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Dear list members
I'd be most grateful if you could circulate the following details to=20
interested parties. This is the second of three posts. The third will be=20
based at Queen's University Belfast and will be advertised shortly.

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
This is a fixed term appointment for two years to work on the=20
ESRC-funded project, =91Welfare regimes under the Irish Poor Law=20
1850-1921=92, under the directorship of Dr Virginia Crossman. It will=20
involve travel and field work in Ireland. The successful candidate will=20
have research experience in modern Irish history and/or poor law=20
history. Ideally with research interests in the social history of=20
Ireland and/or the regional character of welfare practices, they will=20
have experience in the use of computer databases in historical research.=20
They will join the project research team, be part of the History of=20
Welfare research cluster within the History Department and be on track=20
to obtain a strong research and publications profile. Closing date, 2=20
March 2007.
Further information at
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobfiles/ZD971.html.

Many thanks
Virginia
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Dr Virginia Crossman
Reader in History
Oxford Brookes University
Gipsy Lane
Oxford
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Edmundo Murray called this item to our attention from the 20 February =
2007
NY Times. Lafcadio Hearn is one of those characters who pops up here =
and
there when least expected.=20

Honoring a Westerner Who Preserved Japan's Folk Tales=20
=20
MATSUE, Japan - As snow silently fell on the miniature garden outside, =
Bon
Koizumi sat on the same tatami mat floor where, more than a century =
before,
his great-grandfather wrote down some of Japan's best-loved folk tales.=20

It was the perfect image of Japanese repose, except for the sepiatoned =
photo
of Mr. Koizumi's ancestor, whose bushy mustache and aquiline nose
highlighted an unmistakably Western face.

His great-grandfather was Lafcadio Hearn, the Irish-Greek author whose
wanderings brought him here after a career as a muckraking journalist in =
the
United States. Mr. Hearn lived in Matsue only 15 months, but this remote
castle city still claims him as its favorite son, displaying his face on
park statues, street signs and local brands of beer, sake and even =
instant
coffee.

Mr. Hearn's descriptions of this medieval city and its ancient tales of =
gods
and ghosts put Matsue on the map in the 1890s. Even now it is a popular
tourist destination, thanks to Japan's enduring fascination with Mr. =
Hearn,
who married a local samurai's daughter, took Japanese citizenship and =
died
in Tokyo in 1904. Many countries have favorite foreign observers, who =
are
embraced for shedding light on the local culture in ways that native =
authors
cannot. In the United States there was Alexis de Tocqueville, a French
aristocrat whose descriptions of fledgling American democracy in the =
early
19th century still resonate today.

For many Japanese, Mr. Hearn's appeal lies in the glimpses he offered of =
an
older, more mystical Japan lost during the country's hectic plunge into
Western-style industrialization and nation building. His books are =
treasured
here as a trove of legends and folk tales that otherwise might have =
vanished
because no Japanese had bothered to record them.

"At a time when Japan was obsessed with gaining material wealth, it took =
a
foreigner to warn that it was losing something else," said Mr. Koizumi, =
45,
a college professor and adviser to the city's Hearn museum. "Lafcadio =
Hearn
is a way for Japan to regain touch with its soul."

That small museum - three rooms displaying old books, photos and =
manuscripts
- and Mr. Hearn's former house, where Mr. Koizumi sat, are among about =
10
local sites that appear in Mr. Hearn's books. Others include Buddhist
temples and a shrine with stone fox statues.

Takeshi Hatano, 44, a consultant from Tokyo who made a detour to stop =
here
during a business trip to a nearby city, said only a foreigner had the
foresight to preserve folk tales a century ago when Japanese were =
dismissing
them as superstitious.

"We grow up reading Yakumo Koizumi's ghost stories," Mr. Hatano said, =
using
Mr. Hearn's Japanese name. "He loved Matsue, and Japan, and told us to =
love
them."

Matsue appears so often in Mr. Hearn's books that most Japanese =
naturally
associate him with the city, even though he cut short his stay here to
escape the bitter winters. He spent most of his 14 years in Japan in =
another
provincial city, Kumamoto, and in Tokyo before his death at 54.

Matsue's Hearn connection led the national government to proclaim it one =
of
Japan's three top international tourist cities, along with the ancient
capitals of Kyoto and Nara. City officials say that last year the Hearn
sites helped draw 8.1 million tourists, mostly Japanese, to this city of
150,000 nestled on a lake near the restless green Sea of Japan.

Matsue also promotes the Hearn legacy with Irish cooking festivals, =
classes
in Gaelic and, this year, its first St. Patrick's Day parade. The =
300-member
Hearn Society of Matsue invites scholars for conferences. The city also
holds a national speech contest for high school students to read Mr. =
Hearn's
stories in English.

Mayor Masataka Matsuura says the Hearn history gives his community a =
unique
appeal in an era when chain stores and malls are making Japanese cities =
look
more alike. "Tourists come to find the same original essence of Japan, =
which
Hearn found here," he said.

