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Dear IR-D members,

I am curious to know if anyone ever saw the term "dirty war" in
reference to the situation in Northern Ireland. It is now used widely to
label a variety of conflicts, but it seems to keep the original
ambiguity (sometimes the reference is the oppressor and other times the
victim).

Thank you,

Edmundo Murray

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Social History Society Annual Conference
Exeter, 30 March - 1 April 2007
'SPACES AND PLACES' strand

'Spaces and Places' is one six strands which run through the Social
History Society annual conference. It explores the shape of the past,
the specificity of place, the influence of environment, the nature of
boundaries, and the impact of travel. It maps divisions -- whether they
be urban-rural, region-nation, centre- periphery, north-south,
metropole-diaspora -- and the communications that flow between them. It
is concerned with the exchange of people, materials and ideas across
spaces, whether through migration, trade, or conflict. It explores how
landscape shape historical relations, and how place and experience
intertwine. It examines the historical role of imaginary places, and the
contribution of wanderers and explorers. Contributors are also invited
to consider how the shape of the past can best be visualised,
particularly in the light of new technology, and how a sense of place
informs collective memory. Proposals may deal with any period and may
treat any portion of the globe.

Individual papers or panels of up to three papers exploring these themes
are all encouraged, as are interdisciplinary papers uniting history with
geography and other social sciences. The usual format for papers is 20
minutes, but we encourage other kinds of presentation, such as video.
Proposals from postgraduate students are particularly welcomed. Papers
given at the Conference can be considered for publication in Cultural
and Social History, the Society's journal.

The 2007 conference will be held at the University of Exeter, 30 March-1
April. Further details, including descriptions of the other strands, are
available at www.socialhistory.org.uk/

Proposals should be of no more than 400 words. Please include full
contact details, a very short c.v., and any audio-visual requirements.
Send them to both strand convenors by 10 OCTOBER 2006:
David Hopkin, Hertford College, Oxford OX1 3BW
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specific articles or other related topics. Atlantikos also publishes
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EIRE IRELAND
VOL 41; NUMB 1/2; 2006
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pp. 9-39
"Our Nuns Are Not a Nation": Politicizing the Convent in Irish Literature
and Film.
Cullingford, E. B.

pp. 40-63
Embodied Ideals and Realities: Irish Nuns and Irish Womanhood, 1930s-1960s.
McKenna, Y.

pp. 64-121
The Manliness of Parnell.
Valente, J.

pp. 122-141
Words as Weapons: Speech, Violence, and Gender in Late Medieval Ireland.
Hall, D.

pp. 142-168
Maureen O'Hara: Pirate Queen, Feminist Icon?.
Barton, R.

pp. 169-191
Roasting a Man Alive: The Case of Mary Rielly, Criminal Lunatic.
Prior, P.

pp. 192-212
Women Writers and the Death of Rural Ireland: Realism and Nostalgia in the
1940s.
Wills, C.

pp. 213-241
Cycling and Gender in Victorian Ireland.
Griffin, B.

pp. 242-261
The Sons of Cuchulainn: Violence, the Family, and the Irish Canon.
Meaney, G.

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Gender, Citizenship, and the Future of the Northern Ireland Peace Process.
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H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by H-Atlantic[at]h-net.msu.edu (August 2006)

Kevin Kenny, ed. _Ireland and the British Empire_. Oxford History of the
British Empire Companion Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
296 pp. Index.
$45.00 (cloth),
ISBN 0-19-925183-5.

Reviewed by Charles C. Ludington, North Carolina State University and
Duke University

Was Ireland a kingdom or a colony? Or, especially after the creation of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801, was it central
or peripheral? For a generation of scholars of early modern and modern
Ireland, these have been the perennial questions regarding Ireland's
status within the British empire. And until we are satisfied with the
apparently paradoxical answer, "both and neither," these questions will
continue to burn. Kevin Kenny's edited collection of essays on _Ireland
and the British Empire_ will, therefore, go a long way toward ending the
current debate; for it is the central conclusion of almost all of the
contributors, including Kenny himself, that the either/or approach
cannot lead to resolution. This is because arguments resolutely for or
against Ireland's colonial status are based upon an ideal form of colony
which did not, in fact, exist. Instead, almost all the contributors
agree that Ireland's status within the British empire was
constitutionally ambiguous, its inhabitants were frequently ambivalent,
and its position within the empire was, for better and worse, unique.

