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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Launch of new newspaper, The Irish Herald,
for the Irish in central England.
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Email Patrick O'Sullivan

We have received an email - extracts below - from Gerry Molumby, of
Triskellion Theatre Company, about the launch of The Irish Herald.

Gerry is evidently lending his support to the project - which is =
definitely
against the tide... Of course, we send our best wishes to the project, =
and
its editor Patrick McCool, and to Gerry Molumby.

Gerry has also kindly sent a pdf file of the latest issue, which I am =
happy
to forward to anyone who has an interest in the newspapers of the =
diaspora.

Oddly, no ringlets...

P.O'S,

________________________________________
From: FMolumby[at]aol.com [mailto:FMolumby[at]aol.com]=20
Sent: 11 February 2007 23:05
Subject: 'New'-spaper for the Irish in central England

=A0
'New'-spaper for the Irish in central England.
=A0
The Irish Herald is the new=A0community newspaper for the Irish =
Community in
central England. Launched by Patrick McCool (Editor) in=A0October 2006, =
it is
growing in popularity as being a medium=A0to tell the stories=A0for =
Irish people
in=A0central England.
=A0
The paper is very artistically put=A0together=A0by Aquiline Design - =
Birmingham.
=A0
Can I recommend my articles 'Into the West'=A0(Mayo Emigrant=A0
Liaison=A0Committee),=A0an update on the Midlands=A0representation at =
the =A0Rose of
Tralee=A0 Festival.=A0 The paper also includes features=A0on the =
planning
arrangements=A0for the St. Patrick's=A0 Day Parades in the cities of =
Birmingham
and Nottingham. There is also copious sports features=A0and Douglas Mc
Donald's photographic coverage of various Irish events in the East =
Midlands.
The paper has=A0up to date Entertainment, Health, Women, Travel features =
and
it's own Agony Aunty Fiona!. There is even a story on how 'Irish Pubs =
are
Suffering'!.=A0

Since the last edition Patrick's dad died and he has written a wonderful
poignant tribute to his father. The story mirrors the lives and loves of =
the
numerous Irish family dynasties in central England today, with their =
roots
in=A0 families, from Ireland . Some of the young adults finding work in =
the
USA and others in the UK.
=A0
So, The Irish Herald is a magazine type paper but also=A0endeavours to =
reflect
the news and lives of Irish people in the midlands of Britain. We are
particularly interested to tell the stories of the 1st and 2nd =
generation
Irish and to continue to pay tribute and support to the older Irish-born
people in our communities.=20
=A0
Next months edition will include my exclusive interview to=A0The Irish =
Herald
with Mr. Irish Entertainment, the legendary Val Doonican.=20
=A0
The Irish Herald is available to purchase at 'all good newsagents'. =
Contact
Patrick =A0patmcc45[at]aol.com=A0to find out how you can purchase it =
or=A0if=A0 you
have a=A0 story=A0 for=A0editorial =A0consideration.=20
You can also=A0contact me on fmolumby[at]aol.com.
=A0
Sl=E1n,
=A0
Gerry Molumby
Features Writer - The Irish Herald
=A0
www.triskellion.inuk.com
www.stpatricksdayparadenottingham.co.uk

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From: Brian Lambkin
Subject: Re: 'Hail Glorious Saint Patrick'
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It was there at my side all the time!=20

Many thanks Paddy.

Brian

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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Sent: 12 February 2007 14:09
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] 'Hail Glorious Saint Patrick'

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

Tel: 0044 (0) 28 82 256315
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OK, another one of these questions from a non-academic researcher who called
me presuming my instant expertise--not knowing that it is only the
collective wisdom of the list that allows me to masquerade as Irishly
omniscient.

This one involves needing the title of a novel (date unknown): the basic
plot is that someone named Lohan (or a variation) thereof gets mixed up in a
secret society in Roscommon and is transported to Australia. His wife
follows him and misses the last boat.

Ring any bells? A low priority query, but I said I'd ask

Jim Rogers

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Subject: FREE ONLINE ACCESS to SAGE journals

I was wondering why the pursuit of texts had suddenly become easier...

And backtracked to this special offer from SAGE journals.

Unfortunately, as the word goes round, the entire website is slowing down -
poor scholars from around the world are homing in...

Thick as the humming bees, that hunt the golden dew;
In summer's heat on tops of lilies feed,
And creep within their bells, to suck the balmy seed...

Best of luck.

P.O'S.