Born in Greece to an Irish father and Greek mother, Mr. Hearn made his =
name
writing for newspapers in Cincinnati and New Orleans about macabre =
killings
and exotic local legends. He married Alethea Foley, an African-American, =
in
Cincinnati, but social disapproval led to the breakup of the marriage, =
after
which he moved to New Orleans, scholars say.

He found Japan to be a crimeless, almost Utopian society - a "fairyland"
populated with "the most lovable people in the universe," as he wrote. =
He
looked for the source of Japan's "strangeness and charm" in the ancestor
worship of its native religion, Shinto.

But it was Matsue, dominated by its "grim castle, grotesquely peaked," =
as he
described it, that provided a perfect setting for his celebrated =
retellings
of Japanese ghost stories. Generations of Japanese have been frightened =
by
his images of haunted Matsue, said Morio Nishikawa, a professor at =
Kumamoto
University.

In one popular story, a phantom under a Matsue bridge hands a boastful
samurai a box containing his son's severed head. In another, a mother
returns from the dead to feed her infant in a Matsue graveyard. Scholars =
say
these were local legends that Mr. Hearn heard from his Matsue-born wife,
Setsu, and wrote in English. They were later translated into Japanese.

Mr. Koizumi has become Matsue's steward of his great-grandfather's =
memory.
Besides the museum, Mr. Koizumi leads tours to Hearn-related sites and =
runs
a summer camp for children to learn about Mr. Hearn. While growing up, =
his
only connection to Mr. Hearn was the Irish folk tales his father told at
bedtime. Mr. Koizumi started looking for ways to promote Mr. Hearn about =
20
years ago because he was afraid that young Japanese were forgetting him =
and
Japan's traditions.

"Children now are losing touch in their virtual world of video games," =
he
said.

Natsuko Omura, a sophomore at Matsue North High School, said there was =
some
truth to those concerns. She said she and her friends had heard of Mr. =
Hearn
but did not talk about him or read his books.

"I don't understand Hearn," said Natsuko, 16, who won the city's Hearn
speech contest last year. "He's a little strange."

Text with illustrations:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/20/world/asia/20matsue.html?_r=3D1&ex=3D3D=
1172638
8=3D&oref=3Dslogin

William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of History
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA=20
Office: 1-270-809-6571
Fax: 1-270-809-6587=20
=20
=20

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The forthcoming issue of the Journal of Religious History is a very special
Special Issue, a memorial tribute to the Australian historians Tony Cahill
(1933-2004) and Patrick O'Farrell (1933-2003).

The Patrick O'Farrell material is of great interest to Irish Diaspora
Studies, of course. Glance down to the TOC, pasted in below...

I have also pasted in the Abstract to Hilary Carey's Introduction. Further
Abstracts can be found on the journal's web site...

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/jorh/31/1

Do note that the last article in the TOC also has an Irish interest - it is
a study of Irish weaver and Protestant missionary Mary Belshaw (1879-1960)
and her co-worker May McRidge (1882-1943).

And I am going to deal with Elizabeth Malcolm's article in a separate
email...

P.O'S.

Journal of Religious History
March 2007 - Vol. 31 Issue 1 Page 1-129

Introduction: Remembering the Religious History of A. E. (Tony) Cahill
(1933-2004) and Patrick O'Farrell (1933-2003)
HILARY M. CAREY
pages 1-17

ABSTRACT
This article provides an introduction to a special issue of the Journal of
Religious History on the theme religion and memory based on papers presented
at the 20th International Congress of Historical Sciences held at the
University of New South Wales, Sydney in July 2005. The special issue was
prepared as a memorial tribute to the Australian historians Tony Cahill
(1933-2004) and Patrick O'Farrell (1933-2003). Patrick O'Farrell made
significant contributions to the histories of Ireland, Irish Australia,
migration, place and memory. Tony Cahill was a former editor of the Journal
of Religious History who published a number of biographical studies of the
Irish-born Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal Francis Moran (1830-1911). The
introduction provides a review summary of the published work of Patrick
O'Farrell and brief notes about the seven articles which make up the special
issue. The Appendix includes a full bibliography of the published writing of
Patrick O'Farrell.

Patrick O'Farrell: An Expanded Memory
EDMUND CAMPION
pages 18-23

Patrick O'Farrell and the Irish History Wars, 1971-1993
ELIZABETH MALCOLM
pages 24-39

The Vanished Kingdoms of Patrick O'Farrell: Religion, Memory and Migration
in Religious History
HILARY M. CAREY
pages 40-58

"This Special Shell": The Church Building and the Embodiment of Memory
JENNIFER CLARK
pages 59-77

The Forgotten History of the Protestant Crusade: Religious Liberalism in
Ireland
JENNIFER RIDDEN
pages 78-102

An Irish Conservative Perspective on the Defence of the Church of Ireland,
1865-1868
ANDREW SHIELDS
pages 103-114

In Loving Memory of Mary Belshaw, May McRidge, and the Nyungar People of the
Badjaling Mission, 1930-1954
ALISON LONGWORTH
pages 115-129

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I want to draw particular attention to this article, by Elizabeth Malcolm,
in the Special Issue of Journal of Religious History...