Indeed, the idea of ambivalence is struck at the very outset of the book
and, in an arresting way, in the foreword written by Nicholas Canny.
Canny, a seminal figure in the "kingdom or colony" debate, tells the
story of two humble Irish Catholics, one man and one woman, who found
employment and social opportunity within the British imperial
administration prior to, during, and even after the protracted
separation of southern Ireland from the United Kingdom in the first half
of the twentieth century. Neither person was an ardent Unionist or an
avid Republican. Instead, as Canny says, "each experienced conflicts of
loyalty and allegiance but in neither instance is there the slightest
hint that such conflicts tempted them to become subversives" (p. xvii).
What makes Canny's stories so arresting is that both of the people about
whom he writes were his relatives. And while Canny denies that either
one was necessarily typical--in career or attitude--of an Irish person
from a poor or modest background, he seems to suggest that the very
existence of two such people in his own extended family (one paternal,
one maternal) might indicate the existence of a much larger, if
heretofore rarely discussed, group within Irish history. More overtly,
and more importantly, Canny calls for other people to reconstruct their
own family histories so that future scholars will have a better sense of
what was and was not a typical experience or attitude of poor or
lower-middle-class Irish people in and towards the British empire.
Until that happens, we will have this book, among others, to help us
answer our questions.

Kenny begins the chapters with an excellent overview of Irish history
within the British empire and, importantly for those who are familiar
with the _Oxford History of the British Empire_ (_OHBE_), briefly
explains how and why this companion volume is different and necessary,
even though Ireland was the focus of six chapters within the original
five-volume set. In short, Ireland was far too important to be left out
of a comprehensive study of the British empire, so much so that six
chapters scattered over five volumes were thought not comprehensive
enough. Thus, we have this book, as well as other companion volumes on
such topics as gender and race. Jane Ohlmeyer, who also contributed a
chapter to volume 1 of _OHBE_, follows Kenny's introduction with one of
the book's more impressive chapters in which she writes very clearly
about ambiguity. Like Canny, Ohlmeyer situates early modern Irish
history within a British Atlantic context, and in the process shows how
Irish Catholics were victims of English (and later British) imperialism,
but also enterprising participants within the empire, both at home and
abroad. The "Atlantic"
approach to Irish history, which sees Ireland as a laboratory for later
imperial expansion, tends to tie Irish history into that of North
America and the Caribbean, but in this article Ohlmeyer shows that Irish
imperial interests extended as far and wide as the empire itself, and
thus to South America, Asia and Africa, while Irish merchants also
contributed to Continental European trading networks. What, then, was
the story of empire in Ireland for Ohlmeyer?
It was "complex, full of contradictions, and in several respects
unique" (p.
58)
.
In considering Ireland's fate, Ohlmeyer asks how it could have been
different given the island's proximity to England and the strategic
threat it represented to England throughout the early modern period.
This is precisely the question that Thomas Bartlett asks in his chapter
on the eighteenth century, and what he finds when exploring the
Irish-British relationship is also ambiguity.
"Without doubt," says Bartlett, "Ireland benefited from the imperial
connection in the eighteenth century.... Yet Irish gains from
transatlantic trade did not enter deep enough into the Irish economy to
foster self-sustaining development"
(p. 68). As Bartlett points out, this was the opposite of what happened
in Scotland, where the transatlantic tobacco trade was so lucrative that
it helped to capitalize ancillary industries and establish the need for
sophisticated financial services, which in turn positively affected the
entire Scottish economy. And of course, Scotland's financial success
had much to do with its acceptance of the Union with England. Without
such wealth, the Irish tended to be less enthusiastic, especially the
Catholic Irish. True, the Union of Great Britain and Ireland provided
new opportunities within the empire for Irish Catholics after 1800, but
the Union itself was never as popular in Ireland as the imperial rewards
it brought. This was clearly a problem in the long run, because to like
the effect of something but not its cause is to live with a dangerous,
and perhaps untenable, contradiction.

