6861 | 18 September 2006 16:51 |
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:51:01 +0100
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Irish Studies Symposium, Ottawa | |
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan Subject: Irish Studies Symposium, Ottawa MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Email Patrick O'Sullivan -----Original Message----- Library and Archives Canada Irish Studies Symposium September 22-23, 2006, Ottawa * Program - September 22, 2006 (by invitation only) * Program - September 23, 2006 (public sessions) To further address growing interest in the field of Irish-Canadian=20 studies, and to showcase our national and international partnerships=20 with leading figures in this field, Library and Archives Canada will=20 host an *Irish Studies Symposium* in September 2006. The symposium will=20 be open to the general public on Saturday, September 23, at the=20 University of Ottawa Residential Complex, 90 University Avenue, Ottawa,=20 Ontario. Campus map: www.uottawa.ca/map/ Parking map: www.uottawa.ca/services/protect/carteStationnement.html=20 This free event will bring together specialists in Irish-Canadian=20 studies from across Canada and Ireland, as well as resource specialists=20 from Library and Archives Canada, the National Archives of Ireland, and=20 Parks Canada. The symposium will provide an opportunity for fruitful=20 dialogue between specialists and the public, and will encourage greater=20 access to sources of information on Irish-Canadian history and culture=20 at Library and Archives Canada and the National Archives of Ireland. *Updated: September 13, 2006* Friday, September 22 - Guests' tour and reception (by invitation only) *1:00-3:00 p.m.* Tour of Library and Archives Canada Preservation Centre (LACPC) *3:00-3:30 p.m. *Break, Refreshments (provided) *3:30-5:00 p.m. Opening Session at LACPC, Room 5P20: Origins,=20 Identities, Images* Chair: Amy Tector, Literary Arts Section, Library and Archives Canada Cormac O=92Grada, University College Dublin /The 1901 and 1911 Censuses: A Unique Source for Historians/ Michele Holmgren, Mount Royal College, Calgary /More Than "Casual Interest" or "Casual Pity": Canadian Memoirs of Belfast/ Peter Hart, Memorial University of Newfoundland /The IRA and Its Archives/ *5:00-6:00 p.m. *Cocktails & Welcome Reception (foyer GPC) *6:00-8:00 p.m. Dinner* Saturday, September 23 - Public sessions at University of Ottawa Residential Complex, 90 University Avenue *Note: The majority of our sessions will be conducted in English only.* * Register Now! *8:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m. Doors open* *9:00 a.m. Official Welcome* Ian Wilson, Librarian and Archivist of Canada *9:00-10:30 a.m. SESSION I: Memory, Materials, Media* Chair: Paul Birt, University of Ottawa Elizabeth Grove-White, University of Victoria /=93Let Erin Remember:=94 Collective Memory and Diasporic Identity/ Jim Burant, Visual Heritage Division, Library and Archives Canada /The Visual Record of Irish Immigration in the 19th century/ Mark Duncan, Research Consultant, National Archives of Ireland /'=85an unbearable truthfulness'? : Picturing Dublin in 1911/ *10:30-11:00 a.m. *Break, Refreshments (provided) *11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. SESSION II: Migration, Emigration, Immigration* Chair: Robert McIntosh, Canadian Archives and Special Collections,=20 Library and Archives Canada Kevin James, University of Guelph /Heading Home: Deportation from Canada to Ireland Before 1922/ Paul Rouse, University College Dublin /People and Place: Dublin in 1911/ Bruce Elliott, Carleton University /Settlement patterns and Old World origins: the Canadian Irish in the Atlantic economy/ *12:30 -2:00 p.m. *Lunch (provided) *2:00-3:30 p.m. SESSION III: Diaspora, Diplomacy and the State* Chair: Richard Brown, Government Records Branch, Library and Archives=20 Canada Liam Kennedy, Queen's University, Belfast /Belfast in 1911/ David A. Wilson, University of Toronto /The Fenians in Canada/ Jo-Anick Proulx, Parks Canada Grosse =CEle and the Irish Memorial National Historic Site /Grosse-=CEle, la station de quarantaine/ *3:30-4:00 p.m. *Break, Refreshments (provided) *4:00-5:30 p.m. SESSION IV: Round Table - Directions in Irish Studies* Chair: Marianne McLean, Strategic Policy, Library and Archives Canada Peter Toner, University of New Brunswick Mark McGowan, University of Toronto Cecil Houston, University of Windsor Michael Kenneally, Concordia University P=E1draig =D3 Siadhail, Saint Mary's University *5:30 p.m. Closing Remarks* Catriona Crowe, Senior Archivist, National Archives of Ireland Registration The sessions on Saturday, September 23 are free and open to the public.=20 To confirm your attendance or to request more information, please=20 contact us by phone at 613-947-5887 or through at=20 webservices[at]lac-bac.gc.ca */LAC gratefully acknowledges the support of the University of Ottawa.=20 [www.uottawa.ca ]/* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For historical information visit: List item Library and Archives Canada - What's New Archives=20 (2005) List item Library and Archives Canada - What's New Archives=20 (2004) List item National Archives of Canada - News & Events Archive=20 (1999-2003) List item National Library of Canada - What's New Archives=20 (1999-2003) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Created: 2006-02-02 Updated: 2006-09-18 | |
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6862 | 18 September 2006 20:00 |
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:00:16 +0100
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Book Announced, Le livre en Irlande | |
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan Subject: Book Announced, Le livre en Irlande MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Email Patrick O'Sullivan Just released : Le livre en Irlande, l=92imprim=E9 en contexte. Edited by Jacqueline Genet, Sylvie Mikowski and Fabienne Garcier Presses Universitaires de Caen. 25 euros With a foreword by Clare Hutton. The English version will be published by Cambridge Scholars Press in the forthcoming months. =20 | |
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6863 | 18 September 2006 22:21 |
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:21:55 +0100
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TOC Irish Educational Studies, Volume 25 Number 3/September 2006 | |
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan Subject: TOC Irish Educational Studies, Volume 25 Number 3/September 2006 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Volume 25 Number 3/September 2006 of Irish Educational Studies is now available on the journalsonline.tandf.co.uk web site at http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk. The following URL will take you directly to the issue: http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=XK031187W213 This issue contains: Editorial p. 257 Gender differences in entrance patterns and awards in initial teacher education p. 259 Sheelagh Drudy Beginning primary teachers and children with mild learning difficulties p. 275 Hugh Gash Comparing children's and student teachers' ideas about science concepts p. 289 Karen Kerr, Jim Beggs, Colette Murphy Improving a mathematical key skill using precision teaching p. 303 Eamonn Gallagher Changing practices for a global society: voices of students, teachers, principals and university teacher educators on active learning p. 321 Ursula McMorrow BOOK REVIEW p. 337 Maeve O' Brien | |
