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I am not sure that I fully understand how CLIOHRES is supposed to work.

This is from the web site...
'CLIOHRES.net ("Creating Links and Innovative Overviews for a New History
Research Agenda for the Citizens of a Growing Europe") is a Sixth Framework
Programme Network of Excellence organized by a group of 45 universities,
many of which are CLIOH.net members.
A five year project, it aims at achieving and disseminating greater
understanding of both the actual histories and the self-representations of
the past current in Europe today, highlighting both diversities and
connections and explaining the context of their development. It brings
together historians, geographers, art historians, linguists, theologists,
philologists, sociologists and philosophers in order to explore how
differences, connections, conflicts and positive interaction have developed
in the past and can develop in the future. It involves 180 research staff
and doctoral students from 31 countries.'

Having groaned over that contrived acronym... Evidently it publishes
material which you can buy...

But some stuff seems to be readily available...

Thus, go to...

http://www.cliohres.net/

And in CLIOHRESnet Publications 2006

1.
You can click on
Europe and the World in European Historiography
http://www.cliohres.net/books/book6.htm

which includes a chapter

Irish Historiography of Latin America and Irish Links with Latin America
By Mary Harris

2.
And you can click on
Frontiers and Identies
http://www.cliohres.net/books/book5.htm

which includes a chapter

Steven G. Ellis
Frontiers and identities in the historiography of the British Isles

3.
And you can click on
Public Power in Europe
http://www.cliohres.net/books/book1.htm
And find the article by Oliver Plauder...

It is mis-titled on the web site - it is in fact a study of material on
Irish Intelligence organisations and policing...

4.
Then, move down to the right, in
CLIOH's Workshop 2001-2005
Language and Identities

Click on the image and you get to a new TOC, including...
A View of the Irish Language: Language and History in Ireland from the
Middle Ages to the Present
Steven G. Ellis

Those are the items I think worth bringing immediately to the IR-D list's
attention. But there is a lot of interesting material here... Worth
browsing...

P.O'S.

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Call for Papers:=A0 Eolas: The Journal of the American Society of Irish
Medieval Studies

The editors of Eolas: The Journal of the American Society of Irish =
Medieval
Studies, request article submissions for the second annual volume of the
peer-reviewed journal.=A0 The American Society of Irish Medieval Studies =
is an
international and interdisciplinary body of scholars with the stated =
goal of
expanding the field of Irish medieval studies in the United States.

Eolas=A0publishes scholarly articles in any field related to Irish =
medieval
studies, including history, archaeology, theology, art history and
literature.=A0 The Editorial Board will also consider articles dealing =
with
periods on the periphery of the middle ages in Ireland, especially Iron =
Age
and Early Modern Ireland.=A0 Articles should be directly related to =
Ireland in
the middle ages in the widest sense of the term, although placing =
Ireland
within a wider medieval European context will be considered.=A0
Historiographical articles will also receive consideration.=A0 Essays =
stemming
from lectures or conference papers, especially the International =
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are
strongly encouraged.=A0 Unsolicited book reviews will not be accepted.

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Padraig O Siadhail asked that this item be passed on to members of CAIS =
and
friends:

Globe and Mail, November 23, 2006

*CYRIL BYRNE, CELTIC SCHOLAR: 1940-2006
*Professor was behind the creation of the D'Arcy McGee Chair of Irish=20
Studies at Saint Mary's University in Halifax

ALLISON LAWLOR

Special to The Globe and Mail

HALIFAX -- Cyril Byrne was fascinated by all aspects of Irish and Celtic =

culture, from literature and language to history. It was this love that=20
motivated him to lobby for years for the establishment of a chair of=20
Irish studies at St. Mary's University in Halifax, where he spent his=20
career as a professor.

His years of lobbying, planning and fundraising finally paid off in the=20
spring of 1986 when the D'Arcy McGee Chair of Irish Studies was=20
established at Saint Mary's with an endowment from the Charitable Irish=20
Society of Halifax and the university, plus funds from the federal=20
government. Prof. Byrne's efforts increased the amount by more than=20
$1-million.

"This was someone who was larger than life," P=E1draig O Siadhail said =
of=20
his colleague and friend. In 1987, Mr. O Siadhail was recruited from=20
Ireland to occupy the chair and teach the Irish language. He still holds =

the position.

The chair, which was named after an Irish-born Father of Confederation=20
who was assassinated in Ottawa in 1868, is the focus for the study of=20
Irish and Irish Canadian culture. While other universities offer Celtic=20
studies, the St. Mary's program is the only one of its kind to offer=20
undergraduates the choice of a minor and a major in Irish studies.

Prof. Byrne, a transplanted Newfoundlander, believed Halifax and St.=20
Mary's were the obvious places for Irish studies. The university was=20
originally founded by members of the Irish Catholic community and Rev.=20
Richard Baptist O'Brien, one of the institution's early presidents,=20
taught Irish Haligonians in Gaelic.

Mr. O Siadhail recalled the numerous fancy fund-raising events Prof.=20
Byrne orchestrated for the program, including a $1,000-a-head dinner=20
held in Montreal and sponsored by Irish-born Matthew Barrett, a former=20
chairman of the Bank of Montreal.

