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This may be of interest to the list.=20

The Seventh Triennial Conference on the History of Women Religious
Local Cultures/Global Church: Challenge and Mission in the History of =
Women
Religious
June 24 - 27, 2007:

Keynote speakers:

Angelyn Dries, OSF
Danforth Chair in the Humanities, Department of Theological Studies, St.
Louis University, Women Religious: Mission and World Christianity=20

Margaret Eletta Guider, OSF=20
Associate Professor of Missiology, Chair of the Pastoral Studies =
Department,
Weston Jesuit School of Theology, Mission in the Americas: The Challenge =
of
Reciprocity=20


Complete program at:
http://www.nd.edu/~cushwa/conference/conferenceProgram.doc

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

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Forwarded from H-Net.

Conference organised by the Eighteenth Century Research Group: =
University of
Limerick & Mary Immaculate College

Print Culture in the Eighteenth Century: Regional, National and
International Dimensions
Plassey House, University of Limerick, 7-8 June 2007

Plenary Speaker:=20
Professor Robert Darnton (Princeton University)
=91Slander: The Art and Politics of Slinging Mud
in 18th-Century Paris=92

Speakers:
Johanna Archbold (TCD), Ursula Callaghan (MIC), Prof Andrew Carpenter =
(UCD),
Eamon D=92Arcy (TCD), Dr Michael Griffin (UL), Dr James Kelly (St =
Patrick=92s
College, Drumcondra), Dr M=E1ire Kennedy (Dublin City Public Libraries), =
Sarah
MacNamara (MIC), Jennifer Moore (UL), Dr Niall =D3 Cios=E1in (NUIG), Dr =
S=EDofra
Pierse (UCD), Jennifer Regan (QUB), Prof Geraldine Sheridan (UL).

Further Information
For further information, conference programme & booking form, please =
contact
one of the Conference Organisers:
Dr Liam Chambers (MIC): Liam.Chambers[at]mic.ul.ie / 061-204534
Dr Michael Griffin (UL): Michael.J.Griffin[at]ul.ie / 061-213170
Ms Jennifer Moore (UL): Jennifer.Moore[at]ul.ie / 061-213061
Dr Lesa N=ED Mhunghaile (MIC): Lesa.NiMhunghaile[at]mic.ul.ie / 061-204943

http://www.ul.ie/~lcs/conference-print-culture-in-the-eighteenth-century


William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
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Can anyone confirm if An Taoiseach delivered some section of his speech "as
Gaeilge"? Reports from those who watched his performance suggest he did,
but I can't locate it in any printed versions in the Irish newspapers.

Logically, one would expect it to follow the section on language contact.

"One of the most creative moments in human history was the meeting between
the English language and the Irish people.It has given us some of the great
works of world literature, of Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce,
George Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats, Samuel Beckett, John McGahern and
many, many others."

Have I been misinformed?

Many thanks,
Breen

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Yes, I was there in the Royal Gallery and he did deliver a small part of his speech in Gaelic.
Slan
Alison

Breen O Conchubhair wrote:
Can anyone confirm if An Taoiseach delivered some section of his speech "as
Gaeilge"? Reports from those who watched his performance suggest he did,
but I can't locate it in any printed versions in the Irish newspapers.

Logically, one would expect it to follow the section on language contact.

"One of the most creative moments in human history was the meeting between
the English language and the Irish people.It has given us some of the great
works of world literature, of Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce,
George Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats, Samuel Beckett, John McGahern and
many, many others."

Have I been misinformed?

Many thanks,
Breen



Slan agus beannacht

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
W. B. Yeats

Alison O'Malley-Younger [Dr]
Programme Leader: English and Drama/English and Creative Writing
Department of English
University of Sunderland






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This is only by subscription so I can't get in - but Newton Emerson
makes a good living by being scurrilous and offensive [humour?] so I
can only imagine.

