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This note from Steve Poole caught my eye, partly because I have been =
looking
at the ways in which Northern Ireland has been/is presented or presents
itself in Britain as a region of the United Kingdom...

It is possible to track down more information through the UWE web =
site...

I can see 2 papers of interest

=95 Alice Correia (University of Sussex) Willie Doherty: positioning
Northern Ireland within British Art
=95 Jennifer Way (University of North Texas) Sean Hillen=92s Irelantis:
Island as region

I have pasted in Alice Correia's Abstract, below... I cannot find =
Jennifer
Way's Abstract. But if you do a web search for Se=E1n Hillen, or indeed =
Sean
Hillen, you will find much stuff, including Se=E1n's own web sites... =
And
small complex works of art that actually make you smile. They are =
sometimes
a little bit like private jokes for the Irish Studies mob. But we like
that, don't we?

See Mic Moroney's paper at
http://www.irelantis.com/MicMoroney.html

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Subject: Regionalism and Identity

A reminder that we're now taking bookings for the following conference:

REGIONALISM AND IDENTITY IN BRITISH ART

28 October 2006

Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK

This conference, jointly organised by UWE's Regional History Centre and =
the
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, explores the interplay between
historical concepts of regional identity and their representational
expression in the visual arts. Papers uniquely bring together a number =
of
practicing visual artists with cultural historians to seek connections
between contemporary practice, regional/cultural geography and =
historical
context. To what extent do historical memory, myth and ritual impact =
upon
understandings of regional difference and how have those understandings =
been
mapped and moulded in visual culture? And how important have regional =
arts
institutions like the RWA been in the historical manufacturing of civic
pride and regional identity?

For a full programme, booking form and abstracts for all papers, please =
see
the Regional History Centre's website at
or =
contact
us by e-mail at rhc[at]uwe.ac.uk

Steve Poole, UWE
=20
=20
______________________________
Dr Steve Poole=20
Principal lecturer in social and cultural history, UWE
Director, Regional History Centre, UWE
Web editor, British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
Convener, History HEA South West regional network

Alice Correia, University of Sussex

Willie Doherty: Positioning Northern Ireland within British Art

Since the mid-1980s Willie Doherty=92s lens based artwork has =
highlighted the
specificities of living in Northern Ireland, and challenged the
marginalisation of the region with mainstream British art. This paper =
will
examine two aspects of Doherty=92s practice, his use of site specific =
imagery
and the generalised Northern Irish voice to consider the position of
Northern Ireland as both within and outside of the British Union.=20

The first part of this paper will consider Doherty=92s decision to =
foreground
the specificities of place in his early black and white photographs. =
These
images dwell on how power and surveillance are embedded within the =
spatial
relationships of the city where he was born, London/Derry. The uneasy
cultural memory that the British Empire was built by means of violence =
and
military control of other peoples and lands still casts a shadow of =
violence
over Northern Ireland. In the photographic work such as The Walls, 1987
Doherty positions the viewer within a politicised and circumscribed =
space.
Charting the troubled urban landscapes of his hometown, a place with two
names, Derry and Londonderry, I will consider how Doherty illustrates =
the
place as uncanny palimpsest, overwritten with multiple and often =
conflicting
narratives. Reflecting on photographs such as The Walls, Doherty has
stated, =93my starting point was looking at how the political and =
physical
landscapes were fused. To have knowledge of one gave you an insight into =
the
other=94. =20

In the early 1990s Doherty=92s practice moved into colour photography.
Depicting rural, often liminal spaces, unpopulated country roads and
abandoned vehicles take on sinister connotations in light of =
anti-unionist
protest. But Doherty also began to question the role of the Republic in =
the
formation of Northern Irish identities, particularly the cultural =
mythology
of the =91Emerald lsle=92. =20