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Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Article, SOUTHERN IRISH NATIONALISM AS A HISTORICAL PROBLEM
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There are a number of ways of approaching this historiographic essay...
Return of the bride of revisionism. Regan vs Hart by another means...
But certainly food for thought...

P.O'S.

The Historical Journal (), 50: 197-223 Cambridge University Press
Copyright C Cambridge University Press 2007

Published online by Cambridge University Press 13 Feb 2007

Historiographical Reviews
SOUTHERN IRISH NATIONALISM AS A HISTORICAL PROBLEM*JOHN M. REGAN c1 a1
a1 University of Dundee

Abstract

To what extent has the recent war in Northern Ireland influenced Irish
historiography? Examining the nomenclature, periodization, and the use of
democracy and state legitimization as interpretative tools in the
historicization of the Irish Civil War (1922-3), the influence of a southern
nationalist ideology is apparent. A dominating southern nationalist interest
represented the revolutionary political elite's realpolitik after 1920,
though its pan-nationalist rhetoric obscured this. Ignoring southern
nationalism as a cogent influence has led to the misrepresentation of
nationalism as ethnically homogeneous in twentieth-century Ireland. Once
this is identified, historiographical and methodological problems are
illuminated, which may be demonstrated in historians' work on the
revolutionary period (c. 1912-23). Following the northern crisis's emergence
in the late 1960s, the Republic's Irish governments required a revised
public history that could reconcile the state's violent and revolutionary
origins with its counterinsurgency against militarist-republicanism. At the
same time many historians adopted constitutional, later democratic, state
formation narratives for the south at the expense of historical precision.
This facilitated a broader state-centred and statist historiography,
mirroring the Republic's desire to re-orientate its nationalism away from
irredentism, toward the conscious accommodation of partition. Reconciliation
of southern nationalist identities with its state represents a singular
political achievement, as well as a concomitant historiographical problem.

Correspondence:
c1 Department of History, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HN
j.regan[at]dundee.ac.uk

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Article,
Abused and Looked After Children as 'Moral Dirt': Child Abuse and
Institutional Care in Historical Perspective
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publication
Journal of Social Policy

ISSN
0047-2794 electronic: 1469-7823

publisher
Cambridge University Press

year - volume - issue - page
2007 - 36 - 1 - 123

pages
123


article

Abused and Looked After Children as 'Moral Dirt': Child Abuse and
Institutional Care in Historical Perspective

FERGUSON, HARRY

abstract

This article argues that to provide adequate historical explanations for the
maltreatment of children in institutional care it is necessary to ground the
analysis fully in the context of the concept of child abuse and definition
of childhood that existed at the time, something that many studies fail to
do. Drawing primarily on the experience of the Irish industrial schools
prior to the 1970s, while most commentators suggest that children were
removed into care and treated cruelly because they were poor, there were
also many children who entered the industrial schools who had been abused by
their parents and welcomed being protected, and the community played a key
role in supporting such actions. Children were treated harshly in the
industrial schools not only due to their poverty but because they were
victims of parental cruelty, which was perceived to have 'contaminated'
their childhood 'innocence'. They were treated as the moral dirt of a social
order determined to prove its purity and subjected to ethnic cleansing.
Prevention of such abuse today requires a radical reconstruction of the
traditional status of children in care, while justice and healing for
survivors necessitates full remembrance of the totality of the abuse they
experienced, and that those responsible are made fully accountable.

keyword(s)

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Article,
Minority Language Advertising: A Profile of Two Irish-language
Newspapers
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publication
JMMD - Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
=09
ISSN
0143-4632 electronic: 1747-7557

publisher
Multilingual Matters/Channel View Publication

year - volume - issue - page
2007 - 28 - 1 - 34

pages
34

article

Minority Language Advertising: A Profile of Two Irish-language =
Newspapers

Kelly-Holmes, Helen

table of content - full text

abstract

This paper investigates the Irish-language adscape through an analysis =
of
the profile of two Irish-language newspapers, Foinse, published in the
Republic of Ireland, and L=E1, published in Northern Ireland. The =
advertising
in both papers is analysed in terms of products and services advertised,
advertisers represented and language used. Our results indicate that
Irish-language advertising in these papers tends to be confined to
traditional domains, and to be used by advertisers who are complying =
with
language planning directives. Beyond this, advertising in Irish is used =
to
identify with certain communities, and its use by private sector
advertisers, in a context in which there is a weak communicative =
motivation
for doing so, tends to be mainly symbolic. Our small study shows that =
the
respective advertising profiles of these newspapers do little to =
challenge
common sense assumptions about the language, its role and its status in =
the
respective sociolinguistic environments of both publications.