It would be redundant at this point to examine in detail each essay in
this volume that affirms the book's essential thesis about the
complexity, ambiguity and uniqueness of Ireland's status within the
British rmpire, which is precisely what Kenny, Alvin Jackson, and
Deirdre McMahon do in their respective chapters on "The Irish in the
Empire," "Ireland the Union and Empire, 1800-1960," and "Ireland, the
Empire and the Commonwealth." This is not to say that these are
unimportant contributions. Kenny's essay is yet another even-handed
contribution from the editor in which one learns that as a proportion of
the overall population, Portuguese emigration levels in the twentieth
century exceeded those of Ireland, as well as the fact that more
southern Irishmen fought in World War II (43,000) than did Northern
Irishmen (38,000). This book is full of such significant facts and
statistics, which fly in the face of commonly held Irish and Northern
Irish historical assumptions. Jackson's stylish essay, for example,
will unnerve as many Unionists as Nationalists for the pieties it
questions and just as frequently rejects. This is no easy feat, and one
which is to be applauded. McMahon's essay is perhaps less successful
than the others, for lack of a clear thesis, but it too has its slyly
subversive moments, such as when she concludes in wondering whether the
Republic of Ireland should rejoin the Commonwealth.

If there is a thematic division in the volume, it arises from whether
the author's primary focus is on the more traditional domains of
history, such as politics, trade, economics and emigration, or the
historical artifact called literature. While the previously mentioned
authors were concerned with the former, Vera Kreilkamp, Joe Cleary and
Stephen Howe are more interested in the latter. Consequently, these
three essays speak to each other more than to the chronologically
arranged historical essays, and in that sense might have been given a
separate section within the volume under the sub-title, "The
Colonial/Post-Colonial Literary Debate."

That said, not all literary theorists are set against the historians.
Kreilkamp, for example, focuses on the "Big House" novels (i.e.: novels
using Anglo-Irish landowners' houses as setting and metaphor) of the
nineteenth and twentieth century, and concludes that "Irish fiction
significantly complicates the binary structures of a postcolonial
emphasis on metropolitan centre and periphery" (p. 181). In short, she
finds that Ireland was neither fully central nor peripheral, or, in
longer historical terms, it was neither kingdom nor colony. Joe Cleary
disagrees, and his chapter on "Postcolonial Ireland"
comes closest of all to directly challenging the volume's overall
thesis.
Cleary claims that Irish postcolonial literary analysis is not a
"renovated cultural nationalism" but the "most expansive and
outward-looking of the various modes of socio-cultural analysis
currently shaping Irish studies" (p.
252). He acknowledges that there was no classic colonial model against
which to compare Ireland, but rejects this criticism as grounds upon
which to dismiss colonial/post-colonial analysis because Ireland shared
many of the "colonial structures, legacies and dilemmas" (p. 253), in
variant forms, with other British colonies. This, of course, is where
the argument gets slippery, because without strict or established
definitions of what was or was not "colonial,"
everything or nothing becomes possible. Nevertheless, Cleary argues his
point forcefully, although some of his colonial comparisons fail under
the weight of scrutiny. For example, state formation and eventual
partition in Ireland is hardly comparable with that of Cyprus and
Palestine, as Cleary asserts. True, India merits a comparison because
Britain had long been involved in governing the subcontinent, although
strictly speaking the British government did not rule over India until
1858. Cyprus and Palestine, however, were acquired in the
late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries respectively. Britain
ultimately had very little interest in either territory, and there was
essentially no resident British population outside of a very small
administration. This could hardly be more different from Ireland, where
there was nearly eight hundred years of administrative interference and
control by England (and later Britain), and just as many years of
British settlement and attempts at cultural transformation. However, if
we accept Cleary's very broad brush strokes as legitimate, his
colonial/post-colonial model holds up and in the process illuminates
aspects of Irish culture and history. But are his strokes too broad?
Or, to continue the metaphor, does he paint Ireland with the same a
colonial brush as India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Jamaica, etc., and then
proclaim to his audience that, by virtue of its similar color, Ireland
is obviously a colony? Clearly, some literary theorists and so-called
"revisionist" historians would think so.