Part of Prof. Byrne's fund-raising efforts were focused on raising=20
$14,000 to buy a copy of the/ Book of Kells/, a manuscript produced by=20
Celtic monks around AD 800 that is considered one of the most=20
beautifully illuminated works of its kind in the world. He also=20
organized conferences and enticed such Irish speakers as Garrett=20
FitzGerald, Ireland's seventh taoiseach, and poet Seamus Heaney, who won =

the 1995 Nobel Prize in literature.

Cyril Joseph Byrne was the younger of two children of Bridget and George =

Byrne of Corner Brook, Nfld., where his father worked in the shipping=20
department of Bowater, a pulp-and-paper company. The Byrne roots went=20
deep in Newfoundland. Ancestors on both sides of his family are said to=20
have been on the Rock for centuries. As a young boy, he had a Catholic=20
education and was taught by the Presentation Sisters and the Irish=20
Christian Brothers.

Raised in a close family, young Cyril enjoyed the company of an extended =

family that consisted of 49 cousins. One of his favourite pastimes as a=20
child is said to have been sitting with his elders and listening to=20
their stories. Later in life, Prof. Byrne would focus his academic=20
studies on Newfoundland and its connections with Ireland.
"He wanted to feel those roots," said his friend and former colleague=20
Ken MacKinnon. "He was restless and loved to travel."

After graduating from St. Dunstan's University in Charlottetown in 1960, =

he set off for Ireland to do a masters at University College in Dublin.=20
"It was a great time to be in Dublin; the ambience affected all my=20
notions of Irish literature," he recalled in 2001. "I met people like=20
Patrick Kavanagh [poet] and Mary Lavin [novelist]. It was marvellous."
In 1970, he arrived in Halifax to join St. Mary's English department and =

remained there until his retirement in 2005. Along the way, he went to=20
England to complete a second master's degree at Oxford University, then=20
earned a doctorate at the University of Toronto.

It was in Halifax that Prof. Byrne met his wife. Suffering from=20
gallstones, he went to the hospital where Leona Delvallet was a nurse.=20
The couple married in 1972 and had three children. They separated in=20
1994. Prof. Byrne never remarried but had a relationship with Sibylle=20
Bechtold, with whom he had twin boys P=E1draig and Tobias.

Prof. Byrne possessed a magnetic classroom personality. With his=20
theatrical flair and knack for accents, he brought alive the texts of=20
Chaucer, Shakespeare and Joyce. Early in his career, he performed in=20
several CBC Radio dramas.

For his study and preservation of Irish traditions in Canada, Prof.=20
Byrne was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in 1992. He also=20
received the Father Stewart Medal for Excellence in Teaching at Saint=20
Mary's.

*Cyril Byrne was born on Aug. 6, 1940, in Corner Brook, Nfld., and died=20
of brain cancer in hospital in Halifax on Aug. 16, 2006. He was 66. He=20
leaves his sister, Marie, his former wife, Leona, and their children,=20
John, Joseph, and Marie. He also leaves Ms. Bechtold and their children=20
P=E1draig and Tobias

*
Paul Fitzgerald
Public Affairs Officer
Saint Mary's University
5907 Gorsebrook Avenue
Halifax, Nova Scotia
B3H 3C3
Phone (902) 420-5514
Fax (902) 420-5511
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Review of=20

Edmundo Murray
Becoming Irland=E9s:
Private Narratives of the Irish Emigration to Argentina,
1844-1912

Buenos Aires: L.O.L.A., 2006
ISBN 950-97-2571-4
210 pages

Reviews of this important book are now beginning to appear...

This review, by Jos=E9 C. Moya, can be found at

http://www.irlandeses.org/reviewmurray.htm

'This revised English version of the author=92s 2004 Devenir Irland=E9s =
offers
some advantages over the original Spanish edition. It abridges some of =
the
documents that make up the bulk of the volume: two memoirs and two sets =
of
family letters from Irish immigrants in Argentina, without losing any
substance. The documents are now presented in their original language.
Murray has also added a fuller discussion of the notion, conveyed in the
title of the book, that social identities represent processes rather =
than
fixed entities...'

The author's reply can be found at the same web site, and offers its own
insights into diasporic processes...

'...I would also like to add here that some of my thinking changed after =
the
first edition of this book in Spanish was published by Eudeba. This was =
not
totally unrelated to the human nature of devenir, but it was also part =
of my
own learning process in the study of emigrants' identities. Some rather
personal aspects changed radically. For instance, nowadays I do not seek =
an
Irish passport as I once did, in a somewhat Romantic fashion, a few =
years
ago. I must acknowledge the significant influence of the referendum of =
11
June 2004 [in Ireland], when an overwhelming majority of the Irish =
voters
denied jus soli to children born in Ireland of foreign parents...'

I happen to be writing a paragraph on the 2004 referendum - and can now =
cite
Edmundo Murray on some of its resonances outside Ireland.