I think that everyone on the Irish Diaspora list will want to read this
article. As will anyone who is interested in, or teaches on, recent Irish
history and historiography. The article is a tribute to a fine scholar, yes
- but it is much more than that. It is a magisterial exploration of the
study of Irish history - the conflicts over Irish history - in recent
decades. There are wider resonances too, within wider diaspora studies.

Elizabeth Malcolm is to be congratulated... Essential reading...

Patrick O'Sullivan



Journal of Religious History

Volume 31 Issue 1 Page 24 - March 2007

ELIZABETH MALCOLM (2007)
Patrick O'Farrell and the Irish History Wars, 1971-1993
Journal of Religious History 31 (1), 24-39.

Original Article
Patrick O'Farrell and the Irish History Wars, 1971-1993

* ELIZABETH MALCOLM 1 1University of Melbourne

*
1University of Melbourne

Abstract

While Patrick O'Farrell's achievements as an historian of the Irish and of
Catholicism in Australia are well recognised, little attention has been paid
to his significance as an historian of Ireland. This article takes his two
major Irish monographs, published in 1971 and 1975, and considers how they
influenced leading Irish political historians of the 1970s and 1980s. In
doing so, the article examines the crisis created for historians by the
Northern Ireland Troubles. It demonstrates that the work of O'Farrell, which
called into question the primacy of politics and of the nation state, helped
open up new avenues for the analysis of Irish culture and identity. Yet, at
the same time, such an approach challenged the republican reading of Irish
history as a struggle against colonialism, and thus O'Farrell's work
attracted severe criticism.

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Punishment & Society, Vol. 9, No. 1, 27-48 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1462474507070549
C 2007 SAGE Publications

Coercive confinement in the Republic of Ireland
The waning of a culture of control
Eoin O'Sullivan

Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland

Ian O'Donnell

University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland

In Ireland until recently, a range of institutions other than prisons was
utilized to confine those deemed to be deviant. It seems clear that rather
than becoming more punitive (if this is estimated by the number of
individuals coercively confined) the country has become considerably less so
over the past 50 years. In 1951, despite high emigration providing a safety
valve, more than 1 percent of the population was behind closed doors in
prisons, borstal, reformatory and industrial schools, psychiatric
institutions (as involuntary patients) and homes for unmarried mothers. This
was eight times higher than in 2002.

Key Words: Imprisonment . Ireland . coercive confinement . decarceration .
social control

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Nursing Inquiry is a very sober, scholarly journal for the nursing
profession. Ann Sheridan's article fell into our nets - it is an
interesting exploration of the history of psychiatric nursing mapped =
against
the history of the Irish state. The observations are sometimes =
surprising,
but are well made.

In the same issue can be found a good review of Greta Jones' book about
tuberculosis.

P.O'S.


Nursing Inquiry
Volume 13 Issue 4 Page 304 - December 2006

1.
Book Reviews
Stephanie Kirby=20

'Captain of all these men of death': The history of tuberculosis in
nineteenth and twentieth century Ireland , by Greta Jones ( 2001 ), 263
pages , =A352, (paperback); 90-420-1041-X (Bound) Rodopi , Amsterdam / =
New
York .

No Charge =97 No undressing: Fronting up for good health , by Peter J. =
Tyler (
2003 ), 242 pages , AUS$50 , Community Health and Tuberculosis Australia =
,
Sydney, Australia.


2.
Title: The impact of political transition on psychiatric nursing - a =
case
study of twentieth-century Ireland

Author(s): Sheridan AJ (Sheridan, Ann J.)

Source: NURSING INQUIRY 13 (4): 289-299 DEC 2006
Document Type: Article
Language: English

Abstract: Using psychiatric nursing education and practice as a case =
study,
this paper examines how the achievement of independence by a nation =
impacts
significantly on the organisations, structures and service provision =
within
that country. Furthermore, it sheds light on how an emerging nation is
required to engage in a series of 'trade-offs' between priorities in an
attempt to ensure progress towards the greater visioning goals such as =
the
(re)establishing of a national cultural identity, freedom to practice
religious beliefs and enhanced economic and practical benefits for all
citizens. In the case of Irish psychiatric nursing, the achievement of
independence resulted in a diminishing of earlier initiatives related to
training and ultimately in a prolonged period of retrenchment, due =
primarily
to competitive pressures and to imposed cultural influences and belief
systems. The lesson from this Irish case study indicates that the =
initial
phase of national autonomy can, of necessity, lead to a number of =
sacrifices
as part of the realisation of self-governance and determination; and =
that
this is a necessary prerequisite to gaining the strength to enable a =
much
more confident progression into the future.

