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From today's NY Times

October 20, 2006
A Twist on the Old Dream: Looking to Ireland for Jobs=20
By NINA BERNSTEIN

The jobs fair that Ireland is holding tonight in Midtown Manhattan was
envisioned as an invitation home to hard-pressed Irish immigrants living
illegally in New York. Instead, to the surprise of organizers, it is =
mainly
American citizens who have shown interest and seem eager for a new =
career
and a new life in Ireland=92s booming economy.

Some, like Robert Aspland, 54, are disenchanted veterans of American
business who see a better market in Ireland for their ideas and =
experience.
Others are young and frustrated, like Patrick Cahalan, 26, a
fourth-generation New Yorker with a degree in graphic design who is =
ready to
chuck freelance work at stagnant wages to chase the kind of opportunity =
his
distant Irish ancestors once sought in America.

=93Their economy is on the way up, their education=92s on the way up,=94 =
said Mr.
Cahalan, who had just returned from his first trip to Ireland when he
learned of the jobs fair, which begins at 5 p.m. today and runs through
tomorrow afternoon at the Affinia Manhattan hotel on Seventh Avenue and =
31st
Street.=20

=93The reports of economic growth in America may be true, but they =
usually
don=92t include people like me,=94 he added. =93It seems like getting a =
full-time
job with benefits that also pays a living wage is like a pipe dream here
these days.=94=20

That kind of interest from American citizens is new to Gregory Craig,
director of corporate affairs for FAS, the Irish national training and
employment authority, which has organized the event and has run similar
fairs from Sydney to Moscow, striving to fill the 60,000 skilled =
vacancies
in its jobs bank.

But when Mr. Craig checked the immigration figures with his own foreign
ministry, he said, he realized he was at the front line of a small but
unmistakable trend: nearly three times more Americans moved to Ireland =
last
year than Irish immigrated to the United States.

The numbers are tiny, though growing: 4,300 Americans immigrated to =
Ireland
in 2005, and 5,000 are projected by the end of this year, Mr. Craig =
said.
Only 1,700 Irish came to America in 2005, and the numbers are expected =
to
dwindle.=20

That kind of twist on the past was worth a good laugh to Timothy J. =
Meagher,
a historian of Irish-American immigration at Catholic University of =
America
in Washington.
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=93It has a nice symmetry to it, doesn=92t it?=94 he said when he caught =
his
breath. =93It really is a historic pass. It=92s kind of =
mind-boggling.=94=20
For most of three centuries, Ireland hemorrhaged its population and =
served
as the image of poverty and failure, he said. As recently as 1990, =
23,000
people left Ireland, including some who re-greened old Irish =
neighborhoods
in New York, Boston and Philadelphia but never gained legal status.=20
Some joined a return migration to now-prosperous Ireland, and those left
behind without American citizenship seem like a natural audience for the =
job
fair, which is described as having 6,500 =93live jobs=94 of every kind, =
from
posts in the financial sector and the stock exchange to work for =
painters,
plumbers and decorators. In New York, illegal Irish immigrants face =
security
crackdowns that make it harder for those without valid Social Security
numbers to drive, work or plan a future in the United States.=20

But Mr. Craig worried that fear would keep some away. =93Our =
undocumented have
a problem with this show because they feel threatened,=94 he said. =93A =
lot of
people are afraid that your Homeland Security people will be there.=94=20
Others dismissed the idea. =93We don=92t buy into that at all, the =
threat of a
swoop,=94 said Adrian Flannelly, chairman of the Irish Radio Network in =
New
York, who has served on an Irish government task force on returnees. =
=93It
would be highly inappropriate for the strong arm of the law to show =
up.=94
Just who will show up remains to be seen. But Mr. Craig, who has helped =
run
similar events in Poland, Estonia and Latvia, said that e-mail messages =
in
response to fliers and notices in the Irish-American press had come
overwhelmingly from Americans, some with ancestral ties to Ireland, but =
many
without.

=93My view is these people are looking for a complete change of life,=94 =
he
said, listing some of Ireland=92s advantages as competitive pay, =
plentiful
jobs, four months maternity leave, full health coverage and free =
education
through college.
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By law, preference is given to citizens of Europe, like the 120,000 =
Eastern
Europeans now working in Ireland. But the jobs on offer at the fair have
already been approved for others, he said, and the fair will provide
information about visas and work permits for Americans.

Some, like Mr. Aspland, the veteran businessman, who has never been to
Ireland, are eligible for dual citizenship through an Irish grandparent. =
His
main interest, however, is parlaying his ties to China into =
international
trade opportunities from Ireland.=20

=93I=92m one of those people who lost everything on the day of 9/11,=94 =
he said,
describing the abrupt end of a career putting together =93road shows=94 =
for
stock offerings and mergers and acquisitions. =93Everybody I knew was =
either
dead or also out of a job =97 they took all the jobs and sent them to =
India.=94
His mother, 89, told him that her mother, Mary Elizabeth Connery, would =
be
spinning in her grave to think of him moving to Ireland, he said. His
grandmother fled Irish poverty, worked as a domestic in Brooklyn, and =
died
there at 83 in 1957, happy never to see Dungarvan County again.
But today, he said: =93You need to look at being a global citizen. I =
love New
York City, and it=92s the greatest city in the world, but it=92s =
something you
have to consider, because I have no benefits. There=92s more opportunity =
in
Ireland for someone with my background and my age.=94

At a reception for fair organizers last night in the Irish consul =
general=92s
East Side penthouse, guests were plied with canap=E9s of smoked salmon =
and
stuffed mushrooms as officials emphasized that Americans brought the =
skills,
language and comfort with diversity that suited the new Ireland.
=93We=92re not offering people a favor,=94 said Tony Killeen, =
Ireland=92s minister
for labor affairs. =93We need them.=94

Cassi Feldman contributed reporting.
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Subject: Celtic Studies job opportunity

CELTIC STUDIES
St. Michael's College
University of Toronto

The Celtic Studies program, based at St. Michael's College, is a
non-departmental and multi-disciplinary undergraduate program of the
Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto. The program
invites applications for a three-year, contractually-limited term
appointment (non-renewable) at the level of Assistant Professor, in the
area of Modern Culture Studies. Teaching responsibilities will include
providing courses in one or more of the following areas: Irish,
Scottish, and Welsh literature, film and theatre. The teaching load will
be 2.5 full-year courses.

The successful applicant will have a doctoral degree or be close to
completion in an area relevant to the teaching requirements outlined
above and will have demonstrated or have the potential for excellence in
research and teaching.

Salary is $47,700.00 per annum with the possibility of benefits. The
position will commence July 1, 2007.

Please submit an application and arrange for three letters of reference
to be sent to: Professor Mark McGowan, Office of the Principal, St.
Michael's College, 81 St. Mary Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1J4,
by November 10, 2006.

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and
permanent residents of Canada will be given priority. The University of
Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community and
especially welcomes applications from visible minority group members,
women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, members of sexual
minority groups, and others who may contribute to further
diversification of ideas.

The University of St. Michael 's College thanks all applicants for their
interest; however, only those applications selected for an interview
will be contacted.
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This is in today's Tennessean (Nashville, TN) and may be of interest to =
the
list.=20

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Sunday, 10/22/06

Irish trace descendants' steps in Tennessee
Trek gets them closer to Ulster-Scots history

Associated Press


NORRIS, Tenn. - The scene might be classified as a homecoming of sorts.