Patrick O'Sullivan

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Liam, Good luck with your search and its outcome=2E The following are of
course obvious to you - the de Valera dynasty- still going strong; the
Flynns here in Mayo and of course the "Ahernia"=2E I always enjoy your
interventions on the list=2E Will you be at the launch of the Irish in Eur=
ope
project next Wed=2Ein the RIA=2E I am hoping to be there=2E I keep busy wi=
th
local history socs etc in the North etc=2E You may nor may not recall our
meetings with Desmond Greaves in the Irish Centre in L'pool and elsewhere=2E=

Best wishes John=20

Original Message:
-----------------
From: Liam Greenslade liam=2Egreenslade[at]GOOGLEMAIL=2ECOM
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:48:55 -0000
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL=2EAC=2EUK
Subject: [IR-D] The Irish Family in politics


Hi, all

I'm working on a piece for my blog (http://liamgr=2Eblogspot=2Ecom) 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=2E=20

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 illustrat=
e
my point that Irish political dynasties are not a good thing because of th=
e
screwed up nature of many Irish families resulting from immigration, the
inheritance of land, patriarchy etc=2E

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 shor=
t
scenes or excerpts that might fit the bill, I'd be very grateful and your
contribution will, of course, be acknowledged=2E

Thanks in advance for your help=2E

Liam

PS If anyone wants to know how extensive the 'keep it in the family' syste=
m
of Irish politics is, check out
http://www=2Eanswers=2Ecom/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=2E


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Hi John

Thanks for that. I remember those meetings well. I learned a lot from =
some
of those Connolly Association boys in the Irish Centre. I've run across =
some
of them from time to time at Bodenstown and other republican fiestas. =
How
are you keeping yourself? I've pretty much lost touch with everyone from =
my
Institute of Irish Studies days and turned into an old Dub.

Re the blog, I have the dynasties sorted out but it's writing the funny =
bit
that's proving hard. I was thinking of doing something about a Mammy and
Daddy sitting around the kitchen table deciding their children's future; =
one
to the priesthood, one to the land, one to the boat, one to be married =
off
and the last, most stupid one to the D=E1il, kind of thing.=20

Anyway, good to hear from you. I might get across to the RIA on =
Wednesday so
maybe see you then

Take care and keep well =20

Liam


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Behalf
Of jjnmcg1[at]eircom.net
Sent: 24 November 2006 14:55
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [IR-D] The Irish Family in politics

Liam, Good luck with your search and its outcome. The following are of
course obvious to you - the de Valera dynasty- still going strong; the
Flynns here in Mayo and of course the "Ahernia". I always enjoy your
interventions on the list. Will you be at the launch of the Irish in =
Europe
project next Wed.in the RIA. I am hoping to be there. I keep busy with
local history socs etc in the North etc. You may nor may not recall our
meetings with Desmond Greaves in the Irish Centre in L'pool and =
elsewhere.
Best wishes John=20

Original Message:
-----------------
From: Liam Greenslade liam.greenslade[at]GOOGLEMAIL.COM
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:48:55 -0000
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] The Irish Family in politics


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.=20

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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The latest issue of the journal

Political Studies: Volume 54, Issue 4, Dec 2006

Has a number of items of interest, and specifically these ARTICLES...

P.O'S.

Alternative Ulster? Political Parties and the Non-constitutional Policy
Space in Northern Ireland
Karin Gilland Lutz, Christopher Farrington

www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9248.2006.00636.x

This article uses data from a survey of the candidates in the 2003 Northern
Ireland Assembly election to measure the policy positions of the Northern
Irish political parties on scales that are the usual measurements of party
policy in Western Europe, such as on economic and social issues, the
European Union, morality issues, environmental issues and minority groups.
These data were then used to test whether the Northern Ireland party system
was conducive to integration or consociationalism, which is the current
debate on conflict resolution in Northern Ireland. It argues that this
debate has been under-theorised and that empirical data can be used to test
the likelihood of either scenario. It concludes that, in most aspects, the
Northern Ireland party system tends towards the consociational scenario but
there are, nevertheless, aspects which suggest that an integrationist
scenario could be produced in the long term.

Pragmatists, Ideologues and the General Law of Curvilinear Disparity:
The Case of the Irish Labour Party
Fiachra Kennedy, Pat Lyons, Peter Fitzgerald

www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9248.2006.00630.x

In this article we examine the opinion structure of Irish Labour party
members and supporters. Our purpose is to test May's law of curvilinear
disparity by dividing party members into two groups as outlined by
Kitschelt. By focusing on ideological differences within political parties
Kitschelt identifies two types of members: ideologues and pragmatists. We
use two individual-level data sets: the Labour Leadership Election Study
(LLES) and the Irish National Election Study (INES), to test May's law. We
find some limited support for May's law and Kitschelt's extensions to this
model.

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The Townlands of Brazil

Axis Arts Centre, Ballymun

Karen Fricker
Monday November 27, 2006
The Guardian

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/reviews/story/0,,1957744,00.html

In this new play, both prequel and sequel to his award-winning From These
Green Heights, Dermot Bolger continues his detailed and necessary history of
the misunderstood Dublin working-class community of Ballymun. The first act,
set in 1963 when the Ballymun area was farmland, tells the story of an unwed
mother forced to emigrate to England. The second act takes place in the
present, as a young Polish widow works as a mushroom picker and sends money
home to her daughter.