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Subject: Article,
An Investigation into Factors Affecting the Occupational Choices
of Nominated Farm Heirs in Ireland
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The family farm looms so large within Irish Diaspora Studies...

I thought this latest turn in the story would interest...

P.O'S.


publication
Journal of Agricultural Economics

ISSN
0021-857X electronic: 1477-9552

publisher
Blackwell Publishing

year - volume - issue - page
2007 - 58 - 1 - 61

pages
61

article

An Investigation into Factors Affecting the Occupational Choices of
Nominated Farm Heirs in Ireland

Hennessy, ThiaC. - Rehman, Tahir

table of content - full text

abstract

The resilience of family farming is an important feature of the structure of
the farming industry in many countries, due largely to the 'smooth'
succession of farms from one generation to the next. The stability of this
structure is now threatened by the widening gap between the income expected
from farming when compared with non-farming occupations in an economy like
Ireland, operating at almost full employment. Nominated farm heirs are
increasingly unlikely to choose full-time farming as their preferred
occupation. To identify the factors that affect this occupational choice, a
multinomial logit model is developed and applied to Irish data to examine
the farm, economic and personal characteristics that influence a nominated
heir's decision to enter farming as opposed to some non-farming occupation.
The results show a significant negative relationship between higher
education and the choice of full-time farming as an occupation. The
interdependence between education and occupational choices is further
explored using a bivariate probit model. The main findings are: the
occupational choice and the decision to continue with higher education are
made jointly; the nominated heirs on more profitable farms are less likely
to pursue tertiary education and therefore more likely to enter full-time
farming. The model developed is sufficiently general for studying the
phenomenon of succession on farms.

keyword(s)

Bivariate probit, farm succession, multinomial logit, occupational choice,

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Article, The Informal World of Police Patrol,
New York City in the Early Twentieth Century
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Of special interest to people called Mulligan.

Note that this is a SAGE journal, and thus currently freely available to
anyone in the world with web access.

P.O'S.


Journal of Urban History, Vol. 33, No. 2, 183-216 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0096144206290384
C 2007 SAGE Publications
The Informal World of Police Patrol
New York City in the Early Twentieth Century
Christopher Thale

Columbia College Chicago

Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century foot patrolmen did not have friendly
contact with all citizens on their beats. Police-citizen relations were
sometimes hostile or simply anonymous. Beats embraced large, socially
divided populations, which did not always agree on police priorities. This
article explores street-level police-citizen relations in New York City in
the early twentieth century using disciplinary records, police-oriented
newspapers, autobiographies, and other sources. Police-citizen contacts were
selective. Merchants, shopkeepers, watchmen, and janitors shared common
interests with police, which were strengthened by exchange of goods,
services, the use of space, and sympathy and conversation. Police became
especially attentive to their concerns about crime and disorder. Few other
citizens could establish such links with beat patrolmen. Officers'
relationships on their beats were influential but had significant built-in
biases, reinforcing the enforcement of law and control of disorder in ways
congruent with the needs and views of neighborhood notables.

Key Words: neighborhood . police . community relations . New York City

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Subject: FW: Louis MacNeice: Centenary Conference & Celebration 12-15 Sept
ember 2007
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PADDY/BILL -- You may have already announced this, I forget. No need =
to put
my name on it -- just a "has been called to our attention" note



