the ideal of liberty
to the discourse of liberal complaint suppresses the strangeness and danger
and contradictoriness of that ideal. Lazarus's poem offers to oppose this
suppression, yet it continues to be almost universally underread. Not only
is it generally reduced to its last four or five lines, but those lines are
themselves abstracted from the remarkable conditions that bring them to
voice both within the poem and in relation to its author and her other work.
To restore these lines to the sonnet and to resituate the poem in the world
of its author is to recognize how comprehensively its reception history has
resisted its destabilizing relation to the iconology of liberty.

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Cross-Border Co-Operation between Northern Ireland and The
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Cross-Border Co-Operation between Northern Ireland and The Republic of
Ireland: Neo-Functionalism Revisited

Author: Tannam, Etain1

Source: British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Volume 8,
Number 2, May 2006, pp. 256-276(21)

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

Abstract:
This article revisits the question of whether the European Union and/or
Anglo-Irish policy initiatives have increased cross-border co-operation
between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The applicability of
neo-functionalism to the Irish/Northern Irish case is re-examined in the
light of the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) and EU Peace programmes.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-856X.2006.00202.x

Affiliations: 1: School of Politics and International Relations, University
College Dublin, Belfield

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Promoting social support and social networks among Irish
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This is a project that I followed with interest as it developed, and it is
very useful to have this article now as a formal source.

P.O'S.

publication
Diversity in Health and Social Care

ISSN
1743-1913

publisher

Radcliffe Publishing Ltd

year - volume - issue - page
2005 - 2 - 4 - 263

pages
263

article

Promoting social support and social networks among Irish pensioners in South
London, UK

Cant, Bob - Taket, Ann

abstract

This paper explores the activities of an Irish-led voluntary sector project
that sought to minimise social isolation and build social networks among
Irish elderly people living in a socio-economically deprived borough in
South London, UK. The study from which this paper is drawn aimed to explore
the nature and extent of unmet mental health needs among Irish pensioners.
Using a naturalistic and exploratory design, data were collected through 19
semi-structured interviews, observation of project activities and analysis
of members' case files. The paper presents findings in relation to the
significant themes that emerged from the data analysis, which used a
grounded theory approach. It discusses the social support systems within the
project and examines the ways in which they maintained the mental wellbeing
of the projects' members and interconnected with other areas of the
project's activities. The study's findings demonstrated that the project
provided space for social interaction among otherwise isolated Irish
pensioners, many of whom experienced multiple morbidity. The project worked
successfully to overcome the sense of stigma that prevented many of its
members accessing statutory services; it also identified needs among carers.
There was an Irish cultural ambience at the project centre, which generated
a sense of belonging among members, and assisted in the development of
social networks. The project initiated other forms of social support through
the use of volunteers and developed befriending and telephone support
services. The project developed partnership working with other agencies,
particularly community mental health services, in order to provide support
to elderly people who might otherwise have been institutionalised. The
project engaged with the cultural norms of this marginalised white minority
ethnic community to promote both social interaction and social networks. It
offered a model of good practice for agencies working with isolated elderly
members of minority ethnic communities.

keyword(s)

AGEING, CULTURAL SPECIFICITY, IRISH COMMUNITY, SOCIAL ISOLATION, SOCIAL
NETWORKS, SOCIAL SUPPORT,

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Sport and the Contestation of Ethnic Identity: Football and Irishness in
Scotland

Author: Bradley, Joseph

Source: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Volume 32, Number 7,
September 2006, pp. 1189-1208(20)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:
The greatest single immigrant group in Scotland derives from the island of
Ireland. During the years of the Great Irish Famine in the mid-nineteenth
century until the First Word War, several hundred thousand Irish migrated to
Scotland. Traditionally, this migrant community has been largely ignored in
academic, popular and public literature and representations. It is primarily
through the sport of soccer that this group's distinctiveness and identities
are manifest in Scotland. However, the existence and the successes of
Celtic, a football club founded and supported by the Irish Catholic
immigrant community, highlights not only this marginalisation but the
prejudice perceived and experienced by the Irish diaspora in Scotland. This
paper highlights the role and significance of the Scottish print media in
reflecting, creating, sustaining and disseminating this prejudice.