Addresses: Sheridan AJ (reprint author), Univ Coll Dublin, Sch Nursing
Midwifery & Hlth Syst, Dublin 4, Ireland
Univ Coll Dublin, Sch Nursing Midwifery & Hlth Syst, Dublin 4, Ireland
E-mail Addresses: ann.sheridan[at]ucd.ie
Publisher: BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, 9600 GARSINGTON RD, OXFORD OX4 2DQ, =
OXON,
ENGLAND
Subject Category: Nursing
IDS Number: 110MI
ISSN: 1320-7881

EXTRACT FROM CONCLUSION
This paper has also shed light on how an emerging nation is required to
engage in a series of 'trade-offs' between priorities in an attempt to
ensure progress towards the greater visioning goals such as the
(re)establishing of a national cultural identity, freedom to practice
religious beliefs, and enhanced economic and practical benefits for all
citizens. While the foundation of a new nation begins with the desire to
achieve self-governance, once achieved the energies of the new state =
must of
necessity be directed towards these greater visioning goals. In the case =
of
Ireland, central to this was the reinstatement of the Irish language and
identity, the recognition of the special position of the Roman Catholic
Church within the constitution, and the need to invest in economic
infrastructure. The drive to establish a national identity ultimately
resulted in a rejection of external and foreign influences, =
characterised by
the proscription of various activities, including access to scientific
materials and methods deemed to be a threat to achieving the desired
outcomes of the state. During this period of consolidation many systems
within a new state are liable to experience prolonged periods of stasis, =
due
principally to the effects outlined above, and to deal with generic =
issues
related to the standards of living of the citizens of the new country =
=96 in
this case establishing rural running water supplies and electrification.
Thus, psychiatric services and nursing education did not count among the
initial priorities of the government.

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Reviews of Claudia Kinmonth's book have started turning up in our alerts. I
have pasted in details of one, below - and, before that, material about the
book from the publisher's web site...

I think a number of Ir-D members will find the book useful.

P.O'S.

http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300107323

IRISH RURAL INTERIORS IN ART BY CLAUDIA KINMONTH
May 15, 2006
320 p., 285 x 245
220 b/w + 75 color illus.
ISBN: 9780300107326
ISBN-10: 0300107323
YALE UP

This book offers a fascinating view of many aspects of Irish rural life from
the eighteenth to the mid twentieth century. Illustrated with more than 250
images, many of which have not been published before, the book evokes the
hardships and celebrations of laborers and farmers, men and women, the old
and the young as depicted in oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints,
postcards, and cartoons. Most of the illustrations show people engaged in
indoor activities at home, but schools, shops, pubs, and doctors' surgeries
are also included. Claudia Kinmonth draws on extensive knowledge of the
material culture of rural life to present a new social history of Irish
country people.

Working within a broadly chronological framework, the author addresses such
themes and patterns of rural life as the architecture of houses, where
people slept, cooking over the open hearth, rural dress, display, childcare,
work within the home, the arrangement of marriages, weddings, wakes, and
celebrations. The book also explores why Irish and foreign artists depicted
rural interiors and sets their work in the context of art history.

Claudia Kinmonth is an independent cultural historian and former researcher
in the Furniture Department of the Victoria & Albert Museum. She is the
author of the award-winning Irish Country Furniture, 1700-1950, published by
Yale University Press.


Author: THORNTON, DORA1
Source: The Art Book, Volume 14, Number 1, February 2007, pp. 39-40(2)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
IRISH RURAL INTERIORS IN ART BY CLAUDIA KINMONTH
Author: THORNTON, DORA1
Source: The Art Book, Volume 14, Number 1, February 2007, pp. 39-40(2)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
Document Type: Research article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8357.2007.00766.x
Affiliations: 1: Curator, Renaissance Collections, The British Museum

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s'articule autour du th=E8me de la diversit=E9
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accueillons aussi des articles portant sur
d'autres sujets dans le domaine des =E9tudes
linguistiques et culturelles. Les propositions
d'articles (r=E9sum=E9 de 200 mots et curriculum
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r=E9dacteur en chef avant le 16 mars 2007. Les
manuscrits (entre 3 000 et 6 000 mots) doivent
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2007.
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interdisciplinaire ouverte =E0 l'ensemble des
=E9tudes linguistiques et culturelles. La revue a
pour vocation de promouvoir la r=E9flexion
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ouverte aux contributions de jeunes chercheurs,
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Forwarded on behalf of
Dr Jennifer Ridden
History Program
La Trobe University
Bundoora VIC 3086

CALL FOR PAPERS

THE FIFTEENTH IRISH-AUSTRALIAN CONFERENCE

Ireland, Australia and Europe: Colonies, Federations and Unions

La Trobe University, Melbourne
(Bundoora Campus)

