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Hi Paddy,

I'm sure that this will be of great interest to some on the list. Nationa=
l days and diaspora is flagged up as an area of specific attention. Can you=
do the necessary please?

All best wishes,

As always,

Jim


INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NATIONAL DAYS:
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND: 29-30 NOVEMBER 2007


NATIONAL DAYS: SUMMONING THE NATION?
Celebrating, commemorating, communicating, contesting=85


Le quatorze juillet, Independence Day, Burns Night, la Diada de Catalunya=
, Thanksgiving, syttende mai, Super Bowl Sunday, el D=EDa de la Hispanidad,=
???=85 All these =96 and many more =96 are days which =93summon=94, or att=
empt to summon the =93nation=94: in some cases to large-scale, occasionally=
extravagant public festivities and ceremonies, in others to more privatise=
d, even domestic forms of national awareness. They may be related to great=
historical events (usually battles =96 most often victories, less commonly=
defeats), or they may be an attempt to erase the memory of historical even=
ts: Russia=92s recently instituted National Unity Day, now celebrated on 4 =
November, appears to be an attempt to =91erase=92 the memory of earlier cel=
ebrations of the Russian Revolution. In yet other cases they may provide a=
framework for celebrations of nationhood linked to would-be =93epic=94 spo=
rting events, to the lives of saints, to royal birthdays or even to literar=
y figures such as Burns in Scotland or Cam=F5es in Portugal.

Some of these =93nations=94 =96 like the Scots, the Catalans or the Qu=E9=
b=E9cois =96 may be located within much larger, plurinational states, while=
other National Days =96 such as the Latin American D=EDa de la Raza =96 cl=
aim to unite different nations in a larger transnational community transcen=
ding the boundaries of individual nation states. Yet others may include si=
gnificant diasporic elements (the celebration of Saint Patrick=92s Day in t=
he United States). But in any case what is a =93nation=94: do African Amer=
icans and Hispanics enjoy a sense of ownership of Independence Day? Do Sco=
ttish Muslims identify with Saint Andrew=92s Day? Is class a factor? For s=
ome, are such days just an excuse for a day off work? And how are we to ac=
count for those cases (such as the UK) where there is no official National =
Day?

In all cases the political dimension of National Days seems clear enough,=
though its status may vary from hegemonic through informal to contestatory=
. What forms of expression does this political dimension take? The celebr=
ation of such days can also be linked to what are in some ways seen as =93h=
oly places=94 (for example Montserrat in Catalonia) and often involve (very=
) significant movements of population. How are these sites managed? Do su=
ch large migrations entail opportunities for national, or even internationa=
l tourism? How are National Days mediated? How is this mediation managed =
in multilingual societies?

This conference welcomes proposals for twenty-minute papers on the subjec=
t of National Days on:

The politics of National Days
National Days and the construction of the nation
National Days and the invention of tradition
National Days in the stateless nation
The symbols and iconography of National Days
National Days and class
National Days and diasporas
National Days and heritage sites
National Days and religion
The language and rhetoric of National Days
National Days and gender
Public and privatised National Days
National Days in film, television, radio and the press
National days and the internet
National Days and tourism
=85 and indeed other topics relating to the complex and multifaceted phen=
omenon

It is our intention to produce at least one edited collection of articles=
based on conference papers.

The conference will be held in Glasgow, Scotland, on 29 and 30 November 2=
007. Invited speakers include:

Salvador Card=FAs, Universitat Aut=F2noma de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Hu Zhengrong, Communication University of China, Beijing
Douglas Kellner, University of Central Los Angeles, USA
David McCrone, Edinburgh University, Scotland

Proposals (max. 250 words) should be sent, preferably by e-mail, to:

Prof. Hugh O=92Donnell
Cultural Business Group
Glasgow Caledonian University
Cowcaddens Road
Glasgow
G4 0BA
Scotland (UK)
Tel: +44 (0)141 331 3262
Fax: +44 (0)141 331 3264
e-mail: hod[at]gcal.ac.uk

by Friday 30 April 2007 at the latest. Decisions on acceptance will be c=
ommunicated by mid-May.

Further information is available at:

www.caledonian.ac.uk/nationaldays



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Forwarded on behalf of

Dr Yvonne Whelan
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An interdisciplinary international conference 14-16 September 2007 under =
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The theme of the conference is the impact of both contemporary and histor=
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Recent years have seen steadily accumulating socio-economic, political,
cultural and technological developments which have challenged institution=
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stereotypes and values in both parts of Ireland. But the island has also
experienced significant innovation in the past, and, as well as notable
disruptions, the Irish narrative is characterised by some intriguing
continuities.

The organisers would like to encourage contributions from the varied
disciplines contributing to Irish Studies, including Literature, Politics=
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Geography, History, Archaeology, Sociology, Film & Media Studies and the
Visual Arts, and from people working in other fields of study who have an
Irish dimension in their work.

Papers are invited on the following themes:

. Language, Literature and Identities
. Construction & renewal of identities around gender, sexuality or
religion
. Commodifying Irish Pasts: Heritage, Landscape and Memory
. The Irish Language, retreats & revivals
. Transformation of the Irish Economies in the Nineteenth & Twentieth
Centuries
. Northern Ireland Society 'After the Troubles'
. Imaging Historic and Contemporary Ireland in Film, Music &
Performance
. Diasporic Versions of Identity

Each speaker will have 20 minutes for a presentation and will be expected=
to
take questions. Participants are encouraged to put together panel session=
s
(three papers of 20 minutes each). Abstracts of not more than 300 words
should be sent as either hard copy or email attachment by 31 March 2007 t=
o:

Mervyn Busteed, Geography Discipline, School of Environment & Development=
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Forwarded from H-Ethnic.