Louis MacNeice: Centenary Conference and Celebration
12-15 September 2007
Seamus Heaney Centre, School of English, Queen=B9s University Belfast,
Northern Ireland=20
Deadline for Papers: 31 May 2007
=20
The poet Louis MacNeice(1907-1963) was born in Belfast on 12 September =
1907.
He is central to thehistory of modern poetry in Ireland and Britain. =
His
life and work also exemplify the complexity of literary, cultural and
political intercourse
between Ireland and Britain during the Twentieth Century. In September =
2007
leading critics and poets will gather in Belfast to explore and =
celebrate
his achievement. They include: Jonathan Allison, Simon Armitage, =
Terence
Brown, Neil Corcoran, Valentine Cunningham, Paul Farley, Michael =
Longley,
Peter McDonald, Medbh McGuckian, Derek Mahon, Sinead Morrissey, Paul
Muldoon, Don Paterson, Jon Stallworthy and Clair Wills.
=20
Papers are invited on MacNeice=B9s poetry, prose and plays; his place =
in
modern poetry and relation to Modernism; his literary, cultural and
political contexts in Ireland and Britain; his relation to precursors =
such
as W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot; his
relation to contemporaries such as W.H. Auden; his influence on later =
poets;
his intellectual world; his literary criticism; his role as a =
broadcaster.
=20
To propose a paper (time limit: 20 minutes), please send a 200-word =
summary
and a short biography to Dr Leontia Flynn (l.flynn[at]qub.ac.uk). For =
general
enquiries, contact Professor Edna Longley (e.longley[at]qub.ac.uk). Postal
address: Seamus Heaney Centre, School of English, Queen=B9s University,
Belfast BT7 1NN.=20
=20
For further information see the Seamus Heaney Centre website
(www.qub.ac.uk/heaneycentre) where details of the conference will be =
updated
as appropriate.

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Article, Putting wrongs to right,
Campaigns against miscarriages of justice
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The well known Irish in Britain cases are but one part of the material
considered on this article, but an important part - as it studies the
criminological significance of miscarriages of justice. Thus in the UK it
is suggested that the Birmingham 6 and Guildford 4 cases led to the creation
of the Criminal Cases Review Commission.

P.O'S.

Criminology and Criminal Justice, Vol. 7, No. 1, 83-105 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1748895807072477
C 2007 SAGE Publications

Putting wrongs to right
Campaigns against miscarriages of justice

Stephen P. Savage

John Grieve

University of Portsmouth, UK

Sam Poyser

Canterbury Christchurch University, UK

Campaigns against miscarriages of justice have played a role not just in
exposing individual cases of injustice but also in helping to shape criminal
justice policy itself. The means by which such campaigns manage to achieve
degrees of 'success' are therefore of criminological significance. Using the
term 'miscarriages of justice' to embrace both 'wrongful convictions' and
the failure of agencies to act appropriately ('not doing enough'), the
article proceeds to define the various ways in which such campaigns might be
said to have 'successful' outcomes. Using documentary analysis and a
programme of interviews with key players, the article then examines the
'critical success factors' behind campaigns against miscarriages of justice.
It concludes that two factors have been the key to successful campaigns
against miscarriages of justice: on the one hand the ability of campaigns to
access the social resources and social capital associated with campaigning
networks; on the other hand the ability of victims and families associated
with injustices to provide the resilience and cohesion which campaigns
typically need to achieve goals.

Key Words: justice campaigns . miscarriages of justice . victims

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From: Dymphna Lonergan
Subject: Re: title of a novel
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Perhaps it's Thomas Keneally's The Great Shame-the protagonist is Hugh=20
Larkin.

Rogers, James wrote:
> OK, another one of these questions from a non-academic researcher who c=
alled
> me presuming my instant expertise--not knowing that it is only the
> collective wisdom of the list that allows me to masquerade as Irishly
> omniscient.
>
> This one involves needing the title of a novel (date unknown): the basi=
c
> plot is that someone named Lohan (or a variation) thereof gets mixed up=
in a
> secret society in Roscommon and is transported to Australia. His wife
> follows him and misses the last boat.
>
> Ring any bells? A low priority query, but I said I'd ask
>
> Jim Rogers
>
> =20

--=20

=20

/ /

/le gach dea ghu=ED/

/ /

=20


Dr Dymphna Lonergan

Convener Professional English (ENGL1001); Professional English for=20
Teachers (ENGL1013); Professional English for Medical Scientists=20
(ENGL1012); Professional Writing (PROF2101).

=20

Director of Studies: Professional Studies minor.

=20

Current research interests: Irish settlement in South Australia;=20
Placenames Australia (Irish); Irish language in Australia.

Publication: /Sound Irish: The Irish Language in Australia/

http:www.lythrumpress.com.au

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: IASIL 2007 - Final Call for Papers, Varieties of Irishness,
Dublin, July 2007
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Forwarded on behalf of
The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

IASIL 2007 ; IASIL IN IRELAND
University College Dublin
16-20 July 2007

SECOND AND FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

Varieties of Irishness


The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures invites you
to attend the 2007 conference at University College Dublin. The Conference
theme is designed to highlight the diversity which has always been at the
heart of Irish writing and to accommodate the widespread interests of IASIL
delegates.

