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This article, in the journal History Compass, will interest a number of IR-D
members.

Note that this is another article published online, but not yet assigned its
place in the paper journal.

P.O'S.


History Compass

OnlineEarly Articles

Sport and Ethnicity in New Zealand
History Compass (OnlineEarly Articles).

Sport and Ethnicity in New Zealand

* Geoff Watson 1*1Massey University* Correspondence address: School of
History, Philosophy and Politics, Massey University, Private Bag 11 222,
Palmerston North, New Zealand. Email: G.Watson[at]massey.ac.nz.

*
1Massey University

Abstract

This article argues that the centrality of rugby as a key formulator of
Pakeha ethnicity and agent of interracial integration has been contested in
recent scholarly research. It further argues that although sport and
ethnicity has been examined in some case-studies and some general histories,
to date we have no systematic scholarly assessment of the connections
between sport and ethnicity in New Zealand. Our presently fragmented
understanding of this issue reflects a wider problem within sports studies
in New Zealand, namely the lack of any comprehensive study of the role of
sport in New Zealand history.

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For information...

P.O'S.

ROBERT D. OSBORNE (2006)
Cross-border Higher Education Collaboration in Europe: lessons for the =
'two
Irelands'?
European Journal of Education 41 (1), 113=96129.

Original Article
Cross-border Higher Education Collaboration in Europe: lessons for the =
'two
Irelands'?

* ROBERT D. OSBORNE

Abstract

This article examines three examples of cross-border higher education
collaboration in Europe in order to throw light on one European region =
where
such collaboration is only in its early stages of development. The main
region examined is the =D6resund region covering the Sk=E5ne area of =
Southern
Sweden centred on Malmo and the Zealand region of Denmark which =
incorporates
the Copenhagen region. Additionally, and more briefly, the Upper Rhine
collaboration of the EUCOR universities and the ALMA collaboration
(Netherlands, Germany and Belgium) are considered. Lessons from these
examples are then used to assist in the assessment of existing =
collaboration
between higher education institutions in the Republic of Ireland and
Northern Ireland and the possibilities for further collaboration.

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Hello again,

A slight correction: the MLA 2007 will be held in Chicago, not New York
City. Mea culpa.

best,
Joseph

____________________________
Joseph Lennon, Associate Professor
Department of English
Manhattan College
718-862-7112


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From: Joseph Lennon [mailto:joseph.lennon[at]manhattan.edu]

Dear Patrick,

Could you distribute the following CFP to the IR-D list. It is for the
ACIS's two reserved panels at the MLA next December in NYC. Proposals are
due relatively soon--by the end of this month (29 March, 2007).

With gratitude,

Joseph


CALL FOR PAPERS

Modern Language Association (MLA) / American Conference for Irish Studies
(ACIS) panels, 2007, New York City.

Three possible panels are listed below; two of the following will be chosen
for the MLA panel in 2007, depending on responses. Please send 200-word
abstracts to Joseph Lennon by March 29, 2007. All panelists must be ACIS and
MLA members by next summer.

GREEN IRELAND: ECOCRITICAL READINGS: Papers should address how Irish writers
have represented nature or environmental issues. Papers with an ecocritical
focus are welcome. The panel may include writers from a range of periods and
genres, but each paper should pay close attention to how nature, place, or
environmentalism has influenced Irish literature, culture, or aesthetics.

LOUIS MACNEICE: CENTENARY READINGS: Papers should address the legacy of the
poetry of Louis MacNeice (1907-1963). Possible topics could include MacNeice
and modernism, Orientalism, Northern Ireland, Irish-English relations, radio
broadcasts, influence (Hardy, Yeats, Auden, Heaney, etc.). The panel may
develop themes introduced at the MacNeice Centenary Conference in Belfast,
September 12-15, 2007.

IRISH LANGUAGE, ENGLISH-SPEAKING AUDIENCE: BREAKS AND CONTINUITIES: Papers
should explore impressions and influence of the Irish language in literature
written in English. The panel may include discussions of various
representations in various media of historical breaks and continuities in
Irish language literature from the 17th century to the present.

SEND 200-WORD PROPOSALS BY MARCH 29, 2007. PRESENTATIONS MAY NOT EXCEED 20
MINUTES.

Contact: Joseph Lennon, Literature Representative, ACIS 2005-07

joseph.lennon[at]manhattan.edu

Department of English
Manhattan College
New York City

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From: Joseph Lennon [mailto:joseph.lennon[at]manhattan.edu]

Dear Patrick,

Could you distribute the following CFP to the IR-D list. It is for the
ACIS's two reserved panels at the MLA next December in NYC. Proposals are
due relatively soon--by the end of this month (29 March, 2007).

With gratitude,

Joseph


CALL FOR PAPERS

Modern Language Association (MLA) / American Conference for Irish Studies
(ACIS) panels, 2007, New York City.

Three possible panels are listed below; two of the following will be chosen
for the MLA panel in 2007, depending on responses. Please send 200-word
abstracts to Joseph Lennon by March 29, 2007. All panelists must be ACIS and
MLA members by next summer.

GREEN IRELAND: ECOCRITICAL READINGS: Papers should address how Irish writers
have represented nature or environmental issues. Papers with an ecocritical
focus are welcome. The panel may include writers from a range of periods and
genres, but each paper should pay close attention to how nature, place, or
environmentalism has influenced Irish literature, culture, or aesthetics.

LOUIS MACNEICE: CENTENARY READINGS: Papers should address the legacy of the
poetry of Louis MacNeice (1907-1963). Possible topics could include MacNeice
and modernism, Orientalism, Northern Ireland, Irish-English relations, radio
broadcasts, influence (Hardy, Yeats, Auden, Heaney, etc.). The panel may
develop themes introduced at the MacNeice Centenary Conference in Belfast,
September 12-15, 2007.

IRISH LANGUAGE, ENGLISH-SPEAKING AUDIENCE: BREAKS AND CONTINUITIES: Papers
should explore impressions and influence of the Irish language in literature
written in English. The panel may include discussions of various
representations in various media of historical breaks and continuities in
Irish language literature from the 17th century to the present.

SEND 200-WORD PROPOSALS BY MARCH 29, 2007. PRESENTATIONS MAY NOT EXCEED 20
MINUTES.