Carmel


Peter Hart wrote:
> Newton Emerson's version of the speech, a must-read:
>
> http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/opinion/2007/0517/1179315433776.html
>
> subs may be needed.
>
> I also wonder who actually wrote it. Do we just assume it's Mansergh?
>
> Peter
>
> .
>
>

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Breen,

Yes there was some Irish language in the speech. I watched it live and
remember it came during the time he addressed Blair directly for his
efforts and said that it was not an easy task for Blair to do so. I
can't now find it in any of the transcripts but my memory is that Ahern
said - in Irish - that he thanks Blair and said that both he and the
people of Ireland would always be grateful for Blair's' peace efforts -
or something close to that. I am only doing this from memory because
for some reason it is not in any of the official transcripts.

Carmel

Breen O Conchubhair wrote:
> Can anyone confirm if An Taoiseach delivered some section of his
> speech "as
> Gaeilge"? Reports from those who watched his performance suggest he did,
> but I can't locate it in any printed versions in the Irish newspapers.
>
> Logically, one would expect it to follow the section on language contact.
>
> "One of the most creative moments in human history was the meeting
> between
> the English language and the Irish people.It has given us some of the
> great
> works of world literature, of Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce,
> George Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats, Samuel Beckett, John
> McGahern and
> many, many others."
>
> Have I been misinformed?
>
> Many thanks,
> Breen
>
> .
>

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Newton Emerson's version of the speech, a must-read:

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/opinion/2007/0517/1179315433776.html

subs may be needed.

I also wonder who actually wrote it. Do we just assume it's Mansergh?

Peter

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Forwarded on behalf of The British Association for Irish Studies...

The British Association for Irish Studies are delighted to announce the
programme for the BAIS conference 2007, 'New Irelands',
organised in conjunction with the Institute of Irish Studie and the
Department of Politics of the University of Liverpool. The
conference will be held at the Institute of Irish Studies, University of
Liverpool, on 14 =96 16 September 2007. =20

Details of registration and accommodation can also be found in the
attachment, and also at www.bais.ac.uk. =20

Please direct enquiries to Dr Mervyn Busteed, at: =
mervynbusteed[at]hotmail.com

New Irelands

An international & interdisciplinary conference on 14 =96 16 September =
2007
organised by the British Association for Irish Studies in conjunction =
with
the Institute of Irish Studies and the Department of Politics of the
University of Liverpool

Programme
=20
Friday 14 September

2.00 p.m. -4.30 p.m.: Registration at The Institute of Irish Studies,
University of Liverpool, 1 Abercromby Square, Liverpool

(n.b. see Delegate Pack for details of a local history conference at St.
George Hall; this afternoon=92s session 3.30 -5.00.p.m.on =91Irish =
Catholic
Identities=92 is open to delegates)

5.30 p.m.: Plenary Lecture: Prof. Alvin Jackson
Lecture Room G04, Institute of Irish Studies
Title: Changing Ireland 1800-1900

7.00 p.m. : Reception: Institute of Irish Studies

Saturday 15 September

9.00 =96 10.30 a.m.: Sessions 1 & 2
Session 1: Writing and Laughing About the North after 1998
Lynne Crook, University of Lancaster: Bloody Funny: Comedy and Violence =
in
the Work of Colin Bateman
Stephen Hopkins, University of Leicester: The Autobiographical Writing =
of
Gerry Adams: The Construction on an Exemplary Republican Life
Anthea Cordner, University of Newcastle: =93Disoriented, Seeing in =
Broken
Vision=94: Beckett=92s Belfast Woman Meets Amelia Boyd Lovett



Session 2: Analysing and Expressing Change in Nineteenth Century Ireland
Fergus O=92Connor, Independent Scholar: Dublin=92s Contribution to the
Nineteenth Century Medical Renaissance
Phillippe Brillet, University of Marseilles: The Famine as a Tribute to =
the
West
Yvonne Siddle, University of Chester: =91The Very Nature of Mankind has
Altered in the Old Country=92: Anthony Trollope=92s Representation of =
Change in
Nineteenth Century Ireland
Christina Morin, Trinity College, Dublin: =91The New Order of =
Things?=92:
Catholic Emancipation and the Irish Historical Novel

