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Now now Michael.

The men of Mayo haven't won an All Ireland since 1951 but the women (known
as 'ladies' in the Gaelic Athletic Association!) have won the All Ireland
Championship in 1999, 2000, 2002, and 2003. Isn't that worth celebrating as
well?

We'll draw a veil over the men's all-Ireland last year between Mayo and
Kerry. I was there, in the company of a friend from Kerry (I don't think
she'd answer to 'lady'!); my own partner is from Limerick and has no
interest in these matters. I was one of six Mayo supporters on the train
from Cork; the rest was a sea of Kerry people. On the way back, after a
crushing defeat of Mayo by the maestros of Kerry, people kept taking my
friend Siobhan aside and asking in hushed tones 'how's himself taking it?'
and 'at least one of ye will be going home happy'.

As for Tom's email, I would like to think that in an alternative universe
Mayo hurlers would see off the much-crowned champions of my adopted county
of Cork, but in the real world there are few hurlers in Mayo. That said,
Michael is right - the days of drunken celebrations and Gardai turning a
blind eye are gone. Today's Irish Times carries a piece about the decline of
the rural pub. Late night and early morning after breathalyser tests and a
changing drinking culture spell an end to many rural pubs (we have far too
many anyway) but also highlight the loneliness and isolation of the lives of
many elderly rural Irish, especially men.

Piaras

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Sorry Sarah, I simply don't get your point. As stuff about the Irish in
Britain goes it was remarkably respectful and sensitive to the way we're
understood there. They even got the traveller family names right.

I think you missed the joke the Irish (or possibly Irish descent)writer was
having. That was the way I read it anyway.

So what was your point again?

Liam







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I think Waking the Dead translates as Cold Case in the US - it's a detective
serial based on the idea of investigating old and unsolved murders. It's
generally not very good, tending to the hysterical. Last week had an Irish
theme so I watched it - the reviewer in today's Irish Times does a good job
of summing up how awful it was and rather than ranting on myself I've pasted
in the extract. However, it wasn't just Irish cliches - the treatment of
Catholicism was pretty bad too.

Sarah.

Extract:

Ablaze with Oirish cliches
Sat, Jan 13, 2007

TV Review Hilary Fannin

"I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my arse," barked the glowering and
uncultivated Mr Killigan (Daragh O'Malley), the nouveau-riche "Paddy"
property developer, bruising his brandy and digging his inelegant heels into
his shagpile while the head of the "cold case" unit, "maverick high-flyer"
Dr Peter Boyd (Trevor Eve), arched a quizzical eyebrow and backed towards
the door.

Giddy up, chaps, there is a new year upon us and Waking the Dead has
returned to our screens, confidently dragging a slew of blue and marbled
corpses in its wake, for another season of forensic investigation and
psychological sleuthing. While the show is usually a satisfyingly grisly if
somewhat self-reverential carnival, episode one of series six chose,
disappointingly, to locate itself in the rotting cadaver of paddywhackery
and Celtic mysticism.

You have to hand it to the scriptwriters: with lines such as "you'd have to
be a horse of a man to do that", they did not leave a single stone unturned
in their Disneyesque excavation of all things Oirish. Over the double
episode (it took two long nights for the team to scrape the detritus off the
perished remains of a young Traveller and bare-fist fighter who had been
flung into a pit of belching concrete), we were treated to a veritable
cornucopia of jiggery-pokery. And while the deft and rational forensic team,
in their well-laundered white coats, swivelled around the laboratory on
their intelligent chairs and drew lots of dots and arrows on a high-tech
transparent screen, smooth- talking garda "Seamus" had telephone liaisons
with the lovely Tara Fitzgerald (the new "body farmer") and the rest of the
Irish cast members painted twisting snakes on their torsos, snorted
hallucinogens and thumped the living daylights out of each other.