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6864 | 19 September 2006 08:26 |
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:26:12 +0100
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Border Geographies, AAG 2007 San Francisco | |
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan Subject: Border Geographies, AAG 2007 San Francisco MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Email Patrick O'Sullivan For information... Forwarded on behalf of... Lorraine Dennis [l.dennis[at]ulster.ac.uk] Association of American Geographers annual conference 2007 call for papers Border Geographies Bryonie Reid and Lorraine Dennis University of Ulster We are interested in organising a session for the AAG conference themed around borders and borderlands. We are researching histories, geographies and effects of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, including its varying material presence, its cultural representation in literature, film and visual art, and the ways in which it is experienced in everyday life. We would like to engage with other work on concepts and experiences of borders, and are issuing a call for papers which may deal with any of the following: * border psychologies * border landscapes * negotiating borders in theory and practice * border conflicts * cultural representations of borders * cross-border migrations * borders and nationalisms * border identities If you are interested in submitting a paper under any of these themes, or others not included here, in any spatial or temporal context, please send your paper title and an abstract of not more than 200 words to Bryonie Reid at b.reid[at]ulster.ac.uk or Lorraine Dennis at l.dennis[at]ulster.ac.uk before 30th September 2006. | |
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6865 | 19 September 2006 08:28 |
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:28:08 +0100
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TOC STUDIES -DUBLIN- VOL 95; NUMB 379; 2006 | |
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan Subject: TOC STUDIES -DUBLIN- VOL 95; NUMB 379; 2006 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Email Patrick O'Sullivan For information... STUDIES -DUBLIN- VOL 95; NUMB 379; 2006 ISSN 0039-3495 pp. 241-250 National Identity in Ireland. Garvin, T. pp. 251-259 Hidden Ireland, Silent Irelands: Sean O'Faolain and Frank O'Connor versus Daniel Corkery. Fanning, B. p. 260 In Prvo Selo - A Poem. Agee, C. pp. 261-268 Irish censorship in context. Martin, P. pp. 269-277 Employment problems and social unrest in inner city Dublin. MacVeigh, T. p. 278 Exile and the tiger - A Poem. Woods, M. pp. 279-290 John McGahern and the commemoration of traditional rural Ireland. Maher, E. pp. 291-299 Chekhov in Ireland. The greening of Russian drama. Younger, K. p. 300 Knin Eclogue - A Poem. Agee, C. pp. 301-312 `Stalking about London in a green suit': Beckett's Murphy, London and Flanerie. Mullen, R. pp. 313-323 "A daintical pair of accomplasses": Joyce and Dante in the assault on language. Lalor, D. p. 324 Letter to the Editor. Williams, K. pp. 325-330 Lonergan's Quest: A Study of Desire in the Authoring of "Insight", by William A. Mathews. Staunton, B. pp. 331-332 The Lady Next Door, by Harlod Begbie. Murphy, D. pp. 333-334 Breaking the Mould: how the PDs changed Irish Politics by Stephen Collins. Gaughan, J. A. pp. 335-336 Irish Pages - A Journal of Contemporary Writing, edited by Chris Agee, Cathal O Searcaigh and Sean Mac Aindreasa. McDonagh, J. pp. 337-338 A Social History of Women in Ireland: 1870-1970, by Rosemary Cullen Owens. Kenny, M. pp. 339-342 Leadership and Liberation: A Psychological Approach, by Sean Ruth. Casey, M. pp. 343-344 Uncertain Ireland, A Sociological Chronicle, 2003-2004, edited by Mary P. Corcoran and Michel Peillon. Freeman, O. pp. 345-347 The Pastoral Role of the Roman Catholic Church in Pre-Famine Ireland, 1750-1850, by Emmet Larkin. Morrissey, T. J. | |
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6866 | 19 September 2006 10:02 |
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:02:09 +0100
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I can't stand it, Part 1, crack/craic | |
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan Subject: I can't stand it, Part 1, crack/craic MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Email Patrick O'Sullivan The discussion of the origins of the word crack/craic is one of those things that floats round the web often and erratically, with various people offering their assertions as to origins - in the manner of the Dad in My Big Fat Greek Wedding... There is now a Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_(craic) There was a recent discussion on Slugger O'Toole http://www.sluggerotoole.com/index.php/weblog/comments/itll_be_just_like_dub ai/ But you can find tons of that stuff out there. I cannot see any point in the Irish Diaspora list adding to all that speculation. There is a sober piece of historical etymology to be written, and certainly an analysis of ersatz Irishness will be a part of that. If someone has written that piece let me know, and give us a good scholarly citation. Yes, I am in a bad mood about this... Paddy -- Patrick O'Sullivan Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit Email Patrick O'Sullivan Email Patrick 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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6867 | 19 September 2006 14:25 |
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:25:59 +0100
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As though everything I had ever loved and lost... | |
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan Subject: As though everything I had ever loved and lost... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Carmel McCaffrey To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List Subject [IR-D] As though everything I had ever loved and lost... Ultan, For some reason this message got sent to my Spam folder and I only found it now. I want to endorse your comments completely and applaud you for making them. Indeed they can be attached to all of historical research I believe. Too often the memories and emotional experiences of individuals are overlooked by academics who are often in danger of misreading or even misrepresenting events that were very significant - in motivation terms - to those who actually lived through the experience. Carmel Ultan Cowley wrote: > As an 'independent scholar' whose primary interest is the history of Irish male migrant labour I have had to look for my understanding into the heads and hearts of living people who, by and large, were not educationally equipped to analyse their own experience. > > Memoir and anecdote, so often anathema to academic historians, are therefore central to my methodology and so I fully endorse Jim's call for an attempt to feel and understand the emotions of the Diaspora both past and present. A little empathy can be a useful tool as well as a link to the rest of humanity... > > To quote Bernard Canavan, '...individual experience is everywhere contradicted by the expert and rendered insignificant by the infinite quantity of our knowledge of human life...and the individual's experience is correspondingly devalued in the process' (Story-tellers and writers: Irish identity in emigrant labourers'autobiographies, 1870-1970' in The Irish worldwide, Vol. Three, pp.154-5). > > Ultan > | |
