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Jessica,
It would surprise me if Mac Amhlaigh won the Hennessy. No mention of him
was made when Micheal O Conghaile won it a few years ago and the implication
was that he was the first Irish-language writer to win that award. I
believe a gentleman by the name of O Bearra did a bibliographic study of Mac
Amhlaigh at NUIGalway a few years ago.

You might also try Nollaig Mac Congail's on-line Gaelic bibliography for
reviews. It used be open access, but it looks like the Hardiman Library at
Galway have changed that recently.

Best of luck,
Breen


On 2/6/07, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:
>
> Jessica,
>
> The Hennessy Literary Award is still going, and the present Maurice
> Hennessy
> of Hennessy Cognac turns up to present it. Presumably the company has
> some
> kind of archive?
>
> I thought that this might be one that Irish Newspaper Archives should be
> able to solve
> http://irishnewspaperarchives.com/
>
> But the Connacht Tribune, etc. do mention the award in 1974 but do not
> actually say what Donall MacAmhlaigh got it for. And I still get annoyed
> by
> the Archives pay per browse pricing system.
>
> Irish Post is still there and has its own archives. And - as a recipient
> of
> one of its awards - I know they prepare a full formal award encomium. But
> you might have to go and bang on their door.
>
> Paddy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf
> Of Breen O Conchubhair
> Sent: 05 February 2007 22:53
> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: [IR-D] MacAmhlaigh's literary awards
>
> A review of Schnitzer O Se by C. O Drisceoil appeared in the journal
> Comhar
> 1975, Vol 34, no. 3.
>
>
> Brian O Conchubhair
>
>
> On 2/5/07, Jessica March wrote:
> >
> > Please can I draw on the wisdom of the Ir-D oracle?
> >
> > I'm trying to find out what Donall MacAmhlaigh won the Hennessy Literary
> > Award
> > in 1974 and what he won the Irish Post Community Award for literature
> for
> > in
> > 1979.
> >
> > I have contacted various Irish arts organisations in pursuit of this
> > information, but I've had no luck. Can anyone help?
> >
> >
> > Also, can anyone point me in the direction of a review of "Schniter
> > O'Shea" or
> > of "Schnitzer O Se" (in Irish or English).
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your help!
> >
> > Jessica
> >
> >
>

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Thanks to Breen, Paddy and Jim for your very helpful information and
suggestions.

I have called up "Comhar" for that review, Breen, thanks for that!

The irishnewspaperarchives.com came good, Paddy, and "The Connacht Sentinel" of
Tues Oct 22, 1974, confirms that MacAmhlaigh was awarded a Hennessy Literary
Award for New Irish Writing - but, as you say, it doesn't actually indicate
what he won it for. Aghhhh. This might explain why Nigel Gray's mention of it
in "Writers Talking" is rather opaque, I might have to follow suit...

Will follow up with the Irish Post now...and the IACI.

Thanks again, so much, for taking the time to help me out.

All the best,

Jessica

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from: Robert Grace, historian, Quebec City
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Dear list members,

I recieved a message this week from a player of traditional French =
Canadian music (violin, accordion) who is intrigued by the fact that in =
his area (Portneuf county) they make and play "bodhrans". This is an =
area of Irish settlement and some amount cultural transfer appears to =
have taken place.=20

Does anyone on the list know of an expert on the history of the bodhran =
and its migration history?

Robert Grace

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Ask Mick Maloney, at NYU's Ireland House: mick.moloney[at]nyu.edu




>from: Robert Grace, historian, Quebec City
>robert.grace[at]sympatico.ca
>
>Dear list members,
>
>I recieved a message this week from a player of traditional French
>Canadian music (violin, accordion) who is intrigued by the fact that
>in his area (Portneuf county) they make and play "bodhrans". This is
>an area of Irish settlement and some amount cultural transfer
>appears to have taken place.
>
>Does anyone on the list know of an expert on the history of the
>bodhran and its migration history?
>
>Robert Grace

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Mel Mercier, lecturer in Music here in Cork, is an expert on all matters to
do with percussion and a well-known musician in his own right (including the
bodhran). His email is m.mercier[at]ucc.ie

Piaras Mac Einri

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from: Robert Grace, historian, Quebec City robert.grace[at]sympatico.ca

Dear list members,

I recieved a message this week from a player of traditional French Canadian
music (violin, accordion) who is intrigued by the fact that in his area
(Portneuf county) they make and play "bodhrans". This is an area of Irish
settlement and some amount cultural transfer appears to have taken place.

Does anyone on the list know of an expert on the history of the bodhran and
its migration history?

Robert Grace

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Hi

There's a pretty comprehensive history of the instrument here
http://www.ceolas.org/instruments/bodhran/history.shtml and here
http://homepages.iol.ie/~ronolan/bodhran.html

As a player of many years now, I've been told many stories about the origins
of the instrument and how it came to Ireland including the Atlantean theory
of Phoenician traders bringing it during the Bronze Age etc etc. It has also
been suggested that it is an adaptation of a sieve like frame used for
separating grain from chaff.