Sunday 23 September - Wednesday 26 September 2007

Offers of papers are invited on any topic relating to Ireland or to the
Irish experience in Australia or New Zealand. The conference is
interdisciplinary so papers may be based in Literature, History,
Politics, Music, Art or any other area. Papers need not be restricted
to the parameters suggested by the conference theme, but papers would be
particularly welcome in the following areas:


* The issues related to bringing distinct cultures and polities
together in larger units, and changing historical perspectives on those
processes
* The common or disparate experiences, politically, culturally,
socially, of Australia, New Zealand and Ireland within the structures of
the British empire
* The historical background and contemporary experience of Ireland
in relation to Europe generally and to the European Union in particular
* Literary and other cultural manifestations of the tensions
associated with merging national identities and institutions
* Problems of political devolution within larger unions


While the main focus of the conference will be related to Ireland and
Irish Australia and Irish New Zealand, offers will be welcome of papers
that deal with other nations and cultures from which fruitful
comparisons can be drawn.

Paper Proposals and Abstracts should be submitted prior to 31 March
2007, by post to Dr Jennifer Ridden (Conference Convenor), Innovative
Universities European Union (IUEU) Centre, La Trobe University,
Melbourne, Australia 3086, or by email to

Irish_Conf[at]latrobe.edu.au


This Conference will be jointly sponsored by La Trobe University, The
Innovative Universities European Union Centre, the Gerry Higgins Chair
of Irish Studies at The University of Melbourne and the Irish Studies
Association of Australia and New Zealand.

======================

Dr Jennifer Ridden

History Program
La Trobe University
Bundoora VIC 3086
T: +61 3 9479-6082
F: +61 3 9479-1942
E: j.ridden[at]latrobe.edu.au

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Do note David Lloyd's abstract, towards end of Vic Merriman's message...

Forwarded on behalf of

Dr. Victor Merriman
Leader, Irish Studies Research Group
Deanery of Arts and Humanities
Liverpool Hope University
Cornerstone
Liverpool L3 8QB
(0151) 291 3697


The Irish Studies Research Group at Liverpool Hope University is delighted
to host a visit from Professor David Lloyd, University of Southern
California, on 14 and 15 March 2007.

On Wednesday 14 March, at the Cornerstone (5.00 for 5.30 - 6.30 session)
Professor Lloyd will present a seminar paper,
Mythologization/Normalization/Criminalization: Prison Protest and the
Colonial Welfare State.

This paper fuses two pieces of work in progress: one, a critique of the
"mythological interpretation" of Irish republicanism, ex Kearney, arguing
its intellectual bankruptcy as a failure of state oriented historicism to
grasp movements whose logic challenges the state; the other is an emerging
genealogy of republican prison struggle as a kind of pragmatics determined
by the ends and architectures of the welfare state, rather than by pre-given
ideological fixations.

On Thursday 15 March, at 7.00 pm, Drama staff and students will present a
rehearsed reading of David Lloyd's first play, 'The Press' (55 minutes
approx.), at a venue to be confirmed. 'The Press', a contemporary play of
ideas, is under consideration for production by theatre companies in Los
Angeles and Ireland.

I hope that colleagues and postgraduates across disciplines in which
scholarship is informed by cultural materialism and postcolonial
perspectives will avail of these opportunities to engage with an
outstanding scholar, on ideas currently in development toward publication
and staging.

ABSTRACT
Professor Lloyd's abstract for his seminar follows:

Mythologization/Normalization/Criminalization: Prison Protest and the
Colonial Welfare State

Modernity and civility being the terms that legitimate the state, whoever
opposes the state must be consigned to the pathology of pre-modern modes of
thinking. Myth represents the primal violence and disorder that the state,
with its therapeutic modernity, comes to cure. Violence is not a product
of the coercive dynamics of the state but the atavistic response of those
who have yet fully to enter the condition of modernity. To understand
social conflict in these terms is not an innocent act, not a merely
descriptive effort of the understanding. The mythologization of struggle,
its rendering in terms of "blood sacrifice" or primal rite, is the
mystifying counterpart of criminalization. Both practices partake of a
counter-insurgency discourse that seeks to locate the roots of violence in
the pathological state of individuals and communities rather than in the
economic and political inequities that the state itself maintains and
reproduces. Against the "normalized" good conduct of the citizen,
resistance takes on the symptoms of an aberrant pathology. These have been
the recurrent terms, for all their intellectual incoherence, of the attempt
to interpret the history of republican prison activism. But other terms
provide an understanding of prison protest in more pragmatic and less
mystified terms. We have come accustomed through the work of Michel
Foucault and others since to thinking of the welfare state as a dimension of
the biopolitics of liberal democracies. No less a dimension of that
biopolitical formation is the prison system with its regime of incarceration
and reform. This paper seeks to examine the history and practices of
incarceration as mechanism of the liberal state within a contested and
colonial domain, namely, Ireland. Critiquing the mythological account of
republican ideology, I will begin to sketch a history of Irish prison
protest in relation to the paradoxical formation of the colonial welfare
state, of which prisons are a constitutive element. Commencing with work
from the period of the formation of the modern British state that
investigates Irish prison reforms, I will turn to look at the simultaneity
of a discourse on prison architectures and on [the welfare of] prisoner's
bodies. This long-standing concern of the state with the structures of
incarceration and punishment, on the one hand, and with the welfare of the
"reformable" subject, on the other, provides a somewhat telescoped context
for understanding the prison protests of the 1970s and 1980s in Northern
Ireland, of the bureaucratic opposition between the "ordinary decent
criminal" [ODC] and the recalcitrant political prisoner, of the nature of a
protest that deploys both the reduced "bare life" of the body and the very
architecture of the prison against the logic of "criminalization" of
political prisoners.

