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A while back there was a thread about sen- ups of Riverdance. I was
watching the Cincinnati pre-season game the other night and they re-ran
one of Chad Johnson famous touch down celebrations in which he did a
little Step Dance around the end zone. Not sure if this one was already
noted, but mention it here again just in case.

This year, sadly, such celebrations have been outlawed:

"Fans in Cincinnati can forget looking forward to what clever
celebration routine receiver Chad Johnson plans for that weekend's
touchdown dance, even though Johnson's "Riverdance" high-stepping Irish
jig was a season highlight."

I must admit, it was a beautiful sight.

Matt



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Hey Jim:
Three good ones (fiction) that I have written about and taught here and
there are Daniel Corkery's "Storm Struck" from _Munster Twilight_,
Frank O'Connor's "Attack" from _Guests of the Nation_, and Brian Friel's
_The Gentle Island_. The Corkery and Friel works are specifically
stories involving repatriation, but not simply returned yanks from
America, but returned yanks from Butte, Montana! The O'Connor story is
more of a fictional repatriation as the returned character (who
supposedly went off to Butte, MT) never actually went.
Matt

Rogers, James wrote:
> 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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Stanford University

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I am sure some in the IR-D list will enjoy these articles:

1. "We've got more illegal aliens here [the US] than all the Jewish
folks, Irish folks and English who ever came to America. [...]=20
Q: Why can't immigration be made more sensible and regulated and
controlled, so that immigrants from Latin America don't have to sneak
across the border at night and die and trash the environment and
everything else?
A: [...] can't run all these folks out. We've got to stop it. Here's the
thing: We don't need anymore low-age workers in America. We don't have a
shortage of them."
("America in Peril" By Bill Steigerwald - interview to Pat Buchanan)
http://www.sitnews.us/BillSteigerwald/082806_steigerwald.html

2. "While there is a marginal increase of those in the state that say
they have no religious affiliation, it is amazing that 92.4 per cent of
the Irish population still refer to themselves in religious terms. It
may be that we have to revise our perception of the role of religion in
affluent societies."
("Economic success and religious affiliation" by Livingstone Thompson in
"Jamaica Gleaner" (Kingston), 3 September 2006)
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20060903/cleisure/cleisure5.html


Edmundo Murray

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Without seeing the list of finalists it is hard to make a judgment, but =
I
would have expected at least one project related to the Irish in Britain =
on
the list. Given the length of time the Irish have been in Britain and =
their
continuing presence in significant numbers this is surprising. I am =
sure
there is a level of academic (and other) politics in programs like this, =
but
still, it would seem one project on the Irish Diaspora out of 15 or 16 =
would
be warranted. =20
=20
It was not clear from the website, but is there to be another round of
awards? =20

The website mentions that they fund conferences. This reminded me of
something I have been thinking about for some time. 2007 will mark ten
years since the two large Diaspora conferences at Cork and Omagh as well =
as
I believe the completion of The Irish World Wide. It seems like a good
time for an assessment of where the field stands. =20

Bill
=20
William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of History
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA=20
=20
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It is worth having a glance at the list of successful applicants under =
this
AHRC scheme...

Here are 'diaspora studies' within the arts and humanities...

I can't see anything here with an Irish connection - Laurence Brown in
Manchester writes mostly about migrants from the Caribbean...

P.O'S.


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_____________________________________
From: Katie Roche [mailto:K.A.Roche[at]leeds.ac.uk]=20
Subject: Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme

Dear all
=A0
The Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme Large Grant Awards =
have
now been finalised and can be viewed on the website at:
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=A0
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=A0
=A0
Katie Roche
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Address: Theology and Religious Studies, University of Leeds LS2 9JT
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This new BBC collection will interest the Shaw folk, and will prove a useful
teaching tool.

J.B.'s Other Island not included, but much good stuff, with great British
actors doing their Shaw thing.

Easiest to find copies by doing a web search. N. America based scholars
should ensure they buy from BBC America or some US source, to avoid those
DVD region problems...

P.O'S.


Bernard Shaw Collection (DVD)

George Bernard Shaw Collection includes the following:

Arms and the Man.
The Man of Destiny
The Devil's Disciple
Mrs Warren's Profession
You Never Can Tell
Pygmalion
Androcles and the Lion
Heartbreak House
The Millionairess
The Apple Cart

Over the years the BBC has broadcast some of the greatest productions of the
plays of Bernard Shaw. Presented in this deluxe collection they are a
magnificent testament to a writer of true invention, incredible wit and
radical thought. Bernard Shaw undoubtedly sits among the great playwrights
of the English language. Over an extensive body of work there are few who
can match his brilliant control of language, his great use of humour and his
ability to weave political ideas into compelling stories.