One might say that Stephen Howe comes to the rescue at this point, and
that the volume should have concluded with his essay, rather than place
it in the awkward penultimate position. Howe is a cultural historian
with a particular interest in literature, and thus maps out the heated
historiographical terrain of the last three decades with a particular
emphasis on the struggle for narrative supremacy between the
"colonial/post-colonial" literary theorists and the so-called
"revisionist" historians. Howe seems to have read every recent cultural
study of Ireland and of the British empire, no matter how large or
small, and with this impressive background he tackles his subject from a
breathtakingly wide perspective. Echoing the other historians in the
volume, he asserts that "this need not be an either/or argument," and
maintains this assertion by walking very carefully down the middle of a
rocky road, while deconstructing the growls and catcalls of the
antagonists on either side (p.
227). Howe claims that, in the final analysis, Irish colonial cultural
theorists are guilty of a "strange, almost oxymoronic combination of
assumptions about global sameness and about Irish uniqueness.... Even
so, Irish colonial and postcolonial cultural theory might be welcomed as
offering the potential for a wider international perspective than had
often been evident in the Irish studies of the past" (p. 246). It is,
one might say, a happy ending, and one which lives up to the editor's
assertion that the book "moves beyond two conceptions that stand at the
opposite extremes in much popular and academic discourse" (p. 1).
Indeed, the book as a whole tends to walk the middle path. In that
sense, some would argue that it merely summarizes the debate without
advancing it, but I would suggest that splitting the difference, in a
dialectical sense, is a form of advancement.

The volume contains a few factual mistakes, such as Kenny's assertion
that Ireland gained its own Parliament in the eighteenth century when in
fact, as Bartlett points out, Ireland had a "Parliament of undeniable
medieval origins"
(p. 61), even if that Parliament met infrequently and from 1494 until
1782 was subordinate to the English Privy Council. I have already
offered my suggestions for a more helpful organization of chapters, and
I would add that the book might have been improved with more comparisons
of Ireland and the British empire to other European states and their
empires. Canny, Ohlmeyer and Howe make the same suggestion in their
respective contributions, and perhaps this will be the subject of a
volume of essays in the not-too-distant future. As a collection of
essays goes, this volume is tightly focused without being repetitive.
All the contributors, and Kenny in particular, are to be congratulated
on a book that provides an excellent introduction to, summary of, and
(if we are prepared to accept compromise and synthesis) even a road map
beyond, what has been, and is likely to remain a topic of much debate.



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Sent: 22 August 2006 16:11

Dear Friends,
The latest issue of the Irish Immigrant mentions a robbery in Balbriggan
with the robbers wearing boiler suits.=A0 Is that the American =
equivalent of
track suits, or is this a different outfit?

Thanks.
Michael

Michael Patrick Gillespie
Louise Edna Goeden Professor of English
Marquette University

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From: p.maume[at]qub.ac.uk [mailto:p.maume[at]qub.ac.uk]=20
Sent: 22 August 2006 17:16
To: 'Patrick O'Sullivan'
Subject: RE: [IR-D] Boiler suits

From: Patrick Maume
Boiler suits are not track suits - they are heavy-duty overalls. The
robbers wear them during the robbery to minimise forensic evidence, then
destroy them afterwards.
Best wishes,
Patrick

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From: Gillespie, Michael [mailto:michael.gillespie[at]marquette.edu]=20
Sent: 22 August 2006 16:11

Dear Friends,
The latest issue of the Irish Immigrant mentions a robbery in Balbriggan
with the robbers wearing boiler suits.=A0 Is that the American =
equivalent
of track suits, or is this a different outfit?

Thanks.
Michael

Michael Patrick Gillespie
Louise Edna Goeden Professor of English
Marquette University

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Number of homeless Irish in London at all-time low
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Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Versions of the following item have appeared in a number of places...
This is from
http://www.irishexaminer.com

EXTRACT
Number of homeless Irish in London at all-time low
12/08/2006 - 09:56:50

The number of Irish people sleeping rough in central London has fallen =
to an all-time low.

New figures from the Simon Homeless Agency show the number of homeless =
Irish in the six inner city boroughs has fallen from 600 in 1999 to =
about 100 this year.

The fall is being attributed to the Government's Dion project, which =
gives money to welfare societies for Irish emigrants in Britain.

The grants will total =E2=82=AC8.7m this year, the highest amount to =
date.
ENDS

The latest press release at the Simon Community web site
http://www.simoncommunity.org.uk/latest_news.php

reports that a head count in April 2006 found 275 people sleeping rough =
in the EIGHT (not six) inner London Boroughs...

