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Listers,

Well, the summer solstice draws near, giving us long evenings in which =
to
read, read, read. Happily, the next issue of New Hibernia Review =
(volume
11, number 2; Summer, 2007) is also drawing near; it should be up on =
Project
Muse =AE early next week, and the paper version will be in the mail =
shortly
thereafter.=20

Here follows a TOC, with brief descriptions.

Pat Boran, Dedalus Press, "The Invisible Prison: A Midlands Childhood" =
pp
9-19.
A selection of vignettes taken from the poet and editor's =
memoir-in-progress
about growing up in Portlaoise in the 1970s.

Gillian McIntosh, Queen's University Belfast, "Stormont's Ill-timed =
Jubilee:
The Ulster '71 Exhibition " pp. 17-39
McIntosh examines the public controversy and internal politicking that
attended the fiftieth anniversary of the Stormont parliament. As the
surrounding conflict worsened, the anniversary morphed into a =
touristic
"Ulster'71" exhibition. =20

Dolores Stewart, "Fil=EDocht Nua: New Poems," pp. 40-49
A suite of new poems in Irish and English translations from the author =
of
In Out of the Rain (1999), Presence of Mind (2005), 'S=E9 Sin le =
R=E1 (2001),
and An Cos=E1n Derg (2003)

Jane Elizabeth Dougherty, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, =
"Nuala
O'Faolain and the Unwritten Irish Girlhood," pp. 50-65
Starting with the unexpected bestseller Are You Somebody, Dougherty =
surveys
memoirs as well as fictionalized Irish girlhoods. Among other findings =
she
discerns a perception that girlhood is unconnected to adulthood, and a
pervasive failure of individuation. =20

Marc C. Conner, Washington and Lee University, '"To Bring All Loves =
Home':
An Interview with Jamie O'Neill," pp. 66-78
In conversation, Conner and the novelist O'Neill tease out the =
connections
between the particularities of At Swim, Two Boys and broader concerns,
including Christianity and Catholicism, the philosophy of Plato and
Augustine, and Irish history. =20
=20
Moira J. Maguire, University of Arkansas-Little Rock, "The Carrigan
Committee and Child Sexual Abuse in Twentieth-Century Ireland," pp. =
79-100.

Moira Maguire argues that courts, government officials, and individual
parents were well aware of the problem of the problem of sexual abuse =
in the
early years of the Free State. She proposes that the government's wish =
to
maintain an image of Irish "purity" abroad was a commanding reason the
report was so thoroughly hushed up. =20

Cathal Goan, Radio Telef=EDs =C9ireann, "Teilif=EDs na Gaeilge: Ten =
Years
A-Growing," pp. 101-15.
In NHR's "An Teanga Inniu: The Irish Language Today" section, the
director-general of Radio Telef=EDs =C9ireann looks back at the first =
decade of
Teilef=EDs na Gaeilge. Goan himself was a central participant in the
discussions that led to the establishment of what is now known as TG4.

Patrick Lonergan, NUI-Galway, " Anthony Trollope's Palliser Novels and
Anti-Irish Prejudice," pp. 116-29.
Lonergan looks at Trollope's six Palliser novels , where some Irish =
figures
may verge on the Stage Irishman-- but also illustrate Trollope's =
harsh
judgment on how easily the British political system could be corrupted. =
=20

Michael Parker, University of Central Lancashire, " From Winter Seeds =
to
Wintering Out: The Evolution of Heaney's Third Collection," pp. =
130-41.
Parker's makes clear that the composition of individual poems in the
collection responded to specific events in the streets of Northern =
Ireland.
He includes a helpful chart that compares the first vision of the =
volume
with the text that actually appeared the following year. .

Frances Devlin-Glass, Deakin University, "Joyce, Bloomsday, and =
Diasporic
Identity: A Report from Melbourne," pp. 142-55.
Such events as the annual "Bloomsday in Melbourne" festival give =
abundant
evidence of Ulysses' appeal to a nonacademic readership. Employing =
surveys
and in-depth interviews, Devlin-Glass analyzes the reasons festival
participants give for their attraction to Joyce, and finds that =
literary
considerations are only a partial answer. =20

Subscription information, contributor guidelines, and much else can be =
found
at www.stthomas.edu/irishstudies, or send an e-mail to =
jrogers[at]stthomas.edu


Jim Rogers
Editor, New Hibernia Review

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The Consortium on the Revolutionary Era (CRE) is now a venue for both =20
traditional revolutionary history and comparative efforts, which often =20
get overlooked. Sessions will focus on Europe and other places, =20
especially throughout the Atlantic world, 1750-1850.
The 2008 conference will be held February 28-March 1 at the Huntsville =20
Embassy Suites in downtown Huntsville, Alabama. Huntsville =20
International Airport is served by Delta, Northwest, USAir, American =20
and Continental Airlines.