My own belief is that it's just a local variant of basic frame drum, such as
the tambour, found in many cultures. Over the years I've have played
bodhran-alike drums from both Northern and sub-Saharan Africa and even one
from Tibet, which, like an old one borrowed from an elderly lady in a
session in Lisdoonvarna, had coins fitted into the frame.

It use in Irish music was pretty much restricted to the west of Ireland
until Sean O'Riada introduced back into the mainstream of traditional music
in the early 1960s. Since then, to regret of many musicians, it's gone from
strength to strength.

There are many many jokes about the instrument and its players. I think it
was Seamus Ennis who said that the best way to play one was with a
pen-knife. My favourite bodhran joke is this;

Q: How do you count bodhran players in a session?
A: Easy, there's only two numbers: None and Too Many!

Liam



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from: Robert Grace, historian, Quebec City
robert.grace[at]sympatico.ca

Dear list members,

I recieved a message this week from a player of traditional French Canadian
music (violin, accordion) who is intrigued by the fact that in his area
(Portneuf county) they make and play "bodhrans". This is an area of Irish
settlement and some amount cultural transfer appears to have taken place.

Does anyone on the list know of an expert on the history of the bodhran and
its migration history?

Robert Grace

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Perhaps my web note may be some use - as yours was to me. Bruce

>

www.ricorso.net

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From: "Patrick O'Sullivan"
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 10:15:01 -0000
Subject: Re: [IR-D] MacAmhlaigh's literary awards

Jessica,

The Hennessy Literary Award is still going, and the present Maurice Henness=
y
of Hennessy Cognac turns up to present it. Presumably the company has some
kind of archive?

I thought that this might be one that Irish Newspaper Archives should be
able to solve
http://irishnewspaperarchives.com/

But the Connacht Tribune, etc. do mention the award in 1974 but do not
actually say what Donall MacAmhlaigh got it for. And I still get annoyed b=
y
the Archives pay per browse pricing system.

Irish Post is still there and has its own archives. And - as a recipient o=
f
one of its awards - I know they prepare a full formal award encomium. But
you might have to go and bang on their door.

Paddy


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f
Of Breen O Conchubhair
Sent: 05 February 2007 22:53
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [IR-D] MacAmhlaigh's literary awards

A review of Schnitzer O Se by C. O Drisceoil appeared in the journal Comhar
1975, Vol 34, no. 3.


Brian O Conchubhair


On 2/5/07, Jessica March wrote:
>
> Please can I draw on the wisdom of the Ir-D oracle?
>
> I'm trying to find out what Donall MacAmhlaigh won the Hennessy Literary
> Award
> in 1974 and what he won the Irish Post Community Award for literature for
> in
> 1979.
>
> I have contacted various Irish arts organisations in pursuit of this
> information, but I've had no luck. Can anyone help?
>
>
> Also, can anyone point me in the direction of a review of "Schniter
> O'Shea" or
> of "Schnitzer O Se" (in Irish or English).
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!
>
> Jessica
>
>


Bruce S. G. Stewart
University of Ulster

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Articles

Helen O'Shea
Getting to the Heart of the Music: Idealizing Musical Community and =
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Review articles

Harry White
The Rules of Engagement: Richard Taruskin and the History of Western =
Music


Reviews

Charles E. Brewer
Review of Paul Collins, The Stylus Phantasticus and Free Keyboard Music =
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M=E9abh N=ED Fhuarth=E1in
Review of Se=E1n Campbell & Gerry Smyth, Beautiful Day: Forty Years of =
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Anthony McCann
Review of Gerry Smyth, Noisy Island: A Short History of Irish Popular =
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Susan Youens
Review of Harry White, The Progress of Music in Ireland (2005)

Th=E9r=E8se Smith
Review of Suzel Ana Reily (ed.), The Musical Human: Rethinking John=20
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Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For some reason the Table of Contents of the new issue of Irish Economic and
Social History, XXXIII, 2006 has NOT turned up in our usual systems...

And I cannot work out why, nor can I find the TOC elsewhere.

I mention this because, whilst I have been waiting to distribute the TOC,
the actual paper journal has been distributed to subscribers, including all
members of The Economic and Social History Society of Ireland.

And, of course, we have all noticed that the new issue includes...

Symposium: Perspectives on the Irish Diaspora
The Irish Diaspora, Enda Delaney
Diaspora and Irish Migration History, Kevin Kenny
'Diaspora' and 'Transnationalism': Theory and Evidence in Explanation of
the Irish World-Wide, Donald M. Macraild.

There has already been some off-list discussion of these 3 short essays, by
Ir-D list members, by other Ir-D list members. Ideally I would have liked
to have made the texts available to the Ir-D list - like, for example, we
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way to do this...

So, failure all round, here...