Leo Lucassen. _The Immigrant Threat: The Integration of Old and New
Migrants in Western Europe since 1850_. Urbana: University of Illinois
Press, 2005. 280 pp. Index, bibliography, tables, figures. $55.00 (cloth),
ISBN 0-252-03046-X; $25.00 (paper), ISBN 0-252-07294-4.

Reviewed for H-Ethnic by Christiane Harzig, Department of History, Arizona
State University

Is There a New Immigrant Threat?

The book was born, as the author states in the conclusion, from a mixture
of irritation and inspiration. As a migration historian well-versed in
European and United States history, he could not help but notice the
historicity of migration processes in the various European countries on the
one hand and the possible comparison to similar developments in the U.S. In
both cases the developments were accompanied by the tropes of "fear" and
"threat": fear that the "new," more recent immigrants would not assimilate
and thus would present a threat to the orderly and peaceful development of
societies. In this discourse the values of the new immigrants, it is
argued, are fundamentally opposed to the "Judeo-Christian" tradition (i.e.,
separation of church and state, equality of women). What is conveniently
forgotten in this discourse, as Lucassen points out, is Europe's
anti-Semitic past. He could have added that women in Western societies were
not given equal rights on a silver platter either, but rather had to and
still have to fight bitterly for equality and equity. Is there a lesson to
be learned from U.S. history? Can our understanding of the European
migration and integration processes, which Lucassen functionally defines as
the process by which all people (migrants and non-migrants) find their
place in society, be enhanced by looking at U.S. discussions and historical
experiences (p. 18)? In the end, Lucassen wants to find out whether
structural integration (using a modified concept of integration as process
by Milton M. Gordon) over two generations in Europe today differs from what
has been happening in the past. Are today's immigrants so fundamentally
different (regarding race and culture) as to warrant the prediction that
they will not be capable of assimilation? To what extend do the different
structures of receiving societies in Europe provide different paths to
integration and how do they compare to the integration scenario in the
United States?

Lucassen's research design is simple and most convincing. Choosing a number
of social markers and characteristics such as stereotyping processes,
social and political mobilization, intermarriage, social mobility,
criminality, and residential patterns, and applying them to various
dominant immigrant groups in the past and present, he attempts to draw
conclusions about the (un)assimilablity of today's immigrants in Europe.
For his comparison he chose "large and problematic" groups: Irish
immigrants in Britain, Polish immigrants in Germany, Italian immigrants in
France in the past; Caribbeans in Britain, Turks in Germany, and Algerians
in France in the present. These are obvious and well-grounded choices.

As Lucassen works through his research agenda, the reader is provided with
a concise overview of the immigration histories of the various groups. We
learn about the respective political context, the political, social, and
cultural discourses accompanying the immigration process and the
persistence (as in the case of the Irish) or the fading (as in the case of
the Italians) of the negative stereotypes. For each of the immigration
scenarios, Lucassen is able to reduce his otherwise highly differentiating
analysis to one key factor responsible for determining the immigration
trajectory. Regarding the Irish in Great Britain, he perceives the deeply
felt religious divide between the Protestants and Catholics to be at the
core of the ongoing estrangement of the Irish in British society. In the
case of the Poles in the mining districts of western Germany, it was
nationalism (on both the German and the Polish sides), which kept Polish
workers and their families, who had established an associational structure
approaching institutional completeness (churches, voluntary associations,
press, even unions), separate from the host society. Both of these
sentiments, religiosity and nationalism, Lucassen considers as more
fundamental than the labor antagonism of Italian and French workers, which
was at the root of anti-Italian xenophobia in France. Once Italian workers
had understood the benefit of unionism and French unions were willing to
overcome their perception of Italians as scabs, the road to integration was
open for most Italian immigrants, especially when they came with their
families. The French state, always more of an immigration state than
Prussia/Germany or historical Great Britain, fostered and supported
family-based immigration and thus helped Italians on their immigration
trajectory.

The new, post-1950s wave of immigration in Europe is often seen as
fundamentally different from earlier patterns, awakening the fear that the
conflation of cultural differences, skin color and socio-economic problems
will produce a caste-type underclass, and thus create an "American
problem." Upon closer analysis Lucassen sees a two-road integration model
among immigrants from the Caribbean in Great Britain. While there are
segregated clusters in places like Brixton and Notting Hill with high
levels of unemployment and social problems, blacks, especially women with
an education, show evidence of being on the road to integration. Here,
class appears to be the most important factor in determining the long-term
development of the integration process. For the "large and problematic"
group of Turks in Germany, Lucassen argues against the "Brubaker paradigm,"
which claims that a rigorously applied ius sanguinis (hereditary national
status) prevalent in Germany prevents Turks from integrating. He outlines
instead the (partial) integration into the labor market (and he could have
mentioned active union participation) despite high unemployment; the high
degree of self-organization; and even school statistics, an issue of great
concern in Germany, that provide room for optimism. Again, the women fare
better than the men. The "German ethno-cultural hangover" indeed has its
implications for the identification process of Turkish immigrants, but it
has not stopped the integration process, which may be further along than is
assumed in public discourse. The relationship between Algerians and natives
in France is more complex than the other immigration scenarios under
scrutiny here, because it is impacted by the conflicted history between the
colonizers and the colonized. Again the author provides a brief but
insightful analysis of Algerian migration to France and the political
conflicts which accompanied this migration process. True, ghetto formation
in low-rent housing is the result more of racism than of self-selection (in
contrast to the Turks in Germany), and Algerians are reluctant to
naturalize, (though their children demand to be treated as French, as
indeed they are in terms of citizenship). Nevertheless, education and a
good proficiency in French open roads to social and economic integration.
The author considers the fear of rising fundamentalism among the Algerian
immigrants as unfounded, and if it indeed gains more ground, it is more due
to frustration than due to an "ingrained cultural tendency." Again Lucassen
finds evidence for his major argument that, if these new "large and
problematic" groups experience (more) difficulties in integration, it is
not due to some fundamental, i.e. unchangeable, cultural characteristic,
but rather due to political, social, and economic circumstances for which
all parties involved bear responsibility.