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IRISH POLITICAL STUDIES
VOL 21; NUMB 3; 2006
ISSN 0790-7184

pp. 257-276
Reform of Politico-administrative Relations in the Irish System: Clarifying
or Complicating the Doctrine of Ministerial Responsibility?.
Connaughton, B.

pp. 277-295
Is Post-nationalism or Liberal-culturalism behind the Transformation of
Irish Nationalism?.
Frost, C.

pp. 297-317
Assessing the Relationship between Neoliberalism and Political Corruption:
The Fianna Fil-Progressive Democrat Coalition, 1997-2006.
Murphy, G.

pp. 319-336
Ministerial Selection in Ireland: Limited Choice in a Political Village.
OMalley, E.

pp. 337-354
Between Party and Movement:1 Sinn Fin and the Popular Movement against
Criminalisation, 1976-1982.
Ross, F. S.

pp. 355-382
Sinn Fein and the Media in Northern Ireland: The New Terrain of Policy
Articulation.
Spencer, G.

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It is worth having a glance at the list of successful applicants under =
this
AHRC scheme...

Here are 'diaspora studies' within the arts and humanities...

I can't see anything here with an Irish connection - Laurence Brown in
Manchester writes mostly about migrants from the Caribbean...

P.O'S.


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_____________________________________
From: Katie Roche [mailto:K.A.Roche[at]leeds.ac.uk]=20
Subject: Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme

Dear all
=A0
The Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme Large Grant Awards =
have
now been finalised and can be viewed on the website at:
http://www.diasporas.ac.uk/large_research_projects.htm
=A0
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=A0
Best wishes
=A0
=A0
Katie Roche
AHRC Programme Administrator
Diasporas, Migration and Identities
Address: Theology and Religious Studies, University of Leeds LS2 9JT
Tel: +44 113 3437838
Fax: +44 113 3433654
email: k.a.roche[at]leeds.ac.uk
http://www.diasporas.ac.uk
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Forgive me for this rather obscure post, but this is the only academic
listserv I've ever seen engage in a serious discussion of one Steven Patric=
k
Morrissey, better known as Morrissey, former leader singer for the Smiths
and pop culture phenomenon.

I am wondering if anyone out there knows of any place I can find an article
or two on the controversy that erupted in 1992 when the Mozzer released
_Your Arsenal_ with its song, "National Front Disco"?

Thanks kindly,

Matthew Barlow
PhD Candidate &
Sessional Lecturer
Department of History
Concordia University
Montr=E9al (QC) Canada

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JMI - The Journal of Music in Ireland
Edenvale, Esplanade, Bray,
Co. Wicklow, Ireland
E-mail editor[at]thejmi.com
http://www.thejmi.com


For subscription information, or for details of shops that stock JMI, please
visit our website - http://www.thejmi.com

-----------------------------------------

The Art of American Dissent - Singing Out on US Foreign Policy
Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Patti Smith and the Flaming Lips
- 'there has always been another America' of music and ideas, argues
award-winning novelist Desmond Traynor

Chorus for Change
Composer Michael McGlynn, Director of the world-renowned Anuna, asks if
Ireland has 'the vision to develop a choral community that will be the envy
of the world?'

Jazz: O'Leary the Levitator
Barra O Seaghdha listens to some recent work by Cork jazz guitarist Mark
O'Leary

Traditional Music: Kila Twinning
Adrian Scahill reviews two new CDs from the Kila stable, Kila & Oki and
uilleann piper Eoin Dillon's The Third Twin

New Work Notes: Looking for the El Dorado of New Music
John McLachlan visits the new music scenes of South Africa and Stuttgart
and asks are we 'actually doing anything interesting or provocative in this
country?'

Reabhloid Ealaine na Gaillimhe
July '06 saw the organising of an alternative Galway arts festival which
went head to head with the Galway Arts Festival to draw attention to local
artistic talent. Both festivals were hailed as great successes. However,
the intention was never to create a 'Fringe', but rather to change the main
festival. Has it succeeded? Breandan O hEaghra teases out the issues.

A Tribute to Micheal O Domhnaill (1951-2006)
Robert McMillen remembers the former guitarist and singer with the Bothy
Band who died this year.