The Conference activities will take place on the extensive campus of
University College Dublin located at Belfield, Dublin, 4, four miles from
the city centre. The conference activities will chiefly take place in the
Global Irish Institute Building near the entrance to campus; the closing
dinner will be held in the O’Reilly Hall. Accommodation choices will
include five-star student accommodation in the Glenomena Residences and the
Montrose Hotel beside the campus, which will be offering a special rate to
delegates.

Registration will take place on the afternoon of Monday, 16 July 2007. The
conference will open with a welcoming address by President Hugh Brady at
4.30 p.m. and the keynote address by Professor Declan Kiberd,
‘Joyce’s Homer, Homer’s Joyce’, at 5.00 p.m. These
will be followed by a reception to welcome delegates. The panels will begin
at 9.00 a.m. on Tuesday, 17 July.

The first call for papers resulted in over 170 proposals of great diversity
and interest. A second and final call for papers is now being issued, with a
deadline of 20 March, 2007.

No further call for papers will be issued.

Speakers must be members of IASIL for 2007 in order to present an accepted
paper at the conference – or have become a member no later than 30
April 2007.

Proposals for papers of twenty minutes’ duration (approx. 2,800 words)
are welcome on any aspect of the literatures of Ireland, especially those on
the conference theme. Please include the following information with your
proposal:

. A 300 word description of your paper;
. The full title of your paper;
. Your name, postal address and e-mail address;
. Your institutional affiliation and position (e.g. Professor,
Lecturer, Postgraduate Student, etc.);
. Any AV requirements you might have;
. Your IASIL membership status (i.e. present member, membership to be
renewed, membership application submitted/to be submitted).

Most participants in the conference will submit individual papers and be
allocated to panels by the conference organisers.

We are also offering participants the opportunity to form their own panels.
Panel proposals are being accepted from:

. Groups of 3 or 4 people who wish to deliver papers around one theme;
. Individuals who will issue their own calls for papers for the
conference.

For details on how to submit a panel proposal, please see

All paper and panel speakers must be current members of IASIL or have joined
by 30 April, 2007.

All speakers must pay the conference registration fee in advance.
Registration details will be posted online at the end of March 2007.

All speakers are responsible for their own registration, travel and visa
arrangements, and accommodation. We will provide relevant information on
this site.

If you are making your submission by e-mail, please do so the conference
organiser, Professor Anthony Roche, at avroche[at]eircom.net. Please send your
proposal in plain text in the body of your e-mail and as an attachment in a
Word document. E-mailed confirmation of receipt of all e-mails will be sent
within 10 working days.

If you are making your submission by post, please do so to:

Professor Anthony Roche, School of English and Drama, University College
Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, 4, Ireland.

Organising panel: Dr. John Brannigan; Professor Andrew Carpenter; Professor
Anne Fogarty; Professor Gerardine Meaney.

IASIL 2007 is hosted by the School of English and Drama and the Global Irish
Institute at University College Dublin.

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The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

IASIL STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS 2007

Please distribute to any students who might be interested.

IASIL will offer six scholarships to assist overseas student members of
IASIL to attend the conference at University College Dublin on 16-20 July
2007. Three scholarships will be worth Euro 1,000, and three will be worth
Euro 500. The scholarships will be presented to the successful candidates
during the conference.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS
1. Applicants must be paid-up student members of IASIL for 2007. The
relevant dues must be paid by 31 March 2007. Information on how to become a
member is available on the IASIL website on http://www.iasil.org/membership/

2. Applicants must be registered for a postgraduate university degree
outside Ireland.

3. Applicants must not have been granted an IASIL scholarship or award
on a previous occasion.

4. Each applicant must submit the following:
(a) Conference paper proposal.
(b) Letter of application for the scholarship (one page).
(c) Reference from research supervisor (one page).

5. The scholarship awards will be considered by a committee of IASIL,
consisting of the treasurer, the chair of the organising committee and an
independent academic assessor. The decisions of the committee will be final.


6. The final date for submission is April 20, 2007. The candidates will
be informed of the outcome of the competition by May 10, 2007. Payment of
the scholarship is conditional on the delivery of the proposed paper at the
conference.


SUPPORT FUND: IASIL has a limited support fund available to assist members
in financial difficulty to attend the conference. If you are not eligible to
apply for a scholarship as outlined above, but wish to make a case for
assistance from the IASIL support fund, please outline your situation in a
brief letter to the Scholarship Committee and enclose a letter of support
from an academic familiar with your work. To avail of support fund
assistance, you must be a paid-up member of IASIL of at last three years
standing and have your paper proposal accepted.