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6868 | 19 September 2006 14:56 |
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:56:27 +0100
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I can't stand it, Part 2, Spam & SpamCop | |
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan Subject: I can't stand it, Part 2, Spam & SpamCop MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Email Patrick O'Sullivan And another thing... We have had to abandon a number of Irish Diaspora list members... I am not happy about this... Briefly - I have mentioned this already, but the problem got worse rather than better - SpamCop decided that Jiscmail was spam. We were swamped by error messages. I now know far more about SpamCop, spam prevention, blacklists and whitelist, than I really want to know. Jiscmail is the UK's national academic listserv - and you would have thought... In fact SpamCop uses, fairly automatically, reports of spam. Someone, or some thing, decided that Jiscmail was sending out spam, and repeatedly reported Jiscmail to SpamCop - I suspect there might be a person out there who has set up some kind of spam filter, and, thinking they are deleting unwanted emails, is in fact sending automatic reports to SpamCop. Anyway... SpamCop maintains a churning blacklist. SpamCop does not produce a whitelist. It is up to the individual institutions who use SpamCop's blacklist to maintain the balancing whitelist. And of course many institutions do not. And many distant institutions have never heard of Jiscmail. The SpamCop problem affected not only IR-D but many other international Jiscmail lists. See the Jiscmail comment on http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/newsletter/issue09/page6.htm Also, Jiscmail says... 'Institutions using spamcop should whitelist the IP address 130.246.192.56 to avoid any future problems. For further information please contact us at helpline[at]jiscmail.ac.uk' The advice to the Jiscmail list-owners is that we negotiate individually with the email departments of the affected institutions and get Jiscmail included on their whitelists. This advice is nonsense. It is not going to happen. Every institution has its own bureaucracy, forms to fill in, hoops to jump through... I have already spent far too much time on this... So... 1. I will try one last time to contact our lost members... 2. Usually if IR-D messages do not get through to an IR-D member I try to contact that member by another route. Really, now, I think one try is enough... 3. It is very likely that, left to their own devices, your own anti-spam procedures will decide that IR-D messages are spam. On all lists the policy is that it is up to the individual member to make sure that list messages can get through. The background problem is, of course, spam, the spew of unwanted emails - the problem seems to be getting worse again. Patrick O'Sullivan -- Patrick O'Sullivan Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit Email Patrick O'Sullivan Email Patrick 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 -- Patrick O'Sullivan Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit Email Patrick O'Sullivan Email Patrick 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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6869 | 19 September 2006 15:25 |
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:25:18 +0100
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Royal Irish Academy, | |
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan Subject: Royal Irish Academy, John O'Donovan and Irish historical scholarship: lunchtime lectures and exhibition MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Email Patrick O'Sullivan Forwarded on behalf of the Royal Irish Academy... P.O'S. ________________________________________ Subject: Royal Irish Academy John O'Donovan and Irish historical scholarship: lunchtime lectures and exhibition The year 2006 marks the bicentenary of the birth of John O=92Donovan, = MRIA, the Irish scholar best known for his onomastic and topographical = research for the Ordnance Survey and his editions and translations of Irish = texts, most notably the Annals of the Four Masters. =20 A series of lunchtime lectures will take place in the Royal Irish = Academy library on Mon 25, Wed 27 and Fri 29 Sept to commemorate O=92Donovan=92s achievements. A small exhibition on the theme of =91John O=92Donovan and = Irish historical scholarship=92 will accompany the lecture series.=20 You are cordially invited to attend. Full details of speakers and times = are given below. If you have further enquiries please contact Bernadette Cunningham, deputy librarian at 01-609 0620 (direct line) or 01-676 2570 (reception) See also... http://www.ria.ie/library%2bcatalogue/autumn_lectures.html=20 Monday 25 September Prof. Michael Herity, MRIA John O=92Donovan and his circle Wednesday 27 September Dr Cathy Swift, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick John O=92Donovan and the medieval kingdoms of Ireland Friday 29 September Dr Bernadette Cunningham, Royal Irish Academy =91An honour to the nation=92: John O=92Donovan=92s edition of the = Annals of the Four Masters Venue: Royal Irish Academy - Meeting Room Time: 1.10 pm =96 1.50 pm Sept 25 - Sept 29, 2006 =20 Exhibition: John O=92Donovan and Irish historical scholarship The Autumn lecture series in the Royal Irish Academy Library will = coincide with an exhibition based on the work of John O=92Donovan. Venue: Meeting Room, Royal Irish Academy Exhibition open: Mon =96 Fri 10.00 am =96 5.00 pm 25 Sept =96 15 = December 2006 Free admission to lectures and exhibition. All welcome. Enquiries: Siobh=E1n Fitzpatrick, Librarian, Royal Irish Academy, tel. = 676 2570 | |
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6870 | 19 September 2006 17:19 |
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:19:13 +0100
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Inaugural meeting of Irish Society for Theatre Research | |