But the essays are there to be discussed, and I here formally bring the
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2. Poetry and fiction should not exceed 8 pages.
3. The author's name should only appear on a separate cover page, which =3D
also
provides his or her postal and email addresses, phone and fax numbers,
institutional affiliation, and a statement that the submitted piece has =3D
not
been previously published or, if this is not the case, provides details =3D
of
earlier publication.
4. Email enquiries are welcome (atenea_at_uprm.edu), but electronic=3D20
submissions
are not considered.
5. All submissions should be mailed in triplicate to the editor.

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Department of English - Box 9265
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"Europe's cultural and scientific heritage in a digital world"
Berlin, February 21-22, 2007

The detailed programme of the conference "Europe's cultural and scientifi=
c
heritage in a digital world" is now online at: www.eudico.de

The first day of the conference will be dedicated to the presentation of
important and innovative, national and international, portals and network=
s
which provide opportunities for the appreciation, enjoyment and
understanding of Europe's cultural and scientific heritage. Ways of
collaboration and networking will be discussed. The conference presents c=
ase
studies from Belgium, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands and Germany.

The European Digital Library and the MICHAEL-Project present the European
perspective. The focus of the second day is standards for documentation,
research and presentation of the European cultural and scientific heritag=
e.
Common standards are a basic precondition for cooperation. The session sh=
ows
the current situation and development with examples from Germany, Austria=
,
UK, France and international projects. Digitisation presents many importa=
nt
opportunities to raise awareness of the diversity of European cultures.
These opportunities will be the focus of a further thematic block. The
second day's programme will conclude with a round table discussion of
"shared plurality".

All presentations will be simultaneously translated into English, French =
and
German.
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The European Parliament has decided to establish a new public Visitors'
Centre (5.200 m2 net usable surface) at the European Parliament's premise=
s
in Brussels.

The Centre's core mission will be to explain the significance of the
European Parliament in shaping European policies and in representing
citizens and their concerns. In broader terms, it will also inform the
visitor on the historical development and impact of European integration
on European societies and ultimately on each citizen's daily life.

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"A Vision of Britain through Time" is a publicly-funded and open
access web site which makes the results of historical surveys of
Britain, defined very broadly, systematically accessible for
locally-based research. Existing "surveys" include every census from
1801 to 2001, three complete sets of one inch to one mile maps of
Britain and the largest on-line collection anywhere of British travel
writing:

www.visionofbritain.org.uk

We are pleased to announce that the Joint Information Systems
Committee has awarded us a major new grant of Pnds 398,700 (about $US
780,000), mainly to fund the creation of sets of computerised
boundaries for British Parliamentary Constituencies, starting with
those in force before the First Reform Act of 1831/2 and ending with
those in use between 1954 and 1974 (later boundaries already exist in
computerised form). Our name authority information will be extended
to include constituencies, which are the one part of Youngs' "Local
Administrative Units" we have not yet touched, and this information
on constituencies will then support the presentation of detailed
parliamentary election results, i.e. numbers of votes for each party
in each constituency at each election, based on F.W.S. Craig's
work. For more information about the funding, see:

www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_digitisation/boundaries.aspx

Sadly, it will take us some time to do the work, so expect an
announcement that this information is actually on-line in the spring of
2009.

However, we can also announce that our collection of British
topographic writing has been extended to include William Camden's
Britannia. This is based on the work of Dana F. Sutton of the
University of California, Irvine, and anyone interested in Camden's
writing rather than in particular places he describes will find
Professor Sutton's existing site more useful. In particular, it
includes parallel Latin and English texts, while we provide only the
English version, which is a transcription of Philemon Holland's
English translation of 1610, based on Camden's final edition of 1607
and probably translated under Camden's direction:

http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit

The special attraction of our version is that, as with the rest of
our "Travellers' Tales" collection, additional work has been done on
the place-names within the text, linking to the rest of our
system. Each of the web pages into which we have divided the text,
generally covering two or three counties, begins with a map of the
places mentioned that have been identified, and the dots on the maps
are hyperlinks to the first mention. The place-names themselves are
also hyperlinks, taking you to our pages for the relevant place:

http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/text/contents_page.jsp?t_id=3DCamden

This linkage also works in reverse, which will probably be useful to
more researchers and to teachers. If you go to our main home page
and simply type in the name of a town or major village that you are
interested in, you are taken to a "place page" which as well as
providing access to maps, census information and so on, provides
links to mentions of the place within the travel narratives. In
other words, you can quickly find quotes about your study area from
Camden, Defoe, Fiennes and so on. I have been using this as the
basis for a class assignment in which each student was required to
write about a different town.

We also have some small scale funding from the Department of the
Environment to work on historical farm census data, and a larger
project funded by the European Union which is laying foundations for
extending the system beyond Great Britain, so expect further
announcements. The new funding from JISC will allow us not just to
add content but to improve how the site works and develop associated
teaching materials. We want suggestions about how best to do this,
and invite anyone interested to join our more specialised discussion list=
:

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/GBHGIS.html

Incidentally, anyone wanting to use those constituency boundaries in
their own research will be able to download them from AHDS HIstory or
the University of Edinburgh's UKBORDERS system, once we are done.