Contact: Joseph Lennon, Literature Representative, ACIS 2005-07

joseph.lennon[at]manhattan.edu

Department of English
Manhattan College
New York City

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Apologies for cross-posting

Liam

http://liamgr.blogspot.com





Three nations divided by a common gene?...
yesterday's NY Times

English, Irish, Scots: They're All One, Genes Suggest
By NICHOLAS WADE


Britain and Ireland are so thoroughly divided in their histories that there
is
no single word to refer to the inhabitants of both islands. Historians teach
that they are mostly descended from different peoples: the Irish from the
Celts, and the English from the Anglo-Saxons who invaded from northern
Europe
and drove the Celts to the country's western and northern fringes.

But geneticists who have tested DNA throughout the British Isles are edging
toward a different conclusion. Many are struck by the overall genetic
similarities, leading some to claim that both Britain and Ireland have been
inhabited for thousands of years by a single people that have remained in
the
majority, with only minor additions from later invaders like Celts, Romans,
Angles , Saxons, Vikings and Normans.

The implication that the Irish, English, Scottish and Welsh have a great
deal in
common with each other, at least from the geneticist's point of view, seems
likely to please no one.

The genetic evidence is still under development, however, and because only
very
rough dates can be derived from it, it is hard to weave evidence from DNA,
archaeology, history and linguistics into a coherent picture of British and
Irish origins.

That has not stopped the attempt. Stephen Oppenheimer, a medical geneticist
at
the University of Oxford, says the historians' account is wrong in almost
every
detail. In Dr. Oppenheimer's reconstruction of events, the principal
ancestors
of today's British and Irish populations arrived from Spain about 16,000
years
ago, speaking a language related to Basque.

The British Isles were unpopulated then, wiped clean of people by glaciers
that
had smothered northern Europe for about 4,000 years and forced the former
inhabitants into southern refuges in Spain and Italy. When the climate
warmed
and the glaciers retreated, people moved back north.

The new arrivals in the British Isles would have found an empty territory,
which
they could have reached just by walking along the Atlantic coastline, since
there were still land bridges then across what are now English Channel and
the
Irish Sea.

This new population, who lived by hunting and gathering, survived a sharp
cold
spell called the Younger Dryas that lasted from 12,300 to 11,000 years ago.
Much later, some 6,000 years ago, agriculture finally reached the British
Isles
from its birthplace in the Near East.

Agriculture may have been introduced by people speaking Celtic, in Dr.
Oppenheimer's view. Although the Celtic immigrants may have been few in
number,
they spread their farming techniques and their language throughout Ireland
and
the western coast of Britain. Later immigrants arrived from northern Europe
had
more influence on the eastern and southern coasts. They too spread their
language, a branch of German, but these invaders' numbers were also small
compared with the local population.

In all, about three-quarters of the ancestors of today's British and Irish
populations arrived between 15,000 and 7,500 years ago, when rising sea
levels
finally divided Britain and Ireland from the Continent and from one another,
Dr. Oppenheimer calculates in a new book, "The Origins of the British: A
Genetic Detective Story" (Carroll & Graf, 2006).

As for subsequent invaders, Ireland received the fewest; the invaders' DNA
makes
up about 12 percent of the Irish gene pool, Dr. Oppenheimer estimates, but
it
accounts for 20 percent of the gene pool in Wales, 30 percent in Scotland,
and
about one-third in eastern and southern England.

Still, no single group of invaders is responsible for more than 5 percent of
the
current gene pool, Dr. Oppenheimer says on the basis of genetic data.

He cites figures from the archaeologist Heinrich Haerke that the Anglo-Saxon
invasions that began in the fourth century A.D. added about 250,000 people
to a
British population of one to two million, an estimate Dr. Oppenheimer notes
is
larger than his but considerably less than the substantial replacement of
the
English population assumed by others. The Norman invasion of 1066 A.D.
brought
not many more than 10,000 people, according to Dr. Haerke.

Other geneticists say Dr. Oppenheimer's reconstruction is plausible, though
some
disagree with details. Several said that genetic methods did not give
precise
enough dates to be confident of certain aspects, like when the first
settlers
arrived.

"Once you have an established population, it is quite difficult to change it
very radically," said Daniel G. Bradley, a geneticist at Trinity College,
Dublin. But he said he was "quite agnostic" as to whether the original
population became established in Britain and Ireland immediately after the
glaciers retreated 16,000 years ago, as Dr. Oppenheimer argues, or more
recently, in the Neolithic Age, which began 10,000 years ago.

Bryan Sykes, another Oxford geneticist, said he agreed with Dr. Oppenheimer
that
the ancestors of "by far the majority of people" were present in the British
Isles before the Roman conquest of A.D. 43. "The Saxons, Vikings and Normans
had a minor effect, and much less than some of the medieval historical texts
would indicate," he said.

His conclusions, based on his own genetic survey and information in his
genealogical testing service, Oxford Ancestors, are reported in his new
book,
"Saxons, Vikings and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland."

A different view of the Anglo-Saxon invasions has been developed by Mark
Thomas
of University College, London. Dr. Thomas and colleagues say the invaders
wiped
out substantial numbers of the indigenous population, replacing 50 percent
to
100 percent of those in central England.

Their argument is that the Y chromosomes of English men seem identical to
those
of people in Norway and the Friesland area of the Netherlands, two regions
from
which the invaders may have originated.

Dr. Oppenheimer disputes this, saying the similarity between the English and
northern European Y chromosomes arises because both regions were repopulated
by
people from the Iberian refuges after the glaciers retreated.

Dr. Sykes said he agreed with Dr. Oppenheimer on this point, but another
geneticist, Christopher Tyler-Smith of the Sanger Centre near Cambridge,
said
the jury was still out. "There is not yet a consensus view among
geneticists,
so the genetic story may well change," he said. As to the identity of the
first
postglacial settlers, Dr. Tyler-Smith said he "would favor a Neolithic
origin
for the Y chromosomes, although the evidence is still quite sketchy."

Dr. Oppenheimer's population history of the British Isles relies not only on
genetic data but also on the dating of language changes by methods developed
by
geneticists. These are not generally accepted by historical linguists, who
long
ago developed but largely rejected a dating method known as
glottochronology.