It all became vaguely amusing. One could almost hear the echoes of excited
script meetings: "I know, we'll have wren boys and Claddagh rings and
bleached bones of rams and foetuses!"; "Yes, and a bloody sacrificial birth
under a shrine to the Blessed Virgin Mary!"; "Oh, and I know, Traveller
caravans illuminated by the glow of the sacred heart! And . . . and vengeful
fathers in cloth caps spilling their blood on autopsy tables!"; "Yes, yes,
and a sexually passive yet alluringly transgressive young girl bartered to a
yucky builder for land!"; "Yikes, chaps, this will be a good one!" But when
the ghostly teenage nun with the wimple and the stigmata floated on to the
screen like a bloodied helium balloon, I'm afraid I lost my sense of humour.

"I swear by my blood you'll be avenged." Yeah yeah.

By far the most bizarre manifestation of the whole programme occurred during
the closing titles when the "behavioural science adviser" was credited. The
what? You can talk to her, apparently, by pushing your little red button. I
tried, but my little red button appeared to be suffering from culture shock.

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Speaking of TV and stereotypes, may I recommend How Do You Want Me, a
British series starring Dylan Moran as a nice Irishman who moves to an
English village, only to be appalled by the violence, drunkneness,
clannishness etc. of English rural life?

Intentional or otherwise, it's a kind of reverse Irish RM.

Peter Hart

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Good man Piaras - Muigh Eo agus Gaillimh Ab=FA!!
The West's Awake etc.!!
Happy New Year=20
Michael=20

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Now now Michael.

The men of Mayo haven't won an All Ireland since 1951 but the women =
(known
as 'ladies' in the Gaelic Athletic Association!) have won the All =
Ireland
Championship in 1999, 2000, 2002, and 2003. Isn't that worth celebrating =
as
well?

We'll draw a veil over the men's all-Ireland last year between Mayo and
Kerry. I was there, in the company of a friend from Kerry (I don't think
she'd answer to 'lady'!); my own partner is from Limerick and has no
interest in these matters. I was one of six Mayo supporters on the train
from Cork; the rest was a sea of Kerry people. On the way back, after a
crushing defeat of Mayo by the maestros of Kerry, people kept taking my
friend Siobhan aside and asking in hushed tones 'how's himself taking =
it?'
and 'at least one of ye will be going home happy'.=20

As for Tom's email, I would like to think that in an alternative =
universe
Mayo hurlers would see off the much-crowned champions of my adopted =
county
of Cork, but in the real world there are few hurlers in Mayo. That said,
Michael is right - the days of drunken celebrations and Gardai turning a
blind eye are gone. Today's Irish Times carries a piece about the =
decline of
the rural pub. Late night and early morning after breathalyser tests and =
a
changing drinking culture spell an end to many rural pubs (we have far =
too
many anyway) but also highlight the loneliness and isolation of the =
lives of
many elderly rural Irish, especially men.=20

Piaras

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From: Carmel McCaffrey
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Subject: [IR-D] BBC programme Waking the Dead

Sarah,

I take your point and although I haven't yet seen that episode of Waking =

the Dead - shown here in original on BBC America am not surprised at the =

description of it in the Irish Times as "Ablase with Orisih cliches". =20
BBC programming - maybe a reflection of English society in general? -=20
yields many startling and offensive stereotypes. Just last week on a=20
Mystery Monday programme on BBC one character described the Japanese as=20
"Japs" and recently on a episode of the Judy Dench /As Times Goes By/=20
the Spanish were described as "not having the right temperament" for=20
cricket. Well the Aussies might think neither do the English - congrats =

to all Aussies on the list on the recent Ashes win! Made my winter!

Carmel

Sarah Morgan wrote:
> I think Waking the Dead translates as Cold Case in the US - it's a dete=
ctive serial based on the idea of investigating old and unsolved murders.=
It's generally not very good, tending to the hysterical. Last week had a=
n Irish theme so I watched it - the reviewer in today's Irish Times does =
a good job of summing up how awful it was and rather than ranting on myse=
lf I've pasted in the extract. However, it wasn't just Irish cliches - th=
e treatment of Catholicism was pretty bad too.
>
> Sarah.
>

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Dear Colleagues,

I report the following from H-net and elsewhere, covering topics which are
discussed within the IR-D group from time to time. I look for information
on 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. Sometimes the Irish connection is by
way of comparison. Entries may be abbreviated from the original.
Apologies, of course, for duplication; and for any I have missed.

DCR.