Applicants for support fund assistance will be considered by the scholarship
committee, whose decisions will be final. The final date for submission is
April 20, 2007. Applicants will be informed of the outcome of their
application by May 10, 2007. Payment of the assistance will be made at the
conference, and is conditional on the delivery of the proposed paper at the
conference.

Applications for the above should sent to: avroche[at]eircom.net

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Subject: Call for Papers--Literary and Cultural Relations between =
Ireland,
Hungary and Central and Eastern Europe

Call for Papers on the subject of :

Literary and Cultural Relations between Ireland, Hungary and Central and =

Eastern Europe

This is to announce that the first HUSIS (Hungarian Society for Irish=20
Studies) Conference will be hosted by the Department of English=20
Literatures and Cultures at the University of P=E9cs and the English=20
Studies Research Group of The Regional Centre of the Hungarian Academy=20
of Sciences P=E9cs, on 14-15 September 2007. The event intends to bring=20
together academics who specialise in Irish Studies and are interested in =

the subject of literary, cultural and historical encounters (including=20
parallels, influence, reception, translation) between Ireland, Hungary=20
and Central and Eastern Europe. Plenary speakers will be invited from=20
Ireland and there are plans for the publication of a selection of the=20
papers.

Organiser Dr. Kurdi M=E1ria
E-mail address: kurdi[at]btk.pte.hu

HUSIS 1 Postal Address
University of P=E9cs, Department of English Literatures and Cultures
P=E9cs, Ifj=FAs=E1g =FAtja 6. H-7624 Telephone/Fax: +36-72-314-714

Registration Fee
HUF 5,000 for members of HUSIS/HUSSE
HUF 4,000 for PhD students
HUF 7,500 for non-members of HUSIS/HUSSE
EUR 35 for participants from abroad

The registration fee is due by 1 August. It includes the cost of a=20
reception on the first evening, coffee, tea and refreshments in the=20
intervals but does not cover accommodation and board. Information on=20
various accomodation possibilities will be provided in the second=20
circular, along with the account number of the conference.

Paper proposals with an abstract of 200 words are welcome by 15 May =
2007.

If you wish to participate please fill out the form below and send it to =

the HUSIS 1 postal address or to the organiser=92s e-mail address.

HUSIS 1 Attendance Form


Name

Position

Affiliation

Contact Address (if different from above)

E-mail Address

Title of presentation

Abstract (appr. 200 words)

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Forwarded on behalf of
Dawn Scibilia

From: DuCinema[at]aol.com [mailto:DuCinema[at]aol.com]=20
Subject: Irish/NewYork FILM

I'm trying to spread word about an upcoming screening of my film about a
recent Irish Immigrant in New York.

Also more screenings listed on the website

www.homethemovie.com

BAMcin=E9matek presents special screening of=20
=93Home=94 Thursday, March 1
4:30 and 7:30 pm
Q&A with director Dawn Scibilia and subject Alan Cooke, moderated by
Bloomberg News=92 Rick Warner after 7:30PM screening.

Part of BAMcin=E9matek=92s ongoing series, Brooklyn Close-Up. This =
ongoing
series looks at films that reflect the diversity and changing landscape =
of
the Borough of Kings. =20

Home (2006), 70min
Directed by Dawn Scibilia
With Alan Cooke
Brooklyn filmmaker Dawn Scibilia had been shooting landscapes of New =
York
City with a desire to document the changing city, but was not committed =
to
making a film until she met Irish immigrant Alan Cooke. Home follows =
Cooke
as he finds his way through New York in both a tribute to the =
everlasting
beauty of the city and a harsh acknowledgment of the difficulties of =
living
here. Into this tapestry, Scibilia weaves off-the-cuff interviews with
numerous New York luminaries including Woody Allen, Pete Hamill, Frank
McCourt, Malachy McCourt, Liam Neeson, Susan Sarandon, Fran Lebowitz, =
Mike
Myers, Rosie Perez, and many more.=20

Film Ireland writes, =93Home sees Dubliner Cooke wandering about =
Manhattan
reflecting on his recent immigration to New York City, exploring =
nostalgia,
the journey and the concept of home.=94