Live Reviews
- Iarla O Lionaird, Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill [at] the National Concert
Hall
- Debashish Bhattacharya (22-string guitar) [at] Farmleigh

Recent Publications
Detailed listings of recently issued CDs, DVDs, books, periodicals &
scores, provided by the Irish Traditional Music Archive and the
Contemporary Music Centre

September-October Music Guide
Comprehensive two-month guide to contemporary/classical,
jazz/improvised/world, and Irish traditional
concerts, sessions & festivals

Images from the Archive
- in association with the Irish Traditional Music Archive
The group Seachtar, which within a year or two and with some change of
personnel would become internationally famous as the Bothy Band, in a 1974
publicity shot by Dublin photographer Robert Dawson on Mespil Road, Dublin,
in the apartment of their American sponsor Diane Hamilton nee Guggenheim:
Tony Mac Mahon, Clare, accordion; Paddy Keenan, Dublin, uilleann pipes;
Matt Molloy, Roscommon, flute; Triona Ni Dhomhnaill, Meath/Donegal, vocals,
electric clavichord; Paddy Glackin, Dublin, fiddle; Donal Lunny, Kildare,
bouzouki; Micheal O Domhnaill, Meath/Donegal, vocals, guitar

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From: j.trew[at]Queens-Belfast.AC.UK [mailto:j.trew[at]Queens-Belfast.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Johanne Devlin Trew
Sent: 06 September 2006 11:15
Subject: Re: [IR-D] AHRC, Large Grant Awards, Diasporas, Migration and
Identities Programme

Dear Paddy,

To be fair to the AHRC, they and the ESRC are funding other Irish
Diaspora-related projects through their regular programmes. For example,
Liam Kennedy and I at the QUB, School of History & Centre for Migration
Studies were recently awarded funding under their 'regular' large research
grant scheme for our study about Northern Ireland Migration, entitled:
Northern Ireland Emigrant Narratives.

For more info about the study, see our webpages at:
http://www.qub.ac.uk/cms/NIEN/Press_Release06.htm

all the best,

Johanne Devlin Trew, PhD
AHRC Research Fellow
Centre for Migration Studies
& School of History & Anthropology
Queen's University Belfast
j.trew[at]qub.ac.uk
Tel: 00-44-28-8225-6315

On Sep 5 2006, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:

> Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> It is worth having a glance at the list of successful applicants under
> this AHRC scheme...
>
> Here are 'diaspora studies' within the arts and humanities...
>
> I can't see anything here with an Irish connection - Laurence Brown in
> Manchester writes mostly about migrants from the Caribbean...
>
> P.O'S.
>

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Hi Paddy

It'slightly the topic of the diaspora, but I think it would be a pity =
not to
share a letter in today's Irish Times with list members.

best

Piaras

Madam, - For a mad moment there, watching the RT=C9 interview with Dr =
Garret
FitzGerald last Sunday week, I understood him to say he was "a good =
deal of
a prick" in his younger days. And I thought, delightedly: what an =
endearing
confession, what an admirable admission of human imperfection, and what =
an
expression of the common touch.

Alas, how disappointed I was to learn from your Corrections column =
(August
29th) that all he had said was "prig". And how priggish and humourless =
it
was of him to insist on the correction, and to remind us so huffily =
that "he
would never use such language". - Yours, etc,

JOHN A MURPHY, Douglas Road, Cork.

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Matthew,

A contemporary account of the 1992 Morrissey 'controversy' that you menti=
on=20
can be found in Danny Kelly et al, 'Caucasian Rut', New Musical Express, =
22=20
August 1992. For a more scholarly account of this issue, see Nabeel Zuber=
i,=20
'The Last Truly British People You Will Ever Know: The Smiths, Morrissey =
and=20
Britpop', in Sounds English (University of Illinois Press, 2001).

Best wishes,
Sean Campbell.

Dr. Sean Campbell
Communication, Film and Media
Anglia Ruskin University
Cambridge
UK

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Subject: [IR-D] Morrissey Query


Forgive me for this rather obscure post, but this is the only academic
listserv I've ever seen engage in a serious discussion of one Steven Patr=
ick
Morrissey, better known as Morrissey, former leader singer for the Smiths
and pop culture phenomenon.

I am wondering if anyone out there knows of any place I can find an artic=
le
or two on the controversy that erupted in 1992 when the Mozzer released
_Your Arsenal_ with its song, "National Front Disco"?

Thanks kindly,

Matthew Barlow
PhD Candidate &
Sessional Lecturer
Department of History
Concordia University
Montr=E9al (QC) Canada

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Subject: Morrissey=20

Matthew,

And, as usual, we should have asked: What have you read already?

