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Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Well...

My first reaction was tut... This is the sort of query the web can easily
answer... And then...

I know that the Journals section of the LINKS folder of
http://www.irishdiaspora.net
is not well maintained. That is because of all the problems we had with our
previous host. And I have not got round to updating... And, having a look,
I see that some of the links there no longer work...

Then, when I search further, I find that much the same is true in other
obvious places... Searc's web site seems not as useful as it used to be,
Noel Gilzean's, Bruce Stewart's... The web sites of Irish Studies courses,
or libraries... Again a pattern of links that no longer work. Of lists
that are too inclusive, and given without comment.

I also know of research projects that got quite substantial funding to set
up Web portals or research guides in our field. But where are they? I
cannot find them.

I cannot see anything on the web that lists obvious Irish Studies scholarly
journals in a sensible way that would give a sensible answer to this query.

Am I missing something obvious?

Paddy

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-----Original Message-----
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Of Dymphna Lonergan
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Subject: Re: [IR-D] Journals Irish diaspora

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?

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From: "Sara Brady"
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Thanks Bill and Jim,

Yes, I'm on the IR-D list - my dissertation should be available
electronically "Irish Sport and Culture at New York's Gaelic Park" and I
have an article "Performances of Irishness at New York's Gaelic Park" in
vol. 19 (2005) of New York Irish History (which I don't think is available
electronically).

I look at the games from a performance studies perspective. I'd be happy to
talk further with your student, Piaras. See my contact info below.

Best wishes,

Sara

Dr. Sara Brady
Lecturer, Drama Studies
Samuel Beckett Centre
Trinity College
Dublin 2
+353 1 896 2559
bradys1[at]tcd.ie

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I think of New Hibernia review pretty much a diaspora studies
journal. ... No?









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

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May I announce for the benefit of any in the US Midwest who might be
interested:

An Irish Festival through March-April at the University of
Missouri-Rolla.=20


Ciaran Carson to read March 7 at 7:30 pm.

Conor O'Callaghan and Vona Groarke to read March 21st 7:30 pm.

Eilean ni Chuilleanain to read April 5th 7:30 pm.

The Cape Breton musical group Leahy March 6th, 8pm ($28)


Dillon Johnston is occupying an endowed chair here this semester.

Thanks.



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

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Jack Morgan's characterization of New Hibernia Review as a diaspora studies
journal needs some gentle correcting.

We are first and foremost an Irish Studies journal, dedicated to examining
the cultures of the whole of Ireland (including the diaspora) and to
reflecting the progress of Irish Studies in (chiefly) North America.

Of the 60 literature articles that have appeared in our pages over the past
five years, 12 have treated Irish-American literature. Of the 29 history
articles that appeared in the same span, three treated Irish-American
subjects. The Irish in other diasporic communities have been discussed only
occasionally.

In terms of our contributors, we are rather more diasporic: excluding the
poets who appear in each issue, of the authors who have appeared in NHR
during the past five years, 108 reside in the United States; 35 in the
Republic of Ireland; 8 in Northern Ireland; 7 elsewhere in the UK; and 15
elsewhere (Canada, Spain, New Zealand, Australia, Hungary, Malta, and
Germany).

Of course, Jack himself is one of those fine contributors to NHR whom I
have lately tallied. We continue to welcome plainly argued scholarship on
all aspects of the Irish experience, diasporic or otherwise!

Jim Rogers
Editor

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I think of New Hibernia review pretty much a diaspora studies
journal. ... No?









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

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You can get Sara Brady's article in NEW YORK IRISH HISTORY by
downloading an order form from the website of the New York Irish
History Roundtable at

http://www.irishnyhistory.org/

FYI, the first 17 volumes of this journal (through 2003) are available
on a fully searchable CD-ROM.

Marion R. Casey
Glucksman Ireland House
New York University

----- Original Message -----
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 6:15 am
Subject: [IR-D] The GAA in the Diaspora

> From: "Sara Brady"
> Sender: sareigh[at]gmail.com
> To: "The Irish Diaspora Studies List"
> Subject: Re: [IR-D] The GAA in the Diaspora
>
> Thanks Bill and Jim,
>
> Yes, I'm on the IR-D list - my dissertation should be available
> electronically "Irish Sport and Culture at New York's Gaelic Park"
> and I
> have an article "Performances of Irishness at New York's Gaelic
> Park" in
> vol. 19 (2005) of New York Irish History (which I don't think is
> availableelectronically).
>
> I look at the games from a performance studies perspective. I'd be
> happy to
> talk further with your student, Piaras. See my contact info below.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Sara
>
> Dr. Sara Brady
> Lecturer, Drama Studies
> Samuel Beckett Centre
> Trinity College
> Dublin 2
> +353 1 896 2559
> bradys1[at]tcd.ie
>

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We have now heard from
Patricia Sharkey
Searc's Web Team

Apparently I had discovered an anomaly in Searc's recently updated Web
Guide...

