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David Dickson. _Old World Colony: Cork and South Munster, 1630-1830_.
History of Ireland and the Irish Diaspora Series. Madison: University of
Wisconsin Press, 2005. xvii + 726 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables,
notes, appendices, bibliography. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-299-21180-0.

Reviewed for H-Atlantic[at]h-net.msu.edu by James G. Patterson, Department
of History, Centenary College.

David Dickson's _Old World Colony_ is a masterful account of the
socio-economic and political evolution of the south Munster region,
defined by the author as Counties Cork, Kerry and the western half of
Waterford, over a two-hundred-year period. The era in question is a
very long eighteenth century beginning with the first Elizabethan
efforts to plant "New English" Protestants in the region in the 1580s
and continuing to the eve of the Great Famine.

This sizable study is divided into three primary sections. Part 1
describes the political evolution of the south Munster region during
the formative period of active colonization dating from the Desmond
land confiscations of the 1580s up to the establishment of the so-
called Protestant Ascendancy (1695-1709). Importantly, Dickson
identifies the radical transfer of land that occurred between the
1580s and 1690s as a colonial process, which in turn brought about a
dramatic economic transformation. After allowing that his work is a
regional study whose conclusions do not necessarily apply to the rest
of the island, Dickson firmly concludes that "by any definition the
victors in the struggle for control of south Munster were a colonial
group" and "economic power in the region (in terms of ownership of
land and control of wholesale trade) passed largely into the hands of
these migrant families.... This group unquestionably constituted a
self-defined community with demonstrabl!
y colonial characteristics" (p. xii). The second phase of
confiscations followed the Nine Years' War, ending in 1601. Yet
contrary to the interpretations of many historians of the period,
Dickson finds that the long-term impact of the confiscations on
regional Catholics was a "visceral antipathy to the New English and a
legacy of dispossession" (p. 12). He also describes the little-known
process by which the New English planters manipulated their
advantageous social and legal status to "peacefully" occupy as much
as one third of the land by 1641. The highly complex events of the
Wars of Three Kingdoms (1641-52) resulted in the notorious
Cromwellian land settlement that transferred ownership of as much as
50 percent of the land in the region from Catholic Old English and
Old Irish to Protestant hands. The final act was the defeat of the
Irish Jacobites in 1692. With the passing of the sectarian-based
Penal Laws by the Irish Parliament between 1695 and 1709, Catholics i!
n south Munster were effectively barred from meaningful civic, corpora
te and socio-cultural participation on both the regional and national
levels. By 1703, only about a score of surviving Catholic landowners
remained in the entire region, and the ensuing 130 years belonged to
the Anglo-Protestant landowning and mercantile elites.

The commercialization of the regional economy is a further key theme
presented in this section. Here again, the decisive event was the
arrival of New English colonists. In effect, by 1641 a highly
commercialized market economy, featuring the export of wool and live
cattle to the west of England, was firmly in place. Other aspects of
this transformation include the first efforts to enclose land, the
monetization of the regional economy, and the rapid expansion of
local market fairs. Contemporaneously, the 1620s and 1630s witnessed
the departure of the first elements of the eventually vast Irish
diaspora, and by the 1650s the Irish were a real presence in places
like Montserrat and Barbados. It is, perhaps, important to note that
the majority of these first emigrants to the New World were New
English planters. Alternatively, dislocated Catholics were already
departing to France and Spain, where they rapidly became a fixture as
soldiers, clergy, and merchants.

Perhaps of greatest interest for this particular review, Dickson
clearly delineates the impact of the economic integration of the
south Munster region into the broader Atlantic world. The initial
phase of regional involvement in trans-Atlantic trade consisted of
the movement of New World commodities, principally tobacco and sugar,
to Munster. In fact, by 1640 the port of Kinsale in County Cork was
the largest importer of tobacco in Ireland. However, by 1664 Cork
had largely supplanted other regional ports, and, as Dickson notes,
by 1700 the city of Cork was "one of the great port cities in the
Atlantic World" (p. 144). The key to Cork's rise to prominence was
its role in processing and then distributing the produce of the south
Munster region to the wider Atlantic world. In turn, the form taken
by this trade was dictated by English Parliamentary legislation. The
Navigation Acts of 1663 and 1671 insured that Ireland could not trade
directly with English colonies or effe!
ctively engage in the re-export of colonial goods, while the Cattle
Acts of 1665 and 1667 blocked the previously lucrative sale of live
cattle to England. Ultimately, in 1699 the export of woolen cloth
was banned. Thus "shaped" by English economic interest, south
Munster increasingly focused on the production of three primary
goods--salted beef, butter and woolen yarn. The first two of these
became great trans-Atlantic commodities, in turn, dramatically
affecting the socio-economic evolution of the entire region. Simply
put, more and more land was dedicated to pasturage for the cows on
which the trade depended, and less was available for tillage. Hence,
those able to capitalize on the new market opportunities via the
medium of cattle rearing thrived, while others less fortunate were
increasingly marginalized.

The primacy of the Atlantic provisions trade to the regional economy
is strikingly confirmed by statistical evidence. Already by 1680,
south Munster shipped some 80 percent of its pastoral goods to the
Caribbean, primarily in the form of salted beef and butter, with the
remainder going to northern Europe and the Iberian Peninsula. In the
second decade of the eighteenth century, French sugar islands swelled
the pre-existing trade to the English colonies. A resultant,
remarkable story is told: 50,000-80,000 of the cattle raised each
year in rural Munster was moved to Cork City, where they were
butchered, barreled and placed on board ship. Transported, sometimes
after switching hands in France, across the Atlantic, the beef was
unloaded in places such as Martinique and Jamaica, where it fed
planter and slave alike. Completing this cycle, slave-produced sugar
and tobacco made their way back to Cork City and were distributed via
market fairs throughout the region. With not!
eworthy clarity, then, Dickson confirms the centrality of trans-
Atlantic trade to the economic development of south Munster. Yet,
while the opportunities created by participation in this trans-
oceanic trade brought tremendous wealth to planters and merchants on
both sides of the Atlantic, it also helped shape the fate of tens of
thousands of Irish peasants. As Dickson observes, land values in
south Munster rose between five and six times between 1690 and 1810,
largely as a result of "real changes in the agrarian economy and in
the market for the region's goods in the world outside" (p. 83).