Presumably Rogan's books, plus All Men Have Secrets by Tom Gallagher
(Editor), Michael Campbell (Editor), Murdo Gillies (Editor)

Campbell, Sean "Whats the story?: rock biography, musical routes and the
second-generation Irish in England." Irish Studies Review 12 (2004):
63-75(13).

It might be worth contacting
Colin Snowsell
University of Calgary
Who is doing research on the post-Smiths Morrissey, the flight - if it =
was
that - from a hostile British press, the accusation of racism, the =
'exile'
in LA, and the discovery and acclaim of Morrissey by a new fanbase in =
Latin
America and amongst Latinos in California.

The journal Popular Music
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/search#
has discussed and referenced Morrissey quite a lot over the years. =
Archived
issues are in JSTOR.

In fact I notice that 2006 / Volume 25 Issue 01 January 2006 of Popular
Music is a free access sample and includes an article...

=91Loaded=92: indie guitar rock, canonism, white masculinities
MATTHEW BANNISTER=20

Abstract
Indie alternative rock in the 1980s is often presented as authentically
autonomous, produced in local scenes, uncaptured by ideology, free of
commercial pressures, but also of high culture elitism. In claiming that =
the
music is avant-garde, postmodern and subversive, such accounts simplify
indie's historical, social and cultural context. Indie did not simply =
arise
organically out of developing postpunk music networks, but was shaped by
media, and was not just collective, but also stratified, hierarchical =
and
traditional. Canon (articulated through practices of archivalism and
connoisseurship) is a key means of stratification within indie scenes,
produced by and serving particular social and cultural needs for =
dominant
social groups (journalists, scenemakers, tastemakers, etc.). These =
groups
and individuals were mainly masculine, and thus gender in indie scenes =
is an
important means for deconstructing the discourse of indie independence. =
I
suggest re-envisioning indie as a history of record collectors, =
emphasising
the importance of rock =91tradition=92, of male rock =
=91intellectuals=92,
second-hand record shops, and of an alternative canon as a form of =
pedagogy.
I also consider such activities as models of rational organisation and
points of symbolic identification.

Matthew Bannister gives references Wrenn and Cavanagh after a mention of
Morrissey and racism. That is a good example of the ways in which =
Morrissey
appears in these academic discussions.

Paddy



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Sent: 05 September 2006 21:59
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] Morrissey Query

Forgive me for this rather obscure post, but this is the only academic
listserv I've ever seen engage in a serious discussion of one Steven =
Patrick
Morrissey, better known as Morrissey, former leader singer for the =
Smiths
and pop culture phenomenon.

I am wondering if anyone out there knows of any place I can find an =
article
or two on the controversy that erupted in 1992 when the Mozzer released
_Your Arsenal_ with its song, "National Front Disco"?

Thanks kindly,

Matthew Barlow
PhD Candidate &
Sessional Lecturer
Department of History
Concordia University
Montr=E9al (QC) Canada

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Subject: Professor J.A. Murphy on Garret Fitzgerald

Piaras,

With all due respect - a bushel - to John Murphy...

I am with Garret Fitz on this one...

A pedant is simply a person who likes what he says to be true...

And there is a difference between a prick and a prig...

I am trying to remember where I read that discussion about the meanings =
of
'bastard' and 'dastard'. Was it in Frank O'Connor?

I have often been called the first, but would be troubled if I were =
called
the second.

Paddy


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Of MacEinri, Piaras
Sent: 06 September 2006 11:48
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] Professor J.A. Murphy on Garrett Fitzgerald

Hi Paddy

It'slightly the topic of the diaspora, but I think it would be a pity =
not to
share a letter in today's Irish Times with list members.

best

Piaras

Madam, - For a mad moment there, watching the RT=C9 interview with Dr =
Garret
FitzGerald last Sunday week, I understood him to say he was "a good deal =
of
a prick" in his younger days. And I thought, delightedly: what an =
endearing
confession, what an admirable admission of human imperfection, and what =
an
expression of the common touch.

Alas, how disappointed I was to learn from your Corrections column =
(August
29th) that all he had said was "prig". And how priggish and humourless =
it
was of him to insist on the correction, and to remind us so huffily that =
"he
would never use such language". - Yours, etc,

JOHN A MURPHY, Douglas Road, Cork.