Humphrey Southall
(Great Britain Historical GIS and University of Portsmouth)

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Visit London: A Life in Maps
British Library, London
24 November 2006 - 4 March 2007

Reviewed for H-Museum by Prof. Dr. Antoine Capet, University of Rouen
E-Mail: antoine.capet[at]univ-rouen.fr

H-Museum subscribers will be familiar with the regular special exhibition=
s
held at the British Library, some of which were reviewed on the List.[1]
This winter, the theme chosen is London seen through its maps - and of
course the Library has the most extensive collection of maps in the Unite=
d
Kingdom, its London collections including the famous "Crace Collection of
Maps of London".[2] Also in keeping with recent British Library policy, t=
he
exhibition is accompanied by an extensive dedicated Web site.[3] Not
unexpectedly, apart from the entrance hall which shows William Morgan's
large map of 1682 side by side with a satellite view of 2000, the exhibit=
ion
is arranged in chronological order, with eight sections, starting from "T=
he
Walled City, 296-1666" and ending with "London Today, 1945-now". 1666, th=
e
year of the Great Fire, is naturally a familiar turning point, but more
important from the point of maps and mapping is the fact that until the l=
ate
1550s there were no printed "maps" as such, but various types of images a=
nd
artistic interpretations of what people saw in cities, London being no
exception. For the Dark Ages, the exhibition relies on coins. Then variou=
s
manuscripts contain pictures of London. Thus we have Matthew Paris's
marvellously na=EFve sketches of London, from London Bridge to the estuar=
y,
for his "Itinerary from London to Chamb=E9ry" (c.1250-1254),[4] naturally
pre-dating the printing of "maps" as we now understand the word. The
medieval equivalent of the modern "colour post card" can be seen in the
image of the Tower of London c.1480.[5] Appropriately, the section end on
John Leake's post-Great Fire map of 1667.[6]

When I visited the exhibition, on a busy Saturday afternoon, the most
popular map in the "London Reborn, 1666-1800" section was undoubtedly Ogi=
lby
and Morgan's "Large and Accurate Map of the City of London Distinct from
Westminster and Southwark" of 1676 ("the first accurate and detailed map =
of
London, with all the buildings represented in plan rather than as bird's =
eye
views"),[7] admittedly a deserved success among the visitors of all ages,
who tried to locate present-day addresses, leaving countless finger-marks=
on
the protective glass - but a success which created "traffic-jams" in the
area and made it totally impossible to approach the map in spite of its
size. In fact, all other large-size maps, like John Rocque's gigantic "Ex=
act
Survey of the Citys of London, Westminster and Borough of Southwark" [8] =
in
the next section, seemed to possess this particular crowd-pulling
attraction. No museum curator can complain when his exhibits meet with su=
ch
popular success - but then "excessive" success can be counterproductive i=
n
that it will deter potential visitors to future exhibitions if they were =
put
off by the crowds: a difficult conundrum for museum authorities. In
contrast, the fine architectural drawings for the embellishment of what w=
e
now call Georgian London had few "customers" on that particular Saturday
afternoon.

The general caption for the third section, "London's Villages, 986-1850",
reminds us that "most of the villages [now part of London] were still
surrounded by fields in 1850". For some reason, the exhibits in the "real=
"
exhibition and those in the "virtual" one are different - but the idea is
the same, viz. illustrating the "fields", together with showing the plans
for turnpikes and developments which were to make the "metropolis". There=
is
much overlap in fact with Section 5, "The Age of Improvement". The last
great map of 18th c. London, Richard Horwood's "Plan of the Cities of Lon=
don
and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark and Parts adjoining, shewing ev=
ery
House", 1792-99,[9] perfectly shows the discontinuites and gaps that were=
to
be filled in the next century, notably on the South Bank. The excellent f=
ree
folder which is offered to visitors tells us that showing every house was
still possible in the 1790s, when the population was just under a million.
"By 1851", it concludes, "with a population approaching 2.5 million, such=
a
map had become unrealisable." The caption adds a proviso, however: "Horwo=
od
intended originally to show every house and its number but this was to pr=
ove
impossible. Although every house is included the numbering was never
completed". Something which is not always realised is that "Improvement" =
in
the context of the times covered what we now designate with another
euphemism, "redevelopment" - in practice demolition. At the time of cours=
e
there was no consideration for the displaced population. In this respect,
the exhibition has a very informative "Plan of the Proposed Improvements =
at
Charing Cross, St Martin's Lane and Entrance to the Strand" of 1826 [10]
which shows the existing high-density buildings and narrow lanes in light
grey, with the "Proposed Improvements" superimposed in bold lines: how ma=
ny
people would lose their roofs is not specified.