I have been thanked.

The journals are now at
http://www.searcs-web.com/newsp.html

Of course old links to the old site don't work.

The main site is
http://www.searcs-web.com


Paddy

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Thanks to Marion for calling attention to NYIH. When I looked at the order form -- and at Marion's email, the information says the CS cover through 2003. According to Sara, the article was in 2005. So, however wonderful the CS set may be, it may not include that article. Or did I misunderstand something?

Tom

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Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 12:54 PM
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [IR-D] The GAA in the Diaspora

You can get Sara Brady's article in NEW YORK IRISH HISTORY by
downloading an order form from the website of the New York Irish
History Roundtable at

http://www.irishnyhistory.org/

FYI, the first 17 volumes of this journal (through 2003) are available
on a fully searchable CD-ROM.

Marion R. Casey
Glucksman Ireland House
New York University

----- Original Message -----
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 6:15 am
Subject: [IR-D] The GAA in the Diaspora

> From: "Sara Brady"
> Sender: sareigh[at]gmail.com
> To: "The Irish Diaspora Studies List"
> Subject: Re: [IR-D] The GAA in the Diaspora
>
> Thanks Bill and Jim,
>
> Yes, I'm on the IR-D list - my dissertation should be available
> electronically "Irish Sport and Culture at New York's Gaelic Park"
> and I
> have an article "Performances of Irishness at New York's Gaelic
> Park" in
> vol. 19 (2005) of New York Irish History (which I don't think is
> availableelectronically).
>
> I look at the games from a performance studies perspective. I'd be
> happy to
> talk further with your student, Piaras. See my contact info below.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Sara
>
> Dr. Sara Brady
> Lecturer, Drama Studies
> Samuel Beckett Centre
> Trinity College
> Dublin 2
> +353 1 896 2559
> bradys1[at]tcd.ie
>

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Tom, you can order hard copy volumes for 2004, 2005, 2006; I was just
pointing out that previous journals (thro' 2003) were available on CD-
ROM if anyone wants their library to purchase. There are some
excellent articles in New York Irish History.
Marion

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas J. Archdeacon"
Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 11:37 pm
Subject: Re: [IR-D] The GAA in the Diaspora

> Thanks to Marion for calling attention to NYIH. When I looked at
> the order form -- and at Marion's email, the information says the
> CS cover through 2003. According to Sara, the article was in
> 2005. So, however wonderful the CS set may be, it may not include
> that article. Or did I misunderstand something?
>
> Tom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK]
> On Behalf Of Marion Casey
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 12:54 PM
> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: [IR-D] The GAA in the Diaspora
>
> You can get Sara Brady's article in NEW YORK IRISH HISTORY by
> downloading an order form from the website of the New York Irish
> History Roundtable at
>
> http://www.irishnyhistory.org/
>
> FYI, the first 17 volumes of this journal (through 2003) are available
> on a fully searchable CD-ROM.
>
> Marion R. Casey
> Glucksman Ireland House
> New York University
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Patrick O'Sullivan
> Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 6:15 am
> Subject: [IR-D] The GAA in the Diaspora
>
> > From: "Sara Brady"
> > Sender: sareigh[at]gmail.com
> > To: "The Irish Diaspora Studies List"
> > Subject: Re: [IR-D] The GAA in the Diaspora
> >
> > Thanks Bill and Jim,
> >
> > Yes, I'm on the IR-D list - my dissertation should be available
> > electronically "Irish Sport and Culture at New York's Gaelic Park"
> > and I
> > have an article "Performances of Irishness at New York's Gaelic
> > Park" in
> > vol. 19 (2005) of New York Irish History (which I don't think is
> > availableelectronically).
> >
> > I look at the games from a performance studies perspective. I'd be
> > happy to
> > talk further with your student, Piaras. See my contact info below.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Sara
> >
> > Dr. Sara Brady
> > Lecturer, Drama Studies
> > Samuel Beckett Centre
> > Trinity College
> > Dublin 2
> > +353 1 896 2559
> > bradys1[at]tcd.ie
> >
>

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1. I should have written that I thought of NHR as a go-to journal for
diaspora material (excuse "go-to").

2. Re the Irish Festival here--Michael Longley and Edna Longley were
scheduled, but Michael had a heart attack or at least a negative heart
event
of some sort and was hospitalized recently.