The program committee prefers proposals for complete sessions (three =20
papers, plus chair and a commentator). However, we will accept =20
proposals for incomplete sessions, and individual paper proposals. =20
Session proposals should include name of presenter, title of paper, =20
and brief abstract (no more than one page) for each paper; and brief =20
CVs (no more than 2 pages) for each participant. The deadline for =20
proposals is October 15, 2006. We are looking for traditional =20
presentations of new research, as well as roundtable discussions. =20
Proposals from doctoral students are welcome. Send proposals to John =20
Severn at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (severnj[at]uah.edu).

John Severn
Associate Provost
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Huntsville, AL 35899
256-824-6767
256-824-6841
Email: severnj[at]uah.edu

Bill Mulligan

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The redheaded among us (which includes absolutely nobody in my family,
alas!) might also want to look at Amanda Third, "'Does the Rug Match The
Carpet?': Race, Gender and the Redheaded Woman" in The Irish in Us:
Irishness, Performativity, and Popular Culture, ed. Diane Negra (Duke
University Press, 2006), pp 220-53.

I'm not sure I agree with everything in the essay, but the research is
astonishing -- you put it down and marvel that there is that much new to be
said about red hair!

JSR

-----Original Message-----
From: Muiris Mag Ualghairg [mailto:welshtranslator[at]GMAIL.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 10:34 AM
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] Gingerism as bad as racism

There is an interesting new story on the BBC at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6725653.stm discussing 'gingerism'
and it mentions that it may be connected to anti-Irish sentiment - it
even quotes our very own Patrick O'Sullivan

" so when does this date from? Some claim it could be a throwback to
anti-Irish sentiment from the 19th Century and before when the Irish,
with a greater prevalence of red hair, were regarded as ethnically
inferior.

Patrick O'Sullivan, head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit, says he
has never come across a link. "People could feel forbidden to attack
their usual victims and are searching around for ones that have not
yet achieved the protection of the law."

Muiris (who has a slight gingerish tint to his hair!)

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There is an interesting new story on the BBC at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6725653.stm discussing 'gingerism'
and it mentions that it may be connected to anti-Irish sentiment - it
even quotes our very own Patrick O'Sullivan

" so when does this date from? Some claim it could be a throwback to
anti-Irish sentiment from the 19th Century and before when the Irish,
with a greater prevalence of red hair, were regarded as ethnically
inferior.

Patrick O'Sullivan, head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit, says he
has never come across a link. "People could feel forbidden to attack
their usual victims and are searching around for ones that have not
yet achieved the protection of the law."

Muiris (who has a slight gingerish tint to his hair!)

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Thank you to Joe Bradley for so promptly bringing to our attention this
Special Issue of the journal Sport in Society.

There is an awful lot to take in here, and this Special Issue certainly
takes to a new level the study of sport within Irish Diaspora Studies. =
Paul
Darby, David Hassan and their colleagues are to be congratulated.

I am still reading, of course... Take, as one example, this article

Becoming Irland=E9s: Hurling and Irish Identity in Argentina=20
Authors: Seamus King; Paul Darby

I'll send in the Abstract as a separate email. King and Darby take
perceptions from Edmundo Murray's work on the Irish in Argentina, =
Becoming
'Irland=E9s': Private Narratives of the Irish Emigration to Argentina,
1844-1912. The Irish become Irland=E9s rather than merely part of the =
broader
ingleses (English-speaking settler community). King and Darby's very =
title
has a footnote number attached, acknowledging their debt to Edmundo. =
They
marry this to Patrick McKenna's study of the Irish Catholic community in
Argentina - I remember how the late Brian McGinn drew attention to =
Patrick's
stress on social control. And so King and Darby are able to sdhow =
sport's
place in these processes...

P.O'S.