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Call for Papers: REROUTING THE POSTCOLONIAL


The University of Northampton, UK, 3-4 July 2007

To mark the re-launch of the journal World Literature Written in English as
the Journal of Postcolonial Studies, The Centre for Contemporary Fiction and
Narrative, University of Northampton, and the Journal of Postcolonial
Writing, in association with Taylor and Francis publishers and the UK
Network for Modern Fiction Studies, hosts:

In an increasingly mobile and globalised world, new ROUTES become available
to people through movement, migration, diaspora and relocation, and through
the temporary inhabiting of new spaces offered by cosmopolitan travel and
tourism. These movements contribute to a critique of ROOTS - of fixed
origins and traditional identity frameworks such as family, society and
nation. Looking to recent developments and influences, and exploring both
routes and roots, this conference seeks =
to REROUTE THE POSTCOLONIAL - to address the tensions that both amplify and
redirect postcolonial studies in the 21st century.

Some key questions underpinning this conference:

What REROUTINGS of the postcolonial occur due to accelerated movements of
peoples, the theorizing of diaspora, transformed modes of production through
the impact of global technologies, new paradigms such as the glocal, and the
reshaping of culture and the environment by globalization? What is the
effect of the current shift away from resistant and counter discourses and
the politics of liberation and representation? How is "writing" the
postcolonial, in areas such as pedagogy, genre and the canon, and aesthetic
and textual practices, changing in response to these developments?

Possible topics include:

third world cosmopolitan versus/complementing theories of the indigenous
diasporic theory and the transformation of existing postcolonial paradigms
revisiting empire in an age of transnational migration
new itineraries and iterations of modernity and post-modernity
migration, exile and changing identities
global travel, tourism and new geographies
interrogations of the aesthetics of resistance
cultural representations and reimaginings of social transformation
the environment and eco-critical perspectives
the postcolonial sacred and/or profane
new and old spoken/written/visual media in a global age
changing modes and practices in "writing" and teaching the postcolonial

Please send abstracts of 200-300 words by Friday 2 March 2007 (03/02/07) to:
Janet.Wilson[at]northampton.ac.uk and Alison.Rudd[at]northampton.ac.uk.


Conference organisers: Janet Wilson, Fiona Tolan and Alison Rudd

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The journal articles on post-conflict Northern Ireland that Paddy has been
unearthing may be supplemented by


CONSTRUCTIONS OF CONFLICT: TRANSMITTING MEMORIES OF THE PAST IN EUROPEAN
HISTORIOGRAPHY, LITERATURE AND MEDIA
An interdisciplinary conference hosted by MEICAM, the Modern European
Ideologies, Conflict and Memory Research Group, Swansea University
September 10.-12. 2007

Keynote speakers will include:
Dr John Foot (University College London)
Prof. Mary Fulbrook (University College London)

The recent war in Iraq has produced a heightened awareness of how memories
of conflict, such as the rescue of Jessica Lynch, are mediated and
represented in the public domain. This inter-disciplinary conference seeks
to investigate the ways in which memories of social, political and military
conflicts have been transmitted within 20th and 21st century European
culture. Which roles are played by those who mediate the memory of conflict
(first-hand witnesses, historians, jour-nalists, writers, filmmakers,
bloggers)? What kinds of interactions and tensions are visible between
public and private discourses of memory? In what ways are memories of
conflict (or their absence) shaped by the political, economic and social
parameters of the present? To which ends are such narratives of the past
deployed?

Papers are sought from the areas of history, literature, cultural studies,
translation studies, film/media studies, soci-ology, politics, geography,
law, psychology and philosophy on the transmission of the memory of conflict
in a European context. These could include World Wars I and II, the Spanish
Civil War, the Cold War, protest movements (1968, Greenham Common, G8 at
Genoa), the terrorist attacks in Madrid and London, as well as colonial
engagements such as the Algerian War of Independence. Papers exploring
European perspectives on global conflicts are also welcome.