10.30 =96 11.00 p.m.: Tea & Coffee Break

11. 00 a.m. =96 12.30 p.m. Sessions 3 & 4

Session 3: Books and Music
Gerry Smyth, Liverpool John Moores University: Music, Modernism and =
Memory
in Joyce and Proust
Ian McKeane, Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool: Jules
Verne=92s Construction of Ireland: a Misreading of a Diasporic Identity?
Fergal Tobin, Gill & Macmillan: Books and Borders


Session 4: Return Migrants and Clashing Identities
Sara Hannafin, NUI Galway: The Idea of Ireland as =91home=92: Place, =
Identity
and Second Generation Return Migration
Sarah O=92Brien, University of Limerick: A Second Exile: The Contested
Identity of Irish Migrants in New Ireland
David Ralph, University of Edinburgh: Reconceptualising Home and =
Belonging:
Irish Transnational Return Migrants from the USA, 1996-2006

12.30 =96 2.00 p.m.: Lunch

2.00 -3.30 p.m.: Sessions 5 & 6

Session 5: Expressing Irishness in the newly Free State
Una Newell, University College, Dublin: =93Have We Been Playing at
Republicanism?=94: An Analysis of the 1922 Pact Election Campaign in =
Galway
Mike McCabe, Hertford College, Oxford: Holy Blessing? Monsignor =
Luzio=92s
Visitation to the Free State in 1923
Lauren Arrington, St. Hilda=92s College, Oxford: A National Theatre for =
a New
Ireland: Subsidising the Abbey
David Doyle, NUI, Galway: The Social and Occupational Structure of =
Sexual
Dissidence in Independent Ireland, 1922-32

Session 6: Negotiating Justice and Awkward Identities
Kevin McNamara, Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool:
Fraternal Rivalries: The ICTU, the AFL-CIO and the MacBride Principles
Peter Geoghegan, University of Edinburgh: Beyond Orange and Green? The
Awkwardness of Negotiating Difference in Northern Ireland
Sarah Morgan, ESR2 Project & Bronwen Walter, Anglia Ruskin University: =
On
Not Being Irish

3.30 -4.00 p.m.: Tea/coffee break

4.00 =96 6.00 p.m.: Free
Conference participants are reminded that there is a great variety of =
places
well worth a visit in Liverpool, including the Albert Dock where Tate
Liverpool and the Maritime Museum with its Slavery and Emigration
exhibitions are located, and the Walker Art Gallery and Museum across =
the
road from Lime Street Station

6.00 p.m.: Reception: Institute of Irish Studies

7.30 p.m.: Dinner in Liverpool (cost not included in conference fee)

Sunday 16 September

9.0 a.m. =96 10.30 a.m.: Sessions 7 & 8

Session 7: Imagining and Performing Irishness
Sean Crosson, NUI Galway: =93The Reservoir of Irish Manhood=94: =
Representing
Gaelic Games in =91Rocky Road to Dublin=92 and =91Clash of the Ash=92
Claire Nally, University of Hull (Scarborough Campus): Forging or =
Forgery of
National Identity: the =91Giraldus=92 Portrait in Yeats=92 =91A =
Vision=92
Aurelia L.S. Annat, St. Hugh=92s College, Oxford: Gender, Myth and =
Mysticism:
Ella Young=92s Ireland, 1900-1925

Session 8: Searching for Home and Locality
Tudor Balinisteanu, University of Glasgow: The Land of Witch=92s =
Heart=92s
Desire: Ontological Flickers in Marina Carr=92s =91By the Bog of =
Cats=85=92
Frank Shovlin, Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool: The
West=92s Asleep: Mike McCormack=92s =91Notes from a Coma=92 and the End =
of Identity
John Kenny, NUI Galway: South of the Border, Down Monaghan Way: Localism =
and
Popular Culture in Patrick McCabe

10.30 a.m. =96 11.00 a.m.: Tea/Coffee

11.00 a.m. =96 12.00 p.m.: Plenary Lecture: Prof. Diane Negra on Urban =
Space,
Luxury Retailing and the New Irishness