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Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Social Sciences and Humanities University of Bradford =
Bradford
BD7 1DP Yorkshire England


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Irish
Diaspora

Subject: FW: Sport in Society - informaworld new issue alert
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 10:52:03 +0100
From: "Joe Bradley"

Extract from Introduction to this Special issue...

'...This volume seeks to address the ways in which Irish aptitude and
enthusiasm for sport has manifested itself in those parts of the world =
that
possess or have possessed an Irish immigrant population. The first part =
of
the book explores the diffusion of Gaelic games to a number of centres =
of
Irish immigration in the United States, Britain, Argentina, Australia =
and
parts of the European mainland and examines the social, economic, =
political
and psychological impact that these games have had in helping the =
diaspora
adjust to life in their new, and at times, inhospitable, surroundings. =
Most
of the essays that comprise this section demonstrate that elements of =
the
Irish =E9migr=E9 clung closely to the traditions of the 'Old Country' =
and sought
to maintain a rather narrowly conceived form of 'Irishness'. Others =
though
were much more willing to engage with the cultures that they experienced =
on
completion of their migratory journey. Thus, the second part of the book
extends the analysis by examining the contribution of Irish men and =
women to
the sports culture that they encountered in their new homes. It also
assesses the ways in which their involvement in these sports allowed =
them to
come to terms with, and make their way in, their new locales.


http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14610981.asp

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Becoming Irland=E9s: Hurling and Irish Identity in Argentina [ 1 ]=20
Authors: Seamus King; Paul Darby=20


Published in: Sport in Society, Volume 10, Issue 3 May 2007 , pages 425 =
-
438=20
Previously published as: Culture, Sport, Society (1461-0981) until 2004=20


Abstract=20
It is unsurprising to note that Gaelic games have been and continue to =
be
played in those locales around the world that have traditionally been
recipients of large numbers of Irish immigrants. Indeed, some of the =
essays
in this collection reveal this to be the case. However, it is perhaps =
more
unusual to observe these sports being played in destinations around the
globe that welcomed relatively small numbers of Irish migrants. This =
essay
deals with one particular example of this by detailing the history of
hurling in Argentina and more specifically, Buenos Aires. In doing so, =
the
essay reveals that in much the same way as it did in Britain, the United
States, Canada and Australia, involvement in Gaelic games allowed the =
Irish
in Argentina to construct and give expression to an important aspect of
their Irishness. As is shown, this was a crucial element in a broader
strategy, initiated by the Catholic Church in Ireland, to encourage =
Irish
immigrants to view and express themselves as being ethnically Irish
(Irland=E9s) rather than merely part of the broader ingleses =
(English-speaking
settler community).


[1] This phrase is borrowed from Edmundo Murray's seminal work on the =
Irish
in Argentina, Becoming 'Irland=E9s': Private Narratives of the Irish
Emigration to Argentina, 1844-1912.

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A number of us, a while ago, thought that the Irish Government might be
looking at the model of the Cervantes Institute or the Goethe Institute -
the Yeats Institute, perhaps?

But Culture Ireland it is...

http://www.cultureireland.gov.ie/

Meanwhile, the autonomous Basque Government has created the Etxepare
Institute, very much on the model of the Cervantes.

One press release notes that the vote to create the Institute was unanimous,
and comments, a very rare event in the Basque Parliament.

Etxepare is an interesting choice of patron - yes, the author of the first
book printed in the Basque language. A priest whose most anthologised poems
are A Plea for A Kiss and In Defence of Women...

'...Speak no ill of women, by my love;
If men let them alone, they'd do no wrong...'

I notice that a number of smaller nations are interested in this Basque
development - a lot of interest in Wales...

P.O'S.


Etxepare Institute created to disseminate Basque culture

04/20/2007
The Institute will promote the teaching and study of the Basque language
abroad, and bring the Basque culture closer to the Basque speaking
communities in the world.

The Basque parliament approved unanimously the Law that creates the Basque
Institute Etxepare, which will be responsible for disseminating the Basque
culture both in Spanish and Basque abroad, although it will promote
specially the latter.

The Institute, named after the Basque writer Bernart Etxepare (16th
century), will have its headquarters in Donostia-San Sebastian. It will
centralise all Basque Government's programs for the external dissemination
of Basque language and culture, and bring the Basque culture closer to the
Basque speaking communities in the world.

The Basque Councillor of Culture, Miren Azkarate, explained the aims of the
Institute that will place the Basque language and culture "in the world", as
the Basque Country "cannot be isolated."

