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From today's Guardian...

P.O'S.


Marie Gillespie: A good sense of humour

The BBC is preparing a series on what makes Britain laugh. Chris Arnot meets
the academic behind it

Tuesday November 7, 2006
The Guardian

Heard the one about the Irishman who went for a job on a building site? "I
do have work available, Paddy," says the English foreman. "But I can't take
anybody on until they've passed an intelligence test." "No problem." "OK,"
says the foreman. "What's the difference between joists and girders?" "Ah,
that's easy," the Irishman replies. "Joyce wrote Ulysses and Goethe wrote
Faust."

Like many jokes, it works better when spoken. Dr Marie Gillespie,
sociologist and anthropologist, recounts it with some relish. It's her
favourite, and very pertinent in the context of her upbringing in London as
the daughter of a Donegal builder at a time when being Irish meant being the
butt of "jokes" denigrating your intelligence. Forty years on and she's
wading through other people's favourites, collected from a joke booth that
has been touring the country on behalf of the BBC and her employer, the Open
University.

.... Her own comic roots lie across the water. "My parents came to London in
the 1940s and followed the classic Irish upward mobility path. I was born in
Paddington but from there we moved to Kilburn, Cricklewood and then Hendon."

The Gillespies were the only Catholic family in a street full of Jews. All
were orthodox, apart from a Czech called Bertie who lived next door and had
seven sons, supporters of Tottenham Hotspur. "When Spurs were in the Cup
Final [as they were three times in the 60s], they'd come round to watch the
game at our house," she recalls. "Nobody else in the street was allowed to
switch on the television on the sabbath. My dad and Bertie would tell Irish
and Jewish jokes and we all laughed. It was the same every Christmas and
Jewish New Year. There was no political correctness, but a lot of mutual
respect."

Outside the home, particularly at school, anti-Irish jokes were harder to
take. "I remember thinking there couldn't be any clever Irish people."
Enlightenment came in her teens from a Dubliner who worked in her father's
builders' merchants and told her about Joyce, Yeats, Beckett and the rich
literary heritage of her parents' homeland...

FULL TEXT AT
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Irish Institute
http://www.bc.edu/centers/irish/institute/

Seeks New Director
Boston College's Center for Irish Programs seeks a new Director for the
Irish Institute. The Director is currently responsible for a budget of over
$1 million, a full-time staff of three, and designs, develops, and delivers
more than 16 exchange programs annually, with the prospect for more, which
range in length from one to four weeks. In addition, the Director is
responsible for the strategic direction of the Institute, for developing and
growing alumni relations with almost 700 program alumni, for expanding
current client relationships, and for seeking new business for the Institute
in Ireland and Northern Ireland in the area of executive education,
capitalizing on Boston College's institutional strengths.

More information and application instructions are available on Boston
College's recruitment website:
https://www7.bc.edu/erecruit/index.html
job reference 002509.

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This may be of interest to the list.

Bill Mulligan

Why We Move: Economic, Cultural, and Political Dimensions of International
Migration

The International Center at Cal Poly Pomona is soliciting presentations on
topics related to the causes and consequences of migration within and between
countries. Possible topics include the international flow of capital and
labor, populations in diaspora, cultural globalization, epidemiological and
environmental issues, and related themes. We seek contributions from scholars
in the humanities and social sciences, scientists, community activists,
artists, policy and business professionals, and development workers.
Conference dates are April 13-14, 2007. You can submit proposals for
individual papers, full sessions, or creative presentations. All proposals
should include the name and affiliation of participant(s) with contact
information; presentation title; one-page abstract (if panel, one for each
presentation); biodata sheet(s); and audiovisual needs. Please submit
proposals c/o Betsy Kinder, Program Committee, International Conference,
International Center, Cal Poly Pomona, 3801 West temple, Pomona, CA 91678-- or
electronically at bkinder[at]csupomona.edu.