Aspects that papers at this conference might address:

History versus memory; archival versus oral history
The 'ownership' of memories of conflict
Bearing witness: first-hand memories of conflict
Witness testimony: issues of authenticity, reliability and veracity
Memory, history and revisionism
Memorials, museums and landscapes of memory
Memory contests' between differing representations of conflicts
Public debates on/public perceptions of memories of conflict
The use of 'memory objects' (photographs, letters) in representations of
conflict
The shifting roles of different mediators of the past (historians,
journalists, writers, internet bloggers etc.)
The role of historians/journalists in war-crimes trials
The role of discourses of memory in shaping perceptions of perpetrators and
victims
The ethics of history and memory
The mediation of the memory of conflict in educational contexts
The incorporation of historical material in literature and film
The use of literary/filmic techniques in historical accounts
The memory of conflict in the crime novel or other literary genres
How mediators of the past deal with the memory of trauma or repressed
memories of conflict

Abstracts for individual papers or full sessions (300 words) should be sent
to the organisers, Dr. Jonathan Dunnage, Dr. Jane Dunnett, Dr. Kathryn Jones
and Dr. Katharina Hall (meicam[at]swansea.ac.uk) by 19th January 2007. Papers
will be given in English, and we intend to publish selected contributions.

H-MUSEUM
H-Net Network for Museums and Museum Studies
E-Mail: h-museum[at]h-net.msu.edu
WWW: http://www.h-museum.net


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_L' Immigration_ by Laetitia Van Eeckhout is a facts and figures sort of
book recently published by Odile Jacob .


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Title: New Media & the Global Diaspora Symposium
Location: Rhode Island
Date: 2007-10-05
Description: Announcing a symposium addressing the relationship of
New Media to the global diaspora. The symposium focuses
primarily on the migrations of the past 100 years and how the
living traditions transmitted by these communities are
continually subject to loss, gain and interpretation.
Contact: roconnell[at]rwu.edu
URL: faculty.rwu.edu/roconnell
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=154761


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Title: CFP: Empires and Identities
Deadline: 2007-05-01
Description: Call for Panel Members "Empires and Identities" a
special session at the conference: "Colonial and Post-Colonial
Remembering and Forgetfulness" Mexico City and Chalco, 16 18
October 2007 Deadline: Wednesday, 1 May 2006 (Note: The
submission deadline for abstracts for this session has been
extended)
Contact: info[at]enkidumagazine.com
URL: www.enkidumagazine.com/eventos/chimalpahin/intro_en.htm
Announcement ID: 154340
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=154340


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Title: Beyond the One Drop Rule: Essays on Race and Ethnicity in
Global Perspective
Location: New Jersey
Deadline: 2007-08-31
Description: The editors of "Beyond the One Drop Rule: Essays on
Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective" a two volume set to
be published by University Press of America in 2008 seek
contributors for both volumes. This work is intended to bring
together a collection of essays on race and ethnicity from
multiple perspectives.
Contact: miletsky[at]afroam.umass.edu
Announcement ID: 154322
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=154322


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Frank,

I do know the series "Shakespeare Retold" - it was shown on BBC
America some months ago. I too wondered at the depiction of Duncan but
put it down to the usual stereotyping on British TV. But the
Shakespeare connection is also of interest to this discussion because
the "stage Irish" character in English drama can be traced back to at
least his plays - see Henry V in the 1590s - of the Irish as stupid
and dim witted. Remember Shakespeare was a business man and wrote to
please his sovereign and the general public. The Elizabethan invasions
of Ireland were in full swing then. It is a characterization which has
lasted with much strength in English literature and popular culture
until our own time. This was not without notice in Ireland and Irish
writers sought to counteract this stereotype many times over the
centuries - Maria Edgeworth for example and of course Yeats. GB Shaw
described the Irish role as "playing court jester to the English."

I also agree with Sarah that this "funny" stereotyping certainly does
not make me laugh and I believe in it's most sinister form is aggression
and antagonism against the Irish. I also think that it forms a part of
the "reality" for many English people when they think of the Irish and
hence contributes to prejudice.

As for the Ashes... Yes, embarrassing indeed for England ...I was
cheering when the Series went to 3 nil but when it went to 5 nil I was
ecstatic. Excellent payback for 05!