She added both the Spanish and the Basque language are part of the Basque
Country's cultural heritage, although both languages "has not the same
opportunities" of propagation. That's the reason why the Institute will
promote both languages, but paying a special attention to the Basque

http://www.eitb24.com/new/en/B24_45177/entertainment/HEADQUARTERS-IN-DONOSTI
A-Etxepare-Institute-created-to/


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Subject: CFP International Workshop: Port-Cities and their Hinterlands,
Liverpool, 7-8 December 2007
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Call for Papers
International Workshop: Port-Cities and their Hinterlands.
Migration, Trade and Cultural Exchange.
Centre for Port and Maritime History
University of Liverpool
7-8 December 2007

Urban historians have been criticized, perhaps unfairly, for being concerned
primarily with self-contained processes that operate within the boundaries
of individual towns and cities. As a result, the relationship between cities
and their hinterlands has often been neglected. This lack of research is
particularly problematic in the case of port-cities, where an emphasis on
their transit function has reinforced the view that the connections between
individual ports and their hinterlands were limited and geographically
disconnected.

Most ports, irrespective of their size, had a series of overlapping
hinterlands whose shifting importance reflected changes in trading
relations, migration patterns, family networks, and cultural exchange. The
two-day international workshop is intended to develop new approaches and
analytical tools for studying the relationship between port-cities and their
hinterlands, concentrating primarily on the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
It will focus on the following themes:

* The factors which determined the changing nature of port-hinterland
relations.
* The development of port-cities within the wider framework of distinct, but
interrelated, fields of interaction with their respective hinterlands.
* The ways in which port-cities interacted and intersected with their
different hinterlands through in-,and out-migration, cultural exchange and
the wider flow of goods, services, and information.
* New analytical and theoretical approaches for analysing port-hinterland
relations.

Proposals for papers are invited from scholars working in any relevant field
and participation in the international workshop will be particularly
welcomed from graduate students and academics in the early stages of their
careers.

Applicants should submit a 400-word proposal and a brief c.v. (in Word, RTF
or PDF format) by Friday 13th July 2007. Participants whose papers have been
accepted will be notified by Friday 7th September 2007.

The international workshop will be held on the 7th and 8th December 2007 at
the School of History, University of Liverpool, and at the Merseyside
Maritime Museum. Limited financial support will be available to help with
travel costs, particularly for graduate students: food and refreshments will
be provided by the workshop organisers.
Robert Lee
School of History,
University of Liverpool,
9 Abercromby Square,
Liverpool L69 7WZ
00 44 151 794 2415 (tel)
00 44 151 794 2366 (fax)
Email: w.r.lee[at]liverpool.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www.liverpool.ac.uk/merchant

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Do note
Accommodation will be provided free of charge for all delegates. The
selected proceedings will be published. There is no conference fee.

P.O'S.


Irish and Scottish Studies Postgraduate Conference=20
Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies=20
7-9 September 2007=20
=A0
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS=20
Papers and=A0panels for the 6th annual Crosscurrents conference are =
welcome on
a broad range of topics, including:=20

Identities; Migrations; Memory and Commemoration; Filmic Constructions =
of
the Nation; Space, Place and Power; The Literatures of Ireland and =
Scotland;
Irish and Scottish Empires; The Union; Ireland and Scotland in Theory;=20
The disciplines covered by this conference are Literature, History, Film
Studies, Celtic Studies and Language & Linguistics. Papers do not have =
to be
comparative (they can be on Irish and/or Scottish Studies).=20

Accommodation will be provided free of charge for all delegates. The
selected proceedings will be published. There is no conference fee.=20

Proposals for 25-minute papers by postgraduate students should be sent =
to Dr
Shane Alcobia-Murphy, School of Language & Literature, University of
Aberdeen, AB24 2UB (email: sam[at]abdn.ac.uk). The deadline is 3rd August.=20
=A0=20
Dr Shane Alcobia-Murphy=20
MLitt Co-ordinator (RIISS)=20
School of Language & Literature=20
University of Aberdeen=20
Tel.: 01224-272630=20
Email: sam[at]abdn.ac.uk=20

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I've been a fan of the annals for some time. I imagine given the author's
name this is likely to be a spoof article, although they do publish genuine
scientific studies of the left field/off the wall variety.