Paivi Hoikkala
Department of History
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Phone: (909) 869-3866
Email: phoikkala[at]csupomona.edu

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Bill Mulligan
CFP: The 9th Annual Grian Conference March 1-3, 2007 Glucksman Ireland House
New York University

Gender in Ireland has traditionally been discussed in terms of the
personification of Ireland as woman and the role of women in a conservative,
Catholic country. Recent scholarship on gender and Irish subjects, however,
has expanded the discourse to include issues of masculinity, sexuality, queer
identities, and the role gender plays in a rapidly changing society (in both
the Republic and Northern Ireland). GRIAN invites papers from scholars in all
fields that address gender from contemporary and historical perspectives,
including, but not limited to, the following areas:

Gender, Sexuality, and Surveillance
Queer Identities
Gay Rights
Domestic Space
Domesticity
Domestic Violence Incest
Church/Clergy
Marriage/Divorce/Separation
Abortion/Reproductive Rights
Fear and the Racialized
(M)otherCult of Mary
Ireland as Woman: Maps and Bodies
Political Rhetoric
Policy/Legislation/Law
Colonial/Feminized Bodies
Celts/Feminine vs. Saxon/Masculine
(Hyper)masculinities (IRA, GAA)
Mother/Land/Famine
Viagra (made in Ireland)

Please send abstracts for 20 minute papers to both Elizabeth Gilmartin,
EGilmar100[at]aol.com and Kerri Anne Burke kab350[at]yahoo.com by December 1, 2006.

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This may be of interest to the list.=20

Bill Mulligan

CFP: Migration, Diaspora, Ethnicity, and Nationalism in History,=94=20


The Historical Society's 6th Biennial Conference, June 2008, Baltimore, M=
D P:=20
The relentless thrust of globalization and the unexpected termination of =
the=20
Cold War have increased rather than reduced global tensions. These=20
developments force us to reconsider some themes once thought to be exhaus=
ted.=20
Migrations, the formation of diaspora communities, and the resurgence of=20
ethnicities, both old and new, have transformed nationalisms and conventi=
onal=20
conceptions of the nation-state. With such considerations in mind, the=20
Historical Society is pleased to announce that the organizing theme for i=
ts=20
6th conference, scheduled for early June 2008, will be =93Migration, Dias=
pora,=20
Ethnicity, and Nationalism in History.=94 The conference will be held in=20
Baltimore, Maryland. We envision a meeting in which historians across fie=
lds=20
come together to deepen and enrich the state of knowledge about these vit=
al=20
concerns.=20

Franklin W. Knight, the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History=
at=20
Johns Hopkins University, will chair the 2008 conference program committe=
e.

Please send 6 copies of your proposal=97no more than 2 pages=97accompanie=
d by a=20
brief curriculum vitae by March 1, 2007 to:

2008 Conference
The Historical Society
656 Beacon Street, Mezzanine
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Without rekindling the poppy debate, I'd just like to ask a question. Last
week I was in an American restaurant styled as an English pub (operated, I
believe, by a Brit ex-pat and at best ok in quality). I couldn't hear the
television over the din, but the channel was showing reports from the
English football leagues. The presenters were wearing an enormous red thing
in their lapels. Were those the poppies? If so, they're three or four
times the size of the American ones, which, by the way, I've never seen worn
on television.

Tom

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Just to report, with Remembrance Sunday passed, that the discussion about
poppies and meaning continued in the British media. Examples below... I do
not think anything was added to the points already made on the IR-D list.
And this message just acknowledges those points, and is not an invitation to
re-open discussion here.

I have not seen anyone make what I always feel is the most poignant point
about the poppy symbolism - that the red poppy is here a farmland weed, and
suddenly appears in disturbed ground. At the edge of ploughland. Or on
battlefields...

P.O'S.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=
415488&in_page_id=1770

Newsreader Jon Snow rails against 'poppy fascism'
By PAUL REVOIR Last updated at 08:19am on 10th November 2006

Channel 4 newsreader Jon Snow has sparked anger after admitting he does not
wear a poppy out of principle when presenting the news.

Snow, 59, who has had complaints from viewers about his decision not to wear
the emblem, claimed that the pressure on news-readers to wear the
Remembrance Day emblem was "poppy facism".


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6131464.stm

Red poppy 'less Christian' claim

The red poppy is a symbol of remembrance for fallen soldiers
A Christian lobby group has claimed the wearing of red poppies is
"politically correct" and stifles debate.

The director of Ekklesia, Jonathan Bartley, said people should be able to
choose between red or white ones.

He added red poppies implied redemption through war, but Christianity seeks
redemption through non-violence. White ones were created to symbolise peace.

The Royal British Legion said the red version was "a symbol of the need
to... reflect on the human cost of war".

SUMMARY AT...