Carmel


Molloy, Frank wrote:
> Sarah, Carmel and colleagues,
>
> This discussion has prompted me to reflect on another BBC series, 'Shakepeare Retold' currently on television here in Australia. I assume it's already been shown in the U and possibly the USA. Even though we've only seen two episodes, I note that both have come from BBC Drama (I assume that = head office) and BBC Northern Ireland. And Irish characters have featured in the stories. Duncan, for instance, a major figure in 'Macbeth', is a successful restaurateur, and Irish - flashy, drove a Mercedes etc, but stereotypes linger - he liked the booze, and was given to reflections on 'the mammy'.
>
> Does anyone have any background on this series, for exaample, on how BBC NI came to be involved in what would appear to be a very English venture? This was surely more than just using Irish actors and under-employed production staff.
>
> And any thoughts on the Irish characters in the series?
>
> Thanks, Carmel, for the good wishes on the cricket team. It must be embarrassing to be an English supporter this (southern) summer. The poor blighters have yet to win a match!
>
> Frank Molloy,
> Wagga Wagga.
>
>
>

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Sarah, Carmel and colleagues,
=20
This discussion has prompted me to reflect on another BBC series, =
'Shakepeare Retold' currently on television here in Australia. I assume =
it's already been shown in the U and possibly the USA. Even though =
we've only seen two episodes, I note that both have come from BBC Drama =
(I assume that =3D head office) and BBC Northern Ireland. And Irish =
characters have featured in the stories. Duncan, for instance, a major =
figure in 'Macbeth', is a successful restaurateur, and Irish - flashy, =
drove a Mercedes etc, but stereotypes linger - he liked the booze, and =
was given to reflections on 'the mammy'.
=20
Does anyone have any background on this series, for exaample, on how BBC =
NI came to be involved in what would appear to be a very English =
venture? This was surely more than just using Irish actors and =
under-employed production staff.
=20
And any thoughts on the Irish characters in the series?
=20
Thanks, Carmel, for the good wishes on the cricket team. It must be =
embarrassing to be an English supporter this (southern) summer. The =
poor blighters have yet to win a match!
=20
Frank Molloy,
Wagga Wagga.

________________________________

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From: Carmel McCaffrey
To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
Subject: [IR-D] BBC programme Waking the Dead

Sarah,

I take your point and although I haven't yet seen that episode of Waking =
=3D

the Dead - shown here in original on BBC America am not surprised at the =
=3D

description of it in the Irish Times as "Ablase with Orisih cliches". =
=3D20
BBC programming - maybe a reflection of English society in general? =
-=3D20
yields many startling and offensive stereotypes. Just last week on =
a=3D20
Mystery Monday programme on BBC one character described the Japanese =
as=3D20
"Japs" and recently on a episode of the Judy Dench /As Times Goes =
By/=3D20
the Spanish were described as "not having the right temperament" =
for=3D20
cricket. Well the Aussies might think neither do the English - congrats =
=3D

to all Aussies on the list on the recent Ashes win! Made my winter!

Carmel

Sarah Morgan wrote:
> I think Waking the Dead translates as Cold Case in the US - it's a =
dete=3D
ctive serial based on the idea of investigating old and unsolved =
murders.=3D
It's generally not very good, tending to the hysterical. Last week had =
a=3D
n Irish theme so I watched it - the reviewer in today's Irish Times does =
=3D
a good job of summing up how awful it was and rather than ranting on =
myse=3D
lf I've pasted in the extract. However, it wasn't just Irish cliches - =
th=3D
e treatment of Catholicism was pretty bad too.
>
> Sarah.
>

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JMI Contents: Jan-Feb 07

The Crack Goes On
Writer, poet and flute-player Ciaran Carson remembers the traditional music
group Planxty and reviews a recent book on the groundbreaking band, 'The
Humours of Planxty' by Leagues O'Toole

The deepest need to be there, communicating
An Interview by Benjamin Dwyer with double-bassist and composer Barry Guy

Traditional Music & the Avant-Garde
The idea of an avant-garde wing in Irish traditional music may seem a
contradiction in terms, but it shouldn't be, argues Toner Quinn
New Work Notes:

The new generation of Irish composers
John McLachlan

Hooks you could land a blue whale with:
Dublin Electronic Arts Festival 2006
Paul Watts