Nostalgia for an imagined rural Irish utopia is analysed in his =
multi-media
installation They=92re All the Same, 1991. In this work Doherty =
juxtaposes an
enlarged photographic mugshot with a voice-over narrative. The =
voice-over
tells a story of conflicting identities, the male speaker describing the
Irish landscape and longing to return, and conflating this with =
admissions
of guilt and pledges of innocence. I will argue that Doherty utilises =
the
voice and language in order to consider the relationships between truth,
stereotype and the representation of Irish people, criminalized within =
the
British media. I will discuss how Doherty has challenged the
marginalisation of Northern Ireland through his debunking of =
exclusionary
stereotypes, which have permeated through the British media system and =
which
remain embedded within depictions of Irish people. In works such as =
They=92re
All the Same, 1991, Doherty challenges the positioning not only Northern
Ireland as marginal to the United Kingdom, but also the Irish as the
subaltern in Northern Irish history. The identification of the man as =
Irish
in They=92re All the Same is achieved through the use of the voice in =
the
absence of any physical attributes of nationality or ethnicity. Thus =
=93the
role of the Irish voice as an index of ethnicity=94 has become central =
for
establishing and maintaining Irish otherness in Britain. As will =
become
clear throughout this paper, discrimination against members of minority
communities has been justified and excused because their perceived
otherness, and as such, those who contest or exist outside of those the
power structures, attest to the disunity and inequality of the nation. =20

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Assistant Professor of English: Irish Literature/Studies
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Assistant Professor of English, tenure-track, specializing in Irish
Literature/Studies with a secondary area in British Modernism, starting
August 20, 2007. Ph.D. by August 2007 with evidence of teaching and
scholarly potential required. Appropriate service to the university,
community and profession is expected. Screening begins November 15, 2006;
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Social Partnership and Local Development in Ireland: The Limits
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Social Partnership and Local Development in Ireland: The Limits to
Deliberation

Author: Teague, Paul

Source: British Journal of Industrial Relations, Volume 44, Number 3,
September 2006, pp. 421-443(23)

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

Abstract:

The Irish model of social partnership is considered distinctive as it is
based on the principles of deliberative democracy more than adversarial
bargaining. The deliberative features of the model are considered to be
threefold. First, the negotiations to conclude national social agreements
are not confined to the government, trade unions and employers, but also
include a wide range of civil associations. Second, agreements are not
simply concerned with wage determination, but cover a wide range of matters
designed to promote social inclusion. Third, there is an effort to avoid
agreements being overly centralized by promoting programmes at the local,
territorial level. This paper examines the validity of this argument by
assessing efforts to forge a local dimension to the social partnership
model. The conclusions suggest that while the model has improved the
delivery of public services, it is premature to claim that Irish social
partnership represents a new model of labour market governance based on
deliberative democracy.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8543.2006.00507.x

Affiliations: 1: The Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland

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Implications of neo-liberalism for built heritage management: Institutional
and ownership structures in Ireland and Sweden

Author: Negussie, Elene1

Source: Urban Studies, Volume 43, Number 10, September 2006, pp.
1803-1824(22)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:
This paper explores implications of neo-liberal conventions and practices on
institutional and ownership structures for built heritage management. It
argues that deliberate adjustments and shifts towards a neo-liberal global
economic agenda have raised new issues for decisions relating to ownership
and management of the built heritage and consequently concerns for the
effects on built environments. This is reflected in the changing role of
public institutions and the voluntary sector in built heritage conservation
and in processes of privatisation. Based on empirical research which
employed a comparative study of urban conservation, the paper draws on the
Irish and Swedish experiences with particular reference to the cities of
Dublin and Stockholm.


Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/00420980600838168

Affiliations: 1: Department of Geography, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2,
Ireland

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Marriage, Fertility and Women's Lives in Twentieth Century Ireland ( c. =
1900- c. 1970)

