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This may be of interest to the List members.
Best wishes,

Kate C-S
*********************************************
2007 ACIS MID-ATLANTIC REGIONAL CONFERENCE
CALL FOR PAPERS

Le Moyne College
Syracuse, NY
OCTOBER 26-27, 2007

ASSOCIATING IRELAND

Whether through religious, political, athletic, linguistic, or national
venues, Ireland and Irish identity are consistently positioned within a
network of assumptions and associations. We invite papers from
historical, literary, religious, and other perspectives that engage with
the concept of association and Ireland. Topics can include but are not
limited to:

=E2=80=A2(Free-)associating Ireland: Knee-jerk reactions to concepts of
Irishness, as through stereotypical or touristic negotiations=20

=E2=80=A2North and South: issues of boundary and regional identity

=E2=80=A2Religious associations: how religious affiliations, assumptions,=
or
ideologies define, limit, or delimit specific conceptions of Irishness

=E2=80=A2Athletic: how athletic associations affect/reflect conceptions o=
f
Ireland and Irishness

=E2=80=A2Impact of migration/immigration/transnationalism/diaspora on
contemporary associations with or to Ireland

=E2=80=A2Association and Language (Irish/English)

=E2=80=A2Gender and Association: assumptions, restrictions, and challenge=
s about
or through gender; membership and gender identity

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Alvin Jackson of the University of
Edinburgh and Dr. Kathryn Conrad of the University of Kansas have agreed
to serve as keynote speakers for the conference.

Abstracts should be sent by June 15, 2007 to: Professor Kate
Costello-Sullivan
Le Moyne College =20
1419 Salt Springs Road
Syracuse, NY 13214
sullivkp[at]lemoyne.edu


Kathleen Costello-Sullivan
Assistant Professor, English Dept.
Director, Irish Literature Program
Le Moyne College
1419 Salt Springs Road
Syracuse, NY 13214
315 445 4215

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This seems to be a new journal...

P.O'S.


Language and Linguistics Compass
Volume 1 Issue 1-2 Page 115 - March 2007

To cite this article: Suzanne Romaine (2007)
Preserving Endangered Languages
Language and Linguistics Compass 1 (1-2), 115-132.
doi:10.1111/j.1749-818X.2007.00004.x

Original Article
Preserving Endangered Languages
Suzanne Romaine 1*1Merton College, University of Oxford * Correspondence
address: Suzanne Romaine, Merton College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1
4JD, UK.1Merton College, University of Oxford
Language and Linguistics Compass 1/1-2 (2007): 115-132,
10.1111/j.1749-818X.2007.00004.x

Abstract
Over the last few decades an increasing number of books, scholarly articles
and media reports have predicted that as many as 60 to 90% of the world's
some 6900 languages may be at risk of extinction within the next 100 years.
This article provides an overview of the current state of the world's
languages, explains some causes and consequences of the loss of linguistic
diversity, in addition to outlining some of the range of efforts currently
underway worldwide to preserve endangered languages. We should think about
languages in the same way as we do other natural resources that need careful
planning: they are vital parts of complex local ecologies that must be
supported if global biodiversity is to be sustained.


EXTRACT
Revitalization activities of these various types, however, will not save
languages without firm community foundations for transmission. There is an
important distinction to be made between learning a language in the
artificial environment of the classroom and transmitting it in the natural
environment of the home. Schools in Ireland have achieved most of what can
be expected from formal language education, namely, knowledge of Irish as a
second language acquired in late adolescence. They have not led to its
spoken use in everyday life, nor its intergenerational transmission. Nowhere
have language movements succeeded if they relied on the school or state to
carry the primary burden of maintenance or revival. Indeed, Grenoble and
Whaley (2006: ix) note that 'an honest evaluation of most language
revitalization efforts to date will show that they have failed'.

Moreover, in most communities revitalization and shift proceed in tandem
because not all community members agree on what can and should be done.
Language revitalization movements tend to affect only a small minority of
individuals, usually a small group of urban intellectuals initially, and
they do not always succeed in gaining widespread popular support. The
movement to revive Irish, for example, began among the educated middle
classes in Dublin, a place usually perceived as alien and interfering by the
remaining native speakers in the remaining Irish-speaking areas in the west.
New varieties of language often emerge in immersion schools that are
different to the varieties traditionally learned at home. Lack of secure
home and community foundations for transmitting minority languages means
that these new varieties may eventually replace traditional varieties, but
until they do their authenticity will be contested. In some cases disputes
have erupted over control of schools and linguistic resources.

Language can easily become politicized when it is no longer
unselfconsciously reproduced within families. Language choices become
scrutinized as an index of one's authenticity and degree of commitment to
the cause of language revitalization. On the Scottish island of Skye,
Macdonald (1997: 238) observed that to the local Gaelic-speaking population,
Gaelic was part of a local identity rooted in everyday practice rather than
as part of a politicized package of language, heritage and culture advocated
by those outside the community. Most of those who opt for the new Gaelic
medium programs are those who speak very little Gaelic at home. One
40-year-old man who grew up speaking Gaelic at home said: 'I speak the
Gaelic here with my parents and when I go up to the [hotel bar], but I speak
it not because I have to but because this is what we speak. I like the
Gaelic. But if it is going to become something artificial, then well, I
won't feel like speaking it at all. I don't want Gaelic to be kept alive by
making it artificial . . . For myself, I'd prefer if it died' (MacDonald
1997: 218).