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan Subject: Inaugural meeting of Irish Society for Theatre Research MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Forwarded on behalf of ISTR Steering Group... -----Original Message----- Dear Colleagues, For circulation: The Inaugural Symposium of The Irish Society for Theatre Research will be held from Friday 13th April to Sunday 15th April 2007 at Queens University Belfast. A call for papers and working group submissions will follow shortly. The opening keynote lecture will be given by Professor Janelle Reinelt, University of Warwick, President of the International Federation of Theatre Research. The field of Irish Theatre Studies is being transformed by new approaches to the rich history of Irish theatre and by the remarkable diversity of contemporary theatrical practice. The Irish Society for Theatre Research (ISTR) is being founded in order to develop and promote new and challenging ways of thinking about Irish theatre which engage with diverse contemporary historiographical, theoretical, cultural and performance frameworks. ISTR aims to facilitate research on Irish theatre in its national and international contexts in terms of an engagement with the broad spectrum of Irish theatre from page to stage. ISTR will have a range of working groups which currently include: Performance Studies; Theatre History and Historiography; Cultural Identities; and Textual Practices. The current ISTR Steering Group will be replaced in due course by an elected Executive Committee. Further information is available on the ISTR website: www.qub.ac.uk/istr Please forward any enquires regarding ISTR to: istr[at]qub.ac.uk Best wishes, ISTR Steering Group | |
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6871 | 21 September 2006 07:54 |
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 07:54:28 +0100
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Book launch, Belfast, Ireland and Europe in the 19th Century | |
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan Subject: Book launch, Belfast, Ireland and Europe in the 19th Century MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Forwarded on behalf of Dr Leon Litvack... Subject: Book launch: Ireland and Europe in the 19th Century Dear friends, The Society for the Study of 19th-Century Ireland and the School of English at Queen's would like to invite you to the launch of Ireland and Europe in the Nineteenth Century Edited by Leon Litvack and Colin Graham Date: Thursday 12 October 2006 Venue: McMordie Hall, School of Music, Queen's University Time: 6:30 The book will be launched by Sean Connolly, Professor of Irish History, QUB If contributors would like printed invitations for family and friends please get in touch with me. For further details of the volume see http://www.four-courts-press.ie/cgi/bookshow.cgi?file=irelandEuro.xml All best wishes, Leon ------------------- Dr Leon Litvack Reader in Victorian Studies School of English Queen's University Belfast BT7 1NN Northern Ireland, UK L.Litvack[at]qub.ac.uk | |
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6872 | 21 September 2006 17:44 |
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:44:14 +0100
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Irish Stds Symposium, Chicago, | |
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan Subject: Irish Stds Symposium, Chicago, Nov 06: Flight of the Earls (Donegal, 1607) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Maureen E Mulvihill [mailto:mulvihill[at]nyc.rr.com] Submission for List Posting (with apologies for cross-posting): ____________________________ Posting for John McCavitt, PhD, Rostrevor, Co. Down, Northern Ireland. Fellow, Royal Historical Society, London. johnmccavitt[at]hotmail.com http://www.theflightoftheearls.net/ http://www.theflightoftheearls.net/book_summary_and_reviews.html http://www.theflightoftheearls.net/book_summary_and_reviews.html#mulvihill ____ "FIGHT OR FLIGHT? O'NEILL & THE END OF GAELIC IRELAND" SYMPOSIUM Chicago: Loyola University & The Newberry Library Saturday & Sunday, November 4th & 5th, 2006 Note: Some aspects of the program may be subject to change; for finalized schedule, consult http://irishfellowshipchicago.com/ Saturday, November 4th, 2006 Panels & Speakers: 9:00-11:00AM. Loyola University O'Neill Panel 1. Flight of the Earls: Precipitating Factors Chair: Hugh McElwain, Dominican University Breandan O Buachalla, "War or Peace: The Native Intelligentsia" Jerrold Casway, "Archbishop Florence Conry, before & after the Flight" Valerie McGowan Doyle, "St Lawrence's Conspiracy Allegations" 12:00Noon-1:30PM. Newberry Library Chicago Humanities Festival. Theme - PEACE & WAR Hiram Morgan, "The Battle of Kinsale" John McCavitt, "The Flight of the Earls" 2:00-4:00PM. Loyola University. O'Neill Panel 2: The Flight Chair: Andy Wilson, Loyola University Vincent Carey, "O'Neill and the Final Conquest" Jerrold Casway, "The Women of the Flight" Clare Carroll," Hugh O'Neill & other Irishmen in Rome" Sunday, November 5th, 2006 Panels & Speakers: 10:00AM-12:00Noon. Loyola University. O'Neill Panel 3: Consequences & Impact Chair: Geoffrey Parker Hector McDonnell, "The Irish in Flanders" Thomas O'Connor, "The Irish Intellectual Diaspora in Europe in the early 17thC: A Case Study of the Jansenists" Hiram Morgan, "Hugh O'Neill: 50 years after O'Faolain" 12:30PM to 2:00PM. Loyola University. Plenary Session & Wrap up Luncheon Chair, Geoffrey Parker 3:00PM to 4:30PM. Loyola University. "Running Beast", a performance piece about Hugh O'Neill by Irish actor, Donal O'Kelly _________ Symposium Sponsors: The Irish Fellowship Club of Chicago The Irish Consulate General The British Consulate General The Chicago Humanities Festival Registration Details & Finalized Program: http://irishfellowshipchicago.com/ Note: Colleagues planning (or aware of) Flight of the Earls commemorations / events for 2007 are urged to send details to Dr McCavitt, for posting on his 'Flight of the Earls' website; contact johnmccavitt[at]hotmail.com. [End of Notice] _____________ | |
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6873 | 24 September 2006 16:20 |
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 16:20:09 +0100
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Everything you know about British and Irish ancestry is wrong... | |
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan Subject: Everything you know about British and Irish ancestry is wrong... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Email Patrick O'Sullivan Our attention has been drawn to the following item... '...Everything you know about British and Irish ancestry is wrong. Our ancestors were Basques, not Celts. The Celts were not wiped out by the Anglo-Saxons, in fact neither had much impact on the genetic stock of these islands...' Stephen Oppenheimer Stephen Oppenheimer's books "The Origins of the British: A Genetic Detective Story" and "Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World" are published by Constable & Robinson. 'The fact that the British and the Irish both live on islands gives them a misleading sense of security about their unique historical identities. But do we really know who we are, where we come from and what defines the nature of our genetic and cultural heritage? Who are and were the Scots, the Welsh, the Irish and the English? And did the English really crush a glorious Celtic heritage?...' See Stephen Oppenheimer's article... "Myths of British Ancestry," _Prospect_ 127 (October 2006), summarizing his book, _The Origins of the British: A Genetic Detective Story_ (Constable & Robinson). His main conclusion: "based on the overall genetic perspective of the British, it seems that Celts, Belgians, Angles, Jutes, Saxons, Vikings and Normans were all immigrant minorities compared with the Basque pioneers, who first ventured into the empty, chilly lands so recently vacated by the great ice sheets." He also rejects as a myth the traditional idea that there was a great pan-European Celtic civilization in ancient times. The Internet link to the article: http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=7817 | |