Author: Daly, Mary

Source: Women's History Review, Volume 15, Number 4, September 2006, pp. =
571-585(15)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:
By the 1930s the marriage rate in Ireland was the lowest in what we =
would now term the developed world, but family size was among the =
highest. Yet while much has been written about Ireland's low marriage =
rate and late age of marriage and the impact on the lives of women and =
men, much less attention has been devoted to marital fertility. The =
article begins with a brief description of marital fertility, by =
occupation, religion and social class, and how these variables changed =
during the period under study. It then examines the available evidence =
regarding family limitation in twentieth=E2=80=90century Ireland before =
considering the impact of large family size on health, poverty and =
economic welfare, the burden that it imposed on parents, and on older =
siblings, and its consequential influence on the marriage rate and age =
of marriage. It goes on to discuss the reluctance on the part of the =
Irish state or the Irish Catholic Church to address the consequences of =
large families. This appears to have been a taboo subject: it attracted =
little attention in the debate over children's allowances, and it proved =
to be the most divisive topic addressed (or rather not addressed) by the =
Commission on Emigration (1948-54). The final topic addressed is what =
the slow decline in family size, and the slow adoption of family =
limitation within marriage might indicate about the relationship between =
Irish husbands and wives. Although this article draws on quite an =
extensive range of evidence, many parts of the analysis are necessarily =
speculative, raising more questions than are answered.


Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/09612020500530638

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Viewing Women, Family and Sexuality Through the Prism of the Irish Poor Laws

Author: Crossman, Virginia

Source: Women's History Review, Volume 15, Number 4, September 2006, pp.
541-550(10)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group


Abstract:
This article examines the treatment of women and children under the Irish
Poor Laws in the nineteenth century. It explores the gendered nature of
relief distribution and the way in which concepts such as respectability and
independence shaped women's perception and experience of the Poor Law
system. Particular attention is paid to the debate over a system of moral
classification within workhouses, a system predicated upon perceptions of
female sexuality. It is argued that while Irish guardians sought to impose a
punitive regime on those perceived to be immoral or non respectable, the
central Poor Law authorities resisted attempts to discriminate between
different categories of paupers on moral grounds.


Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/09612020500530554

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Author: Kelly-Holmes, Helen

Source: Journal of Language and Politics, Volume 5, Number 2, 2006, pp.
217-238(22)

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Abstract:
This paper reports on the process of searching with Irish words on the Irish
language version of the Google Internet search engine. Five words from
`typical' and `non-typical' domains for Irish are used, and the results are
analysed in terms of the "authenticity" of the search process and results,
the language usage in the sites found through the search process, and the
domains represented by the results. The study identifies a number of
problems encountered when searching for results in a `small' language. It
also indicates that the `official' sector and other sectors closely related
to language policy and planning are the main providers of monolingual Irish
texts on the Internet, with a variety of mixed Irish and English approaches
favoured by other providers.

Keywords: authenticity; domains; Internet; language maintenance; language
revitalisation; World Wide Web

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Managing Motherhood: Negotiating a Maternity Service for Catholic
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Managing Motherhood: Negotiating a Maternity Service for Catholic Mothers in
Dublin, 1930-1954

Author: Earner-Byrne, Lindsey

Source: Social History of Medicine, Volume 19, Number 2, August 2006, pp.
261-277(17)

Publisher: Oxford University Press


Abstract:
There has been a considerable body of research into maternal and child
welfare in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Britain and western
Europe. The emphasis has been predominantly on the role of fertility
decline, war and the emergence of social medicine. This article examines
Ireland in relation to these demographic, social and medical trends. It
concentrates on the development of maternity and child welfare services in
Dublin between 1930 and 1954. The Irish demographic profile, and
specifically high levels of infant mortality, resulted in a preoccupation on
the infant and a campaign to counteract gastro-enteritis. This led to a
restructuring of health services both locally and nationally. It is argued
here that the relations between the Irish state and the Roman Catholic
hierarchy were crucial to the development of maternity and child services.
The role of religious competition, and latterly sectarianism, is also
revealed as having been a central ingredient in the development of social
services for Irish women and children. Tensions concerning religious
control, the domain and limits of charity and the spectre of state control
all played a role in the shift towards the development of a comprehensive
maternity service in modern Ireland.