Particular favourites of mine are Robert Schulman's 'How to write a
scientific paper' (
http://www.improb.com/airchives/paperair/volume2/v2i5/howto.htm) and Alex
Kohn's 'How to make a scientific lecture unbearable.' (
http://www.improb.com/news/2003/mar/unbearable_lecture.html)

Worth a look for listers with time on their hands

Best

Liam

Liam Greenslade
Research Associate
Academic Theme Leader's Office
Dublin City University
Glasnevin
Dublin 9

http://liamgr.blogspot.com

On 05/06/07, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:
>
> This item has turned up in our alerts - I do not have access to the Annals
> of Improbable Research.
>
> There is nothing improbable about dancers getting injured - indeed, part
> of
> the skill of all dancers is hiding the pain...
>
> So, I wonder what this is about. The dance researchers might need to know
> about this, just so that they can say that they don't need to know about
> this...
>
> P.O'S.
>
>
> Improbable Medical Review
>
> Author: Vanation, Bertha
>
> Source: Annals of Improbable Research, Volume 13, Number 2, March-April
> 2007, pp. 5-5(1)
>
> Publisher: Improbable Research Inc.
>
>
> Abstract:
> Improbable diagnoses, techniques, and research. TOPICS INCLUDE: Injuries
> of
> Competitive Irish Dancers; Dikshit on Rat Globin; Flaming Redheads, et
> al.;
> Turbulence; New Nose or No, They Know
>
> Keywords: INJURIES; COMPETITIVE IRISH DANCERS; DIKSHIT; RAT GLOBIN;
> FLAMING
> REDHEADS; HAIR; TURBULENCE; NASAL PROFILE; RHINOPLASTY
>
> Document Type: Research article
>



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Criticism of Henry II's expedition to Ireland in William of
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Journal of Medieval History
Article in Press, Corrected Proof - Note to users

Copyright C 2007 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.

Criticism of Henry II's expedition to Ireland in William of Canterbury's
miracles of St Thomas Becket

Marcus Bulla, E-mail The Corresponding Author
aSchool of Humanities, University of Bristol, Woodland Road, Bristol BS8
1TB, UK

Available online 7 June 2007.


Abstract

The long collection of miracles of St Thomas Becket written by William, a
monk of Christ Church, Canterbury, between 1172 and c.1179 is, like many
other examples of the genre, a rich source for attitudes towards sanctity,
relics, and pilgrimage. A far more unusual feature of William's text is the
author's criticism of the recent English presence in Ireland. William's
comments on this score amount to a loaded stretching of the normal
parameters of his textual medium, resulting in an evaluative engagement with
current affairs of the sort that we would more normally associate with
reflective forms of history-writing. William's criticism focused in
particular upon the expedition to Ireland undertaken by King Henry II
(October 1171-April 1172), inverting the very rhetoric that Henry had used
to justify his Irish adventure. William was not himself Irish, as has
sometimes been supposed, nor was he registering his institution's
frustrations about its exclusion from the new ecclesiastical order in
Ireland, as might be implied by the traditional but questionable 'Canterbury
plot' interpretation of the much-debated papal bull Laudabiliter. Instead,
William was skilfully engaging with current debates about the rectitude of
Henry II's Irish expedition, and more broadly contesting emerging prejudices
about England's 'uncultivated' neighbours, in order to effect a subtle
critique of the king's involvement in Becket's murder.

Keywords: Ireland; Historiography; Hagiography; Miracles; Henry II of
England; Thomas Becket

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Plagiarism, popularity, and the dilemma of artistic worth:
E. OE. Somerville and Martin Ross's Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. (1899)

Author: Anne Jamison a (Show Biography) Affiliation: a School of
Languages and Literature, University of Ulster. Coleraine. Northern Ireland

Published in: European Journal of English Studies, Volume 11, Issue 1 April
2007 , pages 65 - 78
Subjects: Language & Communication; Literature & Culture;

Abstract
This essay will focus on the unpublished legal papers relating to the
19th-century Irish women authors E. OE. Somerville (1858 - 1949) and Martin
Ross (1862 - 1915) and their case of plagiarism against the authors of By
the Brown Bog in 1913. The article will begin by summarising the ways in
which the introduction of copyright law in Great Britain in 1709 altered
aesthetic and legal definitions of authorship, and how this new
conceptualisation of the author figure effectively disenfranchised
collaborative modes of creativity and literary production. In so doing, the
essay will investigate Somerville and Ross's classification as popular,
collaborative short story writers. The popularity of their Irish R.M. tales,
it will be argued, harmed their case of plagiarism. The study will use a
detailed analysis of Somerville and Ross's legal correspondence to argue for
the ways in which copyright law not only defined the 'author', but also the
term 'originality', which was sorely affected by aesthetic and moral
conceptions of 'good' and 'bad' literature.
Keywords: Irish literature; Somerville and Ross; copyright; plagiarism; 19th
century; authorship
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List members will be interested in a commentary piece by Brian Walker fro=
m=20
today's Irish Times - pasted in below.