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From: MacEinri, Piaras [mailto:p.maceinri[at]ucc.ie]
Sent: 06 September 2006 17:56
Subject: RE: [IR-D] Professor J.A. Murphy on Garret Fitzgerald

Of course you are right Paddy and there is a substantial difference between
the two words. I'd rather be called a prick than a prig anyday! Having said,
anyone who knows Garrett, personally or in his public persona, will
recognise how absolutely typical of him it was to issue the rebuttal - he is
something of a prude - and how absolutely typical it was of Murphy, a rather
puckish observer, to have picked it up in the first place. I have to say
that Pat and I watched the documentary as well and also thought, and were
also surprised to note, that he'd said 'prick'

Best

Piaras

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick O'Sullivan [mailto:P.OSullivan[at]bradford.ac.uk]

Subject: Professor J.A. Murphy on Garret Fitzgerald

Piaras,

With all due respect - a bushel - to John Murphy...

I am with Garret Fitz on this one...

A pedant is simply a person who likes what he says to be true...

And there is a difference between a prick and a prig...

I am trying to remember where I read that discussion about the meanings of
'bastard' and 'dastard'. Was it in Frank O'Connor?

I have often been called the first, but would be troubled if I were called
the second.

Paddy

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The following item appeared on...

Irish Emigrant Publications [ferrie[at]emigrant.ie]
PROFESSIONAL IRELAND :: September 6, 2006 : Issue No. 561

Our good wishes to the successful scholars... Some familiar names...

P.O'S.

Ireland Canada Travel Scholarships announced=20

The Ireland Canada University Foundation (ICUF) has announced its =
scholarships for Irish scholars to visit Canadian universities and =
Canadian scholars to visit Irish universities in the coming academic =
year 2006/07. Irish scholars to visit Canada are: Susan Motherway of UL =
and UCC; Stefan Kraan of NUI Galway and Groningen University; Frank =
Mulligan of NUI Maynooth, DCU and University of Michigan; Anna Ryan of =
UCC and UCD; and Gavin Collins of NUI Galway.=20

The five Canadian scholars who will study at Irish universities include =
Julian Aherne of Trent University, UCD and TCD; Allan Dwyer of Memorial =
University of Newfoundland, York University Toronto and McGill =
University; Kristin Harris Walsh of Grenfell College, Memorial =
University of Newfoundland and York University; Brad Kent of Concordia =
Univeristy in Montreal, University of Ottawa and University of Waterloo; =
and Nancy Hansen of University of Manitoba, University of Glasgow and =
Carleton University Ottawa.=20

The scholarships at =E2=82=AC5k/$8 are awarded annually and sponsored by =
companies in Ireland and Canada. The Foundation was founded in 1993 by =
Newfoundlander Dr Craig Dobbin and the former President of Ireland, Dr =
Patrick Hillery, to encourage and facilitate academic links between =
Ireland and Canada.=20

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Bill Mulligan and I were discussing this Conference Announcement from
Richard Ross....

We thought it worth flagging because it showed an 'Atlantic' approach =
that
at least mentions Ireland.

But the key speaker on Ireland, Ute Lotz-Heumann, has explored questions
about the Reformation in Ireland for some time - mostly in German, and
within the German traditions. The key essay is most probably 'The Irish
Reformation in European Perspective', 1998. There is a 4 Courts volume,
Taking sides? Colonial and confessional mentalit=E9s in early modern =
Ireland
VINCENT CAREY & UTE LOTZ-HEUMANN, editors, 2003.=20

Paddy

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From: "Ross, Richard"
Subject: Conference Announcement: Law, Religion and Social Discipline in =
the
Early Modern Atlantic World
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 13:46:12 -0500


Law, Religion, and Social Discipline in the Early Modern Atlantic World

Date: Friday, October 6, 2006 Location: Newberry Library, Chicago


There has been much scholarship in the last generation on the =
intertwined=20
use of law and religion in early modern Europe to =B3discipline=B2 =
populations.
Discipline in this context does not mean =B3social control=B2 so much as =
an
ambition to cultivate virtue, godliness, industry, and =
civility.=A0=A0Curiosity=20
about the nature and effects of early modern legal-religious discipline =
have
animated studies of the English =B3reformation of manners and morals,=B2 =
of
Calvinist consistories and Scottish kirks, and of Continental and Irish=20
=B3confessionalization.=B2=A0=A0Many of these works, particularly those =
under the
rubric of confessionalization, have proceeded comparatively and inquired
into the similarities and differences among the methods and implications =
of=20
Calvinist, Lutheran, and post-Tridentine Catholic programs.=A0=A0On this =
view,
criminal justice and police regulations, church courts and consistories,
poor relief,=A0=A0censorship and confessional propaganda, manuals =
teaching=20
proper behavior and private devotions, catechizing, the Inquisition, and
ecclesiastical visitations served as techniques deployed, variously, by
Calvinists, Lutherans, and Catholics pursuing parallel disciplinary =
agendas.