End of Conference


Conference Fee

The Conference Fee is =A3 75 paid by cheque made out to =91The British
Association for Irish Studies=92 and sent to:
M.A. Busteed
78 Hale Road
Hale, Altrincham,
Cheshire WA15 9HS
U.K.
Please mark you envelope BAIS =09
Your payment will be acknowledged by email and a documentary receipt =
will be
included in your delegate pack collected on registration in Liverpool

Accommodation

Hotels/B&B
Contact Liverpool Tourism on 0151 (from Republic of Ireland 0044 151) =
709
8111 or bookaroom[at]merseyside.org.uk

There is a vast range of hotels; at the economy end of the market the
following have recently opened hotels in Liverpool and have websites =
with
online booking facilities:

Ibis
27 Wapping
Liverpool L1 8LY
0151 706 9800
ibis.hotel.com



Dolby
36-42 Chaloner Street
Queen=92s Dock
Liverpool L3 4DE
dolbyhotels.co.uk

Express by Holiday Inn
Britannia Pavilion
Albert Dock
Liverpool L3 4AD
hiexpress.co.uk

Campanile=20
Chaloner Street
Queen=92s Dock
Liverpool L3 4AJ
HotelsRus.com/campanile_Lpool

Premier Travel Inn
Albert Dock
Liverpool L3 4AD

Premier Travel Inn
Vernon Street
Liverpool L2 2 AY
premier travelinn.com

All (except the last) of these are in the Albert/Wapping Dock area of =
the
city about 30 minutes walk or a =A36 taxi ride (=91Mersey Cabs=92 0151 =
298 2222)
from the conference site. There is also a bus service (No1, destination
plate =91Broadgreen Hospital=92) which passes close to the University.=20

Because of the build up of events to Liverpool=92s role as =91European =
Capital
of Culture=92 early booking is advisable

Any further queries please contact me on 07789 990 725 or
mervynbusteed[at]hotmail.com

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Sorry about subs - but it may soon be on Newshound or Sluggerotoole in the
usual way of things.

Peter

On Thu, 17 May 2007, Carmel McCaffrey wrote:

> This is only by subscription so I can't get in - but Newton Emerson
> makes a good living by being scurrilous and offensive [humour?] so I
> can only imagine.
>
> Carmel
>
>
> Peter Hart wrote:
> > Newton Emerson's version of the speech, a must-read:
> >
> > http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/opinion/2007/0517/1179315433776.html
> >
> > subs may be needed.
> >
> > I also wonder who actually wrote it. Do we just assume it's Mansergh?
> >
> > Peter
> >
> > .
> >
> >
>

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Many thanks to Carmel and those who answered. A strange case of censorship=
.
This is the Newton Emerson piece.

Yours,
Breen


History unhinged by mangling of language

*
*

*Newton's Optic:* What Bertie might have said if *Newton Emerson* had
written *that* speech he delivered in Westminster

Mr Speaker, Lord Speaker, it gives me great pleasure to address both your
houses instead of addressing my own house. Ours is a close, complex and
difficult relationship which we have resolved through patience, friendship
and at least one reference per paragraph to "our two islands". We remember
it was Ireland which first elected a woman, Countess Markievicz, to
Westminster, although she chose to attend D=E1il =C9ireann in the tiara tha=
t
Gerry Adams still wears today. We also remember the words of that great
parliamentarian Daniel O'Connell, who said: "There is nothing morally right
that is politically left."

They were the consistent champions of peaceful and violent nationalism, who
helped us to consign arguments over the past to the annals of the past -
except for the Great Famine, which I'll be mentioning twice.

The people of our two islands have woven a rich tapestry of culture over th=
e
centuries. One of the most creative moments in human history was the meetin=
g
between the English language and the Irish Taoiseach. Err, dat is, whatever=
,
sure.