Keywords: maternal and child welfare; mortality; ante-natal;
gastro-enteritis; Roman Catholic Church; Archbishop John Charles McQuaid;
Saint John's Ambulance Brigade; Catholic Social Service Conference;
mother-and-child controversy

Document Type: Research article

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Addressing Religious Discrimination and Islamophobia: Muslims and Liberal
Democracies. The Case of the United Kingdom

Author: Weller, Paul

Source: Journal of Islamic Studies, Volume 17, Number 3, September 2006, pp.
295-325(31)

Publisher: Oxford University Press


Abstract:
The article examines contemporary claims of Islamophobia and religious
discrimination against Muslims in the United Kingdom in the context of the
broader dynamics of religious discrimination in British history. How the
`struggle for existence' of religious groups who were initially concerned
with `establishing an identity of their own' became ` the struggle for
equality' among both nonconformist religious minority groups in the
nineteenth century as well as among twentieth century Muslim UK citizens of
predominantly migrant and minority ethnic origin is examined.

The identification of `Islamophobia' as a specific form of discrimination
and hatred of `the other' is located in the rise of a late twentieth century
`politics of identity' as it emerges from the impact of `globalization'. The
relationship between the distinctive features of the Muslim experience of
discrimination on the basis of religion and that of other groups is explored
by reference to the findings of the UK Government Home Office commissioned
Religious Discrimination in England and Wales Research Project conducted
during 1999-2001, as well as by reference to Orientalist and Islamophobic
imagery.

This article considers strategies for combating religious discrimination and
hatred, from public education through to legal instruments, such as the
Human Rights Act 1998 and the Employment Equality (Religion of Belief)
Regulations 2003. The visceral and deeply embedded nature of `Islamophobia'
is illuminated by reference to the deep-seated and multi-layered admixture
of religion and politics in Northern Irish `sectarianism'. The article
concludes by advocating that it is the responsibility of all groups, of good
governance in society, and in the ultimate interests of all, to tackle the
phenomenon of religious discrimination and hatred under whatever guise it
appears.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1093/jis/etl001

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Shipping and economic development in nineteenth-century Ireland

Author: SOLAR, PETER M.1

Source: The Economic History Review, Volume 59, Number 4, November 2006, pp.
717-742(26)

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing


Abstract:
The tonnage of shipping entering and leaving Ireland grew rapidly from the
late eighteenth century until the mid-1870s, after which there was a
distinct slowdown. The mid-nineteenth century was notable for a five-fold
increase in shipping per capita, an indicator of the Irish economy's
increasing commercialization. The slowdown after 1870 would have been even
greater without the industrial dynamism of Belfast, Ireland's leading port
from the 1880s. The early and rapid introduction of steamships from the
1820s made possible large-scale exports of live animals and fresh eggs,
products that would account for 60 per cent of agricultural exports and a
quarter of total exports by 1910.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2006.00345.x

Affiliations: 1: Vesalius College, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by H-Albion[at]h-net.msu.edu (September 2006)

Bill Kissane. _The Politics of the Irish Civil War_. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2005. xii + 264 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography,
index. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-19-927355-3.

Reviewed for H-Albion by Patrick Maume

Fighting for Democracy?

Over eighty years later, the Irish Civil War of 1922-23 continues to provoke
debate, as seen in discussions of the films _Michael Collins_ (1996),
directed by Neil Jordan, and _The Wind that Shakes the Barley_ (2006),
directed by Ken Loach. These films reflect rival views of the conflict--for
supporters of the Treaty, the Civil War represents the defence of electoral
democracy against irresponsible militarists, while critics see it as a
neo-colonialist coup supported by gombeenmen. This division is found to
some extent even in academic work, with Tom Garvin hailing the Treatyite
victory as "the birth of Irish democracy," while John Regan describes it as
"the Irish counter-revolution."[1]

In his earlier work, Bill Kissane has criticized the "defense of democracy"
view by arguing that Irish commitment to democracy long pre-dates the Civil
War.[2] Here he attempts to move the Civil War debate on from what he sees
as excessive emphasis on personalities, and to advance a conceptualization
of the problem by providing a comparison between the Civil War and similar
conflicts elsewhere; an account of how the conflict came about and how it
progressed in terms of what the actors thought they were doing (when they
articulated their assumptions); and a discussion of the long-term resolution
of the Pro-Treatyite and Anti-Treatyite approaches. The author categorizes
these approaches respectively as "protective democracy"--a Victorian-style
minimal state confined to the protection of property rights--and
"constitutional republicanism," which defines self-determination in terms of
a particular definition of nationality rather than temporary majorities.
Kissane draws on a remarkably wide range of primary and secondary sources,
providing many important insights in his account of the Civil War. His
reinstatement of "civil society" groups as political actors and his
discussion of their attempts at peace initiatives (opposed as strenuously by
the Treatyites, often seen as defenders of "civil society," as by the
anti-Treatyites) deserves particular praise.