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6874 | 24 September 2006 16:23 |
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 16:23:20 +0100
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Book Reviews, Hilliard and MCCulloch | |
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan Subject: Book Reviews, Hilliard and MCCulloch MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Email Patrick O'Sullivan This review of Hilliard might interest a number of IR-D members... But more important is the odd and brief mention of McCulloch's book about the Feeneys of Birmingham. So, there is now a source for John Frederick Feeney, his causes and consequences... P.O'S. -----Original Message----- H-NET BOOK REVIEW Published by H-Albion[at]h-net.msu.edu (September 2006) Christopher Hilliard. _To Exercise Our Talents: The Democratization of Writing in Britain_. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. 390 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-674-02177-0. Andrew McCulloch. _The Feeneys of the Birmingham Post_. Birmingham: University of Birmingham Press, 2004. xii + 180 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $37.00 (cloth), ISBN 1-902-45948-2. Reviewed for H-Albion by Mark Hampton, Lingnan University, Hong Kong New Readers, New Authors Between the late-nineteenth century and the middle of the twentieth century, British publishing, reading, and writing underwent a dramatic transformation in which audiences expanded rapidly and new publics emerged, developments that entrepreneurs turned into enormous profits. While many cultural guardians feared that the new audiences represented a crisis of political or cultural authority, others regarded the expansion of audiences and the creation of more accessible newspapers and periodicals as important agencies of democratization. An increasing number of scholars have studied this transformation from such perspectives as institutional studies of periodical and book publishing, biographies of key figures, content analysis of the publications, examinations of elite response, and surveys of popular readership. Yet in the context of growing audiences, publishing houses, and profits, new opportunities arose not merely for readers and entrepreneurs, but for non-elite writers as well. Christopher Hilliard tells their story in his excellent new book, _To Exercise Our Talents: The Democratization of Writing in Britain_. Hilliard's focus is on the milieu of "aspiring writers" primarily of the working and lower middle classes, a world into which he gains access via three movements. First, in the late-nineteenth century, a largely middle-class, amateur writers movement of emerged to offer guidance, through literary agents, writers' magazines, correspondence courses, advisory bureaus, and manuscript criticism, to the bewildering new field of opportunity for common writers. With the right techniques, it was claimed, virtually anyone could become a writer, and some magazines went so far as to provide formulaic plots for aspirants who paid the fee. For many agents, though, manuscript criticism remained the centerpiece, ensuring payment for the agents' service. In addition to such agents, the amateur movement found expression in writers' circles and clubs in which textual criticism often featured prominently. Hilliard points out that, unlike modernist _literati_, such writers generally embraced American popular culture and unashamedly wrote escapist fare for the market. Unsurprisingly, they were not sympathetic to the elite idea that their attempts to sell their writings to popular magazines represented the feminization of culture. Moving beyond the working class autodidacts eloquently described by Jonathan Rose, Hilliard finds, among these writers, a common culture including manual and non-manual workers, and men and women.[1] Second, Hilliard describes interwar working-class literary activity, particularly as it was encouraged by publishers and left-wing intellectuals; here he focuses on writers of working class origin, as well as those who remained within the working classes. Unlike the mixed company of the writing circles, most working-class writers were men. Hilliard portrays the difficult conditions under which working-class writing took place, most notably a lack of a quiet space in which to work, and shows that, while middle-class writers often saw themselves as entertainers and practitioners of a craft, working-class writers more commonly saw themselves as romantic artists. Moreover, an important working-class motivation was the opportunity to correct misperceptions about working-class life. Hilliard links working-class writing and its encouragement to romantic ideas of authenticity and to "writing what you know," and the emphasis given in the New Journalism to the commonplace. More than any other literary tradition, the British short story influenced working-class writers of the 1930s, not least because full-time work made it difficult to sustain longer projects such as novels. In addition, for working-class as well as middle-class writers, the proliferation of new periodicals beginning in the late-nineteenth century significantly expanded the opportunities for publishing short fiction. Finally, Hilliard examines the popular literary output during World War II, particularly in the literary magazine _Seven: A Magazine of People's Writing_ (1941-47), which he sees as an intersection of working-class writing and the aspirant movement of the writers' circles. Merging left-wing celebration and documentation of working-class people with "a valorization of the ordinary that often had a conservative (and Conservative) character in 1930s Britain," its "representation of ordinary lives owed as much to the popular press as it did to left-wing documentary" tradition most notably associated with Mass-Observation (p. 164). According to Hilliard, _Seven_ lived up to the claim of its subtitle by publishing nonprofessional writers of different social classes, and encouraging them to write about their daily lives. Thus blurring the distinction between readers and writers, it demonstrated a clear debt to the New Journalism, while its content reflected the non-political emphasis of the New Journalism as well as middle-class norms of sociability. While the journal muted overt politics, however, such favorable British national characteristics such as humor, as well as a linking of war service to sacrificial renunciation of pleasure, were frequent