In the end, Lucassen concludes that "integration may be a slow, gendered
and differentiated process, but also the children of migrants gradually
become more similar to the established population, both in _structural_ and
_identificational_ respects" (italics in original, p. 211). And he
continues: the rapid cultural changes point "more in the direction of
ongoing integration than toward the dawn of a multicultural society where
descendants of immigrants remain visible and culturally distinct groups"
(p. 212). Regarding the European-U.S. comparison, the analysis has shown
that "the American debate is to some extent parochial and only partly
applicable to other contexts" (p. 208). Considering the national
self-definition (the U.S. as a nation of immigrants); the role of the
welfare state (and its stern rejection of illegal immigrants in Europe);
and the impact of color, (which seems less salient in Europe), there are
limits of theorizing on the basis of the American experience.

Whether you agree with his conclusions or not, in this book Lucassen has
addressed a number of academically and politically pressing and challenging
questions, and he has provided a thoroughly grounded historical cum
sociological analysis. He has also opened up a number of issues for further
analysis: I would like to see more studies on "intermarriage"; at the
moment it is unclear to me what it actually measures and what kind of
conclusions we can draw from it. Though Lucassen attempted to keep gender
as an analytical category in his analysis, pointing to the leading role of
women in the integration process, a closer look into the cultural
differences of changing gender relations and gender dynamics during the
migration and integration process may produce some interesting results.
This book has the potential to provoke many stimulating discussions and
could thus be a great read in a graduate class.


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Edmundo,

I was in Dublin last weekend and I would not hold my breath about the
meaning behind this gesture. In the first place the writer seems to me
to be a bit Pollyannaish about the whole thing - he/she didn't even get
the day of the match right, it was Sunday the 11th Feb, not Saturday as
he/she wrote. Was the writer even a rugby fan? . The situation for the
GAA is far more complex than the writer states - government subsidies
for Croke Park being one issue. While it is certainly time for Croker
to share its space I don't think that "everyone" was a winner - the end
of the match was a heart breaker for Ireland! Nearly all of the comments
I heard were certainly not in any way complimentary, or should I say
reconciliatory, about the English coming to Croke Park and many were
actually saying that it was a pity that it was not the English march
which was first - so "we could beat the hell out of them" as one rugby
fan - who also plays rugby for one of the Dublin clubs - put it. Not
sure that this will happen based on Ireland's form but we can only hope.
The crowd standing on the rubble of 1916 - Hill 16 - will certainly will
it to happen.

As for the Bloody Sunday "myth" it was central to many conversations
that I heard last week and I was even surprised at how present it was.
In spite of the best efforts of the revisionists to play down this event
- and other auxiliary atrocities - it still has strong meaning for many
in Dublin who witnessed it, and their descendants.

Carmel



Murray, Edmundo wrote:
> http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/opinion/article2265446.ece
>
> Dear Paddy,
>
> 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.
>
> Edmundo
>
> .
>
>

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Morning Carmel (from a very wet and stormy Cork)

Obviously there are different points of view about this, but I'd like to
take up one point - the reference to government subsidies for Croke Park.
The overall level of subsidies for Croke Park has been extremely modest and
needs to be seen in context. The GAA is the largest amateur sporting
organisation (per head of population) of its kind anywhere; it competes
successfully with other codes and remains comfortably ahead of them all;
women's gaelic football is the fastest-growing sport in Ireland. It operated
for decades with no subsidies at all in a country which is still, in many
ways, a parody of a social democracy and provides few if any sporting and
leisure facilities such as those which are taken for granted in the smallest
French or Catalan town.

The GAA agreed by a vote of its own membership to open Croke Park for a
limited period for certain major rugby and soccer games. It was a democratic
decision, fully debated. I don't believe that government subsidies played
any significant role.

Whether one agrees with the decision are not I think most people in Ireland
do see it as a watershed.

I am not an uncritical support of the GAA. Its upper echelons are still
populated by dinosaurs, some of whom think the only function of women in the
organisation is to make the tea and sandwiches while others regard the media
and any kind of public scrutiny with the deepest suspicion, if not
hostility. But it could beat the entirely amateurish so-called professionals
of the Football Association of Ireland and Irish Rugby Football Union into a
cocked hat any day.

Piaras

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this secretiveness etc. extends to
their archives as well. Assuming they have one, properly speaking. As
far as I know, no scholar has ever had access - it's as big a hole
in historiography as the lack of a full history of the Gaelic League.

And if I could add one thing: if your'e interested in hurling, do read
Denis Walsh's Hurling: the Revolution Years. It's a terrific piece of
sports writing.

Peter Hart

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Piaras,

There was much talk in Dublin about the government "giving" around 60 to
70 million of taxpayer money to the improvements at the Croke stadium.
Isn't this a fact? I thought that this formed very much a part of the
talk surrounding the demand for a new stadium for football and rugby
back in 2001 and 2002 - which has ended up with Landsdowne Rd being
re-built because Mary Harney would not go along with the idea of
"Bertie's bowl". Growing up as I did in a household devoted to
"foreign" sport - memories of listening to the Ashes clash on shortwave
radio- I find it all fascinating and something that many outside of
Ireland probably find quite puzzling. [But I did also stand with my
grandfather and father on Hill 16 during Dublin matches]. I do agree
with you that many inside the GAA now seem to want change of some ilk.