Nonetheless, this study has significant limitations. Kissane's attempt to
provide a historiographical summary often produces lists of authorities,
where a pithy summary would suffice. Some comparisons are too narrowly
drawn; for example, by insisting that only divisions leading to immediate
civil war are relevant, Kissane states that Afrikaner divisions over the
1902 Treaty of Vereeniging and the dispute over the Altalena incident during
the Israeli war of independence are not comparable to the Irish case,
although the longer-term political divide between the Botha-Smuts tradition
and the Nationalist Party, and between Labour and Likud are clearly
reminiscent of Irish "civil war politics"; indeed, these were comparisons
made by Irish republicans at the time.

Oddly, considering Kissane's view about the depth of Irish democratic
traditions, the Gaelic Revival is emphasized to the near-exclusion of older
forms of nationalist identity formation, such as the 1840s Young Ireland
movement. (Rural IRA men interviewed by Peter Hart--frequently quoted by
Kissane--showed little awareness of the Revival, but frequently mentioned
Young Ireland literature.)[3] The cohesion of nineteenth-century Irish
nationalism is greatly overstated, with the Parnell Split of the 1890s
treated as exceptional. This confuses the ability of local communities to
dominate and silence opposition with the ability of nationalist leaders to
hold together a coherent and disciplined national movement. The central
discipline imposed by Charles Stewart Parnell in the 1880s was exceptional,
and the Parnell Split resembled the Civil War in that nationalists
experienced it as a humiliating regression to a state of affairs thought to
have been overcome. The later history of the Irish Party was dominated
less by the prospect of being displaced by separatists than by fear of
political disintegration and a return to localist, patronage-based
factionalism. Kissane's view of Free Staters as successors to the Home
Rulers may go deeper than he thinks. Perhaps, indeed, the Civil War has
other precedents; if Kissane's implicitly partitionist terms of reference
are discarded, the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century struggle
between Unionists and nationalists might be seen as the first Irish Civil
War, more influential than its successor because the losers were excluded
completely from the nation's self-representation.

Kissane also shows a tendency to define democracy not in legal/political
terms, but by reference to standards of individual liberty not found in most
democracies until the 1960s and forms of participatory democracy which may
not be attainable anywhere. A fondness for localism is not tested against
the full force of Garvin's right-wing Progressivist argument that a strong
centralized state, with a core of expert administrators, is a necessary
condition for social and economic progress through the defeat of corrupt and
short-sighted localist and populist vested interests.

Kissane tends to exaggerate the continuity between the Civil War and
present-day Irish politics. For example, when discussing Fianna Fail's
displacement of the pro-Treaty Cumann na nGaedheal government in the 1920s
by stressing economic issues, he fails to note that they were able to link
their constitutional case to their economic agenda by claiming that
protectionism would revitalize the Irish economy and that Cumann na
nGaedheal's adherence to free trade reflected constitutional
subordination--a point whose contemporary centrality is obscured by the
subsequent failure of protectionism and its abandonment by Fianna Fail
governments from the late 1950s.[4] This present-mindedness is also
reflected in Kissane's neglect of the extent to which Catholicism functioned
as a marker of Irish ethnicity in the early-twentieth century. Although
the identification of the Catholic hierarchy with the Free State cause is
noted, surprisingly little attention is paid to the role of Catholic moral
theory in the self-representations of the two sides, even when this appears
in quotations selected by Kissane himself (though self-justification in
these terms was clearly important to many participants). He appears to
treat as self-evident a contractarian view of society which emphasizes
individual autonomy. The view that a legitimate government possesses
inherent authority which enables--even obliges--it to perform actions that
would be criminal if undertaken by others, is eminently disputable, but
Kissane fails to recognize the extent to which it lies behind such issues as
the emphasis placed on "legitimacy" by both sides.[5] An extreme example is
the insistence of some Republicans that to recognize the Treaty would mean
admitting that the Crown had been the legitimate ruler of Ireland during the
War of Independence, and consequently regarding the War of Independence IRA
as traitors and murderers.