The brief second section of _Old World Colony_ addresses the latent
tensions which underlay the period of the Protestant Ascendancy.
Dickson successfully, albeit indirectly, challenges the still
prevalent historiographical interpretation that views the period as
one of equipoise in which the bulk of the regional population
accepted an _ancien regime_. The third and concluding part of this
work is, in terms of political history, the most groundbreaking.
Here, the author argues persuasively that the south Munster region,
or at least the City and County of Cork, was heavily influenced by
the phenomenon of Atlantic revolutions. Dickson utilizes a broad
range of primary source material to establish the presence of the
United Irishmen in south Munster from 1793, when the society's first
club was founded in Cork City. Moreover, a number of pivotal figures
in the national movement were natives of the region. Efforts to
politicize the population of south Munster dated from the !
early as 1790s with the publication of the radical _Cork Gazette_.
Indeed, by 1796, Dickson shows that the Republicans in Cork, unlike
their Dublin counterparts, turned their efforts to politicizing the
rural poor by distributing propaganda that fed on pre-existing socio-
economic and sectarian grievances. The United Irishmen successfully
merged traditional agrarian concerns, over issues like tithes, with
new radical concepts such as universal manhood suffrage (p. 468). In
reality, by the end of 1797, the region had a sizeable, well-
organized, and highly motivated cellular United Irish military
structure in place: "in the first quarter of 1798, when there was
both leadership and optimism among Cork United Irishmen, the movement
did indeed represent a formidable challenge" (p. 468). In summing up
the political status of south Munster during these key years, Dickson
affirms that "a robust revolutionary movement had developed a
military capability in the course of 1797; th!
e pivot was the Cork City organization.... It is irrefutable that acr
oss at least half of Munster there was a high level of popular
disaffection evident by the early months of 1798.... We have seen
that the circulation of printed propaganda from Cork and Dublin was
most impressive and not by any means confined to the urban Anglophone
world" (p. 472). Pointedly, then, the region failed to rise in May
1798, not because of an absence of popular enthusiasm, but because of
the success of the government's preemptive disarmament campaign that
spring, a heavy regional military presence, and the loss of vital
leaders on the eve of the rebellion. In fact, "five years later when
news of Robert Emmet's Rebellion broke a number of leading United
Irishmen in the city were detained ... there were grounds for
suspicions" (p. 472).

Furthermore, Dickson offers an in-depth analysis of the dramatic
socio-economic transformations that occurred in the region between
1770 and 1830. Underlying these alterations was a demographic
explosion on a scale unparalleled in early modern western European
history. From mid-century, south Munster's population rose from
roughly a third of a million people to 1.1 million in 1831. Dickson
attributes this rise primarily to "a food supply that was reliable,"
the potato. Increasing social stratification corresponded to
population growth between the 1770s and the 1820s. This process
rapidly accelerated from the 1790s, and by 1800, coinciding with an
"increasingly complex class structure," was an "exceptionally unequal
distribution of income" (p. 496). The winners were large farmers
producing for the market; alternatively, the landless laborers and
small farmers were trapped in a classic example of the economist's
"price scissors," featuring rising rents and stagnant or dec!
lining wages as well as chronic underemployment. The uniquely
Irish phenomenon of multi-layered tenancies further exacerbated the
situation. In 1780, laborers were already suffering real decline in
wages. By 1830 most lived on an acre or less and had no livestock
except a pig, which was their only tie to the market. Finally, the
failure of earlier industrial efforts, coupled with the absence of
coal deposits in the region, insured that no substantial
industrialization would occur in the region after the 1820s. Thus,
the overwhelmingly Catholic, rural underclass, described by Dickson
as the true proletariat of pre-famine Cork, was by 1830 dangerously
underemployed, devoid of alternative economic opportunity, living
outside of the market economy on less than 5 percent of the region's
land, and utterly reliant on a single root crop for their existence.
Moreover, they constituted the absolute majority (over 60,000 of some
100,000 households in County Cork) of south Munste!
r's population. We know only to well the looming implications of all
this. Dickson concludes the book with an analysis of the means by
which the Protestant Ascendancy was undermined by 1830. Along with
the familiar story of Daniel O'Connell's Catholic Emancipation
movement, which ultimately succeeded in 1829, Dickson identifies the
increasing wealth and status of Catholic merchants, professionals,
and big farmers as successfully challenging the socio-political and
cultural domination of the Protestant landowning gentry.

_New World Colony_ is so finely nuanced and meticulously researched
that it effectively raises the historiographical bar for Irish
regional history. Indeed, the study is mandatory reading for
historians of early modern and modern Ireland. Those working on the
Atlantic World will also find the book to be of tremendous utility,
for David Dickson has firmly placed south Munster in an Atlantic
context.



William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of History
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA
Office: 1-270-809-6571
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I had the same reaction about the absence of Irish studies in Latin
America in the book chapters, in spite of all the quality work done by
U. of Sao Paulo's Associacao Brasileira de Estudos Irlandeses, SILAS
members in the region and others. It seems that the different
literary/historical perspectives have something to do with these
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I look forward to read the book to learn from experienced editors and
contributors.

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But nothing at all on Irish Studies in Europe. Has EFACIS lived in
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Here's a coincidence - interesting train of thought...

The Canadian Association for Irish Studies (CAIS) has sent out a Call =
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Papers...

From the earlier IR-D discussion someone could do Secrets and Lies AND =
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Irish in Newfoundland...

Congratulations to Danine and colleagues on the new CAIS web site.
http://www.irishstudies.ca/

Note the revived CJIS journal presence, and the free sample issue, Brian
McIlroy as guest editor surveys The Field Of Irish Cinema.

P.O'S.


Call For Papers
Secrets and Lies And/or The Irish in Newfoundland

The 2007 Canadian Association for Irish Studies is holding its annual
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Secrets and Lies and/or The Irish in Newfoundland

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* Peter Hart (Canada Research Chair in Irish Studies)
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More info: Call for Papers and travel information.