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article1963294.ece

Red, white, or none at all? The great poppy debate
By Jonathan Brown
Published: 11 November 2006

The Channel 4 newsreader Jon Snow has refused to wear one while presenting
Channel 4 News. Huw Edwards, the BBC newsreader, was handed one halfway
through the Ten O'Clock News two weeks ago. And in the immediate lead-up to
Remembrance Sunday, Britain's increasingly fractious poppy debate shows no
sign of running out of steam.

Mr Snow took a stand via his blog against what he described as "poppy
fascism" - the insistence that the absence of a poppy on his lapel
represented an insult to the country's war dead. In doing so he rekindled a
dispute that has reverberated through decades.


http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/richard_gott/2006/11/post_610.html


Lest we forget

Jon Snow's attack on 'poppy fascism' is a just and sobering reminder of what
the true meaning of remembrance ought to be.

...Of course, the wearing of poppies helps raise money for the British
Legion. Yet it should be easy enough to give money for that cause without
advertising the fact with an ostentatious poppy display.

And how is it that a grateful nation is still unable to come up with
sufficient cash to provide adequately for the returning survivors and their
families? Poppies should be worn, if at all, not with pride, but with
shame...

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I report the following from H-net and elsewhere, covering migrant and =
dispersed communities, the Irish in the world at large, decolonisation =
and postcolonial societies, varieties of English, or national and =
supranational identity, all of which have been discussed within the IR-D =
group from time to time.

[It is not my intention to give free advertising, but members of this =
group might care to note that the autumn book sale by the publisher Berg =
offers numerous books on these topics at =A35.99 until 30th November: =
see http://www.bergpublishers.com/uk/category_list_sale.asp.]


The following might be worth watching for what they can tell us =
explicitly or by implication.


Title: Why We Move: Economic, Cultural, and Political Dimensions
of International Migration
Location: California
Date: 2007-01-10
Description: The International Center at Cal Poly Pomona is
soliciting presentations on topics related to the causes and
consequences of migration within and between countries.
Possible topics include the international flow of capital and
labor, populations in diaspora, cultural globalization,
epidemiological an ...
Contact: phoikkala[at]csupomona.edu
Announcement ID: 153566
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=3D153566


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:::::::

Update CFP: Identities: Individual, Cultural, National, ...
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
2007 Graduate Student Conference: 31 March 2007
URI Memorial Union, 8:00 am-5:45 pm
Deadline 15 November 2006

Keynote Speaker: Ann Harleman, Ph. D.
Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design.

What does identity mean in the contemporary moment? How do issues such =
as
class, race, gender, ethnicity, religion, nationalism, and culture =
inform
our concepts of identity? Post-modernist theories of subject formation =
and
questions of autonomy and social construction influence the ways in =
which we
experience our identities as individuals and as active members of =
disparate
academic and social communities.

The English Department Graduate Student Conference Committee at the
University of Rhode Island invites submissions for presentations and =
panels
pertaining to issues relating to the concept of identity. We =
anticipate a
wide range of presentations from a variety of disciplines. Possible =
topics
and areas of interest include, but are not restricted to:

* Literary Studies
* Writing: Rhetoric, Composition, Creative Writing, Journalism
* Art, Drama, and Film Studies
* Historical Studies
* Anthropology
* Imperialism, (Post)Colonialism, Nationalism
* Globalization
* Women's Studies, Gender Studies
* Race/Ethnicity/Multi-cultural Studies
* Culture and Class
* Education
* Language and Dialect
* National/Regional Sports, Cuisine, Music, Dance ...

This is part copied from the VICTORIA list (cet.des.):


The National Endowment for the Humanities has posted its 2007 summer
list of Institutes and Seminars for College Teachers and several may be
of interest [...]. There are sessions on Oscar Wilde, Charles
Dickens, the Cathedral, Anglo-Irish Identity, etc.



I have much abbreviated the following:
=20

Tenth Nordic Conference for English Studies
University of Bergen, Norway
Thursday May 24 to Saturday May 26, 2007

Details of the conference will be posted as they become available on the =
conference web site at http://www.kongress.no/95.
Scholars in all areas of English Studies are invited to submit proposals =
for papers or posters to be presented at the conference. Papers will be =
presented at thematically organised parallel sessions and at workshops =
on specific topics.


The following panel topics have been proposed, and will be included in =
the programme: The Captivity Narrative in British and American =
Literatures: Beginnings to the Present, American Studies and its =
Outsides, Postcolonial Studies, Contemporary Poetry in English, English =
in Europe, Global Migrations: History, Fiction and Narrative, =
Interartial Connections, English Historical Linguistics.