This portrait of Ireland's new immigrant communities - isolated and stuffed
into tiny Ballymun apartments - is something genuinely new on Irish stages,
and feels welcome and urgent. By stitching together the experiences of the
dispossessed from past generations and those of misunderstood new arrivals,
Bolger urges his audience to think beyond difference.

The problem is that Bolger has far too many stories to tell, particularly in
the second act - this play was screaming for a dramaturg. The first act
consists mostly of flashbacks narrated directly to the audience, and the
second forces the actors to speak overwritten passages of novelistic-style
description. Director Ray Yeates draws committed and at times convincing
performances from the six-strong cast (including the fine Polish actress
Julia Krynke), but falters at the frequent points when the play demands high
emotion - always communicated as people screaming at uninflected top volume.

But despite the production's sometimes agit-prop feel and lack of subtlety,
the material consistently intrigues and engages. Its detailed treatment of
the past reminds us of the human lives behind stories that have become
cliches, and it will hopefully open the door for more stage accounts of -
and eventually by - Ireland's new populations.

. Until December 3. Box office: (353) 1 883 2100.

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This may be of interest to the list.

Bill Mulligan

CALL FOR PAPERS


The UCD O=B9Kane Centre for Film Studies in conjunction with the Clinton
Institute for American Studies, UCD, the Humanities Institute, UCD, the
Irish Program, Boston College, the Huston School of Film and Digital Medi=
a
and the School of Film and Television Studies, University of East Anglia
invite proposals for papers to be given at the:


SCREENING IRISH-AMERICA CONFERENCE



To be held at the Clinton Institute for American Studies, UCD

13-15 April 2007


Proposals covering all aspects of Irish-American Screen Studies, from the
Early and Silent period through to New Media Technologies would be welcom=
ed.
Scholars from all disciplines are encouraged to submit proposals.

Screening Irish-America is a collaborative, interdisciplinary network of
scholars run from the UCD O=B9Kane Centre for Film Studies. Further detai=
ls of
the project may be found on our website: www.ucd.ie/film. Members keep in
touch via a listserv. To join the listserv, please email
LISTSERV[at]LISTSERV.HEANET.IE with the message "Subscribe UCD-SCREEN-IRISHU=
SA"
in the message body. Do not put any text in the subject line.


Speakers already confirmed for the conference include:

Professor Charles Barr
Professor Luke Gibbons
Professor Jim Kitses
Professor Martin McLoone
Dr Diane Negra
Professor Kevin Rockett


More details of further speakers and events will be circulated on the
listserv.

For further information, please contact the director of the Screening
Irish-America network, Dr Ruth Barton: ruth.barton[at]ucd.ie or Rowena Kelly=
at
film.studies[at]ucd.ie.

Deadline for submission of proposals is: Friday 1 December 2006

A BOOK OF ESSAYS ARISING OUT OF THE PROJECT WILL BE PUBLISHED

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The ongoing debate about the position of Catholics in Scotland still
surfaces in the media - most recent manifestation, below...

P.O'S.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,,1958615,00.html

Catholics bear brunt of Scottish sectarian abuse


. Religiously motivated incidents rise by 50%
. Football fans blamed for prolonging old prejudices

Severin Carrell, Scotland correspondent
Tuesday November 28, 2006
The Guardian

There has been a steep rise in cases of religious hatred and religiously
motivated crime in Scotland, mainly targeted against Catholics living in the
west of the country. Official figures yesterday revealed that the number of
sectarian incidents reported to police jumped by 50%, with more than 440
Scots convicted of religiously motivated verbal and physical assaults in one
18-month period.

The Roman Catholic church said the statistics provided proof that religious
bigotry was embedded in parts of Scottish society. Cardinal Keith O'Brien,
the Scottish church's senior cleric, said: "Sadly, this document shows that
Catholics in Scotland are still many times more likely to be the subject of
a sectarian attack than any other group. During the period of this study
Catholics were five times more likely to be the victims. This is of great
concern to me."

The report from Scottish executive statisticians is the latest in a series
of initiatives to combat sectarianism involving police, churches, political
leaders and the owners of Glasgow's two largest football clubs, Rangers and
Celtic.

The figures analysed 726 cases between January 1 2004 and June 30 2005 where
people were charged with religiously aggravated offences, and found that in
64% of cases the abuse or assaults were motivated by hatred against
Catholics, and by hatred against Protestants in most of the remaining cases.

More recent figures show that in 2005-06 there were more than 700 racially
aggravated crimes handled by prosecutors, up from 479 the previous year.

They were frequently attacks on the street or close to football matches,
mostly by drunken young men. Although many incidents took place in Glasgow,
a large minority of offenders lived in different parts of Scotland,
suggesting that Rangers-Celtic games and the city's historic loyalist and
republican parades were a significant focus for sectarianism.