Back to Section 4, "The East End to 1820", we have more of the "seamy sid=
e"
of Improvement. The excellent "Plan of the Proposed London Docks" by Dani=
el
Alexander, 1797 [11] shows the vast populated area (35 acres - 14 hectare=
s)
which was to be evacuated and "re-housed" to make room for the London doc=
ks
at Wapping - with consequences shown in Section 6, "The Mean Streets,
1851-1903". Three maps, shown on the same panel, stand out in this respec=
t.
"Jewish East London" (1900),[12] which we are told was used in connection
with the restrictions on immigration soon to be introduced; an 1891 detai=
l
from Charles Booth's celebrated _Life and Labour in London_;[13] and the
most blood-curdling of all the maps in the exhibition (with perhaps the
exception of the Luftwaffe target maps of 1940 shown in a different room)=
,
the "Map showing the distribution of Cholera in London and its Environs f=
rom
June 27th to July 21st 1866" (1867).[14]

With Section 7, "Metroland, 1851-1945", London enters modernity, and
transport and communication between the various part of the city become a
primary preoccupation. George Biggs' map of 1846 in _The Railway Bell and
the Illustrated London Advertiser_[15] had shown the penetration of the
railway lines linking London and its suburbs. The next step was linking i=
ts
boroughs. The "real" exhibition has a wealth of fascinating maps and
illustrated guidebooks like _London County Council Tramways and through
running Connections. March, 1914_ or _Underground Electric Railways of
London_, 1907, with a large excerpt on the free visitor's folder. Natural=
ly,
no exhibition would be complete without Harry Beck's Tube Maps of 1933-35
"so successful that they became symbols for the new London". The more
"ecological" means of transport, as we now say, are not forgotten, with
exhibits like Harrison's _Bicycle Road Map of Middlesex showing all the
Railways & names of Stations. Also the Villages, Turnpike Roads, Gentleme=
n's
Seats &c improved from the Ordnance Surveys_, 1883, or "Ordnance Survey
6-inch map Middlesex sheet X. SW (1897) annotated for the Commons and
Footpaths Preservation Society in about 1906". The history of the famous
"A-Z Atlas" is also well-documented, starting with Collins' _Illustrated
Atlas of London with 7000 references in 36 Plates of the Principal Routes
between St Paul's and the Suburbs_, 1854 and Alexander Gross' _Geographia
New Atlas and Guide to London with Index containing over 8000 Street Name=
s_,
1913. Unfortunately, none are reproduced on the website.

The transition to the final section on Reconstruction and the contemporar=
y
era is provided by the destructions of the war years. In addition to the
Luftwaffe maps already mentioned, we have _London County Council War Dama=
ge
Map, Sheet 78_ (n.d.). Section 7 naturally had specimens from Patrick
Abercrombie's _Greater London Plan_ of 1944-45. In addition, the post-194=
5
section has maps from the Corporation of London's _Report of the
Improvements and Town Planning Committee ... on the Draft Proposals for t=
he
Post-War Reconstruction in the City of London_, 1944. The return to peace
and London's role on the world scene are illustrated by the _Daily Telegr=
aph
Map of the Olympic Games Venues_, 1948 and the _ All in One Map Guide
Festival London_, 1951. Later came the plans for the regeneration of the
East End, with Geoprojects: _Docklands and Greenwich_, 1989. The section
concludes on satellite maps and digital panoramas, which "are currently
transforming Londoners' current map-based perceptions of their
surroundings".

In keeping with the latest trends, we are told that a "blog" has been
opened, where "Peter Barber, Head of British Library Map Collections and
curator of the exhibition will discuss various issues raised by his
selection of maps and drawings, which chart the history of London through
the ages - from Roman occupation to the 2012 Olympics".[16] In spite of t=
he
exhortations which conclude the Curator's initial message in the blog: "R=
ead
the posts, make a comment, visit the exhibition - enjoy!" few people seem=
to
have been seduced by the first two. The present reviewer can only support
his third, "visit the exhibition".
Anybody interested in London past and present and its cartographic (and
often artistic) representations will indeed find a visit to this excellen=
t
exhibition extremely rewarding. But to fully "enjoy" it, it is best to av=
oid
busy week-ends if at all possible.

N.B. Though not properly a catalogue, a fully illustrated book has been
produced as a "tie-in" to the exhibition. [17]

NOTES

[1] See:
http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=3Dvx&list=3Dh-museum&month=3D=
0610&we
ek=3Da&msg=3DC4/CfAW/rpc6wC4hgTWAEg&user=3D&pw=3D
and:
http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=3Dvx&list=3Dh-museum&month=3D=
0507&we
ek=3Da&msg=3DYlB%2bqQFKKlWtNzBxxDXV2g&user=3D&pw=3D

[2] The history of the Crace Collection is told on:
http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/crace//textintro.cfm

[3] http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/londoninmaps/visit.html

[4] Part of Paris, Matthew. _Itinerary from London to Jerusalem_.
c.1250. Royal MS 14.C.VII f.2. Visible on:
http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personalisation/object.cfm?uid=3D011COTNE=
RD000
01U00183V00

[5] _Po=E9sies de Charles, Duc d'Orl=E9ans_. c.1480. Royal MS 16.F.II, f.=
73
Visible on:
http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/mediastore/027/000/027ROY0000016F2U000730=
00[
SVC2].jpg