JM


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

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Rhetoric and Ideology in Social Identification: The Case of
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Today is the last day of the free access to all Sage journals - and I hope
all members of the IR-D list have made good use of it...

One item that you could have found was this
Rhetoric and Ideology in Social Identification: The Case of Second
Generation Irish Youths
Philip Ullah

Details below...

It is one - but only one - of the oddities of the research literature on the
Irish of Britain that one of its turning points was this rather technical
work of discourse analysis within the discipline of social psychology.

We also use the earlier, more simple, Ullah article.

Ullah P. Second-generation Irish youth: identity and ethnicity. New
Community 1985; 12(2): 310-320.

P.O'S.



Discourse & Society, Vol. 1, No. 2, 167-188 (1990)
DOI: 10.1177/0957926590001002003
C 1990 SAGE Publications

Rhetoric and Ideology in Social Identification: The Case of Second
Generation Irish Youths
Philip Ullah

UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA

This article presents a social psychological analysis of ethnic identity
among children born in England of Irish parents (hereafter referred to as
second generation Irish). However, rather than drawing upon the cognitive
models of identity currently popular within social psychology (e.g. Turner,
1987; Hogg and Abrams, 1988) it emphasizes the rhetorical aspects of
identity, following the work of Billig (1987). It is argued that identity is
not simply the automatic cognitive output of social categorizations (as
currently conceived) but an active process, used and constructed in various
ways to achieve certain goals. The argumentative nature of identity is
revealed and located within a wider ideological context of intergroup
relations and political conflict between Britain and Ireland. This is
achieved through an analysis of the natural discourse of second generation
Irish youths, obtained from ethnographic observation of those youths
actively involved in the social and cultural activities of the Irish
community in a large English city.

Key Words: argumentation . discourse . ideology . Irish . minorities .
prejudice . rhetoric . social identification . United Kingdom . youths

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Fyi

Irish history captured on film during London's St Patrick's Day film
festival

As part of London's activities to mark St Patrick's Day, a series of films
is being screened at the Barbican and the Prince Charles Cinema, Leicester
Square, illustrating Irish history and Irish experience in the British
capital. Curated by director-producer David P Kelly, a partner at the
European Co-Production Bureau in London, the Irish Film Festival includes
'The Wind that shakes the Barley' and silent classic 'Irish Destiny', plus
documentary and Irish language short films. It is being supported by the
Mayor of London, in partnership with the Irish Film Institute, the Irish
Film Board and Culture Ireland.

Press Release at
http://media-newswire.com/release_1044689.html

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Forwarded on behalf of
Dr Irene Gilsenan Nordin, Senior Lecturer
Director DUCIS (Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies)
Dept. of Arts and Languages
Dalarna University College
SE 791 88 Falun, SWEDEN
http://www.du.se/ducis

Call for Contributions (collection 31/05/07; 15/12/07)
Redefinitions of Irish Identity in the Twenty-First Century: A
Postnationalist Approach.
DUCIS (Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies), Sweden.

Voices from various fields of study have recently focused their analysis on
the numerous changes experienced in Ireland in the last fifteen years. In
Northern Ireland the most outstanding of these changes has been the peace
process, whereas in the Republic of Ireland the Celtic Tiger phenomenon is
connected with numerous changes within social and economic spheres. In the
last few years Ireland has registered a surge in the number of immigrants,
asylum-seekers and refugees, with over 167 different languages currently
spoken by around 160 nationalities, the appearance of a new underclass in
the newly knowledge-based economy, and an increase in mental illnesses and
suicide rate.

These developments have all been accompanied by the most recent fears that
the Celtic Tiger may be losing its bravado, as suggested by the recent
announcements by a number of global companies to relocate to most
cost-effective destinations. All these phenomena are often interpreted as
the consequences of a rapid process of transformation in Ireland under the
influence of globalisation, which has raised questions regarding the role of
the nation-state and the validity of traditional definitions of Irish
national identity.

jiscIn the European context, Gerard Delanty has analysed how globalisation
has caused not only the emergence of a new type of nationalism which differs
from nineteenth-century nationalisms (1996), but it has also opened up "a
space for reflection . . . in which to search for new collective identities"
(O'Mahony and Delanty 2001: vii), with a European postnational identity as
one of the options, inspired by Habermas's analysis of citizenship and
national identity in contemporary Europe. According to O'Mahony and Delanty,
Ireland, in line with European modernity, is in "an overt phase of crisis
and contradiction" (2001: vii) in which inherited constructs of nationalism
and national identity are questioned, a process also analysed by Richard
Kearney in Postnationalist Ireland (1997).