'The headcount was carried out in one night between the hours of 12 =
midnight and 4 am on 1 April, 2006. The figures were gathered in the =
boroughs of Camden (12 Rough Sleepers), City of London (25 RS), =
Islington (10 RS), Kensington & Chelsea (3 RS), Lambeth 13 RS), =
Southwark (8 RS), Tower Hamlets (6 RS) and Westminster (188 RS), plus an =
additional 10 rough sleepers who helped with the street count.'

I can see no specific mention there of the numbers of Irish.

The figures are not large, and certainly contrast with the very large =
numbers being cited a few years ago. However, if 100 out of 275 are =
Irish the number does seem disproportionate.

P.O'S.

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From: WallsAMP[at]aol.com [mailto:WallsAMP[at]aol.com]=20
Sent: 22 August 2006 20:14
To: p.osullivan[at]Bradford.ac.uk

Dear Paddy,
=A0
There does still seem to be a problem of Irish homelessness in London,
giving little room for complacency. From a report I did last year for
Emigrant Advice/Irish Abroad Unit.....refers only to those identified as
street homeless, not those who were=A0resident in=A0hostels.......

'CHAIN (Combined Homelessness and Information Network) statistics were
sought to see whether the Irish comprised any significant number among =
those
recently assessed as homeless across London. These statistics show that =
from
1/4/04 until 9/9/05, (a period of approximately 17 months), the Irish =
were
over-represented among the London homeless, that is, 6% (see Appendix 3 =
for
CHAIN statistics referring to homeless Irish in London). However, the
statistics did not distinguish between newly arrived Irish and those who
have been in London for much longer periods.'
=20
132 out of 2050 were Irish; 53% of these Irish were aged 36-49 years; =
and
120/132 were male.

CHAIN is a database containing details of individuals, assessments of =
their
needs, contacts and interventions. It is compiled by agencies in London =
that
work with those rough sleeping or engaging in other street activities =
that
cause concern in communities and need a welfare response=92=20

http://www.broadwaylondon.org/chain/


Paddy Walls

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Forwarded from H-Migration. This may be of interest to the list.


Migration unbound: Challenging the limits of modern democracy
>
> The new online journal Re-public
> invites contributions for its upcoming special issue entitled
> "Migration unbound". In the contemporary political discourse of the
> international, migration has been represented as a force of
> uncertainty for regional and global order and a threat to the
> security of nation states. These negative representations have
> overshadowed the potential challenge that international migrations
> represent for the development of new forms of democratic theory and
> practice. Diverse phenomena such as the emergence of new forms of
> hybrid identities, the development of transnational networks, the
> (re)birth of diasporic belongings have highlighted creative avenues
> of escape from the impasse that democratic societies face. This
> issue aims at exploring migrations as movements that open up the
> limits of modern democracies to the forces of transnationalism and
> globalization calling for alternative forms of representation that
> challenge national borders and putting in question the
> citizen/alien divide. Possible topics include:
>
>
> * Processes of securitization and desecuritization of migration
> * Positive and negative conceptualizations of migration
> * Human rights and migration
> * Migrant identities
> * Hybridity as a creative form of democratic belonging
> * Transnationalism
> * Diasporas
> * New forms of citizenship
> * Migrant social movements
>
> Essays should be approximately 1.000 words long.
>
> Please submit contributions in any electronic format to:
>
> phatzopoulos AT re-public.gr
>
> Deadline for articles: 20 September 2006
>
> For more information, see www.re-public.gr/en/
>


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

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From: Donald MacRaild [mailto:Donald.MacRaild[at]vuw.ac.nz]=20
Sent: 22 August 2006 22:58
To: Patrick O'Sullivan; IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: RE: [IR-D] Boiler suits

Did anyone answer this? A boiler-suit is basically a one-piece =
protective
garment warn by manual workers -- boiler-suits have those little extras =
like
thigh pockets for wrenches and screw-drivers, whether for legitimate or
illegitimate uses. If your appetite is whetted, but not satisfied, then =
here
is the boilersuit in a his 'n' hers version:

http://www.beoworld.co.uk/misc/boilersuit.jpg

In the industrial town in which I grew up, skilled tradesmen wore blue
boiler suits and the foreman wore white. The managers then wore things =
like
white doctors' coat. The most striking colour I've seen in orange: quite =
a
few companies use these, presumably for reasons of visibility. The =
colour
certainly doesn't hide oil and grime very well.