ENDS

PLEASE CIRCULATE TO ANYONE WHO MIGHT BE INTERESTED

Dr. Victor Merriman
Leader, Irish Studies Research Group
Deanery of Arts and Humanities
Liverpool Hope University
Cornerstone
Liverpool L3 8QB
(0151) 291 3697

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To perhaps bring closure to our discussion last week on Croke Park it is=20
worth noting that the occasion went off splendidly but not without a=20
great deal of emotion. Those of us watching it live on big screens=20
could not help but notice the incredible emotion at the singing of=20
Amhr=E1n na bhFiann - the crowd literally screamed it and some Irish=20
players cried - just after the respectful silence that greeted the=20
British national anthem. I talked with people who were at the match who=20
said that emotions were very high on the Irish side. One Irish reporter=20
at the half time discussion said that the singing of Amhr=E1n na bhFiann =
=20
was a "hairs up on the back of your neck moment". As someone on the=20
list rightly said, the media did not do justice to the range of feelings=20
in Ireland about this moment. It doesn't really matter if no one abroad=20
cares - it was a significant moment within Ireland for many reasons. =20
And then Ireland did beat the hell out of England: 13 - 43. Irish=20
player Paul O'Connell, interviewed after the match, said that it was a=20
significant moment and they felt that they had to live up to it. They di=
d.

Carmel






>
> =20

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Piaras,

New Hibernia Review has an article forthcoming (probably later this year) by
Sara E Brady, currently titled "Lads v. 'Ladies': Intersections among
Gender, Migration, Performance, and the Gaelic Games."

Obviously I think it has a lot to say (or we wouldn't be publishing it!)
Dr Brady is at TCD this year.

Jim Rogers
editor



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From: Patrick O'Sullivan [mailto:P.OSullivan[at]BRADFORD.AC.UK]
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 11:39 AM
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Subject: [IR-D] The GAA in the Diaspora

From: MacEinri, Piaras [mailto:p.maceinri[at]ucc.ie]
Subject: The GAA in the Diaspora

Dear All

One of my MA students is planning to do a dissertation on the GAA in the
Diaspora. She has not yet narrowed it down to a more manageable size and at
this point is trying to find out what's already out there. A possible
emerging focus would compare the implantion of the GAA in 'traditional'
Irish migrant communities in Britain and the US with an emerging trend (past
two decades) where GAA sports are becoming popular among 'new' Irish migrant
communities in continental Europe, the Middle East and a number of Asian
countries; one could hypothesise that some of those involved, in terms of
class and region of origin in Ireland (and possibly the schools they
attended) might not have been dead at a GAA match, still less playing in
one, twenty years ago.. In any event her primary focus will probably be on
the role of the GAA in ethnic identity formation in a few different Irish
diasporic communities.

I have already spoken with Joe Bradley and he has very kindly forwarded a
number of bibliographical references and details of published and upcoming
research, apart from his own work (e.g. Paul Darby, David Hassan, Nick
McCarthy, Peter Mossey, Donal McAnallen, Stephen Moore, Seamus King, Alan
Bairner, Marcus Free, Denis Ryan, Kevin B. Walmsley, John Kelly) as well as
a range of (equally vital) more general sources of a comparative nature
and/or concerning other sporting codes and other ethnic communities.

If anyone knows of other emerging work (although it's not likely that Joe
wouldn't have heard of it!) I'd be grateful if you could get back to me.

Best

Piaras

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Dear all

Interested listers might wish to check out my latest blog on this matter =
at
http://liamgr.blogspot.com.