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The English Historical Review 2007 CXXII(496):496-498;
doi:10.1093/ehr/cem025

The Culture of Property: The Crisis of Liberalism in Modern Britain
Book review
Jonathan Conlin

Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

The Culture of Property: The Crisis of Liberalism in Modern Britain. By
Jordanna Bailkin (London: Chicago U.P., 2004; pp. 304. =A324.50).

EXTRACT
IN seeking to explain the late Victorian and Edwardian crisis of =
Liberalism,
historians have long circled the British Establishment, looking for =
fissures
in the grand fa=E7ade. Rather like the socialists, anarchists and =
suffragettes
of the period itself, they can seem frustrated by the indifference of a
society they feel should be reeling from the internal conflicts =
unleashed by
protectionism, imperial overstretch and incipient collectivisation. Like =
the
anarchist spymaster Verloc in Joseph Conrad's Secret Agent (1907), they =
find
an =91imbecile bourgeoisie=92 in rude health, blinded by =91idiotic =
vanity=92:
=91property seems to them an indestructible thing=92. =91What they want =
is a jolly
good scare.=92 But where to strike? Verloc dismisses the idea of an =
attack on
cultural institutions such as theatres and museums. =91Art has never =
been
their fetish=92, he concludes.

Jordanna Bailkin's book disagrees, suggesting that museums afforded
socialists, suffragettes and Irish and Scottish nationalists an =
irresistible
opportunity to question notions of property and ownership in the years
1870=961914. =91What kind of property is art? Is it a type of property =
at all?
What rights and duties are attached to it?=92 (p. 1); these are the =
questions
Bailkin sets out to answer by means of four case-studies. The first =
involves
the successful campaign for the repatriation of the Broighter Hoard, a =
small
collection of gold ornaments discovered on a Derry farm in 1896. After a
1903 court decision judged them to be trove, these artefacts were =
donated by
King Edward VII to the Royal Irish Academy, divesting the British Museum =
of
objects it had purchased on the open market. Bailkin shows how advocates =
of
repatriation constructed a viable Irish nationality around these =
reticent
witnesses, making them speak of Irishness in historical, racial and even
political terms. Success, however, came at a price. Celtic =91Book of
Kellsism=92 of the sort that rescued the Broighter Hoard started out as =
fancy
dress, a disguise to assist escape from the British Museum and the
centralised (or imperialistic) agenda it embodied. It soon became a
strait-jacket, however, hindering the development of a modern Irish =
culture.

Bailkin draws many interesting points from this Irish case. The three =
other
studies are less compelling...

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the End of the IRA's Armed Struggle and the Utility of `Soft
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Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 44, No. 2, 215-231 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0022343307075123
C 2007 International Peace Research Institute, Oslo
Irish-America, the End of the IRA's Armed Struggle and the Utility of `Soft
Power'
Feargal Cochrane

Richardson Institute for Peace and Conflict Research, Lancaster University

This article examines the changing role of Irish-America in the Northern
Ireland peace process and contends that it played a pivotal role in the
Provisional IRA's announcement in July 2005 that it was ending its campaign
of violence. It is argued here that the IRA decision to end its campaign was
influenced considerably by three separate but interrelated factors: (1) the
internationalization of Northern Ireland by successive US governments beyond
the limits of domestic UK politics; (2) the evolution of the Irish-American
political lobby in the 1990s, from outcome-driven objectives to
process-driven and attainable goals; and (3) the current leadership of the
Irish republican movement has orientated itself around the changing social
fabric of Irish-America, which is smaller and less cohesive than in the
past. More broadly, the article demonstrates the way in which the dynamics
of internal conflict can be altered by external actors via the use of `soft
power' strategies, in a manner that can assist the development of a peace
process.

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Representations of Ireland in the Political Thinking of Sri
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Studies in History, Vol. 23, No. 1, 93-133 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/025764300602300103
C 2007 SAGE Publications
Negotiating Nationalisms

Representations of Ireland in the Political Thinking of Sri Aurobindo Ghosh
Arpita Sen

Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan

In an interview given to Henry W. Nevinson in December 1907, Aurobindo Ghosh
had spoken about his purpose regarding the Swadeshi Movement which, he
explained, was the Irish policy of Sinn Fein-a universal swadeshi not
limited to goods but including every phase of life. Many of his articles
written between 1894 and 1910 and comments after 1910 also contain allusions
to Ireland and its freedom struggle in different contexts. However several
years later, sometime between 1943 and 1946, by which time Aurobindo had
become a mystic, at his ashram in Pondicherry Aurobindo took recourse to an
entirely different position. This article is an attempt to find out answers
to the contradictory stand taken by Aurobindo in regard to Ireland and its
freedom struggle by analysing his political writings, interviews and
comments which contained references to Ireland and its freedom struggle. In
the larger context, this article attempts to analyse the conflict inherent
in the personality of a Western-educated Bengali. This article argues that
Aurobindo had knowledge of the developments in Ireland and was influenced by
them to a certain extent, which in turn shaped his representations of
Ireland that shifted over time. Aurobindo's representations of Ireland were
determined by his changing experience of the two worlds, Occidental and
Oriental, and suggest that liminality and hybridity are necessary attributes
of the colonial man and as such colonial identities are always a matter of
flux and agony.