Keywords: Irishness; Celtic; Scotland; Media Discourses; Ethnic Identity

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/13691830600821885

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VOL 15; NUMB 1; 2006
ISSN 0791-6035

pp. 7-23
Terrorism and the social contract.
Sznaider, N.

pp. 24-39
Aggression, hypermasculine emotions and relations: the silence/violence
pattern.
Scheff, T.

pp. 40-52
Micro-interactional dynamics of violent atrocities.
Collins, R.

pp. 53-66
The challenge for us all: terrorism and the threat to social solidarity in
Australia.
Campain, R.

pp. 67-80
The immorality of terrorism and the ethical core of the envy that spurs it.
Vetlesen, A. J.

pp. 81-98
From exception to rule - from 9/11 to the comedy of (t)errors.
Diken, B.

pp. 99-105
Debate: Universal rights, singular culture: on the clash of civilisations.
Carroll, J.

pp. 106-124
On Empire and its instantiations.
Loyal, S.

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IRISH STUDIES REVIEW -BATH-
VOL 14; NUMB 3; 2006
ISSN 0967-0882

pp. 303-324
The Criminal Confessions Of Newgate's Irishmen.
White, B.

pp. 325-342
The Falls Road Curfew Revisited.
Warner, G.

pp. 343-358
Zealots, Censors And Perverts: Irish censorship and Liam O'Flaherty's The
Puritan.
Kent, B.

pp. 359-368
The Hermeneutics Of Heredity: Billy Roche's Wexford Trilogy.
Murphy, P.

pp. 369-378
The Poetry Of The Street: An interview with Billy Roche.
Kerrane, K.

pp. 379-405
History and Politics.
Bracken, C.

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Theatre
Exiles

**** National, London

Michael Billington
Thursday August 3, 2006
The Guardian

We've had to wait a long time. Back in 1970 Harold Pinter did a masterly
production of James Joyce's only play that had, one hoped, reclaimed it for
the stage. Now, 36 years later, James Macdonald's fine revival in the
Cottesloe leaves one puzzled as to the neglect of a work which seems a
missing link between Ibsen and modern drama.

Written in 1915 between A Portrait of the Artist and Ulysses, Joyce's play
is a cat-and-mouse sexual game quarried from his own life. Returning to
Dublin, the writer-hero, Richard Rowan, conducts a dubious sexual
experiment. He allows his wife, Bertha, to pursue a mild liaison with his
friend, journalist Robert Hand, as long as he is privy to all the details.
But the moral freedom proves agonising to all; and, to the last, we are
never exactly sure whether Bertha and Robert slept together.


Theatre
Exiles

**** National, London

Michael Billington
Thursday August 3, 2006
The Guardian

Dervla Kirwan as Bertha in Exiles
Native shrewdness and emotional vulnerability ... Dervla Kirwan as Bertha in
Exiles. Photograph: Tristram Kenton


We've had to wait a long time. Back in 1970 Harold Pinter did a masterly
production of James Joyce's only play that had, one hoped, reclaimed it for
the stage. Now, 36 years later, James Macdonald's fine revival in the
Cottesloe leaves one puzzled as to the neglect of a work which seems a
missing link between Ibsen and modern drama.

Written in 1915 between A Portrait of the Artist and Ulysses, Joyce's play
is a cat-and-mouse sexual game quarried from his own life. Returning to
Dublin, the writer-hero, Richard Rowan, conducts a dubious sexual
experiment. He allows his wife, Bertha, to pursue a mild liaison with his
friend, journalist Robert Hand, as long as he is privy to all the details.
But the moral freedom proves agonising to all; and, to the last, we are
never exactly sure whether Bertha and Robert slept together.

Ibsen, Joyce's idol, comes to mind: not least when Robert, in Judge Brack
fashion, arranges Rowan's advancement so that he may have access to Bertha.
But Joyce goes far beyond Ibsen in his exploration of the tortuous byways of
sex. Robert candidly tells Rowan: "You are so strong that you attract me
even through her", before lovingly placing his hands on his shoulders. The
homoerotic implications are startling. One is reminded of what Rene Girard
called "triangular desire" in which two men are drawn together by their urge
to possess the same woman: a theme Pinter himself famously explored in The
Collection and Betrayal.

One is shocked by the play's modernity. Wilde famously said "in married life
three's company, two's none"; but Joyce takes that further by suggesting
modern marriages are sustained only by a third party. Rowan's
inquisitiveness about his wife's dalliance acquires an extraordinary mixture
of prurience and pain. Even the unresolved ending reminds us that Joyce
anticipated Pirandello, Beckett and Pinter in allowing spectators the
dignity of choice. Admittedly there are prolix passages; but even these are
negotiated skilfully in this production, beautifully designed by Hildegard
Bechtler, so that we are always aware of the off-stage life beyond the
transparent domestic walls. Peter McDonald, in crumpled suit, also catches
Rowan's mixture of manipulation and masochism. Adrian Dunbar lends the
friend insidious charm. And Dervla Kirwan conveys both native shrewdness and
emotional vulnerability.