This work on early modern Europe suggests a valuable way to look at New
World colonization, which presents a particularly rich site for the
comparative study of linked legal-religious discipline.=A0=A0Comparisons =
might=20
be made less among confessions than among empires.=A0=A0England, Spain, =
and
France each worried about encouraging piety, industry, morality, and =
order
among settlers whom they viewed as unruly, quick to violence, overly =
greedy,

liable to cultural degeneration, and too ready to elevate short-term
personal advantage over long-term communal and imperial goals.=A0=A0With =
varying
degrees of commitment, each sought to Christianize, order, pacify, and=20
=B3civilize=B2 indigenous peoples and slaves.=A0=A0A comparative study =
of New World
legal-religious disciplinary efforts opens up a host of =
questions.=A0=A0To what
extent did the English, French, and Spanish empires see themselves as =
facing

similar or different disciplinary challenges and to what extent did they
employ similar or different techniques?=A0=A0Can one understand the =
seemingly
disparate disciplinary institutions and practices of the English, =
French,=20
and Spanish empires as functional substitutes?=A0=A0How did disciplinary
techniques familiar from Europe require adaptation given colonial
conditions=8Bin particular, given the exigencies of territorial =
expansion, the

existence of unprecedented racial and ethnic diversity, and the presence =
of
forms of community and relations of domination unknown in =
Europe?=A0=A0In what
ways did religious syncretism and notions of religious freedom coexist =
with,

or flow out of, disciplinary efforts?=A0=A0What tensions emerged between =
the
virtues that disciplinary programs were designed to encourage=8Bfor =
instance,
between Christianization and civilization, or between piety and =
industry?=20
How does the adoption of a comparative perspective alter inherited
understandings of patterns of cooperation and rivalry among legal and
religious authorities in the British, French, and Spanish =
empires?=A0=A0To what=20
extent were disciplinary strategies developed in the colonies imported =
back
into European metropoles?=A0=A0In what ways was the British empire a =
special
case given its significant number of multi-confessional jurisdictions =
(for=20
instance, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Ireland), which set it =
apart
from the confessional monopoly obtaining in the French and Spanish =
empires?

By encouraging a comparative perspective, the conference hopes to =
enrich,=20
and test, claims about the nature, causes, and implications of
legal-religious discipline made from within one national historiography.
Contrasting multiple empires could reveal common sequences and dynamics =
or
could highlight the unique and distinguishing features of a particular
system liable to be overlooked if examined in isolation.

The conference on =B3Law, Religion, and Social Discipline in the Early =
Modern
Atlantic World=B2 is an offering of the Symposium on Comparative Early =
Modern=20
Legal History, organized by Prof. Richard Ross of the University of =
Illinois
(Urbana-Champaign) College of Law and History Department.=A0=A0The =
Symposium
will gather yearly under the auspices of the Center for Renaissance =
Studies=20
at the Newberry Library in Chicago in order to explore a particular =
topic in
the comparative legal history of the Atlantic world in the period
c.1492-1815.=A0=A0Funding has been provided by the University of =
Illinois=20
College of Law.=A0=A0Last fall, the Symposium presented a conference on
=B3Membership in Communities and States in the Early Modern Atlantic =
World:
Legal Rules, Social Judgments, and the Negotiation of Citizenship.=B2

Attendance at the Symposium is free and open to the =
public.=A0=A0Participants
and attendees should preregister by contacting the Center for =
Renaissance
Studies at the Newberry Library at renaissance[at]newberry.org or at
312-255-3514.=A0=A0For information about the conference, please consult =
the
Center for Renaissance Studies website at
http://www.newberry.org/renaissance/seminars/legal06.html or contact =
Prof.
Richard Ross at Rjross[at]law.uiuc.edu or at 217-244-7890.