Sarah.
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Irish in Britain may feel freer to accept identity
Tue, Jun 12, 2007

The Irish in Britain regard themselves in ways that do not accord with ho=
w=20
we in Ireland are inclined to think about them, writes Brian Walker

At Westminster on May 15th, Irish and British leaders acknowledged the ne=
w=20
relationship between Ireland and Britain. During these proceedings,=20
attention focused not just on how the two countries now relate to each ot=
her=20
but also on how Irish people have contributed and continue to contribute =
to=20
society in Britain.

Links between the two countries are perhaps most vividly illustrated by t=
he=20
fact that both the current British prime minister and his predecessor are=
=20
qualified by virtue of Irish family links to be considered for the Republ=
ic=20
of Ireland soccer team. In the case of the former, this is due to his Iri=
sh=20
mother (born in Co Donegal) while in the case of the latter it is thanks =
to=20
an Irish grandmother.

The movement of population from Ireland to England, Scotland and Wales ov=
er=20
the last two centuries has been extensive. There was an important wave of=
=20
emigration from the 1840s until the 1860s. By 1861 the Irish born section=
of=20
the population in Britain stood at just over 800,000.

There was another significant period of emigration from the 1930s until t=
he=20
1960s. In 1971 the total of Irish born in Britain stood at about 952,000.=
In=20
that year the population for the whole of Ireland was only four and a hal=
f=20
million.

A majority of these immigrants have come from what is now the Republic of=
=20
Ireland, but significant numbers have also come from Northern Ireland. Mo=
st=20
have been Catholic, but it is reckoned that about 25 per cent have been=20
Protestant.

The recently published 2001 census results cast a new and controversial=20
light on the very many people in Britain born in Ireland, or the descenda=
nts=20
of Irish born. For the first time, the census allowed people to record an=
=20
Irish ethnic background.

This move came partly in response to a number of individuals and voluntar=
y=20
Irish groups in England which argued that the Irish in Britain were a=20
marginalised and disadvantaged group. What emerged, however, was very=20
different from what had been expected.

First, in spite of the presence today in Britain of three quarters of a=20
million people born in Ireland, including both Northern Ireland and the=20
Republic of Ireland, and of the many offspring of these emigrants and of =
the=20
millions of earlier arrivals, a surprisingly low figure was recorded. The=
=20
number to declare an Irish ethnic background came to only 691,000 persons=
,=20
of whom nearly three-quarters were born in Ireland.

Secondly, although the picture is not a full one, analysis of the data ab=
out=20
this Irish section by the Office of National Statistics revealed a view o=
f=20
Irish people in Britain very much at odds with some previous reports of=20
their position.

Its 2006 report on ethnicity and religion stated that "the historical=20
stereotype of the Irish manual labourer bears no relation to the factual=20
evidence about occupational structure of the White Irish population".

It was revealed that the proportion of Irish men in a routine or manual=20
occupational group was smaller not only than all other immigrant groups b=
ut=20
also than "White British", while "more than one in three men and women of=
=20
working age belonged to a managerial or professional occupational group, =
the=20
highest proportion for any ethnic group".

In nearly half the households, Irish people shared with partners or child=
ren=20
who classified themselves as "White British".

Various explanations have been put forward to explain the low numbers to=20
record an Irish ethnic identity. The best reason, however, lies in the hi=
gh=20
degree of successful integration of Irish born people and their descendan=
ts=20
into British society, and a consequent decline in Irish identity.

This point is evident when we consider individuals with an Irish backgrou=
nd=20
who have played or play today an important part in British society. Nowhe=
re=20
is this more obvious than in the political field.

At Westminster on May 15th, Prime Minister Tony Blair referred to his=20
maternal grandfather who was a Co Donegal Orangeman, while the speaker of=
=20
the House of Commons, Michael Martin, described how his forebears had com=
e=20
to Scotland from Co Cavan in the 1870s.