In sport, which apparently counts as culture in north Dublin, we also share
so much. Earlier this year, the English and Irish rugby teams met in the
magnificent headquarters of the Gaelic Athletic Association because another
stadium wasn't available. We must never forget that you once opened fire in
that stadium just as we must not remember why the other stadium never
opened.

Last year, I was proud to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Easter
Rising. It was a hinge of history that opened the door to this atrocious
metaphor. Then, after that business with Mary McAleese calling Protestants
Nazis, we added a second hinge with a 90th anniversary commemoration of the
Battle of the Somme. So now we can close the door again and open a window
into a crisp new dawn.

This is a shining example of how the Spirals of accusation can be replaced
with the Cheesy Wotsits of reconciliation, although it is still my
passionate belief that Tayto tastes better in the South, just as unionists
believe it tastes better in the North. As an Irish republican, it is my hop=
e
to see our salt and their vinegar united in peace. In an act full of the
symbolism that symbolises all of these symbols, last week I had the honour
of welcoming Ian Paisley to the site of the Battle of the Boyne. This was
not so much a hinge of history as a fully fledged bracket - and no crisps o=
r
savoury snacks were involved. However, nuts have since been a problem. It i=
s
surely a miracle of our age that the undisputed leader of Ulster unionism
can meet with the leader of the Irish Government on that battlefield, unles=
s
it was a miracle of his age (which admittedly is far more likely).

Of course, the subject of Ireland was not always welcome in this place. I
recall the words of Gladstone, who said: "My whole political life has been
governed by the Irish Question. We have been engaged in laboriously rolling
up-hill the stone of Sisyphus."

Today, I can say that the Irish Question has been successfully changed so
that some other sissy can fuss over it later.

That is the principle on which I stand. Mr Speaker, Lord Speaker, I will no=
w
sit.
(c) 2007 The Irish Times


On 5/17/07, Peter Hart wrote:
>
> Sorry about subs - but it may soon be on Newshound or Sluggerotoole in th=
e
> usual way of things.
>
> Peter
>
> On Thu, 17 May 2007, Carmel McCaffrey wrote:
>
> > This is only by subscription so I can't get in - but Newton Emerson
> > makes a good living by being scurrilous and offensive [humour?] so I
> > can only imagine.
> >
> > Carmel
> >
> >
> > Peter Hart wrote:
> > > Newton Emerson's version of the speech, a must-read:
> > >
> > > http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/opinion/2007/0517/1179315433776.html
> > >
> > > subs may be needed.
> > >
> > > I also wonder who actually wrote it. Do we just assume it's Mansergh=
?
> > >
> > > Peter
> > >
> > > .
> > >
> > >
> >
>

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As part of the charm offensive related to this, No10 (as in 10 Downing =
St) have also released a podcast of Patrick Kielty interviewing Tony =
Blair and Bertie Ahern. This can be listened to at: =
http://podcast.ulcc.ac.uk/WebContent/number10/DowningStreet_NorthernIrela=
nd_150507.mp3

Sarah.
----- Original Message -----=20
From: Carmel McCaffrey=20
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK=20
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: [IR-D] Taoiseach in Westminster


Breen,

Yes there was some Irish language in the speech. I watched it live =
and=20
remember it came during the time he addressed Blair directly for his=20
efforts and said that it was not an easy task for Blair to do so. I=20
can't now find it in any of the transcripts but my memory is that =
Ahern=20
said - in Irish - that he thanks Blair and said that both he and the=20
people of Ireland would always be grateful for Blair's' peace efforts =
-=20
or something close to that. I am only doing this from memory because =

for some reason it is not in any of the official transcripts.