Here is the program and schedule:

9:00 Welcome: Richard Ross (University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
College of Law and=A0=A0 History Department)

9:05 to 10:50: Panel: The Uses of Law and Religion in Justifying and =
Shaping
Colonial=A0=A0 Settlement=20

Paper #1: Jorge Ca=F1izares-Esguerra (University of Texas at Austin =
History
Department): =B3Biblical vs. Legal Traditions of Colonial Territorial
Possession in the New World=B2

Paper #2: Karen Kupperman (New York University History Department):=20
=B3Instilling Virtue in Early Modern English Populations=B2

Paper #3: Ute Lotz-Heumann (Faculty of History, Humboldt University
[Germany]): =B3From Ireland to North America? The Theory and Practice of
Legal-Religious Discipline in a Comparative Perspective=B2=20

Commentator #1: Richard Kagan (Johns Hopkins University History =
Department)

Commentator #2: Charles Cohen (University of Wisconsin, Madison History
Department)

Chair: Richard Ross (University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign College =
of=20
Law and History Department):

10:50-11:05: Refreshment Break

11:05 to 12:20: Panel: Christianity and the Problem of =B3Civilizing=B2 =
Africans
in the New World

Paper #1: Herman Bennett (Rutgers University History Department): =B3The =

Paradox of Christian Orthodoxy: Discipline, Customs and Social Memory =
among
New Spain=B9s Mulatos=B2

Paper #2: Jon Sensbach (University of Florida History Department):
=B3Rewriting God's Law: Christianity and Slavery in the Protestant =
Americas=B2=20

Commentator: Sarah Pearsall (Northwestern University History Department)

Chair: Daniel Hamilton (Chicago-Kent College of Law)

12:20 to 1:40: Lunch: Participants and audience members are invited to =
try=20
the restaurants in the=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 neighborhood =
around the Newberry.

1:40 to 3:25: Panel: Calvinist Discipline: A Distinctive Tradition?

Paper #1: Charles Donahue, Jr. (Harvard Law School): =B3Reform, Renewal, =

Religion and Social Discipline: Reflections of a Medievalist=B2

Paper #2: Richard Ross (University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign =
College
of Law and History Department): =B3Puritan Jurisprudence in Comparative
Perspective: The Sources of =8CIntensity=B9=B2

Paper #3: Margo Todd (University of Pennsylvania History Department):
=B3Enforcement Mechanisms in Reformed Consistory Courts: Why the Scots =
Win the
Prize in the Calvinist Disciplinary Campaign=B2=20

Commentator #1: Philip Gorski (Yale University Sociology Department)

Commentator #2: Karl Shoemaker (University of Wisconsin, Madison History
Department and Law School)

Chair: Claire Priest (Northwestern Law School)=20

3:25 to 3:40: Refreshment Break

3:40 to 4:55: Panel: Poor Relief and Marriage: Two Case Studies in
Comparative Social and=A0=A0=A0=A0 Religious Discipline

Paper #1: Cornelia Dayton (University of Connecticut History Department) =
and

Sharon Salinger (University of California, Irvine History Department):
=B3Searching for the English Origins and Puritan Roots of New =
England=B9s
Practice of Warning Out Strangers=B2

Paper #2: Gregg Roeber (Pennsylvania State University History =
Department):=20
=B3=8CHopes for Better Spouses?=B9 Pietists and Marriage: Revisiting the
=8COfficial=B9 Legal and Devotional History in the Early Modern Atlantic =
World=B2

Commentator #1: Robert Kingdon (University of Wisconsin, Madison History =

Department)

Commentator #2: Richard Helmholz (University of Chicago Law School)

Chair: Bruce Smith (University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign College =
of
Law)

5:00 Adjourn

------------------------------------------------=20

Richard J. Ross
Professor of Law and History
Thomas M. Mengler Faculty Scholar
Co-Director of the Legal History Program
University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) College of Law
=A0=A0=A0=A0 and History Department=20
Room 339 Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue
Champaign, IL 61820
(217) 244-7890
Rjross[at]law.uiuc.edu

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On a train of thought...

This new volume from Ashgate Press will be of interest...
Elizabethanne Boran's Introduction is available as a free download from the
publisher's web site...

http://www.ashgate.com/index.htm


P.O'S.

Enforcing Reformation in Ireland and Scotland, 1550-1700

Elizabethanne Boran and Crawford Gribben
Series: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History

The last few years have witnessed a growing interest in the study of the
Reformation period within the three kingdoms of Britain, revolutionizing the
way in which scholars think about the relationships between England,
Scotland and Ireland. Nevertheless, it is a fact that the story of the
British Reformation is still dominated by studies of England, an imbalance
that this book will help to right.