The concepts of the postnational and the postnationalist - the latter, in
the case of Ireland, emphasising current changes in analyses of nationalisms
- have caused an intense debate in various fields of knowledge, often from
opposed stances. Postnationalism has been interpreted as an inevitable
reality in the current global circumstances, but also as an attack on the
democratic basis of current states, or on the basis of national communities
and their identities. In the Irish context, where the construction of an
Irish national identity is inextricably interrelated to cultural nationalism
and the Irish Literary Revival, current interrogations of traditional
definitions of Irishness also raise interest in contemporary literary
responses to the problematisation of Irish national identity.
The aim of this book is to collect a number of articles from a multiplicity
of fields, predominantly literature, but also including sociology,
anthropology, economics, politics, philosophy, and history, so as to present
a multifaceted view of contemporary redefinitions of Irish identity in the
current postnationalist context. Articles with an interdisciplinary approach
will be welcomed.

Submissions for proposals of articles (between 6,000 and 8,000 words) should
not exceed 500 words in length and should be accompanied by a short
biographical note of the author(s). Please send proposals to Irene Gilsenan
Nordin at ign[at]du.se AND Carmen Zamorano Llena at cza[at]du.se. Deadline for
submissions of proposals is 31 May 2007 and full articles should be
completed by 15 December 2007.

-------------
Dr Irene Gilsenan Nordin, Senior Lecturer
Director DUCIS (Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies)
Dept. of Arts and Languages
Dalarna University College
SE 791 88 Falun, SWEDEN
http://www.du.se/ducis Quoting Dawn Duncan :

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A new report by the think tank DEMOS was launched earlier in the week...

Irish Diaspora Studies got there first, but DEMOS has discovered the
importance of culture within diaspora.

The immediate discussion should, perhaps, been seen as part of the defence
of the arts budget by the UK's arts industries - as the London Olympics
threaten.

But the actual report and its research is far more wide-ranging.

P.O'S.


PRESS RELEASE below...

We're all diplomats now

Date and time:
Wednesday, 28th February 2007 at 9:30am
Location:
Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Rd, London SW7 2RL

This event will mark the launch of a new Demos pamphlet, in partnership with
the British Council, the British Library, the British Museum, the Natural
History Museum, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Royal Opera House and
the Victoria and Albert Museum.

It will take place in the spectacular Raphael Gallery at the Victoria and
Albert Museum.

The pamphlet argues that culture plays an important role in building and
sustaining relationships between different countries - in both good times
and bad. But, too often, these types of activities are under-valued,
under-resourced and are not integrated into the work of the government,
especially the Foreign Office and its public diplomacy partners. The report
will argue that culture is more important than ever before and will set out
a series of practical policy recommendations for the Foreign Office, the
Department of Culture, Media and Sport, cultural institutions and others.

Cultural Diplomacy is the result of a 12 month research project which has
included fieldwork in China, India, US, Norway, Ethiopia and France and
intensive research into Iran to provide a comparative perspective on how
different countries use culture to project their image overseas. The
report's authors are Kirsten Bound, Rachel Briggs, John Holden and Samuel
Jones of Demos.

http://83.223.102.49/events/culturaldiplomacylaunch

The full text of the report can be downloaded from

http://www.demos.co.uk/publications/culturaldiplomacy

Cultural Diplomacy argues that the huge global reach and potential of
Britain's world class artistic and cultural assets - from Razorlight to the
Royal Ballet - should be at the heart of government relationship building
abroad.
Cultural Diplomacy argues that, more than ever before, culture has a vital
role to play in international relations. This stems from the wider,
connective and human values that culture has: culture is both the means by
which we come to understand others, and an aspect of life with innate worth
that we enjoy and seek out. Cultural enables us to appreciate points of
commonality and, where there are differences, to understand the motivations
and humanity that underlie them.

As identity politics exert an increasing influence on domestic and
international exchanges, culture is therefore a critical forum for
negotiation and a medium of exchange in finding shared solutions. Cultural
contact provides a forum for unofficial political relationship-building: it
keeps open negotiating channels with countries where political connections
are in jeopardy, and helps to recalibrate relationships for changing times
with emerging powers such as India and China. In the future, alliances are
just as likely to be forged along lines of cultural understanding as they
are on economic or geographic ones.

However, culture should not be used as a tool of public diplomacy. The value
of cultural activity comes precisely from its independence, its freedom and
the fact that it represents and connects people, rather than necessarily
governments or policy positions. Cultural Institutions and others in the
cultural sector must not only retain their independence, but also be brought
more into the policy-making process.