Carmel

Breen O Conchubhair wrote:
> Can anyone confirm if An Taoiseach delivered some section of his=20
> speech "as
> Gaeilge"? Reports from those who watched his performance suggest he =
did,
> but I can't locate it in any printed versions in the Irish =
newspapers.
>
> Logically, one would expect it to follow the section on language =
contact.
>
> "One of the most creative moments in human history was the meeting=20
> between
> the English language and the Irish people.It has given us some of =
the=20
> great
> works of world literature, of Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde, James =
Joyce,
> George Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats, Samuel Beckett, John=20
> McGahern and
> many, many others."
>
> Have I been misinformed?
>
> Many thanks,
> Breen
>
> .
>

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CALL FOR PAPERS
Irish America, 1945-1960

America in the postwar era has been the subject of extensive critical and
historical examination in recent years, but, with few exceptions, the
picture drawn of the Irish-American community during this period has
presumed its deliquescence. Received wisdom suggests that postwar
suburbanization and upward mobility eroded the distinctiveness of
Irish-American ethnicity, accelerating the homogenizing effects of "ethnic
fade." The election of John F. Kennedy election in 1960 seemed to reflect
the notion that the deracinated offspring of the Famine Irish were now
"safe" enough to be trusted with the reins of power.

We propose a collection of essays that examines and challenges these
assumptions. The story of Irish America at mid-century possesses a unique
significance. The proliferation of labor-saving mechanization in Ireland
produced one last exodus from Ireland that briefly restored transatlantic
networks after a generation of disuse. On the other side of the Atlantic,
anticommunist rhetoric bestowed new status on Irish Americans as champions
of ethnic patriotism ("A Nation of Immigrants"), reversing longstanding
insinuations about hyphenated identities. Fiction by O'Connor, O'Faolain,
Bowen and others frequently appeared in prestigious American periodicals.
Irish performers played a significant role in the first stirrings of the
later "folk revival." Irish Americans also followed the postwar campaign
against Partition, with a few expatriates taking an active role in support
of the I.R.A.'s "border campaign." On the eve of mass tourism and affordable
transatlantic travel, Irish experiences and images still retained an
exoticism, at the same time as novels (The Last Hurrah), motion pictures
(The Quiet Man), and television programs ("The Life of Riley") took up
Irish-American storylines and characters as a means of simultaneously
presenting, and stepping outside, the mainstream of popular culture.

Possible topics may include but are not limited to: immigration; nostalgia;
tourism; suburbanization; interethnic relations; labor history; religious
history; music and dance; Gaelic sports; the Irish language in America;
Irish authors' relations with American publishers and audiences; and
individual artists and works, including television.

A major Irish publisher has expressed strong interest in this project.
Established scholars in Irish Studies and American Studies have already
agreed to contribute to this collection; however, we welcome engaging work
from both established and new scholars alike.

Please e-mail an abstract (Word or RTF, please -no PDFs) of 250-300 words to
both Dr. Matthew O'Brien, The Franciscan University of Steubenville
(mattobrien1968[at]yahoo.com ) and James Rogers, University of St Thomas
(jrogers[at]stthomas.edu) before September 30, 2007. The editors will select
proposals and provide further guidelines shortly after that date. We
anticipate the deadline for completed chapters to be approximately April,
2008.

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I hate to clutter the list with things like this, but a vice-president at
my university has asked help in tracking down the source of these lines from
an old Irish song, which his family memory recalls as being from his
great-grandfather's St Patrick's day "party piece."

"I fought by your side and defeated your foes,
Said Ireland's Green Shamrock to England's Red Rose"


Any ideas?

Jim Rogers

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Subject: TOC May-June 07 issue of JMI The Journal of Music in Ireland
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JMI
editor[at]thejmi.com


The May-June '07 issue of JMI The Journal of Music in Ireland is now
available.

Please see details of the latest issue below.

The JMI archive 2000 2007 is now SEARCHABLE and FREE TO VIEW for a =
limited
time only on our new website Visit

http://www.thejmi.com


* Editorial: Two Movements
Toner Quinn

The matter of providing state-funded music education services is =
still
unresolved

* N=ED =F3n ngaoth a fuair s=E9 =E9: Aloys Fleischmann (1910-92)
M=EDche=E1l =D3 S=FAilleabh=E1in

M=EDche=E1l =D3 S=FAilleabh=E1in remembers a seminal figure in =
Irish musical
life

* Past, Present and Future of an English Patriot
Carlo G=E9bler

Carlo G=E9bler reads Billy Bragg's new polemic

* How to compose in your own time
John McLachlan

Stravinsky, Var=E8se and John Adams=20

* His Pencil Poised...
Peter Woods

One hundred years after the publication of The Dance Music of =
Ireland.
1001 Gems=85, Caoimh=EDn Mac Aoidh's book on James O'Neill throws new =
light on
the O'Neill collections.