I also am listening in on RTE to the heated debate about the British
national anthem being played at Croker. Birth pangs of a nation..

Carmel






MacEinri, Piaras wrote:
> Morning Carmel (from a very wet and stormy Cork)
>
> Obviously there are different points of view about this, but I'd like to
> take up one point - the reference to government subsidies for Croke Park.
> The overall level of subsidies for Croke Park has been extremely modest and
> needs to be seen in context. The GAA is the largest amateur sporting
> organisation (per head of population) of its kind anywhere; it competes
> successfully with other codes and remains comfortably ahead of them all;
> women's gaelic football is the fastest-growing sport in Ireland. It operated
> for decades with no subsidies at all in a country which is still, in many
> ways, a parody of a social democracy and provides few if any sporting and
> leisure facilities such as those which are taken for granted in the smallest
> French or Catalan town.
>
> The GAA agreed by a vote of its own membership to open Croke Park for a
> limited period for certain major rugby and soccer games. It was a democratic
> decision, fully debated. I don't believe that government subsidies played
> any significant role.
>
> Whether one agrees with the decision are not I think most people in Ireland
> do see it as a watershed.
>
> I am not an uncritical support of the GAA. Its upper echelons are still
> populated by dinosaurs, some of whom think the only function of women in the
> organisation is to make the tea and sandwiches while others regard the media
> and any kind of public scrutiny with the deepest suspicion, if not
> hostility. But it could beat the entirely amateurish so-called professionals
> of the Football Association of Ireland and Irish Rugby Football Union into a
> cocked hat any day.
>
> Piaras
>
> .
>
>

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A three-volume study of the history of the GAA in Dublin (city and county) was
published either last year or 2005.
Edited by William Nolan; publisher Geography Publications, Dublin (who also
publish the Irish County History Series)
Not sure if access was granted for those volumes, and someone else will have to
check since I am in Toronto and my copies are in Dublin!

Willie Jenkins

Quoting Peter Hart :

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this secretiveness etc. extends to
> their archives as well. Assuming they have one, properly speaking. As
> far as I know, no scholar has ever had access - it's as big a hole
> in historiography as the lack of a full history of the Gaelic League.
>
> And if I could add one thing: if your'e interested in hurling, do read
> Denis Walsh's Hurling: the Revolution Years. It's a terrific piece of
> sports writing.
>
> Peter Hart
>

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Please let interested parties know.






University of Dublin, Trinity College

Post Title: Lectureship in Sociology
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Jews in Glasgow, 1879-1939. Immigration and Integration by Ben Braber



Vallentine Mitchell have published Jews in Glasgow, 1879-1939. Immigration
and Integration by Ben Braber.



This book is a case study of Jews from eastern and central Europe who
settled in Glasgow between 1879 and 1939. The individual chapters review
aspects of their immigration and integration into Scottish society, namely:
the reaction of the native population and the Jewish responses; the
education of immigrant children; the participation of Jews in the Glasgow
economy; their involvement in the political and arts world; and changes in
Jewish organisations, religious habits and life style. A special chapter is
devoted to post-1945 developments, bringing the history of the Jews in
Glasgow up to the present date. The final chapter compares the Jewish
experience in Glasgow to that of Jews in English cities and other immigrants
in Glasgow such as the Irish, Italians, Germans and Asians.



The book is available from Vallentine Mitchell, please contact
toby.harris[at]vmbooks.com



Ben Braber is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of History at
the University of Glasgow. He is currently working on two research projects.



The first project utilises a combination of primary and secondary sources
and applies a broad historical approach to examine integration of immigrants
in Scotland after 1760. Placing Scotland within a wider international
context by comparing Scottish developments to what happened in countries
similar in size and ethnic make-up such as Ireland, the Netherlands and
Belgium, it is a comparative study dealing with aspects of social, cultural,
political and economic history.



The second aims at providing a new perspective on Jewish and Dutch history
by examining Jewish resistance and participation in general resistance
movements in the Netherlands during the second world war within the wider
context of the integration of Jews into Dutch society, and comparing Dutch
developments to what happened in similar western European countries that
were occupied during the war such as Denmark, Belgium and France, and to
developments in Germany and Italy.



He can be reached by email on benbraber[at]btinternet.com

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marcus bourke has written about the gaa, would he not have had access?
anthony
Dr. Anthony McNicholas
Communication and Media Research Institute
University of Westminster
0118 948 6164 (BBC Written Archive Centre)
07751 062 735 (m)
020 8995 6625 (h)


Quoting Peter Hart :

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this secretiveness etc. extends to
> their archives as well. Assuming they have one, properly speaking. As
> far as I know, no scholar has ever had access - it's as big a hole
> in historiography as the lack of a full history of the Gaelic League.
>
> And if I could add one thing: if your'e interested in hurling, do read
> Denis Walsh's Hurling: the Revolution Years. It's a terrific piece of
> sports writing.
>
> Peter Hart
>

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My understanding is that the GAA have very little archives to
allow access to.

There have been any number of histories written about the GAA but
very few, if any, are rigorous and purely academic in nature.

Kevin Whelan recently (2006 Merriman School?) wrote a long paper
on the GAA, which might be a prelude to a full length book on the
subject.

James.