As the tour bus huffed to a stop in front of the Museum of Appalachia, =
52
ruddy-faced souls stepped out, looked around and smiled.

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In the middle distance, colorful roosters stretched their scrawny necks =
and
crowed and sheep grazed. A slight mist fell.

The museum's barns, 19th-century cabins and outbuildings possessed a
familiar look. Tools, used in planting and taming a frontier, also were
recognizable.

It looked, felt and sounded a lot like home. Most of the 52 people are
farmers or rural folk from Northern Ireland's countryside. For the past
several days, they have taken part in a tour in the footsteps of =
America's
early Ulster-Scots pioneers.

Naturally, that trek brought them to the museum that houses the historic =
and
cultural soul of East Tennessee.

"I recognize the cash register," said tour organizer Horace Hutton as he
walked through the museum's exhibitions.

The cash register is a classic, the type that would have been found in =
rural
stores throughout East Tennessee.

Maurice Small and his wife, Georgena, also were typical of those who =
stopped
off to see the museum. They are retired from a dairy and pig farm in
Ahoghill, Northern Ireland.

"Oh, sure," Maurice said, "all of this looks very familiar. But, you =
know,
we are computerized now. We just hook 'em up, and you can tell what cow =
is
doing what. Very smart."

"The barns are a bit different, though," he said. "I don't recognize =
them."

"No, dear," Georgena said, "those barns are from an earlier time."

"Oh," Maurice said. "Yes, well, then, I think so."

Hutton, from Armagh City, is a former business manager for an Irish
fertilizer and farm chemical company. He says he spends his retirement =
years
traveling about, as it were.

He formed a travel company in 1975 but really got it going in 1998. The
company gives Northern Irish farm families a chance to visit America's =
rural
society, especially the descendants of those who left Ulster beginning =
in
the 1600s and 1700s to come to America for a new life.

Hutton also lines up American farm families willing to host the Irish
farmers and their wives for a day or two during a tour.

He says he originally came up with the idea of traveling in the =
footsteps of
pioneering Ulster-Scots by reading Northern Ireland author Billy =
Kennedy, a
well-known face in East Tennessee, as well as throughout South Central
Appalachia for his books that focus on the Scots-Irish immigration to =
the
region.

Hutton's tour began early October in Pennsylvania and finishes this =
weekend
in Nashville.

Along the way, the group wound down through the Shenandoah Valley, =
across
North Carolina's hilltops and into East Tennessee, a similar migration =
route
of many of Appalachia's early pioneers.

Glen Pratt, president of the Ulster-Scots Society of America, who is =
from
Amarillo, Texas, met the tour in Knoxville and traveled with them to =
Norris.

Pratt sees the trip with great symbolism. Many of the first Ulster-Scots
moved on from East Tennessee into Texas and farther west.

"Just like here, in Texas they were known as the Scotch-Irish, the
Scots-Irish or the Ulster-Presbyterians," he said.

Pratt says that today the Ulster-Scots Society can count about 22 =
million
Americans who trace their roots to at least one family from Ulster. =
Those
Ulster-Scots would have come to America in the 18th century.



William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of History
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA=20
Office: 1-270-809-6571
Fax: 1-270-809-6587=20
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Subject: Kickham's Knocknagow
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Dear Friends,

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I am about 1/3 a the way through reading Charles Kickham's Knocknagow.
I find it fascinating, though I confess that I did not expect to. I do
not aware of anyone who has read it, and would be glad to hear whether
this is simply a sign of my own eccentricity or if others find it a very
good effort as well.

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Michael

=20

Michael Patrick Gillespie

Louise Edna Goeden Professor of English

Marquette University

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

Brian McFarlane, ed. _The Cinema of Britain and Ireland_. London and
New York: Wallflower Press, 2005. xvi + 285 pp. Filmography,
bibliography, index. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 1-904764-39-8; $25.00
(paper), ISBN 1-904764-38-X.

Reviewed for H-Albion by B. Mair=E9ad Pratschke, Department of History,
Auburn University

The History of British and Irish Cinema in Twenty-Four Chapters

The academic study of film has tended to reflect the two main streams
of the medium, the fictional narrative film and the non-fiction
documentary or news film. The number of studies emerging from film
studies programs on the fictional narrative films has increased vastly,
in keeping with the flow of contemporary productions, while the study
of non-fiction film and film history has been comparatively slight.
Film studies as an academic discipline has also tended to be separate
from film history. In film studies, the tendency has been to focus on
the "best hits," the most visible of a certain genre, producer or
director's work. This is unsurprising, especially in the Irish context,
where the sudden growth and development of film studies in the past two
decades reflects the current health of the industry, which--although
film screenings began in the late-nineteenth century there as
elsewhere--did not exist until the 1980s. But even in the United
Kingdom, where film production as an uninterrupted, state-sponsored and
commercial industry has a much longer history, scholars have tended to
focus on certain approaches (_auteur_), genres (New Wave), or on
certain examples of British production companies (Gaumont, Ealing
Studios), or on major figures (John Grierson and the British
Documentary Movement). In recent years, however, it has become apparent
that there is something missing from our approach to film studies and
the history of film; that is, "the big picture," the details
surrounding the production of a film in terms of both its historical
and industrial context. Also missing are many films--directed and
produced by names with whom we are familiar--that have been relegated
to the margins for a variety of reasons.

This collection on the cinema of Britain and Ireland is part of the 24
Frames series, which selects twenty-four feature films and
documentaries "to highlight the specific elements of that territory's
cinema, elucidating the historical and industrial context of
production, the key genres and modes of representation, and
foregrounding the work of the most important directors and their
exemplary films" (p. iii). Its purpose, then, is to begin the work of
filling the gaps, correcting the imbalances and deficiencies in British
and Irish film studies and film history noted above, by investigating
films that have either been overlooked entirely or cast aside after a
brief mention, and to re-assess the significance of others from a new
perspective. As such, the scope of the collection is quite broad. It is
organized chronologically, spanning the period from 1928 to 2002,
including narrative feature films and some documentary. Its focus is
overwhelmingly on Britain (meaning England but not Wales, with a brief
mention of Scotland), some Irish (Northern and Republic), as well as
some co-funded international (European and American) productions. In
terms of fictional genres, it runs the gamut from comedy to melodrama
to postmodern fantasy and hyperrealism. Non-fiction is represented in
one chapter on the best-known and definitive documentary film. So,
while the collection is broad, it is by no means comprehensive, nor
could it be given its aims. It does, however, live up to its ambitions
in terms of foregrounding--in most chapters--the historical and
industrial context of production, though this sometimes takes the form,
particularly in the Irish selections, of an extended biography of the
director and details of his other productions, rather than a
contextualizing of the film's production in terms of film history.
Given the rather sudden emergence of Irish film studies over the past
two decades, this is an understandable approach. It is also necessary
in the case of the selections on Robert Flaherty and on Northern Irish
film in particular, in order to fully appreciate the argument of the
author.