=20

There is room for many more panels and workshops, and the conference =
will be organised around the actual papers submitted.


There will also be plenary lectures with invited speakers on issues of =
general interest within English studies.=20


Professor Robert Phillipson, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark:=20
Lingua Franca or Lingua Frankensteinia? English in European =
Integration and Globalisation
Professor Peter Trudgill, Fribourg University, Switzerland, and =
University of East Anglia, UK: Vernacular universals in dialects of =
English?
=20
The organisers welcome proposals for workshop or panel themes from =
anyone who would like to chair a workshop/panel and is also willing to =
encourage and invite others to present papers there. If you want to =
suggest a new workshop or panel title, please contact Lise Opdahl at the =
following email address: Lise.Opdahl[at]eng.uib.no.

The deadline for firm proposals for papers and poster presentations is =
December 1st, 2006, but the organisers will be happy to receive =
preliminary suggestions before that date.

DCR.

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Just to report, with Remembrance Sunday passed, that the discussion about
poppies and meaning continued in the British media. Examples below... I do
not think anything was added to the points already made on the IR-D list.
And this message just acknowledges those points, and is not an invitation to
re-open discussion here.

I have not seen anyone make what I always feel is the most poignant point
about the poppy symbolism - that the red poppy is here a farmland weed, and
suddenly appears in disturbed ground. At the edge of ploughland. Or on
battlefields...

P.O'S.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=
415488&in_page_id=1770

Newsreader Jon Snow rails against 'poppy fascism'
By PAUL REVOIR Last updated at 08:19am on 10th November 2006

Channel 4 newsreader Jon Snow has sparked anger after admitting he does not
wear a poppy out of principle when presenting the news.

Snow, 59, who has had complaints from viewers about his decision not to wear
the emblem, claimed that the pressure on news-readers to wear the
Remembrance Day emblem was "poppy facism".


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6131464.stm

Red poppy 'less Christian' claim

The red poppy is a symbol of remembrance for fallen soldiers
A Christian lobby group has claimed the wearing of red poppies is
"politically correct" and stifles debate.

The director of Ekklesia, Jonathan Bartley, said people should be able to
choose between red or white ones.

He added red poppies implied redemption through war, but Christianity seeks
redemption through non-violence. White ones were created to symbolise peace.

The Royal British Legion said the red version was "a symbol of the need
to... reflect on the human cost of war".

SUMMARY AT...

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article1963294.ece

Red, white, or none at all? The great poppy debate
By Jonathan Brown
Published: 11 November 2006

The Channel 4 newsreader Jon Snow has refused to wear one while presenting
Channel 4 News. Huw Edwards, the BBC newsreader, was handed one halfway
through the Ten O'Clock News two weeks ago. And in the immediate lead-up to
Remembrance Sunday, Britain's increasingly fractious poppy debate shows no
sign of running out of steam.

Mr Snow took a stand via his blog against what he described as "poppy
fascism" - the insistence that the absence of a poppy on his lapel
represented an insult to the country's war dead. In doing so he rekindled a
dispute that has reverberated through decades.


http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/richard_gott/2006/11/post_610.html


Lest we forget

Jon Snow's attack on 'poppy fascism' is a just and sobering reminder of what
the true meaning of remembrance ought to be.

...Of course, the wearing of poppies helps raise money for the British
Legion. Yet it should be easy enough to give money for that cause without
advertising the fact with an ostentatious poppy display.

And how is it that a grateful nation is still unable to come up with
sufficient cash to provide adequately for the returning survivors and their
families? Poppies should be worn, if at all, not with pride, but with
shame...

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1.
From: Carmel McCaffrey
Subject: Re: [IR-D] Poppy Row Continued...

That's them. Weapons of mass discussion.

Carmel

2.
From: W.F.Clarke[at]bton.ac.uk
To: "The Irish Diaspora Studies List"

This seems to have caught fire again and I'm sorry but just to add that some
people (mainly women?) are wearing posies of them, not just one

Liam (Clarke) =20


Thomas J. Archdeacon wrote:
> Without rekindling the poppy debate, I'd just like to ask a question.
> Last week I was in an American restaurant styled as an English pub
> (operated, I believe, by a Brit ex-pat and at best ok in quality). I
> couldn't hear the television over the din, but the channel was showing
> reports from the English football leagues. The presenters were
> wearing an enormous red thing in their lapels. Were those the
> poppies? If so, they're three or four times the size of the American
> ones, which, by the way, I've never seen worn on television.
>
> Tom

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Subject: CFP New Voices in Irish Criticism International Postgraduate
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New Voices

New Voices in Irish Criticism International Postgraduate Conference
2007 will be held in St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin
on the 20th and 21st April 2007

The theme of the conference this year will be Voicing Dissent. Papers =
should
be 20 minutes in length. Abstracts of not more than 200 words should be
submitted by Friday, 26th January 2007.