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marcus bourke has written about the gaa, would he not have had access?
anthony
Dr. Anthony McNicholas
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University of Westminster
0118 948 6164 (BBC Written Archive Centre)
07751 062 735 (m)
020 8995 6625 (h)


Quoting Peter Hart :

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this secretiveness etc. extends to
> their archives as well. Assuming they have one, properly speaking. As
> far as I know, no scholar has ever had access - it's as big a hole
> in historiography as the lack of a full history of the Gaelic League.
>
> And if I could add one thing: if your'e interested in hurling, do read
> Denis Walsh's Hurling: the Revolution Years. It's a terrific piece of
> sports writing.
>
> Peter Hart
>

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This is my first time posting here and I've been biting my tongue all
day reading these emails but I feel that I have to answer this part.
It is fashionable in Ireland in some quarters to argue that any thing
peculiarly Irish is somehow or other insular and narrow and what
happens outside of Ireland, generally meaning Britain, is
'international' and 'cosmopolitan'. While I'm sure that Carmel's
comments do not intend to reflect this view, the reference to 'people
outside of Ireland' and suggesting that they probably find it puzzling
does fit in with this view. The reality is that most people outside of
Ireland are not discussing this issue, nor are they really going to be
concerned about it. It would be a non-issue for them. But it does
appear to be an issue which is being used within Ireland to beat one
particular concept of Irishness and appears to me to be part and
parcel of a particular type of 'West Britishness Irishness' - valid
though that may be as an expression of Irishness, which wants to
reinterpret 'Irishness' as a green version of Britishness.

I should perhaps also explain that I do not live in Ireland, although
my parents are from Ireland, and quite frankly don't mind what games
are played in Croke Park but I equally don't see why this issue should
be blown up as some kind of 'coming of age' right for the Irish. The
British really aren't going to care that much where a rugby game is
played nor are they likely to think about a massacre that occurred
nearly a hundred years ago - they have been involved in many more
since then and I doubt that it will exercise much concern for them
when England comes to play in Croke park.

The question of the national Anthem is another issue, do they play the
Irish national Anthem when Ireland plays in London? I'm not sure what
the present policy is on this, but if they don't then I would expect
the same policy to be enforced in Ireland.

As for the Birth Pangs of a nation - the 'nation' has been in
existance for centuries (if not millennia) and the two states for
nearly 80 years, which in the modern European context makes Ireland
almost ancient!

Muiris


On 19/02/07, Carmel McCaffrey wrote:
> Piaras,
>
> Growing up as I did in a household devoted to
> "foreign" sport - memories of listening to the Ashes clash on shortwave
> radio- I find it all fascinating and something that many outside of
> Ireland probably find quite puzzling.

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With reference to the previous emails and some of the "dinosaurs" which =
Piaras correctly alludes to - and taking into account the fact that =
there are divergent points of view on the opening up of Croke Park which =
is undoubtedly a watershed historically - it is worth pointing out I =
think that the debates at club level and "on-the-ground" (about opening =
up Croke Park)- as I know from my own local GAA club here in Limerick =
and in Galway where I played as a young lad - were much more heated and =
divisive than the Irish media might portray them. Also much of the =
debate as relating to the people at the "upper-echelons" of the =
Assocation was spin/media-driven - hence the "incomprehensible" =
responses by certain sections of the "Dublin 4" media when many of the =
Northern counties had strong reservations about it (or voted against the =
proposal to open up Croke Park)

All the best=20
Michael Hayes=20
Department of English and History=20
University of Limerick=20
=20





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Piaras,

There was much talk in Dublin about the government "giving" around 60 to =

70 million of taxpayer money to the improvements at the Croke stadium. =20
Isn't this a fact? I thought that this formed very much a part of the=20
talk surrounding the demand for a new stadium for football and rugby=20
back in 2001 and 2002 - which has ended up with Landsdowne Rd being=20
re-built because Mary Harney would not go along with the idea of=20
"Bertie's bowl". Growing up as I did in a household devoted to=20
"foreign" sport - memories of listening to the Ashes clash on shortwave =

radio- I find it all fascinating and something that many outside of=20
Ireland probably find quite puzzling. [But I did also stand with my =20
grandfather and father on Hill 16 during Dublin matches]. I do agree=20
with you that many inside the GAA now seem to want change of some ilk.

I also am listening in on RTE to the heated debate about the British=20
national anthem being played at Croker. Birth pangs of a nation..

Carmel






MacEinri, Piaras wrote:
> Morning Carmel (from a very wet and stormy Cork)
>
> Obviously there are different points of view about this, but I'd like =
to
> take up one point - the reference to government subsidies for Croke =
Park.
> The overall level of subsidies for Croke Park has been extremely =
modest and
> needs to be seen in context. The GAA is the largest amateur sporting
> organisation (per head of population) of its kind anywhere; it =
competes
> successfully with other codes and remains comfortably ahead of them =
all;
> women's gaelic football is the fastest-growing sport in Ireland. It =
operated
> for decades with no subsidies at all in a country which is still, in =
many
> ways, a parody of a social democracy and provides few if any sporting =
and
> leisure facilities such as those which are taken for granted in the =
smallest
> French or Catalan town.=20
>
> The GAA agreed by a vote of its own membership to open Croke Park for =
a
> limited period for certain major rugby and soccer games. It was a =
democratic
> decision, fully debated. I don't believe that government subsidies =
played
> any significant role.=20
>
> Whether one agrees with the decision are not I think most people in =
Ireland
> do see it as a watershed.
>
> I am not an uncritical support of the GAA. Its upper echelons are =
still
> populated by dinosaurs, some of whom think the only function of women =
in the
> organisation is to make the tea and sandwiches while others regard the =
media
> and any kind of public scrutiny with the deepest suspicion, if not
> hostility. But it could beat the entirely amateurish so-called =
professionals
> of the Football Association of Ireland and Irish Rugby Football Union =
into a
> cocked hat any day.
>
> Piaras
>
> .
>
> =20

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Subject: Article, Daly,
The Irish Free State/Eire/Republic of Ireland/Ireland: "A country
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A number of IR-D members will find useful this article, by one of the Mary
Dalys. I think it is the first time I have seen a sober historian's study
of the tensions and ambiguities around the use, in different places, of
different words for the state or states and the island.