The collection opens with _Shooting Stars_ (Anthony Asquith & A.V.
Bramble, 1928), the first film by Anthony Asquith, which Luke McKernan
argues is emblematic of British cinema in its early days, for its
creative energy and importation of foreign film styles, as much as its
dilemma about such importation. John Oliver argues that _A Night Like
This_ (Tom Walls 1932) was the best adaptation of an Aldwych Theatre
farce and that comedy was key to the resurgence of the British cinema
industry in the early 1930s. Another key film in this early period is
_The Good Companions_ (Victor Saville 1933), which Charles Barr points
to as representative of the decade not only because of its basis in a
J. B. Priestly novel and the composition of the production team, but
also for the problems of the industry during this era. Its importance
extended into the future too, as its narrative served as a template for
wartime films focusing on the theme of diverse communities working
together as teams for the cause.

The first Irish, and non-fiction, appearance is made by the classic
documentary film, _Man of Aran_ (Robert J. Flaherty, 1934). Martin
McLoone argues here for its visual importance because of its
representation of Flaherty's nineteenth-century romantic sensibility,
which was--ironically--very much at odds with the goals of the social
realist documentary movement, even though John Grierson coined the term
documentary in reference to Flaherty's work. McLoone argues also for
the importance of historical context for _Man of Aran_--the political
and social context of Eamon de Valera's socially conservative Ireland
dictated the film's reception. The importance of the film thus lies
much more with the controversies it generated, rather than with
Flaherty's aesthetic vision.

The postwar era begins with _Pink String and Sealing Wax_ (Robert
Hamer, 1945), which Brian McFarlane argues was the most important
melodrama made during the heyday of British cinema because of its
evocation of place and period. _Holiday Camp_ (Ken Annakin 1947), by
Geoff Brown, provides a glimpse of the postwar cultural landscape in
Britain. This sort of family entertainment, set in a Butlin's-like
summer camp was filled with the usual cast of holiday campers, became
central to Annakin's subsequent career.

The place of literature in British cinema history is the subject of
Philip Gillett's chapter on _The Rocking Horse Winner_ (Anthony
Pellissier 1949), an adaptation of the D. H. Lawrence story. Gillett
reminds readers of the importance of historical context in the most
practical of examples, pointing out that the film was a box-office
disaster due to its release at a time when Lawrence was at his most
unpopular among British audiences. Robert Murphy's chapter on _The Long
Memory_ (Robert Hamer 1952), which focuses on the French influence on
British film, reads as a mission statement for the entire collection.
Although this film was also trashed by critics at the time, Murphy
reminds readers of the importance of historical context and of the need
to appreciate film from the historian's perspective rather than merely
that of contemporary critics.

The mid-1950s marked the beginning of Britain's period of self-doubt
with the transition from Empire to Commonwealth after the Suez Crisis
in 1956 and the rise of the generation of _Angry Young Men_ (John
Osborne, 1956). Tom Ryall argues that, despite the threats to the
British cinema industry from Hollywood, co-produced "runaway" films
like _Knights of the Round Table_ (Richard Thorpe 1953) actually had a
positive impact because of the opportunities they presented for British
actors. _The Italian Job_ (Peter Collinson, 1969) reframes British
post-imperial insecurities as a crime caper, which Steve Chibnall
argues is really a war movie in disguise that seeks to reassure the
native audience that the British still have what it takes to win. The
"war" in this case takes the form of high-speed chases on foreign
territory in British cars, which of course emerge victorious. Another
film that reflects the various ways in which British film was "growing
up" is _Room at the Top_ (Jack Clayton 1959), which Tony Aldgate argues
was a milestone for adult films and for British censorship because its
award of a "x" certificate by John Trevelyan, the secretary of the
British Board of Film Censors, defined the parameters for quality
British "adult" films.

The films made about or during the 1960s deal with the internal and
external battles of humankind. _Tunes of Glory_ (Ronald Neame, 1960) is
described by Neil Sinyard as a universal drama of the human psyche. As
Melanie Williams points out, _No Love for Johnnie_ (Ralph Thomas,
1961), based on the manuscript detailing the life of a former Labour
Party MP, did not do well at the box office because of the
implausibility of the romantic plot, but it was only a short time later
before the plot became reality in the form of the Profumo Affair.
_Scandal_ (Michael Caton-Jones, 1989) deals head on with the Profumo
Affair of the 1950s, mixing documentary, satire and comedy to talk
about the relationship between Stephen Ward and Christine Keeler, and
while set in the 1950s, Bruce Babington argues that _Scandal_ belongs
to a movement of British films from the 1980s set in that decade, but
distinct from the "heritage" film genre.

The films about or made in the 1960s featured in this collection tend
to deal with the breakdown or redefinition of traditional
relationships. _80,000 Suspects_ (Val Guest, 1963) is, argues Christine
Geraghty, more than just a melodramatic pseudo-documentary on the
disintegration of a marriage, but should be counted as part of British
New Wave and the discontented youth movement of the 1960s. The chapter
by Ian Britain on _Sunday Bloody Sunday_ (John Schlesinger, 1971)
describes the openly gay director's take on London during the "swinging
sixties," which was the first to show men kissing on screen. Although
not particularly shocking these days, Britain argues that the film is
still important for those who want to see something of their roots and
present identity. A more enduring example of an attempt to shock is
_Demons of the Mind_ (Peter Sykes, 1972), which is described by Andrew
Spicer as gothic revisionism; real "horror" that disturbs in a much
more meaningful way than our modern guts-and-gore approach.

The themes of autobiography and memory run through _Hope and Glory_
(John Boorman, 1986), which, according to Kevin Gough-Yates, is the
director's personal take on World War Two, reflecting his life-long
interest in Arthurian legends and the search for the grail, as well as
his personal family history. Another autobiographical _auteur_ film
that broadens the geographical context of "British" film is _Distant
Voice, Still Lives_ (Terence Davies, 1988), which Wendy Everett insists
must be placed in the European context and seen as part of a
European-wide movement towards personal-memory films.

Moving to Ireland, Kevin Rockett's chapter on _The Miracle_ (Neil
Jordan, 1991) uses the film as a example of the sensibility common to
Jordan's entire body of work, by drawing attention to the
intertextuality of the persistent themes of the oedipal complex and
repression in Irish family relations in Jordan's work, and highlighting
their appearance in his films through music, photography, memory.
Repression is certainly not a theme in _Orlando_ (Sally Potter, 1993),
aptly described in the chapter by Rose Lucas as a postmodern
gender-bender, which through its clever casting of main characters,
manages to extend Virginia Woolf's novel even further forward in terms
of the ways in which it addresses postmodern themes of roles, identity
formation and feminist theory.