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"The Brothers on the Walls": International African Solidarity and
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First published on March 28, 2007
Journal of Black Studies 2007, doi:10.1177/0021934706297876
C 2007 SAGE Publications
Article
"The Brothers on the Walls": International African Solidarity and Irish
Political Murals
Bill Rolston*

University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Northern Ireland

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
wj.rolston[at]ulster.ac.uk.

Abstract
The article considers in detail a particular aspect of the political murals
painted by the republican movement in Northern Ireland, namely their
references to international themes rather than solely Irish matters. These
murals are seen as an instance of solidarity with people in struggle
elsewhere--against imperialism and state oppression--and thus represent
recognition by Irish mural painters of their affinity to liberation
movements elsewhere. As such, the phenomenon points to the potential of
subaltern nationalism to be progressive. Finally, the article briefly
considers the difficulties facing the other main mural tradition in Northern
Ireland, that of the loyalists, to engage in a similar process of
recognition and solidarity.

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Levels and Patterns of Material Deprivation in Ireland: After the
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European Sociological Review Advance Access originally published online =
on
December 18, 2006
European Sociological Review 2007 23(2):139-154; doi:10.1093/esr/jcl025

Levels and Patterns of Material Deprivation in Ireland: After the =
=91Celtic
Tiger=92
Christopher T. Whelan and Bertrand Ma=EEtre

Bertrand Ma=EEtre, The Economic and Social Research Institute, Whitaker
Square, Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin 2, Ireland.

Correspondence: Christopher T. Whelan (to whom correspondence should be
addressed), The Economic and Social Research Institute, Whitaker Square, =
Sir
John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin 2, Ireland. Tel.: +353 1 8632000; Fax: +353 =
1
8632100. Email: Chris.Whelan[at]esri.ie

In this article we use the first full wave of the Irish component of the =
EU
Statistics on Income and Living Conditions survey to evaluate =
conflicting
interpretations of levels and patterns of material deprivation in =
Ireland
after the =91Celtic Tiger=92. Radical critics of Irish economic policies =
have
seen the Irish case as a particularly good illustration of the tendency =
for
globalization to be accompanied by widespread economic vulnerability and
marginalization. Here, employing a multidimensional perspective we =
identify
one fifth of the population as being economically vulnerable and one in =
14
as vulnerable to maximal deprivation, in that they exhibit high risks of
deprivation across a range of life-style deprivation dimensions. Current
levels and depth of material deprivation are a good deal more modest =
than
suggested by radical critics of the Irish experience of economic
globalization.

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Social Science History 2007 31(1):35-60; DOI:10.1215/01455532-2006-013
Duke University Press

Modernization and Inequality in Pre-Famine Ireland
An Exploratory Spatial Analysis
David W. Miller and Leonard J. Hochberg

In recent debates over the utility of colonial and postcolonial theory for
understanding the Irish past, Stephen Howe has suggested that Ireland be
conceived as a seedbed for "hybrid forms" of colonialism. This essay
presents a way to operationalize that suggestion by taking advantage of
variants on classic central-place theory that have been proposed by students
of developing countries. The analysis exploits the relatively rich
demographic, administrative, and commercial data available for Ireland on
the eve of the famine, a period in which the utility of a conventional
colonial model is especially germane to major interpretive issues. The
authors use various visualization techniques to explore these data and
suggest ways of framing further research and interpretation in both Irish
history and the study of other societies whose pasts have included colonial
relationships.

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Note:
There is a companion piece to this article, by the same group of researchers
- a qualitative study of Gypsies and Travellers, exploring their
health-related beliefs and experiences.
Van Cleemput, Patrice, Parry, Glenys, Thomas, Kate, Peters, Jean, and Cindy
Cooper. "Health-related beliefs and experiences of Gypsies and Travellers: a
qualitative study." Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 61.3
(2007): 205 - 210.


Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2007;61:198-204;
doi:10.1136/jech.2006.045997
C 2007 by BMJ Publishing Group Ltd

RESEARCH REPORT
Health status of Gypsies and Travellers in England
Glenys Parry1, Patrice Van Cleemput1, Jean Peters1, Stephen Walters1, Kate
Thomas2 and Cindy Cooper1

1 School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield,
UK
2 School of Healthcare, Baines Wing, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

Correspondence to:
Professor G Parry
School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Regent
Court, 30 Regent Street, Sheffield S1 4DA, UK; g.d.parry[at]sheffield.ac.uk

Objective: To provide the first valid and reliable estimate of the health
status of Gypsies and Travellers in England by using standardised
instruments to compare their health with that of a UK resident non-Traveller
sample, drawn from different socioeconomic and ethnic groups, matched for
age and sex.