Geneticists have recently plunged into the field, arguing that linguists
have
been too pessimistic and that advanced statistical methods developed for
dating
genes can also be applied to languages.

Dr. Oppenheimer has relied on work by Peter Forster, a geneticist at Anglia
Ruskin University, to argue that Celtic is a much more ancient language than
supposed, and that Celtic speakers could have brought knowledge of
agriculture
to Ireland, where it first appeared. He also adopts Dr. Forster's argument,
based on a statistical analysis of vocabulary, that English is an ancient,
fourth branch of the Germanic language tree, and was spoken in England
before
the Roman invasion.

English is usually assumed to have developed in England, from the language
of
the Angles and Saxons, about 1,500 years ago. But Dr. Forster argues that
the
Angles and the Saxons were both really Viking peoples who began raiding
Britain
ahead of the accepted historical schedule. They did not bring their language
to
England because English, in his view, was already spoken there, probably
introduced before the arrival of the Romans by tribes such as the Belgae,
whom
Julius Caesar describes as being present on both sides of the Channel.

The Belgae may have introduced some socially transforming technique, such as
iron-working, which would lead to their language supplanting that of the
indigenous inhabitants, but Dr. Forster said he had not yet identified any
specific innovation from the archaeological record.

Germanic is usually assumed to have split into three branches: West
Germanic,
which includes German and Dutch; East Germanic, the language of the Goths
and
Vandals; and North Germanic, consisting of the Scandinavian languages. Dr.
Forster's analysis shows English is not an off-shoot of West Germanic, as
usually assumed, but is a branch independent of the other three, which also
implies a greater antiquity. Germanic split into its four branches some
2,000
to 6,000 years ago, Dr. Forster estimates.

Historians have usually assumed that Celtic was spoken throughout Britain
when
the Romans arrived. But Dr. Oppenheimer argues that the absence of Celtic
place
names in England - words for places are particularly durable - makes this
unlikely.

If the people of the British Isles hold most of their genetic heritage in
common, with their differences consisting only of a regional flavoring of
Celtic in the west and of northern European in the east, might that
perception
draw them together? Geneticists see little prospect that their findings will
reduce cultural and political differences.

The Celtic cultural myth "is very entrenched and has a lot to do with the
Scottish, Welsh and Irish identity; their main identifying feature is that
they
are not English," said Dr. Sykes, an Englishman who has traced his Y
chromosome
and surname to an ancestor who lived in the village of Flockton in Yorkshire
in
1286.

Dr. Oppenheimer said genes "have no bearing on cultural history." There is
no
significant genetic difference between the people of Northern Ireland, yet
they
have been fighting with each other for 400 years, he said.

As for his thesis that the British and Irish are genetically much alike, "It
would be wonderful if it improved relations, but I somehow think it won't."

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I have just been alerted to this site because our conference in December
(Adelaide, South Australia) is on it. It looks useful:
http://www.conferencealerts.com

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Dear Joseph

I have just sent an abstract titled 'New York', but I have been there,=20
so Chicago would be a welcome new destination for me in my annual=20
attempt to escape the Australian heat!

Joseph Lennon wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> A slight correction: the MLA 2007 will be held in Chicago, not New York
> City. Mea culpa. =20
>
> best,
> Joseph
>
> ____________________________
> Joseph Lennon, Associate Professor
> Department of English
> Manhattan College
> 718-862-7112
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On B=
ehalf
> Of Patrick O'Sullivan
> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 11:37 AM
> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: [IR-D] CFP Modern Language Association (MLA) / American Confer=
ence
> for Irish Studies, NYC 2007
>
> From: Joseph Lennon [mailto:joseph.lennon[at]manhattan.edu]=20
>
> Dear Patrick,
>
> Could you distribute the following CFP to the IR-D list. It is for the
> ACIS's two reserved panels at the MLA next December in NYC. Proposals =
are
> due relatively soon--by the end of this month (29 March, 2007).
>
> With gratitude,
>
> Joseph
>
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> Modern Language Association (MLA) / American Conference for Irish Studi=
es
> (ACIS) panels, 2007, New York City.=20
>
> Three possible panels are listed below; two of the following will be ch=
osen
> for the MLA panel in 2007, depending on responses. Please send 200-word
> abstracts to Joseph Lennon by March 29, 2007. All panelists must be ACI=
S and
> MLA members by next summer.=20
>
> GREEN IRELAND: ECOCRITICAL READINGS: Papers should address how Irish wr=
iters
> have represented nature or environmental issues. Papers with an ecocrit=
ical
> focus are welcome. The panel may include writers from a range of period=
s and
> genres, but each paper should pay close attention to how nature, place,=
or
> environmentalism has influenced Irish literature, culture, or aesthetic=
s.=20
>
> LOUIS MACNEICE: CENTENARY READINGS: Papers should address the legacy of=
the
> poetry of Louis MacNeice (1907-1963). Possible topics could include Mac=
Neice
> and modernism, Orientalism, Northern Ireland, Irish-English relations, =
radio
> broadcasts, influence (Hardy, Yeats, Auden, Heaney, etc.). The panel ma=
y
> develop themes introduced at the MacNeice Centenary Conference in Belfa=
st,
> September 12-15, 2007.=20
>
> IRISH LANGUAGE, ENGLISH-SPEAKING AUDIENCE: BREAKS AND CONTINUITIES: Pap=
ers
> should explore impressions and influence of the Irish language in liter=
ature
> written in English. The panel may include discussions of various
> representations in various media of historical breaks and continuities =
in
> Irish language literature from the 17th century to the present.=20
>
> SEND 200-WORD PROPOSALS BY MARCH 29, 2007. PRESENTATIONS MAY NOT EXCEED=
20
> MINUTES.
>
> Contact: Joseph Lennon, Literature Representative, ACIS 2005-07
>
> joseph.lennon[at]manhattan.edu
>
> Department of English
> Manhattan College=20
> New York City
>
> =20

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Convener Professional English (ENGL1001); Professional English for=20
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Director of Studies: Professional Studies minor.