Presumably the boiler suit is used in crime as a cover-all which
standardises the criminals, makes them difficult to separate, adds a bit =
of
pseudo-military fear, and can easily be disgarded after the crime.

Don MacRaild



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From: Gillespie, Michael [mailto:michael.gillespie[at]marquette.edu]
Sent: 22 August 2006 16:11

Dear Friends,
The latest issue of the Irish Immigrant mentions a robbery in Balbriggan
with the robbers wearing boiler suits.=A0 Is that the American =
equivalent of
track suits, or is this a different outfit?

Thanks.
Michael

Michael Patrick Gillespie
Louise Edna Goeden Professor of English
Marquette University

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Did anyone answer this? A boiler-suit is basically a one-piece =
protective garment warn by manual workers -- boiler-suits have those =
little extras like thigh pockets for wrenches and screw-drivers, whether =
for legitimate or illegitimate uses. If your appetite is whetted, but =
not satisfied, then here is the boilersuit in a his 'n' hers version:

http://www.beoworld.co.uk/misc/boilersuit.jpg=20


In the industrial town in which I grew up, skilled tradesmen wore blue =
boiler suits and the foreman wore white. The managers then wore things =
like white doctors' coat. The most striking colour I've seen in orange: =
quite a few companies use these, presumably for reasons of visibility. =
The colour certainly doesn't hide oil and grime very well.

Presumably the boiler suit is used in crime as a cover-all which =
standardises the criminals, makes them difficult to separate, adds a bit =
of pseudo-military fear, and can easily be disgarded after the crime.

Don MacRaild



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Subject: [IR-D] Boiler suits

From: Gillespie, Michael [mailto:michael.gillespie[at]marquette.edu]
Sent: 22 August 2006 16:11

Dear Friends,
The latest issue of the Irish Immigrant mentions a robbery in Balbriggan =
with the robbers wearing boiler suits.=A0 Is that the American =
equivalent of track suits, or is this a different outfit?

Thanks.
Michael

Michael Patrick Gillespie
Louise Edna Goeden Professor of English
Marquette University

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My apologies for sending this directly to Donald MacRaild rather than to the
list -- the dangers of hitting "Reply" without double-checking.

Tom

We have them in the USA but call them coveralls or jumpsuits. Orange could
be for protection of workers, especially on roads. Of course, the "orange
jumpsuit" is standard wear for convicts in so many number of states that it
has become a shorthand reference to incarceration. Texas uses them; perhaps
the Englishmen indicted in the Enron scandal -- (Hey, what's the big deal in
lining one's pockets while screwing thousands of people out of their
savings?) -- will get a chance to wear them, if convicted. See
http://www.pxdirect.com/inmate_u.htm.

I'm not positive but think the term jumpsuit may have come out of the
military. I know that jet pilots wear jumpsuits; those are probably
pressurized for the purpose of ejection from the aircraft. Helicopter
pilots, however, also wear jumpsuits, though no pilots ever seem to
parachute from those machines.

Coveralls seems to the word most equivalent to boiler-suit in terms of its
use by manual workers. On the other hand, if caught in the U.S., the
brigands from Ballybriggan would have an extra change of clothes for prison,
so many jumpsuit applies as well.


Tom

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Listers,

An open-ended question that I submit to the collective wisdom of the list:

What titles - fiction, nonfiction, film, whatever - would you include in a
reading list on the theme of the "returned Yank"? The Quiet Man, certainly
, and George Moore's "Home Sickness"; and we've recently published two good
short memoirs on this theme in New Hibernia Review ("Finding Home:
Aughkiltubred, 1969" by James Murphy, 8,3 [Autumn 2004], and "Fearful
Symmetry: An Emigrant's Return to Celtic Tiger Ireland" by Maureen O'Connor,
10, 1 [Spring, 2006]).

Other suggestions? Any hidden jewels out there?

Thanks in advance. The diaspora list never fails!