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P.O'S.

GLOBAL IRELAND
eds. Ondrej Pilny & Clare Wallace
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GLOBAL IRELAND
Irish Literatures in the New Millennium

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Jose Lanters, Jason King, and Rajeev Patke.

Clare Wallace is a lecturer at Charles University and at the University =
of New York, Prague. She has published on Joyce, Marina Carr, Patrick =
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Ondrej Piln=C3=BD is Director of the Centre for Irish Studies, Prague, =
and editor of From Brooke to Black Pastoral: Six Studies in Irish =
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From the Belfast Telegraph 26 October 2006

GAA kicks off at English university

By Claire Regan
26 October 2006

The first GAA facilities at a university in the north west of England
have been founded in response to a growing interest in Gaelic games
among all students there, not just the Irish.

The University of Chester took the pioneering step by launching its
new Gaelic pitch with a demonstration match against a Liverpool team
on Saturday.

Chester City Council is leasing the ground, behind Blacon Police
Station, to the university for a 'peppercorn' rent, and it is set to
become a national venue for competitive fixtures.

The 'Chester All Stars', made up of players past and present, faced
the side from Liverpool John Moores University with Liverpool
emerging victorious.

The official opening was performed by Geraldine Giles, president of
the Ladies Gaelic Football Association and the Lord Mayor of Chester,
Sandra Rudd.

Gaelic football was introduced to the University of Chester by former
student Mary Corry, who originally hails from the Republic.

Having established both a men's and women's teams, she played while
completing her first degree in geography and PE/sports science,
followed by a master's degree in sociology of sport and exercise this
January.

Mary is now student activities assistant for Chester Students' Union
and coaches the women's Gaelic football squad.

"There is a big Irish contingent at the university which is obviously
interested in joining in, but the teams also attract lots of
non-Irish people, who enjoy what it has to offer and now comprise of
over half the club memberships," she said.

"We are extremely grateful to the city council for making the pitch
available, as it will now be the venue for all our fixtures, which
should give us a massive home advantage."

Laura Pearsons, Students' Union's deputy general manager, said: "As
this is the only pitch in the region, we expect considerable interest
from other institutions. The University of Wales, Bangor has already
arranged to use this as its home pitch."

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Anthony Roche, has recently published his Cambridge Companion to Brian
Friel.

The Cambridge Companion to Brian Friel
Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature
Edited by Anthony Roche
University College Dublin

Paperback
(ISBN-13: 9780521666862 | ISBN-10: 0521666864)
* Also available in Hardback

Brian Friel is widely recognized as Ireland's greatest living playwright,
winning an international reputation through such acclaimed works as
Translations (1980) and Dancing at Lughnasa (1990). This collection of
specially commissioned essays includes contributions from leading
commentators on Friel's work (including two fellow playwrights) and explores
the entire range of his career from his 1964 breakthrough with Philadelphia,
Here I Come! to his most recent success in Dublin and London with The Home
Place (2005). The essays approach Friel's plays both as literary texts and
as performed drama, and provide the perfect introduction for students of
both English and Theatre Studies, as well as theatregoers. The collection
considers Friel's lesser-known works alongside his more celebrated plays and
provides a comprehensive critical survey of his career. This is the most up
to date and comprehensive study of Friel's work to be published, and
includes a chronology and further reading suggestions.

Contents

1. Introduction Anthony Roche;
2. The early plays Thomas Kilroy;
3. Surviving the sixties: three plays by Brian Friel 1968-1971 Frank
McGuinness;
4. Friel and the Northern Ireland 'Troubles' play Stephen Watt;
5. Family affairs: Friel's plays of the late seventies Anthony Roche;
6. Five ways of looking at Faith Healer Nicholas Grene;
7. Translations, the Field Day debate and the re-imagining of Irish
identity Martine Pelletier;
8. Dancing at Lughnasa and the unfinished revolution Helen Lojek;
9. The late plays George O'Brien;
10. Friel's Irish Russia Richard Pine;
11. Friel and performance history Patrick Burke;
12. Friel's dramaturgy: the visual dimension Richard Allen Cave;
13. Performativity, unruly bodies and gender in Brian Friel's drama Anna
McMullan;
14. Brian Friel as postcolonial playwright Csilla Bertha;
Select bibliography; Index.

Download an excerpt from
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Irish Times Report on launch follows...

*On The Town: *Brian Friel laughed quietly and modestly as Declan Kiberd
likened him to Napoleon: "He's always risking his latest victory to try
something different, something new."

Kiberd was launching The Cambridge Companion to Brian Friel at the Gate
Theatre on behalf of his UCD colleague, Anthony Roche, who edited the
collection of essays. Roche said that the book was intended to do
justice not only to Friel's most famous work, but also to plays
previously neglected because of their initial critical failure.

"You could describe the trajectory of Friel's career like a zigzag
pattern," Roche commented. "You could almost describe it as a
success-failure pattern, but all the successes and failures are worthy
of consideration in their own right, and there are plays that deserve to
be rescued. He is our most important playwright, and he continues to
grow in significance."

In Roche's words, the new book "looks at how one play speaks to another
across the span of Friel's career, and how he always sets out in new
directions but also returns to things, answering the success of one play
with a satire on the very ideas that brought that play success".

Among the book's contributors at the event were Prof Nicholas Grene, of
Trinity College Dublin, and playwright Tom Kilroy. Playwright Frank
McGuinness, who also has an essay in the collection and whom Roche
thanked especially as a "sounding-board" for the project, sent his
regards from London, where his play, The Gates of Gold, is currently in
rehearsal. Michael Colgan, the director of the Gate, also sent his
apologies from New York, where the theatre's production of Waiting for
Godot began a seven- venue tour of the United States earlier this week.

The director of the Abbey Theatre, Fiach MacConghail, was in attendance,
having just returned from Princeton University where Garry Hynes is
directing a new production of Friel's Translations. Joe Dowling, who
directed the first production of Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa at the
Abbey in 1990, before taking it on to international success on Broadway,
also popped in to give his best wishes to the esteemed playwright.