Cathy Jamieson, the Scottish executive's justice minister, said that while
crime was falling generally the rise in these cases was evidence that
bigotry was being punished and "publicly recorded as the disgrace they are.
The message is clear: bigots and bullies have no place in a modern Scotland
and will be shamed."

Assistant chief constable Kevin Smith said that in more than 20% of cases
"sectarian bile" was also directed against police officers trying to quell
disturbances or outbreaks of sectarianism.

Professor Steve Bruce, of Aberdeen University, editor of the recent study
Sectarianism In Scotland, said that as nearly 90% of the offences involved
verbal abuse and breach of the peace this suggested that religious
intolerance was a minor problem. The figures, he said, showed that religious
intolerance was evenly shared among Protestants and Catholics, as the
two-to-one ratio of incidents was roughly the same as the size of those
populations in the west of Scotland.

"I'm pleasantly reassured that 90% of these cases didn't involve violence,"
he said.

"That puts it far, far below wife-beating, racial attacks and below
gay-bashing."

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The work of Dr. Craig Morgan on family patterns and Schizophrenia is
re-opening the debate about the condition. In Ireland the geneticists are
plodding through the sequences trying to locate the schizophrenia gene or
genes...

The Morgan references are...

Morgan, C., Kirkbride, J., Leff, J., Craig, T., Hutchinson, G., McKenzie,
K., Morgan, K., Dazzan, P., Doody, G., Jones, P., Murray, R., & Fearon, P.
(2007) Parental separation, loss and psychosis in different ethnic groups: a
case-control study. Psychological Medicine, in press.

Morgan, C. & Fisher, H. (2007) Environmental Factors in Schizophrenia:
Childhood Trauma: A Critical Review. Schizophrenia Bulletin, In press.

I have pasted in below The Guardian's summary of the research and its
findings.

There is, of course, a migration studies aspects to these observations -
which as far as I can see has not been highlighted.

P.O'S.



http://www.guardian.co.uk/medicine/story/0,,1953958,00.html

Schizophrenia much more likely in children of single parents


. Social adversity may cause higher incidence
. Study debunks belief that illness is purely genetic

Sarah Hall, health correspondent
Wednesday November 22, 2006
The Guardian

Children born into families which split up before they are 16 are two and a
half times more likely to develop schizophrenia in later life than those
brought up by parents who stay together, psychiatrists leading the largest
UK study into why people develop psychosis revealed yesterday.

The risk occurs if children have been separated from parents for at least a
year, or if either parent dies, or both. It makes no difference which parent
leaves, and the risk remains even if the child maintains regular contact
with the absent parent. One in four children in Britain are brought up by
single parents.

The finding - which flies in the face of the long-held assumption that
schizophrenia and psychosis are purely genetic - emerged when researchers at
the institute of psychiatry, King's College London, began looking into why
African-Caribbean and African communities in Britain suffer from "remarkably
high" rates of schizophrenia and manic psychosis.

The researchers, who had been investigating the incidence of psychosis among
different ethnic groups in south London, Nottingham and Bristol, found that
African-Caribbean people were nine times more likely to develop
schizophrenia than white Britons and eight times more likely to develop
manic psychosis. Black Africans were six times more likely to develop
schizophrenia and six times more likely to develop manic psychosis. The
rates were consistent for men and women, and across all age groups from 16
to 64. The standard risk for schizophrenia or psychosis is one in 100.

In determining the higher incidence, researchers led by Dr Craig Morgan
looked at long-term separation from parents. "We found separation or loss of
one or both parents before 16 was associated with a two to three increase in
the risk of psychosis," said Dr Morgan. Long-term separation was almost
twice as common in African-Caribbean communities compared with white
British, with 31% of African-Caribbean families separating compared with 18%
of white British families.

Dr Morgan, who compared 390 patients with 390 controls in the largest
case-control study ever to explore the issue, said it was unclear whether it
was the stress of separation, the stress of abuse that may precede this, or
the poverty often associated with separation that was responsible.

"We don't know whether this is to do with the separation itself or to do
with the associated social adversity - which we think is most likely" he
said. He refused to predict that schizophrenia or psychosis would rise if
the number of children in one-parent families increased: "Family breakdown
may be particularly important [as a risk factor] when it's rare - when
children's peers aren't in that situation."

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I agree that it looks like a large broach and with the centre pin loose
so that it holds the broach on. I have one just like it. They were
popular among male Irish dancers to hold their cloak on which hung over
one shoulder. By the way, aren't the dates incorrect? He was deported
on March 21st 1916? This would have been before the Rising.