Jim Rogers



James S. Rogers
Managing Director/Center for Irish Studies
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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Forwarded from H-NET, this may be of interest to the list.=20

SECOND Call for Papers=20

CULTIVATING THE =93NEXT=94 AGRICULTURAL HISTORY=20

Annual Meeting of the Agricultural History Society=20
Iowa State University=20
Ames, Iowa=20
June 21-23, 2007=20

Sponsored by the History Department, Agricultural History and Rural =
Studies
Program, and Center for Agricultural History, Iowa State University=20

Deadline for Submissions: October 15, 2006=20

In recent years, scholars seemed to have paused, looked around, and =
decided,
however consciously, to expand and redefine the field of agricultural
history. For many among us, this may provoke a sense of d=E9j=E0 vu. =
Beginning
in the late 1970s scholars, dissatisfied with the traditional (or =
=93old=94)
emphasis on production, distribution, technology, and policy, =
increasingly
turned their attentions to social and cultural themes=97among them, farm
communities, women=92s lives and roles, the immigrant experience, rural
culture in the South, and market (vs. agrarian) consciousness and =
behavior.
While the =93new=94 rural history, as it came to be called, continues to =
thrive,
historians and scholars from a variety of related disciplines are
transforming and reinvigorating the field once again. The result=97what =
might
be called the =93next=94 agricultural history=97embraces both =93old=94 =
and =93new=94
interpretations of previous generations, but focuses most intently on
interdisciplinary and global issues. The =93next=94 agricultural history =
not
only =93puts the culture back into agriculture,=94 as outgoing AHS =
president Hal
Barron once put it, but the environment, geography, economy, science and
technology, politics, consumption=97indeed, a whole range of scholarly
perspectives and methodologies.=20

The program committee for the 2007 meeting of the Agricultural History
Society invites submissions from scholars at all levels and in all
disciplines to help cultivate the =93next=94 agricultural history. We =
extend a
special welcome to graduate students. Historians, economists, =
geographers,
sociologists, and other scholars in related fields are encouraged to =
submit
proposals of all types and formats, from the traditional =
papers/commentary
format, to more informal discussion panels focused on specific themes, =
to
roundtables on recent noteworthy books. The program committee will also =
do
its best to organize individual or =93orphan=94 submissions into panels. =


Submission Procedures:=20
Complete session proposals should include a chair, participants, and, if
applicable, a commentator. Please include the following information:=20

An abstract of no more than 200 words for the session as a whole;=20
A prospectus of no more than 250 words for each presentation;=20
A mailing address, email, phone number, and affiliation for each
participant; and=20
A CV of no more than a page for each participant.=20
Individual submissions should include all the above except a session
abstract.=20

Please send submissions, in PDF format, to d-vaught[at]tamu.edu . While we =
much
prefer electronic submissions, applicants may, if they choose, mail five
hard copies of their proposals to:=20

David Vaught=20
2007 AHS Annual Meeting=20
Department of History=20
MS 4236=20
Texas A&M University=20
College Station, TX 77843-4236=20

Should you have further questions, please contact any member of the =
program
committee:=20

David Vaught, chair, Texas A&M University, d-vaught[at]tamu.edu=20
Monica Gisolfi, Columbia University, mg249[at]columbia.edu=20
Douglas Helms, Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA,
douglas.helms[at]wdc.usda.gov=20
Debra Reid, Eastern Illinois University, dareid[at]eiu.edu=20
Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, Iowa State University, prinkeh[at]iastate.edu=20
=20
Visit the website at http://www.usi.edu/libarts/history/AHS =20



William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of History
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA=20
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Forwarded from H-NET. This may be of interest to the list. Several =
papers
on the programme relate to Ireland.=20

Exile in Early Modern Europe 1550-1715=20

Conference Date: 2006-09-21=20

One of the remarkable developments in the humanities in recent years is =
the
great increase of interest in exile. Currently, a very great number of
renowned scholars of history, art history, and literature are concerned =
with
exile as the ubiquitous result of the confessional and dynastic =
struggles of
the early modern state, and the intellectual upheavals of the time. This
conference will bring together for the first time these academics in an
interdisciplinary conference dedicated to the presentation and =
discussion of
recent research. This conference will be the first forum for a =
discussion of
exile in early modern Europe from a truly interdisciplinary and
transnational point of view.=20
=20
Dr Cordula van Wyhe=20
History of Art Department=20
University of York=20
Helslington/York YO10 5DD=20
United Kingdom

Email: cvw500[at]york.ac.uk
Visit the website at =
http://pages.britishlibrary.net/habsburg.netherlands/ =20

Didn't find what you're looking for?
Try our power search!=20

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