Me, I don't know what all the fuss was about. Everyone knows the yoke of
Saxon oppression was lifted in Stuttgart in 1988:-)

Best

Liam
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Subject: Re: [IR-D] Polemics in Modern day Ireland - Croke Park

To perhaps bring closure to our discussion last week on Croke Park it is =

worth noting that the occasion went off splendidly but not without a=20
great deal of emotion. Those of us watching it live on big screens=20
could not help but notice the incredible emotion at the singing of=20
Amhr=E1n na bhFiann - the crowd literally screamed it and some Irish=20
players cried - just after the respectful silence that greeted the=20
British national anthem. I talked with people who were at the match who =

said that emotions were very high on the Irish side. One Irish reporter =

at the half time discussion said that the singing of Amhr=E1n na bhFiann =
=20
was a "hairs up on the back of your neck moment". As someone on the=20
list rightly said, the media did not do justice to the range of feelings =

in Ireland about this moment. It doesn't really matter if no one abroad =

cares - it was a significant moment within Ireland for many reasons. =20
And then Ireland did beat the hell out of England: 13 - 43. Irish=20
player Paul O'Connell, interviewed after the match, said that it was a=20
significant moment and they felt that they had to live up to it. They =
did.

Carmel






>
> =20

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Sara Brady did (or is doing) her dissertation on New York City's Gaelic Park
and Irish identity -- at NYU. I'm not sure if she is on the list or not. Last
time I saw her she was at Monmouth State in New Jersey. I am away at a
conference but can provide more information when I get home.

Bill Mulligan

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From: MacEinri, Piaras [mailto:p.maceinri[at]ucc.ie]
Subject: The GAA in the Diaspora

Dear All

One of my MA students is planning to do a dissertation on the GAA in the
Diaspora. She has not yet narrowed it down to a more manageable size and at
this point is trying to find out what's already out there. A possible
emerging focus would compare the implantion of the GAA in 'traditional'
Irish migrant communities in Britain and the US with an emerging trend (past
two decades) where GAA sports are becoming popular among 'new' Irish migrant
communities in continental Europe, the Middle East and a number of Asian
countries; one could hypothesise that some of those involved, in terms of
class and region of origin in Ireland (and possibly the schools they
attended) might not have been dead at a GAA match, still less playing in
one, twenty years ago.. In any event her primary focus will probably be on
the role of the GAA in ethnic identity formation in a few different Irish
diasporic communities.

I have already spoken with Joe Bradley and he has very kindly forwarded a
number of bibliographical references and details of published and upcoming
research, apart from his own work (e.g. Paul Darby, David Hassan, Nick
McCarthy, Peter Mossey, Donal McAnallen, Stephen Moore, Seamus King, Alan
Bairner, Marcus Free, Denis Ryan, Kevin B. Walmsley, John Kelly) as well as
a range of (equally vital) more general sources of a comparative nature
and/or concerning other sporting codes and other ethnic communities.

If anyone knows of other emerging work (although it's not likely that Joe
wouldn't have heard of it!) I'd be grateful if you could get back to me.

Best

Piaras

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Journeys of Expressions VI: Diaspora Community Festivals,
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Forwarded on behjalf of
Dr. Philip Long (p.e.long[at]leedsmet.ac.uk).

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers

Journeys of Expressions VI: Diaspora Community Festivals, Cultural
Events and Tourism

4-6 October 2007, York, United Kingdom

Organised by:


Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change

Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, United Kingdom

Journeys of Expression VI will bring together researchers who share
interests in diaspora community cultures as expressed, translated and
consumed through festivals and cultural events. The conference
encourages contributions from contrasting but related theoretical and
conceptual approaches from Social Science and Humanities disciplinary
perspectives. The conference will also attract researchers from the
fields of tourism and festival studies.

The enforced, encouraged or voluntary movement, migration and dispersion
of people over centuries and in recent years is reflected in the family
backgrounds, life histories and cultural practices of communities in
many countries, regions and cities worldwide. Mobilities associated with
the processes of globalisation are demonstrably, if unevenly
contributing to an acceleration of migration for more or less permanent,
official and legal settlement of people beyond their 'homelands'.

In many cases, diaspora communities have been subject to hostility and
discrimination in their adopted countries and some remain relatively
impoverished, marginalised and excluded from 'mainstream' society.
Others, in contrast have been more socially and economically successful
and have either retained distinct diaspora community identities or have
become more integrated with other communities over time.

Tourism has also grown substantially and unevenly in recent years, with
tourists increasingly encouraged to attend and participate in 'exotic'
and 'characteristically authentic' displays of community life in
destinations visited. Such tourism typically features the packaging,
promotion and consumption of diaspora community neighbourhoods, food and
shopping and importantly festivals and cultural events.

The relationships between diaspora communities, festivity, cultural
events and tourism are therefore of considerable interest to academic
researchers, as well as for arts, social, cultural and tourism policy
makers and practitioners in many countries.