The Cambridge Companion to Brian Friel, edited by Anthony Roche, is
publsihed by Cambridge University Press

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The Review of Politics (2006), 68: 361-397 Cambridge University Press
Copyright C 2006 University of Notre Dame
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Constitutional Identity
Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn

Abstract

Constitutional theorists have had relatively little to say about the
identity of what they study. This article addresses this inattention with a
philosophical and comparative exploration of the concept of constitutional
identity. Without such attention, a major preoccupation of
theorists-constitutional change-will continue to be inadequately considered.
The argument is advanced that there are attributes of a constitution that
allow us to identify it as such, and that there is a dialogical process of
identity formation that enables us to determine the specific identity of any
given constitution. Representing a mix of aspirations and commitments
expressive of a nation's past, constitutional identity also evolves in
ongoing political and interpretive activities occurring in courts,
legislatures, and other public and private domains. Conceptual possibilities
of constitutional identity are, herein, pursued in two constitutional
settings-India and Ireland-that highlight its distinctive features.

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Mark G. McGowan. _Michael Power: The Struggle to Build the Catholic
Church on the Canadian Frontier_. McGill-Queen's Studies in the History
of Religion. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press,
2003. xvii + 382 pp. Illustrations, tables, maps, notes, index. $49.95
(cloth), ISBN 0-7735-2914-4.

Reviewed for H-Canada by Stephen Kenny, Department of
History, Campion College at the University of Regina.

The Times and Life of a Pioneer Canadian Churchman

Aloysius Cardinal Ambrozic, the current archbishop of Toronto, could not
have chosen better than Mark McGowan to tackle the formidable task of
delving into and understanding the life and impact of his diocese's first
and little-known Roman Catholic bishop. This is a work of admirable probity
and remarkable imagination. A few years ago McGowan analyzed the Toronto
Irish and their experience in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries.[1] Such research contributed to his sensitivity to issues
relating to Catholics and the nature of their contribution to Canada and has
prepared him for this excursion into the earlier period in which Michael
Power lived, priested, and ultimately served as bishop. The author's
appointment as principal of St. Michael's College, English-speaking Canada's
largest Catholic post-secondary institution and a federated university
within the University of Toronto, is an illustration of the esteem and
respect accorded by his own co-religionists and !
the wider academic community

Reviewing this book did present me with a certain sense of irony. When it
landed on my desk I was engaged in a comprehensive reading of the American
essayist Paul Blanshard. Sometimes considered the mid-twentieth-century's
intellectual successor and exponent of the previous one's hostility towards
Catholics and Catholicism in the United States, he argued that the country's
Roman Catholic hierarchy was in a life-and-death struggle with American
democracy. Subservience to a foreign potentate, the pope, was inimical to
loyalty to America. One could not be Catholic, much less a bishop, and a
loyal American.[2] What a surprise then to read that in Mark McGowan's
opinion the three forces that gave sense and meaning to Michael Power's life
was his faithfulness to Catholicism, his loyalty to the British Crown, and
his desire to organize an effective religious life for Roman Catholics in a
frontier Canadian diocese (p. 13). Apparently, a mid-nineteenth-century
Catholic bishop in a Brit!
ish North American colony could serve his church while remaining faithful to
the civil authority, one which differed significantly from his own religious
point of view. It is curious to think that north of the border Michael Power
could be true to both while his hierarchical counterparts to the south could
not. Is this yet another difference which distinguishes Canada from the
United States?

McGowan faced enormous challenges to produce this biography. Memory of Power
is very vague. He merits neither notice nor even mention in _ The Canadian
Encyclopedia_. Along with St. Joseph, the bishop graces the name of a
Toronto high school, but apart from that shared honor there is little trace
of his life and contribution. In a most succinct phrase, McGowan writes of
Power that "the most memorable action of his life was his death" (p. 6). His
final act as a pastor was to minister to the typhus-ridden Irish immigrants
in the Toronto waterfront sheds which received them in the terrible famine
year of 1847. Providing solace and undoubtedly the sacrament of the dying to
those desperately ill, Power became infected in late September and died
after considerable suffering on October 1, 1847. This heroic sacrifice is
the one great gesture for which Power is remembered. McGowan quite rightly
wonders what else ought to be discovered? Where did he come from? How did he
live? What were!
his values and character? Surely there was much more to be known.

McGowan notes the scarcity of documents related to Power in the Archives of
the Archdiocese of Toronto. Some personal letters, official correspondence,
a few receipts, and two letter books containing drafts of a couple hundred
outgoing missives are all that remain. Hardly enough to build a biography! A
less intrepid historian might have left it at that. Fortunately, this book
based upon exhaustive reading and research is as much the history of the
times as of the life of Michael Power. From the scant personal papers,
McGowan moves on to a thorough and impressive investigation of diocesan
archives throughout eastern Canada and even those of Detroit and New
Orleans. He also mined the collections of various religious communities such
as the Jesuits, the Sulpicians, and the Loretto Sisters. His search took him
to Ireland and England and to collections in Rome, Paris and Lyons. As a
bishop in Canada West where Catholics were in a minority Power knew and
worked with churchmen of oth!
er denominations. Consequently, the author even consulted the archives of
the United Church of Canada. Travel to national and provincial archives and
the culling of census figures, newspapers and any source that might offer
insight all provided grist for the mill. Already familiar and attuned to the
value of the historical literature on Catholicism in Canada, McGowan's
examination of primary sources is enriched and completed by a thorough
reading of the secondary literature which might touch any aspect of Power's
life. Among others, histories of Nova Scotia, the rebellions of Upper and
Lower Canada, agriculture, education, even courtship and marriage figure in
his reading. Despite the obvious density of the research, the book is
written in a crisp and accessible language with hardly even a spelling
error. A rather curious one is "The Chateau d'Iff" (sic) (p. 122).