themes. In keeping with its working-class romantic influences, poetry was a recurring wartime genre (though less famously and extensively than in the Great War). Hilliard argues that the field of popular writing, as he describes it, retreated soon after World War II. Various middlebrow institutions were undermined: the writers' circles tended to become more highbrow, as radio, television, and other art forms competed with magazines. Publishers such as Penguin mass produced both "high" and "low" forms, leaving the middlebrow relatively less represented, while well-compensated freelance opportunities faded considerably (even the relatively generous BBC did not make up the gap). Though older theories of embourgeoisement do not withstand scrutiny, Hilliard notes that in the era of affluence there was less patronage of distinctly working-class writers. Drawing on numerous previously unexamined local archives (among many other sources), Hilliard evocatively captures a popular enthusiasm for writing that will be of great interest to historians of leisure, consumerism, literature, and journalism, as well as class relations and popular culture more generally. I find little to criticize in this eloquent and authoritative book, but I will venture a disagreement. While there can be no doubt that Hilliard has demonstrated that an active popular culture of writing held its own against a passive mass/consumer culture, I am not convinced that this adds up to "the democratization of writing." For one thing, it is not clear from Hilliard's account just how widespread aspirant writers were. Nor, given his repeated insistence that fiction and journalism remained linked until the 1950s, is it quite fair that the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), founded in 1907, does not come into the story. One measure of "democratization," to be sure, is mass participation in writing; others, however, included ownership of the publishing houses and control over editorial decision-making, measures by which early-twentieth-century writing appears considerably less democratic. If the expansion of large-circulation and niche periodicals published by giant publishing chains opened up numerous opportunities for freelance writing, to many NUJ members such casual laborers were blacklegs whose willingness to do piecework undermined attempts to constitute journalism as a secure occupation controlled by "working journalists."[2] Among other motivations, early-twentieth-century publishing chains welcomed freelance contributions from "ordinary people" for reasons similar to those underlying today's participatory media genres, ranging from _vox populi_ interviews, polls, and solicitations of anecdotes, to reality television and tabloid talk shows: even if a celebrity host is employed, all of this content is considerably cheaper and more flexible for the media companies than content produced by full-time writers, actors, or journalists. Yet whatever one's view of the relationships between markets and democratization, Hilliard has written an important and gripping book that substantially revises our understanding of popular intellectual life in twentieth-century Britain. Even in an era of mass readership, and notwithstanding the blurring of lines between readers and writers described by Hilliard, the study of the elite publishers, journalists, and newspaper proprietors who made the editorial decisions remains indispensable. _The Feeneys of the Birmingham Post_ examines an important family in Victorian and early-twentieth-century local journalism. Despite its publication by a university press, however, this book is not a scholarly account of ways in which its title characters illuminate the wider world of British journalism. Rather, it is a more narrowly genealogical account by a descendant of John Frederick Feeney, founder of the _Birmingham Daily Post_. I do not mean it as a put-down to say that this book is obviously not aimed at either professional historians or a general readership, but family and friends, and that it will hold very little interest for most people reading this review. However, specialist scholars of either Birmingham or journalism history may well find it worth reading simply for its description of unpublished and privately-held material that is currently not available to scholars. Notes [1]. Jonathan Rose, _The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes_ (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001). [2]. On these themes, see my articles, "Journalists and the 'Professional Ideal' in Britain: The Institute of Journalists, 1884-1907," _Historical Research_ 72 (June 1999), pp. 183-201; and "Defining Journalists in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain," _Critical Studies in Media Communication_ 22 (June 2005), pp.138-155. Copyright (c) 2006 by H-Net, all rights reserved. H-Net permits the redistribution and reprinting of this work for nonprofit, educational purposes, with full and accurate attribution to the author, web location, date of publication, originating list, and H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online. For other uses contact the Reviews editorial staff: hbooks[at]mail.h-net.msu.edu. | |
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6875 | 25 September 2006 17:19 |
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:19:29 -0500
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THE EUROPEAN LIBRARY.ORG UPDATE | |
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From: "William Mulligan Jr." Subject: THE EUROPEAN LIBRARY.ORG UPDATE MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This may be of interest to the list. The European Library is getting bigger The European Digital Library project 14 September 2006 The European Library has taken new steps to ensure that all EU national libraries become full participants by the end of 2007. Thanks to the newly started European Digital Library project (EDL project) a further 9 national libraries are brought into the network. Countries involved are either members of the European Union or the European Free Trade Association: Belgium, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Norway, Spain and Sweden. The action will enrich The European Library with up to 100 new collections. Besides assisting participants to become full partners of The European Library, the project focuses on multi-linguality and sets the first steps towards the establishment of a European Metadata Registry. Furthermore it investigates (potential) digitization efforts. The EDL project is financially supported by the European Commission under the eContentplus Programme. The European Commission adopted on 24 August 2006 a `Recommendation on the digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation`. Via this document the European Commission recommends that member states set up digitization facilities (competence centres) and establish national strategies for the long-term preservation of and access to digital material. Member states are also advised to promote a European digital library in the form of a multilingual common access point to Europe's