_Divorcing Jack_ (David Caffrey, 1998) attempts to divorce itself from
the traditional mould of Northern Irish films on the "troubles," but,
in John Hill's estimation, fails to do so. Although it is categorized
as a "ceasefire film" (because of its relationship to the timing of the
ceasefire and subsequent Good Friday Agreement) and is clearly indebted
to Quentin Tarantino and other for its stylistic influences, it cannot
help referring to earlier "troubles" films. Hill argues that the
historical and political context are inseparable from this failure to
break the sort of new cinematic ground in Northern Ireland that one
might expect would reflect the political changes in the region. Because
of the region's long history of instability and violent conflict, the
role of state-sponsorship in the fledgling film production industry in
the North is still such that, filmmakers need to be less afraid of the
box office if they are to be culturally and economically viable.
_Ordinary Decent Criminals_ (Thaddeus O'Sullivan, 2000) reflects quite
the opposite scenario, as a hyper-real fantasy which Emer Rockett
argues is representative of the new direction of Irish cinema as a
product of the Republic of Ireland's Celtic Tiger economy and its
cultural offshoots. Rockett defends the film from the criticism it has
received as a rather poor remake of _The General_ (John Boorman, 1998)
but devotes rather a lot of space to O'Sullivan's other work. This
creates the impression that Irish film scholars are all too aware of
the paucity of Irish examples in this volume, and are attempting to
compensate for lost time and space. Interestingly, the one nod to
"regional" cinema, aside from the Northern Irish film _Divorcing Jack_,
is actually the work of an English producer. _Sweet Sixteen_ (Ken Loach
2002) represents an attempt, as Dave Rolison describes it, to revive
independent films and raises the crucial issue of the existence of a
Scottish cinema within British cinema. Rolison touches on the problems
inherent in discussing a distinctive regional cinema--the definition on
what exactly make a film Welsh, Scottish, etc.--but points out that
this is a problem faced in the understanding of any national cinema.

This collection is wonderful introduction to some of the unknown
highlights of British cinema and to some of the best-known Irish
directors. The chapters are short (none more than twelve pages) and, as
a result, succinct. The tone is generally lively and engaging, making
for an enjoyable read. Despite the professed mandate of 24 Frames, it
does feature some of the "best hits" of British and Irish cinema (_The
Italian Job_, _Man of Aran_, and _Orlando_) but places them in a new
context and views them from a refreshing perspective. The text-driven
approach results in an accessible and wide-ranging work that
incorporates not only the cinematic details on the films and directors,
but sets the various productions in historical context. The font and
overall presentation are reminiscent of a film catalog, minimalist and
focused on content. The twenty-four chapters are arranged
chronologically in order of production date, each offset by a facing
page featuring a still from the film in question.

The mention in the final chapter of the collection on the difficulties
of defining "regional" cinema begs the question: where is regional
cinema in the British context discussed here? Where is the coverage of
specifically Scottish or Welsh film, or of films from or about the Isle
of Man, the Channel Islands, the Orkneys, the Shetlands? The answer, of
course, is that they not included here. Are readers then to conclude
that Scottish or Welsh film is covered in another collection? Does
British film here mean English? This objection was obviously
anticipated by the editor, Brian McFarlane, who notes in the
introduction, "all the films discussed in this book belong in key ways
to the 'British Isles' and if that means predominantly 'England', then
that is a true reflection of where the emphasis has fallen in British
filmmaking--for better and worse" (p. 7). So, this omission is partly a
result of the nature of the collection--it is meant to be a
wide-ranging overview of some of the neglected films of key directors,
however defined. It is also a function of the time period in
question--regionalism and national identity issues are a predominantly
a phenomenon of the 1990s and onwards, although Scottish nationalism
surfaced for brief periods in earlier decades as well. Since nobody
could argue that Scottish film has been neglected in recent years (do
we really need another essay on _Trainspotting_ (Danny Boyle, 1996)?),
such work simply did not fit within the parameters of this collection.
But caveats aside, a chapter or two on specifically Scottish or Welsh
productions would not have gone amiss in a collection on British and
Irish cinema, if only to register their current popularity and as a
reflection of the political times in which we live.

The collection includes a complete filmography, with all of the
relevant production information pertaining to each film. The
bibliography lists only books and is not meant to be exhaustive. This
is just as well, as the bibliography on Irish film resources is very
short--only 11 titles--compared to the 110 under British cinema. But
overall, this collection is a valuable addition to studies of British
and Irish cinema. It strikes a balance between the single-title series
published by the BFI and the IFI and a major anthology. The approach
adopted by 24 Frames is a good one, and the attempt to cover the
history of film production as well as the analysis of the films
themselves is laudable. The chronological development of film in
Britain is well represented in terms of a number of key genres, as is
the connection to the historical context in which the production was
made. It is a pleasure to read and is recommended to film buffs and
novices alike.



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From: Patrick Maume
I read it myself about 10 years ago, & must try doing so again
sometime. Given the book's widespread popularity and reputation as
classic expression of a particular version of Irishness, I am surprised
at how little academic attention it gets (compared to, say, Griffin &
the Banims or Canon Sheehan). This may be because it is so long and
because there is a feeling that Comerford's biography of Kickham has
exhausted the subject. (It is also very sprawling & poorly-structured;
I believe Kickham had to write the second half without access to the
first and never got round to revising it.)
Best wishes,
Patrick

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Dear Friends,



I am about 1/3 a the way through reading Charles Kickham's Knocknagow. I
find it fascinating, though I confess that I did not expect to. I do not
aware of anyone who has read it, and would be glad to hear whether this
is simply a sign of my own eccentricity or if others find it a very good
effort as well.



Michael



Michael Patrick Gillespie

Louise Edna Goeden Professor of English

Marquette University

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Any list members in the New York City area may be interested in attending
the 2006 Ernie O'Malley Lecture on the Irish in America.

The lecture is at New York University's Helen & Martin Kimmel Center for
University Life, 60 Washington Square South on November 2 beginning at 7:00
p.m. in Room 914.

The topic is: From the Emerald Isle to the Copper Island: The Irish in the
Michigan Copper Country, 1845-1920. The speaker is yours truly.

Details are at: http://irelandhouse.fas.nyu.edu/object/omalley.html

Reservations are recommended: 212-998-3950, option 3 or
ireland.house[at]nyu.edu


Bill Mulligan

William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
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Murray KY 42071-3341 USA
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A Gaelic Experiment
The Preparatory System=20
1926 =E2=80=93 1961 and Col=C3=A1iste Moibh=C3=AD
VALERIE JONES
_____________________________________
Launch date: 14 October 2006 at 3.30 pm
Venue: The Church of Ireland College of Education
96 Upper Rathmines Rd, Dublin 6
Guests speaker: Trevor Sargent, T.D. =20

New book recalls state=E2=80=99s early efforts to gaelicise education =
and Col=C3=A1iste Moibh=C3=AD=E2=80=99s role in protestant survival in =
the 26 counties

A fascinating new book on the controversial subject of Irish in the =
classroom will shortly be published by The Woodfield Press. The book, A =
Gaelic Experiment: The Preparatory Colleges 1926-1961 and Col=C3=A1iste =
Moibh=C3=AD, by Valerie Jones tells the story of efforts by successive =
governments to gaelicise Irish education during the early decades of the =
new State. The restoration of the Irish language was one of the new =
State=E2=80=99s greatest ambitions. To enable teachers to become =
proficient at Irish the preparatory system was established in 1926. It =
consisted of seven residential colleges providing second-level education =
for student-teachers. Each was a =E2=80=98mini-Gaeltacht=E2=80=99 with =
all activities conducted through Irish. Entry was gained through a =
highly competitive examination that favoured Gaeltacht students.=20

The preparatory colleges were Col=C3=A1iste =C3=8Dde, Ventry, Co. =
Kerry; Col=C3=A1iste Mhuire, Tourmakeady, Co Mayo, and Col=C3=A1iste =
Bhr=C3=ADde, Falcarragh, Co Donegal, for Catholic girls; Col=C3=A1iste =
na Mumhan, Mallow, Co Cork, which later became Col=C3=A1iste =
=C3=8Dosag=C3=A1in in Ballyvourney; Col=C3=A1iste =C3=89inde, Galway, =
and Col=C3=A1iste Chaoimh=C3=ADn, Glasnevin, Dublin, for Catholic boys, =
and Col=C3=A1iste Moibh=C3=AD, also in Dublin, for Protestant boys and =
girls. The Catholic colleges had a strong religious ethos. The local =
bishop was the manager and they were run by a religious order chosen by =
him. (Col=C3=A1iste =C3=89inde was run by diocesan priests.)