In these pages the author illustrates that Michael Power was a remarkable
and unusual Canadian. His was pre-industrial Canada, prior to railways and
modern communications. In terms of travel time, Halifax was psychically and
actually closer to the imperial capital, London, than to the Canadian
backwoods. In Canada there was very little interchange of persons or ideas.
Unlike the three hours drive now, in those days of poor and dangerous roads
or of travel by steamship in the navigational season, Kingston was an
arduous two days' journey from Montreal. Toronto was back of beyond or, as
the author entitles chapter 6, "At the Edge of Civilization." Few in Canada
would have had such a variety of experiences or travels as did Power. Born
of Catholic parents in the Nova Scotian capital, his parish priest noted his
talents. At hardly fourteen years of age he went to Quebec with preparation
for the priesthood in mind. In the process he was not only educated and
ordained a priest in 18!
27, Power also was thoroughly Frenchified. Serving in outlying parishes both
in the eastern townships and the Ottawa valley he tasted the rude and
challenging life of the undeveloped countryside. Interestingly, he was the
parish priest at Montebello, the seigneurial domain of Louis-Joseph
Papineau, the famous freethinker and leader of the radical and rebellious
"parti patriote." In 1838 he was the pastor at Ste. Martine in the seigneury
of Beauharnois, one of the hottest of the hot spots in the renewed violence
of that year.

In 1839 appointment to the parish at La Prairie just across the St. Lawrence
River from Montreal was a sign of the growing importance and respect in
which Power was held by his superiors. In 1841 he accompanied Ignace
Bourget, the bishop of Montreal, to Europe. In the quest for the spiritual
renewal and better organization of the Catholic Church in Canada, they
enlisted religious orders of men and women to participate in its
works--spiritual, pastoral, and educational. The last few years of a unique,
brief, and interesting life Power spent as the first bishop of the new
diocese of Toronto. Given the paucity of personal sources, it is
unsurprising how skeletal is McGowan's sense of the personal character of
his subject. Refracted by way of vast reading he has determined that Power
was a scrupulous and devoted priest, a stickler for form in liturgy and
clerical dress, a personable but private man who experienced the usual
frustrations of a figure of authority in a colonial front!
ier setting. McGowan does discuss the nature of Power's commitment to
separate Catholic schools, a subject which he has investigated elsewhere.[3]
The bishop's apparent openness to a shared publicly funded system may be
explained by the relative sectarian calm of the 1840s as in contrast to the
more complex and troublous decade after his death, years marked by
considerable denominational strife and competition.

Finally, as a corrective to the perception of Power as a priest and bishop
who made the singular sacrifice of his own life, McGowan underlines other
enduring contributions. One was the achievement of episcopal corporation
which assured the status of Catholic bishops and their temporal control of
church property. This allowed the developing church in English-speaking
Canada to avoid the pain of the conflict experienced by clergy and bishops
with lay trustees both in the United States and Lower Canada. Another was
his effective spiritual ministration and evangelization of the vast
territory he shepherded. In pursuit of that goal and having learned by his
association and travels with Ignace Bourget, Power too continued to
encourage the support of religious communities of men and women in his own
diocese. His pursuit and defense of publicly funded Catholic schools,
whether in cooperation with the wider system or as a separate establishment
is also part of a legacy which exists to !
the present. Finally, the energy of his own personal spirituality assisted
him in his energetic but short life and continues as a source of inspiration
for those who follow.

In discussing the nature and quality of these other contributions, in no way
does McGowan wish to diminish the personal sacrifice of a churchman who
risked and lost his life ministering to the most abandoned of his flock.
Indeed, this biography, by its depth and its wisdom, more fully elucidates
why that final episode was thoroughly consistent and the natural consequence
of the deeply consecrated life of a devoted priest. John, the Evangelist,
did claim there was no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's
friends.[4] In this superb examination of a whole life Mark McGowan has
managed to explain why Michael Power did just that.

Notes

[1]. Mark McGowan, _The Waning of the Green: Catholics, the Irish and
Identity in Toronto, 1887-1922_ (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's
University Press, 1999).

[2]. Paul Blanshard, _American Freedom and Catholic Power_ (Boston: the
Beacon Press, 1949).

[3]. Mark McGowan, "What did Michael Power Really Want?: Questions Regarding
the Origins of Catholic Separate Schools in Canada West," _Historical
Studies: Canadian Catholic Historical Association_ 68 (2002): pp. 85-104.

[4]. Jn 15:13


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Karen Stanbridge. _Toleration and State Institutions: British Policy
toward Catholics in Eighteenth-Century Ireland and Quebec_. Lanham:
Lexington Books, 2003. 208 pp. Notes, selected bibliography, index.
$63.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-7391-0558-2.

Reviewed for H-Canada by Jos=E9 E. Igartua, D=E9partement
d'histoire, Universit=E9 du Qu=E9bec =E0 Montr=E9al.

The British Empire, Institutional Transformation, and Toleration for
Catholics.

In this challenging work of "historical institutionalism," Memorial
University sociologist Karen Stanbridge asks a provocative question: how =
did
British authorities--the British Parliament, the Cabinet, the King, and
local authorities in Ireland and in Quebec--resolve to relieve, in =
Quebec
(1774) and Ireland (1778), penal laws (restrictions of civil rights) =
imposed
upon Catholics that had been centuries-old state policy in England and =
the
British empire?

Stanbridge is dissatisfied with the "growth of toleration" answer found =
in
British constitutional and political history. She finds this =
interpretation
too "insular" in that it pays attention only to events in Ireland or in
Quebec, with little attention to the workings of political power at the
center of the empire. She also criticizes the "growth of toleration"
interpretation as resting on attitude changes that are hard to =
substantiate.
Instead, she offers a broader, comparative perspective that attempts to
explain changes in British policy toward Catholics by evolving
configurations of formal and informal political institutions. Her =
analysis
is based on a wide reading of Irish, British, and Canadian =
historiography
rather than on an examination of primary sources.