[6] Leake, John. "An exact svrveigh of the streets, lanes, chvrches
comprehended within the rvins of the city of London first described in si=
x
plats". January-March 1667. Add. MS 5415.1.E. 546x838 mm. Visible on:
http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personalisation/object.cfm?uid=3D00700000=
00000
01U00050000

[7] Ogilby, John & Morgan, William. "A Large and Accurate Map of the City=
of
London Distinct from Westminster and Southwark". London,1676.
Maps Crace II.61. 1390 x 2480mm. Visible on:
http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personalisation/object.cfm?uid=3D00700000=
00000
02U00061000

[8] Rocque, John. "An Exact Survey of the Citys of London, Westminster an=
d
Borough of Southwark with the Country near 10 miles round". London, 1746.
Maps K. Top. 6.87-5. 1905x2565mm. Visible on:
http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personalisation/object.cfm?uid=3D007ZZZ00=
00000

19U00018000

[9] Horwood, Richard. "Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, the
Borough of Southwark and Parts adjoining, shewing every House". 1792-99.
Maps C.24.f.7. 32 sheets, each 550x500mm. Visible on:
http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personalisation/object.cfm?uid=3D007ZZZ00=
00000
05U00173000

[10] Basire, James. "Plan of the Proposed Improvements at Charing Cross, =
St
Martin's Lane and Entrance to the Strand", 1826. Maps Crace XVI17.38.
381x483mm. Visible on:
http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personalisation/object.cfm?uid=3D00700000=
00000
17U00038000

[11] Alexander, Daniel. "Plan of the Proposed London Docks". London, 1797.
Annotated May 1799. Maps K. Top. 21.22-1. 285x495mm. Visible on:
http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personalisation/object.cfm?uid=3D026KTOP0=
00000
21U02200001

[12] Arkell, George E. 'Jewish East London' in C. Russell and H.S.
Lewis, _The Jew in London: A Study of Racial Character and Present-Day
Condition_. London, 1900. 04034.ee.33. Not shown on the website.

[13] Booth, Charles. _Life and Labour in London_. London, 1891. 08275.bb.=
5.
Visible on:
http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personalisation/object.cfm?uid=3D026MAP00=
00182
C1U0000000C

[14] "Map showing the distribution of Cholera in London and its Environs
from June 27th to July 21st 1866". 1867. From the [9th] Report of the
Medical Officer of the Privy Council for 1866. Maps 3485 (41). Not shown =
on
the website.

[15] Biggs, George. "The Railway Bell and the Illustrated London Adverti=
ser
Map of London". London , 1846. Maps Crace VII.251

[16] http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/londoninmaps/

[17] Whitfield, Peter. _London: A Life in Maps_. London : British Library=
,
2006. ISBN 0712349189 (cloth); 0712349197 (paperback).

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The Memory of Nations?
New National Historical and Cultural Museums: Conceptions, Realizations a=
nd
Expectations
German Historical Museum, Berlin
March 14 - 16 2007

In the summer of 2006 the German Historical Museum opened its permanent
exhibition on German history, thereby concluding a twenty years long proc=
ess
of preparation that had continually pursued the question of how to presen=
t
history in the present.
Yet this museum project in Berlin was by no means a singular event. In ma=
ny
other highly developed industrial states the 1980s saw the founding of ne=
w
national historical and cultural museums whose conceptions differed marke=
dly
from those of the extant national history museums, which had predominantl=
y
been founded in the 19th century. The focus was no longer on depicting th=
e
nation's past as a time of glory but rather on the concern with elucidati=
ng
the heights and depths of history and of the cultural past by means of
original historical materials, thereby presenting the political, social a=
nd
economic developments in all their diverse complexity. In this way diverg=
ent
perspectives on history are meant to contribute to a better comprehension=
of
historical processes and to further insight and understanding. This also
includes knowledge about the past relations among nations, which is of gr=
eat
significance for the understanding of current international developments.

The wave of new national historical and cultural museums founded in the
1980s provoked an intense demand among visitors, thus confirming the
correctness of the political and cultural intentions involved in founding
them. The new conceptions of these museums have responded to societal nee=
ds
with convincing strategies. Sociological and museological approaches have
placed these museum developments in the context of the theory of a "Secon=
d
Modernity" / "Second modern Age" (Reflexive Modernization) characterized =
by
a dissolution of the values of the industrialized world's modernity and =
in
contrast, characterized by an awareness of the limits of growth, ecologic=
al
problems on a global scale, globalization, alternatives to gainful
employment, the receding significance of the nation-state, the dissolutio=
n
of binding structures and the internationalization of everyday life. Inst=
ead
individualization and the search for sustainable strategies for the
development of the earth take on greater significance. In this situation =
of
the rapid loss of tradition, the need for knowledge of the past and activ=
e
engagement with it has become an important criterion of cultural educatio=
n
and of the stabilization of identity.

At the beginning of the 21st century new developments are beginning to ma=
ke
themselves apparent in other national museums as well. With the political
changes in the socialist states of Europe, the economic and to some exten=
t
also societal liberalization of East Asian societies as well as the end o=
f
apartheid and dictatorship in other parts of the globe, the process of th=
e
80s is asserting itself belatedly in these regions as well. Furthermore a
re-thinking of other genres of museum in the direction of historical
orientation can also be seen.