Despite its limitations this is a major achievement: Kissane provides a
challenging, well-researched, clearly structured and deeply meditated
analysis of one of the most controversial episodes of Irish history. Future
scholars will build on Kissane's conceptual foundations even if they do not
always agree with his conclusions.

Notes

[1]. Tom Garvin, _1922: The Birth of Irish Democracy_ (Dublin: Gill &
Macmillan, 1996); and John M. Regan, _The Irish Counter-Revolution:
Treatyite Politics and Settlement in Independent Ireland, 1922-36_ (Dublin:
Gill & Macmillan, 1999).

[2]. Bill Kissane, _Explaining Irish Democracy_ (Dublin: University College
Dublin Press, 2002).

[3]. Peter Hart_ The IRA and Its Enemies: Violence and Community in Cork,
1916-1923 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).

[4]. Richard Dunphy, _The Making of Fianna Fail Power in Ireland 1921-1948_
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995).

[5]. See James Hogan, _Election and Representation_ (Cork: Cork University
Press, 1945).

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If we are pursuing linguistics...

Shaw in the Epilogue to St Joan makes that very English figure the =
Soldier refer to Joan as a judy. I am less certain about it, but I =
have an ancient memory of I think Ronald Knox ascribing to I think =
Father Healy the twin reasons for a man going under: Punch or Judy.

David Rose

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Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: Irish Studies and History of Art: Impossible
Dialogues?
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CONTESTATIONS 33rd International Association of Art Historians (AAH) Ann=
ual Conference, 12-14 April 2007, University of Ulster, Belfast. Con=
testations: calling to witness, demanding a position, encouraging debate.=
The theme for the 33rd Annual Conference of the AAH has been motivated b=
y the specific =91post-conflict=92 situation of Northern Ireland. Belfast=
, for instance, is a city in which both material traces and representatio=
ns of competing historical formations are strikingly evident in everyday =
life. At a global level, contestation defines the present situation in wh=
ich manifold interests, intentions and investments clash and grapple with=
each other.=20
=20
CALL FOR PAPERS:=20
=20
Conference Session: 'Irish Studies and History of Art: Impossible Dialo=
gues?'
=20
Session Convenor: Lucy Cotter, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
=20
The relationship between Irish Studies and History of Art disciplines r=
emains a contested one, despite an increasing amount of cross-research an=
d publishing by academics in both disciplines. On the one hand, art has r=
emained an area of marginal interest to Irish Studies. One might ask whet=
her this status relates to historic associations of Irish culture as esse=
ntially non-visual or to the perceived internationalism of modern and con=
temporary art. On the other hand, art historians have been slow to engage=
with Irish Studies, which is perceived as having a literary bias, and a =
methodological approach in which art is subservient to theory.=20
Beyond disciplinary differences, the relationship between Irish Studies=
and Irish History of Art is underscored by divergent views on the status=
of the =91national=92 and the =91postcolonial=92 within Irish cultural p=
roduction. Within Irish art discourse, the =91national=92 is often percei=
ved as reductive in its isolation of Irish art from international art dis=
course and apparent focus on a culturally essentialist =91Irishness=92. T=
he post-colonial status of Ireland and its relevance for art historical r=
esearch are widely disputed. Focus is rather on the formal influences of =
European and British art on individual Irish artists. In contrast, =91nat=
ional=92 and =91postcolonial=92 referents are central tenets of Irish Stu=
dies discourse.=20
This session calls for papers which reflect on the current relationship=
between the disciplines, elaborate on the potential for further interdis=
ciplinary exchange and/or provide arguments against such developments. Do=
es History of Art address areas of importance to Irish Studies? Is Irish =
Studies engagement with post-colonialism an opportunity to re-think tradi=
tional assumptions about Irish art? Would collaboration undermine the sta=
tus of History of Art as a domain-specific discipline? How might the mult=
iplicity of domain-specific discourses be productive in interdisciplinary=
dialogue? Should the theoretical engagements of Irish Studies inspire a =
more theoretically-engaged art historical research? Is consensus on the s=
tatus of the =91national=92 necessary for dialogue?=20
=20
Submission Deadline: 10 November 2006
Email: lucy_cotter[at]yahoo.com to receive paper proposal form.