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A number of IR-D members will find this article of use and interest -
especially the more wide-ranging discussion of the research literature and
the place of economists and economic theory in Irish history...

I have pasted in below the Abstract and the introductory paragraphs.

Note that this article came to our attention as an online Article in Press,
Corrected Proof. It has not yet been assigned a place in the print version
of the journal.

P.O'S.


Journal of Socio-Economics
Article in Press, Corrected Proof - Note to users

Copyright C 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

A psychological, attitudinal and professional profile of Irish economists

Brian M. Luceya, Corresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The
Corresponding Author and Liam Delaneyb, E-mail The Corresponding Author

aSchool of Business Studies and Institute for International Integration
Studies, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
bGeary Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland


Available online 8 February 2007.

Abstract

This paper provides the first psychological and attitudinal profile of the
Irish economics profession. The aspects covered fall into three broad
categories: the first category relates to the attitudes of the respondents
to issues relating to the economy and the role of government; the second set
seeks responses regarding perceptions of the economics profession and
professional economists in Ireland; the third set of questions are drawn
from various international survey programmes and survey social, political,
ethical and psychological attributes and attitudes. The results display a
picture of a group who believe their discipline to be relevant to policy and
society, who are outward looking in terms of international collaboration,
who perceive the discipline to be somewhat stale and who desire a greater
focus on interdisciplinary work.

Keywords: Psychology; Sociology of economics; Survey methods

JEL classification codes: A140; Z0; B40

1. Introduction and motivation

From the first endowment of a chair in Political Economy at Trinity College
Dublin in 1832, economics has had a major influence on the development of
the Irish nation (see Murphy, 1984). Much anecdotal work has been written on
the character and views of Irish economists but to date there has been no
scientific evidence on what this clearly important professional group think
about social and economic issues. This paper surveys the current cohort of
economists resident in Ireland to ascertain: their views on matters relating
to the economics profession in Ireland; attitudes to research in general;
social and political attitudes; personal values. The motivation of this
paper is to stimulate discussion about the nature of the economics
profession outside the "mainland" of the United States, Continental Europe
and the UK, using the Irish case as an example. Many of the issues faced by
Irish economists are similar to those faced in several other countries such
as the tension between theory and policy, the relative importance of
domestic as opposed to international research and the increasingly
interdisciplinary nature of economics.

The paper is further motivated by a desire to incorporate several strands of
literature that have examined economics from an introspective viewpoint. The
majority of these papers and articles focus on one of three themes:
publication patterns and productivity (e.g. Lubrano and Protopopescu, 2004
and Hollis, 2001); examination of the role of particular demographics (e.g.
Rodgers and Cooley, 1999); or a developing literature critiquing the
methodological basis of economics, exemplified by the extensive works of
McCloskey. However, there is very little written on Irish economists or
Irish economics, apart from the recent papers on the productivity of Irish
economists (Barrett and Lucey, 2003 and Coupe and Walsh, 2003), the role of
the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society (Daly, 1997), as well as some
accounts of the relation between values and economics by individual
economists (e.g. O'rourke, 1995 and Fitgerald, 2001).1

The paper will provide a useful comparison for other countries outside the
three main economics blocs of the US, UK and Continental Europe. While
Barrett and Lucey (2003) demonstrated that a small number of Irish
economists had made an impact in the most highly cited economics journals,
it is clear that economists in Ireland, and no doubt in other countries,
have a role well beyond academic publications and this paper will examine
some of these wider issues. The rest of this paper is structured as follows.
Section 2 reviews the existing literature on the sociology of economics.
Section 3 describes the administration of the survey of Irish economists.
Section 4 outlines the results of the survey. Section 5 concludes with a
discussion of the implications of some of the main tendencies.

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IRISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY
VOL 15; NUMB 2; 2006
ISSN 0791-6035

pp. 5-22
Private troubles, public issues: the Irish sociological imagination.
O Connor, P.

pp. 23-40
Debate: Kuzmics and Lemert: The marketing-character in fiction: Len
Deighton's Close Up (1972) as a sociological description of post-war
Hollywood and the process of Americanisation.
Kuzmics, H.

pp. 41-51
Debate: Kuzmics and Lemert: Europe's 1948 and America's essential lie.
Lemert, C.

pp. 52-66
Children's drawings as a methodological tool: reflections on the Eleven Plus
system in Northern Ireland.
Leonard, M.

pp. 67-85
Discourses of partnership in multi-agency working in the community and
voluntary sectors in Ireland.
Somers, J.; Bradford, S.

pp. 86-100
Welfare provision in boom times: strengthening social equity in Ireland?.
Turner, T.; Haynes, A.

pp. 101-113
Transition to organic farming in Ireland: how do organic farmers arrive at
the decision to adopt and commit to organic farming methods?.
Devitt, C.