Call for Papers
New Voices 2007 invites papers from any dissenting voice in either the
English or Irish language from any era across the various disciplines of
literature, history, film, media, performing and visual arts.=A0 We want =
to
set up a dynamic between voicing dissent and dissenting voices.=A0 Is =
there a
shift in the position of power?=A0 Is there dissent; is there =
conformism; is
there communion; or is there commonality between old and new critical
voices?=20
=A0
Some suggested areas are:=20
=B7=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Any questioning voice=20
=B7=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Marginal voices (social, political, =
sexual, and artistic)=20
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Subject: CFP Irish Conerence of Medievalists and Irish Summer School,
Limerick, 2007
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Irish Conference Medievalists and Irish Summer School Announcement

TWENTY-FIRST IRISH CONFERENCE OF MEDIEVALISTS=20
Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick , Thursday to Saturday =
28th=A0
- 30th June 2007=20

Chairman: M=E1ire Herbert;=A0=A0 Organising Secretary: Catherine Swift=20
Committee: Anders Ahlqvist, Caoimh=EDn Breatnach, Liam Breatnach, =
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=D3 Cathasaigh, D=E1ibh=ED =D3 Cr=F3in=EDn, Ruairi =D3 hUiginn, Thomas =
O'Loughlin,=20
Katherine Simms=20

CALL FOR PAPERS : Papers are invited on medieval archaeology, art, =
history,
language and literature (Latin and the vernaculars). Length of papers:
45minutes (15 minutes discussion) or 20 minutes (10 minutes discussion). =

NB! As 2007 marks the existence of the Irish Conference of Medievalists =
for
twenty years, it was decided at this year=92s AGM to make a special =
appeal for
papers which deal with the nature of Irish medieval studies as an =
academic
field of study: the way it has changed since the inception of the =
conference
and its potential for development and expansion into the future. To
emphasize that this represents a wish to look forward, as well as =
looking
back, the conference this year is in a new venue, Mary Immaculate =
College ,
in Limerick.=20

Send details of proposed papers by e-mail - at the latest by 28 February
2007 =96=20
to Dr Catherine Swift=20
Director of Irish Studies=20
Mary Immaculate College=20
University of Limerick=20
TEL: (353 61) 204300=20
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circulated, together with the Conference programme, in March 2007. =
Details
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needing information in advance in order to apply to their institutions =
for
funding should contact the Organising Secretary, Dr Catherine Swift, for =
a
provisional estimate of costs.=20
PLEASE POST A COPY OF THIS NOTICE IN YOUR INSTITUTION=20
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Dr Catherine Swift Director of Irish Studies, Mary Immaculate College
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The Harp and the Eagle
Irish-American Volunteers and the Union Army, 1861-1865
Susannah Ural Bruce
ISBN 081479940X
320 pages, 38
Paperback

Release Date: 11/1/2006

Also available in Cloth

In The Harp and the Eagle Susannah Ural Bruce examines the motivations and
experiences of Irish-American volunteers in the Union Army during the
American Civil War. While there have been a number of works on particular
Irish soldiers or units, Bruce is the first to offer a sweeping study of
their service and the ideology behind it. She argues that despite the
diversity within the Irish-American Catholic population, their dual
loyalties to the United States and Ireland explain their decisions to
volunteer, to fight, and to continue or end their service. When the Union
cause supported their interests in Ireland and America, for example, large
numbers of Irish Americans volunteered for the war and their families
supported them. With the Emancipation Proclamation, the federal draft, and
the staggering rise in casualties, however, they began to question, and in
some cases, abandon, the Union war effort because they saw these changes as
an attack on their families and futures in America and in Ireland. Only by
recognizing these competing loyalties, Bruce argues, can we hope to
understand the relationship between Irish-American volunteers and the Union
Army, and how these men, their families and their communities understood
that service. The Harp and the Eagle is grounded in extensive research in
soldiers' and civilians' letters and diaries from U.S. and Irish archives,
as well as church, military, and diplomatic records, and community
newspapers. The result is a study of war and society that travels between
the battlefield and the home front to offer a better understanding of the
dual loyalties that so powerfully influenced Irish-American volunteers and
their service in the Union Army.