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Dear Friends,

Can anyone on the list tell me if Norman Whitten was Irish? He directed th=
ree Irish films--In the Days of St. Patrick (1920), The Casey Millions (192=
2), and Cruiskeen Lawn (1922). However, this occurred during a period when=
a great many foreign directors were working in Ireland. I have checked th=
e standard sources, and got a great deal of help from Orna Roche at the IFI=
in identifying other directors' nationalities, but Whitten remains a myste=
ry.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Michael

Michael Patrick Gillespie
Louise Edna Goeden Professor of English
Marquette University

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County Waterford Image Archive
http://www.waterfordcountyimages.org/exhibit/web


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the late 1890s to the present. The Web interface to the collection includes
a number of helpful features - for those familiar with Waterford county and
its place and family names, there is a search box, but for those less
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photographer, location, image format, or subjects from drop down lists, as
well as selecting parishes from a map to see the pictures associated with
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added. There are also easy ways to submit photographs for inclusion in the
archive, and for locals to contribute identifying information. [DS]

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The epilogue to Kerby Miller's _Emigrants and Exiles_ (1950) offers an
account of the American Wake. Miller cites Arnold Schrier's _Ireland and the
American Emigration_ as his principal secondary source. He also cites a
range of nineteenth-century sources.

_________________________________________________
Kevin Kenny
Department of History
Boston College
140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Phone: (617) 552-1196
Fax: (617) 552-3714

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From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Liam Clarke
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 8:02 AM
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] inquiry

Can anyone point me towards anything (scholarly: non-fiction) written
about the 'American Wake'

Nothing in the British Library as far as I can see


Many thanks


Liam Clarke

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From: "Murray, Edmundo"
Subject: "Irish Migration Studies in Latin America" Vol. 4
N=?iso-8859-1?Q?=B0?= 4 (October 2006)
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Dear IR-D members,=20

We are happy to announce a new issue of "Irish Migration Studies in =
Latin America"=20
www.irlandeses.org
ISSN 1661-6065=20
Volume 4, Number 4 (October 2006)
Editors: Edmundo Murray and Claire Healy

TABLE OF CONTENTS=20

- From Westmeath to Peru Full Circle: Memoirs of a Westmeath Missionary =
in Sicuani, Cuzco, by Desmond Kelleher (p. 199).

- Bernardo O'Higgins: The Rebel Son of a Viceroy, by Alfredo Sepulveda =
(p. 206).

- Conquistadores, Soldiers and Entrepreneurs: Early Irish Presence in =
Chile, by Arturo Griffin (p. 216).

- "Foreigners of this Kind": Chilean Refugees in Ireland, 1973-1990, by =
Claire Healy (p. 221).

- "Sr. Hutchinson, otra vez, no dice V. nonsenses, no tonterrias": A =
Bigoted Response to Thomas J. Hutchinson's "Two Years in Peru" (1873), =
by Edmundo Murray (p. 230).

- From a Shipwreck to "Macayadas": The Macays in Ecuador, by Carmen =
Duenas de Anhalzer (p. 237).

- From Ireland to South America: A Story of Departures, Separations and =
Reunions, by Julia Boland and Marilyn Boland (p. 240).

- The Irish in the Peruvian Andes, by Rosario Sheen (p. 245).

- Review of Colleen Fitzpatrick's "Forensic Genealogy", by Patricio =
MacDonagh (p. 251).

- Review of Maxine Hanon's "Diccionario de Brit=E1nicos en Buenos =
Aires", by Edmundo Murray (p. 254).