Carmel

Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:
> Edmundo,
>
> The photograph you direct us to is labelled Eamon Bulfin, not William
> Bulfin...
>
> Anyway... To start the ball rolling, it looks to me like a piece of
> jewellery, most probably a version of the Tara Brooch, or one of the other
> brooches in the RIA collection, or a newly designed Celtic Revival piece...
> The main maker was Waterhouse and Company, Dublin.
>
> See the discussion on...
>
> http://www.victorianweb.org/art/design/celtic/byecroft10.html
>
> http://www.victorianweb.org/art/design/jewelry/6.html
>
> The key text is
> Sheehy, Jeanne. The Rediscovery of Ireland's Past: The Celtic Revival
> 1830-1930. Thames and Hudson, London: 1980.
>
> The Tara Brooch itself was found in 1850, in Bettystown, Meath, nowhere near
> Tara - it was given the name by the dealer who sold it on...
>
> Paddy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
> Of Murray, Edmundo
> Sent: 29 November 2006 10:35
> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: [IR-D] William Bulfin (1892-1968)
>
> Dear Ir-D members,
>
> Can anybody help me to identify an emblem that William Bulfin was
> wearing in the following photograph?
> http://www.irlandeses.org/dilab_bulfine.htm
>
> The quality of the picture is not good, so it is difficult to recognise
> details. Could it be related to Irish republicanism or Gaelic League?
>
> Thanks in advance for your kind co-operation,
>
> Edmundo Murray
>
> .
>
>

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This is not necessarily an Irish Studies question, but it is a Migration
Studies question:

A colleague wants to develop a reading list of fictionalized accounts of
immigrants (preferably to the US, but other countries too) who go from
high-status occupations in their home country to low-status jobs in the new
one -- such as the cab driver we've all met, who was a physician at home.

No Irish versions came to mind -- but any suggestions?

Thanks

Jim Rogers

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Dear Ir-D members,

Can anybody help me to identify an emblem that William Bulfin was
wearing in the following photograph?
http://www.irlandeses.org/dilab_bulfine.htm

The quality of the picture is not good, so it is difficult to recognise
details. Could it be related to Irish republicanism or Gaelic League?

Thanks in advance for your kind co-operation,

Edmundo Murray

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


Journal from Rutledge

Third Text - Special Issue
The Conflict and Contemporary Visual Culture in Palestine & Israel
Guest Editors: Haim Bresheeth and Haifa Hammami
This special issue aims to cover the complex and rich relationship =
between the memory of national traumas in Palestine and Israel, and the =
many kinds of cultural and artistic representation that have addressed =
them.
For further details and an order form please visit:=20
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/spissue/ctte-si1.asp

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


Mapping France

ASMCF conference, 6-8 September 2007

University of Reading

Call for papers

No country in Europe boasts a greater geographical diversity than =
France. The contrast between a strong national identity, underpinned by =
a centralised state, and an infinite diversity of local situations =
waiting to be discovered and compared, is one of the delights that of =
studying it.

But the fact that 'Paris is not France' also presents the specialist of =
France with an obvious problem, more acute here than elsewhere: how can =
we be sure that what we know about 'France', based in the capital, =
corresponds to the thoughts and behaviour of Bretons or Alsaciens or =
Savoyards or Auvergnats? And how persistent, and consistent has the =
geographical diversity of the country been in an age when globalisation =
has diminished distance and difference between countries and continents, =
to say nothing of regions?

This conference will have the ambitious aim of mapping France's =
geographical diversity in a variety of political, historical and =
cultural areas, in the hope not only of drawing participants into =
unknown but revealing byways, but also of producing, through a =
multidisciplinary approach, a sum that is greater than its parts.

Possible panels

The panels outlined below are intended as examples, and the list is not =
exhaustive:

=20

1.. France's electoral geography=20
2.. Militants des villes, militants des champs=20
3.. The post-Jacobin state. The new map of local and regional power in =
France=20
4.. La Courneuve is not France: the geographical diversity of =
immigrant experiences=20
5.. War and geographical diversity in France=20
6.. Tokenism or a foot in the door? Parity and territorial =
representation in France.=20
7.. Religion and the shaping of French territory=20
8.. Paris, the provinces and the media=20
9.. Ville, banlieue, terroir: changing landscapes in contemporary =
French writing and chanson.=20
10.. Mapping Postcolonial France=20
11.. Towards a geography of French sport
=20

The full version of this call for papers will be posted on the ASMCF =
website =
(http://www.asmcf.org/asmcf/conferences/conferences.htm#ASMCFconference20=
07).

=20

All enquiries and proposals for panels and papers (abstract of 250 =
words) should be addressed to:

=20

Professor Andrew Knapp

French Studies

School of Languages and European Studies

University of Reading

PO Box 218

Whiteknights

Reading

RG6 6AA

=20

telephone +44 (0)118 3788120

fax +44 (0)118 3788122

=20

e-mail a.f.knapp[at]reading.ac.uk



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Why We Move: Economic, Environmental, Cultural and Political Dimensions =
of=20
International Migration

International Center
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
April 13-14, 2007

Call For Papers

California State Polytechnic University Pomona is holding an =
international=20
conference on ?Why We Move: Economic, Environmental, Cultural and=20
Political Dimensions of International Migration.? The event will be =
held=20
on our campus on April 13-14, 2007. The International Center at Cal =
Poly=20
Pomona is soliciting papers, panels, workshops, and creative =
presentations=20
on any topics related to the causes and consequences of migration within =

and between countries. Possible topics include the international flow =
of=20
capital and labor, refugees and populations in diaspora, cultural=20
globalization, epidemiological and environmental issues, and related=20
themes. We seek contributions from scholars of the humanities and =
social=20
sciences, scientists, community activists, artists, policy and business=20
professionals, and development workers. Sessions will run for 90 =
minutes;=20
individual papers should be 15 to 20 minutes (followed by questions),=20
panels about an hour and ten minutes. Displays, interactive=20
demonstrations, and book promotions are welcome. We envision a =
discussion=20
forum wrap-up as the final session on Saturday.=20