Signed
One of the Patrick O'Sullivans

Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Daly, M. E.;
Title: The Irish Free State/Eire/Republic of Ireland/Ireland: "A country by
any other name"?
Year: 2007

Journal: Journal of British Studies
Volume: 46
Issue: 1
Pages: 72-90

Accession Number: ISI:000243310700005
Author Address: Univ Coll Dublin, Coll Arts & Celt Studies, Dublin
2, Ireland. Daly, ME, Univ Coll Dublin, Coll Arts & Celt Studies, Dublin 2,
Ireland.
Language: English

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I have not been able to see this article, but it is certainly an
interesting, and timely, study. There does seem to be here some discussion
about authenticity, and I wonder how it is handled, or justified.

P.O'S.


Title: Celticity and storyteller identity: The use and misuse of ethnicity
to develop a storyteller's sense of self
Author(s): Ryan P (Ryan, Patrick)
Source: FOLKLORE 117 (3): 313-328 DEC 2006
Document Type: Article
Language: English
Cited References: 43 Times Cited: 0 Find Related Records

Information
Abstract: This paper looks at the self-representation of contemporary or
revival storytellers claiming "Celtic" identity for themselves as
storytellers, largely based on imagined traits of generic "Celtic"
storytellers and storytelling styles, and content, which are conveyed via
commercial images, suppositions about the Romantic era, and other mediated,
second-hand or even erroneous sources. At the same time, such
representations are compared with the self-representations of three
traditional storytellers from Ireland and Scotland.

Addresses: Ryan P (reprint author), Univ Glamorgan, George Ewart Evans
Storytelling Ctr, Pontypridd CF37 1DL, M Glam Wales
Univ Glamorgan, George Ewart Evans Storytelling Ctr, Pontypridd CF37 1DL, M
Glam Wales
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 4 PARK SQUARE, MILTON
PARK, ABINGDON OX14 4RN, OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND
Subject Category: Folklore
IDS Number: 122MS
ISSN: 0015-587X

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This TOC has at last turned up, and I can point out a number of items of
interest to IR-D.

Predictably I have a number of problems with the little Symposium by (Ir-D
members) Delaney, Kenny and MacRaild... There have been a number of
off-list comments. From my point of view, with my usual self-denying
ordinance, and briefly, as a working writer, I have difficulty in engaging
with discussions about the meaning of words. For a writer, words are
wriggly imps that have to hammered into sentences.

Looking back at my own archive I see that Miriam Nyhan first contacted us in
May 2003 about her work on Ford of Cork. And we here had some discussion
about connections with Ford of Dagenham. I think that the workings of these
2 or more base multi-nationals is a special area of interest to Irish
Diaspora Studies - I think of the work of Marilyn Cohen.

Our congratulations to Miriam Nyhan...

The TOC has come in with a full list of Book Reviews - always a strength of
IESH.

Breathnach, on the Congested Districts Board, is of course of interest.
Often the obvious takes a long time to do.

I have already shared with a friend who collects glass the review of Brian
Havel, Maestro of Crystal: The Story of Miroslav Havel. The connections
between Czech glass and Waterford glass have always been obvious to anyone
with eyes - but the publicity of the Waterford company has tended to stress
the Irish 'tradition' rather than the importance of Bacik and Havel, and it
has been difficult to point to a good source for that. The reviewer quite
rightly points out the importance of 'the North American' market, in terms
of marketing and product design - a fascinating example of the creation, or
re-creation, of a product and a tradition for the diasporic market.

Another review of the Clarkson and Crawford (eds), collection Famine and
Disease in Ireland. I remember saying to Peter Gray a long time ago that -
it sounded mad but - we needed a proper new edition of Trevelyan, The Irish
Crisis. I don't know if Clarkson and Crawford have provided this - and,
given the price of the thing, am never likely to know.

And, in the same issue of the journal a frankly sniffy review by Larry Geary
of Robin Haines, Charles Trevelyan and the Great Irish Famine.

A good issue of the journal...

P.O'S.




IRISH ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY
VOL 33; 2006
ISSN 0332-4893

pp. 1-17
The No Income Tax Campaign: Twenty-First-Century Tax Philosophy in 1920s
Ireland.
Coleman, K.; Considine, J.

pp. 18-34
Narration and Memory: The Experiences of the Workforce of a Ford Plant.
Nyhan, M.

pp. 35-45
The Irish Diaspora.
Delaney, E.

pp. 46-50
Diaspora and Irish Migration History.
Kenny, K.

pp. 51-58
`Diaspora' and `Transnationalism': Theory and Evidence in Explanation of the
Irish World-wide.
MacRaild, D.

pp. 59-67
Religious Polarisation, Church Reform, and Evangelicalism in Ireland, c.
1770-1850.
Holmes, A.

pp. 68-69
National Archives: Survey of Business Records.
Donnelly, B.

pp. 70-71
Recent Accessions of Interest to the Social and Economic Historian.
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

pp. 72-73
`All in a Confused Opposition to Each Other': Politics and War in Connacht,
1641-9.
Duignan, A.