- Review of Moises Enrique Rodriguez's "Freedom's Mercenaries: British =
Volunteers in the Wars of Independence of Latin America", by Karen =
Racine (p. 260).

- Grace, William Russell (1832-1904), merchant, by Lawrence A. Clayton =
(p. 263).

- O'Gorman, Thomas (b.c.1760), merchant in Spain and South America, by =
Jerry W. Cooney (p. 266).

- Blest, Clotario (1899-1990), Catholic labour leader in Chile (p. 268).

- Hutchinson, Thomas Joseph (c.1802-1885), diplomat, physician and =
travel writer (p. 271).

- Leigh, Henry Hilton (d. 1910), landowner and pioneer cotton planter =
(p. 274).

- Mackenna, John (1771-1814), general in the Chilean war of independence =
(p. 275).

- O'Connor, Francisco Burdett [Frank] (1791-1871), officer in the Irish =
Legion of Sim=F3n Bol=EDvar's army (p. 277).

- O'Higgins, Ambrose [Ambrosio] (c.1721-1801), governor and =
captain-general of Chile, later viceroy of Peru (p. 279).

- Payne, William Smith [Guillermo] (1870-1924), missionary in Argentina =
and Bolivia (p. 281).

- Vicu=F1a Mackenna, Benjam=EDn (1831-1886), Chilean writer, journalist =
and historian (p. 283).

- Wright, Thomas Charles James (1799-1868), officer in Sim=F3n =
Bol=EDvar's army and founder of the Ecuadorian naval school (p. 285).
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Contact information:=20
Society for Irish Latin American Studies=20
contact[at]irlandeses.org=20
www.irlandeses.org=20

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This Call for Papers by Dr. Marion S. Jacobson has been brought to our
attention...

ICTM is International Council for Traditional Music
http://www.ictmusic.org/ICTM/

I am a bit out of touch with the study of the Irish Accordion. Is there
still a distinctive instrument, the Irish accordion?

Graeme Smith did a chapter for me, for which I was grateful, in the Irish
World Wide...
My love is in America: migration and Irish music
Graeme Smith

And his work can be found elsewhere. For example...
http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-Sept-1996/smith.html

Annie Proulx's Musicology
Graeme Smith

Modern-Style Irish Accordion Playing: History, Biography and Class
Graeme Smith
Ethnomusicology, Vol. 41, No. 3 (Autumn, 1997), pp. 433-463

P.O'S.


-----Original Message-----
Marion S. Jacobson
jacobsom[at]acp.edu

Attention scholars of the accordion.

You are cordially invited to submit a 300-word abstract proposal for a
paper (or presentation) on the topic of ACCORDION CULTURE, for the next
meeting of the International Council on Traditional Music, July 4-11 in
Vienna.

Austria, the birthplace of the accordion, would be the perfect
place for us to get together and explore the unique role of the accordion in
all kinds of world folk & traditional musical cultures.

My current research interest is in the social history of the accordion in
America, or the uses of the accordion in what might be called "middlebrow
culture" of the 1930s, 40s, and 1950s.

This panel could explore the transformations of the accordion in
various world cultures (including its manufacture, design, marketing and
circulation), as well as modes of performance in a wide range of social,
cultural and historical contexts. Presenters are encouraged to perform,
demonstrate, form spontaneous accordion bands, etc., but your proposal
should take the form of a scholarly paper. Here is the link to the ICTM
conference, with all their guidelines:
http://www.ictm2007.at/


If you are interested in being part of this panel, please contact me via
email, at jacobsom[at]acp.edu, on or before Oct. 22, 2006.



Dr. Marion S. Jacobson
Assistant Professor of Music and Humanities
Albany College of Pharmacy
106 New Scotland Ave.
Albany, NY 12208
tel. (518) 694-7874
home: (518) 439-4642
cell: (518) 322-8677
fax (518) 694-7348
email: jacobsom[at]acp.edu

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Can anyone point me towards anything (scholarly: non-fiction) written
about the 'American Wake'

Nothing in the British Library as far as I can see


Many thanks


Liam Clarke=20