The author begins by examining the ratification of the Treaty of =
Limerick of
1690, which had put an end to the Catholic military challenge to William =
III
in Ireland, by the Irish Parliament in 1697. She shows that the
ratification of the treaty by the Protestant-dominated Irish Parliament
failed to recognize some of the rights granted to Catholics in the =
treaty,
and she attributes this to the resistance of the Irish Parliament and =
the
lack of informal institutional tools of coercion that the British =
executive
could apply to Irish parliamentarians. For the reader who, like me, has =
a
limited acquaintance with Irish history, this chapter provides a handy
introduction to the mechanics of political power in Ireland at the end =
of
the seventeenth century.

Stanbridge then turns to the process whereby the British Parliament =
adopted
the Quebec Act in 1774. Among other clauses, the Quebec Act allowed
Canadian Catholics to hold political office, something that remained
prohibited for British Catholics. The first of the two chapters on the
Quebec Act outlines the formal British political institutions that came =
into
play in the framing of the Quebec Act, namely British laws pertaining to
colonial administration and constitutions, but stresses the informal
institutions that came into play, such as the practices of the Board of
Trade and the rising influence of pressure groups within and without the
British Parliament. Stanbridge then delineates the role played by the
political actors whom these institutions brought into interaction: the
British King, the Board of Trade, the colonial secretaries, the British
Privy Council and the imperial Parliament, the colonial governor, the
British colonial merchant group in Quebec, and the French!
Canadians. She makes no mention of the political activities of
French-Canadian merchants.[1] The two pages on French Canadians merely
outline the competition between British and Canadian merchants in the =
fur
trade after the Conquest and the influence of the clergy and the =
seigneurs
in Quebec society, which is presented as undisputed historical fact (pp.
101-102). Stanbridge ignores the "Petition of French Subjects" to the =
King,
of December 1773, which thanked the king for granting "the free exercise =
of
our religion" in the Treaty of Paris in 1763 and asking for all the =
rights
and privileges of British subjects, and especially the right to hold =
public
office. This document is reproduced in Adam Shortt and Arthur Doughty's
_Documents Relating to the Constitutional History of Canada, 1759-1791_
(1918), cited in Stanbridge's bibliography. The petition is a rather
important document: former Quebec Attorney General Francis Maseres noted
that the petition "has been made the fou!
ndation" of the Quebec Act.[2] Stanbridge's second chapter on the =
Quebec
Act traces the political and constitutional history of Quebec from the
Conquest to 1774. Here the specialist of post-Conquest Quebec history =
will
learn little, although perhaps the Irish history specialist will learn =
more.

The last chapter delineates the process by which the Irish Catholic =
Relief
Act of 1778 was adopted. This Act allowed Catholics to lease land for =
999
years, providing Catholics with a more secure form of land tenure; it =
also
removed impediments to the transfer of land through inheritance. These =
were
very limited concessions to Catholics, opposed by anti-Catholics in the
Irish Parliament, but forced through that Parliament by the Irish =
executive
under the leadership of the British governor of Ireland, the Irish Lord
Lieutenant. The chapter touches upon the same general themes as in the
earlier chapters, sketching the formal and informal institutional =
structures
that provided the context for the political actors' policy choices, and =
then
outlining the role of each of these actors. The head of the Irish =
executive
strengthened his political influence through the judicious use of =
patronage
and appointments and the dismissal of government officials who disagreed
with the executiv!
e (pp. 160-163). Of particular interest to Canadian historians of the
pre-Confederation period is the new political role played by the Irish =
Lord
Lieutenant, as it can be seen to prefigure the role colonial governors =
would
attempt to play in British North America in the 1820s and 1830s. In
contrasting the Irish situation in 1697 with that of 1778, Stanbridge
stresses the changes in the character and role of informal institutions,
particularly the power of the Irish executive, through which British =
policy
for Ireland was effected. These informal institutions, Stanbridge =
argues,
worked in the same direction as formal institutions to ensure that the =
Irish
Parliament ratified the British Cabinet's policy for Ireland.

Stanbridge offers a cogent presentation of British formal and informal
political institutions as they relate to Ireland and the North American
colonies and highlights their transformation over the course of the
eighteenth century. She also offers a clear delineation of the role of =
the
various political actors. However, her general thesis, that the growing
weight of informal political institutions such as the Cabinet, political
parties, and factions made possible the change in policy toward =
Catholics in
Ireland and in Quebec, amounts to casting in more contemporary terms the
story of the "unwritten constitution" already well known to British
constitutional historians and political scientists. More specifically,
Stanbridge argues that these new informal institutions gave a greater =
role
to "public opinion" as expressed by political parties and interest =
groups.
She writes, "The rise of 'public opinion' in Britain and colonies [sic]
during the eighteenth century influenced the !
informal institutions surrounding the formulation of government policy,
including colonial policy" (p. 87). She makes the same point later =
about
Ireland (p. 166). This line of argument comes very close to replacing =
"the
growth of toleration" argument with a similarly Whiggish argument for =
the
growth of public opinion.=20

Notwithstanding her insistence that she wants to explore the question of
_how_ more than that of _why_ in the adoption of tolerant legislation
concerning Irish and Quebec Catholics (p. 185), Stanbridge offers =
evidence
for a causal explanation that, in this reader's view, relegates
institutional factors, both formal and informal, to a secondary role in =
the
story she tells. The three episodes she analyzes all occurred in times =
of
military tension, and military concerns, as Stanbridge indicates, were =
of
paramount importance. The ratification of the Treaty of Limerick =
occurred
at a time when William III "needed supplies to fight his wars" (p. 61) =
and
thus had to mollify the Protestant-dominated Irish Parliament in order =
to
obtain money for his army. The Quebec Act was adopted because the =
British
executive could not spare troops for securing the loyalty of Canadians =
(pp.
135-137). The Irish Catholic Relief Act of 1778 was intended to allow
George III's army to draw badly needed!
recruits from the Irish Catholic population (pp. 146-147). One wonders
whether different institutional arrangements would have made the =
adoption of
these strategic measures any less likely.