Some may dismiss this as a novelist's play; to me it emerges as a neglected
landmarks of modern theatre that explores the byzantine complexities of
marriage with the honesty of genius.

. In rep until October 26. Box office: 020-7452 3000.

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The ogre of betrayal

James Joyce wrote only one play, Exiles. It was rejected by theatres and
scorned by critics, but it gives us a valuable insight into his turbulent
marriage

Edna O'Brien
Saturday July 29, 2006
The Guardian

James Joyce
'Three cat and mouse acts' ... James Joyce's Exiles. Photograph: AP

"I expound Shakespeare to docile Trieste" was Joyce's opening remark when in
1913, at the age of 31, he delivered the first of three lectures on Hamlet
at the University del Popolo in Trieste. He had a lifelong obsession with
Hamlet: his fictional alter-ego Stephen Dedalus espouses Hamlet's embittered
idealism, and Leopold Bloom is a cuckold as King Hamlet was and as Joyce
claimed Shakespeare was, having been betrayed by Anne Hathaway with
Shakespeare's brother. Yet the dramatist Joyce most admired was Ibsen. He
did not admire the plays WB Yeats and Lady Gregory were fostering at the
Abbey Theatre in Dublin at that time, deeming them "peasant dramas",
omitting to note that the peasants booed them. For a time Joyce even
disregarded the wild genius of The Playboy of the Western World, but later
conceded that Synge possibly had a purer artistic spirit than he himself. He
read Ibsen's plays in translation and had his ever-dutiful mother also read
them, his father, having scanned the works, pronounced them "safely boring".
At the Literary Debating Society of University College Dublin, he spoke
defiantly of Ibsen's greatness and scorn for convention. An article of his,
which appeared in the Fortnightly Review, brought a warm letter from Ibsen,
to William Archer, the editor, and for Joyce this commendation was a
transfiguration, the moment when he ceased to be an Irishman and became a
European. To read Ibsen in the original he began to study Dano-Norwegian and
in a letter to the master he praised the lofty and impersonal powers, citing
the battles fought and won behind the forehead, recognising in his hero his
own spiritual and aesthetic travails...

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On a train of thought...

Whilst travelling I picked up a copy of New Yorker - like you do...

Interesting article by D. T. Max, which Joyceans might find useful...

It seems a good account of issues that we mostly know about through =
gossip
and hints.

Now on the web at
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060619fa_fact

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THE INJUSTICE COLLECTOR
Is James Joyce=92s grandson suppressing scholarship?
by D. T. MAX
Issue of 2006-06-19
Posted 2006-06-12

June 16th marks the hundred-and-second anniversary of Bloomsday, the =
date on
which the events in James Joyce=92s =93Ulysses=94 take place. There will =
be the
customary commemorative celebrations surrounding Leopold Bloom=92s =
famous walk
through Dublin: public readings and festivals in cities around the =
world,
including Dublin, New York, Berlin, Paris, St. Petersburg, and =
Melbourne. In
Budapest, two hundred or so academics will convene a Joyce =
symposium=97the
twentieth to be held on Bloomsday.

There is a chance that Joyce=92s grandson, Stephen Joyce, will go to =
Budapest.
He lives in the French town of La Flotte, on the =CEle de R=E9, off the =
Atlantic
Coast. He loves the island, which is the Martha=92s Vineyard of France, =
but he
has sometimes been willing to leave it when academics have invited him =
to
attend Joyce commemorations and symposia. The scholars=92 courtesy is, =
in
part, tactical: Stephen is Joyce=92s only living descendant, and since =
the
mid-nineteen-eighties he has effectively controlled the Joyce estate.
Scholars must ask his permission to quote sizable passages or to =
reproduce
manuscript pages from those works of Joyce=92s that remain under
copyright=97including =93Ulysses=94 and =93Finnegans Wake=94=97as well =
as from more than
three thousand letters and several dozen unpublished manuscript =
fragments...

... Of the two dozen people I had talked to, Lessig was one of the few =
who
weren=92t angry at Stephen Joyce. =93I don=92t really blame people who =
exercise
the rights the law appears to give them,=94 Lessig said. =93Stephen =
Joyce is
using whatever power he has.=94 But he added that Stephen had =
strengthened
Shloss=92s case with the threatening letters, the calls to her =
publisher, the
alleged spying and attempts to block her research. As Lessig saw it, the
case was simple: Shloss was not trying to profit in an unseemly way off =
the
Joyce legacy; she was an academic who was trying to make a literary
argument. It was not at all important whether her argument was =
correct=97only
that it was a legitimate effort...