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H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by H-Albion[at]h-net.msu.edu (March 2007)

Don Akenson. _An Irish History of Civilization: Volume 1_. Montreal
and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006. 840 pp. Index.
$34.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-7735-2890-3.

Don Akenson. _An Irish History of Civilization: Volume 2_. Montreal
and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006. 704 pp. Index.
$34.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-7735-2891-1.

Reviewed for H-Albion by Francis M. Carroll, St. John's College,
University of Manitoba

Donald H. Akenson is one of the most distinguished and prolific
scholars currently working in Irish history. He has published well
over a dozen books, mostly on Irish topics and the Irish overseas,
but also several on biblical subjects; he has produced five novels as
well. He has been a driving force behind the Ontario rural history
project and the McGill-Queen's University Press. These efforts have
earned him a Professorship at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario,
and the Beamish Research Professorship of Migration Studies at the
Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool, four
honorary degrees, numerous visiting professorships, prestigious
fellowships (such as the Guggenheim), membership in the Royal Society
of Canada and the Royal Historical Society, and several prizes
(including the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order).
Throughout all of this, the hallmarks of Akenson's work have been his
instinct for the neglected subject area and his capacity to re-
conceptualize the conventional wisdom, including his three volumes on
Irish education; his works on the Church of Ireland; and his
assertions that the Irish in North America did settle in rural areas,
and that Catholics and Protestants did get along once they were away
from the old country. So, how might this scholar, at the pinnacle of
his career, envision the great sweep of Irish history--the history of
Ireland and the Irish at home and abroad in the broadest possible
sense? Well, a straight chronological narrative history is out, as
is political history in its usual configurations; an
historiographical discussion is too rarefied, as is a cultural-
intellectual analysis; and a short, illustrated history is too
predictable and commonplace. Akenson, as might be expected, has come
up with an entirely new form of historical discourse. One is tempted
to call it an anecdotal history of Ireland, and the Irish perception
of themselves and the worlds they touch. The books are a series of
short but related episodes, running from a paragraph to three pages.
Akenson calls it _An Irish History of Civilization_.

These books are large. There are 1,459 pages of text. Volume 1
starts with Irish pre-history and goes up to the Famine, and volume 2
goes from the Famine more or less to the beginning of the Troubles.
There are many wonderful quotations in the text, although there are
no footnotes or even a bibliography. Only a writer in whom one had
complete confidence could produce an acceptable work without any
scholarly apparatus, and even so one would like some documentation to
pursue many of the fascinating points made in the text. However,
Akenson's vast reading and range of scholarship have given him the
resources to move comfortably from Ireland in the sixteenth century,
to the migrations into the West Indies in the seventeenth century, to
Ulster settlers on the Pennsylvania frontier in the nineteenth
century. Always alert to the ironic, Akenson calls attention to the
attraction of the West Indies for upwardly mobile Irishmen, as he had
done in his book on Montserrat; similarly he shows that the
Protestant Irish dominated the migration to the mainland colonies,
and later the United States and Canada into the nineteenth century.
As he proceeds chronologically, Akenson focuses increasingly on Irish
migration to Australia, New Zealand, and islands in the Pacific.
Indeed, although he emphasizes the numerically large migration to the
United States and Canada (Canada having the largest proportion of
Irish born of any country other than Ireland), roughly 23 percent of
the text is devoted to the Irish in these Pacific colonies (the
United States and Canada receiving about 10 percent and 6 percent
respectively). Akenson's sense of irony never leaves him,
particularly when discussing the nationalist tradition in Ireland.
The struggle over language and culture, the tensions between Eamon de
Valera and Michael Collins, the working out of the Irish Free State,
and de Valera's new constitution in 1937 ("a Catholic constitution
for a Catholic people," as he puts it, echoing Sir James Craig's
historic statement, "A Protestant parliament for a Protestant
people" [pp. 572 and 578]), are all given a slight twist. As John
Bowman and J. J. Lee have done before him, Akenson calls attention to
the contradictions and failings of Irish society, both north and
south, in the years between the First World War and the Troubles in
1969, and he also highlights the success of the Irish overseas--
whether in England, Australia, or North America.