Throughout its 35-year existence the preparatory system was continuously =
opposed by the INTO while the Department of Finance did its best to =
bring an end to the system on the grounds that it was too costly. In =
1939 it succeeded in having one of the most successful colleges, =
Col=C3=A1iste Chaoimh=C3=ADn, closed and, but for strenuous efforts by =
Minister for Education, Thomas Derrig, another college might have been =
closed in the 1940s. Relationships between the two departments were =
further compounded by the Department of Education=E2=80=99s inability to =
accurately forecast the number of teachers required to staff the =
nation=E2=80=99s primary schools. In the 1930s there were too many =
trained teachers, while the late 1940s and early 1950s were =
characterised by a shortage.

Outstanding figures of the period, such as Ernest Blythe, de Valera, =
Archbishop McQuaid, Bishop Michael Browne, Se=C3=A1n MacEntee, Richard =
Mulcahy, and Jack Lynch were all involved in the preparatory system. But =
it was Dr Patrick Hillery who finally brought it to an end in 1961. =
Since then many educationalists have attributed the decline in the =
standard of Irish in the schools to the demise of the preparatory =
colleges.

Part II of the book tells the story of Col=C3=A1iste Moibh=C3=AD and its =
role in helping the religious minority survive and adapt to life in the =
new Ireland. It highlights the contribution of Protestant nationalists =
to the new State. Some, such as Ernest Blythe and Douglas Hyde, were =
well known; others, such as Seoirse Mac Niocaill, Dorothy Stopford =
Price, Nelly O=E2=80=99Brien and George Ruth, the first principal of =
the college, are now largely forgotten. Ninety years after the 1916 =
Rising it is appropriate that these colourful characters are remembered =
once more. The majority of Protestants, however, did not approve of the =
gaelicisation policy and contrary to the accepted stereotypical view of =
the religious minority as rarely protesting about anything in the new =
State this was a subject on which they had much to say.=20


Col=C3=A1iste Moibh=C3=AD began in Glasnevin in April 1927 with George =
Ruth as principal. A dedicated Gaeilgeoir, he was seconded from the =
civil service to get the college started but, as he had no teaching =
experience, school inspector John Kyle became principal in 1928. He =
oversaw the college=E2=80=99s move to spacious premises in the Phoenix =
Park in 1934. There it had the best facilities available and the college =
was very successful. From 1934 to 1951 the noted Irish scholar Lil =
Duncan was the third principal. With the onset of the Emergency the =
Phoenix Park premises were taken over by the Defence Forces and the =
college had to move to Kildare Place in 1941 where it shared =
accommodation with the Church of Ireland Training College. In September =
that year it transferred to the Orthopaedic Hospital in Merrion Street =
(now the Merrion Hotel) where it endured cramped conditions until 1946. =
It then returned to the Phoenix Park for a further two years before =
moving to Shanaganagh Castle, Shankill, in 1948. Miss Duncan was =
succeeded by her former pupil Gladys Allen who was principal from 1952 =
to 1984.

When the preparatory system ended in 1961 Col=C3=A1iste Moibh=C3=AD =
alone remained as a preparatory college as it was felt that the standard =
of Irish at Protestant second-level schools was not sufficiently high =
for students to gain entry to the Church of Ireland Training College. =
Col=C3=A1iste Moibh=C3=AD ceased to be a preparatory college in 1968 =
when it moved to Rathmines Castle where it became the juniorate of the =
Church of Ireland Training College. In 1995 the college, the only =
=E2=80=98A=E2=80=99 school under protestant management in the history of =
the State, was closed as it was considered no longer necessary.

Approximately 4,500 students passed through the colleges, some of whom =
are still teaching. Others went on to be successful in a variety of =
occupations. Amongst notable former students are Gaelic games =
commentator Miche=C3=A1l =C3=93 Muircheartaigh, High Court judge Mary =
Laffoy, and journalist P=C3=B3li=C3=ADn N=C3=AD Chiar=C3=A1in, while the =
late Donnchadh =C3=93 Gallchobair and P=C3=A1draig =C3=93 Tuathail =
became government ministers.=20

The author, Valerie Jones, is a former student of Col=C3=A1iste =
Moibh=C3=AD. She taught as a primary teacher in schools in Clondalkin, =
Rathgar and Ranelagh and was also a part-time lecturer in the Church of =
Ireland College of Education. From 1989 to 2004 she was Diocesan =
Communications Officer for the Church of Ireland Dioceses of Dublin & =
Glendalough.

A Gaelic Experiment is available in all good bookshops. Price =
=E2=82=AC29.96

Contact details=20
To arrange an interview with the author or to request a review copy on =
publication please contact:
Terri McDonnell 01-6024810 or 087-927 4394; e. =
terri.mcdonnell[at]ireland.com


THE WOODFIELD PRESS
17 Jamestown Square, Dublin 8, Ireland
t. Int + 353-1-4547991; e. terri.mcdonnell[at]ireland.com; =
www.woodfield-press.com


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http://www.hum.au.dk/engelsk/cisa/en/

http://www.hum.au.dk/engelsk/cisa/en/publications.html

It is also possible to download the entire issue, as one single pdf file =
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Nordic Irish Studies, Vol. 5, 2006
Politics, Society, Culture

* Christian Mailhes
A New Departure for Northern Ireland: Openings and Difficulties
* Christophe Gillissen
The Back to the Future?: Ireland at the UN Security Council, =
2001-2002
* Catherine Piola
The Reform of Irish Citizenship

Literature

* =C5ke Persson
Between Displacement and Renewal: The Third Space in Roddy Doyle's
Novels
* Iris Lindahl-Raittila
Negotiating Irishness: Edna O'Brien's 1990s Trilogy
* Stephen Regan
W.B. Yeats: Irish Nationalism and Post-Colonial Theory
* Bj=F6rn Sundmark
Yeats and the Fairy Tale
* Daniel W. Ross
In Search of Enabling Light: Heaney, Wordsworth, and the Poetry of
Trauma
* Shane Alcobia-Murphy
'Re-reading Five, Ten Times, the Simplest Letters': Detecting =
Voices
in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian
* Erik Martiny
Demonic Forefather: Portraits of Samuel Beckett in the Poems of =
Paul
Durcan
* Christa Velten-Mrowka
'Be Faithful to the Routine Gestures': Old Themes in Fermentation =
in
Brian Friel's Give Me Your Answer, Do!
* Alison O'Malley-Younger
There's No 'Race' Like Home: Race, Place and Nation in Brian =
Friel's
The Home Place

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This CFP may be of interest to the list.=20

Liverpool: a Sense of Time and Place

St George's Hall, Liverpool, 14-15 September 2007

A conference organised by the University of Liverpool in association =
with
Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool Hope University, National
Museums Liverpool and the Culture Company, Liverpool