Improvising the Voice of America
Bob Gilmore discusses the 2007 RTE Living Music Festival, which focuses on
the music of John Adams with Artistic Director Ronan Guilfoyle

chARTer 07
With only six months to the General Election, what's the best way forward
for the arts?
Martin Murphy

CD Reviews
Breda Keville - The Hop Down
The West Ocean String Quartet with Matt Molloy - The Guiding Moon
Malachy Bourke & Donnacha Dwyer - Traditional Irish music on fiddle, pipes
and bodhran
John McSherry & Donal O'Connor - Tripswitch
David Quigley - Piano Music from Northern Ireland
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Cormac Kenevey - This is Living
Live Reviews
Barry Guy & Mats Gustafsson
Composers' Choice: Michael Holohan
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ARCHAEOLOGY IRELAND
VOL 20; NUMB 4; 2006
ISSN 0790-892X

pp. 08-10
Putting the cill into Killeen.

pp. 13-15
The Kells Priory excavations.

pp. 16-20
Dingle's Minard Beach.

p. 21
As old as we felt.

pp. 22-25
Life and death in County Meath.

pp. 26-30
Scattery Island's forgotten Romanesque.

pp. 31-33
Bagenal's Castle, Newry.

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Know your monuments: Moated sites.

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I am sorry to return to this tedious topic...

If you think it is tedious for you, then think about my low tolerance of
tedium...

I try to be patient about problems with IR-D members email addresses, and
try to work out solutions...

In the background, of course, is the knowledge that the Irish Diaspora list
is for its members, and is nothing without its members.

But in the end the rule of all email lists is that it is the individual
member who must make sure that their email address accepts list messages.

There is no point in sending out messages that are simply rejected.

Since we re-started the IR-D list at the beginning of January, after the
holiday break, we have received yet another sequence of Error Messages from
Yahoo.com. Other Yahoo addresses seem to be behaving normally.

The pattern is that an IR-D message is returned to us, undelivered, after 4
days. So, today we get back messages sent out on January 12.

Looking around, I see that everyone who sends email to addresses at
Yahoo.com is having problems. Educational establishments have been very
affected - because so many students use and forward through Yahoo.com.
There was even an item about the problem in a recent Boston College
newsletter.

FURTHERMORE... There is now technical evidence that Yahoo.com is using
only a part of its resources to receive email. Why this should be is not
clear. It might be a clumsy spam-blocking device. Conspiracy theorists
believe that Yahoo.com is creating a demand for a paid-for email service, or
maybe is in the middle of setting one up.

Any IR-D member who wants one can have an invitation to set up a Gmail
account, which will be sent from my own personal Gmail address. Gmail works
very well - now - and is good at spam-blocking. Indeed, some people use
their Gmail accounts as a spam-filter.

A number of Yahoo.com users, when I have contacted them individually, have
already made this move.

I will have to forward this message individually to all our present
Yahho.com users, because I have no way of telling whether or not this IR-D
message will get through to them.

In the next few days I will remove all Yahoo.com email addresses from the
Irish Diaspora list. I will be unhappy about this, but I see no
alternative.

Patrick O'Sullivan

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The following item has been brought to our attention...

P.O'S.


Encyclopedia of North American Sport

Edited by Steven A. Riess, Melvin L. Adelman, and Patricia Vertinsky

M.E. Sharpe Publishing

PROSPECTUS

Encyclopedia of North American Sport

We are seeking a contributor to the Encyclopedia of North American Sport,
a three-volume, illustrated reference work to be published by M.E. Sharpe,
an academic and reference publisher. The encyclopedia is intended for high
school, college, and public libraries.

The Irish

2500 word articles: $35

If interested, send a CV and brief writing sample to JAMIE RIESS, EDITORAL
ASSISTANT AT: jnriess[at]gmail.com

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Please distribute...

P.O'S.