digital cultural material. As in previous communications the European Commission stated in the recommendation that this access point will be built upon the organisational structure of The European Library. Notes for editors The European Digital Library-project EDL project is funded by the European Commission under the eContentplus Programme, within the area of Cultural content and scientific/scholarly content (http://europa.eu.int/information_society/activities/econtentplus/index_ en.htm). The project started in September and will run for 18 months. More information will be published on the EDL project website (http://edlproject.eu/) which will go live at the end of September 2006. The European Library The European Library (www.TheEuropeanLibrary.org) is a portal for accessing the digital collections of 19 of the National Libraries of Europe. The European Library is owned by the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL) (www.cenl.org) and aims to access digital collections from all 45 member libraries within the next 5 years. For further details on The European Library please contact: Fleur Stigter, Marketing & Communications, Tel: 31 (0)70 3140 182, or e-mail Fleur.Stigter[at]TheEuropeanLibrary.org Recommendation of the European Commission The `Recommendation on the digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation` is part of the 'i2010: digital libraries' initiative. Under its statement the Commission calls on Member States to act in various areas, ranging from copyright issues to the systematic preservation of digital content in order to ensure long term access to the material. For further details please visit: http://europa.eu.int/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/in dex_en.htm Additional information - 10th European Conference on Digital Library (ECDL) - Sept. 17-22 "Towards the European Digital Library" is the topic of the next ECDL conference. During this conference Horst Forster, Director of "Content" at the Directorate-General for "Information Society and Media" of the European Commission, will deliver a keynote speech. The European Library will be represented by Eric van der Meulen, Technical Project Manager at The European Library. Mr. van der Meulen participates in a panel session on sustained digital libraries for universal use. For further details please visit: http://www.ecdl2006.org/ For The European Library related articles and press-clippings please visit our press room at http://libraries.theeuropeanlibrary.org/press/press_en.html William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D. Professor of History Murray State University Murray KY 42071-3341 USA | |
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6876 | 25 September 2006 18:26 |
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:26:52 -0500
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Seventh European Social Science History | |
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From: "William Mulligan Jr." Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: Seventh European Social Science History Conference University of Lisbon, MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This may be of interest to the list. If anyone is interested in putting together a session on the Diaspora let me know off list. It is a little tricky to find the actual CFP and procedures for submitting. Bill Mulligan CALL FOR PAPERS Seventh European Social Science History Conference University of Lisbon, Portugal, 27 February - 1 March 2008 The ESSHC aims at bringing together scholars interested in explaining historical phenomena using the methods of the social sciences. The conference is characterized by a lively exchange in many small groups, rather than by formal plenary sessions. The Conference welcomes papers and sessions on any historical topic and any historical period. It is organized in a large number of networks: Africa Antiquity Asia Criminal Justice Culture Economics Education and Childhood Elites Ethnicity and Migration Family and Demography Geography Health - History and Computing Labour Latin America - Material and Consumer Culture - Middle Ages Oral History - Politics - Religion Rural Sexuality - Social Inequality Technology Theory - Urban Women and Gender - World History The Conference fee will be Euro 200 for participants who pay in advance, Euro 250 for participants who pay at the conference. One- day attendance will be Euro 100 for participants who pay in advance, and Euro 125 for participants who pay at the conference. There is a special fee for MA students of Euro 50. The deadline for pre-registration on our website is 1 April 2007. The Seventh European Social Science History Conference is organized by the International Institute of Social History. Further information and the pre-registration form for the Conference can be obtained from the Conference Internet site at http://www.iisg.nl/esshc or from the conference secretariat: European Social Science History Conference 2008, c/o International Institute of Social History Cruquiusweg 31 1019 AT Amsterdam Netherlands Telephone: +31.20.66 858 66 Fax: +31.20.66 541 81 E mail: esshc[at]iisg.nl | |
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6877 | 26 September 2006 10:27 |
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:27:26 +0100
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan Subject: File under Na MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Email Patrick O'Sullivan I thought that this item from The Guardian would be of interest... When using my own bibliographic software the easiest way to create an entry for a book is to capture the catalogue entry from a major library - I often use the Bodleian or the LOC. And many times I have looked at the catalogue entry and the book on my desk in front of me - and I have disagreed with the cataloguer's decisions... P.O'S. A catalogue of errors Libraries' missing millions Marc Abrahams Tuesday September 26, 2006 The Guardian How many books written in seemingly obscure languages are misfiled and languishing unfindable in libraries? Joyce Flynn's experience at Harvard suggests the answer is: a lot. Flynn, a researcher in Celtic languages, discovered some common mishaps that no one discusses much. Sometimes, cataloguers and shelfers did strange things with books written in foreign languages. They mangled the catalogue listings, and tucked the books away on the wrong shelves. Then later, when libraries converted their paper card catalogues to computerised systems, most of the books with screwed-up paper records stayed or went deeper into library limbo. Even though the books themselves may be sitting on library shelves, hardly anyone will ever be able to find them. In libraries where only the staff are allowed to wander through the book stacks, a mere patron might never even know those books exist. This all happened to foreign-language films and other items, too. About 25 years ago, as a graduate student, Flynn took a summer job involving Harvard's library collection of audiovisual materials. "I came across goofy mistakes in some main entries in Scottish Gaelic and in