Call For Papers
Proposals for papers are sought for a prestigious conference in the
magnificent setting of St George's Hall in September 2007 to mark the =
800th
anniversary of the granting of letters patent to Liverpool. Held =
alongside
a local history fair organised by BBC Radio Merseyside, the conference =
will
form part of a major history festival to commemorate the octocentenary, =
an
ambitious exercise spanning (and synergising) the interests and =
enthusiasms
of amateur, public and academic historians, literary critics, =
sociologists
and others.=20

Reflecting Liverpool's location at the intersection of competing =
cultural,
economic and geo-political formations, the conference will be structured
around a set of concentric and widening circles:

. Liverpool and the north of England

. Liverpool and the Irish Sea

. Liverpool and the Atlantic

. Liverpool, the empire and beyond

This structure, however, is essentially an organizational device to give
overall shape to the conference and to aid the selection of an =
international
panel of plenary speakers. It would be appreciated if contributors could
address their proposals to one of these spatial frameworks, but there is
absolutely no obligation so to do. Indeed, the organizers welcome
free-standing proposals on any aspect of Liverpool's history, culture,
character, image and identity. We are particularly keen to receive
proposals which explore and question Liverpool's proverbial difference,
otherness and exceptionalism. Why does Liverpool (and the 'sub-region' =
of
Merseyside) seem to differ in socio-economic structure, cultural image =
and
expression, political affiliation, health, diet, speech and humour even =
from
the immediate surroundings?

From hesitant medieval beginnings as a planned town on a greenfield =
site,
Liverpool rose from comparative obscurity to become a great world =
seaport,
thanks in part to the infamous slave trade. By 1907, the time of its =
700th
anniversary, 'cosmopolitan' Liverpool was the proud 'second city of =
empire',
at the height of fame and fortune, as the architecture of the Pier Head
attests. Thereafter, the narrative took a sharp turn for the worse:
Liverpool descended from 'world city to pariah city', to be stigmatized,
after a brief 'Merseybeat' cultural florescence in the 1960s, as the =
'shock
city' of post-industrial Britain. It is currently undergoing remarkable
regeneration, re-branded as the new 'Livercool', boosted by UNESCO
inscription of the Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City World Heritage =
Site
and the award of European Capital of Culture for 2008. The Conference =
will
provide an opportunity for historians and scholars from across the
humanities and social sciences to reflect on this remarkable roller =
coaster
history. Papers examining the competing and contested images and
representations of the city throughout its history will be particularly
welcome. Why has there been such external misrepresentation of =
Liverpool?
Why has the city been portrayed as different and apart, an internal
'otherness' purportedly compounded by self-pitying isolationism?=20

In examining Liverpool's distinctive culture and character, the =
conference
will adopt an inclusive framework with critical reflection on the gamut =
of
iconic figures, ranging from the Scottie-Road 'slummy', the scally =
scouser,
and the slick 'Cunard Yank' through to the Liverpool gentleman (as =
opposed
to mere Manchester man) - the merchant-scholar princes of 'Liverpolis',
Roscoe's 'Florence of the north'. Across the gender divide, the same =
range
will apply from the 'Mary Ellens' and other women who made ends meet on
Liverpool's streets (and in the saga fiction of Helen Forrester) through =
to
the upper class women who played such a prominent role in the =
development of
philanthropy, social work and the 'politics of conscience'.=20

Papers offering a comparative perspective will be particularly welcome. =
The
conference should provide the opportunity to interrogate Liverpool's =
vaunted
cultural exceptionalism in the context of other port and 'edge' cities.=20

The conference will also facilitate critical reflection on Liverpool's
cosmopolitan pretensions as 'the world in one city'. When, why and how =
was
Liverpool's cultural profile enriched by the celtic inflow from Ireland,
Wales and Scotland? What has been the contribution of Liverpool's =
Chinese
community, the oldest in Europe Was waterfront Liverpool a 'diaspora =
space',
a contact zone between different ethnic groups with differing needs and
intentions as transients, sojourners or settlers? Given its precocious
multi-cultural demographic profile, decades ahead of other cities, why =
has
Liverpool not served as role model and front-runner for contemporary
multi-ethnic, multi-faith Britain?

Papers and abstracts:
Papers should be of around 20 minutes in length and presented in lively =
and
accessible manner to an audience embracing academics, the interested =
general
public and the local media. =20

Abstracts (250-500 words) of proposed papers should be sent by 31 =
December
2006 to:
Dr Graeme Milne
School of History
University of Liverpool
Liverpool L69 7WZ

Email G.J.Milne[at]liv.ac.uk=20

Limited funds should be available to assist with travel and =
accommodation
expenses for postgraduate students who present papers.=20

William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of History
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA=20
Office: 1-270-809-6571
Fax: 1-270-809-6587=20
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Hi Bronwen:

A small project? An interesting one, definitely. I'm not aware of
anything on contemporary 'differences' as such, if such exist. A bit has
been done on 'Irishness', and a lot more is in progress in PhD form.
Nothing at all on 'Englishess' that I'm aware of. Some stuff on
Newfoundland nationalism. Census data show a rapid decline in ethnic
identities and a corresponding rise in
Canadianness. They also show a high consciousness of mixed ancestry.

The real distinction (though not very strong) when I was growing up was
religious - Catholic and Protestant. No one talked about old world
national identities.

Denominationalism is now vanishing altogether, so revived or invented
ethnic/ancestral identities can mostly float free from actual conflict or
history.

Peter Hart
Memorial University of Newfoundland

At 05:09 PM 24/10/2006 +0100, you wrote:
>Dear List members
>
>I am about to embark on a small project researching ongoing differences
>between those of Irish and English background in Newfoundland. Does anyone
>know of work done on present-day senses of identity of those with Irish
>ancestry dating back to the late eighteenth/early nineteenth century,
>changes/continuities in separatist effects of Catholic and Protestant
>schooling, intermarriage and mixing of 'Irish' and 'English' populations
>over time,and how these backgrounds intersect with Newfoundland and
>Canadian identities?
>
>I'd be very grateful for any suggestions.
>
>All the best
>
>Bronwen Walter
>

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Dear List members

I am about to embark on a small project researching ongoing differences
between those of Irish and English background in Newfoundland. Does anyone
know of work done on present-day senses of identity of those with Irish
ancestry dating back to the late eighteenth/early nineteenth century,
changes/continuities in separatist effects of Catholic and Protestant
schooling, intermarriage and mixing of 'Irish' and 'English' populations
over time,and how these backgrounds intersect with Newfoundland and
Canadian identities?

I'd be very grateful for any suggestions.

All the best

Bronwen Walter

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Hello Bronwen,

A fascinating project. Some work on this has been done by academics but you
will generally see the subject treated more directly and openly in
Newfoundland literature (fiction and memoir). I would particularly
recommend anything by Wayne Johnston, but especially Baltimore's Mansion
and The Divine Ryans (also made into a film). Michael Crummey's latest
book, The Wreckage, is also interesting on this point and a great story.

In an academic historical context, check works by John Mannion, Willeen
Keough, John FitzGerald, Thomas Nemec. Gordon Handcock is principal
academic source on the English in NF. Memorial U library catalogue is also
online - there are some unpublished papers of relevance in the Centre for
Newfoundland Studies listed there. I published an article on the
contemporary NF Irish last year which may also be of use to you:

Devlin Trew, Johanne. 2005. "The forgotten Irish? Contested sites and
narratives of nation in Newfoundland." Ethnologies, vol.27, no.2, 43-77.