The Fulbright Commission operates the official
educational exchange programme between the Irish and
the US Governments. The Commission is inviting
applications for the 2007 - 2008 academic year for:

. A Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the Irish Language
at University of Notre Dame

. Foreign Language Teaching Assistantships (Irish
Language)

Applications are invited for the:
. Irish language scholar: from established academics
and, or professionals with a proven proficiency in the
Irish language and the teaching and research
experience desired by the University of Notre Dame,

. Foreign Language Teaching Assistantships: from
applicants with formal academic training and/or
professional experience in the teaching of the Irish
language. Candidates must have a postgraduate degree /
diploma (H.Dip., Masters Degree, Ph.D.). Consideration
may be given to applicants with a primary degree and
substantial teaching experience. Candidates must be
fluent in the Irish language and have some experience
of teaching Irish, be at least 21 years, and no older
than 29 years, by 31st December 2006. Candidates
should clearly demonstrate maturity, dependability,
integrity and professionalism and be an outgoing and
dynamic individual with good interpersonal skills.

The closing date for applications is 17:00 Friday 9th
February 2007. The guidelines and application form are
available on www.fulbright.ie

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I've returned to work on an old essay and find I've lost a
reference--failed to record a footnote. Does anybody know of an essay on
Jack Yeats by Brian Dougherty? I don't know if Yeats was the main
subject, but I believe so.


JM










Jack Morgan
Research Professor of English
Univerity of Missouri-Rolla
Rolla, MO. 65401

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Subject: Migrant Art, Artefacts and Emotional Agency

Workshop=20
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Preliminary Programme
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If you would like to participate, please contact m.svasek[at]qub.ac.uk
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School of History and Anthropology, Queens University Belfast
Introduction: Moving Subjects, Moving Objects
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10.30 - 11.15=A0=A0 Deborah Schultz
Dept of Art History, University of Sussex
Migration, Memory and Analysis of the Holocaust
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11.15- 12.00=A0 Leon Wainwright
Dept of Art History, University of Sussex
Indian Art in Trinidad? Emotion and ethnicity at their material limits
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12.00 - 13.30 Lunch=20
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Dept of Anthropology, University of Lucknow
The Price of Progress. Dying Arts Among the Karen of Andaman Islands =
(India)
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14.15 - 15.00 George Hughes
Department of Art, The State University of New York at Buffalo
What You Perceive is What You Conceive
15.00 - 15.30 Coffee
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15.30 - 16.15 Christian Jungebold
Freelance photographer, Berlin
Photo essay: EIN * LAND
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16.15 - 17.00 Indian migrant speaker Belfast
Title to be announced
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17.15 Shan MacAnena, The Naugthon Gallery
Opening of the exhibition of Ramiro Fernandez Saus
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18.00 George Hughes
Department of Art, The State University of New York at Buffalo
Art Performance: What You Perceive is What You Conceive
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Location: Room 209 PFC, Queens University Belfast
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Northern Irish Museums Council
'Our Peoples Our Times': A Revealing of Identity
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10.30 - 11.15
Petra de Jong
Artist, the Netherlands
Patterns of Migration
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11.15 - 11.30 coffee
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11.30-12.15
Shan MacAnena
The Naughton Gallery, Queens University Belfast
El viajero inmovil: Ramiro Fernandez Saus and magic realist art
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12.15-13.00
Frances Lloyd
Kingston University London
Title to be announced
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Dept of Media and Film, University of Sussex
Border Country: Images and voices from inside Immigration Removal =
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Final Comments=20

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This is a more detailed version of the Fellowship at Notre Dame next =
year.

We have been asked to circulate it.

Please distribute.

P.O'S.

For the 2007 =E2=80=93 2008 academic year, the Fulbright Commission is =
introducing a
Fulbright Visiting Scholar Award in the Irish Language at the University =
of
Notre Dame (Indiana).
This award is being made possible due to the generous support of the =
Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs and the University =
of Notre Dame.=20
This award supports recent initiatives by the Department of Community, =
Rural
and Gaeltacht Affairs to promote the Irish Language in the United =
States.
Applications are invited from established academics and, or =
professionals with a proven proficiency in the Irish language and the =
teaching and research experience desired by the host institution.
At the University of Notre Dame (Indiana), the scholar will be based in =
the
Department of Irish Language and Literature and focus on =
modern/contemporary
literature. The teaching load for the academic year is two courses per
term/semester. The exact nature of the grant activity and =
responsibilities
will be negotiated and agreed between the successful candidate and the =
host
institution.