P?ivi Hoikkala: phoikkala[at]csupomona.edu, or (909) 869-4574
Dorothy D. Wills: ddwills[at]csupomona.edu, or (909) 869-3582

Please submit your proposal electronically to bkinder[at]csupomona.edu no=20
later than January 10, 2007, or by mail c/o Betsy Kinder, Program=20
Committee, International Conference, International Center, Cal Poly=20
Pomona, 3801 W. Temple Avenue, Pomona,
CA 91768.=20


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NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY:
(Re)Locating Borders: Negotiating & Constructing Identities

University of Arizona March 3-4, 2007

The 2007 New Directions in Critical Theory Conference, an
interdisciplinary graduate student forum at the University of Arizona,
will focus on interrogating the tensions inherent in constructing and
negotiating identities against and through physical and metaphorical
borders. Considering our proximity to a physical border in an era of
political discourse that continues to use the concept of identity in a
divisive manner, we wish to address the many ways and reasons that
identities fluctuate in an ongoing process of negotiation and
re-articulation.

In addition to theorizing the work that goes into identity formation
when individuals are physically displaced, this conference also seeks
to explore what happens when the borders in question are not as
concrete as the line on a map. Borders may be understood as an
attempt to define and fix what belongs or does not belong in a given
space; they also invoke fluid identities on multiple levels. The
contextualization of identity requires that we deny neither fixity nor
changing practices within individuals or groups. Scholars and
activists speaking of identity frequently invoke a subtext of
marginality in order to explore how categories such as race, class and
gender disenfranchise and empower individuals. How do individuals and =
groups deploy these categories in oppositional and definitional ways
to intervene in and challenge borders?
A list of possible topics and subject areas may include:

* Alienation
* Appropriation and Co-optation
* Bodies of/and Knowledge
* Borders and Criminalization
* Consumerism, Media and Identity
* Diaspora, Displacement and Im/migration
* Diversity and Similarity
* Feminist, Queer and Critical Race Theories
* Geographical Borders
* Global/Local Politics and Policies
* Heterinormativity/Homosexuality/Transsexuality
* History/Autobiography
* Hybridity and Embodiment
* Language and discrimination
* Memory and Identity
* National/Cultural/Racial/Sexual/Gendered/Class Identity
* Policy and planning
* Popular Culture/High Culture
* Post/Neocolonialism
* Science and Technology
* Sex and Economy
* Space and Mobility
* Spirituality and Subjectivity
* Texts, Bodies and Spectacle
* The Academy, Activism and Community
* The Rhetoric of Territories and Frontiers
* Tourism and Travel Writing
* Translation/Adaptation/Interpretation
* Virtual Borders and Identities

New Directions Co-Chairs=20
Daniel Griffin, Rhetoric, Composition and the Teaching of English=20
Michael Kolakoski, Literature
Andrea Modarres, Literature
Carly Thomsen, Women's Studies

at ndconf[at]gmail.com or c/o English Department, Modern Languages
Building, Room 445, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721.


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Second Annual EGSA Colloquium: Intersecting Identities
February 15th, 16th 2007
Texas A&M University
=20

The Texas A&M University English Graduate Association announces its=20
second colloquium to be held February 15-16, in College Station, TX. =
The=20
theme for this colloquium is "Intersecting Identities." In a recent =
MELUS
interview, renowned author and literary activist E. Ethelbert Miller
expresses his "amaze[ment]" at how many scholars "are still quoting Du
Bois and his double consciousness idea. That's pass=E9," he says, "many
people of color have triple identities" (129). In the vein of Miller's
comments, this colloquium looks to examine and expand the concept of
identity, be it double, triple, or multiple. Topics for presentations
could include a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives, including=20
butnot limited to, history, economics, sociology, political science,
performance studies, visual arts, etc. Some research questions could
include: How is identity defined? What are some ways to rethink Du=20
Bois'century-old idea of "double consciousness"? How do we know who we =
are?
Are multiple identities restricted to, in Miller's words, "people of
color"? How are identities expressed? Is the concept of "identity"
outmoded?


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Call For Papers
Upheavals of Memory: Defining, Imagining, Creating, Contesting
Humanities Institute, University College Dublin
27-28 April 2007

The aim of this two-day conference is to examine the discourses in which =
memory is defined, imagined, created, and contested. The focus of the =
event is to examine the identical, oppositional, complementary, and =
contradictory boundaries of the powers of remembrance across various =
disciplines. This event focuses on the overarching theme of the initial =
HII research programme, Identity, Memory and Meaning in the Twenty-First =
Century, by tangling the issue of the upheavals of memory from a variety =
of
intersecting discourses including, but not limited to, philosophy, =
psychology, anthropology, archaeology, sociology, language, literature, =
linguistics, history, art history, classical studies, film studies, =
geography, and music. =20

> For further information, see www.ucd.ie/hii.=20

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Edmundo,

The photograph you direct us to is labelled Eamon Bulfin, not William
Bulfin...