BAM Rose Cinemas =93offers one of the most civilized movie-going =
experiences
in the city,=94 according to The New York Times. General admission =
tickets to
BAM Rose Cinemas are $10. Tickets are $7 for students 25 and under (with
valid I.D. Monday=96Thursday, except holidays) seniors, children under =
twelve,
and BAM Cinema Club members. Tickets are available at the BAM Rose =
Cinemas
box office, by phone at 718.777.FILM (order by =93name of movie=94 =
option), or
visit www.bam.org
Homethemovie.com

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http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/opinion/article2265446.ece
=20
Dear Paddy,
=20
Would this news be interesting for ID list members? It is an evidence
that the only way to overthrow myths (English as foreign to Irish) is
creating fresh, younger myths (Ireland as a developed country). Perhaps
the history of the Irish in certain Latin American countries illustrates
that the Irish have more in common than apart with the British.
=20
Edmundo

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Subject: An Nasc, Halifax, Nova Scotia,
Special issue of newsletter in honour of Cyril J. Byrne
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Padraig O Siadhail sends along the following which will be of interest=20
to many members and friends:

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The D'Arcy McGee Chair of Irish Studies at Saint Mary=B9s University, =
Halifax,
has just published the Spring 2007 issue of its newsletter, An Nasc. =
This is
a special issue focusing on Cyril J. Byrne, the founder of the Chair of
Irish Studies and the Irish Studies Programme, who died in August 2006.

The newsletter includes contributions by Cecil Houston (University of
Windsor), Ninian Mellamphy (University of Western Ontario), John Shaw
(University of Edinburgh), Peter Toner (UNB, Saint John), and Seosamh =
Watson
(UCD); by Saint Mary=B9s colleagues, Terry Murphy, Margaret Harry, Ken
MacKinnon and P=E1draig =D3 Siadhail; by former students of Cyril, =
Stephanie
Lahey, Ann MacLean and Sandra Murdock; and by journalist, Heather =
Laskey,
Pat Curran of An Cumann/ The Irish Association of Nova Scotia and Brian
O=B9Brien of the Charitable Irish Society of Halifax.

Hard copies of An Nasc are available
from the Chair of Irish Studies (please contact Jenny Kaulback at
jenny.kaulback[at]smu.ca or 902.420.5519), though the supply is limited. =
The
newsletter is also available online in PDF format at the Irish Studies =
web
page:=20

www.smu.ca/academic/arts/irish/documents/Volume17-Spring2007.pdf



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Subject: CFP: Scotch-Irish Symposium

Center for Scotch-Irish Studies
Fourth Scotch-Irish Identity Symposium
Call for Papers

The Fourth Scotch-Irish Identity Symposium will be held on Saturday,
June 30, 2007, at the Philadelphia International Airport Ramada
Hotel, Essington, PA.

The Center invites research presentations on any of the following
aspects of the Scotch-Irish experience:
(a) Trade between Ulster and the American colonies and its
influence on migration in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early
nineteenth centuries.
(b) The role of Ulster immigrants and their Scotch-Irish
descendants in the settlement and economic development of the
eighteenth century frontier.
(c) Contributions to the establishment of political, religious,
and educational philosophy and institutions.
(d) Comparative approaches to the study of the Scotch-Irish
experience (for example, how they interacted with other ethnic groups).
(e) Eighteenth century Ulster immigration to parts of North
America other than the Thirteen Colonies, its scale and measure of
success.
(f) Original papers on other Scotch-Irish topics will also be
considered for inclusion.

The symposium will be preceded by a reception and welcome dinner at
the Ramada Hotel on the evening of Friday, June 29, 2007.

Please direct any questions to the Center for Scotch-Irish Studies,
at cntrsis[at]aol.com. Abstracts (approximately 300 - 400 words) should
be sent as file attachments (Microsoft Word preferred). You will
find requirements for Symposium presentations on the website
www.Scotch-IrishCentral.org.


MACMASTER,RICHARD

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From today's Guardian...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2014261,00.html

Obituary
Sean Mac R=E9amoinn
Progressive Irish broadcaster dedicated to preserving Gaelic

PJ Gillan
Friday February 16, 2007
The Guardian

Sean Mac R=E9amoinn, who has died aged 85, was a broadcaster and writer =
with a
deep interest in Gaelic culture and religious affairs. He once remarked =
that
everything in the Catholic church was either forbidden or compulsory, =
and
remembered with much amusement an American bishop's commendation of "the
passionate chastity of the men of Ireland".