Modern Irish. Titles and artists that were plural nouns had been catalogued by 'na' (the equivalent of English 'the') as the first word of the titles or of the performing group's name." Lengths of shelving were packed exclusively with titles that begin with that word "na". "I tried to track how the same mistake could have happened so frequently. It turned out that a staff cutback, years earlier, had eliminated the library cataloguer familiar with the languages. The library had assigned cataloguing in Celtic to someone else. As a result, book titles beginning with 'na', for something like Na Fir (The Men), had been catalogued under 'na' (the) as the first word in the title. Many items catalogued under 'n' belonged elsewhere." Imagine if The Great Gatsby, The Sound and the Fury, and The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark were all filed under "T." Recently, Flynn checked Harvard's less-than-25-year-old computer-based catalogue system, and discovered that many - perhaps most - of the Gaelic and Irish books with Na ... titles are miscatalogued and so, in this odd way, are half-missing. That catalogue system is now the only way the public can access titles in the Harvard College Library collections. "The issue goes beyond just Harvard's Widener Library," Flynn says. "Because Widener is often the first North American library to acquire and catalogue an obscure foreign language title, Widener's cataloguing data frequently become the standard for libraries that acquire the book later. "Imagine," Flynn mutters, "a row of titles written in non-global languages, waiting to be checked out for the first time - but invisible to scholars seeking them. Imagine a future in which these books no longer wait for Professor Godot to borrow them, because libraries have discarded them - because their circulation statistics show that they were never requested by readers." To how many books has this happened, in how many languages, in how many libraries around the world? Nobody knows. http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,1880490,00.html | |
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6878 | 26 September 2006 11:00 |
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:00:00 +0100
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International Council for Traditional Music, Ireland | |
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan Subject: International Council for Traditional Music, Ireland MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Email Patrick O'Sullivan The following item has been brought to our attention... P.O'S. =A0 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Susan Motherway=20 Subject: ICTM Membership Hello All, Thank you all for your emails of interest in ICTM, Ireland. A membership form is available I have provided further information on the ethos of = the society for you. ICTM Ireland, is the national committee for the International Council = for Traditional Music (http://www.ictmusic.org) The National Committee was formed in February 2006 to support the academic study of Ethnomusicology and related disciplines, such as anthropology and folklore, in Ireland. = In this respect it will assist in the study, practice, documentation, preservation and dissemination of traditional music and dance, including folk, popular, classical, urban, and other genres, of Ireland and its diaspora. This forthcoming academic year ICTM Ireland will host a number of activities including a roundtable discussion on the concept of an Irish Ethnomusicology (DKIT Oct 20th, 2006); a student research forum (WIT Jan 2007); and a one day symposium on the theme 'Irish Popular Music and = Dance in History' (UCC Feb 16th, 2007). The society is also in the process of editing a publication on the concept of an Irish Ethnomusicology. The National committee acts as a liason between ICTM (mother organisation) and the general membership of ICTM, Ireland. As such it = will inform members about ICTM council decisions and activities thus = providing Irish ethnomusicologiists with access to an international forum for ethnomusicology. If you are interested in becoming a member of our society, a membership Is available. This can be sent to our Treasurer, Colette Moloney (WIT) or submitted at our forthcoming event in Dundalk Institute = of Technology (event noted above). A notice on this event will be = circulated shortly. Regards Susan Motherway Hon. Secretary NOTE: This email came with an attachment, a membership form, which cannot be distributed through IR-D. For membership, please contact Dr. Colette Moloney by email: cmoloney[at]wit.ie | |
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6879 | 26 September 2006 11:24 |
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:24:24 +0100
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Book Announced, John Throne, The Donegal Woman | |
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan Subject: Book Announced, John Throne, The Donegal Woman MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Email Patrick O'Sullivan A dear friend, Bridget O'Toole Walsh - based in Donegal - has turned into a publisher... For all the usual reasons - there was a book she very much wanted to see published... The book is available through Amazon... The Donegal Woman (Paperback) by John Throne # Paperback: 260 pages # Publisher: The Drumkeen Press (Sep 2006) # Language English # ISBN: 0955355206 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Donegal-Woman-John-Throne/dp/0955355206 There are to be a number of readings and launches in Ireland... I see one in Galway, Galway City Library on Thursday, September 28th, 6.30-8pm... http://www.indymedia.ie/article/78334 Indymedia says... 'John Throne is a writer and political activist, now living in Chicago. He was a member of the Bogside Defence Committee in Derry in 1969, and spent the next 25 years of his life as an organizer for the socialist movement internationally. John has written extensively on political issues. But The Donegal Woman is his first book. It tells the story of his grandmother, hired out as a child to a farmer who raped her and made her pregnant. The novelist Jennifer Johnston has said: "The story is relentless in its savagery.but he also has a wonderful lyrical quality to his writing."...' Patrick O'Sullivan | |
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6880 | 26 September 2006 12:40 |
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:40:44 +0100
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan Subject: File under Na MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Ward, Ciaran" To: "The Irish Diaspora Studies List" It illustrates the problem with library staff unfamiliar with foreign = languages. I suppose similar mistakes could be made by someone with = limited knowledge of French or Spanish who might store Sartre's La = Nausee and Camus' La Chute under L, or Cervantes' El Celoso Extreme=F1o = under E. Ciar=E1n Ward | Information Officer for Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP=20 dd: +44 (0)207 861 4003 | |
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