This journal is not yet available in electronic form and may be difficult
to obtain in the UK, but I can send you a copy of the article, if you like.
Best wishes,

Johanne

Johanne Devlin Trew, PhD
AHRC Research Fellow
Centre for Migration Studies
& School of History & Anthropology
Queen's University Belfast
j.trew[at]qub.ac.uk


On Oct 24 2006, Prof Bronwen Walter wrote:

> Dear List members
>
> I am about to embark on a small project researching ongoing differences
> between those of Irish and English background in Newfoundland. Does anyone
> know of work done on present-day senses of identity of those with Irish
> ancestry dating back to the late eighteenth/early nineteenth century,
> changes/continuities in separatist effects of Catholic and Protestant
> schooling, intermarriage and mixing of 'Irish' and 'English' populations
> over time,and how these backgrounds intersect with Newfoundland and
> Canadian identities?
>
> I'd be very grateful for any suggestions.
>
> All the best
>
> Bronwen Walter
>

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Dr. Caoimhghin =D3 Croidhe=E1in
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Dublin City University Dublin 9
Email: caoimhghin.ocroidheain[at]dcu.ie
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You are cordially invited to the launch of=20
'Language from Below: The Irish Language, Ideology and Power=20
in 20th Century Ireland'
by Dr Caoimhghin =D3 Croidhe=E1in=20
(more information at http://gaelart.net/lfbpage.html)

Professor Michael Cronin, CTTS,DCU, will be the guest speaker.

Thursday 16 November 2006 at 8.30pm

Sult,(upstairs)
Bull and Castle,=20
beside Jurys Inn,=20
Christchurch,
Dublin

Supported by Foras na Gaeilge

Looking forward to seeing you there!





Tugtar cuireadh duit bheith i l=E1thair ag=20
l=E1inse=E1il de leabhar nua

'Language from Below: The Irish Language, Ideology and Power=20
in 20th Century Ireland'
leis an Dr Caoimhghin =D3 Croidhe=E1in=20
(n=EDos mo eolas ag http://gaelart.net/lfbpage.html)

Deanfaidh an tOllamh M=EDche=E1l =D3 Croin=EDn, CTTS,=20
Ollscoil Chathair Bhaile =C1tha Cliath,an l=E1inse=E1il.

D=E9 Deardaoin, 16 Samhain 2006
ag 8.30 p.m.

ag Sult.
Bull and Castle,=20
in aice le Jurys Inn,=20
Teampall Chr=EDost,
BAC

Ag s=FAil le sibh a fheice=E1il ann !

Urraithe ag Foras na Gaeilge


Dr. Caoimhghin =D3 Croidhe=E1in
Centre for Translation and Textual Studies
Room CG75
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Dublin City University
Dublin 9
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Just published=20
Issue n=B0 33 of=A0 GRAAT (Groupe de Recherches Anglo-Am=E9ricaines de =
Tours)
edited by Isabelle Bour & Antoine Mioche

Bonds of Union: Practices & Representations of Political Union in the =
United
Kingdom=20

Table of Contents :
J.C.D. Clark: "The Changing Fortunes of Union"=20

Stewart J. Brown: "The National Churches & the Union in 19th century =
Britain
& Ireland"=20

Cairns Craig: "No Nationality without Literature"=20

Isabelle Bour: "Union Displaced ? The 1798 Rebellion in the national =
tale
(1809-1828)"=20

Roy Foster: "Recolonising Irish Literature ? Bringing Yeats back to =
Dublin"=20

Martine Pelletier: "Contemporary Northern Irish Theatre: Challenging the
Union ?"=20

Antoine Mioche: "Union & Partition: The uses of Union in the British =
Empire"


Matthew Graves: "The UK between unitary state and union state: a
geopolitical analysis"=20

Stephen Tierney: "Spectre at the feast: parliamentary sovereignty & the
Union Settlement of 1998"

=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0To order a copy, e-mail=A0 : =
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Hello Bronwen and list members,

Bronwen's project on Newfoundland should prove to be most interesting. For the
late C18 and early C19 there are a number of works. One might start by
reading Patrick O'Flaherty's _Old Newfoundland : a history to 1843_ (St.
John's: Long Beach press, 1999) and John Greene's _Between damnation and
starvation: priests and merchants in Newfoundland politics, 1745-1855_
(Montreal: McGill-Queen's Press, 1999). Slightly earlier is my PhD dissertation
on Irish-Newfoundlanders and the Roman Catholic Church [J.E. FitzGerald,
"Conflict and Culture in Irish-Newfoundland Roman Catholicism 1829-1850",
unpub. Ph.D. Diss., Univ. of Ottawa, 1997], and as Peter Hart and Johanne
Devlin Trew pointed out, the very large corpus of superb works by the
historical geographer Professor John Mannion stretching from the 1970s to the
present day. A number of Mannion's articles are available online at the journal
Newfoundland and Labrador Studies http://www.mun.ca/nls/; of particular interest
might be Mannion's "Notoriously disaffected to the Government...": British
allegations of Irish disloyalty in eighteenth-century Newfoundland" [NLS 16:1
(Spring 2000)]. As Johanne pointed out, Tom Nemec's work points out how English
settlement became Irish on what is now the "Irish Shore" of the
Avalon Peninsula; Willeen Keough's PhD dissertation reveals the lives of Irish
Women on the Southern Avalon, and you should have a look at Handcock's work,
particularly his monograph _So longe as there comes noe women : origins of
English settlement in Newfoundland_ (St. John's, 1989).

Part of the explanation of why there has been a recent explosion of academic
interest in Irish-Newfoundland history and heritage, particularly at Memorial
University, is that from the opening of the University in 1949 until the 1980s
when I went through as an undergraduate, the scholars (with the exception of
Mannion and several others) looking at Newfoundland history (particularly
political and social history) saw it as a project to explain English
colonization. In their view the lives of the Irish in Newfoundland were
ancillary to English action. What happened? A numnber of us of
Irish-Newfoundland heritage realized that _our_ culture was not represented in
the scholarship. Even the sources we had to work with were biased. I found one
of the most telling instances of this when I went, as a PhD student, to read
the Colonial Office 194 series of papers which was held in microfilm at
Memorial University library. After a month of getting motion sickness rolling
through only one reel of microfilm, I had enough, so I applied for and received
a research grant that got me to the old PRO in London. When I got there and
looked at the original records I found that the British-trained historian at
Memorial who in the 1960s had ordered the microfilm copies of the CO 194s had
instructed the PRO to omit all the signatures and names on the petitions sent
to London. They were Irish signatures, but he didn't think they were important.
He also had them omit the microfilming of Irish-Newfoundland supplied maps!
When I got back to St. John's and could recite the names of the petition
signatories to John Mannion - who knows the 8000 original C17-C19 Irish
immigrant families to Newfoundland and the townlands, parishes, and counties in
Ireland they came from and where they settled in Newfoundland - we could tell
which Irish in Newfoundland from which counties signed various petitions to
Daniel O'Connell, and which ones opposed him. In short, a whole political
culture opened up which had never been looked at by the previous historians
because they didn't think that names were important.