* Colour on all sides
Barra =D3 S=E9aghdha

A review of the recent RT=C9 Living Music Festival which focused =
on jazz
and the music of American composer John Adams=20

* myTunes and i
Toner Quinn

On tunes and musicians' relationships to tunes=20

* Musical Texts of the Elites
Barra =D3 S=E9aghdha

Barra =D3 S=E9aghdha finds much to debate in a recent work on =
music and
Irish identity=20

* Live Reviews: Chris Wood
Pat Ahern

* Live Reviews: i-and-e festival
Paul Watts

* Live Reviews: Ronan Guilfoyle - Terms and Conditions Apply
Kevin Stevens

* CD Reviews: Ois=EDn McAuley
Niall Keegan

* CD Reviews: M=EDche=E1l =D3 Raghallaigh
Dermot McLaughlin

* CD Reviews: Cyprian Love
Michael Quinn

* CD Reviews: Barry Douglas, Camerata Ireland
Michael Quinn

* CD Reviews: Finghin Collins
Michael Quinn

* May-June Music Guide

* The Irish Music Club of Chicago fl. c. 1901=9609

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From: kennyka
Organization: Boston College
Subject: Lincoln and the Irish
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A quick note to thank everyone who shared information on Lincoln and the
Irish, via the list or direct by e-mail. There doesn't seem to be a great
deal there, but I'll keep digging.

With best wishes,

Kevin Kenny
Boston College

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Article, Featherstone,
Skills for heterogeneous associations: the Whiteboys,
collective experimentation, and subaltern political ecologies
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This is an interesting one...

David Featherstone reminds me that I have not looked at Bruno Latour for
some time. I have used Latour, We Have Never Been Modern, to support my =
own
wariness/weariness with packages of ideas around modern, modernity,
antimodern, postmodern, and so on. Bless him.

A web search for Bruno Latour will turn up much information, including =
his
own web site
http://www.bruno-latour.fr/
with some articles and sample chapters.

Dave Featherstone's article is tightly argued and wide-ranging. Of =
interest
to the Ir-D list will be his reading of Whiteboy activities as famine
prevention, and his accounts of the links between Whiteboys and 1768
striking London Irish coal heavers. So, naturally, in his references =
are
Kevin Kenny, Rediker, Linebaugh...

P.O'S.


=A0
Featherstone=A0D, 2007, "Skills for heterogeneous associations: the =
Whiteboys,
collective experimentation, and subaltern political ecologies"

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 25(2) 284=A0=96=A0306=20


Skills for heterogeneous associations: the Whiteboys, collective
experimentation, and subaltern political ecologies=20


David=A0Featherstone=20


Abstract. Bruno Latour=92s Politics of Nature (2004, Harvard University =
Press)
argues for a new =91common sense=92 for political ecology that disabuses =
it of
any foundational grounding in nature. In this paper I interrogate =
Latour=92s
project in relation to struggles that might be termed =91subaltern =
political
ecologies=92. I argue that Latour=92s account of the political as =
bearing on the
=91progressive composition of the world=92 offers insights for engaging =
with the
inventiveness of subaltern political activity. I suggest that subaltern
political ecologies offer both resources and challenges to the project =
of
reworking the common sense of political ecology. To demonstrate this, I
engage with the struggles against unequal social and material relations =
of
the 18th-century Irish peasant movement, the Whiteboys. I follow the
movement of their forms of political activity to London=92s dockside =
spaces. I
suggest two skills that subaltern political ecologies =91add=92 to the =
politics
of =91heterogeneous associations=92: the configuring of strategic =
arrangements
of humans and nonhumans in antagonistic ways and the making of =
solidarities
as ongoing interventions in the constitution of networks. This reworking =
of
key political processes as active engagements in world-building =
activities
seeks to foreground forms of political identity and agency which have =
often
been marginalised, ignored, or dismissed.=20

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Subject: Article, Ryan, Migrant women,
social networks and motherhood: the experiences of Irish nurses
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Ir-D members will be interested in Louise Ryan's new research on Irish
nurses in Britain, just published. This research uses a social networks
perspective to focus on skilled female migrants and their experiences of
juggling employment and motherhood.