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Dear Patrick,

I was just reading through the latest Diaspora posts, and I was struck by h=
ow generous you are in supplying so much useful information to us. I'm stru=
ggling to finish a book on Irish film, and I have found at least a half doz=
en useful references that I would have otherwise overlooked. I'm sure that =
other subscribers have the same experience. I don't want to seem to take al=
l this for granted. Thank you for all you are doing.

Michael

Michael Patrick Gillespie
Louise Edna Goeden Professor of English
Marquette University



From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Sent: Wed 3/7/2007 2:29 PM
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] Article, Arnold Daly and Bernard Shaw


The following item has fallen into our nets...

P.O'S.


Woods L. 'The Wooden Heads of the People': Arnold Daly and Bernard Shaw. Ne=
w
Theatre Quarterly 2006; 22(01): 54 - 69.

Once Arnold Daly and Bernard Shaw had got through their baptisms of fire in
the transatlantic theatre of the 1890s, the circumstances for their future
collaboration must have seemed propitious to them both. However, the
Irish-American's inflexibility and the Anglo-Irishman's passion for control
led to the fracturing of the relationship within the span of a few years in
the first decade of the new century. The exposure of their work - in tandem
in American vaudeville and later as competitors on the English variety stag=
e
- marked points of their disagreement and quirks in their difficult
personalities as they scrambled for audiences who rarely appreciated them a=
s
much as both felt they deserved. Leigh Woods, Head of Theatre Studies at th=
e
University of Michigan, explores the breakdown of a partnership that
launched one man on a course to oblivion and the other on a path to greater
glory.

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misappropriation and morality: British responses to Irish
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A new article by Craig Bailey...

Worth reading for the Trevelyan footnote alone...

P.O'S.


Continuity and Change (2006), 21: 455-474 Cambridge University Press
Copyright C 2006 Cambridge University Press
doi:10.1017/S0268416006006047
Published online by Cambridge University Press 29Jan2007

Micro-credit, misappropriation and morality: British responses to Irish
distress, 1822-1831

CRAIG BAILEY a1
a1 Department of History, Villanova University, Pennsylvania.


Abstract

This article charts the vicissitudes of an economic experiment that aimed to
eradicate distress in early-nineteenth-century Ireland. The London Committee
for Irish Relief was formed in 1822 and was the first large-scale,
charitable response in Britain to famine conditions in Ireland. The
Committee believed that poverty was the cause rather than the effect of 'the
Irish problem' and tried to initiate change by providing the poor with
financial resources. Despite some initial successes, allegations over
misappropriation of funds created a climate of distrust about the
Committee's policies. These allegations mounted over the decade, and when
Ireland once again faced extreme distress, in 1831, they caused a rift in
London's charitable circles, producing two organizations: the Irish Distress
Committee, which argued that poverty was the causal factor, and the Western
Committee for Irish Relief, which identified Catholicism as the source of
Ireland's problems. This division reflected a more general loss of
confidence in plans to solve Ireland's endemic poverty through the promotion
of economic activity. These events coincided with hardening attitudes
towards Catholics and the poor throughout the British Isles and played an
important role in the development of policies on Irish relief in the
nineteenth century.


b

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Whiteness as a transatlantic experience
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The latest issue of Atlantic Studies is a French special.

Worth reading.

And it includes this article, which is not-French.

P.O'S.

ATLANTIC CROSSING
Whiteness as a transatlantic experience
Author: Steve Garner
DOI: 10.1080/14788810601179485

Publication Frequency: 2 issues per year
Published in: journal Atlantic Studies, Volume 4, Issue 1 April 2007 , pages
117 - 132
Subjects: Diaspora Studies; Imperial & Colonial History; Literature &
Culture;
Formats available: HTML (English) : PDF (English)

Abstract
The Atlantic is a space through which racialized identities are dynamically
produced and are re-produced by particular practices, in particular places,
at particular times. The Atlantic space, this paper argues, has
transmogrified collective identities so that not only do some people change
into "Blacks" when they travel across it, other people change into "Whites."
This article presents a historical and material-based argument around the
relational rather than absolute nature of blackness and whiteness. Three
brief studies of unstable white identities - the Irish in the
seventeenth-century Caribbean, the Portuguese in nineteenth-century British
Guiana, and the Catholic Irish in nineteenth-century America - are used to
make the case that the economic context is a determining factor in the way
identities are generated. The focus is on why people's identities begin to
include whiteness, and the mechanisms through which this is achieved. In
each case, it is argued that this is a process involving a stage at which
the group in question is not white. Yet this "not-white" status is not the
equivalent of blackness that a Manichean perspective might suggest. Rather
whiteness is relational, processual and specific to time and place.

Keywords: whiteness; Atlantic; Irish; Portuguese; British Guiana; race
view references (48)

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The following item has fallen into our nets...

P.O'S.


Woods L. 'The Wooden Heads of the People': Arnold Daly and Bernard Shaw. New
Theatre Quarterly 2006; 22(01): 54 - 69.

Once Arnold Daly and Bernard Shaw had got through their baptisms of fire in
the transatlantic theatre of the 1890s, the circumstances for their future
collaboration must have seemed propitious to them both. However, the
Irish-American's inflexibility and the Anglo-Irishman's passion for control
led to the fracturing of the relationship within the span of a few years in
the first decade of the new century. The exposure of their work - in tandem
in American vaudeville and later as competitors on the English variety stage
- marked points of their disagreement and quirks in their difficult
personalities as they scrambled for audiences who rarely appreciated them as
much as both felt they deserved. Leigh Woods, Head of Theatre Studies at the
University of Michigan, explores the breakdown of a partnership that
launched one man on a course to oblivion and the other on a path to greater
glory.

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Pan-nationalism: Explaining the Irish Government's Role in the
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publication
Contemporary British History

ISSN
1361-9462 electronic: 1743-7997

publisher
Taylor & Francis Group

year - volume - issue - page
2007 - 21 - 2 - 223

Pages
223

article

Pan-nationalism: Explaining the Irish Government's Role in the Northern
Ireland Peace Process, 1992-98

O'Donnell, Catherine

table of content - full text

abstract

This article examines the role which the Irish Government and, in
particular, Fianna F=E1il played in the Northern Ireland peace process =
in the
years 1992-98. The article demonstrates that that role did not emanate =
from
the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985 but instead was directed by =
commitments
made to a pan-nationalist alliance involving the SDLP and Sinn F=E9in. =
The
article offers a reassessment of the significance of Anglo-Irish =
relations
to the peace process and argues that favourable Anglo-Irish relations =
only
emerged in late 1997. Thus the article challenges the tendency to
concentrate on Anglo-Irish relations, at the expense of pan-nationalism, =
in
explaining the motivations of the Irish government during this period of =
the
peace process.