With the greatest of respect to my friend Peter Hart, yes, the real distinction
when I was growing up in St. John's in the 1970s was religious (Roman Catholic
and Protestant, but, while Peter grew up in the Protestant tradition, I grew up
in the Roman Catholic Irish Newfoundland tradition and I had access to a
culture and cultural traditions which he did not, and my culture did talk very
much about old world national identities and transmitted them. My paternal
grandparents were Irish Catholic and they closely followed political and social
developments in Ireland in the 19-teens and 20s. Furthermore, while my paternal
grandparents were middle-class shopkeepers, my maternal grandparents were
firmly in the working class and were also Roman Catholic, and were made keenly
aware of religious and ethnic divisions by their Protestant bourgeois
employers. Between the Church's literature in Irish-Newfoundland Catholic homes
(everything from the Sacred Heart Messenger to parish bulletins to the
Newfoundland Church's newspaper _The Monitor_ (after 1935-6) to books on
Irish-Newfoundland Catholic history found in almost every Catholic home) the
Irish-Catholic culture in which I grew up was part of our cultural
consciousness and had been for a number of generations.

I am not sure of which particular census data Peter is writing, but oral
accounts from those of Irish-Newfoundland heritage have repeatedly pointed out
that the 1949 Census done immediately after Newfoundland joined Canada was
biased against detecting their culture, because few questions were asked about
it and the census in part was intended to serve the larger political agenda of
cointributing to the Canadianization of Newfoundlanders. On how Irish Catholic
Newfoundlanders' political identities intersected with Canadian identity
you may wish to start by having a look at my article "'The True Father of
Confederation'? Archbishop E. P. Roche, Term 17, and Newfoundland's
Confederation with Canada" [NLS 14, 2 (Fall 1998)].

Best,

John FitzGerald

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Hi Bronwen:

Definitely an interesting project. Willeen Keough at Simon Fraser U (History)
is I know doing work in this area at present.

From a historical-geographical perspective, the work of John Mannion is central.
Three texts that come to mind at the moment are John Mannion's "Irish
Settlements in Eastern Canada" (1974?) as well as his edited collection, "The
Peopling of Newfoundland: Essays in Historical Geography" (1977) - especially
Gordon Handcock's essay on English migration to Newfoundland. The other text
is Grant Head's "Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland: a geographer's perspective"
(1976). These are all old, but certainly very worthwhile, studies.

One final suggestion would be to examine the three volumes of the Historical
Atlas of Canada. I do remember Mannion being one of the contributors, but
there were probably others such as Head contributing on Newfoundland.

Best of luck,
William Jenkins
Department of Geography
York University


> At 05:09 PM 24/10/2006 +0100, you wrote:
> >Dear List members
> >
> >I am about to embark on a small project researching ongoing differences
> >between those of Irish and English background in Newfoundland. Does anyone
> >know of work done on present-day senses of identity of those with Irish
> >ancestry dating back to the late eighteenth/early nineteenth century,
> >changes/continuities in separatist effects of Catholic and Protestant
> >schooling, intermarriage and mixing of 'Irish' and 'English' populations
> >over time,and how these backgrounds intersect with Newfoundland and
> >Canadian identities?
> >
> >I'd be very grateful for any suggestions.
> >
> >All the best
> >
> >Bronwen Walter
> >
>

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I have been quoted as saying, on the relationship between Irish Studies =
and Irish Diaspora Studies, that they do not study us but we do study =
them. We are interested in Irish Studies as a diasporic phenomenon.

This new collection edited by Liam Harte and Yvonne Whelan looks very =
significant. Congratulations to the editors and the contributors.

Publisher web site
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Pluto's US distributor is usually University of Michigan Press.

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Blurb and TOC pasted in below...

P.O'S.

IRELAND BEYOND BOUNDARIES
Mapping Irish Studies in the Twenty-first Century

Edited by Liam Harte and Yvonne Whelan

ISBN: 0745321852 Paperback
Price: =C2=A318.99 / $28.95 / =E2=82=AC28.

ISBN: 0745321860 Hardback
Price: =C2=A360.00 / $85.00 / =E2=82=AC82.=20

Publication Date: November 2006

Pages: 288pp Illustration: 4 photographs, 1 cartoon Size: DEMY =
(215x135mm)

Series: Contemporary Irish Studies

Ireland Beyond Boundaries provides an authoritative, up-to-date account =
of the development of Irish Studies over the past two decades. The =
fourteen contributors examine some of the key debates that have =
underpinned recent scholarship and analyse critical concerns that have =
shaped the subject=E2=80=99s remarkable growth.

The book is divided into two parts. Part One traces the institutional =
fortunes of Irish Studies in Ireland, the USA, Canada, Australia and =
Britain. Part Two features in-depth critical accounts of specific trends =
and themes within Irish historiography, literary criticism, religion, =
migration, music, cultural geography, sport and media culture. =
Throughout the collection there is a recurring engagement with the role =
of interdisciplinary approaches within Irish Studies and its impact on =
teaching and research. Combining synoptic overviews with informed =
analyses, Ireland Beyond Boundaries is an essential text for all those =
working in the field.

Liam Harte is Lecturer in Irish and Modern Literature at the University =
of Manchester. He has published widely on twentieth-century Irish =
literature and is the editor of Modern Irish Autobiography (Palgrave =
Macmillan, 2006) and co-editor of Ireland: Space, Text, Time (Liffey, =
2005) and Contemporary Irish Fiction: Themes, Tropes, Theories (Palgrave =
Macmillan, 2000).

Yvonne Whelan is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of =
Bristol. She is the author of Reinventing Modern Dublin: Streetscape, =
Iconography and the Politics of Identity (UCD Press, 2003) and co-editor =
of Ireland: Space, Text, Time (Liffey, 2005).

CONTENTS

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: where Irish Studies is bound
Liam Harte

Part I: Irish Studies in Practice

1 Changing transatlantic contexts and contours: Irish Studies in the =
United States
Christina Hunt Mahony

2 Re-configuring Irish Studies in Canada: writing back to the centre
Michael Kenneally

3 10,000 miles away: Irish Studies Down Under
Elizabeth Malcolm

4 'Our revels now are ended': Irish Studies in Britain - origins and =
aftermath
Shaun Richards

5 Teaching Irish Studies in Ireland: after the end
Michael Brown

Part II: Irish Studies in Critical Perspective

6 The intellectual and the state: Irish criticism since 1980
Conor McCarthy

7 Forty shades of grey?: Irish historiography and the challenges of
multidisciplinarity
Mary E. Daly

8 The religious field in contemporary Ireland: identity, being religious =
and
symbolic domination
Tom Inglis

9 'A decent girl well worth helping': women, migration and unwanted =
pregnancy
Louise Ryan

10 Beating the bounds: mapping an Irish mediascape
Lance Pettitt

11 Placing geography in Irish Studies: symbolic landscapes of spectacle =
and memory
Yvonne Whelan and Liam Harte

12 Listening to the future: music and Irish Studies
Gerry Smyth

13 Beyond sectarianism: sport and Irish culture
Mike Cronin

Bibliography

Index

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RESEARCH SEMINAR IN CONTEMPORARY IRISH HISTORY

This seminar is designed to be a forum where those engaged in
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It is open to all willing to participate, including researchers visiting
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Proposals can be directed to any of the three convenors.
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But nothing at all on Irish Studies in Europe. Has EFACIS lived in =
vain?

David Rose
Paris