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18 September 2006 16:51  
  
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:51:01 +0100 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0609.txt]
  
Irish Studies Symposium, Ottawa
  
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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 ]/*

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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)


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18 September 2006 20:00  
  
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:00:16 +0100 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0609.txt]
  
Book Announced, Le livre en Irlande
  
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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.
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6863  
18 September 2006 22:21  
  
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:21:55 +0100 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0609.txt]
  
TOC Irish Educational Studies, Volume 25 Number 3/September 2006
  
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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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19 September 2006 08:26  
  
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:26:12 +0100 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0609.txt]
  
Border Geographies, AAG 2007 San Francisco
  
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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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19 September 2006 08:28  
  
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:28:08 +0100 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0609.txt]
  
TOC STUDIES -DUBLIN- VOL 95; NUMB 379; 2006
  
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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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19 September 2006 10:02  
  
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:02:09 +0100 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0609.txt]
  
I can't stand it, Part 1, crack/craic
  
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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

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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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Department of Social Sciences and Humanities University of Bradford Bradford
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19 September 2006 14:25  
  
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:25:59 +0100 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0609.txt]
  
As though everything I had ever loved and lost...
  
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From: Carmel McCaffrey
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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 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0609.txt]
  
I can't stand it, Part 2, Spam & SpamCop
  
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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

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Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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

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Department of Social Sciences and Humanities University of Bradford Bradford
BD7 1DP Yorkshire England












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

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

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Department of Social Sciences and Humanities University of Bradford Bradford
BD7 1DP Yorkshire England
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19 September 2006 15:25  
  
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:25:18 +0100 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0609.txt]
  
Royal Irish Academy,
  
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Subject: Royal Irish Academy,
John O'Donovan and Irish historical scholarship: lunchtime
lectures and exhibition
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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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19 September 2006 17:19  
  
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:19:13 +0100 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0609.txt]
  
Inaugural meeting of Irish Society for Theatre Research
  
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Forwarded on behalf of ISTR Steering Group...

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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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21 September 2006 07:54  
  
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 07:54:28 +0100 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0609.txt]
  
Book launch, Belfast, Ireland and Europe in the 19th Century
  
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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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21 September 2006 17:44  
  
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:44:14 +0100 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0609.txt]
  
Irish Stds Symposium, Chicago,
  
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Subject: Irish Stds Symposium, Chicago,
Nov 06: Flight of the Earls (Donegal, 1607)
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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.


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24 September 2006 16:20  
  
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 16:20:09 +0100 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0609.txt]
  
Everything you know about British and Irish ancestry is wrong...
  
Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Everything you know about British and Irish ancestry is wrong...
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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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24 September 2006 16:23  
  
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 16:23:20 +0100 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0609.txt]
  
Book Reviews, Hilliard and MCCulloch
  
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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.




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25 September 2006 17:19  
  
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:19:29 -0500 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0609.txt]
  
THE EUROPEAN LIBRARY.ORG UPDATE
  
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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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25 September 2006 18:26  
  
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:26:52 -0500 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0609.txt]
  
CALL FOR PAPERS: Seventh European Social Science History
  
Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: "William Mulligan Jr."
Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: Seventh European Social Science History
Conference University of Lisbon,
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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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26 September 2006 10:27  
  
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:27:26 +0100 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0609.txt]
  
File under Na
  
Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
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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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26 September 2006 11:00  
  
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:00:00 +0100 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0609.txt]
  
International Council for Traditional Music, Ireland
  
Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: International Council for Traditional Music, Ireland
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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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26 September 2006 11:24  
  
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:24:24 +0100 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0609.txt]
  
Book Announced, John Throne, The Donegal Woman
  
Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
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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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26 September 2006 12:40  
  
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:40:44 +0100 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0609.txt]
  
File under Na
  
Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
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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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