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Listers,=20

New Hibernia Review's Spring, 2007 issue (volume 11, number 1) is about =
to
launch into the world - soon to appear in cyberspace for those with =
access
to Project Muse =AE, and for those who subscribe to the print version, =
popping
up in your mailbox on or around St Patrick's Day.

Here is a TOC, accompanied by author affiliations and brief =
descriptions of
the articles:

Brigittine M. French, Grinnell College
" 'We're All Irish': Transforming Irish Identity in a Midwestern =
Community,"
pp. 9-24.

Ethnographer Brigittine French excavates the ideologies and assumptions =
that
lie behind the small town of O'Neill, Nebraska's boast that it is the =
"Irish
Capital" of the state. The 19th-century founders based their =
Irishness on
a perceived sense of exile and a communal; the next generations came =
to
regard it as a distinctly individual experience. Today, Irishness in =
O'Neill
is bound up with larger ideas of a collective Americanness. =20

Daniel W. Ross, Columbus State University
"Oedipus in Derry: Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark, : pp. 25-41

Ross examines the inner lives of Deane's fictionalized family of =
Northern
Irish Catholics who have internalized the aphorism, "Whatever you say, =
say
nothing." As Reading in the Dark unfolds, the narrator grows ever more
determined to learn the truth, "without understanding that in his =
family,
the search for truth is the consummate form of betrayal." =20

Mark Roper, of Piltown, County Kilkenny
Filiocht Nua: New Poetry, pp. 42-49

A suite of eight new poems that gracefully attend to both the beauty =
of the
observed world and to the tincture of spiritual mystery that fills =
nature.

Andrew J. Wilson, Loyola University Clicago
"Ulster Unionists in America, 1972-1985," pp. 50-73

Hoping that Americans of Ulster descent could be rallied to their =
cause, a
coalition of Unionist groups set out to influence American opinion =
through
high-level visits and professionally managed media relations. Despite =
early
successes , the spokespersons found themselves ever more marginalized,
sometimes through their own blunders. In the end, the effort only =
reinforced
Unionist insecurity. =20

Neal G. Jesse, Bowling Grteen State University
"Contemporary Irish Neutrality: Still a Singular Stance," pp 74-95

Ireland is one of a small group of European nations that adheres to an
official foreign policy of neutrality. Yet the Irish version differs
substantially from that of the Austrians, Finns, Swedes, or the Swiss, =
not
least because Ireland is, realistically, unarmed. The Irish policy is =
also
backed by both public opinion and governmental decision-making in a =
manner
that makes its neutrality unlike that of any other nation

Proinsias =D3 Drisceoil, of Gallows Hill, County Kilkenny
Se=E1n =D3 D=E1laigh: Gn=EDomha=EDocht agus Gn=F3th=FAlacht , pp. =
96-116

In a single decade, Se=E1n =D3 D=E1laigh published from his Dublin shop =
such
scholarly editions and translations as Poets and Poetry of Munster =
(1860).
=D3 Drisceoil examines =D3 Dalaigh's signal career as a scholar and =
publisher,
and also his early life as a teacher of Gaelic for the Irish Society. =
(This
article is in Irish.)=20

Karen B. Golightly, Southern Illinois University- Carbondale
Lady Gregory's Deirdre: Self-Censorship or Fine Editing?, pp 117- 26

Golightly considers the ambitious project of research, collation, and
adaptation that Gregory undertook in bringing together multiple =
versions of
the Deirdre legend, and takes issue with recent critics who find =
Gregory's
version a bit too informed by her Victorian mores. She finds that Lady
Gregory consciously strove to put "as little of herself as possible" =
into
the text. =20

Gerald Dawe (TCD); Gregory Carr (Read Ireland); Mary O'Malley =
(Moycullen,
County Galway)
"After Kennys: Three Views," pp. 127- 36

In three short "letters from Ireland," literary figures reflect on the
passing of Kennys Bookshop of Galway, in January, 2006. =20

M=E1ria Kurdi, University of P=E9cs
"Irish Studies in Hungary: Dreams and Reality," pp. 137-151.

Irish-minded researchers and readers in Hungary are well-served by
translations, teaching, and conferences; Irish drama in particular =
seems to
resonate with audiences there . The future of Irish Studies in is =
certain to
be linked to the emerging "Bologna Process" will regularize higher =
education
in Europe.

Contributor Guidelines and subscription information can be found at the
web-site below; or feel free to contact me directly

James Rogers
=20
Editor/New Hibernia Review
University of St Thomas #5008
2115 Summit Ave
St Paul, MN 55105-1096
(651) 962-5662
www.stthomas.edu/irishstudies

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It is the lead up to St. Patrick's Day, and we are getting the usual
messages about celebrations and other debacles around the world.

I will forward to the Ir-D list a small selection of some with Irish
Diaspora Studies interest.

This, from Hillary Flynn, in San Francisco, seems like a good start.

P.O'S.

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From: Hillary Flynn [mailto:hillary.flynn[at]comcast.net]
Sent: 08 March 2007 07:06
To: Hillary Flynn
Subject: SF Chron Editorial: Racist T-Shirts demean Irish Culture

All:

Today's SF Chronicle ran an Editorial penned by Margaret McPeake of New
College of California's Irish Studies Program about how Target (the huge,
mega, department store) is profiting from the sale of racist Irish
stereotyping in this lead up to St. Patrick's Day. I send it along as I
think it's an excellent example of speaking out against the negative
stereotypes that the Irish and Irish-American communities continually face,
particularly at this time of year.

Regards,
Hillary

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Racist T-shirts demean Irish culture
by Margaret McPeake

In a state where 10 percent of the population identifies as Irish American,
and a country where 1 in 3 people have Irish ancestry, why is it acceptable
for one of the largest national retailers to market a line of T-shirts that
uses overtly racist stereotypes of the Irish?