pp. 74-75
Science in its Local Context: The Belfast Natural History and Philosophical
Society in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.
Bayles, R. B.

pp. 76-77
Farmers, Agriculture and Politics in the Irish Free State Area, 1919-36.
Ryan, R.

pp. 78-84
Select List of Writings on Irish Economic and Social History published in
2006.
Regan, J. M.

p. 85
Joost Augusteijn and Mary Ann Lyons (eds), Irish History: A Research
Yearbook 2.
Holmes, J.

p. 86
T.C. Barnard, The Kingdom of Ireland, 1641-1760, British History in
Perspective.
McKay, J.

p. 86
T.C. Barnard and W.G. Neely (eds), The Clergy of the Church of Ireland,
1000-2000.
MacCarthy, R.

pp. 87-88
Maxine Berg, Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-century Britain.
Kelly, J.

pp. 89-90
Ciara Breathnach, The Congested Districts Board of Ireland, 1891-1923:
Poverty and Development in the West of Ireland.
King, C.

pp. 91-92
Edel Bhreathnach (ed.), The Kingship and Landscape of Tara.
Manning, C.

pp. 93-95
David J. Buther, South Tipperary 1570-1841: Religion, Land and Rivalry.
Nolan, W.

p. 96
Fergus Campbell, Land and Revolution: Nationalist Politics in the West of
Ireland 1891-1921.
McNamara, C.

pp. 97-98
Liam Chambers, Michael Moore, c.1639-1726: Provost of Trinity, Rector of
Paris.
Kelly, J.

p. 99
Leslie Clarkson and E. Margaret Crawford (eds), Famine and Disease in
Ireland.
Jones, G.

p. 100
Bryn Coldrick, Rossin, county Meath: An Unofficial Place, Maynooth Studies
in Local History 44.
Stout, G.

p. 101
Marie Coleman, County Limerick and the Irish Revolution 1910-1923; Daniel
McCarthy, Ireland's Banner County: Clare from the Fall of Parnell to the
Great War 1890-1918.
McMahon, D.

pp. 102-103
Paul Connell, The Diocese of Meath under Bishop John Cantwell, 1830-66.
Keogh, D.

pp. 104-105
Ruth Connolly and Ann Coughlan (eds), New Voices in Irish Criticism Volume
Five; Gifford Lewis, Edith Somerville: A Biography.
Allen, N.

pp. 106-108
John Crowley, Robert Devoy, Denis Linehan and Patrick O'Flanagan (eds),
Atlas of Cork City.
MacManus, R.

pp. 109-112
David Dickson, Old World Colony: Cork and South Munster, 1630-1830.
Chartres, J. A.

pp. 113-114
Sean Duffy, The Concise History of Ireland; Ruth Dudley Edwards, with
Bridget Hourican, An Atlas of Irish History.
Pike, S.

p. 115
Maire Therese Flanagan, Irish Royal Charters: Texts and Contexts.
Edwards, T. M. C.

pp. 116-117
Louise Fuller, Irish Catholicism since 1950: The Undoing of a Culture.
Foster, R. F.

pp. 118-120
Laurence M. Geary and Margaret Kelleher (eds), Nineteenth-Century Ireland: A
Guide to Recent Research; Terence McDonough (ed.), Was Ireland a Colony?:
Economics, Politics and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Ireland.
Mathuna, L. M.

p. 121
Raymond Gillespie (ed.), The Vestry Records of the Parishes of St Catherine
and St James, Dublin, 1657-1692.
Kelly, J.

pp. 122-123
Robin Haines, Charles Trevelyan and the Great Irish Famine.
Geary, L. M.

pp. 124-125
Brian Havel, Maestro of Crystal: The Story of Miroslav Havel.
Whitty, A.

pp. 126-127
D.W. Hayton (ed.), Letters of Marmaduke Coghill, 1722-1738.
Chambers, L.

pp. 128-129
William Kelly and John R. Young (eds), Ulster and Scotland, 1600-2000:
History, Language and Identity.
Patterson, B.

pp. 130-132
Fintan Lane and Donal O Drisceoil (eds), Politics and the Irish Working
Class, 1830-1945.
Lochlainn, A. N.

p. 133
Marie-Louise Legg (ed.) The Diary of Nicholas Peacock 1740-1751: The Worlds
of a County Limerick Farmer and Agent.
Kelly, J.

p. 134
Helen Litton (comp.), An Index to the Rev. William Carrigan's The History
and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory.
Manning, C.

p. 135
Kevin McKenny, The Laggan Army in Ireland 1649-1685: The Landed Interests,
Political Ideologies and Military Campaigns of the North-West Ulster
Settlers.
Connolly, S.

p. 136
A.P.W. Malcomson, Nathaniel Clements: Government and the Governing Elite in
Ireland, 1725-75.
McNally, P.

p. 137
Kenneth Milne (ed.) A Church of Ireland Bibliography, Raymond Refausse,
Church of Ireland Records, Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History;
Jane V. Spring (ed.), Kilcolman Parish Registers 1793-1814 and 1824-1900,
County Kerry, Church of Ireland with Sections from Killorglin, Aglish,
Kiltallagh, Knocknane, Molahiffe.
MacCarthy, R.

pp. 138-139
Vincent Morley, Washington i gCeannas a Riochta: Cogadh Mheiricea i
Litriocht na Gaeilge.
Buttimer, N.

pp. 140-141
Raymond Murray, The Burning of Wildgoose Lodge: Ribbonism in Louth - Murder
and the Gallows.
Kelly, J.