Each scholar will receive a maximum grant of =E2=82=AC70,000 and =
accident and emergency insurance for the full academic year paid in 2 =
instalments by the Fulbright Commission in Dublin. Notre Dame will =
provide the scholar with an office and full administrative support, in =
addition to on-campus accommodation and one round trip ticket to/from =
Chicago.

Guidelines for Applicants and the Application Form are available on the
Fulbright Commission=E2=80=99s website www.fulbright.ie or may be =
requested by email
from info[at]fulbright.ie
CLOSING DATE FOR RECEIPT OF COMPLETED APPLICATIONS IS 17h00 FRIDAY 9TH =
FEBRUARY
2007.
No late applications will be considered.

For further information please contact:
Marianne Doyle, Administrator,
The Fulbright Commission, Brooklawn House,
Crampton Avenue, Shelbourne Road, Dublin 4, Ireland
Email: info[at]fulbright.ie
Tel: +353-1-6607670
Fax: +353-1-6607668
Website: www.fulbright.ie.

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From: "D C Rose"
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Subject: Re: Jack yetas
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:58:28 +0100

You could try Hilary Pyle at the National Gallery (Dublin, naturally), who
knows all there is to be known on the subject.

David

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From: Morgan, John Matthew To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 8:09 PM


I've returned to work on an old essay and find I've lost a reference--failed
to record a footnote. Does anybody know of an essay on Jack Yeats by Brian
Dougherty? I don't know if Yeats was the main subject, but I believe so.

JM

Jack Morgan Research Professor of English Univerity of Missouri-Rolla Rolla,
MO. 65401

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An additional Jack Yeats contact for Professor Morgan is Declan Foley
(declanfoley[at]ireland.com), who manages the (Australian) Yeats List, 'Beyond
Ben Bulben' (http://www.benbulben.net/).

Declan's presently assembling a collection of essays on Jack Yeats & his
circle for Cork University Press, I believe.

I'll soon be examining a few relevant manuscripts for Declan, at the Berg
Collection, New York Public Library (an interesting task & small favour for
a good friend).

Best wishes,

MEM
_____

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From: Maureen E Mulvihill [mailto:mulvihill[at]nyc.rr.com]=20
Sent: 18 January 2007 17:32
To: Patrick O'Sullivan
Cc: Declan Foley
Subject: Jack Yeats Collection, from Declan Foley (again) - Submission =
for
Posting=20

Quick correction -
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Declan Foley's upcoming JACK YEATS collection is forthcoming from =
Lilliput
Press, Dublin, not from Cork UP. Sorry for that, all.=20
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Best wishes,=20
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MEM
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I wonder did anyone else on the List hear a repeat on RTE Radio's Tonight with Vincent Browne last week of an interview Browne had done some years previously with Jack Yeats? (This programme was to mark the recent passing of WB's son Michael).

In the course of the interview Michael, who it seems didn't much like his emotionally distant father, said of Jack that the latter could never understand why WB should have been so 'famous' while he was not...

A small piece of personal trivia:
I was born in the same nursing home in which Jack Yeats died - the former Canal Company Hotel in Portobello Harbour (now some sort of business college).

Further: As luck would have it, when I was around nine or ten, my actor parents had settled nearby after their touring repertory company folded and I was allowed to join them. One summer's evening she and I were walking across Portobello Bridge when Jack Yeats passed us (was he already resident in the nursing home? I don't know).

I of course didn't know this old gentleman at all, but my mother did, and accosted him to introduce her son to the famous painter. He wasn't, I imagine, much enthused but nonetheless he graciously shook my grubby paw and passed on...


Ultan









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< An additional Jack Yeats contact for Professor Morgan is Declan Foley
< (declanfoley[at]ireland.com), who manages the (Australian) Yeats List, 'Beyond
< Ben Bulben' (http://www.benbulben.net/).
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< Declan's presently assembling a collection of essays on Jack Yeats & his
< circle for Cork University Press, I believe.
<
< I'll soon be examining a few relevant manuscripts for Declan, at the Berg
< Collection, New York Public Library (an interesting task & small favour for
< a good friend).
<
< Best wishes,
<
< MEM
< _____
<



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