One of Target's line of St. Patrick's Day T-shirts proclaims, "I survived
the Murphy/Kelly Family Reunion, March 17, 1988," printed above a pair of
boxing gloves. Another names the wearer as a "Green Beer Taste Tester,"
while a third is an advertisement for the "6th Annual St. Patrick's Day Race
for the Beer." Product features on the Target Web site for this shirt note
that this is "a witty gift for your favorite Irishman;" and "you've trained
hard and you deserve a commemorative T-shirt."

How does a national retailer have the freedom to use racist stereotyping at
a time when similar assaults against other ethnic groups would be denounced
roundly as infringements on civil liberties? The answer is complicated, and
speaks to the manner in which Irishness in America is interpreted as both a
category of difference, as well as a brand of white ethnicity that is safe
to target in a way that other ethnicities, as well as the community at
large, would not and should not tolerate.

Many Irish Americans have been cut off from a sense of their ethnicity and
heritage through assimilation and cultural amnesia. A process of reversing
Irish American forgetfulness about who they are, where they come from and
what it means to participate in the degradation of one's culture, is a
necessary step to impede the larger society's continued reception of images
of drunken Irish buffoonery as an acceptable exception to the rule against
ethnic stereotyping.

Irish Americans need to stand up and be outraged about the continuing
barrage of reductionist and dehumanizing representations of what it means to
be Irish in America. In March, a month when media outlets unloose a torrent
of Irish stereotypes in the run up to St. Patrick's Day, let us consider
what it means for popular media representations of the Irish to circle
around drunkenness and violence. We are left with a paucity of understanding
about the multitude of arenas in which the Irish engage and excel in civic
and community life. We are also impoverished, as a society, by the apparent
need to project serious community concerns, such as substance abuse and
violence, onto a single target.

Beyond the realm of Irish-American responsibility, the community at large
needs to stop participating in damaging stereotypes of the Irish, which
speak as much about those who participate in stereotype, as they do about
the dehumanization of their chosen subjects.

Margaret Mc Peake is the co-director of the Irish Studies program at the New
College of California in San Francisco.

Hillary Flynn, Program Director
Crossroads Irish-American Festival 2007
A project of the Irish Studies Program at
New College of California
March 8-17, 2007
www.newcollege.edu/irishstudies

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Jim McAuley and I will be meeting up at

Seminar: The Meaning of St Patrick's Day
6.30pm, Thursday 15 March
Boardroom, The Old School Board, Calverley Street
=20
Professor Tony Collins introduces guest speakers Dr Dominic Brian, =
Queen's
University, Belfast: 'Which flag should you fly on St Patrick's Day?: =
Shared
space and conflict in Belfast'; and Professor Mike Cronin, Boston =
College
Dublin: 'Eating Irish? Food and tradition on St Patrick's Day'.

Where we will wave to Tony Collins and Mike Cronin.

Full Leeds Schedule, below...

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Leeds Met Ireland Festival
5-31 March 2007
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Leeds Met Ireland Opening Ceremony
10.00am-10.30am, Monday 5 March 07
Lower Concourse, Civic Quarter, Calverley or Woodhouse Lane entrances=20
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The Leeds Met Ireland Festival opens with the unveiling of the =
R=F3is=EDn B=E1n
and Streets of London photographic exhibitions, as well as a series of
speeches and Irish music.
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R=F3is=EDn B=E1n Photographic Exhibition
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Monday 5 March 07 - Saturday 31 March 07
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Upper Concourse / Woodhouse Lane Library entrance, Civic Quarter
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R=F3is=EDn B=E1n (Gaelic for 'White Rose') is the culmination of two =
years work
by Leeds Irish Health & Homes with the photographer Corinne Silva. It=20
documents the emigration experiences of the Irish community in Leeds -
largely focusing on links with County Mayo. As well as a photographic
exhibition, R=F3is=EDn B=E1n is an oral history project with a book and =
a
website,
www.roisinban.com =20
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Streets of London Photographic Exhibition
Monday 5 March 07 - Saturday 31 March 07
H Building corridor, Woodhouse Lane Gallery entrance, Civic Quarter
=20
Between 1801 and 1921 it is estimated that approximately 8 million =
people
emigrated from Ireland. Today the Irish global community is estimated =
to be
85 million people. This exhibition shows images from four collections
documenting emigration to Britain - especially to London. The images =
look
at emigration across generations and themes include music, tradition,
religion, politics and faces.
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Taste of Ireland
Monday 12 March 07 - Friday 16 March 07
=20
Metceno, Headingley & Civic Quarter campuses
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Food with the taste of Ireland is on sale all week from Headingley and
Civic Quarter Metcenos. Dishes include Irish favourites colcannon, =
Irish
stew, champ and many more.
=20
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=20
St Patrick's Day Parade
=20
11.00am, Sunday 11 March 07
=20
Millennium Square, Leeds city centre
=20
St Patrick's Day dates back to AD461, the year of the Saint's death,
however the first parades took place in the United States in 1762, =
making
St
Patrick's Day a day of celebration on both sides of the Atlantic. The =
Leeds
St Patrick's Day Parade is in its eighth year and is a celebration of =
all
things Irish. The Parade will be followed by Mass in Leeds Cathedral =
and a
get-together in the Irish Centre on York Road from 1.00pm.
=20
Please come and join us at the parade under the Leeds Met Ireland =
banner!
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=20
Gaelic Football Tournament
=20
7.00pm, Tuesday 13 March 07
=20
Leeds Tykes' ground, Kirkstall Road (near Morrisons)
=20
Six Yorkshire nine-a-side teams are set to compete for the Leeds Met =
St
Patrick's Cup in this Gaelic football tournament. The merriment contin =
ues
with post-match refreshments and a Ceili from 9.00pm at Kirkstall =
Brewery
Students' Union - come along and dance a reel while the fiddler plays =
into
the night.
=20
=20
=20
Dance Performance by The McCleave School of Irish Dancing
=20
5.30pm, Wednesday 14 March
=20
Lower Concourse, Calverley Street entrance, Civic Quarter
=20
The McCleave School of Irish Dancing will perform a series of =
traditional
Irish dances in the Lower Concourse. Come along and watch the School =
make
these complex routines look easy!
=20
=20
=20
Seminar: The Meaning of St Patrick's Day
=20
6.30pm, Thursday 15 March
=20
Boardroom, The Old School Board, Calverley Street
=20
Professor Tony Collins introduces guest speakers Dr Dominic Brian, =
Queen's
University, Belfast: 'Which flag should you fly on St Patrick's Day?:
Shared
space and conflict in Belfast'; and Professor Mike Cronin, Boston =
College
Dublin: 'Eating Irish? Food and tradition on St Patrick's Day'.
=20
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Live Irish Music: The Aftermath
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Doors open 7.00 pm, Saturday 17 March
=20
The Met Bar, Student's Union, Civic Quarter, Portland Way entrance
=20
Free entrance
=20
Irish band The Aftermath have a huge following in Ireland and have
received rave reviews from the likes of Radio 1's Chris Moyles, Hot =
Press's
Jackie Haydn, and their friends and fellow musicians the Kaiser Chiefs.
Described by Totally Dublin as: ".Arcade Fire carousing with Franz
Ferdinand" - this concert will be a big treat for music lovers =
everywhere!
Tonight they will play all of the old Irish favourites! =20
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Re. the 'Streets of London' Photographic Exhibition.