In his speech Taoiseach Bertie Ahern stated that at least 100 members of =
the=20
current British parliament have an Irish background. Good examples are=20
cabinet ministers Ruth Kelly, born in Limavady, and Des Browne, whose mot=
her=20
comes from Warrenpoint.

Former prime minister John Major in his memoirs has recorded how one of h=
is=20
grandfathers "married a young Irish girl, Sarah Anne Marrah; illiterate, =
my=20
grandmother signed my father's birth certificate with an 'x'".

Recently, Chris Patten, last governor of Hong Kong, has remarked on the=20
irony of his role as the great grandson of an Irish potato farmer in=20
overseeing the closure of the last part of the British empire. The mother=
of=20
Lord Patrick Mayhew, former secretary of state for Northern Ireland, was =
a=20
member of the Co Cork family of Roche, barons of Fermoy.

Curiously, in spite of having another well known Cork name, it seems that=
=20
former prime minister James Callaghan cannot be included in this list. In=
=20
his autobiography he revealed that his father only assumed the name when =
he=20
joined the navy, to escape his family, a fact which his son appears to ha=
ve=20
learned only after he became prime minister in 1976.

We can note, however, that the father of his deputy prime minister Dennis=
=20
Healey was born at Kiltyclogher, Co Leitrim.

The successful integration of the vast majority of those with an Irish=20
background into mainstream British society helps in large part to explain=
=20
why more people were not willing to record an Irish ethnic category. Agai=
n,=20
it is likely that the effect of IRA bombing in Britain was to cause many =
to=20
wish to reaffirm their British identity at the expense of an Irish identi=
ty.=20
In the census people could not choose a dual Irish British identity, and,=
=20
faced with a choice, most selected British.

While the number of those who decided to acclaim an Irish identity in the=
=20
2001 census was low, this is not to say that the many others, who did not=
=20
register, felt no affinity with Ireland or had lost all their Irish=20
identity.

Under new circumstances, arising from the peace process and improved=20
relations between the Irish and British governments, more people in Brita=
in=20
may well feel keener to acknowledge an Irish identity, although not=20
necessarily through the census as a minority, since most see themselves a=
s=20
part of the mainstream.

These people can be regarded as British and Irish, similar to those who a=
re=20
British and English, Scottish or Welsh.

There has been a reluctance to accept this dual identity, partly because=20
Irish and British are often seen as opposing identities. Many Irish peopl=
e,=20
especially in Ireland, are keen to distinguish between the two. At the sa=
me=20
time many people in Britain have a restrictive sense of British identity=20
which excludes an Irish dimension. Such sensitivities must be understood =
and=20
appreciated.

Nonetheless, it must also be acknowledged that there are millions of peop=
le=20
in Britain today who have an Irish background and identity alongside thei=
r=20
British citizenship and identity, and this should be recognised. Indeed,=20
appreciation of such a joint identity may now be possible, thanks to the=20
example of the Belfast Agreement which accepted the right of the people o=
f=20
Northern Ireland to identify themselves "as Irish or British or both, as=20
they may so choose".

This matter is of some importance for Irish identity on these islands. Gi=
ven=20
the number of people who have emigrated from Ireland to Britain over the=20
last two centuries (at least three million) and their offspring, one coul=
d=20
speculate that there are as many such Irish in Britain, as in all of Irel=
and=20
with its population of about six million.

The 2001 British census recorded an acknowledgment of this Irish backgrou=
nd=20
by a relatively small proportion of the total Irish population. An=20
acceptance of the validity of a British/Irish or an Irish/British identit=
y=20
may allow a recovery of Irish identity by many more of these people.

=95 Brian Walker holds the chair of Irish Studies at Queen's University=20
Belfast

=A9 2007 The Irish Times

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Play your part in making history - Email Britain!=20
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Hurrah, hurrah... the editors of ISR have taken on board the complaints of
the Irish Diaspora list...

Note the explanatory sub titles...

P.O'S.


Irish Studies Review: Volume 15 Issue 2
Information is now available online at informaworld
(http://www.informaworld.com).