Design: Epidemiological survey, by structured interview, of quota sample and
concurrent age-sex-matched comparators.

Setting: The homes or alternative community settings of the participants at
five study locations in England.

Participants: Gypsies and Travellers of UK or Irish origin (n = 293) and an
age-sex-matched comparison sample (n = 260); non-Gypsies or Travellers from
rural communities, deprived inner-city White residents and ethnic minority
populations.

Results: Gypsies and Travellers reported poorer health status for the last
year, were significantly more likely to have a long-term illness, health
problem or disability, which limits daily activities or work, had more
problems with mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain or discomfort and
anxiety or depression as assessed using the EuroQol-5D health utility
measure, and a higher overall prevalence of reported chest pain, respiratory
problems, arthritis, miscarriage and premature death of offspring. No
inequality was reported in diabetes, stroke and cancer.

Conclusions: Significant health inequalities exist between the Gypsy and
Traveller population in England and their non-Gypsy counterparts, even when
compared with other socially deprived or excluded groups, and with other
ethnic minorities.

Abbreviations: EQ-5D, EuroQol-5 dimensions; QALYs, quality-adjusted life
years

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I have not been able to get access to this article, so that I cannot =
assess
its merits... Looks interesting, though, and I am a great fan of
historiographic debates...

P.O'S.


Abstract
Religion and American Culture
Winter 2006, Vol. 16, No. 1, Pages 25-54
Posted online on February 14, 2006.
(doi:10.1525/rac.2006.16.1.25)

How the Irish Became Protestant in America

Michael P. Carroll, =9D

Michael P. Carroll is Professor of Sociology at Western Ontario =
University,
London, Ontario, Canada.


It often comes as a surprise to learn that most contemporary Americans =
who
think of themselves as "Irish" are, in fact, Protestant, not Catholic. =
While
commentators generally agree that these Protestant Irish-Americans are
descended mainly from the Irish who settled in the United States prior =
to
the Famine, the story of how they became the Protestants they are =
is=97this
article argues=97more complicated than first appears. To understand that
story, however, one must correct for two historiographical biases. The =
first
has to do with the presumed religiosity of the so-called "Scotch-Irish" =
in
the pre-Famine period; the second involves taking "being Irish" into =
account
in the post-Famine period only with dealing with Catholics, not =
Protestants.
Once these biases are corrected, however, it becomes possible to develop =
an
argument that simultaneously does two things: it provides a new =
perspective
on the contribution made by the Irish (generally) to the rise of the
Methodists and Baptists in the early nineteenth century, and it helps us =
to
understand why so many American Protestants continue to retain an Irish
identity despite the fact that their link to Ireland is now almost two
centuries in the past.

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An interesting 'given', here, is that to be Irish is either to be =
Catholic or Protestant. What about Jewish Irish people in America?

Heigh ho, first the Irish became black, then Protestant, next I suppose =
Anglo-Saxon. Deconstructing the WASP's nest.

David Rose
Paris
----- Original Message -----=20
From: Patrick O'Sullivan=20
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK=20
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 11:50 AM
Subject: Article, Carroll, How the Irish Became Protestant in America


I have not been able to get access to this article, so that I cannot =
assess
its merits... Looks interesting, though, and I am a great fan of
historiographic debates...

P.O'S.


Abstract
Religion and American Culture
Winter 2006, Vol. 16, No. 1, Pages 25-54
Posted online on February 14, 2006.
(doi:10.1525/rac.2006.16.1.25)

How the Irish Became Protestant in America

Michael P. Carroll, =9D

Michael P. Carroll is Professor of Sociology at Western Ontario =
University,
London, Ontario, Canada.


It often comes as a surprise to learn that most contemporary Americans =
who
think of themselves as "Irish" are, in fact, Protestant, not Catholic. =
While
commentators generally agree that these Protestant Irish-Americans are
descended mainly from the Irish who settled in the United States prior =
to
the Famine, the story of how they became the Protestants they are =
is=97this
article argues=97more complicated than first appears. To understand =
that
story, however, one must correct for two historiographical biases. The =
first
has to do with the presumed religiosity of the so-called =
"Scotch-Irish" in
the pre-Famine period; the second involves taking "being Irish" into =
account
in the post-Famine period only with dealing with Catholics, not =
Protestants.
Once these biases are corrected, however, it becomes possible to =
develop an
argument that simultaneously does two things: it provides a new =
perspective
on the contribution made by the Irish (generally) to the rise of the
Methodists and Baptists in the early nineteenth century, and it helps =
us to
understand why so many American Protestants continue to retain an =
Irish
identity despite the fact that their link to Ireland is now almost two
centuries in the past.

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Another 'given' is that America is supposedly North America... but I =
didn't want to bother with minor technicalities...

Edmundo Murray

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America


An interesting 'given', here, is that to be Irish is either to be =
Catholic or Protestant. What about Jewish Irish people in America?

Heigh ho, first the Irish became black, then Protestant, next I suppose =
Anglo-Saxon. Deconstructing the WASP's nest.