By adopting an international perspective, the essays in this volume look at
the motives, methods and impact of enforcing the Protestant Reformation in
Ireland and Scotland. The juxtaposition of these two countries illuminates
the similarities and differences of their social and political situations
while qualifying many of the conclusions of recent historical work in each
country.

As well as Investigating what 'reformation' meant in the early modern
period, and examining its literal, rhetorical, doctrinal, moral and
political implications, the volume also explores what enforcing these
various reformations could involve. Taken as a whole, this volume offers a
fascinating insight into how the political authorities in Scotland and
Ireland attempted, with varying degrees of success, to impose Protestantism
on their countries. By comparing the two situations, and placing them in the
wider international picture, our understanding of European
confessionalization is further enhanced.


Contents
Introduction, Elizabethanne Boran; Sir Henry Sidney and the Reformation in
Ireland, Ciaran Brady and James Murray; Printing in early 17th-century
Dublin: combating heresy in Serpentine Times, Elizabethanne Boran; The
problem of 'Scottish Puritanism', 1590-1638, John Coffey; 'Force and fear of
punishment': Protestants and religious coercion in Ireland, 1603-33, Alan
Ford; The Covenanters and the Scottish Parliament, 1639-51: the rule of the
godly and the 'second Scottish Reformation', John Young; Robert Leighton,
Edinburgh theology and the collapse of the Presbyterian consensus, Crawford
Gribben; Godly order: enforcing peace in the Irish Reformation, Raymond
Gillespie; Enforcing the Reformation in Ireland, 1660-1704, T.C. Barnard;
Conformity and security in Scotland and Ireland, 1660-85, Richard L.
Greaves; Index.

About the Author/Editor
Elizabethanne Boran is IRCHSS Fellow in the Department of History, Trinity
College, Dublin, Ireland. Crawford Gribben is Lecturer in Renaissance
Literature and Culture, Department of English and American Studies,
University of Manchester, UK.

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The sudden appearance of artisans in this Abstract must, I think, be a
typing error...

P.O'S.


Electoral Studies
Volume 25, Issue 3, September 2006, Pages 489-508

Party identification in Ireland: An insecure anchor for a floating party
system

Michael Marsha, E-mail The Corresponding Author

aDepartment of Political Science, University of Dublin, Trinity College,
Dublin 2, Ireland


Available online 8 August 2005.


Abstract

The Republic of Ireland provides an interesting case in which to explore
party identification as, like the US, it has a party system not closely
aligned to social structures as well an electoral system, the single
transferable vote, which allows voting across party lines. This article uses
data from the first Irish Elections Study to explore the strength of party
identification in Ireland and assess its value as a basis of political
stability. It finds that identification is low but that, where it exists, it
is significantly different from vote and contributes to over-time vote
stability as well as straight-ticket voting. Partisanship also seems
generally positive rather than negative; and although artisans do not always
like only their own party but there is little pattern to the rating of other
parties held by each set of partisans. The roots of partisanship can clearly
be seen in childhood socialisation, which itself has an independent effect
on vote choice. Overall, it is concluded that party identification makes
sense in an Irish context but that with identification so low, short-term
factors have a big and increasing opportunity to decide elections.

Keywords: Party identification; Single transferable vote; Political
socialisation

Versions of this paper were presented at political science departmental
seminars in Trinity College Dublin, the University of Iowa, the University
of Minnesota and the University of Montreal as well as at the ECPR Joint
Sessions in 2003 and I am indebted for comments on those presentations. I am
also grateful to the Irish Council for Research in the Humanities and Social
Sciences for funding a sabbatical year 2002-2003 during which previous
drafts of this paper were written.

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Sent: 08 September 2006 09:28

The Irish Times journalist Kate Holmquist, who grew up in =
Baltimore,=A0has an
interesting piece in last Saturday's Irish Times magazine (September 2)
about the writing of her first novel. It contains the following about =
her
first encounter with Ireland, when she was aged about 18:
=A0
'...Here=92s a strange story: never in my childhood did I have a =
connection to
Ireland. Yet on my first flight to Europe, heading for Paris, I had one =
of
those moments whose significance becomes clear only in later life. We =
flew
over Shannon, and the pilot pointed out the Cliffs of Moher. I looked =
down
from the tiny window and was overcome by emotion. It was as though
everything I had ever loved and lost was somewhere down on that island, =
and
as if I was a grieving angel looking down on a past life, beginning, =
middle
and end.'
=A0
Can anyone please=A0say whether or not this is a common topos in =
literature?
=A0
Brian Lambkin
=09