This new issue contains the following articles:

Tiger, Theory, Technology
A meditation on the development of modern Irish cultural criticism
123 - 136
Author: Gerry Smyth

Imagining A New Province
Seamus Heaney's creative work for BBC Northern Ireland Radio, 1968-71
137 - 162
Author: Richard Rankin Russell

Ireland And The Geopolitics Of Anglo-Irish Relations
163 - 179
Author: Geoffrey Sloan

Irish Decadence: Synge's Vita Vecchia
181 - 197
Author: Alex Davis

Cobbles And Confetti
Public order policing in late Victorian Belfast
199 - 217
Author: Mark Radford

Revival's Limit, Or A Post-revival Space? Gerald MacNamara's 'Christmas
Laughter'
219 - 232
Author: Eugene McNulty

Book Reviews
233 - 265

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With Bloomsday approaching, list members may be interested in something =
that I stumbled across during my research for Castles of Gold via the =
National Library of New Zealand.
=20
It appears that Sister Mary Gertrude Joyce (d. 1964), elder sister of =
James, was an accomplished musician who taught piano and violin at the =
Mercy Convent in Greymouth (home town of the late Patrick O'Farrell) on =
the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island.
=20
The 1982 centennial publication makes reference to one of Sister Mary's =
former pupils who went on to become a priest: ' He had failed her =
miserably at music, but he made it to the priesthood and that was the =
one thing that mattered as far as Sister Mary Gertrude was concerned. =
She took that as a sign that not in vain had been her lifetime of =
penance and prayer for her profligate brother, James Joyce, one of the =
most renowned - and permissive - of modern writers.'
=20
There is a 1989 photograph of the convent in O'Farrell's Vanished =
Kingdoms (p. 133) - '[l]arge, imposing, useless buildings' - with a =
billboard announcing its imminent conversion to tourist accommodation =
and restaurant.
=20
Lyndon =20
=20
=20

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BATH SPA UNIVERSITY third ANNUAL POSTGRADUATE =A0=A0
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The conference will have an open theme, =A0=A0
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A quick google search led to three maps of the distribution of Irish =20
in the US. The data would seem to exist to make such maps.

Bill Mulligan

For 1990 (very long link)

http://images.google.ie/imgres?imgurl=3Dhttp://www.lmic.state.mn.us/datanetw=
eb/maps/ancestry/us/irish.gif&imgrefurl=3Dhttp://www.lmic.state.mn.us/datane=
tweb/maps/ancestry/&h=3D480&w=3D640&sz=3D28&hl=3Den&start=3D95&tbnid=3Df1kDF=
TwfOmV5NM:&tbnh=3D103&tbnw=3D137&prev=3D/images%3Fq%3D%2527IRISH%2BIN%2BTHE%=
2BUS%2527%26start%3D80%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

For 1872

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Irish_Population_1872.jpg

For 2000

http://www.answers.com/topic/irish1346-gif








Quoting "MacEinri, Piaras" :

> Dear all
>
> A colleague here, Willie Smyth, who is Chair of Geography, has asked me if=
I
> know of any comprehensive world map of the Irish Diaspora (any period,
> contemporary or historical). I know this begs a lot of questions especiall=
y
> regarding definitions and data problems. Maybe my memory is failing me but=
I
> cannot offhand recall such a map - has anyone any ideas?
>
> Piaras Mac Einri
>

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This map of the Irish in Britain in 1851 also turned up.

http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/maps/historical/irish_in_britain_1851.gif

Bill Mulligan

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Dear all

A colleague here, Willie Smyth, who is Chair of Geography, has asked me if I
know of any comprehensive world map of the Irish Diaspora (any period,
contemporary or historical). I know this begs a lot of questions especially
regarding definitions and data problems. Maybe my memory is failing me but I
cannot offhand recall such a map - has anyone any ideas?

Piaras Mac Einri

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Dear Piaras,

In the first pages of Pat McKenna's thesis there is one such map, though
very schematic.

McKenna, Patrick, _Nineteenth Century Irish Emigration to, and
Settlement in, Argentina_ (St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, Co. Kildare:
MA Geography Thesis, 1994).=20

(online at http://eprints.nuim.ie/archive/00000325/)

Edmundo Murray

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Dear all

A colleague here, Willie Smyth, who is Chair of Geography, has asked me
if I
know of any comprehensive world map of the Irish Diaspora (any period,
contemporary or historical). I know this begs a lot of questions
especially
regarding definitions and data problems. Maybe my memory is failing me
but I
cannot offhand recall such a map - has anyone any ideas?

Piaras Mac Einri