David Rose
Paris
----- Original Message -----=20
From: Patrick O'Sullivan=20
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK=20
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 11:50 AM
Subject: Article, Carroll, How the Irish Became Protestant in America


I have not been able to get access to this article, so that I cannot =
assess
its merits... Looks interesting, though, and I am a great fan of
historiographic debates...

P.O'S.


Abstract
Religion and American Culture
Winter 2006, Vol. 16, No. 1, Pages 25-54
Posted online on February 14, 2006.
(doi:10.1525/rac.2006.16.1.25)

How the Irish Became Protestant in America

Michael P. Carroll, =9D

Michael P. Carroll is Professor of Sociology at Western Ontario =
University,
London, Ontario, Canada.


It often comes as a surprise to learn that most contemporary Americans =
who
think of themselves as "Irish" are, in fact, Protestant, not Catholic. =
While
commentators generally agree that these Protestant Irish-Americans are
descended mainly from the Irish who settled in the United States prior =
to
the Famine, the story of how they became the Protestants they are =
is=97this
article argues=97more complicated than first appears. To understand =
that
story, however, one must correct for two historiographical biases. The =
first
has to do with the presumed religiosity of the so-called =
"Scotch-Irish" in
the pre-Famine period; the second involves taking "being Irish" into =
account
in the post-Famine period only with dealing with Catholics, not =
Protestants.
Once these biases are corrected, however, it becomes possible to =
develop an
argument that simultaneously does two things: it provides a new =
perspective
on the contribution made by the Irish (generally) to the rise of the
Methodists and Baptists in the early nineteenth century, and it helps =
us to
understand why so many American Protestants continue to retain an =
Irish
identity despite the fact that their link to Ireland is now almost two
centuries in the past.

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28th - 30th June 2007
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Programme for Irish Conference of Medievalists

Twenty-First Irish Conference of Medievalists
Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick
28th =96 30th June 2007

THURSDAY 28th JUNE

12.00 pm Registration

1.45 pm Conference opens

Session A
2.00 pm Anthony Harvey ( Dublin ) From full-text data-base to electronic =

lexicon and beyond: the role of computers in the Dictionary of Celtic=20
Latin project
3.00 pm Elod Nemerkenyi ( Budapest ) Hiberno-Latin in medieval Hungary

Session B
2:00 pm Paul Cottar ( Cork ) The origins of the baile
3.00 pm John Soderberg ( Minneapolis ) Monastic towns twenty years on =
=96=20
implications of the new graveyard faunal assemblage from Clonmacnoise=20
for urbanism in early medieval Ireland

3.30 pm Tea/Coffee

Session A
4.00 pm Alexandra Bergholm ( Helsinki ) Meanings of madness: themes in=20
the scholarly reception of Buile Shuibhne
4:30 pm Patricia Ronan ( St Gall ) =93As to the weather.. on the use of=20
climactic features in early Irish narrative=94
5:00 pm John L. Murphy ( Long Beach ) Horslips and Counter-cultural=20
medievalism in Irish music of the 1970s

Session B
4.00 pm Stephen Walker ( New York ) Master models and mold making for=20
early medieval chip carving in fine metalwork
4.30 pm Colleen Thomas ( Dublin ) Paul and Anthony on the Irish high=20
crosses: a desert lineage
5.00 pm Niamh Whitfield ( London ) Reflections on the Steeple Bumstead =
boss

5.30 pm Donnchadh =D3 Corr=E1in ( Cork )
Retrospect and prospects:
Medieval Studies in Ireland

6.30 pm Reception

FRIDAY 29th JUNE
Session A
10.00 am Graham Isaac ( Galway ) Rule for Palatal Consonants in Old =
Irish

Session B
10.00 am =C1ine Foley ( Dublin ) Royal manors in Dublin hinterland

11:00 Tea/Coffee

Session A
11:30 am Joseph Flahive ( Cork ) The O=92Clery Leabhar G=E1bhala.
Session B
11.30 am Clare Stancliffe ( Durham ) Cummian, synods and the beginnings=20
of the Easter controversy in Ireland

12.30 pm Lunch

Session A
2.00 pm Kimberly LoPrete (Galway) Women, gender and power in France=20
(eleventh to thirteenth centuries)
3.00 pm Celia Scott ( Melbourne ) Giant eels and naked thieves =96 =
humour=20
in the vitae of early Irish female saints

Session B
2.00 pm Alex Woolf (St Andrews) The kingdom of Ireland in the early=20
middle ages =96 past, present and future
3:00 pm Lenore Fischer ( Limerick ) The portrayal of Brian Boru in Irish =

literary tradition

3.30 pm Tea/Coffee

Session A
4.00 pm Simon Taylor ( Glasgow ) Nevay, Newtyle and Newtibber =96=20
fragments of a super-Neimheadh by Meigle in Scotland
4:30 pm Kay Muhr ( Belfast ) Women and Northern Irish placenames
5.00 pm Laura Pachtner ( Munich ) The Irish in early medieval Bavaria =
=96=20
facts and fiction in popular tradition and scientific theory