p. 142
Maighread Ni Mhurchadha, Fingal, 1603-60: Contending Neighbours in North
Dublin.
Stout, G.

pp. 143-144
William Nolan (ed. and comp.) with contributions by Jim Wren, Marcus De
Burca and David Gorry, The Gaelic Athletic Association inDublin 1884-2000.
Cronin, M.

pp. 145-146
Mary O'Dowd, A History of Women in Ireland 1500-1800.
Gray, J.

p. 147
David O'Hara, English Newsbooks and Irish Rebellion, 1641-1649.
Siochru, M. O.

p. 148
Richard Pine, Music and Broadcasting in Ireland.
Flynn, P.

pp. 149-150
Michael Potterton, Medieval Trim: History and Archaeology.
Hennessy, M.

pp. 151-152
Margaret H. Preston, Charitable Words: Women, Philanthropy and the Language
of Charity in Nineteenth-Century Dublin, Contributions in Women's Studies
no. 202.
Prunty, J.

p. 153
Ray Rivlin, Shalom Ireland: A Social History of Jews in Modern Ireland.
Dochartaigh, P. O.

p. 154
Beverly E. Schneller, Anna Parnell's Political Journalism: Contexts and
Texts.
King, C.

p. 155
Charles Townshend, Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion.
McNamara, C.

pp. 156-157
Oonagh Walsh, Anglican Women in Dublin: Philanthropy, Politics and Education
in the Early Twentieth Century.
hOgartaigh, M. O.

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Lectures at Liverpool Hope University

Thursday 22nd February
Professor Terence Dolan
University College, Dublin will speak on
'The Stigma of Hiberno-English'
1.00 pm in the Alexander Jones Building at the University's Hope Park Campus
For details of how to reach Hope Park see
www.hope.ac.uk/gettingtohope/hopepark.htm

Wednesday 14th March
Professor David Lloyd
University of Southern California will speak on 'Citizens and the State:
Contemporary Issues'
5.00 pm, in the Cornerstone Building at the University's Hope at Everton
Campus

For details of how to reach Hope at Everton see
www.hope.ac.uk/gettingtohope/hopeateverton.htm

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EIRE IRELAND
VOL 41; NUMB 3/4; 2006
ISSN 0013-2683

pp. 11-41
The Significance of the Armagh Dirty Protest.
Weinstein, L.

pp. 42-58
Exorcising the Ghosts of Conflict in Northern Ireland: Stewart Parker's The
Iceberg and Pentecost.
Russell, R. R.

pp. 59-79
"The Only Thing British That Everybody Likes": Military-Civilian Relations
in Late Victorian Ulster.
Garnham, N.

pp. 80-109
Irish Nationalism and Orange Unionism in Canada: A Reappraisal.
McLaughlin, R.

pp. 110-132
Irish Marxism and the Development of the Theory of Neo-Colonialism.
McGuire, C.

pp. 133-161
Indigenous Otherness: Some Aspects of Irish Traveller Social History.
Hayes, M.

pp. 162-184
Paddy Jumps Jim Crow: Irish-Americans and Blackface Minstrelsy.
Nowatzki, R.

pp. 185-214
Theater and Nation in Irish Romanticism: The Tragic Dramas of Charles Robert
Maturin and Richard Lalor Sheil.
Connolly, C.

pp. 215-244
"Broad Farce and Thrilling Tragedy": Mangan's Fiction and Irish Gothic.
Haslam, R.

pp. 245-266
Emily Lawless's Maelcho and the Crisis of the Imperial Romance.
Maume, P.

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This is a very brave attempt by Claire Mitchell to engage with the
literature, broadly within historical sociology, on religion and identity -
as that literature is used, or not used, in studies of Northern Ireland.

Note that this is a SAGE journal, currently freely available on the SAGE web
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Title: The religious content of ethnic identities
Author(s): Mitchell C (Mitchell, Claire)
Source: SOCIOLOGY-THE JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 40
(6): 1135-1152 DEC 2006
Document Type: Article
Language: English

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Abstract: The religious dimensions of ethnic identities have been
under-theorized. In contemporary industrial societies there is a tendency to
characterize religiously demarcated groups as 'really' ethnic. This article
suggests that the religious content of ethnic boundaries may be more
important than might initially be assumed, A religious identification may
have specific religious content and assumptions that may cause it to operate
in different ways from other identities. Even if identities do not seem
primarily religious per se, they may have latent religious dimensions that
can become reactivated. Whilst identity conflicts and other social struggles
may stimulate the return of the religious, once reactivated, the religious
dimensions of identity may take on a logic of their own. Therefore, the
article argues that in many contexts there is a two-way relationship between
religion and ethnicity. Each can stimulate the other, rather than religion
simply playing a supporting role to the ethnic centrepiece.

Author Keywords: community; ethnicity; identity; nationalism; religion
KeyWords Plus: NORTHERN-IRELAND; SYMBOLIC ETHNICITY; MODERN BRITAIN;
CONSTRUCTION; CONFLICT; BOUNDARY; BEHAVIOR

Addresses: Mitchell C (reprint author), Queens Univ Belfast, Sch Sociol
Social Policy & Social Work, 6 Coll Pk E, Belfast BT7 1LP, Antrim North
Ireland
Queens Univ Belfast, Sch Sociol Social Policy & Social Work, Belfast BT7
1LP, Antrim North Ireland
E-mail Addresses: Claire.Mitchell[at]qub.ac.uk
Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 1 OLIVERS YARD, 55 CITY ROAD, LONDON EC1Y
1SP, ENGLAND
Subject Category: Sociology
IDS Number: 126BB
ISSN: 0038-0385