http://www.shsu.edu/~his_sub/harpeagle.htm

http://www.nyupress.org/product_info.php?products_id=4899

Note that the Introduction to Susannah Bruce's book is available as a pdf
file at the NYU web site...

http://www.nyupress.org/webchapters/0814799396intro.pdf

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Subject: A Mulvihill for a Mulligan
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My bonny regards to Bill Mulligan, Patrick. His schedule permitting, perhaps
he & I can meet in NYC, perhaps at Ireland House on the NYU campus. My
email: mulvihill[at]nyc.rr.com. Safe travels attend ye, Bill,

MEM
Advisory Editor & Contributor,
Encyclopedia of Irish-American Relations,
2 vols (forthcoming, [2007]).
_______________________

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Bill Mulligan, of Kentucky, is currently visiting me, here in Bradford, as
part of his grand tour of New York, Ireland and England...

Later this evening, after dinner, we will go to the pub for a pint and a
chat...

The future of the Irish Diaspora list will certainly be amongst the topics
we will discuss...

Are there any particular issues that Irish Diaspora list members would like
us to take on board?

Paddy O'Sullivan

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

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

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Hi, all

I'm working on a piece for my blog (http://liamgr.blogspot.com) on the
dynastic nature of the modern Irish political system and I need some
literary reference points that illustrate the dysfunctional/pathological
aspects of the Irish family.

I'm not interested so much in scholarly works or 'great' fiction or drama, I
just want something that might lend itself to humorous parody to illustrate
my point that Irish political dynasties are not a good thing because of the
screwed up nature of many Irish families resulting from immigration, the
inheritance of land, patriarchy etc.

I've looked at McGahern and JB Keane, but I'm loathe to tamper with genius
because I'm not sure I'm up to the job, but if anyone can point me to short
scenes or excerpts that might fit the bill, I'd be very grateful and your
contribution will, of course, be acknowledged.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Liam

PS If anyone wants to know how extensive the 'keep it in the family' system
of Irish politics is, check out
http://www.answers.com/topic/families-in-the-oireachtas

PPS Any comments on the blog site in general from list members would of
course be welcome and should be made off-list directly to me.

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Carmel McCaffrey

Thought the list might be interested in this unlikely coupling.

Taken from...

http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=1728537&issue_id
=14916

Carmel


Wilde about Al: Pacino proves the importance of being Oscar

DISHEVELLED hair, a scruffy overcoat and a sensible navy scarf.

Al Pacino could have been mistaken for a middle-aged professor during his
first visit to Dublin.

The hardest of Hollywood's hardmen looked every bit the mature academic as
he took a tour of Trinity College with a team of philosophical experts.

But the Oscar-winning actor still stood out.

Students stopped dead in their tracks when they saw the familiar, expressive
hand gestures and facial acrobatics. Heads turned in amazement as he
negotiated the uneven cobbles of Trinity College in the cold campus air.

As he made his way from the Long Room to the Book of Kells with a learned
entourage, he stopped to chat and pose for photographs. "I'm ashamed to
admit it's my first time in Ireland," he said. "I'd really love to put on
the Salome play here."

And that Salome play is the main reason he is here - the star of 'Scarface',
'Heat' and the Godfather movies has developed a passion for Oscar Wilde.

He has appeared as King Herod in Wilde's 'Salome' on Broadway and now plans
to shoot part of a documentary about the Irish writer's work in Dublin.

'Salomaybe?' will be based on Pacino's quest to find out more about Wilde
and his influences when he wrote the play. It will mirror the format of
Pacino's documentary 'Looking for Richard', which was shot 10 years ago and
concerned his approach to the title role in Shakespeare's 'Richard III'.

Yesterday, Pacino returned to Wilde's alma mater after flying from Paris,
where the Irish playwright, novelist poet and wit spent his final days.

"He asked loads of questions about Wilde and was very keen to see Wilde's
old rooms and birthplace," said the university's Philosophical Society
president Daire Hickey. "He also asked for the Irish Independent's recent
edition of JP Donleavy's 'The Ginger Man' because he said he knows Donleavy.