Session B
4.00 pm Desmond O=92Toole (Maynooth) Uraicecht na R=EDar =96 =
legal/literary=20
nodes and numbers
4.30 pm Bridgette Slavin ( Sydney ) Magic versus miracle in early Irish=20
hagiography
5.00 pm Clodagh Downey ( Dublin ) Sruth Segsa ocus sruith =E9icse =96 =
C=FA=E1n=20
ua Lothch=E1in and the Boyne

5.30 pm Recess

SATURDAY 30th JUNE
Session A
10.00 am Herman Clerinx ( Hasselt ) The non-Celtic origins of Halloween
Session B
10.00 am Mick Gibbons ( Clifton ) The neglected majority =96 unenclosed=20
settlement in western and south-western Ireland in the Early Christian=20
period

11.00 am Tea/Coffee

Session A
11.30 am Fergus Cannan ( London ) The myth of naked men: the use and=20
development of armour in the Irish Sea World
Session B
11:30 am Robert Lee ( Manchester ) Comparative information analysis as a =

tool and its application to the Inscribed Stones of Ireland and Britain

12.30pm Lunch

Session A
2.00 pm James G. Schryver ( Minnesota ) Irish medieval studies as a=20
field of study: a view from the Mediterranean
2.30 pm Jenifer N=ED Gradaigh ( Cork ) Unmasking Christ? Reinterpreting=20
the Hiberno-Romanesque portal
3.30 pm Griffin Murray ( Cork ) Crosses and enclosures =96 the =
archaeology=20
of Turlough O=92Connor=92s ecclesiastical patronage

Session B
2.00 pm Laura Peelen ( Utrecht ) Laidcenn=92s Ecloga: original exegesis =
or=20
mere epitome?
2.30 pm Jonathan Wooding (Lampeter) Pergrinatio in the seventh-century=20
vitae of Saint Patrick
3.30 pm Sven Meeder ( Cambridge ) The composition and reception of the=20
Liber ex Moysi
4.00 pm David Woods (Cork) St Patrick and the =91Sun=92 (Conf. 20).

Session C
2.00 pm John Collis ( Sheffield ) Celtoscepticism =96 is it important?
2.30 pm Catherine Swift ( Limerick ) Celtoscepticism =96 a Celt=92s=20
skeptical reply

4.00 pm Tea/Coffee

4.30 pm ICM AGM

7.30 ICM dinner

SUNDAY 25 JUNE
9.15 am Field trip to Inis Cealtra and East/Mid Clare

Queries will be answered via the=20
email address: Catherine.Swift[at]mic.ul.ie

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War, Industrial Mobilisation and Society in Northern Ireland, =
1939=961945=20
PHILIP OLLERENSHAW=20
Contemporary European History, Volume 16, Issue 02, May 2007, pp 169-197 =

doi: 10.1017/S0960777307003773,

Research Article

War, Industrial Mobilisation and Society in Northern Ireland, =
1939=961945

PHILIP OLLERENSHAWa1 1

a1 School of History, University of the West of England, Oldbury Court =
Road,
Bristol, BS16 2JP; Philip.Ollerenshaw[at]uwe.ac.uk.

=20
Abstract
Archive-based regional studies can contribute much that is new to the
economic, political and social history of the Second World War. This =
paper
considers the process of industrial mobilisation in Northern Ireland, a
politically divided region which was part of the United Kingdom but =
which
had its own government. It examines the changing administrative =
framework of
war production, the debate on military and industrial conscription, the =
role
of women and the economic implications of geographical remoteness from
London. The paper adds to our limited knowledge of regional mobilisation =
and
contributes to a neglected aspect of the history of Northern Ireland.

Guerre, mobilisation industrielle et soci=E9t=E9 en Irlande du nord, =
1939=961945
Dans la nouvelle historiographie =E9conomique, politique et sociale de =
la
seconde guerre mondiale, les =E9tudes r=E9gionales fond=E9es sur des =
archives
peuvent apporter une large contribution. Cet article examine le =
processus de
mobilisation industrielle en Irlande du nord, une r=E9gion politiquement
divis=E9e dans l'Europe du nord avec son propre gouvernement =E0 Belfast =
mais
aussi partie int=E9grante de la Grande Bretagne. On analyse =
l'=E9volution du
cadre administratif de la production de guerre, le d=E9bat sur la =
conscription
militaire et industrielle, le r=F4le des femmes et les cons=E9quences
=E9conomiques de l'=E9loignement par rapport =E0 Londres. Cet article =
ajoute ainsi
de nouvelles connaissances =E0 celles, limit=E9es, sur la mobilisation
r=E9gionale, et contribue =E0 l'histoire de l'Irlande du nord.