Anyway... To start the ball rolling, it looks to me like a piece of
jewellery, most probably a version of the Tara Brooch, or one of the other
brooches in the RIA collection, or a newly designed Celtic Revival piece...
The main maker was Waterhouse and Company, Dublin.

See the discussion on...

http://www.victorianweb.org/art/design/celtic/byecroft10.html

http://www.victorianweb.org/art/design/jewelry/6.html

The key text is
Sheehy, Jeanne. The Rediscovery of Ireland's Past: The Celtic Revival
1830-1930. Thames and Hudson, London: 1980.

The Tara Brooch itself was found in 1850, in Bettystown, Meath, nowhere near
Tara - it was given the name by the dealer who sold it on...

Paddy


-----Original Message-----
From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Murray, Edmundo
Sent: 29 November 2006 10:35
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] William Bulfin (1892-1968)

Dear Ir-D members,

Can anybody help me to identify an emblem that William Bulfin was
wearing in the following photograph?
http://www.irlandeses.org/dilab_bulfine.htm

The quality of the picture is not good, so it is difficult to recognise
details. Could it be related to Irish republicanism or Gaelic League?

Thanks in advance for your kind co-operation,

Edmundo Murray

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immi gran
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A couple to consider: Kite Runner (Afghanistan upper middle class father=
to=20
open air market merchant in California and Brick Lane, Indians transplan=
ted=20
to London by Monica Ali are two that come to mind right away.
Linda


>From: "Rogers, James"
>Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
>To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: [IR-D] novels/stories featuring dramatic changes in job status=
=20
>for immi grants
>Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:26:22 -0600
>
> This is not necessarily an Irish Studies question, but it is a Migrati=
on
>Studies question:
>
>A colleague wants to develop a reading list of fictionalized accounts of
>immigrants (preferably to the US, but other countries too) who go from
>high-status occupations in their home country to low-status jobs in the =
new
>one -- such as the cab driver we've all met, who was a physician at home.
>
>No Irish versions came to mind -- but any suggestions?
>
>Thanks
>
>Jim Rogers

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It appears to be a version of the Tara Brooch found on a beach in
Bettystown, Co Meath in 1850. It was copied and reproduced by Waterstones
the jewellers for the Crystal Palace exhibition of 1851. It was then much
copied in both expensive and cheap reproduction and variant forms (I have
one from the 1950s that belonged to my mother).

It would certainly have been regarded as a cultural symbol of Irishness in
the context of the Gaelic Revival and was very popular in its day for both
men and women, but as far as I know was never adopted formally by any
republican organisation of the time. I may be wrong but I seem to recall
seeing a picture of Yeats (or one of those guys) wearing something similar.

Liam



-----Original Message-----
From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Murray, Edmundo
Sent: 29 November 2006 10:35
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] William Bulfin (1892-1968)

Dear Ir-D members,

Can anybody help me to identify an emblem that William Bulfin was
wearing in the following photograph?
http://www.irlandeses.org/dilab_bulfine.htm

The quality of the picture is not good, so it is difficult to recognise
details. Could it be related to Irish republicanism or Gaelic League?

Thanks in advance for your kind co-operation,

Edmundo Murray

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It looks that I shouldn't go farther. The Tara Brooch seems to be the
one Eamon (not William, I'm sorry!) is sporting. Thanks a lot for this,
Edmundo

-----Original Message-----
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Behalf Of Patrick O'Sullivan
Sent: 29 November 2006 13:13
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Subject: Re: [IR-D] William Bulfin (1892-1968)


Edmundo,=20

The photograph you direct us to is labelled Eamon Bulfin, not William
Bulfin...

Anyway... To start the ball rolling, it looks to me like a piece of
jewellery, most probably a version of the Tara Brooch, or one of the
other
brooches in the RIA collection, or a newly designed Celtic Revival
piece...
The main maker was Waterhouse and Company, Dublin.

See the discussion on...

http://www.victorianweb.org/art/design/celtic/byecroft10.html

http://www.victorianweb.org/art/design/jewelry/6.html

The key text is
Sheehy, Jeanne. The Rediscovery of Ireland's Past: The Celtic Revival
1830-1930. Thames and Hudson, London: 1980.

The Tara Brooch itself was found in 1850, in Bettystown, Meath, nowhere
near
Tara - it was given the name by the dealer who sold it on...=20

Paddy


-----Original Message-----
From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf
Of Murray, Edmundo
Sent: 29 November 2006 10:35
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] William Bulfin (1892-1968)

Dear Ir-D members,

Can anybody help me to identify an emblem that William Bulfin was
wearing in the following photograph?
http://www.irlandeses.org/dilab_bulfine.htm

The quality of the picture is not good, so it is difficult to recognise
details. Could it be related to Irish republicanism or Gaelic League?

Thanks in advance for your kind co-operation,

Edmundo Murray