I have a minor quibble on interpretation. In her discussion of the =
North
American colonial situation during the Seven Years War, Stanbridge
repeatedly considers the Acadian deportation of 1755 an anti-Catholic
measure of repression (pp. 5, 6, 7, 93). This is a debatable reading of =
the
deportation. The Acadians' religion was less an issue than their =
refusal to
swear complete allegiance to the British crown.[3]

I also have some quibbles on form. The book is derived from a Ph.D.
dissertation and required more substantial editing. There are frequent
repetitions of conceptual definitions and of arguments, as well as
occasional misspellings (for example, on pp. 5, 10; also including this
reviewer's name in footnotes and the bibliography) and inappropriately =
used
words ("concede" for "accede," pp. 85, 86; "encouraging the wrath" for
"incurring the wrath," p. 87). And the very small type makes the book
difficult to read.

This book will be useful for teachers of colonial history who want a =
handy
schema to introduce students to the structure of British political
administration. Because of its style and heavy conceptual apparatus, it
would be less appropriate for undergraduate students. Historians of the
British eighteenth century are likely to find the "historical
institutionalism" approach illustrated here rather reminiscent of
old-fashioned political history.

Notes

[1]. See Jos=E9 E. Igartua, "The Merchants and _Negociants_ of =
Montreal,
1750-1775: A Study in Socio-Economic History" (Ph.D. diss., Michigan =
State
University, 1974), pp. 265-276.

[2]. Quoted in Adam Shortt and Arthur G. Doughty, _Documents Relating =
to
the Constitutional History of Canada 1759-1791_, 2nd ed. (Ottawa:
Historical Documents Historical Publications Board, 1918), p. 504 n. 2.

[3]. See Naomi Griffiths, _From Migrant to Acadian: A North American
Border People, 1604-1755_ (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press,
2004).


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Adventurers, Emissaries and Settlers:
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Society for Irish Latin American Studies (SILAS) Conference
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The Society for Irish Latin American Studies (SILAS, www.irlandeses.org) was founded in July 2003 to promote the study of relations between Ireland and Latin America. The range of interest of the Society spans the settlement, lives and achievements of Irish migrants to Latin America and their descendants, the contemporary presence of Ireland in the life and culture of Latin America and the presence of Latin Americans in Ireland.

From the mythical visit of Saint Brendan the Navigator to Mexico in the sixth century and the migration of tens of thousands of people from the Irish midlands to Buenos Aires province in the nineteenth, to the conviction of three Irishmen with alleged IRA connections in Colombia and the settlement of a community of Brazilians in South County Galway in the twenty-first century, the pattern of relations between Ireland and Latin America has been heterogeneous, fragmentary, and erratic.

The Society invites papers on any aspect of the multitudinous connections between Latin America and Ireland from academics and the general public in disciplines such as history, geography, politics, literature and linguistics. The aim of the conference is to promote the exchange of views and research findings on a diverse range of issues and on an inter-disciplinary basis. The SILAS conference will take place concurrently and in conjunction with the Fifth Galway Conference on Colonialism. For details on accommodation, please see www.corribvillage.com, or phone +353-(0)91-527112, for campus accommodation. Alternatively, see www.irelandwest.ie/accomodation.asp, or phone Ireland West Reservations Centre +353-(0)91-537777, for private accommodation in Galway City.

Abstracts (c.500 words) should be sent by email to the conference organisers, to arrive no later than 15 December 2006. Should you wish to attend the conference without presenting a paper, please register by sending your details to the organisers by 1 April 2007.

Contact details:

Organisers: Oliver Marshall: oliver.marshall[at]brazil.ox.ac.uk
Claire Healy: clairedhealy[at]yahoo.com

SILAS Secretary: Edmundo Murray: edmundo.murray[at]irlandeses.org

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That's not you surfboarding, is it Piaras?

Actually thought of your recent posting on the topic of 'feeling
Ireland', having a kind of numinous experience when visiting there and
so on (which some subscribers didn't like), when watching Jeremy Irons's
(televised) search for his roots; his declared sense that he knew that
he had always belonged there and the upshot being that hhis purchased
cottage is in fact just a few kilometres from where is ancestors
originated: a bit spooky at least =20

also had an invitation to attend the Patrick Kavanagh annual weekend
where one of the conference features is an invitation to enjoy 'the
craic':=20

Pictures of the rough sea terrific=20


Liam Clarke =20

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Those who miss the Irish weather might want to smell the mist from these
pictures of Dun Chaoin/Dunquin taken this weekend

http://picasaweb.google.com/p.maceinri/WestKerryOctober2006CorcaDhuibhne

Piaras

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From: "micheal.ohaodha"
To: "The Irish Diaspora Studies List"

There was an article in the Irish version of the Sunday Times last =
weekend stating that Carol Thatcher - (Maggie's daughter) and late of =
Celebrity Jungle "Get me out of Here" - is one quarter-Arab apparently - =
based on a tongue-swab (DNA)!! The search for "roots" seems to be a =
major growth area!!

Michael Hayes
Departments of English and History=20
University of Limerick=20
Limerick=20
Ireland=20


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That's not you surfboarding, is it Piaras?

Actually thought of your recent posting on the topic of 'feeling
Ireland', having a kind of numinous experience when visiting there and
so on (which some subscribers didn't like), when watching Jeremy Irons's
(televised) search for his roots; his declared sense that he knew that
he had always belonged there and the upshot being that hhis purchased
cottage is in fact just a few kilometres from where is ancestors
originated: a bit spooky at least =20

also had an invitation to attend the Patrick Kavanagh annual weekend
where one of the conference features is an invitation to enjoy 'the
craic':=20

Pictures of the rough sea terrific=20


Liam Clarke =20

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Subject: First issue of translocations - Irish Migration,
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Dear All

the first issue of Translocations has gone online at
http://www.imrstr.dcu.ie/firstissue/

The journal will be officially launched by Mary Hickman next Thursday, 9
Nov., 3pm at the NCCRI (For location http://www.nccri.ie/map.html).

The first issue is a little thin on diasporic questions but given some of
the people involved on the editorial side I have no doubt this will be
corrected in the future.

Piaras

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Another handed-off question from a caller who presumes my omniscience-- not
realizing, of course, that it's really the list that is all-knowing ....

Did Yeats really write "I have certainly known more men destroyed by the
desire to have a wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen
destroyed by drink and harlots"?