The exhibition originated with the Museum of Country Life, Castlebar, county Mayo and was conceived as a complement to the open-air benefit concert of the same name held at the museum last year.

One of the four collections featured belongs to me and I would like to take this opportunity to issue the following caveat concerning its use in this context.

At the planning stage I was asked to forward specified images for inclusion. Being a great admirer of the museum and its staff I readily agreed. However I also suggested various other images from my collection which, in my opinion, would better reflect the harsher side of the Irish emigrant experience in 20th century Britain such as is implied in the eponymous title. To my regret these images were not included.

For the same reason I also feel that too many images sourced elsewhere feature Leeds rather than London and therefore the exhibition, although excellent and well worth viewing, ought to carry a less site-specific and emotive title which would better reflect its nostalgic and fundamentally cheerful character.



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< Boardroom, The Old School Board, Calverley Street
< =20
< Professor Tony Collins introduces guest speakers Dr Dominic Brian, =
< Queen's
< University, Belfast: 'Which flag should you fly on St Patrick's Day?: =
< Shared
< space and conflict in Belfast'; and Professor Mike Cronin, Boston =
< College
< Dublin: 'Eating Irish? Food and tradition on St Patrick's Day'.
<
< Where we will wave to Tony Collins and Mike Cronin.
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< Full Leeds Schedule, below...
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< Subject: FW: Leeds Met Ireland Festival 07 - come and join in the fun
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< Leeds Met Ireland Festival
< 5-31 March 2007
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< Leeds Met Ireland Opening Ceremony
< 10.00am-10.30am, Monday 5 March 07
< Lower Concourse, Civic Quarter, Calverley or Woodhouse Lane entrances=20
< =20
< The Leeds Met Ireland Festival opens with the unveiling of the =
< R=F3is=EDn B=E1n
< and Streets of London photographic exhibitions, as well as a series of
< speeches and Irish music.
< =20
< =20
< =20
< R=F3is=EDn B=E1n Photographic Exhibition
< =20
< Monday 5 March 07 - Saturday 31 March 07
< =20
< Upper Concourse / Woodhouse Lane Library entrance, Civic Quarter
< =20
< R=F3is=EDn B=E1n (Gaelic for 'White Rose') is the culmination of two =
< years work
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< largely focusing on links with County Mayo. As well as a photographic
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< website,
< www.roisinban.com < =20
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< =20
< Streets of London Photographic Exhibition
< Monday 5 March 07 - Saturday 31 March 07
< H Building corridor, Woodhouse Lane Gallery entrance, Civic Quarter
< =20
< Between 1801 and 1921 it is estimated that approximately 8 million =
< people
< emigrated from Ireland. Today the Irish global community is estimated =
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< 85 million people. This exhibition shows images from four collections
< documenting emigration to Britain - especially to London. The images =
< look
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< religion, politics and faces.
< =20
< =20
< =20
< Taste of Ireland
< Monday 12 March 07 - Friday 16 March 07
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< Metceno, Headingley & Civic Quarter campuses
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< Food with the taste of Ireland is on sale all week from Headingley and
< Civic Quarter Metcenos. Dishes include Irish favourites colcannon, =
< Irish
< stew, champ and many more.
< =20
< =20
< =20
< St Patrick's Day Parade
< =20
< 11.00am, Sunday 11 March 07
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< St Patrick's Day dates back to AD461, the year of the Saint's death,
< however the first parades took place in the United States in 1762, =
< making
< St
< Patrick's Day a day of celebration on both sides of the Atlantic. The =
< Leeds
< St Patrick's Day Parade is in its eighth year and is a celebration of =
< all
< things Irish. The Parade will be followed by Mass in Leeds Cathedral =
< and a
< get-together in the Irish Centre on York Road from 1.00pm.
< =20
< Please come and join us at the parade under the Leeds Met Ireland =
< banner!
< =20
< =20
< =20
< Gaelic Football Tournament
< =20
< 7.00pm, Tuesday 13 March 07
< =20
< Leeds Tykes' ground, Kirkstall Road (near Morrisons)
< =20
< Six Yorkshire nine-a-side teams are set to compete for the Leeds Met =
< St
< Patrick's Cup in this Gaelic football tournament. The merriment contin =
< ues
< with post-match refreshments and a Ceili from 9.00pm at Kirkstall =
< Brewery
< Students' Union - come along and dance a reel while the fiddler plays =
< into
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< =20
< =20
< =20
< Dance Performance by The McCleave School of Irish Dancing
< =20
< 5.30pm, Wednesday 14 March
< =20
< Lower Concourse, Calverley Street entrance, Civic Quarter
< =20
< The McCleave School of Irish Dancing will perform a series of =
< traditional
< Irish dances in the Lower Concourse. Come along and watch the School =
< make
< these complex routines look easy!
< =20
< =20
< =20
< Seminar: The Meaning of St Patrick's Day
< =20
< 6.30pm, Thursday 15 March
< =20
< Boardroom, The Old School Board, Calverley Street
< =20
< Professor Tony Collins introduces guest speakers Dr Dominic Brian, =
< Queen's
< University, Belfast: 'Which flag should you fly on St Patrick's Day?:
< Shared
< space and conflict in Belfast'; and Professor Mike Cronin, Boston =
< College
< Dublin: 'Eating Irish? Food and tradition on St Patrick's Day'.
< =20
< =20
< =20
< Live Irish Music: The Aftermath
< =20
< Doors open 7.00 pm, Saturday 17 March
< =20
< The Met Bar, Student's Union, Civic Quarter, Portland Way entrance
< =20
< Free entrance
< =20
< Irish band The Aftermath have a huge following in Ireland and have
< received rave reviews from the likes of Radio 1's Chris Moyles, Hot =
< Press's
< Jackie Haydn, and their friends and fellow musicians the Kaiser Chiefs.
< Described by Totally Dublin as: ".Arcade Fire carousing with Franz
< Ferdinand" - this concert will be a big treat for music lovers =
< everywhere!
< Tonight they will play all of the old Irish favourites! =20
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< =20
< =20
< See www.irishhistorymonth.com < further details of Irish events in Leeds.
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From: "William Mulligan Jr."
To:
Subject: Seventh European Social Science History Conference