Krieg, industrielle Mobilisierung und Gesellschaft in Nordirland, =
1939=961945
Auf Archivmaterial basierende Regionalstudien k=F6nnen viel Neues zur
=F6konomischen, politischen und sozialen Geschichte des Zweiten =
Weltkrieges
beisteuern. Dieser Aufsatz betrachtet den Prozess der industriellen
Mobilisierung in Nordirland, einer politisch geteilten Region im =
Nordwesten
Europas, die Teil Grossbritanniens war, aber eine eigene Regierung in
Belfast hatte. Es werden der sich ver=E4ndernde administrative Rahmen =
der
Kriegsproduktion, die Debatte =FCber milit=E4rische und industrielle =
Wehr- und
Arbeitspflicht, die Rolle der Frauen und die wirtschaftlichen =
Auswirkungen
aufgrund der geographischen Entfernung von London untersucht. Der =
Artikel
erg=E4nzt unser begrenztes Wissen =FCber regionale Mobilisierung und =
beleuchtet
einen vernachl=E4ssigten Aspekt der Geschichte Nordirlands.

Footnotes
The valuable advice and constructive criticism of Kent Fedorowich, Peter
Howlett, Keith Jeffery, Penny Summerfield and the journal's two referees =
are
gratefully acknowledged. Earlier versions of this paper were presented =
to
the Annual Conference of the Economic and Business Historical Society in =
Los
Angeles in April 2004, and the School of History seminar at the =
University
of Leeds in May 2004. I am grateful to the participants in the =
discussions
on those occasions and to the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and the Public
Record Office of Northern Ireland, Belfast, for access to material.

1 Philip Ollerenshaw is Reader in Economic and Business History at the
University of the West of England, Bristol. He co-edited The European =
Linen
Industry in Historical Perspective (2003) and Industry, Trade and People =
in
Ireland 1650=961950 (2005).

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I would be most grateful if you could pass the following details on to=20
interested parties.
Many thanks
Virginia

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Research Assistant required from 1 July 2007 for 2 years, to work in=20
collaboration with Oxford Brookes University on an ESRC funded project=20
entitled 'Welfare regimes under the Irish Poor Law 1850-1921'. Criteria=20
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Subject: Article, Grand design(er)s: David Moore,
natural theology and the Royal Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin,
Dublin, 1838-1879
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Cultural Geographies, Vol. 14, No. 1, 29-55 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1474474007072818
C 2007 SAGE Publications
Grand design(er)s: David Moore, natural theology and the Royal Botanic
Gardens in Glasnevin, Dublin, 1838-1879
Nuala C. Johnson

School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen's University
Belfast

Geographers have increasingly been investigating the role of space in the
regulation and constitution of a range of scientific discourses from
historical studies of natural history societies and zoological gardens to
analyses of contemporary biotechnology industries. It is abundantly clear
that geographical location and the spatial relationships underpinning such
institutions form more than the material stage on which scientific activity
takes place. These socially produced spaces themselves, and their internal
and external connectivities, play an important role in the establishment and
warranting of knowledge claims to specific interpretations of the natural
world. Moreover, historically institutions such as botanical gardens not
only displayed prevalent systems of taxonomic regulation; they also became
sites for the investigation of order in the natural world. This paper
investigates the relationship between David Moore's role as curator of
Dublin's botanical garden and his delivery of an anti-evolution lecture in
Belfast in 1874. For Moore, the structuring of the scientific garden and the
botanical discourse attending plant life there revealed the workings of a
beneficent designer and thus was a material expression of a natural
theology. The classifying of plants into families, the orderly fashioning of
the beds, the display of exotics in the hothouses all facilitated a
particular reading of designed nature which confirmed his commitment to the
existence of a divine designer, and this reading of nature was popularly
translated in his Belfast lecture.


Key Words: Anti-evolution . David Moore . designed nature . scientific
garden

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The latest issue of International Review of Social History has a section,
shaped by Leo Lucassen, of short pieces on migration and world history.

Lucassen calls it a 'discussion dossier' - and says 'This discussion dossier
is the result of a "Meet the Author session" at the SSHA conference in
Portland (Oregon), USA, 3-6 November 2005. The panelists were Adam McKeown,
Leslie Page Moch, David Feldman, and Ulbe Bosma. For this publication we
also asked contributions from Prabhu Mohapatra and Sucheta Mazumdar as
specialists on India and China.'

Of particular interest is David Feldman's brief article - details below -
which suggests that our understanding of internal and international
migrations would benefit if we examined both within the same conceptual
field. He outlines this issue within studies of Irish migration in a manner
that will be familiar to IR-D members.

Note: This issue of International Review of Social History is being flagged
as freely available, and is I think the current free sample of that journal.

P.O'S.

1.
International Review of Social History (2007), 52: 89-96 Cambridge
University Press
Copyright C 2007 Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis
doi:10.1017/S0020859006002793
Published online by Cambridge University Press 09Mar2007

Suggestions and Debates

Migration and World History: Reaching a New Frontier 1
Leo Lucassen

Abstract

Migration history has made some major leaps forward in the last fifteen
years or so. An important contribution was Leslie Page Moch's Moving
Europeans, published in 1992, in which she weaves the latest insights in
migration history into the general social and economic history of western
Europe. Using Charles Tilly's typology of migration patterns and his ideas
on the process of proletarianization since the sixteenth century, Moch
skilfully integrates the experience of human mobility in the history of
urbanization, labour relations, (proto)industrialization, demography, family
history, and gender relations. Her state-of-the-art overview has been very
influential, not least because it fundamentally criticizes the modernization
paradigm of Wilbur Zelinsky and others, who assumed that only in the
nineteenth century, as a result of industrialization and urbanization,
migration became a significant phenomenon. Instead, she convincingly argues
that migration was a structural aspect of human life. Since then many new
studies have proved her point and refined her model.