The international symposium is firstly to draw a balance: the national
museums from the 1980s will present their purpose and realization, succes=
ses
and failures, conflicts, visitor acceptance, new challenges and further
conceptual developments.
Secondly, the symposium is to offer the national museums that are present=
ly
undergoing reorganization a platform to present their plans and
expectations. Finally the symposium is to clarify whether and how the new=
ly
conceived museums succeed in acting as the memory of nations in order to =
be
accepted as such by the visitors.

Conference languages: English and German
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D C Rose

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: NACBS Panel: Ireland - migration - inter-war era
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Forwarded on behalf of
Gavin Foster
gfoster[at]nd.edu

I am currently looking for two presenters to join me on a panel at
the NACBS
conference in San Francisco (Nov. 2007). My paper,
which comes out of my PhD project on the social dimensions of the
Irish Civil
War (1922-23), examines the political and social contexts and
consequences of
the 'mini-diaspora' of Irish republicans in the early Free State.
Given my
paper's subject, there are any number of possibilities for structuring a
potential panel: a broad, interdisciplinary 'Irish Studies' panel on
20th-century Ireland; a comparative migration or diaspora studies
panel; or
perhaps something on comparative social history in the inter-war
period. If you
have a paper you think might work well, you can contact me at
gfoster[at]nd.edu
The deadline for panel/paper submissions is Fri., Feb. 16, so speed
is of the
essence! Thanks...

Gavin Foster

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I think that many IR-D members will want to see this obituary, from =
today's
Guardian.

P.O'S.


Benedict Kiely

PJ Gillan and Richard Pine
Monday February 12, 2007
The Guardian

The Irish writer Benedict Kiely, who has died aged 87, overcame the =
banning
of three early novels to enjoy a long and successful literary career. =
Under
Ireland's censorship laws (since relaxed), the books were deemed to be =
"in
general tendency indecent or obscene".

Kiely's first book, Counties of Contention: a Study of the Origins and
Implications of the Partition of Ireland (1945), reflected the moderate
nationalism that he adhered to all his life. His Poor Scholar (1947) is =
a
critical biography of William Carleton, a pioneer of the modern Irish =
short
story and a major influence on Kiely himself. Modern Irish Fiction =
(1950) is
a work of assured literary criticism.

Born into a family of six children near Dromore, County Tyrone, Kiely =
grew
up in Omagh, where he was educated by the Christian Brothers. His father =
was
a Boer War veteran, who later worked as a survey measurer, or "chain =
man",
for the Ordnance Survey. Although the town was largely free of the
sectarianism associated with Northern Ireland, intolerance did =
occasionally
rear its head. Kiely, who as a boy played outside-right for Omagh
Corinthians and wore his hair in the manner of Dixie Dean, was suspended
from the Gaelic Athletic Association "for being spotted by a member of =
the
Gaelic vigilance committee playing a foreign game with Protestant boys =
in a
Protestant field".

As a schoolboy, he dutifully read the prescribed essays of Addison, =
Belloc,
Chesterton, Hazlitt and Lamb; for pleasure, he read Zane Gray and Edgar
Wallace. He was once impressed by a teacher who interrupted a =
trigonometry
lesson to make an impassioned defence of James Joyce - a remarkable
introduction to the great writer from an Irish Christian Brother who, as
Kiely later remarked, "made us realise that there was a world where =
books
mattered".

In 1937 Kiely entered a Jesuit seminary to study for the priesthood. But
during a lengthy convalescence from a tubercular spinal ailment, he =
decided
that the religious life was not for him, and instead enrolled for an =
arts
degree at University College, Dublin (UCD), where he was involved in the
production of a poetry broadsheet and was a member of the literature
society. He graduated in 1943.

By the time his first novel, Land Without Stars, was published in 1946,
Kiely was a leaderwriter on the Irish Independent - his instructions =
were to
"avoid coming to any conclusion about anything". But in 1950 he =
resigned.
The banning of his novel In a Harbour Green (1949) had not endeared him =
to
the management; furthermore, a positive review he wrote of George =
Farquhar's
The Recruiting Officer prompted complaint from readers and Kiely was no
longer asked to review plays. A friend suggested he would be happier at =
the
Irish Press, where he then spent almost 15 years as literary editor. He
retired from full-time journalism in the mid-1960s, became a visiting
professor of creative writing at several American universities, and =
later
lectured at UCD.

Kiely's narrative style owes much to the tradition of country =
storytelling
and shares some characteristics with Joyce and Flann O'Brien. He drew on =
his
abandoned religious vocation and the experience of illness in such =
novels as
Honey Seems Bitter (1952), There Was an Ancient House (1955) and Dogs =
Enjoy
the Morning (1968). The Cards of the Gambler (1953) is regarded as one =
of
his best, and others combine elements of fantasy and reality.