Theoretical issues and themes to be explored at this conference include:

* Defining and conceptualising diasporas in connection with
festivals and cultural events;

* Histories of diaspora communities' mobilities and the
transformation and adaptation of festivity and cultural events to new
community circumstances and settings;

* Relationships between diaspora communities and the 'homeland'
and expressions of collective memory through festivals and cultural
events;

* The distribution and circulation of globalised diaspora festival
forms - e.g. carnival, mela, Irish, Chinese, Jewish - religious and
secular, established, emerging and contested;

* The role of diaspora festivals and cultural events in policies
and programmes to promote community cohesion, crime reduction and
anti-racism;

* Festivals, cultural events and the identities of diaspora
community members - inter-generational issues;

* Festivals, cultural events and the multi- (inter-) cultural
city;

* Settings and spaces for diaspora festivals and cultural events;

* Issues surrounding new and recently introduced diaspora
community festivals and cultural events;

* Performing diaspora community arts through festivals;

* Diaspora tourism markets.

In the tradition of the Journeys of Expressions conference series, we
wish to encourage an interdisciplinary debate on the suggested themes
and welcome paper proposals from academics from various disciplinary
backgrounds including: tourism studies, festival studies, sociology,
anthropology, cultural studies, cultural geography, politics, etc. If
you wish to submit a paper proposal, please send a 300-word abstract
with full address and institutional affiliation details as an electronic
file to Dr. Philip Long (p.e.long[at]leedsmet.ac.uk). The deadline for the
reception of abstracts is 16 April 2007. Please find regularly updated
information regarding this conference, registration procedures and (at a
later stage) a programme at our website www.tourism-culture.com.

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Forwarded on behalf of
Ed Kelly...
Kelly Edward [kelly[at]lit.u-szeged.hu]

HUSIS 1 Conference

First Circular =20

Call for Papers on the subject of=20

Literary and Cultural Relations between Ireland, Hungary and Central and
Eastern Europe

This is to announce that the first HUSIS (Hungarian Society for Irish
Studies) Conference will be hosted by the Department of English =
Literatures
and Cultures at the University of P=E9cs and the English Studies =
Research
Group of The Regional Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences =
P=E9cs, on
14-15 September 2007. The event intends to bring together academics who
specialise in Irish Studies and are interested in the subject of =
literary,
cultural and historical encounters (including parallels, influence,
reception, translation) between Ireland, Hungary and Central and Eastern
Europe. Plenary speakers will be invited from Ireland and there are =
plans
for the publication of a selection of the papers.=20

Organiser Dr. Kurdi M=E1ria =09
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=20
HUF 4,000 for PhD students =20
HUF 7,500 for non-members of HUSIS/HUSSE =09
EUR 35 for participants from abroad=09

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

Title of presentation

Abstract (appr. 200 words)

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An Irish Diaspora Journal . . . there's an idea.

Jim Rogers and I discussed this and shared journals we knew of a few years
ago. That might be a start to updating a folder on the website. I am at a
conference and will send a more detailed reply when I return.

Bill Mulligan

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If you are interested in looking at an Australian connection, Kerry=20
Murphy's Memoirs may be useful. He migrated to Australia in the 50s and=20
was prominent in the development of Sydney's GAA:


Kerry Murphy's Memoirs The Diaries of an Irish Immigrant

Book Details
Kerry Murphy=20
Hardcover, Illustrations, Index, 383 pp.=20
Walla Walla Press 1998=20
ISBN 0 9587079 1 X=20
$11.00=20



Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:
> From: MacEinri, Piaras [mailto:p.maceinri[at]ucc.ie]=20
> Subject: The GAA in the Diaspora
>
> Dear All
>
> One of my MA students is planning to do a dissertation on the GAA in th=
e
> Diaspora. She has not yet narrowed it down to a more manageable size an=
d at
> this point is trying to find out what's already out there. A possible
> emerging focus would compare the implantion of the GAA in 'traditional'
> Irish migrant communities in Britain and the US with an emerging trend =
(past
> two decades) where GAA sports are becoming popular among 'new' Irish mi=
grant
> communities in continental Europe, the Middle East and a number of Asia=
n
> countries; one could hypothesise that some of those involved, in terms =
of
> class and region of origin in Ireland (and possibly the schools they
> attended) might not have been dead at a GAA match, still less playing i=
n
> one, twenty years ago.. In any event her primary focus will probably be=
on
> the role of the GAA in ethnic identity formation in a few different Iri=
sh
> diasporic communities.
>
> I have already spoken with Joe Bradley and he has very kindly forwarded=
a
> number of bibliographical references and details of published and upcom=
ing
> research, apart from his own work (e.g. Paul Darby, David Hassan, Nick
> McCarthy, Peter Mossey, Donal McAnallen, Stephen Moore, Seamus King, Al=
an
> Bairner, Marcus Free, Denis Ryan, Kevin B. Walmsley, John Kelly) as wel=
l as
> a range of (equally vital) more general sources of a comparative nature
> and/or concerning other sporting codes and other ethnic communities.=20
>
> If anyone knows of other emerging work (although it's not likely that J=
oe
> wouldn't have heard of it!) I'd be grateful if you could get back to me.
>
> Best
>
> Piaras
>
> =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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A colleague of mine has just started research into the Irish Australian
diaspora. She is enquiring about the leading international journals on
that subject where she might send articles. Do we have such a list?