2.
International Review of Social History (2007), 52: 105-109 Cambridge
University Press
Copyright C 2007 Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis
doi:10.1017/S0020859006002811
Published online by Cambridge University Press 09Mar2007

Global Movements, Internal Migration, and the Importance of Institutions
David Feldman

Abstract

In May 1928 The Watling Resident, a local newspaper directed at a readership
among the inhabitants of a working-class estate created by the London County
Council on the north-western outskirts of the city, published its first
issue. It took the opportunity to represent what it saw as its readers'
urgent and existential difficulties: "We have been torn up by the roots and
rudely transplanted to foreign soil." According to the newspaper, these
painful feelings of displacement were voiced "over and over again" by people
living on the new estate. These migrants and their mouthpiece spoke and
wrote in terms that prefigure the pioneering historical work of Oscar
Handlin or suggest they were of one mind with the Chicago School of
sociology. In this light it is remarkable that these migrants were not
recent arrivals from Poland, or even from Ireland or Scotland; rather they
had moved to the estate from inner London, and more than half had previously
lived a few miles away in the north London boroughs of St Pancras,
Islington, Finsbury, and Paddington.

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Globalization and the Rise of One Heterogeneous World Culture
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Interesting exploration of the axiom that globalisation is experienced in
the locale - or the local...

P.O'S.

International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Vol. 48, No. 2-3, 234-256
(2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0020715207075401
C 2007 SAGE Publications
Globalization and the Rise of One Heterogeneous World Culture
A Microperspective of a Global Village
Martha C.E. Van Der Bly

London School of Economics and Political Science,
UK,marthavanderbly[at]gmail.com

What are the effects of economic and cultural globalization on local
communities? This research proposes that economic globalization does not
lead to homogeneity of culture, but to heterogeneity. I analyse quantitative
and qualitative data for Leixlip, the strongest globalized village in the
Republic of Ireland, one of the world's most globalized economies. Dominant
economic globalization causes a resurgence of local identity, a reinvention
of local history and a revival of the indigenous language. An expansive
global identity both provokes and facilitates an explanatory local identity.
The results confirm that globalization of culture creates heterogeneity, but
within the context of one world culture, namely as local adaptations of
world cultural forms.


Key Words: culture . globalization . world society

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Discourse & Society, Vol. 18, No. 2, 197-222 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0957926507073376
C 2007 SAGE Publications
Patterns of metaphor use in reconciliation talk
Lynne J. Cameron

The Open University, Uk

In a violent world, reconciliation between perpetrators and victims offers
an alternative to revenge or retaliation. In such discourse, participants
must make extended efforts to explain themselves to, and to understand, the
Other. This article investigates emergent patterns of metaphor in
reconciliation talk between an IRA bomber and victim, recorded over two and
a half years. The analysis starts from identification of linguistic
metaphors and works recursively between levels of discourse, revealing how
micro-level negotiation of metaphors contributes to emergent macro-level
metaphor systems. Metaphors frame the reconciliation process as A JOURNEY,
as CONNECTION, as CHANGING A DISTORTED IMAGE and as LISTENING TO THE OTHER'S
STORY. The metaphors vary in their lexicogrammatical patterns and in the
degree to which they are extended and developed. Contrasting metaphors are
shown to be particularly valuable, as is 'symbolic literalization' in which
the use of words across metaphor, metonymy and the literal creates useful
indeterminacy.


Key Words: dynamics . literalization . metaphor . metonymy . post-conflict .
reconciliation

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Microhistory in early modern London: John Bedford (1601-1667)
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Fascinating insight into the life of one refugee from the 1641 rebellion.
Twenty five years later, in his will, John Bedford is still sorting out his
Irish debts...

P.O'S.

Microhistory in early modern London: John Bedford (1601-1667)
JEREMY BOULTON

Continuity and Change, Volume 22, Issue 01, May 2007, pp 113-141
doi: 10.1017/S0268416006006163, Published online by Cambridge University
Press 04 Apr 2007

Microhistory in early modern London: John Bedford (1601-1667)

JEREMY BOULTON a1
a1 School of Historical Studies, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon
Tyne.

Abstract

This article represents an exercise in microhistory applied to early modern
London. Deploying prosopographical methods, it reconstructs the life history
of one John Bedford (1601-1667) from his birth in Huntingdon to his death in
the West End of London. Much of his adult life was spent in the London
parish of St Dionis Backchurch, with an interlude in the Irish town of
Londonderry. Bedford fled from Ulster at the outbreak of the Irish Rebellion
in 1641. His unusually detailed will provides the bedrock of this narrative,
and his reconstructed life sheds important light on ties between London and
Ulster, on debt and credit relations and on the methodological strengths and
limitations of community studies that focus on a specific place.