And if so, where?

Jim Rogers

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Ireland and Russia: history, the rule of law=20
and the changing international system

24-25 November 2006

NUI Maynooth, Ireland


Friday 24 November 2006
8.30-9.30 Registration and Coffee
09:30-10:00 Welcome by Dr Professor John Hughes, President
of NUI Maynooth
Opening of the conference by H.E. Justin Harman
Ambassador of Ireland in the Russian Federation=20
Keynote Address: Dr. Garrett FitzGerald, Chancellor of the
NUI=20

10:00-11:30 Session 1: Literature as catalyst
Chair: Dr. Ekaterina Genieva, Director General, Russian
State Library of Foreign Literature
Dr. Olga Sinitsyna, Deputy Director, Russian State Library
of Foreign Literature
Natalya Ivanova, Deputy editor-in-chief, journal Znamya=20
Dr Frank Sewell, School of Langauges and Literature,
University of Ulster, Coleraine

11:45-13:15 Session 2: Attitudes towards the law
Chair: Rory Brady, Attorney General
Mr. Alexey Demidov, Chairperson, IPOS UNESCO Information for
All Programme-Russia
Mr. Ji=F8=ED Vogl, Head of Department for Multilateral
Cooperation, Council of Europe, Strasbourg

13:15-14:15 Lunch
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14:15-15:45 Session 3: Attitudes towards history
Chair: Professor Vincent Comerford, Professor of History,
NUI Maynooth
Dr. Andrei Sorokin, Director General, Publishing House
=93Russian Political Encyclopaedia=94, Vice-President,
Russian Political Science Association=20
Dr. Niall Keogh, Irish Studies Coordinator in Russia

16:00-17:30 Session 4: Role of the Media
Chair: TBC
Mr. Nikolai Kasianov, Director General, news agency
=93INTERFAX=94=20
Mr. Conor O=92Cleary, Senior journalist with the Irish Times

18:30 Reception, sponsored by the NUI, to launch the
publication of the proceedings of the November 2005 Moscow
Conference, Collective memory in Ireland and Russia

Saturday 25 November 2006
09:30-10:00 Coffee
10:00-11:30 Session 5: National life through the prism of
religion
Chair: Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop of Dublin.=20
Bishop Mark of Egorievsk=20
Professor Dermot Keogh, Professor of History, University
College Cork

11:45-13:15 Session 6: Civil Society, Minorities and
migration
Chair: Anastasia Crickley, Department of Applied Social
Studies, NUI Maynooth
Dr. Egor Gaidar, Director, New Economic Institute, Russia
Dr. Rebecca King =D3 Riain, Department of Sociology, NUI
Maynooth

13:15-14:15 Lunch=20

14:15-15:45 Session 7: Perspectives towards Europe
Chair: TBC
Dr. Mark Entin, Director of the Institute of European Law,
Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO )
Mr. Alan Dukes, Director General of the Institute of
European Affairs
=20

16:00-17:30 Session 8: Plenary session and conclusions=20
Chairs: Justin Harman, Ambassador of Ireland in the Russian
Federation, and Dr. Ekaterina Genieva, Director General,
Russian State Library of Foreign Literature

All speakers


Dr Aoife Bhreatnach
Department of History
NUI Maynooth
Co Kildare
+353 (0) 1 708 3375
Check out my new book at http://www.ucdpress.ie

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Women's History Association of Ireland conference

Please find below details of the forthcoming WHAI annual meeting to be held
in Trinity College Dublin, hosted by the Centre for Gender and Women's
Studies. Registration details and form can be found at
http://www.tcd.ie/Womens_Studies/events/

Friday Evening, 17th November

19.00 Keynote address by Professor Catherine Hall (University College
London) "Gendering Ireland: Macaulay and the Writing of English History"

20.00 Reception


Saturday 18th November

9.30 Opening Lectures
Professor Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin)
"Doing Gender History: Mixed Marriages in Early Modern Ireland"

Professor Maureen Flanagan (Michigan State University)
"What a City ought to Be and Do: Gender and Urbanism in North America"

10.30 Panel I
Dr. Deana Heath (Trinity College Dublin)
"The Moral Logic of Colonialism: Gender, Governmentality and the Double Bind
of Moral Relativity"

Angela K. Dowdell (University of Michigan)
"Nimrods and Amazons: British big game hunters in fin-de-siecle Africa"

Dr. Carol Acton (St. Jerome's University)
"My Darling Englishman: First World War Letters and the Construction of a
Shared Story"

11.30 Coffee Break

11.45 Panel II
Dr. Katherine O' Donnell (University College Dublin)
"Emotion Between Men: Methods and Questions for Gender History"

Dr. Mary McAuliffe (University College Dublin)
"Gender and Social Control in Early Modern Ireland - re-reading the Florence
Newton witchcraft trial"

Dr. Stephanie Kirk (Washington University, St. Louis)
"The Jesuits and Masculine Ideology in Colonial Mexico: Arrogance and
Anxiety"

Dr. Una Ni Bhroimeil & Dr. Donal O'Donoghue (Mary Immaculate College)
"What lies beneath: Making Visible the Gender Construction of Teachers"

1.15 Lunch/AGM

2.15 Panel III
Ms. Cliona Rattigan (Trinity College Dublin)
"Abortion Cases and Gender Relations in Ireland, 1925-1950"

Dr. Sandra McAvoy (University College Cork)
"Reasonable Cause to Believe: Gender Bias and Gender Stereotyping in the
Conception of Sexual Crime Legislation in Ireland 1922-1935"

Ms. Eve Morrison (Trinity College Dublin)
"Female Republican Activism 1913-1923, the Bureau of Military History and
the need for gender studies"

Mr. Thomas Mohr (University College Dublin)
"The Rights of Women under the Constitution of the Irish Free State"

4.00 Closing Lectures
Professor Mary O' Dowd (Queen's University, Belfast)
"Daniel O' Connell and the Patriot Ladies: Towards a Gendered History of
Early Nineteenth Century Ireland"

Dr. Mary Cullen (Trinity College Dublin)
"Towards a New History: The Potential of Gender History"