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Thomas Carlyle Resartus: Reappraising Carlyle for Our Times=20

2007 Carlyle Studies Conference
Hosted by the Villanova Center for Liberal Education
Villanova University
Villanova, PA 19087=20

July 12-13, 2007=20

The Villanova Center for Liberal Education will host the 2007 Carlyle
Studies Conference on the subject of "Thomas Carlyle Resartus: =
Reappraising
Carlyle for Our Times." Paper proposals are welcome on any aspect of
Carlyle's life and work; we are especially interested in papers that =
address
the following: Carlyle and the study of history; Carlyle and democracy;
interdisciplinarity in Carlyle studies; and teaching Carlyle in the =
college
classroom. We welcome proposals from a variety of disciplines, including
history, literature, political science, philosophy, and cultural =
studies.
The conference will also feature a roundtable discussion on approaches =
to
teaching Carlyle; please indicate on your proposal if you are interested =
in
participating.=20

Proposals should be no more than 500 words, describing the essay, its
argument, and its contribution to the field. Please submit proposals, =
along
with a short curriculum vitae, as email attachments no later than 15 =
October
2006 to:=20

Dr. Marylu Hill
Villanova Center for Liberal Education
Villanova University
marylu.hill[at]villanova.edu=20

Dr. Paul Kerry
Department of History
Brigham Young University
paul_kerry[at]byu.edu=20

http://www.villanova.edu/artsci/vcle/conferences/thomas_carlyle.htm=20
=20
Marylu Hill, Asst. Professor=20
Villanova Center for Liberal Education=20
Rm. 104, SAC=20
Villanova University=20
Villanova, PA 19085=20
phone 610-519-6936=20
fax 610-519-5410
Email: marylu.hill[at]villanova.edu
Visit the website at
http://www.villanova.edu/artsci/vcle/conferences/thomas_carlyle.htm =20

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Professor of History
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA=20
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CFP: Social Capital and Sport Governance in Europe: Trust and the Use of
Social Ties=20
Dates:
4th & 5th December 2006=20
Location:
This may be of interest to the list.=20

Institute of Public Administration and Healthcare Management (IPAS), =
Bocconi
University, Milan, Italy=20

Conference Theme:=20
Social capital is a key component of understanding the relationship =
between
European sport governing bodies and civil society. However, researching
social capital in the context of sport governance today requires =
bringing
together two categories of academic literature since, in practice, =
social
capital is often revealed in the field of sport management in complex =
ways
that are rarely named or acknowledged as 'social capital'. Yet, in 2006,
through the media we can find many examples of the use (and misuse) of =
trust
and social ties in sport governance across Europe. This raises important
questions: Where are the boundaries of both sport and social capital in
theory and practice? How can sport participation and sport management
contribute to social capital production? Can we appropriately address =
the
phenomenon of 'dark' social capital?=20

The aim of this two-day conference is to deepen scientific knowledge and =
to
look beyond academic boundaries by exploring key issues common to both
academic fields, and by orienting scholarship, research and reflection =
from
both current and historical perspectives (evaluation dimensions) toward
future ones (encouraging policy design for empowerment). The goal is to
enhance the exchange between scholars of multiple disciplines, creating =
a
space for exchange across research specialisations, emphasising =
qualitative
research in the fields of social capital and of sport management.=20

Papers within the following areas are particularly welcome:
1.The importance of social capital in the context of European sport,
healthcare, leisure, and/or non-profit and public administration
2.What is the relationship between organisational dispute resolution
mechanisms, public trust, and social capital?=20
3.How does social capital affect the representation and management of
diversity in sport?
4.What is the role of the media in social capital and/or sporting =
contexts?=20

Supported by:
European Commission Marie Curie Excellence Grant (6th Framework) "Sport =
and
Social Capital in the European Union"=20
=20
Social Capital and Sport in the EU=20
IPAS=20
Bocconi University=20
viale Isonzo 23=20
20141 Milan=20
Italy=20
Tel: +39.02.5836.5935=20
Fax: +39.02.5836.5934=20

Email: scsportex[at]unibocconi.it
Visit the website at http://www.unibocconi.it/sportandsocialcapital =20

William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of History
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA=20
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