His forte, however, was the short story. An early story, King's =
Shilling,
was published in the Irish Bookman, and later stories appeared in the =
New
Yorker, the Kenyon Review and other American magazines. At his best, =
Kiely
came close to matching Frank O'Connor, who championed his work, and Sean
O'Faolain.

His work is informed by a deep affection for and exasperation with =
Ireland,
and by an inclusive sense of history and tradition. This is underscored =
by
the anger evident in his last two novels, Proxopera (1977) and Nothing
Happens in Carmincross (1985), which deal with political violence. In =
all,
he published 10 novels and four volumes of stories, as well as travel =
books
and anthologies. Two volumes of memoirs deal mainly with the Dublin of =
the
1940s and 1950s. A renowned raconteur, he was also a popular =
broadcaster.

Kiely was awarded honorary doctorates by the National University of =
Ireland
and the Queen's University, Belfast. In 1996 he received the highest =
honour
of Aosd=E1na, the Irish artists' body, when he was elected a Saoi, in
recognition of his contribution to literature. In 1944 he married =
Maureen
O'Connell, who predeceased him; they had one son and three daughters. =
His
second wife Frances survives him.

PJ Gillan

Richard Pine writes: Ben Kiely and I were nodding acquaintances as
co-denizens of Barney McCloskey's pub in the then Dublin "village" of
Donnybrook, where we both lived. It was close to the studios of Radio
Telef=CCs =C9ireann (RT=C9), where I worked and where Kiely contributed =
his
mesmeric west Ulster voice to the radio programme Sunday Miscellany. =
From
Omagh to Donnybrook may seem a big stretch, but Kiely's gentle and
gentlemanly manner meant that he readily found a home in this locale of
academics and broadcasters.

He didn't hold court, but he created an ambience, and had a natural =
affinity
with others of McCloskey's inmates, including my senior colleagues, the
legendary broadcasters Ciar=E1n MacMathuna and the late Se=E1n =
MacR=E9amoinn.
MacMathuna's long-running programme Mo Cheol Thu gave rise to a =
remarkable
annual epiphany: Kiely, MacR=E9amoinn and MacMathuna would lunch long =
and
well, and would then be driven back to RT=C9, where they would record a
bibulous Christmas special, in which their prandial excesses never once
impaired their ability to enthral their radio listeners. This was a
generation of professionals who elevated radio broadcasting to an =
unbeatably
fine art.

=B7 Benedict Kiely, writer, broadcaster and journalist, born August 15 =
1919;
died February 8 2007

http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2010840,00.html

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I have seen it variously attributed to Sister Agnes, 1920, and to Fr
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Take down your copy of

Patrick O'Sullivan, ed., Religion and Identity

Volume 5 of The Irish World Wide
Leicester University Press, London & Washington,
first published 1996,

And I know you have one...

And look at...

The psychology of song; the theology of hymn: songs and hymns of the Irish
migration
Leon B. Litvak

P. 80.

For the attribution to Sister Agnes, Leon, note 30, gives

John Julian, A Dictionary of Hymnology, 1907.

You may in fact be dimly recalling that chapter, because in it Leon Litvak
also looks at Faber's hymns, most significantly the 2 versions of Faith of
Our Fathers.

Paddy

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Could anyone please point me in the direction of details regarding the
authorship of the favourite Saint Patrick's Day hymn 'Hail, Glorious
Saint Patrick'?


I have seen it variously attributed to Sister Agnes, 1920, and to Fr
F.W. Faber (1814-63).

Thanks
Brian



Brian Lambkin (Dr)
Director
Centre for Migration Studies
Ulster-American Folk Park
Castletown, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland
BT78 5QY
brian.lambkin[at]magni.org.uk

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William Jenkins has a new article out... Continuing his sequence of cross
border, city contrasts...

Identity, place, and the political mobilization of urban minorities:
comparative perspectives on Irish Catholics in Buffalo and Toronto 1880 -
1910

Abstract and web address pasted in below...

P.O'S.

Cite as:
Jenkins W, 2007, "Identity, place, and the political mobilization of urban
minorities: comparative perspectives on Irish Catholics in Buffalo and
Toronto 1880 - 1910" Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 25(1) 160
- 186
Received 15 January 2003; in revised form 8 October 2004

Abstract. In this paper the political fortunes and identities of Irish
Catholics in US and Canadian cities are explored through a comparative study
of Buffalo and Toronto. Local spaces of political administration in the
urban arena, such as wards, were significant in affecting the generation of
sociopolitical networks of power which in turn had implications for the
sense of political identity and involvement felt by Irish Catholics within
these two places. The importance of such spaces, however, was also
contingent on the interaction between these cities' Irish Catholic
populations and wider geographies of social, economic, and ethnoreligious
relations over time as well as on the topographies and traditions of
political power that extended beyond the municipal scale in both societies.

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There is a Free Sample issue of

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On its web site.

It is a special issue on special issue on Ethnicity and Social Change,
edited by Robert L. Lineberry

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/ssqu/87/s1

P.O'S.

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