P.O'S.

Sociology vol 41, no. 2 (April, 2007)

Migrant women, social networks and motherhood: the experiences of Irish
nurses in Britain'

Louise Ryan,
Middlesex University

Although there is a growing interest in female migration, little attention
has been paid to how migrant women access and sustain social networks, both
locally and spatially dispersed, over time. Social networks theories have
much to offer an analysis of migrants' social ties and interpersonal
relationships. However, while there is a lively interest in transnational
networks and global chains of care, many migration studies have simply taken
for granted the existence of post-migration networks. Drawing on a case
study of Irish nurses in Britain, this ar ticle aims to contribute to a
better understanding of how migrant women access and utilize local ties
post-migration. While transnational networks may challenge the equation
between spatial proximity and social interaction, this ar ticle argues that
we should not overlook the impor tance of propinquity particularly in terms
of day-to-day practical suppor t and local knowledge.


Key Words: childcare . migrant women . paid work . social networks

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Subject: Geographic centre of Ireland
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Dear IR-D list members,

This is a query about geography of Ireland and oral traditions. Members
of the Egan and Quest families in Chile, Argentina, Paraguay and Spain
heard from their parents and grandparents the story that their common
ancestor lived in "a house exactly in the centre of Ireland", and that
in the garden there was a stone (different versions) to mark the place.

It seems that the geographical centre of Ireland (the island, not the
republic) is to be found in Carnagh East Co. Roscommon, on the western
shore of Lough Ree and 3 km south of Athlone. This was one of the
"sending areas" with relatively high emigration to South America in
1860-1880.=20

I am searching in local history sources but at the same time I wanted to
ask if anybody in this list knows other references to the geographic
centre of Ireland, any stories or legends associated with it and a
possible stone or pillar in that place?=20

Thanks in advance for your kind co-operation.

Edmundo Murray

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Just to inform you. John Hickey's family are bringing his ashes back to
Cardiff for burial on July 27th. He died in 2002 and this is to fulfill one of
his last wishes. I know there were a number of people on this list serve who
knew his work on Cardiff Irish and its impact on Irish studies in Britain.
Susan Hickey



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Subject: Web Resource,
online Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of
Ireland (1847-2007)
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Online Journal of SSISI (1847-2007) launched at TCD

Trinity College Dublin has been licenced by The Statistical and Social Inquiry
Society of Ireland to make the papers from over 150 years of this important
journal openly accessible on the web.

The journal was the subject of a Symposium, "Prejudiced Patriots and the Dreams
of Statisticians", held in the university last week at which speakers included
Professor Patrick Walsh (TCD), Professor Eunan O'Halpin (TCD) and Professor
Mary Daly (UCD).

Coaxing the thing to be helpful is a tiny bit tricky...

This is the web site of
The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, an all-Ireland body that
has been in continuous existence since 1847.
http://www.ssisi.ie/

This is the web site at TCD where the Society's papers are available...
http://www.tara.tcd.ie/handle/2262/1080

You can do simple searches, Advanced Search, or scroll down to clickable lists
of available archives. I cannot see any way to simply browse or explore TOCs.
Of course if you know exactly what author or article you are looking for, easy.
One problem is that you keep finding yourself in TCD's general collection...

Anyway, must not grumble...

Our sincere congratulations to Professor Patrick Walsh, TCD and the SSISI, in
making this important resource freely available to scholars throughout the
world. This is how things should be done...

Patrick O'Sullivan




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