From 1962 to 1965, he reported on the second Vatican council, which =
raised
both hopes and fears among Irish Catholics. For his part, he
enthusiastically welcomed it for bringing the church, "kicking and
screaming", into the 20th century. He was happy to bid farewell to some =
of
the minor stupidities of Irish life: "We have got rid of the prudishness =
and
petty puritanisms that made us think sexuality was a tremendously =
important
thing."

A "card-carrying Catholic", he sided with "the loyal opposition", a =
concept
disapproved of by the institutional church. He delighted in "the whole =
of
God's creation", from good food, to fresh ideas, to good jokes. He =
supported
the ordination of women and married men and believed that there should =
be a
strong distinction between the clergy and the ministry. He strongly =
believed
that the Roman collar should cease to be a symbol of class or power.

Mac R=E9amoinn was born in Birmingham, the third child of James and =
Wilhelmina
Redmond. His father was from Boolavogue, county Wexford, and the family
returned to Ireland two years later. He was educated by the Christian
brothers in Clonmel, the Jesuits in Galway, took a double arts degree at
University College, Galway, and did postgraduate work in Old and Middle
English.

He entered the Irish diplomatic service in 1944, transferring to Radio
=C9ireann, then a part of the civil service, when the station was
substantially expanded in 1947. He was attached to the outside broadcast
unit and worked with the distinguished uileann piper, Seamus Ennis,
travelling the country to record the music and folklore of rural =
Ireland. On
one occasion, a farmer took a break from haymaking to explain what made =
one
poem better than another: "Better words, better placed."

Mac R=E9amoinn was proud of Radio =C9ireann's role in the revival of =
Irish
traditional music through introducing regional styles to a national =
audience
and providing a platform for young musicians. He later held a number of
senior administrative posts in Radio Telifis =C9ireann, as it became in =
1960,
and was a member of the station's governing body, the RT=C9 Authority.

Mac R=E9amoinn spoke Gaelic fluently. His wish was that it should be =
preserved
as a living language and cultivated to a point where it came into flower
again. But he warned that negative and sectional attitudes to the Irish
tradition would have to be abandoned if Gaelic was to become again a =
dynamic
force for cultural growth and a focus for national unity. He maintained =
a
lifelong interest in things Welsh and, in August 1979, was robed as a =
bard
at the national eisteddfod in Caernarfon. The citation described him as =
a
regular interpreter of Wales in Ireland and a scholar in Celtic studies.

Mac R=E9amoinn was fully committed to public service broadcasting. A =
radio
station that was entirely highbrow held no appeal for him; it should =
first
educate, then inform and entertain, but he saw little merit in radio =
based
purely on commercial criteria. He was opposed to section 31 of the Irish
broadcasting act, under which representatives of Sinn F=E9in and =
loyalist
paramilitary groups were denied access to the airwaves (the restrictions
have since been rescinded). While he had no time for the IRA, he =
described
the measure as anti-democratic and potentially destructive. "People in
broadcasting should be trusted," he insisted.

Mac R=E9amoinn was a stalwart of Cumann Merriman, founded in 1967 in =
honour of
the poet Brian Merriman, which in 1967 began organising lively summer =
(and
later winter) schools to discuss political and cultural issues. He was a
member of many other groups and organisations ranging from the
anti-apartheid movement to the Irish theological association.

He nailed his political colours to "the mast of the battered Irish left" =
and
thought there had to be a social stand against giving market forces free
rein. He regretted that Fine Gael leader, Garret FitzGerald had not =
aligned
himself with the left earlier in his political career.

Mac R=E9amoinn regularly wrote for newspapers and magazines. His =
Vatic=E1in II
agusan R=E9abhl=F3id Cult=FArtha (Vatican II and the Cultural =
Revolution, 1987)
assessed the cultural and spiritual revolution in Ireland in the 1960s =
and
1970s. Other publications include The Pleasures of Gaelic Poetry (ed)
(1982), The Synod on the Laity: An Outsider's Diary (1987) and Laylines
(1993).

He had catholic musical tastes and, when called on to sing, could draw =
on a
repertoire that included the songbooks of Cole Porter and Jerome Kern, =
Irish
ballads and vaudeville favourites.

He is survived by his wife Patricia (n=E9e Hall), daughters Seona and =
Laoise,
and son Brian.

=B7 Sean S=E9amas Criost=F3ir Mac R=E9amoinn, broadcaster and writer, =
born November
21 1921; died January 17 2007