The strength of these volumes is to be found in the vast collections
of anecdotes and their quotations. Akenson presupposes his reader
has a firm grasp of the outlines of Irish history, and even of the
Irish abroad, to which he has provided an elaborate gloss. There are
hundreds of stories of people and events, to which Akenson has
supplied the family connections, the subsequent actions, and the
parallel events. For example, Akenson recounts episode by episode
the emergence of Cardinal Cullen as the figure who dominated and
reshaped the Catholic Church in Ireland and the United States in the
nineteenth century; as a parallel he tells the complex stories of
John Nelson Darby, the founder of the Plymouth Brethren and the
inspiration for modern American Christian fundamentalism (right up to
William Bell Riley and Billy Graham), noting not only their influence
on religion but also their birth within three years and fifty miles
of each other. Nothing in the book seems to happen in isolation.
There is always a link or connection to somebody else--a sibling or
an in-law or a chance acquaintance. All of this makes very good
reading. There is one surprising story after another, particularly
if the reader already has the historical framework into which these
fascinating details can be placed. In this respect, the books can be
said to be a set of tools for scholars. Certainly the books will
provide historians with wonderful material with which to enhance
their lectures.

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Published by H-Albion[at]h-net.msu.edu (March 2007)

David J. Butler. _South Tipperary 1570-1851: Religion, Land and
Rivalry_. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006. 336 pp. Illustrations,
maps, notes, bibliography, index. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 1-85182-891-5.

Reviewed for H-Albion by S. J. Connolly, School of History and
Anthropology, Queen's University, Belfast

Historians and Geographers

Modern Irish history owes a great deal to geographers. The work of
J. H. Andrews on early modern maps and map makers, of W. J. Smyth on
landholding, and of T. Jones Hughes on nineteenth-century settlement
patterns have all cast important light on the dramatic reshaping over
time, not just of Ireland's landscape, but of its social structure
and political organization.[1] David Butler's study of South
Tipperary between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries is a
work in the same tradition. Taking as his starting point a Gramscian
notion of hegemony as "a ceaseless endeavour to maintain control over
the 'hearts and minds' of subordinate classes" (pp. 267-268), he sets
out to show how the contest between a dominant Protestant minority
and a dispossessed Catholic majority found expression in the human-
made landscape: the houses and demesnes of the landed classes; the
rival networks of churches, Catholic and Protestant; and the military
and police barracks erected in response to recurrent violent resistance.

Genuinely multidisciplinary research is demanding, and those who
undertake it deserve respect. To provide the raw material for his
spatial and cartographical analysis, Butler has processed an
impressive volume of historical data, including official records,
estate papers, parish registers, diaries, and private letters. His
survey brings out continuities and discontinuities in the
distribution across his chosen region of the New English population.
He establishes with a new precision the origins of what became the
dominant Protestant landowning class, pointing to the high proportion
whose wealth was based, not on grants of confiscated Catholic land,
but on subsequent purchases financed by the profits of commerce. He
is particularly strong on the organization of the established church,
demonstrating how the late seventeenth and early eighteenth
centuries, often written off as a period of religious torpor, in fact
saw the rationalization of an unwieldy parish structure and the
construction of new churches. None of these efforts were sufficient
to allow Irish Anglicanism to escape from its indefensible status as
the church of a privileged minority. But that is the perspective of
hindsight. In the early ninteenth century, as Butler demonstrates in
a striking passage, no less than one-quarter of the pews in the
parish church of Clonmel, the region's main urban center, were held
by families converted from Catholicism or dissent. Against this
background it becomes somewhat easier to see why some, within the
Church of Ireland, never wholly abandoned the dream that their
nominal claim to be the church of the whole nation could some day be
made a reality.

The implicit warning against the seductive attraction of hindsight is
not, however, one to which Butler himself pays much attention. For
all its energy and range, his survey of two and a half centuries is
fundamentally unhistorical. The problem does not lie in the
scattering of minor errors--forgivable, and possibly unavoidable, in
a work of this scope. Instead what must cause disquiet is a
prevailing tendency to simplify and foreshorten, presenting a one
dimensional and teleological narrative. The opening chapter, for
example, dutifully cites the work of Brendan Bradshaw, Alan Ford, and
others who have explored the ambiguities and compromises that
characterized the religious choices made by many in the decades
immediately following Henry VIII's breach with Rome. Yet Butler
himself continues to think in terms of a straightforward conflict
between clearly defined Catholic and Protestant positions. The
teleology extends to giving the region its first Catholic martyr, a
friar hanged in his habit at Waterford, at the improbably early date
of 1538. (The only extant record describes the man in question as a
"thief"; while it is not impossible that it was really opposition to
the recently proclaimed royal supremacy that brought him to the
gallows, there is no apparent warrant for Butler's assumption that
this represented the traumatic execution of "a friar much beloved
for being of the people" [p. 25].)[2]