Tonight Pacino will receive an honorary patronage from the Philosophical
Society, whose canny members have yet again outdone the most sophisticated
public relations agents in luring yet another A-lister to the city. But it
is unlikely that the notoriously shy New Yorker is merely interested in
topping up an already monumental stash of accolades. The star of 'Scarface'
and the 'Godfather' movies, and probably the most ruthless mobster in
cinematic history, is fascinated by Dublin intellectual Wilde.

He was rapt as he listened to literary expert Professor Nicholas Grene
describe Wilde's student days.

He looked as happy as he did on Oscar night 1992 when he was brought to
Wilde's former lodgings in the residential square of Botany Bay on the
northern edge of the campus.

Anne-Marie Walsh

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Subject: British Association for Irish Studies, AGM,
Saturday 9th December 2006, London
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Forwarded On Behalf Of
Dr Claire Connolly
Secretary, BAIS National Council
connolly[at]cardiff.ac.uk

November 21, 2006


Dear BAIS member,

You are invited to the Annual General meeting of the British Association for
Irish Studies, to be held on Saturday 9th December 2006 at 4pm in room NG15,
North Block, Senate House, Malet Street, London.

All fully paid up members are entitled to attend.

Yours faithfully,

Dr Claire Connolly
Secretary, BAIS National Council
connolly[at]cardiff.ac.uk

AGENDA

Chair's Welcome & Opening Remarks

Minutes of AGM of Saturday 28 January 2006

Matters Arising

Chair's Report

Treasurer's Report

Reports on :
1) Education
a) Bursaries
b) Postgraduate Essay competition

2) Publications
a) Irish Studies Review
b) BAIS News
c) Website

3) Conference & Cultural Matters
a) 'Science Ireland' conference 24 June 2006

Irish Language

Membership

A.O.B.

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Subject: 50 Years of Northern Ireland Parliamentary Papers Online
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From: "Jim McAuley"
To: "The Irish Diaspora Studies List"

50 Years of Northern Ireland Parliamentary Papers Online

Hi paddy - this might be of interest to some on the list.

Stormont parliamentary papers are now online at

http://www.ahds.ac.uk/stormont//index.html


BW

Jim McAuley
Professor of Political Sociology and Irish Studies
School of Human & Health Sciences
The University of Huddersfield
West Yorkshire
HD1 3DH
England
Telephone: +44(0)1484 - 472691

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Subject: TOC, History in Focus, Migration: crossing borders
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The latest issue of History in Focus is now at...

http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Migration/index.html

It is a Migration special issue...

TOC below, plus more - reviews, lists, web sites - on the web site...

Note, especially, below the article by Edmundo Murray
Within and beyond the Empire: Irish settlement in Argentina (1830-1930)

P.O'S.


Introduction

This issue of History in Focus looks at migration history and the resources
available to study it. To find issues on other topics, go to our home page.

Articles
Migration: crossing borders

History in Focus invited thirteen academics to write short pieces on the
idea of crossing borders from their own research perspectives. The resulting
articles, listed below, illustrate the breadth and depth of historical
research relating to migration. The papers consider various types of borders
or boundaries: physical borders, social and cultural borders, linguistic
borders, economic borders, religious borders. Different perspectives,
different foci and different methodologies have guided the authors of these
articles, and we hope they will be of interest to historians and students of
migration and of the ways in which borders affect people's lives.
Articles index

*
Defending socialism? Benito Corghi and the inter-German border
by Pertti Ahonen
*
Chinabound: Crossing borders in treaty port China
by Robert Bickers
*
From green borders to paper walls: Jewish migrants from Eastern Europe
in Germany before and after the Great War
by Tobias Brinkmann
*
War, Cold War, and New World Order: political boundaries and Polish
migration to Britain
by Kathy Burrell
*
Beyond the pale? Mary Carpenter and the Irish poor in mid-Victorian
Bristol
by Madge Dresser
*
The boundaries of welfare
by David Feldman
*
Pizza, pasta and red sauce: Italian or American?
by Donna R. Gabaccia
*
Crossing borders: migration in Russia and Eastern Europe during the
twentieth century
by Peter Gatrell
*
Crossing borders: Scottish emigration to Canada
by Marjory Harper
*
Immigration: saying the unsayable
by Eric Homberger
*
The colonial and post-colonial dimensions of Algerian migration to
France
by Jim House
*
Within and beyond the Empire: Irish settlement in Argentina
(1830-1930)
by Edmundo Murray
*
Crossing occupation borders: migration to the north-east of England
by David Renton