The deadline for submitting proposal for the Seventh European Social Science
History Conference at the
University of Lisbon, Portugal from 27 February - 1 March 2008 is April 1
-- is anyone interested in putting together an Irish Diaspora panel? If so,
let me know.


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

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Voices and Visions: Ireland Across Disciplines
Midwest ACIS Conference: 18-20 October 2007
University of Missouri-Kansas City

The American Conference for Irish Studies invites you to attend the
thirty-first annual Midwest ACIS meeting centered on the theme Voices and
Visions: Ireland Across Disciplines.

This conference hopes to cross disciplinary lines to explore interactions
among art, history, music, literature, cinema, and culture in Ireland from
earliest times to the present.

Plenary Speakers:

Sighle Bhreathnach-Lynch, Curator of Irish Art, National Gallery of Art and
author of Ireland's Art / Ireland's History: Representing Ireland
(1845-Present) (2007), and of numerous articles on art and its role in Irish
national identity.

Pat Collins, director of over thirteen documentaries including the award
winning John McGahern: A Private World (2005), Frank O'Connor: A Lonely
Voice (2004), Tory Island (2003), Talking to the Dead (2000), and most
recently a documentary on the Irish language poet Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill.

Harry White, Professor of Music at University College Dublin and author of
The Keeper's Recital (1998), The Progress of Music in Ireland (2005) and
Music and the Irish Literary Imagination (forthcoming).

The conference welcomes papers on any aspect of Irish studies from new or
present ACIS members. Please propose twenty-minute papers in 250-300 word
abstracts in .pdf or .doc format to Joan Dean, at deanj[at]umkc.edu by August
1, 2007. Include your name, institutional affiliation, and contact
information in that document, as well as in the body of your email. (To
join ACIS, see http://www.acisweb.com/members.php?type=join)

The University of Missouri-Kansas City, host to this year's Midwest meeting,
is in the heart of Kansas City. The conference will begin with a plenary
lecture at the Nelson-Atkins Museum at 6 p.m. on Thursday, October 18 and
conclude on Saturday evening, October 20 with a performance by the Elders.


"You know you know the way to Kansas City."
-Van Morrison

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From: Carmel McCaffrey
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Patrick O'Farrell and the Irish History Wars, 1971-1993
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Paddy,

Thanks so much for alerting the list to this article by Elizabeth
Malcolm. My library here at Hopkins got the electronic version and I
just received it. I agree that it is an excellent overview of the state
of Irish History research and interpretation. I remember about 15 years
ago being involved in a discussion by one of the named in her article by
arguments that had at their basis the idea that Ireland and England were
essentially "Siamese Twins" and came together historically on equal
footing. I didn't buy that argument then and still don't.

Carmel

Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:
> Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> 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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Jim

Thanks for posting this.=20

I'll see you there.=20

Bill

William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of History
Graduate Program Coordinator
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA=20
Office: 1-270-809-6571
Fax: 1-270-809-6587=20
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Subject: [IR-D] Midwest ACIS 2007


Voices and Visions: Ireland Across Disciplines
Midwest ACIS Conference: 18-20 October 2007
University of Missouri-Kansas City

The American Conference for Irish Studies invites you to attend the
thirty-first annual Midwest ACIS meeting centered on the theme Voices =
and
Visions: Ireland Across Disciplines.

This conference hopes to cross disciplinary lines to explore =
interactions
among art, history, music, literature, cinema, and culture in Ireland =
from
earliest times to the present.

Plenary Speakers:

Sighle Bhreathnach-Lynch, Curator of Irish Art, National Gallery of Art =
and
author of Ireland's Art / Ireland's History: Representing Ireland
(1845-Present) (2007), and of numerous articles on art and its role in =
Irish
national identity.

Pat Collins, director of over thirteen documentaries including the award
winning John McGahern: A Private World (2005), Frank O'Connor: A Lonely
Voice (2004), Tory Island (2003), Talking to the Dead (2000), and most
recently a documentary on the Irish language poet Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill.
=20
Harry White, Professor of Music at University College Dublin and author =
of
The Keeper's Recital (1998), The Progress of Music in Ireland (2005) and
Music and the Irish Literary Imagination (forthcoming).

The conference welcomes papers on any aspect of Irish studies from new =
or
present ACIS members. Please propose twenty-minute papers in 250-300 =
word
abstracts in .pdf or .doc format to Joan Dean, at deanj[at]umkc.edu by =
August
1, 2007. Include your name, institutional affiliation, and contact
information in that document, as well as in the body of your email. (To
join ACIS, see http://www.acisweb.com/members.php?type=3Djoin)

The University of Missouri-Kansas City, host to this year's Midwest =
meeting,
is in the heart of Kansas City. The conference will begin with a =
plenary
lecture at the Nelson-Atkins Museum at 6 p.m. on Thursday, October 18 =
and
conclude on Saturday evening, October 20 with a performance by the =
Elders. =20


"You know you know the way to Kansas City."
-Van Morrison