Later the Ulster revolt of the 1590s, another episode whose
complexity has been analyzed in a range of recent works, becomes a
straightforward war by the "Irish" "against English occupation" (p.
37). The same instinct to impose a simple, forward-looking pattern
on complex events is evident in later chapters. Again and again
snippets of "evidence"--often quoted at second hand from a secondary
source--are presented in ways that wholly ignore their context: a
derogatory classification of the first Duke of Ormond as an "Irish
papist," supposedly demonstrating the precarious position of a
convert from Catholicism within the Protestant elite, in fact comes
from the period when Ormond was the leader of Protestant royalism in
opposition to the short-lived Cromwellian regime (p. 67); and a
request for troops from the mayor of Clonmel, cited as evidence of
the chronic insecurity of the Protestant minority, derives from the
crisis year of 1746. A reference in a polemical pamphlet to "nests"
of friars and priests "swarming" over the kingdom is solemnly
paraphrased as indicating that the Catholic clergy "were compared
with swarms of insects and portrayed as less than human" (p. 201).
Even the detailed census of elementary schools carried out in 1834 by
the Commissioners of Public Instruction, undertaken in preparation
for an attempt to set up a state funded educational system acceptable
to all religious groups, is recast here as part of a continuous
history of "state sponsored surveillance" extending back to the early
eighteenth century (p. 267).

The unsatisfactory nature of Butler's account can in part be
attributed to his personal preferences. He has read widely in the
historical literature. But it is clear that his heart is with older,
more traditional works, such as W. P. Burke's 1907 History of
Clonmel, from which he quotes freely and, at times, uncritically.
Yet some, at least, of the problem is more deeply rooted in the
different characters of the two disciplines within which he seeks to
work. The geographer, essentially a social scientist, is concerned
with long-term patterns of development, with the way in which the
past became the present. The historian, by contrast, is concerned
with the past in its own right, with the nuances and contradictions
to be found in any particular time and place. The resulting
difference in perspective is evident, not just in Butler's work, but
in that of his mentor W. J. Smyth. Here too an insistence on the
colonial and unremittingly divided character of early modern Irish
society contrasts sharply with the approach of historians like
Michael MacCarthy Murrough and Raymond Gillespie, for whom episodes
of violent conflict must be balanced against the variety of
interactions that took place across ethnic and religious boundaries.
[3] This being the case, it is perhaps best for historians to
express their thanks to Butler for visiting their territory, and for
performing an undoubted service in mapping some of its contours,
rather than complain that he has not cultivated its fields as they
themselves would have done.

Notes

[1]. J. H. Andrews, _Shapes of Ireland: Maps and Their Makers
1564-1839_ (Dublin: Geography Publications, 1997); W. J. Smyth, _Map-
Making, Landscapes and Memory: A Geography of Colonial and Early
Modern Ireland c.1530-1750_ (Cork: Cork University Press, 2006); and
W.J. Smyth and K. Whelan ed., _Common Ground: Essays on the
Historical Geography of Ireland Presented to T. Jones Hughes_ (Cork:
Cork University Press, 1988).

[2]. The sparse and contradictory evidence on the point is reviewed
in R. D. Edwards, _Church and State in Tudor Ireland_ (Dublin:
Talbot Press, 1935), p. 87.

[3]. Michael MacCarthy-Morrogh, _The Munster Plantation: English
Migration to Southern Ireland_ (Oxford: Clarendon, 1986); and
Raymond Gillespie, _Seventeenth-Century Ireland_ (Dublin: Gill and
Macmillan, 2006).


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'Changed Utterly'? Transformation and continuity in late twentieth-century
Ireland*

* R. F. Foster 1 1University of Oxford

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Abstract

From about 1970, Irish history moved into a fast-forward phase culminating
in an extraordinary economic boom for the Republic. This took place against
the background of violence in Northern Ireland, up to the uneasy resolution
of Good Friday 1998. It is now possible to try and analyse this era from a
variety of sources, such as the reports of tribunals investigating
corruption, contemporary memoirs, political records and investigative
journalism. This article considers the forces and events behind dramatic and
unforeseen change in politics, economics, cultural influence, religious
profession and gender roles, and discusses how far the 'key' is to be found
in American rather than European models and influence. Moreover,
'liberalization' in economic, religious, sexual and other spheres has been
accompanied, on other levels, by a retreat into atavistic attitudes -
particularly concerning the construction of Irish 'identity' and the
packaging of Irish history. This masks a less-noticed revolution in
attitudes over the last thirty years of the twentieth century - the
strengthening of partitionist attitudes in the Republic, and the
copper-fastening of the border between North and South.